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gI)\VIN 3JA.RTIN, Proprietoas
Devoted to Home Interests ^nd, CulturQ.
TWO DOLLARS A Year in Advanep,
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VOLUMJE IX.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1879.
the wonderhjl advance
Of SOUTHERN PROSPERITY.
The communication recently forward
ly Representative Whitt borne, of
Tennessee, to Representative Goode, of
Virginia, Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Education and Labor, on the
preposed investigation into the , causes
of the late Southern negro exodus, de
nies more than a passing notice, inas
much as it portrays a march onward to
prosperity in the South since the war,
which is simply amazing. When the
civil conflict ended, as is shown by Mr.
Whitthorne’s fjgupen, the losses on
farm products alone in the South
amounted to the enormous sum of
$707,000,000. To this was to be added
also losses on bonds and stocks of all
descriptions, horses, cattle, mills, man
ufacturing establishments, and in fact,
ercry species of property owned in our
section, which swelled the aggregate
loss up into the billions. When this is
considered, and when it is remember
ed that there are not a billion seconds
in thirty years, it will readily be seen
vliat a vast sum of me ney—an amount
so large that it is Lard for the imagina
tion to grasp it—was lost to onr section
between 1861 and 1865, inclusive, .in
[roperty alone.
But this was not all. Besides the loss
of all this material wealth, our labor
system was completely overturned.—
Oar eight millionsjof white population
were not only stripped of their means,
bat the millions of our blacks found
themselves suddenly enfranchised, and
deprived of the protecting caro of their
masters, to which they had always been
accustomed, thrown npou their own re
sources, with no means of support ex
cept what they might gain by daily
manual labor.
Notwithstanding these immense ob
stacles in the way of our advancement.,
and the heavy burdens thus placed up
on the shoulders of the Southern peo-
bio, the growth of prosperity in the
Sooth has been so wonderful that it
seems well nigh miraculous. Mr.
Whitthorno shows that from the
close of the war in 1865 to the
present time, industry has rapidly re
vived amongst us and the value of labor
steadily increased. Be says-that “from
18G9 to 1878 there has been an increase
of more than three million head of cat
tle and swine. During the lust eight
years six million more bales of cotton
bave been produced than were produc
ed jo tjie eight years ending with 1861.
In 1871 there were only seven and one-
balf millions of actes of cotton cultiva
ted, while in 1878 there were more
than twelve million. The gross earn
ings of the Southern railroads now, in
round numbers, §13,000,000 per an
num, and there has been a decided in
crease in the growth of manufacturing
industries. He further quotes statistics
to show that while farm laborers in the
Northern and Eestern States arc ‘paid
»t the rate of §7 per capita of the pop
ulation, the compensation of the same
class of laborers in the South exceeds
?10 per capita. The Southern States,
vith a population of 9,000,000 pay near
ly §98,000.000 for labor, while'"the
Northern States, with a population of
15,000,000, pay less than §15,000,000.”
It should also be borne in mind, in
this connection, that for many years
after the war, while we were undergo
ing that process of robbing and swind
ling known as reconstruction, so called,
te were beset with a crowd of hungry
Political adventurers from the North,
*bo flocked down upon ns like wolves
on the fold, to oppress, rob, cheat and
destroy;. These cormorants, placed in
power by the wholesale disfranchise
ment of tax-payers and property own
ers, and kept thereat the point of the
bayonet, began a system of robbery,
hand, extortion and swindling which
still further largely depleted onr re
sources—even the hard-earned savings
of the freedm~n being absorbed into
tbeir insatiable maws—and by this
means our material wealth was further
teduced millions of dollars, which were
Packed up and carried away in the
oarpetdrags of our despoilers when, at
hngth, an outraged people drove them
headlong from onr midst.
