Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1869 — Page 4

FACTS AND FIGURES.

At Vienna a “New York Hotel ’" is p«. cost the Emperor of China I*o,ooo. Im Ban Franctaoo, there have been retamed nlhety-two Incomes in exoeee of •*B,OOO. 7 Pirn rrmoeiTß are now nold in London at eixpence eech. Shoe* are made Tim number of real ertate mien in San Francisco daridg May waa 1,084, amount, ing to |4t*Sß,£H-

HanrroßD, Conn., ia to have 4 rink which will neat o,ooopersons, accommodate 800 skaters, and coat $30,000. A bot need IS haa been aent to prison for a week, in France, for a aediUona hurrah In the presence of the Empress. The Second Adventists, it is aaid, hare fixed upon the 10th of July as the day on which t)>e*eatd will ootne to an end. In Williamsburg, L. L, there U a man I*7 years old. He ia a Veaver by trade, and, though too feeble to work, is still lively. » ’ Thk number of immigrants arrived in New York (fori** the first five montha of this year was -50,630, against 84,577 for the same period last year. Dr Judson baptized the first Burman convert in 1819. Since then more than 40,000 Bormans, Karens and Shans, have believed and been baptised. Thb Queen of Madagascar has been received into the Church of England by baptism, and ordered her ministry to do likewise, under penalties. Mr. John K. Owens is, probably, the wealthiest actor on the American stage. His property is said to be considerably in excess of half s million dollars. The number of passengers over Prussian railroads in 1868 was 97,848,665. During the year 93 persons were killed by railway accidents, and I*4 were wounded. Hans Wachenhuken, the German feuilletonist, says, in a recent article, that a certain Miae Arabella sold, at a fair in New York, 8,000 kisses for s dollar each. A note was found in the pocket of a recent suicide in England, saying: “ Dear friends, don’t believe my wife it she says she has not money to pay for my coffin.” The cattle in Switzerland amount to 900,00QJu number, and an valued at $42,000,000, dr about $47 per head. The cows, 558.000 in number, yield $80,000,000 of milk every year. Ah ivory tuA, six feet three inches long and inches in circumference, has recently oeen exhumed in Montana. It was found buried in the sand, twenty-two feet below the surface. There are only twenty-two persons in Oregon mhQ pay Income tax on sums exceeding $10,060. The largest income is $255,388, returned by the agent of an estate, and the largest personal income is $48,014. r The Russian church at Sitka, Alaska Territory, was recently robbed of a copy of the vlble, richly studdled with valuable stones, cranes and other ornaments, altogether said to be Worth $20,000. The Mauafcilc Grand Lodge, New York city, haa purchased a lot on Sixth avenue, opposite Booth’s Theatre, at a cost of between $300,000 and $400,000. On this lot a large Masonic Hall is to be erected. THE’aHtfroritics of Dresden and Vienna set fred uHrigt number of singing birds which-had been brought to those places for sale In Saxony and Austria, the usefulness of birds as destroyers of insects is officially recognized. Aobbtussun residing In Lewiston, Maine, left his three little children at home while he attended church, and when he returned found them busily employed in cleaning the insideofa SBOO gold watch with soap and water.

Post Office not long since, and the president of the village had so-spread a barrel of coal tar over the street And then set fire to it, to destroy the smell of bad eggs. A wdOaKiG’fSafc £ Y., has produced a needleworked picture of Washington, containing nearly 700,000 stitches It was raffled off and won by Prot H. M. Coleman, of Vassar College. Three hundred tickets were sold at one dollar each, A New York lady recently ordered a trousseau "W Stewart’s for her daughter’s Ml, wbieh' received a complete outfit in under clothing, silk and lace. One of the articles ordered was an India shawl, miniature size, at S3O, and a lace handkerchief was valued at sl2. According to the figures presented at the Brewers’ Congress, nearly 6,000,000 barrels of beer were sold in 1868. The capital used to produce this quanitity is valued at one hundred and five million dollars, and the number of persons employed is stated at forty one thousand. Whube Pink, the silver-mining district in Nevada, received its name from the vast quantities of white pine timber covering the mountains in that neighborhood. A local paper notices boards twenty-two feet in length and twenty-one inches wide, cut from the white pine trees. One log yielded seven handred and sixty-six feet of lumber. Thr'’number of sheep in Ohio in 1868 was 7,689,845, producing not less than 30,000,000 pounds of wool. The farmers of Ohio in 1855-6 lost in killed and injured 96,251 sheep, by dogs, which were valued at $283,697.45. Tne number of dogs ia 4866 was 174-909, making the loss ‘. wo P« dog, $1.63, a sum snffldent to defray the expenses of nearly 300 families, at an annual eoet of SI,OOO

WoBgMKN repairing an old house in Hartford, Conn., lately, found beneath the kitchen floor a young butternut tree that, without sunlight, had grown to the size of a man’s wrist, running horizontally twenty feet. In its course it had picked up an old dinner-fork, and clasping it in a branch, hugged it to the main stem so as to bend it to the curve of the tree, and then adopted it as a pah of the butternut poking iu bark and wood all Th* number of children in the Bundav Schools of the United States has been esti- * about foßr mUlums, and of teachera, thousand. Ithasbeen erilmated Jturther, that the cost of maintaining me Sunday Schools of the country averages about sixty cents a scholar pm-year., This wouldssshsan aggregate of two millions fonr hundred tanwytud debars for Sunday Bchool expenses, which is only the one-eighth hundred psrt of the amount paid by the people of theuffilett States for intoxicating liquors. THBrnopulatfop of Paris proper, without is 1,700,000 inhabitants, of men, 700,000 women, rad 250,000 children. About 400,000 of them live on their rents, or are govern-1 . cm g^y t,d Dwyers, <£'££***l cUI Tber « are hosErr 1 . 2"° hundred thousaad are traders, etc. One million are soldiers of the army cf industry—m i n ItTmuo' ISiUTSTSS gjflgwg- There ire engines lMJjfl , .** PP "*t* I>g to * ett * r I ®> ooo

MIS CELLANEOUS ITEMS.

but not te wfcAt floe*n't belong to them Tee New York Commercial calls Miss Ida Lewis “The Great American Life IfrSMfvsr.” ■ *i.r HArriNßse oonsiris in being perfectly aatisfled with what we have got, and with what we haven’t got. It ia ths privilege of the lover to be at one and the same time in two situations. When betide his sweetheart he is also beside himself.

