Gazetteer and business directory of Montgomery and Fulton counties, N.Y. for 1869-70, Part 9

Author: Child, Hamilton, 1836- comp. cn
Publication date: 1870
Publisher: Syracuse : Printed at the Journal office
Number of Pages: 644


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Coloring matter may be put in and made of any shade you like. Spanish brown stirred in will make red pink. more or less deep according to the quantity. A delicate tinge of this is very pretty, for inside walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, makes a reddish stone color. Yellow-ochre stirred in makes yel- low wash. but chrome goes further, and makes a color generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases the darkness of the shades of course is determined by the quantity of coloring used. It is difficult to make rules. becau-e tastes are different. It would be bet to try experimente on a shingle and let it dry. We have been told that green must not be mixed with lime. The lime de- strove the color, and the color has an effet on the whitewash, which makes it crack and peel. When walls have been badly smoked, and you wish to have them & clean white. it is well to squeeze indigo plenti- fully through a bag into the water son use. before it is stirred in the whole mixture. If a larger quantity than five gallons be wanted, the samle proportion should be ob- served.


Howto get a Horse out of a Fire.


The great difficulty of getting horses front a stable where surrounding building- are in a state of conflazation. is well known .- - The plan of covering their eyes with a blan- ket will not always succeed.


A gentleman whose horses have been in great peril from such a cause, having tried


in vain to save them, hit upon the expedi- ent of having them harnessed as though go- ing to their usual work: when, to his aston- isliment, they were led from the stable without difficulty.


The Chemical Barometer.


Take a long narrow bottle, such as an okl- fashioned Eau-de-Cologne bottle, and put into it two and a half drachins of camphor, and eleven drachms of spirits of wine: when the camphor is dissolved, which it will readily do by slight agitation, add the following mixture: Take water, nine drachins; hitrate of potash (salipetre) thirty-eight grains; and muriate of an- monia (sal ammoniac) thirty-eight grains. Dissolve these salts in the water prior to mixing with the camphorated spirit; then shake the whole well together. Cork the bottle well, and wax the top, but after- wards inake a very small aperture in the eork with a red-hot needle. The bottle may. then be hung up. or placed in any stationa- ry position. By observing the different appearances which the materials assume, as the weather changes, it becomes an ex- cellent prognosticator of a coming storm or of a sunny sky.


Leech Barometer.


Take an eight ounce phial, and put in it three gills of water, and place in it a healthy leech, changing the water in summer once a week, and in winter once in a fortnight, and it will most accurately prognosticate the weather. If the weather is to be fine. the leech lies motionless at the bottom of the glass and coiled together in a spiral form; if rain may be expected, it will creep up to the top of its lodgings and remain t there till the weather is settled: if we are to have wind. it will move through its habi- tation with amazing swiftness, and seldom goes to re-t till it begins to blow hard : if a remarkable storm of thunder and rain is to sneceed, it will lodge for some days before almost continually out of the water. and discover great uneasiness in violent three- and convulsive-like motions : in frost as in clear summer-like weather it lies constantly at the bottom: and in snow as in rainy weather it pitches its dwelling in the very month of the phial. The top should be cos- ered over with a piece of muslin.


To MEASURE GRAIN ING A BIS .- Find P." number of cubis tert. from which (.og! .* one-with. The remainder is the number of bushels-allowing, however, one bi-} lexia to every 324. 'The- in a remainder of Wetthere would be a bushel -. lux te. mainder of 4. there would be foi bushel Ac.


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VALUABLE RECIPES.


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VALUABLE RECIPES.


[The following recipes are vouched for by ) several who have tried them and proven their virtues. Many of them have been sold kingly for more than the price of this book,-PUB.]


HORSES.


RING BONE AND SPAVIN .- 2 oz. each of Spanish flies and Venice turpentine; 1 oz. each of aqua ammonia and euphorbium : 6 oz. red precipitate; Hoz. corrosive subli- mate; 13% lbs. lard. When thoroughly pul- verized and mixed. heat carefully so as not to burn, and pour off free from sediment.


For ring-bone, rub in thoroughly, after removing hair, once in 4Shonrs. For spav- In, once in 24 hours. Cleanse and press ont the matter on each application.


