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IMPORTANT DECISION

WASHINGTON, May 81. --Animportant
DECISION was rendered by the French
American claim commissioner,to-day, in
the case of Joseph Napoleon Peicne,
Archbishop Of New Orleans, against
the United States. The memorial of
, the claimant sets forth that in 1862 at
which time he was French subject
residing at New Orleans, the mill
tary force of the United States, under
command of General B. F. Butler, oc
cupled that city and demolished the
property belonging to him, to the val
ue of 10000 and subjected him to ar
rest and Imprisonment; and for these
injuries he claims he is entitled to dam
ages of $4,000, with interest. 1t is
maintained the bishop is not entitled
to recover at all as a French subject
under the present treaty, for the rea-
son that he is now, and has been since
1870, a naturalized American citizen.
Followingis the decision of the Com
missioner Archbishop Peiche in his
memorial, states that he was natural
lied in the United States in 1870. He
do not claim to be French citizen
without deciding upon any other cases
which may be analogous to
this. We think the claim of
Monseigner Peiche must be
rejected as it does not come within the
terms of the treaty which only provides
for claims of French citizens While
making this decision we deem it proper
for us to express our regret that we
cannot take jurisdiction of which upon
its face seems to be equitable.
Signed,
BARON De ARINos, President.
A. 4. o. 6E oop5s Commissioners.
The present case is said to be the de-
cisiOn Of a whole class of similar cases.
IN which large amount Of money is
involved
PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The following
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MAY COINAGE.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The coinage
Of the various minis for May was ST.
227 $50, of which 100000 we've silver
dollars.
APPOINTMENTS.
The following appointments were
made by the president to-day; VIM.
Governew, collector of customs at Nor
ris, n. ]. District attorneys-Henry
Kennedy, Of Maine, at Wallsboro, vice
Gen. Haley, resigned; Thos. M. Broad
waters, at Vicksburg, Miss; Ed. j.
CASTILLO, at Natchez, Miss. G. X.
Foote, postmaster, at Jackson, Tenn;
Aug. Brosins Penna, Indian agent for
the Great Nebama agency.
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PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT,

WASHINGTON, June 1.-The following
was the condition Of the public treas
ury at the opening of business June
LIST, 1881:
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utdi....
Available assets
Cash in treasury. .....
Bonds issued to Pa
cific R. r. Co., in
terest payable in
lawful money, prtn-
cipal outstanding.
Interest accrued and
not yet paid.
Interest paid by United
States. ............
Interest repaid by com.
panies by transporta-
ton service. .......
By cash payments
per cent. earnings.
Balance of interest
paid by United
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-08-11
The Boldest Robbery on Record.
Kansas City Journal.


On the last day of the Kansas City
Exposition in 1872, the James and
Younger brothers committed robbery
which for boldness and startling origi-
nality discounted the efforts of any
robbers before or since. At 5 o'clock
in the afternoon, after Mr.. Hall, the
treasurer of the association, now of the
Chicago Jockey Club, had been around
to the various entrances to collect the
money, six ordinary appearing men
rode up to the office at the principal
gate, and one of them looking through
the window, said to Mr.. Hall, as if from
curiosity:
GLOW much money is there in that
box"
To which the accommodating treas
urer replied that there was in the
neighborhood of $4,000 Then said
the inquisitive stranger:
suppose Jesse James should come
along here and tell you to give that up,
what would you do?"
II should refuse" said Mr.. Hall,
laughingly.
"Well, | am Jesse James," said the
questioner, leaning half way through
the window, and holdings cooked navy
under the treasurer's nose, land /
reckon you better pass that money
over"
Mr.. Hall thought so too and acted
accordingly. The money was placed
in a sack carried by one of the party,
and they rode calmly down Twelfth
street in full view of the populace.
The cheek displayed can only be
appreciated when the fact is taken
into consideration that there were at
least calculation 10000 people on the
ground, and men were passing in and
out the gate every minute.
That evening a party of men rode
up in front of a newspaper office on
Fourth street and called loudly by
name for the editor. That gentleman
came down stairs and was presented
with an elegant gold watch and chain
with the compliments of Jesse James
and command" The gentleman who
received the present is at present edit
ing paper in an interior town, and
still regulates the movement of the
sun by his time-piece. The police of
the city did not apprehend any of the
outlaws at the time, and have contin-
ued to do so ever since.
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Hints to Flax Growers.

