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Year: 1872

This terrible malady still continues to rage with
uuAbatsd fury over the country. In many places
it has assumed new and more fatal character
Its prevalence in the upper part Of this county
and along tho border Of Chester and Cecil counties,
IL 70 general that the people are compelled to re.
main at home or walk considerable distance to
points where they can take the cars or stages for
this city So general is it that those who come to
market and own several horses have none to drive,
all being more or less affected with influenza A
number who came to market yesterday found
their horses this morning affected to such an ex-
tent that they had to get ass,stance from friends
and neighbors to get their wagons homo again.


Fortunately the Wilmington and Western and
Wilmington and Reading Railroads have afforded
facilities to many to get to market who otherwise
would not have been able to come at all


In this city the disease so far has not been very
fatal. Our people had timely warning and have
been cautious enough to adopt the best usage and
treat their sick horses in the most careful manner
We presume there is not less than thousand
horses now in the stables in this city, warmly
blanketted and tied up with flannel. undergoing
all the processes known to the veterinary art. A.
yet but few have died, and there is prospect of
very general recovery. Rest and kind and careful
treatment for few days will save the life Of many
Q noble animal for which the owner would not,
perhaps, take several hundred dollars and owners
should bear this in mind.
Year: 1872




The late decision Of the General Term of the
Supreme Court in the cases Of Burns and Greenthal,
declaring invalid the extension Of the famous Bedford
Grand jury" which brought the Ring indictments q
year ago threatens 10 work mischief in all the Ring
cases John T. Burrin submitted this decision in Gen
eral Sessions yesterday. additional argument why
his motion to quash the indictment against his client
should be granted.


Mr. Peckham and Mr.. Tremain, counsel for the people,
claimed that Of 1889 gave the Court Of Sessions
the right to extend it's terms long there any
unnshed business before them; that the of gave
the Court power to extend its term by orders entered in
its minutes without limitation to time. Aside from
this the counsel claimed that the indictments having
been found subsequent to the passage Of the act
OF January o. 1874 which legazed Judge Bedford's
tension Of bs terms, provided that the Court should
have power thereafter extend its terms by successive
orders Of extension; that the indictment found
DDder and IN pursuance OF that law and that the
Of Burns aid Grefntha had relevancy Whatever
might be the effect Of those indictments found
prior passage OF the Act OF jar a. 1872 they had
effect on the Indictment against Hugh Smith, which
found subsequently, Recorder Haokett reserved Ills
decision
Year: 1872

A WRIT OF ERROR AND STAY OF PROCEEDINGS


DENIED.


Counsel for Henry Rogers, who was con-
Victed Of the murder OF officer Donahue in Brooklyn
and sentenced TO be executed Friday next, made an
application on Saturday in the Supreme Court Cham
bers before Judge Fancher for writ OF error and stay
OF proceedings which opposed by pstretAttorney
BrttOn Judge Fancher rendered his decision yester-
day, denying the application in a long opinion.


After reviewing the law in Its various bearings, and
the rulings OF Judge Gilbert, who presided at the trial,
which he declares to have been properly conducted,
Judge Fancber took up the different points raised by the
prisoners counsel which the writ Of error should be
granted In regard the charge Of counsel that Judge
Gilbert erred in charaeteIizng in the commencement Of
his charge the oense Of murder and that he thereby
infringed the province of the jury, Judge
Fancher decided that that part Of bis charge may be
kzrded quite impartial and even favorable TO the
prisoner holds that the facts stated fairly TO
the Jury. the other alleged error IN the Judges
charge that the prisoner not 90 intoxicated as 10 be
Incapable Of understanding what ne was doing,
he says that the evidence bears out that aver
menG In conclusion be says that Notwithstanding
the great interest stake he feels compelled ~ deny
the application for writ OF error and stay OF proceed
trial which would induce appellate court
the Judgment and order trial that the murder OF
Ofhcer DOnahoe must be avenged, and, although he
shFinks from the unpleasant duty which thus deVOlyes
upon him. ne feels constrained not 10 interfere with the
due course Of Justice
Year: 1872

