Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 May 1887 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE BENT1NELC WEDNESDAY .MAY 11 1887. i

SPRING FARM TOPICS

Plisiiig Cera Tea Saon The Poultry Iadu3try Datei Bailed Cattle. Thatched Itoofs Apple Insects Hens ees Oats lioase Hint Farm 'otes Ktc, Etc. KantlnR Corn Too Soon. Practical Farmer. 1 AcccrdiDg to our observations, there is more poor corn grown from planting too early than from late planting. With most seeds, and especially so "with corn, a condition of soil and weather which will cause -the germs to start out quickly and vigorously, and continue right on without any check", will produce the strongest and moat healthy plants those that will yield the largest and best ears and kernels. The first nourishment of the young plant is drawn irotn the parent ki rneL A little moisture and warmth change the starch into soluble sugar, and the other element3 into a suitable condition to be absorbed into the expanding germ. If cold or excessive moisture, or both, soon follow, these materials enter into a fermentation and state ot decay, and become unfit to feed the growing germ. If they do not die out entirely, their progress is slow and sickly, like that of a half-starved young animal fed on inferior food. Few strong rootlets are formed to strikeout and gather moisture from the soil to form the sap, and the tiny leacflts are illy prepared to absorb food elements from the air. In multitudes of cases a second plantin is necessary at a time when the plants do rot get far enou?b along with deep penetrating roots to withstand dry weather; though we have seen numerous instances wLere replanted portions of the fields have outstripped those from seed dropped there a few weeks earlier. "Where there is but moderate rainfall, and the summer season is usually very dry, it is, of course, desirable to get the corn well started as early as it can be done without any serious chill following. If there is a large area to be planted, and help ii scarce, the work may ba done somewhat early, though at risk. The best way is to get the whole ground ready ind begin planting when all condit'ons are most promising and certain. It is too oltsa the rule to make a eM ready and plant it, and then go ahead and prepare the next. Id latitudes 40 to 4li3 we have raised, and seen raised, some of the best crops from fields not planted until about the 1st of June, and some very good corn from seed put in the second week that month. The Poultry Industry. Chicago Kerald.1 The active demand that has been growinz for eggs and poultry chicks baa causal attention to be turned to this branch of farm industry, much to the benedt ot the poultrv and the increase of the products. If in the past there has been a feel'.ng that hens and turkeys were well enough fixed when allowed to tnd percnes or roosting places among the branches of trees, that idea ras become so modilied that now even farmers, who make no pretension to any proies3ional tun in poultry management, provide lor them comfortable housc3. There is no reason why a fowl is not affected by cold as much as any other animal, and as a consequence should require an additional amount of food to maiotiia a normal condition of heat. If thea tb'.i. is unnecessary exposure there must bi greatly increased feeding, or else there is an exhaustion ol fceat forming principles already stored in the body of tne fowl. This condition of things "is avoided if r warm house is provided .with windows and a southern exposure. This fact is becoming so well understood that hen hous?s are dow considered to be an important appendage to every farm. Cut the advantage dce3 cot rest wholly in the saving of feed. It is a recognized fact that hens will not lay in severely cold weathar if they are too much exposed. On the contrary, where there is good shelter, with the sun's rays shining in during the middle cf the day, accompanied with suitable food, eggs may be secured as well in winter as in summer. Neglect in any brancn of farming brings its fruit of disaster, and in this poultry keeping finds no exception. Hens should be comfortably fed with a variety of food, and comfortably warmed. It has en excellent effect upon laying beus to provide them, say once a day, with a rcejs cf corn and oats mixed, that hare been thoroughly heated by soaking in scaldiDg water. Corn meal, scaled and seasoned with red pepper or ginger, also serves a good purpose. Chopped cabbage, apples, etc., are an excellent change of food and productive of benefit to fowls. Broken oyster shell?, old crockery and crushed bones should be reatonably fed, and above all keep a supply of clean water or skimmed milk. Also proTide Eand or ash, both with sulphur mixed, to keep off vermin, and poultry will respond with eggs. Batch Belted Cattle. The Dutch belted cattle, savs Our Country Home, came from Holland, the native home of the Holstein-Frieslan. They are not bred so extensively in Holland, nor in this country, as the latter. They are closely related to the larger Dutch breed, but unlike them the white is all put into one big patch, which extends all around the body from iust behind the shoulders and reaches to the Hanks. The rest o! the body is a cosl black. This blanket of white gives to their cattle a very unique ap- . pearance. They have rich yellow &Uas and are not excelled for hardiness They ae not so large as the Holstein FrlesIans, and are not usually such great milkers. Tha re said to be good batter cows, but not remarkable. The steers make powerful oxen and are queer-looking; one-third ot their length being white and the rest blaci. A herd-book has been established ia the United States and their record begun. In Holland they are the favorites of the aristocracy, and they have been hard to purchase on