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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
JANUARY 10.
French Goodness.
Bee-Keepers Magazine.

e-Keepers Magazine.
A French paper relates that at a
village near Florenceville (Luxem>
bourg) gentleman walking along
the side of wood saw some bees
swarming on struggling branch of
an oak tree. He went TO fetch hive,
and returned with a wood cutter
named Gniot, who climbed the tree
and setting astride OF the b anch, cut
off the extremity of it, upon which
the swarm hung. An unexpected
result followed; instead of falling to
the ground, the swarm dispersed,
and rising like whirlwinu, settled
on the head of the unlucky Guiot.
who was still sitting on the branch,
forty five feet from the ground. The
by>standers shuddered. Surely, they
thought, he will be seized with gld>
diness, and t"rtared by thousand
stings, he must fall to the ground.
But Guiot called up all his strength
of mind and remained until the
swarm had formed two long wreaths
hanging from his temples, and wav>
ing as he moved; then, half blinded
oy the insects, which also covered
his face and body, be contrivei to
descend from his elevated position,
taking the greatest care not to irri-
tate this living mantle. When be
arrived on terra frma a hive was
placed on his shoulder, but three
hours elapsed before the bees would
take possession OF their new home.
W hen this happy change was effect
ed. the poor wood. cutters wild de.
light testified to the intensity OF the
anxiety and discomfort he had en-
dured.
The above wonderful ~ performs
ance was copied by the London E;c-
dnaiaeT, and from that into the Mas
sachusetts PIoetqlsmoaa, on which the
editor remarks as follows:
Not unlike this, though requiring
equal GOODNESS and pluck, was what
happened with Gen. Ii. X. Oliver,
when, many years since, he kept a
dozen hives OF bees IN his garden in
Salem. A swarm Unexpectedly ISL
sued from one OF the hives and alight-
ed on the tip-end OF branch OF
. lofty elm tree. But accustomed to
the ways and dolngs of the sweet
honey-suckers, he assembled by means
of ladder, to within reaching dis
tauce of the buzzing bunch, cut off
the branch, put the safe end into his
mouth, and with the bees hanging
like black beard from his chin, des-
cended unframed, and secured the
prize within a hive, the rent of which
was paid the next fall with goodly
crop of luscious honey.
Any well>instructed modern bee.
keeper who should hesitate to do
either OF the above ieats from fear of
Stings, would be considered a goose
by all his fellow bee-men, and yet so
little is known about the nature OF
bees, amonD the masses, that the
above items excite their wonders
bump" as much as Blondin's crossing
Niagara Falls on single rope.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
[Peek's SUM-
Tapping the Wall for Whiske

LdppluS Vic w Oil lOI w ulSk6y.
To give the temperance people of the West
pointer on how prohibition works in Maine,
we quote the following from a RocSland
Maine, paper:
Friday, Officer Keen walked into James
McLaughlin's place at the Brook, and noticing
a suspicious screw-head IN the wall, took a
screw-driver and unearthed the proprietor's
hiding place for liquor, capturing about $500
worth Mclaughlin was faed 800 and costs
and sentenced to six months in jail"
The above will give the temperance folks
of the West an idea of the reason temper
ance and prohibition have such stronghold
in Maine. The way it looks the walls Of a
mans dwelling are converted into regular
distillery or brewery as the case may be, and
| you can walk into mans house In that
| State and tap the wall almost anywhere and
the stream of life is set to bubblng out, aud
you don't care whether liquor is sold in the
State or not. 1t has probably got so now
that YOU can't find cork-screw in the State
Of Maine with search warrant, but every
man who is onto the racket carries neat
little screw-driver in his pocket, and as soon
as he gets into friends house he com
mences to gaze intently round the walls,
looking for a screw head sticking out some
where and which, If unscrewed, Will let out
torrent Of whiskey through the screw hole,
and the man Clues his mouth over the hole,
shuts bis eyes and lets nature take her
course. We did not credit the campaign lies
that followed the great Maine temperance
agitator, Neal Dow. Oh his trip West, which
were in substance that man could drink
whiskey out of half the gas fixtures in that
State. that a bed post in the State was liable
to be loaded with "Od Tom" gin, and all
the people had TO do was to give knob on
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

