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Year: 1873

WINTERING VEGETABLES 1t is one thing
to raise d good crop of vegetables, and quite
another to keep them safely thro rough winter.
1t is doubtless the fact that more vegetables
are injured by heat in winter than by cold,
because most persons crowd such things
together in large quantities, and then cover
over deeply to keep out the frost When
placed in cellars, the windows are closed
and in the more Northern States. banked
up with perhaps fresh horse manure from
the stable. OF course it is necessary to
keep potatoes, turnps, beets, and similar
roots from freezing; still they wou Id be OF
far better quality if kept as cold as possible,
and not actually frozen. Turnips and beets,


in particular, are very liable to heat, and be-
come spoiled if large quantity is placed
together; and potatoes are often injured by
being stored in large bins, instead of being
put in barrels or spread thinly upon shelves
in a dark cellar. When buried in the
ground small heaps, say twenty to thirty
bushels in each, is best. Rural New
Yorker.
Year: 1873

one Of our correspondents last spring
gave u some novel hints about the care Of
horses One, that we should be as careful
fo cover lhe breast &c., as his back. DO
people generally know why the horse has
his neck covered with thick name? and
why it will hang on one side: One fact
may help to explain this. Some think it is
only ornamental. The fact we allude to is 1:
Colds enter the human system through the
back Of the neck and the upper part of the
spine. We always feel chills first creeping
up the back along the spine. The front of
the neck is provided with large blood YES
sels hence, this part is capable of resisting
greater cold than the back. The under side
0f the horses neck and his breast contain
-arge blood vessels, while the upper side
has but small veins, hence, 1t can resist but
-iiiie cold or wet. The name hangs on one
side, hence water falls off readily. You
VIII seldom hnd any wet on the skin of the
upper side Of the neck or in the name.


Let all who would protect their horses
rom liability to cold, cover the upper mart
and sides of the neck as well as the hack
when covering is needful. Let the neck he
covered to the top Of the head. The top of
The head is most liable to let in cold, or a,
the point where head and neck meet. Dom
let horses stand in mud or snow.


II you want to drive a cold from YOU
system when il first comes on, heat YOU
back and the back of your neck by fire OF
the stove, or roast by the fire your bach
and neck untll you sweat profusely. KeeI
your Oack and back of your neck we'll pro.
leeted 10 prevent colds. Lewiston Jour.
nal.
Year: 1873

A few days ago, says the Chicago FINES
! Mr.. Muhlbesch was taken suddenly III
at his residence. His disease was of Ct
! very acute nature, and in spite OF aIl the
efforts OF his physicians, ne Died after Il
| brief illness, and his SurroWug friends
made ready for the funeral. An under
taker was summoned and the body proper
| ~ laid out, and on yesterday the funeral
| services look place from his late residence


After the customary services had been
| performed and the sorrowing relatives
had taken their last look of the deceased


the coffin lid was screwed down and the
funeral cortege m0ved slowly toward the
quiet confines of 3raceland Cemetery,
where the body WAS finally lowered sadly
into the grave which had been prepar-
ed for it. The last prayer had been offer


ed and the last solemn service repeated
when, ust as the sexton seized his spade
and was about to drop the first Shoveltul
of earth upon the coffin, sound some
thing like Il stiiled groan, followed by Il
scratching noise, as if the dead man was
trying to release himself from the con
| fines of his narrow house, was heard
proceeding from the still open grave. For
an instant every heart stood still, and the
| blood of every listener seem to curdle in
his veins The women screamed and
hastened toward the carriage, while the
men We're not slow in following them,
| In an instant the sexton was the only
man left at the grave, and he, too tr2n