POLL-EVIL .- Gum arabic 1 oz; common potash 1 oz ; extract of belladonna > dr. Put the gum in just enough water to dis- solve it. Pulverize the potash and mix with the dissolved gum, and then put in the extract of belladonna, and it will be ready for use. U're with a syringe after having cleansed with soap suds, and repeat once in two days till a enre is affected.


Scouns .-- Powdered tormentil root, giv- en in inilk, from 3 to 5 times daily till enred.


GREASE-HEEL AND SCRATCHES .- Sweet ofti ozs .; borax 2 ozs .; sugar of lead 2 ozs. Wash off with dish water, and. after it is dry, apply the misture twice a day.


Calorie IN Honsts .- To k pt. of warm wereld toz laudanum and Hoz -. spirits


Bars. -- Three doses. 1st. 2 gts milk and : Pentolaaves. d. 15 minute- after, Yqts. wira size tea. 94. After the expiration : 2 minutes, suficient lard to physic .-


MISCELLANEOUS.


PILES -- PERFECTLY CURED .- Take flour of sulphur 1 oz., rosin 3 ozs., pulverize and mix well together. (Color with carmine or cochineal, if you like.) Dose -- What will lie on a five cent piece, night and morning, washing the parts freely in cold water once or twice a day. This is a remedy of great valne.


The cure will be materially hastened by taking a table spoon of sulphur in a half pint of tuilk, daily, until the cure is affected.


SURE CURE POR CORNS, WARTS AND CHILBRAINS. -- Take of nitric and muriatic acids, blue vitriol and salts of tartar. 1 0% .. each. Add the blue vitriol, pulverized. to either of the acids; add the salts of tartar in the same way ; when done foaming, add the other acid, and in a few days it will be ready for nac. For chilblains and corns apply it very lightly with a swab, and re- prat in a day or two untilcured. For warts, once a week, until they disappear.


HOOF- AIL IN SHEEP .- Mix 2 ozs. each of butter of antimony and muriatic acid with 1 oz. of pulverized white vitriol, and apply once or twice a week to the bottom of the foot.


COMMON RHEUMATISM .- Kerosene oil 2 O25 .; Beats-foot ofl 1 oz .; oil of orzaman } oz. Shake when used, and rub and heat in twice daily.


VERY FINE SOAP, QUICKLY AND CHEAP- LY MADE .. - Fourtren pounds of bar soap in a leif a bolker of hot water ; ent up fine: add three pounds of sal-soda made fine: one withice of pulverized rosin ; stir it offen (H all is die-vived : Just as you take it off the fire, put in two table-spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine and one of ammonia ; pour it in a barrel, and fill up with cold soft water ; let it stand three or four days before using. It is an excellent soap for washing clothe-, extracting the dirt readily, and not fading colored article's.


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WATER PROOF FOR LEATHER .- Take lin- seed oil 1 pint, yellow wax and white tur- pentine each 2 ozs. Burgundy pitch 1 oz., melt and color with lampblack.


To KEEP CIDER SWEET .- Put into each barrel. immediately after making, X 1b. ground mustard. 2 oz, salt and 2 oz. pulver- ized chalk. Stir them in a little cider, pour them into the barrel, and shake up well.


AGUE CURE. - Procure 1% table-spoons of fresh mandrake root juice, (by pounding) and mix with the same quantity of molas- ses, and take in three eqnal doses, 2 hours a part, the whole to be taken 1 hour before the chill comes on. Take a swallow of some good bitters before meals, for a couple of weeks after the chills are broken, and the enre will be permanent.


CURE FOR SALT RHEUM OR SCURVY .- Take of the pokeweed, any tune in sum- mer ; ponnd it ; press out the juice; strain it inte a pewter dish; set it in the sun till it becomes a salve -- then put it into an earth- en inu _; add to it fresh water and bees' wax sufficient to make an ointment of com- mon consistency ; simmer the whole over a fire till thoroughly mixed. When cold. rub the part affected. The patient will al- most immediately experience its good ef- fects, and the most obstinate cases will be cured in three or four months. Tested .-- The juice of the ripe berries may be pre- p red in the same way.


SUPERIOR PAINT-FOR BRICK HOUSES .--- To lime whitewash. add for a fastener, sul- phate of zinc, and shade with any color you choose, as yellow ochre, Venetian red, etc. It outlasts oil paint.


FELONS .-- Stir 1 oz. of Venice turpentine with %% tea-spoonful of water, till it looks like candied honey, and apply by spreading upon cloth and wrapping around the finger. If not too long delayed will cure in 6 hours. A poke root poultice is also said to be a sure remedy.


