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, 1884-04-16

LONDON, April l5.-Latest advices from
Shanghai indicate that the Chinese gov
eminent is greatly exercised at the recent
French successes in Tonquin. Persons in
any way responsible for-the reverses are
being degraded and punished. Active
measures are being taken to prevent furth-
or loss Of prestige. The Yiceroy of
Canton has been publicly degraded for re-
fusins to obey orders, Officers answer
able for the loss of Baenith have been
condemned to be beheaded. The COVER
nor of Yunnan has been summoned to
Pekin to receive punishment. A general
levy of men for the Chinese army has been
ordered. Affairs at Pekin are represented
to be in an extremely critical condition, and
administrative changes Of great import
ance are imminent.
A letter of Mahdi has been published.
1t commands the tribes to push forward
to the siege of Khartoum, and to blockade
all roads and embarrass the Turks and In
tidels in all other ways possible. This ill
junction is urged upon them as IA religious
duty.
, 1884-04-16

NEW YoRK, April l5.-Advices from
Havana, dated the 10th instant, says the
landing of Aguero has caused a feyerish
state of excitement all over the island.
On account of censorship dispatches the
knowledge of the departure of Aguero
from Key West with insurgents was with
held from the public for some time. The
government was mislead and sadly duped
by those sympathizing with Aguero and
sem the bulk Of the troops in the wrong
direction, and arc now hiding from the
public. Disastrous encounters have oc-
Cured between Aguero and the few troops
he met and there is a rapid increase in the
number of insurgents. 1t is said parti-
sans, those Cubans favoring annexation
to the United States, arc %endeavoring to
organize a league to work in favor of that
idea as a great many Spaniards are be,
coming converted to it, especially Galatians
who, in intelligence, are superior to most
Spaniards who come here.
, 1884-04-16

ture, prohibiting exchanges with other
nations, CONFUSING our home markets
with alternate excitement and depression
and compelling the laboring classes to OBJ
tain their daily bread not by readiness to
work steadily but by dependence on the
condition of our home market and its
capacity ftfully and not sufficiently to
afford them employment. This condition
of things and the attitude of
the Republican party, under whose
policies and administration it has been
brought about, it is clearly shown by the
votes in Congress and the declaration of
their party press and it must be seen that
they are so enthralled by oligarchy pro-
lection of the favored few at the cost of
many that the hope of reform or relief
can be expected only from the ~ascendency
of the Democratic party, The evils of
maladministration are everywhere APP
parent and are confessed in many and
proven to exist in nearly every depart
ment of the executive branch. Respecta-
BILE men of every party are compelled to
hold their noses over the developments of
the star route trials, and the falling out of
rogues in office and out of Office is expos
ing a state of things so corrupt and shock
ing that the only marvel is that the public
business could have been conducted at all
through such agencies. The testimony
Of special counsel and agents of the Gov
ernmcnt and of the members of President
Garfeld's cabinet and the official reports
of the department of justice are adding
chapters in the history of maladmin-
i~stration equal to the worst
days of the worst Government.
These evils are thus proven thmselves to
be SC used and wide spread in the very
structure and substance of the Republican
party that it cannot reform them from
within that they have grown by r~eiterat-
ed use to be its customary and daily food
and means of obtaining and %prolonging
its power, and cannot now be abandoned
unless it abandons also all hopes of con-
t%inuing in power. Of what material the
Republican convention soon to assemble
in your great city is to be composed, and
by which its action will be chiefly nominal
ed may be learned by an examination #
the composition of the louisiana delcga-
ton, headed by an individual now under
indictment for bribery, accompanied by a
band of official mercenaries and political
camp followers. Under such conditions,
how idle it is to hope for civil service re-
form, or tariff reform, or reform of any
kind or nature from a party of such ante
cedents. Such present corruption and
such inevitable administration in future,
should not be permitted to continue in
misgoverning this country.
(Signed) Il. f. BAYARp.
, 1884-04-16
TELEGRAPHIc BREvITIEs.

