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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & 00.. Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1877.
VOL III. NO. 28.
CONDENSATIONS OF NEWS
Tiir. norm.
The Alabama legislature has repealed
(lielaw Iniing drummers fifty dollars.
Tho Memphis and Little Hoclt railroad
* t<> hf •old by dftoi vo of court on the 271 It
«>f February.
Jonathan Warner, of Ohio, has bought
the old ('agio gold mine in Moore county,
(In., for 116,000.
The adjutant general of Tennem re
port* to the aernetary of war 239,564 uien in
that Mato subject to military duty.
'I he cotton crop ol South Carolina will
be about sixteen percent lira Icm than last
There is a becf-packury at Port Lavaca,
Texas, where one hundred beevea per day
ore slaughtered.
The Georgia Mate Ismrd of health are
■uaawnloii |>kv«U<MH> art. I irCtUg to Erfst
the bottom facta of tin* Intr .Savannah epi
demic.
A New Jersey capitalist has purchased
33,000 acre* of land in Hhott county, Tennes
see, and will lay out a new town on the line
of the Cincinnati Southern railroad.
Judge Trigg, of Memphis, has ruled
that tat amifurd to pay T. K. Brown f 125,000
on a judgment against tlu< city most hr col
lected.
The augar crop of Louisiana lliia year
in estimated at 200,000 hogsheads, and this is
said to he equal to only about one-eighth of
the amount required for consumption in the
United States.
The cotton crop of Louisiana is short
between thirty-five and forty per cent., and
sixty-six per rent, of the product lias already
been marketed. The rapidity with which
the crop has been forwarded is unprece
dented.
Mks Alice L. Loath, who resides in
the eleventh district of Knox county,Tenu.,
now “sweet sixteen,” tips the beam at three
hundred and twenty-live pounds. When
only eleven years old she weighed two bun
dled ami tiffy-tive pounds. Her height is
about four feet eight Inches, and she is a
pretty girl.
CONGRESSIONAL.
IIOI’NK.
In tho houae, on tho 10th, Schleicher’s
amendment to the postidiice appropriation
bill, increasing the appropriation for the
transportation of the mails on stage routes
and stcamboata, was agreed to, yeas !*0, nays
The bill then passed without division.
The special business was then taken up, and
eulogies on the late speaker, Mr. Kerr, were
delivered. Mr. Kerr’s successor olVerc.I reso
lutions expressive of the profound sorrow of
the house, and directed the speaker’s chair
to be kept draned in mourning during the
remainder of this congress and the usual
badge of mourning to tie worn hv the mem
bers and oflioer* of the bouse. The resolu
tions were adopted unanimously, and the
house adjourned.
In the house on the 18tli, Mr. Knott
introduced a lull regulating the proceedings
in the electoral count for president and view
prssiJent. Referred to n *et*i»t eommliter.
A resolution instructing the Judiciary com
mittee to report an amendment to the con
stitution forbidding the payment of war
claims to disloyal perrons was adopted by a
vote of 160 to 63, Bills were introduced to
promote the education of the blind : la facil
itate the negotiation of hills of lading, etc,
concerning the expatriation and change of
allegiance; to reorganize the navy; lo pro
mote the efficiency of the marine hospital
service; for a commission on the loemt
plague. Mr. Frye ottered a resolution for
the appointment of a committee of six to in
quire into the nmiiner in which the election
was conducted for members of congress last
November, in the sixth district of Mississip
pi, and the fourth district of Alabama, and
whether in such districts there wmn any in
timidation of candidates or voters. ’ The
house refused to second the previous qiies
lion, and the resolution went over. Ad
journed.
In the house on the 21st, Mr. I Mutt
oflered n resolution for the appointment of
a eelect committee to investigate the charges
made yesterday by Mr. llewitt, that Ids let
ters had been tampered with in the New
York postoffiee. It connection with It Mr.
Plait sent to the clerk’s desk and had read
a telegram from postmaster.Iuniuipronouiio-
ihg the accusation Utterly and absolutely false.
Seven cam of ailk worm eggs, valued
at about three million dollars, passed through
Omaha last week.
A number of prominent business men
of Virginia City have signed an address in
the Nevada seustors, Sharon and Jones, ask
ing their co-operation in obtaining the pas
s.»ge by congress of a hill providing for the
issue of legal tender silver note, with the view
••f restoring the valne of silver a* a circulat
ing medium.
Minnesota, like all tho older western
states, is exhausting her wheat growing Ra
pacity, the average yield of the state running
below eight bushels to the acre. 'I he patent
process of grinding spring wheat into pastry
Hour has, however, built up n great milling
industry in the state. Instead ol exporting
w heat she now exports flour, and w ill proba
bly export one million barrels in the current
twelve months.
rOHRINN.
Tltroo children at Morpigon, in 1‘ruit-
*i.in Rhineland, have confessed setting on
foot, Inst summer, a story of having seen the
holy Virgin in a wood near the sacred spot.
The three juveniles have been placed in a re
formatory.
Minister Washhurne ha* presented
president Grant’s apologies to Duke Decares,
minister of foreign ntfairs, for the arrest st
Philadelphia of Captain Aufrye, naval at
tache of the French legation at Washington
and French commissioner to the centennial
exposition.
