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Year: 1873

My dear sir-you with that glass of whisky at your ips,-if you were to see man go into drug and pur- chase pint of raw alcohol, and take that alcohol out and mix it with water, and drink it, you would say he was an old guzzler. You would say he must have stomach like the bottom of tip cart. And yet that is just what you have at your lips; only your beverage is not so pure as his. Yours is drugged, and his is not.

 Time was when rum and whisky and gin were distilled to 8 percentage which admitted of retaining of the quality and flavor of the organic material. In whisky and gin much of the nutritive matter of the grain was retained and the old rum which our grandfathers drank contained 8 considerable percent age of organic saccharine matter. Those liquors were honestly distilled. They came from the retorts and receivers just as they were going into the market only lacking age to give them smooth ness. But it is not so now. There is no honesty in the market. A man may, by paying the price, have something like an honest liquor made to his es-

 

 the market, because dt as 1aot there.

 Some years since-ten years, l think I was in the office of a hotel in Conway, N. H., and was there introduced to 8 gentleman who was travelling agent of Longworth, the vine-king of Cincinnati, and also taking orders for one or two Kentucky whisky. houses. From the subject of wine the conversation turned 1o1 1o1 of which he called pure Bourbon, and which had fairly nauseated me.

 "Why is it, said I, in the earnest ness of entire innocence, that I can not find anywhere such whisky as I used to get on board ship, as Naval ra- tion, fve-and-twenty years ago ?"

 The agent was for time silent and thoughtful. By and by he nodded, and said to me-

 "It isn't made p

 "Isn't made?" I repeated, wonder ingly:

 "No," he added. "There is no such thing as the whisky of commerce dis, titled to-day, except to the especial or der of customers for individual use."

 Seeing my wonderment unabated he went on to explain. I quote his exact language so far, at least, as important particulars are concerned. Said he.-

 "They don't make it because it den't pay. The same amount of labor, time, and cost of manufacture-of course barring materials-required to throw over fUe barrels of the old-fashioned Monongahela whiskey of which you speak, will, with the new appliances of science, throw over one hundred barrels of crude spirits (coarse aleohoD. The results, that all spirit is thus distilled. It is then rectifed and diluted, and color and flavor given by artificial means"

 There you have it, sir. The stuff you are drinking is not whisky. That oth- CT stuff is not brandy. They never were, and never can be, whisky or brandy, as credulous public think them to be. The organic matter destroyed by intense distillation can never be replaced. They are fooling you, my dear fellow and you will fool yourself if you don't let it alone. If you have 8 head made of wood, and stomach of iron, you may last few years and drink it; but if you be human, with capacity fer human en- joyment and human suffering, give this liquid scourge clean go-by, and never ,ot11rr to if
Year: 1873

To tue Stated Pilots of the Port oJ

 NeaO York, and aU others aOho it

 maav concern

 GENTLEMEN: We need not inform you that the ship is hourly expected with the tea from England which, if landed here, will entail slavery on this colony and ruin it's commerce. No class of men are more interested in the last than you, nor none have it more in their power to prevent the introduction of that which the tyrannical Ministry intend as the badge of our slavery. You are, therefore, called upon to give the first instruction. The ship cannot enter this port unless you direct her. Acquit yourselves in this as become freemen and friends to commerce. Much depends on your conduct in this interesting crisis no less than whether you and your posterity shall be freemeu or slaves-whether you or they shall have property or be beggars. You have had many proofs of the dis appreciation of your fellow citizens to the importation of any article subject to a duty by the British Parliament, for the purpose of raising a revenue in America. And it's not many days since you have had very recent one. You have, therefore, nothing to fear from doing your duty to your country. The merchants and all the inhabitants, friends to liberty, are concerned in your giving the obstruction, and will support you. We cannot, therefore, doubt but there are sufficient motives to induce you to demonstrate to all the world that you will not have the least agency in the destruction of your country. But if, contrary to our just expecta- tions, any of you should be so lost to all sense of obligation to your country as not to follow the directions hereafter mentioned, the vengeance of a free people struggling for their liberties await and will surely be executed upon you. Should you be told, that the Wardens will remove any of you who may refuse to pilot the ships into this port, or prosecute your bonds they dare not do either, for they are within the reach of the same vengeance, and therefore will not hazard their own safety so that you are secure in the appreciation of your countrymen, and it's the best and only security any man can have.

