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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-20
POTATO BLIGHTS AND THEIR
REMEDIES.
STATE AGRICULTURAL
EXPERIMENT STATION,

BURLINGTON, VT, June, lsn3.
bulletin M. 49, Newspaper Bulletin No. 81
This experiment station sent out last
month a card bulletin on potato blight
and rot illustrated by photograph
showing the gain from spraying. Asex
planned on that card and in our forme
bulletins we have had for several years
large gains in our potato crop from two
or three applications of bordeaux mix
ture. We make this mixture as follows;
BORDEAUX MHTURE.-Five pounds Of blue
vitriol pounds Of fresh lime, 10 gallons q bar
rel) Of water
Dissolve the blue vitriol in clean
wooden tub or a brass kettle, slack the
lime and dilute to thin whitewash,
then strain through coarse sieve into
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-20
MAINE CENTRAL R. R,
ugh the White Mountains

Through the White Mountains
To Lancaster, Colebrook, North Conway,
Boston, Portland, Lewiston, Bangor, Bar
Harbor and st. John.
On and after Tune 25, 1898,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-20

2. Attacks medium
an d late potatoes.
Worst in August.
8. Progresses very
rapidly, and only dur
in G m OF st, warm
weather.
4. Shows anywhere
upon the leaf, general
ly as a single spot
which rapidly spreads
over the whole leaf.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-20
A very good Mating at
An extraordinary bargain at

Perhaps it will be to your advantage to call and inspect these
goods as we very stocked with all Of the cheap medium and
high grade Japanese and China Mangs Seamless Mattngs M
Mattings, Cotton and Jute Warp Mattngs.
We also invite especial attention to immense display
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-20

8. Owing to rapid
progress and wet
weather the diseased
leaf does not usually
have time to dry and
curl until the entire
leaf is dead.
6. Caused by the fun
gus Phytophthora in
festans.
I. Which can often
be seen as a delicate
frostlike mildew.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1893-07-20

8. Disease passes
from leaves to tubers,
causing rot"
Q. The loss is there
fore twofold: (a) Pre-
mature death of vines.
(b) Rotting of tubers.
10. Both blight Of
tops and rot of tubers
can be prevented by
two or three applica-
tons Of bordeaux mix
ture, beginning gener-
ally the latter part Of
July.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
ANOTHER MAN GONE AsTRAY.
A Teller OF the First National Bank
of that City Bids Adieu


The Roanoke Times of last Friday
says: "a defalcation of the funds of the
First National Bank of this city came to
light on Thursday night, but the inyes-
tigation showed no cause for alarm as to
the condition of the strong institution.
The examining committee, composed OF
Messrs. II. s. Trout, P. L. Terry. II. M.
DarneiI, W, G.. Evans and j. III. Gimbill,
made the discovery as a result OF their
constant efforts of watchfulness over the
affairs of the bank. Their examination
showed that the paying teller OF the
bank, H. f. Loving was short in his ac-
counts 81 ,055.75.
Thursday night Mr.. Trout, the presi-
dent of the bank, had conversation
with Mr. Loving and told him he was
suspected of the defalcation, but he was
given until morning to account for the
shortage. Loving was seen on the streets
that night at different hours and is
thought to have borrowed several sums
of money with which to defray his ex-
penses out of the city and country. He
is known to have borrowed $50 from a
friend, an employee of another national
bank
He did not appear at the First National
at the usual hour on Saturday morning
and cannot be found in the city. 1t is
evident that he left Roanoke some time
Thursday night. The time he departed
and the direction he went is unknown"
The way of the transgressor is hard,
and be assured your sins will find you
ont
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19

After trying many remedies for catarrh
during past twelve years, l tried Ely's
Cream Balm with complete success. 1t
is over one year since stopped using it
and haven't had return of catarrh /
recommended 1t to all my friends
Milton Z. Palm, Reading, Pa.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
Chicago and the Worlds Fair.

