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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

Thomas T. Ryan of the firm of
Ford Il Ryan, morocco manufacturers,
died ut his home, No, 207 North Jackson
ness. The deceased was % years of age
and leaves a wife and live children. Death
resulted from consumption,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

The result of Tuesdays contest is virtu-
county as the ticket has been elected by
neat majority. The extrayagant levy court
system has received its death blow, and
even if the next Legislature meeting as it
will in January before the term of levy
court, should devise three commissioners
scheme to thwart the purposes of the new
levy court, we opine there will have to be
a big settling up, in which case the rotten
ness OF the whole thing will be exposed.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13
MIR. RICHARDsoN,s STATEMENT.
Deposited $4,000 in a Financial Insti-
tuition in Wilmington.

alCorrespondence of Gazette and journal
DOVER, Nov S.-The statement made in
last nights EVERY EVENING that the Rich
ardson family had given S25,00O to the
campaign fund has been emphatically
denied, Harry A. Richardson stated to
the GAETrE's correspondent last even
ing that there was no truth in the report
"1'he people must think am a big fool to
give that sum for an empty honor" said
he. He said the facts OF the case are as
follows. son account Of the failure of the
peach crop last season, we had no use for
our capital and not wishing it TO lay idle
deposited t25 900 in the Equitable Guaran-
tee Safe Deposit and Trust Company of
Wilmington, Del, in order to secure the
81 per cent interest. 1t was purely bust
hess transaction"
This was in August last. We will com
mence buying poultry in a short time and
need this money which we drew last Mon
day, November LIST, and Immediately de-
posted in the First National Bank here to
be used in our business.
The certificate was made out to the firm,
Richardson & Robbins. 1t is supposed
that the rumor originated with some one
connected with the trust company in Will
mington.
Mr.. Richardson is pursuing the even
tenor Of his way, and does not seem to be
worried at all over his defeat, and con-
solos himself with the fact that he polled
the largest Republican vote in thirty years.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

EVERY EVENING printed on Friday on
the authority of two most responsible resi-
dents of Dover that the Richardson family
the hope of eevating II. A. Richardson to
the gubernatorial chair. Also that Candi-
date Richardson had stated that he had
put more money in one hundred than the
Democrats had to use in the entire county.
Mr.. Richardson in telegram to EyyRY
EVENING states 1.-THE article published in
your issue at this date stating that the
Richardson family contributed the sum of
$4,000 to the campaign fund is a lie" 1t
is is thoroughly understood in Dover that
the Richardson contribution was a very
large one, and $4,000 may not bethe exact
amount, but it is generally believed to
have been close TO those figures. Whatever
the amount was it is known to have been
a good round one. Mr.. Richardson can
easily set the matter at rest by naming the
amount of the family contribution.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13
Horsford's Acid Phosphate
relieves mental and physical exhaustion,

John McAler Of No. 323 East Filth street,
a moulder in the employ of the Pusey &
Jones Company, was badly bruised about
the shoulders ON Friday by the falling Of
an iron plate. He was sent home, An
other workman was slightly hurt,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

Captain Thomas johnson has received
from his farm Highland Light in North
ampton county, Va. a barrel OF such large
sweet potatoes that but Sc were required to
fill the barrel.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13
MONEY THAT DIDN.r TALK.

Doodle Galore in Kent and Sussex--Rich-
ardson Invests "A Round sum In the
Political Lottery.
The story Of the attempted debauchery
of the voters Of the two lower counties by
Republicans Tuesday week is most dis
graceful chapter in the political history Of
Delaware. II is stated ut Dover, and has
never been contradictcd that $4,000 was
put into the canvass by the Richardson
family for the purchase of the guberna-
torial chair for Harry A. Richardson. 1t is
stated upon the best authority that the
Republican gnhernatorial aspirant stated
openly on the streets of Dover that he had
placed more money in single hundred in
Kent county than would pay the entire
campaign expenses of the Democrats in
that county. Voters were openly given
money upon their promise TO elect the
young candidate. a prominent and most
respected citizen of Sussex county states
that in his hundred there was more Re-
publican money sent to purchase votes
than could be used, After all the approach
able voters had been 'seenn there was
Doodle left over and unused.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13
Omcial Vote Of the state.
N5f1NEHN FWFF VI EIIH NEHEFs
The official vote of the State for governor
and Congress is as follows:

