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CONSUMPTION Cured.

An old physician, retired from
practice, having had placed in his
hands by an East India missionary
the formula of a simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and perma-
nentcure for Consumption, Bronchitis,
Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and
Lung Affections, also a positive and
radical cure for Nervous Debility and
and all Nervous Complaints, after hav-
ing tested its wonderful curative pow.
ers in thousands of cases, has felt it his
duty to make it known to his suffering
fellows. Actuated by this motive and a
desire torelieve human suffering,I will
send free of charge to all who desire it
this recipe, in German, French, CIR
English, with full directions tor pre-,
pairing and using. Sent by mail by
addressing with stamp, naming tits
paper, w. w. SHERAR, 149 POecers'
Block, Rochester, ". Y. II 81.
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LATEST GENERAL NEWS.
Cholera is subsiding in Japan.
Rumpus among the Mormons.

Cholera is subsiding in Japan.
Rumpus among the Mormons.
A peace congress at Maple, broke
up in big row.
Collections are being made for the
sufferers by the floods in Spain.
Is is reported that there is an out
break among the Indians of Dakota
The quarantine on Memphis has
been raised. There has been heavy
frost.
Now that the English have got
Afghanistan they are not likely to
give it up again.
A foot of snow fell at London, Ont.
last week. Great damage has been
done to fruit and shade trees. i
The editor Of a newspaper in Eng
land has been sentenced to eighteen
months Imprisonment for libel.
Two tramps, who were sleeping in
the Hazleton furnace, two miles east
of Youngst own, Ohio, were found
dead, having been suffocated by gas
The inquiry into the massacre at
Cabul is proceeding. The Ameer's
father-in-law, the Ex-Governor of
Cabul, and the Minister of Finance
are under close arrest. s4t4t
Immense beds of coal have been dis :
covered on the Assinibone river,
about sixty miles south of Grand Val
ley, and company has secured $500
acres of land there. One thousand
tons will be brought to Winnipeg this
winter.
Postmaster General Key has issued
instructions to the Postmasters of
New York city, Louisville and New
Orleans to refuse hereafter to rent
boxes In their offices to lottery com
panies or lottery agents.
A dispatch from Cabul saws : "The
five men who were hanged for com.
pllclty In the massacre of the British
Embassy include the Kotwal of Ca.
bull 1.-THE head Of the city Mollahs), and
two Generals. 1t is charged that they
dragged the head of Major Cavagnari
from the British Residency to Bala
Hissar."
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-11-05
Our FibreS.

There appears to be great demand
now for fibrous materials for paper
making and bagging. We have re-
ceived several letters of inquiry on
the subject, one Of which We publish
beneath and the other letter kindly
sent us by Mr.. S. A. Swami, of Fer
nandina, from correspondent of his.
We took the trouble, i've years ago,
to gather up samples of our marsh
grasses, and went to the expense of
sending five different varieties to
England to the paper makers to find
out if they could not be utilized in
place of Esparto grass, from Spain.
The grasses were examined and val
ued at from $12 to $25 per ton. One
thing was therefore accomplished
that there was market price for
them, and next, that they would
answer the purpose. When it is
considered that people can cultivate
hay in the North and send it thou
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-11-05
Pulaski Marcia Centennial Sou
V0nir.

From Ludden & Bates Southern
Music House, Savannah, Ga, we re-
ceive copy of Pulaski March, writ
ten by Professor Henry Shoeller, of
Dalton, Ga, specially for the Savan-
nah Centennial, October 9, 1879, and
played by the Thirteenth United
States Infantry Band at the laying of
the Jasper Monument corner stone.
The piece is elegantly gotten up and
reflects great credit on the enterpris-
ing publishers. It's superb military
title page with Autograph of the mag
nifcent Pulaski Monument, of which
General Lafayette laid the corner
stone in 1923, is worthy of framing
and will make tasteful souvenir of
this grand Southern Centennial. The
March is brilliant and inspiring, but
not difficult. Bands are playing it
generally and it is voted a genuine
success. 1t should grace every South
ern girls piano. All Music Dealers
sell It. Send 40 cents for copy.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-11-05
Work for November.

