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cTf. TOWWKS, KOITOR.
J. C. 3AIIJCT. A8BO.QIATE
BvMCtimti Two per wimig, ^
TlUiriiid Iwjorft* for (be' first losertion,
Ofjy oeat* (Mb for the seoond and third in?er
(tone, Mid tweutv-fivs eenU for eahee?|u?nt
iaeertlea*. Yearly contract* #111 he Made.
AH sdvertieeaeenU niut hare the aember
if iLK/tioni marked on them, or thep (Till be
laaerted till ordered oat, and dbarged far.
Unlsga ordered otherwise, Adrertiaemen ta
will invariably be " displayed."
Obituary notice*, and all matter* Inuring to
' to the benefit of any one, are regard* d a*
Advert loecaea to.
! J^.1 "I -i-". <fi>rtghml
^nt!q.
rn n > irfv.'iut. vy '.x, . _
rea ran baniiTtiLi imirnti.
To My Mother.
the golden crescent, elear and bright.
Shine* lovingly down on all to-night,
The bine wave* wash the glittering sand*.
While the cool eaa bteeae, my ware* shook fans,
My thought* rove back to hoar* long past?
SWin, happy honr?, could ye not lutT
Not stay la my night, like a bright moon
baaia,
And prove that nay life U mora than a dream ?
Alaa! ye hara flow*, and la vein, In vain,
I yearn for that trail known voice again ;
To look onoa mora In tboaa deep earnest eyas,
Orbs wbieh bare borrowed their light from the
skia*. * ' \ .
On thla green bank X again weald vast.
And pillow nay aching bead on bar breast.
Would boar from bar lips the soma words fall,
And foal that l?r presence was dearest of all.
OMSGA.
April 9th, 1879.
(Original Cnmmnniratiatis.
Texas Correspondence Greenville
JttaterpriseWallis
Prairie, Tax as, *
March 27th, 1870. J
JHfetutrs. Editors?After so long
a silence, 1 again rcsumo my pcu
to apprise our friends at homo of
what we are doing in this far
country.
Tie a beautiful Sabbath day, but
there is no service in the little
prairie church?our minister (of
the Methodist persuasion) h a ving
gone to offiriate in Navasota.
The emigration {fom the old States
has been very great lately, in all directions,
tiny cottages are goiug
np. The neighborhood surrounaing
us: is almost like a continual
villuge; and from what we hear,
other portions ot the State are
filling up as rapidly. It is an easy
country to live in. Independence
is fully appreciated, and the rich
lands return bountiful harvests tor
- s_ . * -
cue woric Destowed on tbein. I
presume a few years inoro will
briug Chinese labor to our very
doors?the Celestial Empire pouring
out its superfluous millions to
fill the vacancies in this Western
land formed by tho abolition of
slavery. There is a white man
from the North teaching the sable
sons of African descent to walk in
wisdom's pleasant ways in an Lthiopian
Church near by. I see them
trooping thitherward every mornjpgr
44Go-in* to school," is the an*?-?
swer of almost every juvenile dar
kle you meet. Whether they im
prove or no, their learned instructor
must reply, fi?r I am in blissful
ignorance on that point. Practical
Grammar, and the proper use
of Tenses, appears to be left out of
(be programme.
Spring is coming in her green
robes smiling 'neath azure skies,
and tho prairie flowero, where the
sacriligious foot of the ploughman
lias not chocked their smiling
growth, are peeping forth joyously
to meet the eye of day. But soon
no prairie flowers will be here,
for every acre of land is being
cleared np and planted with corn
and cotton. The practical?al
toay* the practical?now-a-days.
Goodbye beautiful floweis, youthful
dreams and moon light skip*
- p "" "
all like good angels, gone together.
And iu vonr place, real hard work,
taking fife by iU rongh handles
and no kid gloves on. Is it better ?
Answer ye gnardian spirits That
are sent from tlie great white
throne to watch ana guide us,
" lest we faint by the way " on onr
journey to tbh Eternal City. Then
go the little birds flitting by the
window, red birds on their joyous
crimson wings flying in and out
among the long, gray moss, droop
?n^ ip^gracefnl folds from the old
1 am thinking how beaotiful
everything is at home to-day,
the soontain streams flashing in
diamond drops and sin ing on
their way, and the sweet, sweet
tones of Sabbath belts and organ
notes mingling all teartbw- ??? I
thronging over the bill* of mornorj,
more beautiful, from long absence,
like heroes of ancient days
first venerated, tben worshiped.
