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Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
NEWsY GLEANINGS.

PErpoLEuM has been struck at Neodcsha,
Kansas.
THERE are said to be &C, 900 homeless wan
derers in London.
FEMININE colored dentist has come to
the front in Texas.
TIE population OF Italy is 207 per square
mile; OF Germany 240 of France, a0
OSE-rH1RD OF the California fruit ranches
are either owned or managed by women
ABOUT s25 0O0, 900 is spent every year in
connection with the last ohsequies OF the
dead.
LIGHTNING recently struck the British ship
Oxford off Cape Hatteras and ruined every
compass on board.
A UMArrLLA Gore. reservation farmer has
1000 acres of vSleat that Is growing forty
bushels to the acre.
AT Dauphine, France, an ancient tomb has
been unearthed which contained human
skeleton twenty-five and a half feet long.
AMONG the odd patents of recent invention
is one for a harness covered with phosphor-
escent paint which makes 1t luminous at
night.
AMONG the vigorous swimmers at Old Or
chard Beach this summer were two ladies,
aged sixty-eight and seventy-one years re-
spectively.
LIGHTNING struck a tree In Fitchburg
Mass. the other day and laid open cavity
filed with choice honey. But not bee, dead
or alive, was visible.
CONGRESS of tramps met at Whiting, Ind,
and adopted the title of the Fraternity OF
Tramps." Many speeches were made dis
cussing the condition Of the country.
A COTTON boil, containing the unusual
number of twenty-six pods, is claimed to be
in the possession of James r. Williams, OF
villa Rica Ga. Four pods are generally all
that are found In each boil.
THE recent cyclone wrought havoc with all
electric wires and one man was killed at
Philadelphia, another at Camden, N. j.,
third at Baltimore and a fourth at Sa-
vannah by contact with live wires
A RETURN of persons who voted as Hitter
ate at the last general election In England
number of ignorant electors In England and
Wales was 46, ,109; in Scotland, 4577, and in
Ireland, 64,919.
DURING six consecutive weeks the mortal
fty of youns children In the thirty-one chief
towns of Egypt was nearly eighty per cent.
OF the birth rate (783 per 10000. The greater
part of the mortality is ascrlbed to poisoning
by impure water.
The value OF farming lands in this coun-
try is greatest in New Jersey. In 1888 It av-
eraged: New Jersey, S65; Massachusetts,
$50; Ohio, $46; New York, S44 Vermont,
S36 Maryland, s32; Wisconsin, s23, and In
some Western States less than S5 per acre.
ORDERS were issued from the Treasury
Department to have all the Hfe-saving sta
tions on the Atlantic coast manned Septem-
Der 1st and continue manned until April 30th,
1894 To man the 18t ufe-saving stations on
this coast will require 1860 men, The keeper
by law receives 5000 per annum and the men
S65 per month during the winter season.
From May 1st to August 31st the keepers re-
main on duty, and the men are paid S3 per
day when employed.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
WELCOMED TO WASHINGTON.
President Cleveland Opens the Pam
American Medical Congress.

President Cleveland Opens the Pam
American Medical Congress.
About 1000 doctors from all parts OF Ameri-
eall countries and colonies were in attend
anee q; the opening of the Pan-American
Medical Congress, held in Albaugh's Opera
House. Washington. Dr. William Pepper
Provost and Professor of Medicine at the
University OF Pennsylvania, was President of
the Congress. The delegates assembled
upon the invitation OF the American Medical
Association, seconded by an invitation from
the President ofthe United States, authorized
By joint resolution OF Congress. All of the
countries except Chile and the Argentine
Republic were represented. President Cleve-
land opened the Congress in the following
address
Tine part assigned me on this occasion
admits Of few words. 1t, however, affords
the opportunity to show how pleased am to
be in any way related to an assemblage such
rs this. called together in furtherance of the
highest and noblest purposes and desires.
Il hope / may also be permitted to add
that the protection OF the public health and
the prevention of contagious diseases are OBJ
jeets properly brought under consideration
at the capital of Nation which appreciates
fully the serious Importance OF everything
which aides in making intercourse between
civilized countries and commerce between
them safe and easy. (Applause.)
IT is also fitting that those who devote
themselves to saving human life and the alIe-
Walton OF human suffering sho.:d consider
the modes of reaching these ..eneyolent ends
at the seat of a Government whose greatest
regar is the welfare and happiness OF the
individual citizen. (Appiause.) It only re-
mains for me to declare this Congress OF the
Pan-A american Medical Society open for the
transaction OF business when has called it
together
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
NEW Y0RK'S DAY.
The Empire State Celebrates at the
Chicago Fair.

