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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-02-08

The Third Virginia Regiment Drum Corps
disccursed some very fine music while parad-
ing the streets of this city last night.
The saloon keepers whose licenses were re-
voked by the Corporation Court few days
ago will close business tonight.
Part of the foundation of house on the
northwest corner Of Duke and Henry streets
foil in day or two ago.
The Progress., 1896-02-29
Advantages of the Si!O.

l. The silo stores away corn mora
safely and more permanently than anv
ether plan. Silage is practically fire.
proof, and will keep in the silo irdef-
initcly.
2. Corn can be made into silage at
less expense than it can be preserved in
any other form.
}. The silo preserves absolutely all
but the roots OF the corn.
4. Silage can be made in The sum
shine or in rain. Unlike lay, it is in
dependent of the weather.
5. When corn is ready for the silo.
there is but little farm work pressing,
G. Corn is worth more to the dairy
as silage than in any other form.
7. AT least onethird mere corn ner
acre may be fed On silage than on dried
corn, stalks Or fodder.
s. Corn is fed more conveniently as
silage than In any other form.
3. Silaga Is OF most value when fe,
in combination with other food richer
in protein. It iG not complete food
10. Owing to its succulence and bulk
mess, silage is the best known substi-
tute for green grass, and Is therefore
especially valuable as winter food
Jersey Bulletin.
The Progress., 1896-02-29
Almost Buried Alive.

! The borough of Duryea, near here,
was the scene of considerable excite
mcnt recently when 1t became known
! that Mrs. Romanski, a Polish woman,
came near being buried alive.
| Mrs. Romanski is widow. She was
taken suddenly Ill and subsequently
grew worse until she showed signs Of
death. Toward evening she apparently
died. The ncighbors sent for an m
dertakcr Of this city. The body was
prepared for burial and placed In a cof-
fin.
Upon going TO the coffin where the
woman lay be began to fastcn the lid.
He had hardly commenced this when
the supposed corpse opened her eyes
and glanced about the room at the
weeping friends, as If at loss to UNI
derstand the meaning Of the proceed
ings. While her establishment was
great, that of the assembled friends was
still greater. but soon the scene was
changed from one Of grief to gladness.
A physician was summoned and in ex-
PLANTATION he gave it as his opinion that
the case was nothing more than one Of
suspended animation, The house hao
since been bosieged by people anxious
to sec the dead woman who came to
life, as they term 1t.
Mrs Romanski is much improved and
IS thankful that she escaped being bur.
led a.ive.-Philadelph Press.
The Progress., 1896-02-29
T HERE CAN BE NO SECESSION.
Ea-Fresidrnt Harrison Declares that IT
Would Ec m mpossibility.

Would 80 nm Imp"ssiblity.
! "Our government is not cGntcdcra-
ton of states but as strictly a govern
/ mont OF the people as is any state gov
crnmcnt," writes Ex-Prcsldent Harri-
son discussing This Country of ours
in Ladies' Home Journal. IT
Is true that the vote upon the adoption
originally and the vote upon amend
lncnts Is by states. in state conventions
or In state legislatures, and that in
various other ways the states arc rcCOg-
nlZed and used IN the administration
OF the national government. 1t could
| hardly have been otherwise But the
construction Of Mr.. Calhoun and Of
the ScCcssionists that our Constitution
Is mere compact between Independent
states; that any state may withdraw
from tho Union for any breach of Condi
tlons Of the compact. and that each
state Is to judge for itself whether the
compact has been broken has no sup
port ether in the history of the adop
ton OF the Constitution or In the text
or the instrument itself. The Constitu
ton and laws of the United States take
nod OF and dcal with each individual,
not as a citizen Ct this or that state,
but as a citizen of tho United States.
each of us owes allegiance to the
United States-to obey and support its
Constitution and laws; and no act nor
ordinance of any state can absolve rs
or make it lawful for us to dsobey tho
laws or resist the authorities Of the
United States. We owe another al
legiance, each to his own state. to sup
port and obey its Constitution and
laws, provided those do not conflict
with the Constitution and laws of the
United States. - The question
whether an act of Congress is unCOn-
stitutional, or whether an act
Of any officer OF the United States,
done officially, is unauthorized. must, of
course. be decided by the courts of the
United States-in the last resort by the
Supreme Court. A power in state
court to finally declare q law OF the
United States invalid would be degtruC-
tive Of national authority. and. indeed,
of the national existence. There can
be, in proper Constitutions, sense, no
secession and no war between state
and the United States, for no ordinance
the national authority or
resistance to it can have
any legal sanction, even when passed
by Il state legislature
The Progress., 1896-02-29

