Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS. By JOE H. REESE. DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AGRICULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OE CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNT* AND NORTH-EASI GEORGIA. TERMS: S'/.vv Per Year. VOL. V. CLEVELAND, WHITE CO., GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1SU0. NO. 40. TH- Si'A. E oi (iiiUKGLi. 111E utUSE .OL l\t)Wd N toB from the Empire S.ata of the South. Improveuivut, Development aud Pro gress—Items About Tlitugs Trans- ptrlug lu our owu <>reut State, Iroiu Ezcbaup* aud Otliur Sources. Matters Pertaining to tlie lloinv- Helps aud lliuis tor (lie llousc\% lie and Olliers I’T -in Kllelieu to Purlor — Tlie Plreslde. The Hawkinaville fair opens on Oct. ill and lasts three days. The Second battalion of the United Stales Infantry hus arrived at Atlan ta from Waco. The Governor’s Horse Gnurds of At lanta have a new rilie range for their ov\ n especial benefit. Mrs. L>. K. llutler, wife of D. K. Butler, a prominent business man of Camilla, died Friday night. A Bryan and Sewell club was en thusiastically organized in Columbus Friday uight with a large member ship. A large number of excursionists will leave Atlanta lor the City of Mexico on Nov. 7 to spend a mouth iu that. city. Twenty granite cutters employed in the new Austell building on For syth street at Atlanta went out on a strike Saturday. B. W. Elder has resigned as secre tary and treasurer of the Barnesville. underwear mills, and A. O. Murphy has been elected to the position. The dry goods clerks want the la dies of Augusta to boycott the mer chants, who will not close their places of business at 6 o’clock as desired by the clerks. At the solicitation of his many lo cal friends Col. McCurry of Hartwell has entered the race for the judge- ship of the northern circuit. Col. dim Smith, of Oglethorpe coun ty, made more cotton this year than any other farmer in Georgia, but he does that every year on his 17,000 ucre plantation. Mr. Hates was given a verdict for $1,000 at Atlanta Wednesday, in his suit for $10,000 damages, on account of injuries inflicted by a street ear of the Consolidated line. The gin house, mill house, sawmill und ten bales of cotton, belonging to Erast us Vaughn, four miles south of Cuuiming, were destroyed by tire at 2 o’clock Friday morning. A negro near Bladen, in Glynn county, In clearing “up the wreckage of-his cabin aftev the stotp* taittrid flfr large rattler iu one of his beds. He killed the monster, and it had fifteen rattles and a button. Edward Lee Dupont, an actor with the Imperial Opera Company, and Miss Blanche Estelle Shea, of the same company, were married at At lanta Friday. The bride was a di- vorree of only seven hours. In a runnawav on First avenue at Columbus. Wednesday. Mrs. J. V. Falk, of I’henix City, had fractured just below the heard from her husband was in Bir mingham. Postmaster Hertz of Macon opened p Qr our Housekeepers and Lady the bids for the work of improvement _ . .... . . ... Readers, on the l lilted States court house Sat urday. There were only four of the bids, notwithstanding the fact that the work will amount to $.>,000 or $ii,0UU. The bidders were the Macon Sash, Door and Lumber Company, Willingham Sash and Door Company, R. C. W ilder’s Son and llunnerkoff of Atlanta. UunnerkolV's bid was the lowest. He ottered to do the work for about $5,000. The highest bid was for $0,200. The reason there were so few bills was that it was generally understood that the work would not amount to over $2,000, and the people did not care for such small contracts. Postmaster Hertz cannot pass on the bids. He can only open them and recommend to the supervising archi tect at Washington which to accept. Surely this money question has turned our world’s head. Where ore we going? As some tersely usks: "Is it possible that our farmers, mort gaged up to their eyelids pay his in debtedness any the easier because Mr. Bryan might open a mint ut every cross roads iu the land? Will the prices of our farm products be increased a farthing if silver dollars ure made numerous us the stars of heaven?” llow about, the old mooted question of supply and demand? A great German actress coming to Wire Rings for Uelery. this country, a great preacher here Virginia correspondent of the now and a great statesman just re- 1 Tactical Farmer writes: Due of the 1 turned. America is proud of such vis- moat valuable suggestions 1 can make ) itors. to gurdeners, market gardeners in | particular, is to get some galvanized j It is astonishing to note what a wire, either No. Li or 11, cut it into stride women are making in politics, pieces a loot long, bend these into i It is even claimed they have become rings around u piece of inch and a : a factor in politics. The gold stand- half pipe (Inside measure, or a round aid is their motto and it is said self piece of wood about two inches in di- is forgotten. In New York her place meter, letting the ends lap, und put of work is in the slums and neglected these rings away for future use. This J quarters, an be done in bud weather or during he long winter evenings. A pound of galvanized ami anneal- l No. Li wire will make about forty- four such rings; u pound of No. 14, about fifty-nine rings. At present prices of wire, fifteen of the former ill cost a cent, while of the latter wenty will cost a cent. In other words, the heavier rings cost six and two-thirds cents per hundred, and the ight ones five cents per hundred. With ordinary care they will last a lifetime. Now, ufter transplanting your cel- ry, and it is started to grow, slip a ing oxer each plant. When the time! ‘ u * atmosphe comes to fill in more earth, slip up the; pool ally so t< rings. They will hold your leaves to- a,Kl gentle manners, to be get her, w hile the pressure of these will keep the rings from drop- these will keep the rings from drop ping back. If your plunts are too fee ble, compress the rings a little; if too robust, expand them, liepeut the op eration at every ‘^jiug iu.” This save you tots offline and' back ache in cuse you have been ’‘handbali ng.” It will prevent the need of an extra man if you have pursued the board method. Try It. At the end of the season gather up tlie rings. They can be kept so they will be as good twenty years lienee as on the day you first begun to use the Mr. and Marx vn. ed. \l rs. \ In., Edward x. rc p; r limb * knee and Jenkins, of infnllx wou lid- K. VN Higins, xx ho lives in Mur phy’s district. Thomas county, lias a curiosity in the xvax of a chicken, which has three legs and four feet., one leg having two feet on it. The • hieken xvas hatched last Wednesday and seems perfectly healthy and fol lows the hen just like the others. The home of Win. J. Morris, on Monte Simo, \ugusta, xvas burned Wednesday. The origin of the fire is unknown and before it xvas discov ered xvas xvell under way. The family had hardly time to get out of the burning structure. The house cost $2,500 and xvas insured for $1,500. The large ginnery of Butler & Fox ler at Covington, xvas burned Satu day afternoon. There were about 250 bales of cotton in the gin. the mu jority of which xvas lost. No insur mice. The freight receipts at the Central of Georgia railway depot at Barnes ville were $1,000 greater during th month of September this year than during the month of September, 1K95 This is partly due to the early ship ment of the cotton crop this seaso and partly due to the increased hm ness in other shipments at that pine Rev. ,1. H. Hawthorne, xx ho xvas f« many years pastor of the First Bap tist church of \tlantn, and xvho lime ago accepted a call to a <• in Nashville, is in Atlanta suffering with rheumatism. He has been very sick for the past four weeks an when advised by his physician to tuk a change of climate, he returned 1 his old home. Mrs. Mattie Riggins, 20 years >. age. attempted to commit suicide a Atlanta Saturday night bv taking fixe grains of morphine. The woman lives at »7 Magnolia street. Two year tfigo she married a railroad man. Fo <sr>er«l months they have been sepn •ratnd. and to that fact the deed «iribiH*-d. Mrs. Riggins has bei -spondent for weeks, and Saturday uight she sent to a drug store for five grains of morphine. The mes senger secured the drug and the wom an swallowed it while alone. This is the third attempt at self-destruction Mrs. KigginH has made. Only a few weeks ago she took a dose of the same drug, and it took several hours .to bring her back to life. When last Sweet Potatoes Utilizing the Vines. The digging of sweet potatoes will >n claim attention. It is xxell to de fer this till settled cool weather. It not necessary to wait for a killing frost, though a light frost is a good lidication that it is cool enough to lig. Avoid digging, if possible, when he vines are growing rapidly. When jroxvth lias almost or quite ceased and the leaves begin to turn yellow, will be safe to begin. The rule ith many