The Sentinel, 1881-09-16, Page 7ana
CONSCORSTRICKEN CRIMINAL.
His Comfession--Charley Stailord'W-4
Year of, leviirerhig fer the ,Gull
Another.
A deepatch froniErie Pa says: P
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water, up along the foes t lake shore
Michigan, is hi the enjoyment of a, s
„ling aseneation, an •has taken Sh
Stafford, of thie.contity, into its confide
in the strong hope that the real crimin
a case of assault committed years ago
-she brought to ifistice and the innocent
prisoued.-victi,bit released from his ce
- the WeStern Iflitentiary, at Alleghe
The sheriff re ,eived a letter from in
- ested parties „a , few days ago, wh
raade strange ievelations eto him, air
ing light upon , a hitherto dark mat
• The lettee says that ,Toliza Sipps
JamealIangarin lembermen living atPe
water, had ,been told in secret by Jack
Ward, a brother backwoodentan, that
• (Ward) wes the real guilty meet in t
• eseeeilt commitupon Anna Childs
her horctein Waehiegtorr Township, int
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. day or, night," ' tyard's feelings prompt
him to say as he relieved the burden a
• easedethe renteree that hung as a cank
to his guilty hea 't strings by telling t
_ segret to his mats; ". and poo t Charl s
Stafford has suffered these eight yea C
. an innocent pr soner..._ Tell . them 1 sl
am ready to rove nay guilt. Tell n
them we exchanged our vests on to
that night, °and tl.irat..- was the •evidence -en
which 'sent Stafford -I -to a cell." Sipes and in
Mangam state the few facts as given by in
Ward as lia:vingcomedireet and unsolicited to
from _from him, and they are ready to make en; th
-davit to the Story told and appear against 'pr
Ward. • The trial of Stafford was • a li
rema,rkable one: iBy a change of- veeue is
his counsel hail the case removed to Craw- ha
ford co tYs aaed .the date Of the sixteenth
year c . mitetneattiethe Weetenapeniten- eh
tiary read e frota 'Meedville., `Ward now Et
states that - afterWarcl meeting Charles no
•Stafferd, by -eolith inanimate° he acCorn- to
plished an exchange of veets, and -then lefs lig
the State. The exeitement over the "event wi
VANAD1.1,41111 A WILE Al -ANODES
Senator' Cuchra e his Borianza—Thisi
the Buffalo.
Cattle are eta- b Increased—Aare
At St. Inn
was 'recently' intervi
pendent. • He sai he
Governmeut of one
acres of land,- so e 't
north of the boundary on the route to be
traversed by the Main line .of the raiIwa
eto For Calgaryeand that he had mace
arrangementeto,eend „n this season eight
thousand head of beta§ mostly from Mon-
tana; and had in›,adipion, imported seven
Carloads of thoroughbred stock', takingthem
to Bismarck over tlae Nerthern PacificRaile
way, thence up the Miss uei byForts Buford
and Bentdre and final y driving them.by
tedious and dangiarou enaarches four hun-
dred miles to -his.
the toot of the
expedition, even
no e light underta
venture - upon it
•learned the scienc
, Senator Cochran.e
wed by a cones -
ad a grant from .the
hundred thousand
tee hundred miles
anche on the plains at
ockei Mountains. The.
ith 'Men and horses, is
and nd One needs
ho"ihasencit previously
of natation. Mr. Coch-
est rane's Party drovee fouitin-hand, both men
ed and liorses.swinuning the rivers. They were
nd out twenty-fouraidays,1 and made about
er he ha,ve the right t reeume possession for
thirty-fiverailesp7 da. The GoVernment
eY ett ement on giving notice; but -
es wheelie • had net any - fear of be
isturbed—the land -there, as he s
ot being adapted for „cultivation, ow
summer frosts. Ile stated that
tend to try also the experiment of bre
ow had fallen asrly as August. T
g good _horses. heir the herd increa
20,000—whieh. he looked- forward to
e not distant feture—he thought
mited for tlieirlo erations.• The coun
esent 100,000. acies Would. be quite
so-exceedenely hare of wood that th.
