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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-09
PLANTS AT S5 APIECE.

The following spring Capt Cott sowed the
seed rom the white plant. The little plants
were carefully drawn and reset. Then he
awaited with great interest the result. The
plants grew rapidly, and to his intense de
light the leaves were white He had a little
field Of the white tobacco, and again in the
autu nm he saved all the seed
When the captains expert
nents was known everybody i'll his vicinity
wanted the seed He refused to part with
any, but the next spring he sold the young
plants for S. apiece The following autumn
some of the third crop, which was as bright
in co or as the original plant, was taken to
market, and it sold for four or five times as
mush as the common tobacco. Capt. Cott
named it White Burleyn
The farmers in Mason county, KY, expert
mented more eagerly with the new tobacco
than did their neighbors in Brown county,
across the river. They soon produced it in
considerable quantities. Most all of it was
shipped to the Louisville market, and White
Burley became famous. For years its growth
was confined to these two counties Farmers
thought it was peculiar to the soil there and
could not he produced elsewhere Thus the
quantity in the market did not amount to
more than the hundredth part of per cent
OF the total crop, and it was regarded as
rare and fancy brand, such as a rich man
only could afford to smoke or chew.
Several years ago farmers in various parts
of kentucky decided to get some of the White
Burley seed and try it. To their great sur
prise and pleasure they grew tobacco Just as
good as that produced in Mason county The
folio wing season greater quantity was
grown. The increase of the supply did not
diminish the price. All the great tobacco
manufacturers of the country wanted the
White B1rley. When their customers became
accustomed to it they would have no other
kind
Capt Colt grew rich off his White Burley
a;co, and many of his nelghbors we're
Likewise fortunate. 1t can be grown with the
grea est success all over Kentucky, except in
the western portion, and is likewise produced
in a small strip of southern Ohio, where the
first plant was born. 1t can be grown no
where else Through its agency the Ken
tucky farmer makes nearly twice as much
monsy as he did a half dozen years ago
Louisville Letter
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-02-21

This horse has proved a very
sure foal getter, and remark
ably strong breeder. His colts
are large. smooth and heavy
boned. Farmers and all others
interested in breeding heavy
horses and improving their stock
are invited to call and inspect
this horse at the HolsteIn Ranch
and secure engagements for the
Spring season.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-02-21
dec22tt
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

TSY9 CANAL C03zPANY.-Lo-
cation of principal place OF bual-
ness, Carson City, Nevada. Location OF
works, Owens Valley, Inyo county
California.
Notice is hereby given that
at a meeting of the Board of directors
beld on the 18th day ofFebruary, 1889, an
assessment (No. 81 of Ten Qo) cts pei
share was levied upon the capital stock
of the corporation, payable lmIne9i
ately, in Unite d states gold com, 70 LIle
Secretary at the Office of The Com pany'
corner of Carson and Pro 'tor streets,
Carson City, Nevada Any stock upon
which this assessment shall rehnaIn
unpaid on the 18th day OF March 1889
will be delinquent and sdvertlsed LOT
sale at public auction. and unless pay
ment is made before, will be soid on
monday the 18th day OF april
1850. 10 pay .he delinquent assess mem
together with cost OF advertising anu anu
expenses of sale. BY order oI tne
Board of Directors.
T. r. HOFER,
Secretary.
Ofice-At the Bullion and ExGhange
Benk corner of Carson ana ffoctoT
streets, Carson City Nevada. dec1to
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28
n Pretty NOuuS Widow.

