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, 1880-04-03

TSince the above was written, the pre-
sent month has opened with favoura-
bic showers which have been general
throughout the island. The glare seen
in the clouds on Thursday evening
was produced by the Intentional burn
ing of the megass lata Barren aSpof'
Sta ton. - 80 s'sS
, 1880-04-03
AGRICULTURAL T


a proyerb which explains a certain
sli gbt anxiety which may be noticed
in agricultural circles as week after
week passes without rain. We have
had certainly, a, considerable spell Of
dry weather, nine weeks now having
passed without showers worth speaking
Of, except in the north west. The soil
however was so wen saturated by the
heavy rains Of the first half Of January
that the plants have stood the dry
time uncommonly we'll, and it cannot
be said that any damage has yet been
done, although a few good showers
would now be very welcome both for
the young plants and the stools. Be
tween Thursday, the 25th and Easter
S~undaylight howersfelloverthe island
from Dassin westward, amounting to
3 or 4 lines in the neighbourhood OF
the town, but increasing in quantity
towards the west, being 10 lines at
Concordia, and as much as Is lines
in the north west. The weather has
been very favourable to reaping oper-
atoms, which have been everywhere
pushed rapidly forward. Several
planters have employed job carts TO
assist in taking off the canes, and We
cannot help thinking that this is a
very wise investment. The early
reaping Of the crop not only secures
the canes willie they are at their best,
but gives the ratoons extra time to
grow in, thus promising a handsome
return next season for The extra out
lay. The eastern half Of the sugar
growing district has had the adyan-
tage Of a great deal Of help from tie
Factory; which we are happy to re-
cord continues to do exceedingly well.
One great improvement at tho stations
is the use Of the megass as fuel.
Being at one Of the stations the other
day, we saw on the ground q small
heap Of Goals, a few bushels only, and
asked us that your whole stock Of
coal? The reply was, "Ycs, we new
or use any except when a shower falls
and vets rhe mogass.' Looking into
the furnace room we saw a lad push
ing the bulky fuel along a feeding
trough into the mouth Of one Of the
furnaces. Besides saving coal, the
new plan helps in some small degree
10 solve the problem Of what is to be
done with thomegass. TITS astonish-
inc to observe how fast this substance
accumulates at the stations. III spite
OF the AID Of tho short railway lines,
with ingeniously CONSTRUCTED trucks,
which have been added at each place,
the yard becomes completely blocked
with this refuse material. At Peters
Rest on Tuesday some alarm was ere
ated by the heaps catching fire,
but prompt measures were taken,
and no harm was done. Many
planters have a high opinion Of the
value of the megass applied IN
one form or another as manure;
but they have not the means of
removing it, all the available force of
the estate being occupied in securing
the crop. We hope however to see
the day when every unc of waste
from the factory and the stations will
10 co;,oA ,,oor O g ooua food NV tboca
, 1880-04-03

a I the request of the Presidency
ri of St. Croix the Estate
RUST UP TWIST,

belonging to the Colonial Treasury
ofSt. Croix and situated in Northside
Quarter Ltr. B. sub No. 5 ad 6, with
appurtenances of works and buildings
will be offered for sale at one public
Auction to be held at the Court House
IN C~hristiansted on Saturday the 18th
April a. c. at O'Clock p. N.
Conditions and other Documents
concerning the sale are to be seen at
Lawyer A. HanschelPs Office in Chris
tiansted.
Vendue Office Christiansted the 31st
March 1880. .1s4 >.a, .~isf-
H. A. JURS.
, 1880-04-03
thoughtful planter on-a Santa Cruz
estate will have little difficulty in find
ing employment for il.

