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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-03-17

the one you put In. Set the new
hive with queen in it in the place of
the old stand, this move off several
rods if convenient. All the worker
bees that have been at work will 90
back to their former place where the
queen is, and all is well. This pro-
cess approximates nearest to natu raj
swarming of any I ever knew Of
but it works admirably. In about
Ten or twelve days, if the weather is
favorable, look for swarm from the
old hive which you removed the
queen from. If the apiarian does
not wish them to swarm, on the
eighth or ninth day after they were
artificlally swarmed, go to the hive
and destroy all the embryo queen
but one and there will be little or no
danger of another swarm from that
hive for the season. To-day, Febru-
airy 9TH, bees are gathering pollen
rapidly, we have. plenty of drones
and, if the season continues, shall
start several hundred queens soon.
Some hives are filled with brood.
A. f. Moon,
Rome, Ga.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-03-17
Look to the Bees.
Editor of The Florida Agriculturist.


The present winter being an open
one bees have consumed much more
of their stores than they do when
confined in their hives for some time.
This being fact many young and
weak swarms will get out of honey,
and, unless they are fed, must perish.
A careful look of five minutes will
give the apiarian a full idea of their
critical condition and the small
amount necessary to carry them
through safely to time when they
can gather ample supplies 10 carry
on the breeding, and also giving to
the bee keeper an ample return for
all his trouble, besides saving the
lives of valuable colony of bees.
Many fine colony is lost after they
commence work in the spring. If
the apiarian would examine his bees
often and properly care for them
what revenue to himself and the
country.
SWARMING.
The time for swarming will soon
come when everything should be in
readiness, for the apiary, hives, boxes,
in fact everything that is necessary
to aid in the business. A few pounds
of comb foundation will be found
very valuable; small pieces used in
the frame for the brood nest will save
the bee keeper much trouble in hand
ling his frames, as every comb will be
made perfectly straight; not only
this last will be Of great value and
saving of expense in the making of
frames, with the comb foundation a
fiat, cheap frame can be used which
will answer every purpose, besides a
saving Of beveI edge to guide the
bees in making straight combs. We
use piece for the brood frame one
halt inch wide and about two inches
long. This we dip into melted rosin
and bees wax, proportioned as fol.
lows: One part bees wax to three
parts of English rosin; melt and
when just warm enough to run will
be in fine condition for fastening
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-03-17

Our high pine lands will yield
good crops when aided by little
fertilizer, as has been proved by
many of our most enterprising plant.
ers. Thomas Ford, living about
mile and half northwest from this
place, has just harvested an immense
crop of sweet potatoes by bedding
pea-vines in the ridges. They are Of
the providence" variety, and he is
selling them at the low price of forty
cents a bushel.-Apopk0 Citizen.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-03-17

Colonel t. S. Coogler, has a curios-
ity in the palm line. The tree is now
about twenty feet in hight, and is COW
cred with long needles like thorns,
measuring from two to five inches in
length. At little distance the tree
looks exactly like the date palm.
The colonel procured the seed in
Jacksonville some five years ago, but
does not know the variety of palm to
which it belongs. Who can name it ?
-BrookoiUe Crescent. Weintroduced
the seed of the above palm when
we were residing in Jacksonville and
gave them away. 1t is called the
Needle palm, or by some mocka
palm.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-03-17

sI An extra copy OF the AGRI-
cULTURIsT for year to every one
who will send us five paid yearly
subscribers.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-03-17
ARTIFICIAL SWARMING.

For this we practice two or three
methods-only one | give now !:
When the hive is full OF bees and
brood, and at time Of day when
the bees are out, largely, we take off
frame with plenty Of brood, with
queen on it, and place it with queen
into a new hive full of frames with
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