The Standard's corresjiondent at Alex
andria telegraphs that it is stated on good
authority that the khedive is dissatisfied
with his American military officers, and has
notified them that their contracts will not he
renewed. The policy of this step is ques
tionably as a renewal of the Abyssinia wsr
is considered imminent.
A Calcutta telegram to the Times says
that the accounts of a famine received from
Madras are worst than those from Bombay.
A large number of starving people are Hock
ing into Madras. The first death from star
vation has occurred there, and much distress
and di-ease exists in the country districts.
The Panama Star and Herald, Decem
ber Mb, received per steamer Andes, says:
•’ A great battle has taken place in Garra-
pala. The trenches of tne revolutionists
were taken by our forces, commanded by
generals Acosta and Comargo. An armistice
of three days was asked for by the rebels to
bury two thousand dead of both sides. Our
forres cut oft the retreat to Antiqnia from
the rebels. If the rebels do not surrender
at discretion they will all remain in the
power of our army. On the 21st of Novem
ber, General Trujillo occupied Manizales.
The Manalia river transit is free. In thirty
days more all will he over. The Peruvian
government has refused the request
of Ecuador to send ships of wai
troops to assist in the capture of Guayaquil
l oin the revolutionary party.”
Mr.'Buckner, and finally, on motion of Mr
•Springer, the committee now in New York,
of which he is chairman, was instructed to
investigate the matter. Mr. Willis intro
duced a hill, which was refetml to the com
mittee on naval affairs, providing that the
Heel in the navy In pence and until the pub
lie safety demands mi iucrease, shall
consist of thirty sea-going vessels
war to he distributed among
respective squadrons and divisl
It specifics the number of
officers, and provides that their full pay shall
* the office
of i
nk i that when i
with
DESPERATE STIUMHILK FOlt l,H i:.
llenHreitrilii* Keen** In IHe i ll.» «>|
l linn-lies Title* t»> Hen tfhn Were
Inside the lim iting l*ln> -
Molise.
The description given by pontons who
were in the gallery ol the Brooklyn then
ter nt the time of tho disaster is
heartrending and horrible. Alfred
A. Junta given the following account of
the scene : 1 was seated next to the front
row, hot, seeing that something was
wrong tut the stage 1 moved tip to the
entrance of the tier. While mV Imck
was turned shrieks wore heard, find the
unis* of people ill tho gallery arose in
wild confusion. I cannot describe the
They were climbing
gripping
d Htrnggli
each other by the
that when oi
ho entitled i
anoes, and wlie
tv two slid one-half per cent, of full pay of
their grade without the allowance referred
to. Line officers who have seen twenty
years oi actual service at sen, and retired
staff officer* who have seen fourteen years of
actual service nt *en, shall receive seventy-
five per cent, of full pay of the grade from
which thev were retired, and all other offi-
shall receive one half of full p .y of the
grade from which they were retired In nd-
liilioii to the number of men now allowed to
the navy eight hundred and fifty hoys for
training may lie enlisted. Mr. Walkerintro-
bleed a hill, which was referred to I lie com
mittee on judluiarv, providing tlwu no mill-
naval officer, or other person engaged
civil, military or naval service, shall
order, bring, keep, or have under his author-
sr the place where any general or
special election is held in any state, either
for
unless it hi
visions of this section to tie lined
than five thousand drdlaisaud Miller impri -
ontnent at hard labor not less tlinu live years,
sod be'.deprived from holding any •flint- of
honor profit or trust nuderthe UnitedHUites.
NF.NATK.
In the fount*, on tin* 18th, in
the morning hour senator Edmunds
called up the resolution submitted by him
Friday last, referring to tire mrssnge of the
house of representatives in regard to dr*vis
ing menus to count and declare the electoral
vote, In select ii committee of seven senator*
to net with the committee appointed by the
house. It was agreed to hv a unanimous
vote, without discussion. Senator Wright
introduced a bill to establish a court for the
trial of contested elections in the offices of
president ami vice-president of the United
States, and, nt his request, it was ordered
ii the table. Senator
message of the presi-
nhead of one another. I saw oho man
smash a follow in tho fail' Who Would not
yield to him in the* passage, apd a big,
powerful woman tore nor way through
and mnir toward mo with scarcely any
clothes on her hack, and with blootl
streaming IrOtn nor nostrils. Twodceeut-
looking hoys got together in tho front
row, and l saw thorn chunlx-ring ovor
tho soats and squeezing thoir bodies
through tho crowd. Oho of thorn was
thrown down, and tho other turned and
called him wildly by name. I got d iwn
among tho first that escn|M*d, and didn't
wait to moo what hup|M«m*d.
A tall, stout man, who said ho Was a
truckman, gavo a very vivid description
of themvuo i “.When tho uproar bemut,"
ho said, “l was seated in tho aislo, about
the middle of tho gallery, and throe or
four scats from tho trout*. I never saw
anything like it. All the people in the
gallery scorned to oo Crowding otic on top
of the other. There wore tuon there
who seemed |>crfoelly frantic. ThoyelL
and shrieks I shall never forgot to* my
dying day. 'My wife is down stairs!'
one man cried out, 'lot mo got her out I’
'We’re all safe if you’ll only be orderly!’
another cried; At the name time, how
ever, he was making tho most strenuous
exertions to get through the throng.