is to break a potato. It it iries rapidly and the broken surface remains white when dry, they say the potato is ripe and ready to be dug; if t turns dark, it is not. The fact that lie surface remains white, is an indi cation that sturch is present in large juantities, and this is the ease in the fully matured tuber. A young potato •t not as mealy as an old one, and tarch is the cause of mealiness. Before digging it is xvell to dispose f the vines. They are excellent food for milk cows, making them give the finest milk and blitter. It is next to mpossible to cure the vines. They must be eaten green or put in tlie silo. If the potatoes have been put early and about completed their xvth, the vines may Vie taken off a •k or two before digging without injury to the tubers. They may •ut and fed to the cows, or the latter f the ground is dry, may be allowed o graze on them a short while each lay. Caution must be observed, or Repeating and bloating may follow. \ safe rule is never to turn an animal a ith an empty stomach upon a ricli msture of any kind and let it remain >n it long at a time. Exchange. Who is to Blame? Very often, yes very often is the sud luct brought before us that fam ily litc is a burden to some of our men aud women. In this day of in telligence and refinement the family should be the place where these two arts should be louml but alas how often is it the contrary. Now some one must be to blame and who is it? instead of honife being a veritable pa rad i hc it ih very often a hot bed of discontent and dissatisfaction. It is worth a good ileal to be in a congeu- says one, and ch ic who loves quiet ur rounded by loving people. Let us analyze the situation from a common slaiulpuiut. there are generally two required to make a home a man and a woman. Very oiten they come from two very entirely different habitations which leaven its imp^eg* upufry^iotb. wild u *11 icy have eift ere aims upUpHr con tract towered a new home did both give one thought to improve ment over their former surroundings. Will they both try to do their part and each their duty ?Take for in stance a ease of a seventeen year old daughter is she capable aud xvell advanced in views ol home making to enter in such a holy task? Mothers, guard your daughters while in their youth und instruct them more dili gently along the line of happy home building. Does it not seem sad to see a home, and it is too often seen, whore one is all the time having to tell the other to do this duty or that. Sometimes and repeatedly it is the husband who tries to please the wife and it has almost become the opinion of the writer that if these little pleas ures were sufficiently noticed by the wile- a happy home would result. lie provides a pleasant home with agreeable surroundings. Does she try to show her appreciation by keeping hovering over a sick iuluut with its me in lue balances out what is motu- er the symbol ol? bhe must rise aUoul the common place nurse unu still 'mother her lover as nusouuu. tvue must oc the nigest ol creation- a mother indeed 1 to ner owu offspring und to the great "boy sffc has taken us part ol ncrsell. forget not tue liubound is caring lor the little ones -leach incin mat "lather ' comes urst in the home aud ins heart wnl do one ol stone if he proves uuirue to ins own. me wife aud moincr must oc a xcruuoic "baxiour iu her home. iSlie must lorgel "seif’ iu ner suen- iicial duties xxinch li done in love are tue happiest alter all and tue hus- oanu xx ill soon catch the spirit oi the iiic and nothiug will be two precious lor that Ghrist-iike wile and mother. \x lie must never think ner wishes and desires supreme to every one else, iu tlie iitlie Hungs even iu cooking, seek ulwuys to please him und you xx ill hud iu the end mine oxvn heart liuth oeeu pleased also. it xxouid be u pleasure to whisper into the curs ol our young women the secret ol nappy nouie minding lor uu ul tins lakes its place iu ine world me world will never grow better. AliOliiN d . .. t. VYultiT) The Grout Guava. The guava is a common and humble fruit iu public estimation beside the • range, pineapple and lemon, and cultivators hardly deem it worthy their attention As a general rule it is chucked oil in a corner and no pains taken with it. But xve note that this year the guava, being tlie first fruit to return to a bearing condition, lias played quite an important part in the market. Not only has it been con sumed in much larger quantities than usual, bul it hus brought a good