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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-29
IDAHO'S VOTE.
Bryan's Plurality in the State Prove"
10 Be 1857.

Boise city, Idaho. Nov. 2s.-The vote of
Idaho as canvassed yesterday by the
state board was as follows Bryan 23.l92;
Mckinley, 6,32i; Bryan's plurality, Pesl;
prohibition vote, 1871; vote on equal fnn-
rage amendment: For. 12,126; against, 6@S2;
ma inrifv for amendment. 1881.
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A COURT HOUSE BURNED.
Most of the Records and Omcia1
Pnners saved.

Hamilton, Mo-. Nov. 2S.-The court house
of this county, at Kingston, caught fire
this morning at o'clock, and burned.
Most of the records and official papers were
saved. The fire was caused by a stove in
one of the offices.
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TWELVE YEARS FOR MURDER.
The Jury Brings in a Verdict in the
ParkersOn Case.

Petersburg, Va, Nov 2S.-The county
court of Surry has been engaged during
the past week on the trial of w. f. Par
kerson, charged with the murder OF Jo-
seph Stallings some months ago. The
iurv found the accused guilty of murder
in the second degree and fixed his punish
ment at twelve years in the penitentiary.
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Its administrations Traveller
Cpoling his head out OF the car-window)--
What place is This?
Native Qeaning against the depot)--Par-
adlse. Kaintucky. sub.
Facetious Traveler-It is. eh7 Well, this
is how far from where?
Native-Half a mile from the dstilluhry.
suh.--Pnck.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-29

Nashville, Tenn, Nov 2s.-Frank John
son. colored. was hanged at Columbia yes
terday for the murder OF Austin Rye.
whom he killed on Aug. 1, last, and after
wards robbed Of s.
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Preparing For Emancipation nay.

The colored people are arranging to cell
citrate emancipation day. Revs Alexan-
der Harris, president OF the Emancipation
Association. has called meeting at As
noon at o'clock. at which representa-
tives from all the military companies and
civic societies are requested to attend.
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Congressman Patterson 20 Contest.

Memphis, Tenn Nov. 2s.-Col. Josiah
Patterson. the incumbent, but defeated
candidate for reelection to congress. has
served formal notice OF contest on Il. W.
carmack. his successful opponent.
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CARPET WORKS CLOSED.
The ROxbury Company Throws 1900
Hands out of Work.

Boston, Nov. 2S-The Roxbury Carpet
Company has shut down its works in Rox-
bury for an indefinite period. The agents
of the factory give no reason for the shut
down. The company plant is the largest
carpet factory in New England, and when
running on full time employs from 1000
to 100 people.
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INAUGURATION OF M'KINLEY.
The Military Escort From Ohio-Gen.
Porter to Be Grand Marshal.

Canton, O., Nov. 2S--Col. George A. Car
retson of Cleveland, chairman of the
committee on escort to the President-elect,
has officially notified Col. George r. Gey-
ger of Alliance. o., commanding the
Eighth Infantry Ohio National Guard,
that the personal military escort of Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley from Canton TO
Washington will be composed of the
Eighth Infantry and the celebrated Troop
A of Cleveland, o., commanded by Capt.
r. Il, Burdick.
Upon its arrival In Washington the
Eighth Infantry will form as a personal
escort from the depot to the Ebbitt house.
after which the regiment will take it's
place in line with the Ohio troops, and
such other personal military escort duty
as may be required during the inaugural
ceremonies will be performed by Troop A.
The Eighth Regiment Infanty, Ohio Ma
tional Guard, is composed of companies To-
Gated in the various counties which Mai.
Mckinley has represented in congress,
and is regarded as one of the best ma
tional guard regiments in Ohio, and will
compare favorably with any similar or
ganization in the United States.
Cleveland, o., Nov. 2S.-Although the APP
pointment has not been officially given
out 1t is a settled fact that Gen. Horace
A. Porter. president of the New York
Union League Club. will be the grand
marshal Of the Mckinley inaugural cere-
monies on March 4 In Washington. Gen.
Porter returned to Cleveland this morn
ing from st. Louis. where he had gone to
confer with leading men there who for
years have been identified with the man
agement of the parade OF the Yelled
Prophet. He will be Chairman Hanna's
guest over Sunday, returning to New
YORK Monday. Gen. Porter conceived and
carried out the plans for the big parade
in New York in the late campaign, and
the ability displayed " manouvering the
immense column made deep impression
on Chairman Hanna and the appointment
OF Gen. Porter for the inaugural parade
is the consequence.
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London, Nov. 2S.-Tom Mann, the Eng
lish labor agitator, who was arrested while
attempting to enter the city of Ham
burg and expelled from Germany, has
arrived at Grimsby. Mann asserts that
if the sum of $4,000 could be subscribed
weekly for two or three weeks for the
support of the Hamburg strikers the
strike of the dock laborers there would be
a success
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HAMBURG's STRIKE.
Germans Less Exercised over 1t
Than Foreigners.

