Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1873 — Page 4

CURRENT ITEMS.

Ta* Kansas Pacific haa forty-fire miles or snowfence. _Ta*ma are fourteen strings banks in Chicago that hold in the aggregate sll,*13,908 deposits. predicted that the Mississippi will be higher than has ever been known, on tha opening of navigation. T«n Louisville printers are talcing tarna at having the small-pox, and contributing to each other's relief. . Old Texans declare that they never knew, by actual experience, what cold * waakiier was before this winter. Tun starch factory of St. Joseph, Mo., is shipping five car-loads of starch daily, and the people there feel stnek up. Ldtooln, Neb., is rejoicing over tbe prospect of an appropriation of SIBO,OOO for a Government building in that city. San Diego, Cal., is luxuriating on green peas and ripe tomatoes, while San Barbara prides itself on Us fine strawberries. For $1,000,000 cash in hand a New Yorker agrees to tear down one of the pyramids, bring iL,to New York and set it up again. That Maine man who has slept on & hay-mow every night for twenty-five years, had to get into tbe house this winter or lose the other ear. Another scheme is on foot to build a railroad from Salt Lake City to connect with the Union Pacific Railroad at Echo. This is to be a wide gauge. Wht are coals tbe most contradictory articles known to commerce? Because, when purchased, instead of going to the buyer, they go to the cellar. The Pennsylvania tavern keepers threaten to raise the price of lodging for man and beast if their licenses for selling liquor are taken from them.

A young lady at South Norwalk explained that her father conducted an aquarium, which was much better than saying he kept a fish market. A Jersey City gent lately had both ears grazed by bullets while escorting home & girl whose hand was wanted by a rival. A very unhealthy town is that. Two Chinamen were recently shot in Virginia City, Nev., while engaged in stealing, and a Nevada paper says that part of theChinesc problem la-solved. - There is a family at Newark, N. J., Whose members are dying off from sheer excess of fat. One of the children, aged thirteen, recently returned to 180 pounds of dust A Georgia negro was overpaid SIOO on a check by a bank, and he returned the money. The local paper says this is another evidence that the race can never be cftfllzed. - " A Hungarian by the name of Bango, recently arrived at St. Joe, was robbed by a fellow-countryman of $7,000 in greenbacks which he had concealed beneath his pillow. The recent decline in the price of coal oil 1b a matter of congratulation to the undertakers. They say that folks don’t kindle fires with the stuff when it gets beyond a certain figure. Wedding cards in Denver consist of a jack of diamonds and the queen of hearts, with the contracting parties' names thereon. If the bride’s mother is living the ten of clubs is enclosed. A negro in Coffee County, Ga., who bet $2.75 that he could ride a roan mule with a pine burr under the saddle, lost the money. He was followed to the tomb by a large and enthusiastic audience. Louisville has a new Chief of Police, and he has awkwardly- arrested several leading citizens whom he found in gambling rooms. It will take him some weeks to get acquainted. —Chicago paper. Work on the North Pacific Coast Railroad, to run from Saucelito northward near the ocean shore, will soon be commenced by 1,500 men, and the company expect to reach the Russian River this year. Boarding-house chicken soup cam be made, it is said, by hanging up a hen in the sun so that her shadow shall fall into a pot of salt water. The only trouble is, that on a cloudy day the soup is liable to be weak. ; The champion hunters of Oregon are J. J. Crawford and David Thomson, of Douglas, who In nine days killed four panthers, three bears and two lynxes. In the year they killed sixty-one animals of these species. A lady called on a witty friend, who was not at home, and finding the piano dusty, wrote upon it “slattern.” The next day they met, and the lady said, “I called on you yesterday.” “Yes, I saw your card on the piano.” There is a rumor out that the Agricultural Colleges which do not conform in their courses of study jo the law of Congress which calls them into life, will get mandamuses served on them from the United Slates .Supreme Court. Some questions very naturally suggest themselves to an inquiring mind. An amateur farmer wonders “why, on all this fair earth, the ground is bottom side up, so that it must be turned over with a plow before corn can be raised ?" Over SIOO,OOO in bonds, mortgages, etc., stolen from the banking house of Clarkson & Co., Lancaster, Pa., on the 15th January, have since been found under a stairway leading to the basement of St. Paul’s Reformed Church in that city. Two men who stole a ride on a Texas freight train were locked in and switched off the track at a way station, and had to remain in their close quarters for ninetysix hoars without food or water, and at the end of that <|Me were imprisoned as vagrants. A chunk of gold, Weighing over 240 pounds, and worth about $50,000, was found in the claims of Yo Yen & Co., at Moore's Flat (Gold These claims are owned by a Chinese company to whom they were sold cheap, having, as was supposed, been exhausted.

