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"THE GEORGIA PRESS.
piano, and each club will hold its meet
ings there. The clubs have our best
wishes for the success of the institution.
A tornado passed through Emanuel
county last week doing considerable dam
age. Mr. W. A. Maxey had his property
greatly injured.
The main volume of the wind passed
in a few rods of his dwelling, blowing
Washington Correspondence. I AGRICULTURAL DEPART3TENT.
Washington Citt, March 13,1880. edited by
both houses General Wm. M. BROWNE,
are resting to-day from their labors of the Professor of History and Agriculture in the
past week. A goad day it is, too, to rest. I University of Georgia.
It has been snowing with scarcely an in- I
termisiion since yesterday noon, and the Amount of Nitrogen in Cotton Seed.
Canadian weather prophet has triumph-
antly vindicated his reputation. He call- KaPUY TO GEY. WILLIAM M. BROWNE,
ed for three snow storms between the 1st Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—In
and 15th of March, and we have had ex- (reply to my former letter, General Browne
actly that number with one day to spare. I says “I have not made the statement con-
I move his appointment as our “Old tained in the articles to which Dr. Jones
Probs'' vice General Myer, who hasn’t excepts without good and sufficient au-
done nearly so well since he has been in I thority.” He then gives as his authority
chame of our weather. Witn a low tern- Dr. E. M. Pendleton, whom he quotes as
pe rature we should now have at least half saying: “As an average, we may safely
a foot of snow on the ground. As it is, put down seven per cent, of nitrogen
there are scarcely two inches, the weather I equal to a little more than three per cent,
being comparatively mild and the ground I of ammonia. Fifteen hundred pounds ,of
rather warm in consequence of the long [ seed cotton will make a good bale of cot-
continued mildness of the temperature, ton, leaving one thousand pounds of seed.
If the doctors don’t reap a rich harvest For every bale of cotton, then, the planter
now I should like to know the reason has seed enough left to make eighty pounds
why. There is enough rheumatism to I of ammonia.” I quote the above from a
the square inch of the present weather to I paper on the value of cotton seed as a fer-
satisfy the greediest medico that ever I tilizer sent me by Dr. PenJeton, and pub-
wrote a prescription or pocketed a fee. 11 Ifalied by me in the Southern Farm and
should like, exceedingly, to belong to the I Home.
profession just now. I My first remark on this quotation is
the fitz JOHN fobteb case {that it contains glaring mistakes, probably
has been hung up for the present, to the I typographical. I do not think Dr. Pen-
immense disgust of those “moral ideas” I dleton would have made them. First,
statesmen of the Senate who had charged I that seven per cent, of nitrogen is equal to
themselves with big speeches, to be used I a little more than three per cent, of am-
as campaign documents. Logan’s four-1 monia; and second, that a little over three
days’ yawp, however, had pretty well I per cent, of ammonia would make eighty
disgusted everybody, and there was a gen-1 pounds of ammonia in one thousand
era! willingness to lay it aside until the | pounds of seed. Any one in the least con-
We learn that Rev. J. W. Burke has | £ hUbarns and st^bfesand scatter:
been appointed presiding elder of the I ; n g his com and fodder along the track
Americus district, to fill the vacancy of the wind for two miles. His fences
«*«*«> % s
Samuel Anthony. I others were driven with such force
The project of building a cotton factory against standing timber that they
in Griffin is talked of by some of its citi- were broken in two like straws. Enor-
I mous sticks of timber were dropped about
■ zens - I the plantation that were brought from a
Saturday evening the members or distance unknown. It is strange to say
Pulaski Council, Royal Arcanum, gave a his stables were bl jwn down to the
Julius M. Swain, who has just been mak- I wb ich y[. ero of the same size, and the tim
ing a visit to Savannah. J her of tha three were so mixed that
The citizens of Americus are said to 1 the logs belonging to the different houses
— «60 »d
•Mortgage on the Anthony homestead. On I ^ Emanuel county.
Friday last the necessary papers were I Mr. Welds was whetting the saw,
•drawn and the deeds turned over. This I ^ new . nl|r 0 f Bazemore & Wells
•speaks well for their liberality. I j n gc re ven county, when his hand came in
The work of improvement is going on j with the teeth of t he saw an d two
in Vienna. Several new dwellings have | 0 f b fa g ngers were badly lacerated,
been, erected, and there are others ini Columbus Times: The Chattahoochee
contemplation. I river is on a boom and the prospects last „ .
Several boys in Griffin ran away from I night were that it will be very near as j pangs of that infliction had somewhat sub- j versant with the rudiments of chemistry
*i « nntc I high as it was in January. It had risen sided. It can, however, be called up at I knows that when nitrogen by combination
ineir parents. j sixteen feet up to 5 o’clock yesterday eve- I any time by a majority vote. Speaking | forms ammonia, the resulting compound
Griffin can boast of a bell nearly one I a nd was a t that time rising at the for myself, I hope it will be allowed to I (ammonia) weighs more than the original
hundred vears old. rate of two indies an hour. All the facto- rest for the remainder of this session. I nitrogen. In the case cited, seven per
Savannah’s exports last Saturday ries were stopped, and unless the river The discussion certainly cannot help the I cent, of nitrogen is equivalent to eight and
, i i ’ , /us „„ I falls very rapidly operations will not be Democrats, and may. be made to work to a half per cent, of ammonia, and not to
reached a valuation of $634,643, an excel- (“ tlieir injur^ in the campaign of bloody “a little more than three per cent.”
