Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1872, Page 7

King Arthur's Town. Camelot, a city of shadowy palaces, And stately, rich in emblem and the work Of ancient Eings who did their days in stone; | ‘Which Merlin® hand, the Mage st Arthur's court, Knowing ai! arts, had tonch’d, and everywhere At Arthur's ordinance, tipt with peak acle, and made it spire to heaven. nd anon a knight pass 'd, or inward to the hall; his arms Clash 'd; and the sound was good to Gareth’s ear. And on{ of bower and casement shyly glanced Eyes of pure women, wholesome stars of love; ‘And all about aheaithfal people stept As in the presence of i = 'ennyson's New Porm. WHAT A DOCTOR SAYS. Patent Medicines, and Quacke: in General. = ‘There does existed, nor will there ever exist, any medicine that wilcure anything. The taking ot medi- cine to cure anytuing, is ss foolish as it would be to order or prescribe medicine as a remed for a machine out of order, or a fine watci which does not keep time. Any disorder of the human body mast have for its basis chanical, physical, or chemical case, or & com- bination of these; and it is not until the canse Or causes are moditied or removi that the body can ever recover, no matter what experi- Ments, or medicines, or manipulation may be employed. The following may serve as an illus- tration One of the most common disorders of th> human body in America, is constipation. It may originate from three causes: 1. A me- chanical ob-traction in or about the intestinal canal; 2. A deficiency of or defectively con- stituted bile, oceasioned by an improper or abusive diet, or by @ real organic disorder of the hver, or other important viscera and their secreticnus; 3. By paralysis of the nerves goy- erning the muscles of the intestines. other cause is possible. Now, every ~ comprehend that an obstruction of the intes- tines, sveb *s hernia, tnmors, adhesive scars, Or swallowed fish-hooks, etc., cannot be re- | climate. moved by medicine. As soon as the nature of yw exist, nor has there ever io foul can | | | re thing better. Merino, or the common “bougbten” white wool stockings, are rather thin, but some of us supplement them with an additional pair of cotton stockin, the cotten or the woolen pair next the feet, Yiduale prefer. Cold feet are often caused, at Jeast in part, by too tight elastics or bands at the tops of the stockings, or by tight shoes, or shoes tight In the ankles. These interfere with the circulation of the blood, and there cannot be a comfortable degree of warmth without a circulation and aeration of the blood. My jast lesson in this matter came from baby’s cx- perience last ha iy mee Suddenly she con- tracted ahabit of having cold feet, and when 1 warmed them the skin seemed hard and in- active, suggesting the need of a bath, when a bath did not seem necessary except for the feet. At length it occurr to me that her “ankle-ties” had been too loose, and just before we came home from our visit a young lady cousin had set t battons back farther, to make the little slippers stay on better. Ever since that the Le apne had been too tight around her ankles, esj ly after I put on woolen stockings. I changed the buttons again, and her feet no longer got cold, except in consequence of the actual rigors of the Some well-informed persons object to Congress gaiters, the elastics are usually so the obstruction is known, the remedy is found firm and close about the ankle. Only very Of itself. able to, the diet, which is of sue a character as to leave out an important part necessary for the formation of bile, or otherwise taken iu aform unfavorable for the absorption by the intestines. For example, salphar is absolutely necessary for properly constituted bile. If sulphur is in it, either consti or excessive bee: With decomposed frcal matter, is the conse. quence. In this case it 1s just ‘as easy to com: prehend that nothing but organic combinations ‘of su’phur, properly introduced, is the remedy. ‘The eating of mustard, Lorse-radish, well-pre- served raw meat, gluten, or any digestive food which contains suphur, is here the uofalling remedy. Common table-salt is another impor- tant constituent of bile. Some mts not only use too little salt themselves, bat prevent their children from eating enough. The con- Peyjuence is constipation at first, and afterwards serious Mood disorders. Can any medjcine bring salt into the body? Here salt, and abso- lutely nothing else, is, or can be, the remedy. And we here affirm that who a properly, and changes his tood according to his | tastes and natural inclination, can never expe- Fience constipation of this kind. But if there i a large tumor‘in the liver, or in the pancreas, cr a cancer in between the intestines, a cure is atonce impossible, aud itis folly to try it. In ch cases artificial defacation is indicated and silowable. If the constipation depends upon want of nervous pewer, then it is necessary to know whether it is the consequenee of a defi- ciency of irritation arising from the nature of the contents of the intestines, or is owing to a