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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1875.
VOLUME I. NUMBER 45.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Thb health of Key West is reported
by tho health officer ns nnnsunlly good.
There is nothing like yellow fever
there.
Tfik iron inamifnetnriug establish*
monts in Pittsburgh are rapidly resum
ing work, and in a few days ail will be
in operation again.
"Wrrn tho advent of spring the cru
saders have broken out in Now York,
visiting some forty up-town saloons
lost Tuesday.
Tite withdrawal of State subsidies
from tho Roman Catholic church in
Prussia, if consummated, will deprive
tho church of $000,000 annually.
Midshipman \V. H. Cox, of Jones
boro, Tenn., was drowned on the 14th
inst., by tho upsetting of u boat in the
creek adjoining tho naval academy at
Annapolis, Maryland.
It is definitely set led that his royal
highness, tho prineo of Wales, will go
to India noxt winter, a country whioh,
though forming a magnificent part of the
British empire, has nover been visited
by a scion of tho royal houso.
Officials in Washington r.ny that
moro than one hnndrod persons are
now serving out a term of imprison
ment for counterfeiting, or passing
counterfeit money, who wero pupils of
McCartnoy, the noted counterfeiter, nr-
rested in Texas a few days ago.
A HTniN.iKNT lull touching tho Oatho
lie olergy has boon presented in the
Prussian diet, designed to nullify tho
appointments of tho Vatican in Ger
many and still farther bring tho clergy
under tho oivil laws. A remonstrance
lms been presented, but remonstrances
do not have any weight with Bismarck.
The Ban Franoisoo Chronicle says
that tho Lick revocation difficulty is to
bo settled up by a new deed to new
trustees, and Mr. Lick's poor relations
are now to bo provided for. The rela
tions, it seems, stirred up the whole
trouble, ns they ooulil not bear to see
$4,000,000 woitli of handsomo property
going out of thoir hands for the public
benefit.
The United Bute* army consists of
‘AW1 enlisted men and 2,376 comrais-
sioued officers, presenting the amazing
proportion of less than eleven soldiers
to each officer. West Point is hatch
ing a now brood of 258 lieutenants, who
trill bo out of thoir shells next Juno,
and, with their accession to tho shoul
der strapped gentry, there will bo less
than ton soldiers to each commissioned
officer.
I he British admiralty have given
orders for the immediate destruction
of all vessels in the navy which do not
come up to modern requirements. Bov-
orul fine frigates whoso ribs aro per
fectly sound, and whioh, but a few
years since, wero recognized us oruck
sailiug vessels, will be dein Imbed.
England means to put her navy on a
strictly wur footing.
Tint pontoffico department, a fow days
since, pinned upon sale three cont. post
age stamps, manufactured upon nn en
tirely new principle. They are made
of two kinds of paper, one hard and
the othor porous. Tho purpose in to
provont tho possibility of tho washing
of stamps. This end is accomplished
by the new stamps, ns the porous paper
absorb* the ink. Tho grouteat difficul
ty is that the stamps cannot be made
properly adhesive, and it is doubtful
whether the experiment will prove suc
cessful.
The Indian commissioner throws all
the trouble about tho Black Hills busi
ness on Gen. Custer's expedition last
fall, which he says was utterly uncalled
for and unnecessary. Ho further ac
cuses the war department of having
little or no respect for the rights of the
Indians, affirming that nothing would
have been dono toward keeping intrud
ers from tho nuriferous reservation, if
the Indian bureau had not made tho
most strenuous appeals for justice to
its charges.
One result of the raging railroad war
between the northern trunk lines, is a
marked depression of tho shipping in
terests on the lakes, and the indisposi
tion of ship owners to open up for tho
spring business with their customary
energy. The reason assigned is that
the railroads are transporting grain to
the seaboard cheaper than the vessels
can carry it. Ovr.ers content them
selves, therefore, with such repairs ns
will keep their vessels afloat, while a
large number will necessarily be laid
up permanently for the summer, if the
railroad war continues.
The multitudinous adaptations of In
dia-rubber in the manufacture of useful
and ornamental articles ma y be sudden
ly checked by the limited supply of the
original material. The ever-increasing
demand has led to a thorough explora
tion of the forests of Darien for cont-
chouc. The Indiana resist the move
ment, but the collectors of the oozy
liquid are furnished military escorts by
the government of New Grenada. The
present rate of consumption i’b likely to
make India rubber much more costly in
a few years, or perhaps lead to the dis
covery of some substitute.
Tt is quite likely that tho doplorable
financial condition of Spain will shortly
bring about another revolution. Tho
government is running on credit and
hat not got muoli of that. Tho daily
outlay for tho civil wsr is $250,000,
mostly disbursed to foreign countries
for materials, and with 247,000 men
under arms, the borrowing system,
coupled with general dissatisfaction and
tho slaughter of industries, tho crash
can not be’far off. Spain ia in tho con
dition of a merchant with a largo note
to pay at bank at 3 o’clock " Ho funds.”
