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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-15
Kainit in the Stables.

AdIu1C III the Ola DIES.
The German kainit contains about 81
per cent. of sui phate of potash, with sui
phate OF magnesa, chloride OF soda and
chloride of m agnesia. 1t is soluble in less
than twice it's weight Of water and can
therefore, be used readily either dissolved
aud sprinkled over the stables, or spread
by hand. 1t not only adds potash to
the soil, but, according TO the best chem
ical authority, such as Burner and Brim-
NOR, cit unites with the ammonia in the
manure" and it also has another valu-
able quality of gathering additional am
mOnia-m0st probably from the atmOs-
phere. In researches on the action of
kanit and other substances on manures,
the German Experimental School during
the past year found the following results:
Portions of old manure were subjected
for year to the action Of lime, plaster,
sulphate of magnesia and kainit.
One per cent. OF lime caused a loss of
9.7S per cent. of the nitrogen ofthe dung.
One per cent. of plaster resulted in a loss
OF only O. 81 per cent. of the nitrogen.
Ole per cent. OF sulphate OF magnesia
saved all the nitrogen that rs in the
dung aud attracted an addition of SOC
per cent of ammonia. LASTLY, one per
cont. OF .kainit saved all the nitrogen, and
added 1877 per cent. to it. The editor
has been careful to give a full account OF
this German experiment, SO the full value
of kainit may be known i'll retaining aud
adding to the value Ofmanure. Farmers
have for years, and do now, think that
plaster is the great preserVer OF manure;
but by these experiments, which may be
fully accepted as true, one ton OF kainit
is worth over seven tons of plaster kai
nit can be purchased by the ton in our
city to-day at $50, plaster at 49, This is
less than half a cent per pound. One
pound OF kainit per day scattered in the
stall is suffi ;ient for elch animal. \ bet
ter way would be to dissolve it and ap.
ply it by means Of u watering can. * IL
nit has not only great pre5erVatlye, but
also great purifying powers. 1t should
be used freely in cow and horse stables,
muck aud compost heaps, pig pens and
chicken houses, privy, sink md ceSspnOls.
It would not only keep down that Often
sive door so common in most Of these
places, but it would greatly promote the
health and comfort and lessen the NOR
talty both in the dwelling and stable.
1t would be proper to say that kainit
in itself is not complete manure; that,
though rich in hydrogen and potash, it
is deficient in phosphoric acid. To make
a complete and evenly balanced manure,
add to the manure, or compost heap
treated with kainit, bone-dust in proper
ton of half bushel to each cartload of
manure.-Baltimor American.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-02-15

Mr.. J. L, Goethe is the champion
deer hunter of this section. He sue
ceeded in killing no less than seven deer
last week, bringing in four Of them Sat-
urday. Mr.. Goethe has an unering aim
and it is understood that when he pulls
down on anything something hat to
"drap."
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
Cold Truth.
SMITH ID. FRY.

zone great drawback to the comfort
of the tramcar in America" says the
earl of Meath in the Nineteenth
Century, sis the lack of all regulations
as to the number of passengers to be
carried. The result of this is that
rows of men, and sometimes OF
women, may be seen standing in the
gangway holding on painfully to
leathern straps. All these persons have
paid for their seats, but it never seems
to enter into the head of the American
to protest or eXpostulate against this
breach of contract on the part of the
tram company. Such state of things
could not exist for a fortnight in
Great Britain without the daily press
being inundated by the protests OF
irate and indignant Britons, who
would never rest until they had
altered what must be very curious
tax on the physical strength and vital
powers of women and of elderly men.
AS Cap'n Cutie would say: The point
of this here observation lays in the ap
plication ont" 1t is the cold truth.
Every passengers fare ought to en-
title him to seat.-Buffalo CONNER
nio1
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

positions. Rotation in Office is very
healthy thing for any republic or for
any nation, aud there is no good reason
why this process should not be applied
to the department of state as well as to
the other branches of the government.
The old department is peopled with
ghostly traditions, tie cobwebs have
accumulated and the barnacles have
sproated and the mill-dews have gath
cred until they remind one rather of an
old baronial castle of the feudal ages
than of anything else. 1t is time that the
weeding-out process were undertaken,
and Gen. Gresham is the man to do the
work.
Ex-Postmaster General Frank Hat
ton, who was member of the cabinet
of President Arthur when Gen. Gresh.
sm was secretary OF the treasury. very
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

