Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1874 — Page 6

THE FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.

SENATE. The terms of twcutr-flve Soiuters expire In [Republican in Roman, Opposition in email cup* 1 ' SAUe. I Term Sena, °L •£&*■ , ; i Expires. ' f '' California ... ..{Hagar. Newton ttobrn. Connecticut.. 'Buckingham Wm. W. Eaton. 4 Delaware IBayard. (Thos. F. Bataru. Florida Gilbert. Oi-raaiTioN. Indiana Piatt. iOrrosmoN. Maine. Hamlin. Republican. Maryland... a.. Hamilton. 'Wm. P. White. Maaaachnaetdi*. Waebburu. Republican. Michigan'Chandler. Republican. Minnesota| Ramsey. Oito.ition . Miacisaippi..,,, Pease. |B. K. Bruce (col.) Miaso tin .Schurz. Orrosrrtox. NebraskalTifton. Republican. Nevada(Stewart. 4 |—. —. Sharon. New Jersey.... Stockton. Opposition. New York ... .lFenton. Opposition. Ohio s’ THViiNAji. A. G. Thurman. ' Pennsylvania.. (Scott. Opposition. Rhode Island. .’Sprague. Republican. Tennessee Brownlow Orrm>mo«, Texas rFianagan. Samuel Bc**Maxit Vermont....Kdnuimh. Republican. Virginia ILcwis. Robt. K. Withers. Wedt Virginia , foreman. lOpposmoN. Wisconsin'Carpenter. Republ iesn.

