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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-09-03
HOMESTEAD PATENTS.


publication of the lists Of land patents
granted, and many thus aided, as we
learn from the U. S. Land Office at
Gainesville, to obtain their patents, We
nublish the new list sent US. Special
attention is called to the following para
graphs OF Circular, April Is, 1879, lately
issued by U. S. Land Commissioner,
J. A. Williamson:
Any settler desiring to make final
proof must first file with the register of
the proper land office, writteA notice
of his intention to make final proof.
Such notice must describe the land
claimed, and the claimant must give the
names and residences of the witnesses
bv whom the necessary facts as to settle
rnent, residence, cultivation, etc., are to
be established"
The filing OF such notice must be
accompanied by q deposit Of sufficient
9,aoney to 31ay the cost of publishing the
notice to be giUen 6y the Register
The following are on file, for delivery,
in the U. S. Land Office at Gainesville,
Florida
Afford, Marion Aston, James p.
Allen, Coaster
Bright, Sarah Barnes, VIM. J.
Bryan, John L. Bundy, Arthur
Brazil, Eliza Brewer, jackson
Barker, Alfred L. Brown, Z. G.
Blakely, Stephen Baulware, Claracy
Chalker, James L. Collins, Stepnen ?
Caruthers, Sallie E Conway, Martin
Cesar, Polly Crockett, William
Canova, John G. Cassidy, And'w j
Cheves, VIM. r.. Curtis, c. B.
Cannon, Sarah Crockett, VIM. G.
Drommond, Stph. Dolby, Aaron
Douglass, Harry F Dupree, Henry II.
Dob6ins, Peter B Donley, Axam
Dickson John
Evans. John w. Ezell, Joshua H.
Erdmannsdortf, Nj.
Won.
Forbes, P.Harlan French, Seth
Fox, Geo. l.. Finn, John
Ferrell, Geo. NJ.
Gordon, Peggy Garry, heirs Of
Griggs, j Ohm b. Aaron
CORY, Charles Goodwin, Barney
Guiltord, Jos. W.
Hughes, Israel p. Houston, Timothy
Hall, Peter w. Howard, Nick
Hull, Temp'rne +. Hendry, Harry
Hennes, David G.Harrington, Edw
johnson, Robt. "A. johnson, Major
johnson, Oscar Jackson. Morris
Jackson, Golden johnson, VIM. L.
Kenyon, Lyman
Lever, Thos. Ii. Lamp, LOUIS A.
NJ
Morrow, James Monde, Aristide
Miles, Mace Montgomery
Miller, Arnold heirs OF L. +.
Mcdaniel. Martha Miles, Edward t.
N Comb, Aaron NARROW, Thos. Z.
Marks, Rich'd II.
Norton, G. Hyde
Osteen, VIM. Z.
Porter Sawney Page John S.
Porter, Anthony Pace Warren a.
Pittman Jones M. Peterson, John
Roberts, VIM. Redding, Wade II
Roper, Mary J. Raymond, Hor. II.
Seigler, Marshall Shaw, David G.
Seigler, Henry Sweat. John
Smith, Richard Saddler. John +.
Simmons, Emily j. Sharp, VIM. w.
Sheldon-heirs of Scriven, Sam'l
Arad Sanderson, Levi
Snow, Edgar j, Sessions, Andrew
SESSIONS, Toby
Thomas, GLASGOW Tanner, Sam'l J.
Townsend, Noah Turner, Adam
Tanner, Geo W. Taswell, Israel
Thompson, Dlilh
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-09-03

To cure scab in sheep, rub it with
plain petroleum with sponge three
times week. Dogs can be cured OF
mango in the same way,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-09-03

In cultivating sweet potatoes do
not let the vines root at the joints, as
numerous small potatoes will form
there at the expense of large ones.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-09-03

THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT,
only 50 per annum-im at0dace.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-09-03

Longs Plants Of Bengal
ITO be continued
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30
RinkOmania.