and, quietly and in languid manner,
said to the messenger: Somebody
wants something"
The messenger came to me and asked
if he could do anything for me, and
when | mentioned the public docu-
ment which desired, he returned to
the chief clerk and said: 1.-The gentle
man desires so-and-so." The chief
clerk merely nodded his head and kept
ON reading, the messenger disappeared
and returned inside of five minutes
with the document and handed it to
me. After having been in that room
for fully ten minutes l departed with
out having received any sign of
recognition from the chief clerk other
than the touching of an electric button
with his dainty finger and the utter
ance to his messenger: Somebody
wants something"
That is a sample of the official digni-
ty and courtesy of the department of
state, and the experience of your cor
respondent is in no sense different
from that which comes to any and
every American citizen who is obliged
to do business of any kind before the
department. Now is the time to turn
the rascals out and Gen. Gresham is
just the right man in the right place
to perform that work.
SMITH ID. FRY.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
IN THE VAN.
Uncle Sans Navy Leads the World-The
Great Battleship New York Proves to
BE the Fastest Cruiser Ever Built.

Uncle Sans Navy Leads the World-The
Great Battleship New York Proves to
BE the Fastest Cruiser Ever Built.
BosToN, May 23.-With forward tor
pedo tubes buried deep in the sea and
the water pushed almost as high as her
forecastle the armored cruiser New
York steamed across the line Monday,
breaking the worlds record and WIN
ming for her builders the largest premi-
um ever paid in this country. When 81
knots was predicted as the speed for the
new cruiser many hoped but few believed
that her engines would ever be able to
drive such an immense mass of steel
through the water at this rate. When
she crossed the line, however,
with speed of 21.O9 knots through
the water, and some corrections yet
to be added for tide, the enthusiasm on
board was intense. Mondays per-
formance off the Massachusetts, coast
will be echoed from one end of Europe
to the other, for it places the United
States in the van among the navies of
the world and gives us not only the
most powerful but the swiftest armored
cruising vessel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
THEIR BOAT CAPSlZED.
Two Wisconsin University Men Drowned
in Lake Mendota-A Third Rescued.

Two Wisconsin University Men Drowned
in Lake Mendota-A Third Rescued.
MADISON, Wis, May 22.-On Satur-
day W. b. Strong, of Whitewater; d.
b. Smith, of Fort Atkinson, and A. L.
Coe, of Barron, students at the state
university, started to cross Lake Men
dota in sailboat. When mile and a
half off the opposite shore the boat
capsized in the strong gale which
was blowing. All three managed
to get hold of the boat but
Strong slipped off half an hour
after the accident and two hours later
Smith followed him. Coe clung to the
boat which drifted for three hours be-
fore he was sighted by persons on
shore. A boat was sent out and
brought him to the land much exhaust
ed. He was well taken care of and is
out of danger.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

tersely and fltly describes the condis
tion of the department in his charac-
teristic way. He says: "To the gen.
eral public, or to such persons as by
hapless necessity have been compelled
to seek admission within it's portals,
and condescendingly permitted to
do business with the janitors, it has al
ways worn the aspect of solemn ands
impenetrable mystery. There are ex-
ceptions TO every rule, of course, how
ever, and, there have been assistant
secretaries and clerks at this depart
ment who recognize their visitors as
at least the semblances of humanity,
having some sympathetic claim upon
official attention, but it goes without
saying that the atmess,here of the
place is frigid and repellant; that there
is musty smell through all the cor.
ridors and passageways which does not
come from the Potomac flats; that the
toploftical airs which it generally as
sumes in STOPPING to communicate
with common people are the airs of
antiquated and artistic tradition, and
that the interminable red tape in
which it's transaction of affairs is tied
up is nuisance that should be uncere-
moniously abated."
few years ago when q man named
Lee was chief clerk of the department
of state, your correspondent as the
special representative of Senator
Plumb, of Kansas, called upon that
official for public document to send
to one of the constituents of the sena-
tor. When | entered the room the
chief clerk did not look up. as the chief
clerk of any other department would
have done, but kept on reading a paper
which he held in his hand. stood at
the railing in front of his desk for fully
two minutes, and that is long time
for a free American citizen to stand
waiting the pleasure of one of his serv-
ants, and then addressed the chief
clerk, requesting him to give me the
public document for which had come.
He did not lift his eyes from the paper
before him, but touched the button of
an electric bell with his finger. I
waited another minute and again re-
quested him to give me the public doc
ument. He did not recognize me nor
lift his eyes from his paper, nor pay
any more attention to me than if / had
been a serf or slave. Just as a string
of indignant sentences were coming to
my lips messenger entered the door
and stood in front of the desk of the
chief clerk. He continued his reading,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
The NATIONS GUEST.

