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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21
The Pope and Mark Twain.
New York Evening Post.

The figure Of the Sovereign Pontiff and Vicar
Of Christ submitting his biography to Mark
Twain's publishing las commercial en-
terprise. surpasses the most audacious travesty
of Mark Twain's books. As stroke of "busi-
ness" it is probably supreme In it's way. The
effect OF it on the popular idea OF the Holy
Father will, perhaps, be unfortunate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21

IT is really too bad that the German hog
should have been attacked by trichiniasis. The
hog can count upon American sympathy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21

iowa points with pride to citizen named
Sheol If he has that kind Of time the year
round, is he really citizen to be proud off
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01

S. NJ. Macomber in forms The N. L. Home
stead that he has cut corn stalks for the last
twenty years. and is Statistic that it pays.
The cattle eat them better and there Is less
waste. Besides there are no long stalks to
bother when drawing out manure Whe n
fodder is scarce it is good way to cut straw
and mix it with the cut stalks. 1t will go
much further If one will try both ways
Qeaving any prejudice in favor of either en-
tirely OUT he will always cut his corn stalks
afterward.
Another correspondent says that if anyone
will try cutting his hay and stalks land bed
ding, too enc winter he will be convince
that it pays. And it pays in more ways than
one. 1t pays in making his feed 20 farther.
1t pays when he cleans his stables. 1t pays
when he cleans out his manure pit, and it
pays when he spreads his manure and plows
or harrows it under in the field. Last winter
he cut all his hay and bedding one inch long
and his stalks one fourth of an inch long
with a cutter driven by n one-horse power,
and the results will induce him to do sc
again this winter.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
SLAVERY IN BRAZIL.
SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION ON
THE SUBJECT,
A United states Omcial Gives IA Brief His
tory of the Way the Brazilians
Took Hold of the Traffic in
Human Lives.

WAsuINGTON, Dec. ~. --Chas. b. Trail,
secretary of legation at Rio Janeiro gives
to Congress brief history of the enamel
patton measure in Brazil. The law as
passed in 1881 declared free all negroes and
their children who should thereafter be
imported into the Empire, but in spite of
it the slave trade increased tolenormous
proportions. Fifty thousand negro slaves
were imported in IA single year when the
trade was at its height. The British gov
eminent in 1851 broke up the trade.
In 1871 declaration that children born in
slavery should be free, providing for the
reimbursement of their masters was pass
ed. 1t was hoped that the slave owners
would quietly acquiesce, but the nope was
fallacious. The registry of slaves showed
that very few children were born to slave
mothers Immediately after the passage OF
the law, while the births for the preceding
wear were enormous, proving almost uni
versal Justification of the records; ana
also in other respects the laws were sue
cessfully evaded. In 1882 it was estimated
that every sixth person throughout the
empire was slave.
The abolitionists continued to gam
strength steadily untilthey effected the en-
reimbursement of one parish. Parish after
parish in the province of Cerear was
attacked and conquered, and on March
%, 1851 the Embarrassment of the last
parish was publicly celebrated. When
work was begun in 1913, the province con
tanned 1900 slaves and i'll 1881 there were
but 10000. The plan of operations of the
abolitionists was first to depreciate the
value of slave property by system OF
mild boycotting and then to purchase
and manumit the slaves. Cerear howeN
er was II grazing province and much more
easily susceptible to abolition influence
than the coffee producing provinces,
which still remain to be conquered. Tn,
aboltionists are now demanding TIE un
the slaves.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
Cheap Paint for OutbuiIdinys,

Ex-CommiSsioner of Agriculture LeDuc
writes to The HuSbandman, in reply to in
quiries of the method of preparing skim milk
paint, as follows:
''Skim milk, sweet, mix the thickness of
cream with common cistern cement-fresn is
preferable-and laid on wood or brick is an
excellent paint-more enduring than white
lead and oil, as commonly sold. 1t TODD for
me on a rough boarded barn for twenty-four
years, and | reprinted chiefly because the
cornce, doors, and other trimmings, painted
with pure oxide of iron and oil. had faded
The color of the milk and lime is yellowiSh
stone color, and may be changed by the adj
dition of any of the usual earthly pigments
without injury to the paint. The lime in the
cement and the caseine in the milk form an
insoluble compound. The inference would
seem to be that Ho.seins AMI other cattle,
whose milk is rich in caseine would furnish
skim milk better suited to the purpose than
Jerseys or lutter making cows
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01

