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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10

The Council met In regular weekly
session last night at the city Hall ~.
Present--Mayor Cabell Aldermen VIII
lomet, Crowdus, Eryay, Shone, Nc
Lure and Grove.
The minutes Of the previous meeting
were read and approved,
REPORTS
The report Of the Mayorw was referred
to the committee on Journals, a. was
also the Observation-Disclosures report
and the report of the Secretary.
Various other reports We're referred
to their respective committees.
The communication Of W. G. Con-
nor, chief Of the lira department., was
referred to committee on Fire Depart
ment.
RESOLUTIONS.
BY Alderman Grove:
Resolved, That the Health Officer,
DR.. Corne Illus, he granted leave
of absence from the city
for twenty days, he providing for the
fulfllmcnt OF his official duties during
that period. Adopted
BY Alderman Mcclure
Resolved, That the report Of
the committee on Journals, on
the Assessors and Collectors
report for the months Of Septem'
Der and October, filed 9th OF November
1878, be referred TO the Finance Com,
mittee with instructions to make q
settlement with T. J. KeetOn, Assessor
and Collector in the matters at issue
between said officer aud the city, in re-
ference TO the amount OF compensation
he il entitled to. for serVices prior &c
the 18th day Of May, 1879, and also 4
settlement Of the balance that appear.
from his report Of October, 1879, to To-
due trOm him to tho city. Adopted.
Ply Alderman Cr0Wdus;
Resolved, That the Secretary furnish
the City Engineer onSaWTduy, the 1851
Of November with a check on The
city treasurer for funds sufficient tr
pay the men and teams engaged on The
streets Adopted.
BY Alderman Ilrvay:
Resolved, Thatthe Mayor be author
tied to advertise for thirty days fo
SO, 600 of the ten year ten per cent
bonds aud 81 800 Of the street improve
menI bonds, reserving the right to re-
ject any or all bids that are not salts
factory TO the Council. Adopted.
BY Alderman Grove:
Resolved, That the City Council
meet in special session next Monday
night at seven O'Clock, and that AIes,Is
Joe Leonard, p. ,lamison, NJ. b Stone
II l.. James, G.. a. CHI and Capt Kane
be requested to confer with the Couu
: Gil on that occasion in reference 20 Tia
building ordinance. Adopted.
, ORDINANCE.
An ordinance to limit the indebted
. ness of the city OF Dallas passed It's see
ond, third, and final reading an,
was adopted by unanimous voye.
Council adjourned to meet on Mon
T day night at seven o'clock.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10

The store of Williams Bros, No. Sli Elm
street, Apply 10
noy0-lw DORIAN & co.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10
DALLAS. TEXAS

WEDNESDAY MORNING 49,: NOV. 10.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-10
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Al quantity by their perfect purity aud great
strength; the only Kinds made by a prac.
teal Chemist and Physician, with scientific
care TO insure uniformity, healthfulness, dcli.
eacy and freedom from all injurious substan.
ces. They are far superior to the CONNER
adulteNted kinds Obtain the genuine Or.
serve our Trade Marks as above Cream"
baking Powder, "Iland and Comucopia."
Buy the Baking Powder only in cans securely
hbelled. Many have been deceived in loose
Or bulk Powder sold az Dr. Prices.
Manufactured only by
STEELE Il PRICE,
Chicago, ~ louis and Cincinnati
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17
Proper Mode ofFeeding Horses.

The Massachusetts, PlOUntdn has the
following: Every owner Of a horse must
have observed that the growth and
strength and appearance Of the horses
foot is materially affected by the condition
Of the horse himself. 4 half-,taryed
horse may have foot injured by deficient
nutrition an Oycr-fed horse may have a
foot heated into an Inflammation :and 50
dependent is the foot upon q healthy state
or the animal economy, that for the foot
alone. If nothing else the diet Of the horse
should be regulated with the utmost re-
gard 10 hi, health
! am confident that we give our horses
too much grain and too little hay-c-peC-
tally horses under seven years Of age. who
will work with more endurance and cOur-
aye On a good supply Of graiu-of the lat
ter FAY six quarts Of oats and a pint Of
corn daily. Older horses require aud will
bear more graiu-but even they want
more hay than is usually given. Every
horse should pas a few week. Of each
year without grain, either the first half or
the last half Of the winter. Aud this
mode Of feeding can be adopted without
su-pcnding the animals work.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

