.. ..... , . ; . . . . r ' "71 IEPFE1 A Dcootco to Politics, fitctnturc, agriculture, Science, iltorolitn, cmb cncral Sntclligcttcc. VOL. 29. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., APRIL 4, 1872. NO. 49. FiMis!icd by Theodore Schoch. i f.Xtf To d'IUrt a year in advance and if not B1 i'jrf ip th n I of the year, two dollar and fifty ?,';, i!lbe charsed. s , n r iiM-rt i:imip-l until all arrearages are paid, ,,,-'.t .it " Editor. I.V trri demerits of one 'iiar of (eight lino) or ... ...i a' liir-e. inertion" SI 50. Each additional !,.j:i,u, 10 rem a. Lonser one in proportion. job pkixting, OP ALL KINDS, rrcc!eJ m the hishrt style of the Art, and on the iiicttl reasonable terms. Valuable Property FOR S-A.LE. The subscribers offer for sa1 : f -? -.t. :.i u. j i ' A I i ? SA, The liot has a front of 1 4 ft. fe5B" am Street, with a depth of 2.'.; i fei-t. The buildings con.-i-t of a convenient dwell in; l:ou?, store house, barn and other out biii'.rt'n?9 There is an abundance of choice apples, yr.-.T. pluTiis. .grapes and small fruits, with rci'!!o:it water. fcb-i-J '72. A. M. & R. STOKES. D R. XLAN TZ" Surgeon ami Mechanical Dentist, ;:-l hi lii fS "f a Main Street, in the second ..ir- f Dr. S. W.ili. u' hrirk tiuililnijr, neailr oppo .iir t'le :rm-!l)urc Home, and lie fl.itters'hiiiiM-lf 1 ui ' ei! :: ve.!S constant procure and the mol rirnr'.t airl r trrful attrnlK'n to all mailers pertaining I i I,! pii.f -nm-'h. that lie is fully able to perform all vif: fii ii the denial line in the inoft careful, taste I il lii!'ii manner. s n i .! a'.tf n'wui given to savin? the Natural Teelli ; . tu t'i MMrti'n of Artificial reeth on Knhber. C S.'.vr r r:innuoii4 Uuins, and perlert fils in i in l.nn'.v tiie great f-illy and ilanjrer r( en-t-i'!'i; ilir'r work '.o t!ic iuexju rienced, or to iliose t.i:i!.ia. April 13, 1ST1. ly Dlt. t. O. IIOrZMI.t', M. o. WiiuM respectfully announce to the p iblii' that hn has removed his office from OAlan 1 to (t;iadenMj, Monroe County, Pa. Tr.i'tin? that tuany years of consecutive firacti'-.' of Medicine and Surgery will be a mfhVicrit guarantee for the public confidence. February '23, 1S70. tf. ' Oil. 3. V. CASLOW, Oc u!i.J, Auritt & Surgeon, of sexnntr, iu. H taken rfiom at the Stroud.Hhurp IIoufc, lirc hi will operate and treat all diseases of tLe Eve ami Ear, aiu! all Doformiticn or In juriti rc-qti rittf Surgical aid. He also Jor-itt-s here for the practice of medicine and isiJwifcry. Worthy jo(r attended free of ijirue. Fir consultation and advice, free. Kclirtiary 1, 1ST 2. 3iu. Gea. W. Jacksca. Arazi LeEar. j Drs. JAl'KSOX & LeBAR rnvsirius, svegcc'iS i Arrnirarts, Scroti fi.fju rj find K-.isi Strou&ilurg, Pa. DR. GEO. W. JACKSON, j Stroudsburg-, j in the o!i rlhc of Dr. A. lU-cves Jackwn j Itriden-e in Wyckoff I'uilding. j DR. A. LeBAR, ! East Stroudsburg, j -I7re n?x! dror to Sujit'iH Store. Kexidenee ! at Mi K. He'.lcr'h. I t'ck 6 '72-tt DR. N. L. PECK, Surgeon Dentist, Announct'st lh it having just returned from iVo'al Co!lfjjs, lie i fully prepared to make riificial t?.'tli in tho most beautiful and Iile like mariner, 1 fi" decaved teeth ac-e-irdin to the mot i-nproved mclliol. Teeiij exfrcct-d without pain, when de irel, by the tii-p of NitrU Oxiiie Uas, inch is entirely Inrmlef". Repairin; of 1 tind ntjatlv done. All work warranted. rji reasonable. O'Jizz in J. (1. Keller's new Iirick build n. Mii.t hJ reef, StroudtLur";, l'a. ujr 31-if 4.MI II. WALTO.V, i ft itoviiv nt l-atv, 0 in the building formerly occupied I V L. M. liurson. an l op;osite the Strouds- ! V. l....i. i .:..'. w.'. i .i l ! ia:in.. ,'iasn mtcoi, oiruuu-suurg, a jan l.';-tf 8 IIOLMKS. Jrt. Attorney ut I.av, STROUDSBURG, PA. O.Tice, on Main Sircet. 5 doors above the S'rouJiiburg llous-, and opjwsile Ituster'i clothmj store. (KTBusiucs of all kinds attended to with prortipttii-BS ar.d Cdtdiiy. M-iy G, 1SG9. tf. 13LASTER! Frosh ground rfova Scotia PLASTER, atstokf Mills. IIKMLUCK BOARDS. FENCING. NllINGLKS, J.ATil, PA id.NG. an! POSTS, cheap. FLOUR anl FEED constantly on hand. Wid exchange Lumber and Plaster for Grain or pay the highest market price. BLACKS M IT 1 1 SHOP juet opened by C. Stone, an experienced workman. Public trade solicited. N. S. WYCKOFF. Stokes' Millo, Pa., April 20, 1671. I EV. EDWARD A. VILSON'S(of WH V IminMjurgli, N. Y.) Recipe for CON SUMPTION and ASTHMA carefully com pounded at KOLLINSHEAD'S DRUG STORE. fjT" Medicines Fresh end Pure. Nov. 21. i(J7. W. HOLLINSUEAD. DO.VT FOKGRT thai U In ii you want any thing in Lite Furniture or Ornaraeaial line that McCarty, in the Odd-Ftliowe' Hll, Main Street, Slroud ku'Ji Pa., is tho place to get it. Sept. 20 the Battle of Gettys burg. On the l?t of July, 18G3, the Third army corps commanded by General Sick les, to whose staff I was attached," went in to camp about 1 o'clock p. m., at Kmmets