Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 February 1874 — Page 3

THE. INDIANA STATE SENTINEL; TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10,-1874.-- -

ECHO. BY CHUfTKA O, KOSFTTI. Come to me in the Mlenceof the nif ht; come in the speakisg silence of dream ; r-Come with soft rouaded- check nd eyes m bright ,A3 sunlight on a stream Come back In team, O memory, hope, kwt or finished years! O dream, how sweet! .o sweet, too bitter sweet; Whose wakening sfe.uld havewbeen inraraaUe, " Wherw souls brimful of love abide aaa me 9t; Where thirsting, longlnp eye w atch the slow uocr. That opening lets la, lets out no aore. Yet come to me In drea-si, that I may live My very Hie again, '.hauen cold In teath : . Come back to me In dreaias, thatt I Jcay give Pulse for pu ipe, breath for breath Speak 16 w. iron low. As long ago, my love; how long so!

THK SyO W BIRDS. W D. IUTIUA The lonesome graveyard lleth A. dfp with allent wre f-night-long Know, all white, amfrtlllowea: Ovar the hidden graves. The snow birds come In the mora lag, locking and natter.nK low. And light on the g aveysrd brarabfcs, And twitter there la the snow. The singer, old and wery, Loons ont from his a row room : "Ah, met but my though t sresnawrtolrds. Hunting a graveyard .gloom, "Where all the past is burled. And dead, inen many yeais, Under the drifted whiteness Of fjczen falls of tears. "Poortirds! taat know .not summer, No sun, nor Howe s fair Only the graveyard brambles. And graves and winter air!" EAILRO AD JOTTINGS. The South Band Tribuce says thai T. JliOUhmant agent of the L. S. A M. StailrToad station at Mishawake, is prepariaj a history of the different agents that 'have been employed by that company here; also the amount of business that has been, dene ' here by the -company since its organization. . An engineer on the I. P. fc C. road 3eently shot ati killed a wild turkeyas.it was flying over his train. A the train -wi moving at the time, the engineer is entitled to the champien's belt. The Vevay Democrat says: At. a meeting . of the stockholders of the O. & X. railroad, ripl.l-.it Cincinnati on Saturxlav.last.the ores ident of the KUä gSun, AuroraAixi liardin-J town rauroau wa eieciea a uireciar. Notice is given that an election will be i hel(Lat New Albany on Tuesdav,rtie 24th of February, for the purpose of electing thirteen directors forthe Liouisville, :5ew Al- ' bany and St. Louie Air-Line railway. The XaFayette Courier say Supoi ntendent Wa!dron aqd.Mr. Fowler made an inspection of the Short Line machine shops yesterday. Additional facilities are re- - quired new maeiiinery and additional hands. All the rolling stock of the road is in i use night and day, and the demands :upon the repair shops are increasing daily. .The Deor.tur Eagle stiys of the progress on i the railroad near thejgtate line: The enjin--eers on the Toledo, Thorn town aud yt-.'Loui .xailroad have not advanced as far as wex,pected. Tka V&nwerVHulletin of last week . said they ,w re In Jackeon townskip, aoaie iflfteen miles nonL.heast,f Vanwert. Aa toe : rains have filled he creeks and swaies, their .progress ia-alow, and tboy will do well to rreach Vanwrt th is wek. It will take tbeai ifally one wee'e to reach tLia place fraaa CVaa 1 wert. She Montioallo j'Jerald .gives notiee that ha CkicagOAod South At lactic railroad om jpany airgently request .Hat the eoaotias Along the lino, in this atatoirave their quotas ffaisedAy the frit of April. This order xStendal theilndanapoiis, itelphl and Chicago railroad and the- Indianapolis and VeTay.railioad. ,T to lauter company has been -officially noticed to proceed forthwith in raiajngvtkeir jquotas. Iii0 Ply .noutfi Democrat sajs : Some anlutewn party on Last Monday aight ran the push car. n the!, P. fc C. railroad down to m Boeeting-About s ,milo south of here, and left the car jstaaditg on the track. When th Bight-eacpressoarne along lt,ran into tha car, aesultiag in a arnasb-ap to-JJje bead light and ether damage to the engine. Tbeno isati awakening on theiüne'of the propoaedxoad from forth Vernon to Dayton, Olio. The Comer Stone -aays: The snrvey of tkhe Dayton and North Vernon snort line Eatüroad route reached College corner, OhlQ, on the;lAh inst. 4in Acton reporta a good route. . A stirring .aaeeting was held al,Muncie, last week, to.Vuake updhe extensioc of the Cincinnati, Wabash t Michigan XLcilroad, 'wmetimea (caikxl the AVhite Figeoc road, ixm Marido toIuncie. The following resolution was adopted: Jletolved, That this m. letlng oioac heartily approve of the pri 'pV3itio to extend the White JTIeon .and Indiana Railroad frooa Marion to this jtfac e, and v will co-operate with all parties intei'ested ia any practicable measures ithat may be calcoiatea to secure and build 4he SO&i. Jtew Albany has been visiled by an ageat of.C.nglieh cafktalista. Mr Uarold, who caae lo-esqtdre into ChAonditinof affairs of the LouUvi lie. New Albany and fit. Louis AirLinefta üway, aod ttu mineral, agriculturaj And olher resources of the co tn try through which th 9 road runs. t ' j The Xedger Standard says: Ha carries with Uan back to Loa ion a m&as of statistk and figures bftarinj; npon the interests of the AiP-JLini which will place tho road in a very favera.bie light betoro the capitalists he repreeoU, a nd by whom he was specially sent here io oxamine as tj the .ctodition of the eoujEuiy. A freight tn in off the track of the I.B.