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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-08-18
THE FLORIDA AGRIC ULT URIST.

voyage, loss of s per cent. E5A com
parison of the above with the imports
of 1878. the result shows decrease
of 98l ,307 cocoanuts. The principal
importers of cocoanuts from Central
and South America in this city are
Mrs. Catharine Brennan % Co., who
import from San Bias; Messrs. VIM.
Jex 81 Co., from Ruatan; Mr., G.
Vessels, from San Bias, San Andreas
and Montego Bay; Messrs. John
Tucker g. Co., from San Bias, and
Ruatan Messrs. Gomez & Pearsall,
from Baracoa.
The importation of lines COM
.prised 988 barrels. on which there
was loss of 80 per cent. : 10000
grape fruit, loss, 10 per cent; OLA
shaddocks, loss 33 per cent.;~ 10000
plantains, loss 25 per ..cent.; $4,000
mangoes, loss so per cent There
were also imported in small quanti-
ties OF each, mardarins, cantaloupes,
sapodilles, alligator pears, mamma
apples, and watermelons, on which
there was loss OF 25 per cent.
The countries and placesswhence the
foregoing varieties OF fruit were I'M
ported are the United States OF Col
umbia, Mexico, Central and South
America, Venezuela, British West
Indies, French West Indies, Cuba,
Porto Rico, England, Scotland,
France, Spain, Portugal, and Italy.
The value of green fruit entered for
consumption at the port of New
York from January LIST, 1879, to
December 31st, 1879, is exhibited in
the following table:
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sIn 1859 the first sugar mill was
erected in New Orleans. In 1884
the produce was 100000 hogsheads,
and in 1910, l19,947 hogsheads, of
1000 pounds each and 100000 gal
Ions Of molasses.
In 1916 there were 1852 sugar es-
tates, of which little more than half
worked by steam power, and the rest
by horse power. The crop OF sugar
was 204,9 hogshead. OF the estates,
757 used the old process of open ket-
ties for granulation, and five used
the vacuo process, with its expensive
appendages OF filters, animal charcoal,
etc.
In 1858 there were 1,4S1 sugar
houses in operation, OF which 943
worked by steam power, and 53S by
horse power; So used the vacuo
process. The crop of sugar was 32l,-
934 hogsheads.
The sugar interest of Louisiana,
which was almost annihilated during
the war, is again rising to prominence.
In 1861 the yield was 449, 41O hogs.
heads; in 1864 it was about 6,66S
hogsheads, and from that time it
gradually rose until in 1869, it was
$1,000 and in 1870, l44,SS1 hogs
heads, which was more than
fair average yield.
In 1S72-73 the crop was 10S,520
hogsheads OF sugar, and $3.50, $40
gallons OF molasses, made by 1,lS1
sugar houses.
The product Of hand on sugar
estate is put down at the cultivation
Of five acres, producing 5000 pounds
Of sugar, and 125 gallons of molasses.
Two crops are made in succession on
the same land, one OF plant cane and
one OF rattoons; it then lies fallow
two years, or is planted with Indian
corn or peas. An acre yields about
1900 pounds OF sugar.
The foreign importation Of like
products in 1878 into the United
States, as compared with the above
stands thus: Sugar, including, Mel
ado, 1867 1885 900 pounds; molasses
1858, 900 gallons.
In June 1872, Mr.. Lapice, one of
the Oldest sugar planters OF Louisiana.
lett New Orleans Tor the Pacific
Ocean, for the purpose of procuring
, a fresh supply of sugar-canes for
planting, as it had been found that
the old Creole cane originally intro
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AUGUST IS.

come useful and valuable Should
this species of guava prove hardy
and capable of enduring our some
times frosty winters, without ma.
terial injury, it will indeed be an ac>
QUESTION and will in a measure sup>
ply the place Of the cherry, plum and
some other fruits which fail to do
well in this climate.
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A material that can be carved may
be made out OF peeled potatoes,
which is prepared for this purpose by
being first blackened for thirtysix
hours in eight parts OF sulphuric acid
to one hundred of water; it is next
dried with blotting paper, and then
pressed. The French now manutac-
ture pipes, in imitation, it is said, OF
meerschaum, from this novel sub
stance. A heavy pressure gives a
material so hard that good billiard
balls, in imitation of ivory, can be
made from it.
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Varieties of the Sugar-Cane.
COLUMBIA.
NUMBER VII.

