Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 16, Bloomington, Monroe County, 25 August 1883 — Page 2

Bloomington Telephone BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA. WALTER a JiKABfLTB, - r Vtusam.

-Ti W THE iMteffigence by Wire from All the World. rOSUGE "MkisntfBetD Cbrnwan, England, twelve men were Jfcilled by the breaking of a rope attached to a cage in which they were being raised to the surface. i -Nihilism Is finding a foothold in the schools of Russia, and arrests of students are qnite frequent. The Minister of Educatim urges the , scholastic authorities to enforce discipline, and call on the police for aid if necessary. Crown Prince Rudolph opened the Electric exhibition at Yienna in the presence of thousands of visiters. The Khedive vfcited the hospitals and epeke words of encouragement to the patients suffering from the pestilence. A Sues dispatch says 2,000 Bedouins attacked the sanitarium t Sinkat and were repulsed with a loss of sixty killed. The soldiers derending the place lost seven men and the civilians five. An Alexandria dispatch says the Irench mission to study the features of the cholera Ins arrived there. "The total number of deaths thus fpr from cholera among the British troops i& Egypt is 125. The disease is on the iaoroano in Alexandria. The ginperur of Morocco having refuse to pay the claims of Italian subjects, war is imminent In Tangiers, the capital, the Italian Envoy lowered his flag, this hostile causrngTmk(amorthemhabitanta Mr. Parnell, in the British House of Commew declared that unless the deficiencies in tile Land act were remedied he would lead a deeper and more desperate agitation than had ever yet been witnessed. Madrid journals declare French speculation raised 750,000 francs to corrupt the anish army and bring about the revolt At a Bonapartist banquet in Paris, speeches were made in favor of Prince Victor, son of Jerome, as leader of the faction. A Pnlbto despatch says it Is intended to organize a company for the purpose of raising a fund to supplement the Government grant for immigration inland; A special appealfor cnbecripttons to the fund will be made to the Irish in America. A party of twenty-two students at the ITrdversityof St Petersburg have been sent to filberu for toen connection with a Nihilist journal. . The British Government has demanded of Irwrt an explanation in regard to the expulsion of a Jewish commercial traveler tearing an English passport. Solm than 20,000 persons are idle in the district of Ashton-nnder-Lj ne, England, on account of the refusal of the master weavers to increase wages.' Gasamiceula, instead of being a lake of lime-water, as promised, is now being rapidly rebuilt Alfonso is swinging round the circle in Spain. The reports say that he is being enthusiastically received. " Further anti-Jewish outbreaks are reported from Russia. They have in all instances been promptly suppressed. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of ' Cambridge Itaroaopeptedtovftatipas to visit the Emperor of Germany and attend the A business firm of Bremen, Germany, have purchased SS0 square miles on the Western coast of Soutb Africa, and the German Government has permitted the landyndicate to heist the flag of the, empire over the purchase. Great Interest attaches to this affair in London and Paris. In the English PariiamentGladstone condemned the "habitual violence" of the language of Hear; member for Monaghan, winch tended to foster national hatred. Baarjr said, in reply, there was virtually a war between England and belaud, and his oonntay needed justice far greater than fine Cetewayo, who is rapidly recovering from his wounds, requests that the British sovereign makes an inquiry into the treatment he has received since she reinstated him as King of Zululand. Two men have been put under heavy bail at Dublin, for threatening Francis Carey, a brother of the late James Carey When Francis was attacked he drew a revolver, covered his assailants, and gave them into the custody of the ponce. The Parliamentary contest for the County of Shgo resulted in the election of Nicholas Lynch, the Home-rule candidate. Sexton sayp the police attempted to intimidate voters, and will bring up the question in the Commons. , The health of Queen Victoria is said to be much improved. Rumors prevail at Berlin thatRoumania will enter the AustiItalian-German. alliance. There was serious rioting between parties of Orangemen end Catholics last Saturday at Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Several persons were wounded. The rioters were dispersed by mounted police .Aboutsixty arrests were made PEESOHAL. Pierre Bernard, husband of the late Caroline BJebings. the vocalist, died at Sulphur Springs, W. Ya. After making a careful investigation of the ' Niagara whirlpool, where Capt Webb lost fete life, Capt Rhodes abandoned bis plan of imperiling Us life in the rapids. W. K Ackerman, having declined a reelection as President Of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, James C darkehas been elevated to the position. -Judge Bobert Hewitt Brown, a promlent Mason and writer, died at Albion, & X., agedsa. William Wette, of Pittsburg, has been elected President ef the Amalgamated Assoeistionof Iron and Steel Workers tosuceeedJohn Jamtt, who declined a re-elec--rWIIBan Wirt Bikes, the husband of OHve Logan, wtapwss United States Consul at , Secretary Folger sailed from Chicago last week on the revenue cutter Andrew JoeAson,for.s voyage on the lakes. . , Jesh.Wwi,ttw storssi oarsman, chalJftages Ceartaey foe. a; three-mile race at nwan,H. r, for aside.

