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CJTT ITEMS.
Congress Wntar.

It's superiority as a cathartlc and Alternative con-
siss in Its entire freedom from everything bitter
acid or crude that produces headache, Internal
soreness, and tends to destroy the mucous mem
brane All mineral waters that are dangerous irri-
tants may be known by an acid allcr.tnste.
National Republican., 1879-12-30

Justice Macarthur yesterday granted Emily
Fitzgerald divorce from her husband, John Fiiz-
gerald. The parties were married In Cincinnati,
Ohio, October9 1876. by Rev. samuel Duncan. and
removed to this city by reason OF cruel treatment
she was compelled to leave his house In July, 1879
Permission was also given for her TO resume her
maiden name of Emily lIigmun.
National Republican., 1879-12-30

The clerk of the court has issued tho following
marriage licenses: ". +. Muldoon and Annie NJ
Powers; I. l.. C0rlin, of Georgetown, ID. c., and
Ella \. Thornton of this city; j. j. Tyler and Mary
L. 4. Megaath, both of Loudoun county Va.
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For the Middle Atlantic States and New Eng
land, southwest to northwest winds rising barOIn-
cter, stationary or lower temperatures and partly
cloudy weather.
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Holiday Wines and Liquors,

of fsuperior quality, including all the most deslTN.
bic brands, both foreign and domestic, can be had
at lowest prices by calling ON Hander, 9ll seventh
street northwest
National Republican., 1879-12-30

Roger Bros triplc.plated knives and teaspoons,
81 the half dozen, X. Harris & Co., 455 Seventh
street.
National Republican., 1879-12-30

CoMpouND FLUID EXTRACT or PIPsIssnwA cures
kidney and bladder gravel, female weakness, &c
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llURlEuRr's Tracheal Drops cure coughs, Group,
wbooping cough in oil stages For sale ut Ola +
street northwest
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How to NIn,,c Good ,end.

Two hundred aud iiity gold sets of pins and ear.
rings from So to $50. Il, Harris & Co., i3j Seventh
street
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THE IIowland Dental ASSOCIATION 2ll Four-and.
a half street. use only $. S. Whites artificial teeth,
Philadelphia. Price, 81 per set.
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AmerIonn MaicIles

In silver cases from Dup in gold cases from $50
up H. Harris Co., as Seventh street
National Republican., 1879-12-30

In order to realize money. will sell boots and
shoes at figures that will satisfy even the closest
buyer Call carly ut j. Brooks, l33 Seventh street.
National Republican., 1879-12-30

FOR NEW YEAR CALLS, READY.MADE sWAL
LOW.IAlL COATS. ElSEMAN BROS, CORNER
SEVENTH AND T..
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You can sayO twenty-five per cent by buying
clothing and gents furnishing goods OF Roman q
COX's closing out sale, ~ jOI Seventh street.
National Republican., 1879-12-30

FOR NEW YEAR CALLS, BLACK DOESK1N
PANTS. ElSEMAN BROS, CORNER SEVENTH
National Republican., 1879-12-30

FORNEW YEAR CALLS, READY,MADE FULL
DRESS SUITS, ElsEMAN BROS, CORNER SEW
ENTH AND + STREETS,
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a Holiday Attraction.
HOLIDAY sale of Rugs at Julius Lansb,

Tho immense STOCK a,id low prices at Il. Harris
* Uv., Jewellers. 45j Seventh street.
National Republican., 1879-12-30

FOR NEW YEAR CALLS, THREE BUTTON
CLOTH VESTS. EIsEMAN BROS. CORNER
SEVENTH AND +.
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chnrced WIN stenIIng EurnIture.

Ton holiday present, go to Julius Lansburghs,
National Republican., 1879-12-30

Louis Spanier, II16 Il street Northwest,
sells the finest rye and Bourbon whlskies in this
country.
National Republican., 1879-12-30
Solid Gold Watches Slj,


handsome cases, and warranted for tine. r. Harris
Il Co., I3j Seventh street.
National Republican., 1879-12-30
Thcrmometrie nendInga.

OFFICE CAmF SIGNAL OFFICER, U. $. A..
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-08-27
Mango or Itch.
From Harris on the Pig.

