Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1885 — Page 2

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JAY GOULD'S K&CEXT TRIP. Me Thinks Cnlta Needs a Railway—An Opportunity for Development. N#w Yrk Special. The climax of r.hu week’s talk in Wall street yesterday was that Jay Gould's yachting expedition. from which, he Los just returned, was el iefly for the capture of Cuba. Tlie assertions were positive that, having got Western Union and Union Pacific into a condition leaving him time and capital for other interests, Vi© bad decided to go into the railroad and commercial development of the island to our southeast. The discovery was confidently announced that his potent band was in tho recent movement for a treaty between Spain and the United States, and, whether there turns out to be anything in it or not, the credence to the story is unite Unreserved among the theoretical, if not the practical, financiers of Wall street. Asa matter of fact, then is reasonableness in the scheme, though there is no such tiling as clearly demonstrating tin * truth or falsity of the gossip. The question was put to Mr. Gould directly. 4 ’Oh, down in Wall street is the place to get the news of my doings and intentions.” he gead-natisredly replied, as he leaned back in the easiest chair contained in the library of tho Fifth-avenue house. “But I don't mind telling yon of one thing that I did bring back from Cuba—a bad cold. It was warm weather when my yateh sailed out from Havana baibor, and as wo came northward 1 neglected to thicken my clothes as fast as the temperature fell, so that by the tihm we passed Sandy Hook on a bitter cold morning I was as hoarse ns 1 am ww.' 1 ‘•What is your opinion of Cuba?” “A most beautful and curious island.” “As to ’ts pi% ip -live value commercially!’' “There is tho opportunity for immense development. I sailed almost completely around Cuba, and mu do incursions from a number of }><>int.. in spite of tho fact that I had negeeied to provide myself with a passport before starting from New York, as the law of the island requires. Most of these trips were made from Havana, and there the officials were kind enough to be a little lax. But on landing at Cape Cruz, where an outlook is kept, 1 t*>liove, for raids by Cuban patriots, I was all but arrested and sent a prisoner lnck to Havana.” •‘Will you give an idea of the impression that Cuba made on you as to her worthiness for commercial enterprise by Americans? ’ •‘Why, yes. The island has the climate and soil for enormous productiveness in ways which are impossible to any portion of the United States. Only tho rim of Cuba has been touched, practically, by the disadvantaged nnd not very enterprising planters. Inland lies a region, a hundred miles loiur by thirty or so broad, that f- in’t be beaten on the face of the earth for fortify, and it is a wilderness. Thero is a misera e railroad running—it would be more correct to v walking—in the direction of this section, but tbout reaching it. This line extends from avann to Matanxas on the coast, and thence lutheastward. altogether less than a hundred miles, striking a, railroad that crosses the island in a straight iine from Sagua, on the north coast shore, to Cienfuegos on the south. That is all there is of railroading in Cuba. The coastskirting steamer a are really the only common menus of transportation. What the country wants is a railroad from one end of the island to the other, to carry the produce to markets.” •‘And did yon do anything toward building One. Mr. Gould?” *Tll toll you what I did da I saw some of tho old plantations where the slave .scenes were like those of our Southern States thirty years ago. I w ent to a circus in the open air, a feature of which was a sort of bull fight: I saw the oddest fish in the waters that the Atlanta sailed, including naturally red lobsters (they supported the ancient Italian pain tor who was ridiculed for painting his live lobsters red): and I drank quarts of. the popular native beverage.’' “Alcoholic?"’ “Not a bit cf it. They call it agua do coco, and it is the iced fluid from coeoanuts. They saw a green r,ut in two, ice the water found inside, nnd sell it to you for two or three cents. The drink is palatable, refreshing, and certainly harmless. **

A Dinner Which Gould Did Not Attend. Kingstown (Jamaica.) Stows. Jay Gould, the American millionaire and Stock Exchange gambler, arrived hero in a*pleasure yacht last week, and sailed from this port last Monday. II is visit created no great interest beyond his yacht, because of its costliness. During his stay in this city he had, of course, a separate table for himself, ar.d he received that measure of homage which is usually paid in all parts of the world to men of reputed wealth. Character is not considered in such cases and, therefore, is not counted. Those who delighted in making salaams to the golden calf did so, while others, who considered it nwH> in keeping with their profession to “hold a candle to the devil, * were allowed to do so and nobody interfered with their devotions. In the evening of Saturday a select dinner party had been arranged, and Jay promised faithfully to gratify the anftntiou of his admirer and to dine with him at Gaza; bnt, although tho table was laid and the dinner was “pt hot, and Murom’s champagne was cooling the ice, and the butler wore a double-starched Jar, and all the family—the host, “his. sisters, i cousins and amits" —kept on the tiptoe of exrtation, impatiently waiting the arrival of y; for ho assured the host be would coroe; Jay jver came at all! Yet we are told the prepa- • tions for the reception of his Satanic majesty were such as had not been known in