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WASHINGTON, D. C.
i foVEVEFTS OF THE PRESIDE FI
‘ HIS ADVISERS.
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uppodT'I®'-^ * decisions, and other matters
ivruu, 0 T FROM the national capital.
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The President on Thursday appointed
^superintendent OliverC Bosbyshell, of Peansy.vama, to
of tin mint of the
Un ted States, vice-Daniel Fox, resigned.
The President, on Saturday, appointed
Commodore Francis M. Ramsey, chief of
the bureau of navigation of the Navy
Department. President, Saturday, appointed
The on
General Green B. Raum, of Illinois, to
h-commissioner of pensions. General
Baum will enter upon the official dis
charge of his duties at once.
\ statement prepared at the post-office
department shows the gross receipts at
thirty of the larger post-offices during
the quarter ending September 30, 1889.
to be 9-0 per cent, greater than for the
period last year.
The district commissioners on Thurs
day appointed George Hazleton, former
lv Republican member to Congress 11 om
Wisconsin, to be attorney for the Dis
trict of Columbia, to succeed A. G.
Riddle, who recently resigned, to take
effect the first of December next.
Acting Secretary B.itchellor, on Fri
day, directed a suspension of the work
of constructing the court house and
postoffice at Savannah, Ga., until it can
be ascertained whether congress will au
thorize the selection of another site and
increase limit of cost of both site and
building. The present site was selected
in January, 1888, but is unsuitable for
the purpose. The limit of cost is $200.
000 aud is not considered sufficient.
The depirtment’s action is based upon
the petition signed by the governor of
the state, members of the legislature,
state and city officials, and a large num
ber of citizens. The acting secretary
also took similar action in regard to tbe
proposed public building at Statesville,
N. C., because of a representation by
the mayor, aldermen and merchants of
that city that the site selected by the last
administration is unsatisfactory to the
business community.
The annual report for the fiscal year
1888-89 of the commissioner of pensions,
has been submitted to tbe secretary of
the interior, and is now in the hands of
the public printer. There were at the
close of the year 487,925 pensioners.
There were added to the rolls during the
year the namei of 51,921 new pensioners
and the names of 1,754 whose pensions
have been previously dropped, were re
stored to the rolls, making an aggregate
of 53,675 pensioners added during the
year. 10,507 pensioners were dropped
from the rolls for various causes, leaving
a net increase to the rolls, of 37.168
names. The amount paid for pensions
during the year was $88,375,113.28. The
total amount disbursed by agents for all
purposes was $81,131,968.44. The
amount 583.47. paid as fees to attorney s $1,363,
In the aggregate, 1,348,104
pension claims have been filed since 1861
and in the same period 789,121 have
been allowed. The amount dirbursed on
account of pensions since 1861 has been
during $1,052,218,413. The issue of certificates
the year shows a grand total of
145,258, Of this number 51,921 were
original certificates. The report shows
that at the close of the year there were
pending and unallowed 479,000 claims
of all classes.
A NEW SECURITY.!
PIG IRON LISTED ON THE NEW YORK
STOCK EXCHANGE.
A new security has recently been listed
on the New Y r ork Stock Exchange which
bids fair to be popu'ar with all classes
of traders; from the reckless speculator
to the most conservative investor. The
stock ticker now records along with the
multitudinous railroad shares and. trust
character stocks, the word “warrants.” This new
on the price current means a
certificate for so many tons of pig iron,
stacked in a storage yard somewhere in
Ihe United States, and deliverable on de
mand to the owner of said warrant,
i’hese warrants or certificates, are guar
anteed by a responsible trust company of
New York. In other words, staid old
pig iron, which heretofore lias been un
available as a speculative commodity,bus
at last wheeled into line, and hereafter
w ill be as easily handled by the traders
°n flmin, change, as a barrel of oil, a bu-hcl of
a bale of cotton, a block of bonds,
a share of stock. A company has
been formed by strong capitalists to
further this end. The purpose of this
corporation is to take care of all the iron
•hat may be made in the United States
subject to the running requirenunt of
•ho iron trade.
PENITENTIARY material.
A gang OF BOY DESPERADOES DISCOV
EKED IN KANSAS CITY.
A large number of small incendiary
5res . have
cently, occurred in Kansas City re
and the police have just discov
ered that the incendiaries are a band of
school boys, ranging in age from eleven
fifteen years. They were regularly
organized, lain Kid’s and called themselves “Cap
bound Pets.” The members were
reveal by blood-curdling oatlis to not
the secrets of the order, nnd all
•heir plans were carried out according to
Written orders signed in blood from tbe
arms of the young desperadoes. One of
hicir number lias confe-sed that the
members of the band were responsible
"r many fires. The leaders have been
rerested.
