Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 15, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 4 April 1873 — Page 3

AQBICÜL TÜMAJL A UtMMl PlK-Hrii. Michigan eorrossiideut f (In- A'm,.nl Ihme thus tells how ho built Iiis jg-pen : The main building is Iii by 20, stories high, with u cellar 7 feet deep underneath. The first story Ig 7 foot in tlic clear, the upper OM I ftt 0 tho pluttH. Tho upper story is designed fr luiliüng ooru other foed ; the lower fr cooking, mixing, feeding, untl ulso .rintf. Tho MM are on two Hillen of

i m r thiH Ituihling, and on od end. Th other

end Im a wide door for entrance, and a largo windows for light. The MM 1 1 nve lean-to roofs, and are seven feet

iif,'li in frout and four in theear. There aja two oll euch side and two on the end, mx in all. The flour of the cellar in cemiuted ou gravel, and that of the pens l plunk laid in mortar on gravel foundation. Under the hüIh of the pens MM 'H n WUu going two and one-half feet into the ground and laid in mortar. This in to prevent the rats working under. Tho aides of the pens ure plunk, and the roofs shingled. There are swing purtitions over the troughs, bo the pigs

can he shut away when putting in their feed. I intend to use cellars for storing potatoes and roots, for winter and spring use, to cook with meal. There is a

drive or tube-well goiug down through the cellar.

if found to be at all dump, renew Unpacking with dry material.

LOOK I Mi AH KAI) TO 1K70.

The Orlfl of the Nrw Pi t Idrntial InIriKuea H-ubllrau MUflltUtra fur the Nnn malou (Jimit Kimlirrr A Now Mall fur f lir Next Ural The Ih-g-radrd lulted htntt-a Mrnalr. I IWnliiiiglnu (JorrusuouuVucu nt Hie New York Kuii.J The rivalry between Morton and I Conking for the leadership of the Senate during ti e Forty-third Congress already I begins to crop out. Morton aspires to i be Grunts successor, and Conkling, who 1 hates Morton, knows this, und nie uns to i Lake advantage of the fact. He will play ' upon ( ! rant's prejudices in order to get

atro(iage out of lum, but intending all the time to throw him oil' when lie no longer needs him, and come out for u i LI i a . ii r t

J 11 Mill III llJIXlneu. ll'N, IJie XlOll. 110Scoe Conkling intends to be n candidate in 1K7. Morton of course does, and the annihilation of Colfax does not displease him at all, faff it squelched t man who 1... til ii i aLuJ ... l.:.. : i..-..

Do everything in its proper time. Keep stato. ?r;je f,tll of thi nra&QtiotM little

person removes one obstacle to Morton's

Urin rtr lloimrkt-rprra. Alum or vinegar is good to set colors of red, green or yellow. If you are buying a carpet for durability, MhimJ figures. A hot shovel held over varnished furniture will take out white stints. Scotch snuff put on the holes where crickets come out will destroy them. ltihhonsof any kind should be washed in cold soap suds and not rinsed. If your Hat irons are rough rub them with fine salt, and it will make them smooth. A gallon of strong lye put in a barrel

of ham water will make it as soft ruin water.

as

everything in its place?. Always mend clothes before washing them.

Milking Ckwi, A correspondent of the Rural J fame says : " Cows usually become addicted to kicking when heifers, from being milked by abusive milkers. I never seen an old cow become a kicker unless abused. Instend of cows being averse to being milked when giving a large quantity, I have ever found it the reverse. When pasturage is good, and cows conic home at night with udders distended with miik, they seem grateful to have it removed. Milking a heifer for tho first time repiires patience, for they will almost inv.iriably kick. In such a case, put a braid strap around her body, just in front of the udder, and buckle it up modeflMly tight, und as soon as she gets ijuiet, for she may dance around n little

if nrst, take your pail, sit down and go tweea. Against 1!),182 British sailing

to milking, for she is as helpless as a ! vessels engaged in commerce, we possess

but 7,0112 ; and against the British ton

Making Leather Waterproof. Dissolve a small piece of parafin, of the size of a hickory nut, in good lard oil, by help of heat, and rub it on the leather once a month. Or, take 1 part Bidia-rubber cement ( which is made by softening it in benzole), dissolve in 20 purts neatfoot oil and 2 parts tallow, by help of heat. This is a receipt highly

recommended for leather, as that used for tho boots of sportsmen.

