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Affairs iu Georgia.
t[ r T. J- Ferry, Arlington editor of
the Albany Nem. was in the city yester-
1 AV He is prominently mentioned as a
i gnitable candidate for Senator from his
district.
Xlic Constitution remarks: “ It is just
a way wo have in Atlanta of getting what
ever we take a notion to.
dor the impression that this sort of thing
tail ployed out with the Btillock-Blodgett
jjgjme: but habit is sometimes overpow
ering-
One of our Georgia exchanges says that
-the comet was almost as bright as the
other constellations.” This is taking un
due mlvantage of. the constellations.
In Glasscock county recently, Miss
Mildred Ncwcome was married to Mr. J.
Narcissus Neggs. Neggst!
Albany is grumbling because the visible
supply of hams was exhausted recently.
A correspondent, writing from Alapaha,
says the crop prospect in Berrien county
was never better, and predicts a fat time
ahead for that section. There were not
more than three tons of guano used in
the county.
pinker, captain of a colored company in
Quitman, concluded he would make a
speech to his troops last Sunday. Upon
glancing around at his audience, he dis
covered that a negro named Scott was
id .sent. Thereupon Fluker sent a mes-
seu"er to the church near by, where Scott
was attending Sunday School, requesting
the latter to report to the captain. This
Scott refused to ilo. whereupon Fluker
sent a squad of men after the rebellious
dnrkayand had him dragged out of church
and carried to Tinker's headquarters.
Early the next morning the sheriff picked
up Col. Fluker and the men who arrested
Scott, on warrants charging them with
| riot and * false imprisonment. Fluker
I compromised by paying the costs of the
I suit, and is evidently disgusted that
neither Wade nor Sam Griffin could get
j hiiu out of the trouble.
Between six and seven hundred rats
| were killed iu one barn iu Talbot county
recently.
Mr. It. It. •Harris has been appointed
Judge of tlie County Court of Meri-
| wether.
eueral G. J. Wright declines to be-
io a candidate for Congress in the
[ Second Congressional District; and yet it
j strikes us that General Wright is the
very man to make the race. The fact he
doesn’t want the office is a very good rea-
| son why lie should have it.
Messrs. Harrell and Hunnewell, of
I Decatur county, have open cotton on
their plantation.
The Governor is constantly receiving
I applications for convicts for farm pur
poses.
The pride of Prattsburg in Talbot
I comity is a peacock aged fifty years. _
Colonel Carey W. Styles declines Con-
| grossionul honors in the Second District.
An Early county man has a frog ba-
| rometer. The gay jumper is kept in a
, ami when he ascends to the top, the
'granger takes in his chimney, locks his
Icom-crib and runs his buggy under
I shelter, while his wife cleans the clothes-
| line and sets out a tub to catch water.
A party named Thatchor Smith having
I casually remarked that he was going to
I thrash the editor of the Quitman Banner,
I the editor in question invites Thatch to
I come forward and get pummelled.
Talbottou suspects that she is Uarbor-
| lag a venomous rattlesnake.
Mrs. Sims, wife of the late Col. Richard
ISiius, of liainbridge, is dead.
Itev. Joshua Knowles, of Greensboro,
Isays that W. J. White did make the civil
I tights speech which was referred to in
I this column recently.
Company 15. Oglethorpe Infantry, of
I Augusta, will contest for the military
I premium at the State Fair.
The colored Baptists of Georgia are
I making arrangements to establish onor.
| llla ' !ul d theological school in Atlanta,
ins. II. Johnson, banker, of Griffin, has
I gone into bankruptcy.
An Athens negro goes so far as to play
J with snakes.
Atlanta is a city of suits. There is a
fight now progressing over a poor
Uitrie mineral Spring.
A little child was run over by _e dray
jin Atlanta the other day and seriously
|hijured.
Crops are good in Talbot county.
The Augusta Chronicle says the coun-
Ita along the route of the Richmond and
JAtlanta Air-line Railroad is a practical
l^aiuple of what, enterprise and courage
S'™ '*° Tor a section. Two years ago the
muntry referred to was in effect a wilder-
P^’. To-day it can boast of some of the
hie "est little towns in the South. Nor-
Seneca City, Toccoa City,
■ au< l other stations on the road
a 6 doveloped into incipient cities with
rapidity almost marvellous. The four
tnamed places have each from four to
pn j '"habitants, and are growing
f mportance and population daily. The
lij lUe hammer and tlie saw can be
jj, ^^ :l " directions. Large hotels are
vann
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. *
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1874.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
ally and politically. That little up-start,
Spencer, of Alabama, who blustered
around General Gordon the other day,
and, when called to time, wasn’t there, is
a fair specimen of the few remaining
miserable carpet-baggers who now dis
grace the South at Washington. We
have three or four of these lousy fellows
to comb out of the Georgia delegation
this falL Yon needn't have any doubt of
oar doing so, most effectually.
Col. H. H. Jones writes from the
Georgia University to the Macon Tele
graph : The chair of chemistry and
geology is filled by Professor H. C.
White. This gentleman is a Marylander,
and graduate of the University of Virginia.
Formerly a Professor in the Maryland
University, he is also noted as the sci
entist in Hie Wharton-Ketchum poisoning
case who discovered the presence of the
fatal mineral in the decayed remains of
the deceased. By a resolution of the
Faculty and Board of Trustees he was
also requested to subject to critioal
analysis the commercial manures on the
market. Samples of many of these were
solicited by Mr. Johnson, Secretary of
the State Agricultural Society, and merely
numbered, but without giving the name
or origin of any compound. His devel
opments by retort and crucible have
created no little stir among the dealers in
fertilizers, and in the main have been re
ceived as strictly correct. Mr. White
merely acted as a savan, without reward
or compensation, and his critical exami
nations will have the effect at least to
diminish greatly all adulteration in future.
These annual tests will be continued
hereafter, and made a part of his duty as
an important department in the State
College of Agriculture. Mr. White is a
member of the Episcopal Church, and,
though still quite youthful, is regarded as
au able and distinguished chemist.
