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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-18
oUARrERMAsTER's DEPARTMENT.

Lieutenant Colonel JAMES ". POPE. Majors GUY
HOWARD NOBLE H. CREAGER. JAMES Il. ALE
SHIRE SAMUEL r. JONES. J. ESTCOUKT SAW
YER FREDERICK Won ScHRADER. OSCAR T.
LONG. MEDAD G. MARTIN. THOMAS CRUISE
FREDERICK g HODGSON EUGENE 4. LADD
JOHN NJ. CARSON. Jr., GEORGE RUHLEN, EDGAR
h. ROBERTSON. MORRIS G. HUTCHiNS, OTTO H.
FAIK. JAMES L. WILSON. JOHN b. BELlINGEk
, LEON A. ROUDIEZ. WILLIAM II. MILLER. AN =
DREW @. G. quay, CARROLL DEVoI. CHARLES
h. THOMPSON; JOHN G. " BROOKS. ; J0H 81; j.
NJ sCHgE1NER. HALDIMAND p. YOUNG
oTiAINCEY b BAKER WILLIAM J. WHITE
Captains CHARLES g wALCUTr. Jr.. ELIAS II
PARSONS EDWARD G. MCDOWELL CHARLES
VI AUGUR. ABRAHAM s. BTCKHAN. GEORGE g
BAILEY CHESTER T. WORTIIINGTON. GEORGE
). CARTWRIGHT. Cecil. w. KING. LEWIS v
WILLIAMS. GEORGE MWIIIIAMSOS. GEORGE
D. PALMER. AMOS W. KIMBAII. MOSES VAL
TON. Jr.. CHARLES J. GOFF. ROBERT L. BROWN
THOMAS SWOBE. WALTER ALLEN, CHARLES O.
sAwTELLE. Jr. ALEXANDER ". PERRY. CLYDE
y. PATTON. JACQUES DE l.. LAFIrTE, WILLIAM
NJ EKIN. SAMUEL V. HAM. WILLIAM NJ. COT
LING. RAYMOND sULZER JOHN j. BRADLEY
JOHN W MHARG EDWIN X. BUTLER HARRY
b. CIIAMBERLIN. WILLIAM s SCOTT CHARLES
T. BAKER. WILLIAM 9. II. COIQUoHOIN.
THOMAS DOWNS. WALTER b BARKER, MARION
VI. MMILLIN. GEORGE l. GOODALE, JESSE NJ
BAKER JEREMIAH H. DARE JAMES 3
MICHAEL. WILLIAM D. HAAN, WILLIAM WEI
GEL. CHARLES TAYMAN. WILLIAM II. HAY.
CHARLES Y; sYMMoNDs ) \ MAsoS y, B sbGHT
LOUIS GARRARD. WILLIAM r. HORTON VIII
LARD A. HOI.BROOK, WILLIAM T. CANNON.
NATHANIEL 7. BATcHELDER. IRA l. FREDEN-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-18
VOLUNTEER STATE OFFICERS RETAINED

Washington. April 1.-THE following are the VOL
unteer staff officers retained In the Army under
the act of March 2, 1899. Some of them were dis
charged and recommissioned. while others hold the
same commissions they received in the war:
ADJUTANT-GEN DEPARTMENT
Lieutenant Colonies EDWARD J. MCLERNAND. WILL
lam V. RICHARDS and THOMAS Il. BARaYs and
Majors CLARENCE u. EDWARDS, GEORGE IL
HOPKINS JOHN A. LOGAN, LYMAN W: Y. KEN
NON. HUGH l. SCOTT. J.. FRANKLIN BELL
SAMUEL u. STURGIs, PUTNAM b. STRONG and
HENRY c. cABELI-
INSPECTOR-GENERALS DEPARTMENT.
Lieutenant Colonies MARION p MAus. JOHN d
MILEY and PHILIP READE, and Majors RI SELL
b. HARRISON. CHARLES g. STARR. ROBERT H.
ROI.FE. CUNLIFFE II. MURRAY, ALFRED G.
SHARPE PARKER WEST and JOHN %. MALLORY
JUDGE ADVOCATE = GEN ERALS DEPART
MENT.
Lieutenant Colonel ENOCH II. CRowDER and Majors
EDGAR ). DUDLEY. JOHN A HULL. CHARLES
MCCLURE HARVEY p. cARBAUGH and GEORGE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-18
ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS.
Washington. April 1.-THE following Army an
Navy orders have been issued