To Beautify Teeth. Dissolve two ounces of borax in three

pints of boiling water, and before it is

cold add one teaspoouful of the spirits of camphor, and bottle for use. A tablespoonful of this mixture, with an

equal quantity of tepid water, and applied daily with a soft brush, preserves and beautifies the teeth, extirpates all

tartarous adhesion, arests decay, induces a healthy action of the gums, and makes the teeth pearly white.

In a recent return of the commercial navies of the world, we observe the following faets : One-third of all the sailing vessels, and two-thirds of all the

steamships of the civilized world, earrv whieu

the British flag. The United States comes next, though a long distance be-

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much, xo Bn attempt to use a rope instead of u strap, for it will not answer. Tl lis is a much better method than tying the legs, etc., as it does not hurt the animal in the least. A few applications

nage of 5,366,327, ours is but 2,372, 120.

The her

! 148 ;

steamships of Great Britain uuni2,588, having a tonnage of 2,382,-

advaneement.

BLAINE AND BOirrWKLI,. Blaine and Boutwe" are elready on the track for the succession. Blaine is the

more aoilj and showy of the two, and he is a rather better organizer than Boutwell, und three times as big a demaogue. Blaine d'd rot take any Credit lobilier stock ; but the reason simply was because in looking over Ames' share lists he discovered something better, and therefore the Poland investigation bus forever distroyed Iiis Presidential aspirations, lie rubbeU against Ames and got the stain ou his clothes, and he is offensive to the nostril of the people. In this regard, and so fur as yet uppears, Bout well has not got any of these chalk marks on his garments ; and if he can reach the Senate he will probably leud the New England Bepivjlican candidates for 1H76, unless .joe Hawley, of Connecticut, should rise up against him. WILSON AND BITTiER. The Vice-President, notwithstanding

his Credit Mobilier disgrace, is looking to 1 Jliim( in the list.

tue Jute BOMB, ami (?en. Untier aas his weather eye upon it. But Ciedit Mobilier kills the former, and that ten thousand dollar railway lee the latter. It is the opinion here in the best informed quarters, that no man whose name has been mixed up in ai y way with the investigations of the pat.t winter, how-

I ever thick tin coating of whitewash with

M may have been enveloped,

stands t he faintest chance for the Re

publican nomination of 187(5. Though the party has an inconvenient supply of rogues, its best members feel that they have hones men enough left for national candidates, and therefore they will take no stock in those who have had even the remotest connection with corrupt transactions. SHERMAN AND UMAX.

the steamships of the United States This consideration blasts the hopes of

of the strap, with plenty of patience and I number only 420, and represent an ag- John Sherman and (Jen. Logan

kindness,

ease

w ill cure the most obstinate

Ntock-HaUliK. The Working Earimr gives some ?ood advice with regard to stock-raising. It says : The most successful breeders of iiorses, cattle, sheep, or swine know from experience that, although they may

poaaaai the best breeding auimals, they will not be successful in producing suI rior stock if a continuous growth of the youug animals is not kept up. In Offer a begin in time at this indiNpcnvm$ preparation for success, the broodmares; cows, ewes, and sows are most irofully and suitably fed, and as soon M the young animals make their appearW they aie taken the greatest care of, the dams being suitably fed while suckatf, and when the young ones are eaaad they ure not sull'ered to want for W or drink. By this means a conMWM and rapid growth is kept up, M the animals attain a large size ami 'avy weight at an early age.

