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Year: 1876

careless or bard man who will put away his
fresh meat in the bulk for bis wife to get as
best she may. Then again, out it up right,
and If you don't know how, as you do not
unless you have learned, take few lessons
Of a competent butcher, for there are neat
skillful butchers just as there are accom-.
plished farmers. We shall not soon forget
the modification we experienced on exhibit
ing our ignorance OF beef anatomy in at.
tempting to cut up "hint quarter" in the
presence Of one who had been trained in the
stalls of Quincy Market in Boston. But
when he took the knife and saw and said I:
"Mr. HibbIrd, cut it this way and your
pieces for drying will come out just right,
the grain Of the steaks run the right way,
you will strike the joints as you desire, and
the pieces fer stews and soups will be to
your wife's liking" How easily and aecu-
rately and quickly he did it, and then each
piece being frozen separately it is as easy to
get the meat as the potatoes for dinner at
any time. Try it once, and neither you or
your wife will wish to go back to the old
soveDly method. ..


Having cut and thoroughly cooled the meat,
see that the barrel is sound, tight and sweet.
If it is tainted, it is unsafe people tell
about smoking or washing them clean, but





the only safe way Of which we have any
knowledge is to get a new one. The risk of
spelling barrel Of pork is too great TO use
tainted barrel. If it leaks much the brine
will carry off the juices of the meat, espe.
cially beef, aud so nearly half of the good
ness be gone. For packing as for freezing
cut into small pieces so as to come out in
size for use. We have seen pork packed 10
strips as long as would come out Of whole
side. Further, pack in layers of all kinds so
your wife can get what she wants without
overhauling whole barrel of meat. For
pork use salt enough, be sure that il is
good, Turks Island, or other 6rst-class quail
ity and pure, and then use enough of it.
Many people are too saving of salt aud so
lose their meat. Here is what an experienced
pork packer says of his method after years
Of trial;


"In packing pork | can not too strongly
urge you to use an abundance of salt. l
think half bushel Of good, pure salt
would preserve barrel OF pork, but | would
never use less than bushel My rule has
been barrel Of salt to four barrels Of pork.
There may be some lime in the salt, but if
plenty Of salt is used no harm will be done
by the lime. II you use more salt than the
pork requires it will not injure the meat or
affect it in any way, SO be sure to have
enough"
Year: 1876

About these days people are killing their
pork, though it should be fattened ready to
kill by the FIRST of December, or as soon as
tho hams, spare-ribs, etc., will freeze solid
80 as to be packed for winter and spring use.
A hog or beef will fat much more rapidly
10 warm than in cold weather on the same
amount of food, as there is less used to keep
up the heat Of the system and 30 more left
to add flesh. The true way of course is to
begin to feed "heavy" just as soon as the
hot days of early autumn are over, and then
feed all the cooked food the hog will eat
with RELISH only make him eat it all up
clean at each feeding. Having killed it, let
it hang few hours and thence into a room
where it will not freeze, and cut it up SO as
to hasten and facilitate the cooling process.
The hams and other "fresh meat" put where
they will freeze solid and pack in bin Of
oats, the farther from the air the better and
they will keep till needed. Be sure aud cut
into just such pieces as you want for table
use before freezing and then when your wife
has company" come unexpectedly aud her
husband is 10 the woods or off attending to
local politics, she is not compelled to waste
her strength and patience in "shaving of "
from quarter of beef or irregular pieces
of pork, enough for dinner. 1t is a coarse
Year: 1876

For some reason diphtheria is getting to
be feariully prevalent, aud painfully fatal.
j Just what the disease is we do not know, not
having a medical education and experience
But having had it once nigh unto death, and
knowing the havoc it sometimes makes with
ones constitution, and the sensitive condi.
tion in which it leaves ones throat to every
change Of tke weather, gives US some solicit
tude for others as well as ourselves. At the
present time the disease is aarmngly preva.
lent in some localities; Davenport, Iowa,
has several hundred cases, New York reports
at least five hundred, while localities in
Pennsylvania are sadly affected. Some Of
the manufacturing towns Of Massachusetts,
arc suffering from it very severely. The
disease undoubtedly maufests itself ia al.
most any locality where the conditions ex-
ist, and ut any season Of the year. We have
seen persons stricken down with it in mid
summer, when there was no other case
about, from the use Of foul privies which had
been neglected by careless men, and from
open, filthy sink drains at least no other
cause could be found aud removal Of these
causes checked the disease. II is now well
settled fact that diphtheria is contagious as
surely as smallpox, and it is contracted
by taking the spores or germs Of the disease
into the system by inhaling air that is freight
ed with them or in the food and water we
drink. Consequently foul drains, privies,
pig styes or decomposing bodies Of animals
may gil the atmosphere about our homes with
the seeds Of the disease, aud any one Of the
family whose system is 10 the right condition
will contract it, just as we do typhoid fevers
and kindred diseases. The occasion of its
prevalence in winter is owing to the changes
Of the weather and the quicker susceptibility
aOd shameful carelessness and neglect o.
those who suffer from it.