Jamaica for tlie last fifty years. What a loss to Jay. THE KNICSHTS OF LABOR. An Organization Which Does Not Countenance Anarchists and Socialists. Scranton, Pa., Special. Mr. T. V. Powderly. general master-workman of the Knights of laibor, has set out once more on an extended tour of the South, to visit the principal industrial centers of that section in the interest of the order, of which lie is the official head in the United States and Canada. Previous to his departure a Times representative had an interview with him relative to the recent noisy demonstrations of the Pittsburg Communists and Anarchists. “Those men represent nobody but themselves," said Mr. Powderly, with emphasis, “and the real workingmen of the country have a hourty contempt for their ideas." “How are they regarded by the Knights of Labor!” “I cannot answer that question better than by letting you see the following official letter, which I have addressed to the order, and ip which I have the full concurrence of an executive board." f The letter referred to was headed “Learn Your Duties and Act," and contained the following: “From a letter sent to me by a master-work-man of a local assembly, I quote the following: ‘We have in our assembly a number of Socialists, Anarchists or revolutionists, who advocate the killing of every capitalist, who advocate the use of dynamite, ami the purchase and distribution of guns, etc.' “The brother then winds np his letter by asking me if that is the mission of the Knight of Labor. (Juite a few letters come to me on one another, and the usual wind-up to all of them is the question, ‘ls this the mission of the Knights of Labors “My answer is the same to all of them—no! And if the officers who write to me would only study their parts as they are expected to, and as they pledged themselves to when they were installed. they would know just what the mission f the Knights of Labor is. When a member dks of killing anybody, rich or poor, he exresaes his own seniiments, not those of tho or■r, and if the mnicer workman of the assembly >eß not call him to order as soon as he begins * rave in that way he v;olates his obligation. “Our order is an army of peace. Our mission i to educate t.he heads and hearts and not the hands ami feet of our members The torch of the incendiary, the dagger of the assassin and the bomb of the d\ cam iter are not the weapons of the Knights of Labor, and the member who advocates a resort to such methods in the asembly viol a tee his obligation as a Knight. If each assembly will perform its duty as an educator, each member will have in his possession a light that will shine with ten-fold more brilliancy titan the torch of-the incendiary. The Godgiven intellect of man, illuminated by a knowledge of his true condition iu life, will prove u

more dangerous torch to tho enemy of man than tho torch of tho incendiary. A complete organization and unification of the workers and their friends, and an abandonment of the mean, petty spites and jealousies which continually rise up between men and their duty to each other, will prove a far more powerful weapon than tho dagger of the assassin. With men and women organized and taught by experience. discussion and Association what their rights are, their united voices, when they speak out in defense of a principle, will make more noise in the world than the exploding bomb of the d3’namiter. * * * I have no use for tliat which kills: I have no desire to witness the destruction of property, and whenever I learn of an assembly committing itself to such doctrines, I shall demand the recall of its charter.” ‘•Then you don't take any stock in the thunderbolts of Herr Most Justus Schwab or that class of philanthropists?” “Not at all: they are merely a handful of cranks and cowards,” “Are they members of the Knights of Labor?” “No; the sensible workingmen of the country have no use for such wild wind-bags. Their ideas are all foreign to us. Having been brought up under the rule of blood and iron,’ they don t understand our institutions, and cannot appreciate the fact that here the workingmen have the means of effecting a peaceful revolution, such as can be brought about in Europe only by force. The Anarchists and Communists don't speak for the people; they speak their own views, and I may say that 1 have a hearty contempt lor them and their ideas.” THE WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War DwwRH'JdKNT, OFFJCK or THK CUIKK SION’AT, OFFICER, > Washington, March 30. 1885. ) For the Ohio Valley and Tennessee —Fair weather in Tennessee, partly cloudy, warmer weather aud local rains in Ohio valley, falling barometer, southerly winds. For the Lower Lake Region—Warmer, fair weather, followed by local, rains, winds shifting southeasterly, falling barometer. For the Upper Lake Region Warmer weather, local snows, variable winds, generally shifting to westerly, followed in western portions by rising barometer. For the Upper Mississippi Valley—Partly cloudy weather, local snows or rains, slightly colder in northern portion, winds shifting to northwesterly, warmer in southern portions. For the Missouri Valley—Local snows or rains, followed by fair weather, slightly colder westerly win is, becoming variable. Local Observations. In i>i ana poms, March 29. Time. Bar. Thar. (Hum. Wind. Weatherjßain. ... i— _ i —2 - I—-GA.U-.a0.1i 32.2 85 KE (Cloudy. 10 a. m . '30.21 32.8 88 NE Lt snow 2p. M.. 30.17; 40.0 05 E Cloudy. .00 or. m. 30.18! 39.8 66 SW Fair 10 p. m. 30.1| 30.0 79 S Clear Maximum temperature, 42.5; minimum temperature, 31.8. General Observations. War Department, ? Washington, March 29. 10:00 p. m. J Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations.