A wedding was broken np at Columbus City, lowa, in the following maimer: The preacher asked if any one hjd any objections; the young lady said: “Yes; pectant bridegroom folded his broadcloth and silently stole away. „'■■■■■ The Bt. Paul Pioneer says John Kegan, of Plainview, 70 years of see, bivouacked in a snow bank for forty-nine hours during the late storm. He was fearfully bruised by pounding himself to keep from freeling, but beyond that he suffered no serious injury, ' r The Cleveland Herald understands from a reliable source that very extensivestock yards are to be built on the line of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, between that city and Painesville, to accommodate the largely increasing stock business of the road. A steamboat landed at Marion Bend, Ky., recently, and put two negroes ashore who were sick with the small-pox. The citizens were afraid to go near them. They were without shelter, food, or medicine, and of course died neglected and alone. The hogs devoured their 1 Detroit’s chief of police had a telegram from an Interior town saying: Arrest a man with red hair for running away with my wife.** Upon walking four blocks the chief met no lest than 15 redhaired men walking with ladies, mid he concluded that the eloping couple could pats through the city la safety. ! bPsxcE Pettis, convicted at Boston,

of forgery, thinks that the old detectives of Boston were hard to trade with; New York officer* were satisfied with half, but, in one bargain with the Boston officers, seven or eight years ago, he had to pay them 66 per cent., which he calls taking a mean advantage. ; While the workmen were engaged in sinking a vertical shaft at the Black: Diamond Coal Company’s mine in Mount Diablo, Cal., they came upon a frog at a depth of 172 feet. It was imbedded in solid sand-stone, so that the impression of its form was perfect upon the rock around Its but, nevertheless, it was alive, and lived for twelve hours after its extrication. A Brookfield man write* for the best way to manage a bull. If our Brookfield friend has got a bull on his premises, and the bull is well, he don’t want to manage It. All he has got do is to get a few things hastily together, mortgage his place and steer straight for the west. He might as well try to ward off a streak of lightning with a fifty cent pa: nt brash as to manage a Bull —Springfield Republican. Frolicsome columns of sand, ten feet through and ten hundred feet high, are waltzing about Nevada in a manner that is, to say the least, quite mazy. The twenty-two mile desert is their dancing floor. For the most part, they observe the most platonic demeanor towards one another, and trip it singly, like a spinning Shaker spinster. A Curious suit has been begun in the Superior Court at Hartford, Conn., by a man named Conway, to recover $3,000 for the death of a child who died in 1870 from the effects of a cold, taken while on one of the boats of the Hartford and New York Steamboat Company. Conway claims that there were no accommodations in the cabin or elsewhere, and that the consequent exposure was the cause of the death of the child.

Doable Office-Holding.

The President’s executive order, announcing that persons holding Federal positions who accept office under the authority of the States and Territories will be considered to have resigned, is another evidence of his sincere interest in the improvement of the civil service. The New York World calls it a “ sham.” But it immediately proceeds to show that it is not. The Tenure-of-Offlee act, as it states, is still unrepealed, and under that law the President can only conditionally remove. But when he says that the acceptance of a State office by a Federal officer will be regarded as a resignation he announces that he will nominate a successor to the Senate, and the Senate must assume the responsibility of retaining the officer. ■ It is not the President’s fault that the law is not repealed. His opposition to it is well known. But as he cannot dispense with the laws even to secure a better service, it is ridiculous to call his resolution to do all that he legally can a sham. It is so only upon the theory that he has. an understanding with the Senate to resist his order of suspension, and to continue the officer, which is as silly as the theory of last year, that he had agreed with certain Senators to propose a method of improvement which they should defeat. The President suspended ConsulGeneral Butler, and has nominated a successor. But if the Senate should refuse to confirm him, it would be only a candor like that of the World which would describe his action as a sham. “Mr. Grant,” says the yVorid— with a spirit akin to that of the old British Tories who called General Washington “Mr. Washington”—“still has the handcuffs on, and the dirty politicians he now turns upon, after favoring and assisting them so long, may defy him.” This remark suggests one observation. The President is constantly held personally responsible, and often by those who are not unfriendly to him, for every inefficient and corrupt officer in the service, and for all the conduct of office-holding politicians. Thiß is the sheerest injustice. Nothing is more evident than that, under the system which has so long prevailed, and with the acquiescence of the country, the President can know very little of the character or of the qualifications of the great multitude of officeholders, while the office-holding politicians are a disciplined and organized body which, as the World says, may in a sense defy the President. They naturally wish to sustain an Administration under which they are in place, and whose friends in the Benate have declined to repeal the Tenure of-Office law. If they are accused of coercing a convention, or of controlling a Legislature, they are instantly declared to be the agents of the President, and the fact that every one who takes part is not removed is instently cited as evidence of the President’s complicity. The President, however, has never declared, nor do we suppose he thinks, that those who hold office should abdicate either a proper interest or activity in politics. Indeed, his executive order of last year, upon this very subject, shows that he is not of that opinion. But his present action is the plainest possible intimation, and, together with that to which we have referred, is the coinpletest declaration, that there fe an improper and excessive interest and activity in politics which he condemns and will not countenance. There is a very just and proper impatience among self-respecting citizens with the presence and what may be called the admonitory supervision, Gs national office-holders in conventions and similar assemblies, and nothing was more agreeable at the Philadelphia Convention that renominated the President than their conspicuous absence. The present executive order is a suggestion to those gentlemen to continue to be modest. There must, indeed, be parties and organization, and a consequent surrender of indifferent and minor preferences. Bnt there must be reason in all of these things. And the President is plainly of that opinion.— Harper's Weekly.

The Greeley Monument—--Address of the Committee.