From Saturday night up to yesterday shirt lies and sectional bigotry and bitter- And if there was only “a little
evening at dark the rainfall was 2 and I ness that lies before us. The South has I more than three per cent.” a thousand
71-100 mches. The prospect at this writ- little interest in it anyhow, but if her rep- pounds of cotton seed would contain a Ijt-
ing is that the rain is not yet over. I resentatiyes take it np actively, lw one-1 t ie more than thirty pounds of ammonia,
i»e learn mat me plantations down the | mies will turn it against us somehow. J and not “eighty” pounds. Such errors
river are many of them flooded, and much They have the will and would certainlyfind J would have struck any one, familiar with
Augusta is now reaping the fruits of the I damage has been done to the newly a way to do so. Let the Northern Demo-1 chemistry, on reading the passage, and
last election. Whisky then ruled the I plan* ed com fields and where guano had I crats do the talking. We will do the voting I ought to have made the Professor of Agri
day. This is another illustration of I been bedded In the ground for cotton. when the time comes - , which I hope will I culture pause and investigate the matter
-‘sowing the wind and reaping the whirl-1 The Constitution has the following: I not be until after the November elections. I more fully. Had he consulted Dr. Pen-
wind.” I rv„r+ Ravimr rofacpA in I This restraint will go hard with some of I dleton’s work on “Scientific Agriculture,”
Yesterday, as the sun came out, an 1 , no® War tw nn our statesmen, but better that than they I page 364, a work prepared probably with
old frame building, standing near one of I f „ nf should throw any more fat in the fire. I greater care than an article for a maga-
the engine homes of Augusta, began to gg imprisonment, wcept in the clemency T , hat business ^ beea vastl y overdone, zine-he would have found Dr. P. saying
smoke and look as though a huge fire was If the liovenior The friends of the nris- alread y* “the average of these three chemists * * *
smouldering beneath. The men of the A I just AS I expected, j makes the amount of nitrogen in the whole
company at once gathered their hose reel, j nn ‘ Dr. Felton voted with the Radicals on seed, capsule and all as used by farmers
shouted fire and made for the spot, only 5*;.,, oirnni? received several hundred .Thursday on the bill forbidding the assess- for manure, 3.10 per cent.” This is not a
to be laughed at heartily by some other I'. . 8 5JS,I ment of office-holders for political pur- I casual statement, but occurs in a para-
fireinen. Si other^oc.lidL ^The friends P«es- Mr. Speer voted with the Demo- graph in which Dr. P. is giving, accord-
The Post says the waternow furnished Lf the unfortunate man are using even,-1 crats for the bill. Felton is getting ready I mg to the best information within his
by the Atlanta water works is beautifully means in their power in his behalf. ' ^^d^uSifid^a SbeffigTut T^ fi^S of eS^chembt.^rom which
colored. I Daily Times: Miss Viola Rogers, one I od - f rom the material aid he is likely to I the average is taken, are also given, so
If a man can’t make both ends meet, I °* the most charming and accomplished J from the Radical office-holders I that there is little possibility of typograph
ic him sit down on the end of a sliakv I y?”" 2 ladies of Macon, and who lias been down there. He wllL have to rely upon ical error.
t / I visiting this city as the guest of Mrs.W al- the j r a | ( j morc this year than ever before General Browne implies that Dr. Pen-
barrel. When the head caves in the prob-1 ker, for several weeks, left for her home I an( j 0 f c0ur sc j 3 no t willing to close their I dleton had made an analysis of cot-
lem will be solved to his complete satis-1 in Macon yesterday. Several of our I pockets against him by voting for .a bill t ton seed himself, and from that he
young men have already engaged rooms I tba t pr0 poses1 0 cut him off from that very I was quoting. If Dr. P. ever made such
*t thisBrown House for the summer. I thing. Mr. Stephens did not vote on the I an analysis, ha does not refer to it. in his
H e regret to learn that Rev. A. M. hjj^ so j can’t say how he stands on the | book, or in any other publication I have
Wynn, presiding elder of the Columbus I matter. Of course the rest of the dolega- I ever seen. With commendable prudence
tion voted for the bill. When it is remem-1 Dr. P. relics upon the average results ob-
bered how Dr. Felton has thundered 1 tained by reputable analytical chemists,
against party corruption, his rote against | and I now submit tliat General Browne’s
lent exhibit for one day so late in the
season.
A rat weighing six pounds was killed
in a Oolnmhn* hotel 111# other dav
The News says:
/action.
The Conyers cornet band will furnish
music for the Georgia Press Association,
measure "calculated to do away with I own witness has fully substantiated the
one of the most fruitful I statement in my first article.
which convenes at Cuthbcrt on the Sth of | district, happened to a serious accident
*^ ay ' I day before yesterday. He was thrown
Last Wednesday was held the annual I f roin a buggy and his shoulder was badly
meeting of the stockholdrs of the Enter-1 hurt, an d, it is feared, one or two of his „
prise Factory of Augusta. The report of ri bs broken. We trust it may not prove f sources of it is very edifying, but at the | The propriety of adding phosphates to
the President showed that the net earn-1 . . . , I same time, very characteristic. As you I composts of cotton seed, I did not discuss
ings of the past six months would enable I 80 se nous 8913 teareti.. L will have noticed, he also voted against and did not dispute. I joined issue with
the factory to pay about 4| per cent, divi- okating seems to lie very popular m T breakin g up tb e present iniquitous and j the statement that cotton seed contained
<lend, or 0 per cent, per annum. The ca-1 Augusta at present. Friday evening sev- swindling high tariff by which New Eng- only “a littlejihosphoric acid.” A thous-
pacity of the factory will soon be increas-1 eral couples will skate for prizes. Mr. I land robs the South and West annually of I and pounds of cotton seed (about tliirty-
«d by the addition of 6,000 spmdles. Platt is arran^in" a prize skatin" match so many millions ofdoRars. three and a third bushels) contains as
Atlanta is reioicin" in the npnr nmt. I, 1 „ 3 , : I the various presidential “booms” I much phosphoric acid as is present in a
1 ^eeD Prof. Charles, now in Charleston, | I see one for T.lden soluble P condilion in 100 pounds of fint-
pea ol possess ng a tree public hospital, I an ,iMr. McMillen, of New York, who is in some paper this morning to the effect class acid phosphate. Would any farmer
the waut of which has long been felt in I ac kn 0W i e dg e d one of the finest amateurs I that so far from his health being feeble, I call that only “a little phosphoric acid.”
that city. It will be under the charge of I ; n 4mm y a 1119 is as “spry” as a two year old—better I W. L. Jones.
the Sisters of Mercy. I „„„ v ‘ ., nrr .. lrr . • , and stronger than he has been for years,
jItt.isti's ta-v Himt c>, m r= an re ThE ■ Fore i t b Advertiser gives the fol- I all(1 en j 0 y S nothing more than “walking
Algi ta tax digest sho\vs an^ in- i ow in g acC ount of a prisoner’s escape: I down Broadway” inthe midst of a pelting
crease m real estate of SloO.OOO since Qn last Sunday morning, about 9 J snow storm, while younger men are shut _
1879. o’clock, Mr. C. A. King went to the conn- j up in cars and stages. I suppose thisstufi*[ Jones bases his argument in the foregoing
'rtv,— ... tv iail to cive the prisoners breakfast, and I i&deliberately manufactured and circula- I communication, is so manifestly typo-
Ite Post comments as follows on the ^rst op^fd tbe dMr of a cell in which ted in the belief that it will fool some- graphical I am at a loss to comprehend
■condition of the streets m Atlanta: [ were Confined Squire Shannon, Tom Pit-1 body, but it seems to be the boldest kind his motive in noticing it. It was so piain
Such weather as the present is a bar-1 man and Bill Lemons. As he opened the of flapdoodle. But then, you know, the I that when I read my • article m print, I
vest time for the street railway company, outside door to the cell Bill Lemons I old chap is rich enough to make an object I did not think it necessary to correct it,
because every body prefers riding in a I sprang out with a piece of iron in his I to some greedy newspapers to print just because I felt certain that it could not
sheltered car to wading through mud an- hands, and struck Mr. King a blow on the I what he wants circulated. I may Oe mis-1 mislead any fair-minded reader of ordin-
kle deep. It is no exaggeration to say I head, which staggered him for a moment. I taken, but I think I can put my baud on J ary intelligence, however casual his peru-
tliat such is the condition of the streets all I He rushed up to the desperate negro, but I some newspapers of this sort in Georgia; j sal of the article. My extract from Dr.
over town. Even the sidewalks, a few I could not prevent liis escape down the I and you will see more of them, too, as I Pendletons paper in the Southern -harm
squares from the business centre of the 1 stairway and out of doois. He gave his I nomination day draws near. j and Home, made “seven per emit, of ni-
city, are almost as impassable as the attention to Tom Pitman and prevented the treasury broom brigade. trogen equal to a little more than eight,
streets. In some places the street car liis escape. I Every day a little past 4 p. m. the | (not three) per cent, of ammonia. I
Athens, February 10,1SS0.
