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A Famous Gamblers Career.

The weight of evidence, or rather of
assertion, is that of Garcia, the famous
gambler, is indeed dead. He is a Span
1aad, and first came into fame as a great
player at Homburg, where he arrived
with small capital, some 5000 or1O, 900
francs. A steady run of fortune in his
favor increased his capital to half a mill
ion and made him the lion of the place.
M. Blanc (whe died two years aeol en-
Joyed tilt of this titanic sort, and was
also keenly alive to the advantages of a
gigantic advertisement, hence he gave the
gambler the privilege Of playing five
times the limit, or maximum, so that on
each roll of the ball $4,000 depended
Alter two months struggle Garcia left
homburg in his own carriage, drawn by
four horses, the whole town cheering him.
and something like 100000 francs in
his possession. He went home to Spain,
built church, gave aims literally, and
took an oath never to gamble again. This
oath he kept for two years, living in
Pr1ncely fashion in spain, but spending
the gaming season on the Rhine, watch
ing the players with serene pleasure.
One day at Baden the Duke dc Mornev
met him and asked him to play few
stakes, that he might see something of the
wonderful system by which the great
gambler had broken the bank. Garcia
declined and explained that he had re-
nounced play forever, to which the duke
rep,'cd with something ola sheer that
PROBABLY he had been prudent in doing
~: oarc'a' nettied at the remark, put
oo"n a note and lost it, and another and
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-07-23
YELLOW FEVER.

MEMPHIS, July IS. The yellow fever
is again becoming worse All trains going
out last night were crowded, and many more
are leaving to-day. While majority of the
physicians do not apprehend that the fever
will rage in an epidemic form, they all adj
wise those who can to leave the CITY. The
weather is warm and sultry after thunder
storm OF last night. Three new cases are re-
ported to the board Of health this afternoon,
these make 10 as the total number of cases re-
ported since the 9th inst. Fred Eckers, who
was reported this morning, died at this
afternoon, and was buried Immediately after
wards. Total number Of deaths from fever to
date is seven, including the death this after
noon. Business is almost entirely susnended
especially with the wholesale merchants.
Large crowds Of citizens are leaving on every
train that departs from the city. The Man
haitian and Emmett banks closed their doors
to-day, leaving their collections and deposits
TO the care of other banks. A detachment of
the Chickasaw Guards and Fluff CITY Crews
leave tonight for GAINESVILLE, Tenn, where
both companies will go into camp. Mrs. Rob-
ert Hester and one of her children are report
ed to be in critical condition. The other
members OF the family are progressing favor
ably Quarantine regulations are again being
rigidly enforced against Memphis at various
points.
MEMPHIS, July 19.-The weather is
warm and sultry with occasional showers,
The development of new cases has given fresh
impetus to the exodus of citizens, and another
genuine stampede is in progress. Business is
paralyzed, and many retail merchants are
closing their stores In New Orleans strict
quarantine is enforced against Memphis. Up
to this date it is declared that there has not
been case of yellow fever in New Orleans
this season. Movements are being made in
Louisville, KY, and in st. Louis, NO., against
the lntr oduction of the scourge, and in the lat
ter city, especially, much alarm is manifested.
MEMPHIS, July 20.-The yellow fever
is on the increase. Ten new cases are report.
ed to-day. A member of the board of health
says the outlook is bad. The people continue
to close their places of business. Full 1900
people have left the doomed city since yester-
day noon. City officials and physicians urge
upon all citizens who can to leave at once.
The Memphis and Paducha railroad closed
running to-day. ~'0
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MISCELLANEOUS,