To the People of the United States: 'Fbo-e&zsßittstf to raise a ffiStf to coiftmemorate the virtues of the late Horace Greeley, by a statue and monument in Greenwood, 1 has been fully organized by the appointment of the Hon. Wm. W. Niles, of Westchester County, as Chairman; the Hon. Andrew H. Green, Controller of the City of New York, Treasurer, and Edmund C. Stedman, Esq., of New York, Secretary. . The members of the committee, as far as appointed, are to work in earnest and with a sure prospect of success. But they are conscious that it does not belong te them or to any limited number of men to render adequate honor to one whose just fame belongs to the entire people. Horace Grehley was pre-eminently a man of the people; he rose from among their ranks by industry, frugality, and & life of blameless purity; his example no less than his written words will remain forever a precious legacy to the masses of workingmen who are actuated by the same pure ambition as that which raised him from poverty and obscurity,to the honorable and conspicuous position in which for many years he led the public opinion of the-coontry. There is nothing jn iiis character or career which mars the force of his beneficent influence. No young man can ponder the story of his life without profit. He is One of the few pubjic men of our age who may be safely held up to the imitation of the young. It

it, therefore, to the people at large that the committee confidently appeal. It it their privilege and duty to honor worthily the man who best represented the brain and conscience of the masses. This is in no sense a partisan enterprise. The committee it composed of members of all parties, equally proud to do honor to one whose laborious life was passed in devotion to the general welfare. All who believe with us, that Mr. Greeley’s great efforts in behalf of freedom, of enlightenment, of economy and of progress, have not been without beneficent results, are cordially invited to share in this tribute to his memory. The rich cannot better show their appreciation of the lessons of industry and order which he taught, and the poor, in giviDg what slight sums they can afford, will honor their own estate and aspirations. It is not doubted that every editor in the country will be willing to forward the work, either by an editorial indorsement or by receiving and forwarding such sums as may be raised in his locality. There is not a village in the land but contains some man who has profited by Mr. Greeley’s teachings. We hope there iB not one where an effort will not be made to contribute to this expression of the national gratitude. A memorial volume will be kept' containing the names and residences of every contributor; and upon the completion of the work will be deposited in the historical society for preservation. William M. Niles, Chairman. Andrew H. Green, Treas. Edmund C. Stedman, Bec’y.

Somewhat of a Romance.

Several years ago, in one of the midland counties of England, the son of a poor clergyman became enamored of a Young lady named Moss, who lived in London. Miss Moss was most graciously disposed toward her rural adorer; and, as he was a gentleman, the society of the village recognized no incompatibility in the affair. Upon her return to London, however, the young lady, whose father was a wealthy merchant, received so little sympathy from her family, that she felt impelled to write rather disconsolately to her lover on the subject; and when he, 'himself, was received with repellant coldness by the parents, the prospect Tor the lovers seemed unpromising enough. Not to be thus dismissed, though, the clergyman’s son obtained a private interview with the merchant and stoutly asked why he was not eligible for the alliance he desired. The blunt answer was that his wordly circumstances were not suitable. He was poor and likely to remain so, and should. seek a wife adapted, to his means. The lover took leave of the father with no great cor : diality; but, upon bidding adieu to his lady-love, asked her if she would promise to wait for him until he should have gained the means and position necessary to change the parental decision. The answer was affirmative; and, without further explanation, the rejected suitor said a hurried good-bye. Miss Moss heard no more of him until nearly three months thereafter, when a letter bearing an American postmark amazed her with the information that he had crossed the Atlantic to seek fortune, and had high hopes of soliciting the fulfillment of;her promise in about two years. A half-brother of his father was a merchant in Leavenworth, Kansas, and had given him countenance and general assistance, by which he was sanguine that he could not fail to speculate successfully in city property. The story of American fortune-making by Immigrants has not much variety. Occasionally the dream is at least partly realized, but as a general thing deferred hope is the burden of the song. The young Englishman in Kansas was always just about to do better, but the time of actual golden consummation never chanced to come. • , Two years, and three years, and four rolled on, and still he remained on this side of the sea and wrote hopeful letters. During this time his father, the clergyman, died, leaving an estate so meager to the widow and daughter, that the poor exile could not think of going back to his old home as poor as When he left it. But the father of Miss Moss departed this life also, and about three months ago the true-hearted heiress wrote to her finally desponding lover that, as he could not go to her, she had decided to come to him. Accordingly, the spirited young lady, disregarding the still urgent ►objections of her kindred, and leaving a London home of luxury and refinement, has crossed the Atlantic alone, and a few days ago arrived at a hotel in this city, where her yet impecunious lover was to—and of course did—meet her. They were married soon afterward, and it may be added that their journey will be back to the old country. Leavenworth (Kansas) Times.

Hard Sums—Are the Children Taught Rightly ?

