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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
fttfos of t|c tilfflt 
Monday, Feb. 24,1879. 
M1SC ELL AN EOUS. 
All the cows badly Infected at the Bhssvllle sta¬ 
bles have been slaughtered on the spot and burled 
with slashed hides; those slightly affected were 
taken to the butchers', on permits, and there 
killed, as the meat was considered unfit for 
food. A small lot of cattle that arrived here by 
rail from Watertown, Conn,, were also killed on 
the same account, and their carcasses dumped Into 
the river. A few diseased animals were likewise 
slaughtered m a couple of other stables in the 
neighborhood, Wherever the malady has made 
Its appearance hereabouts,’ the Infected animals 
have always been fed on distillery or brewery 
swill and filthily stabled. The board of a cow here 
ou hay. etc. costs about $2 a week; whereas the 
price at the Bllssville stables was only .50 cents; 
hence the popularity of swill feed among those who 
look only to profit just, under ifielr nosee. Gaff, 
Fletsehmann & Co., got a few so-called vetertna^ 
rluns to testify that the cows In their stables had 
only sporadic, ornon-lufectlous pleuro-pneumonia; 
but the testimony or Prof. J.aw and of the excellent 
veterinarians attached to Brooklyn and New York 
Health Departments contradicts Mils opinion flatly. 
Here as elsewhere, a rat fee has a marvelous effect 
in deciding the verdict of some pretentious ex¬ 
perts. 
There Is a bill now before the Senate for a much- 
needed 1 mproveinem in i he method of transports 
ing animals. Reliable testimony shows con¬ 
vincingly that In many instances they are con¬ 
fined In cans without food, water or rest for from 
80 to 120 consecutive hours. Many distinguished 
physicians and sanitarians declare that the flesh 
of such animals killed berore they have recuper¬ 
ated, Is unfit for human food. 1 he proposed bill 
makes It compulsory that animals in transit 
should have goo d tood, pure water and rest every 
consecutive seven hours. It also provides that 
cars loaded with live-stock shall have the right of 
way over all tralus, thus preventing any un¬ 
necessary delay’. When animals are properly 
fed aud watered in the cars, they may be con¬ 
fined for 60 consecutive horns, but in all cases 
they must then be uuloaded. No Invidious dis¬ 
tinction must be made between the railroads 
within the United States and those apart of 
which run through Canada. Penalties for the 
violation of these rules can be summarily inflicted 
by civil action. 
It Is calculated that from 12 to 20 per cent of 
those drawing pensions, do so fraudulently; yet the 
Secretary of the Interior thinks that about 100,000 
ex-solcUers or their representatives entitled to pen¬ 
sions under the recent act, have not yet applied for 
them, und arrangements are suggested by him for 
dividing the country into districts so as to facilitate 
their applications. Secretary Sherman estimates 
that the amount payable by way of arrears of pen¬ 
sions, will amouut to only sui.500,000 and says that 
the result will be a deficit for the coming fiscal 
year of $21,000,000, to provide for which he recom- 
meods the Imposition of some new tax. There is 
before the senate a fierce struggle over a bill per¬ 
mitting the railroads lo use their *wn telegraphs 
for the transmission of general news. The Western 
Union and the Associated Press are contending 
against suen a measure as sure to endanger their 
own monopolies. Machinery Hall, the largest uf 
the Exposition buildings, has been sold for * 26 , 000 ; 
It cost *534,867. New Orleans has just got a line of 
fast steamers to the Medlterrauean. «tnce Mem¬ 
phis found “ a new way to pay old debts’’ by sur¬ 
rendering her charter, Mobile aud Galveston have 
been pondering on the expediency of doing like¬ 
wise. 
in Wyoming Co., N. Y. last week hay sold for 
*3 a ton l Vanderbilt has bought the Tint grain 
elevator In Buffalo, capacity per hour, 8,000 bush¬ 
els; storage, 30u,oo() bushels; price *255,000. The 
courts of Wisconsin and Illinois have decided 
that where parent and teacher differ with regard 
to the studies a child shall pursue, the parent’s 
wishes shall decide the matter. Jay Gould has 1 
sold out many heavy blocks of Union Pacific 1 
iiallroad stock, and with them the control of the 1 
road; but he Is consoled b.v an estimated pront of 1 
foui’ and a half million dollats-or he ought to be. 1 
The House has voted an installment ot * 20 ,852.300 1 
towards paying arrears of pensions according to 1 
the Act lately passed. but It Is a trifle hard to tell f 
where It will come from, as no extra tax has been 1 
Imposed. Atlanta, Ga., doesn’t want the state 1 
Fair this year. About 201 , 1,000 valentines were 1 
sent through the P. O. here on St. V’s Day. 