We had a joyful surprise tho
other dav in the shape of a Green
m villa relative, who came laden
r with borne news and Carolina
presents. My little school was in
session, but as in duty bound, on
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:AILEY, PRO'RS.
. bo remarkably pleasant occasion,
I called a recess, and listened
Atik* miiwr a j
' 8u?jxod? the out-bound our,
To Wt?h th? farowoll gaie that bloWB
mm off fcis*>*ttTO *W? " * $&Vf
"So sweet, ami so pleasant, are
the words " our ^orae voices utter.
Another dasik in the desert of life
are some friends from our mountain
home, located in Navasota.
A day or two before Christmas,
having a few purchases to make,
my cousins and I started on horseback,
and a cold norther blowing,
to the city. The rest of the party
alfoiiHu/t n ?!-?< ? ' *- *? ?
_..v>uvu n vnvuv, BH1U IU ue BUperior,"
which wan on exhibition
for tliat day and night only. Calling
by tor our gentle Carolina,
u Anne," we togetiier perambulated
the street* of the aforesaid city,
on the broad look-ont tor a black
cloak?without bugles?and sundry
other feminino articles. They
wore preparing for a beautiful
Christmas Tree, and kindly invited
me to remain and enjoy
with them the innocent pleasures
of the happy children, tor whom
the*j pretty arrangements were
being made; but, alas 1 the fates
and the times seemed combined
against .me. The heme fo'ns got
sick, I received a "special despatch,"
was put under marching j
orders, andjhad to bid adieu to the |
Ulmstmas Tree, (got some of the
pretty things, however,) and the
sweet Carolina birds, A. and H.?
So perieh the hopes of earth.
One ot the dear Carolina friends
writes: "Send us another letter
and leave out the stars,,y and so I
have tried to say nothing of these
bright ministers th t the Astro^ogi6ts
of old, deemed the arbiter of
destiny; verily, though, 1 am a
species of Quaker, as the spirit
move* me, so I write; and wishing
yon all a joj'ous life, trusting,
some day, to walk once more the
familiar streets, and hear the home
voices.
I am, yonr friend,
, ESTELLE.
Report of the President and Directon
of the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad Company.
Office Greenville & Columbia ]
Railroad Comfany, >
Columbia, S. C., April 15, 1870. )
abstract.
The gross earnings for 1S69,
were derived from tlie following
sources, as shown by Table No. 4:
From freights, $274,50(5.89; from
passage and extra, $114,190 61 ;
from mails, $11,400.00. Total,
$400,103.50. Operating expenses,
including the re building of locomotives,
and the repairs and restoration
of cars as 6hown by Table
No. 3. $247,086.52; net earnings,
$152,416.98; amount paid for 250
tons of new 1 rail, with chairs and
spikes for the same, laid on the
Anderson branch, after deducting
amount realized from the sale of
old iron, taken up, 17,924.21; net
earnings, after paying all expen
se* lor o orating, new iron, improvement
of property, &c., $134-,
492.77.
It will bo seen that the earnings
of 1869 was in excess of 1868 by
$54,659.53, and was larger than
for any previous year either before
or since the war. The next
larger amount for any previous
3 ear was for 1859, being $381,601.98,
but in this is included $8,000.00
for freights on material
used in the construction of the
Blue Ridge Railro&j, which was,
by action of the stockholders, taken
in the stock of that Company.
The following will show the
amount of earnings of tho four
previous years since the war, with
the excess of last year (1869) over
oach, and tho per cent, of gain in
1869, as compared with each:
1869, 1400,103.50; 1^68, 345,453.97;
excess $54,559.53, $15.79
100 per cent. 1867, $296,787.47:
excess $13<\315.53?48.31-1
100 par cent. 1860, $251,931.19 ;
excess $148,172 51?58 81-100 per
cent. 1x65, $254,516.86; excess
$145,586.64?57.20 100 Der cent.
The net earnings are also larger
than for any previous year before
or since the war, except of 1859.
This result is certainly gratify
ing, and demonstrates conclusively
that not anly the future prospects
of the Road are brightening with
each year, bnt that the country
through which it passes is growing
in resources and prosperity.
