Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1870 — Page 4

Address or the Republlean Congresional Committee to the Party.

T ° l S(| , K3n < wd Lejrtadatlv? Department* or tbe NattoniA(kvernm«nband boon keeping. JSuch toon to bo bold &rß>?N*tion*l Boom of nMWßißbttm Tbeoe election* will doMmSta tbe political complexion of tbe popular branch of Oon/rrom They will, too, determine tbe political character of several State Government*. And thcae results wffll be accepted ai the Terdlot of tbe people upon the ideas, principles and polidea of the Republican party, and upon the measures ana character of the National Administration. To these responsibilities, and to the gravity of these Issues, vottr thoughtful consideration le Invoked. In the present juncture it behoove* the Republican party not to forget Its origin nor its history. Amid the difflcultiee that beset it, end the responsibilities and labors which the need of the country in the new and untried condition of affair* impose*, it should remember that it was born of the nation’s necessities, and thus far it has gradually met the exigencies for which It was formed. Having passed triumphantly through three great eras of its history, it is now sum moned to enter upon its fourth. Gathering, therefore, inspiration from past sue oessea, It should grapple hopefully and with unshrinking confidence with the . duties of the present and near falure.

origin or thx pasty. Recurring to their origin. Republicans will remember, when the land whs the theatre of a stern and irrepressible conflict between tbe demons of slavery and caste and the spirit of liberty and equality, when the slave power held great intereels and powerful organizetlonsin its grasp, and ruled the nation with Imperial sway, that the founders of the party, instructed by passing events, with convictions deepened and zeal quickened by the teachings of history and of holy writ, ami inspired by the deathless words of tbe patriots, statesmen and heroes of our earlier time, rose to tbe exigencies of the hour, op posed the haughty ambitions, the maddening passions, the cruel prejudices and the disorganizing theories of the dominating majority; and, although long overborne by numbers, still struggled on amid jeers, insults, mobs, blows and assassins tions, till, under the lead of Abraham Lincoln, they achieved success and grasped the sceptre of political power. ITS SECOND BBS. Entering upon its second era, appalling responsibilities at once arose. The slave masters, in the pride and arrogance of power instantly plunged the nation into the fire and blood of civil war. But the Republican party rose with the crisis. It raised money in unstinted measure, organized vast armies, created powerful navies, fought bloody battles, crushed the most gigantic rebellion of all recorded history, and saved tho nation’s life. It was then, amid the clash of arms, that the Republican party saw that slavery was the relentless and unappeasable foe of the country; was the inspiration, the heart and soul of that civil war, and that its death would be the annihilation of the rebellion, the unity of the Republic and the development of free insiitu tions. Against cowardly fears, selfish instincts and unreasonable passions and preindices, it pronounced the doom of that hideous and horrid system of human bondage, though it was upheld by the aggregated [interests oi three thousand millions of dollars, hedged about by the accumulated passions ana prejudices, prides ana ambitions of seven generations, and intrenched within the social, political and ecclesiastical organizations and affiliations of life. By a series of executive and legislative acts it broke the chains and lifted fr.m the depths of chattelhood up to the summits of manhood four and a half millions of hapless bondsmen, and stood before the nations with their riven fetters in one hand and their title deeds to freedom in the other.

THE THIRD ERA. The war ended, the rebellion subdued, the bondmen emancipated, the Republi can party entered upon the third era of its eventful history. Though conquered by arms, the rebels did not accept the just, humane and generous ideas of the victors, nor did they return to their proper allegiance and loyalty to the Government, but still bemoaning the “ lost cause,” they remained unsubdued in will and unrepentant in spirit and purpose. Though made free the bondmen were homeless, without property, without employment, subject to the cruel laws against free people of color, which had: always disgraced Southern legislation, and in the midst of a people exasperated by defeat, and maddened by their loss of riwer still longer to hold and oppress. roperty was swept away, industry dis organized, society disintegrated, and States were without lawful governments. THE WORK OF RECONSTRUCTION Upon the Republican party devolved the task of reconstruction. To its intrinsic difficulties were added the intense hostility of the ex rebels, the lingering prejudices long engendered by the slave system, the timid counsels of conservatism and the apostacy of the Executive. Great interests and powerful combinations sought to so reconstruct the South as to place the power in the hands of the late slave-holding class, and leave the helpless freedmen in the abject condition of practical serfdom. Seldom in history- has there been imposed upon any body of men & work of greater magnitude or difficulty. The Republicans might have shrunk from and avoided it They were sorely tempted to do so. Bat they resisted the temptation of official power and patronage, the threats ot Executive dictation ana all other adverse influences, and with sublime fidelity and courage addressed themselves to the herculean task. To aid in reorganizing disordered industries, caring for, protecting and instructing the emancipated bondmen in the new duties of their changed condition, the Republicans established the Freodmen’s Bureau, which, by the wise expenditure of a few millions of dollars, did an incalculable work for order, peace and the rehabilitation of Southern society. To reconstruct rebellious States on the solid basis of equal rights, they gave suffrage to the freedmen in the reconstruction measures. To secure citizenship and civil rights to a wronged and hated nee, they proposed and adopted the Fourteenth Amendment, and enacted the bill of Ciyil Rights. To establish by irreversible guaranties equal political rights and privileges they adopted the Fifteenth Amendment, and as a crowning act for freedom theylprovided by law for the enforcement of these amendments thus newly enshrined within the Constitution. Thus the Republicans, against opposition, against misrepresentation, against appalling obstacles, have straggled on until the rebel States, reconstructed on the basis of Impartial liberty, have been restored, and the sublime doctrines of the Declaration of Independence made assured and practical realities. In the progress of the ages it has been given to few, in any form or by any modes, to achieve a work so vast, so grand, so beneficient, so sure tp be recorded by history, and applauded and remembered by com lug generations. ITS FOURTH ESA. Having achieved this grand work, having passed through these-three eras of its history, tire Republican party entered on