The Empire state CcIcDfateS at tHo
Chicago Fair.
Words OF praise for the Chicago Fair and
of New York's interest in the Exposition were
spoken by Chauncey NJ. Depew and Cover
nor Flower in the Empire State Building.
The occasion was the celebration OF New
York day at the Fair The exercises began
with the formal ceremony at IL o'clock. and
ended late at night with banquet and iu-
formal ball in honor OF the Governor and
the distinguished persons who accompanied
him to Chicago.
At no State fete given on tho Worlds Fair
grounds have there been 50 many distin-
guished representatives OF the State in at
tendance. There was Governor Flower and
his staff. the members all brilliantly attired
in uniforms Chauncey M. Depew, Mayor
Gilroy. of New York, and his eleven children.
Lieutenant Governor Sheehan, Congressman
Bourke Cochran and a host OF State and city
officials, politicians and prominent citizens.
The address of welcome was made by Mr..
Depew who spoke on behalf of the Board OF
General Managers. He praised the Fair and
Chicago, not forgetting his native State.
Governor Flower responded at length. The
Governor was followed by Director-General
Davis after which Joseph O'Connor. OF the
Rochester On. Y.) Post Express, read an or
iginal poem At the conclusion of the exer-
cises Governor Flower held public recap
tion, which was very largely attended.
AT O'Clock p. M, the Board of Lady
Managers entertained Governor Flower and
staff at tea, when handsome silk State flag
was presented to the Governor
The great event of the day, however, was
the reception in the evening given to the
Governor by the New York managers. For
this occasion the magnificent State Building
was gorgeously illuminated n. according aS to to
design furnished by Pain. There
were 1000 invitations. In the illumina-
tions the columns were lined with
green fairy lamps. the windows with
amber, the coping with red, white and blue,
and above this was @ string of ruby lamps.
Japanese lanterns were strung from the
gable ends to the earth, snd the exterior
lawns flower beds, and trees were richly
decorated There were 10000 lamps on the
building, the largest number OF lights ever
placed on building of this size.
There was also a grand display OF fire
works, the most brilliant pyrotechnical dis
play yet given at the Fair The aerial effects
were particularly gorgeous and elaborate.
The special set pieces were the facade OF
the New York State Building and portrait
of Governor Flower.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09

The National Encampment parade OF the
G.. A. R. veterans at indianapolis brought
crowd of not less than 200, ,0G0 persons into
the city The parade began at II O'Clock in
the morning and the last post passed the re-
viewing stand at 4.15 o'clock in the after
noon Allowance, however, must be made for
an boGr delay about noon. The parade, as
ARRANGED, provided for hundreds OF the vet
erans who did not take part because of the
long distance they would have to march in
the heat and dust. The veterans who did
not march were as many as those who did !;
and the number of marchers, on
a conservative estimate, was from 20,-
900 to 25, 0OO Among the notable persons in
the line were General J. Warren Keifer, of
Ohio; General Lew Wallace, who marched
with the Mcpherson Post of Charlottesville !;
General Wilder, OF the famous WilderS
Brigade, and Past Commanders r. B. Beath,
Wagner, Kountz, Vandervoort and Palmer.
1t was veritable double Chinese wall of
humanity through which the old soldiers
passed in the three miles from start to fin
ish Along the entire route the spectators
were massed from the ropes next to the
building line. spreading over lawns, filling
windows and porticos of residences and
business blocks alike and in many cases pre-
emptin. the roof. There was no lack of en-
thusias.n ard the special features OF the
parade were cheered to the echo from square
to square.
Numerous stands were erected at points
along the route, the official reviewing stand
being placed on the grounds of the court
house on East Washington. From here the
veterans were reviewed by Conmander-in-
Chief Weissert.
Ex-president Harrison stood on his right,
and Generals Lucius Fairchild, OF Wiscon-
sin. an Law Wallace, both of whom marched
In line until the stand was reached, on his
left. Each veteran saluted the Commander
in-Chief andthe ex-President as they passed.
'rhe sessions of the Fncampment began on
the following day, and continued for three
liays.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
RECOVERY TO BE RAPID.