By reference to table No. 4, it
will be seen that the number of
patsengers carried over the Road
in 1869, wore 53,363. In 1868,
45,214?an incrcaso of 8,149; in
1869, there were 54,490 bales of
ootton brought down the Road ; in
11868, 45,111, an increase of 9,379.
1 In coneeqncnoe of the failure of
the provision orops along the line
of Read last year, large quantities
of grain and floor have been sent
up the Road from Columbia, since
tbe 1st of January last. Heretofore
it has been customary to send
train* of cart UP the Road loaded
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with merchandize, and when at h
the upper end of the line, thev ri
were re loaded and returned with fi
grain and provisions, (where they s<
have heretofore been produced in a
sufficient quantities to supply the
demand along the line or Road,) a
so that the cars were loaded both w
going up and returning; but the S
recent change, by which both mer w
chandize and provisions were sent S
up the Road from Columbia, to- ai
gether with the unprecedented n
quantity of fertilizers that have
gone up, and the cars returning p
empty, has required nearly twice p
the number of cars to do the same t'r
work as heretofore; this will ac- r<
count for any apparent want of ti
promptness in delivering freights ?
tor the past few weeks. Tho small tl
depot room at stations, and the tl
tailure of consignees to remove g
tlieir freights promptly on arrival,
have embarrassed us very much ; tl
in many cases, the cars have been cl
compelled to remain in the turn- w
outs at the depots for several days, r<
for want of room to discharge p
them. The quantity of fertilizers c<
sent up from the 1st ot January r<
to the 1st instant, is more than for
the entire year of 1869. This
would indicate that more than ns
ual preparations were being made
for an increased crop the present jc
I jear. . h
The lease of the Blue Ridge R(
Railroad terminated on the*lst of
Juno last, since which timo the ^
road has been operated by that rc
Company, and run in connection ^
with ours. . .
The following statement will
show the entire bonded debt on
the 31st of March nit., as it ap- OJ
pears upon the Bond Registers of ge
the Company.
First mortgage bonds outstaud- r
ing, $2G2,000 00; Non mortgage .
bonds otitstandmg, $200,500 00,;
Guaranteed bonds due in 1881, ^
1882 and 1833, $G88,000 00 ; Guaranteed
bonds due in 1888, $118,
500 00 ; Certificates of indebtedness,
guaranteed, duo in 1888, '
$420,293 30; Bonds and certifi- m
catcs iseue'i under second mort- .
gage, $54,0C3 68; Coupons of t
first mortgage bonds outstanding, ?n
$3/145 00; Coupons of non more- n
gage bonds outstanding, $06,570
00 ; Coupons of guaranteed bonds Mj
outstanding, $7,997 50 ; Coupons Qi,
of second mortgage bonds and certiticates,
$9,461 15. Total $1,990,130
63. This is subject to a redaction
of * on the non-mortgage
bonds and coupons, say, $218,04666.
Whole amount of bonded
debt when adjusted, $1,682,083 ??
97.
m
The following bonds and con- fi,
pons have not been reported to e,
the Company, for either the pay- C?
metit of interest or adjustment of
any kind, and as the Company has
advertised for them for three or tr
four years, and the Courts for jr
about two years, the presumption gv
is that most of them are lost or des- ^
troyed, and will never be present- jj
ed as a claim against the Com pa- OJ
ny, to wit: First Mortgage Bonds, jn
$22,500 00 ; Non-Mortgage Bonds, nj
$260,500 00; Guaranteed Bonds, tc
$50,000 00; Coupons from First jg
Mortgago Bonds, $3,745 P0 ; Cou- jj
pons from Non Mortgage Bonds, 0|
66,570,00 : Coupons from Quaran- .1
teed Bonds, $7,?97 50. Total "
$411,312 50. J)
All the interest upon the entire fa
mortgage and guaranteed debt that w
has been presented has been funded
np to the 1st July, 1868, and
from that to the present timo paid |u
in cash. j0
The suit in the Court of Equity ar
r.*- ??.? r. 1 ??? ?
iwi mt luiwtivBino ui nits uiungiige, (jy
commenced in 1SG7, by certain ac
holders of the first mortgage bonds. pe
as well as all suits growing out of
it, were dismissed by the Court bt
last summer, on motion of the com- ta
plainants, and the wh !o matter
satisfactorily adjusted.