Captain HENRY d. BORUP Ordnance Deparm w.
proceed TO New-York City. assigned to inspection
duty.
Captain ROBERT +. BtJLLARD, commissary OF SUD
sistence Will proceed from Opelika. Ala. Via san
Francisco 10 Manila for duty.
Major JOHN r. MDII brigade surgeon Is rehe'ed from
Camp Columbia. Havana and VIII report 10 inc
Surgeon-General
First Lieutenant WRIT ROBINSON 4th Artlliery, WIZ
report at New-York for transfer OF his quarter
masters property accountability.
First Lieutenant SAMUEL E. ALLEN. 5th ARTILLERY now
Fort Hancock. Nev-Jersey. VIII proceeu " fo't
Hamilton, New-York for duty
Captain ANDREW II. RUSSELL. Ordnance department.
will proceed 10 st. Paul TO inspect gun carriages.
|. Second Lieutenant CARROLL F. ARMISTEAD. "a Ar
tlery transferred from Battery to LAsht battery
A Of that regiment.
Acting Assistant Surgeon ROGER POST AMES VIII pro-
coed from New-Or 10 Havana for duty.
ROBERT ] GIBSON. surgeon. II relieved az Fort
Meade. Will proceed to San Francisco Tor duty
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-18
The following officers OF the Artillery arm recent
" promoted are ASSIGNED to regiments indicated:

Captains promoted from first lieutenants iANlU ~,
IS &1.i h Ai EPwXRp SATiIS H5,
E :Ta SR%HS g. 54R aS5PIt n 2 to
E ygHE cHi HAEEHh1S Il: Il A5si;S:
CHARLEs Z PIPs an 9,s an h4 A1lsy E SH
MAESo "a A5!isT eH < vAS D EHsAT
list to 7th Artillery: GEORGE T. BARTLETT Sd to
80 Artillery
fRASK " eoE is to Batter a Will /
HnsFE HA7 wHlrN u III to - Batter
B. 'e eMks 4 SHlr sSMM 1sf Il A
70 g q t Hf. Battery battery NJ 4 oT WxM
9 g q q AF g X Rss J 81 RMIqnT 8
.h to an AIs Bae VILLAIN M nHE 8 datraSHRb
4th to Attn ARTILLERY Battery b; EDWIN l LANpoN
"a N e t'e sh A To sS EassIy Johnson HIcooD
list 10 ist Artillery.
caOsa 6AvP fHSE MARD and HAfI9S amt
EDWIN LANDoN viii join their regiments
Captain HESRY RA A s sepo at augusta Ga for
examination fo- promotion
Colonel FRANK Il PIIpPs ord, Ordnance De
partment in addition 10 his present duues, w. a.
der depot Dover y j.
First Lieutenant CLARENCE j. MANLY. assistant sur
is appointed acns @ssisian S sasg S Sn
at Newport News. to relieve Captain Charles "eiser
commissary.
Assistant surgeon JOHN 2 BRAcK IKE ri Is IRE re
coed Fort Monroe TO Washington
Captain SIDNEY e. STUART. Ordnance Department, VIII
visit Sandy Hook proving ground to test powders
Major JOHN MCCLELLAN. Ordnance Department Will
proceed Hancock to Washington on business
pertaining the ordnance depot in Cuba
Tho following second leutenants recently ap-
pointed will proceed to Columbus Barracks for re-
cruiting service:
FREDERICK r. DE FUNIAK. Jr. PAUL HURST
REUBEN SMITH, GEORGE r. BALI. GOODWIN
ORDwAY. WALTER E. STEWART Jr GEo ly 5
TIFFANY. FREDERICK W. HERSHIsER JOHN H.
SANFORD and BENJAMIN II. DORCEY. recently
appointed from corporal, Battery G. 4th Artillery
NAVY.
Naval Constructor T F.. RUHM. detached from Nav, Navy
Yard, Mare Island April "a and ordered to Eliza
bethport " j. as experimenting constructor OF the
Florida Nicholson and O'Frien at Crescent Shipyard
and OF the Bailey. and Wilkes at g Ia Sea
bury's. Morris Heights, n y
Assistant Naval Constructor II A. EVANS is detached
from Crescent Shpyard. Elizabethpor ~ j. and
ordered the Navy Yard Mare Island
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
winter work n the Vineyard.

