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FLoRTpA WATERMELoNs.

Immense shipments Being Made to the
West
Savannah Advertiser, June 21.
As is we'll known all throughout Flor
ida and Georgia, the crop of melons in
the former state will be unprecedentedly
large, and to dispose of them prOftably
has been a matter of serious concern In
the eyes of all the growers, and caused
them considerable anxiety. Superin-
tendent Haines, of the Atlantic and Gulf
railroad, while down In Florida about
ten days ago, saw this difficulty, and
Immediately set to work to remedy it.
He wrote to parties in several of the
western cities, Offering to place water
melons in those markets by express
trains, fresh and good. The idea was
Immediately taken up, several merchants
agreeing to dispose of twenty car loads
twenty thoussnd) of melons per week.
Mr. Haines Immediately notified the
Floridians of the prospect, and they
assert that they can furnish two hun
dred car loads 1.-TWO hundred thousand)
of melons between now and the 5th of
July.
The cars of the Gulf road not being
adapted to some of the western tracks,
the Green Line cars can alone be used,
and he has written on all sides for them.
These cars are to be partially open so
as 10 allow the air to pass through, and
will have painted IN large letters on
their sides, Fruit Cars 4. and O..
r. R."
The first train of seven cars left Live
Oak yesterday, and goes directly to
Chicago. A second of fourteen cars has
gone down TO load, and viii leave Tues
day morning, and as many cars as can
be had Will he laden with this fruit, and
/ be forwarded.
On the 2Sth OF this month mammoth
/ train of melons viii be dispatched
| which will also take with It delegation
/ of the Florida fruit growers to Chicago
/ who go for the purpose of looking
| around, and making this a permanent
business. If they can ship melons K
advantage, it is thought that other pro
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Footing it Across the Continent.
Think of,what he had to bear"
Detroit Free Press.

Rudolph Bourman, young Swiss,
arrived in this city last Thursday night,
one hundred and thirty five days from
New Jersey, having walked the entire
distance. Bourman left New Jersey on
the 18th of January, without a cent in
his pocket, determined to reach San
Francisco without cost to himself. He
walked from the starting point to Phil
adelphia, thence to Pittsburg, Cincin-
natl. st. Louis, and thence along the
line of the Union Pacific and Central
Pacific railroads, until he arrived here.
He obtained food by asking for it from
men in the section houses along the line
of the railroad, and at almost every
place he stopped at he was kindly
treated, and was furnished with some
thing to eat and place to sleep. He
saws that the Chinese lRbOrers on the
line of the Central Pacific were more
bospitable than the whites on the Union
Pacific On one occasion, while Cross
ing the aIkali desert, he was stopped by
six Indians, who searched him for vain
ables. but finding that he did not have
ANYTHING on his person, left him to per
form his journey alone. Bourman, who
is a composition, came here IN search oi
employ menk-S:Ea Francisco C'aA
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Can a Woman be Widow While
Her Husband Lives 2

A remarkable suit is in progress IN a
San Francisco court. In November,
1872 Jas. C. King shot and killed Ar
thur f. O'Neil in Brooklyn, New York.
King was found guilty of murder IN the
second degree, and was sentenced 10
the penitentiary for life. King had met
a wealthy merchant named Scott IN San
Francisco and he had married the lat
ter's daughter. The union for some
reason turned out TO be most unhappy.
Her father left AL his estate by viii to
Mrs. King on her becoming widow,
and the question now presented TO
San Fraocisco tribunal is, whether she
is entitled, under the viii, TO come into
possession OF the property, though kDg
lat present about thirty-eight years ODD
is now confined IN the state PRISON at
Sing Sing. Mrs. King now contends
that she is a widow fully within the
meaning of the terms Of her father
viii. and therefore entitled to come IN
to the property left by him at the time
of his aecease. The laws of New YORK,
a. represented TO the California judges,
provide that ga person sentenced 20
imprisonment for life shall be deemed
civiIly dead" and that ''no pardon
granted any person who shall be sen
Fenced to imprisonment for life shall be
deemed to restore such person 10 II the
rights Of any previous marriage Inc
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There is an elastic sponge, as it is
called, that is somewhat largely used
now as a substitute for curled hair In
stufing beds, cushions, car seats, etc
but this is an entirely different thing
from the sponge of commerce. Before
it was used for this purpose, it was a
worthless sea grass, growing abun-
dainty among corals in rather shallow
water.
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THE DYING BRAKEMAN.
BY SUSIE DRURY.

