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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
OPENED STRONG.
London was a Good Buyer in
the Forenoon Yesterday. .
AMERICAN GOLD GOES UP.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy De-
ciares Dividend of per Csnt-Ore-
gon Improvement SIS Exception
ally Strong and Higher.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
the early buying by London our market
operated stronger, but as the news of the
engagement of gold came out prices sagged
off below yesterdays closing. The Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy directors de-
clared quarterly dividend of / per cent.
Gould stocks and Atchison were noticeably
weak. Stocks rallied in the afternoon de-
spite the gold shipment. Gables from Lon
don announced that the Bank of England had
once more raised its price for American
gold = penny, making the prce now
Us 61Id.
The bond market was dull and generally
lower. Oregon improvement SIS were ex-
ceptionally strong and higher. Final prices
were irregularly changed. The following
table shows the important net advances and
declines for the day:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
Returned with His Bride.

- y Nc UlIctte.
ca. ON.N. TEX, May 19-Dr Sidney
..,- WHO created such a sensation here a
ss.., e,.,s ago by his sudden disappearance
l,... ia ing everything arranged 10 marry
~. LA i.1gsers of this place, returned
:. o. with his bride whom he married
! nv. 'e-at Tex. 1t is understood that he
~. .''.-"l 10 stay and will resume his
r.------ u Medi..ne-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
Exchange at Galveston.
Bonds and Stocks.

Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK. May ls.-Bonds and stocks closed
at the following prices bid:
BONDS.
United States As, registered. 119
United States As, coupons, ex-div. .......1l3
United States A. s, coupons, ...-.......-...l0 I
Central Pacific IS. 1871
Denver and Rio Grande 4s..-.--........ So
Missouri Pacific consolidated 6's.-..... 80.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas general SIS. L.. 765s
St Louis and Iron Mountain general SIS,
eA-OlE oo5s
St. Louis and San Francisco general mort
Texas and Pacific land grants......-.......S SO
Texas and Pacific Rio Grande's 331t
STOCKS.
Central Pacifc.-...... ............... 2sE
Chicago and Alton. eN-div l25
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. ex-div... S61s
Delaware and Lackawanna, e1-div..-.--.E5
Denver and Rio Grandc. ...........-....... -.
Eric cCnniuOH.- lS71
Fort Worth and Denver. Observation-Disclosures. 80.
Houston and Texas Central. 31s
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
Galveston spot.

Comparative Statement of the Spot Mar
kets.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, May 10. The following are
the closing quotations for cotton on the spot
to-day at the leading markets, together with
the closing for middling Saturday, with to-
days sales:
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
COTTON MARKETS.

Liverpool Futures.
Special to the Gazette.
LIVERPOOL, May l9-Holiday.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
FINANCIAL.
British Copsols.

British Copsols.
Special to the Gazette.
LONDON. May 19.-Consols closed, % l.l6 FOR
money for silver, A 9-l6.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
Exchange at New York.
Exchange at New Orleans.

Exchange at New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, LA, May 49,
Special to the Gazette
Sterling-Commercial 60 days. s2A94 s3A
Francs-Commercial. 20 dayS......5 23a
New York sight-Bank. 100 premium
Commercial. INSTRUMENTATION. 40 premium
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
Tried for Lunacy.

"a. 70 'te Gazette.
st-ioE. TEX, May 1a.-J. D. Rhoads
ter, ~, :. yesterday for lmacy, and will be
,.r., .' 'Ae asylum as soon as he can be en-
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20

Liverpool spot.
Special 10 the Gazette.
LIVERPOOL, May ly-Holiday
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
If yoN@l weak
and all ~ out take
BROWN sHRoA BITTERs

Dallas Seed Store, Estzhkaln ~.
Wholesale and Retail s. rs Just re
ceived. 200 bushels p D1hfilet, 200 bushels
sugar cane, seed 1ohfon sets, stock peas.
alfalfa, red61 'Bermuda and Canadian blue
grass. p ~. milo maize. tomato and cabbage
pi1 HOLLOWAY & CO., Dallas Tex.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-20
Galveston Coffee Market.