The rapidity with which- France re»
oovered herself-frotn the effects of her
mat unfortunate war with Gecmany,
*od the promptitude with which she
Paid her enormous war inat minty, is
^neatly alluded to as a wonderful
e Hdenco of the reenperative powers of
'hut country. But when the rise and
Progress made by the South since onr
te civil war are considered they show
0o eonntry in the world to be possessed
more inherent vitality apd strength
bun our own. No .wonder our malig-
"oot enemies, seeing and growing jeal-
oog of onr onward march to wealth,
.bid fro inspired with the same feel-
*“gs of envy, hatred, malice, and a 11
e nucharitableness which prompted
e tiivil war, and should again have at-
jmpted to retard onr progress, injure
r growth, and oaralyae onr energies,
^y endeavoring to in dace our negro la-
ton
_®rs to leave ns in mass and without
fieri* 111 '” at ,lle cr * tica * Period when onr
Test Were being prepared for the liar-
ever Y day of labor lost was a
huiju ?S ^ amage to 9 ur planting popu-
the history of our advance i
Prosperity
.r--3 JVM
cited, friends of the South may well
take heart, and her enemies may well be
dismayed. It shows that earsY3 a sec
tion which, despite all onr troubles and
woes, has been peculiarly blessed by
the hand of Providence. Blighting
poverty, a destroyed and upturned la
bor system, carpet-bag frauds and rob
beries, being subjected for years to op
pression, insult,: despotism and heavy
taxation without any proper represen
tation in the government—all these
have not only failed to crash us, bat to
the contrary, notwithstanding all, we
have steadily and rapidly gone onward,
and nothing under Heaven can stay onr
further progress. Truly there is. every
reason to predict a bright and glorious
future for the Sunny South—a future
DORY-FISHING.
With perhaps an exception in favor
of tne capiicions canoe, there is no spe
cies of craft which can glide from be
neath its uaaccirstomed occupant with
more startling ease than a fisherman’s
dory.
This characteristic, with the fact that
it is light, sharp, narrow, and flat-bot
tomed, suggests to the average lands
man, that a dory is not a safe craft.
Yet the question of safety depends
largely upon the man having the man
agement. If skillfully handled, a dory
will ride out a gale in mid ocean with
comparative ease, when a ship’s long
boat would probably be swamped.
The important point under such cir
of prosperity which onr enemies, be I cnmstance s is t° keep the lit a craft, as
4.U i! a. •■»! ». . tlift fifiilnrs snv. ‘‘lipnil rm'thp espn”*
they ever so malignant, will be pow
erless to avert or resist.— Savannah
News.
How. te. Keep lee in the Sick-Room.
For thoke who have an abundant sup
ply of ice, this may not be a matter of
much moment; but for poor people,
who may rarely use it except in sick
ness, and to whom the expense is not
insignificant, the following hints from
an English source may be used:
“Cut a piece of flannel . about nine
inch square, and secure it by a ligature
round the month of an ordinary tumbler,
so as to leave a cup-shaped depression of
flannel within the tumbler lo about half
its depth. Iu the flannel cap so con
structed pieces of ice may be preserved
many hours; all the longer if a piece of
flannel from four to five inches square
be used as a loose cover to th,e ice-cup.
. Cheap flannel, with comparative open
meshes, is preferable, as. the water easily
drains through it, and the ice is thus
kept quite dry. When good flannel with
close texture is employed, a small hole
must be made in the bottom of the flan
nel cup, otherwise, it holds the water
and facilitates the melting of the ice,
which is, nevertheless, preserved much
longer than in the naked cup or tumbler.
In a tumbler containing a flannel cup,
made as above descibed, of cheap, open
flannel, at lOd. (20 cents) a yard, it took
ten hours and ten minutes to dissolve
two ounces of ice; whereas, in a naked
cup, under the same condition, all the
ice was gone in less than three hours.”
A few days ago Wombvell’s menage
rie visited Teubury, in England.—
Among the animals is a very fiue fe
male elephant, “Lizzie.” This animal
was attacked with a violent fit of colic.