John Sherman, who IS making speeches IL
Ohio and Indiana, claiming credit in behalf Of
the republican party for the good crops of the
past two years and the consequent heavy i'm
portatlon of gold and revival of business, with
even greater impudence is claiming credit in
behalf of the Hayes administration and him
self for q great saving of interest on the public
debt by his funding operations, OF these op
erations the Cincinnati Enquirer, criticising
one of his speeches, has this to say
"There were s740,000,000 of these four per
cent. bonds sold at par, and half of per
cent. commission, netting the government
ninety-nlne and one half cents. The market
value of the per cel,is can be put at Sl.OI,
which would make the $740,0000O0 of per
cents worth 1851 100000. But at ninety nine
and one.half they netted the government only
S736, 100000, or a profit to the spectators OF
STA, 100000. The principal purchaser was
the First National Bank OF New York, the
heir and successor of the notorious Jay Cooke
McCulloch ~ Co. This bank, with a capital
of only half million dollars, on the 10th OF
June, 1879, owed the government SIPS, lO9,Oil
for bonds"
When it Is further understood that John
Sherman is himself a stakeholder IN this First
National Bank of New York, some idea may
be formed of the shamefulness of this claim OF
credit for his funding operations"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

doubleday he is giving them great deal OF
uneasiness. Indeed the vigorous campaign
he is making fills them with so much alarm
that they admit Mr.. Cullen will at least not
have a walk away. We can tell them more
than that, the "walkaway" is more likely to
be on the other side, II the republicans i'm
agine the democrats have no hope of electlng
Mr.. Evans they are fooled. The republicans
must remember that they are 1900 in the mi,
nority in the district. DO they fmagine the
people OF the district will aitoays be fools
enough to allow themselves to be represented
IN congress by man whom majority of
them don't want?
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

When the bill creating the electoral COM
mission was before congress in Jan 1877, Gar
field opposed it because he SAID 1t would CON-
pei the commission to 60 behind the Govern
ors certificate and make full investigation
Of the Louisiana and Florida election frauds
but when Garfield found himself placed upon
the commission, after taking solemn oath to
carefully carry out the full intent and mean
ing of the law as he understood it, he declared
by his every vote that the law gave the com
mission no such power as he had asserted in
his speech in the house it did give them; IN
other words, that in his speech against the bill
in the house he had deliberately lied. 81
rould not do that Ming,' said that sturdy pa
trlot and honest man, Thomas \. Hendricks,
at indianapolis two weeks ago, "tor a hous-
and gears tenure IN tie great office for tehtch
Garfield is @ caadidate!"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

Can Hancock carry Pennsylvania? "lle
can" says Jerry Black, IF we can get an hon
est count, particularly in Philadelphia The
republican legislature of Pa. last winter pass
ed law creating state returning board by
which no doubt the vote of that state can be ma
nipulated IN any way the party exegencies may
require and the governor has not failed to put
upon the board men mean enough for any ras.
cality needed But" adds Jerry Black
What the consequences might be OF anoth,
er attempt to defraud the people by bold and
mpudent swndle like that of 1876 cannot
toretell But should fear terrible disaster
Would General Garfield accept the presidency
won by fraud? Or would he encourage the
preparation of so great crime? solemnly
trust not, but I cannot forget that he was pat
and part IN the shocking rascallty OF four
wears ago.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

The rule to :" vote early and often "'seems to
have been rigidly adhered TO by the Republi
cans at the recent election in Vermont. Indeed
letters from that state since the election say
there is no locality in the United States where
the business of repeating" is more thoroughly
sys,ematized than in Vermont All the cleo
ton officers are republicans, many Of the poll.
ing districts are nearly UNANIMOUSLY republi'
can, and the rule is to return Whatever Vote
the Republican State Committee calls for with.
out much reference to the actual number OF
ballots cast That there must be some truth
IN this is shown by a few figures: The popu.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

Mr. John Sherman declared IN his speech
last week at Cincinnati that If Hancock is
elected amnesty and forgiveness will be pro-
claimed for the meapest crimes that have ever
been committed against free government" So
far as we are aware, says the y, L. World, the
meanest crime ever committed against free
government was committed by John Sherman,
Eliza Pinkston, James y. Garfield, Madi-
son Wells, Z. W. Stoughton and certain other
persons who undertook in 1876 TO steal and
did in fact steal the vote of the state of Louisi-
ana. If John Sherman thinks that General
Hancock will proclaim or that the American
people will proclaim amnesty and forgiveness
for this "mean crime" he is IN the way TO be
violently but protitably undecelved.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