John Devoy, editor of the New York Irish Nation, has been released from prison, his term of sixty days for libeling August Belmont having expired. Judge Jeremiah & Black, oiie of the most prominent public men of Pennsylvania fbrhalf a century, died Aug. 19, at his home, -near York, -Pa. ' mTANOIAL ANDINDUSTMAL. Thus far this-year 121,019 immigrants landed in Canada. Fish Broa A Hall, Duluth (Minn. ) lumbermen, are insolvent Speculating by a partner forced the suspension of Edmund C Stedman, the poet-broker of Wall street F. Shaw and Brothers, the bankrupt New England tanners, report liabilities of 17,509,000. On account of unlucky investments in manufacturing enterprises, the Farmers1 Bank of Richmond, Ind, has closed its doors. J. W. Mackey, the Bonanza King, has been elected a Director of the Postal Telegraph Company. Work will commence at once on an extension of the lines. The capital stock has been increased to $31,000,000. An end has come to the St Louis railroad war. The rates have been put back higher than they were before the break in rates. For lack of business the Farmers' Bank, at Richmond, Ind., closed its doors, and the Directors have agreed to wind up its business, The depositors, who are mostly farmers, will be paid in full The New York stock clearing-house has suspended operations, business having fallen off to 2,000 shares per day, not enough to pay the royalty. There were 174 business failures in the United States, eight more than the preceding week, and an increase of twenty-six over the corresponing period in 1882. A commission firm in Milwaukee advises its customers that the yield of spring wheat in the Northwest will be larger than last year. Samples from Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota indicate a heavier berry and a better crop than these sections have had for some years. The exports from the United States for the fiscal year ending June 80 were valued at $823,805,819, an increase of 73,263,562 over the preceding year. The imports for the past twelve months aggregated 9723,122,660, leaving the balance of trade 100,683,153 in our favor. Three thousand five hundred, tons of machinery and material have arrived at Panama for the canal Of the grain received at Atlantio ports last year 80,2 per cent came by rail and 19.8 per cent by the lakes, canals, and the Hudson river, The tonnage on the Hew York canals fell off from 6,442,225 tons in 1868 to 5,467,423 tons in 1882, while the aggregate tonnage of the New York Central, Erie, and Pennsylvania railroads increased from 10,478,857 tons in 1868 to 43,586,030 tons in 1882.