This is the month in which to cut
sugar-cane and make sugar and syrup.
Care must be taken not to leave
too much of the green top on the
canes sent to the mill; there is no
saccharine matter in it,and only spoils
the sugar and syrup. 1t requires
experience to make even qualities of
SUGAR and syrup for the juice may be
boiled either too much, or not enough.
A thermometer with long tube, made
for the purpose, is the best guide as
to the time to strike. They may be
bought, we have no doubt, at Bene-
dict 81 McConihe's. of Jacksonville.
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What Others Think Of Us.

Charles II. Shinn, Esq, the able
editor of the California HorticuAu-
rist, of San Francisco, one of the best
magazines of the kind in the United
States, writes us:
1 like THE FLORIDA AGR1cULTu-
RIsT very much and have just written a
complimentary notice of it for our
Monthly, and have put you on our per-
manent exchange, and will send with this
mail our October number, which, per-
haps, you did not receive. We shall
often quote from your interesting pages
Success to you.
We receive complimentary letters
from all parts Of the United States,
which shows that the paper is doing
a good work for the State. We will
soon come out in new head which
will add much to the appearance of
the paper, and are making arrange
ments by which it will be further i'm,
proved. The Orange Ridge Society
are adding twenty-three more places
to their list-see our eighth page,
where the paper can be seen in other
States-and we are sending it our
self, to great many public resorts
where people can read and know
something about Florida. Is it not
then the duty of our own people to
Import us strongly ?
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-11-05
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-
quired, 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 the business.
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THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.

with green leaves and white underneath !;
the flower is a purple. It is native of
India, butsome years ago, I understand,
considerable of it was planted in Florida,
and principally Fernandina. 1 have
machine for preparing it, and need the
green stalks for testing it.
ALBERT AMOUR.
Those who possess information on
these subjects will do we'll to write
to the gentlemen and tell what they
know, thereby doing good to the
State.
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The casks for syrup should be per
fectly clean, and it is better to fumi
gate them with sulphur before using
This can be done as follows: Take
an old kettle and insert the spout
into the bung hole of the cask and
wrap something round to make it all
tight; piece of clay fastened round
it will answer, then place the sui
pher in the kettle and set it on the
fire and close the kettle. A few min
utes will fumigate the cask. The tops
of the cane can be fed to hogs or kept
for next years seed.
Protect all delicate plants that may
be injured by cold. Dig and bank
sweet potatoes, sow rye, oats, etc.
Plant Irish potatoes, English peas,
and all varieties of garden vegetables.
Gather up dried and decayed leaves
and make heaps tor fertilizers. Throw
some potash around your banana
roots, it will make them more vigor-
GUS in the spring when they start to
grow. You can plant strawberries
to the end of the month, if the plants
are healthy ones, and sprinkle a little
muriate of potash over the beds I; if
too much the plant will be killed. ~
If possible, protect young orange
nurseries, trees that have been cut
down by frost can never Afterwards
be depended on. We attribute one
great cause of the die-back in after
years to this. In purchasing orange
trees get them from reliable sources,
where you may be sure the trees are
healthy. Land intended for water
melons should not be broken up un-
til you are ready to plant, as the mel
ons do better planted on sod. Ar
rowroot and cassava can now be
converted into starch. Bank the canes
of cassava for next years planting.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-11-05
Agricultural Societies.

