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The National tribune., 1882-07-15
REFERENCES :

As this may reach the hands of some persons I'M
acquainted with this House, we append hereto as
specimens of the testimony in our possession,
copies of letters from several gentlemen of political
ana military distinction, and widely known
throughout the United States
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Land Warrants,

Survivors of all wars from 1870 to March g. 1855
and certain heirs, entitled to one hundred and
sixty acres OF land, if not already received. Sol
dIers OF the late not entitled.
Land warrants purchased for cash at the highest
market rate, and assignments perfected.
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War of 1912.

All surviving officers and soldiers of this war,
whether in the Military Naval service of the
United States who served fourteen % days or if
in a battle skirmi1h, for less period and the
widows of such who have not remarked are en-
titled to pension of eight dollars "a month Proof
Of loyalty is no longer required in these claims.
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DeSertiOn

from one regiment or vessel and enlistment in an
other is not bar to pension in cases where the
wound, disease, or injury incurred while in the
service of the United States, and in the line of
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House OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March -, 1873.
From several years acquaintance with Captain
GEORGE f. LEMON of this city, l cheerfully COM
mend him a gentleman of integrity and well
qualified to attend to the collection of bounty and
other claims against the Government. His expe-
rienee in that line gives him superior advantages
W. P SPRAGUE. NJ. c.,
Fifteenth District Of Ohio
JAS. d. STRAWBRIDGE, NJ c.
Thirteenth District Of Pennsylvania.
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Rural Topics.
CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM SAUNDERS,
WASHINGTON, D. G.

Correspondence issolicted to this column. Com
nunicatioRs addressed to the Rural Department
Of THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, 6l5 Fifteenth Street
Washington, ID. c., viii be appreeiatedl
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Horses Lost in Service.

Claims of this character promptly attended to-
Many claims of this character have been erro-
neousy rejected. Correspondence in such cases is
respectfully invited.
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This Claim House Established
in 1861
GEORGE E. LEMON,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Pensions.
P. o. DRAWER 325.

If wounded, injured, or have contracted any dis
ease, however slight the disability apply ut once
Thousands entitled
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Heirs.

Widows, minor children, dependent mothers, IA
theirs and minor brothers and sisters, in the order
named, are entitled.
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CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK,

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan II, 1879.
Captain GEORGE f. LEMON, attorney and agent
for the collection of war claims ut Washington city,
is thorough, able, and exceedingly well Uniformed
man of business, of high character, and entirely
responsible. L believe that the interests of all
having war claims requiring adjustment cannot be
confided to safer hands.
JNO. A. J. CRESwELL.
President.
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Bounty and Pay.
Collections promptly made.
Property taken by the Army in
States not in Instruction.

Claims of this character will receive special at
tentiOn provided they were filed before january /
1880 If not filed prior to that date they are barred
by statute of limitation
In addition to the above we prosecute Military
and Naval claims of every description procure Pat
ents, Trade Marks, Copyrights attend to business
before the General Land Office and other Bureaus
of the Interior Department, and all the Depart
ments of the Government.
We invite correspondence from all interested as
surfing them of the utmost prOmpttude energy
and thoroughness III all matters intrusted to our
hands.
GEORGE Eu LEMON,
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SIZE OF SHEEP.-A German agricultur-
list, after twenty-five years experience, con-
trary to the general belief that the larger
count of their yielding better return both
in flesh and wool for the fodder consumed,
declares the reverse to be true, as the build
of the sheep has a greater influence on the
fattening properties than the absolute size,
and larger quantities of wool are obtained
from small sheep in relation to a given
weight than in the larger kinds, the relative
increase amounting to from 20 to 80 per
cent
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Prisoners of War.
Ration money promptly collected.
Furlough Rations.

