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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-21
RICHMOND LIVESTOCK MARKET.

RICHMOND, va, DeCeHHDtr 70, 1917.
Receipts: Cattle, COO head; sheep ana
lambs. $50 head: hogs, $50 head.
Sales: Cattle, 800 head; sheep ana
lambs. go head; hogs, $50 head.
prices: Cattle, best. 4 TO 8 lac. gross;
medium 10 good. 8 to 8 3-4c. gross; com.
mon to fair, 2 to 3-4c. gross; bulls, 2l-3
TO Sc. gross; sheep, 3 TO 41-2c. gross;
lambs. 4 to &c. gross; hogs. $3.50 TO S-'o
gross.
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NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

NEW YORK. December 20.-Flour-
Ouiet' armer, and held higher; rye nour
steady. buckwheat -four dull.
Observation-Disclosures at 35Q36c.
Cornmeal-Steady.
Rye-Ffrmer: No. 2 western. 50 1-2c.. c. l.
Barley-steady: feeding. Is 3-4c., c. 4. T.,
Bufalo: barley malt quiet.
Wheat--Spot strong; No. 2 red. 4.W I-s.
I. o. b., afoat: options opened nrmer on
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Richmond. Va, December ~, 1897.
Quotations.: Wheat-Longberry, 92 to
CSC: mixed. 81 to CSC; shortberry, 80 to
$50. No. 2 red, CSC. Corn-White Virginia,
bag lots, &c.; No. 2 white. 80 1-2c.; No. 2
mixed. S3c. Oats-No. 2 mixed. n l-2c.;
No. 3 mixed. &c; winter seed oats, 30 to
&c. Rye-No. 2. 53c.
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snec,aI services win be conducted eaeh
~, his week al the Union Gospel MIS-.
n ssa No 2. corner OF Twenty-hrst ana
Franklin streets. Rev. ,. =, Mss'i nni w..
nrsach tonight. Good music a spirit
ed singing every night
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I. j. w. Lockwood. cashier OF the
above-named bank, do affirm that the
above statement is true to the best Of my
knowledge and belief.
j.. w. LOCKWOOD. Cashier.
Subscribed and affirmed to before ms
this 2oth day OF December. 1897.
II. p. GRAY, Notary Public.
Correct-Attest:
II. r. ELLYSON,
l.. 2. MORRIS.
q. L. CHRISTIAN.
de q 1T Directors.
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leading FUTURES ranSeu as loiio"s'
Opening. Highest. Lowost. Closin

Cash quotations were as follows: Flour
firm. No. 2 yellow corn, NgZ7 Lie; NO, =
spring wheat, SSi,2aSs 1-se. No; : sprlng
2 corn, nan lac. No. 2 oats, Y 3-4c.; NO.
b.. 2sqAi-Sc. No. 2 rye, Size. No. 2
barley. (. o. b., 25a3Sc. No. l faxseed,
s1.1Sqsl.22. Prime timothy seed, G62l-2.
Lard. per loo pounds. A.s2 1-2aS4;65. Short
rib sides 1oose). A.52 k2qstSg; dry-salted
clear sides boxed. slH i-2@S. ,Whiskey,
distillers' finished goods. per gallon; Aas.
creamery, 15q21c.; dairy, E419c. cheese
quiet at SgS1-2c. Eggs firm; fresh, Ac'
CINCINNATI.
CINCINNATI, o., DecembeJ N.-Flour-
Dull; fancy. 81. S0qs4.@.
Wheat-Steady; No. 2, 9Sc.
~oSts-strons; No. 2 mixed, PAPA nc.
Rye-Quiet: No. 2. 46 lie.
Lard-Active and higher at $t.60.
Bulk Meats-Firm at A.S.
~Bacon-Easy at $50.
W~hiskey-Quiet at $l.l9.
Butter-Quiet.
S~ugar-Ffrm; hard, rehned' WI.
Eggs-Firm at 16 l-2c.
THE COTTON MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, December 20 p. M
~Cotton-Spot in fair demand; prices
| steady; American middling. $3.50; the
sales OF the day were 1000 bales, OF
| which 800 bales were for speculation and
export, and Included 9.l0o bales American;
| receipts. 1900 bales-all American.
Futures opened quiet but steady, with a
moderate demand, and closed steady
American middling, iow-middling clause,
December. 8 9-e4G3 t0-64d., sellers; Deem
| Der and January, 3 9~64g3 lO-s4d., sellers
January and February, 39-64d., buyers
ers: March and April. 3 lO-64d., buyers
April and May, 311-6+Q3 l2-64d:, buyers;
Nav and June, 3l2-64n3 bed, sellers;
| June and July, 313-6tG8 1i-6id.. buyers;
July and August, 3 l5-64d., sellers; August
and September, 3 1e-64d., sellers; Septem-
and November. s 17-64g3 is-64d.. buyers.
NEW YORK, December D.-Cotton-
| Steady: middiing. 5 7-sc. net receipts. IA
| bales; gross receipts. 10, 403 bales; ex-
| ports~-to Great Britain, 20 bales; 10
France. Cos bales; TO the Continent. liz
| bales; forwarded. 5.351 bales; sales, lW
bales: stock (actuaD, ll.37 bales.
Totals to-day: Net receipts. 1851 bales
exports-to Great Britain. 400 bales: 20
France, AIS bales: 10 the Continent. &s.'
Og7 bales: stock, 1.0s2, 60.
Consolidated: Net receipts, ozi,zS paies
exoorts-to Great Britain. 9.f2 bales; &c
France. 4.125 bales; to the Continent. d.
Totals since September list: Net re-
ceipts, 4,i69, 575 bales; exports-so Greal
Britain. 2.si5.7 rs bales; 70 Erance, 1851
bales: 10 the Continent, l.S6, 81 bales
Cotton futures opened quiet and firm
aales. s'so0 bales: January, S.7l: February
S.74: March. $50; April, S.S5; Nav. &S
June. 1894: July, 1888; August. 500; Sep
fember. s.: october. $.c2; December. sos
Futures closed steady; sales. ~.
bales; January, S.7s; February, WV
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FINANCIAL.
7 Per Cent. Investment.
Assets Nearly........$500,0 900.

