Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1871 — Page 4

A Night of Terror.

Tn following curious adventure happened in Bath, fij thuytarUtt-, and the lady who narrated it to the writer was iu those days a young girl stating in the hot#©. It wma in the palmy days of Hath, when the fallen city rivaled London in brilliancy and dlfadpaiion, and when all the rich, the gay and the high-born of Eiigland com;regated there in season and graced the balls and assemblies. Mrs. R , once the belle of the court of Group IIL, but at this period gradually ret Hug from general society, possessed one of tho laqgusi of Ihe old houses, and gave in it entertainments which were the ! most popular ol the day. She was celebrated for three things (once four, but the fourth—her beauty—waa of the days gone by); these things were her fascination, her benevolence, aud — a set of the mod bcautiful amethysts. - Her house doatalncd tapestried chain bers. The walla of the oue in which she slept were hung around with designs from heathen mythology, and the fines! pitch in the room was that hung over tier dressingtable. It represented Phosbus driving the chariot .of the sun. The figures and horses being life rise, it filled up the whole space between the windows, and the horses were connalcd behind the high, old-fashioned Venetian looking glass ; while Phcrbus. himself rix feet high, Wk--2 ed down by night and day upon- his mis tress at her toilet. One eveniug Mrs. R — had an unusually large party at home. She wore all h>r amethysts On retiring to her rqom, about four o’clock in the morning, sht' took off all her jewels, laid them on the table, and dismissed the weary maid, intending l-o put them away herself, bu before doing so knell down, as usual, to her prayers. While engaged in her devotions, it was a habit with her to look upwards,‘ and the face ot Phcrbus was generally the point of sight, as it were, and the ob ject on which her eyes most easily rested. On this particular night, as usual, she raised her dyes to Pho-bus. What does she see* Has Pygmalion been here to work* Has he filled those dull eyes with vital fire* Or is she dreaming? No. Possessed naturally of wonderful courage and calmness, she orih tinned to move her hps J as if in silent prayer, and never once withdrew her gaze, and still the eyes looked down on hers. The light of her candle shown distinctly on liquid, living orbs, snd her good, keearight enabled her, after a cleverly managed scrutiny, to see that the tapestry eyes of Phoebus had been cut out, and that with her door locked and the servants in bed in their distant apartments, and all her jewels spread out before her, she was not alone in her room. She concluded her praters with her face hinden in her hands. We can all imagine what those last prayers must ’ have "been! She km w there w as some one behind that tapestry; sh.- knew that the lulls and screams were equally use-h ss, and she lay down in her bed as usual, ami waited the issue, her only omission being that she did not put away her jewels. ‘-They may save my lifd,” said she to herself, and. she closed her eyes. The clock struck five before a sound was heard, aud then the moment arrived. She heard a ru-tle, a descent from behind the tapestry, and a man stood at her dressing: table, lie took off his coat, and one by one he secured the-riewtl.s beneath his waistcoat. What would be his next move? Would it be to her bedside, or the door, or windowy lie turned and approached her bedside; but bv that lime she Lad seen enough, and again closed her-eyes, resigning herself to the Providence whose protection she. had just been craving. Thii man was her coachman. Apparently satisfied, by a brief glance under Ms dark lantern, that he bad not disturbed her, be quietly unlocked her door and left her. For two hours—they mu>t. have seemed two days—she allowed the house to remain nualormed, her only movement having been to relock the door which her living Phcebua hail left ajar. At 7 iu’the morning she rang her bell, and order d the carriage round immediately after breakfast. All this was according to her usual habits. On the box was a man who had cost her a night’s rest, and, most probably, all htr jewels... However, she drove oftj she went straight to the house of a magistrate.- “ Seize my coachman,” said she; “ secure him and search him. I have been robbed, and I can handy think he has had time to disencumber himself pf. the jewels he has taken from me.” She was obeyed, hid sjm-was right; the amethysts were still about him f ami he gave himself up without a struggle. Ail he said was, “ I wish novy I had killed her. 1 H meant to do it: only she was so good I hadn’t the heart.” It is most ’probable that after this exciting episode the tapestry of that bed-cham-ber was remorselessly condemned, and the eyeless Phcrbus was consigned to oblivion.

The Bankrupt Law—Its Present Operation.

Inquiries are so frequently made respecting this act, a.nd it* important provisions are so imperfectly understood by business men, ana cveu most members ol the Bar, that we have'thought it advisable to give a brief extract of Its leading features, which our readers may rely on as being correct as far as it gefts". J • There are three classes of debtors who may desire to apply for the benefit of the act, or, if unwilling, may be compelled by creditors to go through bankruptcy, viz.: those who owe debts contracted before January 1,1869, (which for convenience may be called old debts); those who owe debts contracted since ‘.bat date, which we call new deb's, and those who have both kinds of debts. The first class, if they owe more than S3OO, and are unable to pay all their debts in full, may file tbeir petition (and schedules showing their liabilities ar.d assets) with the Clerk of the United States District Court in the district where they reside; deposit SIOO or costs, and, if they surrender all their property which is not exempt by the laws of the* Btate existing j in 1864, and by the Bankrupt act) and commit no fraud, they can, in from three to seven months, receive a discharge from all their debts, excepting such as they may , ovfe as guardians, administrators, or certain (Other classes of trustees. This first! class of debtors will generally have no diffl ulty in conducting their cases and obtaining a discharge, without the assistance of legal counsel, if they use proper care and good faith. With n spect to tie second and third classes (those who owe new debts) the proceedings are the same, but if their assets are not equal to one-half of their debts, the discharge will depend upon the action of their, creditors. Any of the new creditors who file depositions establishing their debts may prevent a qiicharge from the new debts, unless they receive the fifty per cent, but the majority in number and vajue, can give an assent in writing to a discharge from all debts. If the new debts are not ones on which the bankrupt is liable as principal debtor, they will be discharged the same as if they were old debts. If no depositions proving new debts an filed at the time of the hearing of the bankrupt’s application for a discharger he will be discharged from all debts without regard to their being old or new. If depositions proving new debts are lied on or before 6uch .hearing, and they are not security debts, and the assets do not pav 80 per cent, and no written con sent of the majority in numbers and value of such creditors is filed, and it appears

