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THE GREAT
WORLD OUTSIDE.
EPITOME OF MOST INTEREST¬
ING MATTERS.
OSEAT LAB JR AGITATIOX—SPBIX9 STORMS—
DEATHS OF PROMIXEXT PEOPLE—ACCIDENTS,
FIRES, SUICIDES, ETC.
The German man-of-war Olga, wrecked
in Apia bay, has been floated.
The cruiser, Charleston, at San Fran¬
cisco, Cal., is almost ready for sea.
Forty houses were unroofed in Balti¬
more, Md., on Wednesday by a storm.
Bridgeton, N. J., Wednesday, was visited by a and se¬
vere cyclone on bouses
windows being blown down.
Xenia, Ohio, is excited over the at¬
tempt of a mob of negroes to lynch Sher¬
man Jackson, who stabbed Frank Law¬
rence to death at a dance.
The sugar crop of Cuba this year
shows a decrease of between 45 and 75
per cent. The falling off is attributed
to the cyclone of September.
It is very probable that peace will soon
be declared in Hayti. Negotiations are
going on between Hippolyte and Legi¬
time that may lead to such an end.
Rev. James McCosh, ex-president of
Princeton college, N. J., is lying at his
home in Princeton very ill from pneumo¬
nia, following an attack of brouchitis.
The whole country around Blunt,
Dak., is being devastated by prairie fires.
One fire driven by a sixty-five mile gale,
burned everything in its path, including
human beiugs.
Thomas C. Williams, a wealthy tobac¬
conist, M. Rosenbaum, a wealthy dry
goods merchant and Peter V. Daniel, a
well known railroad lawyer, died at
Richmond on Tuesday.
The switchmen in the Erie yards at
Buffalo. New York struck on Wednes¬
day. The men went out because three
of their number were discharged ten
days ago and not reinstated at their de¬
mand. Their places are being filled as
rapidly as possible.
half-holiday Sir John Lubbock has presented Par¬ a
bill before the British
liament, which proposes that whenever
two-thirds of the shopkeepers in any
given district vote for a half holiday on
some one day each week, all the shops in
the district shall be closed at 2 o’clock
on that day.
A freight train on the Chicago, St.
Louis & Pacific railroad, near Centreville
Ind., became detached from the engine
at the top of a long, high grade, smashing and ran
back into the second section,
the locomotive and nine cars, Hix
tramps in a half loaded car were badly
hurt, and two were killed.
Reports were received at St. Paul,
Minn., of a bad railroad wreck on the
Northern Pacific, near Missoula, Mont.
A passenger train ran into a freight and
Green, the freight fireman, and two
tramps who were stealing a ride, were
killed, and some others injured. The
accident was caused by a misplaced
switch.
■* The closing episode in the record of
the steamer Hayden Republic as a trader
between Boston, Mass., and Hayti oc¬
curred Tuesday, when the craft was sold
at auction for $41,000. The purchaser
is William Lewis, of New Bedford, who
will fit the Republic out for Behring’s
sea and the Arctic ocean as a whaling
supply steamer.
Judge Alexander McCue, ex-asristant
treasurer of the .United States,died at his
home in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Tuesday.
Judge McCue was stricken with paraly¬
sis on the 20th of March, and has been
confined to his home ever since. He was
appointed by President Cleveland to be
Solicitor of the Treasury, which office he
held until a year ago, when he was made
assistant treasurer in New York.
The recent hurricane in the South
Pacific ocean swept over 1,200 geograph¬
ical miles, embracing in its track the
Hervey and Society groups of islands.
The American ship, Red Cross, from
New South Wales, for San Francisco,
was driven ashore at Baratonga aDd
wrecked. The crew was saved. The
American ship, Ada Gwen, was wrecked
at Ouara. Her crew was saved. Wreck¬
age from the British ship Suakim, from
New South Wales, for San Francisco,
was seen at Aitutaki. No doubt tho
crew perished.
A hurricane started on Tuesday in
Aberdeen, Dakota, and continued all
day. Roofs were blown off the Park
Place hotel and other buildings. The
storm in several places had the added
terror of fire. Yankton, Dak., reports
that Yolin, a station on the Northwestern
Road, was burned. A thousand tons oi
hay were burned, and all the barns in
the place. The fire invaded the large
cattle corral and forty or fifty cattle were
b-.dly burned, the rest breaking through
the enclosure aDd escaping. The de
struction was caused by a prairie fire.