“it son, know thyself;’’ solemnly said a father to one of his offspring. “ Thank you, sir,” replied the eon, “ but my list of acquaintances is sufficiently large already.” A shoestring saved a little girl’s life In New Haven the other day. It caught on a nail as the fell out of a third story win-, dow, and held her from death until assist-' anc* came. A ,man who died lately at Brannan confessed on his death-bed that he had poisoned sixteen members of his own family. Each of them owned a little property, and he wanted to inherit all of It. Qn a tombstone over the grave of an aged lady, hi the Southington cemetery/is the following singular inscription f “ How I do people who have to go through the world." The British Anti-Tobacco Society held hs anniversary at Exeter Hall, London, on the *4th of May. The report condemned smoking as tending to promote drunkenness, lunacy and pauperism. A gentleman one day indiscreetly asked a friend how old she was. She reflected. “ Let me see; I was 18 when I was married, and my husband was 80; now he is twice 30, that is so| so, of coarse, I am twice 18, (bat is 30." Liverpool is aghast at the presumption of a Yankee who, finding himself in that city without the means to secure a breakfast, calmly smashed a large window and quietly waited to be arrested and taken care of.

A ladt went out with her little girl and boy, and purchased the latter a rubber balloon, which eshtped him and went up into the air. The girl, seeing the tears in his eyes. -arid ' “Never Neddie; when you ole and go td heaven you’ll dlt it.” The passion for dress, about which we hear so much just now, is nothing new. An old artist thus lampoons the ladies of hisday: , “ Whst la the reason -t*n yon gnese—„Why men are poor and women thinner I So much do they for dinner drew. That nonring'B left to dress for dinnerr’ *- About two months ago a dog . was shipped by s gentleman iu Oncinnati to a relative In Dubuque. O!y a few days since the dog turned up ag tin, at the residence of his foimer master, very weary and very, foot sore,, having walk J all the way back; a ii nearly sh hundred miles. Who is Little Sunshine? The child who does not pout, nor say cross words, but who goes about the house laughing, smiling, singing, saying kind words and doing kind deeds—that child 'is Little Sunshine. Does anybody know Little Sunshine? Where does Little Sunshine live?

A journal called the Point of Honor , Is about to be published iu Florence. It it the official nrg*o pi a society recently started in Italy tor'toe purpose of abolishing duelling, by establishing a court ot honor for the settlement of the disputes SSSVTf&EJSiftr.SffF'b A clergyman, who was -consoling a young widow on the deatbqf her husband, •poles in a very serious tone, remarking that he was pus of the few,—puck a jewel of a Christiau,f-yohfhiufot4dhis e WI, you well know To wkfclf Thef sobbing one replied, with an almost broken heart .- “ I’il,bet I will.” The General Conference of the United Brethren passed r .resolution recommends tt&ing Bhoufd' have six months’ notification to withdraw from said pigsniaatfoE, -and ex refusaUo i withdraw, their names are lobe erase 1 from the rolls of the church. t £4 Pwoviaw newspaper speaks of an extraordinary phenomenon discovered in the road of Locumba, which appears to have been caused by the late earthquakes. Every beast that reaches a certain spot immediately falls dead. This has so often taken place that immense numbers of carcasses are heaped on the spot. The following is from the Advance : “ Not a west while ago, one of the New York churches sought to increase the size of its congregation and contributions by employing half a dozen handsome young women to pass the collection boxes for missionary and other objects. The plan was reluctantly given up, however, after the place had acquired the name of ‘ The Church of the Pretty Waiter Girls.’’’ A youth of Lpyrubon. Maine, went “ sparking Sunday night ’Da young lady of quite tender years. The old folks thought two babies had no right to “ sit up,” so they hinted their opinions by sending the girl to bed, and presenting the boy a huge piece of bread and butter with „the. kind remarks: “There,Bub,Jake this tod run home to your mother; it’s time little boys were in bed." Here is a little episode from a^ trial at the Parisian Correctional Police Court: An old vagabond is brought up. Having been often sent to prison beiore, he recognized in Uje prosecutor a man who had repeatedly urged * fre ooirt to ’gad Vin guilty. “ Ah, f recognize you, M. X .” he said to the prosecutor. “As for me,” replied the latter, “I admire you.” “ What, you admire me, and yet you have so often nronaunced me a. worthless old vagabond and! swindler ? t “8o I have, but I admire perfection in everything, and you are a perfect old villain.” A curious case of punishment for cruelty to animals is reported in the English papers. Edward Wheeler, while riding on horseback, was followed by a dog, which frightened the horse. Dismounting, he seized the dog and dashed out its brains against a wall. For this offense he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at hard labor. He appealed, aad is under heavy bail to appear.

At the Varieties Theatre, in St. Louis. thrown on the stage to the female performers. When Mile. Conchita Ronzati came forward to the footlights,-a young man who was in a private box threw her a bouquet .She (stopped' dancing in a second, bounded into tte box. seized the bouquefcthrowsr by th? hair of ih * head, and administered to h m se veraUefops on the jaws. Leaping back to the stage, she audience cheering vociferously all the time. She then* resumed the dance. "tjrr>**;** Cr •- 'JL Lamt Wicks—A lady contributes to tiHf Agriculturist the following recipe fog making- lamp wricks: •‘Trite a sutKjf Canton flannel three times the width&ffe wick, double it, so it will be three flfijbnesses, the smooth side out, and MfflSfee raw edge and the donhled edge togeimr oyer and over. I Do not get it too large, rad it will burn as wall as the beet sale wick. Every one generally has scraps of Canton flannel in ran house, so that alia wick will neat will be about five minutes’ work."