Its fourth era, was summoned to deal with qneetlona relating to the national debt, the currency, finances and taxation, to reforms In the military, naval and Indian service, and whatever remaining burdens and legacies were left by the war. Concerning theae questions there are apparent diversities of interest* and real differences of opinion. The solutions of some of them are embarrassed by grave difficulties. They require time ea well aa financial ■kill and practical stateamanahip for their adjustment. Differences of opinions oil matters so recondite and complex, in an organization embracing so many men of large Intelligence, trained to habits of independent thought, expression and modes of action, are inevitable. They are indeed to be expected and desired, for lrom such freedom of discussion truth to elicited and proper modes of action are deduced. The men, therefore, who stood so firmly while In a minority, amid the denunciations, arrogance and soorn of power; the men who met the stem exigencies of civil war with such heroic courage, who assailed the slave power and extirpated the slave system; the men who grappled so successfully with the perplexing and pregnant issues of recon struction. lifted helpless freedmen up to citizenship, exalted them to the heights of civil and political rights and privileges, and made the nation free in fact as well as in name, should not shrink from the less momentous and less embarrassing questions now before them.

WORK TO BK ACCOMPLISHED. Patriotism, principle, the continued existence, reputation and renown of the Republican party, and a due sense of selfrespect and pride of character demand that Republicans now, aa in the past, should have faith In its capacity to carry forward to completion reforms so auspiciously begnn. it came into being as an organization of reform and progress, and should ever be ready to accept tho living issues of the hour and march abreast with the spirit of the age. Unaided it has fought the battles of reform with constancy and courage. Nor in the work still before It can it hope for aid from those who stilj cling to the traditions of the past, pride themselves on their conservatism, and who, during tho conflicts of the past twenty years, have resisted all reform, and mourned over every effete and hateful abuse as it fell. If there are Republicans who are weary of the ascendency of a party which has achieved such crowning victories, who are tired of the responsibilities of power, and would relinquish It to other hands, they should re member there are none worthy to accept it. For surely they cannot fail to see that the Democratic party, by its policy during the closing years of its power, and by its blind and unrelenting opposition to reformatory measures while out of power, even now, as if smitten by judicial blindness, refusing to accept the Constitutional amendments, as fixed and final, has demonstrated its utter incapacity for such a trust. .

PBESIDBirr GRANT’S ADMINISTRATION. Accustomed to success even against fearful odds, and underrating, perhaps, the intrinsic difficulties of the pending is sues, many Republicans looked to General Grant’s Administration with high raised expectations. Of course they have been impatient, and not always satisfied with results. But while these expectations have not been fully realized in the action of either the President or of Congress, much has been achieved, enough, at any fkte, to satisfy them that the difficult problems will be wrought out and the hoped-for results accomplished. General Grant came into office pledged to maintain inviolate the public faith, reduce the national debt, diminish taxation, appreciate the currency, reform abuses in the civil and military service, and maintain order in the States lately in rebellion. By the combined action of the President, the heads of departments, Congress anc. the General of the army, many abuses have been corrected and many reforms inaugurated President Grant's Indian policy is bringing forth evidences of its justice, its humanity and its wisdom. The firm, just and generous policy of the Administration toward the States lately in rebellion has brought much of order and security, and crimes have largely diminished . In the interests oi economy the services of thousands of employes, both civil and military, have been dispensed with. The currency has been appreciated in value by tens and scores of millions of dollars, and the national credit has been largely strengthened.