& W. near Grawiordsville is said to have caused the detentjea or s trains on Uiat roal yesterday. 1 Thre ear loads of eggs and dressol ponl try and ooecax of live poultry rereahipped east yesterday from this city by the Pan Jiandle. Some of the J 31. & J. hoys war aoaged jetiterday at testJag some of the Henrytille irn ore, improrWns an ordinary coal stove sa smelting furnace. IL W. Ilnbbard, of th e VandalU road, ia offering from sever cold, which temporarily unfits hin lor business. A collision happened yesterday at the JoiKctioa oltae I. and St. L. and the I., C. and h. roads, between two switch trains. Tha switch was ret for a I-, B. and W. train which was comirg down the I. and St. L. track. A Pan Ilandle train was coming down the I., C.AL road, at the same time, the L, B. & W. train being its whole length ahead. The P. II. engine neglecting to slack up, plunged itsell into the rear of the I., B. & W., and the consequence was a demolition of several cars, and the engine shot ahead into Goddardstone yard in search of tombstones. The front wheels were entirely off the track. The derangement was but temporary, however. Eumor has it that the old wages of engineers on most of the railroads, recently ediced 10 per cent, will bo reauccod oa the let cl March.

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT. MiAlS THE RH IS TALK OF OeatPLETTSO IT. The Washington special correspondent of tl Chicago Times writes: He died over 70 yoarsago. His life has been; as public as tboee of the great bibles which were formerly fastened, open and fiee 4o all, in high places. The lemons of his Ufa bad been almost as pure -and noble as'1 any which could be traced In those same scriptures. Subliue In war, when only in the travail f war could be born a nation; grander still in the fruitful season- of the peace which be earned tor his young country, ho went at last in quiet makty into the. hereafter, knetrn, admired, and mourned by two hemispheres. His name-was Washington, and agrateful nation of farty millions or people ero still unable to complete a decent monument in honor ofthis mighty work. We, the people, hav been at 'this task something like a quartar of a century. Not witb tüe steadfast seal wfaieh becomes the owners of a continent,1 but when the whim takes us, as the boy cuts a small-piece ol his dog's tall off only when the old stamp had healed. He was afraid it would hurt Tray vworse if he was tosampatate-Allat one time. The spasm is upon us again. This time it is direct in its hearings. 'If Ike money is obtained everybody will at least knew Just what the sum is and to whom it goes. That 1 more than hasever been learned of the-contents of CHOSE FETOR'S PKNCE BODIES which was sprinkled into every .postofflfce in the land a few years ago. A committee of gentlemen, self .appointed, bat familiar by name and headed by Babcock,-have just petitioHed Congress for f 200,000 with which to finish the commemorative shaft. Recently the grounds and approaches to this monumental glory of the future have been smoothed Cewn a little, and the surroundings havo less the appearance oi a costermonger's back yard than heretofore, A few derricks are stuck upon the top of the pile, put in position to hoist half of the cash up out of sight, where Babcock et sesreroc, will be ready to see that it is not frittered away

in clumsy masonry. However, if only half of the APPBOr&IATION OS A STEAL, the country will be satialied. Oiye tiiese gentlemen what they ask aud they promise that the job shall be done and the chips swept away in time for the centennial celebration days of 1876. AFTER Tnfe WASHINGTON RING. THE SCESE IH CONGRESS WHAT THE PEOFI3 'THINK OF IT. A special to the Chicago Tribune from vWashington says: The recent renewal of tho charges against the district government con-i tinues to excite considerable interest in eongjeesional circles. There seems to be a eaitled conviction that the affair had better be.at once and finally disposed of, and that Congressmen Starkweather and Eldridgo cannot properly -avoid demasding an invest'gation. Speaker Blaine is said to disclaim any knowledge -of the purpose for which Jadge Wilson sasht th floor, and it