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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-29
DEATH OF MRS. BARRETT,
She .Exriros from tho Effects Of Terrible

She Ex,ircs from the Effects Of Terrible
nnrns Received Some Time Arn
Mns. John barrett, who received ter
r'ble burrs several weeks ago by hav-
ing her c'ctlhcts igntted, died at the hos
pt'hl.
TIae remains were taken from the
hosTif'al TO the home of hpr s'.ep-sad,,
Tlhonus Err'ff1. on Dur daft srtrce'.
from vlhirf pince the funeral wrfl
take place this afternoon at O'Clock.
Mrs. Barrett was born i'm Ireland
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-29
PIT I S | ON,

TThe P.ttston office of the Scranton
Tribune Is located at No. william street.
where all advertisements. orders FOR job
work and tens for publication w re-
cc.ve prompt attention. Oii!ce open from
S u. m. to Top. m.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-29
TAYLOR,

Miss Name Thcmss, of Providence,
was visiting MISS EfntIha Rees, on
Grove street, on Sunday
The bCrnumh schools are C,naal this
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-29

B@.nun, Grant Decker ard Charles
Wale2tt. ILterme.., took pace in Rosa
Hi Cemetery.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-08-14
AN ATTRACTIVE HAT.
A Forgetful Preacher Did Not Remove
the Wrapping Paper.

FOrgetful Preacher Did Not Remove
the Wrapping Paper.
distinguished preacher of some
what arbitrary manners was engaged
to preach in Belgravia, and purchased
n new hat for the occasion, says Pear
sons Weekly. He was met outside his
residence by young man who was to
guide him to the church. His guide,
after what the parson thought a rude
stare and smile. said: s'I beg your par
don, sir, but yonr hat"
"Oh, yes! never mind the hat, but
mind your own business" the parson
interrupted curtly; and the young man
was silenced The people they met
stared and smiled too.
Strange how many people notice
when one has got q new hat" thought
the parson. The church was reached
and the worshipers approaching natu-
rally turned to observe the noted
preacher.
The vicar met him at the vestry door
to welcome him, but, hesitating, said:
Pardon me, canon, but pray, why do
you wear your hat SOP"
The tile was doffed and the outside
found to be still covered with white
paper which the absent-minded divine
had not removed.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-08-14
Swedish Simplicity.

Miss Margaret Hewitt, in her work,
Twelve Months with Frederika Bre-
rnef," tells several curious anecdotes
illustrating the simplicity of the lower
classes in Sweden. Thus, two servants
were given tickets to go to the theater,
from which they soon returned. 'You
surely have not been?" asked the mis-
tress. "Oh, yes!" they answered. eve
went to the theater and sat there till
suddenly a curtain drew up and some
ladies and gentlemen began talking to-
gether; but as it was on family mat
ters, we felt we were intruding and so
came home"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-08-14
False Economy.

Current Notes reports the significant
saying of an old lady who was locally
famous for ergood health and her ex-
ceeding thrift. An acquaintance was
congratulating her upon her freedom
from bodily ailments, when she re-
Piled. "We be pretty well for old
folks, Josiah and me. Josiah hasn't
had an ailin' time for fifty years, 'cept
last winter. And amt never suffered
but one day in my life, and that was
when took some of the medicine Jo-
siah had left over, SOS how it shouldn't
be wasted"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-08-14
ADVERTISING RATES.

Will be mGde as low as is consistent with
sound business principles. Apply at the Of
ice for terms.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-08-14
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

Ono Copy, one year. ....-......$6 90
One py, six months. observation-disclosures %
Fer any period und,r six months, one dollar
per month Payable In advance.
Delivered by carrier in Elko at twenty five
cents per week.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-08-14
oAILY lNDEPEND DENT.
AN EVENING PAPER,
Gssued every day., Sundays excepted.

