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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-27
FOREIGN NEWS.
THE BULGARIAN UNION.

PARIS, Oct. 22.-The Journal Des
Debats says that Austria and Russia
have agreed that personal union
shall be granted to Bulgaria and East
crn Roumelia that Prince Alexan-
Dire shall be deposed, and that Bulga-
ria shall cede the WIddin district to
Servia. The Turkish government is
expected 10 acquiesce in this arrange
ment.
CoNsTANTINopLE, Oct. 22.-The
porte has issued circular inviting
the powers to conference at Con-
stantinople, TO be held for the exclu-
sive object of settling the Roumelian
difficulty,
BELGRADE, ct.22.-The diplomatic
corps in this city has addressed a note
TO the Servian government with a
view of arresting further bellicose ac-
ton by Servia.
ENGLAND PREPARES TO SCOOP BURMAH
CALCUTTA, Oct. 22.-The contingents
of the Indian army from Madras and
this city are being rapidly transport
ed to Rangoon, where the expedition
force is being assembled for the inva'
sion of Burmah. The Burmese gov
eminent is actively preparing to re-
sist the advance of the British troops
Engineers are busily engaged in erect
ing earthworks, planting torpedoes
building fire RATS, leading hulks witt
stones and sinking them and placing
chains across the river to obstruc
navigation. !,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-27

A newspaper called The Mother-in-
! Law has been started at Pueblo,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-27

The Louisville Exposition closed
last Saturday. 1t went out iii blaze
OF glory.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-27

Two brothers named Boche, great
grand children Of Benjamin Frank
lin, met for the first time in fifty
five years, at Louisville, last week.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-27

The oldest man in Kentucky, Asa
Emerson, who was 102 years old last
Thursday, is confined to his bed and
rapidly nearing the end at Louisville
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03
THE DEVIL.

Men don't believe in devil now. as their faith
ers used to do;
They've forced the door Of the broadcast creed
to let his Majesty through;
There isn't a print of his cloven foot, q fiery
dart from his bow,
To be found in earth or air to-day, for the world
has voted so.
But who is mixing the fatal raught that pal
sizes heart and brain,
And loads the earth of each passing year with
ten hundred thousand slain?
Who blights the bloom of the land to-day with
the fiery breath of hell,
If the Devil isn't and never was? Won't some
body rise and tell =?
Who dogs;.the step of the toiling saint, and
digs the pits for his feet?
Who sows the tares in the field of Time. wher-
ever God sows his wheat?
The Devil is voted not to be, and of course the
thing is true,
But who is doing the kind of work the Devil
alone should do?
We are told that he does not go about as roar
ing lion now;
But whom shall we hold responsible for the
everlasting row
To be heard in home in Church and state, in
the earth's remotest bound,
II the Devil, by unanimous vote, is nowhere
to be found?
Won't somebody step to the front forthwith
and make his bow and show
How the frauds and the crimes of the day
spring up-for surely we want to know.
The Devil was fairly voted out and of course
the Devil is gone.
But simple people would like to know who
carries his business on.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03
Forestry.
By our Agricultural Editor.

Decidedly one Of the best and most sug-
gestive articles in the National Report of
Agriculture for 1884 is that of the Forestry
Bureau. There is undoubtedly a great
deal that is of vast importance to the
country at large, in the proper protection
OF the forests of the union, the preserva-
tlon OF timber on the upper water courses
OF all the navlgable rivers, especially OF the
Mississippi and its tributaries, the planting
OF trees in the timberless belts and for
wlnd-breaks in exposed localities, and to
keep up the supply of suitable timber for
farms and railroads. The theory is advanced
that, were the banks of the upper tributa-
ries OF the Mississippi now clothed in tim
Der, floods in the lower parts of that river
would be less frequent and far less destruc-
tive. and that the best and cheapest way
Tor the government to protect the region OF
the lower Mississippi is to plant timber along
the banks of its small upper afauents.
The principle applies to all other streams
whose waters have been failing from the
absence, as is supposed of growing timber
along their upper banks. And while there
is less reason for us of Virginia to fear such
failure of our rivers in summer, there IS
cause that we should feel some anxiety as
to the future supply of building and fencing
material, ana OF Wlnd-breakS on the 1arIns.
At the present rate of denudation and de-
structiou of our forests by our lumber-men
and wood-choppers, it cannot be many years
before we too will begin to experience
loss that is now deemed impossible. There
is reason enough that even we should give
some heed to this matter before it is too late.
But the science of forestry has other
ends than this. 1t has regard to the eco
nomic uses and commercial values of forest
products; it examines all trees, determines
their suitableness for the wants Of civiliza-
ton, and while it protects the forest from
total destruction by the hand of avarice, il
tends to fully develop our forest resources
and make the most of them. 1t takes with
economic hand enough for the present, but
shields the other from the axe that posterity
may not be the sufferer.
We ask attention of individuals to this
matter. The forests are in private hands,
and according to the care taken of them
will our climate, our agriculture, our COM
merce, our education even, and our general
well-being be effected for good or ill.,
Petersburg Inder-Appedl.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

