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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-07-09
Homestead advertisements.
HOMESTEAD NOTICE.

LAND OFFICE, GAINESVILLE, FLA, I
June 30, 1879.
Notice is hereby given that the fol-
~ lowing named settler has filed notice
support of his claim, and secure final entry
thereof at the expiration of thirty days
from the date of this notice viz:
Samuel Moore, Homestead No. 5591, for
the lots Nos. ana s. section ,, and lots
Nos. l, and 3, section IL. township "a
south, range 81 east, and names the fol-
lowing as his witnesses. viz Alexander
R, Rose of TitusviIle. Florida and Joseph
LOuisiannaof Titusville. Florida.
D. EAGAN, Register.
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THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.

expenses, it will be better for those
wanting them, to club together and
order at the same time. To this end
orders will be received al this office,
and the pamphlets distributed as
soon as they reach US.
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COCA.
HOMESTEAD NOTICE.
LAND OFFICE, GAINESVILLE, FLA
June 30. 1875

n Office is hereby given that the fol-
lowing named settler has filed notice
OF his intention to make final proof IN
support OF his claim, and secure final entry
thereof at the expiration of thirty DAYS
from Ga the cate ct this notice. viz.
for, the west of southeast j. section %
and northwest of northeas ! and north.
east OF northwest !, section 81. township
u south. range 80 east, and names the fol-
lowing as his witnesses, viz: John P.
G Gok, or DeLand Florida, and John P.
Detson of Orange City, Florida,
D. EAGAN, Register.
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WEDNESDAY JULY 9, 1879.
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BIRTH.

,7REVATT --On the 22d of June last, Mrs, Judge
! "A Prevatt, of bright and beautiful daughter.
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Wise in His Own COnceit.

"Fanqui,' writing from Santa Fe
Lake, Alachua, county, to the Fer
nandina Express, says:
The agricultural papers of Florida
certainly cannot teach ex-cathedra,
indeed it is somewhat amusing to
realize who have been and still are
Florda's agricultural editors. Il do
not desire to be personal, but can
di0ly ask where have the gentle
men holding the agricultural editorial
position on the Immigrant and AGRI-
cULTURIsT, accumulated their per-
sonal experience with semi-troplcal
agriculture and horticulture that al
lows them to write ex-cathedra, and
holy moses! actually proposes to
lecture on tropical fruit culturel, yet
all things must have beginning l
suppose, and great aches from little
toe corns spring"
The writer of the above evidently
knows about as much on the subject
OF which he is writing as a COW does
Of dancing horn.pipe. We cannot
answer for the editor of the Znanei-
grant, but ior our senior editor we
can inform this self-constituted wise.
acre that he has been practical ag-
riculturist for nearly forty years,
over thirty of which were spent in
agricultural pursuits in the West In
dies. "Fanqui" had better get posted
before he ventures on his cacooethes
ScribenH after this.T
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s An extra copy OF the AGRI-
CCLTURIsT for year, to every one
who will send us five paid yearly
subscribers.
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We can recommend those wanting to
make a good investment to correspond
with Mr.. A. H. Davis, of Enterprise.
The property be advertises in our legal
column, is, We understand, fine one,
and can be bought at bargain.
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sTaArE OF THE WEATHER
Mean temperature 80 degrees.