GALVESTON, TEX, May le-Coree closed
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
SHEEP.
G.. NJ. WINSLOW.

II HE raising of sheep has always occupied prom-
l. nent place in Vermont farming In former times it
the source upon which the farmer depended for
cash returns his other products being subjects of barter
and trade at the country store among his neghbors
The product of the flock then wool but little account
being taken of mutton and there little nducemen to
grow mutton, it little sought for in markets.
and all surplus sheep wanted to build up other
hocks At the present time the condition of the business
has changed other lines of farming have been developed
Dairying and the rearing of horses have largely in
creased and become rival industries The markets have
undergone marked changes while the price of wool
ranges lower the price Of mutton rules higher and the
demand for breeding stock continues good And while in
former times the Vermont shepherd mainly anxious
to have wool sell at high price, to-day the product of
wool is of secondary Importance The price of mutton
or the demand for thoroughbred breeding stock first in
Importance. We may say perhaps, that sheep raising in
Vermont to-day is conducted upon two distinct lines
though there who take middle course but the
successful sheep Of the State are, rule breeding
for mutton or for thoroughbred Merinos.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

able price, and be almost certain of raising colt that will
pay all the cost Of raising and give fair prospect of
profit 1t always seems wise to produce what the public
demand lift can be done at profits and there is believe
to-day no business in Vermont that in a limited
tended scale will pay the profit that the breeding and fit
ting of the above desirable horses will return the in
weston. While the draft horse fills only want while
the small trotter of value if not FAST this class of
horses is adapted to all the above uses, except heavy
draft and believe in following the above line of breed
ing, fair proportion of colts will prove trotters and sell
for such.
You hear it said that horses plenty and may be
bought low and is true of Western horses and class
of common draft horses but let go out and at
tempt to buy good drivers not fast horses
not trotters but simply good road horses and it is hard
to find five years old He will be compelled to
go home without take four fve-year-old COLT and
at price from two to three hundred dollars.
Why is not this business better than Western
farming and one that would pay well for the investment
of capital? 1t is believe, undeveloped of
wealth, and not likely to be overdone; for other
country has the natural advantages that found in the
stock at hand the soil and climate, and the market at
ones door. Buyers here, continually
through the horse sections of the State picking up
promising colt old enough and often engaging
them ahead to be certain of getting them.
c. NJ. WINSLOW.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

The history Of the introduction, improvements and
of the Merno sheep Vermont is too long to be
reported here 1t is sufficient to say that they here
from Spain and found SOIL climate, and men suited
to take them and carry them forward to their greatest
perfection and in competition with the world Vermont
stands first III this class of stock and to-day finds market
for surplus stock throughout the great sheep raising
tons Of States and Territories, in Australia,
in South America, and is making attempt to build
up trade in Southern Africa. The price received for
this stock varies with the year and quality of the ami
mails but has hardly been low, for any length of
time, as to not pay fair return for rearing and some
times has commanded prices almost fabulous Many
fortunes have been madeand lost-n this business,
and whatever might be said to individual
failure, it is undoubtedly true that business, employ
ing anything like the capital, has brought
much money into the State has the Merino sheep.
This business is mainly confined to County in the
State, Addison, though breeders found scattered
through Rutland Windsor, and Orange Countless and
others. The engaged in breeding this stock
few in number and generally have followed the bust
for many years. and though this business might be
enlarged with profit, there comparatively few who
have taste for it, the lack somewhat of the
element of certainty Whatever may be lacking in the
way of steady and ready market in the thoroughbred
Merino, business is made good to the grower Of
No business in the State has enjoyed steady and
remunerave market this branch of sheep husbandry,
and the increasing demand of New England cities and
large towns for nice mutton is giving impetus to this
business that bids fair to restock all available lands
Much attention is being given to the raising of mutton
lambs that are ready for market in May and June Our
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
MAPLE SUGAR PRODUCTION.