deal oi money to those fortunate enough lo own trees. Tlie guava deserves ex tended and systematic cultivation, and it can be made to pay large prof its. But up as in liuvaiiu, it is one of the finest known preserves aud com mands aii unlimited market. The lainuus jelly made from it is a favor ite the xvurid over. With a cheap and modest luctory outfit und u few acres hi the best varieties of guavas, u shrewd munugcr could soon und eas ily grow rich. -Tttinpu Time a. Irish Potatoes on Pine Laud. Hatching Hints. When txvo hens ere hatching at tlie ame time, put all the chicks as they atch under one hen and the un- atclied eggs under the other. Keeping the sitters shut in until ate in the day will prevent other nn hens from for laying risk to lit I f a In throw tlie warm xvuter them with a set by the broody hen. wait for txvo lx chilled. thereby* >f their nests much ggs awn for fix in With rare th or three (lavs nest, don’t Put them in minutes, dry xvollen and t another • eggs will if not bad- The deposition of the sultan of Turkey is being very seriously con sidered by the six powers. every thing in the best possible order? Sij that xx hen he comes in from work hi sense of order which is very acute in workmen’s lives—be it high or loxv is not jarred. In this in stance, if such is the case, lie is made to feel that his ett’orts are appreci ated and that home is the sweetest place on the face of the eurth, “and no power save death could lure him a xx ay” are the words of a man talking on this subject recently. There are many people in the world, and sad that it must be said, but too many of our American girls have an idea that they have no part in the drama of life, especially in home building. They think that af ter marriage all, that remains to be done is to receive pettings from the lover in his new position aud they get an idea that their husband ought to he satisfied with them whether or no, simply because they have assumed the position of wife and must be petted uud caressed at any time. They forget that in their courtship days they applied different rules to the life ah! far different, How closely the little parlor xvas guarded and sweetly arranged foi his coming a vase of flowers here and a little, cozy chair near the fire— ill to welcome the lover. Such lit- lh (?) things in themselves hut huge ; actor in the upbuilding of the lov • ideal home. Gilrs forget these little things when once in the role ol wile and it is many times the great ilent sword that cuts the happinei from the home. How often tlie hu bund returns from his systematic duties of office or workshop and find no light to beam forth a welcome no not a ray of light in the little "nest” of a parlor to welcome hi no chair by the cozy fire no floxx to speak forth in silent sweetness of the love for the beautiful, no wife to greet him at the door all the littl idealalities gone. True she may be film r un ii si.twm - - ■ uud Boston Peerless ure the favorite und only varieties grown in this local ity for early murket, and that pota toes grown in New York are preferred lor seed. The popular mehtod of cul ture he describes as follows: lu the prepuruliou of a potato crop it is better, if possible, to select piece of land ou which cowpeas have been grown the year before. It iu by no means indispeusablu that it should be so. i have grown good crops on bare land. The grbund should be bed ed up xvell in rows, three feet apart. 1 then open the beds with u shovel plow, and apply at least 1,000 pounds of fertilizer per acre, consisitiig of >00 pounds of cotton seed meul, 200 pounds of ucid phosphate and 200 nds of kuinit. The fertilizer iu scattered in the furrow and on the sides of it. i then take a one-horse harrow and nix the fertilizer with the soil, then drop tlie potatoes iu the depression cover by running around them with a pony plow. My seed is now at ast four inches ubove the bottom ol the water furrow aud above any standing water that may come from heavy spring rains. This is important, as half an hour with water over them may cause the crop to rot. Now as the potatoes are all formed along the stem and above the seed, the earth must be continually work- to the vine and never from it. If t he weeds commence to come, scrape nit liglitly and throw tlie earth well ip around the vines. Two, or at most three, workings, and your crop is ude. The ground must not be dis turbed xvhile the tubers are setting. I suppose everyone knows that. By the time your crop is laid