The Forestry Bill just passed by the New
York Assembly provides for three commits
sioners, who shall receive no compensation
except travelling expenses, who are to serve
for two, four and six years from February
1, 1886, and are authorized to employ a
forest warden, inspector and other assist
ants. The Is Adirondack counties are con-
stituted a forest preserve, and are placed
under the charge of these commissioners,
whose duty it is made to maintain the for
ests and promote their increase. They arc
also to have charge of the public interests
of the State in forests and tree planting, and
especially with reference to forest fires in
every part of the State. Railroads are re-
quired to take precautions against the start
ing of fires by sparks from the locomotives.
Two other bills were passed, one amending
the penal code so that persons cutting trees
Or setting fires on the preserve may be
punished, and the other providing that the
State shall bear part of the school taxes in
counties where its forests are. There is no
doubt of the passage of these bills by the
Senate, and none is expressed as to the Gov
ernor's signing them.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03
AUNToN SPECTATOR AND GENERAL ADVERTISERS
Diversified Crops and Industries.

The Richmond State of Wednesday las4
has an editorial article favoring diversified
crops and industries in the South. After
speaking of other Southern States, it
speaks as follows in reference to Virginia.
"Virginia can certainly make good
showing when compared with other South
efn States. Tobacco and cotton are still
important industries in Southside Virginia.
Cattle growing is profitable in Southwest
Virginia and in "the Valley" The grape
growers thrive in Albemarle county, while
the cereals are successfully cultivated in
nearly every section of the State. But our
agricultural interests can be very much
improved by intelligent action on the part
of the Farmers Assembly, organized in
this city month ago. A good programme
was marked out, and excellent results may
be expected in the course of time.
Virginia is not only favored with varied
agricultural resources: her commercial
woods are Of great value, while her miner
al treasures are well nigh unsurpassed. A
great deal has been done in the way Of de-
velopment within the past ten years, but
more capital is needed to make the pro-
gress what it should be. Coal, iron and
limestone are found in abundance, to say
nothing of rarer minerals. The cities of
Virginia have exceptional facilities for in
dustrial enterprise. And if Virginia culti-
Yates varied crops, and if the mines pro-
duce the different metals, what cannot
Richmond do in the way of varied manu-
features? We already have large Touring
mills, and scores of tobacco factories. We
have few other industrial establishments,
but there is wide field here for the prof.
table employment of capital in the manu-
facture of many small articles never yet
attempted in the South. There is scarcely
an article fashioned in New York or New
England that might not be made here.
make Richmond one of the leading indus.
trial cities of the world, and while our
progress has already been marked, we
hope to see Richmond double its popula-
ton and volume of trade within the next
ten years."
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

MAHoNE1sM.-The Lynchburg Aduance
says that sit is not Malone so much as it is
NIahoneism, that the people of Virginia re-
ject with indignation. Many men regard
Gen. Malone, personally, bad man, but it
is not this, for perhaps he was no better,
personally, when he was a Democrat than
he is now, but it is the doctrines, policy, be-
havior of the white men who composed Ma
honeism 1t is their teachings, their ser
vice as officials, their conduct as political
organizers, that has aroused the indignation
of the people. Malone will run just as we'll
as Wise, Blair, Bowen, Libby, or any sub
ordinaGe. Mahoneism is dead, and these
men will have to seek their bread elsewhere
than in Virginia"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