to carry for 2V0 nfiles enough to co
eir provisions, and they .used ,Buff
ips wherever. teay could bid the
ousii4 the cattle navinterivastherefo
herthou'ght o indeed-, it was he
he minecessery, s the snowfall is he
lit and dry and t e animals are able
Mre
ing
aid-,
ing
the
hey
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sed
-in
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too
try
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ok
ald
m.
re
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re
to
nter out. Fencing even will be only
the meet ecoeionalcal .scale—merely
&intense. By a queer 'combination of op.
arrested. on- Shs icion, e
reraemberipg '.'the bright colored -pattern
,of the •_vest •• her ., assailant wore,
declared him the guilty man. That vest
exchange - has 'kept .Chailes Stafford: a
prisoner in -soiitary confinement almost• '
eight year, and until Ward's confession
• his proapects were first-class far the full
term. Measures . are. now beihg taken ta
ascertain the. full text of the etatemente
made la- the letter ,trom Pentwater,. and
- Sheriff Stefford cdnficlently expects to• _
secure sufficient evtclenee to- warrant the
• arrest of Ward, which Ward wants, and
release the ithiocently imprisoned. He has
• been working up the case for a Week past,
'and expeete•to make a move to-day—keep.
• ing up communication with the parties in
the Miehigen settlement, arid a diose eye on
• the Movements of Ward. -
Telma men -Old 'wives.
. .
: The- regent cases of George Elioteand
• the Barmiest Coutte marrying metp so
•, many yearstheir. junior are not without
• .Plenty of notable precedents. Mohammed's
wife was 20 yea'rs olderthan her husband,
and he aecribed meichof hi g success to her
_ a'ssistance and influence. John Howard,
the philanthropist, married, out of gratitude
• a woman who was, equally' his senior
Napoleon's -fleet wife, aosephite, Was .his
senior by six -,years. Aaron Burr_ also
married a widow, who teas 10 yeare older
than her husband, but the Union,was very
• harmonious. Jona Wilkes, the /Amens
Liandon agitator Of the last century;
• married a lady who was 10-yeaes his senior.
• Johneon, the lexieographet, married the
• _widow Patter, who was 48, While her
husband Was only,21, at the, time of. the
Wedding. Johnson always mourned the
loss of his Wife, aed though hewasOnly 43
- at the time of her death, he never married
again. How- often -big subsequent
= writings he refers to his lost cbrapanicte in
the most, effectionate manner. When only
• 18 Shakspeare was married to Annie
Hathaw4-eWhose age was 25. a,
circumstance• s- -Stafford, araone others, was as
- sanday steeping.
•A person -whose brain is -wea,ried with
intellectual 1,Vorle during the week, or whose
• nervous System is evo-Sed to -the strain of,
-business or professional life, ought to 'sleep.
an hour or two after his Sunday dinner, if
he can. It is surprising hovt "much like a
• seven-day clock -the brain will work,- if the
• habits of a " Sunday nap" be once formed.
• Nature- - will take advantage of • it as
regularly and gratefully as she does of the
• nightly sleep, and do her best te make up -
lost tithe, People, on the other handewhose
week of toil is Chiefly physical, may well
_giVe theirl-rends ,activity while -the body is
„resting. - Two sermons and three or four
'hours of sOlid /reading are a real ret to
some on Sunday, while to others such a
-course amounts to a. -positive Sabbath-
breakings Sunday is a day of rest, eot
workerteeeious or otherwise. It is a day
for repose, gat exhaustion. But what the
-dogmatists on one aide and the illiberal
• liberals on the other are apt to overlook is
the fact that all men do not rest alike any
inore than they labor alike, and what may,
help one may kill another.---Goiden Rule.
Cyprus is afflicted with aplague of goats.