POLITICAL. The Virginia Republican Straight-out Convention met at Richmond the other day. The platform adopted favors a strict adherence to the Republican principles and protective tariff, indorses' James G. Blaine for the Residency, condemns the action of .the administration in aiding Gen. Mahone in- the repudiation of one-third the State debt, declares the power thus given Mahone has been used for the persecution of lifelong Republicans, that the power given by the administration to Mahone makes him virtually President of the United States for the State of Virginia, expresses unalterable opposition to one-man power in Virginia, represented by Mahone, and calls the attention of the administration to the re-, suits of such a system in other States. The Michigan Prohibition State Convention met at Eaton Rapids. They voted to raise $100,000 as a campaign fund, indorsed the platform of the National Convention at Chicago, declared in favor of constitutional and statutory prohibition of the manufacture of liquor as a beverage, arraigned the Republican party for bad faith in not submitting the question to the people, and declared that the party is incompetent to deal with the liquor question, A Louisville dispatch says that official returns from 109 of the 117 counties in Kentucky give Proctor Knott for Governor a majority of 43,571 over Gen. Morrow. The other eight counties will Increase; this to about 19,000. The New York State Republican Convention will be held at Richfield Springs on Sept 191 The delegates will number 476. A call for the next Congress of the National Liberal League, to be held at Milwaukee, Sept 21-23, has been issued. . A. Biermann has been nominated by the Democratic State Central Committee of Minnesota as candidate for Governor in place of W. W. McNair, declined, Biermann accepts. The Massachusetts Democrats will hold their State Convention at Springfield, Sep t 2a . . GENEBAL. A great Irish-picnic was held at Ogden's Grove, near Chicago, Congressman Finerty was the President of the day. Dr. P. H. Cronin read the declaration of principles of the Irish-Americans of Chicago. The Hon, , Thomas Brennan was introduced by Mr.' Finerty as a gentleman Jwho came to Chicago "through the doors of an English jail," and as therefore entitled to the respect of all Irishmen. This sentiment was echoed by a vast concourse. The speeches of the day all breathed intense hostility to the English oppression and Papal interference. A committee of six striking telegraph, operators held an interview with Gen. Eckert, of the Western Union Company, at New York, Aug. 18, and were advised to make application to their respective Superintendents. His counsel was warmly indorsed by the Executive Committee of the company. The Executive 'Board of the Brotherhood sent Gen. Eckert a letter stating that the organization would carry on the fight with renewed vigor fay every legitimate means. The investigation of the PotUd Guide swindle has led to the removal of Itfaj. Klrby, of. the railway division of the Postofilce Department The Major is a graduate of Yale College, and was private secretary to Postmaster General Key. Since the adjournment of Congress 650,000 gallons of spirits have been exported and 18,000 barrels await shipment at Newport News, Va.

A bill has.been filed at New York by Jay Cooke, Jr., and others, asking for an injunction to restrain Henry ViHard and the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company from disposing of the rights or properties of the Oregon Steamship Company. The Master Workman of the Brotherhood of Telegraphers issued a circular acknowledging that the strike was a failure, and directing the members to seek work The New York Assembly voted to give the girls the first chance to regain their situations. A number, both male and female, were re-employed in the Western Union office in New York The caterpillar and worms are committing ravages in the cotton fields of South Carolina. The Board of Health at Pensacola reports that city in a healthy condition, with a cordon of seventeen miles, protected by swamps and water. The official reporter of the Presidential, excursion party sends word from Camp Teton, Wyo. Ter , that the party were all enjoying excellent health, but were unlucky as fishermen. The report; describing the march from the preceding camp, says: "The course was in a westerly direction, along' thw north side of the Gros Ventre river. The trail was beset with few of those difficulties which the fortnight's trails in the wilderness has made so familiar. After having climbed to the summit of a long hill, about five miles from Camp Arthur, there suddenly burst upon the view a scene as grand and majestic as was ever witnessed. Below, covered with grass and flowers, was a lovely valley many miles in extent, through which threaded the river on whose banks the last camp was pitched Along the whole westerly edge of this valley, with no intervening foot-hills to obstruct the view, lowered the magnificent Teton mountains, their snowy summits piercing the air 8,000 feet above the spot wheie the party stood in reverent admiration, and 14,000 feet above the level of the sea. It was the voice of every member of the party that that sight alone would have fully repaid all the toils and perils of the march"

