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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-11-09
SPRING-TOOTH and other popular
HARROWS. Steel Beam Syracuse

SPKlNG-TOOTH and other popular
HARROWS, Steel Beam Syracuse
Plows, Wood and Iron Beam SYRIA
cuse Flows, Minor & Horton I'm
proved Plows at District prices.
Double and Single Shovel Plows, Plow
Castings for Syracuse and Minor & Hor-
ton always on hand also, other repairs
for same. Large stock of Corn Shelters,
(best makes, very cheap
Hagerstown HORSE RAKES,
South Bend Wood Pumps, Iron Force
Pumps, Farm Bells, Wheelbarrows, Hay
Knives, Churns, Cutting Boxes, Well
Buckets and Wheels, Trace Chains Back
Bands, Hames, Horse, Shoe and White
wash Brushes, Forks, Hoes. Shovels,
Mattocks, Picks, Rakes, Spades. Garden
Forks, Grind Stones and Fixtures.
Yokes. Barbed Wire for fencing, &c.
IS e E d s.
In Seed we will keep full stock of
Landrcth's Garden Seeds. Clover, limo
thy, Orchard and Blue Grass Seed also
Seed Potatoes, both Northern and Ma
ryland grown
He- ANYTHING not in stock will be fur
ushed ut short notice
WELSH & WAKEFIELD,
mar 23'u Rockville, Nd
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-11-09

'HNilE subscriber, living at Seneca. Mont
l. gomery county, Nd, has two HORSES
that he will dispose Of on reasonable terms,
one ten aud the other eleven years old
They IRE both good work horfcs
oct 26-3l JOHN PADGETT
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1883-11-09
" MI. 5MTTH,
Horses for Sale.

Virginia Avenue and 9th Street, N. W.,
oct 27-tf WASHINGTON, ID, G.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
A Delicate Surgical Operation.

The Paris academy of medicine has
been considering the remarkable oper-
alton performed by M. Felizet in the
extraction of a spoon from a young
mans stomach. By the use of the
Fauchea tube, introduced through the
mouth, the stomach was first cleansed,
thus preventing the risk of peritonitis,
and an incision was then made in the
epigastric region. In order to render
the coat of the stomach easily access
ible, NJ. Felizet fitted a spherical vessel
containing ether to the end projecting
from the mans mouth. This he heated
by immersion in water of. 6Qo. The
ether vapor rushing through the tube
filed the stomach, which, becoming
distended, was brought forward to the
wound effected by the OPP srator's knife.
The spoon, measuring nine inches, was
thus readily found and extracted.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
The Public Debt.

WASHINGTON, November 1.-The re-
duction of the public debt during October
was $40, 304, 79S: decrease of the debt since
June 80, 1888, $39, 5S4, 40; cash in the treas
ury, 1864, 347 SOL; gold certificates, $SS,
1928, $40; silver certificates, 500, $40, 14 /;
certificates of deposits, So, 500, 600; re-
funding certificates, 1926, $50; legal tenders,
1916, 6s1 ,016; fractional currency, &c.
800, 303. Total without interest, $549,
25S, 259; total debt, $l,S66, 052, 1886; to-
tai interest, $9,SO1, 24S; cash in treas
ury, 1904, S47, 571; debt less cash in treas
ury, 81, oil ,5O6, 1871; decrease during Octo-
Der, $40, 3O4,7 1913; decrease since June 80,
1888, $40. 5S4, 40; current liabilities, inter-
est due and unpaid, $2,69s, 1916; debt on
which interest has ceased, 81 S4S, 745; inter-
est thereon, $2ss, S57; gold and silver GER
tifcates, $ls2, 9Os, Os1; United States notes
held for redemption of certificates, $12,-
$40, 600; cash balance available, $161, 4S3, 443;
total, 1854, BAT SOL; available assets, cash in
treasury, 1914, S4s, SOL.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
a Judicial Conundrum.