The breath ofsa chronic catarrh patient Ia
often 30 offensive that he becomes an object of
disgust Alter a time liberation sets In the
spongy bones are attacked ana frequently en-
tirely destroyed. constant source OF discom-
fort is the dripping Of the puruent secre-
tons into the throat sometimes producing In
veterate bronchitis, which in Its turn has been
the exciting cause of pulmonary disease. The
brilliant results VIII CHI have attended It's use
for years past properly designate Ely's Cream
Bafn as by far the best and only cure.
Five inches of snow, the FIRST of the sea
son. felisat Minneapolis on Saturday,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

again defeated, but in comparison W tn
other states they have done well-cut
down the Democratic majority-about
1900 votes as against that of 1888, and
carried New Castle county, which has q
greater population than that of Kent
and Sussex combined. In
Kent the Republicans expected aid from
the boiling Saulsburys, but help from
this source was inconsiderable. The
boilers of two years ago were nearly all
whipped in by the regulars, and they
tamely swallowed their grievances, with
few exceptions.
COMFORT OUT OF THE DEFEAT.
Milford Chronicle
Treachery in Sussex county by those
high in the councils cost the Republicans
several hundred votes. They
Democrats of New CASTLE hold the key
TO the situation in Sussex by having a
majority in the levy court, which prac-
tically controls the political machinery
Of the county, and they are in complete
control of New Castle county-unless
some partisan measure is pushed
through the Legislature, in which they
have good working majority.
The Republican party has no need to
feel that it is demoralized, but on the
contrary has every encouragement to
work for success in 1899.
REPUBLICAN BATS NOT TAKEN.
Dover Index.
The people recognized the danger of
Republican domination in Delaware,
rose to the emergency with which they
We're confronted and acquitted them
calUau 1iiya 40 cd
by stern sense of duty. They knew
that the promises of the Republicans
were nothing but bats with which to
catch votes. The time when the Re-
publicans can triile with the common
sense of the people, glittering sophistries
and silly appeals to their passions has
passed.
WILL BE REDEEMED IN '92.
Middletown New Era.
just to think Of it, with the glorious
news from all parts of the country,
with Sussex redeemed and brought
back to the Democratic fold, our own
New Castle, by the eXtravagant use of
money and the imported colored men
from other states, is allowed to slip into
the hands of the enemy. 1t is pro-
volling, but nevertheless it will only
make the Democrats more determined
and, Sussex like, she will be returned in
1899.
GIVEN TIMELY WARNING.
Delaware City News.
As regards this paper, and its editor,
we concede nothing to the Republican
party that they have not gained hon
estly and fairly, and warn them, that
we shall keep a watchful eye upon their
management of county affairs.
THE LEVY COURT TO BLAME.
Sunday star.
The Democratic party sustained a
severe and not unexpected defeat in
New Castle county ut last Tuesdays
election, and there is no doubt that the
party itself was largely responsible for
this result. Levy court mismanagment
and enormous feed bills for the sheriff
were more than the people would stand,
and they took occasion to emphatically
express their displeasure.
HERE'S NOVEL VIEW.
Laurel Gazette.
The result of the election in this
State on Tuesday shows the steady
advance of the Republican party to the
front.
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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13
HUNDRED OFFICERS.