A great many farmers who regard
themselves as quite careful in the Sc
lection Of seed, content themselves with
making the selection at husking time
or from the crib, being guided by the
appearance OF the cor. This is not
sufficient, however, 10 secure the best
results. Prof. II. J. Waters, dean Of
the Missouri Agricultural College, mar
rates direct experiment on this poIut
The field waH gone through and fine
ears were selected from the large,
thrifty stalks having an abundant leaf
growth. Another lot of ears, equal in
size, was gathered from stalks smaller
and less thrifty. After the seed had
been gathered the one lot could not be
distinguished from the other 40 far as
the appearance OF the ears went. The
only difference was in the kind of stalk
that produced the ears. A field was
planted with these two lots of seed
All through the season that portion
which had been Arown from the seed
taken from the thrifty stalks could be
distinguished from the planting made
from the seed taken from the
less thrifty stalks. At harves.
time the difference in favor OF
the seed from the large thrifty stalks
with plenty OF leaf growth was SEVEN
bushels per acre, and Prof. Waters
thinks that if this process of selection
was carried on fo- a series of years a
variety Of corn could be considerably
improved on the one hand. or almost
entirely run out on the other. 1t fol-
lows, therefore. that the selection of
seed ears from the crib, being guided
by size and general appearance of the
ear simply, Is not sufficient, and that it
is quite as important to know the kind
of stalk that produced the seed ear as it
Is to know that the ear itself has the
size, form, etc, which suits the purpose
OF the farmer.-Farmors' Review.
The Progress., 1896-02-29
CUiture.

Iho average prices January | Of some
OF IN" principal farm products ~ the
markets where farmers usually market,
Such products. were as follows:
inc average price of wheat was 50
cents per bushcl; of corn 30 cents, and
or oats, Il cents. and the average price
OF nay was Sl3l2 per ton
Tho average price of fat cattle was
F-'S' per cwt,, of fat hogs, 1919 per
cwt'' and of dressed pork, $l.25 per
Cwt.
inc aycr's" price OF each class OF
horses was as follows: Under ono wear.
si9'o, between one and two years old.
S"t5' between two and three years
o'd, S3612; three years old and over.
$3.50.
Mlich cows were worth s2G45 pcr
mead Cattle other than mlch cows,
uhder one year old. were worth, pcr
head, $703; between one and two vcars
old, Sl24i; between two and three
years, $l9,1G; and three years old and
over. $3.50.
Inc average price Of sheep under ono
year old was s1.52 and one year old and
over, $l9l; and hogs under one year
Old were worth 1892, and one year old
and over, s743.
Inc prices here given are for the
state. For each class Of horses, sheen
ana hogs they arc higher, and for mich
cows and each class of cattle other than
mich COWS, lower, than the prices ruI-
Ing in the southern four tiers of coun-
ties.
compared with January I. 1895. there
mas been decline in the prices of all
'a'm products named In this report OK
cept wheat. hay. sheep and cattle.
wheat averages 9 Cents bushel, and
nay So'l' ton moro now than one year
ago Sheep under one year old have
advanced 20 cents, and those one year
ola and over, q cents per head and
the several classes OF cattle have adj
Vahced from to 2G cents per head.
Inc loss OH corn is IA cents, and on
oats IL cents per oushel.
The decline in fat cattle Is II cents:
rat hogs. u cents; and dressed pork,
u cents per Cwt.
The several classes of horses have
declined In value as follows: Under
one year old, s249; between one and
two years old. S4O5; between two and
three years old, $6,46; and three years
old and over, $S.l2.
Mich cows have declined S1.46 per
head.
Hogs under one year old average 30
cents less, and those one year old and
over, $l,36 less than year ago.
Horses three years old and over were
worth $3.50 on January /. 1890. Since
that date there has been decline of
$65.45, or more than IS per cent. The
average price each year since 1890
was as follows: 1891, S11I.16; 1899
$1O1.17: 1893, s91.91; 1894, S75.S3; 1895,
SCOTT, and 1895, S52.65.
Washington Gardner,
Secretary of State.
The Progress., 1896-02-29
Cost OF Family Berrles,