Eulnlie the Spanish Infnnta, Lands q
New York and Proceeds Mt Once to
Washington-Welcom to America,
New YORK, May 20.-During Thurs
day night health officers boarded the
Christina lying off quarantine, on
which was quartered the Spanish in
fanta, Eulalie, and her escort, and ac-
corded the party permission to proceed
on their journey to Washington with
out delay at the port. Earay in the
morning the United States dispatch
boat Dolphin proceeded down the bay
to Sandy Hook, the Spanish warship,
Infanta Isabel being in the advance,
Lying quietly at anchor just off the
bar was the Rerna Maria Christina,
bearing the distinguished guests.
Eulalie expressed wish to go aboard
the Infanta Isabel, so that the cere-
mony of introduction to the presidents
envoy might take place on govern
ment vessel, and this part OF the pro.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
LOSS OF s2oo,ooo BY FIRE.
Tho Beatty Glass Works at Timn, o.,
Burned-Two Men Hurt.

The Beatty Glass Works at Timn, o..
Burned-Two Men Hurt.
TIFFIN, o., May 23.-The immense
plant of the Beatty glass works factory,
owned by the United States Glass COM
pany, is for the most part in ruins. The
loss aggregates nearly 5000 900, and 800
persons are thrown out of employ
ment The fire had its origin in
the oil compressing room, oil being
used as fuel in connection with natural
gas, and was probably caused by spon-
taneous combustion. Within five min
utes the entire rear and upper portions
of the immense plant were in
flames and the employees were
compelled to flee for their lives,
leaving their clothing and tools.
Many escaped from upper win
dows and but two were injured-Peter
Linden and Mat Caldwell, seriously
burned. The United States Glass com
pany paid S273, 900 for the plant in Jan
uary, 1892. The loss on the building
will be about $780, 900 and about $50, 900
on stock, fully covered by insurance.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
JAIL BREAKERS CAUGHT.

Two Escaped Prisoners Captured Near
Lansing, Mich, After a Fight in Which
One Is Fatally Wounded.
LANSING, Mich, May 22.-The au-
thorities learned Saturday that Doc"
Bentley and Bert Donnelly, two of the
notorious Bently gang, who broke
Jail at Mason week ago, We're
in hiding near Leadley's park, three
miles from this city. Officers immedi-
ately started after them. When they
found the men they resisted arrest and
a desperate fight ensued. In the battle
one of the escaped prisoners was fatally
shot. The other was captured, and the
officers brought both men to the city.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

"As I was saying" said old Nh
Skinphlint of the Story-Tellers' club,
''as was saying, he then borrowed
ten dollars of me-"
Gentlemen" interrupted tie presi-
dent of the club, risi 3 to his feet, II
must rule the gentlel3an out of order.
One of the first bylaws of this club ia
that only stories which bear evidences
of reasonable probability shall be re-
counted here. Chicago Record.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
RUIN BY A .HAILsToRM.
Damages in Pittsburgh and Vicinity Esti-
mated at 100000.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 22.-Pittsburgh
and vicinity was visited by the most
violent hailstorm ever known here Sat
urday afternoon. The effect was most
disastrous to life and property. Tele-
phone and telegraph wires were pros
trated in every direction; electric and
cable cars were stopped by broken wires
or debris choking the conduits and
traffic was suspended for a long time.
In the east end of Pittsburgh and upper
wards of Allegheny City nearly
every window glass on the south
sides of the buildings were
shattered, while all over both
cities skylights, greenhouses, private
and park conservatories were shat
tered and foliage ruined. In the
Phipps conservatory in Schenley park
over 5000 lights of glass were broken.
AT the opera house and Bijou theater
serious panics We're narrowly averted
and several women tainted from fright.
The singing pelting of the hail
caused a number of serious accidents
by frenzied horses. Twenty horses,
some of them valuable, are known to
have been killed in Pittsburgh, either
| by collision or becoming entangled in
electric wires. One valuable team at
tached to a carriage standing in front
of the Monongahela house plunged
into the Monongahela river and was
drowned.
The money loss will be very great,
various estimates placing the damage
above half million dollars. On Ne
vile island, in the Ohio river, the dam
age to garden and farm products is es-
| timated at over 100000
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
FATAL FAcTIoNAL FIGHT.
Tho French-Eversole Feud in Kentucky
Ends in Bloodshed.

