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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-01-08
FLORIDIANA.


the Indian River.
A new brick bank building is to be
erected at TitusvilIe.
Dade City growers expect to have ripe
Strawberries early next month.
Robert Parsons, a dry goods merchant
of st. Augustine, committed suicide last
week.
Kissimmee is in need of physician.
Six doctors have tried to make living
there and failed
The probabilities are that engineers will
be in the field inside of thirty days to To-
cate the route for the Manatee and Sara
sofa Railroad.
The Secretary of the Treasury says that
the Florida war claims will amount to
over half a million dollars, and he recon-
mends immediate payment.
Mr. H. M. Flagler last week gave to the
Daytona bridge company his check for
$4,000, to be used in completing the new
bridge across the Halifax River
The farmers are Warrington good rain
to plant potatoes. They are going to
put in heavy crop, mostly OF Early
Rose and Chill Reds.-OrlandoC orrespOn-
dent fimes-Union.
Mr.. E. L. D. Overstreet brought to
town last Wednesday a wagon load of
egg plants of the largest size we have yet
seen. He gave the News one that weigh
ed five and three quarter pounds and
measured % inches the long way and %
inches around.-Kissimmee News, De
cember, 25th.
owe have seen more strangers upon
our streets this fall than in any like sea-
son for several years past. There is more
demand for land in this county than
usual and everything indicates prospect
ty, Farmers have little to complain Of,
and the people are contented. "-Lake
City Tobacco Leaf.
"a gentleman here who owns suitably
located land and every natural advan-
tage for the production OF the best quality
ofsaIt wishes to associate himself with par
ties who will contribute small amount
of capital and engage extensively in the
manufacture of that staple With the
tons of fish that are taken out Of our
waters daily, there should be big money
in the enterprise St Andrews Messen-
ger.
The South Carolina man who raised
$50 bushels of corn to the acre probably
cultivated a square rod and estimated
Such estimates are good for newspaper
items. Nothing more, ever more.-Hali-
fax Journal You are mistaken there, Bro
Jolly. There was 40 guess work or estimat-
ngaboutit. The land was measured by a
committee appointed by the American
Agriculturist, and from the land mea-
sured, an acre, the 225 bushels we're
gathered.
The recently discovered phosphate beds
in the counties of Marion, Pasco, Her
nando and Citrus, are creating great ex-
element in that section OF the State,
and the report was current in Jackson
vile last week that phosphate beds had
been discovered on Harris plantation,
seven miles west Of Jacksonville on the F.
G.. & P railroad Parties who have an
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
IMMIGRATION REFORM.

Where Reform Should Pegin-EnfOrce the
Naturalization Laws.
For the Gazette
The statement of an eminent lawyer of
Chicago that our naturalization laws are
sufficient, if enforced, contains the halt
truth that the status in this matter would
be much better than it Is ii judges were
just enough and free enough to use all
manifestly unfit or perJured persons, as
is sometimes done, but so seldom as to
make an instance of this kind q matter
of national comment. Judges, be-
terests are at stake, are as
blind as a statue of justice to perjury and
unfitneSs; blind also to the full IN Gaming
of tine law. But with the best judges the
laws are not sufficient. Western state
legislators, swaved by the general inter
ests of their constituents in real estate,
are more anxious for numerical increase
of population than for good quality, and
so in some instances bid for Migrants
without regard to character, by promis-
ing naturalization after only two years
of residence.
The cure lies back of the naturaliza-
ton courts, in national legislation that
can be applied in the ports of entry, and
especially in our foreign consulates. The
immigration bills now before congress
contain some excellent features. To
shut out diseased persons, the guaran-
tine examination should be personal, not
by wholesale, as at present. The 81 tax
upon immigrants that was imposed by
the state of New York, was declared I'M
constitutional, but doubtless the
tax of S. proposed by the ma
tional government would stand.
This tax, however, would shut out
desirable peasants with large households,
as well as paupers. In fact q foreign
community, anxious to get rid of its
criminals and dependents, would be only
too ready to pay such a tax. 1t would
seem practical to shut out Mormons
when brought IN large quantities by
American prophets, but it would be very
difficult to shut out anarchists. Public
officials in foreign lands would, in many
eases, be only too glad to give certifi-
Gates of good character TO those whom
they could not otherwise get rid Of
However, by an increase Of the number
of clerks in foreign ccnsulates, which
would save OH this side far more than the
increased outlay on the other, II would
be practicable to ascertain whether in
tending immigrants had been criminals
or paupers. This investigation should
not be at the shipping port, but at the
consulate nearest to the intending i'm
migrants home. This consular certiti-
cate is the most important and essential
point in immigration reform.
n. H. BoYEsEN, n. Y.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
Will be Here Monday.

