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Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17

During this month layer your grape vine,
where you wish to get new plants. Take q
shoot with wood so hard that 1t viii not rot,
and bury two or three joints a few inches be
low the surface. Turn the end OF the vine
upward and tie 1t to a support.
Have you ever tried putting grape punches
into paper bagsl 1t sounds odd, perhaps
but it is the Test possible plan to protect
them from storms, birds and insects. A
soon as they begin TO be well grown get com.
mon paper bags, eight by six inches, and
draw over the ordinary-sized punches, fas-
tening loosely so as not to obstruct the
growth. For large or double punches get
bags eight by eleven inches. Let them stay
over the punches till they are ripe.
Most farmers have only a small vineyard
for their W use. The women Of the house
hold can easily put the bags on the clusters,
4 and the labor will be repaid a hundred fold.
II you think you have too many grapes to
bag all the punches this year, try a hundred
or SO, and see how the experiment comes
out. 1t will be go successful that next year
you will tie them all up. We have seen
good-sized vineyards thus treated, the
punches done up in FOOLS caps, as it were.
1t is said, too, that if the bags are put on
when the grapes are the size Of No. 0 shot,
this will prevent rot and mildew. 1t is
not an infallible preventive, however.
Certainly every farmers family who read
this department have a little vineyard if for
no more than their own use. If, however,
it should be possible that you haven't one,
set one out this very fall. Don't be an old
hunks. You will have sins of omission
enough to answer for without denying your
children so good a food as ripe, fresh grapes.
They are one Of the most healthful food; we
can eat. If you never have done 50 before,
for goodness sake begin now and do away
with that horrible old diet of fried salt pork,
saleratus biscuits, and strong "biled' coffee.
II would soon kill a horse, would that mess.
If that's what you live on, no wonder you
are dyspeptic and have lost all your front
teeth aud are round shouldered, and think
this life is a vale Of tears, and that the farmer
has the hardest lot Of anybody, more espe-
cially If, with this diet, he doesn't take a bath
more than once a year, and that in midsum-
mer.
No. Keep up with civilization. Plant
fruit and eat it. Man can sustain the
severest physical labor on a pork diet, and a
certain amount Of it Is good to keep him up
during the heavier outdoor labor. But it
will be very bad If he lives on that chiefly,
winter and summer, Sunday and week
day.
We shall give some hints on grape culture
this week and next. America Is going to
be a very famous grape and wine-growing
country. Hundreds Of varieties of the berry
have been tried until at last we are begin
ming to develop som magnificent grapes
peculiar to our own country. Some kinds
are mainly for wine-making. From a long
list two have been selected for illustration
here. The first Is the
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17

CHICAGO, July ll.-Police Officer
Bernard J. Murphy, last night fatallT
shot Charles Mckay, the t~wenty-seyen
year old son Of r. E. Mckay, formerly
contractor for the board Of pnolie
works. Mckay had been arrested @
the charge Of having, with four q I'VE
coughs assaulted Abraham motifs.
whom Mckay said to the ofleer was
"only a sheeny any how e WIS 8
attempting to break away from tas
policeman that Mckay WIS anes.
Murphy has been taken ini9 eps''e1
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17
True TO Her Trust.
Louisville Courier journal.


ATLANTA, Ga, July THE death
Of Marian Foster, a Colored girl, dis
closes a story OF fidelity Of white
guardians to negro wards. Eighteen
years ago a colored woman was dying
In Atlanta; just before her death
she begged Mrs. W.. A. Pickett,
the wife of a well-to do citi-
zen, to see that her three
m~onths-old babe was cared for. The
child was shiny black, showing the
pure Ethiopian strain. Mrs. Pickett
took it home, and soon took
such an interest in the little
girl that she refused to part
with her. In this manner a relation
similar to that Of mother and daughter
up, in which the lady had
the full sympathy of her husband.
The girl grew into young woman
hood, absolutely without the knowl-
edge, so far as her associations went.
that she was a negress. A few months
ago Marian, for such was the girls
name, contracted consumption. All
through her fatal illness she
was watched by Mrs. Pickett
with the solicitude of a mother,
and when the end came the dead girls
eyes were closed by her kind friend.
and the coffin containing the remains
was placed in the parlor. and every
honor was paid which could have
been rendered a beloved daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pickett are highly re-
spectacle people.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17
Weeds az Green nrnnnra.