spinal, or cerebral, nervous derangement. It is not difticuft for any one to comprehend that & person has a paralysis in some part of the | body, the intestines are blameless, or without fault, relative to constipation. In the first in- Stance stimulating influences should be em- ployed, and in the second proper medical treat. quent for paralysisis indicated. The most com- mon cause of paralytic conditions of the intes- tinal nerves is an ignorant use, or abuse, of medicines, especially of strong or drastic pur- gatives; and so very great is this abuse in this Country, tbat we venture to say thattifty per cent., or one-half, of all disorders have their origin in this abominable practice. it isaweil known fact that, upon tickling a part of the body for some time, the nerves tuereby acted upon lose their sensibility, or sensitiveress; and this is exactly what occurs in the intest: by tickling (irritating) them too much or too frequentiy, by irritating medi- cines of any kind. ‘They lose their sensiteve- bess and cease to show any reaction. The above comprises al! that is necessary for & person to know about constipation to under. stand its nature and treatment. Bat, says Mr. A., if lam troubled with constipation, I take a few biae, or other pills, and they care me; I have doso for twenty years. Nothing is more natural than tor @ person to try a remedy, in the easiest and quickest manner possible, a dif- ficulty ro apparently easy to manage as consti- tion. But we should like to ask this question: | Has constipation increased or decreased in the Commanity during the last twenty-tive years And have all the quack pills disappeared, or they sold by millions instead of thousands’ eo fact is, admitting that a person remedies or re- lieves the immediate symptoms of constipation by purgatives, that ninety-five from every one hundred wii! experience the necessity of repeat- ing their pills again and again, and generally in increased number and strength, until finally : they come down with some that obliges them to resort to reasonable treatment, or they linger along fer years, neither sick enough to die, nor weil enough to live. We sometimes bear the remark, “I have done so-and-so for twenty years with impunity,” which reminds us of an acquaintance of ours who used to jump of and on the borse-cars while in fail motion, until he bad his leg crushed and fearfully muti- lated, of which injury he finally died. As an excuse he made the above foolish remark. should think that if a person had been foolish for twenty years with impunity, it was about time for him to stop suca absurd foolish prac- tice. The purgstive piils, however, are not blamed, but the climate, or too close confine- ment to business, or the east winds, or some still more ridiculous nonsense must account for their trouble. When people have sick children, any- thing and everything is, or may be, the cause, ex the soothing syrups, cor: , and other quackery which the mother or purse are con- Stantly using, and of course it could not, under any circumstances, be admitted that these had anything to do with the sickness in question. And so with the patients; they will attribute their troubles to almost anything, but we have never known one to say, Doctor, | have quack Coctored myself sick. ‘The fact about medicines and their proper use Goes pot lie in their curative oF pow- ers, but in certain absolute conditions and changes which they effect with rapidity. For example, morphine cures nothing. but ts cer- b> tain nerves to rest and slee; i cuses nothing, but paralyzes of nerves to a certain extent. Belladonna cures nothing, bat Baralyzes another portion of nerves for a ti hioroform cures nothing, tivenessof the nerves. Blue pilis ing, but only irritate the nerves of the intestines to abnormal! motion; and the same is true of ali other purgatives. Arsenic cures capa f batis imme- useful in conditions where a decided an: Giate saline effects are indicated. iron cures nothing, but is useful as an antidote and an as. tringentonly. Quinine cures nothing, but pos- Sesses an intlaence on the bieod formation, not aa yet exactly known, but hurtful to the body by continued use. Candarango cures nothing but empty pockets on the one hand, and pleth- ric ones on & other. Am of curing anything, or with anything, does so from ignorance or because he is a quack. Wh one farm is in a flourishing and fruitful condi- tion, another adjoining, of similar soil, &e., is man who not, the reason may be found in their manage. in ment; and the same reason will apply, equal propriety and force, as to why one &lways well, where another is al speak of curing a man with medicines, is just as foolish a» to say the same of = farm, uniess a an calls work and replenishment of absorbed materi medicine. and quackery flourish, and will doubtless cons tinue to flourish, are: ‘1. The cheapness of the articles or treatment recommended. cunning stupidity of the vietim the charlatan to appeal to the w of the Ratient or of some friends, generally called cre~ lity. 3. The fact that Qualified