WATER-PROOF BLACKING AND HARNESS POLISH .-- Take two and a half ounces gum shellac and half a pint of alcohol. and set in a warm place until dissolved; then add two and a half ounces Venice turpentine to uentralize the alcohol ; add a tablespoon- ful of lampblack. Apply with a fine sponge. It will give a good polish over oil or grease.


MOSQUITOS .-- To get rid of these tormen- tors. take a few hot coals on a shovel. or a chafing dish, and burn upon them some brown sugar in your bed-rooms and parlors, and you effectually banish or destroy every mosquito for the night.


CHEAP OUTSIDE PAINT .- Take two parts (in bulk) of water lime ground fine, oue part (in bulk) of white lead ground in oil. Mix them thoroughly, by adding best boiled lin. seed oil, enough to prepare it to pass through a paint mill, after which temper with oil till it can be applied with a common paint brush. Make any color tosnit. It willlast three times as long as lead paint, and cost not one-fourth as much. IT Is SUPERIOR.


CURE FOR A Covan .- A strong decoction of the leaves of the pine, sweetened with loaf sugar. Take a wine-glass warm off zu- ing to bed, and half an hour before eating three times a day. The above is sold as a cough syrup, and is doing wonderful cure -. and it is sold at a great profit to the manfi- facturers.


How to Judge a Horse.


A correspondent. contrary to old maxims, undertakes to judge the character of a horse by outward appearances, and offers the tol- lowing suggestions, the result of his close obervation and long experience :


If the color be light sorrell, or chestnut, hi- fut. lors and face white, these are chirk- of kindness. If he is broad and full letweown the eyes, he may be depended on a- a horse of good sense, and capable of be- int_ trained to anything.


As respects ench horses, the more kindly yet treat them the better you will be treat- el lu retern. Nor will a horse of this de- scription stand a whip, if well fed.


If you want a safe horse, avoid one that ilh-fund. He may be so far genthas and in him to be stie with everybody.


It's a want a fool, but a horse of great bottom, get a deep bay. with not a white sir ghont him. Ifhis face je a little dish- 7. ro tich the worse. Let no man ride with a horse that is pot an adept in rilling - thy are always tricky and unsafe.


If you want one that will never give out, never buy a large, overgrown one.


A black horse cannot stand heat, nor a white one cold.


If you want a gentle horse, get one with more or less white about the head: the more the better. Many persons suppose the parti-colored horses belonging to the circuses, shows, &c .. are selected for their oddity. But the selections this made are on account of their great docility and pen- tleness.


Measurement of May In the Mow or Stack .- It is often desir ... . where conveniences for weighing are not " hand, to purchase and sell bay by measur ment. It is evident that no fixed rule all wwwer in all cases, as it would : prora enbic feet at the top of a mow d' the bottom. The general rule adopte 1 ; those who have tested it, is Og culte total wollt Timothy bay, as taken from Bony or bottom of stack. The rule may be v.r. 1 tor upper part of mow or stack ace reply to pressure.


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TWENTY YEAR CALENDAR.


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Leap Years have two letters; the first is used till the end of February, the second during the remainder of the year.


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MONTGOMERY COUNTY.


MONTGOMERY COUNTY.


THIS COUNTY was formed from Albany, March 12. 1472. It was first called Tryon County, in honor of William! Tryon, the Colonial Governor, and embraced all that part of the State west of the Delaware River and a line extending north through Schoharie County, and along the east lines of Mout- gomery, Fulton and Hamilton Counties, to Canada. Its name was changed to Montgomery, in honor of Gen. Richard Mont- gomery, April 2, 1784. Ontario was taken off in 1789; Herki- mer, Otsego and Tioga in 1791; Hamilton in 1816, and Fulton in 1838. It lies on both sides of the Mohawk, is centrally dis- tant thirty-nine miles from Albany, and contains 436 squar: miles.