An exasperated parent overflows into the column of the Phildelphia Bulletin: In common with thousands of other parents who desire that their children shall at least keep up with the average boy and girl, I find myself obliged to spend my evenings in teaching school, doing what I pay others to do during the daytime, and in order that my youngsters may be able to go and recite at school, spending my leisure hours, and the sleepy ones, in trying to fix in their poor, little weary brains the names of almost unknown rivers in some out of the way portion of the globe, or in trying to explain the important and eminently practical fact that 287 1-7 dollars is 2-7 of 9 times what A paid for his horse, and the horse costl-2 of 1-2 of 3-4 as much as his carriage—something, no doubt, that every child ought to know, provided his parents teach it to him. asv

We all know_ thtu we made just such calculations as this fifty times a day, and never think of coming at a result in a sensible, direct manner. Dr. Johnson says a school is “a house of discipline and instruction,” a place of literary education, etc., and that a scholar is “one who leajnaqf a master.” He alsosays » schoolmaster “is one who teachei in a school.” Now, so far as my experience goes, the modern schoolmaster or mistress does none of these things, but merely listens to the recitations of lessons taught by parents at home. I have no hesitation in saying that the whole system of modem teaching, including textbooks, maps, and everything else connected with it, is vastly below and behind what was in vogue thirty years since, and that, instead of making ns a race of well-educated men and women, it is making candidates for the insane asylums, ana piling up a heap of misery m very many forms. lam perfectly willing that teachers shall be well paid, if they only teach, and may mention that in my capacity of trustee of a public school, I give a practical • illustration of my faith; but I am opposed to parents being compelled to teach their children. v As a boy, I was flogged at school, and the memory of the rattan is pleasing as bringing back a time when boys were boys, and teachers were teachers. Now we do not flog the boys, and very properly, for those who deserve the flogging are first the teachers, and perhaps if a parent were made to suffer now and then, it would do him good. Nike P. M. P. B.—My wife says: “Flog the teachers, bv all means,” or at least M of % of 269 873 of 1,939-2,0000 f them. -

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

—Plates of coarse salt, with a large spoonful of vitriol poured In daily, are commended as disinfectants. —A market gardener of Lake County, Iff., says that he has the most remarkable success in the use of salt upon his tomato plants. He applied It at various times during the season, and in every case its effect is marked in the increased growth of both plant aqd fruit. In some cases he lays the roots of back-! ward plants bare, sprinkles them with a tablespoonful of ordinary barrel salt, and covers with soil. Plants treated in this way take an immediate start, and develop the fruit. —Wm. A. Woodbridge, of Flay woods, Cal., writes to the Farm Journal as follows : “I see in the April number of the Journal an article on smnt in wheat, also a remedy. Now we raise any amount of wheat in this country, but never have it smutty. But we bluestone it,-as it Is called here. Takd a box or trough about ten feet long by two wide, and two deep; put in about 500 pounds of wheat; then take a pail, put in about one pound of blue vitriol; fill with hot water, and let stand until the stone is dissolved; then pour on to the wheat, and mix well until the wheat is well dampened with the solution ; then take it out in sacks and let it stand until dry before sowing. The farmers here all blue stone their wheat, and are never troubled with smut.” —Benefit of Plaster.—At a meeting of Rosendale (Wis.) Farmer’s Club, one member stated that he sowed plaster on a field May 20, and obtained three times the grass on this field more than on that where it was not sowed. He used to raise only one ton of hay per acre; now raised, by plaster, two or three tons per acre; always top dressed it on grass lands. In a discussion it was stated that when plaster was sown on clover, the clover all cut and hauled off, and the ground broken and sowed to oats, every cast of the plaster made in sowing it could be plainly seen in the field of oats. Also that when plaster was applied to corn, in the hill, the place of every hill could be seen in a crop of wheat which followed. In a drought, dew would be found on the ground where plaster had been sown, while all other ground was dry and haTd. —Where corn is worth' less than forty cents per bushel it will pay -well, even at the present low price of pork, to make the hogs fal before selling them. Packers want small, fine-boned pigs, but they want them well-fattened. Store pigs should be kept growing rapidly. The prospects are favorable for an advance in pork another year, and farmers, especially in the West, should feed their young stock liberally. Breeding sows should have as much exercise as you can make them take in searching for food. But, at the same time, they should be able to find as much as they need to keep them in vigorous health and good condition. For thorough-bred sows, which keep easily, and are apt to get too fat, the food should be of a rather bulky nature, such as bran, turnips, etc. Do not allow young and old pigs to run together. The young, growing pigs should have all the food they will eat arid digest. If they are of the right kind, that mature early, they must have good food, and plenty of it, while young, or they will not be healthy. —American Agriculturist. —“What shall I do for my hair?” is a question that comes to our sanctum frond various quarters every moDth; and were it as convenient to engraft artificial hair as to insert artificial teeth, hair doctors would be as plenty as dentists. No one is to be reprimanded for desiring a brilliant and vigorous growth of the hair, for it indicates a good vital condition;nor for envying a wavy or curling disposition, of the natural head covering, for it is useful as well as ornamental. But the health of the bodily integument and appendages are developed from the organs within; all vital structures are developed from the center to the circumference, hence the normal condition and integrity of the h air, as well as that of the skin and nails, depend on the general health. Stimulating viands and irritating condiments, the excessive use of salt, pickles, saleratus, etc., predispose to disease of the scalp and baldness. Many young persons injure and finally destroy the roots of the hair by frequent washes or oily preparations. These may produce a soft, glossy appearance for a time, but premature decay is the sure and not very remote result of their employment. —Science of Health.

Feeding Straw.