The republican managers of Indiana are IN
a great panic oyer the fight they provoked
with Gov. Hendricks about Garfield's connec-
ton with Louisiana returning board frauds.
Not only are all the local stumpers engaged in
answering Hendricks" but they imported
John A. Logan a week ago to attend to the
case, and as he made signal failure of il,
they next prevailed on John Sherman to go to
Richmond, Ind, on Monday evening Of last
week and defend Garfield from "that most
damnlng indictment" Sherman's reply was
as sorry as Logan's, all he could say being
that he was himself as deeply involved IN the
business as Garfield was, and if Garfield was
dishonest Sherman must be. 1t was the anec-
dote over again as told Of Sherman few
weeks ago in Washington. An eminent poll
tician having inquired of Sherman what he
thought of Gartiell's connection with the Lou
lsana frauds, he said: "Sr, Garfield and the
members of the returning board are gentle
men; they are honorable men; they are as
honest as | am rs honest as you are"
Hold on, hold on" cried the gentleman he
was addressing, "hold on, Sherman; you may
compare them with yourself, but you mustnot
compare them with me can't let you do
that "
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

ONO TOO!--There seems to be serious
alarm among the republican leaders in regard
to Ohio. A very close canvass on the part OF
the democrats it is SAID shows democratic
majority of j0,Gj0 in the democratic counties
and republican majority Of but 42,075 IN the
republican counties; while the republican
canvass barely reverses these figures between
the two leaving the state manlicstly uncom.
down IN Maine, that upless n little of the re.
publican cash and money now being solavish-
ly and uselessly wasted on Indiana is thrown
into OHIO, Garfield may fare even worse in
his own state than Blaine has just Jared in
Maine
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

1t seems that the democrats OF this congress
elonal district are of about the same mind at
ter all, as Wade Hampton. This southern dig
nitary says the democracy are now working
for "the same principles for which Lee and
Jackson fought" Lee and Jackson fought
for states rights and the consequent rights OF
secession. Dan Evans the democratic nomi
nee Tor congress, is one of the few men who
would make the states superior to the national
government. The Joliet Sun reports HIM as
follows Mr.. Evans, the democratic candi.
date for congress in this district, nominated
| Thursday, sounded, in his speech accepting
the nomination, the democratic keynote for
this campaign when he said the democratic
party spelled Nation with little IN" and State
with big IS" He IS the democratic stand
ard bearer in this district, and II is presumed
that these are colors the democracy are to sail
under "-Sredtor Free Press.
If the republicans are determined to inaug.
urate against Mr.. Evans campaign of de.
tamation and lying" we cannot promise that
they will be met by the democrats with the
same weapons but rs their congressional can
dldate lives in very brittle glass house, IT
may occur that such campaign may be open
ed on him as will bring out some very un
pleasant truths. Now over q dozen of demo
Gratis who were present at the convention at
Joliet, among them the regular reporter of the
FREE TRADER, whose only instructions are
always to give true and honest report no mat
ter who is helped or hurt, have already denied
and are ready to make affidavit that Mr.. Evans
uttered no such language at Joliet as that at
tributed to him. All he did say was that the
republicans write Nation with big n and
States with little s; bat that the democrats
believing IN the reserved rights of the states
believed in also writing states with big S
The position of Mr.. Evans in regard to the re
lative powers of the national and state govern
ments Is, as every sensible man ought to know
exactly that OF the whole democratic party and
that is the position of the Supreme Court OF
the United States, as announced by its repub
lcan head, Chief Justice Waite: That the
United States constitute Nation made up OF
an INDIssoLUBLE UNION OF INDEsTRUCTIBLF
STATES" The republican programme Is the
old exploded one Of the Hartford convention
federalIsts, TO concentrate all power in the ma.
tional government and to destroy the states.
The democrats maintain that both the na
ton and the states are understandable" and
that is all Mr.. Evans meant TO say.
We are by no means surprised, however, to
find the republican press of the district open.
ing on Mr.. Evans their battery OF lies. I'm.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

laton of Vermont, by the late census is $780,
e97 The rule holds good in every part of the
United States where honest elections are held
that on full vote the proportion of voters to
population is about one to seven. Thus in OF.
tawa in 1876, when full vote was cast, the
vote of Ottawa and South Ottawa was 1883 IN
population of about / 1000 or trltie over /
vote to 7 population. The vote of Vermont
last week was 72,070, or at the rate of vote to
every AZ of population. At the same rate OF.
tawa and South Ottawa IN November would
be able to poll nearly $500 votes
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