that the bankrupt has made a lair aurren der, he can take a discharge from the old debts, but not from the new ones. Almost any business man of fair ability can conduct his own esse, if an ordinary one, if he will obtain a copy of the bankrupt act. containing the rules and forms, aud examine it carefully.— Krchange.

Ballooning.

For a long time the most "famous ascent in ueioxlulic annals, was that ot (lay I,usssc, who, ip September, 1804, started from Paris and reached tbA height of twentythree thousand feet. To lighten ttyc had Mm he threw overboard every article he could possibly dispense with; a common deal chair went with the rest, and fell into a hedge cloae to a girl who was tending some sheep As the sky at the time was clear, and tho balloon invisible, some of the country-folk held that if must have come straight from Para . isc, and cried ‘‘A miracle!” others refused to think that ” the workmen up above there could be such muffs," for the chair was roughly made; but tlic miracle mongers would, no doubt, have carried the question had not a timely account of Luasac’s voyage ap P' an din the papers. Several years later, Audrcoli and Brioschi ascended, it is said, but it has never been fully b lieved, to an elevation of thirty thousand feet, when the balloon burst with a loud report, and eame to the ground with great speed, but safity near Petrarch’s tomb The torn balloon must have acted as a parachute. . Mr Glalsher has himself falhn, .in his balloon, two miles in four minutes, and lias landed without being greatly hurt. He and Mr. Coxwell became the champion aeronauts after thi ir memorable ascent from Wolverhampton on the sth of September, 1802. They rose to the enormous height of thirty-seven thousand feet, a mile higher than the highest peak of the Himalayas; at twentynine thousand feet Mr. Glaishcr became insensible ; the valve line‘was entangled, and Mr. Coxwell had to climb from the car into the ring to readjust it; the cold wus so intense that he lost the use of his hands and had to pull it with his teeth Green, .whose death we lately announced, was in his time the very prince of acroHSuls, and made some fourteen hundred excursions into the air; but he was not much of a scientific observer, having (as. he told M. de Fouvlelle, who visited the old man in his latter days at Aerial Cottage, Holloway.,) “to make his bread by. it.’’ i. by mounting into the clouds for the delectation of those who resort to teagardens. A balloon is poised in the air with exquisite delicacy.- Tissancier relates that throwing out a cbicken-bofie caused the Neptune to rise suddenly from twenty to thirty yards, and Lunardi’s barometer fell three degrees on bis casting away his hat. On sand being thrown but from a balloon rapidly it (apparently!) pistes into the air, and, as the balloon slackens speed, falls again in a fine shower. The sea is the great bugbear of the aeronaut; to save the land he will almost drop upon it like a stone. Mr. Glaisher, who chose Wolverhampton for his favorite place of ascent, U lls us that an aeronaut cannot get far enough from the sea in England, and requires all the land room of a continent to make his voyage with freedom and comfort. Balloon's have a great reputation for danger, but the three thousand five hundred ascents which have been made have caused only fitteen deaths. The most critical mom nt of an air voyage is its last: to be able to take the ground well and skillfully requires the greatest presence of mind as well as thorough experience, and even then there is generally more or less of a crash— Appleton's Journal.

Beecher’s Dog Story.

VTe know it is beneath the dignity appropriate to these editorial columns to tell a .dog story in them—a dog story with not eve .a moral attached. But after grappling with a six-column article in the vain attempt to get its pith into half a column (the truit of which labor is delayed by an accident tili next week), we are going to refresh bur minds, if-not our readers’, by Telling a dog story, pure and simple. W.e prote st in advance against any attempt by Mr. Darwin, his friends or his foes, to ded.ice from it that dogs can or cannot reason or to prove anything whatever. Now for the dogs—as to the veracity of the tale we personally vouch. A narrow log lay as_a bridge over a ravine. From*the opposite ends of the log, at the same itioment, there staited to cross it a big Newfoundland and a little Italian greyhound. Of course they met in tufe middle; cf course there waß not room for them them to pass; neither could they go back. The height was a dangerous one "to the g/eyhound, and to the water atrthe bottom he was extremely averse. The Newfoundland could have taken the leap in safety, but evidently did not want to. There was a fix! The little dog sat down on his haunches, stuck his nose straight in the air, and howled. The Newfoundland stood intent, lm face solemn with inward workings. Presently, he gave a nudge with his nose to the howling greyhound, as if to say, “ Be still, youngster and listen.” Then there was silence and seeming confabulation for a second or two. Immediately the big dog spread his legs wide apart, like a Colossus, bestriding the log on its extreme outer edges, and balancing himself carefully. The little dog sprang through the opening like a flash. When they reached the opposite shores the little greyhound broke into frantic gambols of delight, and the Newfoundland, after his more sedate fashion, expressed great complacency in his achievement, as he surely had a right to do.—Christian Union.

