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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14
ANOTHER BANK CIRCULATION SCHEME
A Proposal TO Do Away with Bonded
Indebtedness rs n Basis.

WASHINGTON, March ia delegation OF
national bank men from Eastern Pennsyi-
vsnia, consisting of Charles Cooper and
VIM. II. Ainsley, OF Allentown; Mr..
Horne, OF Cstassauqua; H. s. Rsckert, OF
Reading, and McDermott, Of Conshohock.
Ell. came here to-day to submit q PROPOSE
tion to the Ban king and Currency Com.
mittee which does away with the bonded
ipdehteint IS as basis of security for blnk
circulation They had q short talk with
tIree or four members at an informal meet.
ing, but cid not disclose the details OF their
sIsn. Tn.y will be fully heard at the regu-
isr meeting of the committee tomorrow.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14
A TERRIFIC GAS EXPLOSION
At Braddoek Kills One MAN and In.
lures Two Others.


lures Two Others,
PIrrsBURGH, March l3,-Shortly after Z
O'Clock this evening gas 10 the furnace Of
the Edgar Thompson steel works at Brad.
docks exploded, instantly killing William
Mccall and seriously iniuring James Mur.
raw and Chris Toole. The conclusion was
terrific, rendinE the furnace ssundsr and
scattering the debris in all directions.
Mccall, who was on hoist when the e1-
plosion occurred, would have escaped un,
hurt il he had not become frightened aud
Jumped. His body was mashed to q jelly,
and death resulted instantly. Murray was
burned and sealded externally ana lntef
nally 40 that little hope is entertained OF
bIs Surviving. Toole was badly burned
about the head and shoulders, but will re
cover. The cause or the explosion is rot
known.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14
LomeFElioWrS MONUMENT.
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14
A sn.nInI session Of the LeKisIatnre

TOPEKA, March l3.-In obedience TO an
almost universal demand from every part
of the State, and in view of the enormous
interest at sake, Governor Click has issued
a proclamation convening the Legislature
IN special session March 18th, to consider
the cattle plague now existing in several
counties Of the State, known as the mouth
and foot disease.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14
JAIL BREAKING AT LEWlsBURG.
One OF the Escaping Prisoners Shot by
the Keeper.
Sn,cinI L0 thz Rs6iSteT,

CHARLESTON, W. VA, March l2.-Feur
prisoners in the Lewisburg jail sawed
through the bars on Tuesday night. Three
of them escaped. Tbs fourth, named
Sharp, confined for horse stealing, was shot
and it is thought mortalIy wounded by
George Branhsm, the iailer.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14

corrxBus. o.. March l3.-lsnatins Hsr.
per shot snd killed Charles Howard this
evening In an sitercation about the form
er's intimacy with the iattkrs vits, Bot6
men are colored. Harper 70 under arrest
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14

CoxcoEp. n H., March 13-Consict labor
in the State prison hiss been resumed after
. shut down Of Eve working days, owing
10 the failure OF Cohtractoa Cominus.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14

THr xsy TO produce snile on the fses
Of men. tuGesirg With rackips eough. u
10 posks him Q present Of bottis q Dr.
Bul,'s Cough eyfsp.-Just try Il sod you
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14

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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14

BEHIND The SCENES.
|ous interesting Views Disclosed
in the Green Room
the Republican Party Of West
Virginia.
he Curtain Up---Some Chances
Through Strong
,mera at the Red Hot Fsc!iunal
Fight
ew Raging With Volcanic Fury
in The G. o. p.
rscluus Secrets Given Away
Origin Of the Quarrel.
by Flick Was AppOlntsd--Mason
Defeat for Congress.
elective Haggerty and the HI
He is Raising.
css Atkinson and the Federal
Ring Setting the
rs for Arthnr--The Blaine Lead
ers and Their Work.
OW Soft aRd Atkinson Plotted
Against PisrpOnt,
hs Old War GoTsrn0r--Geff Under
Fire.
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-14

to the proper person.: siuitted that I
had, bus bad forgotten IL "WSl," said
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
FERTILIZER for Cabbage.