The general system of highlands which forms the connecting link between the northern spurs of the Alleghany Mountain.s on the south, and the Adirondacks on the north, extends through this County in a north-east and south-west direction. Mohawk River cuts through these highlands and forms a valley from one to two miles wide, and from 200 to 500 feet below the summits of the hills. The valleys of some of the tributaries of the Mohawk extend several miles into the highland district at nearly right angles to the river valley. The hills bordering upon the river generally rise in gradual slopes, and from their summits the country spreads out into undulating uplands, with a general inclination towards the river, into which the whoj. surface of the County is drained. The principal tributaries of the Mohawk are the East Canada, Garoga, Cavadutta, Chuet nunda Creeks and Evas Kil on the north, and Cowilliga, Chi - tenunda, Schoharie, Auries. Flat, Canajoharie and Oteque Creeks on the south. The highest point in the County is B. 100. 'n Florida, which is estimated as :00 feet above ind .: the lowest point is the bed of the Mohawk on the cast line the County, 260 feet above tide.


The lowest rocks of the County are primary. consisting of 12. various kinds of gneiss, granite, &c., and appear chiefly at " T r. Neses," on the Mobawk. Next above these, and appearing on


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the north bank of the river, is the calciferous sandstone group. This rock often contains in its cavities quartz and small pieces of anthracite coal, leading some to suppose that it may be found in quantities that will pay for mining. Traces of lead have been found near Spraker's Basin. Next in order are the Black River and Trenton limestone, which furnish valuable quarries of building stone. The slates and shales of the Hudson River group extend along the south border of the County, and are found in a few places north of the river. Drift and bowlders abound in some parts. The soil along the river consists of al- luvial deposits and a deep, rich, vegetable mold, and upon the uplands it is mostly a highly productive sandy and gravelly loam. The productions are chiefly grass and spring grains. The uplands are well adapted to pasturage, and dairying forms the leading pursuit. Immense quantities of broom corn are raised along the Mohawk flats. Manufacturing is carried on at various points and will be noticed under the various towns. Important quarries are worked at several points.


The principal public works are the Erie Canal, extending along the south bank of the Mohawk, and the New York Central R. R., on the north bank. A wire suspension bridge crosses the Mohawk at Fort Hunter, and iron bridges at Fort Plain and at Canajoharie also span the river, while wood structures still af- ford the means of crossing at Amsterdam, Fonda and St. Johns- ville.


The County Seat was located at Fonda. the site of the ancient Dutch Settlement of Caughnawogo, in 1836. on its removal from Johnstown. The conditions of removal were that a subscrip- tion of $4,500 should be raised. and a site of not less than three acres donated to the County. The Court House is a fine brick structure, surmounted by a dome and containing the usual County offices. It has undergone extensive repairs during the past year, and is now well adapted to the purposes for which it was designed. The Jail is a stone building in the rear of the Court House. A tablet with the following inscription is in the front wall of the Court House: "This building was erected in the year 1836, by Lawrence Marcellus; carpenter, and Heury Holmes, mason, under the charge of Aaron C. Wheelock. Henry Adams and Howland Fish, Commissioners charged with its erection."


The Montgomery County Por There is located in the town of (lon. about one and a gudror hoffs east of Fultonville. The following is taken from the Report of the State Commissioners of Public Charities:


" In 1800, under authority conferred by special act of the Icoislature, the Supervisors of Montgomery County disposed


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of by sale, their county poor house together with a farm of one hundred and forty acres, for the sum of $8,000. Since that time the poor of the county have been supported in the house by contract, the purchaser of the property being the contractor. The overseers of the poor arrange for the support of paupers of their respective towns, and the supervisors contract for those becoming a county charge. The price paid for the support of ordinary paupers is $2.50, and for insane and idiotic $3.50 per week. A single county superintendent attends to the general duties pertaining to the administration of out-door temporary relief.


"The buildings occupied are constructed of wood, and have been in use for nearly forty years. Since being taken possession of by the present owner, they have undergone ex- tensive repairs and are now quite comfortable. The main building is two stories in height, and eighty-five feet in length: by thirty-two feet in width; another building of the same length crosses at the rear, and the two buildings are connected by lateral wings on the right and left. The space enclosed by the several buildings forms a central yard, to which the in- mates have free access at all times. A few aged persons are provided with separate apartments and receive marked atten- tion ; beyond this no classification of the inmates is made, except separation of the sexes at night.


"The buildings are warmed by stoves, readily ventilated, and supplied with water in abundance. There are no bath tubs in the house, but the inmates are required to bathe weekly in their rooms. 'The Sabbath is observed in attendance ujwn appropriate religious services held in the house, the super- visors appropriating funds to defray the necessary expenses, aml also for the support of a week-day school, maintained during the entire year. The house is furnished with iron bedste's throughout, and all the beds are covered with white count ". panes. Everything pertaining to the Institution was found pra! and in good order, and, as far as could be learned, the poor e: the county are well fed and properly cared for. The contracts stated that the price paid for support had proved reasonably : - munerative since his connection at the house.