As True as Munchausen.

The following states the case rather strongly, but a correspondent of the New Sngl irid Homestead says every word of it is true. We think he must be mistaken, and that some one has imposed upon him, but as he seems to believe it and desires others to have the benefit of his discovery, we give it a place in our columns: “ A gentleman of our acquaintance had a Durham cow that gave birth, all at one time, to a two-year-old heifer that had no legs at all* Jf.r. Jones took a fivieeighths auger, and bored holes where the legs ought to l«e, and then drove in the legs of an old wash bench. He then applied Dr. Hutchins’ celebrated Indian hair tonic to the legs, which haired them over in one night, and br- mght out the hoofs most beautifully. The animal has since trotted her mile in 1:18, and took the first premium at the last agricultural horse trot at Hampden Park. During the month of January she suckled six caives and gave ten gallons of milk every day.”

The Cow’s Intelligence.

The editor of the Milk Journal gives the following instance of intelligent cows: That cows have ;memory, language, signs, and the means of enjoying pleasant asrociation, or combining for aggressive purposes, but scarcely to the extent the subject merits. Traveling in Italy many yt ars ago, we visited some of the large dairy farms in the neighborhood of Ferrara. Interspersed amongst much lowlyipg, unhealthy land, remarkable for the prevalence on it of very fatal forms of anthrax in the' summer season, are fine undulating pasture lands, and the fields are of great extent. We happened to stop at a farm house one fine , autumn afternoon when the cows were about to be milked. A herd of oyer one hundred was grazing homewards. The women took

their positions with stool and pail close to the house, and as the cows approached names were called out which at flrat we thought addressed to the milk maids. Rosa, Giulia,Sposa, and many names which were noted .by u» at the lime, were called out by the overseer or one of the women, and we were astonished to see cow after Cow cease feeding or chewing the ciidAnd make direct, sometimes at a trot, for the women that usually milked her. The practice, we found was not confined to one farm ,- all the cows on each farm knew thejf respective names, and took up lhair position hi the oja-n just as readily as the individual members of some large herds in tiffs country turning from .the fields take up their places in the sheila

Fierce Attack Upon a Farmer by an Enraged Horse.

From several farmers coming Into town, yesterday, from the township of Taylor, our reporter learned the particulars of a very exciting-affair which occurred in that township, about seventeen miles from Detroit, on Sunday last. A man named Pierce Andrews returned that' morning with a young horse wltieh he had purchased at Wyandotte. In riding the animal home, Andrews had to give him several whippings, and was once or twice run away witlfi-and thus, when he arrived h jme he was tired out, and the horse was nervous and excited. There being some goods packed away in the stables, Andrews took the horse in on the barn floor to tie him. While so doing the animal bit him, and for this lie was soundly belabored with the handle of a broken pitchfork. After being struck several times, he broke loose and ran at Andrews, and struck him doevn with one of his fore feet. While in this posi tion the farmer received a bad injury from being stepped on, but managed to get up and show fight, still retaining possession of his weapon. The horse reared, kicked and uttered mad neighs, and in a moment struck the man down again. Andrews fell so close to a partition that the horse could not get at hitn well, and hire he kept the beast at bay by pounding its legs with a club. _ “The people at the house had heard sounds of the struggle, and a hired man and the family were soon around the door. As the horse seemed to quiet down a little, the man shouted to Andrewstocrawlcareiully along to the door. This the farmer started to do, but had not crawled three feet when the horse pounced upon him again, aud this time dislocated his shoulder by a blow of a hoof. The horse then commenced pktnging and kicking at everything, jumping at Andrews whenever the farmers moved, and in this emergency, St ing that he was likely to be killed, he shouted for the man to get the family out of the yard and then open the door, supposing that the animaiwould then go out. This was done, but the horse plunged out and in again with such rapidity that the Farmer could not escape, the animat making at him every time he tried it. As a last resort, the hired man loaded an army musket with fine shot, and gave the horse the full charge in the shoulder at short range. The beast went down, jumped up, made a few circuits of the yard, and then leaped the fence into the pasture, and ran until tired out. Andrews was badly bruised in many places, had a shoulder dislocated, as stated, and will be confined to the house for sonde time. The horse received considerable injury from the gunshot, but it is thought a veterinary surgeon can heal the wound. —Detroit Free Press.

Musket Balls in the Human Body.

A NUMitEK of curious cases of the progress of musket balls from the place where they are first lodged have been observed by military surgeons. We have heard of a remarkable case where the musket ball struck the forehead above the nose, and having divided it into two halves, one half went round beneath the skin od the right side, and the other on the left, advancing iu contact with thef skull. We do notask our readers to believe the poetical edition of this fact, that the two half bullets met again behind, after having performed the circuit of the head in opposite directions, and advancing with a slightly diminished force, united and killed an unfortunate man who stood in their way; but the fact of the splitting of the bullet, and the advance of each half in opposite directions is unquestionable. The singular progress of a musket bullet from the forehead to the throat has been recorded liy Dr Fielding. At the first battle of Newbury’, 1641, in the time of the Cromwellian civil war, a mulical gentleman was shot near the right eye. The skull was fractured at the place; but though the surgeon could see the pulsation of the brain beneath the wound, yet the bullet had turned onbne side andcould not be discovered. Various bones were discharged from the wound, the mouth and the nostrils. At the time of the second battle of Newbury the wound healed and could not be kept open; but about twelve years afterward, when the doctor was riding in a eold, dark night, he felt a pain about the “ almonds of the ear,” which occasioned a partial deafness. Having stopped his ear with wool, he was surprised one day in March, 1070, by a sudden pull or crack in his ear, when all that side of his cheek hung loose as if it had been paralytic, anil a nard knot was felt under the ear. Various tumors now appeared about the throat, and in August, 1072, the bullet was taken out of the throat.— Fraser's Magazine.

