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Newspaper Page Textft, II. CARLTON it ,CO. DEVOTED TO OUR.POLITICAL, EDUCATIONAL, AGRIC AND INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS. jl’yvp'Dbllal^ pfer annum, in advance. VOL 4. NO. 40 ATHENS, GEORGIA, TTTESD JUNE 20, 1876. Qipi 55. 4 SNOW RECEIVING DIRECT FROM NEW YOKE H Jl. CARLTON & CO., Proprietors. TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Your attention i* Invited to her Grand Opening of Pattern Hats; on April 14th. AW to tier nnninaUy rates of advertising, a^c w S*t i e e n • Call and be convineod, at her Store on Broad 8t M be- COPY, Ooo Yo»r -*J 0 v£ COPY, Si* Month* „>•£ COPY. Three ’"-nth*. — tarertiecmenU will »« inserted at ONE ii || i \. { „.,s,u.tre for the first insertion,and L'.'rV f.a V-rs.untw for each continunncc, dm‘ uUr\.ne month For longer i; a liberal didaction will be made. A ' ,, re ninal to ten li ;W, solid. ‘.Wtces in local eV.mnn, less than a square iOcents a line. - > ll i’lij legal advertisements. ^SSiSSSEwiaafciS iSicn at l)l..ni»'lon Guardian „ ft 25 B^^ajrwssf K.trJY Notice, JO «*y» Sheriff S*****» per *q r. « , *?! if # fa **!«■* per square. Ut oJI«ci..r’■» -Olid, per «!»»!• ‘•‘nvtoun. M .ft: «**. per *-t»»re. each time. fcxMttpti 00 S.ilmilaadvauee) !:.le F' ejuwo. “eh Meaa ■^r The above legal rates corrected by Ordinary of Clarke County. 1 a choice and select etoek of MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS, tjjwsi* JJr^Long* A Auiup* nn>) Smith** Drag^Stoce*, A. X. CHILDS. IL NICKERSON. CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO. / t PEALEK8 IN Hardware, Iron, Steel, Nails, FAIRBANKS* SCALES, TING, Business and Professional Cards. IF. R. LlTiLE, Attorney al Z a w, | CAHNESVILLB, GA. ' apriLIAKTS-tf. J. S. DORTCH, A tlo r u ejy at Z a ir, CABNESVILLE, GA. .[.riUS.lSTS.lf. IMPLEMENTS, AGENTS TOR Winship and Sawyers Cotton Gins, &c., &c., &c. " ATHENS, GEORGIA. GINS DELIVERED IN ATHENS AT MANUFAC TURERS PRICES. Sept. 3p—1-tf. [Detroit Free Preas. FALLEN HEROES. In the eoft sunshine gleams today The old flaw, tried and true, I Aa when amid the battle', fray, It waved o’er the grey and bine. I mind me of fair, bright young Uvea, Warm-hearted, bold, huroee’ atay— Each claimed thair eauae, some wore the Uup, Brave beana beat ’Death the gray I Some rode with Stonewall and Id. men, - And joined their &te with Lee, While other* followed Sherman’, march, THumphant totheaea! Each fonaht for what they deemed the right, And died with .word in hand ; Some ml amid Virginia’, bills, And »me in Georgia’. *and. The ume enn shine, upon their graven— Tear* dim mine eyas today, While.afUy claocilugGod’. sweet rest, For both—the blnehud grey. ji a.N Detroit, May 300,, 1878. the White House. Thinking, possibly, there could not be too much of a good thing (a judgment probably reversed by this time in his mind, especially with re gard to whisky,) Gen. Babcock appears to have used nothing but blue glass, with a result typified by the color of the medium and his own present prospects. In science, aa in politics, nothing should be taken for granted, not even a third term. So far, for the grapes grown by Gen. Pleasanton While upon the subject of grape-growing, it is but proper to state that among others to whom the General had -recommended this method of dealing with vines, was Mr. well-kn BLUE LIGHTS ! El:ndid Light a Universal Stimulant, Restorer and Purifier. THE MARCH OF SCIENCE. A-A jl. Jackson. * L. W. Thomas. JACKSON & THOMAS, Attorneys at Law* Athens, Georgia. t C. D. HILL, ATTO'JijYJET AT ZAW, ATHENS, GEORGIA. Prompt .tteniion given to nil buxines, and the torn r«p«tnilly •olicted. j.nH-ly. REM A UK ABLE RESULTS OF GEN. PLEASANTON’S EXPERIENCE. weight was 203 lbs. It will l>e observed that each of the pigs under the violet glass was lighter in weight than the lightest of those under the sunlight alone, in the com mon pen. The two sets of pigs tone treat ed exactly alike, fed with the same kiud of food at equal intervals, and with equal quantities,’ by measure, at each meal, mid were attended by the kudo man. They were put in the pens on the 3rd day 01 November, 1809, and kept there until the 4th day yf Match, 1870, when they were weighed again. By some misconception ol my orders, the weight of each pig was not had. The aggregate weight ofthethreu Shoemaker, a well-known Philadelphian, | sows under the violet light, ou the 3rd ot ;s is at the coiner of November, was 122 lbs.; ou the GOOD NEWS FOR THE SICK. POPE BARROW, A22 O'/ZjVEY A2 ZA W, ATHENS, GA. "■ ‘ ; A i tffiee in Mr. J. U. Newton'e new building. jan4.lv. — E. SCHAEFER, COT TO if,\JR\UX E li, toocoa cmr, ga. Hiifluwt Cnali l’rioo paid lor Cotton. <i.n* nud l*i E. Agent for Win octaOwli. A. WILLIAMSON, , PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER. |.\i l>r. King* it Drugstore, Broad Street, At hen a, G ' Ail a rk done in a superior inunnor end wammie 1 tv live .nti* faction. Jen. 4~tf. B. E. 1HRA8UER, AIlO/tSYffY A2 ZA?r, WATKINSVILLE, GA. u Vi -o iu fortner Ordmary** j*n25-ly A. oTMeCURRY, ~ .1 tto n.rx r .* r l./ ir, HARTWELL, GEORGIA. WIU. give Strict per-mal attention to all buxine., en Irq-tc 1 to itix curky,— Aha.