The planting- the Governraent propose to
-carry out will be useless unless some means --
•.can be adopted for "preventing datfeage by
;the Gypriaai goats. The riumbee of goats
in the island is estimated at 230,000. They
•carry no wool, furnish Only bad meat. and
• - hardly -give more milk than the sheep, .to
• which, however, they are prefeered on
account of their feeding on ligneous vegeta-
• - then, which the sheep reject. They not
, only destroy :the young freshly grown.
plants, teat browse on .the young branches
• of oldetrees, St. Helena, like Cyprus,
has suff ed much from goats. The forests
suddenlr disappeared between 1710 .end
170, in consequence of the introduction of
gottain 1582. •
r
It is believed that Sir Ch les Gavan
Ire, -
Duffy,. velao in 1848 headed the Yonng Ire-
' land party aird'eubsequen migrated to
Australia, will,endeavor to arra a party in
.: .Irelahil favorable to national- aspirations,
but averse to -Communistic ideas.
--- Miss Kate Sanborn, Professor of Litera-
e_ante_da 'Smith College; is authority for the
'statement that the authorof the No Name
novel, e,MannelaPaeedee," is. a Mr. Chain-
- berlain, Of New York. . ,
• enclosures for the finer breed
stock an& for the hotses. He was not
under apprehension from depredations -by
Indians, who I had learned:had_ proved so
• troublesome in -running off the cattle of
early squatters in this. region—no ' doubt
heving -the means, on _the large scale on
which he is operatipg, of giving his pro-
perty adequateprotection, without the
'intervention. of the Mounted_ Police, who,
rightly enough, say theY are not there for
any Klett purpoeet ae trio protection of the
cattle of those who equal; on_ Government
lands. Mr. Coehrafiela party met with
vasa herds of* buffalo i on •the Missouri
River; and . two ef " the' hunters t. by
I.
staying over: a day kiled no less than
1
fifteen of the hied s. ' The . steamer at
a sudden bend -.tete Ily ran into a herd of
buffelo as they swam aerots the river, and.
thepassengers were Able to reech out their
hands and pateheir shaggy coats. A buffalo
calf, which .had been • captured alive, was
'the pet of the boat, toliciwing the men and
passengers in and alit if the ga,rtgata,y at
all the stopping placeis: 'Mr. Cochrane had
full faith in his experiment, although
acknowledging et was as' yet but an experi-
ment; lo *much faith that -he .haselrea-dy
invested in it over $200,000. He hoped by
the time they were he a ,'position to ship to
be able to send out his cattle by. a mbre
expeditio,ps and less dangerous route. Mr.
Angus has given him the assurance that
before the close of next year -500 miles of
railway will be completed, equipped, and
in -operation. . . .
. -Varnished Mel�ns.
A -lady has discovered a _plan tb keep
watermelons in theirenatfiral, form and
flevor for sea -indefinite length of time. She
has successfully tried it in past eeasoes,
and, as a consequenee, has been alpha to
treat her family toece watermelon supper' at
Christmas time. _The, plan is an inexpen-
sive and simple one, fled tonsists in giving
the melon three or four deists of -varnish to
• exclude the dine She eays they' not only
keep Loan decayabut that the flavor and
sweetness are retained, and when eaten at
Christmas or Nesw Year td, the fruit seems to
be wopdeifully improved', in theee particu-
lars.—Ilarrisburg Patriet4ui
The Chinese and Japeepse build. most of
their vessels of teak. T is wood is very
durable end will- stand the water better
than an other wood the , is used for Ship-
building. According te the Australasian
Shipping News there Hee at the bottom of
,
Dusky Bay a,- large ye.sl that can be
plainly seen in clear wat r.- She has been
there for centuries and t 6 -Maoris littve a
legead about her. Tb:y say that their
grandfathers told themet at in their child-
hood a large vessel San.-, in Dusky 'Bay;
'that the crew managed •reach one of the
small islands -and after living there ,for
years' died off one by on, • Who they were
or where they came, from he Maoris could
not say. A diver is said o have examined.