REPLY TO DR. JONES.
The “glaring mistake” upon which Dr.
words, one ton of good acid phosphate
contains as much phosphoric acid as is
contained in ten tons of cotton seed-or
the seed of twenty heavy bales of cotton.
This may not be, strictly speaking, “a
little phosphoric acid,” but it cannot cer
tainly be said to be a great deal. In
compliance with Dr. Jones’ request ad
dressed to the publishers of this journal, I
1. Any land that is suited for com will
do for lucerne.
2. The best time to sow is in the latter
part of August or September, so that the
young plants may become well established
before the winter begins; but good results
will follow early spring sowing in rich,
Well prepared, dean land*
8. Drill sowing is far preferable to
would explain the apparent tardiness of I broadcast, because it allows cultivation to
his rejoinder to my reply to his first com- keep down weeds and grass while the
munication. Nearly a month ago j crop is young.
ho sent a paper to the Telegraph I 4. From ten to twelve pounds of seed
and Messenger, containing substantial- ( per acre are sufficient,
ly all that is contained in the foregoing 5. Cut when the bloom appears, and
communication. This paper, with true 1 cure like clover.
journalistic courtesy, was submitted to We will add to the above that lucerne
me by the publisher. I replied .immedi- should be invariably cut, necer pastured.
atcly in terms almost identical with those On rich land, five good cuttings per year,
I now employ, and promptly returned Dr. I for six or seven years, may be counted on,
Jones’ paper, and my reply by mail.. For with annual top dressing and one plow-
some unaccountable reason my letter, as I ing. The great essential to success in
well as other packages mailed by me on raising lucerne is to keep tho crop clear
the same day, did not reach its destina- of grass and weeds while it is young,
tion. I am glad that Dr. Jones has re- I When once it lias taken the ground it will
peated his reply, because it affords me the | hold it.
opportunity to state the reasons of the
faith that is in me, and to explain (hat
to correspondents.
Correspondents on agricultural subjects
when he discovered the palpable typo- I desiring information through the agricul-
graphical error of his first reply, “the tural columns of this paper, are requested
Professor of Agriculture” did not “pause to address their communications to us at
and investigate the matter more fully,” Athens, Georgia. We will take pleasure
because he had no doubt the readers of I in replying to them as fully and asprompt-
the Telegraph and Messenger are I Jy as circumstances may permit,
conversant with the intricacies of the mul-
The President to-day confirmed the
sentence of dismissal in the case of Maior
Reno.
The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs adopted a resolution to-day calling
upon the Secretary of the Treasury for
the liistory of all the proceedings had in
the matter of unsettled claims of the
Spanish inhabitants of East Florida during
the years of 1812 and 1813, known as the
East Florida claims, the settlement of
which is provided for by a stipulation
contained inthe treaty of 1819 (between
the United States and Spain. The ques
tion which has been in dispute since
1S33 is the propriety of allowing five per
cent, interest on the claims passed upon
by the Florida courts. Upon receipt of
the information asked for by the com
mittee the subject will be fully investi
gated with a view to its final aud satis
factory settlement.
San Francisco, March 16.—The po
lice Judge this morning sentenced Deanis i • ’ on «r»die»u iv-
Kearney to six months’ imprisonment in J and free th ®
the House of Correction, and to pay aline
of $1,000. The severity of the sentence
was a surprise to Kearney, who expected
to get off with nominal punishment. It
is probable that he will take the ea3e to
the Supreme Court on habeas corpus.-
. Mobile, Alabama, March 16.—Spe
cial dispatches to the Register from Rome
and Selma, says there are overflows of
take;
SIMMONS’
LIVER
REGULATOR!
It Will Positively Cur® *
bad bbbath.
itsss —-■’.a.'saas
JAUNDICE.
Simmons* liver BemUalor
SICK HEADACHE.
.Bor the relief and
rg affliction take Simmons’ Livera^J^s.
MALARIA.
Persons Jiving in nnkealihv
-ra-rr* rm-iV tv a ! water a11 around them, and that both I dI^ d of l ^. kl b ? occ »sion»i:j5S i a *J
BY TTjTiTj(rB.API~f towns are seriously threatened. It is ex- liw in healthy actton? r Be * u!atort oteepu|
• • - pected that before manv hours the water I
Nashville, March 16.—The presi- reach Selma, and the indications I CONSTIPATION
tiplication table.
William M. Browne,
Professor Agriculture, etc., University of I
Georgia. 1 dency of the Nashville, Chattanooga* and IP®*? 1 to overflow than those of I Should not be regarded at a tnnm. „
„ . I St. Louis railroad has been accepted by 11® 1 * and lS7o. At Rome the water has | ture demands the utaoetrewiiritrMV?* 1 ?^
eebuuzebs FROM the poultry yard. ex . Govem , r James D . Porter P of fljfj, reached the battery rooms of the Western
A valued friend, an intelligent planter state. I Union Telegraph office, and is still ris-1 LlTer Pe * Dl * ,or * ltIj » 0 “ 1 M»ndeir et iiu,“®**
in Randolph county, writes us in regard Savannah, March 16—A special to in S- piles.
^ tbp ^alue ^be poultry^^yard f as.a j the Homing Fetes from Jacksouville an-1 Augusta, Ga., March 16.—Fifty prom-
and ten turkeys which are never housed I tween Jacksonville and Savannah. Its road to'Cincinnati. The invitations were I ALCOHOLIC POISONING
except at night in a pole house with a dirt | completion will reduce the time between I issued by the Cincinnati Southern Rail- T - „ , .
floor. Every week, a boy ten yeara old, I Savannah aud Jacksonville to six hours, I road Company. effect of a'eohoii7nSmiw r
rakes up and deposits the droppings m a and from New York to Jacksonville to Montgomery, Ala., March 16—The
bacon cask. After two or three la) ere of forty hours against sixty at present. rains of the past five days have been very tric disturbance corrected and intern
the droppings, a small amount of fresh I Chicago, March 16—The Socialists heavy, and the Alabama river has over- Tented -
wood earth is spread over them to prevent J held a meeting last night, and heard ad- flowed its banks. There are no reports of BKVBB.
the pcape of the ammonia, and so on, un- dresses from leaders on the Chinese ques- damage to any of the railroads centering mhSuSmtliiriD* 7 1 ? 8 u t
til the cask is full. Last year, I saved three tion, aud adopted ultra resolutions against here. It is now growing cold. rible soouijw.
casks full. They were kept _jn a | emigration. They formulated a petition! Harrisburg, Pa., March 16. Matters fliI * to do 411 i< clamed for it. s w
each bushel weighs thirty pounds, the
three casks gave 2,700 pounds of guano,
COLIC.
