Cruljt FIUNTINGDON, PA. Farmer's Wives. Farmers cut this out and paste it on your kitchen doors: It is, perhaps, safe to say that on three arms out of four the wife works harder, endures more than any other on the place; more than the husband, more than the farm hand, more than the hired help of the kitchen. Many a farmer speaks to his wile habitually in terms more imperious, impatient, and petulant than ho would use to the scullion of the kitchen or to his hired man. Many a farmer's wifo is literally worked to death in an inadvertant manner, from want of reflection or consideration on the part of her bus. band. None can understand bettor than he, in plowing or sowing, or har vest time, that if a horse gets sick, or runs away, or is stolen, another must be procured that very day; or the work will inevitably go behindhand. He does not carry the same practical sense into the kitchen when the hired help leaves without warning or be comes disabled, although lie knows as well as any man can know that they will expect their meals with the same regularity, with the same promptness, and with the same proper mode of preparation; but instead of procuring other 1161 p on the instant, he allows himself to be persuaded, if the help is sick, she will got well in a day or two, or a week at farthest, and it is hardly worth while to get another for so short a time. If the help has taken "French leave,'! his mind fixes on the fact that it is a very busy time and neither ho nor a single hand can be spared, or that, in the course of a week, some one will have to go to town for some other purpose, and both these matters can be attended to at the same time. Mean. while the wife is expected not only to attend to her ordinary duties as usual, but somehow or other to spare time to do all that the nook or washerwoman was accustomed to do, that is, to do the full work of two persons, each one of whom had already quite as much labor to perform as she could possibly attend to. The wife attempts it. By herculean efforts all goes on well. The farmer perceives no jar, no hitch in the working of the riachinery,and because no complaint is uttered, thinks that everything is going on withcut an ef fort. Meanwhile time passes; and in finite shame on some of them; they begin fe calculate how much has been saved from servants wages, and how much loss food has been eaten, and be cause still no complaint has been made, the resolution quietly forms in the mind o& nothing until she does complain; but 'before that takes place, she falls a victim to her over exertions, in hav ing laid the foundation for weeks and months of illness, if not of premature decline and deatl—Dr. Hall. • To FATTEN FOWLS. —lt is conceded that the fowls of France are the fattest and whitest in the world. The meth. .od for preparing them for the market is this: Fifteen days before they are to be killed they feed them with dough made .of wheat flour of the previous year, with ten grammes of salt to every quart of water, and three or four small gravel stones to mouthful of dough. Twelve hours before they aro to be killed they should scarcely eat any thing, in order to leave the intestines empty, and thus avoid the acid fermen tation, which would produce decompo. sition, and make it impossible to trans port them any distance. Not a feather should be plucked till the fowl has been thoroughly bled, which is done without cutting off the head. So long as the blood is in cir• culation, each little fesoicle at the root of the feather is filled, and causes spots if this is plucked till it is orairely drained. If they are killed immedi ately after eating, they will keep only eight days; but if they have tasted twelve hours, they will keep fifteen days. POULTRY.—Whoever will give prop er care to early chickens, may set the hens as early as the first of April. Early chickens are particularly useful as insect killers, for the first insects aro the parents of future swarms. Give seldom more than 13 eggs. Select those of perfect form, of medium or not extra largo size, and strong shells. Mark each egg with a lead pencil, and on several put the date at which they aro put under the hen. Let hens lay in movable boxes, so that whot i l they begin to set they may be removed away from -the laying hens. Feed reg , ularly, and keep water always before them: Feed may always be kept be fore setting hens if rats aro not trouble some. Turkeys should be confined and made to lay at home in a low box or basket, where they can be control , led, so that when their young hatch they may be kept in doors for a week or ten days, as they are very apt to die if they get wet. Sot Ducks' eggs under hens. Geese take care of themselves, but should not be forced to go far for food while sitting.—Agriculturist. TO GIVE ONIONS AN EARLY START.- Mr. 11. Benjamin, of Ontario county, gives the following method of prepar ing onion seed for planting : "About the first of April 1 put my seed into blood•warm water, set it where it will not freeze, and let it re main from twelve to fifteen days. I atu careful to have the water always cover all the seed. In two or three days one can tell if the seed be good by the strong onion smell it will omit in case it is all right. I drain the wa• for off from the seed, and stir amongst it some plaster, keeping it, however, a little moist and warm. At the end of three days the seed will have thrown plant it, covering about half atTi";l7 deep with earth, and in six days one can eeo the rows." Tim FARMER who improves his les , nre in gathering information—thinking, planning, and resolving, will in his prosperous career, leave tar behind him who neglects to improve his mind,and who never looks ahead. GRAIN that has been injured and be come musty, unless its gluten is de— stroyed, may be restored to nearly its original pweetneBs by pouring boiling water over it and permitting it to Eland till cool. COURT AFFAIRS. APRIL TERM, 1866 PROCLAMATION.