Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 23, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 July 1872 — Page 3

I ARM AND HOUKEIIOLD.

(nii-l'liwlii 4Jreenwrd. This error i sometimes fallen into by .1,0' 'who have had little experience ir. fHiininu. They want to make the bent reparation of the land for crops, and So too much. If MM object be to get a deep tilth of soil, the better way M to turn the turf under at once, ten or twelve inchtu deep, und mellow the surface with a harrow or cultivator. When the od is turned over it decays much ni're rapidly to lie undisturbed than to lmve it broken by cross plowing. The edges of the nod do not come to the licht and nir, no an to grow, and the whole mass of vegetable fiber is rapidly converted into plant food and taken up bv the crop. Cross-plowing is particularly objectionable in wet or clayey soils. I f the furrow slice is turned over eight orten inches thick, and allowed to lap a few inches upon its neighbor, it forms a temporary drain in the bottom of each furrow. If the furrows run up and down the slope of the field, they will carry off the water after heavy showers very readily in the forepart of the season, when the ground is most likely to be injured by a f urplus of water. In breaking up a prairie sod. more shallow plowing is desirable. The soil rots quicker, and there is fertility enough near the surface. Muster for l'ottuoi. According to Mr. Compton, author of the prize essay on the cultivation of the potato, very remarkable results are ob tained from plaster by dusting the vines with it as soon as they are through the soil ; again immediately after the last plowing and hoeing; and at intervals through the whole growing season. The first application may be light, the second heavier, and after that more bountiful, say 200 pounds to the acre. It renders the plants less palatable to insects, and appears to be fatal to many of the fungi family. The vines retain a bright, lively green color, and the tubers continue swelling until grewth is stopped by the frost ; besides, potatoes thus grown ire so sound and free from disease as to be easily kept for the spring market, w ithout loss by rof. Mr. Compton says he has seen a field, all planted with the samf variety at the sametime, on one-half of which, that had received no plaster, the yield was but 6U bushels per acre, and many rotten; while the other half, to which plaster had bctn applied, yielded 350 bushels per acre, and not an unsound one among .them. The IVnrh Tree Borer. An Ohio fruit grower writes to the Fruit Recorder, giving bin plan with the borer: " Take raw stable manure, and put from one to two forks full clear round the tiuuk of the tree once each year; it should be done in April. This will keep out ttie worms, and will stimulate the tree and make it grow thrifty i ir .1... ...... .. i... i. I take soft soap." In Barry's Fruit Garden, we find the following remedygiven : " Where trees are already affected, the proper course is to remove the earth from around the collar of the root, clear away the gum, destroy any cocoons that may be found, trace the grub through its holes in the tree, and kill it I then fid up around the tree with fresh earth, and place a shovelful or two of ashes around the tree." Domestic Recipes. To Make Hard Water Soft. Take one ounce of fresh lime and Btirit well in a bucket of water, and stir all thoroughly in a barrel of water, anil as soon as it settles, the water will be soft and fit for use, as it will drive all impurities to the bottom. River water, when muddy, is better to drink by this process. To Keep Ire. Make a double pocket of strong woolen cloth, no matter how coarse and faded it is. Have a space of two inches or so between the inner and outer pockets, and pack this space as full as possible with feathers. You have no need to use geese feathers ; hens' feathers are just as good. With a pocket thus constructed and closely tied at the mouth, a few pounds of ice may be kept a week. Cinnamon Rollt. Take some of the dough you make bread ef. Work in shortening and sugar. Then make a Ssste of butter, sugar, and cinnamon. ll your dough out thin, spread in this paste and roll up, putting it in your pans. Let them stand until they become light, and bake. After they are done, eat them with your coffee or tea, just as you like. Boiled Indian Pudding. Sift one quart of Indian meal, add one tablespoonful of lard, a teaspoon ful of salt, one-half teaspoonful of soda, and half teacup of nice molasses ; pour on boiling water and stir till it forms a very stiff batter; wet the pudding bag, made of strong, new cloth, in boiling water; flouron the right side, turn it inside out, and put your pudding batter in ; tie it so it may swell one-third, and boil three hours with a boiled dinner. Serve with butter and maple syrup, or sugar dissolved. Strawberry Cake. Prepare a pound cake ; mash ripe strawberries, and drain them ; spread the fruit evenly on the cjike and frost the top ; stick large ripe herrieg on the cake, before the icing ets, sweeten the juice and serve it with the cake ; this is a proper dinner dish, but is good for tea also. Plum Pudding. One pound of raisins, one pound of currants, crumbs of a six cent loaf of broad. orateiH nno mm nf "our, three eggs, one pint of milk, half Marierot citron, two cupsor sugar, one nutmeg. Well beaten and stand over n'ght. Pake five hours to cook. If you want a large one, take double the quantity ol ingredients. A woman of Fond du Lac, Wis., re cently gave birth to four infanta.

