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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-10-12
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

LONDON is to have an electric railway.
CARL SCHURz is still at Kiel Germany.
THE crops in France exceed all expecta-
lions
THE rye crop of Europe is considerably
short.
MoRMoNs are focking into Wyoming in
great numbers.
THIRTY million trees have been planted IN
Kansas this year.
INVENTOR EDISON says he has found sure
cure for yellow fever.
THE honey crop of the country is below
the average this season
CANAL will soon be built between the
Black and Caspian Seas
"A CHINAMAN is refused naturalization
papers by St Louis Judge.
The GEAR and Czarina have declined to re-
ceive Queen Natalie of Servia
HEAVY losses have occurred to cranberry
growers from the severe frostS.
AN eagle carries off the six-year- old child
of a Kansas farmer an devours 1t.
AN electric bolt killed four people of one
family in COsala, Mexico, recently.
BUNCo men in Pittsburg swindle an aged
and respectable citizen out OF SlO,OOo.
In Kansas drought has caused severe de
cline in the condition of the corn crop.
1.-THE King of Siam has donated to the Bap
fist mission at Bang kok the sum OF S24OOoO.
Robert 6oMERv1LLK, of New YORK, was
torn and trampled TO death by cattle on Il
Western ranch.
ABOUT 1912 regular passenger trains enter
and leave the depots Of New York City
every twelty-fOur hours.
THE German Government wants to oulld
more men-Cf-war. and is going to ask the
Reich stag for money to do it.
THE Swiss GOvernme nt will ask the Swiss
Parliament for ere lit of S5,OO0,O0O to sup
ply the army with improved rifles.
THE Cotton Sp nners' Association. at Man
chester England, decides to run on short
time to defeat the speculative ring.
RETURNS for 1888 show that British live
stock has decreased As per cent: compared
with SS7 and rs compared with 1886.
THE Sultan of Turkey has obtained a loan
of $50OO,000 at seven per cent. from the
Deutsche Bank to build new railroad
THREE hundred Indians at the Lower
Brue agency have signed the treaty TO open
a part of the reservation to settlement
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-10-12
LATER NEWS.

THE Kings County Oil Works, at Brook
lyn, n Y. were damaged by fire to the ex
tent of $50, 900, and two workmen were
burned to death by explosion resulting
therefrOm.
HENRY FITCH, of Oxford, n H., Demo
cratic candidate for State Senator, was
killed by being thrown from his wagon.
Mr. MILLS, author of the Tariff Reduction
bill, was renomnated for Congress by the
Democratic Convention at Waco, Texas.
JOHN D. CoPEsToN and John Perry Pearce,
of Louisville, were drowned in the Ohio
River while boating
THE Senate has confirmed the following
nominations: Charles F. Boyle, of Pennsyl
vania, to be Chief Justice, Washington Ter
ritory; Lambert Tree, of Illinois, to be
Minister to Russia; George Davidson, OF
California, to be member of the Mississippi
River Commission, and John G. Parkhurst
of Michigan, to be Minister to Belgium.
PROFESSOR GEFFCKEN, who has been ar
rested for publishing extracts from the diary
of the late German Emperor, claims that he
received permission from Emperor Frederick
to publish them three months after his death.
SEVERAL arrests were made in London of
persons suspected of connection with the
WhltechapeI murder mystery, and rewards
amounting to $1,000 were offered for the de-
lection of the murderer.
OVER three hundred natives were killed IL
a battle with force of natives led by British
officers on the Gold Coast in Zanzibar,
Africa.
SENATOR JAMES G. Ross, ten-fold mil
3Iof0
has died in Quebec.
A TERRIFIC storm ragged along the Great
Lakes. Five lives were lost and much
damage done to shipping
THE Traders Bank of Chicago has failed
with liabilities of 100000
THERE are over $50 cases of typhoid fever
in Duluth, Mimi, and the epidemic appears
to be growing There have been numerous
deaths.
MRS. GEORGE POFFENBERGER, of Beatrice,
Neb, strangled her two children with
strong cord, and then shot herself through
the heart She left 81 note for her husband
saying she was afraid she was going crazy.
COLONEL J. J. DANIELS, President OF the
Florida Sanitary Association, and one OF the
leading citizens of Jacksonville, Fla, is
dead of yellow fever.
A VIOLENT storm in the Ohio Valley was
particularly severe around Owensboro, KY,
and Rockport, Ind, where three men were
killed by lightning and many buildings were
damaged by wind. Loss estimated at $780,
OO0
COINAGE at the United States minis during
September aggregates 7,149, go pieces, hav-
ing total value of s6,69O,73}. Total gold
coinage, $3.50, 80; total silver coinage
S., $40, 1S5.
THE public debt was reduced sl2. 7,O26
during September. and S23, zoe, 900 during
the last three months.
THERE have been forty-seven post Offices
raised to Presi iential o fees since October l,
with salaries ranging from $1,000 to 5000.
THE treaty of the United States with Peru
has been ratified.
THE Pres dent has nominated James Petit
grew, State Treasurer of South Carolina, to
be Consul General at Melbourne, Australia
SIX lives were lost in an explosion on
board an iron mud-carrying steamer work
ing in the Panama Canal
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31