physicians, and thus often search in ¥ain for help, passing from one into the hands yosille and Prussia is, at present, the model state in this regard. Every one ts f M ter were formerly limited in the government, bat now Yous, Graduates, as well se smetecr pt are liabie to suits for malpractice; but the uated physicians have the advantage and confounded with The principal reasons why quack medicines | >Batients apply to an. | pee Py The second cause lies in, or is charge- | jodse garters are allowable, and these may not be when the stockings are worn over under- Garters in the shape of strape buttoning te beth wais' an dstockings are most sensible for women as well as children. Many women are obliged to work in kitchens where the floors in winter are always cold. It helps matters to have a carpet down, bet the Kitchen carpe cleantiness, jectionable on the score of here are many children. Lee pe ag These can be and will afford the kitchen occu- laces to stand or sit at their work. here are some very cold days when the mer- cury sinks ten to thirty degrees below zero, (in Minnesota,) and then I wear my arc- tic overshoes all day, and the children also keep on overshoes. The floors of our houses ere ae degrees colder than the air about our beads. One thing too little thought of in this con- Rection as absolutely easential to healthy warmth of bedy. Thaf is pure air. Men who work in the open air some every day havea reat advantage Over housekeepers. Their blood oxygenated, andso purified (as far as such yee pe ean do it) and prepared to warm and nourish the body, of which the b! is the constant up-builder. Everybody, male and female, old and young, ought to get out of doors some every day and breathe freely with the mouth closed. The air of sleeping rooms and other hving rooms should be puritied each a 7. Keep bricks or soapstones in the oven, to be wrapped up and put under your feet whea you are obliged to rit for some time at a distance from the fire, especially af you are writing or studying. Hiow SEATS AT TABLE FoR BX-Danres. There are nice large high-chairs, a little low than regular baby high-chairs, to be found at some furniture stores, many parents neg- leet to ure them’ when baby No. 1 is de- throned by baby No.2. But no child of six or seven is large enough to sit comfortably and itis ol where | gracefully at table in a chair made to suit & grown person, especially if not allowed to put its feet upon the chair-rung. Its feet do not toueb the floor, and are apt to swing about in a way to fret nervous people, and in a way that certainly is not graceful. And its elbows are t high enov anditork. So, in reaching table ¥ | manners, look first for the comfortable seating | of our children. A cheap piano-stool does well for an intermediate seat between gh-chair and common dining-chair. Any | man with fools can make one on a rainy day, | office-stool for a deliar. tft seems too much to parchase a second high- chair. A friend of ours purchased a high, yellow ‘This was sawed off, to suit the needs of a child of six, above the lower rungs. A second very comfortable and useful seat was made of the part sawed off, by putting & square board atop, and cushlouing it with | gay woolen patchwork. } theory to fit it. | dence that the ruby, Simple Heated Plant Case. The fonowing 4, and description of a small plant case, watnal okay by a lamp, will be in- teresting to such as wish to raise n-house plants, ‘and cannot afford or give the time to jouses for the purpose. We copy it from the London ‘Gardener: = We have much pleasure in calling attention to & plant case invented by Mr. Peter Barr, which ‘Our ig most effective in raising seediings and, plants which require a genial warmth. illustration saves us the necessity it. Below the “fi and the section shows a hollow chamber, and below that little stand sup; lamp, the heat from which enters the chamber and escapes through mail perforations in its sides. This lamp worl very well, simply requiring trimming night apd morning, and replenishing with "oli; ‘he best colza elf ls used. ‘here ars two patterns of ania case—one rather deep, in wi small stove plants, &c., may be grown; the other shallow. and miore suitable for seedlings, cuttings, and otber dwart subjects, which are thus brought much nearer the glass. They are manufactared im several sizes. These cases will be found very useful by perssne wha wit to Taise or grow ten: plants in a dwelling-house, or in a cool green-house, orchard-house or conserva- tory. This is a modification of an improvement ou the Waltonian case. 4 Little Composition en the Wheel- barrow ‘The Danbury News man says: If you have oc- casion to use ® wheelbarrow, leave it, when you are through with it, in front of the house with the handles toward the door. A wheelbarrow 1s the most complicated thing to fall over on the face of the earth. A man would fall over one when he would never think of falling over any. thing else; he never knows when ‘S has got through falling over it, either; for it will tangle his legs and his arms,¢urn over with him and rear up in front of him, and just as he pauses in his profanity to congratulate himself, it takes a new turn, Sy eee skin st him, and he commences to evolute anew, and bump himself on fresh places. A man never ceases to fall over a wheelbarrow until it turns completel yon its back, or brings up against something it can- pot upset. It is the most inoffensive looking object there is. but it is more dangerous than Jocomotive, and no man is secure with one m less he has @ tight hold of its handles, and is sitting down on something. A wheelbarrow has its uses, without doubt, bat in its leisure moments it is the great blighting curse on true dignity. Rvsres.