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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-12
A Successful Conference Held on an
Island in the Rio Graade.
UNARMED MEN MEET IN COUNCIL
While Their Fellow Countrymen, With
War Weapons, Line the River
Banks-Who the Conferees
Were and the Result.
THE DAYS CRIMINAL RECORD.
An Arbitration ON the norder.


EAGLE PASS, Feb. ll.-[Special Re
cognizing the impossibility of enforcing
the law and preventing predatory incur.
sions from both sides on the Rio Grande,
and fearing a re-occurrence of the late
alarming conditions at Garlic Springs,
under the suspension of the extradition
treaty with Mexico, prominent citizens
i'll Mexico asked IL conference with a
view to peaceful solution of the diff
iiculties, and on the 9th instant Lee
Hail, eX-captaiu of the rangers, and
sheriff Mckinney OF LaSalle county,
representing Texas, and DIR. Pope and
two Mexican officers representing Mex
leo, met on an island in mid stream and
after parley of some duration, reached
settlement as follows: -Four Of the five
Mexican prisoners in Jail at Garlic
Springs to be liberated and restored to
their friends in Mexico, no more
shooting of MeXicans in Dim
mitt or, Maverick counties
until after due investigation of the
charges against them; the Americans
TO promptly deliver all American raid
ers running of Mexican stock or com
hitting other crimes in Mexico; the
MeXcans, on the other hand, to use all
efforts to prevent robbery and pillage OF
Americans; to deliver up thieves now
protected by them, and to break up the
camp of bandits now near tho Rio
Grande, opposite Dimmit county, with
numerous stock in their possession be-
longing TO Texans, which is to be re-
stored. 1t was q memorable spectacle.
Both banks of the Rio Grande were
lined with men of each nation, all
armed and covering the island where
the unarmed officers conversed. At one
time it seemed as if an agreement
would not be reached and a fight was
imminent. The issue, however, was
peaceful and both parties departed for
the interior without exchanging any
angry words. None but the conierees
were allowed on the island. 1t has been
reported here that Lee Hall was killed
during the conference, bat the rumor is
without foundation. A petition has
been largely signed, asking The reten-
ton of the ranger force, and that q de-
tachment of them be permanently sta
toned on the Rio Grande, in Dimmit
county. Senator Hall, of Laredo, has
been most instrumental in having them
disbanded, and his conduct, alleged to
have been governed by motives Of per
sonal dislike to Capt. Shelly, corr
manding, is most bitterly condemned.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-12
Tone of the slnck AInr1,nI

NEW York, Feb. ll.-Governments
dull; only one sale ON the Stock ex-
change to-day, and without change in
quotations.
State securities neglected.
Tho feature to-day has been the
strength and ACTIVITY of New
York Central aud Lake shore,
accompanied by reports thai
Vanderbilt had again entered the mar
ket as a buyer of these stocks. Another
rumOr was that Woerschatler was max
ing an earnest effort to secure control of
the New York Central. Neither story
was confirmed, but the New York Cen
trail, which opened a lower, made steady
advances during the day until it reached
9i which was accomplished during the
last hour. In the final dealing, ii sold
of to 029s The remainder of the active
market, with few exceptions, show
gains of y to lSs per cent. The leaders
in the recent advance say they practi-
cally left the market alone to day, while
Vanderbilt stocks were being advanced
by other parties.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-12
Briefs From Bowie.

Free lecture at the opera house
Wednesday night.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-12

WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN
date for Mayor at the ensuing April election
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-02-12
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO AN
w nounce JOHN HENRY BROWN as a
candidate Tor Mayor
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-27
Ancient Temperance Pledge.