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Mi. i.e. Nii.sson, according to the Swedish papers, will be married in duly, to u French gentleman named gftsjmut the honeymoon to be spent in Sweden! Accoruinu to the (hurt Journal, Gen. Sehenck gives pleasant rec ptions on rtaturuay evenings, anil is very well liked. " Having hud his right arm wounded in the war, he shakes hands with his left. He is not exactly a Talleyrand, but he has some able men around him ; and Mr. Evarts, the American lawyer, who is retained to advise the American Government at Geneva, is a very clever man, so clever that his fellow-countrymen think that Lord Granville will fare no better in his hands than a bird under the influence of a snake." Ofhnuacii has, it is reported, declined an offer from this country to give one hundred representations of his best operettas for the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. Tuev are having a dispute abroad as to what is the right Welsh word to be used for aquarium. The latest authority snys, " As the best Welsh word for ' aquarium,' I beg to offer ' PysgddanMen.' Every Welshman can sound ' Pysgddangosfa,' " he says. Happy Welshman I Some idea of the cheapness of English rents may be gained f'ro .i an advertisement in the London Telegraph, of June 6, of un eight-roomed villa to let, with an acre of land, lawn, flower and vegetable garden, large variety of fruit, greenhouses, fowl-houses, shade-trees, gas, and water, in an excellent locality, for 140 a year. Ur to the year 1H71, six hundred and forty thousand copies of Franz Abt's song, " When the .wallows Homeward Fly," had been sold in Germany. The composer received only $20 for that popular production. The Burmese Embassy, which recently landed in England, presented Queen Victoria, among other costly pesents, with a magnificent bracelet, the gold of which weigh seven pounds. Mr. Vernon IIarcourt has written another letter to the London Times on the chance- of invasion a mutter which recently bus greatly agitated the British mind. He holds that no possible in crease of the land force can j revent a landing, while even a moderate naval opposition will make such a disaster impossible. Marshal Forey, who has just died at Besancon, France, in his 6Mth year, was one of the most distinguished French Marshals under the Empire, and was one of those who greatly contributed to the success of the coup d'etat. Since thatetetit he figured prominently in the Italian campaign, his services in which gained him the grand cross of the Lemon of Honor, and in the Mexican expedition, of which he was the military neaa. A Parisian Mystery Revealed. The Paris Constitutionnel is responsible for the following truly French piece of romance in every day life For several days the guards of the Maillot gate had noticed, at the same hour in the morning, a veiled amazon on horseback going out of Paris at a full gallop. Was she urettv ? Nobodv could tell, as nobodv IT 1 J had seen her face, but her tall, elegant form led people at feast to suppose so. lhe same amazon was seen, regularly every day at noon, to re-enter the same gate always at full gallop. What could it mean? One day at the end of last month, as she was entering P.vris, her horse stumbled and fell, but with won derful dexterity she regained her saddle and rode off, this time bestraddling the horse. A horrible spectacle pre sented itself to those who ran up to the dace of the accident. An amputated eg was found lying upon the ground in a pool of blood, and a messenger was at once sent for the Commissary of Police. Before the latter arrived, how ever, it had been discovered that the blood was nothing but wine, and the leg a member very ingeniously made of india rubber. 