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Year: 1876




To one gallon of water, take one and a.
half pounds of salt, One-half pound Of su-
gar, One-half ounce of potash. In this ratio
the pickle can be inereas d to any quantity
desired. bet thsSe be hOiled together until
all the dirt from the sugar rises 20 lac top
and is skinned of. Then throw it into a
tub to cool and when cold, pour it over
your beef or pork. The meat must be well
covered with pickle, and should not be put
down for at least two days after killing,
during which time it should be slightly
sprinkled with powdered Saltpetre, which
removes all the surface blood, ETC., leaving
the meat fresh and clean. Some omit boil
ing the pickle, and find 1t to answer well,
though the operation of boiling purihes
the pickle by throwing OFF the dirt always
to be found in salt and sugar. Ii this re-
cipe is strictly followed, it will require only
a single trial to prove its superiority over
the common way or ways OF putting down
meat, and will not soon be abandoned for
any other The meat is unsurpassed for
sweetness and delicacy.


GeymdatOton TeIe0rdDh.
Year: 1876

In Mrs Dozier's parlors in Fourteenth
street, last evening. the woman suffragists
were delighted with the existing political
mxedness, as calling louder than ever for
the abolition of distinction of sex at the
ballot box.


Henrietta Payne Westbrook said that
statistics have brought out the startling
fact that farmers have on the average, in
the course of their lives, 216 wives apiece!
The speaker said that if II man was reduir-
ed to take care Of his own clothes, he
would find less time for IOafng; that our
country has need enough Of a general holo-
caust among the politicians that there is
much boasting Of the exposuie of fraud
and corruption, but that cleaning the out
side of the cup and the platter will content
men, while nothing but turning things up
side down will make the women content.
Ii was the speakers ambition to be Street
Commissioner, so that she might be able
To diminish the death rate


Mrs. Slocum said that her -Wn observa-
lions IN Washington county, New York
state, We're that twO-thirdS of the farmers
there we're hving with the second wife. By
the time farmer had got forehanded and
was ready to take his ease his wife was
Worn out and ready 10 die.
Year: 1876

back the crowd and assisting in carry
Ing out the wounded and killed from un-
der the debris.


The office OF the works, on the corner
OF the street opposite the mill where the
explosion occurred, was considerably
used up. The building, however, was
improvised into temporary hospital,
where the dead and wounded were car
ried. A large number Of surgeons were
promptly on the ground and attended to
the wants of the sufferers. A number oil
houses on Pike street were filled with
the wounded.
Year: 1876

Very many fail in their attempts to
can green corn for winter use. The
following is one Of the best methods,
which we take from the -1ntertcon
Grocer.


The corn should be picked when
just milk ripe. After husking, the
kernels are cut from the cob with
guagcd knife and the cob scraped to
get all the juice. Next it is placed in
tin cans without admixture Though
sometimes little sugar is added to
poor corn) and sealed up air-tight.
Then comes the processing" or boil
ing, viz: subjecting the can and con-
tents to the heat of boiling water
from one to two hours, according
to the size of the can. This can only
be determined by experiment. Next
they are taken from the boiling wa
ter and small hole punched in the
top of the can to allow the escape of
the gases and instantly resealed, after
which the can is replaced in the hot
bath and allowed to remain as long
or longer than at first,
Year: 1876

Pure water is . most important
thing, but that from wells is often
contaminated by injurious matters
The well is too frequently into close
proximity to cesspool, . drain, or
the barn yard, and in country places
where ono would suppose the water
should be Of the purest kind, is, from
these causes, charged with the most
deadly poison. Decaying animal
matter in solution in water is as dead
ly poison as arsenic or strychnine,
and many persons die from diseases
which has been caused from drink
ing water thus poisoned. When boil
ed, the chance of infection is much
lessened, and it is in the drinking
water that this danger most frequent
ly exists. BY proper fltering the
water for drinking, it becomes much
safer. A filter may be easily made
of common 4-gallon earthen or stone
crock, in which hole for tap is
made near the bottom. These NAV
be purchased at the groceries, or an
ordinary crock may be pierced for
the purpose. A round piece Of slate