LONDON, KY, May 22.-The noted
French -Eversole feud has broken out
afresh, In "A fight on the streets of Haz-
ard Wednesday between Cash and John
Eversole, leaders on one side, and
Jesse Fields, leader of the French
faction, Jesse Hale was instantly
killed, Jesse Fields was wounded in the
back and arm, John Eversole was shot
in the wrist, and Polly Ann Combs,
grandmother of the Ebersoles, was Sc
riously wounded. The fight was q
ferocious and bloody one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
Hope for Panama Convlcts.

PARIS, May 2O.-According to authen-
tic information the sentences passed on
NM. de Lesseps, Cottu, Fontaine and
EiHel will be quashed by the cour de
cessation in the audience of June s
on account of irregularities in the pro-
cedure. NJ. Charles de Lesseps was
transferred Friday to the hospital and
win be set at liberty on the rendering
Of the new Judgment.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27
FATAL EXPLOSION.
Two Men Killed and Several Injured a
Keene, N. IL.

Keenc, N. ii.
KEENE, N H., May ga battery OF
five boilers at Beaver mills exploded at
1920 o'clock Monday, wreclling the
building, killing and injuring number
of persons, The killed are Herbert G.
Holton and Lewis w, Starkey.
Frank Droulette, fireman, and George
H. Carpenter are at the city hospital,
the former dangerously, the latter seri-
ously injured. Gregory Carpenter,
Michael Roach, George w. Piper and
William Clark were taken to their
homes. 1t is not improbable that 9th.
ers are under the ruins.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-27

CHICAGO, May 2O.-The National
Editorial association has decided to
hold its next annual session at Asbury
Park, N. j.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-11-02
COBWEBS ON The GRASS.

A silent, moonlit summer night,
When all the earth is bathed in light
Cfatars and silver moon.
The hour is m1dnight-hushed and still
Save for the sound from yonder hill
Ofsome lone night-bird's song.
One by one from shady bowers,
From out the heart of sleeping flowers,
There comes fairy band,
With footsteps light as falling snow;
They come from banks where violets
grow
Te read the velvet sod.
See, each one carries beneath her wing
A Dainty, gauzy cobweb thing
A Spiders silken web,
They swing them on the bIades of grass.
Where moonbeams play and zephyrs pass
Laden with sweet perfume.
And now they sit and sing away
The happy hours, But comirg day
Illumines yon eastern hill.
They vanish! Vanish with the night,
Leaving their hammocks in their fight,
The cobwebs on the grass,
Jennie Booth King, in Eln1ra Argos y
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-11-02
THE FUTURE.

What may we take into the vast Forever:
That marble door
Admits no fruit of all our long cndeavor
No fame wreathed crown we wore
No garne.ed lore.
What can we bear beyond the unknown
portal?
No gold, no gains
Of all our toiling: in the life immortal
No boarded wealth remains,
Nor gilds, nor stains.
Naked from out that far abyss behind u
We entered here,
No word came n it'll our coming to remind
What wondrous world was near,s
No hope, no fear.
Into the silent, starless night before us
Naked we glide;
No hand has mapped the constellation:
o'er us,
No comrade at onr side,
No chart, no guide
Yet, fearless toward that midnight black
and hollow,
Our footsteps fare;
The beckoning of Fathers hand we fol
low
His love alone is there,
No curse, no care,
Augusta G, Winthrop;
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-11-02
HOWIT AFFECTS THE SOUTH.

