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WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS OF THE PR ESIDRN1
AFD HIS ADVISERS .
iPfOIFTMENTS, DECISIONS. AND OTHER MATTERS
0 F : sOT tfuo* the national capital.
The treasurer of the United States his
. a , 1P d instructions, subject to the con
venience of the treasury, to the usAstaut
treasurer of the United States at New
York to supply notes and silver certtli
J–Them tp’of small denominations to banks
s, S!° in sums not less than
$1 ’° 1 Window, . Wednesday, w ,
.
Secretary on
.conferred the name of Lot M. Morrill,
ex-secretary of the treasury, upon the
new revenue cutter now fitting out at
Baltimore for service at Charleston S. C.,
and vicinity. Congress appropriated
$ 75,000 for the construction and equip
ment of the Morrill.
Tiie chief of engineers has prepared
his report on the impiovement of
Charleston, S. C. harbor, together with
recommendations for future operations,
to be submitted to Congress. The state
meat of Capt. Abbott’s report for the
condition and needs of the Jetties was
adopted. The improvements will cost
$850,000.
The telegraph Postmaster-General system remains un
chance Cb . Wana
maker Cr as entiie charge of the whole
matter, aud is in conference with Presi
dent Norvin Green, of the Western Un
ion in regard to it. While it is expect
ed that an agreement will soon be
reached, none has yet been arrived at, so
far as is known at the department.
The department , , , o f . ® , ta . te , bas received . .
.
from the legation at Pekin, China, . under
date of the third ot July, an account of
the death and extraordinary life wrork of
Rev. J. Crossett, independent American
missionary f0 China. His caieerappears
to have been a most remarkable one,
charactenzed by absolute seT-devotion.
He died on the steamer Eldorado, en
route from Shanghai to lienstsm, on the
first of June last. He leaves a widow
living at Schuylerville, N. Y.
First Comptroller Matthews has de
cided that the appropriation, $000,000,
made by the act of congress, of March 2,
1889, for “agricultural experiment sta
tions,” can be used for the benefit only of
forty stations, for which estimates were
made, namely: $15,000 each for stations
in each of the thirty-eight states, in the
territory of Dakota, and the agricultural
department, and that no part of the ap
propriation can be used in the establish
mentof such stations in any of the terri
tories, with the exception of Dakota,
that being the only one included in the
estimates upon which the appropriation
was based.
FOREST FIRES.
RAGING WITH FEARFUL HAVOC IN THE
GREAT NORTHWEST.
A dispatch from Portland, Ore., says:
All the northwestern country seems
to be burning up in forest fires. The
smoke has been so dense in Portland for
the last two or three weeks that for a
time it was impossible to see far up the
street, and the snn and moon looked
like great balls of fire. In the harbor
the smoke has had the effect of a fog,
and gteamers have been required to blow
their whistles every few minutes to avoid
collisions. It is estimated that the to
tai damage by the forest fires in the
northwest this year will amount to $500,
000. Several tkousaud cords of wood
Lave been consumed. Wednesday the
flames swooped down upon the settle
ment of Cedar Mills and left the country
barren. People, in some instances, had
scarcely time to escape, and had to hurry
through thick the woods, the fire being 60
tensive along lire the regular roads. An ex
is raging in southern Oregon,
? nd a number of houses have been
>«rned. Many of the forest fires are the
Work of tramps.
LIVERPOOL NOTIFIED
®sat cotton BAGGING WILL BE USED TO
WRAP THE COMING CROP OF 1889.
A conference was held in cotton ex
change [ n New York city on Monday be
ween commissioners of the Southern
Jr *°rk , and a special committee of New
cotton exchange. The result was
appointment of Henry Ilentz, C. D.
Uer > Ja me 3 Meissmer, Theodore H.
p. Lehman,
an ij JL R. Wolfenden
(ir 1 t lesolutiona Roundtree, as a committee to
to be submitted to the
, J er oi P 0<d ( otlon cotton Lagging exchange, favoring the
«oUon „ nf . ; in which to wrap
instead of jute. The Southern
commission was composed of J. S. Hen
Aul° n ’ ° f Geor S ia John C. Cheney, of
.
A V. D^?’ butler, of R° South od i Tennessee aud
• Carolina.
the elixir OF LIFE
REMEDY WHICH IS COMMANDING
«EAT ATTENTION AMONG DOCTORS.
