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gcmcstic Ccoiiomp. 
COKDUOTED BY EMILY MAPLE 
THE KITCHEN CLUB AMONG THE ROSES. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
It happened by the merest accident that so 
:many members of the Kitchen Club stood to¬ 
gether uudor the Maples, and breathed the per 
fume of Roses and Honeysuckles, with the fra¬ 
grance of the mid grape, flowers that festooned 
some of the trees, that pleasant day in June. 
■One neighbor called to bring some of her visi¬ 
tors; another to spend the afternoon; and two 
others happeued to run iu on a friendly errand 
Tale Mrs. Lockston was onvyiug her more robust 
friends, their rosy cheeks, and Ellis Davenport 
ventured to ask why she was ho delicate and 
pale, “ for wo remember in your youth you wore 
so different.” 
Mrs. Lockston gave a short and distressing 
.cough as she answered, “ I thiuk it is the sew¬ 
ing machine. You know 1 do all the children’s 
■clothing, and the way clothes are made nowa¬ 
days, iti» no easy task." 
" Ah! there is the secret!” said Mrs. Buu- 
ater ; “ the way they are marie, and until women 
free themselves from the thraldom of frills and 
fluting, thero is no hope for their health or hap¬ 
piness." 
Smiling at her energetic response, I ventured 
to add: " Last week I went to the city, and into 
a hardware store, where, after necessary pur¬ 
chases, I asked the obliging clerk ir they had 
anything new in household conveniences, as on 
this subject I feel great iuterest. Would you be¬ 
lieve it, the first thing he brought out was a new 
patent fluting machine ! Useful, of course ; but 
what I wished to see was something to ease the 
work of washing, ironing or cooking, with the 
inevitable dish-washing and cleaning ; and yet 
he imaginod my first and greatest need was a 
fluting machine!" 
The ladies laughed, and, of course, asked me 
about the new patent, of which I had to confess 
I knew nothing, and then we sat down to tea out- 
of-doors, under a grand old maple tree, with an 
oriole’s nest overhead, aud robbins hopping 
tamely around. It does not take much to make 
a tea in J une, when butter is so tweet with 
clover, and strawberries are plentiful—with a 
bountiful supply of Loses to ornament the table, 
and pleasant company around it. 
We talked of many thingB, and among others 
the aid the Rusal had been to ub iu gardening 
aud domestic matters, of its steady improvement 
in matter aud utility, until the hour of parting 
arrived. Who would bo without the J une Hobos, 
the memory of which makes the summer so sw eet 
to us P And depend upon it, mothers, tho remem¬ 
brance of a rose-surrounded home in their ‘ 
childhood, will bo life’s happy June to your sons 
and daughters, a sweet and pleasant association 
with '‘mother" long after she rests beneath 
the Iloses they will lovingly plant above her. 
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BUTTER MAKING. 
Evert neighborhood has its good aud poor 
butter makers and ours is no exception. Among 
our best is Miss C. who in answer to several 
questions touching the butter subject, gave me 
a brief outline of her method. She is at present 
making butter from three cows, two of them 
Alderneys, and averages from twenty to twenty- 
five pounds a week. Her cellar it quite cool, 
scrupulously clean, as are also the panB, pails 
etc. The milk is strained into both deep aud 
shallow pans and Miss C. says she has yet to 
disoover that the cream rises iu one better than 
in the other. 
The churning is done twice a week winter or 
summer, not of tener, and ice is never used. From 
twenty to twenty-five quarts of cream, includ¬ 
ing some thick milk, is the average churning; 
and time, from fifteen to twenty minutes to do 
it in. After churning about five minutes, she 
pours in two quarts of boiling w T ater. This she 
never omits, except it may be in (ho hottest of 
weather. As soon as the butter oommencoa 
to gather, two or three quarts of cold water are 
added, and the test when Bufiiciently gathered, 
is, “ when the butter holds up the dash." The 
butter is then taken up into a wooden bowl and 
worked and washed with the ladle in two or 
three cold waters, that the milk may be ail 
washed out; then salted, worked through and 
through and set aside for three or four bourn, 
occasionally working it in tho meanwhile. 
At the end of this time it receives tho final 
working, and is weighed out and made into 
prints for market. 
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MILK PAINT. 