. eshut down. The puddleresay they | relief *hm8lmmongLtT•r < ^wuSuK^^fe c,
here. are in receipt ot information that at least woopiing to direction*. Adult* u wuL
_ , x -- •. .. . Richmond, March 16—The heavy twenty or thirty more will go out before “^wniftrivetrest benefit from thi* adits?
But, to be within the mark throw offTOO ra{ns in the past few days have swollen all the end of the week. Thus" far, no disor- chu L3 AND FEVER
pounds, and I had 2,000 pounds—one the tributaries of the James river above der has followed the strike in this region. ever.
ton—of guano, equal, in my opinion, to I here, and serious floods aro feared. Mer- London, March Iff—A Vienna dis- There i* no nsed of suffering snjhottrt^
Peruvian or any other. If one ton of tlus | chants in the lower part of the city are | patch to the Times highly commends Gen- Lirer krgai»toKc“
will make three, we have, at or 48) removing their goods to places of safety, eral MelikofTs treatment^ both of his sub- «»tcm. ‘ ii curM wi^^fother (if 1 *
pounds of lint cotton per «.on, $1^ ^vorth j The rain to-night is falling in torrents, ac- ordinates, and of all who come in contact emediei In),
of fertilizers from thirty-five or iorty head I companied by lightning. Telegrams from with him, and says it is in striking con- DTIPBPS1A.
of poultry, allowing the eggs and chickens i Lynchburg report that the river there has trast with the brutality and contempt cf Tbi. medicine win no,itir*.v
raised to pay for feeding and mampulatr risen about six feet, and still rising rapid- officials towards the Russian public. He terribleUteiSsamtSiSSmi.
mg the fertilizer. If iny estimate is cor-jjy. The river at Chariottesvllle is repor- not only investigates things iiersonally, J? rt wh “ »» inaw to be im
rect one hundred head of poffitiy will fur- ted up several feet and also rising rapid- and dispatches promptly affairs which, „'
lushseven anda lialftons offertilizer. ly under the;old regime,would have dragged aUtorcr McSicTe p^SdoTb,
'• I have now, after putting, I am afraid, I Nashville, March 16.—The steamer | on for months and years, but he evidently 1 J. H. zsiLiy aco.
too much on my garden, one cask nearly Bradford arrived from above to-night, means what he says, aud has not only WhMMkk
full. Next year I propose to manipulate | Captain Armstrong says the entire low- ! asked the co-operation of all good citizens i* 11111
my own fertilizers and mtend to racrease j land for two hundred miles up the river J for the protection of society, but has re-
my poultry to one hundred head. is flooded. He reports that a rise is com- quested the St. Petersburg town council continues the President will issue awe
Our correspondent cannot over^wUmatc ing down which will swell the riyer here to sendsomeof its memtrcis to advise with lamation, and troops will be
of th ® sweepings of his poultry | to at least forty-seven feet. The Tennes- the executive committee. The success of tect the Utes, if necessary. f
yard, being particularly rich m nitrogen see river is out of it banks at Decatur and this system raises the question whether The House Committee on Foreisnit
and phosphoric acid. They rank next to jobnsonville. its application on a lamer scale, and the fairs agreed to-day to report favorable
night sod in value, because they Mntain I jjadkid, March 16—England, France, reorganization on this basis of the whole j the House of Representatives, Wilson's
Sffr.lt!?Jiff Three orlouflmnd^d n Cr ?? a? f y E ® lgiurn * lortiigal, and Russian Empire, might not be underta- bill providing for the restomion to the
mixed together, lhree or lour hundred j the United States, have agreed to a propo-1 ken. Chinese eoveniment of the stw-ntiw) m
weight of fowl manure, preserved 8*>QM | ofSpain for a conferenco to be held in | Mr. Gladstone startedto-day onan elec- nese “Indemnity Fund,” after nato
Madrid, to arrange with the envoy of Mo- tioneering tour through Midlothian iu the proper deductions for the loss of certo
T, MH-w
track is entirely submerged under mud
and water. It is rather hard on the mules
to swim thr. ugh all tills slush drawing a
loaded car after them, but they seem to
do their work cheerfully, and the drivers
seem to be as patient as their teams.
The wives of literary men are some
times very appreciative. It is said that
Walter Scott once read one of his beauti-
have the paper before me now as I re
copy it from the Farm and Home, Vol. I,
p. 307. The mistake, most “glaring,” I
Squire Shannon made no attempt to | broom brigade is turned loose on the hails
come out. Mr. King received a severe and rooms of the Treasury building. They
blow on the head, which gave him consid- are of many colors and nationalities. J
erable pain. The wound was promptly Prior to their grand charge they are mass- admit, was made by the printer, I can as-
dressedby Dr. Moore, and is not serious, ed in one of the basement halls with their I sure Dr. Jones, and not by me. Although
A crowd collected, but before they arrived brooms, buckets, brushes and swabs. 11 do not pretend to be a practical analyt-
Bill bad got such a start that pursuit was Their pay is only, fifteen dollars per | ical chemist, I am perfectly aware of the
not attempted. P month, and among them are women who fact that nitrogen when changed into am-
The Comptroller General has issued fi. I once would have scorned such work. But | monia weighs more than the original ni-
- • . c- it, - . . | bread is as necessary in Washington as | trogen. At all events, I am sufficiently
r . , . . .. .. | f* 3 - aga inst Samuel R. Hoyle, for balance | e ] gew ], ere and scru hbing heats starvation | conversant with “the rudiments” of arith-
ful and imaginary passages to his wife | dim by him to the State as tax collector I a ][ hollow. The sweepings are collected, | metic to know positively that ten times
■who listened with eyelids cast down and J f or F u ito n county for about $29,000. The sorted and placed in three bins. Most of | three cannot make eighty pounds of am-
bated breath. When he closed, she re- j Constitution gives us the following infor-1 it is of coarse waste paper, and returns | monia or of anything else, simple or com-
znar&ed, “Don’t put on your left stocking I Riation: j again to the mill. I pound.
