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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: NOVEMBER 20, 1877. Vegetation in High tudes. Lati- Ttie effects of climate upon vegeta tion in Norway have lately been made a subject ot study by M. Tisserand, the French Minister of Agriculture. Some facts set forth in a report which Contains his personal observations will be faund of interest to the farmers of our Northern States. Toappreciatethe phenomenal modes of growth exhibited by Norwegain cereals we must bear in mind that even the capital, Christiania, which is not far from the southern extremity of Norway, is on the sixtieth parallel of latitude, or, in other words, no further from the pole than the most southern point of Greenland. Never ...uvm it is icund possible to raise wheat a3 high as the sixty-fourth de gree ; that is to say, in the latitude of Hudson’s Strait, while oats are grown as far north ns the sixty-ninth degree, and barley within the Arctic circle. Th ese broad facts are well known, and commonly explained by the influence of the Gulf Stream, but it is to more specific features of Scandinavian vege tation that we would direct attention. The most strking point is the singu lar precocity of the native grains and the short period required for perfect ripening. Wheat, for instance, sown in t,be last week of May is reaped toward the end of August. The; na- tive grain, indeed, has been know n to mature in 74 days, but about 105 are demanded by the varieties imported from southern countries. The gain in the litter case is still considerable, since it is pointed out by M. Tisserand that in Alsace, where the mean tem perature is sensibly higher, v.heat needs 131 days for ripening, in the environs of Paris about about 139, and in Algiers 142. For barley the liver- ago duration of growth at Christiania is GO days, hut seed brought from Alien, on the seventieth parallel of north latitude, and sown in Christiania, ha i come to maturity in less than eight weeks. Like results attended an experiment made at Vincennes, where ordinary barley exacts 109 days for ripening^ Sonic grain imported frhrn Alteu was sown there on the 7th of April and harvested on the IStli of June, showing a gain of 37 days on tho French cereal. Like results have attended experi ments carried out at the botanical garden of Christiania in the case of co - n, oats, beans, peas, and meadow grass. In all these instances it was demonstrated that seed brought from the far north furnished varieties of remarkable precocity, which only lost their advance after several generations, when they gradually became acclima tized. The fact, moreover, is recog nised in the current practice of Nor wegain farmers. To gain some days on the usual date of harvesting is ob viously a matter of no small moment in a country where frosts arrive with September, and often hinder grain from ripening. Accordingly we find that the cereals of high latitudes, and especially Alien barley, are in great request throughout the Scandinavian peuinsula for seed grain. With it crops can be got in twenty or thirty days earlier during the first year; subsequently the difference is less, and a tier three or four years the seed must be renewed. In southern Greenland, likewise, Alten barley is used, no seed grain being imported from countries situated below the sixty-eighth par allel. The farmers of Iceland, too, sow barley brought from Alten or from the shores of the White sea. Tans it appears that the most north ern provinces of Norway are the great purveyors of seed grain to other cold countries lying in high latitudes, and this is especially true of the Scandina vian kingdom, where a bad crop in the north is accounted a national ca lamity. The rapid development of plants is uot the only symptom of special influ ences and conditions belonging to an arctic or sub-arctic climate. It up pers that cereals imported from the southern countries of Europe and sown in Norway gain both in size and weight, whereas Norwegain grain transferred to French or German soil leses in volume and density. In the cose of barley brought from .Christi ania and planted at Breslau, the aver age weight of the grain fell twenty-five per cent. M. Tisseraod found that it was hydeates of carbon which were most conspicuously augmented in the tissues of Norwegain vegetables. It is therefore a reduction of carbonic acid through the leaves of plants which seems to be particularly accelerated in high latitudes, and, since this pro cess is carried out under the influence of light, it appears reasonable to at tribute the extraordinary activity of vegetation in Norway to the persis tence of the solar radiation through the long days of summer. It is esti mated, indeed, that the sum of heat received at Alten on a given day, when the sun remains twenty hours above the horizon, is greater than that tod over northern Germany within the same term at the same epoch, notwithstanding tie greater elevation of the sun in the latter lati- , tude Other observations confirm this conclusion. The augmented action of light during a brief period is manr fested in the more intense coloring of the vegetation. In proportion as you ascend the coast in Norway you find the grain of