Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 March 1872 — Page 2
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eons who have bad new
windows to wash, will be stir, to recol
lect the botheration caused by the Stre iks of rurtr-oil and drops oT paint". TB .re t,liau half the Iuhtjr.of J-oyng these me? !be savef by; tfikfif area tlotlv tipped into ordinarv baking soda, ami
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Farm and Garden. 'nuojuy (Jraptii. Prune gi ap$ imniedi.r.eiy, ..ml cuttings of a toot,oi flfte n inches, with two or thre bml, if packed in sand and put in a warmish place, a. in a sunny cellar window, will odious and be ready to strike root if) the open ground in. spring. In winter pruning, nave regard to the strength of the flaut. A long-jointfd sort that make wood fret-ly, like the G'ncord,cn carry more tot), and needs that the junund be
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nlled with manure, anil no interfere w.th its growth.
Tine can well compete with tree roots, I unless it be allowed to clamber over the i tree and partially smother it. Then, bf j the tree is not too high, the vine hai a food time. Vines of the more delicate Oft. like the 1 Delaware, have no courajee for high crhnbing. and stiugple for their lives with trees. A neglected and stunt-1 ed Delaware bad best be pruned very j
snort pernaps quite to te ground to force a fresh start of vigorous wood. A barrow load if horse manure will not hurt such a vine now, if the ground be poor and infested with the too is of other
plants. A trench should be dug to cut ! oil such pirating roots, as soon as the ' ground ia open. One Hartford Prolific I Tine, if allowed to occupy the entire
earui space tor two or tnree rods south
tnegWs. Alter h; ha btyu,aulfertd to remain about fifteen minutes, It can he easily removed by washing in warm, soft water, without oap. bringing oil and stains with it. If the glaks is then rubbed diy, and afterwards polished w ith dry whiting and chamois skin, the most fastidious eye can iliscover no bletr.i-h.
suggested the extension of the road I t orn i allahaaiMse woalward to the Chattahooohie River, a distance of MM twenty nnles. The conunercial tulvan tage of this j unit ion was. urged as a reason why theState should insue bonds to nay the expense, and with Itead'p aasitan a bill was otibed ihfough the legislature giving tha toad " ikX,iKX) ol State bonds ;, suoi pin jm-a. I'hianiiii Mas hviotbt.teii prei-iMsdv ,m tläKorth I'aiolinas h.Hieon, for atiouT Hrker i-ent. or even les.s on the dollar.
lue bulk of it tell into the hands of
XftW Vmk tirni, WBODI the
uirge wttn cheating tliem. A scalawag
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Bean Somp. With all thy dinnor getting get soup, (iet into the habit of having it. Soup is to dinner what an anthem is to a divine service. It is not half the trouble that inexperienced housekeepers imagine it may be. Only a little U required on which to begin a
tree roots I u,nu"- wwpw once in tu way oi nav-
No cruiie ln 11 rgui.iriy, you will appreciate the
iuuiruicijtc ui duu' .-i'M-iv, auu value it equally with prepared fruits. To make bttan foup, clean the beans over night, pour boiling water over them and let them stand until morning. Then place in plenty of fresh water and put over
the fire : add a small piece of corned beef with half as much pork; cover tight and skim as needed. When tue beans are partially cooked, add sliced carrot, parsley, celery and pepper ; boil slowly until done; strain into tureen and cover. A Xnc Cure tor Waru. A correspondent recommends kerosene oil. Hear him : " When I began its use, three months since, I had thirty-seven on my hands, some very large and painful. Where they were covered with lard
oi a nouse, wm aiiom a great deal of , cuticle, I carefully pared it ort", and trellis shade and supply the family with . saturated them daily, using a camel'spapes. Maple and 1ms should be j hair pencil and common coal oil. They
began to disappear, by absorption, in about two weeks, and are now entirely removed, leaving no scar or mark, as
kept at live or six rods distance, except they are suall ones. A cottager can't well grow cordwood and grapes too. Pruning grapes is something like driving a horse. You need to feel the pressure of the life under your hand to curb and direct it profitably. Dead wood is of no use. Neither is weak wood worth saving. Cut back to a promising bud, nourish and care for the root and top another season, and you may have a vine strong euough to draw quite a load of fruit fiom the soil and air.