A local apothecary with considerable
skill as nn animal doctor was called into
the menagerie when the life of the an
imal was all but despaired of. By his
vigorous efforts and skillful treatment
the valuable beast was saved. The el
ephant, “Lizzie,” did not forget her
doctor, for, on the procession coming
down Seme street three days later, she
immediately recognized the chemist at
the door of his shop, and going to him,
gracefully laid her trunk in his hand.
The chemist visited the exhibition at
night, and met with an unexpected re
ception from his former patient. ‘ Gent
ly seizing tne doctor with her trank,
the elephant encircled him with it, to
the terror of the audience,(who expect
ed to see him crushed to ' death. It
was some time beforejjthe animal could
be induced to leave the doctor,
The Poultry Trade..—Few persons,
even in the city, realize the' magnitude
of the poultry trade between Knoxville
and New Yoik. The business during
the past few yeqrs has become an im
mense source of revenue to the dealers
in this section, and the matter of trans
portation forms an important item in
the railroad receipts. During the year
1878 three hundred and thirty tons of
poultry yteif shipped from Knoxville
clone, besides 80,000 pounds were for
warded from White Mountain, as well
as large qnantities from Lenoirs, Lon
don, Cleveland, Sweetwater, Chattanoo
ga,- Morristown, Jonesboro, Greenville,
Bristol, and other points along the line.
An exchange estimates that at the- low
price of ten cents a pound, the poultry
shipped from this city, alone would have
amounted to fully §66,000, and it is
fair to estimate the value of this indus
try to East Tennessee at §100,000 per
annum.—KnoxttiUe Tribune.
The Grand Canon of the Arkansas
niae tnile in length, being the nar
row winding way of the river through
granite, the walls rising in many places
to the height-of 2,500 feet- This rock
bonnd river path was discovered by the
Spanish missionaries as early as 1642.
From that time itisnot known that any
animal life passed through it until $be
summer of 1870.. Last week a train of
cars on the Atchison, Topeka and San
ta Fe Railroad made the passage.
Along the paliBade that forms the
Northern boundary of the-gorgeand
about ten feet above the boiling waters,
the engineer has carved a road bed.
A little Philadelphia boy startled a
friend of the family the other day by re
marking that he was “four years old
with his clothes onl”
SoAirryn timber in lime water has
been recommended for preserving it
from dry rot and the effects of the
since the war, as above re- f weather.
the sailors say, “headonlthe sea”; which
means that Ithe bow must continually
be presented to the on-coming wave.
Thus managed, the dory, from its ex
treme bouyancy, dances like a cork’ on
the summit of terrible wave-crests,
which would break overwind fill a heav
ier boat..
But if the;heart of the rower "fails, or
worse still, if his thole-pin gives away,
or his oar breaks, thesis, lie in danger,
indeed. The dory, swinging broadside
to the sea, is rolled over iu an instant,
and becomes the sportj of the waves,
while ifes occupant finds himself strag
gling in the ocean,
The thee methods most in vogue
among fishermen for taking cod on the
Banks of Newfoundland, are these,—
“hand-lining,” “trawling,”, and “dory
fishing”, The two former have been
often described. . It is sufficient for me
that in “hand-lining,” all hands fish
from the vessel’s deck, while in “trawl
ing.” a line sometimes amileiu length,
to which hundreds of baited hooks are
attached, is sunk to the propper depth,
and visited once or twicejin the twenty-
four hours if the weather permits—so
that tbe fisli may be] taken off and the
hooks rebaited.
But in * dory-fishing,” a dory is nl-.
luted to each one of the crew, in which,
unless the weather be exceptionally
bad he must launch out into the deep,
there to remain until he catches his
boat- full, or is warned by the gathering
darkness to return,
Though, as to that, it is seldom or
never really licrlit for auy length of
time on the Banks. Here, indeed, is
the birthplace of gloomier, denser, and
more generally vmpleasant fogs than
can be found anywhere else in the
kuowa world. But catching thousands
upon thousands of fine cod-fish seems
an ample equivalent for not catching
even a glimpse of the sun for weeks at a
time, and, doubtless, the world looks all
the, blighter when one again reaches a
region of clear atmosphere and sunny
skies.