Deep Planting of Fruit Trees.

A friend lias given us some particulars concerning a large apple orchard—of some 2,300 trees —belong to a Mr. Scott, of La Fayette County, Wis. Contrary to the common theory and practice, he believes in and practices deep planting of fruit trees. The location of his orchard is hot considered good, nor is the soil—a compact, red clay. He dug the holes for the trees two feet deep, filling in partly before setting, but having the roots at "least fifteen inches below the surface. Each spring he digs about each tree, throwing out the earth down nearly to the original roots, and trims off all fibrous roots above these. In the fall the earth is put back, and so left through the winter—serving the purpose, he claims, of mounding fruit trees set near the surface. The orchard is said to have done remarkably well—the trees making good growth and being in fine condition, entirely free from bark bursting.— Western Farmer.

How to Banish Fleas.

The Maryland Farmer gives the following useful recipe for exterminating flfeas: “ The oil of pennyroyal will certainly drive these- pests off; but a cheaper method, where the herb flourishes, is to throw your dogs and cats into a decoction of it once a week. Mow the herb and scatter it in the beds of the pigs once a month. Where the herb cannot be got, the oil may be procured. In this case saturate strings with it and tie them around the necks of dogs and cats, pour a little on the back and about theeare ofhogs, which you can do while they are feeding without touching them. By repeating these applications every twelve or fifteen days, the fleas will flee from your quadrupeds, to their relief and improvement, and your relief and comfort in the house. Strings saturated with the oil of pennyroyal and tied around the neck and tail of horses will drive off lice; the strings should be once a day. Which side of a horse invariably has the most hair on ? The outside.

The Rearing and Fattening or Chickens.

Fob nearly twenty lour hours after hatching, chickens require no food at all; aud though we do not think it best to leavu them quite ao long as this without •it, we should let them remain for at least twelve hours undisturbed, We say undis turbed, because it ii a very common prac lice Co take those first hatched away from the aud put them in a basket by the fire until the whole brood is out. When the eggs varied much in age, this coursemust be adopted; for some chickens will be perhaps a whole day or more behind the others, and the hen, if she felt the little things moving beneath her, would not stay long enough to hatch the rest. But this should not be, and if the eggs arc all fresh the chicks will all appear within a few hours rtf each other. In that case -they are much better lft with their mother; the heat of her body appears to strengthen and nourish them in a far better manner than any other warmth, and they are happy and cententcd, instead of moving restlessly about as they always do whilst away from her.

Our own plan is to set the eggs In the evening, when the chicks will break the shell in the evening also, or perhaps the afternoon. Then at night let the state of the brood be one* only examined, all eggshells removed from the neat, and ihe hen, if she be tame enough to receive it. given food and water. Let her afterwards be so shut in that she cannot leave her nest, and all may be left safi-ly till the morning. Ity that time the chicks will be strong and lively, quite ready for their first meal; and unless some of the eggs are known to be very stale, any not hatched then are little likely to hatch at all. If this he so, the chicks may be removed and put in flannel by the fire, and another day patiently waited, to see if any more will 'appear. We should not do so, however, if a fair number hail hatched well; for they never thrive so well away from the hen, and it is scarcely worth while to injure the healthy portion of the brood for the sake of one or two which very probably may not live after all.

The first meal should be given on the nest , and the best material for it is an equal mixture of hard boiled yolk of egg aud stale bread-crumbs, the latter slightly moistened with milk. Let the hen be allowed to partake of this also—she needs it; and then give her besides as much barley as she will eat, and offer her water, which she will drink greedily. To satisfy the hen at first saves much restlessness and trouble with her afterwards.

There is a stupid practice adopted by many, of removing the little horny scale which appears on every chicken’s beak, with the idea of enabling them to peck better, and then to put tood or peppercorns down their throats, and dip their bills in water to make them drink. It is a mistake to say that if this does no good it can do no harm; the little beaks are soft and tender, and are often injured by such barbarous treatment. Leave them alone. If they do not eat or drink—and chickens seldom drjnk the first day—it only shows they do not wish to; for to fill an empty stomach is the first and universal instinct of all living things. The brood having been fed, the next step will depend upon circumstances. If, as we recommend, the chickens were hatched the night before, or will be upon their legs, arid the weather be fine, they may fit once be moved out, and the hen cooptd where her little ones can get the sun. If it be- winter, or settled wet weather, the hen mhst, if possible, be kept on her nest this day also, and 'when removed be cooped in a dry shed or outhouse.

