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The New York herald., 1878-11-02
DtSORDERLY HOUSE RAIDED.

Michael waIlins, of No. 445 Madison street, Brook.
lyn, complained at the Fourtn precinct station house
last night that he had been swindled OF $40
disorderiy house In North william street. by Mary
Marks, one OF tho inmates Mary arrested, but the
svideuce not being sufficient, she was discouraged
Captain Petty then dclaiicd a squad OF detcctivei
disguised as citizcns 10 raid the nouse Tbey com.
menced their operations about haii-past niue last
nish ana AZ ten O'Clock they returned 10 the ststou
house, having IN custody nve prisoners, two men
aud three women. Inc prisoners we're locked IN
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
FROST IN ALABAMA.

MoSrGoMsRY, Nov. l, 1878.
The Montgomery Relief COMMITTEE to-day tor
wardsd 800 the benefit OF the wife and children
OF Lieutenant Bepnsr, OF tae United States Army,
who losI his Iifc oy yellow lever while IN command
OF the relief boat vsiting the ostraczed community
on the M,ssissippi River.
There was a heavy frost and plenty OF ice here shs
morning.
Montgomery hns raised all quarantines, and freight.
age aua travel are now Unrestricted
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
WHAT LITTLE GIRLS CAN DO.

number OF little girls residing In the neighbor.
hood OF East 1880 started a children's fair re-
Gently benefit OF the sufferers by the fever In
the South How this charitable enterprise succeeded
is shown in the subjonsd CON mmuncation sent with
the proceeds of the fair TO this ONCE. The money
will be disposed Of by the HERALD as requested:-
NEW YoRK Nov 1. 1873
To ruK EDITOR HKRALp:-
We send you the OF 81 H. the proeee DIS OF chill
drens held No o. East 1884 street. In aid of the
yellow fever suercs Please place the money to thai
count, and oblige LIZZIE YOUNG, !
EMILY YOUNG, ixanagers
MAUDE GEORGE
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
HOSPITAL CLOSED.

HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss, Nov. ], 1878.
Six new cases Of yellow lever ana one death yes
terday and four new cases but no deaths today. A
heavy rost ie last night and there prospects of
another tonight. The hospital closed to-day and
business houses were opened.
OsYKA. Miss.-rhe lever is over. There was
heavy irost and ice this morning
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
A KILLING FROST.

AoBILx, Ala, Nov ], 1878
We had a Killing frost In the city limits this morn
ing. The Board OF Health mages NO report for The
past twenly-iour hours. Tney consider u unnecss-
sary in view that the backbone OF tho lever
is broken. All quarantine restrictions VIII De re-
moved to-m0rrow uext day Tho Mobile and OHIO
Railroad viii bringing freight into the city
tomorrow.
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
rRAFFIC INCREASING.

81. LOUIS, Nov. J. 1873
Since the raising OF quarantine IN the different
parts OF the South travel and trade arc reviv-
ing in a marked degree All the roads
ming south and northwest from st. Louis have
restored through slecpers to their trains and
freight OF all kinds Is being taken Travel and traic
to nearly all points already very large and rapidly
increasing
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
TWO DEATHS IN CHATTANOOGA.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov !, 1878.
Dr.. Vandeman's report Tor the twenty -iourth0urs
ended At iour O'Clock this afternoon announces the
death OF c. h. Curry and William Butler. No new
cases There heavy frost and ice bsre this morn
ing. Refugees are returning TO Town. Colonel Hardee
aud Dr. Cochran, OF the National Yello~ Fever Com
mission, here to-day investigating the introduce
ton and spread OF the disease at this place
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
ALL SAINTS DAY IN NEW ORLEANS.

NEW ORLEANs, Nov. !, 1873.
Yesterday being All Saints' Day, services took
place In the Catholic and Episcopal churchsA The
decoration OF lombs In the Genet general
and elaborate. The visitors we're moro numerous
lnan usual
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
LATEST FROM HE FEVER DISTRICTS
LIear paAlns IN NLw onLEANs.

HIGHT DEATHS ~ NEw ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS. La, Nov. 1, 1873.
The weather to-day is clear ana cool Eighty
new Of yellow lever anu deaths are
reported Tor the past twenty.io hours Tue foot
ings TO date 10 1863 cases and 1887 Deaths OF
the 50 cases OF icver reported to the
Board VI Health to-day only are classsd
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
PASTOR voSBURGHS DEPARTURE.