THE REVENUES. —~ Without any increase in tne articles subject to taxation, or in the rate of taxation, the revenues of the fiscal year ending 30th of June, 1870, were nearly $409,000,000 against less than 1371,000,000 for the year ending 30th of June, 1809, showing a gain of nearly 38,000,000. On the other hand, the expenses of the fiscal year, 1870, were less than those of 1869 by more than $29,000,000, thus showing an increased revenue and saving in expenditure of more than sixty-seven millions of dollars in the first fiscal year of General Grant’s Administration. In the last sixteen months of Mr. Johnson’s Administration the receipts from customs and internal revenue were less than three hundred and seventy-two millions of dollars. During the first sixteen months of General Grant’s Administration they were more than four hundred and sixty nine millions, showing an increase of nearly ninety-seven millions of dollars. Republicans will remember that during the last two years of Mr. Johnson’s Administration he removed Republicans appointed by Mr. Lincoln and others who adhered to the principles of the Republican party, and appointed Democrats where he could do so. The character of the appointments, and the demoralizing influence which his opinions and conduct had upon them, were seen in the loss of scores of millions of dollars of revenue in those years. The large gain in the collection is mainly due to the dctcrmined and avowed purpose of General Grant to secure an honest administration of the revenue laws, and the appointment of Republicans to office earnestly dovoted to Lis economical policy.

REDUCTION OF TAXATION. During the recent session of Congress taxes have been reduced more than $75,000,000. The taxes have been removed from transportation by canals and railways, from sales by dealers and manufacturers. The income tax has been reduced to two and a half per cent, on all incomes : above $3,000; and it is to expire at the end of two years. The tax on tea has been reduced from twenty-five to fifteen cents per pound ; on coflee from five to three cents, and the tax on sugar and molasses has been reduced in the Aggregate twelve millions of dollars per annum. By this reduction of taxation the industries of the people and the necessaries of life have been relieved of burdens amounting to millions The Funding bill is an important financial measure, which contemplates the saving of interest upon the Sublic debt by the exchange of outstandi g six per cent, bonds for those of a lower rate of interest, to the amount of $26,500,000 a year. While a reduction in taxes transfers the burden of the debt from one year to another, from one generation to another, a reduction in the rate of interest is an actual saving to the country, not only for the present generation, but for all time. And yet these important and beneficial financial measure-''., intended to lighten the public burdens, received little countenance and support from the Democratic party, whose responsibilities for the war, its losses, its expenditures, its debts, and its taxation, are so fearfully large. Not fruitless, but high, noble and glori-

ous to the record of the Republican party. History will note it, and the world will gratefully remember it. In the light ot this brier review of its achievements for patriotism, liberty. Justice and humanity, should not Republicans, one and all. cling to their grand organization, rectify its mistakes, correct lte errors, and keep it true to its past traditions, and in harmony with the enlightened and progressive spirit of the age T So doing, may they not perpetuate their power until their beneficent principles shall become the accepted policy of the nation 1

HENRY WILSON,

Chairman of tho Congressional Republican Committee. James H Platt, Secretary.

CURRENT ITEMS.

A Joint Concern— Anxiety about the butcher’s bill. The Japanese have Just got to using American kerosene lamps. At a recent concert In Paris the Marseillaise was sung thirty-two times A London market man was recently arrested for selling the meat of a donkey. A charming milkmaid of Vermont to under arrest for breaking the oow’s back. Dividends are applied to keep the policy in force in the Washington life of New York. Experimental Philosophy Trying to borrow an umbrella. Moral Philoso-phy-Refusing to lend it. A Maine farmer gets up an hour before daylight, so as to put in twenty-five hours a day. The Charter of the Washington Life secures all the profits to the Insured. More than this cannot be done. The New York Evening Pott says there have already been eight days this year hotter than a single day last summer. A constant reader writes to ascertain if the cold shoulder so often given to poor dependents is bak’cd or roasted. The Richmond city government recently passed a regulation forbidding policemen to smoke, drink, or carry canes while on duty. Always do as the sun docs—look atthe bright side of everything. For, while it is just as cheap, it is three times as good for digestion. A Milwaukee ‘‘nuss’’ says: “’Taint much trouble to take care o' sick pussons; most on ’em don’t want anything, and, if they do, they don’t got it.” For thirty days recently past the mean temperature in Boston has been five degress above the average for fifty years past, and the first nlno days seven degrees higher. The cigars consumed in New York city amount to about twenty-three and a half millions a year, an allowance of twenty-three and a half cigars to each individual. A boy in a Maryland town fell dead the other day, after making a long run, “ clear round the bases,” while engaged in “ the national game.” The exertion was too much for hu stock of vitality. Worm lozenges sold in several Massachusetts towns, have been analyzed and found to contain strychnine, in a quantity calculated to cause great damage, if not death.