This is the question that troubles
French justice of the peace. A drover
and butcher in The market adjusting
their accounts went to a tavern to dine
together. During the meal the butcher
took from his pocket bank note of 100
francs value wherewith to pay the dro-
yer, but in handing it over let it fall in
a dish of gravy He snatched it out,
and, holding it between the thumb and
forefnger, waved it to and fro to dry it.
The bucher's dog, accepting this move
ment as friendly invitation, and, lik-
ing the smell of the saturated note,
made a spring at it and swallowed it.
The butcher was furious. "Give me
my money!" he demanded. ''Kill the
dog and open him. ''Not by BANKED
sight," replied the drover; ''my dog is
worth more than 100 francs" "Then
l owe you nothing. Your dog has col
lected for you before witnesses" "My
dog is not nay cashier. And, beside,
where is your receipt?'' ''The justice
will have to settle this "Let him."
And now for weeks the justice has vain
ly been seeking law or precedent for
such case, and the townsmen have
been on the verge of riot over 1t again
and again.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
The Standards of Light.

At late meeting of the French So
ciete d'Encouragement, NJ. f. LIE Blanc
gave some account of the standards of
light. He asserted that the candles
generally used in Great Britain and
Germany vary greatly In intensity, and
are of comparatively feeble Illuminating
power. The carcel was steady but not
very powerful. Some time ago the star
candles, manufactured in France, were
equal to one-seventh of the flame of q
carcel; now they had fallen to one
eight, while the English standard was
only one-ninth OF a carcel, with a
variation of IA to Is per cent. between
different samples. The German candle,
he thought, gave flame equal to one
sixth of a carcel. He thought that, in
view of the difficulties and varieties of
the standards, it would be desirable to
adopt the carcel lamp, but the president
did not agree with III. Blanc. Elec-
tricians sought a more powerful stand
ard than that, and if they did they
would require to adopt platinum wire,
which gives light more than eight
times greater than the carcel lamp.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
What is Anattof
American Agr,culsurist.

American Agricuturse
Cheese has for. long time been col
ored with anatto, and of late years it
has come in use, not only in creameries,
but in home diaries, to give color to
butter. The increasing use of the SUBJ
stance, especially in winter, naturally
leads many to ask: "What is anatto,
and is it harmless?" The name, which
came with the substance from South
America, has great variety of spell
ings, besides that given above, which is
the simplest and the one we first
learned; it is given in different books as
annatto, annata, annotta, arnotto, ar
nota, and so on. The substance is the
product of small South American tree,
Bixa orellana, belonging to a small
family to which it gives its name Dix
inee), of which we have no representa-
tives. Systematically, the family is
placed near that of the violets. The tree
rarely exceeds II feet in hight, has a
handsome head, and each branch is
terminated by cluster of flowers of the
color of peach-blossoms. The pods are
at first of fine rose-color, becoming
brown as they ripen; they are covered
seeds, the important product. Each
seed is surrounded by dark red pulp,
to remove which, they are placed in
water and allowed to ferment, with
frequent stirring. When the seeds are
free from pulp, they are strained out,
and the pulp allowed to settle. 1t is
afterwards placed in kettles, evaporat-
ed to a thick paste, which is the anatto
OF commerce. It is made into rolls,
weighing two to four pounds which
are covered with Gamma leaves and
packed in wicker baskets, or more gen.
orally of late, in boxes. Anatto, when
fresh, has much the consistency
of putty, dark, brownish-red color,
and with q somewhat disagree
able odor. 1t has long been used in
dyeing, though on silks the color is not
very fast. To color common cotton
stuffs of dull orange, it is often used
in domestic dyeing, with potash as
mordant. So far as we are aware, the
various butter colorings in the market
are chiefly, if not entirely, solutions of
anatto, made by the aid of some form
of potash or soda. 1t seeDns better
suited than anything else to give pale
winter butter the color of that made
when the cows have good pasturage.
1t is entirely harmless, we think. It
has long been added to chocolate in
South America, for both color and
flavor, and is used by Indian tribes in
that country to paint their bodies. One
writer says that it is about the only
clothing the natives have to protect
them from mosquitoes and other insects.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
Anecdote of Henry Irving.