bled at hearing what he had never heard
before. Finally he recovered presence of
mind enough to descend into the grave
and break open the rough box in which
the coffin was encased. Then the noise
was repeated, and he knew that the occu-
pant of that grave, who in few minutes
more would have been consigned to a
horrible death, and whom his friends had
already mourned as dead, was still alive
and anxious to be set free. A screw
| driver was soon procured from the under
taker present, and the coffin lid removed.
| when its occupant instead of being cold
and dead as he had appeared when last
seen, was found to be once more alive.
His friends, who had by this time recov-
cred courage enough to return to the
grave, were of course almost overloyed
at this strange and unexpected turn OF
| affairs, and fastened to rescue the late
deceased from his unpleasant quarters
| and remove him to one of the carriages in
| waiting. where he was rolled up IN II
plentiful supply of blankets and lap robes,
and the friends who had lately followed
him sorrowingly to the grave now has


tened .joyfully toward their homes. The
rescued man was SO overcome on being
rescued from his perilous position, that
he was for long time unable to speak,
and what his feelings were while under
going burial, or whether he was conscious
at all or not until the last moment when


he managed to signify that he was still
alive, is not known.
Year: 1873

The following is the text of a
petition now being circulated for
signatures among our citizens, and
receiving the name and endorse
ment Of every one to whom it has
been presented. 1t is the same in
substance as that forwarded to the
Governor some weeks ago signed
by every taxpayer in the county
who had an opportunity to do so


We understand that the Governor
wrote private letter in reply tc
one of our citizens, q signer Of the
fomer petition, that while he was
convinced that the parties were
Year: 1873

A LOT of the boys around town
had quite little teu de joie at the
landing last night. We could not
learn what was the particular oc-
casion or cause of the jollification,
but numerous rockets were sent up
and Roman candles exploded, amid
the intense enthusiasm Of the
darkies who seemed to be the only
spectators.
Year: 1873

The Grand Jury which has been
in session all the week, has made
things very lively for those gay
and festive youths of both colours
who cannot travel around town
without a pistol or knife stuck in
their brecchcs pockets. Judge Fox
has been making them understand
that brceches SO loaded are
breechcs of tho law-though not
lawful brecchcs.
Year: 1873

PAwPAws, which arc so plenti-
full IN the country around Osccola,
make as fine vinegar as apples or
grapes, and with as little trouble.
Treat the ripe fruit exactly like
any other fruit used in vinegar
making and try the result, and our
word for it you will have fine
favored, strong and healthy
vinegar.
Year: 1873

OWING to the lowness of the wa
ter, and the sackness of business
consequent on the plague at Mem
phis, and quarentlnes above and
below, tho Packet Company have
withdrawn the Grand Tower from
the Memphis and st. Louis trade,
and the arrangement has thrown
our mail matters into confusion.
Up to present writing We have had
but one mail this week and t....,t q
very small one.
Year: 1873

On listening to the testimony
elected before the Circuit Court in
sundry charges of "pIaying cards
on Sunday" the question has oc-
CURED to us which did most toward
demoralizing a community-Sab-
batarian laws which make an inno-
cent game of cards, played on a
remote plantation to while away
the tedium of day of enforced
rest crime, or the amount of
"hard swearing" done by the ac-
cused and their friends to clear
themselves of the penalties attach
ing to the said crime? This is a
question that our Legislators will
have to face sooner or later, and we
opine that when our society be-
comes more civilized and less intol-
lcrant we will find that one case of
perjury is more heinous crime in
in the eyes of God and man than
all the games Of cards ever played
on the Sabbath day.
Year: 1873




We print elsewhere in this issue the
Funding Bill as it has finally passed both
Houses of our Legislature. We now be-
gin to see daylight. We are getting out of
the woods, and emerging into another at
mosphere. For the past seven years we
have been houndering along in an Egyp.-
ian darkness that could be almost felt with
the hands. We will not stop TO inquire how
we got there, or by whose fault. A good
many hard things could be said of a great
many persons in this connection. For a
while thieFery aud speculation held high
carnival. There was a heap of money
stolen, but let it 60. Let the dead past
bury its dead, and let us quit thinking about
the matter, and turn over a new leaf
There are undoubtedly millions of fraudu-
lent matters embraced in the debt of the
State, but let them 60 along with the ba!-
ane3. There is no way of separating the
two.