at find" a Y a writer in the New
England Homestead, shat cabbage
needs more hoeing and stirring of the
soil than almost any other crop. Neither
do Iapprove of too much stable manure,
except for an early crop, for it has a
tendency to dry the soil and does not
furnish potash enough. 1 had much
rather have tobacco stems or stalks,
cut up fine and plowed under broad
cast, with some chemicals in the drill,
for a medium or late crop. As to
chemicals, whether to be used alone or
in combination with other manures, l
recommend this formula as being best
and cheapest, which every farmer must
make for himself: Two hundred pounds
of dry ground fish. 200 pounds
of bone meal dissolved in sulphuriC
acid, 200 pounds of castor pomace and
100 pounds of murlatic potash, or more
if the potash salts (kainit) are used.
The fish and castor pomace furnish am
monia in quick and slow forms; the
bone, phosphoric acid; while the potash
is very necessary to a cabbage crop. A
ton of this mixture costs about $40, anc
is sufficient for an acre with lgh'
manuring, or half the quantity i
manure is used literally. This is thu
best cabbage grower 1 have found
With 1t and tobacco stalks, as described
1 raised cabbages that weiged ovel
twenty pounds. One dozen, a the.
we're taken to market, weighed owe
200 pounds"
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
"Old Faithful" Geyser in Yellow
stone Park.

The great group of geysersin the Up
per Geyser basin beyond doubt attracts
more attention than any other object in
the park. There are not less than
twenty of them that belong to the first
class, in point of power and beauty OF
action. And they all differ in action,
appearance and scructure. The most
widely known-a sort of popular favor
ite-is "Old Faithful. " standing proml-
nent and alone on amound of geyserlte,
built by himself, at the southern ex-
tremity of the basin or valley. In al
most all cases the geyser jet issues from
a depressed crater OF an elevated
cone or funnel-mouth, rising from
three to ten feet above the lev
ell. "Old Faithful" combines both feat
ures. The throat of it's chasm is an
irregular oblong, about three feet long
and twenty inches wide, faring open at
the top. On the north side of the
opening is a mass of geyserite, which
was probably once part of the walls oil
a funnelcone. One may look down IN
to the throat Ind see and hear the boil
ing waves, smashing and flashing In the
chamber below, with a force that makes
the mound tremble. Professor Hague
sounded to a depth of seventy feet IN
this geyser last summer; the greatest
depth reached in any of them. "Oid
Faithful" plays twenty-four times each
day and night-the intervals ranging
from ffty-five to sixty-ive minutes
When the eruption is about to begln'
the boiling and sub-surface rumbl ing
becomes very violent, and soon a lew
ragged Jets of water leap up from tne
crater and fall back again. When TINS
has been repeated four or five times .
great, stately white pillar of steam ana
water slowly rises into the air, gather
ing strength and height every instant
and in twenty seconds of time the PIT
lar becomes an enormous roaring tounU-
ain of white, foam, streaked with arrow
lines of pale-greenish water. Olouos
of fleece white, steamy vapor rcn AVA
from this majestic column, the IaL
ing water deluges like a rain-storm tne
laminate terraces of the mound Iol
many Yards around. When tins grace
full column has reached a height OF l+1
To $50 feet. it maintains its action al
that altitude for five to seven minutes
and then gradually descends, a scuips,
uresoue white pillar once more n1o
its subterranean laboratory, Inc sou
bling and rumbling and smashing IS con
tinued until the great white Spectre
J again energies in another eruptlon'
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
watering the Garden

