mm WiMmtmviinm.Wi'''*' A Mnnii'.'"n 'Sfcr Wv' 1 ft' '^^^'i-fc |i***f THE WORLD'S DOINGS! HOUSE, FARM, GARDEM eitr Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Oregau, tmtw addition to the farmer's wealth, and adds Nevada, and Colorado, five per centum something to the aggregate capacity of RIME ANlt CRIMINALS. it," on locations of military land warrants therein Farm ana Garden Notes. ^Ig? the land to support the population. The *i AS. BOBELETETER, Proprietor. Serious rioting began at Blackburn, on estimating the same at one dollar and twentyve greater the supply of food, the more encouragement Wetbinkit pays to spread the coal I the 15th. Thousands of the lowest class of cents per acre payment to be made in is given to an increase of NEWULMT MINNESOTA ashes under the trees in the orchard. operatives, including women, paraded the treasury certificates running twenty years population, and every additional mouth and bearing interest at the rate of 3.65 per streets, making violent demonstrations. The Have a place to put all the bones that clamors for more farm products. Unproductive cent, per annum. Several million dollars are residence of ColonelJackson, chairman of the a#cumu?ate about the farm. They are CURRENT TOPICS. land, besides being useless, is involved. A report against the bill will be masters' association, was burned tothe ground. worth money, and can readily be dissolved in addition a source of expense in taxes presented on behalf ot a minority of the committee. The same mob attempted to burn Jackson's by wood ashes and chamber lye and interest on its cost so that the owner ng| ^&&&*. mills. The residence of Alderman Hornby Closing a school to let the scholars JJO or be muriatic acid. n,r*s$-^ would really be better off could his useless was partially wrecked, and the windows of all to the circus is something'novel, but that MISCELLANEO US. Don't plant till the'ground is 'fit. As acres be sunk out of sight. There is the mills in the town demolished. A strong is what was done in a New Jersey town a rule you gain nothing by premature no reason why every acre of the majority Almost all of the horses which will run force of infantry from Preston arrived and a gardening. When the clods crumble of fai-ms should not be made a source of at Lexington, Ky.. during the races have ar last week. tioop of cavalry is now there. The troops thoroughly under the pressure of your income, and many methods of turning rived at the course. cleared the streets. Col. Jackson and wife foot, the ground is dry enough. unprofitable land to account might be Holland, Switzerland, and Greece have It is rumored that the Evans Rifle barely escaped in a cab. Alderman Hornby pointed out. Swamps may be cleared notified their willingness to come into company, of Mechanics Falls, is filling large was struck by stones while remonstrating In cases ot caked udder in cows foment 1 and ditched. The mere clearing of the orders for the Russians, on the steamer with the rioters. the affected part with hot water and rub the silver conference proposed by tne dense growth of underbrush and weeds Cambria. with the hand several times a day. Proper A horrible murder occurred at Bangor, United States, but the great powers are from many swamps may be sufficient to feeding and a dry bed will, as a rule, M. Halpenny & Co.'s woolen mill at Me., on the 11th inst., which will result in the silent. dry them enough for some sort of cultivation. obviate the necessity of any treatment Lewlsburg, Conn., was totallydestroyed by fire death of three persons. John R. Scribuer, 36 But it is best to make a thorough for this complaint. on the 7th inst. Loss, about $43,000 insurance, years old, living three miles north of that The Mercedes head-dress is the latest job of whatever is undertaken, and as far about $26,000. city, while insane attacked his wife and three Do not cast aside the old favorites novelty. The hair at the temples is as work can be done, to finish it so far as children in the kitchen of his house with a The supreme court of Rhode Island has sweet William, petunias, phlox, hollyhocks, waved and combed upwards: there is a work can be done, to finish it so far as it spade, instantly killing a girl three years old enjoined the Union Savings bank of Providence lady slippers, verbenas, chrysanthemums, is done. If the whole cannot be done fringe over the forehead only, and a and mortally wounding two others, a girl infant from further business transactions until Canterbury bellsfor any" new now let a pait be completed, and the next triple band of light tortoise shell fastened and a boy aged live. After he struck the otherwise ordered by tljis court. fangled flowers. There are many new opportunity to be. taken to finish another around the head. children the mother snatched up the baby and The coal miners of St. Clair and Madison and desirable things in the