NASBY.

fi | - . ftoiwAWfcTTtedo Blfcte.) jfK. Narby nuhse* the new labor movement AT THE CORNERS—THE RESULTS IN AN INMVJOUAj, CAKE - I ■> Host (>m». Coxmtarr X Roam. 1 i S'. (Wlcb la In Um Htato av EADtnckv,) V June», ISM. f The s glia then nv the question uv niggers labrin with white men in Washington, reached the Corners four weeks ago, and perdooet, es mite hev ben expecti<C a moat profound feelin. Onr white artizana assembled to-wunat and passed resoloo•bens in sympathy with their brethern In Washington, and urging ov em to hold out to the bitter end rather than cotnpermiae their dignity by lowerin themselves to the level uv the greasy Afriken. The meetsn wuzut a large one, for we heV only five mechanics uv the hawty Caucaahen race at the Corners, but it wuz enthoosiastic. Three uv the five bed bin at Baacom’s for fonr days, hevin bln list paid off by a new comer for a house they hed repaired for him, and they wuz in a frame uv mind for most enything that wuz eggscitin. I directed the attention uv these men to the fact that a nigger plasterer wuz even at that time employed in plasterin a house on the State road, between the Corners and Garrettstown. and I askt em es they wuz content to lay still and see an Inferior race take the bread out uv their mouths in that way? I implored emeu labrin man to preserve the dignity nv labor. Shel niggers invade our okxepashens?

They wuznt none uv em plasterers, but they replied “ Never! Never I” and demanded with the utmost promptitood to be thowd the wretch that they mite go for him. But I restrained em till 1 hed organized em into a Free Labor Uavun, wich perhibitid anybody from wOr kin at anythin wich didn’t jine it, and wich perhibitid niggers from jinin it. This preliminary work accomplished, I remarked, “ follow me!" They did it with alacrity. On reachln the house we halted, and there our eyes rested onto a site wich biarsted em. There wuz a nigger, a fullblooded nigger, with a cap onto him, and overalls, plasterin away, whistlin and singin (sometimes one, sometimes another, and then agin both to wunst), Muth.-dist hymns. And ever and anon the untonkin man of inferiority wood stop andexecoot a break down, and lass to hisself, so that he cood be heard a mile. The disgpstiin wretch displayed his groveliß packer by drinkin water out uv a bucket wich hehed handy by him. We made short work uv„ it. We .informed him that the laborers uv the Carters hed organized a Unyun* and that po one cood be permitted to work within its boundriea ceptin members thereof. “ Berry well 1" remarkt the Afrikincuss, calmly puttln on a dab uv mortar and it, “berry well! I’ll jine the Unvnn.” *• Bit you can’t. No nigger kin be admitted.” “ Den I speck I shel hev to go on and work widout bein a member. De ole woman and de babies must hab dar bread, yoo know.” Hich insolence cood not uv course be tolerated. We hed stated the case to him calmly and dispassionately. We hed informed him uv the laws we hed made, and this wretch deliberatly defied us by insistin that ht thood go on with his work! Ther wuz but one course to take, and we took it. We snaked the platform outfrom under him, we tore up his mortar bed; we broke his trowel and other. tools, and. notified him offlshelly that any attempt at tesoomin work wood result in lynchin uv

The next day we found that the nigger hed in trooth quit plasterin, but hed found employment ez a striker in a blacksmith shop. Uv course sich an outrage on the pure CanpWhena employed in mat jfebp, wich fats name was (TToble,' cood rim hv permitted, and ez O’Toole refoosed to work with him, he wuz discharged. TO next day I hotist hhp on the stteSt*r|thA, sale and haggard than otherwise, c&rryin some a shin bone uv beef wich Jie.hed bought. The npxi day afterward I observed that he look! better, ahd>l dis Svered that he hed found employment at st onn t«rnpika*»oad wich iaAein built east uv the town/* Isaaker Garin and me, the twfl cK&mpttms uY laborfor this sdekthun, (ez we don’t work we hev time to attend to it,) st jested to the noble Celts employed on the job, the hidjusnis uv compellin em to work on an ekality with a nigger, and they struck agin it with the yoosual result. The nigger wu? discharged. He made but one or two more efforts. He undertook to git work at various places, but by this time it wuz well enuff known that the citizens uv the Corners wuz inflexibly opposed torecognisin uv em in any capassity, andheyeelded. He got very thin, and pale and haggard, and his large family likewise. It wuz evident that they wuzut feedin very well at home. Notis the natcral result of freedom 1 He absolootly begged 1 but uv course (he Corners would give nothin to a nigger. Then the instinktiv nateral cussidness uv the nigger—the infernal depravity wich is inherent into all uv em—began to display itself. He demoralized rapidly; and in a week became a most disguatin objick. He stole chickens uv Daefcin Pogram, leastways Deekin Pogram’s chickens wuz iflusin, and who should hev stole em but this nigger—he stole corn uv Elder Pennebacker, and wuz finally detected takfn a him from Bascom’s smoke-house. There wuz no doubt ez to his guilt—he wuz taken in the act with the fatal ham in his possession. He hed taken it home and his wife wuz ffyin large alices uv it There could be but one endin to rich, a succession uy crimes. The citizens vfere too much incensed to await the uncertain ackshen uv the law and they hung him at site. The Corners will never tolerate a nigger thees in their midst, no how. ' v ' Uv course I improved the occasion. Ez his body wuz a s wingin in the air I askt our people to behold the fru ts uv Radicalism and Fanatycism. That nigger wuz wunst the happy slave uv a happy owner; -there wuz atween em a nateral relashen. The nigger workt and his owner eat, and thus wuz iul tilled the entire dooties uv life. He wuz not himg then for he wuz worth too much money to hang. How hed it bin with him sence ? He dem&ndid to be made a free man—he wuz made a free man, and here he is. I told em that there wuz no need nv saying more—that body a danglin in the air, wich its sole wuz a marchin on, wuz the most elokent sermon hrich cood be preacht. The man whose house the nigger wuz as plasterin wuz in town yesterday, trying to get Causashin plasterers to finish the Ka but rz there ain’t none uv em here he "t succeed in very wdH. He probably won’t get into his new quarters this fall. I am not certain what become nv his family. There wuz a nigger woman’s body pulled out uv the dam a day or two kfU-rwXhfowich somebody remarkt wuz the wife uf'lfee deceast, and Capt McPelfer remarkt that when he went to the Cabin uv the deceast nigger to secoor his share uv the furnitoor, that two leadin niggers from Gerrettetown were notiat makin off with the children. But there’s no tellin whether there’s any trooth in .these rumors or not I think I shel go to Washmgtoa and put myself at the head nv the anti-nigger labor movement now bein inogurated there. Petroleum .Y. Najbt, P. M., (Wien weans Post Master.) Two men have been fined in London for cropping dogs’ cars, on the ground that it was cruel. It was stated on the trial that the Queen wonld never have the ears of one of her dogs cropped.