—It is not a little remarkable, and we might phlosophize for some time about it, that while the diamond is made up of pure car- bon, or simply black and jue charcoal, the aA the next in value and beauty, is nearly ma up of pure alumina or pce manag ber cent—the coloring matter iron, making wy, the rest of it; the mere trace of lime found in it being unappreciable. _ may ee te say, = swe’ More wonderful than this fact of the dull, colorless and lifeless theory to account for all ress ip chemistry can invent a t is @ somewhat Curious coinci- this, and no pi other eepuess. are so often found ted with gold; where they are there is gold almost sure te be present. Nature produces these, ber riches, together; and it afterwards is the province of art to keep them together exbibit them as one object. meas ———— ee Brvssers Lace.—The finest Brussels lace is so complicated as to require the FHons on One piece, and each a from separ: scarcely to be seen that all the light ad: work. It is such genuine Brossels of Vi Two American to give it easy command of its | others wa "ay An impectbisdl Socagite'td Memphis, | je, rg eee Sevens eee STEONGEST TSING IN We sHINGTON. [Correspondence Cincinnati Gazette.) What is strongest tm the ? Every oue will be with an auswer. Some reply promytly Kacontive, others as foepe lobby ona’ santietll test cca coer ‘m cer the board of pubie works. But whon the whoie round has run of government influ- ences, of ring power. of local machinery. every one wi this competitive jer's ridge. ‘When Congzess is not in ly when it ts, the president, greater of nla will is practical jaw. And ‘ iy law. py even & President can be reached, if he Very far wrong, by the “~vular will, and Con- gress can restrain bir: chooses whenever it bere. But the carria, s of the President rat- tle, and reel, and bang and over Riker's ridge, and he is as power! stacle as the drivers of the butcher carts who . Itruns along the whole front of the White House, and all who enter, and ali who leave it, be they high or low, be they pri- vate citizens in humble uggies or foreign min- isters equipages,with Iiveried servants, or the equally sty! establish ments of senators and membere who drive them as the open evi- dence of the value of sabsidies granted, one and allcrash over it as best they may, from the smooth and beautiful drive om one side, to the ‘same pleasant surface on the other. ‘The lobby draws its millions for railroads and steamship lines; it dictates whether naviesshaill be builtin the public yards, where costly and adequgte machinery lies idle, or in private shops at enormous profits on contracts; it talks of hundred millions for Cuba as lightly as it orders dinners for G 3 and it speaks with a confidence that is al magnificent of } ard ts hand into the Tesqeery ond paying rom twenty to forty millions for the telegraph Imes of the land; it these and hundreds of similar things, but its power is limited, and its strength curbed. The lobby frequently fails; but Kiker’s ridge, over which all of its members who are rich enough to ride swear men 4 day by day, remains in all its hideous jength and Pi to mock at all the weakness which the nation has gathered in its capital. The board of public werks approaches nearest to having unlimited power. It stands next in the order ofi nflaence below Riker’s ridge. It bas within a year transformed the Capital from & quagmire, of wide. dirty street surfaces in another, to splendid drives of wood, or asphalt, lined with parks, and everywhere adormed with shade trees, and quite worthy now to be the national capital. It has accomplished all this by power— many will say by arbitrary power—but it is done, avd well done. It has raised millions by the vote of the le, and could haye raised it without the vote of a single property owner. It has cut down grades of block after block, till the owners are obliged to go up stairs to enter their cellars. It has filled up other blocks the is reversed, and the inhabitants descend ‘rom the pavements to their pariors. It has compeiled the owners of hovels to lay service- pipes for gas and water, and sewer connections from the street to the inside line of the pa: ment, at a cost greater than the houses them. selves—and all tuis whether gas and water and inside sewerage were used atall. It has cut down miles of old shade trees because they hap- pened to stand in the way of widening streets, or