The best arrangement, where there is convenience for it, is a shed six feet square, to be reared against the wall, with a southern exposure, and the coop placed under it. This coop should.be made on a plan very common in some parts of France, and consists of two compartments, separated by a partition of bars; one compartment being closed in front, the other fronted with bars like the partition. Each set of bars should have a sljdiDg one to serve as a door, and the whole coop should be tight and sound. It is best to have no bottom, but to put it on loose dry earth or ashes, an inch or two deep. Each half of the coop is about two feet six inches square, and may or may not be lighted from the top by a pane of glass. The advantage of such a coop and shed is, that except in very severe weather, no further shelter is required even at night. During the day the hen is kept in the outer compartment, the chickens having liberty, and the food and water being placed outside;.whilst at night she is put in the inner portion of the coop, and a piece of canvass or sacking hung over the -bars of the uniter -half. If the Top bn glazed, a little food and the water vessel may be placed in the outer compartment at night, and the chicks will be able to • run out and feed early in the morning being prevented by the canvass from going out into the cold air. It will only be needful to remove the coop every two days for a few minutes, to rake away the tainted earth and replace it with fresh. There should, if possible, be a grass plot in front of the shed, the floor of which should be covered with dry loose dust or earth.— Practical Farmer.

Management of Colts.

Coi.ts are very apt to be left to shift for themselves after weaning. This is wrong. A year’s gain in the usefulness of a horse may easily be made by care and attention during the first few months of its life. The mare, while nursing its foal, should not be overworked, and good pa - ture or green feed in the stable will keep her in fair condition, and furnish sufficient nourishment for the foal. When weaned, and pasture becomes short, neglect is hurtful ; then care should be exercised to keep it growing. During the fall months some of the best early cut hay should be given it; and when the horses are stabled, let it have a loose box or stall adjoining them where it can see and become used to the discipline of the stable! Everything around it should be well secured, lest in rubbing itself it mieht get something loose. A habit of breaking things and getting loose is easily and invariably formed at this time, and should be guarded against. During winter, feed your colts as you feed your horses. Give them a share of what is served out, oats, corn or ground feed as it may be. They cannot grow or fare well otherwise. “ Stinginess” don’t p3y in rearing young animals. An addition of twenty-five or forty dollars to its value may result iu the winter’s feeding and cars of one colt. Generosity here (of course exercised with judgment) is only wise foresight, and will pay good interest on the investment. Colts are better kept up than allowed to run around. They will become more docile and tractable, and will learn fewer tricks. Take them out only for exercise, except when at pasture, and. then be sure to have a secure fence, br they will inevitably learn to rub it down or jump over it. Train your colt to walk, and keep it walking. Farmers don’t want fast trotting horses—as yet—we have need so far of fast-walking horses, great need, we may say, for they are far too scarce. Therefore, train colts to walk at the rate of four miles an hour, at least. The time will come when a horse that can walk his mile in twelve minutes will take a prize at an agricultural fair, equal in value to the best trotter. A team of such horses could plow an acre of ground, with a furrow six leches wide, in five hours, allowing time for turnings round. This is above the quantity plowed on the average now, in & dry of ten hours. Horses of such capacity

would be worth a large price, and it should be our endeavor to produce them. We have a breed that cun transmit trotting capacity to its descendants, why could we not raise tip a breed of walking horsesf Some one might make a name ana fortune ia this. —American Agrierdluritt. It is stated that there are now no less thftn 214 weeds which have been introduced into the United States from foreign countries, and principally from England. As a proafofthe rapidity with which useli SB plants are accidently brought over the setts, it is said that in 18J7 there were only 137 foreign weeds known in this country. Ajb far back as 1073 a curious little volume called Weis England parities, gave a list of twenty-two plants, which the author considered hail sprung up since the English had kept cattle in New England. j—• —a »l Man as a Barometer and Thermometer. —Science has failed to invent any apparatus as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the human frame. It is therefore of vital importance to gnard it airainst the effect of variations in the weather; and experience has demonstrated that I)r. Walker's Vineoar Bitters is the best medicine for this purpose ai present known. If taken as a protection against the disturbing influence of sudden alternations of heat and cold, it will certainly prevent the bowel complaint, fevers, bilious disorders, rheumatic affections, and throat diseases, arising from these causes, Prcssinq’s Celbiirated White Wijie Vinegar will keep Pickles. Ask for it. For loss of cud, horn ail, red water in cows, loss of appetitite, rot, or murrain in sheep, thick wind, broken wind, and roaring, £nd for all obstructions of the kidneys in horses, use Sheridan'* Cavalry Condition Powder*.

An Irishman called at a drug store to get a bottle of Johnson't Anodyne Liniment for the rheumatism ;thc druggist asked him in what part of the body it troubled him most. “Be me soul,” said he, "I have it in ivery houl and corner cr me.” tsr For Coughs, Bronchitis and Consumption, in its early stages, nothing equals Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. 573 ■m ♦ m Arthurs Lady’s Home Magazine.— “The Happ est Time,' a pie sant picture >f childhood and age, is a double-; age Ulus, ration in the July m.mb r. “ Into the Country” is an entertaining sketch with full-page illn.tration. There are a'.eo several fashion illu-cratlons. Published by T. S. Arthur * Sons, Philadelphia. Terms, i> a year; three copies,ss; four, Jli; eight, and one extra, (12; fifteen, and one extra, S2O. Splendid new steel engravings to getters-np of cluha. • Tiie National school Festival.— The July number of this quarterly magazine ia Issued, and is fitted wtth a choice collection of original dialogues, recitations and other exercises for Sunday and Day School exhibitions, concerts, etc. Published quarterly by Alfred L. Sewell & Co., 80 Washington street, Chicago, 111., at fifty cents a year. Singfe numbers fifteen cents. The Children’s IfotTn.—Two fiilipage and other smaller illustrations are given in the Jaly number, with reading matter well calculated to amuse*and instruct the children. Specimen numbers of this neat little monthly are sent to applicants on receipt o f stamp for postage. T. 8. Arthur & Sons, Philadelphia, at $1.25 a year; five copies $5.00; ten, and one extra, SIO.OO. • Pain Killer.— ln another column will he found the advertisement of Davis’ Pain Killer. There is probably no other preparation manufactured that has become so much of a household word as the Pain Killer. For tbiriy y. ars it has stood before the public, and the innumerable testimonials that have been called forth voluntarily, testify fully to its merits. When you need a family medicine buy the Pain Killer.