this account. They were plenty about Middleton, N. Y., a few yetrs ago. Among the oldest importers are P. T. Earnum, Hon. R. W. Colman and D. H. Haight, Goshen, X. Y. So strongly inbred or established m the blood is the pacaliar mark of the belt that half blooded calves will have it and even one-fourth bred, and if the dams are red the white blanket will appear oa a red calf. There will oe a white belt running all around the calf some times, although it may be narrow when there is only a trace of the belted blood in the anlmaL Talae of Thatched IZoor. George R. Hall, of Iowa City, in a communication to the Hestern Farm Journal. writes of thatched roofs as follows: "Ihave one that has been in use for aliiost ten years. When I built it I took red elm for posts, and cottonwood, or rather, quaking ash, poles for ratters, with small poles for cross-pieces to fasten the grass to. It was 42x20 feet at that time. We bound the slough grass in small bundles, and then tied it on with the prm The shed atandj all right yet, and, where the hens have not disturbed it, sbeds rain good. The posts are all rotted off, but the shed stands up plcmb as when buiit, but now we think we have a much quicker way of putting on the roof. We do not bind the grass, but commence the first coarse at the eave, with tha butts down and quite thick, the crospieces on rafters fifteen inches apart. If the grass ia long, spread the gray about four inches the first course, then turn the tope down and spread about thre inches thick, and sew It on wita wool twine, sewing each course as put on; have one man on the roof and one on the outside to put the needle np through; keep the twine drawn tight, and, to get along fast, have ne man to bring nj,the grass and spread

it. We use an iron needle about eight inches long. This is much faster than in

bundles, and 1 thins gets it muca more even, l nave a corn-cno ana a wagon-saea put on this way, and I can pull myself up . i from the eaves to the ridge witnous puuini out a straw. I intend putting up a hay shed and cow stable combined this spring and cover it with elongh grass. The hay shed will be 24x20 feet, IS feet high, and cow stable?, on each side, 12x20 feet. I think a thatched roof is much warmer than shingles or boards, and will last for ten or fifteen years. Since I put up my cow stable, ten years ago, several of my neighbors have put on thatched roofs." Insects of Apple Trees. The codlin moth, the pest of the apple orchard, can be successfullly destroyed, sajs Vick's Magazine, by syringing the trees with paris gieen and water soon after the blossoms have fallen and when the little apples, newly formed, are held erect by their fruit stems, calyx end ud. The moth lays its eggs in the calyx cavity, beginning even before the flower petals have fallen ; the larvie soon hatch out and begin to cut their way into the apple. One application of the poisonou3 mixture is usually sufficient if given very soon after the blossoms fall. One pound of paris green to fifty gallons of water is the proper proportion. The powder will mix better with the water if first wet and stirred into a smooth paste. The liquid can be applied by means of a force pump made for this purpose. Public opinion should shape itself to regard as a misdemeanor the neglect to destroy the codlin moth in this manner by any orchardist or by anyone having apple trees in his garden. The apple aphis can be destroyed by kerosene oil made into an emulsion and mixed with water, the liquid thrown on in a fine soray with a force pump. The materials an 1 1 mplements should be ready beforehand, for this insect comes like a thief in the night, only not singly, but in myriads. Profit In liens. A Connecticut farmer writes the Rural New Yorker: I keep 100 hens. I find that thoroughbred hem will lay more eggs than crossbreds, though they will not grow any fester. Most poultry ailments are due to filth in their food and drink. Soft food will always get more or less dirt in it, as the fowls are sure to track through it. The same food fed dry will never get in such a cordition. I always feed my grain dry. In January I fed 100 pounds of wheat, $1.75; 8 bushels of corn, $3.12; 2 bushels of pctatces, X) cents, and 50 pounds of waste bones, 23 cents. These I eot at a market and pounded them up with 23 cents' worth of shells. Total cost of feed, $7.07. I got SO J 2 dczen esss, which sold at SI ctnta per dozen, or 10 l3 ia all. I call the manure good pay for my time, so that there wa3 a r lear profit of $3 01 for that month. In February I fed 200 pounds of wheat, $.50; 4 bushels of corn, $2.3;; bones, HO cents; shells, 40 cents; 2 bushels of potatoes, GJ CFnts, and 1 bushel of buckwheat. 80 cents. Yield, 72 dczen f ?gs at 23 cents per dwn, 20.10, leaviDg a clear profit of $12 for that short month. The March feed was 1 bushel of OAts. iö cents; 100 pounds cracked corn, $1.13: 200 ponuds of wheat, $3 50; 1 bushel of buckwheat, 80 cents; 2 bushels of corn, $1.2S; 00 pounds of bones, 30 cents; shells. 