You can have strawberries on the
table three times per day until the last
of June, raspberries and strawberries
together for awhile. then raspberries,
dewberies, currants and gooseberries,
which overlap we'll on the delicious
blackberry, and then grapes until De-
csmbe1. Meantime an abundance OF
canned fruit TO last until fresh berries
pone again next season. These ~ ,et
The Progress., 1896-02-29

1t may be charity for Rockefeller and
Carnegie to erect living monuments in
the shape Of universities and libraries
but 1t IS not the highest type, for their
wealth Is gotten by doubtful methoaa
1t is unchristian for moneyed men 70
seize large pieces of property and profit
by the industry Of others without ont.
lay themselves. No man has a RICH,
70 get monopoly on anything.--ney.
Z. w. Williams.
The Progress., 1896-02-29

The beautiful castle Of Willie, ir
which the French revolution Of l78.
was planned, and where the conspirat.
ors met for long time, was recently
sold by the ex-president of the French
republic. Casinir-Perier, to a Lyons
brewer for 100000 francs. 1t Is pro.
posed to turn the historical castle Into
. lasee brewery. --'7------.-'
The Progress., 1896-02-29
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
hGRICULTURlST
Som" r.t"-nat" Hints Above Cultlv,-
ton Of tho Soil and Yields Theyerf-
culture
(From Farmers Roviowl

HE avcrago COndi-
ton Of stock in the
state is reported aa
follows. comparison
being with stock in
good, healthy and
thrifty condition ,
lIo" ns. % per cent :
sheep, 90 per cont :
cattle, 81 per cent.
and swine. 81 per
cent
The Progress., 1896-02-29

the stalc berries bought on tho mar,trt
but fresh and clean directly from thl
garden, and worth doublo as m"Cb a
the stale ones bought in town,
| think know something Of tho CO3
Of growing berries. and while "onC"1s
that they Vannot be grown rs Ch"lNly
in a small way ~ the wholesale grower
would produce them. yet viii contract
to pay the hired man his wages, buy the
plants and do all the work CoNNCCtod
with them till they arc ready for Nicb,
ing nj two cents per quart for GtrAwbor,
RES. raSp6nrries, goosnbcrrics and cur.
rants: hlackbcrrcs for three cents. aHI
grapes for half cent per pound. and
hayc them all ready for picking, AMI
, IN" latter work can DO done for ,c3a
'rOnblo than you can 20 to the grocer
for them.
BESIDES, If purchased vow mus ?;o-
due" something else to gr; the money.
fhcf you must pay ~" picking at least
TWO c"Nts per quart, boxes anl commits
sions to dealers n least 'hrcn cor,s
more. lou buy a crate and carry tAcin
nome, and before YOU can eat :h"m or
can thom up they arc stale and have
l"Nl 'hctr favor You have 50 many
that YOU are rushed TO gct rid Of them
/ before thcy spoil. and eat TOO many a,
once, often bringing on serious disor.
d''S, and then 20 without fer consider
able time. in fart. most farmers 20
without them pretty much altogether.
IN the eyes Of tho law i is rot a crime
to deprive your famil; Of these chrao
God~givcn delicious luxurios. But it -
an o:Icnsc against Thorn. and the rusn
OF the boys from the farm 70 the cities
| where they SEQ thing8 in great proru~
| sion. bears evidence that it has more
to do with the breaking I'D OF families
so early in life than any other ono
thing. A steady diet of hog and HON
my" pork and potatoes makes both
| boys and girls restless. ana thny long
for change
Dr. Vaughan. dean Of tho medical fac
ulty Of the university a. Ann Ayhor in
a lecture before the state Horticultural
Society, pointed ont that there wrro
many families seriously affected with
disease closely resembling sr,ryy
and the only cffectual remedy vet found
were the rich fruit acids. All such dis
eases had yielded promptly to this
treatment, a careful computation OF
your bills for medicine during the year
will show 1t to be considerably more
than the cost of the fruit garden, and
so in many cases you can take your
choice at the same price. 50 unless you
really enjoy Rrunting and sickness Won
should begin at once to prepare Tor the
spring planting.
Select the highest and best piece 6.
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
Split Celebration Likely.