Yesterday at tile Worlds Columbian
Exhibition was dedicated to Chicago
and the residents of the city joined with
the visitors to swell the crowd in jack
son Park to enormous prop portions.
Like Pennsylvania Day at the centen-
NAL, Chicago Day at the Columbian
Fair will record the highest point OF
popular success attained by an interna-
tional exhibition.
1t is proper that the name Of Chjca-
go should be associated thus with the
history of this wonderful display, for
the achievement is in very large meas
ure due to the energy and capacity OF
that great city. The State of Illinois
has not that well-knit strength that in
pennsylvania makes even her metropo-
IS only part of one great Common
>ealth Chicago, in the wonderful ra-
pidity of it's growth, has not struck its
roots SO deep into history as has Phil
adelphia, or even New York. 1t is
city almost without history, and yet
with an Astounding strength and Will
ity that have surpassed all precedent
and that have enabled it to do, in the
present undertaking, what no other city
could have done SO well.
And yet, while we give all this honor
to Chicago, it is important to remark
that Chicago, with all her splendid self
confidence, did not achieve this great
result by any narrow reliance on her
own resources. Ifshe had not the full
cooperation of other cities it was not
because she did not seek it, and while
certain local advantages, with local lib
erality and energy, contributed greatly
to the result, the real splendor of the
achievement is due to the broad and far
sighted policy that reached out over the
whole country to engage the services OF
the ablest men and thus to make this
Fair an example of the highest aspira-
ton and attainment of all that is nobiest
and best in American art and civiliza-
ton.
The greatest value of this Worlds
Fair has been in the broader expansion
it has given to the popular conception
of the beauty and dignity of life, and
| connected with this is its demonstration
that the highest results, not alone in
practical organization, but in intellect
ual and aesthetic attainment, are within
| the reach of any American community
that can bring itself to subordinate all
pretty selfish interests in a united effort
toward lofty ideal. In this way Chi
cago-big, crude, aggressive, money
seeking town as it is-has set an exam
pie to the whole UEited States, and we
may cheerfully accord her the high but
we'll earned honor of writing her name
on the first page of the history of this
glorious Worlds Fair.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
INDUSTRIES REvIvING.
Wheeling's Iron. Glass, and Plotting
Works Will Soon be Humming.

Wheeling's Iron. Glass, and Plotting
Works Will Soon be Humming.
WHEELING, w. Va, Oct. 17.-The Bel
mont Nail Works, a part of the Wheel
ing Iron and Steel Company, started up
after an idleness of five months and a
partial idleness of a year. This will give
employment to over 500 men. The Bes.
semer Furnace Of the same concern, will
resume within a few weeks. It was
closed last July, and since then has been
practically rebuilt and its capacity in
creased nearly one half.
The action of P. r. Chambers, of the
Window glass Trust, in resigning his po-
sition and withdrawing his factory from
the compact, insures that the window
glass factories In Bellaire will go to work
within few weeks, almost at the old
rates and terms thing the Union has
been fighting for since last June.
The pottery industry of Wheeling has
200 more men at work than last week,
and many more will find employment
this week. The industrial situation az
a whole is improving rapidly.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
SENATORS BREAKING AWAY.
Republicans Growing Tired of the
Deadlock at Washington.

WARRINGTON, Oct. 16.-The difficulty
in maintaining q quorum in the Senate
is likely to increase during the week.
Senator Hale left Saturday afternoon
for home, saying that after being here
for ten weeks, he believed unconditional
repeal was impossible, and that if a com
promise was to be adopted he would
not be needed. Senator Allison, who is
DESTROYS for participating in the Iowa
campaign, has decided to remain here
until Tuesday in the hope that by time
some compromise proposition will be
framed; bnt after that date, if his expec-
tations are not realized, he may leave
the city any day. Other Republican
Senators, among them Mr.. Lodge, are
very anxious to get away, but hope to
see something done this week. Many
Senators are DESTROYS of seeing the Fair
before it closes, and this fact will have
its bearing on the proceedings.
The above is from the Evening Tele-
gram. of Philadelphia. We expect all
Of them wish they weLe at home or some
where else. They remind US of the fell
low who wanted some one to help him
let the bear loose.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
Americans Foreign Trade.


