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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-05

This showed that tho party came out Of the last cam
Campaign arr estimated at $500. After some dis,
put 700 Of those amounts T Wa% + wa U
spS K. Funk heading the list. Then the roll Of
the counties was called the total subscriptions from
al sonrces giving the new State Committee an ayaiaDc
snrnns OF about So 500 for this campaign The fol-
loving were elected on the State Commlttee'
Albany-F. f. Wheeler
Allegany-G III. Eldridgc.
Broone--J. NJ. Seabury
Cattaraucus-Daniel Grnla
Cayuga-John W. Bsr'us.
Chautauqua-S. w. Mason.
Chemung-F. f. Baldwin.
Chenango-N N. Hull.
CInton-Thomas Armstrong.
Columbia--J. w. Jones'
Cortl.ad-C. b. Hitchcock.
Delaware-w. W. Doxie
Dutchess-W. Demlng.
Erle-IIeniy Ward.
Essex-John Agnew
Franklin
Fulton and Hsmilton-w. f. Werner
Genesee--A ]. Rumsey.
Greene-J. Overbaugh.
Herklmer-
Jeferson-F. +. Devendorf
Klngs-A. H. Heath and f. P. Ide
Lewis-A S. Hendee.
Livingston-W. T. Booth.
Madison -.
Monroe-w. NJ. Jones.
Montgomery-F. Murphy.
New.York--J. L. Thomas, II. A. Lee and W. l. "aro'
well,
Niagara-E. G. Humphrey
onanaga-Calvln Mccarthy.
Oneida-S. IIoxie.
Ontarlo-H. Ladd
orange-George Stephenson.
Orleans-A l.. Salisbury.
Oswego-Elmer Granger.
Otsego-John Traver.
PUTNAM
Queens -
Rensselaer-H G. Brown.
pocIIand-G r Burton.
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ST. La"fence-o. l. o"A'''
Saratoga Potter
Schenectady
ehoh,r,eM r. Wilcox
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schuSer-M, ~, 49,
Seneca-C. Z. Covert
Steuben-Jamcs Belder-
Sudolk-J H. Young.
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Iloga-r' nerI'0A.
Tompkins-J u Ahure"~
Ulster-J. Z. Palmer
Warren
,a n ~ Rpsseu
,.. r.n~ C,.u,ora
Weseeheser-rI""n VI ,
Wyomng-Charles NJ. ia'niAh
Yates-Stanley u. Roberts -.
DR. Funk sought to create lntle amusement AZ
recommending the convention to exchange n
~ evmnathv with the lquordeaers al Rochester Dut
ho 1dnirecates were all tired and hot and not III a
III Wy TO- hrmor and DIR Funk was quite alone IN
iU %hinS over his own little Joke.
Mn Helen %oucar of Indiana lecturcd at shake
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-05

THROWN FROM BIS WAGON AND KILLED.
4 man driving horse ald wagon down the ulo-
var. t rs last night Tho hoT.e restless and upoh
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-05

AN IRON COMPANY RAISING WAGES.
Reading. Penn. Sept. 4.-The Pottsown Iron Com
paDy, OF Pottstown. today announced increase In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-05
SIGNED WARRANTS FOR So. coo 900

SIGNED WNKKANIN FUK H1SOUVUUV
Washington. sept 4.-Trcasurer Huston to-day
signed two warrants, egaiins S3ooooooo' lhey
ver, drawn TO cover expenditure. already made by
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-06

WE feel sure that our readers will en-
JOY every word of the communication
from the gifted pen of the editress of the.
Household Department. "The Money
Value of Flowers" may convince some
that flowers are not merely worthless
things" as they may have been in the
habit of regarding them; while the allu-
sion to s'the dear old-fashioned flowers"
will touch a responsive chord in more
than one heart, carrying memory back to
childhood's happy hour. We are not of
the opinion that growing "cut flowers"
in this State for the New York market
will ever be made practicable and profit
able-certainly not with the present ridic-
ulous transportation facilities. When or
anges are two and three weeks en- route,
arriving at their destination cooked
what would be the condition of con-
signment of fragile buds and blossoms? =?
But we fear there is a more serious draw
back yet-and one impossible to over
come-at least as regards rose buds. We
we're admiring some rose buds in Jack
sonville greenhouse, about four years
ago, and the florist informed us that they
could not compete with Northern-grown
buds, as they lacked firmness and lasting
qualities. We then remembered having
read the statement few years before
that rose buds grown in the far Northern
States were far preferable and more valu-
able than those produced in more south
ern latitudes. Whether this same objec-
tion would apply to other flowers, We do
not know, and would be pleased to hear
from anyone Who does.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-06