A limited number OF FULLrPAln
SHARES IN THE UNITED BANKING
AND BUILDING COMPANY are oneEeo
for sale at 500 per share, with DIVIDENDS
al the rate OF Z per cent. per annum. pay
able s~emi-annually. on the first days on
January and July of ZACH year. II desired.
the full amount paid in can be Withdrawn
any time after two years. For further In
formation apply at the ONCE OF the coms
pany, s2i east Main street.
' no 7-su. Tu&Th2st
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state OF virginia. county Of Henricc-eess
Il j. r.. Glenn. caehier Of no
aboye-named bank. DO solenniy sWeAx
that the above statement Is true 70 tAQ
best OF my knowledge snd nsues
Subscribed and sworn 10 before M. thlo
Goth day Of December, Nl
correct-Attest:
FRED, w. SCOTT.
n. G. MORTON.
TuoMAS POTTS.
d. ma Dirsctesn
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sToCk SPECTATORS

STOCK sPECULATORS
WHO ACT UPON MY ADVlCES NEvET
fail 10 make good profits. ! give personai
attention to management OF accounts luz
one third profits. w. AfsD2i
22O Broadway. New fofk.
de 21-Tu&Th2t
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GRAIN AND COTTON EXCHANGE.

Quotations are for bonds maturing In nc
less thar ten years.
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BANK STATEMENTS.
DEPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
IL TBE NATIONAL BANK OF VIRGINIA.

TiRGINiA, At THE CLOSE OF BUsi-
NESS DECEMBER Is, 1897:
RESOURCES.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-04
BAN boo Culture.

The following article on the cult
walton of the bamboo in Southern
California, by DR.. F. Franceschi, we
find in that excellent journal, the Ru-
raj Californian. We reproduce it for
the reason that practically the same
conditions exist in Florida and South
ern California, and our people may
find food for thought in what DIR.
Francesca writes. He says:
Among the numberless gifts lavish
ed by liberal nature on this privileged
land, believe the principal one is the
possibility we have of gathering to-
gether the choicest useful and orna-
mental plants from every corner of
the earth, and having them grow and
bear often with vigor unknown in
their native countries. This work of
introducing and experimenting with
all kinds of desirable plants from
abroad is going on at an increasing
rate, and every year registers valua-
BILE additions to our fields and gar
dens, or records the starting of some
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-04