We have found that warm, dry aud we'll
protected feet aud throat are essential II
guarding against it, and frequent use of a
gargle of solution Of chlorate OF potassa-
we always keep bottle of it on the shell
or solution of common salt. If the dis
ease exists, or is supposed to exist, we uso
bi.sulphito Of soda which can be had of any
druggist as we'll as directions for use. You


physicians may tell you as they som etime
have, that it is of no service, loe k1lOi0 IL is
But it would be wiser aud safer to call I
competent physician at once, because diph
iberia is one of the diseases which soon get
beyond control, and probably Ono-half, if no
mole of the deaths from this disease occul


because the patient or his friends neglect i


till too late, or they employ cheap, unskilleC
physicians. We speak only from persona


knowledge and because we do not wish Il


sit silent while this fearful disease raake


such havoc in the happy homes of Vermont
Year: 1876




WATER FOR STocK. There is danger of
much suffering among stock this winter for
want Of water. have we'll dug in my
yard to resort to If my running water fails,
Notwithstanding brook runs near. 1 will
suggest that it might be wise plan for somo
who have TO drive to brooks, or who fear
their supply Of water may fail to dig wells
at this time. They can get help cheap and
tho ground is very dry. Artesian wells
might answer in some cases. A we'll dug
under barn floor or in the cellar has its
advantages, in stormy weather water the
stock inside. Evergreen boughs packed over
pump logs may prevent the frost getting
down low enough to stop the water when it
'rOns slow. or pack them over spring heads,
from which a supply is obtained. Placing
dam across a ditch in the fall, will some
times supply large quantity Of water in
the winter Some adopt this plan for a
head for running water for yard.


T. 9. NARANoRE.
WillistOH, ",
Year: 1876

The weather wise prophets tell us we
shall have an open winter, though we have
not consulted young probabilities down in
Washington. Now you farmers who "are
going to do ii" please be wise aud gil your
ice house at once. This "cold snap" is on
purpose. the ice is pure and solid, and
though not as thick as it may be
10 March, is thick enough for easy hand.
ling, and if the stream should break up you
might not secure better during the season
Take pains to get it pure, free from all i'm
purities. A pond into which the drainage
Of village flows, or which receives much
from set Of farm buildings, or just below
mill or factory would Of course be unfit for
use. If 10 midsummer we must make hay
while the sun shines, so now the ice should
be stored away before the January thaw
comes, as come it will in good earnest by
and by.
Year: 1876

good, early-cut hay they can eat, but OWN
TO the lice, think, some Of them are not in
good condition. During the last two or
three years l have tried several remedies,
but have never been able to find anything
that will effcctualy destroy them. Please
reply soon and ObIige A SUBSCRIBER.


MiddIsssr, ~


Our chief remedy has been sulphur mixed
with lard SO as to make thin paste or
salvc, thoroughly rabbed on the cattle,
especially about head, neck, shoulders and
back. On milch COWS they will get around
the bag. 1t is a good plan to keep the dry
sulphur in large pcpper-box in the barn
and sprinkle it on your stock, only see that
they do not go out at once into q snow or
rain storm, II is some work to 60 over a
herd Of twenty or thirty cows in this man.
ner, but we did it last March with success.
Perhaps nothing will keep cattle thin more
effcctually than these vermin, and it is safe
as well as prudent to sulphur your cattle in
early autumn, and occasionally to repeat
the process during the winter. One COW in
few months will spread the vermin through
a whole herd. BE particularly careful to
inspect your calves and keep them free from
these destroyers. Mr.. Murray in the Gold
en- Rule gives the following directions for
the treatment Of colts


