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Year: 1873

The third report of the Vermont Dairy
mems Association will be ready for delivery
in very short time. We can spare of this
and OF the preceding reports, 200 sets, and,
in order to raise the funds to print the fourth
without delay, We now offer to sell the 200
sets Of four, forwarded by mail post free,
at S2 per set, which Is less than the actual
cost Of printing them, and much less than
the actual value of any one Of them to any
enterprisiug farmer or dairyman; and we
appeal to you, and to all other friends Of the
association, to take upon yourselves the labor
of selling few sets among your friends and
acquaintaDces, and thus enable us to 20 on
With the good work. A few hours effort on
the part Of those to whom this appeal is
made will enable US to put the report imme-
diately to press, and with a due allowance
for the unavoidable delays, we can safely
promise its distribution during the spring
If, on the other hand, we are compelled to
await legislative aid, it will be bull two
years before it can see the light.


s. Bliss, Secretary.


Georgia, w., FEB l3, 1873.
Year: 1873

God bless the farn-the dear old farm


God bless its every rood,
Where willing hearts and sturdy arms


Can earn an honest livelihood
Can from the course and fertile soil
Win hack reeompense for toll.
God bless each meadow, Geld and nook,


Begemmed with fAirest flowers
And every leaf that q gently shook,


BY evening breeze or morning showers
God bless them all each leaf g gem
I'm Natures gorgeous diadem.
The orchards that in early spring


Blush rich in fragrant flowers,
And with each autumn surely bring


Their wealth OF fruits in golden showers,
Like pomegranate on Aaron's rod,
A miracle from Natures God.
And may he bless the farmers home;


Where peace and plenty reign;
No happier spot meath heavens high dome
Doth this broad beauteous earth contain,
Than when secure from care and strife,
The farmer leeds his peaceful life.
UnvsIed by toll and tricks for gain,


He turns the fertile mould,
Then scatters on the golden grain,


And reaps reward a hundred fold,
He dWells where grace and beauty charm,
For God hath blessed his hope and farm.
Year: 1873

A DOGS SAGAcITY.-A well-known cit
izen Of Boston says that he recently had
occasion to go to Portland street to pay
small bill. Arriving at Portland street
with the dog, he met the man he wished
to see on the sidewalk, and there paid
the bill, at the same time dropping twen-
ty dollar bill on the curbstone, though
he knew nothing about it till his arrival
home some two hours afterward. Find
ing this twenty dollar bill gone, he took
his dog. Jess, and started back. On
reaching Sudbury street, he called his
dog, showed him twenty dollar bill,
looked about on the ground as il hunting
for it, and told the dog to " smell it out. I"
The dog then started off with his nose to
the ground in front Of his master, and
pushing round into Portland street,
where the bill was paid, he stopped,
poked the dirt with his nose and in a
few minutes ran up to his master with
the lost twenty dollar bill in his mouth.
That looks like very tough story, but if
truthful men are to be believed, then is
this story true.
Year: 1873

The freaks of fortune are unaccounta-
bic, One of the latest whims the tickle
goddess has seen fit to exercise upon her
subjects nearly concerns former Indian
apohtsn, and the history of his strange
ylcisSitudes is as strange and dramatic
as the Imagination of novelist can in
vent The name of the lucky favorlte of
fortune who is about to enter upon
large fortune in this city is Henry Page.
His history is as follows: In 1858 his
father, J. NJ. Page, worthy mechanic,
removed from this city to st. Joseph,
Mo. In the new and growing West Page
hoped to accumulate larger store OF
spare cash than he had ever been able to
get hold of here. 1t would seem, how
ever, that the case was just the opposite,
and so far from becoming Crnsus Page
lost what little he had taken from here,
and shortly after his removal was taken
sick and died in poverty. He left wife
and three children by a former marriage,
and as a last resort they were forced to
take quarters in the County Poorhouse.
The little ones, as they grew up so as TO
be able to earn their own livelihood,
we.e taken out by citizens. Some time
ago it was discovered that the first wife OF
Page had once owned an estate in this
city, which, though comparatively value
less at the time OF her death, has since
grown into splendid fortune in itself.
4 gentleman OF this city, thinking that
he could discover the right heir, went
from here TO Missouri some time ago, and
sitter much trouble succeeded in hnding
the survivor of the family. The missing
heir, Henry Page, the son of the unlucky
carpenter, he found in the family OF Mr..
Penny, OF Platte county, and brought
him before Judge Pettigrew, OF the
Buchanan Probate Court, where his
Identity was fully established, and the
Information given that he was heir to u
acres of land within mile and halt Of
Indianapolis, and several thousand dol
lars in money, which had been left OIL
interest by his mother. The property y
understood to be worth about 500, ,ooo
The young man, who has been in goot
family, and we'll educated, is now twenty
one years old, and started on Monda.
last from his Western home to enter upol
his fortune aud assume formal possession
OF his wealth near this city, Indian
apols Sentinel.
Year: 1873