RLCATITULATION. The Senators holding over number: Rcpubli can? 38: Opposition. 15. The new Senate will stand: Republican. 48; Opposition. HI; total, 74. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. [Republicans in Roman: Opposition in small caps; naniee of members of the Forty-third Congress marked with an asterisk (•)..].—. .. ALABAMA8.8. Lewis. 3. I’aul Bradford. W. H. Forsey. . 4. »charles Hays,.; 1. Jere Haralson ico’.). 5. John H. Caldwell. 2. J'. N. Williams. i 6. G. W. Hewitt. ARKANSAS. 1. •!,. C. Gau-e. ' 3. W. W. Wilshire. 2. W. F. Slemon*. i 4- ’Thos. M. Gunter. CALIFORNIA. [Election in September, 1875.] CONNECTICUT. [Election in April, 1875. DELAWARE. James Williams. _ IttZ FLORIDA. 1. »J. T. Walls-tcol.i. 2. »Wm. J. Purman. Georgia. 1. Julian Hartridoe 6.’Jay-iu n. Blount. 2. Wn.ix.Air E Smith. 7. W. 11. Darnby. 8. ’Primp Cook. 'B.’A. it. stlphess. 4. ’Henry R. Harris. 9. Garnet McMillan. 5. M A. A .AN IlLLli. ILLINOIS. 1. B. G. <'At-mri.i>. - 11. Scott Wire. 2 c H nAKRIboXs Wjj m springer. 3. ’Clras. B. Farwell. 13. A. E. Stevenson. 4. »S. A. Hurlbut. 14. ’Jos. G. Canupn. 5;-’TT: U Burchard. 15. ’John. R. Eden. ’ 6. Thos. J. Jleudcteon.ll6. W. A. J. Sparks. 7. Alf.n. a anpbell. 17. *W. H. Morrison, 5. *G. L. 'Fort. IS. Wm.-Hartzell. 9. R. H. Whiting- 19. Wil. 15. Andi.u-os. 10. John. C■ 1 ■ usdiaNa. 1. B s. Ft lier. 8. ’Morton C. lluntea. 2. J. IL Willi an-. 9. ’Thomas J. Cason. 3 ’Michael t . Keu.il 10. Wm. S. Hayward. t. J. D. New. . 11. J. L. Exan-. 5. ’Wm. S Hoi.yan. 12. And'w 11. Hamilton. M. S. TX James H. Baker: 7. Frank Landers. ~— —— low A. ' 1. ’Geo. W. McCrary. 6. Ezekiel A. Sampson. 2. John Q. Tufts. 7. ’John A. Kasson. 8. L. L. AinswoKTH. S..’Janies W. Mcllill. 4. ’Henry O. Pratt. 9. Addison Oliver. 5. ’James Wilson. 1 KANSAS. 1. ‘Wis’.R. Phillip-. :l. W. R. Brown. 2. John R. Goodin. KENTUCKY. 1, A.K. 800n5... ti. J..C. Hughes. 2. ’John Y. Brown. . 7. J. U. S. Blackburn. ’Ch.asW. Mh.likin. 8. ’Milton J. Durham. 4. J I'RocTOB Knott. 9. Harbison Cockbill. 5. l Y . I'arsons. ild, John B. Clarke. 1. 1: ■ ’ . Giiisox. 4. W. M. Levi. 2. 1 J.c.n . t.;.«, 5. Bkn.i. F. Spencer. • 8. ’c . 11. Uarrait. <i. C. E.Mash <col.l. MAINE. 1. ’John H. Burleigh. I. ’Samuel F. Hersey. 2. ’William P. Frye. 5. ’Eugene Hale. 3. ’James G. Blaipe. | MARYLAND. 1. pHit.tr F. Thomas. 4. ’Thos. Swans. , 2.'Cha». A. Roberts. 't~Sr7ELi~CT.MBNKLB.. 3. ’Wm. Jas. O'Brien. 6. WM. Walsh. Massachusetts. L ’.lam, s Baffin: m, -1-7. John K. Tarbox. 2. ’Beni -Wr-Hanis-. (8. Wm. W. Warren. 3. *U< _. “..’Geo. F. Hoar. : , • > . - J:il. H. Seelye, Tnd. 5. 5. I’. i'.cr < 11. Ches. W. Chapin. ti. t'UAr. I • ; GONrSCS. . y ■ « ■ MICHIGAN. ——. , A - '>■ <>• Geo. H. Durant. 2. ">>■. ‘iii'ju. 7. ’OmarD. Conger. 3. *u; . W ..iard. 8. *N . B. Bradley. .. Ai.i.ks I'orrrr.. 9. ’Jay A. Hubbell; $. '» Wm'. B. W-r. Lams, ’ , MINNESOTA. 1. *M. li. Dv.. ne'.i. 3. Wm. S. King. 2. ’ll. B. Strait. MtssjsJfpFL (Election next year.] MISSOURI. 1. Edwar. Kehk: 8. Benj. J. Franklin. ■3T _r EKAsi r . xWells? ’9. David Rea. 3. ’Wm. L .one. . 10. R. A. Dkßolt. 4. ’Robt. A. Hatcher. 11. ’John B. Clark. Jr. 5. ’Fichard I’. Bland. 12. ’John M. Glover. - ti. < has. 11. M.orgas. 13. ’A. 11. Buckner. 7. John F. Phillips, j NEBRASKA. •Lorenzo Crounse. ——XtrAIl.L ' Wm. Woodburn. ' NEW HAMPSHIRE L_, L (Election in March, 1875.] NEW JERSEY. 1. C. Sinuickson. 5. A. W. Cutler. . 2. Siuiuel A. Dobbins. ( a. Fred. H. Teese. b. Mil'es Ross. 7- A. A. Hakdenbergh -t—4r • Robert Hamilton. (■ - NEW YORK. 1. Husky B. Metcalf. 18. Andrew Williams. 2. ’J. G. Schumaker. 19. ’Wm, A. Wheeler. 3. S. B. Chittenden. 20. ’Henrv H. Hathorn. 4. A. M. Bliss. 21. Sami. F. Miller. 5. Edwin R. Meade. .22. Geo. A. Bagley. 6. ’Samuel S Vox. 28. Scott Lord. 7. Smith Ely. Jr. 24. Wm. H. Baker. 8. Elijah Ward. » 25. E. W. Leavenworth. 9. Fernando Wood. 26 *C. I). McDougal. Id A. S. Hewttt; 27. Ethridge G. Latham. 11. Ben.l A. Willis. 28. ’Thos. C. Platt. 12. N. Holmes Odell. 29. Chas C. B. Walker. 13. ’J. O Whitehouse. 30. John M. Davey. 14. Geo. H. Beebe. 31. ’Geo. G. Hoskins. 15: John H. Bagley. Jr. 32. ’Lyman K. Bass. 16. Chas. H, Adams. 33. Augustus F. Allen. 17. Milton I. Townsend. NORTH CAROLINA. 1. Jesse J. Yeates. 5. A. M. Scales. 2. John A. Hyman. 6. T. L. Ashe. 3. A. M. Waddell. 7. YVm. M Robbins. 4. Jos. J. Davis. 8. R. B. Vance. -1. ’Milton Sayleil 11. John L. Vance. 2. ’Henry B.Banning. 12. Ansel T. Walling. 3. John S. Savage. ,13. *M. I. Southard. " 4. John A,. Macmahon. 14. John P. Cowan. 5. Amebic-- V. Rice. 15. N. H. Van Vorhes. 6. Frank H. HUrd. 16. ’Lorenio Danford. 7. ’William Lawrence. 17. *L. D. Woodworth. 8. »L. T. NitAL. 18. ’James Monroe. 9. E.J. Poppletos. 19. ’James A. Gart eld. 10. ’Charles Foster. A). Henry B. Pay xe. OREGON. Geo. A. La Dow. 1. Chapman Freeman. 15. Jas. Powell. 2. Chas. O'N'eill. 16. ’Sobieski Ross. 3. S. J. Randall. (17. John Rbilly. 4. ’W. D. Kelley. 18. Wm. S. Stenger. 5. John Robbins. Jr. 19 Levi Maish. 6. Wm. Ward. 20. Louis A. Mackey. 7. Alan Wood. Jr. i2l. Jacob Turnky. 8. ’Heister Clymer. 22. JaMES H. Hopkins. 9. Wm. Pattox. 23. Alex. G. Cocl ran. 10. W. H. Blumer. (24. John W. Wall: ce. 11. Frank D. Collins. 25. Geo. A. Jencess. 12. W. W. Ketchum. 26. Jacob Sheaki sy. 13. Jas. B. Reilly. 27. Albert G. JEli ert. 14. ’John B. Packer. | RHODE ISLAND. 1. Benj. T; Ames. 2. Latimer W. Ba’ oa. south Carolina. 1. Sa ml. Lee te01.77 4. J. B. Kershaw 2. E. W. Mackey. :5. Robt. Smalls (col.). 3. Samuel McGowax. ' TENNESSEE. - 1. Wm. McPamlaxd. Ld. JohnF. Hocs~. i. »3. M. Thornburgh. 7. ’W. C. Wufri orxe. 3. Geo. G. Dibbell. 8. ’J. D. C. Atk ns. 4. John W. Head. 9. wm. P. Caldwell. 5. *Johx M. Bright. TO. H. Casey Yoi ng. ' TEXAS. 1. J. H. Reagan, , , (4: ’Roger Q. Mills. 2. B. B. Culberson. 15. ’John Hancock. 5. J. W. Thbockmobton 6. Gustave Schleiche VIRGINIA. 1. D. R. Douglass. 6. John R. Tucker. 2. ’Jas H. Platt. 7. ’John T. Harris. 8. Gilbert C. Walker. 8. ’Eppa Buxton. 4. »W. H. Stowell. ». Wm. Terry. 6, Geo. C. H. Cabmix.

