The Albany News. (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1884 Page: 4 of 6
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at the entrance of
t* Geneva, Wis., and
little red cottage,where he r»-
fyr an
Otti til
I L,_i EN ANT MASON SAUFELDT, who
left the United States ship Enterprise
exploring expedition in Mada-
bas been vdry cordially receiv-
ilagassy capital, and through-
•i island. In many of the villa-
go« th teople turned out to welcome
i m am* vied with each other in their
e furtg, The queen sent out officers to
r :i t;i (lieutenant, and on April 29 a
••• •' n was given in his honor at the
,,-alace. Lieutenant Saufeldt
,ui0 a speech which was translated,
uti then the queen handed her speech
i : tiu • rime minister, who read it in
Mai a;-assy,
",*i Ienky M. Stanley, the Afri-
ca. o: lorer, who is now in Paris, de-
clare* hat the CongolFree state would
soon bo rwpgnized by the whole world,
Tho state proposes to give open com-
merce to all nations, and expects tobe-
cojbo a great federation of native
chiefs under the control of a European
i r i erican commission. Mr. Stan-
], atru 3d that he would shortly visit
L< .1 lor and convert the English, who
now i ti ad alone in their opposition to
Li projects. He praised M. De LBra«-
,, 1 trench explorer, who, he said,
w ) ■ ! - Jned to render great services
r. -ice. ■■
W P Xisdel, who is to represent the
Qnitad States in the Congo region, was
!, the confidential agent of John
Rm- ;h, :a Washington, at a salary of
$ l.ooi) a year, and had charge of Mr.
»?oa 1'V South American steamship
line after it was established. He has
now extensive interests in Buenos
Ayrus and is an accomplished man of
the world. His wife, who is a very
l and ome woman, by the way, is well
iiown i'i New York and Washington
so( >)ty, She and his two daughters
who have been at school at the Nor-
wood!! titute, will accompany him to
Eni-oj" ad tako up their residence in
I Tan or where the young ladies will
their education. Mr. Tisdel
- he Congo engagement as a
tempo .y thing, and no doubt will
faithfully look after American interests
there.
rted
lo
H
>hn jvlacdonald, tne present
of Canada, is said to have
in life as a boot-black in Glas-
le emigrated to Canada at an
?e. When only eighteen, the
r of a wealthy Canadian fell in
h him, and he ran away with
. clergyman, who consented to
<iem. The bride's father, aftei
s t: forgave this escapade and
atnr ted him in business. Thence he
i! tiffed into politics, and displayed so
much shrewdness and tact that in a
>t-r time he was a leading membei
nisterial party in the Dominion
;nt. Sir John's personal re
ce to the late Earl of Beacons'
o great that when he was in
he was not unfrequently taken
sttii
at!
hi]
&h<!
lis t'
the
sist<
mi
i 'air
elder .
that of
he
i liree daughters of the Prince
eess of Walos sfttracted much
m during the royal visit to Bed-
• ther day. It is only upon such
ns that anything is seen of them.
T<" elder are now what children
;e grown up." Of these two
iceeses Louise and Victoria—
d is sightly taller and more
in appearance than her elder
hey aro to ''come out" to-
i, sxt year. The Princess Louise
y "sweet seventeen," and ac-
. to the etiquette of English so-
i is of an age to dine, dance
tverse with adults, and in par-
"ith young men. Her parents,
delay the coming out of the
ughter rather than expedite
le younger. In another year
i rank among the sensations
i iben.
Peinoi Edwakd has led the quietest
possible life at Heidelberg. He is re
sidi ig with Professor Ihne, at the Villa
ok. which is half way along the
In,; ubeim strasse, a dusty road, bor-
orul by detached villas, on the right
: o.tnl of theNeckar, opposite thi: town.
Professor Ihne's house is a small,
white, English-looking villa with two
stories, ud it has the advantage of be-
ing .veil above the road, with a shady
U: ,:oe garden, from which there is a
s.ploudid view of the castle and the
R ; ded uills above it. Behind is a
Bttt ., ai arid-lotiking vineyard, which
extends to the well-known Philosopher
\Vi... a path which runs alo^ tho
H&uigenberg for a considerable dis
tan o , 'i he young prince attends sev-
eral of the university lectures, but he
doc.; ot .nix with the students, and,
when out, he is usually to be seem
—" ' "h Professor Ihne and Mr.
