Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 17, 1877, Page 7

TIE CHICAGO TRIBUN MONDAY, SEPT “ARKANSA The Good Points of the Péirie Lands of That State. What They Cost, and the Crops Which Are Raised There. Amount of Capital Necded to Make a Settlement. Tnformation Regarding Soil, Climate, Schools, and Other Points, fet the Intending Colonist Read and Judge for Himself, Spectat Correspondence of The Tribune. Lrrtig Rook, Ark. Sept. 10—I have fn a formes, letter alluded to the pralrfo country which forms ut a small portion, not exeeeding 4tod percent, of Lhe entire area uf the State, and since thattime have spent a few days in vis- Kidg this portion and examining its resources, A tide of thirty mies on the Little Ruck & Memphis Railroad brings one to the town aut station of Carlisle, near the nortnwastern end of Grand Prairie, which Is from ninety to one hundred miles {n length, extending In a south easterly direction with an average width of gixto ten miles, but with frequent polnts of timber making out {nto it, as well ns Dumerous talands of timber, so that few places can be found that arc more than three or four miles from timber. The course of tha pratrie and railroad areso nearly. parallel that tho road traveracs sume thirty miles in length of the prairie, with stations and little towns growing up af from four to six miles apart. Unlike any Northern prairie I havo ever scan, it Is bordered by heavy tinber, without any Intervening space of brush-land; but hero tha heavy timber. ends abruptly In tho prairie, and the change in tho character of the soll fs cquaily as abrupt and welldefned. In-the timber the surface soil te adark-volored aand, with au admixture of clay, underlald by a red clay of about the volor of an ordinary red Urick, but ending abruptly at the prairie, where the soll is a dark or mulatto-col- orcd «moll, very fino in texture, ond from twelve «to eighteen = inches In depth, with a subsoll of heavy clay, The surface soil is not as dark nor aa friable na that on our Northern prairies, but must equat the best in fertility, as is evidenced by tho growth of vegetation iu tts wild state, and of crops where It has been brought under thorough cultivation. THE SURFACE Isgently undutactng, and Hes in broad swells, with slope sufliclent for thorouzh drainage, but. notabrupt enough towash the soil, With ite broad, undulating surface, ite border of tlinber often extending in Rothe nearly to its centre, and dotted here and thers with ‘Islands of tim ber, it teas beauti£ul s country og L ever saw, and yet, strange as {t may appear, until within tho fast threo or four years, mainly since the ‘completion of the rullroad, It bas been regarded as of no valuc fortmgricultural pur- powvs except us arange fur stock, than which hu tier can be found, as the entire surface Ia covered with us fing u growth, both In quality and quantity, of upland prairie-grass as Lever w. ‘Thousand of tons of this hay are now cut every year and baled at the stations onthe road, and shipped elther to Little Rock and theace to Northeastern Texas, or to the Memphis and New Orleans markets. The reason of this undervaluation of this Prairie country may in part by exptalued. Tho original eettlers In this portlun of tie State were mainly from the slave Statea cast of the Missisxippl, ‘The sinall farmers settled upon tho uplonds, while the rich plantera who moved West with their slaves, and Whuse only idea was cotton, selected the rich ailuvial-bottom lands of the Missisaippl, Arkansas, aud White Rivers. The class tret-numed, and which represented largely the poor white element of the older Have Btates, had all their Hyes been accustomed tu a timber country,and the bull-tongue aystem “pf farming (of witch I with writu more fully acreaiter). ‘They naturally took to the same thuractér of country as that which they loft, Wz: the upland thnber: country where they sould build a log cabin, clear off the brush and unall trees, deaden the larger tlaber, aud, with s single inule and bull-tongue plow, tear up the suriace of the-cround antl a patch ready: fora crop of corn, cutten, an weet potatocs with little ontlay or expenditure of anything axcept thelr own labor, A settlement upon the prairie was quite a Alferent affair, and, though they might butld ‘house and fence their land, when ft came tu the matter of cultivation and improvement a system radically different from the bull-tungue to which they hud always been accustomed was required. Hence it can bo. readily scen why these early settlers sct littl value upon the prairie country. ANOTIEH THING which tended to keep alive the fca that the prairica were valuvless for crops was tho fact that about thetr borders were a zood many par cs who had gone larvely. Inte the stuck busl+ ders, owns Ipincnse herds of cuttleand mules, which gut alindst thelr entire lying upon tha prairies during the summer, and in the sur. rounding thiber in the wluter. It was for their Interest tu diseournge settlement which woult interfere with their stock ranse, und heace pared no pains to disparge the prairie as a farming country, and, as 1 before gald, it {s only within the last thres or four years tUat acttlo- Tents to any extent have been mais upon theas prairie lands, wud these inainly by Northern men Who bring with them tha Northern syatem of faring und Northern tarm implements, Ona Of the pioncers in this movement bs ex-Gov. Hadley, now the Postmaster of Little Rock, Who, becoming gutlatled in his own mind of the Rreat value of these lands for farming purpuses, Purchased nearly 1,000 acrea in a body, upon Wht be has ereeted fine buildings aud 18 open- dug urd tinproving [tus agrato aud stock farm, ‘here seems to by SOME PECULMIANITY OF THE SOIL requiring a longer time for its thorough subdu- dng aad civilization than (n our Nurthero prale Hes, and Edo not think (he best results cun be reached till tt has been under cultivation. for. from threo to tour years aud its wildness thor- oughly subdued. Ou land forming @ part of one of the old cattlo-ranches of while TD have spoken. and whieh had been under cultivation for over twenty years withuut the application of aloud of inatiure, I sav as heavy cotton and ‘corn growing us any L have seen on the famous Arkansas Hiver bottom Jauds, and fcan see no reagou Why, waen thoroughly sublucd aod un. der an tutelliert systein of agriculture, these lands will nut give “as large crops of corn, cote ton, wheat, outs, burley, and uthersmall zralus, as can be grown in yuy country, ut the necessity cxats hero as ulaewhere for an tuteliigent understawiing and appre- clatlon of the peculiatica of the Ball and climate, und a method of busband- ry in the preparation of the Fround, time of seeding, and culture of the crup adupted to these condith vorder to secure the ite. ‘Khese buve im but few Instances yet been Attained, owlng to the tact that the {iprove- Meuts are nearly alt new and tn but tew cases the suit yot thoroughly subdued, ‘Thia acason'a crop un ground fairly cultivated ves about the tulluwiuy results: Wheat, fit ten bushels per aru; vate, thirty to Atty; corn, thirty to tity; cotton, 400 to 8uO pounds, Worth W cents per pound; Irish aod sweet potatoes, 10) tu 160 bushels; thuothy hay (new scediow on Gov. Undley's tart), twa tous per acre. ‘Tue Prices of corn and stall grata average olgher tun at the North, as all survlus tds @ market at thy Bouch, wiica as yet docs uot grow euuugh for home suppty. ‘hte pra.rie country has also qreat vapablll- es tu thy direction of fralt culture, but not, I thunk, tothe exteat of the thaver country, of dich Twill speuk uvrea.ter, Theos lauds, cya us [belleve, ia fertttlt and productivences, to the best of our [hoofs pariea When thoroughly subdued, in a clanate ving not ball aa much of wiuter ax Norther Utnofs, cut be boustt tu trate of from ently teres up, from vue ty tive duties from railroad, lations, tor. trom $2 to ¥b per are, according Wdbtance frum stativy, with small cash pay- ineut dowa, gud balance on time, running from Wo to tive years, . THERE SE MANY LOCATIONS {0 be found wuere prairte aud thuber land ean Jt be vor in one trast, and vo lack of those Shcry thuber lute can be bought within oe oF wo juilesat the same price as prairie Janda. 