The Rev. George b Yosburgh LETT Jersey City sud.
denly on a late train on the Pennsyivana Railroad
on Thursday night. HIS frienus surprised his
sudden abd profe Ignorance OF the rev.
sfehd gen tismaus Whereabouts or mis- inteDued des-
tInaton.
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
SAFE TO RETURN.

GREENviLLE, MISS, Nov ], 1878.
No new cases here. There was u decided frost last
night rho Board OF Health deem IL safe for rsfu
gees 10 return.
The New York herald., 1878-11-02

FOR LIEUTENANT BENNEn's FAMILY.
The boxes In the Post once and statioos, In which,
for the last few days, contributions have been
ceived for the benent OF the family OF Lieutenant
Bsnner, were removed yesterday. The contribution
yesterday amounted to SIS 55, making total OF $500
heavy gold ring was found 10 the box at station d,
which viii oe rallied II not called Tor IN three dsya
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
p1srnlpur1oN OF THE FRENCH FUND.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE FRENCH FUND.
WARRINGTON, Nov. /, 1878.
Tho Secretary OF Stale. at the request OF N. do
Marvs. edtor Of LIE Nessd0ey Frunoo- american has
promised send 900 additional from the fund in
his hands the Union Francass OF New Orleans for
the relief Of French residents suffering from yellow
fever.
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
AID FOR THE suFrERERs.
ron LIEUTENANT BENNEn's j

'sH. W. Tn. NJ" sent IS TO the HExALD once yes.
tsrday for the yellow fever sunererA
The New York herald., 1878-11-02
GENEROUS OFFER FROM THE SOUTH.
At a meeting Of the Southern Relief Committee or
the Chamber OF Commerce yesterday tho following
letter WAS read

letter was road
ArrrvSs, Ala, Oct 20 1873.
To SECRETARY SOUTHERN RELfKF COMMITTEE
CHAMBER or CoMnFRcK-
We have noticed with satisacton your generous
don alton for the founding OF fund which shall
support the widow and orphans OF Leuen Benner
Now while cannot at present comm and the money
plicate this generosity have orr 30 that
hope beneficial to OF the family.
We have charge Of one of the most honrshng female
leges In the SOUTH and doors TO the daughter
daughters of Lieutenant Benner tree OF charge 10 all
its for the entire also
To that Of reliable citizens offers
dausnter for length of time she wishes to
main IN school, and f there than thev
easily he provided for in noble little The
of the late Butler Anderson the ransda hero Is
spend three with under the
We would be glad 20 hs from you upon the bcc
Very respectfully, Mrs. LOUISE f. SMITH.
SECRETARY of Athens Fem ale College.
The New York herald., 1878-11-02

BARON Won wYDENBRUCK.
Baron Won W wydenbruck, who was Austrian Nina
ter Al Washington during the rsigu OF the Emperor
Macmillan in Mexico, Is dead
The New York herald., 1878-11-02

CHrEF OF JUSTICE ROBERT A. HARRISON.
Chief Of Justice Robert A. Harrison disd as To.
ronto, OuL, at half-past six yesterday morning.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05
Chemical Fertilizers.

Ii commercial or chemical fertil-
izers are ever to get into more gen
eral use, the farmers of the country
must have some satisfactory assur-
ance, made by official analysis, that
they are what they are represented
to be. 1t is true that a purchaser
will not be likely to be taken in
twice with the same manufacture.
but very many individual purchas-
ers may be, and then, too, there
are scores of different kinds. The
farmer wants something more than
the word Of the seller, whatever
his standing may be. Articles SELL
ing at the high rate per ton as a
fertilizer, should have a known,
stamped statement of its contents,
and then purchasers can invest in
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05
A New System Of Washing.

A system of washing clothes has
lately been introduced IN some
French towns which IL worthy of
special mention. It's economy is
SC great as to greatly reduce the
cost. This is the process: One
kilo 1.-TWO pounds) Of soap IS re-
duced with a little water to a sort
of pap, which, having been slightly
warmed, is cooled in 40 liters Go
gallons) of water, to which is added
n spoonful of turpentine oil and
two spoOnsful of ammonla; then
the mixture is agitated. The water
is kept at a temperature which may
be borne by the hand. In this So
luton the white clothes are put,
and left there for two hours before
washing them with soap, taking
care in the meantime, to'coyer the
tub. The solution may be warmed
again and used once more, but 1t
will be necessary to add half a
spoonful of turpcntlne and another
spoonful of ammonia. Once washed
with soap, the clothes are put III
warm water and the blue is applied.
This process, it IS obvious, 81 ares
much time, labor and fuel, while it
gives to the clothes a whiteness
much superior to that obtained by
any other method, and the destruc-
tive use Of the wasboard or of
pounding is not necessary to clean
the clothes from the impurities
which they contain.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05