those two products have overshadow-
ed others, and practical examination
of actual results reached in growing
the crops familiar to the average far
mer makes an interesting parallel to
the grower of grain in the West
Many who are attracted toward
Florida abandon the idea of immigra-
ton because of ignorance of all that
pertains to horticulture in this eli
mate. But a comparison will show
that Florida can meet the West on
her own ground, and not be ashamed.
The parallel drawn by Mr.. Black
man, of Miami, on the east coast, is
full of instruction. Those who have
been taught to believe that the Flori
dian must starve if his early vegeta-
bles and oranges and pineapples fail,
may we'll study the comparison drawn
by him.
The character of the soil in Florida
is deceptive to the careless observer
who believes that FERTILITY exists only
in the black earth and stiff clay or
mari of the Western prairies or
Southern river bottom. But this
view is held for long only by care
less observer. Anyone who will
see the actual growth and practical
result will soon correct his first i'm
pressions.
The time has gone by when Florida
could be generally described as a
dreary stretch of desert sand. In
proportion to the population no State
in the Union receives more actual
cash for farm products State in
the Union can show one-half the clean
profit for the whole year. And in the
meantime the grove is growing and
health is nowhere so safe and COM
Portable weather so unvarying if the
whole year be considered.
And still the farming industries of
South Florida are in their infancy
and women and land are still cheap.
Only men and women are needed, the
rest nature does. The luxuries of the
sea belong only to the rich in the in
terror States, and so it is with the
health and enjoyment afforded by
semi-tropical fruits.
These the Florida Farmer can have
with little labor and less money, and
they certainly should have weight in
deciding a place of residence. Is it
nothing that we have no hard winter
of discomfort and idleness? No pneu-
monia and no sunstrokes?
But putting our special attractions
aside, read what Mr.. Blackman says
and Judge whether we have not even
then the better showing Florida
Citizen.
Bamboo Culture.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-04
A Florida Farm.

Florida's orange groves are famous,
and the profits on pineapples are al
most as well appreciated by the gen
eral public. But the Importance of
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-04

OF UnlS, why Is III CndU up TO Cne pres
ent bamboos have received so little
attention? Possibly because they are
not, as a rule, easily grown from
seed; or that almost all the varieties
at first introduced possessed but lit
tie value; and possibly to the prevail
ing impression that bamboos will sue
coed only near water, and plenty of it.
In reference to the first point bam-
boo seed are obtainable only at very
long intervals, perhaps of fifty years,
and soon lose terminating power.
Moreover, the small seedlings need
diligent nursing until the clump is
formed which will, however, be en-
dowed with extraordinary vitality and
power of reproduction. In reference
to the second point, the great bulk of
bamboos introduced into California
have been of the kinds grown in jap
anese gardens, generally of small size,
and have never taken the fancy of the
public Giant bamboos have always
been much sought after but difficult
to obtain. Lastly, the very name of
bamboo conveys to many people the
idea of luxuriant tropical vegetation,
possibly only in the vicinity of water,
while in fact some of the really giant
bamboos will endure long drouths and
torrid temperatures.
I~o 81 hi
for consolidating landslips, railway,
reservoir, and other entertainments, for
which purpose the running" kinds
will be more appropriate. For wind
breaks they are much preferable to
many other plants, as they keep on
growing thicker and thicker every
year without trimming or pollarding.
For such use the compact growing
| kinds, that do not send out runners
at great distances, should be selected.
In the same way bamboOs will make
impenetrable hedges, the spiny kinds
being the best, although they cannot
be recommended for enclosing pas
are rather too fond of them. In the
country, and in cities and towns WITH
out sewerage systems, the disposal of
waste domestic waters is often diff
| ficult problem to solve. A clump Of
bamboos planted on the spot to which
such waters are conveyed will rapidly
absorb all refuse, and their luxuriant
growth transform into thing OF
beauty and profit what would other
wise be an intolerable nuisance.
Nothing better than a row of baln-
boos can be found to prevent heating
and evaporating along water bitches
and water pipes of large size, if con-
ditions of the soil will allow.
When we consider the uses that can
be made of bamboos by landscape gar
deners and engineers; the picturesque
effects to be obtained, either with iso-
lated specimens or with large masses
of them; how they can be lined in
magnificent avenues, dotted on the
margins of lakes, used as under
growth under large trees,-as in many
cases they naturally are there is in
deed much to be said. However, can
not refrain from mentioning that in
| either small or 1arOn grounds nOthin~
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-04