1t is no doubt quite likely that there may
occasionally be cases of bulldozing and ruff
fianlsm in the semi-civllized backwoods settle
ments of Mississippi or Texas, but there are
no meaner cases on record than that which &C.
Cured IN sweetscented, heightened republican
Lisbon, in Kendall county, week ago, when
the valiant Garfield Guards" of that plous
village undertook by whooping, yelling and
other ruffianism to prevent Mayor Nicholson
from addressing democratic audience in the
local town hall. The same doughty stalwarts
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

Garfield" says John Sherman, "in every
position occupied by him, has rendered satis
faction TO his constituents"
Resolved" said Garfeld's republican con
stituents in convention at Warren, Ohio, Sept
z, 1876, "that there is no man today officially
connected with our national government
against whom are justly preferred more and
graver charges of corruption than are publicly
made and abundantly sustained against Jane.
A. Garfield, the present representative Of thl,
congressional dislriet"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

The last tremendous find" of the republi-
cans is letter from Mr.. Beltzhoover, a demo
cratic member of Congress from Pennsylvania,
dated April 10, 1880, in reply to letter from
constituent asking Mr.. BIS influence in
favor of certain pension claim before con-
gress. Mr.. Beltzhoover replies dlscouraging.
ly, telling his constituent that with the pres
ent democratic house pension bills do not
have much favor aDd that ''the rebel general
at the head Of the pension committee in the
senate is still more averse to allowing any
such bills to pass" In view of the exceed.
ingly liberal not to say extravagant grant Of
pensionsto Union soldiers by the late demo
cratic congress, what earthly value as an cleo.
tioneerIng document such letter can have
beyond its use to impugn the honesty and
veracity of Mr.. Beltzhoover himself, it must
take uncommonly sharp republican eyes to
see. All the democrats need do in defense
against Mr. Beltzhoover's mendacIous insinu
atoms Is to point to the facts. Did the "pres
ent democratic house" oppose liberal pension
legislation, and did the said "rebel general at
the head of the pension committee III the sen.
ate" oppose such legislation? The whole
world knows they did not. SO the Beltzhoo,
yer letter, as an electloneering find" peters
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18
HOME MATTERS.
Personal.


RATuBuN. Charlotte Rathbun is visiting
friends In Mendoza.
BULI.-Ed. Bull, son of E. F. Bull, Esq, has
started for Europe.
ANNE. P. hathaway and Noonan Hinsdale
have returned to Ann Arbor.
CAMFIELp.-Miss Emma Garfield, Fremont,
Ohio, is in the city, at Morgan's.
SwIrr.-Mr and Mrs. f. G. Swift have gone
to Connecticut to visit friends.
LELANp.-Mr. and Mrs. f. A. Leland are re-
ceiying congratulations. 1t is girl.
H,RR1s.-Miss Gertie Harris is visiting Mrs.
W. Stevenson at Bloomington, Ills.
MISN.-Hon W. Bushnell, R. Strickland and
81 Ruger have gone to Minnesota.
P.ISE.-Geo S. Paine will hereafter spend two
days of the week professionally in Utica.
SHEpPARD-Dr. Sheppard, veterinary surgeon,
is in Edinburg, Ind, on professional business
SroRMoST.-Wm. stormont, founder, has vol
UNFAIRLY raised salaries OF his men one-eighth.
MAnER.-Jerry Maher, marshal attended this
week the reunion of the old "64th" at Macomb.
CHrcAeo.-Judge Wallace and Fred Eames
we're among the Chicago men in Ottawa this
week.
GESrLENAS.-Tonica Necs: "Mr. Willard
Gentleman, of Ottawa, is an eloquent speaker
natural orator"
MACKISLAr.-John Mackinlay and family
formerly of this city, now Of New York state, are
visiting friends in this city.
PoRrER--J. E. Porters hay implements cap
tured the first premium at the Iowa State Fair
at Des Moines last week.
BrArry.-Geo. Beatty's daughter, Laura, aged
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18
LAUGHABLE FAILURE.