ter and lose IN summ,f. i seems
probable that warm stable, would
make winter nearly or quite as
favorable as any season Of the Year.
1t is then "a real economy to pro
vide pastures with shade trees, or
other shelters from the rays Of the
sun, and even more of an economy
to provide warm stables IN winter.
The present objection to stables Il
that the cattle bought by the west
ern feeder are too wild to be prof.
tably stabbed; but this must become
less and less of an objection /; the
feeder must also breed and raise his
cattle-he will then know not only
that they are well bred, but that
they are well raised, which is
scarcely less important.
PRACTICAL CONCLUSIONS.
And, finally, let us not be led
from proper practices by those who
claim that beef can be made more
cheaply at one age, or one season,
than at another /; there is but one
best way, and that is to feed a full
ration from birth till ready for
market. Some of our writer's APP
pear to forget that if a calf gains
two or three times as much from Il
given quantity of food as an older
animal, such gain contains but half
or a third as much dry substance ;
and that if winter is an unfayorable
period for fattening, summer is
liable to the same objection. The
skillful feeder will make his ami
mails as comfortable as possible in
both win er and summer. In the
former season, he will add enough
pea or bean meal, bran, oll-cake,
malt sprouts, &C., to his corn and
hay, to make the nutritive ration a
proper one !; in the latter season, he
will give enough corr to supply the
deficiency of his pasture grass in
carbhydrates and fat, and not for
get the extra / quirement for salt.
These are the most important
points in cattle feeding that are
neglected, both in the East and
West. They apply to IL whole
country F; there is nothing visionary
or theoretical $50 called) about
them ; they are the deductions Of
modern research, which, though
performed in less time, can chal'
lenge that iii any other department
of science for carefulness, accuracy
and reliability.
ID. E. SALMON, ID. y. NJ.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05
(FrOm a White NJ untain Letter
Yankee Thrift.

The walters here at the Profile
House are all students. College
boys and seminary girls answer to
the beck and nod in the dining
ROOM, and excellent walters they
make. A number OF the girls IN
seasons past have made a very
strong impression upon the hotel
guests, and several matrimonial
affairs have been the result. Ex-
cellent wives they have made, too.
And why shouldn't they A BASH
full young doctor fell head and ears
over in love with the damsel who
served his chops and omelettes. He
watched her every movement, and
looked jealous when another of his
sex extracted "a smile from her.
After he left the hotel he sent Il
handsome diamond ring to her, and
asked her Tiff he might marry
her. That was the long and short
Of the letter, and she-verv wisely
said he might. Charley Greenleaf,
the jolly proprietor, says that he
will attend the wedding and will do
the handsome, for the girl was one
Of his best walters.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05

them with "A degree of knowledge
of their value for their particular
lands. which Will afford them ne
ccssary aid in making a selection.
In England fertilizers u no
sale unless u guarantee anu ANALYSIS
accompanies it. Until tins security
was obtained the quantity OF tertll-
izers sold had greatly diminished +;
but since the sales have largely m
creased. All that our farmers de
mand. and which they have a right
to demand i a correct statement
of the component parts OF the Ter
t|ilizer. They are unwilling TO buy
a..pig in a poke" and they are
right. Give them a good article.
and they Will freely invest.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05
Over-Stufing Babies.