were over the line of @ projected sewer. It bas left whole sections without gas or water for weeks and weeks while ite fillings and levelings were in progress. It has filled up portions of Georgetown till they appear like a town two- thirds buried by earthquake or volcano, and cut down other portions until the inhabitants can only reach their firesides by the appliances ola wel -ordered hook and ladder compauy. It has filled up a mile of canal which did not be- long to it—for which every one is thanktul. It has even removed a mile of railroad track, and by so doing broken the only all-rail connection between the north and the south, except by a detour of one hundred and fifty-eight miles through the mountain region of Virg-nia. All these things it has done, with consent, or with. out it, with the favor of the courts, or in spite of the courts. But when it struck Kiker’s ridge this power all vanished, and the board folded itshands at the bidding of a master. There was a hittle equirming, and afew childish at- tempts ut resistanct, 6: them and forced them intosubmission. . The courts were invoked, and issued their mandates, but Riker laughed in their faces,and the mandates of the supreme court of the Dis- triet of Columbia, whic! officers before it, became of no more conse- quence than the decisions of a crowd of boot- blacks upon the oper price of putty. ‘The Secretary of the Interior, who, under the law, has power enough to remove this greatest nuisance in the capital, for once, at least, found bimeelf powerless, and the ridge remained a relic of barbarism in the midst of splendid im- provements. And so the board of public works, the supreme court of the District, the pie | of the Interior, were all snubbed and defeated. Th Dae po were and are all on the side of the board, of the courts, and of the secretary. The press of the District'was and is united against the proprietors of the ri have conquered every elem of power that existsin Washington, and to-day stand as the exponent of that which is greatest in authority in the capital of the nation. And now it is time to tell the reader what Ri- ker’s ridge is—this power that nothing, as yet, in Washington has been able to overthrow. Pennsylvania avenue, as most know, runs from Lemay con iy past the War, and Navy,and the new State department, on by the White House, and Treasury, and the beautiful grounds around them, by the attorney-general’s office, again — the length of the asul the Capitol gate, around all the parks of Capitol hill, and eastwar. the navy yard. It was formerly a horrid drive, of rough, un- cared-for cobble pavement, only exceeded in all that was uncamfortable by the old corduroy roads of the west. Now, from Georgetown to its eastern limit, it is one of the it magnifi- cent drives im the Union, and its sufface 1s like clean floor from one extremity to the other— except as Riker’s some fifteen or eighteen feet wide, runs lengthwise through the center of itfrom one side of Washington to the other. Through this beautitul a , in which the nation has an interest, and of which it may now be yews, the Washington = fro satin street railroad company ,charter Vongress, basa double line of track. ‘j : ‘When the improvements were ordered, it was pang eng that the law was so drawn as to com- this company to pave between its rails, and tween the two tracks also, with the material used upon the surface adjacent. But some technicality has afforded the company an op- portunity defy and continue io di ure, andin @ gree ruin the main thoroughfare of the capital. With smooth as- phalt on each side of it for miles. and wood along the rest, it runs on a rough, rude, bung- ling, and horribly uneven surface of the old cobble stone, saved, and probably stolen, from the seein comoved to make way for improve- men! When carriages driving on the avenue unex- pectedly cross it. children, and women, and — nervous gentlemen who are pas- sengere st with fright, and those of stouter nerves recall thestory of that universal destruc- tion which came in 4 moment to the one-horse shay. An unlooked for crossing of driver at night brings back, for the instant, the start- ling experiences of an express train flying the tr rack. Over this line the compasy that owns it 4: rickety, dirty, vermin-infested cars, at | expense to under-fed and over-worked horses, and over-worked and under-paid drivers and conductors. One Mr. Riker is president of this Sew. and hence the name of the yg He issues dead-head tickets to members of Con- gress, and in this, it is believed, resides the se- cret of his power. Such is the story of Riker’s ridge, the only uncontrolled and uncontrollable power in Wash. ington. H.Y.B. Warm Stables vs. Blankets. ‘The beaith of a horse, like that of a man, de- pends very much upon & natural system of life. Artiticia] ystems require double however sleek the horse than that of a horse, which, however Tough he may look, has nerves and endurance built only upon ilar, natural food and exposure to the varied changes of the atmosphere. It may be allvery well for