The Missouri Pacific people have busted
themselves to-day in putting their houses
in order. While things are usually kept
in apple pie condition by them, they,
like good housewife, are not satisfied
unless they do a deal of fixing up for u
distinguished visitor. Mr.. Jay Gould is
evidently the guest whom they expect,
and the time required in hauling him
here will extend INTO tomorrow night or
Monday. He will not find himself able
to discover any flies on his business III
this city.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16

| at the neck OF the subject in the chair.
! In a moment the receiver is taken from
| the top of the cabinet, and the head is
! seen resting there; IL moves and speaks
| and is the head of another person made
up to represent the first Que, and who
| sits behind the mirror in the cabinet and
pops his head up through q hole in the
| top of il as soon as the receiver is placed
| there The cabinet is shaped like safe,
and contains several apparently deep
shelves. In reality the shelves are shall
low a mirror OF proper size being placed
| in il in such a position as to leave about
four-ffths of the cabinet vacant.
The very latest decapitation is one now
used by Herman. The stage Is pecu-
! liarlv set the interior, from the first TO
the third groove, being completely hung
in black velvet or felt, back, top and
sides. In place OF the ordinary foot
lights row OF gas jets is usually placed
I across the stage just on line with the
inside of the boxes, and another row car
ried around but outside OF the arched Gu
trance 10 the black chamber.
The effect of this arrangement of light
and shadow throws the stage into i'm
| penetrabse gloom. Herman appears
suddenly clothed In white. Then Me-
phistopheles appears so suddenly that ie
seems as if lie had jumped out OF space
but really coming through an opening in
the black cloth. Then comes light
cloak and a pretty woman in evening
| dress. This latter first wraps herself in
a black domino of the same material IS
the stage hangings, leaving her arms and
head free. Over this she now clips q
framework OF light wire, covered with
fine evening dress. This framework has
no back, and she can slip out from 1t be-
hind, leaving the she'll with dress.
For the lady to sit on two pedestRls
suddenly appear. These are white, and
appear by having cover OF black pulled
from them quickly. One of these Is
about two feet high and the other about
five feet high. The lady sits on the
smaller one, and Mephisto orders Herr
man TO cut her head off.
After some demurring he finally SEXES
carving knife, places q light cloak over
the Iady's shoulders and cuts of her
head.
Taking it with one hand under the
chin and the other holding her hair, he
carries 1t across the stage and places it
on the other pedestal, she walking along
with him, having slipped out behind the
framework, leaving it upright on the
small pedestal. She walks across tbs
stage in her black domino or behind q
black screen shoulder high, only her
head showing, and finally stopping with
her head on the pedestal that is about
five feet high. To replace, the same
gliding back is again employed, and she
again resumes her dress case and the
trick is over.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
Personal.


W. E. Cobb of Wichita Falls is in Dali
las.
W. W. Howetb of Gainesville is in the
citv.
c. F. Estill was over to-day from the
Fort.
R. W. Pringle is here from Kemp.
George w. Cohen, NJ. ID. of Fort
Worth, spent to-day here.
w. B. johnson came down from
Gainesville this morning.
John A. Knight Is here from Palo
Pinto.
w. T. Moore, Jr., Is here from Llano
JOt J Smith of GrandYiew spent to-
day in Dallas.
S. o. Scott and daughter of Melissa
are IN the city.
n. H. HUM is here from Galveston.
George Byrne of Vernon spent to-day
in Dallas.
Charles DAVIS Is here from Galveston {.
s. d. Calder of Galveston is in the city
c. S. Z. Holland of Houston is in the
city.
Fl. B. Sanborn is here from Houston.
Harvey W. Kutemann of Weatherford
has spent to-day here.
j. T. Condrey was down from Sher-
man to-day.
John Grant and F. D. Joiner of Sher-
man are here.
w. NJ. Giles, Mineola, is in the city.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
ALTAR AND TOMB.
The casefte's SemI-weekIy Record ut Marriages
and Deaths IN Texas. as Compiled from
the Newspapers of the State.
MARRIAGES .


