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Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-12-11
sowing Grass.

In sowing grass it must be remcm-
bered if sown for meadow the point to
be especially careful about is that the
different kinds sown shall ripen to-
gether. In sowing for pasture, on the
contrary, care should be taken to get
grasses that would not mature at the
same time. That grasses should be
mixed, both for meadows and pasture,
the experience of all obseryant farmers
will testify. It is better not only for
the stock, but in the case of many
grasses it is better for the grass. Two
Of the best grasses, timothy and red
clover Eve will call this gras0, though
it is no;), do very well as to growth
without the admixture Of. anything else,
but neither one makes So good hay alone
as mixed together, or with others. But
while it is true that clover mixes quite
well with timothy, there are some very
serious drawbacks to it for that purpose.
The difference of time Of maturing is
Objectionable, requiring that the Glove
be cut too late or the timothy too early,
and the fact that timothy will not make
q second growth, as does clover, or
permit grazing without serious injury to
it. Rcdtop, however, mixes very we'll
with timothy as to times of maturinc,
though it, too, is q good pasture grass
and full benefit Of it cannot be obtained
if sown in timothy meadow. Orchard
grass and clover mix very well in every
particular. They mature absut the
same time, both make aftergrowths after
being moved, and both stand grazing
well. Indeed we think that orchard
grass is far too lightly appreciated.
Those who have used it most think most
highly Of it. One thing that hassmili-
tated greatly against its popularity is
that it is usually sown too thin. =
Journal Of d griculture
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-12-11

feet, with two o. three feet between the
plants in the row. This win allow them
to be cultivated BY horse power. The
raspberries and blackbefriss can be tied
to one or two wires run along the row
the second year. Currants do far better
to be mulched after the bushes get large
enough to bear well. The mulching
should consist Of salt hay Or sedge that
will not contain any seeds that grow on.
upland, and should be applied in spring
after warm weather begins, in sufficient
bulk to keep down the weeds. a few
weeds will perhaps come up close to the
bushes through the mulch, but they can
be pulled by hand. Prnnc out the old
currant bushes rather severely after the
leaves fall, giving room FOR the Dir to
circulate freely.
The raspberry ana blackberry canes
should have been thinned out and
shortened during the summer, leaving
about four good ones for cach stool.
After the leaves fall these should be-
laid down and covered with an inch Of
loan. This work will be well repaid
BY certain crop. The black caps do.
not need this shelter, but the red and
white raspbcrrics and blackbcrrics do.
The so-called hardy kind Of blackbcrries
arc only partly 50, and arc inferior to the
Wilson and Dorchester.
To lay down b,ackberries two men
take hold Of the ends Of pole six feet,
long and press down the canes to the
ground and hold them, while third
man covers them. To prune them 9.
pruning hook on the end Of four-foot.
handle and pair Of buckskin gloves are
wanted. Strawberries are generally best
set in spring or in midsummer. In
autumn they need wedding, and after
the ground is frozen covering with
evergreen boughs or sedge. American
CultiDGtor.
Martinsburg gazette. (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1886-1887, 1886-12-11
Ho,.sehold Hints.

Where 4 filter is unattainable, very
little alum will purify foul water. An
ounce Of alum will purify whole hogs
head Of foul water. IS
TO extinguish kerosene flames, if no
cloth is at hand, throw foucr on the
flames -Four rapidly absorbs the fluid
and deadens the flames.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25

The Secretary of war has decided that
the soldiers belonging to Colonel Law
toms command who were provided with
worthless shoes from the military prison
at Fort Leayenworth while in pursuit of
Geronimos band shall be fully reis-
bursed.
FIRST Comptroller Durham has made a
ruling that the Chairman of a Congress
sional committee has the right to SUSPEND
the clerk to a committee and appoint an
other person in his place during recess
of the committee; but that his action
must be approved by the committee, or
else the suspended clerk must be rein
stalled. Ee also hold that in a case of
this kind the clerk is not entitled to com
pensation during the period of his sus-
pension.
THE secretary of the lighthouse board,
Commander Picking, has telegraphed to
Commander Benham, inspector of the
Third lighthouse district, which embrac-
es Bedloe's island within its limits, to take
steps for the lighting of the Bartholdi
statue of Liberty as soon as possible, It
is estimated that it will cost about $3.50 a
month to maintain the light, and that it
will require several days to perfect all the
preliminaries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
GENERAL NOTES.