81 am afraid will have to be taken to a
hospital or to the poorhouse. I've been
sick so long that my husband, good and pa
tient as he is, can't stand the worry and
expense much longer" No, you WON'T
dear wife and mother. See what Parlzer's
Tonic will do for you. Plenty of women
as badly off as you are, have been rescued
almost from the grave by it. 1t will build
you up, curing all ailments of the stomach,
liver, and kidneys, and is simple, pleasant,
and safe.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03
TO CURE O NOT TO CH.E.-rbat

To CURE Cd NOT TO CU.E.-That is
L the question, and tn viily question which
affects in the slightest degree the interests of
suCh persons as afflicted with dyspepsia
disordered bowels, loss of appetite, nervous
headache constipation. and such other dis
eases as have their Oragin in improper diees-
ton. We admit that sufferers had better bear
their ills than resort to remedies that they
know not; cut when they have the assurance
of their friends and ntighbors that BAKERS
BITTERS are an unfailing remedy for these
complaints; that they purify the blood,
strengthen the nervous system, quicken the
liver, enliveu the mind, and expel all improper
secretions, it is little strange that all who
suffer do not seek relief by the use of them.
These BITTERS have now borne the test of
time, and from their curative powers have be-
come an established family medicine in this
section Of the country. Their properties are
purely vegetable, may be taken by all Glasses
without lear of injury, and will prove an I'M
falling tonic in all cases of loss of appetite.
Sold by Druggists in Staunton and else
where. E. BAKER,
Proprietor, Eichmond Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

Mr.. JAMES B. GILMER IN LUcK-A
special dispatch from Waco, Texas, brings
information of the singular good luck of
Mr.. James B. Gilmer, formerly of this
place. According to this telegram, Mr.
Gilmer had been of great assistance to a
South Carolinian who chad spent $3.50, 900
in buying up the stock of Virginia rail
road, and had to gain lawsuit to crown
his efforts. He had spent his last cent and
told Gilmer that if he would enlist money
and help lie would give him one-thrd of the
profits, whatever they might be. Gilmer
had no money, but his Baltimore friends
had. They put up the cash, few thou
sand dollars, the old Carolinian wen his
fight, got control Of the railroad and now
he is offered such big sum for it that Gil
mer's share of the transaction will be
100000. All the facts are well authenti-
Gated, the matter will be closed up in a few
days, Gilmer having sent on power of at
torney to dispose of his interest. Char
lotteS0ille Jefersonian.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

DIsPosING OF DISEASED ANIN1ALs-Any
carcass, however it may have been diseased,
may be disposed of with perfect safety by
burying it in quicklime fresh from the kiln,
then covering the lime with earth, We tting
the heap thoroughly SO as to slack the lime
and making large pile of earth over it
The heat and caustic action of the lime will
completely destroy the germs Of disease
as effectually as burning the carcass, and
the decomposed remains will make valu-
able fertilizer.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

APPLYING FERTILIZERS To CORN.-lt IS
quite reasonable to suppose that plants can
be gorged with food as animals may be,
and that injury may result from it. This
is quite true as regards corn. The corn
plant has a long season Of active growth.
1t requires about one hundred days for its
maturity. If all the food which is requir-
ed to mature the plant is added to the soil
in soluble and available condition at the
planting, a large quantity may be lost be-
fore the plant can utilize it. Soluble ferti-
lizers diffuse themselves in a moist soil
with great rapidity, and are quickly carried
off by the drainage water into the subsoil.
Sir J. B. Lawes has noticed tie nitric acid
of nitrate of soda, which has been applied
to the surface soil, escaping in the water
flowing from the drains, in forty-eight
hours after the application. If then, six
hundred pounds of this fertilizer should be
applied to the corn crop before the sowing
Of the seed, it will begin to be lost before
single root has been formed to arrest its
escape. This fact is given only as an in
stance of how fertilizers may be lost by
misapplication. At the best, an excess of
fertilizing material given to corn in its
early stages, forces a rank growth of stalk,
and the plant food is exhausted before it
can be converted into grain, which is the
most valuable part of the crop. During
some years past, we have been growing
corn under new system Of fertilizing,
which is to apply the fertilizer at intervals,
as after each time of cultivation, instead of
before and Immediately after the planting.
The effect has been to notably increase the
yield of grain, and decrease the growth of
stalk. By this method, eighty bushels of
grain per acre have been produced, and in
growing sweet-corn for sale, fine, large,
and well-flled ears are secured. The fertil-
izer is busted along the rows before the cul-
tivator is used, or Immediately after, and
the first shower carries it down to the
roots. Tho same method Of applying fer
tilizers has beeu used for root crops with
favorable results.-American Agricuamist
for June.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