Mi ll hI Virtue of (lie Apple. A writer in the Cbtmtrff (h nth man "an : " Of the medical virtues of the l'l'le I have not the least, doubt. Conciliation of the bowels can be entirely "Oidad by a judicious use of them. Eat8 too many is not the way, however, as "f seem to think. ' Too much of any load thing,' you know. When many are -iten, their medicinal virtue is, in a :urc, destroyed. They should be '"'en regularly and in place of other f,,,d. I favor the raw state for a well 1 ' ls,)n. When to be given to a eonva"II I should prick them all over with "Pfci then heat them hot in the oven, '"'"Rh to soften, not reduce them to Np. Apples baked in sugar or eaten 'Ith Mou i

o nun u mn m w cause "'"f the stomach."

gregate of 411,033 tons. Norway and Italy rank third and fourth in the possession of sailing vessels, and Germany and France continue the list at a slight distance behind. In regard to steamships France conies third and Germany fourth on the list. The entire table, j which covers nearly all the States of the ; civilizud world, shows that the conimer- ! cial navies of the present day number ' 5(5,727 sailing vessels, measuring 14,063 1 83!) tons, and 1,333 steamships measuring 3,080,670 tons. Tms is the way a Berkshire (Mass. i woman didn't utwit a railroad conductor. She o! 'red the car with her! boy of eight or ten years of age, and sat down, the latter, however, becoming ' suddenly invisible. A close observer, however, would have noticed behind her : and next the window the top of a boy's

The

latter smells of Credit Mobilier. and

that finishes him, while the notorious lobby exploits of the disreputable Judge Sherman, of Ohio, have thrown a thick cloud across the horizon of his more distinguished brother, the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate, with whom the Judge is believed to have had other relations than those of blood. ORANT'8 DECLININO 8fN. One thing is already apparent. Nobody talks of Grant lor another term. The great leaders of the Republican party begin to sneer at him. They have Med him thus far to accomplish' their own ends. The lemon is squeezed, and the rind will soon be thrown away. On the opening of the next Congress, his patronage being then disposed of, he will be of no more consequence to the Republican party, and will have no stronger hold upon its leaders than Andrew .fohusou had twelve months after he stepped over Lincoln's grave into the White House, and it will be a marvel if he is not impeached like Johnson, ere

hat, w hich bobbed down out of sieht as , his term closes. One cen hardlv iniacriiu

the conductor came along, and then came ! ho,v little power (Jrant will .ntve as soon

up for a fresh supply of atmosphere as

he passed by. The Ihjv's breath gave out, and he bobbed up a little too soon, one time, and the conductor saw how it was himself and with the amused passengers sitting by, took in the whole tableau. The loy was produced in a

as it comes be understood thai, the

; party has no j'urther use for hirr and its great chieftains are on the war ;ath for the succession. Should he stand for a siugle moment in their way, they will not hesitate to take his scalp as purty lenders heretofore took the scalps of Tyler, Fillmore, and Johnson, when these accidental occupants of the White

state of collapse, and deposited at his House would not pack up and quit when

place of destination, where, under the i told to do so by those who put them irtuf MM! i g-t Iii 1 1 1 an f t t Mivnitf t tunv ttlltl

innii i le u wa lining 'U1 III, 111 11J(IT eventually grow to be a Credit Mobilier Congressman, or a member of some Be

nrliiK llama. following recipe for curing hams Ml been tested for many years in MaryJJ8ä Two and a half pounds saltpeter, r"J nJy powdered, half bushel LlVfrpool salt, three pounds brown s"r, and half gallon molasses. Mix all I nib the meat well w ith same, y with skin down. The above is

Xrtct amount. mwmImmI IUm i nnr.

"imls f ,K,rk- AtuT lHinR jn BaU thjw f'"ir weeks, take out. wash tho W

.

tin

lof,

-

, dry, and hanar up for smoking.

