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INLEC T R I C
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TELEGRAPH IN CHINA.
THE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S
OFFICE,
Nos. 23 A 25 Nassau Street,
NEW YORK.
Organized under special charter from the State
* of New York
CAPITAL $5,000,000
50.000 SHARES. SIOO EACH
DIRECTORS.
HON. ANDREW G. CURTIN. Philadelphia.
PAUL S FORBES, of Russell A Co.. China.
FRED. BUTTERFIELD. of P. Butterfield A C
New Y'ork.
ISAAC LIVERMORE. Treasurer Miohigan Cen
tral Railroad. Boston.
ALEXANDER HOLLAND, Treasurer American
Express Company, New York.
Hon JAMES NOXON, Syracuse, N. Y.
0. H. PALMER, Treasurer Western Union Tele
graph Company, New York
FLETCHER WESTRAY, of Westray, Gibbs i
Hardcastie, New York.
NICHOLAS MICKLES, New York.
OFFICER 8.
A. G. CURTIN, President.
N MICKLES, Vice President.
GEORGE ELLIS (Cashier National Bank Com
monwealth,) Treasurer.
HON. A. K. MeCLURE, Philadelphia, Solioitor.
The Chinese Government having (through the
Hon Anson Buriiugame) conceded to this Com
pany the privilege of connecting the great sea
ports of the Empire by submarine electric tele
graph cable, we propose commencing operations
in China, and laying down a line of nine hundred
miles at once, between the following port ?, via :
Population.
Canton 1,000,000
Macoa 0.000
Hong-Kong 250.000
Swatow... 200.000
Foo-6how 1.250.000
Wsn-Chu 300.00#
Ningpo..... 400.000
Hang Che&B
Shanghai 1.000.00#
Total 5.810,000
These ports have a foreign commerce of $900,-
000.000. and an enormous domestio trade, besides
which we hare the immense internal commerce of
the Empire, radiating from these points, through
its canals and navigable rivers.
The cable being laid, this company propose?
erecting land lines, and establishing s speedy and
trustworthy means of communication, which must
command there, as everywhere else, the commu
nications of the Government, of business, and of
—ui iif vr ; an. h..
system, and her enly means now of oommuuioating
information is by couriers on land, and by steam
ers on water.
The Western World knows that China is a very
large country, in the main densely peopled; but
few vet realise that she contains more than a third
of the human race. The latest returns made to
her central authorities for taxing purposes by the
local magistrate make her population Four hun
dred and Fourteen milltons , and this is more
likelv to be under than over the actual aggregste
Nearly all of these, who are over ten years old,
not only can but do read and write Her civili
sation is peculiar, but her literature is as exten
sive as that of Eurepe. China is a land of teach
ers and traders; and the latter are exceedingly
quick to avail themselves of every proffered facili
ty for procuring early information. It is observed
in California that the Chinese make great use of
the telegraph, though it there transmits messages
in English alone. To-day great numbers of fleet
steamers are owned by Chinese merchants, and
used by them exclusively for the transmission of
early intelligence. If the telegraph we propose
connecting all their great seaports, were new in
existence, it is believed that its business would
pav the cost within the first two years of its suc
cessful operation, and would steadily increase
thereafter
No enterprise commends itself as in a greater
degree renumerative to capitalists, and to our
wh.de people. It is of vast national importance
commercially, politically and evangelically
G6-Th stock of this Company has been un
qualifiedly recommended to capitalists and busi
ness men. as a desirable investment by editorial
articles in the New York Herald, Tribune,
World. Times, Post. Express, Independent, end
in the Philadelphia North American, Press,
Ledger, Inquirer, Age, Bulletin and Telegraph.
shares of this company, to a limited number,
may be obtained at SSO each, $lO payable down,
sls on the Ist of November, and $25 payable in
monthly instalments of $2.50 eacb, commencing
December 1, 1858, on application to
DIIEXEL & CO.,
34 South Third Street,
PHILADELPHIA
Shares can be obtained in Bedford by applica
tion to Reed A Schell, Bankers, who are aulhor
ited to receive subscriptions, and can give all ne
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you ALL
BATE HEAED OF
HOOFLAND S GERMAN BITTERS,
AND
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC.
Prepared by Dr. 0. M Jackson, Philadelphia.
Their introduction into this country from Ger
many occurred in
1825.
