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Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-06
RIVER NEWS.

SIGNAL SERVICE REPORT.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-06
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CHARLEsrowN, Mar. 10, 1859.
II. X. STEVENS:
Dear Sir-This Is 70 certify thai
have used your "BloOd Prepare.
tion" In my family for several
years, and think that, for ScFofa-
Ia or CankeTous Humors or Rheu,
matte affections, II cannot bo 0x-
celledi and as q blood purifier O.
spring medicine, II ls the best
thing I have ever used, and have
used almost everything. I can
eheerfully recommend Il to any
one In need Of such q medicine.
YOurs respectfully,
Mrs. A. A, DIEshioRE,
No. 10 Russell street.
Vicksburg weekly herald., 1877-07-06
RIVER TELEGRAMs.

NEW ORLEANS July 4.-Arrived' Jas
Howard, frtm ST. Louis. Departed: Alice
Brown and baTges, for Ohio river; John
H. Hanna, for Ouachita river; Dawn, fol
Red river. Clear and hot.
MEMPHIS, July 4.-Riyer rose 3 inches
and now stands "a ieet above lOw
water mark. Weather clear; maximum
ell, for New Orleans; Phil Allln, for Vicks
burg.
, 1877-02-10

A CONSULATE RAscAL.-A profess
sional swindler, who has been oper-
ating at various towns in Oregon
and Washington Territory recently,
has succeeded in bilking q firm in
this city quite extensively, and get
ting away with the spoils. The fell
low has recently been travelling un-
der the name of Meyers. but while
operating in the vicinity of Albany
and Harrisburg, Oregon. went
by the name of Davis. Some
months ago he was employed by
Toklas & Singerman of this city, to
sell goods in various towns about
the Sound, and he being quite sue
cessful in his sales his employers
were we'll satisfied with him and re-
posed the utmost confidence in his
honesty. He had not been heard
from for q week, and q few days
since the firm received information
which confirmed their fears. that the
guileless Meyers had suddenly "fold-
ed his tent like the Arab, and silent
ly stole away" taking with him some
$500 belonging to the above firm,
besides several smaller sums from
various parties hereabouts. This
fellow Meyers, alias Davis, is evil
IDENTIFY no novice at tris business he
having been engaged in several very
questionable transactions IN the
Webfoot country, among others that
of "skedadling" with ths funds be-
longing to the Italian Ci Gus, while
acting in the capacity of manager
pro tenn. Meyers, alias Davis, is a
short thick-set man, about 5 feet 6
inches in height, with strongly
marked Jewish features and round
bullet-head of a very peculiar shape,
with hair cropped close; is very glib
of tongue, and has the faculty OF
easily worming himself into the good
graces of his victims. Look out for
him.
, 1877-02-10

STEAMBOAT News. Yakima
came up from Port Gamble yester-
day with q load of lumber for Stet-
son & Post. She had some sixteen
or seventeen passengers, among them
Capts. Swanton of the ship James
Cheston, and Keller Of the King
Phillip. Several ladies were among
the passengers and kept all the mil
liners and dry-goods clerks in town
busy for two or three hours. The
Libby had q lot of Swinomish pro-
duce and few passengers. She
leaves for Bellingham Bay and way
ports tomorrow morning. -. The
Nellie will leave for Snohomish to-
morrow, the Zephyr for Olympia
and the North Pacific for Victoria.
Chapman, who repaired the An
ME Stewards engines, has been put
ting in the last few days on the Ali
da's boilers and has got her all right
again. The Fanny Lake will be
due from the Skagit this morning.
, 1877-02-10