by you e a considerable ride, so when the tops begin to turn yellow 1 dig with a two-horse plow. By gauging if right can turn out all the potatoes in going once to the row. All the marketable potatoes are picked up, packed in bushel boxes or bushel and a half sacks, and sent right off to Chicago. The little pota toes 1 generally get the darkies to pick up afterwurds on shares. There is no great profit in a potato crop, Imt I have always made something Important Happoningu lu All Parte ut tlie World, Short Hiorivit Twill by lit. TvIuki u|»lx A boot fevorytiling K.u u . hv..)Hliciu, Slorui*, Tram oubuvik, iim» p. u.n H o to MuiitUlt- r«i«uiiMK<)ai hie., ti.lv. Ohio'* 1*0Iff Democrat*. The Ohio secretary of state has overruled the protest oi Hie regular j democratic stale committee Lo Hie i aumissiou ol sound money democrat ticket lo tlie Auutruliun ballot, under Hie name ol Uie national democrats. The protestors claim an exciusiye rig ii t to tlie word democrat, but iu Hus they were not upffeid by the state supervisor ol elections. A special irom Mur trees boro, \'a., rules mat u lire which started iu u nlcuen, swept away an entire block u Ifful town bunday. Among the luildings uuiiied was the Episcopal liureh und a. i'. Rice s grocery, the latter quite uu exleusive establish- ent. tlie total loss is estimated at about $ id,ooo. The insurance is very light. i reusury Gold Reserve, i’lie treasury gold reserve at the close oi business bat unlay stood ul $x2t.2jU,-i0u. t he day s withdruwuls New York were $00,000. A C olorado kcra|». i ne ease ox tue Aucivnncy electors, iu V/Oioi uuo, xv no were inrown out oy tue seeietuiy ox state xexuaiug to exx- lex cnexr xxaxxics upon tue ouiciui bai- xot, coaxes up ui rue supreme court aroxiuuy xxiiDXuing. ix lue seeietury is upucxu, uu luucpexiuuui election win uc nctu aud tue ease Win oe turovvu into tue united blares courts, upou tue pica inui me ivxeixiuiey repuou- euu convention Wus xcguiurly oigau- ucu,und mar tue oarriug out oi men electors would deprive regular repuo- iicuns ol tncii' i ig ii l to oanot. r uey itoiti iliat iu Ucciurnig lixeir intention to vote lor me nominee ox tue bl. Xioua eouxeutxou iney are out rutily ing tue action ol mui convention, anile me silver xepuuxieaus, as liicy sty te memscixcs, are ooitexs. l ne wicivniicy xepunneuus claim liicy will east u.*,uuu votes, and will insist upon tixeir privilege to east tneir vote lor wiioiii tney please lor president, und brute Liiuiiinuii J. u. iiuuges win cur ry men* cuse ikrougu every uoun neeessury to esiuoiisn men* rights, as guuiuiilccd by iuvv, lire ease in tins respect being siinnur to tffo iiideu contest. Lou true is xor t-uu I'orglugM* Secretary Herbert has awarded con tracts lor the gun forgings, the bids lor which were openud iu August. The Bethlehem Company gets fifty sets ol six-inch at 2d i-10 cents a pound, twenty sets of four-inch at iuy a cents per pound, and two sets of iffght-inch at 2d V-10 cents per pound. The Ai id vale Company receive the contract lor thirty-live sets of live- inch at 2o cents per pound, lu each ease the work wus given the lowest bidder. iSv^ro l*lol lo itlll. The white people of Carroll county, Aliss., ure terribly excited over the discovery ui u negro plot to inaugu rate a war of 'extermination. Word Irom Cur roll county is thut a letter wus found iu the roaxl uddreswed to u Auburn,.- - .d|U oi' u ; u “I 1,11 ! negotiated with the Winchester Arms Company for u large number of rifles, ami witli these they proposed to slaughter white men, women aud children. Several leaders have been arrested, and the excitement is very intense. Further particulars ure unx- iously awaited. Carrollton is the home ol' Senator Money. A number of negroes were killed in a riot tiler u few years ago, and bud blood still exists. There is no doubt that the situation is now critical. .Tlude a burgeon lu iliv Navy. The President has appointed Mid dleton S. Elliot of South Curolinu to be an assistant surgeon in the navy. (■crmuiiM 1'Vui No \%iir. The North German Gazette says that Germany has become convinced that Russia has no intention to ex ploit her entente with France lor war like purposes. Germany, the paper adds, hus no political interests which are opposed to those of Russia. The Vorwuerts, the socialist organ says that the czar’s last speech iu I rance was u great politioul event and stumps the meaning of his ajesty’s entire Europen tour. out of them, and as they ure out Uie way by May you are