FoR the first time in many years, no
strikes are reported from the Pittsburgh
district, and all industries are being OPP
Grated to the fullest extent.
IT is authoritively stated that the rev.
ue cutter Andy Johnson will go into win
ter quarters at Milwaukee.
BUSINESS men of Chicago are being
solicited to give money or supplies for
the confederate soldiers home at Austin.
Texas.
The authorities at Atlanta have Ecens-
ed thirty-six wine-rooms as the liquor
law permits the sale of domestic wine.
THE lighthouse board has decided to
take immediate steps toward the lighting
of the Bartholdi statue, at an estimated
cost of $3.50 per month.
THOUSANDS of claims have been staked
out IN Indian Territory, below Caldwell
Kansas, where rich silver deposits are
believed to exist. A company of soldiers
have been ordered to Caldwell to keep
prospectors out of the country.
G. E. HATHAWAY, an editor at st. Joseph
Missouri, was whipped on the street by
Michael G. Moran, state senator-elect
for personal illusions in the recent cam
paign.
JULIEN t. DAVIES, Of New York, receiv-
er of the firm of Grant & Ward, has
brought suit against Mayor R. Grace to
recover S150,O0O obtained from the firm
through fictitious contracts.
AT the annual banquet of the Iroquois
club, of Chicago, given at the Palmer
House the questions of tariff reform, the
national finances, and the proper method
of dealing with the public lands were
elucidated by Speaker Carlisle, Senator
Beck and Commissioner Sparks. Letters
of regret were read from many promin
ent democrats, the list being headed by
President Cleveland, Governor Fitz
Hugh Lee, Abram S. Hewitt, and Fitz
John Porter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

BOILER explosion in mill at Shelf
field, Pennsylvania, killed Milton Mapes
and his son and fatally injured three
other persons.
SEVEN lives were lost, by the founder
ing Of the barges Dixon and Emerald, off
Kewaunee, Wis.
Wash
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has reinstated
Nj. E. Benton as attorney for the Western
district of Missouri the deposed official
showing that he did not neglect his duty
to make campaign speeches.
PITTSBURGH telegram reports the
damage by fire to the pro cathedral of st.
Peter at $4,000. The stone walls are
intact and the spire is uniniured.
AT Knoxville, Illinois, on Friday even
ing, Henry Arms, Jr., was almost instant
ly killed by the explosion of a cannon
during political jubilee.
The Welch house and eight other struct-
ures at Necedah, Wis, were destroyed by
fire early Monday morning. The total
loss is less than $4,000, with $4,000 in
surance.
THREE Baltimore fremen received fatal
drug warehouse of B urroughs & Brothers
on Camden street. The building was
damaged to the amount of $4,000
TIE attorney general has directed the
United States Marshal at st. Louis to in
vestigate the report that agents are at
work among the unemployed laborers in
that city to secure recruits for an alleged
flibustering expedition against Mexico.
A MAN named N. S. Baker was accident
ally killed in Oregon, Nov. Z. He leaves
a large amount of property, including a
fine ranch and thousands Of cattle, but his
heirs are unknown.
JOSH PHI HOFFMAN, tailor, in ST. Louis,
in initiating sword-swallower, let a case
knife slip down his throat. His stom-
ach was Thursday opened and the knife
removed.
In the outskirts of Pittsburgh Thurs
day, three sleepers of Pan handle limit
ed express train were crushed by the fall
of mass of earth and rocks. Eight
passengers were seriously injured, and
as many more received bruises. The
train was hurried to the Union depot
where every attention was given the suf-
ferers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
CRIME AND CRIMINALS,