seems that there wore not a clearcunderstanding between the two gen tlemäa as to the enda Mr. Wils-xn had in view. There is no dispute, however, on the point that Blaine did promise to . recognize Wilson iairly. Responsible people who are in a position to know, affirm that a Senator who is member of the Senate District Committee, was at the pains to come from the Senate to urge Blaine not to afford Judge Wilson an opportunity to intjoda.ee the memorial and resolution. The .city papers continue to denounce in unstinted terms these who urge an investigation, and it is evident thai if the movement caa be de feated it wiill be. The Republican must be credited with having organized the most novel hypothesis when in to account tor the Animus oi &ose making the charges that has tret appeared, in its issue of this morning. It aoid notbingto the point yesterday. It has .a long editotlal retting forth that most of the Sonera of the memorials were rebels and are i&omocrats, after which it proceeds to show that the whoje movement is a diabolical gckeme to eleot Senator Thurman, : ' FRXSIDBKXOP TBI T72UTXD STATES, f as follows: Mc Thurman was selected to pjttsont it. Sine the last election in Ohio Mr. Thurman has been placed in training for the Presidency. Mr, Jeremiah S. Black, and two or .three other patriots have been entrusted with the management and direction of the campaign, the first step in which is to break down the Republican party through Gen. Grant 'a Administration. Intentionally ,or unintentionally, our patriot petitioners have been made tbecatssawof these designing politicians, and, at any hazard, it must be proven that the gentlemen whom Gen. Grant and the Republican party have . intrusted with the work of making Washington what it should be, an honor instead of a disgrace to the Union, are as wicked, as corrupt, and as unscrupulous as the lateTammany ring in New York, the exposure of whose crimes killed tbe Democratic party. ' This is the game. The Washington King.as it is called, is to be made the offset to Tammany and Mr. Thurman is to be heralded to the country as the great reformer, the pure and spotless candidate of a whitewashed Democracy in the next Presidential election. This explanation is -necessary to a proper understanding of the . political animus that underlies and inspires the present attack npon the District offi cials. Washington is supposed to be . the most vulnerable point in the Republican line, and a demonstration is made upon it fcr the purpose of overwhelming the party. Will the Republican majority now in Conpress allow itself to be made the tool of Tikurman and Black, and the gang of msl oatents who, for purposes of their own, hure consented to be the mere agents and abettors? If a Republican Congressman can vote for the investigation after tbse dreadful disclosures, then is be indeed zone astray, and become uttrly dislovaL ,A Judge Wilson fts a Republican, and has cbeeen in the House to espouse the cause of the investigation, and is too shrewd to be made a atspaw of, it is inferred that he is to both candidate for Viee-Presidentonthe Thurmaa ticket. HORRIBLE OUTRAGE. : . KORR OUTLAWRY THB WIM OF XVI L DOERS 13T WASHINGTON COUNTY From an Occonl Correspondent of the Sentinel Salek, Isd., February 4. Near Campbellsburg, in Washington county, lives one Hugh Henry and his wife, both of whom are reported not over bright aud Mrs. Henry's reputation far chastity Is also not over good measured by report." On last Saturday night, about eight or nine o'clock, one Alonzo Neyman and two boys by the name of Pbipps, (eons - of McCauey Phipps a prominent citizen oi this county. Neyman's lather is a practicing phyg'cian in good standing in his community 1 went to the house ot Henry and knocked for admittance which was refused,it appears by Henry himself, whereupon they broke down the door with a rail; when; it seems, Henry got out and went to Campbellsburg, a distance of about half a mile, for assistance; he returned as soon t as possible with i several parties, but too late to prevent the outrage upon his wife. A brother-in-law of Henry got to the . house - before Henry's return armed with a gun and is said to have seen the Phipps' boys and Neyman at or near the house. Mrs. Henry's relation is in substance as follows: , After Henry left the house they attacked her, and In the scu3e tor down a

bdsteid.and finally dragged her from the house, when two of them held her while the other one perpetrated the horrible outrage of rape npon her person. They were arrested and taken' before C. Prow, Esq.. at Campk ells burg, on Monday, for examination, when toeg filed an affidavit for a change of venue and the case was sent to Frank Horner,- a Justice of the Peace of Brown township, and the hearing sat for the 13th inst; Salem.