Thowenkost wont down one after another,
and tin* strongest rushed recklessly ovor
them. Tho cries that ascended amid tho
uproar woro heartrending.
“‘My God! have mercy on mo,’ one
voice repeated several times. One man
managed to crawl from a heap of pros
trate ltodina, hut tho struggling throng
rushed against him, and ho spun round
towards mo and fell almost, at mv fool.
1 tried to lift him; but he groaned mice
<»r twice and gave a few gnsps, and all
was over. When I saw it was to he life
or death, l made for the door. All I've
been telling took place in a few seconds,
hut there is a picture in my mind I <ould
not paint. When 1 got out 1 walked
over bodies three or four deep.
Philip Wanner was among tho voiy
last to got out of the gallery. Ho gives
the following account of the calamity:
“ I got in from tho row near tim stage
v the firo from the very first. As I
looked up to the gallery tho acetic was
tho most terrific that one could imagine.
Mon and Iroya wore tearing one ovor
another, and tho shrieks and oaths woro
awful. One man clambered up the bean,
spun round and round on tho heads
of tho throng, and flung with a crash I
could distinctly hear, against tho hack
of tho gallery. Every one was for him
self, ami men seemed to become wild
leasts. They wore threatening and tear
ing one another with their hands. Scats
were piled with prostrate human beings,
and, as successful striigglors forced thoir
way over the gasping forms that lay all
around, others who had been crushed to
insensibility fell as they lost the support
of the living. There was nothing for it
hut for myself, and some others who had
whited, to walk ovor tho piles of dead
bodies on the floor. Hands and
were protruded hero and there, which
showed that life was still in somcof tin*
Ity this time the smoke was dense, ami
tie noise ami shouting from the lower
part of tho house was torrihlo. I and
some others managed to get lo the stair
way, and we wont down in a mass—how
I couldn’t tell you. All this I have boon
describing took place in less than two
minutes. One inifn who got out in tho
crowd just before me showed me his arm,
which had been bitten most to the hone."
A COWARDLY MURDER.
man his services in making himself and
voting companion man and wife. Mr.
Niekh* berry, know I tig tho desperate
character of the- young man and hearing
tho storV of the girl, Who .protested
against the marriage, refused td perform
tne ceremony and locked hiimelt in his
smokehouse for safety.
Bond then threatened to shoot tho
young lndv, and her life was probably
saved by die presence of mind of Mrs.
Nicklcberry, who, seeing solllo.lhOh ride
up, Jin Vo the filar fit “ the possfi’fichklio^l"
and when Bond rushed oufco* the house,
locked tho girl up in her room. Bond
going out, found one of tho riders to ho
nis brother, Hill, so he took Bill’s horse
and
ltontt HAC K TO Tlllt Hl’OT OF 1118 C1UM1S.
There seeing a young man named Cole
man riding off for help for the family of
the murdered man, tnis blood-handed as
sassin pulled trigger on him also, won ml-
ing him tn the shoulder. Itldlog tiffin to
tho residence of a Mr. Persons, iti the
neighborhood, ho forced that gentleman
to give up to him a fine horse and leav
ing Iteliind a malediction, by way of
thanks, with a yell this savagtarodo away
at a brntknol'k speed. The dfiihtnotion
into which ft quiet contmiinltylh thrown
by such a tragedy may well Iks Imagined.
Every ofKirt will ho made to catcli the
murderer, who is supposed tojmve gone
westward.—Mttuphir. .-Im/ttmAk, Dev. 10.
BENT OS' BP UMNO.
I’ll* I'll) nr LIUI* Hock kciitta K««ra of
Another Tllir Ulnae tVlllitS Her
<'Ot*|»OlltlO l.liltll*.
Another llrr occurred on the evening
•I* tho 10th in Little Hock, Ark. It broke
ml in the house of .toner, McDowell ft
'o., cotton factors ami commission mor-
limits, in the Miller N Uonzel block, on
the corner of Markham ami Sherman
streets. Considerable poWdl'r Was stored
in the building and the whole city was in
poll I for a time. Tho powder was quick
ly removed, however, and also tho gomls
in Miller <V Uonzol’s grocery store.
Three brick buildings on Etuit, not ween
the Miller & Benzol block, and a two
story brick occupied by Mr. Volmer ns
a dry goods house, and E. Klman ns a
liquor nouse, wore razed, ami,tho datura
lapping over and grapping thin building,
the steamers played on the laige wooden
building on East, ami prevented its
sprond in that direction. Tbfi.gouernl
•fllce of the Little Hook and Fort Smith
railroad was in danger. It is owned by
Judge Jones, Mcllntmol ft Co. The
neigh burins d known ns “Fighting Al
iev.'' comprising about twenty-five wood
en buildings, occupied as satbons, etc.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Action of Mine.