whiskey, but If the stories current about the
quantity of whiskey drank there daily, are
to be credited, and all the many schemes
the wicked people of the State work to
smuggle liquor into their systems are really
genuine, 1t would seem to be uphill work
for the Maine prohibitionists, and it is a
wonder they don't get discouraged and swear
of, and let the friends of whskey run the
machine. Heavens, If the staid, quiet peo-
pie OF Maine have thus early in the prohibit
ton movement, got so they can drink their
daily rations of whiskey out of nail holes in
the walls or keep 1t concealed in a trap door
In their boot-legs, how would 1t be out West
here among people whose minds are active,
and where the inventive genius of man
would stick out pretty plainly when 1t came
to inventing any device that would protect
the whiskey crop from the prying gaze of the
prohibitionsts and other temperance people?
One can imagine how men in Maine have
lain awake nights and burned the midnight
oil ia their efforts to invent scheme for Sc
creting whiskey. Probably more energy has
been spent in that direction than was neces-
sary to produce the telegraph, the telephone
or any of the great inventions of modern
times.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
The Horseless Department.

The City Council has voted to relieve the
City Marshal from the duty of keeping
horse and carriage as other City Marshals
have been obliged to do before him. They
voted him, ho@ever, the same salary as if
this expense was borne by him. Why is
this special favor shown Marshal AndrewsP
Does he not know how to drive horse? 1t is
plain that he cannot properly perform his
duties "of passing through every street, al
ley, court, square, and public place of the
city, to observe nuisances, distractions, or
impediments therein" &C., as required by
the city ordinance, without horse and car
risge,-to say nothing of emergencies. No
police department isproperly equipped with
out horse and carriage at command. If
this Is reform in city government will some
of the City Council rise and explain?
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
When to Look for Burglars.
[st. Louis Post.

"Now do you know the best time TO do
Job imp The reporter acknowledged that he
didn't. "Well, I'll tell you,' said the pro-
lessor. Between and o'clock in the
morning, particularly if the night is black
People sleep soundest in the hour just before
daylight You can go through big house
easy in an hour and scoop everything, from
the jewelry in the secret safe above the man
tel to the six-shooter aud gold super (watchl
under the boss's pillow. And this brings us
to our first lesson, which will show you how
to get into house. There are three ordin-
airy ways of doing this by the doors, by the
lower windows and by the windows on the
upper floors. If the upper windows are to
be worked, all you have TO do is to climb the
porch, push up your window and crawl in.
Never try to do anything without partner.
Leave your shoes with him on the lookout
below. You will want light, candle-end
or bnlls-eye lantern. The bit of candle is
the best 10 use. Its light will not
wake the sleeper Then prosecute your
work as Judgment dictates, being sure to
search the open places first and the drawers
next
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

For the purpose of keeping pension certif-
icates ont of the hands of pawnbrokers, a
law was enacted last winter which declares
that any pledge, sale, assignment, or trans
fer Of any right, claim or interest in a pen
sion shall be void, and that any person who
shall make or receive such a pledge or as
signment, or shall hold the same as colater
al security for debt, shall be punished, if
convicted, by fine not exceeding 500 and
costs. Those who are enforcing the law find
hundreds of pension certificates in pawn
shops. More than 700 certificates have been
recovered from pawnbrokers and saloon
keepers in Philadelphia. Pension certif-
Gates recently granted bear the new law,
printed in red ink, as warning to pension
ers, but many of those who hold certificates
granted before the enactment of the law are
probably ignorant of its provisions.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

AT Trenton. New Jersey, last Friday,
Henry Moore, an old colored man, pleaded
guilty to the charge of illegal voting. Being
permitted to make statement, he said: 81
am an old man, ignorant of the law, and l
was influenced 10 do this thing by Capt. Van
Kirk. / have worked for him, and knew he
was big man in the country, and didn't
think be would tell me to do anything
wrong. He came to my place and advised
me, saying / could vote in both places, and
he would give me s. to pay my way back
and forth. hope the court will have mer-
cy on an old man like me-" The judge let
Henry off with three months. Capt. Van
Kinks an active Democratic politician.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

