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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-24
How Grover w,n Take Christmas.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.--The president
will spend Christmas day quietly at the
White House. He will have no company
but will eat his Christmas dinner with
Miss CleYeland.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-24

Mrs. VLaer, wife OF inc North Carolina
senator, las 10 her Washington pfrlor
hornets nest fofty-two inches IA length
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-02-27

soiacrauou Among the norior1
There isa breeze IN The - Lou.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
CULTURE OF CELERY.

Il am farmer wife, with natural
liking for all good vegetables" writes
correspondent of Nck's Magazine,
"and if the guide mon can not get time
to care for them, do myself, with some
help. For several years have tried to
raise celery, and have at last succeeded
in raising the best every saw. At first
had it set out in the garden, but it
never grew tall enough to admit of
blanching, so I adopted the practice of
taking it up and putting it into barrels
in the cellar late in the fall and waited
tor new sprouts to grow. Alter while
found that the plants while young
need plenty of water, and more than
they could get so far from the house.
raise the plants in hotbed, sowing the
seeds in April, and like the dwarf kinds
best. For two years l have used Tur-
ner's Incompatible dwarf white. Fresh
seeds are indispensable. About the
middle Of July I have trench made
near the house, where we can throw all
of our clean waste water. Tie trench
is about twenty inches dee and two
feet wide. Into this is put wo!l-rotted
manure to the depth of four or five
inches, then covered with about four
inches of soil. The plants are set in two
rows six inches apart, and the plants
about four or five inches apart. In this
way the two rows can be blanched by
drawing the soil up on each side and
pushing it through between the plants.
use small trowel, doing that part of
work myself, getting the man to
loosen the DIRT and draw it near the
rows. Care must be taken to hold the
stalks close together while the dirt is
being heaped around them. We COM
mence using early, and in November
have the remainder put in the cellar.
We have dirt thrown in through cellar
window and plant the roots firmly,
watering them about once month.
The plants are in fine condition all win
ter long. When brought to the table
the celery is perfectly delicious, and
many of the stalks measure over two
inches across.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
WASH lNGTON LETTER.

washington, Jan. .3Oth, 1885.
The order for the week in Con.
gress has been secret sessions Of
the Senate on treaty questions, and
open sessions on Interstate Com
merce, Indian appropriations in the
House Of Representatives; obituary
eloquence over deceased members
in both the Senate and House, and
discussions in both concerning the
Oklohoma lands invasion.
Representative Hnrd, of Ohio,
made bold effort to defeat the
Educational bill by raising aques-
ton of constitutional privilege.
He asserted that the measure, hav-
ing originated in the Senate, was
in violation of the exclusive priv.
lege OF the House to originate all
bills for raising revenue. When the
Senate originated a bill appropriiat.
ing 500, 200, 900, he Thought the
time had arrived for determining
the question whether the Senate
possessed the power which it exer-
cised. His remarks, that the found.
ers of the government gave the Re-
representatives. power over the peo..
pies money, ELECTED the applause
of Members, but the advocates of
the Educational bill were in the
majority. The bill, however, mar.
rowly escaped reference to the Ju-
dietary committee, which would
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

The State Agricultural society held
its annual session in St. Paul last week.
The treasurer's report showed a bal
ance in the treasury Of $500. The
commissioners Of Ramsey county pre-
sented the society the county poor
farm, embracing 210 acres of land and
laying midway between the twin cities.
The property is valued at about $780,
600 and the generous gift was unani-
mously accepted, and the State Fair is
now permanently located. The follow
ing officers were elected for the .ensu-
ing year:
President, N. P. Clark, of St. Cloud
1st Vice Prest., G. A.. DeGraff, Of
Waseca.
I'd Vice Prest., G. P. Bailey, of Du-
luth,
Secretary, R. G. Judson, of Farming
ton.
Treasurer, FIR. J. Wilcox, of North
field.
The next State Fair will be held at
the new grounds, commencing Mon
day, Sept. 9TH, and continuing for six
consecutive days. The legislature has
been asked for an appropriation OF
100000 for permanent buildings, etc.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
consulting the quotations in the nanar.

consulting the quotations in the papers
of Manchester, Sheffield, and Birming-
ham. These quotations areof no value
in this country, except it may be to en-
able our enterprising manufacturers to
double the figures. The producers of
art cles of food in this country are OBJ
Ii ed to compete with the producers Of
similar products in every part of the
world, tut our manufacturers, whose
goods farmers are obi ged to have, have
no competition except among them
selves. AS before stated, they gener-
ally manage to prevent such COMPETE
ton. w tn such state of affairs, it is
no great marvel that farmers are not
pros erOus.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
sHEEP-1MPRovED PASTURES.