*—to—iy. REMOVAL! y. A. SAZM3>JS$r2ZS2, ll-VI it-MOVED to the office bW by Dr. J. IV. iljrr.il. SilicVction guarantetd in both Work and Price*. ji.-'i-if . i . . F, P. TA«V*At>GS: ; —DEALER IN— awl Imported Watches, Clacks, Jewelry, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, ; Musical Instruments, uns, Pistols, Etc. WATCHES, CLOCK. AND ILWELST RSTAIUD IN A SKAT, j,, , WORKMANLIKE HANNKK, And warranted to givo entire satisfaction. Ormniciital and Plain Lclttr Enyravijuju Sjxcuilty. ;stu:i AVEH3S, rat iast (ten Boot Sion Corav, AZBSXS, OA. fcbastc ... wsx%, Boot and Sha& Manufactuier, > COLLEGE AVENUE, Next Door to Post Office. O N Land, Uppers for jnukinff Low QuarteiCon- pros*a, AlexiH-Tien, and Princo Alhcrt*. liejxur- nff promptly executed. > Send ten dollars, per mail or exprcM wid you sbaU re ccivo « first class pair of boots. June 30, 1875. 35-tf. Great Reduction in Prices P or the next thirty days. Brackets, Wall Packeta, and all ki mis of Ornamental Wood Work, ▼ill be »old at . GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Wow is the time to make your bouses beautiful at low Agureo. O , Great tmr^Hna Rirtn lu everyibln^ at^ BU ltk R'l 20-tf i'8 Bookstore. P. G. THOMPSON, Attorney at .Law, pvtial attention paid to criminal practice. For refer- •pplvto Kn. Gov. T. It. W.tUand Hon. D»vi.' i, Montgomery AI*. Office over llarr^’. Stqn-, . Gh. Feb. S—tf. FRANK HARRALSON, -VTrOR^EV AT LAW, CLEVELAND, GA. jil|mctic4Tn the coantiex of White, Union, Lnm *•». r»«ru, and Fuming, and tha Snpreraa Conrt ai VlU*L Will giro .pedal attention to all olxha, .l> TMed t.. hi. care. Ang, U 187S—ii—tf. jouirftlftnsK ~ Attorney at LiAvvV TOCCOA CITY, GA. WiU practice in all the counties of the Woatcro Cir- ut, Hart «ud Madison of the Northern Circuit. . Will f* Vc *pw»*l utteniou to all claims entruatod to bin care. octJOsrly, |L\mar Cobb. IIowelt. Cobb. L. & II. COBB, - At tor nejys at Zaty^\ Athens, Ga. Office in Deuprec Building. __ fcbSlly. ^ ALEX. S. ERWIN, ~7 Attorney al Zairl Athens, Ga. ilteo tin ]Jro!,j Street, between Ccntt-r < heaves and Ori & Co., up stairs. Cb2S.lv. CASH YOSl IVOOJL, —OR— CLOTH FOR WOOL. [Naw York Herald.] The nttenli.m o' tlie scientific world has lately been arouse 1 I v statements purport ing to come from Dr. Pot in, the Director of* the Turin Lutiatiu Asylum. From these statements it would appear that, at the in stance of Padre Secchi, the groat Roman astronomer, experiments were made by Dr. Ponza to test the action of certain colored lights upon patient- auftcring from mental alienation. Remarkable results were ob tained by the use of blue and and red light The account at hand of these cx|H!iimeiits and their results is extremely ntcagre, and more detailed inform lion is anxiously looked or l>y the medical profession in this country. Enough is known, however, to justiiy the asse tion that, should the results attained by Dr. Ponfci be absolutely and exclusively traceable to the action of these colored lights, we arc on the threshold of some of the most astonishing and litr-reachs ing discoveries of modern science. Now, it uiay not be known to the read ers of the Herald that, whereas these ex periments id' Dr. Ponza arc of a compara tively recent date, experiments of an anala- gons character have been made for the last iittecn years by an eminent gentleman ot Philadelphia, and that experiments identi cal with those of Dr. Ponza, of Turin, were recommended by hint at least eight years ago. That gentleman is Gen. Augustus J Pleasanton. THE BIRTH OF TIIE IDEA. The writer asked Gen. P., how he had first got the idea of experimenting upon plants and animals with the violet light transmitted through blue glass, combined with the ordinary sunlight. “From the fact,” answered the General, “ that I had long thought the blue color of the sky, so permanent and all-pervading, and yet so varying in intensity of color, according to season and latitude, most have some abid- j ing relation and connection with the living ; organizations nil this planet I knew that var ous experiments had been made in Eng land and on the European continent with h mogene ms glass colored with the several primary rays, but they rest.l e*l in nothin; Die Athens Manufacturing Coinmnv tire now makin-a j Sl( j: ir a8 ; my improvement in tile process Wooku T?* tl,an eVCT bc,orc * ! of developing vegetation was concerned. Exchange them for Wool, belhviog it to be more to the interest of tha Planter to Exohangetbo Wool lor Cloth, rather than have it Card ed and Spuu at home. Call for Sample, and Term, ot Exchange. R. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent. May 19,1875—S9-tf. Miss C. Potts, ’’ashioliable Dressmaker ! * (Over IJaivenltT Bank.) Broad Street, - - Athene. Would respectfully inform the Ladles and her friend* •cnernllv, of Athens and vieinit)', that abe ia now pre pared to ao Dreex making in the Neat ext and most .FASHIONABLE 8TY1.ES. With her experience in Uvf ah giving aatiaraction. t< * M*>* 14, ahe feels sure of 1975—2S-tf. GENERAL TICKET AGENCY. RAILROAD tickets r s^y«C>aI1 roatca, and to all principal paint* in ' @w^«hHfl^’STATES. and get Jl ’■■ CafT. WM,;WILLIAMS, 'Agent Soul hern' Express Co., Athene, U: May li, ’75 Ga. i&tr. LIVERY AND iALE STABLE | CarrUtges, Ml(l jfjrtes for Mire. TERMS reasonable. L“J n,TEIIE - V D. Washington, Wi)H» ; Co., Ga K r it. S AULTER, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF WINES, WHISKIES and LAGER BEER, ALE, GIN, CIGARS, A., ’ ’ CALL ASSAULTERS EXCHANGE, JacxaoM Stsket, Atnrxe, Georgia. ; Oet-S—d-tt. liveiy. Feed and Sale Stable, ATHBSrS a-A. gann * reaves. ..... imiopmetous Will he found nt their old aland, rear Franklin Rouse building, Thomaa street. Keep ahraya oil hand good Turnout* ami eareftd driver*.. Stock we'.I cored for vhtn entru»ted to onr care. Stock on hand tor *aie at .It time*.' . deelStf. A. J/. COCHRAN, i p geo. 11T. 1 , , ' t * ,e *nJ Gonanl Land Ageut for thepnrehas ;-*?»aasi!asiSar i SiwL? i Ul *** 10 property inveotifoted. I c'tV 1 * 1 ®HcDtioti ifivon to tho pnrebaao and hIi of |C f property, s r ■^* UoRSEY, Attorney. -—- - a- 9* *« m , La^e of Mississippi, Having decided To WAke Athens his I to Ik. 5? hom »* toudor* hi* i«oft*uonal*«rvioe*. •• eUuanaof Athena and ito vieinit;. Office on I tl ' TTo, ST. t nf tuw BciLDuro or Jontr H, Ntwros’a, *« may b* found Aon 6 o’clock a. ll. to B r. ~-^Ty, r 4 > <it. , Planters* ilotel, Augusta, Ua. •'PlttS WELL KNOWN HOTEL HAV- -tnmnwr of 1875, i* now opene.1, with increased fac.h- io» for tiie accommodation of Uia travelling pnbllc. febt-ly B. P. CHATFIELD, Proprietor. A. A . WINN, ^hoover, stubbs & co., Ootton Kaotors, Ventral Coifidristfon Merchants, pnnattoLlvoi reaume tha PraotiOo of \Cedicine from thi* date. I will tmy e*pecial attentioo to the dia- br Intacta’ and Children, nud the Chrome Dlaeaaea WM. KING, M. D Jane 18,1875—» i J OB WORK OF ALL DESCRIPTION neatly done at this office. Ah; 'tf At developing As the only npproaeh to any good results was produced by the violet ray, I deter mined with this alone.” A very long conversation followed, in which the General developed his views. Finally, he said: “There is nothing so satisfactory in matters of this sort as seeing things With one’s own eyes; so, if you can spare tue t<>-morrow, I will take you to my country house, and there yon will be able to judge of my experiments and their res suits for yourself.” Tho offer was gladly accept ed. HIE UKaI’E.-.Y . XI EIUMENT3. Tiie next day w. rt-paired to Ute Gener al’s couutry house. Upon our arrival, wo at once proceeded to the gntpery, where General Pleasonton’s first experiments were made in the year 18til. Ol those experi ments, he gave the following account: “ My grajiery was finished in March, 1801. Its dimensions were 34 feet long, 26 feet wide, 16 foci high at. the. fhlge, with a double-pitched ritof. !t : staiHlsi ;is yon see. at the foot of a terraced garden, in the di rection of northeast by east to southwest by west. On three sides, you notice the liorder twelve leet wide. On the fourth, northeast by east, thu border is only five ure ' feet wide, being a walk of tile garden. The bo. ders, inside and outride, were excavated to a depth of three feet, six inches, and were well filled with the usual nutritive matter, carefully prepared for growing vines. The lirat question to be solved wa* the proportion of blue or violet glass to b-- used ou the toof. At « venture I adopted every eighth row of glass on the ro..fto be blue or violet glass, so that the sun, in its daily course should cas* a beam of violet light on every leaf in the grapery. Cut tings of vines, each one year old, of the, thickness of a pipe stem, and cut close to the pots containing t hem, were planted in the borders inride and outride of the grape ry in the early part of April, 1881. Soon after being planted, the growth of the vines began. The rapidity with which they grew, soon attracted the titteution Of all who saw tliem. In a few weeks, the walls and inside of the roof were closely covered with the most luxurious growth of foliage mid wood. The seedsman who sold-me tho vines, * was lost in anuizenieut when he saw them, lie stated that he had never seen anything similar iu an experience of forty years. “ He measured some of the vines au-LTbuu I tlieitf~;foity;five feet iu lenghth -qBrinch in di:tiiiuter aH>ne foot from the ground. This was the growth of five months. Vines of the same varieties, of like age ami size, planted at the same time, with the best possible <pgrwt l at tendance, were at t e same period puny plants, five feet long, scarcely increased at ail ill diameter. In September, optlie next year, (1812.) I had o:i these viuos 1,200 pounds of grapes , In 1803, I. had about two tons.” l b.