A correspondent sends the following
plan for making barrel of apple butter.
"Soon as the cider is brought from the
press. we proceed to boil it down as
quickly as possible to avoid fermenta-
ton but instead of beginning to fill with
apples when half boiled, and stirring
with paddle twelve hours, we continue
the boiling process until it is all boiled
down to good sirup, say about five
gallons into one, which can be poured
into a wood or stone vessel, and will
keep if not ready to make up upimmediate-
ly. The evening previous to making
up, with the assistance of our men
folks, we prepare and core our apples,
which we stew in little sweet cider if
we have it, otherwise water or some of
the boiled cider weakened down. When
the apples are cooked soft, we commence
stirring, adding the boiled cider as fast
as it will bear, four bushels of apples
being quite sufficient for thirty tive gal
Ions of cider. Three hours brisk boil
ing, with constant stirring, will make it
strong enough to keep a year if de-
sired -
Year: 1872

A good deal of misdirected effort has
been expended in endeavoring to intro
duce tea culture in the United
States. The tea plant is very closely al
lied to the camelia, or japonica, which
thrives in the open air in the Southern
States, and there is no reason why it
should not do equally well there. But
it would be impossible to raise and pre-
pare it for the market here so as to COM
pete with the imported article, on ac-
count of the scarcity and high price of
labor. Besides, there is great loss of
land in tea culture until the plants at
tain their growth, which takes from
three to five years. When the leaves are
ready for picking this must be done by
hand labor, ard in China it requires eight
days work of fifteen skillful hands to
pick enough leaves to produce three
hundred pounds of the dried tea. If
the tea plant grew wild in profusion,
it would be cheaper to buy the China
product than to undertake to gather it
here,
Year: 1872

One of our substantial subscribers, in
a recent conversation, gave his expert
ence in training neat stock affected
with the habit of eating wood, chewing
bones, etc. His cattle were one spring
affected this way they became thin in
flesh, refused to eat hay, and presented
a sickly appearance. He had no i'm
preston that their food lacked the con-
stituents for making bone, but his neigh
bors used bone meal without noticing
any good results whatever. At last he
put about four bushels of leached ashes
in his barnyard, and threw out to them
about shovelful each day. They all
ate as if with evident relish. After
turning them out to pasture, he put one
peck of dry ashes per week on the
ground in the pasture. They ate all up
and gnawed off the grass where it had
been lying. The cattle began to i'm
prove, gaining flesh and looking better
than they had done for several years.
He says this morbid appearance was un-
noticed years ago, from the fact that
the ground was ashy from the burning
of the woods and land clearings. Lat
terly he gives one quart of ashes mixed
with the same quantity of salt to twelve
head of cattle, about once a week.
Liye Stock Journal.
Year: 1872

room for the fowls to move about in Gs
if the walls were high on all sides of the
structure, and with great economy in
building materials. There should be
Twelve doors in the building besides the
small openings under the windows for
the use of the fowls, and the ventilator
near the peak. Three board doors in
each end, the tallest being for the at
tendant to enter, and the other two for
ventilation in extremely hot. weather.
The door-ways of the board doors are
furnished with another set of doors
made of lath.


When the board doors are all open In
hot weather and the lath doors shut,
there is a fine circulation of air, and
when the house is to be cleaned the lath
doors as well as the others may be all
opened. 1t may seem as if there was
an over-plentiful allowance of doors, but
we have tried as many to building
with satisfaction. There is nothing we
hate worse than hot, pent-up house
for fowls in July. To make the house
as warm in winter as it is cool in sum-
mer, keep all the board doors closed
but one, and have a packing of straw
between each lath door and the CORE
spending board door, excepting, of
course, the tallest pair of doors where
the attendant enters.
Year: 1872