The growth OF most weeds is mainly by
exhausting the surface soil, as they get less
from the atmosphere or subsoil than cult
waited crops or grasses. Hence when plowed
under as green manure, the earlier the work
is done the better. With some weeds among
clover, earlier blowing is necessary than
would be desirable for the clover alone, in
order to prevent weed seeds ripening. dSorrel
and red root, where they appear, have to be
plowed under before the clover is fully in
blossom
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17
Celery Again.

A writer in The Rural New Yorker says
that when be attempted to winter celery in
boxes in his cellar in the way directed in this
column recently it wilted and refused to
blanch The reason was that the soil in
which the roots were was too dry. The
editor Of The Rural New Yorker advises
this writer that the box should have been
watertight for a height OF three inches, with
an aperture for putting in water without
getting it among the tops
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17
Adjusting Steel PfoMa.

A pillow to run easily for either mar Oh
team should be set so that the bottom Of the
plow viii rest fat, the point neither turning
down nor up. Some farmers never get the
hang Of adjusting steel plows, and we have
known them to throw aside valuable nipple.
ments as worthless for lack Of a little skill
in adjusting them to run easily.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17
The Japanese Way of Planting a Tree.

The Japanese Way OF Planting a Tree
It was doue in this manner: A large hole
was dug and half filed with water. The
roots were then spread out, placed in the
water, and the hole filled up with earth.
The tree grew finely. 1t was planted in that
part of Toxic called Tsukiji, perhaps the
worst place in all Japan in which to plant a
tree. 1t seems to me that something may be
learned from the japanese way Of planting
q tree, especially in dry weather.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17

sprout4 and that fan cut each back again to
thres buds. The summer following that
there will be three strong canes, and now the
vine may begin to be allowed to bear. Cut
the vines well back every fall.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17

This almost perfect fruit is Of a delicate,
rale-green color when ripened in the shadai
in the sun, a pale, fine yellow. 1t is trans
parent, sweet and juicy, ripening a little
later than the Concord.
Nothing is prettier upon a dining table
tlnn a glass dish heaped with dark and light
grapes. 1t appeals alike to sight and the
sense of taste. He who would turn up his
nose and grunt %disapproval at such a dish
would not be a very nice man to live with.
Where there is not room for a vineyard,
grapes upon an arbor or trails are very de-
sirable. Indeed, they have been known To
fruit upon an arbor in seasons when vine
yards failed. For growing upon a trellis or
arbor select thoroughly strong plants. Hus-
mann's directions are to dig a trench two
feet deep and four feet wide and fill it with
rich soil, rotten leaves, bone and ashes
Leave only one to a plant the first summer,
Cut this back to three buds in the fall. The
next summer there will be three strong
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17
A Beautiful poem.

Here are some exquisite verses BY an au-
thor whom we do not know. II the boys and
girls do not appreciate them now, they Will
when they are o few years olders. And when
they are men and women, tired of work and
lonely, perhaps with gray hairs beginning
to come In their heads, they VIII know all
that these verses mean. Some parents make
their children think they are nothing but d
bother, expense and vexation, and the
tender little hearts are saddened and made
heavy daily by being made to believe they
are in the way and are not wanted. Such
cruel parents do not deserve to have any
children. One Of the purest, sweetest en-
joyments in life Is romping and playing
with a house full Of merry young ones. It
drives away for the time the heaviest care
and the blacklist gloom. It makes the old
man and woman young again. Sad, In
deed, however stately, however splendid, Il
the house, without any babies. And this
the author Of the poem knew well:
DREAM CHILDREN,
boston Transcript
thrust in the dear Lords wisdom,
lido not question His will;
But oft es / sis In my chamber,
In the twilight, calm and still,
Hong for the children's voices,
Hong for the clinging arms,
As unto my ear they whisper
~ Their tiny griefs and alarms.
And my silent room is peopled
With forms l can almost see,
The forms Of the dear dream children
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17