-WITEREAS, by a precept to toe directed, dated at Huntingdon, the 20th of Jana:try, A. D. ISO, antler the. bands and seal of the lion. George Taylor, President of the Court of Common Pleas, 03,r and Terminer, and general jail deliv ery of the 24th Judicial District of Pennsylvania, compo sed of Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria counties; and the Thins. Benj. P. Patton and Anthony J. Beaver, his asiAmi ates, Judges of the county of Huntingdon, justices no signed, appointed to hear, try and determine till and every indictments made or taken Mr or concerning all orioles, which by the laws of the State are made capital, or felon ten of death, and other offences, crimes and misdemeanors, which have been or shall hereafter be committed or perpe trated, for crimes aforesaid—l ant commanded to make public proclamation throughout toy whole bailiwick, that a Court of Oyer and Terminer, of Common Pleas cm! Quarter Sessions, will he held at the Court House in the borough of Huntingdon, on the second Monday (and Mb day) of APRIL next, and those who will pro,ecuto the said prisoners, be then and there to prosecute them as it shall be just, and that all Justices of the Peace, Coroner and Constables within said county, be then and there in their proper persons, at 10 o'clock, a. m. of said day, with their records, inquisitions, emaminations and remembrim. cos, to do those things which to their Offices respecti*ly appertain. Dated at llnntingdon, the 1-ith day 3larch in the year of one Lora ono thousand eight hundred and sixty-six ; and the 00th year of American Independence. JAS. P. BATHURST, ShcrUß. D - Ro CLAMAT lON.--WH ERE A S, by n precept to me directed by the Judges of the Com mon Pleas of the county of fluntingdOn. bearing test the 20th of January, A. D. ISO, I ant commanded to make public Proclamation throughout ray whole bailiwick, that a Court of Common Pleas will be held at the Court Hence In the borough of Huntingdon, un the 3rd Monday (nod 311 h 'day) of Aritn, A. D., IbG6, for the trial of 011 is• sues in said Court which remain undetermined before the said Judges, when and Inhere all Jurors, witnesses, and suitors, in the Wahl of all issues are required. Dated at [runtlngdon, the 11th of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and the 00th year of American Independence. JAS. P. BATHURST, Sheriff. Plicritre Office, ITuutingdon,-31ch. 11, TRIAL LIST, APRIL. TERM, 1806. I= Leonard Weaver for use vs 11. B. T. R. IL &C. Co Watkins k Woods vs Hobert GraMils. Dr. Sliuenborger's executor no Wilson Lorenz J. Crawford Wall:leo V 3 G. J. 11. Sbocnbergcr. SECOND WEEK. William Stewart vs A. W. Oaks .S: S. Semple Jacob Cresswell vs P. 11. Lanett al. J. McPlierran's executors to Martin Orlady. David Caldwell v 3 J. Powell Stewart. Patrick Hammitt vs W. E. 3P Murtrie et at J. E. Glasgow for use vs Stacy Gibbolly'S eXecittors E.:McMullin for use va Harrison Gorsuch John Megaflan vs Boyer .h Johnston. John F. Herron vs David Hiatt. W. C. WACP)NER, Prothonotary. GRAND JURORS. R K Allison, farmer, Brady Joshua Brown, farmer, Springfield Samuel B. Boyer, farmer, Penn John BreUreter, merchant, Walker William Briggs, farmer, Shirley Humphrey Chi'cote, laborer, Union George Colder, brewer, Alexandria John Eberts, farmer, Franklin W Gansimore, farmer, Warriorsmark Barton Green, merchant, Barreo Elijah Gillam, farmer, Barren J W Isenberg, blacksmith, West Jared Johnston, farmer, West Benjamin Kylcr, farmer, Cass Thomas Keith, farmer, Hopewell Philip Locke, farmer, Springfield Jacob Musser, farmer, Brady. II M'Manigal,livery keeper, Hunting'n Jacob Mountain, farmer, Carbon Henry C Robison, farmer, Dublin George Smith, farmer, Cass J B Summers, limner, Hopewell Benj. Sprankle, farmer, Morris Saml. Thompson, farmer, Franklin TRAVERSE JURORS-FIRST WEEK. Robert Anderson, Sr., farmer, Penn Jacob Anspach, farmer, Jackson Daniel Ammerman, agent, Carbon Andrew Beers, miller, Franklin Samuel Book, farmer, Tell Samuel Barr, farmer, Jackson Thomas Cisney, farmer, Tell A Carothers, innkeeper, Cromwell Luden Dean, laborer, Union Aaron W Evans, J P, Cassville William S Entrekin, farmer, Hopewell Daniel Fettorhoof, farmer, Morris Robert Gifford, farmer, Shirley George Garber, farmer, Cromwell William Gutshall, farmer, Springfield Charles Green, farmer, Oneida Daniel Goodman, farmer, Huntingdon Richard D Heck, farmer, Cromwell William Hess, farmer, Springfield Henry Hammer, farmer, Morris William S Harper, farmer, Dublin Daniel Knodo, farmer, Porter Jacob Lane, farmer, Springfield Henry Lee, farmer, Jackson Abraham Myers, carpenter, Penn John P Myton, farmer, West George McCool, farmer, Oneida Henry A Mark, farmer, Juniata James Moore, farmer, Oneida William V inci., farmer, Oneida Samuel Myton, farmer, Barree Newton Madden, farmer, Springfield Winchester McCartney, farmer, Brady W M'Murtrio, gentleman, Huntingdon Samuel Neal, farmer, Oneida Abraham Pheasant, farmer, Cass Joseph G Park, farmer, Cass Joshua Price, farmer, Dublin Peter Peightal, farmer, Penn T D Strickler, plasterer, Huntingdon James Stewart, farmer, Jackson David Stever, farmer, Cass Samuel Tussey, farmer, Morris L D Tate, weaver, Jacson Jackson White, farmer, Union David Wullsmith, farmer, Oneida George Wagoner, farmer, Shirley Benjamin Wallace, farmer, Morris TRAVERSE JURORS-SECOND WEEK. 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