floral world, pait.2V. Y. Tirrw-s. fled out of doors, followed by her husband, counties, 111., opposite St. Louis, Mo., but it will not do to discard these old Edison permitted Gail Hamilton to who ran through the field near by, where have published an appeal asking for provisions jewels of the garden and the lawn. COMiMfifcSSlOXAL. speak into his new steel phonograph recently. he cut his own throat with a razor, almost sever to keep their families from starving. Potatoes flourish well in heavily manured ng the wind pipe. He was airested and There was a screech like a steam They say they have been working for from one SENATE, May 8.The bill to prohibit sod. The following is said to be a taken to jail. He was formerly a drunkard, whistle the cylinder made 742 revolutions cent to 1% cents per bushel, at which they the retirement of legal-lenclei notes, was referred good formula for a fertilizer for this but for two years has not tasted liquor. He to the commit'ce on finance A bill cannot make more than $4 to $5 a week, a in a minute, and the tin foil was crop: Thirty pounds of wood ashes, thirty making the distntmtion ot arms under the has shown symtoms of madness, threatening sum totally insufficient to support them. relied up into a bullet and shot through pounds of air-slacked lime, twenty bill of JuK '76,500 stands to each temtoij as to kill his wife and children, etc. There is some basis for the reported pounds of fine salt, fitteen pound9 of well as State, pabsed. 'ltic senate then took a window, killing seven head of cattle in A strange romance of crime is narrated Fenian movement. At Syracuse, N. Y., piobably up the Indian appropriation bill. A motion bone dust, fifteen pounds of plaster a distant field. On a trip hammer standing to strike out the clause pioviding foi the removal at St. Louis. Six yeais ago Julia Leblanc, 250 men are engaged in it, claiming connection the whole to be thoroughly mixed. An of the Nez Pceeo Indians, liom Lea\enworth at the other side of the room was daughter of a farmer in Jefferson county, with a general movement along the ounce ol this compound in each hill of to Indian lenitoiy, was iejected. afterwards found gouged in large letters Missouri, mystei iously disappeared one evening frontiei. Some money has been raised and potatoes will tell a ood story at harvest Other amendments to the bill ueie asueed tt. and was never again seen alive. Lately intQ the iron, the word Eaton." men armed with pistols. They say they time. Without final action, the benjte adjourned. a negro, while shooting snipe along the bank await orders from O'Neil. The better class HOUSE, May 8.A committee on census of the Mississippi river, near Point Pleasant, It would be difficult to draw a moral of Irish citizens, however, give no sjmpathy was appointed with Cox, of New \oik, as Tli* Uses of 91i lle t. twenty or thirty miles from the home ol chairman. The ejections committee leported to the movement. from the career of the late Nevada silver Millet has often been recommended as i on the South Carolina contested election ases Leblanc, saw astray skiff floating down the The Philadelphia Permanent Exhibition, mine icing, O'Brien. He started in business a forage plant, for which it has special that the sitting members A ei entitled to their stream, and on overhauling it found it to contain which has been closed for some time to seats. The house then went into committee advantages as it can be sown late in the as a barkeeper, became popular a female skeleton, which proved to be of the whole on the tarift bill. A motion to allow of thorough renovation was reopened season when the other crops are out of with his stock operating customers, got that of the missing girl. The theory is that limit debate to two hours was rejected and to the public onthi, 10th inst. Senators Blaine the way. It may be successfully grown speeches were made by Mr. lucker and she was enticed Irom home by a discarded points from them and operated successfully Bayard, and Wallace were present and were upon land too wet for putting in oats or others. lover, strangled and placed in the skiff, which himself. He gradually grew to be met and escoited to the platform by the reception other early spring crops, or it may be SENATE, May 9th.The committee on was then securely fastened to the bank of a committee. Colonel A. K. McCluie made veiy rich, and died worth from fifteen to printing reported the house bill to print 300,- sown on land after a crop ot barley or creek at a place where the underbrush was a short address, concluding by introducing 000 copies of the report of the commissioner I twenty millions of dollars. If he had not grass has been gathered, and mature so thick as to effectually hide it that there reducingthe of agriculture, with an amendment Senator Blaine as the orator of the day, and sufficiently for forage. The common been a