Tho national dobt has incrousod in ten
years from $800,000,000 to $1,875,000,-
000.
The Chicagp Times of last Saturday
contains a pftgo of special telegrams
from leading towns in the northwest
concerning the wheat prospect. These
reports emhraoo 30 counties in Illinois,
10 in Wisconsiu, 15 in Town, 11 in In
diana, 7 in Missouri, 7 in Michigan, 0
in Minnesota and 3 in Kaiman. Their
general tenor is that the fall wheat was
badly winter killed in places, and in
others the farmers, discouraged at lavt
year’s low prices do not look with favor
on this crop. In many places, however,
where tho deop snows la,% undisturbed,
tho growth is thrifty and gives promise
of an abundant harvest. The indica
tions are good iu nearly all tho npiing
wheat districts, and, reviewing tho en
tire field, tho production in tho north
west this year may vet come up to tho
average.
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
EAST.
tTA bill is before tho Now York legisla
ture requiring hired inilroait companinH to
Tho governor of Pennsylvania lias
dccidod not to withdraw tho troops until all
danger of violonro in tlm I.iucrtw coal region
ha* dtsapiwarod.
Tho striking puddiors in Pittsburgh
i resuming work, nud it i* thought that iu a
ort tiiuo tho majority of tho mills in that
city will bo in full operation.
At fVittsville, Pu., tho minors’ strike
regarded a« on its lad log*. Tho minors
»t, and aro leaving iu considerable numbers
r other paru of Die country.
Notice of notion has Ix-on given in tho
w six million suit against Win. M. Tweed.
Tho list of property attached embrace* ovnry-
iog known to be in t^e posae8*l<y; of Tweed
the time of the oxpoeure, anti which lie
sired into the bauds of other partU s.
WEST
Jas. B. Dougherty, pilot* died nt.
tiro, Sunday night, from wounds indicted a
<ok ago by ono Mcllrido;
A strect-oar stable iu Oinolnnnti wan
stroyod by llro last week, together with
enty-threo street-cars, Hixtenn innlea and
o horse.
Tho slngo from Downiovillo to Baora-
snto, Gal., Was robbed of Wells <V Fargo’s
-usury box, containing $5,0(10 in gold liars
d coin, by highwaymen.
Bix companies of cavalry and two of
Infantry have been ordered to tho baao of the.
Black Hills, as an escort to Mr. Jaunoy, the
government geologist, who will make a survey
of that country.
Tho trial of Jno. D. Loo anil W. H.
Dame, for the connection with the Mountain
Meadre
will :
pla.
of tho court. They were arraignod and
plead not guilty, thoir counsel asking for im
mediate trial but tho prosooutton was not
ady.
In tho polygamy caao at Beaver,
tab. Judge Boroman charge* that polygamy
■mmitted prior to 1802, i* punisbablo now;
that bigamy 1* continuous crime, and that the
statute of limitation does not apply. This is
directly opposito to tho chargoof Judge Emer
son of this district.
A dispatch from Omaha says the num
ber of emigrants westward bound tho pi
ftdon
nd. Nir
r-thr
dred have left that piano since March 1st.
Over ono thousand wore delayed t here Thurs
day for want of cars^bnt wero sent out on
special trains yesterday.
At the ineoting of the Pacific jookory
dnh in November next, a purse of *3(1,000 in
old will be ofTorod for four miles and repent,
ho race open to the world; $15,000 to tho
first horse, $0,000, $5,000 and $4,000 to tho
1. third and fourth. Horses from Europe
allowed $1,500 for traveling exponas,/ and
T the Kooky Mountains $1,000.
n. G. It. Cowan, a 1 sistant secretary
e interior, his returned from Halt Lake
City, where, by direction of tho president, he
officr
:ontly b
Ho
ngaged in po
xprofeed tho opin
dis-
further changes aro necc**ary, and that while
ntagoni-m between the Mormon arid the
Gentile elements will continue to excite con-
rl ill-feeling, tho minimum of
trouble, so far as the i.overnmont appointees
ire concerned, has now probably boon attained.
SOUTH.
New Orleans estimates her coming
ingar crop at 200,000 hogsheads.
A telegram from the United States
uirsbal of Texas reports tho recapture of
Pete McCarty, the noted counterfeiter.
Robt. Farris, aged 21, was shot and
instantly killed near Hcmervillo, Tenn., last
week, by Jno. Jones, aged 17.
James F. Aycklen, formerly of New
Orleans, was shot and killod at Lake Provi
dence, La , on tbe 8th inst.. by one Tboreli.
The murderer attempted to escape to Misnis-
sippi, but was captured and lodged in jail.
The New Mexico papers resent the
charge of general illiteracy of the territorial
population, and boast of 128 public schools.
143 teacher*, and 5,420 pupils. Ip. forty of the
public schools Spanish is taught as well as
Knglieb. There are fifty private schools be
side* chose of a public nature.