Thero were also two suits at law Q|
commenced against the Company,
brought on non-mortgage bonds cj
pas* duo. One of the patties.has
discontinned the suit, and surrcn- ^
dared the bonds, and exchungcd g.
them for State guaranteed bonds, -j,
at ono for three; and tho other has 01
expressed a desire to do so, and .1
til I. - # J T?1 . 11
liicsuiiiu wii(| 111 n law UHJB. AHUII ^
there will be no suit, either in Q|
cqaitj or at law, against the Com- a
pany on bond account tc
II no oat be gratifying to both di
bond and stockholders to know, ?|
that in conseqnenee of tbe increas- pi
ed business and consequent pros- y*
perity of the road, the prompt pay- tl;
raent of interest, as it matures, and cl
the confidence felt by capitalists fa
and the community, that the Company
will be able to satisfactorily
arrange the small balance of their a
past due bonded debt, tbtft the th
market value of their bonds has bl
advanced within tbe last two years di
at least three hundred per cont., ri
and that they now command near- w
iy as high a price as the first class fo
securities in the State. gc
This result has no doubt been pi
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xce, rmir t\)e 3ntj
ENYILLE. SOUTH CAROL
Mtened by tlie prospect of the vaions
connections soon to be made
'om the upper end of the line,
>n.e of whicn are now being built,
nd others soon to be commenced.
When completed, the Qreenvillo
nd Colombia Railroad most and
'ill form the trunk line within this
tate from the Capitol to the Northeetern
States, bringing into the
tate the rich prod nets of that vast
nd rich section, and inviting coratercial
intercourse with its people.
The various railroad lines now
rojectod in the North-western
nt>t tKin Qfnt* -I?- ?? ?
? v vi mis uiuw uiubi. nu?o greauy
icilitato tho development of the
^sources of that section?agriculiral,
manufacturing and mineral
-and build np a local business
lerelrom for all the roads passing
trough it beyond the most, sanuine
expectations.
The officers and employees in
le several departments have disharged
their respective duties
ith fidelity, and with an appa5nt
desire to promote tho proscrity
of the Company, and aro
unamended to your confidence and
eepect.
H. P. XIAMMETT, Prcs't.
Cultivate Politeness of Manner.
It is incumbent upon every one
> be courteous ana respectful in
is intercourse with neighbors,
jquaintances. or with the nnhlin
enerally. To inferiors, speak
indly and considerately, so as to
dieve them from any feeling of
sing beneath you in circum
ances ; to equals, be plain and
aaffected in manner ; and tosupe
ors show becoming respect, withit,
however, descending to subsrviency
and meanness. In 6hort,
jt a manly, courteous and inofinsive
part in all tho situations
' life in which you may be
aced. Society has ordained cerin
modes of address, and certain
derior signs of respectfulness,
hich behooves us to support and
moaally attend to the (ules such
i wo have alluded to, the poorest
an will be entitled to the charac
r of a gentleman, and by mat
ntion to them, the most wealthy
dividual will be essentially vultr.
Vulgarity signifies coarseness
indelicacy of manner, and is not
jcesarily associated with poverty
loveliness of conditiou. Thus an
>erative artisan may be a gentle
?n ana worthy of our particular
teem; while an opulent merlant
may be only a vulgar clown
itli whom it is impossible to be
1 tortus of friendly intercourse.
re say cultivate politeness of
anncr, by all means, for it is rcaed
civility, and will spare both
ii'8ulvcs and others much unnecisarv
pain.
Good Nature at IIome?No
ait of character is more valuable
i a wife than tho possession ot a
vect temper. IIome can never
8 made happy without it. It is
ko the flowers that spring up in
it path way, reviving and cheerg
us. Let a man go home at
iffht wearied and worn out by the
ills of the day, and how soothing
a word dictated by a sweet
isposition 1 It is sunshine tailing
i his heart. lie is happy and
le cares of life are forgotten. A
veet temper has a soothing influice
over the mind of the whole
inily. When it is found in the
ife and the mother, you observe
nduess and love predominating
rer the natural feelings of a bad
sort. Smiles, kind words and
oks characterize the children,
id peaco and love have their
veiling there. Study, then, to
quire and retain a sweet ternir.
It is more valuable than
>ld. it captivates more than
:auty, and to the close of life reins
all its freshness and power.
