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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18

IT costs 800 to kill jew in Russia. He
may be robbed and beaten with IMMUNITY.
but If he is killed outright fine to that ex-
tent is imposed on his murderer. How is that
for our boosted Nineteenth century civlliza-
ton?
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18
MANCHESTER OFFICE, FIFTH AND PoR-
TER STREETS.

THx TINS Is always for sale at tho iouo"in'
Richmond news stands:
E1cuAYGE HoTEL, Franklin and Fourteenth Bus
FoRp's HorEI. Broad and Eleventh streets.
AMERICAN HOTEL. Main and Twelfth streets
JosrPH ENeELBURa. 3ls east Broad street
R.G. MYrR. 100 east Broad street. corner FIRST
C. NJ TALMAN. S25 east Broad street.
W. H. ANDERSON. 222 east Broad street
n. JACKSON JANIS, 7Os west Broad street.
JosErH b. DAVIS. 1909 east Main street
W. II. CowARDTS, 1902 east Main street
n. LEONARD, COS east Main street.
Union News COMPANY railway depots
SOUTHERN NEWS COMPANY, railway depots
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18

Mr. n. J. Smith. who was recently 4pp1a'.
ed deputy collector Of iuterna. reyenle .
charge OF the Richmond Office OY &. o,. .
Brady. of Petersburg. took contr o-
Office here yesterday. Sir. Smith s " I'D
known as IA bar-keeper. aud has for years -tI,
a saloon az 1909 east Main street.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18
Rather Risky.


As the bullion value of the American silver
dollar Is now less than eighty cents would no
the enactment OF u law for the "frce aud ua-
limited coinage of silver ~ the pro-, y,
standard Of weight and fncnsss be e4u.ga.s
10 Offering a premium of more than twe y
five per cent. above tho present market D %
for the entire worlds supply of silver bullion
and coin and taking the chances Of rs ;
10 value % the price we paid for II Won
any sensible and prudent business man .
guilty Of taking such risk. II. l.. ,.
The BEST Sc. PIECE or GENUINE Sun
CURED TOBACCO on earth IL hlckok's iiE'
Try 10 and see.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18

THE most remarkable solution yet suggested
OF the currency problem emanates from the
brain of a Rhode Island yankee, William
Williams, Of Bristol. lie advocates taking
away the legal tender quality Of gold and sill
YER altogether letting the metals circulate on
their own merits in weights of ounces as
issued from tho United States mint. lie be-
lieyes that this process would avoid all dan
gers Of debasing the currency, while it would
be self-adiustng and perfectly equitable to
the holders Of either gold or.silver. He thinks
that the Government could issue notes on the
ounces Of gold or silver stored in its vaults.
and that this would pave tho way for uni
versa coinage or standard of values
This IS certainly novel suggestion: but it
is hard to see how absolutely removing the
legal tender property from both gold and
silver can result in anything but trouble and
confusion
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18

Az executive committee Of farmers in Hub
bard No. have issued an address to the
members Of the Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union, and Of the Farmers and Labor
ers'.Unon OF the United States. inviting them
to take part in meeting of the Alliance
brothers OF the United States to be held in
st. Louis, September Is, 1891. The address
says that the object of the meeting is 10
emancipate the Farmers Alliance from the
control Of scheming politicians and designing
demagogues. From this it would seem that
the Missouri Alliance is not happy.
The Wheeling Register states that Alliance
Lecturer Puryis. of Ohio, thinks Mckinley
will be overwhelmed by over 100 900 Demo-
CRITIC plurality. He expects $4,000 Republi-
cans to bolt him. Mr. Puryis' estimates
sound very wild, but no is an Alliance man
who has travelled all over the State. and
ought 10 know what he is talking abont. If
the Ohio farmers ELI masse vote against she
great champion Of protection and monopoly,
he ought to be showed under by an avalanche
sure enough
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18
TUESDAY. AUGUST IS. 1891.
SIX PAGES.