The Minnesota Linseed Oil Company
has issued the following letter of advice
to its patrons respecting the cuttir G and
curing of flax:
As the season for cutting flax APP
proaches, we wish to give our friends a
word of advice and caution as to har-
vesting and securing the crop.
First, outting-When most Of the
bolls and lower part of the stalks have
turned yellow, and the leaves have
turned slightly brown, and the lower
leaves have dropped of, it is ready tO
harvest. At this stage it will cut as cas-
lily as wheat. Be careful not to cut be-
fore ripe. Unripe seed cannot be prop
erly filled out, and must fall short in
weight.
Use a smooth knife in your reaper.
Cut high-only low enough to get all
the bolls.
Second, shocking set it up as soon
as cut, in gavels. 1t may be handled
the same as barley, or buckWheat;
but better still, bind with n selfbind-
er and shock the same as wheat.
This treatment makes threshing easy
and pays well.
Third, stackingflax cures very fast,
and in good dry weather may be
stacked the day after cutting. Don't
wait a day after it is ready, for a
threshing machine or anything else,
but stack, stack if you want to save
your crop. Build a good, solid stack,
always keeping full in the center
heads in butts out-and top out with
prairie hay. Stacks must not be dis
turbed for two or three weeks or more,
until the flax is through the "sweat,
which leaves the seed heavier and bet
tor
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FACTS FOR THE FARMER.
Rye for Pasture


Henry Ives, in the New York Iri-
bune, says: SIT has been a favorite
practice with me to SOW rye on every
available space unoccupied by regu-
lar farm crop, or as soon as such a crop
is taken from the ground, except where
wheat or grass was to follow instead.
This | do to either pre-occupy the
ground to prevent its growing up to
weeds or to raise a green crop to be
plowed under, or for pasturing, or for
crop, or for both the latter purposes.
/ think rye is preferable to any other
grain for the uses, being the most hardy
and reliable of them all. | have sown
it any time from July to and through
December, and had it do almost equally
well; having sown in corn at the last
cultivating; pastured it all the fall after
the corn was taken Oft, and the next
May plowed under heavy green crop
TO plant potatoes. Have sown in the
middle of August, then pastured all
the late fall and spring, then saved it
for a good harvest crop. Have sown it
the first of September, and after ground
was frozen in; in winter it would fur
nish the stock quite an amount of
green feed.
At other times | have sown rye Just
before the winter set in, either Novem-
Der or December, when it would come
up very early in the spring and give
good crop. No weather or treatment
or insect seems to affect it much.
Have plowed heavy growth of it I'M
der in November and December when
every inch of earth in the furrow-slice
would be penetrated with the white
rootlets of this hardy growing crop,
and such dense body of it as to keep
the frost out, allowing it to be plowed
after other ground was frozen hard
Have plowed it under in May when it
was three and half feet high, using a
chain, and the hoe0 crop on that
ground would resist the drought, as the
land seemed to hold the moisture bet
ter than any other. 1t is sometimes
thought to be better, when designed for
a crop, to have rye pastured rather
close until, say, the 10th of May, or
Whereabouts, after which it will grow
not quite so tall, but even and thick
crop on the ground.
On this same principle | have heard
of some moving the early growth OIL
before its heading, and after that OBJ
tain fair harvest crop, but | would
not recommend this on strong, rich
land. Some would not SOW rye on
their farm, for they say they never
would get rid of it, but it would come
up in the crops for years afterward;
but | pay no attention whatever to
such complaints, for in making them
such men acknowledge that they are
not masters of their profession, and if
it was not rye they would let weeds, or
thistles or some other foul growth
take more or less of the space and of
the plant-food which would have gone
to make good clean crop for the hus
bandman. In growing rye for crop.
the ground grain makes excellent feed,
and the straw is often worth as much
as the hay.
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kiIlnd hV RphS

