Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1887 — Page 6

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TUE IN DIA Ii A BT 1 1: Bi:iriIS KL" WEIMVEfcDA APItfL, C 1887.

THE FARM BUDGET.

Tis Lets cf Fertility Fruit Trae3 How Good Batter is Hide. The Woodpecker as n Ally Urao and Clover Seedlog Cankei Worms Food Production IIooe aud Farm. The Loss of Fertility. The less cf fertility in the soil depends entirely upon the kind of crop growing thereon, sajs the Philadelphia Record, and the soil is improved or impoverished in a certain period of time corresponding with the available and inert matter it contains and the growth of the plants which remove the fertilizing materials. Some crops enrich the soil in one reppect and impoverish it in another by utilizing a greater proportion of some kind of plant food while Ttjectir others, thus causing a gradual accumulation of some particular substance which is not required for growth. Tais is shown by the growth of clover, which adds nitrogen to the soil, though removing other elements. The loss by toils does not depend upon the amount of plant food removed, but upon the value thereof, and the los3 does not really occur by growing the crop upon the land, bnt in removing it from the farm to the markets. "When milk is produced the fertilizing element is in the skim-milk and sot in the cream, and when tne manure is scattered on the land and the milk fed to cilvts and pigs the loss is small, as batter is really produced from the air, through tie crop. Latter being composed mostly cf csrbon, which is derived from the air by plants in the form of carbonic acid gas, dv es not remove any of the subs'ances exitirg in the soil. It has been estimated ttatfcj pounds of butter, when sold off tbe farm, carries away only 50 cents worth cf plant food, and the carcass of an ox or horse $u worth of plant food, while a crop of wheat, valued at $20). causes a loss of nearly worth of plant food. If ail the crofs be fed to stock on the farm and the manure carefully saved, the loss is in proportion to the amount and kind of material rold, which loss may be modified according to the form into which the salable article has been changed. Cheese and milk take away the most valuable elements, yet these articles do not command as high trices in the market a3 butter, which costs but very little in the shape of fertilizers. I! land be cropped, the kind of fertiliz?rs to be epplied should correspond a? nearly as possible to that which is sold rather thai to that which is produced, in order to avoid loss of fertility. When crops are told the nitrogen, phasphoru3, aci 1, potash and lime are removed, but when the s lies are made in the shape of animals the potash remains mostly in the manure. X; trogen and the phosphates are essential under ill systems, and every pound of fertilizer applied is Eimply storing it in the Boil to be converted into some other forai best adapted for maiket, whether animal or Tfetatle. Frolt Trees. I'ruit trees eLcuM rot be pruned wh:n the sap will ieep the saw wet, nnless wounds are covered with a solution of gum shellac dissolved in alcohol. When trees are grafted they should noi be pruned, because after cutting oil several gojd-s'zd Tmbj to set teams in tte tree needs all the remaicinz branches to keep up its usail action and vitality. Every appie tree on a farm that does not bear merchantable fruit should be grafted, and grafted this very fpring. 'Trocrastinitlon is the thief of time," and there is no use ia patting off" grafting from year to year, and gv.herins a bushel or so of inferior cider-apples from a tree which should produce two or three barrels of Ualdwins or russets, or some other kind of fruit which has a valu?. When an orchard is not cultivated the eo'l aiound fruit trees should be freshened up with a dipping fork, not dag deeply win a spade, so as to ruin the root3, and a mulch or top-dressin of good rich com post applied. 1 f the soil aroand the trunks of fruit trees is stirred up frequently the insects which have wintered in it will be turned up and destroyed by exposure to the weather. How Good Hatter U Made. Judge M. K. Gray, of Hyegate, X. II., WCÖ ICCC trCZZ'l priz" ?ffe"d y the Mchesttr Mirror for tost tu.l!.r bhon il the Vermont dairy meeting at St. Jonn.' gave his method) feeding and buttermakiEg as follows: Hiscoa are ciie:!y thoroughbred Jersey s, though he ha3 a few high grades. The winter feed i3 coarse fodder, such as corn stalks, wheat, rye, oat, or barley hay fed night and morning, with ordinary English hay at noon. The'coarse fodder ia cut and steamed about two hours ia the morning. The grain i3 equal weights of corn and cob meal and --ran, four iuarts at a meal, morning and night. Waters after feeding in the morning and before feeding at night. from eighteen to twenty live cows are kept. The milk is set in lare open pans, usually thirty-six hours, and at a temperature of o to 70 degrees. Churning is