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THE DUBLIN ASSASSINATION C.sEk

A VIRGINIA MURDERER LYNcHEps
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THE CASE OF Harvey and Livesey agt United
states was argued before the Court of Claims to-
oay 1or the fourth time. The claim grew out OF
the contract Tor constructing piers and abutme nts
Island. " .n
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ENSIGN s. f. WooDwoRTH has been detached
from the coast survey steamer Hassler, and placed
on sick leave
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COmmissiOher OF Indian Affairs to-day that the
Indians on the reservation remain perfectly quiet
and cOntented. HNA0'
The WEEKLY STAR for thh week is now ready
for mailing; price. three cents per copy. 1t is a
large, elght-page paper OF afty-six columns, cut.
pasted and folded, and VIII be sent anywhere IN
the United States and Canada, postpaid, for one
PERsoNAL-Senator Edmunds and his daughter.
accompanied by small party. Of friends, arrived
at Louisville from Atlanta yesterday, and lett on
q special car for St Louis Representative
B, ButterwoTtn Is at fne Ebbitt. Mr.: and Mrs jay
registered at Jacksonville on TuesdaE-Ps,veS P,e
master Goodloe, OF the martne6 is In New York
-Asststant Solicitor ArmstrDuG and W. h SHAW
OF Washington, were reglsteee6 In Phiiadeinhis
last night. Kelley is to be Com.
plimented by public dinner GO the Union Ieaona
Club In Philadelphia this ese1tng Bufch.
ard director OF the Mint, has gone to his home in
Freeport, Ill. for few dayR-ssnatOr Bayard
Is to deliver an address tomorrow before the
IroQuois Club OF Chicago on Thomas jefferson.
Mrs Geo q. b White and son LETT to-day on a
trip to Florida. -
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The examination OF the defendant, Miner was
concluded little after three O'Clock yesterday az
ternoon. Mr.. Olcott, OF the Post Onice department.
was then called to the stand. for the purpose of
proving certain details OF the business OF the con-
tract onice The time remaining before the
up by the consideration of an Offer by
Mr.. Ingerson to prove that the question of
prOductlyeneSS was as much disregarded by al
minstratiOns before and since Gen. Brady was In
Office as 1t was at that time. Judge Wyie declined
to admit testimony respecting the policy OF the de-
partment, holding that the issue was the criminal
Intent OF the defendants.
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GOLD, SILVER AND NOTES.-The statement of the
O. S. Treasurer shows gold silver and O. S. notes
In the Treasury to-day, as follows: Gold coin and
bullion, 5592,2 ,208; silver dollars and bullion
$l0 o77, ,461 fractional silver coin. $27 9O6 SO4
notes, $447,S ,S11; total, 1866 154,2s4. Certificates
oltstandngmGod s46,655,770; silver, 81, ,425 911;
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ADJUTANT GENERAL DRUM has gone to Phil del
ph1a for few days. Gen. McKeever Is acting
Adjutant General during his absence
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
MONTPELIER VT, WEDNESDAY, APRIL H. 1888

us to do in March Again, how long should
bone-meal and ashes lay after being mixed
before using, and would 1t be good fertil-
izer for wheat on ground that is in fair con-
dition ?"
ANSWER BY AGRICULTURAL EDIToR.-
We never plow any manure under, unless 1t
is 80 coarse as to interfere with tillage.
Such manure we prefer to apply in the fall,
and plow the ground in the spring. We
have never tried spreading it on three feet
of snow, because when the snow was that
deep on field we have never been able to
drive over it with load of manure. Other
wise we should not hesitate to do IL, II the
ground was moderately level. We should
never spread manure on snow on hillside,
and we had always rather have 1t under the
snow than on 1t. After the bone-meal has
been well mixed with the ashes, packed into
the barrels and saturated with water, we let
it stand three weeks before mixing IL with
the plaster ready for application. But in
case Of hurry, two weeks would do. II is
frst-rate manure for wheat, and should be
applied in a quantity equal in value to the
value of the stable manure you would natu-
rally use for the came crop. 1t is the only
arti ificial fertilizer that we have ever found
equal in value to good dung. No American
superphosphate is worth more than half as
much as good dung in our opinion, and
analysis confirms our experience on this
matter,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
The Fertilizer Question.

