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Year: 1872

PROPOSED CONVENTION OF PRODUCERS.


The suggestion made in the article which
appeared in TRIBUNE some time since in reference
10 aduerated milk in tins city attracted the
attention OF farmers and they ponderng ques-
tions Ike these: How can change be accomplished !
Can farmers manage the business themselves, and Keep
It in their own hands Can they insure honest dealings
with eonsumersi How much capital will he required .
These associations of already formed some OF
which are now practically demonstrating, in small
way, the feasibility OF the plan, are entitled
10 great credit for their enterprise, and, IT
H. TO be hoped will be literally patronized
by long abused public Some of them are organized on
a safe business basis others or less defective
all are necessarily restricted from lack of capital and
facilities which combination would insure. II approx-
mate figures are taken a basis of estimate, II may be
stated that the quantity Of milk sold daily in NewHOrk
is about quarts 100000 Of which are sold at retail
and 10000 at wholesale 70 hotels grocers and families
The number Of single horse wagons used in the retail
trade is about e25 and Of twOhorse carts in the whole
sale trade 800 II is stated that proper division Of the
territory trayersed by these wagons would reduce the
pumer Of wagons One-third aud all other expenses in
proporton--a reduction which one can see at glance
would pay handsome dividend the capital required.


careful estimate OF the cost of wagons, horses, and
necessary equipments including surplus Tor working
capital places the amount at little over $55OOO THIS
sum would he divided prOportionatey among all the
farmers who send MIX TO the NewYork market To Sc
cure this amount certificates drawing seven per cent IN
terest could be issued each Of which would constitute
the owner member and enttle him to sell milk through
the agency OF the Association II Is proposed TO have
the Association pay its members stipulated price for
milk after which the profits arising from the business
Interest and expenses having first been paid are TO be
shared by the members dividends declared annually
OF eeIni-anpualy. The books will always show
how many quarts any member has furnished
during gwen period BY this plan it is claimed that the
entire profits of the business will pass directly 70 the


rodacers pockets aud all will be equally interested
In the distribution Of pure milk, any departure from
honest dealing will be punished by forfeiture Of the right
10 sell through agency OF the Association. IL is also
proposed make butter Of the surplus milk The AssO
ciatiOn will have ts repair shops, and conduct the
whole business with that cannot be attained by
individuals firms The farmers say that there Is no
good why they should not receive hy per cent
more for their products than they do now.
Year: 1872

How about the Soldiers Monument Our
statement of the financial condition of the Mon
ument Association, though certainly such as
ought to awaken public attention, and call forth
prompt action, has not had any response, so far
as We know. Something should be DONE by all
means, to complete tho work, and discharge the
Just debts. The memory Of the Union soldiers
of Delaware will not be honored by debt-bur-
dened monument.
Year: 1872

Yesterday morning the o'clock train from
New York on the New Jersey Central Railroad
was run into by the 7.20 train from Philadelphia,
at Elizabeth. The Central Railroad train was
standing at the station with the rear car on the
Pennsylvania track. The rear car was nearly
demolished, and six persons were injured, some
severely. The engineer Of the PENNSYLVANIA
train says he could not stop it, as the patent
air brakes wo1ld NOT work
Year: 1872

The coal trade is reviving at Havrede Grace


The Havre de Grace liquor dealers persist
in selling liquor on Sunday, and a number of
them have been indicted by the grand Jury.


"A hotel keeper in West Chester ordered two
ladies out of his parlor because they were Good
TemOlara
Year: 1872

THE Social Dance given by Auburn Brass Bant
Club Thursday evening was largely attended ant
splendidly enjoyed. The night was cold anl
dancing was Just the thing to warm up the blood
Year: 1872