From Harris on the Pig.
Mango or itch is caused by minute
insect, which is probably Matched
from eggs ad6ering to the skin. There
is no way of curing it or of prevent
ing it's spread except bv killing the
insect and their eggs, not only on
the pigs themselves, but also on the
sides Of the pens, post OF anything
that the diseased pig rubs against.
To destroy them on the woodwork
nothing is probably so good as petro-
leum, and though we have not tried
it we have but little doubt that it
would $50 cure the pigs, especially
if applied before the disease has made
much Roadway
The disease usually manifests itself
on the skin under the armpits and
thighs and inside the forelegs. At
first, small red blotches or pimpIe.ss
appear, and these gradually spread as
the insects multiply and burrow un.
der the skin. 1t is we'll to give sui
phur and other cooling medicine in
the food, but the real aim must be to
kill the insects by the prompt and
continued use OF carbolic acid, petro-
leum,or strong decoction OF tobacco.
Solutions Of arsenic and corrosive
sublimate are used in severe cases, but
are dangerous articles to put in the
hands ofinexperienced persons. Gun
guentum," or mercurial ointment, is
eficacious, but is not easily applied.
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THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.

before the heat is felt, and the next
morning the juice is scraped off and
put in an earthen vessel hanging at
the side of the collector. 1t is then
transferred to shallow brass dish,
and undergoes treatment until it ar
rives at certain consistency, when
it is packed into small jars and taken
to the factories The opium is grown
upon the lands of the Indian peas
antry, who are obliged to deliver it
all to the government factory of their
district, whence it is forwarded to the
two great factories already named.
Everybody knows how profitable
dealing in OPIUM has been to Great
Britain, and how cruelty she has
forced its market upon the people of
the East. The net revenue in India
in 1912 was about $38,000,000, the
number Of chests being 1865 at
nearly 500 chest, or $130 higher
than the previous years average. The
net profit was $45Oa chest. In 1874,
74,746 chests were exported, valued
at some $6,000,O0O. The poppy is
extensively cultivated in the Asiatic
provinces in Egypt and Persia, and
in moderate quantities in other parts
of Europe, even Britain. The princi-
pal fault OF the British climate is not
so much absence of warmth as excess
ofmoisture. Very fine specimens have
been produced there, and its product
has been remunerative. In 1880 a
surgeon planted a number Of peoples
in Edinburgh, and obtained tifty-six
pounds of opium from one acre of
plants, selling it at about 50 pound,
which was surprisingly successful
experiment.
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Opium Making.

From the New York Times.
The use OF opium as a stimulant
seems to be steadily growing through
out civilization, having greatly in
creased within few years, even in
this country, where it was almost
never employed a generation ago, ex-
cept as medicine. The general de-
mand is reported to be somewhat in
advance OF the supply, so that prices
may be said to have an upward tend
ency. The pernicious drug, though
the best comes from Turkey, is man
utactured to larger extent than any
where else in India, and the poppy,
from which it is made, is regarded as
one of the most valuable plants, COM
mercially, in the whole vegetable
kingdom. The chief opium district
is large tract on the Ganges, 600
miles long and 200 broad, divided by
the East India Company into two
agencies, Behar and Benares, the CEN
trail factory of the former being at
Patna, and of the latter at Ghazee-
pore. There are three varieties OF
the poppy, white, red and purple, the
white being choicest, and the purple
yielding most. The plant requires
tor profitable cultivation rich soil,
which should be fine and loose when
the seed IS sown, with later liberal
thinning and wedding. 1t is put in in
November, and in December is three
or four feet high and in full flower
with capsules as big as a hens egg
These pierced with sharp instru
ment, the milky juice exudes freely
| This is done freely in the morning
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AUGUST 81