done from two to four times per week, in a dash churn run by horse power. This winter the cream la churned at ;7 degrees. and the butter comes in good condition to handle. Just btfore the butter is ready to separate the horse ia stopped and the churning iiaished cy hand. When finished the butter is rinsed cM in clear water, and a half ounce of salt pr pound sprinkled over it aad worked in. While the butter is being compacted by a lever -hand worker a cloth is used for absorbing the surplus moi3tare. The churning occupies from fifteen minutes to a half hour! If the cream is too thick for proper churninsf ii 13 thlarTil put year"' He madC '' m oundi th"ihe Woodpecker a an Ally. The woodpecker is one of the few bird3 that remain with us during the winter, thoupii it Is hidden in dense forests, so that those who do not get far from the house rarely see it. As it lives during this time on insects burrowin? in trees it is a valuable friend to man. It attacks his insect enemies while they are dormant and unable to escape. This may not seem exactly fair, but the scourge of insects during the season when they are active more than reconciles the farmer to anv advantage that may be taken against them. In the fight apainst insects every means of warfare is fair. Gra4 and Clover Seeding. The fears that grass and clover will be killed by frost if the wed be sown toa early are mo t y imaginsr 7. It very rarely happets that even clover is injured by froi though the growing plant is extremely tender. I sown when frost is oa tha ground, cloyer seeds are, of cours dormant until 1. thaws, when they are slightly covered by. the mud that lies on a newlvt hawed surface. This protects the see!s from the dirtct rays of tbe sun, and it will rot sprout until the soil Is warm enough for roots to strike into. If it fall3 on a hard, dry surface, the seeds swell with the moisture of rains and contracts when a cold day stop growth, but without serious injury. This may occur several times with iJarch-sown clover seed, and, after all, tbe young plant will be found in May only Bllirhtly, if any, larger than that sown the middle of A prit. , Destroying Canker Worin. The female of the canker worm has not the power of Hying, and can only reach the extremities of the limbs oa which she deposits her eng3 by crawling up the trunk. They begin this with the first warm days of fprirg, weeks before buds andleavei are ready to put forth. It U quite common lor them to do this while tne nights are cold enough to harden tar in vessels around the tree intended to obstruct their protress. Thia old method has therefore given

way to spraying the trees with water in which London purple or Taris green has been dissolved, thus killing the worms after they begin to eat. It requires very little poison to do this, two teaspoonfuls of poison to a barrel of water being sufficient. Too strong a dose might born the apple leaves, which when young are very tender. Seeding for Grass. Hon. James Wilson, of Iowa, gives the following hints in regard to early spring seeding of grass lands: Just as soon as the snow Is gone after the 1st of ilarch sow grass-seed, if the frost is two inches out of the ground, so that you can harrow. Never wait for spring plowing. Grass-seed may sprout on spring plowing, but a light drought will kill the young plants. We seed down mostly in Iowa our corn-stalk ground. If the spring comes in March the grass seed may be sown with the oats, or barley, or spring wheat, but If the spring is late and the ground is not fit for the grain seed, eow the grass-seed anyway. We never knew a failure after early seeding, and have known many after late seeding. It is perfectly safe to sow the gra33setd first and harrow it over once if the spring is late; then sow tbe grain and harrow all thoroughly. This is not a common practice, but is recommended when the spring is late. The grass seed must be sown before the ground dries out. For hay timothy is best, but it is risky to sow it alone. In dry seasons it will be light, lied clover is a sure plant In Iowa.- For pastures sow all the grasses you can get excepting red-top. Some have cattle who leave red-top alone, and we saw it standing in tults iast year during the drought when other grasses were eaten close. Sjw liberally. Fcr a pasture put on a bushel of timothy on six acres and a bushel of red clover on the same six acrs. We have put a bushel of each on four acres, and hava seen many farmers put the same amount on ten acres. Much depends oa the condition of the land. Rich soils in good condition require less-seed of any kind, as the plant stools out more. Add two pounds each of blue-grass and white clover an acre for pastures, and on low lands as much al&ike clover. Thorough teeding is expensive. We should grow seedj Instead of buying them. Good pastures are found on the driest lands. Mammoth clover will grow in very wet sloughs. Blue-gra33 will grow on all lands where water does not sit.