Lice may accumulate in great numbers
before they are discovered. Sometimes they
are diffused all over the skin; other times
they are confined to the name, the tail aud
parts adjacent. The horse IS frequently
rubbing himself, and often the hair falls out
in large patches. There are many lotions,
powders and ointments for destroying lice
Mercurial ointments, lotions of corrosive SUBJ
Innate, and decoctions of tobacco, are so
dangerous that they should never he used
Refuse oil or lard, rubbed on lousy beast
of any kind, Immediately destroys the ver-
min, and there is no danger to be appre-
hended from this application. 1t merely
occasions the hair being earlier in the spring
and requires little extra attention in the
housing of such animals as have been affected
Vinegar mixed with three times its bulk OF
water Is also a good application and not dau-
gerous. 1t is most irritating. but the irrita-
tion soon subsidies, and does not sickeu the
horse; tobacco often will. Next day the
skin should be examined, and wherever there
is any sign Of living vermin, another appli-
cation should be made. Two days after
wards the horse should be washed with
soapy water, warm and applied with brush
that will reach to the skin without irritat-
ing it.
Year: 1876




GorNG WEsT.-Here is what sensible
New Hampshire farmer said few days ago
at an agricultural meeting in that state, and
VIC commend it to those Vermonters who are
suffering from the "westcrn lever" These
are Mr.. Miller's words:


"Am New Hampshire man now and for.
ever when young, heard stories about Cali
foania debated whether l should go.
Said, No, sir. Our boys always going
keep saying, go West, go West Have
watched those who went and those who stayed
not always those who went succeeded best
fnd that it takes work to mako farm pay
in any section. Some have worked and sent
their money West for ten per cent. but |
think it should stay at home, and would pay
as well. They got ten per cent. for while,
but last year three hundred thousand dol.
lars in interest were lost to New Hampshire
aud many fear that we shall now never get
the interest or the value Of the bonds either
That shows that they cannot pay ten pei
cent. for money to farm it even in the West
My observation teaches me that farming
pays best at home. In my travels see
very little land well titled. The greatest
hindrauce to success iD farming in any place
has been q desire to go and keep going
Love Of home and country should attach tc
locality. Perseverance, and industry will
Increase the percentage Of profit on farm
anywhere"
Year: 1876

The Rural New Yorker is for having
new cabinet officer, with the title secretary
Of agriculture" We don't know-the man.
agement Of that department has been kept
in politics so much that its possible usefulness
has been largely curtailed. Such a depart
ment wisely filled by some competent man
like President Clark of the Massachusetts
agricultural college would render great SER
vice, but when it comes to sending out few
pumpkin seeds to political favorite, or i'm.
porting and distributing seeds of no value,
it is not encouraging.
Year: 1876

Flour and corn and grain Of all kinds is
higher But do not imagine, innocent reader,
that the extra price will go into the pockets
Of the western farmer, poor fellow, though
he needs il never SO much to pay his ten per
cent interest on that mortgage you hold on
bis beautiful farm. No such thing--it goes
to the great railroad men who have just
raised the freights-that's ALL BY advanc-
ing freight very little they can raise your
-four from twenty-five to iity cents per bar.
rel and 50 save millions. But then, freights
have been ruinously low.
Year: 1876

A SLANDER.-This is the way the Boston
Post talks to the PhiIadelphians who are
mourning over the close of the Centennial,
and we confess to feeling of sympathy with
the advice given;


Now that the Centennial exhibition is a
thing of the past, the people of Philadel-
phia are allowing themselves to state = few
facts concerning the villainOus quality of the
Schuylkill water, and they are asking what
they shall do with il. We should advise
bOttling and distributing among the drug.
giSts Of the country. Epson salts are moth
ing in comparison.
Year: 1876

MR. EDITOR win you be SO kind as to
inform me through the columns of your paper
how l can safely and surely destroy the lice
on my cattle? l have twelve COWS have
fed grain all the fall and they have all the
Year: 1876

