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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE & CO,, Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY It, 1876.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 3.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Naval armaments are nt.ilI in a tmu
nition state. It in assorted in England
that the moment an 81 ton gun ia fairly
all j»t, in a ship built to carry it, and
use it, the fate of sea going armor-clad,
Teasel a of the present typo ia sealed.
Chicago's new directory ia out at
last. A comparison of names with Ht,
Louis and Cincinnati shown Chicago
40.000 in the majority. Ht. Louis has
105,701 names, Cincinnati 10(5,977, and
Chicago 140,133. The latter city had
the advantage, however, being the last
to show up.
London advicea indicate that the
financial broozo ia over, and attribute
the late crisis to over s|>eculation, par
ticularly in teas, silks and opium, and
an exceaa of discounted paper. It may
bo remarked that iu this country also
the tea trade threatens to be overdone,
aa it now comes round the world to u»
both ways, from the east as of old, and
from the west via H«n Frunoiaci.
Si’Kakin'o of the crofM in Louisiana,
the New Orleans Picayune says reliable
accounts from every quarter concur in
representing the crops of this vear as
exceptionally tine. A better mutual
feeling prevails an Iwtweon employer
aud employe, and there has been a be
neficent concurrence of circumstances to
reward the courageous energy with
whioh, despite the many reverses and
discouragement* of the past, the plant
ers have tailored to secure the present
and propitiate the future.
The United States steamer Plymouth,
which is to go to the mouth of the Kin
Grnnde to assist in preventing Mexiann
raids, carries twelve puna ; tint as the
river is not navigidilo on account of
sand aud slioala, thoservioesof the vessel
can probably not extend beyond the
protection of Brownsville, the capital
' > Cameron county, which is only
thirty live miles from tho Gulf. Boats
may ascend, however, to a considerable
distance, provided they can be of any
The strike that has just on mo to an
end in the Pennsylvania coal regions is
estimated to have caused a loss of at
leant tun millions of dollars to the Op.
orators and workmen. It wkh all about a
reduction of ton per cent, in the pay of
the workmen. As they have resumed
work at the rates proposed by the op
erators, it will bo seen that they have
gained nothing, but have lost their
wages for throe or four mortliH. They
are, no doubt, glad to get work now,
even at the reduced rates, for many of
them were reduced to the verge of star
vation by their prolonged idleness.
The homliest women in the world are
said to live in the valley of Bpiti, twelve
thousand foot shove the hob, in the
Himalaya mountains. Their faoes are
horribly repulsive, and they wear high
leather boot* clear up to their hustles,
whioh they fill with flour to keep their
extremities warm. Yet, nevertheless,
travelers say that the men of Bpiti are
just as apt to get “ looney " and lose
thoir sleep over these ridiculous crea
tures a* are the men of more favored
regions over their own beauties. There
is just as much sighing iu Bpiti as
there is anywhere else.
The project of tho Ht. Potoraburg
conference on the international laws
of war seems to bo kept iu abeyance.
As yet only Austria, Germany, France,
Italy aid Sweden, have signified their
readiness to he parties to it. Four of
these powers hnv given in simply their
lullusion, while Germany has, at the
same time, sent in the amendments
which she means to mako to the prelim
inary stipulations of tho protocols
signed last yi ar in Brussels. England,
as it is well known, has decided to take
no part in it, while rone of tho smaller
powers have aa yet returned any answer
either way.
A pnvsiciAN in London sends to the
Lancet a letter which he received from
a firm of undertakers inclosing a check
for £2 14s., being five per cent commis
sion on the amount received by the
firm for two funerals furnished on the
physician’s recommendation. It had
not occurred to the physician that he
was entitled to commission on funerals
until he received this bribe, and he im
mediately inclosed it to the Lancet, in
quiring what he should do with it. He
was advised to send it back, aud doubt
less did ao. It must have produced a
queer sensation when the honest doctor
found himself credited with a commis
sion on the funerals of his patients.
Cotton-spinning appears to pay well
in England. According to the pros
pectus of a new company, “no other
class of industrial investments returns
profits approaching the average divi
dends earned by the numerous Lan
cashire cotton-spinniDg and manufac
turing companies, and it is now gener
ally admitted that the profits of public
companies in this branch of industry
are even higher than those of private
firms, maDy of these companies paying
dividends of from 10 to 45 per cent per
annum." The names and dividends of
twenty companies are given in proof of the
latter statement. Of these companies
the dividends of five average 15 per
cent-; of twelve, 23 per oeut; and of
three, 41 per ceut per annum.
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
EAST.
Advices from Pottsvillo, Pa., state
that during the weak Isr^o numbers of col
lieries have resumed work and many others
are preparing to commence. The men In the
vicinity of Ht. Glair and Mincrsville continue
on the strike unwilling to go In at I he reduc
tion. though it is predicted they will go to
work during nmf week. Tho military con
tinue on duty at Mahoney City and Shenan
doah and will not he withdrawn until the
public safety in insured.
