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Year: 1873




From the i3rainard Tribune.


\ dead Indian or TWO have been
lying about the suburbs of the town
for 4 week or two past, and it would
seem as though our authorities
should see that they are buried, or
done something with. The one that
was stabbed and killed north of the
track near Sixth street, was left
lying there by the Indians when
they moved to another location 4
fortnight ago, and those who saw it
the first of the week say it was very
offensive, owing to the mild wealth
er. Either the Indians or somebody
else had endeavored to burn the
body. The legs and arms had been
burned off, but the trunk still re-
manned in y charred and outlandish
condition, and is probably there
yet. We hear of others who are
lying about in the neighborhood,
who have either been killed or died.
The one who was stabbed last week
reached Gull lake before he died.
A child that died out in one Of the
camps recently is wrapped up like
a mummy, and rests in the branches
of a tree out on the Gull lake trail.
Year: 1873

DIR. Dio Lewis writes the New York
Times ''Of the eight pounds which man
eats and drinks i'm day it is thought that
not less than five pounds leave his body
through the skin. And of these five pounds
considerable percentage escapes during
the night while he Is i'm bed. The larger
part of this is water, but in addition there
Is much effete and poisonous matter. This
being in great part gaseous in form, pene-
trates every part Of the bed. Thus all
parts of the bed-mattress, blankets, as
well as sheets-sOOn become foul and need
purification. The mattress needs this
quite as much us the sheets. To allow the
sheets to be used, without washing or
changing, three or six months would be
regarded as bad housekeeping but must
insist if a thin sheet can absorb poisonous
excretions of the body to make it unfit for
use in few days, thick mattress, which
can absorb and retain thousand times as
much poisonous secretiOns, needs to be
purified as often, certainly, as once In three
months. A sheet can be washed. A mat
tress cannot be renovated in this way, In
deed, there is no other way of cleaing a
mattress but by steaming or picking it to
pieces, and thus i'm fragments exposing II
| to the direct rays of the sun. As these
processes are scarcely practicable with any
of the ordinary mattresses, ! am decidedly
of the opinion that the good old-fashioned
straw bed, which can every three months
be exchanged for fresh straw, and the tick
washed. is the sweetest and healthiest OF
beds. If, i'm the winter season. the porous
ness of the straw bed makes 1t little ufi-
comfortable, spread over it comforter OF
two of wooden blankets, which should be
washed as often as every two weeks. With


this arrangement, il you wash the bed GOV


ering as often as once in one or two weeks


YOU will have delightful, healthy bed


Now, If you leave the bed to air, with Opcr
windows during the day, and not make !


for the night before evening, you will have
added greatly to the sweetness Of You
rest in consequence, and to the tone o
your health. L heartily wish this goot
change could everywhere be introduced
Only those who have thus attended to thii
important matter can judge of its influences
on the general health and spirits"
Year: 1873

ADULTERATIoN OF FLoUR.-The London
Hour says the latest novelty in adulter'i-
ton of food comes from Dublin. At a
meeting of the North Board of Guardians
it was ordered that the clerk should write
to the Deputy Quartermaster General to
ascertain the name of the contractor who
supplied flour for the troops, which flour
had recently been analysed and condemned
as unfit for human food. The modus
operandi was explained by Capt. Brinkley,
one of the guardians. Somewhere in
Wales there are quarries of white stone,
easy to pulverize. This is brought to
Dublin, ground into the consistency OF
flour. and mixed with the genuine article.
Ii makes beautiful bread to look at, and
people do not eat so much of it.
Year: 1873

A BAGGAGE AGENT belonging TO the State
Railroad died recently in Atlanta. The
attaches Of the road made provision for his
burial expenses, furnishing among things
a nice suit OF black broadcloth in which TO
dress the corpse. Ills wife objected 10
having ''those fine clothes buried IN the
ground" and brought out some OF her
husbands old apparel, In which he was
prepared for sepulture. The following
Sabbath the bereaved wife's brother wore
the clothes furnished by the dead mans
companions to church.
Year: 1873

a boy in West Utica, a few nights since,
awoke at once to the knowledge of dismal
optic, and the fact that he is a somnambu-
list. He had been in the water, swimming,
nearly all the hot afternoon, and in his
dreams still divided the sportive wave. Then
he dreamed he wanted to dive, and so he
dived. When the house got through rock
ing he found himself standing on his eye
brow Utica Herald.