Professor Bartlct says:-—Lime an
invent two groat (nirposm for nourish
ment: First—It disposes certain insol
uble bodies to form by their decomposi
tion, soluble compounds; and, secondly,
it prolongs the action and nutritive vir
tue of soft and insoluldu animal and
vegetable substances beyond the time
they would continue fo act if they were
not ttiade to enter into combination with
the lime. Erofti this statement the agri-
cultmist can draw some practical con-
lusions in regard to the uses of this mb-
stance, and the manner in which itsiioud
be employed ill order to have the results
arising from its npplieatioh conform to
those which have been produced by en
lightening experiments. Lime is ac
knowledged to bo specially useful upon
fallow lands which are broken, upon
sward littids ttmi thnim of turfy fmt it re
which are to bo nllt In rt fit state of cul
tivation. In all these eases their exists
in the land large quantities of roots,
which, by tho application of lime, may
bo made the liotter to serve for manure
by the solubility it. will give to tho new
compound formed by them ; but to this
efloct the lime must ho thoroughly
mixed with tho soil.
Vires on Hie 1‘iteni.
By wav of variety, ahd for tho profit
to l>e reamed front a foW stands of bees,
would recommend every fiirniof to
keep bees. A few stands will require
but little time to take even the proper
and necessary care of them, anu they
will nflbrd the greatest pleasure in gath
ering for you from the fields and. flowers
a rich supply of honey for youf table;
and in these days of adulterated syrups,
the hoes will give you a pure utta'Uil-
torntod honey, a luxury hut few enjoy,
but Is so easily to be had by every
farmer; and then the surplus honey as a
sou roe of revenue that may rival the
housewife's butter, and* for' tho time,
trouble and expense, mav even rival the
pigs or poultry.—Rural Nun.
MUMEI.LA WROTH.
Commodore Vanderbilt’s condition re
mains unchanged.
The remnants of a balloon were lately
discovered on the count of Iceland. .Sec
tions of a human skeleton were in the basket,
snd also a pccket-book, with papers blurred
by the action of water and incomprehensi
ble. It is thought that tlie skeleton i* that
of Prince, one of the three balloonists who
left Paris during the seige, of whom no re
port has ever been received.
The nationai bank stock of the United
ritates Is widely distributed. The total num
ber of shares is 6,1.05,930, and of sharehold
printed and
Wright called up th
dent sent to the senate last session vetoing
tlie hill reducing the president s salary from
fifty thousand to twenty-five thousand dol
lars per annum, and the question being
shr.il the hill pans notwithstanding tlie oh
jections of the president threreto, a discus
sion followed, the senate refused to pass tlie
hill over the veto. Yens 25, nays 111, n<
two-thirds voting in the affirmative. Hem
tor Clayton called up the senate hill for th
relief of the officers and privates <
the. Fourth Arkansas cavalry volunteer
Amended and passed. Senator Hitchcoc
introduced a bill to divide tlie slate of N
hraskn into two judicial districts. Referrci
Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 20th, the senate
reconsidered the vote by which the hill
establish the territory of Pernhiuu was or
dered to third reading, and passol on the
eighth of August last. The name of the
new territory, which is to he organized out
of a portion of the present territory of Da
kota, was then changed from Pembina to
Huron, and the hill passed. The pension
appropriation bill was passed with the
amendment of senator Davis, requiring the
commissioner of pensions to hereafter incor
porate in his annual report a Htatement
showing 'he amount paid for additional pen
sions, and also for the annual reduction in
pensions. The discussion upon the resolu
tion of senator Mitchell, authorizing an in-
vestigation as to the appointment ot Mr.
Cronin a« presidential eh vtar In Oregon,
was then resumed. The discussion was not
| concluded, and the senate went into execu
tive -vision and soon after adjourned.
In the senate on the 2let, at the expi-
1 ration of tin* morning hour, the com Id era-
1.488. Tlie average amount of stock held j tion of the resolution of Mr. Mitchell,nutho
'estimation into tlie appointmci
i
by each share holder is about f.: Hit). Share- 1
holders reside in every state and territory in '
the union except Washington and Alaska;]
• u eleven countries or provinces of this con- |
linent and adjacent islands; iu twenty-five
. countries in E"rope, Asia and Africa,and in
’ •.i- island* of tlie sea. Tue total number of
siiares held m foreign countries is 29,661.
of Mr. Cronin as presidential elect*
grin, wan resumed, and Mr Muiey spoke at
length. On motion of Mr. Davis hiisineaa
was suspended and thesenatc pain its tribute
of respect to the memory of senator Caper-
ton. Apurnnrin'e remark* were made by
Messrs. Davis, Wright, Withers, Edmunds
Hint others, and ns a further mark of retqx
the senate adjourned.
cHcniK*. Thu firo whs confined to the one
block, although those in tho vicinity
were badly dumnpod by* 1»o£h ,fite uml
water. Tho delay in moving tha Sngint s
from the ciMtcrnfl To tho river travo tho
firo headway, wWTMi could iibi l»o checked ■
Jones, McDonald At ('o. is it branch of
tho hoiiHia of Hussey A L'o. of Now Or-
loniiHand Memphis. TIiuhgoes tho largest
wholesale house in Arkansas. Loss can
not fall short of $10,000. Tho third story
of tho Miller At Pcnzol block was t he lodge
room o 1 the Masonic lodges of the
and also the office of L. E. Harbor,
tary of tho grand lodge. The rooms
woro elegantly furnished and all tho
lodge’s pnpers, regalias, furniture, etc.,
were destroyed.
Hit rial or the Victims.