Ameticus Republican: From a gentle
man who had just returned from an ex
tended trip through Sumter, Schley,
Marion, Talbot and Taylor counties, we
learn that crops in the two first men
tioned, to a point four miles north of El-
laville, are all looking exceedingly well
and growing finely, besides being free of
gross. Com is in silk, and cotton will
average from twelve to sixteen inches
high, well filled with forms and
blooms. The lands upon which the
above crops are growing are what
arc termed red and grey stiff lands.
About four miles north of Ellaville our
informant states that he struck grey and
sandy lands. The crops in this belt for
the distance of twenty-five miles,, running
through Schley and Marion counties, were
not near so good or as far advanced. The
continued rains through June caused
com, which is only about five feet high,
to become yellow from the ground to the
top. Cotton seems to have the rust and
will not average more than eight inches
in height. On the red lands in Talbot
crops will compare favorably with those
of Sumpter and lower Schley. Cotton
and com are both doing well in Taylor.
Columbus Enquirer: The buyers of
the bonds issued to build the North and
South Railroad appear to have a hard
time. Judge Underwood in a decision
has declared that those of Rome were
illegal, and hence ore void. LaGrange
issued $25,000 to the same company, and
these bonds, as those of Rome, were sold
mostly to bankers in Augusta. LaGrange
has continued to pay the interest regular
ly, and hns bought up a good many of
the bonds for herself, and proposes to re
tire a certain number every quarter unless
prevented by law. An old and wealthy
citizen of the place has filed a bill to test
the legality of the bonds issued. La-
Grange is not a party to the suit. The
holders of the bonds, who bought them
good faith, are very apprehensive.
Tlie North and South does not appear to
be in a very prosperous condition. The
train runs only off three days in a week.
The road is barely earning expenses.
There is only one engine, the other hav
ing been taken away by the owner. The
road is in the possession of the State.
Citizens of Columbus have no idea the
road will be far advanced for years. An
impression prevails that when the State
sells the road, this fall or winter, the
Central Railroad Company will buy it and
extend the line some twelve miles. It
will then penetrate a section beyond the
Pine Mountains. There are some hopes
still of the enterprise. If the Central does
as is expected, it will draw cotton from the
Georgia Railroad. Will the latter allow
this ? A report is current that one of the
lessees of the State Road, at Troup Court,
stated his Company would buy the prop
erty if the charter and franchises to go
around Atlanta were surrendered; and
Capt. White, President of the Griffin and
Carrollton Railroad, wants it from Car
rollton to Rome, and thence to connect
with the coal fields and Memping.
accommodate visitors and
S ° f var ' ous kinds to supply what-
Evotujx llce ^ e< i by the inhabitants,
fcess.' j-® * las al ‘ a I>pearance of new-
l. . lu ^tiiicr the recent establishment
p f the t 0l
0'* r us, while the numbers of half
*sr . . kuu uuiuuera oi uuu
^ buildings demon-
sstQta. at tllC " marc b of improvement
Stevenson, Georgia
°'ward.
F’raesnfmi ' otevenson, ucorgia
ESS® 1 . of the Courier-Jour,£d,
ri.vt,.. l’ r °iifie pen: The Demo-
pont. 1 \ 15 umbering its guns to the
Mental ,,"’’tough organization will be
Krtini™, lirou « ,lou t the State, and the
|mpr. V candidates put forth. We do
IricL a„,i arr ?, cver y Coneressional Dis-
f ten til,, i, u i l . work hard to that end.
of Kr.nv lea * P"ty itself is tired and
Itild .to Washington who,
renr „ t ‘i lr o sea t'ng Georgia in Con-
I-"* men P frf Ut ^ assEc5l usett8. Take
W you ® ®»y portion of the South,
Ijoed with wJ5 at t^oy arc so jaun-
I tar -tred for the country of
IWssuri; . J they favor every-
fWor ever, ,' 11 '* 1 to. its interests, and
fosofit of w„ p 5are '"tended for the
|°t the cl * ' ‘"gland. And that is one
irv... “ 1 H'ftSftnc ml...
fOtaUtuc-m , r ) ‘ aso " s why evei
111 they have hate
a person-
Catebpiulabs in Alabama.—The De-
mopolis News, printed in the cane-brake
region of Alabama, says the caterpillar
has made its appearance in several locali
ties in that county and Hale, and has
commenced in the same places where first
discovered last year. As usual with the
first crop, it has webbed itself in the cot
ton leaves, and is found about in spots
in the field. With each reappearance it
increases until the third crop, when they
become so numerous as to spread over
the entire crop and nothing is left green
of the cotton after this third event.
It is believed that a large portion of
the first crop of caterpillars can be now
destroyed by the planter going over his
entire crop, and killing those in the
cocoon stage on the leaves with the hand.
As before stated, these cocoons are found
in the crop in isolated spots which render
it practicable to destroy them in the man
ner here indicated.
' This presents a verification of the old
saying,, that “a stitch in time savesnine.”
A close inspection of the cjrop now, and
destruction of the qoooons, will probably
do more to destroy the worms than two
pounds of Paris green applied hereafter
at a cost of from one to two dollars pey
acre. This is no experiment, for it is
known that every web contains hundreds
of worms, and every brood reproduces
thousands, and every web now destroyed
stops reproduction to a considerable ex
tent. A crop of cotton this year is too
important to our people to leave any
means untried which may insure one, and
we hope every planter will go to work to
destroy all the webs that be can. —
A Fbustbated Weeding.—Friday eve
ning’s train from Worcester brought to
this city the mistress of a boarding house
in that city who had business in Agawan
very particular business, in fact.
Hiring a team at the Massasoit stables,
she hied away to the house of an excel
lent farmer in that good old town, of
whom she inquired if a certain Mr. A.
there. “He is,” said the farmer.
“and to-night he marries my daughter.
Upon this the Worcester woman thrust
her hand into her bosom, and with tragic
air drew forth a package of letters, and
asked the farmer if he would be so kind
as to read them. “I wouldn’t marry the
scoundrel anyhow,” said she, “but I
would like to save your daughter.” It
may safely be surmised that the farmer
read the documentary evidence, includ
ing a promise to marry the aforesaid
Worcester woman, with considerable in
terest. He promptly called in his was-to-
be-son-in-law. The young man was more
than surprised; he quailed and “caved.”