RoADs-The delegation from Placer have Sc
cured the repeal OF the new road law, passed for
this county two years ago, but which had not
yet gone into operation. This law might have
suited township 10 and part of l, but it was
lmpracticabe for good as applicable to the mixed
population in the balance of the county. The
Old law must now be revived or a new one en-
acted. We are opposed to any law that will take
the management of roads out of the hands cf
'he people Of the townships If a new law is
deemed necessary let it provide for taking effect
after the November election, and give the people
Oh the townships chance to elect the officers
VINO are to execute it; or, if applying now, let
NOSE who have been elected execute it until af
'ef the Presidential election. We have seen a
oli4 prepared for introduction in the Legislature,
Whicn Is simply an enormty. If it is introduced
we wish printed copy, when we will discuss its
Provisions
Year: 1872

SMALL Pox:-We learned two days ago that IL.
cases OF this disease at Rocklin are in fair vav r.
recover. Last week we urged our people to take
some steps to provide against this loathsome and
dangerous disease, or its spread il it reached
here. Our neighboring cotem. did the same
thing in his Thursdays issue, yet no movement
has been made i'll that direction. As to the SUCCESS
ton thatthe Supervisors should act in the matter
that 'oW not DO. If they were to commence
building aud supplying pest houses, fair dealing
would require them to provide one in every town
and neighborhood in the county, nine-tenths of
them never to be used. We want no county pest
house here that would, if case occurred in the
county, bring the disease to our doors. Let
each town or settlement in the county provide
for itself, as Rockiin has done. Those CON
tributing to provide Cor pest houses will own
The property when the danger is past and will be
public benefaotors by desire or actualty. We
urge tins again on our people and the people all
over The county, and if they who are the only
parties interested refuse to make provision, they
deserve nothing from the Supervisors
Year: 1872

FouEp IN WELL--On Wednesday Of last
week, as Mr.. James Page was passing the East
ern Extension dollhouse with his team, he stopped
and looked in the well and saw what seemed to
be the body Of a human being at the surface of
. the water He told Mr.. Atwood, who informed
us and Coroner Jamison of the circumstance a
dlv or two later, and said he would go and ascer-
tain what it was. On doing so, the body of
human being WAS found minus the head and
feet, and too much decomposed for identified
ton The well is strongly curbed up some three
or four feet high, and there was no chance for
animal or human to get into 1t except by design
or compulsion. Chinese fish peddler was sup
posed to have been murdered at Doty's Flat,
some two miles from this well, last March, hut
the aupposit,on that these are his remains Is
hardly reasonable ono, as it has been nearly
eie,en months which would have entirely com
pleted his decomposition, all but the bones. The
Chinese were intending to clean out the well
to determine the matter, but whether they have
dome 50 or not, We have not learned. That it
was It suicde or murder, and concealment, there
IS no doubt
Year: 1872

RICH STRIKE.-humors have reached town
that a very rich quartz lead has been opened this
week between here and the Green mine, and that
one man had taken out some 81 500 in three
days but we could get no definite corroboration
of the rumors.
Year: 1872




From the Woodsfield Spirit


Our citizens were considerably star
tied, on Sunday morning last by the
intelligence that Seley Okey, youth of
fifteen or sixteen years OF age, son Of
Mr.. Woodman Okey, who resides one
half mile west OF town, had committed
suicide bv hanging himself in stable
near the house.


The boy had taken a rope used for
halter from one OF the stalls, ascended
to the loft, made il fast to one rafter
and then across to another where he
tied it securely. Before the moose was
made in the rope the end was certainly
not more than two feet from the floor
OF the loft. When discovered by his
little brother Alfred, his knees were
resting upon the floor, the body upright,
and life extinct


DR.. Dillon was Immediately sent for,
and, assisted by Dr.. Walton, did every.
thing in their power to restore the vital
spark, but in vain. The body was re
moved to the house and again efforts
were made to restore life with no better
success.