40ceDts. Yield, 80 )Z dczen of eggs at 22 cents per dczen, $19.03, leaving a tec profit of .11.15. Thus in the first three months of the year, during whi:h many Ibcks "are eatmg thir fcesd9 off," my 100 hens made a net profit of $20.10. Rngines Principles. A man's farm, writes a correspondent of the Germsntown (Pa.) Telegraph, is exactly like -a merchant's store and stock of foods. The merchant deals in a promiscuous lot of merchandise. Once in a while he takes account of stock in hand, and overhauls every kind of good3 he has. As he comes to each sort he looks at the cost and selling marks, and if there is not difference enough between them he savs: "This don't pay; I'll discard it in future." Cat when he comes to an article that does ray, he pays some attention to buying that line of goods and to selling it also. He is able to decide nicely on every article in his whole stock, because he keeps an account of its cost and what it brings, and therefore he knows the profit to a penny. He will have nothing in his stock which will not pay. Now, how does the farmer manage? In the first pkee, he does not know what it ccsta to grow a single article on hi3 farm, therefore does net know whether he makes or loses on it. Two-third3 or threefourths of the thicks he markets is very likely sold at a loss, or at po small a profit that they don't pay. Why is this thus? The farmer don't keep any account of crop?, of raising stock,of butter-making o! eggs, milk, or, in fact, acy thing; therefore he don't know what he makes hia living rem, and if he finds times hard he don't know where to retrench, what to discard, or how to help himEelf. The similarity between the merchant's stock m trade and the farmer's stock in trade is still perfect, but because the merchant 13 a business man be gets rich, and because the farmer is not a business man he half starves. Now, it is not worth while for me to say another word, except that of all the farmers who read this, if there is one who can't see what 1 am driving at, he will neyer be a business man. English Stuck Sales. Among the most successful of pedigree stock sales recently held must be accounted that of Mr. W. Arkwright's Jerseys, which were 'sold by Mr. Thornton, at Sutton Scarsdale, Chesterfield, April 17. Mr. Arkwright hes been very successful as an exhibitor at the Royal and other show yards, and, as it was well known his herd contained very choice material, the sale excited considerable attention. The highest price was made by Young Lady, one of the prize-winners bought by Mr. Matthews for 115 guineas. He also purchased Incognita for 00 guineas, and Scarsdale Belts for 00 guineas. Incognita is said to give seventeen pounds of butter per week when in full profit, and was h. c. at Norwich. Kllburn Maid, but for tbeing now an old cow, would have realized more than G3 guineis, at which figure she was taken by Mr. Parte, of St. Albans, as she won a first royal nrize at Heading and a third royal prize at York. Kingcup, another prize winner, went for 70 guineas to Hon. C. P. Bamphlyde, and the very good average of 13 Is 4i was obtained for eighteen cows and heifers, the addition of five bulls and bull calves only reducing the average to about 41 for each animal. Lord Kllesmere's sale of eighty young pedigree pigs, although not realizing so high an average a3 his autumn sale did. was still not a bad one. considering nearly the whole of the animals were under six months old. The average was 3 7 83, that of the autumn being about 3 lis. and, all things considered, pedigree pig breeding must be deemed a better business than pedigree cattle breeding. Management of Hees. The firet work performed by the bees when the weather permits them to come out of the hive is to clean out the filth and accumulations of the winter. Dead bees are thrown out, and every portion of the hive is put in order for the labor of the coming season. It is very important that the colonies be very large and numerous. A good, strong colony is worth three or four weak ones. The profits from beekeeping depend partly upon the skill of the manager. Bees can not make honey unless they have the honey-prod uclng plants to work upon, and the result depends somewhat upon the season. In thoas sections where fruit-growing is made a specialty the bees have all the work they can do rarlyin the season, but after thi blossoms are gone they often have to rang oyer a large extent of country ia search 0 honey, and this subjects the hive to a los of many of its members. Birds, spiders toads and other enemies play havoc with them, while a mdden shower will some imes destroy a large number before the

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can return to the hive. To make the keep ing of bees a business properly there should be certain crops grown partially for their benefit, such as buckwheat, upon which the bees will work industriously. The red clover would provide an excellent means of honey but for the fact that the flower is too deep for the bees to work in; but ths ordinary white clover, alsike clover and other grasses are put to good service. With the improved hives the bee3 are allowed first to store up the food required for their use in winter, and they are not robbed of the supply, but If they have plenty of blossoms to work on they are provided with extra boxes. This is au excellent mode, 83 the bee-keeper Is compelled t bear the loss instead ot the bees, which indeers him to resort to all available expedients "to provide the bees with something from which to derive honey. The habits of bees must be studied, and they require careful management. Work i3 required to manage them properly, as they can not always be kept with profit unless all the conditions be favorable. The Use of Manure. A correspondent of the Mirror and Farmer says: When I commenced farming for myself some thirteen years ago, i ussd to make a practice of plowing under the manure, but I wai not satisfied with the result, so I commenced to experiment far my own benefit. I found out that twenty loads of manure spread on the top of the furrow and thoroughly worked in the soil was as good as double that, amount plowed under, as it did not eeera to be much benetitnntil it was plowed again and turned on top of the ground and worked In with the soil. Manure plowed under dees not come in contact with grain roots or potatoes, as a general thing. The strength of the manure will not come up to the roots, but if it is spread on top the mo'sture cf the ground and the rain will leach the manure, and it will mix with the soil and will bring extra