Kearney and Ills “ sand-lot" followers are willing 
to accept the anti-Chinese blLl as a partial relief. 3 
Complete relief will come only when every Celes- a 
tial suicides In the Pacific Ocean. Alaska Indians 1 
are threatening terilble things to the few white l 
settlers. An English war-vessel Is protecting c 
these until they get an answer to their request. a 
for troops, 'l he shareholders of the Keely motor ( 
company are alive enough to elect directors; It’s 1 
doubtful whether the motor has a spark of Ufe. 
A clergyman In Nashville Juuied public honesty 
the other Sundry from his pulpit; and straights 
way the legislature that had just repudiated the 
State debt, Indignantly censured liim for doing 'I 
so—and that by an official vote, too. li 
In 1801 there was 40,049 Federal office-holders; { 
53,067 In 1805; 86,000 in 1S73; 99,384 In 1877. Since 1 
the war the number has nearly doubled—notv 
moralize; theresyour text, it seems that for a 
long time hack the police authorities of St. Louis 
have been In the employment of the gamblers of 81 
that city—salary from *5u to *400 per month. Like 0 
other rascals, they now think It was an awful J 
thing to be “found cut.” Four •' road agents” “got Si 
the drop ” on Col. Klee, Lieut. Sibley and a civilian tl 
named Calm and an escort of seven troopers out o: 
near Bismarck, D. T., the other day, forced them 
“ to up hands ” and relieved them of nearly * 3 , 000 , p 
of which poor Cahn forfeited *2,500. One of the 
robbere has been captured by a detachment of the 
“boys in blue." Fires have been uncommonly 
- common all over the country of late, and the 
Insurance companies begffi to complain of this 
mode of disposing of poor stock at a high figure. 
There’s a good deal of talk about an extra session 
of Congress, but neither party seems willing to be 
guilty or forcing such an outrage on the public in- 
1 tei-ests of the country. The only excuse It. could 
3 have would be the necessity for adopting vigorous 
J measures for protecting the stock and other lnter- 
r ests of the agricultural community. The commits 
r tee appplnted to Investigate Senator Stanley Mnt- 
i thews’ connection with Jim Anderson and Louls- 
> lana matters have at length found out that, like 
“ most of the others In that connection, he did noth¬ 
ing wrong. The Teller committee Is trying to find 
out fraud In Mississippi. The Potter Committee’s 
labors are nearly ended. The latest census shows 
there are In this country 6 , 000,000 farmers, or there¬ 
abouts ; the statistics of the advertising agencies 
show that the circulation of agricultural papers Is 
about 600 , 000 , and a large proportion of those who 
take these are not farmers, while many take two 
or more of them. 
H. C. Burchard, of Illinois, has been nomina¬ 
ted to succeed the late Dr. Linderman as director 
of the mint. 'Hie reduction of the tax on home¬ 
grown tobacco from 24c. to 10 c. is causing a tem¬ 
porary stagnation in the business, as manufactu¬ 
rers do not want to buy more than necessary 
before April l, when the law goes Into operation. 
Texas has had heavier immigration this year than 
any State in the Union; but life there is not alto¬ 
gether happy. I pwards of 3uo Amowu murders I 
have been reported duriug the last five years; 
eight murderers only have been hung, The other 
day a desperado who was well known to have 
committed three murders there, was arrested for 
them out tn Kansas, but had to he released because I 
no money had been appropriated by the Legisla¬ 
ture of the Lone Star state to pay the cost of 
lnmting up criminals, and the authorities didn’t 
care therefore to go after the rascal, who Is now 
boasting of Ids crimes with Impunity. The 
Catholic Church Is joining the railroads In the 
coal regions of Pennsylvania in attempts to 
break up the order of the “ Knights of Labor," 
wlilch Is reported to be a second and hard!)' 
Improved edition of the “ Molly Maguires." 