The public mind is exceedingly excited.
SpaniaIds blame Americans for the Cuban in
surreciOn aud declare that war with the United
States would be welcome Americans here
who know the state Of the public mind and
know their own country do not zee how wat
can be avoided
Year: 1873

Ii view Of the high cable tolls ius. about to
90 into effect, and the constant u treatment Of
the press by the Gable Company, the New York
Journal Of Commerce urges the laying Of an
ocean cable b. the American prsss
Year: 1873

A new crisis in France President Theirs and
the Republicans in the Assembly, undertaking
n last the plain duty which the whole Assembly
should long ago have voluntarily assumed pro-
posed the honest and just step of ending the
provisional government, which was framed only
to arrange terms of peace, and establishing the
Republic "defnitively," by the fresh choice of
the people. This proposition the Assembly voted
down, by a small majority, all the monArchists
I'd enemies of free government sinking their
various jealousies to oppose a Republic. Upon
this, President Theirs resigned, and Marshal
MacMahon was elected by the royaist majority
in the Assembly.


Thus far, everything is quiet, but it is hard to
say what may not happen. The anti-Republi-
cans hold the government, by outrage and
against the wishes Of the majority of the peo-
pie. If new elections were now to take place,
two-thirds Of the members of the Assembly
would be friends of a Republic. The faction
which elected MacMahon dare not permit the
psople to make a choice how long, then, Will
The people permit the faction to hold their
usurped power7


Ger. Inere Is no true government and he, at
the head Of the army, keeps the peace. What
intrigues he may lend himself to, it remains to
be seen, but ultimately, the monarchists must
go under, peaceably, if they will, roughly, if
they go elect.
Year: 1873

Which destroys all the lower order of plants and
animals, is cheap and e1eotual should be used in
very dilute state it leaves tarry odor behind,


which, though wholesome is somewhat persistent
Year: 1873

"Woman Suffrage is about played out,
isn't it ?''


So said a flippant young gentleman,
As he threaded with long white slender
fingers through his once carrOty beard,
now turned marvelously brown all of a
sudden.


al think not, {" was my reply. ''There
may be little lull in the rolling of the
ware of progress, these days, as there is
always after the intense excitement of
a Presidential campaign.


"AlOre especially is il the case at pres
ent among the earnest talking advocates
of reform, who perhaps somewhat eX-
hausted their strength last fall, for pO-
litical party. The said party has treated
them very much as politicians have in
all times past treated vOters-very
blandly beforehand when they needed
help-very roughly afterwards when
their own halter is made fast in the stall
of the public crib. But Woman's Rights
and Woman Suffrage were never before
as prosperous as now"


al should like to know what proof you
have of that? Your Convention in New
York this month showed beggarly ar
ray of empty benches. The speeches
were the same old story-varied only by
eulogies of certain bodies who listened
to the blowing of their own trumpet, as
if the sound was 'meat and drink, and
pretty good clothes to wear to meet
ing"


"That's So" responded half dozen
ladies, who knew as little about the sub
ject as they did OF the affairs of the
planet Jupiter.


Thus called upon for my proof, felt
bound to give an outline of the basis of
my opinion.


find my proof in the improved tone
of public opinion. And this / gather as
/ sit i'm my armchair shut out by in
vaIidism from the great, seething, boil
ing cauldron Of the worlds contentious
by reading the daily and weekly reports
of men and things.


Columns of sermons are printed
weekly in the New York papers, and
nearly half of those who preach them,
and who, ten years ago, would have
been shocked at the sound of their own
voices had they uttered the opinions
boldly expressed to-day and thrown
broadcast to the people, are advocating
woman's highest education and broadest
liberty and often asserting 'that only in
her entire emancipation can she exert
her whole power and usefulness-as
wife, mother, sister and friend"


Will their readers and admirers fail to
see what this all means?