4 hea T say this tuber will average twenty to fy cords of w tu the sere, “and that a Proportion of it gs oak, two aud three rufi-cuts, any b decustumed ty tiuber lands” cau pid au eetinate of ity character, A settle peut it the prairie requires a larger capital hier ee ¥ inal Lozet a pturt thaniu tovtiuber, « breabiog ot brainy requires a tirst-class {ban Uf boraes or mules, custibis Bay $200, or two Ui Blure yoke of oxen, costing, say, 330 per vokes things vousidered, Lthiuk gigu make tho best breakiog-teamn fora new ncttler, ay they" Willsduring the entire euminer get the le awn living on the prairie, and, if not overworked, keepin fair ‘The material for the house (if nuilt of loa), au 1 He all fencag and material fur staples and e shea, has t+ be hauted a consi Involving vastly tore tine and thnber were cut upon the ground dn clearkig the land. ‘There fs also required alarze outlay for plows, harrowa, amt other tarminz tinpli= ments, a9 Will be seen when F come to write of the process of maktng a farin in tiuiber-lands. Tu OFPSET THESE BXVENSES there ts the saving of the hard an: tedious In- bor of clearing fand and working for years ainong the deadencd thmber and stumss, and the ability to get a large area of ground under cultivation within a short tlne, since break: ing is done lwre at ull” seasons of, the year, Instead of unly stn the spring and early summer, as xt the North, though I think itis better, and the wround ean be souner and more easily subdued, If broken, ne we du North, wen the erase is growle In spring or early stiminer. A settler upon these Tands should have at the very least avapltal of $500. Buppuse he buys eighty acres of pratric and Oyenty eres of timber at 23 per acre, cost- Ing $300. “He will nut oe requtred to pay more than one-fourth cash tor hts land, or 275, leay- ing $425 of tis capital tor other purposes, Hits deferred payments on land would better be put olf two or tore vears before paying anything on his principal, to enable him to get his land un- der cultivation, he, In the meantime, only pay- Inseiuterest on balance dite on land. ff he builds a cheap lug house bis cash outiay will only he for windews, nails, dumber ior floora (his roof will be weuvered with oak shakes), and brick tor chimney, costing [In all froin 825 to $40, Jf two families Were to svttio near eath other, and were short of ineans. they could get atone for the first year or two by owning one wagon between them, and one yoko of oxen each, Ther could take turns in using the wagon for hauling, and join teams tor breaking, i whieh case one breaking-plow will answer for both. Then there will by needed a harrow, double ahoval plow for working crop, hoes, axes, ete. Let us now seo what casy outlay wo have fn starting @ pralrie farm, supposing that ths man builds his own cabin, and cuts and bale his own fencing, etc. First payment on land... Materiala for cavin, aay, One yoke OFeN. 0 v.06 One-half interest in wagon One-half Interest {1 Ureaking-plow. Harrow and otner implements Total outlay .,., errrereirere yc} OF stock he should have at least one tmilch cow, the more the better, custing about 82) cach, and ope or more breeding saws, with which to startin the pork busliess ina smalt way, which will cost about $7 each. As soon as he has erap to work he wilt require a horse or Minle,—costing for an ordinary animal 80) to 875. Iforgot to mention in other improre- ments the vost of awell for water sup which would be indispensable, On, the prai theee are made by boring with an auiter one oot in diameter until a veln‘or water fs reached, at adepth of from tant saive to fifty feet, witch will usually riss in the bore irom ifteen to twenty tive fect, this 1a durbed by letting down successive lengths of square boxes or tutery of oye ess lumber nailed trmly together, and of a size to Just fit bore, tl the whole depth fa tubed. = Tho water fs then drawn by a pump or a windlass Welt long, narrow tlu-pucket with a valve in the bottom, from which the water Is discharged. by letting the buttom of the bucket as it comes up fall down ona projecting pes ina spout which lifta the valve and discharges the water, Such awelt can be made In tess than a day's tlme, and costs, with windlass, rope, and bucket complete, [ think, not to exceed &: All that Thave s.cn, furnished water of a good qtality, 223 IF THR SETTLE LOCATES IN TUE PALL, which {s the best tine, be can during tho winter and spring get, at the least, say from twenty to twenty-five acres ready for a sod crop. On this ho cat plant corn, which {f cot in {n good sea. sun will give from ten to twenty busuels per acre; Irish potatues, and, with considerable la- bor tn preparing the ground, a patch of sweet potators; surchum enough tomake bis own. molasses (and which he can get worked. uv on shares); and ganlen truck Feneratlys though, as before stated, the crops of all kinds will be small In suaparison with what can be grown atter the Iand {a thoroughly subdued, Still, i nothing unusually unfavormble fs ex- perlenced, he van raise corn for vreud and to teed his tenn, muke his pork, raise all hie war- den vegetables, und have alte an umount of Ground ready to bs cross-plowed fn the tall for suwing wheat, and for oats te folowing spring, During the coming sumtner, tail, and winter, be can increase his breaking, 60 a3 ina couple of years to have forty to titty ucres under cultl- Yatlon, and in the meantime, trom the increase of bis cows and swine, he has someting of o start [nu cattle and hogs. If his doferrud pay- tients on land are put over say three years, he can hare a pretty good farm opened ‘when his first payment becomnes due. His xetting out of materials for, and the building of, fenves, whichureot oats rails, should be doug during the winter months, 80.28 not to. take the time needed in work upon the land in breaking or workings crop. I think from the forezoing that any Intelll- gent realer of Tre Tumune can determine whether tne resources which he can command are sulliclent to enable him to make A SUCCESSFUL START UPON AN ARKANSAS PRAMUIE PAUS, and to form an intelligent dea of the cost in labor and outlay for geany tools, building tate. rinds, ote,, requisite. *1f, instead of building m log