 Whenever you board vessel inquire carelessly of the sailors, where she is from, and if from London, whether she has any tea on board ; for the captain of the tea ship may conceal it from you. If the sailors were not on board at the loading of her, and cant inform you, inquire of the captain. If he is un- willing to tell you, rest assured the tea is there. In this case, or your being informed, that the tea is on board, bring her to auchor in Sandy Hook Bay, and no farther, where she may be supplied with any provisions, or other articles she may want for her return. Upon her anchoring, quit her imme- diately, and make the best of your way to this city, and inform the citizens of her arrival. You should be provided with red flag to hoist as signal to the others pilots, whenever you dis cover her to be the tea ship, in order that they may keep clear of her after you quit her.

 Let every pilot possess himself with copy of this for his government. LEGION.

 NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 1773.
Year: 1873

CoLD QUARrERs.-On the arrival at New York, few days since, of the steamer Southampton, from Jersey, the agent observed cats tail protruding from the ornamental star on the paddle box. On examination, the ships cat was found to be inside, half dead from cold and wet. It is supposed that the animal got into the paddle-box before the boat left Jersey in search of rats, and, on the wheel beginning to turn. jumped on a piece of board one-half inch thick, to which she clung during the voyage, the wheel revolving about four inches from her nose. Poor puss was promptly rescued. -
Year: 1873

Oysters are in perfection when from five to seven years old. An oysterman can tell the age of a bivalve by count ing the successive layers or plates overlapping each other, each of which is termed shoot, and indicates a years growth. Judging from the size and thickness which some shells attain, an oyster may be capable of arriving at tho respectable age of three.score and not be the MethNselah of his tribe then.
Year: 1873

Well, yes, neighbor Herald, the REpuB-
11cAS is Doomsday book or anything else
you please to caD it. Anything to keep
the peace and give you m opportunity 10
show your learning and want Of judgment
for comparison at the same time While
you are about il, why not call the City
Park, just this side of Carrollton, the New
Forest, to make which one hundred thou.
sand people were dispossessed without
ant notice. Of course the Herald will
say this last act of tyranny is not so bad
as to tax an old and respectable citizen to
sustain Republican administration. Re-
vive US some more parallels, and it does
not matter much whether they run regu-
larly or not; call them historical parallels,
anyway. Your readers, generally, will
not know the difference, and Republicans
are not particular just now. .,.. .. ~..- 81
Year: 1873

SCALPING DEAD MoDocs.-The Grass
Valley Union is deeply disgusted that the
soldiers at the Lava Bed scalped Scar-faced
Charley when they found him dead and
sinking, and thinks it step towards bar
barism for the United States army to copy
after the Modocs, in even scalping Indians
when they kill them, let alone going around
hunting dead Indians who may have died
with the mully grubs, and taking their top
knots off. The Union's head is sound, but
it had better look out for its reputation 70,
loyalty.
Year: 1873

Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and the
Northwest generally, have recently expert
enced the most severe snow storm ever known
In that part of the country. Men were frozen
to death within two rods of their houses, in
trying TO get feed for their stock. Numerous
cases of human death are reported from the
effects of the freeze. Houses were blown
down and filled with snow. Stock perished
by the Wholesale; in one case a man who
had seycuty-fve boad lost them all
Year: 1873

Too IN.-President Grant, who is
Commander in Chief of the United States
Army and Navy, expressed great surprise
and Indignation when he read in the papers
that bis mutton headed boy had been pro-
NOTED to Colonel and placed over veteran
officers of the army, though the promotion
was made by his own order, and now pre-
tends that his wife, or some of the other
Dents, done it. That's too thin, Hiram, and
the people will believe you are lying until
YOU take Fred down.
Year: 1873