There is boy eleven years in Detroit who
feigns death so perfectly that the coroner has
offered him thousand dollars year to let
him have the use of his corpse during that
time


\ little girl who had great kindness of
heart for all the animal creation, saw hen
preparing to gather her chickens under her
sheltering wings, and shouted earnestly
% o don't sit down on those beautiful little
birds, you great ugly, old roosteri''
Year: 1873

A keokuk pastor told his congregation
that the late tornado in Iowa was the yisita-
.ion Of a special providence to punish people
for their sins % We know" says the Louis
vile Courier-Journai, 90 of few sins much
worse than the presumptuous familiarity
which prompts weak and erring mortal to
talk about the purposes and intentions Of
the Deity with as much freedom as if he was
discussing the points of a yoke of oxen"
Year: 1873

MicNoNETTE IS 4 TEEE.-Buy pot Of or
dinary mignonette, or plant seed. This pot
will probably contain tuft composed Of
many plants. Put up all but one and aS the
mignOnette Is one Of the most rustic of
plants, which may be treated without any
delicacy, the single plant that Is left in the
middle of the pot may be vigorously trim
med leaving only one shoot This shoot
must be attached to slender stick The
extremity Of this shoot viii be put forth a
bunch Of flower buds that must be cut off
entirely, leaving not a single bud. The
stock. in consequence of this trea .7nent,
will put out multitude Of young shoots,
that must be allowed to develope freely until
they are about three inches and half long.
Then select out of these. four. six or eight.
according to the plant, with equal spaces be-
tween them. Now. with piece Of whale
bone, make hoop and attach your shoots TO
it, supported at the proper height. When
they have grown two or three inches longer,
and are going TO bloom, support them by
second hoop like the first. Let them bloom.
but take of the seed pods before they have
time to form, or the plant may perish. 1t
will not be long before new shoots will ap-
pear just below the places where the flowers
were. From among these new shoots choose
the one on each branch which Is in the best
situation to replace what You have nipped
off. Little by little. the principal stalks,
and also the branches, will become woody,
and your mignonette will no longer by an
herbaceous plant, except at the upper ex-
tremities, which will bloom all the year
without interruption. 1t viii be truly a
mignonette, living for an indefinite period {;
for, with proper treatment, a tree mignon-
ette will live from II to Is years.
Year: 1873

\ correspondent of the Country Gentle
man says; 1t is good time now to remind
fruit growers about thinning out fruit. With
young trees this matter is especially i'm
portant, and perhaps with no tree more so
than the pear. The policy of allowing
young trees to bear all they will is simply
ruinous. In some cases a grower NAV get
more money from his orchard during the
current year by adopting this course, and
yet that does not always follow. But if he
does, he will most assuredly have to pa7 for
it in future. What sagacious man wants
to secure, when his orchard is Young. is
gro'cfh-not an extraordinary, but a healthy
growth. Then when the trees commence
bearing they will be able to bear good crops
at once, large enough to make up in a few


years for not bearing when quite Young. As
matter of fact the crops borne by quite
young trees are always small, but at the
same time are such great drawbacks on the
strength and vitality of the trees as to i'm
pede their development most seriously, caus-
ing them to fall 50 far behind other trees
that stranger would think them several
Year: 1873

DEAR FATHER. Cow IIoME Postmaster
Billings, of Santa Clara, has received the fol-
lowing letter. 1t tells its own sad story