' THE MOON. A ' T7ATEÜLESS AIRLESS, LTFELE3S PLANET LONG BURNED OCT. Professor Procter lectured recently In New York on the moon. The New York World gives a report of the lecture : There had once been moon-worshippers as well as sunwwrshippers, and it was not strange. The moon traveled over the heavens with what well might have seemed an independent power. ' She was ' a goddess,- circling tbo earth . and watching itr from , all points. - Iler diameter was 2100 miles, her distance 238,823 miles; her surface was to the earth's surface as one to thirteen and a half, or about 14,600,000 square miles the joint :area of North and South America. , Its volume was one-forty-nin'h that of the earth, its mass one-eightieth. The first thing noticeable in its appearance ander the telescope were the mountains, many of which were circular. The seas, bo ealled, had no Bigns oi water. It had always been hoped that the moon might be found a fit abiding place for human beings, but the largest telescopes had failed to detect a . sign of lif . "His audienc would remember the moon hoax of their countryman, Richard A. Locke. Hörschel went to the Cape of Good Hope and the hoaxer took advantage of his absence to describe his dircoverie?, hbw he illuminated the focus of his telescope with the oxy -hydrogen light, how he first saw flowers and animals, their buildings covered with frame-shaped appear ances so arranged as to indicate a belief in the doctrine of the Trinity-; and at last the "bat-men," ' who were described as "not handsome, bat at least as handsome as -the London militia." So effective bad been the hoax that somebody wrote to Sir John asking if the opportunity could not be availed of to convey religious instruction to the benighted moon men." But the con ditions of sustaining life wero wanting on the moon. The first of a series of photo graphs was introduced on the screen. Tbe blackness of the shadows forbade the idea that there were any illuminated sky: any atmosphere. A star at the edge disappeared instantly and reappeared instantly when it had crossed tbe disk. If one were looking at the earth from the moon a atar could prob ably not disappear at all. the refrac tive power of the . atmosphere holding back its light. Tbe earth when "new" would have a twilight circle over around the darker part. There was none such In the new moon. There wa3 no at mosphere, therefore no water, for ' water" would be raised as vapor and we should see signs of it. Thw pbysieial roughness of the moon could therefore show no signs of "weathering," as there were no storms and no glaciers. The earth could never totally echpse the sun, for its atmosphere would refract real sunlight all the time. So that mcwn astronomers, if there were any, could never see the corona or the prominences. Here followed a display of lunar photographs, the lecturer saj ing that Mr. Rutherlord, of New York, had taken some which surpassed any taken in England. Mr. Prostor corrected the popular notion that by perfected processes of photography the image formed by a telescope could be so enlarged as to give indefinite perfection in details ot the moon's surface. The ; difficulty lay in the Imperfection of the image iiself, and the hope of astronomers in mounting a powerful telescope up in the rare atmosphere of some mountain. So far as observation went there was no evidence whatever of change on tue moon's surface, except the gradual disruption probably caused by the great alternations of heat and cold In the long lunar days and nights. The day was twenty-nine and half of our days. , During the fifteen days ot sunshine, and no sheltering atmosphere or clouds, the surface atmosphere rose to heat ot boiling water, and during the long night with no atmosphere to prevent rapid radiation an intenser cold than we know, even than that ot an American winter, of which he heard so much and experienced so little. If the moon's craters had been produced by volcanic action, what bad become of the water and the gaseous producta? One theory was that the comet had come and whisked the air and the oceans away. Another was that in the intense cold water and air had frozen up together and fallen as a white snow. This was apoarently favored by the whiteness of the moon. But observations of tbe amount of light reflected by the moon and of the amount a perfectly white body of the same size would reflect, had shown that the moon reflected about as much as would be given by an equal globe of weathered sandstone; while some parts were white as snow, others were absolutey black. Another theory had been that the contractions of the cooling moon had formed cavities in its interior into which tbe oceans has been withdrawn. But tbe atmosphere could not so have been wi.'hdrawn with a force of gravity ocly one-sixth the force at tbe earth's surface Another theory was that THE MOON'S CENTER OP OBAVTTT was farther away than its center of figure, and that consequently all the oceans and the air had been drawn to the further side, which was never turned townrds the earth. But it was almost inconceivable that the tilting of tho moon in ics librations should never show us a sign of atmosphere, if there were on the further side at snch times partly revealed. . Besides, it was found that the moon bulged a little towards the earth, which would bring its center of gravity this way and certainly show us the atmosphere. - Mr. Proctor confessed a strorjg impression that the best explanation of the multitudinous craters was furnished by the theory of the downfall of immense meteoric systems long ago, when meteors were plentier and when the processes of growth by accretion, now alowly. going on, were more , rapid. The moon always turned the . same face towards, the earth; that was; it turned on its axis and passed round the earth i a the same period. If i she , had br-en .made .so she would be compelled t i so continue by the earth's attraction, an