THEY CURED YOLR
FATHERS AND MOTHERS,
And will cure yon and your children. They are
entirely different from -w -w the many preparations
now in the country cal I—l led Bitters or Tonics.
Thev are no tavern -1A preparation, or any
thing like one ; but good, honest, reliable medi
cines. They are
The greatest In own remedies for
Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA,
Nervous Debility,
JAUNDICE,
Diseases of the Kidneys,
ERUPTIONS OF THE SKIN,
and all Diseases arising from a Disordered Liver,
stomach, or
IMPURITY OF THE BLOOD
Constipation. Flatulence, Inward Piles. Fullnes
of Blood to the Head, Acidity of the Stomach,
Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust for Food, Full
ness or Weight in the Stomach. Sour Eruc
tations, Sinking or Fluttering at the
Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the
Head. Hurried or Difficult Breathing.
Fluttering at the . Heart, Cnoking or
Suffocating Sei-sa I 1 tions when in a Lying
Posture, Dimness of VJ Vision, Dots or Webs
before the sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Defi
ciency of Perspiration. Yellowness of the Skin
and Eyes, Pain in the Side. Back, Chest,
Limbs, etc., Sudden Flushes of Heat,
Burning in the Flesh, Constant Imagi
nings of Evil and Great Depression of Spirits.
All these indicate diseases of tke Liver or Di
gestive Organs,combined with impure blood.
HOOFLAND S GERMAN BITTERS
is entirely vegetable and contains no liquor. It
is a compound of E'luid Extracts. The Roots,
Herbs, ana Barks from which these extracts are
made, are gathered in Germany. All the medi
cinal virtueus are ex y—. tracted from them by
a scientific Chemist, f 1 These extracts are
then forwarded to this country to be used ex
pressly for the manufacture of these Bitters.
There is no alcoholic substance of any kind used
in compounding the Bitters, hence it is the only
Bitters that can be used in esses where alcoholic
stimulants are not advisable.
HOOFLAND'S GERMAN TONIC
is a combination of all the ingredients of the Bit
ters. with PIKE Santa Crux Rum.Orange, etc. It
is used for the same diseases as the Bitters, in case
where some pure alcoholic stimulus is required.
You will bear in mind that these remedies are en
tirely different from any others advertised for the
cure of the diseases named, these being scientific
preparations of medicinal extracts, while the oth
ers are mere decoctions of rutn in some form. The
TONIC is decidedly one of the most pleasant and
agreeable remedies ever offered to the public. Its
taste is exquisite. It is a pleasure to take it, while
its life-giving, exhilarating, and medicinal quali
ties have caused it to be known as the greatest of
.11 Wl4v*.
DEBILITY.
There is no medicine equal to Hoofland's Ger
man Bitters or Tonic ' d oases of Debility.
They impart a tone |q and vigor to the whole
system. strengthen JL the appetite, cause an
enjoyment of the food, enable the stomach to di
fest'it, purify the blood, give a good, sound,
ealthy complexion, eradicate the yellow tinge
from the eye, impart a bloom to the cheeks, and
change the patient from a short-breathed, emaci
ated, weak, and nervous invalid, to a full-faced,
stout, and vigorous person.
Weak and Delicate Children are
made strong bv using the Bitters or Tonic. In
fact, they are Family Medicines They can be
administered with perfect safety to a child three
months old. the most delicate female, or a man of
ninety.
These rem'diei art the best
Blood Purifiers
ever known and will cure all diseases resulting
from bad bloed. Keep your blood pure; keep
your Liver in order, --■ keep your digestive
organs in a sound, I heaithy condition, by
the use of these reme -Li dies, and no diseases
will ever assail you. The best men in thecountry
recommend them. If years of honest reputation
go for anything, you must try these preparations.
FROM HON GEO. W WOODWARD,
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylva
nia.
PHILADELPHIA, March 16, 1867.
I find that "Hoofland's German Bitters" is not
an intoxicating beverage, but is a good tonic, use
ful in disorders of the digestive organs, and of
great benefit in cases of debility and want of ner-
TOUS action in the system.
Yours Truly.
UEO. W. WOODWARD
FROM HON. JAMES TAOMPSON.
Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
PHILADELPHIA. April 28, 1866.
I consider '*Hoofland s German Bitters a valua
ble medicine in case . of attacks of Indiges
tion or Dyspepsia. I ,\ can certify this from
mv experience of it. Xi- Yours, with respect,
JAMES THOMPSON.
FROM REV JOSEPH H. KENNARD, D D..