So with our public lectures on litera-
ture, science, art and trade. There is
scarce one of them who does not let
down some bar that has hitherto de-
barred women from ''fieId and pastures
fair'' where they themselves have rev.
eled in the past.


UObl But that's not suffrage. Pll go
as far as any one for the elevation of
woman. But not for her leaving her
home, deserting her children and hus-
band, or setting him to rocking the
cradle while she runs for President"
said my masculine friend.


"Where do you find such advocates for
suffrage ?n was my reply. "Did you
ever hear any woman claim the privil-
eyes YOU mention? Think hard, and
see if YOU can name more than one, or
even one, who approxinates your
Year: 1873

During Gen. Sheridan's stay at Indian
apolis he was cOnversing with a few
friends touching his military expert
enees and campaigns, when he said:
''There is a mighty sight of romance
and great many interesting episodes
connected with the war that the histo-
rians never got hold of. For instance,
there has been a great deal said about
the battle of Winchester, a little affair
in which had hand. Well, il was
pretty square fight, but do you know
that battle was fought on the strength
of information which / obtained from a
young lady i'm the town of Winchester,
and if the rebels had known she was
giving it to me they would have hung
her in a minute? | was very anxious
to get information of the rebel strength
and movements, so as TO know lust
when and where to strike them, but !
did not know how to get it. Finally, i
heard of Union lady in Winchester
who could be relied upon if could get
word TO her. Her name was Miss
Wright. / think she is i'm the Treasury
Department at Washington now. But
the trouble was to communicate with
her. One day heard of an old colored
man, living outside of my lines, who
had pass to go into Winchester to sell



vegetables. i sent for the old man, and
OH talking with him found him loyal,
rs all the colored folks We're, you know.
Finding he could keep a secret, / asked
him if he would undertake to deliver n
letter to young lady i'm Winchester.
The old fellow said he would; so | wrote
a letter on thin tissue paper, and rolled
it up i'm tin foil. 1t made 4 ball about
rs big as the end of your thumb, and I
told the old man to put it i'm his mouth
and deliver it to Miss Wright in Win
chester. He went of, and i'm about two
days came back with an answer rolled
up in the same piece of tin foil.
found | had struck mighty good lead,
and | followed it carefully till got all
the information / wanted. The girl
gave me more important Information
than ! got from all other sources, and /
planned the battle of Winchester almost
entirely on what / got from her. She
was nice girl, and true rs steel."-H,-
didndpOlis Journal.
Year: 1873

CARE OF THE TEETH,-ROsseau said
that no woman with fine teeth could be
ugly. Any mouth with a good set of
teeth is kissable. The too early loss of
the first teeth has an unfavOrable influ-
enee upon the beauty and durability of
the second. The young should accord
ingly be made to take care of them. All
that is necessary is to brush them sew
eral times day with n little soap and
water, or magnesia and water. After
eating, the particles of food should be
carefully removed from the teeth by
means of tOOth-piek of quill or wood,
but never of metal. No one, young or
old, should turn their Jaws into nut
crackers, and it is even dangerous to
bite off thread, as women often do when
sewing. 1t is not safe to bring very hot
food or drink in contact with the teeth,
especially if followed by anything cold.
Camphorated and acid tooth powders
are injurious, and if used every particle
should be removed from the gums Oy
carefully rinsing. The habit wl'cit
some ladies' have of using = OiC III y,
lemon, though it may whiten the the te5Cn aaiol
and give a temporary firmness anu eOiOe
TO the gums, is fatal to the ehah'ei' a.
are all acids,
Year: 1873

CURE OF DIARRHEA.-StOp eating
solid food. When the bowels from any
cause or causes, are forced to extreme
action, it is their right to be relieved
from ordinary duty. This they cannot
secure, if food, especially solid food, is
introduced into the stomach. Once
solid food is in that organ, it must 60
into the bowels if il is to be made into
blood, and whatever indigestible mate
rial it contains must go through the
whole intestinal canal, for expulsion.
As in diarrhea, however, the bowels are
always indisposed to exercise their or
dinary functions, while they are COM
PEELED to take on extraordinary ones,
the taking of solid food is likely so to
aggravate them rs to make 4 simple
diarrhea become a well defined Dysen-
terry.
Year: 1873