From the It. Louis Globe Democrat.
Mr.. John Massey, a well-to-do far
mer, near Bridgeton, in st. Louis coun-
ty, is quite bee fancier. Among other
animals upon his well-stocked farm was
a blind horse, and an excellent animal
he was, barring the loss of sight. A
few DAYS ago the horse was turned into
small pasture, and adjoining this was
a lot containing twenty-seven stands OF
bees. An open gate gave the animal
access to both enclosures, and his famll-
iarity with the premises was such that
he passed from one to the other, nip
ping grass, as though possessed of two
good ewes. The poor blind horse at last
lost his bearings, stumbled in among
the beehives and upset several stands.
Out poured the bees from their honey
comb. in thousands, to punish the de-
spoiler of their sweet homes. How
long they were in recognizing the horse
as their foe is not known, tor 1t was on
" learned by his groans and neighs OF
pain that anything unusual had hap
3ened. No one could do a thing to re-
iieve the suffering beast, for the bees
were mad. Left unmolested the bees
spent their whole fury upon the horse,
covering every inch of his hide from
head to foot and singing him to death
in about twenty minutes.
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Coffee.

The culture of coffee in Mexico is
becoming q more extensive and profit
able industry than is generally known.
There are now many large coffee plan
tations in the country, and the amount
of capital and labor invested increases
largely with every year. The land can
be purchased for about $40 per acre,
and the work required to clear and pre-
pare it for the coffee plant is slight in
most localities. The plants, from six
months to year old, are set in rows
from eight to ten feet apart, and about
six feet apart in the row. Coffee is of
ten produced two years from the plant
ing of the seed, but profitable bearing
begins only when the plant is four or
five years old. AT the end of seven
years the field will be sufficient to re-
pay the owner for all previous outlay
and labor, and the land does not require
replanting for many years. Another
advantage in favor of coffee culture IS
that the raising OF many other varieties
of tropical fruit can be combined with
it by planting between the rows. The
coffee tree, when left alone, will grow
to height of fifteen or twenty feet, but
it is usually nipped about six feet from
the ground, thus giving more vigor to
the branches and stock. The berries
while growing are of a grassy green,
but when ripe turn to a bright led.
Though the plant is continuously flow
ering and developing fruit, the actual
harvest season is from November to
April. The berries when gathered are
spread to dry in the sun, after which
they are hulled and stored away. Cof-
fee, when ready for the markets. worth
from 10 to y cents at the place where
it is raised. -RocheSter Democrat and
(IroojoLo
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Insects on Roses.

The Canada Globe gives the follow
ing remedy for the radiance IF insects
on rose plants and other shrubbery:
This remedy is sald to be good for
all plants, including che. trees affiict-
ed with black apps. Into quantity
Of good strong domestic softsoap pour
a quantity of crude carbolic acid, stir
well together, and allow to stand for
few hours. Two or three tablespoon
fuls of the acid to quart of soap may
first be tried Test the compound by
mixing little of it with soft water. If
too much acid has been added, only
particles of carbolic acid will be obserV-
ed floating on the surface, and more
soap should be added Make it as
strong with acid as the soap viii per-
fectly cut. The refined acid may be
used when the crude is not at hand.
When prepared make a moderately
strong suds and apply with syringe or
sponge In using on very delicate
plants, should any fear be felt for the
plants. they can be rinsed off after a
few minutes. Not having homemade
soap, | dissolved nice bar soap andused
that, and applied the carbolic suds with
a wisp or small broom brush as a
sprinkler; One application often
suffices, but two may be made if nee
essary.
Another writer gives the following
remedy for the destruction of the rose
slug:
This an outdoor depredator appear
ing on the leaves of the rose and fairly
skeletonizing them 1t is light green
translucent little chap, varying from
one-sixteenth TO nearly one inch in
length. As a remedy we have found
white bellebore good-one tablespoon
full dissolved in two gallons of boiling
water and applied when cool with a
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no wings, hence they depend upon their
long, leyer-like legs, or hoppers, for 10
comotion. They are not much like the
chimney black cricket. They are fear
full cannibals, Staying and eating each
other with a ravenous appetite. They
have no sting or dangerous nippers,
hence are not dangerous to the human
family, so far as intlicting wounds. The
way these crickets cross streams is
amusing When they come to stream
of water which they 'think" they can
cross, they climb every object along
the margin, and when as high as they
can ascend, they shut their eyes and
give one long, dangerous and some
times fatal leap into the water, shut up
like jack knife, and float down until
they come in contact with an object,
then they Immediately seem to wake
up and make desperate grab, and
crawl upon it. If he be lucky enough
to be on the right side he moves on; if
not, he tries it again. Thus thousands
are drowned.
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she said, II must return home; have
been enticed too far away already by
the beauty of the night" he offered his
arm, and said: II will accompany you
If you are not a ghost yourself, you
may see one on the way"
"Not I" she laughed, "but your COM
pany is such provocative of enjoy
ment that l viii gladly accept it,"
This gave him the desired courage.
'I-I wish, Eleanor, that we might
walk along lies path together. Do
you not think you would be happy as
my wife?"
The answer would have been unintel
ligible to some, but it satisfied him
completely. Thanks to the Gypsy, ne
won a wife who would be helpmeet-
who would not frighten him with her
ebullutions of temper
Woman-like, Eleanor confessed how
she came to the spot to meet her fate;
man-like, Justin kept silent as to his
part in the plot, but he longed to know
whether the gypsy was aware that she
had sent the wrong girl to him.
And because of ner hasty words to
the gypsy, Maggie France losta husband
and Eleanor Carlyle won the man she
loved. And Justin Stanley always kept
one secret from the woman he grew to
love with all his heart.
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At CHURCH