spring. 1t is not always easy to get
good buckwheat -four. More and more
then will there be a demand for buck
wheat. believe when we take expense
and all into consideration, buckwheat
will often pay a better profit
than will wheat. But aside from
this direct profit, buckwheat has an in
direct value. 1t is an excellent honey
plant, and thus its production adds to
the profits of the beekeeper, and just so
much to the wealth of the country.
Japanese buckwbeat is just now at
tracing much attention, and many are
inquiring as to It's value. The past sea-
son | have tried if. and can recommend
per bushel for seed, but believe it paid
even at that. The berry
Is VERY LARGE,
and the plant is astonishingly product
i've. All who have examined the plants
say they have never seen anything to
compare with it. 70 add to the valve
of my experiment l sowed one-half my
field the 1St of June and the rest the 1st
July. Thus | prolonged the season
of bloom, greatly to the advantage of
the bees. | could see no difference in
the productiVeneSS of these two pieces.
The early sown filled as well as that
sOwn late. l also noticed that the bees
not only worked on it continuously, but
all the day from morn till night. 1t Is
weli-known fact that bees do not usually
work on common buckwheat after
noon. Whether this peculiarly was
owing to the variety or to the season L
do not know. We have tested the
Japan buckwheat for grlddlecakeS, and
we all pronounce it superb.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31
THIS CRUEL WAR Is OVER.
Kindly Terms in Which Redpatb
SpeakS of jefferson Davis.

The cruel war is over ''for sure"
James Redpath, the biographer of John
Brown. and the lifelong friend of
Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner and
other famous champions of freedom,
told a writer in the New York Star
that he recently paid visit to JEFF
ferson Davis at his home in Mississippi.
He was guest of Mr.. Davis for four
DAYS and enjoyed his visit immensely.
He describes the old president of the
Confederate States as tine most refined
and charming old gentleman whom he
ever met among the public men of
Americans the very opposite of the
character hs is supposed to be in the
North-aS refined i'll his manners and
speech as Ralph Waldo Emerson.
or Longfellow, the poet, or Wendell
Phillips. who We're the most per-
feet types of high breeding and
noble nature l ever met in the North.
MIR. Davis is over eighty years old now,
but is in good health and i'll full mental
viger. giving every promise of living 10
see the twentieth century. Using the
phrase in its true, and not in its cant
sense" continued the old abolitioniSt,
81 conscientiously describe Beauvoir
house as an ideal home. Mr.. Davis is
the finest type of Southern manhood,
and Mrs. Davis is quite as notable per-
sonage-a great woman both in char
acter and intellect
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31
OFFICIAL.
Proceedings of the Common
Council
Adjourned Meeting.