W *-3 3$ P3 32 6 * 3 = £ 3 g P* y* -> g. STATIONS. I § : ’ | ~ 3 So I 3‘ • :&: ~ : :9: : £ : • • ' • e * • New Orleans, Ijr. .. {30.22 58 E C’lear. Vicksburg. Miss ! 30.20 541 HE Clear. Port Smith. Ark 30.09 57i S .... Fair. Galveston, Tex |30.24| 62 RE Clear. Little Roek, Ark Shreveport, li 30.20 50 S Clear. Cincinnati, 0 30.23 37 SE .01 Cloudy. IndianapoU... hul-. 30.10 30 S Clear. Louisville. Ky 30.20, 40i SE Clear. Memphis, Tenn .... 30.171 53! SE Clear. Nashville, Term 30.20 j 39] E Clear. Pittsburjr. Pa. 30.24 381 S Ltsnow. Chicago, ill : 30.051 38| S Cloudy. Cairo. 11l Davenport, la 29.1>7l 42j SW Lt. rain. DesMoinos, la 29.80 45 K\V Cloudy. Keokuk, ia 29.93 4 2 SE Cloudy. LaCroß.se. SVis 29.78 35 S .09 Lt snow. Moorehead. Minn... 29.99 22 W .01 Cloudv. St. Ijouis Mo 30.00 49 SE Lt. rain. St. Paul, Minn. ...29.73 32 SE .21 Lt snow. Springfield. 11l 30.00 41 S Cloudy. Leavenworth, Kan.. 29.91 53 SW Threat's Omaliiu Neb, 29.94 49, IV .01 Cloudy. Yankton. Dak 30.00 32 NW Clear. Bismarck, Dak 30.05 30 Oahn Clear. Fort Buford, Dak.. 30.03 33 W Cloudy. Ft. Assiniboine. Mta 30.0i 30 SW Cloudy. Deadwoou. Dak 30.22 31 NE Clear. Fort Custer, Mont.. 30.12 42 SW Fair. Denver. Col 30.27 40 N Clear. Dodge Citv, Kan... 30.09 51 N Clear. Fort Elliott, Tex... 30.02 49 Calm Clear. North Platte, Neb-. 30.10 38 NW Clear. Las Animas. Col 30.13 40 NE Cloudv. Fort Sill. lod. T Fort Stockton, Tex. 30.11 58 SE Cloudy. El Paso, Tex 30.07 G 2 Calm Cloudy. Key West, Fk I t Brownsville, Tex I Salt Lake City, U.T. 30.22 501 N .... 1 Hear. Duluth. Min 29.94 22 NE .03 Clear. Kecanabo, \Y. Ter.. 30.02 23] S .01 Ltsnow. Marquette, Mich... 30.00 25> S [Cloudy. Milwaukee. Wis 30.0(1 32 S Cloudy. Oswego. N. Y 30.18 30 E Clear. Toledo. 0 30.29 19 S Clear. Washington, D. C-. 30.32 32 N Clear. New York City 30.38, 32! NE Clear. Ex-Soldiers of the German Army. Chicago, March 29.—Delegates from Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, of exsoldiers of the German atrav met here to-day and farmed a nucleus of a national organization for mutual benefit and cultivation of love for their adopted country. The following officers were elected: President, Charles Winkler, of Chicago; vice president, Herman Pfitsenreiter, of Cincinnati; secretary, S, Selton, of Milwaukee; treasurer, Herman Holtman, of St. Louis. — Fatally Shot ly a Desperado. Butleb; Pa.. March 29. — night Wm. Stover, while under the influence of liquor, went into the general store of Harper & Sous, at North Washington, this county, and because he was refused cigars in exchange for a bunch of keys, drew a revolver and fatally shot an old man named Duncan. Stover was arrested and lodged in jail. He is a desperate character and claims to have killed eleven men while a cowboy iu the far West. Ridrilcberger and tlie Revolutionists. Nrw York, March .29.—Senator Riddfeberger did not attend the meeting of Irish revolutionists to-night. In his telegram he said: “Were I at your meeting tny sentiments would be American without Know-nothingism. Irishmen should be Americans, without forgetting that there i? an oppressed Ireland. I believe it to be the duty of American-Inshinen to do their utmost for Irish nationality and liberty.” Attempted Wife-Murder ami Suicide. San Fbancisco, March 29. —A horrible murder and suicide occurred this evening. John Kane, a wealthy stock-raiser, insisted on his wife accompanying him to Colusa county to live. Enraged at her refusal, he seised t\ Winchester rifle, and tired three bullets into her. He thou killed himself. His wife is still living, but will