the fancy to clip the hair ail of from the horse and them ¥,0n to Cpe and of toward ut Riker sat down on | alone can cite Cabinet | STOCK-+& CURIOUS AND MEMORABLE VEN- DUR—TEB PATE OF MES. GREBLEY’S Cow. @ ve farm frected at Chappaq: was e1 ja Setertay The attendance was a hd seedieties 'P a bid. Thensomedoty rugepeted to Mr. Stuar that he had better adjourn the sale. AMD AT Last. While the ety of 30 doing was fe Suing Lely fare — Bye hadthe plough knocked down im wenty-tive cents, The next article offered was a.ians ugh, which Mr. Silas Tompkins purchased twenty-five cents. Next on the list was a new corn plough. “A vor. tlemen,i’ said the fence and the corn will was knocked down to seventy-five cen! deing ts. Another corn plough was offered, but noone “You think because seemed inclined to bid. Uncle Horace is demi thi dor Silas Tompkins for twenty-five cents each. Hanford Serles bought two subsoil plomghs for ba: and fifty-five cents respectively. WiHiam J. Van Passel! bought acorn plough for forty put up. “Just the thing fot & geod horke ora at up. for & r8e OF & jight yoke of cattle,” said the auctioneer, but fs hearers knew better. It was heavy enough for six yoke of cattle, and @ecclare: USRLESS by its former owner, after it had proved ineffsc- tive when worked by four of good oxen. The auctioneer bought it in for 60 cents for oldiron. Hanford cultivator for 50 cents, William J. Van Passell a common plough for $1.25, William Brinle; seed dri for 25 cents, Charles B. Griffith & steel plough for $1, Osear Hunter @ cultivator for 21 cei Robert Hevlin a subsoil plough for 5) ce John B. Foster a scraper for $3, Ansoa L. Sherwood a cultivator for $2 50, John R, Stuart a Coulter plough for $5,Issiah T. Williams asteel plough for $i, and Bartholomew Washbarne a steel plough for $225. Then Levi Hant bought two wheelbarrows for $1.90 each, and Mr. Williams bid $2.50 for the third, which was knocked down to him very promptly. A garden Reap: with hose attached, was next offered by Mr. Haight. He tried for somo time to get a bid, and at length knocked it down to Mr. les B. Griffith for $250. Then Mr. hn Blythe bought a patent potato digger or manure fork for a. He said he wanted to keep it asa curiosity, as the oldest farmer in the county er seen one like it. ‘I'wo lots of whiffie-trees and old iron brought $2 40, and then asled, which looked as old as the hills of Chappaqua, was knocked down to John Hipper for $9.50. Its mate was bought by James Lam- bert for #150. Henry G. Hunter gave 41 $5 for a wagon: pole, and Alvah Newman had a horse- rake knocked down to him for $5 aftersome spirited bidding. THE CATTLE. The cattle were next put up. First was a yoke of large red exen, rather thin, but hungry looking. “How much for this fine yoke of stags?” asked the auctioneer. They were knocked down, a decided bargain, to Mr. Walter Griflith for $62.50. Then a yoks of | brindle exen, young, small and hardy, were tsk up. Their horits were tipped with gilt balls, and they were the admiration of all the farmers. They were started at $20, and knocked down at $59 to Mr. Charles Sweeny. Then the cowe were put up. First was a large brown cow, which was knocked down by Wiliam J. ‘Tassell for $37. Then a speckled Durham cow was started at $10. ‘The auctioneer refused to accept the bid. Fifteen Jollars was the starting price, and Joseph “gan, the old Irishman who has had charge of the Greeley farm for several years past, bought her for #27, about one-qurter ot her real worth. The next lot was a fall-blooded Alderney cow, which was bought by Mr. John Hopper for #11, a fractienal part of her worth. Then the anc. tioneer announced ‘Horace Greeley’s cele- brated full-blooded Alderney bull, bred by William Duncan, and valued at $600.” He is a@ beauty, but notwithstand that fact he was knocked down to Mr. James M. Bard for $00. THR OLD ALDBRNEY Cow. “Now,” said Mr. Haight, “I will offer you the old historic cow. [ries of ‘Where's Bar- num.’} She is 24 vears old and gives a quart of rich milk daily. This is the cow that fed all Mr. Greeley’s children. This1s the cow whose milk Mre. Greeley used to churn in a cap. This, gentlemen, is the cow of whom Mr. Gree- ley sald, ‘She is an imported cow. She has stood in the stable for several years doing nothing buteat, because my wife says she has given milk to my children, and she shall not be killed” I tell you, gentlemen, she is a real, imported, genuine Alderney cow. How much am I offered for her?” «Five dollars,” cried a man in the crowd. Where’s Barnum?” shouted a dozen men at onee. “Barnum would give $50 for that cow,” said @ gentleman to the Sun reporter, as gree oa quadruped was knocked down to Squire Ar: for 47,50. THE OLD MARE. Then the horees were trotted out. First was Mr. Greeley’s favorite old sorrel mare. She ae Read per fines pees 3 the old cow had, ways been with as favor by her master as theo oe had been by her A man mounted the old mare’s back and made her caper about like a colt. During this s performance the bidding was spirited. It ended in “Old Sorrel Top,” as