1 he amazon was evi dently a smuggler. Slaves of the South Sea Islands. The slaves of the South Sea Islands have a barbarous way of securing their human stock in trade. According to Commodore Markham, a British com mander on the Australian station, the men engaged in the slave trade make treaties with the chiet of a tribe who has a feud on hand to supply him with so many heads of his enemies in exchange for live subjects of his own. There are dinerent methods of decapitation pursued. The commander's informant had been an eye-witnes of a scene in which the murderers used their knives. A brig lay to on an island of the Solomon group, and a canoe full of men put off to her from the shore. As the canoe passed under the vessel's stern, her stern-boat, which had been loosened on purpose, was suddenly dropped on it, smashing it to pieces. Boats were lowered and the natives pulled into them, but not to be rescued. As soon as tkey were seized, their heads were cut otl over the gunwale of the boat with long knives. The British are taking measures for the suppression of this horrible traffic. Startling Statement. Aman named John Meeker was arraigned before the Court of General Sessions, at New York, Juno 28, charged with selling obscene literature. Assistant District Attorney Fellows, in his opening remarks to the inrv. mmln the Htartlinis statement that young ladies' seminaries in the city and virimtv were actually flooded with books - - j - and Dictures of the most indecent kind utirnuil il .imialv intrnrhmad vnmptimeH hidden in bouquets of flowers,sometimes in parcels of nuts and candy, by such men as the prisoner.

A Singular Punishment. A large number of Russians were employed by the American ('.mipuny of Nehartopol in the work of raising the hulks sunk there during the Crimean war. One day an unlucky man happened to nick up a small copper bolt (worth about twenty five oeotlj which he slipped in his pocket. The act was observed by a fellow-work -nan, who conveyed the in teilig nee to one of the officials. Directly a short, pomp ous oflicer of inferior rank came among the gang and called the unhappy man from their midst. Confronted with his accuseu- he had no denial to otter or excuse to make. His sentence was swift. Banishment for seven years two miles cut on the bills at the back of Sebastopol. The p00f wretch was married, there was no appeal, and without any escort whatever, he took his vay to the allotted spot. His family were not permitted to accomany him. He was ordered never to be found absent from the place indicated. He at once set about scooping out a hole in the earth, and when this was completed he gathered stones and built himself a hovel in which he lived. His wife carried him water and bread daily, and her visits were very brief. Harry Pascoe, who remained at Sebastopol two years, told the writer of this item that he often passed by the spot where this wretched man was living, and he never saw him five feet away from his hut. Did Paul Have a Wife 1 It was an early question whether Paul was married. The passage in the epistle to the Corinthians, in which he speaks of himself as uninenrnbered with domestic cares, does not preclude the notion that he might have been a widower does not even prove more than that he went on his missionary journeys alone. On the other hand, he speaks of his assent to the death of Stephen, and of Irs commission from the Sanhedrim functions and powers that oould not well have been exercised by a mm who was not a member of that council. But we are expressly told that this great assembly of the Jews included only fathers, to secure a merciful interpretation of the law. An early explanation, too, of the " true yoke-fellow" at the Church to Philippi, whom he bids labor to reconcile or assist Enodia and Syntyche, recognizes the wife of the Apostle in the phrase. The epistle was, it may be said almost certainly, written from Rome, and during the time of that

imprisonment, in which the perils of the Apostle's situation were aggravated by sorrow, and ultimately the desertion of many among his friends. " Paul of Tarsus,'' by a Graduate. Farmers Poisoned uy Wild Parsnip. Five young men near Flint, Michigan, were plowing in a field and ate of the root of what they supposed to be Sweet Cicely Osmorhiza longisiylis), which is a fleshy root with a spicy, agreeable flavor. In a few moments the one who first ate of the root fell in a spasm and died. Immediately two of the others were taken with spa.ms,whereujonone of the others mounted a horse and started to the house, a mile away, to get help. He had to ride about a mile, and on reaching the house fell from the horse, but succeeded in giving thealarm. The farmer mounted the horse and started for the field, and arrived there to find three of his sons lying dead within the space of ten rods. The fourth