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GENERAL NEWS.
CONDENSA TION OF CURIO US,
and exciting events.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE—ACCIDENTS, STRIKES,
FIRES, AND HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST.
The cotton crop in Faysom district,
Egypt, this year, will not be more than
.half that of 1888.
The grand total of receipts, up to
Thursday night,, of New York’s guaran
tee fund of $5,000,000, amounted to
$1,797,654.
The reports of destitution in North
Dakota are said to be greatly exaggera
ted. There is nothing in the situation
to justify the reports that a famine ex
ists in Dakota.
Cholera is still raging in the valleys of
the Tigris and Euphrates. During the
last three months th^re have been 7,000
deaths from the disease.
Adviees from Brisbone, state that the
natives of Southwest New Guinea, have
massacred Rev. Mr. Savage, who was
sent out by the London Missionary so
ciety.
Mrs. Annie Price, for years past known
as the “only original fat woman,” has
just died at her home in New Y< rk, of
fatty degeneration of the heart and
obesity. Mrs. Price weighed 550
pounds.
The big Wasliburne and Pillsbury
mills, among the largest in the world,
has passed into the hands of a syndicate.
The option of the Pillsbury system of
mills and elevators, it is said, calls for
$ 5 , 200 , 000 .
The emigration commissioners at New
York, on Friday, notified all steamship
companies will be that collected a head tax fronf of fifty cents
each them for
every alien that they will bring heie.
This will include children.
A company of manufacturers and
bankers, of Lynn, Mass., has purchased
2,000 acres of land near Chattanooga, for
$750,000. Two shoe factories, a tan
nery, two furnaces, tool works and other
plants, will at once be erected.
The Paris Figaro says that the mar
riage which had been arranged between
Prince Murrat and Miss G-wendoline
Caldwell, has been abandoned. Prince
Murrat, the paper says, left Paris Tues
day, and Miss Caldwell will embark for
New York Saturday.
Members of the cotton exchange, of
New Y'ork city, met and passed a resolu
tion calling on the board of managers to
submit a law, to be voted on by the ex
change, which would repeal the system
of inspecting and classing cotton, and re
enact the former system -with such
amendments and modifications as expe
rience has shown to be desirable.
The gable wall of a building that -was
being erected alongside of Templeton’s
carpet factory at Glasgow, Scotland, was
blown down Friday. An immense ma c s
of debris fell on the roof of the weav
ing department of the factory, crushing
it in, and burying fifty girls and women
<«nployed in tho weaving rooms. It is
probable that forty of those buried are
dead.
Early Thursday mornin?, the boiler in
the new four-story brick block on South
Main street, Akron, O., occupied by
O’Neil – Dvas, dry goods merchants,
exploded. The building took fire and
was completely gutted. The fire burned
through to Howard street, and several
other buildings were damaged. The
principal losers are O’Neil and Dyss, dry
goods, store and building, $225,000. In
surance $123,000.
A dispatch from Cape Henry says:
“Passed in at nine o’clock Thursday
morning, from brig Alice, Captain Bowling,
Navassa, for Baltimore, with sixty
four of tho rioters iu the massacre at
Navassa, October 14. The brig also has
the crew, except the mate, who w r as lost
overboard, of the schooner Tom Wil
liams, from Fernandina for New York,
which was wrecked during the late
storm The crew was four days in open
boats without food.”
Mr 9 . Greening, of New Windsor, N.
Y, presented herself at an Episcopal
church and partook of communion. The
rector being told that she was a Meth
odist, but partook of communion at an
Episcopal of her church, owing to the distance
intoruied home from the Methodist church,
her that by cburch iuies she
could uot have communiop there again.
1'his so worked upon her nervous system
that it resulted in a paralytic stroke.
She is now iu a helpless condition.
M. Mackeuou organizer of the London
expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, has
received the following dispatch from
Zanzibar; Letters have been received
from Stanley, dated Victoria, August
~t)th. With him were Emin Bey, Cisati
Marco, a greek merchant, Esman EfTendi
Nelson, Hassan, a Tunisian apothecary, Stars
Jephson Parke and Bonny.