VERMONT. —l. Chas. W. Joyce. ,4 3. ’Ge<>.AV. Hcndee. 2., Dudley C. Dennison. ' V - 1. Benj. Wilmix. 3. ’Frank Hereford. 2. C. J. Faulkner. j -• s U’tm’O'N HIN. 1. •Chau. G. WilliMxuu. 5. Sam. I). BuncuAiio. S. Lucien B. Caswell. «. A. M. Kimball. 3. Henry S. Magoon. !7. ’"Jere M. Rn«k. 4. Wm. Lynde. I 8. ’A. S. .McDill. i,e< apitvi.ation. Republicans. 101; Opposition, 174. The States yet to elect will choose 17 members of the House.

Report of the third Assistant Post-master-General.

Washington. Nov. 11. Hon. E. M. Barber, Third Assistant Postmasler-General, has completed his annual report. It shows that during the last fiscal year there were issued to Postmasters, for sale to the public, 032,733,000 adhesive postage stamps of the value of f 17,275,242; of plain stamped envelopes about: 05,000,000, valued at $1,927,052; of stamped envelopes bearing a return request, 52,000,(MM), valued at $1,733,738; of newspaper-wrappers some 19,000,(KM), valued at $220,000, and of postal-cards 91,000,000. The increase in value of the ordinary’ issues over the preceding year was $1,668,488, or over 8 per cent. These figures represent the cost of manufacture added to the postal value. It is estimated that for the fiscal year ending dune 30, 1876, there will be required to defray the cost of adhesive postage stamps $149,764: of stamped envelopes and wrappers $446,520; of post-al-cards $159,806; and of advertising $115,000. The number of stamps, etc., issued each year increases at a uniform rate of about 10 per cent, per annum, but in consequence of more advantageous contracts having been effected the estimate for the above items is some $31,000 less than the sum appropriated for them for the curienl fiscal year. The Dead-Letter Division received during the past year 4,601,773 letters, representing an actual or nominal value of $4 ,637,429, exclusive of jewelry 7 and other property, which class of inclosures is treated as possessing no money value that can with correctness be determined. One million three hundred and ninetytwo thousand two hundred and twenty-four letters, representing $3,909,<868, were delivered to the owners or writers, including 225,893 foreign letters, wliicli Were returned unopened to the countr:t - !!■ un yv lienee they came. Of the remainder some 2,600,000 were either worthless, containing circulars, etc., or could not be delivered and were destroyed. The rest are filed sor r reclamation or are in the hands of Postmasters for delivery. --- . The Third Assistant strongly’ recommends that provision be made by law for furnishing to each and every’ Postniaster throughout tlie country indelible ink and other requisites for effectually' canceling postage stamps and for. postmarking. None of the postoffices are now- furnished by’ the department with any such articles for the protectionof tlie Government. Mr. Barber estimates that the proportion of washed stamps used again in payment of postage is 5 per cent, of the value of all the stamps sold each year, causing an annual loss of $1,000,000 to the revenue of the department. The report describes the plan devised by the Third Assistant, and approved by the Postmaster-General, for collecting newspaper postage under the Prepayment law, which is to go into effect next J anuary. This system provides, in brief, for the prepayment by stamps affixed to a memorandum of mailing, or, in other words, to a stub in a book retained by the Postmaster at the mailing office, a receipt showing the weight of the matter and the amount paid being given by’ the Postmaster to the person mailing the same. The stamps affixed to the stub to be canceled by a cutting-punch. It is expected that, notwithstanding the reduction of rates by the new law, this system of compulsory prepayment of newspaper postage will yield a larger revenue than , has ever been collected. Comprehensive inquiry seems to warrant the belief that in the' city of New York alope not less than $609,000 per annum will be paid, a sum w hich is little less than one-half of the entire revenue from newspaper postage throughout the United States during the fiscal year. It is, however, impossible to estimate the actual increase for the whole country*, OYving to that provision of the law which allows free mail circulation of newspapers in counties in which they’ are printed. . ...