A man named James Jason, who was sentenced to the State prison in the year 1847, irom Posey county, Ind., returned to his former residence a few weeks ago, and found it occupied by his grandson and great grandchildren. At the time Jason was sentenced, twenty-three years ago, he was fifty-two years old. Tiie editor of the Blair (iowa) Register is in the watermelon business. He recently put this card in his paper: “To the person leaving the largest melon at this office during the season, we will send the Register for one year.” The largest and best melons in the county are being rolled into the office, and he and hia friends are feasting. A Mormon taint has discovered and published in the church organ a sure preventive of small-pox, which is: “After being exposed, eat a sufficient quantity of onions to move the bowels, and go on about your business. Try It, and report the effect to this office, so that it may be published to the world with more signatures than one.” The following is a succint but spirited account of the history of the Kilkenny cats: There onst was two cats in Kilkenny, And aich \ bought thore wa* one cai too many ; So they quarrelled and fit, And they gouged, and they bit, Till, excepting th.ir nails, _ ; And the tips ot their tail*, IdWMTor two cats, there warn’t any. “You have been a good scholar in your day, Ned; quite conversant with bookkeeping, I presume.” '‘No, sir, I can’t say that I am. What makes you ask such a question?” “Why, because you have no less than a dozen of my books; but noafitSf them returned, owing to your book-keeping abilities. Titr Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided that where, by negligence, sparks from a locomotive set fire to a warehouse near a railroad track, the railroad company is liable for the damage done by the fire; but the same tribunal decides that, if another house catches irom the flames of the burning building set on fire by sparks from the locomotive, the owner of the said premises has no remedy. A Pittsburgh man was in the habit of keeping a paper of arsenic in an old clock. His wife becamA very much depressed in spirits, owing to the heat and household cares, and knowing of the old clock deposit, made her quietus with the arsenic. Had it not been handy she Would probably now be alive. Papers of | arsenic arc not convenient articles to have lying ready in one’s house for any .emergency.

The Hartford Post has a sovereign preventive for hydrophobia, as follows: “If you see, your dog or your neighbor’s dog going mad, or think he is a dog that looks as if he might go mad, administer unto the cur, as a preventive, half an ounce of strychnine. Keep doing it until the animal pays no attention to any remark you make, and he will never hydrophoberin thin world.” The report that a young man in Alleghany, Pennsylvania, lost his speech by the explosion of a fire cracker, on the 4th of July, has bothered the eminent doctors. They all went to writing about the different organs of speech that must have been effected by the explosion, and now it turns out ihat it was a written speech that he- lost, which was in his pocket, and took fire from the firc-crackcr. A correspondent of the New York Tribune among the lakes of Maine writes that he asked a boy which was the best of several small lakes for fishing. The boy answered: “ Lake Pissaquattisaquaquapassamoquidynixeum ” —. At this point the correspondent walked away, reached a neighboring lake, fished three hours, and returned. On his way home he met the boy where he had left him, still looking on the ground, and just finishing -the name—“ oloosikuhugenisnuggi.” The writer dates his letter at “ Lake Munkatnnkoobogsquroitakooloonatic.” Toe Syracuse Journal says: “We were shown this morning a miniature steam engine, luanuiacturea by Mr. J. B. Crawford of Glasgow, Scotland. It is perfect in every part, and so small that it can be covered with a frdy’s thimble. It can be worked by steam, for which Mr. Crawford has a small apparatus prepared, but he usually works it by atmospheric

pressure through X flexible tube. with rubber air receiver. Mr. Crawford is an engine manufacturer, and made the engines on the Canard line of steamships. The pet engine was made aa an amusement and to ahow what could be done. It to undoubtedly the smallest working engine ever made.”

A fly shortened by several minutes the life df John Real, the murderer, who waa recently executed at New York. The Sheriff had arranged to raise his hand as s signal to draw tns black cap, and afterward to wave his handkerchief for the cutting of the rope. While standing with his hat in one hand and his handkerchief in the other, awaiting the end of the religions ceremonies, a fly happened to light upon his nose, and he unoonscioualy raised his handkerchief to brush it away, which the hangman, of course, took to be the pre-arranged signal, and at once cut the rope. “ Bovs," said old Silas, “ here to a watch that I wouldn’t give for the best cow in Squawvllle, n at the same time taking from bis jacket pocket a bulls eye watch about the size of a small tnrnlp. “Last fall, when I was digging potatoes, I lost this ere watch, and never found it until Deacon Daniels brought it to me one day last week. The deacon was going to Squawville, and in passing near my potato field, he heard the watch ticking, and followod the sound for nearly a quarter of a mile, and finally found the watch where I lost it six months before; and would you believe me, gentlemen, that watch never varied a second in all that time.” F J. Allday. of Ba inbridge, Georgia, publishes the following card in the Sun of that city : '■ I feel it my duty to say to the public that, owing to Whisky and Fool, a few weeks ago, I acted in bad faith toward my wife in making accusations against her that are entirely without foundation; and, as snch accusations have met tye public ear, I feel it my duty as a husband to coirect them publicly, which I freely do by saying that I am wrong and she is right. And, now, since Whisky, Fool & Allday have dissolved copartnership, I have been made to see my errors, of which I heartily repent, and would say, that a better woman, or wife, or stojl mother never lived—and let all the shame rest on me.”

The Needle-Gun.