W. RooHER, Editor and Pro.
prietor.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-08-14

ESrdes who wish to handle the PURE GOO
.,v ere invited to como and SEQ us.
prt7sas scat by mail and ndoorfespandonce So
dtsd.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-26

though never requiring fertilization,
sh iuld be frequently rested, or there
should he cessation of tillage every
second or third year for the destruction
of grass seed, which is as essential on
our uplandS as the overflow of the
swamp or river bottom lands of Georgia
and Carolina to accomplish the same
purpose. With no fencing an era of
prosperity will dawn in this semi tropi-
Cal fruitland and peaches, plums, pears
and pecans would grow by the roadside;
with no fencing there would not be seen
half starved stock roaming the woods
shivering, dying in the WINERY BLAST
with no fencing the sons Of farmers. after
leaving their almam alter and accum ulat-
ing few hundred dollars before their
manageable age, would expend in a
dwelling instead of the enclosure.
Extensive rice culture in Florida is a
subject of the deepest interest to the
people. The value of our lands would
be greatly enhanced and agriculture in
Florida, with it's diversity of produc-
tions, would become a pleasurable and
most profitable calling. &C. HARDEE, M.
D., in Fernandina News.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-26
A New Order of Agriculture Must Come.

II N0W OIU0I VI OOmO'
Editor Florida AgricuIturlSt:
Being on the point of going North for
Sunday June o. ! must in justice to
you send you 81 for the AGRICULTURIsT
sent me for the past six months or so.
The events of the past six months have
so completely demoralized our calcula-
tions that | have found nothing worth
the writing for you. A new order of
agriculture and horticulture must for
six or eight years take the place of the
old. Of my beautiful ,O0O-tree grove
[ first thought one In ten would come
out, then raised the calculation to one
that will be OF any real value. Being on
the border line of seventy eight, | shall
not reset the grove but will simply care
for those that will survive. Perhaps the
survival of the tittest" may bring
to Florida a class of trees more hardy
than those we have heretofore had and
so our successors may find blessing in
our great loss. Out of the Seeding
sprouts of the old the best quality of
fruit will be budded from.
We are to spend the summer at Ocean
Grove, n. j., where | have had for
twenty-three years a cottage. When
think of our Florida shore with it's hard
beach ard finely tempered waters: it is
superior beyond comparison TO anything
from Georgia to Maine. If New Jersey
had dozen miles of our Florida beach
all of the Northern world of men, women
and children would be there with hardly
room enough for them to battle in the
splendid surf
Earnestly wishing the old AGRIcULTU-
RIsT a safe passage through The dark
times we are now in and health, happi-
ness and prosperity to its owners, | must
say hastV goodbye to 1t and them.
l.. II. ARMSTRONG.
st, Nicholas, Fla
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-26
Fruit Exchange Meeting.

The stockholders of the Florida Fruit
Exchange held their tenth annual meet
ing yesterday morning in the off e of
the company in this city The shares
of stock that were presented mum bered
1881, the attendance being consider
ably large than was expected.
The business of the meeting was the
election of directors and officers and the
receiving of the annual reports of the
officers.
From the conversation of those pres
ent, representing different parts of
the State, it was learned that strong
feeling of encouragement is enter
tanned regarding the agricultural inter-
ests, and that the groves in various Sec
tions are rapidly recovering from the
effects of the damage done by the cold
of last winter. 1t was stated that
comparatively short time will be suff1-
cienU to put them back in condition
to produce fair and increasing crops of
fruit.
The reports of A. NJ. Ives, treasurer
and general manager of the exchange,
showed that the affairs of the company
were in good shape. The question of
the continuance of the exchange was
preached, and a resolution was adopted
unanimously faYoring the continuance
A. nd
importance to the fruit-growing inter
ests of the State.
The election of directors resulted in
the selection of all the old board, as fol-
lows: George r. Fairbanks, ALAG hua
County, E G. Hill, Bradford County:
DIR. E. E. Pratt, Hillsboro County; John
Faoyan, Lake County; Hy Crutcher,
Orange County: D. Greenleaf, Duval
County; J. D. Mead, Duval County; A.
Brady, Brevard County; F. G. Sampson,
Marion County; G. V. Hillyer, Marion
County; John M. Bryan, Osceola
County, W. E. Stanton, Putnam,
County; M. S. Moreman, St. Johns
County; G F. A. Bielby, Volusia
County; Irving Keck, Polk County.
The election of officers also resulted
in the reelection of George R. Fair
banks as president; Damon Greenleaf,
vice president; A. NJ. Ives general man
ager and treasurer: M. P. Turner, sec.
rotary; and Azor Marvin, auditor.
An executive committee was also
appointed, consisting of President Fair
banks, D. Greenleaf, M. S. Moreman,
and O. V. Hinyer.
The annual address of President Fair
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-26