House, ho shonld build of lumber, ft will cost at his nearest stution about $15 per m, and. brick for his chimney about 37, The cheap trame ‘buildings aro usually ones, story, boarded ‘uy and down, without frame, except sills aud plutes, the former of square: hewed tinbar, and the latter 2x3 xawed lumber, The boarding ta of 134 tuch stall nailed at the bottom to the sill, and “at the top to the plate. The door aud window frumes ure fitted to the upright boarding without any stadding, The cracks are buttened on the outside, If any finish Is made on the inside tt fs either a lining of baltding-paper, or, If for a high-toned house, of cheap whecting, stretebed tight and tacked on inside of the walles upon whivn wall-paper ia pasted us on a plustered wall, The cellings are of three-quarter-inch lumber, aud tnisbed the game us the wails. Sv far as the society and advantages of achools and churches are converued, they seem to bo equal to those of any new country, As before stated, the settlers upon the prairie are mostly Northern people, but, like any new country, aro mainly people of sma'l means, and ave haying o strong fight in subduing natures aud bringing: thelr tare uncer cultivation, TUEU HOUSES AND STYLE OF LIVING display few of the luxuries und eleganelk hte. They are ving right down pretty nearly to first principles, but aro hopeful and cout ageuus fur the future. Some of the towns, nune of which are tore ¢! threo to lye years old, look a4 neat and cleanly, bave as tasty: houses, with yards Wed with flowers .and shrublery, and ay neat churches und sehoul- buihings, a8 are often found in country villages of the eune age. Others are more on ‘the Cul fedrit X toads order, with a row of squar front shantics fronting the strect, about every third une of waich is a saloon or restaurant, and the street, and gurroundiug un fenced lote then with and monopolized by an indiseriminate crowd of plus, cows, mules, amt young durkies, who all seem ta enjoy life with equal zeat, The settlements upon the prairies are yet tuo scattered to establish wud maiutaly schools out~ sidvut tho towns, but usa rite are beluyg dled up by a clase of peuple who upprectate cuir fine portance, and will establiah them as sven as tho population will admit. This portion of the Drawie country visited, ! am assured; ie a fair rep- rescutative of the prairie country ot the Stata, At nas ite dlyadvantuzes as well’ as advantages, atnoug which ure a liguility of tea dull, being tuo Wet to work in conseatunce of coplous rains at acediug-me fu the sprlug, the preva. Tenca "of chills, and fever. during the latter part of summer and early fall, and the avnoyance frum musquttoes, buita- Jo-gnata, and the grevn-healed Ules fo early summer, which are not only annoying to the huang Kind, but sometimes intilet -evere fajury, ‘Upon stock aud teas, unless protected [u sone. manner, Fans assured, however, that this in- Sect anuoyunce laste but 8 few weeks, and atthe present thine thera is nu more of it than in my owt home near Caleaso. y My next letter will treat of Arkansus os 8 feult- growing State, snk at We trails pow bells calized from the growth and alilvinent. of var! frults tu the Nurtheru maraets. 0, 0, Gisus, A — PATENTS, Following Is alist of United States patents issued tu tus lurentors of Dlluols, Wisconsta, and Michigan, for tho. week wndiug Aux. 23, 1ST7,—each patent fo the Hat bearlog that date, the list belug reported expressly for Tus Cuicago Tatouns by A. H. Evaus & Co., Pat- ent Solicitors, Washington, D, ©, ILLENo1, ¥. WL. Picket, Chicago, cur-couplings. A. Marrls, Catcaze, ering toyii G, A. McLane, Catcago, pencil- T. Doucan, Ciicazo, lauder, Helluan & Gregory, Coicago, paper casce, E. Gray, Chicago, lucal-circuit Urcakere. Satie Cae RAE He ag TL Palas % vlc. scaffolds, ALG, Heed sud ii'S. Ww, dte-L. Groene eke ee ee Chtcae, hori: etd. mediciug, EM, Dever, Peorus dasn-uoliee,? i J. ML Owen, Uuteua, cultivator. blades, conditfon. | | setting it up tn shel *, Rotter, Beart town, enat Soear, Aurora, relay ré Matehinwen, La . ¢, dings for rolling Knapp, Guilford, pomp: 7 rilng, eaves-traazh hangers, r Rah Sprizae, Clinton, enum, Corbin, Vates ity, bo r-traps, j, Carmi, earhnrr tern, remont, Ure-tientene: ‘clakamp, Chicago (trade-mark), amoke or ing ant chewing tonicco ite), Smith & Kising, Ottiwa (trade-mark), ¢lgara, Un ONFES, Beaudette, Fond du Lac, kettle. covers, Seager &Thompson, Boscobel, middiings-sep- aratorn, 1, Daniels, Sharon, attachments for carpenters’ aquares, il. Van Altens, Milwankee, chramatrops-toys. G. 8. Pickett, laoll, bed-bottoms, sca, D. F. Blatr, Owssco, churna, a. G, Cofman, Piernont, eiw-feedera, GT Kidder, Arinada, fand-rollers, Te A. Marsh, Wattte Creek. musiceaupport. E. Kanrom, Fiint, bobter-cieaners, Snyuer & Henderson, Muskeson, buggy-top. ea THE FARM AND GARDEN. Gathering Apples-Storing=Mules of Health —Catting and Shocking Corn—Pear-Htight, And a Remedy—Digging PotatoesA Hore tleuttural Curtoslty=Carn-Crop in Central Milnolan' True Inwardness" of Farming. From Our Own Correspondent, Ciampatoy, [l., Sept. t5.—There {s a wide diveraity of opiufon aniung orchardlsts as to the proper time to gather applas. My individual experlence 44 {1 favor of early pte woukl not hive any on the trees after the 1th of October, if t could be helped, In gathering the fruit, it bas been the practice on ' Rural- lume” farm to employ women and boys, who are pald by the bushel. irum the tops of large trees, u boy is sent up, with shoulder. the open mouth of the sack {n front. Into this he carefully places each apple, and, when the sack becomes burdensome, St is aunt down by ‘a rope, and anuther one fs sent up. ‘The trnit Is stored in boxes aud barrels, inn cool place, until freezing weather, when it {s caretully sorted,—alt defective and smail apples being sent to the clder-presa. IN STORING APPLES, whether in boxes or barrels, care should be used tn so locating the different varletics that those which ripen first may be casily reached. Where there is u large supply of bushel-hozes, as there fs on “Rural-Home" farm, we pack away tho apples and the boxes at the samo time, and usually, take them to market without re- sorting the fruit. Apples whleh ago permnitted tu hang onthe trees late do not keep su weil as those gathered early. Furters sould always pay proper regard to thot . RULES OF IMRALTH, and not necdlessly expose their persona so as to invite attacks of edie. Asa rule, farmers are too careless about thi quence, there are often many days lost by sick- ness which tnight have been avoided, A farm- er'g oveupation- naturally expoaca him more to He should, therefore, guard azalnst sudden changes the elements than almost any other, of temperature which occur at thls season, aud, thuuh Le does not feel the need of It, shoud ite put on extra clothing, Working In rain or in water should be avolded. A man who hag toiled curly and Iate to produce ao crop which {s now alinost matured has no right to jeopardize his whole season's work, and be obliged to pay out all the profit which would arise trom the sale of it, to hired meu to tuke bia pluco fn the fleld, CUTTING CORN. During the next three or tuur weeks, the labor of cutting up corn for winter-tudder will