One of the undeniable proofs that
American foreign trade is growing and
that it is profitable to be found in the
fact that the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Pack
ct Company is about to add five new
ships of large tonnage to its equipment.
The proposed vessels will be placed upon
the line coming regularly to Baltimore
and they will carry part of the increas-
ing volume of grain and other food
products going from this port to Eu-
rope.
The company above mentioned al
ready owns fleet of fifty four steam
vessels, and its aggregate tonnage is ex-
celed by only one other ocean>carrying
corporation The ships of both these
companies sail into every sea, but par
ticularly to American ports, and they
are enriching their owners on every
voyane.
In this vast tonnage of European ships
and in the ability of the managers to
continually add to their facilities there
is a lesson for Americans to ponder deep
ly 1t is not creditable to the'enterprise
of our people that the foreign trade
should be carried almost exclusively in
in British or German ships. Capital
lists of the United States have built up
some of the mightiest railway systems
on the planet. There is no lack OF
money and none of managerial ability,
and no good reason exist why American
steamships should not enter the field
and drive out some of the European
vessels which come regularly to our
shores.
This certainly is the next step which
the business men of this country should
take in order to promote the CONNER
cial interests of the Atlantic seaboard.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19

The reports from Brazil continue as
contradictory as the claims and charges
OF opposing parties of our own country
at election times. The revolutionists
view with alarm the usurpations of
President Peixoto. who in turn points
with pride to the evidences of his ability
to maintain the so-called Brazilian Re-
publican in the face of all the revolu-
tionists OF Christendom. Some inside
facts about the real condition in Brazil
would DE worth reading just now. The
public is getting tired of bulletins and
dispatches about Brazilian affairs that
fail to tell anything that can be cred
tied.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
RANDOLPH MACON ACADEMY

EE5OIN - E1O z AL, Va.
Healthfuly situated among the mountains:pure
air and water. Prepares Boys and Young Men
for College or Business life. 4 selected corps of
teachers. Thorough mental training Physical
healthfulness Moral and religious Influence
Full equipment. Moderate charges Second
session begins SEPT. 18th, 1888, ana continues
for nine calendar months Send for full partic-
ulars, to REV. B. W. BOND, Prin., Front Royal,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

J iMOANA L N L 1NAL l.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHAS. 7. O'FERRALL,
of Rockindham.
L1EUTEN ANT-GovERNoR,
ROBERT c. KENT,
of Wythe.
ATToRNEY-GENERAI
R. TAYLOR SCOTT,
of Fauquier.
DISTRICT TICKET.
FOR STATE SENATOR,
c. P. JONES,
of Highland County.
FOR HOUSE OF DELEGATES,
A. F. WITHROW,
of Bath County.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
Appointments by Internal Revenue
Collector Shepherd

We have given the list of office clerks
and deputies appointed by Capt. Ham
ahepperd. The following is the list of
the other officers appointed in this con-
gressional district:
General Store Keeper and Gauger-
Jacob Bumgardner, of Staunton.
Storekeepers and Gaugers-Samuel
Goode, OF Augusta, VIM. F. Snapp Of
Staunton. John s. Keer of Augusta, j.
J. Flavin of Basic City, B. B. Kunkle
of Augusta, JOS NJ. West of Augusta,
W. R. Newman of Staunton, Thos. s.
Williams, of Amherst, H. H. Teaford
of Rockbridge, s. M. Hudson of Am
herst, Jno. A Disper of Botetourt, W.
n. Lackey of Buena Vista, JAS Morrison
Of Rockbridge. w. E. Witt Of Lexington
Marion Lindsay of Rockbridge, and E.
A. Snider of Rotetourt.
Brandy Gauger-David w. Drake OF
Augusta.
The Deputy Collector for Botetourt,
Bedford, Roanoke and Craig is s.
Fletcher Clement of Salem.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19

Some long-lived hard workers adorn
the closing period of this brilliant CEN
fury and none more interesting than
Ferdinand de Lesseps. No other of the
public men in either Europe or America
passes Lesseps, whose age is SO, more
than three score years Of which he has
been in official place of some kind, some
of the yesrs bearing the record of vast
responsibility. Gladstone will be 81 next
December, three score years of which
have been devoted to public service.
Senator Justin s. Morrill,, born in 1910
and for half century in public life,
represents the American period. After
Morrill, comes Bismarck, born in 1915
and for more than fifty years the cen
trail figure of German history. Canal
building and national building have
shaped and rounded out many destinies
since the great men were born.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19

All men do not see alike, or at least
this will be the conclusion after con-
trasting the reports of Col. J. R. Miller's
speech, as given by other editors in the
State with that of the Allegheny Senti
mel. Probably the Colonel was not well
at himself at Covington. It seems from
the press notices, his speeches were good
in Norfolk, Richmond and at all other
places where he made speeches and we
know, while we may not agree with him
IN all ne said, that it was strong, logic
and entertaining when delivered here.
Brother, were you not suffering from in
digestions
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
Points from the Papers.