Velocipede riding never achieved any
and brilliant as exercise upon the
bicyclei is, it never came into favor here.
We hear great deal about it in Eng
land. Matches, races and tournaments
of BICYCLES are frequently reported in the
English papers and some feats of dis
tance accomplished over the country
roads are almost incredible. One rea-
son why the velocipede has not made
more headway on this side of the water,
is the costliness of the machine. 1t is
very considerable sum. A good veloci-
pede can not be gotten for less than a
hundred dollars. This is more than
most people care to invest in an amuse-
ment that they have not already grown
very fond of.
But the roller skates, which are very
similar in principle, are within the reach
of much larger class of people, and
what is better, are quite as we'll suited
to ladies as to men. Indeed, there is
hardly any athletic game in which men
and women compete on such equal
terms. Brute strength avails but little
and skill is every thing; and some of
the most delicate girls glide over the
polished surface with swift and brilliant
curve, for hour after hour, with grace
that never fails and interest that never
flags. The London Punch has for sew
eral years ridiculed it in vain. 1t has
steadily grown in favor. 1t has thrived
in this country from its first introduce
tion, and recently it has effected lodg-
ment in Baltimore. Rinkomania must
therefore for the coming season be set
down as one of the rivals of the German,
and very formidable rival. 1t is so
joyous, so full of frolic and good humor.
The sight of rink is almost as pretty
as ballroom. The dresses are simple,
but they might be very pretty and taste
full. An occasional fall by no means i'm
pairs the excitement of the scene. 1t
may happen to the best skaters some
times; it is sure to happen quite fire.
quently to the beginners, but it happens
too often to cause much embarrassment
to the ctim.-BalttnlOre EUery Satar-
103
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30
Novel Remedy for Drunkenness.

In the course of a conversation with
Mr.. Benedict Prieth, of the Freie lei
TINA, on the Law and Order Associa-
ton of Newark, reporter of the Ad-
UertjSer learned a few facts pertaining
to the German and Austrian method of
treating drunkenness which are worthy
Of becoming generally known. In both
of these countries, said the gentleman,
such an order as the one in question is
unknown, and yet drunkenness is sue
cessfully handled. In reply to the in
quiry, how is this done? the statement
was made: Every drunkard is socially
ostracized, and regarded as sort of
leper with whom there is to be no fell
lowship. His name is published in the
papers, so that the fact becomes gem
orally known that he is thus cut off from
all pleasant associations with the world.
No one is allowed to sell him any liquor
under penalty Of heavy fine. Should
such q drunkard, whose name has thus
been published, enter a beer garden,
sober or intoxicated, he would be shun-
ned by those present, no matter whether
he be rich or poor, and his wants in the
drinking line ignored. In addition to this
the drunkard forfeits all his civil rights.
He is regarded as non cOmp0S naentiS
and consequently disqualified to attend
to the transaction of any business. An
officer of the city, with functions some
what similar to those Of our surrogate,
takes charge of his estate, if he has one,
and appoints a guardian for him, as is
done here in cases of lunacy, etc. This
plan tends to check the evil of drunken
ness much more effectively than any
system in force in this country. Mr..
Prieth represented that if this plan could
oe adopted here it would lessen the
number of drunkards among US, especi
ally among the better classes, and that
if licenses were refused to all the low
saloons, and none but respectable places
allowed to remain open, the sale of in
toxicants to drunkards could be discon-
tinued.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30

nized the culprit; and in spite of the
protests of the General in charge of the
Mission, the delinquent paid the penal
ty of his rashness with his head,
"A piece of Anne of Austria's skin
will soon be in the market. Her body
was burnt in church she founded, and
the piece of skin is said to have been
taken from her arm in 1900 by physi.
clan, and preserved in her family until
now. 1t is II inckeS by 4, and resem-
bles qantS de 'SWede.
p An advertisement of sale of ar
tistic furniture in Belgium in q recent
number of the London Times contained
a curious specimen of Belgian-English; 4;
after describing some tapestry, it con-
tinued: Further very artful wood
encut mantel adornment, suitable for
the placing several porcelain vases"
An invention comes to England
from New Zealand in the shape of a
"nail-gun " for driving nails. 1t is not
unlike gun in shape and size. The
nail is inserted in the muzzle and slides
to the bottom, when rod falls upon it
and drives it in with one blow. BY this
method one can do the work of half a
dozen. ...
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30
School and Church.