waa the result in three place in which I succeeded in eating them out by caustic." Cirro! Fri'ttrs. Beat two mall earrof
, to a pulp with a spoon : add three or four eggs and a handful of flour: moisten with cream or milk, and sweeten to taste ; beat all well together and fry in boiling lard. When of a good color, drain, squeeze over them the iuice of
T Preverü aSow from Eainp her Pis. j an orange, and stew with finely silted It is the opinion of some excellent i white sugar. They form a nice and breeders that the cause of a sow eating palatable side di-h at dinner, tea or a
ner oil spring is costiveness, and tnai i party proper food t the preventive and cur. !
ine proper tood in winter is roots of some kind sugar beat?, carrots, parsnips, mangel wurzel, turnip?, or potatoes. Give a little chtreoal occasionally, with sulphur once or twice a week, if you have no roots. Don't feed heating food, such as corn meal. It will make her costive, feverish and cross, and she will attack and destroy her pigs when in the frenzy this induoes. Meada in Swine. Feed them sulphur once or twice a week in their slops a tablespoonfui to each animal. U will generally prove a preventive, provided the pigs are kept clean and warm, as they ought always tobe. Cranberrw on Pint Lands. A grower gives tho following experience in the Jowrtal Agriculture: Three or four years ago I transplanted cmnb. rry vines
irom ray meadow to one of my garden-, which is pine land. They have grown well, and are now loaded with fruit. I had compromised with them, that it they would MM and live with me on my land I would bring them their native soil, so that they 'would not utfer by emigration. I dag channels two feet Wide, twenty inches deep, and three feet apart. I removed the gravel and filled the channels with muck from the place whence they were taken. I took up the plants in small clusters, and set them deep in their natural element. They appeared to be perfectly contented with their new locality. They now occupy one square rod of ground, and are beginning to enlarge their borders. I keep this patch clear of weed.. The expense of this cranberry square rod was about two days' labor of one man and one day's labor of one horse. The prospect now is that the cranberries will yearly pay the expenses of their new settlement. Muck and expeiiments well directed will prove suc
cessful. fieant for Stock Feed. A Canadian faimer says, although white beans are of no vilue for fattening stock, yet they are the bef-t things that can be fed to young animals, as they contain the necessary materials for making bone and muscle. For a younp colt, one pint of beans and oats crushed together will be found much better than oats alone. A neighbor of mine, a few years ago, fed Ma store ewes with a regular allowance of beans and peas crushed, duting th winter, and, as a consequence, the ne.t spring never lost a lamb. They wet.- no strong that they were on their fe-t and tried to suck almost as noon as tin were dropped. Hinfa for the Housewife. ll mtda for Cakeil DreeuU. IStew hops in g iod lard until the strength is out, and bathe the breast with the resulting salve, thre or four times a day. It has never failed to relieve my sufferings. A Motiif.r or Tin Children. Convenient Application for Burns. Raw
The Jelly Fish. So large a portion of its bulk consists
of water that one of no less than thirty-
tour pounds weigüt, being left to dry in
me sun ror some dsvs, was found to
have lost ninety-nine per cenu of its original weight. Writing of the not very attractive appearance of the huge jelly fish, Agassis observes that "to form an idea of his true appearance, one must meet him as he swims idong at midday, rather latily withal, his huge semi-transparent disk, with its flexiblelobed margin, glittering in the sun, and his tentacles floating a distance of many yards behind him. Encounter-
j ing one of these huge jelly fishe, when out in a row-boat, we attempted to
man a rougn measurement ot his dimensions upon the spot. He was lying quietly near the snrfaee, and did not
j seem in the least disturbed by the pro
ceeding, but allowed the oar eight feet in length, to be laid across the disk, which proved to be seven feet in diameter. Backing the boat slowly along the line of the tentacles, which were float ing nt their utmost extension behind him, we measured these in the same
manner, and found them to be -ather
more than fourteen times the length of
tile oar, thus covering a space of one
hundred and twr-lve feet." This liune
mass is produced by a hybrid measur
uijf uu more innn nait an men in
length when full gro-vn. S:ientißc
Articrtcan.