Neither his parents nor the other
members of the family can assign any
cause for the son committing the deed.
He appeared as well and cheerful that
morning as usual; quite a number Of
persons are Of the opinion that he was
merely experimenting to ascertain what
the sensations produced by strangula-
ton were, and when strangulation com
menced, was unable to help himself.
Year: 1872

A petition to the township trustees
numerously signed by the taxpayers,
asking that body to issue an order for
holding a special election 10 enable the
qualified electors to vote for or against
a proposition to issue bonds to the
amount Of $4,000, to aid in the con-
struction OF link Of the Wheeling and
Lake Erie railroad, also an official
notice for such election, will be found


in our columns this week. The names
to the petition were Obtained in few
hours time, and a much larger number
could have been procured had it been
deemed desirable. Out OF 30 taxpayers


solicited, but sir refused to sign, thus
showing the almost unanimous favor
in which the project is held by our
citizens, and indicating its adoption at
the polls by a vote Of more than five 10
one. If the people Of Hartland and
New London townships take hold Of this
enterprise with the same unanimity and
spirit that is manifested in Norwalk, its
success is assured as far as Huron
county is concerned.-Norrcalk, o., Re
fsct0r
Year: 1872

We envy neither the men or women
who cannot speak to a fellOw-ereature
ous Of their own circle, nor to any
body withOpt the fOrmality of an in
PRODUCTION. There is no computing
the amount OF profit as well as plea
sure such persons use by hedging
themselves in with this stupid fence
OF fastidiousness. We have ALWAYS
found more of this feeling among
persons who were tOuehy Oh their So
eial position, than among those self
respecting persons who thought MOTH
ing about it. A gread deal ofintelli-
genee is floating round the world
without being labeled, and those men
or women who have the good sense
to recognize this fact and act upon it,
not only are educating themselves,
but comforting that pleasure which
we are bound by the common ties of
humanity to exchange with each 9TH
er. 1t seems to Us that it is only the
snob and pretender who takes a differ
ent view of this question.
Year: 1872

In our nature there is a provision
alike marvellous ana merciful, that
the sufferer should never know the
intensity Of what he endures by its
present torture, bus chiefly by the
pang that rankles after it.
Year: 1872

A sportive hunter Of Detroit, who
kept flask of whisky with him on a
shooting trip, struck race course in
the suburbs on his return, and walked
around all night, wondering why he
didn't get to town.
Year: 1872

Subscriptions should be paid in advance,
and Joo work as soon as done. Decline all
work. asd patronage of any kind, of which
you have serious doubts as to prompt pay


ment. Better be cleaning up your Office, or
soliciting good business, than 10 be working
fer others with no certainty Of recomPense.
As you would pay your bills upon sight, re-
quire others to pay you, likewise, and there
fore be prompt in the collection of your
outstanding accounts, small or great. Never
postpone ethepresentation Of your bill because
you may think payment doubtful, neither
delay it because you know it will be paid
whenever presented. If collection be un-
certain there is greater reason for early and
constant effort on your part 10 make it. If
sure, get your money into your OWE hands,
that you may pay your bills when due, or
Year: 1872

Few local papers deVots enough space 10
market reports. No one thing more engross-
es the thoughts of the community than the
prices to be obtained for produce, or paid for
goods, If half page each week were
6lled by clear, well-written review of this
topic, every line would be carefully and
eagerly read by the farmer and merchant
alike. A mere brief, standing report of the
grocery market ofyour town, and that half
the time not corrected, will not satisfy you
country readers. Wise and successful jour-
nalism gives all such news it can possibly
supply, and Of the very latest before going
to press.
Year: 1872

We are glad to be able to answer the
perpleXing question here proposed through
the kindness of the Church Journal, which
discussed the point in its last issue. While
special directions are called for in indi-
vidual cases, the opinions of the JoWna:
are valuable and worthy of consideration


" The state of society,"" says the paper
named, in which young men marry as a
rule at twenty-one, or shortly after, is the
state in which the home virtues and the
personal virtues best flourish. That state
which makes it impossible for man to
marry prudently,n until he is thirty-five
or forty, is one which is not admirable nor
desirable, in any land or among any peo-
pie, as the world has had ample testi-
mony. There are unsavory accOmpanl-
ments to this state of things which we all
understand we'll enough, but about which
we are too delicate to say anything. And
these accompaniments are at this moment
rotting the heart out of the American peo-
pie in certain sections and certain states of
life in our country, so that were it not for
the mass of imprudent foreigners. who
have habit of marrying young and rear
ing families of children in the old-fash-
ioned healthy way, we might fear the ex-
tinction of the people, as we see the
extinction of the business of motherhood
and fatherhood, and know the prevalence
of nameless horrors in the relations of the
SeXeSO ...
Year: 1872