Annual Report of the U. S. Treasurer.

Washington. Noy-, 9. Gen. Spinner’s report is completed and in the hands of the printer. He devotes considerable space to an argument in favor of issuing interchangeable bonds, to bear interest at the rate of 3.65 per cent. His arguments on this point, are, in the main, the same as those of last year, except that he believes that it would be wise to allow holders to exchange the 3.65 for outstanding 5 and 6 per cent, bonds. He says that the greatest objection to a metallic currency is its lack of elasticity, and is of the opinion that the adoption of the convertible bond will correct this evil. He thinks the rate of interest will be high enough to sell the bonds, to the absorption of any surplus currency, at any time, while it will be enough to force a return of the bonds in exchange for legal-tender notes when the business of the countrydemands more, currency. The rate of interest at one cent a day on the hundred dollars would be popular with the people, he says, because it is easy of computation. He argues that the conversion of the 5s and 6s into low-rate bonds in the event of the condition of the currency demanding such conversion would result in the material reduction interest on the public debt, and make it payable entirely in national currencV at home, and not in gold to foreigners.

The Business Branch of the Patrons’ and Farmers' Clubs.

There is nothing, says the Industrial Age, of more interest to the farmers and all other industrial interests than the operation of their business matters, and especially their efforts to reduce the prices of goods by co-operation. The Patrons' Helper, printed at Des Moines, in a recent issue had an interesting article on the subject, from which we clip the following: “ As said above, more than $12,000 has been expended during the past year for the relief of suffering from grasshoppers, from flood and from other disasters: the several amounts have been paid back to the State Granges out of their deposits, and so far as possible in proportion to those deposits. ' “During the past year 150 headers

have been built and sold in Nebraska alone. The price has been $l5O each, while the dealera were charging $325, a discount of 54 per cent., and a total saving in first cost of $26'550. “Ovet 300 Werner harvesters have been'built in the three States of lowa, Nebraska and Minnesota, and sold at $l4O, a saving on each machine of SBO, and a total saving to the buyers of $24,000. The orders tor the Werner this year very far exceeded the capacity of the factories to supply, and next year it is thought that 3,000 of them will be called for. They have everywhere given entire satisfaction when well made and in the hands of competent operators. In a recent trial in Xlinnesota between the Werner, the Marsh and the Massillon the Werner was adjudged the beM of the three. « ; “Fully 1,500 cultivators have been made and sold during the past year, the price being sl3 to $13.50 for an implement in every way as good its those generally sold for S3O to $35. ‘ The coming season a spring tooth sulky rake will be made and offered for about $25, such an one as now brings $35 to $45. These rakes will be made at Des Stoines and Dubuque, and probably other places also. “A seeder will also be offered for about S4O. It is called the Gang Plow Seeder, and is equal in value to those now’-sold -for s6stos7o, —— “ A Bessemer steel beam plow is now; making at Des Moines, at the Given Plow Works, Yvhieh can be sold at $lB. Mr. Given will till our orders first at that price, while others must wait to belie served aftenvard, and at a higher price. These plows arc first-class in every respect, far superior and much lighter than any other ordinary’ iron beam plow’. “A mower is now making in New' York, of which our Order will hive entire control. All the parts usually made of iron are of Bessemer steel; the movement is very snnple-and the draft light. It is provided with self-oiling boxes, which require attention but two or three times a week, and is generally- firstclass in all its parts. It will sell in lowa, freight paid, for not more than $75. “ Arrangements are now making and will be completed before the lowa State Grange meets in December,-to get sugars and sirups direct from members of our Order in Louisiana, through the agency in New Orleans. Samples and prices are promised at the meeting. Prices of sirups, of course, vary with the market; but last year the best pure cane sirups were sold in New Orleans for 53 cents, while we were paying $1 for the vile, chemically prepared, watery- drips with which our grocers supplied us. “ The agency in New Orleans is nowready to receive flour, corn, bacon and other Western products in exchange for sugars, sirups, etc., which the South has to spare.”

