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Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
Tarring Wood.

For twenty or thirty years we have
taken occasion to refer to the injury
which the application of tar does to
fences, shingles and woodwork in gen.
eral. We nevertheless still notice that
the practice is pursued under the i'm
preston that the tar preserves rather
than DESTROYS the objects to which it is
applied. 1t should be borne in mind
that heat as well as moisture decays
wood, but both combined will have an
increased effect in this direction. The
idea that many persons entertain that
moisture alone is the decaying agent,
and it follows that the protection of
wood against moisture, by a thorough
covering of paint, tar. ETC., will effect
the purpose, is altogether fallacious.
Heat in an almost equal degree will
work the destruction of the wood; and
as the black coloring of tar will attract
the heat powerfully. this agent alone,
or in cOminatiOn with moisture, which
in nearly all cases will more or less
penetrate at points through any cover
ing, will rapidly produce decay. The
ton OF the suns rays. sbsorbs the life
of the wood, which can be crumbled
into powder by the hand, as our own
experience has frequently proved to us.
A black fence is pleasing to the eye,
which in addition to the belief
that it must be preservative OF the
wood, induces many to scout the idea OF
its damaging character; but trial will
in short time only too fatally confirm
what we say. MANY persons whitewash
their fences under the impression that it
also preserves the wool by protecting
it against rain; but the least eXamina
ton will show that whi5ewash does not
turn offthe rain; but ttat it penetrates
directly through it to the wood. The
question will therefo+e be naturally
asked: In what way does it benefit the
wood? We answer by its directly op-
white color. White fepels the heat,
and hence protects the wood against
the damaging effect of the heat. White
wash, as almost any other coloring
matter. except that of black, may have
some slight preserTative influence, but
not sufficient to pay for its application.
The effect of good paint on fine work
exposed to the weather. where repeated
coats are apple |, is different matter,
and has nothing to do with the question
in hand.
If good coat of tar is applied TO
wood which IS entirely underground,
and where tie sun has no influence
upon it, and no heat to be attracted by
the tar, there is no doubt but that its
application 1ill have an excellent effect
in preserving the wood.-Janeston
(Pd.) Telegraph.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
-Advice to sneculators.

Advice to spectators. A commu-
nication from the office of the Secretary
of State of Alabama asked if the Lime
Kiln Club had any advice to otter spec
ulators in cotton and grain futures
"Only few" answered The President.
'.De man who am fule 'nuff to buck
ag'in worms. weevil, rain, drouth,
sharpers, ringssers, panics an robbers
in hopes to make stake orter have a
guardian 'pinted to see dat he doan'
try to swallow his elbow an choke his.
self to death. ."-DetroI Free Press.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
Effects Of Mulching.

Mulching has long been known to be
beneficial to land, but, evidently, it has
not received the careful observation as
to cost and profit which it seems to de-
serve. Possibly, this is due to the diff
Guilty of. finding sufficient material, al
though it certainly is true that great
deal of worry valuable mulch that might
be utilized is often wasted by careless
farmers.
The common idea of the use of
mulch is that it retains moisture in the
soil, and in this way benefits crops in
q dry season. 1t also, if thick, pre-
vents the growth of weeds, and pre-
vents the full action of the hot sun on
the soil. But it does more than this.
It aets in some cases like manure,
adding fertility to the soil and pushing
tho crop forward with remarkable
vigor, and, if it does so uniformly, it
can be made powerful aid in agrlcult-
ure.
Some ten years ago mulched piece
Of land planted to strawberries with
salt hay, and kept it on most of the
time, winter and summer, until the
piece had borne three crops. I think,
and the salt hay had become very short
from the weather and the manipulation
to which it had been subjected. The
season had been very dry, and desired
to plant the pieceto late fodder corn. A
light rain came late in July and then as
soon as possible it was plowed, as was
also piece by the side OF the mulched
patch. in all nearly an acre. The latter
broke up in Jumps, and was very diff
cult to plow at all with one horse. The
mulched piece was nearly as mellow as
an ash heap, and it was pleasure to
mulched piece was narrowed several
times to break the Jumps, and then both
were planted on the same day. August
l. On the mulched land the corn came
up promptly in five days, had a good
color and grew rapidly until caught by
rather early frost. The seed on the
other part lay nearly fortni ght before
any appeared, and even then much of
it failed; while the growth. though
treated the same as the other, was vast
ly inferior. Indeed, the contrast be-
tween the two pieces was extraordinary
in color, vigor of growth, and the pro-
portion of seed which terminated.
None of it had any manure
This was the first and only instance
in which the effect of protracted
mulching came under my observation,
but am led by it to believe that when
the material can be cheaply and abun-
dainty obtained it will pay, though
without manure the effect will not
probably be very lasting. March hay is
an excellent material, and that which
Is of the first quality will last two sea-
aons certainly, and even third one if
taken up and piled or protected part of
the time, as is necessary after a straw
berry crop is gathered in order to culti-
vate between the rows and thoroughly
subdue the weeds and runners. But on
thousands of farms other material can
be found, not quite as good, perhaps,
but still of value.
Would it not be well if the expert
mental stations, or experimental farms
of the country undertook some careful
experiments with mulching to test the
cost and permanence Of systematic
mulching as an aid to agriculture? We
must look to them rather than to the
busy farmer for such Recommendations,
Qer. A,2sefieen -GtsltasGior.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
Whisky and RemOrse.
SEDALIA, Mo-, August 10