1. The range of the needle-gun is from one thousand two hundred to one thousand four hundred yards, 2. The movements of loading are executed with the right hand, as follows: An upward stroke with the palm of the right hand against the chamber knob opens the breech; the cartridge is inserted into the cavity of the barrel; a push forward aud a downward stroke of the chamber knob with the right hand closes the breech, and another push at the needle chamber (with its spiral spring) completes the loading, and the rifle is ready to “fire.” During the whole movement the gun is held with the left hand, at a “ ready.” 3 The gun is never loaded cr reloaded while at “aim," simply because it is impossible to do so. 4. The powder is not ignited at the rear end of the cartridge, but next to the ball, where the igniting matter is placed in a kind of a socket of papier mache; and this is what gives more power to the ball, the powder burning from the front to the rear. 5. The cartridge is made up—ball in front, ball socket with igniting matter, Cowdcr. The shape of the ball resemles the shape of a cueumber, and is called long lead (ling blei). 6. The recoil of the gun is only felt when it becomes very much heated and the air chamber filled with the refuse powder. When clean, no recoil is felt at all. 7. In case the needle should break or bend or otherwise become useless, a new orc can be inserted in 1 css than five seconds ; each soldier carries an extra supply of six needles. The Prussian army has but one calibre for all small arms, so that infantry or sharp-shooters can be supplied with cartridges from any cavalry, pistol, or carbine cartridge wagon.

To Destroy the Currant Slug.

A number of remedies are recommended for destroying the currant slug, which of late years has become a pest, defoliating the bushes and causing the fruit to wither, or at least not to mature fully. Without speaking positively on the subject—not having had leisure to compare them critically—we believe the slug or little brown worm that cats up the leaves of the currant bushes, is identical with that making the same assault upon the rose bushes and grape leaves. A certain remedy is said to be “ green cedar bushes, cut in small pieces and scattered under the currant bushesand, it is added, “ there is something offensive about cedar to all bugs and worms, and they do not approach it." This may be true; but wo have no positive means at hand to prove it, and of course have no faith in it. We have had so many remedies of this kind for vermin of every description which have never proved their claims, that we have become a little “ jubis.” We kno# that the criptomeria and the arbor vitae are preferred by certain insects to attach to them their propagating houses, having with our own hands removed at least fifty from a single small tree; and have frequently seen the same nests on the American cedar on our own premises. • The best remedy, in our judgment, for this slug pest, Is the application of the solution of whale-oil-soap (as we have often before suggested) in the proportion of one pound to five gallons of water, sprinkled over the leaves from a watering-pot with a fine rose. It is certain death to all it touches.— Germantovm Telegraph.

Cabbages as Feed for Milch Cows.

I have had a little experience in this line,and am highly pleased with there suit; they come into feeding for milch cows after corn fodder has been killed by frost, and at a season of scarcity of other' green food; their value as a milk producing feed I think stands folly equal to any other green food I have ever fed; and the product that can be grown upon an acre is very large. Probably the most difficult part is the storage for winter use. To get the moat benefit with the least labor In storing and feeding, is the object (or should be) of those who raise any crop for green food for stock; hence it will be necessary to have some conveniences for storing and feeding the crop after it is grown. For myself, I think the feeding should begin ss soon as green corn fonder is injured by the frost; that is usually the last of September or first of October; the milch cows are then carried oa with a good flow of milk, which is much better than to let them fall and then try to bring them back by high feeding. I find that in changing feed we should begin moderately, ana increase as the animals get used to the feed, to the full amount desired to bo fed; then keep on steadily with that till another change is desirable, or of necessity most be made. Variety is of great benefit for all farm stock, and changes are often of great benefit to neat stock, more so than at first appears. The feeding of cabbages in connection with hay and meal, as proposed by “ A Subscriber,” will be found very beneficial.- at least each has been my experience for the past two years with them.— Correspondence Country Gentleman,

The Conditions of Snccessful FrultCanning.

PaopiiK can fruit on a fldte theory. It is that of driving the air oat of a jar by •team. This can be done, and perhaps sometime* is, bat I think of no circumstances in which I would attempt it. The true wav is to fill the Jar absolutely full of boiling liquid, and clap cover on, leaving no particle of air or iteam under it. Now to particulars: Fint. Take a glass Jar. It is unchangeable, and as good as now till it breaks. No fruit acts on It You can see its contents. Tou need not break it Second. Heat It till it will bear boiling liquids. This may be done by pouring in water that will not break it, and adding successive portlors of boiling water, shaking it after each. * Third. Dip in the substance to be canned from a boiling kettle, as deliberately as you please, so that the top does not get so cold that boiling water will break it Fill to within halt an inch of the very brim. Fourth. Lay a circle of stiff paper on the surface. Fifth. Pour on a quantity of boiling water, letting it run over the top, till the last particle of foam is washed away. The paper keeps the steam from washing away the surface beneath. Sixth. Put on a hot class cover, that will project a little into the mouth of the Jar, with a rubber ring between the top of the jar and the shoulder of the cover, so that no air can pass the cover. Seventh. —Put op a clasp or other contrivance, to hold the cover and rubber firmly against the top of the jar air-tight. The lid touches the surface of the boiling water, and there is no place for air or steam in the jar. But as it cools, the surface of the liquid sinks away from the cover, and it looks as if there was air in. The more rapidly filled, the greater will be the vacant space. The less of liquid in the contents, the less the space. Eighth.— Test tho jar when cold. Remove the clasp or other contrivance without disturbing the cover. If now you can remove the cover with your fingers, the jar is not sealed. If jar or cover be deficient, sealing may be impossible. If all be tight, replace the clasp and rest secure. Of course with many patterns of Jar, these directions cannot be followed. Reject all such jars. A jar might fulfill all these conditions, yet be unsatisfactory and difficult to open, because air cannot be conveniently let in by passing the point of a knife betweon the jar and the rubber. r I see no reason why jars should not be as good after a use of twenty years as at first. They will keep quick-lime, potash, spices, ground coffee, putty, and perhaps paints and varnishes—certainly if the mouth and cover can be kept clean. None of these need a vacuum.— Rev. J. F. Holton, in Journal of Horticulture.