1t is interesting to learn that fifty
piano manufactures have won first prizes
at the Columbian Exhibition.-Com
nsercial AdUertiser.
No one will be bold enough to deny
the statement that this is an extraor-
binary session of Congress. baltimore
american.
The horny handed sons of toll have to
support too many horny-footed sons of
Incidence Nes0S.
Twenty eight cents more money per-
capita is in circulation now than last
month. We haven't received ours yet
Chicago Dispatch.
The Pennsylvania Republicans may
yet force Senator Cameron and Wharton
Barker into the Populist camp.-M.
Louis Globe Democrat.
1t is proposed to organize national
party with free silver as it's one issue.
A free beer party would contain more
press.
Jacson says it is lucy man who can
discriminate between a barber shop and
hack stand.-EJmirG Gazette.
The Great American Pocketbook is
going to have big job getting on its
feet between the going of the Worlds
Fair and the coming of the holidays
Buffalo Courier.
The Cup. II am thoroughly natural
lied and shall stay here. n-Neao York
Recorder.
The European war cloud needs only
the exposition of few bombs by some
reign-maker to bring on the deluge.-
Chicago Tribune.
9 The Hawaiian election ought to fur
nish employment to a number of expe-
rienced ballot-box suffers and tally
sheet forgers.- Washington Post.
Emma Goldman is victim to an un-
governable appetite for cheap martyr
dom. Washington Stasr.
Soup kitchens are not the sort of in
situations of which country need feel
much pride, but they fill an aching
void.-SaOGnsea Gazette.
A female with cigarette tainted
breath is about as kissable an object as
an aged he goat Chicago Herald.
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
Short, But Pointed.

1t cost Ireland last year ten millions
dollars more for intoxicating liquors
than for rent.
In 1892 New York City paid for its
school bill, $4,000, 600; for its amusement
bill, $7,o00,0Oo, and for its drink bill,
S60,000,000.
The food of 100000 people is annu
nally destroyed in Great Britain in the
production of drink, and yet there are
multitudes starving.
The farms of the United States in 1880
were valued at $10,197 O96. 776. The
LIQUOR money of the nation would buy
them all in less than twelve years.
Baron Liebig, the German chemist,
says that as much -four as will lie on the
point Of table knife contains as much
nutritive constituents as eight pints of
the best beer made.
In Chicago, in one year, 200 children
under sixteen years of age were brought
before the police court. Saloon-keepers
had caused tickets to be distributed
among the children which entitled them
to free drinks, and prizes were offered
for the ones who drank the most. The
first prize was pistol, the second "The
Life of Jessie James, train robber.
Careful statisticians estimate that at
least $150,00O,0OO of property is destroy
ed each year by fire. If we add to this
the cost of maintaining fire departments
and the insurance we have total of
$950,0O0,000. This is great loss, surely,
when compared with the annual waste
through liquor it is small one. We
spend for drink each year four times
this amount, while the moral, physical
and spiritual ruin is beyond estimate.
We fight fire, but protect and foster the
s'hell fire. which is sold In our legalized
saloons
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
ITCHING HuMoRs
itching Skin for Years

~ My disease psoriasis) com.
1zE menced on my head. Spread rap
idly all over my body, got under
my nails. Scales would drop all
@f&xA the time, suffering endless, and
HS without relief. cannot praise
the CUTICURA REMEDIES too
much. Have made my skin as clear from
scales as baby's. All used was S. worth.
DENNIS DOWNING, Waterbury, Vt,
The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-10-19
Appointed Consul to Bermuda.