DR.. Reynolds, of Maine, writes:
''Sheep effect very marked improve
ment in pastures. Pastures which have
become SO thoroughly run out and over
run by briers and bushes as not to be
worth fencing for cattle pasturing by
being given over to the sheep for a few
years Will be brought into productive
condit on. Any pasture used for cattle
or horses may profitably have as many
sheep added to the stock as there are
acres in the pasture, and the pasture
will be benefited thereby. Sheep eat so
many kinds of plants which cattle and
horses refuse that the addition of a few
sheep, by keeping down those plants
which other stock refuse, really in
creases the product of grasses for other
stock. A committee of the bingham,
Mass, Agricultural society once re-
marked in their report that flock of
sheep is as beneficial to the pastures of
large farm as the pruning-knife is to
the orchard, as the broom to the kitch-
en-. They will efectually clear up the
weeds, briers, bushes, and other rub
bish, thereby saving the farmer more
labor with the bush-scythe, and by their
droppings prepare the field for the pillow.
1t is for these purposes, for raising NUT
ton, and for clearing up old farms, many
Of which are becoming foul, and posi-
bly, for the expectation of full-blood
sheep, particularly bucks, that the
farmers in this immediate vicinity
should engage in the raising of Sheep
Harvey Wolcott, Esq, Of Agawam,
Mass, who has been engaged in sheep
husbandry many years, says: Il have
two pastures, twenty acres each.
have kept sheep on one of them about
seven years in ten, and the other three
in ten. The one kept sheep on the
most is worth % per cent. more than
the one pastured with cattle, I have
an orchard of four hundred or FIVE hun
dred trees, of about five acres. Wher
the apples are the size of walnuts,
turn my sheep in. They pick up the
green fruit which has fallen to the
ground, thereby destroying many
worms. allow them to remain unit
the middle Of July, and l think the,
benefit the orchard more than one-hal
the expenses of their pasturing through
the season.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

Everything the farmer has to sell 10
very low; everything, OF at least nearly
everything, that the farmer has to buy
is comparatively high. Wheat over a
large proportion of the region in which
it is produced brings the raiser but so
cents per bushel. The price of grain
harvesters and self-binders, however,
rema MS the same as when wheat was
worth dollar a bushel in the place
where it was raised. The same is the
case with the pillow that turned the fur
row, the harrow that pulver.zed the
soil, and the seeder that put in the crop.
Everything that is turned off from the
farm is very cheap, but everything that
is turned out from the factory is dear.
The old scale of prices for farm products
has all been changed, but the scale OF
prices for products of manufactures re-
mains unchanged. Beef, mutton, and
wool are all low, but posts and wire
necessary to fence a pasture cost as
procuring materials and of putting them
together so as to afford protection to
animals during storms and in winter
has not been reduced with all the de-
cline in farm products. The price of
cloth is not affected appreciably by the
fall in wool. A farmer may get small
price for the hides he has to dispose of,
but he pays high price for the boots,
shoes, and harness that he is obliged to
purchase. Potatoes are cheap, but the
bags in which they are put and the wag-
on that is used for taking them to mar
ket cost as much as they did when po-
tatoes brought twice the money they do
at present. 1t is also noticeable that
the rates of transportation and the COM
mission merchants charges for selling
them ale as h Oh as when potatoes
brought dollar bushel.
Formerly the price of articles reqnir-
ed for food governed the price of al
most all other articles The price of
almost everything was governed BY
that of wheat, as that was regarded as
the most important of all products. All
this is changed now. Farmers have
nothing TODD in regulating prices. They
take what is offered for their products.
They are too numerous and too widely
scattered to combine. The price Of
nearly every article they are obliged to
purchase, however, is regulated by as
sociations and combinations formed
among manufacturers. The manufac-
turers Of nearly every important article
combine to limit prod on and to keep
up prices. They even combine to pre-
vent the establishment of manufactories
similar to their own. In many depart
ments Of manufacturing there is no
competition between different establish
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
Glory Hallelu.jah.