Obliged to double themselves to blossom
for money; SO how can we blame them
for going back on their ancestry
Take those dear little Johnny Jump
ups" We are sure they would much have
preferred to remain 'sJohnnys" than
"Pansies." Boys never like to be called
girls, but art and fashion are inexorable,
so they grew black in the face as they
were vigorously pushed forward to meet
the demand, then they were named king
OF the Blacks," Pansies-poor johnny
The sweet garden Pink has been trans
formed into gorgeous carnation. Our
old single yellow and red roses have been
tampered with and manipulated to such
an extent that they have become quite
idiotc and forgotten their old names, and
in turn the tender little orphan buds they
have so many times embraced have be-
come our Dukes and Duchesses, Kings
and Queens, Madames, Emperors and
Generals. 1t is pleasant to be surrounded
with SO much royalty!
linen Un0rG Is our OlU 10lON AEC0AIISl6t
of days goneb by. Italways supposed thai
it's duty was to be yellow. The idea of
turning any other color, or taking any
other name was never once entertained
by it's contented little head. But some
enterprising foriculturist, beholding rare
possibilities in the plebeian flower, showed
it how to become ever so much bigger
even ring-streaked, speckled and spotted.
Since then our old friend has annually
held high Chrysanthenium carnival, to
which have been invited lords and ladies,
artists and poets, who in turn have paid
their homage to this fashionable floral
beauty.
So, after all, we owe a great debt of
pleasure to these modern scientists for
upsetting so many of those old-fashiOned
arrangements in our old favorites. In
deed we are compelled to wonder if any
thing more toward perfection can be
reached in the exquisite loveliness of bud
and blossom. We feel like asking our
gardener this question, "What are you
going to do next?''
Mrs j. III. FARR.
San Mateo, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-06
Native Plants Worthy of Cultivation.
NUMBER w.

No form of growth in the whole vegeta-
BILE kingdom possesses the peculiar grace
and beauty of vines, and by their Judi
ciOus use the exterior of the toughest and
most uninviting cabin in the land can be
transformed into bower of beauty, and
that, too, without calling into use one
single exotic species. Some of the most
beautiful vines in existence are natives of
this State, and it is mystery to us that
they are not more universally employed,
especially for the purpose of improving
the unattractive exteriors of many Flor
ida residences.
The Yellow Jessamine (Gelsemium SEM
pervirens) cannot be too largely planted.
1t will thrive on any soil, rich Or poor,
wet or dry Though amply repaying good
treatment) land when in bloom is one OF
the most beautiful objects we have ever
beheld The fragrance of it's flowers is
perfect, and the rich, shining evergreen
foliage and twining habit of the plant
makes it highly ornamental at.all times.
Some time last spring (April or May)
We went into the hammock and dug up a
large specimen of this charming climber,
and planted it at the corner of the house.
All of the branches were pruned off the
main stem or vine, which was carried up
the corner OF the house to the caves,
thence to the ridge-pole, and securely
fastened. 1t was thoroughly watered at
the time of transplanting, as well as once
or twice afterwards, and in spite of the
protracted drouth it not only lived, but
made considerable growth, and at the
present writing is full of buds and open
flowers. We give this instance to show
how easily the Jessamine may be trans
planted-even large plants which have at
tanned several years age.
The Trumpet Creeper (Tecoma radi-
cans) is another lovely yclimber, deserving
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-06

screen, as itgrowsrapidly, attainsseveral
feet in height, and is a perfect mat OF
foliage from the ground up, and produces
it's pretty, pale violet-colored flowers in
profusion. Try it on good soil and lat
tice work or strings to climb on.
W.N.P.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-06
For THE FLORAL DEPARTMENT.
The Money Value of Flowers.