• Ii is understood that he will
t ; u« lioi elberg till the end of Aug-
1 . vbex e university breaks up for
Be
(kit
'
ni
oppers are slowly extend-
rations, • They started in
passed thence to Yuca-
,he, and Chiapas. They
samped ijti tho states of
tnd Oaxaca. At present
.nmitting depredations ir
Imm
■gap
fet
i
'U ■
while
out" with a party
a shadow passed
my face, preceeded by a
ly dull sensation in that por-
tion of the cranium which is allotted
by phrenologists to the organ of ven-
eration. The numbness from this
point spread gradually downward. Its
progress was so alarmingly apparent
to me that I hastily made my excuse
to the card party, bade them good-
night, and repaired to my room, hop-
ing that an application of cold water
and a good night's rest might bring
relief.
Arrived at my room, I saturated a
towel with iee cold water, enveloped
my head with it, turned the light low
and retired. While walking along the
street my sight began- to be effected,
and several times a shadow seemed to
flit past me to the right and left and
sometimes directly across my face—
very similar te the flight of a bat. Now,
while lying on the bed this similar ex-
perience was often repeated, the shad-
ow seeming to pass between my vision
and the ceilling, completely obscuring
it from view for the inscant. I en
deavored to compose myself to sleep,
but the numbness increased. At last
I arose and repaired to the nearest all-
night bar-room, hoping, amid the
cheerful, convivial company I wa3 sure
to find there, to get rid of the oppress-
ive sensations. I took a seat near a
party who were engaged in some game
of cards, and endeavored to divert my
self by watching their game. While
doing so I imagined I saw a monst-
rous rat scoot across tho floor. The
sober seconi thought, demonstrated
te me the utter absurdity of such an
idea. I was bow pretty well satisfied
that I was in the early stage of "jim-
jams," and on the impulse of the mo-
ment realizing full the cause to which
was attributable my deplorable con-
dition, I firmly resolved that not anoth-
er drop of liquor of auy description
should pass my lips an a beverage.
I had now been without sleep for
forty-eight hours, and while my reduc-
ed physical condition (I weighed only
eighty-five pounds) as well as my
mental disquietude sadly demanded
rest, still I had not the slightest incli-
nation to sleep. The next day and
night passed in a similar way, and the
fourth fifth and sixth. At the begin-
ning of the fifth dav I first experienced
the distress and suffering arising from
loss of sleep, but in spite of all efforts
to compose myself, not one moment's
slumber came to my relief.
My suffering from want of sleep was
' now so intense that I made two de-
liberate attempts to destroy myself—
once by the gun-powder and once by
the water route—but was circumvented
by watchful friends. So long as I was
in a bar-room or other places where
general conversation or singing or
general hilarity was in progress, I was
comparatively free from the annoying
presence to which I have alluded, but
the moment I repaired to my room,
turned tho light very low and strived
to sleep, the room at once peopled
with grotesque and hideous shapes
that aro not satisfactorily accounted
for in any work on natural history I
ever encountered. Tawny little devils,
about three inches in height, sat upon
my shoulders and peered into my face
with the most horrible grimaces, Then
strains of music greeted my ears as if
rendered by a Liliputian brass band,
and raising myself in bed and resting
my,body"upon my left arm, I beheld a
multitude of the tawny tribe marching
in military order, and keeping step to
the minature music—their tramp be-
ing as distinct to me as if caused by a
tread of elephants, On their heads
they wore tin hats or helmets. As
they passed along on the floor, regi-
ment after regiment, brigade after
brigade, they greeted me by my name,
and vociferously invited me to come
down and "fall in." While glazed upon
this grotesque vision suddenly every
one of those tin hats began to rise
slowly from their heads—up, up, up,
until they almost touched the ceiling;
and while marveling upon this remark-
able transformation, and leaning for-
ward to secure a better view, the phan-
tasm vanished in thin air.
Determined to secure some sleep if
possible, and turning my faoe to the
wall to avoid the light, I was confront-
ed by a hideous snake coiled on the
pillow, apparently anxious to put its
fangs where they would do the most
good—ju lgod from a snaky standpoint.
That settled it I No amount of money
could have induced me to pass the
balance of the night in that room, and
I hastily vacated, again seeking relief
in the rough and noisy crowd of a bar-
room, thankful for a few minutes'
respite from suoli horrible illusions. I
have neglected to state that during the
time the jim. jams was my special guest
my stomach peremtorily rejected the
little nourishment I attempted to ab
sorb; in faet, I had no craving for even
the most inviting vi-mds.