results. By this method one can plow the land in the fall and haul and apply the manure after the ground is frozen, evf n when the snow ig on the ground, by using sticks so as to tell where you leave off, if it should snow. Manure made in the winter can be hauled before the ground is bare, and by so doing you save lots of time, which with the farmer is money. Seeding With Oats. There is a general belief among farmers that oat3 arc rot so gocd to seed with as other grains. For one reason they are sown later and on poorer land than spring wheat or barley. The oat crop receives less attent'n than any otbar, and its seed is often covered with clods, not mellowed down a3 would be deemed necessary for other grains. It also remains on the ground one to three weeks longer than barley sown at the tame time, and this h'.ter growth comes at the most trying time for youcg clover or timothy. "Tho farmers who feed with oats generally lack faith, and do not lavish their seed so liberally as these who sow other grains. Unless a mm has faith and note m what he is dome it is scarcely possible for him to do anything weii. bow at least a peck of clover seM if Bown alone, or six quarts ot timothy seid is also sown, and seeding with oats will almost certainly be a success. The probab'lity that some grass seed will fail with this crop is snre'y no reason for seeding more sparingly with it than with others. 1IOU3KUOLI) Ii IN TS. tgg uaxes. Lhop hard-DOiied eggs to a mince, mix with mashed potatoes and fry in small cakes to a crisp brown. Imitation Apple Pie. Four teacupfuls of water, six soda crackers, two cup3 ot sugar, juice of two lemons and a rind of one. ew Potatoes. 1 at into a stew-pnu a piece of butter rolled in flour, a gill of cream, pepper, salt, a very little nutmeg, also the juice cf half a lemon ; stir these over the fire until boiling; then add slices of freshly boiled new potatoes, and, after warming teem up in the above sauce, serve very hot. Loin of Veal. This is best larded. Have every' joint thoroughly cut, and between each one lay a slice cf pork. Have ready a hot greased pan. Lay the joint in it, roast a fine brown so that the upper sides of the pork wiil be crisp, and season with pepper; the pork will make it sufficiently salt. Serve with mushroom sauce. Spread fagle Prepare young, tender chickens for cokirc. Cut oil the necks and legs atd split them right through lengthwise from breast to bacc, only leaV' icg just enough to hold the two sides to gether. Spread them out on a board, dry the inside with a cloth, spread tbem over with cold butter, season plentifully with pepper, salt and a littl cayenne, and broil quickly over a clear lire till done, but not so vixxofx dene as 10 be all dried up. tquetze a ürop or two 01 lemon juice over and send to table very hot. Irish Stew Slice come good potatoes rather thi ckly and put a layer of them in a Btew-pan; next slice down some onions, and, if liked, turnips. Make a layer of these, then a layer of mutton (usually the best end of the neck cut into cutlets, though for family use the scrag is also used), rather highly seasoned; fill the pan in this way, finishing up with a layer of potatoes; pour in about a good tumblerful of cold water, and when it boils add the salt. After this it should only stew (not boil) until toe potatoes are done to a regu lar mash. A good-sized dish generally takes from two to two and one-half hours to cook properly. It must be served very hot. FARM NOTES. One hundred pounds of buttermilk has as much nutritive value as twenty pounds oi corn, ana is Detter adapted to young pigs. If three quarters of a pound of boiled tiaxseed or one pound of old stvle linseed oil meal be added to the above quantity of DuttermiiK, the latter will be almost aa nutritious as new milk. Professor T. P. lloberts. of Columbia Col lege, New York, said that he had been aole to get rid of Canada thistles on the college farm by striking a hoe down beneath the plant and lifting the sod enough to put unaer a nanaiui oi coirse salt. This soon kills the plant, and it never starts from the root again. A California paper says: The planting or j gyptian corn Is becoming quite an industry, and is being made very profitable by those who nave undertaken it and s cured good land for the purpose. On the Marcus Ranch, in Sutter County, one thou sand acres are being put In, and men have just commence i planting the seeds. D. J. kertchem ia interested in the crop, and is overseeing the work. No farmer who has a spring or stream of running water on his place should neglect to raise water cress. A bed once started will continue to furnish leaves during a lifetime. As a relish for meat and fish it has no superior. It is also desirable as an ornament lor tne table, it can be propa gated by seed or by division of old plants. The death is announced in New South Walea of the short-horn bull Hillhur&t Oth Duke. He was sired in KDgland by the $15,000 Duchess bull 3d Dnke of Hillhurst, and was calved in quarantine at Melbourne on April lo. ibi'.K ills aam, uazelle 2uth, cost $2,173 in England. Mr. Dangsr, his late owner, gave $2.500 for the calf, and over $15,000 worth of his produce have been sold, while twenty-four head of his sons and grandscna are still on hand, with some forty-five head of his daughters, be sides a good many cows still in call to him In answer to the inquiry, "Which are the most desirable twelve evergreen trees for ornament! plantlDR on small lawns in Western hew York and in similar cli mates?" G. Ellwanger gave the following to tne Horticultural meeting at Rochester last winter: smaii-ieavea hemlock. Col orado blue spruce, glaucous spruce, Nordmans spruce, yenusta juniper, iieevea'

Juniper, stone pine, erect yew, variegated jew, golden arbor-vitro and pyramidal arbor-vitte.