A large number of prominent
mem bers of the Mutualista society
are kicking at what they claim the
unofficial action OF Francisco San
chez and others In making ar.
rangements for the celebration vi
Independence at San Pedro park
in the middle of September with
out calling a meeting or consult.
ing the majority. =
1t is likely there will be a split
and another celebration held at
Limburger's garden or Riverside
park.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
PERSONAL MENTION.

A. Castaneda, of Waco, is at the
Maverick.
q. r. wilson, Of Columbus, Tex,
Is at the Maverick.
Judge w. w. Martin, of Kerr
vile, Is at the Southern
G. F. Hodges, county surveyor OF
Kinney county, is at the Mahncke
Mrs. w. F. McCutcheon, two
daughters and son are at the
Southern from San Marcos.
n Messrs. ]. T. Burnett and Louis
Ulrich leave Saturday next for the
coast to try their skill at tarpon
fishing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
Farm Wages and Profits.

Ex-Gov. Boies, of Iowa, says he can
not pay the present rate of wages and
make his 3,500-acre farm pay. He
says that no farmer who has to hire his
help can make money at farming under
the gold standard. Ex-CongresSman
Bland says that wages of all kinds will
rise under free coinage.
It would naturally be inferred from
Boies' statement that he wants free
coinage to lower farm wages so that the
big farmers can make money out of the
labor of others. BANDS opinion eyi-
IDENTIFY is that free coinage would be a
good thing for the farm laborer and
therefore, so far as wages are con-
cerned, bad thing for the boss farm
ers.
The two leading free coinage advo-
Gates should get together. 1t might
also be well for farmers and farm
hands" to investigate these conflicting
statements,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
sayings Bank Depositors, Awake.

"All the great savings banks states,
with the exception of California, voted
for the gold plank at st. Louis" says The
Boston Transcript. "It is safe to say
that the vote for the gold plank stood
for nearly seven-eighths of the total de-
posits, and perhaps more" These de-
posits, amounting to more than S1,7oO,-
100000, are the rainy-day savings, as the
Transcript says, of the "toiling mil
lions" about whom the silverites are so
greatly concerned. The Transcript
adds: Reckoning their dependents,
these depositors stand for very con-
siderable proportion of the entire pop
'"'ion of the United States. If free
triumphs. these deposits will
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
A Boy Hurt.

Mounted Officer Herrera was
summoned to Speed street this
morning where a little boy about
9 or 10 years old had been cut on
the head with q sharp rock,
thrown by another little boy. The
boy throwing the stone was aim
ing at another boy, but hit the
wrong one. They had been play
ing all together. The officer saw
the boy was not seriously hurt
and as there wasno one
who would make charge
against the culprit, he made no ar
rest
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
Devises a Fishing Rod That Jerks the
Fish to the Shore.

A new friend of fishermen has been
found in Chicago in the person of Oscar
Plath, a butcher of 5126 South Artesian
avenue. He has been granted patent
on a fishing rod that will meet the APP
proval of latter-day disciples of Izaak
Walton. Plath claims to have discov-
cred the solution to the problem, how
a man may fish and sleep at the same
time. The rod and holder are poised
and cooked upon a strong spring. In
this position it may be left on the
shore by itself after the owner has
baited the hook and cast it into the
water. When a fish seizes the bait the
tug 1t gives the line opens trigger and
the fish is jerked ashore and landed
high. and dry by the uncoiling OF q
spring.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
DASH FOR LIBERTY.
An Italian Wife Beaten Dodges, But
Is Recaptured


Is Recaptured.
The Italian wife beater, Murallo,
fined 500 for beating his wife, while
serving out his sentence, was engaged
in pulling weeds out of the city hall
park Wednesday last when he made
n dash for liberty and before Jailer
Hardy could get to his horse the fell
low had disappeared.
As he had told Jailer Hardy that If
ever he escaped from Jail he was GO
ing to kill his wife, the officers at once
notified her that he was at large and
she fled with her two children, from
her home on Presa street and took
refuge in the house of a friend. A
watch was also set on the house.
During the night Murallo crept up to
the house and went in. Officer Bader
was on hand, but waited until officer
Mass came up and together, with
young man named Aleck Feldtmann,
they went in and grappled with their
prisoner and secured him after a
struggle.
He had spilled lot of sugar on the
floor in his search for provisions and
had bundle of his clothes when ar
rested. He was evidently getting
ready for trip to Mexico.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
FARM PRODUCTS.
Prices Have Fallen Because OF Increased
Production All over the World.