It was while in this most pitiable
plight that I at last had recourse to a
physician. I detailed to him my con-
dition, described the vagaries of which
I had been the victim, and my earnest
longing for, and utter inability to sleep.
"Of course you are taking liquor once
in a while to taper off on?" "Of
course I am not," I rejoined; "If I die
you can bet your bottom dollar I'll
die sober. But, for God's sake, doctor,
give me something that will make me
sleep." The physician's face bore a
grave, troubled look, and after a few
minute's deep thought he said; "Young
man, I will be candid with you. Your
condition is critical—probably more so
than you suspect. Ii you don't sleep,
and that pretty soon, you must either
die or Lecome a raving maniac. I am
about to prepare for you a most pow-
erful sleeping potion, If you decide
to take it the result will be that you
will secure a long, refreshing sleep,
and awaken in a desirable state for
supplemental treatment, or—you will
never wake at all."
I hastened to mv room, swallowed
the sleeping draught, sank into a sound
and refreshing slumber, and, on awake-
ning, found that I had been locked in
the arms of the drowsy god for nearly
nineteen hours. I awoke feeling like a
nent.
"Field.
My son, this is a glorious country,
and this is the golden age of the world,
and the purchasing power of a dollar
is one hundred cents, and a copper
cent in New England is tossed about
as recklessly and extravagantly as a
quarter in Colorado. In this golden
age and in this glorious republic, there
lived and still lived a man. He was
tall ami comely; his stature was the
stature of a man. He stood well in so-
ciety ; was honest and trustworthy, and
his name was good at the bank; his
indorsement of a note turned that note
into gold. He was educated, talented,
public-spirited. People came to him
for advice. People, irrespective of
raak, age, sex, previous condition of
servitude, color or politics, bowed to
him, accosted him with profound re-
spect, invited him to their homes, were
honored and so expressed themselves,
if he accepted, and they esteemed it a
greater honor if* he invited them to
his house. Everybody called him "Mis-
ter." Even his enemies, for such a man
always has enemies, esteemed his many
many excellent qualities of mind and
heart. His charactar for truth and
veracity, his honesty and high standing
as a citizen and a member of a refined
society was established beyond the
shadow of a doubt.
One day he was nominated for pres-
ident of the United States.
The next morning he was in the
mouths of nearly twenty millions of
people as a
Liar,
Thief,
Bogue,
Swindler,
Trickster,
Arch traitor,
Sordid wretch,
Greedy spoiler,
Bookless booby,
Arrant humbug,
Weak ignoramus,
Wily peculator,
Blustering idiot,
Bundle of clap-trap,
Scheming demagogue,
Jugling Charlatan,
Shufllihg impostor,
Cheap swashbuckler,
Faithless renegade,
Shameless time server,
Dissembling hypocrite,
Unprincipled politician,
Machiavelian Jockey,
A self-worshipped, debased, igno-
rant, weak, ambitious unscrupulous
knave, a villain without heart, brains
or honor, a being too vile to walk erect
and mock the name of man, whose elec-
tion would ring the death knell of the
Republic and entail ten millions of un-
counted woes upon the human race for
all futuro ages.
It is a golden age, my son, and this
is a glorious country. It is the proud
privilege of every American citizen to
be nominated, possibly, for President.
The privilege has its drawbacks, yon
perceive. It is a privilege that your
sister earnestly desires may be added
to her other privileges. Poor giill
why she wishes to be nominated for
president is beyond my limited power
of comprehension. If she so desires,
she may have my chance for the nomi-
nation. I do not intend to avail myself
of this privilege of citizenship. I may
like mud, Telmanchas; I admit that I
am made of the dust of the earth, and
my pride of origin may inoline me to
be rather fond of mud. But I do not
long to become a walking brickyard.
You say you had some thought of tak-
ing the stump this fall, yourself ? My
boy, when men go into politics in these
golden days, they do not take the
stump, they take a dredging machine,
—Bvrdette.
je nnmbtiow. hi
Vast Thrifts of Land.
A Commissioner of the General
Land Office, who was sent to Colorado
some (ime ago to investigate com-
plaints made by settlers against cattle
companios, that they had illegally
fenced in public lands and had obtain-
ed occupation of large tracts by frudu-
lent entry, has made a report fully
sustaining the settlers. Eight charges
have been mad against the Pacfic Cat-
tle Company, composed of Scotchmen.
