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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-03
The Alden Fruit Preserving Process

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A Committee from the American In
stitute Farmers Club recently visited
an establishment in New jersey where
the Alden Fruit Preserving Process is
made use of on a large scale, and made
very eulogistic report. 1t is proper
to say that on the Committee were men
i'll whose good judgement we have con-
tidence. The Committee close as fol-
lows:
To sum up, the advantages of the
Alden process of preparing fruit so as
to keep in any climate and all seasons,
are First, the fruit retains its natur-
al flavor. Second, the process is con.
Quoted quickly, and in the dark hence
the fruit cannot change color, because
it has been deprived of the water,
through which oxygen acts, before it
reaches the light and air. Third, 1t
may be prepared very cheaply and
in market it brings a higher
rate than any of tie dried fruits it
enables travellers, or ships on long
voyages to take with them in a small
space fruits and vegetables having all
the properties of those fresh from the
garden. Fourth, being evaporated out
of the air, flies do not speck them, nor
does dust become incorporated in the
pores. Fifth, by the nature of the pro-
cess, part of the starch of the fruit or
vegetable is converted into grape
sugar, hence the articles evaporated by
the Alden process require less sugar in
cooking than even the fresh materiel.
Sixth, the meshes CT the trays being
made of Irvine, no taste is impaired to
the fruit; and, seventh, there being no
moist acid to act on either tin or wood
in which it may be packed, the Alden
fruits or vegetables are absolutely free
from any taste or smell of tin, or lead
poison, or anything except those favors
and acids natural to them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-03
Pussy's Dream.

A correspondent of Land and Water
tells the following about a cat She
was very still, and appeared 20 be fast
asleep, when suddenly she sprang into
the middle of the room, where she
fixed her feet on limited spot on the
floor, to which her nose was applied,
and closely grasping something she
held in her claws. This continued for
short time, when the nose was gently
raised, and the visible attention was
directed to the feet, which still contin-
ued their grasp; but after a time one
of them was gradually removed and
then the other, at which puss appeared
greatly at loss to imagine whittier
the imaginary object could have gone,
so as to escape her grasp. She looked
IN various directions along the floor
with foolish face of confusion; and
then again her attention was directed
TO the spot on which the feet were first
closely pressed, as If to examine close
~ whether the presumed escape had
been by sinking through the floor and
when this seemed unsatisfactory, the
disappointed animal, now widely awake,
retired slowly from the spot but she
returned more than once to re-examine
the place, as if she found it impossible
to comprehend how an object she had
so plainly seen and grasped should
have sunk into nothing. Many min
utes elapsed before the cat appeared to
be reconciled to the conviction that
what had been dream was not IN
trutb a reality
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-03

How much does the reader suppose
the revolution cost per annum ST.
100000 about six days expenditure
OF the late war. Such was "the price
OF liberty" The debt Of the United
States in January, 1890, was S54, 1874, :
464.56; of which nearly Sl5,000,00O
were arrears of interest and, besides
this general debt, there was chaos of
state debts amounting, as the Secreta-
ny enormously computed, TO $4,000, =
900 more. Not $4,000, 600 in all--not
a months expenditure during the re-
belhOn.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-03

The Ayrshire is the type os a dairy
animal, and it is very proper that those
who rear them should make the devel-
opment of the milking powers their
main object. Let them go as far in
this direction as they can, SO that we
may see what sort Of animal will
emerge from the continued cultivation
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-03

Mn. LEWIS II. Nor announces his in.
tention to appear as public lecturer
and expose the foreigner and fraud,
Henry VI. Stanley
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-01-03

A GENTLEMAN at Fremont, Ohio, had
a reception at his house the other even
ing, and when the guests went away II
took him all night to wash the tar and
pick the feathers Off his person.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