Prices Have Fallen Because OF Increased
Production All over the World.
@. Is it true that the price of wheat
and many other farm products has fall
en- heavily? a. 1t is.
Q. How are such declines, in wheat,
for instance, to be explained? A. By
the enormously rapid increase in grain
growing area throughout the world.
Q. Has this increase been especially
rapid since 1879? A. The increase in
grain growing area in this period, es-
pecially in North America, South Amer
lea and Asia, has never been approached
in any equal period in the history of the
world.
@. How do we judge of actual compe-
tition In the sale of wheat? A. BY
the supplies thrown annually on the
worlds great distributing markets.
q. What market in particular? A.
England, where most of the buying ma
tons go to purchase their grain.
Q. What are the figures? A. AS re-
Gently as 1880 Great Britain imported,
for consumption and reexport $780,
024 hundredweight of wheat-a large
increase over the preceding annual aver
age. In 1895 it imported s1,749,955
hundredweight.
@. What has made possible this re-
markable increase in wheat produc-
ton? A. The exceedingly rapid de-
velopment of transportation facilities
in newly cultivated grain countries;
among them India, Russia and the Ar
gentine Republic.
Q. Has there been an increase in the
United States itself? A. An enormous
increase,
@. How large? A. In 1875 there |
were 26,ss1,512 acres of wheat culti-
waited in this country; in 1891 there |
were 39,916,s97, an increase of so per
cent. The yield of 1875 was 292, 1885,
COO bushels, heavy increase over pre- |
ceding years. In 1891 the yield was
Gil, 7S9, 900. Even last year, with a |
greatly reduced acreage and partial |
crop failure, the yield was 467,100,000 |
bushels.
Q. Has the yield of other crops In
correspondingly? A. 1t has.
@. Give instances. A. The culti-
' ated area of corn in the United States
in 1871 was 34,O91,137 acres; in 1891
it was 76,204,515; increase, 124 per cent.
The yield of corn last year was more
than double that of any year prior to
1875. Both the acreage and the average
annual yield of oats have doubled since
1871. Our cotton crop in 1894 was so
per cent. greater than in any year prior
to 1887.
Q. Was decline in grain and cotton
prices under such conditions inev-
table? A. AS inevitable as decline in
the price of clothing or furniture or
books or steel rails or pins when compe-
tition in their manufacture has extend
ed enormously.
@. Would free coinage help the pro-
ducers of grain to a large profit under
such conditions? A. Not in the least.
@. Why not? A. Because If the NOM
inal price of grain were to rise through
initiation of the currency the price of
everything else would rise also, and the
farmer would be relatively no better off
than he was before.-N. Y. Evening
Post.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
Ended In a Fight.

AT a farewell party given at a
residence on East Commerce street
last night quarrel started be-
tween some Of the guests, at late
hour, and in the subsequent rock
throwing that ensued two glass
window plates in st. Joseph's hall
were broken. Officer Bourn was
summed on by the noise and arrest
ed Percy Drummer and E. r. Woods
for lighting. The recorder fined
each S. this morning.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-23
Having a Good Time. ~ ~

=, Harry Wheeler, who is at the
head of the Government Hill Reds
baseball team, which is making a
trip along the Southern Pacific,
east Of here, returned to the city
yesterday to celebrate his twenty
first birthday anniversary at home
and also attend to other matters.
The Reds are billed to play at
Waelder today. Mr.. Wheeler says
that the team has played ten
games on the road and won seven.
He says the boys are having a
good time and are receiving nice
treatment everywhere. The La
Grange team, he says, is the hard
est they have met, Patsy Cahill,
Harry Smith, Lesterjette, Tony
Garcia and other ex-Texas leaguers
being with that team.