FISK Dy IfOSC, Cne Planters Ol Jdlldlcd
are setting out many new orchards
and improving the old, neglected
ones.
Mandarins and tangarines have re-
Gently been raised successfully in
Florida, and these small 'glove or
anges" are in popular demand, al
though they cannot compare in fla
vor and sweetness with many other
varie,.es. They are introductions
from China, but they are now grown
in Malta, the Levant, the Azores, and
in Florida. They thrive upon small
trees, and produce abundantly, but
the stock has been successfully work
ed upon the ordinary orange trees of
Florida, making the products of one
acre much larger. The culture of
these varieties in this country is too
limited yet to say whether they will
improve in their new home, but deal
ers already seem to think that they
can detect a decided improvement.
Every visitor to Florida or Califor-
mia in the winter season is familiar
with the sour and bitter oranges
Many new conner into either State
has been severely taught the lesson
that there is vast difference in or
anges by plunging his teeth into
pulpy mass of sour Or bitter fruit
when he expected to taste a sweet, de-
licious morsel. Some of the largest
and most fiouriehing trees in Florida
produce oranges sour enough to make
excellent lemonade, or bitter enough
to quicker up the mouth of the most
hardened. Originally the woods were
full of these sour and bitter orange
trees, and the early settlers cut them
down as worthless, but to-day they
are budded with sweet fruits, to the
great profit of the owners. A wild
Indian grove" of sour or bitter or
ange trees is no longer to be picked
up for a mere song. No resident of
Florida is ignorant of their value.
The bitter orange was the original
Seville orange brought over by the
Spaniards, while the sour orange is
the ordinary sweet orange allowed to
run out through neglect. The latter
can be improved by culture, but the
bitter orange is distinct variety
that can be made marketable only by
budding and grating. By some
writer's the bitter orange is consider
ed the original of all our cultivated
fruits; but as there is a dispute. on
the point, it may be well to quote two
opposite opinions, and let the reader
take his choice.
''There is no instance of bitter or
ange tree from seed of sweet oranges,
nor Of sweet orange tree troIu the
seed of bitter oranges" says Gallesio,
who observed these results for sixty
years on orange trees around his
town of Finale. Directly opposite to
this is the following statement of Mr..
Macfayden, author of the "Flora Of
jamaica" at is a we'll established
fact, familiar to every one who has
been any length of time on the is
land, that the seed of the sweet or
ange very frequently grows up into
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umbrella handles, picture frames and
easels, and fancy furniture of all des-
criptions.
In years to come, when bamboos
have been widely disseminated and
possibly run wild where conditions
admit, it is not impossible that they
NAV be turned to use for the manu-
facture of strong wrapping paper,
for which purpose they are iii 'scci:.d
by other materials. the young shootsof
some varieties supplya wholesome and
pleasant vegetable, and also pickles.
Not less than $50 different kinds OF
bamboos are known to botanists, and
there are certainly many more from
various countries still undescribed.
With very few exceptions, all of them
could be grown in California, the
more, tropical kinds only in frostless
locations, but the number and species
introduced and available for general
planting is, however, limited.
L.
been introduced and recommend
able for ornamental purposes; their
stems do not attain much size; all of
them will stan. many degrees of
frost; will generally send out runners
so that they cover large surfaces of
ground in short time; conditions
favorable.
Arundinaria Hindsii. China and ia
pan; stems thin, Is feet or more;
leaves linear, that is, long and very
narrow, like grass, having an appear
ance quite distinct from other spe-
cies; availaule for bouquets, etc.
A. Japonica. Japan; known also as
sheathed, 10 feet high, with rather
broad, tender green leaves; one of the
hardest.
A. macrosperma. Southern Allan
tic states, forming there the so-called
''canebrakes;" slender stems, often
trailing on the ground, attaining Is
feet and over; fine pretty foliage;
very hardy.
A. Simoni. Northern China; stems
attain height of 20 feet in deep and
moist soil, covered with permanent
sheaths; leaves beautifully variegated
with white; very hardy and great
runner.
II. Bambusa.-Four species have
been introduced, not to mention 9th
ers of which precise information can
not at present be given. These will
not send out runners, ~ut grow in
compact clumps which become of
great size with age.
Bambusa arundinacea. India; stems
armed with prickles at the joints;
under favorable conditions will attain
height of 70 feet, and four inches in
thickness; this is considered by the
best authorities to be the hardest of
the larger growing bamboos, as it
will stand intense drouths and slight
frosts; has proved hardy at Santa
Barbara.
B. Castillonis. China and Japan;
quite hardy and ornamental; stems
golden-yellow, striped with green;
leaves striped pale yellow; attains a
boiuht Of On foot
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-29
Yellow Fever in Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, Oct. 27.-There is a gen.
uine case of yellow fever in Cincinnati.
The patient, August Wilke, is at the
pest house on the branch hospital
grounds at Lick Run. He is in a serious
condition, but was reported to be slight
y improved Tuesday morning. Wilke
returned to Cincinnati from Montgom-
cry, Ala. He lived with his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Bibent, of Cooper street,
Lick Run. AS he felt unwell he called
DR.. MADEIRA, who diagnosed the case
as yellow fever and reported it to the
health department Monday morning.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-29
PUBLIC LANDS.
The Military Reservation at Fort Randall
in South Ia Irnta Omen for Qccunancv.