The following is the opinion Of the
AgricOid on this disputed subject:
Snow is a good fertilizer. because it is a
bad conductor Of heat, and in preserving
plants from the cold renders the action Of
the manure contained in the soil more
powerful. But this is not all. DR.. Pom
cheur, a French chemist, has observed
that the purest snow always left black
residuum. He examined this and found
it contained particles which had been
held in suspension in the air. and the first
fall Of snow contains the greatest number
Of these, which, collecting around the
plants, form an almost invisible but very
fruitful manure. This soil. which Is
brought from the air by the snow, is not
visible, as one might suppose.
Every one knows that a body Of snow.
however pure, becomes black when it is
melted. Bat this does not arise from the
mud or dust on the ground, but comes
from the atmosphere. This can be proved
by putting a lump Of new fallen snow I'M
der glass bell it will appear black as
soon as IL commences to melt. and on eX-
aiming this pile of particles with the
microscope they are found TO be Of every
conceivable variety. To form an idea OF
the quantity Of these atmospheric sweep
ings look at the particles in ! sunbeam
and then compute how many a shower OF
snow can brin. down. This also explains
why layer Of earth can so quickly col
lcct on a bare rock
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17
SnInhnr for EmrI.

There j. no remedy aud assistant so
easily aud cheaply obtained, 50 harms
less to the fowls, nor 80 ati>fsCtOry IN
its results, as sulphur. 1t being in the
system AS animals to small degree,
there is a greater affinity for il than
there otherwise would be. Ii can be
administered to the fowls by having it
in small box, so that they can help
themselves, or by mixing IL with their
food once week, AS often a. there are
indications Of vermin. Penetrating,
as il does, 10 every part of the system,
all parasites are quickly and surely deN
stroyed. All gapes are said TO be pre-
vented in chickens. Fowls need it
more THAI most animals, their feath-
ers containing between four and i've
per cent. of sulphur. Their eggs also
have a small quantity, which is noticed
by the discOlOring OF silver spoon
when it comes in contact with boiled
egg. Applied externally to the fowls
when on the nest, to the nest itself, or
mixed with the soil in the dusting-
box, it is equally efiicacious in destroy
ing vermin.
TO be used as fumigator of
ings, IL Is necessary to re-lO =
81, alosr ri.- --JuI VI nOusc, unlA q
little saltpetre with the sulphur IN an
iron vessel, aud apply match to me
n'xl .lns ala I ne SHGd% doors and windows
opened in the afternoon for thorough
ventilation.
Lard mixed with sulphur in proper
proportions, and applied as often as is
necessary 10 the feathers on the neck
aud back OF young aud old turkeys, is
a very good - feuua ri against he r.yra
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17
IkeepinS Manure.

The Boston Journal Of Chemistry says
that the sources of loss in the storage of
manure are two: first, the escape of
volatile ammonia and other gases, and
secondly, the loss of valuable salts by
teaching. The first difficulty may be OBJ
waited by covering the excrement with
eight or ten inches of good soil or loan,
which will absorb all escaping gases. \
bushel or so of plaster may be advantage
ously scattered over the heap before the
soil is thrown on. The whole mass should
be perfectly covered, leaving no "chim-
ney = for gaseous emulation. The danger
of teaching may be avoided by covering
the heap with hay or straw sufficiently
thick to she'd most of the rain. II kept
in this way sufficient time, the manure
will undergo spontaneous decomposition,
the products Of which will be ready for
immediate assimilation by plants. The
Usual RFQGeS iaifs to Waste, by Botnt 81 the
above processes, some Of their most valua-
BILE constituents.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17
Glover Turned Under.