A subscriber writes us that Bho has used the 
following preparation instead of common paint 
for inside work and thinks well of it. To those 
persons sickened by the smell of fresh paint, it 
would, no doubt, prove a blessing; but for gen¬ 
eral use, we have little faith in its taking the 
place of lead and turpentine, or the so-called 
chemical paints. 
Into a clean pail put six ounces of newly- 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
slacked lime, and over it pour part of two quarts 
of sioeet Bkimmed milk. Stir with a stick, and 
add by degrees four ounces of oil of poppy, after 
which add the rest of the milk and three pounds 
of Spanish white, which should be powdered and 
poured slowly into the mixture. Apply with a 
brush the same as other paint. 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Currant Jolly. 
Pick over the currants carefully, and rinse 
with cold water; put on the stove, in a porcelain 
kettle, without any water. Braise the currants, 
and when warmed throngh, put in a jelly-bag to 
drain. Straiu the juice, aud boil ten or fifteen 
minutes; skim, take from the stove, and pour 
boiling over the sugar. Do not set it over the 
fire again, but take to a cool .room, and stir till 
tho sugar is dissolved; also stir often until cold. 
Granulated sugar is best for jellies, allowing a 
pound to a pint of juice. Pour the jelly into 
glasses, aud if thin, set in tho sun fora few days. 
This method will not answer for all jellies, but 
is an excellent way for currant jelly, as tho nat- 
ural flavor of the fruit is retained more perfects 
lv than by the old rule of boiling Bugar and 
juice together. Currants that are not quite 
ripe are beBt for jelly. 
Rico Cakes for Breakfast, (Excellent.) 
A pint of cold, boiled rice, one-half pint of 
bread crumbs; cover with milk that is just bo¬ 
ginning to turn sour, aud leave iu a cool place 
over night. In tho morning, add one quart of 
sour milk, one quart of flour, two beaten eggs, 
one teaspoon salt aud soda (bicarbonate) to 
Bweeten. Bake on a griddle. The milk must 
not be too Bour. 
Rice Waffles, lor Tea. 
* ‘ One quart of thin sour milk, poured over 
one teacupful of cold, boiled rice. Do this two 
or three hours before tho wnflles are wanted. 
When ready to bako, add a pint and a half of 
flour, two or three beaten eggs, aud soda. Oil 
tho waffle-irons each time thoy are used, with 
lard that is perfectly sweet. The rioe, used for 
rice griddle-cakes and waffles, should bo salted 
when boiling.” 
Cora Cake, for Breakfast. 
Beat together one egg, two tablespoons of su¬ 
gar, two of melted butter, one-half teaspoon 
salt, two teacups corn-meal, one tablespoon 
flour, ono teaspoon oream-of-tartar, mixed with 
the dry meal and flour, half teaspoon soda, aud 
two toaoups sweet mills. Dissolve the soda in 
the milk, and add last. Bako in a shallow tin- 
pan, about fifteen minutes, in a well-heated oven. 
Lyons. Mrs. M. G. Rand. 
Jellied Chicken. 
Cut up two chickens and boil in water, only 
enough to cover, until tender. Then remove 
skin and bones aud season the liquor, of which 
there would ho a little less tliau a quart, with 
butter, pepper, salt and the juice of a lemon, if 
liked. Dissolve one-fourth box of gelatiuo in a 
little warm water, and add with the chicken to 
the liquor; boil up once aud pour into a mold. 
This ii very nice for tea or evening company, 
when cut into thin slices. A very sharp knife, 
however, must be used in cutting, or the slices 
will break into separate pieces. Mrs. Brady. 
Leamon’s Aniline Dyes. 
Allow me to add to Mrs. Maple's experience 
with these dyes, in Rural of May 4th, that I 
have used them, aud with great success for 
spatter-work on either wood or muslin, l’retty 
sofa pillowB or chair cushions may be made of 
Turkish toweling by first splashing with green, 
thon pinning clusters of small ferns in the cen¬ 
ter and corners: splash delicately with dark 
brown. Even unbleached muslin may be made 
into pretty chair covers in this way, and has the 
advantage of being less expensive than the tow¬ 
eling. Mary B. 
Remedy for Rheumatism. 
Just before retiring, bathe tho parts affected 
with water, as hot as can bo borne, iu which po¬ 
tatoes have been boiled. 
This remedy, simple as it seems, has been 
known to relieve tho most obstinate rheumatic 
pains. E. M. 
