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WASHINGTON, D. C.
movements of the President
and UIS ADVISEES.
APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS
OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Louis Jacobs has been appointed dep
at v internal revenue collector at
Charleston r< -Won S b. C C ‘
Bond offerings Tuesday aggregated
$854,100 at 105f for four-and-a-half per
.cents and 128 for fours; all accepted.
A. P. West was on Tuesday appoiDte d
postmas'er of Leesville, Lexington
county, S. C., vice J. P, Erodie re
moved.
The official trial trip of the cruiser
Baltimore, built by the Cramps, of Phil
adelphia, for the goverment will take
place Tuesday.
rrl.e. The nnefrvffice. postoffice denartment. department – is is informed informed
that belli the east ™, bound nub,
1”A^r.cJ.,
on |„0» has “ EsSUSKi been auihorized to '°ZTLX offer a reward of
f» r the apprehension of the,
President Harrison made but two ap
pointments Monday: George O. Eaton,
t–
siouer on behalf of the United States in
the Venezuelan claims commission. He
ha*accepted, and will be in Washington
.at a meeting Tuesday.
The debt statement, issued Monday,
shows the increase of the debt during
August to be $6,076,692.22; increase
since June 31, 1S89, $7,094,003.76; total
interest bearing debt, $881,600,058.19;
total debt of all kinds$1,645,826,162.60;
total"debt less available credits $1,083,-
740,625.24; total cash in the treasury
$333,275,215.83; legal tender notes out
standing $346,681,016; certificates of
deposit outstanding $16,545,000; gold
■certificates outstanding $123,393,518;
silver certificates $208,580,626: frac
tkmal currency outstanding $6,915,690,-
146.
A report received on Wednesday at the
board of steam engineering, navy de
partment, from one of the inspectors on
the new cruiser, Charleston, built for
the government, states that the horse
power developed by the ship in her re
cent official run will probably not be
reported above 6,700 by the trial board.
If this be confirmed by the board’s official
report the ship will have failed to make
the contract requirement of 7,000 horse
power by 300, which will subject her
builders to a penalty of $30,000. The
vessel was built on the plans of the Nan
iwakan, English designed, which had
about twenty-four trials before she was
accepted.
It is not probable that the war de
partment will take any steps in the mat
ter of removing the band of Apaches
from Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama.
Secretary “There Proctor said Tuesday morning:
is a mandatory statue providing
for the confinment of the Indians at some
government better barracks, and there is no
The phice thau where they uo\v are.”
Indian Rights association has mad o
b propostion to purchase a large tract of
land in North Carolina, to which the
Indians could be removed and where they
could live in partial freedom, headed by
that old worrier Geronimo; but the sec
retary is not disposed to act until he
sees the purchase consumated.
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
A FATAL ACCIDENT TO A DREDGING CREW
IN THE ST. JOHNS RIVER.
A terrible explosion occurred at the
mouth of the St. Johns river, near Jack
sonville, Fla., on Thursday, by which
two men were killed, and several more
injured. Captain 11. G. Ross, in charge
of the government jetty work at St.
Johns bar, has been engaged for several
days, blowing with a crew of twelve men, in
up the submerged wreck of the
old Dutch brig Neva, which has for years
obstructed the channel off Maypoit. It
seems that two of the men were' soldcr
ln o a twenty-five poundcanof dynamite,
when it exploded with a terrific report
and blew both men to atoms and terribly
wounded others. The explosion was
heard for miles around, and caused an
upheaval of water aud tremor of the
earth.
OVERCOME BY GAS.
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fatal result of an attempt to clean
OUT a WELL.
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\r tel ivi ike ' e ena down > Cal., on Tuesday, Will
went into a -well to see
about making some repairs. He was
overcome by poisonous gas and fell into
‘e water. Martin TIickey, a workman,
1° his asistance, and was also over
A third workman, William Da
V«s lowered into the well, and sue
in getting a rope around Hickey's
iy, narrowly escaping frotn being
dead. himself. Hiokev and McPike
against the label.
DEC ISrON that WILL SERIOUSLY AFFECT
TUB CIGARMAKERS’ UNION.