the mysterious oldliulk. Ile reported that
she is built of teak and a *pears to be still
perfectly sound and firrai *
,
A rich old man, who f ora poverty had
risen. to the possession o large property,
once gave this bit. of wisdrn to ayoungster:
"Keep befoie the wheeh4,I young than, or
they will run over yousa-te ways keephefote
the wheels." "I remem r, " he wrote to
a young friend. beginning Zife, "that when
I was earning a shilling day- I used to
j
live upon eiehtpence. F llow the sound
principle of having 'your nts within your
means. '
Atlanta is the defendant ta a . lawsuit fcir
$20,000 damages, because t e-palice on the
order of the Superintende have excluded
colored people from a p lie park. The
plaintiff,has been repeatec y arrested anEt
locked up over night for in isting on enter-
ing the park, and the law rs say that his
case is -a good one.
• Rev. Mr. Kauntimacker, if the German
Protestant Chi/rah; Uncin ati, wag horse-
whipped on Saturday nigh dier.Mrs. Galde-
merer, a former parishion a because, as
alleged, he ridiculed the o kl church from
which he and -a portion'of I is congregation
hed eceded. • *
—Wh.ene acearding to t
-St. PAW, says, " But the g
is love" ifhe hdIektilitine
self-love be `would have
Sentence in such a way t
could understand and appe
e new version,
!ea -test of these
'that he meant
unded out the
;at
moat of us.
elate it. .
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AN ELEPHANT AS A. PET. , CANADA'S GOLDEN SAND .
How Barnum's Albert Held the Fort Where to Acquire Pocket Money Before
,
—Another Baby- Elephant. Breakfaist.
. .. .
The Ceylon elephant Albert is the . On the sea -coast round Cape Commerell,
largest in Barnum's herd. of twenty, and is British Cedurabia; exist deposits of sand
one of the most ill-natured brutes on the which, black'in appearanae on the surface,
read. While in a passion the other evening are found on ex,emtnation, after digging a
heseized a stone and hurled itat Mr. Frank few inches, to belull of specks of gold. • A
Hyatt, •the assistant .manager, severely handful of S'and washed in a saucer,alis-
brinsing , that gentleman's- left leg. Mr. plays numerous sparkling grains, Which
Hyatt, smarting with pain, picked up the are pure gold, so fine, in tiny scales,
stone and with it struck Albert a stunning that they are popularly called '!float
blow between the eyes, producing a notice- gold." •The exislence of the gold has
able elevation to the hide, .The animal long been known, but the, difficulty has
attempted .to carry on the: warfare, been to find a means of successfully and
but his human oppcinent was • out economically extracting it. . Several me -
of ' reach .„-a •moment later. • Mr e chines have beee tried, but without success;
Hyatt passed the herd of elephants several and, after several failures, the experiments
times during the evening and was greeted wete abandoned., and nothing has been
by " .Albert "with a savage winging of done for some years. A new venture is,
his trunk, which was taken as a threat that however, about to be made with a machine
hostilitiee would be resumed if an oppor- invented by a San Francisco conapany,
tunity was offered. At Auburn, N. :Y.,the which prothisea to be successful. The
elephants -were taken down to the.rivermachine consists of sidrawers or layers
for bath at the cenclusion of their even- of plates, covered., with amalgam. Each
ing perforroance in the ring. When •the plate has holes ,., punched throug• h ' it
,leeeper prepared to return With hiSanimals about a quarter of an iiich _in cli-
he found " Albert '! in the middle of \the &Meter. ' The gold -bearing sand is " dumped
deep stream determined to cohtinue the in ". on the top plate, _ the water being
. • .
bathing at pleastre. Persuasion. was turned on. The action of the water sets
first tried aid then abuse,, but the •brute the sand in naotion, and, with the gold, it
realized7that he had an advantage and passe e througlastheaholes: The sand fall's
"held the fort " with iudifference. Some from Plate to plate,eleaying behind it_the
time after midnight he concluded it was •loose, free gold, which; `attaches itself to
almost bedtime and coolly.walked ashore. the amalgam ; and by the time the sand
No further trouble was experienced that has reached the sixth plate it .is accoin-
night. "Queen," one of the elephants, is panied by very few grains of gold that have
eepeCted to become a mother 'before the suceessfully 'escaped attachment to the
clese,of the season.--Cleqland Leader. a,malgam on the previous ` five . plates.
