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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-21
Washington.

SO FAR about 100000 of the new trade
dollars have been coined. The demand is
continually increasing.
HE Secretary OF the Treasury has sent a
communication to the House of Representa-.
tives in response to resolution calling for a
| statement Of the amounts Of money paid from
March list, 1869, to Nov. Sd, 1873, by any per-
son or persons IN the settlement Of suits,
Judgments or claims made by or in behalf of
| the United States, for violation Of the
revenue laws at Boston and New York
The statement accompanying the letter
gives about {, 800 cases in New York. names
Of delinquents, amount OF Indebtedness, and
names of lEformants, with amounts awarded
them, and to the collector, surveyor and naval
officer, etc The indebtedness for the
greater part, in individual cases. are small
ranging from twenty to one thousand dollars.
Some Of the largest sums, together with the
names OF the dehnquents are given. Spec al
agent Jayne IS stated as informer in eases
mentioned, and as receiving i'll the aggregate
$4,000, III addition TO at least $4,000 in
smaller cases. Apart from these is state
ment OF the delinquency of Phelps,
Dodge * Co., namely, S21,017. The costs
and expenses Of recovery was 8,f45. JAYNE,
as infoTmer IN this case, received $65. us. and
the collector, surveyor and naval officer each
oAe-third Of that sum, or $21 800. These OIL
GERS iii all similar cases receiving one, third as
much as the informer. Frank House. Geo.
Brown and c. l.. Bracket received S14,150 for
delinquency of other firms. The gross pro.
ceeds were 81 ,210 391 duties. 1929, IVA costs
and expenses, 1924, 1O4. Net amount covered
into the Treasury, $3,752, 5l2. The collector
received $iO7, 235; naval officer, 1924, O58; sur
veyor, 1891, 21S; iuformeJs, S7l6,24S: total
amount distributed, 1888, 1855. United
States share, remaining in the Treasury. 81
9I4 1871.
THE Board OF Commissioners on the I'M
provement OF the Ohio River and its tribu
taries. appointed by the governors of states
on hat river, held a meeting on February
10th, and agreed to recommend and uroa
before Congress the following: 1. Gov
ornmcnt possession Of the Louisville and
Portland Canal. 2. The construction Of .
Iockaud chute ID the vicinity of PIttsburp
IN accordance with the plans OF Generals
Ncltzel and Merrill, at the beginning Of per-
m2pcnt Improvement Of the Ohio. 3. To re-
quest the appropriation Of sum for surveys
Of the head waters of the Ohio, with view
OF improving the river by systems of rcser-
yoirS among the mountains. l. To continue
the appropriations fOr the Tennessee River.
especially tie Muscle Shoals Improvement.
STATUE OF General Baker, of heroic size.
IS to he placed With other st3tuary in the old
Hal Of Representatives. in Washington at a
cost Of goo.
TIE President has approved the act chang.
ing the time for holding certain District
Courts Of the United States for the State Of
Iowa.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-21

TIE recent financial cnsls III inc
United States, writes Roman cor
respondent, has sent many American
visitors to Europe back to their own
county but within the last few days
there has been \ considerable accession
Of vast Saratoga trunks with the letters
g Z. S. largely visible upon the exte-
riors and it is the belief of the pro-
prietors OF the m anv new hotels which
have sprung up in Rome that a 'lae o
American travel has again set in from
West TO East, md that the roman n
season, although late, viii alter ali
prove not much below the average
Bull finai ,claI writers are often
* atoaI- ra;c,,-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-21