Ny comrade leaned over the fence
- And playfully plucked it thence
Not so much as beg your pardonp
There is one who goeth yet stayeth;


here Is one who stays yet is goho-


You shall weep and make your moan
Od the grave of the friend who betrayeth.
The rose that was gathered so gladly
Was dear but Ii tie hour:


he held 1t at last in his power,
Nor ever the lover loved madly.
There is heat that is colder than coldness;
There is ice that scorches and burns.
there's a gray-eyed woman who learns
A modesty baser than bOldness.
All mel my poor rose to discover


where one had thrown it in scorn
Sweet rose with never a thorn
Come now to thy true, true loverl
There is joy that pierceth like sorrow;
There Is sorrow that maketh not sick.
To-day am glad to the quick;
shall laugh at the pain tomorrow.
But alas for the vision that closest
And alas for the day and the doomi
Where have wandered thy perfume and bloor
U my queenllest rose of all roses
There is light that is black as the breath is
Of hell,-and night like tb e day.
There's a moment that liveth alway,
And a life that is deader than death is.
o not that the touch of the viper


Had turned all its sweetness to souri,
1 have known a fair fruit and flower
That hurt had made richer and riper.
There are nays that are loud with yeses;
Ihere are yeseS cruel with nays.
Prithee soil me not with your praise,
And curse me not with your caressesl
In vain, in vain to deplore it,
The rose that was loved but a space;
For this was its grace of grace
The grace of a fence before it!


-Scribner's for NoUen.Jer.
Year: 1872

Moore's Rural advises young farmer
who "wants to begin right in the mar
keting of what he produces" to adopt
these rules


l. Grade all products sold as of first,
second and third quality.


2. Sell for first quality only that which
is A No. l )" and strive to make all
your products reach that grade.


3. Put your name and address on all
packages, SO that if they are found just
as represented your name will be asso-
ciated with them. This will help to
make for you a reputation.


4. Never allow a poor article to get off
your farm with your name attached, un-
less with true statement of its quality.


5. Remember that is cheaper to buy
the best, do all things in the best way,
and profitable to be known as producing
and selling the best-that it is just as
valuable to you that a customer finds
that what you say is second or third
class is SO, as to find you tell the truth
when you brand your produce as first
class. Labor to get an honest namo in
market, and, that gained, you will have
a passport to prosperity and wealth, pro-
vided you are strictly vigilant in guard
ing ii.
Year: 1872

On the 20th day of February last I
noticed that one of my hogs Ia large
Chester white sow was little weak in
the back. On examining her l found
that it was with great difficulty that she
raised her fore feet in trying to walk.
AS l have had very little experience in
ber of my neighbors.


They all pronounce it kidney worm,
and of course each had a remedy.
Some prescribed soapsuds, others weak
lye, copperas, blue Vitriol, turpentine,
etc. l gave each fair trial, with no
good result, and on the Goth of March
she laid fiat on her side, unable to turn
over, and had not been on her feet for
more than ten days, when my father,
DR.. Brown, handed me a bottle of car
bolic acid, and told me to use it as fol-
lows: Ten drops once day in drink,
then put thirty drops in one gill of hot
vinegar and bathe the back over the
kidneys once day.


gave her the first dose on Thursday,
March 81.


On Sunday, the oath, when went out
to feed she raised to her fe t and took
two or three steps to meet me. By
Saturday, the 30th, she was well and
sound as ever.


The same remedy i, equally good in
treating mango. First, wash the hog
well with soap suds; then to one pint
of lard, while hot, add one ounce of
carbolic acid, stirring it until it is cool
Rub the hog two or three times with
this and give yourself no uneasiness
about the mango.
Year: 1872

In many parts of the country, after
the cultivation of the fields has been
completed, and the corn "laid by,"
there usually comes along fine crop of
purslain, and sometimes more trouble
some weeds. We have often derived
benefit both to the stock and the corn
crop by turning into the field flock of
sheep. The young herbage is much
relished, and will be cleaned out in
order. Little or no damage will result
to the standing corn. Of course those
ears that are on or very close to the
ground will be eaten but if this is
deemed disadvantage, it is more than
compensated by the benefit to the stock !;
for we have never seen the time when a
little grain would hurt thrifty, hearty
sheep. In wet season, as the present
one has proved in some sections, great
advantage will result from letting the
ai- and sunshine into the corn-tield,
thus fastening its ripening. If the
field is large, man or boy should walk
around the flock, to keep them in hand
and compel them to make clean work
as they go.