The rumor of the rescue of Greeley's
party turns out to be a canard started by
some fool on April l.
At an informal conference of the Demo,
cratic members of the Pennsylvania dele.
CATION in the House yesterday morning.
it was unanimously decided to oppose any
tariff agitation whatever.
Charles L. Coon, of New York, will BE-
nominated as Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, vice John G. New, resigned.
Coon is at present Assistant Chief of the
loan division of the Treasury.
, 1884-04-16

Mt. STERLING, KY, April Fifty
masked men went to Jackson, Breathitt
county, Wednesday night and took from
Jail Henry Kilburn (white), and Ben.
Strong (colored), and hung them. Kill
burn was charged with the murder of W.
Thorp last January. Strong was suspect
of being concerned in the same murder.
A notice was pinned on the victims stat
ing that all perpetrators guilty of such
crimes will receive like punishment. Xii
burn had killed eight men.
, 1884-04-16

EDINBURG, April l5.-The celebration
of the tercentenary of the fouodation of
the Universary opened to-day at noon
with graduation ceremonies in the Synod
hall. The city is decorated and a great
assemblage of eminent men are present,
among the number james Russell Lowell,
who represents Harvard, Yale and Cor
nell universities and the Smithsonian
Institute.
, 1884-04-16

WASHINGTON. April 15.-Senor Bateis,
the Central American minister of this
city, received a telegram from the minis.
ter of foreign affairs for Guatemala and
Salvador saying it is true an attempt was
made to assassinatc President Barrios,
but adding: mo harm was done him
and he is perfectly well" A dispatch
also says there is no disturbance of the
public order, that the attempt of assassina.
ton is universally execrated. General
Barrios is receiving congratulations from
all classes of people,
, 1884-04-16
Help for Cincinnati.

CrNotNNATr, April l5.-The relief
committee appointed by the Chamber of
Commerce to receive and distribute money
and supplies for the people made destitute
by the food are about to close th3ir labJrs.
They have received $1S4, 900, all of which
has been distributed except $1,000. This
will soon be used in helping the poor to
restored their dwellings, A large part of
the money has been used outside of
Cincinnati.
, 1884-04-16

PARIS, April l5.-Several English de
~tectives have arrived in Paris for the pur-
pose of tracing dynamiters. In spite of
Colonel Majendie's report, it is declared
that the dynamite used at Victoria station
was made at a factory between Amiens
and Boulogne.
A rumor is afoat that an attempt will
shortly be made to blow up one of the
public buildings in London. The activity
among dynamiters continues undated.
They meet twice a week for the purpose
of making plans and preparations for
future outrages. It'll believed the French
and English police are fully acquainted
with their movements, and that every
effort will be made to counteract the plots.
1t is also believed that one of the most
trusted Of the dynamite leaders keeps the
police fully informed of all their plans,
, 1884-04-16

Mr.. 4. G. Afford, Junior Vice De-
partment Commander of Md, G. A. r.
Baltimore, Md, writes: Il have kept
st. Jacobs Oil by me and always found it
a ready remedy for pains, aches and
bruises. When suffering terribly a few
weeks since with an liberated tooth, |
could not get any rest, and l applied it.
| was instantly relieved, and my suffering
ceased from that time"
, 1884-04-16
Dodge Gets an injunction

SALT LAKE, April 15.-An injunction
was issued to-day by Chief Justice Hun
ter prohibiting the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway company or its officers from in
terfcring with the rights and powers Of
D. c. Dodge, as manager, under lease of
the Denver & Rio Grande Western Rail
way of Utah.
, 1884-04-16
The French Indemnity.

PARIS, April l5.-It is reported that
the French feet has occupied Annoy in
order to secure the payment of indemnity
from China. The capture of Hung Hoa
terminates the campaignin Tonquin. The
financial question remains to be settled.
The French demands will be very heavy.
, 1884-04-16

All over the hand are going into ecstasy
over Dr.. King 3 New Discovery for .onsump-
ton Their unlocked Tor recovery by the
timely use OF this great life saving remedy,
causes them to go neatly Wild In Its praise.
1t is gunran ted TO positively cure severe
coughs, colds asthma. hay fever. bronchitis,
ho~ar.eneE-, loss OF voice. or nny affection OF
the throat and lungs. Trial bottles FREQ at
cray Il Pearse's drug store. large size, one
dollar,
, 1884-04-16

These Stirrups are manufactured in any
widths desired and plated with heavy
galvanized iron. Patent Hanged rcvol
wing, malleable iron roller. Swedes irou
bolt, making them far superior to any
stirrup now in use.
For sale by jobbers in saddlery in st,
Louis, Mo-; Denver and Pueblo, Col,
Deadwood, Dakota; Ogden, Utah, and
by
j. -. and
T.. a. NJ ICANICA,
CHEYENNE, WYO.
, 1884-04-16