Farm and Household.

USEFUL KEClra, ETC. , A small or moderate-sized tree, says an exchange, at the transplanting win usually baa large bearing tree sooner than a larger treq set out at the same time, and Which is necessarily cheeked ingrowth by removal. Furniture Polish.-r-Take two ounces of beeswax, cut fine: spirits of turpentine, one ounce; one drachm of powdered resin; melt at a gentle heat, and add two drachms of Indian red to give it a mahogany color.. Lemon-pies vbom Rhusaku —The pie plant is first cut fine, stewed, strained, and to a pint of the liquor is adilftd half a cup of butter, three eggs, loaf sugar till it fi very sweet, and extract of lemon. Have a rich paste in cuitard tins, and fill with the mixture. Whip the white of an egg to a stiff froth, and spread over the top, and sift upon this a little powdered sugar. Bake In an oven not too hot. Autumn Peas.—lt is not a common practice to grow peas for eating greens in the autumn months, but we have found that when planted in August at a depth of from four to six inches they grow well, and during September commence blossoming ; and when froets have destroyed our beans, tomatoes, etc, our peas are ready for gathering, and prove a very desirable table acquisition for the season. We sow only the early sorts, such as Carter’s First Crop, Little Gem, etc., for this late production.— Horticultunit.

Repolishing FcßNrrußE.— Oiled furniture that has been scratched or marred may be restored to its original beauty simply by nibbing boiled linseed oil, used by painters, on the surface, with a wad of woolen rags Varnished; fhrniture, dulled, may be similarly restored by the use of a varnish composed of shellac disolved in alcohol, applied in a similar manner. Common beeswax rubbed over furniture and heated J»v the friction of a woolen wad briskly used, is also an excellent furniture polish.— Exchange. French Pancakes— Take blx eggs, separate the yolks from the whites; beat the.whites on a dinner plate to a snow: beat four yolks with two table spoonfuls of sugar, two of flour, and a teacupful of cream; add a little salt and a very little «rbonate of soda; put in the whites of p eggs and mix gently. Put one onnee pf butter in a frying pan; when hot, pour in the Whole pancake. Hold the pan a .good distance from the fire for fifteen minutes; hold before the fire to brown on th*. top. Dish on a napkin. Put any kina of preserved fruit over it. Serve hot. A Remedy foe Cribbing Horses.—Mr. Sanford Nowell, of Sanford, informs us that his (buddy for a horse addicted to the habit of “cribbing” is to buokle a strap arUffiff Che Reck of a horse just back of the ears and jaws. Have the strap an inch or an inch and a half axle and buckle it tight as the aninuifowill bear. This strap may rensaimupon tl» animal’s neck in the stall, or harasuM or pasture without any inconvenienoit and will, he writes, “ surely stop the animal from cribbing.” Mr. Ntraqllpoptinues.: “This disease, if you wlßpemtit me to c&U it such, ti in my opinion, entirely a nervous disease. I never knew alow-lived horse to *) crib; ” it is always Che high-nerved or highspirited animals that are addicted to it.”— Maine Farmer.

Quick and Easy Cure for Founder.

Many years ago I learned a cure for founder in horses, wbieh is so simple, and has proved so successful in my hands, that I send it to you, thinking it-may be of Ser•ripe to some of your readers. Clean out the bottom of foot thoroughly—hold up the leg so as to bring the bottom of the hoof upward, holding it firmly in a horizontal position, and pour in, say a tablespoonful of Spirits Turpentine, if the cavity of the hoof will hold that much—if not, pour in what it will hold, without danger of running over; touch the Turpentine with a red hot iron, this will set it on fire; hold the hoof firmly in position until it all burns opt. Great care must be taken that none atps over on the hair of the hoof, lesUhe skin be burned, If all the feet are affected bum turpentine in each of them. Relief will speedily follow and the animal he ready for service in a short time. I once applied this remedy-* a h<¥*® which had been foundered twenty-four hours before I saw him, and he was promptly relieved. In another case, Where the animal could hardly be induced to move, his suffering was so great, he was treated in the same manner, as soon as his trouble was discovered, and in lfiskthan an hour afterwards; hid was hitched" to a buggy and driven some twenty-five miles the same day—all lameness disappearing after he had traveled a few miles. —Southern Cultivator.

Pinching encumber Vines.