SCHLEY
UNDER BOYCOTT.
the FA timers' ALLIANCES Or
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OL1N V ON THE wai -vkrs.
A dispatch from Ch irleston, S.
s>*ys: The wa w-ged by C.,
Alliance in this st.te t ie Farmers
baggmg tru* t, becoming : gainst the jute
7 seiious, and
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Alliance tenons business charac cr. 1 In
only to the m ex ending the boicj.t. not
manufacture rs and dealers ol
J t la-gmg, Put also to newspapei
; ie,°f wns f a the ' ld <fies. jtve daily The Greenville
shed in this state, has newspapers been nub
)y a local alliance, because boycotted
wrote mething the editoi
s that diiin’t please the
alliance nun. The city of Greenville,
the third largest lity in the state, is suf
fering a stagnation of business. Tbe
city oi Spartan bur.’, the fourth largest
city in the state, has also been boycotted
uy the Spartanburg County Alliuoce,
who, on Saturday, published the follow
ing ofhcial notice: “Whereas, we, the
members of the Farmers’ Alliance, rep
lesentiog 234 bales of cotton, which was
properly graded by an experi O need mem
ber of the alliance, long in
and offered »»vo
for sale in the Spartanburg
market on Friday aud Saturday, and
firmly believing from all we can learn,
that there is a deliberate attempt among
the cotton ouyers and cotton mills to
< der ripple our or ier, and to defeat our or
and to defeat our co-operative plan
of grading and selling our own cotton,
therefore be it resolved; That we take
our cottou o f this market, aud sell it in
some other market, and recommend that
membets of the alliance heretofore, as
far as possible, keep their cotton away
from Spartanburg market.” The city of
Charleston, has the metropolis of the state,
been boycotted by the Sumter Coun
ty Alliance, whose members are forbid
den to send any cotton to Charleston.
In many sections the farmers are holding
back their cotton, and, as a consequence,
there are complaints of dull business.
The boycott war promises to assumo
large dimensions.
HURLED TO DEATH.
A TERRIBLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON A?
INCLINE CABLE ROAD.
A frightful catastrophe occurred at
Cincinnati Tuesday on one of Mount
Auburn inclined planes which lies at the
head of Main street and reaches to the
height of between 250 and 350 feet in a
space of perhaps 2,000 feet or less. Two
cars are employed, one on each track.
They are drawn by two steel wire cables
that are wound up ou a drum at the top
of the hill by an engine located there,
and nine passengers had entered a car
at the foot of the plane, and a number
were on the other car at the top. The
passage of the ascending car was all
right until it had reached the top, when
the machinery refused to work and the
engineer could not stop it. The car was
drawn against the bumper, tbe cabh s
snapped in two and tbe car ran back
wards down the incline at lightning
speed. The crash at the foot of
the plane was frightful in the extreme.
The iron gate that formed the lower end
of the truck ou which the car iested,
was thrown sixty fee t do an the street.
The top of the car was lying almost as
far in the gutter, ’ihe truck itself, and
floor and seats of the car formed a shape
less wreck, mingled with the bleeding
and mangled bodies of nine passengers.
The list of dead, so far as knowm, is as
follows: Judge W. M. Dickson, Mrs.
Caleb Ives, Miss Lillian Oscamp, Michael
Kneiss, Joseph Uochstetter. The
wounded are: Charles McFadden, both
legs broken; Joseph McFadden, Mrs.
Uochstetter, and Mrs. Joseph McFadden,
cuts and internal injuries.
addTtionaiT evidence
AGAINST THE JURY BRIBERS IN THE C150
NIN MURDER CASE.
The Chicago Journal, of Friday, says
that additionjil evidence has been se
cured against F. W. Smith, one of the
men under indictment for conspiracy The to
bribe the jurors in the Cronin case,
siory is to the effect that two men vol
untarily sought an interview with State’s
Attorney Longenecker Thursday night,
and revealed to him the fact that Smith
had approached them with the sugges
tion they could make moi.ey by acting as
jurors in the Cronin case. They
replied that they had not even been
summoned as veniremen. To this they
said Smith replied th it he would so fix it
that they would be summoned; that if
they would so frame their ausvvers as to
be acceptod on the jury, and would then
hold out for acquittal, they wouid be
paid $1,000 each. The men referred to
are Francis – Wolf, dry goods merchants
of Eiurlewood.__
SIXTY MINERS KILLED.