i in that there was evidence as to the conditions under which she first came into being. In the process ot evolution of the solar system . she came into being within the extension of-the earth; that Is, within the reach of the vaprous matter which was to form th farth, but which stretched out then beyond the moon's orbit. Naturally, then, she carried . with her ' tho motion of that rotating mass. In ' the sun we had a body full of vigoi, giving forth without ' fail its own enormous light and heat. J upitr and ' Saturn , had coo'ed more, not entirely, but so far that lit tie light comparatively was given out. They were approaching old age. In the earth we had a planet which had passed still further on, and lastly, in the moon a body young in vears, but really quite decripid, cold and bleak and burned out, a mere cinder of space. So that in astronomy as in no other science there seemed to be something of a beginning, and again there see mad to be a looking forward towards an end, when at last' and everywhere a state of equilibrium should be reached. Amos ' Rogers, formerly a conductor on the J. M. A L. railroad has been promoted to the position of master of transportation

GAD'S HILL

THK TRAIN ROBBERY HOW TT Wis twvsä THE CONDUCTOR'S STORT. The St. Louis Republican gives a full account of the recent robbery of the train on the Iron Mountain road at Gad's Hill, Missouri. The conductor's story is : Train No. 7. Little Rock express, left St. Louis Saturday morning at 5 o'clock, and arrived at Gad's Hill, 120 miles from St. Louis, at a quarter to 5 p. m., nearly an hour behind the time, being due there at 6 minutes after 4 p. v. We always top at Gad's Hill, although there is no station house, but simply a plstform. The Elace is in the woods, has but two or three o rises, and there was onoe a sawmil! in operation there. Our tram comprised the mail, express and baggage all in tbe same car. The train consisted of two coaches and a sleeping-car. On arriving at Gad's Hill there were about twenty-five passengers on the train, going throngh to Little Rock, Hot Springs, and points beyond. - On nearing the place I saw some people on the platform, and one of them waved ' a red flag as a signal of danger ahead. On coming up to the platform, the train was baited, and the switch on the south was turned on the side-track while the switch on our rear was also thrown on the side-track as quick a? we passed it, bo mat me tram could not move forward or run back. Soon the indications showed the true condition of matters. A number of persons were on the platform under guard, "and it was ascertained that all the residents of the place, including boys ana sias, naa rjeen capturea. They were gathered about a fire In the open air to keep them warm. It turned out that the place was in possess-ion of five desperadoes, three of whom were armed, with double barrel guns, and all had navy revolvers. As soon as I got there, on seeing the red flag, I Jumped off the train, thinking that the track was torn up. A man advanced and caught me by the collar and stuck a pistol in my face. He was a least six feet in height and wore a mask on his face composed ot white cloth, like a handkerchief, and the lower portion was tucked in his bosom. There i , . - . wer noies ror nis eyes ana nose, i was a little surprised, but understood his object when he shouted, on thrusting his pistol in my face: "stand still or i'll blow theVpp of your HEAD OFT." He at the same time yelled out: "If a shot Is fired out of the car I will kill the conductor." By this time two oltbe ruffians, masked all alike, went to the engineer and fireman of the train and mle them come down. An other of the robbers, alH masked and armed, loos a position on tne opposite side oi the train, and as any of the passengers stuck ineir neaasout oitne windows, he drew a bead on them with a double-barreled shot gun, and shouted: "Take your heads in, anu not move out or tne car ! a summons which they thought prudent to obey, or take the contents of his gun. The captured engineer and fire man were brought to the platform where I was held a prisoner, and were told to stand there or they would be shot. The robbers then ordered the brakeman and baggageman to stand beside me. Two of the desDeradoes then went into mail-room of the baggage car, and accosting the mail agent, demauaeu tne registered packages, xney then rummaged over the packages, tere them open, threw them on the floor, and then placed the mailagent in company with the crowd under guard. They then went to the express messenger and made him give . up his ' keys and hU pistol. The express messenger had hi3 pittol drawn on one of the robbers, but another one of the gang covered him with a shot-gun, and was ready to blow his head off Lad he not immediately surrendered. The robbers next went to the safe and took out the money packages. They overhauled one package marked "watch," opened it and, finding it was a silver . time-piece, threw it down on the floor. At this time the crantr was disposed as follows: . There were two of them in the baggage car rumaging among the money packages and valuables, one standing guard on each side of the train, and guarding us near the platform. They looked through the boxes, broke open my satchel, and took therefrom my pistoL They then started throueh the train, . , In thisoperation they were boisterous, and punched some of them in tho ribs and face with their pistols, ordering them to give up their money. ' 1 lost $50 and my pistol. There were twelve or fifteen gold watches on the train and only one was taken. They took my gold watch, but the baggage-master said: ."For God's sake! you won't take it, for it is a present," and the watch was given back to me. They got away with four or five pistols in all. They didn't bother the baggage in the least. Besides what they robbed from the passengers they got $800 from a citizen of Gad's Hill, and also his