Food Preservatives. All the merit3 that are claimed for boracic acid as a preservative may be conceded, but the fact will remain that food treated with antiseptics cf any kind must be less digestible than it was before treatment. Even salted menls are no exception. The reason Is obvious. The function of an antisfptic it to arrest chemical charge or organic disintegration. The food undergoes taeh change in the process of digestion, and this process ia interfered with when the stomach and Its fluids have t" light against the preservative action of the antiseptics introduced with the food. To a healthy stomach this may be but a slight, if any, detriment; but if the digestive powers are weak, or if there is a predisposition to dyspepsia, especially In the sedentary, ihe use of chem-icallj-preservid food is a matJ er requiring caution. To render f .od digestible it is sometimes found requisite U. promote raihf r than to retard che ta ical change. To this end game and other meats are kept for several days as long, indeed, as this may safely be clone without inducing actual putrefaction, bread is kept till it is stale, fruit is stored that it may become more ripe than that pulled from tte tre, and most foods are mechanically disintegrated to allow the digestive Uuids to act quickly and energetically. The chemical antiseptics act in an opposite direction. It Tas at one time tuppoaed that salt piomoted digestion W supplying the gastric j alee witii hydro : iloric -"M; bat even if this were so, the quantity of salt required for this reaction would be suffi cient for preserving purposes. The prejudice against the uj or chemical antiseptics is well founded, and should be respected. l'uo.l and Milk Production. Among the valuable experiments bein made at Kothamstead, not the least important, says a London paper, ia that as to the extent the milk 01 a cow can be inCreased in yield by a proper regulation of diet, and as to how far the employment of purchased foods or those of a costly nature tuch as oil-cake or corn meal is to be recommended as economical. S.'r J. U. I.awes has published a paper on the-.e eiperThictt?, "wnivw, !illPlJh it ony torches the fricge cf so niohientctii all inquire, is still pre-eminently worthy & attentU-.-It arrears that the rule it "ötüam3teadhas I een tlat every cow which during one wttk Lad yielded from tirentyeht pounds to thirty pounds of miik per day should receive duiing the followiug wee four pounds of decorticated cotton-cake pr day, and that subsequently for each tsvo pounds per day increase or decrease in the milk yield, the cake should be increased or reduced a quarter of a pound. Interesurg illustrations of this treatment are given. One cow called Sally vitlded 1,012 gallons between calving and dryness. In the third wetk after calving her yield was four aud one-half gallons per day. At thirteen weeks after carving she Lad cot declined two pounds in her weekly yield, and even after giving miik twentysix weeks the miik record showed fortyone pounds for a week. Although as much as forty-five pounds of cake was given in one week the total amount was only one and three quarter pounds to each gallon of milk. "Io this instance," remarked Sir John, ' there appears to be evidence that the ordinary faikcg-oil in yield was considerably retarded by the increased amount of ake WllSSmcä" J.b? Chief point insisted on. however, is tnat a CSÜstaeraoic ecotomy in the use of purchased f J0J3. may be effected by regulating It la accordance with the milk proJaccJ, aad Sir J. Ii. La es concludes Lis paper with the remark that ia a dairy where at the same time some cows may be yielding fifty or sixty pounds of milk per day and others not more tbbn ten or fifteen pound3 per day there nint necessarily be a great waste of food as well as a lcs3 of milk, the ordinary system of prouiistu jus feeding being adhered to. HOLaKHOLO HINTS. Soft Ginger Cake One cup of molasses, one of sour cream, two eggs, one teaspoonful of soda, oi;e of ginger. Mix rather thin. onge Cake. One cup of sugar, one cup Hour, two eges, one half teaspoonful sod. If you take sweet cream tartar, llavor with lemon. üeef Croqu?ttes. Chop faie some cold beef; beat two eggs and mix with the meat, and add a little milk, melted butter, a little salt and pepper, ilake into rolls and fry brown. S'jnath Pie. One pint of squash, one level ttarupfnl of bolted Indian meal, one quart of milk, hrlf a teacupful of suear, talt and spice. Preferred by good cooks even when "eggs are plenty." Kemedy for Doild. The skin of a boiled egg is the most e'heacious remedy for a boil. I'eel it carefully, wst and apply to the part affected. It will draw oil" the matter aud relieve the soreness in a few hours. Soft Gingerbread Without E,'gs. Six oups of flour, three cups of molasses, one cup of butter, one tablespoonful of ginger and three teaspoonfuls of saleratus dissolved in milk. Beat well and bake in a quick oven in square tin pans. One cup of butter is sudicient, but two cups are better. Egg Salad. Coil six egshard and throw them into cold water to prevent their blackening; shell and slioe crosswise with a sharp knife, taking care not to break tne slices; haye ready two heads of lettuce, carefully washed In Ice water and dried