Join the Grange.

The St. Paul Anti-Monopolist has the following conclusion of a sensible article on the subject of farmers not providing sufficient amusement for themselves or their families. It will bear reading and “Come, brother farmers, the remedy for sad tvives and empty pockets is in your own hands. It is the Grange, wisely and intelligently used. , “ Remember that every dollar stolen from you by politicians; every dollar stolen from you by the railroads, is another pang added to the hearts of your wives; another grief or want installed in your households. Increased prosperity means increased means of comfort M hy should you slave and toil until your whole phvsical and nervous forces are prostrated; why should you live on rude, hard fare; why should you w-ork until you are unable to think or read, or enjoy the ordinary comforts of life, Yvhile the fruits of your industry are gobbled up to enrich the knaves around you ? ‘ They toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of theses “ Oh, fools! fools! to believe that prosperity lies in unthinking muscles rather than in thinking brains. Would you rate the brawn of an ox higher than the mind of a man? Come up out of the house of bondage and take possession of the promised land.”

Farmers and Statistics.

No class in human society is more interested in accurate statistics of the productions of the earth than farmers; yet they have hitherto paid least attention. Being the great producing class it is of the highest moment that they should accurately Study supply and demand. They, more than any ocher class, depend upon this knowledge for a remuneration of labor. Agricultural productions are largely perishable, and must be sold or lost within a brief period, while mechanical labor results in comparatively indestructible products, which may be kept without injury. Farmers then should strive to know, as far as possible, not only the extent of the demand for a given product, but the area of cultivation required to supply it. Before railroads, undet the old system of transportation by horse-power, markets were mostly local and it required little study to determine the demand and the requisite supply. But now, with railroads across the continent intersecting a net-work of other roads, reaching almost every district, there is a most complete interchange ot products, requiring the crops of the whole country to be considered in the study of supply and demand. “-The new system' of inland transportation has greatly changed the, status of the farmer; he is now become a commercial operator, and to be successful must understand thoroughly the statistics of his business. Much more than ever before will a knowledge of political economy be required by him. And this new education must begin by perfecting a complete system of crop reports The farmer must be the observer and reporter. He alone understands the subject and can judge of the condition of the crops as they progress. As the whole country now is embraced in the daily telegraphic reports and the trade and commerce of one section are dependent upon those of the other, so these crop reports must be conducted upon a general system embracing every crop and every product finding its way into commercial channels. It will require a thorough cooperation of the farmers of the whole country, and this may be greatly facilitated by the assistance of the Patrons of Husbandry. These Granges, numbering 12.000 subordinate societies, reach a larger class of farmers than any otlier organization, and, having a thorough system of inter-eom-munication, any plan adopted could be put in practice in ten days in all pa’ ts of the country where these Granges exist. And as crops are intimately connected with meteorological phenomena

it is quite proper that the Signal Service should take charge of these reports and place them before the people as it does the weather reports. When the Signal Bureau takes this task to perform it will send out blanks to its observers requiring but little writing and greatly facilitating the reports to be made? We believe the Grangers propose the present season to make an effort to ac» complish these reports of grow-ing crops, but we fear they will lack the means to give such frequent publicity to them as is required. They can accomplish the reporting, but we think the Signal Service should be charged with receiving and publishing them as often as once in two weeks. The publication must be prompt and the distribution thorough to fully accomplish the objects in view. This is a national object, benefits the whole people, and the expense should be paid from the national Treasury. But the expense will not be large, as the newspapers will be the mediuin of communication with the people and will publish these reports gratuitously. The telegrams conveying these reports to headquarters will be the greatest item of expense. We hope our present Congress will make some provision for these reports before its adjournment. Agriculture has entered upon a new era, and is in future to be carried on byeducated hands and brains. „ The farmer isto-steptothefront—andoccujythe place naturally intended—first in production, first in employment and honor. Agriculturist.

Fancy Work with Autumn Leaves.