barkeeper, he would probably not the boat remained until the ravages of time number to 200,000. The senate went into' the latter made an eloquent address. millet will lipen sts seed within sixty seciet session on the Mexican award bill. It made the ropes decay and thus the loosened have become a millionaire, and that spoils A correspondent of the evening Post,' days after sowing and it will then make was amended by directing that the claims of boat floated down the creek and into the Mississippi 1 the story for Sunday school purposes. Benjamin Weill and the Fabra Mining company writing from Tokio under date of April 5th, good hay, besides affording a large quantity river. should riot be paid for six months, and Yet the man must have had some qualities sends the following- The famine in the north of seed valuable for poultry, or, it that in the meantime the president should Investigate of China rages with increasing severity and worthy of observation ground, excellent to mix with corn or their justice, and passed. The Indian most dieadful reports come from the afflicted other grain to feed to cattle and pigs. The appropiiation bill then came up, and after the CASUALTIES. adoption of some amendments, passed. The regions. In one town a man opened a shop seed of millet is worth all the ciop costs The English are in high spirits over On the 8th inst., a storm passed over bill to regulate the letting of mail contracts* for the sale ofhumna flesh and did a good to raise, leaving the hay for a profit. As Memphis, partially unroofing a number of the report that Bismarck has once more passed. The bill to lepeai the bankrupt law business in connibalistic joints and roasts the ciop ?a be put in and harvested at business houses and the Peabody hotel, and then came up. declared Germaay's intention to remain until the local mandarin caused the shop seasons of the year when other work does blowing down Meacham's cotton sheds. The HOUSE, May 9.The joint resolution neutral, if war occurs between Ruisia and keeper to be arrested and beheaded. not press upon the farmer's time, its culture damage bj wind and water is probably $40,000. for the enforcement oi the eight hour aw in England. The report that Turkey will is made easier. It is an excellent Contracts have been let for giading, the executive department was passed The A great tornado occurred at Canton, bill to regulate mter-State commerce was crop to put upon a stubborn piece of bridging and ironing the Central branch of also maintain a neutral attitude, and has China, April 11th. Thousands of houses were discussed. The House then went into committee ground to kill out weeds, such as thistle, the Union Pacific railroad, from Concoidia to collected forces sufficient to prevent the destroyed or seriousiy injured by wind and an of the whole on the tanff bill, and was dock, fcc, for if the land is well plowed Beloit, a distance of 28 miles from the present enormous water spout from the river, which addiessed by Messrs. Kelley and Harris, of occupation of her territory by the British, and the surface made mellow, the millet terminus. This extension will take the road Georgia. broke over the cit Many lives were lost and is less encouraging to the latter. But for will soon shade it thoroughly and kill 182 miles west of this city into Solomn valley, SENATE, May 10The House joint the foreign settlement suffered severely. In the moment they are happy in the assurance out the foul stuff. A little manure on the resolution authorizing the expenditure of and further progress will be made during the the midst of the confusion four fires broke money to stiengthen the foundation of the surface harrowed in with the seed will that Bismarck will not side openly year. A. M. Pomeroy, president oftheioad, out, supposed incendiary, as many robberies Washing-ton monument was pabsed Considei olten double the crop. Time should be with Russia, and tha he has no idea ot and Major Down, superintendent, have gone followed. Later advices repoit 500 Chinese ation of the bill to i epeal the banki upt law given to allow the seed to ripen before west to inaugurate work. The grading is to was lesumed, and Mi Thuiman's amendment killed. No foreigners were seriously hurt. fighting to exclude a British fleet from tiost. The crop may be run through a fixing the date of epeal on Sept. 1.1878, be finished in 60 days. At halt past nine o'clock on the morn the Baltic. instead of Jan. 1,1879, agreed to The bill was threshing machine,* or if bound up into The Toronto Leader says that private ing of the 10th inst, the Shakopee, Minnesota, then passed by a vote of 26 to 21. The postoffice bundles, threshed with flails to sepeiatt The scene at the hanging of William nformation from Buffalo amply confirms the appropriation bill was called up and mills took fire and bui ned to the ground, leaving the seed. A half bushel of seed