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In the United States circuit court at
18 <m cigars cannot be prevented or
.
Goo and i 0r ^ aniza HD° ib the United
r. Canada, H claimed,
» very
as it practically decides that
label is of no value whatever.
SCHLEY COUSTY STEWS.
the legislature.
bills passed by the senate and
OF house
REPRESENTATIVES.
T ^ e A° ll0Wing biUs have been passed
hv
the charter of StetesUro, in Bullock
Fort ° bank of
Gaines I the ac fc Creatin 8
the V boa d a of f COUDt y commissioners . . of
v Fu ton county. To make
Columbus Gas title to the
land. A to'amend’the Light Co for a niece nf
bill charter of
tbe Camilla, so as to make it unlawful for
ma y°r and council to graut liquor li
Ce ? s ® except by written consent of two
Ullr(is ot the resident free holders of the
T w .° bills amending the charter
Uanen Short Line; to incorporate
1C j, Sapelo Canal
° c ^ tablls h public schools for company; the
e town
stock law for the 91st dia
Macon ir fpP™ C ^ tUBCnd charter er of 01 the tne
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”Z1eaS‘Siu‘„ S»«» *44; 0 IS ZJt «h“r th0 °j
T-L ; ’ to c “ a ot
ufoi lr t-.. p ii. fr , ^“bilU?^' r ( f bill to ^ amend char- the
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half the levy dnd coUecfcff? of* 'f'fe'fK Tki of or one
instead of
make i officers, it unlawful foTanv county twSuS
property s to exempt from taxation Xhv
and make whatever; legal a bill to recognize
all primary elections by
political parties and to make it illegal to
vote bill to fraudulently incorporate in such elections- a
the Eatonton and
Madison railroad company; a bill to
prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors
within three miles of Mount Olivet
Methodist church in Banks county; a
stock law for certain districts of Dooley
county; a bill to amend the charter oi
the Chattanooga Southern Railway corn
pany; a "bill to incorporate the Piedmont
Loan and Banking company, with per
petual succession; a bill to pay insolvent
costs; a bill to provide for the transfer
of misdemeanor cases pending in the su
perior court of Stewart county; a bill tc
amend the act creating a board of com
missioners of roads and revenue for
Stewart county; a bill to amend the
charter of Chauncey, in Dodge county:
a bill to extend the corporate limits oi
Eastman, in Dodge county; another bill
to amend the charter of Chauncey; a bill
to amend the charter of Eastman; a bill
to incorporate the Melon Belt Railroad
company.
BILLS PASSED IN THE HOUSE.
Senate bill to amend charter of Al
bany; a bill to amend charter of Fulton
county street railroad company, by in
serting the counties of DeKalb and
Cobb, so as to allow the road to operate
in these two counties as w<dl as in Fulton.
A bill to incorporate the Ddhlonega and
Dawsonville railroad company; a bill to
provide for registration Senate of voters in
Bryan county. bill to incorpo
rate the Wynnton aud street raikoad
company; a bill to prohibit the snle of
whiskey a church and academy in
Walker county; Senate bill to incorpo
rate Lumber City, in Telfair county; a
bill to iscorporate the Ocean Pond and
St. Mary’s Short Line railroad ; Senate
bill to amend the charter of Albany
street railroad company, The House
passed the W. – A. bill by a vote of 12
to 10. A bill to incorporate amend the town oi
Mineral Bluff; a bill to the char
ter of Shellman; a bill to levy a tax foi
educational purposes in Emanuel county:
to amend the charter of the Merchants'
bank of Macon; to incorporate the Lab
orers’ Loan and Savings bank at Way
cross; to extend the corporate limits of
the city of Columbus for the purpose oi
taking in the newly purchased cemeterj
section.