Simmons.
COLUMBIA.
The sugar cane has hitherto been
cultivated in Carthagena only in
small quantities, for making rum and
a spirit called anisado; but an enter
prising firm planted in 1878 about
800 acres of cane, ETC., and imported
large andtpowerful steam machinery,
at an outlay CT altogether 20, 00Ol, land
they anticipated from their first years
crop 10000 hundred weight ofsugar.
The climate and rich soil are pecul'
iarly adapted to the growth of the
sugar cane The chief difficulty is
labor, and they have imported Indian
coolies from Jamaica.
VENEZUELA.
This State has never been sugar
exporting country, and the export
which has been carried on may be
said TO have been almost exclusively
confined. to brown or muscovado
sugar, between 1880 and 1855.
In 1870 owing to the falling off
Of nearly 40 per cent. in the produc-
ton OF sugar in Cuba in 1869, re-
munerative demand suddenly sprang
up for Venezuela sugar, and large
shipments OF both muscovado and
clayed (papelon) were made to Phila-
delphia and New York at a. cents
per pound. AS the crops have pro-
duced much more than could be
used locally, the planters are glad OF
a profitable outlet for shipment. In
1878 the export OF sugar from Ven
zuela was close upon 100000
pounds.
PERU.
The sugar-cane grows with the
greatest luxuriance, and it is suffi-
cient to plant it once TO have con-
slant yields from the roots (rattoons).
It is very common to see roots of
this grass with more than twenty
vigorous stalks. 1t promptly devel-
ops itself, and ripens at the end of
six or seven months planting In
the mountainous parts it is not grown
for sugar, but 10 obtain aguadiente
(spirit) OF which the natives are very
fond.
The sugar manufactured in Peru
may be estimated at 100000 hundred
weight per annum, of which there is
sent to Chill 100000 hundred weight,
to California $4,000; the remainder
being used in the country.
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Scurvy leg in poultry is disease
caused by gathering of infinitesi-
NAL parasites, which come impercep-
tibly at first in the crevices between
the edges of the leg scales, and
which rapidly increase, piling up on
themselves and forming apparently
grayish white warts or rough
punches there are millions of them
in one bunch. Kerosene oil will
destroy them and remove the
punches.
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DUTY.
VALUE.


A comparison of the value of green
fruit imported in 1879 with that OF
1878 shows an increase in value OF
$121, 400 and OF duty $23, 425.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-20
Years That End i'm Mine.
THE Parisian.l

Beware of the years that end in ninel
We give the following facts for what
they are worth: In $50 the Adriatic
was frozen; 1179, eight feet OF snow in
the temperate zone until the month of
April; 1859, deighs could pass on the
Cattegat between Jutland and Norway;
1889, hard winter, the peasants Of Scot
land eat grass like a certain king of Is
rael; 1409, the Danube was frozen; 1909,
frozen bread was eaten at the court of
France; 1889, the pert of Marseilles
froze; 1859, the rivers in Italy were
frozen over; 1899, terrible winter; 1909,
the famous winter that saddened the last
years of Louis XIV, the earth was frozen
for two meters down; 1929, 1749, 1863,
the rivers froze; 1879, the year Of the
Revolution; 1909, the Seine was frozen !;
1929, snow lay on the ground for fifty
four days in France; that Of 1889 was
also rigorous winter, and the winter Of
1879 seems to start well. I'm France the
winter Of 1879 has been unusually Sc
we're, but in the United States the win
ter thus far has been exceptionally
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-20
George Augustus Sala on Pie.
[C0rresnondence London Telaqranh.

"Candy" and "caramels' are institu-
ltions in this country. Candy tempers
the bitterness of scandal, and mOllifies
the exacerbation of political contro-
versy. 1t even counteracts, to some ex-
tent, the deleterious influence Of pie
pronounced "poy"-which is the trans
Atlantic incubus, and clings, with its
doughy legs, over the shoulders Of Colum-
bia like an Old Man of the Sea, Almost
everything that I behold in this wonder
full country bears traces Of improvement
and reform-everything except pie. The
National manners have become s0ftened
the men folk chew less, expectorate
less, curse less; the art idea is becoming
more manifest, and the one absorbing
topic Of conversation Is no longer the al
mighty dollar-but to the tyranny of pie
there Is no surcease. 1t is a Fetish. 1t
is Bohwani. 1t is the Mexican carnage
god, Huitchhpotchii, continually de-
manding fresh victims. It is Moloch.
| Men may come and men may 90; the
Grant "boom" may be- succeeded by the
Sherman "boom;" but pie goes on for
ever. The tramp and the scslawag, in
trousers Of looped and windowed ragged
ness, hunger for pie, and impetuously de-
mand nickel cents wherewith to purchase
Tit; and the President Of the United
States, amid the chastened splendor of
the White House, can enjoy no more fes-
ltive fare. They gave me pie ut the Bpe-
4 WORT, and I am now fresh from the com
sumption Of pie at the Mount Vernon,
Baltimore. Two more aristocratic hotels
are not to be found on this continent !
bsttled strongly against this dyspepsia-
dealing pastry at first, but mulatto
| waiter held me with his glittering eye,
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and yielded as though / had been two