Light hundred people accompany him
toward Mpwapwa. All were well. Stan
ley reports Waddell in the hands of the
Mahadists.
One of the largest transactions in land
ever consumated in the South, lias re
cently been perfected at Jacksonville,
Ela., and made public Friday. All unsold
lauds in Florida of the Plant system of
railroads and steamships, of the Florida
Southern railroad, of the Jacksonville,
the lampa – Key West system, including
Florida Southern railway, and the
Florida Commercial company, have been
consolidated under the name of the As
sociated Railway Land Department of
Florida. Over six million acres of laud
"re Ly consolidated under one management
the formation of this syndicate.
It seems to be a settled fact that a large
>'»*y of colored colonists will be given a
fact of tajo I by the Mexican Government.
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
STOCKS TUMBLE.
THE COTTON SEED OIL COMBINE HAVING
CONSIDERABLE TROUBLE .
Calamity seeped to leach its climax
Thursday, for the bulls in the trust
stocks, on the stock exchange at New
^ork. 1 he grief -was concentrated in
cotton oil crowd. Everybody was pre
dicting an immediate advance of niunv
points in cottou oil certificates, based on
ike rosy programme of converting the
trust into a corporation, and reducing the
capital from $42,00u,000 to $30 000,000.
doubt of the success. But alas for the
frailty of promises and prospects in Wall
street, the popular expectation, failed
sadly of realization. Immediately on the
opening of the market there was on over
whelming pre sure to sell. The tint sale
was 41^, and from that point
a decline instantly set in,
which had no cheek until the
price was hammered down to 36J. This
tumble of five full points meant a
shrinkage of over $ 2 , 000,000 in the mar
ket value of the total capital
of the trust. The scene on the
stock The real exchange baffles description.
reason for the most of the de
cline was probably because of the serious
disappointment which some prominent
insiders felt at the annual report. The
showing of earnings for the last year is
by no means flattering. For the first six
months the net profits were entirely sat
isfactory, but the last six months "were
bad. The total net earnings for the
year amount to a little over $1,600,000
which is at least $ 1 , 000,000 less than
officially predicted. Several of the mills
belonging to the trust have been bhut
down on account of proving un
piofitable, and it is said that several
more will probably have to be closed for
the same reason. The corporation into
which the trust is to be resolved will be
known as the Cotton Oil Company of
New Jersey.
• A REPORTED BATTLE
IN KENTUCKY IN WHICH SIX MEN ARE
KILLED.
A special to the Louisville Courier
Journal from Pineville, Ky., says: News
reached here that Judge Lewis came up
with Howard and his gang Thursday on
Martin’s Fork and killed six of the How
ard gang without losing a man. Three
of the men killed were named Hall, one
named Whitlock, the other two names
not learned. Friends of the judge say
that he is determined, and will never
quit his chase until Howard and his gang
are all killed or driven from the country.
Both parties are being reinforced daily,
and more bloodshed is expected. It is
thought that Howard has gone to Vir
ginia, but is expected to return. The
best citizens of Harlan county, Ky., are
joining Judge Lewis, and with such a
determined leader there is no doubt but
that the law and order party will come
out victorious, and break up the gang
that has been a terror to all eastern Ken
tucky for the last twenty-five years.
SUEING A NEWSPAPER.
MRS. MACKAY, OF CALIFORNIA, SUES AN
ENGLISH PAPER FOR LIBEL.
The action for libel brought by Mrs.
John W. Mackay against the Manchester,
England, Examiner, came up for hearing
in the court of queens bench, Thursday.
The libel complained of alleged with that the
plaintiff was a poor widow two
children, and that she was employed as
a washerwoman by Nevada miners when
Maekay was first attracted toward her
and fell in love with her and married her.
The plaintiff contends that the words of
the article suggested that she was not a
lady of birth or education, and that she
was uot accustomed to associating with
persons of good posit ions.
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A GREAT NEWSPAPER.
THE PIONEER TRESS, OF ST. TAUL, MINN.,
CELEBRATES ITS 40TU ANNIVERSARY.