So. Harold, you wondered You say, at my smile
Nay, my sneersl Well i faith, you're not
wrong
When that elegant lady swept up thro' the aisle
And knelt in the front pew 50 long.
She was very deyout, and so liberal too
How freely she gave of her gold
When the mssion-p plate passed for the heather
Hindoo,
Whom she longs to bring into the fold.
Yet Harold knew Of a grand life gone out
In a madness Of pain and despair,
Because Of that woman sweetly devout-
That Christian who kue,. near us there
And know young wife who has death in her
face
Tho she smiles ard strives hard to look bright
Whenever she locks on the beauty and grace
That robbed her Of what was her right
So, Harold, you see il sneered had cause,
A that Christian ia velvet and furs;
And / wondered what pagan or heather there
Whose chances were poorer than hers
ELLA WHEELER.
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A correspondent of the Idaho States
man, writing from North Powder river,
Oregon, says: "a few days ago | had
occasion to ride over the range on
Burnt river and Willow creek, travelling
over about seventy-five miles Of terri
hills-and along the
whole distance, from ten miles below
ODDS ferry, on Snake river, to Ironsides
mountain, and averaging about FIVE
miles in width, the earth presented a
black. moving, shrieking mass OF crick-
cts. While those cnckets are not so
destructive as the locust (grasshepper1,
they, nevertheless, devour gardens,
grain fields, and much tender vegeta-
lion in their path. l saw many gar
dens which they had left wreck
They cross streams, bitches and noun
tains, and seem to move in columns,
but with little regularity. They have
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TWO MILES OF SPERM WHALES.
seven Hundred of Them Going or a
Picnic Down the Coast.
From the New York Sun