Mr.. J. Gregory few years ago moved
from Tennessee and bought plantation
in Murray county. Georgia. The land at
the time he purchased it, with a good sea-
son, would produce ten bushels of wheat
per acre. In October Mr.. Gregory sowed
broadcast fifteen acres of white Boughton
wheat. one bushel to the acre, and in
February following he sowed the same
ground i'm red clover, sowing broadcast in
two ways, one bushel to eight acres. He
harvested ten bushels Of wheat per acre,
and cut fine crop of hay the same sea-
son. The next year he moved two crops
of good clover hay, averaging two tons
per acre. The third crop grew up from
four TO eight inches high. and in October
he plowcd the clover under. blowing deep
and subsoiling; sowed one bushel of white
aNghton wheat per acre. The result was
of cb}rage of thirty and one-half bushels
see. That wheat per acre. Thus, you will
the land m, only manure used to improve
els of wheat SSb thirty and one-half BUSH
ten, was to pio p m he could only, raise
OF clover and subsoil.I P S,rp lo,,t6Iond
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

- IL, 81 q, q, ,-,.o.,
Is salu oy lHosc "ilo a,,Nocate gIea a.,
DIVERSITY Oh crops lIiat us auNa'itage ne , II,
having certainty upon sp ON one one Vi Sug
many crops etltNaleu. Un tnc o. I.,
manu- I'iG peIenl Oh si'gr'al i"'i III Is lu''
capi'ai' Ioor anu sVuu! Ca'l oo iollNt ~.
tarted upon one or more crops anu crater
porht secured ~. III, III.
Farming Is quite me olher GaIIl'lS =
ana tnG great variety Vi s'oCN 10 ne u'' I''
the VIDE range OF crops l nat may DC
grown precluues lIle poSslpn.y Vl Il i"'-
lner win ordinary capita" Hhue It, An,
10 Dreed ana gro" LOT PIol'u All VI Ii'ci y,
All lines oil trade ana commerce ana IN, !ht
professions indicate specllll'es aS leau..,A
more directly toward success success, lhe lsl-
lner OF to-dal !. NOT raising MS crops loL
tue supply OF ms ltlullN' ne II growing
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17
Morrtstowu Items.
MoRRIsTowN March 10.

To the Editors Of the Chronicle.
The "egg business has been lively
one i'm our town for ten days past, one
enterprising dealer having shipped
about 100 barrels, containing on an
average SO dozen eggs to each barrel.
Bu-intss in other produce has been
dull.
The municipal investigation is hold
ing forth nightly at the courthouse,
but as yet nothing has been discovered
of an alarming nature.
The waters have subsidized, and every
body is preparing To go to work. This
is especially the case with farmers who
find the roads 50 bad that they can't
=" 90 anywhere" so, perfurce, they re
main at home at work.
The dsmi-mOndC of our town are
having things made pretty lively for
them now. Unknown parties are
rocking their shanues almost every
night, and they are finding tia difficult
matter to get houses within which to
live.
The coming through Of the mails
created a sensation, and everybody en-
joyed the Intelligence brought us from
the outside world. Our people can APP
pIeClale TdllIOduS aIlcT having Uteu ue-
prived of their benefits for few days.
Work on the Buncombe,n which
was seriously damaged by the freshet,
is being pushed forward with energy,
and trains will soon go through regu-
larry to Wolf Creek
Your correspondent learns that the
flood washed up some human bones
of enormous size, on the farm of Caleb
Crosby, who resides on the north
bank of the Holston, just below Mar
shall's Ferry. The bones of one of
the skeletons is said to be of unusual
size, and is supposed to have been that
of man fully seven feet in height.
1t is not known from what point they
come.
Our people are anxious about the
passage of the option liquor law by the
Legislature, but our Solons are so SIotc,
that many of us are losing faith. Can't
you stir them up on this question ?
Yours, NINo HARTs.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17
ManuriaI vain. of wood Ashes.