The Military Reservation at Fort Randall
in South Dakota Open for Occupancy.
CHAMPAIGN, S. D., Oct. 26.-Long be-
fore daylight Monday morning scores
of soldiers gathered outside the United
States land office and remained there
constantly until the Office opened for
business at o'clock The occasion
was the opening of the military reser-
walton.
For the past two days intending
homesteaders have been arriving by
train and team.
In the line Monday morning was a
woman who had come over a hundred
miles to secure quarter section of
South Dakota land.
Many of those here to make entry
have been squatters on the land they
desire for several years and have eX-
tensive improvements. The claims of
many of the squatters conflict, some
tracts having two or three claimants,
and contests will be necessary to deter
mine who has the most right to such
tracts.
The Fort Randall reservation was
established by executive order June 16,
1860. A military post was established
there in 1854 The post was abandoned,
and an executive order of October 20,
1898, placed the reservation under the
control of the interior department for
disposal under the homestead law.
The reservation contains a total of
more than hundred thousand acres, a
portion of which lies in South Dakota,
the remainder in Nebraska. That por-
ton lying in this state was opened to
settlement Monday. In the early days
Fort Randall was the handsomest and
gayest of frontier military posts and
played an important figure in the early
history of Dakota.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-29
SMALL RIOT
In the Mining Village of BrOdericks, Pa
One Man Killed and Another Wounded.

In the Mining Village of BrOdericks, Pa
One Man Killed and Another Wounded.
WnKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct ga riot
occurred in the mining village of
Brodericks, this county, between IL
o'clock and o'clock Monday morning.
A bad feeling had existed for some
time past between the proprietors of
two boarding houses, John Bolich and
Geo. Hornick. Filled with liquor. the
partisans of Bolich attacked Hornick's
house with stones, axes and clubs.
They had nearly demolished the build
ing when John Garvea, a boarder, fired
from an upstairs window with a Win
chester rife directly into the crowd.
Steve Muir, one of the attacking party,
fell dead with bullet in his heart
Charles Sloch was wounded in the side
The invaders fell back when the shoot
ing commenced, and the arrival of a
number of constables put stop to
further hoStilities. A number of ar
rests were made. Monday.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-29
THE FORMULA
For Making Oxytuberculine, the New Con-
sumption Cure.

For Making Oxytuberculine, the New Con-
sumption Cure.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27.-Official no.
tice has been received by the Belgian
Consul, Leon GuAstain, that the minister
of foreign affairs had transmitted dOcu-
m ents concerning DIR. Joseph o. Hirsch-
folders consumption cure to the royal
academy of medicine of Belgium and
that the academy has commissioned
DR.. Van Lair, one of its members to
make an examination, the formula for
making oxytuberculine, which it is
claimed makes consumption durable, is
briefly stated as follows:
Veal is soaked in water and its juice
is then boiled and filtered. Glycerine,
peptOne and salt are put in the liquid,
which is made slightly alkaline with
carbonate of soda.
In this liquid the germs of tuber-
culosis are grown. When they are
fully developed the liquid with the
germs is boiled and filtered. The re-
sultant liquid is tuberculine.
This tuberculine is the basis of Mr.
Hirschfelder's preparation. Peroxide
of hydrogen is added to it ana the mix
ture is heated for 13 hours, at the end
of which time it is oXytuberculine. This
is clarified by a cauStic soda solution
and a portion of bOraX acid is put in to
keep it from decOmpOsing.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-10-29
Buried in Her wedding Dress.

CYNTHIANA, KY, Oct. 28.-The final
scene in the tragedy that deprived
poor Mary Burns of her life on her APP
pointed wedding day was enacted
Wednesday afternoon when the frail
body of the beautiful girl was laid to
rest in Battle Grove cemetery in the
presence of large concourse Of
friends, many of whom had assembled
for the marriage Tuesday. She was
buried in her wedding gown, and held
in her hand a rose from the bridal
bouquet. The aged father and mother
were bowed with the weight of their
sorrow, and their silent grief was pitt
full