ScdFcely any growing Gnln2 OF Importance
has escaped the keen eye OF the
money-getter. The universal ques-
ton, ''Is there any money in it?'' decides
the fate of nearly everything nowadays.
1t is quite h1miliating to know that "the
almighty dollar" seems to be the end and
aim OF the majority Of people, but SO it
is. Even flowers, our God-given beauties,
have been compelled to take large place
as money factors in the worlds scramble
for wealth.
To get faint idea of the extent OF the
business OF Horticulture, we may say that
in New York City alone between $3, 900,
900 and $4,OOO,0OO were paid in one
year for cut flowers alone, one-third of
which was forrose buds. Immense build
ings, covering over twenty acres of glass
surface, for the special purpose of grow
ingcutfiowers, are erected in hesuburbs of
the city tosupply the demand OF the many
florists, who in their turn supply their
customers. Many of these seem perfectly
willing to pay themost astounding prices
for rose buds-$1 so to 81 each being a
common price. One dealer, it is said,
found a. customer for four buds of very
choice variety, who paid him $15 each, or
eight times the value of their weight i'll
gold. All this seems most marvellous to
us here in Florida, where, with careful
painstaking, we can grow the choicest
roses in open air, and it is question
which will doubtless force itself at once
upon the mind OF any woman who is com
PEELED to be a "bread winner" "Why
with all this increasing demand for roses,
this opportunity for replenishing the
pocket could not be made available for
me?" We can conceive of no employment
more fitting as ''woman's work
We are exceedingly glad to note the in
PRODUCTION of the new department OF
Horticulture in the AGRICULTURIsT. Tt GER
tainly is very acceptable one. Perhaps
in his well conducted columns the editor
will give his ideas on this point, whether
the business of raising cut flowers for the
New York market can ever be made prac-
ticable and OF profit? We imagine that
many trials must be made with many
losses, and until perfect transportation
methods can be had, these would often
occur We are sure many a woman in
Florida would await the result of such a
venture with eagerness.
From writing the above, we are re-
minded of the dear old-fashioned flowers
which grew in our childhood's Glover
garden Marigolds, the Ragged
Robins, the Sweet Pinks, the Johnny
Jump ups and Petunias, CT "Peturyr,
as our grandmothers called them. They
never aspired to heanythinS but the dear,
modest unassuming little blossoms that
they were. There was no aFistocracy or
fashion in flowers then, but they were
always accommodating enough, and it
was always expected of thens to appear
in just their own proper time and place.
But the modern gardener, with his hot
house conCrivances, has compelled them
to get up in all seasons of the year, turn
all sorts of colors, submit to become
monstrosities against their will, and take
to themselves new names, and "Frenchy"
at that They resisted this tampering
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-06

where, and is frequently seen III cultlVa-
ton at the North. 1t will climb onwood,
stone or brick, clinging with a tenacity
that defies the fiercest tempests, and is
most valuable for covering stumps, old
buildings or almost any unsightly object.
The only objection which could be urged
against it in this line is that it is decid-
uous. To remedy this we would advise
planting the Cross Vine (Bignonia cap
reolata) in company with it. The flowers
of both are almost identical, but pro-
duced at different seasons, while the foil
age Of the latter is evergreen and very
beautiful and symmetrical.
There is q beautiful manner Of growing
the Trumpet Creeper, which we should be
pleased to see more universally employed
1t is in the form Of q beautiful weeping
tree, and is accomplished thus; Set up a
stout stake, some five. or six feet tall,
plant a strong root close to it, and train
the first shoot up the stake. After it has
run two or three inches above the top,
pinch it off, causing it to branch out and
form a dense, bushy head, which must be
watched and trimmed into good form.
All side shoots and those from the roots
must be kept off, and by the time the
stake has rotted away the stem will be
stout enough to support the head, which
will be fountain of green foliage, and in
the blooming season a blaze OF beautiful
tubular, bright orange flowers.
Several species of Green Brier (Smilax)
are well worthy of cultivation for their
beautiful foliage and berries. One of the
most beautiful objects we have ever seen
is a large live-oak stub, some fifteen or
twenty feet high, which is completely
covered with Trumpet Creeper and Green
Brier.
Who could ask for anything more bea j.
tiful than our American Ivy (Ampelopsis
quinquefolia) with it's digitate leaves and
clusters of purple berries borne on red
stems? But in the fall it dons dress OF
brilliant crimson, and then it is gorgeous
indeed. Like the Yellow Jessamine, it
thrives in wet or dry, rich or poor soil,
and is very desirable where a quick-gro
ing plant is desired. In this State it is
sometimes almost an evergreen.
The magnificent Coral Honeysuckle
Nonicera sempervirens) needs no word
of praise from us, it's great beauty must
be apparent to every beholder. But we
will say that if it is beautiful in it's native
haunts-the hammocks-it is doubly so
when given the benefits of cultivation.
Our native Ipomeas are particularly
desirable, especially for training about
piazzas. Those who have been so fortu-
nate as to behold well grown specimens
of the Evening Glory or Moon Flower
-Gpomea bona.nox) in full bloom are not
likely to forget the impression made.
The Cotton Vine e. michauxi) is also a
night bloomer, producing beautiful blush
tinted flowers with a purple (?)throat and
peculiar crimped foliage.
In early summer Man-of-the- Earth Q.
pandurata) produces plentifully white
flowers of good size, with a dark throat:
The two species last mentioned are tuber-
Gus rooted.
l. sinuata is highly recommended for
Of 10 iHo1r
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-06