burj;. The different corps of the army of the Potaoiac were then marching by different roads towards the unknoicn, the strategic views and schemes of both Lee and Meade being as yet rather mixed up, and much like raisins in a pudding, to use a homely Pimilc. Gen. Sicklesand his aids no sooner dismounted from their horses than we stretched ourselves out on the grass and began studying the map, especially the roads leading to Gettysburg, whither two army corps had already been directed. At Kmmetsburg we fouud our selves some ten miles distant from Gettys burg. The prospects of a good dinner from a "loyal" kitchen filled every one of ub with joy, but before we could enter upon our prandial exercises a report came that the First and Kleventh corps had struck upon the Johnnies at Gettysburg, and were compelled to fall back south of that town, Gen. Sickles knew what this report meant, and without waiting for or ders, set the corps again in motion, march ing in double and triple quick to Gettys burg. We reached Cemetery Hill, the new position occupied by our troops, about sunset, and received from the boys, as may be imagined a pretty hearty welcome. The Twelfth, under Slocum, the Second, commanded by Hancock, were also com ing in. Gen. Meade had not yet arrived, and the generals present soon determined to hold a kind of council of war, which they did in the email, low, and dismal room reserved for dead bodies. This Hght filled my heart with strange feelings, and before they subsided 1 heard General Sickles' voice calling me. I entered the dreary abode, illumined with so many stars, was presented to General Slocom, then the ranking officer, and ordered by him, on General Sickles' recommenda tion, to inspect and fix the whole picket line, and to report daring the night what I saw, &c. I lelt rather flattered by this mark of distinction, but was, at the same time, too dry and hungry to feel perfect ly happy. I mounted my horc, and trot ted ofl, accompanied by three orderlies. It was about miduiht that I finished my task, so far as our picket lines were concerned, and then I tried to leel my way a lit! le outside of our lines, to learn, if possible, something about the position and intentions of the rebs. I rode up and dowu the Teneytown road, then struck the cross road near Hound Top, and afterward reached the Kmmetsburg road, passing west of it. This was, so to speak, scaai forbidden ground ; oar South ern guests lay not a great way off, nnd we distinctly heard their movements. Subsequently we learned that these move ments meant the arrival of Longstreet's corps. The night was rather cool, es pccially for an empty stomach, and a kind of haze bung round the wooded places, though in the higher regions the moon shone bright enough. One of the order lies I sent back to head quarters with a brief report, so that we were only three. As we paced on quietly toward a belt of woods, one of the orderlies, Harney by nam, whispcrcl. "Captain, I see two of them !" I looked in the direction which he pointed, and actually saw some thing behind a tree, and occasionally beckoning. With oue intent all three ol us, with our three pair of eyes, looked, gazed and gaped at the spot indicated. All of us discovered the same thing, viz : two beine nodding and beckoning to each other. We speut about an hour in this vicinity in emotional suspense, when Har ney, with bis Hibernian fire, advised me to order a charge, aud offered to lead. Bill a New Yorker, caught the enthusiasm of his comrade : I, however, tried to show that it would it not do to give the alarm too soon, and that we must see something more before doing that. While we were thus discoursing aud exchanging our idea, the mist lifted and we perceived, in their full majesty, the bodies of two cows. Harney swore vengeance, asked me to permit hint to dismount, and grasp- inn his canteen iu one hand and a spare surcingle in the other made rash upon the cows ; one ran off, while Irom the oth er he cxtored a canteen full of reeking milk, and presenting it to me, exclaimed, "I have not left a siDgle drop to the d d old b r This soothing beverage we" divided among us with as much impartiality as was practicable under the circumstances, and then proceeded further on our errand. We were uot long iu discovering a part of Lee's traiu. I seut Hill off back to wards the Emroetsburg road, and dis mounted to let our hordes graze, using our time our spare momcuts iu rest ing ourselves upon the dewy grass, hold ing the bridles in our hands. It was in the direct-on I pointed out to Tom Burns, the orderly, I first seut away, where to look for sue on bis return. Both of us alike felt drowsy, wet without and dry within, and equally impatieut for Tom's rpannearance. I was rather anxious to hear what was going on in- our camps, and, let me add, equally anxious to see Tom bring with him what I asked him to a canteen of tpirttu frumenti, alias commissary alias whisky. 