Amounts due collected without unnecessary de-
lay: Such claims cannot be collected without the
furlough.
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EB- Any person desiring information as to nv
standing and responsibility will request be fur
nished with satisfactory reference in his own
vicinity Congressional District.
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TESTING EGGs.-A French paper recon-
mends a solution of three-fourths of an
ounce Of salt in a quart of water for testing
the ages Of eggs. 1t states that an egg put
in this solution on the day it is laid will
sink to the bottom; one a day old will not
quite reach the bottom of the v5;,sel; an egg
three days old will swim in the liquid, while
one more than three dayp bid will swim on
the surface.
The National tribune., 1882-07-15

CROPS OF 1Se1.-The cereal estimates of
the Department of Agriculture for the crops
OF 1881 give the average yields, as under:
Corn, average yield per acre - Clio bush
els. Wheat, 10 ITO bushels. Rye, II 6-10
bushels. Oats, "a 40 bushels. Barley,
20 $40 bushels. Buckwheat, IL 4-1O bush
els.
The aggregate product of all cereals is
2,063,O29,570 bushels, against 2,718,193,5O1
decrease of "a per cent, as compared with
1880.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.-Here
after the Department of Agriculture will
mean something. Congress has elevated it
into a Cabinet position, and its chief will
be an adviser OF the President and high
Executive officer. The scope of the Depart
ment is somewhat limited by the bill Great
ing it, but what is lacking now can be reme-
died by future legislation. Eventually the
Department will embrace bureau of manu-
features, and gather within its folds all mat
tiers pertaining to our industries, whether in
agriculture, manufactures, mines, or COM
merce-the Treasury Department being
ready to yield its supervision of. internal
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THE CLINTON GRAPE.-This is a hardy
native variety of great value when its merits
are once understood. 1t is generally looked
upon as being so acid as TO be UNBEATABLE,
but this results from eating it before it is
ripe. 1t changes to black color six weeks
or more before it is ripe. When fully ripe
it is one of the best table grapes we have for
northern localities. A slight frost on the
fruit, before it is taken from the vine, i'm
proves it. When the fruit is in its best con-
ditiOn it contains more sugar than most
other of our native sorts, and for wine max
ing it is invaluable 1t is strange that so
good and so productive grape has been so
much neglected as this has been.
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ELEPHANT MILK.--Prof. Doremu.s says that
elephant milk is 100 per cent. richer in butter
than the milk of Jersey cow but the drat
of it il that an elephant is 100 per cent.
worse than a COW to milk, having tail at
both ends TO slosh around mans eyes.-Er.
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where it will smother the weeds and after
wards die down and help to fertilize the
ground. The cleanest peach orchard we
ever saw was kept clean by an annual crop
of buckwheat The ground was rather
lightly plowed in spring, and Immediately
sown with buckwheat, which soon covered
the surface and effectually prevented the
growth of weeds of any kind. By the time
the fruit was ready to pick the buckwheat
would be in seed, and offered no impeachment
to gathering the crop, as it would easily
tramp down, where it was allowed to remain
as mulch or covering No manures were
applied, yet the soil improved under this
treatment and the trees tiourished satisfac-
tOrily.
Turnips can be sown any time during the
month, or later, depending upon the climate.
Too little attention has hitherto been paid
to root crops as succulent winter food for
stock. Ensilage will probably meet this
desideratum, and it's success will increase
the culture Of roots as a supplementary
change of diet. The improved health of
SWIM "iASiO 10 leu VII StINS bHO
purpose of directing attention to the neces-
sity of providing other kinds of winter food
besides straw, hay and grains, and where
ensilage is not provided, roots may be sub
stituted.
For turnips the soil should be well pre-
pared and brought to fine filth by fire.
quent plowings. The ordinary method of
scattering turnip seed on any piece of land
not otherwise occupied, and narrowing over
the surface, only results in very meagre
crop. Root crops of all kinds should be
drilled, so that they can be cultivated,
thinned out, and kept clear of weeds. Bone
manure, when first introduced, was applied
to the turnip crop exclusively, and super
phosphates seem peculiarly adapted to the
plant.
In dry weather it is sometimes trouble
some to get the plants to start quickly, and
they may be much injured by the fly. Dust
ing the young plants with wood ashes, SCOT,
air-slacked lime, or plaster will help to push
the plants into the rough leaf if they do not
succeed in completely destroying the fly.
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commerce at any time when it can be appro-
priately transferred.
Labor in all its branches is dignifed bv
the action of Congress in making the Bureau
of Agriculture an Executive Department.
Our agricultural interests were never repre-
sented before by ger tleman so well quail
fed for the position as the present head OF
the Department, and the country can conf
IDENTIFY look forward to steady and certain
improvement in all the plans and methods
of government for the advancement of indus
trial interests.-Southern Industries.
GRANGE DIsCUssIoNs.-For the last four
years L have been much among the oranges,
both in public and private meetings, and no
subject of practical Importance has been so
fully and so often discussed as the subject of
butter making, and it has been clearly seen
that a feeling of emulation was being de-
veloped, which could but produce good re-
suits. No woman likes to be outdOne by
her neighbor, and when one sister tells OF
getting thirty-ive or forty cents for butter,
the other sister, who is selling for twenty,
gets bee in her bonnet at once When one
farmer tells of getting four hundred pounds
from his cow, his neighbor, who is getting
but one hundred and fifty, sees big hole in
the skinner that he never knew of before,
and forthwith he begins to investigate the
cotton-seed and Indian-meal question, and
probably he will batten up the cracks in
the tie-up and get q load of sawdust for
bedding. I know of nothing that will more
strongly influence ambitious men or women
than this feeling of emulation, and nowhere
can practical questions be SO intelligently
and unreservedly discussed as in the grange.
Cor. Maine Farmer.
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Correspondence invited.
The Indianapolis leader., 1882-01-28