Mr.. W. D. Truhitt and Miss MOllle
Carney, Decatur, March 8.
Mr.. J. L. Miller, Jr., aud Miss c. II L.
Caldwell, Corsicana, March 10.
Mr.. j. p. Casey and Miss Dora Capps,
Vernon, March 4.
MIR. William >. DefbauEh and Miss
Addie L. Bayne, Hansford, March 2.
Mr. W. P. Collins and Miss Mauds
Miller, Bivens, March 8.
Mr.. Adolph DeutSchner and Miss ROs-
alne Nussbaum, Houston, March u.
Mr.. Fred Snyder and Mrs. Lille Lau-
derdale, Lyons, March 4.
Mr.. Henry ] Hill and Miss Mollie
Cox, Rising Star, March Z.
Mr.. a. n. Gomez aud Miss Fannie E..
Moses, Laredo, March II.
Mr.. Robert D. White and Miss J.
Irene Kane, Baird, March 4.
DR.. d. b. McGee and Miss Cora Diggs
Grapeland, March IL.
Mr.. Eugene Spencer and Miss Maggie
Carroll, Athens, March y.
DEATHS.
Mr.. J. NJ. Pruitt, Hill county, March
Mrs. NJ. V. Williams, Tyler. March g..
Mr.. Tom Waldrop, near Helvey,
March 4.
Mrs. Strickland, Gatesville, March 8.
Mrs. Jane BrookshIre, Angelina
county, March 4.
Capt. W. y. Bell, Bryan, March 10.
Mrs. Barbara Freeze, WinsborO,
March 10.
Mrs. NJ. A. Killman, Ennis, March 8.
Mrs. Mamie Anderson, near Hine 8
Chapel, March 6.
Miss West, near Bristol, March ).
John Aaron, Denton, March ..
Mrs. Buudshuh. Gainesville, March
IA.
Mr.. J. J. T. Powell, near Mexia,
March Is.
Mr.. NJ. J. Childs, near Mexia, March
II.
Mr.. j. A. Mitcharn, Athens, March
10.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
Affairs Across the Border.

srecial to the Gazette.
CITY OF MEXICO, March 15.-The OFF,
cial Gazette publishes correspondence
with the United States government re-
speeding the Apaches, in which Mexico
protests against the Apaches being liber-
ated near the frontier, and Mr.. Blaine
promises to study the question.
The City of Mexico and state of Potosi
have placed money in London for the
payment of the April coupons.
The statement of Louis Huller, the
Mexican Vanderbilt, that German bank
ers will lend Mexico $50 900 200 to pay
railroad subsidies causes laughter here.
The Mexican government is able to pay
subsidies without loan.
Jose Sanchez Ramos has been ap-
pointed general manager of the Inter
oceanic railroad, TO take effect April l.
The plans and profiles for the Chamela
railroad are approved by the govern
ment. A German syndicate offered to
build and equip this road from Aguas
Calientes, TO the Pacific ocean.
Ragagnor, editor of La Trait de Union
French daily, was married to day.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
City Council.

Tonight is the night on which large
committee, appointed by the Labor
unions are expected TO sit up with the
city council. The purpose is TO have the
eight-hOur ordinance repaired so that it
will hold water, the penalty section be-
ing up for reconsideration. 1t is gener-
ally expected that the matter will be
considered at to-night's meeting, but
one OF the aldermen expresses the opin-
ion that the eight-hour law has followed
McGinty too low for resurrection. If it
comes up We expect to have some fun
here.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
FINE STOCK.
Texans After BETTER Animals of All Kinds.
What is Here.