Comptroller Eckels Says the Finan-
cial Trouble is Over.
Comptroller Eekles of the United States
Treasury Department, says in an interview:
s.I believe the recovery from the financial
depression will be more rapid than the peo-
pie have ever witnessed before. Conditions
are favorable all over the country. There
were seventy-two bank failures in July and
only thirty-two in August. The first week
in July we had thirty-one banks to close the
first week in August there we're but thirteen
and the last week in August we had only
one. During the past two weeks fifty-two
banks have resumed business, and of the
others in the hands of the Bank Examiners
ninety per cent. will reopen their doors.
There has been a net increase OF $40, 900, 900
in the circulation of National bank notes
during the depression.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
The Election of Omcers.

At the business meeting ofthe Grand Army
National Encampment in Indianapolis John
G. B. adams, of Lander Post, Lynn, Mass,
was elected Commander in Chief by acclama-
ton. s. Fl. Hurts, of Ohio, withdrew at the
last moment and moved the election of Mr.
Adams. Colonel I. n. Walker, of Indian
apoiis. had no opposition for Senior Vice
Commander and J. G. Bigger, of Texas, was
elected Junior Vice-Commander by acclama-
tion.
Ex-President Harrison addressed the MEM
bers of his old regiment, the Seventieth In
diana. and shook hands with all his COM
rades. He was unanimously reelected
President of the regimental association. He
presided at the camp fire in Tomlinson's s
Hall and made a speech.
The next National Encampment will be
held in Pittsburg
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
A MONTH AT THE MINTS.
The Amount of Coinage Executed
During August.

Out of s5, ,12c, 600 worth of coinage execut-
ed at the mints OF the United States during
August $4,340, 800 was gold, as follows
Double eagles, $2,5oo,0oO; eagles, 81 ,267,-
400 half eagles, S573, 400.
The silver coin amounted to 1910, ,0OG
pieces of the value of S674, 900, in half and
quarter dollars and dimes. No standard
silver dollars were coined
Nickels were coined to the amount of $84,-
900 and pennies to the amount OF $20, 900.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
A CAPITAL OF $4,000, 900.
Consolidation of the Lake Superior
Iron-Mining Industries.

The iron-mining industries of the Lake
Superior district have been consolidated
under the name of the Lake Superior Con-
solidated Iron Mines, including the control
OF more than dozen of the Mesaba Range
mines. at valuation of SIT 900, ,000 I; the
Duluth, Mesaba and Northern Railroad and
its docks in Duluth valued at 30 00O, 900 the
Rockefeller interests in the Colby mines in
Michigan, and the control OF feet of yes-
sells ON the lakes. To these is added the con-
Cuba.
The corporation claims control OF nine
tenths Of fhe productive mining capacity o.
Bessemer ores in the United States. It is
capitalized ct $3O, ,O00, 900. Among the chief
members Of the syndicate are John D. Rookie
feller, OF the Standard Oil Company, and
William G. Whitney.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
THE MARKETS.

Late Wholesale Prices of Country
Produce Quoted in New York.
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09

CONSIDERABLE excitement prevailed re-.
Gently at the Locust Gap (Penn.) colliery
owing to the discovery Of two girls in male
attire working among the slate pickers.
Their sex was divulged by a boy associate,
and in few minutes the employees ia all
parts of the mill were aware of the fact. The
girls were Immediately discharged and taken
tc their homes, where it was learned that
they were sent to the colliery to work, owing
to their inability to secure other employment
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
SUFFOCATED IN A HOTEL.
Four Young Women Meet an UntimeIy
Fate

The hotel In Salmbach, hamlet in the
Wurtemberg Germany Black Forest, was
burned early the other morning Sixty
young women from cities OF Baden, who
were passing their holidays in Saimbach.
were in the house when the fire broke out.
Most OF them were aroused by the town
watchman in time to escape down the stairs
A few saved themselves by jumping from the
second story windows. Four were suffocated
in their rooms, and their dead bodies were
found in the ruins,
Passaic City record., 1893-09-09

On Saturdays, until September so, 1893
Special Train leaves Esd St. I.2s p. m.
and Chambers ST. I.4o p. m. stopping at
Rutherford Passaic and Paterson.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-04-26
A Marvellous Discovery Free.