Relief for a Weak Back. 
Add one pint of alcohol to a beef’s gall, and 
bathe frequently. A. B. 
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QUERIES ANSWERED. 
Please give recipe for a olam soup ? e. g. 
Ans.—O pen fifty clams, strain the juice, al¬ 
low as much hot water as juice and add the 
clams ; boil ten minutes, sldm, add a little 
minced parsley and onion, if liked, and boil 
ten minutes longer ; season plentifully with 
butter, add salt and pepper to taste, and 
three or four butter-crackers rolled fine. Put a 
coffee-cupful or more of milk previously 
heated, into the tureen, pour in the soup aud 
serve with a plate of butter or soda crackers. 
What will relieve the sting of musquito bites ? 
SUFFERER. 
Ans.—A solution of carbolic acid and gly¬ 
cerine-fifty or sixty drops of the acid to an 
ounce of the glycerine. 
ftos of % Ittteh. 
POLITICAL. 
Monday, July l. 
Since the passage by the House of the resolu¬ 
tion with regard to tho Inviolability of Hayes’ 
position in tho presidency, Interest tn the doings 
of the Potter Investigating committee has very 
sensibly diminished, and the subsequent course of 
the Investigation has tended greatly to Increase 
this feollDg of indifference. Mrs. Jenks has been 
tho chief witness again durlDgtho week, and has. 
If possible, boon more saucy, Impertinent, flip¬ 
pant, aud unmanageable than ever. Hhe persists 
In her story about having, herself, dictated the so- 
cuLted Sherman letter, and still declines to give 
the name of the person who wrote it, though she 
declares emphatically that she did not do this 
herself. As the committee cannot now punish 
her contumacy, since the House Is not In session, 
she answers or refuses to do so. Just as It suits 
her whim or convenience, while she makes 
abundant use of woman’s right to be imperti¬ 
nent, Impudent, insulting and abusive, without 
fear of reproof or retaliation. Her evidence Is 
copious and amusing, but w hile laying bare tho 
rottenness or Louisiana politics, Is in all other re¬ 
spects untrustworthy. 
Dennis, of Florida, testified that 219 fraudulent 
republican votes were added to the countln Pre¬ 
cinct 13; that be had been appointed to several 
offices In recognition of bis sendees, without being 
examined as to his fitness in either case; and that 
nearly all connected with the presidential elec¬ 
tion in Florida, had been provided for by the Ad¬ 
ministration. Ex. IT. S. Marshal Pitkin, or Louis¬ 
iana; W. E. Chandler, ex-congressman from 
Maine, and ex-8ecretaty of the Republican Na¬ 
tional Committee; '• Returning Board ” Thos. C. 
Anderson, of Louisiana, wero tho other chief wit¬ 
nesses examtned by the Committee !u Washing¬ 
ton. The sub-oommlttee Bent to Now Orleans, 
has there examined cx-Gov. Packard, who Is 
about to start to discharge the duties of his office 
as Consul at Liverpool, lie Insisted that he had 
been fairly elected us governor of the 8Late by a 
larger majority than five of the Il&yes’ electors; 
that armed mobs In the Interest of Nichols, alone 
prevented his peaceful Inauguration; that If 
recognized at Washington, he would soon have 
been able to maintain his position without the 
aid of U. 8. troops; and that he knew nothing, 
personally, of any trickery on the part of the vis¬ 
iting statesmen. All the witnesses hitherto ex¬ 
amined with regard to Loutslaua polities, have 
eacU emphatically contradteted one or more of the 
assertions made byJamts E. Anderson, the ex- 
sup 'rlnteudcnt of registration In East Feliciana. 
owing to the haste which marked t he transac- 
aotlou of business during the last hours or Con¬ 
gress, the bill for making Import duties payable 
in legal-tender notes tailed to become a law. 
During tlio enrollment of the omnibus Bill, an 
urgent appropriation la regird to the government 
property at the Hot Springs, Arkansas, was 
omitted in copying the document, although 
p.issed by both Houscb. The funds, therefore, 
cannot be used, and as the failure benefits the 
numerous present occupiers of the property, It Is 
considered probable that the "error” was paid for 
by them. More detailed returns from Oregon 
give tho governorship of that 8tats to tho demo¬ 
crats by a small majority, us well as a majority of 
twelve on Joint ballot of both Houses of tho Legis¬ 
lature. on Wednesday last, Alexander H. Steph¬ 
ens, delivered an eloquent speech at Atlanta, Ga., 
In which he vindicated Ills course with regard to 
the Potter Committee, said that he couldn't be 
ruled out of the democratic party by a set of po¬ 
litical tricksters, and that, If the coming demo¬ 
cratic convention failed to re-nomln&te him, he 
would "go it atone” and appeal to the people. 