But despite the many unpleasant and
dangerous surroundings of such a trip,
almost every one returns several pounds
heavier, and several degrees healthier.
Hard-worked collegians, arid even puny
boy-students, often ship from Cape Ann
ortGloucester in the spring, with this
sole object in view.—St. Nicholas for
July.
T«E NEW NAPOLEON-
IF THE SAHARA IS FLOODED,
" WHAT?
The only important objection which
has thus far been urged against the un
dertaking has arisen in the apprehen
sions expressed by a few scientists that
the evaporation produced by so large
and-so shallow a body of water, expos
ed to the tropical sun, would be suffi
cient to deluge northern Europe with
incessant rains, and to rednce s material
ly the temperature iu all the countries
north of the Alps. It has even been
feared that winds freighted with mois
ture bn crossing the cold summits of
the Alps, would precipitate vast vol
umes of water, and produce a degree of
cold which would give Denmark and
northern Germany a semi-Arctic climate
and produce a glacial epoeh farther
horth. Is it not probable that all snch
apprehensions arise out of a xnisnnder,
standing as to the topography of the
Sahara and North Africa? The entire
region to be flooded is practically shnt
in by mountain chains on all sides.—
The Atlas Mountains on the north, lift
ing their snow-clad peaks'in some in
stances 12,000 feet, affords a sufficient
bulwark for the protection of Enrope
from increased humidity. The enly
possible northern outlet for air currents
from El Jnf would be across Tnnis in a
north-easterly direction over the widest
part of the Mediterranean. Currents
moving in that direction, if they reach
ed Europe at all, would touch the
shores of Greece after they had lost
mast of their humidity. M. de Les-
seps, after a careful examination of the
question, is convinced that it would re-=
spit in the general improvement of the
climate of Europe rather than to its
detriment. The advantages of the in
creased evaporation tc north Africa can
not- be overestimated. The snow-clad
cliffs of Abnn, lying to the east of the
proposed sea, and the Kong Mountains
to the south, would bring down upon
The news of the death of the prince
imperial was not published in the morn
ing papers, and it was late in the after
noon before it was generally known. It"
made a great sensation, and among the
Bonapartists created genuine dismay.
The death of Prince Louis Napoleon af
ford an opportunity to what used to be
the Palais Royal Bonapartists, to start a
new pretender. The fresh claimant for
im perial power is a youth of seventeen,
and were the republic to break down
he might be susceptible of being con
verted into a good ruler and imposing
figurehead. This lad represents a dem
ocratic and Csesaristic tradition, and by
his mother’s blood and his resemblance
to her family ha would he associated
with a constitutional one as well. He
is the eldest son of Prince Napoleon
and of the Princess Clotilde, of Savoy and
is called after her father and Great Uncle,
who attempted to revive the Carlovin
gian empire and make Paris its admin
istrative seat. Victor Napolean is the
double name he bears. The first of the
two names is one of happy augury. In
Italy it was emblazoned on the national
flag, and accepted as a rallying cry by
Cavour, Garibaldi, Ricasoli and Mazzi-
Victovia,-in England, has been for
EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE
OF CRIME IN MASSA
CHUSETTS.
forty years the incarnation of constitu
tional freedom, and venerated at home
and abroad as a true-hearted queen
and woman, faithful to every public
and domestic trust reposed in her.
Prince Victor Napoleon has little in his
physiognomy to prove his Bonapartean
lineage. He is a masculine edition,
very much revised and corrected, of
the Princess Clotilde, and unmistakably
the grandson of H Re Galantuomo.
Prince Napoleon gives him and his
brother, Louis Victor, an excellent and
manly education. The eldest boards
with a professor of the institution Ste,
Barbe, and follows the classes there.
Next year ho will enter the military
school at St. Cyr, which will not absord
so much of the time which should b.e
spent in looking about and gathering
a fund of general knowledge as would
be the Poly technique. The youngest
boy is the imago of the great uncle,
but up to fun, an,d myrtbful, which the
first emperor was not in his youth- He
is at the country branch of the Ste.