Premier Macdonald of Canada, is about to retaliate 
on us “ Yankees ” by Imposing a duty of from 
tin to 200 per cent, tut valorem on woolen goods 
imported from this country; from 4 ti to so per 
cent, on cottons; 35 to 50 per cent, on machinery 
and tools; *1 to *2 per ton on coal; 10 cents per 
bushel on corn and a) cents on wheat. Extremely 
cold weather and heavy snowfall nearly all over 
the Northern States during the four last (lays of 
the week just ended. It looks as if March Is about 
to come In “ like a lion.” Iiallroad smash-ups 
were nearly as common during the past week as 
bank smash-ups and downfalls of social saints In. 
ordinary times. Zack Chandler's little boy’s 
“Splendid Papa” was elected to the l r . H. Senate 
on the 16th, at. Lansing, Michigan, rue the elderly 
invalid, Christlancy, who will seek otlum cum dig. 
nftate as our Minister In pleasant Peru. 
.FOREIGN. 
Strikes are diminishing, but public distress re¬ 
mains about the same in England. There’s an 
outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia. in Yorkshire. I.lver- 
pool has voted about * 170.000 for the construction 
of buildings tor the receipt and slaughter of Ameri¬ 
can cattle during the present restrictions on their 
importfttlou. The Pm y council prohibited the 
landing or animals there, after March 3 , unless cou- 
venlendes suitable for this purpose were provided, 
in South Africa an English detachment of 1,200 
men is surrounded by hostile Zulus, and reinrorcov- 
ments are being rapidly hurried forward. From 
Afghanistan there Is a report,, via Russia, that 
Shere All was at the point of death last Tuesday. In 
Russia the plague Is said to be abating, but more im¬ 
plicit bellet might be accorded to the report were 
It not th.it all news from the Infected regions Is 1 
submitted to a rigid censorship by the authorities. 
All communication between Russia and the rest, of 1 
the European world Is interrupted oy a strict quar- 1 
anttne of all travelers on the frontiers. Bismarck’s 1 
attempt to curb free speech In the Reichstag has 1 
been defeated by a strong majority of the votes of . 
that body. It is said that the Chancellor Is deter¬ 
mined te force another dissolution, hoping that by 
means of the powers lately placed In the hands by 
the lavvs for the suppression of socialism, he w ill be ‘ 
enabled to secure the election of members of the 1 
legislature more subservient to his dictates, than t 
those returned last fall before the passage of the £ 
anti-soclallst laws. Meanwhile the enactment or a 
strong protective tariff law, Is pretty certain. 
President Grevy will get a salary of * 100,000 a j. 
year and *50,000 for household expenses. His pri¬ 
vate fortune, too, places him among the very rich ! 
men of France. McMahon also Is very w ell off, 1 
his wife having Inherited an ample fortune. After 11 
congratulating his successor and wishing him all t 
success the old Marshal retired to Ills estate at 0 
Grasse. It may therefore be said that Frenchmen t 
have sent McMahon to Grasse while taking Grevy 1 
Herman. 1 , 
ilontfsfir (Erononur. 
« ONDtJOTED BY EMILY MAPLE. 
THOUGHTLESS ERRORS. 
REV. A. W. MANGUM. 
Many persons who are generally discreet 
and commendable, are guilty of acts and prac¬ 
tices that are very objectionable, but not 
regarded in the true light by those who com¬ 
mit them. Some of these improprieties arc of 
60 insignificant a character that they are sel¬ 
dom or never mentioned in papers or other 
mediums of reform. It is my purpose to call 
special atteuliou to some of them. 
In the country, particularly in the case of 
small farmers, the grain is often carried to 
the mill on horseback. The sack into which 
the grain is put is, not unfrequcntly, very 
much soiled—not, having been washed in a 
[ long time- In some instances, a crude thought 
of something like cleanliness suggests the 
policy of spreading something next to the 
horse, to protect the sack of grain, going, 
and of flour, returning. That something is, 
most likely, a foul, stained blanket that has 
becu used, for a long while, under a saddle ; 
or, it may be an old, worn, filthy sack. In 
other instances, the hag of wheat or flour is 
simply thrown across the unprotected back of 
1 lie horse. Then the boy or man mounts aud 
sits directly on the uncovered sack. This is 
quite offensive to decency in the winter season, 
hut is exceedingly disgusting in warm weather. 
Sometimes, when the trip to or from the mill 
is ended, the sack, ou being removed, is found 
to be saturated with the sweat from the horse. 