The "Chickadee press, next door, pub
fishes sentence taken from the PLACER
HERALD, which must command the respect,
esteem, deep reflection and final approval of
every high minded, noble hearted, patriotic
man in the county, and then makes trail
of negative slime around it that should make
all its readers blush. The monopoly beggar
can strike the third word, "no," out, and
insert, after the word "delight," " cat dis
tahce," and publish the sentence as its own.
That will make it suit him exactly, and in
vastly better shape than he can write.
Year: 1873

CHIcKADEE AFTER A CHICK. The begging
Chickadee next door is after a chick of ours.
The chick must have heard of this for it went
and drowned itself. 1t was willing to face a
Chinaman, but the Drqus beggar, never.
We hope our neighbor bcggar will not at
tack other peoples chicks
Year: 1873

The Court House Ring here is in terrible
agony. Through dirty work it manages to
get some advertising from even Democrats
into the argus, the monopoly ring organ


Truth, gentility and law are all laid aside to
effect this purpose. There is one Democratic
county officer in the county, and there is
some twenty Mobiliers that want his place,
and are all pressing the ring to get their
names on the Contract and Finance slate.
The ring picked one plethoric pap fellow for
Sheriff, to make room in fatty, pappish
place for Pages chickadee, but pesky fell
low that thinks the ring has no power to
disfranchise Republicans, sent a ten FOUNDER
shot clean through the slate, ring, Mobilier
and chickadees, that left the whole ca


Doodle horribly wounded, and in tattered
agony. In this, the sore trials Of the ring,
it is peddlng out its troubles, but has lost its
discretion, and is boring men that have made
up their minds to go with the peoples anti
monopoly party. The whining of the ring
to these men suits us exactly, because they
come and tell us all that is said by the
winners. Three points the Mobilier ringers
want 10 accomplish: First, to get all the
Offices of the county in the ring. Second, to
rob the tax payers at will land save the rail-
road from taxation. Third, to deprive the
PLACER HERALD of all patronage and starve
it out of existence, as it is the only paper in
the county that will denounce official rascal
ity and warn the people of present and
coming danger. The first two points can
only be reached through the apathy of the
people, but as to the starving the HERALD,
that is ouska spelled. IN the last six years,
under the present management, the HERALD
has doubled its patronage, without ever
begging for subscribers or advertising, as the
poor, trashy, ring, monopoly bantng next
door is compelled to do by its beggar and
strikers or bleed Page again. The people of
Placer know that in the HERALD they have
their only friend, and daily do new sub
scribers and patronage come to us. No. NO,
poor, poverty stricken, in brain, chickadee
ring, don't lay the Aatte ring JUNCTION to your
dminutive souls, that the HERALD will fail
for want of support. 1t will be here shaking
political corruption around the ears of rascals
while the present ring rules, and stirring up
the frtid filth until you mend your ways.
Year: 1873

EDUCATIoNAL DEPARTMENT. During the
County Teachers Institute, several teachers
expressed desire to furnish school informa-
ton and short articles on educational matters
through the columns Of the HERALD, as an
independent source and paper that is read
by all that can get hold of it in the county.
The HERALD is not the organ Of one teacher
alone, but all shall have fair chance to be
heard through it, as long as space will per-
nit The supervision Of all matters sent in
by teachers or others, on matters pertaining
to education, will be attended to with care
by the editors of the HERALD. A slip. con
containing the true name Of the writer must
accompany each article, which will or will


not be published, just as the author requests.
All articles for the Educational Department
must reach US by Thursday noon each week.
Year: 1873

Many of the citizens of Vermont will
remember to hava seen on one dollar bills
of the Windham County State Bank u
vignette representing bulltrogs fighting
This was engraved to commemorate the
Battle of the Bultrogs The fact We're as
follows