is abundant went over as unfinished business. After transacting Baldwin in Texarkana, Arkansas, a few truth of reports as to the Fenian organizations nothing but the brick walls. There was for an acre. some further business the Senate held in that city, although the extent of these preparations days ago, is said to have resembled a about sixty barrels of flour and all the top run an executive session and adjeuined until has been greatly exaggerated as well and the scales saved. The engine is not sup The Golden or German millet is the camp meeting, the condemned man acting Monday. as the number of men engaged in the business, posed to be badly damaged. They lost six best for a forage plant and resembles as chief cxhorter from the scaffold, HOUSE, May 10.Mr. Wood introduced and calls upen the government to thousand bushels of wheat which was not insured. corn in its growth, as it throws out a a bill providing foi the return of excessi\e and a throng of about 3,500 persons listening strengthen the defence of the frontier. It customs deposits to impoiters. A bill introduced The insurance on the machinery and corn-like leaf. The stalk is also sott and attentivly, and interrupting the by Mr. Dunnell, relating to notices of says that under the pretense of economy the building amounted to $15,000. The mill was edible. This sort of millet requires contest in land cases, was passed. Committee speaker occasionly with ejaculations. The militia have been starved, the defences of the owned by George F. Strait & Co. Cause not nearly ih entire season to mature its reports were received and laid over for consideration. coast and of the lakes utterly neglected, and near prospect of a leap into eternity must known, but supposed to be a li iction of the seed, and should, in a northern latitude, The house then went into committee there not only exists a min'mum of protection, of the whole on the William and Mary belt. be sown by the first of June. For forage have infused an amount of fervor into college claim, and along and heated discussion but an actual temptation to raiders to try alone it may be put in the last of June Baldwin's words and his listener's ejaculation On the 10th inst., at Kason, Dcdge ensued, which culminated in an undignified their luck. when it will make full growth of stalk Co., Minnesota,a fire broke out in the wooden passage between Mrs. White, of Pennsyl not usually generated even at but not mature the seed. It requires The crop and statistical report of the vania. and Tucker. When the committe rose, row on Main street, between Perry block and colored camp meetings. The report says the bill was recommended and passed. Mr. stronger land than the common to make Tennessee bureau of agricrlture is just out. J. Leuthold's store, and in a very few minutes that many women fainted bimultaneouslv Duiham introduced a bill regulating salaries a vigorous growth. On rich land the It states that the ravages of |rust threatened the whole row, consisting of five stores, was of United States district attorneys. The house with the fall of the murderer. amount of forage is immense. Stock will to be very disastrous to wheat, but in the past one mass of flames, and in less than an hour then adjourned. eat either of these grain-grasses with a ten days the prospect, has improved to some they were flat to the ground Our firemen and SENATE, May 13th.Mr. Johnson in relish in winter and they are most excellent Some citizens of Ohio who say they extent, and although a considerable part of citizens worked like fiends to save the brick troduced a bUl for the adoption of the Moflfett for a change. For green feed the crop has been cut off yet a large increased punch system in the District of Columbia. At are tired of reading the reiterated references blocks each side of the burning row, and by they are also good. As a supplementary the expiration of the morning hour the postoffice average will make the yield probrbly about almost superhuman efforts, they were successful. of the Newspapers to the Ohio absorption appropriation bill was taken up. crop, when the meadows are light, millet three-fourths of an average crop. The fruit The losers are J. Leuthold, building of national office, have prepared HOUSE, May 13.Mr. Laphan offered a** is most valuable. A meadow with a sum crop is more abundant than for several years, and clothing, 4,000 insured for $1,000. Holtman, loint I esolution authorizing the President to a beautiful table, showing the whole prospect for hay might be turned over, and corn, tobacco and other crops are doing increase the army by the enlistment of volunteers building, household goods, silverware number of salaried officers of all departments and be made to yield a satisfactory crop during the recess of Congress, if such well. A fifth of the tobacco crop has already and coin, $5,000 insured for $1,000. Wilson in Washington, the