The bark Ibis, from Pensacola, lay
yesterday at the foot of Seventeenth
street, North River. A San reporter
boarded her and asked Capt. Sawyer if
he had really seen whales off Pimlico
Sound on his way up the coast last Sat
urday. "Whales?" said the genial cap
tain. "Any number of them. There
must have been two miles of black
backs and water spouts."
Capt Sawyer unrolled time-worn
chart on the table in his cabin, and,
with his dividers, followed down a num-
Der of pencil marks to latitude 200 and
longitude 74o and II min. This brought
him to point about so miles off PIN
leo Sound, and further northeast of
Cape Hatteras.
at was on Saturday and Sunday" he
continued, when we encountered these
sperm whales going south or south
west, as if to round Hatteras. They
were going very slowly, backs above the
water, and We're spouting all of the
time. They were strolling along in
groups, summing themselves half an
hour at time, and then taking head
er and coming up to spout"
GLOW many were thereY
DWELL, first we met two schools of
about 100 each, / should say. Occa-
sionally they frolicked and Topped
about heavily, in sort of dignified
and elephantine sport. More followed,
and the next morning, Sunday, we saw
more. Altogether there were over 700
on the picnic. We passed within 500
feet of two big fellows, but they seemed
preoccupied and didn't notice the ship.
I don't think they knew we were there. .
"Had you any means of capturing
them?"
"No, and it did seem pity to have
so much valuable sperm oil indolently
swimming away from us. There were
some big whales there, too. | said to
Limerick, one OF my men here: Now,
there's fellow that's worth $4,000"
and he must have been, and there were
bigger ones in the school 1t would
have been harvest for whaling ship.
A million dollars in sperm whales is
too good haul to let go by, but we
couldn't do anything. Occasionally
I've seen sperm whale cruising along
as far south as Savannah, and once in a
while I've heard of whale ships oil
about there. But | never saw so many
whales at one time before anywhere"
"Where were they going?"
"For squids, probably. That's ia
yorite food with them"
SIS any danger to be feared from
them?"
mo; they're harmless. / think /
never heard of more than one case
where d whale attacked a vessel, and
that's in ancient history. Over a humid
red years ago. | believe the ship Es-
sex was run down by mad whale. My
own experience with whales has been
that they are shy, and if they upset a
boat, they do it by accident in trying
~ rot auovt'
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How Kid Gloves Are Made.

Troy kN. j LINES.
In one of the large factories at GLOW
ersville nearly ali the stock used is inn
ported from France. The skins on ar
irving at the factory are first put
through the process of shaving"
which is done with q broad chisel, and
all the imperfect parts Of the leather
are cut off. The skins are then taken
to the table cutting room, where thirty
cutters are employed in cutting the
skins into oblong pieces, after which
they are sent to the Sitting room,
where the fingers are cut and the gloves
are ready for the sewing machines.
Thence we follow them to the making
room where ninety steam sewing ma
chimes, run by women, are kept busy
stitching the seams, and twenty other
women are engaged working button
holes and putting on buttons. The
gloves are now ready for the laying
off" room, where number of long
hollow forms, like outstretched hands,
are stood upright from table. If one
were in need of good warm shake
of the hand, he could be accommo-
dated here, for each of these hollow
forms are filled with steam, and gives
the gloves that peculiar shape they
have before being worn. Another
room is the sorting room," where
the various colors and sizes are sorted
and fitted for the market. In the
stitching process is a peculiar sewing
machine which does the beautiful over
stitching of the seams. In this factory
over two hundred hands are employed
and about seventy-fve dozen pair of
gloves made daily. The glove cutters
average from SIS to $50 per month in
wages, and the makers (women) from
$50 to $40 per month. A beautiful
glove is now being made called the
rosquetaire, from imported mocha
skins, but dressed in the village, which
is better than any imported glove, and
the day seems to be coming when
American gloves will he known as the
superior to all other makes. The skins
used will cut on the average two pairs
Of gloves.
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Living in Tents in Denver.
From the Denver Coll Tribune

Although one may find a first-class
quality of civilization in Denver, yet
one may also look upon the primitive
side of life in the Queen City of the
Plains. Within ten minutes walk of
the handsome and heightened hotels
one may find people with no other pro-
lection from the weather than a tent,
and no better beds than rudely made
hunks. The number of persons who
live in tents in Denver is really surpris-
ing-indeed, those who either from
choice or necessity are following this
primitive mode of existence in this city
would make good sized town, for at
the lowest estimate there are 5000 peo-
Pile living this wild life in the suburbs of
Denver. In many parts of the city,
notably in the far end of West Denver.
and along the drives leading to the fair
grounds and Central Park, these tents
are pitched in numbers and proximity
that make the collection look like a
village. There are also many tents in
the river bottoms. That ihese people
will not always live in tents no one will
dispute. As soon as builders shall see
the necessity of erecting convenient
houses that may be rented at q mode
rate price, these tents will find their
way to second hand shops. The num-
Der has not yet, however, begun TO de
crease