Make the arch about eight feet high. The
tree, should be eight feet apart in the ground.
They must be supported in the beginning by
framework.
The way they are trained is this: Cut
each tree back to few buds. Let only one
shoot grow from the strongest bud Train
this in the way that is desired, towards the
arch Where it throws out side shoots, pinch
them back to three or four leaves. There
will be a pleasure in thus watching the
growth and shaping of pear arch. The
varieties that will train among the best are
the old favorites-Ba Bartlett Clapp, Seckel,
Lawrence and Duchesse d Angouleme.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01

United States, with the exception Of Califor-
mia, where there is moro thrift, more pros
pcrity more energy an more money in pro
portion TO agricultural investment than in
the yellow tobacco growing region of North
Carolina
We clip the above from The Nashville
American. We have already given the
statement of The Wilmington Star as to the
wonderful results in tobacco culture in
North Carolina. The Charleston Courier
has informato on from the farmers of South
Carolina equally encouraging.
As this crop presses itself into more general
favor, we are sure our farmers will be bene-
fitted. Too much cotton, to the exclusion of
almost all other crops, has destroyed our
thrift, and we are anxious to see the farms
yielding a diversity of money crops so that
success may he assured, even though some of
these crops should fail.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
CLAIRGEAU EsPALIER.

Fig. > shows the method of training IA
dwarf pear upon palng. BY pinchlnS
back the shoots To three or four leaves the
tree is made to bear very early. In the
espalicr or paling system of training nail a
strong bottom rail TO posts set into the
ground about eight feet apart Inch Stats
are nailed to the posts above the bottom rail,
and upon these he pear branches are trained.
They are tied to the Stats. The Stats may be
put on diagonally, and the branches trainel
in that way. There may be any number of
Stats desired. The Clairgeau is fine pear,
specially adapted to this kind of culture.
The main point about the shaping is to
keep off all the side branches and let the
strength and sap go into the long ones,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01

Keeping and raising live stock i, the saliva
ton of impoverished soils.
Western ranchmrn are beginning to feed
their cattle in winter. They had to COM L.
it.
Quin e, and sweet apples preserved together
are delicious-one-third ounces to two-thirds
apples.
The fruit trees in Santa Barbara, Cal are
being dug up, and English walnuts planted
in their stead,
The beef supply of the country is falling
Off. That is another reason why farmers
should have a beef to sell now and then.
In Iowa every acre planted to timber, with
trees not more than twelve feet apart
exempts 800 worth of property from taxa.
ton.
Horse breeding in France is not success
Breeders are particular about the stallion,
but pay no attention to the points of the
mare
1t is said that one acre of ground will sup
port one idividual, and that five acres Will
keep a family, They live ON less than that
in Ireland.
Encouraged 10y government bonus the
people of south Australia are planting trees
very extensively ON their wide plains and
with remarkable success,
A farmer thinks he has discovered that the
common lark,pur is fatal to the potato bug
de proposes next year to plant it numerous
y among potato vines.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
MIR. EGAN Is VERY oRAoULAR.
lie Thinks Parnell and "Thc Grand Old
Man" will Combine.