The bright tints of autumn leaves are very lovely for ornamenting our parlors, boudoirs and dining-tables. Brackets and picture-frames can also be adorned with them, and they add greatly to the beauty -of one’s surroundings. Collect a large quantity, combining every hue, from Crimson to scarlet, from scarlet to yellow, and from yellow to green. The red beech and the beautifully variegated sumach are very desirable, as also are the oak and ferns, but the maple exceeds them all in the great variety- of tints and the various sizes of its leaves. Smooth every leaf on the wrong side with a moderately warm iron, holding it upon the leaf only a minute. Then take a camel’shair pencil and a little olive oil, and carefully brush over every part of the leaf. Place them on a flat surface to dry, and let them remain until the next day. For wiring these leaves into garlands, etc., or for preparing them for bouquets, take the fine green-covered reel wire, such as is always used in manufacturing wax flowers, and attach it. around the stem, first laying it so that it will extend tlie entire length of the leaf to support it. Afterward wind around each stem, to conceal the wire, either narrow strips of green tissue-paper or brown Berlin worsted, and join the leaves together in sprays; of course the individual leaves on each spray- must be of the same species. Prepare a large number of these sprays mounted on wires, and then arrange them in vases, about picture-frames, over mirrors, and as ornaments to lace curtains, and your apartments will present a festive appearance although the dreary winter weather has broivned the face of nature. Oak leaves, acorns and brightly-colored beans, gummed upon a card-board frame, will make handsome corner-brackets, or wallpockets and vases to your beautiful leaves. The acorns and beans ought first to be cut in half,-when used for this purpose.— Country Getitleman.

A Day’s Churning.

They have a new- hired girl over at Keyser’s farm, just outside our town, and on Tuesday, before starting to spend the day with a friend, Mrs. Keyser instructed the girl to whitewash the kitchen during her absence. Upon returning Mrs. Keyser found the job completed in a very satisfactory manner. On Wednesdays Mrs. Keyser always churns, and on last Wednesday when she was ready she went out, ana/finding that Mr. Keyser had already put the milk into the churn, she began to turn the handle. This was at eight—o clock in the morning, and she turned until ten without any signs of butter appearing. Then she called in the hired man and he turned until dinner time, when he knocked off. with some very offensive language addressed to that butter which had not yet come. After dinner the hired girl took hold of the crank and turned it energetically until two o’clock, when she let go with a remark which conveyed the impression that she believed the churn to be haunted. Then Mr. Keyser came out and said he w-anted to know what was the matter with that churn, anyhow. It was a good-enough churn if people only knew enough to work it. Mr. Keyser then worked the crank until half-past three, ivhen, as the butter had not come, he surrendered it again to the hired man because he had an (engage ment in the village. The man ground the machine to an accompaniment of frightful imprecations; then the Keyser children each took a turn for half an hour, then Mrs. Keyser tried her hand, and when she was exhausted she again enlisted the hired girl, who said her prayers while she turned. But the butter didn’t come. When Keyser came home and found the churn still, in action he blasted his eyes and did some other innocent swearing, ,and then he seized the handle and said 1 he’d make the butter come if he kicked up an earthquake in doing in. Mr. Keyser effected about two hundred revolutions of the crank a minute, enough to have made any ordinary butter come from the ends of the earth; and when the perspiration began to stream from him and still the butter didn’t come he uttered one wild yell of rage and disappointment and kicked the churn over the fence. When Mrs. Keyser went to pick it up she put her nose down close to the buttermilk and took a sniff. Then she 'understood how it was. The girl had mixed the whitewash in the churn and left it there! A good, honest and intelligent servant who knows how to churn can find a situation st Keyser’s. There is a vacancy.— Jfax Adder, in Danbury News. A large congregation gathered in ht Paul’s M. E. Church, jersey City, the other evening, to witness a marriage ceremony in which the Rev. Mr. Lowriewas to have officiated. The parties were a young gentleman of Jersey City and a young lady from Hackensack. The hour for the ceremony came and passed, but the bridal party failed to arrive. The expectant crowd had detained for more than an hour, ' when Dr. Lowrie made his appearance and announced that the ceremony would not take place. The bride, being under age, had failed to procure the consent of her parents, and, though warmly pressed, he had refused to perform the ceremony. The guests cheered the Doctor for the part he had takenf and left for their homes. , t

RECIPES, ETC.