"A doctor writes: During the
first year children are, us a rule,
stuffed early and late; hence the
greatest mortality is at that age.
After this they are allowed more
time between meals; hence a less
proportion die. For example, while
One-third Of the deaths, according
to the mortality reports, are of
children under M year, only about
one-fifth are between one and five
years. After five years of age chill
dren are fed on something like the
three-meal system, and compare
lively very few die between five and
thirty years of age. In spite of
these figures, or because their sig
nificance has not been noted, it has
not occurred to the people to begin
with three meals. The farmer
who wants to raise the best possible
animal from the calf, lets the crea-
ture suckle In the morning at milk
ing time and again at night, with
possibly a meal at noon. He is wise
enough to feed his calf only twice,
or at once only three times a day,
and the result is that the calf thrives
from birth and sickness is I'M
known. The same farmer has a
baby born, and a contrary course is
pursued with "a contrary result.
Even before nature supplies he
food, before the mothers milk
comes, the ignorant nurse doses the
baby with sweetened water or cows
milk. This results in stomachache
and the cries Of pain being mis-
taken for cries of hunger, down
goes another dose, until finally,
when the mothers milk does come.
the child's stomach is in "a condi-
ton to revolt at anything. If, ow-
ing to a vigorous constitution, the
little victim goes along for "a few
weeks or months, it is generally fed
every hour or ~Oftener, unless it
happens to be, as is often the case,
sleeping off a surfeit, as an adult
sleeps off a "drunk."
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05
Rundown Lands.

The Southern Agrlculturlst thus
advocates the use of clover. 1t Is
unfortunately a fact, however. that
on some lands clover seeds Will not
take" and IN order to insure sue
cess. careful working of the soll
and the use of plaster and lime are
absolutely necessary.
Ii vou have an old work out
piece of land. now is the time to
reiuyenate it. Glover seed is
cheaper than ever known III this
market. At any price and at all
times it is, and ever Will be the
cheapest fertilizer known to agrl-
culture. No land SO poor but Will
row clover. and the longer IT Is
grown the richer the soil becomes.
Ii the land is not designed for any
other crop, pillow. p~ulverlze. and
after sowing drag it with a brush
or 90 over it with Il roller. DO not
be afraid to invest IN seed or III
sowing sufficient quantity after 1t
is bought. If Won are sowing es-
pecially to enrich your land, SOW
clover only if for pasture, the more
kinds the better the stock Will do.
Your lands treated thus can be re-
claimed, and you Will soon see that
some magician has been silently at
work for YOU.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05
The Care of Farm Wagons
and implements.

The wear and tear of farm ma
chinery and implements amounts
to 4 heavy annual tax on the farm
Ell. 1t will pay him to study econ
omy in taking care of them. Some
farmers will use up a good wagon
in two or three seasons, while we
know Of wagons still good which
have been IN constant use on the
farm for over thirty years. They
were well made out of good, we'll
seasoned material, and then were
well painted. No general repairs
have been necessary, for as soon as
a bolt was broken it was replaced,
or if a burr became loose it was
frightened. 1t is the running Of
wagons and machinery when they
are out of order hal destroys them.
The wheels and axles are the i'm
pnrtant parts of the wagon. The
loss from the failure to keep them
well creased amounts to a large sum
in the aggregate. And with light
wagons, ~neglecting to put leather
washers on the arms to make the
wheels run steady, subjects them to
unusual strain and permits them to
veal rapidly. Paint is a far more
important preseryer of wagons than
Of buildings. We have had long
continued wet weather followed by
a dry hot spell. Loose tires and
rafting spokes are heard on every
hand. A days use Of a wagon in
this condition is more hurtful than
a months work when it is put in
good working order.
Some farmers are natural ma
chinists and seem to keep their i'm
plements in order with little trouble
and small expense, while others are
always doing imperfect work and
destroying their machinery by using
it when it is needing repairs. The
great fault with most Of our NOW
ing machines is that they are not
used with sufficient care. They
work well when new but soon oct
out of order. A bur works loose at
a vital point permitting wear. OF
the frame OR some portion of the
bearings gets out of line, and fric.
ton is increased. 1t has been the
study CT machinists to make a per.
feet working mower. They have
not given sufficient study to the
making Of a durable one. i've mus
make the most of what we have anG
keep II eyes open to needed re
pairs, making them promptly a
they are II
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05
FARM LIFE.
Culture Upon the Praries-Hhe
Peculiar Humor of the West