FIRES AID CASUALTIES. An incendiary fir at Lexington, Ky., destroyed Bush & Son's plaining-mill and some adjoining buildings, causing a loss of 28,000. The extensive works of the United States Rolling Stock Company, located in the southwestern part of Chicago, were totally destroyed by fire. Eighty cars, with all the buildings and machinery, and over 1,000,000 feet of lumber, furnished food fox the flames. The loss is estimated at 500,. 000, upon which there was an insurance oi 100,000. At Stowe, Tt, Mrs. Jesse Town was killed, her husband was mortally hurt, and Mrs. StockweU, of St Albans, was seriously injured, by being thrown from their carriage. Lightning at Blue Springs, Tenn., killed two cows and twenty-seven hogs which sought shelter under a tree. A train on the Kentucky Central rood, one car of which contained 400 kegs oi blasting powder, stood on the crossing at Lexington, when a Chesapeake and Ohio train ran into it A terrible explosion J iouowea, m wmcn two conuuecors were killed, five others were fatally injured, and the depot and one engine were blown to atoms. Forty sheep were killed by lightning in a field near Garden City, L I A schooner, said to have carried a blacs flag, was sunk off Atlantic City, N. J., and all hands supposed to have been lost Flames swept away the mills of 'Che Xeaton Lumber Company, at Molina, lilL, causing a loss of 290,000. A fire at Crawford, Miss., destroyed twelve stores and six warehouses. Loss, 100,000. R. MeCready k Ca's boot and shoe factory at Montreal was burned Loss, 100,100; insurance, 75,000. A great storm visited the northwestern part of Canada, flooding some parts of the country, it is said, with four feet of waterFire destroyed the Cheshire House, at Keene, N. H.; McDonnell tt Sons paper, mill, at Lambertville, N. J.; the Lincoln House, at Richmond, Me. ; nine tanks and considerable machinery of the Eclipse Gil Refinery, at Franklin, Pa, and the sash and blind .'actory .of Williamson, Libbie & Co. , ai Oshkosh, Wis. CRIMES AND CBIMDTAI& Four armed ruffians boarded a Texac Central train at Bryan, evidently with the intention of robbing the sleeping-car, but the passengers were aroused by hearing loud talk, and the thieves fled Joe Payne, a negro, assassinated a merchant of Oakland, Miss,, last month, and mutilated his remains, The murderer made a confession the other day, and by the almost unanimous vote of 500 citizens, after 'an informal trial, he was hanged in the regular way, only the Sheriff protesting. James Wiggius, of Towanda, Pa., killed his wife for bringing a divorce Buit and then blew out bis brain. J. T. Williams, a banker of Erie, CoL, was robbed by highwaymen of 10,000. Jeff Miller, a citizen of San Antonio, Texas, .started for Monterey, Mexico, to get drunk, and got there. Upon two policemen of Monterey attempting his arrest he killed one and fatally wounded the other The wretch was then cut to pieces with a saber. ' Taylor Banks, colored, at Scottsboro, Ala, Deno Casat, at Little Rock, Ark, and Perry Cely, colored at Greenville, S. 0., were hanged for murder. Nicholas Skerrett, a well-known realestate dealer of San Francisco, was murdered for money, his remains being found in the closet of one of his vacant houses. Ezra Douglass, a printer of Nebraska City, Neb., not long ago married a woman named Anderson, who has twice recently attempted suicide. The other evening she followed him from the door to the street and shot him dead, and after walking ten feet blew out her own braina George Hurson, colored, abducted the daughter of Nathan Codner, at Cedar Falls, Iowa At the close of a preliminary exam, ination of the negro for the crime the father of the girl shot and instantly killed the abductor as he was being taken from the court room In a fight about a writ of ejectment on a ranch near Albuquerque, all the participants were killed In Cincinnati house of ill-repute, Burt Scheibelshot and killed Josie Stubb, and ; then destroyed his own life, 1

The trial of Frank James was commenced at Gallatin, Ma, on the 20th of August Charles Ford and his father are present Near Munoie, Ind, Mortimer Hill fatally shotf&is wife in her father's house, and immediately killed himself. The couple had. been living apart, and the husband was actuated by jealousy, While the ferry steamer Hope was crossing Detroit river, from Detroit .to Windsor, a bartender named Luke Phipps shot his wife dead, from jealousy. He had recently commenced suit for divorce.