Texans After Better Animals of All Kinds.
What is Here.
The fever for improving the grades of
creasing, and during the past week there
were numbers of sales made in the city
of blOoded bulls of the different breeds.
They will be placed in the herds which
have, in many instances, been we'll
graded, and the grades will be raised
still higher. 1t is this kind of work that
will go far towards solving the beef cattle
problem. Good beef cattle will at all
times bring better prices per 100 pounds
than poor cuttl9 will, and il is well
known fact that there is more meat OIL
l000-p pound blooded beef steer than on al
inferior ANNA. of the same weight.
Fewer and better stock will bring Texas
more money.
There are now at the different stock
yards in the city some as pretty cattle
and horses as can be found III any Sec
ton of the country, and they will be
here for some time yet.
Mr.. Ed T. Shafrpr of Fulton, Kan.
is here with n lot of blOoded Clvdesdale
and PercherOn horses, the sight of which
does lover of fine horses good. He
has some stations in the bunch that are
perfect beauties.
J. A. Mcconnell of Wyndham Kan.
is in the city with carload of shorthoru
bulls and says that if he disposes of this
lot without too much trouble he will
return with lot of thoroughbred HOl-
TEN cattle.
Mr.. w. f. B. Of Wichita, Kan, is in
the city with the remnant of n carload of
harness and saddle horses. He reached
the city Sunday last with sixteen head.
and had sold all but three last evening.
There are other parties here with Jer-
sey cattle, Hereford cattle, Berkshire
and Poland China hogs, blooded Ten
nessee jacks and blooded horses of differ
eut breeds. Fort Worth is regarded by
cattlemen of other states as the livestock
market of Texas, and they are bringing
their stock here to sell. Texas buyers
are beginning TO realize that bloOded
stock can be found here, and they come
TO Fort Worth for what they want i'll this
line.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
Horse Notes.

The Western Agricultural lis s trongly
in favor of early breeding and says: "If
the mare is bred at two and has colt at
three years of age, she may be longer
maturing but she will be no smaller and
will make q better brood mare This is
the experience of the draft horse
breeders of France to early establish
regular breeding. The mares are given
full work upon the farm, and the most
careful attention is given to breeding, to
lie sure of q colt the next year as the
lending feature of the annual cash in
come.
Many men in Colorado who are breed
ing small horses, horses only lit for sad
die purposes, ore disappointed at not
finding ready sale for them. They need
not be, when they consider that the USES
for the saddle horse on the plain has
greatly diminished in the past half de-
cade. Where 20 900 horses were re-
quired 10 round up the cattle on the
ranges Of the state five or six years ago
no more than 1000 are required now.
Fine, stylish saddle horses command
good prices, but the demand for and the
occupation for the broncho is gone.
The kellogg sale Of trotting stock at
New ork last week was emlnentIy sue
cess:ul, On the first day (March y
fiftv-seven consigned by Village Farm
brought an average OF S642 .72, the FLY
Feruoline, by Kentucky Prince, bringing
$500, the highest price of the day On
the second day forty-three head belong
ing to L. J Rose of California averaged
S32G2, the leading event being the sale of
Alcazar, which went to Uhlein Bros,
Truesdell, Wis, for S25, 500. The bay
colt Hoodoo, by STEAMBOAT, brought
S24 100. and was purchased by F. q.
Babcock, Hornel:sville, N. Y.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
Robbed of His Earnings.

]. B. Banks, an industrious negro who
city, was held up and relieved of his
cash to-day by two white men. He had
collected the money when the men ap-
preached him and told him of a brick
yard they were running out on the trunk
road. and persuaded him TO go out there
to make contract to deliver them 1000
cords Of wood. He went, and after
reaching a grove two miles from the city
one of the men jumped in front of Banks
and poked pistol into his face, while
the other took his money. Banks says
they were talking in a friendly way :,
when to his establishment the gun was
pulled on him.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16

Mrs. A. F. Wood of Kennebunk, Ne. :,
a lady who has been lame for several
years, went to the barn loft to gather
some eggs, and in sliding down upon the
hay with her lame leg, hearing some
thing crack, she felt she had broken
some bone. She called TO her husband
for help, and when he came aud helped
her up she found she could walk better
than before. The ligaments which had
adhered TO each other By non-use were
broken apart, improving her lsmeness.
A marvellous lace wonder is reported
as landed IN the United States. IL 10 .
unique specimen OF embroidery and Irish
lace, specially manufactured for tbs
great international exhibition or 1851, at
which il took a first prizs. It took
twelve girls twelve months to make this
perfect specimen OF the old hand en-
broidery and lace trade OF Ireland. The
cost was $1,000. No work OF to-day is so
fine and exquisite as the drawn aud en-
broidered border Of this wonder. The
main design is q chaplet Of fern leaves,
entwined with the rose, the shamrock
and the thistle
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
The Revival.