Col. John M. Powell, of Mississippi,
who committed suicide last week by taking
morphine, was, previous to our civil wai
of tho wealthfost and most influential pla
in Mississippi. Wondol Phillips once remarked
of his estate, that “Colton and slaves grow
spontaneously on Powoll’s plantation.”
A destructive lire took place at Green
ville, Miss., on tho 8th inst., supposed to hr
tho work of an incendiary. A heavy wind win
blowing at tho ttmo, and the lower portion of
tho town was in groat danger. Tho oitlzem
worked with wonderful energy and detormina
tion, and saved much property. Tho loss will
ho inside of $50,000, partly iuanrod. Hover# 1
men wore badly injured by falling chimneys,
Mrs. E. I/. Irwin, a highly respect-
able young widow of Hannibal, Mo„ tiod «
clothos lino around herself and little girl, six
years old, and fastened tho othor end to
stnko in the ground, and then took the chi
iu her arms and deliberately walkod into He;
creek. Both were drowned. Financial or
barrassment and disappointment in love hi
understood to he tho eauso of tho act.
On the night of April 2d, seventeen
rogi*tf red letters wero stolon from tho t
for (ifllco *t Grand Junction, Tenn., and tho
postofllco department sent Hpcolal Agent J
It. Miutiia to work up the ease, who amisted
Henry Parks, Frank and Low is Mooro, Dick
Dancy and Henry Goodwin, all colored
ployes or tho Stonewall hotel there, as
guilty parties. Goodwin turned state's
donoo and told where tho greater portion of
tho monoy was buried in a tin con, which
recovered.
At Charlotte, N. 0., on tho 16th, n
flro destroyed about 8,000 halos of cotton, th
depots of tho North Carolina and Oharlott
and tho Columbia ami Augusta railroads, urn
a number of prlvato residences. Loss, $250,
000; about two-thllds insured. The tiro i
supposed to have originated from spatks froti
the enpino of the .-.itton compress, standing
near a largo platform capable of bolding ovei
3,500 bales of cotton. It was booh boyoiu
control, and there being a high wind from the
west, tho flro passed over the thinly-built pari
of the city, a distance of throo-quarlors of v
mile, mostly of cotton and railroad depots.
For Homo time past numerous robbor
ios have boon committed in the neighborhood
of Chicot, Arh., and tho citizen* hcliovin
they wore perpetrated hv a regularly organize
hand, have quietly boon on tho qut vivo f<
them. On last Thursday flvo men wero di<
•red iu the
G. Martin, h
alarm lining
the buildiiq
them whioh
« killod, another Jumped
the river bank,
ho cltlzons Biirrou
robbers opened Hr
1 th
dow ii
remaining twr
is pel
of the
nod,
i captured. Tho next
suspected or being in
itli tho band, worn found to have dis
appeared, having fled from fear of tho prison
ers Implicating them.
( ro REIGN.
Bombay diHfmtoheH niinotmqp that the
cholera lias made its appearance in tho prov-
of nude.
Agents of tho Froncli government
havo made contracts in Hohonila for 10,000
horses, to ho delivered in June noxt.
Tho Fronob government lms seized a
numbor of Courbott’a pioturon under a doc
confiscating his property to defray the oxpc
of restoring the Vendome column.
Tho French government lms sent
Hlriictinns to its consuls to summon for
last timo Froncli subjects abroad liable
military service to have thoir immoSroglstc
at tho consulates.
It is reported tho Turks havo n
dorod 270 Ghristiaiis iu Itoumolia and Bulgi
during tho last three months, and tho nai
of tho victims Imve boon communicated to
foreign representatives In Constantinople.
The Rothschilds have issued it pros
pectus of the now Ilussian loan or XI8,000,000,
with interest at 4por cont. per annum, to he
issued at 5)2. Of tho amount, .£8,000,001) |h
ofTorod for subscription In London ; tin
muiudor in reserved for Ht. Fotorshurg.
The condition of tho expelled i
in Italy is most pitiful. Many of thor
their old ago, aro totally without inoar
resource, and thoir numbor adds to the cn
itv. Charity fails to roliovo thoir distress,
and those whoso lives wore devoted to the
succor of tho poor, tho sink and tho ignorant,
aro now without homo and sholtor.
A dispatch from Paris stntos that ii
party of throo persons as.-ondod in the balloon
Zenith on tho lflth, for tho purposo of making
Hciouliflo observation*. Tho balloon attained
tho extraordinary height of 8,000 met re*, or
20,000 foot. Two of tho aeronauts wore suffo
cated to death, and when tho balloon reachod
tho ground tho third was almost iusonsible,
and lins since boon so ill that his recovery is
doubtful.
Tho Roman Catholic bishops soon
after thoir conference nt Fulda add rot sod u
petition to the F.mpcror William, in person,
romon*lratii.g against tho withdrawal of state
grants, to tho maintenance of which they de
clared tho honor of Prussia was pledged.