Pastor of the Tenth Baptist Church, Philadelphia.
DR. JACKSOW —DEAR SIR: —I have been fre
quently requested to connect my name with rec
ommendations of different kinds of medicines, but
regarding the piactice as ont of my appropriate
sphere, I have in all cases declined , but with a
clear proof in various instances, and particularly
in my own familv, of the usefulness of Dr. Hoof
land's German Bitters, I depart for once from
my usnal course, to express my full conviction
that for general debility of the system, and es
pecially Tor Liver Com va-p- plaint, it is a safe
and valuable prepara fVi tion. In some cases
it may fail ; bnt usual -L a ljr, I doubt not, it
will be very beneficial to those who suffer from the
above causes. Yours, very respectfully,
J. H KENNARD,
Eigth, below CoatesStreet.
CAUTION.
Hoofland's German Remedies are counterfeited.
The Genuine have the signature of C. M. JACK
sos on the front of the outside wrapper of each
bottle, and the name of the article blown in each
bottle. All others are counterfeit.
Price of the Bitters, SI per bottle;
Or, a half dozen for *5.
Price of the Tonic, 50 per bottle ;
Or, a half dozen for $7 50.
The tonic is put up in quart bottles.
Recollect that it is Dr. Hooffand's German
Remedies that are so universally used and so
highly recommended ; and do not allow the
Druggist to induce I lyou to take anything
else that he may gay-*-/is just as good, be
cause he makes a larger profit on it. T aese Reme
dies wiii be sent by express to any locality upon
application to the
PRINCIPAL OFFICE,
At the German Medicine Store.
iYo- 631 ARCH STREET, Philadelphia.
CHAS. M. EVANS,
PKOPRIETOR.
Formerly C M JACKSON A Co.
These Remedies are for sale by Druggists, Store
keepers and Medicine Dealers everywhere.
Do not forget to examine the articie\you buy
tn order to get the genuine.
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BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1869.
A CALIFORNIA HEIRESS—MOW SHE
ASTONISHES THE WOULD.
Mrs. Ellet, in her recent book on
"Famous American "Women," makes
mention of a California lady remarka
ble for her ability to entertain twenty
gentlemen at once by her vivacious
conversational powers. If this were
the only or chiefly remarkable thing
about Miss Hitchcock, she would be a
far less remarkable personage than she
is. But she is a public character—an
actress requiring a far broader stage
and larger house than other actresses
of the time.
She is an only daughter, and only
child, I believe, of a wealthy and moat
respectable family, her father, Dr.
Hitchcock, having cotoe to this coast
as an army surgeon during the Mexi
can war. He is now a retired physi
cian, and among the most substantial
and worthy of San Franciscoans. His
accomplished daughter has long been
one of the belles of this city, without
whom no special gathering of the ton
was complete if she was in the country.
When a child she was rescued from
a burning building by some some mem
bers of the Knickerbocker Engine
Company, No. o, since which time she
has never forgotten them—wearing
conspicuously at all times, and in all
places, a neat gold "5" upon her dress,
and at times making the Company of
which she is a duly elected member
costly presents, ranging from the cher
ished "5" to the gold mounted fire
horn. She is eccentric to an extent
that would shock our New England
notions of propriety, showing her ec
centricity now by presenting the "it's"
a barrel of brandy, now by staking a
thousand on a favorite horse at the
races, again by riding on the cow-catch
er the entire length of the Napa Val
ley railroad, to which ride she chal
lenged an engineer, and still again by
some of the noblest deeds of philan
thropy and charity.
She has upwards of fifty thousand
dollars in her own right, and of course
is expected to inherit the hundreds of
thousands of her father's estate. From
her own purse she supplies the wants
of many needy objects of charity, be
ing generous in the extreme and of
noble impulses. She vibrates between
San Francisco and Paris, taking New
York and London on her way, and as
tonishing the natives of each of these
quiet (?J intermediate cities by what
she does and what she does not do.
She defies all rules and conventional
ities of society, dresses and acts as she
pleases everywhere, selects the compa
ny from all classes at will, and yet
commands the confidence and good
will of all. She is conspicuous at the
graud hall of the Empress at the 'luil
eries, attends annually the Derby in
Eliglnml, vvtieie, il Is Said, she arouswe
herself by winning or losing a few hun
dred pounds a day at the hands of the
young sprigs of nobility.