In watering the garden a thorough
good soaking occasionally is said to be
much better than the light sprinkling
every evening, which is the popular
way. This last has the tendency to
make the roots seek the surface of the
ground for the moisture thus supplied.
The New York evening post has a
florist writer who recommends this
plan: When watering is contemplated
draw the tubs of water in the morning
and let them stand in the sun through
the day at night draw the soil away
from the base of each plant in order to
form a basin in which to pour the
water. Pour this full and let it filter
through the soil, again and again fill
ing until the earth is entirely soaked;
then draw the soil back to the roots,
which will prevent it baking In the sun.
In the dryest time of summer a water
ing OF this kind should last for sever
al weeks. When entire beds are
to be watered the soil should be
opened by a digging fork being
BQTuSG lnJO IT, Nutu ~ may OO NneCAON
with a sprinkler, which should be sew
eral times passed over it. The follow
ing day, with a hoe or rake, make mel
low the surface of the bed. 1t is not
well to give water so long as it can be
avoided, for plants left to fight the
drought send their roots deep into the
soil to seek moisture, and when it does
rain they are more benefited than those
that have had constant watering. The
easiest plan to economic both water
and time is to take the garden piece by
piece, watering one piece thoroughly
every evening, and then beginning
again at the first. Surface sprinklings
cause roots to seek the surface in search
of moisture, which, when found, is not
enough to nourish them, but causes ex-
haustion by inducing the growth OF
fbres near the %scorching sum. Plants
in pots that have been plunged in the
ground, and those in tubs and vases must
be given daily water.
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
Digging Wells.

The Massachusetts Ploughman gives
a hint about constructing a well so as
to have the water free from impurities;
After digging as low as desired, a cement
pipe, some two feet in diameter and two
or three feet long, is sunk at the bottom
and worked down as low as possible by
digging out the inside. The pipe should
be covered over with q fiat stone,
through the middle Of which 2 two-inch
hole has been drilled; directly over
this hole stand in drain pipe, then begin
to fill up the hole, and add drain pipe
as the filing proceeds till it m near
the surface, when a pump can be at
tached. A well of this kind is reliable
and permanent, requiring no repairs;
the water is cool and free from impurl-
ties that open wells are subject to; no
insects or animals can find their way in
toit. and the cost is not more than one
half that of well that is stoned. Ii
dug, as it should be, when the springs
are low a constant supply of water that
is as pure as the underground spring Is
secured. As the we'll is always full
there is no chance for bad air to inlurt
the water, and, in fact, but little danger
of being polluted by surrounding cess
pools, compared to that of open wells
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
Charcoal and Lime

should be allowed fowls always. Let
them have all they will swallow, Even
if the fowls are not confined, but es-
pecially so if they are, charcoal pound
ed up into bits or pieces about the size
of a grain of corn, or a little finer,
should be put around in small piles
where the fowls can have easy access to
it, and they will soon make use of IT..
The cost of charcoal is but a trife, and
where the distance from town or city is
so great as to prevent it from being
readily obtained therefrom, the ashes
from a wood stove may be sieved out,
and the small bits of charred wood or
charcoal used in the place of that made
in the regular way. Especially during
the Spring and Summer months is 1T
advisable to use charcoal freely. Lime,
too, is valuable in many ways. In the
form of whitewash it begets cleanliness,
freedom from disease; and laying hens
should have lime, where they can make
use of it in assisting in the production
of eggs.-American Poultry Yard.
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
What a Kentucky Burgoo is.