\ few weeks ago the Cincinnati CoDumercia
(Murat llalsted's paper published list Of ov
er 800 mortgages upon which VIM. H. English
the democratic candidate for vice president
was alleged to have loaned money, and which
for non-payment when due he had cruelty
foreclosed, The Commercial made such q
whine over the matter that the New York
Nerdld sent reporter to Indianapolis to look
it up. He discovered that all the mortgages
but half dozen belonged to Margaret ID. Cor
don, widow lady, and that Mr., English had
simply done the business for her and acted I'm.
der her instructions; but that IN nearly every
case where the widow had directed the sale OF
the property under the mortgage she had lost
money. The HeraM thus gives the result of
ITS investigation Of this heavy republican elec,
tioneering bonanza:
A Herdld correspondent telegraphs from In.
dlanapolls his report of an interview with Mr..
English and Others and his surprise at dlscov-
ering: first that the English house has no iron
doors; and second, that the English forecos-
urCs are rs baseless as the iron doors We are
sorry for Mr.. llalStead, of Cincinnati, who has
apparently dreamed these things, and in his
extreme anxiety for republican success has
been publishing his dreams.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18
TRUMBULL AT JOLIET.

The viii county democracy had a splendid
demonstration at Joliet on Tuesday the crowd
filing the court house yard and numbering
nent speakers were the Hon j. d. Cation, Hon
Lyman Trumbull, Hon. Lawrence Harmon
and J. ID. lines, Esq, but the speech of Judge
| Trumbull IN the afternoon was the principal
not going over the same ground with his
Beleville speech, is reported In fall in We'd
ncsday's Chicago Times. In this portion the
Judge takes occasion to pay attention to the
attempts that have been made by John a.
Logan and Gov. Cullom to answer his Belle
vile speech. His reply to Logan was espe-
cally scathing 1t appears poor John had
disputed Trumbull's statement of the princi-
pies of the republican party in 1860 and
averred them TO have been solely Opposition
to the extension of slavery and the doctrine of
state sovereignty" OF course Trumbull was
simply crushing when in his reply to tins he
quoted from the republican platform of 1860
the resolution THAT the maintenance lnviolate
Of the rights Of the states, and especially the
right of each state to order and control Its own
domestic institution according to its own
judgment exclusively is essential to that bal.
ance Of power on which the perfection and
endurance Of our political fabric depends
Judge Trumbull was if possible still more
scathng IN his response to Logan's menda-
clous charge that Andrew johnson had en-
ployed Trumbull to attend to the McCardlc
case for the government in the United States
Supreme Court for which Trumbuil got Il fee
OF $4,000, IN return for which he voted
against the impeachment of Andrew johnson,
\ dirtier or more infamous taisehOod was
never uttered. Judge Trumbull was requested
to attend to the McCardle case by L $ Grant,
and he read the letter OF Grant to him EN-
ploying HIM in the case; and as to the charge
that as a Senator of the United States, Judge
Trumbul had no right to accept fee from
the government for legal services in the
courts Judge Trumbull showed cOnclusiyely
that not only was there no law to prevent him
from accepting fee for such services, but
that it had been and still is common prac-
tce for the government to employ eminent
lawyers who may happen to be members of
the senate or house to attend to legal business
of the government in the courts; that in 1870
Senator Edmunds had been thus employed
IN the case OF Miller 49, The United States,
and that in other cases Senator Conkllng and
other members of the senate and house had
been thus employed and always paid for their
SERVICES
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18

We see in the New York papers frequent
mention of Republican Hancock Clubs"
that is clubs made up of Republicans who
intend to vote for Hancock. There are a
dozen of them in Kings and Suffolk counties
alone, membering from $50 to 800 members
each, and these claim to be in correspondence
with similar clubs all over the state. While
there is thus no doubt of the existence OF such
clubs who ever heard of democratic Gar.
field Clubpn
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1880-09-18
NEW COURT HOUSE AND JAIL.

We have the happiness to congratulate the
people of La Sale county on the fact that, af
ter session of the Board of Supervisors pro
longed until 10 o'clock last night and full
and animated discussion of the question, the
Board decided by vote of % to II in favor Of
taking immediate steps for the erection of a
new county court house and Jail. The cost is
limited to $4,000 to be paid by an annual
special county tax of $4,000 per year for the
next three years.