ARRIVAL OF THE DAKoTA.--P. NJ.
IS. s. Dakota, Capt. H. G. Morse.
left San Francisco Jan. 80 at 1890
P. M; first 48 hours out thick fog,
light southerly winds; thence to
Victoria heavy south east gales and
thick weather. Left Victoria at A.:
Is A. M, yesterday. called at Port
Townsend and arrived at Seattle at
1P. M. Her passenger list has al
ready been published. CoNsraNEEs
AND CARGo.-L. l.. A., 10; Hall 4
Paulson, 2; Bean & McC. 1S; Wusth-
off & Valid, %; E. G. Ferguson, II;
Waddell & Miles, 7S; Crawford &
Harrington, "a; G. L. Mitchell, 4;
W. Meydenbauer, 16; W. c., 100;
W. A. Jennings, 95; s. B. Co. 70; J..
Sullivan, "a; W. H. Humphrey, 6;
J. McC lin, Is; Ben Murphy, 1; Frau
enthal 4 Co., 8; Stetson l. Post, 9;
B. ?. \ 7, i; Callighan & Clark, 1;
G. Bros, 18; NJ. P. Maddocks. 2; E.
M. Van Dom, 2; R. F. Freeman, 2;
L. D. Spencer, 2; D. Higgins, 29;J
W. Bagley. IA; s. P. Andrews, l;
Pinkham 4 SAKE, l; E. L. Hall, 6;
L. S. Rowe, 80; B. A. Hill & Co., 5;
J. Collins, l; P. West, C; A. Sny-
der, l c; J. Cathcart, 1; Raymond &
Wiltshire, /; Dexter Horton & Co.,
III. NJ. Coleman, 4; J. L. jamie
son, 8; M. A. Kelly 4 Co., 81; E. L.
Marshall, 4; J. McCrea. 4; j. Nc
Pherson, l; Seattle Gas Light Co.;
in all 68 tons.
APoLoaETIC.-Much to our regret
we are obliged to omit the specially
articles usually introduced into our
Sunday issue. The reason for this
is our recent recovery from severe
bilious attack and the fear of re-
lapse if VT should overwork ourself
too soon after getting out.
, 1877-02-10
A Coop vrssrn.-The bark King

A Coop VEssEL.-The bark King
Phillip, which was q full-rigged
ship until within few months. Is
one of the best business vessels in
the entire coasting trade. She be-
longs to the Puget Mill Co., which
corporation does not 60 as much on
speed as upon good carrying caps-
city. She made ten round trips dur
ing the year 1876, and while she is
hardly up to the Forest Queen or
Dashing Wave, for speed, she great
ly surpasses both in the size Of car
goes carried by her. In the ton
trips above mentioned, the King
Phillip carried into San Francisco
8,371 .666 feet of lumber. against T.
095, 900 feet for the Dashing Wave
and 6. Sac, 900 for the Forest Queen.
Some gentleman at Port Gamble
thinks "all three did WE'LL" and his
head is particularly level. In fact,
the prejudice in favor of concave
lines is almost entirely obliterated
by the experience of the past quar-
ter-century. The famous Stag
hound, Ino. Swordfish, Flying
Cloud and Challenge, all had their
day and have been superseded by
ships of model that is sharp only
under water. When the Forest
Queen came to San Francisco, they
said she was an overgrown italian
fishing-boat and the Western
Shore was called "Ace Simpsons
Ark" But just as soon as. these
vessels establish a reputation for
speed, these same iconoclasts begin
to discover rare marks of beauty
about them. They are all pretty
enough, if they only make money.
BASKETS. were shown some
baskets of various sizes yesterday at
T. P. Freeman's store, that were
made from the vine maple which
grows upon White River. By buy
ing these baskets when you need
them, you encourage home industry
and help to keep coin in the country.
SALE OF FURNITURE.-Now then,
is your chance tolay in good stock
of furniture. The household fix
lures of Mrs. Robbins are to be sold
at auction on the 18th inst, and all
the articles, being of very choice
character, should command ready
sale.
, 1877-02-10
From the s~lnomish.
LA CoNNEB, Feb. 2, 1877

