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Homestead Final Proof.

To save time and expense to home
steaders, who wish to make final
proof, and who must first publish no.
tice of their intention thereof, we
would state, that we are authorized
by the proper officials Of the United
States Land Office at Gainesville, to
receive on deposit, the amount re-
ouired. four dollars, ($4) to cover the
expense of such publication; and we
will be pleased to give all the aid
and information in our power, to ex-
pedite their business.
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Yellow Fever in Memphis.

The yellow fever still continues Its
slow insiduous progress in Memphis.
Several cases are reported daily, but
the fatality is by no means equal to
last years scourge. Many cases yield
readily to medical treatment. Camps
have been formed outside the city at
a distance of six miles, where rations
are distributed to those who are I'M
able to support themselves. The
Howard Association has forty-fve
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AGENTS.

Anaong or other agents, ne haze
amounted Mr.. F. L. BLANCHARD,
formerly. foreman Of oar establishment,
as General TraoeIalg agent, aohO IS
authorized to receive subscriptions and
advertisements, and to receipt for the
payment Of the same. We ask that
the usual coasrsesies- o the fsul,lic. and
transportation lines may be ecte,aded
to him.
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To Correspondents.

Article relating to any topic within the
scope of this paper are solicited.
We cannot promise to return rejected
manuscripts.
All communications intended forpublica-
ton must be accompanied with real name.
as a guarantee of good faith. Names wall
not be published if objection be made. No
ANONYMOUS contributions viii be regarded.
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AUGUST 6

We made short visit recently to the
Hospitable and courteous Captain J. W.
Stark, whose plantation is near here.
We had not time to visit his main and
celebrated grove near Lake Beresford,
but the trees around his residence, look
very promising, and showed a strong,
rapid growth, and this too with but lit
tie or moderate cultivation. We under
stand that the Captain does not believe
in over-much cultivation, as it subjects
the soil too much to the exhaustive
action Of the sun.
G. A. Dreka & Co. are constantly in
receipt of sweet. fresh butter, which
they are serving to their customers for
25 cents per pound.
The Southern Farmers MOntbky for
August, L. @. Bryan, editor, has just
reached us. It has its usual full con-
tents relating TO Agriculture, Horticul-
ture, Stock, Poultry, etc., which will
prove valuable to those engaged in such
pursuits. The ladies too. cannot fail to
be more than pleased with the literary
and household articles, and espec-
tally the fashions, clearly described by
excellent plates, while the editorial de-
partment is both interesting and instruc-
tive. Published by j. H. Estill, Savan-
nah, Ga. Price SO year.
Who would do without a rasher of
bacon for breakfast, when such prime
tender article can be bought for 7 cents
a pound at Dreka & Co.'S?
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To Correspondents.
HoLMwOoD, FL

HOLLYWOOD, FLA, July 20.
Editors of The Florida Agriculturist.
Will you please inform us through me
columns of your valuable paper, whether
grating plums on peaches has been sue e
cessfully accomplished in FLORIDA; ana II
so, the best time and modus operand1I
A SUBSCRIBER.
We have never seen any plums
grated on peaches, as the latter are
subject to the borer and are not long
lived, but it is a common practice to
graft peaches on plum stalk, the
common wild, plum being the best
for that purpose. There is uoneces-
sity to use peach stalks when these
are SO much better-[ED.
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Palms..