Silent they sit in the shadowy room
The lamp burns low
And they wait tn alarm Of the signal bell,
For one has journey to go;
He that sleeDs with the dream on his lip.
And the throbbing breast just hesving so.
Hush he starts, for the Ell gine screams
With human cry:
He wakes with a start. and 's kalamazoo ?"
His white, white lips reply.
Soft steals the hour, aud the wind sweeps by,
With hymn and lullaby, moan and Sigh,
Wall and laughter, and frolicsoIne glee.
Hark it Ftirs the thin drapery
or the easement curtains about his bed.
Once more he wakes, Z" Jac kson." he said
Change cars for Saginaw ahead"
They wipe his brow with womanIy care:
Poor fellow the trips nigh DER at last"
" Just f. 81 his pulse, good fellow, there -
II thought he now had surely passed"
That is the tugboat's whistle, friend"
" hat is't he said ?" "snn ArbOr2" "Ah
When Will the journty end7"
Again the Cd yard engine yelIs,
Some peril at band.
Way, way, sleep on, no red lights gleam :"
|" He seems &c unde stand"
81 So On he comes, faster each time,
On this death-train."
"YpsilRnti for Eel River Road
Change cars again ~
softiy-slowiy passing
The end iE very nigh.
Ibe luster { I the spirit world
Beams on thai closing eye.
He's goinR-close that creaking door,
II moves him just the least ,"
"Grand Trunk Jurction passengers
Change cars fer going Eastl
" Hush 81 tits over. "way."
" 0hat?" "speak to me -
You're reaching the white station now"
He whisper" De-
No, not Del roit brakeman, TO thee
The angel whispered Death, not De-
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The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriPtior Is out OF unpaid. and that
you are requested TO pay mp at once.
We wolld take great pleasure in extend,
ing credit to orr friends and patrons,
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
We are forced 10 adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
~ We enter no new names on our
books without the nonev in adY9cce-
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A BRAND NEW sw1NDLE.
Gold Bars That DIdn't Fool Chicago
Priest

Gold Bars That Didn't Fool a Chicago
Priest.
Several enterprising individuals called
upon Father Cote, of the French Catho-
lie church, corner of HRlsted and Con-
Rress streets, Chicago, recently, with
brand-new swindle. They were shabby
sort of fellows, and conversed In broken
Spanish. One of them, Antonio Con-
tozo, took the good priest aside, and re-
lated a Munschausen tale to him that
savored of the wonderful riches of
Monte Christie, and was otherwise re-
markable. AS the story went, Mr.. Con-
tozo, in company with his particular
friend, Edward Ouora, had left Mexico
during the month of April last, he for
this country and Ouora for Canada.
During their voyage an Englishman on
board the same vessel died, and they
succeeded in getting hold of his keys,
with which they opened his trunks, in
one of which they discovered small
satchel, containing eight bars of gold.
This they carried Fl, and had now In
their possession. With this preliminary
statement, Antonio opened asmall satchel
and displayed an oblong bar, resembling
gold, which measured about six inches
in width, four in breadth, one in thick
ness, and weighed about five pounds.
On the back of each bar was the follow
ing diagram and inscription
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ducts raised by them, forwarded IN this
direction, viii pay, and their effort will
be to place matters on a permanent
basis. The melon trade, by taking this
outlet, viii be very profitable to the
growers, and if facilities are offered
there is no knowing to what extent it
will grow
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08
THE PINE AND THE WALNUT.
BY THOMAS BAILEY ALBRIoH.
lNeiocosfle. lss2.)