An Unwashed Community. In the coal regions of Pennsylvania the opinions of the people appear to be pretty evenly divided on the subject of cleanliness. A worthy young man named Whittaker has just had an opportunity to judge of this in a way that he is not likely to forifet very readily. Some time since he accepted the charge
of a school at a place called Fowler's Patch. The children, for the most jKirt. presented themselves before him every morning with unwashed faces, and lting of a very sensitive nature, this soon caused him to weary of his labors. He longed for a more congenial atmosphere, but before leuving, determined to work a complete reform in the habits of the miners. Havinu this
praiseworthy object in view, he issued an order impressing upon the matrons the necessity of washing their children at least once a nay. One-half the mothers in the neighborhood took the hint quite cheerfully, while the other half denounced Mr. Whitaker in a very undignified manner. Then followed a complaint to the superintend nt of the district, and the temporary suspension of Mr. Whitaker. An investigation wns subsequently demanded by the nwly wahed, nnd the prospect looked rather encouraging for the reformers, when the unwashed brought matters to a crisis by proceeding in a body to the echool-house and burning it to the ground.
in the yer WriK, one George W. Swti son, of North Carolina, Siting with Ujvernor Holden, projected a railroad to be called the W ostein .North Carolina road, whoso general locality the name suthcieully indicates, and which is about
the only trace of it now existing. A highly-rohrod prospectus of the plan of the line and the immense benefits which the State must derive from it was followed by a call on the legislature for $7.000,000 to assist iu constructing it. Being strongly backed by Holden, that body passed a bill uttering the requisite Quantity of State bonds to comply.
Swetson was made President of the road, and was given complete control of this great amount of money. A small show was then made of commencing the road, while Swetson pocketed the bonds and came to this city to negotiate them. Failing to do this readily, he caused them to be hypothecated, raising by this means some 5Ot,O00 available funds. His'duty to North Carolina was
not sufficient inducement to divert his course again in that direction, but from New York he went straight to Tallahassee. Frorida, which from the commencement of his operations with Governor H oiden seems to have been the objective point. In the State of Florida there exists a law called the "Iuternal Improvement Act," orte of the provisions of which re quires all the railroads in the State to
pay at stated periods to a board of tru
tees ot internal improvement a certain yearly tax. The law is not only very exacting, but invests the board of trustees with a most arbitrary power toward delinquents. A road failing to pay its
internal improvement tax promptly on"
us mstur ng may, under the act, be in
stantly sold by the board, and from their
action there is no appeal. But it is provided, however, that it must be sold tor cash, after having been duly advertised, to the highest bidder, the trustees selecting their own time and place. It was about the time that this tax fell due that Mr. Swetson found his way to Tallahassee. For a short time prior to hii arrival there, however, it was noticed that Mr. Houston, the President of the Jacksonville and Tallaha-see railroad,
Usd been " bear.ng ' the stocks of that corporation by every means he could invent, buying up small lots when offered cheap enough, so that when Mr. Swetson appeared the stocks were in a condition so unstable that, acting in coilusion with Houston, they had little difficulty, with the money at their command, iu securing most of the securities of the roa I. Meanwhile the time for paying the tax had arrived, and, as was evidently anticipated by Swetson, the road was unable to pay it when due. So it was ordered to be sold, the date fixed upon being the 13th of March, lc6'J; place of sale, Tallahassee: terms, as under the law, cash. Swetson loo's, o 4.1 . . . , , ,
upon tue acquisition ot me roaa as a foregone conclusion. He held a large share of us securities, and had more ready cash at his command than any one or every one else in that port of the country. By purchasing the road at the sale he could completely clean out its President and his recent associate,
ot lus snare in tlieir transactions.