81" such pretty young widow HE other
DAY N the most fascinating and utterly bccom-
ing cap llat could be imagined. | always Judge
OF widow S gliet hy HE shalcuf ncl cap
wonder, : that uLkud: This Young lady,
'c'i sure, was 10 vcln to sorrow. There was
nothing whatever feeding on her damasll cheek
/ am certain shat She mad, ha, c.p herself Ii
mad Iuching OF CT, pn or s>e IL The front,
which was bent doTn /, Marie Suart, and
in either space beside The bend was u mass
OF softly flullelout hair, cnIled within an incl,
OF its life, ana llcn drawn out 50 that each
individual hair showed an independent Iii
tie ring Of lis own. We were calling
at a friends house where SHE was stay
ing, and we heard our hostess say
two or three different Times 80 fresh callers
" Poor thing Quite recently lost her husband
Feels ii deeply
The cap was coQucii>h, the fringe was nvit-
bidding.
Laurel, our American friend, is great on The
subject Of widows. Il know" be saws, "that
society expects widows 10 sit on their husbands
collins and make everybody uncomfortable, and
the Society is just the first to turn and rend them
for doing ii. Just you wait till | am widow
| will be real smart one. This is the sort of
cap I'll wear" And she sketches her own
pretty head with a cap about two inches square
on the top and pair of "wecpers" streaming
on the air behind. There shan't look nice
Oh girls wish I'd been born widow that
do"-LOndOn Truth
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28
- go -
mcer

ii is form of blood poison that is not under
stood by the medictl profession AS to its real ma
ture and character, but il is evidently hereditary
in its nature. 1t may arcldenlly develop Itself
without any predsposiion or evidence OF such
existing poison. The knife or causlic
salves have heretofore been the so called rene.
dies for it, but all honest practitioners Will tell
you thai this treatment fails 10 cure and only
hastens the final results. Thousands of cases OF
epi:heloma (~kinl cancers, and "a great many
cases OF scirrhus cancers, have been entirely
cured by the use Of SWtj's Specific. Ii forces
the poison Ou' through The cancer ITSELF and the
pores of the skin.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28
The Rest Exercise for Children.

distinctive gymnastics is, from the hygienic
point Of view the best adapted to the regular de-
veopment Of the child. 1t is not liable to any
Of the objections we have brought against gym
nasics with apparatus. 1t cannot deform the
body, for it is made up OF spontaneous move
ments, and con formed to the natural Office of
each limb II d es not lOcaiZe the work in a
particular region of the body, for all the limbs
are instLctvely invited to take their quota OF
exercise and it does not seduce the child into
efforts touching upon the limits OF his strength.
Instinct also invites him TO the kind of work
best adapted to his particular aptitudes for re-
sstlng fatigue He has a natural disposition to
perform light but frequently recurring acts,
quick motions, which put him out of breath,
while exercises with apparatus rather exact slow
and intense efforts that bring on local fatigue.
Now, all observers have noticed the wonderful
facility with which child RECEIVERS his BREATH
and his Impotence OF local fatigue Finally
natural exercise, being the satisfaction OF a want
is by that very fact pleasure; and joy shines
in the face of a child who is playing freely
Popular Science Monthly.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28
T. GRANGER SEwARr MD FIR s

Il GRANGER SEwART, NJ D., f. r. S. E..
Ordinary Physician to H. NJ The Queen, in
Scotland, Professor of Practice of Physic in the
University OF Edinburgh, writes: The arteries
are sclerosed ami athcrmajous in ibe advanced
STAGES OF the Infiammaiory and in The cirrboic
on n"' so smail N The waxy disease. In that
affection the small vessels in othc, parts are fro
quenjly me seat OF waxy Degeneration" From
ms II VII b. seen that in HE three forms OF
kidney disease clAssed as Brighls disease, the
arteries suffer changes. and it matters not
wheth'r they undergo scierotic, alhermatous or
"aNy en- ing", they are weakened as to en-
nahGt' luplurc under any increased pressure
lhls explains the frequency OF apoplexv and par
ABYSS ana rs clearly demonstrated that me only
pre'en've of these disastrous rupinres Of The
o. o1gvessels is the timely use OF Warmers Sale
Curc % keep the kldneys n Il healthy condition.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28
NOTICE !
To all Persons Desiring
Dressed or Rough Lumber
FOR ANY AND ALL PURPOSES.