=, Il correspondent OF the Country Gen
ee"tdn premises an article on the fertiliz-
ing of aShes. - 50 -, 81. Nv IaiIu
- owes its value to the potash left after
the land is burned over, a. is the case also
in breaking the prairie While the
Western Rural would hardly like to as
sent TO this as proposition, it does not
deny that potash and its combinations are
among the most important constituents
of the soil. The correspondent. after
noting some observations made relative
70 the application Of ashes, says:
In the strongest garden soil | have
noticed it, and also in very poor land.
Unleached ashes have more marked eff
feet, showing the importance Of potash a
manure. The tests that have been made,
so far as | am cOgnizant, always show
that the growth, especially Of grass, cor
responds 10 the amount of ashes applied !;
and the amount may be large-seventy
or eighty bushels per acre, and even more.
The benefit will show at once, but not all
Of it, as the ashes do not give up at once
all they coltain, being slowly dissolved.
so as to supply potash for several years.
This Is my experience, and, believe, the
uniform experience Of every one. The
reason why ashes are not more highly
valued l. that they are too sparingly used.
When sOwn on meadows, few bushels
to the acre are all that are used. As but
a part are dissolved the first year, it will
be readily seen that the effect must be
small-less 50 than that Of plaster. though
plaster is one of the ingredients of ashes.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17
The Oldest Horse.

The POughkeepsie Press gives an ac-
count of horse owned by General CRU
gers, Of West Point in 1910, and then of
considerable age, remarkable as being the
finest parade horse in the State:
lie was model Of beauty, large and
powerful. long, silvery name and tail.
His age at that time is not known. Cen
cral CrugerS, on leaving West Point, sold
the horse for a large sum to Martin Van
Buren,, and he used him as his favorite
saddle horse, during his retirement in
Undertook in 1874. In 1916. Mr.. Van
Buren, and some OF his friends presented
Old Tom to distinguished young Of
ticer in General SCOTS command. and he
was taken to Mexico. At the close Of the
war, General Scott had the horse return
ed to New York, and rode him frequently
on parades. In 1851 he was purchased by
the American Express Company in New
York at a large price, to match similar
horse, and the pair were the admiration
Of the Express people. lie was used
there for five years, and then sent to
Poughkeepsie, where - Old Tom " used
to cart the express for ten years. While
in the hands of the Express Company
here, "TOm had some narrow escapes.
Once, in driving across the track at the
depot, his foot caught fast IN a frog, and
a train approaching ran within a few feet
OF him before it was stopped. To cXtricate
his foot, the entire frog and rail had to be
taken up. In 1866, Tom began to show
his old age, and the Express Company d.
rected him to be sold to a party who
would give him good care. Mr.. Eastman
was the purchaser, and for eight years
"Old Tom has been one of the attrac-
tions at Eastman's place. He has been
in the harness nearly every day, and to
all appearances is yet in his prime. His
special work Is drawing the lawn mower,
and so well educated is he to the duty
that he has frequently, for the gratifica-
ton Of loOkers-On, been left to perform
the work without driver or guide.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17
The Value of Red Glover as Fer.
tiIIzer

A correspondent Of the Southern
Planter and FdrDler says he has ascer-
tanned by tifty-four years farm expert
ence that red clover j. the basis Of all
permanent improvement on Southern
lands. If plaster acts we'll il should be
plentifully supplied to the clover lands.
and lac never knew a good clover ley that
did not make a good crop Of wheat. Clo-
yer is manure both above aud under the
surface the roots are large, run deep and
bring up plant-food from the subsoil that
has been washed in below the reach Of
ordinary NOeleker. fixes nitrogen in the
soil during every stage OF is growth. and
nitrogen is the specific manure for the
wheat crop. \ good crop Of clover has
been estimated a. the equivalent for
twenty loads Of ordinary yard manure for
an acre OF land. Plaster does not always
benefit the wheat but il helps the clover.
II is true that clover is lime plant that
does best on the fOsSilifcrOus limestone
lands. George Guddr-, OF OnOndaga, y.
Y, has some fields that have been crop
ped more than fifty years. with no other
manure than clover and plaster, lie says
"A crop of corn raised on a clover ley needs
but little hOeing, if the cultiyatOr is used
10 keep the surface open 10 the light
shower, and dew.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