The best mineral water in the world. By
the gallon or glass, at Rhodes & Troxells.
, 1884-04-16

Pioneer saioon.
% Tho only ST Louis keg beer to be had
a. in the town. Bond and Lillard whiskey.
Jake Esselborn's cigars town brand the
eestfor the money. All and every kind OF
ISL lunches Amy kind Of imported delicaeies;
Elegant rooms for private parties. Ladies
parlsr. No buns allowed in the house.
Ho9sW. 81 JAKE EssElPoRN, Prop'r.r
lS'is Ror abe best dental work and lowest
rs prices visit Dr. Warper's dental parlors,
, 1884-04-16

There il immense interest at Jake Es-
selbjrn's over the new wheel of fortune.
1.-The propfetors contend that the game Is
absolutely fair. Certainly as a work OF
art the wheel is a s~pccess,f =
, 1884-04-16

HOUSES TO RENT AND FOE SALE.
Furnished rooms or beds every night,
No. 2T9, corner Seventeenth and Bent.
, 1884-04-16

Warranted to speedily cure burns. bruises. cuts,
ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, cancers. piles,
chilblains, corns letter. chapped hands and all
skin cruptiOus. guaranteed To cure In every In
stance or money reiunded-A cents per box.
For sale by Gray & Pearse.
, 1884-04-16
WANTS.

WASTED.-A good girl to do general
Homework in a small family. Good
wages paid. Apply to Mrs. l.. Loeb, 332
Warren avenue.
, 1884-04-16

At Rhodes & Troxelrs.
, 1884-04-16
FOR SALE.


Early cabbage, caulifower, tomatoes,
celery, pie plant, sweet potatoes, etc, etc.
These plants arc from "Eames' Cheyenne
market Garden" one mile east of the
sity and are better than those from a dis
lance. Orders filed by A. Underwood or
at Taylor's Curiosity store.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-06-06

TANNING LINEN.-A Belgian inventor, NJ
Piron, has invented o method of rendering
cellulose tissues impermeable and very dura-
BILE, without injuring their Aexbility aud
without much increasing their weight. BY
examining the bandages Of the Egyptian
mummies he inferred that the best preserva-
tives would be found in the vegetable king
dom, and he has given preference to the
green tar Of birch bark, which furnishes the
perfume of Russia leather The tar forms.
with alcohol, solution Of great fluidiiy but
when once dried it becomes resinous and re-
ssts tho solvent power of alcohol. 1t can be
combined with the most brilliant colors
These qualities enable it to penetrate the cap
Hilary vessels Of tissues, covering them with
varnish Of great elasticity, which resists
the corrosive action of acids, sea water and
changes Of temperature The density is
very small, so that the tissues are made i'm
permeable with n slight increase of weight.
The prepared studs can be folded without
scaling. The aromatic odor drives away in
sects. Microscopic vegetation cannot grow,
because neither air nor water can penetrate
into the interior of the fbres. The inven-
tion can be applied TO all vegetable tissues,
such as sail cloths cordage awnings, cur
tAin7, etc.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-06-06

When this poison was first introduced for
the destruction Of insect life, it was used by
most people with great caution, but as its use
became more general, it was handled with
less caution, until finally a portion of the
people have got to handling it as carelessy
as they would lime or plaster, evidently for
getting that it is deadly poison, until re-
minded of it by getting some of it into their
own system, or losing valuable animal by it.
The people need to be continually reminded
of its poisonous qualities. Not only should it
be handled with care, but it should be applied
to vegetation with great caution. 1t should
never be applied in garden where there is a
great variety of fruits and vegetables, for by
so doing it is very likely to get on those fruits
or vegetables that are to be eaten. Potatoes
on which it is to be used should be planted
by Themselves away from the dwelling and
where cattle will not be likely to find them.
Another caution is necessary potato tops
that have had Paais green applied to them
should never be put into the hog pen, in fact
it is the safest way to gather them up and
burn them, especially if any animals are to
be permitted to pass over the land during the
autumn. Many hogs have been killed by
having the poisoned potato tops put in their
pen for bedding, and many cows have been
injured by being turned into potato field af-
ter the potatoes have been dug.
Another caution is necessary never keen
Paris green where children can get at it, or
where COWS will be likely to find it. When
properly used Paris green is a valuable arti-
Gle to have on farm, but when carelessly
used ii becomes destructive element on any
farm such being the case, the farmer should
never use it without great caution always
using as little as possible, and yet kill the
bugs when he is done using II should be
packed away where it will not be found by
those who do not fully understand how to
use it. Never handle it with the bare hands
as it will enter the system wherever the skin
Is broken.-MdsSGctuset PI0uqlnan.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-06-06