{ On the blank leaf of an old English
Bible which has been transmitted from
sire to son through many successive
generations and appears as the prop
erty of Robert Bolton, B. D., and
preacher Of Gods Word at Broughton,
N rthamptonshire, is inscribed the
following pledge: From this day for
Warde to the ende of my life, I will
never pledge any healthe nor drink a
whole carouse in glass cup, bowie, or
other drinking instrument, except ne
cessity doe require it; not to my own
most gracious kinge, nor any the great
est monarch or tyrant upon earth, nor
my dearest friend, nor all the gould in
the world, shall ever enforse me- Not
angel from heaven (who / know will
not attempt it) shall persuade; not
Satan, with all his Guide subtleties nor
all the powers of hell itself shall betray
me. By this very slime (for slime it is,
and not little one) doe plainly find
that [ have more offended and dishon-
ored my glorious Maker and most gra-
cious Saviour than by all other SHINE
that am subject untoe; and for this
very sin it is my God hath often been
strange untoe me and for that cause.
and no other respect, have / thus
vowed, and / heartily beg my good Faith.
ser in heaven of His great goodness and
mercy in Jesus Christ, to assist me in
this same, and be favorable unto me for
what is past Amen. Broughton,
April 10, 1857. R. Bolton.
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NECESSITY.

Gaunt faced and hungry eyed she waits,
This sombre warder Of our fates,
Forever sleepless while we sleep,
And silent while we watch and weep.
Sometimes, beguiled by smiling skies,
And wooing winds we shut our eyes,
Forgetting for little space
That tiresome, unforgetting face.
Or, stirred as stirs the sap in spring,
BY natures force, we laugh and sing,
Or run to pass that waiting shape,
With Tying footsteps of escape.
But where we run she leads the way,
She goes before us night and day,
No flying footsteps can escape
By any path, that sombershape.
Always she waits with whip and spur,
TO urge us on if we demur;
With bitter breath we call her foe,
AS driven thus we rise and go.
The roads we follow wind and twist,
Our eyes grow blind with binding mist,
Blown down to us as we ascend
The upland nights that near the end
And at the end-"Where is the foe!
Where hideth she!' we cry-and 10,
Through breaking mist, and angels face,
Looks out upon us from herplace!
''.. NORA PERRY.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-27
Manure in Gardens.

The best manure for either vegetables
or fruits is we'll decomposed barnyard
manure. It is not advisable to use
fresh manure, as in such condition it
is unfit for plant food, and if it is put
into the soil dry and fresh it is a long
time before it gets into condition so
that the roots of plants derive nourish-
ment from it, better place in a heap
and allow it to ferment and rot before
putting into the ground. All vegetables
require well MANFRED soil, some of
course, much more than others. Cab
bage, celery, sweet corn and caulifow-
ers especially, require rich soil. For
peas, beans and tomatoes, if the soil is
in tolerably good condition, a top dress
ing of wood ashes applied after blowing
and well narrowed in, is excellent in
most kinds Of soils. I have often raised
better crops OF these vegetables when
an application Of wood ashes was
given than when barnyard manure
was used; there was less vine and more
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-27
Southern Chain Gangs.

Florida has no chain gang, but the
terror of the colored evil doer is to be
let out by contract. A man who had
once been let out that way told me that
before he would 60 there again he
would cut his throat. He had been. a
slave, but said slavery was nowhere in
comparison to it. Knock down and drag
out; if killed, no questions were asked.
1t is worse than the chain gang, for
they are let out to parties in far out of
the way places. whilst the chain gang
is generally in sight of some one.
| ran across one of these gangs in
Georgia and talked with the keeper
who had his rifle strapped to his back
and bloodhound by his side. expected
to find ssLagree,' but he was mild
spoken and pleasant man, at least for
the time being. The % men, mostly
young, and all colored, were grading
with pick and shovel. They had light
chains, about as large as one used for
a halter, twined around one leg and
fastened to the belt; no balls. 1t did
not impede their movements, and was
principally for fastening them together
at night Whilst eating their dinner
of corn bread, I talked with them.
They seemed about as happy as fellows
generally are who have to work for
living. This was county gang. For
high crimes they are put in the state
gang, which is much worse. It does
not take much of crime to send col
ored man to the chain gang, and they
are sent there early and often.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-27
Bible Scenes Illustrated.