ing the beets is SO perfect that the
amount of hand labor necessary is
very greatly reduced and the exper-
fence of many years in France has
done away with the necessity for
costly experiments in this country.
The effect of beet culture on the pros
perity of a community is we'll exhib-
tied in France. Official records show
that the production of cereal and
meat has steadily increased in those
departments where the roots were
regularly cultivated, and the same is
true of similar sections of Germany
and Belgium. This years venture
in this country will have a more i'm
portant influence on the future of this
industry here than any which have
preceded it. But the complete sue
cess which has crowned the efforts of
those who have heretofore raised the
sugar beet on small scale cannot
well tail to be the reward of those
who are now making trials much
more extensive.
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Beet Sugar.
From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.
The attention OF Southern planters
is being called to the danger which
threatens their sugar interests. They
are told by such papers as the New
Orleans Times that the time when
the monopoly of sugar making must
be divided amongst many is near at
hand; that there is Northern as
well as a Southern sugar interest, and
that the former is making wonderful
progress. Few at the North, outside
OF the localities where the beet.sugar
business is being prosecuted, know
how extensive it has become. Already
some fourteen companies have been
formed in the States and Canada for
the manufacture of this sugar, and
the demand for seed this spring was
so great that immense quantities have
been imported from France. Several
tons were ordered early in the year
for New Brunswick and Delaware
parties; the Main Beet Sugar Com
panystook three tons on the 14th of
April, and on the 18th of May an
equal amount arrived for the farmers
Of the Connecticut Valley. These
are but few among the many in
stances which might be named. As
six pounds are held to be ample for
planting an acre, it can easily be seen
that a great area will be devoted to
this root this year. Good beets
ought to yield from nine to ten
pounds of sugar to the hundred
weight, which is rather more than
the same quantity of cane will do.
But under the process in use in many
parts of the South it is claimed that
less than four pounds are made. The
machinery for cultivating and treat
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PUDDING.
1t is Worth Knowing.

That cold rain. water and soap will
remove machine grease from wash
able fabrics.
That Kerosene will make your tea
kettle as bright as new. Saturate a
wooden rag and rub with it.
That boiling starch is much i'm
proved by the addition of sperm, or
salt, or both, or little gum arabic
dissolved.
That kerosene will soften boots or
shoes which have been hardened by
water, and will render them pliable
as new.
That blue ointment and kerosene
mixed in equal proportions, and ap-
piled to bedsteads, is an untailinp
bug remedy, and that coat of white,
wash is ditto for the walls of a loo
house.
That beeswax and salt will make
your rusty flat-irons as clean and
smooth as glass. Tic a lump of wax
in a rag and keep it for that purpose.
When the irons are hot, rub them
first with the wax rag then scour with
q paper OF cloth sprinkled with salt.
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ason, in South Florida Citizen.