Warlike preparations on the Greek
frontier continue
In some quarters, the war in Zululand
is declared virtually at an end.
A dispatch from Berlin says Russian
military authorities estimate the Tekke Tur-
Romans il arms at 100000
The entire debt of the Minnesota State
Agricultural Society has been paid off, and
vigorous action is in progress preparatory to
the holding of a State Fair in st. Paul the
first week in September.
Owing to the incapacity of the sub
treasury at Baltimore to store the silver re-
ceived, the assistant-treasurer has been or
dered to pay out standard silver dollars for
fractional silver coin offered for exchange
The negotiations between Russia and
the United States relative to the fisheries near
Alaska, resulted in an arrangement by which
vessels OF the United States are allowed to fish
n Russian waters in return for the payment
OF money compensation.
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lost that. The duke laughed 50 taunt-
ingly at this that Garcia went to his
hotel. and stuffed his pockets with notes
and gold and returned to tho play-room.
When it closed at night he had lost near
ly 100000; in few days the whole $500.
900 had vanished. The Calzad0 affair
followed, when Garcia was imprisoned
for card-sharping; this ruined him finally.
Ere play was stopped at Saxon-les- Bains.
he hung round the place, rendering in
structions to inexperienced players after
wards he haunted Monaco, where, how
ever, he was refused access to the gaming
tables when he had money. So he died
in poverty,
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i, A special from Henderson, KY, of Jul
ly 10, says that on the line of that country with
Union, James Luttrell killed Elisha Thomp
son by blow on the head with gun
Thompson was in the act of preventing Lut
trell from shooting man named Wedding
Cause-whisky. #@" 81
The steamers Bolivia from Glasgow
and the Mosel from Bremen have just landed
in New York, having on board large number
of Mennonites. The Mosel brings over GOO
Storage passengers, laostly Russians, who
alone represent capital Of over $4OO,OOO
Among them are sixty families having 21S
party.
A Springfield, ILL.,, dispatch of July 10,
says Gov. Cnllum has received letter invit-
ing him to attend a reunion of soldiers Of the
Northwest, to be held at Aurora, August Goth,
2lst and 22d. The convention, by resolution,
requested the Governor TO invite the Govern
ors of all the States and Territories to attend
the reunion, and he has accordingly extended
invitations to them in the name of the soldiers
Of the Northwest. re.s- a.
VIM. Teets, a well-known, respectable
farmer living ten miles southwest Of Musca-
tine, Ia, was murdered July s, in the hay field
with club in the hands of VIM Pickering.
The cause of the dastardly act seems to have
been family troubles. The murdered man,
Teets, was a son-in-law of Mrs. Dckerson,
widow who employed Pickering as a farm
hand on her estate, and between whom i'm
proper intimacy has been charged, an imme-
6iate maria ra hniOr eynnrtp6 81
The purser of the steamship Etna,
which arrived July 18th at New York from
Port au Prince, reports as follows: At Port au
Prince, Monday, June 80, Petit Canal, brother
Of the president, shot D'Lorme, member of
the legislative chamber. A general shooting
atfray ensued in which ten other members and
some of Canals adherents were killed. The
shooting commenced Monday and was kept
up until our departure at 4:30 p. m, July Sd.
Business was suspended in the meantime.
There was report in circulation that the reb-
els would have to submit to the governments
demands.
A London telegram of July IS, says in
the House Of Lords the Marquis of Huntley
Of railway companies for carrying
American meats at lower rates than English
because of the larger quantities in which the
former are sent. He pointed out that such
action was protection for American farmers,
and asked whether it had been brought before
the attention of the board of trade and CON-
mission on the agricultural depression The
Duke of Richmond, lord president Of the coun-
Gil, replied that the granting of preferential
sales was a violation Of law, but Lord Shell
borne doubted it,
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OFF FOR THE WEST.