the crop increase from 100000 boxes to
5,OOO,O 200. Encouraged by these facts.
| see no reason for despair and but little
tor serious Encouragement.
81 believe the crop of 1896 will be as
large as that of 1885, when the Fruit Ex
change was organized. | believe our
organization is necessary for handling
the crops of the coming and succeeding
years.
''The experience we have gained has
not only proved the wisdom of our
method of marketing the CROP, but has
brought the fruit growers of California
to adopt in part our plans.
eve can expect to do but little until
the fall of 1896, something over year
hence, but our organization we ought
to maintain. We have our Offices, our
packing houses, materials, our agencies,
and our plant ready to resume our work,
and when that time comes. | am sure
we shall all be ready and DESTROYS of
awaiting ourselves of the advantages
of the exchange"
GEO. R. FAIRBANKS,
President.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-26
banks was read, and is herewith repro
duCed as follows:


''To the Stockholders of the Florida
Fruit Exchange:
"Gentemen-We meet under very
different circumstances from tn ose which
surrounded us at our last annual meet
ing. We were then cheered by past
success, and had bright hopes for the
future. 1t is difficult in the time of
prosperity to anticipate adversely,
although we know that there are always
in every pursuit of life failures and
disappointments.
"When the freeze of Decent Der %, 1894
came so unexpectedly upon us, the
Fruit Exchange was in the midst of
successful business season. We had
done we'll abroad, and had successfully
inau gurated auction sales at Jackson
vile. In one night everything was
changed, and a sudden blow closed
nearly all our business operations. The
orange growers of Florida lost on fruit
alone to the value of So 100000.
1--WE have felt the recent disaster to
our orange growing interest the more
because there was so much more of 1t to
be affected then at any former time,
While orange-growing is not new to
Florida, yet it is within a compare
lively few years only that it has devel-
oped into a great leading industry of
the State. In ten years the crop has
increased ten-fold; twenty years ago
orange trees were regarded only as
ornamental and desirable to the no me,
like the flower garden or the shrubbery
PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE.
'The opening up of facilities for ra pid
and cheaper transportation gave the
orange at once a commercial value,
and made it's cultivation not only pleas
ant but profitable.
eve had, in a measure, become rec
onciled to the disaster of December 20
and the loss of our fruit, when, on Feb
uary Z, forty days later, we experienced
one still more destructive than the first,
killing to the ground all young groves
and many old ones, and we are brought
to consider seriously whether orange
growing is reliable and safe industry
in Florida, or whether it is too hazardous
to engage in as a business and as an
investment.
GAS orange growers who have invested
years of labor and thousands of dollars,
we are intensely interested IN this
question. We have had, from time to
time. infesting our trees, certain in
furious insects to contend with, in COM
mon with all other fruit culture, but
remedies have been sought and found.
DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME.
1--WE have had droughts and floods,
and have learned that we can irrigate
for the one and drain for the other, but
we have always had, in greater or less
degree, one thing to fear over which
we had no control, and that is cold.
"Other things we can manage, and even
the question of glut or overproduction
was soluble to a great extent, but we
are obliged to meet the question of the
effort of severe freezes as one which we
must face as having occurred, and as
likely to occur from time to time.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-06-26