r VENTURE TO INFORM MY NUMEROUS
i patrons that am receiving from my Fine GROVE
Saw Min a few car loads of lumber weekly, which
offer for sale cheap delivered in any part of the
city or in the country, if desired also purpose
keeping for sale laths shingles posts pickets, &C.
fences, sheds, will promote their own interest by
communicating with me- GEO. E. WHITE,
Office and Yard Fronting Byrd d Denham's Store,
33-tf Tallahassee, Fla.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28

My father had cancer; my husband also had
cancer, in fact died with it. In 1875 lump
came on my nose when steadily increased IN
size, and alarmed me- used various remedies
-saves and applications, and finally tried to
burn it out, but the returned worse than
ever growing larger and more angry, until |
determined to try Swtt's Specific. | took the
medicine, and it soon made complete |
know that S. S. 5. cured me, because discarded
all other remedies This WAS several years ago,
and have no sign of a return of the cancer.
Mrs. NJ T. MABEN,
April 9TH, 1889 Woodbury., Texas
Treatise on cancer mailed free
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer 3, Att anita
Ga
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28
what the Southern Question IL.

The real Southern question is how the negro
can make an honest living and get an education !;
and this as every sensible person knows, IS no
question a, all--at least, it is question that is
rapidly settling itself without the ala OF politics
and politicians
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28

is, without ample provision for its enforcement.
IL becomes a aead letter upon The statute books.
The transactions of this Office in This regard ;s
probably the best possible method Of showing
the efficiency or deficiency OF the law or It's adj,
minis, ration
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28

If there were ten chairs in the room and
one freshly painted it would be the fate of "A man
10 sit on thai cha!r.--Alchison (kan.) Globe.
Burlington Free Press: 1t is impossible to
incorporate the s0undest business rinciplcs into
love. Affection always has TO be taken on trust
-" Local issues controlled the recent elections
in Montana,' say The Republican organs. Some
how the local issues appear to have b1R IA sim
gularly Democratic uend.-New York Herald.
"A New Jerseyman is APPLYING for pension,
a divorce and posIoffice. 1t is not the New
Jerseyman who wants little here below.-New
York Herald.
i tell you, Hepsey, there's a consolation in
having good help in The kitchen that religion
cannot give.-Eizabeth Cummings in Belford's
Magazine
Boston Globe: When newspaper man gets
into an arm chair with his hest girl he doesn't
talk shop, you bet even to the extent of saying,
{" We overcrowden this evening"
This is pretty good one:
How do you do, little boy?'
Got a cold in my head
ooh, guess not. What makes you think so,
little boy"
"'Cause my eyes leak and my nose don't GO ~
Lowell (Mass.) Citizen.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28
Rheum alism and CatArrh.

Rheumatism and catarrh are both blood dis
eases. In many severe ctses they have yielded
TO treatment with B. B B. Botanic Blood Balm,
made by Blood Balm Co, Atlanta, Ga. Write
for book Of convincing proofs. Sent tree
r. p Dodge Atlanta, Ga, says My wife
had catarrh and nothing did her any good.
Her constitution finally tailed and poison got
into her blood. placed her on use OF Is. B. B.
and TO my surprise her recovery was rapid and
complete"
W. p. Mcdaniel Atlanta GA, writes l
was much emaciate1 ana had rheumatism so
bad could not ret along without crutches. |
also had neuralgia in the head. Fist-class ply
slci4ns did me no good. Then tried Is b. b.,
and its effects were magical | cheerlully rec
om'nend ii as good tonic ard quick cure
Mrs Matilda Nichols, Knoxville, Tenn,
writes: :" had catarrh six years and most dis
tresSing cough and my eyes were much swollen.
Five bottles of b. B B thank God cured me-"
John NJ Davis, Tyler, Texas, writes Il was
suhjccta number ofyeurs to spells OF intlama orym
r5eumatism which SIX bottles OF b. g. b., thank
heaven, has entirely cured. have not felt the
slightest pain since" May I'm
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28
MONTICELLO, FLA, January 81, 1889.