The Universal Safeguard.

It is useless for State Legislatures to pass laws for the preservation of the public health, if the great law of self-preservation, which depends for its enforcement upon the will of the individual, is suffered to remain a dead letter. There is scarcely an adult member of, the community, of either sex, in the country, who has not seen the testimony in favor of Uestetter’a Stomach Bitters, furnished over their own signatures by persons of acknowledged eminence in science, literature, art, commerce, and every department of business and professional life. These witnesses have declared in the most explicit terms that the preparation is a safeguard against epidemics, a sovereign remedy for dyspepsia, a valuable antibilious medicine, a promoter of appetite, a genial and harmless stimulant, a good acclimating medicine, a strengthener of the nerves, a general in-' vigorant, a protection against the deleterious effects of malaria and impute water, and that it imparts'a degree of vigor and activity to the vital forces which is not communicated by any other of the tonics and stomachics in use. Under these circumstances the self-preservative law of nature should teach every rational person who, either by reason of inherent debility or in consequence of exposure to nnwholsome influences, is in peril of losing the greatest of all temporal blessings, health, the importance of using the Bitters as a defensive medicine. Dyspeptics who neglect to give it a trial are eimply their own enemies. It is guaranteed to cure indigestion in all its formß, and the bilious and nervous will find nothing in the whole range or officinal and proprietary medicines which will afford them the same relief.

PURE BRED PIGS FOR SALE. We are Importers and Dealers in the following celebrated breeds of Hogs: Bcrksliire, Essex. Magi, bufl'olk and Chester Whites. We have some veryjchoice Pigs of alt the above breeds for sale. For price list, <feo., acldrtss with stamp, 11. ROBB & CO., Garrettsvllle, Ohio. CALESMEN WANTED to sen Groceries at O wholesale by sample. Liberal salary and expenses. BROWN & FAY P. O.Dox 598, Chicago, IIL 1840. .Nqqqqsss iß7i. TIME TESTS THE MERITS OF ALL THINGS. .» v. . . * DAVIS’ Pi KILLER I This celebrated medicine has won a deservedly high reputation as an alleviator of pain and a preserver ol health. It has become a hous hold remedy, from the fact tjiat it gives immediate and permanent relief. It is a purely Vegetable preparation, made from tltc best and purest materials, sale to keep and to use in every family. It Is recommended by physicians and persons of all classes, and today, alter a public trial of thirty years—the average life of man—it stands unrivalled and unexcelled, spreading Its usefulness over the wide world. Its large and increasing sale affords positive evidence of its enduring fame. A Cure for Colic in Horses. Extract from a letter from T. A. Reed, published In th: Cincinnati Gazette* April 26th, 1871Ft Rit.vkr, Ind., April 17.—1'1l give a remedy for colic in horses: Give two table-B|xx>ufuls of Perry Davis* Pain Killer in a pint of warm sweet milk, or warm sage tea, sweetened. This is sufficient for a common attack. Increase or diminish according to the severity of the case, and repeat in twenty to thirty minutes if the horse is not relieved. Drench, but not in the nostril, as “ Old Fanner,” of Cedarville, Ohio, says. This is the most absurd manner ol giving a drench that I ever heard of. Everv House-keeper should keep it at hand to apply it on the first attack of any pain. It will give satisfactory relief, and save hours of suffering. Do not trifle with yourselves bytesting untried'remedies Be sure you call, and get the genuine PAIN KILLER, as many worthless nostnuns are attempted to l>e sold on the great reputation of this valuable modidne. |W Directions accompany each bottle. .Price 25 cts., 50 cts., and 81 per bottle. J.N. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, 0. Proprietors foPtlie Southern and Western State*. BT’FOR SALE BT ALL MEDICIXE DEALEP.S. 02.30 A LIKTEI For an ADVERTISEMENT in 270 NEWSPAPERS. This List comprises A Large Proportion of the Best Western Country Papers, Superior in Character, Circulation and Influence to those of any other list. WHERE CTJTS ARE USED, ONLT THREE REQCIM* FOR THE WHOLE LIST. For Hats, estimates and further particulars, address A.. 3ST. KELLOGG, u$ «| 119 Madison street. Chics**