$40 the Postmaster Of Santa Clara


VIII you be 50 kind Us to inquire if there
Is such man a George Ray in your city
or where he Is if he has left Santa Clara
lie Is about thirty-seven years old, dark eyes
and hair, not very tall, and Is a carpenter by
trade. lie is my dear father, and we have
not heard a word from him formore than two
years. Ma Is left with five children. and
am the Oldest, and am fourteen years old.
Sometimes ma thinks he is dead but dream
ed the other night that he came home to Us,
and it has made me think so much about him
that | cannot help writing to yoa. for can
not give up all hopes. Oh dear Mr.. Post
master Will you DO this favor for poor,
homeless girl ? and you shall have many warm
thanks. If YOU can see him. or hear where
he Is, will You be 50 good as TO send him thiS
letter? Willyou please answer Yours, truly"


"MY DEAR, DEAR Pa How can tell
you how sad my heart Is while write to YOU.
not knowing whether you are dead or alive.
Do you love Us any more? Why Is it that
We do not hear from you any more? If you
are sick and discouraged, we will try andhelp
you to come home, and then we will work
and take care Of you. Oh. how hard to live
as we do, now that the children are all separ-
ated Willie i at the State Reform School
in Lancaster. in this State. and ma does not
have to pay his board man in Berlin has
adopted frankie as his daughter, and a rich
farmer in the country has Iibbie as his child,
and Henry is at Fredericksburg | am work
ing for wages in a small family in Massillon.
Ma has learned the dressmaker's trade and
sews by the day in this city, and helps me all
she can. She has been working in Fulton
for the last two weeks, and viii be there
some time. 1t is hard to have no home, no
"a to love us-and oh, pa, do take pity on
Us, and come back We will all receive You
with open arms. And how happy we will
be to have you with Us. as you have been
once. oh, pa, do write and tell Us if yon
love Us still. Your Sorrowful daughter,


EMMA 4. RAY,


- MaSSillon Stark County q -
Year: 1873

How TO Raise Winter Wheat In New England,
Editor Free Press and Times.


This communication was written at nv
request, and for the purpose of sending it
to nephew of mine who has, the present
year, to my great joy, purchased hill farm
in Vermont. l have made copy for your
paper, in the hope that other farmers, young
and old, in Vermont and New England,
will be glad to see it also and, with me.
will most heartily thank the venerable and
benevolent author-a worthy old merchant
OF New York city, who has no seed wheat
to sell for writing it especially for the
instruction and encouragement Of farmers.
young and old, and also for the sure and
lasting benefit of the community at large.


An OLD SUBSCRIBER TO THE FREE PREss.
No. go, Henry Street, Brooklyn. L. l.
Year: 1873

In the early part of the late civil
war the humble home of an aged
gentleman named Jack Hinson, in
Stewart county, was burned by q
party of Federal Soldiers and the
lady members of hefamily subjected
TO barbarous treatment by the rude
soldiery. This so incensed the father
and husband that he vowed eternal
vengeance against the invaders of
his sland and the despoiler ofhis home.
Nor was this determination one of
idle meaning, or unrelenting purpose.


With trusty rifle, "Old Jack
Hinson," as he was Familiarity called,
commenced the fearful work of re-
venge, and, by himself, would often
from neighboring hill or dense
thicket, make sure his victim from
the unsuspecting band. Many were
they who fell before bis unerring aim,
and although large rewards were Of
fered for his head, and strategy used
for his capture, he always managed
to elude his pursuers. His escapes
and adventures were of the most
thrilling character and if written
would be romance of no ordinary
kind. After while old Jack organ
lied a band of guerillas, whose object
was not to prey upon the weak and
defenceless, or robbing the citizens,
but to carry on bitter crusade
against the wandering soldier of
the Federal army. The Federal
soldiers of Clarksville and Fort DON
elsnn made frequent raids against
Capt. Jack and his party, but usual
ly returned with one or more
empty saddles and missing compan-
ions. The South side, as that section
OF country in Stewart, Dickson,
Humphreys and Montgomery coun-
ties, where this border warfare was
carried on, was termed, become a
hotly-contested territory. At the
lonely bivOuac, on the march, and
along the dreary passes, the avengers
rifle was heard mid the yells of his
trusty followers, and the hills echoed
back the sounds of victory. Often
from the thicket would thequick bull
let pierce the soldier, andere volley
could be returned the ubiquitous
HiDson had fled, only to await anoth-
er favorable opportunity. Capt. Hin
son did not always go with his band,
and from the time his heart was fired
with revenge seemed to wish no COM
panion, dwelling mid the solitudes of
the wild wood and watching from
his covert place the sound of ap-
preaching cavalry to add another vic
tim to his account. It is stated oD
good authority that he made notch
for every man killed. On the butt
of his old rifle there were over eighty
notches, each one recording a slain
foe.