BY Z. ID. Mason, IN South Florida Citizen.
This valuable plant so well adapted
to our soil and climate, has been in
troduced and is now cultivated in
many portions OF the State. It's i'm
portance as food plant is scarcely
realized, or the many apetizing dishes
that may be made from it. Prepared
for food, it is wholesome, nourishing
and easily digested. BY Its use many
a dollar may be saved in family.
Why should we purchase corn
starch, or any other kind of starch
when we can make cassava -four?
Why 90 to the drug store for Tapi-
oca when every family can make it
at home ? or why purchase vinegar
when we have material from which
to make superior article ?
BREAD.
A nice sweet bread can be made
by grating the root, and without
washing put in hot oven, in thick
ness OF about one-half inch, bake
until done brown. This bread is
good when warm or cold and will
scarcely be refused by child or adult.
1t has the advantage OF keeping sweet
and good for considerable length Of
time.
AS A POTATO
1t is not a bad substitute for the
Irish potato. Quarter and take out
the stringy part in the center of the
root and boil with fresh meats. Or
] it may be boiled. mashed. adding salt.
and pepper and bake the same as
mashed potatoes. Some are fond of
the root, baked or roasted in the
ashes.
AS BREAD OR SHORT CAKE.
Crate the root; mix with it an
equal portion of corn meal; add an
egg and little Horsford OF Sea
Foam.
BATTER CAKES AND FRITTERs.
Crate the root mix with milk and
eggs and Sea Foam or any kind of
rising to make it light cook on a
griddle. For fritters, add small
quantity of -four.
PUDDING,
Crate the ROOT; mix with milk and
eggs and sugar, the same as for a
rice pudding, and bake it. This
makes rich, nice dish.
BEER OR VINEGAR.
|
In a former issue of your paper
Maj. Champneys has fully described
his method Of making beer and vim
eQar.
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taken from an old tree, in a moist
and sandy soil, along some river OF
lake; it develops with the greatest "a
pidity, and at the end of ten months
the first crop may be gathered,
though the cluster and bananas are
yet small but the following year one
cluster alone will weigh some sixty
or more pounds. Even in the tropics
they are always cut when green. as
they lose much of their flavor when
left to ripen or soften on the tree.
1t is remarkable that the plantain
and banana should be indigenous, or
at all events cultivated for ages both
in the Old and New World. Numer-
Gus South American travellers de-
scribe some one of these plants as be-
ing apparently indigenous articles OF
food among the natives; thus show
ing (if the plantain be hybrid a
communication between the tropics
Of America, Asia, and Africa, long
before the time of Columbus.) A
hybrid, or mule plant, is obtained by
impregnatiDg the stigma OF one spe-
cies with the pollen of another spe-
cies, but Of the same genus, and what
is called a cross breed is the impreg-
nation Of one variety with the pollen
of another variety of the same spe-
cies) The older writers on the col
ony Of Guinea, as Hartsinck, Berlin
and others, consider the plantain to
be a native. 1t is worthy of remark
that Sir r. Schomburgk, during his
travels found species Of large edi-
BILE plantains far in the interior. The
plantain is said to have been trans
ported from Guinea to the Canary
Isles, and from thence to the West
Indies. 1t seems to have migrated
with mankind from Asia into the nu-
merous islands in the Southern Pa
cific ocean, where it is universal in
those which are inhabited, and has
degenerated into numerous varieties,
1t spreads from the Islands of the
Pacific and Of the Indian Archipelago,
northward to China and Japan, and
along the Malayan peninsula to Chit
TAGGING. From Chittagong, north
ward, along the jungly base Of the
Himalayas, there is q suitable climate
as tar as 30 north, for the HASA ne
paye,asis is found in Nepaul. The
most northern ATTITUDES where the
plantain is cultivated are Japan, Ma
deira, the north OF Africa, Syria as
far as "a :, and parts Of the south Of
Europe. The edible plantain bears
at an elevation of 1890 feet in tenn
perature ot6l7 Fair, and requires
is months to matPaes but its cultiya;
ton is little benefit in so high an alti.
tude 1t is the same with the cas-
sava root. The cane at 1880 feet al
titude gives no sugar, and indigo at
1860 feet affords no coloring matter.
We may here remark that it was on
these and similar facts that Boussin-
gault based his theory, which is that
the time required by plant to al.
rive at maturity is as inverse ratio
OF the temperature therefore know
ing the mean temperature OF any
place, and the number of days. which
plant takes to ripen, the time re-
quired at any other point, more or
less elevated, can be ascertained..
(Io6 be contimqted.l
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Williams, Wash Wilson Wash'ton
ington White, Ellisere J..
Waters, VIM.
To be Continued.


To obtain patents parties uust send
their Final Receipts to the Register OF
the U. S. Land Office at Gainesville,
Fla.
If the Final Receipt hes been lost or
mislaid, an affidavit to that effect,
must be sent to the Register in order
to obtain the patent.
If parties have bought lands from the
original claimants, and the Final Receipt
is lost, they can obtain the patent by
sending to the Register, an affidavit as to
from the Clerk of the Court, showing
that they are the owners of the land.
and are legally entitled to the patent.
Parties IN sending mo1ey to the U. S.
Land office should send it to the Re-
eeiver and not to the Register.
RICHARD NJ. STADDEN.
Clerk in Charge.
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HOMESTEAD PATENTS.