OF. PAUL, Dec. e. 1888. ~ p. III.
The Council met pursuant to adiourn-
ment, President Bickel in the chair.
Present-Ald. Blom, Book, Cullen,
hauser, Minea, Melady, Pratt, Sanborn,
Weber, Yoerg, Mr.. President-15.
MMUNICATIONS.
From Pierce Butler, Attorney fol John
Giving notice that said John Butler
would claim damages for injury to a
horse, caused by improper condition of
a street and crossing.
Committee on Claims.
Aid. Sanborn moved that the consider
alton of all other business be laid aside
and the matter of city printing be
taken up.
Adopted. Yeas Is.
The President received bids for city
printing from the Dispatch Printing
Company, st. Paul Globe Publishing
Company and from +. Driscoll for the
Pioneer Press Company, which bids
were read.
The President announced that he had
received bid for city printing from
the st. Paul Daily News Company,
which, not being covered by the motion
of Aid. Sanborn adopted at the last
regular meeting, could not be read.
Aid. Hamm moved that the bid of the
st. Paul Daily News Company be read.
Lost. Yeas Z. nays 8.
Aid. Sanborn moved that the said
bids. as read. be referred to the Com
mittee on Printing to be tabulated, and
that the committee have power to EN-
pley an expert, if necessary. and report
at next regular meeting of Council Oh
Jan. |, 1889.
Adopted. Yeas Is.
Aid. Yoerg moved that committee
from the Ice Palace association. who
were present and desired to address the
meeting Oh behalf of said association. be
heard.
The motion prevailed, and M. d.
Mum addressed the meeting relative to
the carnival of 1889, and asked an
appropriation of $4,000 from the city
for said carnival. and submitted petit
ton asking for said sum, signed by
William NJ. Bushnell and several hun
dred other citizens.
A Id. Fischer moved that all business
relating to the ice palace be laid over
until next regular meeting OF Council.
Adopted. Yeas 10.
Aid. Hanm moved to reconsider vote
by which said motion of Aid. Fischer
relating to ice palace was adopted.
Adopted, and SAID vote reconsidered.
Yeas s, NAYS Z.
W. S. Morton, chairman of special
committee of chamber of commerce,
presented a copy of a resolution adopted
by said chamber Dec. "a, 1888, asking
Council to appropriate $4,000 for an
ice palace and win ter carnival. Aid.
Hamm submitted resolution appro-
priating $4,000 for an ice palace and
winter carnival, but before any action
was taken thereon withdrew the same.
Thereupon all business relating to the
ice palace and winter carnival was laid
over until next regular meeting of
Council.
Adjourned.
WM. BICKEL. President of Council.
THos. A. PENDERGAST. City Clerk.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31
OFFICIAL.
Proceedings Board Fire Com
n7ISSiOnerS.
Regular Meeting.

ST.. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. %, 1883.
The Board of Fire Commissioners of
the city of st. Paul met at 7:30 o'clock
p. m.
Present: Commissioners Prendergast.
Parker, Freeman and Mr.. President.
Absent: Commissioner Martin.
Minutes of previous meeting read and
approved.
REPORTS.
Commissioner Prendergast reported
the necessary repairs to sewerage had
had been made at Chemical House
No.7.
Commissioner Parker reported he had
investigated the Lynn apparatus used
for opening and closing engine house
doors. He suggested that no action on
its adoption be taken at present, as a
member of department has under con-
struction a device which he believes
when completed will be superior to the
Lynn system.
The Chief Engineer reported he had a
proposition from the Chester Oil Com
pany to furnish oil and gasoline for de-
partment use at lower figures than pres
ent prices. On motion, the matter was
referred to committee, consisting of
Messrs. Parker, Prendergast and Free
man. with power to act.
The Secretary presented City Treas
urer's receipt for the sum of S710.S0,
proceeds of condemned property sold.
Filled.
Pay roll of department for month of
December. amounting to Sl4. 404.01. On
motion allowed and referred TO the
Comptroller by the following vote:
Commissioners Parker. Prem
dergast, Freeman and Mr.. President.
Nays-None.
Adjourned.
REUBEN WARNER, President.
7 WILLIAM UGoRMAN. Secretary.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31
JAPAN BUCkWHEAT.
n Party Who Has Tried 1t Is
Pleased With the Result.

There is much to be said in favor of
growing buckwheat as farm crop,
writes A. j. Cook, of the Michigan
Agricultural college, in the Country
Gentleman. First, the time for prepar-
ing the land for the crOp-late June
comes between planting and haying,
and is period of comparative leisure,
and so buckwheat may well come in as
part of any well-regulated rotation.
If the manure is kept well down and
spread in winter, as it should be. and
the road work is don by an expert, as
it certainly should be, each man paying
a cash tax for it, there will never be
any difficulty in finding time in Jane to
get the soil in fine condition for this
crop. This is no mean argument i'll
favor of buckwheat as farm crop.
Again. the production of buckwheat
may serve as one of the best insecti-
cideS. This seems to be crop that is
not only distasteful to insects, but posi-
lively harmful to them. One of the
most serious insect enemies to nearly
all our most valued crops is the wire
worm of an elater beetle. This grub
lives and feeds on the roots of plants
for three years. Thus it often does
terrible damage to corn. potatoes. and
other crops. The only known remedy,
aside from the very expensive one of
digging out. is to sow the land to buck
wheat. This seems to free the land
from the pest. This. then, is no slight
argument in favor of growing this val
liable crop. Once more, buekwheat is
PROFITABLE CROP.
Suckwheas cakes are luxury. and,
once tasted, they are ever after in de-
mand. If rightly made, they are very
wholesome. Thus health and pleasure
combine to welcome buckwheat cakes
to the breakfast table of fall, winter and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31
BLEEDING 70. PNEUMONIA.
A Successful Ii Kennedy for an Acute
Disease.