There were thirty-sevcn deaths in Richmond
last week.-Outlook for the colored fair bright.
The deputy collector of internal revenue
took charge Of the Richmond offce.--A new
Methodist church at Bon Air was dedicated
The Street Committee met and transacted much
business.-The Grounds and Buildings Com
mittee met.-Miss Theresa Houchens and
Lieutenant Z. J. Euker to marry.-Annusl State
Farmers Alliance conyenes to-day.-The
Young German Americans met.
VIRGINIA
The damage from Norfolk's fire Saturday
night amounted to $4,000 insurance, about
$4,000 The case of Charles Watkins. charged
with murder, was continued in the County Court
OF Roanoke yesterday.-Saturday storm
played havoc with crops around Norfolk.-It
is believed Navy-Yard Clerk Van Yranken will
be dismissed from the service in disgrace
Lieutensnt Commander Belden, of the receiv-
ing ship Franklin, has been ordered TO the COM
mand Of the Yantic.--The case of John Dun
ford, charged with infanticide. was heard in
the County Court of Roanoke yesterday.
NEW YORK.
The Gul srnatorial canvass is still in embryo.
The Board Of Aldermen will meet to- day for the
first time since July 14th.-Eleyen hundred
and thirty-one immigrants landed Yesterday
half of whom we're Russian JeWs.-The United
States Government will be asked to take charge
of the Chinese lepers.--The will OF George
Jones, the editor of tho New York Times. was
probated yesterday Navy Department
has ordered the appraisement and sale of the
wooden corvette Galena.---Ihe wheat market
continues III an excited condition.-Joel Nos
trand while fishing, caught his own nose with
his hook.-A woman fell and bloke her artif
cial leg.-The Socialist Labor Iarty and the
Central Labor Federation have begun war on
the Federation of Labor-Sam Jones is
preaching at Prohibition Park.-The seven
zenith annual festival of the Plattedeutscbe
Volkefest was held.
GENERAL.
The independence of Switzerland was cele-
Drated at Cincinnati yesterdsy.-Advices from I
Vera Cruz report an epidemic Of yellow fever !
raging there.-A soriCus state OF political af |
fairs exist in China.--Twelve people were |
killed in railway accident at Berne YESTERDAY
1t IS clearly shown that the Sub Treasury !
bill will DO made an Alliance issue.--A desno.
rate riot took place near Shendon w. Va. SIM
day mght.-The foreign committee of tho
Worlds Fair have met with great support in
Austria.--J. l.. Roy, clerk in the treasurer,
Office OF Arkansas WAS arrested yesterday
charged with the larceny of slO0.OOO--Sontb.
ern North Carolina was visited by destructive
cyclone Saturday night
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18

iE worst blow which the speakership
aspirations OF Hon. Il. Q. Mills. of Texas has
h s.o.Neu' IS that ex-Czar Reed has expressed
In "a MS favor. The Democratic House
VIZ % hkeiy to look with grave suspicion
NJ Tpoo any suggestion from the sx-sutocrat
Iney are apt 10 feel some fear Of ,hs pss;Ss,
Greeks bringing gitts VAC NAUTICAL
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18

A GREAT many of the European peasants
think that it's pretty rocky for them to be cut
of from their rye
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18
NEWS FROM MANCHESTER.
There are a Number Of There's still al
Work in That City.
HOW SHALL THE PAUPERS BIZ BURIED?
Brief Items OF News Gathered by The Times
Reporters From Our Sister City
Personal Points.
MANCHESTER BUREAU RICHMOND TINES.
CORNER FIFTH AND PORTER STREETS.

In the regular monthly meeting Of the City
Council last Friday evening the Cemetery
Committee, among other things, recon-
mended that the burial Of paupers in the
future be given out by contract In explain
ing the matter, Councilman Fair. chairman
of the committee, said that Keeper Allen. Of
the cemetery, had complained that he was
very frequently kept from his other more i'm
portant work looking after tho burial Of pau
pers, and suggested that the committee re-
commend that this be done by contract The
recommendation was passed, and the COM
mittee instructed 10 request bids and give
same to lowest bidder.
Now 1t seems that both the committee and
the Council erred in their actions, as a TIMEs
man was given the following facts yesterday
relative to the matter:
The law of the State of Virginia SAYS that
where person dies in the community and
does not leave enough property 10 pay burial
expenses and such body Is not claimed by
relative or connection. the expense of burial
shall not be incurred by the city, but the
body shall be turned over 10 the anatomical
board Of the State OF Virginia.
Dr. William =. Mathews is the agent for
this city of the board and claims by right Of
law and his certificate Of Office all such
bodies.
Mayor Attkisson holds DR.. Mathews certi6-
cate and has already turned over several
bodies to him
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18