go ateadily om feost has (Injured it, the blades of corn make the richest rodder that ts available. [lurace, cows, und youn stock eat ft with avidity, For sey. eral winters L have kept my cows on corn-fodder nlone, and they have remalued sleck and fat, h gave 4 good yield of milk, and the butter pro- duced trom it hus been agolden-yellow, and gold. for an extra price on that acount, In Centra) Mhuols the practice in shocking. coro {s to first twist the tops of four hillls tu- gether, and then to sct the stalks {n the angies so tormed. Fromm twelve to fourteen hills square {3 considered about ‘the proper slze.and an actlye man will put up from forty to fifty of these shocks Inaday. ‘They are selilomn tied at the top, and, as a result, very many of them afterwards tumblo down, They should be tied with slough-hay, sorghum or broum-corn stalks, or with tarred twine. Where the corn {3 small, and it is not tobe husked befors feeding, I have practiced cutting it up, and laying It on the ground fora couple of days; then bindiug in good-sized bundles, with hay-bauds, before wnsive, but adds greatly ta the ease In handing, Tiose who have hot secured o full suanly or fr Nay will tnd that horses will thrive on cora-fod- der equally as well nson hay,—the only objec tion to feediug ft being the trouble of cleaning the mangers and the feed-racka: PEAN-DLIGUT. A correspondent of the Chautauqua Furmer writes the following recarding the pear-blight, and gives a cure which may be worth trying? While In Corry, recently, we met Mr. Albert Bennett, of Spring Creek, Va., who iast year tried They were so bady affected hy the blight that ho had dectded to an esperiment on tarce uf his tross, cnt them down, The leaves were all black and dead, with whut fruithad formed witherlng ant deled-up, Upon reilection, Mr. Bennett reeuived to experiment on then. as they were worthless, He dug a trench two or three inches deev around tho tregs, about six inchen from them,—the trench being a Mette cirele, d foot and a hatf or ev in diameter, tute thishe puored a couple of quarts or so of common salt, Of the moat svverety« affected tree, which he anpposed to be en- Urely dead, he also apiltthe bark of tho sinaller limbs, pried itupa little, and pat sule Intu the ovenings, This was In duly of lust year, ‘The trees are all leaved out and heavily loaded with frult thts year, showing no symptoms of blight, Meo kindly hifited us tu vo and seo them, which we dit. A few of the mnallest ranches of Inst yoar's growth, and the tip-ends of auine of the limbs, ara dead, but uot enough to be noticed, thus show- that thoy wore badly atfected. Now they ap- thrifty, and show no signa of tha dlacase ever, Auuther troo naa buen attacked this x snd hots intendlng to ante ft dtrectl: Ane other gentieman, living B few miles frou there, whusu name has cacaped a4, has beon fn tho habitof using sult under all of bie pear-trece as far aa tho routs oxtend, overy spring and fall. sows It anu us you sow oate or wheat, anit haw had nu eymotoms of blzht, while hie nelyne bors, whu da not doo, aro lasing all tholr trees. We do nat give thie as an infallible remedy; nelther woulu wo mmend as inuch a¢ two quarts of sit tu be placed aruund one treo, unices iC appears tu be gone altogethor, and then only as an experiinent, In ordinary caves, one or two plots, with a little insurted Under the bark of the alfectud Mmos, might be better, Then, again, pecullatities of soll talght have an Influence, What virtue there may be in the above, I do not know; but it ZASILY TRIED, and does not cost o great deal, I, howaver, duube that salt or any other mineral will be elt: clunt to save a pear-iree when once thu tatal dis- easy hus so far ootalnad a footing as to eause tho Feaves and frult to wither. ‘There ts uothing to encourage the growing of peara tor market, but We should nut nozlect them entirely because they dic, ‘That rule would prevent the further fucreasa of the huinan funily, as well ae every other hylngtuing, DIGGING POTATOES, ‘Thoro aro very few farmers’ boys who do not know what-dizging potatoes means, and who have not felt the twinzes of backacha caused by bey compelled to plek upthe tubers, [tis oue of the moat laborlous operations of the furm, and {t svc vory improbable thut a machine for doing the’ plekiog up” wul over be invented and made to. work successfully, “There are, bhuwever, several “diggers” which, {a clean ground, do a good job. For soveral years wo have, ta our awn case, used o pluw for uneartuiug the route; aud, When the price ts low, it is preierable to using the hov or fork, as but few will be left in the z0.13 but, with potatoes at $2 4 dushel, it fy U.tlerent, The tubers should not be dug unless the soll is dry and the sun shining. They shoutd he left exposed to thy sun long enougn to becoma thoroughly dried of atl adhering dirt and mois ture, teu bu carelully dropoed into a basket, aud thence poured Into a Wazun for trauspur- tation to the cellar. But lttte care is taken in the handling of potatoes, They are turown about und orulsed, without rezurd to the fact twat. every brulse detracts from thelr value, caustug spota where decay seta in, aud lojuring the tuber for cooking, Ifthe weather ta cool, and the potatocs are dry, they may be stored Ia piles or bigs soveral fect thick, but usually two ,cet ly as thick as they should be allowed to avcumulate. It ts Menurally supaused that Nght affects their value cnenically, tavugi we Baye nob found any per ceptible imjury caused by lizhtin tue fail; but doubt out that, frexpose! to liz inthe spring, sone change woubl our, Ibis $ best bo assort the (users When they ary stored for wiu- ter, as it Is leas trguvle todo so befure rather than after placing’ tb wm In the cellar, A HORTICULTURAL CURIOSITY. ‘Tho Decatur fepuricas mautious @ now de- Parture in the burtivulturat line, as follows: Tuo ltev. Mr. Hoy, of this city, laid upoa our able this moralug @ waiply of svodivss ‘apoles, rking, and £ In gathering the fruit two-bishel sack fastened over one is; and, as a consc- When not cut tuo date, or before ‘This plan fs rather ex- mw npen a tree tiat never blows, tree war discov red, naune ckaway County, Oni, growing by tie Ships were cut from at, and grafted which oriy-n: azo. in roa inde, Upon 4 tree belonging to a relative of Mr. Hoyo, Ing Were aleo orought to She.ny County, In Uy SUib hy Mr. Dav.d A, Hoy, who fa now the « father of the Ite plea toonr ofice, and were by him wrafted npon trees in his urchard, and the apples shown wa to- day were froin theao trees. Suspecting that there was some bidden mean- inu inthe anuve, beng either tor its abject the anie of cions or trees, we wrote to Mr. H.W. Davis, of Decatur, a well-known horticulturiat, asking his views on this discovery, an: he re- plies as tollows: T saw two of thore appies,—ona cat In quarters, the other whole,—and also beard Mr. Hoy's atate- mentas he wason nie way to the newspapel with them, Tcennot account for the freak: pat, foall appearances, the tree ty without num ant the appies without #eeus. The apples apueared ¥ery peculiar, as though they might ne the Paradiso of Doncien. Tuere ments at the eye, allt core-inarkin: haps a Itt!e core; flavor very aweat: green, * Mr. Hoy