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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 - > Brill <idx ' r prepared experimenting th e according to 8 ®ventv Vfith a rheumatic patient v ,° U they have j..? elu oljtaiu<id re rt uf - He feels young 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 h^« a , y recovere H from pa and ' paraly te , Z U 7 CUur d 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.