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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1897)
REMAINS OF ttdBGEST LEADER. pci FIGHT FOR ITS POSSESSION *h Wa* Discovered Oubans ttc-t® i» u Wiia»B<l'Vrea Ued Terrible V»n lt Their Enemies fttscel'pon Tork Tribune special from ,’, iv jlle, Fla-) received fa y s: here _ aj *as on x rx ;. ne? Colonel Andre Her , Lieutenant command of the de ,, now in encamped of the Cuban army jjjvana, giving the true account fee's death and his subsequent As he says that he was m bh] of the Cuban detachment reeo 7 ered the body from Major w command and afterwards it's statement should settle it, his itter. sent to J. A. Huaua, letter representative was of the Cu orida through the “un ota. It came pd channel. ’■ It is dated Jan Ith, from the “encampment near 18 .” After extending to Mr. i thanks for past favors, the let es on: suf ns December 7th that we i great misfortune in the tragic (by ambush) of our leader Ma This is the greatest misfortune te suffered since the beginning war, but it only encourages his us lithe harder and avenge twre encamped near the fight >y and heard the firing. Maceo hross the trocha, unknown to p but forty men. More than Spaniards, who had been hi I L of his trip, ambushed him. into it and was shot at the ta,,l the tiring, and thinking He of our friends were attacked Spanish guerillas, started off at their aid, though we had but p. When we had reached the bi the slaughter it was most pd then we were told that pas [body dead, and that the enemy tied to a horse’s tail and ping it off. Our men were per Irantic over the report and lobe led against the Span¬ ish dashed forward with drawn I and what a fight that was! laniards met us, and the en pas horrible. Our men fought lily bent on avenging Maceo’s ■Our trusty and sharp machetes | |»re regularity, than two and hundred I think of the we pd, what is more, we had the ■a of recovering the body of |wl Bit hard leader, to regain Maceo. it, Tbe charging Span ■repeatedly, Bretoo but our chary ma Bib much for them, and retreated. Pltie force suffered terribly. pry. P®e which went in eighty |4e out with only twenty-two Pe infantry suffered almost proportion. But for all ■ IW *ere consoled by the fact lewd brothers gave up their f cause, and to save the lamented Maceo from the 5 that the Spaniards would tel. tee Maceo Is Buried, the body in a secret In due time it will be mark now, thg murderous Tfouia trv to tro t it or,,i « Showing their ’e-reat “ [Maeeo sleeps in peace, but remain to avenge him ~T doing daily. I have important things to tell Reckon L* them with in this, this, but I K^Jhat as I the letter Will b Set NsTee FIGHTING. I* 111 Ont Over an . p *»te8. en te. Knoxville reliable sources M seaboard and North Air Line have filing «Pl«tely out, bottled and the for is up so °nble c °neerned. J came up of rat over *s. ° n Satis fles Pope. of The feseffq l ^ ra P ks that - the tj»e .* mos t satisfaction of ., of arDl tration the Ik,-1 ^ped ; treat J tk l * tbe Perm, viTI n F P a P ac J tnbunaI of J* *-Pted fedj rL!! f’ arbltration bQt was bt at Britain and ' - •teal “Tal Dies. Sicilies ex-con ‘ and one rk ,. kalian mer *- eu at 10 o’clock -veeadicitis. FEARFUL SCOURGE OF INDIA. The Plague is Advancing, But May Not Reach This Side of the Water. Cable dispatches from London state that the eyes.of. The European world are now turned toward India, 'each day’s , intelligence from that stricken land making it mare apparent that the greatest tragedy la modern history is being enaeted there under the double course of. famine and plague. The heart of Europe has been touch¬ ed at last, and the universal sympathy is perhaps more keen because it is now tinged with apprehension. It would not be surprising if within a month a genuine plague panic should spread through Christendom. The great powers show alarm, and the news comes now that Italy has summoned an international conference ^ mee ^ forthwith at Rome to consider measures f or clealing with the danger. There is little doubt that the response Q f Q t ber governments will be favorable, an q a }j resources of modern science w ill be speedily arrayed against this hideous foe. Reliable