A leading agricultural journal of the
state tells its readers that "cow manure is
less fertiiizing than horse manure, but be-
ing slower in its action is more durable. It
is also cooler, and therefore better for hot,
dry Soils" These are important statements
if true,-and important if not true, when
promulgated by those who Get themselves
up as teachers of agriculture. Is the ma
nure of COW fed elk quarts Of corn meal
two quarts of cotton-seed meal and twelve
quarts Of bran day less fertilizing than the
manure of horse fed on rye straw alone
In other words, does not the value of the
manure as a fertilizer depend, in both cases,
upon the quantity and composition of the
food, rather than on the species of the
beast And what is meant by COW manure
being Z" cooler than horse manure We
have seen both kinds fro zen, and piles of
both kinds steaming with heat. But we
have never seen particle Of evidence going
to show that one was preferable to the other
as fertilizer, merely on account Of the kind
of animal that dropped it, either for one
soil or another. Have your
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11

The time is not long sinceit was thought
that chemists could decide upon the fertility
OF soil by snslyzing it. The time is not
yet gone by in which it is declared that
chemists can decide the nutritive value Of
food in the same way. The first claim was
exploded by showing that no crop, or very
poor crop only, could be grown upon some
soils declared by chemists to be rich in
th elements of fertility. The chemists have
since explained that this disagreement be-
tween science and experience arose from the
fact that the chemicals used by them in an
alysis were stronger solvents than the water
of the soil, and could extract nutritive mat
ter from the earth when the plants could
not. Now we suspect that similar trouble
will be found to lie at the bottom of chem
ical analyses that seem to show dry corn
fodder 10 be better feeding material than
ensilage. Every farmers experience tells
him that no hay is equal to grass as food
for COWS in milk, and the experience Of those
dairymen who have made use of ensilage
seems unanimously to contradict the state
ment that dry corn-fodder is best This is
question which has to be appealed from
the chemist to the cows, just as the other
one was appealed from the chemist to the
crop. In the end the chemist will find him
self compelled in some way to bring himself
into agreement with the verdict of old
Brindle.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
Wooden SjlOs.

One of our New Hampshire farmers, W..
II. B. of Hampton Falls, who is evidently a
man of careful observation, sends us the
following reply to communication on the
above subject which appeared in late num-
ber of the WATCHMAN by Mr.. Samuel
Drew of Middlebush, New Jersey: "In
1881 We built wooden silo in the corner of
the barn by the side of the floor, putting in
timber to strengthen the frame three by
eight inches and two feet apart, leaving an
opening on the floor side two and one-half
feet for door. Close it up as we fill it.
The walls were made of two-inch pine
plank, tongued and grooved. The fodder
was well preserved. We liked it so well
that we built two more in 1882 the same as
above, except one inch instead of two
inches for walls. We find the corn pre-
served in the one-inch walls as well as the
two-iDch. Our silos are thirteen by four
teen feet, eighteen feet high, all above the
sills of the barn."
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Bone Meal.--Hens' Feet,