Vote for inspectors. Assessors and Road
Commissioners at the Recent Election.
The following tables show the vote
for inspectors, assessors and road COM
missioners in the various rural hun
dreds at the general election on Tuesday,
November 4th:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20

crop was growing. The writer of this
article is an old Kentucky castor bean
grower, and therefore he proposes telling
THE GAZETTE readers, in a few words,
how the thing is done.
The land is prepared exactly as for
corn, and the beans are planted as corn
would be planted, differing only in Civ
ing little more space. The castor bean
branches out a good deal, and therefore
will not bear crOwding together as closely
as corn.
When the plants are up six inches high
bar off as in the case of corn. When a
foot or eighteen inches high throw back
the dirt, which ''lays by' the crop, so
far as the working is concerned. After
this last working the lower portion Of the
fence is opened here and there to let in
such small stock as hogs, goats, geese
and the like. These take care of the
grass and weeds that may spring up, but
never trouble the castor beans.
Prepare a ''threshing fioor' oonve-
nient to the field, by simply soraping of
the surface of the grounds, say fifty
feet in diameter. When the beans begin
to ripen they must be harvested and
spread out on this, where the sunshine
threshes them.
The harvesting has good deal of work
about it. You must go over the field
every third or fourth day and cut off
every head of fruit upon which appears
any pods that show white streaks along
their sides. If this is not promptly at
tended to the beans will pop out in the
field and be lost. The usual method of
harvesting is to go between the rows with
mule and sled, with goods box on
the sled as a body. The ripe punches
orr IN fho fol L. NIT no
and thrown into the box, and when the
box is full it is drawn to the threshing
floor and the heads spread out in the sum
shine. In two days the sun will have
popped the beans out, when the stems
can be raked away. The beans are then
passed through a common wheat fan to
blow out the bulls and dust, after which
they are ready to sack for market.
The yield is usually from seventy-five
TO 100 bushels TO the acre, and the price
paid IN st. Louis runs at about 81 per
bushel.
The castor bean is not considered an
overly eXhausting crop. 1t can bear
almost any amount of rough usage, and
stands drouth better than any crop we
know Of. Texas presents q great adj
vantage for it over that presented by
Kansas or Missouri, in her longer
scasOAss 1De crop continues 10 Ochf
until cut of By frost, which would give
for Texas several more weeks for bearing
than Is given in either Of the states
named, hence the yield would be greater
OF course.
Texas ought to supply the world with
castor oil. The mills for manufacturing
the product need not be at all expensive.
Any cotton-seed oil mill can work castor
oil by adding to the machinery q COM
paratively inexpensive attachment for
the purpose. Az
The small farmer In Texas could IN
doubtedlY make much more by growing
castor beans than be is now making
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20

senting in the West. He was accustomed
to play better parts, but accepted this
one, l think, because it allowed him to
be off the stage so much that he had
time to make many trips across the alley
to a tavern. We arrived very tired one
morning, in little Kansas town, and
Jameroff started out in wild and inco-
herent search for stimulants. Soon he
returned with gloom shadowing every
feature, and frowning so darkly that
they had to light the gas in the hotel Of
fee. Taking me aside he said, or rather
Kissed into my ear, ''Do you know what
we've siruok?' He was so earnest and
so esperate-looking that 1 became
alarmed, fearing that there was prob
ably something wrong about the hall or
the bill posting of our paper.
"What is it?' anxiously asked.
Gwen, SIR said Jam, ave have
struck the jayest of jay prohibition
towns, and the most inhospitable place
this side the Arctic ocean. Why, man,
l went into place just now that had
every appearance of being rum shop,
and was full of lot of long haired, big
hated fellows who had evidently been
having everything that they wanted or
had money to pay for. and when l asked
for a modest cocktail the barkeeper said
there was nothing of the kind sold in
the town, and he called on these four
fellows who were sitting around to sub
stantate his statement. l was mad
right through, tell you, and pulling out
my six shooter L covered the gang and
told them that If cocktail wasn't pro-
duced in FIVE minutes by my Waterbury
watch, which 1 laid on the counter,
somebody would bite the dust.
"Well?''
sWell, they tried TO expostulate with
me, but there was no use, had the drop
on them and the watch kept ticking right
along, and when they saw that was
stiff none OF them said anything, but
the barkeeper he sort of figured around
and before the time was up he gave me a
sort of a concoction they call cocktail
out here in Kansas. 1t tasted like death
and it smelled like the everlasting here
after.
"And SO you knocked them out, did
you?''
81 should say so.
s'But what would you have done IL
those fellows had had sand and had re-
fused to take water?'
"well, II would have extended the
time
"Well, had fellow that had more
gall than that said Charley Hoyt.
''He was the low comedian in q farce
comedy that was exploiting in Illinois.
The play was frost and were dismal,
impecunious wretches, every one of US,
and ready TO abandon the town on our
uppers. A sure offer was made to US in
q neighboring town, but we didn { have
money to take US there. This fellow
his name was Ripstar-was full OF ex-
pedients. We were in a bad fix and
didn It know what to do about the time
that Ripstar came into the boarding.
house where we were staying. He was
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20
FARM AND FIELD.
The Castor Bean-It May Become an I'M
portant Crop for Northern Texas.
Humus Necessary in All Soils Fencing of Cut
Mountaineering Strawberries.
Level Culture for Corn.
The Castor Bean for Texas.

