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WASHINGTON, D. C.
MOVEMENTS of tue PRESIDEN'I
AND HIS AHVJEERS.
in**™*™’ *»•"■*• "' n <"*“ »™**
OF .STEKL.V FROM THE KATIOXAL CAPITAL.
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The secretary of the treasury on Mon
day afternoon accepted $l,4oo,ooO four
percents registered halt at 1~8, cents and $100,
000 four and a per registered
at 100J-.
The bonds purchased Tuesday, by reached the treasury
department on the un
usually large total of $o,39»_), 000. Tney
■were all four per cent, registered bonds
and were bought at 128.
The total amount of bonds purchased
bv the treasury in the last three days, is
nearly eleven millions. For these bonds
the lion'dollars. government paid about fourteen mil
The treasury surplus was
seventy millions ten days ago, but has
decreased to about forty-two millions.
Receipts . 1 of government from t internal • a ,
revenue during last mouth were $11,-
48 AOK o, 9 Qr-o ov, showin clinwirio- an an increase increa.e of ot $1,30,,- <S1 307
738, as compared with receipts for July,
1888. This increase was distributed
though all ol the sources of revenue
except the oleomargarine and bank tax.
The acting secretary of war has sus
pended the Jacksonville, order transferring Surgeon
Porter from Fla., to Jack
son Barracks, La. It is probable that he
will be permitted indefinitely to remain in in the pres
ent station conformity
with the desire of the people of Florida,
The treasurer of the United States has
issued instructions, subject to the con
venience of the treasury, to the assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York, to supply notes and silver certifi
cates of small denominations to banks
ordering them in sums not less than
$1,000.
Charles R. Flint, of New York,
and Henry C. Davis, of West Virginia,
have been appointed delegates on the
part of the United States to the congress
of American nations, to meet in Wash
ington in October next, in the place of
ex-Governor Whyte, of Maryland, and
J. R. C. Pitkin, of New Orleans.
The state department . . , has , been .
in
ormed by the United States minister to
Venezuela of the prevalence of fever at
Caracas, which has been erroneously
termed yellow fever. It is for the most
part confined to a district where the
drainage is defective, but if taken in
time the disease yields readily to medical
treatment, and is in no sense epidemic.
The treasury department was recently
informed that a large number of Cuban
cigar-makers were coming into Key West
in violation of the contract labor law.
The emigrant agent at Key West was
thereupon asked fo ; a statement, and in
response he has reported to the depart
ment thfit these Cubans are constantly
passing States, into and out of the United
but that there is no evidence ol
the existence of contracts for employ
ment, which would make their entry il
legal.
If an unofficial rumor which has
readied the slate department is confirm
tL VJH ” r en»°nstranceof iVe a f m0St C rj the Ca Canadians n CffC H C - fc t0
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degree, if not entirely, by citizens of the
United States. This information came
to the department incidentally while a
quiet inquiry was being made into the
truth of the statement that the United
fntm«bf' odr C ° ® nS OI He ^ at colonml vessels file
nallv ea ing in e 'ring sea.
A DAY OF CASUALTIES.
EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED IN ONE DAY ON
NORTH CAROLINA RAILROADS.
most umucky day for tramps and drunken
men ever known in North Carolina. So
as reported, eight men 'were on that
Curing Jay run the over earlv and killed on railroads.
colored, ^un morning Joe Caldwell,
kd ed was over and instantly
8. on the Richmond – Danville road,
C. Tanner and Robert Haider, both
^jte, aad killed were in the afternoon run over
b on thc Air-Line, near Sails
«ry- They were lying upon the track
and were both crushed to pieces. Tiircc
uegroes, whose names could not bo
cut 'arned, were found, during the night,
to peices on the railroad near High
oirit. q’ij C train had passed over them,
ut it is believed that they svere mur
dered gram says and two placed white on the track. A tele
the men were run over
n North Carolina railroad
urham near
u 1 at ed. Monday They night, and terribly
‘ were killed instantly.
FAST TIME,
A STEAMER makes 2,788
MILES IN FIVE
HAYS AND NINETEEN HOURS.
The _
a myed steamship at New City of Paris, which
“g, has broken York Wednesday morn
ng her own best the time record from again, beat- j
three hours and Queenstown !
Her aeti, ! fortv-nine minutes.