Tracts of 100 square miles, twenty-five
square miles, and sixteen square miles
have been illegally fenced in by that
corporation. It is believed that the
cattle companies have fraudulently
possessed themselves of nearly 6,000,-
000 acres of public lands in Colorado
alone within the last five years. In
New Mexico it h asserted that 93 per
cent, of the lands held by the cattlemen
have been illegally inolosed; in Dakota
75 per cent, are frandulent. Investi-
gation proi es that in Akansas there
have been 10 fraudulent entries, in
Dakota 460, iu Colorado 280 (embrac-
ing 2,800,000 acres), in New Mexico
827 (embracing 1,500,000 acres), iu
Minnesota 311, in Washington Territo-
ry 109, in Idaho 92, in Nebraska 170
(embracing 300,000 acres), in Montana
24 (embracing 250,000 acres), in Ala-
bama 153, and in Kansas the fraudulent
entries embrace 600,000 acres. Over
3,000 complaints remain to be investi-
gated. A large percentage of those
who made fraudulent entries and who
have illegally inclosed these large
tracts of the public domain are Eng-
sh and Scotch capitalists.
The Fleet Wild Mustang.
While the buffalo dossappeared at a
rapid rate, the same cannot be said of
the wild horses or mustangs, especially
in Northwestern Texas, where) they aro
found in bands numbering from thirty
to to three hundred. It is said that
among these horses are to be found
the fleetest in America, especially a
noted pacar which would put Occident
Jay-Eye-See and other noted steppers
to blush, as no racer has yet been
found capable of turning him. Expe-
riments at their capture clearly demon-
strates that they not only possess the
greatest speed but extraordinary bot-
tom or staying qualities, for upon
many occasions parties have stationed
themselves at a reasonable distance
along the the plains and given chase
with relays, having in view the capture
of some offthe more fleet of those
noble animals, but such chase has
J*4311 4
a great extent over _
Bat crops can be made with but little
work, and that that work can be done
at anj time during the forepart of the
year.
All this "has so repeatedly been re-
futed by failure in crops, it is surpris
ing that it hai not been guarded
against—and only to be accounted for
in the fact of that lamentable defect in
Southern character—a want of foresight
as to the consequences and results of
their conduct. But all men can cure
their faults if they will, when their
attention has been directed to them.
These last remarks may seem episodi-
cal ; but far from it, they indicate the
very pivot on which this thing of crop
failure turns.
In the matter of farming, the ground
must be turned over or bedded, as
soon as the crop of the year is off, or
as soon after as possible, betwixt) the
first of December and the first of Feb-
ruary. Corn planting should be done
during the first week in February, or
even before, if there should be a dry
spell of weather, or as early after as
possible, even at the risk or planting
over, whioh in nine cases out of ten, can
be avoided by being properly planted,
which I suggest being done, either
with the hoe, or two light running
furrows with a schooter. Then after
cultivation can be done as thought
best, as I am now only talking of the
early preparation and early planting.
The same rules apply to cotton plant-
ing. The ground should be ready to
plant by the first fair week in March,
and ruo round with the sweep in early
April, but not [[chopped out until it
stops dying, as it always does until
warm weather sets in. All of this as
to both crops, even at the risk of plant-
ing over, which will not be necessary
nine cases in ten; either crop may be
bit down by frost, or die out from bad
weather, but it will either come out
again, or enough be left, for a stand.
But in case of either or both crops
being entirely killed, the only loss is
in seed, while the ground will be in
better order for the growth of the sec-
ond planting. By this plan the crop
will be made and the cotton have a
half erop of cotton on it by the first of
June, with the farm work all done. I
make these suggestions only in view of
the almost certain drouths of Texas,
anywhere between the middle of June
and the middle of September. Other-
wise late planting is as goad, if not
better, as the length of the growing
season is all-sufficient for any crop —if
the rains could be relied on.
With a proper reference to the dry
summers of Texas, there is no country
on the earth equal to it in crop pro-
duction ; and with rains, crops of sur-
passing yield can be made with little
work at, any season of the year. But
without strict reference to the drouth,
there is no country less to be relied on,
and consequently less desirable.
The system of cultivation is not dif-
ferent from that of an,"* other Southern
state. The only point to learn is in
preparing to meet the dry summers,
which is to be done by the simple
method of doing the plowing and the
planting in the early winter and early
spring, that are now put off until the
late spring and early summer. That
is the whole secret of success. All
countries have to be planted and cul-
tivated according to their latitudes and
rains; but this fact is notoriously vio-
lated in Texas. The idea prevails and
is becoming more acted on every year,
that to get the seed into the ground
some time during the forepart of the
year, in any sort of a way, a crop may
be expected, This is the error to be
corrected.