WEST
California expects to produce during
the present year 50,000,000 pounds of wool,
15,000,000 gallons of wine, and 45.000,000
bushels of wheat.
Brigham Young is anxious to estab
lish a colony In Honors, his detiro being to ge'
away from tho inthicnco of (he public school
sys'om of the United States.
Advices from all purls of southern
Nebraska any that the grssshnppor ravages
have been exaggerated. The grasshoppers
have either loft all tho counties of that section
of the state, or the few that remain are doing
very little damage.
Portions of the states of Ohio and
Indiana were visited by an oartlxpiako last
week. Tho shock whs severe at many points,
although no casualties are ropor'od other
tlm cracking of the walla of a few build .
The people in the different towns
shaken were, however, greatly frightened,
uni are still uneasy lest the oscillation already
el* be but the premonition of others to follow.
Prominent frontiersmen ami army
iflicnr* express the opinion tha* there will be
great trouble with (be Sioux, Ghevonuei and
Arrapaboea thin summer and fall. At least
live large w«r parties have left the reserve
Hops in the last two weeks, Tho cavalry In
(lbs department ara unable to keep them on
esorvatlons because of tlinir limited ntini-
It will be Impnesihlo for the soldiers to
I llie Black Mills and attend to the In-
Tho following has just been received
fiom Eel. It. I Pod go. in command of tlic
«seort to Prof. .Tenney's Block Hills exploring
expedition. “(lold lias boon found iu paung
(puintitloH on Front’ll crook. Ouator’a report
in rniifirmed iu every particular. Tho com
mand are well." Private advices say the com
maud found nun hundred minors at work in
Gusty r'a Gulch, taking out gold at the rate of $5
to $25 per pan. Thoovldonooa are strong that
Thu gold found ia cu
quartz. The mines .
lias prospected them,
by the command. Tl
Peak. Prof, .looney
linn under Got. Dodg
minors in that oountry.
rse, but easily pounded
re abundant, but no one
No Indians were aeon
oy are north of Harney's
i party and the oxpodi
have formed a perma
nent camp on French Greek, near Hardy's
Peak, railed Gamp Harney, and close by the
stockades built bv the miners whom t'Hpt.
Mix brought out Gold seems to have lieon
found iu abundance. Nearly one hundroJ
miners were found theie in different camps,
who have mado claims aud done comidorahlo
work in budding sluices, digging ditchea, etc
Homo of the party report that the soldiers in
the command have panned out gold dust of s
Tho following dispatch ha* been re
ceived at the Indian bureau from Prof. Jenny,
dated at Hie caiup on French creek, near Har
ney's Peak Juno 17 : Hon. E. P. Hniitii 1
have discovered gold in small quant it iea on
the north end of Gaetlo crook, terraces,
or bars of quartz giavel. Arrived here
yesterday. About fifteen miners have located
at a camp on the crook almvo hero, and have
commenced working. Gold is found from
Gastlo crook southwardly to French crook at
this point, ami tho deposits are almost in or
wholly in Dakotali. The region has not boon
fully explored, but tho yield of gold thus far
lias boon (piito small, and tho ro-
IH>rts of tho richness of the gravel
ara greatly exaggerated On French crook
tho deposits of gravol are very unfavorable
situated. Tim water supply is small aud fall
ing, and the grade too little to admit of tail
ings being carried by a stream. The prospect
at present is not such as to warrant exhuidisl
explorations in mining.
W. P. Jrknino, K. M. 0. Expedition.
Advices from Spotted Tail’s agency
state that threo large war parties left that
vicinity on tho 17th, one for each Ponca ami
Pawnee, Uto ami Hhosiiono reservations It
is thought among ported men that a gigantic
Indian war is shout to he inaugurated. In
formation lias boon sent to tho Indian agent.
SOUTH.
Tho total cost of tho Ht. Louis bridge
was hut little less Ilian $7,000,000. Its gross
receipts for the past year were $280,000, ami
its expenses $1*8,000, leaving only $188,000 to
pay tho interest on tho 87,000,000.
Kc]M>rts from all portions of Arkansas
are to (ho effect that tho crofm are looking
splendid. More wheat has been raised, and
tho prospects for a large corn and cotton crop
are hotter than over known in the history of
Tho New York World thinks that " if
an average yield is obtained from the crops
planted throughout tho south this spring, it
should place the people of this section in a
sounder linanciai condition than they have en
joyed since reconstruction began."
The New Orleans tax resistors have
failed to successfully resist the payment of
state taxes, state authorities seizing and sell
ing thoir property and compelling them to pay.
The city authorities show less firmness, ami
are allowing the property-holders union to
stave off the payment of city taxes.
Captain James B. Eads announces the
beginning of work on his system of jetties for
opening the South Pass of the Mississippi
river. He says that at least one mile of tho
east line of jetty work will be built before the
middle of October, and th»t a much larger
force ot men and machinery will he put on the
work next fall.
MISCELLANEOUS.