1 time from Queenstown to San
tiL n° i°° Urs k h 8 3ud ht8bi P 'ghteen was five days, nine
Wt ( ft Queestown ei minutes. She
sLnH fi on last Friday Her run
^ tda T was 432 miles, for the
flftWA ?C 498 ’ third 503 fourth 506, and
L °-G T he >
r ”» from 09 :09 p. in.
(same time) O
"'as 340 d ? h g btsh ip,
Cled wl mi S ioD lea nu 1 he totul distance trav
" as 788 miles.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
TK6BKLSAND VALUABLE CARGOES BURKED
IN CALIFORNIA WATERS.
Dispatches from San Francisco say;
e ifs°,'which S S ofC^
stra is 2
W Moud!^ t'“ cento
^ „„ S C e„ e ot A
Co., Within add two ^lg\–Z^fZn hours the an(T
tents were total loss, building com
in the a and the lire had
meantime, communicated to the
warves and shipping alongside. The
American wooden ship Armenia, and the
British wooden ship Honowaur, both
partially loaded with wheat, were burned
fn the water s edge. The rigging of the
British ship Kenilworth caught fire, but
before any serious damage had occurred
bo ber bub ’ she was towed into the
s t ream > at< l her hold flooded. She had
f cargo of nearly 3,000 tons of wheat on
boara, _
which will prove neatly a total
° 8 ?' ac >ditition to the warehouse
and wharves, forty freight cars of the
bout hern Pacific company, loaded with
Rrain, £ were burned. The loss on ” th« '
wart ouse und C()ntent9 is 1 lac ldtxu t
®o(:a *450,000, Ann upon which there T
was an esti
mated total insurance of \ $104 000
The wliarves were valued t , ^ 6 <> -
0 00, and W(re insurcd for $43
The Armenia was valued at $30,000
The Honowaur was valued at $50 000
The Armenia had 300 tons of wheat
valued at $28,400, fully insured. The
Honowaur had 200 tons of wheat, valued
at $23,000, fully insured. The Kenil
worth’s cargo was valued at $9,000,
which was also fully insured,
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TERRIBLE CLOUD-BURSTS.
north Carolina suffers untold dam
AGES—THE LATEST DISASTER.
Cloudbursts in North Carolina this
year are proving more disastrous than
ever known before in the history of the
state. 8° far eight have been reported
® mce ^- a y a ° d great damage has
en doae ; The latest disaster caused
b , ^ c , 0U( I bursts .occurred in Richmond
county Monday mght, and the town of
l Rockingham, the heaviest on the loss. G. The C. railroad cloud burst sus
ai ° 3
bldf a mile above the town right over the
Pedee river, and instantly the stream was
6wo llen out of its banks, and went dash
- down the town, cairyir.gnearly
1D g U p 0n
everything ° before it. Several small
cabing 0 the low bottoms were
washed away and the ocupants were
compaHed l to flee for their lives,
Fivc mileg of the c . C . Railroad is
washed out completely, and all tele
graphic communications are cut off by
the terrible floods. The reports at a late
hour Monday night says that great dam
age has been done the Roberdel, Great
Falls, Peedee and Midway cotton mills.
Some cotton factories are said to be
washed completely away, or so near it
that they are totally ruined. It is feared
that many people have been drowned
No estimate of the loss or iurther psirtic
nlars can be learned at present.
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EPIDEMIC AMONG CAT TLE.
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A DISEASE SUPPOSED TO BE TEXAS FEVER,
RAGING IN SOUTHERN KANSAS.
Reliable news of the greatest impor
tance to cattlemen in all sections of the
United Stales comes from the southern
line of Kansas and pasture lands of In
dian Territory. There has been for some
time * “"■« —
that herds of native and Texas cattle
which range in the territory were afflicted
with the Texas fever. A man named
William Johnson has just returned from
a trip to Oklahoma, aud passed through
the country where the herds are pastured.
ij e sa y S that not only are the natives af
d j c t ed p u t thorough Texans are dying
^ hundreds in the pastures south of Ar
kansas City. The symptoms are exactly
the same as the Texas fever but thorough
Texans have never been known to die of
the disease. He says cattle are being
shipped to market from the pastures
where carcasses are lying in hundreds and
of the same brands considered of those good shipped and
that tha y are rough for
manners’ stock and everything goes.
T hc cattlemen are becoming much
alarmed , -, ;h ® raisers 18
the actual belief that the disease is . not
^xas fever, but something even more
serious. It is said the managers of thc
Kansas City stock yards will take mime
Qiate P rev cnt acta the ? n ia shipping . the . matt of f cr > cattle an f ? tr / from to
P oints whe re the disease is ragi ng,
THEIR NAME IS LEGION.
NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS FOR A COLLEGE
PROFESSORSHIP.
An election is to be held by the trus
tees of the College of Charleston, S. C.,
on September 10, for a professor of mod
era languages and an assistant professor $1,000
of mathematics, the salary being The
each, without board or lodging.
fact was advertised, and ns strange as it
may seem, there are not less than
one hundred and fifty-eight applicants
foi the two positions. Still stranger,
they hail from nearly all over the world.
New York heads the list with one
hundred and twenty-six candidates,
South Carolina furnishes six, New Jersey
and Massachusetts three each, Germany
two, British Columbia two, France one,
Washington Territory one. The college
is over a century old and is supported by
endowments and not students by state rarely oi mumci
pal aid. Its roll of. mna
over thirty, and it is entirely a day col
lege.
THE returns of a recent school election
.^ Kansas show that 50,000 women voted on
schoo i matters, and that a large be proportion
of school officers this year are to women.
TO MEET IN CHATTANOOGA
THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF TOE CUM
BERLAND FAVORED BY THE RAILROADS.
It is reported from Chattanooga,
Teun., that the Merchants’ and Miners’
line of boats have announced a round
Providence, trip fare of $30.07 from Boston and
via Norfolk and East Ten
nessee Road to Chattanooga and return,
on the occasion of the meeting of the
society of the Army of the Cumberland,
in Chattanooga, September 18, 19 and 20.
wSSS^StXitlSSSiA
to all biigades in Illinois and Indiana,
and it was announced Saturday that the
Queen and Crescent made the same rate,
This has created great consternation in
railroad circles, and it is probable that
all roads leading into Chattanooga will
make the same rate on the occasion of
the meeting of the society of the Army
of the Cumberland, one of the principal
features of which will be the forming of
a society of veterans of both armies.
Word was received at Chattanooga that
the brigade which was commanded by
President Harrison will attend the reun
ion in a body, and that the president has
consented to accompany them, though
this has not been officially announced.
A PHILANTHROPIST DEAD.
HENRY SHAW, THE GREAT PHILANTHROP
IST OF ST. LOUIS, DIES.
Henry Shaw, the venerable philan
thropist and the greatest friend St. Louis
ever had, died Saturday morning in that
city. With his death, the now 7 world
famous botanical gardens become the
property of the state of Missouri. An
other, and perhaps more valuable gift,
Grove was presenting to the city of Tower
park, a resort of peculiar beauty,
His estate is valued at $250,000, and it is
thought the greater part will be left to
the city of St. Louis in various bequests,
and it is understood the charitable in
ititutions of the Episcopal Church will
be favored in his will. The only relative
in this country besides his sister is * a
cousin, Frank B. Bradburv
A TRAMP AUCTION.
Four tramps, arrested at Moberly,
Mo., for vagrancy, were put up at public
auction, Monday, from the Cuurt house
steps. The sale had been duly adver
tised according to law, and there was a
large crowd present. The bidding was
not very spirited. Two of the tramps
went to farmers for $2 a head, aud an
other was bid in for 75 cents, The
fourth tramp could find uo purchasers,
and he returned to jail. The three who
were sold must serve their purchasers for
four months.
The Poorer Classes in Persia.
Touching the houses of the people of
Persia and their household properties, I
once spent a night in the house of a
trooper of the Shah. His pay was $50 a
year, with rations when on duty. He
gave me an excellent dinner in an upper
chamber, which was carpeted, and in the
niches of the false windows of which rose
leaves were piled up for fragrance. I
do not mean that the carpet was other
than the cheapest, or that the atmos
phere was all of $60 rose-leaves, but an Eng
lish groom gets a year, more or less,
and I doubt if he indulges in carpets and
flowers. A few cooking utensils, a brass
tray or two, skins in which curds are
made and kept, a loom, a sheet of leath
er which serves for the floor (table) cloth
—these are the articles that furnish the
ordinary dwelling. If the householder
be a very poor man, he will eat his meat
off big flaps of unleavened bread, and
will eat, too, that which serves him for
a table-cloth and is also the bread which
we find on our table cloths. You break
off a bit of bread and dip your hand in
the dish wherein are curds at any rate,
and possibly on feast days kid or fowl.—
Nineteenth Century.
