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Southland Times, Issue 1292, 12 August 1870, Page 3

A strong man who drinks hard, a man of no business talent who gambles deep, a farmer who sows grain year after year in the same soil, keeps a few cattle, and burns his straw — are alike. They are slowly going to the bad. Dairymen notice a falling off in milk and butter in hot weather, but the weather has not so much to do with it directly; it arises from the fact that every time a cow stops feeding or chewing to fight a fly, the exertion uses up what would make milk. For that reason, the shade of thick foliage, and places where the tortured animals could enjoy a cool breeze, are valuable. A curious story is related by the Baltimore Sun. The prohibitory liquor law, of the state of Michigan does not regard liquor as " property," and a woman whose husband was addicted to drinking brought an action against a publican, with whom her husband had a " score," pr the recovery of the money apent by Aim, " on the ground that it had been/paid to the liquor vendor without consideration." The Sun says the woman was successful lin her cause, and recovered all the money which her husband itad spent in the liquor saloon during Jhe last six years. /