a deeper hue. The white, semi-transparent kernels of southern wheat grow opaque and brown; the white varieties of beans become yel low, brown, or green, A like ten dency to emphasis is remarked in the green tissues of trees, shrubs, and vegetables. The tiuta of flowers, likewise, are more 'pronounced; some species, which are white or a buff iu our temperate climates, change to scarlet or gclu in Norway Finally, we may note that the aro matic principles of plants* aro also signally intensified in high latitudes. Celery and the onion, for instance, acquire a savor so much keener that, according to M. Tisserand, French cooks coining to Stockholm or Chris tiania arc forced to make a radical change in their employment of those vegetables. The most fragrant cu min seed in the world is produced in i tin 1 akvc named district of Alten on the edge of the Artie circle, and the lavt-mlvT ami mint of Droiitheim are far richer in essential oils than are the same plants grown in English soil. Wc may add that Norwegian tobacco is exeeptionably strong. From Washington. APPROPRIATION. Washington, November 10.—The House to-day finished the considera tion of the army bill in committee of the whole, wheu another amendment was adopted limiting the force of the army to its present number, but di recting four cavalry regiments (with one hundred men to each company) to be stationed in Texas. This was found, after the bill was reported to the House, to conflict with a previous amendment, and as there was not time to straighten out the crooked ness, no final action was taken on the bill. The discussion in committee developed the fact that within the last few weeks the army liad been recruited to the number of 565 men. This action of the Secretary of War was characterized by the chairman and other members of the appropria tion committee as being without, law and deserving of impeachment. Foster, of Ohio, remarked that re cruiting might well be done without money, as the a;rmy itself had been run without money, to which Black burn, of Kentucky, replied that for that action explanation would soon be demanded. An amendment was offered by Hooker, of Mississippi, providing that no money should be expended in sending any part of the army into any State for the purpose af suppress ing insurrection or protecting the peace, unless on application of the Legislature or Governor of such State. Garfield, of Ohio, attacked this amendment as tone intended to shackle the President, and which, if it had been on the statute book in 1860, would have tied the hands of the Executive and destroyed the Government. He did not mean to imply that there was any such object in view now, but the proposition at at this time was calculated to alarm the couutry. Hooker disclaimed having any otherintentionjthan tliatof preventing the army being used for political pur poses, and reminded Garfield that the substance of the provision was enacted iu 1787 and appeared In the revised statutes of 1872. Mr. Speaker Randall took the floor in response to one tifGarfield’s remarks obont the army being lett to starve, and tlnow back the responsi bility upon the President, whose province it was to hare called an extra session of Coiigrest immediate ly on his inauguration. I Goode, of Virginia, m&do a strong speech against Hooker’s amendment in which lie expressed lie trust and confidence which the people of the South, and particularly pf Virginia, had in President Hayes. ; Washington, November 12.—The House passed the armyjjill to-day without a division. Thejamendment allowing four cavalry regiments to be recruited to 100 nien for each company and to be stationed in Tex as was agreed to. An ['amendment limiting staff officers to the rank and pay of their regular army grades was rejected. In the course of the discussion Hewitt, of,New York, charged the Secretary of War, Gen eral Sherman and the Adjutant-Gen eral with want of frankness ami con cealment of facts regarding the en listment. Members on the Republi- side replied to the changes and de funded the high rcputatioji of those officers. Afterwards a large number of bills were introduced and referred. THE SENATE PRIVILEGES AND ELEC TIONS COMMITTEE. Washington, November 10.—The Committee on Privileges' and Elec tions were all present except Hill, of Georgia. After a discussion as to the scope of the investigation, Hoar expressed a desire to examine tthor- oughly several propositions sub mitted by Wadleigh. Without coming to a conclusion the commit tee adjournment until Monday. At the meeting of the committee to be held then, the following resolution will-lie submitted by CsHrafnr Hoar, of Massachusetts: Resolved, That after hearing such evidence as the committee shall deem competent, the committee will report to the Senate its conclusions upon the following questions: First—Were the persons holding certificates from the Returning Board alone entitled to vote in the election of Senator at the time Kellogg claims to have been elected ? Second—Can any subsequent events affect the legality of an election held on the 10th of January, 1877 ? Third—Did the Returning Board act fraudulently in determining the the question to whom they should issue certificates ? Fourth—Whether the persons