probably die. Stabbed Six Times. Youngstown, 0., March 29. —While returning home, last night, Michael O’Mara was attacked by Chuck Megraw, a well-known rough, stabbed four times in the breast, in the region of the heart, and twice on the head, laying the skull bare. O'Mara was taken home. His injuries are pronouncea fatal. McGraur was arrested. ___________________________ “Closk the door gently. And bridle the breath; I've one of my Innulaches—Ira sick unto death." “Take 'Purgative Pellets,’ They're pleasant and sure; I’ve some in ray pocket I’ll warrant to cure." Dr. Pierce’s ,f Pleasatit Purgative Pellets” aro both preventive and curative.

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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS. A Younsf Man Fatally Stabbed in a Saloon Fight—Arreat of Ilia Assailant. §peei&l to the Indianapolis Journal. Shelbyvillk, Ind., March 29. —Samuel Boyd, a young man aged twenty-two years, was fatally stabbed this morning by George Lawrence, a carpenter, in a tight at Oscar Williams’s saloon. Lawrence and a woman of trad character, by the name of Mollie Wilson, were in the saloon engaged in drinking, where also were Samuel and Robert Boyd, playing cards. Sam Boyd began the quarrel, and Lawrence drew a knife, when Oscar Williams grabbed him, and tried to keep him from cutting anyone; but, being in danger, he retreated, and the Boyds and Lawrence came together. Lawrence was knocked down, and, it is said, both the Boyds jumped on him, when Lawrence fatally stabbed Sam Boyd in the left side, just below the ribs, indicting a terrible wound and-letting a part of the entrails protrude from the wound. Medical aid was at once summoned and Boyd laid upon a billiard table, where he remained all night in great pain. His mother visited him at the saloon, this morning, and her sorrow on seeing her dying son lying in a saloon, on Sabbath morning, was most heartrending. Boyd was removed, to-day, to his home. Lawrence and Mollie Wilson are both in jail. He denies the stabbing in positive terms. Lawrence is a single man, aged twenty-two. Indiana Notes. Mrs. Kerr, widow of Speaker Kerr, of New Albany, tendered the position of trustee of the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home, by the Governor, has declined the place. Gates Schooler, an engineer of the J., M. & I. railway, was run over and Killed at Jeffersonville on Friday night. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias and Odd fellows. Lewis McFann, of North Manchester, Wabash county, was instantly killed at Milford Junction, on tho Baltimore & Ohio railroad, by falling beneath tho wheels. He was frightfully mangled, aud the shock consequent upon being brought home dead so affected his mother that she is now lying at the point of death. McFann was nineteen years old. James Hardesty, who lives at tho village of No wry, near Seymour, was roughly handled by a masked mob of citizens of that place a few evenings ago. Hardesty, it is said, has been living in open adultery with a woman of that place for some time, and, although repeatedly warned of the trouble likely to follow if he persisted in the practice, he lias, nevertheless, disregarded all threats or warnings. A few evenings since a crowd of masked men visited Hardesty’s, and, after ordering him and tjm women out of tho house, they set it on fire. They then took the stock from the barn and the chickens from the coop and set fire to these buildings. They bound Hardesty to a tree, where he remained until released the nest day, after which they dispersed.