VICTOR HUGo.-"Hush," said they,
fmake no notes.-the Poet is dying" And
they stood reverentially and watched the
coming of the death angel. Even the
winds were hushed; they had stolen in
softly and asked the morning sunbeams
what it all meant, and the sunbeams had
told the winds that the death angel was
coming to take the Poet away, and so the
winds stood still in great wonderment and
sadness.
But the death angel did not come. His
grim shadow did not steal athwart the
morning sunbeams nor chill the gentle
winds that lowered round the Poet couch
Withal the Poet was dying and there was
sadness everywhere. Suddenly thousand
voices filled the chamber with sweetest
music.
Chow strange and yet how beautiful, -
thought the people. And the dying Poet
thought Sc, too; for smile came and rested
on his venerable face, and his lips moved
as if he would echo that sweet music. They
were the songs the Poet had sung; all over
the world had they been and every human
heart had they touched, and now they had
come back to bear the Poets soul away.
What could be more beautiful than that?
And the Poet went with his songs, the
hoary father with his children, and entered
his rest. From that still chamber was the
weary soul borne away upon the thousand
singing voices, and the clouds stopped in
the sky to hear the wondrous music.
So shall they come to tbee-thy songs, o
Master Poet-and lulling thy a-wearied
soul to sleep, shall bear thee with sweet
music to eternity. Eugene Field, in CHI
coqo Meas.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03


If the continuance of the Bureau of gri-
culture depended upon the record of Com
missioner Loring there would be little
doubt Of the bureaus collapse; for under
Loring's supervision the Agricultural De-
partment was as useless as could well be
imagined. A great deal of money was vast
ed. The farmers received no benefit at all.
But it must be remembered That the Re-
publican party instituted the Agricultural
Bureau as q partisan measure, and no bene-
fit was expected except in political way.
But now that we have a Democratic Adj
ministration and public-spirited and prac-
tical man at the head of thu Agricultural
Bureau, good results may be looked for.
Commissioner Colman seems to be in every
way qualified for his position and Congress
will do well to raise the Office to Cabinet
rank. A Secretary of Agriculture is what
the farmers justly demand. State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

lNoC ULATIoN FOR CHoLERA.-It is
claimed now that incubation is the best safe
guard against cholera. A short time ago a
correspondent of the New York Herald at
Valencia, full of the progressive spirit of
that active and watchful journal, submit
ted to an experiment in this new process Of
warding off that terrible disease, an exper-
iment which, it is claimed, proved success
full. The timid and the doubling will, of
course, shake their heads Thus they did
when incubation was first used to prevent
the contagion of smallpox. So they have
done and will continue to do so long as the
world turns round. But in the world of
the martyred philosopher, ''It moves, " and
they must move with it. We should not
be surprised in the next ten years to see in
oculation fer cholera as common as it has
been for small pox.-Richmond State.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

THE COUPONS WILL NOT HURT U.s.
The people of Virginia, under fair trial,
have never failed when required to meet
and do a high duty of patriotism. And
whenever the test is squarely and fairly
made they will always do 1t. From sense
of patriotism they will pay their taxes in
money and not in coapons-''thc cut-worms
of the treasury" The same feeling of
patriotism will prompt Them to scorn the
man or corporation, which, from a feeling
of unpatriotic avarice, will disregard the
interests and the laws of Virginia, by seek
ing to pay his taxes in coupons. Those
who encourage and try to tempt Virginia
taxpayers to use the coupons in paying
taxes, by telling them that it is a mere
matter of business, by which they will
save money, are guilty of an unworthy
act. They make false appeal to the low
and grovelling passion of avarice, to in
duce an unpatriotic act, which deserves the
condemnation and scorn of all good citi-
zens. And they deserve the whitening re-
Duke, "get the behind me, Satan. "-Char-
lottesriUe Jefersonian.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03
COAL YARD