On our first page will be found an
interesting communication from Mr..
G. A. Purdie, of Boston, Massachu-
sets, embodying different deScrlp-
ton from what we have. hitherto
published of the Wax Palm OF the
Andes, Ceroryzon AndicOZG.
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nurses on duty and the sick appear
to be well attended to. Cases OF
yellow fever have been reported in
other Southern cities, but not of an
epidemic character.
One hundred and seventeen deaths
at Havana during the week ending
July &c.
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A GOOD PLAN

ANYBODY can learn to make money RAPIDLY
operating in Stocks, by the Two Unerrinp
Rules for Success" in Messrs. Lawrence e
Co.'s new circular. The combination meth.
od, which this firm has made SO successful
enables people with large or small means
to reap all t. e benefits of largest canitaI
and best skill. Thousands of orders. in
various sums, are pooled into one vast
amount and cOOperated as mighty whole
thus securing to each shareholder all fine
advantages of the largest operator. I'M
mense profits are divided monthly, Anv
amount from five collars to five Thousand
OF more can be used successfully, N. Y
Baptist Weekly, September 26. 1878 saws
by the combination system fifteen dol.
lars would make seventy-five or five ner
cent; htty dollars pays three hundred and
InIty or seven per cent; one hundred dol
lars makes one thousand OF ten ner cent
on the stock during the month, ACCORDING
to the market" Frank Leslie's ILLUSTRATED
Newspaper June Goth says: The comhina-
ton method of operating stocks is tha
most successful ever adopted. New YORK.
Independent September 18th saws: The
combination system is founded UNION cor
rect business principles, and no person need
be without an income while it is kent
working by Messrs. Lawrence e. 10
Brooklyn Ournal, April 29th: 'Our editor
made net profit of one hundred and one
dollars and twenty five cents from twentv
dollars in one OF Messrs Lawrence e. Co.'S
combinations" New circular mailed free1
explains everything. Stocks and bonds
wanted. Government bonds suppIied
Lawrence & Co., Bankers, 81 Exchange
Place. N l. 5265
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American Pathological Society.

American FOIlOIOSICdI SUCl0Cy'
The next annual meeting Of this
Society will be held on Wednesday,
September 18th, in the city OF
Rochester, N. Y, and continue for
three days. Col. H. L. Hart, Of Pa
latka, is Vice President of the Socl-
ETY. for Florida, and Hon. P. P. Bishop,
OF San Mateo; E. H. Hart, Esq, Of
Federal Point, are members OF the
committee on fruit. Cannot the peo-
pie of this State help them in exhib-
ting choice specimens of the fruit
that we are growing? How the
members would admire the sight Of
such as we have lately been the re-
cipients. Let our local Agricultural
Society try and Do something in this
matter. The National Agricultural
Congress, of which Professor Thos.
P. James, of Atlanta, Ga, is Presi
dent, will hold their. meeting at Roch
ester, on the 10Th of September. The
two Societies meeting together will
attract great concourse ofpeople tc
that city.
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AGRICULTURAL Societies.

Florida Fruit Growers Associal Bn.-Dr.
]. C. Kenworthy, pres, Jacksonville; D.
H. Elliot, sec., Live Oak; D. S, Place, cor.
Sec, Waldo.
Orange Ridge Agricultural and Immi-
grafton Society.-Dr, B. B. Bennett, pres;
John Canon, Sec; N. R.Scovel, cor. sec.
DeLand, Volusia Co. Weekly reetings
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THE FLORIDA AGPICULTURIST.

enough to warrant us in saying, that
he writes what he knows upon semi
tropical agriculture, and that he is
modest enough to let alone subjects
which he does not understand. This
is more than we can say, of quite a
number of would-be teachers OF the
science of agriculture in this State.
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-18