Yoe and Dungan, of the
Ky hf- ° f Mudiciue at Louis
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Brill <idx ' r prepared experimenting
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v ,° U they have
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tried *i- l h “T ellx,r ate , iu I)r " of Porter
y castJ an asth
C ’ J 10 was not informed ol
natur 0 /- f thj trei *tment. The
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and ' paraly
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e Xner 1 eriments being « y a « strength.
are continued.
JUDGE TERRY KILLED
"WHILE IN THE ACT OF SLAPPING
FACE OF CHIEF THU
JUSTICE FIELD.
Upon the arrival of the southern over
o’clock Stephen
States Judge J IW
- e dining j^ rsbal room I)a J for id break- Nagle
f after* , . 1 H^ 11 Sld by side.
® Soon
J ™ r > Tud David . »• Terry and wife
ot i iey Preceding to a n
, ^
l> W)0n r «. Terry, evidently
S d0 ^> hat i™® ret2red . t0 tie train c J ia for ”»«»?« some
unknown purpose. Before she reached
it, dining however, and just as she had left the
Justice room, Field, Judge Terry approached
slapped his and, stoonimr over him
face. At this juncture Den
uty Marshal Nagle arose from his seat
and shot Judge Terry through the heart
The causes which led up to the tragedy
are as follows: Judge Terry was mar
Ged to Sarah Althea Hill, wdio claimed
to be the wife of ex-Senntor Sharon,
while prosecuting her claim against the
Sharon estate. This brought him into
resentful attitude toward Justice Field,
who last year rendered a decision in the
United States circuit court, denying her
claim Terry to created be the wife of Sharon. °Mrs.
a scene in court during the
reading of the decision, charging Jus
’ ce r j e )d with being corrupt, and as
8he refused to remain Justice
r
c
cour L , When the . deputy
Carry *' the order of the attempted to
p 11 ?\ ved court she be
^, an2e t ?™ « v cia and 1 P Jtidge a personal 'lerry quarrel interfered, with
drawi *■, pg a daggar ’ from his He
vest.
was disarmed, and both Terry and bis
-vvife were adjudged in contempt and
committtd to ja)1 . Newspaper aHicles
were printed intimating that it would be
dangerous for Justice Field and
j udge Terry to meet personally,
f rom w hich fact it was deemed prudent
to have Nagle, as deputy marshal, to ic
company the chief justice while on his
visit to the coast, David S. Terry was
at one time chief justice of the supreme
court of California, and has always beeu
a prominent figure in the political his
tory of the state.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
ENCOURAGING REPORTS FROM R. G. DUN
– CO. FOR THE PAST WEEK.
R. G. Dun – Co.’s review of trade for
*be , week , says: Changes „ m . the business .
world during the week, though but
sb g b L have all been in the nght direc
^ on * There is a little better movement
products, some improvement in crop
prospects, particularly in cotton, and
with more confidence and strength in the
stock market, and less chance of a dis
turbing withdrawal of specie for Europe. the
In manufactures, all changes are in
direction of improvement, and reports
from the interior indicate a volume of
trade exceeding last year’s, and, on the
whole, steadily increasing. Of all cities
reporting this week, scarcely one notes
dullness in trade. The glad news that
the coke strike has ended, removes the
apprehension of closing many iron works
i n the Pittsburg district. Prices of iron
and manufactured iron and steel had been
advancing. With steady improvement in
the reports of food products from the
Northwest, wheat has declined about
j on sales of ouly 8,000,000 bushels at
New York, and corn Jc. on sales of
5,000,000 bushels. Oats are nearly pounds, one
cent lower and hogs 10c. per 100
In oil there is an advance of $c., and in
coffee prices have been lifted $ of a cent.
Sugar is nominal, with 6J cents, quoted
a8 above any bid at present attainable,
The stock market has been strong and
advancing, aud money in ample supply
for commercial use is quoted at about During the
usual rates all oyer the country.
the week the treasury took iu one million
dollars more than it paid out, but mer
chandise exports from New York for the
week were nearly 30 per cent, above last
year, with an increase of about 20 per
cen t. iu imports. The average prices of
commodities have slightly advanced.
Business failures throughout the country
during the week number, for the United
States^ 164; Canada, 35; total 201.
against 210 l–st week .
TIRED OF WAITING.
MINING COMPANIES MAKING ARRANGE
MENTS TO EMPLOY NEW MEN.