between two cloths; select the crisptst and freshest leave?, arrange them on a platter and lay the sliced of egg upon them; place a border of the smaller light-colored leaves around the dish; pour a little of the mayonnaise dressing over the egg and let the rest be passed in a bowl or pitcher. Mucilage. Take a quarter pound of gum arabic; put it in a bottle with half a pint of water; stir occasionally; next day it will be fit tor use; to keep this for a long time without becoming sour or mouldy, add to tl e above quantity a teaspoonful of glycerine ana two or three drops of oil of cloves. No-Egg Cake Eeat one cup of sugar into a piece of shortening as large as a good-sized egg, "until it creams." Dissolve one teaspoonfp.1 cf saleratus into one cup of sour milk; one cup of any kind of fruit or one cup of a mixture of citron, raisins and currants, a teaspoonful of mixed spicej and two ond one half cups of flour. Damp Clothes. There is great danger in wearing damp clothes, because when a liquid passes into a state of vapor there is great absorption of heat. In the animal economy heat is generated in the system and given out by the body. If the clothes are damp, this heatisabstra:ted faster than a new supply is formed by the process of respiration and the result is what is termed a cold. Virginia Sally Lunn. One pint of flour, four eggs, half a cup melted butter, one cup of warm water, four tablespoons of yeast, one teaspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of soda, dissolved ia hot water. Beat the epgstoastiif froth, add the milk, water, butter, soda and salt; etir In the Hour to a smooth batter, and beat the yeast in well. Set to raise in a buttered puddiDg-dlsh, In which it must be baked and sent to tatde. It will not be light under six hours. Bake steadily three-quarters of aa hour, or until a straw thrust into it comes up clean. Eat while hot. Arrangement of Rooms. Give Nyour apartment expression character. Rooms that mean nothiBg are cheerless, indeed. Study light and shade, the combinatioa arrangement of drapery, furniture and pictures. Allow nothing to look isolated, but let everything present have aa Rir of sociability. Observe a room immediately after a number of persons have left it, and then as you arrange the furniture, disturb as little as possible the relative positions of chairs, ottomans and sofas. Place two or three chairs in a conversational attitude in. Eome cheery corner, an ottaraan within easy distance of a sofa, a chair near your stand of a sterescopic views of engravings, and one where a good light will fall on the book you may reach from tb.9 table. Make little studies of eflect which shall repay the acre than usual observer, and do not leave It possible for one to make the criticitm which applies to so many homes even of wealth and elegance ' fiiie carpets, handsome furniture, a few pictures and elegant nothing?, hut how dreary." 'The chiiliDg atmosphere is felt at or.ee, and we can not divest ourselves of the idea that we nust maintain a stiff and severe ciemeanor to accord with the spirit of the place. Make your homes, then, so cosy and cheerful that if we visit yoa we may be joyous and unrestrained, and not feel ourselves out of harmony with oar surroundings. FiKM NOTES.

Cows that kick or draw milk from their udders should be sent to the butch'.r. Remedies to prevent sich vices are notoaly useless as permanent cures, but also troublesome to apply. When sheep are hurdled on smijl areas it should not be overlooked that ia additioa to the profit they may give the animals distribute the manure evenly, pressing it into the soil witn their hoofs, which is quite an Item if the expense of hauling manure he considered. Whenever sheep are aillic'ed with tick, or other animals with vermin, it indicates a low condition of the system, caused either by the vermin in the first place or by improper feedir.t,' The better the condition of the animals the less liability to atfack. They will not improve until relieved, and the longer this be delayed the more difficult it will become. The deeper the preparation of the soil the deeper will the roots penetrate, thus advancing closer to moisture, as well as permitting of th8 growth of a large proportion of those rcotiDgsthat collect fooJ. If the soil be shallow and the subsoil hard the rcots will spread nearer the surface, thus rendering them not only more liable to being winter killed, but aiso to damage from drought. 0 The supposition that yoürg sows are better for breeding purposes than those two cr three years old has done much to Impair the vigor of swine. The custom of uiing young sows grew out cf the loss of youcg pig9 by pressure from the heavy dams, tut a large breeding sow should not he fat and heavy. A sow over two year3 old will give more railk than a younger one, and, as a rule, she will produce stronger pigs. The reason poultry killed at home, though young, is not tender as that bought at the market, is that the former is generally not killed until wanted, and when eaten is still rigid with death, while that bought at the poulterer's has been killed at least hours more often days. Poultry onght to be killed several days before being eaten, dressed at once, and, with a few bitä of charcoal in it, hung in a cool place. The Lereditary law of the transmission of vigor and health holds as strongly in the vegetable aa in the animal kingdom, according to experiment. E. S. Golf selected seeds from a feeble tomato plant, and also from a healthy plant of the same variety. A row of feeble plants and a row of healthy plants were the result. Successive exoariments showed the same dif?erencet S?Sl3 Xloui t"n Tmmature or green tomato produced feeble plants. A lamb that is found on a rainy mora ing nearly dead with cold should be taken at once into a warm room and put into a hot bath. Have the water at 'J3 degrees-! ano put the little thicg all under except ita head. It should be kept there till thoroughly warmed through, then fed a couple of spoonfuls of new milk aud rubbed dry and chafed till the least dampness has disappeaied. It is surprising bow quickly this will revive a lamb that seems past help. The easiest and surest way to destroy Canada thistles ia to give an absolute sum mer fallow, by which bo gieen thing i3 allowed to appear above the surface. Shallow plowing once in two weeks daring one season's growth will do this. If there be rocks. 