from the DGT00dOS d{05e, and which
originally appeared in the Planters
Journal. The, writer expresses bis sa~
tisfaction in observing two forms of
Improvement going on in the colony.
One is the increased attention given
to agricultural chemistry with a view
to ascertaining the real character of
the artificial manures imported and
offered for sale. It will be observed
that nothing is said about analyses of
the soils. 1t is now generally admit
ted that the farmer must decide for
himself by experiment what his laneA
wants, and that he can do it much
better in this way than the chemist
can do it for him in the laboratory.
But when we come to artificial ma
nures it is quite another thing. These
manures are offered as containing GER
tain substances known to be valuable
for the soil, and as containing them in
certain proportions, and what the
planter wants to know is whether sthe
representation made is truthful, or
whether hei5 being seduced into pay
ing q heavy price for worthless adul-
tarat.ons. This the chemist can salts
fy hitn about, and hence the wisdom
Of lie step just taken by the planting
body Of Barbados in establishing a che
mical committee. We do not want a
chemical committee here in St. Croix for
unfortunately we have not yet taken
the A. b. {. step: we import no ma
nuros. Here is food for reflection, and
another opening for the ~accruing capt.
tai of the future. Returning to tho
barbados article, it will be noticed
that the second form of Improvement
on which the writer congratulates the
colony is the introduction of better
sugar machinery; but here he says
the planters have not yet gone far
enough, and, without deciding as to
what ought to be done, he suggests the
establishment of Central Factories as
one solution Of the problem. This is
the second time lately that we have
read of this doctrine being publicly
DHOa cIlGQ Ill DdIuduOS, dIu VIC w AVI
find that anybody publicly opposes it.
Now if any place could be supposed
to be welded to the old system, and
to hold to the ~proverbial wisdom OF
Getting we'll alone, it certainly would
be Barbados, a colony which has
fourished exceedingly on Musco vado,
and which does not consider itself u
whit behind the world in any particu-
lar. Yet even here we find the
Usine system mooted as a necessary
element in the future welfare of the
colony, ard nobody rises in rebellion.
After that we may look forward to
the gradual conversion Of all the lesser
stars of the Antilles to the progressive
side. The misfortunes of st. Lucia,
or of ourselves at the entrance on the
new path cannot weigh against the
known prosperity Of the French ISL
ands and of Demerara, which are ahead
of us on the road; and We may con-
graduate ourselves in Santa Cruz
that we are at least giving now q
fair promise of following on.
, 1880-04-03
AUCTION.

r. FTER Begjpring af President
T. skabet for vt. Croix vii den St.
Croix C~olonialkasse tilh0rende Suk-
~kerplantage
RUST UP Z WEST,
beliggende i denne Oes Nordside
Kvarteer Ultra y. sub No. 5 ad 6,
med Tilbeh6r af Vnrker og Bygnin-
gerblive udbudt til Salg we'd cen ohent-
liz Auction, som afholdes paa Thing
stedet / Christiansted L0verdagen den
Tide April 1880 III. l Eftermiddagen.
Conditioner og 0vrige Salget we'd
r0rende Documentor ere til Eftersyn
paa Procurator A. H;nschells Kontor
j Christiansted.
Ch~ristiansteds Auc~tionskontoir den
Bite Marts 1880.
II. A. JURS.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-11
THE PERIiOUS OCEAN.
I.ecent Disasters ON the Deep.

Confused dispatches have been received
in New York city, reporting that fourteen
survivors of the lost steamer Vera Cruz,
have arrived at Titusville, Fla, on a raft.
The schooner Magnolia arrived at Jack
sonville yesterday, from Now Smyrna,
with John Connell, a coal passer, "and
two others, supposed to be o. P. Silva and
4 Cuban passenger Of the City of Vera
Cruz"
The Anchor line steamship Anglia, from
Boston to London, which was sunk by col
lision with the British bark TOngatc, 360
miles cast of St. John, N. F., on the 9th
inst, foundered in four hours after the
collision, but her officers and crew were
saved and have arrived at st. Johns. She
was an iron propeller, of 2, 253 tons bur-
then, built at Glasgow in 1869. Her cargo,
which is also total loss, consisted of 1888
live cattle, grain and provisions, and was
valued at S112, 900.
An unknown schooner went ashore on
Rye Beach, N. H., yesterday morning, and
became total wreck. The vessel belong
ing to the keeper of the government hos
pital, at tho entrance of Portsmouth har-
bor, broke from its moOrings on Thursday
night and went on the Newcastle rocks.
The schooner Wellington, with a cargo
of lumber, went ashore near Plymouth,
Mass, yesterday morning, and is total
wreck. Her crew were saved by the mate
swimming ashore with line.
The steam tug Edith Bond was run into
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-11