recent autopsy upon a valuable horse at
Bridgeport, OF, revealed that death had been
caused by pieces Of zinc which he had chew.
ed from the lining of his manger and swal-
lowed.
A correspondent OF the Western Agrioul-
turist, says teaspoonful Of saltpetre dis.
solved in a gallon Of water and the solution
applied TO the grape vines will check the raw
ages Of the rose bug
correspondent OF the Prairie Farmer
says that in cutting up some dead and decay
ing apple trees he disodged scores Of borers
which had found Judgment in the trunks and
roots and is now convinced that such trees
ought not TO be left in the orchard to serve
as breeding places for insects, but should be
Immediately consigned to the fire.
humanitarian genius has invented de-
vice TO take the place Of tho bit. II is called
the carnage, or anti-horse torture. 1t is com
posed Of a steel band placed over the front
bone Of the horses nose, and TO this appli-
anoe tho reins are attached. The inventor
claims for this substitute for the bit that it
gives complete control to the driver over the
horse without in1icting the least discomfort
or torture on the animal itself. II has been
tried with satisfactory results.
Recent investigations Of feeding stufs,
says the N. Y Tribune, illustrate the reign
of swindle in this adulterous age. so.
called 'iuseed cake" was found to be serious.
ly degraded with ground rice-husks or SINH.
lar material, consisting chiefly Of woody
fibre, and Texas cottonseed" was stale, "
nasty" suspected Of containing poisonous
ingredients" and at any rate not safe for
stock.
81 begin" says q Vermont farmer, ito
feed my pigs when small on uncooked food
OF all kinds, such as apples, potatoes, green
grass and weeds, corn fodder ETC.. with q
little water and sour milk to drink Sour
milk is better than sweet, for it gives them
an appetite and keeps them healthy, so that
they will grow faster. When I am ready to
begin fattening the animals feed dry feed
or corn, and little while after they eat it
give them little sour milk, If have il, ard
if not q little clear, cold water This meth
cd of feeding saves labor and food, and con-
sequently saves expense. The dry meal will
stay on the stomach until it is entirely digest.
ed, while sloppy food will pass through the
animal more quickly, and before it has had
time to do half service. l have tried good
many experiments in pig feeding, and have
finally settled down upon this as tho best.
You must begin the use of uncooked food
whom they are young"
A Connecticut gardener practices a new
method of raising celery He simply ties it
up closely in old news or other papers when
it is ready for bleaching, and at the end Of
from twelve to twenty days finds it M nicely
bleached as though it had been aboriously
banked up. He says one third more celery
can be got from an acre in this way, becaus,
when it is not banked it does not need to be
planted so far apart that great amount Of
labor il saved, and that by this process the
celery never rusts
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-06-06
Agricultural.



The severe frost occurring on the morning
Of May 3d. and again on the morning Of the
3lst, has seriously injured some Of our most
promising crops Fortunately, in this vicin-
ity, planting had been so much delayed by
the rains that corn and potatoes were not up
on large part of the lands planted On the
oarly planted pieces where the warm wealth
er OF the week previous had given the crop
good start, everything above tho surface was
killed In places the surface soil was frozen
half an inch in depth. It is we'll known that
both corn and potatoes when out down by
frost in the early stages Of growth will
spring up again and continue TO grow, but il
they had made much growth the damage is
irreparable probably the chances Of full
crop would be better II the ground was re-
planted on the first of June. A piece of
corn six inches high was cut down with frost
on the 9TH day OF June, 1873. It grew
again, but part which was replanted made
the best growth and had the best corn.
field of Early Rose potatoes which had been
hoed were killed at the same time. New
sprouts came up and branches from the old
ones springing out below the surface of the
soil grew feebly The yield was poor
but best in q few hills which had been re-
planted
The killing frost Of last week came in the
nick Of time to destroy fruit. Strawberries
were in full bloom or just passing out of it.
The earliest blossoms yield the best berries,
and these the frost has ruined Late sorts,
and lato blossoms which are still appearing
on the earlier kinds, will give us some fruit,
though we do not expect half q crop. Grapes
are damaged more than strawberries. In ex-
posed situations, not only the flower buds but
the leaves, and in some cases the entire new
growth has been killed. Apple trees were
just passing out of blossom. This is sup
posed to be the time when the fruit is most
susceptible TO injury from frost yet on many
trees which we have examined the green fruit
does not appear to be injured, even where
the frost was sufficient to kill the leaves Of
the locust and the butternut. On others the
fruit has withered appearance and the
stems loosen and fall with it when touched
with the hand, though we have seen no trees
on which all of the embryo fruit appeared
to be destroyed. Before the frost there was
good prospect of m abundant crop of ap-
pies, and now We do not quite despair OF it,
II we have one good apple for every fifty
blossoms there will be a good crop
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-06-06