A dispatch from Streator, Ill., says:
A new phase of the mining situation has
developed, which will give the striking
miners more trouble than they hud pre
viously anticipated. It is said on good
authority that the Star Coal company,
whose mine is located at Kangloy, have
completed arrangements by telegraph their by
which a full quota of men to run
shaft will, inside of thirty days, be
landed there from West Virginia. The ^
Chicago, Wilmington and Vermillion
company, which has always given em
ployment to at least 2,000 men, is also
said to be negotiating for men from other
uoints. This company operates mines at
Braidwood, LaSalle, Seutouville and
other places, and has grown tired of
the repeated strikes. If the miners of
these places desire to resume work, they
will have to do it quickly, the operators
say, as they do not propose to stand idly
by aud see Southern operators take all
the contracts and let the market for their
products be forever destroyed.
THE SEASON OPENS.
A special from Albany, Ga., says:
“The cotton market has opened, and the
warehouse men aro now beginning has to
look busy. Hon. Primus Jones
marketed fourteen bales from this year’s
crop. The fleecy staple will be coming
in very briskly in a few days.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
A CENTENARIAN.
A FIRST COUSIN, OF EX-PRESIDENT FILL
MORE REACHES HER 102d BIRTHDAY.
Mrs. Lavinia Atwell Fillmore, relict of
the late Glexon Fillmore, who was first
cousin to the late ex-President Millard
Fillmore, celebrated her one hundredth
and second birthday Tuesday, at her
quiet home near Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs.
Fillmore is without doubt the oddest per
son in western New York, and retains
her faculties to a remarkable degree.
She was born August 13th, 1787, and
was married to the pioneer Methodist
preacher, Glexon Fillmore, September
20th, 1800. She has lived in Clarence
county, N. Y., ever since her husband
died in 1875.
WILL NOT HANG.
WOOLFOLK GETS A NEW LEASE ON HIS
LIFE.
Judge Wednesday afternoon, at Macon, Ga.,
Gustin refused to accept the briel
of evidence as submitted by the attorneys
of Tom Woolfolk in their motion for a
new trial, and ordered that the stenog
idence rapher’s report be made the brief of
in the case. Judge Gustin also
granted the supersedeas, as the motion
had not been completed. Therefore,
Tom Woolfolk will not hang on Friday,
August 16th, the day appointed. The
hearing begin on the motion will now actively
since the brief of evidence has
been decided upon.
HIGH WATER
NEBRASKA IS VISITED BY HEAVY FLOODS—
GREAT DAMAGE REPORTED.
The heavy rains have swollen the
streams iu southwestern Nebraska to an
unusial height. Railroad traffic is con
siderably interrupted, and much damage
has been done to property. At Beatrice,
on Blue river, houses on bottom lands
were flooded, the people escaping iu
boats. A new paper mill was swept
away and other small buildings were
wrecked. Salt creek and Salt basins are
one vast lake and the water has as yet
shown no signs of subsiding. From three
to five hundred houses are flooded and
the people have moved out of danger.
A BIG SUIT.
A LAND AND COAL COMPANY SEEK TO RE
COVER PROPERTY VALUED AT $30,
000 , 000 . ----
The Robert Morris Land and Coal
Company, of New York, on Monday,
filed a bill inequity against the Philadel
phia and Reading Coal and Iron compa
ny, in the United States circuit court at
Pittsburg, Pa., alleging that they are
owners of 8,949 acres of coal and timber
land in Northumberland county, Penn
sylvania, and that the defendant is in
possession of the land aud is rapidly re
moving the coal aud timber from it,
2,000,000 tons of coal being taken out
annually. The property iu dispute is
worth $30,000,000.
Delusions of an Empress,
The Empress of Austria, who is at
Wiesbaden, occupies outside the town s
villa which is guarded by police agents,
aad no strangers are allowed to approach
it, says the London Star. The Empress’
delusion was that King Louis came for
her in the night dripping wet in his
shroud, from which there ran a perfect
stream of water, which filled the room
and threatened to drown her. She
would wake in a fright and call for help,
saying she was drowning. These hys
terics generally ended in a fainting lit,
and, singular the Empress to add, for appeared some days be
afterward to
free from hallucination.
On her return to Vienna last year the
Empress absolutely Rudolph, refused to see her
son, the Archduke declaring
that lie had not paid the her proper respect.