Says writer in the Overland
Monthly: The lOftiest house, aud
the most perfect in the matter of
architecture l have ever seen, was
that which a RoOd-choPper occupied
with his family one winter, in the
forest of Santa Cruz county. 1t
was the cavity OF a redwood tree
240 feet in hight. Fire had eaten
away the trunk at the base until a
circular room had been formed, l6
feet in diameter. At 20 feet or
more from the ground was knot
hole which afforded egress for the
smoke. With hammoeks hung from
pegs, and q few cooking utensils
hung from other pegs. that house
lacked no essential thing. This
wOodman was in possession of q
house which had been one thousand
years in process of building. Per
haps on the very day it was finish
ed he came along and entered it.
now utd aft 1ack-Knffe and hand
saw architecture enter into insight
ficanee in contrast with this house
in the solitades of the great forestl
Moreover, the tenant Jared like n
prince. Within thirty yards of his
coniferOus house a mountain stream
went rushing past to the sea. In
the swirls and eddies under the
shelving rocks, if one could not
land half a dozen trout within an
hour he deserved to 60 hungry as
a penalty for his aWkwardness.-
Now and then q deer came out into
the openings, and, at no great dis
tancc, quaIls, rabbits and pigeons
could be found What did this man
want more than nature furnished
himl He had house with "cu-
palo" 240 feet high, and game at
the cost of taking IL This Arcadi-
an simplicity would have made q
lasting impression, but-for a volun-
teer remark that nothing could be
added to give life 8 more perfect
zest. well, yes, said he, q reckon
If you are goinging back to town
you might tell Jim to send me up a
gallon Of whisky and some plug to-
bacco.' 1t will not do TO invest 4
hollow tree with too much Of senti-
ment and poetry. If that message
had not been suggested, we should
have been under the delusiOn to
this day that the lives of those peo-
pie, dwelling in a house fashioned a
thousand years ago, were rounded
ts q perfect fnllness without one ar
tifciRl want.
Year: 1873




PROVIDENCE IN CRKATIoN.-ManY
sorts of rare engines we acknowl-
edge are contriveda by the wit of
man, but who hath ever made one
that could grow, or that had in IL a
self-imprOying powerl A tree, an
herb, pile OF grass, may upon this
account ehRnenge all the world 10
make such aathIng; that is tO-im-
plant the power Of growing into
anything to which it.doth net na-
lively belong, or % make = thing
to which it doth. By what art
would they make q seed? aud which
way would they inspire it with
seminal form? And they thatthink
this globe Of the earth was COM
paoted by the casual, or fatal coali-
tiOn Of particles Of matter by what
magic would they conjure SO many
to come together rs should make q
clOdS You with whom the daily
productions of nature (as You call
I'D are so cheap, see If you can do
the like. Try your skill Oh rose.
Yea, but you must have pre-cxis-
tent matter. But can you ever
prove that the Maker of the werld
had so, or even defend the possibiI
ity Of uncreaied mRtterl And sup
pose they had the free agent Of all
the matter between the crown OF
the head aud the moon, could they
tell what to do with It, or how to
manage so as TO make it yield them
one single flower that they might
glory in their own produetioDl
Year: 1873

Though Christians at this day
have no promise that whatever they
pray for shall be granted, yet they
sometimes have = strong Impression
on their minds that certain favor
they ardently desire will be bestow-
ed, if they pray for it on the ground
of that impression. But since they
have no promise to believe in, they
have no right to believe in any i'm
preston that What they pray for
shall be granted. There is reason
to fear that Christians, many times,
believe in an impression instead of
a promise. and confidently expect
that God will grant what they are
deeply impressed he will grant, if
they ask for it.-ReV. Dr.. E1smOHS.
Year: 1873

AT this season the heat o! the sun liberates from
the soil. the water and the filth of cities immense
quantities of unwholesome gases which the strong
est can scarcely inhale with impunity, and which
develop the most distressing diseases in the weak
and feeble 1t is, therefore, of paramount import
ance to invigorate the body in hot weather Vital
ice and strengthen the stomach and the nervous
system with ut least two doses per day of Hoststter
stomach Bters. and you will be sure to escape the
hts OF indigestion. attacks of bilious collie sick head
aches diarrhOeas and dyesenteries which are go
common at this season. Be prudent. A IttIa ooro
and forecast exercised now NAV prevent vour ny


ing prostrated by remittent or intermittent fever or
ey chronlc bowel or liver complaint throughout the
tne rays Of an almost vertical sun. the genial Veee
table tonic supplies to the nervous system an ali
mS9t a Wn1ch enables it to Withstand the drain.
Year: 1873