LONDoN, Dec. 24-Mr. Patrick Egan,
president of the Irish National League of
America, said yesterday ~ consider the
principles of home rule as virtually set
tied, both English parties admitting the
necessity for such n change. | am of
opinion that it will be accomplished by
the junction of Mr.. Parnells forces with
those of Mr. Gladstone when the critical
time comes, not an alliance, rs so fire.
quently stated as it would be contrary to
the principles of the Irish party to ally
themselves with either of the English
parties but by Independent action in the
same direction Ireland does not look for
anything from Gladstone or any other
English leader from love, but from
their fears. The power to protect
and foster Irish industries must also
be conceded to the Irish Parliament.
Some of the ablest men in England en-
poet to see Il deadly struggle between
Russia and England for the possession of
India within the next two years. 1t is
the policy of England to settle the Irish
difficulty before that time comes. The
movement of the last six years, uniting as
it has done every single element in Ire
land outside of the little knot of loyalists,
who call themselves Orangemen, and
backed up as it is by the sympathy of the
| liberty loving people of the world, but
more especially by the people of
America, has taught England that
in the words of Mr.. Gladstone, only
an Irish parliament will meet the
case. | believe that nothing short of the
rights that Canada possesses should be or
| will he accepted by the Irish people. The
control of the police and courts 10y the
| Irish parliament Is absolutely indispensii-
BILE, if settlement is to be permanent.
The police in Ireland at present are armed
and drilled as a military force and regard
! themselves not as servants of the people,
who pay them, but as their masters. AS
to the loyal minority about which Eng
land is SOLICITORS, they will he exactly as
safe and have their rights Just rs much
respected in Ireland as in Illinois. Mr..
Egau says the league has forwarded to
Mr.. Parnell during the last two months
about Ss0,OJO.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01

BosToN. Dec. 2S.-At yesterdays SEES
sion of the court, District Attorney lIurl-
burt in the Goodwin murder trial, opened
for the government, detailing the facts of
the shooting of swan by Goodwin in the
office of l.. Sprague x Co., in Lawrence,
August 81, lSS5. Several witnesses testi-
fled seeing Goodwin in conversation with
Swan and to hearing pistol shot; also to
finding swan lying on the floor, and his
death in snort time. Goodwin acknowl-
edged the shooting and at once telephoncd
the police of what he had done. y police
officer testified that Goodwin said Swan
had taken all his patents and patterns for
which he WAS offered $4,000, and that I'M
less Swan came to some settlement he
would have his heart blood.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
tlsykc Glover.

In localities where white clover is scarce,
Alsvke as a honey plant is just perfection
If the apgirian can afford to rai-e any crop
for honey alonn, it would be this but it
rarely happens that the specialist in bee
keeping own, much lanl, and there is one
barrier i'll the way of its general cultivation
by farmers AMI that is it, la * of any after
growth to speak of. | am aware it has been
claimed that Alsvke could I've Gus two or
three tim's, but have grown il several years
and find it essentially tine same rs mammoth
clover in this respect. 1t evidently n cross
between white and mammoth red clover.
and what we now want is a cross between
the small red clover and Alsyke. Who Will
give it: Alsyke now, i'll my opinion. pro
duces the best hay of all known grasses but
it lacks rapidity of growth. If it could be
crossed with something that would start
quickly after being cut perhaps Alfalfa,
farmers would take hold of it with IA vim and
bee keepers would he happy.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES EXCITED.


PARIS, Dec. 34.-rhe Chamber of Depu
ties has adopted TOnquin credit by "A vote
of 21l to 2i0 1t is rumored that owing to
the cloSeuess of the vote, the Cabinet has
resigned. Before the vote was taken Gen.
Camperdn, minister of war, spoke in op-
position to the proposed evacuation of
Tonquin. He also advocated the forma
ton of colonial army. NJ. Clemenceau de
manded revision of the ricntsin treaty
and reproachcd NJ Ferry with imporing
the support of Prince Bismarck. An uproar
ensused during which VI. Ferry amid
Kisses aud cheers made Il futile attempt to
reply to NJ. ClemenCeau. The latter CON
tinuing his speech appealed to Frenchmen
to decide whether II was not the para
mount duty of the government to Tighten
taxation.
NJ De Frcycinct said the adoption of
the TOnquin credit would have II wider
bearing than the occupation of Tonquin,
as ii Woulu decide whether or nor France
should have Il foreign policy. Baron De
Courcel, French emna~sadCr to Germany,
stated thai Bismarck mad offered To me
dlate between France and emma. ".
ferrv'S reply to the baron it, which he
said he valued most highly the offer OF
the German chancellor. CAUSED the greatest
excitement. NJ. Ferry was hOoted and
tried to rush to the tribune, but his friends
prevented INN from doing 50. The result
of the division on the Tonquin question
was the occasion of Il tremendous uprOar,
VOlleys of questions We're addressed to the
chair. but were unanswered. The chamber
then adjourned until the 10Th.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
THE BEN BUTLER CASE.


PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 2S-The mill
tary committee of the House, when APP
pointed, will be instructed to renew the
investigation of the accounts of General
Butler as treasurer of the National Home
for disabled volunteers, which was com
menced in the last Congress by commit
tee of which Rosecrans was chairman
The bond account wherein the greatest
deficiency is claimed by the committee to
exist is stated as follows: The account as
made up from the account current for he
period of 1856 to 1876 stands thus Amount
expended for bonds S3,0il ,33l, bonds do
mated ll.l0j, total 10 Ue accounted for
$50, OS?, 1856, total amount taken no rs re
ceived from the sale Of bonds Si,N1l4l3.
leaving Il deficiency Of S!ll.0+3. 1t i be
iieVed that General Butler can explain
every transaction in HE most satisfactory
MANNER.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01

In Europe the fancful training of pear
trees is carried to a high degree of perfection.
In this country it is scarcely done at ALL A
fruit tree in its natural shape, with
only such pruning as is absolutely neces-
sarv, is more slightly than the most
scientifically pruned one But still "A pear
arbor, like the one in the illustration is not
so bad. In good situations certain varieties
fruit largely thus trained. 1t has the advan-
tage that the training over the arch brings
all the branches and fruit to the sun equally.
There are various ways of shaping the
trees pyramidal-upon arches, epalicis, or
trelises and Gordon fashion, which stretches
the limbs each way upon frames, either
straight out horizontally or upward OBJ
liquely. But there is something painful and
unnatural about all these methods, except,
perhaps, that of the arch. At any rate 1t is
least objectionable. For trees to be trained
in this manner select the low growing
varieties Graft hem upon the ounce
stock That is to say, buy from the nursery
man small pear trees, two or three feet high,
already grated upon the ounce stock.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
Sublime Impudence.

MONTREAL, Dec. rs -'Great Corr has
followed the example of his eX-Secretary
Sowdon and has issued a manifesto to the
press of the United States" in which he
deals with the charges now standing
against him i'll the Court of Queen Bench
for this district and which he has failed to
answer to- This manifesto exposes the
sublime impudence Of this Canadian Emo.
The charge of forgery" he diSposes Of
10y laying it to his political adversaries, y
and proceeds to show in his own cute way
that the only ground which the assgnees
or company have for claiming that he is
Indebted to them is by the directors voting
upon stock he held in the company, max
ing him out il debtor by process of voting
to any amount they chose.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
A True Nobleman.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Dec. 24-ln Janu-
ary, 1888 Howard Blackburn and Thomas
WEIGH got astray from the schooner Grace
l.. Fears on Burgess bank, and suffered
from the storm and cold for five days.
Welch died, but Blackburn reached land,
freezing his hands and feet badly. Five
hundred dollars was raised for him. with
which he was enabled to open IL small
store. To-day he called a. the Cape Ann
Advertiser office and handed the editor OF
that paper 800 stating he had considered
that money as Il loan, had been fairly
prosperous. and wished to give the money
for the benefit of the widows and children
of Gloucester fishermen. 1t was accepted
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01

ncrican Cultivator.l

Cut the wood lots between the fall of the
leaf in autumn and the start of the sap in
the spring, if it is desired to have them
sprout up again quickly, and cut them clean
as you 20. The practice of leaving snall
trees for longer growth when the larger trees
are cut is one that usually defeats its own
end. Those which are left crowd out or de
stroy by their shade the young sprouts
which should start where older trees are cut
I'VE are speaking now of hard woods, and the
gain by the growth OF the trees left is more
than balanced 10y the loss in the next growth.
If it is desired to permanently clear land for
the purpose of cultivation this may be accom-
plished 10y allowing the brush to remain on
the wood lot until after the young sprouts
are well started i'll the spring, and then burn
them.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
FARM AND GARDEN.