The farmer was satisfied. In quick metre
a team was hitched up, and Mr. A. was
being rapidly conveyed to the depot in
this city, with the suggestion occasionally
repeated that it would be healthy for him
to make himself scarce about as quick as
railroad time-tables would allow. He
went—and there wasn’t any wedding in
Agawan Friday night.—£
Union.
In some parts of California squirrels
are so destructive that farmers suffer a
loss equal to the profit of the crop nearly
every year. Asa Anderson of Visalia
recently added a small can of throughly
pulverized strychnine, sweetened with
fine sugar, to two gallons of wet wheat,
and distributed it in the morning near
the squirrel burrows. That day he
found about seventy-five dead squirrels,
and hardly a squirrel has been seen on
his place sinoe.
BY TEUttiPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE VENDETTA IN ARKANSAS.
TROUBLES OF THE ERIE RAILWAY.
Loss of Life by the Chicago Fire.
FAST TIME
BY THE
MAID.
GOLDSMITH
The Worhlnstneii’s International Protec
tive Aaoociation.
AJTATRB IN ABKANSAS.
Little Bock, July 17.—The Constitu
tional Convention is engaged to-day in
the adoption of rules.
Two men named Bnrliston and Rossin
quarrelled in Prairie comity on Thursday,
and the former was stabbed and killed by
the latter. Soon after some unknown
person shot and killed Rossin.
On the thirteenth of last March Lide
Wallace, the Johnson county desperado,
was hung at Clarksville. Wallace being
highly connected, the execution created
great excitement at the time, and ven
geance was threatened by his friends
against all engaged in it.
Yesterday morning, Kline, who con
ducted the execution, left this city for
Clarksville, accompanied by a young man
named Banks. Reaching* the depot at
Clarksville, they started on foot for the
town, and were fired upon from the road
side by some unknown person. Kline
was mortally and young Banks slightly
wounded. One Robinson, a cousin of
Lide Wallace, was arrested and identified
as the party who did the shooting.
NEW YOKE NOTES.
New Yobe, July 17.—The Supreme
Court of the State having decided that
the guarantee of the Erie Railroad Com
pany of five million dollars of the bonds
of the Boston, Hartford and Erie Rail
road Companies is valid, and that the
Erie Company is liable, executions for
some of the holders of the bonds are be
ing placed in t}ie hands of the sheriff to
attach the locomotives and cars of the
Erie Railway Company. The whole guar
antee is $12,000,000, a quarter of which
is already due.
The committees of the Mathew and
Roman Catholic societies this evening
elected Rev. Dr. McFIynn to the leader
ship movement now on foot for the erec
tion of a monument to Father Mathew,
and a resolution was passed authorizing
him to appoint two members from each
society to assist him in carrying out the
work. Dr. McFIynn pledged himself to
make the movement a success.
WOBEINOMEN S PKOTECTIVE ASSOCIATION.
Baltimore, July 17.—The International
Workingmen’s Protective Association are
holding a general convention in this city.
The proceedings are secret. The object
of the meeting is said to be the formation
of the welfare of the workingmen and
mutual co-operation. About one hundred
and forty-five delegates were said to be
present yesterday, mostly from New York
and the Western States, and several hun
dred more are expected to be present to
day. Philip Monteith, of Chicago, is
President of the Convention; J. W. Cun
ningham, of New York, Secretary; and
George Hill, of Portland, Oregon, Treas
urer,
FAST TIME.
Saginaw, Mich., July 17.—The race at
East Saginaw driving park yesterday, for
a special purse of $5,000, $2,500 to the
first, $1,500 to the second, and $1,000 to
the horse which beat the fastest time on
record. Goldsmith Maid trotted three
straight heats in 2:19^, 2:1G£, and 2:10,
the only contestant being Judge Fuller
ton. Fullerton’s time was 2:20J, 2:18,
and 2:19j. Eight thousand people were
present.
LONDON NOTES.
London, July 17.—In the House of
Commons last night, Mr. Gladstone with
drew his resolution against the public
worship regulation bill, in consideration
of the unanimity of the vote on its .favor
on its second reading.
John Lawrence Toole, the comedian,
sailed for New York to-day.
DEATH OF AN AGED LADY.
Habbisbubg, July 17.—Mrs. Barbara
DeHart, aged 101 years and six months,
died yesterday. She was the mother of
ten children, forty-two grand children,
seventy-seven great grand children, and
one great great grand child. She had
been blind for twenty years.
FATALITIES OF THE CHICAGO FIRE.
Chicago, July 17.—Thus far seven per-'
sons are known to have lost their lives by
the fire Tuesday night. Strenuous efforts
are being mode to furnish those deprived
of homes by the fire with the necessaries
of life. All the aid societies are giving
their help.
Ozoning Air.—An easy means of ozon-
ing the air of a sick-room, as described in
a German periodical, consists in the use
of a powder composed of peroxide of
manganese, permanganate of potash, and
oxalic acid, which has the property of
giving oat, in contact with water, in
abundant quantity of ozone. For a cham
ber of middling size it is sufficient to use
about two tablespoonfuls of the powder,
over which are poured from one to one
and a half tablespoonfuls of water every
two hours. In this way the quantity of
ozone produced is exactly what is wanted;
the. presence of a larger quantity in the
air would occasion irritation of the throat
and coughing. All metals, except gold
and platinum, must be removed, on ac
count of the oxidizing effects of the
ozone.
“Good-bye, Wife and Children.”—.
William McCoy, a journeyman jeweler,
formerly of Newark, was recently found
dead in his bed, at No. 96 Grove street,
New York, having taken poison. The
following note was found in his room:
‘ ‘ Good-bye, wife and children. You will
soon forget me. I feel the fatal drug
working now.” He had become a drink
ing man while in the army during the
war, and on retaining to civil life mar
ried, bat soon abandoned his wife and
two children to live with some one else.
He began recently to take laudanum,
which was the drug finally used for his
exif
Two Eventful Days.—Saturday and
Sunday were fruitful of fatal disasters in
tliia city. A Norwegian sailor fell from a
vessel at Locust Point and was drowned.