(Ne,Oeostle. 1922
A mile or so from the gray little town
On t 3i Reweaste Ptrehed lie ; ;sgq I, oy the ses,
10 The lovely rivers golden broWn)
There lowered, long since an old pine tree
And across the stream, in a right bee-ine.
Like sentry guarding the ruined fort
Was lsrge-lImbed walnut, where the kline
Huddled together in shower ana shine,
Nibbiing the horbsge, sparse and short.
Summer and winter those brave old trees
Watched the blue river that slipt between,
Clothed like empCrors, taking their ease,
Now in ernliDe and low in green.
Many time, when was a lad,
I drifted by with suspended oar,
The Wind in the walnut seemed 30 sad!
But ah, what clustering voice it had
In the rugged pine on the other shore
And often, in restless slumber tost,
seemed to be drifting down the tide,
Hearing the siridsnt wind on the coast,
To die away like murmuring ghost
IN the dropping boughs on the farther side,
Perhaps twas bOyish fantasy,
The dream of a dreamer, half afraid,
That the wind grew sad in the walnut tree,
but sur6Su through the pine Ike the SufglDg sea-
With a sound of distant cannOnade!
Only fantasy Who can tell?
But [ think twill haunt me to the end,
Seeiug what curious things befell
The walnut tree, and the pine we'll
For they went together, friend and friend
VII.
From q sullen cloud broke war at last,
And grim, Eea-dng Of the quarter deck
Took the gaunt old pine for mizzen mast.
In the flame Of battle his Spirit past
And the mizzen dragged by the shattered
wreck
With the Union Jack acroFs him laid,
They bore him back TO the town by the sea
The guns st the Yard his requiem played;
And the AdmIralis coffin, 1t is said,
Was shaped Of the planks of the walnut tree
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question is, though the wife be divorced
and King alive in the flesh, and, though
civilly dead according to the laws of
New York, is Mrs. King a widow in
California? Upon the determination of
that point depends the acquisition and
enjoyment of large property left by
father to q daughter upon the event of
her becoming q widow,
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Oartaiena


Above the word Sc Cartaiena" WAS the
diagram of an urn, and the bronze
blocks had every appearance of the
oennipe article. The tale was well told,
and the fellows acknowledged the fact
of the larceny and their fear of detection
by the friends of the dead Englishman-
They asked the priest to take the blocks
for $500, and use the proceeds from the
sale for charitable purposes. Upon the
priest expressing some increduiity at
the genuineness of the bars, they filed
off some dust from several of the blocks
and offered to let him test it. He ac-
cepted the proposition, and requested
them to call again.
The dust was taken to some experts
and found to be 19 karats gold. Father
Cote went with the story to a police
station, and several officers were de-
tailed to bring in the Mexicans, which
they did. The fellows came TO the
priests house promptly, and again dis
played their gold, and both they and
the bogus stuff were captured. 1t was
found that on a number of sides of the
blocks some genuine gold had been
placed, and, taken altogether, the trick
was a good one, and under ordinary
circumstances would have succeeded in
making victim OF some person.
A WOMAN INITIATEDHTO MASONRY
HarpeT's Bazaar says that it Is q mistake
to suppose that the lady who concealed
herself in a room where = " lodge was
about to De held, and who when discov-
cred was obliged or allowed 20 be init
sted is a myth. The "clock case may
| be a myth, bat the lady is not. She
was the Hon. Mrs. AldEorth, and con-
/ tinued through life to take an active
4 interest In the order into which IN heI
youth she had 50 strangely gained ad-
mission. She founded the Dublin
Benevolent Institution for Orphan
Daughters of Masons. Her portraii
still hangs in the principal lodge room
in Cork, and under it in a glass case th'
apron and jewel she used to wear wheI
she attended lodge meetings.
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II a man wishes to cruelty lacerate
the feelings of an acquaintance he re-
marks: "a COW would regard your
feet with complseence, and, upon,
being questioned Why, he answers /;
:" Because she wonld see at 8 glance that
her hide would not have to be cut down
very much to make shoes for them
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08