Writing from Plattsburg, NO., Mr..
A. Musser says: In common with thous-
ands of Kentuckians of the BLUEGRASS
region, fifty years ago, I knew Nat
Speaks, colored man of undeniable
genius and unaffected piety. He was
the originator of the hymn, ''The Old
Ship of Zion," with thechorus, "Glory
Hallelujah,'' out of which has since
grown "John's Browns Body" and
the celebrated war song, Orally Round
the Flag" Nat Speaks, when first
saw him, in 1884, was of middle age,
and black of skin as the purest blood
of his race, kind in behavior, and sim
pie in speech as child. His freedom
had been bestowed upon him by his
master, in whose family he had been
born slave, where he had been taught
by the children to read and write. He
passed his freedom in useful farm la
Dor and his spare time as a volunteer
evangelist; teaching by example, rather
than by precept, the simple truths of
Christianity. His strong point was
earnest singing of his own making, of
the class of compositions general then
as corn-feld and consolidating songs,
with a grand chorus. ''The Old Ship
of Zion'' is readily recognized as be-
longing to that class.
'The gospel ship is sailing,
Sailing, sailing.
Bound for Canaans happy shore.
All who would ship for glory,
Glory, glory,
All who would ship for glory
Come and welcome, rich and poor.
Glory hallelujah, glory hallelujah, etc.
Ivividly recall to mind that once,
during season of great religious in
terest in Cynthiana, KY, Nat Speaks
would be invited evening after evening
to the house of the leading citizens to
sing his "Old Ship of Zion," and many
little sums of money were pressed into
his hsnds for his performances, which
never failed to impress his hearers,
and not always without tears. MIS-
souri Republican.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
CONTINGENCIES IN BARNS.


Not one barn in fifty in the west has
glass windows. The only light receiv-
ed is adm tied through cracks IN the
walls or through doors that are left
open. To perform any kind of labor in
the barn it is necessary to leave one or
mo of the doors open. This VIII ad.
mt the md and cause q 'dust to be
IA s.d'' that will interfere with any
kind of work that is being performed.
1t W II also render the person employed
very uncomfo table, and most likely
cause him to .'catch cold.'' The cur
rent OF cold air will have an injurious
effect on the animals confined in the
building. A barn devoted to any pur-
pose should be well supplied with glass
windows. They are useful for ventila-
ton a, we'll as Tor the admission of light.
The eyes of all animals are likely to
be impaired by keeping them in build
ing that is very poorly lighted. The
change between dark barn and the
free sunlight out of doors is too great
for the healthy condition of the eyes.
Especially is this the case when the
ground is covered with snow. The
barns of the German farmers in Penn
sylvania contain as many glass windows
accord ng to their size as the dwellings
they occupy. Windows protected by
Stats extend over the mows and scat
folds on which hay is stored. AS the
hay is removed the space becomes light
ed. Stars are as convenient in barn
as they are in a house. They are easier
to climb than ladders, and are far less
dangerous. Every permanent barn
should have stairs leading from the
ground floor to the scaffold and top of
the NOW. Windows should be arrang-
ed SO they will throw light on them.
Every barn should contain closet in
which to pace wooden shoes, overalls,
and frocks to be worn while the farmer
is at work among the stock. They will
keep the ordinary clothing clean and
prevent much fifth from being carried
into the house. Dutch farmers wear
wooden shoes in the barn, and have
frocks to cover their clothing when
they are engaged in milking or taking
care of horses and pigs. 1t is certainly
desirable to have conveniences for
washing in barn. A place can easily
be arranged for WATERFALL, wash
basin, towel, comb, and looking glass.
With these farmer can make pre-
sentable appearance after he has done
the necessary work in the barn and is
ready to go to the house.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
A Life Sayina Present.