T I, n1 » !n We are informed that Mr. Hoyle left After you tire of looking at this sweep-| Dr. Pendleton may have found reason,
u>-nionow, near, i must me u a uoie in I tbe a hout a week ago for Nashville. | ing brigade you can go down stairs and I subsequently to writing the article for the
it.” | Tennessee, where lie had some race horses J see the “macerator” at work, grinding to | Farm and Uome, from which J quoted—
The last issue of the Thomasvillo I on (Joneral Hardin’s place. A letter was | a soft nasty pulp the called in and con-1 though he docs not say so—to modify his
"Himes has a long article on the life and j received yesterday by Mr. W. A. Brown | demned greenbacks. It grinds up from | analysis ot cotton seed; but in that arti-
execution of tlie colored criminal, Dan I ti 0TS \ Mr. Linck, of Nashville, stating that J one hundred to five hundred thousand | cle he certainly stated as follows:
its volatile matter is retained, and kept
perfectly dry, were estimated by the late ,.— ^
William N.AVlute as“of equal value with foreign powers, of the Jews and other) Tne meeting of the Radical Association | country.
from fourteen to eighteen loads of animal I subjects of the Sultan of Morocco. of Lambeth to support the candidature of Also Representative Cox’s bill to restore
manure. , ,, I Washington, March 16—The Senate Henry Labouchere, editor of Truth, of to the Japanese Government $785,000 and
To preserve all the valuable prop- committee on Privileges and Elections to- a seat in Parliament, ended in a free interest, paid as indemnity by that sot-
eities of P°ultr)’ mMure, tlie floor of i day by a strict party vote decided to re- fight. The lights were extinguished, eminent, under convention of October 22,
the fowl house should be thickly strewn | port that Kellogg should be unseated and ] chairs broken, and hisses and groans pre- 11S64.
with charcoal dust or plaster, and occa- spofl'ord seated. There will be a minority vented speaking. An attempt to storm On motion of Mr. Atkins, the House
sionally raked over and kept as free from reI0rt . U e platform wm vigorously and success- Appropriations Committee agreed toTi
moisture as ,P°f *ble. When required for I In the Senate, Mr. Edmunds introduced fully resisted by its occupants with fists, to report an amendment to tlwspecial de-
use, it should be thoroughly-mixed with a bill to fix a day for the meetmg ef elec- sticks and chairs. ficiency bill, now pending in the House,
eight or nine tunes its bulk of good soil, tors for President and Vice President, and London, March 10— Mr. Gladstone, providingforan appropriation of$6,CtS,0C«
aud a liberal admixture of plaster. It is to provide for and regulate the counting of in addressing a crowd at the railway sta- | to complete the payment of pensions for
an especially good manure for corn. Care votes for President and Vice President, j tion to-day, before his departure for Mid- the present fiscal year, ending June*),
should be taken in applying it to cover it and the decision of questions arising there- lothian, said: “I am going to gain a tic- 1SS0. $56,000,000 have already been sp
an inch deep, so tliat tbe seed may not 0 n. In doing so ho said: For more than a tory. I expect to be supported with a propriated, and the last item will swell
come in immediate contact with it. As ex-1 year, now, there has existed a large zeal such as will make Scotland an ex- the appropriations to $62,705,000 required
penence has proved, this will prevent ger- I an d select committee in this body, charged ample for the rest of the Kingdom.” Ho to pay tho pension rolls during l« It
nunation. A good ^handful to a hill of I with the duty of considering this and other j 3aid also that he had no doubt be should is thought much more will & roqui
corn is sufficient. , j cognate subjects. So far as I know, that secure the object he had in view in coin'’ for 1881.
power of THE soil TO RETAIN MA- J committee has had no meeting, and I have j to Scotland, which was not only to win The bill introduced by Mr. Edmunds!:
NUEE - I waited, being iu a minority in this body, j the seat for Midlothian, but to sweep out J the Senate to-day to regulate the countms
rials i
solution, and are thus lost to plants; tnat | be this most important business; but as no 1 and to consign them „„„„ ,
those whose soil is sandy soon loose all | movement has been made, I leel it my j for which they are more fitted,
the value of whatever manure they apply j duty to ask consent to introduce this bill, | London, March 16—The British bark I
because they sink rapidly below the point and that it be referred to that commit- Yuba, for Baltimore, and the German
where the roots of the plants can reach J tee. j bark Gasolle, Captain Anckter, from Wil-
Monday. in January aflei
their appointment, that previous to sad
meeting each State may determine any
controversy arising in connection wiih
such electom, and that such determini-
» • , .... •„ . J Hoyle had sold his horses and had gone to
Brigberty, who was bung in that place on Cincinnati. This is all the information
the 12th of March. It is to be wished that | we could get of his whereabouts,
the law should always be executed in such | _ It has been known in the_ city among
dollars per day. It is run by a ten-horse
! power engine, and grinds about two hours J
daily. • £ T'a i'Avi'
The money goes into a huge round caul-
“As an average, we may safely put
down seven (7) per cent, of nitrogen equal
to eight (8) per cent, of ammonia. 1,500
pounds of seed cotton will make a good
„ ciinnid not »ptu to he I bis friends that he lost eight thousand | dron-like hopper into which open three | bale of cotten, leaving 1,000 pounds of
* | dollars at the Augusta races a short time ] small dials secured by three separate locks. I seed. For every bale of cotton, then, the
so “lame of foot but that crime sjouiq I s j nce> He also let Mr. TT. L. Goldsmith, | The obsequies of the condemned green-J planter has seed enough to make 'eighty
be prevented by the thought that she | late Comptroller General, have a large | backs are daily observed with a rigid and I (80) pounds of ammonia.”
“never fails to overtake the wicked going I sum of money—how much we are unable | precise formality. Three separate United I In another part of tlie same article, Dr.
1 to ascertain—when he (Goldsmith) was States Treasury officials, men of known | Pendleton estimates the value of a ton of
.being investigated by the legislature, trust, probity and honor, “highly respected I cotton seed “as a nitrogenous fertilizer,”
We take the following from the Atlanta j which he has been unable to get since by all who know them,” carry the con-1 at $36, or “eighteen dollars: for every
Host:
There will be a veiy interesting exami-1
nation before tlie Board of Police Com-1
missioners to-night. It will be remem
bered that a few Sundays ago officer Me-1
from Mr. Goldsmith. | demned bills to the sacrificial hopper, un-1 heavy bale einned.” As tlie commercial
We are also informed that he was inter- (lock the sacred doors, chuck them in, lock I value of nitrogen varies from seventeen
ested in a large gambling house in Cin- j them up and carefully watch each other | (17) cents per pound (Prof. Johnson’s es-
cinnati. He had a large sum invested in | to see that none of this government paper | timate) to twenty-five (25) or twenty-six
.... race horses, owning an interest in Ben | sticks to their clothing or to tho tar on I (26) cents, it is clear that.he must have
** .. I Hill and Bound Dance, and other cele- J their heels. Then hot water Is let on, and ] believed, when he wrote, that 1,000 pounds
Crary attemp.ea tne arrest oi j-sse liar-j rmce jj 0rses that have been on the | the cogs of the government coffee mill j of cotton seed contained more than forty
P el >, a colored watchman at.tiie Georgia I tul f jjj Georgia during the past few yeara. | rend the tens, hundreds and thousand | (40) poimds of ammonia. Taking his fig-
Hailroad depot, and on b?ing resisted J f^ dollar notes to atoms. You may look | ures-Ueventy (70) iiounds of nitfogen in
^ftu f edbyH“i^th£ the arrest Mil-1 ’ Colorado Heights I through a little window in the top of ;the j i,000 pounds at seed, and allowing the
legal, and that therefore the force used
was unwarranted. The colored man has j York
preferred cbiffpes against McCrary, which | j uat 0 f this same ihie of contacted - 1 mass and put-It near my nose and eyes j seed to be $36.40. And forth er, sir
- I plain and mountains rise some of the sub-1 for inspection. It is a,nasty mack. Yet, I ter making-ibis calculation, Dr. Pen-
ia <in" I limest peaks in America. Go up Pike’s j since it has been money, one gazes at it I dleton goes on to remark: “thisjis ho ex-
Peak before sunrise, and you will see J with grief, curiosity and even respect. I aggeration. It is substantiated by agri-
‘A. W. R. I cultural chemistry and by actual experi
ments made by myself and pthers.” It is
true that in the appendix to his “Sclen-
will
aataissaesi
could not get out of the way of a proces-1and two hundred more Ovdr
sion that was * ' '
dubbing was
commissioners finally dismissed the ease.