Among the Philadelphia Republicans
who have gone with Col. Forney into the
support of Hancock, is John Luther Ring
walt, formerly Of this county, and we'll
known here, especially in the eastern part
Of it, where his friends will have chance
to hear him before the end of the CAM
paign. This weeks Progress says Of him
In directing attention to tho speech of
John Luther Rinswalt in favor of General
Winfield S. Hancock, l feel that q word
should be said of the man. He is one of
thousands who supported James Buch-
anan in 1856, and separated from the
Democrats on the Kansas question in 1865,
voted for Judge Douglas in 1860, and for
every Republican president since. I do
not know more exemplary or indepcnd-
ent citizen. A journalist of very high
order, 4 historian, 4 profound thinker, and
a thorough debater, and at the same time
one Of the most unselfish men; never ask
ing or seekin:; Office. he did not reach the
ground Of opposition to Garfield without
selfexamination and deliberation. His
appearance as popular orator shows the
drift Of resistless public sentiment, and
his speech deserves y very careful reading.
In few days Mr.. Ringwalt will speak
again on the "RcasOns Why Republicans
Should Vote for Hancock" ut Lahaslsa,
Bucks county, and his argument will ap-
pear in Progress.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-11
OBITUARY.
Death of DR.. 8. 8. Halleman.


A telegram dated Chickies. September
II, s:35 q. m, announces the death of
Prof. s. s. Haldeman, the distinguished
etymologist, linguist, philologist and
naturalist-the sad event taking place at
his home in Chickies last evening.
Prof. Haldeman was born at Locust
Grove Mills, this county, in 1912. Early
in life he took great interest in all mat
ters of natural history and natural science
and soon became an expert in ornitholoSy,
ichthyology and botany, gathering fine
collections of specimens in these several
branches, and securing the finest collection
of Indian relics to be seen in the county.
He received the rudiments Of his
education in the local schools, was
sent for two years to the class
ical academy Of DR.. John NJ. Kcagy.
Of Harrisburg, and afterwards graduated
at Dickinson college. His first communi-
cation Of a scientific character was pub
lished in the Lancaster Journal, now the
1NTELLIGENCER, in 1885, wherein he ex-
posed Locke's I" Moon Hoax" showing on
scientific principles that many of Locke S
statements were impOssibilities. About
this time he was married to Miss Mary A.
HOugh, and removed to Chickics where he
went into the iron business with his broth
ers, DR.. Edwin and Paris Haldeman.
While pursuing the iron business he still
found time to write largely on
scientific and literary subjects. Among
his writings may be mentioned paper
on the construction of blast furnaces, his
"Freshwater Univalve Mollusca' QS41),
elegantly illustrated ; his paper on "Spe-
cics and Their Distribution QS51), which
opened the question now known as Dar-
winism his Elements of Latin PrOnunci-
ton" (!S5D; his essays on the "Mechan-
ism of Speech" and Analytic Orthogra-
ply - his "Affixes to English words -
QS65) ithc "TOur of Chess Knight
CS64), and many pamphlets favOring a
reform in English photography. He was
frequent lecturer before colleges, scientific
and literary societies, teachers institutes
&C., and never failed to delight and in
struct those who heard him. He was
honored with membership in many
learned societies, was awarded degrees
in several colleges, and held professOrship
in the University of Pennsylvania. He
was ripe scholar in almost every branch
| of polite Literature, and his society was
| sought alike by the learned and unlearned,
his great scholarship, his geniality of dis
position, his suave and unpretentiOus man.
ner, his willingness to impart information,
| and his carnestness in the advocacy of pop
ular education, making him = universe
favoritc with all classes. His death vii
be sincerely mourncd, not only in the lit
erary world, where he held SO high a rank,
but by the whole community among who m
he resided and where was best known as {
kind neighbor and true friend.
| Mr.. Haldeman at the time of his death
was sixty-eight years of age. His wife
| and several children survive him. His
funeral will take place on Monday after.
noon at o'clock.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-11