A Kansas farmer states thp.t he kept ground squirrels from eating the corn he planted by soaking it in coal oil. He thinks that it keeps the corn from rotting ia tie ground in a wet season. The experiment of soaking seed corn in oil is certainly worth trying on a small scale. If the oil does not prevent germination, and protects the seed from squirrels, all the seed can be treated with oil next year. The additions of the various kinds of sugar to the rations of cattle foods, with a view to increasing their digestibility and fattenicg power, has been practiced to some extent in this country, and the following fcts must therefore prove of interest: Dr. vt erner, m uermany, lea sheep witn rations containing pure cane sugar and sugar beets. He found that sheep receiving pure sugar developed less rapidly than those fed with sugar beets, and that the f jort wa3 more costly in the former than in the latter case. He therefore recommended against pure sugar and in favor of sugar bsets for lambs. The laying of soft-shelled eggs is an indication either that the hen docs not procure lime enough to form a perfect shell, in which case she should be supplied with oyster shells or bone to supply the lack, or that she has got so far that her digestive powers are weakened, and she can not take up the lime and put it through the process necessary to deposit it upon the egg. The same result may sometimes b9 produced by feeding too much upon eoft food, as dough, unripe grain, or bread. Too much stimulating of the e-rg producing power with ginger, cayenne pepper, or patent egg fool containing these or other spiceä, may also prove a cause at times. At a meeting of the Colorado Horticultural Society Ii. S. Edwards said that cab bage culture promises ts bo one of the moat profitable crops for years to come, and that the South could not raise much cabbage owing to the warmth of th9 climate. There had been shipped from Denver the past season 1.500 barrels ot krout to St. Louis alone. Cabbage raised by irrigation is better for krout because more juicy. V. De Vinney said that cucumber would prove the mo3t profit able. J. fl. Lane thought paranips would ba more remunerative. H. G. Wölfl said that currants paid him at the rate of $100 per acre clear profit. The cash value of an acre of cabbage was placed at from $200 to Mr. A. W. Sias, of Olmsted County, Minnesota, recommeEd3 the following va rieties of evergreens for screens and shelter belts: Norway spruce, white pine, hemlock, spruce, white spruce, Scotch pine. He names .Norway Bpruce iirst because it is capable of resisting a stronger wind than either of the others mentioned, unless it is white spruce, and that is too small. The Norway spruce has a more fibrous root tnan the others, Lence there is less loss in planting. White spruce is indigenous to Southern Minnesota, he having found it in Fillmore County. A specimen plant by Mr. M. J. Hoae, Rochester, in 1870, is no nearly nineteen feet high, very dense and perfect in every particular. Ssotch pine is open headed and crooked in growth, but grows rapidly. It ia often necessary to make excavations for pipes in very- cold weather, under which conditions the operation is tiitlicult. The trouble due to frost can only be reme died by thawing out the surface. A scien tific pBper says that quicklime has been tried with success. The surface where the excavation is to begin is covered with alternate lav era of lime and snow. The lime becomes slaked and heats the soil so effectually that after ten or fifteen hours it can be"dug up with tha greatest e&ic, even wtere the cold is excessive. Is goes without saying that where there is no snow water can be used. This makes the proce33 a little more "complicated, but is just as etlicacious. As in the generality of cases urgency exists, the digging np of pipes beiDg necessitated by some case of repairs, this method Is restricted in its application to those cases in which the delay of a day or a night is not inadmissible. THE WRECK OF THE TASMANIA. Divers Boslly Engaged In Recovering Her Cargo A Jewel liox. Iosdok, May T.Advices from Ajaccio state that divers have succeeded in reach ing (he wreck of the Steamer Tasmania, of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi gation Company's line, which was stranded and wrecked on the Monacal rocks, south of Corsica, on April 18, while en route to Marseilles from Bombay, and are busily engaged in recovering the cargo. The Maharajah of Jadhpore was a passenger on the Tasmania as far as fc'iuz. There he disembarked, but he left six boxes of jewels aboard in the captain's ioom and custody, the Maharajah intending to get them when he reached Marseilles. The captain went down with his ship along with two officers and twenty-two stokers who remained with him helping to save the passengers, lbd in num ber, all of whom were landed. The jewels were deemed by their owner worth $200,0Co, and this amount the Maharajah of Jadhpore demands of the company. DOSED WITH ROUGH ON RATS Horrible Tragedy at a Farm Ilouse Near Grand Itaplds, Mich. Gbakd 'Eanes. Mich., May 3 A horri ble tregedy occurred at a farm housa two miles south of the city last night. Charles Martin, a young farmer twentv-eight years old, has not lived happily with his wife, and she has threatened to end her exist ence. Last night while her husband was temporarily absent she gave "Hough on Pats" to their two young children and then swallowed a dose herself. It was late at night before a discovery of the crime was made, jnd the oldest child died before