is made to fit the inside of the crock,
and is supported by some pieces of
stone, at hight of 3 or 1 inches
above the bottom. This piece Of slate
has several small holes made in it to
allow the water to pass through, aud
is covered with about an inch of fine
washed gravel. Upon this is placed
? or 3 inches OF hardwood charcoal,
well washed. On this is placed a
layer of fine gravel and sand. The
water to be filtered is poured into
the space above the filter, and it will
slowly percolate through the gravel
and charcoal, to be drawn of, at the
tap. Water thus filtered will be
purified as much as can easily be done
by any mechanical means. a piece
Of ice may be kept in the jar to cool
the water during warm weather. The
use Of a filter should not induce
neglect of the source OF the danger,
and every expense 10 secure well
from contamination will be money we'll
laid out. The filter should be occa-
sionaly renewed by thoroughly wash
ing the gravel, and using fresh char
coal.
Year: 1876

The State Register, in speaking Of
the breeding of fine stock in Iowa,
says:


The number OF quiet men who are
taking hold Of good cattle to breed
them for profit is rapidly increasing.
The sales this spring show that there
are men in all parts OF this state who
have satisfied themselves that they can
handle few good cattle to the great
benefit of themselves and their neigh
bors; and they are buying cattle Of
such style and substance as will add
value to the common cattle when
bred with them. Many of these men
will take their cattle to the county
fairs; they will sell their male calves
to their neighbors; the value of such
cate will thus be seen, more of the
same sort will be wanted; and in the
end We shall see great good done by
those who raise choice cattle, even if
they never enter show-ring at fairs
whore none bnt pampered stock may
| op, for premium.
Year: 1876

To try to deal fairly and steal your
wood from new neighbor the next
year.


Now let's start this book right and not
chrrge "sundries" on the first page.


Be on good terms with your neighbors,
even If you have TO keep n dog and shot
gun to assist you.


Pay for your washing, even il you don't
have an ulster overcoat and a mahogony
bosom pin all winter.


Every wife should make home as pleas
ant as possible, even IL she has to jaw
her husband every hour in the day.


Don't study for the ministry just for
the sake Of getting half fare passes on
the railroads.


Have a good word for everybody and
IL YOU have good luck, stretch this rule
so as to include your mother-in-law.


Every young man who has heretofore
neglected TO part his hair in the middle
and wear a cane should begin at once.


Have the angel of peace in your house
hold, even il you have to trade of your
husbands old clothes with the image
man to get one.


Allow your wife some privileges and if
she wants 10 get up in the morning and
build the fires. don't be muleish and in
sist upon doing it yourself.


Don't go galloping about the country
with a subscription paper for the heathen
when the woman next door is perishing
with cold and hunger.


Ifyou have a bald headed husband you
must not get mad and call him an old
buzzard just because he don't part his
hair in the middle.


If you must swear at your wife have



day in the week TO that kind Of recrea-
ton, but don't mix it along every day.


Don't 90 home late at night and, after
making speeches to the hat-rack, try to
make your wife believe that you chased
a burglar and got all tired out


Don't hug the fatal delusion to your
soul that you can sell rotten wood for
four dollars a cord, and Offset il by at
tending church twice on Sunday.


Don't think, because this is the centen-
NAL year, that duty compels you to do
nothing but sit around on dry goods
boxes and give your views OF George
Washington.


You need not feel that you must pull
out a handful of your husbands hair TO
send to the centennial, 50 long as the at
tic is full Of old spinning-wheels and 50
forth.


Do something for the day and genera
ton in which you live, il it's nothing
more than to speak an encouraging word
to your wife while she is putting up the
fall stove.


When your wife does her own work
and makes your clothes besides, don't
let her split all the wood. OF course, il
she has a leisure day occasionally IL
makes a difference.


Don't teach your boy to work, for IL
you do the first thing you know he'll
want to pitch in and get a living for him
self and then who'll squander your
property when you re gomez
Recollect that history repeats itself,
and the same stuff that made you drunk
I last year will send you home with your
head full Of windmills, buzz-saws, il you
| fool with il again.
| Old maids must not get mad because
I they are referred to as the centennial
I relics Of lost opportunities, for this Is
I going 10 be a big year and we must have
\ things classified to expedite matters.
Year: 1876