LATEST NEWS. The operating room of the Western Union Telegraph Company, on the fifth floor Df the Union building, corner of La Salle and Washington streets, was completely jutted by fire, all the instruments being destroyed. A loss of 50,000 was inflicted on the building.and 10,000 on the telegraph company. Other occupants suffered serious damage from water. The fire was purely accidental. The Western Union resumed business in the offices of the Mutual Union Company. A section of Minnesota was swept by a fierce and destructive storm. At Kosson bwo persons were killed, many injured, and numerous buildings demolished Two young ladies of Perry, N. Y., named Uattie Rudd and Mamie Earns, were drowned in Silver lake by the capsizing of a sail-boat The grand parade of the Knights Templar at, the Triennial Conclave in San Francisco was an unqualified success. St Bernard Commandery of Chicago, the Boston Knights, and DeWitt Clinton Commandery of Virginia City receiving marked attention and applause. Nearly 4,000 Knights were in line, representing all the States and Territories of the Union. The Governor of Missouri has called the attention of the Marshal of Kansas City to the open violation of the law by Slade and Mitchell, who are training for a prize-fight, and are liabla to a term in the penitentiary. Pleuro-pneumonfa has broken out among the cattle at Salem, Ct The Treasury Department at Washington reels no apprehension as to the spread of the disease beyond its present locality. ,.-Coi Deneal, residing near Harrisburg, Pa., who is well advanced in life, heard a burglar at his door, and at the first shot pierced his heart Dr. Norvin Green, the President of the Western Union Telegraph Company, considers the recent strike of the, operators a financial benefit to the corporation, The funeral of Judge Black, at York, Pa, was the largest ever witnessed in the town, many distinguished persons participating. Brigands have captured the Governor, and several Councilors of Flerian, a Turkish city, for whom a ransom of 20,000 is demanded. A Berlin ccrre pondent asserts that the Chinese Government is negotiating with Germany for the purchase of ICO, 000 rifles. An American Jew, after a stay of four days in St Petersburg, was recent y expelled, in accordance with law. A young, handsome and accomplished daughter of CoL James O. Churchill, of St Louis, has mysteriously disappeared, having hist been seen at the front gate. Her parents feel certain that she was abducted A band of crooks organized at Adrian, Mich, to rob the workmen on the Toledo and Milwaukee railroad, who received their wages in the forenoon. The brigands proceeded to the villages of Rome Center and Addison, maltreating and despoiling of their funds all the persons they met From the latter place they were driven out by the workmen, who pursued them, and after much firing captured seven of them. L. G. Haynes&Bra, of Savannah, Ga., the largest flour, bacon and grain dealers in the State, have failed for, 200,000. The Treasury Department at Washington has received 931,600, bequeathed by L the late J. B, Gardner, of Boston, to aid in paying the national debt We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience. George Washington. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. Bishop Thomson. THE MARKET. NEW YORK, Beeves , 4.90 : 6.20 HOGS 4.50 .g 5.80 PiiOUB Superfine 3.25 69 4.25 Gil 1.09 J WHEAT Ha, 1 White 1.09 No. 2 Red 1.18 t 1.19 Cobs No. 2..... 26 -63U Oats No. a 38 & .38& TORK Mess , 14.25 1&U.50 IiABB. 8)6 , 83 . CHICAGO. BEEVESr-Good to Fancy Steers , . 6.00 Common to Fair 4.00 6.20 & 6.10 g 5.45 ("3 5.80 gi 5.75 t$ 5.25 Medium to Fair .. 6.oo HOGS. , FlKJB4.90 -Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choi Snr'if Ex. 5.50 6.00 WHEAT No. 2 Spring No.2 Red Winter Corn No. 2 Oats No. 1 Rye So. 2 Bakley No. 2 1.01 1.01 IMbixS 1.08$) .51 (& .51 .26;4s .acjs .60 !$ .61 63 (rt .63J6 Buttek Choice Creamery. 19 & .21 Boos Fresh, ICJs IT PORK Mess 12.10 12.20 Lard 8 & .854 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 1.02 1.02& Corn N0.2 51 m .51 ! Oats New. 28 (el .28k BYE No. 2 : 59 .60 Barley No. 2. 59 & .eu Pork Mess 1400 (12.15 Lard 8 . 8 ST. LOUia Wheat No. 2 Red i.os& 1.O6H Corn Mixed 45 0 .4594 Oats No. 2 26 & .2J4 Rye 55JiSS .56 Pork Mesa 12.70 12.75 LARD 8J43 . 8 CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Red 1.07 & 1.08 Corn ' 52a .ss Oats , .29 g .29M Rite 69 $ .150 POiiK Meas 13.6O ($14.00 Laud 8 & .m TOLEDO, Wheat No, a Red , 1.1054 1. 1054 Corn ; 5233 .53 Oats No. 2 27J4 .27$ DETROIT. Flour 4.00 e.75 Wheat 0.1 White i:0tX Corn No. 3 , .say, .54 Oats Mixed, .as .36 Pork Mess 15.00 G815.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2Rea......... 1.04 1.04 Corn No. 2 vtm .48 Oats Mlxea.- 264 .27 EAST LIBERTY, PA, Cattle Best 5.05 5.85 Mtt 5.15 & 6.60 Common 4.70 5.00 5.65 m 6.85 . 3.60 (3 6.50 foos. . BREP'