In an article in the Gospel in all
Lands, Rev. E. F. Baldwin writes from
Morocco:
At every turn in this semi-O Oriental
land, one finds the scenes and sayings
Of the Word of God wildly reproduced
and illustrated Here, as one approach
es the city from Our home, just before
we enter the West gate, sits another
Bartimeus, by the wayside, begging,
and ground him the loose outer car
ment, he might easily cast away if he
started up in eager haste to receive his
sight.
At one point, as you come over the
brow of a hill on which the ''Casba" is
built, the city at once burst out upon
your vision, as did Jerusalem before
the Lord Jesus when he wept over it.
On the other side the city, as you pass
from the 'Marino,' or enclosure where
is the custom-house, you behold again
Matthew sitting at the receipt of custom,
in the persons of the Sultan's officials.
who sit, with piles of silver before them,
to appraise and receive the duties on
imports.
One OF the first houses I entered was
built on the city wall, as were several
we read OF in sacred story. I now well
understand Peters going upon the
house-top to pray, for it is upon our
terrace, as the flat roof of our house
is called, [ 60 when would be most
alone. The children playing in the
mlarket-place; those Of pretentious
piety praying in public places; the
women grinding at the mill; the narrow
path through the field where the seed
may fall on the beaten path or in thorny
ground, or in shallow soil or good; the
girding up of the loins; these and
scores Of Scripture illusions may be
seem OF sought out in this land which
has SO many Palestinean features It
makes very real to one much of the
outward life of our Lord when he walked
among men.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-27

cut it.at the proper time, and cured it
well, have found it valuable fodder
crop. On good land very large crop
can be grown, much more than barley
or rye, and quite as much as Of Hun
garian. The only drawback to the oat
crop is it's liability to rust; occasionally
we have season like last year, when
the rust will strike it before it is fully
grown; BUTT is not much more liable
to rust than timothy grass, unless it is
permitted to stand until the grain is
fully matured. When it is found that
it is beginning to rust it is best to cut it,
although it is but just commencing to
blossom; but when there is no appear
ance Of rust it should be permitted to
stand until the kernel is nearly grown.
To those who understand Just how to
grow it, and how to cure it, the oat
cropis one that will give as good re-
turns as almost any crop grown on the
farm; but it is not best for the farmer to
depend wholly on this for a fodder crop,
but to let it come in to make up a vari-
ETY.. Corn, rye, barley and Hungarian
are all good and should be considered.
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-27
Variety of Grain Food.

The most successful farmers, saws the
Ploughman, feed their stock on a vari-
ETY. of food. Experience has proved
that a herd of cattle fell on but one
kind of fodder, though it may be the
best that grows, will not keep as
healthy or do as well as if fed on sever
all kinds. While the principal food may
be composed of that fodder which can
be grown on the farm to the best advan-
tage, a change to some other foddernot
as easily grown is very often desirable.
Among the fodder crops that can be
easily grown on most of farms may be
named oats. While this fodder may
not be quite as good for mich COWS,
as barley fodder, it makes change
that is agreeable as well as
beneficial to the COWS, providing
the crop is properly grown and
cured. The great mistake that
people make in raising oat fodder
IS in not sowing seed enough; four
bushels to the acre is not too much.
The straw is then fine and can be easily
cured SO that the hay will be perfectly
sweet, and will be eagerly sought for by
both horses and cattle; but if only two
bushels be sown to the acre the straw
will be so coarse that it is difficult if
not impossible to properly dry it so it
will not be smoky when fed out; when
this condition it is not a desirable
food for any animal.
Farmers who have tried to grow oat
fodder in this way have become dis
couraged, and abandoned it as fodder
crop; but those farmers who have sown
seed enough to make the straw fine,
Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1885-06-27