And now it is a Missouri catfish
weighing eighty pounds. A respectable
colored woman of ihat State, whose rep
utation for veracity is unimpeached, but
who has cultivated the habit of tolling
fish stories, has something to say about
the fish. The other day, while engaged
in washing some linen on the banks of a
stream that runs through Louisiana,
Mo., it occurred to her that, without
pausing little in her work, she might have a
baited fun hook fishing. Accordingly she
a and threw it into the
water, tying the shore end of the line to
one of her ankles. She caught the big
catfish, but, according to a di-patch sent
to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, “two
mens united stiength was necessary to
save the woman from a watery grave,
for the fish was rapidly pulling her into
the river.” More likely, comments the
united New York Tribune, it took “two men’s
colored strength,” not to speak of tlie
woman’s, to manufacture this
pleasing narrative.
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The stealing of an umbrella on a clear
day is held to be a theft by an Omaha
Judge; but the stealing of the same arti
cle on a rainy.day is held to be justifiable
on the ground of self-defense. We pre
sume this decision was rendered in order
to protect the court .—Buffalo Express.
There are over 800.000 more widows
than widowers in England. In France,
for every 100 widowers there are 194
widows. These facts lead the West
minster Review to treat tlie growing
disposition of men to many late in life
as a very serious evil J modern seoiety.
A Mussulman woman has just died in
Mecan Meer, India, credited with 150
years of age. She was blind, deaf, and
dumb, and almost inanimate. She died
in the house of a grandson, who is over
80 . Vh
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
SPONGE THE HORSES SHOULDERS.
At that season of the year when
farmers’ horses aro put at hard work
after a winter of comparative rest their
shoulders are very liable to gall. I
went some distance to a farmer's to
learn wiiy his horses wore never afflict
ed in that way, although lie is noted
for working his team severely. Pro
to abk the i ue3twn - The team Had
just returned from the field, and the
farmer was engaged at one and Ins man
at the other sponging their shoulders
with cold water, This is done every
time they come into the stable after
hard work, and freedom from shoulder
abrasions, and consequent comfort of
the animals, is the natural result. When
farm horses come in from labor, in the
spring especially, it may be observed
tbat they try to rub first one shoulder
and then the other against the stall,
The wear at this point causes the ani
mals to feci exceedingly uncomfortable,
and humane men will not withhold
from them the cooling, soothing influ
ence of a little cold water. — New York
Tribune.
MEAL AT PASTURE.
Some stockbreeders, especially those
who raise fancy steers, aro accustomed
to feed the cattle meal when at pasture,
If the practice was more universally ob
served there w 7 ould be better animals
brought to our markets, and the results
W0Uld be moro gratifying to the grow
ers. Poor grass pastures do not supply
the cattle with sufficient nourishment to
enable them to fatten quickly, and in
many of the old sections of our country
very few good pasture lands can be
found. Milch cows turned from the
solid food of tfiio barn to the thin pas
tures of the field demand some meal ra
tion along with the gras3. The milk
flow may be kept up for a time under
the changed circumstances, but a grad
ual shrinkage will surely follow. A
slight expense in providing the animals
with meal will insure a larger flow and
be found very profitable. The steers
will grow larger in frame and lay on
flesh at the same time. The proper
meal is ccrnmeal for milch cows that
are expected to keep up their flesh as
well, cotton-seed meal will increase the
milk flow, and for steers and colts that
are growing wheat bran is the best.—.
Washington Star.
C1IAFF.
In old times, when grain was threshed
with a flail, farmers took special pains
to save the chaff. It is more nutritious,
and when free from dust, moro palata
ble than straw. A certain quantity of
chaff was mixed with the grain fed to
horses. When machines were intro
duced for cutting hay or straw into
short lengths they ware called “chaffing
machines,” and the cut hay was called
“chaffed hay,” or “hay-chaff.” In other
words, we cut up our hay, straw and
stocks to take the place of chaff. The
American threshing machines knock out
the grain, clean it and carry straw and
chaff together on a ‘ ‘straw carrier” to a
straw stack. There is no provision for
separating the chaff from the straw.
But the more conservative English
farmers could not so readily change
their practice of feeding, and insisted
on having machines that would keep
the chaff separate. And they got what
they wanted. We do not want such
machines here, for the simple reason
that not one farm in a thousand has any
“chaff house” or place intended for
keeping chaff. Nevertheless, it is well
know chaff is valuable, so that
whenever we have an opportunity of
9ay ing it wo may do so .—American
Agriculturist.