-writer saw tlie-e vines, and, from tho whose place ofbusiness fourth and Race streets, in that city, ME. SHOEMAKER’S vines. The Herald representative found Mr. Shoemaker in, and npon mentioning the object of his visit, was given the following statement: “At the suggestion of General Pleasanton, I determined t*»Jn*e the com bined violet ray and ordin ary sunlight Spoil my tines. I do not wish to hazard any opinion as to whether or not the size and quality of my grapes, as well as the amount of the yield are directly attributable to the mixed light. But I can say, without any hesitation, that since the adoption of that light, my grapes have been by for the finest in the whole town of Cheltenham, and, iu> deed, in the whole county. This has been rciieatedly remarked to me by Mr. J. Cooke when he was visiting me ” The number of instances of similar results from the use of mixed light is large, and only a fen’ more can be given. These it is, perhaps, better to give in the General’s own words: “ A lady of my acquaintance, residing iti this city, informed me tiiat having some very choice and rare flowering plants in pots in her sitting room, which were drooping and manifesting signs of disease, she threw over them a blue gauze veil, such as ladies wear, and exposed them to the sunlight, when she v as highly gratified to discover that in a very short time, they were fully restored to health and vigor. A gentleman in West Philadelphia, having a large lemon tree which he prized highly, placed it in his hall near to the vestibule door, the side lights of which were of glass of different colors, blue and violet predominating; the sunlight pissing through these side lights fell upon a portion of the branches of this lemon tvoc; great vigor was imparted thereby to the vitality of these branches, which were filled with very fine lemons, while the otlicr branches of the tree that did not receive the light from these blue and vio et panes of glass were small, feeble, and, apparently, unhealthy, and were with out fruit.” Various experiments upon different kinds of plants were detailed to the writer by tlie General. The result was in all cases, uni formly successful. Should the influence of the mixed light, in promoting these results, not be overestimat' d, it is easy to sec what a great revolution this discovery is likely to effect iu the present methods of forcing early fruits and vegetables. GOOD NEWS FOR SIBERIA. It is doubtful, however, how far the early market gardeners of. ti e Southern States will be grateful to the* General for the fol io ing suggesti. u to their Northern neigh bors. He says: “ It will be remembered that during our 1 ite civil war, when commercial intercourse between the Northern and Southern States had ceased, the sale of early f. uits and veg ctablcs in the markets of the principal North ern cities was monopolized by their pro ducers in the States of New Jersey and Delaware and on the Eastern shore of Ma ryland. This was a very valuable trade, and enriched many of those engaged in it The price ofland in these regions became enhanced in value, and the people resident there enjoyed unusual prosperity. On the restoration of peace, all this was changed; the people along the Atlantic slope of v ir» giniu, North and South Carolina and of a port of Georgia, at once entered upon the cultivation of fruits and vegetables tor the Northern cities, and, owing to.their lower latitudes, earlier seasons, and improved modes of cultivation, they have secured their lost markets, aud are now rapidly re covering from the effects of the war. .All this, of course, is a corresponding loss to the tanners of New Jersey, Delaware aud the eastern shore of Maryland, and, as a couscqueuce,. the value of fanning binds iu these sections has been seuribly depreci ated. A large portion of this trade can be recovered by the application of my discov ery to the cultivation of vegetables and fruits, aud their maturity can be h.istened ao as to equal that of those of the Southern States herein referred to.” The same will naturally apply, in a t •e, to still higher latitudes, and we meas- e may be yet destiued to see Northern Germany, Scandinavia, Northern China, the Steppes of Tartary, and even parts of Siberia reveluig in the cai ly pea, the delicate asparagus, the luscious strawberry; and the inhabitants thei cot teaching their little ones to lisp, over the precocious gooseberry, the name of their bCuefictor, Pleasanton. The writer remembers, on ono occasion, having made a prolonged excursion on the Gurglcr glacier, in the Tryolese Alps, atid being benighted just as he reaelit^ thb outskirts of the little hainlet of Gurgel. The pastor of the place gave him shelter for the night, and, amoug other things, informed him ol efforts be had been making for years to disoover and procure such vegetables ns would grow iu that atmosphere. A stunt ed, but courageous species of cabbage aud an adventurous carrot had rewarded bis years of patient search. It would seem that the solution of his difficulties was nearer than he imagined. TOE BLKJtDn) LIGHT IN A PIGGERY. Gen. Pleasanton was. so struck by the marked results attained with this btendid light in the case of plants, that he next de termined to try it upou animals, convinced that, if efficacious here, tho discovery would be of untold importance to the human race. His first experiment was ii the autumn of 1869. At that time, he built a piggety- The sequel is in his own words: “ 1 intro, duced into the roof and three sides of it violet-colored and white glass iu equal pro portions—hall'of each kino. Separating a recent litter of Chester county pigs into two parties, I placed three sows aud due barrow pig in the ordinary peu, and three other sows and oue other barrow pig in the pen uuder the violet glass. The pigs were PRICES MISSC.JAMES.^ . 