The Republican State Convention of Illinois was 
held at Sprtugfield on Wednesday, and the Demo¬ 
cratic state Convention of Ohio, at Columbus, on 
the same day. Both favor the greenback move¬ 
ment, especially the democrats, while the re¬ 
publicans lay tho main stress upon the possible 
payment of rebel war claims. The former, while 
denouncing the means by which Ilayes reached 
the presidency, declare the question now finally 
settled; and the latter have nothing to say ror or 
against the President. No Governor Is to be 
elected this year In either State, only subordinate 
officers. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
At Faribault, Ml on., the chief business part of 
the town, Including two banks and seven stores, 
has been burnt; loss, $ 200 , 000 . Lord Dufferlnle re¬ 
ported to have refUBed the prolongation of his 
term as Governor-general or Canada offered to 
him by the home ministry. Gen. Escobedo, after 
his Mexican defeat, has again found refuge in the 
United States. Gen. Fltz John Forler, and ex- 
Surgeon-Gcueral Hammond, both formerly dis¬ 
missed from the army by coun-martlal, are being 
re-trled at West Point by a Board of Officers 
appointed by the President, to the end that any 
Injustice done to them In the heat of war, should 
be righted. It has been decided,as cattle raids still 
continue to bo made along the Rio Grande, that 
the United States troops shall in future follow 
the thieves across the frontier, entirely disre¬ 
garding all Mexican protests. In the boat race 
between the Universities of Harvard and Yalo on 
Friday last, the former won easily by twelve 
boat lengths. 
The Azor wblob started some time back with 
250 colored emigrants from Charleston to Liberia 
has put back short Of water after having lost 23 
passengers by ship-fever. The Mofiet bell-punch 
has been Introduced Into Chicago saloons. To¬ 
day Virginia's new criminal cede goes Into opera¬ 
tion. Under It, whlpplng-poets will be set up for 
the special use of petty criminals and the bene¬ 
fit of the community at large. Farmers In many 
parts o{ the West, especially in Ohio, are re¬ 
ceiving notices signed " Working men’s Bread 
and Blood Committee,” warning them against 
buying labor-saving machinery, and threatening 
the destruction of all »ueh Implements together 
with the grain stacks of their owners. Another 
Mammoth cave has Just been discovered In Ky., 
quite dose to Glasgow Junction and named the 
Grand Crystal. I Via said to have been explored 23 
miles In one direction and us In another. Mum¬ 
mies found In It, have been sold for $400; $ 10,000 
have been offered for the oave to Thomas Kelley 
the farmer on whose 23 acres of land Its entrance 
has been discovered. Among the appropriations 
made by tho late Congress Is ono of $ 10,000 to In¬ 
vestigate tho diseases of awlue. This little sop 
to the farmer, added to the $ 10,000 already of¬ 
fered by Missouri for the discovery of a specific 
remedy for bog cholera, may stimulate our cattle 
doctors and others UCgreater efforts. 
Friday was a very good day {for executions. 
At Frederick, Maryland, Edward H. costley was 
hung for murdering Ills cousin, Solomon Costly; 
at Cincinnati, Perry Bowman " stretched hemp” 
for murdering a toll-gate keeper and his wife ; 
Jacob Levels, colored, was hung at Little Rock 
for the murder or another colored man; John 
Burns stepped into space at 1 ’aris, 111, for the mur¬ 
der of Elijah Uurdcll; at St. John N. B. Vaughan,a 
notorious murderer, received Ms due, aud at Chi¬ 
cago, .Jeremiah Connolly aged 19 , and Geo. .sherry 
aged 21, wero hung for the murder of Hugh 
McConvllle. For some time before tholr execu¬ 
tion these worthies received all manner of lov¬ 
ing attentions from the Chicago female, crowds 
of her dally visiting their cells with all manner 
of delicacies seasoned with kisses from their 
poutingllps Inserted between the bars, until the 
jail offolals had to put a chock on tho gushing 
nuisances. 