Boston Globe.
Pneumonia is perhaps the most deadly
of all the acute diseases that are COM
mon in this climate. \ larger proper
ton Of cases prove fatal than in any
other disease that is generally recog-
nized as durable. And although med
ical knowledge and skill are rapidly
overcoming most forms of disease and
rendering them comparatively innOcu-
Gus, little. ii any. progress is being
made towards the discovery of reason
ably certain cure for pneumonia. In
deed, it seems as if year by year the
disease becomes more maSterful and
ceSSfully. The common observation is
that pneumonia is becoming not less
fatal, but more.
Any new suggestion, therefore, which
may tend to aid in combating this
disease is a matter of great public in
terest. In the New York Medical
Record of December there is an article
commenting upon some experiments
lately made by the eminent Italian
physician. Maragliano. He believes
that pneumonia is contagious
disease, caused by the presence of
mcro-organisms. These organisms
affect the blood chiefly, and are thought
to be the cause of the sudden heart
failure which is generally the i'm
mediate cause of the fatal termination
of the disease.
OF course, upon this theory the mat
ter of chief Importance Is to get rid of
the micro-organisms; but this cannot
be done in moment. and in many cases
relief must be had quickly or death will
ensue. 70 prevent the deadly failure
of the heart DR.. Maraglano has revived
the almost obsolete practice of bleeding,
which in years gone by was in univer-
sal use among physicians for all sorts of
ills. Blood-letting at the crisis of the
disease relieves the pressure on the
heart. The Italian physician bled
twelve cases on the fourth or fifth day,
taking fl ON five to ten ounces of blood,
and repeated it within the next day or
two. The pulse and circulation i'm
proved, and in every case cure fol-
lowed. The doctors sensible conclu-
sion is. and many physicians will agree
with him, that bleeding in moderation
is good thing i'll cases of Pneumonia.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31

ships it away. The hogs are mostly dis
posed of in this section for the present.
and the same may be said of cattle, al
though the early spring will find more
READY FOR MARKET.
After all, it's about all any farmer. or
at least most of them, can do to keep the
farm machine running smoothly in its
usual groove. There is no demand for
oats or hay, which can be had from
every farm in good condition, but the
low price has a depressing effect on
ones mental condition. Last year there
was good demand for potatoes and
high price was paid. but there is no call
for them now to ship away, and the
price away down to twenty or twenty
two cents.
The outlook is rather dreary, yet ali
seem full of high
HOPE FOR THE FUTURE.
Ii the plans formed in the past are
among the things that were, and are not
fulfilled, the future is as bright as ever,
only the conditions have changed-"tis
not theory, but a condition, that now
confronts' the farmer: and in greater
or less degree all are affected by
changed conditions at present.
1t is just possible that this enforced
dizziness of farmers produce may bring
out better and wiser mole of farming
than has been practiced in the years
gone by; il so, then we may all be
thankful that these times have come
upon us now when we are so well able
to bear it. Most certainly. it is to be
the farmers themselves that must find
the way out of the difficulties that now
beSet them on all sides, and the present
time is good time to study out the
problem and
FIND THE REMEDY.
1t Is good time for all the farmers to
study the situation. and in this way
some one may find road that will lead
to an end of thei tagnation in the prod
uctS of the farm. The talk of diverSi-
fed farming Is all right, and, so far as
| can see, is really well practiced in
this part of Minnesota, as nearly every
product that farmers can grow is grown
except the wOol-grOWing industry, winch
appears to be thrown by OF has not been
practiced by many in this locality.
DAIRY PRODUCTS
bring a good price, but that seems TO
have gone all wrong with some that
have many cows and not much milk to
supply the creamery or manufacturing
butter at home
And the year draws to close with us
all, and the Christmas tide Gibbs out
into the end of the year with hopeful
hearts ready to ring the old year out
and ring the new year i'm with joyous
merriment and happy don't care for
past miSfortuneS. $50 mote it be!'
Mrs. MARTHA CRANDALL.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31
DEATH OF STARTLE.
One of Robert Bonner's Best
Horses