TURKEYS.
If there is any of the feathered tribe
I like to raise, it is turkeys, and the
Bronze is a favorite of the several
varieties. The size lias and will con
tinue to , be thc important point to breed
for. To accomplish this, bheky, large
boned, deep- breasted hens, mated with
a young gobbler weighing about thirty
pounds, none of the stilted high-up-in
the-air birds, but an active, well-made,
large-boned bird. The little turks
should be fed on hard boiled eggs,
occasionally seasoned with pepper, thc
first week, gradually changing to other
feed, such as soaked bread, scalded
meal and shorts, and chopped onions—
almost anything for variety; a little at
a time and often.
But the real great secret in turkey
raising is to keep them f ee from wet or
dampness. An entire brood have bef||
rendered almost worthless by becoming
thoroughly soaked. For several yea^i
past, with the use of the followirfj
powder, commencing when a month ol a
aud fed for several weeks, I have had
good results: Powder of cassia bark,
tluee parts; ginger, ten parts; gentian,
one part; anise one part; carbonate of
iron, five parts; mix well, and give for
every twenty young turks a teaspoonful
twice a day, in the food, If turkeys
arc raised by the old ones, and forage a
great deal, it is really unnecessary.—.
Farm, Field and Stockman.
FEEDING CALVES.
Farmers have various contrivances f<^r
feeding young calves waste milk and
whey, but out of tlie many very few are
convenient or desirable. As soon as
grass has a good start calves designed to
be raised for the dairy are generally put
into a small enclosure, sometimes a
young orchard, near the farm house,
there to graze or nibblo at the bark of
t ees. Twice or three times a day the
hired boy will carry them their ration of
diink, thickened with a few handfuls of
middlings or oil meal. Sometimes th®
liquid is portioned out in a row of
buckets standing on the ground, which
the calves alternately butt over, aud
crowd tsvo heads into one in their greed
and haste. Often such an arrangement
is supplemented by a long trough stand
ing on raised legs, which is twice a day
filled to the brim with calf swill, and
the young bo vines aro left to wrangle
over it. Thc sequel of such methods of
feeding is that the strongest and greediest
animals will pod out with the bulk of
the rations designed for all, and the
weakly ones will grow still thinner and
more weakly as their scanty feed tells
upon their growth. If calves are set
apart to raise, their wants must b®
bountifully supplied, as they are to
form the future dairy herd. In feeding
calves it is the height of folly to give
their food iu bulk and let them squab
ble over the division. They need a cer
tain amount of food at regular inter
vals, and must take it at leisure and in
peace. The following described de
vice is both efficacious and practicable.
At a convenient corner of the calf pas
ture put up some light stanchions simi
lar to those in the cow stable, only
dwarfed in size. Have them take tho
place of the fence as far as they go.
Take one broad board or two narrow
ones cleated together, and through tho
centre of the strip saw circular holes at
distances apart corresponding with tho
width between stanchions, Tho
holes should be of diameter suffieieut to
take in a pail or bucket two-thirds of
its depth. Fasten this level in front of
the stanchions by nailing it to supports
at each end and in the middle, At
feeding time set a bucket of whey or
milk into each hole and the calves will
come gamboling up and thrust their
heads through the apertures of tho
stanchions, where they can be quickly
fastened in aud remain separated while
eating. By this system it is impossible
for one greedy creature, after it has de
voured its own portion to got away and
rob a slower-eating companion, The
rack holds the buckets so firmly in place
that the calves can butt them to their
hearts’ content without upsetting. Tho
stanchion frame and tho rack, being
portable, can be stored when not in use.
—American Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
The check rein has been abolished in
England by law.
Wet spinning of linen yarns was be
gun at Belfast, Ireland, in 1839.
If you expect tho corn to do its best
don’t let it have the weeds for company.
It will save time, horse flesh and hay
to grind the sickle before going to the
field.
Poor time to kill weeds when land is
constantly saturated so that it cannot be
worked.
Don’t place a mortgage on the farm.
It is mildew and blight to peace and
prosperity.
When the dinner horn sounds, heed
it. Tlie good wife ought to have her
hours respected.
It will pay a farmer to heed the ad
vice of “Poor Richard.” Early to bed
and early to rise.
It is not too late to plant corn for
fodder. Use tho early varieties if you
wish the best results.
Grass will be very juicy this year if
cut early, but that will not reduce th©
quality of the hay well cured.