was still alive, and the father give him some tobacco, which resulted in violent vomiting and the saving of his life. The one who rede to the house will probably recover, according to a correspondent of the Detroit Tribune, from which paper we gather these facts. It is supposed they ate of the root of the Wild Parsnip, or Cowbane(i4r,Afwiora rigu'a), a very poisonous plant. We give these details this prominence as a caution against eating roots, plants or fruits which are not known beyond perad venture to be non-poisonous. A New York Burglar in a Prussian Prison. Jacob Albrecht, the notorious New York burglar andbank thief, whose singular escape from the Prussian State rrison, at Moabit, was given several weeks ago in the Times, was recap tured recently by the .Prussian detectives in the small town of Wittenberge, Province of Brandenburg, where he had been concealed for nearly a week in the cottege of a peasant. When the detectives burst into the room where he was hidden, he drew a revolver and fired several shots at them, but without effect. He was speedily owrpowered and taken in irons to Berlin. In his possession were found several hundred dollars in gold, a passport to the United States, and a large quantity of clothes. The Criminal Court of Berlin added four years to the four years' imprisonment for which he had originally been sentenced for robbing the Royal Discount Company; and he wasthen taken back to Moabit. During the first six months of his confinement there Albrecht will be chained to tho wall. beio York Times, June 27. A Louisville lady's cat her dear, darling Tommy sickened and died the other day, and the weeping maiden buried it decently in the back yard, wrapping the carcass in a white shroud. Two ancient maiden ladies who lived next door witnessed the.interment from an upper window, and were profoundly horrified. Of course they went to the police about it, and were ready to swear they had heard the child cry as it was carried to its burial. Two officers, arme I with spades and followed by a crowd from the street, allowed tho ancient females to guide them to the spot where the evidenceof the infant icide lay buried. The cat was exhumed and the old maids departed wiser, but undoubtedly sadder, females. I" a man has a great many debts, are thry " very much to his credit.

"Something Tllferent" A Lager Beer Story. From the Cincinnati Timet. " I pese clad to see you, like ash never vas, Mister Cris; when did Zinzinnaty goome away from you?" Such was the warm salutation of a Teutonic friend whom we met the other day in a distant city, whwre he bad recently gone to reside. The reader might not guess in a long time what business our friend from Cincinnati was engaged in, so we will tell you ; be kept a lagf r-bcer saloon. "How do you like your new location ? " we inquired after his raptures at meeting a Cincinnatian had somewhat abated. " Nice poys in this towns ; nice poys. The fir.it night vot 1 opens my saloon, they goome in and galls for lager peer, doo, eight, seex, half a tozzen of 'em; unt ven 1 says, ' Who makes pay for this too zoon already ? ' by tam, dey say, ' put it on te schlate.' I dole tern, 4 1 don't geep no schlate.' Den dey says, 1 you pettcr as send out unt puy a schlate.' Vel, I vants to aggommodate there's no brincipal in dose tings so I nought a schlate. The peer gont

calling for more poys, unt I gept putting the schlate onto dem. Pooty quick already I dells tern the schlate it pese full on poth rides, unt den dey dells ine if the schlate pese full I petter ash fill my tarn Tuch head mit 'em ! Veil, dat ish all riht there's no brincipal in dose tings dey we nish poys. " Pooty bime by after leedle, they make smash mit niinepur, preaks mine pottles, unt knocks hail temnation out of mine looking glass mit mine head. Mine Cott! I vash mad. I radder you kive me ten dollar so much ash I vash mad. But dat pese all right there's no brincipal in doze that makes nix tifference. Nice poys I ''Then they gall- me a tarn Tuch son 'f kun, unt I dells 'em they petter as go to the lieful, their own tam American sconagun. Vash I light? Veil, that makes nottings titterent. "They knocks the staircase town mine frow, unt throws the window out of the papy. That's all right makes notting tifference there's no brincipal