TUB Railroad Gazette. ▲ WXJOLLY JOUBHAL 09 Transportation, Engineering and Railroad News. Tbs attention of Railroad Men la called to tills Journal, Which Is believed to be at tills tlms t THE MMT COMPREHENSIVE RAILROAD JOORHAI IN THE WORLD I Treating as It docs of oil branches of the Complicated business of Transportation, and especially of- the Operation of Railroads, Railroad Engineering, the Construction of Locomotives and Cars. The conductors of tills Journal Eire Special Prominence to Railroad News. And thfcr® will be found In Its columns accounts of the Organization of all New Companies, the Projection and Location of New Lines, the Progress of Railroad Construction, the Improvement of Old Lines, the Business of Different Roads, the Combinations and Business Arrangements of Companies, Annual Reports, Elections and Appointments of Directors and Officers, Decisions of Courts Relating to Railroads, and, In short, whatever Is Interesting or Yaluible to a Bailroad Man, Be he President, Director, Stockholder, Superintendent, Engineer, Master Mechanic, Agent, Conductor, Locomotive Engineer, or In any way connected with or Interested In railroads or railroad business. Articles by Practical Railroad Men Form a distinguishing featurfe of the journal. Lending Engineering Works and valuable improvements in Railroad Machinery are Illustrated by Fine Engravings In Its columns. Engineers, Master Mechanics and Manufacturers find these Illustrated descriptions of the greatest value. Proper attention Is given to the Relation of Railroads to the Community and Bailroad Legislation, And also to tha Relations of Companies to their Employes * and their Several Rights and Duties* This paper Is prepared by a corps of Editors of special qualifications, and every pains Is taken to make it indispensable to every Railroad Man. It is altogether independent, avoids all undue puffing of men or corporations, give* news ftilly and impartially, aims especially to give practical information which will directly aid Its readers In the prosecution of their business. Business men find in the Ratlroad Gazktts the earliest Information of the opening of new stations on railroads In coarse of construction, and are thus enabled to establish relations with such towns from the beginning of their existence. ENGINEERING, The leading enitfheerfng journal of England, for which American subscribers have usually paid sls per year, will be sent, together with the Railroad Gazbttk, for sl2 per year. Terms of* Sub script ion.: Single copy, per annum $4.00 Ten copies, per annum 55.00 Single copies 10 Letters concerning subscriptions arid advertising should be addressed te A. N. KELLOGG, 110 and 112 Madison Street, Chicago. .

MERCHANT’S GARBLING OIL IS GOOD FOR Bums and Scalds , Rh eumatism , Chilblains, Hemorrhoids or Piles, Eg Sprains and Bruises* Sore Nipples , Chapped Hands , Caked Breasts , Flesh Wounds* Fistula. Mange, Frost Bites, Spavins , Sweeney* External Poisons* Swatches, or Grease. Sand Cracks, Stringhalt * Windgalls, Gallsqf AU Kinds* Foundered Feet* Sitfast, Ringbone* Cracked Heels, Poll Evil, Foot Rot in Sheep * Bites of Animals & Insects , Roup in Poultry, Toothache* dec.* dec.* Lame Back* ike.* <tc. Largo Size, $1.00; Medium, 60c.; Small, 25c. The Gargling Oil has been In use as a Liniment for thirty-eight years. All wfe ask is a fair trial* but be sure and follow directions. Ask your nearest druggist or dealer in patent medicine, for ono of our Almanacs and vadoMecums, and read what the people say about tho Oil The Gargling Oil is for sale by ail respectable dealers throughout the United States and other Countries. ? Our testimonials date from 1833 to the present, and are unsolicited. Use the Gargling Oil* and tell your neighbors what good it has done. We deal fair and liberal with all, and defy contradiction. WriU for an Almanac or Cook Book. Manufactured at Lockport, N. Y., BY MERCHANT’S GARGLING OIL COMPANY, JOHN HODGE, Sec’y. I Ist-closs Pianos—Sent on trial. Noaßcnta. Address IT. S. PIANO Co., 615 B'wny, N V. R«ct# and Creeds Differ, but there ar* no dissenters from the general principle, that a great medicine is a great blessing. We have many of these blessings, but among them all, In the province to which It belongs, no greater than Tarrant’s Effervescent Seltzer Aperient. A column would not suffice to enumerate the ailments for which it is prescribed by physicians of the highest standing. It does not belong to the class derisively termed patent medicines, but is an article based on scientific analysis, and will stand the test of the sharpest and most rigid medical criticism ns a cathartic, a stomachic, an aiti-febrllo preparation, and an admirable remedy for all bilious complaints. Let there be no mistake. Hecure the genuine article only. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. MWWrrnU Min)N a CO., FnWI*hCT» Scirvtiflc mTIV.IIJ-WjCATALOGns of Architectural l»lBlinil«S«Vl llk ‘ r ' k ‘' ft i«- Addrcfw A. J.HickUSjmm*Mndl & Co., n Warren Bt„ B. X. AGENTS! READ THIS! wLk<mf ! * T 8 A or7ifui' A l£» oommlgrion, to Mil our new wondarfal In vendor s. Adaim u. WAOHXB *CO.. M*nhali.Ulc£