In st. Paul's Methodist church, Cincin-
natl, on Sunday evening, the over coat OF
W. F. Taorne was stolen from his pew
while he was taking a collection.
AsBA J. BURRUs, who attempted to muir
der Miss Walters and Mrs. Goode, in Chi
cago, one year ago was on his plea OF
guilty, sentenced to six years imprison,
ment at Joliet.
. Ten men, neutrality-suspicious., Levitt
Sherman, and "Bismarck,' were indicted
at Sioux City, Iowa, Thursday, for muir
der and conspiracy in taking the life OF
the Rev. Mr.. Haddock. Four of the per
sons indicted have not been arrested.
The police of SheIbyville, Indiana
captured burglar named ''Walk' Ham
mond, who proved to be the last member
of the Reno gang of express robbers. He
was the leader in the famous Ohio and
Mississippi robbery near Seymour, ten
years ago.
The Pinkerton police agency at Chica-
go, is investigating statement that on
Monday afternoon lad was employed
by two men on street corner to deliver
at the residence of P. D. Armour ten
pound package of buckwheat -four con
tain liberal mixture of strychnine and
barytes.
The examination of Clarence II. Wells
the brakeman, has been concluded at Por-
tage. The evidence brought forward
was sufficient to hold him, and he was
bound over in the sum Of $1,000 to ap-
pear at the circuit court for trial. No
bail was furnished and the prisoner was
remanded to jail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
Where to Dig the Well.
Annals of Hygiene.

Let US remember that well will drain
an area, with a diameter equal to twice
its depth. Therefore, well twelve feet
will drain an area, the diameter of which
is twenty-four feet, that is to say it will
drain the surrounding soil for twelve feet
in every direction. Obviously then the
privy should be more than the depth of
the well away from it, and more than this
again, if it is proposed to place it on q
higher level, which, however, should never
be done. The well shoald be lined inside
thoroughly with mortar, so that percOla-
ton can not occur between the crevises
of the bricks. and it should be well cover
ed, so that surface drainage can not get
into it, for you want to drink water that
has come into the well from the bottom,
after it has been purified by filtration
through the earth. Thus, then, these are
the precautions to be observed IN iOcat-
ing and building your well in the country.
How about the city? Well water in the
city should never be used: the sources of
contamination are too numerous and hid
den to be avoided.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
A Foolish and Stubborn Belief

In the efficacy of certain remedies of violent ac-
ton, is the besetting foibIe of the ignorant and
prejudiced. The indiscriminate use of purga-
tives is very common phase of the faulty of
such people. AIoes podyphilIin, disguised in
sugar coating, castor oil, mercury, and other old
fashioned drugs, still hold their own among this
class, and although the success of Hostetter's
ity for violence in medication, the adherents of
an exploded fallacy still persist in giving and
taking inordinate purgattVe doses. Dyspepsia,
constipation, liver complaint are as certainly and
thoroughly subdued by the Bitters, as they are
Invariably aggravated by an indiscrimiEate use
of medicines, offcinal or proprietary, belonging
to the class which we have condemned. Fever
and ague, nervousness, rheumatism and inactiv-
ity of the kidneys, yield to the Bitters
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
Messages of Coincidence.

NEW YORK, Nov. 18.-The foIloyinc tel
egrams were received tonight.
WASHINGTON. Nov. is.
The president will attend the funeral
of ex-President Arthur, and will he ac-
companied by the secretary of state, sec
rotary of the navy, secretary of the in
terror, anG postmaster general.
DANIEL S. LAMONT.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
ALBANY. n. Y, Nov. Is.
To Allan Arthur:
In the great sorrow which your bereave-
ment brings, l desire to express my sin
cere sympathy. DAVID B. Hill.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Is.
To Chester A. Arthur, Jr.:
Accept my profound sympathy with
you IN the death of your father, and my
appreciation of his distinguished charac-
ter and services. A committe of senate
will attend the funeral.
JOHN SHERMAN,
Pres't OF Senate.
CHICAGO, Nov. Is.
To Chester A. Arthur, Jr:
You have my profound sympathy.
WALTER Q. GRESHAM.
CHICAGO, Nov. IA.
To Chester A. Arthur, Jr.:
Mrs. Lincoln and myself hear with
great sorrow the death of your father,
and tender you and your sister and aunts
our sincere coincidence.
ROBERT A. LINCOLN.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Is.
To Mrs. S. E. McEIroy:
Mrs. Sheridan and myself send our sin
cere sympathy in the bereavement you
and the family of President Arthur have
sustained in his death to-day. We offer
our coincidence aid respect at this sad
time. Pr. SHERIDAN,
LIT. General.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Nov. IS.
To Chester and Nellie Arthur:
[ have just learned with sorrow of the
death of your father; accept my heart
felt sympathy in your great bereavement.
JOHN A. LOGAN.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
FOREIGN.