A correspondent of the New York Times writes: “As I-look back' at my first lessons in the care of cattle, I can see that the poor dumb brute has better care than in years past. The stabling was not thought of. They must he content with the outside of the bam and the soft side of a snow-hank. And when we wished to feed them straw we must starve them to it. They must not even have a tase of other food, (except a little com in the ear), for fear they would not eat straw. But I soon learned that was not the proper way; they liked a variety of food as well as man. For instance, you take a man, confine him to one kind of food, say meat or bread, and see how long he will relish it? he sood will be so disgusted with it that he cannot bear the sight of it. I think it is somewhat so with the dumb beasts. You give them nothing but straw every day, they become sick and tired of it; they eat it with no relish, and it is so with corn-stalks, or even h*y, and we all know they prefer this above all other winter food, and yon *confine them to this for some time, and then give them a feed of good straw, and they will go at it with an avidity that will astonish yon. It is like a man who has been kept on some preferable diet for a lone time, and you place apiece of corn bread, or some other plain food before him, and he will take it in preference. From experimenting I have arrived at this conclusion—{p feed straw and feed it profitably yon must feed it mostly in cold weather, and but once per day, and let the other fodder be hay or corn-stalks, as I believe in feeding but twice pec <lav,, I do not believe is feeding coi;n-stalks in extreme cold weather, for they are diy and brittle, and they waste them, while in milder weather they are not as hard and brittle, and they eat them with a greater relish, and there is less waste; therefore, I would advise feeding hay once per day in extreme cold weather. When you are feeding straw, it is a very good plan— when yon do - not salt your cattle otherwise—to make a weak brine, and sprinkle your straw with it. Yon most not think, because it is cold weather, that your stock don’t need sialt; if you do, the poor dumb brutes will suffer for the want of it, and yon will be the loser in the end. * »'«>-■ i.— -/ A Boston lady died the other day at the age of 112, leaving a boy of 80 io mourn her loss. The youth wjll be taken to an orphan asylum or adopted by some kind family. _ —Over 28,000 wiute children in South Carolina do not attend any school. CNTBTATXJWnr EXCHLGIO* HATS ITT* lg th* most sure and complete preparation of Its kind in the world: its effects are magical, its character harmless, ita tints natural, its quail ties/-en-during. . o Lies Lightning are the Miraculous Cures effected with Flagg'S Inntant Bkubf. Ache*. Pains. Sprains, Bowel Complaints, etc., eamiot eritt if this great medicine is used. Belief war ranted, of money returned , V xozTABLZ Pulmonart Balsam, “Doubtless the best Cough Medicine in the world.”

• l. Many penont my that they hare tried *l* mod every remedy that ha* been recommended for humors, and they are no better now than when they commenced them, and they have no confidence, in anything that is advertised to cure Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, and all similar hnmors. We would say to these that there Is now a retpedy that as yet has never failed of curing those diseases. It acts upon an entirely different principle from' anything ever offered for them; It throws humor out of the blood through the skin, which Is the only channel through which the system can be entirely freed from them. If you will try It, yon will not say of this as you have by the others, for It will core ‘you. We refer to Dr. Weaver’s Salt Rheum Syrup. ' For sale by all Druggists.

Liter Complaint, Liter Disease, i. e. Biliousness —Bilious complaints—by some termed liver disease —are very common in this country. The ordinary indications, such as yellowness of the skin and whites of the eyes, pam in the right side under the inferior ribs, with sometimes difficulty of respiration and troublesome cough—are ' familiar to a host of suffeiefs;DUt the liver, sometimes, is in a very unsatisfactory state without the presence of such symptoms. When we reflect that the liver is the largest gland of the body, that it secretes the bile which lubricates the bowels and keeps them in order, is the great blood purifier or cleansing machine of our systems, it may truly be called the Housekeeper of our Health. Sudden transitions of climatic temperature, or impure air, or water, are disturbing elements which arrest the functions of the liver, and render it torpid, producing diarrhea, dysentery, bilious remittents, intermittent fevers, and a general prostration and unhealthy state of the whole organization. It is not surprising that a medicine which can restore the healthy operations of the liver should command general attention. Such a medicine is California Vinegar Bitters, the Housekeeper’s Towel and Broom. -

Neglected Cocoiis and Colds. —Few are aware of the importance of checking a Cough or “Common Cold,” in its first stage; that which in the beginning would yield to “ Brown's Bronchial Troches" .if neglected, often works upon the Lungs. Capt. Charles Sagek, who keeps a superb stock of Uvery horses in Portland, Me., informed us recently that he uses Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition loaders regularly in his stables, and that the expense is more than offset by the diminished amount of grain necessary to keep his horses always in good order. Many peeple, particularly children, suffer with the earache; and ror the benefit of such we give a sure but simple remedy. Pat in two or three drops of Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment, stop the ear with undressed wooi, bathe the feet in warm water before going to bed, and keep the head warm at night.