Three Cinnamon have been or
dained by the Episcopal Bishop OF
Hong Kong.
A London clergyman, who adver-
tises his magazine in the pulpit. is call
ed "The Preacher of the Holy Gospel Of
Pufery."
The first woman preacher in India
is Mrs. Monorama Mozoombar, wife of
Baboo Grish Chunder Mozoombar, Min
lister of the Barisal Brahmoo SOmai.
-Twenty-six thousand visits were
made and $500 families were relieved
by the St. Vincent de Paul Conferences
of Boston during the past week.
The first American saint was col
ored woman, St. Rose of Lima. There
is church in New York City dedicated
to her and another in Staten Island.
The furniture of the Madison Ave-
nue. Baptist Church, New York, was
recently sold under a chattel mortgage.
The sale took place inside the church
and most of the purchasers were men,
bers of the congregation.
-Spurgeon says about committees
that the best is a committee of three,
two of whom are i'll in bed. He thinks
that religious work is much hindered by
the people who are all the time waiting
for others to come and help them.
"A colored brother rose in prayer
meeting and said: "My dear bruddern,
feel $ if could talk more good in five
minutes dan | could do good in "a year. "
This honest and simple-minded soul
spoke out from his heart what many
more graceful orators have kept smoth-
cred within their own bosoms.
"A paralytic stroke did for an Hi.
nois clergyman what all the doctors had
been powerless to accomplish. He had
been deaf and nearly blind, but the
paralysis unstopped his ears and open
ed his eyes, and now he can see and
hear as well as ever he could. His name
is Stickney, and his home Rockford.
Jealous street preachers in Edin-
burgh were in the habit of gathering
great crowds of hearers on Sunday al
ternoons. A hotel, keeper who consider
ed his business interfered with by the
preachers, had three of them arrested
on the charge of disorderly and riotous
conduct, and of obstructing the streets
by the crowds which they gathered. On
the first of these they were found inno-
cent; but on the charge of obStructlng
the streets they were found guilty and
obliged to give security not to do it any
more.
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30
Odds and Ends,

"A prima donna is very sweet at the
beginning of her career, but let her get
rich, and there is not more cranky,
contemplate being on the face of the
earth.
1T is written in the Talmud that
"the world is saved by the breath of
school. children" The writer evidently
never sat in school next to boy who
grew fat on garlic.
ga sewing-machine agent, who
was very ill, being told that he must
prepare to pay the debt of nature,
wanted to know if it couldn't be paid on
the monthly installment plan"
-"Too many cooks spoil the broth. !"
That poor cook of Naples who tried to
kill King Humbert got himself into a
royal mess. He thinks he was the one
cook too many.
While Edison is consuming his val
liable time in trying to perfect his elec-
trio light, deSpairing public is pray
ing for lantern that won't blow out
Just when you get to the darkest, mud
diest spot on the road.
-Nicodemus said, "Wake me up,
wake me up at the first break of day."
but don't be deceived, girls, the NicO-
demuses of old are all dead, and Nico-
demus, Jr., will make no such request
he'll lay in bed and snore, while you
crawl out and start the fire, and let the
day break all to pieces before he gets
up to breakfast. .-Eln1ir0 G0zette.
=" Do you think" writes young
student of human economy, "do you
think the human race is decaying9"
Not at all. not at all. Part of it isn't
decaying because it is yet alive, and the
portion of it that is dead doesn't decay
because the medical student don't give
it chance. Oh no, the human race
was never, in all its history, so we'll
protected against decay as at present.
Be thankful that you live in an age
when the grave has been SO shorn of its
power that it can't hold a man so long
as sieve would hold spoonful of
quicksilver r.-HUWbeye.
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30
English Demand for American Horses.

A company was formed recently in
England for the purpose Of importing
horses from the United States and Can
ada. It bore the name of the British
Empire Horse Supply Association, and
its object was to improve the stock of
horses in Great Britain, and supply the
constantly increasing demand for supe-
rior horses for hunting and racing. The
inadequacy of the home supply of good,
sound horses, and the prices consequent
upon this, have been much discussed in
England, and many well known men Of
high rank joined this company. The
capital stock was 100000. The work
of buying horses and shipping them was
begun in Canada, and about 400 were
sent across the ocean. But the buyers
employed by the company did not Sc
cure superior animals, and the project
failed.
The need of new blood, however, re-
mains, and owing to the demand for
horses from this country, and the good
prices received, company is being
formed in this city to take up the work
of the Horse Supply Association. The
stockholders will consist of Americans
and Englishmen who are interested in
horsefesh. G. W. Bishop, the account
of whose trip to England with Pierre
Lorillard's horses was recently publish
ed in the Tribune, stated yesterday that
the expectation of horses from this city
was largely carried on at present. One
firm sends annually to the West Indies
1000 horses and mules. Large numbers
of horses have been sent to England
and France this year. The steamer
Queen, which sailed last Saturday, car
ried 20 horses to Liverpool, and four
others, which Mr.. Bishop lately brought
from Maine, will be sent to the south of
France to breeding-stable which will
be established there. Mr.. Lorillard also
sent by this vessel another racer
to his brother-in-law. The horses from
this country, especially from Kentucky,
have a high reputation in England.
They are valued for weight-carrying
qualities, in which they are much supe-
rior to the English hunters. At re-
cent sale in Yorkshire the prices for
American saddle-horses ranged from
$500 to $3.50. These horses are not
much in demand here, and may be pur-
chased at comparatively low prices.
According TO the latest authorities there
are in this country over 100000
horses, while Great Britain has only
100000 Illinois alone has more than
100000 horses. That there is a good
opportunity fol large profits from the
expectation and sale of fine animals, if
the business is managed with sufficient
care to exclude all inferior stock, is the
opinion of the best informed horsemen
of this city.-NeW York Tribune, 9th.
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30
Trotting by a Funeral Procession.