The duke of Rutland has RENTED Il
per cent. of the rents on his estates in
Derbyshire.
GEORGE THOMAS Doc, the famous Eng
lish engraver, member of art societies
in several countries, died yesterday at the
age of SO years.
CHARLES JONAS, of Racine, Bohemian
has again been appointed consul at Pra-
que, it having been ascertained that Aus
tr1a will not now object.
COUNT KALNoKY, in declaring the for
eign policy of Austria, said her interests
in Bulgaria were for the maintenance of
treaty rights, without regard to internal
affairs.
The railway accident at Listeron,
France, by which nine persons were kill
ed and twenty injured, was caused by a
fall of rocks and earth from Mount Gerves
upon the train.
GENERAL KAULBARs has been ordered
to leave Bulgaria at once, with all the
Russian cOnsuls, unless the regence com
plies with the czar's demand for the dis
missal of General Mutkuroff
I'm Dublin court tradesman testified
that he had been bankrupted by a boycott
of the National league, which reduced his
business 60 per cent. The judge decided
that an offer to creditors of shillings on
the pound would be reasonable.
THE government has decided not to
prosecute the constables charged with
murder in shooting people during the
Belfast riots. They are nine in number.
The government came to this decision
Notwithstanding that the coroner's jury
had rendered a verdict of murder against
them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
The New Style at Harvard.
r ng+r,, TIC -nIN,r

A sketch OF Harvard published in one
of the Sunday papers was suggestive, in
its illustrations at least, of the new educa-
ton at the university. Instead Of pub
fishing the portraits of the prominent
professors, or Of those students having
the highest standing in the classes, the
protraits of the tennis champion, foot
ball rushers, a crack oarsman. and the
Captain of the baseball club are given.
What wo0ld the,founders of the college say
if they could witness the new denarture !?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
England's Regard for the Dead Chief.

LONDON, N 0v. 18.-The Daily News, re-
ferring to the death of ex-President
Arthur, says that his death will be re-
GREETED beyond the limits of America.
As president he exercised the duties of
the Office in a manner which won for him
the lasting gratitude of his countrymen.
The Standard says ex-President Arthur's
death will be regretted on personal
grounds by large number of people who
found something wanting in his political
character.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
WASHINGTON.

The pension bureau has allowed So,
Az TO John L. Moncrief, a member CT
the 18th Illinois volunteers, now insane
and S11,917 to Josiah Brinard, formerly
of the S8th Pennsylvania regiment. These
are the largest first payment ever made.
The war department has approved of
the allotment by the Mississippi river
commission Of 100000 for the Yazoo
delta district, which will probably com
plete continuous line of levee from
Memphis to Vicksburg, dist snce of 320
miles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
A Despairing Remark.

New YORK Nov. 16.-A very few days
ago, in conversation with Aqueduct Com
missioner Fisk, who called to see him,
Ex-President Arthur made the following
despairing remark: "After all, life is not
worth living for, and I might as well give
up the struggle for it now as any other
time and submit to the ine7itable.''
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
Particulars Of the Sad Event-Tbe En-
neral to Take Place on Monday.
Messages of Coincidence and Expres.
SiOns of Regret and Respect.
EX-PRESIDENT ARTHUR.
Particulars Of his Sudden Death