I tion. Mr, Toy ay be all right, but we venture to Dredict that In Jess than two years the tree- peddlers will he olfering to eéll apple-trees which do not blossom, and which bear apples that du not have any seed oF core, THE CORN-CROP, There {s great solicitude on the part of the farmers regarding the condition of the corn crop. The enzon has been one of low tempera- ture, and the plates of curn are still mostey an green os in midaummer. A few ncids of the carly-planted have ripened sufliciently to escape damage irom frost, but the great hulk of the crop is ina condition that causes great fear for ita safety, We require ut least turee weeks of hot, dry weather to ripen a majurity of the “rop, but present prospects for euch weather are not encouraging. New-England Farmer Mr. Hoy, who broi hth: ane 9 distinct nd per: Jaicys Coidr, not Intercated {nany specuia- A corresponvent of the gl¥es the folluwing description of the “TRUE INWARDNESS" OF PARMING, The pleture is a pretty one, but bas: few counterparts in the West? Now, the general impr Who wates or tilke abou be a person that farms gloves on hiv hangs, weare apece, and carrica wold-headed cane, ‘I seldom wear 4 cuat, rare A veut; ty shirt fe generally wet throngh wit! aweat:. fora cage 1 use esther a hoe, a dung-fork, a pitchfork, or a rake: and yet the beauties of na ture, the scienco of farming and ite atady, Vehtens the severcat of lanor, and, though’ 1 hava to Jovk to the profta ‘of farming for a living. yet the great recompense of imy reward Ia the wonders and beauties which everywhere Aurround me. A little bird has butit ite nest on the cup of the post of my plazza, cluee to my dine Ing-roum window, While 1 edt it fecde its youns. Atanother window I aee the nest of an orlule mua pended to the branchof anclm. When I go out in She morning, my mare greets me with a felendly neigh, und the cows with falnt lows, the tiene aut plzeons crowd round ine for their mornins tneal, and the mus! why, how they do equeal tiete morn: {ny tating; and, When milking and feeding [4 done, and } take my hoe orscytae ant start for the lot, the catiwarctive with me, sinzing and purring ay she gova, that_o person in farming inst, k coat, with Jad and air, to prot that the bewst inwalngle b ny omon-sced? food, for the Ueunt, nor: ¥ provide for man, Ronan dn. OREGON, Tho Willamette Valley and Its Agricultural Productions—Raliroads=Tho Switzerland of America. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. Roszuvxa, Ore, Sept. L—The Willamette Valley, with its varlous transverse sfopes and vales, may be sald to be embraced within au area 150 iniles long by from forty to fifty mulys broad, Few sections of sinilar extent, within the domains of the Republic, can present sach fertility of soil, and such abundant and generat variety of productions, Of this ogrieultural domluion, tue acreage under-cultivation does not exceed one-tenth of the tllable land; and, of the prairie land, which {s tho more readily. the the staple bar- cultivated, about one-(ifth is under plow, Wheat and wool are articles of produce, though oats, le; and rye. form no inconsiderable feature of the agriculture; while fruits—such as apples, pears, grapes, aud cherries—are cs- pecially lavored by the soll and climate, and the true country, finds its only home fn tis valley. From various ~ esttinates mada in “varlous parts of tho valley, I ain eatisiicd that the sulpment of whicat’ anit flour will aggregate, during the present season, fully 159,01 6,000,000 bushels; and the shipment ot will reach upwards of 4,000,090 pounds. It is conslitered that wheat brings wool When guud cause to feel comfortable and easy. Fifty years ago, the Hudson. vated what is now known as tho French Prairie, sone ofthe most fertile travts in the entire fates. Ibextends north of Salem (iio State Capital) at least twenty miles, and Js four infics in breadth. The country north of that, and ex-. tending to Portland, {s, fur the most Patt. cov- ered with thnber; und, immediately adjacent tu Portland, it fs rocky and precipitous. Lynn County—occupying a region th avout thecentre of the valley—yi the largest averare of grain. Its entirely prairie-country, and farm- ers find no diiGculty in rutstug from tfteen to twenly-tive bi sof wheat tothe acre. Such Jani as has been cleared of its thinber in other countles ts found to bo altogether thy more ler- le, yielding from thirty to forty bushels per are. ‘Tho prairie-country from Albany (ehicl town of Lynn County) to the forks of the Wil- lauette—a distance of sixty tlles—ts perhaps not so guol, sume of It being incapable of yielding more than ten bushels to the acre. The ivavy rains of winter seem ta have washed out putritious qualities, aud It has a dry und orld appearance, < Atthe headwaters of the Willamette, where the Calipoola Mountains separate (t trom the watera of thy Umpqua, the largest sheep-in- teresta aro centered, = Thu undulating bills, though not calculated for grain, utfurd exeet- lent grazing factlitles, Nestled among these undulating hills, in the pleturceque Valley of the Umpqua, Roseburg Mes, fairly embowered, fn the Mowers utter which it takes ita name, Roseburg fs the terminus of the Oregon & Callfornia Railroad, whose constrietiun was vommenced In 1870, This road has bean fareely Instrumental in developing the resources of the Walanette Valley, At first it was the futention§ to push the construction ot tho road through to #° connection with the branch of the Central Pavitle ‘which has its northern terminus at Reddlug. But the impracticability of auch an undertaking was soon demonstrated, ‘The ridges of the Un xT Mountains extond like the spokes of o wheel in thts reion, a:ross which the road would have to be constructed to effect the connection re- ferred 6 {nvelving enormous expense, To obylute the crossing of the Umpqua range, varloua plana have been proposed, The one that uppears the most feasivle fe to run up Doer'’s Creek (a small tributaryof the Umnpjaa, com:ng in from the cast), past Scott's Peak, a istance of Wfty mules, to Klamath Valtey. Tula leads, by a ing, level country, to a direct. connection with the Central Pavitls not far from Ozden, When the Central Pavitl: forks have headed off and frustrated Tom Seott with reference ta the Southern Pacide scheme, they nay take advantage of this very route I have (n- dicated to grasp thu northern terminal fines to the west coast, It would then indeed bo o Colossus, which the Government Itaclf misht shrink to eucounter in controversy. There are numerous other rallroad-cuter- risca which wait in costemplation for capital. ‘he construction of one will shurtly commence from Roseburg ta Port Orfurd.