Ihan FOre1KnerSs
Berlin, Nov. 2s.-The strike Of the dock
laborers in Hamburg and Bremen is in
teresting the German public much less
than it interests the people of foreign
countries. This feeling is largely due to
the knowledge of the home public that
the strike agitations are futile on account
of the legislative restrictions, as under
the law of Germany, an International
federation of workingmen is illegal, and
the police are empowered to seize circu-
lars and dissolve meetings, and also 10
summarily expel foreigners concerned in
such agitation. The demands which are
being made by some of the English papers
for recognition of claims for indemnity
on the part of Tom Mann, the English
labor agitator, on account of his expul-
sion from Hamburg the other day are
sheer nonsense. The expulsion of Ben TIL
lett, another English labor leader, some
time ago, was not made the subject of
English diplomatic protest, although the
English papers have asserted that 1t was
Then London foreign office knew better
than to give the matter official notice.
The German shippers are taking the
strike very quietly and are confident that
it will not materially injure the flow Of
trade. t
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
Early Maturity OF HoEs.-

There is not so mach call now for
hogs that will keep on growing three
or four years before they reach matu-
rity, says American Cnltivator. The
large hog has always coarser meat
than the young pig, and the difference,
we suspect, is because there is always
some check to growth in cold weather.
Spring pigs, fattened in the fall, will
always make better pork than they
will If kept later. In these times, too,
the hog that weighs 200 to $50 pounds
sells for higher price per hundred
weight than one that is heavier.
Hence the early maturing breeds that
reach their full weight when one or
two years old are now the favorites
with farmers. But there is something
to be said in favor OF the heavy
weights. If not allowed to get too fat
the late-maturing hogs are better
breeders, especially for dams. A cross
of an early-maturing boar with a large,
long-bodied sow brings pigs that for
fattening are better than either breed
alone. They will be larger at birth,
and at ten to eleven months will weigh
thirty to fifty pounds more than the
full-bloods of either early or latc-ma-
turing varieties. One reason why late
maturing ows are better breeders is
because they keep on growing until
three or four years old. and therefore
their food does not go to fat so much
as that Of the early maturing breeds
which never attain large size.-Tarm
and Ranch.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
Kill the Hogs Early,

There is not zach profit in keeping
hogs till they are rolling in fat, as
used to pe tine common practice. The
pork is not SO good as that of hogs
that have been kept thriftily growing
and have less inside fat. What is more,
such pork IS naw much more salable
in all markets than is the heavy.
weight pork that was fo1snerly
most in demand. The use OF
cotton seed Oil in place of ard is
probably better for the heal91 of the
community than any other of the sub
stitutes for farmers products. 1t
makes it for the interest of farmers to
grow pork with a greater proportion
of lean. Such pork being more health.
full will lead to a larger demand for it.
-F$rmers' Home journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
ARMERANDPLANTE
ABOUT GRASS.