OF the industries peculiarly adapted to Vermont per-
~ haps none takes the pre-emnent position occupied
by our production of maple sugar With small area
this product exceeds that of any other State. While
this is true it is also fact that this industry capable
of great extension, and instead of product of fifteen
million pounds it is easily possible to increase to twenty
five thirty million pounds or double our present pro.
ducon The manufacture of this product dates back to
the earliest settlement of State and few industries
present striking illustration of the improved
methods of the present compared with the past than
this The farmer of fifty ago boiling sap in
a five pail iron kettle hung upon pole over a fire of
green wood making fifteen to twenty pounds of inferior
sugar per day, tapping his trees with and catch
ing the sap in troughs dug from bass wood logs storing
his sap in old hogs heads barrels, and producing
combination of charcoal and sugar. Compared with the
sugar-maker of to-day with good sugar house. modern
evapoators, tin pine buckets with covers with storage
tubs clean and nice enough to set milk in producing from
hundred to two hundred pounds of sugar per day
for each evapoator used striking contrast between
the past and present is presented is often
1t is little wonder that people familiar with the methods
of thirty forty years ago should pronounce the fine
product of the present to be imitation article because
lacking in the high color and charcoal taste of former
days AS conducted at the present day. the manufacture
of maple sugar of the profitable industries of
the State The work at time when the farmer
has little else that lie do this product is being
sought for throughout the country article of luxury
and the best sells at good prices
The maple syrup honey usually sells at 70 cents to
SIPS per gallon, and nice tub sugar cakes at eight to
fifteen cents per pound The great obstacle for the Ver
mont sugar producer present the COM
petition of the aduerated and imitation maple sugar
with which the markets flooded Probably ten
pounds of socaed maple sugar and syrup is sold to
every pound of pure that is produced Chicago is said
to produce several times much maple sugar as Yer
mont most of which is labelled Pure Vermont syrup or
sugar This obstacle is being to some extent by
maple sugar exchange located at Brateboro which
handles only pure goods and by individual farmers who
have established trade for their own product. 1t is
coming to be generally pracced by consumers of maple
sugar to give their orders direct to producers in this
way be assured of pure article at a fair price The
farmers of Vermont have little to fear
ducton in this line Let them strive give the people of
the country who ask for the product of the maple SUI
perior article which, used will be sufficient to show
to the customer the difference between the pure and spur
iOus We're the people Of the country who IMAGINE them
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

lppy of cheap food enable us to raise daft hon ses
fd compete with the West use rule,
Pretty draft horse. Our farms do not require it, do
! require them to draw our produce to market
The production of trotters is risky it requires too
ge an outlay Of capital for the ordinary farmer, and
icy are OF little value for the ordinary work of life.
There is class of horses frequently found in Vermont
that could easily be produced from the foundation
ck of the State This would not only supply the
ny horse labor of the farmers but would, when fitted
market, find ready buyers at paying prices.
The horse that believe is in the best demand to day,
from which may be realized the profit is the So
led gentlemans driver light carriage horse They
st stand from l5d to l6 hands high, weigh from 1000
200 pounds, Of any dark color including sorrel or
hit chestnut, handsome shape and stylish looking able
trot in about four minutes and do it in bold
/, with rather high knee and hook action Horses of
class readily command good prices ranging from
ndred upwards, according to quality. The native
organ stock has all the above qualities except size,
ID it only needs little in selection, little
tier feeding when young, to increase largely the number
horses of this class
One great advantage in raising this class is that at
years old they may be put to work on the farm and
ade to pay their way until sold. While labor the
m might injure a trotter and prevent his winning
be by second or two, it in way units him for
ish road horse or lessons his ability to pull carriage
a spanking gait A few years ago there expert
ced difficulty in finding stations of good quality and
be to cross our bocky Morgan mares, but it is not
Eday and any farmer who has good mare sound kind
resolute, may easily find proper mate, at reason-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