The French Chamber of Deputies, bj
a vote of 306 to 236, rejected the Senate’s
proposal to prosecute summarily all
papers guilty of libelling government
officials. M Cocarde says that Gen.
Boulanger being warned Tuesday that
the governmeat was preparing for a
coup, arranged so that he would not fall
into the government’s hands and left the
city. The police are mystified. “The
general,” adds Cocarde, “will appear
when duty requires him. It is our im¬
pression taat he has hidden temporarily,
perhaps in Brussels.” *
In the Reichstag, on Wednesday, the
naval secretary, referring to the loss of
the German warships in the recent hur¬
ricane at Apia, 8amoa, said that the re¬
port of the German officer in command
there did not show that the lives or prop¬
erty of Europeans were endangered and
he was sure that the British warship
Caliope would not have left Samoa ii
the position that had been critical, He an
nouuced the government intended
to replace the wreckod German vessels
as soon as possible, as the United States
government was about to send three
cruisers to take the place of the Ameri
san warships that had been lost.
TELEGRAPHIC.
By completed returns of the Rhode
Island election, the Senate stands: Re¬
publican, 21; Democrats, 11; with four
to be elected. The House stands: 28
Republicans, 37 Democrats; 12 yet to be
elected.
Advices received at Brussels, Belgium,
from Stanley Falls, state that the Arabs
who have arrived there, report that
Henry M. Stanley and Emin Pasha were
heard from in February. They were then
marching towards Zanzibar with several
thousand men, women and children.
They had 6,000 tusks of ivory.
The British man-of-war Calliope,
which escaped possible destruction in
Apia Bay during the ravages of the cy¬
clone by being able to put to sea, has
arrived at Sydney, New South Wales.
She reports leaving Samoa on the 21st of
March, and that the United States man
of-war NipsicJaad been floated off of the
beach, the natives lending material as¬
sistance.
Police Lieut. John M. Ilaines, of Chi¬
cago. Ill., was held to the grand jury in
bonds of $3,000 by Judge Attegeld on
Thursday, on a charge preferred identified by Law¬ the
yer Frank H. Collier, who
lieutenant positively as one of the two
men who lured Collier, of the La Salle
club, by a bogus telephone political message excite¬ one
night during the recent
ment. and sand-bagged him in the dark.
THE FARMERS MEET;
“Millions for cotton bagging—not the farm¬ oni
cent for jute.” That is to be
ers’ shibboleth in Georgia for the coming
campaign. By almost unanimous and
a very enthusiastic vote, the Farmers'
Alliance of Georgia, representing 80,©0C
farmers, in session at Atlanta, Ga., or
Thursday, resolvdd that they would use
col ton bagging for the baling, of then
cotton —and would not use jute under
any circumstances. It is said that three
fourihs of the delegates came from their
county alliances instructed to vote for
cotton bugging under any and all circum
stances. While this obstructed impar¬
tial consideration, it gives enthusiasm
and earnestness to the movement. The
size of the bale will remain unchanged.
An attempt was made to reduce the bale
to 250 pounds, so that lighter ©snaburg
would would hold it, but this was not
done. Such a change would have re¬
quired a change of presses, compresses,
and a large amount of farm machinery,
which the Alliance did not thirnk best to
undertake. It is the old size bale in a
new style dress that has been-determined
on. And now it is a question of endur
ance and courage between the farmer*
and their plunderers.
UNIQUE THEFT.
Moiles Brothers, of Detour, Mich.,
who are largely engaged in lumbering in
that vicinity, have packed up their goods
to leave for Canada. Hard & Hornstein,
of Buffalo, N. Y., held a mortgage of
$45,000 on the mill of the firm and it
was due in a few days. Recently, the tug
Dowling, towing two vessels from Sagi¬
naw, landed at Detour after a five day’s
rough trip, presumably for a cargo of
lumber, but at night a hundred men,
concealed in tho boat, came ashore and
began removing the machinery of tho
mill and movable property on board. All
was loaded except the boiler, and work¬
men began tearing down the mill. The
sheriff received notice to stop operations
at any cost, but no authority was sent.