f. w. A., Calais, VT, writes Several
of my neighbors and myself wish to buy
together a ton or more of bone meal for
fertilizer. Will you give me the name of
some good reliable dealer, and can you give
the probable cash price per ton and freight
to Montpelier My hens are troubled with
scurvy or scales on the feet, both young and
old ones. What is the disease, and what
the remedy2"
ANSWER BY THE AGRICULTURAL Ed
IToR.--All the leading fertilizer makers
sell bone meal, and the agents will usually
get II for their customers If ordered early
80 that it can come in the same car with
their phosphate. 1t ought to be delivered
at Montpelier at not much over $40 per ton.
But we believe most OF the manufacturers
prefer not to sell bone, as there is larger
profit on it when made into phosphate,
Pure raw bone, ground fine, can be bought
by the carload for cash at about $50 ton,
in the large cities. The rough scaly legs
aud feet so commonly seen on hens that are
kept shut up in poultry houses during the
winter are the work Of insects which get uu-
der the natural scales and by producing irri.
tation cause them to enlarge and project.
Wetting the legs and feet thoroughly with
kerosene once month will keep these mites
under. But we are done with poultry
houses. For shree winters we have win
tered our fowls under shed opening to the
south. With good pile Of ashes to wallow
in, and little meat scrap in their food
every day they keep healthy, and have av-
eraged an egg day to every three hens all
this cold winter.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
For the Vermont watchmi
Heart Shadows.

There is an old fairy tale by Hans Chris
tian ANDERSEN of learned man who, while
travelling in a southern country, became
quite partial to his own shadow. 1t seems,
however, that he became somewhat tired of
being constantly followed by it after short
time, and, desiring to make it useful, he
charged it to depart, but to come back some
time, after it had taken part in the busy
world. So the shadow left him. Years
passed and the learned man returned home.
One evening, as he sat alone, a slight tap
was heard at the door, and on opening it he
was startled, for he beheld his old shadow
once more it was extraordinarily thin, but
had actually acquired flesh and clothes. 1t
tarried with him long enough to give an ac-
count of its proceedings since their parting,
aud at the close invited him to travel with
it. At first the learned man thought it alb
surd to accompany his own shadow as COM
panion, but the shadow soon overcame his
objections, and they began their journey.
The shadow was now master, while the
mdSJeT ndu tuTneu 10 bHduOW. L ne new
master, calling himself real, won friends
honors and even kings daughter, while he
was the cause Of casting his old master into
prison, and of his being afterward executed.
Thus are worldly shadows following us in
cessantly, and if we do not master them we
often find they have mastered us. Appetite
for strong drink is one of these, and even if
it seems banished for time it returns
arrayed in dress and with manners more
captivating than before. 1t offers many in
ducements--merry companions, temporary
pleasures, ill-gotten wealth, and cloak,
oftentimes, Of peculiar texture, with which
we may conceal them from the worlds eyes.
If the master is persuaded to accompany his
shadowy tempter, like the learned man he
soon becomes shadow and the tempter is
master. Then the new master steals from
him not only his liberty, but friends, honor,
life, soul, and consequently his part of the
Spiritual kingdom. 1t becomes us, there
fore, to guard against these mastering shad-
ows by barring the door of our hearts Sc
curely with Christ's help to keep within the
fruits of the Holy Spirit.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
Keeping Butter In Brine.

According to correspondent of the
Farmer, Phineas Wheeler of Calais, VT,
keeps his butter in brine as follows He
has holder made holding several barrels,
largest at the bottom. After thoroughly
cleansing it he made brine, strong as salt
would make, strained it and filed his holder
with it nearly full, and put several small
bags of salt into the holder, his idea being
to have plenty of salt in it. He then made
his butter in the usual manner as is prac-
ticed for packing in tubs aud placed each
churping in small bags and sank them
under the brine keeping them down by Stats
placed across the holder. In the fall he
took out the butter, packed it in tubs and
sold1t just as high as he did his fall butter
Mr.. Wheeler says that each year increases
his faith in this method Of summering his
butter, and last season several Of his neigh
bors adopted his method and like it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
Moral Consciousness.