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION IN A COAL MINE IN
ENGLAND.
A dispatch from London, Eng., sajs.
An explosion occurred in Bentilec col
liery, in Lnngton, county of btanord,
at an early hour Wednesday morning.
Seventy miners were in the pit at the
time of the accident, only eleven of
whom are alive. The pit was completely the
wrecked, and the task of getting out
buried miners wilt be one of great difh
cultv. The men engaged in the search
for the victims have so far found fifty
bodies of dead miners. The bodies re
covered show that the victims died of
poisoning. The latest advices from
gas state that fire is raging, and
the scene explosion feared. Ihe
that another is
rd of the men in the mines has been
rec< impossible to verify the
lost; hence if is
number
TRADE REVIEW
FOU WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER
ID, BY DUNN – CO.
II. G. Dunn – Co.’s weekly review of
trade, says: As before, t’A> money mai
ket is the one point of anxiety. Rates
are has higher, but peihsps the apprehension
somewhat lessened. The country
still calls for money largely, but reports
from all interior points show that the
supply 1 is ample for commercial needs.
he volume of trade continues large;
bank clearings exceed last years’, and
railroad earning are encouraging. The
iron trade is healthy, southern furnaces
seeming though to have well sold up, and
an offer of Lehigh valley brand
No. 1 at $6.50 is reported, tbe quotation
for pig is $17 to $18. Bir iron is not
firm as other forms, and a surprisingly
heavy demand for plates and structural
forms is for steel rather than iron. Rails
are qu ’ted at $31.50. Cotton manufact
ure is thriving, and the trade in goods
satisfactory. Print cloths selling at 3Jc
for 64’s. There was a further decline of
a sixteenth in raw cotton, and sales at
Newlork were 540,000 bales for tbe
week. Receipts and exports both con
tinue t) exceed last year's largely.
Speculation for higher prices in wheat
has not been active, for the last govern
ment report and heavy northwestern re
ceipts, with scanty exports, combine
to depress prices, which ) a e fallen 2J
cents for the week, with sales of 31.000,
000 bushels, against 20.000,000 last
week, Friday alone. Corn has declined
i. and oats 1 \ cents, while pork products,
though still sustained by the clique, are
a little lower. Coffee has yielded a
quarter. The stock market resists tight
money stubbornly, bui has yielded at an
average of $1 per share on active rail
road stocks, with some recovery, how
ever, du Friday. It is the theory of
some western managers, that an advance
in prices, just before the meeting of the
legislatures in the granger states, would
be most unfortunate. Rut the more gen
erally controlling influence is the con
viction that western competition threat
ens the mischief, and is not restra’ned by
interstate act or by the good sense of
managers, while for the present, mone
tary uncertainties are also felt. Ru-iuess
failures during last week number for tbe
United States 182, Canada 41.
THE AMOUNT NEEDED
TO IMPROVE THE RIVERS AND HARBORS
OF THE SOUTH.
General Casey, chief of engineers at
Washington, D. C., in his annual esti
mates submitted to the secretary of war,
makes the following recommendations
for appropriations for continuing work
on the principal improvements under his
charge during the year ending June 30,
1891. Potomac river flats, Washington,
D. C., $1,000,000; James river, below
Richmond, $400,000; Great Kanawha
river, $ 00,0u0; Cape Fear river, North
Carolina, $310,000; Coosa river, Georgia
and Alabama, $225,000; St. Johns river,
below Jacksonville, $300,000; Black
Warrior river, Alabama, $300,000; Cum
berland liver,above and below Nashvil.e,
$500,000; Tennessee river, above and
below Chattanooga, $1,030,000; Missis
sippi river, Minneapolis to Des Moines
rapids, $1,000,000; Mississippi $300,- river
from Des Moines to Illinois river,
000; Mississippi river, from Il inois to
Ohio river,$000,000; Norfolk harbor and
approaches, $109,000; Charleston, S. C.,
harbor, $750,000; Winy aw bay, Georgia S. C.,
$300,000; Cumberland sound,
and Florida, $500,000; Savannah harbor,
$5-0.000; entrance to Key West harbor,
$100,000; Mobile harbor, $500,( 00. The
total amount recommended by General
Casey for river and harbor improvements appropriated
is $30,186,300. Total amount
by the river and harbor bill for the year
ending June 30, 1890, was $22,897,617.