"r,' weeks is sufficient to smoke them '""uhlyby flre made of hickory When smoked, take down and or pack away in dry chaff or cut 'r,tw. Examine them occasionally, and

form Legislature. A Michigan exchange tells us of a strange sect which has its abiding place at Battle Creek, in that State. It is j called the Seventh Ihiy Adveutists, and j its members look for the coming of the ! Saviour very soon, but do not fix any precise date wherein they are wiser '

than the Millerites. They are wealthy as a community, and noted for strict integrity and the scrupulous cleanliness of iMf dwellings. They believe in the j water cure, and their establishment at Battle Creek is the resort of invalids I from all parts of the country. They klfft a publishing-house, tract-house I and stores, and are as fond of making

money as if they did not expect to go to heaven for some time. Exchange. Titk slaveholders in Cuba continue to worry themselves incessantly over the fear that the march of events will soon touch their islnnd and bid the enslaved go free. They don't know what to do about it. Meantime it is said that the slaves themselves keep well posted up. and are all ready for the coming of the inevitable decree that is to make them freemen.

TUB PISOKACED SENATE. Office-seeker abound here, n'nd having axes to grind, thev of course affect to

sides of a sworn statement, have not lost the confidence of their neighbors in the matter of veracity. Mr. Colfax's speech was a vast cumulation of words. In his two hours' harangue he suid nothing new- but floundered heavily through continual repetitions. The point he tried to impress upon his MSfSM was that there had been a gigantic national conspiracy to destroy him, and thut despite this conspiracy he hnd come home to them in as honorable plight as ever ; and he claimed the sympaty due to a martyr for truth's sake. Complaining, he said, " If 1 had been a confessed and wicked criminal I could not have been pursued with more malignity by a pttrdon of the

American press und their Washington correspondents. " Assuming this to be true, which it is not, Mr. Colfax overlooks tho reason why the American i press (the portion which sides with him M too small to be discovered with anything but a microscope) haa lost faith I

in any statements made by him. During the summer of 1872, there were published in all the papers of the country the now famous letters of Oakea Ames to McComb, with the b'st of persons with whom Ames said he had placed Credit Mobilier stock. In that fiat appeared the name of 1 S. Colfax, Speaker. " We can call to mind no paper that did not publish this implication of Mr. Colfax with regret, but it was not possible to omit his name while publishing the oihers. The statement of Ames was bold and emphatic, and repeated in two letters. The press naturally expected a disclaimer or a denial, by the persons

named, of Ames' statement. It waa not made. Mr. Blaine denied it in the first week in September. It was not until Sept. 25 that Mr. Colfax waa heard from, in his speech of that day at South Bend. In his speech he was particularly careful to avoid a challenge to Oake's

Ames, was rather complimentary to the ' great shovel-maker, but was aa partiou- I

lar to denounce the newspaper press for

niivmg papuaoeq Ames letter witli his

At that time the only

allegation against Mr. Colfax was that contained in tho Am s letters, and this was, that he, Oakes Ames, had in the distribution of Credit Mobilier shares among Senators and Representatives in Congress, placed 2,000 thereof in the hands of Schuyler Colfux, Speaker. That was the whole allegation. Mr. Colfax, at South Bend, began his speech by saying : " Let me detain you a few moments, my towuiueu, while I touch a fabric of fahtehood with i lie ppear of trutn. exposing the so-called Credit Mobiuer scandal, ihat you may see out of i. hat worthless nt uff campaign charges are manufactured." He then told of his long and active support of the Pacific railroad, of his speeches and lectures; declaring that it was not necessary to have offered him a br;'e to secure his supjxirt, and then added : "Do I need to add that neither Oakes Ames nor n y other person ever gave, or offered to Kive. me one nhare, or twe:ty pharos, or two thousand shares in the Credit Mobilier, or any other railroad stock, and that, unfortunately, I have never received the value of a farthing out of the 270 tier cent, dividend, nor the fiini pei rent, dividends in cash, stock and bonds you have read about ever- day for the past month, nor 100 per ceut., nor 1 per cant., nor the tenth of 1 per cent.? I have said that if .weuty -,'iaren of it could be pin chased at par, without buying into a prospective lawsuit, it would be a good investment, if it waa aa valuable a stock as represented. I have said