La CONNER, Feb. 2, 1877.
FRIENDLY DIsPATCH:-Within two
short weeks inst passed, "The angel
Of death spread his wings on the blast,
and breathed in the face of oar chill
dren as he passed" laying desolate
the hearts of four families here.
Five children have gone hence to
return no moro. Two of the chill
dren died within few hours after
being first seized by the disease.
The three others fingered from eight
to fourteen days. -Four others are
still sick, also one adult, but We feel
confident they are recovering.
Your physician calls the disease
the "spotted fever" This fever, I
understand, is not uncommon in
some of the Western States. It Is
new here, we heretofore having en-
joyed a singular immunity from all
malarial diseases. Can it be that as
we reclaim the fats, dyking off the
salt water, we are engendering ma
laria in its worst form? Are we,
whilst turning out the finest grain
on the coast, fostering the most ma
lignant of malaria? If the shutting
out of the salt water has caused this
disease, will it not increase from
year to year. as the lands are re-
claimed? If it arises from this cause
and has been so violent during the
winter months, what are we to ex-
pect during the summer? If it has
been imported here by recent immi-
grants, will it die out? Three of the
children died at La Conner; one on
a farm on the flats about mile and
a half from town; another about
three miles from town.
Report says small boat contain
ing two brothers Kelly. was capsized
in Bellingham Bay on Wednesday,
and the men supposed to have been
drowned.
Fears are entertained for the safe
ty of the Bellingham Bay Coal Co. 8
bark Amethyst now twenty-seven
days out from San Francisco bound
for Sehome, in ballast. She is sup
posed to be at least disabled.
We we're visited this morning by
an extreme high tide which over
flowed several dykes in this vicinity
but did very slight damage beyond
saturating the newly plowed lands
with salt.
At 5 P. NJ. the welcome whistle of
the steamer j. B. Libby greeted our
ears and few minutes after her ar
rival the genial countenance of Capt.
Tom Brennan illuminated our door,
with the. Seattle MORNING DIsPATcH"
in his hands. "All that glitters is
not gold," but Tom is rough dia-
mond, and were there more such
men in the world the rest of us would
be happier for if. x. S.
, 1877-02-10

From Me Daily Of Sunday
ALIvELY SCENE. How we longed
for an hour of poor Billy Flies
graphic pencil, yesterday. 1t was
nearly one o'clock as the revenue
cutter Oliver Wolcott steamed away
from the Talbot bunkers, saluting
the Tacoma as the latter swung the
ship Western Shore at her anchors.
just then the heavy bass whistle of
the Dakota sounded abreast of the
Belltown wharf. It would have
been q correct view of a lively day
in Seattle.
Cor AGRoUND.-Schooner Alice
(three-masted) left Port Gamble day
before yesterday in tow of the
steamer Cyrus Walker, but heavy
wind was blowing at the time and
the steamer was unable to handle
her. She kept on making leeway
and finally got aground upon Whis-
Ky Spit. but was got off uninjured
and proceeded on her voyage with
out need of repairs.
Hon. H. A. WEBSTER. This gen.
tloman one of the few survivors of
the "days of 49," gave US a domicil-
iary visit yesterday morning and re-
turned home ON the Oliver Wolcott.
The collector is one of the few men
in political life whose friendships
soar above the sordid considerations
of partisan feelings, hence his per-
sonal popularity.
The "TACoMA. Yesterday this
fine tug came into the harbor with
two frst-c1ass vessels in tow-the
renowned Coos Bay clipper ship
Western Shore and the sturdy relia-
BILE old ship Shirley. Leaving the
Oregon ship at anchor, off Craw-
ford l. Harrington's wharf. she went
off with. the Shirley to Tacoma.
ON DECK. - Capt. Tom Wright
has resumed charge of the Zephyr
since his return from the British
possessions. She leaves for Olym-
pia tomorrow.
, 1877-02-10
Local News.
From Daily Of Saturday.:

From Daily Of Saturday:
A DEVIL F1sH.-A large specimen
of the sepia octopus or devil fish. so
graphically described in Victor HUI
go's book entitled the "Travaileurs
de la Mer," was on exhibition at the
fish market near the foot of Mill
street. 1t measured over six feet
across the extremities and would be
an ugly customer to catch bather
and hold him under water long
enough for his wife and mother-in-
law to divide the life insurance
money.
Nor THERE EITHER. The young
man who gets up the locals on the
Latelligemcer, need not take us to task
for not attending DIR. Brenan's lee
lures. He couldn't go himself, He
was too busy ransacking his files OF
the San Diego World for eucalyptus
items to re-write and wiring in as
local matters of King county, W. T.
New SOCIETY. friend, Prof.
W. II. Roberts, of Olympia, has
been in town for a couple of days
past. He is q devoted advocate Of
temperance and we learn that he
proposes to organize a new society
which forbids eating mackerel fol-
breakfast. This is striking at the
root of the evil. certainly.
ALL SAFE.-The missing man,
Drew. cousin of our friend Mike at
Port Gamble, has turned up safe
'and sound. In Pierce county, where
he devotes the bulk of his time tc
reading the obituaries and eulogies
upon his virtues, that have appeared
in the Sound papers since his sup
posed demise.
POLICE COURT. - Another OlSOf
derly individual was arraigned be
fore Justice Selye yesterday, and
being unable to furnish the custom
ary equivalent" he is Of necessity
compelled to accept the hospitalitiet
of the city prison for the next si1
days.
INsANE.-A farmer from Dunge
ness who had been on q visit to Ma
naimo. became crazy on a recent
voyage of the schooner Perkins from
the latter place to Victoria. He il
now in the Insane Hospital at the
island city.
, 1877-02-10
District Court.

Territory Of Washington vs. Charles
James--Assault and battery. Verdict
of guilty.
Territory 70. Robert G. Follier--
Grand larceny. Verdict Of guilty.
F. Matthias. executor. vs. T. S. Russ
sell and wife For confirmation of sale.
Sale confirmed.
I. w. Buzby ". Goliath & RAIDER
For debt. Leave given 70 amend an
answer.
Maggie N. Gillian ". Daniel Gillian
Divorce. Continued.
Robert Johuston Va. Bark Cambridge
: In Admiralty. Order to hls q new
libel by Monday next, and claimants to
plead on Tuesday or answer Wednes.
day.
Territory Of Washington VI. Han Yam
For keeping gambling house. Ar
raigned and pleads not guilty.
, 1877-02-10
Real Estate Transactions.

The following is list of real es
state sales in King county for the
week ending Thursday, January 81
1877:
s. & W. W. R. r. Co. to John F.
Olsen, block 81 IN Union City.$ Is
A. A. Denny and wife to Charles
Mcdonald. lot 4. block "B." A.
A. Denny's addition. -. 10(
E. A Stacey to w. P. Dinsmore,
lott. block 80, Bell & Denny's
Henry Price to Y. v. Caons ct al,
lots 4. 6 and Z. block 2. lat addi-
ton Seattle Homestead Associa-
uon. ........... ....... A4N
Thos. J. Jackson to James Taylor.
lots 5, IL. 13 and IA. block 20.
Laws addition. ................. LOU
D. s. smith and wife to Leonard
and Alfred Smith, lot l. section
2, township "a. range 4 east, 81
A Mackintosh to LIS. Stevens. lots
1.2. 3. 4, 5, and 6. block 10. Nor
thern addition. ................ zoe
L. s. Stevens to b. L. Martin, lot
6. block 3, Cove addition. $50. 81
A. A. Denny and wife to VIM. b.
Surber, lot 5. block 3D." A. A.
Denny's addition. ........... 1OC
E. A. Stacey and husband to VIM.
H. Surber. lot 8, block %. Bell
& Denny's plat. t................ 57S
Jas. McNaught and wife to G. NJ.
Rradshaw 1Ofa 2 and 9 block 73
, 1877-02-10
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In this city. Feb. I'd, of scarlet fever, Mary
Elizabeth Downs, aged years and days.
Funeral service at II O'Clock to- day, At the
residence. corner Fourth and errace streets.
hsssschusetts papers please copy
Thank God. said. the pain is past.
1hs anguish wild il DER;
The thr0bhing heart is still at last,
She ns'er can suffer more
NOW, though Hfe's joys to me are o'er,
Her joys have just begun;
Nor pain hor death can reach her more
Ny God. thy viii be done.
, 1877-02-10