THE Republican party's treatment of
the negro is outrageous. Let him dare
to vote the Democratic ticket and no
abuse is too foul, no threats too dire for
him. They would disfranchise him in
the South now if they could as readily
as they broke the Freedman's bureau
bank when they had gathered into it
three million dollars of the deposits of
thrifty negroes who trusted in their pass
books with religious notices pasted over
them. They bought the darkey's vote
by promises of forty acres of land and
a mule," and whenever they wanted a
fresh lot of outrages to l" fire the North
ern heart" they engaged their emissa.
ries to engage in a little blood letting
among the blacks, Under Democratic
rule in the South it's colOred population
are happy, thrifty, prosperous and enjoy
ing the school fund which the carpet.
baggers used to steal. Is it any wonder
that the larger the colOred vote the larger
the Democratic majority.
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LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.

Two freight trains collided near St.
Scholastique, Quebec, yesterday morning.
An engine and several cars were demOl-
ished, fireman was killed, and 4 brake
man severely injured.
Mr.. Manypenny, chairman of the Ute
commission, in letter to tho interior de-
partment, reports that, up to the 30th ult.,
132 Southern Utcs had given their sigma
lures to the treaty.
George w. Stratton, on trial, in Chicago
for the killing of a woman in a adisreputable
house, last winter, was convicted yesterday
and sentenced to one years Imprisonment.
He proved that there was a conspiracy to
rob him in the house, and that he fired the
fatal shot in self-defencc.
Captain Smith, of steamer Josephine.
which arrived at Seattle, Washington,
ascending tho Skagirt river OH Tuesday
last he saw Maunt Baker in a state of vio-
lent eruption. Flames and large
tain S summit.
According to the telegram from Little
Rock the returns of the election in Arkan-
sas come in more rapidly, but do not alter
the first estimates of tho result. On the
contrary letter from Little Rock to the
Chicago Journal asserts that the debt re-
pudiatiOn amendment to the state constitu-
tion is adopted by several thousand ma
jority.
The extensive tobacco works of Finer
Brothers, in Louisville, were destroyed by
fire, with large quantity of leaf and plug
tobacco early yesterday morning. During
the progress of the fire several sharp ex-
plosions, from the bursting of barrels filled
with gasoline, took place. The losses on
building and stock arc estimated at about
$780,
A safe in the grocery store of Fielder
man & Anton, in Sioux City, Iowa, was
robbed of 5000 in money, about half of
which belonged to the Odd Fellows. Chas.
Umbert, aged 16 years, slept in the store.
The robbers covered his head with the
bed clothes, and one of them sat upon
him while the others worked upon the
safe.
The Milwaukee Turner's, who were vic.
torious in Europe, arrived in Chicago,
last night, Oh their way home. They
were received ut the depot by 800 Chicago
Turner's and all the Chicago German sing
ing societies, and escorted by torchlight to
Turner's hall. Here they were addressed
Mayor Harrison and Henry Rubens, and
then entertainment at q banquet.
General Terry, in a despatch from St.
Paul, dated the 9th, says tho commanding
officer ar Fort Keogh, Montana, reports
that Big Road and 200 Sioux Indians sur
rendered at that post OH Wednesday. 1t
is believed at General Sheridan's head
quarters, in Chicago, that tho remainder
of these Indians, tired of roaming about
and fighting, will surrender soon, and Sit
ting Bull will find himself without any
| follnuinn
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-11
Real Estate Catalogue.

Mcssrs. Herr & Stauffer, the we'll known
and reliable real estate and insurance
agents, of this city, have issued in pam
phlet form classified list Of over four hun
dred valuable properties for sale by them.
These properties are mostly located in this
city and the borough Of Columbia, and
other parts of Lancaster and Chester cOun-
tics, though some Of them are located in
other counties and other states. The list
embraces properties of almost every kind
and price-from the unimprOvcd building
lot to the most costly farms. dwellings,
business stands, factories and mill-seats.
4 brief description together with price is
given Of each property offered for sale, so
that persons contemplating \ purchase
may have the advantage Of knowing all
about the properties without visiting them
The catalogue will be sent free to any per-
son sending their address to Messrs. Herr
Il Stauf1er, this city.