The owners of vineyards in the South
ern states will find the months of Janu-
airy and February the most favorable for
che main preparation for the next crops
such as trimming, pruning. fertilizing and
blowing, but for setting out new vines the
latter part of February or middle of
March is the best time, writes a CORE
spondent of the Florida Agrculturist.
In an established vineyard, If the crop
of the previous season has been a heavy
one, there is sure to be a good deal of
trimming on dead wood to do and after
that is attended to, the pruning proper
is next in order. Some men prefer to do
the blowing before pruning, but 1 think
the best way is to trim the prune firsr,
and burn up all the rubbish caused there
by and after that fertilizing and blowing.
I don't need to refer here TO the particu-
lar methods of pruning in vogue in diff
ferent parts of our country, because every
one has got to use a good deal of hard
common sense to guide him, let the sys-
tenn on which he works be ever so well
defined; this with the enormous number
OF the different varieties in cultivation
renders hard and fast line in grape prun-
ing an impossible thing to follow An
other obstacle to any definite plan in
pruning is the form of training of the
vine, some having their vineyards trel-
Used with wire, other preferring to have
a post TO each vine and training ii on
that, and each different method of train
ing the vine, making the pruning differ
ent as we'll
have tried both of the ways OF training
the vine, and after number Of years ex-
perience find the single post TO a vine sys-
tenn the best for this section. and one
very strong point in its favor with me
is the facilities it gives for thorough Gull
tivation in being able TO cultivate or plow
both ways, a thing you cannot do when
wire is used.
The most important work of the whole
year however, Is the fertilization, and
question that often arises among hortcul-
turists is, should ferGlizing or p,owing
be done first in the vineyard?" And this
is another point on which experts differ,
and it is like the pruning question, best
solved by individual experience. Some pre-
fer broadcasting the fertilizer and plow-
ing it under with an ordinary turning
pillow; this method finds universal favor
when the vineyard is located on heavy SOIL
but where the soil is sandy or gravely
or both, the fertilizer is best applied af-
ter the first blowing and mixed in the
soil with either cultivator or harrow.
There are advantages, however, in both
ways, all depending a good deal on the
season being a favorable one or not. In
the former plan. the fertilizer is put deep
in the soil and the root feeders get it
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
The velvet Bean as Humus Crop.
Something OficiaI.