It is probable the miners found in the
Black Hills will not bo disturbed at present,
as the government does not propose to furnish
free transportation hack to Cheyenne for all
adventurers found there.
Report* received at the bureau of
agriculture from different sections indicate
that winter and spring wheat will yield four-
tiftlm of a full crop. Tho fruit prospects are
fair to good in tho oast, tint below tho average
in tho west.
Tho supremo court of Pennsylvania
rules that, after a property-holder has once
built a pavement which meets the require
ments of tho Isw, no municipal corporation
oinpel him to replace it after being worn
out. When the public use it up, tho public
must rebuild It.
now and dangerous counterfeit whs
discovered st. tho national lmnk redemption
agency of tlvo dollar notes on the llrat national
bank of Oauton, Ills. This is evidently changed
from the plate on which tho counterfeit oil the
Traders' national hank of Ghtoago and tho
t\rst national hank of l’astou, III., was printed
It i* roported that Garoia, the Bpan-
iard, who stole a portion of Murillo's famous
picture from the cathedral of Haville, and who
odnapped to Guba and subsequently sent
to Kpaiu, was shot s few weeks after his ar
rival in Madrid without trial by even a drum
head oourt-marehal.
The hoard of Indian commissioners
vo requested that oflloom of tho army bo
detailed to inspect the Indian supplies at Hau
ls City, Missouri ; Hioux Gily, Iowa, and
hoyonuo, Tho secretary of war lias directed
limit. Gen Hhoridan, commanding tho mill-
iry division of Missouri, to dolail oflloors to
make investigations at those |Niints.
ossrs. Post, NororoHB and Hmitli,
the commissioners appointed by the secretary
f the treasury to examine the jiostofllje
building at Chicago, have made their report
o Beorotary Bristow. Tho commissioners
•ondomn the foundation, and tho stouo used
n the building. They roooniuinml that it ho
torn down, and that tho stone he abandoned.
Hoerotary Bristow will immediately give orders
that all work sliall he stopped, aud tlint stops
ho takou to proserve the structure In its pres
ent condition until tho matter can bo submit
ted to congress.
bulge Spence, HHHiataut at torney gen
eral for tho l his to fllco department, has fur
nished an opinion to tho postmaster general
taking Hie ground that postmasters are liable
in their bonds for losses of government prop-
rtv while in their possession. The occasion
I tho decision was the loss of a roglstored
package containing $2011 worth of stamps m
transit through tho Boston postolllce. It is
tho tlrsl time that an opinion Inis boon given
bolding postmasters responsible on thoir bonds
for Iho loss of govommont property passing
through the postolllce.
Tho secretary of tho navy has miulo a
qulsition H r $11110,000 on the secretary <if the
treasury to pay tho remainder of the l airngut
prize awards, nils sum will ho distributed
among 1.500 persons Iuroteforo attached to
tlm thirty-live or forty vessels of Fairagut's
which made captures from tiio coufedor-
Tho aggiegate amount dorivod from nil
naval ospturoe during the lato war was
about $.'18,000,000, of which $1-1,000,0(10 were
turned ovor to tho navy pension fund. Hlx-
mlllions were distributed to the captors,
sod tho remainder was absorbed iu expenses,
The Fnrragul cases are the last to he
adjusted.
Instructions have boon prepared at.
the interior department for tho Hioux nom-
mistion. Bov. Ii. H. Hincman, A. Ooiuingo
and W. II. Aslily, with J. D. Collins, secreta
ry, are to viait tho agencies of Iho Hioux in
terested in tho negotiation, beginning at Bed
Cloud, for Iho purpose of laying before the
Indians the wishes of the government re
specting the desired cession of tho Black
Hills country and their rights in the Big
Horn Mountains, and also to invite them to a
grand council. The commissioners are on
Joined as to the necessity of great care In tho
interpretation of their Interview, so as to
avoid both mistakes and any suspicion on the
part of the Indians Hint they are not fairly
reported. Tho coinmlssloners are also re
minded that they are appointed to represent
the Indians and thoir interests net less than
those of tho government. They are instructed
to assure the Hioux of tho kindly intentions
of tlm president and the government towards
them, and t lint the proposed negotiations
originate solely In a desire for continual peace.
The Indians are plainly to understand that
any negotiations effected by the commission
are to he referred to the president, and by
him to congross, before it sliall he binding.
rOREION.
By tlio recont fire in Dublin llvo
thousand casks of liquor and thirty-live houses
were destroyed.
It i* reported that marquis of Lorno
and Princess Louise intend making a tour of
tho United Htates.
Tho military strength of Burmali, in
comparison with tlist of India, is as the power
of Hwitzorland to that of Germany.
It is officially announced that the king
of Burmali has given a satisfactory explana
tion of liis course of action to Hir Douglas
Forsythe, the British envoy. War is now con
sidered improbable. The king cf Burmali has
granted to Great Britain tho right to send
forces through his dominions to western
China, if requisite, for future expeditions.