A resolution authorizing the librarian
to furnish each judge of the supreme
court with certain volumes of supreme
court reports; to regulate the fees of
clerks of the superior court; to ratify
aud confirm the acts of the superior
courts in granting or renewing charters
of reli'dous and charitable institutions,
to amend the act authorizing the amend
ments of affidavits to foreclose liens; to
authorize judges of superior courts to
appoint special constables in. certain
cities; to change the time of holding
superior court in Telfair county; to pro
vide a stock law for certain districts m
Clay county; to amend seotion 15, ol
the code. . 2 of . the ,,
A bill to amend section geu
cral tax act. This section is in reference
to liceuse required of sewing machine
aoeuts. By the amendment every com- shall
pany doiiv business in the state
pav $200, and also for every one of its
aneuts aoimr business in the state,
FIRST AND LAST.
AN OLD MAN TAKES IIIS FIRST RIDE CN A
RAILROAD AND DIES ON BOARD.
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Campbell A. Walton rode to his . . death , ,,
on Wednesday. He was an old man oi
over eighty years, who lived with his
wife near Castleton Springs, in bumner
county, Tenn., and neither of them hud
ever been on a railroad train before.
Wednesday morning they rode over to
Gallatin aud got on the train bound for
Nashville. He was apparently mu«k
excited over his novel journey, the
and in half and hour from
b ° at H^’death^wM^caused 6 from
journey.
THE of a. Oral.
Coturress K shows that wheat in Europe is the flf
oeut. less than last year, and
shortage in Austria-Hungary. Russia aud
Romnania is 100,0W,000 bushels.
FARM AND GARDES.
REMOVING SURPLUS HONEY.
In order to preserve the pearly white
ness of comb -honey it should be re
moved from tho hive as fast as com
pleted, lest it become travel-stained.
hen it is removed it should be stored
where moths cannot have access to it,
and be kept in a dry, warm, airy room,
where it will not gather dampness.
I find in the case of some hives, from
which a swarm issued, and that have
no laying queen that, the bees have filled
every cell with honey. I extract the
honey, and this wdll give the young
queen room to deposit her eggs. I have
had sections on hand for two years, and
had no use for them, and this year
the flow came when my dishes were not
all right side up; some of the new swarms
have built their combs of pearly white
ness and as the sections ordered had not
arrived and they needed room, I ex
tracted the outside frames. Such beau
tiful, delicious nectar—fit food for gods
—was the result .—Prairie Farmer.
THE COMING PORK.
Will the hog of the future be a meat
or lard animal? Certainly if the hog is
to be eaten there must be more lean
meat about him aud much less lard.
The stomach of the average American
is beginning to insist that it wants no
more lard given it for meat and it is in
sisting on this so strongly that it will
not be long before it will demand lean
pork or refuse to eat pork at all. With
this demand for lean pork will come a
new method of feed.ng to make an ani
mal that will meet it.
There will always be a demand for
lard hogs, but there will be a greater
demand for fine lean meat hogs, and the
two demands will make swine raisiug
more profitable than it has been.
There is no difference in the animals
for the first two months of their lives.
Either must be fed to make good bone
and muscle in order to make a first class
hog of either kind. After the growth
is made the lean meat hog or the lard
hog is but a matter of feeding, Corn
and carbonaceous foods will make the
fat hog, wheat and foods of its class the
lean meat hog that is demanded for the
table.
POULTRY ’ AND INSECT*.
The value of poultry for destroying
insects is greatly under estimated. A
turkey hen, with a large brood, will
work industriously over a large area in
one day, and they will consume hun
dreds of insects. During an entire sea
son the useful work so performed will
be very great. A flock of hens ou a
range will find all the insect food de
sired, and will need no aid from the
owner. This is well enough as it ap
pears, and saves expenses, but to their
credit should be given the destruction
of insects. If some correct estimate of
the number of insects destroyed by 100
fowls could be made, for one year, the
result would be astonishing. If we
could put it at half a peck for each hen
it might not be too large, but allowing
only two quarts of insects for each hen,
during the year, and w r e have over three
bushels of insects destroyed by 100
fowls. This means fewer insects to
be killed tho next season. We have
seen a brood of turkeys clean out all the
worms in a tobacco field in one day,
and though the adult potato beetles are
injurious to fowls, yet the hens will eat
the eggs and grubs of tho beetlei if
given an opportunity. The destruction
of insects should always be considered
m the matter of poultry management.—
CARE OF SHEEP.