Mr. r. $. McGregor is very i'll at his home
Oh Seventh street
Miss Meta Franklin is very sick at her homo
on Twelfth street
Miss Virginia Queensberry is visiting friends
IL Albemarle county
Miss Mary Burton is VISITING friends in
Chesterfield county
Miss Carrie Pickett is sOiourning in the
rural districts of Chesterfield.
Mrs. b. A. GO0de and Mrs James Robin
SOL are visiting in Charlottesville
Miss Mary Latham has returned from a
pleasant visit 10 relatives in fredericksburg
Mr.. Beadle. of Hanover. father of Mrs
Park Howle, OF this city, IS very III with blood
poison.
Mark and Chester Lloyd children Of Sens-
tor Lloyd, have returned from Buckingham
county.
Miss Sissie French. Of this city. is soiourn.
ing with friends in the rural shades OF Abe
marie county.
Miss Virgie Cowden and Miss Aubrey Rob
inson left yesterday for Orange county where
they will spend several weeks with friends
and relatives.
Miss Anna Eggleston who loft here few
days ago. writes back that she safely arrived
at her new home, 81. Paul. Mimi. after
very pleasant trip.
Mathews returned from a trip of several
weeks III the mountainous regions of New
York both very much improved in
health, and giving a glowing account
of their trip. They visited Saratoga. lake
Champlain. Ticonderoga. Lake George. Nt.
McGregor and many other places Of note and
pleasure. At Mt. McGregor they visited the
house in which General L. ). Grant died.
The bed on which the great General died IS
Just like II was during MS last moments. and
chairs he sat in are still in the room. While
on this mountain. Mr. j. d. Mathews pur-
chased cane made of hickory cut from the
mountain The cane Is q very pretty one in
deed, Of novel design and sklfui Workman
ship. and was made by an INDIAN snnnm
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18
BRIEF BITS.

The Board of Directors Of the Methodist
Sunday-School Union Of Manchester will
meet tonight at West-End church.
a small white boy attempted % lump back
ward of street-car Yesterday and met with
the usual result, q fall and q shaking up.
The excursion TO Newport News Yesterday
10y the brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was largely attended by Manchesterians
The Little Giants OF this city. went over 10
the Lee Monument grounds Yesterday after
noon 10 cross bats with the r.. f.. go Base
Ball Club, of Richmond Manchester wss
victorious by a score If 10 too
There IS evidently gang Of house-breakers
and robbers IN this city. Hardly day passes
that some one does not report 10 q IIufs man
an adventure OF the previous night rherob-
bers DO not seem TO be particular as 10 tho
time OF night, for they make early and late
calls
Last evening about $40 o'clock Mrs.
F. j. WingO. who lives nj Fifth and Balm
bridge streets, while sitting at an upstairs
window enjoying the cool breoles and wait
ing the return Of her husband. heard some
ore at the blinds down stairs. She called the
servant girl and thev listened and could hear
whispering down below. She gave the alarm
by calling neighbor, when two men were
seen scamperng through the back yard and
made Their escape over the back fence.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-08-18
POLICE COURT PICKINGs.


Mondays are generally good days for police
court business, and yesterday proved no ex
ceptlOn. His Honor came int court with his
usual good-natured smile. but did not FORGET
TO deal out pills Of justice % the usual Sat
urday night eYil-dOers and Sunday peace.
breakers.
Henry Jones, negro, who has frequently
Inquired IN this court, WAS up again on the
same old charge, rs he expressed. it in
liquor" The Mayor thought 1t was the other
way, that liquor was III him. us il took
High-Constable Brooks and a wagon 10
get him to jail. SATURDAY night Henry thought
Hull street belonged TO him and used the most
obscene and vulgar language as he staggered
along. When demonstrated with by
the High Constable he questioned the lat
ters authority, and when arrested lay down in
the street and SAID 1t would take just two
thousand men 70 take him to Jail. he was
fined 80.
Mention was made in Sundays TINES about
the arrest Of three negro youths on the char0o
of stealing whisky from Mr. James Z Rob
lnson Bud Hicks. Mat Fowler and Lewis
Green were the boys, and Hicks had TO paw
80 Fowler 81 and Green got of with the pay
ment Of II.
Robert Glasgow and Albert Hudson. two
negroes, had set-to Sunday morning at the
corner of Seventh and Hall streets about
q quarter Hudson won at a game of poker
Officer Moles took them in and yesterday
morning they had to pay - each.
AS Manchester was filing up tho iail so
fast. keeper swift. Of Forest Ii.ll Park who
IS clothed with police authority. thought he
would help the cause along. and proceeded %
add two more unfortunates &c the list They
we're +. COnkhn and G. Kennedy. two white !
men, and disorderly conduct was the charge |
brought against them They were fined $50 |
zach for using abusive language.
Henry Taylor the negro Who walked of |
With lot OF tobacco which he stole from tho /
tore OF Mr.. William Hslder, was fined $3.50
md costs.
Several cases Of minor importance we're dis
missed.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30
PREPARING LAND FOR WHEAT.