information about the real extent of the plague in Bombay and vicinity is lacking, and regarding the mortality, it is only said in general terms that more than half of those at tacked succumb. The ppint which most interests Eu r opeans is whether the awful disease likely to flourish in northern lati tude if infection should be introduced, b ut no evidence is forthcoming yet. It is argued by medical men, however, ^hat if the plague was dangerous in Hong Kong it will find an equally pro London and Paris so far ftg ^jj e c ij ma ^ j s concerned, According to Health Officer Doly there is little cause to fear that the bubonic plague may reach New York. The doctor, who has just returned from a visit to Egypt, says that he is satisfied from the quarantine supervi B i on maintained by the English officials a t g uez that there is little danger of the disease passing that point. - ONE CENT A MILE FOR MILITARY. The railroads will give lower rates from this section to Washington in March than they gave when President Cleveland was inaugurated. At its meeting held in Atlanta, Ga., the past week the passenger rate com¬ mittee authorized for civilians a rate of one limited first-class fare for the round trip. For regular military companies in uniform and brass bands accompany¬ ing them, twenty-five or more on dis¬ one ticket, 1 cent per mile per capita, tance traveled, short mileage, with ar¬ bitrages added. Tickets limited to continuous pas¬ sage in each direction, with final limit March 8, 1897, may be sold from all points on March 1st, 2d and 3d. From points within a radius of 200 miles of Washington tickets may be sold for morning trains March 4, 1897. Validation at Washington will not be required. TRAIN WRECKERS AT WORK. Engineer Killed and » Postal Clerk Seri ousiy Hurt. The through express from St. Louis 011 the Iron Mountain and Texas and Pacific route, due at Dallas at 6:20 a. m - Sunday, was wrecked Saturday night at the little station of Forest, Engineer Clemons had both legs broken and sustained other injuries so severe that he died. The express messenger is reported as being fatally injured and a postal route agent as se . . . . , wreckers > wko had P lled cross ties on track. Half a dozen or more passengers are reported injured, but none fatally. The engine and three cars, mail, baggage and e *P ress ’ were thrown down aTl embankment, but no passenger coaches left the track ' SPANIARDS ARE FORTIFYING. Being: Sorelv Pressed By Rebels, They Dare Not show Themselves. Passengers by the Olivette which reached Tampa, Fla., Sunday bring, news of the war situation on the island of Cuba. Port Au Principe and San tiago are practically in the hands of the Cubans, the Spaniards not daring to leave their fortresses except under protection of a strong escort. In fact the whole eastern portion of the island is now under the government of the Cubans. his Weyler permits nothing against interest to pass his censorship. SIXTEEN WERE ROASTED. Fearful Fatality Attends the Burning of Orphans’ Home in Texas, <T> ed from Dallas, Tex., regarding r+- he burning of the Buckner Orphans home state that six teen children were cremated and u.M injured, three of them fatally. --—- Passenger Train Wrecked. Pft3Senger train No. 3 of the Texas and Pacific railroad was wrecked Sat¬ urday night near Springdale, Tex., by a cross tie placed on the track. L Q " gineer M. L. Clemons sustained mju ries from whyjh he died. Passengers and trainmen were considerably shaken up and SO ine slightly injured. II10 DESB nm IN MEMORY WT CRISP DELIVERED IN THE HOCSE. MEMBERS mi OE HIS MERITS. Great Throngs Crow,! the Chamber and Hear the Speeehes—Other Proceed¬ ing* of House and Senate. HOUSE. For five hours Saturday afternoon men who had been closely associated with him in his legislative life, the men who knew him best and were best equipped to speak of his magnificent ability and his munificent persomdi ty paid in words of eloquence tribute to the memory of Charles F. Crisp The house galleries were filled with people who had been attracted by the announcement of the memorial sarv ices, and very much more interest was manifested in these services by the members themselves than is usual. I he tributes