Chew Jaelzson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24

scared, shivering girls stopping every
them she reached the house Of her near
est neighbor, half q mile away, and find
ing the family all up and listening to
the storm, with many tears she told her
sorrowful story.
Nothing could be done until morning
came, but as soon as the first streak OF
light showed in the east, a dozen men
started in their boats, to find if possible
the drowned boy. .s
~ must 60, too" said the pale mother.
must be the first to take my poor dar-
ling in my arms. His pretty brown
curls must be smoothed by his mothers
! tinger-his dear head laid on his mothers
| BOSOM"
''And we must go with mama," cried
the little ones And so the kind men
wrapped them up warmly and put them
into the largest boat, and away they
started just as the sun burst over the
hills bright and beautiful, and the early
Christmas chimes rang out upon the air.
They lowed about hither and thither
| for an hour or two, when the mother
ali whose eyes are as keen as mothers
when she is looking for her child2--
caught sight of something propped
against the bank which they were near
ing. -.
''There! there! she cried, pointing
with trembling hand, '...-
It was the house. The wind had set it
afoat, and it had drifted across the bay
until, the stolm ceasing, it had been
landed on the beach, and the tide re-
ceding, had remained, looking like a
house that had taken entirely too much
to drink-as no doubt it had-leaning
against the high bank.
Could that be smoke coming slowly out
of the chimney? Good heavens! there
must have been remnant of fire in the
stove, that all the water had failed to put
out, and the poor little cottage had only
escaped one element to be Immediately
threatened by another.
They silently ran the boat on land, and
the men drew back softly with grave faces,
that the mother and her children might
go first. The little girl clingipg to her
skirts, she plunged knee-deep through
the sand and opened the door.
There was fire, made of chair hacks
and rounds, on the hearth, and kettle
Of coffee swinging over it, hung in some
mysterious manner from the poker; the
clock, in which the key of the tea-chest
had been hidden, lay broken on the floor;
and in a chair, tipped back against the
wall on account Of the slanting position
of the house, with half of mince pie IN
one hand, and half the pumpkin in the
other, sat Grizzly Bear.
"Hallo, mother! . Merry Christmas
morning!" he shouted. ibid you ever
hear of such lark as this!'
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24
Where tho Beef Comes From.

u, Q -
q It was during the last days Of the war
that the Texan cattle trad first assumed
large proportions. AT that; time North
western Texas was swarming with cattle,
which possessed little or no value On
their native ranches They were not q
choice breed. Large, raw boned, with
wild eyes sand long, outspread horns,
fierce in temper and forbidding of as
poet, they were about as low grade Of
the bovine race as could be found. The
COWS were never MIXED and the oxen
never yoked. Still, their flesh was
meat, though rather dark in color and
coarse in favor and texture, and meat
was at that time in active demand at the
North. Some large Government
contractors tried the experiment. OF
importing them. They found that they
could buy 2 and 3-year-old steers in
Texas at Sc to So per head, and sell
them in Missouri at $50 to 1886 per
head. This paid very we'll. At first
only small droves-or lunches" SIS
they are called in the West LOT from
SOC to 500 head each were bought, and
so careless were the Texan stock rais-
ers, and so high was Northern credit,
that the bunch was usually paid for by
note at twelve months. The cattle were
driven north through the Territory
Qndian Reservation) to the Neosho
valley, and thence along the boundary
line between Missouri and Kansas.
Csfeeville was one of the favorite mar
kets of the day. Old cowboys still
speak of it with oaths. It seems that
it produces the largest and most blood
thirsty herds of mosquitoes in the West,
and on hot nights the cattle, driven to
frenzy by their insect-tormentors,
would stampede and scatter over the
country.
In the course of a year or two the
profits of the business became an open
secret, and capital was embarked in it
by several dealers in st. Louis and Chi
cago. From a few hundred head the
punches swelled to 1000 or more, and
the price of 3-year-oids rose in Texas to
$40 and $l5. simultaneously, settle
ments began to thicken on the Kansas
border, and, the settlers naturally OBJ
jecting to periodical invasions of wild
cattle, the Northern rendezvous was
moved 9to the vicinity of Topeka. It
did not stay long there, for many reasons,
and, after general consultation among
dealers, Abiline, new town on the
Kansas Pacific, some twenty-five miles
farther west, was selected as the future
cattle market of the Western country.
1t was surrounded by rolling prairies
still covered with catalogues, we'll
supplied with water, easily reached
from the South and connected with the
East by line of railway. Lippincotfs
Magazine. ...@ ..l.. -: 14
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24
The Champion Boy to Sleep.