ST1NGY CLUB.-The formation of
an ASSOCIATION with the above title
was effected yesterday by number
Of young men in this city. One of
the principal rules of the club is,
members must never spend cent
when it can possibly be avoided.
No person can join the club unless
he can furnish satisfactory evidence
that he is head over heels in debt.
Any member caught creating" will
be expelled. We are promised q full
account OF the transaction Of the club
at their next meeting. SIC se,nper
stingycus.
CoA1.-The largest shipment of
coal during January was 1850 tons,
by ship Ell Dorado, and the smallest
366 tons by steamer Dakota. The
total amount shipped was 1851
tons, of which the Seattle Co. ship
ped $3.50, 1910 by the Talbot and
425 by the Renton.
EAsrw1cK, MoRR1s & Co.-This
firm of civil engineers are getting
out a map of this portion of the
Territory. They will have it printed
East at a low rate SO IS to be: within
easy reach Of immigrants. Itis some-
thing that has long been needed and
should command q ready sale.
, 1877-02-10
TERMS OF HOLDING COURT.
SUPREME COURT.

SUPREME COURT.
At Olympia. the second Monday in July.
DISTRICT COURT. THIRD DISTRICT.
Steilacoom Monday Of January and
d8rst Monday in Au ust.
Seattle-Fourth Monday of January and third
Monday of August.
Port Townsend-Fourth Monday OF Febru-
ary and second Monday Of September,
Snohomish City-Third Tuesday Of March
and third TUESDAY, of November of each year.
, 1877-02-10
Open ct all Hours.
Notice..

A IL PERSONS are cautioned against nego-
"A tisting certain promissory notes for three
thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars 49,.
1901 each. dated Victoria. B. c., December 14th,
1876. given tv L. L, Leathers by Charles MOI.
ton, william Sterling and Robert Lipsett.
c. MORTON.
VIM. STERLING.
p, R LIPSETT,
JOSHUA DAWES.
Also certain promissory note Of saIae dsts.
given to L. l.. Lesthers for the sum Of two
thousand 1--WE hundred dollars ($2, ,5OO), given
by w. p. 6ayWard. W. P. SAYWARD.
J. p. DAVIES. ja17-dlw.W2m
, 1877-02-10
Official Directory.


Bailey Gatzert, John Lesry. A. A. Denny, s.
Kenny, G-orgs w. Hall. w. N. Bell, Frank
Matthias.
, 1877-02-10
Weekly Puget Sound Dispatch.
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TE1OS. b. MERRY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Terms Of Weekly:
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Rates Of Advertising:

Dne Square of12 Lines. 1st Insertion. Isl o.
Each Subsequent Insertion. 81
Yearly and quarterly advertisements st tn
lowest rates.
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17

NORTH STRATFORD ". HI.
willard House, G. 3. Bailey & Co.
prietOrs.
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17
Tight Barns for Hay.