On Sunday, June 24, four companies of cavalry 
uader Capt. Barnard, making, with the scouts, 
etc., about, 200 men, attacked the Bannock Indi¬ 
ans about 45 miles from Harney and killed 42. 
among whom was the chief, Buffalo Horn. The 
Indians are estimated to have numbered all the 
way from considerably under 700 to somewhat 
over 2 , 000 . Notwithstanding Ms present fate, 
Buffalo Horn will probably tight, again, as It takes 
a good deal of killing to get rid of one of those 
raany-llved aborigines. As usual, Gen, Howard, 
by means of severe marching, reached the battle¬ 
field Just after the light was over, The Indians 
arc being hotly pursued. Herders are being nu¬ 
merously murdered by the savages; settlers are 
fleeing In affrtgUt; the Black Hills arc threatened; 
Chief Moses, la Oregon, Is said to have 1,000 well 
armed and desperate warriors, mostly renegades 
from many tribes, and has also the sympathy of 
Reservation Indians, who, at a pinch, will rein¬ 
force him with 4,000 men, when It would require 
20,000 troops to take care of him. Like the Eng¬ 
lish .Ilngoltes, Lowever, he don’t want, to light, 
but, it the wnitc men do- 
The $19,000,000 deficit which has lately been 
claimed to exist In the Treasury acooums, Is said 
to be not real but only apparent, and due to a 
change la the systom of book-keeping practiced 
In that Department. 
in East 81 . Louis, which Is In Illinois, Just 
across the Mississippi river from ,St. Louis city, 
there has boon for a time back a bitter quarrel be¬ 
tween tho Metropolitan Police and the Mayor 
who, a short time neo, organized a set of city 
Marshals to replace the police. The laller seized 
upon an engine home which was attacked yes¬ 
terday by the Mayor and his marshals. Three 
Metropolitans In the house at the time barricaded 
themselves In and fired at the assailants, killing 
two and wounding a third. 
foreign. 
The congress on the Eastern Question, in ses¬ 
sion at Berlin, Is progressing satisfactorily with 
the settlement of the points In dispute. The 
principal matters agreed upon have become 
known to the public despite the silence which 
was to be observed with regard to the dlscusstons 
of the assembly. Greece has been admitted to 
the meeting with a voice only on subjects con¬ 
nected with her own Immediate Interests. Bul¬ 
garia, north of the Balkans, is to become a semi- 
independent State, and It is proposed to make 
Prince Charles of Roumanla sovereign of Urn new 
principality, also. By this means Russia would 
b j repaid by the retrocession to her of Bessarabia 
or of the greater part of It; tho two potty princi¬ 
palities would be consolidated Into a respectable 
kingdom, and Blsmarck’H labors would be re¬ 
warded by tbo Installation on Its throne of a 
HolicuzoUern Prince; thus making German Inter¬ 
ests paramount on the Danube, as well as on the 
Rhine. Bulgaria, south of the Balkans, Is to 
be united with Roumella, under the title of 
Eastern Koumellu. This is to have a Christian 
governor, and an administration like that of the 
British colonies; the governor to be named by 
the Porte with the approval of the Powers, for a 
term of five or ten years. Turkish troops are to 
be withdrawn from the country and to enter it on¬ 
ly in case of Insurrection or Invasion. The Turks 
are to fortify the passes of the Balkans and to 
garrison them with a stipulated number of men, 
and on the roads to the passes, certain spots Bhall 
be specified lu Roumella, at which troops on their 
march from and to the Balkans shall be prlvi- 
llged to halt- Bosnia, and Herzegovina are to be 
occupied by Austria—a mere preliminary step, it is 
thought,, to their annexation to that empire. 8er- 
vials to be Independent provided she enfranchises 
her Jewish inhabitants; Greece is to receive an 
addition of territory, Montenegro to gain her ln- 
depenco, and all parries In Europe to be satisfied 
at tho expense of Turkey. The arrangements 
leave the latter In some respects In a worse 
plight, than the treaty of San Stefano, and very 
considerably worse off than she would have been 
had she accepted the terms which she re¬ 
fused owing to British encouragement, at the 
conierenoe 01 Constantinople, before the outbreak 
of the late war. Discontent among the Turks Is 
exceedingly bitter; and another revolution at 
Constantinople is provented only by tho pfQ*i* 