The process is- sieeple, but it is reported
to - be successful, and to more than pay
expenses.—The Colonies and India.
A Beautiful Prayer.
• Save that thepetitioh is not proffered in
the name of the Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, the prayer of the Israelite for the
recovery of the President is just such a
prayer as might be offered by a minister of
the Gospel. Iu the service at a New:York
synagogue the Rabbi said : "Almighty
Father, who art the everlasting God, the
creator of all things; in Thy infinite good-
ness Thou hest. allowed us- to assertible
'for worship without fear of man, knowing
that we live among a nation that loves
liberty, that rejoices in being an asylum for
the persecuted and a hothe for the oppressed
of the world. But how could we appreciate
these advantages 'without feeling the deep
sorrow that is atm pressing dawn on the
nation because ees head has been stricken
down by the foul hand of the assassin?
Hew could we come to this place without
Offering prayer for the President of the
United. States, for his sorrowing wife and
children; for lais aged mother, whose heart
has been and is trembling ,between hope
and fear? Oh, grant au atteetiye ear to
-the prayer of the nation. Give the Presi-
dent renewed strength and health. Give
light to his physicians to save his precious
'life."
Gladstone's Very- First- Less• on.
The honorable gentleman is young ; he
-takes great pains; he has plenty of time to
gain instruction, and plenty of time to
unlearn sad castaff errors. Let him apply
that time to good purposes, and let him
learn this --that -j he wants reallyto make
an impression upon the -world, to give aid
ter -his friends or to inflict disaster upon
his adversaties, the very first lesson he
must learn is to restrain his universal and
siweeping propositions within the bounds' of
fact and itetual exp,erience, and submit
'himself to be taught by lessons of the
world and lessons of the day, and to learn
and know that moderation, reserve and
Consideration for those with whom you
have to deal, and the endeavor to bring
your propositioninto exact conformity
with the circumstances of the case,
is for him- and for everybody else the
very first condition to any substantial 'and
durable success. (Loud cheers.)—Froin his
;recent speech in Parliament replying to Mr.
Ashmead Bartlett.
A Boer) Swarm-kn.—An Irishman has just
accomplished tlie feat of -swimming across
the Niagara River, just below the Falls.
The feat has been done before, but not se,
qainkly as this mandid it -6 minutes and
30 seconds. „The Niagera Falls Gazette
describes him as an athletic son of Erin
from Cork, named William Riordon., He
said that heexperienced no difficulty except
in the centre of the stream, where the
weves were so stout that he ,found some
trouble -in riding them. -
At "La Scala," in Milan, is now in course
Tosperous representation one of the
eitraordinary ballets ever witnessed
any stage. It is called EXcel,sior, and
lonely described as " the danced poem
of th triumph of progress, illustrating all
tlje,Lnogt important incidents of the road."
Among the various modern inventions and
scientific conquests to which it gives terp-
sichorean personification are the telegraph,
the locomotive, the ransatlantic eaIle,
and thetunnelling of the Isthmus of Suez.
Fancy the last-named achieverneiet being
danced by 300 little female feet,_ amid
countless "pirmiettes" and frequent " bal.
lonnenients " Of gauze petticoats. It seems
absurd in statement, but the effect is des-
cribed as nothing less, than ,ravissant.
Excelsior is to be brought out in. Paris next
winter.*1 '
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A curious divorce case • has just been
decided in New Brunswick-, whereby the
marriage of David Pugb and Charlotte
Emma Pugh is declared void. She was the
sister of his first wife. 'After the latter's
death the two wished to marry. but the law
of New Brunswick forbidssuch a marriage.
So the two wept to Maine and were married
and, then returned to New Brunswick,
where they lived as man and wifefor eleven
years. Recently Mrs. Pugh's conscience
• began to upbraid her for her unlawful act
and she left her husband. He sued for a
drvorc*e on the ground of abandonment.