The chief steward of another vessel died,
after several days’illness, and while being
conveyed to the hospital. Another man
was found dead in the dam under the
Viaduct bridge, under mysterious circum
stances. On Sunday (yesterday) two men
were killed, on the Baltimore and Ohio
n..iw»d—one at Hchester, Md., and the
other at a point between Cincinnati-and
Parkersburg.—Ball. Qazctte
Death of a Brave Boy.—A son of
John Babcock, aged 18 years, was drown
ed at Pembroke, Me., yesterday, after
he had succeeded in placing four boys
on the gunwale of a boat, which had cap
sized while rowing. The boys could not
swim, and young Babcock was swim
ming behind the boat, pushing it ashore,
and was taken with cramps. He had
dived twice and brought up one of the
boys, who lost his hold on the gunwale.
. Who wrote the John Brown
The Boston papers are trying to decide.
So far, it is agreed that the music was
condensed from old Methodist camp meet
ing songs, and was first sung by the
Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment, while
Hall's Band was the first to play it. The
author of the words has not been discov
ered, and he is not likely to voluntarily
avow himself.
[From the Galveston NcwbJ
Cotton Caterpillar Destroyer.
Galveston, July 4, 1874.
Few subjects have involved a greater
amount of scientific research and hard
labor than the destruction of the cotton
caterpillar. The cotton crop of the
South, worth $250,000,000, is annually
threatened by destruction from this in
sect. ' It is indispenmble to ns—individu
ally and nationally—that the crop should
be saved; therefore, any plan that is sug
gested is a matter of interest, and we
feel will be intelligently and persistently
tried by the farmers.
In answer to the numberless letters ad
dressed to us on the subject, we would
suggest the following recipe, the result
of our own OTtfinding OV0T
many years, and recipes of others, which
have proved more or less efficacious.
In instances to our knowledge crops
have been saved by these applications,
and adjoining fields and parallel rows of
cotton entirely destroyed by the cater-'
pillar where no application was made:
RECIFE 1. *
One quart of spirits of turpentine, thor
oughly mixed With 9 pounds of flour (sour
flour will answer), to form a paste; to
this add 42 gallons of water. Stir it well
and use it at once;. it is injured by stand
ing.
RECIPE 2.
Foot ounces of arseniate of soda and 12
ounces of dextrine, thoroughly dissolved
in 42 gallons of water. •This compound
is patented, and Messrs. Preston & Ro-
bira, Galveston, are sole agents. Experi
ments with this preparation justify the
belief that it is a perfect protection.
recipe 3.
- Paris green, we believe, can be used in
solution to accomplish the destruction of
the caterpillar; say one pound of a pure
article of Paris green mixed with forty
gallons of water, to which add two pounds
of dextrine or four pounds of gum arable.
The dextrine or powdered gum arabic
should be dissolved by boiling in two gal-
loes of water before it is added to the
barrel of compound. Stir constantly in
the barrel and pots while using.
recipe 4 V
Three-quarters of a pound of powdered
white .arsenic, and three-quarters of a
pound of common washing soda (bi
carbonate of soda will not answer,) boil
together in two gallons of water nntil
entirely dissolved, stir while boiling, and
add water to supply that lost by evapora
tion. An earthen vessel, or one lined
with porcelain, is preferable to boil in.
Then add' forty or forty-five gallons of
water to the above preparation.
In order to make the preparation ad
here to the leaf, dissolve two pounds of
dextrine in boiling water, and add it to
the compound.
recipe 5,
Three-quarters of a pound of powdered
white arsenic can be used without the
soda, to be dissolved by boiling in two
gallons of water; add water while boiling
to keep the quantity to two gallons. Do
not boil in an iron pot. Add forty or
forty-five gallons of water.
In order to make the solution adhere
to the leaf dissolve two pounds of dex
trine by boiling in two gallons of water,
and add to the solution of forty or forty-
five gallons;
recipe 6.
If' arsenious acid is used (which is dis
tinguishable from common white arsenic
by being in lump) take two or three
ounces, powder it and boil in two gallons
of water nntil dissolved, add water as it
evaporates in boiling. This will be suffi
cient to impregnate forty gallons of water.
It may prove more efficacious to use with
the arsenious acid two or three ounces of
washing soda. Whether the soda is used
or not, add two pounds of dextrine (first
dissolved by boiling) to the forty gallons
of the compound.
recipe 7.
If the above ingredients cannot be had,
take the common Jamestown or jimson
weed, chop up stalk, limb and leaves, and
boil in a large pot until a strong tea is
obtained. To make it adhere to the cot
ton plant, boil six pounds of flour into a
starch, and add to a barrel of the jimson
weed tea. If flour cannot be had use a
gallon of lime in its place. With the
decoction sprinkle the plant.
recipe 8.
Johnson’s Cotton Worm Destroyer re
quires a package of the preparation to
be dissolved in ninety-nine gallons of
water, as per his directions, -five acres of
cotton to be sprinkled with the solution.
Messrs. T. C. Thompson & Co., Gal
veston, are the agents.
recipe 9.
lloyall’s Cotton Worm Destroyer .is
well known to the public. It is a pow
der, and applied by sifting on the plant.
The exact ingredients we do not know,
but it is said to be effective in the de
struction.of the caterpillar.
The ingredients for the recipes given
will cost from twenty to fifty cents per
acre.
In the above recipes, except recipe two,
which is patented, if dextrine or gnm
arabic cannot be obtained, or are too ex
pensive, we would suggegt flour as the
best substitute, eight to ten pounds of
flour (sour will do) to the barrel of solu
tion: Boil the flour in a sufficient quan
tity of water until a paste is formed, and
add to this the barrel of solution, stirring
it thoroughly.
The object of the dextrine, gum arabic
or boiled flour is to make the solution
with which it is mixed sufficiently glutin
ous to adhere to the leaf of the plant,
that it may not be washed off by rain.
The above recipes are each intended to
apply to one acre of cotton, except recipe
eight. The solution should be sprinkled
on the plant whenever the caterpillar ap
pears on it, and reapplied whenever the
caterpillar reappears. The application
should be made with watering-pots or tin
vessels of any kind, perforated with very
fine holes. Fountain pumps are. well
adapted for the purpose; they can be
purchased in Galveston for ten dollars.