unprecedented Emigration from Ne,v
Movemsesat That Should Be Encowra0ed.
Boston Post, Editorial.1
Probably the larger portion of us in the
thlckly crowded cities have been and are so
busy with our own affairs, and so occupied
with measuring the world by the reach of
our own vision, that we do not comprehend
the movements that are going on outside of
our limited field of effort. But these move
ments, though simple, are of magnitude
and Importance. They are tho natural ex-
panslon and growth of our country. The
fasting that the nation has undergone for
tive or six years has reduced its system like
fever, but, with unmistakable evidences of
convalescence, our stagnant industries
grow hungry again for something to
replenish themselves, and capital seeks
for places in which it may locate and
raise up prosperous families. But the cup
boards of the East seem little lean, and
though they are in q fair way to be soon sup
Piled again, the young generation is impa-
tent and starts off full of hope and energy,
aid buoyed up by ambition for discovery
and development. Emigration to the West
ern country this last spring has been un-
precedented, as statistics from the general
land Office show. There is feeling among
new plant has come, and they cannot throw
away their opportunities. As high as 1900
entries of government land, representing
$4,000 acres, were recently made in six
days, and it is stated on good authority that
the statistics of the fiscal year ending June,
1879, will show an emigration nearly four
times as large as in 1876.
I We might look with apprehension upon
this movement did it seem to be drawing
out all the healthy blood of the older Sec
tions that are deserted for this pioneer life.
But that is not the case. Bone and einew.
good minds and stalwart purposes are adj
vanclng to subdue virgin soil and primeval
forests, but there is a healthy leaven of the
same left behind. We must not SUPPOSE
that it is best for the general interests of the
country to have people and capital huddled
and crowded in comparatively few commu-
mites. An equitable and natural distribu-
tion is tho best for all. There is another
feature of this stream of westward emigra-
ton which we approve. A large
part of the land occupied this year
has been entered under the homestead law
and timber culture act. This latter act is
one of the saving statutes of our country.
1t was passed to institute an offset to the
startling denudation of timber tracts that
mas oeen going forward. 1t provides that
the settler shall plant not less than 2,7OO
trees on each acre, and that at the time of
making final proof there shall be CTS living |
trees to each acre, and thus what was waste
land will in time become luxuriant wood
land. The railroad system is broadening,
and it finds its safety and reward in the
briskness of emigration and the rapidity of
industrial development. The movement is
one to be encouraged, and let US who remain
in the East push on the business here to
keep pace with the increasing Western ac-
tvity.
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Detroit Becker county, Record, July -:
A Scandinavian, about 10 years of age, COM
mitted suicide, on Thursday morning. bv
blowing his brains out with shot gun. We
understand he was prompted to perform the
rash act through difficulty with his father.
Before firing the fatal shot he wrote q note
and addressed it to his father, stating his
reasons for taking his own life, and express
sing the hope that the ia her would be less
severe with the remaining children, and that
ne would be more lenient in his dealings
with them.
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Manure the Fruit Trees.

In all the older States manure IS as es-
sential for the best results in fruit grow
ing as it is for grain and grass. As rule,
the orchard is neglected; it is taken for
granted that the apple trees, after they are
once planted, will take care of themselves.
Some men think the orchard can bear a
crop of apples and hay annually, and no
matter if the orchard has seen no manure
for twelve or fifteen years. As general
manure, within reach of all farmers, there
is nothing better than stable and yard
manure. A dressing of ten two-horse
loads of manure per acre every other year
will promote growth of wood and forma-
ton of the fruit buds. Unleached ashes
are among the best and cheapest manures
for the orchard. A hundred bushels to
the acre every five or six years will pay
abundantly. ..-.
Mr.. r. S. Emory, a well-known fruit
grower Of Kent County, Md, in letter
upon this subject, just published, urges
upon pear growers "to feed the trees"
''for' he adds, g from my own observation
eight orchards out of ten that have seen
are suffering more for food than any other
one thing, and I do not know of any fruit
that will so handsomely remunerate for
liberal, 1 mean not less than seventy-fve
two-horse wagon loads of thoroughly rot
ted manure per acre. about every three
years, applied broad cast in October and
November and at once plowed under.
In preparing the manure l at first make
a heap or pile of it, using plaster freely
with every load as it is hauled to the pile.
A month or so after apply it to the Or
chard, thoroughly mixing and pulveriz-
ing it as it is put in the wagon, and at
the same time discard any that is not
thoroughly rotted, believing such manure
to have a tendency to blight the trees,
from an experimental fact, viz. About
four years ago, in manuring several acres
of trees, there was one load of coarse sta
BILE manure spread without my knowledge
on some dwarf Bartlett's, and nearly ev-
cry one blighted badly the following June,
and 1 had to cut those trees to almost
nothing to save them, and they were the
only ones that did blight or have blight
ed since; therefore cannot help believ-
ing the coarse manure had something to
do with the blighting. There are two
things absolutely necessary to be produc-
ed annually on all good pear trees, viz:
buds and wood. The latter cannot be
had without Neutrality-suspicious. Anneri
can.
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CASUALTIES.