Peculiar HumOr of the West
Quite often. in the course of my
ramblcs. have found Western farm
houses furnished in exquisite taste
from library to Kitchen. Chars,
tables, carpets, curtains and pic-
lures, In many of II country
homes, have beer chosen with a cor
rectness of judgment rarely eSlnced
by a large class of most excellent
city folk. In the matter of books,
a farmer of the better class gener-
ally selects with great care and with
a view to solid mental food. But
"a taste for light fiction, poetry,
music and painting is not wanting.
1t is surprising, indeed, to find how
generally the works of the leading
British and American poets and
novelists are read among the rural
classes Of the West. The Younger
American poets are rs well known,
by their writings, West as East.
Even Hawthorne, whom to read
and appreciate is high evidence OF
literary taste and intelligence, has
found very many of his %slnceress
admirers inside the homes OF the
"Hoosier" and the Buckeye.
Not long since, while sojourning
for "a fortnight or SO on the shore OF
one of our Western lakes, had the
pleasure of spending several even
ings at a farm house where, Us a
member of the family for the time,
| was allowed to hear n OF George
Eliot's novels read aloud by the
farmers daughter. Everywhere in
the West the leading literary jour
nails. both weekly and monthly, are
subscribed for by farmers, for the
pleasure and instruction Of their
families, while many Of them take
a daily paper. But despite all that
can be said to the contrary, the
qeuus rusticus, which has by some
one been rendered into English and
made to mean "rusty cuss, still
largely asserts itself in our rural
regions-a genus of the copperaS
breeches, ginger-cake-loying ilk, tc
whom we owe the racy, s~oll-tlavored
smack of original humor peculiar
to the Ohio and Mississippi river
valleys. Farm life in the West
seems to have developed broad
comico-humorous ways of speech
and it cannot be denied that mucl
of this humor, coarse though it is
possesses the inimitable charm
of outright home manufacture
Through certain of our local West
ern journals the world has of lat
caught very distinct glimpses of it
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05

be applied. After being once es-
tablished the meadow Is not to be
ploughed. The vetch having
seeded itself will spring up in the
fall, and the grass in the early sum-
mer. so that it is only necessary
each fall to give it the top dressing
of ash-element to keep up the fer
tility of the land. BY this simple
method, continued for five years,
on the same land, a yearly crop OF
four tons per acre has been OBJ
tanned.
The whole cost of cultivation
and harvesting by the Ravenal
method, at an extreme estimate, IS
SIS an acre. Nc calculation is
necessary to show that, at this rate,
an average yield of % to 80 bush
els of wheat, or of 45 to 30 bushels
of oats to the acre will pay hand
somely. What is gained by such
cultivation is shown by DIR. Barton.
who finds that the difference IN
Weld between land MANFRED with
ash-element and COW pea, and land
no manured is, in oats, equal to 80
bushels an acre. The acre that,
without manuring, gives IS bushels
of oats, will yield 81 bushels when
MANFRED. There is another strik-
ing fact, hat with the ordinary
commercial fertilizer, at the Wan
do farm, % bushels of wheat and
~ bushels of oats to the acre were
made this year. This was without
the COW pea and ash-element which,
it is believed, will produce, other
things being equal, still more ia,
yorable results.
The Southern farmer partlcu-
larry those on the coast, can live
| comfortably and accumulate prop
erty by growing wheat, corn and
hay. They will get the money
that now goes to the West Tor
breadstutfs and forage. They Will
make themselves independent OF
negro labor, in Il large measure, for
wheat and oats are the white man
crop, the evidence of civilization
and progress. They require little
labor, in comparison with cotton
and they are made at a season OF
IL C year what the white man can
work safely in the fields OF the
South.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05
NEFTEaBHR ,, 1~-S

FoUSpER.-Thc following
simple and said 10 he effective
Clean the bottom of the fo,.
thoroughly. hold it NJ. pour in a.
much spirits of turpcntine a it VIII
hold without danger of ruupfn
over. touch the turpcntue of viii
a red-hot iron this Viii ST il or
fire. hold the hoof firmly m ta.
position until ii all burns out. Car.
must b. taken that none run, ~,
the HAIR Of the hoof. lest the .k4r
be burned. If al the feet are NJ
fected burn all. Relief VIII Spec5re
follow and the animal be- ready =.
service III a short time. | once 81,
piled this remedy TO "A horse fourt
cred 2i hours before, and he Ma.
promptly relieved. In another cs.
where the animal could scarcely h.
made TO move. his SUFFERING va,
great, he vas treated in the SAM.
mahncr aid less than an hour nj.
was hltched to a buggy and dr,,a.
p miles. all lamcncsS dlSappearr
after he had travelled 4 few m.t..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-05

A hornless heifer, white or a
light roam, belled, is an excellent
leader for sheep; gives them great
satisfaction, keeps them from wan
derin :, is readily seen by them, be-
comes much attached to them, is a
great aid in driving them ever
streams, and will be a benefit in
many ways. An old COW does well,
but will not become so much at
tached to the flock.