1 8 8F.LL1XG inLUNEftY AND FANCY GOODS Pleasanton for this invention and tho leaves No. 2, a barrow pig, 45£ lbs.; No. 3, a fe^lD^SkL&n of lib vines mounted, as cu iosities, taken sow, 32 lbs.; No. 4, u sow, 42 lbs.; their PomeH^tluirTx^JfcfcWimdii Bl&Gns.-it ao imi to Washington and photographed by order aggregate weight, 1074 lbs. The weight "-J- 1 — onv. ( - -- • r( ] of the Patent Office. The cl the others m the common pen was as lol- development of the wood, should rather j all about two mouths old. The weight of ! havt* believed them to be fifty than fifteen ! the pigs were as follows, viz: Under the '• yeam old. A patent was granted to Gen.. yio.et-colored glass -No. \, a sow, 42 lbs.; 25 cto.; A bMutiful line of TCe- Klowon ’ ““ ~ of Prof. Braincrd, < "SWIm?! I extraordinary results attained, induced Gen. lows, viz: No. 1, a sow, 50 lbs. ; No. 2, a nmeata fur ~n and bo oon vincid at her more on BrtwJSL, ly.tweeu j Babcock to. ask.tlie General to allow him to sow, 48 lbs.; No. 3, a barrow pig, 50 lbs.; j Dri. Long* <& Bltfapa and Smith’. " — . [ *“** ■*-* majMin. r 4th of March, 1870, it was 520.; increase, 308 lbs. The aggregate weight of the three s nvs in the old pen, on the 3rd of November, i860, was 144 lbs, and on the 4th of March. 1870, it was 630 lbs.; increase, 3SC, or 12 ibs. less than those under the violet glass bad gained. The comparatively small in- erease in weight of .the pig* tinier the vio let glass over their porcine friends under the white glass, is accounted for by the feebleness of the actinic or chemical rays of the blue sky at that time; but the time ot the experiment was selected for that very season. The animals were not fed to pro dnee fat or increase of size, but simply to asceitain, if practicable, whether, by the ordinary mode of feeding on farms usual in this < ountry, the development of stock could be hastened by exporing them-in pens to the combined influence of sunlight and the transmitted rays of the blue sky.” Gen. Pleasanton’snext experiment answer ed this question in a striking manner. He says, “My next experiment was with an Alderney bull call, born on the 2Ctl> of January, 1870. At its birth, it was so puny and f eble that the man who attends upon iny stock, a very experienced baud, told ine it could not live. I directed him to put it in one of the pens under the violet glass. It was done. In twenty-four hours, a very considerable change had had occured in the animal It had arisen on its feet, walked about the peu, took its food freely from the finger and manifested great vivacity. In a few days its feeble condition had entirely dis appeared. It liegan to grow aud its davelnp- raent was marvelous. On the 31st of March, 1*70, two months and five days after its birth, its rapid growth was so apparent that I told my eon to measure its height and to note down in writing the height of the hind quarter and the time of measurement, which lie diil. ; On the 20th of the following MuV (1870,) just fifty days afterward, wo again measured tho hindquarters, and found that in that time it had gained exactly six incites in height, carrying its lateral development with iL Believing the question sol veil, the calf was turned into the barnyard, and when mingling with the cows he manifested every symptom of full masculine vigor, though at the time he wa9 only four mouths old. At the age of fourteen months he was sent to my herd of cows, and .has fulfilled every ex pectation that I had formed of him. He is now one of the best developed animals thnt can be found anywhere.’’ Should the General's deductioas be well founded, it would be difficult to overestimate the value of the experiments. Their in tercst, too, to so many classes of the HeraliPe readers is so great that is deemed pr -per to give as many of them as possible. TRYING IT OX LAMBS AND MULES. [ “On the 15tli of Febtiary, 1874, two j newly born lambs, one weighiug three and a half pound*, the other weighing lour pounds, were takeu from their mother and placed in one ot the pens on my farm, fitted with blue and uncolored glass; they had not reived any nourishment front their dams; they were fed alike, aud without any design to increase largely their weight, with skintmed cow’s milk. When they were three months old they were weighed—one of them weigh ed fifty-one pounds the Jother fifty-five pounds. At two weeks old their teeth were so much developed that they began to eat lay.” This seems extraordinary enough, hut the following is still more so. The General says: ) bdt* • .' h “ At the dose of the late civil war-in this country I bought a pair of ntules that had been used in the military service of the government. A little while aftef the pur chase it was discovered that one of them was deaf, having had his hearing .destroyed by the noise of heavy firing during , the battles in which he had been employed. Thereupon I directed the teamster who had charge of .him tube particularly careful-in using hint, and to treat him with great gen tleness and kiudness on account of bis in-, firmity. Two ur three years after he came into my possesion, this mule W03 srized witli acute rheumatism of so violent a character that the poor animal could not w lk. Be fore this time he, with