be beard to-nigbt.
will be highly
will go far towards de-|
A special tothe Courier-Journal says:
New Yobk, March '14—Your corrcs- j tific Agriculture,” at the page indicated by
pondent is justified in saying that there | Dr. Jones, Dr. Pendleton states that the
arc railroad combinations under negotia-1 average of the' analyses of three chemists,
changed secretly .
ownership may serve to,coalesce antagoii- | seed, makes the amount of nitrogen 3.10
- - - - d drive apart tlioso here- J per cent. He says nothing in his appen-
am not at liberty to dis- j dix of any analysis made by liimself, but
close the nature of these negotiations, but | that lie did make one with the result
with a canon, thejr are _nbw~dry.. They | ^01 notify you as soon as they are in | stited in his article may certainly be in-
lo^ch feeline wi raisedMt Wil « niles wWe ’ and from 60 to 2 ,°° miI , es on S' ownership may sei
tbi WM ^ttotawn are supposed to have.formerly been istlc interests and
From the total 'cry deep lakes among the mouutains,but tofore allied. I a
I "»»«*•'» liTTrier tort,.tortdrt
' ‘ somewhat difficult to determine
■whether'he Y^wholl^usrifiable or notfor I aro lifted as follows beginning at the I p a rt accomplished. The’Newcomb-Cole I ferred from Ws statement, that the figures
f,rienremsesThenihlic J10rth : first > ^ orth then two charm- conference continues, though nothing is in that artic e aro no “exaggeration,” but
interest for in S little oncs caHed Egeria and Estes, announced as definite. Mr, NewcomS fa arc substantiatedby agricultural.chemistry
yUI Ibewfowtoogwiisome intcre.. tor Mid(] , e park) th e n Sout li paik in the ihid- very busily engaged, and in conference and by actual experiments made “by hlm-
The report ott eina. | die of the State—where Fremont was daily with leading capitalists and rail-1 self and othara.” By what other actual
In order to get inside of a saloon a I hemmed in with snow and obliged to sub- roadmen. The statement fa authorized | experiment but analysis could he and
prominent fireman of Augusta employed I st on his mules—and San Luis paik iu | that the Georgia Western project is re- | others have ascertained those figures ?
the device of dropping liis kc-v inside | the south. The view of these deep in- vived as a part of the new programme,! Since writing my first reply to Dr,
41 I Mien nctinrt I c,ose d valleys from the surromiding J an d in certain contingencies, which I re-f Jones strictures on my statement made
through the front gratm = andtiien asking I j. j lt3 jg attractive in theextrcme. Men 2ar d inevitable, it will be built in lessonmyfailhintheaccuracyofDr.Fendle-
< he saloon keeper to opeulus’oorm order I h„iid tlieir cities and work their mines at time than ever known before. It need ton’s figures, I was informed by my friend,
to go below and get his keys. He was sue-1 unheard of elevations. All Leadville, | not be said that tho Louisville and Nash- | Dr. J. S. Lawton, that he had an analysis
1 with its 30,000 inhabitants, fa 10,025 feet | vi..c fa the directing spirit in the negotia- j of cotton seed made by Mr. Laud, late
above tlie sea; the Stevens’ mine fa nearly | tions. Mr. Newcomb will leavt New | State chemist, a year or_two ago, which
cessful
In the vicinity of Dahlonegn iaip*
patches of wheat, from seven to ten acres
iu a field, have been completely destroyed
by a white worm in the sliajie of a com
mon cut worm. The farmers are plow-
ing up the fields thus destroy>.d aud j'.i'd-
ing In spring oats.
2Jr. J. 3L Morgan, of Sur--for county.
Lm raised some giro:! corn, the joints cf
wliicb were matui i <. i .of . i >
feet, and some of ik
inches in circumfe;
A fubuc library • I
In Forsyth, to be ■ : '
of the two literary • • .i • ■
(hatplace. Acorn. a
rented for the pur j
of books has be
room will i
12,000, and the present Help mine 14,000
I feet abovo the sea. This fa nearly twice
and a half the elevation of Mount Wash,
ington. ‘
Lonn Derby to the workmen: “We
York in about a week with a party of exactly agrees with Dr. Pendleton’s asser-
gentlcmen and go directly South and tion as to the per centage of ammonia.
West. I Now, Dr. Pendleton and Mr. Land may
1 be mistaken, but I must insist that, in
A young gent emau somewhat numer- ti Dn Pen di e ton’s figures with the
, , . . ous in social circles took his sister, a wee design 6 of stowing, in general terms, the
have heard a great deal recently about miss, to see a family the other day in j va jjfo of cetton seed as a fertilizer, I was
tin; iwasantry becoming owners ot land [ w hfck he fa a regular caller. The little ggjjf yo ftliat want of caution which
! bating gardens, fields and farms of girl made herself quite at home, and ex- j Dr< % nc £ W ould seem to impute to me. : -
irown. Now, an acre of good agncul- f liibited great fondness for one of the young j, j)r. Jones joins issue with my statement
•Hand is worth, on an average, about ladies, hugging her heartily. •' (that “cotton seed contain only a little
. qr as nearly as possible 3d for every “How very affectionate she fa,” said the i phosphoric acid,” and adds, to refute me,
.yard. I wonder how many work- lady of the house. . . that “a thousand pounds of cotton seed
consider that when they order “Yes; just like her brother,” responded (abo ut 3SJ bnshels) contain as mnchphos-
i nny worth of beer or spirits they (the young lady unthinkingly. 9 j photic add and fa present in a soluble
' wing down a square yard of| Paterfamilias looked up sternly oyer ^uditfoniniTOpounasofafiret-dass acM
his spectacles, the younggentleman blush- J phosphate.!’ As the average amount of
ed, and there was consternation m tlie I g 0 i ub le phosphoric acid in a first-class
family circle.-^ ■ P, J acid phosphate is twelve to thirteen per
cent, the amotint- contained in 100 pounds
agricultural land.’’