The American Cultivator says more i'm
portant than a large acreage to wheat is q
thorough and intelligent preparation OF the
land for the crop. Clay land is always bet
ter for wheat than is land inclined to
sandy. Winter wheat wants rather COM
pact soil; that is, q soil not porous from
either sand or a very large amount of vege-
table matter in it's composition. For most
other crops an abundance Of well decom-
posed vegetable matter is Of the highest
Importance, but not so in the case of winter
wheat.
OF course a compact soil is not to be un-
derstood as soil unbroken. Deep break
ing and thorough pulverization is abso-
lutely necessary for best results, but the
soil with close natural texture is best
suited to the crop.
If manure is used for wheat land there
are few lands that manures would not help,
it should be put in very near the surface.
If put deep the rains of winter will carry
most of it down beyond the roots of the
wheat at a time when the crop is in no par
ticular need of it. If put near the surface,
the rains will work it down to within easy
reach of the roots by the time the main
growing season of the crop is fairly on.
One of the most important points in pre-
pairing for wheat sowing is to plow early.
This is necessary IN majority of seasons
to make moist seed bed in which wheat
shall germinate quickly. After sowing run
the roller over the land to press it down
upon the seed, which is a thing Of much
Importance.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30
APEAR BLIGHT PREVENTIVE

Mr. C. H Grain, q well-known fruit
grower at Monterey, Butler county, Ala,
thinks he has discovered an effectual pre-
ventive to pear blight. Thirty years ago
his pear trees began to be affected by
blight. He dug about the roots and placed
in liberal supply of hardwood ashes and
common salt, mixed half and half. His
trees speedily recovered. He has kept up
the practice every year from that day to
this, and has never seen another trace OF
pear blight on his place, though trees of
some of his neighbors who did not resort to
his preventive have been affected from
time to time-many of them entirely des-
troyed. The application imparts great
vigor to his trees, he says, and it is his
opinion that this vigor renders them insult
able subjects for blight. While it is now
pretty generally believed that there is nei-
Their preventive nor remedy for pear blight,
one must admit that a test which has stood
for thirty years without failure would
surely seem to have in it something more
than mere theory.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30
ON THE MUSTANG GRAPE

Ny attention has been attracted by an
article on the mustang grape, appearing in
a recent issue of The GAZETTE. 1 must
say that in the eastern and central portions
of the state native grape that would prove
rot-proof and mildew-proof would certainly
De a valuable factor in Texas grape culture
On the Staked Plains, and particularly
this section of the Staked Plains, where We
can grow the finest of varieties grown in
California, and do it as well as grapes can
be grown in the best grape countries in the
world, we do not SO much need the mus
tang But the thought has occurred to me
that the mustang presents fine field of
operations for hybridizing. Crossed with
other varieties or species the mustang
might produce something very valuable
For instance, we have the Triumph, which
is cross between the Concord and golden
ChaSselas In vine and leaf it bears strik-
ing resemblance to the Concord, but in fruit
the punches and berries are larger than
those of the Chasselas: in color OF fruit,
manner of ripening and favor il resem bles
the Chasselas most, being entirely free
from the foxy taste of the Concord. In this
locality it is thrAler grower and more
abundant yielder that the Concord.
Now, IL the mustang grape was crossed
with some of the California grapes, as the
Muscst of Alexandria, the Malaga, Musca-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30
THE CHILDREN IN DANGER.