District. II there is anything ought to do now
to save those rights would be indebted TO Your
Honor to indicate IL to me-
Judge Cox, in reply, assured him that he should
have every opportunity; that the charge would
be furnished him I'm print to morrow and that he
would be accorded all the time allowed by law
would also be entitled To four DAYS within W hich
TO move In arrest OF judgment.
Guiteau (who, from the moment Judge Cox
began the delivery OF his charge, had dropped
completely his air of insolent arrogance and sat
with rigid features and compressed lips called
out in tones OF d, ,speIation: God will avenge
this outrage"
THANKS TO THE JURY.
Judge Cox then turned to the Jury al d said :
Gentlemen of the Jury, / can not express TOO
many thanks for the manner In which you have
discharged your duty. You have richly merited
the thanks of your eDuntrymen. and feel assured
proyal of your consciences With thanks gentle
men of the Jury, dismiss yOu."
With this announcement the Court was de-
clared adjourned, and now the famous trial
which has absorbed public interest and attention
for more than Ten weeks, was ended. The crowd
quickly left the Court room, and the prisoner,
gestculating with his manacied hands, was lea out
As he passed the reporters tables he leaned over
and called out 10 au acquaintance, The Court
In Banc will reverse this business" His appear
ance was that Of man deeply moved with in-
dgnation at some outrage or indignity
which had been put upon him. AS he
was being put In the van crowd Of
themselves hoarse. in mockery of the prisoners
cons tant boast: The American press and REQ
pie are all with me-" The van was quickly driven
away followed till out of sight By The jeers and
yells of the crowd.
WILL ASK FOR A NEW TRIAL.
Scoville will probably file motion i'm arrest of
judgment and for a new trial on exceptio s, The
law gives the defendant four days to file motion
and reasons for a new trial, and 1t Is customary
for the Court to set some day to hear the
argument thereon. & Should this motion be
0verruled the defendant will appeal 90 the
General Term. and under the law the defendant
is entite ed TO suspension of sentence until after
the next General Term, not exceeding
thirty days. The January General Term is
now In session, and the case can not go
there. but will be appealable to the April term.
IL Is the custom Of the April term to run ill Sep
tember, taking recess over July and August, but
should II be closed by the latter part OF May,
then II the judgment Is affirmed the execution
might take place in july.
The Indianapolis leader., 1882-01-28
THE sPUYTEN DUYvIL HORROR.
Verdict Of the Coroner's Jury Finding All
Employees on the Trains and Superin-
tendent of the Road Responsible for the
Accident.