Telephone and telegraph wires were cut
in three places. All was loaded by
midnight, and the tug vessels were on
their way to Spanish river, Canada,
where the firm has lately purchased a
site, before legal papers could be pro¬
cured to stop them.
A BIG CROWD.
The Musical Union, of New York is
endeavoring to prevent the landing there
of strolling bands from Europe. Almo*t
every incoming German meimcr lia 1 * ou
board a score or more of mu-icians. who
have been in the habit of coining here with in
the Spring and returning in the Fall
the money earned duiing the Summer.
It ia urged that such immigrants foreign come
within the provisions of the con
tract labor act, but heretofore they have
escaped detention by swearing that they
came as individuals and not as hands
under leaders. When the 3'.eamer West¬
ernised arrived Wednesday at New York,
lrom Antwerp, Superintendent Simpson,
of the La ding Bureau at Cas’le Garden,
discovered that there were no less than
four hundred musicians on board, nearly
all of them having spent the Summer in
New York and vicinity fir years past.
STRICKEN DOWN.
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, was
stricken with paralysis during his appear¬
ance in “Othello,” at Rochester, N. Y.,
on Wednesday night, and is dangerously before
ill. Mr. Barrett later appeared that Mr.
the curtain and announced
Booth had sustained a partial stroke be¬ of
paralysis, and feared that it was the
ginning of the end. Booth was taken ill
upon the stage during the last scene in
the second act. He became unsteady,
reeled and fell, and had to be assisted off
the stage by those near by. The doctor
expressed the fear that Booth had sus¬
tained a partial stroke of paralysis.
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
Feeding Young Beeves.
It is generally conceded that pig pork
is not only superior, but most profitable
to the producer, yet there is a question
as to fattening beeves young. But Dr.
H. Reynolds avers that by judicious and
liberal feeding young beeves can be
brought to a suitable condition for the
market at two years of age, and even
younger, and he thinks such beef can
be made so that it will be of the best
quality. Some object to young beef as
being inferior to that of older animals,
but it is not necessarily poor. Young
beef, as ordinarily fed, is undoubtedly
inferior in quality, but good feeding,
begun when the animals are young and
continued right along, will produce beef
that is of first quality.— New York Wit¬
ness.
'Using Manure.
The process of composting does not
add a singlo element of fertility to raw
‘table manure. It relieves it of part of
its great volume and weight, renders it
more convenient of handling and appli¬
cation, and makes it quicker in aeiion,
but it also surely deprives it of a portion
of its elements of plaut food, not only
through the escape of ammonia, but
also through the leaching and washing
away of soino of its mineral constit
uentp.
The gardener who desires to sec quick
results, but is afraid of the living iveed
seeds and injuiious bacteria so often
found in raw manure, has no other al¬
ternative but to compost it, and to take
the risk of loss. The farmer, on the
other hand, has no need of hesitating to
apply it at once to his fields or meadows,
or even orchards, lie has little or noth¬
ing to gain by composting, but much to
lose. The best and most advanced
farmers now take the raw manure to the
fields about as fast as made, and con¬
sider it the most advantageous method
general ly .—Farming World.
Cabbage for Live Stock.
By the liberal use of cabbage I have
been able not only to keep up but to
largely increase the yield from my cows,
and that without any deleterious effect
either upon tho animals or the product.
I began to feed very moderately—fearing
that the flavor of the milk, might be im¬
paired—and gradually Increased the
ration until I was feeding very nearly as
much as tho cows would eat with a rel¬
ish. Calves also do well on it, and a
lot of young pigs,turned in upon a patch
of 3000 heads that were a little too slow
for the season in heading up, showed a
marked improvement in an almost in¬
credibly short time. It would be profit¬
able for any farmer to grow a piece of
cabbage for stock alone, as an acre will
produce from fifteen to twenty-five tons
of rich nitrogenous food; but better
still, grow the cabbage for market and
feed the refuse—soft heads, stumps and
outside leaves—and get from that part
enough to pay the entire cost of produc¬
tion .—American Agriculturist.
The Ideal Team.