UUNIIOnIIiIOt I1~'t O'''1e"s"'J ~ -O~O'
Hessrs Lippman Bros, SAVANNAH, Ga, Pre-
SrSetors p. p p:
For the past eight years / have been in bad
health. suffering with Malaria, Rheumalisn,
Dyspepsia, Dropsy, my digestion was bad and
nv hair all came out In fact l was nearly a
wreck. had taken kidney and blood medicines
which did me no good. When began taking
PIP. F. about three months ago, was as weak
as child have only taken four bottles (smaA
size) and today am a well man and my hair
has come again." cannot recommend p D.
p. too highly. w. r. WARE,
Marshal Monticello, PA
Witness: F. G. OWENS
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-05-28
MARIANA, FLA, January 20, IL

MARIANA, FLA, January 70, 1852
Messrs Lippman Bros, Sacannah, Ga', F'"-
prietors p p p:
For long time suffered with catarrh and
liberated throat | took S. S. s. but derived no
benefit from II. DR.. Owens who represents Llpp-
man Bros, Savannah, Ca, told me that r L. r.
would cure me, 80 l began taking it. have
taken six bottles (small sze) and am entlreIy
well / feel like new man and consider +. r.
p. wonderful medicine. PETE MANNING.
Feb IL Pm
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-27

This will serve as something of an index
as to the rapid:ty of past growth.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT.
But aside from the enterprise displayed
In pushing the residence and business por-
ton of the city, has been the labor and
capital expended in such public-spirited
manner as to cause many of the older and
neighboring towns and cities to become,
fguratively speaking, green with envy.
For example, during the last thirty days
there has been an expenditure of $4,000
in planting ornamental trees along the
streets. The streets running north and
south were all named after certain vari-
eties of trees. and according to the origi-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-27

manufacture of pottery at East Liverpool.
OF cutlery at Beaver Falls and OF glassware
at Rochester. Within circle around
Pittsburgh having radius of fifteen or
twenty miles, there are four distinct gas
i producing districts.
There are now six natural gas companies
IN Pittsburg, with eleven lines of pipes,
managing lo7 wells, and supplying gas
| through more than 500 miles of piping, of
which 232 miles are in the city proper.
and the total capacity of the supply is es-
timated at more than 25O,O00,000 cubic
feet. One company alone supplies more
than four hundred manufactures and seren
thousand dwellings, with all the fuel con-
sumed in them.
A NOTED MANUFACTURER
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, proprietor of the
largest iron and steel works in America. in
an account recently published in the
Popular Science Monthly on gas wells. nat
ural gas, and the advantages they afford,
said:
"While the largest well known yields
about 100000 cubic of gas every twenty
four hours, the average product of a good
well may be set at about half of this. The
pressure of the gas as it issues at the
mouth of the well is nearly or quite 200
pounds to the square inch. Even at the
works represented by me, nine miles from
The weH, the pressure is seventy-6ve pounds
to the square inch.
WHAT NATURAL GAS HAS DONE FOR
PIrTSBURG.
Although it is only two years since gas
has been used in Pittsburg, it has al
ready displaced 10000 bushels of coal per
day in the mills that have used it, and
about an equal amount has been displaced
in the works beyond the city limits. In
many houses no other fuel than gas is
used, and everybody who has applied it to
domestic purposes is delighted with the
change from the smoky and dirty btu
minous COAL"
OF its use in private residences, the
American Journal Of Science says: "The
comfort and elegance impaired to an estab-
lishment by an abundant flow of odorless
gas, are well shown in the residence of
General Easement, where every fire in the
house, in the kitchen ranges as well as in
the parlor crate, is fed by fuel which
gives brilliant, cheerful fame, is supplied
and cut off by turning stopcock, makes
little smoke, leaves no ashes, and in addi-
ton to this, an abundant supply for illu-
mination."
The flow of gas demonstrated to be at
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-27