In suggesting these rulos as applica-
ble to southern Texas, or where ne-
groes form the body of laborers, I am
met by the objection that they can not
be made to work at these seasons of
the year. To this I have only to re-
ply that nsgroes are subject to the
same laws as white people for their
physical support, and all that is neces-
sary is for farmers or land owners to
have a common plan of operations,
which, if not to be otherwise establish-
ed, can easily be done, even through
the present Grange organization, as
defective as that is, but which can be
easily raised to a standard of great
usefulness, both in this and other agri-
cultural purposes, instead of being
made clanish and absurd picnics.
The great question of the prosperity
of Texas is how to meet the almost
certain drouths—concerning not farm-
em alone, but every other occupation.
The plan is simple, but with that pe-
culiarity of the Southern people, of
regardlessness of time and oblivious-
ness of consequences, together with a
very great indisposition to adopt new
methods, or to attack obstacles, it will
require a great deal of agitation on the
part of the few who do think, to at-
tract the attention of the masses, yet it
must be done.
It is unbecoming tho intelligence of
any people to be in possess!: n of eo
magnificent a farming country as Texas
is, and yet be subject to so many dis-
astrous failures as thej have been, and
likely to be, merely for the want of
thought and timely industry. .
All main divisions or portions of
country have laws of seasons in accord-
ance with their longitudes and lati-
tudes. Tha why of this we may not
know, but we do know the fact, which
is all sufficient for practical purposes,
and easy enough met, if we wish, as
nature is an easy task-master, and
never a hard one exeept when we will-
fully disregard her laws.
are only incidentally
interested in the publication of these
legal notices and sales. It is the great
mass of the people who are vitally
interested. Those laws that were
tacked npon the topmost notches of the
tallest pillars and columns in Borne
were no more effectualy hidden from
the interested public than these notic-
es of sales and other important docu-
ments that are posted in this State
upon the court-house doors. Many a
poor man is deprived of substantial
intersts by the want of notioe. Many
a piece of property sacrificed, or an
estate riddled, while the only class
now benefitted by those posted, and
often illegible, notices, is that class of
speculators and land grabbers who
have nothing else to do Dut haunt the
court-house and watoh the bulletins
for bargaine.
It would be unjust to the most thin-
ly populated county to continue this
style of publication of legal notices,
while it is non-progressive, wholly in-
adequate and positively unjust to fast-
en it up an the people af the large and
growing cities of this State, where tho
rapid changes in business and popula-
tion render it impossible for a tenth of
the citizens to take note of any merely
posted notices.
The law, or rather absence of law, in
this State in this matter is a disgrace
to the State, and legislators ought to
have had the foresight and the inter-
est of the public sufficiently at heart,
long since, to have enacted a compre-
hensive statute in the premises with-
out waiting for its agitation through
the press. We trust the various can-
didates will be called upon to speak
out on this subject to the end that the
State will oease to give away people's
property to speculators and land rob-
bers, who hang around the court-house
doors, hunting such notices, while oth-
er men are at their daily toil and get
no opportunity to see them. The law
as it now stands, is directly, in the
interest of speculators and against the
great body of citizens.
TIXAS TOPIC*.
—Laredo shipped one million bricks
to San Antonio during the month of
July.
—Many Texas cities are taking steps
towards securing water-works. Tho
tremendous fires at Lampasas and
Greenville have frightened them.
—A quiet old German lady, living at
Holland, Bell county, went out a week
ago to pick some grapes and has not
been seen since, spite of diligent search.
—Mr. B. F. Cairoll. of Dresden,
Texas, this year, during the horse-
mint flower was offering $2 per day for
help to turn the extractor. He let his
cotton crop go to attend to his bees.
—Laredo Times: Our corn and po-
tato patch, on Farragut street, is fairly
booming, and the former will, in a few
days, have roasting ears for the table —
the second crop of the season—and
there is abundant time before frost for
the third and best crop of the whole.
—Laredo Times: The hills adjacent
to Laredo abound in many beautiful
specimens of the moss agate, and it is
becoming fashionable with the swells
to have them cut down into proper
shape for sleeve-buttons, shirt-studs,
watch charms, etc., and appropriately
mounted.