I had a narrow border, not more than tyo and a half feet wide, on the edge of a paved yard, enclosed by a high fence. I planted three encumber hills in the border, and laid some brush (such as is used for pea-vines,) between them and the fence. As soon as they crept up to the top of the brush, I pinched off the ends of the vine which thickened rapidly around the roots, and in every direction, throwing out the most vigorous foliage and prpfupion of I did net-aflgn^the cucumbers to grow, but watched them, and such as I wished to reserve for, the table I picked as soon as they beeame ‘of proper size i all the rest were gathered every day for pickles ; every day pinching off the bud at the end of each shoot. In this way the hill continued. fresh and productive until they Gere touched by frost. Some judgment can be formed of the value of this practice when I add that more than a barrel of .pickles were made from three hills, besides allowing a supply for the table. Whenever the leaf began to look rusty or yellowish, it was removed, and every cucnmber and the leaf were cut off with large scissors, so as not. to disturb or wound the vine. There is an advantage in having them run up on brush instead of trailing over the ground; because they are much injured by being trodden on, and by 6i the bushes they can be easily and thoroughly examined every day, which is essential, because if cucumbers are dterlooked, and grow W fetter I*9*o* frajaeUAif that rine. — Cor. Herticuliufitt. »

Better Tillage.

Farmers fe gfeheral expect a yield of whereon they grow. Yet it is obvious that if one should scatter seed over an acre of rock it would perish: if over the rock there was a layer-of: soil two or three inched in depth, the seed might reproduce itself; add as much more soil and an ordinary yield might result; and again if this depth should be dpubfed, and, umde .availSide to the plant, who dofibts that proporprofits would be derived? imperriomr nature. Jtf that, fte tender roots could penetrate -it, sad make use of its fertility, it would then require loosening, pulverizing, aerating, and in short, thorough cultivation, and according to the depth -and thoroughness of that cultivation would'be the amount of plant food made available aad consequently the yield of the crop. ? :

Thta la practically the condition of moat of our land; it oontalna plant food enough to double the average yield of crop*, if it weri only made available to them, but the unworked aub-aoll la like rock, confining the roota Of planta to the comparatively thtn arable aurfaoe noil. Instead of coveting your neighbor's lands and putting forth great efforts to secure more surface, is it not more profitable to cultivate deeper that which you already possess, and double its productiveness» With most of our farm crops the amount of roota determines the quantity of products, and roota will develop abundantly wherever there is room and food for them, but they cannot push their way into stony lumps, nor live in hard pan layers where there is no air. On many farms underdraining lies at the foundation of improved culture. The stagnant water must pass off or air will not enter the aoil, nor the latter remain loose any length of time after l>eing stirred. Then comes a fair depth of surface plowing, followed by aubsoiling to any practicable depth. This way of preparing stubble ground for spring grain is excellent Before sowing cultivate deep across the furrows with a long toothed cultivator. A seed bed of finely pulverized eartb, ten or twelve inches deep, can thus be obtained. Wc have seen oat-stubble prepared for wheat by plowing to the depth of twelve inches, harrowing, rolling, then stirring, the soil nearly to the bottom of the furrow by a long-toothed wheel cultivator, to which four horses were Attached, four abreast, and all was finely pulverized. Such a chance for wheat on strong loam or clay land is better than most summerfallows. Farmers, look to your possessions down in the ground; there are richer mines than those in the far mountains, and the patient worker thereof wins health, peace and competence.— l»wa Homestead.

The Increase of Insects.

It is a common remark that insects destructive to fruit and injurious to fruit trees, have been generally on the rapid increase in most parts of the country. The cultivation and improvement of the land,and more abundant vegetable growth, and other facilities for the multiplication of these depredators, have favored this increase. Remedies are talked of and discussed, but uo general effort of an energetic character is made to crush them. At the present time, and for years past, sentimental writers have proposed to throw all the work on the birds. But although some of the birds have Increased almost as rapidly as the insects, the latter still multiply. They have proved entirely inadequate for the purpose, although they may have done some good. Instead of looking idly on, and hoping that birds may save the fruit, cultivators must take hold vigorously with both hands. One active man is worth a thousand birds. As an example, we may mention a single ex-j periment on the orchard caterpillar. ThiffS insect appears in large numbers only occasionally. A few years since, it was found to he rapidly increasing, and threatened on the approach of the growing season to strip a fine young orchard of several hundred pear trees. The birds had proved entirely insufficient to check them. An active man was set to work—-first to cut eff and destroy the rings of eggs in winter, and afterwards to swab nr crush’ the young larvae in their nests. Three days were thus occupied altogether, and the number of insects destroyed was estimated at half a million.' Clean work was made of them. All the birds in the country would not have done it, judging from the slight impression they made on the caterpillars. In another instance a nursery of several thousand pear trees became badly infested with aphides, but the birds did nothing. A man with a few pails of strong soap suds cleared,them in two days. Naturalists and fruit men have been searching for years to find some birds that will take hold of the curculioa. Their search has not been successful, unless we except turkeys, and those have to be fed with young larvae in the fallen fruit, and not with the puncturing beetles. So long as we look on with our hands in our pockets, hoping that some other animal will do the work we should perform ourselves, we may expect failure, For a few years past, during our own experience in employing men, we have the trees bending with heavy crops of plumbs. Before we employed them, we had scarcely a dozen good ones in a season, from tix dozen trees. —Country Cent.