The Castor Bean for Texas,
For the Gazette.
One of the very profitable crops of this
country is the oastor-oil bean. AS yet it
Is not very extensively grown, owing to
the fact that there are not many locali-
ties known to be suited to its growth.
Kansas and Missouri produce most of the
castor beans now grown in the United
States, Kentucky coming in next with a
small proportion. The only important
market for the product of this country IS
now at st. Louis.
The castor bean plant has several
marked varieties-so strongly marked
that some botanists have attempted to
class them off into species. But one of
these is grown for the oil, and that one
is put down in the scientific books as
Ricinus communis. In most portions Of
Texas it is known, for common, as
''Palma Christi, q name given it, we
believe, by the old Jesuits.
The castor bean is most widely known
as the article from which Is made the
castor oil Of the drug stores, but the pro-
ducts of the growth are now extensively
used for other purposes than as a medi-
cine. Castor oil figures quite largely in
the arts, and the oil-oake resulting from
manufacturing the oil, Is highly valu-
able as a fertilizer in agriculture.
Texas, and especially Northern and
Western Texas, has every natural re-
quirement for the successful production
OF the castor bean. 1t becomes what
might, with no small degree of propriety,
be termed a wild weed here. One sees il
along many Of the washes, or bitches, far
away from cultivated lands, contrasting
the rights OF possession with the cookie
burr and other noxious growths. It is
certainly entirely at home in Texas.
Than the castor bean no crop can be
more easily and cheaply cultivated, and
since it yields enormously, and the pro-
duct always commands good price, it
cannot be otherwise than q profitable
crop for the regions suited TO its growth.
1t is furthermore good deal in the line
of what might be termed "a lazy man q
CROP Pushing Texas may not be spe-
cially seeking after any lazy man s crop,
bnt possibly her people wouldn't object
to such a crop, provided it paid them
well. IL they didn't happen to banker
after being lazy there are always plenty
of things for them to do in Texas, by way
Of filling in the time while the lazy-man 3
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20
Humus an Indispensable.