in that nice poys but (growing very much excited, and emphasizing each word on the bar with his fist) they puts water in mine class of peer unt Cott in himmel, that ish not right there's some brincipal in dose tings that makes sometings titl'erentl " Josh Billings Outdone. Childhood M of-:en humorous, without being conscious of the fact. Artemus Ward oi Josh Billings never wrote anything ot the funny order equal to the following composition of a little boy in the Bishop Scott Grammar School, Portland, Oregon, which we find printed verbatim et literatim in the New York Ledger : OXEN. Oxen is a very slow animal. They are very good to brake up ground. ! would rather have horses if they didn't have colic which they say is wind collected in a bunch. Which makes it dangereser to keep horses than oxen. If their were no horses people wood have to wheal their wood in a whealnarrow. It would take them two or three days to wheal a cord a mile. Cows are useful to. I heard some people say that if they had to be a ox or a cow they wood sooner be a cow, but I think when it come to be milked on a cold Winter morning 1 think they wood sooner be oxen, for oxen don't have to raise calves If I had to be a ox or a cow I wood be a heffer, but if I could not be a heiler and had to be both I wood be a ox. Co-orfRATiON in Belgium. The join ers of Venders. Belgium, struck, last April, for a reduction of hours and in crease of pay. 1 heir employers com bined to refuse the demand. Tht -e-upon the men bought some land, built some shops, and began operations on their own account on the 1st of May. A month afterwards, their orders exceeded those of any other firm in the city, and their success was assured. The benefits of the measure have not been confined to the co-operative joiners alone. Their withdrawal from the labor market has caused a keen competition between their old employers for men, so that even the joiners who did not co operate with them have higher pay than ever before. A California journal tells a story of a L-entleman who. having cone ex tensively into the Ancora coat business built a spacious corral, and erected water-proof sheds to protect his property from the weather. When the heavy storm came he drove the goats into the corral at night. But on going late in the evening to look after them, not a goat could he find, dust as he was about to ao away, greatly disturbed, he happened to lift his lantern and his eyes upward, and he beheld the entire Hock of goats perched on the top of his carefully-constructed shed, and evident ly enjoying the heavy storm which was poui ing down. The farm laborers of Yaxley, near Huntingdon, England, met lately for discussion. Their ex-employers, the farmers, gathered at the outskirts of the crowd of a thousand men, and, to show their contempt for it, kept rattling the wooden clappers with which boys frighten off crows. After enduring the insult for a short time in grim silence, the yeomanry suddenly rushed upon them, thraehed them with a gratifying thoroughness, and drove them into the town. Then they resolved to demand two shillings a week more than they had previously asked. This the farmers will he pleased to grant, and will M suffer a further punishment lor their folly.

Long Braach. Long Branch is continually spreading on all sides, and aspires to ecotne the American Brighton. The value of real MtaAa has been trebled within the past year or two. A lot half a mile inland is now worth iuoe than a lot on the seaboard was a few years ago, while a piece of 1-tnd commanding an open view of the sea will bring a f'.mry price. Ocean avenue now extends seven miles. The Atlantic is rspid'y encroaching upon the mioiv, and last winter forty feet of the blulf. directly in front of the United State; Hotel, was carried away. Li VBR C'OMI'LAINT, I.IVEK 1ISK ASK, I. K. MiLiousNEss. B bous complaints by some lermd liver disea-e ure very common in this country. The ordinary iridic ttions, such s yellowness of the skin and whites of the eyes, pain in the right side under the inferior ribs, with sometimes difficulty of respiration and troublesome cough, are miliar to a host of sufferers; but ih- liver, sometimes, is in a very unsti.sfacory state without the pies -no nf sigh svmptoms. When we reflect tha' lb" liver is the