quota of each action should be required for the defense of by sowing to millet, and the same time oeen set out. While tobacco planting is Bros., general merchandise, loss $8,000 insured the frontier. Mr. Potter as a question of privilege, State on the basis of population, and the be fitted for a crop of grain the next year. early, efforts will be directed toward making for $2,250. A. E. Anderson, general presented a preamble and resolution directing If the frost holds off. the seed will not a good crop rather than a large one. The average excess or deficiency of each State. This merchandise, $8,000 insured for $5,000. Martinbrock, the appointment of a select committee 'i mature when the golden is soared late, as of cotton is much smaller than that of to investigate the election frauds in Florida tible shows Ohio to have a deficiency of building, $3,000, no Insurance. a^d Louisiana. The reception of the resolution it requires a requisite degree of heat last year. Welch, building, $1,000 insured for $3,00 fifty-seven Pennsylvania an excess of was opposed by Messrs. Conger, Garfie'd which is not affoided after September. Henry George, harness maker, loss $500 no The bill introduced in the House by fitty-three Virginia an excess of sixty and others"upon the ground that it was not It should always be cut before any frost insurance. John White, $500 fully insured. Mr. Schleicher, authorizes the secretary of properly a privileged question. The chair eight, and Maryland an excess of one touches it, or its value for feeding will be decided to receive the resolution, from which he treasury to issue in sums, not exceeding J. Leuthold saved a greater part of his clothing hundred and torty-nine. The illusion of decision Mr. Conger took an appeal. The greatly injured. Like corn, it blanches an aggregate of $40,000,000, coupons or regis stock. Wilson Bros, saved but a small appeal was tabled by nearly a strict party this plausible table, however, is revealed and dries off when frozen. The seed of tered perpetual bonds, redeemable only bv amount of their stock, and A. E. Anderson vote. Other points of order were raised,which in the fact, that in its figures a Maryland Hungarian grass is not equal to millet purchase in open market, interest payable none. the speaker overruled. Mr. Hale asked leave for feeding stock. It is not much if any clerk of the lowest grade counts equal to semi-annually in coin of the present stanard to offer an amendment, to include Mississippi and Oregon in the investigation but Mr. better than that of our native summer value, at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum, an Ohioian President of the United States, Potter refused to allow it. After this matter PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. grass which it very much resembles. their proceeds to be applied to the purpose of Chief Jnstice of the Supreme Court, or was disposed of the Republicans filibustered Chas Morgan, one of the oldest and The latter which is often plentiful in a erecting public buildings for use of the government. to prevent the adoption of the resolution, and member of the cabinet. best known steamship owners in New York,is grain crop, is good for cattle if ground The bill appropriates for public the house adjourned without disposing of it. dead. up and mixed with bran or meal. Fed buildings at Atlanta, Ga., $100,000 Chicago, 8ENATE, May 14th.Mr. Mills gave $150,000 Cincinnati, $3,250,000 Evansville, alone it is too laxative. Improved devices foi wholesale killing Minister Bayard Taylor presented his notice that he would call up the Texas rail $30,000 Grand Rapids, Mich., $50,000 Littie credentials to the Emperor at Berlin on the are now regarded with much complacency road bill on Tuesday of next week. Various Rock $150,000 Memphis, $100,000 Nashville, committee reports were received and disposed Work lor the SMMOM. 7th inst. in England. A paper read to of. The house amendments to the bill authorizing $250,000 St Louis, $1,600,000 state, war and The remarkably favorable winter has Murray Hcffmann, a well known compiler the recent annual meeting of naval architects citizens of certain States and the Territories navy departments building, Washington, $5,- given an opr ortunity for doing much useful of law books, died at his home in Flushing to fell timber on the public domain described an apparatus for discharging 600,000. The bill also makes proyisions for work in the way of improvements of were concurred in, and the bill was passed. Village, N. Y., on the 8th inst., aged 84 60 gallons of crude petroleum upon an extension of the library of Congress, and the farm. Draining, clearing land, repairs The senate agreed to a concurrent resolution years. an appropriation of $400,000 for the building adjourning both houses on Thursday afternoon an ironclad in fifteen seconds, at a distance of fences, drawing