Employees the Trains and Superin-
tendent of the Road Responsible for the
Accident.
New YORK, Jan. 26-The Coroner's Jury
in the Spuyten Duyvil railroad disaster case
rendered a verdict that George Melius. Q
brakeman of the Chicago express; George
+. Hanford, conductor of the same train;
Edward Stamford, engineer OF the leading
locomotive; Archibald Buchanan, engineer
OF the locomotive Immediately attached to
the Chicago express Frank Burr, engineer
of the Tarrytown train; John NJ. Tousey,
Superintendent of the New York Central
Railroad Company, and the officers and
managers of the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad Company are guilty
of causing the death of Webster Wagner,
Park Valentine. Louisa Valentine, Mary L.
Brown, ). Albert Richards. Oliver i. Kelley,
Francis Marechal and Darling l.. Ransom.
by criminal means aud culpable negligence
in the performance OF their several duties
connected with the said railroad, in so far as
by such inquisition the jury have been able
to ascertain; that each and every one of the
persons named is responsible in his own in
dividuality, no one sharing the RESPONSE
bility with the other. The Jury affirm that,
with the experience of fifty years railroad
management, and with appliances in general
use for the preservation of like disasters,
there appears to be no palliation whatever for
criminal carelessuess and the disregard for
human life exhibited by the employees of
the Company. Hanford, conductor, and
Melius, brakeman of the train, have each
been held i'm s., 900 bond TO await the action
of the Grand jury.
The Indianapolis leader., 1882-01-28
The Testimony Upon Which the Verdict
Was Based.
Washington Special. ]


The foreman of the Jury, Mr.. John p.
Hamlin, was found by reporter tonight
surrounded by number of his friends, and
glad enough that his tiresome duties were at
last over.
'"I feel 4" said he, "as though | had just
finished laborious job of plowing, and am
just as tired as though / had been all this
pletely worn out, physically and mentally"
did you observe the face OF Guiteau
when you rendered the verdict"
NO; il was 80 dark that couldn't see his
face we'll"
when out, was thee any discussion
among the members of the Sury2 IL o,upon
what points?"
Very little time was spent in discussion.
The indictments were all read over, and,
considering the length of time it teok to do
this, and the fact that we were out but forty
minutes, you will see that we had little time
left for discussion"
"Was there any hitch at all, or was il gen.
orally understood between you before going
out what your verdict would bey'
at was tacitly understood, or we should
not have asked that the Court charge us
then, instead of waiting till morning."
"How do you think il has been since all
the Jurors believed Guiteau insaneg'
well, that's hard TO tell, / think. how
ever, that there has been little or no doubt
of his sanity since the testimony of DIR. No
BILE Young. He is Washinetonian, and
every man OH the Jury had faith in bis tes-
timony as an expert"
You think, then. that his testimony was
effective with the Jury?''
"Yes. He gave his testimony IN such a
clear, sensible manner devoid Of the techs
nical terms so often employed by other ex-
perts, and appeared to know just what he
was talking about He seemed TO under
stand Guiteau so we'll. 1 am convinced that
DR.. Youngs testimony did more TO convict
Guiteau than all the other testimony put
together"
The Indianapolis leader., 1882-01-28

even the prisoner kept absolutely quiet. with the
exception of one or two feeble interruptions.
What Scoville Relies Uupon for n New Trial.
WASHINGTON Jan. 2.-Scoville said to-nigl
the next mSvement in the Guiteau case would o
a motion for new trial. which he expec's
to file Saturday. The main points on whis
IL be based are: The Jury erred in rendering
dering verdict contrary to evidence. Judge
Cox in his charge did not bsse
rv AL i,s the evidence and the
and had conversations with outside persons.
Should the motion be denied, an appeal will lie
taken to the Court in bane in April.
hearing Judge Cox's charge, he was not surpris,
the Jury rendered q verdict of guilty. he n
Trained. however from passing any criticism upois
Judge Cox's charge further than TO say 4 e
had not been accustomed 10 hear a Judge addr .
the Jury as Judge Cox did, but simply subm
written instructions. and this too. upon the Law
Judge Cox, Mr.. scoyille thought did not review
the entire evidence given in the case. but only
Guiteau is said by some to have appeared in
the verdict was announced, bur seoville
believes when The excitement attending the
trial is over, the excitement which Scoyills
thinks has sustained Guiteau all the way through
Scoville does not talk tonight like man
who thinks his labor in this matter is st
an end There are good grounds. he says. for
new trial, and he proposes 10 show this from the
record of the trial, when the popular feeling
against Guiteau has died away. In
that record; he says. will be found
Attorney Corkhill with the signature and large
part of its contents was admitted in evidence.
Besides this there Is expert testimony which
he says is condemned by thousands OF competent
now matters of record all of which can be used
as reasons for asking for q new trial
The Indianapolis leader., 1882-01-28

which was completed at 4:40p m, there was q
perfect stiffness in the crowded Court ROOM and
even the prisoner kept absolutely quiet with the
exception of one or two feeble Interruptions.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
The Draft of q Pl0w Sulky.