The ancient right of sanctuary was, no
doubt, an excellent institution, at least in
the estimation of some people, 1t must
have been pleasant to know that there were
certain places to which it was possible for
the worst criminal to fly and be safe from
arrest or molestation, provided he was
sagacious enough to steer clear of an
offence against the Church. The privilege
was all the more valuable as there were
then no means of getting out of town by
railroads or fast steamship lines, SO that
without sanctuary poor devil who might
have robbed a private dwelling or cut q
layman's throat would have stood no
chance for his life. In these days it
is different, the right of sanctuary
being rendered unnecessary because of the
numerous avenues Of escape opened to law
breakers by science and enterprise, and. SO
far as New York is concerned, for the addi-
tional reason that the officers of the law sell
dom catch a criminal, wherever he may go.
The ancient right has, nevertheless, been
claimed in the city. A workman on the
Second avenue rapid transit road, now in
qlazier, broke all his glass and then took TO
his heels to escape arrest by a policeman
who saw the offence committed. Finding
the officer gaining upon him the offender
rapidly climbed one of the railroad col
umns the policeman following at his
heels. On reaching the roadbed the officer
of the law was confronted by foreman of
the work, who stopped him with the remark.
sect out of this; I'm boss here, and you
can't come here to arrest anybody" The
officer refused to recognize the right of
sanctuary thus claimed tor the offender Of
whom he was in pursuit. But finding the
travelling over the unfinished structure
somewhat risky he arrested the foreman
and carried him to the station house, where
the Police Justice, having similar want Of
reverence tor the ancient right, held the
prisoner for obstructing an officer in the
discharge OF his duty.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-18

The Mississippi River has played trick
upon the Secretary Of the Navy in the un-
expected iall of water which has made it
impossible for the naval training ship Wa
chusett to reach st. Louis Those who are
laughing at Secretary Thompsons disap-
pointment will, nevertheless, sympathize
with the object he has in view, and which
he will carry out as soon as the river
rises Congress has allowed him to enlist
n considerable number of naval appren-
tices--seven hundred is, we believe, the
number no is authorized to keep and to fill
up as those who have served longest
are drafted into actual service. The
law which Mr.. Thompson has been
instrumental in perfectlng is one of
the most useful and necessary which has
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-07-18
A Steamer Lost.

The State of Virginia, of the State Line
Company. which sailed from this port on
the 10th, was unhappily lost on Satur-
day, the 18th, on the treacherous sands
off Sable Island. She ran into a
dense fog on Friday and struck, seven
miles off the south end Of Sable
Island, on Saturday evening at eight o'clock.
She had fortunately but few passengers ;
but of these nine-all women and children
were drowned by the capsizing of life
boat which had come out from the island to
the rescue, and which was overturned in
the surf when quite near the land.
So far as the loss of these lives is con-
cerned the captain and crew OF the ship
seem to be blameless. The passengers had
safely left the ship in the lifeboats belong
ing to the island /; and we must suppose
that the surf was too heavy for even the
islanders who manned the boat. How the
ship came to be so fatally near the extremely
dangerous shore of Sable Island is matter
which the Captain, who is alive. will have
to explain to his owners and to the public.
The Atlantic between here and Europe
uaS uOW UoCOMe oO muCA nCIe
ferry that commanders of vessels
are justly held to very rigid accounta-
bility for their management. Where multi
tudes cross safety is the first consid |;
and a captain who drives his ship two days
through dense fog, as the purser reports to
have been done in this case, takes risks
which are inexcusable. The public has q
right to know by what blunder or careless
ness such disaster has come about.
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been enacted for the improvement OF the
navy. At present the seamen of the navy
are almost all foreigners. Eight out of ten
do not even speak English readily. The
object of establishing training ships is to
form a force of American seamen, numerous
enough in time to man our navy and thor
oughly instructed in all parts of seaman
ship.
1t is to Mr.. Thompson's credit that he
has taken a lively interest in this necessary
and important reform. He has made
known all over the country the conditions
on which naval apprentices are received,
and in sending the Wachusett up the
Mississippi his object is to give
Western boys an opportunity to enlist
in regular and orderly manner, instead of
running away to sea as Western boys with q
sea craze have had to do time out Of mind.
There are now on the Atlantic coast the
Portsmouth, Saratoga and Constitution; the
Minnesota is on the Hudson River; the
Michigan is on the lakes, and the Wa
chusett will ascend the Mississippi as soon
as the river rises.
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ton; but many people in the South have
discovered that a good orchard or VINEYARD