, G. Owens, druggist, Altoona, Pa.,
i:. “Dr. Bull’s^Baby Syni]) lias a
l. iful reputation, the demand for it
ly astonishing. Motliera will have
iitMutAnaiim* immei-s win nave i —The negro physidans of Tennessee j 0 f colton seed must, therefore, be one-
z IHs deftined to sunereede all have organized a State medical society, of tenth of twelve or thirteen per cent, or a
I other Soothing 8 Syrupy 6 ** 1 * which Dr. J. M. Jameson is President. i fraction over one per cent.; or, in other
them; and that clay soils alone, through I On motion of Mr. Thurman, the resolu-1 mington, North Carolina, ftr Hambiire, I tfon'shafl'establish a lawful title of tit
which water cannot percolate easily, nave I tion of Mr. Kellogg, on Friday, for the ap-1 were in collision on the 14th instant in | electors, and shall govern in the count in:
the power to retain manure. This fa a pointment of a committee to investigate longitude 10 west, and are badly damaged, of the electoral vote. Both Houses of Coo-
great mistake. While it is quite true that j the scandalous newspaper charges against The Yuba has put into Queenstown and gross shall meet in joint session onto
the existence of a proportion of clay is (him, was laid on the table by a vote of the Gasolle into Brookhaven. second Wednesday in February to
very valuable, and in the absence of car- thirty-four yeas (Democrats) to twenty- Paris, March 17.-In the Chamber of count electoral votes. Objections to
bonacious matter, is essential to the re-1 five nays (Republicans). | Deputies to-day, the Left introduced an I the counting of votes shall be male io
tention of manure, it is not necessaiy J In thei House, on motion of Mr. Wood, interpellation asking the government I writing and submitted to each House *p-
that tho clay be 8 ° | lorir, the session Was ordered for I w hat course it will pursue relative to the I ara toly. If more than oue return fron
to prevent the free | S^untey next for the purpose of debate I unauthorized religious confraternities. any State shall have been received only
tion of pure water, to enable 1 only on the funding bill. j Premeir De Frevcinct enrobat ! eallv re- tb e votes given by tlie electors appointed
it to retain manure, for many sotls, j Mr. Sawyer, of Missouri, called up the I peatet) b fa declaration of yesterday, that I in conformity with this bill shall be
through which pure water will pass read!-J contested case of Bradley vs. Slemons, { b e would apply existing laws He do-I counted, and the two Houses acting sep-
ly, will retain all the impurities of impure I from the second district of Arkansas. J manded complete liberty of action. He I ar wtely shall concurrently decide which
water, allowing only the P Ere . n ”: atc ? r ^.jHcMahon, of Ohio,raised_the ques-1 -would always be ready to render an ac- return is supported by the proper Stale
pass down. This may he said, indeed, ot | tion for consideration, and the House re- ! of lets H# askedfor 1 • - r
all arable soils, for if.it were not so, tho fused to consider the election case, and I
water in our welfa would become so im- the morning hour having been dispensed {L A motion was introduce? bv ibe
pregnated with soluble, organic matter as with at 12:40 a. m., the House went into t£> Scnressiim coriide^inth# Rm
to be undrinkable. We can prove this by 1 Committee of the Whole, with Mr. Car-1 ■. .T* 6
digging in an old stable lot, a little way lisle, of Kentucky, in the chair on the de- fo^ thelawil^ St^nauthonred con'
below where the soil lias been stirred, and ficiency appropriation hill. g!ecatfons and^dOTted bva vote of 338
we will find that it does not contain a Washington, March 10.—The- com- E, g 147 Tbe Extreme Left sfosrained
much lai-ger proportion of the soluble | mittee on Military Affairs reported fiavora- j f rom voting. The minority were all mem-1 tvro bouses acting separately shall efi-
matter resident on the surface than any bly the House joint resolution to carry in- hereof theRkhA mmomi " creau meru currcnt i y decide to be the lawful votes i
n ff ^L a r SS, u ^ n , of *325] The Ferry educational bill, as amended le^lly ^pointed- electore of sod
retaining all animal and vegetable sub- | m October, 1787, in regard to a memorial ( bv tlm Senate was then ndonted The i State. The joint meeting of the W
stances and the gases which they evolve, column at Yorktowa. Placed on the cal- senate tldw’ pa^ed a bill mbodring I Houses shall not dissolve until the corot
nn " rnw ”1* endar. . , Postal Money Order Convention with the is completed.
At the expiration gf the morning hour | United States. I Cincinnati, March 16.—A
consideration ol tjie star route deficiency 1
appropriation bill was resumed. Seek con- ■ * 3 1 ir»m-juuii «uiu ureassmcii on me
tribunal. No electoral vote from anj
State from which only one return ta
been received shall bo rejected, excqri?
the affirmative votes of both Houses, k
I cases where there fa no more than one ff
| turn from a State not supports!
bydecfa’on of a State tribunal, whs
I votes only shall bo counted, which to
until taken up by growing .plants,
It will also retain most of the alkalies;
but clay fa not the' only substance
in soils that has this retentive power.
Carbon in eveiy form possesses it, wheth
er it be applied arti&y as charcoal followed b? TeifeJ ”*£t*u**F& fSR&Z*
dust, or whether it exist In tlie soil from j and Garland, in opposition thereto, and | HS*VI This strike caused all the local miners is
the decay of vegetable ipatter or from ma- some general debate ensued upon the bill, r 11 tv-a I this region to suspend until the striJ
nnres. Peat, swamp muck, etc., ire J pepdiiig the conclusion of which the Sen- j I «ad Railroad Company come to ta
perior court, furnishing bonds in the sum | t “„
fjr .t,— .1—5-11.-. frv- | About ten
strikeri
thousand "miners are
In explaining the bill to-regulate Jbe | thrown out of employment.
Washington, March 17.—Mr.Baysw,
from the Committee on tho Judiciaiy, 16-
forms of carbon, and manures, vegetable | ate adjourned.
