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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-