hitting suicide, but failed in both the suicide
and arrest.
4 TELEGRAM from Omaha states that John
S. King, trapper, while cooking supper III
camp on Pumpkin Greek, on the night OF the
9th, was attacked by band of kthirty Sioux,
and shot in the knee and ankle. He killed
one Indian and escaped with the loss of his
horses, wagon and $500 worth of furs. This
was a war party, finely mounted. King
dragged himself to a rancho twelve miles from
the fight. Other outrages by the Indians
are reported
The court of inquiry in the case of Gen. o.
o. Howard will, it is expected be appointed
about March /. The selection of five, who
are TO constitute the court, is to be made from
the following officers of rank superior to
Gen. Howard: Gems. Sherman, Sheridan,
Pope, Mcdowell. SchofeId, Meigs and Eaton.
Sherman Will be president.
OFFICIAL reports to the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, from the collector and
special agent at Lyachburg, Va, says the
actual amount of the deGalcation in the in
ternal revenue Office there Is only $500.
The government will suffer no loss whatever.
The bill introduced III the House in relation
to the compensation of postmasters fixes the
following rates New York, $4,000; Chicago,
st. Louis, Philadelphia and Boston, $4,000
each; Cincinnati, B0ooklyn and Baltimore,
$4,000 each; provided such salaries be paid
from money received from boxes, stamps and
ether sources III excess of expenditures al
lowed for rent, clelk hire and other necessi-
ties.
S. S. HAYS, the new City Treasurer of Chi
cago, has succeeded i'll negotiating loan Of
81, 800. 0Go in New York ut from nlevAn 10
eight per cent.
Dir. FKYDGEs, managing director of the
Grand Trunk Railway, has been arrested at
Montreal, Canada, on a charge of mansiaugh-
ter, in accordance with the verdict of the
coroner's jury at Quebec, on Saturday, on the
death of Pierre Cochon, killed by railway
casualty.
The general non trade OF the country is
bat little more prosperous than at the begin
ming Of the panic. Returns have been re-
cejved from fifty rail mills, only II being in
operation, and from SJS furnaces, of which
DAT were III blast, and 139 out OF blast There
| is stock OF iron on hand Of 3OS, 1876 tons, and
| Y ,522 hands unemployed 1t is estimated
| that in the whole country 30,003 men are
unemployed from the stoppage of furnaces
| and mills.
| A STRIKE Of shawl weavers is impending in
| Philadelphia. They ask an advance Of Is per
| cent.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-21

Bull Gnal ,c,al writer's are often
= stock raisers ,"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-21

Railroad was taken ND. and an amendment adopted
making the forfeiture s. 900 per mite for each mne
not constructed according to the conditions OF the
bill: providing, that such fore!tures SHAH not take
effect mill the title to the lands is assured to the
company. This bill requires the company TO con-
struct the road from st. Croix to the west end OF
Lake Superior and to Bayfield, within seven years
from the passage of this act Further action on the
bill was cut of by adjournment
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-11-06
Smutty Wheat.

Our farmers need not have any smut
in their wheat, provided they will take
the proper steps to prevent it. Smutty
wheat may even be used for seed by tax
ing large tub or half barrel, filled
half full with water, TO which should be
added salt enough to make brine that
will float sound egg, showing space
the size of dime above the water.
Pour the seed wheat into this brine
slowly, stirring it as it is poured in.
The light grains will float, and should
all be skinned Off Continue to stir
for two or three minutes, and skim off
the grains that rise to the top. Take
out the wheat, put into basket or sack
made of open cloth, to drain. Continue
this process until wheat enough is pre-
pared, and begin to SOW Immediately,
or spread upon the barn door to dry, if
not wanted until the next day. No
necessity for using blue vitriol (sul-
phate of copper, but if any should
desire to use vitriol they can substitute
four ounces to the gallon of water for
the salt.
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Fall Manuring.

No matter how susceptible manure is
to fermentation, no matter whether it is
fresh, heaped up strongly, well rotted
of an old composite it is spread out
thinly on the field, all fermentation is
speedily checked, just as when a mass
of lighted Goals is scattered out over
the ground, the glow ceases, the COM
bustion declines, and even in the hot
test summer day the fire is soon extin-
guished. If this spreading is done in
the cool of autumn, and a gentle rain
follows, all the elements of the manure
that can suffer lOss-the ammonia, pot
ash, etc.-dissolve and sink into the
soil. But they can not go far down IN
less we have MANFRED a gravel bed or
sand pit. On land fit for a farmer to
handle, whether a natural loan or a
sand or clay, subdued to proper text
ure, the descent of fertilizing matter is
arrested, as already mentioned, by the
beautiful chemistry of soil absorption,
the slowly descending water is filtered
BY the soil of nearly all it took from
ties of the top-dressing are distributed
uniformly throughout the surface soil
in a way no tillage can begin to initiate.
Loss is reduced to it's minimum, and the
application is as perfect in style as i'll
cost. IF, on the contrary, the manure
is spread out in hot weather and lies ex-
posed some days to dry winds, the am
monia it contains in the form of carbon
ate will be carried off into the atmos-
phere but this loss is not so great as
is often supposed. The quantity of
volatile ammonia that can be got out of
stable manure by this exposure is Ger
taiDly not greater than exists in it, and
the analysis of Voelcker. Wolff and my
self show that it amounts to but two to
six parts in ten Thousand of fresh or
well-rOtted manure.-J0baSOn.
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Ashes

