Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1877 — Watering Gardens. [ARTICLE]

Watering Gardens.

When the warm, sunny days come, and our gardens look dry and parched, we are so stronglv tempted to use the watering pot that we frequently yield, and so injure the plants that we are striving to benefit. If we want to water our flower beds at all, we must do it thoroughly. Wtfit until after sunset, and then pour on water until it seems ready to run off. Let it soak into the ground and then water again. Finally spread fresh cut grass rover the beds; this covering will tend to keep the ground soft and moist. The usual method of sprinkling the flower beds slightly only tends to make the surface of the ground hard and dry, thus excluding air and moisture. —Globe Democrat.

A man named Thomas Tale was found Monday night in a dying condition a short distance south of Reynolds, at the side of the L., N. A. & C. railroad. He was taken to Brookston and placed in the depot at that place, where he died about fifteen minutes Goronor Yopst was notified, and impanelled a jury who returned a verdict of “killed by the cars.” A pocket-book containing about SSO was found on lilr person. He was known to be intemperate, and it is supposed he was intoxicated at the time of Rie accident. Re had been in the employ of Mr. H. M. Wheeled, near Reynolds, from whom he had just received several mouths’ wages.— Monticello IJernld. All private soldiers made prisoners during “the late unpleasantness'” are, by a recent act of congress, entitled to 25 cents per day for every day they were prisoners. Tr.e 25 cents is for commutation of rations. Under this regulation our auditor, .To*m Brown, Would be entitled iu *55, having been 'confined •tit. southern ..prisons for sefvnn . months ai d tivo davs.~—'f Vu-awt-//on; I J fu-<rxler * .';y