1t is a beautiful g~rape-black, sweet and
juicy. 1t is a very heavy bearer, and should
be thinned out carefully. 1t ripens early.
The grapes shown in these two pictures have
been selected because they are good table
and market fruits, and will grow well in any
locality of the United States, north, south,
east or west The Wilder makes also a good
red wine of light quality. 1.e
The second berry here given, the Elvira,
seems as nearly a perfect grape as ever was
developed by a farmers intelligence. It is
one of the standard white wine producers,
besides its excellence as a fruit. It is a Mis-
souri, grape. Jacob Rommel raised it as a
Seeding, and improved it till it has become
nearly as large as the Catawba in
bunch. It is better than the Cetawba
because it does not rot. 1t is about the
hardest grape known to this country, and
bears the coolest winters without injury.
1t is wonderfully productive as we'll The
fruit branches produce four to six punches
each. It is Of handsome growth, and well
adapted for either arboR or vineyard. HuS-
mann, in his "Grape Culture" says it had
only one fault; that is, that owing to the ber-
ries being very thin-skinned and crowded
closely upon the bunch, they are liable to
crack after a drouth succeeded by q shower
of rain. @'
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17

Here is the best riddle that we have seen
in some time. My second took my irst, after
using my whole at dinner. What is itl Il
is q napkin.
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17
Keep the n1Ilk Sweet.

A medical writer Of experience call!
timely notice 70 the importance of keep
ing milk sweet intended for the use O
children, 1t is not 10 be doubted that il
cities thousands Of young children di,
every year from neglect Of this n thing
Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-07-17

The cattle ranches Of the west occupy
1865, 600 square miles Of land
The Portland daily press., 1885-10-13
TIMBER TREsPAssERS.
What Special Agent Haley Has to Say
About the Northern Pacific r. r.
WASHINGTON Oct. 12.-The following letter
has lust been received by Commissioner Sparks:

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12-The following letter
has Just been received by Commissioner Sparks:
RATHDRUDI, Idaho, Oct. g. 1885.
Sir,-I have completed the reports in the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company and the Montana
improvement Company timber trespass cases
and herewith transmitted eight reports, making
with what have already transmit thirty-one
separate indictments in ALL showing that these
corporations have caused to be cut from the pub
lie domain As 100, 900 feet of lumber and bridge
(61 800 bundles) ,32, ,035 cords wood 600 cedar
posts to the value of lumber at $40 per NJ feet,
which would be low fgnre; railroad ties at 40
cents per tie, wood at IS per cord, posts at sou
per NJ and shingles at So per nj or 80 cents per
bunch, which would amount to $6O3 402. ms
does not represent all the ties cut for the North
ern Pacific Railroad by Eddy, Hammond & Co.,
which changed its firm name into "The Montana
Improvement Company" in July, 1883 | was
hampered in my investigation by the officers OF
the Montana Improvement Company. who ap-
peared to expect the investigation and were
fOrtifying their position The company is an un-
scrupulous corporation that will leave nothing
und0ne to gain their point. l found no reliance
made by the officers of the Montana Improve
ment Company. have mailed you a copy IN
duplicate of the contract between the Northern
Paclhc Railroad Company and the Montana lnl-
provement Company.
NJ. j. HALEY, Special Timber Ag mt.
The contract referred to in the above binds the
railroad company to withdraw all its timber lands
from sale or disposal and gives the Improvement
Company the exclusive right to cut timber from
the lands and in return for this privilege the I'M
proyement Company transfers to the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company 1901 full paid shares
of the capital stock of the value of $1,00l ,060,
reserving for itself stock valued at 5000, 800.
The Improvement Company also agrees 10 erect
at its own expense all mills and furnish all tne
plant necessary for its business OF timber cutting
The Portland daily press., 1885-10-13
oHio,s ELECTION.
Estimates on the Result of Today's
Contest.
Both Sides Confident of Electing
Their Governor.