—Sheep to eat the weeds and cattle to
eat the grass, hay lands fenced for
Winter feed, and the pasture system of
running stocks is the most approved
method of 6tock raising in Texas to-
day. Not every one can afford to fix
himself just right, yet the tendency is
to work this way as fast as means are
obtained,
--The judges of the Court of Ap-
peals, at the instance of the attorney-
general, have prepared a report to the
legislature recommending various
changes in the Penal Code and Code
of Criminal Procedure, in the interest
of simplifying the criminal practice
and obviating delays and errors in
trials before the lower courts. Their
suggestions, if adopted, would make
important changes. They advise the
repeal of certain clauses in the Crimi-
nal Code, so as to return to the oom
mon law into the requirements of in
dictments, and make suggestions to
render errors less frequant in the
charges to juries in trial causes.
—The voluntary breaking up of the
big pasture system in localities of this
State where agricultural industry
seeks to habitate is a most welcome
sign of increasing prosperity. It is not
that stock grazing has become unprof
itable, but that the other industries
that employ more people to the area
of country are offering such induce
ments as to make it to the still greater
interest of the stookman to move his
long-horn ranges further from the cov-
eted haunts of population. It is well
for all—stockmen, farmers, merchants,
tradesmen and professionals—that the
time is near at hand when the stock
man who has bought up lands will find
he can make a big speculation by turn
ing them loose in small bodies, to be
tickled with the plowshare that they
smile in golden harvests.--Cuero Bui-
lei In.
, in
and elsewhere, bat it remained
for the United States to produce it
and place it among the great articles
of the world's commerce.
The first oil well ever diilled was.
put down near Titusville, just without
the city limits. The first oil well was
sunk in 1859 b,v Col. Drake, of New
Haven, Conn. From the old Indian
days petrolenm, known as Seneca oil,
existed in the vicinity. Large
quantities floating on Oil Creek* had
had been gathered and used for medi
cinal purposes. From 1854 to 1858
producing operations of a crude nature
were carried on by Messrs. Bissell &
Evereth. Trenches were dug into
whioh oil oozed, and was afterward
pumped into vats. In 1855 these gen-
tlemen sold one third of their propeity
to some New Haven capitalists. The
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company was
formed, and Col. Drake engaged to
sink a well on the artesian principal.
Work was begun May, 1859, and the
first vein of oil was struck August 28,
twenty-five years ago to-day, at a depth
of sixty-nine and a half feet.
The production of the well at first
was ten barrels a day and sold for 50
cents a barrel. Col. Drake's success
revolutionized things in the little
Northwest Pennsylvania hamlet. In a
short time on the level lands around
Drake's well and along the banks of
the shallow rippling Oil Creek and on
the sides of the neighboring hemlock-
clad hills resounded the rap of the
hammer and the rumble of the wagons
as derrick after derrick arose. The
race of wealth, with the accompanying
mad speculation in land, had begun.
Titusville was in a few years a city of
10,000 inhabitants.
The next step in producing was the
drilling of wells down to the third
sand, where a much larger production
was maintained. In September, 1861,
the famous Philli well, on Oil Creek,
was struck, and did 4,000 barrels in
the first day. This was followed by
the Empire and other wells. In the
meantime, oil was selling all the way
from 10 cents to $20 a barrel, though
the average price was $4. There is no
need to trace the extension of opera-
tions, tho opening of the new fields in
Venango, Butler, Clarion and McKean
Counties, in Pennsylvania, and in New
York at Bichburg. The total produc-
tion increased rapidly from 82,000
barrels in 1859 to 9,000,050 in 1876.
Then came the great Bradford field,
and the following year the production
jumped to 13,000,000. Since then the
yearly increase has been about 5,000,-
000 barrels. The greatest production
was obtained in 1882, when it reached
tho enormous total of 31,789,190 bar-
rels.
The export trade has kept pace with
the production. In 1852-3 it was 600,-
000 gallons. In 1883 506,000,000 gal-
lons were exported, valued at $44,000,-
000 America's principal customer is
Germany, and the next best is England.
The volume of busines in 1883 on four
exchanges was as follows :
Barrels.
Oil City Exchange 1,821,098,000
New York Petroleum Ex.. 1,645.475,000
Bradford Exchange 1,272,141,000
Pittsburgh Exchange 1,265,549,000
Give Legal notices Greater Publicity.
[Dallas Herald.]
The fall campaign in this state for
the Legislature is an opportune time
for the discussion of the question of
the publication on a more extensive
scale of legal notices of one kind and
another. 4.11 Administrators', Trus-
tees', Sheriffs' and other dales, and
notices of every kind of pecuniary in-
terest to the citizen, should be publish-
ed for a reasonable time in the county
papers. The Texas statutes are very
defective in this particular and the
Legislature four years ago refused to
enact the necessary laws because the
virtuous weather cocks imagined they
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Newspaper Honor.