This article, if of (hard) wood, is one
of the most valuable fertilizers that can
be used, ard it can hardly be misap-
pei. Although particularly valuable
some crops, like tobacco and pota-
toes, yet there are few others but what
will be benefited by its use, and crop
of grain or grass will show its influence
for more than year or two, although
on the first year they may not appear to
b so Elective. If sown with wheat, in
the drill, it should be mixed with plas
ter. tits excellent as a top-dressing for
grass, and any amount, from ten to one
hundred bushels per acre, will be found
to pay well. It would be the most eff
fectual means Of using ashes, to COM
post them with harnyard manure or
muck, or in combination with both, and
also with phosphate of lime. It is cal
culated that one hundred pounds kainit
German salD mixed with twenty-five
pounds fresh burned lime, ard four
hundred pounds woods earth, will make
as valuable 8 dressing as the average
hard wood asbes.-Americdn Farmer.
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house, Van Elburg asked woerden to

house, Van Elburg asked Woerden to
go with him into his private room.
"My friend" began Van Elburg,
when he had carefully closed the door,
4" IN accordance with our agreement, 1
should within two weeks from now de-
liver to you four hundred thousand
not been able to procure a single one.
There are none in the market they have
been all bought up"
"Certainly they have, bought them
up myself" replied Woerden, smiling.
"But-but-how about my con-
tract?" stammered Van Elburg.
"You will fulfill it. Listen, friend
Van Elburg you will some day leave
your daughter a handsome fortune
shall leave my son at least as much it
is therefore unnecessary to discuss their
future. This, however, is not true of
the present. 1 shall soon give my en-
tire business to my son, willie you give
your daughter only four thousand du-
cats. / could not oppose the wishes OF
the young people but when consented
to their union, / determined to compel
you to do your duty toward them.
With this object in view, contracted
WlGn you IOr IOIiE nuuuTCG b1OuSdnu
herrings. at ten forms thousand, al
though then had all the herrings in
the market. Now in order to comply
with the terms of your agreement, you
must buy from me, and my price is fifty
forms thousand you have, therefore,
only to pay over to me the sum of six
teen Thousand forms, and we shall be
square,"
While Meister Woerden was arriving
at this mercantile deduction, Van Ell
burg regained his wonted equanimity.
81 see, I see," said he" you are
clever tradesman. I am fairly caught,
and must bide the Consequence.
Their conference ended, and the two
merchants reioined the wedding COM
pany, as though nothing unusual had
occurred between them.
A week later, Van Emburg went to
Amstt rdam, ostensibly to see his daugh-
ter. Now the tables were turned.
"Ah, meister, cried Woerden, on
seeing his colleague from Brock, 81 am
in terrible dilemma. The time is ap-
preaching when must deliver the four
hundred thousand behring's, and not a
cask can find to put them in -
"That does not surprise me-" an
swered Van EIburg, smiling; "you
bought up all my behring's, and l
bought up all your casks"
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-11-06
Scuppernong.

Mr.. Miller, horticultural editor of
Coleman's Rural World, publishes that
the scuppernong is the poor and thelazy
mans grape. It only requires to be
kept from the ground-does its own
pruning. Never rots or fails to bring a
crop, and is injured by no insects. The
leaf folder, which is so severe upon
mary of the Labrusca class, tried their
hand on the scuppernong this year but
failed, while other varieties, as the
Goethe, had their leaves literally used
up by it. Specimens Of the grape had
been received by him from Mississippi,
and were. to his taste, a very pleasant
grape. He felb inclined TO speak in par
ticular of the scuppernoDg, as many
going south might not know it as well
as they should. He considered that
Missouri had better table grapes and
better wine grapes than the scupper-
nong, but none that were anything like
so certain to produce full crop. All
of this, coming as it does from Missouri,
may go in as positive evidence of the
growing popularity of king scupper-
nOnQ.
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-11-06