Mckee Rankin recently related the
following anecdote about Henry Irving,
the English actor: 1t was some years
ago, when Mr.. Irving was called in
Dublin to play a heavy part to which he
was not accustomed. A poor devil of
an actor had got.drunk, and there was a
vacancy. Irving had to come on early
in the first act. Now the Dublin gal
lery boy is an institution by himself.
There is nothing like him anywhere, so
far as know. Conversations between
young fellows across from one side of
the gallery to the other are spoken in
loud tones and in the distinct hearing
of the actors. Irving is very thin, and
when he appeared with stride, which
is one of the most characteristic things
about him, one of these gallery boys
shouted across to another: essay, ants
that him? I don't know sNo, twas
the reply, ssthem is the young man S
clothes; they'll shove him out later
on Irving told me the story himself,
and he laughed heartily as he remem-
bered the details.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
Great Mems Homes.
nondence of the Courier-Journal.

Correspondence of the Courier-Journal.
There appears to be so much fatality
about building houses in Washington,
especially adapted to entertaining, that
it ought to cause superstitious feeling
among those who contemplate doing So.
Building fine house here, which
evinced arapid accumulation of wealth,
largely contributed to the defeat of Mr.
Robson in New Jersey, Mr.. Window
experienced the same fate in Minnesota
from the same cause, and both Sena-
tors Pendleton, Cameron and Blaine
appear to have been injured in their
respective states by building homes in
Washington. The inference to be
drawn is that men are envious and do
not like to see one another progressing
too rapidly or comfortably in life.
Mr.. Seward once gave the following
piece of advice to gentleman who was
just stepping out of Office here, and
who proposed to settle in Washington
and practice law. Said Mr.. Seward:
ssDon't do it, unless you are willing to
become nobody. Never give up your
citizenship in your state, especially as
you cannot acquire it in Washington.
1t is right that there should be no citi-
zenship here, for the government pays
half the expense of the city and district,
and local government would make the
system complex and unsatisfactory, and
as there is no citizenship IN the district
every man can retain the privilege of
voting in his state.'
"But," urged the gentleman, ''the
winters of New England are long and
severe, and neither 1 nor my family
enjoy good health there, but are well in
Washington"
To this Mr.. Seward answered: "Then
spend three or four winter months here,
but keep your residence at your old
home. If you build here you and your
family will live here from October to
June, and travel during the summer
season, and your neighbors and old
friends will resent the affront you have
put upon them by your neglect to return
to your former home, so that if you
should seek fresh honors from them
they will refuse to support you, and you
will be regarded as an alien.''
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
Two Notable Graves.

Washington Post.
In secluded parts of Mount Olive
cemetery, far apart from each other,
however, are graves containing the re-
mans of two people once prominent in
national events, but now apparently
forgotten altogether. One is the grave
OF Mrs. Marie f. Surratt, who was exc.
cuted as one of the Abraham Lincoln
conspirators, and the other is that of
the famous Writ, the keeper of the
much dreaded Andersonville prison pen
during the late war. Visitors to the
cemetery, especially strangers, will
find practically nothing to denote these
once well-known people. Writ is
buried under a tall hickory tree, in
which squirrels chatter and gambol.
Tall, rank weeds and unkempt grass
surround the spot. and the simple in
scription, "Wirtz,'' on tiny block of
marble at the head of the grave, is the
only thing to denote the resting place
of man once SO famous in his peculiar
way and so universally detested.
Mrs. Surratt's grave is equally OBJ
scure. A ragged boxbush and glass
jar containing few withered vines
were the only signs shown yesterday
that even a memory of the unfortunate
woman still survives. A small, plain
headstone, bluntly inscribed: "Mrs.
Mary E. Surratt," is all to indicate who
the occupant was. There is no date
nor cause of death on the headstone,
and the lot containing graves of other
members of the family is rank with
weeds and banked with the faded leaves
of autumn.
Mount Olive cemetery was visited by
large number of strangers yesterday:
The weather was exceedingly fine, and
two ladies, who had learned the loca-
ton of Mrs. Surratt's grave, visited it
and expressed regret at its neglected
appearance: They evidently cherished
friendly recollections of the poor
woman, for before leaving they pur-
chased flowers and placed them upon
her grave. ''That sort O. thing" SAID
the superintendent of the cemetery to a
reporter of the Post, when the latter,
who had witnessed the scene, called at
tentien to it, 'soccurs once in while,
but not often"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
Hot Weather Needed for Corn.