—a distan-o ot 100 miles from the north turk of the Cojuille iver. Tho comoletion of this road will be u step towards the development of Southern Ore- Rou, and will give an outlet to tho cuast for the pricictions of that section, Cut up av Oregon Is Into a inultitude of fertile pallets, there {3 Nttledoubt that wt no distant duy {ts raliway- system will be extensive and unique, ‘he section of country embraced within tue Callooola and Umpqua, aud exteuding to the Sisklyou Mouutalus,—tho giait rauze of North- ern Callfornia,~is Indilfereatty styled — the Seitlind of Oregon, or tis Switzerlaud of Aimerica, Within fts Kmits are a lure sprinkling of delfzhtfal ifttl: towns, whivh, for thelr beauty of location, and the commanding scenery about, are in all Feapects worthy of ‘thelr Swiss prototypes. Tuero fs Asuland, a llttio over 100 nites soutit of Rusebury, so romantically located fo the Bogue-River Valley, at the base of the Sisklyons, that It seems oullt’ as u ptaytalu A number of mouutain-streams, clear and cold, iow through it, aud by their instrumentality it bis become « paradise of towers. Lt was ia this re- lun uf purple hills aud wonderful cloud-ell Hat the geuus of Juajuin Aliller was wing, aud his memory sppeare to cling about the locality, as that of Byron does about the haunts of Venice, Mauy are tho unecdotes told, iMustrating bis wild gud adventuresome dlspoal- Hon, Alers was be schooled and tralued; bere did-he commune with a Divine Nature. Aud truly this is the native home of the Poo HE. 3. Wiens. —— It fs stated arasolema truth that Indians uever kiss their wives, Ab, Lunas nature is the same, wacther under a white or copper col- red complexion, Bus whose wives do they Anil then commences tho great work of combining the minerals of tho earth with the water t What a study valet, what a voluinc in that Hite tallan =pruuc, of all localities In this tons, or, In round numners, about 1,20 per bushel, and wool 81 cents per pound, in Port- land, itcan readliy be seen that the farmers Lave jay people cultl- IM BIER 17, Is77. CENTRAL LLLENOIS, | sees eran bromo i foncoti. are waiting ther turn ta wa In tor cutee jor all ovet, meludiog decks, preparatory to fall work, The Immense Corn-Crop Safe from Frost. MARQUETTE. Spectal Inamatch to The Trttrine. Enit, Pa., Sept, 10.—Arrivala—Prop J. 8. Fay, Marquette: rehe H.W. Sues, Depnrtares—Prope Nahant, Gordon Campbell; schre Schuylkill, Thomas A. Scott, Zaen Chand ler, Chicago, prop J, S. Fay, M eRe Re itet, Detraits TS ties ee yee BUSINESS AT DETROIT, The Detroit 7ribune of the 1ith rays that the Inquiry for fretght-room was not well anewered tn that purt, and wheat was moving freely down the St. Lawrence. Carriers for Kingston and Montreal were indemand, and coarse freights were plenty, Better. figares were offered. ——— NAVIGATION NOTTS. Cmicano.—The prop Messenger and the tng Monitor were catked at Miller's Saturday... Noth- ing further wns learned yesterday regarding amis Sagechr, mentioned in those coluinns Saturday The eche Lyman Davis lost a shroud and back. Atay In Sampson's slip, Sunth Branch, Raturday..., ‘The weather looked threatening last night. but up to a late fivar noaquall had arisen, All the yacn that were on the cruise arrived safely at the! fo neings in the baain and eilps at the moutn of the IT. Orurs Ponts.—The poly of Joseph LeMalne, conk nt. the nchr Tamer Garrett, oa geet ne Hotton slip, nee Mayhew'n Iumner-yard, Milwai kee, dat Satupay, Shippers are namins $1, 5 on lunber from Day City to Chicago, whieh ie a. The Specimen Farms of Col. Charles L, Eaton and the Hon, John Sidell. Three’ Handred Cattle, Worth Trrenty-sesen Thousand Dollars, in a Single Shipment. Speetal Correspondence of The Tribune. Tcscona, Tl, Sept. 14.— This enterprising Mttle place, the shire-town of Douglas County, Is situated on the ilnois Centrai Railway, at the crossing of the tndlanapolis, Decatur & Springfield Road, 150 miles south of Chicago, It ts In the heart of one of the most beanttial and productive regiuns of the State. Within the last three days f have taade an excarsion some twenty-five or thirty miles to the north- east: anil, with scarcely an exception. the Im- mense corn-~<roo through which one passes in all directions is so nearly ripe that it may te considered SAPE FROM PRosT. It makes an Mlinolsan proud to travel for miles by the score, and even by the hundred, rough fields of one of the largest and finest crovs of corn that ever blessed Searee nance ater Cates allo aa atly inthe . BT: Ountable rates tho State with abundance, and with | Mogan sl ee Ruftaloand Tenawania.cne scores of tnililons of bushels to spare. Noone | The iritish etmr Prince Alfted, forinerly used he Canagian Governinent a4 a'sunboat during the Fenfan tronbiee a:vers} years ago, but now con- verted into a tux, was at Cleveland Friday, ber appearance oceastoning some curiu-dity, she re- celved a thoranzh overhauling at Detruil recently preparatory to entering upoo the winter trade, PORT OF CHICAGO. The following were the arrivals and ¢learances forthe forty-cight hours ending at 10 o'clock fast can possiLly appreciate the productive capacity of our prairies til he travels over them when the interminable fields are burdened with such acrop. Egypt, even In Joseph's “acven yeata of great plenty,” could not have excelled it. Surely our people have goud reason tur great thankfutness for the abundance that has been bestosred upon them. A abort sketch of two nights aoe free ” Anntvate=Stinrs Cor ’ . + Btre- ay be In order, Our frat visit—the Re babi, Menltosee, punaias Meck ten . 8, | tundeh prom Sewinttctet ira Rte ree eo omuetss Cue est vi fabeioee! ‘Bt, oi Lights ‘Mewenner,, MeBirney, of Tuscola, 9 moat capital gentleman In alt respects, was my cotnpanton—was to the hospitable home of Col. Charles L. Eaton. i, south Maven, aunities: 1.C. Hritealit, niries: Sew Era, Grand Maven. towlnet €, sundrient Geurze Dunbar, Mut AMUSE ENE XPOSITION BUILDING. Chicao Inter-State Exposition Complete tn ait Deparimente, and the finest representa. tive eenihitin of Ameri ary and Art erer held al In i yeortation ine Paiutings for Sale. , The Art Co nmitten of the Hepia'tian has the pleat are of agnonn “Ing thatthe Ane collection of Pleturce Dow on exhivition in the Expositiog Galleries t# for Bale at moiterate uttces The coilection ts fully eqaal in_anality to the New York exhtoitens of the ‘Nacional Academy and tha Water Color society for thts year. ‘Under no etrcamatan-ee will there he wn auction a this year, the artista having furhiiden tt. Mies Durfee e uf rales in (he galleries, On Special Iixhibition, Wagner's great nicta WAS CILATICY RACE?” also Page's *s pad Jaccuanas Wiliam, Prince of Urange.’ McVICKER'S THEATRE, EDWIN BOOTH, EVERY NIGHT AND SATURDAY MATINE! Monday, Tucstay, and Werlnestay, Bolwer's play of RICHELIBU! EDWIN BOOTH. ..0.-..a8e CARDINAL RICHELIEU Thorstay, Friiny.and Sataed ay FOOL'S te Falwin Booth as ertuecto, th Edw THE ayy aud. Saturday Ene pertatinyner aw and Saturday the perforinan ne omic Thelen of Me TURN NEXT, with HASTINGS and ROLAND REED in the cast, HOOLEW’S THEATRE. Recond and lant week of the Eminent Tragedies LAWRENCE BARRETT! Sapporved hy Mr. JAMES O'NEILL and 7, W. Davey's Superh Dramatic’ Cemmane. "Monday, Facaday, and Wedueaday, Hept. 17, iy, Lawrence Barret CABSIUS, in shakepeare's Ureat Tragedy of JOLIUS Gases 1 arinehe Bridae ari cxiuriny Reeninee epee aad TIMERCHANT OF ¥ tnd DAVID dxniucR. 