A few days siuee she started in com
pany with her parents overland for
New York, and thence to Paris. Two
days after her marriage notice appear
ed as evidence of the last of her eccen
tricities, she in a quiet way, with the
personal knowledge of but two human
beings beside herself aud the lortunate
groom, having suddenly experiment
ed in the role of bride. Another ad
mirer was with her all the afternoon
of that day, until 6 P. M., when she
went, as he supposed, to dinner. At 8
P. M., he met her again by appoint
ment, and went with her to the thea
tre, alter which he accompanied her
and the family as far as Sacramento,
on her overland journey, quite ignor
ant of the fact that from S P. M. he
had been in company with Mrs. How
ard Ooit instead of Miss Hitchcock.
This is the same youth whom she dared
to drive down an embankment at the
Cliff House road a few years ago, which
she did at the small cost of £1,200.
Her husband is left behind, she not
having seen him, it is said, since they
left St. Jame's Free Church. Doubt
less, ere this she has informed her lov
ing pa and dearest ma of her late ro
mantic experiment, aud is now enjoy
ing some other innocent amusement.
Itut while this heroine is thus eccen
tric and romantic in her composition,
and thus reckless in her demeanor, as
before remarked, there are in her char
acter many of the noblest traits pos
sessed by any. She speaks evil ot no
one, but has a kind word and a warm
heart for all.— Providence Journal,
Whkx Judge Sharswocd rendered a
decision in the Borie vs. Trote erase,
to the effect that coin contracts were
valid, there was a tremendous howl
from Radical journals. Now that the
Supreme Court of the United States
lias confirmed the views of this dis
tinguished Judge these same journals
accept it as sound law, and see no lurk
ing treason in the decision. Thus
does time vindicate, one after another,
the great principles laid down by the
Democracy. The time is coining when
the people will confess the superiority
and wisdom of Democratic statesmen,
and entrust power to their hands.
THE "man and brother" is to be per
mitted a place io the Inauguration
Ball, if he so desires—the board of
managers not having issued any order
to the contrary. There will, therefore,
be a genuine mingling of "black spirits
and white, blue spirits and gray," and
Radical love for the colored man and
colored woman will have another
single opportunity of manifesting it
self.
CONGRESS having frittered away
the big end of the session without hav
ing accomplished any important legis
lation, has now resolved to hold night
sessions. With night sessions, gener
ally, came all sorts of bad legislation.
We may thereforo anticipate that dur
ing the next few working days a vast
amount of jobbing will be effected, for
which the |>eople will, of course, have
to pay.
THE BI RDELL MYSTERY SOLVED.
[From the New York World of Wednesday !
The World lays befoae its readers this
morning a solution of one of the mys
terious tragedies of modern times. The
murder of Dr. Burdell is discovered,
according to his circumstantial confes
sion and all the probabilities of the
case, to have been the same Charles
Jefferds, who afterwards killed John
Walton and John Matthews, and who
was himself murdered by a fellow-con
vict at Auburn about a year ago.
Jefferd'u declaration is all the more
convincing in that it does not release
Mrs. Cunningham from the charge of
complicity with his crime. He, too,
was a friend of that malign woman,
between whom and his mother, Mrs.
Walton, there appears to have been a
close intimacy. He boasted of the same
illicit favors from Mrs. Cunningham
which were enjoyed by her boarder,
John J. Eckel, and claims to have been,
instead of Eckel, the instrument of
her revenge. He alleges that he was
at Dr. Burdell's house, No. 31 Bond
street, on the the evening of the assas
sination ; that he was seated in the
parlor and playing on the banjoe for
the amusement of the Cunningham
girls when Dr. Burdell entered the
house aud met Mrs. Cunningham,
with whom he had a violent quarrel.
The Doctor then proceeded to his
room on the third story, and Mrs.
Cunningham to hers on the second
floor. Jeffords, to whom the dispute
had been audible, stole out of the par
lor, went to Mrs. Cunningham, aud,
after hearing her account of what had
occurred, volunteered to "go up stairs
aud do for theold rascal," meaning Dr.
Burdell. The woman who cordially
hated Dr. Burdell and hoped to inher
it his possessions, encouraged the
young desperado's sympathetic rage.