SEDALIA, Mo-, August 70.
George B. Radcliff committed suicide
this morning by cutting his throat with
razor. He came here from Morgan
County last Thursday with $1,000 in
greenbacks, the proceeds of farm he
had sold there last. Saturday. He was
very drunk and got robbed of his watch
by man named Stevens, who is now in
Jail. He was also arrested for drunken
ness and confined in the city prison until
yesterday. The cause is supposed to be
whisky and remorse for secucing 9 girl
psighbor ip Morgan County.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
Pb;1e da1nbia hotel c1ark saw

"A Philadelphia hotel clerk says
there is queer class Of travellers who
are always expecting letters and tel
egrams, and yet have never been known
to receive a single one. There is an
important look about fellow who steps
up to the register and puts his name
down, and then with pompous air in
quires: "Any letters for me?" He
knows as well as the clerk does that he
never expected any, but then it i'm
presses the man behind the desk with
the idea that he has great man under
his roof.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
A easily Find.
PITTSBURGH, Pa.

PITTSBURGH, PA, August 19.
Some boys playing near the Ohio River
In Allegheny last night, found the head
less remains of a child about nine months
old. Ono leg and arm was separated
from the trunk and bore evidence of hav-
wheels of locomotive. While they
were examining the body large dog
seized the trunk and escaped with 1t in
the darkness. No trace of it can be
found.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
-Retween Tyrol and Italy the jour

-EGtWeen IyTOI anu IIdIy tHV jour
ney usually occupies only few hours,
but now, owing TO quarantine enforced
on both sides of the frontier, it takes
ten days. Amusing accounts are ap-
pearing in the Vienna newspapers of
the present scare. Passengers arriving
with luggage labeled Marseilles, even
though the ticket may be years old,
cause a veritable panic. The unfor-
tunate traveller is at once hunted down
and fumigated almo to death. By q
new apparatus, just ordered from Vienna,
objects which acids would destroy are
to be disinfected by air heated to 100
degrees Centigrade.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

THE old custom requiring saleswomen in
dry and fancy goods stores to stand all
day long without rest or relief is being
superseded by more humane rules in many
of our leading business houses. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is highly
praised by those who have not yet been
freed from the old necessity for constant
standing; and is genuine blessing in ev-
cry such case, as we'll as to the tired-out
housekeeper who must be on her feet all
day.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
High Priced Butfer.

Dairymen often wonder how their more
favored competitors get such high prices
for their butter the year round. 1t is by
always having uniform gilt-edged arti
Gle. TO put the "gilt edge" on, when the
pastures do not do it, they use Wells,
Richardson & Co.'s Improved Butter Col
or. Every butter maker can do the same.
Sold everywhere and warranted as harm
less as salt, and perfect in operation.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
-"For twenty wears and more,'' re

-"For twenty years and more,'' re-
marks gambler, "I've handled the
chips in club-room, and I've watched
all sorts of men and seen every kind of
luck. I have known only few big
winners, and only two men who kept it
up and profited by their good fortune. )"
Chicago Times.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

"A Parsee girl has astonished her
race in India by bringing a suit for
breach of promise OF marriage. 1t is
the first episode of the kind known in
that land. and it has created q great
scandal.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

MEMBERS of boating club should al
ways be true to its scullers. TEXAS SJt-
mas,
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

A CIRCUS poster may not be particularly
aristocratic, but when you find one it is
generally stuck up.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

WOMEN do love one another. 1t is only
a woman who thinks of kissing man fol
his mother.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

If dog knows a good thing when he
sees it, will he seize it when he nose it?-
Portland Transcript
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

A BAD miss take-Marrying a high-tem-
pered girl.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

Glenn's Sulphur Soap
Is common remedy for skin diseases.
Hill's Hair Dye, black or brown, soc.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30