CHIoAao's rev directory is out at
last. A comparison of names with st.
Louis and Cincinnati shows Chicago
4O, 600 IN the majority. st. Louis has
IUo' '7ol names, Cincinnati 1O6, 977, and
Chicago lac, 1873. The latter city had
the advantage, however, being the last
to show up.
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TIMELY TOPICS

The Union P4cific threatens a war
against the express companies, propos-
ing to run the cars and do the business
itself. If some of the profits on express
sage wele diverted to modify the
charges on freight and passengers, the
public would bid This new movement
God-speed.
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A mile or so from the gray little town
OF Newcastle, perched like agull By the ses,
On the Kittery side (where the banks snelve dow n
To the lovely rivers golden brown)
There lowered, long since. an old pine tree
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PHYSICIAN in London sends to the
Lancet letter which he received from
a firm of undertakers inclosing a check
for R2 l4s., being five per cent commits
sion on the amount received by the
firm for two funerals furnished on the
physicians recommendation. It had
not occurred to the physician that he
was entitled to commission on funerals
until he received this bribe, and he i'm
mediately inclosed it to the Lancet, in
quiring what he should do with it. He
was advised to send it back, and doubt
less did so. 1t must have produced
queer sensation when the honest doctor
found himself credited with a commits
sion on the funerals of his patients.
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And across the stream, in a right bee-line,
Like a sentry guarding the ruined fort.
was large-lImbed walnut, where the kline
Huddled together in shower ana shine,
Nibbitng the herbsge, sparse and short.
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Summer and winter those brave old trees
Watched the blue river that slipt between,
Leaned to the sunshine and drank the breeze,
Clothed like empCr rors, taking their ease,
Now in erniDe and low in green.
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CoTToN-sPRNNa appears to pay we'll
in England. According to the pros
pectus of new company, emo other
class of industrial investments returns
profits approaching the average divi-
dends earued by the numerous Ian
cashire cotton-spinning and manufac-
turing companies, and it is now gener-
ally admitted thas the profits of public
companies in this branch of industry
are even higher than those of private
firms, many Of these companies paying
dividends of from 10 to 45 per cent per
annum." The names and dividends OF
twenty companies are givenin proof of the
latter statement. OF these companies
the dividends of FIVE average 10 PEI
cent of twelve, % per cent and oi
.hree, Al per cent per annum.
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LONDON advices indicate that the
huancial breeze is over, and attribute
the late crisis to over speculation, par
tieularly IN teas, silks and opium, and
an excess of discounted paper. 1t may
be remarked that in this country also
the tea trade threatens to be overdone,
as 1t now comes round the world to us
both ways, from the east as of old, and
from the west via San Francisco.
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POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL ex-
plains that the increase in the rate to be
charged for registered letters, FROM
eight to ten cents, has been made neces-
sary by the fact that this branch of the
service has not been paying expenses.
The law leaves the rate optional with
the postmaster general, and CreswelI re-
duced 1T from fifteen to eight cents.
There were 100000 letters registered
last year.
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Many time, when was q lad,
I driftsd by with suspended oar,
The Wind in the walnut seemed 40 sad
But ah, what clustering voice it had
In the rugged pine on the other shore!
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-07-08

General Custar's Report Of the Black
Hills IndOrGed by Professor Jennings-
Miners Tn king Ont from Five 60 TVs en-
ty-1iVe Dollars TO the PRn-A Detailed
Account of the Discoveries
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-03-11
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

Whitelaw Reid sent on the 9th $1,000
more to the Kansas and Nebraska grass
hopper regions, from the Tribune dollar
fund.
A dispatch from Rome to the New
York Freem1n's S Journal, names among
the cardinals to be created Monday, the
18th, Archbishop McCloskey, Of New
York.
The President did not, as has been
stated, veto the bill for the equalization
of bountics, except in Withholding his sig
nature. He had, however, prepared >
draft Of veto message in pencil, but it
vas thrown aside.
The President has sent to the Senate
a supplemental treaty with Belgium, with
the view Of securing better reciprocal conn
mercial relations between the two coun-
tries. The Hawaiian treaty was infor-
mally transferred to the new committee
on foreign relations.
The standing committee Of the Epis-
copal Diocese of Central New York, re-
fuses to consent to the conservation Of
Rev. Drs. DcKoven and Jaeger.
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Opening Meetings.