ready for another crop on the same ground, and that without any additional fer tilizing. About 1U0 bushels to the acre is a fair crop. Two years ago 1 netted $1 per bushel; last year about *5 cents. I have tried several years to raise a second crop, and while could always raise a few I can not call it a success, and after I found that the second croj were not available for seed, I only try for enough for family use. In this method of cultivation remember that it is for level, piney woods land, and in a section of country where a single shower will frequently let fall from three to four inches of water. Georgia goes democratic, as usual. n.x-1 rcsiucui Harrison is on a speaking tour. x our nuuured eurluads of people is it luciwniey in one Uuy. uryun is now in ine West, drawing mmouse crowds. T ue golu llood continues; $.>i,550,- ouu imported since Aug. 2b. The Lily ul i aris delayed by aeci- lent to engines on llxe high seas. soLiiing serious. American grain is wuniod in India. boxen persons were killed in u Meek on the buixia Fe Road near jsuge Lily, Ran. Risiiop Reane hus resigned from iffo LuUiolic College of America. resident Gicveiuud uud family iiuvc returned to Washington. The citizens of Nashville, Teun., will erect a bronze statue oi Cornelius x underbill. The bteunier DeBury hus been ruised. our trains were wi*ecked at the sunxe pluce on ttffi buula i’W ; ify > one pornou mid ingersoii speecnos. A mail eoaeh robbed aud the horses taken by masked men, when forty miles irom bun Antonia, Texas. George \Yashiugton’s monument on boulh Mountain, Aid., wus struck by ightiling und badly shattered. Aiounl Holyoke college hus burned. Cuplain YY. YY’. Giipatriek, United bluies Nuvey, fell dead Saturday in tlie lighthouse department of the Government Building. udly hurt. making sound money bale oi'llie l*ort ICoyul. In accordance with the constitu tional provision prohibiting one rood irom purchasing within the limits of tlie State of South Carolina a parallel line, the attorney general of the state has written Messrs. Thomus and Ryan, requesting them to furnish the slate railroad commission with evi dence that in the purchase of the Port Royal road they are not acting for the Southern ruiiway Bucks in the South. if. B. Geer udvocuieb the raising ol more uueivs in tue boulh. in un arti cle on llxe subject in i’ urui und xwuucii, he sujs; There is money in ducks, unu it comes lroxn inree sources: Their eggs, their leatlxe'rs and llxe ffuui sule ol the ducks liiem- seixes. Jboutliers range in price irom oU to ut) cents u pound, uud a good- sizeu nock oi i ekin ducks will yield sexerui pounds ol lcutneis at a pick ing, and xv non they nuve access to pieuty ol water, liicy can be picked inree times u year, lor tiicir leatnei's grow luster and heavier when they ure in me water most oi the time. x Ue i ekin uuck is u good layer, aud sue lays a line, oig pinkish while egg. w ateix ner oi a morning, keep her up mi 'j or lu o'clock, or until after she iuj s, ur else she may lay in ine water, as iney are not very particular where Iney lay. 1 he 1 eknxs begin laying in inis lutitude by February 1, and iaj until about June, when iney quit tul tue next season. In size tuej ure large, frequently weighing eight or ten pounds, hut the avciage weight is less tiitiu liiul. iu tael, nve pounds is u lair weight lor u x ekiu duck, aim six uud a nail lor u drake. YYe ure aware that me biuuuurtl weight, uccordmg to the Amcricuu stanuard ol pence Hon, is inueii Higher tor exhibition ducks, out we are also uwure thut a duck, to attain me siuudurd weight, hus to be led and lattened lor two weeks or so, like a nog, hence we contend lliut the standard weight is entirely too high, and should oe umended. Toung i ekin ducks make line eat ing as soon as large enough, and they are in good demand in the city mar kets ail over the boulh at ail seasons. Laud Measure UorruoUkl. i U2-TUU inches, 1 link, iuu links, 1 effaiu. x enuin is ou ieet or 4 rods. 1 rod is 10 l / a feet. T0U square rods is 1 acre; or 2U8 ieet, &‘/ a inches squure is 1 acre. 4J,dou square ieet is 1 ucre. 4,8-iU square yards iu 1 ucre. au chains uiukc 1 mile. d20 rods make 1 mile. 1,(00 yurds make 1 mile. .>,2b0 Ieet muke 1 mile. */4 mile squure euntuins 100 ucres. 1 mile squure couUtj||is 010 acres. 4 miles squure 10,240 ucretp .Lucres ol ltuxti measures 400 feel, a^jTobhoS sqtfcll'b. ’ t TO ucres oi land measures 0(50 feel squure. Id acres of land measures b08 feet, i inches square. 