years child.
The worst of this dreadful pie-apple,
or cranberry, pumpkin or "squash"
that it is 80 very nice. 1t is made de-
lusively fat and thin, so that you can
cut it into convenient-sized triangular
wedges, which slip down easily. Pardon
this DEPRESSION; but it really forms as i'm
portant factor in American civilization
as the pot-au-feu does in France. There
is no dish at home by which we nation.
ally stand or fall The "roast beef Of
Old England" sounds very well to the
strains Of Mr.. Dan. Godfrey's band at a
dinner at ths Freemason's tavern, but
sirloin of beef is IA pence pound, and
there are hundreds Of thousands Of labor
ing English people who never taste roast
beef from years end to years end-save
when they happen to get into Jail or
into the work-house at Christmastide.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-20
THE IRON TRADE.
Work and Wages In NTiIwaukee...
/ Our North side kotling Mill.

~ VI n s@sus ~ - -" sAA HAsA ~ ueA N hCO-S-
Our North Side KoIling Mill.
milwaukee Special to Chicago Trbune.l
Mr.. Jarrett, President Of the Iron,
Steel & Tin Workers Union Of the
United States, came to Milwaukee yes
terday in the interest Of the ironworkers
at Bay View, who had thus far entered
into no agreement with the Rolling Mill
Company as to the prices to be received
by them during the ensuing year. Mr..
Jarrett visited Bay View in the after
noon, and met the members of the Union
in secret session. The result Of this
meeting has not been made pub
lie. II is known, however, that in
conversations with the Rolling Mill Com
Epany Managers, both here and in Chica-
60, Mr.. J. frankly stated that the men
ought to receive the same prices that are
being paid for skilled labor at Pittsburg
on sliding scale. The managers ex-
pressed perfect willingness to pay Pitts
burg prices, but they did not care to 60
above them, and thus be prevented from
competing with Pittsburg for business
A settlement was effected to-day, it is un-
derstood, upon this basis; and the danger
of strike Of rolling-mil hands here and
at Chicago may therefore be considered
at an end. The arrangement entered
| into here will affect Milwaukee and Chi
cago alike, as the stipulation calls for
uniform prices throughout.
While at the Milwaukee office Of the
North Chicago Rolling Mill Company
this morning, the Tribune correspondent
asked a few questions concerning the
iron trade, which elected favorable re-
plies. One Of the gentlemen connected
with the management stated that he vis-
lifted Detroit Last week, and found all of
the iron works running to their full Ca
pacity. There appeared to be q great
scarcity of Lake Superior charcoal iron.
The stocks put in last fall have been
almost entirely exhausted, and in order
| to get more az it is needed, ths rolling
mill companies are paying anything that
they can get for
Another fact cleaned during the visit
| is Of particular interest to Chicagoans,
and win prove news to many Of the
Tribune readers. It is this: The North
Chicago Rslling-mill Company are at
present engaged in enlaFgements Of and
additions TO- their home establishment
that will cost the enormous sum Of
$2,0O0,OO0. Three on four new blast fur.
naces are being erected, and the capacity
of the Besscmer steefmill will be doubled.
Besides, there will be enlargements in
other directions to correspond There ID
| talk, also, Of enlarging the establishment
at Bay View and erecting more blast
furnaces, but nothing has been decided
upon yet.
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my scheme, l tremblingly tiptoed down
the flight of stairs which separated my
grandfather's bedroom from my own.
At the outside Of his door I gave a great
gulp to swallow the rrepressible feelings
l labored under, and softly turned the
handle. My suspicious were but too
true. Extended on the bed lay the gaunt
figure of the old man.
Bending over him with the horny
knuekles of his hand buried deep in my
grandfathers throat, stood the bigger
rufian Of my mornings encounter.
Nimbly fitting around the room, and
opening noiselessly the bureau, chest and
old-fashioned desk. of my relative, was
the ferret-eyed seoundrel.
1t presented a strong picture to me,
standing in deep shadow. The bright
moonlight streaming over the bed gave
lurid light to the gleam of the old mans
eyes as he essayed vainly to shriek for
help.
The giant form of the burglar stand
ing over him looked like some evil spirit
of legendary lore, while the fantastic
motions Of his companion might we'll
have passed for those Of an attendant
imp. .e n
The time for action had arrived. Nov
ing stealthily toward into the center of
the room, where the pale moonbeams
gave full play to the, CHASTITY scintillation
of the phosphorus, and pointing my hand
TO my apparently gery breast, I said in
hollow voice:
"I am herew
/ can not describe the scene that en-
sued. Surprised at the strange voice,
the men turned simultaneously. Ian
guage can not paint the look of the two
faces For a moment they seemed spell
bound, as though held in the silence Of
terror by extremity Of horror.
This was but for moment. With a
spring like that of wild cat on his
prey, the would-be robber who was hold
ding my grandfather, reached the win
dow. His friend, it is, needless to say,
was not long behind him. Without a
thought Of their necks they leapt
affrightedly to the ground. Up to this
moment indomitable will had sustained
me; but no sooner did I become con-
WINGED of their genuine footsteps than,
with faint cry, I fell heavily to the
ground.
When I respened my eyes I was in the
arms of my grandfather, who was
tenderly nursing me, while the gray
dawn of winters morning was sullenly
breaking. l will not speak of the extra
vagahces of the old man in his gratitude;
but l will mention what seemed to me
greatest proof of his thankfulness, and
that was his unqualified consent to the
production OF our drama some few
nights after.
1t is pleasant to chronicle its entire
success, which, haay modestly add, was
indebted in great measure, to the celeb
rity the spectral effect had attained.
Up to the time of my grandfather's
death, he always insisted upon the OBJ
servance of the anniversary Of the ghosts
appearance.
have little to add, save to record the
fate of the two villains. They were
captured some months afterward, and
tried for the murder of an old lady,
under peculiar cruel circumstances The
shorter of the two expiated his crime on
the scafold, while his brother criminal
was condemned to lifelong imprison-
ment.
This, gentle reader, is how I became a
hero.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-20