Cable dispatches report that the Brit
ish government ha* declared war against
Burmali. The report causes considerable ex
citement, especially in well-informed business
circles win re large interests would ho mate
rially affected by an Anglo-Burmese war. The
same dispatch says : " Tlio Ohiaoso govern
ment is concentrating troops at Manwiue in
consequence of the Anglo-IlurmoHo quarrel.
A formidable Chinese arrny Is available for
service at any moment on the frontier. This
warlike movement has gieatiy depressed com
merce bore."
The loss of life by the flood at Tou
louse is appalling. In Ht. Cyprion quarter 215
corpses have already been fonnd. The violence
of the torrent frustrated the efforts to rescue
the unfortunate inmates of houses. Heveral
men were drowned in the attempt. Twenty
thousand persons are deprived of subsistence
in Toulouse alone. Disasters elsewhere a
almost equal magnitude. The lower part of
the city of Morssac, on the Tam, 1h under wa^
ter. At Trornoulet, in tho department arriege,
five houses only remain standing out of 400.
In the district of Foix, in the same depart merit,
two villages are completely submerged and
many dead bodies found. Crops of all kinds
throughout the inundated districts have been
destroyed; The municipal council of Paris
has voted $2,000 for tho relief of tho sufferers.
Eighty persons were drowned in iho Verdun.
Eight hundred house- have fallen in Tou
louse. At Bordeaux the Garonne is muoli
swollen, but no serious catastrophe is re
ported. It is said that altogether over 1,000
lives have beeu lost.
THK DYINQ BKAKKMAN.
Tiio limp burns lew —
And tliev watt tli’ alarm of Iho slRiial bell,
lie <lint slce-is wtlli tlii> dream on ids lip.
And Bio throbbing breast Just honing »
Be wakes with n
Wall, and 'aiiglder, sod frolicsome gli« .
Hark! tt idirs Hie thin drapery
"Glmiige cara for Sngtnnw nhcnil."
" Poor folio*-1 tl e trip'* nl^li oVr at Iasi."
“I Hiouabt ho now had surely n»s«ed."
"That Is the tugboat’s whistle, friend."
“ What Is'l hesa*d t" "*un ArliorT" "A!
When will the Journey end T"
r'lmuge enrs ngalli!'
e luster of tho spirit v
t croaking d
I the lea*I "
Tlio »ng”l whts|'
lug East I"
tome!"
-him* tho white station ii
hrakoman. to tin o
FLORIDA WATERMELONS.
I min ruse Mtil|iiurii<n Hclti illnilo (•> the
Ah Ih wall known all throughout Flor
ida ami Georgia, the crop of melniiH in
tlio formers!nlo will bo unprecedentedly
largo, and to diaposu of them profitably
Iiiih been a matter of serious eoneorn in
tlio oyos of all the growers, and caused
them considerable anxiety. Htiporin-
tondout Haines, of the Atlantic ami Gulf
railroad, while down in Florida about,
ten days ago, saw this diflioulty, and
immediatoly set to work to $omedy it.
lie wrote bi purlieu iu Heveral of tlm
western oities, offering to place water
melons in those markets by expross
trains, fresh and good. Tlio idea wan
immediately taken up, several merchants
agreeing to dispoHo of twenty oar loads
(twenty tliousnnd) of melons per week.
Mr. flames immediately notified the
FloridiaiiH of the prospect, and they
assert that they onn furnish two hun
dred oar loads (two hundred thousand)
of melons between now and the 51 li of
•Inly.
The cats of the Gulf road not being
adapted to some of tho western traoks,
the Green Line ears can alone be used,
innl he Imv written on all sides for them.
These oars are to bo partially open so
as to allow the air to pass through, and
will have painted in largo letters on
their sides, “ Fruit Gars A. and G.
It. It."
The first train of seven ears left Live
Oak yesterday, and goes directly to
Chicago. A seeomlof font teen ears 1ms
gone down to loud, and will leave Tues
day morning, and as many cars as can
lie had will lie laden with this fruit, and
bo forwarded.
On the 28th of this month a mammoth
train of melona will be dispatched,
whioh will also lake with it a delegation
of the Florida fruit growers to Chicago,
who go for the purpose of looking
around, aud making this a peimaneut
biisin*‘HH. If they can ship melons to
advantage, it iH thought that oilier pro
ducts raised by them, forwarded in this
direction, will pay, aud their effort will
be to place matters on a permanent
basis. The melon trade, by Hiking this
outlet, will bo very profitable to the
growers, and if facilities arc offered
there is no knowing to what extent it
will grow.
Outs, Peas and Ootton, in Rotation.
For the several years that I have now
been planting oats (the rod rust proof)
on an extensive scale, I have found that
it is a well paying nrop ; and from tlm
experience and observation which I
have made, I find the following n good
rotation:
First, cotton ; second, oats ; third,
oats, aud fourth, oats, to bo followed
by cotton again. I have a four-field ro
tation, because my lands lie naturally
iu four divisions : also, tho longer the
period before the main crop (cotton)
returns to the sorao field the bettor;
and, lastly, I consider one fouri.li of the
arable land in cotton as sufficient, a
preventive of an ovorsapply.