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It is now suggested tha.t a few tobao20 plants can be grown advantageously imong cabbages. In fact, farmers who have tried it insist that a good corp of cabbages can be grown in. this way, where not a (sound head has been seen for two or three years. Varnished wagons shouldnever be housed in a stable or where any Btook is kept, for the ammonia that comes from the manure kills the life of the varnish, destroying all of the gloss. It is always best, if possible, to keep varnished carriages and wagons in a building away from the barn. The dirt-scraper can be profitably used in making open ditches through low lands. If properly managed the ditch will have such slooping banks that a wagon or reaper can pass over it, The earth spread over adjacent land is worth as manure all that the latter will cost, Chicago Jourwal. Alexander Boss, in an interesting communication in the Prairie Farmer, gives some experience in draining uplands in Scotland. A test was made on two acres of ground, otherwise alike, with rye. The drained acre yielded 61T bushels, and the undrained only 18 bushels. A good sign of the tunes is that so many young men in starting to farm adopt improved stock, and they become enthusiastic, earnest and ambitious, which alone will bring success, and all the more certain on the high tide of improved stock breeding. Stock of some kind is essential to successful farming, and improved stock brings the best profit, quickest returns, and gives a charm of prosperity and dignity to the farm. Western Agriculturist The artichoke may be propaged by seed or offset suckers, separated in the spring. When raised from the seed let them be sown early in the spring, say at the time of the flowering of the peach, in drills a foot apart and four inches apart in the drills. The next spring transplant to permanent beds in hills three feet apart1 each way. with three plants to a hill. It requires a deep rich loam, abounding in moisture, and may be protected in winter by a covering with litter or earth. A correspondent of Gardening Illustrated says: "Wash the cabbages well with strong soot and water and on the first dry day dust the ground around the cabbages with quick-lime, and pick as many of the caterpillars, off as you can find; and during the winter gaslime the land and leave it in ridges to oatch the frost, and very few insects will trouble you again. The odors emitted from gas-lime vro so pungent, that neither moth, butterfly nor mole will remain on land that is dressed with it." The French hotel and restaurant keepers are said to preserve their supplies of potatoes in the following manner: The tubers are first washed and then, a few at a time, by means of small baskets, are plunged, into boiling water and held there for four seconds; they are then dried and stored. This treatment destroys the vitality of the buds or "eyes," and there is no tendency to sprout but. the potatoes keep sound, and of good flavor until the next crop comes in. American Agriculturist. Mr. E. S. Wright, a successful Vermont flock master, gives his experience in feeding sulphur: "I have experimented with sulphur for sheep for the last thirty years. The trouble is with the quantity of sulphur used; it is not reasonable to think that & sheep will eat salt enough with only one-third mixture of sulphur to affect it in the least; if herdsmen would mix two parts of sulphur and one of salt it would be cf some use. My method is to put the grain in the feedbox and then put the sulphur through on top of the grain, two pounds to 100 sheep, once a week, on a certain day after the sheep get used to eating it. I buy at our druggists fifteen pounds for $1.' I am feeding 100 Cotswold lambs this winter, which are free from tick, and I attribute it to the use of sulphur." Mr. Asa S. Curtis, of Stratford, Ct, has tried an experiment in apple growing, the results of which will be of interest to all those who raise apples for their own use or the market. Having an orchard which produced fruit only ou every other year, and hearing that the trees could bemade to change their bearing season so that every year might be fruitful, he selected a healthy young a pple tree eight years ago, and for four successive bearing seasons carefully rubbed off every bud as fast as it appeared. For the first three seasons this made no apparent difference, the ti'ie omitting all blossoms the next season, putting out its blooms again in the regular year. Last year Mr. Curtis repeated the experiment for the, fourth time, and this season the tree appears to have given up its old habit, and to hive concluded to let its owner have his own way, for it is in full bloom at last in the "off season." If a part of the trees of an orchard can thus be made to i bear one year and the others the next, there need be no "off year" at all for j kii.e apple crop, so far as the bearing j