The Little Corporal —The contents of the February number are made up of excellent original reading matter adapted to the wants of that large portion of the reading public for which it is especially intended—the little folks. The hearts of the editor, Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller, and {Jie corps of talented contributors of this magazine are evidently enlisted In the cause, as they always succeed in producing an entertaining and useful book, and one that is Immensely popular with the younger readers, and is olbo read with pleasure and profit by the older heads of the family. The subscription price is sl. to per year. If you seh<Tsi.6o to the publisher'; John E. Miller, Chicago, you will receive the magazine for one year and two beautiful chromos. * The Phrenological Journal for February comes out as fresh and vigorous as ft crisp, seasonable and salutary stock of reading matter can make a magazine. Among its content s are: A good sketch and portrait of the regretted Norman McLeod, D. D, Speculative Non-Philoso-phy; What do We live For? Natural Death; Daniel Foz, the centenarian fanner; Clara Louise Kellogg; Christian Charity; Harvey Prindle Peet, LL.D., the eminent instructor of Deaf-mutes; Is Phrenology Dead? Price as usual, 30 cents, or *B* a year. We notice that the publisher offers a premium of a new Chrorno to new subscribers who send 30 cts. extra for postage and mounting. S. R. Wells, Publisher, 389 Broadway, N. Y. * Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine.—With the beginning of the present year the publishers of this magazine added largely to its dimensions, and the number for February contains a liberal assortment of excellent literary matter, several of the sketches being accompanied by appropriate Illustrations. The subscriber to this magazine receives a full equivalent for his money ha the book itself, bat as an extra inducement the publishers will give to each subscriber for 1873 a copy of “The Christian Graces,” pronounced one of the loveliest steel engravings ever issued. Terms, $8 60 a year, with a reduction for clubs. Address T. S. Arthur & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. •

Thh Children's Hour.— The little ones who are Is receipt each month of this juvenile publication, are always sure of finding within its pages much to amuse and enlighten them. A good deal es the reading matter Is of a practical kind, and the illustrations are usually instructive, as well as pleasing. The, terms are: $1.25 a year; five copies, $5: ten, and one extra, $lO. T. 8 Arthur & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. * What Next?—This favorite juvenile magazine gives 168 large pages of excellent reading, and a SI.OO Chromo, 10X12 Inches, mounted for framing, to every subscriber, all for only 30 cents a year. Enough, certainly, for the price. The February number is a real gem, every way. Specimen 8 cents. John B. Alden, Publisher, Chicago, Ills. * THK WEEKLY SUN. Only $1 a Year. 8 Pages. Tins Best Family Pater.—The Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. The Best Agricultural Paper.—The Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. The Best Political Pater.— The Weekly N. Y. Sun. Independent and Faithful. Against Public Plunder. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. The Best Newspaper.— The Weekly New York Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. Has All the. News .--The Weekly New York Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. The Best Btory Pater.—The Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. The Best Fashion Reports In the Weekly N. Y. Sun. 6 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. The Best Market Reports in the Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send-your Dollar. The Best Cattle Reports in the Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year . Send your Dollar. . TwEßaxrMssawUrSfafpWHjsesr-"TBS 5 WfeeKty N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. Address THK BUN, New York City.

Oas Aar Medicine Do Mores The art of changing the bate metals Into gold has not been discovered, but the happy results of a discovery infinitely more Important are familiar to the community, and have been so for the past twenty years. To exchange debility for vigor, sickness for health, apathy for energy, gloom for cheerfulness, is a much more desirable operation thf»n to transmute lead into the root of all evil. And thu is whst Hostetter’s Stomsch Bitters accomplish and have been accomplishing dally, ever since their Introduction. Dyspepsia, biliousness, nervous affections, constipation, intermittent fevers, rheumatism, sick headache aud general debility are no longer the bugbears that they were a fifth of a century ago. The Bitters, taken as a protective medicine, prevent them, and taken as a remedy, cures them, and the people know It. Hence their overshadowing reputation and enormous sale. The fame of the great vegetable specific Is ever on the march, and at a pace that no competitor can llvo. It la to-day the foremost mediejne of Its class in tha civilized world. Every BOW and then attempts are made to rival it. and sometimes a nostrum concocted in the idle hope of sharing Us popularity has a brief spurt of apparent success But it is ail illusion. One by one they alak like atone* in the sea, while the gruattonlc, whose celebrity has been the cause of these blind ventures, continues to ride on the topmost wave of public favor, unapproached aud unapproachable. ,

Ok* Cold after Arotrrh will, with many constitutions, securely eetabllsh the seeds es Consumption in the sy*t» m. These in need of a remedy will find Dr. Jayne'e Expectorant always prompt, thorough snd efficacious. Ass yourgrocer for Pruselng’s Celebrated Cider Vinegar. Warranted pure. Preserves Pickles.

THE MARKETS.

KIW YORK; Feb. 8. 1878. BEEF CATTLE <9.60 0*18.60 HOGS—Live 6.00 ft 5.37 BHEBP- live 6.25 5 7.00 COTTON—Middling St A .Jim FLOUR—Good to Ch0ice........' 8.00 Q 8.80 WHBAT-No. 2 Spring. 1.72 to 1.78 CORN-Western Mixed 65 A .67 OATS—Western, New 58 ft .55 . RYB-Western 90 ft .95 PORK—Mem ...14.00 A 14.25 LARD 08 A .08* WOOL—Domestic Fleece 60 A .68 Tubbed .45 ft .60 Unwashed 80 ft -87 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Choice ~..*5.75 0*6.00 Good. 5.25 l l 5.65 Mcdlnm 4.50 i i 8.00 ... Butchers’ Stock 8.60 |i 4.J5 BOGS —Live 8.85 I I 4.25 SHEEP—Good to Choice 4.75 i I 6.78 BUTTBR-Choiee 28 i i .26 EGGS—Freeh 85 ft .40 FLOUR—White Winter Extra... 7.50 010.50 Spring Extra 6.00 I I 7.00 GRAlN—Wheat—Spring, No. 8.. 1.28 | , 1.24 Corn—No. J, .80 || .80S Pate .25 4 i .86 Rye-No. S 67 I I .68 Barley-No. 2, New 70 <1 .72 PORK—Mess.... 11.05 ft 1200 LARD 07 O .07* WOOL—Tub-washed 86 ft .65 Fleece, washed 45 ft .58 “ unwashed 30 ft .40 Palled 48 ft .50