that I would like to buy twenty shares at par,

u nuaiiiHiiie. in me rutuiebakcr wacon Com

pany, or the Birdsell Clover Separator Com- I pny here. I challengeeitker one of the two last companies to give me such an opportunity I now or hereafter: but never having been plaintiff or defendant in a court of justice, 1 1 want no stock of any kind, at any price, with u lawsuit on top of it, not even with the prospective dividends of Mt,MS, which, I am free to maintain, neither these gi od eyes of mine nor this jiocket-book have ever seen the tlrst I dollar of. although it is so positively asserted I that I have been entitled to this handsome amount ever since four years ago." Accepting that as a fair, square denial of Oakes Ames allegation, precisely aa j Mr. Blaine's was accepted, the newspaper press generally, and especially the Kepnblican press, acquitted Mr. Colfax. Could any person who read that seeeh then, have the least thought that Mr. Colfax had received $2,000 of Credit Mobilier stock ; that at the time of receivmir it there were credits on it I

in the way of dividends, amounting to $1,458; that Mr. Colfax had paid Mr. Ames the difference of 8542, or thereabouts, in cash? Yet Mr. Colfax, at Washington, in January, 1873, did, on oath, state that he had made this contract with Ames, and had paid Ames the mouey. The newspaper press, which Mr. Colfax says now pursue him. are

I they have been defending haa been cheating them with a quibble, covering a lie, and covering the very misconduct they so strenuously denied. The lead- ' ing journal that supported Qrant and Colfax and Grant ana Wilson, have resented the cheat put on them by Colfax i in his South Bend speech, and, ifring his sworn confession that he never intended in that speech to deny dealing with Ames in Credit Mobilier stock, ! they have treated him as any other prej varieator, giving all the presumptions to his adversary, Ames, nd deciding all doubtful points against himself. Mr. Colfax, in his speech of Saturday, attempts some more quibbling by citations of detatched sentences from the Chicago Tribune, in September last, to show that we did not then understand him as denying that he had been dealing in Credit Mobilier stock with Ames. It amounts to nothing more than this, that we found Mr. Colfax claiming the right to purchase Credit Mobilier stock, but denying virtually that he had done so. We contended against his right, while Speaker of the House, to dabble in that stock, not supposing that he had actrJally done so. We accepted that speech aa a denial, broad and emphatic, and so treated it until Colfax himself, before the committee, showed that it was cheat, a play upon words, and, aa the Indianapolis Journal declares, " prevarication. The South Benders, or those who participated in the ovation, have advertised themselves either as ignorant persons, unable to judge the value of testimony, or as those possessing no valuable standard of moral measurement Chicago Tribüne. TO ATA UD JN BE A VXA. BT DUFT FOBTZB. For thee, the endless days of light. The hlnliig wings, the golden crows ; For u, the trs, the gloomy night. And heavy burdens weighing down. For the, the psce, the bledne, The Joy, the victory will gain ; For tu, the grief, the sore distress, ' The torn and bleeding wounds of (In. For thee, the rent of Heaven fair, ltn fadeless treasures iu thy hand ; For us, the weary toil and care, Tho withered leaves, the worthless sand. Before thine eyes, the open gate, And all the fullness of God's yean ; Our love clasps thee ; we trust, we wait. We see the light beyond our tears.

thirk as well as possible of the Senate, i the same papers that, in September 1jl