THE question of whether or not the COL
ored race in the United States are deterior-
ating since their liberation is one that peri
odically crops up for discussion. A good
deal of feeling was excited by paper read
at the Protestant Episcopal Congress last
year by DR.. j. L. Tucker, of Mississippi, in
sisiing that the morals of the colored people
of the South were worse than before the
war. An elaborate reply TO this Indictment
has been prepared by Rev. Alexander Crum-
nell, colored minister of New York, which
has been published by the colored clergy of
the Episcopal denomination. The au-
thor adduces the large proportion of
among the colored people-the Baptist and
Methodist denominations alone having
coiored membership of two millions. An
other fact which bears against the idea of
moral degeneracy is the very notable advance
in education made by the colored people, In
1860 only 10000 blacks could read and write,
and most of these were free colored people
living in the North. At present half a mil
lion are able to read and write, and the pro-
portion of illiteracy is rapidly dec lining, as
In 1880 AS per cent. of all the colored youth
of school age were enrolled on the official
lists. There are nearly 10000 coored school
teachers now employed in the United States,
and the A Normal Schools open to them are
attended by 1900 colored pupils. They have
alse 10 colleges and 36 academies of high
grade, where 1000 students are obtaining a
liberal education. As to industry, the fact
that 81 ,667, 900 bales of cotton were raised in
the South during the five years ending with
1882, while the aggregate yield for a period
of equal length ending in 1861 vas only 49,
100000, indicates no falling off in willing
ness to work. The quantity of land which
they have managed to purchase with their
savings, which in the cotton States amounts
to 2,6S0,000 acres, shows the speedy acquire
ment of thrifty habits. The conclusion of
every fair-minded observer in the face of
these and similar facts must be. that in
spite of the vicious and slothful habits fos-
tered by slavery the colored race show a
steady and gratifying improvement in their
condition, both morally and materially.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
TRUSTEE:
The Union Trust Company of New Yosk.

For the purpose of acquiring a CONTROLLING
APOLIS AND OMAHA RAILROAD COMPANY,
die CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAIL
WAY COMPANY has purchased total of about
S15 900 600 of the common and preferred stock
of the former corporation. on which latter divi
dends of PER CENT. per annum are being paid.
TIE provide means of payment for these shares,
the CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY Com
PANY has made an issue of : 80 900 900 ) PER
CENT. Bonds 70 mature in 1888, the Bonds to have
the benefits Of a Sinking Fund, by which $780,
900 of the Bonds are to be purchased and can
celled each year, from and after 1883, whenever
CENT. and accrued interest in any one year; the
Bonds are furthermore secured by the obligation
the part of the CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY. that no increased mortgage
debt excepting for the enlargement, improvement
or extension of the Compaly's property, shall be
the holders of the Bonds of this issue equal secu
rity with any additional Bonds secured on the same
property, tChch pr0rSioH virtually for the
Debea Bonds mortgage security upon the entire
eriStiag property Of the Chicago and Northeastern
Raillrdp Company. The Trust agreement further
six months the Trustee SHALL at the request of the
majority of the holders declare the principal OF all
Bonds at once due, and is authorized to enforce
its payments against the Company.
The total mileage operated ~ the Company at the
end of the last fiscal year, May 81, 1882, was s.
every nature. including interest the entire bond
ed debt of S64 ,24S 900, rentals etc., its net earn
ings were S5,37S 075 Ia dividends at the rate of
per cent. on the Common Stock of Sl5,117 $50,
and per cent on the Preferred Stock of S22, 200,
600, are being paid by the Company, and dor the
first eleven months of the currents cal year the
gross earnings show an increase of S3S coo.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

THE Nashville American thinks there
would be less homicide down South if south
ern mothers instilled into the minds of their
boys the beauty of moral courage and taught
them to look at strife and bloodshed with
aversion. "On this point" it says, 1--WE
think the women of our section have as
false notions of true courage as the mascu-
line persuasion, and in consequence of orr
endeavors to avoid the production of race
of poltroons, we are liable to run into the
ther extreme of bringing up race of men
layers"
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

TICKETS, gentlemenp' says the door,
Keeper. "We are the Mayor and Aldermen
of Portland" say the Eight, and the awed
and abashed ticket-taker admits the heads
made dead by the grace of the Mayor of
Pori ald.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