The Pioneer Press , of St. Paul, Minn.,
Celebrates its fortieth anniversary by is
suing Thursday; morning an edition of
thirty pages, from its uew thirteen story
building. The edition is chiefly devoted
to a historical review of the extraordi
nary development of the northwest for
the past forty years, The building, 110
feet square, represents an outlay of
$780,000, and is building pronounced in the the world. finest
daily Thursday’s newpaper issue will be printed
In congratulations from
about 400 throughout personal the United States ana
editors
Canada. _.
MUST BE PAID.
The Indiana legislature last winter
passed a law raising the maximum li
cense which the city of Indianapolis may
impose for the sale of liquor from $100
to $250. The supreme court Wednesday
affirmed the constitutionality of the law.
In another case it declared that a license
is not a contract. Indianapolis raised the
license to $250. Liquor sellers who had
taken out license at $100 previous to the
increase, contend that they should not
be compelled to pay the increase of $150
until the expiration of the $100 license.
The court says their position is wrong,
and they must pay the additional $150.
BANK STATEMENT.
Following is a statement of the asso
ciated hanks at New York for the week
ending Saturday, November 2d:
Reserve increase.................* 758.200 8,800
Loans decrease........ 547.200
Specie increase....... 231.200
Legal tenders decrease 1,299 (500
Deposits decreaso...... 16,300
Circulation increase..
The banks now hold $1,120,475 in ex
cels of 25 per cent rule.
FARM AND GARDEN.
disappointment with hen manure.
Many farmers over estimate the value
of hen manure. As it comes from birds,
they are misled into regarding it as
equal to guano, which is the rotted ex
crement of birds fed on fishes—one of
the richest foods in phosphoric acid. If
common fowls were fed fish or lean
meat, with plenty of pounded bones,
their manure would be much more valu
able than it is. The most common food
of fowls in this country is com, and
from this the hen gets hardly enough
albumen and phosphorus to make egg
and shell. In summer fowls are often
obliged to live largely upon grass, and
this makes very poor manure. — Amsri
can Cultivator.
fertilizers for strawberries.
A Connecticut clergyman has a new
strawberry bed—about one-third of an
acre—that he wishes to top-dress with
artificial fertilizers. He cannot get
wood ashes or stable manure. Sow on
the bed this fall one hundred pounds of
aDy good complete commercial ferti
lizer, and next spring, as soon as the
frost is out of the ground, sow fifty
pounds of nitrate of soda broadcast on
the bed, and in two or three weeks, or
as soon as the plants have fairly started,
it will do no harm to sow twenty-five
pounds more of nitrate of soda in the
rows, being careful not to dust it on the
tender leaves. This will, in all proba
bility. give a great crop of strawberries.
But be careful to keep out the weeds,
or they will “gobble up” the nitrate.—
American Agriculturist.
CALVES IN POOR CONDITION.
Complaint is frequently made by cor
respondents of the Agriculturist that
their young calves do not clo well,
though well-fed and out to excellent
pasture. There are two promient rea
sons why they do not do well. If fed
milk, the milk-pail is rarely or never
cleansed, and the high temperature of
the season produces the rapid genera
tion of acids pernicious to tho delicate
digestive organs of young calves, pro
ducing indigestion or diarrhea. Another
course injurious, is the too-constant ex
posure to tho noonday sun. Even adult
cattle require shade in the pasture.
The milk of cows running in unshaued
pastures is abnormal. It becomes
changed in character, so that neither
good, healthy milk nor sound butter
can be secured. Shade and bushes in
the pasture largely protect cattlo from
the annoyance of flies. Calves as well
as cows and other cattle require a full
and free supply of good cold water all
the year round, and especially in sum
mer. Let him, then, who suffers from
thirst remember that his poor defense
less kine likewise suffer, and that the
quenching of feverish thirst is alike
both grateful toman and brute.
“cow-pox,” so-called.
The disease (if of sufficient import
ance to be called a disease), which ap
pears in little pustules on teats, and,
more rarely, on udders of cows, says
0. S. Bliss in the New York Tribune ,
is known among farmers as “cow-pox.”