But everybody else leels that it has sunk 1 accepted his South Bend speech as a

a great way below the contempt of hon

est, honorable men. The Senate which adjourned on Tuesday had not the courage nor even the self-respect to turn out Patterson, Harlan, l'omeroy, Caldwell, and Clayton, while the new Senate welcomes to its hall Jones, another Patterson, Spencer, Dockruy, and three or four more who got their seats by the

most disreputable means. However, it

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ooiu ii nit nianiy itenini oi naving ever had any dealings with Oakes Ames in Credit Mobilier stock that being the falsehood which he was supposed to have touched with the spear of truth. When the newspaper press, and tho country gciieralfv, were told by Mr. Colfax, in .lanuary, that he had never intended in his South Bend speech to deny having purchased Credk Mobilier

will be difficult for the Forty-third Con- j stock from Oakes Ames ; that all he iu

gress to act worse or look worse than the

k orty-second. The Colfax Demonstration. The speech of Mr. Colfax at South Beud, on Saturday, sheds no new light upon the personal difficulties in which he has become involved. Tho parade, procession, and the dramatic display of confidence in him by the people assembled in South Bend, gave no additional weight to his speech. All these will probably be rivaled bv the popular demonstration prepared at North Easton, Mass., to welcome Mr. Oakes Ames to the arms of a confiding constituency. If the people of South Bend have undiminished confidence in Colfax, the people of North Easton only admire their Oakes Ames the more because of the ordeal through which he has passed so triumphantly. Ames and Colfax, therefore, representing two opposing

FOREIGN ÜOHS1P. George Washington is manager of a London theater. Smokino has been prohibited on the Paris Bourse. A Yexetian has invented a new fiddle with metallic strings. The gathering of the tribes haa made little progress as yet, Palestine, accord

ing to the late census, having a Jewish I population of only 15,293 souls. Of , these 8,000 live in Jerusalem, 4,000 in I Safot, 2,000 in Tiberias, and 400 in Hebron. It is reported that Madame Patti has j been offered a share in the St Petera- '. burg Opera House, the acceptance of which will compel her to renounce her I intended American trip. I M. Thiers is said to be preparing a collection of all his principal speeches.

Several editors are engaged on the work, and when it is completed any one wish

ing to fill a library will only need to order Thiers' published volumes ! The German army is being thoroughly reorganised, and, among the additiona lately made, is a railway battalion, trained for the service and working of the railways in time of war. Their superiority in this department gave the Germans a great advantage over the French in the late struggle. Berlin is growing very rapidly, and is now one of the finest cities in Europe, in style resembling Paris, with broad streets and wide sidewalks. No house ia allowed to be erected within the city limits except with fire-proof stairways;

and, during the progress of building, the contractor is compelled to cover the sidewalk with timber, so as to prevent accidents to passers-by. Thb island of Barbadoea ia more thickly settled than China, with her 300,000,000. With a superficial area of only about 165 square miles, without any large towns, without manufactures of any description, a purely agricultural colony, she act .tally supports a population of 18,000 souls, or over 1,084 to the square mile. To find the means of snatentation for this cooped-np mob of people, she has brought under cultivation nearly every inch of her 106,479 acres of cultnrable laud ; and to the superficial observer she presents an aspect of wealth and prosperity unexampled in the West Indies, and hardly to be surpassed in any other pnrt of the world.

A Good System of Gardening. The

tended was to deny that such stock was

"ven " him, the press, and the country generally, lost faith in Colfax's veracity, and could not help regarding him as a prevaricator ; as having suggested falsehood and suppressed the truth. He had deceived them into a misunderstanding of his connection with Oakes Ames in Credit Mobilier stock, while he was Speaker of the Honse of Representatives, and deceived them hv

hiding his transaction under the word j following condensed system of gardening

the extend HK acTrued dividends then ! "commended by a contemporary for due on the stock, and for which he was I hc Btutly of " I " Mdt your bed credited, when he paid Ames the residue i the morning ; sew buttons on your of the money. husband's shirt ; do not rake any grieva i !rin8tboCUCUlttrt1d t,f Vf lanees; protect the young and tender a man in tlie estimation of his friends , . - , ., , , as prevarication, and there are no cir- bJanel,M ."r : plant a smile cumstances under which human friend-1 ' 8 temper on your face, and careship will change to resentment so j fully root out all angry feelings, and exquickly as when men find that oue whom pect a good crop of happiness."