The Mississippi river commission rec
oramends appropriations for the fiscal
year 1890-91 as lollows: Continuing
surveys, $150,000; from mouth to the
Ohio river, $4,000,000; improvements at
Hickman, Ky., Greenville, Vicksburg,
and Natchez, Miss., and New Orleans,
La., $1,086,250; rectification of Red and
Atchafalya rivers, $50,000. Total, $5,-
586,250. The Missouri river commission
ask the following appropriations: Sala
ries, surveys, etc., $150,000; general im
provements, $1,000,000; special work at
Sioux City, Omaha, Piattsmouth, Ne
braska City, St. Joseph, Atchison, Mia
mi and Arrow Rock, $1,375,000; $60,000. river
above and below Sioux City,
Total, $2,760,000.
roasted alive..
A YOUNG man's clothes saturated
WITH GASOLINE AND tET ON FIRE.
.V special to ihe Mobile Register from
Greenville, Ala., says: Early Saturday
morning a quarrel between a negro and
3 white named Roberts
a young man re
. gasoline
suited in the negro pouriug over
him and another negro applied a lighted
lamp to his clothes. In an instant Rob
erts was wrapped in flames and was lit
erally roasted dive. One of the negroes
was arrested. The other escaped.
bank statement
Following is a statement of the asso
ciated banks at New York for the week
ending Saturday:
Reserve increase.. . ... .....$ 45,434,100
Loans decrease......... ....... 2,221,300
Specie increase.... .. ....... 2.635,500 563,100
Legal tenders decrease. ....... 1 ,
Deposits dee.ieaso...... ....... 1,625 275
Circulation decrease... ....... 39,300
The backs now' hold $916,650 less than
25 per cent rule calls for.
FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
[ i. don’t BE STINGY WITH YOUR STOCK.
I It is a funny idea that some people
have, that a heifer calf wrill develop into
a cow on wind. We have known men
who did take some pains with a calf
that they intended to raise for beef, but
who would neglect a heifer calf. It re
qu res just as perfect an organization to
produce milk as it does to produce beef,
and the only way to make a perfect or
ganization is to feed, the calf well and
properly. It ought never to be forgot
ten that teant food injures the digestive
apparatus of a calf. The calf that does
not get enough to cat, or that is fed
upon too concentrated food, will not be
able to digest as much as it should
when it becomes a cow. — Western Rural.
TO TEST CLOV ER.
Clover often contains too much sap
for safe stacking when the leaves and
outsides of the stems have been browned
and made crisp by hot sunshine. The
simple test applie l by experienced hay
makers however,is almost always a suffi
cient safeguard. If no drops of sap can
be squeezed out of a handful of clover
by twisting the stems with moderate
force, it is lit to be carted. It is a good
plan to wait two or three days after
putting up the greater part of a stack
before topping it up, covering it with
a cloth if there is any danger of rain.
This allows the fodder to settle and
some of the heat to escape. Another
useful precaution is to make a chimney
in the middle of a stack by drawing a
sack tided with hay or straw up as the
sack becomes higher and higher, so that
there will be a ventilating-shaft from
bottom to top. It is partly because
these familiar safeguards are neglected
in fine hay-harvests that large quantities
of hay arc usually spoilt when the sun
shines day after .—Once a Week.
A remedy for apple mildew.
Professor B. T. Galloway, chief of
the section of Vegetable Pathology De
partment of Agriculture, Washington,
has recently succeeded, as the result of
practical experiments, in producing a
remedy for the disease called pear-leaf
blight and apple mildew, which annu
ally causes great destruction to these
trees. As a result of practical experi
ments, he feels justified in recommend
ing it to the farmers an l fruit growers
as both efficacious and economical.
The remedy consists of the applica
tion of a fungicide, with an appliance
by which 50, 000 plants were sprayed in
a day and a half at a cost, not including
labor, of $4.75 for each application,
five being required to secure good Je
suits. Experiments of a similar nature
were carried on in the same nurseries
by which a block of some two hundred
thousand apple seedlings affected by
the powdery mildew, was treated with
a preparation at a total cost of not ex
ceeding two cents per 1000 trees. T- e
results in this case also have proved
highly satisfactory .—Few York Herald.
sheep and calves in corn fields.
Weeds are lidely to escape in the lat
ter cultivation of the corn, and other
weeds spring up after cultivation is
ended. It is these weeds which foul
the land for future years. The weeds
in the corn field are neglected during
the hurry of grain and hay harvest,
threshing, hauling manure and prepar
ing the ground for wheat. But even
better than is the scythe are the sheep.