Among those who would weaken the au-
thority Of the Bible nowadays there is
great deal of talk about "the development
of moral consciousness which, 1t is said,
has occurred, and which has elevated many
men TO 80 high plane that they are quite
as good judges of what are the characters
tics of and what is becoming to the divine
government as were the men who, In q rude
and uncultured age, were inspired to con-
vey the will of God to the world. These
men and women of highly developed moral
consciousness have reached 30 lofty height
as TO have discovered that the punishment
of the finally impenitent in the life to come
and the doctrine of a vicarious sacrifice for
sin are barbarisms, fit only for the people of
the rude age to which they were declared.
Now, there might be something said in favor
of the so-called barbarous age and peoples
of the age of Grecian and Roman art, of
Grecian and Roman philosophy, of Grecian
and Roman literature. Barbarous seems
hardly the word to apply to the time in
which the Lord Christ lived and the Apos-
ties wrote the will of God. For it must not
be forgotten that it is not the Old Testa-
ment but the New which is to be modified
and regulated by the developed moral con-
sciousness.. But, passing over the nature Of
the age, we may ask, do streams rise higher
than their source This self.conscious,
confident, boastfu development has occurred
only where the Bible is aud where men
have learned moral principles from it. Have
these developed persons advanced beyond
their teacher? Have they learned all the
Bible can teach them ? Has the stream
really risen above its source? Perhaps
they are only half.learned But if they
possess such highly developed moral con.
seriousness they should live lives Of cores
ponding exaltation, of illustrious morality,
of resplendent saintliness. Do they ? Alas
we fear that they are not as good as the gen.
GRAFTON which has just passed away. Are
these preachers, who are filling the air and
the Monday morning newspapers with loud
and profuse declarations of the development
of moral consciousness better than, are they
as good as, the preachers we have within a
few years carried to the grave-such as
Thomas De Witt, William Adams, Henry
B. Smith, William Goodell, Titus Coan,
Asa ID. Smith, and scores and hundreds of
others who could be readily named Yet
these fathers, excellent, sanity men as they
were, never prated of development Of
moral consciousness which enabled them to
call the final retribution of the wicked and
the vicarious atonement, barbarisms. We
ask for the evidence of this developed moral
consciousness Intelligenctr.
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MoraI and Relisions
THE PASSING OF WINTER.

know that the flowers are immortal,
which died on the desolate plain,
have them bend from their paradise portal
Toward their rth-haunls again and again.
violets. tulips, lilies and roses.
ooldenrod, asters-whlch cung to us late;
when the day opens, "A fair when II closes,
They crowd the horizon and blush through the gate.
Aurora, o queen Of the morning,
o king Of day, bidding adeu.
Hear from your glory, nor hearken in acornng,
A winter-bound morial's petition to you.
Let fall some bleom II for only token
or spring near or far. Of an advent TO be-
One flower the humblest that yearns to be broken
Under your sandals which dszzle to see
All then are the upland SHOWS wastlng2
And Il that the valley.brook's yoce7
Good cheer out Of winter and dearh we are hastlng
To the season Of seasons when all thInss rejoice.
Already the blueblrd and robin, already
OF d. ffodis. columblne. daisy the sign,
From fog mantled marsh there's piping unsteady -
Prayer meets response II quits the hearts shrine.
We know that the friends are immortal,
Who have left US lone in the strife;
The glimpse OF face at the heavenly portal
Links them to earth and links us to their life.
At dawn or at dusk, in dreams truth revealing.
As oft mid the crowd.-- our spirit would fall,
From the garden Of Life to stealing
breath Of loves that bloom through the pale.
Oh, who shall then brood over losses
or treasures that slipped from our gaze?
10 short Ia the way To the crown from crosses.
Tho echo OF prayer ls the keynote Of praise.
To God, not to Nature, the sou's incense burneth,
JOYS in an endless spring he will restore;
Nearet Ia heaven than our dull sense difcerneth,
Those we call lost are the saved evermore.
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basket as big as himself" "This is
Jim's day." says Kate, laughing heart.
lily, "and he complains dreadfully when
our appetites are too keen" "No. 4,
Why don't you do all your own sewing in
stead Of fooling over these books and mag
azines ?" "Look here, young woman"
says my thriftless friend, "you are getting
TO be nuisance. This is the last question
[ am going to answer, though you should go
and tell all the mean things you know about
me. In the first place-no, perhaps, in the
second place, there are some people that
need the work and, in the first place,
choose to do without various things that you
are always nagging me to get, and prefer
using that money to buy little leisure. In
that way manage to keep myself a wee bit
fresh and lively for old Frank when he
comes home tired out, and says from the
sofa pillow, Well, little girl, what have you
been reading today p" "Kste p l cry,
getting up to go, "you are the most thrift.
less woman know, and am going straight
home to see how much of your thriftless
thrift I can put in practice l"-Advdnce.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-04-11
Pedigree and ThorOughbreedlng.