6tumps, etc., all time places must ba hoed thoroughly at each plowing. If the remaining weak roots should send up tops the next season, a thorough cultivation ia corn will kill out those remaining. The prevention of any green plant from making leaves for one whole season will totally eradicate it. It is proposed that milk should be frozen Into blocks to be exported from Xew Zealand, to what country is not suggested; but It certainly would not pay to ship frozen milk to Europe. It appears that so much capital is being invested in cheese and butter factories ia tbe colony that there is some fear of overproduction. Asparagus seeds should be sown as early as tbe soil can be worked. One ounce of seed will serve to sow fifty feet of drilL The difference between sowing seeds and planting roots is simply that one has to wait a year longer for ha asparauif raised from seed than from, roots or three years instead of two. Kesta for setting hens are best on the ground, but where this is not feasible put some clean, moist soil m the bottom of the nests. A good plan is to cut a sod of suitable size, turn it over in your box, and peck so as to be of a concave shape in the center; then cover the earth with straw broken short. In very cold weather mix a good proportion of feathers In the neat

linics chicken feathers may be saved for the purpose and put a spoonful of sul phur in when the hen is set The heat of the fowls causes the fumes to penetrate every part of their bodies, thereby killing all vermin and leaving the brood cleaa and healthy. Never set eggs laid near the close of the season when the. hens have been very prolific, aa they will produce weakly chicks, liable to disease and early death. In arranging nests remember that the nature of fowls is to hide their nest3 under a brash heap or some out of-the-way place, and humor this habit by providing nests to sheltered or hidden that they seem to ofler seclu&kn and quiet. The movement of English farmers to dispense with middlemen in supplyin- customers appears to be meeting with excellent success. Many farmers now have regular town customers for all the eggs, fowls, butter and cheese they caa prodace. A writer in an Eastern paper enumerates the following advantages and disadvantages of mulching orchards, which every owner should consider and decide for himself, and not follsw blindly the recommendations of others. The advantages are: (I) Protecting the surface from drying; (2) preventing crusting; (3) preventing alternate freezing and thawing; (4) securing the roots from disturbance; (5) repressing weeds; (C) adding to fertility. The drawbacks are: (1) The cost; (2) harboring mice; (3) danger of fire sweeping through. George Campbell, of Ohio, who lives in a region o? rather severe winters, says that he is conviiced that, taking one year with another, no work done in the vineyard would yield a larger return than that of pruning the vines as early as possible in autumn after the leaves have fallen, and then laying the vines upen the ground. Where there is enough snow to cover them during the coldest weather, it aHords perfect protection, with a great increase of the crop; in the absence of snow, earth will sutiice. But prostrating the vines without covering aCords considerable protection. P. 31. Augur, Connecticut pomologist, offers some good suggestions in a puper presented to the Board of Agriculture of that State. He strongly recommends the practice of moderation in the early years of peach-bearing, to be followed alter maturity with very generous treatment. Never allow an orchard to bear a breaking crop. A moderate one cf large peaches will sell fcr more than a heavier one of small peaches, besides being less exhausting. Thinning by cutting back helps by reducing the blossoms, tie applied GuJ pounds of fish and potash to the acre for btrawberries between the peach rows. The fruit was equal to any peaches he ever had. Four thousand baskets of choice p?aches went into Meriden from within six miles of that market, ranging in net prices from 75 cents to $2 a basket, while 2 j to 50 cents was about all they realized in Delaware. The production of maple sugar in Vermont this Tear promises to be much les3 than the average yield of former seasons. The State annually produces about 11,000,C'OO pounds, but the lateness of the season and prevailing climate conditions make the prospect of a good sugar crop rather poor. The great depth of snow everywhere is likely to prove a hicderance to sugarmaking, while tbe fuct; that there is little frost in the ground precludes a great Mow of sap. In s'jioe places the suar-houäes will not be opened at all, while m other sections farmers will not tap their fall complement of trees. The enow in the woods in many sections is still from live to seven feet deep. All accounts agree that tLis has been the severest winter lor many years. The first snow-storm occurred about the middle of November, since which time the sleighing Las been continuous throughout the greater portioa of the State. The i-ae for investing in American cattle ranches which set in a few years ago has proved unfortunate to many people ia Great Britain, and especially in Scotland. The Swan Lsnd and Cattle Company, with an authorized capital of 900,000, wi:l, according to the North British Agriculturist, have to declare a loss of 27.112X 17 ihillings e; pence on the pat year's operations, at .the annual meeting to be held this week, he Trairie Cattle Company, which also ias its headquarters in Scotland, has declared a loss of 2, SOD oa the past year. With a diminishing area for cattle and an increasing population, there seems no reason why breeding in America should not pay in the future, but heavy losses will have to be written off by all, or nearly al l, the ranch companies before they will be able to show any profits, as they bought at a period of ir.il a Uon. A HUSBAND S CRIME.