DESTRUCTION IN DIsGUIsE.-It is a
fact that mixtures of bad liquors and
acid astringents are often given for med
icines. They are potent to destroy
and may be safely warranted to ruin,
morally and physically, any human be-
ing that sticks to them long enough.
More drunkards have been made by
these villainous connections, labelled
medicines, than by the liquors of COM
merce. Alcoholic poisons, advertised
az remedies, are more mischievous than
tavern drains. For Intermittent and re-
mittent fevers, as well as for all other
diseases which these fiery frauds are
falsely certified to relieve, DIR. Walkers
Vinegar Bitters, the ne plus ultra of
vegetable medicines, is positive cure.
But this is not all the great Temper
ance Elixir is a sovereign specific for the
depraved appetite for stimulants, c1ea-
ted by the false tonics and bogus restor-
atives, of Missionaries of Intemperance.
Within the present year many well
known citizens have certified that
course of Vinegar Bitters invariably
obliterates the desire for spirituous ex-
citants
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-11-06

WANTED-Young men to learn Telegraph Opera
ting for new railroad offices. Permanent positions
guaranteed as soon as qualified. a ddress Pacific
IeegraphiC Co =. Isl Main street. MemPhis, Tenn.
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Experiment in Feeding Hogs.

John W. Zigler, of Laporte county,
Ind, reports the results of two expert
ments made by him in feeding hogs, as
follows: Thirty two hogs were fed
twenty-six days in az eight-acre lot.
They consumed 1913 bushels of unshelled
old corn, 20 pounds to the bushel.
Their aggregate weight at the beginning
of the period was 400 lbs at the end,
8, $50 lbs. gain, z, $50 lbs. When he COM
menced feeding the hogs were worth 3!
cents per pound, amounting to $224:70;
after feeding, 3 per pound, amounting
to 1882. so; gain, $107.80. The 1913
bushels of corn, at 35 cents per bushel,
cost S57.55; net profit on the corn,
S4025 Every 3-5 pounds of shelled
corn made one pound of pork. A live
hog weighing 1913 pounds lost by bleed
ing lbs, by both bleeding and dress
ing, So lbs, or little over one-seventh
of the live weight. Mr.. Zigler also fed
to fifteen hogs, on the floor in pen, 100
bushels, by weight, of old shelled corn,
in forty-two days. The aggregate weight
of the hogs at the beginning of the ex
pertinent was 2,490 lbs; at the end.
1850 lbs; gain of 1, no lbs, or As
lbs. per day on hogs averaging, at the
commencement, 166 lbs. In this exper-
iment three pounds of corn made one
of pork, in the other, 3-5 lbs. In the
latter case the pork was sold for 10I
cents per pound. Mr.. E. Hesey, cur
correspondent for Plymouth county,
Massachusetts,, made the following ex-
pertinent with special view to ascer-
tain at what size the gain was greatest
in proportion to the amount of feed.
Two pigs, six weeks old, weighing 80
pounds each, cost Sc they consumed
49, bushels of Indian meal, rs cents
per bushel, S25 IS; 6 bushels fine feed,
80 cents per bushel, $l.80; II bushels
of potatoes, % cents per bushel, 50
cost of dressing, So; total, $38, SO
They were slaughtered when eight
months old, and made 494 lbs. of pork,
which was sold at 8 cents per pound,
amounting to 49, 81; profit, 593. The
food was measured and the pigs weighed
daily, until they reached 100 lbs each,
after that they were weighed once in a
week. It was found that the increase
of pork cost the least per pound, name
ly, cents, live weight, when the pigs
weighed about 100 pounds each, and the
most when they were at their greatest
WEIGHT
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When to Sow Blue Grass.

A Kentucky correspondent of the
American Farmer says: The best time
for sowing blue grass seed is in the fall,
with wheat, rye or oats. THIS brings
the grass mp in the spring. Keep stock
off after you CLEAN the field un il the
following June or July, at which time
you will have beautiful pasture. If
you wish to SOW in timber, use the same
quantity of seed, and "root" it in with
hogs. Sow small piece at first, mix
ing in some oats, rye or corn, to make
the hogs hunt after the grain then SOW
another piece in the same way, until
you have finished the whole field. Age
does not destroy the vitality of the seed,
nor of any other grass seed, II kept from
heating. l have sown blue grass that
was six years old, and had been kept in
a bag in a dry cellar. 1t IS almost i'm
possible TO heat it. No one should SOW
seed of any kind that has been kept in
bulk during the summer months, as it
goes tn ough too much sweating if kept
in a heap OF granary. If spread on a
door, where it can get the air all the
time, there is no danger.
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A Agricultural Chemistry.