How to Move Stooks of Corn.

A writer in the Prairie Farmer says : “I have a useful implement on my farm that 1 have never seen with any one else —that is, of the same k.nd and for the same purpose. It is a boat for drawing etook or shock corn, made in the following manner: Take five sixteen feet stock boards, one foot wide of first class quality, and bolt four pieces across the top of them at eaual distances. The one at the forward end had better be made of hard wood. Then take a chain and attach it to the head piece so that it will pass between the two outer and the three middle pieces that compose the bottom, and have it extend forward about a foot, where it should be attached to the double tree, where you can hitch two, three or even four horses abreast. This is decidedly the best thing I have ever used for moving stook or shocked corn. It will draw easily over the grass in the fall or spring, and if in winter there is a slight fall of snow, so much the better. Last winter I drew twenty acres of corn on one and liked it very much, it was so easy to load and un load. The corn, of course, should vh§. placed on the boat crosswise, and ff-it-fr dry a very large load can be taken at once. Any farmer can make one of these contrivances in one or two hours’ time.”

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Sound Logic for the Sick.

The invalid has often good reasons to exilalm, “ save me from my friends.” As a general thing, each of thorn will have a different medicine to propose, and if he follows all their prescriptions In turn, their well meant advice may be the death of him. The only sensible coarse la any case ol sickness is to resort promptly to a specific which has stood the test of a long and widely extended public experience, and obtained on solid and sufficient grounds the reputation of a Standard Rvm- ’ ody. Thle rank among the restoratives of our day belongs of right, and beyond all dispute, to Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. Let those who are taking it at this debilitating season as an lnvlgorant, answer lor themselves as to Us tonic properties. Can any dyspeptic, who has evor used It, question Its superiority as a stoinachlo over every other medicine? Can a*y person of bilious who, has ever taken It for Uver complaint, doubt It* efficiency ? It Is believed among the tens of fiiousands who are now using, or have heretofore used It as an alterative and corrective, not one can bo fonnd who won d exchange It for any other preparation tn the known World. For Intermittent fevers, nervous debility, constipation, sick stomach, and all complaints arising from Indigestion or impoverlsnmant of the blood, It is tbe only article which can. bo conscientiously guaranteed, and no one who is thoroughly acquainted with its virtues will allow Interested dealers in worthless slop*, on which they make a larger profit, to furnish them in the place of the great vegetable restorative.

A “Tnlk” Between Two Wives. “Abon ■ week alter Thanksgiving,” write* a lady wbo signs her name Isms D. Kllerson. and dates her letter “ Bartlett street, Brooklyn, B. D.," “me and my Wend Mrs. A. McDaren, my next door neighbor, had a Berton* talk about our husband*. Mine is a lithographic printer and her'* a picture-frame glider. They had both been working over-hours, and were completely b-oken down, rested badly, conln’t eat, and complained of sick beadachA We had heard that Plantation Birms was ttnurme in such cases -, to we sent for two bottles, and persuaded our husband* to try the effftct. It worked Ilka a charm ; and now, after taking the Bitters for four weeks, they are both, to to speak, like new men. Their health and strength are thoroughly recruited, appetite* gond, spirits cheerful, and they say they can bear twice the fatigue, without Inconvenience, that they conld amonth ago. Thlnk'sg that the proprietors of inch an excellent remedy base a right to know the good It 1* doing, laend you theae linen.” _ Dsns’ Pam Kilt.br.—From the report# of dealers hi this city, we think no pronrleylry medicine baa had a larger sale. Its valuable properties, as a speedy cure for pain, cannot fall to bo generally appreciated, and no fhmlly should be without It, In esse of accident, or snddcu attack of dysentery, diarrhea, cholera morbus, and even Asiatic cholera yields to Its magic power, as we see by reports from those section* In the southwest where the disease has been particularly virulent the past summer.— Montreal Jrwuerlfrf.