animals, bad been re moved to A new stable that I had built, iu which he was kept for several months with out beiug used' for work. He gradually got better of his rheumatism, but his deaf ness continued until this spring, when he re covered both from his deafness ami rneii-' mnti-m. Over each of the doois of tMs stable I had coused to be placed a transom, with panes of blue aud colorless glass thr-Cru. The stall of this mule was before a door with such a transom over it, When the sun arose in the mornin •, he cast his light through this trhnsum on the neck and top ot the head of this mule. Before he set iu the afternoon, he threw his light again upon the head and neck of this mule through the transom of another doorort the both wes tern side of the stable. The effect of this light upon the animat has.been the curb of his rheumatism and the removal of his - deaf ness.” ‘ ” 1 "''' To close these castes wiflt a signal in stance.*’' ' • 1 ' y “Sometime since Airs. C„ the wife of Major-General C., a distinguished officer of the United States regular prnty, told me,” savs the General. " thai one of her grand - -.hlldrcn, a little boy about eighteen months old, from his birth had so little 1 use of his legs that he coitld neither crawl nor’ walk, and was apparently so'enfeebled in those limbs that she began to fear that the .child was permanently paralyzed ih them.' '“ To obviate such an affliction, she request ed the mother of the child to feebd him, with his two young sisters, to piny in the entry ot the second story of her house, where she had fitted up a window with blue and plain glass in equal proportion.’ The children were accordingly brought there and allowed to play for several hours in this, large entry or hall, under tM mixed sun and blue light. Iu a very few days Mrs. C. told me that' the child manifested great improvement in the strength of its limbs, having learned to climb by a chair, to crawl and to walk, and that he was then as promising a child as 'one is likely to see. ; ‘ Extract from Editorial Correspon- i .I . . ; denoe. - : - : [Telegraph sn3 Messenger.] Washington City, June 6, 1876. MOUNT VERNON, . « I spent two hours of deep interest yester day at the old home ol that grand old “rebel” and “slave baron,” George Wash ington, though I thereby missed the Blaine fire-works in the House, A hoat, very tjice and neat and comfortable, leaves the city every day during the season at lfl.tf m., returning W4 p. m., find the ride dhttn the Potomac on a pleasant, dreeiy bay, as yea- 'erday was, is n-it the least essential element in the pilgrimage. The run is made iii about two hours, and k enlivened by the twanging- of a very fair string band, and unlimited cocktails, punches, etc,, for those who have had mackerel for breakfast. We were a large .party, filling the boat, ami composed mo-tly of loyal folks, loud of tongue and nasal of tRf.ee; who roamed all over the boat asking an infiuity of ques tions, peeping and perking into every nook and cranny, and making themselves unani mously loud and lively. Since the Mount 1 ‘Vernon property has come into possession of the Woman’s Assor ciatiou of that natue, wonders have beett done in the way of renovating at.d cleaning tip house and grounds, and now the place is all that conltl bo desired in appearance; The gronnd- and walks are dean and well kept, and the mansion scrupulously neat and orderly. So much has .been written of • he place and its treasures, that a lengthy notice of them here might lie tiresome rep etition. Tho rooms are just- as they were at- Washington’s death, and though little pf the original furniture remains, there is >UU much that carries one back with startling and vivid force to the past. There is the key of tho basttlo presented by LaFayetto which lmngs in a glass qase in the en)xauce hall, and an object of iini.veisal interest. Then, in an adjoining room, a suit of clothes once worn by Washington—sttuff-coloreu coat and vest, knee-pants, silk tights, and dross sword, with divers dams in the former; several autograph letters which 1 noticed were punctuated with the most scrupulous accuracy; and other minor arti cles. Up stairs, on tho second floor, is shown tho room in which Washington died; fuc similes of the furniture stand ‘m placu just as when the end .came, and one can, without much stretch "of fancy, readily im agine how the dying matt looked, lying oil the huge bed, feeing the: immense firo-place with, the si'ent, sorrow-stricken household grouped around. This room opens by two windows upon an uncovered Verandah whence a glorious view of the Potomac and its Maryland shore is foul, and hits two small dressing rooms, with shelves running around them "and a little squeezed iu closet also, with' barrow shelves. Tots' and the room in tho third story, or rather'garret, where ALs. Washington 'died, are kopti closed to visitors unless accompanied by an attendant who watches them like it police man to see that they do not mutilate tfo furniture or cut and’ steal the bed-clothing This conrse Inn been rendered absolutely necessary by the shameful vandalism so characteristic of tho universal Yankee na tion, one of whom, the attendant told me, had, during his