We congratulate the people upon the pas
SAGE of the Funding Bill. 1t restores at a
dash our State credit. All the world knows
that we are good for our debts, and FIVE
times more, and now that the Legislator e
has declared that We are going to pay them
its effect will at once be to appreciate our
bonds, aud give an impetus TO business and
trade ia hundred directions. The en-
actment of the School Law, establishing q
universal system of education, will do more
towards the incoming of a tide of emigrs-
ton, that will force new life into every ar
tery of industry, than any other act OF the
Legisl lture, except the Funding Bill. In
fact, we would have regarded the success
of the School Law as q matter of great
doubt, without the restoration OF the Safe
credit. The two great measures INSOFAR
ably g together. W. thank the represen-
tafves for their action in these mat srs.
They have had ths pluck to take them up,
aud in The face Of grelt opposition from
various quarters to pat them through. Ten
ne can now with a goo face, invite an
lrrupa Dn OF industrious emigrants to till
h'r fields, bore her m lll.ajns, labor in her
workshops, with good free schools in which
20 educate their childre0
Year: 1873

Under the new School law the various
County Cour's of the State have to elect a
Comfy Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton at the April or July term. 1t is pro-
bable that the elections will not take place
until July. 1t is perhaps best that they
should be postponed until that time. It
viii be some time yet before the law
can be thoroughly circulated and studied
and the qualifications necessary for a
County Superintendent generally under
stood. The success of the law viii depend
very greatly upon the efficiency of the
County SupeEintendents and the courts
should look to the qualifications of appli-
c,nts and select the man best fitted for the
position without regard to personal favor OF
affection,
Year: 1873

THOSE who intend going to Vienna will
do well to brush up their geography, for
the arrangement of the building is strictly
based upon the succession of the nations in
making the circuit of the earth. We learn
that the nave OF great axis of the building is
made TO run as nearly as possible east and
west. The transepts, consequently, point
north and south. The countries are then
arranged according to their geographical
position on the surface of the earth. North
and South America occupy the extreme
western end of the building; England and
the countries ofWestern Europe come next,
and so on till we get to the far eastern
transepts, which are appropriated to China
and Japan. By means of this arrangement,
any one possessing the most elementary
notions of geography can find his way
about with perfect ease. sa RGE,F
Year: 1873

A CONNECTICUT youah who read in q
Hartford paper of the large clerical force
employed by one Of the insurance compan-
les, called at the Office the other day with
a young lady and politely asked to have
one Of the clergymen marry them. 'o--
Year: 1873

state AGENTS ClFCQlar NOtlCt.


TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE


STATE GRANGE OF THE STATE OF MIN


NEsOTA.


Editor Grange 4duance:


DEAR SIR will you do me the kind
ness to insert the following notice in your
valuable paper for the benefit Of my broth
er Patrons and the officers of the State
Grange, &C.:


Some time ago gave notice that l would
issue circular and confidential price list
for the benefit Of the Order Of Patrons Of
Husbandry in a short time. Well, broth
ers, have got my circular and part of my
price list on proof sheet sent to my Office
to-day, and to-day's mail has brought me
better prices for some kinds Of machinery,
and as have not got as full and complete
a list as l should like TO present to the
State Grange have concluded to wait two
or three weeks and have full and COM
plete list at bottom figures, as I find that
this State Agency system is growing more
and more popular every day. As for in
stance, when first started out on this bust
ness it was hard work to get men to talk
to me or write me very cordial letter,
but two short months has made q vast diff
ference Instead Of short, cold, indiffer-
ent letters from clerks the letters are from
leading business men and presidents Of
wealthy companies that manufacture large
ly, and at greatly reduced rates; some of
which have been reduced three different
times, and new firms writing me daily, ask
ing questions and sending price lists and
circulars, and giving liberal discounts off
from their regular retail price list, and l
am at work for the best interest Of the Or
der and so far have spent my time, and
considerable money. thought best not to
issue my price list before the 10th or 18th
of December and distribute them at the
State Grange meeting, at Faribault, on the
18th inst, as my motto is any thing that
is worth doing at all is worth doing we'll
Doing so hope my brothers will have
patience with me, for my delay is to their
benefit; and manufacturers will hurry up
and send me their bottom figures so that I
can insert them in my list; that is, if they
wish to deal with the Patrons through
their Agent, for this is their last chance to
have farm machinery advertised free Of
charge this year. Our own State manu-
facturers are not alive to their own in
terests. am afraid the eastern manufac-
turers will get the start Of them. notwith-
standing my orders to give our State the
preference, eastern men are sharp after
your State Agent, with bottom figures on
their implements. 1t is my wish to give
our home institutions fair chance, but if
they won't deal with us don't want them
to blame me, for have given them due no.
tice and, if necessary, will call on them,
and will be happy to do so if any firm will
drop me line at Winona, for we need all
our money in the State, and by purchasing
at home we will save the freight.