OATMEAL.-In Great Britain childnen of
all ranks are raised on oatmeal diet alone,
because it causes them TO grow strong aud
healthful, and no better food can possibly be
found for them. 1t is also quite as desirable
for the student as for the laborer, and for the
delicate lady as for her hard working sister
indeed, all classes would be greatly benefited
by its use, and dyspepsia, with oil its mani
fold aunoyances. can be kept at a distance.
Oatmeal is more substantial food, it is said
than veal, pork or lamb, aud quite equal to
beef and mutton, giving as much or more
mental vIgor, while its great desideratum
consists in ones not becoming weary Of it,
for it is as welcome for breakfast or tea as
is wheat or graham bread. 1t can be eaten
with sirup aud butter as hasty pudding, or
with cream and sugar, like rice. 1t is es.
pecialy good for young mothers, upon whose
nervous forces too great demand has been
made. and they lose the equilibrium of the
system and become depressed and dispirited
Oatmeal requires to be cooked slowly, and
the water should be boiling hot when it is
stirred in.
Year: 1876

Among those Who have used the house
hold remedy, P0nd's Extract. scarce
ly family can be found in which it is not
the rule to keep it constantly on hand. The
one difficulty is that it is so valuable in re-
lieving and curing in almost every accident
q family is subjected to, that the medicine
is often exhausted when an urgent and
sudden use for it arises. 1t is economical
rs to price, and important for the grester
surety of having it when suddenly needed,
to buy the largest size at $l.75. This bottle
contains Eve and one-half times as much a.
the Soc size. eod&w
Year: 1876

Ame,ioration of the symptoms of disease Is, Of
course one desirable object Of medication, and there
are doubt paliatives which possess considerable
remedial efficacy. The temporary disappearance Of
the isdieia Of disease, in too many insaaces how
ever, delude the sick into b. lief that they cured
Many Of those who have borne grateful testimony to
the permanent remedial effect Of Hostetter's stOm-
ach Btiers in of liver disorder, chronic con-
s;ipation intermittent and remttent Ievers urinary
and rheumatic ailments have also recorded the fact
that the temporary relief occasionally afforded by
the medicines which they tried before using the
great restorative inspired hopes which we're speedily
oissipated by q return Of the malady. The Bitters
not only relieve, but If persstently and regularly
taken CURE the maladies to which they are adapted


d&v
Year: 1876

1t is ingratitude to nature not to preserve
and keep in splendid order good set Of
teeth. Nothing can be easier. All that
is needed is to brush them briskly night
and morning with purifying Sosodost 1t
will make the mouth . perfumed palace.
Year: 1876

The cowardly attempt Of certain negroes Ia


take the life of the colored man. Henry Kent. on
Sunday afternoon, mt the corner Of Johnson and


Graver streets, occurred rs follows:


Kent aud a friend and his friends wife were
coming up the street, about o'clock. when he


noticed a negro named Isaac Wa ker run into
the corner grocery to inform the others that
Kent was coming. Kent Immediately put him
self on his guard. When he got in front of the
grocery Martin Dickson. one of the party of
half dozen or more. came to the door and
said TO Kent to come and have a talk with him.
Kent declined the invitation. saving that he
would have nothing to do with him. Dickson
tbereupon declared that Kent must have a talk
with him, calling him at the same time a d-d
Democratic -. AT the same time Mack
itogers, another negro, armed with silver
mounted revolver in one hand and n large knife
IN the other. appeared on the door step and
Kent drew his revolver and returned the fire. the
cowardly Rogers seeking safety behind some
barrels in the grocery and firing several
fire each time. After .kents, fifth shot the ne
groes began to shout " Kill the - Of DEM
cratic nlgger he's shot his last shot," thereupon
a general rush was made for Kent. Dickson in
the lead armed with the knife that had been
given him by Rogers. Kent sought safety in
q ight. but as he ran managed to put two new
came TO q halt. At this moment officer johnson,
a colored policeman. came up and drawing his
pistol declared that he would protect Kent.
wheth he was q Democrat or not, and the affair
end d.


The affair originated on Saturday when Kent,
IA he passed the crowd was accused Of having
always voted the Democratic ticket At night,
Mt dance. without the least provocation. he
was twice stabbed ut from the rear by Rogers.
and would have been killed but for the warning
OF a small boy who say the thrusts.