Illinois Items. J. S. Duncan, a merchant from Bluff City, was run over by a locomotive at Beardstown. His neck was broken and one arm nearly severed from liis body. The Democratic central committee of Greene county has nominated Ellis Briggs, of Roodhouse, to fill the vacancy in the State Senate caused by the death of Senator Bridges. John Gross, living eight miles north of Highland, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Financial difficulties andyll health are supposed to have been the causes. Bricker Elliot, the seven-year-old son of George Elliot, residing near Carbondale, was leaning out of a window at his father’s residence when the sash fell, striking him on the back of. Uu* neck and. breaking it. " \ At Litchfield, in a free fight which took place between a crowd ot tramps, one of the gang, a man named Roach, was nearly killed by a knife wound in the neck. Thirteen of the roughs were arrested by the police. Mrs. John J. Ballentine, of Decatur, a widow with four children, made two desperate hu; unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide by taking poison and by shooting herself, because her son was put in jail for drunkenness. Abram Sidwell, an old and very wealthy farmer, living near Brolvnstown. was discovered by his son, lateSatnrday evening, hanging to a beam in his barn. Life not yet being extinct he was immediately cut down, but died in a few minutes afterward. The old gentleman had been in poor health for some time and became despondent, believing he could not get well. He leaves a young wife and a large family of grownup children. WASHINGTON HOMES. Tlie Palatial Residences of Well-Known Political Magnates. W ashingrton Letter to Cleveland Leader. Thirteen hundred new buildings, worth about $1,000,000. were erected in Washington last year. Fine residences are goiDg up ail over the city, and it is fast becoming the custom for a public man to own his own house in Washington. One of the leading real estate agents here is my authority for the following estimate of the homes of some of the leading men of the Nation: “Blaine’shouse cost $90,000, and itrents for 10 per cent, on $130,000. Don Cameron’s big house on Scott circle is worth SBO,OOO. and it is one of the finest finished houses in Washington. Windora’s house, just across the way, which cost him his place in the Senate, is worth $60,000, and ought to rent for a good interest on that amount. Pendleton’s house, just above Cameron’s, cost $40,000 to build, ar.d is now worth $60,000, and the big brick of Secretary Robeson, which adjoins it, is valued at twice this sum. Bell, the telephone man, also lives on Scott circle. He paid $115,000 for his house and stable, and it is one of the most valuable properties in Washington. Omar D. Conger has a house on M street, just off of Thomas circle, which Mrs. Conger bought at a bargain. She gave $20,000 for it. It was built by a pawn broker, and it is, 1 should say, worth twice as much as it cost. Mrs. Dahlgren, the wife of the Admiral, has a mansion looking out toward the Thomas statue, worth $55,000, and just across the way, in a brown stout*, on the corner, which is certainly worth $35,000, lives Poker Bob Schenck. “General Sherman's bouse is worth about $30,000. Sunset Cox has the prettiest little house in Washington, made of green stone, and this his wife bought for $30,000; and Senator Allison, of lowa, has a brick, painted white, just opposite the Portland Flats, which will bring any day $15,000 under the hammer. John Sherman’s home on K street is worth at least $30,000. He bought the ground for a song whon Franklin Park, which it faces, was a cow-pasturo and a ball-ground, and his friends laughed at the idea of it ever being worth any great amount. Notv I suppose you could not buy vacant ground there if there were any, for less than SIOO a square foot, and the best houses of the capital are all around it. Sherman • also owns much other real estate about the city. He is farseeing, and would make a fine real estate man.” “What is W. W. Corcoran’s house worth?” “It lies, you know, just across from the White House, and includes a whole square of ground. It could not be bought for any price, but I suppose it to be worth $150,000 at least A little further up on H street, Bancroft, the old historian, lives in a $35,000 house of painted brick, and catacornered across the way is the house of John McLean’s father-in law, General Beale, worth, I should say. $40,000. The McLeans own a good deal of Washington real estate. John recently paid out $51,000 for the Holmead Cemetery lot, above Blaine’s, and he will divide it up into lots and sell it. Washington McLean. John’s father, owns a house on one of the best corners of I street, worth several times the salary of the'Chief Justice of the United States, and he has just bought Dan Sickles’s house near the White House, for, I think, $37,000. Speaking of the Supreme Court,” the realestate man continued, “Waite owns a house ou II 6lreet worth $35,000, Miller’s house is worth $40,000, Matthews ha a home on the corner of I and Eighteenth streets, which is aesthetically bnilt, and would bring, 1 should say, $65,000. It is in the heart of the best