Tho cotton iH manured with all the
manure which is mado by the stock on
the farm. I compost this with the oot
ton seed, adding as much acid phos
phate as necessary to furnish the suffi
cient quantity of phosphoric acid. Tho
oats following ootton is not manured.
I plant some of it at, last ploughing of
cotton. As soon us the oats is taken from
the field, I replant ir peas, manuring
these with two hundred pounds acid
phosphate. The peas commence bear
ing by tho middle of September, and
are turned under for outs. Every suc
ceeding crop of oats is treated in the
same way. In the one followed by cot
ton, the latter gets tho benefit of the
pea*. Tho phosphate furnishes the
suitable nourishment for the peas, and
the turned nnder pea-vines furnish tho
best manor* for the oats. By this pro
cess, land which will make ten bushels
of corn, with fifteen bushels cotton seed,
will make twenty five bushels outs, with
the same outlay of muzuro, but much
Jess labor. The fodder of tho com
don't pay much above cost of pulling
tho same.
The cost of planting an acre of oats
in this manner, including soed for peas,
phosphate, seed for oats, etc,, in fact,
everything coming to us account until
the oats lay clean in tho granary, and
the straw in tho barn, or proper stacks,
paying eradlers one dollar per day, I
found was 87.50 (seven and one-half
dollars) per acre. Twenty-five bushels
of oats produce about one thousand
pounds straw, which should be worth
fifty cents per hundred pounds, but
counting it only at thirty-five cents,
amounts to three dollars and fifty cents;
deduct this from seven dollars und fifty
cent*, leaves four dollars, as cost, of the
twenty-five bushels of oats, which is
sixteen cents per bushel. In the
country clean oats is always worth
as much as corn. If any rough
forage is desired, different, from
that of the oat straw, oat chuff,
mixed with meal, is excellent for work
animals, saves twenty per cent., on the
grain, and is healthy. There are always
three fourths of the whole area in pens,
at different Bingos of growth, of whioh
lmy could be made in any quantity, aiul
of the very best quality.—-/*’. IF. Clam-
wen, in Rural Carolinian.
GOLD I GOLD! !
imm.m 'I'nltlua Out from I
ty-llvc llnllnriito tlm l*ix»i A liolnllrti
Account at the Dliniivrrlmi
The special correspondent of the
Inter-Ocean with the scientific expedi
tion in the Black Hills, at Gamp Harney,
on French creek, Ouster’s Gnloh. under
date of June 1(5, sends the following
telegram via Fort Laramie to day :
(lold in largo quantities and of good
quality has been discovered in Ouster's
Gulch, on French crook, and along this
stream for a distance of upward of
seven miles toward the source. Since
my latest advices sent to you from Iho
expedition, tho plans of the scientific
corps have been entirely changed, and
Oamp Denny, on East Fork of Beaver
creek, bits ceased to be the permanent
point from which the investigation
radiates. Wo wore to have been
through the Hills Tuesday, June 9, but
were delayed. Ool. Dodge, with three
cavalry companies ns a military escort,
left. Oamp Jennings for the purpose of
locating a permanent camp in some
available place in tlio vicinity of
Harney's Peak. The command in arched
almost due north along Beaver creek ;
then northeast, when, at the end of
twenty-eight days tho march of Ouster’s
trail was struck in tho midst of hikiw
and rain. That otlleer's lino of march
was pursued in a southeast direction
along Castle creek, where the first in
dications of gold were discovered. This
event induced l’rof. Jounings, of the
soioiilillo corps, to remain in Castle
creek valley for three days, in order to
prospect, a cavalry company being left
with them. The place at which the
geologists camped is located 1,400 feet
oast of the 10fill meridian, and was
named Camp Tuttle. With the remain
der of the command Col. Dodge pro
ceeded in a southeasterly direction
until Custer’s Park wns reached, and
last Monday camp was reached on
Custer’s Gnloh and in oloso contiguity to
the slookade built by the tuiticrH whom
Capt. Mix brought, out of tlio ltills.
At. tlm spring, on Gen. Custer’s cavalry
camp ground, gold of a good color was
speedily panned out. This was done iu
the nroHcncc of your correspondent.
The gold fevir spread so rapidly Mint
there was hardly one in the command
who had not seen aud panned out gold.
From those Dinners or gnloh mines,
about Camp Harney for a distance of
seven miles there lire scattered along
French creek four different mining
parties, numbering twenty-five men,
that, have taken up claims from all of
which good color lias been obtained.
There are also several quartz lodes
whioh promise rich returns, but the
greatest, sirens should he placed on the
KHloll gul.l .llggiMKH
When gold was discovered tlio soicu-
t.ists were at Camp Tuttle, aud only
arrived here yesterday evening. They
were somewhat astonished ill. the dis-
eovery. 11 is intended to make this a
permanent camp, where the command
will remain until the return of the sup
ply train from Fort Laramie.