Superhuous hair removed permanently
instantaneously, without pain, by Elec-
tro Chemical Fluid. In order to prove
superiority, we will for next 90 days send
sample bottle and testimonials free, on
receipt of nineteen cents to pay postage
ELECTRO-CHEMIC.AL Co., 25 East
18th Street, New York.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-04-26

preference to any. We will find that it
benefits our peaches and everything else
just as we'll as our grapes. The Black
Hamburg has matured here for me, but
in this State it is not a common thing
for it to mature.
TABER. 1t natures vines in about two
years for me, and then | take them up
and replant them.
STEWART. I think | have about forty
varieties, and think out of them there
is not over seven or eight that is worth
mentioning or worth the ground to set
them on. The Black Hamburg is no
good for this locality.
CHANDLER. That is right.
FIGS.
PROF. SwINGLE. | would like to ask II
anyone in F oridA has tried the capri
flying fig. 1t is grown very largely in
California and Asia.
BRADT. tried one of the cuttings and
did not succeed in making it leaf.
CHANDLER. I would like to ask if
there is any variety If figs that is raised
here that is of any practical use for dry
ing or for that purpose?
TABER. [ have very little to say more
than said last year. There are some
varieties that do very we'll, but some in
some sections of Florida that do not
seem to do much good. AS to the value
for drying do not know that anyone
has entered into it very extensively, and
| would not advise them to do it very
much. knew of one man who under
took to do it and he planted large field,
twenty acres, and went North to buy
machinery, etc., and find prices, and he
came back and dug up his orchard. |
do not know of anyone who has tried it
here. There are two or three very good
varieties. The Brunswick, the Lemon,
and the Celestial are good. Those are
three that will grow wherever figs will
grow. Right out at Col. Harvey's place
| saw some beautiful figs. Some re-
marked that they thought they had seen
as fine figs in Charleston. My impress
sion is that on the high sandy land they
do not do as we'll as on our clay sub-soil.
HARVEY. | have experimental both
with the drying and preserving of the
fig. [ have lost some of the handsomest
trees I had on my place after they got
three or four inches in diameter by our
late freezes. There are several varieties
that we cannot do anything with at all.
The Celestial is the best one. Then we
have one called the Italian that is white
and never gets colored at all. 1t is a
very good fig and makes very good
preserve, but the trees are very slow to
grow. With the two or three other va
rieties all you have to do is to set them
along by the fence and they will grow.
I have some trees that are eighteen feet
in diameter at the top.
The difficulty I find with the fig is
that it is fruit that you cannot ship as
you take it from the tree. It will not
stand any transportation. Then the
question comes up Of drying. [ do not
b4lieve that we will see any of them a
success in Florida from the fact that the
labor is worth too much. The difficulty
of gathering them on the trees is the
matter | stumble on.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-04-26