A Colored Man Marders Ills Wire and Then Attempts to Burn the llody. Montgomery, Ala., April 1. Particulars of a horrible crime have just come to light. last Tuesday morning Tarleton Steele (colored) murdered his wife near Ada, in this county. He took the body and carried it ofl to a lonely place in the woods, a mile from home, threw it in a gully, piled trash and straw oa it, then poured kerosene oil on the heap and set lire to it. Ha then returned heme and left the body to be cremated. The gentleman oa whose place he was living miss3d the worran, but said nothing about it, and the murderer remained on the place a day and night after the crime was committed. Wednesday he went back to the woods and found that the body tad not been entirely burned up. He piled trah on the remains, but having no match to start the fire again, he fled. Suspicion had been aroused, aud neighbors searched the woods and found the remaining portions of the body. The murderer was captured ten mil's distant at suadown, and brought to this city and lodged in jail. He made r. fall confession of th9 terrible deed. SIoooaMoers C:ptnred. Pise Bluff, Ark.. April 1. United States Deputy Marshal II. N. Faulkeaberg brought in to-day John Mclvinney, Will'am McKinney and A. D. Chindler, three moonshiner?, who bal been ruaning for twelve months a still-housa la a tecluded part of Grant County. The establishment had a capacity of manufacturing sixty gallons of corn whisky a day. This is the first violation of the revenue law or manufacture of whisky ever known in South Arkansas. The prisoners made no attempt to resist orescipe. They were carried to Little Pock to be dealt with by the Federal Court. Ki Secretary Manning Health. New Yoi:k, April 1. A Washington special to the Post says: ' A gentleman ia this city who has rad especial reason t) interest himself in the condition of ex-Secretary Manning's health has received personal advices from England confirming the worat reports yet published. His informant aseerti thatthe ex Secretary is not only not improved by his voyage, but is decidedly worse to-day than lie was before he eai.ed, worse even than when be landed ;n England His friends have l.ttie hope of his recovery." A gentleman well known and largely engaged in the drug trade remarked: "Fond's Extract is a priceless remedy for piles. I had been fifteen years a martyr to them. I suffered everything but death. I tried all the most celebrated doctors; and look here!" said he, as he opened a closet containing hundreds of empty bottles and boxes. "I took, and applied all that cupboard of trash without benefit. Nothing helped me until I found Pond's Extract, and that cured me. I have now been well for years, but I keep that closetf ul of all the old bottles to show how much a man may süßer and take." Caution. rond's Extract has been imitated. The genuine has the wordj "Pond's Eztraci" blown In the glass, and our picture trade-mark on surrounding buff wrapper. None other is genuine. Always Insit;on having Tond's Extract. Take no Other preparation. It is ncyer sold in bulk or by measure.

MORA'S CLÄIM AGAINST CUBA.

Tbe Claimant Will Receive an Immense Sam of Money. New York Sun. The papers In the Mora claim, which has recently been allowed by the Spanish Government, form a small library by themselves in the State Department, writes cur Washington correspondent. The briefs of the lawyers 11 two thick boots of something like eight Lurdred piges. The diplomatic correspondence in regard to the claim runs through twenty volumes. Tbe whole story is a romance in facts. There is only one claimant Antonio Maximo Mora, of New York, now seventynine years old. He was eldest of a family of nine children, and was by consent of all the manager of the family estates. These consisted of a sugar plantation in Cuba, called "La Australia ;f' another, the "San Joaquin," and a valuable warehouse and dock rrcperty, the Almacenes de Ganuza. The floras were Cuban?, and had shown strong feeling against tue Spanish Government. They did not conceal their belief that it would be better for Cuba to be annexed to the United States. In 1853 the whole family emigrated to the United States in fecr cf persecution, because some of their people had taken open part in the scheme for annexation. General Goicouria, who married Carlotta Mora, a beautilul sister of Antonfo, wasgarroted at Havana In lb',0 by the Spanish authorities. Antonio and his nephew, Jose Appoloaio Mora, went Into business as sugar merchants at No. C; Beaver street, New York. In the firm became Mora Brothers, Navarro Jc Co., at No. 51 Exchange place. In lb(Jl ti e firm dissolved. In Us day there was no larger or stronger firm in its line of business. In 15 Antonio's mother died, aud the heirs united in placing the family estates In his charge. There were heavy debts, and the creditors came into the agreement. Antonio and his brother Jose Maria (father of a photographer of New York), secured the acceptaatta of a proposition that the Moras should have an indefinite extension of their liabilities if they would pay $70,000 a year cu the indebtedness. This arrangement was several times extended, and in 18ÜS four heirs deeded to Antonio their interest. Antonio made frequent trips to Cuba to look after the business. The Moras were prosperous business men. Antonio acquired considerable property in New York. He owned five houses in East Twenty-third street, held a mortgage of f oO.Oeo on the Odeon Hall in Hoboken, had a large, pleasant home at No. 220 East Twelfth street, and his estates in Cuba yielded large returns over and above the $70,000 which was paid annually oa the debts. In time Antonio's thrifty management of the plantations would have paid oil these liabilities, and the family would have become, as it once was, one of the richest in Cuba. Their looses in the panic of 1S57, amounting in round sum to ?2,OOO.