Experience this year shows that the
warm weather below 600 really counts
for nothing in maturing the corn crop,
says the American Cultivator. The
same is true of millet and Hungarian
grass and of grapes (among fruits).
Some of these are so tender that a
single cold night will apparently retard
their growth for. several days, probably
by suddenly cooling the loose soil,
which several days of warm weather
will be required to heal again.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
An Arizona Cloud-Burst.
(AriZopa) Citizen.

Tucson tArizona) Citizen.
On Sunday afternoon one of these
curious phenomena of nature occurred
about thirty miles southwest of. Tucson,
and from the description given by eye
witnesses it was the largest cloud-burst
ever known in the country. From
Judge r. D. Ferguson the following
account was gathered: On Sunday he
was returning from trip to the south
ern part of the country. At 10 O'Clock
he put up at Browns station to await
dinner and avoid the heat of the day.
The sky all day was cloudless, except a
thunderstorm that was observed travel
ing the SUBMITS of the Santa Catalinas
and disappearing over the Rincons in
northeast. Otherwise not a cloud or a
vapor of any kind was to be seen. The
sun was shining in all its vigor, and as
he passed to the west his strength and
glory seemed undiminished. At
O'Clock Judge Ferguson resumed his
Journey toward Tucson. He had come
about five miles when his attention was
attracted by a roaring and cracking
toward the west, and looking up he saw
a river of water as big as the Santa
Cruz when it runs through Warmers
mill tail-race, coming toward him.
Telling his driver to halt, they stopped
on top of little knoll, and watched the
waters as they violently plowed the
desert, tearing up the stones and brush.
They had evidently spent their force.
After the flood had passed by the face
of the country was disfgured, and a
large gutter had been cut across the
valley. The current came down off a
small range of low, rolling hills to the
west. Although the judge and his
companion STRAINED their eyes in the di-
rection from which the water came not
a cloud was TO he seen. After the wa
ter had subsidized sufficiently to let them
pass they went on. They had hardly
gone half mile when, to their aston
ishment, there was another stream
equally as large as the first one. Again
they peered toward the west in hopes
to find some indication of its course.
Passing on their establishment was
doubled to find another stream, and in
this manner five successive raging cur
rents were crossed. But all their re-
serve was called forth when four miles
from where they struck the first stream
they discovered sixth one as large as
all The others combined. Its angry wa
tiers were. roaring and Kissing as if
maddened at the resistance they met on
their way from the hills to the desert.
This river was unfordable, and to cross
1t was impossible, SO they halted on a
knoll and watched it for two or three
hours as it boiled and sizzled and cut
bed for itself, in some places as deep as
15 feet and over 200 yards wide. 1t
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
The Industrious Baggageman.
INDIANAPOLIS Journal.

Indianapolis Journal.
The dropping of the remark that it
was now rather rough times for bag
gagemen at the Union depot to make
perquisites, so strict was the Union
company as regards the collection of
excess baggage money, called forth
from one of the baggagemen the re-
mark:
'sThat's so; all there is left now Is
the roping of trunks at twenty-five
cents apiece, and we are working that
for all there is in it. We come at the
travelling man with the remark: Bet
ter have that trunk roped,' if it is not
strapped, be the trunk good or inefi-
Gent one. If the fellow hesitates, and
| is somewhat green about travelling, we
tell him that the trunk will be carried
at the owners risk if not properly
roped, and, if that does not bring him,
we hunt weak place in the trunk, or
come one of our shaky twists on it, and
tell him we will have to mark it bad
ORDER and this generally brings the
quarter. We get only ten cents of it.,
though, the Union railway company
furnishes the rope. This costs
four or i've cents, and the other ten
cents goes into the treasury of the poor
Union railway company. The fact is,
added the baggageman, eve ought to
have the whole revenue derived from
this source, when the meagre salary
they pay is considered"
elbow many trunks do you rope a
day?" asked the reporter.
40, we have gone as high as forty
or fifty, but since George Venn was ap-
pointed general baggage agent the boys
don't dare to run as strong as they used
to. We don't touch Kansas City or ST.
Louis, though. There the boys let the
trunks drop on purpose to burst them
and get chance to tie them with rope,
and when they catch one who wears
good clothes on gray back they salt
them for fifty cents, but at these points
1 do not think the boys divided up with
the Union railway company"
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
A Dynamite Explosion.