New YORK, Nov. -Ex-President
Chester A. Arthur died at O'Clock this
morning at his residence, 123 Lexington
avenue. He had been ailing for some
time from complication of diseases,
principally kidney affection. He had
spent the summer at watering place
and 1t was supposed that this had
strengthened somewhat his enfeebled
constitution His death was unexpected.
1t not being supposed outside of his house
that he was in any immediate danger.
His disease was one affecting the kid
neys, and those nearest him had no faith
In his permanent recovery, but his sud
den demise was not spoken Of He be-
gan to sink rapidly shortly after mid
night, and by O'Clock it was known
that death was approaching. A stroke of
CEREBRAL APoPLExY.
sudden, but not wholly unexpected bv
the attending physicians. formulated his
life. The stroke came in his sleep be-
tween Tuesday night and Wednesday
morning, and he did not rally thereafter
His death was painless-the slow going
out of a burned down candle, and for
hours before the end came he was uncon-
scious CT his surroundings. His son and
daughter, his sister, his former law part
ner, Sherman W. Khevals, and his closest
friend, Surrogate Rawlins, were at his
bedside. Mr.. Arthur's attendant left kim
shortly after midnight, and did not
enter his room again till eight
o'clock this morning, when he found him
lying on his side breathing heavily and
was unable to arouse him. The family
and DR.. Geo. 4. Peters, Mr.. Arthur's ply
stefan, were at once summoned. It took
DR.. Peters but few moments to locate
the difficulty.
SMALL BLOOD VESSEL
in the brain had bursted and paralysis of
the right side had ensued. From the mo-
ment the discovery was made, all hope
was known to be vain, but no efforts were
spared to bring the patient back to con-
seriousness. They we're all alike failures
All day long the dying man lay motion
less and speeches., though he knew what
was being done about him, for he pressed
the doctors hand and put out his tongue
partly when hidden to do so. These were
the only Indications Of consciousness he
manifested. Last night at o'clock the
enfeebled pulse, more difficult respira-
ton and other singns of physical failure
indicated to the watchful eyes OF
his physicians that the end was
drawing near. A change for the worse
came on rapidly, and his sisters
and children gathered about his bedside.
DR.. William A. Valentine, DR.. Peters
partner, and Surrogate Rollins stayed
with them during the night. Mr.. Khevals
went home at midnight. Mr.. Arthur's
strength ebbed out slowly and with it his
life. It was o'clock when the end came
He had been entirely senseless for hours
and died without struggle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25

THERE are now thirteen women living
who are Chevaliers of the Legion of
Honor i'll France, all of whom except
Rosa Bonheur, the painter, and Nine. Die
ulafoy, the antiquarian, received the dec
Grafton for actual service on the field of
battle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
President CIeveIand's Proclamation.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.-The president
to-day issued the following:
MANSION,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.-The president
to-day issued the following:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, Nov. s..
To the people of the United States:
It is my painful duty TO announce the
death of Chester 4. Arthur, lately presi-
dent of the United States, which
occurred after an illness of long
duration, at an early hour this morning,
at his residence in the city of New York.
Mr.. Arthur was called to the chair of
chief magistrate Of the union by the
tragedy which cast its shadow over the en-
tire government. His assumption of tn e
grave duties was marked by evident and
conscientious sense of his responsible
ties and an earnest desire to meet
them in patriotic and benevolent spirit,
With dignity and ability he sustained
the important duties of his station, and
the reputation of his personal worth, con-
spieuous graclousness and patriotic fdsl-
ity will long be cherished by
his fellow countrymen. In token
of respect to the memory of the deceased,
it is ordered that the executive mansion
and the several department buildings be
draped in mourning for a period of thir-
ty days, and that on the day of the fu-
neral all public business in the depart
ments be suspended.
The secretaries of war and of the navy
will cause orders to be issued for appro-
pirate military and naval horrors to be
rendered on that day.
Done at the city of Washington this
eighteenth day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-six and of the indie
pendence of the United States of Amer
lea one hundred and eleventh.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
THos. f. BA1ARD, Sec'y of State.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25
THos. F. BA1ARD, Sec'y of State.
Expressions Of Sincere Sorrow in Washing
ton.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.-The personal
regard in which ex-President Arthur was
held in Washington was shown by ex-
pressions OF sincere sorrow on all hands
this morning at the news of his sudden
death. The receipt of the first bulletin
was followed almost Immediately by the
half-masting Of the flags on the wings
of the capitol, on the white house and
department buildings, on the courthouse
and district buildings, and on the no
tells, schools and private buildings.
Soon after the receipt of the press bale
tins. Col. Lamont received from
James. G. Reed, oxPresident Arthur 8
private secretary, the following telegram
New York-Ex-Prssiden Arthur died
at o'clock this morning"
The president was at once informed
and addressed the following message to
ex. President Arthur's sister, Mrs. McEi-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-11-25

MISS GALLAGHER and d. M. Shark were
married at Philadelphia Tuesday evening
The bride was so i'll of scarlet fever that
she was unable to be out of bed, but
would not agree to a postponement of the
wedding.