The Atlantic Monthly.—The literary feast famished by the Atlantic tor JMly is summed up-iu the following table of contents: The Drummer Ghont, byJ. W. DeForest; Birch Browsings, by John Burroughs; A Statue, by Mr*. 8. M. B. Piatt; The Foe in the Household Part V.—by the author of “ Victor and Jacqueline" ; Thomas Crawford—a Eulogy, by G. S. Hillat4l Gabrielle de Bergerac—l.—by Henry James, «*>•' Three Years as a Negro Minstrel, by Ralph Keeler; The Restored Picture, by J. T. Trowbridge ; Marrying a Pickpocket, by George B. Woods; The Greek Goddesses, by T. W. Hieginson; Our Inebriates, Harbored and Helped; French and English Art-Writers, by Eugene Benson ; Reviews and Literary Notices. The Atlantic is published by Fields, Ossood <fc Co., I*4 Tremont street, Boston, Mage. $4.00 per year; two copies, $7.00; flve, $18.00; ten, $30.00; twentyotae, $80.00; siDgle numbers, 35cents. Godky’s Lady’s Book.—The illustrations given in the July number are: The Wreck —asteel plate; Colored Fashion-plate-six figtires; The Signal-a tinted picture; The Exchange—a handsome wood-cut; A large extension sheet of fashions, containing thirty-nine engravings ; Four designs of the latest style of bodices, etc.; There aro also twenty-two designs of useful articles In the Work Department; A cottage is also given, with the plans. Marlon Ilarlaad, Ino Churchill, Pique, and Helen Maxwell have first-class stories in this number. The usual amount of valuable Instruction is given in the Work Department.’and many valuable receipts will also be found in their proper place. Published by L. A. Gooey. Philadelphia. One copy one year, $3; two copies, $5; three, $7.50; four, $10; flve, and one extra, sl4; eight, and one extra, s*l; eleven, and one extra, $*7.50.

©ur Young Folks for J Chapter XIV. of the Story of a Bad Boy relates to the Cruise of the Dolphin and the tragic end of one of the Rero's youthfnl companions, who was carried out and lost at sea. The other contents are: Lawrence in a Coal-Mine; In the Happy Valley.. The Unsociable Colt; Navigation and Discovery before Columbus—continued ; How to Write; Twelfth Packet of the William Henry Tetters; In the Cottage; Water Lilies: Lady Moon—a Child’s Song, with Musis; Round the Evening Lamp; Our Letter Box. Amply illus. trated. The publishers announce that an agreeable surprise awaits the reader in the next (August) Instalment of the Story of s'Bad Boy. Fields, Osoood* Co., Boston, Mass. s*.oo per annum; three eoptfcs, $5.00; five, $8.00; ten, $15.00; twenty, $83.00 with extra copy. ,>— ■„ ■ ra « ae m. , ~~ •. - Bad Practice.—You might as well expect to relieve and cure an inflamed eye by dusting irritating powders into it as to expect to subdue apd care Catarrh (which is an inflammation of the mucous membrane of the air passages in the head) by the use of irritating snuffs or strong caustic solutions Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures Catarrh pTi iu mild, soothing action which subdoes the inflammation and restores the natural secretion of the mucous follicles. It is a pleasant remedy, Its use being attended and followed by a cooling and agreeable sensation. I%s proprietor, R. V. Pierce, M. D., of Buffalo, If Y., offers $llOO for a case of Catarrh that he cannot care. Sent by hull on reoeipt of Sixty Cents. Address the proprietor as above. Par saln-by moat DroggieU everywhere.

• An Englishman wishes to know if the children of Hath were Hamdricans I Dr.&cott, the proprietor and editor of tho Lebanon Star, la a prominent physician Perry Darla’ Pain Elllar, „|d and wall known remedy, which baa acquired a world wide renown' Mr the cure or sudden colder-cooebs. etc., weak atomach, general debility, naming aore month, cankered month or throat. If rar complaint, dyapepals or Indigestion, cramp and pain In the atomach, bowel complaint, painters' colic Asiatic cholera, diarrhea and dyaentery, haa loet none of He good name by repeated triala; bnt contlnnea to occupy a prominent poettion In erery family medicine cheat.— Lebanon Star , Du. lStt, IHSH.

Science Ad vances.

As noon aa an article purporting to be of utility hue been tested, and tU merits endorsed by public opinion, unprincipled parties endeavor to replenish their deploted parses bjr counterfeiting, and anbstltnting a spurious lor the genniae article. Some time since, mercory, In the dlagntae of pills, powders, Ac., was given for all diseases of the stomach aad liver, while qalnlne was freely administered for the chills. At length HOHTKTTKK’S STOMACH HITT BUS made Its advent, and an entire new system of healing was inaugurated. The beneficial effects of thta valnable preparation were at oagp acknowledged, and mineral polsona suffered to sink Into tkat obscurity to which an enlightened age has consigned them. There have been many spurious Bitters palmed upon tho community, which, after trial, have been found perfectly worthless, while HOB- - haa proved a blessing to thonsands, who owe to It their rastoraUon to health and bapplneaa. For many years we have watched the steady progress of HOB TETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS In public estimation, and Its beneficent effects as a cure for ail complaints arising from the stomach of a morbid nature, and we are free to aay that it can be relied npon as a certain relief and remedy. Its proprietors have made the above preparation after years of careful study and sitting, and are now reaping the reward claimed by this valuable specific, and which they so richly merit. It Is the only preparation of the kind that is reliable In all cases, and It therefore demands the attention of the afflicted.

The Constitutionally Bilious.

No two parts of the human body more strongly sympathize together than the Stomach and Liver When one is deranged the other Is generally ov of repair. And at no other period of the yearai e they so liable to become deranged as now, and thus lay the foundation of disorders which will rob life of its pleasures, and, perhaps, end In death itself. The stomach note requires an antlblllons tonic, the liver needs toning Immediately, and the blood ought to be cleansed and purified. Perhaps you do not realize the force of this statement; but, nevertheless, the necessity for observing It does exist. Be warned in time, and seek safely and exemption from disease by using MISni.KR’B HERB BITTERS every day regularly. It is a certain care for all diseases arising from a disordered stomach and liver, and a reliable protection to all who are constitutionally predisposed to billons complaints.