A moment's refleetiuu convinces any sensible 
person that the Hour is more or less contami¬ 
nated in such a ease. It looks perfectly pure, 
both before and after cooking; but it cannot 
be as it looks. The farmer, perhaps, is very 
watchful that everything be neat and cleau in 
the kitchen: and the good housewife is very 
fastidious in her notions about sweet, pure 
biscuit. Unfortunately, their atteuliou begins 
too late. 
It i6 very remarkable that so glariug aud 
inexcusable a custom should, in so many in¬ 
stances, pass unchallenged and unchanged 
from generation to generation. Of course, I 
exempt from these charges all the multitude 
of good, thoughtful farmers who so properly 
scorn the very idea of such uticleanliness, and 
assume that they will join me in condemning 
the very offensive custom that I have stated. 
I respectfully suggest as a useful subject for 
some of the accomplished writers in the de¬ 
partment of Domestic Economy, “ The History 
of a Biscuit." 
Unlv. of N. c. 
ONE OF THE SOLOMONS AND SOME OF HIS 
WAYS. 
ADELINE E. STORY. 
John Reed the gas-man of the Walnut Street 
Theatre, Philadelphia, for fifty-four years, dur¬ 
ing which time he has never missed a perform¬ 
ance, has just celebrated his golden wedding. He 
Is an e’ece ntrie genius and In his will bequeaths 
his head to the theatre for use as the skull In 
“ Hamlet." 
Judge “ Jerry" Black's wife, who was a bride at 
seventeen, was niece of Walter Forward, Secretary 
of the Treasury under President Tyler. When 
Judge Black was Attorney-General, and afterwards 
Secretary of State, under Buchanan, Mrs. Black, 
then In her pilme, was a distinguished ornament to 
official circles or the day. , 
Tennyson loves English farm Ufe in Its most 
practical ways. 
“ 1 vow aud declare for it," said Tabitha 
Trimsharp, as she picked up two pairs of bools 
aud a pair of slippers which Solomon, The 
Profound, had left scattered about the room; 
‘•I'm getting clear out of conceit with smart 
folks, ’specially as they're only smart one way. 
There’s Solomon now, a tip-top farmer, as 
every one allows; sound as a fresh-laid egg, 
when lie’s out on the mower or the grain drill, 
but as useless as a cast-off shoe the minute he 
steps foot in the house. Just ask him to tend 
the baby a minute, or dish up the potatoes, or 
turn the griddle cakes, or tie up a cut finger, 
aud see whether he’ll do it like a rational being 
that’s seen these things done all his life ? 
“I tell you he’s the awkwardest creature! 
Such a botch as he’ll make of it. I, for one, 
never ask him to try. Don’t tell me I never 
tried to develop his talents, lor I have. Time 
aud again I've tried to make something of that 
man when I hadn’t much else to do, and I 
thought I’d be so proud of him-—for you see 
Samantha was always telling me what a man’s 
mother hadn’t made of him his wife couldn’t— 
if I could bring him to do such thiugs as pile 
up the last week’s papers on the top shelf in 
the closet without knocking everything off the 
other shelves: light a caudle without throwing 
the burning match on the carpet or wiping the 
tallow from his fingers on his hair; or set the 
kettle off the stove without scalding the cat. 
“I felt mortified and cut up at the work he 
made of it all, 1 can tell you; for I used to 
think a woman that couldn’t teach another 
person how to do a thing, didu’t half know 
how herself, but I've come to the conclusion 
that it makes a difference where that person is 
a man. But if ever I actually suffered it was 
once when 1 lay for a day fiat on my back and 
no one to do anything but Solomon. You 
ought to have seen the toast he made for me! 
You wouldn’t have hankered for a taste any 
more than I did. Jle washed the childrens’ 
faces with the dishcloth, put their clothes on 
hind side before, aud gave them the tougB and 
dear mother’s daguerreotype to play with. He 
melted off the tea-kettle spout and burned a ' 
hole in the table-cloth. Just how he managed 
to do that I never knew. He thinks it most 
have happened when he shook the crumbs in 
the fire. But all that was nothing compared to 
the way he used the baby. He squeezed it so 
hard between his great, awkward hands every 
time he took it out of its crib that itgrew blacic 
in the face, and then lie walked the floor with 
t it under his arm, heeiR up. He choked it with 
hot potato and stuffed it with cold apple- 
t dumpling and cream till it cried, aud then 
trotted it on his knees till its neck snapped, to 
f stop it. 