lie spoke from experience and knew
il to be true.-While waiting in a crowd.
ell ferry.house for the boat 10 cross, VIC
overheard a gentleman speaking earnest.
ly, and advising his lady listener 10 mar.
~ no man who frequented saloons and
drinking places and spending time there
in. lie assured her that no matter how
how strongly they might have become
attached 10 each other, aud no matter
how much belief she had that she could
win him from his evil ways after mar.
riagc, he was sure she never could that
although he might give up his haunts
temporarily, lac would be sure to back.
slide, and she would suffer all her life


lie was so earnest in his advice. that wo
turned to see who the speaker was. and
imagine our surprise when We found the
man 10 be a manufacturer Of wines and
brandics. and a dealer aud largo ADVERT.
ser OF Holland gin and whiskies, and the
owner Of large liquor store in this city.
/ We presume the lady was a stranger 10
| him. lie certainly would not have tho
assurance 10 talk in that way TO one who
\ knew his business. But the man knew
l from observation, if not from personal


experience that what he said was the
| truth. and reminded us Of tho common


saying, that physicians seldom take thcii
own incidence
Year: 1876

power had worked this awful miracle,
walk into the next public" and ask
them to set before you an unopened bot
tie of what they call Cognac or Geneva,
and if you al that way disposed, sit and
muse upon the full power Of the Genie
which is shut up in that crystal flask. If
you viii pull out the cork, it may rise
with horror that obscures the very
light of heaven. That was the power
that had seized on poor Hurting CHAM
Oxford IIurlingham, second best criclS-
eter, athletic, healthy, and fairly yirtuous
and changed him, body and soul, into
this human ghoull
Year: 1876

In a village in the mountains OF New


Hampshire, says the Boston Traveller,
the late Dr. Samuel G.. Howe found the
subject OF this sketch, then six years old,
blind, deaf dumb, and nearly destitute
OF tho sense Of taste, scarlet fever having
deprived her Of these gifts. She was thus
excluded from all the beauties OF God in
nature, and seemed little better than a
piece Of marble chiseled in human form,
and that soul containing q iliclscring
spark OF an immortal soul Her father
was a wcll-to-do farmer, and her mother
a woman OF much intelligence, who glad.
ly consented to place her little daughter
Year: 1876

by CELIA TliANTEk.
/ wake; L feel the day is near;
hear the red cock growing;
He cries, "'fis dawn J" How sweet and clear
His cheerful call comes TO my ear,
While light is slowly growing.
The white snow gathers, flake on flake;
hear the red cock growing.
Is anybody else awake
To see the winter morning break,
While thick and fast tits showing:
1 think the world is all asleep;
hear the red cock growing.
Out of the frosty pane peep;
The drifts are piled so wide and deep,
And wild the wind is blowing.
Nothing see has shape or form;
/ hear the red cock growing;
But that dear voice comes through the storm
To greet me in my nest so warm,
As IL the sky were going.
A happy little child, lie


And hear the red cock growing.
The day is dark. 1 wonder why
His voice rings out so brave and high,
With gladness overfiowing.


list. Nicholas.
Year: 1876

Ifyou or


To-day should die,
The birds would sing as sweet tomorrow
The vernal spring


Her flowers would bring
And few would think Of Us with sorrow.
Yes, he is dead,


Would then he said
The corn would floss. the grass yield hay,
The cattle low,


And summer go,
And few would heed Us pass away.
How soon we pass


How few, alas!
Remember those who turn TO mold
Whose faces fade


With autumns shade,
Beneath the sodded churchyaFj cold!
Yes, it Is So
We come, we GO
They hail our birth, they mourn us dead
day or more,


The winter DER,
Another takes his place instead.
Year: 1876

ES One of the late zephyrs in Min
nesota is reported to have blown two
sheep into the top of tree mile away
from their grazing place. The rest Of
the hock had presence of mind enough
to hold on to thegrass with their teeth.
Year: 1876

The decision of our courts TO tax the surplus of
the banks for State and city purposes has had de-
pressing effect upon nearly all the shares of the city
banks The Chemical is very heavily taxed under
this decision, the latest bid being 1927. To-day's
current quotations are
Year: 1876