U y<ra do not teM wall you rend aor a doctor, ha sails open yon, looks insa, scrawls some Uaro ciyphlcs upon a pioos «f paiwr which you taka to s drag store and there pay K cents to <I.OO, besides the doctor's toe, tor * remedy nine times oat a ton not half so good ** Dr. Moans Inns Hoot PtLld, which cost hot K cents per box. Do you think the tenner the best, because you pay the most tor It! If you do, we advise you to nee. Just as an experiment, the Moaan'l finnan Hook Pius. They are prepared from a formula pro aouncad by the most teamed physician* of our country, to be the beet end meet universal of tom lly medicines. Tbs Momsl*s firman Root Pi tt» care Head ache, Liver complaints. Indigestion, Dyspepsia, female Irregularities, Ac., and are put up both sugar-coated and plain. Git* them a trial, •old by slldealen. I“The simple purity of Baa Mots reams. Its *c knowledged heaUhfulnest, unrivaled flavor, delicacy, treat convenience and economy, will win for it, aa we believe n deserve*, the foremost place smony ell articles Intended tor similar purposes.”— Sun.

ORIAT SALS OP DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS & SHOES, AT AUCTION, By Wm, A. Batters & Co., Chicago, —OH— Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, September <7 JC S, IS7O. The catalogue will embrace a large and desirable Stock of DRY GOODS, DRESS GOODS, brown and WRITE MUBUNB, PRINTS, i LINEN GOODS. BEAVERS, CLOTHS, CLO AKI NOS, C ABSIM ERRS, GERMANTOWN KNIT GOODS, LADIES’ SKIRTS, SHIRTS and DRAWERS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, YANKEE NOTIONS, CARPETS, Ac Also, s desirable line of Ready-Made Clothing, Roots, (Shoes, Uniters, Balmorals, Hats, Caps, Arc. The Goode having been received from Manufsrtur WM. A. BUTTERS & CO., Auctioneers. Railroad Gazette. The Railroad Man’s Paper AN ILLUPTBATZD WEEKLY QUA CTO JOURNAL, OT Twenty-Poub Paqea, Devoted to "1 News and Taxic. <> in’rati ons. I Engineerlny. f Mechanics. XIJ B J.I J A I J’o Advertising. TEEMS: $3 per Annum; Single Copies, 10 cents. A. N. KELLOGG, Publisher. Tbe Most Popular Medicine Ex.aut. 1840! Thirty - friars {IB7O Since the Introduction of PERRY* DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER. Thirty yean It has been before the public, and In that time has become known In all parts of the world, and been used by people of all nations It remains, today, that same good and efficient remedy. Its wonderful power In relieving the most severe pains has never teen equaled, and it has earned its world-wide popularity by its Intrinsic merit. No curative agent has had so wide-spread sale or glYensuch universal satisfaction. Directions accompany each bottle. J. ft. HARRIS S CO.. Bole Proprietors, Cincinnati, Olilo. Bold by all Urairtfiti. 52 52 52 51 IS IS IS IS IS SOMETHING NEW! Will all those Afflicted with Cough or Consumption Read the following and learn the value of LUNG BALSAM. DR. LLOYD, of Ohio, Burgeon In the army during the wan from exposure, contracted consumption. He says: “I have no nesltancy in stating that It wm by the use of your LUNG BALSAM that I am now ailve and enioylng health." DJR. FLETCHER, of Missouri, says: “ recommend your BALSAM in preference to any other medicine k&' COhghs, and it gives satisfaction. ' ALLEN’S LUNG BALSAM Is the remedy to cure all Lang and Throat difficulties. It should be thoroughly tested before using any other Balsam. It will cure when all others fall. Directions accompany each bottle. J. N. HARRIS A; CO., Bole Proryrie'orS, Cincinnati, Ohio. gr-SOLP BT ALL DRUGGISTS. V DR. SHALLENBERCER’3 Fever and Ague ANTIDOTE Always Stops the Chills. TKia Medicine has been before the Public fifteen years, and is still ahead of all other known remedies. It does not purged does not sicken the stomach, is perfectly safe in any dose and under all circnmstances, and is the only Medicine that will CURE IMMEDIATELY and permanently every form of I ever and Ague, because it is a perfect A»tl» dote to IHalarir., Bold by all Druggists. New Mode of Secret Correspondence Instruments and !n«tvnctlons for communication between two persons, 60 cents. No Invisible Ink used. It Is a fine mechanics! Invention and simple to perform. No two sets alike. Address, Prof. S. B. T. GOODRICH, Lock Box 15, Dover, N. B. /TIIRIOftITY—A |lO and 120 -C) bill sent as acu 1 J rloritv for 50c. A.C- Jones, 27 Otis Block. Chicago, ' The surprising and unanimous sssent of physicians to tovor ofHOFk’S M A LT EXTRACT In certain forms of diseases, is owing to the rapidity of Its eflecu, which h-ra, in » certain measure, riven It the character of a •pacific. There exist but few tonics In cases of chronic cai arrhs, dlseaet s of the stomach, and above all, of the longs, which acts > mildly and at the same time so promptly as Hoff's Malt Extract has from Incontestable evidence been proved to set. BOLD BY Al t DBUGGrSTB AND GROCBFS. TARRANT* C0., 278 Greenwich St.,N.Y., Sole Aorni s fob United States, etc, estb. ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS’ Is Better ail taper than Soap. TRY IT. Wholesale In Chicaoo and St. Louis.' BY DRUGGISTS AND GROCER!*. - ii ■ .ii » ■ ■-- ..’■«■ .i| ■ .'| Get the Beet, Celebrated, Genuine OONOOBD HAIRIHESa. An kinds and descriptions constantly on handand made to order, firom tne lleUtost Bnggy to the heaviest Team Harness, and In every variety and style of mounting. Hone genuine unless stamped wtlfi onr name end trade mark. Price lists and circulars an application. Address JAMES M. HIM, A CO., Concord, N. U., Sole IToprlctors and only Makers.. toss” We have arrangements by which goods mode ■Hvered by It. It. Fast Freight at lowest rates, $75 TO SOLDIERS Permanently dUapled. Apply to 8.8. BLOOM & CO., D. B. Claim Agentt, Shelby, Ohio.