To whom all correspondence relating to this de-
partment should be addressed.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-03-06
FLORAL DEPARTMENT.
JEssAMINE,

EDITED BY WALTER N. PIKE,
JEssAAINE, PAsCo CO., FLA.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13
THE GIRL FROM VERMONT.
4 Green Mountain Nightingale who
is to AstOmtsh the World,

Miss Marie Howe, the Vermont girl
who went from Battleboro, VT, to Ber-
lin, and took the town by storm, has just
been heard of in Paris. She is new
member of the colony of clever Ameri-
can women who will keep the French
capital gossiping the coming year. With
Sibyl Sanderson and Blanche Roosevelt,
she completes a notable trio, though
Miss Howe is distinctly unlike either
one Of her American sisters. 1t was of
her that Director Engel, of the Berlin
Opera House, said:
at 10 years of age she shows more
sigds of being second Patti than any
woman in the world"
A little information about her expert
ence abroad has come to writer for the
San through letter from Brattleboro,
VT, and permission has been given to
make it public. Miss Howe's devoted
admirer, preceptor and manager is her
brother Lucien. When he took his
sister to Berlin to study it was hard work
to get enough money for the voyage over,
and once there the brother taught music
and worked in every possible way to Sc
cure his sisters advancement. After
her tremendous success in Berlin, the
Howes returned at once TO Vermont.
The girl lived quietly in her country
home for month, and then her brother
took her on concert tour. He gave
eight concerts and netted as many thous-
and dollars. First he paid off every
penny that he had borrowed with
the utmost care, and then, without los
ing moment, he took his sister to Paris.
She has been inundated with offers, but
she refers everything TO her far-seeing
and shrewd Yankee manager. Thus far,
none of the managers have been able to
get near the coming singer. The brother
discourages all attempts te get his sisters
name in the newspapers. They are liv-
ing on the $5, 900 that was saved, after
all debts we're paid, from the concert
-our.-[N New York Sun.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13

AN advertisement appears in the HER
AID this morning calling for bids for the
city money, which at this date amounts
to sum in the neighborhood OF $500 600
These bids are to be opened on the 22d
inst, and they will be doubtless this
year, as they were last, a practical
mockery. The Charter says that interest
shall be paid on daily balances. There
was an advertisement for bids last year
for these same funds, and they were
opened in June. The Savings Bank of
Southern California bid lilo of one per
cent. month, the Los Angeles Savings
Bank bid 1-3 of one per cent. a month,
while the California Bank bid 1-12 of one
twelfth per cent. a month. In the face
of such infnitesimal figures the Council
very sensibly laid all bids On the table.
The Charter provides that the person or
corporation to whom the custody of the
city money shall be awarded shall give
two or more securities in the sum of
$100, 600, or such further sum as the
Council may require. Unless the frac-
tions herein particularized in the shape
of interest are raised little the Council
might as well repeat its action of last
year, and allow the bids to lie on or
under the table.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13

is about to "quit." This is a consum-
nation indeed devoutly to be wished.
The hope is general among the vine-
growers of the entire section. 1t is
founded on the excellent appearance of
the young growth. 1t is clean. healthy
and full of signs of perfect vitality.
Grapes will be in active demand
next fall as the market is clear
of sound wines of all grades and
varieties. Another most hopeful sign
of the times is the number of young
orange trees being set. This activity in
planting extends to all districts in the
county, and the net result will probably
reach a quarter of q million trees set this
year. The orange growers feel confident
that they have the scale under control,
and that they can hereafter count the
weeks until there shall not be one on
their trees. Once an orchard is clean of
this pest, that will be the end of him in
that particular spot. No grower will ever
allow him to get ahead of the power to
deal with him again.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13

The poet says that rose by any other
name would smell as sweet. No doubt
this is true as to the rose, but it does not
prevent that conventional flower, conse-
Grated to immemorlal poetical usage,
smelling better than Limburger cheese.
We have been lately treated to vista
ton from certain DIR. Biber, who ought,
more properly, to be called DR.. I'm
biber, who played all the saloons of this
town on the proposition that he had been
appointed Commissioner to the Paris
Exposition. AfteT Or. Biber-or rather
DIR. Imbiber-had appropriated all the
beer not otherwise appropriated in a
community unusually athirat-ls has
been discovered that his commissioner
ship is fraud and that even Waterman
had the negative good sense not to have
appointed him. Exit DR.. Biber, dear to
Los Angeles saloon memory as DR.. I'm
biber. The Los Angeles free lunch
counters will know him no more-for-
eYermore,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13
Reats Krodfe,s Record.