Florida Fruit Growers Association.-Dr,
J. C. Kenworthy, pres, Jacksonville; d.
H. Elliot sec Live Oak; D. s, Place, cor.
Sec, Waldo.
New Smyrna Agricultural and Fruit
Growers Society.--Dr. j. M. Hawks. pres;
NJ. B. Rolf and NJ. Lewis, vice-pres'ts.; w.
S. Hart. sec. and treas.
Orange Ridge Agricultural and Immi-
grafton Society.-Dr. B. B. Bennett, pres.;.
John Canon, Sec; N. R.Scovel, cor. sec.
DeLand. Volusia Co. Weekly meetings
Lake George Fruit-Growers' Associa-
tiou.-H. w. Peters, NJ. D.. pres, .Drayton
Georgetown; w. P. Wright, Esq, vice
pres, Drayton Island; w, H. Lente, ESQ.,,
vice-pres., Seville; A. H. Manville, Esq,
Sec, Lake George; Rev. t. Hind, cor. Sec.
Georgetown; S. u. Hammond. ESQ.,, treas;
Fort Gates.
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A Good Offer.

-AN acho subscribe moo for this pa
per for the gear 1880, eoiU be sap
piled aoith the paper for the remainder
of 1879, FREE. We aoiU shortly
commence series Of articles on the
Spices Of Commerce, aohere, and hoao
groom, and hoao prepared.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-11-05

NEWARK, N. j., October 16, 1879.
l have been informed that the Ramie
plant grows at FernandiDa, but not
knowing any one there, write to you,
hoping you will aid me il finding out
If any can be had now and in what
quantity. II you will kindly find out
and let me know, l would feel greatly
obliged, and would purchase all of it at
a fair price, according to size OF stalks.
send you small amount of the IA
mic fibre, so that you may know what
1t is. 1t grows into tall slender stalk,
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To Correspondents.

In writing to the paper will our
correspondents be good enough to
write on only one side of the sheet !?
asswhen both sides are written on, it
not only makes it inconvenient for
the compositors, but the handling OBJ
literates some of the writing and pre-
vents its being true to copy.
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To Correspondents.

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A large and pleasant party met last
Friday evening at the residence OF Mr..
Chant, between this and Orange City,
and had a most agreeable time. Dane
ing was kept up to late hour. The
honors were done by the Misses. Chant
in the absence of their father.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-03
The Squandering Senate.

Tho Republicans OF the Senate have added
millions To the appropriation bills for scan
dalous objects. All the parliamentary rules
have been ilagrantly violated in piling
amendments on these bills, the most inn
purtant OF which were not even printed
when they were offered and passed, and
therefore by no possibility could bc prop
erly understood except by the parties in
tercstcd and their agents ON the floor.
This is done while the present revenues
are falling Off largely, and when the new
Pension law, the reduction ON tobacco duties.
and other items, will certainly require forty
or more millions additional during the next
fiscal year Even now, bills have been in
troduced to authorize the issue of more
per cent bonds TO pay the pensions; but no
provision has been proposed for the coming
deficit in other respects, even il the bonds
should be authorized, which is by no means
probable
In loading down the appropriations the
Republicans are like reckless tenants who
have been ordered out by their landlord.
This is the last chance, and they mean TO
improve 1t by carrying Off everything valu-
able. If every second OF the remaining
hours OF this Congress should bc scrupu-
lously and earnestly employed in consider
ing the pending bills, it would be physical
impossibility to do justice to the public or
TO the committees in presenting them for
action to the House.
Important principles are involved in Sow
eral OF the amendments, while in others
there are millions OF jobbery. The House
can yield neither in the one direction nor in
the other without n loss Of position before
The country, not only in n political sense,
but rs the representative Of the taxpayers
who protest against this vicious mode Of
legislation and will sustain no party that
ravors ii. Better let It all fail and COM
mencc anew, rather than sacrifice the princi-
pie which is at issue now between the House
and the Senate. 1t is easy to fix the respon-
sibility, and the country will Doe quick 10
justify any action that will prevent more
fraud and stop the disgracciul extravaganza
of the sonata
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-03