AN EARTHQUAKE AT HE A.
K i |Mirlrn«'« ol tli«i Cnplii'ii unit t.rew ol
tin- Nh 1 |i Hamilton*
The shiji Hamilton, of Boston, arrived
at New York last week from Manila.
Her commander, Capt. Ross, Htates that
at II a. m. on Juno 4, when in lutitude
19 deg., 1(5 min., longitude 57 deg., 51
min., all on board felt tlio shook of an
earthquake, whioh lasted fully 10 min
utes. During this time there was a
heavy sea running, und in different
planes the wut.( r appeared •*> revolve in
eirelos like a whirlpool. When the dis
turbance first began the sea was quite
smooth, but as tlio shook increased in
violence the waters became correspond
ingly agitated, terrif iug those who wero
on (look and arousing those who were
sleeping below. Suddenly the vessel
received a shock, ns if she bad grounded,
aud a peculiar rumbling noise filled the
air. . iniiiltnneoiisly with the shaking,
the Hky assumed a dark, leaden hue.
The atmosphere was also think and
hazy. During the continuance of tho
shook, control of the vessel was com
pletely lost., and the ship refused to
obey the helm. There was little, if any,
wind at the time, yet the vessel was
to-sod about as though iu tho midst of
a gale.
The captain describes the upheaving
of the waves as similar to what would
occur if a series of heavy submarine
explosions hud taken place. The dura
tion of tho shock was long enough to
enable those who wore below to roach
the deck and witness the unusual sight.
After the disturbance had subsided, tho
sea again became as calm as lief ore.
The vessel sustained no damage and her
cargo appears to be intact, although her
5,000 boxes of sugar were thrown about
by the shook.
A Woman Initiated into Masonry.—
Harper’s Bazar says that it is a mistake
to suppose that the lady who concealed
herself in a room where a “ lodge” was
about to Vie held, wnd who when discov
ered was obliged or allowed to bo initi
atod is a myth. Tho “clock ease” may
be u myth, but the lady ia not. Bho
was the lion. Mrs. Aldworth, and con
tinued through life to take un active
interest in the order into which in her
youth she had so strangely gained ad
mission. She founded the Dublin
Benevolent, Institution for Orphan
Daughters of Masons. Her portrait
still hangs in the principal lodge room
in Cork, and under it in a glass case tho
apron and jewel she used to wear when
she attended lodge meetings.
—A Frenchman has discovered a
method by which he can bring down
rain whenever it is needed ; or, rather,
draw moisture from the air. Ho claims
that sprinkling of chloride of nalciurn
upon the surface of the ground
tirely effect ve,
CURIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC.
Calcium mir.omnn Iiiih tho property
of attracting moisture, aud objects wet
with its aqueous solution do not dry.
It, is proposed to use this to subdue
dusty roads. Tt Ihib been found to koeii
land moist for tliroo days, when ordi
narily it, would dry in an hour. As tlio
ohloridos aro injurious to vogotation, it
can not. bo utilized ill agriculture, as
illustratod by tho roclaimod marshes of
Holland, whore the saline matter 1ms to
bo washed away by spring water before
vegetation appears.
A Cubic fob Opium Eatino.- Many
devious, says the Troy Times, have boon
resorted to* enable opium and morphine-
eaters to break the remorseless habit,
but wo think the one tried by tlio friends
of an old lady in Jofforson county oan
not bo boaton. Hho first used morphia
as a relief from tlio pains of a tumor.
Nothing could induce her to givo up the
use of the poison after the tumor had
been romovod. The family accordingly
resolved upon a harmless dot option.
Caro'ully prepared potato starch was
substituted for the morphia in tlio
bottles. She complained that, tlio drug
was of on inferior quality, but reassured
by her phyaioian, continued to use it,
with sublime faith iu its virtuos until
her (loath, fifteen years afterward. At,
no lime could she do without her potato
starch. Onoo, when ill, her physician
gave her Dover’s powd rs, but sho could
not, rest, until she had token somo of her
bogus morphine. Tho success of this
deception ought, to be a suggestion to
tlio friends of slaves of this drug.
Joannon bus made a communication
to the academy of sciences in Paris up
on tlio method adopted by him ill fresh
ening the saline lands in the south of
Franee, ho as to mako them available
for agriculture. There are immense
tracts along tlio ooast of the Meditor
rntionn, from Arles to Port Vondros,
whioh lire entirely unproductive in con-
sequence of the amount, of salt which
they eoiitaiij. The process adopted by
him consist,s first in druiuiug, then in
ditching to a depth of about two feet,
and tlion damming and covering with
fresh watm. The water tillers through
tho soil, and dissolving the salt contained
therein riuiH off by the drains. This
operation is to bo continued with sub
mersion from three to flvo months, ac
cording to tho uaturn of tho soil. After
this tlm layer hot,ween the level of the
drain and the surface of the field will
bo sufficiently free from salt to bo
capable of cultivation. In one estab
lishment, near Narbonuo, a property
which, before drainage, was worth 3750,
was, in a few years, raised in value !o
38,500.