The fastest of the Hambletonian-Star
stations, Startle, Is dead. He was a
bay, bred by Charles Backman at Stony
Ford, got by Rysdyk'S Hambletonian,
out of Lizzie Walker. was fOaled in 1867,
obtained Il record of 2:36 as a three-year
old, and then was sold to Robert Bonner
for $4,000. He never again started for
a purse, but he tlOtted the old Fleet
wood track in 2:l9, performance equal
to 2:l7 on the present track, and he
went to the half-mile pole in lO4l+, a
9:09 gait. Had he been trOtted through
the big circuit he would have acquired
very low record, and had he been allowed
10 go to kentucky fifteen years ago, his
reputation in the stud would have been
equal to that of any stallion of his age.
Mr. Bonner did not give him much of
an opportunity in breeding ranks, and
yet lie is the sire of many fast trotterS,
including MajOiica, record 2:15. Mr..
Bonner owns NeStcheSter, the brother
of MajOlica. and he trotted a mile in
POO rs Il thrce-year Miss Majolica,
the sister of Majolica, is also owned by
Mr.. Bonner, and she has trotted III
2:22${, last quarter in S3l4 seconds,
q 2:l3 gait. Tue trouble with Startle
was an ulcer in the mouth caused 10y
a bad tooth. When pain had racked
his nervous system and he began to
grow weak from lack of nouriShment,
Mr.. Bonner tried 10 keep him alive on
cow'S milk, but this effort, like all the
others. failed, and the grand stallion
literally starved to death. He was
buried on the farm at TarrytOwn.
houng track performers by him are
coming 10 the front every year, and they
will keep his name green in memory.
Mr.. Bonner has two magntic, ntly
formed sons Of Startle TO take the place
of the dead stallion. One is bay colt,
two years old in the spring, out of
Russella. the full sister of Maud s,
2:US5t. The other is 4 chestnut, two
years old next spring, out of Daybreak,
by Harold sire OF Maud S.dam Midnight,
dam of Jay-Eye-See, 2:l0. and Noontide,
9:20l5. This is gllt-edged breeding, and
each of the colts will be mated with
from two to four mares during the sea-
son of 1889. WeStchester, the brother
of Majolica, is now seven years old, and
work of the more eXacting kind can be
demanded of him, while Eldridge, by
Edward Everett, out of Jessie Kirk. Is
entitled to rank second To Nutb0urne,
full brother OF the great Nutwood. Ell
bridge is by a producing sire. out of a
producing dam, and he has trotted a
mile in 2:2014. Although the death of
Startle is kecnly regretted, Mr.. Bonner
Is strongly equipped with stations to
carry on his breeding operations at Tar
rvToNtl
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-31
IDIE ED.

WAGENER-John Wagner, aged fifty three
years, died at san Francisco, Cal, Dec. %,
5: 20 p. m, mt residence of A. w. Fink.
formerly partner of deceased. Funeral no.
tiee hereafter.
BREED-In ST. Paul, Sunday morning. Dec.
80, Julia E. Breed, wife of Samuel 5.
Breed. Funeral notice hereafter.
O'LEARY-In 81. Paul, Saturday, Dec. %, at
SOP. m, John j. OLeary, in the sixty
fourth year of his age Funeral from late
residence, 552 Marshall avenue. Monday,
Dec. 81, at 9:30 a. III. Services at St.
Joseph's church at 10 o'clock.
VILTEN-At Jordan, Mimi, at 9 a. m,
Thursday, Dec, %, 1888, after short
illness. Nicholas Nilten, formerly of
st. Paul. aged seventy-three years and
eight months. Funeral services were
he'd Saturday, Dec. 20, from German
Catholic church, Jordan, at a. m.
FOR FUNERALS-C Carriages for 81. and
hearse IS. Z. w. Shirk's livery stable, 2S4
East Ninth street corner Resale street