The brain of horse seems to 'en.
tertain but one thought at a time; for
this reason, continued whipping is out
Of tie question, anu only confirms his
stubborn resolve. But if you can by
any means change the direction of his
mind, give him a new subject to think
of. Nine times out of ten you will
have no further trouble in starting him.
As simple trick as little pepper,
sloes, or the like, thrown back on the
tongue, will often succeed in turning
attention to the taste in his mouth.


A simpler and cheaper remedy that
will result far differently, is to take .
couple of turns of common wrapping
t"ine, such as grocers use, around
the foreleg just below tho knee,
tight enough for the horse to feel, and
tie in bow knot. At the first cluck
he will generally go dancing of, and
after going short distance you can
get out and remove the string, to pre-
vent injury to the tendon IN your fur
ther driving.
Year: 1872

In the lives of the saddest of US there
are bright days, when We feel as if we
could take the great world in our arms.
Then come the gloomy hours, when the
fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in
our hearts and oil without and within is
dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every
heart has its secret sorrows which the
wordl knows not, and oftentimes We call
man cold when he is only sad-Lonqtel-
low.
Year: 1872

SOME Of the beauties of the law are illus
trated in a case in Indiana. a high-spirited
gentleman had a quarrel with neighbOr
and shot him, OccasiOning his death. Some
days after be was tried for murder In the
second degree and acquitted on the ground
that death actually ensued from disease,
that being put forward as the dafence. He
was then indicted for assault with intent to
kill, and in defence admitted the shooting,
and that death was the result OF the wound,
which made the offence murder Of the sec
ord degree, and then pleaded his former
acquittal on that charge. The final trial is
vet to come.
Year: 1872

Lawyer David Dudley Field is reported by
telegraph, to have denounced Attorney
General Barlow as a malicious, stupid
scoundrel, yesterday, in his testimony be-
fore the Judiciary Committee. This was
expunged from the testimony by the Com
mitJee.


Judge Barnard's counsel say they will
show that the new reform Judge gave more
references in one month to one Individual
than Barnard ever gave to one man in a
whole wear.
Year: 1872

ave find that the Constitution has placed
no restriction upon the Legislature in the
exercise of the power to tax merchants,
pedders and privileges, and we are bound
to presume that their power was left thus
unrestricted, under the conviction that the
representatives of the people would not
abuse the power by unjust or oppressive
taxation. Whether this power has been
abused or not In the enactment Of the sta
tutes under consideration It is not for US to
determine. But It is our province to deter
mine whether the Legislature have trans
cended their constitutional power, and
being fully satisfied that they have not, we
so declare.
Year: 1872

express with more distinctness and empha-
sis that the power of the Legislature to tax
merchants, peddlers and privileges was un-
limited and unrestricted, and might be ex-
ercised in any manner or mode within their
discretion.
Year: 1872

We can easily imagine how railroad en.-
ploye might mistake his route at this pOirt,
where such q multitude of roads meet at
one centre.-ChGttGnOOgG Times.


And so many whisky saloons to confuse
his mind?
Year: 1872


at the time.


Rep. Do you believe that Hrs. Fair was utter
1y unconscious when she fired the shot?
Airs. L. I do. know that she was.


Rep. The prosecution made much out OF. the
fact that she transacted business on that day
and collectcdly.


Mrs. L. know they did. But I have been
in the same way myself. At certain times will
go about and do business and never recol1ect
anything about it,. once went out and did
some business, and took e hack and gave the
man some money and left. When he brought
the change into the office after me, had forgot
ten all about riding in tie hack or paying lin.
Mrs. Fair Las often talked to me about the shoot
ing, and how she felt at the tirne-much in the
same way as she gave evidence on the trial She
said that when she heard Mrs. Crittendens voice
it seemed as though thousand bells began ring
ing in her head, and she lost all sense Of every
thing around her.