Mr. n. E, Allison, at Hutchinson
Kan, saved his life by a simple trial
bottle OF DR.. King New Discovery for
consumption, which caused him to
procure a large bottlewhich complete
~ cured him when doctors, change of
climate and everything else had failed.
Asthma, bronchitis, Hoarseness, Sc
we're coughs, and all throat and lung
diseases it is guaranteed to cure.
Trial bottles free at Chas. T.. Roos'
drug store. Large size ssl.OO.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

No new developments regarding the
recent dynamite explosions have come
to light. Several arrests have been
made, but no clew has as yet been dis
covered giving the slightest information
as to the identity of the perpetrators of
the crime. The dynamiters are still
active and persons high in official po-
sitions have received letters threatening
to blow up many public buildings in
London, including the Bank of Eng
land, the British museum, and the de-
pot of the Great Eastern railroad.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

During the past six weeks heavy
storms have prevailed throughout
Eastern Oregon and Washington Ter
ritory. The loss of live stock is report
ed very heavy. Cattle and horses per-
ished by thousands from exposure and
want of food. The latest reports from
settled regions east of the Cascades are
that large numbers of persons froze to
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

Bro. Heatwole of the Mortified Neavs
wants the legislature to enact q law
establishing the whipping-post for wife
beaters. He says man who lays his
hands on a woman, save in the way of
kindness, should be tlogged with the
cat-O-nine-tails.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

The historic Liberty bell mas been
safely transported from. Philadelphia
to New Orleans. where it is now a part
of the great exposition, the admired of
Ill admirers.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

Oliver Gibbs, Minnesota's commits
sioner at the Worlds fair, telegraphed
Gov. Hubbard last Wednesday that
Minnesota had won twenty-three pre-
miums on dairy products amounting to
$1,000 at tie exposition; with several
awards yet to hear from. Good
'nOuph for Minnesota.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

Tom Digging, an old trapper living
in the northern part of Michigan, was
killed by wolves few nights since, as
he was returning home from neigh
bors He shot and killed 13 before they
killed him.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

The avalanches which have recently
occurred in the Alpine provinces Of
France and Italy are the most disas-
trous on record. Many villages have
been destroyed, hundreds killed and
thousands made homeless and wholly
destitute. The condition of the sur
vivors is, if anything, more pitiable
than that of the earthquake sufferers in
Snain
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

The sale of the St. Paul Dispatch to
Geo. X. Shaw, late editor of the Mime
apolis Journal, is announced by Capt.
Castle. The latter retains the editorial
management of the paper until the close
of the present session of the legislature.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

Ignatious Donnelly is after the sur
veyor-generalship of Minnesota, q posi-
ton now held by Martin S. Chandler of
Red Wing. If he can't go to Congress,
Donnelly will take the next best thing
he can get, if it is nothing better than a
crossroads DOstOffice.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

Minnesota not only wins twenty-three
premiums for dairy products exhibited
at the great exposition at New Orleans,
but is awarded the premium for
the finest butter in the world,
telegram from c. E. Marvin,
superintendent of the dairy exhibit, to
Governor Hubbard announces that
Minnesota captures the grand sweep
stake prize for the best butter made.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

Our State exchanges a. death on
the estate park job," an effort of which
is making to engineer through the le-
gislature. Now that Ramsey county
has given its poor farm for State Fair
purposes, the bottom has dropped out
the "iob' above referred to-. Ills we'll.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

The New York State capitol building
is the most expensive edifice on this
continent. It has already cost $l6,-
400, GOO, and estimates Of the further
sum required vary from 81, 600. 600, TO
.S15, 0o0, 600,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

An..Ohio legislator proposes to make
school books cheap by having them
printed and bound in the penitentiary.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
FOR THE FARMERS.
Farmers Should Form Combinations and
Associations for their Own Protection
Against MOnop0lies.
TWO SCALES OF PRICES.

Barns Should be well Supplied with Glass
WindOws-Celery Culture-Sheep for
Pasture Land.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
WOOD FOR SALE.