mould, etc., are nothing hut modifications j In explaining «**a« «n w- ickumk; tun 1 .. „ ■ « • - ..-
of it. It is the presence of carbon which | counting of .rotes for President and Vice | ^GGdj'generally is much gratified by
gives the dark color to soils. It fa well | President, introduced id the Ssnate by J ♦pv-w .•
known that black garden soils will retain Mr. Edmunds to-day;-the latter said; ] n ollK ’, ”areni(k--JAl» ifiridlW 1 ported A b iU to remove the political'dRi-
ma'nure much longer than-any ordinary “The bill that passed the Senate at the | Committee of the pSaao makers, WhG RogcrA.Pn'or.aiul asked iu
soil, and that a smaller quantity fa ncces- last session of. Congress on this subject 1J;°* ed r out their employes present consideration? There being” 0
»ary to be applied to them annually than j embraced various - provisions as to tbe I fa ojtjt »mbe <f.Stelnway s j ob jection, it was read the thinl time t* 4
any other, and this for the reason that time of holdingtho Residential elections “ en > , held a meeting to-day. Offers of I^aed. ' ’
the carhop which they contain; in consc- forelccters in the States, and various pro- | P^cmuary aid were recede- from many j r jjampton, from tlie Committeecs
qucnce ot tbe.previous decay, retains the visions for better regulating the law in Giber trades, and it was resolved, to Mis- j Military 'Affilre, reported a bill toco*
gases resulting from tbe decomposition of cases of a vacancy, occurring m the office | J 3111 the sttikers in istcmway s manufac- J plete ^ Slirvcy 0 f GeUysbui” battlefie’4
the manure, until the.plants ap^priafe of President.and Vice President, and so d to refese tawo^^iagpl, and te pSe ^S Silation^
M ’ mndo lnnlrlnn I al reuuceu races 01 pay. About; tea tftou- Dres cr^-ation of data siiowin^ the poJi'J 00
piano makers, are locked outJ. I £^^vefoenL of tht tooiS at that
it. The soluble results of vegetable del-} on. A prbvisoh was.' also made looking
cay are retained in -the soil, if it contains | to future legislation: by States in respect to
clay or trirbon,- until taken-upby new providing a means of determining contro- I SlarUi 16;—Last night, ncay | illustrated by diagrams. The
vegetation, and are only lost when they veraies respecting the choice. of electors. ®f“ a ^bi<h Mississippi,. Calvin Robeits, j W1 ^ tha calendar,
are sufiered to escape as gas into the at- Time lias so run that of course any pro- < r°J? 1 ied » §1 *ot by City marabal Lane, J j n ^ be jj ouse Mr. Maimin'*, of Missfa-
mospbere. ••••••, ' .it vision of that kind that would apply to while placing obstructions on the track of si pp i “ a s k ^dlehreto off^T rerofation*
WHEN TO PRUNE. ' ' | the next election, would bo entirely use- S&iis 4f ss ppl , 5*^ Tennessee railroad. | committee on the Pacific nk
I have been requested to give my opin-1 less. In consequence of that, I have ta- j Within the past three years, several' at- J roa( j £ | nfIl ,i re as fo the alleged contrt*
fon as to tbe best-time-to prune trees in | ken that bill and modified to a simple {yreck trains at | between- the Central Pacific and Unj*
mpanies 1
mpany, ai
>sary to pi
tions of the tree scarcely cease with us as l as to give time for sudi States as have | and fixed upon May 20th as the date and j JlsKMw objected! 1 3
they do during the long, severe winters at J any resisting laws, to propose to determine j Moberly as the place for holding tbe State | jjj. Taylor, of Tennessee, offered
the North. By early pruning the sap and | for themselves, and according to the con- Convention, to elect delegates to the Cin- ( olutior. for the appointment of a
strength of the tree are economized. | stkution, which I believe they have the | cinnati Convention. I£ is said that eight | committee to investi"atc the present
Pruning in the growing season checks sole right to do, who their electors are. J members of the committee favor Seymour j od of stating claims' 5 against the Un it! ‘
growth, and where it is deemqd necessary This till, therefore, makes simply a pro- for President. States. Referred. •
to arrest excessive yig>r in order to pro- vision for State disposition of any contro- Desmoixes, March 16.—Both houses of I Mi. Reagan, of Texas, chairman ofto
mote fruit bearing, it is the best season to f versy under such laws, as it may have in J the State Legislature have passed a con- | committee on Commerce, reported a
prune, men, by pruning, it is desired to existence prior to tho date of choosing J stitutional amendment which will now go lution calling on the Secretary of
give shapeliness to a tree—to give it a | electors. | to the Legislature for ratification, proliib-| information in liis department in re =*\!
certain form—if it has put forth its leaves, j It provides for a later meeting of elect- j iting the" manufacture and sale of all in- to a bridge now being erected over jwj
the best way is to pinch ofl’the shoots, ors, in order that each State may dispose j toxieating liquors, including ale, wine and river at New York, and liis opinion®^
and the best instrument is the fingers. | ot any controversy that may arise, and | beer, and authorizing the enactment of j whether said bridge fa not au obstru* 1 '-
Nip the superfluous or ungraceful shoots j then provides, as the hill of last session J suitable regulations aud penalties for the to commerce. Adopted,
while they are young, and do not wait till did, for a meeting of the two Houses, and enforcement of the prohibition. Mr. F. Wcod, of New York, -
they become full grown limbs, and then proceeding in conformity with the decision I WAsinxGTox.Mareh lB.-Tlm Secret* rv I leave to take from tlie SDeaker’s table ^
lop them off with a pruning hook or scls- reached in the respective States in any
sors. Where the trees are luxuriant, but | case .of dispute.” Tlie bill was referred to
have been neglected so that the dense j the select Committee on Presidential Elec-
foliage deprives the fruit of sunlight and | tions.
air, severe summer pruuing fa allowable. | In the House Mr. Hawley, of Connecti-
In the cold climate of more northern iati- | cut, spoke in opposition to the pblicy of
tudes It fa safest to prune after the frosts I refusing appropriations for special deputy
of winter are past and just before the buds | marshals, and also in defense of tlie ma
begin to swell. ‘ ‘ ageinent of the public printing office.
culture OF lucerne. | Mr. Singleton of Mississippi, said tlio; <;
Another correspondent who has read j was no necessity for haste in making ay -
what we have heretofore written in the | propriations for special deputies.
Telegraph And Messenger, recoin-1 Considerable desultory debate en
mending the cultivation of lucerne as a upop items of appropriations, for sp
valuable forage plant, requests us to in- [ deputy marshals, and .for the goverun
form him firet, as to tlie best kind of soil printing office, atthe. conclusion of w;h_
for lucerne; second, when to sow; third, {Mr. Blackburn stated he would - to-;,
how to sow—whether broadcast or ill I row move that the general debate el
drills; fourth, liow much seed per acre; upon the bill. The-Committee, tliea 1
fifth, when to cut and how to cure. | aud the House adjourned,
of*
1 repo
‘ numbers, upon the strength | breach of revenue laws. Objection ’
■ that the Utes have agreed to j made, the bill was referred to the v
:‘jir rands; and that there is | mittee on Ways and Means. jK
■ The morning hour was dispensed
The House went into Committee 0
Whole, Carlisle, of Kentucky, «»
Chair, on the’ deficiency ay ”' r
Edinrurg, Marcli 17.—Mr.
will speak here this afternoon in tiro ^
eral interest, aud the demand lor
of admission to tlie hall is so grea
- t.y between Secre- | offers of five and six guineas eac-'“ ,
been made for them. A list is pub* - ;
of thirteen places where Gladstone '
speak between to-day and next t» 1
day.
a co^lUct with the Indi-
’j-v.-f, wasconsi’dered the
to-day and this afternoon |
• V " 4'atiiorder warning
era! •. .the' Iznds embraced in I
. not yet been W:
. ancl that lo-
6 t -ill not be rccog-1
chiefs, now here,
latter ,sliould re- j
•, to restrain their
If tlie invasion