Barbe school. The two lads spend their
‘lliursday half-holidays with their aunt,
the Princess Mathilde and when she is
at her rural home at St. Gartiens, they
ride there, followed bw a groom, to dine
with her. On Sundays they go to their
father’s chambers in the avenue Mon
taigne.
SPIDERS AND ANTS—ISLAND QF
SC. THOMAS
tion, would in time no doubt redeem
thousands
desolations of the sam
July. '
A large ground spider [Lycosa,) is
abundant in the island, inhabiting a
hole in the ground about six inches in
depth and from, half an inch to an inch
in diameter, and with a right angled
turn at the bottom to form a resting-
place for the spider. Some negro boys
dug the spiders out for me. They said
that their bite was poisonous, and that
they fed ou lizards, leaving their holes
at night to search for them.
The boys soon grubbed one out with
a knife, a great heavy venomous-look
ing brute abont three inches across. It
bit savagely at my forceps. The holes
of tlies;e Spiders were so common that
on one tolerably clear patch of about an
acre in extent they were dotted over the
entire area at about one or two feet dis
tant from one another. I noticed the
holes at once, and was astonished when
the boys told me they-were the spiders’
holes.
A species of white ant (Termite) is
very, common, which makes large glo
bular nests as mnch as two feet in di
ameter, and which are perched high up
in the fork of a tree. The nests are
made of a hard brown comb.' From the
bottom of the tree covered gallerier,
abont half an inch in width, lead np on
the surface of the bark to the nests,
looking like long narrow brown streaks
upon the trunk of the tree. The gal
leries usually follow a somewhat irreg
ular course np the trank to the nests,
reminding one of the canons deviations
which are always to be seen in foot
paths ent out by people in walking
across fields, in their endeavors to go
straight from one poiiat to another.
The galleries, or rather tabular ways,
for they have bottoms to them, are
made of the same tough brown sub
stance ns the nests, and are cemented
firmly to the barb. Though they are
so broad, in order ta allow nr.tfierous
ants so pass and repass, they are only
high enough for the ants to walk un
der. I broke pae of these galleries, and
a number of soldier termites came ont
and began biting my hands,' hardly,
making themselves felt, but as brave as
if they had a stiiyr. I had to break a
considerable length of the gallery be
fore I got to any of the working ter
mites, as they had retired from the
scene of danger. ; ; k j -
A species of peripatus is found in
St. Thomas, bat I Sid not succeed in
meeting with any. An ogonti, a spe
cies of the rodent {Dasyproja) occurs
nare miles from the tbaUfcwas commonrin thl™^ ^ ^
his sugar plantation.—ff. 1
. “.Votes hy a Naturalist/’
id
The rapid inorease in the number* of
crimes of a grave nature is attracting
the attention of every one. In this city
on Thursday afternoon, as two children
under thirteen years of age, Fred. W.
DeCain and Owen Monahan, were going
to school they had a quarrel, and tile
latter fatally .slabbed the former, once
in the arm and again in the abdomen,
using a, common pocket-knife. The
boys had been good friends before the
encounter. Monahan was locked np
and DeCain sent to the City Hospital.
Last Sunday evening a woman threw
her infan% ont of a third-story window
at the north part of the city, and the
child was picked np in a crashed and
deplorable condition, but with life still
in its body. A few weeks ago a stu
dent of medicine in the Boston Univer
sity was arrested for destroying his sis
ter’s life by giving tier poison. Two
weeks ago John N. Buzzell and Carrie
Porter, an unmarried mother, came over
from Chelsea and tried to dispose of an
infant ten or twelve days old. None of
the public institutions would take the
little one. Buzzell said it must be got
rid of some how, so he hired a carriage
and drove to the woods in Walden,
Miss Porter and her child being with
him. On arriving in the woods lie took
the infant, put his finger down its
throat and strangled it. The inhuman
brute then threw, the child’s body into
the bushes and drove away. Miss For-,
ter, on being arrested, made a full con
fession, and said that Buzzell was the
father of the baby. Buzzell said lie
had been drinking, and on being lock
ed np, gave a pretty clear acount of the
affair. Then there was Jennie Clarke,
who was found in a trunk at Lynn a
few months ago. Though after a hun
dred failures, she was identified and
bnried by her family, nothing has been
accomplished in the way of arresting
her murderers. A few months earlier
a woman was found murdered and float
ing in tbe water pear Beacon street.