Washington Letter to the Philadelphia Record.
eff you should go out to Kentucky
about this time" said the old Judge,
you would probably be invited to a bur-
goo. You don't recognize him by that
name, do you? No? Well, a burgoo
accent on the first syllable) is a grand
good thing. It is an all-day picnic in
the woods, with a feast which throws
the clam chowder and the barbecue into
the deep shade of obscurity. In fact
the burgoo usually includes a barbecue
as a sort of incident. You go out to a
! corner of the woods where the thick
under brush has been carefully cut away
and where the trees are enough for
shade. but not enough for gloom, and
there You sit and play poker and smoke
the finest tobacco in the world and
drink oily ten year old sou mash and
sniff the delightful aroma of the
burgoo until along in the afternoon
when the niggers pronounce the burgoo
ready and ladle it out to you In big
bowlfuls. The burgoo is a delicious
broth which is a perpetual remind
er of the aborigines who
handed it over to our pioneering
forefathers when they began coming
across the mountains from Virginia
You take-or rather the darkies take
a gigantic kettle and hang it over
roaring fire. A light broth is made
first; then they throw in young chick
ems, young ducks, sucking pigs, and all
sorts of small game, with fresh pota
toes, green peas, string beans, corn
and every other vegetable. Every thing
is cooked until the meat begins to fal
to pieces. Then the walters, with shin
ing, smiling, black faces and snow
white jackets and aprons. bear grea
bowlfuls of the toothsome stew through
the grove. Oh, how good it is! M,
mouth waters as l tell you of it. After
ward there is more burgoo, and thel
more burgoo, until everybods has act
ually had enough. Then the darkiei
satisfy themselves, while you return t.
your pipe and your glass, until tn
shadows of evening gather sleepil.
around you" His voice became 10y
and his look became dreamy. Sudden
!, " he reused himself, and remarked a
he turned away: "A few weeks late
, the darkies hold their camp meeting o
the same spot"
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
Agricultural Items.

If it rains, be thankful; it will make
the crops grow. iii is dry or hot, be
thankful; it is splendid harvest weather.
Be thankful and happy any way; it is
much pleasanter for everybody.
Mr.. T. E. Williams writes from Wis.,
consin that he planted pride of the
North" corn May 26, last year, and cit
was so ripe as to be uninjured by the
heavy frost that fell September g."
One of Jefferson's rules of life: We
never repent of having eaten too lit
tle."
The editor of The Mirror and Farmer
has never yet heard" of a potato dig
ger that gave satisfaction.
d. d. Royce, Williamstown, Vt, adj
vises farmers to keep an account of all
their business transactions. He men
tions an instance where a pair of oxen
was claimed and taken after the man
died, for the reason that his book did
not show that they had been paid for.
"Buy a book that will cost 30 cents and
| QcNOG6 IIOm buIcO W ANO hAlUSCe
each night in putting down your trans
actions, who with, what money you
take in and pay out and what for"
Now what would you think of a man,
asked Mr.. Beecher, who had Elaborate.
ry 100 feet square, and who fenced of
20 feet in one corner for use, and lei
all the rest go?-let it go without
yielding a cent? That is what he thinks
of a farmer who has three times as mucl
land as he can use and improve Wha
would you think of a gigantic factor!
that has no capital to run it? Farmer
own more land than they can do jus
tice to. 1t is dead capital. They worl
a little part of it, and all the rest i
dead waste. Farmers should calculat'
as manufacturers do; find out hoy
much they can proftably use, and owl
no more; settle that and then go ahead
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
Chops ana tomato saucs.

This Pickwickian dish Is not often
daintily served in the average house
hold, and yet it is exceedingly easy to
prepare. For the sauce take some
fresh, ripe tomatoes, cut them into
quarters. and stew for an hour and a
half in a porcelain lined saucepan. Do
not put in any water. AT the end OF
that time pass through a cullender and
strain out the skins and pips. Put
the liquid back into the saucepan over
the fire, add a large lump of fresh but
ter-don,t be afraid of getting in too
much-and when it boils up add pepper
and salt to taste, a ~teacupful of cream
with enough flour in it to make the
sauce of the proper consistency-like
rather thick custard. Broil your lamb
chops-which should have all the lower
part trimmed off, leaving the neat han
die of bone--and serve quickly on a hot
platter, with a little chopped parsley
laid over each brown chop, and with
the sauce poured around them. A bit
of onion can be stewed with the tomato
for those who like that favoring.-N'
Y. Tribune.
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
nintampar in Horses.