momen'nry absence from the room ono day last week, chipped, a huge splinter from n small table in the room. Upon the wall of this room, in n glass case, hangs a Philadelphia newspaper, of December 21st, 1799, announcing the dca It of Washington. Tha attic room in which Mrs. Washington died is smaller even' than her husband’s below, and the bed facc3 tho Potomac, and is hung with faded, gaudy curtains that must have been insufferably close and. disagreeable to one struggling for breath. The room itself is very cldRcodfogy and dark,. jind. under a slimmer’* suifaluiost stilling. In this room the bed luces flic river, aniffrom it the old tomb where Washington rested so long dun be distinctly seen. It was on this act-olitit, so the attendant informed; me, that the sorrow-crushed,widow selected the room as her own after the tleathr <n her husband, and hid '.the bed so placed that- 'her Cjrra might rest upon his tomb the first moment of waking iu tlie mor.iing. If., j. Of these and many more objects .that will always hold a sacred place tit the hearts ahtl iiiefnories 6f the! Atiierlan, ahd espec ially the Southern people, neither time'- nor space is allowed me to speak. There, if.r& fiite con v^satory and grapery^ near the house, the sales from them materially adding to' ‘ the treasury of the' AsfotfratMti—W1 : ot which seem right and> proper enough: But I did not like the eating housq feature of the, place, nor other little cheap Jack device^ to lighten the pockets of piritorsi "They. jarre-- rudely upon the tierves, and seemed' a dese- creation, vulgar and sordid "almost beyond comprehension. I noticed, that, almost al) the visitors had lunch, ]vhicli was e tteo,, on the grass around the house and unde'e tin shade of the noble tvhiteash trees flint art- such a special point of beauty in the picture. Of course the lunohiug out doors is not .volt notary on the part of many, for tpere are people who wo-.tlrl not hesitate to spread their “ wittier" in the death chamber up stairs just to say tliiey Had done so ; but a carl hanging in one of the halls expressly forbids all eating inside. At. least it was meant to do so, but some persons with a turn for sarcasm ‘ and who had doubtless ob served the unwemly behavior ot many! ol the visitor*, lias rubbed out the Words , “ in the” ptycard.,w aafo read: “ Pdf.WV: W the house’’—which,’if being made tq rear “steal” for “eat**dtHkesone aS ifot alto 4 ' getber an untimely mkliition. So much 1 for-tAe : American Mettea.->i I' on ly rag real'that time nod .other duties do not permit me t.q v to describe mote fully the various points, aud ofoects of iuterest it holds, in trust fo'jr the Ain'erfoin people. N6 mad or totatdiV with a heSit hr rddmory csn stadd and look through tho the grated di or of dim and aho fr -m .the fact ilmt Mr iti' witslehtrusted niy tlte Ghtifederate Government,duripg the,^»ar w:thr one, tqily lion dollars to use as its agent abroad in ad vancing its interests, ahd which .the': FeifeHtl Govern nu»fcjRrsto«tfo to qMiitqasitd/tXMiUttJF lion or, tlie effects of the Uonfederacy. That renoittohk' ‘ tlld ,: 'Miwtr Zdchr CSiarfdfev ls at the bottom oT this.business, and. wiRpush it forward with all. the malignity, industry and vigor of which re Is capable. Mr. Thomp son does not, however, seem,vapy. nfuch dis turbed, anti wtth mt-nn, redte was fully ex oiieratedifeom «dl:Wam*,or -tespousibiUtyrfor the defalcation by# atmtuittqeof the Honscj a mafority, of which was toraposed of hi- pq : litfeai opponents. Two of them—Messrs; Case, of Iowa, and Morris, of Ulmois. have recmtlv written him to: that efleet. Iu re gard to the latter charge, Air. Thompson has, and willshow a receipt In 'full for a final set tlement..with the Confederacy’s fiscal agent at London, to whom lie turned over all the fuiids^hi his possession at the close of tho war.. This suit is of. a nature wjth the charges against Mr- Kerr in respect to Jfo plain and mean purple. It.is.from a spirit of retalratmn for theatckeniqg-.mass qf Radi- cal corruption rumet! up this fesrihri by the Democratic plow in the House, and iutended to break the force of the l^eavy b|ows dealt the loathsome thing calling itself the great Republican party. ; 1 " meeementi6n: • • ' It may Ite authoritatively StatAdf that’-the House Ways and Means Committee will press no bill this sessionmake any alter ation iq the taf qq tqbaretL,, . f . ;i W .,T A friend, just.from the Centennial, sqjf the show is growing daily iu attnictjveness, and is now beginning to realize fi its splen did magnitude and brilliancy the brightest anticipations of its projector*. The attend* knee yesterday was 32,00Q>Staying'viritbrs, and about 14,000 deadheads. As the bi* penscs are set dmvn at 1|8,000 per day,' ii will be seen that Friday's- ! receipts f«n out a hnndsom- surplus. But isn!t the nobM army of: dead-headi uueomnnmly and' out warrantablylargo? I see sqme ofthe pa pers are calling for,, a total “ suspension qf the free list”— for everybody butj theoweWes, of course.; , Seems to me 1 have heard tjiAt same old tuiie before, ^ A~Suli&h r is. Dead! :t ,, [Cinriun^t] QsntfsA : 'lf -.