Except as an annoyance -while milking
it is generally of no consequence to
either man or beast. Most farmers pay
no attention to it, except to
carefully avoid getting the scales
into the milk. Others have an
idea that it is communicable, and take a
deal of pains to cleanse the sores before
daring to milk tho cows. In some few
cases the pustules become so numerous
as to run into one another, when there
is a liability to cause the true skin to
crack and produce nn annoying sore. Iu
tluft case it may be well to rub off the
scab or head of each and apply some mi d
caustic. Dry air-slakel lime rubbed on
is as good as anything else. Dry ap
plications are preferable to liquids of
any kind. The disease is generally be
lieved to be contagious, and liable to
run through -whole herds and neighbor
hoods. Whether that is so or not is of
no particular moment, so long as it re
mains entirely innocuous, as at present.
This is not “kinc-pox,” as many seem
to suppose.
. TRAINING HORSES.
It is very correctly remarkcl by Col
man’s Rural World that but few men
make successful trainers of horsos. We
kavo sometimes thought that, like
poet 9 , they were born, not ma,lc. This
is true to a very great extent for the rea
son that there is required a combination
of certain traits of character, tho pos-
session, of only one or two of which will
insure failure; henco it is that of two
colts similar in disposition and sense,
one may develop into a steady and val
uable hone while the other may be
vicious, treacherous and unsafe, The
general farmer who raises good colts
may, as a rule, safely abandon the idea
of training, and when he can get a
good price for them, sell, and never
after it regret doing so if they prove
fast and valuable, because in his own
hands they might never have done so.
A good trainer must have an innate love
for the horse, he must O of an
observing mind bo as note
every phase of his character
and every action in his behavior and
conduct. lie must be firm and gentle,
void of irritability and the least sem
blance of passion. With these, patience
must have its most perfect work. The
horse knows nothing but what he learns,
and if he has a poor teacher, one given
to irrability or passion, void of under
standing for lack of perception, or who
charges viciousuess and meanness where
only his own want of tact in teaching is
exhibited, he is more than apt to make
a very poor scholar and never exhibit
his best talent. A well bred horse has
brains and intelligence—that is to say,
has aptitude for instruction—hence is as
clay in the hands of the potter and can
be made pretty much what the superior
intelligence of his trainer desires. One
lacking iu firmness or decision of char
acter will never mike a trainer, nor will
one who has more force than judgment
or is wanting in that patient tact essen
tial to the wooing and winning both the
confidence and the affection of his
horse.
■WATERING STOCK.
It might be supposed that any one
who wants a drink of w r ater for himself,
would think of watering his stock; but
man is a selfish animal, and is apt to
think of his own wants first, last, and
all the time. These being satisfied, he
gives himself no further thought or
trouble about the rest of creation.
When the finer feelings of humanity
will not prompt him, the more sordid
ones of self-interest may, though there
are many who will not be prompted
even by this.
Stock may have an abundance of dry
food of the very best quality and fed
to them at regular and proper intervals
of time, but it will not thrive on these,
unless it has access to water whenever
desired, to supply necessary moisture
to the system, assist digestion, and make
pure blood. Running streams of water
cannot be had in every pasture field,
but substitutes can be supplied by arti
ficial means. Wells can be put down,
and pumps introduced to bring the
water up, troughs can be placed to re
ceive it, and stock can be watered at
these troughs.
When stock becomes very thirsty, by
being kept from water too long a time,
there is danger of it drinking too much;
but when it has access to water fre
quently, there is no danger of this.
Young stock requires watering more
frequently than older ones, as it drinks
less at a time. Some farmers water
their stock once a day, some two, some
three times; this may clo tolerably well
in the winter for full-grown stock,
when the weather is very colei; but dur
ing the warm weather of summer, wheu
the days are long, thirst will be very
injurious to the stock running to pas
ture.
As a rule, if you want to make money
on stock, it must have the best of care,
it must have food and water regularly,
must be kept clean, and in every way
made comfortable at all seasons of the
year, must not be frightened, scolded,
whipped, nor in any way abused. If
you cannot make up your mind to treat
stock in this manner, you had better
sell out and go into soma other busi
ness.— Prairie Fanner.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Weeds should be kept out of sweet
potato an 1 squash vines, and the vines
should not be allowed to strike roots at
the joints.