This morning Officer Flanagan was making
an affidavit against Rogers and Kent for dis
mittee from the State Central Committee. Capt.
McGloin. Major Vienne and Capt. Eugene May.
were this morning looking for Recorder Evans
to lay the matter before him.
Year: 1876

1t seems that the full extent OF the


disaster on the Jackson Railroad, last


week, at Tugaloo, is now known. Two


men were killed and seven wounded


badly enough to require surgical aid.
Three OF these were placed in charge Of
DR.. Craft at Jackson, and four In charge
Of DR.. Austin OF this city. All the seven,
with the exception OF the colored woman
Molly Brooks, were discharged yester-
day and to-day, and the woman is
rapidly recovering. Anumber OF others
were bruised and scratched. but none
hurt badly enough to require attention.
The managers of the road have done all
that lay In their power for the comfort
OF the wounded, and have replaced such
losses as it was possible to replace.


In this connection, we are informed
that the statement in the Associated
Press dispatches, to the effect that en-
ployees Of the road are forbidden, on
pain Of dismissal, to give information
in regard to accidents, is entirely incor-
rect. There is a regulation which pro-
hibits telegraph operators and other
employees from making known the busi-
ness dispatches Of the road officials.
It was this very proper regulation. we
presume, which was the basis of the very
damaging statement OF the Associated
Press reporter.


A great deal has been said about the
extent OF this disaster, and quite con-
troversy has arisen over the number Of
the casualties. In our opinion the
culpability or innocence Of the man.
ayers OF the road Is not to be deter
mined by the number Of killed and
wounded, but by the degree Of careless
ness which led to the catastrophe. If
the management was careless, the COM
pany would be just as criminal If one life
had been lost as il a hundred had been
sacrificed; and If, upon the other hand,
the accident was one Of those which
no human foresight and care could
have prevented, there could be no rea-
son for the company to attempt to con-
ceal the extent Of the casualties, be-
cause no criminal responsibility could
be fixed upon it.


The accident in this case so far as we
can ascertain, does not in the least GRIM
mate the management Of the road, and |
we believe this is the general judgment |
of the public. The damage the food |
had done the crossing was not percepti- |
BILE, and no care or prudence could have |
discovered the undermining OF the
work. We rejoice that the casualties
were 80 few and that the wounded are
all recovered or recovering.
Year: 1876

1t is again our painful duty to chronicle the
death of worthy and esteemed citizen. Col.
Charles Roman. who died yesterday night after
having reached his fifty-ninth year. will be fol-
lowed to his grave by host of friends whose
love and esteem he had gained by genial dis
position allied to an answering straightfor-
wardness. AS soon as the Confederate war
broke out, he hastened to join the Orleans
Guards regiment. and WAS made Captain OF one
OF the companies, which he gallantly led for
ward at the battle OF Shiloh. When the
war closed he returned to peaceful avo-
cations and the pursuits Of business.
He participated, nevertheless, la the 1Qht
of the 14th of September 1874 being then In
command Of company composed In great
part of his old soldiers. He was a MEM
Der of the last Legislature. and can really
be said to have been up to the time of his death
a true useful and noble hearted citizen
Year: 1876

mond and others. indicated yesterday their
desire to settle up for the month of July. for
which they had been sued some days past by the
late Attorney General


Mr. Sheltz Chief Clerk Of the Auditor was
therefore set a work yesterday to examine their
books as the Auditors examiner is at present
absent from NE city The money to be turned
over was then apportioned to the various funds
and al the necessary arrangements made for it
to be paid into the Treasury to-day.


Al about II m. the tax collectors appeared at
the Treasurer's office. and. it was understood
paid in their respective quotas.


a large crowd had been in attendance all the
morning. evidently under the deiusion that they
would have some chance at the money. This
action OF the tax collectors will. 1t is presumed
set aside the suit brought against them for non
payment OF this money into the treasury.
Year: 1876

1t is good proof that our people are growing
economical in their habits to see how the camp
meetings. are thriving. In our rich and pros
porous days. when we had more money than we
knew what to do with; when the people Of the
North still imagined that the war was raging,
and big pork and shoddy contracts ON hand we
thought little Of going to the seaside or to some
mountain watering place and paying S. a
day for room 5x6 1t is different now. The
summer watering places are deserted. and we
are forced to find our recreation at camp meet
ings. These have grown more popu ar with
each succeeding year; this year they have
reached the acme. and We notice thousands Of
them In every part Of the country.


We are not exactly inclined to attribute this
altogether to religion: to believe that because
we are hard-up and poor We are consequently