READ THE CERTIFICATES.
One Thousand Dollan will be paid II they are not
all Genuine
SFyERE RHEUMATIsNr.

State OF New Jersey. Bergen County. Townshipof
HackenSack. So.
h Thomas johnson, of said township, being dsriy
sworn, doth depose and say, that he has been
severely afflicted with rheumatism for above a
year, and was 50 bad that he could scarcely walk.
being bent almost double, and was utterly unable
to do any work., Having heard of the wonderful
cures made by DR.: Tobias Venetian Liniment, he
was induced to try it and after using IL o short
time. was able to go to work again, after being
unable to do anything for nearly year.
T. JOHNSON.
J. II. BRINcKERHoFF, Justice of the Peaca
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TO THE LADIES.
Certificate OF tho Surgeon Of thu
ROvnl NTnif Sta0pmer An,ericn

This Ia to certify that have used and recon-.
mended DR.. Tobias Venetian Liniment, and hayp
found 1t usefulina variety Of cases. II also Gives
unfaling relief from the annoyance and irritation
consequent on mosquito bites, and prevents
mark being left.
J. A. GRAHAM, M. R. c. g., of London
Royal Null Steamship America, jersey City
July 28th.
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GROUP.

I,R. ToBIAsI write to inform you that the
child of q friend Of mine was cnred of Group, af-
hour after your Venetian Lniment was used il
was out of danger. 7 hope yon will publish this.
so that mothers may know they have a remedy fos
this terrible complaint, lost child by Group
never feel alarmed, as have your medicine al.
ways in the houses fhave also used It for pains
sore throat etc.. and always found 1t to cure.
JEREMIAH CASEY,
17NOrth Moore street. New York
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From Col. g. y. Delevan.

FROM Col. G.. n. Delevan.
NEW YORK, April 20, lST7. d
After years of use, 1t gives me pleasure to CO ttfy
to the virtues of DR.. Tobias Venetian Horse LinE
ment. 1t has saved the life of one of my four.
horse black team. This Recommendation give
without solicitation, as think owners Of h0rNa
should know its value.
CHARLES Fl. DELAyAS.
No. 1926 West Twenty.second street,
The Family Liniment is Is and 30 cent? the
Horse, 90 cents, In pint bottles; the Derby Pow.
ders, Is cents a box. Sold by the druggists
Depot, No AZ Murray street. New YORK.
I ap26S&w1ytc
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GREAT CURE or RHEUMATISM.