In tying up the wool after shearing
no small amount of care is needed to
give the fleece a presentable appearance.
By the use of a box a more compact
package is secured, the amount of twine
used will be more uniform, and tho
whole operation can be more expedi
tiously performed. A fleece always
looks badly with locks or bunches of
wool ready to fall from it, and an ex
cessive amount of twiuo makes trouble
with the dealer. In nearly all neigh
borhoods there is somo one who is an
expert in wool tying, and is usually em
ployed by the inexperienced. It always
pays to employ such skilled labor, in
shearing as well as in doing up tho
fleece. It is positively “cruelty to ani
mals” the manner in wdiich many shear
ers cut and mangle the sheep. In many
barns it would not be tolerated for a
moment. After shearing, sheep need a
little extra care and attention for two
or three weeks. They nepd shade to
protect their bar# backs from the hot
sun, and, if possible, shelter during
cold rains.
Salt the sheep frequently. Go among
them and treat them kindly, so that
they will crowd around you instead of
scampering to the opposite side of tho
enclosure. Many seem to think that
bells should be placed on several of the
tamest ones, in order to frighten away
dogs, etc. I have my doubts about tho
plan being efficacious. Yet if tho flock
be near the house, the jingling ot tho
bells at any unreasonable hour may lead
to an investigation of the canse of the
disturbance, and perhaps decide what
neighbor’s dog is guilty of causing it.
During the heat of the Summer, when
pasturage is short, sheep require quito
an amount of water, not of the muddy,
stagnant kind that cattle choose to
quench their thirst, but pure and cool.—
New York Examiner.
WMOTHY GRAS8 ON LOW LAN*
On many lands too wet in tho spring
to be profitably planted to corn or sow
with oats, it is quito possible to grow
large crops of timothy hay. But in tho
course of a few years red-top and blue
grass choke out tho timothy, and it is
necessary to reseed. The usual method
of reseeding old meadow or pasture land
is to plow it up and cultivate it with
corn or potatoes, so that the sod shall
be well subdued and the weeds and bluo
grass roots killed. But on the kind of
land we have now in mind this cannot
bo done. Tho land is dry in July, but
it is too wet—at least in part—to plow
for ordinary crops.
"NVe have had excellent crops of timo
thy on such land by breaking it up in
July and keeping the surface well
worked with harrows to prevent weeds
from growing, and thdR in August
gang-plow and work the soil till it is
fine and mellow. Such soil is easily
worked. The real point is to kill the
blue-grass roots. Work it till this
is certainly accomplished. And then,
any time in August or the first week in
September, sow from eight to twelve
quarts of timothy per acre and cover it
with a smoothing harrow or roller. If
the work has been well done, and the
soil is flue enough and mellow enough
and moist enough to promptly start the
seed, judging from ac ual experience,
we are safe in promising a big crcji of
timothy hay the next summer; and now
that wheat is so cheap, and hay can b®
shipped long distance* to market, there
are few crops, considering the little
labor required, that pay more actual
profit than a good crop of timothy hay.
We have said the first crop will be a
heavy one; the second is likely to bo
still better, and the number of years tho
meadow will last, before it is necessary
to reseed it, will depend on the fertility
of the land, and the thoroughness with
which the land was workod and the old
blue-grass sod subdued .—American
Agriculturist.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
See that the tires and all nuts of th*
hay rake are tight before driving into
the field. It saves time and “vexation
of spirit.”
Grapes, currants and gooseberries may
be safely transplanted by mulching the
surface around plants heavily, right af
ter sotting and soaking the ground with
water.
The Farm Journal well says; “We
eat our cake and have it still, when we
feed bran, linseed and cotton-seed meal,
as these are foods rich in nitrogen,
phosphoric acid and potash.”
How many a young man who has giv
en up the tillage of the soil and a quiet
country life, to try life in tho city, has
gone out from the presence of his
health, purity and manhood.
A spconfull of white powdered helle
bore, to le obtained at any drug storey
put in a large pail of water and sprin
kled on currant bushes as quick as the
little worm begins its work will make
quick work of them.