Several remedies for this verytrouble-
some disease have been handedus One
says he has used red pepper and vinegar
with good results. He sleeps a COM
mon sized pepper in a pint of strong
cider vinegar, and applies it to the dis
eased part hot. Another writes that
his cure is simply a lump of gum cam
phor about the size Of a haZelnut, given
TO the horse in bran-or anythng In
which he will eat ton the first indi-
cation of the disease. If one does not
effect a cure in two days, repeat the
dose. He says he will warrant a cure
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
when to Cut wheat.

Bad straw, must and mildew and the
loss of much grain by Smelling out
some or all of these will be .he penalty
for allowing the grain to stand until
it is dead ripe. As to the quality of the
kernel, the Germantown Telegraph re-
marks: cit should be remembered that
wheat is composed of gluten, starch and
bran. Gluten is the nourishing quality
Of the grain, which makes the flour
stick together in the hands of the baker,
and gives weight to the grain; and there
is the greatest quantity of gluten in the
grain when the straw is yellow two or
three joints from the ground, the head
turns downward, and, when you can
mash the grain between the thumb and
finger without producing any milk. II
may. therefore, be set down as an indis-
putable truth that every day the wheat
stands after this stage of ripeness the
gluten decreases in quantity and the
bran increases in thickness, and thus
diminishes in value, in addition to the
danger from must and other risks"
The Mineral argus., 1884-09-04
The Battle of Austerlitz

S0N0AS u AA9t G4a4h8
In the memoirs of Marshal Bugeaud,
just published, appears a letter from
him, when still a private, to his sister,
describing the brief Austerlitz campaign,
in which he says: "Three days before
the battle we had orders to leave the
town, and encamped a league from the
enemy. The Emperor came there him.
self and slept in his carriage in the mid
die of u camp. For the three days
that passed before the battle he was al
ways walking through all the camps
and talking to the soldiers or their
leaders. We gathered round him. l
heard much of his talk; it was very
simple and always turned upon military
duty. At last on the eve of the battle,
the anniversary of his coronation, he is
sued a proclamation, exhorting us to
behave with our usual intrepidity
and promised to keep his
| distance as long as victory
| followed us. But, said he, eff by mis-
chance you hesitate a moment, you
will see me fly into your ranks to restore
order" Then he promised to give us
peace after this battle, assuring us that
we should go into cantonm ents. We
replied by shouts Of JOY, the harbingers
of glad success. Torches were lighted
and the bands played while the whole
army sang songs with eagerness. 1t
seemed that every man was celebrating
his return home, and felt the JOY one
experiences at seeing father, mother
and brother. Yet how many of these
happy men were not to see their country
again. At daybreak the drums and
trumpets announced the fight; a stare
was made with shouts of 'Nive
PEmpereur.' The charge is sound
ing. These words are re-
peated again louder, and carry terror
into the enemy's ranks. We charged
like lightning, and the carnage was hor-
rible. The balls whistled. The air
groaned with the noise of cannon and
our threatening voices, closely followed
by death. Very soon the enemyIs
phalanx was shaken and threw into
disorder; at last we overthrow them en-.
tirely. One point wlthstands us, the
batteries in n moment are taken, the
RuluGio Cub W DlCNCo ~ ehO bhhos "HN
any that escape our steel either seek
safety in flight or a slower death in the
lakes. Nothing has even been seen, my
love, like this memorable battle. Ii
the opinion of the oldest soldiers it lis thu
most bloody that aver has taken place.
I will not describe to you the horrors
of the field of battle; the wounded and
dying imploring their comrades pity.
L prefer to spare your feelings, and con
fine myself to telling you chat 1 was yer!
, much affected, and wished that emper
ors and kings who make war withou
reasonable grounds could be condemne'
, for their whole lives to listen to the
? cries of the unfortunate wounded VIII
remained three days upon the field o
battle without having any relief or as
: sistance. The Russian loss is innumer
able; what is certain is that there are t
I be seen atleast sixty Russian corpses o.
the field of battle for one French; an
it is only in one spot that L have seel
as many French as Russians"