Rep. Would slight occurrences sometimes
have that effect on her?


Hrs. L. That WAS not slight occurrence to
her But sometimes O hasty word, OF what
might seem to others mere trifle, would some
times make her frantic with passion, and quite
beside herself, and then she was in Nretched
health, and weak at the time. She had often
told me that she intended seeing the meeting
between Mr. end Mrs Crttendea; but 1 know
she went over there with no intention Of harm
ing him. She loved him too much. She used
to say that she loved any one that Ind drop
Of his blood in them. She always spoke kindly
He loved her too. You talk Of insanity; 1
sometimes think they we're both insane. He
was, On the subject Of his love for her I have
often gone down On my knees to him and asked
him to let her so, for his sake and hers. did.
J remember. When she mas East but ha Gaid
Year: 1872

These Machines are specially adapted for the
use of farmers, being able to sew grain sacks and
heavy clothing with the same facility as the nsll-
al family work-making more durable seam
not liable to ravel, is the case of the loop or
chain stitch
Year: 1872

The great baby show viii positively
come of in the arena on Monday after
noon between twelve and one o'clock.
There will be no postponement, and the
mothers Of the dear little cherubs who
intend 10 exhibit their offspring will
lease take notice.
Year: 1872

Eyoy, the Manufacturer and Builder.


Wa tnow of three methods: First, the old
French plan; this is followed chiefly in Paris by
men making it special business. I5ey take i ., .
elnfation in the middle like an island, on which


ia onlv place for just rat to sit The top is
covered and has large balance valve, opening
downward. On the middle Of the valve q piece
Of fried pork Or cheese is placed, and when the
rat walks on it to get the cheese the valve goes
down, drops the rat into the water and moves
back into position. 4 road is made from the rat
hole to the top Of the tub by means OF pieces OF
board rubbed with cheeHe SO as to make the
walk attractive for the rats. In the course Of
a night, some ten, twenty, or even more rats
may go down, and if the island was not there,
they would be found most all alive in the morn
ing quietly swimming around; but the provls.
ion OF the little island saves the trouble OF
killing them, because their egotistic instinct for
preservation causes them to fight for the ex-
elusive possession OF tho island, on which, in
the morning, the strongest rat is found in so1-
itary possession, all the others being killed and
drowned aronnd him. Second, the New York
plan, invented BY one Of our friends; The
layer Of most caustic potnssa. When the
rats walk on this it makes their feet sore; these
they lick with their tongues, which makes
their mouth gore; and the result is that they
tell ali the rata in the neighborhood abont
it, and eventually the house is entirely aban-
doned by them, notwithstanding the houses
around may be full of rats. Third, the Dutch
method. This is said to be used successfully IN
Holland We have, however, never tried it. A
number Of rats are left to themselves in o very
large trap or cage, with no food whatever; their
craving hunger will cause them to fight, and the
weakest will be eaten by the strongest. After q
short time the fight is renewed, and the next
weakest is the victim, and SO it goes on till one
strong rat is left. When this has eaten the last
remains Of any Of the others, it is set loose the
animal has now acquired such taste for rat
flesh that he is the terror OF ratdom, goin 6
around seeking what rat he may deyour. In an
incredibly short time the promises are aban-
doned by all other rats, which will not coma
Year: 1872

CHAPTER LXXVI. An act in addition to an act entitled .an act for

 the regulation Of civil actions"s Be it enacted by the senate and house of repre-

 sentatives in general assembly convened: Sec. 1. Any joint tenant or tenant in common may maintain an action in his own name for any injury to land owned by him jointly with other persons. . Sec 2. The non-joinder of such other persons may be shown by the defendant upon the trial of any such action for the purpose of effecting the amount of dam ages that may be recovered, and the plain tiff in such action shall only recover for the damage to his own interest.

 Sec. ,. This act shall take ef1ect from its pass age, but shall not affect suit now pending. Approved, August l. 1872