On horseback is the best method of reach
ing the plant. It is best to apply it late
in the evening.
We do not offer the recipes as infalli
ble, but only suggest a trial.
Before using the above recipes, we
would advise farmers to try them, os per
proportions given, on a few stalks of
cotton, and thus determine the proper
strength of the solution. The preserva
tion of the plant is of the first importance.
The object to be accomplished is to have
the preparation sufficiently strong to de
stroy the caterpillar, and yet not injure
the plant. The quantity of water or poi
son should be increased or diminished, as
experiments may determine. The age
and tenderness of the plant must be con
sidered. The solution might be too
strong at one period of its growth, while
not so at another—experiments will de
termine the proper strength.
The preparations are poison, and ves
sels used to boil or prepare the solution
in should not be used for any other
purpose.
It is all important that each farmer
should provide himself with the ingredi
ents for the above recipes, or order from
the druggist the prepared compound, and
be in readiness to destroy the caterpillar
on its first appearance. If delayed until
immediately required, the druggist will
be unable to fill the orders, and the loss
of a year’s labor and expense win be the
result
Texas is far in advance of the cotton
growing States in successful experiments
in this direction, and we ask, as our only
compensation for the time, labor and ex
pense that we have incurred in present
ing this subject a letter from each per
son who tries the recipes, advising us of
the exact results. Tins will enable us to
continue our experimental labors by the
light of the experience of others, and in
due time the farmers of the South shall
have the full benefit of your experience,
our labors, and nil new discoveries and
improvements without cost. .
Hobby & Post.
—:—~<
It is denied f^om St.- Petersburg that
THE PHILADELPHIA ABDUCTION.
History of a Strange Crime.
A Philadelphia letter to the New York
Herald gives the following history of the
abduction of a boy in Philadelphia, which
has several times been briefly mentioned
in dispatches from that city. The letter
the young Grand Duke Nicholas has re
ceived any sentence yet.
On July first, as two little boys were
playing in Washington lane at German
town, two men approached them in a
carriage and invited them ont to ride. No
one save the children and the men was
near at the time. Por several days pre
vious these same twomenhadapproached
the boys in different ways, and having
during these conversations given them
candies, toys, etc., the little ones ex
pected them before they arrived on the
day mentioned above, and so readily
consented to get into the carriage. After
bflsipg driven some distance the oldest
one of the two little boys was asked to
get out of the carriage and bay a few
packages of firecrackers. Boylike, he
most willingly complied. No sooner had
he disappeued in the store than the two
men lashed the horse and made away
with the little four-year-old, whose" name
is Charlie Brewster Ross, and who has
never since been seen by those who know
h|ni-
The father, after searching everywhere
in the neighborhood, came to the police
office, where upon his arrival your cor
respondent learned the above. The po
lice, under the direction of Capt. Heins,
made the most scrutinizing search every
where. They continued their operations
unceasingly day and night, and were de
termined to leave no stone unturned that
would restore the lost one and punish its
persecutors. All in vain. They labored
for three days and for three nights. There
was no cine. After this the following ad
vertisement appeared in all the news
papers:
fit3 A A reward will be paid to the
JjROUU Pereou returning to No. S North
^SIXTH street, A SMALL BOY, four years old,
having long, early, flaxen hair, hazel eyes, clear,
light skin and round face; dressed in a brown
linen snit, short Bkirt, broad brimmed straw bat
and laced shoes. The child was lost from Ger
mantown on Wednesday afternoon (1st instant),
between four and five o’clock.
This advertisement, too, met with no
response, and on Monday, July 6, another
wns inserted in the Public Ledger. The
next morning, in the “personal column”
of this same journal, appeared the follow
ing:
JJOSS—WE BE READY TO NEGOTIATE.
On the same day the father, Mr. Ross,
received an anonymous letter through the
post office, in which it was stated that lit
tle Charlie would be returned for $20,000.
It also went on to say that the boy was
in good hands; that the treatment given
him was careful; that it had cost the par
ties a great deal of money to get him, and
that they could not think of returning
him for less than $20,000.
The father returned the following an
swer through the Ledger personals:
T>OSS WILL COME TO TERMS TO THE
It extent of his ability.
Another anonymous letter at once was
received by Mr. Ross, stating that the
parties who held the child would not part
with it for a smaller snm than the one
already named. Now, mark how a fath
er’s love rises supreme above everything!
He had not in his possession the amount
nscessary to regain his dear one; bat he
answered the villains through the person
als thus:
R OSS IS WILLING; HAVE NOT GOT IT;
aim doing my best to raise it.
Thus the matter stands. Detectives
have watched the Ledger building and the
post office day and night; bnt so care
fully do the kidnappers work that no cine
whatever seems to have been obtained xo
their identity or their whereabouts. The
child has now been absent twelve days,
and’ it is doubtful whether during this
time any of the members of the house
hold to which it belonged have had an
hour of unbroken rest.
The circumstances are somewhat remark
able. throughout. For five days previous
to July 1—the day upon which the child
was stolen—these some men were seen
around the neighborhood, and each day
approached the two children and con
versed with them. It is presumed that
they wound have made off with the
youngest, little Charlie Ross, several
days before the first instant, but at each
time there chanced to be some one pass
ing ! along the lane. During a conversa
tion with the father I asked him whether
he had any enemies who owed him a
grudge, and who would be likely to take
revenge in such a rare way. The father
replied that he was unaware that there
was any one in the world who entertained
any: bitterness against him. The name
of the father is Mr. Christian K. Ross, of
the ’firm of Boss, Shott & Co., wholesale
dry goods dealers on Market street. The
house was unfortunate daring the panic,
and hence Mr. Ross is unable to pay at
once the sum demanded by the black
mailers. It is hoped that he will not be
obliged to do so, bnt that it will be the
kidnappers who will be obliged to pay
the penalty worthy of their inhumanity.
lip. m.—Since writing the above your
correspondent has gained a more direct
idea of the nature of the letters which
the kidnappers have sent to the disconso
late father. More fiendish, cruel, or in
human epistles human hand never
penned. One of them reads similar to
this:
“We know you are not worth much
money, but we are aware that you have
rich friends of whom you can borrow. If
you love money better than your child,
its blood be on your own head.”