An omnibus driver in London was killed
during the late storm in remarkable man
ner, which is thus described in q report Of
the inquest: "On Sunday, during the storm
the deceased went and got an omnibus and
horses to bring down the yard for the pur-
pose of changing the horses. Shortly after
man named Reading called to him and
then he saw the horses with the omnibus
coming down the yard, and the deceased
sitting on the box with blood flowing from
his neck. Witness got upon the box and
found the deceascd's head leaning forward,
and on lifting it up found that the throat
was cut from ear to ear, and the man quite
dead. He found that the telegraph wires
which had broke down, had inflicted the
wound. DR.. A. E. Samson said he was
called to see the deceased, whom he found
sitting on the box of an omnibus, quite
dead. His head was leaning on one side,
and on lifting it up, witness found that the
throat was cut from ear to ear, and that all
tissues were severed and the roof of the
tongue was exposed. Death must have
been instantaneous. He aiterward tracked
blood to the entrance of the yard, where he
saw largo piece of telegraph wire. The
wire, after breaking, had made loop over
the gate and caught the deceased while he
was entering, round the neck"
Year: 1876

amalgamation, but those who believed in its
permanent success have lost forty per cent
their investments by their credulity. In
conclusion would recommend the real investors in
the Direct Cable Company seriously to consider the
ulteror effect Of the policy proposed The memo
rial Of association OF the company forbds all working
arrangements with any existing cable company. TO
carry the scheme OF Mr. Pender liquidation and
reorganization would be necessary; IN any
case tho liquidation would involve great risk
and expense, and 1t is most doubtful whether
even il the requisite majority Of were
obtained the courts would allow a solvent company to
20 into liquidation merely with the object Of altering
the fundamental basis OF its existence and In defiance
ofthe determined opposition OF IA considerable portion
Of the proprietary. VINO consider such course neither
fair nor honorable. l have the honor to be, sir,


A SHAREHOLDER IN THE II. L.. S. G. G.
Year: 1876

Hayes and Pendleton, "Gentleman
George" were pitted against each
other for the Governorship of Ohio.
1t was time at which Pendleton
was favorite with the Democrats as
a probable candidate for the Presi-
dency, and his success in the canvass
involved his ability for the higher
candidacy. All day long, while the
election was progressing, Governor
Hayes sat quietly in the house of a
friend in Cincinnati, reading, con-
versing, and seeming the most uncon-
cerned of all. The lady of the house
at last said to him: "How is it, Gen
eral Hayes, that you are so entirely
unexcited about matter which is of
SO much Importance to you?" "To
speak truly said the Governor, l
feel a great deal of sympathy for my
opponent. He has the Presidency as
well as the Governorship at stake. I
have only the one to lose" General
Hayes evidently had no suspicion
that there was more for him in the
turning of that days fortunes than
for his rival. But such is the great
ness of this mans heart. | have
seen him deeply agitated at the story
Of little chlld's danger, and have
heard one VIII had seen him in battle
testify that he was true rs steel, and
gallant as a Bayard.- Correspond
ence Hartford Coe.rdnt.
Year: 1876

doesn't believe in total depravity. He thinks no
man is so far gone that he can't be talked to and
saved. In his view you must be as democratic
toward the erring as Walt Whitman. You must
lift them up and be to them as brotherly as cir
eumstanees will admit. The principle is right, Of
course; but it doesn't always work Some days
since "Macaulay" took to his home and his conf
dence one Stephen Wiley, who has been in State
prison two thirds of his life-a good-hearted,


wellmeaning man, but cOnstitutiOnally obliged
to steal. We shall not make long story of this
painful affair. Suffice it to say that Stephen is
now in jail for stealing one Of ''Macaulays" best
Year: 1876

Al great time is expected this evening at the
tableau, music and strawberry festival, which
will be held in Tallmadge hall under the auspices
Of DR.. Smiths church. The ladies having the
matter in charge have been indefatigable in their
efforts to make this one of the most entertaining
the tabIeau are extensive and elegant. Mr. E.
B. Hay will sing in his inlmitable way his famous
Lord Lowell song, which Of itself will be well
Year: 1876

This well-knOwn and popular placs Of resort for
picnic and other pleasure excursions down the
river is now being thoroughly rented and FUR
nished by the proprietor, and will be open for the
reception and entertainment Of picnic and dane
ing parties on and after the 18th Of May. 1t will
be more attractive than ever.
Year: 1876

popular preacher recently quoted the dream
OF a seer, who saw q man in great torment IN
every limb except his right foot. He asked why
that was released. This man" was the answer,
sis being punished for his selfshness and In
dolence, and was never known to do good decd,
except that he once kicked tuft Of fresh grass 70


tethered OK standing in the hot sun, and for this
one act that foot is saved from torment"
Year: 1876

The feast OF "Our Lady OF Mercy" is always day Of
great devotion among the Sisters OF Mercy, tho
Blessed Virgin Is pa'roness of that Order under tho
above title. Tho feast ddy celebrated yesterday
the convent IN Houston by tho reception Of
tho black veil by Miss Helen McQuade who years
ago, received white veil ana has for that period been
training In the novltiata
Year: 1876

SATISFACTION OF THE INDIAN DEPARTMENT AT
THE CONSIDERATION OF THE TREArY--A
VARIETY OF VIEWS ON THE ULTIMATE RKsuLT.