W. Fulton, M. D., writes the
bicago Republican that tho folding
is a specific remedy for hog
tolera, discovered by Mr. T. Meee,
ot McLean Connty, 111., and
at there has m t been a single inance
known of its tailing to cure:
ake the Polygonum punctatum,
r common stnartweecf-?of whicti
icre are two varieties, the large
nd the small?use both combined,
r tho small variety alone ; make
strong decoction by boiling ; add
this slop, and get the bogs to
rink all you can. Tho effect is
most magical: your hog iinroves,
sheds off, and fattens bo
>nd expectation. It is a fine
ling to give hogs that have no
lolera, to tuako Ibent improve
ster.
After much training of quite
youngster to keep him still at
e table long enough for " the
easing," he sat very quiet one
iv, till near the close ot the serce,
bis mother beginning inardly
to congratulate herself that
r onco he had kept still, when ho
iddenly called ont: "'At'll do,
?pa pass the plates now."
I
ENTI
iroomcnt of ilje S
.1WA, APRIL 27, 1870.
Short coming* in Farming.
Buy guano at $100 per ton,
have it spread during a winday
day, on ground broken from one
and a half to two inches deep, get
yonr cotton burnt up by the first
trying drouth, and concludo that
" guano won't pay.n
Tnrn up thin land deep enough
to bnrv the soil two or three inch
es, with unameliorated cold subsoil,
apply no stimulating manure
to " bring out " your puny young
plants, and thoreunon declare that
deep plowing is a humbug.
Subsoil your land without providing
drainage for the escape of
water irom your subsoil, and
abuse book farming because you
are a fool.
Cut one centre drain through a
flat of several acres, provide no
side drains for cutting off sap
water from the land around, and
wonder that your cotton will rust
so.
Employ a hireling at ten dollars
per month, and get ont of patience
twcauBO he don't attend to yonr
business more closely than you do
yourself.
Givo that hireling a poor male,
poor gear and poorer plow, tnen
feel discouraged because you get
8ucb poor plowing done.
Give him a fat mule, good gear,
and a pointed plow ; fail to look
afrer him closely, and see wiiat he
will come to.
Make half way arrangements for
feeding and paying your hands,
and expect thein to work decently.
Always ascribe vonr want of
- y ?
success to some other cau6e than
tbe right one.
Feed your mules in an open shelter,
open to the depredations of the
feathered tribes by day, and the
Alrican tribes by night, then wonder
why your 6tock will keep
poor.
Spend hundreds of dollars for
commercial manures, while your
mules waste most of theirs in an
open lot, because you can't spare
one hundred to fix up a comfortable,
roomy stable.
Lending 3"our money at seres
percent., instead of investing it in
guano, from reliable parties, putting
on land well prepared and
well worked, and realizing five
times as great a profit.
Tell your neighbors how they
ought not to do, then go and do
that very way yourself?like the
writer. v".- SNARL.
[Rural Carolinian.
Farmers Clubs.
The value of a Farmers Club in
any locality is very great. It is easy
to get one up, nnd those farmers
who take a real interest in the ad
vancement of their profesion should
lose no time in getting t p clubs. A
few intelligent stirring men in each
township, ward, or community of
settlers, can easily start nnd keep
going a good club. When the
thing is undertaken, let active
men take hold, and once started,
keep up the life of tho matter by
intelligent and useful discussions
_ _ 3 _I1 - \ * * i
on tiny ana an suojecis connectea
with agriculture that may come
under their- observation. One
fact proved i6 worth a thousand
theories. Above all, keep out
those noisy fellows who will bring
the discussion of political matters
into everything they can in order
to subserve their own interest and
gain a foothold in some paltry municipality
wa*-d election.
The rules need be bnt foiv and
simple, First, a Secrotary should
be appointed whose business it will
be to keep a book in which to record
the names of members and
the minutes of each meeting, taking
notes of any valuablo suggestion
or facts that may come ont
during the discussion. If a school
house or town hall is near, it may
be used for the place of meeting.
If not, each can in bis turn have
the meeting at his house, if he has
a room large enough. There
should be a chairman for tho first
meeting, and at each meeting a
chairman should he chosen for tho
next meeting, and the subject of
discussion tixed upon. At each
meeting, let the chairman commence
by giving out the subject
to be disensed, and when that is
done with, let any member give a
new subject, or relate any practical
experience he may have met with.
-They may regulate the times of
meeting according to their ability
to find subjects to discuss.
[Canada Farmer.