Those who murdered her have not b?en
found ont, though the police have
spent much time on the case. A great
mystery was the dpath of Mrs. Whit
man, in the Banker Hill District, who
was thought to have been murdered by
her daughter Mabel, aided by Dr.
Spears. The girl purchased poison, ar
senic, at a drag-store, and also a new
tea-pot to make tea in for her mother.
Her mother died after drinking the tea
made for her by Mabel, and a post
mortem examination showed considera
ble quantities of poison in Mrs. Whit
man’s stomach. Nevertheless Mabel
was discharged, after a preliminary ex
amination. A few months before that
occurrence, a child living in the vicini
ty of Columbus Avenue, shot and killed
another child. And the crime of Piper,
who murdered little Mabel Young, at
the Warren Avenue church, are still
freshly remembered. There seems to
be an epidemic of srime all over the
country, and Boston appears to have a
pretty bad record.
THE WYSE XNTEROCEANIC CA. I TOUCHING SOME SHADE TRET S'-
NAL. __
Maples are :;apid growers, pretty anefc
- AY.- j_
The selection hy a vote of 64 yeas toJ
8 nays of the Wyse route for an h.tero-1 ... . • - .' . - t *
The tnlip is a moderate, grower or
ceonic canal without locks by the Paris} , • , , ,
Congsess, does not appear to have given I as ^: and lta lc » 7es ar *
entire satisfaction. It was hardly to he j honey to the bees.
expected that such would be the case
HORSEFLESH-
The market for harses continues to
steadily improve with the w irm weath
er, and the supply is batter than during
the last couple of weeks, J. S. Cooper,
of Monroe street, reports an increased
demand for heavy horses and good dri
vers, and reports the following sales
since last Saturday:
One gray mare, six years old, weight
1,300 ponnds§165; one gray mare, seven
years old, weight 1,300 pounds, §160;
one bay mare five years cld, weight
1,400 ponnds, §175; one bay horse, five
years old, weight 1,500 ponnds, §190;
one gray mare four years old, weight
1,400 pounds, 170; one bay horse seven
years cld, weight 1,200 ponnds, §125;
one gray horse six years old, weight
1,150 pounds, §115; one gray horse sev
en years old, weight 1,100 pounds, §100;
one bay horse seven years old, 950
ponnds, §100; one bay mare four years
old, 1,400 ponnds. §165; one bay horse
five years old, weight 1,350 ponnds,
§160; one black mare seven years old,
weight 1-.800 pounds, §1?)Q; one gray
horse seven years old, weight 1,000
ponnds, ; §167; one brown mare six years
old, weight 1,150 pounds, §125.; one
where there were so many able engineers
anxious to put forward their own sur
veys for the honor that-the construction
of such a’ magnificient water-way would
trive. At the back of these ambitions
engineers are the parties to whom con
cessions of various rights of way across
the isthmus have been granted, and
vho expec ted to make what is in com
mon phrase,, a “good thing” out of the
franchise. The connection by mar
riage of Commander YYyse with the
Bonaparte family, apart from the fact
this survey for a ship, canal is tbo only
one that dispenses with the use of locks,
gave to his project in tbe beginning, in
the atmosphere of Paris, an especial
prominence. Iu addition to this it is
but just to saj that it enters and emer
ges on good harbors ou both sides. In
this respect the route is certainly supe
rior to the next favorite route, that hy
the San Juan river and Lake Nicaragua
route has no harbors on either side
worth mentioning, tbe old harbor of
Greytown being no longer capable of
floating any vessels except those of the
very lightest draft.