munty waver in their allegiance TO the re-
publican cause, the military power becomes
source of danger The sword will obey
tho purse the vacillations and apprehen-
sions of tho property-owning mass will in
vite and palliate military usurpation. There
is no lesson moro conclusivcly enforced by
French history than the absolute necessity
Of circumspcction on the part OF democrats
in n country where the elements OF reaction
are ambushcd in every groove Of vast
military and civil organization.
II was because the municipal government
of Paris has already passed into the hands
of the extreme radicals that its vote OF
100000 francs as communist relief fund
was viewed with considerable misgiving by
mon OF moderate opinions. Not that the
act might not be amply justified on grounds
OF equity and humanity. but 1t was sure to
be held up before the rural electors as sub
stantial rehabilitation OF the Commune.
Moreover the City Council have lately
avowcd theories tending TO make tho mu-
nlcipalty independent In large measure OF
the central powers-theories which, however
consonant with our principles OF govern
ment here in the United States, strike at the
root of the French system.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-03
Civilization Takes Another Step For
Ward.


The public has been RECALLED, during the
past week, with tdings of the slaughter Of
thrty-six Indians, In bulk, between Payetto
and the South Fork OF Salmon River. The
heroes OF this exploit evidently think 1t
something 10 be proud Of, and the narrators
share their enthusiasm. These red men
were surprised in camp, "when not in the
least expecting the presence Of white men,"
and were killed ON the spot. Exactly what
sort OF Indians they were seems tO be left in
doubt-thcy were Salmon Indians, Snakes,
and n few Payettcs, with some Wcisors,
and few renegade Nez PcrcGs and Umatil-
las" What seems TO be more certain Is
that they had "many valuable horses, be-
lieved to be stolen"
The men who surprised ard killed these
unresisting Indians were not regular troops,
empowered to go ON such business; they
were not state or Territorial militia forces !;
they were not even volunteers whose SER
vices had been accepted for the purpose by
the Governor of Oregon or the Governor Of
Idaho; they were not local cunstabulary or
a sherifrs posse. They carried no commits
sion or warrant military or civil, for their
bloody foray; they had as much and
ms little right TO capture and kill these
Indians rs II party Of farmers Of New York
would have 10 hunt out and attack n gypsy
camp, capture the occupants, and murder
them on the spot.
II Is said that the rules Of the frontier
cannot be the rules of dense populations.
Undoubtedly; but In this very region is n
large body OF regular troops, commanded
10y officers subject to personal responsibility,
and sustained there at heavy cost for the
purpose OF protecting settlers; in this
region, too, exists the lawful power 60 call
out volunteers for frontier defence, and the
courts only the other day showed their
power over Indians by hanging some OF them.
When Indians who have no courts and no
law processes. take this method Of retaliation
for real or iancied injuries, we call II hor-
rihle savagcry; when white mon do tho
same, killing in cold blood three dozen In
d.ans, the feat seems 10 be spoken OF as
something crcditable and heroic.
1t Is alleged that these Indians were the
remnant Of those who joined the hostile
| Bannocks last summer; but that war was
| ended long ago, and Gen. HOWARD has sung
his pn'an over IL; what right has band OF
! white men now to renew ity IL is alleged
! that these lndians had stolen horses Of the
settlers; but Gen. Howard has shown TINT
! thousands Of horses have been stolen from
/ lniidns by whites IN this very region. ami
The quosti arises whether even these In
dians did moie than ret back thcig own
hug-o-. However, all that is aside from the
real Issue; the iaughtcrcd Indians are bc-
! youl any reach of Identification. II any of
them killed white men, no steps have been
taken to distinguish the guilty from the
others civilization sluughters all, without
regard 10 age or sex.
1t is clear enough that there Is one law for
the red man AM another for the white. or
rothcr, there is usually no law for the In
diam but that Of massacre.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-03
Paid and Volunteer Fire Engineers.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir: The loss
Of life and injury person fires this winter make the
inquiry pertinent whether the Fire Department IL fur
nsled with good and efficient engineers whether a
hgh.soundng made to take the place Of sound
Judgment and discretion You cannot make an engineer
any more than you can make poet; he must be born
with Judgment for the ONCE
Assistant Engineer Creger OF the Volunteer Fire Depart
ment was very careful Of his I heard him
order "a Engine pipe on Of an extension at the New.
house nre In Hudson street The foreman and men
could not sec any need Of backing out" lie
per,mptorily ordered them OF again They had hardly
and crushed the place where they had stood lie used
when In charge Of the roof TO place brick on the coping
displaced he then looked TO II the walls had settled
Il 90 lac Immediately ordered all the men out Of the
New York did not have single inefficient chief Enri
Of Alfred Carson. the last engineer Mr. Decker was
S I1p pgeua e Ssam ana IN Mr
question were all involved IN his election so that there
Al Ares the Chief Engineer took his position in front OF
We nrs and placed an 9,s,,n, ~ 'nS rear one on We
root Al nrc in patohed-up man trap down town.
ing through the next building TO the root placed
his hand IN hole in the wall like stoyepipe hole but
wall Of the building on Ere was sinking. aud Immediately
oricrcd the men out. just in time 10 save them from
1 know that Mr. Bates used to be good fireman, and
think the change from appointment to election es
ofce Of chief Emsntar ~ the New Yorf firc pepaTt
ment Think OF such men as Mayors Guntier and Bly,
appbintment under TIE present system-men who cheer
tuly gave their services 70 the FIRE Department. and
ON Ma,hinstons birthday Mr Lh Bates printed LET
cal knowledge OF fires because numerous experiment
aud failures have demonstrated that arc cann', IT,
tcetns hand and lulemcnt vt man Even IN ship nrc'
doors 60 allow the water 10 escape or make draught-
the ves~l must be scgtted ant sunk TO drown Il Are
ire out must be allowed 10 burn out Old vkTrRAS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-03
The Amnesty Question in France.