As we expected, our brief remarks upon
a clipping which denounced the use of So
called "grade" sires for breeding, Tin the
issue of March Ply, excites criticism, and,
as usual, their point is lodged by the
critics. What we said, in substance, was,
that our best American herds and focks
have now reached degree of practical ex-
cellence which puts them upon level with
the live stock of other countries, and that
the fact of a mixture of blood having been
employed in their improvement is no reason
why males from amongst them should not
be used for breeding purposes. Everybody
who knows the history OF the Ayrshire
breed of cattle knows that, up to the time
when they began to be registered, the bulls
were exactly what would now be called
"grades, that is, the Ayrshire I" breed
was formed in part just as many of our
best American strains have been formed, by
the use of good bulls Of other breeds. The
Ayrshires originally were just common cat
tie of the country, no way superior TO the
common cattle of New England. Good
farmers in Ayrshire bought from distance
good bulls (there were no herd books then,
and no extended pedigrees) and crossed
them on their cows. They also improved
them by better care and feeding and by Sc
lection, just has been done in New England
for the last forty years or more. Long after
this had been done there were still no printed
pedigrees, yet the AYrshires were as good
then as they are now. Nevertheless they
were "grades," in the very sense in which
the word is now used when applied to the
best mixed herds in Vermont. Now we
ask, what did the mere act of compiling
"herd-book of these cattle add to their
worth as cattle 1t was only the forming
of a "ring" amongst owners of this stock, -
just such ring as the American Jersey
cattle club is in this country. There are
thousands of Jersey cattle to-day in New
England that are not and cannot be regis
tered in the clubs herd-bo that are yet
the equals in every respect of the best that
are in it. And there are herds of mixed
cattle (tske Mr.. Cheever's "Jamestowns 4"
as an instance) that are just as much thor
oughbreds as the early Ayrshires, and yet
are well known to be "grades." 1t is not
herd-books that make good breeds" it is
breeding; and therefore Mr.. Cheever's bulls,
and the bulls of dozens of other careful old
dairymen in New England, are worth just
Qa oil al tba
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Help the Preacher.

When your minister prays, pray with him.
Don't stare at him as if he was a sto ,
image. No good ever came of that no
good ever will. If you don't say the words,
that doesn't matter; have it all in your
hearts, that he may have free course and be
glorified in the word he is to preach. Pray
with him, and sing 1t is worth one hun
dred more people in big church, every
Sunday, to have folks fairly holler, if you
can do no better. Oh have such long
ing to get folks to sing. 1t does seem 80
good to have them make joyful noise unto
the Lord, if it is nothing but noise. II
they don't get the tone, it don't make any
difference,-no to some,-but sing 1t is
grand thing, and does 30 help the preacher
and the sermon. Seldom find any fault
with your minister; but when you do,
don't tell him on Monday; then he feels
blue. Don't tell him on Tuesday he is
just pulling out. Don't tell him ON Wed.
nesday he is getting ready for his sermon,
Don't tell him on Thursday he is writing
it. Don't tell him on Friday; he is finish,
ing bis sermon. Don't tell him ON Satur.
day because he is getting rested for Sun
day. Aud if you don't tell him before Sat
urday night, you never will tell him.-RO6
ert COlluer,