1t In One Of tile Three Gs!!s. Lauks IN
6 Agriculture.
Prof. Roberts, Of Cornell university,
at u recent farmers institute said:
There are three golden links in ag-
riculture, and if the chain be broken
you very soon find that, first, the land
suffers and next. the people suffer.
These links are implied in this state
ment: We raise a plant to feed an an
imal, to make fertility, to raise anoth'
er plant to feed another animal to
make fertility" This embraces all
there is Of permanently successful ag-
r%iculture, but there are innulnera bic
particulars embraced In this law that
are not stated. The plants, as well as
the animals, must be fed, and the
product OF the soil must pay a tax
to the farmer whose head direct and
whose hands perform the labor in
voIved in the operation. This theory
can not be carried out witkdet grass,
which must ever be the sheet anchor
Of successful farming, and the true
meadow grasses are large
and small producers of nitrogen-an
element necessary to their successful
growth. This nitrogen must be sup
piled Or the grass will de%teriorate.
Nitrogen exists a%bundantly in the air,
sparingly in the soil. A pasture should
improve with age. But the best peren-
NAL grasses will deteriorate or die ont
unless aided. All the substance taken
off yrhafhor oYnrc r1oaf wool milk mr.
butter, are mostly that much taken
from the soil. The place of these must
be supplied, one way or another. One
way is to purchase heterogeneous fertil-
izers, or make them elsewhere than
on the pasture land; another way is
to tear up the grass sod, cutting the
old hardened roots. and causing new
feeders to put out in search of plant
food, and scatter in clover (the Grim
son seems the best in most of the
southwest or, if there are places
where the grass is weak, a few COW
peas will gather nitrogen from the at
mosphere and distribute it where it is
most needed. Perennial grasses will
become weak if the roots are left TN
disturbed, because these roots become
hard, like heart wood in a tree, and
can no longer feed the plant. Tear
Ing these roots up new ones will grow
and the grass take on a nc.7 icGse OF
life. In Europe a harrow made of
sharp cutting teeth is used for this
purpose, and every two or three years
the grass is gone over with this imple-
ment, and the grass thus treated is
preserved for ten or twenty years, or
longer, in perfect vigor. There can be
no permanent agricultural prosperity
without grass, hence the best manner
of producing and preserving it is wor-
thy of thought. This requires that
nitrogen is supplied, either by direct
application, or by growing with the
grass such plants as have the power
to gather it from the great fountain
the atmosphere.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
HERE AND E

Fine feathers make fine scoring
birds, and win prizes. but vigor and
virility fill the egg basket.
Seven thousand horses were re-
Gently purchased in Washington, in
one herd, blythe Portland Horse-meat
Canning CoD The horses cost three
dollars per head.
ALL diseases of poultry are pre-.
ventable. How to prevent them is the
question. Proper care as to comfort,
cleanliness and wholesome food and
drink will cure most of them.
A few COW peas mixed will, the
horse feed. is said by those who have
tried it fairly, to add greatly to the
strength and durability of the ami
mails. Beans are used largely in many
parts of Europe as horse feed.
Farmers are reading more to-day
than ever before. They are becoming
more intelligent, and ought to be.
come more prosperous. They are
studying the problem of making the
most on the farms from the least ex-
penditures.
One of our live stock exchanges
says that nine-tenths of the cattle re.
ceived at the Great Western stock
yards are without horns. This is at
tributcd to chemical, mechanical and
breeding methods In a few years
horns will be a curiosity.
Poultry powders, patent foods,
cooked foods and condiments are of no
,use excepting in preparing fowls for
show or the market. Grain food, green
food, insects and clean water are all
their constitutions require to keep
them in good condition.
Animals can not thrive their best
when food is given them at any time
of day Or night which happens to suit
the convenience of the feeder. Irreg.
ular feeding disturbs and deranges the
organs Of digestion and assimilation,
so that they fai, to make the most out
of the food supplied.
When fowls do not seem to get
along well, the chicks puny, the hens
refuse to lay, and the male birds seem
to lack vim, there is something wrong.
If you can not find a probable cause
for the trouble, change their feed;
change feeding place; change runs;
change roosts; change something, un-
til you have solved the difficulty.
If we stint a ration we fail to make
all possible out of the food and out of
the animal. It is food consumed over
and above what is needed to sustain
animal life which gives a return OF
profit; so that fullest profit follows
fullest judicious feeding.
The more we look into the fodder
question the more one is convinced that
If the intelligent, economical farmer
will save everything which grows on
his farm suitable for forage, in ten
years he may be independent. able to
keep q years supply On hand 70 tide
OF an occasional year when it comes.
Anarchy and anarchism are never
found among farmers. Agriculture
tends to construct, to build up, to de-
velop, to make two blades grow where
one grew before. A well-cultivated
field is better than a waste piece OF
land or a desert. A well-cared-for farm
and neat houses. q happy family, an
honest and honorable citizen-ail these
ire the opposite OF anarchy and its
and are tbs product Of the
arms
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
Wintering Sweet Potatoes.