HEAE CUhE UT RHEU ATISNas-
This is to certify that had the rheumatism m
my hipso could not walk without my crutch,
and aft0r using Dr. Tobias Venetian Linimenta
short time was entirely relieved. and carldidly
believe 1t most certain cure for rieHmatism, al
have tried many things without any good. and
after using this Venetian Liniment for only few
daysI was we'll HUGH PAUL,
POI Avenue B, New York
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WHAT HOusEmEN WANT.

Thousands Of ether certificates can be seen ut
the depot.
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FROM COL. d. MCDANIEL,
Owner Of Some Of the Fastest Rum.
ming Horses In the World.

JEROME PARK, June q, 1877.
This Is to certify that have used Dr. Tobias
Horse Venetian Liniincnt and Derby Condition
Powders, on my race-horses and found them give
failed to cure any ailment for which they were
used; the Linimeiit, when rubbed in by the hand,
never blistes or takes the hair off; 1t has more
penetratiye qualities than any other have tried,
which suppose Is the secret Of its wonderful sue
cess In curing sprans. The Ingredients from
which the Derby Powders are made have been
made known to me by DR.. Tobias; they are per
fectly harmless. D. MCDANIEL.
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Thisfs to certify that have had the Astfms
since 1SH, and have been treated by many p,ysi.
clans without relief Your Venetian Liniment
has made a perfect cure.
VIM. Y. TOWNSEND.
Port Richmond, Staten Island
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The Pain Destroyer Of the World

Chronic Rheumatism, Headache, Toothache, Mos.
quito Bites, Cuts Bruises, Sprains Old Sores
Pains In the Limbs Back and Chest, Ptm-
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the joints and Cont action j,
Of the Muscles,
IT'S WONDERFUL CURATIVE POWERS ARE
MIRACULOUS
Taken llsternatIv.
In cases OF dyseA iery, Diarrhea SEQ Sickness
Cholera, Group, Collie Cramps and Sick Headache.
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From Dr. sweet, the Famous and
World .renOWn nca ROne-setter.

NORTH KINGSTON r. r.
DR.. ToBIAx--Dear Sir: have used your vaiua
Bile Venetian Liniment in my practice as boneset.
ter for the past Ave years. ard consider IL the bes
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tHtion in recommending 1t to the public as ths
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Yours truly, JAMES SWEET.
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! A valuable rubsfacient, stimulsnt and soda
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aMicted, removing the most obstinate pain In
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1880-06-17
What a Spider Eats.

In order to test what Il spider can do
in the way Of eating, says a writer on Spi-
deTS, We arose about daybrcak one NOR
ming e supply his fine web with fly.
At first, however, the spider did not come
from ms retreat; 50 we pceped among the
leaves. and there discovered that an car
wig had been caught and was now bcin.
toasted Oh. The spider left the earWig,
rolled up the fly, and at once returned to
his ''lrst course This was at 800
O'Clock 4. NJ, in September. Nj o'clock
A. NJ, his earwig had been demolished,
and, probably having enjoyed q nap, the
spider came down for the fly, which he
had finished at : O'Clock 4. NJ. 4 little at-
ter9 o'clock we supplied him with dad
dI-longlcgs, which he ate At noon At
O'Clock bioWty was grrcdily seized,
and then Immediately, with an appetite
apparently no worse for his previous in
diligence, he commenced on the blDW-1iv.
During the day a great many green flies,
or mdgcts, had been caught III the web:
Of these we counted l2U, all dead and fast
prisoners in the spiders nest
soon after dark. provided with i lantern,
We went to examine whether the spider
was suffering from indigestion Or in any
other way from his previous meals: in
stead, however, of being thus affected, he
was employed in rolling up together the
various little green midgcts, which he
took t. his retreat and ate. This process
he repeated, callY.n up the lots in little
until the web was eaten, for
the web and its contents were banded up
fOuptlpr \ Sliuht rest ut 1hnut ,n hnul.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1880-06-17
A Rose Song.

Why are the roses red
For roses once were white,
Because the loving nightingaes
Sang on their thorns all night.
Sang till the blood they shed
Had dyed the roses red.
Why are the roses white
For roses once were red.
Because the Borrowing nightingalcs
Wept when the night was fed.
Wcpt till their tears Of light
Had washed the roses white.
Why are the roses sweet
For once they had no scent
Because one day the Queen of Love-
" no to AdonS went.
Brushed them with heavenly feet
1hat made the roses sweet
T. L. Stoddard