Another letter reads to this effect:
“Any attempt to ascertain the child’s
hiding place will result in its entire anni
hilation. We will turn the child np on
our own terms.”
Meaning that in cose the money is not
forthcoming they will kill the infant.
No one can read the letters withont
feeling his blood boil. Four letters in
all have been received, and each of them
is cool and cruel.-
“We know our business,” says one of
the letters, “and we are going to fight it
out.”
Confiscating a State.
Returns have been received of the
quantity of land sold for taxes or con
fiscated to the State in the counties of
Horry, Laurens and Richland, and the
result of the tax sales in Charleston coun
ty have been officially reported. No re
turns have been received from Chester
field, Lancaster, Lexington, Newberry,
Pickens, Sumter and Williamsburg, and
in Chester, Marion and Marlboro' there
have been no sales. The following table
gives the number of acres of land for
feited to the State for non-payment of
taxes in 1873, and the number of acres
sold or forfeited during the current year:
COUNTIES.
Abbeville
Aiken
Anderson
Barnwell
Beaufort..:.:
Charleston
Clarendon
1873.
Acres.
5,074
165
23.930
95,002
1,400
1874.
Acres.
749
18, SCO
1,0*2
38.167
50,000
260,000
17,196
hotels and gcsitaurantis.
BRESNAN’S
European House
156,158, 160 & 162
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
erfleld..
Colleton
Leld..
Georgetown.
Greenville....
75
17,011
12,465
21,629
THE KIDNAPPING CASE STILL A MYSTERY.
Philadelphia, July 13.—There are no
fresh developments in the child abduction
case. The unfortunate father, in a
Ledger personal this morning, signifies
that he has got-the money required and
is willing to pay. The abductors are
believed to be a gang of English profes
sionals accustomed to their nefarious
business.
Heroism of a Little California Girl.
—We were witness to an act of bravery
on Monday afternoon that is seldom
equalled, never surpassed. A little child
of Mrs. Saul, some two or three years old,
was playing or running around near the
flume that conveys water to the foundry,
when in some manner it chanced to fall
in. The flume was full of water running
very rapidly. There was no one near but
a little daughter of Edward Keegan, who
instantly jumped into the flume, caught
the child and screamed for help. The
water was running so rapidly that it took
her off her feet instantly. Still she clung
to the little one, and to a great extent
kept its head above water, at the risk of
being drowned herself, until assistance
arrived and rescued them'from their per
ilous situation. The little girl seemed
perfectly oblivions of self in her efforts
to save the child, and unless assistance
had been speedily rendered would have
become a martyr to her noble heroism.—
El Dorado Republican.
Addie Miller, an Albany girl, was for
bidden by her parents to marry. She
would have disobeyed, but her sweet
heart was more mindful and would not
elope. The third of July was the day
appointed for the wedding until the
match was broken off. On that day
Miss Miller went to Cohoes and drowned
herself in the Mohawk. She was missed,
and the story went that she had gone
away with n gambler. Even her unstead-
fast lover believed this, and was glad
that he had not made bo bad a girl his
wife. A few days later her body was
found, and then the details of her suicido
. were traced, out.
Kerahaw
•Lexington... -.
•Lancaster
Laurens
tMarion
t Marlboro’
•Newberry
Oconee
Orangebttrg....
•Pickens
Richland
Spartanburg....
•Snmter
Union
•Williamsburg..
York
21,744
916
1,371
5.262
1,062
896
69,272
22,306
21,823
810
12,043
2,015
1,455
IS,236
5,216
1,500
-3,391
760
1,640
3,679
20,115
3,375
9,270
2,928
657
13,247
29,969
410
740
Total..
580,134
In only twenty-two counties 580,134
acres of land, equal in area to 960 square
miles, have been sold or confiscated by
the State this year. For the two years,
1873 and 1874, as far as reported, the
sales and forfeitures amount to 848,657
acres, or 1,326 square miles. In the
county of Charleston alone the soles and
forfeitures amount this year, to 260,000
acres, or 406 square miles. The entire
amount of land in the State assessed for
taxation in 1873 is shown in the report of
the Comptroller-General to be os follows:
Acres.
Arabic and plough lauds 2,737,385
Meadow and pasture 2,245,087
Wood, uncultivated and marsh 11,840,163
Total 16,822,635
In two years the sales and forfeitures
for non-payment of taxes have amounted
to 848,657 acres; that is, one acre in emery
nineteen acres of land of all lands, in the
State has been confiscated under the guise
of taxation.—Charleston Courier.
A Venerable Fraud.— “A dispatch
from Richmond, Va., says: A man giving
the name of James K. Yan Ness was
arrested Saturday night, charged with
attempting to perpetrate a series of
swindles on a number of prominent
business men. Van Ness hns been in
Richmond several days, representing
himwolf as the agent of Cornelius Van
derbilt, of New York, and that he had
been sent here to make extensive pur
chases. He exhibited papers purporting
to be signed by Vanderbilt authorizing
purchases, and also showed numerous
drafts, amounting to several hundred
thousand dollars, aU signed by Vander
bilt. He had succeeded in imposing so
far on soma of our citizens as to negotiate
sales, one being for a large flouring mill.
Saturday morning, some suspicion being
aroused, a telegram was sent to New
York by the president of a leading mon
eyed instituton, and an answer was
received that Commodore Vanderbilt
knew nothing of the party. Van Ness
was arrested at his hotel by Detectives
Knox and Wren, on a warrant charging
him with forgery and having a forged
paper in his possession. When arrested
he had $160,000 forged paper. From
other papers found on hum. it was
ascertained that his trne name is Living
stone. He is gentlemanly in appearance,
about 67 years of age, five feet nine or
ten inches high, weighs about two hun
dred pounds, has gray hair and side
whiskers, and is of light complexion. He
was locked up in the first police station
to await a hearing Monday.”
H. L Kimball in Atlanta,—The At
lanta papers announce that CoL H. L
Kimball has returned to Atlanta to stay.