The following method l have found
to keep sweet potatoes in perfect order
until June: Procure a good supply of
pine straw from the woods In a dry
time and keep 1t under cover ready for
use. Dig the potatoes as soon as the
frost cuts the vines. If not convenient
to dig at once, cut the frosted vines off
at ONCE, or they will harbor fungus
growth that will damage the potatoes.
Dig on a warm sunny day; lay the per
tatoes along the rows as dug, and de-
not allqNsthem to be bruised by throwl
ing into piles. Handle at all
times IS gently as eggs. Allow
them to lie in the sun during
the day, and in the evening
haul to a convenient place. Place
q good layer a.foot thick of pine straw
on the ground, and on this pile the
potatoes in steep heaps, not over
twenty-five bushels in a pile. Cover
piles thickly all over with the dry
pine straw. Now build a rough board
shed over the piles and let them re-
main Until the weather grows colder,
or until they have gone through a
sweat and dried of; then cover the
heaps with earth, six or eight inches
thick and beat smooth. The impor-
tant points are, the sweating under
the previous cover of the pine straw
before covering with earth, very care
full handling and the board cover over
head. Dry earth keeps out more cold
than wet earth. IT for family use,
put in smaller piles, and take up an
entire heap at once for use, keeping
them in a dry. warm place while using.
IN. c. Experiment Station.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
FOR SALE.
b. BLOs,MFIELD.

Commissioner u. S. Circuit Court for the West.
ern District Of Louisiana.
Commissioner U. s. Court of Claims throughout
the United States.
Notary Public in and for the Parish Of ST. Ian.
dry. Office with Hon. John N. Ogden.
Particular attention given to Land Cases and
% Final Proofs. Collections In the Parishes Of
et. Landry and Acadia promptly attended to.
Pensions secured; Patents, Caveats. Tfade
Marks, etc., procured without delay.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
Good Food.

Now That the falling leaves foretell
the coming winter, wise f%orthought
should lead the owner of valuable
Jersey cows to provide foods that will:
in some measure take the place of the
health-giving grass. No food is sc
good for this purpose, perhaps, as good
silage, but for those who have no silo,
a valuable substitute may be found in
linseed meal. The old process meal is
preferable because it contains more
oil. 1t is a laxative and must be used
with discretion; not more than two
pounds a day. in two feeds. 1t is espe.
cially valuable to keep the the bowels
loose just previous to calving Farm
ers' Home Joutlal.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
Market.ng Fowls.

Fruit growersfare injuring their
business by bad marketing. and the
public, commission men and the bet-
ter class OF growers are grumbling
about it. Farmers and poultry and
stock growers are guilty of a similar
error. They can raise their produce,
but don't know how to market it, and
If they only realized this fact, this is
as important as any part of the pro-
ceeding. AS this item is intended for
the ponltry department, it viii refer
specially to .the marketing Of fowls.
As poultry raisers can not. like the
fruit men, conceal the bad specimens
by covering them with that which is
better, they mix all sorts-good, bad
and worse-in q rough and dirty coop,
and throw them on the market and
aslt: How much will you give3,
and tho .sasWss ~ 'Not wuel,' o.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
. MINERS
~ShG knaker" Brown Finds q TOrtu
Waiting for Him.

sSh6 knaker" Brown Finds q Fortune
Waiting for Him.
One Of the happiest men who have
come to San Francisco for many a
year was Shoemaker" Brown, a griz.
zled miner Of Forty-Mile Camp. Alas.
ka, who arrived on the schooner Pros.
per q few days ago from the solitudes
of the great Yukon.
Shoemaker" Brown was en- route to
his old home in Canada, where a wind.
fall of twenty-five thousand dollars
awaits him, and where he will soon
be united with his long-abandoned
family.
The old miner had wandered from
his home at Toronto many decades ago.
He was the proprietor of a prosperous
stationery business. but he left, as he
states, because of his wife's irascible
temper, which led her to desert the
household at frequent intervals. So
the old stationer packed his trunk one
day and left for Forty-Mile Camp
without telling anyone his destina-
ton.
About a year ago William Ogilvie. q
surveyor lOT Inc government,
met shoemaker" Brown at the Alaska
mining camp, and the old miner said:
IF You ' go to AS Sally street,
Toronto, you will see my name on the
sign, for / WIS a s~tationer there for
many years"
And when Ogilvie went to Toronto
he found the sign, though the name of
the street had been changed. When
he told what he had seer in Alaska to
. beautiful young girl in charge, she
burst into tears and said: HE is nv
father. long mourned as dead"
It then came to light that one Of old
'tShoemaker's' aunts had died a few
years ago. leaving him twenty-five
Thousand dollars. The correspondence
that followed led Thomas Brown to
abandon the lonely regions Of the
aurora borealis, where he had been
fighting an uphill battle for q liveli-
hood for many years, and reioin his
family in the precincts of Canadian
civilization.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
words to that effect, The manner