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Timothy Horn, in the New York Tribune. Thirty steers, eL 800. ..to weight, on good pasture, he says, roat May 1 to November should gain teen)' ' 400 pounds. Much vdepnda on their , condition when turned out in the springy ' Those wintered around straw, stackr--"'l without grain, will not begin to jgail;i .vv for several weeks. Their digestiWJL 1 bad; much blood Is needed to renew : their coat of hair and loosen the ludeu . ' On the other hand, a steer already fM " will not gain so much as one' in what if 1 ''j.called good condition. Such an ani -' : ' , mal will increase very fast from Itay. 1 to middle or last of Juue, averaging peiv ' , haps (with a little grain at first) four' pounds per day, and during July anefci August very little gain would be manr . f est, while the thin steer would then) be in condition to be adding some . weight. ' . THE KITCHEN,

Molasses Cookibs. Two cups ct' molasses, one cup lard, one-half cp either cold water or buttermilk,, two -' large teaspoonfulfl ginger, two largoteaspoonfols salaratus and a pinch of salt f, Gingerbread. Two cups of. molasses, three-fourths cup of butter, one-: ' cup sweet milk, three eggs, two tea spoonfuls of soda, two teaspoonfuls of ' ginger, flour enough to make a stiff batter. Marie Stuart Pudding. TbjreeY ; eggs, one cup of sweet riiiik, half cup . of sugar, six stale almond or sponge'' cookies, two bananas sliced in, flavor' with nutmeg or almond. Bate in quick: oven half hour. Nick Cookies. One cupful of butter, two eggs, one-half cupful of sugary... two table-spoonfuls of sweet milk; and. nearly one-fourth teaspooufuKof isoda. ' . in the milk, a little nutmeg. Flour to : roll out nicely.- f.-.- -r Fig Cake. A new way to prepare a fig cake is to first bake a large round loaf of cake. This should be light and. rich. When it is cold cut in 'threeparts or slices; for this you. must have a thin and very sharp knife, and must; exercise great care not to break the slices. Between these layers spread ta filling made of boUed frosting, withths figs chopped fine and cooked for three- -minutes in the frosting. The top'may" be frosted with plain frosting, or rfe may be omitted altogether. . r To Take Fat Oct Sotjpb and Gravies. The' Germantown JTcfe- '. graph gives this bit of kitchen lorei: Thoroughly wet s-cloth, such as gets ' ' cloth, with cold water, and pour the-, 'i stock through it;- every particle of fat, " remains in the cloth, and your stock isas free from fat as if . it had been allowed to get cold' and the f removed in a cake. This hint will be found veryuseful, especially where beef tea, soup1 or jelly has to be prepared -for invalids, whii;h is often needed in & hurrj. The fat can be melted and clarified, and is' ; quite as good when- removed from thecloth as if taken off in a cake; ' A Good Corn Loaf. When bakingbread leave dough enough for a small loaf. Scald well three or fourquarta ofcorn-meaL Add one cup soi molasses, one table-spoonful salt, one and one-half or two quarts coarse tlour p when cool enough for the hand, putfin the bread dough and mix thoroughlyadding water to make a soft dongh, letit rise, then turn into an iron kettle or

stone crock and bake from four to , six:--;;,-:. hours. After the first hour, cover. : 54 Leave in the oven oyer night and untiL .V breakfast is over but do not allow it tor v1 be scorched. Should the crust be itaK& . 4

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welcome addition to dinner or -g(Si&,x? Mrs. L. B. GUktit in JjtiSiyV . HvMBD jlPAtCTMSlfTS. , ' f 's The room in which Washington died. " : says a contemporary, i a very little f

and a very plain affair, and the bed on. which he breathed his last in plainer still. A piece of furniture like the bed- ' stead would, if it could be obtained.

cost in these times about $6 or $8. It was probably thought W? rje"1 a ' gtiarid.' piece of furniture in its day- f2&$ 9B?V ' in which Mrs. Washington 6HedjjT little garret A dozen people oould, , i not crowd into it with any sort of comr fort. WhvMrs. Wiwhintfton wlectod k

that room to die in is oho of the, t&ngs that is not explained. From the tfflie she went into the room, on the of her last sickness, until ah' carried out to be buried no.'oa

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