J. S. DENMAN, State Agent.
Year: 1873

The labor Of the country furnishes near
ly the whole support of the cities.


The wealth Of this nation like the wealth
Of other nations, is rapidly accumulating
in the hands of a comparatively few persons
in our large cities. 9


All candid men will acknowledge this
truth, that the wealth is not distributed in
accordance with either the physical or
mental usefulness of those who obtain it.


Opposed to the masses who live in toll
and poverty, is a small proportion Of the
human race, surrounded by all the appli-
ances of luxury, and living in comparative
idleness.


Agrarianism is the division Of property
unjustly. Our monetary system, is sys-
TEN of agrarianism. Agrarianism takes
the property of man who produces it, and
gives it to man who does not produce it.


The cause Of monopolies is the wrong and
unjust distribution of the products of labor;
monopolies cannot possibly be created from
any other cause. It ie simply q system
that transfers the property from the hands
of the producers, into the hands of those
who do not produce it.


If the earth should open her chasms and
spew out pure malleable gold and sill
yer, as plenty as the rocks in the noun
tains, it would afford no relief: But if she
should cast out wheat, corn and vegetables,
beef, pork, mutton, poultry, besides gar
ments, houses, furniture, etc., the people
would be supplied with the means of sub
sistence.


Let man neither SOW nor reap, let manu.
featuring cease, commerce be suspended,
and what would be the condition of our
country at the end of five years? Would
not a large proportion of the people have
sunk into their graves from starvation; and
would not those who were living be almost
naked like the barbarians?


The producing classes of all civilized ma
tions have been and are as body poor.
Nearly all wealth is the production of Ia
Dor; therefore, producers would have pos
sessed it, had not something intervened to
prevent this natural result. Even in our
own country, where the reward Of labor is
greater than in most others, some cause is
operating with continual and growing ef-
feet to separate production from the pro-
ducer.


None will dispute that it is the bounden
duty Of q good government to protect and
preserve the rights Of property; none will
deny that il is the solemn duty Of govern





right to hundred million dollars of prop
erty, if he has it. Can they doubt then the
same sacred duty of the government to pro-
tect the producer in the rights of property,
viz: the products of his days labor! If it
is good logic and justice in the former case,
is it not as good logic and justice in the
latter case?
. The Grange Aduance exposes the latest
trick by which credulous farmers are in
duced to buy worthless goods. A peddler,
travelling throug b Goodhue county, repre-
sents himself as the agent Of an English
trading house which has failed but whose
creditors have given it an extension Of time
and privilege Of paying forty cents on. the
dollar, while its goods are admitted to this
country by special revenue act at less duty
than other peoples goods.-Dis-patch. s5e#
Year: 1873