sour, and later on the sweet or China
orange. We know that there were
sweet orange trees bearing fruit in ST.
Augustine 200 years ago We also know
that cold winters have from time to time
destroyed the fruit and injured the trees
in Italy and Spain, but that those
countries still produce increasing crops
of oranges and lemons.
LOW TEMPERATURE RECORDS
Governor Glen Of South Carolina,
in pamphlet published in 1851, says
that on February 7, 1747, the tempera-
ture fell 20 degrees at o'clock in the
morning at Charleston, and had prob.
ably been considerably lower;that all the
bearing orange trees were killed to the
ground, and even an olive tree eighteen
inches in diameter, owing to the sap being
up in the tree. 1t will be noted that this
freeze occurred on February 7, the fatal
date of our great freeze of 1885 and 1895.
1.-The severest freeze ever known in
Florida, so far as we know, was that of
February 7, 1885, when the trees were
all frozen to the ground. The next in
point Of severity was on January r. 1886,
when the temperature was about Is
degrees, and all the fruit was frozen,
and many old trees killed, but, never
theless, a considerable crop was rised
that year. The sap was down, and
large trees we're little injured. On Dec
EN- Der 3, 1876, and December 30, 1876,
and Decem Der &c. 1880 the temperature
was down to 10 degrees, fruit being
frozen; and small trees killed. On Jan
uary 6, 1884, the temperature was 81
degrees, and on January 4, 1887. at %
degrees. On December 30, 1894. the
| temperature fell to IA, and the fruit was
frozen, and smaller limbs were killed
but by February 7 the sap had risen
new growth started, and when, on Feb
ruary T. 1895, the temperature fell 10 Is,
the young groves and many old trees
were killed to the ground, but many
old bearing trees preserved their vitality
In the trunk and larger limbs, with a
present prospect of fair crop in 1896.
IL was not as cold by degrees as in 1885.
ONLY ONCE so LOW AS 7 DEGREES.
"Taklng all the data we h I'VE for a
long series of years, we find that within
the past 100 years the temperature has
gone only once as low as 7 degrees
above zero, and that was sixteen years
since; that in 1886 the temperature was
as low as Is degrees without material
in iured to the trees; that on December
20, 1894, it fell to IA degrees, without
material injury to bearing groves; thai
on February 7, at the same temperature,
owing to the sap having risen in the
trees, they were disastrously affected,
but that sprouts are now coming up
| from the vigorous roots in the ground,
| which will make rapid growth the
present year, and it is probable that in
| five years most of these will have formed
fair trees of bearing size, and that the
old bearing trees will give to 1896 a crop
equal to that of 1886.
Eek perience has shown that we have
recovered from every pre- vious disaster;
that Florida oranges stand confessedly
at the head Of all others, and will always
be in demand; that this disaster, great
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-02
Is il Constitutional?

The evils have been noted from time
to time likely to follow the passage of
the so-cAlled veterans preference law,
whose constitutionality has all along
been regarded as being open to ques-
tion. This question is to be brought
before the Supreme Judicial Court.
1t is to come before that tribunal on
the petition of one Frederick w.
Brown, who had fulfilled ali the re-
quirements of the law to entitle him
to certitication for appointment in
the civil service of Massachusetts,, but
who now finds himself outclassed by
veterans of the war who have passed
no examination, but who under the
new statute must be certified in pref
erence to him. The petitioner APP
piled for examination for a position
upon the detective force in the district
police, and he came out at the head
of the list. Since the passage of the
veterans law certain soldiers and
sailors have applied for places on said
force. In case of a vacancy they must
be certified in preference to the man
who has been examined and found
competent, and the petitioner there
fore asks that the Civil Service Com.
missioners be restrained from certify
ing any of the veterans of lower stand
ing than himself, or of no stand
ing, upon the ground that the act is
unconstitutional, inasmuch as it con-
tlicts with article six of the Bill of
Rights, which says that "no man, nor
corporation, or association of men,
have any other title to obtain advau-
tages or particular and exclusive priv
ileges, distinct from those of the
community, than what arise from the
consideration of services rendered to
the public" 1t is to be hoped that
the question of the constitutionality
of the act will be settled speedily, and
if it is declared to be in harmony with
the organic law, then it must appear
to all-right-thinking, disinterested
citizens that it should be amended at
the earliest possible moment. We
cannot afford, even to please the
veteran TO whom We owe so much, TO
make our offices elements of charity,
to be doled out regardless of the effect
upon the public safety or the public
interests. Except in the city of
Boston, the new law makes the ap-
pointment of veterans upon the police
and fire departments compulsory il
they make application, and in the city
of Gloucester II veteran enjoying II
pension for full disability is said al
ready to have applied for appoint
ment on the city police force and
there is nothing to prevent him from
getting what he asks for. If the law
is unconstitutional, that is the end of
it; if it is constitutional, it must, in
the interest of common safety and OF
common sense, be amended at once.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-02