The Inst net of the fearful tragedy
which began with the fire iu the Hrook-
Ivii theatre, the burial of the 1 todies of
the victims, was a fitting end to one of
the inosi doleful histories of modern
times.
All the bodies in the morgue were re
moved fo the temporary dead-house iu
the (dd market, whore there were in all
one hundred of tho charred corpses. An
hundred coffins with German silver
mountings woro brought iu and placed
ti|kiii the floor, and into them the
unidentified and destitute (haul were
placed.
Fifty-six hearses and undertakers’
wagons drew up at the entrance on
Adams street, and the remains were
lifted in. There were, two coffins each iu
a number of the vehicles. Considerable
delay in forming the procession was
caused by the desire of jhthous in the
Adams street morgue to continue their
efforts for the identification of friends,
and several additional Isidies were recog
nized.
Shortly after one o’clock the ghastly
cortege started. Hundreds of men, wo
men and children followed, rushing along
the sidewall, in a state of great agita
tion.
Many of the private and almost all of
the public building* were draped. All
the flags were at half uifist, and torn by
the wind almost into shreds, as if the
great occasion had a right to all the ser
vice they could ever render.
AT CJItUKNWOOl).
Twenty thousand jtconlc stood i-hivcr-
rsally dubbed a wild, desperate ] ing on the alope of the lull just above the
and worthless fellow, was the last man inner gates of Greenwood, us the funeral
to whom any fond father would wish to proceHsion entered, while the roadway
entrust It in (laughter's happiness. Mr. • leading from the avenue up to the ceme-
Hill having made no secresy of his din- tery buildings was so crowded that the
like for Bond, one of his remarks con- military brushed against the people in
corning that worthy \ passing up.
CAMK TO BOND’S RARH. I TIIR Ill'll!AL.
had been an immense circular
Sntlui Willi Nall.
If farmers would make their land pro
ductive, and in (dd worn out fields would
liko to see rank grass and grain grow
again, If they would destroy the worms
in the soil and also tlie insects that infest
plants, make four blades of grass grow
where now but one barely lives, ana ac
complish thin result without soiling thoir
farm to do It, then use tho grout balance
wheel of nature-—salt. Mix one-half
>»■"'>"! >> f 'I with -vary two-homo loud I , n thu , llc0 , lv8 meoUl attention, lor
n- . . , . of .manure, and sow it on meadow land \ n.wii, „ i, ow much
.eveenud Water streets*, had*narrow Jdry land); but not ovor two bushels fo < '| n p | Hntc d could be made to nro-
the aero, howevor, as too much,of course, . ( , uce \ glvlng j t ( , xt ra manure and boo-
would kill the grass. If one-tenth tho , j When the corn was gathered, the
tlifnu'tt iiwftv nn t ..Q , . ■ . «« * ■>
water. The object here is not to improve
the climate or aid chemical action, so
much as to get clear of the snnorln-
cunibctlt water, which acts mccImHically
as an obstruction to the nutrition of
plants.
Mu fill nt this pitching, ns termed at
the south, was performed bofort} the war;
hut since, owing to the paucity of labor,
the ditches have not been kept Open,
many valuable bottoms lost to cultiva
tion, and malarial fevers have bocomo
much more prevalent; for one great ad
vantage of draining a country is, that It
adds to the salubrity of the climate and
health of the inhabitants.
In every cultivated field, flinch of tho
valuable hillside soil, as well as nmudfial
substances, are washed .down by rains
into the wet bottoms; and where there
is much Witter, the land is hut little Im
proved, as the soil has no absorbing
jHiwor, being always saturated. Drain
age would be of great benefit in Mils re
gard ; and also wheio there Is not much
water, h'.it still too much for cultivation,
and tho valleys have been enriohed hv
the accumulation of ages. These hinds
once well ditched and projasrly undor-
drained, would pay better for the Invest
ment than any portion of tho farm. He
cause the uplands need an annual outlay
of money for manures, more tlmrt the
ditching would cost, whetl once dotyfas
it should be, it will last an age without
fertilizers.
While it is true, ns stated, thatit would
hardly pay to drain‘uplands, where, in
most Cases, there is a scarcity of water
during the summer, yet there are many
soils, even among this class, that
would Ik* honefittod, because of their
compactness and impermeability to air
and water.
Many of the flat hinds might be greatly
improved by drainage, but we must wait
for an inoreaio in their value before much
money can 1m* ox pended in this wav, as
there is quite a* much land to be obtained
nt cheap rates (having every natural ad
vantage) as there is labor to cultivate
them. _______
The A’nlue «»r nn Kxperlinenl.
Mr. Conrad Wilson, a well-known agri
culturist, tells the following story in tlm
Rural Now Yorker: “When 1 was a
little boy on my father’s farm, 1 once
made a little experiment on my own ac
count, and carried it through secretly,
for the purpose of enjoying tho surprise
it might create. With this view, as soon
as father got through planting bin corn,
I selected and marked oil, unknown to
him, a small space near tho center of tho
'■ '' To each stalk of the corn planted
>n«n*y tlmt him hwn thrown •«» an i^|ji Pre „ c „ botwaen mv rat ntnlkland tho
|>hmtor III tho onitorn uml mtddbintntw j reHt ()f t) , 0 , W(1 „ ttr „ cto a my fathor's nt-
withln tlo. hwl twontv , V ™» had lie™ I lfnt | oni n ,„| ( rmomhrrlinw inirxleil lie
iipplhhl t* till, rtyitnn In ourlnndl WH , lryl | ooom , n t. f„ r it, When
ength 1 (llscl
Mild have produced more Ilian douhlo
wlmt they have, and the destruction ot
the insects that destroy plants and trees
would alone more than have paid all
cost. Let those that have no faith trj'
this and satisfy momselveH.—('or. N. Y.