The general opinion among farmers proba-
bly, is, that barns with air spaces between the
boarding are better adapted to cure and pre-
serve hay than barns with very tight board
ing and a tight bottom. But this opinion is
founded upon the supposed fac. that free ac-
cess of air will assist in carrying OFT surplus
moisture, and prevent heating and ferment-
alton, which supposed fact is not fact at all,
when applied to body of uncured hay.
When this uncured grass is spread in thin
layers on the field and exposed to the air, the
moisture is carried off so rapidly as not to
permit any heating or fermen tation, but
when placed in thick body in NOW, the
heat, with access of air, causes rapid fer
mentation. The oxygen of the air feeds the
| fermentation, and thus becomes the active
cause of its destruction. This principle is
| familiar to the good housewife who preserves
her fruit in an alright jar. We tried an ex-
pertinent some years ago, which applied this
principle to keeping green clover. We took a
large linseed oil cask, unheaded one end,
| filled it with green clover just in blossom,
containing all its sap, rammed in solid, re-
placed the head, drove the hoops, and then
stopped all air spaces with white lead and
paint. On opening, ten months after, the
clover blossoms were found almost as bright
as when put in.
Only few p1onths ago, the Elmira Farm
ers' Club mentioned, as warning to one who
asked advice about putting uncured hay in
barns, that member of the club had lost
his barn by fire, caused by filling cask with
green clover, rammed in, and covering the
top with two or three inches of earth. This
mishap was caused by not sufficiently ex-
Guiding the air. 1t did not invalidate the
principle that green grass may be kept in air.
tight receptacles, only that it could not be
preserved with access of air. Almost every
farmer has observed that grass needs more
curing to put in stack than in barn, showing
that just in proportion as the air is excluded
may the hay be put in uncured. The tighter
then the barns are made, the greener may the
grass be put in NOW. 1t is of great service to
exclude the air from the sides and bottom of
the NOW, even with access of air at the top.
Then the heating and fermentation take
place so slowly, turning the moisture into
very thin, gassy vapor, it escapes at the top or
passes of. If hay, or the fodder to be kept,
is packed very solid, it affords less access to
air, and thus heats less rapidly, and may es-
cape injury, when if loose it would be de-
destroyed by destructive fermentation.
I do not advise anybody to put uncured
grass into the barn, but there is no doubt
that hay is greatly injured by too much dry
ing as a general rule. 1t should be cured
only as much as is necessary to secure its
preservation. All drying increases the woody
fibre. 1t will be seen that the best means of
keeping slightly cured hay is to have very
tight barns.-Country Gentleman.
The Portland daily press., 1877-07-17

each hill or along the rows. Roots can
scarcely be grown without it or an equiva-
lent substitute, and cabbages, tomatoes, and
melons are wonderfully increased in vigor,
size, and earliness of maturity by moder-
ate application of it.
Phosphate of lime is the next valuable
mineral fertilizer to guano. Hundreds OF
thousands of tons of this rock are mined
and prepared with sulphuric acid for the
manufacture of superphosphate yearly. This
fertilizer provides the precise element needed
for the grain; it is therefore best adapted to
grain crops, corn, oats, wheat, and barley,
and it is a specific fertilizer for root crops,
pushing forward the growth of the root sur
prisingIy. Nitrate of soda and potash salts
are mined in large quantities, and are much
less frequently used than they should be.
For grass, oats, potatoes and large leaved
crops, these substances, used in moderation,
are indispensable when profit is desired. Muir
late of potash, potassium chloride and 9TH
er waste products of the art, are also very
valuable. Then there are many other waste
substances that may be used with great adj
vantage. The refuse OF tish-oil factories, flsh
guano; the refuse of slaughter-houses, blood,
bone and meat scrap, dried and ground; the
refuse of vegetable-oil factories castor pumice,
peanut, cotton-seed, land linseed cake; all
these are very excellent fertilizers, and the
three last are most valuable articles for feed
ing cattle, and so indirectly coming to the
soil as fertilizer.
But it requires some considerable aequaint-
ance with agricultural chemistry TO use any
of these fertilizers with judgment and success.
Wrongly used as to time and quantity, the
crop may be injured or destroyed. 1t is,
therefore safest for those who are not pre-
pared to use the crude materials to procure
some of the many well compounded prepared
fertilizers which are in the market. These
are made with great care and tested by MI
merous experiments. The long and
patient Investigations of Lawes and
Gilbert in England, of Prof. George
Vile and others in France, of the
many German Professors Of agricultal chem
istry and of some of our own native experts
in this line have led to very complete
knowledge OF the proper composition and use
of these complete fertilizers. The itera-
ture Of this subject, in which the experiments
and character of the fertilizers are detailed,
include many needful books and Journals.
Lawes' and Gbert's reports are very volum-
inous and instructive; Prof. Vile's little
work on his Complete System of Manuring
has been eXcellently translated by an Ameri-
can lady-Miss Howard, of Georgia-and his
formulas for different crops are prepared for
use by Mr.. Charles sNapes, the agricultal
chemist OF New York. Prof. Stockbridge, OF
the Massachusetts Agricultural College, has
composed some formulas for various crops
which are prepared under his supervision.-
N. Y. Times