ton; but many people in the South have
discovered that good orchard or vineyard
is more profitable and more steadily re-
munerative than a cotton field, and even
Texas seems now to have awakened to this
fact. The time will come when the orange
crop of Louisiana will be as valuable as the
sugar crop was three or four years ago; and
the farmers of the mountain regions OF
North and South Carolina and Georgia
could do no better thing for themselves
to-day than to plant extensive vineyards OF
the finer varieties of grapes-the black Ham
burgh, Muscas and Tokay-which will grow
in that region with little trouble, and which
are now sent to us from California and sell
here in the season in great quantities at
from thirty to fifty cents per pound. hT
The profitableness of raising early vege-
tables and small fruits for the North has
already been discovered in the Southern
seaboard States, near whose principal cities
are extensive market gardens. New Workers
who go to market for themselves are struck
with the fact that the region from which
this city draws it's supplies of early vege-
tables and fruits is constantly extending in
the South. A few years ago Norfolk had all
most monopoly; now Charleston, Savan-
nah and even Florida send to us; we get
early peaches from Georgia and North Caro-
lima, and Mobile and Pensacola begin to be
represented in the markets of Cincinnati
and Chicago. This is kind of reconstruc-
ton which the politicians cannot prevent
or even delay.
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A Comical investigation.

Five learned Aldermen assembled in the
Aldermanic Chamber yesterday to investi-
gate something or somebody. Exactly
what they were called upon to investigate
appeared to be mystery to them, and will
probably be mystery to those who read an
account of their proceedings. They first
investigated Alderman Sauer, who made q
preliminary statement to the effect that he
had uttered o falsehood and q SANDER
when he asserted that Alderman Haughton
had sold his vote on the rapid transit report
for consideration. and that the proof
was in his alderman Sauer's) pocket
Then they investigated Alderman Haugh-
ton, who admitted that he had called sew
eral of his associates together at his house,
denied that he had done so for the purpose
of fixing" them on rapid transit, but dis
closed the fact that the brotherly gathering
was for the purpose of ascertaining whether
they would vote to confirm Sheridan Shook
for Police Commissioner if Mayor Cooper
should send in his name.
Thus ends the Sauer-Haughton inquiry
Will the Aldermen now investigate Mayor
Cooper and find out whether he authorized
Alderman Haughton to enter into an out
side, unofficial bargain with the Aldermen
to confirm Mr.. Sheridan Shook in advance
of his nomination.?
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The trial Of the murderer of Mrs. Hull
could have but one termination. The case
closed yesterday, and the jury. after an alb
sence of an hour from the court room,
brought in verdict of guilty. The delay
was not caused by doubt on the part Of any
juryman as to the guilt of the accused; but
two of their number inclined to mercy and
spent some little time in considering
whether it would be practicable to render
a verdict that would save the convict's life
and consign him to perpetual imprison-
ment. They were prepared to pronounce
him guilty ut any moment, and when they
found that he must suffer the full penalty
of the law they at once agreed to the ver-
dict. The death sentence was imm ediately
passed, and the execution was fixed to take
place on August 20.
There can be no question of the justice
of this sentence. The crime was a terrible
one and the full penalty must be exacted-
not for the sake of taking the miserable
culprit's life, but because justice and the
safety of the community demand the ex-
treme punishment. The prisoners coun-
sci defended him stoutly, making twenty
three requests to charge, nearly all of
which were denied by the Court, and TAX
ing the same number of exceptions. OF
course there will be an attempt to obtain
stay until these exceptions can be heard
and decided, but it would be well if they
could be disposed of before the day fixed
for execution. There never was a clearer
case of guilt; never a crime which more
loudly demanded the enforcement of the
death penalty. We have recently had an
epidemic Of crime in New York, and the ex-
ample of this criminals execution within
three months of the date OF the IN urder he
committed will be public advantage.
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More Yellow Fever.