Some Oranges have adopted the plan
open meetings ence month,
to which all are invited and even urged to
attend. At these meetings questions of
vital interest to the farmer are discussed,
lectures given on interesting topics, es-
says read, etc. The effect Of these meet
,ngs cannot but be good. The interest OF
the careless will be enlisted, jelousles and
suspicious removed, sociability foster
ed, and the cause strengthed
every way. The questions discussed at
these public meetings should be those of
political economy. transportation. salaries
of officials, taxation, tariff, ETC., in which
all have an interest, and outsiders should
be induced to participate in their discus.
sion. In one instance, already transpired
this winter. these open meetings have
doubled the strength Of the Grange nu-
mericalIy, and added immeasurabiy to its
interest and intellectual stringth. Try
it, friends. For the first meetings, secure
the services Of good lecturer-one who
will not fail to interest, and publish the
meeting far and wide, and get as great a
turnout as possible. Then announce the
programme Of next meeting, urge all t.
come, and invite all to participate. Th'
result will surprise you. 1t did me-
Master, in Ohio Former.
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WASHINGTON.

Legal Tender Reduction Begun --Of.
Gice.Seekers SnabbeA BY the Prcsk.
dent.-Mcrrfman Resumcs isis AFgu.
mens Against the Pinchback Reso-
lus303.
WASHINGTON, March lO.-The Treasury
balances tomorrow will show decrease
in outstanding legal tenders Of sl.2S5, 100,
an order for canceling that amount hav-
ing been sent to the United States Treas
ury to-day. This will exhibit the out
standing legal tenders at $3.50, l4.eOO.
Other reductions will be made IS national
bank notes are issued.
large number Of Senator's and ex-
members Of the House and members elect
ed. visited the Executive Mansion, some
to pay their respects, but large number
OH business. Several ex-members wanted
the President to provide them with office,
but they received little Or no encourage
mcnt. Only few more nominations will
be sent to the Senate, and were It not for
the Pinchbeck question the Senate could
adjourn within week.
In the Senate. Immediately after the
| reading os the journal, consideration g
the resolution for the admission OF Pinch
beck was resumed and Mr.. Merriman con
tinued his argument in opposition
| Mr.. Merriman concluded his argumen
At o'clock whcn AcCrecry Of Kentucky
obtained the ADor, but yielded for N ex
ecutive session.
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Couious Rains r ronised.

It will be a comfort to those wso have
suffered and are new suffering so severely
ron drouth 20 know that Sc, ists pre-
dict that the spring rains will be unusually
large as consequence Of the long spell OF
Polar weather which we have experienced
during the winter. The theory is that
the amount ofwater distracted from the
passing clouds and vapor la
den winds depends largely, il
not chiefly, upon the cold
ness of the earth's crust and its conse-
quent condensing power. When the
warm and moist spring winds begin to
blow over the country from the Gulf and
the Atlantic, with the return of the great
equator ial air current, they will lmp'nge
upon continent intensely chilled and IN
a condition to condense immense quanti-
ties of vapor. We may, therefore, hope
for the restoration of the balance OF
vapor, which has been lost since the fear
full drouths of last July, since which date
the agricultural interests have suffered
greatly from the general rainlcssness.
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-"If there is prime necessity Of the
hour it is that farmers and workinemen
should COM bine together as vast, indI'
vidual party-knowing nothing ofRepub-
licans or Democrats, and utterly ignoring
the guidance or control of the politicians.
They must trust to themselves, and the
men in their own ranks. They must have
a platform not merely denouncing politl-
cal anl financial rascality, but setting
forth plan of financial reorganization
that will overthrow and break down the
power of the monied rings. A majority
IN Congress and the States will enable
them to accomplish everything. = Work.
in emen's Advocate.