As many have been benefited by our
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
publish 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:
"Ary settler desiring to make final
proof must first file with the register of
the proper land Office, a written 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
by whom the necessary facts as to settle
ment, residence, cultivation, etc, are to
be established"
The filing of such notice must be
accom- panied by deposit of sufficient
money to pay the cost of publishing the
notice to be given 6y the Register. y
The following are on file, for delivery,
in the U. 5. Land Office at Gainesville,
Florida;
a
Afford, Marion Aston, James p
Allen, Coaster
Bright, Sarah Barnes, VIM. j.
Bryan, John i. Bundy, Arthur
Brazil, Eliza Brewer, Jackson
Barker, Alfred L. Brown, E. G.
Blakely, Stephen Baulware, Claracy
Chalker, James L. Collins, Stephen P
Caruthers Sallie E Conway, Martin
Cesar. Polly Crockett, William
Canova, John @. Cassidy, And'wJ
Cheves, VIM. T. Curtis, G. B.
Cannon, Sarah Crockett, VIM. G.
Drommond, Stph. Dolby, Aaron
Douglass, Harry'F Dupree, Henry Ii.
Dobbina, Peter B Donley, Axam
Dickson John
Evans John w. Eel, Joshua H.
Erdmannsdorf, M.
Won.
Forbes, P.Harlan French, Seth
Fox, Geo. L. Finn, John
Ferrell, Geo. M.
Gordon, Peggy Garry, heirs OF
Griggs, John B. Aaron
! CORY, Charles Goodwin, Barney
Guilford, Jos. w.
HUGHES, Israel P. Houston, Timothy
Hail. Peter w. Howard, Nick
Hull, Temp'rne F. Hendry, Harry
Hennes, David G.Harrington, Edw
Johnson, Robt. A. johnson, Major
Johnson, Oscar Jackson, Morris
Jackson, Golden Johnson, VIM. E.
Kenyon, Lyman.
Lever, Thos. H. Lamp, Louis A
M
Morrow James Monde, Aristide
Miles. Mace Montgomery
Mile Arnold heirs of Z. f.
Mcdaniel, Martha Miles, Edward 5.
M Comb Aaron MARROW, Thos. Y.
Marks, Rich'd Fl.
Norton, G. Hyde
Osteen, VIM. E.
Porter Sawney Page John S.
Porter, Anthony Pace Warren A.
Pittman Jones M. Peterson, John
Roberts, VIM. Redding, Wade Il
Roper, Mary j. Raymond, Hor H.
Seigler, Marshall Shaw, David G.
Seigler. Henry Sweat, John
Smith, Richard Saddler, John F.
Simmons, Emily J. Sharp, VIM. w.
Sheldon-heirs of Scriven, Saml
Arad Sanderson, Levi
Snow, Edgar J. Sessions, Andrew
Sessions, Toby
r
Thomas, GLASGOW Tanner, Sam'l j.
Townsend, Noah Turner, Adam
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men moving furniture After waiting a few
minutes | went on. and was walking down
toward Baltimore street when something
prompted mo to turn round. and was startled
TO sec Mr. James with pistol pointed toward
my head; The old man looked savagely at me,
and with the exclamation, I've got YOU
nowI began firing upon me. After the first
shot staggered into the cellar way by Hughess
house.; Mr.. James continued firing. | got from
the cellar way rs quickly rs | could and draw
ing my pistol, began to fire back. After firing
lew shots lr :. Jan "a pursued mo. and my
brother Har ing after him, jumped on
his back an lown then returned
and the croN e. led us
Asked whit stol,ho had, Kinds re-
piled: Goou g. you may be sure. They
Threatened to take my life. and did not caro- to
before
Kinds then asked Sergeant Seibold II he
could not have dinner as he felt very hungry.
Then he continued to the reporter that he re-
GREETED the whole trouble. hut that II was forced
upon h i'm. Miss James" he said. about
whom the trouble originated, was smitten with
me. and l could not return her love. 1t all
might have been explained at the beginning II
the Jamesos had only approached me in the
right way.
Young james was notified OF his fathers
death. and, asking permission to go homo to
look after his mother. at onco lett tho store.
This was about an hour after the shooting.
\ hearing in the case was begun this after
noon before police magistrate, the station be-
ing surrounded by an immense crowd OF eX-
cited people. Several witnesses were examined.
but the hearing was deferred until to-morrow,
IN order to enable post mortem TO be made on
the hodO Of James. Kinds gave his testimony
coOlly and appeared the leust excited OF any
one present Young James did not attend.