AS good crop of rye as we ever rails
ed was sown broadcast by man on
horseback, and covered by herding a
flock of sheep forward and backward
over it. Every grain seemed to come,
and scarcely weed was to be found.
Year: 1872

Mr.. j. T. Ellsworth, one of the best
New England farmers, at a meeting of
the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture
last year, being asked to state his mode
of packing and transporting butter
which he makes to market, said:


My whole aim is to keep it from the
air. do not want any kind of air to
reach it. If it is pure air, it will abstract
the sweet flavor if it is bad air, it will
do harm, of course. 1 cover it from the
air from the time it is salted until it is
worked. Then it is boxed as soon as it
can be, and covered. l have three diff
ferent sizes of boxes. My shipping box
is something like an old-fashioned tool
chest, and holds four boxes of thirty
pounds each. The shipping box is two
boxes high and two boxes wide. They
are the common round butter boxes,
but the shipping box is a square box,
with handles at each end. A rod comes
up at each end, and there is a thumb
screw outside on the cover. Listing,
such as comes on the sides of the cloth,
is tackled around the edge of the box.
When tho cover is screwed down, the
box is pretty tight. You will see that
there Is vacant space between two
boxes, something like three square. 1
had two galvanized iron boxes made,
three-square, or nearly SO, that just fit
into that cavity, and these were filed
with broken ice, about the size of a
hens egg. These boxes are filed with
ice, the butter put in, and the cover
screwed down tight, in time to meet the
express train, and my butter gets to the
stall at halfpast IL a. M. Two-thirds
of the ice is in the boxes, and the butter,
have been told, is apparently as hard
as when it started.
Year: 1872

All who have examined tree which
has been destroyed by thunderbolt"
will have noticed not only how the
layer of the wood have been shattered
and separated into strips, as if full of
wind shakes, but also the dryness hard
ness, and brittleness of the wood as
though it had been through the process
of curing in kiln. This is attributed
TO the instantaneous reduction of the
sap-the moisture within the wood
into steam. When this moisture is
abundant, as in May, or early June, the
amount and force of the steam not only
bursts and separates the layers and
fbers, but rends the trunk in pieces or
throws off portion of it, down line
of greatest power or of least resistance
And when the amount of steam thus
suddenly generated is less, owing to the
dryer condition of the stem from con-
tinual evaportion and leaf exhalation,
there may be no external trace OF the
| lightning stroke; yet the leaves VIII
wither in few days, showing that the
stem has been rendered incapable OF
conveying supplies, and the tree will
either partially or entirely die. Stlli
lighter discharges may DO conducted
down the moist stem without any lesson
or hurt,-BHiLdjhg News.
Year: 1872

To risk life in a noble cause is hero
ism; to peril it for no other object than
to gain notoriety, is simple foolhardi-
ness. The East India papers state that
another of those senseless sea voyages,
that have lately become SO fashionable,
is to be undertaken the coming winter.
The voyager is an Englishman; the
loute is from Calcutta to London by
way of the Red sea, the Suez canal
and the Mediterranean; the craft is a
schooner rigged boat of only two and a
half tons burden. In order to intro
duce new element of danger into the
voyage, Mr.. Inman, the amateur navi-
gator, bought boat that had been con-
demned as unseaworthy and unfit to
ply in the waters of river. Men may
admire the courage of the Cornishmen
who made the voyage to Australia in 6
lugger, because they had no other way
of getting there, and were anxious tC
better their condition and that of theil
families. They were fishermen, used tc
exposure and privation in every form
and were willing to risk much to get t.
the paradise of poor men. But the,
will see nothing to commend in man O
means, who hazards his life in making
voyage of nearly ten thousand miles
merely to gain reputation for self dar
ing.
Year: 1872

The cheapest way to build a fowl


house and give the greatest amount OF
ground room (which is what counts
with poultry is to make but one roof
and have that meet the ground. The
building should be nine feet wide at the
underpinning, and nine feet high at the
highest part. This gives as much floor
Year: 1872

Lets have joyful harvest home.