rifle. They did not appear, to be' under the influence of liquor, but irere very noisy. They would exclaim: "Give me your pistol you son of a b h, you've got more money than all that comes to!" "Shell out or I'll blow your brains , out ! " With such threats and ejaculations. Colonel Morley, chief engineer of the Cairo and Fulton R. R. expostulated and made an effort to remove some of the property, but a pistol was shoved In his face, and he was told to sit down and mind his business. I asked the robbers if they had 'got through, so I could go on with tne train. They said yes. They allowed me to shut up the switch in the front - and the switch in the rear was closed by the brakeman. A member of the legislature got off here to co to his home, and found his sonf who came to meet him, under guard of the robbers. I don't think the legislator . was robbed. When we got ready " to start, the robbers shook hands with the englnwr, Wm. Wetton, and told him when ever be saw a red flag out he ought to stop. Tney then strolled off to thier horses, tied up about a hundred yards distant, and rode out of sight before we got under way. They went southward. -1 think they are a regular set of robbers, and am positive that they are the same gang wl$ robbed the coach at Hot Springs, and probably were among the Iowa mail train robbers; It was ascertained that they took dinner on Tuesday at -Moaks, near the state line, and also at Mill Springs on Friday, the day before the robbery of our train. They left a special dispatch with a passenger of the sleeping car for the St. Louis, Dispatch, . which referred to the misrepresentation about the . Hot springs robbery and this contained a true account of the present ' afiair. It is evident that they are men used to tbe business. One ot them, when robbing the express messenger, entered, on the book "Robbed at Gad's Hill," and remarked that he had signed that boot before. Before our arrival they had been at Gad's Hill a couple of hours, and were with us about forty minutes. . The result was that thoy took in all about $2,300 from the train, four registered packages, one gold watch, five pistols, one ring and one pin. Had they made "their raid the day before they would have got about $5,000 or ?0,t'eO, which was' being shipped by express. : m 1 . ? IN THE ORANGE GROYES. ' Or Florida sailing up the bt; John's RIVER THE COUNTRY AND THE PEOPLE TUB SOIL AND . CLIMATE THE HOOSIEEJ8 ABROAD WINTERING IN FLORIDA. , ... I From an Occasional Correspondent of Use SnUnel. PIlatka Florida, Jan. -57, 1574 I need not mention that Jacksonville was a good place to get away from, as it was the most expensive town or city I ever staid in. Another annoyance is, that it is filled with in valids of the consumptive class and had I ins lungs or a Dull, x Enow deatn would take me off, from pure sympathy ; to hear eight or ten persons coughing and scraping blowing and whiuinz all about you is cal culated to excite maacuiico hysterica. On I

Mondy morning we started up the river.

St. Johns runs North, and a pleasure trip it was. The river Is from three to five miles wide as far as Talatka; its surface smooth; its marginslowand marshy, densely wooded witn pines, live oats and many other trees all draped in long gray mosses which give a very somber and rather mournful appearance to the scene. The little towns, or rather hamlets are many miles apart, and you only see, here and there, a. solitary house, embowered in orange grovesj and live oaks npon the dreary banks. Where Charon takes lost souls over hU terry I doubtil he could show a more melancholy scene to bis new visitor. There are a few places however that look inviting, among these Mandarian, where Mr. Stone and several other Easterh people live in quiet, picturesque looking cottages. Magnolia, a few miles above, and twenty-five from Jacksonville, is lovely. It is owned by a doctor from Worcester, Mass., and consists of a large, fresn-lookiag whitepainted hotel, abroad avenue, which is spanned by giant moss-draped oaks, under which nestle, embowered in roses, many pretiy cottages. The boats on the river are large and well-conducted but the food served is not first-class. I would advise my traveling friends to bring their lunch with them. . , FROM JACKSONVILLE TO PALATKA The distance is seventy-five miles. We left the former at nine A. M., aud came to the latter at three thirty P. MM Palatka is a lively little place of about six hundred lnhabitanta, it stands up quiie high above the river, not high if we think of New England or New York, but high for Flori da, say io to 2o feet. The houses look clean and many of them'are white. It is famous lor its orange groves and is the point where the daily mail and telegraph stops, thus it is the headquarters oi the hunters and travelers who desire to spend the season. I venture to say there is no point in Florida where travelers are as well received as at Palatka. I found the Putnam House clean and homelike, and board reasonable. The peculiarity of this whole country is, that it appears at no distant geological period to have been a bed of the sea, and now we see all its vegetations growing out f a bed of pure white sand and marine shells. There is nothing like our soil nothing like a sod of -turf no grass. I have spent a few hours ot each day to collecting flowers, and find there is a great variety ot wild beauties even at this date. Lj notioe among the curious things to nature's eyes that this white Heron sand hill crain pelican and this Ibis. run about tbe street tame, and that this aloe and century plant grows 15 feet in height, and covers a circle of ground 30 feet in diameter. There ere stopping at the Putman houle, in this town, the following persons from Indianapolis: J. M. Talhott, wife and son; Dr. S. Mills and wife; J. F. Mills; Miss P. A. Stanton, Dr. A. G. RuddelL J. H. Ruddell. J. C. Furgison, D. Vinton, J. H.Baldwin, Ingram