A CALL has been issued to the colored
voters of Crawford, Mercer, Mexican, Law
renee and venango counties, Pa, to "meet
in convention at Oil City, on Thursday,
June 21st, to take such action as may be
deemed expedient toward the advance of
their race, both socially and politically"
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

GEN. GRANT was recently asked whether
he had ever thought of getting his papers
on the war together, and 1t was suggested
that such volume would have intense in
terest. "But have no papers," he re-
sponded. "All my documents relating to
the war are in the war department at Wash
fnofnp
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
Sc4okuQa,

fElHE only absolute cure for Scrofu,a Serof xlous
Il Contagious, Itching, Seay, Pimply, MeEsural
Caneerous, Infanti'e and Birth Humors Blooa Poi
sons, and Torturing Skin Diseases is the CUfgCURA
REMEplEs. They have performed miracles OF cures
when physicians, hospitals and all other means fail
Ell. They are the only Skin and Blood Cures free
from mercury, arsenic. and mineral poisons. They
are prepared by chemists of world wide celebrity and
unsuilied honor. They differ ia composition from
All other known remedies. Hence they command
the confidence of physicians, druggists aud All al
fcted.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

MATTHEW ARNOLD now expects to visit
this country ON lecturing tour of four
months, beginning in October-so says Mr..
Smalley in the Tribune. He has got leaye
from bis duties as inspector Of schools.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

THE policemen, it is said, will appear in
the new helmet hats the Fourth of July. 1t
Is rumored that the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen will don court dresses on that oc-
casion-the Mayor wearing spurs and
plumed hat, and the Aldermen clothing
themselves in green liveries
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
CUTECURA RESnE.yEyT.

The new blood purifier, kills the disease germs of
Scrofuous, Contagious, and Inherited humors
which float in the blood, urine and Precipitation, ex
Polling them through the bowels, kidneys and pores
or the skin. CUTIcURA, medicinal jelly eats away
dead skin and flesh, alays itchings and rrltations
softels soothes and heals. 1t instantly relieves the
most torturing Itching Humors, Itching Piles, and
ami Delicate Irrtations. CuTIcuRA SOAP, prepar-
ed from CUTIcURA is indispensable in tae treatment
OF Skin Diseases, Infantile and Birth Hnmors aud
for preserving and Identifying the Skin.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

THE Irregular doctors of New York city
number two thousand AS many as twenty
five OF them have incomes Of $4,000 year
or upwards. In the list Of prosperous ones
there is one woman.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

The Judsonia Arkansas Enquirer says
that that State has very rigid law against
the carrying of pistols, except on journey,
and prohibiting the manufacture or sale of
pistols or pistol cartridges, and, what is
more, the law is enforced
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

A WISCONSIN farmer with forty thousand
dollars has been sentenced to three years
Imprisonment for obtaining pension by
fraud
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

IT is suggested that "the suitable badge of
appropriate design" for the Aldermen would
be beet-a "dead beat"
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

THE subscriptions which ale being raised
in France for the erection of monument 10
Gambetta have reached total sum of $780,
Annf
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

SHOWS exhibiting in Portland are sure of
an audience of eight-the honorable the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 6.

We DO not read anonymous letters and eommuni-
eations he name and address of the writer are in
al cases indispe sable not necessarily for publica
mon but Ms guarantee of good faith
We cannot undertake to return or preserve COM
munjcations that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

1T is expected that the Aldermen will don
the Deering livery by the 25th of this month,
the day Forepaugh's cirens is to be here.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
BANKING HOUSE
-- OF
HENRY CLEWS & Co.,
is NEW STREET, NEW WORRY

(NEXr DOOR To THE STOCK EXCHANGED
Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Cotton and Petroleum
bought and sold on commission for cash or on
margin. Deposits received. A per cent allowed on
daily balances. Members of n. Y. Stock Exchange
the n. Mining Stock Exchange, The National Pc
troeum Exchange, n. Y. Produce Exchange and
the Chicago Board of Trade Private wire TO Chi
cago. mari ldtf
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
Porter Drug ana Chemical Co., BOSTON.
BAH