And sing with merry cheer,
The summers labor now has gone,


And autumn doth appear.
The fields of waving golden grain,
In bounteous plenty given.
Have yielded to the reaper's scythe,
Are to the garner driven,
The brawny farmer with his toll.


Is happier than the king.
He does not feel the morbid cley


Which ease and pleasure bring.
His joys are pure. his sleep is sweet.
He wakes at early dawn, =
And going forth his visage greets
The waving fields of corn.
Now in this rural bliss we share.
Of every grade and call,
And have our right princely fare,
Spread for the great and small.
Then swell the notes with joy and gIee.
And to the banquet come.
Lets have n merry time to-day,
A happy harvest home.
Year: 1872

Dr. Parkes, while investigating the effect of diet and exercise on the elimin- ation ofnitrogen, had for his subject o very healthy, powerful, and temperate young soldier. He conducted one series of experiments in which the man was fed on ordinary diet, and the amount of nitrogen content was kept as near as possible constant, In a second series prepared food was given so as to keep the amount of nitrogen introduced per fectly constant and third series was made with non-nitrogenous food. These experiments showed distinctly an in creased elimination of nitrogen in the period of rest after severe exercise, con- firming Dr. Parke's former results, and supporting the statement of Liebig on this point, in opposition to that of Volt

 Whether it was diminished during exer- else or not was not clearly shown by the experiments. The non-nitrogenous diet for five days neither raised nor lowered the temperature in the rectum of the pa- tient, but apparently did not effect the health, nor did it alter the frequency of the pulse but the hearts action became weak, and the pulse soft. The expert ments proved that force necessary for great muscular work can be obtained by the muscle from fat and starch, though changes in the nitrogenous constituents of the muscles also go on, which have, as one effect, an increased elimination of nitrogen after the cessation of the work.
Year: 1872

A young blacksmith of Fort Smith, Ark, named Engleberth Shuber, not long since discovered canoe lodged on drift pile in the Arkansas River, and resolved to secure it. For this purpose he tied two logs together with grape vines, and pushed out into the stream, which at that point is very deep and rapid. About seventy-five yards from the shore his craft encountered one of those huge wayfaring logs so common in Western streams, and was driven in pieces by the shock. Shuber, as his only chance, leaped upon the slippery log, and clung for his life. A companion who saw him start out, went back to town for help, but when it arrived it was nearly dark and Northern hurricane had set in, dashing the icy waves over the log which was the young mans only salva- tion, and though his friends attempted to reach every scow and hatboat which was put out, swamped at once, and they were obliged to leave him to tue almost certain fate of lingering and painful death. All night he remained upon the icy coated log exposed to the gale, and to the waves until he was encrusted iu solid armor of ice, and tumbled about by the currents of the river. The next morning it was reported in town that he was seen on the log stiff in death. When they reached him, however, he was found still alive, but with his face and limbs fearfully frozen. He had been eighteen hours on the log.
Year: 1872

The favorite range of the buffalo, says Gen. Custer, is contained in @ belt of countsy running north and south, about two hundred miles wide, and extending from the Platte river on the north to the valley of the Upper Canadian on the south. In migrating, if not grazing or alarmed, the buffalo invariably moves in single file, the column generally being headed by a patriarch of the herd, who is not only familiar with the topography of the country. but whose prowess in the field entities him to become the leader of his herd. He maintains this leadership only so long as his strength and courage enable him to remain the successful champion in the innumerable contests which he is called upon to main tain. The buffalo trails are always ob- jects of interest and inquiry to the sight seer on the Plains. These trails made by the herds in their migrating move ments are so regular in their construction and course as to well excite curiosity. They vary but little from eight to ten inches in width, and are usually from

 two to four inches in depth their course is almost as unvarying as that of the needle, running north and south

 Of the thousands of buffalo trails which I have seen, I recollect none of which the general direction was not north and south. This may seem somewhat sur. prising ct frst thought, but 1t admits ol 2 supple and satisfactory explapsts0p,