They also protested against being requir
ed to obey, unconditionally, the state laws.
The .ministers, authorized by tho emperor,
have replied, expressing regrot Hint the
bishop* slionld object to obey tho law* which
alw
otho
rldjng that tho bishops would havo pro-
“rved the fatherland from peaco-dictnrbing
infusion if they hnd remained faithful to
ioir own convictions and to tho warnings
which they proclaimed before tho Vatican
:onnoil.
Tho treaty between China and Japan
vith regard to tho Island of Formosa was that
Jhina should pay to Japan 500,000 taels ($750,-
000), Japan surrendering tho inland of For
mosa. During the period that Formosa was
under tho rule of Japan, tbe aborigines had
become qnlte friendly, but now that China
wrthes to retake hor territory, the former
country say* “All right, take it." Thonativen
nay, “Take it. if you daro." In February a
slight attempt wan made, and the result of it
was a battle in which tho Chinese troops were
defeated with a loan of noveral hundred. For
mosa in rich in natural resources, and the
Chinese thought they had made a splendid
bargain, hut they aro not so sure of it now.
—Oordler, a French sculptor, has de
signed n monnment of Christopher
Columbus which is pronounced n grat
ifying success. It is to bo erected in
the city of Mexico, opposite the new
railway station. Cordier visited Italy
and Spain, and executed his design
after u careful study of what are sup
posed to he the authentic portraits of
Columbus.
A WOMAN’S LpVK-DREAM.
dng still,
ttolo
it) ' wm> ii*l u 'i U> i llf ' ,, i
while I think
AMoni* f j-'h-k' doavl'n "lit ro ** , ^*° 1,11,8 m W'*,
t would bo lovoiUn oflmmS™
Ho whom I lovo should bo my klug
And not my slave. ^
‘ klug, like Hauk*auiong Uufaouii'td^im'n,
Amt kinglter o’or htimwlf.
Norstlmtdor if'ni othor 'I' 7
HlnVin’iho‘Vi* 0 “ orav ” l " y ■‘ u,,c --
Fot-1 am w.-ary of m-rvllliy. 1 . ~
l w ould not rule, nor would t yrt ho ruled-
I icorn tho tyrant a* 1 ncoru til* *l*v.« -
i; »ro I* a lovi. of awoot (quality;
For fi wm To'/* V °td' 1 '
Not only by my w-onmuhood, but tty all gontlono
Look mifforliig, tho patient Sweotuim.i
V d'wouhi'n »t imri '"t!" H^rmtloa,
H V« a'pdlfi h "bn 'i! *' r o 1*1! f' ^ Tn\'
;l atiiouK lint lowly and tho poor,
from'ttiofl'rst'truits^Muy bwart’*
WILL HE DRINK WINE?
'1 'jo following essay, whioh ia of po
em. '.r i ntorest just uow, iu view of the
proanut agitation of the ton porauoc
question, was read by Dr. Swan 1\‘
Burnett of Knoxville*, before tint Tot.
lies see Medical Bocioty, tho subject of
the essay being “ Dipsomania”:
“ ' Will tho coming man drink wine?”
A question inure pregnant of iutoroHt,
or more important in its boaring to
wards our future civilization, could
quoBtiou assumed that it is now, by
general consent, given over to the man
of soignee for his earnest investigation,
and to him wo look for an answer. Of
course we mean, shall he drink wine to
oxuosb? not shall ho nso it, butjshull
he abuse it? For tho suppression of
intemporunoe, we havo trusted to tho
influences *f moral reformers and leg
islative ouaofmentH long enough to havo
demonstrated thoir utter futility.
Btatisties show that, iu spite of tem
perance organizations, (to sny nothing
of crusaders) and Maine liquourlaws,
the vice of intemperance is as rampant
iu our land as ever before. Wo cannot,
then, look to those for any help iu stay
ing its progress, hut must rovert to tho
scientific investigator who shall study
the subject in all its hearings, hunt out
its causes, and mark out its natural li's-
tory, just, as he would that of aiiy ollmr
form of disease.
“ R has always been fhns jn tko his
tory of tho world. Wlton pestilence
has stalked abroad, leaving death and
devastation in its train, effort Ii were
first made to stop its onward march by
prayers and inennfations ; and later, by
ill-advised legislation. Tt, was only,
however, whon the subject was handed
ever to the scientist, who nought the
fom cl orlf/o and applied his remedy
thereto, that uny amelioration was ob
tained. And tuns, it seems, must he
the case with intemperance, which in
its effects is as terrible as the ‘pesti
lence that walked in durkness.”
“ It is only one form of this evil that
we shall present to your consideration
at this time. The general influence of
alcohol upon tho human economy in
health and disease, and drunkenness in
the form of alcoholism, we shall leave
out of consideration, except an they
may bear upon the one form of intem
perance upon which we havo the honor
to report to you, viz., dipHomaniu.