The Liverpool Post tells strange
adventure of a venturesome small boy.
It appears that he played truant from
school, and dared not go home at night.
He managed to get into the station
yard at Chorley, with the intention of
passing the night in one of the passen-
ger carriages; but he failed to gain ac-
cess, the doors being locked. He then
crept under the guards rods be.
tween the axle Of the wheel and the
carriage floor, and between which the
brake apparatus passes. In this posi-
ton he went to sleep, and at s o'clock
in the morning the train started for
Wigan. The lad was actually brought
to Wigan, and again taken to Choriey.
still clutching the rods. At the latter
place he was discovered, still fast
asleep, and rescued from his perilous
position. The marvel is, how the lad
remained on the frail structure during
his eighteen-miles journey, and asleep
all the while. Had he moved death was :
certain. k 7.1
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24
A Biscuit Race.

Among the countless forms of walk
ing and running matches now in vogue.
there is one which was great favorite
at sea in the day of long voyages, and
still frequently to be met with. Thirty
pieces of ship biscuit are laid along the
deck yard apart, and the man who can
pick then up and bring them back to
the starting point, one by one, and in
the shortest time, wins the day. Avery
weu-contested biscuit race" of this
kind lately took place on board South
Atlantic steamer, between two of the
second-class stewards. The first who
started, a slim, active young fellow of
%, was the favorite with the majority,
but some of the knowing ones " shook
their heads at his commencing with the
nearest pieces, and thus leaving the
hardest work to the last. He made good
time, however, though showing visible
signs of exhaustion toward the end.
But his wary opponent, knowing him
self to be the weaker man, flew at once
to the far end of the line, thus making
each successive journey shorter than the
last. As the race neared its close the
excitement Became intense. Many of
the passengers shouted and gesticnlated
as eagerly as the sailors themselves;
and the motley crowd swaying to and
fro in the lantern light night having
already fallen-the shouts of .encour-
agement from one side and outspoken
ridicule from the other, the loud and
frequent appeals to the time-keeper, and
the flying figure of the runisr, in his
striped shirt and jaunty white panta-
looms, leaping, turning, and da1ting
backward and forward like a snake,
made a very picturesque scene
The second man proved the conqueror,
but only after hard struggle, his time
being 9 minutes, Is seconds, to his an
tagonist's 9:25. s,sl.@ Sss9
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24
A Paradise for SpOrtSmen.

The country all through Northern
Minnesota abounds in lakes and lake
let's from an eighth of mile to ten and
twelve miles In length, and there are
said to be 10000 of them in the State,
and large proportion of them are said
to abound with fish and game. Those
who have travelled through it tell me it
is perfect paradise for sportsmen, and,
indeed, large parties of gentlemen from
other States, as well as from Europe
and the provinces, visit this section
annually in pursuit of game and sport,
and health as consequent upon such
pursuits. The first evening I arrived
one of these sportsmen came into the
hDtel in the evening, followed by two
men carrying strings of birds, com.
prised mainly of ducks, but with q few
prairie pheasants, chickens and par
tridges, and few woodcock; but the
great weight of game of which there
must have been over $50 birds
of the mallard duck; with few red.
heads and canvasbacks, and here and
there sprinkled through the string were
q greenwing or Q redwing teal or diver.
These, Is was informed, were the re-
suit Of one days shooting from one
gun. The birds are easily reached by
those who are experienced in shooting
them, and 30 abundant are they that
you can get brace Of splendid mallards,
in prime condition, for 80 cents, or q
dozen brace for $3.50. Cor Montreal
Herald.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24
Costly Paintings.