Agents are wanted by the American Life Ins. Co. of Philadelphia. Sec advertisement elsewhere. See advertisement of J. 1. Case * Co, Kaclne. Wls. THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE. PERRY DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER. riCHR lAIN KILLER A Is both an Internal and External Remedy. r PHK PAIN KILLER L Should be used at the drat manifestation ol Cold or Congh. 'PHK PAIN KILLERX Don’t fall to keep It In the house randy for use. r |tH« PA N KILLER A Is an almost certain onre for CHOLERA, and has, without doubt, been more successful in curing this terrible disease than any other known remedy, or evea -he most eminent and skillful Physicians. In India. Africa and China, where thle dreadful disease Is ever , mure or less prevalent, the Pain Killer Is oonslderea by thu natives as well as by European residents In those . ollmates, a sure remedy. vhvHß Pain killer— X Each Bottle Is wrapped with full directions foj Its use. at-J v The good people or the West sbonld always keep l» them a good preparation, and PAINKILLER Is that preparation. Don't be deceived by the many worthless stufib oUered, such as “King of Pain. “ Pain Paint,” and the Ilka. The Pain Killer Is kuowr to be good. qrtHß PAIN KILLER X Is sold by all Druggists and Dealers In Family Medicines, BORR RYEB CURED. —The following latter will prove the merits of Dr. Weaver’s Cerate. It will cure all eruptions and diseases of tho skin : “ HiWn.ro*, Ohio, Ang. 17,18 K. “ I have been afflicted with ton and teen* spa. for the last five years—on the recommendation of a friend, 1 was Induced to use Dr. Weaver’s Cerate. and have derived great advantage from Its use. “JOHN H FALCONER.” CKSAIK SOLD BY ALL DRVOBISTB.

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MANVFAOTUBKD BY OWENS. LAME, OVER Sc CO., Sole Mannfactnrera of the Celebrated ECUPSE SAWMILLS 4 ENGINES. For Circulars, Prices, Ac. address them at Manufactory, or Branch House. HAMILTON, OHIO, qT. LOUIS, Mo. A GUARANTEE. ’ Any good and aatmiri sing peraou can make *3,000 In the next three months by following our Instructions ' THINK OF THIS Ye who stand with your han de crammed In your pockets muttering what shall Ido to make money. We want one good smart man in every town—one who can keep hta business to Mmself-to act confidentially with a*. NO OLD MAIDS Nor ministers wanted. u Hnslneia not to be known to your nearest friend. Persons in maklu* application will consider themselves underoatn notlo.il vulge the business. Now to Vonr tlnw or never to niue money. Knclose 35 cen's with plainly written address lor o„r confidential circular, riving lull Irstrncllon. Adieus. I>K LAY AtX>..Us4 Broadway, If. Y. i Tli® Band Re®vep, medicxtjsd the Seltser Spring. Msn discovered Its priceless Virtues. Chemistry analyzed It, tad now reproduces It I'd the twinkling of an eye from Tabjuxt’s SrmnscuT Seltxbb Ar ebiint. The moment the powder is liquified, eveijr curative apd refreshing element of the original Spa foama and dances m the goblet, and Indigestion, biliousness, constipation, fever and headache take flight under Use operaHoo of the delightful draught. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

*' FIHBT-CLABB Chicago Houses. FABWBU J. V. *OO., Important 43. 44 end 4S Wabash Jobber* In Dry Hoods and Notions, F“ K D B whom2a aiiff -1- nunnery and Straw Goods, Ladles' Furnishing and Fanny GowUT^ ■W Orders solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. ahrim.h.7 « South Canal it-. Fire and Bnrglar Proof Bafea * Locks. VELOCIPEDE WHEELS, Carriage and Wagon Wood-Work * Wagon and Carriage Makers, we oan make It to advantage to call and see us when In the ottv. I W Hand tor price Hit. _ Trow ft SMITH, 00 West Randolph 81 , Chicago mum paper! —d- . The Patent Shoathing and Roofing Board manulke . lured by the Kook River Paper Co- 13 LaSalle street Chicago, I. used with universal success to make hon.ea warm and dry, a. follows: on the ate Is Instead at sheeting; between the sigetlng *nd siding; under ■hlugles orslate; on the lusld-. underfioora; unit instead of plastering. Ordinary houses mar be covered on the outside for the trifling sum or Ten to Tbirtv Dollars, according to also. ’ 1 IF Samples and descriptive circulars sent frso to any address. Rock River Paper Co., Chicago. yTneoari article. Warranted pore and to prwarvs pickles. FIRST PREMIUM at the U. 8. Fain 111. State Fair, and Chicago City Fair. Larmst worfc of tho kind la U.g. Established 1848. 339*341 State 81., Chicago. ri m wmm Manufactured by the