“The first question thut jnrqsentH it
self is, is there such mi affojtion as
dipsomania per nn / This must ho an
swered in limine, for if there is not,
any further investigation will bo only n
Ions of time and labor. •
“At. present the opinion on this point,
f the majority of those who havo made
the subject of iuebrioty in its various
forms a special ntndy, seems to bo
fixed, and the Mineral verdict in in fa
vor of tho existence of u true mania for
drink.
“Dr. Morgan, in a recent work on
alcoholism, its various form, (tc.,”
says, that dipsomania is a distinct form
of instinctive mono-mania. Quoting
Trilah, he snys that drunknrlK aro men
who get drunk when they get the
ohunce of drinking, dipKomamc-i are
people suffering from disonse w).<- get
drunk whenever they have an attack of
their peculiar disorder. There arc too
many histories on record of this mo/bid
pulse to drink to admit of n doubt of
tor and tho ruin of his hoalth, to which
1m replied: ‘My good frioud, your
marks are just: they aro indotul too
trim ; lint I can no longer resist tempta
tion. If a bottlo of brandy stood at
one hand and tho pit of hell yawned at
tho other, and I wore oonvinood that 1
should bo pushed iu as Rttro as I took
ono glass, I could not refrain.’ Tho
late Dr. R. D. Mussy, of Oinoinnati,
relatoB nnothor case. A few yours ago
a tipplor was put in an alms-houso iu
this State. Within a fow days lm had
tried various oxpedionts to got rum and
failed. At length, however, ho hit
upon ono which was Bnocossful. Ho
wont into tho wood-yard of tho estab
lishment, placed ono hand upon tho
block, and with nn axo in tho other
struck it off with a single blow. With
the stump raised and streaming, lm ran
into tlm houso nud cried, Hint mo rum!
Got mo rum I my hand ia off.' In tho
uiftisfon and bustle of tho occasion, a
bowl of rum was brought, into whioh
ho plungod tho blooding momber of his
body; then, raising tlm bowl to his
mouth, drank freely and oxultingly ex
claimed, ‘Now 1 am satisfied I’ Dr. J.
E. Turner relates a ease of n gentleman
who, while under treatment for inebri
ety, during four weeks sooretly drank
tlm alcohol from six jars containing
morbid specimens. On asking him
why he committed this loathsome not,
ho replied: 'Sir, it is as impossible for
me to control this diseased appotito as
it iH for mo to control I ho pulsations of
my heart.'
“Almost every ono can point out,
among his acquaintances, oim or moro
ortHCR of this morbid craving for drink.
Can we consider it anything but an irre
sistible impulse that makes a man risk
everything—health, friouds, fortune,
and, more than all, tho happiness of
liis wife and children, and his own self-
respect, inordor to gratify t his appotito?
What sano man would subject himself
to the agonies of body and miuti which
the indulgonoo always entails, and
which ho knows always entails, upon
tho indulgcr ? A young friend of miuo,
who lms boon habituated to ‘ sprees,
for some years, had abstained for six
months. Ho wont to hod ono night at
his house, under oiroumstnnoes in no
wiso different to those to whioh ho had
bo u aeoustomed. At 1 o’clock ho got
up, wont up town and ontorod upon a
• u»i-<wg 0 f 8 j x W onks’ duration. Another
veiling previous to his
the disastrous oonsoquoneo that would
inovitably follow.
“ It would thus apronr that It- is not
tho poouliar and spooial notion of aloo-
hoi on tho nervous system that arnusep
tlm dnniro, lmk Homo changes in the
nutrition of tho nerve centers, which
agoids othor than alcohol can bring
about.
“if wo have arrived Jit llio enrrent
pathology of tho nfiodtivo, it. i treat
ment tired not detain us long. When
wo eomo to reoognizo dipaomania i
disonse, and not a vice, we aro on
high road to the accomplishment of
good in its rational troatmont.
“ Obviously ilin first thing to do is to
romovo tlm eausos, and os thnsn may be
various, oneli ease should bo made a
subjoot of special and elosn study.
Of oourso tho question of inebriate
asylums comes in here with pertinency.
Tlm advantages of these are admirably
summed up bv Dr. T>. T. Orothers, of
Albany, N. Y., in an article in tlm
American PraeMtioner, for Novemhor,
187-1, as follows :
“ ‘ They will enable tlm patient to
isolate himself from all exoitomont and
allow orininlotn rest of tlm nervous
system. They remove all euro and re
sponsibility from tlm patient’s mind,
except that of recovering his lost hoalth
and make him n party with tlm phvsi-
oian to bring about thin result. This
of itself is a powerful faotor in the
treatment. Tlosnitnls and asylums
give tho medical man complete control
over the habits and surroundings of the
pationt, and offer facilities for superior
hygionio ami medical troitmont.’ ”
A Baudit.’s Warning.
ts existence. In tho Decombor
)or of the New York Psychologies
and Medical Burgery Journal, Dr.