Tribune.
Oiili m Tn.vlint Ti'np.
Mr. J. T. Rico, of Union county,
Georgia, raised two hundred and twolvo
and a Imlf bushels of oats on one and
two-thirds acres of land, and this is his
account of his method in securing
this extraordinary yield, lie says: "In
the first place my ground is rich. I broke
my land with small, diumond-nointed
plows, twice--good, (loop and close. I
then put alrout forty bushels of cotton
IIIn l>rnd
Mr. L. B. Hill, a most highly es
teemed farmer and gentleman, living
four miles north of Hhclhv Itopot, on tho
Memphis and Ohio railroad, eighteen
miles from this city. Mr. Hill had a
daughter, Miss (settle Hill, a pretty
schoolgirl of fourteen years of age, who
had unfortunately became attached to a
young man ol the neighborhood named
A. M., or a* he is better known "Golly”
Bond, 'l’o this attachment the young
lady’s father gave his emphatic disap
proval, and wisely so, for young Bond,
who is about twenty-four years of ago
per
and
cd four
e-
A (juarrel, on last .Sunday, i
suit, hut no blows wen; exchanged
Yesterday morning about sunrise, Rond
went to Hill’s house, and after a stormy
interview went away, saying he would
“ix* hark in an hour." Not long after
wards he did return, and rode into Hill’s
yard. After bringing Hill out of the
barrel of his gun
ench (Jug for the reception of tho
coffins, and in the center of the trench
was a space ol ground Mime twenty feet
in diameter, upon which the services
were conducted. It took nearly half an
hour for the workmen to deposit the sev
enty-nine ooflinH in the trench.
Then the services were begun. Rev.
through'the window, when he came just i Noah H. Schenck read the iHoiutifiil
across tlie threshold, Bond deliberately i burial services of the Episcopal church,
emptied the other barrel into tho body of which were listened to attentively by
the father of bin inamorata. Not con- those who were within reach of his voice,
tent with this, and, as if seized with There was an inexpresHibleHadneasmin-
fiendish madness and thirst for blood, he gled with the solemnity at the sw-ne.
drew a revolver and sent the contents of; Hundreds of people wept, the tears free/.
* ' ' "eir cheeks ;
house by firing
bushels per acre of outs, and plowed the
in with a small turn-plow, deep and close.
I sowed tho first of October and com
menced gruzingthom the first ol Novem
ber with my milch cows. I luid six
head, ami kept them on (hem all
the time, only when tho land was too
wet, up to tlm 1st of March, hut I think
that a liitlc too long. I out them the
27tliof May. Nadieve thatthoHoontfcan
he made to make two hundred bushels
to tlm aero, and I am going to try them
next year. They will not rust; and
Lhcv will not mnku on poor land, hut they
will make (Mi rich laud. I believe the
same manure nut dn them that is put
on wheat to make ten or twelve bushels
of wheat per acre, put on these oats will
make fifty bushels ncr acre. They are
the heaviest oats I ever saw. 1 made
two hundred and twelve and a half bush
els on one and two-thirds
Last year I raised n lot of mangels and
carrots. Tho mangels were gathered
first and put in tlie collar; afterward the
carrots were gathered and corded oil top
of thorn, so that when I began to iced
them to the cows the carrots came first
Tho cow gave about her usual uuantity
of milk, except the umiuI shrinkage on
icccssinn of cold weather,’ and being
put upon dry fodder. Fearing that the
nee la would not keep as well as the car
rots, and also thinking that they possess
ed better milk-producing qualities, I wm
anxious to get at them. Accordingly I
removed part of the carrots and
mcnced feeding beets, when, to my sur
prise, my cow began to fall off her milk
until the deficiency reached about one-
third. Wishing to test the matter stili
further, I changed back again to carrots,
when her milk increased to about the
usual standard. The quantity fed was
about the same in either ciwo—about a
half bushel basket three quarters full.
If there was any difference it was in
favor of the beets.— Cor. Mobile, Ileyitlr.r.
its five chambers boring and tearing
the quivering flesh of the dying
Springing then into the house,
they issued from
of the mother who had just seen
tier husband shot lie fore her eyes, this
young devil seized, with his hands
STAINED WITH 11 Kit FATHER*8 BLOOD,
the young girl, Bettic, and over the dead
Goon Women.—The modest virgin,
the prudent wife, or the careful matron
arc much more serviceable in life than
philosophers, blustering
pctticoated
heroines or virago queen
it tikes her husband i
.She who
ihildrcn hup
at lengtiri cflaclotM-d the oeeret, ho in
stantly inquired how much extra work
and manure I hud applied. ‘Tell mo thin
exactly,’said he,‘and I can telKho value
of the experiment.’ I told him I had
imply doubled what ho had givcu to t he
rest of the field. After examining tho
result and comparing it with the reat of
uml tlmt his yield wt
the rate of forty-four bushels to tho
and mine at the rate of sixty ninebiiahnls.