antidotes could be administered. The mother and the other child were in a precarious condition at last accounts. LaterThe mother died this morning in terrible ageny. It is thought the baby will recover. Instantly Killed. Chicago, May 3. Seth M. Murdough. manager of the Boston Oyster House, fell from the roof of the building, corner of Clark and Madison streets, in which the retaurant is situated, about 2 o'clock this afternoon and was Instantly killed, the body beiDg horribly mangled. Murdough was supposed tobave gone to the roof to examine a pipe, and a few minutes later his body fell to the sidewalk. On going to the rool a pistol with one chamber empty and a large clot of blood, about a foot in diameter, was found a short distance from the edge of the building. There were also prints of a hand wet with Mood along the roof reaching to the edge. Whether or not the deceased committed suicide is not known. One theory Is that he was followed to the roof by some one and killed, but the view is taken by the Coroner that it was a case of suicide. Inspecting; the Monitors. WAsniMjoN, May 7. The Nayal Inspection Hoard has returned from a visit of inspection to the seven monitors at City Point, They are found to be all in excellent condition ; four of them, the Wyandotte, Catsklll, Lehigh and Ajax, being ready for active service, and three, the Mahopaca, Manhattan and Canoniccs, being suitable for harbor defense. Stashed With a File." yAsnr a, N. H.f May 3. News has reached here from the Wilton County House of Correction that one of the inmates, in a fit of rage, attacked one of the officers Monday afternoon with a file, stabbing him In the region of the heart, making a probably fatal wound. The trouble is said to bare aroae from a dispute between the prisoners and the officers,

GEN. ROSSER TO QEN. SHERIDAN

Does Little Phil Contemplate a Triumphant lUde Up the Shenandoah? Special to the World. "Wischester, Va., May 3. The following letter from General Ilosser will arpear in the Winchester Times to-morrow: ."Unitekhty of Vikgisia, May 2, 1SST. '.Major Holmes Conrad Winchester, Va.: "My Dear Major I have seen it reported recently in the newspapers that General P. H. Sheridan, U. 8. A., contemplates at en early day another ride up the Shenandoah Valley. I had hoped that our beautiful valley should never again be desecrated by his footprints. Cold, cruel and brutal must be the character of this soldier who fondly cherishes memories of the wild, wanton waste and desolation which his barbarous torch Bpread through the valley, laying in ashes the beautiful and happy homes of innocent women, ycung ana neipiess cniiaren ana age a men and whoever these ruins boasted, so that now a crow can not fly over this valley without carrying its rations. 'General Sheridan has done nothing since the war to attone for his cruel barbarism during the war. We have not forgotten that during his reign in New Orleans he asked that our fellow citizens of Louisiana might be proclaimed banditti in order that he might set the dogs of, war on them. I have forgiven the brave men of the Union aimies whom I met in honorable battle, and who finally triumphed over us in the great struggle. Among them I can now name many of my warmest and truest and most prized friends. They are good and true to me, and think none the less of us for having fought them. Indeed, they esteem him highest amongst us who fought them the hardest. Sheridan is cot one of this kind, and he has never accorded to us that peace which Grant proclaimed. I now say to you, my dear Major, and to our gallant comrades who are now in the valley, that I hope you will allow this mac to make his triumphant ride up the valley in peace, but have him go like the miserable crow, carrying his rations with him. Yours truly, 'Thomas L. Eopser." A DRUJJKEN HUSBAND'S DEED. lie Mörders His Wife and Tats a Ballet Through His Own Itraln. Watertowk, N. Y., May 3. A horrible trgedy occurred last evening atricholville, St. Lawrence County. Charles Mor row, a resident of that village, came home intoxicated, and at the supper table began abusing his wife. This was no uncommon thing, as Morrow, when drunk, was vio lently and unjustly jealous of his wife, and bad made her life a burden by beatin and abusing her mo3t outragecuslv during the past few months. Many times lately Mia. Morrow has been obliged to leave her four small children with her brute of a husband and fly to the neighbors for safety, because he thieatened to take her life. List night she again lied from tne house, fearing vio lence. Her husoand lollowea her out on the street and drawing a revolver shot her in the back cf the neck as she ran. He then placed the revolver to his head and put a bullet through his brain. Mrs. Mor row died within an hour. Her husband died several hours later. EAItTHQUAKE AT TLCiOX, ARIZONA. IheKntlre Population riee to the Streets of the City Buildings Damaged. Trcsox, Ariz., May 4. An earthquake occurred here at 'l:z p. m. yesterday. 