The price of wheat has declined again 1t
is because abroad wheat from Russia and
India have flooded the market with their
abundance. The Russian wheat is of sur
passing good quality, too.
Plainly American farmers will never have
the wheat market all to themselves again.
There are formidable competitors from the
other side.
There is only one remedy. II is that which
the cotton-growing states are beginning to
apply with such success to their staple.
When cotton has become so cheap as to be
drug in the market they are learning to pro-
duce less of it. They vary their crops to
their own advantage.
Let farmers in future raise less wheat and
more something else There will always he
plenty of demand for other things to eat
that the farmer produces. Dairy farming
and stock raising are to be recommended a
good beefsteak for one costs seventy
five cents in city restaurants. Moreover
YOU won't like to believe it-but
somehow there cannot be at present de-
cent Cheddar cheese made in the United
States. Much of our other native cheese
is not fit for a hog to eat. Made of skim
milk and lard, you know.
Now, why not gradually work into stock
and dairy farming! We shall not have too
much beef or good cheese made i'll this coun-
try for n number of years to come Try
other mixed farming, suited to your partlcu-
lar locality. At any rate, it Will be well for
farmers to make up their minds to the change
that seems to be inevitable The United
States will not continue to be the sole seller
of wheat in large quantities to the nations
of Europe. Prepare III advance Tor the
1,,4f i,,n tt1rn
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
Wind and Tide on the Sea Coast.

CoHAsSET. Mass, Dec 21-Much damage
was done to property in this vicinity by
storm and tides last night. The beach
was flooded to Il depth of two feet at Nan
taskct beach the damage Is very extensive.
The most badly damaged building is the
Crockett house, the brick foundations of
which are washed ont, and the entire
building has settled, straining and tearing
off the plastering. Minds Ledge light
house is completely covered with ice and
presents the appearance of huge ice
berg,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01

'There is no sort of doubt that upper east
Tennessee, where the soils are derived from
the gneissoid rocks and the Potsdam sand
stones, is suited for the production of as fine
tobacco as can be grown in the world.
Nothing has ever occurred in the history
of agriculture in America that has wrought
such changes in the financial condition of the
farmers rs the growing of yellow tobacco in
North Carolina. 1t has converted poverty
into wealth, Ignorance into intelligence,
apathy into enterprise. Throughout this
region there is an animation in business cir
cles rarely scent 1t has done more to arouse
the lethargy of the old Rip Van Wrinkle state
than all the thundors of the civil war In
deed. we do not know of any section in the
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-01-01
A MARINERS YARN.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE kARMARE
TELLS A STORY OF WRECKS.
A swedish Barkentine Encounters n Ter
rible storm and Goes to Pieces-Far
and Wide the sea was Strewn
with Wrecks.

NEW YORK, Dec. 24-Captain Peter
Nodefeldt and crew, of the Swedish bark
entine Karmare, destroyed in the harbor
of Colon during the storm of Dec. 3, ar
rived here to-day by the steamer City of
Para. Capt. Nodefeldt tells the following
story 1--WE arrived at Colon on Nov. 26,
with a cargo of about 400 tons of coal. and
with the assistance of a lighter had dis
charged about 40 tons when the wind be-
gan to blow from the southeast "A heavy
swell from the sea swept in, and com
PEELED the lighter to seek shelter. The
rain fell in torrents and the sea became
angrier and angrier every moment. Find
ing the ship beginning to drift we threw
out II second anchor which did not hold,
so at { O'Clock we let 90 our third anchor
We paid out all the chain we dared, but
as there was vessel loaded with eXplo-
sves Just at our stern, we had to be
careful.
BY 10 o'clock mountains of water
were tumbing over us and it did not look
as though we could keep atlOat till morn
ing. When daylight came the sea was
covered with wrecks. Six vessels were
going to pieces on the reefs just beyond
the bar. ! saw Il vessel bottom upward
with IL number of men clinging to it,.
In the afternoon we observed an Ameri-
can three masted schooner drifting direct
~ towards us, and seeing Il collision was
inevitable we resolved to set sail and run
ashore. We struck the reef and cut our
rigging over board, the American schOon-
er drifting against us, and part of her
rigging fell on our deck line. We then
took our long boat and went ashore
Seventy-two vessels and sixty lives were
| lost III that storm Our own vessel was Il
total wreck She was owned by c. Sylvan
of l1elsingberg, Sweden"