This has been cultivated at Baton Rouge
and at Audubon Park for two years. says
the Director of the Louisiana Experiment
tai Station. The seeds were obtained from
Florida, where 1t is cultivated as an or
namental plant II is of ancient origin.
and is wei known in some countries. In
the United States it is probably not known
outside of very limited regions in the
South. The Florida Experimental Station
published an article on the plant in a bull
letin issued in 1895, with the suggestion
that it might be made an important field
bean. Chemical analysis were made with
the result that showed the velvet bean 10
contain for a given weight compared 10
the same weight of cow-pea vines about
one-fourth as much ash, one and one-naif
times as much protein. three times as much
fat, less than one-third the amount of
fibre, and one and one-third times as much
nitrogen-free extract. Therefore il proves
10 be superior, pound for pound TO the
cOw-pea. No doubt 1t will surpass Tie
cOw-pea in productiveness, as it is one of
the most luxuriant growers ever planted
on the station grounds IL also produces
an enormous yield of seeds, but the seeds
mature late in the season and are liable
before all are matured TO be caught bv
the early frost. When planted i'm the
early spring, the vines soon cover the
ground and make a dense shade that lasts
all summer, choking out all kinds of Ua-
tive grasses, and is probably the best
thing we can use to fight the almost ire
pressible COCO grass or knot grass (Cv-
perus rotundus)
1t should be planted in very early spring
if seed is desired, but may be planted Ia
ter If only vines are wanted for hav If
may be cut almost any time after a good
growth of vines is secured and will cure
readily, making a good quality of hav.
1t dries out a little quicker than cowpea
hay on account of the stems being some
what smaller 1t Is a heavy nitrogen gath
erer and the tubercles are the largest of
any plant that has been grown upon the
station grounds. Coral-like clusters Of
tubercles, making a mass as largo as a
hens egg. may be gathered from the
roots, and this mass contains about sly
per cent. of pure nitrogen, according to
analyses made by Mr.. Clarke in 1896 The
vines may be cut for hay which is easily
cured and which is greatly relished bv
all kinds of stock, or turned under with
disk pillow for improvement of the soil.
Before midsummer the old leaves begin
10 fall about as fast as new ones are
formed, and the ground becomes covered
underneath the vine with the dead leaves
which make a very excellent manure. The
plant has not been thoroughly tried vet in
the field, but everything seems to indicate
that IL will prove to be a very excellent
plant. AS the racemes of pods are large
the seeds can be gathered very rapidly
but they are difficult to shell from the
pods. The seeds are much larger than
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
Keen the Horses, Feet CIenn.

Farmers and horse breeders could cearn
a lesson from the big city stables in the
care of the horses feet. When they come
in at night they are rubbed down and
their feet cleaned. Any mud, manure or
gravel that may be in the bottom of the
foot is carefully cleaned out with foot
hook, so that the frog is clean and thus
kept healthy. On many farms we see the
horses go days and weeks without their
feet ever being cleaned out, and the foot
becomes foul, which often develops into
thrush, and the horse goes lame just from
careless neglect. When on the roads or
in the fields horses are more apt to have
Clean. healthy feet than when kept stand
ing in, the stable. A good hook should be
kept 10 the stable, and every horse should
have his feet cleaned, if not daily at least
weekly, and if you find bad feet from neg
lect after thorough cleaning, let the horse
stand on clean moist clay or put in the
frog OF bis foot cslomel, iodoform, hippa-
cea or powdered bluestOne. Care to pre-
vent foot diseases should be enjo!ned on
an about the stable to keep the feet clean
and trim the colts feet to make the foot
and ankle grow straight. These are little
things that il pays TO carefully attend to-
Every person who owns a valuable horse
should heed the above suggestions. Few
realize how injurious il may be to the
horse to have his foot constantly packed
ger of thrush from any foul matter, there
is the danger Of getting a small stone i'm
bedded into the foot which win gradually
work tsef upward and ruin the hoof
only shod horses of course are liable to
packing OF the foot.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
BANKER CLEWS' VIEWS.
The Financial Outlook as Seen From
Wall Street.

New York, Jan. &.-"The business of
the Stock Exchange for the past week has
exceeded everything in the history of
that institution. Mondays sales beat all
previous records; 1,721 600 shares were re-
ported as having been dealt in, and it is
fair to assume that $1,000 or more shares
beyond that went by default during the
excitement prevailing. The previous
largest number Of transactions was Feb
20. 1898, when ], Az, 900 shares were dealt in
That was the memorable Philadelphia and
Reading day when Mcleod got supreme
control of the anthracite coal output. For
the first four days of this week, the trans
actions aggregated 5.775,0 900 shares; for the
same four days of last January, the sales
were l, 467, 1909 shares.
These totals may, in some degree repre-
sent the large increase, in late years, of
the amount Of securities dealt in on the
exchange; but they still more express the
pitch of enthusiasm to which the current
expectations of national development have
raised the public mind. WaH street has
never before witnessed such a flood of buy
ing orders as has been represented in these
operations. The extraordinary volume is
not due so much TO the manipulative ma
neuvers of professional operators, as to the
continuous stream of orders coming from
all parts of the country The main cause
of the activity lies in the mail orders from
the considerable class in the interior cit
les and towns who have been making
money for the last two years of abundant
crops. while New York has been grumbling
about unsatisfactory business. Those
profits have gone into savings as much
as into increases of ordinary expenditures
and the current excitement Is bringing out
the hoardes partly for permanent invest
ments, but perhaps more for speculative
ventures. We have therefore an out
siders" market in a sense and to an extent
never before witnessed; and it is the large
ness of this sanguine element, much more
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
Farm News and Notes.