A short time ago a discussion arose
in Chicago as to the relative duties of
lawyers and newspapers, and the fol-
lowing queny occurred to me: What
would be said of any respectable jour-
nal that should take a fee for trying
to make black appear white—that
sh®uld undertake the defense of a mur-
derer for instance I Not secretly and
while pretending to be impartial—that
of course, would be intensely hypoorit
ical and dishonorable—but openly and
notoriously. The accused party would
say, for instance, "I want defenders,
will hire Lawyer Suoh-a-one and the
newspaper So-and so," What an out
cry would go up, and yet what is it
that makes such an act highly dishon-
orable on the pari of a newspaper, and
perfectly permissable and proper on
the part of an attorney? Is newspaper
honor held too high, or is legal honor
held too low? I believe the time will
Total 6,0004,263,000
The present financial condition of
tho oil trade is far from satisfactory.
For years there has been overproduc-
tion, the stocks increasing at the rate
of 5,000,000 or6,000,000 barrels a year.
It seems that the only way to perma-
nently reduce the stocks is to increase
the consumption of oil abroad, espe-
cially in Asia and in Central and South
America.
Crops of Texas for 1883-84.
The following summary of the cotton
crop of Texas for the years 1883-84 is
from the Galveston News' annual re-
view of trade and commerce, published
in its edition of September 1:
Southwestern IUilway System 500,415
Houston and Texas Central OT9,052
Gulf, Colorado and Sam a Fe 128,8;34
Texas and New Orleans 8,S90
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio 95,968
Sabine and East Texas 1,87a
Houston, East and West Texas 19,35'3
New York, Texas and Mexican 8,049
Gnif, Western Texas and Pacifio 10,505
Texas and St. Louis (estimate) 33,435
Fort Worth and Denver 10,211
Houston wapion receipts 3,242
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Water craft to Galveston.
5,011
Total crop 1,104,825
There is no estimate made in the
above of the Bed river movement out
of Texas, for the reason that the South-
western railway system includes an
estimate in their report of 15,000 bales
from this source—that is, cotton going
to Shreveport and points on the New
Orleans Pacific railroad by wagon from
several counties in Texas, aud which
consequently does not show on railroad
lines within the State. The summary
above given will be found practically
correct, Notwithstanding the fact that
the cotton crop of the State is over
500,000 bales less than it was ill 1882-
83, the total value of the produce ex-
ported very nearly reaches $100,000,.
000. The year before values from the
same sources reached the magnificent
total of $119,906,265. The following
summary shows the amount and ^ftlue
of Texas produce raised and export1^
within the years 1883-84:
Value.
Cotton, 1,104,825 bales 186,241 250
Wool, 18,627,423 pounds 3.166,671
Hides, 11,217,428 pounds 1,346,091
Cattle, 624,417 (including drive)— 12,488,340
Horses, 12,247 head 367,410
Lumber and shingles 7,426,515
Grain aud hay 10,824,719
Cottonseed, cotton seed oakeandOil 2,415,214
Sugar aud molasses 428,516
Miscellaneous produots 5,847,116
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is to select
ves, and give them the
best care till maturity.
The wheat crop of Minnesota is esti-
mated at 44,000,000 bushels, and that
of Dakota at 25,600,000 bushels.
Western farmers who have experi-
mented with rye for feed, say it makes
a very good hay, and is a sure crop.
Ten cows of one of the old Holstein
herds have just been tested for milk,
and they ranged from 14,000 to 16,000
pounds per year.
A New York seedsman has a 54-
pound box of cauliflower seeds which
he calls worth $2,700, and keeps it in a
safe-deposit vault.
Eastern herdsgrass is putting in an
appearance in some meadows of Col-
orado, and efforts are being made to
extend its growth.
It now costs about seven dollars and
twenty-five cents per head to transport
live cattle to Europe, and insurance
rates are two per cent.
Prunes bear the same relation to,
plums that raisins do to grapes, and
are probably the most digestible of all
dried fruits, while they are as whole-
some as any.
A contemporary says that forty years
ago butter was made from cream;
sugar from cane; cigars of tobacco;
shoes of leather; but times have
changed.
It is bad economy, as well as unfair,
to purchase all the labor saving ma-
chinery for the farm, and neglect to
supply the wife with such as will
lighten her labors.
How many are aware, asks Dr. Page,
that tho thinnest fruit of all, the wa-
termelon, contains, pound for pound,
more nutriment than beef tea, besides
being absolutely pure?