Shortly afterward Archduke com
mitted suicide, and it became Empress an imper
ative necessity that the should
be confined to her own apartments, for
she was continually reproaching herself
for causing the death of her son. And
now the acute crisis in the Empress’
illness has passed, for softening of the
\jrain has set i».
Shark Skin Leather.
Shark skins are tanned into a peculiar
kind of leather called shagreen. This
leather goes through a peculiar process to
give it a roughened surface. It is
sprinkled over with small hard seeds,
which are pressed into the soft leather,
leaving it pitted all over with small in
dentations. The surface is then shaved
down smooth, and when the leather is
steeped in water the depressions swell
wp to the original surface, leaving the
leather roughenad in a peculiar manner.
Shagreen is used for covering small cases,
for sachels, and other small ornamental
works .—Mew York Times,
If there is any place in America where
au American feels that he is in a foreign
land, it is in Milwaukee. A drive
through the streets is like a drive through
a German city. Most of the signs are
in German, and those in English an
nounce that some 'Jeriton is engaged in
SSfEX °in
fact, :1 person unacquainted with the
Gorman tongue lias some He is difficulty in
making his way about confronted
with cab drivers and car conductors
who sneak only a few words of English,
and if he wishes to take a drive in the
country, his way is barred by a toll-gate,
the keeper of which cannot even inform
him of the amount of his toll in wlmt is
generally considered to be the language
°f the L nited states.
IftB FABfi AND GARDEN.
I
TANKING WITH THE WOOL ON.
It quite frequently happens that a
farmer wishes to tan one or more sheep
skins with the wool on. To such the
following, taken from an exchange,
may be useful: Tan in alum dissolved
in water. Proportion, one pound of
alum to one gallon of water. Wash
the wool clean with plain soap. To
color, use aniline of any shade you de
sire. Dissolve one pound aniline in
two gallons water; strain before using;
then float skins in a dye box, wool
down. See that they lie flat, and let
remain till color or shade you desire
comes, then take out and run through
cold water and. hang up in a hot room
to dry. For plain white, wash the
skins well after tanning as described
above. If not white enough, hang up
in a< small room and bleach with pow
dered sulphur. Set in a pail in centre
of room burning. Be careful to have
no escape of sulphur fumes and have
the room air-tight.
WHEN TO BROADCAST MANURE.
A large part of the value of the ma
nure of an animal is in the liquid form o'
uiea, a substance containing nitrogen,
and which by fermentation changes into
ammonia and is lost, or, may be, if no
precautions are taken. This being true,
the safest way would seem to be to get
the manure, both solid and liquid, into
the soil before fermentation takes placo*.
This may be accomplished by drawing
and spreading the manure as fast as- it
accumulates, whether in summer or win
ter. In many places this is practised,
but tlio deep snows of a New Hamp.
shire winter prevent this generally. It
is also true that on steep hillsides thy
plant food would be washed away to a
certain extent, but on level land or land
of moderate slope I should never hesi
tate to spread manure at any time when
I could conveniently draw it to the field,
whether in the fall, winter, spring op
summer. It is sometimes urged that
manure loses nitrogen by exposure to
wind or snow, but if manure is drawn
out before fermentation eminences,
there is little or no ammonia in it,
and as the nitrogen of manure
to be volatile must bo in the form of
ammonia, the loss from this source must
be very small indeed. Manure spread
on the surface in summer or early fall
should be harrowed in, for the reason
that if left on the surface it dries in
hard lumps and is hard to break up and
mix with the soil. Manure applied iu
the late fall, before or after the freezing
of the soil, is probably in the best po
sition possible, and I am satisfied, not
only from general observation and the
experience of the most observing far
mers, but from experiments in which
the exact weight of products has been
determined, that if all the farmyard ma
nure could be applied in November in
stead of April, the average yield would
be increased by more than 10 per cent,
from this change alone. The explana
tion of this is to be found in the even
distribution of the plant food in the
surface soil. The fall rains and the
melting snows soften the manure and
dissolve the available plant food, wash
ing it into the soil where it is left in
the best condition possible for the young
plant.
SOD GROUND FOB POTATOES.
A decomposing sod makes the best
bed for growing potatoes I havo ever
tried; but to succeed well it must be
properly prepared. The grass should
be suffered to grow till about the first
of June, but if a little later at the north
it is still early enough for planting to
insure a good crop. Now take a plow
with a wide, fiat share, quite sharp at
the edge, with a sharp coulter on the
end, or in the absence of this fasten a
coulter to the beam. With such a plow
sod can be turned flat over about one
foot wide. This is absolutely necessary
in order to cover the grass completely
and insure its gradual decomposition
with the turf through the season, to fur
nish nutriment for the growing crop.