20 ueies of land measures 033 feet, 1% inches squure. 25 acres ol fund measures 1,030% Teel squure.—Ex. It, Turkey’* Armenian Prisoners. The jails in Constantinople are so rowderl with Armenian prisoners hut is seems impossible for them to hold any more. A special tribune ganized for the purpose of trying i Ik* Armenians is wholly inadequate io the disposition of the cases, und a second court will be organized to ex pedite matters. The charges against I he Armenian prisoners who are packed in tlie jails are absolutely lacking in the elements of justice. United Stales Minister Terrell de nies that he has made any request to the porte in behalf of this govern ment for the passage of the United States gunboat Bancroft through the Dardanelles, but he expresses hopes thut arrangements were made for her admission before the Bancroft start ed from America for Turkish waters. Mr. Terrel is the only diplomat who has left the protection of Therapia. He is living in Peru and the Ameri can legation is the only one that is not guarded. Mr. Terrell has pointed out the houses of Americans which require special guards, but has de clared to the "Tirkish police that it is their duty to guard the legation with out a request. Prom llxe Hunk ol Ivu^luud. Included iu the withdrawals from the Bank ol England on the 10th, was £ 331,000 in bar and coin gold for shipment to the United btutes. Electro Vote of 92- Turned Down tlie Nume. The Indiana stute board of elec tions, by a vote of two to one, decided to deny the petition of the national democrats to go the bullot under thut name. Gov. Matthews had the de ciding vote, and east it against the petition. If the national democrats fail to select u name, the bourd will choose one. No objection wus made to the device. States und Territories. Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut .... Delaware Florida Ueorgiu Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts .. Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire. New Jersey .... New York North Curolinu . North Dakota .. Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania .. Rhode Island . .. South Carolina . South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington ..., West Virginia . Wisconsin .. .. Wyoming Some Forage Flants- From the Agriculturist. In several oi your recent issues I have hud the pleasure ol reading ar ticles from the pen ol Mr. C. K. Me- Quurrie, ol DeFuniak Springs, Fla., on the subject of the “flay Crop in •Torida.” This lias been to us “Yankees” a atlier embarrassing questions, but . since reading the above article and observing the crab grass and beggar ued are grown on some ol the farms near town, we do not think it such u serious question after all. 1 yesterday called on Rev. Pillsbury, who lives three miles west ol Ureen Cove Springs, and he showed me some j grass hay which had been cut Irom his strawberry bed, this having been tlie third crop, and was cured n exeellent condition, being equal, T should think to the best timothy sold in our market. All his little farm of 15 acres where not cultivated is over run with this exeellent hay. Mr. Mc- Quarrle’s advice regarding the saving of this crop is well worth heeding. YVe tried some kaffir corn this sea son and found that it does remark ably well. This is one of the staple forage crops for the western states, and will also make a splendid grain and forage crop here. Sorghum cune also does well here and by sowing iu drills the plants do not uttain such large size. This with millet and corn fodder mukes a variety of fodder and bay crops that will be relished by our four footed friends. D. 1). Swartley. Green Cove Springs, Fla. Introduction of Rice into America. Martin says, in his history of North Carolina, that the planting of rice as commenced iu this country iu the year 1693, as follows: A brig from .Madagascar, on her way to Englaud, came to anchor off Sullivan’s Island. Thomas smith going on board receiv ed from the captain a bag of seed rice with information of its culture in the East, its suitableness for food and its incredible increase. Smith divided the seed among his friends, and an experiment buiug made In different soils, the success surpassed the expec tation the captain had excited. Thus from this small beginning, accident ally occurring, arose the staple com modity of Carolina, which soon be came the chief support of the colony and the great source of itH opulence. —Raleigh Register, 1830. Geo. Du Maurier, author of Trilby is dead.