Hauduninh Glass. This is a process
that Inis been patented by Mr. Macin
tosh, of Westminster, a civil engineer
who Iiiih devoted much tiino and atten
tion to the hardening of iron, stool and
alloys. Starting on the brand ground
that the lower tiio degree of I. mporature
of tho liquid in which certain heated
bodies were plunged, tlio harder such
bodies became, Mr. Macintosh 1ms
found that gloss, graphite, liuorys
tall food carbon, slag and other analogous
substances may be rendered exceedingly
hard by means which arc usually indi
noted for motals. Colored glass may,
iiy this treatment, be rendered so hard
ns to be effectively used as a substitute
for gems ; aud, wliat is curious, may bo
pulverized aud used in the same way as
diamond dust or emery powder. In
hardening (lie substance, the method
pursued by the putontoo iH to place a
small quantity of fused or Hourly fused
or dear colored glass in iron or other
molds to shape the glass, and the sub
stance is taken out of the molds and
placed in platinum molds, and fused or
nearly fused, and suddenly deprived of
its calorie or frigoiilo mixtures of load
water and salt, or any of the freezing
compounds that produce extreme cold ;
the sum and substance of whioh is that
the glass is heated to a very high degree
of temperature and then rapidly cooled
in a frigid fluid. A startling statement
is made by Mr. Macintosh when he
assorts that, when the component ports
of gems uro treated by the above pro
cess, be is enabled to produce thereby
fictitious gems harder than real dia
monds.
Fiublmbb Locomotives.—It will bo
terosting to know that lire less locomo
tives aro in constant and successful
operation on a city and suburban rail
way in New Orleans, namely, tho New
Orleans and Carrollton railway, under
the ublo management of General G. T.
Beauregard, who is a skillful engimer,
and yet who is alive to und keens pane
with the improvements of tho age.
This success lius been achieved, too,
under the most, adverse and unpromis
ing circumstances. Tho road, under
other running arrangements had become
nearly valueless, its stock having gone
down to 7 (Mints, but it is now a paying
and valuable road. The road is about
six miles in lengt, i. From the center
to the outskirts of the city it is operated
by mule power; there the mule is taken
from the car, and the little tireless loco
motive is attached, which is accom
plished in less time than would be oc
cupied in attaching another mule. Tho
train is than off like a rocket, tho driver
Htill on tiio platform of the car working
the engine, managing the brakes, ana
making change, ns usual; there i
other person on the train to attend to
these duties. Tho ear is started and
stopped quicker than when drawn by
the mule. The railway (double track)
is in the middle of a very wide street,
und is a little raised, so that it oan nol
bo crossed by carriages except ut the
slret t crossings ; thus, being somewhat
isolated, high speed is admissible. The
locomotive is simply a cylinder of boiler
iron, perhaps 3 feet in diameter and 10
foot long, mounted on four wheels, end
partly filled witli water. The engine —
a double vertiole—is attached to the end
of tho cylinder next I he car, being with
in reach of the driver. Tho cylinder is
then filled with steam at, a proper pres
sure, from a stationary boiler at Hamil
ton, when the locomotive is ready, aud
it will run to tho city and back without
care of expense. There is no fire, no
ashes, no pump, no (lunger, and less
noise than from tlio hoofs of horses.
The expense of this means of propul
sion, General Beauregard assured me, is
less than by mules. Tho oost of the
locomotives is 31,250 each, which in
cludes the builder’s profit.—New York
Times,
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Two Platonics.—
IIKKOHK MAHHIAOK.
Mv Maggie, iiiv bountiful darling,
Groop into my arms, mv sweat,
Lot mo fold you again to my bosom
Ho nloBO I (-an hour your lioart boat.
Wliat! llinmi llttlo fingers boon sowing ?!
Olio's boon pricked by tlio noodle, I son ;
Those bands hIihII bo kept froo from labor
When onoo they aro given to mo.
All initio, llttlo pot, I will shield you
From troublo and labor and oaro.
1 will robo you llko some fairy prlnooBs,
And jewels sliall gleam in vour hair;
Those slippers you gave mo aro porfool,
That dressing-gown Ills to a T ;
My darling,.! wonder that hoavon
Should givo snob a troosuro to mo.
igbt—uluo ton—olvon! my precious,
Tuno Hies mo whon 1 am with you,
It soemx but a moment I've boon boro,
' ' imiHt I say it ? Adioti.
. A IT KII MAUniAOB.
Ob, Meg, you aro liouvy—I'm tired ,
Go sit lii the rookor, 1 pray ;
Your weight seems a hundred and uinoty
Whon von plump down in that sort of wi
'oil had bettor bo mending my coat sleeve
I've spoken about it before—
And I want In finish this novel,
And look over those bills from tlio store.