—A writer Bays: “’ The“ Spaniards have a mode of preserving which is quite peculiar to themselves. A slice being cut from one end of a large melon, the seeds and soft part of the flesh are removed, and into the hollow thus* formed a luscious heterogeneous crowd of apricots. nectarines and pieces of oranges, both sweet and bitter, or slices of pineapples, of strawberries, of raspberries, is pressed and closely packed; then all is steeped in the preserving sirup, the slice is restored to the end of the melon, reunited by the stickiness of the sugar. How long it remains under treatment, how- often the sirup jnay be made to simmer, are details unknown to us; what we do know is that the final result is altogether the supremest form of preserved fruit.” —To Make Mince Pies:—Mix lightly into a pound of sifted flour six ounces of fresh, pure lard, adding a pinch of salt; make into a smooth paste w’ith cold water and lay it upon the board. Take the point of a knife and use up four ounces of butter by cutting off bits, pressing them into the dough—flouring with a dredger, folding over and rolling out, repeating the process until all is used, with as little handling and as much expedition as possible. Butter the dishes, line them.. with. the.. mincemeat, moisten the edges with cold water, cover, trim the edges neatly, make small apertures with the point of tl» knife, and bake long in a slow oven. If they brown too quickly cover them with paper, as they need to be thoroughly done. —llearth and Home. —The ravages of diphtheria in Australia have been so extensive within the last few- years that the Government oilered a large reward for any certain method of cure, and among other responses to this was one by Mr. Oreathead, who at first kept his method a secret, but afterward communicated it freely to the public. It is simply the use of sulphuric acid, of which four drops are diluted in threefourths of a tumbler of water to be administered to a grown person and a smaller dose to children, at intervals not specified. The result is said to be a coagulation of the diphthertic membrane and its ready removal by coughing. It is asserted that where the case thus treated had not advanced to nearly- fatal termination the patient recovered in almost every instance.

Prospects for Butter and CheeseWinter Butter.

There will undoubtedly be a scarcity of good butter throughout the West during the coming winter. In fact, there always has been, but from this on, until next spring, the price must rule high; for, while the exceptionally fine fall weather has kept the pastures flush and green, the previous drought had so dried the cows that the full measure of benefit could not be realized only in those exceptional cases where plenty of water and full feed had been provided during the, previous dry weather. The high price of butter has tended to draw- out considerable quantities of that which has heretofore been kept for winter sales, and there seems now to be but little doubt that, before the winter is half gone, those lots of butter that are of such excellent quality as to keep per-,, fectly will bring higher’figures than have ever before prevailed in the West. On (Dec. 1, 1872, the price of the best Western butter was twenty-seven cents, andthe best cheese fourteen and fifteen cents per pound. For a corresponding date in 1873 the best butter was worth thirty-five cents, and the best cheese thirteen and one-half cents. At this writing the best Western cheese is worth sixteen cents, and really first-class butter is so hard to get that it is quickly taken at forty cents, although it is generally quoted somewhat louver. The retail price of the best tub butter is fortyfive cents, and really superior fresh-made butter would bring fifty cents. At these prices for butter and cheese its manufacture is a better business than any other department of farm labor. Now cheese cannot be economically made in cold weather, but butter can be, if one only have new cows, plenty of feed and w-arm shelter. We should not be at all surprised before two months have passed to see good tub butter retail -at fifty cents. At—this price it does not take a good cow long to pay for herself. Butter in winter as well as in summer, to command the best price, must not only be firm in its texture, lightly salted and of good color, but it must also retain the natural aroma, which determines in a great measure its value. To secure this the very best hay must be fed, in connection with a liberal supply of corn meal and bran—if a few carrots can be fed daily it is better. The stables must be kept perfectly clean and neat; the milk-room in which the milk is s.et must be of as uniform a temperature as possible, varying from 55 deg. to 60 deg.; the cream must not be allowed to get bitter, but must be skimmed and churned as regularly as in summer, and lightly salted. Winter-made butter is not expected to how the high color of that made in summer, and herein many persons make a mistake in the use of annotto. As a rule, cows that are liberally fed with meal and bran and good well-cured hay will furnish milk of sufficient color. The addition of carrots each day will be found valuable, and, if the color is Hot sufficiently good, the orange-colored layer enveloping the middle of the root may be pulped in water, and, after straining, a sufficient.quantity of the colored water added to the cream before ingin making winter butter we should not advise washing the mass when taken from the churn. There are objections to this practice at any time, but especially in winter, since, as the butter is to be used immediately, and the weather being cold, there will be no danger of any disagreeable taint being acquired from the small quantity of nitrogenous matter contained in the product, and if not washed the whole aroma of the butter is retained.— Western Rural.

Plant Life in Winter.

Activity in plant life in winter is not alone confined to the cryptogamia. Dur(pg this inclement season many of our forest trees ripen and perfect their seeds. The firs and pines are not like the. deciduous trees, which allow the moistttre they contain to freeze in winter. The temperature of a pine tree under the bark never falls below the congealing point, no matter how severe the cold may be outside. Thesq resinpus trees keep up a kind of low tree heat as do the bears a low animal heat in freezing weather. Consequently the circulation of sap goes on and the immature seeds are ripened. In some localities in the northern part of our country those eve«>