highest market So would be with Vermont Condensed
Milk Her water and sweet pastures would mpart to this
product the unrvaed excellence favorable local conditions
give her Butter and cheese would to be the sole
of the dairy farmer The presence of condensed milk
factory at Montpelier for example, would add another string to
the bow of the that ceners here and the capital of
the State ought to lead the introduction OF this industry into
Vermont An old welestabhed and profitable industry else
where new to the soil should have been the first
noursh The article made here would carry in its
voucher that it the product of the best diaries
countrv NOT of
swill milk and sugar
There are only six condensed milk factories in this
country, and none of them is in New England They
situated large business centers where farming
lands are many times the price of Vermont farm lands
factory has, however, recently been started at Newport
Me- which, when completed will require 1000 quarts of
milk daily, the product of 1000 1t will also
give employment to 100 people.
Condensed milk is the product of pure milk reduced
to about one-sixth its natural bulk, preserved with
sugar and Theoretically sealed This product is used
largely ship board in the army, the frontiers and
in mining communities and by many families in cities
and large towns where pure milk is not easily obtanable
Now, Vermont with her unequaled natural advantages,
with her cheap lands and with her abundant capal-so
abundant that millions of her 'surplus' have been
dumped into all sorts of wild cat enterprises outside the
Satepesens every condition. every advantage for the
successful prosecution of this industry In the manuac
ture of condensed milk may be found the most advan-
ageous single factor in the solution of the question of
the profitable reclamation of her abandoned farms, her
farms that better adapted to pasage than to tage.
The value of the farms advertised in this work. would
questonaby be more than doubled by the building of
condensed milk factory within reasonable radius of
their locality
" There is a tide in the affairs of man,
Which, taken at the flood leads to fortune
Let Vermont embark this tide at it's flood and float
the farmer out of the shadows and mseres that bind
6 the voyage of his life.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
HORSES.

MERE is State that has greater natural advantages
i for the production of horses than Vermont De-
spite the haphazard and unbusinesske way has always
been managed she stands to day at the head for the pro-
ducon of servceabe driving horses and it would
for all farmers who have horses to raise few for the
/ market
There is something about the soil and climate that pro-
'duces naturally tough, hardy horse, of enduring
strength There is in the foundation stock of the State
of the best families of horses in the world There is
to-day and has been for years unsuppled demand for
the horses raising and at good prices There
lis less risk in the production Of this class than in any
ther. Considering all things, have not the abundant
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19
THE FISH AND GAME SUPPLY OF VERMONT

| | NlTED States Commissioner Mcdonald, having
- occasion to look into the leases of some Scotch
rivers, reported that the Tay alone rented for GAO 900
1t said that $4,000 of this represents rod privileges
While our fishing is in broad free, this state
ment illustrates to what extent fishermen will loosen their
purse strings for the enjoyment of this nvgoatng sport
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

nearness to market cheap lands and grasses are
advantages that ensure in this work. The OPP
portunity for extending this business is almost unlimited
Very many OF our cheap farms particularly adapt
ed to this business many instances pasture land is
too far away from the tage to be fitted for daryng or
too rough to be safe for young horses colts but abounds
in sweet and nutritious grasses that especially adapt them
to growing the finest mutton or the hardest sheep that
can be produced.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

selves to be eating maple sugar dependent upon the
naples for their supply every maple have would be
insufficient to furnish it. We may reasonably expect
that the people become better educated in this product
that the demand for the genuine will largely increase and
the business of producing maple sugar will enlarge and
become more profitable with each succeeding year.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-11
"oKANoGAN SMITH" IN TOWN.
He Comes to Look After Some Mining
Interest-His Varied Career.