The farmers of Indiana lost last year
nearly $4,000 hogs from cholera. The ag-
gregate value of these hogs was 100000.
Clean Cows.-A mich cow should be rs
carefully curried and brushed as the finest
blowing horse. The daryman that gives
attention to this important detail will GER
tainly be paid for his trouble in the end.
1t will soon become known that the dairy
man does everything in his power to fur
nish the very purest and cleanest of milk
and discriminating consumers will be will
ing to pay % to 50 per cent. more for such
milk Thousands of children die every
year from merely having been fed milk
that was impure and rendered so IN a
great measure by the fact that the COWS
were in a chronic state of unceanness.
Ginseng Every now and then We see
in our various agricultural journals ar
ticles recommending the culture of gin
seng as profitable crop Frequent in
quiries come 10 these journals desiring the
facts relative TO the culture of the plant
The kentucky Experimental Station mas
recently issued an elaborate bulletin (No
7S), on the subject of ginseng. Any person
enthused with the idea of making a money
crop of this root would do well to send
and get the bulletin and thus secure the
facts regarding its culture, etc. There is
not much risk in asserting that there are
not many persons, North or South, that
are likely TO find in ginseng culture step
ping stone 10 fortune or even abundant
pin money.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
FLORIDA.

Owing to the prevalence of the measles
at Crystal River the public school has
suspended for a week
The Polk county fair is said to be a sure
thing. 1t is expected that the exhibits this
year will be much better than last year.
There is Indignation at Miami over the
failure of the committee on rivers and
harbors to include Miami in the list of
appropriations.
A prominent lumber firm of Fernandina
says that in order to get a steamship
line from that port to New York that
they will guarantee one million feet per
month, and that other firms there would
do likewise.
There is probability of a military COM
pany being organized in Gainesville short
~. A company can easily be organized II
an assurance from the adjutant general of
the state is obtained that they will be ad.
mitted into the state troops
Mary Hopkins. a negro woman living
in the suburb of Leesburg known as New
town, died last week. said 70 be li2 years
old. The evidence seems to sustain her
claim to being more than centenariap.
for she had a daughter, Aunt Louisa Jen-
kins, who died there several months ago
at the age of IS years.
Brooksville News Register: DR.. and
Mrs. LeHardy OF Savannah, Ca. arrived
last Friday and are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
A. G. Groom. The doctors health has
failed under the pressure of a heavy prac-
tice and he Is trying to rest up and recu-
perate. lie could not find more congenlal
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
GEORGIA.
FLORIDA
AND CAROLINA