who voted in the election of Kellogg were such persons as would in fact have been entitled to have seals by the respective Houses on a fair and just trial and decision of each ease on its merits. BEAT THE YANKEES. THE FOREIGN WAR. —A thirty-pound package of dyna mite was recently discovered in the Detroit office of the American Ex press Company. It had been shoved down skids from the wagon to the cellar without any suspicion of its true character and with every risk of an explosion. The package is ad dressed to “John Burke, Detroit, Michigan,” who is respectfully invited to prove property, pay charges ($3 50) and be lynched by a justly indignant populace. —An interesting land claim is just now stirring up land-owners in Mason Bourbon, Fayette and Campbell counties, Kentucky. The heirs *f Thomas and Robert Young, who owned the lands in all that part of the State in 1773, think they can estab lish a rightful claim, and have com menced suits for that purpose. Among the titles involved are those of the land on which the towns of Lexington, Maysville, Paris and Lew isburg are situated. rwo SPECIMENS FURNISHED BY NORTH CARO- LINA—T1IE PATENT GAME. The New England yankceis noted for his smartness in advertising bis wares. No agency under the sun escapes him; he never neglects an opportunity. His presence is pro verbial. The last number of Harper's Weekly contains an illustration of a lightning rod man swimming out with a sample rod in his hand to an old man who was bathing in the mid dle of the stream. The persistent drummer, however, is npt confined now to the land of wooden nutmegs. He may be found at this very day on our own native heath, lie is among us. There is one in the western part of the State—the “ patent beehive and Italian queen bee” man. He turned up the other day at a camp meeting, not a thousand miles from the beautiful capital of Western Novtli Carolina, and in this wise: It was at a meeting at night. A reverend brother had preaelicd a rousing sermon. Tiie wails of the mourners and the shouts of glory from the converted were filling the am bient air, rising like incense skyward. Suddenly an elderly gentleman, moved by the spirit of the occasion, sprang up in the midst of the congre gation, and shouted: “ Glory ! glo ry ! brethren, I am on my way to Heaven. Won’tyou meet me in the happy land?” Then he sat down. Imim dintelv another man, with long hair and a solemn visage, rose and hastened with -ager slops down the passway and ascended the rude plat form. All eyes were turned on him. He shouted : “ Glory, hallelujah! Glory! Glory! I’ll meet the brother in Heaven, and all the sister’ll too. Bless God! glory, hallelujah!” Then, elevating his voice so that he might bo heard by the whole congregation, he added: “ Brethren, if any of you git to Heaven before I do, look out for the old bee man with the patent hive and tb<* Italian queen bee!” And he sub-i led. The old bee man lias bis match in the tobacco-sticks man, who also is a of a religious turn of mind, with an eye always open to business. lie was a member of- church, in a western county of our State. This is a “ true bill ’’ He was an inventive genius. He bad patented a novel “ tobacco stick,” an instrument used in the manufacture of the weed. He was of a convivial tempeiament. Once he got drunk, and was solemnly arraigned before his church and formal charges pre ferred against him. At length the day of trial came on. There was a formidable assemblage of brothers and sisters to witness the trial. They came from far and near. The building was packed. Well, the minister read the charges of drunk enness in a subdued, compassionate tone, and called on his erring brother for bis plea. “What have you to say, brother, in extenuation of these grave charges?” The erring brother arose with head bowed in humility, and voiee tremulous with emotion, and spoke as follows: “ My brethren and sisters, ’tis with sorrow I confess the truth, of these charges. I did get drunk. I am sorry for it. If London, November 10.—Constan tinople dispatches deny the report that .Mukhtar Pasha was wounded in the fighting near Erzeroum on Mon day last. They also mention an en gagement'fit Baiburt, which may ac count forMukhtar Pasha’s determina tion to defend Erzeroum, as Baiburt is on his shortest line of retreat to Trebizond; or it may be the Russians unsuccessfully attempted to prevent reinforcements going to Erzeroum. The' latter is most probable, as fur ther Turkish dispatches reiterate ac counts of Russian defeat in vlie last attack, whicli would be hardly possi ble had not reinforcements arrived. An Alexandranople special corres pondent telegraphs as follows: “The Ardahan' column joined Heimann after the battle of Devc be gan. The Turks lost there 2,500 killed and wounded and prisoners, and a great part of their artillery” THE MONTENEGRINS BOMBARD TOD- Ahead of All Cr. 0. ROBINSON H as just returned from a visit among the Principal PIANO and ORGAN factories in New York, Boston and other citics- having arranged for the longest and most com, plcte assortment ever offered South, at prices ABSOLUTELY BEYOND COMPETITION! —William Lloyd Garrison appears to have been revictualed lately, and is looking round for something to emancipate or scalp. gof.itza. Ragusa, November 10.