CINCINNATL FLOUR—Family, New *8.20 A *8.40 WHEAT-Red........ ... 1.73 ft 1.78 CORN .40 ft .41 OATS 80 ft .89 RYE 87 ft .89 PORK-Mess,.... .t. . .t:.:’....... 12.75 ft 13.00 LARD .~. 07 ft .07* HOGS—Live 4.25 ft 4.75 ST. LOUIS. BEKF CATTLE—Choice *4.50 0*6.00 Good to Prime. 8.00 ft 4.25 HOGS—Live 8.80 ft 4.30 FLOUR—FaII XX 6.70 ft 7.20 WHEAT-No. 3 Red Winter 1.85 ft CORN-No. 2 Mixed H. -T 7 .30 ft OATS—No. 2 28 ft .29 RYE-No. 2 75 ft .79 PORK-Mess 12.75 ft 13.00 LARD .. 07 ft .07* MILWAUKEE. FLOUR-Spring XX *8.28 ft *6.87 WHEAT-Spring, No. 1 1.30 0 1.32 No. S„._. , 1.23 ft 1.25 CORN-No. 2 .34 ft .35 OATS-No. 2. 26 ft .27 rye-no.i ...v::t:: m ft .68 BARLEY-No. 2 .76 ft 778 CLEVELAND. WHEAT-No. 8 Red *1.68 ft *1.70 CORN 45 ft .46 OATS-No 1 .88 ft .39 DETROIT. ", WHEAT-No. 1 *1.93 ft *1.95 Amber.. _ 1.72 ft 1.74 CORN—No. 1 41 0 .42 OATS 86 ft .37 —-—TOLEDO, WHEAT—Amber Mich *1.77 ft *1.78 N 0.2 Red 1.74 ft 1.75 CORN—Mixed 37 ft .88* OATS—No. 4 -.84 0 .85

fUIUW WRITING) TO ADVERTISERS. TV please ear van eaw the advertisement In this paper. * CHALLENGE Is extended to the World To place before the public a better Cough or Lung Remedy than ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM. i It Is warranted tb break up the moßt troublesome Cough in an incredibly short time. There is no remedy that can show more evidence of real merit than this BALSAM for curing Consumption, Coughs,Colds, Asthma, Croup, etc. It Acts on tho Kidneys! It Acts on the lAwer! ZW Which makes it. more than a Cough Remedy. LATEST EVIDENCE. What well known Druggists of Tennessee say about Allen’s Lung Balsam. SritiworiKLD Tenn., Sept. 18,1872. -Gjentlemen' i Please ship us six doz. Allen’s Lung Balsam. We have not a bottle in tho store. It,has wore reputation, than any Cough Medicine we have ever sokl. Have been in the drug business *27 years. Wemean3u9t ’ hatwe “J- v^rx'2 Banner. What the Doctor* Say. Drs. Wilson & Ward, Physicians and Druggists, write from Centreville, Tenn.: ' * A We purchased Allen’s Lung Balsam, and it sells rapidly. We are practicing physicians, as well as druggists, and take pleasure in recommending a great remedy,such as we know this to be.” .. Physicians do not recommend a medicine which has no merit; what they say ab^tft. ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM Can he taken as a fact. Let all afflicted test it at once and be convinced of its real merits. It is harmless to the most delicate child. " ", It Contains no Opium In Any Form. o AtJTioixr. Be not deceived. Call for ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM, and take no other. tar Directions accompany each bottle. J.N. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, 0., proprietors. ITBsM hr nil Medicine Dealer*. W flSk Reliable Remedy in DiseaBes of the Kidneys and Uri- hi K nary Organs. Forßhenma- Ip* IS Skin Diseases, Colds,'it has ||^ IP teRkSY no superior. Tones up the system after Ague. Phy- I" ® lci^Jj)Prea ® r { be *** So * d u KELLOGG. Parties bearing the above name will be Interested to learn that a work is now in preparation giving the genealogy of the family in this country from the middle of the 17th Century to the present time. All interested will confer a favor by communicating with the publisher, RUFUS B. KELLOGG, Oakland, California, who will send, to any address, circulars containing the early history of the family, with outline of the information desired.