A good Deacon IN a Middletown
church is the owner of a hard-headed
horse which is something of trotter,
although he sometimes wishes he
wasn't. 1t is the popularity of this
horse that whenever he is pulled out on
the road he is bound to go by any thing
there is ahead of him. Now the Dea-
con seldom pulls out. He don't believe
in " training horses" He didn't mean
to do so on the occasion we are about
to mention. .... ....i.
He was in funeral procession which
was vending its way at the usual slow
pace through the streets of Middletown
toward the church. The Deacon's car
riage, with himself and good wife in the
seat, was nearly the last one in the line.
His wagon had been newly washed, and
he was careful to keep it clean. There
was big mudhole right in the middle
of the street. The Deacon thought he
would drive around it. The horse mis-
took his intention. The instant his
nose was turned out away he went, ev-
identity intent on going to the front.
The Deacon called "whoa," and sawed
at the bit with all his might, but it was
of no use. The horse was going by and
he never Stacked his pace until ne had
passed the procession-mourners, car
riages, hearse, minister, all. The peo-
pie looked after the flying Deacon in
wonderment He turned his horse into
the first side street and waited until the
the procession had passed by, when he
! fell in at the rear and drove 10 the
church. Since that when he is in fu-
neral procession he keeps right in the
middle of the road regardless of all
mudholes .-MtddIet0lOn IN. T. Press.
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary

With 1879 Littell's Living Age be-
cins its one hundred and fortieth vol
ume.
DR.. John B. Wood has been re-
elected President of the New York Press
Club.
DIR. Mary Walker was arrested in
New York City recently for appearing
in male attire.
The Duke of Argyll, Princess
Louise's papa-in-law, is suffering SO bad
ly from gout that he can not attend Far
lament. .. .
Byron, the English playwright, is
writing a play called "My Uncle" !"
The actors will doubtless "spout" their
lines.
james Mace, the bruiser, has two
sons in the ministry, Zone OF them,
the London World says, els a man OF
striking ability"
-Rochefort is straitened pecuniarily,
owing to the failure of his pamphlet
publications, which have all fallen still
born since Napoleon Ills death.
Lieut.. James H. Holbert, U. S. A.,
and author of several beautiful poems,
died at Freeport, H., the night of the
Sth, in his seth year, of consumption.
-Wilhelmj plays on a StradivariuS
violin $50 years old. 1t cost $4,000,
and double that SUM would not tempt
the artist to part with it.
Mr.. Frederick Leighton is now Sir
Frederick Leighton, the Queen having
knighted him when she gave him the
oold medal and chain of the office OF
President of the Royal Academy.
Mr.. Salkinson, who translated Mil
toms PARADISE Lost and Shakespeare'S
Othello into Hebrew, has just published
version in that language of Romeo and
Juliet.
-Ex-Confederate Gen. Hood, who
is minus one leg, has just returned from
Texas with his children, three pairs OF
twins. to New Orleans, where he pro-
poses to settle permanently.
"A biography of Lord Beaconsfeld,
which calls him "lying spirit" and
a man " destitute OF truth, honor and
principle" has attained in England to
the sale of 100000 copies.
William Sackville Gordon, employ
ed as letter carrier in Australia, died
there recently. He was son of the
late Lord Henry Gordon and a cousin Of
the Marquis of Huntley.
The report that Whitelaw Reid is
going to marry Anna Dickinson is on
4 its rounds again, and ga friend ofone of
the editors intimate friends says he
would not be surprised to hear OF the
event at an early day"
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30
Science and Industry.