She informed him of the position of
the Doctor's room ; he drew a slender
two edged dagger which be habitually
carried, and started on his cowardly er
rand. The circumstantial account
which he gives of what transpired,
from the moment when he glided into
Dr. Burdell's apartment and aimed
the first blow at his heart to the mo
ment when he "reached under" and
"fetched" his victim by a final stab in
the kidneys, has a tone of convincing
verity. "At one time," says Jefferds,
"I thought he'd be too many for me ;
but the punch in the ribs fetched him.
it was our fighting about the room that
made the blood fly so all about on the
walls. The old follow was stronger
than I gave him credit for, and we had
a mighty tough tussle of it; but you
see I had the knife, and I kept all the
time jabbing him with that, and he
bled a great deal, aud that weakened
him I suppose," which is extremely
probable. The assassin's description
of the whole struggle tallies with the
appearance of the room and of the
wounds found on the body of Dr. Bur
dell after the murder; while the facts
of Jefferd's intimacy with Mrs. Cun
ningham and his character as a reck
less bravo help to corroborate his state
ments. It is said of him that "he ha
bitually went armed, and on the slight
est provocation would shoot or cut
whoever chanced to provoke his
wrath." He declared on one occasion
that "he didn't think so much of kill
ing a man ; he would put any man
out of his misery for live hundred dol
lars if he was short, and wouldn't get
caught at it either.
COLONIZING THE PLUNDERERS. —
The project of converting Alaska into
a penal colony, has lately been revived
by the New York Sun, and Congress
is called upon to pass a law to put
Alaska to this use, aud provide that
every State in the Union may sentence
all offenders above a certain grade,
males and females—all vagrants who
have no visible means of employment
—to be transported thither, such trans
portation to be made at certain speci
fied periods every year, in government
vessels, at so much a head to be paid
by the .State sending the convicts. In
this manner, it is urged, the commu
nity would get rid of its robbers, burg
lars, thieves, incendiaries, and stout,
able-bodied, lazy vagrants, and beg
gars, both domestic and imported.—
Now, while this penal colony business
is rather a relic of absolutism than any
thing else, and scarcely suited to the
age, in a republic especially, we think if
it is to be resorted to, that the best plan
would be to send the members of the
various rings now engaged in plunder
ing the government to this American
Botany Bay. If the Secretary of State
had this use of Alaska in his mind
when he purchased it, it was a saga
cious act. There being nothing there
to steal, there would be some chance
of their becoming honest men, or at
any rate, by intermarrying with the
savages, their descedants might be an
improvement upon the original stock.
There are processes by which some of
the foulest substances may be manu
factured into agreeable perfumes The
felons transported from England to
the British colonies have been improv
ed in morals and manners by their
exile, and become, in many cases, the
ancestors of a respectable progeny.—
It is therefore within the bounds of
possibility that even the corruption of
our own public plunderers might be
arrested by enclosing them in Alaska
"If I ever reach Heaven," said Dr,
Watts, I expect to find three wonders
there Ist, The presence of some that
I had not thought to see there, 2d.
The abscer.ce of some whom I hae ex
pected to meet there. 3d. The greatest
wonder of all will be to find myself
there.
A lawyer on his death bed willed all
his property to a lunatic asylum, stat
ing as his reasous for so doing, that he
wished his property to return to the
liberal class of people that had patro
nized him.
THE following confession of a dying
man, who was much respected among
his people, we clip from the Columbia
Spy:
A Rev. Mr. Sweeny, of this place,
(colored,) died on last Friday. He
had been regarded as a good man, and
both white and colored entertained
for him sentiments of respect and
goodwill. On taking sick in Decem
ber, lie professed his entire readiness
to die; hut as he approached his hour,
he manifeste 1 a desire to reveal some
thing that rested on his mind, and the
Minister, Rev. Mr. Cooper, in charge
of the congregation was sent for. On
approaching the bed, the dying man
remarked, "If I die now I ain lost."
"What!" says the Minister—"Did
you not tell me that you were ready to
die?" "Yes, but it was not time. I
have been acting the hypocrite all my
life. I never knew what religion was.
I have never done any good. I have
been a deceiver, and if I die now I am
lost." The mercy of God was held up
before him, and he was urged to look
to 'hrist, but with a strange and awful
indifference he went down to death
unmoved, unclaimed, and powerless
for prayer to the very last. His only
regret was, that he had "tried to mock
God and deceive others with a false
profession." He, with all his profes
sions, had brought "three former wives
to the grave by brutal violence, and
one of bis children of his first wife, and
laid his present wife, on a bed of pain
for days." In the retrospect of his
life, he sadly remarked : "I have done
everything that is bad, I have taken
away what no man can give," (allu
ding to his inhumanity to his wives.)