3oth of us alike needed an eye opener. Tom soon appeared; but, alas, with the canteen empty ! while I perceived that the nose bag of tb horse looked ratber swollen and stuffed, as if something was moviDg Incidents During inside. Meanwhile the room, for which I longed as fervently as Wellington did at Waterloo for Blucher or the night, came actually marching on the horizon. All of a sadden a few musket shots broke upon the tranquil scene ; we all started up, and as I happened to look at the nose bag lying near by. I perceived a violent motion inside, and in the twinkling of an eye a big rooster forced his cxite out of the bag, and, stopping short, poured out his coustomary matin song with mark ed gusto, and hating done that, skedad dled. All pursuit was in vain the fel low deserted to the rebel ranks. Whe ther the ' governor" had remained quiet all the time in bag from strategy, fear, or from the want of air, is more than I can tell. As to Tom, he intimated that he wanted to keep that booty a secret from me till he had a chance of presenting it roasted. I accepted his apology, and off we started, and with enough light to serve our purposes. This reconnoissance took us to- the flank of tho rebel right, formed by Longstreet's corps. Tom was sent off with a fresh message, and with orders not to return, as I expected soon to go back to our camp myself. Following a winding side-path, leading, if I remember correctly, toward the Funk town road, we saw at a short distance a modest looking farm house, surrounded by a fence. After a few minutes' obser vation, I determined to go in and sec whether," I could not pick up some in formation about the "Johnnies." I rode on quietly, Harney following close be hind. A lazy cur announced our ap proach, and before I reached the gate I saw a girl about ten years of age, stand ing in the yard, run frightened into the house. Anon came a middleaged woman, trembling and shaking in every limb. She began talking to me, but I could not understand a word. At first I attributed that to her fright, but soon found out that she did not speak English, but talk ed what is called "Pennsylvania Dutch." She holloed for one of her girls (the one I saw run away.) who spoke English, and acted as interpreter. The other urchins, if I remember right, five in number, also made their appearance, and it seemed to me as if the faces of mother and child ren brightened up the moment I gave them to understand that I was a Union soldier. The woman had not a particle of information to give me, and hardly knew the name of a single Union or re bel general. Failing in strategy, I made up my mind to negotiate for something to eat, telling Harney, to be on the look out iu the meantime. I asked for bread, chickens, butter, cheese, bacon, &s , but to each of these demands the answer was the fatal "No." I took out my purse, and ventilated my sbiniug greenbacks before the missis, but the nod of her bead was again in the negative. Even "puss" a rather fat and tall ish specimen of its kind crept around the missis, twisting up its back, puring and mewing, as if hinting to me that there was "no go," and that I had better quit. Not being so easily daunted, I made a peremptory demand for eggs, only to receive two "nos." Still 1 persevered, promisiug liberal pay, and finally the bargain was made. For a couple of dollars I was promised a dozen of eggs, with some fresh bread the eggs to be fried according to my directions, and everything to be ready iu a couple of hours, when I expected to return. I turn ed my horse, informed Harney of my sue cess, and rode off with a feeling of triumph. As to Harney, though he considered his milking exploit of a greatly superior nature to my success in the egg line, he could not help testifying his satisfaction a t by a becoming face and a broad, prolong ed grin. We took another round and then re turned to our headquarters, having, to our great joy, learned on the road that Gen. Meade was present: that the Fifth corps was coming in, and that the Sixth was hourly expected. I arrived at our headquarters about 9 o'clock a. in,, and found things wearing a cheerful aspect. The scene all around was comparatively quiet j a very fjw shots were heard, and those only from the ex treme line of our pickets. We, iudecd, knew that the "rebs" were somewhat iu motion, but none of us, so far as my knowledge goes, dreamed of a battle that day. So, iuvoluntarily, I agaiu and again beguiled ray fancy with the prospect of the omelet in store for me, and which 1 felt sure to enjoy during my next tour. Hour after hour passed. Harney, who was evidently as anxious us myself to plunge iuto the egg feast, ever and anon came to my tent inquiring 'when I was going to make my next round ?" but the time of our pleasant rendezvous was fast vanishing. The portentous 1 o'clock arrived. A terrific fire came booming and hosing over the hilly ground we occupied a fire, the vibrations and concussions of which were, so to speak, enough to shake the very dead long buried beneath Ceiue tery hill. To narrate the terrible strug file that ensued is not now my purpose. Tim hhmdv encounter lasted till late into i the ni"ht. to be continued next morning, 1 9 iai. and to be protracted Min later into me niszht. and finally to end in ue oisconi- fiture of our Southern friends, and they who had already watered their horses in the Susouehauoa thanked Heaven for be ingi permitted again' to taste of the waters of the Potomac. Before leaving Gettysburg I detenu- in eA to co over the whole of that battle field, where the safety of the Common wealth so long trembled in the balance; and let me add, with perfect candor, that amid different cogitations of great mo ment, my mind, again and again, revert ed to my missed omelet. Meanwhile, however, I had to pay a visit of a far dif ferent nature. As we were about to leave I longed to have a look at some of the wounded whom I personally knew. On entering one of the field hospitala-I found the victims of victory as gay as larks, and soon found that this hilarity was owing to the rumor that the enemy was stopped by our cavalry at Boonsboro', and that by to morrow we were to have another big battle. Lacerated by wounds, and bleed ing, the boys rejoiced in the prospective of another carnival of war ! Such are the freaks of soldiers. Before leaving the hospital my attention was attracted by a familiar face; it was Lieut. B., a brave fellow, rather cyuical, and with a strong dose of aversion for 6hani and all kinds of clap trap, whether in or out uniform. They were going to cut off his leg. Turn ing bis swimming eyes toward me be ejaculated, "If you want to take the stump, here will be one for you pretty soon ! Tears of joy started to ray eyes at the exemplary fortitude of this unfortunate. I did not want to witness the skill of the surgeons. It fell to my lot to hold the table on which Gen. Sickles' leg was am putated, and I did not wish for another trial of the kind. I soon afterward struck upon a crowd of stragglers indulging in an opposition chorus, the one part vociferating ''Bally roung the flag, Boys," the other scream ing "How arc you Fourth of July," &c. At Harney's suggestion, I positively made up my minnd, before taking my final fare well of Gettysburg, to revisit our farm house and to see what had become of our c"ost which were to have been metamor phosed into an omelet, To reveal a secret hitherto hidden from mortal vision, I shall state that I intend ed to be the clif ile cuisine myself, and to give madam a living example of an omelet a la Xapolttane, I having acquir ed this useful art during the brief Gari baldian in 1860. This much I thought was due from roe to the rather copper head ish Adams county. We founded the whole out-buildings consumed to ashes, and the farm-house itself unroofed, riddled, and torn, with no living being around it except a roos ter, standing perched on one foot, on the top of the half-dismantled chimney. As we gazed on the bird, we saw that one of its feet was bleeding, aud, strange to say, instead of trying to fly away, appeared as if desirous of coming to us. Was it the experience of the last two days, and the desolation and ruin all around, that made that bird feel glad at the sight of human beings ? Harney, not given much to sentimen tality, suggested, to make up with this poor rooster, to whom life was evidently a burden, for the loss of the omelet. The rogue almost swore that it was the same rooster that escaped from the nose bag during our nocturnal expedition ; he knew him, he said, from his voice, and that our claim to it could not be doubted. I, though not without some hesitation, assented. The patriarch was caught with out much effort. The smouldering em bers around, after a little blowing, sup plied the necessary fire, and, after some twenty minutes, we refreshed our inner man with a savory broiled fowl, rather rare. Em eric Szahad. About Lager Bier. The German words layer bier signify stock beer t. c. beer that has been stored away, l lie story as told in Uermany is an old one, and runs thus : "Many years ago a shoemaker, ucar Bamburg, sent his apprentice to get a bottle of Bamburg beer, which was sold at that place ; but the boy not kuowing this, went to the city itself. On returning he met an acquain tance of his, who told him that when he would come home his 'boss' whould whip him for staying so long. The poor boy, who was frightened at this, thought it better not to go home at all, but took his bottle, buried it under a tree, and ran away. He went among the soldiers, where he