Fifty million francs were paid by France
to Germany on the 9Th instant, on account
of the war indemnity.
King Victor Emanuel will visit Vienna
during the exhibition, if the condition of
Italy will permit his departure from the
country.
In Paris burlesque history Of Napoleon
III, illustrated with numerous plain and
colored illustrations, is to be published in
one hundred numbers ct ten confines each.
The American consul at Sheffield, Eng
land, reports the cause of temperance as
advancing there, and that the temperance
organizations, which are growing rapidly,
are doing much toward continuing this adj
vancement.
Private advices from England state that
great changes have occurred since July,
1872, in the price of coal and iron, as well
as of labor and rents, and the tendency
seems still to be upward.
Prussia has three hundred and sixty-one
schools of agriculture, mining, architecture,
navigation, commerce, and other technical
studies, and two hundred and sixty-five in
dustrial schools.
Information has been received from the
project Of education in Buenos Ayres of
the establishment of a regular system of
normal schools in the Argentine Republic.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-12

brOau street.
To the Editor Of The State Journal.
If the people of Broad street, west of
Ninth street, have representative in the
city council, invoke him, in their behalf,
to attend the next meeting of that body,
and formally call upon the chairman of
the Broad-street committee to make re-
port, should that worthy gentleman fail
to do so of his own accord. If nything has
been done towards carrying out the reso-
luton under which that committee was APP
pointed, we want to know it. If nothing
has been done we want to know the rea-
son why, and perhaps we may be satisfied
with the explanation. The people of Broad
street are becoming tired and disguised at
the delay of the council in providing
for the removal of the nuisance they have
so long complained of, and are willing to
endure the temporizing policy of that body
but short time longer. All that we ask
now is that the committee lately appointed
shall fulfill the duty assigned to them, and
present their report, whatever that may be.
1t is only few minutes task to write o
letter to the President of the Richmond,
Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad COM
pany, asking the terms and conditions on
which his company will sell the depot
property on Broad street and surely the
president could make reply within q
week. Has he been written to BY the COM
mittee? IF not, why not? These and
other questions, hope, will be propounded
and satisfactorily answered ct the next
meeting of the council.
BROAD STREET,
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-12

Vice-President Wilson called on the New
York Legislature, at Albany, yesterday !,
and recess was taken for the members TO
shake hands with him.
The Mssissippiriver is still on the RAM
page, rising at the rate of an inch an hour.
The Arkansas river is seventy-five feet
above low water.
The Newfoundland Assembly has agreed /,
by an overwhelming majority, to accept
the provisions of the treaty of Washington
having reference to that province.
Ex-Secretary Boutwell, was at the Ma
tional Hotel, Jacksonville, Florida, on the
9Th instant.
Hon. William T. Haines, commissioner
Of customs, states that the government has
fully received the amount of defalcations
committed by collectors of customs during
the year 1S71-'72 through their bondsmen.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-12

Progress I'm Virginia.
From our Travelling Correspondent
FAILS CquRCu- Anril 10.

From our Travelling Correspondent
FALLS CHURCH, April 10.
In ranging through Fairfax and Loudoul
counties, there are seen very lively signs o
healthy progress and Improvement thu
most pleasant and significant OF which il
the greatly increased attention which is
given to orcharding and vineyards every
where, this spring, farmers and villagers
are setting out large numbers OF irui
trees, grape-vines and berry bushes,
which is always good sign Of real pro.
gress. Spending o few hours at the
popular nurseries of Mr.. Munson, we saw
numerous persons with teams getting
| fruit and ornamental trees and he informed
us he was unable to fill oil the orders
from abroad, for peach and other fruit
trees, and that he had sold considerably
more than in previous years.
In this connection it will not be out OF
place to remark that it would be very adj
vantageous if people generally would buy
and set their trees and shrubbery in the
autumn; they will thrive and grow better.
1t is q season of year when other business
is not SO pressing there is not so
much on hand to do, and this can be done
better, by beng less in q hurry. Farmers
will think Of this and get their trees in the
fall if they can.
In o pleasant interview with Judge
Hoke, at Falls Church, he informed me
that some years ago he took some pains to
ascertain the age Of the old brick church
at that village, and learned that it was
about 139 years old. having been erected
about the year 1874, of brick imported
from England. Judge Hoke is gentle-
man of culture, with o fine vein of
humor. He formerly represented Berkeley
county as Senator in the Legislature.
He gave me an amusing incident
of Revolutionary times. Generals Gates,
Lee and Stevens, under Washington, had
been cashiered for some offence; and were
all three enjoying their toddY pretty freely,
upon certain occasion, when Lee remark
ed: Here are three cashiered major gen
erals--I was cashiered for fighting when l
should have been running; Gates for run
ming when he should have been fighting |;
and Stevens, for being drunk when he
should have been SOBER"
To some of us, who have tested and
proved the great utility and value of the
side-hill or swivel pillow, itseems strange to
see that SO few farmers use them. We
have used. to large advantage, even on level
land, and for several reasons prefer them
even for blowing level fields. They turn
right and left, turning furrow
to furrow without going round the lands,
and finish up as you 60; they leave no
dead furrow, and the teams always turn
on the unplowed land, and do not tramp
that which is plowed. To-day l even
saw men blowing the side hills with
common pillow, and making wretched
work, when swivel pillow would have
made handsome job, with equal ease
and care-with even less labor to the
team. This has been often and well
proved, d. s. @.
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LOCAL NOTES.