" The expenditures connected with the house during the past year amounted to 84,350.00, and that of temporary relief fos: same period to $3.796.09 : the aggregate expenses for the V ..... account of the poor being $8,146.09. Three thousand twobut- dred and eighty-three persons are reported as having been sup- ported or relieved. About one-half of them were native bern, and nearly one-third were reduced to want in consequence of


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'sickness, infirmity or old age; a large number were the victims of intemperance.


"At the date of visitation, August 31st, sixty persons were found in the house. The majority of them were females, and two-thirds were native born. Included, and among the num- ber, were eleven children under sixteen years of age, nine insane and four idiotic.


" The insane are assigned quarters in the main building situa- ted at the rear of the main structure. The cells have been re- cently repaired and enlarged and without doubt this class of persons are better cared for than formerly, but nothing was seen to particularly commend in reference to their management. Four were found in confinement, and the only means of restraint employed is shutting up in cells. The balance are quiet and allowed their liberty during the day, being confined at night. Seven have been inmates of the State Asylum, and it was stated that a few had improved since their discharge, but it was not claimed that any had fully recovered. A physician visits the house, but the insane receive no special medical attendance ex- cept when sick ; and the only care bestowed upon them is given by the keeper. aided by pauper inmates. The labor performed by those committed to the house inures to the benefit of the contractor."


The original purchaser of the property was Mr. Hiram Sam- mons. In December, 1868. he died, and Robert Wemple pur- chased the property and assumed the contract for the support of the poor. The member of panpers is about eighty.


At the time of the advent of the whites to this County it was the chief seat of the Mohawks, one of the most powerful tribes of Indians in the State. The first settlers were German Pala- tinates, and the policy which they adopted towards the natives strongly attached a majority of them to the interests of the set- tlers. During the subsequent wars between the English and French, the Five Nations were faithful allies of the English and in many instances shielded them from hostile attacks. In 1665-6 a French expedition consisting of 600 men under De Coareelles and De Tracy, was sent against the Indians. It pro- ceeded as far as Schenectady, but after much suffering and the loss of many men the army returned to Canada without ac- complishing anything. Several expeditions were sent against


the western tribes during the next few years, and by way of re- taliation the Indians made a descent against Montreal in 1689 and laid waste a large tract of country and destroyed many lives. In retaliation several expeditions were sent against the Indians and English by Count Frontenac, one of which de- siroved Schenectady in 1690. The Indians had three castles in


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the Mohawk Valley, one of which was at the mouth of Scho- harie Creek, another at the mouth of Otsgaga, and a third at the mouth of the Nowadaga, in Herkimer County. In the winter of 1692-3 the French invaded this region and destroyed two of the castles and took about three hundred prisoners. In one engagement the French lost thirty of their number, and in their retreat were followed by Major Peter Schuyler, at the head of two hundred' regulars and militia, who succeeded in killing about thirty and in rescuing about fifty prisoners. The remainder escaped and fled to Canada through the great nor- thern wilderness. As early as 1642 the French Jesuits sent their missionaries among the Mohawks, and through their ex- ertions some were induced to embrace the Roman Catholic rc- ligion and subsequently removed to Canada.


In 1711 a military post known as Fort Hunter was establish- ed near the mouth of Schoharie Creek, and abont the same time a large number of German Palatinates, sent out by Queen Anne, settled on the Hudson, and soon after removed to the Mohawk Valley and settled on lands belonging to the Govern- ment. A considerable number of the Holland Dutch also settled in the County about the same time.


The land grants were issued in comparatively small tracts. In 1:14 a tract of 2,000 acres was granted to John and Marga- rett Collins ; in 1422, 6,000 acres to Lewis Morris & Co .; in 1:23 a tract of 12,700 acres was granted to John Christian Garlock and others, for the benefit of the Palatinates, and called Stone Arabia. In 1737 a tract of 10,000 acres, south of the Mohawk. and 5,426 acres, north of the same stream, was granted to James De Lancey and others and called De Lancey's Patent. Other grants were made, so that in 1260 but little remained in the County that had not been granted to some party.




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