Fletcher. D. W. B. Fletcher, WT. Fletcher; also from other parts of Indiana, R. M. Ilawarth, of Liberty, and Dr. Yangling, of Huntington. Misletoe. HOME AND FARM NOTES. Begin preparations for making maple molasses and sugar. Teach calves to drink when three days old; that is, If they are to be raised. Beware of pork that is not thoroughly cooked. And never attempt to fatten a hog mat nas Deen diseased in any manner. Now is time to feed aheep a little grain. One pound of corn per head per day for Me rinos ia an average allowance. The large breeds may have led lxA pounds each per day. All animals and fowls, suffer without plenty of water. Yet a provision for them is often neglectd. and cows especialy are put to all sorts of straits to find it for themselves. Will farmers ever learn to cut grass early enough to make the best hay; Half its valae la lost by letting it get as ripe as au tbe nay is that eomes to the market. A gentleman who has been traveling in Spencer, Warrick, Dubois, Crawford &. Harrison counties, reports that wheat looks well in ail that part of the State. i. A good boy can frequently be obtained In the Winter lor little more than his board. It is poor economy for a farmer to spend several hours every day in doing work which such a boy oan do nearly or quite as well as he can." ' . , How to Save Stale Bread. Stale bread may be made as nice as freshly baked by dipping the loaf into clean cold water and warming through in a bakeovsn. : Much bread might be saved that is thrown away if this were more generally practiced than it is. Profits of . Farming. Here is a good iaoughtfrom the New England Farmer: The prqfits of farming should consist, in a large measure, in the improvement of the Sarin itself and its belongings, and there can be no better investment than this; That is very poor farming, if worthy to be called farming, which, though it may nominally show a cash balance, leaves the homestead in a worse instead of a better condition than it found ft. Age to Sell Beef Cattle. At a Farmers' Club meeting in Gait, Ont., Mr. Alexander Barrie stated as an axiom, that only while growing are beet cattle profitable for the farmer to keep. They are to be kept in good condition always from the time they are dropped until put up lor fattening. As soon as growth is attained, they must be sold, as they do not pay for the feed after that. Boiled Goose. Cover with boiling milk and let it remain twelve hours. Wash off the milk, cover with cold water; set it over the fire ; when boiling hot take it from the water, wash in warm water, and dry with a cloth. This process keeps it from tasting oily. Then till the body with a force-meat of bread crumbs hlghiy seasoned with pepper, aalt, .onions, and sage. Put in colcfNvater and boil gently until tender, an hour or an hour and a half. Serve with giblet sauce, pickles, or add jellies. Beets, turnips, ana caulifllower, are suitable vegetables to accompany boiled goose. Sentimental. Some airy dreamer soars away and alights in the columns bf Moore's Rural In this style: ' How easy it is to be neat to be clean! How easy to arrange the rooms with the most graceful propriety 1 How easy it is to invest our houses with the truest elegance! Elegance resides not with the upholsterer or the draper; it exists in the spirit presiding over the apartments of the dwelling. Contentment must always be most grateful ; it sheds terenity over the scene of its abode; it transforms a waste into a garden. Tbe home lighted by those imitations of a nobler and higher life may be wanting in much which the discontented desire, but to its inhabi tants it will be a palace, far outvying thej Oriental in brilliancy and beauty. Fancy Butter. At a recent dairymen's convention Mr. L. T. Hawley, of Onondaga, read a paper on the mode of making fancy butter. He urged the usual admonition of cleanliness, : and churning the milk for a large product, improving the color and flavor by selection of cows, and by the choice of suitable and wholesome food. Skimming at the first evidence of acidity was advissd: churning slowly is important; washing Is the best way to pet out tho buttermilk; working twice and salting a little at czch

time, are practices which he hs found it best to attend to. For preserving butter he insisted that the casks should be absolutely air-tigbt, one-third heavier than the usual make, and always well scalded in boiling hot brine. Gobble, gobble. The Forest and Stream

talks turkey and crows over the land of roast beef: In an English exchange wo find the weight of various prize turkeys for different years in her Majesty's dominions. The conquering gobbler of 1S73 weighed 37 pounds 4 ounces; but the year 1872 must forever remain celebrated in England aa having produced a bird weighing 38 pounds 5 ounces. These weights are those of live birds. Fired perhaps with a keen spirit of -national rivalry, we sought Fulton market and its greatest of purveyors, the Messrs,Robbins, and dispassionately stated theEnglish figures. "Our biggest turkey this year, dressed, weighed 35 pounds; m the feather he must have -weighed two pounds more," was the reply; but I knew a turkey," continued our informant "Oa spr-aking or eating terms?" we asked. "Well, he weighed, when dreseeJ, 29 pounds, and on tho leg must have ranged in forties. He wasthe pride of Long Island, and was a Goliab in size and a David in tenderness, "And were his mortal remains attended" we asked, by a numerous cortege of admiring and loving friends?" "Just so," went on tho greatest of turkey merchants. "We havesold many birds this year of S3 pounds. A pair of birds, a cock and a hen weighing, over fifty pounds is not uncommon, but when you get over S3 pounds your bird bogins to look like a prize sbeeep or pig. I should say forty pounds; when dressed for a turkey is the amount attainable in tho United States." Graham Bread. Make a sponge by boiling four good-sized potatoes; when soft, mash fins; then