out manure, and similar There seems to be little doubt that Hon. for the purpose of attending the funeral for the bureau of engraving and printing. labors, can now be performed as well, of three hundred feet, followed by of Prof. Henry. The post office appropriation John M. Binckley of Milwauke eex-assistant attorney if not betti, than at any other season. It bill was called up and Mr. Maxey's rocket cartridge to ignite it and as one A special Constantinople telegram of the United States,whohas been missingfor amendment relative to the Brazilian mail is very rarely that a farm can be found in states that in consequence of the peremptory gallon, judiciously spread over a hundred some time,committed suicide by drowning service rejected as not in order. The com. a completed condition. On the contrary, demands of General Todelben for the surrender in thelake near St. Francis seminary, at mittee amendments were agreed to and the square feet, would make that area uninhabitable a majority of them contain swamps, barren of fortresses accompanied by a threat to bill passed. After some discussion of the bill the south side f the bay. He left several for ten minutes, this new apparatus spots, unsightly stone-heaps, or rocks, occupy Constantinople, the cabinet council to repeal the resumption act the senate adjourned. letters addressed to different pariets of that could evidently be made effective. stumps, gullies, or other obstructions to have decided to evacuate all their fortresses city, the contents of which show conclusively The use of crude petroleum for destroying the plough or the mowing-machine. Shumla first, then Vamat, lastly, Batoum. The HOUSE, May 14.The regular order b* his intent to suicide. All efforts to recover his ing called for. it was announced to be on decision was taken rather suddenly, upon the Where the winter has been suffered to an enemy's bridges or pontoons body have thus far been of no avail. The immediate seconding the Potter investigation resolution report of Osman Pasha that the Turkish army pass away without an attempt to repair was also urged. It is remarkable that cause of his rash act is attributed to The Republicans refrained from voting leav was not in condition to resist the occupation these defects, or remove these obstacles ing the house without a quorum and, as menta 1 abearation, brought on by domestic after having expended so many millions of Constantinople. The Times correspondent to good farming, there is yet time and enough Democrats could not be found tat troubles. Mr. Binckley's family consist in building huge ironclads, England is at Constantinople says, as usual, the palace make one, on motion of Mr. Wood the house opportunity to do something before the edof a wife, from whom he was separated, voted to adjourn. Before announcing the result now mainly intent on the means of destroying was smitten with terror, and ready to cede spring work opens. Labor is cheaper and four children, who are now at Knoxville, of the vote the speaker laid before the anything if the ttussians would go away from big ships by swarms of torpedo now than for years. Idle men who would house an announcement of the death of Prof Tenn. Constantinople. Gen. Todelben peremptorily launches. The Russians have also ordered willingly work abound in every village Henry, inviting the members to attend the fnl The House committee on public lands urged evacuation, but adroitly offered to fall neral. A senate resolution for the adjourn and hamlet, and it is to the farmer's interest about one hundred and fifty torpedo have decided to recommend the passage of back if the fortresses were surrendered. The ment of both houses on Thursday at 4 ofclock to give men employment whenever it launches. So we suddenly find the problem the so-called Aveper cent bill introduced this for this purpose, was adopted. bait was swallowed and the Russians have can be done profitably. It is only labor {Ire session by Representative Sapp, of Iowa. The iromised, so my informant assures mc, to reto of attack shifted from enormous that creates wealth. A useless piece of AdrianojSle and Dedragtch and quit bill provides for payment by the general government Little girle(who loves to drive horset ironclads and prodigious guns to the swamp is utterly worthless. It produces Erzeroum as soon as the three fortresses are and play ball)" I wish God would to the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, small, swift craft, /with its weapons of evacuated. The evacuation will begin at once. nothing. When changed into a meadow smash me all to pieces and make m Missouri, Michigan Wisconsin, Minnesota, There is{to be no written convention and all torpedoes and crude petroleum. and made productive, it then becomes an int a boy." Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, were to be settled by verbal agreement. S?*'?'* '^S%.%tMrM9\