section of the capital, and its back windows look into the reception-rooms of the British legation mansion. Judge Field has a big brick house modeled out of the buildings across from the Capitol, which used to be a prison, and this is worth $10,900. There is talk of appropriating the ground of the square in which it stands to the new library building, and if so the Judge will probably move to the northwest part of the city. “Across the Capital plateau from Field’s is Ben Butler’s big stone mansion, which ought to be worth as much as Blaine’s, and which, it is said, is mortgaged for SBO,OOO. This has fsur great divisions aud is large enough to accommodate four families. Part of it is rented to the government and part of it to private prrties. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, is building a house on K street facing McPherson square, on ground that is worth, perhaps, $8 a square foot The house is an immense brown stone as big as a college, and it has a stable built on to its back end. Just next to it, on the corner, is the mansion of Judge Lowery, of New England, a man who is related in some way to Levy Woodbury, tbe Secretary of the Treasury under Van Buren, and afterward Supreme Court Justice. Lowery Is wealthy, and is a very nice fellow. At the side of his house he has a beautiful lawn, and Palmer, in building his house, expected to have the benefit of this for his back windows, including his dinning-room and so forth. With this in view he finished this part of his house in pressed brick and put up a beautiful bay window on the Fifteenth-street side of it. Lowry asked Palmer, as a special favor, to put his stable somewhere else than on the back of the house, saying it would be offensive to him, and would injure his view and lot. Palmer, however, the story goes, refused to pay any attention to his wishes, and made the stable a wing to his big mansion. Now Lowry, to offset this, has built up a pressed brick wall on the back of his lot as high, almost, as Palmer's second-story, completely shutting off the view from Palmer’s dining room, and doing more injury to his property than the vaiuo of ten stables.” “The houses belonging to members of Congress are few. Perry "Belmont has one for which he paid $23,000: William Walter Phelps has invested some of his millions in Washington real estate, though I believe ho now lives in a rented house. Sam Randall has a house on Capital Hill worth perhaps $7,000, and Hitt, of Illinois, has also a good residence. Judge Lawrence, of Ohio, has a house on lowa Circle worth SIO,OOO, and it is one of those, I think, which Grant built Senator Bruce owns a house on M street worth SIO,OOO. Fred Douglas’s estate at Uniontown, comprising the house and part of tbe plantation of the negro hater, Van Hook, is worth SIO,OOO. and negroes own land all over Washington worth from one cent to $o per square foot. “Somo of the newspaper men also own good houses here. General Boynton, of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, has a home worth about $14,000; Scott Smith, of the New York Commercial advertiser, has a house at Ledroit Park worth a little more, and McKee, of the Associated Press, has a mansion on Connecticut avenue which is as fine as any one* owned by a senator. Mcßride, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has a house on Q street worth $40,000; Jim Young, another newspaper man. has one of the same value next door, and Charley Murray’s house, which was lately photographed in Harper’s Magazine as one of the aesthetic homes of the capital, is worth $13,000, and will rent for the interest on $16,000.

Hew to Grow Grapes. Milwaukee Sentiuel. Mr. Kramer recently read a paper before the La Crosse Horticultural Society on prape-grow-ing. Os the different ways of preparing the ground he said the best way is to make a trench twenty inches deep and lay the soil on the downhill side (supposing it to be on a slop©.) Then put wood mold, leaves and small twigs on the bottom of the ditch. Begin another similar trench on the other side, throwing the earth into the first trench, continuing in this manner until the ground is all spaded over alike. Mark your ground for grape vines in rows eight feet apart each way. Dig the holes for the roots in the fall before the ground freezes, as the soil thrown out will oe much better for the new roots after it has been frozen and thawed. Make the holes fi‘om fourteen to sixteen inches deep and eighteen inches across. In setting the root3 the following spring, see that mellow, rich soil is placed next them and packed firmly. In setting, put one bud just below the surface and one bud above. Early planting is advisable, as it insures better growth. The above is for heavy soil. For light and sandy soils make holes two feet square, put the best top soil on one side and the lighter soil on the other. Procure enough heavy muck to fill the hole one foot deep. Leave the hole open until spring, then set the roots as above, taking care to put the best soil next the plants. The first .and second years cut down to two buds and keep the soil clean. The third year, if you have two canes, cut one down to two buds and the other to four, five or six, according to the strength of the vine. Also the third year will be the time to set posts or build a trellis to sustain the vines. The best time to prune is in November and December. Then select the shoots according to the fruit buds. The third year is also the time to trim the roots. Open the soil about the vines and, with a' sharp knife, cut all the roots within four inches, from the top down, then put the soil back in its place. In cultivating use a four-tinea fork instead of a spade. The spade cuts too many roots, while the fork goes between the roots and loosens the soil; and cultivate at least once every year and keep down the weeds with a hoe. Skating-Rink Etiquette. Minneapolis Tribune. Somebody would make a hit by publishing a book on skating-rink etiquette. The rinks are bound to stay, and to be patronized; and it is high time that their frequenters should learn the proprieties. 