largest gland ol the " dy,tnatil secretes the bile wh eh tuhric ttM Kit bowels and keeps them in order, is the great blood purifier or cleansing machine of our systems, it may truly le called tho Housekeeper of our llealih. Huddeii transitions of climatic temperature, or inipuro air. or water are disturbing elements which ainst the functio.is of the liver, and render it torpid, producing diarrhea, 'ysenrry, bilunmrt ntittntt. intermittent feoers, and a general prostration, and unhealthy state of the whole organization. It is not surprising that a medicine which can restore tho healthy operations of the liver should command general attention. Buch a medicine is California Vinkoah Uittkbs, The HouHekeeper'n Towel and Broom. Com. A Low DOM paper says ''cholera is a jest and war a diversion ts compared with consumption, which snnually carries off 47,000 per-ons in England. The Elmwood Collar, from the peculiar manner in which it is mad, with folded edges, cloth face, and perspiration proof finish, will keep clean longer than any other collar. It is more economical than low-priced goods. Buy the Ekawood at any Gents' Furnishing Stores. Com. H. II. Shi fei.kt !c Co., Chicago, alone in Anvsriei distill IMPERIAL 01 by the Holland Process. Send '- circular. Com. Whether lor u w beaMj the Merchant's Garulm-; O i wil lis tound an invaluable Liniment, and worthy of USS, by every resident in the :ami. We Wnow of no proprietary medicine or article now used in the United States which shares the good will of the people to a greater degree than this. JV. Y. Independent. Stamps amounting to $10,000 were attached to the will of the late Erastus Coming. Ruptuug can be cured without fathering. Elu.-tic Truces are superseding all others. Before buying Metal Trusses or Supiiorters, send fur s descriptive circular to the Clastic Truss Q.,f83 Broadway, N. Y. Com. TooTHActir. proceeds from ague in the face, operatiug upon the exposed nerve of a decayed tooth Kub the gum thoroughly with the finger, wet with Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, heat the face well, and lap a flannel wet with tho liniment on the face, also nut a little of the liniment into the cavity of the tooth on cotton. Com. The purest and sweetest Ced-Liver Oil in the world is Hazard A Caswell's, made on the sea-shore, from fresh, selected livers, by Carwf.ll, Hazard A Co., New York. It is absolutely pure and motet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians have decided it superior to any of the other oils in market. The system frequently gets out of order and should be at once regidated. else other troubles will ensue ; when physic is needed take Portions' Purgatiw Pill ; they are a safe, wholesome, and natural medicine. For FAMILY Use Menthol all descriptions are made much more palatable by the use of the famous Halford Leicestershire Table Nance, which is not fiery like many foreign Sauces, but has more body of the choicest materials than they have. All grocers cell it. The Markets. NEW YORK. Beeves Qood 12 o Fair II a Hos Live fta Cottan Middling ü'a 12 B Klour Extral Western 7 75 9 25 Wheat No. 14 Swift 1 fti 1 Corn Mixed Western Mf Oats Western 45 a 46 Rye estcrn sa a i Barley -State w a i Pork-Mess 13 25 a 13 30 Lard astiBVsfu UU1UAUU. Beeves Choice- $5 W a s -v Wood 5 50 FairUrades 5 00 a o a f 25 a 4 2i a 2 75 Stoek CatUe Common 3 25 Interior 2 f0 Hocs-Llve 3(55 a 4 IK) a 18 a 12 Uutter Choice i Ems 11 Vlnnr White Winter Extra 10 00 nlO .V) Qripinff Vvtvii .. ----- 7 Vft i25 Wheat-Sprinsr. No. 1 J XHa 127 Spring.No. ' WM0 J 26 Corn. No 2..... ... 1 42 142 Oatt. No. 2 2 30 Rye. No. 2 R - Lard t 7 40 o ... WS. IrVVHSi Fhwr-XXX 11 g Wheat-No. i 8 prin 1 b5 Oorn Mixed, on track 40 Cimtm Nn. u. nn track 29 a 850 a 170 a 30 a a 70 t,V.M. 12 00 Urd .8'" a ... Cattle o uu 00 Hosts aw a 4 00 CINCINNATI. FlonTFnndly f7 V Wheat -Red i M Corn Mixed M Oats 34 Ry - " nrlf.v 75 M 37 80 P-.rk-Mess 12 00 ..12 55 Lard Mm J Hons 4 CO 4 2i MILWAUKEE. Flour -Sprintt Extra ' Wheat-Spnnit. No. 1 j 30 ... No. 2 1 23H n ... fWn Nn. 2 42. OaU No. 2 - 2Sa Rye-No. 1 g " Barley No. 2 H s 7 CLEVELAND. Wheat-No. 1 Red Winter $1 M i No. 2 Ked Winter 1 45 - gS::rr: I 70 47 TOLEDO Whoat- White Miotaiaan 11 M , Amber do ijLV" Com-tmb Mi sect ffllf " bow do ?H a ni-, . a No- i 33