George Burr communicates in a pupor
n the ‘insanity of inebriety’ several
interesting cases in point.
Dr. Bush records a case in which lie
says, in reference to an habitual drunk-
ird in Philadelphia, who, whon
trongly urged by ono of his friends to
leave off drinking, replied, wero a keg
n in ono corner of a room, and
a cannon constantly discharging
hills between mo and it, I could not re
frain from passing before that cannon
der to get nt the mm. Dr.
McNeish describes in his Anatomy of
Drunkenness a care where a friend
printed to him the distress of his fam
ily, the loss of his bnsinesi and chnrrm-
frieml,
marritigo to a most estimable Indy, who
had consented to tho mnrringo only on
his most solemn promise to reform,
was in a beastly state of intoxication,
though ho knew that if it wero discov
ered tho happinosH of Ids whole future
life would he wrecked.
“ Tho mania for drink may rest in
various degrees of intensity, just as any
other mama may be either very mild in
rils dogrott or very* violent. ItP is also
evident that it may have many influ
ences at work in its production. The
disease lms recently been mado the sub
ject of invepligation for its etiology to
be clearly understood. Borne points,
however, havo been protty definitely
settled.
“ Heredity has for a long time held a
prominent plaoe in the list of causes.
The fact of numerous drunkards being
found in the same family could not be
'Hooked, And horcaity dons un
doubtedly play an important role in the
innsatlon of tho diseaHo,but not always
is puro inherited dipsomania.
"Tho clinical history of the affootion
places it among tho neurosis, and we
find that its causes and tho laws govern
ing its development also give it a simi
lar place. As an inherited neurosis
may display itself in ono member or
branch of a mtnily in tho form of nn
ilepsy, in another in general insanity,
another iu some simple occontricity
marked monomania, so undoubtedly
many cases dipsomania may ho only
nauifostation of a neurotic diathesis
which has oxistod in his progenitors in
entirnjy different type. And, on tho
lior hand, it soonis highly prolmblo-
funt, it i*t iu strict acormlnuoe with
this law of inherited neurosis—that tho
lipsomauine may bequeath to his off
spring some nervous disease widely dif
ferent from his own, us a marked pre
disposition to hysteria on the part of
females, or, ns has been frequently ob
served, epilepsy or idiocy. It is as
much perhaps, to the operation of this
law of inhontanoo as to the general do-
ooy of tho vital powers that tho oft
occurrence of theso forms of disoaso in
the families of drunkards must ho at
tributed.
Physical disease has an important
inflnonco in tho production of morbid
raving for alcoholic drinks. Dr.
3rown, in his testimony before the
committee of parliament, said : ‘I havo
known dipsomania to be produced by
rios of the brain in perfectly sober
; also, I have seen it produced by
sunstroke and othor causes. I saw a
of a sobor man who became a dip
somaniac by taking a draft of cold
water on a hot day which caused faint
ing and an entire change of character.’
I have a friend, a physician, who
told mo that often he was ablo to toll
when an attack of dipsomania was im
minent. Ho foil, bilious; and frequent
ly ho hnd been able to forestall the at
tack by taking a merouriul. There are
also other disturbances, especially of
tho nervous systam, which led to u
craving of artificial stimulus in iiomo
of tho forms of alcohol,
“ But by far tbe most active agent, In
the production of the disease is the nee
of alcohol itself. The exact marnior in
which Ibis is brought about is not
clearly understood, hut it must be
through the agency of the nervous sys
tem. Let the dipsomaniac take ever
so little alcohol, and immediately an
irresistible craving seizes him for more.
It is well known of some kinds of
drinkers that if they take one ghiFs they
are gono.’ I know a most estimable
man, a man of fine attainments and
liberal in culture who tolls mo that he
does not take a glnss of boor for fear of
bringing on an attack of dipsomania.
Borne years ago he visited an inebriate
institution and afterwords abstained
for some six or Hevon years. Ho was
troubled, however, with a very puiuful
affection of tho rectum, and for its re
lief look chloroform. As soon as ho
recovered from the chloroform narco
sis, he felt the irrepressible desire for
alcohol, which in spite of everything ho
gratified, though he was fully aware of
Tiburolo Vasquez was a bandit. He
and bin band ravaged at will sCvoral of
the lowor counties of California. In the
wild, free, Andalusian life of Los An
gelos and Santa Clara, thoHO brigands
found ample room and verge enough
for exploits whoso rooital takes us hank
to tho mediovnl times whon robber
barons and predatory knights Hwooped
down upon tho plains and valleys, and
boro away to their mountain fastno.sHos
the spoil of beauty and polf. An advon
turous ami romantic onreor wns that of
Vusquez and his company, Thoir ex
ploits havo furnished forth material for
cheap novels nud “ blood-and-thundor”
dramas. They stole, ravngod, burned,
plundered, and murdered in that gay
and dashing manner whioh fascinates
onllow youth, and sets romantic maidens
to sighing for “snob a man.” The
oonntry through whioh those banditti
ranged is thinly populated, ranches and
trading-posts, dotting at long intervulB
tbe vast treeloHH plains whioh lio bo-
tweon woody hills and mountains deft
'by Heoi'ot gorges nntl canyons. For
yours thoso precious rascals dolled the
law, and subsisted on a country laid
uudor contribution an thoroughly as
Mexico was under Cortez. Mothors
seared thoir children into silence with
the name of Vasquoz, and young mon
toiling in tho vineyard or sultry gloho,
looked at tho dust arising from the
hoofs of his rough riders on tho moun
tain side, half iu fear and half iu ad
miration. The chief hurnlit boro a
charmed life. Ho was thought invul
nerable. No bn Hot, ovor reached him,
and no deputy-shei iff came near enough
to boo tho color of his horse.