WASHINGTON, Sept p, 1875


The Commissioner OF Indian Affairs is quito pleased
tho result Of the abors performed by commits
sion In treating with the bands of Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail for the removal OF their tribes the In
dian Territory finally and to the Missouri River now
preparatory doing Red Cloud said have been
for time willing complete the treaty spulations
and the Indian Department gives him credit for
shrowduess than is possessed by Spotted Tail Tho
officials feel sanguine that the treaty thus secured will
be complete In accomplishing all that tho government
desires eventually and that will be faithfully carried
out by the Indians to that end Others, who know
the Indians Of old, think that Il will moi amount 10
anything except 10 enable the Indians TO gain time
and hoodwnk tho government heretofore.
There binding obligations to the In.
dian In treaty now, and his ordinary
custom OF fulfilling agreement which, TO cx-
tcnt, he ID punctIous about, Is apt &c bc departed
from nowadays when dealing with the United States


At tho Bureau OF Indian Affairs Is believed the
hostlss under Sitting Bull have all gone up into tho
British possessions, TO remain there during the winter
on account OF their finding good buffalo aud game
country generally.
Year: 1876

The Republicans are apparently des-


pondent. They do not hope for much


from the court. If there bad not been so
many of their candidates on the Board


of CanVassers the prospect would have
been brighter. They.go so far as to con-
cede that it is too much to expect the
Court to allow the Board, under the cir
cumstances, to exercise judicial functions.
That they admit would be palpable and
fagrant outrage. As the matter stands
their case seems desperate. The face of
the returns givesthe Democrats the State
and nearly everything they worked and
fought 80 hard for, and if the Board is
ordered to go behind the returns of the
county Canvassers, the situation will
Year: 1876

Democrats Preparing to Resist the
Shrewd and Fraudulent Tactics of
Republican Managers. The Court
Asked for an Injunction to Restrain
the Governor from Assuming the
Duties of the State Board.
Year: 1876

candidate voted for at the recent election


another the holder Of an office of profit
and trust by appointment of the present


Executive of the National Government


while all the members of the Board are
believed to be in affiliation, with bat one
OF the parties to the present political
contest. In view of all this, it is hardly
necessary to add that the terms of our
letter we're not designed to prejudge the
question whether the functions of the Re.
turning Board were judicial or ministerial
or both, but simply to invite you to see
with us that whatever may be the char
acter of these functions, they are openly,
fairly and honestly discharged, and while
we thus refrained from any attempt at
stating or constituting the laws of Louis.
lana, we deemed it equally irrelevant to
the subject of our correspondence with
you to allude to the duties devolving upon
officers other than the constituents of the
Louisiana Returning Board under the
laws and Constitution of the United States
Whether, as you observe by way ofillus-
tratlon under the Constitution, the Presi-
dent of the Senate both counts and de.
clares votes of Electors of the several
States, his duties being purely ministerial
and not subject to the control of Congress
or whether, as has been the practice for
more than eighty years, practice inau-
gurated by men, some ofwhom had been
among the trainers of the Constitution,
the votes are to be counted under the
direction and control of the Senate and
House of Representatives, is question
upon the discussion of which we deem it
no part OF our duty to enter.


In conclusion, permits to say that not
wlthstanding your refusal to CO operate,
we still cherish the hope that the Return
ing Board, warned by the history of the
past, and conscious that its actions are
being observed by the whole nation,
will discharge its delicate duty with such
circumspecton, fairness and impartiality
as will give satisfaction to the American
people. To this end, we will continue
to labor. Should different result follow
the action of the Board, we shall have
the satisfaction of knowing, that, while
you have taken the responsibility of de.
clining to act with us, we have done all
In our power to avert the consequences
which may follow.