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Northwestern Fire-Extinguisher Co., Til) WASHINGTON ST- CHICAGO. The Board of Underwriters and the Fire Commit tioners of Chicago have recommended their general Introduction U. P. Harris, Late Fire Marshal of the olty, hat placed them on tale la his warehouse of fire, men's materials, 10 Wells St- as the best thing of the kind In use. John V. Farwell ft Co., have solicited the privilege es selling them to their customers, aa the has. means of protection against lira. fPfjWWVI Msuufhrlured by L ILlLtf] N The National Watch op el>oin « ■'lf N\ prase ana, East and Waal, ft® _Rwaajcff-u \1 to be the meat eerreet II 11 Time Keepers made. II rJJJhktCTr 3 "—-JJ Arold parties who md> \\ of] yertlsc to send Watches VyngrTifek // ** 0.0. D.” PURPORTING TOP «, /Jf to be of oar nake. Ws furnish aoae tor that !Rf F V purpose. There are lasi. If ArrUf.l Ist ions in market. Tc VYMTVfIftIV gat GENUINE ELGIN WATCHES, apply to dealers In sour own locality at elsewhere, whom yo* kaow to be honorable. Baslaess Office and Sale* Room ISO A 181 taka GREAT NATIONAL FIRE WORK COMPANY. UNION DEPOT, LYON BROTHERS, No.SSnourtland St., Near York. lTneqaalled4n Brilliancy, Quality and A-aottmont; fiVl PI.O V MKNT ihatpav*. For particulars, address ts. M. BPKNUBR ft CO.. Bratfleboro, Vt. CLOW lIOKMKH MADE FAST and Fast Horses O Made Faster. Plain, practical Instructions for improving speed and style, snd much other valuable Information In No. 13 or II ANKY’S JOURN AL,on>r five rente of any newsdealer, or J nasa Hahit ft Go., 119 N assail*'.. N. Y. Has exposures of hambuga. 010.00 PKH DA V GUAM A MTKKD Agents to sell the Iloxa Shut-tub Biwims Mauhuts. It makes the tool stitch, alixx oh both bid**, has the under feed, and Is equal In every reaped to any Sewing Machine ever Invented. Price 835. Warranted for 5 years. Send for circular. Address Johhsoh. Clabk ft Co.. Boston. Maasu. Pittsburgh. Pa., or Bt. Lents. Mo. Fauna* HntTowx, Knox qo,, O- • November 1, l 3«. I UppurooTT ft BaKBwmUL— Dear Btr» .-—I received your second Bed Jacket Art per express, and now acknowledge the satse. For t’ae benefit of all whose desires or necessities make It kbetr business to chop with an axe, l would aay: Tty the Red Jacket; and, as the Supreme Court have held that a Doctor's opinion without his reasons Is of Uttle value, 1 will give my reasons: Ffrss—The Red Jacket cute deeper than the common bit. Ascend—lt being roi nd on the out. It does not stick In the wood. Dtii d —Every chopper with the common aae must die lover that there Is sa much labor and strength expended la taking the axe oat of the out as la making unblow. FbunJl—This with the Red Jacket Is all avoid ed, and from one-third to one-half the labor Is saved t?« cutting the same quantity. By putting In ttse same labor that Is necessary with a common aae, you can easily make at least thirty-three per cent, more wood In the same time. You are safe In letting any honest man try your Red Jacket on ttusie teals, andl It falls, refund him kla money. Respectfully, yours, HARRY BALDWIN. For sale by all responsible dealers, and tne mannraq turers, LIPPINCOTT ft BAKRWKLL. PiTTsßUasn, Pa., Sole owners ot Colburn's and Ned Jacket Patents.

HCROFIi LA, Rrysluelaa, Catarrh, Fever Bores, Ac , cared or the money refunded, send 10 eta. for circular or »1 for pills. J. R. B. Peowimb, Philadelphia. Pa CHINE. Price 6’J.l.The nm! bent Knitting Machine ever Invented. Will knit vtitrhcajM>r minute. Lib**ri»liml«»eciin’Dti*t*»Apeiitn. Ailrlres**AMEßlCAN KNITTING MACniNK CO.. Tbwton. Maw., or St. Mil ' ATTENTION FARMERS!~ What Throflhlog Machine and Horae Power took \ha Flrut Prtoen at the State Palm for 1868 la tb*. # our great gral'i srowlnf Staten, fLLfiIOIH, WlMC^Nril^ Th.it of J. I. Casa A Co., Raoiae, Wiaoiwwir with their celebrated Woodliury Moo'atfd Horse f*ower They are the most extensive nishufacturers of Thresh', lng Machines In the United dWtra. Maul far Circular u escribing the Thresher and the Mounted Power, and alao tba Climax and Pitts Powers made by them. B3GOO® ri A LAKY, Address U. 8. Piano Co., N Y. I A RICO EUR TEN. CENTS L AUIlu we win send you by return mall ■ «vw two papers Mlliward’a assorted live to ten Needles, Descriptive list sad circular of our GREAT ONE DOLLAR SALE. Agents emu earn a Silk Dress, or aSo ,d Walou, a dewing or Knitting Machine, In a few eve ulugs' work. Agents wanted. Address, MKBRKVK A CONS dadhurv BU. Boetrai. MasTTANKY’ri Art nf TRAINING Animals tells XX all secreu of the most suoceeaiUl trainers, horse br'-aklog, sporting dogs and all animals, all Uircnt Tricks, snake charming, farm animals, Ac. 30® laige pages, 00 Illustrations, only 3® cents o( booksellers or JUShu RaHst A Co, Its Nassau-st., N.Y. Only complete book. . ■ fWI CASH for Original.FD**Lß* wIU up IUU be given by muukyhan's Mobtblt. dee present number, of any newsdealer. Fear dlfierent numbers ua samples to readeiv,sent poaLpaid lor Fat’d Water-Proof Paperi Roofing, Siding, Veiling, y Carpeting. Water Pipes, \ j Eave Gutters, sc. Address ft a J. PAY k BOHB, Oamden, Yaw Jsmy. j{ Msa_gmaesaßnfTr—wer^iaßneasmne^ißß OUirCT \ dwgar Quietus, it warrant#W6tT gumme Svapma hL—- / OT Sold by Druggists, prescribed by the beet Phyiictsms. Made only by Fredasiek Smarm, uhcmlat, Detroit, Mich. BW® & broldt-r lu s »<M supnlur nianncr. Pdn >o)ly warranted for It we y em, We will nav BlujQ stir anr tfton> oai®. It make® the “Klnstie Stitch.” tr*n Mcoixt ma Weqt, snd .till the eloth t-.nn.it bs pulisd ae«rt wltiin.it w-nnsg 1L W.iuy ArrutsfWimante|3»|iermnbth >nd rsp.nta.m- . e.iiniuiwlnn fowl which twice that caw.Ul! esn be in.de. Addrcn SECOMH A CO, PlTTS.vaau, W. ' M«.s, of a T . IjK.t,. Mo. ’ ’ mtaherwlee. Quest. Ihetmfr geauine «sd| Ay pmSSs^

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