paid to the great Geor¬ gian were honest and sincere, and in a number of instances were marked with eloquence. General Catchings, Amos Cummings, Governor McCreary, Con¬ gressman Hermann, of Oregon; Con¬ gressman Dinsmore, of Arkansas, as well as the Georgia members who spoke, gave evidence of deep emotion as they referred to their personal rela¬ tions with the man who had filled so ably the speakership, and who had been such an important factor in their lives. Tributes were paid to the deceased, besides those above enumerated by Representatives Turner, of Georgia; Henderson, republican, of Iowa; Dal zell, republican, of Pennsylvania; Richardson, democrat, of Tennessee; O’Bartlett, democrat, of Florida; Mc¬ Millan, democrat, of Tennessee; Dearmond, democrat, of Missouri; Buck, democrat, of Louisiana; Cooper, domocrat, of Florida; Swan¬ son, democrat, of Virginia; Lacey, republican, of Iowa; Bell, populist, of Oolorda; Wheeler, democrat, oi Alabama; Woodward, democrat, of North Carolina;- Layton, democrat, of Ohio; McLaiuin, democrat, of South Carolina; Wellington, republican, of Mary, Fate, democrat, , . oJ „ ,, . leorgia, Lawson, democrat, of Georgia, and Morse, republican, of Massachusetts. While eulogies were being delivered Speaker _ , Reed _ , called , to , the ,, ebair ... tem poranly Mr. Henderson, oi Tennessee, house who was speaker pro tem of the under the administration of Speaker Crisp, the first instance in fhe present congress that a democrat had been asked to preside over the deliberations of the house. Before entering upon the execution of the order of the day, the house passed two or three private bills. At five minutes to 6 the usual reso lutions were adopted and the house adjourned until Monday at noon. The attendance in the house Mon day was very light, as everything pre dieted a dull session. Although an arrangement had been made w hereby the day was to be given to business reported from the committee on Dis t#ict of Columbia, there was a general call of committees. From the committee on Indian af fairs the bill to prohibit the sale of in toxicating drinks to Indians was called up and occasioned some debate, The bill imposes a fine of $100 and impris onment for sixty days upon any liquors person of who shall sell intoxicating any kind whatsoever to any Indian to whom allotment of land has been made while the title is held in trust by the government, or to any Indian who is a Avard of the government. Mr. Maddox (Dem.), Georgia, argued that the bill was unconstitutional. The bill was passed—82 to 22. SENATE. A new phase of the Pacific railroad problem was presented in the senate Thursday in the form of a resol ution offered by Mr. Morgan, instructing the judiciary committee to inquire Avhether by the very fact that certain of the bonds of tbe Union aud Central Pacific railroad companies had fallen due and were not paid, the property of those companies had not become and was not noiv the property of the United States. The resolution went over. The house bill for free homesteads on the public lands in Oklahoma ter¬ ritory, which has been the “unfinished business” in the senate since., the first week of the present session, came to a vote after three hours debate and was passed—yeas, 35; nays, 11. It was first amended in a very important par¬ ticular, by st. iking out the words “in the territory of Oklahoma,” thus mak¬ ing it apply to all public lauds ac¬ quired from the A'arious Indian tribes. The bill now goes back to the house for action on the senate amendments. The senate then adjourned until Mon¬ day. of Ohio, Senator Sherman, was on the floor of the senate Monday for the first time since the announcement that he would enter the McKinley cabinet as secretary of state. He received congratulations from a number of colleagues. & '41 "'A 4 mi 'mm RATIONAL PIG FEEDING. Careful experiments have shown that the liberal feeding of food rich in protlin—which is the so-called flesh foraiicg matter of tho food—greatly inoreasea the growth of pigs. The reafi °, n ^ this is quite evident and elmjj!e ’ “ lbat th “ f ° od 60 ? D ‘ courages the development of mascular lsSUe * of wb ' ob tbe v ‘ tal °f? ans f SS easier an(I effectlV0 . that the food is eftten w ith better appetite, ^ct, and is far bett<?r lIi ted . , u the machine ry of tho j is BO inticb impr0Ted £ kr ^ f ^ u ® that it8 wor „ done mnch mor e flectively. and oonse t] , 0 muoh more profl tably.