CASUALTIES.
There was a 100000 fire at Macon
Georgia, July Is.
There was 100000 fire in Indiana
polls, July 10. ,.".
A telegram from Calcutta states tina
The cholera has appeared in Cabul.
July Is there was a $4,000 fire in New
Orleans and $4,000 fire in Philadelphia.
At Buffalo, n. Y, July 10, a section Of
the new round house of the Erie Railway
company fell and number of workmen were
injured.
A Wellington, Delaware, telegram Of
July 20 says, B. s. Ford, Of Chestertown, Md.
member of the Senate, was drowned in Ocean
City, while bathing.
A Halifax telegram of July II gives
IN account of the loss of the steamer State Of
Virginia, from New York to Glasgow, which
went ashore at Sable Island Saturday, July 10
Three women and five children were lost in
the surf while landing: The vessel had "a
passengers, l04 head Of cattle and general
cargo. Sixty cattle were saved.
Edward r. Adams, discharged SOL
der, his time being out, is in jail at Cincin-
nslti, o., at his own request, he confessing to
having committed murder He says he
killed Harvey Brewer, in November, 1870,
about one mile from the village of Rome, and
yet claims that he did it in self-defense. Ad-
ans general appearance is that OF a dissip-
ated man, and yet it is alleged that he has a
frankness about him, calculated to awaken
sympathy.
I,,1x oIxySoor g. Nj
say, the temperature of that day was very try
ing In the middle of the day the mercury
stood at SO, and at o'clock at SO. It was not
until after dark that any relief was expert
enced. Four cases of sunstroke was treated
1.-THE dispensary,none fatal Four other cases
occurred in the southern suburbs Of the city.
Three deaths from sunstroke were recorded
with the mortuary clerk. The distribution of
free ice among the deserving poor was com
snenced to-day, and on Saturday a series of
free excursions on the river under the auspices
OF the fresh air mission for the benefit of the
sick children, will be given.
A Boston, July 18th, telegram says,
one Of the severest tempests ever experienced
mere swept over the city this afternoon. The
duration Of the storms greatest violence was
about twenty-five minutes, and in that period
great damage was done to life and property
Reports from various points down the harbor
contain accounts of serious damage and dis
5ressing accidents Many small yachts and
other boats were capsized. The most serious
disaster yet reported is that the small
schooner Myrtle, of Charlestown having on
board six persons, consisting of four women,
a man and boy. The schooner was capsized
off Bird Island and all excepting the man,
Thos. Durham, who chung to the topmast,
we're drowned. The women were Margaret
Dunham, wife Of Thomas, Mary Ann Durham
and Susan Durham, sisters, Lizzie Durham,
his niece, and a boy named Arthur Ryan. A
boy named Walker Hittenbaum was also
drowned by the capsizing of boat off Hull.
The damage throughout the city can hardly
De ascertained at present. Other towns were
visited with death and destruction, such as
Pittsfield, Fitchburgh, Springfield, Worcester,
East Hampton, and others.
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Chattield Democrat, July -: John
SPREADING, q young man about twenty-five
years OF age, killed himself in this place on
the fourth DAY OF July by taking large dose
OF morphine The unfortunate man was q
telegraph operator; had been here for several
weeks out OF employment, with but little
money, and most of the time acted very
strangely. &@s
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HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN.
Farm Notes.