" Hut I would’t mind Solomon's unhandiness 
. so much.” continued Aunt Tabitha, as she 
l folded that worthy’s night-shirt and tucked it 
under the pillow, “if the men folks far and 
near didn’t think it small to be handy about 
the house, and if the hoys that I’ve tried to 
bring up differently, didn’t think it manly to 
take after their father. You’ll notice boys do 
take after their father in such things. 
“I like to see a man—yes, and a woman too. 
for the matter of that—able to turn his haud to 
a few things outside of his regular business 
without danger of twisting it off. If I had a 
daughter, now, I’d have her know how to do 
everything around the barn, in case ol need, as 
well as the men could do it. She should be able 
to tie up the cows and milk thorn without getting- 
on the wrong side to do it. She should know 
how to harness a horse and drive him when 
harnessed without feeding that she must always 
sit exactly Iu the middle of the scat and hold 
her arms extended, with a rein iu each haud. 
in 6ucb a way as to make them ache for twenty- 
four hours to come. She should know how to 
use a hand-saw and drive a nail without split¬ 
ting the board or smashing her thumb. She 
should know how to do various other things 
too numerous to mention, and if she didn’t— 
well, she wouldn’t take after her mother, that’s 
all.” 
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DOMESTIC RECIPES. 
Bologna Sausages. 
Three pounds of lean beef, three pounds of 
lean pork, two pounds of fat bacon, one pound 
of beef suet. Boil the leau beef and pork one- 
lialf hour; then chop fine, each by itself, as 
likewise the bacon and suet. Season with 
pepper, salt, thyme aud ground mace. Fill ox 
skins with it; tie them in lengths, and put in a 
beef brine for ten days ; then smoke them the 
same as haro6 or tongues. 
Pigs Tongues. 
Partially boil the tongues iu order to remove 
the skins. Place them in brine for a week, 
then dry them and put into sausage skins. 
Fasten them up at the ends and smoke them. 
Apple Batter Pudding. 
Peel six tart bakiug apples; take out the 
cores aud fill the cavities with sugar; put onto 
a pie-dish and cover them with a light batter. 
Bake until the apples are tender. Serve hot 
with cream and sugar. 
Tarllets. 
Cut as many rounds of rich puff paste with a 
tin cutter, as you wish; then again cut an 
equal number and press a smaller cutter inside 
them to remove the center and leave a riDg. 
Moisten the rounds with water aud place the 
rings on them. Bake from ten to twelve min¬ 
utes in a moderate oven, and when done, fill 
the center with jelly or preserves. Stamp out 
a little of the paste rolled very thin into stare, 
etc.; bake them lightly and place one on top 
of each tartlet. Mary B. 
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QUESTIONS ANSWERED. 
Short-Oakes. 
I have observed in the Domestic Economy 
column, published in the Rural New-Yorker, 
a number of recipes for making strawberry 
short-cake, but have not yet discovered one 
for making what I term the genuine short¬ 
cakes without fruit, such as I remember, at 
least forty years ago, in the village of Claver- 
aok, N. Y. At that time my father’s house 
was frequently the resort of prominent citi¬ 
zens of New York and elsewhere, and his resi¬ 
dence became famous for the simple tea-table 
luxuries, such as coffee, waffles, whigs and 
short-cakes. 
A colored woman cook who had been in the 
service of the family many years, acquired the 
pastry cook's art, and made short-cakes supe¬ 
rior to any I have ever seen since that day, 
and no written recipe was used. I fancy that 
cream was one of the ingredients and liberally 
used. The dough was roiled out to about one- 
hulf an inch thick, then cut out, with a tea cup, 
aud baked in a quick oven. The cakes were 
light and flaky- like good bakers' break. They 
excelled all others made at home. You will 
oblige me by giving your experience or the 
best recipe yon have at command. 
Near Hudson, N. Y. C. M. Ludlow. 
Ans.- I have never tried making short-cakes 
otherwise than with 6our cream and soda, mix¬ 
ing only stiff enough to roil readily—in fact a 
cream biscuit—and these, although very palat¬ 
able, I fear would scarcely answer your 
description of short-cakes whieh resembled 
“ flaky bakers’ bread.” Neither have I a recipe. 