'The cardinal principle of the book should be that the manners of the side-walk, and the fair-ground, and the hotel parlor, and not those of the social assemblage, furnish the proper analogy for the rink. Rinkgoers should take their company with them, and not make it on the floor. If this general rule, simple as it is, were obeyed, it would do a hundred times more for good morals than all the sermons that have been preached against the amusement of roller-skating. Cleveland’s Yellow-Fever Flag. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. President Cleveland cannot plead that he is not guilty of hoisting the yellow-fever flag over the Department of the Interior. The latest distinction Mr. Lamar acquired before he was summoned to the Cabinet with a degree of executive gushing bestowed upon no other man, was in championship of Jeff Davis as a patriot Food for Laughter. Richmond Independent. They are getting off some heavy jokes at the Vice-president’s expense, and there is no doubt that the new President understands his business better than any person can teach it to him. He holds the reins with a firm hand and lets no sort of wheedling influence him against his ripe and sound judgment. Whither Are W© Drifting? Atlanta Constitution. It is said that James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet, will shortly marry Miss Clara L. Bottsford, who is also an Indiana poet If this son of thing continues, Indiana will soon be peopled with a race of poets. Reversing the Order of Things. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Cleveland was sent to Washington to revolutionize things, and he has done it with a vengeance in his latest diplomatic appointment, arranging to have Sunset in the East. It Was the Cat. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. “Oh pah! The cat’s jumped on the table and knocked over the wine!” “What! The Muscat?" “No, air. ThecatawbaP* A Great Social Fact. Christian at Work. It doesn’t tire a man half so much to saw a cord of wood as it does to amuse a baby for an hour when its mother is away.

GRANT AND THE PORK-PACKERS. How the Captor of Vicksburg Was Driven Out of Business. Washington, Mo., Letter in Globe-Democrat. General Grant’s answer to questions of counsel in bis testimony, in which he states, in referring to Ward, “I supposed he was more of a business man than I was," reminds roe of a little incident in the General’s history which, I believe, has never been in print. About 1858-59 Bellevue, la., a little town on the Mississippi river, twelve miles south of Galena, 111., where General, then known as Gaptain, Grant lived, was somewhat noted for its pork-packing industry. There were three or four houses engaged in the business, and usually the competition between them was pretty sharp. One winter, however, the pork-packers pooled their issues, by which means one of the houses was to be closed for the winter. Captain Grant, hearing of the unused packing-house, came down and rented it for the season, intending to engage in the pork-packing business. Os course, the other houses formed a combination against the newcomer. In those days it was customary for farmers to slaughter their hogs on their farms and bring them dressed to the market, the constantly cold winters of lowa and Illinois favoring that plan. On arriving at Bellevue they would drive their sleds to some vacant lots near the public square, where runners from the different houses would bid on the pork. Captain Grant undertook to be his own runner. The combination against him bought all the pork they could, at first paying more than the market prices. Sending the pork to the packing house, it would be loaded onto another sled and returned to the same place, when the opposition defied competition by bidding in again their own pork. Captain Grant found he was losing money rapidly, couldn’t comprehend how the other packers could afford to pay such prices, and, receiving some propositions, sold out his lease and stock to the opposition at a considerable loss, and retired ingloriously from the field. During the Vicksburg campaign, while the army lay at Young's Point, opposite Vicksburg, and before Gen. Grant had personally arrived to take command, a long, lank Indianian belonging to an lowa regiment was noisy in declaring his belief that Gen. Grant could not be the same Grant who had made so much of a failure as pork-packer. The Indianian had been one of the teamsters who had had hauled pork for the opposition packers. He was terribly cut up when Gen. Grant arrived, and he had no further doubt of the General’s and the unsuccessful porkpacker’s identity. He wanted to desert; and doubtless would have done so could he have got back to lowa. He actually became ill over the matter, and was barely able to go on the campaign when it actively commenced. After its rapid marches and brilliant battles were over, and while the confederate army, in a starving condition, were closely shut up within their fortifications, and a few days after a small boat loaded with salt had been captured in attempting to ruu into the city, a number of soldiers were gathered around a camp-fire, when someone asked the Indianian what ho thought of Gen. Grant now. ‘‘Wall,” he drawled out, “the derned fool tuk sich a disgust over pork at Bellevue that he won’t let the Johnnies have salt enough to save their bacon.”