sun and air in this manner, and far
larger crops are said to be matured
than BY polling.
The Poultry Monthly has some adj
vice to give on the care Of young chicks.
It says: Fer the first twenty -four hours
do not give them any food whatever,
and do not give them raw food until
three or four weeks old, but cooked in.
gradients, stale bread soaked, hard
boiled eggs, thoroughly boiled potatoes,
fine corn-meal, etc. This food should
be given them eight Or nine times a day
during this term, and if you can give
them milk to drink SO much the better
for them. When they are past four
weeks old then give them cooked meats,
vegetables, with some wheat screenings.
Many careful and painstaking farm
ers have demonstrated the fact, that
old animals, of any kind of farm stock,
cannotbe profitably keptupon the farm,
as general rule. We saw it stated
that gentleman who served on the
committee Of cost of production, at the
late Chicago Fat Stock Show, said the
fact was established, that profitable
feeding did not extend beyond the two
year-olds. We find it convenient to
keep our steers till three years old, but
we doubt if there is much profit in
keeping them greatly beyond this age.
As to pigs, eight to ten months will
give greater profit than if wintered over.
Fruit-growers must now prepare for
the coming of two Ibroods of locusts-
the seventeen-year and the thirteen
year. The entomologist of the Agri-
cultural Department gives warning
that they will soon be here, and viii
remain until late 10 July. Fortunately
he is able to predict that they will not
do great deal of Charm. For the first
time in 221 years the two broods will
appear in conjunction. A short arith-
metical calculation will prove that only
once in POI years can these two bands of
marauders meet and become acquainted
with each other, if they strictly observe
the periods of what may be called
their revolutions.
A writef-in the London Garden. re-
ferring to the wei -known fact that new
seeds usually terminate more quickly
than old ones, SAYS that many old ones
will terminate well with heat, that
would perish in old ground, a fact
which should be borne in mind by those
who are testing seeds this spring
IN warm rooms. Among those which
may be kept two seasons, are named
onions, satisfy, and some others; while
lettuce, tomatoes and artichokes will
continue good three seasons; cabbage,
turnips, spinach, kales, etc., four sea-
sons; and melons, cucumbers and
beets, for five OF six seasons. 1t must,
however, be borne in mind that such
rules as these are more or less arbi-
trary, as much depends on condition of
the seeds, the temperature and damp
ness of the place where they are kept,
and on the condition of the soil which
receives them, favorable influences
sometimes more than doubling their
keeping, and favoring or preventing
termination altogether.
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Corn for Horses.