A MEAT MEDICiL DISCOVERY Dr. WALKER'S O \LIFOKWIA VINEGAR BITTERS Hundreds of Thoimnds »v Boor testimony to their Wonder- 9& A ° ful Curative Effects. g. 8 q lis WHAT ARE THEY? ■ "jfj .j, i * THEY ARE NOT A VILR i 3 || * 11 fancy drink,lll Made of Poor Rum, Whiskey, Proof Splriv nnd Refuse Liquors doctored, spiced and sweetened to please the taste, called “ Tonics, ’’ “ Appetizers," "Restorers," Ac., that lead the tippler on to drunkenness and ruth,hut are a true Medicine, mad* from the Native Roots and Herbs of California, free from.aU Alcoholic Stimulants. They are tho GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER and A LIFB GIVING PRINCIPLE a perfect Renovator and Invlgorator of the System, carrying off all poisoner* matter Ehd restoring the blood to a healthy condition* No person can take these Bitters according to dlvittlon and remain long unwell. •100 will be given for an Incurable case, provided the bones ore not destroyed by mineral poison or other moans, and the vital organs wasted beyondthe point of repair. For Inflmnmntory and Chronic Rhcumnv tlnm and Gout, Dyxpepaln, or Indigestion# Billons,Remittent and Intermittent Foyers Disease of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys an'.* Bladder, these Bitters hare been most Bucce-j----fbl. Such Diseases sre caused by Vitiate ! Blood .which Is generally produced by dcrahgemtut of tbe Digestive Organs. DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION, Heed ache, Pain In the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of tha Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Badtasto In the Mouth, Billons Attacks, Palpitation-, of the Heart, Inflammation ol the Lungs, Pain In tho regions of the Kidneys, end a hundred other painful symptoms, aro the offsprings of Dyspepsia. They lnvlgorato tho stomach, and stimulate the ton pld liver and bowels, which render them of unequalled efficacy lu cleansing the blood of all Impurities, and Imparting now life and vigor to the wbplo system. FOR SKIN DISEASES, Eruptions,Tetter, Salt Hiiucm,Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Dolls,Car. buncles.Rtng-Worms, Scald Head, Sore Eyes, Erysip. elas, Iteh, Scurfs, Discolorations of tho Skin, Humoro and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature are literally dug up and carried out of tho system In a short time hy the use of these Bitters. One bottle In such cases will convince the most Incredulous of their curative effect. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood whenever jon find it* lmpnrltlesburstlngthrongh the skin Inl’lmples.E-np, tions or sores ; cleanse It when you find It obstructed and sluggish lu the veins ; cleanse It when It Is foul, and your feelings will tel! you when. Keep the blood pure and the health of tho system will follow. PIN, TAPE and other WORMS, lurking In tho system of so many thousands, are effectually destroy, ed aad removed. For full directions, read careful'.* the circular around each bottle, printed In fonr languages—English, German, French and Spanish. J. WALKER, Proprietor. R. H. MCDONALD * CC. ; Druggist* and Gen. Agents, San Francisco, Caland 32 and 31 Commerce Street, New York. I?-SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS. CIDER.! I have discovered a process which cider can ha made 10 retain the pleasant taste 1& has immediately after fcrmentaiion, with all the Hie of champagne, with ut the use of drugs, and within the imans of ever? family. I will send the recipe to any one who will send one dollar to my address# campeilo. Mass. NATHAN KEITH* BLOOMINGTON NURSERY. 000 Acres. 19tli Year. 10 Greenhouse*. Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Nursery Stuck, KvergreeLS, Rcotgraits, Hedge Plant*, Tnlfps,. Hyacinths, Crocus. Miles, Colored Fruit and Flower Plat-s. All at Whdesalsaad lb tall, jjepd 10 eta. for Catalogues. F. K. PUCENIX, Bloomington, Ttt.

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