&oO, of which $500.000 was Antonio's, was the cause of their debts. Jose Maria Mora became entangled in the insurrectionist movement of Pf'iS and ISO'). As a consequence, on May 4, 13G9, an embargo was ordered on his property. By mistake the order embraced the property of Antonio also. At this time Antonio owned one-half cf La Australia and Jose the other half. It was estimated to be worth an even million. It contained 2,700 acres. Two-thirds of San Joaquin belonged to Antonio Mora. The other third belonged to his brother, Jose Manuel, and his sister Carlotta. San Joaquin WS worth ? 1,200,000, and contained 2.033 acres. The Ganuza warehouse was Antonio's, and be thought it was worth $150,000. The old suspicion that was felt by the Spanish authorities toward the Mora family became more and more emphatic. Antonio was in New York, and it was decided to seize bis estates, to magnify the charge of disloyalty, and keep the property and use its revenue to prosecute the war against the insurgents. The history of the management of the Mora plantations by Government authorities after the seizure Ehows the corrupt motives of those who instigated it. The court clerks, for taking pohsession of the books and papers of the Moras and turning them over to the administrators under the embargo, charged a fee of $10.4.1!. Medicine bills that had been only $1,500 a year on the plantations suddenly became $;,000 a year. Tne legal expenses connected with the management of the property amounted in 1S71 to $21,0U). Not a cent was paid the creditors. In November. 1870, fiifty-ohe Cubans were tried and condemned by court-martial at Havana for sjmdathy with the insurgent cause. Antonio Mora was one of them, and he was sentenced to death. He was in New York. The charge against him was that he wss a member of the Central Republican Junta for Cuba and Porto Itico, and had uttered disloyal sentiments in New York. Vhen Mora took Eteps to oppose this action, through his attorney, in Havana, it was answered that Antonio Mora was dead in la, and could have no civil status. Eenor Mora's defense has been that he was an American citizen. In August, 1S53, he declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and on May 1 1, lsGO, he was formally naturalized. The question of citizenship was gone over at great length before the Spanish cl-ims commission. Mora presented his first memorial to the commission in 1S72, reciting the wrongs done htm and asking judgment for redress. The only practical result was the settlement of two things: That Mora was a citizen of the United States, and that he had not assisted the Cuban junta as an enemy of Spain. The diplomatic correspondence dates from a presentation of the case by Caleb Cashing while Minister to Spain, under instructions from Hamilton Fish, then Secretary of State. Mr. Cushing made a most earnest protest against the injustice done Mora. In one place m his letter to the Spanish Valencia, he said : . ' y "What would your Excellency say if informed that half a dozen respectable Spanish gentlemen, living quietly at their homes on the banks of the Tagus or the Guadalquiver, chiefly occupied, at good and wise men should be, with the care of their wives and children, had been tried for their lives in the United States, ia the lump, without notice, and of course without a hearing, by some low tribunal In one of the-outlying Territories cf the United States, and condemned, in the lump, to death by garrote on some false and trumped-up accusation of having in Spain entertained opinions or spoken words adverse to the Interests of or acceptable to the United States?" On Feb. 0, 1871, Mr. Cushing was notified by the Spanish Minister of Slate that the Government of Alfonso had accepted as sufficiently proven the nationality of Antonio Mora, had resolved to pardon and remit the penalty which was imposed upon him, and command that the confiscation of his property be immediately raised. This order was sent by cable to Havana. The Governor-General of Cuba telegraphed to Mora in New York that he had received it. But when Mora gave a friend in Havana power of attorney to take charge of the estates the Cuban authorities refused to turn them over, and put him or! with a variety of evasive pretexts. Here the matter rested for tome yars. Complaint was renewed by Secretary Evarta, but nothing was accomplished under him. Secretary Frellnghuysen renewed the protest of our Government against the injustice done an American citizen, and was met with the response from the Spanish Government that niw evidence had been found going to show that Mora was an open and active enemy of Spain. This evidence consisted of a lot of books which the janitor of the building at Xos. 50 and 52 Exchange Place, New York, sold for $10 to three detectives employed by the Spanish Consul. The Spanish Government asked that the case be reargued before the Cia'.ms Commission, and this new evidence taken Into consideration. This was done, and it was decided that the books were cot evi