distinguished himself, so that, iu short, he became an officer. When one day his regiment was quartered iu this small town, the officer thought proper to pay a visit to his old boss, but not before he had got the bottle of beer, which ho bad buri ed some years before under the tree. - When he entered, he said ' Well, sir, here I biiug you your bottle of Bamburg beer that you sent me for.' Tho shoe maker, not knowing what this meant, was told by the officer all about it. The bot tie war then opened, and the beer was found to be of superior quality. Wheu this fact was known, some of the brewers built deep vaults, where they put their beer, and called it, after it had' bid there some timej hjcr, which meant' nothing more than lying. The officer' afterwards married the daughter of the shoemaker, and drank a good deal of lager bier, receiv ing in ibat occupation the assistance of bis friends. Potatoes. One of the principal causes of the risk attending tho farmer's labor, is found in the uncertainty of his crops. So it has been the practice of wise farmers to di vide their labors up into a variety of pro ducts, and thus to lessen tho risk upon any one. At the same time they have taken the greatest care to provide them selves with the best of seed, at whatever price. And still, in spite of the better cultivation, more liberal manuriug, and more intelligent selection of varieties, we bear continued complaints of failure, es pecially in regard to potatoes. Those among the Plovglimans Massachusetts readers who planted potatoes twenty-five years ago, know that there has been a complete change of varieties many times since then ; a change oftcner and oftener repeated as time goes on. Twenty-five years ago an English white potato was planted for early use, a deep blue or calico for Winter use, and a long red for late Spring. They were all good potatoes, with a slight deduction for the seed end of the last, and they were plant ed year after year without failure of com plaint. Then came the rot, with the de struction of the old varieties, and the ne cessity for new, to take their place. First came the "Davis Seedling," a coarse, strong potato, which has contrived to survive our mismangement, though oc casionally failing ; and the "Dover," a first rate variety, loug since dead. To them have succeeded numberless "White" and "Reds," "Garnets" and "Cuzcos," "Good rich" and "Early Rose," with others still in the state of advertising at $5 a pound, all of which have passed or are passing from "prime" to "fair," then to "not so good this year," and so to "worthless." Doubtless more than one of the thinking readers of the Ploughman has asked him self why it is that these potatoes will not bear replanting, as did the older varieties first Darned. The Ploughman will at tempt to give a reasonable answer to the question, founded partly upon theory, partly upon experience which is merely a theory wrought out in the ground. A potatoe ripened, and newly dug from the ground is plump, mealy, and dry , nearly pure starch. If kept in the ground, below the frost, it does uot sprout, but remains in this coudition until warm weather. But if harvested and placed iu the cellar, it soon begins to change. It becomes less mealy, is more heavy, and although it weighs less it is watery. The starch which made it light has disappear ed, and has been changed by chemical ac tion into sugar and water. J he potato has ceased to be edible, and has become fit for supporting the new life that is about beginniog. Then the shoots start and draw upon the tuber for their support. (It is a curious fact that if the tuber, in growins, is exposed to the rays of the sun, i lie snoots star, almost as soon as me potato is ripened.) As the shoots push out further and be gin to give out moisture, the tuber shriv els, and finally is nearly hollow, the whole of its interior having gone to the support of the new plant. At this time the roots givcu off where the shoot came out of the potato, strike off into the soil and prepare to support the life of tho shoot. We no tice, also, that when a potato is cut for planting, the cut surface undergoes such a change after it is planted, that it docs not change with the rest of the inside but becomes hard like the skin. It would seem from these observations that the interior of the old plant is of vital importance to tho new, when it is getting settled in tho world, and that in the case of cutting especial pains is taken to pre serve it from change or loss. "But we have changed all that." We take the valuable seeding, cut it into as many pieces us there are eyes, plauteach detached fragment, (half of which never would have pushed at all, naturally), is a hot bed, or in a rich soil, raise one hun dred pounds out of a stock that should have raised only 6tx or eight, and when we have got the crop we divide