surroundings than at the hospitable home
| OF Mr.. Groom.
The phosphate miners have been great
y Inconvenience during the past two
months by rain. which prevents them
from operating in the pits. Bad weather
is one Of the worst enemies Of phosphate
mining and is an expensive one.
There is to be a very large acreage of
canteloupes planted this spring in the
! Alachua and Marion truck farming belt
Those who planted canteloupes last year
made money from their crop and this has
served as a means Of encouraging others.
Kissimmee Valley Gazette: Twenty-Five
miles Of hard roads have been built
around Leesburg by private subscriptions
This is no fairy tale-but an actual fact
The people Of Leesburg may well be con-
sidered the most enterprising and public
spirited in the state.
The report comes from nearly every sec
ton Of Orange county that the mild
weather and frequent rains during this
month have had the effect of giving a
most promising outlook for the fruit and
vegetable growers. There is said 10 be
a larger acreage being made ready for
spring vegetables than has been the case
for several years. Money bringing crops
are promised in every locality, and a feel
ing of restored confidence is noticeable
all round about.
San Antonio Herald: Through the acct
dental fall of a condemned pine tree one
of the colored churches in the Klondike
turpentine camp was crushed to pieces and
it Will have to be entirely rebuilt. The
church is presided over by the Rev DR..
Harmon of Ocala, a colored medco and
divine, who has won fame and celebrity
by being the possessor of an X-rey outfit,
which he uses frequently in determining
the character of the various complaints
with which his patients are afflicted
Bishop Whlpple, now at Lake Maitland,
who has been many times honored by Eng
land has again received an invitation to
represent the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the United States at the great occasion
of the one hundredth anniversary of The
Society of Domestic aud Foreign Missions
which will take place i'm London next
April. This invitation has been repeated
by the board of missions in America. 1t
will be grand celebration with repre-
sentatives from all parts of the world. and
certainly no one is so well fitted to repre-
sent America as Bishop Whipple, the no
bic and eloquent apostle of missions
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30
TAXATION OF COLLEGES.
A Test Case to Be Carried to the Su-
preme Court.


Athens. Ga, Jan. 29,-There will he "a
test case carried to the Supreme Cour,
soon to decide whether or not Lucy Gosh
Institute and other institutions OF rz,,
character are liable for state taxes. Re-
Gently the Supreme Court decided in Tho
case of Mundy, sheriff, VS.. VanN Hoose. ~
al, that went up from Hall Superso,
Court, that the Van Hose Academy there
was subject 10 taxation and that all M
stitutons came in the same class where A
profit arises and where board and tuition
are charged.
Under this decisiona movement was
made to tax Lucy Cobb Institute. and
President Hull of the board of trustee,
wrote Controller General Wright, asking
him if Lucy Cobb Institute came und.r
the decision above mentioned. ATTORNEY,
General Terrell informed him that in his
opinion IL did. Consequently, the tax col
lector of Clarke county issued an execu-
ton against Lucy Cobb Institute ana the
sheriff made the levy. The institute win
fight the payment of the tax and has en-
ployed Judge Alex S. Erwin to represent
its interests. The point is made that an
the money arising from the lease Of The
Institute goes under the lease contract tS
repairs on buildings, grounds and equip
rnent and no profits arise to the stockhold-
ers, President Hull says that if Lucy
Cobb Institute is covered by the decision
in the Van Hose case, then is also
Mercer, Emory, Wesleyan and numbers Of
other institutions throughout the state.
The progress of the Lucy Cobb Institute
case Will be watched with interest. as
upon its settlement depends the status Of
quite large number of educational instI-
tutions in Georgia.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30

the cowpea. and there would be a less
number per bushel. but il they are plant
ed from two to three feet apart each way,
it viii he ample to make very heavy
mat or vine and a bushel will plant more
area than a bushel OF cowpeas. 1t IS ad-
visable 10 plant in rows and cultivate
once or twice the same as cowpeas when
they are sown in drills.
The agricultural press has given con-
siderable notice TO this plant during the
last year. Those attempting 10 give a
scientific name have given that of Doll
chos multihorus. This, however, is mis-
take. and should be corrected as soon as
possible to avoid confusion. The Dolichos
mutihorus is an entirely different plant.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-30

than any purely local speculation, thar 40
counts for this extraordinary buyirq w
tually irrespective of prices For r,a~.-
months past, the prosperity of the W.
and Southwest has shown itself not oal,-
in increased earnings of the railroads m,
also in the unprecedented amount of far5-
in the inferior banks and in raies of t0ts-
est almost as low as those current an Neu-
York. This has led to a steady str.sr,
of investment orders from those .sect.7r.-
and now these Accommodations are hem
drawn into the speculative movemenr os
Wall street with a rush that creates Won
der as TO where all the money is coming
from"