Tills driHslng-gown sols like tho d I;
“** -“poors run down at tho bool;
-tiling oan never look decent;
u could know bow thoyjftiol.
.............. bill from Y
It's mil for auolbor i
Look hero! I’ll bo bankrupt ore New Year,
Or your atom bills will have to grow loss.
Eight o'clock I Meg. smv on this button
As soon hh you finish that alonvo ;
lloiph-ho ! I am so doiicndly sleepy,
I’ll pile off to bed, 1 boliovo.
—The governor of Ceylon prohibits
tho farther destruction of the elephant
: that island.
-Tho Fronoli “Prince Imperial’’ and
the ex empress will shortly leave Oliis-
clliurst, and take up thoir abode in tho
chateau of Arenenberg, in Bwitzorland.
A Newark girl hastened the deiiarturo
of a lingering gentleman oidler the
other evening by remarking as she look
ed out of tlio window. “ I think wo
shall have a beautiful sunrise."
-A fond parent who bought a cow
for bis summer residenco in anticipa
tion of tho delight, that the product,
would cause his little daughter, was
sommvliiit chagrined whon Miss Pert,
looking upon a pan of uootar, ex
claimed: Oh, the horrid yellow scum.
It, isn't half ho good us tho nice blno
milk wo got in Boston.”
—Boys, when commencement is ovor.
„.i i you go out into tho great world
(which is your oyster), apply lor none
but thoroughly first e!ass situations.
Your sheep skins will be honored as
purports to any luorativo positions you
may want. Go and show tlio old gray-
halrod'ploddors of counting-rooms how
to do busiuoHH.
—Tlio most hideous women in tho
world aro said to livo in tho valley of
Bpiti, which i» a mountain bound, al
most imiccoHsiblo place, 12,000 feet
above the sea, among the Himalaya.
Thoir features are large and coarse, tho
expression of their fnoes iH usually a
natural grimace, and they bang huge
rings in thoir noses. They dross iu
thick tunics and trousers, und thoir
htmvy boots, coming above the knees,
are often filled around thoir legs with
flour for warmth.
A young lady living in tlio northern
pail, ol Indianapolis Inis, through a
little simple vanity, nearly if not quite,
destroyed hor eyesight. A lew days
ago she painted her checks with tho
red coloring matter of some cinnamon
candy and went to a liarty. During the
evening her cheeks became very muon
swollen and the poison soon after com-
mimicalod itself to her oyos. Him be
came quite blind, and, though receiving
the best medical attention tho oity
could afford, there seemed to bo little
hope that sho would ever regain hor eye
sight.
—Tho Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer tells
of two families in Htovart county whose
lives were saved by a gentleman obey
ing a presentiment lie ooiild not resist.
He bad a foreboding that a storm would
visit that section, and that his house
would bo iu its path. Ho told others
of it, but they only laughed at him,
saying ho wuh frightened from reading
and hearing the accounts of tlio lato
oyolono. He gave orodouoo to the
thought, which would not go down at
the bidding, and dug a hole near tlio
house. Ho had no sooner finished»
than the storm did come, and barely
had lie and his family sought refuge
therein than the tornado tore his house
to pieces. Alim the holo iu the ground
onoapod.
—Home idea may bo obtained of tho
magnitude of the accommodations pro
vided for the people of London from
tlio following figures : Whit Monday,
tlm 17th of May, was a general holiday
among the working population, and tlio
day being lino, 94,000 persons visited
the Alexandra palace, more tlmn 40,000
were at. the Crystal palace, 34,398 wont
to till Zoologioal garden, 4,000 went to
the tower, 5,19(5 went to the South
Kensington museum, 14,000, most of
thorn excursionists from London, wont
to the Brighton aquarium, 38,000 wont
by rail to Greenwich, and 10.000 went,
from one depot alone, to Gravesend.
Those are official figures. The unreg
istered holiday seekers, who weut to
oilier places, was many times larger in
tho aggregate.
—A singular illustration of tho para
lyzing ofleet of tho imagination under
some oiroamstanoes was recently afforded
at Allentown, Pa.: A bright boy of
eleven yours wuh onguged in watching
some cattle in a field, und killed time
bv swinging with a rope from the branch
of a tree. His brother, also u small
boy, was near him. All at onoo tho boy
with tho rope dropped with his entire
weight upon tho ropo, but with his
knees almost touching the ground.
Tho brother, very muoli alarmed, at
onoe ran for assistance, but before aid
name tiio swinging boy was dead The
rope wos out, wheu the loop fell f*oin
the victim’s neok, indicating the fact
that there had been no knot, aud that
the looping whs but un accident, I be
boy, imai/fning himself beyond all self-
preservation, had become so frightened
ss not to stuud upon bis feet, as he
might have done, but hud fallen for
ward, and so strangled. A more strik
ing illustration of tiio remarkable influ
ence over reason sometimes obtained by
the imagination could soaicely be af-