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mi JJhiVTml’lllliirß Ho Person cm toko these Bitters according to directions, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyond the point of repair. < Dyspepsia or Indigestion* Headache, Pain—in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Dizziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Tasts in the Mouth, Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of tho Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pain in the regions > of the Kidneys, and a hundred other painful symptoms, are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. -In these complaints it has no equal, and one bottle will prove a better guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. - For Female Complaints, in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display so decided an influence that a marked improvement is soon perceptible. For Inflammatory and Cb.ronic Rheumatism and Gout, BiKous, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have ho equal. # Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced by derangement of the Digestive Organs. They are a Gentle Purgative as well as a Tonie, possessing also the peculiar ment of acting as a powerful agent in relieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liyer and Visceral Organs, and in Bilious Diseases. For Skin Diseases, Eruptions, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Blotches, Spots, Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Carbuncles, Ring-worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters. Grateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained the sinking systen\. _ J WALKER, Prop’r. R. H. McDONALDdt CO. # Druggists and Gen. Agts., San Francisco and New York. BP- SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS. MOTHER^^^nE^l ! MOTHERS!!! Don’t fnll to procure MRS. WINS. • I.OW’S_ SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEETHING. Tlilb valuable preparation baa been used with NF.V--Eli-FAII.ING SUCCESS IN THOUSANDS OF CaSES. It not only relieves the child from pain, but lnvigorates the stomach and bowels, corrects acidity, and gives tone and energy to the whole system. It will also Instantly relieve - - Griping in the Bowels and Wind Colie. We believe It the REST and SUREST REMEDY IN THE WORLD, in all eases of DYS-ENTEKY ANB DIARRHG£A IN CHILDREN, whether arising frolfo teething or any other cause. Depend upon it, mothers, it yrUl give rest to you» selves, and • . _ . Belief and Health to Your Infante. Be snre and call for “MRS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP," Having the fac-sirnlle of ‘‘CURTIS & PERKINS” on the outside wrapper. by druggists throughout the world. HUNTER’S STRAPPER’S ILLUSTRATED PRACTICAL GUIDE. jg— 2 Notwithstanding its low price this book has beoorna a standard, and sales increase each year. It must —**■**“ be seen to be properly appreciated, ft sells to those who see it Nearly every boy wants one. It gives jnst the information wanted about care and use of arms, making and using traps, snares and nets, baits and baiting, poisons,bird lime, preserving stretching,dress- iog, tanning ami dyeing skins and ' JHTVT furs, fishing, &o. SO engravings- Price HO oents. Sent by mail, postage paid, on receipt of ptloe by J. HANEY & CO., 119 Nassau St., New York.

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The Wtat FieM of America! HEALTHFUL CLIMATE, FREE HOMES, HOOD MARKETS. ' TIIK NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD offers for sale its Lands in Central nnd Western Minnesota* embracing: 1. The best of Wheat Land; 2. Excellent Timber for the Mill, the Farm and the Fire; 8. Rich Prairie Pasturage and Natural Meadow, watered by clear lakes and running Streams—in a Healthful Climate, where Fever and Ague is unknown. -Grain can be shipped hence by lake to market as fcheaply as from Eastern lowa or Centrul Illinois. Cars now run through these Lands from Lake Superior to Dakota. Price of land close to track $4.00 to SB,OO per acre; further away $2,50 to sl.oo* seven - Years’ Credit j Warrantee Deeds; Northern Pacific 7-30 Bonds* now selling at par, received for land at sl.lO. No other unoccupied Lands present such, advantages to settlers, SOLDIERS under the New Law (March, 1872.) get 160 acres FREE, near the railroad, by one and two years’ residence. transportation at reduced RATES furnished from all prlncipalpolnts East to Purchasers of Railroad Lands, and to Settlers on Government Hbmesteads. their wives and children, carried free over tire Northern Pacific Road. Now is the time for Settlers SiAl Colonies to get Railroad Lands and Government Homesteads close to the track. c/.v. vs. 4 Siend for Pamphlet contalng full Information, map, and copy of new Homestead Law. Address LAND DEPARTMENT, NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, ST. PAUL. MlN^f„ Or *43 Fifth Ava., cor. Ninth St., NfcW TORE. LABGEBT ORGAIf ESTABLISHMENT IN , ' THE WORLD! 7 Extensive Factories. J. ESTEY & COMPANY, THE CELEBRATED Estey Cottage Organs. The latest and best Improvements. Everything that is new and novel:' The leading improvements In Organs were introduced first in this establishment. ESTABLISHED 1846. Bend for Illustrated Catalogue. WFor any case of Bllutz. Bleeding. Ilci.lnK or Ulim rated Pile, {hat Db Bixu a Pit* Remedy falls to cure. It Is prepared expressly to euro the Piles, and nothing else. Sold bv all Druggists. Price *1,06. T« B«*>* g A *SSk. -Z nrOsn sell a thousand copies per week Address UNION PußLiamKfr Co. 335 Wabash Ava, Chicago. DR. WHITTIER, ™ Loefp«t eujrnpcfl, »rv»l moat ■ooecKtful |.hj»AcUn of th« m*or • free. Call or write. lt!OAP erda F’- Agents wanted! AllcU«eaof 4>J bO of either i-ex; younger old, make.more liiwuey at work for us ’nfheir spare, moments or all the time than at any thing Wee. radicfree. AddressG Stinson &. CO., Portland Maine. GREATEST CURIOSITY [udmsTre’ruVc 1 m.mo selling weekly. Price S# cents. No humbug. Address GEORGE A. HEARD A CO- Boston, Mass. Evergreen*. »to 15 Inches. TrantplanUd, 2to S dollar# period. Send sUsop lor descriptive list to A. N. K. 3WO-R. I. DR. WHITTIER, « 7 ‘WM™ 5 UmgMl nppd. iti nWTsmefcl |ib,d€iaa .( lb. sga Cewllilln ssa.woSl.ttws. Csilw writ*