It is said that air-slaked lime, sprink-
led into the earth where cabbage
plants are to bo set, will prevent the
ravages of the cabbage maggot. It
might be worth trying.
Where fowls are confined, spade the
yards up occasionally, which (urns
under the filth and purifies them.
Cleanliness is the best medicine for
warding off disease.
It is very wisely advised that poul-
try breeders should not lose sight of
raising poultry—the production of
eggs and the production of the supply
of carcass.
Do not mow the lawn too often in
hot weather. Keep the margins of
beds, cut in lawns, well defined. Run
a sharp spade into the soil, along the
margains of the beds, to cut off grass
roots.
Ha1.1but With Tomato Sauci:.—
Cut your halibut steak into pieces
about two inches square Dip each,
piece in Hour, sprinkling with pepper
and salt and put iu a frying-pan in
which a large piece of the best butter
is frizzling. Fry in a hot place, keep-
ing the pan closely covered except
when turning the fish, which must bo
thoroughly browned but not burned.
Have ready some tomato sauce made
thus: Tako some nice, ripe tomatoes,
cut them in quarters and cook slowly
in a porcelain-lined saucepan for an
hour or so. If cooked gently they
can hardly be cooked too long. Then
drain out all the skins, seeds, etc.,
through a colander, put back on tho
fire and add pepper salt and a largo
piece of butter and some rich stock if
you happen to have it. Smoth a tea-
spoonful of cornstarch in a little cold
water and thicken the sauce with this.
Arrange tho fillets of halibut in a cir-
cle around a platter and pour the
sauce in the centre. Sprinkle tho
pieces of fish with a little salt and
chopped parsley. Serve very hot.
Tomato Salad.—Take six round,
smooth, ripe tomatoes, pour over
them some boiling water and let them
stand in it about two minutes. Then
take a sharp knife and peel off all the
skin-r-which has been loosened by tho
hot water. Set them on ice until very
cold and firm. Then with a sharp
knife, cut in even, round slices but
do not separate—let the tomato,
though cut, remain in its original
shape. Set each on a round, scolloped
dish in a little nest of the inner-leaves
of a crisp lettuce—about three leaves
to each tomato. Then pour over them
a nice Mayonnaise sauce.
Mayonnaise Sauce.—Beat with a
silver fork the yolks of two perfectly
fresh eggs. Add gradually, until the
niixture is thick, some olive oil beat-
ing all the time. If you get in too
much oil at once it will curdle and
get thin instead of thick and in this
case must take a third yoik of egg,
beat and gradually add to it while
beating the first mixture which has
curdled. When the sauce is thick
add two saltspoons of salt and one of
dry mustard and lemon juice or vin-
egar to taste. Some people like a lit-
tle sugar also. Tho sauce can bo
nicely beaten with a Dover egg-beater.
Ohange Salad.—This is a delicions
salad and easily made. Peel two or
three sweet, juicy oranges and cut up
the quarters lii nice moutlifuls, remov-
ing all seeds. Servo with half a dozen
bits of orange in a west of three or
four leaves of lettuce, ahjd pour May-
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Total 899,551,845
There is a large bullfrog in a little
aquariam at Allenton, Pa., says The
Critic, that seems to enjoy life as well
as the best of us. He is a bullfrog of
intelligence, and has a keen sense of
how to vary his days's occupation so
as to pick tho most enjoyment out of
his commonplace surroundings. Light-
ly hung above his watery home is a
small hammock, temptingly near the
water's surface. At regular intervals
the frog bounds into the hammock and
gently swings himself to and fro with
croaking delight. When tired of the
soothing exercise he drops again into
the water to refresh himself with the
ver
e, juicy,
sour,
Some weeks ago an English school
teacher boxed a child's ears with
some sverity. There followed a se-
vere and long-continued headache,
and it is not unlikely that the child is
injured for life. The medical journals
agree as to the very great impropriety
of punishing a child in this way, and
give the many anatomical and medical
reasons against it so clearly that the
brutal practice is likely to he lessoned
A quaint character named Ogilvie
Stannard, who for several years has
lived on a small island in Pelham bay,
Westchester county, N. Y., while in
an intoxicated state recently, fell
through tho ties of a railroad bridge,
but was caught on a spike and was
rescued. An hour later he was saved
by tho bridgetender while asleep on
the track before an approaching train.
In the afternoon he fell from his boat
into the bay and was again rescued by
tho bridgetender. As they were ap-
proaching the shore, however,'
ptis
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