The losses by grasshoppers in Sierra
county, Nevada, are estimated at $45. 900
Extensive forest fires are devastating
portions OF the mountain region of Penn
sylvania.
Farmers In California are cutting hay
IN some localities. There is fair outlook
Tor the hay crop of the State.
Inc world averages an annual product
OF 9S1 10000 pounds of tea. China nro-
ducing s9o,ooo,ooo. Japan 100000, ooo
India 100000, and Java 5000 900
An English authority SAYS hundred
British farmers are forced into hank
ruptcy every week by the importation of
American meats and grains.
The brow of the average Texas farmer
Is wrlnkled with care He can't see where
ne Is to cut his coming crops. Waco Es-
o'1sner. Put them in train for market.
In the United States fully two-thirds
OF the people are directly dependent upon
the soil for support and of the 100000
VINO are engaged in productive industries
over 100000 are farmers.
Seventeen live prairie grouse from the
United States recently arrived in New
Zealand, where it is proposed to endeavor
TO establish the bird. Twenty-Five were
sent, but five died on the voyage.
Professor Baird's forthcoming renort
Will contain an exhaustive account of ex-
Perlments in Matching Goldfish artifciallv
at gloucester last winter. The experiment
was satisfactory and Prof. Baird thinks it
Is entirely practicable to multiply the
species to any desirable extent.
Quassia and soft soap, is recommended
tor destroying aphides on roses and other
woody plants. tits used by boiling four
ounces of quassia chips for an hour in
gallon OF water. When cold and strained.
add two more gallons of water and six
ounces OF soft soap. With this syringe
the bushes.
There are said to be 100000 people
IN France who seldom eat bread or meat.
out subsist almost entirely upon vegata-
bles and fruit. In some districts of Scot
land peas are largely used as food by the
laborers. It is we'll known to be one of
the most nutritious Of the legumes, and
their wholesomeness is we'll attested bv
those who use them
The Maine beet-sugar company, of Port
land, converted, from the 18th February
till the 23d, $40 tons of beets into sugar.
obtaining therefrom about 10000 pounds
OF concrete sugar, or over 10 per cent.
which is equivalent to about 9-1-s per
cent. OF the best grained sugar. The COM
pany this season have contracted for over
LOO acres to be planted with beet seed,
which is as much as they want to handle
the coming season.
Pot plants that become unthrifty and
sickly, may be revived by planting them
in rich mold in sunny spot latter trim
ming, after the season becomes permanent
ly warm. Thus they will often trow into
a vigorous state during July and August,
and be ready for reporting. Oleanders,
oranges, lemons, camellias, azaleas, among
hard-wooded plants, may be made healthy
in this way. They must, however, be pro-
tected from the effects of sweeping prairie
winds.
Manure the Fruit Trees.
In all the older States manure Is as es-
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erect wall along the sea coast SO that
no one could see the ocean without pay
ing dollar, it is quite likely the free
American citizen would go to see it with.
out a murmur and take his children if
they were allowed to go for half price.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

The trial of Cox, the negro murderer of
Mrs. DR.. Hull,is in progress in New York; and
the trial Of Buford, the Kentucky desperate
for the murder Of Judge Elliott, is in progress
at Owenton, Ky.
In the case Of the negro Cox, tined for
the murder of Mrs. Dr. Hull, in New York, the
jury, after being out about an hour, brought
in verdict of murder in the first degree, and
the Judge sentenced him to be hung on Fri
day, the Goth of August next
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What it Costs.

lonticello, July Is, 1879.
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