have seen in the Fort Worth GAZETTE
your letter to the agricultural editor, ask
ing for information with reference to has
ket worms" He does not tell you whether
or not they will kill the trees, so l have con-
Guided to do that part of the job for him.
They will. Those worms are playing sad
havoc with cedar trees here, and the trees
are dying. The worms attack rose bushes
also, and should they succeed IN eating out
all tree and bush vegetation before frost l
think it highly probable that they will go
for the children. W. H. CLARK.
Fairfield, Tex.
Our reply to Mr.. Orchards note referred
to a previous article on the same subject,
in which we had stated that the basket
worm would destroy trees upon which it
had secured a regular establishment. You
are entirely correct in writing it down as
an insect of wide food range. 1t will eat
anything green that we know of, unless it
should be pair of green window blinds.
In our past articles we have recommended
Paris green, London purple, kerosene
emulsion and hand picking as remedies
with which to combat it. Not feeling will
ing to incur any dangerous responsibilities
we now hasten to urge that so soon as 1t
begins getting in its work on your children
you had best drop all other remedies rec
commended by Us and confine your opera
tons strictly to hand picking.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30
TWO ERRORS CORRECTED.

1t is not often that We much worry over
typographical errors-why should wet
Printers, like other people, are mortal, and
no perfect mortals have yet materialized.
As rule our GAZETTE printers get up their
work well, and in q thoroughly workman
like manner, consequently when we see
something in our department a little of, ,
now and then, we simply put it into our
pipe and smoke it, and then 60 to bed feel
ing as cheerful and happy as if nothing out
of the regular order of things had taken
PLACE. Occasionally, however, though at
rare intervals, we are proud to state, one Of
those accidents said to sometimes happen
in even the best regulated families, pops to
the surface with sufficient force to almost
make Us wish for better world
than this; and precisely that kind
of thing took shape couple
Of times in the agricultural depart
ment of last week. In our article on the
'chigger," we gave it as our honest opinion
that there were moro ''chiggers," or red
bugs on one square acre of land in the
gulf states east of the Mississippi river,
than there were on one square mile in
Texas. The printer made zone square
inch'' out of one square acre. OF course,
that many chiggers must have made them
rather hot over there. In our article on the
advantages of settling up suburban coun-
tries around cities, we wrote that the in
come to Mobile, Ala, from her surrounding
truck farming operations was $1,000, 900 an
nually, but the printer dropped one of our
ciphers, and made it 500, O0O That kind of
showing would be apt to make them cold
over there-towards US. Why, the Mobile
truck farmers ship annually to early North
ern markets more than 100000 worth Of
Irish potatoes alone.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30
HOW TO MAKE CIDER.

AS regular reader of your undoubtedly
valuable paper I am disposed to risk tres
pass upon your time by asking for some in
formation with reference to making cider
Please tell me through The GAZETTE how
to make cider after the best plan known.
JAMES 2. CARMoDF.
Austin, Tex.
The best authority in such matters that
the United States has. perhaps, is PROBES
sor W. C. Brunson, practical chemist of
Chicago. While well understanding how
to make cider, from our own experience,
well draw upon Professor Brunson to make
sure that we are giving you the very best
going.
Cider is made of apples" So says the
old Webster's elementary spelling book
Crush or grind the apples in a mill, says
Professor Brunson, and place the pulp or
'.pomace'i in cider press and press out
the juice. This juice is known as s'sweet
cider" and if kept at irregular temperature
as low as forty-fve degrees, it Will remain
sweet. But in higher temperature it soon
ferments and becomes what we call 'shard
cider"
The best way OF making s.hsrd cider" is
to keep the juice in the shade ana allow it
to ferment sloSjv at teU..-s..Ar. .i be~
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-30

tel, Seeding Sultana, Golden Chasselas,
ETC., white grape might be produced that
would prove not only a fortune to the orig
inator, but very mine of wealth to much
of the state of Texas
In the list of crosses with some dark
grape, as the Black Hamburg, Roumania
and Cornecnon Violet we might get very
valuable table grape. A cross with
the Zinfandel, Magdalene Noir or Teinturier
would doubtless give US an extra fine wine
grape.
With the varieties named and such North
American varieties as will grow in Texas,
it would seem that there are immense posi-
bilities OF making something extra good by
hybridizing with the mustang grape. Its
vigorous growth and entire adaptability to
Texas climate and soil admirably fits it to
be one of the parents of new grape that
will not only be extra good in qualities but
also ''ironclad" against phyloxera, rot, fun
gus growths and mildew
J. W. OITERMAN.
Odessa, Tex.
Many of the very best things we have in
the fruit line have sprung from no appar.
emily better openings than are offered by
our wild mustang grape of Texas.