Capt. Jack Hinson will be remem-
bered by many a wandering rebel as
the old gray-haired man who as
sisted him across the Tennessee, or
guided through blind paths and in
tricate coal-lands so numerous in the
section of country skirting the above
stream and the Cumberland river.
This old gentleman, after an illness
of about an hour, died at his residence
at White Oak Greek Friday the It'll;
and, it is said, was over eighty years
of age. He possessed many noble
traits, and had a warm heart whose
impulses were generous and brave.
What he did was from conscientious
motives and a sense of duty to the
memory of those who were dear
Union d american.
Year: 1873

il making an excavation on the
bank of the river at the lockwood
LANDING, Roane county, East Tennes-
see, a few days ago, a human skeleton
was exposed. The burial case was
earthenware, of the same kind or char
aeter as that found in the mounds and
along the river bottoms From this
fact it is reasonable to conclude that
the skeleton belonged to the race OF
Mound Builders, as this kind Of pot
terry is found in all the mounds of the
country. This race was so far anteri-
9ior to the Indian race, that their old
est traditions give no account of them.


The skeleton was five and one-half
feet long. The bones were large and
heavy. The arm bones were dispro-
portionately long. The right one was
broken near the shoulder, and was
probably the cause of the individual S
death. The most peculiar feature
about the formation of the skeleton
was that the arm at the shoulder, con-
Meeting a short strong bone that was
connected firmly with the sixth joint
of the backbone, counting from the
head.


The head was small and round
From the impression in the soil, the
hair had been thin and hung as low as
the shoulders.
Year: 1873

STUFFING.-A stingy man who
pretended to be very fond of his horse,
but kept him nearly starved, said to
a friend, "You don't know how much
we all think Of that horse. shall
have him stuffed, so as to preserve him
when he dies" You'd better stuff
him now,n retorted the friend, $50 as
to preserve him living"
Year: 1873

Wishes his numerous friends TO know that
he is still at his old stand, in the we'll
known house of B. F. COULTER, where he
is ready to furnish them with dry goods at
the very lowest rates. Call, and he will
take pleasure in showing you through the
stock.
Year: 1873

Nor over fifty miles east of Auburn, on
the line of the Central Pacific Railroad,
there lives a man whose sense Of hearing
Is not very acute, as will appear from the
following: He was hunting for game
about mile distant from his residence,
when grouse few up and lit on a tree
on the hillside and the same moment Il
traveller approached and inquired the dis
tance TO the next station.


Deaf man (pointing) He few right up
there.


Traveler-How far is it TO the next
station


Deaf mantle lit right up there.


Traveler-You must be d-n fool.