And why not? If he can’t stay in Atlanta,
where can he stay ? If a man can’t live
with his own people, where can he live ?
Mr. Kimball bniit a great part of Atlanta
—the famous Capitol, its great hotels, its
. Fair Grounds, its mineral springs and its
magnificent harbor. In short it was Mr.
Kimball who first suggested the idea of
making Atlanta a seaport and of having a
custom house, revenue cutters, pilots,
etc, etc. After having done all these
things, why should he not come back to
Atlanta ? He has come. He came to his
own, and, his own received him. He de
veloped the State when he was here be
fore; and many of the people of Atlanta
helped him. He probably intends “to
devil up the State again, and if so, some
of the people of Atlanta will help him
again. He is probably the agent of
Henry Clews & Co., and will attempt to
develop their bonds. CoL Kimball knows
how to develop bonds; so does some of
the citizens of Atlanta,
The Atlanta News has drawn a strong
bill against Mr. Kimball, which, if true,
should consign him to the Penitentiary.
Will the people of Atlanta enquire whether
it is true, or do they sympathise with Mr.
KimbalL—Milledgeiille Recorder.
Beecher’s Investigation.—New York,
July 12.—The investigating committee
of Plymouth Church are still at work.
The members decline to give any opinion
os to when they will have finished, bnt
they say that the investigation will be
thorough. If Mr. Beecher is innocent,
they wish to exonerate him; if he is
guilty of any offense, they will not try to
shield him. They say they desire every
one who knows anything against Mr.
Beecher to come forward and make their
statements. The investigation is intend
ed either to vindicate or condemn the
Whether or not. Mr. Tilton has been
examined they decline to say. The story
that Mrs. Tilton had explained that the
whole difficulty between her husband and
Mr. Beecher was owing to Mr. Beecher’s
advice to her to leave Tilton.- when he
was occupied with the Woodhull gang,
has been current in Plymouth Church for
more than a year, as an explanation of
the difficulty, but it is improbable that
Beecher woulld have written the letter to
Tilton, in which he humiliates himself,
for so slight an offense. There is no
troth in the statement that Mrs. Tilton
has testified before the investigating com
mittee.—Chicago Tribune.
Remarkable Case of Suicide.—About
8£ o’clock yesterday morning, as the early
train from Providence was passing over
the Back Bay lands, near Westchester
park, a man suddenly appeared and threw
himself upon the track directly in front
of the engine, which passed over him,
severing his head from his body and
causing instant death. His head was
found at a point eight feet distant from
-the spot where the body lay. The de
ceased was probably one Michael Burns.
The facts supporting this belief are the
discovery of the letters “M. B.” wrought
with India ink upon his right arm, and
the name in full inscribe-1 upon the
watch-pocket of his browsers. He was
abont thirty years of age, wore a dark
ribbed coat and vest, dark browsers of the
cloth commonly known as “basket cloth,”
was five feet eight inches in height, of
light complexion, with light colored hair
and moustache, and weighed about 175 or
180 pounds. The remains were taken to
the dead house connected with the city
hospital, and Coroner McCollom, who
was called, will probably hMd an inquest.
—Boston Globe, Vlth.
Among the feathered creatures the
eagle, the raven, the swan. and parrot
are centenarians. On the Thames they
annually “nick” the swan of the “Vint
ner’s Company,” under whose keeping
they have been, for five centuries, and
find home swans have lived one hundred
and fifty years.
■,hai
the
T he
sax ,
offer to nis meets all the comforts to be obtained
at other Hotels at lees than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
ARESTAIMT
ON THE
EUROPEAN PLAN
Has been added, where gnests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
ROOMS, with board,
$1 50 PER DAY.
Determined to be
Outdone by None,
All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete
satisfaction will be given.
JOHN BRESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
feb!9-tf
gjtotitt to Sravdcrs.
Important to those Seeking Health and
Recreation at the Virginia Springs.
THE MANAGERS OF THE GREAT
Atlantic Coast Line
^AEE pleasure in informing the pnblic that
T ake pie ... _
they have just perfected arrangements by
which they are enabled to ran Pullman
SLEEPING CABS THROUGH FROM
AUGUSTA,
SPRINGS, WITHOUT
bia, Wilmington,
WHITE SULPHUR SPB
CHANGE.
This arrangement goes into effect at
commencing July 13th, and will continue
the end of the excursion season.
To families, invalids and others going and re
turning from the Springs, this arrangement
necessarily commend Itself to their consif
as by it they avoid the frequent changes
to other routes, and withal greatly promote their
own ease and comfort.
The management feel assured their efforts in
this direction will merit a substantial recognition
from the traveling public.
Excursion Tickets and all information can be
obtained at the Central Railroad office, Pulaski
House, and at the Central Railroad Depot.
july!4 2w
(Exfursiiw Sfr&etg.
Excursion Tickets!
$32.00.
rj^HE Savannah and Charleston Railroad Com
pany have now on sale Excursion Tickets to
NEW YORK AND RETURN
at the above rate,
then by the mam if
the OLD DOJ
dneements
hours sea voyage, no
the South
meals and staterooms.
Take 9£0 a. m. train
By rail to Portsmouth, and
‘ sidewheel steamships of
OMINION LINE,
to families and invi
and no extra charge for
Monday, Tuesday and Friday, and going through
without delay.
Also, full line of Excursion Tickets to the
VIRGINIA SPRINGS and Northern Summer
Resorts. Speed and comfort as good and rate as
low as by other routes.
Tickets good to return to 1st November, 1874.
Tickets and all information can be had at R. R.
BREN’S Special Ticket Agency, No. 21# Bull
street, and at Depot Ticket Office.
C. S. GADSDEN,
C. C. OLNEY, Agent.
julyl5-tf
(Commmial Stawrlrrs.
IMPORTANT
COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS.
