Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1878 — Conflict Between a Man and a Decr. [ARTICLE]

Conflict Between a Man and a Decr.

A few days since Mr. Coyne rode over to Mr. Crouch’s corn-field to salt some cattle which he had there on hire while the stalk feed lasted. After salting and looking over the herd he was wending his way homeward on an easy canter when his horse started suddenly, looked forward earnestly and stopped. Mr. Coyne has not much eyesight left, but he thought he saw something, and; sliding off his horse, he hitched it to a corn-hill and taking a look of closer scrutiny lie saw a large deer standing with its hind feet on abridge and its forward part down in the stream, apparently trying to break through the loe in search of drink. Mr. Coyne’s blood was up immediately. He approached the deer from behind with the ambling gait peculiar to a man with a single eye, stiff arms, lame limbs, broken ribs and rheumatic stiffness. The deer kept busy and so did Billy, so that just as the last swallow was taken, Billy’s last step had been taken, and almost flat on the ground he seized the deer, one limb in each hand, just above the pastern joints. That mo ment the creature gave a frightened bleat and a tremendous bound. Billy says they went floating through the air for a 4 distance of perhaps two rods, and came down together in the middle of the quagmire. After that he says things were a little mixed. The deer got one foot loose on Billy’s lame side, and kicked him black and blue every place but in his “ left eye.” That was mercifully preserved, but he got ahother hold after he had been dragged some distance, and regaining his feot ■he raised the hinder parts of the struggling animal from tne ground, gave it a side twist, and managed to give it such a kick with his boot as to stun it, and seizing it round the neck gathered a convenient stone and knocked it on the hoad. After taking some satisfaction in this way, he mounted his horse, rode to Mr. Crouch's, got a butcher knife, and rode back and found the dear half-way on its feet again. He dispatched it, rode home and sent his boys after the carcass with a wagon, remarking that he was a “ leetle too stiff” to go hknself. —Rock Island (III.) Union.

The managers of a few creameries in New York have adopted a new method in management of their milk. As the new milk is received, night and morning, at the creamery, it is run into large vats, and at once heated to 140 degrees or above, by driving steam into the milk. This drives the odors out and enables them to keep the milk twelve to twenty-four hours longer than it would without heating. As" soon as the heatiug is dime, cola water is run around the milk and through it by a series of horizontal tubes in the middle of the milk, the top tube being just below the cream, to be out of the way of skimming. Thu 3by cooling the milk at the outside and the middle, it is rapidly done and the cream hurried to the surface. The total debt of Philadelphia is $73,615,351, including a floating debt nearly $12,000,000. Its assets are reported by the City Comptroller at SBB,323,194, including the Sinking Fund securities, parks, public buildings, eto.