the mare was called, being knocked down to Hat- field Newman for $27. Miss Ida Greeley’s well-matched black mares Were then put up. They are pretty, well- formed, about 14 hands high, and fat, and were pe ht by Edward J. Carpenter for Lew The rt said meer money. pomebedy proposed that they be sold en up in that manner, singly. They were ut but only $75 and $55 as bid, 80 they were again down to Mr. Carpenter, some people knocked ‘niyo due cows irocght $21; Mr. De ro tine cows broug! i; Mr. Dennis Lynch was the lucky purchaser; Mr. Isaiah T. Wil liams gave = for s horse power; Mr. Charles B. Griffith bid $31 for @ threshing machine, ner and belt; Mr. John Kirby bid $32 50 for er saw and frame, and Mr. Joseph Clark bad a fine cornstalk cutter knocked down to him for §2. SPIRITED BIDDING. “T have now forty bushels of oats,” said Mr. Haight; “how much am J offered for th How much a bushel, with the privilege?” A Voice—Five cents, seven, eight, ten, eleven, fifteen, twenty, twenty- wenty-six, thirty, thirty-five, (laughter, | thirty-six, thirty ‘Auctioneer—Are you all done, gentle: \? } Going at 37 cents, once; going’at 37 cents, twih third and last time—gone, to Mr. Silas 7. Wid, for i cents a bushel, ‘Take "om all, Mr. Wild—Yes; and if you've fet any more at the same price I'll take’em. [Laughter } A corn sheller was knocked down to Mr. Charles Griffith for $12; a hay cutter for $3, and a fan mill for $6, were ‘purchased by Mr. Reu- ben L. Birdsall; after which the productof five acres, consisting of about tive tons of cornstalks and fodder, was put nt seid in two lots to Charles Sweeny and John Hopper at 2x cents per sheaf. A cast-steel drill went for $2.25 to Oscar Hunter; a ton of oat straw to Silas T. Wild for $9 50; and a ton of oats and straw, not beams, hg imported seed, to the last par- SIL I24. CORN BY THE Ton. corn were put up * ‘and cob tad’ tobe Mr. J. T $1.14 per cwt. Mr.J. R. Stuart took half a ton at gl te) gyi Shorey eo, eigen oge the Temnant, nearly 18 tons, at‘the rato of $1.14 perc An ox cart was the next thing offered for sale. It was knocked down to Mr. John B. Foster for 13. One, with not near s0 ht by Mr. Isaiah T. Wil dward nter yellow } little children of 4 & . irs. John F. Cleveland, 12 Cottage nd Miss Gabrielle will finish ber edaca- ba! at the institat‘on which she ts attending — Water im Pasture Fields, word in denair or the poor brutes who so un- fomplainingly endare privation of this charac- er. The farmer who turns his stock into a dry fleld in the morning of a bet day in July or August, and has not sense of hamanity enough to bring them out at noon for the purpose of giving them an opportunity of gotta water, is simply umsit to have the care of damb beasts. ‘This may seem harsh language, but it fe the plain truth, and the pity isthat it is net more generally spoken of in our agricultural papers. have ently seen poor enimals treated in and my heart has pitied them deeply, parent to every mind that the 88 owness sees fit to relieve them. Now, I contend thet not only is this practice of depriving janimals of water for from twelve to foarteen hours at heats of summer, some of their that is depriy- rsolong a time, necessarily be- seasons of thirst without havi fanctions impaired. The animar ed of water eomes heated and feverish. The relish it would otherwise have manifested for food is lost. Di- gestion cannot proceed with the regularity of completeness that it would had the animal ac- cess to water at all times, or at least once dur- ing the day. Farmers often wonder why stock does not improve during the summer months, They attribute itto the heat, the flies, or other cause but the real one, which is that they have been pasturing in dry fields, and their owners are too stupid or too indifferent to bring them out to the water-trough or streams. My opinion is that the farmer who has the means of having water in his pasture, or indeed allhis fields, is grossly neglectful of his own interests; and he is equally so if, not having these facilities, he refuses or neglects to give his pastured animals water at least once daring the day.—Robert Easburn in Journal of the Farm. Firty Tw AND DOLLARS DAMAGES FoR THE Loss or A MoTueR.—The case of James H. Jacobs, administrator of the estate of Mar- garet A. Jacobs, deceased, against the Central Pacific Railroad Company, has been trans- ferred frum Alameda to the ‘third district court of this city for trial, for the convenience of witnesses. “The action is brongbt on complaint te recover damages for the death of Margaret Jacobs, wiie of plaintiff, adminstrator, ged to have been occasioned by the negli- gence of the rai!road company. Plaintiff avers that on the 19th of April, 1%71, Mrs. Jacobs ciovsed on the Oakland ferryboat, and took Pasage by the steam cars for’ Broadway station, Oakland. That while she was leaving the care at that station, under direction of the agents and employes of the company, by reason of insufficient time being allowed her to step upon the platform before the car again started, she was thrown under the wheels of the car and instantly killed. Plaintiff also avers that she the mother of five children, between the of fourteen and five years, who have snt- fered a great pecuniary los? and injury, and that damage has resulted to then s the next of kin, in the sum of $50,609, which amoant they seek to recover by this action.