The eventful thirteenth came around.
and with it a large delegation of impecunious car pat- baggers and native Kadtcabs from Jacksonville, at the
ocean end ot tue route; they were a clique ot spendthrift politicians who had not only exhausted ail the plunder
tney hau secured, but he had exhausted the source of supply, so no competition was apprehended trora them by Swetson. Hut they had bend ot that gentleman's supply of oash, and hod come alter some of it. So they secured the co-operation of the board of trustees, who, just before the auctioneer mounted (he stand, ordered him to announce as the terms of the sale a small amount
in cash, balance at sixty days. Swetson hardly discovered his dilemma before
he found himself outbid and the roud knocked down to the Jacksonville
ring, who, having nothing to lose end everything to gain, hurled their bids of thousands at him moat recklessly, and .-ecurud the road. Now here was a fix. Swetson had invested so heavily in the road that his ruin was imminent, for the men who had secured it were of that unscrupulous .stupe that they would not hesitate at destroying ii to gain their end and fleece him. The result was a compromise by which Swet
son was well bled, but which left him in
possession of the road. Houston seems
to have recognized the auctioneer's announcement as his knell, for after protesting vehemently against such a course be burst into tears and cleared out, which was the last heard of his connection with the road. But Swetson and Holden and their ring, being sucked pretty dry of finances, put their heads together to better their fortunes. So they organized a plan to get their fingers into the treasury of Florida. First they took into their schemes Harrison Il-ad, the carpet-bagger Governor of the State, and circulated a report that the road had been sold to a person named Littlefield, who really was a tool of the Governor's. Then Littlefield was made president, and
Japanese Illustrations of Moral Truth. From a work upon Japanese sermons we .piote two samples of the mathods by which with quaint humor, as well as pertinence and homely good sense the preacher illustrates moral truth : lhicoii,a time, a frog, who. lived at Kiyto, hajU-jpng le(l desjfeus of going tat see, Wlkii. One sprig having made ujfhis iulindfc. stai tälT off to see jaka and nil ft s iMntotiH places. By a series of hops on all tours, he reached a temple opposite Nishi eo-oka. ami
I'l'Lil. lh"JW by the western road he amd sonemw atYamiizakitandheg.ii to ascend the
mountain called IVnozan. Now jt so happened that a frog from Osaka had
leteinnn d to visit Kivoto. and Im, I
zftn ; and on the
... . f "-. aetermin d to visit advances op, 0l)U ot the tauahv aud-4 dotf Teno ;:iir;"' m;!iu,:;:L.: r'i' i?: i --t the two lrüg
throw tnem on the market and rum tha value of some that were at the time
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iiuiiispoea, anu uv course ot nego: tiation. lie was pacified ou being pair! f l2f,(H for four old boats he Mu been running on the OhatUihoclne River, and which were purchased to make connec
tions with the mad when completed from points on the river. KxperU esti
mate the total value of the boats at
$10,000. Work on the extension WM commenced, but only ten miles lud Wen completed and the other ten graded when the money they had raised gave out. The value of the roadway
nnisued and incomplete is about (JJO,000. So, for the $"(000,00ülonds issued, the State is shown a return of aboat $1 .'10,000. Competent engineers say that
the rails that have been laid are unfit'
to run a train ovar. It is by this righteous ring tint the attempt is to be made to procure Senatorial honors for the disabled Yulee. In return for their services Yulee is to give them the privilege of usdng a roud of which he is President, which will connect them with Fernandina, on the Atlantic Ocean, and Cedar Keys, on the Gulf of Mexico, and from both of which points lines of steamers leave for various places. Some facunrelated of several members of this ring will illustrate more fully fcheir character and rapacity. Gov. Harrison Rood was form? rly Postmaster at'.Tacfcsonville, Fra. .since he became
Governor he hoe been detected in pfou-
lations for which he was threatened
with impeachment by the Legislature.