Let them have the run of the corn fields
during the autumn, They like the
shade of the rows. They will nibble
off the lower blades of the corn, but
this is in no wise an injury to the crop.
The sheep will also find every weed and
bunch of grass. Their scent is sharp,
and they will discover weeds that would
be overlooked. There are very few
weeds indeed that will not be cropped
by sliccp, especially of the Merino
breed; they crop so close to the ground
that the weeds will hardly start again.
The spring calves, if not too strong,
may well be put with the sheep. Unless
unusually large, they will not damage
the corn, and will get considerable feed
which would otherwise be wasted.—
Amer ican Cult iva 'or.
DIGGING HOLES FOR TREE PLANTING.
The late Dr. Warder’s recommenda
tion on the above subject is as follows:
The next step in the preparation is the
digging of the holes for planting the
trees. Some persons lay great stress
upon the importance of having these
made large and deep, which may be
very well in a grass lawn with a few
trees, but it is a very expensive matter
for an orchard with thousands, or even
hundreds. The holes should be pre
pared as wide as the field, and as dee'p
as the plow can stir it, as already di
rected; that is the kind of holes that
should be dug; if the land has been
prepared in this jnanner, the opening of
the holes and planting the orchard,
either deep or shallow, become very
simple matters.
Having determined the distance at
which the trees shall stand from one an
other, and the order or plan of plant
ing, flag-poles are to be set in the line
to bo occupied by the first row of trees,
and a deep furrow is then opened with
a large plow, drawn by a pair of steady
horses. The poles are moved and set
for the next row of trees, and so on, un
til the whole is laid off, making the fur
rows as straight as possible. This done,
a single horse witli a lighter plow is
driven across these deep furrows at the
proper distance,so that the intersections
shall indicate the stations for the trees.
—Prairie Farmer.
EVERGREENS.
Ignorance in early days of their
habits, value and proper place, put oil
the day of evergreens in this country
ncailya century, and they are only just
beginning to receive that intelligent
consideration that they deserve. Planted
in the seven by nine fenced-in front
yard of former days, the very qualities
that give to our larger evergreens their
greatest value made them nuisances of
a very pronounced type. They closed'
tbe parlor windows from light and air
and sight seeing; they locked branches
across the path, and were wholly o»t of
place. After a few years of conflict,
and a year or two of complete holding
of the fort, they were shorn of thcii
glory, trimmed to an unsightly, scarred
and hideous stem, a more unmeaning
blotch of green on the winter’s brown
landscape, and only exciting attention
when the overhanging boughs shook
snow down the back of some unwary
visitor.
When people become familiar with
the best uses of evergreens, when they
plant them for protection, as back
grounds, and frames wherein to arrange
beautiful pictures of lawn and flowers
and bushes, then we will find them
skirting the outer edges of ground and
developing their grandest beauty and '
symmetry. In pyiamids of beauty
they will rise from the winter’s snow,
and their various shades of green wilt
be noticed and admired. The single
line planted merely to repel the winter’s
blast will gradually widen here and
there into promontories and capes by
the addition of new fpicimons, and
these, as they grow, will lorm bays and
gulfs and inlets of lawn, diversifying
the outline and leading the owners to
wonder how they ever contented them
selves with a grass pint whose only
boundary was a wooden fence, differing
from the adjoining pasture merely in
size and styled a lawn through
courtesy. — V-ck's Magazine.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
The seeds of weeds are often present
among the seeds that are sown. Farm
ers must be ou their guard constantly
when they purchase grass seed, or else
they may sow their farms with noxious
weeds.
If the hen and chickens are in the
habit of staying in the garden, yoO
might as well pull up the tomato vines.
It will be a waste of time and a great
strain on your patience to let the two
grow together.
Experiments show that for mere
sustenance a cow of 1,000 pouuds
must digest about eight pounds
of nutritive material from lior food, to
supply which the food must contain
about seventeen pouuds of dry organic
ma'ler.
Peach ye'low is no new disease,as it is
said to have been observed in the vicin
ity of Philadelphia as early as 179L
Whether or not potash is a remedy can
hardly be said to be settled, but it is
well known to be a choice special man
ure, not only for the peach, but for all
fruit trees.
Cream not sufficiently ripened docs
not produce a good keeping or good
flavored butter, Cream too inueb
ripened yields a bad flavored butter.
Be cautious and do not put. sweet
cream in with ripened cream ji*t
uefore churning. No cream should bo
churned until it has been ripened at
least twelve hours.