The Livestock Journal is averse to
feeding corn to horses. It says that
corn makes too much fat and not
enough muscle. The horses muscle
wears away by work as metal wears
away by friction. Fat wears away I'M
der exercise, but it's disappearance in
nowise lessons the power for either
draft or speed. On the other hand,
well-nourished and vigorously exercised
muscles, without deposit of fat to keep
them company, are much more efficient
for any purpose for which the horse is
kept, than when there is a load
OF fat to be carried. The trainer acts
upon this proposition, and works the
fat off, experience having shown that
the muscles, trained down by exercise
until fat accommodations are removed
fattening foods being mainly abstained
from-gives the best results in the case
of a speedy horse. The same rule will
hold good with the work horse, though
modified by the degree in which the
movements of the latter are slower
than those of the former. If the farmer
has only corn for feed, then he will be
wise if he makes sale Of his corn, or the
greater part of it, buying oats instead.
If corn be used in whole or in part, the
effect should be carefully noted as to
the extent to which fermentation sets
in, meeting this by use of salt and
ashes, at once lessening the amount of
corn fed. 1t will be found that horses
fed upon corn will eat earth when al
lowed access to it, as, to a degree, this
neutralizes the acid generated in the
stomach, and gives relief. Corn may
be rated as the natural food for fatten-
ing stock-such as are fed for their
flesh. All kinds of fattening stock are
made ripe on corn, with the addition of
an allowance of coarse feed or fodder.
Ripeness in the horse is very different
thing from ripeness in the fatted steer,
for in the one case it means full vigor
Of muscle with an absence of fat, and
in the other an abundance of fat. no
matter how much; and as to the muscle,
no matter how Inefficient for work.
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ed to. Clayey land has to be carefully
worked, especially when plowed in the
spring. IL wet when plowed it remains
in a lumpy condition all summer, and
as a consequence poor crops can only
be expected. Thorough cultivation
before the seeds are put into the ground
greatly accelerates the work during
the entire season. Country Gentleman.
Live Filterers.
A curious experiment was shown a
year or two ago, in which long glass
tube was filled with earth and sewage
poured in at the upper end. If the
tube was long enough six or eight feet,
the liquid issued from the bottom clear
and pure, its Dissolved and suspended
organic matters having been oxidized
by the soil. If, however, before
pouring in the sewage a little dilute
chloroform were allowed to filter
through the earth, sewage subsequently
applied passed through the tube
without change, the oxidizing action
Of the soil being completely suspended.
After some hours or days the soil
regained its oxidizing quality. This
experiment was believed to show that
the oxidation of organic matters in
sewage was something more than a
chemical reaction, and that it depended,
at least to certain extent, on the
presence of a small living organisms
whose activity could be temporarily
suspended by an@sthetic, and with it
the oxidation of the sewage.
This theory has now been confirmed
by additional observations, and the
little creature which converts into
fixed and harmless salts the putrefying
Impurities of such sewage as it can
reach is believed to be micrococcus
somewhat resembling the yeast plant.
Many and varied tests have been made
to determine the conditions under
which the disinfecting microbe lives
and acts, and a good deal has been
learned about it's habits. It is found
that it fourishes best, and is most
efficient, at a temperature of about
ninety-eight degrees Fahrenheit,
nearly the temperature of the blood.
At higher or lower temperatures it's
action becomes more feeble, and ceases
dItOStCHeI ueai inc sITeezlnS point, or
above one hundred and thirty degrees.
Experiments to show it's distribution in
a clay soil show that it is most album
dant in the upper six inches but is
found to depth of a foot and a half.
Below that depth it cannot live, and
soil taken more than eigteen inches
below the surface has hitherto always
failed to induce any change in nitro
genous solutions to which it was
applied,
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NIanuring Trees and Vines.

1t is supposed by some that when
any invigorator is to be applied to
trees or vines, it cannot be used too
plentifully, and they accordingly mulch
and manure to the damage Of what
ever is planted out, and wonder that it
does not grow more vigorously. We
have known farmers when setting out
grape vines, to dig pit and throw in
the carcasses of two or three sheep or
a bushel or two of old bones from
slaughter houses to each root, giving
only a light covering of dirt, believing
that if bones are good for vines, the
roots would run down into the putrid
flesh or the dry bones, and feed
plentifully thereon.
Now, any one knows that roots or
seeds placed in a dung hill, will not
thrive, and this should teach all that
manure only furnishes a portion of the
elements required for the support of
vegetation, and that bed of manure
or bones beneath tree or vine, is only
an impeachment to it's growth. A pint
of bone dust will work a greater benefit
to tree or vine, when worked into the
surface soil, than bushel of whole bones
under the roots, and so will a few
shovelfuls of decomposed sods increase
the growth of any plant more than
cart load Of manure put in beneath the
roots.
Digging pits, especially in clay soil,
and filling them with any material,
before setting out shrubs, is bad plan,
for this excavation Will hold water as
well as a cistern, and the roots of the
trees OF vines will several months in
the year have to stand in a complete
mud-hole. When setting out single
tree or vine, loosen up the soil no
deeper than the hard-pan, and work
in rich surface soil and loam-being
sure to get fine dirt around the fbrous
roots. When planting an orchard.
unless the ground is thoroughly
underdrained, dig no deeper than the
plough goes, then the drainage will be
sufficient to save the tree from drown
ing out. Never mix fresh barnyard
manure with the soil when planting
orchards or MISUNDERSTANDING and
Farmer.