The news from Spain is very saddeniug to those
who hoped for tho success of the cause Of the re.
puollcans in Spain. The latest kilograms seem
10 Indicate great lack of ability on the part of
tae leaders Of the liberals. The fact that the
O'rlists were allowed to take SO important naval
station as Carthagena, is proof OF the want Of en-
eFgy on tho part of the head of the Naval Depart
ment' or extensive detection in the commanders of
TIE numerous great war vessels that were sieged and
pat under the control Of the enemies of the repub
lie. The carlsts are undoubtedly gaining ground
RAPIDLY while demoralization seems to be spread.
ing IN the armies of the governmsn ant. We would
not be rurprised to hear thut the people, wearied
win the contention and desiring peace had rose
e" maSse against those who now seem so inOapa-
Bile OF conducting the affairs Of the nation, prefer
ing to have even Don Carls as King to continued
civil war and disquietude.
Year: 1873

package containing $4,000 was left in the
reading room of Chicago hotel for thirty hours
1ndlsturbed, but 1t is only due to the honesty of
Chicago people to say that the valuable package
was mistaken by everybody for an old shirt.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, September 1.-THE
Chronicle of tomorrow will publish the
following letter from General Sherman:


HEADQUARTERS ARMY UNITED STATES,


WAsHINGrON, September L.


To the Editor Of the Chronicle:


DEAR SIR-When you applied to me
some time ago for the material bearing
on the controversy regarding the person
who burnt Columbia, l gave you two
printed pamphlets, which L had OBJ
tanned from Judge Holt, containing all
the testimony taken in the cotton cases
growing out Of that event, and submit
ted to mixed commission ap-
pointed to adjudicate these cases under
the treaty with Great Britain. Judge
Holt could have obtained the testimony
OF the eight or ten thousand officers and
soldiers who witnessed the burning of
Columbia, but he thought be had enough
without putting the government to the
expense of bringing more witnesses
from a distance. l suppose he did not
summon Colonel Stone, who command
ed the leading brigade of the fifteenth
corps, because he did not know where to
find him. l surely did not know his
whereabouts till be voluntarily published
his statement. Il my official report of
lhe affair, published before the close Of the
wsr, when General Wade Hampton was
fighting US, and not when, as he al
leges, he was a prisoner of war, / re-
ferred incidentally 70 a fact that | had
the knowledge that q small detachment
of the seventeenth corps had passed
over the Congaree. and had entered
Columbia and hOisted flag on the new
statehOuSe, in advance of the regular
entry Of the fifteenth corps, which had
made a circuit 10 cross the two branches,
Saluda and Broad, which make the Con-
garee. I treated the performance
Of this detachment as somewhat
irregular, but the men who composed it
now become important witnesses, and
herewith inclOse copies of their written
statements, together with official re-
ports which explain the whole affair.
These witnesses go back to time three
quarters of an hour before the entry of
the head of stones brigade, and about
two hours ahead of the time / per-
sonally reached the piles of burning
cotton, of which there were many,
aud l invite your careful perusal
Of their statements, for they are positive
that they saw the rebel cavalry soldiers
ripping open bales of cotton and apply
ing the FIRE. They also saw the rebel
soldiers plundering the stores on Main
street, which General Hampton at
tributes to our men; and they further
positively assert that Hampton had
gone out Of Columbia, so that he could
not and did not see his men apply the
fire. Now, Hampton admits that the
cotton was rolled out in the streets for
the purpose of burning it, but that he
forbade the burning, lest the fire should
extend to the houses; and l reiterste
that no matter what bis orders were, the
men Of his army, either his rear-guard
OF his stragglers, did apply the fire, and
that this was a sufficient cause for all
else that followed.
Year: 1873

We give to-day, on our second page,
the letter Of Colonel Enoch Ensley, on
tle tax question, addressed to Governor
Brown, aud which has attracted 50
much attention throughout the State.
We commend a careful perusal Of
il to all classes Of our readers, our
merchants and bankers specially. 1t is
written in their behalf and chiefly for
their benefit, but it viii also interest the
farmer and real estate dealer, who viii
find in it much food for reflection. It is
q very important, as it is a carefully pre-
pared and thoughtful document, and
must command attention. Just at this
junc-ure, when the people of Memphis
are preparing for a fresh start in the
race Of progress, it behooves them to
give the subject so ably discussed in this
letter a thorough examination, that they
may be prepared to understand it when
it becomes a question Of State policy
and takes form in the legislature in a
measure demanding the consent Of that
body as law.