--The first. annual meeting Of the
Supreme Conclave of Select Knights of the
Ancient Order of United -Workmen took
place in Chicago yesterday. The object of
this meetihg is to form a national oiganiza;
tion. -
—"Would you say," asked Professor
Stearns, " Twould-rathee walk,' or I had
rather walk? ' " I would say," replied the
smart, boy, I had rather-rade'' most.
,eraphatically." And he was marked three
below zero, with cloudy or partly clearing
weether. , •
Tennyson is losing his'sbyness 'eta tithe
goes by, His grounds at Farrington were
throarn ?pen to the public for the ehow of
the YermOuth and Fresbevater Horticultu-
ral Society. '
• -
Polionied- Face Polvdere
, Among the death:certifi.cates issued yes--
terday Was one for the burial of. Alice
Laraopt, who died at the Female HoSental
on Saturday afternooh. Leg & poisoning
was put down as the cause of death. Alice
Lamont was the leading lady at the Globe
Theatre two -weeks ago under ter maiden
name, Miss 'Alice 'Itidgeway,t Just two
*Take ago she was carried fieWtha theatre
to the Female Hospital. On:Saturday she'
died, only et, few moments- :before her hits -
band arrived at her bedeide. Theysaid she
died of I," lead• Poisoning." ' That Mamie.
that the -woman was poisoned by a lotion
need by most actreesees and -many society
ladies to beautify the conapipaien. I -t,` is
eemposed of "flake -white. a refined car-
bonate of lead, rose water,' glycerine and
bismuth." So says Miss Dollie- Leland,
who knew the make-up- :of . Alice Lamont.
"We- all use something of the kind, as you
Must 'hate observed." said, the ether Miss
Leland. e Alice naturally had -a good _com-
plexion, being a 'perfect blonde, with bright
blue eyes, But in her anxiety to ad.dto
.nature's work.she caused her Own. cleatle,
Her• entire system was. filled with ,lead, and
the woman - el:ed in agony." -est. Louis:
Republican: - ° -
•Itope for Bald Beads.
A cerrespondent writes :' Three years
ago the top of my head was as bald, as the
palm ofeney hand. On the recomeeenda-
non of a friend- I used the following simple
preparation. attcl nove..have a good head - ef-
hair.: To a Pitt of water -add a:trifle:More
salt tha,nthewater,will dissolve. ot'her
Words neake a very strong brine. - At night
before retiring . rub the bald pert hriskly.
until.a tingling seneetien isiapparent,
tak-
ing care not to make the heademart.
When the_head is perfectly dry there. Will
appear _a thin coatingof. Itt the
morning wash the head carefully with pare
water, cold, no soap,- and apply a.minute
quantity of some'emolieht. I used vaseline.
1 have neeerknown an ihstancawhetethie
remedrha,a 'been, applied to hale that Is,
fadlieg out that there was hot an immediate
strengthening of the geoWth. -With itirne
bald heads it has -.feiled.-
-A Faith tare.
A despaech from Erie, - -says: "Bs
Mamie Leo, daughter, et 'Prof. Lo, of the
High School,has been bed -ridden four
years with • spinal disease and perfectly
helpless. She afose -this morning witho-ut
assistance and walked downstairs perfectly
. -
well. - The miracle is attributed to prayer
and faith. A few weeks ago. Mee. Rev:
Kummer and several other • prominent
Christian ladies, with the „celebrated Clara
Judd, of Buffalo, cured by prayer some
time ago, agreedIto unitein prayer for Miss
Leo's restoration on or before Sept. 10th.
The e'inces correspondent has frequently
seenthe young,leey her helpless'condi-
.tion and eaw her walk -alone to church this
morning.- , The excitement was_so great in
church that Tars. Crapps fainted.