as difficult from the Canadian jurisdiction as
il is from that Of the United States. II the
Toronto authorities fail to convict Holmes.
which am certain they will. there may be a
fight before the man is returned TO TINS
city
William A. Watts. living at 300 North 63d
street, Chicago has written to Philadelphia
inuuiring into the Holmes case and Offering
financial assistance in defending Holmes at
the trial. 1t is said that prominent man
who was formerly an associate judge in one
OF the Chicago courts has also inquired into
the case and has offered to bear part oil the
expense OF the defense of the prisoner.
In an interview at Moyamensing prison
Holmes denied in toto having any connection
with the murder of Gertrude, or Pearl Con
nor, or Minnie Williams. The tuft OF hair Sc
creted in the chimney of Holmes castle IN
Chicago he says could not have belonged 70
Minnie Williams. as the old chimney blew
down and new one put in its place after
Minnie Williams disappearance.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-02
Boston Paws Sb3S.O2O.

In the department of the auditor,
preparation have been completed fol
the collection of the 81, 500, 900 State
tax that has been apportioned among
the various cities and towns in the
Commonwealth. All returns must be
in by October l, or an additional tax
of one per cent will have to be paid by
the delinquent town or city. The
names OF various places and the assess.
ment which they will have to pay, &C.
cording to the list in the auditors
Office, is as follows; Boston, $53S,
900; Worcester, $54, 435, and Cam.
bridge $46. 500. The smallest assess.
ments are thoss of Mt. Washington
and New Ashford, $40 each.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-08-02
BOSTON LETTER.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
summer Travel.

The summer outing season is well
IA hand and travel is now seeking the
famous beaches along the Maine coast
such rs Popham Beach, Boothbay
Harbor, Squirrel Island, Rockland
Break water, Cam ten, Castine, North
port, Gslesboro. North East Harbor,
South West Harbor, aud the new tour
list points further east such as Cutler
Harbor, Campobello, and St. Andrews.
Names rugged shore is nowhere
duplicated. Differing entirely from
the greater part of the Atlantic sea-
board with its low sand or marshv
beaches, it stands rough-hewn by the
hands of Nature from the rocky ribs
of Maine. Like n vast fringe the pro-
jecting capes and promOntories extend
far out into the sea, while between
them the deep-blue neighboring ocean
thrusts its waters, tapping with a
ceaseless motion, her way farther and
still farther inluud, until the powerful
tides have woven passages for the sea
through and about the outer fringe of
headlands and pressing on have left
countless islands which dot the
coast in every direction. Later on
the tide of travel will turn toward
the lakes and woods of Maine
and the White Mountains of New
Hampshire. and then in the cool
months of October and Novem-
Der the hunting season opens, and
indications point the greatest ex-
odus of sportsmen to the wilds of
Maine that has ever been known.
A tour among the camps of the
Rangeley, Moosehead aud Northern
Aroostook County, reveals the fact
that new log cabins are being built to
accommodate the applications already
received for board and guiding par
ties. and more canoes are being built
this year in Maine than ever before.
From all parts of the world tourist
travellers come to the State OF Maine
and New Hampshire in increasing num-
bsrs each returning season, until they
have established their permanent sum-
mer homes, some opening their own
cottages, others leasing from year TO
year, either the houses they have oc-
cupied or re-engage their suite of
rooms at their tavOrite hotels and
camps. The Maine Central reaches
more summer resorts, than any line in
the United States, and furnishes I'M
equalled train service.