but the charges wero withdrawn upon
his disgorging a good share ol his spoils
Mr. Milton' S. LitjtleoeUl is a fdkirr
rrom tue law ot sim-tn Caromi, And is protected by Gov. Head. An attempt was onoe made to return him to justice
in North Carolina cn a requisition front
tne auuionties ot that State. Gov. Read refused to allow his removal from Florida, however, on the ground that he
had been guilty of crimes within the
liniiteof ike httter State, which hewhould be held to answer for there. This is the min, it. must be reuu uihtri.L to wliom ft was reported Swetson hftd sold the Tallahassee and Jacksonville road who was made President of it, and who asked for the $6 000,1100 loan. His first appearance in the South was in South Carolina, where he purchased immense tracts of land w ith saw-mills and other industrial appurtenances. He. wind led
every one who trusted him, and finally
lied to North Carolina, whew k turned
up as lobbyist, and assisted Swetson and
and Holden in procuring their grant
from the Legislature. In connection
with th Louisiana loan ft was necessary
to cau a special session of the Legialature. which a'one cost the Governor
1 1 0.0i0. Gov. Read's son, another of the ring, succeeded him as Postmaster at Jacksonville, and was detected in a
defalcation of some eight thousand dollars, for which he would have been imprisoned had not Littlefield, under a threat from the Governor that he would send him back to North Carolina, pro
cured the money to secure the release the culprit, Just as he holds Littlefield in hispower, so others have the Governor in their grip, who, notwithstanding all lis pickings, has beau kept poor by btaekmatiers, and to-diry judgments rest against everything he has got, of sums in which be has been mulcted by them. In their last act of villainy the conV bination placed themselves so palpably
in antagonism to the law as to feel its restraining influence. l?sperate at.t V expendiiuro f all their monej, ,and without a hope of raising more, they attempted to complete their, itension from tuincy to the Chattahoichie by removing the rails, front a braftch road from Tallahassee to St. Marks that they had purchased, but an injunction was obtained compelling them to detritd. Ho,
practically, the State of Honda has. in this önd item alofte, been ribbed f Jfim,Tt by the Rvtieftl and -sÄtlawtr) plunders; for the purpose for which the money was granted is not only unaccomplished, but now never can be, and the money spent on useless grading and wnrthless steamers was so much thrown away. These two instances, in which a single ring has robbed two States of f42.OOO.O00, will give some idea of the gigantio 'stealing that has been going on in the Southern country, which is literally infested by just suoli rings. A man at Turner, Me., has a contract for the manufacture of 150,000 wooden boot-heels for a Boston firm. These heels are attached to the boot or shoe in .1- . , . . . .