| The brig Abby cleared yesterday fol
Pernambuco with cargo of flour.
The associated press Office will be re-
moved to the Law Building in q few days
The steamer Palisade was sold at auc.
ton Thursday to the Norfolk manufactu.
ring company for $500.
Chief Ainslie will inspect the various fire
companies of the city on Monday after
noon, as required by law.
Rain fell here last night. It will proba-
bly, have the effect to check the disastrous
fires which have been raging in the several
counties of the state.
Mary Ann Brown, colored, was before
Judge White this morning on the suspicion
of being of unsound mind. A commission
was ordered to investigate her case.
The private stockholders of the Upper
Appomattox company have notified the
board of public works that they will pur-
chase the states interest, paying sl2 900.
The new Conservative city committee,
did not organize last night, but adjourned
for week to await the action of Madison
and jackson wards.
The Richmond granite company were
bidders for paving the curve around the
Capitol at Washington, their price being $3
per superficial yard. The bids were opened
Thursday, and the contract will be awarded
IN few days.
The committee of twenty-five citizens
recently appointed to arrange for having
the industries of this city properly repre-.
scented and exhibited in the next state fair
will meet this afternoon at 6 o'clock, in
the rooms of the chamber of commerce,
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

Mr.. s. @. Neale has been quite i'll il
Alexandra since his return from Rich
mond, but is recovering.
j. B. Schmid, of Salem, has patented
o device for setting saws, and 1. Q. Crop
per, of Suffolk, a measuring funnel.
%James p. Cardell is appointed post.
master at Davisyille, Wood codnty, Va.
vice Nestor Kinchelor, resigned. George
T. Rhodes is appointed postmaster at Big
Lick, Roanoke county, Va, vice Samuel
M. White, resigned.
The farmers residing in the vicinity OF
Mount Tabor church, Amherst county,
organized club on the 9Th instant, by the
election of the following officers: Maurice
H. Garland, president; N. H. Goodwin,
vice-president L. Minor, secretary; Silas
Ogden, treasurer
The old bachelor editor of The Pied
mont Virginian has been receiving pies,
cakes, preserves, pickles, and bread from
some of the fair sex of his place, and his
notions concerning celibacy have been
completely upset. He now threatens to
visit around promiscuously in search of q
wife.
The Farmers club of Amherst O.
H., on the 9Th, organized by the election Of
the following permanent officers Presi-
dent, Prof. II. A. Strobe; vice.president,
R. NJ. Brown; secretary, Joseph Eveland;
treasurer, H. A. Mead. Executive COM
mittee: Messrs. VIM. ii. Mosby, B. j.
Rucker, j. Fl. Camp bell, R. @. Coffey, and
Benz. Brown were appointed such COM
mittee. S. M. Carl and and Robt. Brown
were elected delegates to the county agri-
cultural society meeting on the LIST of
INV
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-12
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