Represa ntative Hiram T. Smith, of Okanoran
county. known throughout the state as ''Okano-
gan Smith" was a. the Occidental hotel yester-
day, having come b the city to attend to some
of his mining interests.
"Okauogan smith," who is now man of CO.
has led as varied life as any man on the Paci-
nc coast, for he has in time been printer, pub
Usher, politician, butcher, expressman, mer-
chant, legislator, farmer and miner Born in
Kennebec county, Maine, in 1879. ne has been
educated by the blaze of pitch pine knot in the
wilderness. When he was but years old his
fsmily emigrated 10 Iowa, ana in 1871 he went
back as far Illinois. Four years later he
moved TO Michigan. X WAS in the Office of the
famous old Detroit Free Press that he learned
the trade OF printer. Going 20 New York in
ISIS rs jouraeynsa printer he worked in the
COM osing-room OF the Tribune Horace
Greeley and Charles A. Dams were both on the
paper in those days" said he 'sOi1 Horace
used 10 send up the worst copy you ever saw
and know what L m talking about, for I've set
columns of IL"
When the gold fever broke out in 1919 Young
Smith came to California aud engaged il sew
eral newspaper ventures. He also took
a hand in the politics of the state
The excitement over the mines up the
Fraser river began in 1S5s, and Smith led the
party of pioneers who came to " hatcorn and went
on up to the diggings IN British Columbia.
Thir;y-one years ago be crossed from the Fraser
river over the Cascades into Washington terri
tory. and settled where he now lives, on Osoo-
yos lake. There be has been ktorskeeper and
he also has famous rsneh, on which he raises
magnificent fruit He has always taken an &C.
tive interest IN mining operations In okanogan
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-11
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The old established bank of seagalle, of Posen.
has returned all deposits and then suspended,
owing TO inability to pay cash debts
Herr Szamatilzski, confidential clerk of Herr
Wolff, head OF the banking firm OF Hirshfeld 4
Wolf, Berlin. has been arrested for conplieitv
IN the bank frauds.
The troubles between the French glass-blow.
ers and their employers. which arose a month
ago over question OF time and wages, has fin.
ally been settled By compromise
At Yermilion. S. D., Monday afternoon host
sank in the river with three drunken duck
hunters. II. Sibert and John Brinkman died
soon after being taken from the water
At OrangevIlle, Cal, Minnie Brandon and GINS
Brandon, who were poisoned by eating biscuit.
in which arsenic had been placed by mistake.
are in precarious condition, but still there o-a
hopes that they will recover The coroner,s
jury returned averdict that Brandon and mis-
wife were accidentally poisoned.
A fire broke out Tuesday in thu military bsr.
racks at Macon, in the department of saone-et.
Lore, and 1900 rifles were rendered entirely
useless and large quantity OF military stores
consumed.
The secretary of the navy has issued an order
requiring spirits OF turpentine, alcohol. vsrnish
and liquid dyes 10 be kept in metallic tsnks ON
the spar decks of naval vessels. and forhtddir,,
infiammable liquids or explosives, except those
permitted by the allowance books, to be brourht
aboard. The order is the result of the recent
explosion in the forehold OF the Atlanta.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-11
Mclean and Mcshane Go Free.

TACOMA, Nov. 10-tspecial.l 1.-The charges
here against N. H. Mclean, of Seattle, and
Joseph Mcshane, of this city, for timber land
frauds in connection with George Williams have
been dismissed by Court Commissioner Ayers
and the defendants discharged, on the ground
that there was not sufficient evidence to hold
them. 1t was evident that McShane, in writing
a letter for Williams soliciting illegal entries
upon timber lands, acted in the capacity Of q
clerk. However, 1t was upon this testimony
that Williams released on the preliminary
hearing. He then put up $3.50 cash bail for ap-
pearance on other charges, which, as reported
yesterday in the observation-disclosures, he has
forfeited for failure to appear. The general be-
lief is that he has fed to British Columbia
Mclean was arrested here and taken to Seattle.