The undersigned desires to inform
the citizens of New Ulm that ne Is
prepared to supply all demands for
wood on short notice, either by tho
carload or cord, and at prices that de-
IL competition.
PETER HERIAN.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04

+, N. J. Smith Of Wright county last
Thursday introduced q bill prohibit
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-02-04
FRIDAY, JANUARY 80.

was recommended to pass by the SEN
ate committee of the whole. A large
number OF bills appropriating money to
aid in building bridges were introduce
ed. Senator Shaleen introduced bills
which are exact copies of the Illinois
statutes affecting railroads, warehouses
and grain inspection. The senate bill
authorizing guardians to mortgage real
estate of wards to pay debts passed.
Adjourned until Tuesday next at 1890
a. m.
HoUsE-Bills were introduced to
amend the statutes relating to dams;
appropriating $1,000 annually for
farmers Institutes; amending the
statutes relating to property exempt
from taxation; amending statutes relat-
ing to the drainage Of lakes; amending
statutes relating to chattel mortgages;
amending statutes relating to redemp-
ton OF mortgage foreclosure sales; to
regulate the holding of teachers insti-
tutes in the. state. House bills were
passed requiring security for costs in
certain cases. In committee of the
whole the memorial for the passage of
the Reagan bill was considered, and
when the committee rose laid on the
table. Adjournment until 10 a. m. Sat.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 81.
SENATE-Not in session.
HOUsE-Bills were indefinitely post
ponIed increasing the bounty for the
killing OF wolves; prohibiting the sale
of dime novels. Bills were introduced
fixing the annual school meeting in
September instead of July; for comis-
sion for the regulation of railroads and
warehouses; providing for the taxation
OF certain lands held by railroad COM
panies; providing for a commission to
revise the names of the lakes. Adiourn-
ed until 1:S0 p. m. Monday.
Legislative Notes.
=, N. J: Smith Of Wright county last
:, Thursday fll' introduced a bill prohibit.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-12-19
Tho Presbyterian Church Fair.

Tho Presbyterian Church Fair.
i Tho ladies Of the Prssby terian society
Who have worked on . thousand and
ono articles for the LIST six weeks, have
reason to feel proud of the success Of
the fair which closed last night. Tho
demand for fancy articles was greater
than WAS expected. The attendance the
Grst day and evening was very great
A famous attraction for the small boys
was the fish pond, presided over BY Mrs.
Gibson and Hiss Dorman, and for the
big "boys" there vas = gypsy tent that
mystifed some and COMPOUNDED others.
Miss Ada Frost had the candy counter
and Mrs. Strahorn, Mrs. Lee, Mrs.
Sebrse and We afraid some other ladies
whose names We hate to miss but
haven't got, were kept busy showing
the excellent specimens Of their handi
work. But the best part OF the fair was
the supper depar m,nt, whsrs Mr..
Asacham and Mrs Little reigned..
Tn, interest last night osntsred in tt
voting. For the small doll the contsst-
ants were kobt. Hsnderson's little girl |
baby and Baby Niece. Tho tribune
bshy b ing Tho handsomsst in the tsrr,-
tory, A's daddy thought it would b uL-
fair to run him, and hs did not figure in
The contest. Baby McGss was tsken
homo early in the evening. b. FIRE
Aessrs. Devers,. Baker, Gwinn, Dor
nan. and o'hsr baby sonnoisseurs ar
wed, aud lost strength in consequences.
Is the result, Baby Henderson got tho
Jolly by IS TO 81.
the handsome doll, elegantly dressed
satin, with = hand-psintsd basque,
las voted to Edna Little BY 80 vous. to
for Norma Harvey, 5 for Bertha Lse
nd 2 for Phyllis Niece.
Tho town lot TO the best boy was net
,ted on.
''hs proceeds Of the fsir approximate I
20.
The ladies dssirs NJ to thank Mr..
It's ard N Frost for contributions q
ilk and cream, which hslpsd make
. supper success.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-12-19
SYRUP OF FIGS.

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Ant to the Palate, acceptable to tho
Stomach, harnlsss in its nature, p.in-
less in its action. Cures habisual Con-
stipation, Biliousness, Iadig aston and
Kindred ills. Clsansss the system, puri-
nss the blood. regulates the Liver and
acts on tho Bowels. Breaks up Colds,
Chill' and Fsvers, etc. Strengthens
the organs On which it asts. Better
than bitter, nauseous Liver medicines.
pills. salts and draushts. Sample bot
as. fr.s' and large BOTTLES for sale by
A'sus 20. 62,ly