Bees in the Spring. W. Z. Ilutchiusoo, in Country Ueutleman. Each bee-keeper should know when to expect the honey harvest in his locality, and should so manage as to have his hives overflowing with bees at its commencement. Before, and after the harvest, bees are consumers, not producers: so a hive full of bees in early spring is not so desirable as a colony only sufficiently strong as to be able to increase its numbers to the desired degree by the opening of the honey harvest. From the laying of the egg until its development into a bee is twenty-one days; from the hatching of a bee until it is old enough to labor in the fields is about fifteen days; hence, brood rearing should be going on very briskly five or six weeks before the opening of the honey harvest. It is at this time, six weeks before the honey harvest, that stimulative feeding will prove profitable, if ever, and, when commenced, it should be continued until the harvest begins. In early spring, bees sometimes desert their hives by “swarming out,” as it is termed. They issue in the same manner as does a swarm, and usually join some other colony in tho yard. This abnormal swarming is caused by queenlessness. lack of stores, weakness (in numbers), encroachment of mice, etc., in fact, anything that disturbs or renders uncomfortable the bees. If they are furnished with good warm hives, have plenty of good stores, a laying queen, and are in such condition that they can rear brood, they are happy and contented and seldom try to better their condition by migrating. When bees commence rearing brood they need water, and, when in the cellar, the want of water is often the cause of uneasiness. After being placed upon their summer stands, many bees are lost in early spring by being obliged to bring water on cold, windy days. Many bee-keepers have reported excellent results from giving bees water in the cellar when the bees were uneasy, and from confining them in their hives on cold, windy days, after they had been placed on their summer stands, and furnishing them with water. A wet sponge at the entrance of the hive, in the cellar, will furnish the bees with water. ■ ■ ■ ii ii■ Receipts. Scalloped Onions.—Peel the onions and slice them very thin. Put in a baking dish a layer of onion, a layer of cracker, with salt, pepper and butter to taste, then another layer of onions, and so on until the dish is filled, having top layer of cracker: pour in enough milk to cover, and bake one hour and a half. Potato Puffs. —Peel one quart of large potatoes Grate them, and drain all the water from them. Mix the drained potato well with six grated onions, one and a half tablespoonfuls of flour, six eggs, and salt to taste. When thoroughly mixed, fry in cakes of any desired size a nice brown in hot drippings. Salad Dressing.—An excellent salad dressing, which, if kept cool, will keep for a long time, is made of the yolks of three eggs beaten well with two-thirds of a goblet of best salad oil (or butter), adding not more than a teaspoonful of oil at a time and beating it well. One teaspoonful of xftustard, a large pinch of salt, a tiny bit of cayenne pepper, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, two of vinegar, the juice of one lemon, and lastly the whites of two eggs well-beaten. Beat the mixture for several nsiantes and then thin with vinegar to suit the taste; put into a glass can and keep cool and dark. It is a great convenience to have the dressing ready, as so many times one might make a salad if so much time were not required for making a smooth dressing. Grafting: Wax. An old recipe for making grafting wax, and a good one, is four parts resin, two parts beeswax, and one part tallow. Melt all together in a kettle, over a moderate fire, and when well mixed, pour into a vessel of cold water to harden. When stiff enough to handle, grease the hands, and then pull and work the wax until it is white, or amber colored, and of even quality throughout Apply the wax to the grafts in such a way that the air shall be entirely excluded from all raw surfaces on scion and stock. In cold weather, the wax may need warming by working it in the hand, or it may be melted and applied with a brush. For small trees in nurseries, we have used the wax on strips of cloth prepared by simply dipping the strips in melted wax. These, wound around the stock, keep the scion firmly in place. An Experiment with Seed Corn. Sylvsnta (Ga.) Telephone. Some time since we published an item advising farmers to soak their seed corn in kerosene oil, preparatory to planting, as a preventive of crows and larks pulling it up. Some fears were entertained that corn so treated would not germinate. Col. G. R. Black sends ns several grains of corn which had been soaked six hours in kerosene previous to being planted, and which germinated, thus proving that the oil was not injurious. The corn which Col. Black sends us had been planted four days when it was dug up, and every grain had sprouted. We believe the plan is a good one, and are glad that it ie being thoroughly tested. It only remains to be seen if the taste of the oil will disgust the birds. ‘i* This Really Means Ohio, bet— Ohio State Journal. The Legislature will not be in session again till next Tuesday afternoon. Till then the State is free from further disgrace. If you suffer with pain in the back and limbs, take 25e and buy Salvation Oil; it will cur# you It kills pain; we refer to Salvat ion Oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain. Price 25c a bottle.

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