CINCINNATI o., Oct 12.-The election in Ohio
tomorrow. for governor and other State officers,
and for members of the legislature, which will
elect successor to Senator Sherman of Ohio,
gives peculiar interest to the election of members
of the legislature Estimates that purport to be
based upon the polling of the State by the Repub-
lican and Democratic committees give widely diff
terent results. The Democratic estimate elects
Gov. Hoadly by from 10000 to $4,000 plurality,
While the Republican estimate elects Judge Fora
ker by from IL 600 to $4,000 plurality. Estima
lions of the legislature by both parties make the
result close. although both claim !. majority. The
element of uncertainty in the election OF COVER
nor is the prohibition vote 1t is generally con-
eeded its increase will be mainly from the Repub-
lcanS Their vote two years ago amounted to
1862, and the Democratic poll this year estimates
1t at 80 900, while the ProhiDitionists themselves
claim still greater vote 1t Is possible that
many who will vote for DR.. Leonard on the Prohi-
bition ticket win vote with their former party on
the Legislature, so the vote for governor Will not
Indicate exactly the complexion of the Legislature
In Cincinnati vigorous efforts have been made
by non-partisan committee to detect and PUNISH
frauds in registration, and their efforts reveal a
startling crime in this direction. They have pre-
pared and printed today list of 1400 fraudulent
there are 5000 names that should have appeared
on this list if closer scrutiny could be given.
They have issued seven warrants for the arrest OF
persons violating the registration law, but no ar
rests have yet been made. There is no anticipa-
ton of disorder at the polls. The voting places
have been greatly increased, and the crowds
about them will be accordingly smaller, besides
the new law prohibits persons from cOngregating
within 100 feet of polling place.
The Portland daily press., 1885-10-13
BLOWN ASHORE.
Three Vessels of the Arctic Whaling
Fleet Lost.
Terrible Tale of Suffering and Death.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 12.-The revenue cutter
Corwin has arrived. She brings news from the
Arctic feet to Aug. Goth The whalers Mabel
and George and Susan were blown ashore in a
gale on Aug. 10th, in Wainwrights Inlet. IN long.
160 lat. 20. Three of the crew of the latter were
James Elyans. These were the only vessels
wrecked since the news brought down by the
Thomas Pope, and none of the fleet had caught
any whales since the report of that. During the
gale the Corwin attempted to send boat to the
whaler Abraham Barker, but it capsized on the
in command of Lieut.. Kennedy, which, after
struggling, succeeded in saving the boats crew
The following day the Corwin towed the bark
Ohio alongside the George and Susan. when all of
the latter's oil and bone were transferred to the
Ohio The sailors of the two wrecked vessels,
and brought to this city. The majority of them
start overland in a few days for home. The sur
yiyors of the crew of the wrecked whaling bark
Napoleon, of New Bedford were also taken on
board the Corwin. The crew consisted of SO Off
GERS and seamen. After 1t was ascertaned that
were manned with nine men in each, and they had
scarcely time to get them lowered from the davltS
and no time to procure provisions. The boats re-
manned together one day and night, but during
fierce gale and while envel0ped in fog, on the Sec
ond day they separated. On the morning of the
with eight persons alive and one dead, and in the
afternoon another boat was picked up with six OF
its occupants alive. The two other boats were
not seen again. and it is supposed they were lost
The sufferings from cold and hunger were intense
twenty-five of the crew perished, among them
Joaquin Khus-from whom the above particulars
were gotten had his feet badly frozen, and his
toes had been amputated by the captain OF the
whaling bark prior TO the rescue.
The Portland daily press., 1885-10-13
Eoston's Sensation Spoiled.

Boston, Oct. 12.--The Evening Record says
railroad officials throw considerable doubt upon
the authenticity of the sensational story of the
young woman who claims to have been abducted
from the Old Colony depot and robLe ed, IN hack
last Thursday night, and the girls statement
seems impossible of substantiation. The mana
gers of the railroad can find no one of the nearly
1000 people, including the train men in the depot
at the time, who saw the assault, and the trunk
which the girl claims to have checked for New
neither was there any baggage unclaimed at the
Old Colony station OH Thursday night. She gave
as reason for not crying out in the station that
she is always cool in times of danger, and did not
want to make a fuss.
Miss Elma Tnrner, the hospital nurse, who
claims to have been abducted from the Old Colony
railroad station last Thursday evening returned
from New York to her uncles home in Water
town today. Sha is much troubled at the disbe-
lief expressed at her story and maintains its
truth. She said she could not fink her trunk al
the station in New York when she arrived there
Saturday and as she was almost without clothing
she came back to her relatives.
The Portland daily press., 1885-10-13
A FAMOUS OLD HOTEL.
A Foolish Quarrel Among Heirs that
Costs a Big Fortune.