Wednesday Senator Pugh, of Ala
bama, rallied against the coming re-
peal Of the Sherman act, aud treated
it as great outrage upon the people
In the light of the facts, how
ridiculous is the Senator's positions
The business Of the whole couns
try has been depressed by the long
delay in the Senate for which Sena>
tor Pugh and the other obstruction
lists are responsible. The South has
felt the effect Of this delay in many
ways.
1t was singing rebuke to the
obstructing Southern Senators that
last Tuesday when it became known
that these Senators had agreed not
to filibuster further the price Of cot
ton advanced twenty points.
The New York World says:
This means some millions of dolr
lars gained for the cotton growers of
the South. But how many millions
have been lost to them by the obstina-
ecy of their Senators in so lorg ob-
structing the measure of relief? Every
pound OF cotton sold during the i'll
libustering delay has been sold for
less than it would have brought I
the Senate had acted as promptly
as the House did, and the obstruct-
ing Senators alone have been to
blame for the loss.
The depressing influence of delay
has been perfectly well known to
th men who have enforced the de-
lay. 1t has been pressed upon their
attention in a thousand earnest ways.
Unless their constituents are the
most long suffering of people these
Senators will have troublesome &C
count to settle with them when this
years books are balanced and they
ask why they were made to wait so
long for, or to lose those twenty
points.
The South, no less than the other
sections of the country, is interested
in sound and stable currency, and
the South is already feeling the good
effects of the assured repeal of the
purchasing clause of the Sherman
act.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-11-02
THEFOLLY OF 1T.

AS the Richmond State says, 8
yer ago, when the very existence Of
of the Republic was threatened, the
people of this country, with great
unanimity of sentiment, called on
Grover Cleveland to champion theil
cause aid save the nation from
harm, Mr.. Cleveland responded to
the call and was elected by a great
majority.
His views Oh the tariff question
aud on the silver Question were well
understood and the convention
which nominated him promulgated
a platform embodying in the main
Mr.. Cleyeland's views. I demanded
the immediate repeal of the Sher-
man silver purchase law, the use of
both silver and gold as money, the
repeal of the tax on State bank cir~
culation. Mr.. Cleveland was elected
Oh that platform, and he is ready to-
day, so our information is, to stand
by all its provisions.
Why, therefore, should the Ads
ministration be thwarted in its pol~
icy by Democratic Senators? 1t is
reckless and suicidal for Democrats
thus to act. The party cannot hore
10 succeed when its own members
deliberately and defantly resist the
Administration and prevent 1t from
acting in an emergency like this.
The country was in t;ouble and
Mr.. Cleveland was put into the
presidential chair to relieve the dis
tress. He declares that he has
found the cause Of the disease and
that he has also found the remedy
for it. But the very people who
helped to elect him are now oppos-
ing it and are now refusing to ais
low him to apply the remedy.
Let US have stop to such folly.
Give the Administration d chance.
Let the President have the co-operas
ton Of "a Democratic Congress in
carrying out his policy. If that
policy prove failure, it will be time
enough then to fight the Presi- :
dent.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-11-02
A Beautiful Morning Marriage.

Under the above head the Raleigh
NeaOs- Observer of yesterday contains
ttSeFollowing handsome notice Of the
n,,9.riage Of our young friend and
townsman Mr.. Frank B. Edmund
son and Miss Crawford of that city /:
Yesterday morning, at the home
of Mr.. W. r. Crawford, Oh Hillss
boro street, bis eldest daughter, Miss
Mary Malvernop, was united in mar
riage to Mr.. Frank B. Edm undson,
prominent young merchant of
Goldsboro, Of the firm Of Hall &
Edmundson, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. John T. Ed
mundson, of Virginia, brother Of the
groom.
The attendants were Mr.. r. E.
Crawford with Miss Ella Ogburn, Of
Winston; Mr.. james E. Hartsell
with Miss Mary Avera; Prof. A,
Rhodes with Miss Nellie Skinner
the maid of honor beiRg Miss l.. v.
Crawford, sister of the bride, and
the groom's best man was. Mr.. Leslie
G. Switzerland, of Goldsboro,
The decorations were profuse and
tastefully arranged, and the pyramid
of rare flowers and eyergre"ns, with
the large bell under which the oou~
pie stood during the ceremony, were
indeed artistic designs Of exquisite
beauty.
The presents were both beautiful
and numeroua. evincing the high es-
TEEN and fond affection in which
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmundson are held
by their hosts OF friends.
The bride was clad III going
away dress, and Immediately after
the ceremony the couple were driven
to the Union depot and left on the
northsbound 1920 tram.
The best wishes of countless
friends attend the happy couple on
their bridal tour and upon the longer
journey through life, aud in the
glad Fluctuations the NeqcS- Observer
Chronicle most heartily joins.