•Now,’said he, if extra culture and extra
manure are good for single stalks, it must
he good for tho whole crop.’ H the next
year ho adopted my plan for the wholo
crop, and found that tho grain was oven
larger, by several bushels than in my
experiment; and ho also found that
the cost ol each bushel was reduced to
IIOKSIIIKl S’llll I*.
The animal that matures the earliest
is the most profitable to raise for food
Great improvement in this reaped has
been made in both hogs ahd cattle. A
hog that can be brought into market
weighing two hundred and fifty pounds
at ten mouths old is worth more than
double as much as one requiring two
yearn to reach that jweighl. The'
IMimflMir O re Hu ■ its.
Wo indorse with emphasis the follow
ing very sensible advice on planting or*
chords from tho lamdon Garden: In
preparing tlm holes preparatory to plant
ing tho trees, one can only reiterate ilmt
which lias often been quoted, viz: Make
hut one hole—in other words, mellow tho
ill so deeply that t he size of the hole it-
•|f will 1h* ii matter of small moment.
The depth of tlie hole is, however, of
some importance; in my opinion it
should not he too (jeep, but merely suffi
cient to allow the tree to stand at tho
proper depth. Ton roots will work their
way down almost In spite of uil obstruc-
tiona, but tho delicate fibres and small
rootH tlmt provide the nourishinentshould
have light mellow earth in which to rnin-
ide. r l his is a common senso view of the
subject, and it is borne out in practice.
Deep holes uot (infrequently serve as rc-
coptaclcs for holding water, especially in
clayey soils; and when planters fill in
the IxiLtom with stones, no benefit, ot
course, is derived therefrom, as then ac
cumulated water has no vent. In soils
retentive of moisture, frees should ho
planted even more shallow than they
usually me ; hut in all cases it is a good
rule to bear in mind that trees should
wayabeset shallow. Concerning the selec
tion of trees, planters differ. Most prefer
small trees, hut huccosh is often nttunied
with trees of lurgosize. There isthisdif-
ferencc: a person to succeed vrtth large
specimens must first thoroughly under
stand the nature and requirements of his
trees, and he versed in his work, other
wise. ho will fail; but the merest novice,
with small trees, under ordinary cir
cumstances, will not have many to re
place. I n respect to the selection of nur
sery trees. I prefer apples three,or at tho
furthest, four years ot age ; jiears. two or
three years; plums and cherries, two
years; and peaches one year. These
should all l>e strong and healthy, which
is shown not only by tho size of the pre
vious year’s growth, but by the peculiar
glossy appearance of the hark.
FACTS AND FANCIKN.
Only a few days more of leap year
remain, and wo shall he glad when it Ih
over. This having to reject girl after girl
is a cruel st rain upon a sensitive man.—
Norwich IhilUtin.
Most men call fretting a minor fault,
a foible, and note vice. There is no vice
except drunkenness which can so utterly
destroy the pcnco, tho hnpplness of a
home.—Helen Hunt.
OH It* STRAW, ho much used for bon
nets, is the braided hark of a willow
grown in France and Belgium. Ita
whiteness is so perishable that It will
change over night, becoming the cream
color generally seen.
WOULD-Bw wag (to old cuatomer with
highly tinted nose)—“A’say, Olmppie,
how muoklo wld it tak’ ta pent a nob
like that* o’youra?" Old customer—
" well, mum, a' couldna exactly say, as
it's nn just feeniali’t yet I"—Judy.
If the hard times koop up aa woll a*
they have begun, this Is going to bo one
of those frauds of Christmas, in which
six large, mealy, cheap apples fill tne
boy's stocking so full that it is barely
possible |o crowd a mengro five emits’
worth of candy In the top of the log.
We’ve been there.— Hnxvkeyr.
Wiikn n Chicago ihoenmker sells a
young lady of that city n pair of gum
shoes, he. makes the bill out in the fol
lowing form : “To twenty-seven pounds
of Inula rubber at $1.00 per !»»., $27.00."
And even thou he tools ns if ho were on
thevory vorgo of bankruptcy.—Brooklyn
Arfftu.
. Mr. Longfellow once received a
lottor requesting him to compose an
acrostic, the first letters of which
should spell “ my sweet irirl." The ap
plicant added, “write ns if It were some
beautiful with whom you were in love
- -just as if it wero for yourself." At the
foot of the letter were these words, “ send
hill."
A I'ltOTOORAi'HKR gives the following
direct Ions to his ciiHtomera : "When a
sitting for a picture would compose her
mouth to a bland and serene eharactor,
sho should boforo entering tho room say,
‘bosom,’ and koop the expression into
which the mouth subsides until the de
sired effect iu the camera is ovidont. If,
on tlie other hand, sho wishes to assume
a distinguished and somewhat noble
hearing, not suggestive of sweetness,
she should snv ‘hruah,’ tho result of
which is infallible. If she wishes to
make her mouth look small, she must
say ‘flip,’but if tho mouth he already
too sinall and need enlarging, she must
say ‘cabbage." If she wishes to look
mournful, she must say‘kerchunk; if
resigned, she must f orcibly ejaculate
's'cat.’"