DR.. Lee, distinguished Agricultural
writer and chemist said in an address
before the New York agricultural soci
ETY.: Iregard it as ono of the greatest
discoveries of the age, that about nine,
ty seven per cent. of the ingredients
which make up the whole substance of
wheat, rye, barley, oats, peas and beans
exist IN the air in inexhaustible guam
titles. To transmit these aerI. orm
bodies into the plants above named, and
into grass and roots, at the smallest ex-
pense, is the object of nearly all your
hard work. This was spoken thirty
The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-11-06
Stirring the Soil.

J. B. Root, a successful market gar
dener, mentions some experiments in
the Fruit Recorder, showing the impor-
lance of stirring the soil as preventive
of injury from drought. He puts among
some of his crops a horse cuItivator for
every four acres, and keeps it going
early III summer. The effect is always
striking. The soil, he says, becomes
"splendidly loose" In some instances
the crop has been doubled. Nothing
keeps She moisture better IN drought.
The result has been particularly salts
factory with melons, tomatoes, cucun-
bers and cabbages. For onions he has
found nothing equal to manure for re.
tanning moisture in the soil.
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SUMMER IS GONE.

Over the west, to crimson turning,
The sun like ruby set in gold,
Over the breast of the twilight burning,
Fastens its mantle, fold on fold;
The sea like a maiden's face is glowing,
The sweet south wind is merrilY blowing
Still am sad, for summer is going -r
Summer is going-summer is gonei
Never leaf on the tree is faded,
Never blade on the grass is sere,
Gayer and brighter the flowers are shaded,
Fairer and fairer grows the year;
Only--whO knows what my fancy is showing,
Only the roses no longer are growing
Only feel that the summer is going
Summer is going-summer is gone!
Brighter and brighter the skies are shining,
Deeper and deeper the fresh air thrills,
Larger and fuller the vines are t~ining,
Clearer than even the dis taut hills;
The full tides sweep in their ebbing and flowing,
Nothing is lost that is worth the knowing,
Only feel that summer is going
Summer is gOing-summer is gone!
What do mourn 2? Who knows for surely
Never was world more fair than now,
From the harvest moon as it rides purely,
To the red ripe apple upon the bough,
What do mourn? Alas. no knowing,
Moth ng is lost that is worth the showing,
Only feel that SUNNI is going
Summer Is going-summer is gone!
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Tile Draining Again.

Mr., HYDE writes most sensibly on this
subject in the New York Times: " If
there is any one thing in which fal mera
are more negligent than in another, 1t
is III allowing their lands to be occupied
by water. This makes the soil cold,
shallow and barren. Water percolating
through land is a good fertilizer, for, as
a quaint old writer expresses 1t, the
richness ig absorbed and only the lean
ness runs away, but stagnant water is
death to al refined vegetation, and also
breeds miasma which is poisonous to
the higher forms of animal life. It is
not necessary that this stagnant water
should appear on the surface of the
soil. If it can be found within foot,
or even e ghteen inches of the surface,
the land must be cold and unfit for any
thing but The coarse grasses.
Draining costs something, and eve
nv farmer must count the cost and see
whether the land, when drained, will
be worth as much as the expenditure IN
tile and labor. Whether the increased
crops will pay for the outlay required IN
thorough drainage will depend upon
the natural strength of the land, and
the nearness to a good market; but of
one tnlDS we are cer6dln, GHad IL eue
land requiring draining is near the
house, it should be drained whether the
increase of productivepess will pay the
expense or not. No man can afford to
i've in a damp, and consequently IN
healthy, locality. The drier and purer
the air we breathe, other things being
equal, the longer we shall live and the
more we shall enjoy life. From cold,
damp ground about his premises every
farmer, and every other man, should
pray to be delivered, and if his home is
in such locality, with his prayers he
should go to work with his pillow and
spade, and put in some tile to the depth
of at least three feet, and thus purify
the air, as well as dry the land. This
can best be done in the late summer or
early autumn, when the weather is warm
and there is little water in the SOIL"