Considerably less than century has
elapsed since Horace Walpole said that
Sir Joshua Reynolds in his old age had
become avaricious because he asked
1000 guineas for the picture Of the
3Three Ladies' of Waldererave.n
Formerly his prices had been lower
only 200 guineas for g whole length
portrait, 100 for half length, and 70
guineas for q kit cat" It is needless
to say that no one would part with the
portraits. for such figure now. In
Iva, for instance, Lord Carystort gave
Sir Joshua 30 guineas for the Straw
berry Girl" which Lord Hartford paid
e2,2O5 for at Samuel Rogers sale in
1856.
The great name Of Gainsborough re-
minds us of still more conspicuous in
stances of the same mind. The cele-
brated Duchess of Deyonshire we
need not for our present purpose enter
into the controversy as to whether it
was really his-was bought by Wynn
Ellis for ECO, and was resold, as every
one knows, to Messrs. Agnew for 10000
guineas. After this extraordinary illus
tration OF the fortune found in work
of art, which was worth as many pounds
as it was originally sold for pennies,
others less startling seem to lose some
thing OF their point. Yet it ought not
to go unmentioned here that Greuze's
famous Broken Pitcher" which must
now be worth several thousands of
pounds, was painted by the artist (who,
by the way, died in poverty for some
thing like 9150-the sum it realized at
the Marquis de Verri's sale, in 1885:
and that the Chess Players" which
Muller sold for rs guineas in 1843 (and
did not think his labor of only two days
in.requited), fetched, thirty years later,
e. 1853. Over the water-color drawings
OF David Cox, even those, perhaps,
which were rejected from the Academy,
comparative fortunes have been lightly
won.
When Mr.. Vokins gave him ESQ for
@Thc Hayfeld" in 1850, the great artist
was SO pleased with what he thought a
liberal price that heinsisted on present.
ing second drawing to the purchaser,
little dreaming that at Mr.. Quilter's
sale in 1875 there would be spirited
contest as to who should take it-as
Mr.. Agnew did in the event-for
e2,750. The profit was not in this case
nor in many others made by the first
purchase, for Mr.. Vokins sold "The
bayfield," with two other sketches by
David Cox, for 40 guineas to Mr.. Cum
ming, who resold them to Mr.. Quilter
for ], $50 guineas, and the total sum re-
allied for the three at his sale was no
less than &6,047 los. OF Turner'S
water-colors the same story should be
told, and should the "Vesuvius Calm"
and the "Vesuvius Angry" for each of
which Turner got Is guineas, and
which Mr.. Ruskin secured some time
ago for $50 guineas, ever come into the
market it will be curious to note how
enormously their value has been in
creased.-The Magazine of ART.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.
Or THE 100000 voters in the United
States 6,0OO,O 900 are farmers.

Or THE 100000 voters in the United
States 100000 are farmers.
LoU1s1ANA's Temperance Alliance
gives the amount Of liquor drunk in the
State at $42,ooo,ooo yearly, or $4,000
600 more than the value of the COM
bined cotton, sugar and rice crops.
A BOX freight-caz costs from $500 to
$500. A baggage-car costs from $4,000
to $4,000. The usual price of sleeping
Car is $4,000. Drawing-room cars cost
about $4,000. The ordinary mail-car
costs about $4,000 to $4,000. The or
binary passenger-car about $4,000.
A RELIABLE irish authority says that
there are in Ireland 155,675 mud cab.
ms, not one of which contains more than
one apartment. These apartments are
occupied by 227, 1919 families. There
are also 357, 126 mud cabins of better
class, which afford accommo dations for
432,774 families. There are at least
100000 small farmers who live in mud
cabins of the worst class, in large
number of which the cows and pigs
share the solitary room with the family.
INDIA ranks fourth among the coun-
tries OF the world in the extent of coal
deposits. She has 10000 square miles
OF coal fields; the United States, $780,
600; China, 100000; and Australia,
100000. Only 100000 tons of Indian
coal are now consumed annually, and
this quantity is mined at Ranigunj,
Kurhurbali, and Daltongunj in Bengal,
and Mopani and Warora, in the central
provinces. But there ere 100000
tons used every year for locomotives
and factories, the other 100000 being
imported, mainly from Europe and
Australia. Indian coal is almost all
bituminous, and it's structure is lamin-
ated, presenting alternate bright and
dark layers. It's heating quality is in
ferior to English coal, but the native
coal gives good results when mixed in
equal proportions with the latter. D.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24
A Refined Butcher.