The New York Herald is dissatisfied
with the decision of the Iutevoceanic Ca
nal Congress. It now speaks of it ns
‘a snap judgment” and of the Wyse
project as one ip which Americans will
take ao stock. It is quite probable
that onr capitalist will be chary of in
vesting in it; but it does not necessari
ly follow Ibat the money will not
be found abroad wherewith to build it.
M. Lesseps fuiind bis countrymen ready
to embark their aieaas in the Suez ca
nal, l.otwitkstauding the. unfavorable
reports concerning it bv English engin
eers of the highest reputation, who
predicted that it would speedily be.
choked up with the snird blown into it
from the desert. For any canal which
the Iuteroceanic 'Congress should de
cide to be practicable and laid do rn by
the best route across the i>tliinus M.
Lesseps has emphatically declared that
the money will be forthcoming, large as
the sum of one hundred apd sixty miU
lions of dollars appears. If his confi
dence is warranted by a knowledge of
where the money can be had we see no
reason why we should internose objec
tions and obstacles riin| ly because it is
pot an Auiericau selieme. There cannot
be po ship capal made across the isth
mus that would not benefit ua far more
than any other nation, and if there are
men who are ready to build it, we should
stand m the way of our onn interest if
we discouraged them from doing so.
All that we need to do is to secure free
dom of transit and the neutrality of the
teritory through which it passes.—Sal
iimore Sun.
WIND WO&KS.
All of us have heard of “YViud Works”,
but the New Orleans Democrat is taking
the matter in hand of reacucing what
may he properly called real “Wind
Works,” from the ridicule which ig
norant mankind has been disposed to
heap upon it. The Democrat ybiuks
that inasmuch as Citiec are supplied
with tight and water tLrongh pipes,
there can be no good reason why fresh
and wholesome air may not, also be
supplied through pipes. It recommends
the formation of a §$5,000,000 stuck
company, to establish a system of
“Wipd Works” which sh?U furnish,
daring the heated months, fresh breeezes
and cool air to the city. Big steam en
gines and mainmonth reseryiors are sug
gested as a payt o| the requisites. Tbe
air is to be introduced into the reser-
viors from an altitude far above mias
ma by one set of pipes, and squirted
through the streets day snd night, in
cooling currents, by another set of
pipes, thns keeping everything serene
and happy.
Of course so original anj charming
a picture would not be complete unless
it cordd be pmde available for individu
als as well as popim unities. So' it is
suggested that japes might be arranged
so as to distribute these fre.-h breezes
soyrel mare nine years old, weight qqo j sweet, pure air, like gas r-n water to
ponnds, §65.
Fisher & Taylor, at the corner of Fif
teenth street and Wabash Avenne,
port a demand for heavy draft horses
that is not supplied, and also a demand
for good geldings of solid color and
good si^e, as well as roadsters, saddlers
and fine carriage teams. They have
made the following sales since Monday:
One pair black carriage horses, §600;
one scarel paper, §310; one black horse,
§120; one bay mar?, §190; one black
horse, §100; one brown horse, §125; one
black horse, §135; one chestnut mare,
§175; one bay mare, §215; ope brown
road jraye,' §275; one'; black saddle
years old, §2S5; one sorrel
Kentucky saddle mare, §236; one Ken-
; one pair yo-
private houses, snd thus make the city
of New Orleans the pleasantest and
healthiest ci:y in the country. But to
take the poetry out of the picture, the
Democrat has the hardihood to suggest
that these wind working engines be
put to the practical purposes of m&pc-
faptnrigg enterprises besides. Bat
really, why not something of the sort'
be dope? Running oil from the
wells
Baltimore in pipes a distance of over a
hundred and twenty-five miles, is nn
accomplished fact, when, three years * *
ago, it was thought ii "
The poplars—balsam and some otlir
ers—grow rapidly, do not spread muofl
and ore often broken m storms: *c
The. silver poplar and silver mnpl&
are beantxfnlj when high in air a gentle.
breeze displays the lower side of thti.
leaves. The former requires greatest
to keep it iu bounty.