words to that effect. The manner
in which fowls arc marketed has a
tendency to destroy the public appe-
title for chickens. Every individual
fowl should be sold on its merits, and
this would be the case if good fowls
only, of uniform size and good condi-
ton. were coopel and sold together.
They would bring at all times a fan
price, while those not SO good, If
cooped together. and relieved from
the invidious contrast of better ones in
the same coop. would bring better
prices than they do. Retailers who
are up to snuff buy these mixed coops
at a low price, assert them to a reason
able degree of uniformity, and sell at
a good profit, one-half of which profit
the poultry raiser might have had if
he had sold only uniform lots. Mar
keting any sort of produce calls for
good business sense. and nowhere is
this needed than in the market
ing Of fowls.-Farm and Ranch.
Planting Fruit Trees.
If you w a piece Of land, even if 1t
does not contain more than five acres,
plant a portion of it to fruit. In a
small orchard it is a good plan to al
ternate apple and peach trees. In this
way you can plant trees much closer
together, as the peach trees will have
died before the apple trees are large
enough to interfere with them. Apple
trees should not be planted nearer than
two rods of each other. If they are, the
mistake will be noticed before they are
half grown. Plums, apricots and cher
ries may be planted 20 feet apart and it
will be a long time before they crowd
each other. Standard pears should
have five feet more room each way.
Dwarfed fruit trees are condemned by
some fruit growers as bearing early
and dying early. They may be profit
ably planted in a new country where
fruit is scarce and land cheap. Manure
a young orchard heavily and cultivate
it thoroughly. Plant small fruits for
the first five years between the rows,
leaving it SO you can plow one way,
especially where the tract is small and
land is dear.-Farln and Home.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11

"A slab in the great palace Of Nine
veh representa- a lady faintinr, and an
attendant holding . smelling bottle,
probably Of perfumes, TO Der nose 20
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
An Eniema.icaI BIZ OF Fare,

For a dinner served on the Dining Cars OF
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Raj.
way, will be sent to any address on receipt
of a two cent postage stamp. Apply 10
Geo. Fl. Heafford. General PassengerAgent,
Old Colony Building, Chicago, I'LL.
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The iarrow wood, which rows in
Australia Is almost the only kind
known to the lumbermen which effec-
lively resists the depredations OF in
sects. Not m insect will touch it.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11

s"NHAT is the fastest race You ever saw"
"INcll, the French race is about as fast as
anY.o-Pick-Mc-Jp.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-11
Confinement and Hard Work

1naoo1s, particularly in the sitting posture,
are far more prejudicial to health than cx-
cessive muscular eXertion IN the open ale.
Hard sedentary workers are lar too weary
after office hours to take much nccdful cxer-
Csc in the open air. They often need 4
tonic. Where can they seek invigoratlon
more certainly and thoroughly than from
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, 4 rc~novantpa
ticularly adapted 20 recruit the cx!lallsteu
kidney. liver and rheumatic ailments.
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Ripans Tabules cure bad breath.
Ripans Tabules cure torpid liver.
CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY

Ihave berries, grapes and peaches
year old. fresh as when picked
| use the California cold process,
do not heat or seal the fruit. just
put it up cold, keeps perfectly
fresh and costs almost nothing;
can put up a bushel in ten minutes.
Last week I sold directions to-
over 40 families; any one will pay
dollar for directions, when they
see the beautiful samples Of fIuit.
AS there are many people poor
like myself, I consider It my
duty to give my experience 10
such. and tceI confident any one
can make one Or two hundred dol
lars round home in few days I
will mail sample of fruit and COM
plete directions to any enc Of your
readers for eighteen two cent
stamps, which is only the actual
cost of the samples, postage, etc.
to me. FRANCIS CASEY, g.
8-I4 St. Louis, Mo.