dence. Thev contained a number of entries tending to show that Mora had contributed large suma in 18G9 1 0 the insursent cau?e. They w ere supposed to be copies of the original books of the Cuban junta which met In 1 ooms 31 and 32 at No. 60 Exchange Tlace. The presumption was raised that they were fraudulent. The arbitrator for the United States decided tha' they were not evidence. The arbitrator for Spain held that they were. The umpire gave his decision that ihey were not. Further than this the commission decided nothing, except ;hat it had no jurisdiction in he case. When Mr. Curry was sent to Madrid he took up the case, and it was due mainly to his delicacy, politeness and firmness that success haa finally been attained. He addressed a very brief letter to the Spanish Minister of State, declaring that alt questions of law haw been decided in the matter, and insisting that the matter be settled. So many years have elapsed, and so many changes have been made in the management of the Mora property by the Cuban authorities, that their restoration to their rightful owner would not be justice, and the Spanish Government has assented to paying the claim in cash. The total cmount of the claim due Antonio Mora alone is $2,51G,5i2. The greater portion of the total amount of the claim consists of the proceeds of the property while in the hands of the Cuban authorities. Nothing has yet been learned by Secretary Bayard as to the exact time in which the claim will be paid, but it will be paid directly to Mr. Curry by a bill of exchange oa Loadon. which In due time will be received by Mr. Bayard, who will pay it to Sen or Mora. WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. JJuslne's ct the Past Month Remarkably Large at Trade Centers. New Youk, April 1. R. G. Dun & Co., in their Weekly Trade lleview say: With ttree inches of snow in Virginia, roads in nany sections almost impassible, and Canada railroads blockaded by drifts, distribution of products is diihcult. Bat for the extraordinary demand to anticipate the inter-state act and its change of rates, this retarding weather would have been more seriously felt; as it is, dry goods and boot and shoe dealers complain that, from regions buried In snow, small orders come for summer clothing, and deep mud and bad reads in many S;ates arrest movements of products. The business of the past month has been remarkably large, not only at New York and Boston; Chicago reports a phenomenal trade, and other cities as well. Largely this business has been in anticipation of demand for sixty days to came, or more. Hence it is scarcely possible that a noteworthy or unreasonable reaction should be felt. The opinion grows that the inter state act will help the railroads rather than commerce. Its evident tendency is to cause lower charges on local traffic, which is the smaller, and higher charges on the long through traffic, which, for important roads, is the larger. Neither uncertainty nor activity in markets under such circumstances indicates much for the future. Wheat has risen over 1 cent, with sales of 43.000,000 bushels for the week, exports continuing heavy. Corn, oats, oil and pork products, sugar and tea have scarcely changed, with moderate dealings. C'oilee has advanced a quarter. Cattle and wool are weaker, with tin and copper. Cottoa has boomed, with sales of 1,0jS.2O0 bales at New York in six days. Trint cloths are Z.Zd cents, with only PjS.OmO pieces in siht, against 1,584,000 pieces two years ago. Iron is weaker at Philadelphia and Pittsburg. Collapse of coal combination, and higher and fixed rates for transporting coal do not encourage consumers. AVhether bank clearing, outside of New Yoik rasging IS per cent, above last year's, indicate more than a temporary activity can not yet be judged. Bnt the great reduction of rates on Canadian canals lor shipments to Canadian ports, and the attitude of the Grand Trunk toward other trunk lines, foreshadow sharper competition between Canadian and New York forwarding merchants, as other new- arrangements indicate manufacturing development in Canada. The new Mexican tariff promises larger traffic in that direction after July 1. With April settlements over, large amounts of money usually return hither, and this year the amount sent to Boston has been unusual, dividends pavable there reaching $12,002,018, agaiESt $7,Coi,lll last year. Money has ranged from 3 to 8 per cent, for the week, but operations to cause stringency will be increasingly difficult every day unless an unusual outgo of money should set ia, aa in 1SS1, in place of the return customary in April. Failures during the first quarter of 1SS7 were smaller ia number than in IS SC, 1SS3 or lsfcl, but the aggregate of liabilities was larger than last year, not because of a general enlarging of indebtedness, but because a few unusually heavy failures were included. The failures in the last seven days number, for the United States, 100; for Canada, 27; total, 223; compared with 2VJ last week and 2U for the corresponding wtek of last year. CHICAGO BOODLERS IN COURTJ Tlify Give Hail In Sums Kaoglng l'rom 3,000 to 17,000. Chicago, April 1. When Judge Anthony arrived at the door of his court room this morning he could hardly crowd his way In on account of the density of the throng of indicted boodlers pres nt for the purpose of giving bail, and their friends who came early to help them. Sheriff Mattso 1 followed the Judge with a full list of mulcted. It is as follows: George C. Klehm, I', ichael Wasserman, Michael Leyden, J. J. McCarthy, William J. McGarigle, R. S. McClaugnrey, Henry Yarnell, Dan Wren, Adam Ochs, IL M. Oliver, Christian Geils, Christian Casselman, Edward Philip, J. S. HanKigan, John E. Van Pelt, William Harley, J. F. Carpenter, Michael Cootello, H. L. Holland, Auguit Busse, Napoleon Earsaloux, Phillip Kelly, Patrick Mahoney, Loren P. Crane, Joseph Buckley. In the case of Mike Wasserman, the ex-Commissioner, who is indicted on one charge of bribery and two of conspiracy, bail was fixed at $15,000 for the three charges, The boDds given by the other Commissioners and ex-Commissioners on the list were fixed at amounts ranging from $5,000 to $17,000, the latter that of "Buck" McCarthy, whose indictment contains five counts for bribery and conspiracy. Besides the Commissioners, ex-Commisioners and county officials on the indicted list, there are nine contractors and dealers in furniture supplies, etc At 2 p. m. most of them bad secured bail.

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