2o cce was injured, but considerable damage was done to buildings. Good3 were thrown from the shelves of stores and many houses were cracked. The shook was accompanied by a rumbling sound. Many clocks stopped In the city, and the entire popu lation fled to the streets terror-stricken. The court-house cupola swayed like the masts of a ship in a turbulent sea, and the building seemed as though it were toppling over. hen the shock struck Santa Cantal'na Mountain great slices of the moun tain were torn from its side and thrown to its base. Vast clouds of dust rose above its crest, 7,000 feet above the sea-level, at three different points, from three to four miles apart. It was believed for EOme time that a volcano had burst out. The crest of the mountain, one towering peak known as Old Castle, a prominent land mark from Tucson, has entirely disap peared. The extent of the damage can not be told for several days. This was the first earthquake ever experienced in Tucson. The public school buildings rocked to and fro like a cradle, and some of the plaster ing fell, creating the utmost consternation among the scholars. School was at once dismissed for fear of a repetitioa of the shock. It lasted, according to a gentleman who timed it, just four minutes. One or two slight vibrations have since been felt. The movement of the tremor was northwest. Shortly after the earthquake a vol cano broke out twenty-two miles south of this place in the Total Wreck Mountains. The Bky is brilliantly illuminated. GREAT EXCITEMENT AT BENSOX. One Bevere Shock Followed by Miner Ones Far Into the Xlght. Bessos. Ariz., ilay 4. A sensation was "SÜd !L?'vi r Je.Ä7J! severe earthquake, .inner snoccs were felt at intervairls far into the night. Great excitement prevailed, and everybody rushed from their places of business and homes. A Southern 1'acihc engine on a turn-table was moved backward and for ward with brakes set. A party iust In frcm the vicinity of the Sappedro Kiver re ports the ground aa opening about six inches and water rising in places that were before perfectly dry. Smoke was noticed about 5 o'clock, which appeared in the neighborhood of the Whetstone Mountains, eight miles from here. Borne say it is a volcanic eruption, and as nothing of that character has ever been known in this region the greatest surprise and curiosity exists. Several buildings in the city were materially damaged by serious cracks, and the losses are estimated on each at from $200 to $1.000. The volcanic eruption is pronounced gen uine from Whetatoce Mountain. Tatties who came on the train last night report that fire was seen coming forth from that mountain, and lava and smoke can ba seen from the streets of Benson, nearly twenty miles from the disturbance. No one has vet personally inspected the marvellous discovery, but parties are arranging to go there in conveyances when the particulars can be learned at first it was thought to be woods on fire, but the constancy of the burning and its appearance at night indi cated that it is a volcano caused by the earthquake yesterday. Another volcano is said to be in existence in Cataling Mountains. Smoke is now pouring forth from whetstones. Au thentic news this moment comes from Wilcox that another volcano has made its appearance in tbe Winchester Mountain, about forty-five miles from here. Six dis tinct shocks of earthquake have been felt here since this morning. How Mansfield Will Play "Jekyll-Hyde." Boston Letter to Proyldence Journal.1 The dramatic event for which wa are waitiDg, however, is the production by Itichard Mansfield of T. It. ßallivan's dramatization of "Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Mr. Stevenson, by the way, says tho first of these names is to be pronounced Je-kylL, a rendering quite in accordance with the approved English fashion of always pronouncing a proper name the way that nobody could have expected from seeing it spelled. Mr. Sullivan, who is a clever and experienced dramatist, has done a very clever piece of work In this play. By introducing a girl to whom MDr. Jekyll" is betrothed and whose father is the gentleman Wantonly killed by "Mr. Hyde" in a fit of murderous madness, he introduces the element of love, which is wholly wantlog in the novel, and which adds Immeas-

urably to the dramatic interest of tie work. The transformations from "Mr. Hyde" to "Dr. Jekyll," and in the last act from "Dr. Jekyll" to "Mr. Hyde," take place ia full view of the audience, a fact which shows what a task Mr. Mansfield has ua-. dertaken. I think I am not indiscreet in saying that as Mr. Sallivan firet wrote the fdece it was cleverly managed to have the atter metamorphosis cf course the more

aimcuii oi ice two tase place oemna a curtain. The actor, however, felt himself equal to dispensing with this device, and the scene was in this particular rewritten accoroing to nis wish. A WATCH AND A WOMAN. BY F. sr. A watchand a woman are strangely akin I To prove what I say I'll quirkly begin. She's nicely adjusted to heat and to cold. i o win ner, be mocest yet fcuUiciently bold. Whea her mainspring is love, she's true aa the sieei That maVes the cog ueefnl to povern the wheel. Your gold is aUoyed. she has ihe true ring, f tbe metal, unmixt with a spurious thing. vn uuucaie lorm noi maae to oe snaiten: If you think t'will help her, you're greatly mistaken. The jewels she has are her virtue and truth, uems mat aon t tarnish like poor lleeting youth. Her bands are quite slender, but point with reproach, When "late at lodge" you roll home in a coach. iwn taoit! her lace will toon be bright As a star peeping through tbe curtain of night. Never let her run down, in spirits or health, Think of her always as a partcf yourself. Do es I tell vou sbe'll rerfect time keen Till the works are hushed In the last peaceful s iev p. The Coercion BUI. IJohn Eoyle O'Reilly ia the Korth American Kevlew. I The coercion bill of 1S87 strips Ireland of every vestige cf civil right, and relegates her to the condition ot a province guilty of seme vast disorder or reoellion. "It is the worst law ever proposed