Harkins' daughter returned from
Denton's butcher shop, laid steak on
the table, and said:
"Thats the most refined butcher I
ever met. I asked him if this steak
was tender, and he said, oh! so beauti-
fully, Tender as the maiden in the
first blush of love; q steak fit to be
classed with tender and hallowed asso-
Citations, and one likely to be flattered
at being devoured by SO fair and beau
full maiden" III III ~
Harkins pushed his glasses up on top
OF his head, looked at the girl, and
Numbered:
what under the canopy was that
fellow giving your" - -
And, as her color came and went, she
replied: ="
Giving me taffy, I suppose"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24
Opposition to EARLY Railroads.

When the Central Railroad was in it's
infancy, the company experienced
great trouble with certain landowners,
whose property had been taken by ap-
praisal, at or near Tribes Hill. It was
with great difficulty that trains could
pass, although q vigilant watch was
kept up. Men were stationed with a
hand-car just east of the curve leading
into Tribes Hill from the east, and,
when they heard the evening train
coming west, they would put on the
hand-car just as near ahead of the train
as they dared, and run ahead of the
train into the station; but between the
hand-car and the train the track would
be literally strewn with stones, rails,
and all manner of distractions, which
were thrown down from the heights
above, so that the train would have to
stop to clear the track leach train car
ried men for that purpose), and then
proceed at q snaips pace into the station.
Then again the tracks would be piled
with huge heaps of straw, and the en-
gineer would stop and find nothing but
straw. It was usually thought that the
straw business was only q scare, but
about the first time he attempted to run
through without stopping he found a
huge bowlder in the center. Thus mat
ters went on from bad to worse; an at
tempt was made to burn one of the
company's bridges near this village.
This was so highly criminal, and it was
made so hot for some persons, that hos
tiities ceased. Upon one occasion,
George Cox, who, with his brothers,
Tom and Maxwell, were well known up
and down the valley as locomotive en-
gineers, was watching the track near
Tribes Hill with shot gun, with in
structions to shoot the first man he saw
placing any distractions on the track.
It was quite dark, and at short dis
lance from him he saw two men carry
something large and heavy and place it
on the track. His first impulse was to
shoot, and he hauled up, but he hated
to take human life, and thought he
would steal upon them and see who
they were. He did so, and found that
they were two travellers who had come
from the canal with their chest to take
the train, and, being tired, had set it
down to rest..-Amsterdan, IN. Y.
Democrat.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24
Seeing the Circulation Of the Blood.

DR.. G. Huter, German savant of
Greifswald, devised a simple er-
rangement which demonstrates the cir
culation of the blood in the human
body by making it visible. The pa
TENTS head being fixed in a frame, on
which is continuance for supporting a
microscope and lamp, his lower lip is
drawn out and fixed on the stage of the
microscope by means of clips, the inner
surface being uppermest, and having 0
strong light thrown upon it by con-
denser. When the preparations are
completed all the observer has to do is:
to bring the microscope to bear on the
surface OF the lip, using a low-power
objective, and focusing g small super
fetal vessel. At once he sees the end
less procession of the blood corpuscies
through the minute capillaries, the col
orless ones appearing like white specks
dotting the red stream. DR.. Huter as.
sered that from taking careful note Of
variations in the blood. flow and changes
in the corpuscles he had derived great
advantage in the treatment Of disease.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-12-24
THE .cARol,.sINGERs

Two sweet fair, faces on a Christmas night,
Two pure girl-yoices richwith such sweet
tone,
That listeners stand entranced and Times
swift flight
Passes unknown.
Grandly the story of the Saviours birth
Is told by these sweet singers to the throng
Nobly the clarion-notes of "Peace on earth"
Ring forth in song.
With voices all attune1 to harmony,
And hearts that rise and leap with every
note,
The singers stand, and wild.b bird melody
Trills from each throat. aI
So sweet the song that every listener there
Sees the glad story as in words OF gold,
Like some fair picture traced with wondrous
care ~. T
In days OF old.
All hail! the glorious heaven-sent gift OF song,
The one great power enduring, ever strong
Through all the year!