Deaf man Yes, there are great ma
ny around this time of the year.
Year: 1873

Cost OF THE VIENNA ExHIBITIoN.-
From the report of recent proceedings in
the lower House of the Austrian Reichs-
rath, we find that the coming exhibition
at Vienna is to cost the large sum of $S,-
$4,000. The scheme was an idea of Bar
an Schwarz, Director General of the Ex.
hbition, who has carried on the work
without calculating the cost. A grant
of 50, ,5OO,00O has been made by the House
at the beginning of the work, and it is
now found that 81 4,850,000 more will be
required. The Director General is en-
thu iastc in believing that the Exhibition
will yet result in a surplus but the Lon
don Times correspondent points out
that to produce such a result would pre-
suppose at least twenty millions of visit
os. The supplementary credit of ST.
$4,000 is only to be granted by the FL
nlncal Committee of the Government
on condition that the management Of the
affair is taken out Of the hands of Baron
Schwarz.
Year: 1873

[Cor. of the New York Tribune.l


The climate of Greenland is consid-
cred by the Danes as very healthy, and
the natives seldom die of any other dis
ease than consumption, which is very
prevalent among the Esquimaux, and is
no doubt contracted through their care
less habits. The hut is simple build
ing of stone (boarded up on the inside),
with layer of turf on the outside, and
q long, low tunnel entrance, about 10 or
Is feet in length, opening to the south.
This hut is about II feet square and 6
feet high, with two windows in the side
which are blocked up with turf during
the winter, so as to keep the cold out.
This room is generally supplied with a
stove, in which peat is burned, for they
have no other kind of fuel. There is
always in these huts close, depressing
atmosphere, while outside, especially on
foggy day, the atmosphere is cold.
These people sit in the house sewing,
etc., with their heavy seal skin clothing
on, and will run in and out of doors,
make visits, and attend their dances,
without making any addition to their
clothing, or reducing it when they re-
turn to their homes. Then a family of
six or eight sleep in this same room, on
platform which serves as bed, lying
very close together, and breathing the
same atmosphere over and over again.
Year: 1873

The Philadelphia Sunday Das0,s tells
this story:


A lady who was some ten years ago
left a widow with small family of
children, after much tribulation sue
ceeded in bringing up to manhood one
son, who proved himself able and will
ing to be support not only to her, but
to his younger brothers and sisters.


About year after becoming of age
-he was offered a lucrative position in
the west, and he emigratod thither, and
settled there. permanently, soon mar
ried. New ties, however, did not alb
sorb old affections, and as he prospered
in his business, he sent regularly to his
mother the mems necessary for her sup
port and that of her family.


The years passed on and brought
many changes, but still regularly as the
quarter came, so also did the ample re-
mittance of this model son and brother.


When the tide of emigration turned
to the far-west, this son was carried
with it to Omaha, where he invested his
earnings in town lots which speedily
rose in value and made him a man of
wealth. At least this was the intelli-
gence he sent his mother. Lately,
whilst visiting Auburn, his parent was
invited to make the tour of the State
Prison, and whilst passing through the
various wards she accidently encounter
ed one whose presence caused her
cheeks to pale and her heart to tenn
porarily stop its beating.


It was her son-her good and we'll
beloved boy-who for years had been
her pride and support for moment
she was speechless, but at length burst
ing into a torrent of tears, in which
the prisoner joined, she said: SO, my
son, how came you here?' His story
being told developed the fact that he
had by trading with strangers come
into the possession of large quantity
of counterfeit money, and that in ig-
norance of its character, he being on a
visit to New York, had attempted to
pass it, had been arrested as chief of
gang of counterfeiters, and having
been identified as having endeavored
to circulate it, was, in spite of all evil
dence of previous good condnct offered,
convicted and sentenced to serve out a
term in State Prison. His wife, with
whom he was in constant corrcspon-
dence, had aided him in keeping his in
carceration a secret from his mother,
and had regularly remitted the quar-
terly allowance together with letters
forwarded to her from the prison by
him. But for this unfortunate visit the
mother would have remained forever
unaware that her son was serving out q
penal sentence for crime never COM
mitted by him. She learned, however,
that by the rise of corner lots in Omaha
he had been made a wealthy man, and
when he should come out of prison,
which would be in few months, he,
through the skillful stewardship of his
wife, would find awaiting him the sum
of not less than two hundred thousand
dollars in United States bonds.