for Ireland by anv Minister ot England," says John Dillon, M. P. "It practically suspends trial by inry forever," says John Morley, M. P. "it is one of the most shameful and inde fensible violations of liberty that has been attempted by any government within the last generation," says Charles Pradiaush. M. P. "In the name of real union and in the interest of true order, we condemn it," says Campbell Uamerman, ex-lri3h Chief Secre tary. "In resisting this deplorable proposal," says Mr. Gladstone, "we are serving the cause of Irelsnd, and still more effectually serving the cause of Great Britain and of its world-wide empire." "It is a grave conspiracy by which it is intended on the one side to coerce, if possible, the tenant of Ireland into the paymrnt of impossible rents, and on the other side to compel the purchase of the laudlord's interest at exhcrbitant prices, which compulsion, if successful, will most cer tainly lead to repudiation on a wholesale scale," says Mr. Pamell. Keferring to its indefinite duration, Mr. Gladstone said: "It makes our blood run cold. I do net think it possible for the wit of man to devise a scheme more likely to aggravate any mischief that exists in Ireland, and to stimulate to the uttermost in ternational hatred." An Ovation to Hon. A. G. Smith. Eepoit of Kentucky Democratic Convention.! Colonel Sherley escorted Hon. Greene Smith to the chair, and Senator Hill presented him to the convention as "Lieutenant-Governor Smith, of Indiana." Mr. Smith was greeted with a magnificent ova tion, ihe delegates rose en masse and waved hats and fans, while the cheers shook tho building. The applaute died away at times, but was renewed sgain and 8gain with greater enthusiasm. Mr. Smith was sensibly impressed by the overwhelming demonstration oi welcome. After quiet had been somewhat restored he made a bappy little speech, complimenting the Kentucky Democrats for thir heroism and devotion to principles. He returned his thanks for the signal honor done him, saying he should cherish the memory of his reception as one of the pleasantest things' of life. He declined to make any extended remarks, and retired amid cries of "Go on! go on!" and tumultuous cheers. A Fatal Iuel. Kixgstos, N. M., May 6. David Burke, a well-known citizen, was killed hy a mi ner named Con Ityan to-day. The men had been drinking quite freely, and quarreled over a trivial matter. Burke chal lenged Ityan to fight with pistols. Byan replied that he was unarmed. Burke ot fered to furnish him with a weapon if he would accompany him to his house. The proposition was egreed to, and both went to Burke's house, where Iiyan was given a revolver. The men then stepped into the street and faced each other at a distance of fifty feet. Three shots were rapidly fired, and Burke fell a corpse. Ryan fired but on? shot, and it is believed that two were fired by Burke, whose head was pierced by the third and only shot bred by Kyan. Byan surrendered, and was held in $i,000 to the Grand Jury. Vandalism of Visitors. Washisgton. May 7. Tbe Washington Monument Commission this afternoon held a meeting to discuss the advisability of closing the monument to the public after the 1st of J une, on account of the con tinned acts of vandalism which ate perpetrated by visitors. The marble Is chipped in many places, while the bronze letters on the Swiss tablet have many of tbem been forced off and carried away as mementoes. The silver ornamenting of the Nevada stone has also been mutilated, and the commission is determined to put a stop to these disgraceful acts, even if to do so it is necessary to deny visitors entrance to the shaft. A Lake Disappears Tomestoke, Ariz., May 4. A severe shock of earthquake occurred here yesterday about 3 p. m. and continued to shake furiously for forty seconds. This is the first occurrence of this kind experienced in this Territory for twenty years. Windows were broken, buildings cracked and injured, but no persons hurt. Ten miles from the city a lake, covering an acre of ground, completely dried up in twenty minutes! An enbankment along the New Mexico and Arizona Bailway was moved from Its former position as much as twelve inches. Political Straws. Pittskceg, May 6 The Post will tomorrow print two pages of interviews giv ing the views of every Democratic Senator and Representative in the State Legislature on the subject of President Cleveland's renominatlon. The summary shows that in a total ol 71 Cleveland has 50, Hill 10, and 11 are non-committal. Editorially the Post claims that the Pennsylvania delegation to the next Democratic Nr tonal Convention will unquestionably t for Cleveland. A cony is Courted ly persons who, attacked by a mild form of rheumatism, neglect to seek prompt relief. Subsequent torture is prevented byan immcllate resort to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Slight exposure, an occasional draught, will beget this painful malady, where there is a predisposition to it In the blood. It is not difficult t arrest the trouble at the outset, but well nigh impossible to eradicate it when matured. No evidence In relation to this superb blood depurent Is more positive than that which enables its efficacy as a preventive and remedy for rheumatism. Not only Is it thorough, but safe, which the vegetable and mineral poisons, often taken as curaa tires of the disease, are not. Besides ex pellin g the rheumatic virus from the system, it overcomes fever and sgue, biliousness, constipation and d7Pvpsia,

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