~ KfcW Engiand Homestead. Arms scab. Epraying experiments that have been conducted for two years by the Missouri Station indicate that apple scab can be prevented by the use of Bordeaux mixture. Four applications were found more efficacious than three. In orchards sprayed in 1894 there was less scab than in the un¬ sprayed ones. Bitter rot, while more destructive than usual, was less preva¬ lent on trees sprayed with a six-pound solution of Bordeaux mixture. At¬ tacks of codling moth were not pre¬ vented by the use of arsenics, the in jury being due, the author thinks, to a second brood of the mouth appearing after the use of arsenics had been dis cout.mied. Bordeuux mixture was efficient in causing less loss from plum rot where the trees were sprayed weekly throughout the ripening period. At this time ammoniaoal copper carbonate solution is recom¬ mended, as it does not leave a sedi¬ ment that injures the appearance of t fie fruit. Paris green was used with success for repressing the curculio. TAKING OUT STUMPS. As dynamite is the most powerful exp ] os j vo aiv j explodes so quickly as to tear things to pieces far more effect¬ ively than black powder, it is desir able to use it on this account, as well aB j or the reason that it will exert its j orce when placed loosely under the body to bo toru up> To get out large Btmnps proceed in this way : With an j ucb and a q Har ter iron bar punch a boJe iu tbo grcmm i directly under the of the Gump, gently push tho C;tr t r idge, made of half a stick of dv nmmte with the cap and fuse attached, to tbe bottom of the hole, then pour water in the hole to settle the earth on the cartridge, and light the fuse, Q r gome dry,running saud may be run into the hole. The explosion will tear a stump fbree feet in diameter into elireds, and these are easily gathered and burned. The holes are then filled an d the land is ready for plowing, The cost is about twenty-five cents for u large stump, if the work is rightly done. Rocks may be broken up in the tame way. Or hard-pan ground to be dug may be broken up Aauch more cheaply for digging a cellar or pit than by picking it.—American Farmer. - ROUP, Wben tbe cb jn y winds of winter begin to howl about the crack bedecked hen house and surge through ^ bo broken glass, or with a doleful nioan find fhe knotholes, is a harvest time for the deadly roup. Speaking of this worst enemy of the poultry ru£lD) p. H. Jacobs says: “For the roup give a teaspoonfnl of raw egg (wliite and yolks slightly beaten together), three times a day. For swelled eyes, anoint once a day with vaseline, and sprinkle a pinch of chlorate of potash down the throat. Add a teaspoonful of chlorate of pot ash to every pint of drinking wuter. Keep tbe birds warm and feed meat, raw or cooked, as part of the ration. Mix a pint of spirits of turpentine with a bnshel of Jirne that has air slacked. Mix it intimately, and you may use more turpentine if you prefer. Scatter it everywhere, on Hoorn, yards, roosts, iu nests and do not ruiss a square inch of space. Clean out tbe house and scatter lime daily. Do not waste time and labor after you find you can do nothing, but destroy the birds. We never saw a fowl cured of roup taat was ever worth keeping. Disinfect everything and get new stock from healthy birds, and always nee the lime every week. Saturate evervtbing, yards especially, with the disinfectant. Here is a good disin¬ fectant : One pound of copperas, one pound of blncstone (sulphate of copper), and six gallons of hot water. Dissolve the minerals in the water and add a pint of sulphuric acid. With watering j) pot you can apply it every- week vbere> 0 this three times a before you get other fowls. Burn or bnry tbe bodies of all roupy birds. Hcul<1 tbe roosts, floors, etc., *,t b the disinfecting liquid by * beating it Bnrn np a u t p„ 0 ] d n e8 tf.. In f ftC t, c i eft n out all the germs, or roup will come back again.”