Amcxanpkr T. Stkwart says :
" 11 a wlin in voilt nnn rlollnr in luia.
incss should invest one dollar in
advertising " Hubert Hon nor says:
44 Mr success is owing to mj liberality
in advertising." Barnnm
ays liberal advertising made him
a million dollars in ten years.?
Stephen Girard said : 44 Constant
and persistent advertising is a suro
relude to wealth."
Tiik postage to England will be
' ten cen s after fourth of May. '
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ttttr rtttfc Coimtnj.
Effect a of Salt as a Manure.
It supplies soda and chlorine to
growing plants. By moisture,
keeping the soil moist, and so assisting
plants to assimilate their
food contained in the earth, especially
during a continuance of
dry weather. It exorcises'a great
influence in rendering soluble
smnerof the more insoluble earthy
salts of the soil. When mixed
with farmyard manure or sown
npon soils already dressed with
dung, it seems by its penetrative
and assimilative power to cause
many of the salts in the manure to
be 6ooner developed into a state
lit for plant food than would not be
the case if left to the action only
of the slower process of natural decomposition.
When added to the manure heap
in the barn-vard and throucrhlv
I mixed into it at the rate of a^out
I two tons of 6< to thirty tone of
manuro, it kills the seeds of
weeds, eggs and larvto of insects,
and greaily promotes the fermentation
and decomposition of the
whole mass, while at the same
time it does not, like lime, set free
the ammonia, or volatile salts in
the manure. When added to lime
a double decomposition takes
place, resulting in the production
of soda and carbonic acid, both of
which possess greater fertilizing
properties than either salt or lime.
Combined with gypsum, salt produces
soda and sulphuric acid, at a
cheaper rate than can be obtained
in any other way.
a ~ - a -i
t\ geuerui imng mere are
few fertilizing materials need on
the tin in lliat cannot advantage
ouely have salt added to theiit.
[is'anada Farmer.
The French Etuprcsa advocate,
the election of ladies to the French
Academy.
David Morrow, the oldest man
in Chester County, died last Fri
day morning, lie filled out his
one hundrctli year last October.
Horace Grkei.v, in his agricultural
articles, condemns the reckless
destruction of our iorest, as
injurious to climate, health, beauty,
and to the fertility of the soil.
A New York gentleman has
ordered from a European manufactory,
a set of lace curtains, upon
which are to be worked the portraits
and monograms of himself
and family.
Profesor Morse, tl>c telegraph
inventor, is now nearly eighty
years old, and it is proposed to
present, him with a national tc6ti?
inonial. The telegraphic operators
are at the head of tho scheme.
A Nasiivii.t.e wedding was postponed.
after the?gnests had assembled,
because the bridegroom was
on a jury that could not agree, although
ho promised to agree; to
anything if they would let him off.
A siioddv young lady surprised
her mother on returning fiom a
dance, by saying that 6he enjoyed
the "hugging, set to music, most
bully." She had reference to
waltzing, and why isn't that a
good name for it?
Wnf.n horse stables are not
properly ventilated nor lighted, it
is an excellent plan to make a
small window where each horse
may thrust out his nose when he
is not eatintr, and breathe pure
air.?Rural Carolinian.
Pcrglars robbed George Pea
body's tomb 6f the silver on the casket,
in Massachusetts, on Wednesday
night. They have been captured,
and ought to be themselves
made the central figures of a funeral
ceremony.
Stkamrd Fowls.?Fowls are bet
ter steamed than boiled, especially
when there is no veal stock on
hand to boil them in. When
steamed, the juices shonld ho
saved by placing a pan under the
strainer to catch all the drips.?
Drawn bnt'er, plain or seasoned
with parsley or celery, is the most
j common sauce tor boiled fowls.?
Liver sauce is good ; but when oysters
can be had, oyster sauce is to
be preferred above all others.
Compulsory Em-cation.?One
of the sneakers at the recent meet
ing at Birmingham, England, of
the British [National Education
League, stated that on Jannary
1st, 1870, there were eighty million*
of the inhabitants of Europe
nnder the operation of laws enforcing
compulsory education. This
fact was stated to show that though
the idea of compulsory education
was comparatively novel in England,
yet that the principle had
been in successful operation in Europe
for many years. Tho Xorth
German Confederation and Switzerland
were mentioned as conntries
where compulsory education
had produced the moat intelligent
populations in the world.