Tho BodyFJndora of tlio Hoiuo.
I must mention the strangest, norbHiw,
of all th6 strange methods of gaining a
living which*nre in vogue in Parte, and
that is tho trade of body-finder. I he
authorities of Paris pay ton francs re
ward for every corpse that is discovered
in the Heine and brought to tho •» orguo.
As the wages of tho poor boatmen who
nly on the river are extremely small it
will readily Ihi seen that such an ad
dition to their potty earnings is not to be
despised. But as bodies float, sometimes
far down the Hal no, beyond the reach of
the boatmen employed in the upper part
of the river, these boatmen have or
ganized a regular traffic with those who
ply their vocation far down the stream,
and who, if they find a body, cannot well
leavo their regular work to bring it to
Paris. The down-streapi Indies nro
therefore purchased at five francs each
by tho upstream boatmen, the profits be
ing thus fairly divided. It may ensily
l.o imagined with wlmt care these men
watch tho river fot* some indication ot
the presence of tho mortal remains ot
some poor suicido, who, if ho were good-
for-nothing when living, is worth fully
ten franca now that he is dead. These
bodyfinders form a valuable adjunct to
t he police force, and instances have .»con
known (d one individual bringing in two
and three bodies in a single day.—Parui
Cor. Philadelphia Telegraph.
want
you
beef
raising.
Ixsly of Tier father, bore her away. \ |»y, who reclaims the one from
Mounting his horse with the frightened j Gains the other to virtu**, is a much
girl in his arms, Bond went speeding : greater character than ladies described
ii a greater deg
• steer that will come earl
iest into market will produce beef at the
least cost to tho farmer, and generally of
and the best quality for the consumer.
Itrulnoec ill tl*<- Moiilli.
uVwarilH tin- i ion I.f llev. Mr. ‘Nickli- in romance, wlmwi win wx-upationlf In I Therein but one clam ofwiln at tin
berry, about a half a mile distant, and j murder mankind with their shafts from Gout') that will pay for dram in jf; low
arriving there, demanded of that gentle-1 the [quiver of their isyun.—OoldtinUh. J lands which arc
General Crook’s Annual Report
General Crook’s annual report says the
iners in the Black Hills did not violate
tlie Sioux treaty until long after the In
dians had erased to regard it, and they
have not kufibred as much from tho Sioux
since they went to the hills ns they did
while living on the border. He also calls
attention to the fact that his command
of less than one thousand men fought
and beat Sitting Hull’s band in the battle
of the Rosebud several weeks previous lo
General Custer's disaster. He seems to
think the government had treated the
.Sioux witli unparalleled liberality, which
t’ley have repaid by raids along tho bor-
.... , iter of the reservation, limited only by
Larged witli bottom the endurance of their ponies.
Old Hi’s Husplclous.
Old Hi wont to the theater to see aima-
giciiitj performance the other night. Next
day wo asked him : ...
“Did you see that man handle that
money last night ?’’
“I did, for a fact!"
“lie mado it come and go in all sorts
Young 1m»hh, dat man’s jMiw’ful slick
wld sllber mummy."
“What did you think of him, HIT
“Dat man fool’d ’round dar wid dat
mutiny ’tell ho ’roused my spishuns, be
did." . „„
“Huspiclotis of what l
"Hit teks lots of praotlss for to make
a half dollar ’pear and dis’pi ar in dat
stile.”
“Of course.” ,
“Hat’s what meks mo hah a Kpishun
dat dat white man wuzone time decasn
cer oh a freedmnn’s bank, an I je
to hnnnol him n fow mlnnlt*, oh.
born.”
A nonunion of i Float Ins Unlit.
The Itnllrnml Amm nivcn the follow-
inn very comical idoe ol tho term llonl.
inn debt,” ill nmover too corroknoiidi'ntt
"Floating debt" III n very fiioliionabin
term nmonir railrond. nowodnyo. It re,»-
rcwoito tho .mailer debt, due u. locomo
tive and car builder*, rolliiiR mill*, wood
mid coal dealer., condllctoni, enyinetnen,
trackmen, ollico boy* and other., for
which nn Hccunty Inn boon ((ivon. they
ltear no intercut, nnd Hometiinco no prin
cipal, and the claims which they rrnre-
eflut are not generally cashed by brokera
at more than thoir face. After floatin*
debt, have run no long that tho company
finds it can not pay them, they are often
"converted” Into "bonded debt, recur
od by recond or third mortgage, and then
tlie mortgage la finally “wi|icd out by
sale of the road, which settles the floating
debts anil their holders in the most cusy
and comfortable manner imaginable.
DIE
HOW MANY CHILDREN
from Croup, Diptlierla, fee. Tills new prin
ciple. Dr..I. H. Mel^an’s Cough and Lung
Hcitllng Globules, will cure Croup tunl
Throat cliHeas-'w, Coniumpt ou, Coughing,
Hoarse ness. Trial Boxes 2f» one, hy mail.
Dr. J. H. McLaun’s office, 31-1 Ch?stmit St.,
St. Louis.