Many years ago, when the town of
Windham was newly settled, there came u
verydry season. There are two large ponds
in Windham. separated by an intervening
strip of land of considerable extent Each
Of these ponds was inhabited by a large
community of the reptiles above named.
The smaller pond dried up, and its inhabi-
tants started in body for the lower and
larger pond They were met in the inter
yening space by the community from the
larger pond and fierce and long con
tinued battle ensued between the rival
communities. Such was the hideous bel
lowing of the frogs during their fierce en-
counter that it alarmed the inhabitants,
who at first supposed it to be the whoop
of the hostile savages. But curiosity get
ting the better of their fears they cautious
ly proceeded to the spot whence the hide
Gus sound issued, and there beheld the
strange spectacle of two immense armies
OF bullfrogs, covering many acres OF
ground, engaged in a fierce and deadly
battle. This battle continued more than
twenty-four hours, and when it was over
the ground was literally covered with the
slain, and it became necessary to avoid
the noxious etfluvia, to gather and bury
Them | have related this Us it was given
to me five years ago by a gentleman who
then resided at Highgate Springs, and
whose name can be published, if desired
1t is no wonder that the officers of the old
Windham County Bank should have
deemed such an occasion worthy of com
memoration. montpelier Freeman.
Year: 1873

Burt &. Wilder sends to the American
Naturalist the following statement of the
distance leaped by a eat, which he received
from the Sanford Brothers, of Ithaca, n.
Y whom he styles accurate observers of
the habits of animals. They write: when
our cat was about a year old, he was seen
on several days to take position upon q
showcase four feet high, and to watch a
canary in a cage hanging from the ceiling,
eight feet from the case; the ceiling was
eleven feet from the floor, and the cage
an ordinary cylindrical one One day, as
we were observing him thus engaged, he
suddenly sprang at the cage and caught
his claws upon it; his weight swung the
cage up against the ceiling, spilling all the
vessels and terrifying the canary. After
swinging to and fro several times, the eat
dropped to the floor uninjured. We meas
ured the distance from the top of the case
to the cage and found it to be ten feet; 50
that the cat made an ascent of six feet in
eight, or upon an incline Of nearly thirty
five Degrees
Year: 1873

A gentleman advertised for boy to as
sist him in his office, and nearly fifty APP
plicants presented themselves before him.
Out of the whole number he selected one
and dismissed the rest. Il should like to
know" said friend, ION what ground you
select that boy, who had not a single
recommendation. You are mistak en-,
said the gentleman, ''he has /, great many.
He wiped his feet when he came i'll and
closed the door after him, showing that he
was careful; gave up his seat instantly to
that lame old man, showing that he was
kind and thoughtful; he took off his cap
when he came in, answered my questions
promptly and respectfully, showing that he
was polite and gentlemanly; he picked up
the book which had purposcly laid upon
the floor, and replaced it on the table,
while all the rest stepped over it or showed
it one side; and he waited quietly for his
turn, instead of pushing and crowding,
showing that he was honest and orderly.
When talked with him noticed that his
clothes were carefully brushed, his hair in
nice order and his teeth as white as milk
and when he wrote his name, l noticed
that his finger nails We're clean, IL
stead of being tipped with jet like that
handsome little fellow in the blue jacket.
Don't You call these things letters Of
Recommendation? do, and would give
more for what | can tell about a boy by
using my eyes ten minutes than all the
letters of recommendation that he can
| bring me"
Year: 1873

A Pennsylvania woman has discovered
an original way of managing an intracta-
BILE husband She talked so much that he
ungallantly boxed her ears the other day
She cast upon him one lingering reproach-
ful glance and fled, simply observing that
the briny deep should wash out the insult.
Leaving behind her every thing most dear
and precious to her-the home Of her mar
ried life full of beautiful and cherished
memories-this heart-broken woman rush
ed trantically to the canal, and, with one
parting sigh, threw in large stone, which
made mighty splash Then She went
and hid herself in the bushes and giggled,
while her husband and twenty other men
hurried up with horror depicted upon their
countenances, and wildly dragged the
canal for her body, When the injured
wife became convinced that the wretch
had suffered enough, she appeared from
behind the bushes and led him home re-
signed and willing victim.
Year: 1873

KILLING LICE ON CATTLE. CORE
spondent Of the Maine Farmer says in ref
crence to advice that had previously been
given not to apply Kerosene oil TO cattle
for the purpose Of killing lice i avoided
the use of kerosene for this purpose tor
several years, fearing it might be injur-
ous, but for the last three years ! have
used nothing else with our large stock OF
cattle and should be very unwilling TO
give it up. AS often as the stock are
known to be troubled with lice, each crea
ture is carded all over quite thoroughly,
frequently dipping the teeth of the card
in the oil. Two or three applications are
sufficient No remedy that have tried is
50 convenient, and none more harmless OF
effectual
Year: 1873