. •
A Rock Islaud man gave his girl what he
thought to be a_ dollar and - a, -half with
Which to pur,ehase, a pair of gleves. The
halfIproved to be a, twenty dollar gold piece
and When the wohean made the discovery
she was fully determined to buy a pair of
gloves costing but one dollar and return the
gold to the owner. This laudable resolu-
tion -held as firm as preparedglue until she
got into the store and allowed her love -lit
eye to roam over the handsonie dress goods
displayed, and then -the devil cra,wled into
her heart and whispered to her that a
twenty dollar piece in the handavas worth
a thousand of thein in her prospective hus-
band's pocket and then she fell. • That is to
say, she "took a tumble," and whenshe
left that :store she carried twenty-pne
dollars' worth -of dry goods' and not a cent
in change. For this the man announces
that he can never be more to her now than
a, total stranger, averring that he willuot
marry a dishonest woman.- Moral: Don't
bite off more than ydu can conveniently
masticate,' and a1iva,Y6 Make your lovers
•count the money twice before accepting it.
Since the completion of Cologne Cathe-
dral the Germ -an architects who accom-
• plished that great work have been looking
out for some other unclertitking of a similar
character. True restoration of Strasburg
Minster was long considered, but finally it
has been decided that Aix-la-Chapelle shall
be the- ,great rational undertaking. his
beautiful basilica dates hack to thetime of
Charlemagne, and is ler richer than
Cologne In archmological interestand
historical assocdatieus•
The Boston Investigator's way of saying
"He died is as follows: "He passed the
boundary -ainen limits our knowledge of --Blank and dark colors remain
,Phe d. uratiqu of individual conSnioneness." fitshieh fee hosierY..
IT F
Curoulio, BlokKjjt and -Other
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- Diseases
:l3IgOtre8ED BY TH PBUIr GBOweiliS
'he summer meeting- �f the. . Fruit
Growers' Association of Ontanatocik-Plaad
.ai OW -ed Sound.cin the 24th,- and. •Vitie welt:
,atteneleda Among .those present from a
distanee were Messrs:D... W. Be
Secretary, of 'St Catharines ;--P. B.
Ottawa; : . Lindsay C. -
Paris; .Allee, •Goderie
Trenton- ;: Drury, Greene Hill,
Derapseyeof Albury, -who 'pies
In the discussion the infer wee
elicited - that the -curculio. .1 known
around Owen Sound.
anietc xesoa.
• An: interesting- diSelissibii-followed With.
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regard to the black knot, .which seems to -
be the great. plum pest In- the northern
part of Ontario. Nearly every One preeent.._
could say something upon the topic. The
following seminary of what was said We
quote: • - ,
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As the origin of:the disease, --nobody- -
FiSeMS to . be- certain'. -If__ was at one -
.tim.e thought to leave been caused by an:.
insect,: but the Secretary, who had given
the matter great ettefitioa, had' convinced -
himself that it was not caused by an ineect, -
butwits a dieeasedgrowth—whetherfungus
or not he was net prepared.toesa,y. He had. -
not found the _usual._ characteristics- �f -
fungus.- One lodal grower asserted that
thorough under .drainage would, - keep .
orchards .alraost free from the pest ; - while -
another.' told of his orchard,- which- was
underdreined and: had a gravel eubioil,.
that water couldlicit-passibly lie,: and .thia-
yea-r. his -trees were generally ' 81tacked.
The 'present- yeanWas generally spoken:. _
as one Of-the-weist, years for black knot,
• and instances were related of - other
particular years, when the disease had --
been .specially'pkevalent. Ile theory was
broached. that the hard winter enddry
season had something to do with it, but
none had 'watched the other years to
-know whether they, carresponded_in this
particular. Blue .plems were attacked.
,worst; but ,all kinds were liable, theyellow,
not so -much, the Pend Seedling being the:
only variety 'mentioned ln which lalaek-
knot-lied- eotbeen observed. Two or -three
:advaii-ced the theory that hlacle -knot -wag
speead by propagating trees from. suckers,
but Piesident related an instance of _
trees thathed been cut dawn because .of
Week knot, and new tre.es, prepagated from
sprouts at ehe. roots _were- free - from:the- -
disease.- -As to whether the diseasespreads
from orchard .teprchard, sonata doubted it,.
but the general -opinion was that it -spread,
the President relating how he was unable to
keep: down -black knot in his- orchardwhile.'
his -neighbor 'neglected t� - gut if; ; but on
asking :his neighbor to- ctifit out, he was'
_able to kee'p he _ disease down in his own.
orchard. -The only remedy that was khown
was cutting out the knot andburning it ae
soon as :it appeared. Several said that the .,
way it had attacked the -trees_ this year? -
they would have tabe hut doiva altogether.