hand opens up field for enterprise at SUIT
ter City SO vast in range as to place the
future possibilities of the city beyond con-
lecture. This flow means power for manu-
factories, fuel for furnaces, kilns and the
household, lights for public and domestic
use superior to any substitutes that may
be afforded either as to general utility,
cleanliness, or method and readiness of ap-
plication.
PoTTERs' CLAY.
Near to town, and in as many as half a
dozen localities, are inexhaustible deposits
of the best quality of potters or porcelain
clay. 1t is easy of access, being close to
the surface and readily handled. As it
appears in bulk it is of blush white tint
free from any grit and very plastic. Sam
pies have been sent to Eastern kilns for
burning and pronounced to be of unex-
celled quality. Much of this was made up
into small porcelain tableware and orna-
ments and returned, samples of which
can be seen at the Nucleus building,
in San Francisco, and at Sutter City.
Besides the porcelain clay is a sec
ond quality deposit such as is used
in making sewer and drainage pipes
tiles and terra Gotta, and there is no limit
to the extensiveness of manufacture in
these lines that the deposits of clay and
the natural gas fuel affords.
Probably the finest and best brick ever
burned on the Pacific Coast are those made
at Sutter City. So say the architects and
masons having had experience with them.
They come from the kiln firm and clean
cut, with sharp edges, free from defects and
| almost as smooth as the finest eastern
pressed bricks. Here with the natural
gas fuel will be another industry, the limit
to which is beyond computation.
GRANITE AND LIMESTONE.
The Butt es are covered with red granite
in endless supply, but lies around loose in
various sized powders instead of being
found in ledges. 1t works well under
mallet and chlsel, takes fine polish, and
when dressed has a mottled appearance
and looks like bologna sausage, but is ex-
ceedingly handsome when used for build
ing purposes. The cornerstone of the
new bank building was dressed out of this
rock, as are also the window and door caps
of the house of Mr.. Britain. The blue
and gray granite is in ledges, thAquarries
in easily accessible places, and the stone
dresses freely and with less labor than
other granite, being, when newly quarried,
Of softer texture. But what is of more
than usual consequence is the
LIMESTONE QUARRTEs,
Which win afford another opportunity for
the application Of the natural gas re-
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-27

drift was worked into the mountain only
short distance when the odor of kerosene
and oil gas became so obnoxious as to rem
der further work almost impossible. On
returning to work one day from lunch ore
of the men descended the shaft, and while
waiting for his companion, who was being
lowered in the bucket, struck a match to
light his pipe, when terrific explosion
followed. The man in the bucket, al
though fortv-five feet from the surface
was, together with the bucket, blown clear
out of the shaft. The windlass and stag
ing were blown into ruins and the man at
the top was severely injured. The accident,
while not proving fatal as to loss of life, so
injured two of the men as to forever unfit
them for further manual labor, and before
work could be resumed the shaft and drift
caved so that it had to be abandoned, and
later new prospect well was started few
yards farther up the mountain side
DISCOVERY IN QUANTITY.
This time drills were used and every
thing progressed favorably, better quail
ity of oil being found and in larger guam
titles. At depth of about seventy feet a
strata of rock different and harder than
any previously encountered was struck and
the drill became fastened. As the last
days work progressed gas flowed
forth in immense quantity, the flow rapidly
increasing with the depth. All efforts to
loosen the drill proving fruitless, and the
capital of the prospectors being exhausted
they were compelled to abandon their
work, and from that time to the present
day nothing in the way of further devel-
opment has been done. On the abandon
ment of the work a four-inch tube was in
serted at the top of the shaft and lighted.
The result was flame that swelled out to
the size of barrel and extended to a
hight of twenty feet, lighting up the sur
rounding country at night with the SPLEEN
dor ofday. As years rolled by the temporary
pipe succumbed to the action Of the ele-
ments, and recently smaller one has been
improvised for test purposes. Without
care the we'll has gradually filled with de-
bris, and water now stands within few feet
of the surface, and yet under all these ad-
verse circumstances, it still continues to
burn.
This gas well, like those in Pennsyl-
yania and Ohio, was discovered by men
prospecting for coal and oil. In the East
the gas wells have already been applied to
economical uses, and found as valuable as
if they had been the petroleum wells
sought for.
Gas wells are employed for burning
brick Q. New Cumberland, and in the