—Saa Fran- cisco Bulletin, Dec. Tue Ronsery or Parorgssog TyNDAaLt.— The burglar is no respecter ot persons, On Tuesday evening, while Professor Tyndall was delivering his lecture at Cooper Institate and demonstrating his theories of light, heat, and Tefraction by a series of beautiful experiments, a thief entered his apartments at the Brevoort House, broke open his trunks, ransacked every- thing in the room, and earried off ail the money he could find, which amounted to £40 sterling. So tarthe wretch who thus pillaged and dese- crated the temporary savctum of the learned scientist—for he did not have the decency to replace in the trunks and drawers the articles he did not wish to carry away—has escaped the search of the detectives. The Professor him- selt, with all his knowledge of ligbt, has not been able to discover a of light among ail bis collection that can show up this thief in his dark hiding-place. ¥. World, 19th. BartisMaL Pants.—The Presbyterian, in ifs last issue, devotes portions of its editorial space to reading a lesson to its Baptist breth- ren on the subject of “baptizing with all modern improvements,” a8 practiced now-a- days by the fashionable Baptist churches. It says of the ceremony, that when men become careful of theirown comtort, when either ad- ministering or receiving Dbaptism-that its power bas . ** Think,” says the Presbyterian, “of Paul and Silas calling for their boots before pans Berooryg comfortably —. the jailor, at midnight, in the prison at Philippi! Think of John the Baptist coming from the wildernessof Judea with of baptismal pants, made to Better the raiment of leathern girdle, by the wild shore of Jordan, than the finest marble the most ample waterproof SHocKING Acts BY MepioaL StupENTs—4 Montreal correspondent of the Toronto Globe says: ‘The medical students at Victoria College, Mcntreal, are becoming the disgrace of the city, and are rey to be —— beyond the control of the professors. A few days a|party of them stole a body from their own dissecting room, took it to McGill Medical Cotloge, re- ceived their price, and had a drunken spree on the proceeds. Since then they have beca ac- cused of stealing in broad daylight a corpse from the hotel Dieu, their own hospital, only dead a few. hours and unburied, of taking itto a college and selling it, and spending the money in a similar wi Tae Lat New York Traggpy.—John E, Simmons, who is under arrest on the charge of killing Nicholas Duryea, remains in the Park Hospital, guarded by a policeman. Many of his relatives and personal friends visited fim yesterday. The surgeons say that he cannot be removed under two weeks, and that it will be six weeks before he can use his injured foot. Dr. Amabile yesterday morning set his broken limb. The patient was put under ether. His powerfu) nervous vitality demanded an amount of the anwsthectic largely in excess of the ordi- nary dose.—. War rr 1s—Almost a sinless century is said to have rolled over the happy city of Branktort- on-the-Main. Out of the 70,000 iuhabitants, not oné in all that time has died by the hand of the murderer. Whether it has been as free from other crimes we are not informed, but probably no city ever had @ like record before. This state of security is gccounted for by some by the strict and —, laws of the country from which the eri has no escape, and Which recognize no pardouing power. A Vary SincvuLar Story AnouT an OLD Fasuiosxp CLook,—Fourteea years ago, an old lady in Portiand, Me., fell dead from heart disease while winding up an old fashioned clock. The time was two minutes before ten in the morning. Ever since that the clock has stopped at 10 o’clock on the anni of her death. It has never once failed in the fourteen years that have passed.— Boston Herald, 18th. oo Leen Pa Wourpep ny HI8 Wire.—Yesterday pores there was a cutting affray in Richmond, whi resulted in the serious wo! of ‘Thomas Powers by his wife, who was ir the infu- ence of liquor at the time. sv7It takes three days and nights to get Chinaman properly married. = Tenements to let,” is posted on a South Boston cemetery fence. ®7"1t must have been 8 classic “critter” who named a California town ““Johnyepolis.” wa7-Beethoven’s — sell for thirty dollars each; but Gratz wa gives his for nothing. 7 Hammond, the revivalist, is w the Dubuque to feo Tork the 4LPRABETICAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY: 4m all Branches of Basinem tu the Distrist, ona Baten ews ore eae Patate Sontee Reha B.N. Bartow 1285 Pa. TA. me, ATTORNEYS-AT-LA' Ld 3 ‘< ab sree o> pene Stree ae: BILLIAED SALOONS. pie Baas yy = ¥ Youu. Fiscurs, where Patent Ofer J.B. Kvreuine, Bice. Bells & Li's . BLA TH SHOPS. F. Baxscauin,g Hi Shoes Wx. 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