In nn evil hour for the young robbor,
he fell into tho toils and was captured,
tried, convicted, and hanged by the
nook until he was dead. The bold,
duelling, hundsome naballcro died the
death of a dog. He carried himself
with lightness and jolly rcckloHsiious to
the scaffold ; but when ho was bunged,
no man in tho throng that looked at his
taking off lamented his ignoblo end.
Tho general verdict was, “Borved him
riwlit.” And so it did. Tho night before
this wroteh wan hanged, he asked to sea
his coffin. It was shown him. He read
curiously tho inscription whioh sot
forth that ho died “to morrow,” and he
felt tho lining tondorly, saying: “I
shall sloop long and well here.” Then
lie discoursed of that silent land into
which ho was to travel, saying, with
some show of seriousness, that ho .was
not sure of an eternity. “Tho sages
nay tlioro in one," lie remarked, with a
nlirufa; of tho nhoulders ; and he added
that if there wero an eternity of life, he
nliould meet nil bin swoetnoiirtn next
day. Knitting his brows, ho dictated
an addresn which ho wished dirootod
“ To fathom and mothers of ohildron.”
This sinpnlar document began thus :
“ Bfcauding at tho portals of the un
known and unknowable world, and
looking Imelc upon tho life of this, as
I have neon it, I would urge upon you
to make your grestost cure to ho train,
influence, instruct, and govern ilio
young to whom you havo given life,
that they he kept aloof, as fur rn in the
of things is possible, from the
degrading companionship of the im
moral and vicious. Tho general welfare
ity depends upon tho strict per
formance of ibis part of your duty.”
This was tho bandit’s homily and
irning. To his former associates*he
dictated an equally unique address, iu
which he deprecated thoir reputed in
tention to make bloody r< partition for
his death, and hade them to take warn
ing by his fato and change their course
while life was left them. On the fol
lowing day, accompanied by a priost
who bade his heads and puttered prayer,
the brigand chim stepped lightly to the
fatal tree, joked about tho droad boro-
fter, told tho hangman to bo quick
about it, and bo was launched into
oternity.
.’egniu ih dead. Ho built tho
first railway in Franco (from Lyons to
Bfc. Etionne); ho invented iron wire sus
pension bridges and the tubular boilors
of locomotive engines, by which in
vention railway trains havo been able
to attain thoir present great speed, for
tho tubular boiler generates steam
rapidly onotigh to supply the vapor as
fast as it is wanted. Ho lived to attain
tho ago of eighty-nine years. His mind
had decayed somo years before his
body. He was a pupil and a nephew of
Montgolfier, the paper maker, so well
known by his connection with rorial
navigation.
—Success is said, by a western sige,
to greatly depend upon the poesession
of tliree qiulttiea—grit, grip and gnmp-
FAOTS AND FANCIES.
—“John, John, wnko tin, thoro’s a
burglar in the house,” said tho wife.
John sat upright in tho hod, “ Burglar,
b-u-r-g l-e v—rbnrplar,” and ho rolled
over waiting for a hat dor word.
—Julian Hawthorne says of a moor-
sohnura pipe : “ Tt is like woman’s
honrt—as soft, ns light, ns brittle, nml
ns onigmntie, nnd only time and uro
can prove it truo.”
—“ Ma,” said nn intelligent, thought
ful bnv, “ T don’t think Bolnmon wn«
so viol) ns they snv he was.” “ Whv,
mv dear, what could havo put that into
vour head ?’’ “ Whv, tho Bible says
ho slept with his fathom ; and I think
If he line! been so very rich ho wonld
havo hnd n bod of bin own.”
—A shaft lms boon sunk at Lawton,
England, for tho purpose of pnmpiog
tip brine, to bo convoyed by pipes to the
coke ovens in connection with a colliery,
a distnnoe of two or throo miles, there
to be converted into salt by moans of
the wasto heat from the ovnns. Tho
cost, of tho undertaking will, it is said,
oxceod $200,000.