The experiment stations of Conn cticut,
New Jersey and Massachusetts have made
large reductions on some of their estimated
values of the ingredients of fertilizers for
1884:
Nitrogen in ammonia salts reduced
from OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. &c to % cents.
Nitrogen in nitrates reduced from 90 to IS. cents.
Nitrogen in organic substances
duced from. ...................2 % tolls cents.
Phosphoric acid, soluble in water"
reduced from. .............. 12H to 10 cents.
Phosphoric acid in fine ground rock
reduced from. 81 to ~ cents.
This is doing well, though it is not doing
enough. As long as experiments on q small
scale show that soluble phosphorc acid can
be made by the farmer himself to cost only
six or seven cents, aud as long as it is we'll
known that it does not cost fertilizer makers
over three cents when made from rock, or
five cents when made from bone, ten cents is
yet twenty five per cent too high In nitrogen
there is no reason whatever to mako any diff.
ference between that in ammonia salts and
that in nitrates or organic substances dried
blood, meat fish, etc, except that the gas
works ring keep up the price OF the sulphate
Of ammonia they make. The stations have
done well in this reduction, but they have
still left good chance for another. - WdtcA
man
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-06-06

My father and mother were both Of per-
feet health and strength. They never know
what it was to be sick, or 10 be unable TO do
the days work when the day came, or to eat
their yictuals at eight, twelve, four and eight
| oclock-four meals day When we we're
born, at intervals OF less than two years, my
mother always had woman to see to things
about a week but the next week she did all
her own work just as usual. A deep.chested
light footed woman, with a rose bloom on her
cheok-a clear, gray light in her eyes-a
voice that was music-she possessed the great
or and finer nature but my father was
brown-eyed, sturdy little fellow as this world
ever held.
Then the second thing think Of is the way
my mother managed us through our child
hood She never heard lecture or read a
book about health in her life that I know Of.
but she had a code of traditions and instincts
to which she held always She whitewashed
her cottage from top to bottom with quick
lime twice year, and once year painted all
the wood work
We slept on chafT- beds; but she always
cleared them out in the spring, and got new
chat always had her whole little stock of
linen white and pure to wear and sleep in, and
once week while we were small put us
through untold torments with yellow soap and
the most intolerable towels. "Who hath red
bgbb VIZ uhtu NDultullOh VINO main
strife p The boys who have to go into tub,
with woman like my mother to work with.
Then she gave us plenty to cat oatmeal por-
ridge and blue milk in the morning. oatmeal
porridge and blue milk at night, a very little
piece Of meat at noon with plenty Of soup
and potatoes, and on rare days dumplings.
oat. cake to fill up all the crevicee, and
wheaton bread about twice n week Butter
We wero supposed to have on Sundays but VIZ
all agreed that she scraptd more of than she
put on. We know what tea and coffee wore,
but it never hurt our nerves or kept us awake
nights; and every spring she made "a wonder
full specific Of birthstone, molasses and cream
Of tartar,-a kind OF Internal sweatmeat,
which, with salts and SIENNA, when we were
supposed to need some, and pleasant drink
in April made out Of new netiles no doubt
in her sure faith pres. rved our precious lives
Good shoes, and stockings Of her own knit
ting two suits Of clothes warm and stout
with prophecy in them OF the growth We
were to attain before they were worn out, one
suit for Sunday, the other for week days, with
no distinction between summer and winter:
and Hobson's choice OF the wholesome fare
that was the way our wiso strong mother
gathered her brood under her wings, and bred
them into sturdy cheils and buirdly hizzies.
Robert COl{ycr in Home Science.