A terrible disaster occurred near
Brooks, on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad,
Sunday morning, about 8 O'Clock, resulting
in the death Of five men. The railroad
company had been strengthening and Wild
ening the tunnel, and at some distance out
side magazine had been erected, In which
was stored 1 200 pounds of dynamite, to be
used for blasting, About the hour named o
freight train had just passed through the
senger train, over due, to pass. Four Of
the crew walked back to the vicinity Of the
magazine and were engaged in conversation
with the watchmau, when people living In
the vicinity were startled by q terrible con-
cussi0n. Houses for fifteen miles around
were shaken to the foundation and windows
for distance OF seven miles were shattered.
Horror-stricken, the people ran from their
houses, and upon investigation it was found
that the dynamite had exploded with fearful
effect; everything in the vicinity gives evil
dence of the terrific force of the explosion.
Tree were uprooted, huge rocks torn asun-
der and telegraph poles for half mile
PioslIaNcu. NOtniuS IcAHaiucu VI ZIG AudS
azine, while the five men who were present
were missing. Portions of their bodies,
legs, arms, hands and heads have been
picked up half mile distant, but they were
so badly disfgured. as to be totally unrecog-
nizable. The cause Of the explosion is
enshrouded in mystery, and as the five men
who might have thrown some light ON the
affair are dead, it is quite probable it will
never be known. Not far from the accident
a gun was found, and it is supposed one of
the victims discharged 1t, the conclusion
causing the dynamite to explode. Inquest
of the coroner was held and a verdict of ac-
cideptal death rendered. Great excitement
prevails and hundreds have gone to the
scene of the disaster.
The names of the unfortunate men are as
follows: Geo. Reynolds, engineer; Robt.
Hammond, Waterman, Cumberland, Md;
W. A. Dean, tunnel blacksmith; II. Il.
Burchfeld, helper, both of Cornwalis, Pa.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
A Merciful Man.
Husbandnnn.

Husbandman.
A successful farmer made the state
ment that for several years he had
practiced tying up his cattle by day in
the barn during the fly season, and
turning them out to Craze during the
night, and he was satisfied that the
yield of milk was one-third more by so
doing. 1t was of better quality, and
he could feed one-third more stock on
the same acreage, for the cattle de-
stroyed, by stamping, a great deal of
good pasturage. And that his cows
might be protected, he even went so
far as to darken the windows of his
stables with muslin curtains. He was
about to build new barns, and he
should put on blinds, for he considered
them more necessary on his barn Win
dows than on his house. A merciful
man was merciful to his beasts, and this
was case where it paid.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
FARM AND HOME
Potatoes.
Farmers Home Journal.

farmerS Home Journal
Results Of the seasons experiments
with potatoes at the New York Expert
ment Station, when summed up, indi-
cate the following conclusions: Pota-
toes invariably produce their tubers
above their feeding roots. Ordinary
cultivation does not.break or iniure the
roots of the potatoes while the plant is
growing. The roots require a cool,
moist feeding ground, but the tubers do
well in light, dry surface-soil. A
single eye, under favorable conditions,
is capable OF producing all the potatoes
that can be expected to grow in hill.
Whole potatoes planted rarely develop
all their eyes into growth, often no
more vines being made than from u
single eye planted. Using whole seed
for the purpose of increasing the stalks
or tubers is, therefore, wasteful. If the
whole potato with one good sprout
developed has that sprout injured or
destroyed, several of the other eyes may
push out sprouts simultaneously, and
with large yield of small tubers as the
result. Potatoes repeatedly hilled up
so that an undue proportion of vine is
covered with earth are liable to be
checked in their tuber formation. The
vine that made four feet of upward
growth, through soil added during the
period of its growth, neither branched
nor threw out root stalks, and had but
three potatoes, and these were just
above the seed, the largest weighing
two and three-eighths ounces, the Others
no larger than peas.
McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1883-11-08
RoOsts for Fowls.

In making roosts for fowls let them
be level and ON a line. If they are so
arranged as to have some of them high
and others low the fowls will crowd to-
gother on the higher perches, leaving
the lower ones unoccupied, which is not
only waste of space but a cause of
sore feet and other ailments, as the
heavier fowls cannot easilyg on or off
the perches when they are very high.
The lower they are the better, provided
the coops are ventilated at the top and
warm and dry near the floor.