A beautiful and high-spirited horse
would never allow Il shoe to be put on his
feet on any person handle his feet without
4 resort to every species OF power and
means to control him AT one time he WAS
nearly crippled by being put in the stock !;
he was afterwards thrown down and ict-
tered al another time, one of our most
experienced horsc-shoers was unable to
manage him by the aid Of rs many hands
Us could approach. In an attempt to shoe
this horse, recently. he resisted all efforts
kicked aside everything but IN anvil, and
came near killing himself against that,
and finally was brought back to his stable
unShod This was his only defect; in all
other respects he was gentle and perfectly y
docile, and especially i'll harness But his
defect was lust ON the eve OF consi i9ning
him to the plough, where he might work
barefoot, when by mere accident, m Of
ticcr in our service, lately returned from
Mexico was passing, and being made ac-
quainted with the difficulty applied com
pIete remedy by the following simple pro
cess: He took cord about the size of Il
common bcd-cord, put ii in the mouth OF
the horse like bit. and tied ii tightly ON
the animals head, passing his left ear 1ln-
'' INV 'ti ii'' i't'iiA'i ''''h - ny
enough to keep the ear down and the cord
i'll its place. This done. he patted the
horse gently on the side of the head and
commanded him to follow; and instantly
the horse obeyed, perfectly subdued and rs
gentle and obediant as a well-tained dog
suffering his feet to be lifted with entire
imrunty acting in all respects like M Old
stager. That simple string thus tied made
him at once docile and obedcnt a@ amy one
could desire. The gentleman who thus
furnished this exceedingly simple means
of subduing Il very dangerous propensity.
intimated that it IS practccd in MeNlro
and South America in the management of
wild horses. BE this rs it may, he deserves
the thanks OF all owners Of such horses
and especially the thanks OF those whose
business it may be to shoe and groom the
animal New York Commercial AdNer-
tIsef.
Year: 1873

We all speak and write too many hard
and bitter words. We try to break, not to
mend the bruised reed. While we strive
to be strong i'll faith, let us not despise the
faith of the weakest for there will come
day to all of us when, in the giving way
OF the powers of nature and the pouring
i'll of the great water-tloods, we may grasp
at something which may hold up and carry
us over And then, not how much we
have searched out and know, not how
much we have disputed and prevailed,
will help us, but how much we have lived
in Christ and imbbed his spirit. Dean
Afford
Year: 1873

Mr.. Joseph Harris, who is recognized
authority on the pig, says if he were try
ing to see how fast he could make pro
grow, he would give him both cooked and
uncooked food. 1t ought, he says, to be
distinctly understood that the onl J object
of cooking is to enable the animals to eat
and digest more food. We cook, not to
save food, but to save digestion. II the
pigs can eat and digest all the food they
can assimilate there nothing to be gained
by cooking time, labor and fuel are All
thrown aWay
Year: 1873

to return by the adoption Of q con.


stitutional amendment, leaving il


to the discretion of the Legislature


To him as the originator of the


policy when n member of the Log


islaturo, we are indebted for the


munificent school fund, tho State


possesses, in United States bonds


railroad bonds and the alter nate
sections of lands donated to rail
roads. But he is now, as he has
ever been, opposed to the donation
of monied subsidies to railroads
With his policy carried out this
would DO unnecessary and but for
the folly of the convention of
1869, it would never have been
thought of.


When q convention meets to
designate candidates of tho Demo-
cratic party for Governor, and
other State officers, the people of
this part of the State, with una
nimity almost without precedent,
will insist upon his nomination.
And, according to our information,
he is the choice of an overwh elm
ing majority of tho people in every
part of the State. The people look
to him to bring order out of chaos
to reduce their burdens; to redeem
the credit of the State and to guide
it in its onward progress to great
ness. And that they may not be
disappointed, it is important that
their wishes be expressed and made
manifest, and that steps be taken
in due time to carry thom out.