Five new cases Of yellow fever were re-
ported to the Board of Health in Memphis
yesterday, which is discouraging fact to all
those widespread hopes that the sporadic
cases formerly reported were to be without
successors. But it does not follow
that the fever is already epidemic,
OF to become epidemic. If these cases
have been spread from the former ones,
if they are the result of the circulation OF
the poison in the air, then, indeed. the hope
for escape from an extended affection is
light indeed. But it is very probable that
these cases are due to the same sort of acci-
dental origin to which the others have been
traced That is, some garment. carefully
put away last year needless ofthe fact that
it was saturated with the fever poison, has
now been brought out, and that poison,
filing the hot air of some room or house,
has stricken down those within its range.
This might happen in many houses as well
as in one, tor the people are not
generally instructed in facts of this
in the very way most likely to store the
poison in one year and set it free in an
other. It could scarcely be possible to in
duce all the people in Memphis to bury all
the dry goods in their houses, and yet there
is not garment worn in that city last sum-
mer and laid away since that does not con-
tain in its folds the seeds of this disease
Our apprehension is that it may be so
repeatedly started by this accidental ex-
pansion of old clothes that it will at last
get hold enough to continue itself epidemi-
oo11v
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The president of the Christopher Street
Railroad Company acted discreetly yester-
day in Withdrawing the complaint made by
that corporation against one of Mr.. Bergh's
officers for alleged violation Of the new law
to prevent the delaying of passengers on
street railroad cars and to prohibit obstruct-
ing the free passage of such cars. The
officer of the Society for the Prevention Of
Cruelty to Animals had stopped car of
that line and removed the horse,
which was lame. This was held
by the company to be an offence
against the new law, which probably was
enacted with the object of embarrassing Mr..
Berghs operations. The position was
clearly untenable, as Mr.. Bergh acts under
law which confers specific powers on him
and his officers and makes it an offence for
railroad company to drive lame horse.
To lay complaint against Mr. Bergh be-
cause in the discharge of his legal duties
he delays the running of a car is just as
absurd as it would be to make a similar
charge against policeman who might de-
lay the passengers in his efforts to arrest q
pickpocket, or against u fire company be-
cause it's hose, while playing on fire,
might lie across the track and obstruct the
free passage of the cars.
Some consideration is due to the passen-
gers, nevertheless. The efforts OF the
amiable Mr. Bergh on behalf of the street
railroad horses this hot weather deserve all
praise; but the great philanthropist may be
humane to the animals without being cruel
to the passengers inside the cars. 1t can
not add much to the sufferings of lame
horse to finish the journey to the end of a
route, and Mr.. Bergh should instruct his
officers in such cases as that Of the Chris
topher street company to get on the car,
ride to the depot, and there make the
arrest, taking care that the horse is not
allowed to go out again. This would
prevent any detention of the passen-
gers, who sometimes have no time to
spare, who may be endeavoring to catch
some particular ierryboat, and for whom,
under any circumstances, q hot street cur is
not a comfortable resting place during the
tendency OF an angry dispute between the
driver and Mr. Berghs officers. The delay
OF one car means the stoppage OF all the
cars that ollow while the obstruction lasts,
and the Inconvenience and discomfort not
OF one car load of passengers only, but prob
ably of half dozen loads The law no
doubt authorizes Mr. Bergh to stop the
offending driver and remove the suffering
horse on the spot, but common sense
should dictate to him the expediency OF
conducting the car to the terminus of the
road, thus avoiding Inconvenience to the
passengers while at the same time doing
his iull duty.
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to relax our vigilant supervision over the
causes that make high death rates or afford
a field of operations for epidemic diseases.
With reasonable care and a continuance OF
the energy already shown we may almost
DEFY the advance of any pestilential dis
ease; but yellow fever is active in many
tropical cities, it is always at our doors and
may any day appear in one or more of the
Southern States; wherefore it is supremely
important that we should lose no chance to
keep ourselves in a good condition with
regard to this danger.