The British manufacturers of agricul-
tural implements have resolved not to take
part in the Vienna Exhibition. Apparent-
ly John Bull does not care to again risk
competition with American inventors.
During the past decade the West
has grown to its present Importance in
manufactures. 1t is but reasonable to hope
that during the coming ten years the
South, recovered from the devastations Of
war, with natural advantages excelling
those of both East and West, and with Ia
Dor abundant and cheap, will move in the
direction, and develop the resources that
have SO long lain dormant.
A combined movement has begun
among the workmen in the Sheffield trades
for the purpose of erecting works and
manufactures on their own account. 1t is
said that the scheme is planned to extend
throughout the whole Of the local trades,
and is supported by the unions. The first
company which has been started, is regis
tered as the Exclusive Cooperative Iror
works Company of Sheffield.
We learn from the New Orleans Picay.
une that Texas meat company has been
formed for the purpose of manufacturing
preserved meats and meat extracts.
Thousands of bullocks are utilized annual
" for an export trade without affecting the
price Of stock in Texas, since there are
about 1000, 900 head of cattle in the state.
The natural increase in the present herds
supplies more animals than can be utilized
proftably by any process heretofore in use
for preserving and transporting meat.
The latest magnificent enterprise orig
mates, of course, in the fertile mind of .
benevolent Bestonian. He proposes to or
ganize company with capital of twelve
millions, with the object Of enclosing trac
OF several square miles i'll an immense glass
structure, within which will be secured
at trifling cost, tropical climate will
its appropriate fruits and foliage, good no
tells, picturesque drives, art galleries, al
opera house, and in fact everything tina
consumptives could possibly wish for
The army of invalids who 90 to the Yves
Indies and other localities under OF nea
the equator will then be invited to stay a
home, and 60 through course of hot
house on an immense scale.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-12
ALABAMA.

The Railroad and the state Debt.
MONTGOMERY, April 12.-The Senate
has passed, with amendment, house bill
confirming the sale Of the Alabama and
Chattanooga railroad to the New Orleans
and Northeastern railroad company.
The House has passed, with amendment,
Senate bill recalling all endorsed railroad
bonds, and authorizing the issue of thirty
year seven per cent. gold interest bearing
straight bonds In lieu thereof, at the rate Of
one thousand straight for four thousand en-
dorsed bonds, and providing that in no
event shall the obligation of the state on
this account exceed eight millions. These
amendments to both bills will be concurrel
in, much to the relief of the state, whose
liabilities will thus be decreased from near
thirty millions to eight millions, on
account of railroads. The latter
bill releases the state lien upon roads sur
rendering endorsed bonds, but levies an
annual sinking fund tax on their gross
earnings to pay the bonds at maturity.
WASHINGTON.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-12
BROAD STREET,
DIED.

RANDOLPH-In this city, this morning.
April 18th, about o'clock, at his residence
Fifteenth street, near the bridge, after painful
illness of some length, and in the 6lst year of
his age, JOHN RANDOLPH, who formerly
belonged to Mr.. Haxall. and served rs a miller
for many years. He WAS member of the First
Celored Baptist chur, h for thirty seven years,
for thirty-five years. He died in the blissful
hope of immortality. He leaves a wife and chill
dren to mourn his loss.
His funeral will take place at the church at
II o'clock A. M. TOMORROW. The friends and
members of the societies will attend without
further notice.
[Fayette miss papers please copy.l
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GRACE GREENWOOD turns the Credit

GRACE GREENWOOD turns the Credit
Mebilier to political account. She says !:
.If, at the close of the war, the women of
the North had been, like the negroes, ac-
corded their political rights if Hon. julia
Ward Howe had been IN the place Of Hon.
II. L. DAVIS if Hon. Lucretia Mott had
been in the place of Hon. w. D. Kelley /;
if Hon. Lucy Stone had been IN the place
of Hon. j. A. Garfield and if they had
been--as, of course, being human, they
might have been-involved in this COM
promising affair, and had shown profound
ignorance of its compromising character,
what yell of derision would have resound-
ed from Maine to Georgia, and from Boston
to San Francisco, over woman's incapacity
not only to legislate for others, but to take
] care of herself ~
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-12
BY TELEGRAPH
TO-DAY's DISPATCHES.
NEW YORK.