The horse chestnut is o r slow increase,;
but of beautiful early foliage;it soon de-L
velops a large terminal bsril arid wailsE
till next spring.
The common chestnut is so wpl^
know n to all, especial^ boys; fhtf ltd
majestic beauty, when mature, is over-;
looked. It is one of onr largest freest
and some fine specimens of anCiAAtf
times, often mentioned by bist6riin&^
are still mute witnesses of ancient deeds.'
The catulpa is $ straggling tree o?
small size, lute in leaffcg; of little shade!
but fine flowers, eacti of which is a mar-7
vel of beauty.
The paulownia, very similar in ap-I
pparunce to the catulpa, bears profuse-.'
ly in June long flowers of great sweet-7
ness.
The linden grows slowly,; yeijjf
compact and gives dense shade. The-
flowers are inconspicuous, but of a del-;
ieate, powerful fragrance.
The weeping willow, with its long;
drooping, delicate shoots, is one of thfe;
first trees to start ia the spring, and)
furnishes mor? shade from the trank;
than from the foliage.
The American elm is a beautiful ijrert,
but requires mnch room to. show its*
true character. It is better for tlio‘
road than for shade on a lawn, although
tliere, a fine old tree is a most; ctiarm-r
ing feature.
The black walnut is of slow growth,;
whea young, attains beauty and some-*
times immense size and grandhor with, 1
age.
The ash is seldom used as a shade'
tree and is probably less known than,'
any of the above. Jt has no very striky
ing point?.
The feather;, teinjei grow tii of tin'
larch in the spring, and its beantifn^
cones later, are greatly admired.
Many of the evergreen conifera: X-i of
artistic value and are piized most im 1
the winter, when their companions havq-'
cast of their summer garb --'
The ailanthns (tree of heavcn)fron£
China, a graceful, rapid grower, well'
know in onr cities, exhales a- sickening
odor when in flswer.
The white birch is scarcely a tree of
shade. Its snowy bark ,-it? dark-greedi
foliage and its long, drooping, graceful
sprays combined, make it on.e' of the’
most beautiful objects of tjie lawm
The foliage of the pnrple and Coppert
beeches is much admired, being dis-.
tinet from the common color of trees.-
The tender shoots taken off in spring,-
pist when the leaves are c^payffe^, n net-
ironed to preserve the slyipe^hre fine;
wall ornaments.
Thera are many species of Cftks ity
cultivation, some very beautiful; gener
ally, however^ they may be considered
of slow growth and inferior for shade.
Many drooping trees (of the grafted
varieties) are highly ornamental, but'oft
little othyr valne.
Fruit trees, as apples and cherries;
have generally a ragged appearance^
and though very good in themselves^
should have no place .on an otherwise:
well-keDt lawn.
We have thus run quickly through
the shade tree? that are most famfliaf\
each of which deserves mnch greater
attention.—Rural Lift?
P. nusylvania to ! OD .f.“
When to Paint.—One who bds hatf
experience, writes that ‘paint applied
to the exterior of buildings in autumn
or winter will endnre twice as long a^
when applied in early summer or hot
weather. In the former it dries slowly
and. becomes hard like a glazed surfacs,
not easily affected af 1 erwards by tho
weather, or w om off by the beating of
storms. But ip very hot weather the
oil in the paint soaks into the wood at
once as if brio a. sponge, leaving the
lead aeaily dry, and ready to crambla
off. 'Ibis hut difficulty, however,
might in a measure be guarded against,
though at an increased expense, by Grst
going-over the surface with raw oil.—
Furthermore, hy painling in cold
weather the annoyance of small flies,
which invariably collect during the
warm season on fresh paint-, is avoided.
As an off-set to this, there is a trou
ble with slow-drying paint—it is tin
dmt, which will always i
exposed surfaces, w-11 keep
to .
face frr *