Q03IMERCIAL TRAVELERS who solicit or
ders by Card,
or other specimen, also tEoee who visit
tomers and solicit trade by purchases made DI
RECT FROM STOCK, and who travel in any
section, by Rail or Boat, selling any class of
good*,- are requested to send their Business and
Private Address, as below, stating class of goods
they sell, and by whom employed; also, those who
arc at present under no engagement. 'This mat-
, - ' iportance Individually
ter is of Great Importance'Individually to
men of this class, or men soliciting trade in this
manner. It is therefore ESPECIALLY desired
that this notice may meet the eye of ALL Com
mercial Travelers and Salesmen in this country,
and that they will AT ONCE give it their atten-
tion. Those who comply with above request will
be CONFIDENTIALLY treated and duly ad
vised of object in view. Please address (by letter
only), CO-OPERATION,
Care Geo. P. Rowell & Co., 41 Park Row, New
York City. jyl0-F,M*tf lm
PAST HORSES!!
I HAVE JUST RECEIVED A NUMBER OF
Fast Road Horses,
to which I would invite the attention of those who
are in want of good Teams.
J. P. FOX,
Stables, West Broad Street, opposite State.
dec30-tf
gats and Caps, &c.
MUST BE SOLD.
The Large Stock of
STRAW HATS
-AT—
137 CONGRESS STREET,
Will be sold at Greatly Reduced Pikes.
see, at the Hat Emporinm of-,
r«Uatxl
BROWN, THE HATTER,
137 Congress Street.
jnn9-if S rr
gaofesi anfl groheru.
Banking, Exchange.
AND
Collection Office
OF
E. C. Anderson, Jr., & Co.,
NO. 11 REYNOLDS’ SQUARE,
(Formerly Planters* Bank,)
SATAXXAH, GA.
DEPOSITS received subject to Check at S?ght,
and Interest allowed by agreement.
Gold, Stocks, Bonds, and Foreign and Domestic
Exchange bought and sold.
Collections Tnurift on all accessible points, and
promptly remitted for in New To* Exchange at
current rates.
No commissions charged on Collections made in
the city.
Merchants’ Cash Boxes, and other Valuables, re
ceived on special deposit (and deposited in the large
Fire Proof Vaults of the Banking House) subject
to owners’ orders, at any and all times during bank
ing hours.
Exchange on Atlanta and Augusta in sums to
suit purchasers. frndtf
Merchants National Bank
SAVAJSXAH.
S TERLING BILLS on the City Bank, London,
demand ors .
for sale in sums o
S.
jnn25-Th&M4w
(Eomratssiou pmtomts.
JOHN W. ANBXBSON.
JOHN W. ANDERSON’S SONS
COTTON FACTORS'
AND GENERAL
Commission Merchants,
Gullett’s Improved Saw Gin,
Hcnery’s Improved McCarthy Gin,
Cor. Bryan and Drayton Su,
SAVANNAH, GA.
tarTiberal advances made on Consignments,
octld&wly
JOS. HULL. | B. H. BURKETT. } VTM. H. BURKETT.
JOS. HULL & CO.,
(Successors to Cohen A Hull)
FACTORS AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
66 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
jnn34-tf
Hjatflicinal.
SI M MONS'
REGULATOR
The Favorite Home Remedy.
This unrivalled Medicine is warranted not to
contain a single particle of Mebcubt, or any in
jurious mineral substance, but is
PURELY VEGETABLE,
containing those Southern Roots and Ilerbs,
which an all-wise Providence has placed in
countries where liver diseases most prevail. It
win cure all Diseases caused by Derangement of
the Liver and Bowels.
Simmons’ hirer Regulator, or Medicine
Is eminently a Family Medicine; and by being
’"^aiafcefi B
kept ready for ixnmi
lurofc
resortwHl save many
an’hour of suffering and many a dollar in time
and doctors’ bills.
After over Forty Years’ trial it is stin receiving
the most unqualified testimonials to its virtues
from persons of the highest character and re-
►onsibiliiy. - Eminent physicians commend it as
ie most
Effectual Specific
FOR DYSPEPSIA OR INDIGESTION.
Armed with thie ANTIDOTE, all climates and
changes of water and food may be faced withont
fear. As a Remedv in MALARIOUS FEVERS,
BOWEL COMPLAINTS, RESTLESSNESS,
JAUNDICE. NAUSEA,
IT HAS NO EQUAL.
It is the Cheapest, Purest and Best Family
Medicine in the World.
Is mannfactnrcd only by
J, H. ZEIUX &. CO.,
Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia.
Price $1 00. Sold by all Druggists.
jnnlO-W&wly
gVrrcw Cotton Wits.
American Cotton Tie Co.
New Orleans, La., June 24,1874.
Notice to Dealers and Bayer* of Cotton Ties.
>, certain parties are now making
and offering Pieced Arrow and Open Slot
Ties for sale without authority or license from
this Company, all persons are hereby cautioned
not to purchase Arrow or other Open Slot Cotton
Ties, except from our duly authorized agents,
who will be kept fully supplied with new and
Pierced Ties. Our attorneys are instructed to
' ring suit against all persons violating our patent
ties. AMERICAN COTTON TIE CO.
R. W. Rathe & Co., General Agents.
IRON COTTON TIES.
THE CELEBRATED
ARROW TIES
WILL BE SOLD
In lots under 500 bundles. .8c. 9 Si. net.
In lots of 500 bundles Sc. ft. 2% aft.
In lots of 1,000 bundles and over.Sc. ^ ft. 5 off.
j Pieced. 2c. 9 ft. under new Ties.
HOPKINS & WOOD,
BATES & COMER,
j nil20-2m Agents at Savannah.
£,ty Snips.
HARPER’S PATENT FLY TRAP.
At Wholesale and Retail at the Crockery Si
of BOLSHAW & SILVA. iny22-t£
Season *t*hu.
WHY?
W HY LS IT that Printing cm be done to the
utmost, satisfac::• »o of the customer at the
MOHNINt. NEWS H? RMMttA
ofiJeoiscomj’lft-sintlie -mr — • r
r*'?-**!*, types inquanlity and every : ... • .
:evluui: at all times an extecaivs stock - ; • rs,
haviHur a weii-cqnipped Bic l-rv, einp -% .
workmen—Thus having all ana tji y. y ?.r : ; Le*
we are enabled to turn out SUPSKIOK WUKi,
mki to do so IN THE SHORTEST TIME v ^r ;e
:/v. ft* - -