-oi.iT‘1 Abdul Aiht Khan cut open his firm, with - I.., hiihaL aaiaaAm nn#l.. l\Yn/V '.fa* one of his wive’s pair of scissors and bled -to death to slow music. . Your/tr^iqapv Roman would Imre stabbed himself under,', foe arm, wliteh was on the opposite side (r»m tho att, diepce, and, after getting botb v shoql^er^ tjr the floor, would, hue romainqd,; stiff,,and stark, unlest the calls from the cu tain if^r^ could borrow mknfcy from the Eb'glishi i 'ahcl‘. with 1 it satisfy the de’ituinds oftweivfo hondred trives, ct fll.,* ! he must have b&fi i 'h’happ\ r man—if happiness consists in leading a'Vol uptuous life—hut when' it' dawned'-' upon hint tlilit, though there . might -he plenty- of money for othere-where his had ouAii 'ftilfo? there was-no m-ire for-him. iid wonder- ho tsked the loan of a pair of sharp scissors, and no wonder Mrs. Abdul Aziz 1 (No. -1,200 ) granted his requestji. Wlut u.-e bad site for a man wfe> was not-“«)lul” in the sense . that Hr. Mulligan, of the soinewhnt famous guards, was? Nd use. J. o $ti rtewtel G Abdul Aziz is- not Ahe first Sultan -.who went to “ that,boqrpqJi’ ,for other .than, natu ral raeops, though,(he list ofiitfynes is necessf u-ily small, as thosq Sultans who tailed;',tq -ive satisfaction were either strangled or put >ut of tha way in some other quiet manner; A Turk hates noire. , A])..lfoU, the peopje know of the manner of thei* ruleria death tliev coqld could put in their diihouques an imoke it. Indeed,.the practice, of inutfirf mt the Sultan's life grew.sp ctiromo hebarae, hb'ffutx tuJrafohn hqfoeliM >f • tt»6 mosques' cVcifs Friday at-iniou.j hat the people ciiuldl See ’ireC', .thq.iinan whom they hail the pleastirq ‘of SqpporaSg had mil been clmn^ed without 1 tlirir'knowing it. Thtf supposition that AMtfl AzW killed himself is based tfoon the fect ,| tbat‘ hS^ WM not dangerous to the present regTmq)' atra therefore thSre’Was nd for'assassihallug him. ;* ; : br-i* odlfitwIiT ■tji'ere. ihqst hayq narem when-the news of the death of their lord and master reached the twelve hundred wivH. 'By’the woftf ^bdrife” tU Weeing 8f : “sfir” I i»’meant ; to tte THttte eoitW adt hove been Hi thte' hafmh a bostle the other kittdi An odalisque with' * bnstl(^! ,!l 'Rather PbftiiiHn flf)itff1biUk.> Thb chief efttluch Us he pulled'duwtl 1 Me Vtkt havo' “ekelaiftftcf'lb "a 'nhftbeHf 1 yhanneff “ OoUfe,' rirW,’ give 1 li fosl"’ 1 Tlfo'‘ < d«M* "Ai “Htduatek front 1 married' life 1 could’ not 1 MI Hktfe tUfo-wn ' UtfefoselVee 'upbi* 'Ibe IfostratlS lxkly df Ahd til AVfc ahdki*ed Miff.fonheiri w'Ss rieithef WqifiHflri’ 1 AHdWflfo'y fiihufo ’ for ' eacTi v pf<iltfirtfun, / 'imd kiss,• ‘if vault and upon/tbe marble tno/iuiuent ,.that, marks the dust of Washington; with an. *u » May so-tf. ' adopt his method in the conservatories at No. 4, a sow, 46 lbs.; their aggregate emotion and interest that no other split' «ih' ,ev<dfe. From the first litep on the 1 wibdlbgi path that ascend*from the wha*f—nesr which the wtUqtr cutt fn>m ,| jhe; , parent tree that shades Napoleon’s grave at St. t Helens grows—tip to the holise almost every foot of ground and every ire# Stiff shrub has peculiar.’ aud: hiitorio interest; The eatjrq place is fragrant with niemqries that belong to,, and .s'tould be held precious beyond com CiftnfnF people. THE It ON. JACOB THOMPSON who has been here a week or two was yesteS’- day .served with notice of a suit served against him by the government for about four million dollars,.principal ahd interest, traftt • . . . r _ hlr.I utv Rheumatism yet there » only < have met and appointed -a ^committee of three to do the moaning and moaning oyer the remains, hud then te$r£d'to 'thSh- ’siate moms- and there Concealed theirertiotionsj Afidthen when:lhe l,"200'.hath mopped oat* their pyes, had.sjqqqthed thsir, hpir.apd.kick- ed their nressqs into proper place, there was. tlia' question "of mourning costumes to 1 te considered. TwelVe bundred WoMida mensored add supplied -with, i black drapery before .the fqneral, .^ta^okere. qt 1stimboulI : tsawt'iwl But the. woref w fo qoroe. It, “ fec.qs- toin whe[iSly^eimau dies tor hI4 t wTdqws. . have, notr the dul 'Aziz. c Peace to-hia‘wRfo- ow.«—so ybtffii so beautiful, so many. iTWy have tasteil of tlte happiness of- married-life, in a.mqdep-te degree, but^hey, play.^ thripj, only cate when they married a bultan. -He has no husband successor. No triuinJ»la^^ l, burying of three; fouK or Sve \ hasfodtdft fide n by the ’Americaif 1 them. As BosrTweed'wqtrtd"say: “ What noltai are yoil“bdair8que3 goingtb 0 about it?” How the widows fo Abdul lAriz'i mvttt bate' Ills .successor’s wives.-j -j,, sdrjortli'ubun 9I--.1 .nailiK-iit .n<-u 7o wobtw.adl At q mqdtcal examination, a young aspi- . ittt.for' a, pitysicifoi’s.diploma was asked, growing out of adefaication for a large! “When does mortification enstie?” “When " *■ ..P-A* - - * el* - * -• * : ska 1 l-v/ti« WnnAdn 011/1 QlY» lH>lf»fttfl/l_l? th^ is always a joint affair, and amouut during his administration of the In-1 you propose and are rejected,” r one party to it. i terinr department, of a clerk named G.idard L ply that greeted the questioner.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Athens weekly Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1875-1877, June 20, 1876, Image 1