Interest in the services being conducted
by Evangelist Williams is increasing
continually. His text last night
was: "For we must all ap-
pear before the judgment seat. - The
idea advanced was that the blessings are
not equally divided so far as worldly
goods are concerned. The good suffer
wrong and affection, and the wicked
often thrive and enjoy life. Judgment
day will be great equalizer, at which
things will be evened up. He referred to
sinful aud selfish thoughts; the sin of
carelessness or omission; the sins
of commission, many of which he ex-
posed with apt illustration. At the close
the choir rendered some grand music,
during which about 400 stood up for
prayer. About 200 people have pro-
fessed conversion, according to the most
reliable counts.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
Railroad,

We are all highly pleased with the new
train to Weatherford. 1t is a train Of
new cars, well equipped and with con-
veuient schedule. The first train starts
from weatherford Sunday morning at
and reaches Dallas at 1850. 1t then
leaves Dallas at and arrives at Wealth
erford at $3.50 i'll the evening. The train
fills long felt want between between
Dallas and the Fort and is certainly a
capital convenience for the entepirsing
little city of Weatherford.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
THE FUTURE PROSPECTS.
4 New Mexican Gives His Impression of
the Convention and paIlIs Of
Future Prospects.


Mr.. G. z. Lyon of Ration, n. NJ.
was one of the delegates from that terri
tory TO the cattlemen's convention. He
IS a livestock inspector for the Sixth or
Northern district of New Mexico ap-
pointed by the territorial sanitary board.
He is familiar with the people, and well
informed concerning the cattle interests
OF all parts OF the territory, but more
fully so within the limits of his inSpec-
ton district. He i still in the city,
being detained 10y matters requiring his
personal attention here. Being COrraled
yesterday 10y a GAZETTE reporter aud
asked for his opinion OF the recent cat
tlemeu = convention, he said:
So far as the bringing together of n
big crowd, and the having of a good
time is concerned, the interstate con-
veutIOn was d complete success, and was
an event that will be borne in pleasant
remembrance for many years. Like all
previous conventions of cattlemen it Rc-
complished very little, beyond making
more widely known than could be well
done otherwise the difficulties and
dIscouragements as well as the I'M
paTalleled depression from which the
cattle business has suffered for number
of years past, the way up aud out of the
valley of despoud, the convention failed
10 find; but the questions brought before
il and by IL left either unConSideTed or
Enacted upon will be still further agiIated
aud may in time result in the accomplish
ment of the good so much needed and so
much desired.
lone good that will flow from the con-
venIion will be in the form OF increased
sales. Considerable trading was done
during the convention. and more will
follow in the immediate future as the re-
suit of the coming together of cattlemen
from the different sections of the West
aud Northwest. a fine winter in New
Mexico has left our cattle in good cOndi-
ton, aud with anything like fair mar
ket we Will do reasonably well with
them. Our country is rather quiet. We
are Just now engaged III reservoir and
irrigation enterprises, which will make
the country better and tend TO turn i'm
migration IN our direction. Settling up
will come as result of the success of
these irrigation undertakings. In my
county there are now 100 900 acres under
ditch, aud alec II large area on the Pecos.
al am an appointee OF the Mexican
sanitary board consisting of Col. Lutz,
the president, Col. Jackson and Joe
Saint, who came to the convention to
meet and compare notes with the MEM
beers OF other sanitary boards. 1 inspect
livestock in the Sixth district. and pass
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16
Was IL Done?

1t is q fact susceptible of demonstra-
ton that England can take from US 5000
or 1900 head Of beef steers n day, more,
much more, than we could find transport
tation for at present. But let the Fort
Worth convention pave the way for their
importation into England, and the car
rying power will be forthcoming. This
would soon relieve the glut in our mar
kets, and every steer be worth $40 or SIS
more for feeding than for butchering; be
placed indeed upon an equal footing with
those of our Canadian neighbors. Il Rural
World
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-16

on cattle entering the Territory from
Texas over the Fort Worth and Denver,
and also on the Santa Fe from Trinidad,
Col. -
"What do you think of the future of
the cattle trade?''
''I look for better future for cattle.
There is going to be a shortage. There
can t help but be. We can't go on
marketing as many cows as we have
been doing, without bringing about
shortage. a great percentage of the
receipts of the Chicago aud Kansas
stockyard for several years past have
been COWS. When We cut off the cows,
we cut off the source of cattle supply.