When working horses come in from
work in warm weather, the first thing
that ought to bo attended to is tho
washing of their shoulders with cold
water, and also washing the sweat from
the cellar before it is put on.
As soon as caterpillar nests begin to
show, take a long stick and with a pail
of gas tar pass among the trees, dipping
tho end of stick In tho tar, and twist it
around a few times in oach nest. Fol
low this up two or three times and tho
worms will bo destroyed and trees
saved.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Topeka, Kan.,is goingto try vitrified
brick on qrs of its streets.
A few crushed crystals of nitrate of
ammonia dropped into a small vessel of
water will reduce the temperature 43 or
60 degrees.
The saw is largely used now instead
of the ax in bringing down the giant
redwoods in California. The tree is
sawed partly through, and then is
forced over by wedges.
A German invostigator finds that ia
four heads of hair of equal weight, the
red one contains about 93,000 hairs, the
black 103,000 , tho brown 109,000 and
the blonde 140,000.
In experiments continued for four
years, M. F. Larroque has found that,
after eight or nine months, copper wires
under tjie action of electric currents
show sign3 of deterioration. ot -
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An English locomotive of tho double
expansion type has been imported by
tho Pennsylvania railroad for trial. It
is claimed that the big machine can
make 70 miles an hour.
An English firm has lately introduced
an invention for darning all sorts of
textile fabrics. It is said to do its
work better than it can be done by
hand, and to be easily operated.
A new method of preparing flax fibre
for spinning i3 being experimented
with, in which a finer, softer, whiter
and more flexible fibre is produced
without the usual long and tedious pro
cesses of retting, scutching and bleach
ing.
A patent has been taken out both in
England aud France by A. Sentex, C.
Marechal and A. Saunier, for producing
malleable aud ductile bronze. Several
foundries are being built in France for
the purpose which will each employ
over 100 workmen.
The largest anvil in tho world is
now being made at Alliance, Ohio.
It is in eight sections, each of which
will weigh, when finished, 70,700
pounds. Six will be of iron, the other
two, which receive the blow of a 25
ton hammer, of best open-hearth steel.
Tests made with much care show that
the addition of a fraction of one per
cent, of aluminum greatly improves tho
quality of cast iron, rendering castings
more solid and free from blow holes, re
moving tho tendency to chill, increas
ing the strength, elasticity and fluidity
of the metal, and decreasing shrinkage.
The whole apparatus of the new elec
tro-pneumatic balloon, including the
machine for making the gas weighs only
52 pounds and can be conveniently car
ried by one man. The balloon is held
captive by two wires connected with
two electro-magnets acting on a cylin
der of compressed air, which works a
set of signal arms.
Professor Denton, who has been
making investigations concerning tho
necessity of good lubrication for slide
valves, mentions a valuable fact. Ho
states that in a locomotive he had cut
down tho supply of oil to the valves
from one pint in seventy-five miles to
one pint in 160 miles—the result of this
change being, that, as soon as the valves
got hot, two men could not hold tho
reversing lever in place when the
catch was taken out of the notch.
Vitality of the Cactus.
Anybody who doubts the ability of
cactus to live under difficulties can seo
it fully illustrated by visiting Isaac S.
Steiner’s. In August, 1887, when
they wero preparing to leavo Ohio,
Mrs. Steiner had a large cactus with
which she disliked very much to part,
and it was impracticable to transport
it, so she cut off a long limb over
two inches in diameter aud about two
feet long. This she packed away, in
tending to gild it and keep it a9 a
relic. After coming here she threw it
on top of the cupboard, paying no at
tention to it until last September, over
a year after it was cut off, when she
accidentally noticed little buds start
ing out around it. They concluded to
set it in a box of earth, and now
there it is in good healthy leaf, giving
Mrs. Steiner promise that from a root
less limb she will soon have a second
edition of her prized old cactus.
The Eighth Wonder.
Gus; “Frank is an originai man-”
Joe; “IIow so?”
Gus; “I met him. lie was seedy
and I offered to lend him 59 dollars.”
Joe: “Well?”
Gus; “He said 10 dollars would do/