Remedy the best remedy in existence
For Indigestion, kidney
Compliant
''And nervous debility. have JUST
Returned
'From the south in frutless search for
health. and find that your Bitters are doing
me more
Good!
Than anything else;
A month ago l was extremely
''Emaciated ! p
And scarcely able to walk. Now am
Gaining strength ! and
'FleShp
And hardly day passes but what I am
Z X \ 4
complimented on my improved appearance,
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None genuine without a bunch of green
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sonous stuff with Hop" or Hops" in their
name.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

THE owl is very small bird for its eyes.
Hdgkeye.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

THE increasing sales of Piso's Cure at
tests it's claim as the best cough remedy.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

Buchu-paiba." Quick, complete cure, all
annoying Kidney and Urinary Diseases, 81.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
-Awoman doctor in Boston achieved

"A woman doctor in Boston achieved
Eotoriety by making a fatal blunder.
She prepared mixture containing
strychnine for one Of her patients, and
in the directions for dose on the label
she wrote ''spoonfuls y instead of
stdrops." In about an hour the patient
vrs dead.--Bostep Pos.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

Rough on Coughs, "15c., at Druggists. Com
plete cure Coughs, Hoarseness. Sore Throat.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
STRIKING peculiarity-The clocks
Merchant Traveller.

"Mother Swans Worm Syrup" for few
erishness, worms, s,constipation,t ,tasteless. 25c
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

Skinny Men. "Wells' Health Remover" re-
stores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia,$L
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

GOOD at figures-A dancing MASTER
Free Press.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

"Rough on Corns." 15c. Ask for it. Com
plete cure, hard or soft corns, warts, ,bunions.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
"I Have Suffered J"

I write this as
Token of the great appreciation have of
your Hop
Ritters Twas afflicted
With infatnanatory rheumatism !
For nearly
Seven years, and no medicine seemed to
do me any
Good
Until tried two bottles of your Hop Bit
ters, and to my surprise am as well to-day
as ever was. l hope
''You may have abundant success
''In this great and'
Valuable medicine:
Anyone! wishing to know more
about my cure?
Can learn by addressing me, E. NJ.
Williams, 1103 10th street, Washington,
d. C.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-02

government were so badly conceived
they failed to produce the results so
confidently expected; perhaps the
people of the North viii understand
at last what the negro has long since
appreciated, viz; his best friends are
those who understand his needs, his
difficulties and his character; abso-
lutte strangers to all these cannot
hope to make special legislation for
him to any good purpose under the
sun. The Blair bill is good, and for
the advocacy which carried it
through the Senate much credit
must be given to the speeches of the
Florida Senators.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-02
Cashed After Many Years.

1t occurred at the First National Bank
of Manasquan a few days ago, says a
Long Branch special, an aged farmer
named Appleyard, from the immediate
vicinity, meandered into the bank, and
approaching Cashier Terhune presented
a well-worn and faded piece of paper
into that gentleman's hand exclaiming:
Thar: want you to collect that and
put it to my credit"
The obliging money counter examined
the paper and found it to be check for
$270, drawn in favor of the farmer,
signed by New York merchant, but
dated 1872.
The fasmer, it appears, had sold his
crop of cranberries to a New York com
mission merchant nearly twelve years
ago and has received his check for the
amount, but had hidden the valuable
piece of paper in his feather bed. Cashier
Terhune sent the check to New York for
collection. The merchant honored the
paper, ard yesterday Farmer Apologize
called at the bank and got his money.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-02
The Philadelphia Times.
1881.
THE PHILADELPHTA TIMES. ISL

THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, 1884.
TIE TIMES Will enter upon the new year
fore in its hlstory-more widely read and
quoted, more heartily commended, and more
fCrceiy criticized. with a more complete or
ganizatiOn. and an able SsOff of contributions
and with the same Independence and fearless
ness that has made it successful and powerful
in the past.
THE TIMES has no party to follow. no candi-
dates to advance, but will meet every issue us
ii has ever done, with consistent devotion to
tine right, TO honest government, and the pub
lie welfare And, while maintaining its posi-
ton as the leading journal of Philadelphia. it
Will aim TO toe continually in the advance in all
that can add value TO q newspaper.
The value Of q uewSDaDer is not in its size or
display, but in the intelligence and care, the
ConCiscneSS and freshness with which it is
edited. The TINES spends lavishly for news
from all parts OF the world. but all its dis
patches are carefully edited and condensed, in
order TO give the complete news of the day in
the most concise and attractive shape. and with
Il large variety Of entertaining and instruc-
tive reading. The best writers at home and
abroad are employed to enrich its columns.
and to make it journal adapted both to the
busy man and to the leisure of the home cir
Gle, q welcome visitor to Intelligent and honest
citizens OF every political, religious and social
taste.
THE WEEKLY TINES is altogether different
from the weekly newspapers of twenty years
ago. The day of those papers have gone by.
everywhere, especially in the thriving centres
Of rural population, have made the old weekly
metropolitan newspaper unSatISfying. Those
that cling to their ancient usages have lost
their hold on our fOrward-mOving people: they
are but shadows OftheiT former greatness and
they have but q shadow of their former power
Those papers have had their usefulness but il
is gone; and. with it, they are going, too It
was not the fault of the papers: it was the i'm
prOvement of the country that brought about
the change. Men and women. wherever they
live, now require freshcr news; and they re-
quirc more than news.
THE EEKLY TIMES gathers off the tYDes of
every passing week whatever has lasting in
terest TO tie people at large. and sets il before
them IN such generosity Of paper and print as
would have astOnished US all twenty yeors ago
DAILY-Twelve cents a week. fifty cents a
month, S. year two cents a COPY.
SINDAI-FOur cents a copy, 81 a year
NEEkLI-0ne copy. s. a year; FIVE copies
= q year; ten copies. SIS a year; twenty cop
les s. a year, with one copy free to the getter-
up Of every club.
THE TINES
PHILADELPHIA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-02
IRRIGATION.

Col. Bard, of Norwalk, was in to
see US during the week, and echoed
the same old complaints, now 50
general in our county, of suffering
in grove and garden from the
drought. During April and May,
and also in November our farmers
throughout East Florida suffer from
want of rain at the most critical pc
Rod. For during these two spring
months, the summer gardens are
often made unfruitful; during No
vember excessive drought makes
impossible a full growth of the
vegetables which bear such high
prices in Northern markets. In
injury to the strawberry crop alone
this year, the price of many wells
was lost. Often the orange crop is
materially shortened by excessive
hot, dry weather, followed by sea-
sons of two abundant rain. In the
accounts of the bored wells now be-
coming so common, a cheap remedy
NAV be found. The flow of water
from these is abundant and certain;
in view of the results, the expense
is small, and the sulphur water gen
orally obtained is held by good
authority to possess fertilizing as
well as irrigating properties. The
experiments made by such promi-
nent fruit growers as Col. Hart and
Mr.. Beach have been eminently
satisfactory, and we would urge up.
on our farmers the considerations OF
this remedy for one of the few de.
fects incidental to our climate. Will
facilities for abundant irrigation
many crops can be raised in Florida
exactly to suit the demands of the
market, and the piles of cans in ou
yard, representing a perpetual out
flow of money to other States vii
cease to grow. There is no excuse
under the circumstances, for ou1
habit of sending the money received
during the winter, back to the Nortl
for summer supply of canned
| goods. With water at command
and muck-beds everywhere, VIZ
should raise and sell vegetables du
ring July and August as well a
March and April, We can be as
sured, too, that the visitor will no
| be so anxious to leave when we cal
give them summer vegetables a
we'll as winter fruit. Some of tn,
best hotels in the State are anuuall,
keeping open later and later; it be
hooves our farmers to do their par
towards inducing a change so prof
table to all Of is. These words ar
dictated by practical experience, no
mere hypothesis.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-02
PALATKA, FLA, MAY 2, 1884.

To the citizens of Palalka, the
letter of our valued friend from
Melrose should be especially interest
ing. First there comes the intima-
ton that the citizens of that lively
little burg will send on committee
to the Gem City for conference as
to connection with us through the
Florida Southern. Secondly we
should ponder the fact that Melrose
has an excellent building for its
public school, and park for public
exercise and recreation. We must
take some steps looking in the same
direction before next winter.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-02
The Lobby.
Baltimore Sun.


Several ex-Senators have been quite
conspicuous in the lobby during the pres
ent session of Congress, and taking ad-
vantage of their privilege or admission
to the floor, it is not unusual TO see them
sitting by the side of their former asso-
ciates pleading for vote for something
or other in which they are personally in
terested. One of these ex-Senators has
been laboring very hard of late with his
successor, but to-day he was too pressing
and the occupant of the seat which once
belonged to him resented his importantly
with much show of feeling, and should
vote and do just as he pleased. The ex-
Senator SUNK off, as he could not make
a scene, but had his revenge in the re-
mark, Yes, you are the Senator now.
and a poor one you are.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-05-02
THE DAILY NEWS.
BENZ. HARRISON, Editor.

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PALATKA, FLORIDA.