A correspondent fthe Prairie Farm
er argues against the ancient practice
of blowing. l am inclined to think
NORTHWESTERN, complete pulverization
and surface manuriug that is the nat
ural decay of vegetable growth is best
for continued fertility, In fact, | have
commenced to practice this theory |
planted go acres ofcOrn the last season,
blowing but acres the balance |
broke with spading pillow and the cul-
tivator, leaving the broken stalks on
the surface The result was average
crops, as good as on the best plowed
land, but not satisfactory, owing TO
the Unprecedented drought and the
universal chinch bug. | shall try
again and report in due season.
L am satisfied of one thing, the man
who will give Us "A machine that will
cut and pulverize perfectly, mix soil
and trash, Will prove u public benefac
tor. l want that machine. The idea
is not very popular as yet, but let us
investigate; let Us get at the facts. My
object ia writing this is to hear from
somebody. Let us find the better way.
Talk about political economy! | can
think of no question of more vital inn
portance than the preservation OF our
soils. The bone aud siuew We hear 20
much about and the vast interests OF
the mighty West all depend upon the
integrity of our soils. Tell us what the
chemists say about the laws of fertiii-
cation, the changes mechanically
chemically or otherwise, what exper-
mentors have had to say on this sub
ject, and oblige many like myself who
are struggling for temporal salvation
by agriculture.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17
Cigars.

The average number Of cigars smoked
each hour in the United States is j,lGS, 900.
During the last fiscal year the import
duties on cigars amounted 10 SO. $50. OGO Il.
The total amount Of taxes on cigars in
currency wa, S33,242, S75 81. Grand total.
$50, 1892, 93G %. The increased taxes on
cigars, which have just gone into effect,
will doubtless in no wise lesson the con-
sumption
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

One thousand shingles laid four inches
10 the weather viii cover one hundred
square feet Of surface, and five pounds Of
shingle nails viii fa-teu them on.
One-tifth more siding and flooring j.
needed than the number Of square feet Of
surface to be covered, because Of the lap
in the siding and matching Of the floor.
One thousand laths will cover seventy
yards Of surface, and eleven pounds Of
lath nails. will nail them on.
Eight bushels Of good lime, sixteen
bushels of sand, and one bushel Of hair,
will make enough good mortar 10 plaster
one hundred square yards.
Five courses Of brick will lay one foot
in height on a chimney, six bricks in a
course will make flue four inches wide
and twelve inches long, and eight inches
wide and sixteen inches long.-COr. Prd.
irie Farmer.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

The recent death Of the three brothers
Delalicld in this city, aged respectively
cighty-one, cighty-three, and cighty-fiye,
and their burial on the same day, has
probably never been paralleled IN this
country, and perhaps not in the world.
An Instance somewhat similar, however,
occurred In New Haven Oh the 10th Of
February last, when William & Atwater,
aged eighty-One, and his sister, Miss
Martha Atwater, died on the same day,
and the funeral Of both took place at the
same time on the Sunday following.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

COUNCIL BLUFFS, March G.-Spring-
vile Grange, Of Pattowattamie county
to-day declared themselves free and indie
pendent from all authority Of the Nation
al and State Oranges, and that their con-
necton herewith is dissolved. The
grievance alleged was that the officers Of
these Oranges had forfeited all conf
dence, mismanaged the finances, and 9TH
erWise wronged them.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

The London EcOHOmist report, q late
decision OF the English Court Of Ex-
chcquer Chamber %, fellows
The decision is 10 the effect that a check
is 10 be treated as any other bill Of ex-
change, rendering the drawer liable to he
sued upon il, if unpaid, by any bona foie
holdcr,whO Is not affected by an equity
attaching TO the party 10 whom or on
whose account the cheek was given.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

A lease for 900 years has just run out
In England. The land is at Wo0lwich,
and was Church property a thousand
years ago, but the Crown leased il for
military purposes; it now reyerts 10 the
heirs Of the original holders.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

A Detroit boys composition The
horse runs so does the Gazelle 30 does
my nose"
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

we tUHK nIaNvz- rrrv- srua
/. tluaan thaSe two CLASSES.
Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-03-17

part by de fore part.