ES "A RV For Infantiie and Birth Humors
Rough. Chapped, or Greasy skim
Pimples, and minor Skin Blemishes use &C.
TIcuRA SOAP, an exquisite SKIN BEAUTIFIRR and
Toilet, Bath, and Nursery Sanative. Fragrant with
delicious flower odors and Cuticura healing balsams
jun6 wS&w2w23
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

DEERING and his decorations have made
the Portland City Government the theme of
inextinguishabe laughter.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
sKTN DISEASES

k56HIN OESK1ASES
OF the most painful nature on his head face ewes
and hands nearly destroying his eyesight, cured af
ter consultation of physicians had failed r. H.
Drake, Detroit. Mich.
Milk Crust-Baby of two years head covered with
crusts and sores cured aud now fine healthy child
hrs, Ro,rers, I 45 Clinton ST., Cincinnati
Price CUTIcURA, so cts. and ST. 0 per box Gu
TIcURA RssoLyEST, 81 90 per bottle. CUrIcuRA
soar, 20 cts. CUTIcuRA SHAVING SOAP, 15 cts
Sold everywhere
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
srRoFUEnVJs


Humor on face. neck, and head for IL years per-
manently cured by CUTICURA REMEDIES after med
ical and hospital treatment had failed floa Nm
Taylor, Pemberton So, Boston.
SALT RHEuM covering the body for 10 years, and
resisting all known methods of treatment cured by
CUTIoURA REMEDIES. Chas Hoaghton, iairyer, %
State ST.. Boston.
PSORIASIS or Leprosy Of 20 years standing per-
fectly cured. Most wonderful case on record Cure
certified 60 before magistrate and well-k known eit-
zens. n. E. Carpenter, Henderson,, N. y.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

are now offered by the undersigned for public sub
seription M the price of 9S psr cent. and the
accrued interest from May /.
Subscriptions will also be received by The Rail-
way Share Trust Company, Limited, London, thus
securing for the bonds the advantages of an inter-
national market.
The right is reserved the undersigned to reduce
the amount of any application and to close the sub
scrptions without further notice.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
100000

Of ihe above Bonds S3,O0OsteOO bay
been tnlxen for permanent investment.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06
KUHN, LOEB & Co.,

3 Nassau St, New York.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

Everything the bargain, and will be appreciated
the people who them.
The Portland daily press., 1883-06-06

To give the temperance people of the West
pointer on how prohibition works in Maine,
we quote the following from Rocsland
Maine. paper:
National Republican., 1883-11-06
Report OF the second Comptroiler.

The annual report of w. w. Upton, second
comptroller of tho treasury, has been sub
mitted to Secretary Folgor. 1t shows that
during the last fiscal year 2S,5l6 accounts
and claims were settled, involving an ex-
penditure of $9D,462600. Judge Upton de-
votes considerable space to the inadequate
clerical force now allowed his office, and gives
figures to show that work is fast accumu
lating with no prospect of speedy adjustment.
At the beginning of the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1882, there were but 35i unsettled
claims pending in his Office Since that time
the second auditor has been able to transmit
greater number of claims than tho second
comptroller could handle with his Inadequate
force, and the consequence is that on Oct.
last the number of unsettled claims pending
in his office was 2,517
Very many of the claims" the comp
troller says, "have been pending several
years, and in those cases no reason appears
for doubling their haying been presented in
good faith and upon reasonable grounds but
claims of this class are being presented from
day to day, and / am informed that the num-
Der presented since the first of January last
exceeds the number the second auditor has
been able to settle within the same time by
4,900."
in largo proportion Of those recently
fled" Judge Upton continued, ut is found
upon examination that everything due has
been paid either directly by paymasters on
company rolls or other vouches, or on settle
ments made by the accounting officers" In
conclusion Mr.. Upton refers to the prevail
ing opinion of departmental officials that
some new legislation is needed in the nature
of q statute of Limitation on tho presentation
of claims and says: ut has occurred to me
that if you should see cause to recommend an
enactment that would effectually prohibit
any agent or attorney from receiving compen-
sation for services in cases hereafter filed in
this department more than aspecihed number
of years after the origin of the claim, tho re-
commendaton would strike at the root of all
that is most Objectionable in connection with
the recent presentation of claims by agents
who have perhaps not even attempted to as
certain whether the claims are meritorious.''