THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Death of Adam Grimm. 



He died at his home, Jefterson, Wiscon- 

 sin, on the 10th inst., of congestion of the 

 brain. His age was 52 years and IG days. 

 He leaves a wife, four daughters, and son. 



Mr. Grimm was one of the trio of ex- 

 tensive and successful bee-keepers of this 

 country, viz.; Capt. llelherington, of New 

 York; J. 8. Harbison, of California, and 

 Adam Grimm, of Wisconsin. Hu was also 

 one of our pioneers in bee-culture, and 

 rendered very efiecient service to the pur- 

 suit by giving the result of his experi- 

 ments and experiences in The American 

 Bke Journal, to which he has been a 

 regular contributor many years, until his 

 failing health compelled him to desist. 



Adam Grimm was born in Germany. 

 When a boy, attending school, he spent 

 his leisure hours with his bees, watching 

 their instincts and habits. He came to 

 this country in 1849, and then devoted his 

 lime to bee-keeping, engaging in it ex- 

 tensively, and energetically pursued it as 

 a business till his death. For the past 

 year, he has been engaged in tlie Banking 

 business, and was, at the time of his de- 

 mise, cashier 'of the bank at Jefferson. 



He was confined to his bed but five 

 days. On account of failing liealth 

 during the past year, he concluded to sell 

 a part of his bees. He wintered 1,400 

 colonies in his cellar, with very small 

 loss — all being now in good condition. 



Gone! With all his faults and virtues 

 — with all his hopes and fears, to the land 

 which, figuratively speaking, is " flowing 

 with milk and honey " — that " land of 

 promise " beyond the river, where, " in 

 the sweet by and by," we hope all our 

 readers will meet him, with the good, the 

 pure and the true, of all ages and climes! 



J. S. CoE, with his House Apiary, is on 

 the Centennial grounds. The house con- 

 tains 32 hives — all the places being filled. 

 Of course, all the apiarists visiiing the 

 exhibition will give him a call. We ex- 

 pect to do so about the lime of the Na- 

 tional meeting, which it is now arranged 

 to have convene on October 25th, as we 

 are informed by President G. W. Zimmer- 

 man. 



Pkop. TiCE, of the U. S. Weather 

 Bureau, predicts cold and wet weather for 

 May. 



In our last issue, while commenting 

 upon the general remark of a correspond- 

 ent, that the bee journals called for no re- 

 port last fall, and in order to specifically 

 locate the censure, we said : " there is but 

 one Bee Journal on this continent, and 

 that the American." Moon's Bee World 

 says it wants its share of the censure; to 

 this we cannot object, as the World comes 

 in as a bee-paper or journal, under the 

 general expression, — as do the Bee-keepers' 

 Magazine, anil Gleanings in Bee Culture — 

 though none of them claim Bee Journal 

 as a name! All are magazines, and all 

 are gleanings in bee culture, but these 

 names are each appropriate, as such, only 

 to one. It was not a conceited mis-state- 

 ment, Bro. Moon, as yon suggest — only 

 your misconception of our meaning. 



The Washington (Iowa) Press, of March 

 30lh, says: "That talk about Mrs. Tup- 

 per's insanity is generally held to be too 

 thin. Some time ago she sold her Brigh- 

 ton farm, of about 135 acres, to Rev. H. 

 H. Kellogg, of Guthrie county, for $8,000, 

 a whale of a price. There had been two 

 mortgages on it, one for $1,000 and one 

 for $1,100. The former had been released, 

 and on the 13 instant she was sane enough 

 to write to parties here, and released the 

 $1,100 encumbrance. She seems to have 

 pecunia.'" 



Mr. Ellsworth, of Illinois, states " the 

 unfortunate lady, whose mental and moral 

 machinery has no balance wheel," has 

 fleeced him to the tune of $80. 



Our readers will remember D. H. 

 Ogden, of Worcester, Mass., whose items 

 have often appeared in this Journal. 

 We learn with regret that he has a severe 

 attack of the rheumatism, a disease that 

 has followed him relentlessly ever since 

 he was eight years of age, stiffening his 

 joints and making him helpless. His 

 bees are not cared for, as he has not the 

 whei-ewith to hire any one to attend to 

 them. He expected to have made some- 

 thing from them this season to support 

 himself, but this fresh attack has not only 

 cut oft' that hope, but permits want to 

 stare in his face. The charitable among 

 us may here find a chance to " lay up 

 treasures in heaven," by helping a brother 

 in distress. 