Why is the draft of a pillow sulky less
than that of a walking plowP asks and
answers writer in the OHIO Farn,er.
Simply because the plow is carried
through the soil instead of being pulled
though. In the common walking plow
the weight of the soil upon the mold
board causes the plow to rest upon the
bottom of the furrow, with so much ad-
ditional friction. With the plow sulky
this weight is transferred from the bot
tom of the furrow, with its friction, to
the wheels, including the weight of the
soil that is being overturned. With a
common plow it will be noticed that the
under edge of the Landslide makes a
very smooth track in the furrow, which
can only be produced by considerable
pressure; but this disappears when the
plow is suspended upon an axle between
two wheels. Then again, there is no
plunging of the plow, going deeper than
is needed, or running to land and MAX
ing wider furrow, with increased draft,
or running out and taking off only a
strip. At the ends of the furrow the
plow is hoisted and wheeled into its
place, instead of being dragged about !;
and in starting furrow or closing up a
landing no walking plow can do as easy
and as satisfactory work as can be ac-
complished by a sulky.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
Why He tainted.

He was thing of beauty, with his
waxed mustache, green kids, little cane
and curly hair. Two old women on the
car we're wondering if he would melt in
rain-storm, when the car stopped and
stylish-looking lady got in. The
young man bowed. smirked and rose
up to take her fare. She handed him a
silver dollar, with a gracious smile to
back it, and he rushed to the front and
showed it out to the driver with the re-
mark:
.sGive me change"
..That's too old" replied the driver.
as he returned the coin.
What-howp"
"Got hole in it; no good
IS 1t had, for fact, and the beautiful
young man grew white in second
Could he take the dollar back to the la
dyp No; he would substitute one of his
own. He felt in his pockets, fished up
a penny and two keys, and, as the fact
that he was dead broke rushed over
him he didn't drop the dollar on the
floor, or rush from the car. or return it
TO the lady and state that the lire was
carrying dead-heads that day. No,
ma'am He just tainted dead away,
and he never came to until only one pas
senger was left on the car. Your real
purity fellows never resort to mean
lodges to get around q point. -Detrot
Free Press
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1882-09-27
Old Strawberry Beds.


Strawberry vines that have been per-
mitted to cover the ground and have
borne one good crop of fruit, will not
pay the labor of wedding out, and as a
rule should be plowed under as soon as
the crop has been gathered; but if one
has neglected to set new bed the past
spring, and desires to grow enough for
family use, two or three rods of the old
bed may be saved, and made to furnish
another year what fruit is wanted for
home use.
One of the easiest and perhaps the
best way to clean out an old bed, is to
spade in the vines, leaving rows about
foot in width and four feet apart. A
good dressing of manure should be
sraded in with the vines; and the rows
OF vines LETT standing should be well
grass. Some believe it best to NOW Oft
the tops of the old vines, but as we have
never tried this method we cannot
speak of its advantage from experience;
but if the vines do just as well by so do.
ing, it would be an improvement, be-
cause it would lessen the labor OF weed
ing out. which is the one great draw
back on continuing an old bed; not
only is it very tedious task to weed it
out in the first place, but the wedding
must continue until cold weather, or
the grass will become SO thick that it
will greatly lessen the crop the next
season. If the land be in good condi-
ton. the space spaded up will be well
covered with vines before cold weather
sets in; if SO, then next spring the old
vines may be spaded in to make paths
to stand in while picking the fruit.
IL one has strawberry bed away
from the garden, and it has been kept
clean of grass and weeds. it may be left
over another season without cleaning
out; and it will perhaps furnish half a
crop another season without expense,
except the use of the land; but if in the
garden, this should never be done, as it
Ills the ground with weed seeds, which
will take many years to get out.
A strawberry bed in the garden
should under no circumstances be per-
mi.ted to stand over the second year
without being kept as clean of weeds as
it is the first year. We know that the
temptation is great to let it stand,
hoping to have time to clean it out,
which in many cases never comes. The
decision should be made within two
weeks after the crop is gathered; and il
it is decided to let il stand another year
the work of cleaning out should be
commenced at once. = Massachusetts
Pl0u0linian.