The turned soil ought to be three to
four inches thick. If thinner than this
ft does not protect well from a drought,
“"4 « i. doc, not decompose
thoroughly as is necessary.
Holes for planting may be cut open
ithfth bl ^ ’ b three inches
wide and as many deep, and six inches
apart where every third furrow joins its
edges to a fourth, and thr leed be plant
ed in these holes. This makes the rows
three feet apart. Do not disturb the
endeavoring to hill these
rows, for a fiat cultivation is best, anft
so few weeds will grow ou the surface
that it will not be necessary to plow it,
which if done will injuriously disturb
the sod. All that is necessary is, when
the potato vines have grown up two to
three inches, run a broad, sloping tooth
harrow over the ground, and it will ef«
fectually destroy all weeds and stir the
surface enough to keep it mellow.
Thus treated,, a soil of moderate fer
tility will produce a good crop, but if
it is so poor as to require fertilizing, do
not spread stable manure or putrescent
compost on top of the sod and plow it
in, as some recommend, for if the grow
ing tubers touch this—as they mus t—it
endangers their rotting, and in any
event makes them less mealy, and in
jures their taste. If such manure is
used it should be spread ou the ground
after being well harrowed between the
rows. It will then operate as a benefi
cial mulch during hot weather, and as
rain dissolves the salts, the liquid will
be carried down through the turf
to benefit the crop. The best thing
to use is the potato fertil
izer, applied on the bottom of the fur
row as fast as the sod is turned up, and
let this cover it. Some recommend,
spreading this fertilizer broadcast over
the ground after the potatoes arc
planted, and harrowing it well in. I
have tried this method of application,
and found little benefit from it. If a
moderate amount of rain falls during the
summer the turf will get well rotted by
autumn, and the soil be in admirable
tilth for a wheat crop, or in spring for
auy other crop tho farmer may wiah to
cultivate.
On the sea coast sea weed is exten
sively used for fertilizing tho potato
crop, aud it is contended by many there
that this is equal to interior sods; but it
is not the case, for tho weed gives a
tang to the potatoes which often make3
them so very disagreeable for eating at
the table as to condemn them entirely to
cattle food. They grow extra large
from sea-weed, and as they are dug
havo a fine, smooth appearance. I
should think that if a quart or so of
slaked lime was well spread around the
seed when planted this might neutralize
the tang and render the tubers palatable
for the table .—American Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTBS.
Professor Cook says he grows the
most corn with the least labor by plant
ing it in drills.
For vegetables in saody soil a Massa
chusetts gardeuer says he finds nothing
better than hen manure and phosphate.
Good butter can be made with a dash
er churn, but it is a back-aching job,
and the extra time it takes would
soon buy a barrel or rectangular churn.’
In selecting layers choose spare and
leggy birds; study to obtain large eggs,
not forgetting quantity. The best qual
ity pays best and costs no more to pro
duce.
It is important that newly planted
trees be shaded from the sun. Straw
wrapped around the trunk up to tha
lower branches is successfully used for
this purpose.
Regularity in milking or feeding is
important, and uniformity in amount,
not lavish today, because we have plen
ty, and scrimpingly tomorrow ? because
we are short, m
Some advantages of raising ducks
over chickens are that they grow almost
twice as fast, are free from vermin and
less liable to disease. They aro also
good egg producers.
Do not overfeed your birds. If you
do the hens will break down and the
male bird become indolent, the egg*
will be sterile, and a curse will hang
over the yard that once challenged your
admiration.
A. I. Root says that with lime and
guano sifted together and raked into the
soil beiore seeds are planted he raises
cabbages, radishes and everything in
that line with perfect immunity froai
the flea beeflc.
The coops and roosts may be saturated
with a proportional mixture of two
quarts of water, one ounce sf sulphuric
acid and one ounce of carbolic acid.
Kerosene oil should be used freely on
all parts of the coop.
Most of the complaint of the unprofi
tableness of orcharding :omes from ig
noring the demands of the crop upon
the sod, and of the soil, thus weakened,
upon the orchard, says T. H. Hoskinp,
iu Orchard and Garden. Au underfed
orchard is apt to prove as unprofitable as
a a underfed animal.