Trees on which it was allowed to remain -
would be killed in ,two.- pr three year -S.
Judge „Macpherson -raised the question of
whether black-knat Weald not attaele forest
trees; ithd related an instance Of where it
was seen:in a- beech .-tree, but Mr. Drury -
and others -thought it was not- genuine black
knot, and. that our forest tepee wereeipt in
danger. , everal said that: the .best -thing -
that canfld be clone. was to enforce the Act
.now on the statute book; -
'ABOUT CIT.LxQTYLIO.
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The Secretary, at the re uest of Several .
-local- men, gave an intereseing deseriPtion. .
of the curculia - and how to deal_ with it, based he said media a small-half-
nivv. hoicie jIn tehhpaypelady.pitienicrtur.egegis. 2t.hlieis.pdledrei:viiis
into he worm, which-. -- penetrates to _the
stone, when the..plum drape off.- The wenn
thea comes - out and enters: the ground,
where it -develops into the perfect insect
aiid comes .-,Out*:?again. ready to reneat its
operatione. The' way to deal with theni
wag to go early in the eherningend smartly
jar -the trees, having ..nreviously, spread a -
shet -ender,' and then ga,tlier, up and.
destroy- them—this -.to .berepeated' eaeh
,dayuatil yeu find. no More checulica
- :BOttERS.
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The next question taken up was that of .
theborer in apples,. Only one solitary
-case of it -keits reported in the iiiilighborhood
-, - -
thetit attacked the tree at -
of Owen Sound.- Mr.' Beaclg explained.
--.- ei base. It: -
witaeitsily prevented by :Washing ,the tree -
with soft soap, potash, or -alkali of any,kind
dissolved in. water. --nine- deFitroy- -
other insects also, arid keep the barkenioothe.
and was- one of the best. applications that
-could go on a tree. . -* - -
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-THE CODLIN: 11,10T11.
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The °Malin' Moth is known in the Owen e
:Sound:region, although 'ehe Proper plan of
aealing .with it does not Seem to.be under-
stood: It was eiplainedthat the moth laid •-
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itfi- eggs on the blossom endof the'apple, or .
wherevetthe '_apple or crab- apple. touches
against- ae leaf or other substance, 'The; -.
worm.penetrated to the -core of the apple,
and after attaining its groWth.came Out to -
the surface; when it Went for shelter :in
which to get into the:clarysa,lis state... Mr. -
Beadle rela,tedethat in Rochester he went
to see a -factory- for 'apple .drying, and -
felled them carting away the peelings and:
COTOS: He: asked -where they were- going,
and.was told to the jelly factory, where they -
made elle kind§ of. jelly. On: expressing .
sin -prise,- he veasiehotiviepcits f jellylabelled
with names of -.. different; fruits, but a -- -
madu from theapple eorese They' !were,
flavored With , the different .11.-avora and
readily sal& far-jelIies etth-oserfreits; -He.
thought- grinding - them up in thisaveynoe-
in a -cider mill,was a -capital -Way ofgettinge
rid of the ecellin.rnoth. -. The plan iedeptede-
Was to put coarse _brown paper or other• -
su.betanceralled lebsely-eroundathe trunk . , • - , • • _
Of Ilae tree tand tied in the middle: The
Worms which came out Of the apple Vsbile.:
on the tree, came- doten_the.trunk doodling -
for shelter ,' and Went. into the peoleet,While
thoee e'vhiclicatue out of :the -apples' ehe.
ground craWledup thetree.and got caught -
in the packet below The payees could be
'-untied thetenietlicadestrayeddtaThe-
-pickedhp end destroyed, diseased failen-shOuahe-
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