The writer of agricultural literature
for Texas readers is a good deal cut of
from one thing that he can spread him.
self Oh when he writes for other regions
fertilizers. Of course fertilizers are
not entirely out of order for Texas. They
are, probably, left out of order more
than they ought to be. Much Of our
lands would not be particularly i'm
proved for general farming by the addi-
ton of manural agents, it is true, yet
there is much Of them, not now manured,
that ought to, be particularly on sandy
lands. Our black sandy lands continue
to give fair yields without manuring, but
they are rapidly becoming exhausted,
hence it is certainly acting the part OF
the wise husbandman to add something
for the purpose of keeping them up,
even supposing that the better yield re-
sulting need not be taken into eonsidera-
ton.
There is one element of fertility, how
ever, that should in some way be given
to every character OF land We cultivate.
1t is represented in the books under the
name of humus, and consists simply of
decomposed vegetable matter. The rich
est soil, so far as mineral elements OF
counted on for their best without an
abundance of decomposed vegetable mat
ter in their composition. without this,
they incline TO pack in dry weather;
with it, they remain frisble, to a greater
or lesser extent, through every character
of season.
The agricultural editor OF the Charles
ton Is. Co. News says of humus that IT il
simply woody fiber, resulting from de-
composition OF vegetable matter. Aside
from its mechanical agency in prevent
ing the packing of land, it contains car
bon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, the
latter two being the elements OF water,
and there is always present In all vege-
table matter a small proportion OF the
various mineral elements which are Civ
en- back to the soil when the matter be-
comes deeomposed.
Humus does not enter into plant
growth as humus, but its different ele-
ments supply food to plants, vegetable
matter in ITS decomposition beeomes-s
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20
KNOX AMONG ACTORS.
Realism on the Stage With Vengeance.
Dog Bite Saves the Treasury.
Extending Time for Drink in Kansas-Dan
Rice and His Canvas Covered Show
With One Attraction.
New YORK. April Is. 1890.

For the Gazette. >-''-' p, - 80
1t was at a club, where after the play,
actors aud newspaper men most do con-
gTegate that sat last night at a table with
quite a number of men whose names are
known wherever newspapers are read or
plays are played. Quite jolly are some
Of these meetings and many very inter-
esting stores are told. Occasionally
some one is caught in the act of telling a
story that is not only a twice told but q
hundred times told tale, and then per-
force the'delinquent pays for such things
as may prompt and add to the enthusi-
asm.of the party. Below you will find
the names Of some who were around last
night anG some of the tales that were
told. Gus Thomas, Joe Howard, Char
lie Jefferson 3, Marcus Mayer, Billy Crane .,
john Russell, Frank Small, J. NJ. Hill,
Nat Goodwin~and Charley Hoyt.
On, l remember that fellow well, -
SAID Len Grover the author manager,
referring 10 an old time actor whose
name had Just been mentioned. He
mad tragedy head and a comedy pair Of
legs -
HE often played in my theater. The
trouble with him was drink. He was
ieAued most Of the time 1 have seen
MN ont IN the West-where a glass of
WHISKY IS chemical catSclysm-take a
sIug OF straight whisky that would have
NEocked spliuters out OF the wainscoting
u. aSy. ordinary mans stomach. He.
HouLa not take any more that day I'M
lesS invited, but If asked, he would
". uT!nk at the expense of others as many
'imeS as requested. He used to say;
- g One glass quite enough,
Two glasses more than enough,
.. - Three glasses not half enough"
- engaged him for week once with
aFaYellng company. His part was that,
y! the drunken old father, who forces
- LIS daughter TO marry the rich villain.
ne ne could play it well, probably because
ne knew so thoroughly how it was in
reality TO be under the infiuence;' and
Ne din play itsin great shape the first
wv nights. But on the third night, be-
t toFe ne curtain went up, he met some old
trends, loaded up, and cameon in the
utSt. act just blazing. He broke $50
worm OF furniture, spoke the lines of his
part that belonged to the second act,
Ai'Ked some canvas rocks INTO the or
onestra, and just naturally tore things
W the back. So fred him."
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20

growing cotton. The market Is always
more sure and the castor bean mas no
kind of insect enemies.
This thing ought to be ntudied up Dy
the progressive people of Northern and
Western Texas. In our own mind we
have no doubt relative to the castor bean
capabilities of the region. It would
probably pay better than almost any
thing else to grow the beans here and
ship them to st. Louis, but get our folks
to know that ours Is the great castor
bean region and there would not long
exist a necessity for shipment so far.
There is no reason il the world why st.
Louis should remain the castor oil center
of all this country. Fort Worth might
carry that same honor, as well as any
other place, provided she should find it
to her advantage to contest for it.