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VOLUME XVI?NO. 49.
Useful Farm Receipt*.
For Founder in Horses.?Clean
out the affected loot or feet, fill
full of spirits turpentine, touch
fire and burn them oat. The horse
will be well in a few minutes.
Hots. ? One half pint whislcj,
one half pint of gun powder, one
unii pint moift68e6, ana onenaii
pint of soft soap, will caro the
worst case of bote. Another care
is a strong tea made of Mullein.
Lor Swcceny, take half an ounce
pulverized cantliaridee, (Spanish
dies,) pat into half a pint sweet
oil* shake well and apply well
twice a day. It need not interfere
with the work of tho animal.
Lice on Chickens.?Sprigs of
cedar, scattered about the fowl
house^ Will fclieve them of this
aWful pest, for in a chicken
trough is a preventive of disease.
All the above from Southern Cultivator.
Warts on fowls.?M a k e a
strong solution of saleratus, or soda
water, (tho latter is preferablo,)
take a soft piece of cioili or feathery
and bathe the warts twico a
day, (after first scarifying them ;)
in a few" days the warts will entirely
disappear.
Qrateled Horse.?G i v o twothirds
of a ta61csi>' onful of salt
petre in a little salt, for three consecutive
days ; or take a pint of
water melon seed, and boil in two
quarts ot water, till reduced to
nearly one half, and drench two
mornings in succession, your horse
will he cured.
For Bruise or Blow.? Apply
hot water a long time with wet
cloths. Beef brine is an excellent
lotion fur both sprains and bruises.
A veteran among horses claims,
that it will almost set a joint or
heal a fracture. Wormwood or
tansy lotions are also good.
[ A lien 8 Domestic Animalsi
Cure for Hog Cholera.? Feed
your hogs on the ground with
shelled corn, and while they aroi
eating, sprinkle them plentifully
with slacked lime in fine dry
fiowder, until their hair is full of
iine. Whether it is what they
eat with the corn or what they inhale,
I am unable to say?probably
both?but it has never failed
to arrest the disease when tried.?
It should l>e applied once a day
until the disease disappears.
TT(aJ6 Iq Cure Warts on /Torses,
Mules andyCotos.? Dissolve J lb.
of alum in lr quart of water ; with
a brush or cloth wet the warts
twice eatill day for 10 days?they
disappear^ I saw this recipe in
some of the Agricultural works as
a cure for warts on cows' teats. I
tried it on a young horse, whoso
nose was entirely covered with
them. They were very troublesome
and tender, often bleeding.
Four applications entirely cured
or rather took them off.
Scalded Oats. ? An old farmer *
says the Ohio Farmer, claims that
there is no feed so good to keep
animals in flesh during winter as
scalded oats. For mares, cows,
and sheep, that are to raise young,
it is superior to almost any other
feed, as it not only puts the animals
in good condition to furnish
m lk abundantly, but the yonng at
birth are strong and active. W heat
bran is also an excellent feed for
breeding animals given in the
form of a mess.
We clip the following from the
American Stock Journal.
Scratches in, Horses.?What will
cure it? have a horse that has it
badly, O. P. M., Concord, N. II.
Ans.?The following ointment wo
have always found a sure cure.?
f - . ?
xuh.e, -* us. iuriientinc, J4 lbs. mutton
tallow. Mix all well together.
Wash the f'.ot clean with enstilo
soap and soft water, and apply the
ointment after the h?ot becomes
dry. Once a day will be sufficient
to apply the ointment.
I.am pan in Ilorees.?What will
cure lainpas in colts f M. W. C,
Andes, N. Y.?Ans.? Colts ufTected
with the tampan may* have the
palate lanced, which relieves the
tension of the swollen part. W hero
there is not much swelling, apply
to the palate a solution of nluin?
a tcaspoontul to half a pint of water.
To Preserve Cabbage.?Cabbago
is preserved in a variety of ways,
says the Gardener's Monthly. It
I a few dozen only, they may bo
hung up by the roots in a cool cellar,
or buried in tho soil, heads
downward, to keen out the rain,
or laid on their sines as thickly an
tbey can be ptaced, nearly covered
with soil, and tbon completely covered
with eorn-atftlka, litter, or any
protecting materia]. The main object
in protecting all these kinds of
vegetables is to prevent their
growth by keeping them as cool
as possible, and to prevent shriveling
by keeping them moist.