TABER. move that we proceed to the
next subject.
STEWART, of Santa Rosa. was in
hopes that this subject would be
laid over, but now as it is up wish
TO say O. few words to answer some Of the
questions that have been asked here. L
prefer clay sub-soil if it is two and a
half feet deep. | do not want it closer
than that. From Green Brier, Ohio, to
Dunkirk, New York, you can traverse
that section and as far as you can see
there is nothing but grapes. You will
find that there they have a clay sub-soil
within two and half feet of the surface
and those vines stand there for years.
Where you have deep sand they will not
fruit. They will die in a few years. |
have taken particular pains to make in
quiries of the owners of those vineyards.
II could get northern slope / would
prefer it. The trouble with our grapes
here is that they put out little too
early. You cannot work them during
slope they do not put out SO fast. Two
years ago pruned some eight rows of
my finest grapes in January and they
put out. and ON those eight rows | did
not have six punches OF grapes.
pruned them and they came out, in a
few days and bloomed then we had q
freeze and | did not get any fruit. On
the balance of my vinegar lad good
crop. For fertilizing nothing beats bone
dust, for those who Can get it. | have
used muck and nothing else. Take it
muck [ do not mean this black sand.
Afterwards used ashes, spreading them
on the ground and plowed them under.
and / have had no trouble with fun
gus diseases or blight in my vineyard.
Some varieties of grapes are subject to
it. The Concord has fruited with me and
has ripened just as we'll as [ ever saw
them in the North Our berries grow
larger than they do in any district in
the North, where they consider that if
they can get $50 per ton for their grapes
it is the most paying crop they can raise.
rooted my own vines and rooted them
deep. A great many grapes that are
put out are not deep enough. The cut
tings are not long enough and they do
not go down deep enough. | am speak
ing of this section. The American grape
will not thrive in water in any section.
Rolling land that has a natural drain
age is the best for grapes, and ii 1T has
not natural drainage it will not do.
HAMLIN. Where do you find market?
STEWART. | shipped to Chicago and
Council Bluffs. Year before last my
grapes netted me zoe. Last year they
Melted me 194 C. The Champion is my
first grape that has fruited we'll with me
and came up fully to my expectation.
The Ives, although considered it a third
class grape, is an early grape and sells
we'll. and that is what the most Of us are
after. While the Champion comes in here
about the middle of June, they commence
in the North to ship the last OF August.
One thing, we can put our grapes on the
eastern or western markets three weeks
earlier than California can. The Ives is
q good simmer and have had no COM
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-04-26

Mr.. A. Woodwork, chairman of the
committee, then read the following re-
port on
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-02
Mr., BLAINE'S CONDITION
His Physiclau's Answers to the
Most Pointed Questions
ARE NOT VERY ENCOURAGING.
Tho Reports That tho Distinguished
Invalid Had Sat Up During His ILL
ness Arc FaIse..He WIN Not Do Re.
moved From washIngton-The Dis
position That VIII BE Made of Ills
Literary and Political Pspers.

WASHINGTON, D, o., jan, 1,-Mr.
Blaine is much better, DR., johnson
said this evening; "AEr, Blaine Is a
little better"
When asked II Mr., Blalno sat up any
yet, DR.. Johnson replied in the mega
tive. tia now fourteen days since Mr..
Blaine suffered the relapse, which many
Of his intimate friends feared would
speedily prove fatal. That he has lived
the old year out and witnessed the COM
ing OF another year, is q surprise to
many who have tho means Of knowing
Just how i'll Mr. Blaine has been, and
who also know how sick he is to-day.
While there arc rumors from time to
time that Mr.. Blaine is to be removed
to some warmer climate no preparations
have thus far been made by tho family
for such q journey.
The fact that Mr.. Blaine is not abto to
sit up seems 10 Ge taken as evidence
that tho period Of his removal is very
remote, at least His physicians will
not discuss the question with any but
members Of Mr., Blaino's family. It Is
understood that personally Mr.. Blaine
preiors to remain in Washington pond.
ing tho termination Of his illness. Ho
is fully aware that unicss his physician
accompanied him on his journey and
remained with him he wonld bo rum
ming a great risk. This fact, and anoth.
or, that no could not find elsewhere tho
comforts OF his own home, mako Mr..
Blame, 1t is said, very much averse to
being removed, Sick as Mr.. Blaine Is he
still exhibits much Of that wonderful
will power and norvO that have
carried him through moro than one
crisis In theso latter days he
exhibits less Of the dependency over
his physical condition than that which
characterized him when he was much
stronger than he is to-day. In tho
presence OF his family he tries to bo
cheerful and hopeful OF the future. His
apprehensions he keeps as his own
secret. There are times when he dis
cusses his plans for tho future, especial
lyTttiose Of d literary nature. 1t Is
understood that Of politics he does not
speak, except in a desultory fashion, as
II they had lost to certain eXtont for
him their interest. It Is also under
stood that in case he should'not be ablo
to carry out certain Of his literary plans
that he has arranged to.have the papers
relating 10 public matters in his posses-
sion edited and published at the proper
time.