The best team ever used on the farm
was a low, blocky-built, close-coupled,
heavy boned pair of grade draft horses
that weighed 1(150 pounds each. They
were strong, willing, active and always
ready for a good day’s work. With this
team wc thought nothing of plowing
four acres per day of less than ten hours,
with a IG-inch sulky plow, or putting
in 20 acres of small grain with an eight
foot seeder, and on a self-binder they
would do as much as threo 1100 pound
horses, and were much nicer to handle
as there was no occasion for them to
crowd each other, as a three-horse team
invariably will.
Then in heavy teaming about the farm
or on the road there was a great deal of
satisfaction in knowing that the team
would draw all an ordinary farm wagon
could cany. This team could, and did
by the watch, walk four and one half to
five miles per hour on the road both with
an empty wagon and drawing a heavy
load. We would like to sec more such
teams used on the farms everywhere,
they are not only valuable for the
amount of work they will accomplish in
a satisfactory manner in a sin¬
gle season, but when one has such a
team to spare they will readily bring
$600 or more .—National Horse Breeder.
Butter Beans.
Many people at tho South do not ap¬
preciate the value of what is known as
the small Lima or butter bean, There
are three varieties of the Lima bean—
the small, the large and Drecr’s Im¬
proved. The last named produces beans
much larger than the small variety, but
is less productive, and does not continue
bearing throughout the season in the
South as does the small variety. The
large Lima has been superseded by
Dreer’s Improved, but the small white
Lima, commonly known as the butter
bean, is the one most generally culti¬
vated in the cotton States, where it is
subject to the attack of no insect enemy,
is not depredated upon by poultry, and
affords a delicious dish for table use,
either as a green or dry shelled bean.
It is a universal occupant of the Southern
gardens for use in summer while greeu,
but few have as yet realized its value for
winter use, as a dry beau.
It is more easily produced, and more
easily preserved than any other species
grown In the South. It is considered
by some superior to the celebrated
“Yankee’’ or “navy bean;” at any rate
it is a perfect substitute for that famous
variety. Tho only difficulty about
growing this bean is the fact that it
needs a support upon which to climb.
This support may be most cheaply fur¬
nished by using tall growing varieties of
corn. The bean may be planted in the
rows of corn, and occupy the stalks un¬
til gathered.
We feel satisfied that they could be
grown with profit anywhere in the
south. Unlike the other varieties of
beans, no weevil attacks it, and hence
there is no difficulty in preserving them
through the winter. They should he
prepared for cooking by soaking in
water 12 hours previous to boiling.
They may, however, be cooked without
previous soaking, but more time will be
required in boiling. They are found on
the market, but arc not grown in suffi¬
cient quantity to place them within reach
of the multitude. The supply being
small, the price puts them out of reach
of the majority of families.
This is n crop that should be largely
grown in the South for winter use to
supply home necessities.— Farm, Field
and Stockman.
Farm and Garden Notes.
Are your seed potatoes iii a frost-proof
cellar?
Atc tho mice eating dollar wheat in
your stack or mow?
The last coat of paint should not be
put on that new building until spring.
Evergreens may bo as safely planted
in the fall as in the spring, if care is
taken with them.
Every man should raise something for
his family that he can not buy as well,
for mere money.
Don’t forget the ground, you can’t
■cheat the ground—you may cheat your¬
self but you can not cheat the ground.
Every shiver of a half-frozen cow will
show itself in the milk-pail, Warm
barns and warm bedding serve in part
for !ood.
Profitable milk production in winter
means liberal feeding of grains, no mat¬
ter how generous tho supplies of other
provender.
To deepen and enrich the soil is bet¬
ter than to enlarge the farm, for while
the crop is increased tho cost of produc¬
ing it is decreased.
Old newspapers wound around the
bodies of young apple trees have proved
good winter overcoati, preventing sun
scald and girdling by rabbits. Tarred
building paper is also used by some or¬
chard Old ists orchards fo^the same lie purpose. renovated by
may
thorough cultivation, digging, destroy¬
ing the borers, cleaning up, whitewash¬
ing the trees, pruning and doing such
other work as may be necessary to get
the soil and trees in a first-class condi¬
tion.
How the Pages Make Money.