One docs not realize tho full benefit
of clean culture until the crop is har
vested. Of no crop is this truer ihan
root cron
in very many cases when plowing a
green crop under to enrich the soil,
an application of lime will increase its
value materially.
A strong, healthy fowl is worth a
whole flock of birds that are always
droopy or non-productive, no matter
what the breed may be.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
It is reported that a system is being
perfected whereby common ilium mating
gas can be made by electricity.
A course in sanitary engineering has
been added to the other courses in the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
According to the last census of St.
Petersburg,, the population of that city
was 720,318, composed of 424 212
males and 296,106 females. In winter
this total is increased by one quarter.
A new material called “steel pig.”
much stronger than cold blast iron, and
less expensive thsn steel, is now being
made at Sheffield, England. It is
adapted for a variety of uses for which
the ordinary iron was unsatisfactory.
Professor Q. Sormani has shown that
the flesh of animals which, have died
of tetanus may be eaten with impunity,
the bacillifs passing through the system
without causing special disturbance.
An animal may swallow unharmed 10,
000 times more than would kill if placed
beneath tho skim Tho germ itself is
unaffected by the digestive juicc 3 .
Eight hundred thousand houses ia
London have 4,000,000 chimneys pour
ing forth the black smoke of partially
consumed bituminous coal. Add the
smoke of vessels upon tho Thames and
the countless locomotives on the rail
ways and a volume of smudge is raised
that darkens all the bills of mortality
and hangs over the valley of the Thames
like a monstrous pestilence.
A practical test has been made of a
new ventilator, which, it is claimed,
will ventilate cars without letting in
dust or ciuders. Fans under the car
are operated by the motion of the latter,
and drive air through a box containing
water, which filters and cools it, into a
central tube along the roof, and thence
through smaller, bell-mouthed tubes
into the car. Whenever the car moves,
a constant current of air is secured, even
wheu the doors, windows and all other
apertures are closed.
The manufacture of tho new six-inch
gun, of which 100 have been ordered
for British land and sea service, has
been stopped until a cartridge case of
solid drawn meta! can be devised which
will stand the shock of discharge of
twelve pounds of smokeless powder,
and which can be used over and over
again. This tho authorities have not
yet been able to do, and the machinery
engaged in tho •manufacture of these
guns is all standing idle, as well as the
guns already manufactured.
Dr. T. II. Bean, in charge of the
party investigating the Alaska salmon
fisheries, reports to Colonel Marshall
McDonald, United States Fish Commis
sioner, that they have visited Karluk
Lake, found the spawning beds of the
red salmon and explored all the Karluk
River, except eight miles of rapids. On
the nests of the fish were found small
miller’s thumbs, a species of uranidea
resembling the one which proves so de
structive to eggs and young fish in
Eastern streams. The number of spawn
ing salmon was disappointing, whilo
the enemies of the fish are numerous.
(Lifting Lobsters.
The usual metod of taking lobsters
is by means of tho pot. Tho pot is a
trap baited with fish, and which is
sunk to a certain depth. These traps
are marked with bouys, left for a tide,
and then the lobsterer goes cut in his
boat, hauls up his trap, and secures his
lobsters. At time 3 , however, off the
coast of Maine the^o are
estuaries, which are of great
length running between the
ledges of rock. Pools are many and of
considerable depth. When lobsters are
plentiful, at certain seasons, they run
in from the sea, and seek theso estuaries
for food, small fish being abundant. As
the tide recedes, the lobsters re
main in some of the rocky basins,
and can be gaffed. The gaff
has a stout hickory stock, and
the gaff itself is generally three-pronged,
and made out of the best steel. A good
gaff is rarely bought ready-made, but is
turned out b/ the villago blacksmith.
Its temper mu^t be excellent, as it must
neither be too soft nor biittle. To use
the gaff requires no small amount of
skill, for in the water the movements of
the lobster arc rapid. He car back or
turn in the fraction of a second, and
then in color he assimilates to the shade
of sea-water. Many of tho largest lob
sters are taken in thi3 wa 7 , but arc not
brought to a market, because gaffing a
lobster generally kill* it, and a dead
lobster is not marketable.