stir in a cup of flour; pour on the water in which the potatoes were boiled scalding hot, aad if not sufficient tomake three pints of the mixture, add cold water. When the milk is warm, put in a teacup of soft yeast, and set in a modirately warm place to rise. Af'er it becomes light, put in a teacup of good brown sugar (white is not good), and stir in Graham flour until thick enough to drop heavily into the greased baking-pans. Set it to rise again, and bake in a moderately hot oven lorty minutes. This quantity will make two large loaves, and when taken from the oven should be allowed to stand five minutes before removal from the pans. Sheet-iron bread-pans are much to be preferred to tin for any bread, but especially for Graham, baking moie slowly, but much more evenlv. If the sppnge seems at all sour, add a little soda. Sleep for Farmers' Wives. A farmer's wife writes a letter to the Rural New Yorker, which she wants the 44 men folks " to read. It is a plea for more sleep. Have you a wife, she says, who goes about in a listless, spiritless fashion, as though she could but just drag herself abeut? Or Is she tross and fretful, and do you wonder how fhe came to have such a temper? Ten to one, all she needs to make her bright and happy is rest, sleep and loving words. Her efficient help, that tbe wife who has passed a restless night may take advantage of baby's morning nap and have one of her own ; or, if she choose, lie down In the afternoon and make up the lost sleep. You can aflord it it you will. Do yon be-grudge a hundred dollars a year for your wife's comfort and health? Why, no breeding-mare would ever be worked as some men work their wives! Give women their rom rights; help them to bear their burdens; give them a few kind, loving words, every day, and yo will have healthier and happier wives, children and homes. It will pay the farmer to devote a largt share of the winter to mental mproyement. If his business seems to demand from fourteen to sixteen hours' hard work during; the summer, while the mechanic 'labors but ten, he should endeavor to make good use of his spare hours now, or he will find th men engaged in other kinds of business ill get the start of him. If you have not already made it a practice, begin now to keep farm accounts. It matters not much what system you adopt, if you can accomplish the end, which is to know just how you are getting on in the world. Take an inventory of your farm, stock and tools and ail other property. Then enter in a book all your purchases and sales, each On its appropriate) page. A.t the end of the year you can look back aud know just how much each crop sold has come to, and If you have kept a separate account with eaoh department, all the better. A Source of Great Anxiety. My daughter has received great benefit from the U89 of Vegetine. Iler declining health was a source of great anxiety to all of her friends. A few bottles ol the Veuetixe re ortU her health, strength and appetite. ü. H. TILuEN. Ins. and Real Estate AgU, 4 Sears Building. Boston, Mass., June 5, l7i MOTHERsTrEAO THIS! A GREAT BLESSING! Worth a Dollar a Drop. Mothers, are yonr little ones fretful? And Is your patience almost exhausted la vain efforts to please them? I can sympathize with yon, andean tell yon what will make your llttfe child quiet, give it a good appetite, and procure for it hours of sweet, sound Mrep. My little girl is two and a half years old; and durirjR that time I have not had two consecaUv nights' rest, fejüe has been sick: a number of times and no one seemed to know what was troubling her. It was hatd to hear her lltUe fretful cry, and not know what to do for her. I I doctored her for worms, but It did no good; and I was nearly tired out with sleepless nights and trouble for some days. 1 heard of the Veqetixk, and determined to trv It. Jt has proved a blessiag to me and my iijJrt. 1 1 tf t '.nanaed from her stomach amo bovcrt tee sorei vbiih kept gain erlog there; and now she Bleeps soundly from her bed-time until very late in the morning, beside a long nap at midday. Her appetite Is good ; sad. In fact, she ia like a different child. I often ay tne true value of tkls medicine to me is adoilar a drop. Try it. Cleanse the humors from yonr chlidien'a blood while they are youce. Try it, and you will Join with me in calling it a treat blessint. MRS. LLLKN L. CLAPP, 175 Tudor street. South Bostoh, July io. 1871. CIRCULATION OFTHSBLOOD. The circulation of the blood is the life cf thebody, and Its stoppage la death. We are healthy when the blood circulates freely; any Interruption preventing its free course is the commencement of diseane. "Blood is tbe life of tbe Mesh." Can we expect to enjoy good health wbn bad or corrupt humors circulate with the blood, causing pain and disease; and these humors being deposited througn the entire body produce pim ples, eruptions, uiceis, indigestion, ctmtlveneea, headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, and numerous other complaiiits? No disease can be iu the body without flrat being degenerated tn the blood; and no disease can possibly belnthetiody If the blood is pare. It is of great lmr ortnoe to know vhat medicine will purify and renovate tbe blood, eradicate the disease, renew t vitality, mentally and physically, and instil frrsh vigor into all the vital functions o' the body. This medicine is the Vegetutk, the great bipod purifier. It extends Its Influence into every part of taa human organism, commencing with Its foundation ; correcting diseased action, aod restoring vital powers, creating a healthy formation ana purification of the blood, driving ont disease, and leaving nature to peforra its allotted task. VEUETINE is composed of Roots, Barks and Herbs. It is very pleasant to take; evry child likes It. ... Bold by all druggists. a oriperday athota. TtfuM Kr. AMranS 1 Omo. STUrst-w A Oo., Porti a4 Ka9

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