At intersection of B. Il Q. and c. e. o. r. r.
Being now prepared 10 supply customers
with tn very best of Goals, COKE, WooD, and
FERTILIZERS, respectfully solicit share of
the public patronage. My yards are located at
the intersection of til G. Il o. and b. & o. Rail-
roads. thus enabling me to take advantage of
competition in freights. and placing me in d.
rect communication with the coal fields of
West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Coal Delivered at any point In the City
without extra charge.
guarantee satisfaction in prices and quail
ty. Orders left with Ba1lie & Wood ward, Vest
Main Street, will receive prompt attention.
Respectfully,
A. W. HARTMAN.
Telephone connection no. ~. apis
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

A prominent clergyman calls the face
''the playground of the SOUL" Then a
book agents cheek must be prairie.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

1t is the husband of the woman who
SHORES that has plenty of time for midnight
reflections.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

e,spAL. COKE, WOOD, AND FEHEIAI-
= EERS.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

ed OLIVER CHILLED
l. one. two and three horses-for sale by our
Agents throughout The County and at our
Ware-ro0ms in Staunton.
apr22 lynn a. ~
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

RAIN AND FERTILIZER DRILLS
VI Now is the time to buy at a BARGAIN to
SOW Your Oats and plant your Corn. Call on
apr22 LYNN q co
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-06-03

A DDTV17 ss Send sn six cen cents IS for post
a q EAi EAs costly box of goods which
will help you to more
money right away than anything else in this
world. All. of either sex, succeed from first
hour. The broad road to fortune opens before
the workers, absolutely sure. At once address,
TRUE & Co., Augusta, Maine. dcclO 'S4-Iy*
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-08

1t is amusing to see the wonder and ad.
miration with which the younger chill.
dren look al him and listen 10 his chsag.
ed vernacular. One Of them seemed q
little troubled aud said with serious con.
cern, papa do you think New York has
done Rictor any harm2" "Why, no."
said !, what makes you ask such q
question"
"Well, don't know" said he, "but he
wears that silk hat aud he Is SO polite
aud he says he eats oatmeal at his board
ing house all the time, just like sick foiks
do" The boy was really alarmed for fear
his big bud had become demorali2ed.
And now they will finish up the week
with dog aud guns. They promise to
keep the table supplied with game, but
though this is good hunting ground It 10
very poor finding, aud when they do
end it Ia very poor killing. There were
eight of them after one squirrel this
evening, and they scared him so bad with
the noise of their guns that he finally
ran down the tree and the dog caught
him. But after oil, they had power Of
fun. "
Well, Christmas Hill be oter when this
reaches your readers. ! hope they all
had q good time and were happy, and
now let me wish for you and for them n
happy New Year.
Bill. ARR.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-08
Girls ii, 0ad1 sitoehinsgIss i z !,

',Scaylet atockings7 Yes, they're all
the go,n said q Chestnut street hosiery
dealer yesterday. aBnt that ian't the
latest craze by any means
a.What is the latest fashion, then r. IS,
"Why, on Saturday morning I had
three young lady ctatomers who came In
and bought three pair OF red and three
pair Of black hose. Twas somewhat sur.
prised and asked the. object. In each
case ! was told that i was not the proper
.capef TO wear two red stockings now, any
more than 1t ID TO wear two black ones.h
well, what on earth were they going
to do 2'5 ssgi:5 e. - 90
"Wear one of each kinda scarlet
atocking on one foot and a black one on
the other. It's q fact i assure yon. And
the fashion g gaining ground, for this
morning had several more customers
on the Same errand. ~ Black and red,yoti
know, are otfikinR and at the same lime
Becoming contrasts. y. Pliilddeiph ia 1sn,eo.