The President has appointed Hon.
Marshall Hanger of Staunton, to be
consul at Bermuda. Maj. Hanger is a
member of the Staunton bar, is bach
elor of middle age, of fine presence, and
belongs to one of the Oldest families in
Augusta, of which county he is native.
He is a graduate ofthe University of
Virginia, was for several terms Speaker
of the Virginia House of Delegates, and
has enjoyed the honor of being chosen
chairman of the two largest State DEM
ocratic conventions that ever assembled
in the State. In the civil war he was
an officer on the staff of Gen. j. E. b.
Stuart. He is gentlemen of the high
est standing.and possesses the confidence
of the citizens of the country and of
Staunton to an unusual degree. So
highly is he esteemed in the country,
that before he received his present ap>
pointment he had been unanimously
recommended by the Board of Super
visors of the county for the position of
County Judge, vacated by the death of
Judge Stout. He has always stood on
a high plane in politics. and was not Il
candidate for the position of Judge nor
for that to which he has just been ap>
pointed by the President without any
solicitation on his part. The Richmond
Dispatch noticing the appointment.
says:
Virginia has gotten another consular
appointment This time the lucky man
is the Hon. Marshall Hanger of Augusta
county, and his post is on the island of
Bermuda, and his salary So, 900 per an
mum. Notwithstanding the fact that
Shakespeare speaks of ''the vexed Ber-
moothes" the island and the sea about
it are both peaceful enough in these
days. The number of resident on the
island is small, but there is always
British garrison there, and the island is
much frequented by English and Amer
lean tourists in search of a mild winter
climate, and, altogether, the society is
delightful. In this society we expect
Mayor Hanger to shine as he shone in
the speakers chair of the House of Del
egates of Virginia, where for several
terms he presided with grace and
ability seldom equalled.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-06
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PERSONAL POINTS.
From ono rerra AIla oraclo.

From tho Terra Alta Oracle.
Rev. L. II. Faulkner, OF Aurora,
left here on Monday evening for
New York City.
Our old friend, Daniel Albright,
carries smile yard wide and two
feet deep since the birth of son on
last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Collard have
now definitely concluded to return
to England. where they will make
their permanent homo. They will
leave here on July 9th.
Mr.. Judson Freeland has sold
his interest in the livery business to
Mr.. Smith Kelly. of Valley Point,
and the stables will now be run
under the firm name of Kelly & Son.
Mr.. Sherman Trowbrldge, of
Fort Leavensworth, Kansas, is
stopping for a few days at the
Washington House. While out
fishing Saturday he lost his pocket
book, containing some $50 and a
number of valuable papers.
ST Summers, the veteran snake
killer of Shaggy, has killed quite u
number Of rattlers and black snakes
this season, and no doubt by the
time snow falls the number Will
have increased to three figures. 81
does a great deal of good in his
warfare against these reptiles. Can
it be said that he is "mis-snaken"
in his calling?
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-06
MR.. CLEVELAND AS A pUxsTER

r. j.. Edwards, writing to the
Philadelphia. Press concerning the
famous Victoria Hotel dinner last
fall at which Mr.. Cleveland refused
to make terms with Tammany and
deficd its leaders, says that in the
course of the conversation over tn L
dinner, Lieutenant Governor Shoe
han turned to Edward Murphy,
now United States Senator, and
asked him what he had to say
respecting those things which he
thought Mr.. Cleveland ought to
promise. But Murphy was silent.
and then Cleveland, speaking mn.
SAID ooh, We all know what
Murphy wants all that he wants
to do is to get into the United
States Senate and to get Hiscock
out. Then New York will he rep
resented in the Senate by very small
potatoes, two in hill" And hay-
ing delivered himself of this pun,
Cleveland laughed heartily, while
Mnrphy's face flushed scarlet and
Sheohan was black with anger over
what ne regarded as an insult to
two OF his nearest friends. There
IS no doubt that this remark was
made by Cleveland, and the anti
snapper faction are now repeating
1t as justification for their assertions
that Mr.. Cleveland repudiatcd and
treated with contempt those men
who met him at that dinner table.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1893-07-06
WEST VIRGINIA COKE.

Arrangements have been made
between the Illinois Steel Company.
OF Chicago, one of the largest con
Germs IN the country, and three
coke firms on the Norfolk and Wes-
tern Railroad, by which the Illinois
Steel Company will use their coke
exclusively for one year. This
indicates that the value of West
Virginia coke is becoming known
and its superiority over tho Con-
nellsyille coke is being recognized.
Fiat Top coke IS superior to the
Connellsville coke III the percentage
Of ash, The West Virginia coke con
tanning only from two 70 three per
cent Of ash, while tho Pennsylvania
coke contains ten per cent. Our
coke is superior to the pennsylvauia
coke from tho fact that IL contains
hardly a trace Of sulphur, while the
sulphur in the Conceivable coke
has been one Of it's most serious
drawbacks. Allthat West Virginia
coke needs or asks is fair test. 49,
Charleston Gazetto.