greens grow which bear true leaves, like the ivy, laurel, or perhaps the hollv. We call these plants evergreens; but w fact they change their leaves as do the deciduous varieties. ‘ The change is nyade gradually, one leaf dropping off when another has grown to replace it, and so the tree is never wholly deprived of its foliage. It is probable that in winter there is considerable vegetative activity in these evergreens, as it is impossible that these changes can take place when the sap is completely dormant. Sunlight and warmth are agents of tremenP ower io connection with plant activities. If in the depth of winter a mild day occurs, we shall find, by making incisions in the stem or branches of trees, that the slumbering forces are partially awakened and the sap is in motion. We speak of the trees as being bare of foliage in winter; but this is not absolutely true, for4rees haY’e winter leaves as well as summer leaves. These leaves are less apparent, but they arc no less real or perfect. If we take front a tree one of its buds and examine it carefully we shall see that it is composed of a little bunch of true leaves nicely compressed in layers, resembling fish-scales. These are the winter leaves of trees, and every species has them perfectly- characteristic of its kind. This winter dress of trees is no apparel suddenly formed or put on late in the autumn; it is the growth of all tire spring and summer months. During the hot season, when the sap is active, it was diverted away from the buds by the great demand of the expanding summer foliage, so that their growth was sloyv. They remain immature until the summer leaves begin to fall, when the sap flows toward the buds and they are perfected. The winter dress of trees has a purpose in the economy of plant life. The structure in winter does hot demand nutrition, but it must have protection, and this the buds afford. In them is stored up all the beauty and glory of the vegetation of the coming year, and thus they possess an interest of the highest kind. Nature is very careful in these buds, for it seems to understand that in them exist latent forms of life most intimately connected with the welfare of the race. In order to protect - them they are compressed together tightly in the smallest possible space and covered in under an air-tight and water-tight roof. The outer layer of buds is either covered by- a warm coat of fine hairs or cemented closely rvith a resinous —or glutinous secretion, which resists the action of water. — Nichol's Fireside Science. Every- one knows that a cold or cough ought not to be neglected, and that if it is not attended to in season it may result fatally. Our advice is to take caw-of-itbefore4t4s-too-late, and use Dr. Wishart’s Pine Tree Tar Cordial, which can be had of any druggist. Dr. Wishart’s Worm Sugar Drops are the best remedy for Yvorms ever discovered. Through the length and breadth of the land the celebrated SILVER TIPPED -Boots and Shoes are sold by the nullion, for parents know they last twice as long as those without Tips. Try them. For sale by all dealers.

gained Fifteen Pounds of Flesh. South Bebwick, Me., Jan. 17,1872. H. R. Stevens, Esq.: Dear Sir—l have had Dyspepsia In its worst form for the last ten years, and have taken hundreds of dollars* worth of medicine without obtaining any relief. In September last I commenced taking the Vegetine, since which time my health has steadily improved. My food digests well, and I have gained fifteen pounds of flesh. There are several others in this place taking the Vegetine, and all have obtained relief. Yours truly, TOOMAS E. MOORE. . Overseer of the Card Room, Portsmouth Co.’s Mills. Oyspepsia. SYMPTOMS—Want of appetite, rising of food and wind from the stomach, acidity of the stomach, heartburn, dryness and whiteness of the tongue in the morning, sense <ri distension in the stomach and bowels,sometimes rumbling and pain; costiveness, which is occasionally interrupted by diarrhea; paleness of the urine. The mouth is clammy, or has a sour or bitter taste. Other frequent symptoms are waterbrash, palpitation of the heart, headache and disorders of the senses, as seeing double, etc. There is general debility, languor, and aversion to motion; dejection of the spirits, disturbed sleep and frightful dreams. ■■ FEEL MYSELF A XEW MAN. . _ _ Natick, Mass., June Ist, 1872. Mb. H. R. Stevens: Jldlear Sir—Through the advice and earnest persuasion or Bev. E. S. Best, of this place, I have been taking VEGTETINE for Dyspepsia, of which I have suffered for years. I have used only two bottles, and already feel myself a new man. Respectfully, DR. J. W. CARTER. A Source of Croat Anxiety. My daughter has received great benefit from the use of Vegetine. Her declining health was a source of great anxiety to all of her friends. A few bottles of the Vegbtine restored her health, strength andappetite. N. H. TILDEN, Ins. and Real Estate Agt, 49 Bears’ Building. Boston, Mass., June 5,1872. What I Know About Vegetine. „ „ „ South Boston, May 9,1870. H. R. Stevens : Dear Sir—l have had considerable experience with the Vegetine. For Dyspepsia, General Debility and impure blood, the Vegetine is superior to anything which I have ever used. I commenced taking Vegbtine about the middle of last winter, and after using a.few bottles it entirely cured me of dyspepsia, and my blood never was in so good condition as at the present time. It will afford me pleasure to give any further particulars relative to what I know about this good medicine, to any one who will call or address me at my resldence.3B6 Athens street Very respectfully, MONROE PARKER, 386 Athens street VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. . ; Wishart’s Pine Tree Tar Cordial! Nature’s Great i Remedy FOR ALL Throat and Lung Diseases. For Sale by All Druggists and Storekeeper >.