A Boston man, who is described ns
possessing uncommon “intellectual
ability,” lms become disgusted with
tho “ blue stockings ” of tlmt. city, and
declares that his future wife must bn
perfectly ignorant, and f u lu’cot, sho
must know nothing and believe every
thing. T should wish to havo her onll
to mo from an adjoining room, “ My
dear, wlmt, do two nnd two make ?”
—Tito last letter ovor written by Gen.
“ Stonewall ” Jnokson is in tho posses
sion of the Bonthcrn Historical Society,
ft was addressed to Gen, Leo under
date of May 2, 1863. and reads ns fol
lows : “ General :—The enemy has mnilo
a stand nt Olmucellor’s, which is about
two miles front Uhancellorsville. T.
hope soon as practicable to attack. I
trust that, an ovor-kind Frovidouao will
CSS US With HUOCOFB.”
—An antiquated benf-hoad of tho
English parliament having denounced
“old raaidn” as sooial failures, Mrs.
William Gray calls tho attention of tho
English poopln to that, part of tho Bibio
in which St. Paul says : “ Tho nnniar-
rlod woman careth for the things of tho
Lord that sho may be holy in body nnd
in spirit; but sho’tlmt is married oaroth
for tho things of tho world, how sho
may plenso her husband."
—Ohnvohill oonnty, Novadn, is poor
and pious. It never possessed a jail,
and, until vory renontly, it’nevor felt
tho want of ono. But last week a real,
bounoing criminal invaded its inno-
oenco. ITo was soon stopped in his
mad career—nrvostod, in short. Not
having any jail, tho county authorities
confined Uim in a shaft 200 foot, in depth.
Hu \yiLH hoistt-d to the. sutfoeo three-.'.
Union n day, and given his meals, aftor
whioh he was lowered again.to meditate
and prniso.
—The varioty of kisses introduood in
tho Beecher InisiiiOHii is calculated to
nmnzo peoplo who do thoir kissing
without analysis. Thero havo boon tho
paroxysmal kiss, the inspirational kiss,
tho impulsive kiss, the onthusinstio
kiss, and tho holy kiss ; tho kiss of rec
onciliation, tho kiss of grace, mercy
and peace, and tho kiss mutual. Tho
othor kiusos are reserved for tho rebut
tal and le-rulmttal testimony. It would
not do to bring them out all at onoo ;
thero is a limit to human endurance.
-Tho French government oan’t get
along without the column Voudomo,
and proposos to mako its destroyer pay
all the cost of its reconstruction. It
has just soized a number of paintings
belonging to M. Courbet, and will offor
them at public venduo, npplying tho
proceeds to tho fund for iho rebuilding
of the monument. Aftor all, this is
about as effective a way as any to pre
vent incendinrisin. Make the authors
of tho mischief pay for repairing the
damiigo they have done, and there will
bo far less misoliiof done.
—Tho Chinamen, who walk ovor
bridges built two thousand years ago,
who cultivated the cotton plant centu
ries before this country was heard of,
and who fed silkworms before King-
Bolomon built his throne, have fifty
thousand square miles around Bhang-
hoi which are called the Garden of
Oliiuu, and which havo boon tilled by
oountloFs generations. This area is as
large us New Yorknnd Pennsylvania com
bined, is all meadow land, raised but a
fow feet above tho rivor—lakos, rivers,
oanals—a oomploto network of water
communication; tho land under tho
highest tilth ; three crops a year har
vested ; population so dense that,
wherovor yem look, you see inon and
women in bluo pants and blouse ho
numerous tlmt you funoy some fair or
muster coming off, and all hands havo
turned out for a holiday.
Origin or the Barber’s Polo.
To the curious in small matters, a
trifle of antiquarian research relating to
the aneiont and honorublo guild of tho
barbers may bo worth noticing. Those
who think that a harbor’s polo is painted
red. white and bine in respect to tho
national colors, will please find them
selves corrected. In Mr. J. Cordy
Joaffroson’s “Book About Doctors,” wo
find the following:
Lord Thurlow, in a speech delivered
tho Iiouho of poors, July 17,1707,
opposing tho surgeons’ incorporation
bill, said that, “By a statute still in
foroo, tho barbers and surgeons wore
each to use a polo. Tho barbers wero
to havo thoirs bluo and white striped,
with no other appenduge ; but the sur
geons’, which was tho same iu other
respects, was likewise to Imve a gallipot
and a red rag to denote tho particular
nature of their vocation. TJio reason
why tho surgeons’ polo wns adorned
with a linoof blue, red and white, wind
ing around its length in a regular ser
pentine progression, was this : I he
blue represented tho vonons blood, the
moro brilliant color the arterial, and
tho white was symbolic of tho bandage
used in tying up the arm after with
drawing tho ligature. The stick itself
is a sign that the operator possesses a
stout staff for his patients to hold, ac
celerating tho flow of blood by the mur-
oular action of tho arm. Tho phlebota-
mist’s staff is of great antiquity. It is
to be found amongst his properties iu
illuminated missal of the timo of
Edward I., and in an engraving of tho
Oommenii Orbis Pictus.