What a warning! "Don't trifle with
God !" "God is not mocked."
THE VAGABOND-SAGE.— An old man
of very active physiognomy, answer
ing to the name of Jacob Wilmofc, was
brought before the police court. His
clothes looked as though they might
have been bought second handed in his
youthful prime, for they had suffered
more from the rubs of the world than
the proprietor himself.
"What business?"
"None; I'm a traveler."
"A vagabond perhaps ?"
"You are not far wrong. Travelers
and vagabonds are about the same
thing. The difference is that the latter
travel without money and the former
without brains."
"Where have you traveled?"
"All over the continent."
"For what purpose?"
"Observation."
"What have you observed ?"
"A little to commend, much to een
eure, and a great deal to laught at."
"Humph ! what did you commend?"
"A handsome woman who will
stay at home; an eloquent preacher
that will preach short sermons ; a good
writer that will not write too much ;
and a fool that has sense enough to hold
his tongue."
"What did yon censure?"
"A man that marries a girl for her
fine clothing ; a youth who studies
medicine while he has the use of his
hands ; and the people who will elect
a drunkard to office."
"What did you laugh at ?"
"1 laughed at a man who expects his
position to command that respect
which his personal qualities do not
merit."
He was dismissed.
Speaking of the similarity of names
of some of the New England towns,
Mark Twain tells the following story
of a stranger who wits coming up the
Connecticut river, and was trying his j
best to sleep ; and every now and then
the boat would stop and a man would
thrust his head into the room. First
lie sung out, "Ifaddam!" and then
"East Haddam!" and then "Haddam
Neck !'* and then "Great Haddam !"
"Little Haddam 1" "Old Haddam !"
"New Haddam !" "Irish Haddarn !"
"Dutch Haddam !" "Haddam-Had
dam !" and then the stranger jumped
out of bed, all excited, and says : "I'm
a Methodist preacher, full of grace,
and forty years in service without
guile! I'm a meek and lowly Chris
tian but d— n these Haddams; I wish
the devil had e'm, I say !"
BIG BILLIARDS. — The Radicals at
Washington are matched at last. They
have pocketed everything else, but
they can't pocket Grant. He plays
safety so well that they can neither
draw him, nor hole him with a straight
hazard. Cornering and jawing him
don't do a hit of good. They always
slip up on their English, and leave
him a break to play at; so that with
fancy shots all rouud the table, and
forces, lie keeps the halls all in a
heap. They haven't got the right
cue, and they can't fiddle worth a cent.
Now's the time to bet 011 the big bil
liard match at Washington.
PARSON BHOW.VI.OW AND GREELEY.
—The Tribune is down on Parson
Brownlow—shakes its fist at him;
makes faces at him—for making a pro
slavery speech nine years ago. Surely
the mills of God do slowly grind.
THE MATRIMONIAL FRUIT BASKET.
—Says Kate to her new husband,
"John what rock does true love build
upon?" Quoth John, and grinning
from ear to ear, "The rock of yonder
cradle, dear." _
The champion eater of Michigan
won the title of eating forty-eight
"slap-jacks" for breakfast to his antag
onist's forty-seven.
"John did you ever bet on a horse
race?" "No, but I have seen my sis
ter Bet on an old marc!"
"Nat. what are you leaning on that
empty cask for?" "I'm morning over
departed spirits."
Nev :• interfere in other people's
I roncL.ns.
VOL 64.—WHOLE No. 5,481.
HOrSE AXD FAR*.
Potatoes--Early Rose to the Rear.—
The potato fever does not abate in the
least. But the originator of the Early
Rose has brought.out a new variety cal
led the "No. 4," which promises to e
elipse all others. Sixteen potatoes of
of this variety have sold for SB2-3, 12
pounds for $615, one potato brought
SSO, and one was traded for a cow,
worth S6O. A man in Hubbard town,
Vermont, who bought one eye of a
"No. 4" potato raised from it, this sea
son, potatoes that has sold fors7-~0, and
has three left. Eight were bought by
one man for S4OO. Most prudent peo
ple will refuse to be humbugged into
investing very considerably in any of
these new varieties of potatoes, until
the scale of prices is more in accord
with the instrinsie value of the
esculent—until they may be pur
chased by the bushel and not by the
pound.