CINCINNATI, April 12.-Meridith STAN
ley, of this city, the well-known athlete
and bridge jumper, who has challenged
Brodie of New York, yesterday made the
most remarkable leap on record from the
famous high bridge over the Kentucky
river. The height is 285 feet. He
selected a place where the water was
twelve feet deep, and, attired in silk
tights and slippers, leaped into the air,
and doubling up his body, fell to the
water, and moment later bounded to
the surface where he was quickly seized
by an assistant In a boat, He coughed
blo5d for a little while, but soon re-
covered and took the train for Cincinnati.
He escaped without breaking the skin
and to-day says he feel as well as ever.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13

THESE mid-April days the whole area
of the semi-tropics looks like the verita-
BILE garden of the earth. The showers of
the past few days have stimulated the
growth of all vegetation to marvellous
degree. The cereal crops give promise
OF the finest harvest ever garnered in the
State. The acreage seeded to wheat and
barley is unusually large, and the yield
is sure to be heavy. Then the natural
grasses are tall, thick and lush beyond
the experience of most years, even in
this favored section of the good green
earth. Those who think South Califor-
mia an arid region with no natural pas
lures, should see her as she is now.
Since early last December the focks
and herds have feasted day and
night beneath the open sky on
the richest, sweetest grasses that
ever dscked plain or hillside. AT
this date these grasses are knee
deep to the cattle that roam the mesas.
Until July these natural pastures will be
green along the uplands and foothills,
and on the moist lowlands they are green
all the year round. New potatoes are in
blossom and green peas and strawberries
are ripe for the market. The deciduous
fruit trees are all abloom excepting in
the case of apricots and early peaches,
and on such trees the fruit is as large as
BIRDS eyes. The orange crop is fully ripe
and the fruit is at the very acme of per-
lection. Trainloads are leaving here
daily for the Eastern markets. The vine
yards are just bursting into leaf at all
points in the county, and they pre-
sent very vigorous appearance. The
vignerons are in great hopes, as their
vines give promise of yielding an unusu-
ally large crop. They are the more 30
IS they see reason to hug the flattering
lnction to their souls that the fungus
disease has run its malignant course and
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13
A SHARP ENCOUNTER.
Balfour Baited by Radicals and
Parneilites.

LONDON, April 12.-In the Commons
this evening Prof. Stuart (Radical) asked
Balfour whether the circular sent to the
Irish police, directing them to collect all
secret information regarding the doiGgs
of members of the National League, was
designed to aid the London Times. Bal
four replied evasively, and Parnell de-
manded straightforward answer. The
circular, he said, was fact. The use of
it proved that the Government was the
prosecutor behind the Times. Re-
ferring TO the use OF battering-rams
in enforcing evictions in Done
gal, Parnell protested against such
cruelty and barbarity. Balfour ignored
the question regarding the secret circu-
lar. Regarding the battering rams, he
said it was necessary to use them. Sir
William Vernon Harcourt described the
policy of Balfour as one of extermina-
ton. Goschen declared that the Parnel-
lites were responsible for that. They had
substituted warfare between landlord
and tenant for friendly relations, based
upon the recent laws which put the Irish
tenants in more favored and protected
position than any people in the world
The evietions were not taking place be-
cause the tenants could not pay their
rents, but because they would not do so.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-13
NEW DIPLOMATIC WRINKLE
Taught to the Old world Statesmen
bX Our ME. Ralea.

BERLIN, April 1.-THE Cologne Gazette
advises President Harrison to reconsider
the nomination of Mr.. Bates to be Com
missioner to the Samoan Conference. In
the course of a long editorial it says: :
ain Europe it is not the cnstom for a po-
litical agent, previous to his departure on
mission, to announce to the world in
newspaper, as Bates did, his views on
disputed questions with which he is
about to deal in his diplomatic capacity.
Americans, however, have way of their
own in diplomatic matters, and the Old
World will have to get accustomed to the
ways of the New World"