that in the same manner. This roav be excellent rliY8io!ojv for the rotato. bot nowhere in the animal kingdom do we know r3e! au exception to the rule that over' breeding destroys the vitelity of the off spring as well as the parent, and renders' it liable to many and fatal delects. Now for the fact ia support of the theory. Three years' ago, when the "Good rich," cut to death; was passed by for the new favorite, which' now ia on the down bill Bide of potato life three years ago we got of a neighbor forty "Early Rose, and planted them honestly, one in each hill, cutting them once when larger than a hen's egg, while he, beliaving that the great mistake of our fathers was in seed ing too heavily, cut his after the new pat tern. Oar lands are hardly a prstel shot apart; we used the same kind cf manure, jven the same system of cultivation, and yet he tells me that his do not come out well this year, while mine "come up smil ing." "One swallow dees not make a Summer," nor does one fact prove a prin ciple, but we hope that further experi ment may settle the question as to tho nature of that difficulty which renders it necessary for us to have a new kind of potato every three years. Massachusetts' Ploughman. A Mule Battery. Out in a certain western fort, somo time ago, the major conceived the idea that artillery might be used effectively in fighting with tho Indians by dispensing with guncarriages and fastening the can non upon backs of mules. So be explain ed his views to the commandant, and it was determined to try the experiment. A howitzer was selected and strapped upon an ambulance mule, with the muz zle pointing toward the tail. When they had secured the gun, and loaded it with ball cartridge, they led that clam and steadfast mule out on the bluff and set up a target in the middle of the river to-' practice at. The rear of the mule was turned toward the target, and he wa3 backed gently up to the edge of the bluff. The officers stood around in a semicircle, while the major went up and inserted a time fuse in the touch-hole of the how itzer, n hen the fuse was ready, the major lit it and retired. Iu a moment or two the hitherto unruffled mule heard tho" fizzing" back there on his neck, and it; made him uneasy. He reached his head around to ascertain what was going on, and, as he did so, his body turned and the howitzer began to sweep around the horizon. The mule at last became excit ed, and his curiosity grew more and more intense, and in a second or two he wa3 standing with his four legs in a bunch, making six revolutions a minute, and the howitzer, understand, threatening sudden death to every man within half a mile. The commandant was observed to climb suddenly up a tree ; the lieutenants were seen sliding over the bluff into the river, as if they didn't care at all about the high price of uniforms; the adjutant made' good time toward the fort; the sergeant began to throw up breastworks with bis bayonet, and the major rolled over the ground and groaned. In two cr thrco minutes there was a puff of smoke, a dull heavy thud, and the mule oh ! whero' was he? A solitary jackass might havo been seen turning successive somersaults over the bluff, only to rest at anchor, final ly, with the howitzer at the bottom of the river, while the ball went off towardthe fort, hit the chimney ia the major's quarters. rattled the adobe bricks down into tho parlor, and frightened the major's wifj into convulsions. They do not allude to it now, and no report of the results of tho experiment was ever sent to the War Department- John Plianix. Work for the Season, Be ready to start the plow on sod grouud as soon as possible after the frost is out of the grouug. Draw out manure as fast as made, and if possible on snow, as much of tho labor of loading is avoided. Sec that the "spiles" are made and buckets or troughs provided for sugar making so as . to take advantage of the "first run," which is now days about the only "run" we get. A little extra care and feed to stock thiu' in flesh, from this time till pasture comes, will prove a good investment. Look over the farm implements and see that they are ready for use now, and save time when you are ready to use them. Split and bore fenco caps, and sharpen stakes to fix fences as soon as the frost leaves the ground. The stake and cap fence is becoming more popular every day. An awful warning here is for Doctors. We read that thn measles have of lata grievously afflicted tho Ute Indians. The more the Medicine Man of tho tribe drum med and danced and went through all manner cf incantations, the greater grew the mortality j until the beareaved kins men.of .the deceased lad the M. M. to a convenient place and shot him. If we should adopt that system, whit a fuiila la w'ould be kept up ! i i tf I , H Fi
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