Fruit Growing. —lt is said that many
farmers in different sections of the coun
try avoid planting orchards because
they fear there will eventually be more
fruit raised than a market can under
most favorable circumstances, be found
for. These farmers should take a view
of the dried fruit trade, or of the can
ned fruit traffic, and also make them
selves acquainted with the wonderful
consumption of fresh fruit which pre
vails in all directions. Thousands of
dollars' worth of fruit is now annually
sent afar off, in good condition, to pla
ces which not long ago never received
any, all owing to the improved meth
ods of packing, preserving and trans
portation. There can never be too
much fruit raised.
White Wash. —As the season is near
at hand for white-washing buildings,
fences, Ac., we take this opportunity to
to inform our readers that they caD
make a superior white wash paint, by
taking two quarts of skimed milk,
eight ounces of freshly slaked lime, six
ounces of linseed oil, two ounces of
white burgundy pitch, and three pounds
ofSpanish white. The lime must be
slaked in water exposed to the air,
mixed in about one-fourth the milk.
The oil (in which the pitch has previ
ously dissolved; must be added a little
at a time. Then add the rest of the
milk, and afterwards the Spanish white.
Color it to suit, (if you do not prefer a
white paint) with Spanish brown to
make a pink ; with Spanish brown and
finely pulverized clay, to make a stone
color; with yellow ochre or chrome, to
to make a yellow COIOJ, and so on.
The Canadian Thistle. —Mr. David
Newport, of Abington, Pa., writes to
Hearth and Home : "On a farm which
1 purchased in Abington, I found
two considerable patches of Canada
thistle, which I have destroyed in two
seasons by the application of a small
quatitv of coal oil. I found it better
to cut each plant close to the ground
with a sharp hoe or knife, and apply
the coal oii immediately to the fresh
wound. A small quantity seems
to penetrate the plant, even to its
most distant roots. Farmers can
not he too careful to note the first en
croachment of this pest, for itis only
then that it Cau be readily destroyed,
but it will be found by experiment
that the means above indicated, if per
severingly used, will prove thorough
ly efficacious.
Balloons.-- Take one pint of milk,
one pint of flour, three eggs ; separate
the eggs, beat the yolks until light and
mix with the milk ; stir in the flour
gradually, add one salt-spoon of salt,
heat it well, then whisk the whites un
til stiff and dry, and stir through light
ly half at a time. Butter small cups,
mi them half full of the mixture, and
bake in quick oven. When done turn
them out of the cups, place them ou a
heated dish, and send to table hot.—
Eat with wine or nun's butter.
Indian Bread.— Take seven heap
ing tablespoonsful of Indian meal, a
little salt, a piece of lard the size of an
egg; well sea id the meal, hut not too
thin, with boiling water ; two eggs well
beaten, three-fourths of a cup of rice,
well boiled, put with the meal ; thin
it to a thick batter with milk, it takes
about a teacup of milk, one teaspoon
ful of cream of tarter and half a tea
spoonful of soda. Bake an hour.
Omelets.— Take a slice of baker's
bread anjinch thick, cut off the crust,
pour a pint of boiling milk upon it;
season with pepper and salt to your
taste, beat it up, and when cold put to
it five eggs. Beat the yokes very light,
and add them to the bread and milk,
then add the whites, well beaten.—
This makes two omelets.
Cider may he preserved sweet for
years, by putting it up in air-tight cans
after manner of preserving fruit. The
cider should be first settled and racked
off from the dregs, but fermentation
should not be allowed to commence
before canning.
Adhesive Plaster.—Take of common,
orlithrageplaster,five parts; with re
sin, one part. Melt together, and thin
ly spread the liquid compound on strips
of linen, by means of a spatula or table
knife. This plaster is very adhesive,
aud is used for keeping on other dress
ing.
Court Plaster— Take half-a-dozen
pig's feet well cleaned for cooking, and
| boil to a jelly of say about half a pint
or less: then spread with a brush on
any waste scraps of silk. It will bo
found equal to any adhesive plaster.
Any fatty substanoe in the boiling of
the feet raises to the surface, and when
cold can bo easily removed.
Wheat, bran, oatmeal, scraps of meat,
and cheese rinds should be fed to hens
at this time of the year, because they
contain albumen, of which there is
! much in an egg. Chopped vegetables
will make them healthy ; corn meal is
! is more useful in fattening poultry.
In estimating hav by measurement
i allow 450 cubic feet for a ton in the up
per half of the mow, aud 40ufeet m the
i tower balf,