The pages at the Capitol have so per¬
fected the science of securing tho auto¬
graphs of members that an energetic
boy on the doorkeeper's pay-roll can get
the names of from 100 to 150 members
per day, depending somewhat upon the
character of the business that at that
time is occupying the attention of the
House. If the matter under discussion
is of a character that occupies general at¬
tention, the autograph fiend cannot ply
his nefarious calling, because the mem¬
bers will not permit themselves to be in¬
terrupted. If, however, the enterprising
page starts out on a day devoted to pri¬
vate measures or district legislation, or
something else in which tho statesmen
take no interest or have no concern, he
will wind up with half the members of
the House enrolled.— Washington PosL
The Parted Lovers.
If I e uld know that after all
These heavy bonds have ceased to thrall,
We, whom in life the fates divide,
Should sweetly slumber side by side,
That one green spray would drop its dew
Softly alike above us t. o.
All would be e ell, for I should be
At last, dear loving heart, with thee!
How swe t to know this dust, of ours,
Mingling will feed the selfsame flowers,
The scent of leaves, the song i ird’s tone
At once aer, ss our re.-t be blown;
One breath of sun, one sheet or rain
Make green the earth above us twain!
Ah, sweet and strange, for I should be,
At last, dear tender heart, with tlieo!
But half the earth may intervene
Thy place of rest and mine between,
And leagues of land and wastes of waves
May stretch and toss. etween our gr »ves.
Thy bed with s .miner li ;l t be warm,
While snow drifts heap in wind and storm
My pillow, wh' se one thorn will be
Beloved, that I tun not wi:li t..ee!
But if there bo a blis-ful sphere
Where homesick souls, divided here,
And wandering wide in useless que t.
Shall And their long-for haven of rest,
If in that higher, happier birth
We meet the joy we missed on earth,
All will be well, for 1 shall be,
At last, dear loving heart, with t'loe!
—Elizabeth Akers.
HUMOROUS.
A chest protector—The night watch¬
man.
A crusty individual is generally ill
bread.
An act to Amend—Sowing on a
patch.
A high-handed proceeding—Gilding a
spire's tip.
When a little man is hopelessly in love
it greatly increases his sighs.
The mop is very fri quently floored,
but not in a household argument.
The carpenter is not necessarily bank¬
rupt when his stock goes under the ham¬
mer.
The lobster is a fish that never appears
on the table without getting red in (he
face.
Mountains are rarely jealous of each
other, but they sometimes show a great
deal of peak.
. Home is the dearest place on earth;
consequently many people hoard on ac
count of economy.
“Father,” said the lad, “I grant you
Yoar parental right to whal', I
But ere yon begin proceedings,
Biease remove the sliinglo nail.”
“John, I am going to raise you:- rent, ”
said a landlord. “Sir, I’m very much
obliged to you, for I cannot raise it my
self."
There is one good thing about the
magazine diale d story. There isn’t a law
in the universe that obliges a man to
read it.
Husband (starting)—Isn’t that a rap
at tho door? Wife—Yes. You had
better go for it, darling. I had it sent
C. O. D.
Chicago is organizing an aristocracy
of its own, composed mostly of success¬
ful wheat speculators. They are, of
cour. e, all high-bread personages.
Bobbie—Say, pa, a bee hums, doesn’t
he? Father—Yes, my boy; but run
away and don’t bother me. Bobbie—
Well, pa, if that’s so, ain’t a bee ahum
bug?
A Nevada man who had seven homely
daughters, got a paper to hint ttiat he
had seven kegs filled with gold in hi
cellar, and every girl was married in five
months.
Head of the House—“Is your mistress
in?” Mary—“No, sorr; she’s gone
shopping.” Head of the House (with a
sigh of relief)—“Oh, shopping. Well,
a woman can shop all day for nothing,
but matinees cost money.”
“Wiil you trust me, Fanny?” he cried
passionately, grasping her hand. “With
all my heart. Augustus, with all my
soul, with all myself,” she whispered,
nestling on his manly bosom. “Would
that you were my tailor,” he murmured
to himself.
George: What's the matter, Cholly?
Been sued, or what? Cholly; Just got
a letter from—from her. Gccrtre: What
does she say? Cholly: Only two words:
“Youni forever.” George: N oth ing
the matter with that, is there? Cholly:
She sent our engagement ring in the
note.
Funny item in funny paper: “If a
building catches fire in its upper story,
it may burn down; if it takes fire in the
basement, it may burn up. ” Naturally,
then, if fire starts about half way be¬
tween basement and roof, it will bum
sideways, and finally go out by the lira
escape.