When writing to advertinerh. .Irnnr nay you MW the ad.erllw.n. nl la thU payer. SOS R X. “GET THE BEST.” -- Especially when it Costs no more than the Poorest. lunA M THE NOVELTY 19 TIIK ONLY WRINGER THAT lIAS OUR Patent Flange Cog-Wheels On both ends of the Rolls, wh'ch allows the rolls to. Kcparato at cither end; Mill the cog-wheels cannot be thrown out of gear on both ends of the wringer at the name time, t Cnless the pits* it re is taken off. » iffT Remember that wringers with cog-wheoli on ons end only, the rolls of which cannot separate at both enda, work very hard and wring very unevenly, j LIMs now admitted that It Ims'no equal as a family wringer.— New York Liberal Christian. • Beat of wringers. —New York Christian. The advantages which It contain*, seems to be hidespensable to a practical wringer.— New iotk Independent. Buy the ••NOVELTY” oral leant take Ron trial with any or all others, and keep the Kent. lor sals N. If. FIIELPB &. CO., (Ira. Ac'tw, 102 Clmuihci-H Ml., New York. and Strength. P»oHlwi߀»TiMl throat and Lungs. For tun years Dr. Ol*ek’» Win. or Tar ha* been tested and proved m thousands of case., capable of curing all SIMM of tb Threat and Lug* performing wonderful cures. Mill you let preju. udice prevent you from being cured also ? 58. CSCOZ’S WINE Of TAB is rich in the medicinal qualities of Tar, combined with vegetable mfredients of undoubted value. It rapidly rejtorei at IttlUd Itrength, cleanses the Stomach, relaxes the Liver and puts them to work, causes the food to digest, and makes pure blood, it you are afflicted in any way, we know the life-giving tonlo prcpcrtioi of Dr. Crook’s Wine of Tar, arc wind you need. It cures all Ccughs ind Colds, and its many wonderful cures ol Astici and Brsnehitii, have caused many to cull it aspecitic lor these complaints. Taroit ailments require but a few doses. All suffering from Consumption or any Disease of the Lungs should remember that Dr. Crook’s V> me of Tar lias cured many cases pronounced incurable. The Weak and Dattlitited should remember it renaratM and invigcntai the system, and is hoalth-gMng and appotlto-rostoring. „ ~ , , . it "so cures Livsr and Kidn.y Complaints, and by its healthy action on the Stomach, removes Byepoptia. Try ono bottle. Take only Dr. Crook a Wme of Tar. Sold by Druggis.a. A for Scrofula, Serofuloui Turnon, Scrofuloul 'A tlsoaaoj cl tho Eyoa, or Scrofula in any M form, Ehoumatisa, licenses of the Liver, Bit* JjfjL eases of-the Skin, Eruptiona, Pimples, Boils, Tetter, Geeli Bead, Ulcere, aai dd Sores, or any , disease depending on a depraved condition of the blood, take Dr. Crook’e ComWgaS s// pouud Syrup of Poke soot. It i* oomMned jWEtjW with tho beat tonic preparations of iron Kti known, and is the best Alterative and £m y/r. Blood Purifier made. Clcsnee your blood. Kl l U Try one Bottle. Sold by iiruggisti. \W r -P“ rlHl mops t C 0„ Bayton, 0. HODGE, WHITNEY, COOK & CO., 312 Broadway, New York, Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers In BOOTS 4P SHOES Tbe trade are invited’to call and examine o»r stock when in New Yoik. Orders by mail will receive prompt attention, and prices as low as can be found in the Eastern market. Our Stock is especially adapted to the Western and Southwestern Trade. FEED GEINDEEST One-tiiikd caved by grinding Grain for stock. All kinds <*i live Hfof-k Improve une-tliirtl faster, and ar® I oalthler and in all respects better, if led on ground lood. The celebrated CHALLENGE WILLS, which have taken the highest premiums at every Fair where exhibited, grind from 20 lo 50 bushels per hour Ol any kind of grain, in any condition. Prices from 800 lo 8100* Send for Circulars to to the CHALLENGE MILL COMPANY, Batavia, Illinois. •\7sr i :kt :d~3*i x x. i* s . The celebrated self-governing "Wind Mills, which can not hk blown imjwn', will pump, and’grind, and do 25 per “cent, more work, of any kind, thttn any other wind Mill made, and 1# the ONLY I’KBPECT, BKLF-€K)VKKJf*D Wind Mill known. Send lor Circulars and full Information to the CHALLENGE‘MILL COMPANY, . Batavia, Illinois. Agreat chance fobagents. Do you want an agency, local or traveling, with a clmnce tomnke 85 to 8211 per day selling our new t-Mtrand White Wire Clothes Lints f Then last forever, sample free, so there is no risk. Address at once Hudson Hirer Wire llorA*, 1150 Maiden Lane, cor Water St., N. \\, or 16Dearborn St., Cliicago, 111. V "BT 9 9 I sell the celebrated lIOMK SHUTTLE SEWING 919 I MACHINE. Has the under-feed, "makes the feU 9 *'lockstitch* (alikeon both sides,) and is fully I a licensed. The best and cheapest family revving 9, tig Machine 111 the market. Andress JOHN ON, H Es CLARK & CO.. Boston, Mass., Pittsburgh, Pa., y gg Cliicago, 111., or St. Louis, Mo. jt mm FOR ONE M iNTII. we will send to any address 1 K One P*nt of Ink, Black, Red. o Viole;,w a ranted, IJ! tor lf»c. MI I.La R MAN UFAC i V RING CO. lv liox 510, Chicago. STEAM ENGINES FOR S-A.X.E3-ONE HUD DICK STEAM ENGINE, iV homo-power. Price with Governor, $l9O. Perfectly new and warranted. Will be sold for Four Hundred dollars, cash. Also, one second-hand hokizontal engine, (Made by E. J. Good Co., Chicago,) 8-liorae-ppwer, In excellent ortler and warranted. Price, with Judson s Governor, SIOO. Cost new, J 5665. Address immediately, A- N. KELLOGG, 110 and 112 Madison street* Chicago, IIL ttftjr fl Tlic best man or woman In ms MA 19 I pfiß your comity, to take the agency Ww nfll I of the new MANHATTAN f SILENT SEWING MACHINE. Very llljeral rates and terms will be given. Machine sent direct to the Purchasers, with full Printed Instruc* tionn, ftiid Warranted. 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