xiiis wise ; a piece ot lealiier about a quarter of an inch thick is fitted to the bottom of the wooden heel, and a screw
Bases throu Ii tha-eatht-r and wood U) a, metallic plate, which il nailed to
tno outside sole. In this way a man can change his boot heels in a moment
ra frogs met, made
pitmianca, and told one another their
intentions. So they began to complain about tdl rbp' trouble they had gone til rough, and had only arrived half way after all : f they .went on to Osaka ud Kfyote their leg and" loihs would cer tainly not hoM out. Here was the famous mountain of Tonoaan from the top 9f which Kivoto and sak ould be went ff-fliey stood on tiptoe and stretched their backs, and looked at the view, they would save themselves from stiff legs. Having como to this conclusion, they both stood up on tiptoe, and looked about them, when the Kiyoto frog said "Really, looking at the famous places of Osaka, which I have heard so much
ajtiout, they don't eem to mo to differ Vbit from Kiyoto. Instead of givin
my elf any further trouble to go on. T slAilI lust return home." The Osaka frog, blinking with his eyes, said, with a contemptuous smile, " Well, I have hyat d a great deal of talk about this Kiyoto being as beautiful as the flowers, but it is just Osaka over again. We had better go home." And so the two frogs, jiolitely bowing to one. uuotber, hopped ofl' home with an important swagger. Now, although this is a very funny little story, you will not understand the drift of it at once. The frogs thought that they were looking in front of them: but as, when they otuod up, their eyes
were in the back or their heads, each was looking at its native place, all the while that he believed himself to be looking at the place he wished to go to. The frogs stared to any amount, it is true ; but then they did not take care that the object looked at was the right object, and so it was that they fell into error. Please listen attentively. A certain poet says " Wonderful are the frogs I Though they go on all fours in an attitude of humility, their eyes are always turned ' ambitiously upwards." Again we quote from the same source : With regard to the danger of too great reliance, I have a little tale to teil you. Be so good as to wake up from your drowsiness, and listen attentively. There is a certaih powerful shell-fish, called the Sazaye, with a very strong operculum. Now this creature, if it hears there is any danger astir, shuts up its shell from within, with a loud noise, and thinks itself perfectly safe. One day a Tai and another fish, lost in envy' at this, aaid " What a strong castle this is or yours, Mr. Sazaye! When you shut up your lid from within, nobody'can so much aa oint a linear at you. A capital figure When he heard this, the Sazaye, strok
ing his beard, replied
"Viel I, gentlemen, although you are
w good . a to say so, it s nothing to
boast of in the way of safety ; yet I
must admit that, when I shut myself thus. I do not feel much anxiety.!'
And as he was speaking thus, with
the pride that apes humility, there came the noise of a ureat splash : and' the
shell-fish, shutting up his lid as nuickly as possible, kept quite still, and thought to himself what in the world the noise could be. Could it be a net? Could it be a lush-hook? What a bora it was, always having to keep such a sharp lookout ! Were the Tai and the other hah caught, he wondered ; and ho felt quite anxious about thorn ; however, at any rate, he was safe. And ho the time passe 1 ; and when he thought aL was
safe, he stealthily opened his shell, and slipped out bis head and looked all round him, and there seemed to be pometbing wrong something with Which he was not familiar. Ashe looked a little more carefully, lo and behold! there he was in a fishmonger's shop, and . with a card marked "sixteen cash" on his bock. Isn't that a funny story? And so. at One fell Bwoop, all your boasted wealth of house ttaul waYehoiises, and el averness and talent, and rank and power, are taken away. Poor . .shell-fish, ! I. thfrfk'trlcre are sOrae" pple not unlike them to be found in China and India.
A nkoro on trial for murder in Kentucky, sharing the general belief that he would be hung, sold his body to
some medical students, who waxed very
wroth when their fondly anticipated subji et was sentenced to six years' imprisonment.
Terrible Catastrophe at Haukoo, China. Fluni th North i 'hin Dali? Now. Tun. 1 1. A sad accident occurred here last night, which proved fatal to a large number of Jives. TJie scute of the caUMtrbplte Sfas the north bfcuk of the
iln rivot, attout a ulftew of s mile above ifs confluence With the Yanfctse. A portion of tli" bank, close to a busv
jetty. suddenly gave wiy about 8 o'clock i ,L.. nf... ii Li
iu hid .evening, tnur,- utjuses, Wlljpa were partially suspended on long piles, all the initiates of those houses, and partAf 'wieVtwoltuÄnrnf parafler with the river, were borne along with the earth into the waters below. A number f of boats, lying at anchor just at that spot, and underneath the houses, were crushed and buried in an instant, leaving not a trace behind, it is calculated that nearly a hundred lives have bean lost.
Nast, the caricaturist, ha "been elected an honorary membr of the Festh Academy of Fine Arts.