—Faun, Field rad Fireside. STEEP AND HEIFER BEEF. The following summarizes experi¬ ments at spaying and feeding heifers and in feeding steers at the Iowa Ex¬ periment Station: “The operation of spaying tempor¬ arily retarded the growth of heifers eighteen months of ago, but heifers a year younger were not poroeptibly in¬ terrupted. “The cost of feed per pound of gain in this experiment was 3.88 cents by tbe spayed heifers, 3.47 cents by the open heifers, and 3.90 cents by the 1 steers. The former experiment cov ered a periods of eleven months’ feed¬ ing, and the latter fourteen months. In the former experiment the average daily gains for the total period were, spayed heifers, 2.67 pounds; open 2.44 heifers, 1.99 pounds; steers, pounds. In the latter experiments the gains were,spayed heifers, 1.70 pounds; open heifers, 1.80 pounds; steers, 1.71 pounds. The lighter gains in tho lat¬ ter case were due to the fact that youuger cattle were used, and also to unfavorable pasture conditions. ‘•In the last experiment where con¬ ditions were more nearly equal, the heifers made a slightly greater aver¬ age gain from correspondingly less feed, and at less cost than the Bteers. “In the first experiment both lots of heifers sold for $4.75 per cwf, in Chicago, and the steers $5.75 on the Bame market. In tbe second experi¬ ment both lots of heifers sold for $4.25 and the Bteers for $4.50. All of these cattle topped their respective classes on the market. “The percentage of dressed boef made in the first experiment was 62.8, 62.4, and 63.2 by tho spayed, and open heifers and steers respectively; and 67.47, in the second experiment it was 68.59, and 67.05 by the spayed, and open heifers, and steers respectively. In both experiments the heifers have made about oue per cent more weight in the high priced cuts of meats than the Bteers. “Carefully conducted slaughter autl block tests have not revealed any ma¬ terial difference in tho character,com¬ position or quality of the moat from tbe steers and heifers used in these expariments. benefit has been “But little if any derived from spaying. “In both cases the heifers havo given more profitable carcasses on the block, even when granting the higher valua¬ tion put on the leading cuts from the steers.” ‘'DISCONNECTED NOTES.” Hnrvey Johnson, of Logan, Iowa in an address to the Nebraska Dairj Association, gives tho following as “disconnected notes upon whf\t we have learned from experience and what we are using in our business From the beginning we have had a plan, and are constantly working by it. Everything is done at a certain time and on time. We never forget to look after the comfort of every cow and are careful that every storm finds her in her stall. We prefer the swinging stanchion. Oats and corn ground together, with a little oil meal added, eotne bright cut fodder and clover hay, make a model feed for the dairy. Fodder cut soon after the corn is in roastiug ears is generally relished by the cow. but the results are not as sat¬ isfactory as when it is cut later. We have found that a careless feeder can use a great deal of feed from which we get no returns. We allow no tobacco used in the barn nor creamery. The cows are milked at the same hour each day, in the same order and by tho same person. A cow that wants more than thirty or sixty days’ test we do not want. Separator milk, if fed while it retains its natural warmth, has a feeding value of four cents per gullon. We usually get two and one-half pounds of butter from each gallon of cream. We have found that there is a great difference in dairy salt. We study the demands of the mar¬ ket and the tastes of our customers. We allow nothing whatever kept iu the creamery except the cream and butter and the machinery tor hand¬ ling them. We know of no business where the carelul attention tc detail counts for as much as in the dairy business. Running the chnrn jnst one minnte too long will often do for butter what the most expert butter maker canuot undo. When ont butter ........ finished it does , is not usually contain more than twelve per cent, of water, Lastly, we have found that, unless • man likes to stay at home, and unlest be is on friendly terms with steady work, we would hardly advise him to engage in the dairy business.