Several weeks ago while Sylvester
Bowman, of Claiborne county, was
cutting the sprouts off his oats, he
saw what he took to be large black
snake, and struck at it with his scythe,
when, to his astonishment, the snake
struck at him with his Jail, lifting its
tail several feet from the earth. Bow
man, whereupOn, again struck at the
snake, but the vicious reptile, not at
all intimidated, returned the blow and
pressed Bowman so closely that il
was with difficulty that he got away.
Returning to the attack, Bowman, BY
means of large rocks, at last succeeded
in crippling the snake and fastening it
to the earth. With the assistance of
Jordan +. Longmire, it was now exam
ined, and to their astonishment was
found to be over six feet long and to
have a horn at the end of its tail a
little over an inch and quarter long,
shaped like a rooster's spur. But
was still more astonishing, it had two
eyes in its tail, which, excepting the
horn, was shaped exactly like the head,
but was not so large. Indeed, to see
the tail, one would have thought that
it was the head, and that the horn was
its tongue. The horn was very sharp.
The snake seemed very fierce at its
tail-end, and endeavored to strike
everything that came near its tail.
Various experiments were made to as
certain whether it could see with the
eyes in his tail and it was demonstra-
ted beyond doubt that it courd see with
its tail eyes. These eyes had lids,
which opened snd shut and cleaned
with anger. Indeed, the tail head
seemed far more fierce than the other
head. Although the snake. tapered
somewhat from its main head, still the
was as thick as q large
thumb and Just as blunt.


Mr. Bowman carried the snake home
while disabled, but it continued to
strike at every intruder with its horn,
and, the family becoming alarmed, Mr..
Bowman shotit dead.


Messrs. Bowman and Longmire
vouch for the truthfulness of these
statements, and so will many other
citizens of the neighborhood. The
writer of this knows Mr.. Longmire to
be truthful man, a man of wealth
and intelligence and an old member of
the Methodist Church.


Jonesboro', Tenn, July q, 1872.
Year: 1873

Detroit merchants combine business
and grief. A wife of one of this class
dying the other day, a life insurance
company received the following notice:


Dear Sir-I take my pen in hand
to let you know that I am well. but
that my dear wife, insured for 5000
in your company, is no more she died
to-day. Her policy is No. 1
can truly say she was fond wife and
good mother. / have the doctors
certificate, SO that there will be no
trouble about the policy. She was
sick only short time, but suffered
much. Do you give a check in ad-
vance, or do | wait sixty days for the
money!
Year: 1873




The New York World puts the Con-
gressional salary steal in a new but
truthful light 1t says:


The more the back pay operation Of
the last Congress is examined the great
er does its iniquity appear. IL was for
merly the custom to pay Senators and
Representatives their salaries at the
close Of each year, the Sergeant at
Arms Of each house advancing money
to members on their salaryas their me-
cessities required, but a full settlement
was made only at the end of the year.
In 1867 a law was passed providing
that each member could draw his sal
airy at the end of each month. The
Sergeant-at-Armsd draws from the treas
ury each month the amount necessary
to pay Congressional salaries, and at
the end of the month the members are
paid by him, he taking their receipt in
full for the month. Under the opera
ton of the law Of 1861 the Senators
and Representative in the last Con-
SiCco udu Dtci pdiu lOi al DtS thc ldbb
month of their term when the back
salary" was passed by them and had
given their receipts ia full, which re-
ceipt was held by the Government.


Each Senator and member having
given receipt in full up to and includ-
ing the last day of the preceding
month, they go to work and pass bill
under pretence of giving themselves an
increased pay for the past two years.
when in fact they had given a receipt
in full for all salary at the end of each
month. The action, therefore, was
simply voting themselves $4,000 each
as extra compensation for the last
month Of the term for which they were
elected. Under this rule, if they can
vote themselves 5000 extra for one
month under the pretence of back SER
vices they can for every month Of their
term, and there will be no end to the
salary grabs" in the future, unless
those who participated in the last are
repudiated and condemned by their
constituents.
Year: 1873

MAGNANIMITY.-When the Empe-
ror Vespasian commanded Roman
Senator to give his voice against the
interest of his country, and threatened
him with immediate death if he spoke
on the other side, the Roman. con-
soions that the attempt to serve the
people was within his power, though
the event was so uncertain, answered
with a smile did | ever tell you that
/ was immortal? My virtue is at my
disposal, my life at yours; do what yo4
will, will do what | ought and IT |
fall in the service of my country, /
shall have more triumph in my death
than you in all your laurels.