5 WOOD'S MUSEUM AND OPERA-NOUSE Toxr Desian.........Proprictor snd Manager. MONDAY, Sept. 17, the Sterling Actor, GEORGE FRANCE, MrFRANK FOSTE(tand the tratned sct- Sian BU eres ft, In the drame, WIDE AWAKE: Previous to the drama 6 SUPELD OL, Muceam ope aml re i hee Glen Haven, luinbery Ils farm consists of 1,500 acres of splen- Td Pee dn alsin aeeinien ne did tand, about half-way “between the Fasttlico;, tos jivtalo, Embarras and the ‘Little Verinitiun | Ciareitntc es woo A (irons Voulnt. yrav Forrest. Cleveland, very” Wititann ai, Merrill, Musk ftulo, comls &. Cy Peatt, Mantstee, kaunée, lumoces Kb. Menekauace, SMenekatiner, won, lumbers L. clu Bimpson, "Su M6 Wound? BM Hvers. Tt fe divided {nto corn and pasture- Buiisio. coal Helds; and, considering the time Col, Eaten has resuled upon it—some six or seven Sears, most wonderful progress has bee made, He turns off several bundres lat cattle every yeal and when, from hts fine inunsion, ove's eye BWEO ps OFEF sc of farins tor a dozen or in miles Ip all directions, he rests fu the assurance ated lumber; £, Tyron. %. Hubinson, “Mene- Menekaunce, ‘umberr lumber: Miueeva, Muske- iy Manistee, lumber: L.A. ers. HL, tackle, Muske> rT wun. uinbers J Muskegon, Juniuary Peat thal (there are really Princes in the Jaad. An | fi Pusttizo, “ulinbers Actives sh ita account of his researches in reterence to the brett arty erin tara eT range aeueekog. lumber; C. Michel Ladington, tumorry House stn: TEXAS CATTLE-DISEASE Thon. SMusKesone Wuinhert exc, “Shanker damier Unasiia, Che greatly Interested us, He thinks itis due to ofean. lumber Joseph Ureaden, ii ai 4 tilhons of stall ticks orougnt up upon the | ater bark; iva, Con budies of the eattle trum their hume in | parry aaliM anita BF Texas, These ticks mature and drop he au. Fale Maven, fu ni ef | iuimuery tke G, Craton millions of their ceys upon the pastures, ners Pulses prevele te: and these hutch and attach” themselres to the native stuck, They suck the bluod of thocuttle upon which they fasten, and fur i key rs Wille Loutit, anits Clara, Muse teas Ida, Muskexon, lumoert Porter be M: Mason, ‘fu (lost. tu udington, iunber: liswa, Hay City, some reason, which he leaves the plysiulogists | K7fH. taser: Gulden ible, Alpena. lumiers A. J, with their wleroscones to discover, produce the tore amber Mtlebigaty bay” Cig ane disvase irom hie our Illuols farmers a fore Fae tas eae Nd ae: bitty flveelies Tray vars since suifered losses to the extent o| vinta, Hamune Sethe ries coals Tutidrede of ‘thousands of dollaree “Tenee Ce | Eseiee sftn Mdahiatess tuuihers Sets Aichifien CR that the tieks extract from the blood those. | itents 24s" simone Tanitagon.” iumiert Itobert quulities which leave the realtuum fn a condi. tion to generate the diseases trom which the cattle died. ‘The reason why the Texas cattle do vot dle fs, that the disease fs similar to the Gicastes and. other like ailtaents {nthe human Soully, which onty yisit children, and then pass away forever, Col. Euton. on a vlelt there, found that the tleks Infested Texas caives, sone Of which died, but most of wiiet alterwards did nut seem injured by the little pests, At the time the Texus cattte-disease was ragiuz in all its fury, Cul. Eaton was managing the Alexander turd, aud lis views are the result of Haven, tum 20 F. Alle. Grand Haven, jumusrs Aluunio, Muskegon, lutibert City ut Grund itapids Muskesud. lumuer} Antares, Suszegan, woods Helle Michell, ‘Oawexo,, salts Theudore Perry, La-tincton, i “e; Scotia, Cleveland, co: BY lumvers Orkney’ Las, Ludington. +0 rou, lair: North Star. Suskeuo, lu: ia inKth, He.llinack « ler, wood, scow Cussler, Mus ny umber Mi cal mn rth, Dutt ‘ota, ‘10 brie por 100 bu asta and aun achr Ak Ts + Lut, Kingeton, heats echr Uelen Pratt, Eat Saginaw, 9.00) ny bu corns Obehta, Buffalo, ‘1000. t 40) brie four, the sacks tax @ personal examination of nundreds of cattle ‘and 208 lover seed: Which were dissected, and all the tacts relating Sig; bu-oates sche cuts to thelr deaths were carefully ubserved. 84 bu curns ache Murra, The other specluen farm wa visited was that wheatt vecir Geek nba 7% DU wheat; prop tA Moe bard and sandr ck, sundries; schr Hatta, 1K (ka Oa wheats Ltic} 5 Olé bu rye, etinr Sievwyzan. Mant it Muscewor. Miskegon, stindrie Corvus, ‘at, Jo, fies: prop” Hiversiio, Haven, suouriett acow tlelvyeua, TA.0. be acuW Sat carat THE HON, JOUN SIDELL, sone six mics east of that of Col. Eaton. It fa situated Iu Douglas and Chainpaign Counties, hear the headwaters of the Llitle Vermilion Taver. | The farm constets of 5,000 acres of very ehuwe land, and is devoted maluly to the rear= ing and tatteutng of cattle. From 800 to 1,00) head Gf fat cattle ure turned off every year, Only this week he sent tommarket 800 head, whase weight would average abuut 1,50) paunds, and. which, at present prices, would place tu his credit about 227,000, How {s that tor a single shipment from an Tilnots tari? The cattie are purchased ‘by a gentleman in New York, who slaaghters them and eunds them by refrigerator: Vessels to the Enzlish market. ‘This business {s Increnslie cnormously, and bids fale to be worth untold infillons to [hinols aud the other cattle: growing States of the Northwest, Hoth Mr, Sidei! and Col. Eaton are very cutti- vated and intelligent gentlemen, and they hav aclected thelr farms witis referencety the beauty of thelr Jocation and the richness of the land ult which they live. Thelr Judgment in this regard will bo approved “by” all who vist them. = Both came to Mlinels from Only, though Mr, Sidell was or, ly from Maryland, Co}. Eaton avent sume ix vears iu Australla, and has been around the globe, ana hue selections of an Lilinuis tari near the centre of the State ia a compitment to his taste and Judgment, and shows that UMnols secures the very bust nen for her citizens, CENTRAL ILLINOIS is really a ganten, an its resunrces are making the people rich, prospyrous, and happy, ‘Tuo readers ol Tug ‘Tninune will be pleased to know taat their old friend * Phosion” (Col, Howard), Who buth inetructed and Interested them last year by his letters from the Indian wars and the Miack Hilla mining districts, fs large as hfe, hospitable asa Prince, and happy a sprug-titne, publishing. tho Duugias County Review, YB, MARINE NEWS, PORT HURON, Special Nispatch to The Tribune, Tort Hunoy, Mich., Sept, 28,—Down—Prope Keweenaw, Oswegntehic, Manitoba, Jay Goul St. Juseph, China, Sbicksluna, Antelope and vurzes, Howard anid consort, Lincoln and barge QR. J, Uackett ond tow; schra i, F. Bruce, Brooke lyn, Sam Fiut, Mutchineon, Nemesis, George as Du geetarss inital, iu ba wheat pat 6 75) te8 lwed, mud ‘i Uudato, 0 Urte dour, and sundries nee EK Sty Peppa diab GRADING IOWA WHEAT, Sprctal Diath ta The Tridune, Des Moves, Ia., Sept. 16.—Tue {armors of Towa are bevuming indignant at the Inspectiun of thelr wieat In Chicago, If lows wheat is not No.1 this year, ft never will be; and with its prime quality, and with all the pains puasi- Die token to stip it clean, it’ turns aut No. 2 when it reactive Chicagu. To be sure, there {3 but the -diiference of a cent tn the two grade: but farmers detund that they havo the benett in grade to which thelr wheat Ia entitled. ‘Tuey are holding back thelr wheat. confident that it will bring a cood price yet. Fortunately, they have an abundance of other crops, whieh ean be dheposed of to mect urgent necessities, reserving: Wheat and cork for profit. With the pualttve foreign de nand abead, tuey are totally fodlifer- ent we the bulls aud beara of Chicago and New ork. Pratt in 3 yw York. New Fort Correspondence Cincianatt Gatette. The pesch seaun 1s drawing to. 2. clo. nearly a million of baskets have been sold. This fs the niost remunerative crop that has come to the market this year.” Other products, iudecd. hardiy briug more thay cuough tu inert shipping expense aud comission. PT huve seen delicious grapes sell in larse lute at 3 cents a pound, and at SU cents s barrel. Onions trom Spain bring 31 4 barred, being a trite lower than our own product. 