NEW YORK Oct 12.-Workmen have already
begun to remove the big hotel on the corner OF
Frankfort and Nassau streets, that for four years
has lain idle. French'S Hotel, years ago, was the
fayorite stopping place for New Englanders, and
especially Boston men, 1t is house with 500
rooms. 1t was known all over the United StOtes;
and it made a fortune for its proprietor Colonel
French, the owner, died leaving the property to
his eleven children. They soon began to quarrel
about it. and in few years the courts were asked
to step in and settle the difficulty. As all the
heirs of the estate of age, the hotel was or
dered to be sold. The price was fixed at $780,
600 The highest bid was $45O,00Q offered by
the New York Sun, whose publisher wanted it for
a newspaper Office Nobody wanting it for half a
Million it was closed up A meeting of the heirs
was called. They all assembled, except one Of
the youngest sons. In his place there appeared a
sharp buSinesslike looking man, who for 15 years
had served as a bartender He showed power
of attorney to act for the young heir, and exhibit
ed notes for $4,000 which he had loaned him.
Then therelwas scene, and high words followed,
and the meeting broke up in row. the other heirs
being indignant at their former bartender appear
ing to adiudicate on the property. 1t was impos-
sible to reach settlement, and the property was
left to rot but in the meantime the bartender was
getting per cent for his money, which was as
safe as if Invested in government bonds, for his
claim had to be settled first Some sort of truce
was patched up a few days ago, and the bartender
paid off and the property sold for S460,0OO. 1t
is to be put in shape for business Offices Real es-
tate men say that the quarrel among the heirs
cost them over million of dollars, as the profits
were close on to 100000 year, and the hotel,
in good shape and in running order
The Portland daily press., 1885-10-13
WHITE sAREARisM.
Cruel Policy oil Arizona and New Mex
ico-organized Hunts for Indian

DEMING, N. M, Oct. 12.-It has been recently
teegraphed that the pioneer settlers In the border
counties of Arizona have brought to light an old
law in several counties offering reward OF $3.50
each for Indian scalps. Under this law, which is
nothing more than an order made by the County
Commissioners, the ranchmen and cowboys IN
Cochlse, Pima and Yavapai counties are organiz-
ing in armed bodies for the purpose OF going on a
real old-fashiuned Indian hunt, and they propose
to bring back the scalps and obtain the rev ard.
Word now comes from Tombstone, the county
seat of Cochise county, that the reward in that
county has been increased to $500 for buck In
dian'slscalp. The authorities of Pima and Yava-
pal counties, have taken steps to increase the re-
ward to 5000, and ii is said Yuma and Mariacpoa
counties will follow suit. The reward system is
looked upon in this section as the only means pos
sible of riddlng Arizona of the murderous Apaches
The settlers of New Mexico and Arizona are
aroused on this question and propose to act
henceforth independent Of military authorities.
DETERMINATION is the battle cry now, and the
coming winter will witness bloody work in this
section. Public sentiment in this part of New
Mexico and Arizona is strongly in favor of the
immediate removal Of Cen Crook. 1t is the gem
eral belief here among old white scouts that Gen.
Crook has been duped by his Indian scouts, and
that the latter have always had secret understand
ings with Geronimo and have repeatedly sent him
word of movements of troops
The Portland daily press., 1885-10-13
PARLOR STOVES.

We shall continue our great sale of Parlor
Stoves at last weeks prices desiring right here to
thank the public for their liberal patronage in this
line and for their prompt response and just appre-
citation of good articles at the lowest living prices
We have added number of Parlor, Stoves to our
very large assortment principally the First Ma
fional.' This is one of the most perfect Parlor
Stoves in the market and has always given perfect
satisfaction,