II l. not easy n overrnto tho polfffpai inn
no,tanco of ,ho vote bv which tbe Fropch
chamber nf Deuuti,- roinc,o,l I .ot,rs ,Nc.s
nroieo, ~ wholesale op,p..tv Tint tho
came course would Dc taken In the scnntc.
whore moderate opinions are stil donnie
nant, was of course to be expected. Had
the extreme Left succeeded i'm obtaiu-
ing a majority for the measure the Iiur-
between the lower House and the Senate
would have been sharply drawn. and a
crisis would have been provoked i'm which
the mass Of electors. panlc--trichon bv
prospect Of revolutionary measures.
might have thrown themselves once moro
into the arms of the rcactioni-ts Indeed.
such men as VI. RoUuIR could contriyc no
surer means OF running the republic and rc-
storing the conservative cause to the favor
Of the middle classes thau q legislative ,n-
dorsement Of NJ. BLANc's attempt torcha-
bilitatc the Commune.
We are far from denying weight 10 some
Of the arguments by which the proposal ~
indiscriminatc amnesty has been defended.
They represent the convictions OF some of
the aLlest if not the wl-est. men in France
They appeal. moreover, to AN instructive
compassion for those who. whateyor their
lINl@RlfnslNi- were undoubtedly Ncall with
quite az much in a spirit Of vengeance as Of
justice. We have NO great admiration for
those Versailles warriors who, after bctray-
Ing dcplorable weakness in the face Of u
foreign enemy, and after suffering them-
selves 30 be barred out Of Paris for sixty
days, at length vented their spite in uure-
buked atrocities and uuchlllcngod massa-
ere. We know very we'll on the authority
OF an American Consul, that the tale of the
Commune IS not altogether onc-sidcd
story, and that the record of the so-called
Federalists is by no means white page
Neither are we accustomed in this country
10 view with favor the trial or political Of
Tenders by court martial, or 10 attach much
sanctity to yerdlcts rendered under the
impulse Of passionate, almost forocious
repression And nasmuch as we con-
cede that many accused persons We're
found guilty upon Evidence which
civil tribunal would pronounce made
quatc we must admit that some Of the con-
victs excluded by the existing Government
from the benefits Of amnesty may have been
uniustly condemned Why, then, should
we not concur with LOUIS BLANC and
VICTOR HUGO in applying the maxim
that 1t is better many guilty person,
should escape than that one innocent
should suffer p; Because it Is the head
long application OF such abstract truths