The Chicago water department,
during November, took in $129, 826, of
which Sl28, 1853 was received from water
rents.
The costliest switch of hair ever
made in Paris was sold there lately for
$500. 1t was snow white, and yard
and a quarter long.
-Culumbia College, New York, has
put class of thirteen through three
machine-shops Of that city to see what
they could see,
American fruit to the value Of over
S3,000,00 was exported last year. In
1862 the entire proceeds of such expor-
tations amounted to but $269,OOO.
Application for a patent made by
Thomas A. Edison for his electric light
was favorably passed upon by the Pat
ent Office, and the patent will be issued
The taxable valuation of Tennessee
for 1878 is 1928, ,212,153, decrease Of
4 $13, ,696, ,695 since 1877, and involving a
percentage of 5-7S in the total State
tax.
There has been no less than 10000
new buildings erected in Philadelphia
during the past two years, notwith-
standing the depreciation in real estate.
The West Hartford Comm reser-
voirs, with capacity for 400,000,00O
gallons, now contain 275,000,000 gal
Ions of water, with which the city hopes
to get through the winter if there is a
January thaw. .. r-'.
The Sixth Avenue Railroad Com
pany, New York, reports decrease Of
1854, ,635 in number Of passengers carried
this year as compared with 1877, and
the Ninth Avenue Railroad Company a
decrease of 1888, ,S15.
Most of the Paterson, N. j., silk
mills are running to the fullest capacity,
and are making two or three hours over
time every night. The greatest demand
is for ribbons and scarfs. From 5000
to 10000 hands, it is estimated, are now
employed. ,...' ...r
From the debris of the coal-mines
France makes annually 100000 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 500, 900 tons.
In England where there is not so much
waste in coal-mining, and where coal is
much cheaper, the manufacture of arti-
fcial fuel is only about 100000 tons a
year.
Quite q heavy business is done in
california in shipping to China the
Shells of the shrimp, which are caught
IN such numbers on the coast, and there
is almost as much profit from the sale
of the shells as from the shrimps them
selves. The use they are put to in
thina is as manure and as a poison to
the worm which works such destruc-
hon to the tea plant of that country.
The Cinnamon state that this is the on
~ remedy at present known for the tea
pest.
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30
Haps and Mishaps.

lhpS ana MlSnaps'
w. H. Metcalf and his son, of Lis
bon, Me-, were smothered to death at
the New England House. Blackstone
having gone to bed and blown out the
gas, instead Of turning it off.
Mr.. Azel Waldo, of indianapolis,
was killed by railroad train. The
wheels severed his head from his body
and reduced the latter to q shapeless
mass. Deceased was aged 70 years.
While hunting rabbits, near Elsie,
Mich, Charles Call accidentally shot
and killed Peter Kayser. Both were
boys, aged about IA years.
Hon. John G. Lindley, Treasurer
of Butler County, Ohio, was killed by
the explosion of coal-oil lamp. His
wife, in trying to save him, was badly
burned. Mr.. L. carried life-insurance
policies amounting to $4,000.
Patrick Shannon, millwright, was
torn to shreds by his clothing being
caught by q rapidly revolving shaft, at
the American Iron Works in Pittsburg,
Pa.
William Burnison was killed by
falling into cellar at the Fort Wayne
Depot, Allegheny, Pa.
An old lady, Mrs. Joanna Ryan,
was killed by freight train at Detroit.
james Hershaw accidentally shot
and killed himself at his home in Pitts
burg, Pa.
At St. Paul, by fall of less than
three feet, youth aged IS, named Ar
thur Ganthler, received such internal
injuries that he died within q very few
minutes.
Charles Pilbeau, near Adrian,
Mich, was found dead in the box of his
wagon, he having over-drank himself.
Isaac Mike, while intoxicated, went
to sleep on the railroad track near
Pennington, West Va, and was run
over and killed by train of cars.
Fifteen miles south of Kearney, Neb.,
the murdered bodies of Mrs. Harrison
and her three children were found in a
haystack. A certain S. d. Richards is
suspected of the crime.
The body of Hon. H. P. Gage, ex-
President of the Hane Savings Bank,
was found in his bed at Findlay, Ohio,
with bullet-hole in the right temple.
Foreign Notes.
Lord Leitrim was murdered in
March, but no one has yet been put on
trial for the crime.
"A Marseilles almanac predicts for
1879 the death of Bismarck, Gortscha-
koff, and Beaconsield. ....
The Bavarian Exchequer shows this
year a deficiency of nearly $2,250,000,
arising from the decreasing income from
State property.
The opium refuge at Shanghai, or
ganized by foreign medical and mission
ary influence, has met with so much well
come from the natives that it is already
self-supporting, and many patients are
there trying to break from the slavery
of opium.
The price of bread in England is
said to be precisely what it was in 1770.
Beet, at its present retail price of nine
pence, is great advance on the three
and three quarter pence per pound of
that day; and butter has risen from six
pence to twenty pence. -....
Among the Russian Mission lately
received in Cabul was found an outlaw
ed Afghan of note. The Ameer recog-
Sharp County record., 1879-01-30

Man wants but little here below;
but woman wants most every thing
she sees her neighbor have-except her
toothbrush and youngest baby.