4 dealer in herbs sells bundles of save at BO vents per 100 punches, How much wust be sold tu pay for culture and other expenses Frult-growers are full of bitter complaints, but that helps nothing. Wf produce. Was nut clé@ip poor folks could nut live. Duck- Jaborers now are glad tu get 1 cents per hour for such work aa tuey can pick up. A few yeara ago they got 35 cents, and during the War the price Was even bighes Worthington, Gen, Warth, Emma, L.” Coynd, | ann ~CCEAN SEEAMSHIDS: Gulding Star, Annie Sherwood, TF. ¥, Mah, | NYTIONAL LINE OF STEMUSHIDS. Behan. Up—Props Murine City, Winslow, Toledo, J, Bertechy, Enterpriso and consort, 8 Chamber- lain and convort, pi peagany borees, Germania and barves; schrad, GQ. Masten, Eliza wta Jones, Goth New York to Queenstuwn and Liverpool, EGEDT cepts 10a. VTHEQUEES: pcp 10:20 SULAND, bept.o.3 pm. (SPAL 2 Depl, 22. 3 Pe We WAMPTON AND LON DUN, e 1, }GRELCE, sept. G 3 p.m, clisirk, Mary Copley, Mutia Martin J.G i H Feducel rales, nteerase th ¥ J v! J ae} 2 fH i Ie wt utuntee ge Cab unes e actus Cort Freie, Syply to Fete eanso ing, Spry, W. Pace, Lovi ftaweun, dames Pat K. Nits, Gen. rang Sizeh, Glada Wind fresh. Weather dae, ‘The liste tag ed Aibbou. taunchod here this apring, Wad burned to thu waters ede at Recor's dock last night. Shu wav of the wigdller class wid Was ualosured, DRILLING THE LIFR-SAVERS. Capt. W. R. Loutit, superinteunent of Lifo- Saving Stations, and Capt. ‘aylor, of this port, weed at Evanston Jast week, drilling the crew ot that station, Twodnlla with the life-bout, two with the c.rand apparatus two with the horizon tal heaving-sticks, two with the hawser aod whip, ‘one withthe lfe-raft, and one wits Merriman'e now patent Hfo-waving enit, wero mide, and very satlafactory progress reculied. Crews at the other Hite saving stations wilt: be sioutarly exercised, so thas alt will by ia readiness fur service during the fal gales. At Milwaukee the crew Johnson elgzed uy she tit station the other day, and enzayed ina Hite prace thes at tho tackle. A nian Was sent yack and forth from the stat on the station-bouss with vase. This surt of work Will reules Lue crew edictent In case of nued, aud wiil aiao keep the tackle in working order, North German Lloyd. ‘The stesmervof thts Cumsany will sal every Batu.e aay frou iseuiea Tiers too eb Lultu-st.. Mubuded, iutes Of tansage—Fruin New Vurk tw bouthalupo vuden, Havre, aud Brewed, Ares cabliy Gl; secon Cabin, Fy vidi Mearagey px) Supsued tet irelsat aseage a orp poly 2 Bowes . Great Western stean From New Yoyk to Bristot (England) direct, CORNWALL, Stamzer,.. ‘ le BOMEoh is" Weatera Sreeaate Bia a Cavin pasenge, $70; loternicdiatc, #45, nleerage. $3 inctura Rickels se tavoradie wage ieee fronts) eortifcates, 22d. Apply tu Y s WHITE, * u7 Clare: tral Haliroad. el Fisbes estas! aTARDAKD SCALES ov ALL KINDS, FAIRBANKS. MORSE & 00. N1& 113 Lake St., Chicayo, Be sare'ults baventy the Genuine, OPF IN A HURRY, +! Allthe veasole that chartered Saturday loaded thy wamo day, and took aivantage of the dae Oreuze tnat blew, and ieft port in the evening or vefure midnight, so that thers was not a loaled gesfu-carrive in the barter yesterday, Several AXING CARDS. ‘No nocelty tas ever mat with auch Drivereat fatar, Eelinss Comic Playing: Cards! coal-lalen vessels anda few tumber-hookers ar- | Hefved Amusement tur All! Nutblug Slily ror Yul- Fed yesterday, but thera will uot bea large deot | ar. Noting Uke them fa Euroue oe America.” Sold of tae lstter on the market tu-day.” Atfales wera ¥ mi ney, Coad esters aberday, GROUNDED, Theschr Scotia, Capt. Brown, arrived from be- low Saturday with w cargo of coal, an] drawing Aifeeh Sue grouniud pearly all the way up toe North Brauch, anlat Chicagu-avenue bridge the tuge Ward aol Wood, that usd boria tow, bid to. sual their power to move ber. Ths sche Lottle Couper. lumber ladva, ad deawing over 12 fe bad y etmilar exper.coce wa le being towed up the Sucth Brunch to stetsuu's slip, yesterday. BUSY DRY-DOCKS, ‘The men at the Detro.t dock-yards aro very busy. Tho prop Fletcher ts in dk tastealng & louse quiet aloug the nver net, Sew York, SPECIAL NOTICE. IT IS QENERALLY ADMITTED there cennast be aurthing muro exqutateely lelicate furrertumiug the handkerchief thas Mcuws 4 Laxway's euumiva Worms. bat its reat aa ui (active property La (ks adaptanility ty the uses ve Ul bath, It fs tbe only perfuine that we kiow uf gerect ALLY AND PARFICULAMLY sulied tu Uae I thle way; Ihe. puweritbacofimoarting te the waters Of the ath, great wulblug, refreshing, and tnvigoratiug eves, Is Peculiar ty SUNMER BESOR'TS. _ PARE HOTEL esa €4 to $2 per “day, us free. Bead for circusae aad Gy FUSd, Pivprictor GLEN WATHIN'S ULe, Ayosuticns Al, Auaipels uf water, from 3 a.m.tlilao.m.; 25¢c. Matinees Wednesday an: ‘baturday, NEW CHICAGO THEATR Som nAvEEY. j oe eseeroprtetoe, NOVELTIES FOR THIRD Wi Firat apnearance of the fainuua Comedian, CHANLKS HOWARD. HAVERLY’S MINSTRELS, In an en‘trrly tew programmo throughout. Poptlar pricesa73 0 and 25 cents, fox Ofice open dally. Mate Javea Weunesday and saturday ‘ Ts TOURNAMED ALLEGHENY, INDIANAPO. | LIS, AND STAR CLUBS, ‘Will play w sericea of pouty, on the Chi MI INDAY. SEPT. 17, alled at 12:39 prompy Game a mat. Tickets st SPALDINGS, 118 Kandolphert, Commue tation tickets at reduced Fates. JAMES WOOD, Mrnagers oo ADELPILE THEA J, 1 MAVERLY.. EVERY NIGHT TH : Grand revival of the great Senaatiun that had a cone Howone run of over 100 nichts duriow [te artiinal pros duetion ip thie city, 1 NICKET OF LEAVE.” {Hb the following promtuet artiste tu the ea Myers, J. W. Blaletell,. Theodore Hamilton Keane, ‘and in the iuminated ( Noveity Artista, “Alaa ittxford dro: Adminaion half the cost of an’ fe. All Ladice Nights, Matinee Saturday 2290, LUTNERY! Lat STATH-ST WEBSTER’S. AppLevoys’ JouRMad, OCTOBER. AY EXCEEDINGLY RICH AND VARIED NUMBER, CONTENTS. FRONTISPIECE. View of Donner Laxe, WITH WHEELER IN THE SIERRAS, (With Btz De lustrations.) By Willism IH. Rideing, i Iunuerxationa: Dunner Lake~Lake Tahoo—Tha - Sierras—Donner Peak—Truckee Hiver, “POSSUM"-I1CAN, APoem, By Litzic W.Champ- ney, ABTKUGOLE, In Pour Parte, Part 31 Fart) V., Sieace.* A xlory of man War, 1h which an American { Narnet Palllips, as WISK WOMEN OF THR EAST. An Eisay on Famoug Women of Hletory, Ly Mary Wager-Fisher, PROPHECY, A Poem, By Nora Perry, OUT OF LONDON, VILL sume Elements, By Jullap Hawthorne, AS8ONG. Hy Jobo Moran, WOMAN'S LOVE. A Short Btory, Complete, By Hndolph Lindsu. THE FRIENDBIP OF BINDS, I. Mocking-Dirde and Nightlpgales, (With an Illustration.) By George Lowell Austin, REX MACALTHY. A Short Story, Completa By Ameils E. Barr, GOOD BOUEMJANS. An Essay, By Charics Carroll, “CHERRY IPE!" A Novel. 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