L ENS"b AAghASs
NEW YORK, April 12.-The peace com.
mlssioners have had another talk with the
Modocs. There is no hope of peace. The
troops expect orders to move on the lava
beds at any moment.
Brigham Young will accompany the
missionary party to Arizona. The COM
pany will be large, as they intend to as.
slst In building the Southern Pacific rail-
road. The object of the mission seems to
be to obtain political control of Arizona.
Jay Gould appeared before the Erie in
vestigation committee to-day. He was
not aware that Tweed was employed by the
Erie company as lawyer, or that any money
had been paid him. Barber was engaged
to 60 to Albany to guard against hostile
legislation; did not recollect that any
more money was paid Barber during the
session of the legislature than at other
times when shown Tweeds' vouchers.
Gould knew nothing about them admitted
that large sums were spent to defray cleo
ton expenses; money was applied in
nearly every senatorial district in the
state much was charged on the books to
the legal expenses that went for other
purposes this he called the 'sIndia Rubber
Fund" Gould was very cautious and
little definite information was obtained.
A meeting of the friends of the lost cabin
passengers on the Atlantic to-day passed
resolutions condemning the managers of the
White Star line for lack of energy in re-
covering the bodies.
The Herald's Havana special says the
Captain General states that two letters
from Cespedes have been found in O'Kel-
ly's possession, and he will be treated as
spy.
The political complexion of the Ohio
constitutional convention is disputed. The
official returns will be required to decide.
It's showing at Philadelphia to-day.
General Gillem has sent word to Captain
Jack that he will not leave the lava bed re-
gion until he takes Captain Jack and his
tribe with him.
Arrived out, steamships Abysinia and
Leipsic.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

A Philadelphia dispatch states that the
steamship Cassina, recently arrived there
from Liverpool. ran out of coal on the
voyage. and burned up over thirty thou
sand dollars worth of cargo to reach port.
From information sent to the depart
ment of agriculture, it would seem as if
cotton would soon become one of the sta
pies Of California. Cotton has been plant
ed on the rich bottom lands of the Tuo-
lumne and San Joaquin rivers with the
most gratifying results, and the belief is
expressed that in few years it will be
found SO profitable as to supersede wheat
culture in those sections.
A heavy gale yesterday blew off por-
ton Of the roof of q nail warehouse, in
Wheeling, W. Va. together with one end
of the wall thirteen inches thick. 1t also
blew down portion of Bradley's wooden
factory.
The Massachusetts legislative committee
on towns has reported in favor of annexing
West Roxbury, Brookline, Brighton and
Charlestown to Boston if the citizens are
willing. The annexation will add $4,000 to
the population.
Official returns received at the bureau
of satisfies show that during the quar-.
ter ending March 81, 1873, there
arrived at the port of New Orleans
1921 immigrants of various occupations,
the greater number being laborers. o.
the total number arrived, 4s2 hailed from
Germany England and Wales, 40; Ire.
land, 81; France, 243 ; Spain, SO Italy,
l24; Austria, 7e, and all other countries,
80.
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-04-12

The " State Journal " Will be delivered the
same evening of publication in any part of
the city or Manchester by reliable carriers, if
name and address is left at our office, Ola Ia
Main street, and in Petersburg If left with
our agent there; and can always be found on
sale in this city at c. #. J0hnston's, 0IS Main
street; Wyatt & Minors SI7 Brond street;
News stand at Ford's hotel Leon Schaap's
I4O2 Main street. and at our counter.
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The Result In Connecticut Explained

Mr.. Ingersoll is elected by majority of
about 8, 443 over all. In the city of New
Haven he has majority of 1856. The
majority on governor in New Haven of the
Democrats and temperance men combined
over the Republicans last spring was only
1852. The majority Of Mr.. Ingersoll in
New Haven county, over all. 1903. Last
spring in that county the opposition ma
jority over the Republican candidate for
governor was only 922. These figures tell
the story. Before the state convention
met the New Haven newspapers threaten
ed that if the candidate of New Haven
was not nominated the Republican ticket
should be defeated. The state perfectly
understands it.-Hastford Courant.