—The Mon tenegrins have commenced the bom bardment of Podgoritza. The place is expected to hold out, as tho princi pal defenses have lately been recon structed. A TAI.E OF HORROR—TURKS ATTACK ING DEAD MEN. Washington, November 1L—A private letter just received in this city from a gentleman serving with the Russian army around Plevna, says on the evening of the 20th of September the Roumanians sent for ward a white flag, bearing the Red Cross of Geneva, desiring a truce to bury the dead. They were fired upon, and two. officers and some men were killed. The dead lie in large masses on the steep hillside just north of Reboubt No. 2. and can be plainly seen from the opposite heights. A few days since the dead bodies became so swollen in the process of decomposi tion that they began to roll down the hill. The Turks fired a fusilado' at these for fifteen minutes, thinking they were wounded, which had par tially recovered, and » ere trying to esenpe. This treatment of the dead I believe to be unexampled in mod ern warfare. I hear that the troops ef Mehemet Ali ask for truces to bar/ the dead, but at the two battles of which I can speak from personal knowledge, there lias been no truce for this purpose, although it has been demanded by the. Russians, and the demand met by bullets. Six days after the battle ot the 11th Septem ber, I passed along the advanced pickets in front of Radizvoind, where I saw plainly with the naked eye the corpses of the men who had fallen in Kirlops assault, not only unburied, but hoveled away from the vicinity of the redoubt and dumped in a mass three or four feet deep in the sunken road. The stencil of decomposition was noticeable at the distance of a mile and a half. I have every reason to believe they are still there. At Shipka the odor of the unburied dead became so offensive two weeks after the first fighting that the Russian low P Qo,c, Install Instruments OF EVERY VARIETY. Sheet Music and Music Boots I TIIE LATEST PUBLICATIONS. Musical Merchandise, Ai.d everything pertaining to a First Class Music House. TUNING AND REPAIRING, PIANOS, Church, Pipe and Reed Organ*, and all kinds of Musical Instruments Tuned and Repaired by Mr. C. H. Taylor, the best skilled and one of the most thorough workmen South. Mr. Tuy lor devoted nearly fifteen years in the construction of instruments in seme of the best factories in this country, and is the ouly authorized Tuner for the AUGUSTA MUSIC HOUSE. G. O. ROBINSON & CO., 265 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. C. W. LONG. LONG. 6. i. long 4 Ds.trcici prayer and penitence can wipe away -W ” J'SS Tl the sin, I am forgiven from above. I hope you will do so too.” The congregation was deeply moved. His opportunity had come. He raised up, stood erect, as if a bright idea had suddenly occurred to him, and continued: “ Brethren, it is seldom I have the opportunity of seeing to gether so large and intelligent an audience, and I shall take advantage of the occasion to say that my patented tobacco-stick, recently in vented by me, is of so superior a model that everybody is using them, and I would be glad to exhibit a to see it in operation.” Now, who’ll say that the New England lightning rod man has a keener eye to business than the tar heel bee man and the man of the tobacco-slicks?—Relight News. —Ohio has 381,000 acres of apple orchards, and raised this year 15,000 000 bushels of apples. grand scale. On the other hand, after the Turk ish attack at Sqnaleveiza on the 31st of August, I rode over the whole field the second day, and tho last of the dead Turks, of whom nearly one thousand were left on the field, were then being buried. The Russians were buried apart, and the immense graves being marked by a cross. The Turkish graves had no mark, blit otherwise there was no difference in their burial. Until recently human as well as animal bones were used in French sugar refiuerins; in fact the former sample one to any brother who wishes wcre as late| y as 1858 6ent from Algeria, to France. The Coming Struggle is the namo of. a new publication devoted to the interests of the working class as op posed to capital. Horace Greeley’s younger daugh ter is said to be glowing more and more beautiful every year. ATHENS, GEO We offer a large and well selected si Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Anilines, Dyes, Patent Medicines, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Perfumery, Lily white. Rouges, Colognes, Extracts, etc., For Sal© Very Cheap FOR CASH, Either at Wholesale or Retail. We call your atttention to our COLOGNES, BAY RUM, HAIR OIL, ETC sepll-ly Medical College of Georgia The Medical DepartmeKt of the University Of Georgia. Tho Forty-sixth Session of this Institution will commence at Augusta on the FIRST MON DAY IN NOVEMBER. Apply for Circular to DESAUSSURE FORD. Dean. For Catalogues of Academic Department, apply to Wh. Henry Waddell, Secretary of Faculty, Atheus, Ga. oct2-lm. To the Tax Payers of Clarke Co, My hooks are now open for the collection of State and County Tax tor the year 1877. Office No. 1, Broad Street, over Mathews & Jacksons’ Store. F. B. LUCAS, oct23.6t Tax Collector Clarke Co. WOOL CARDING,, The undersigned, having newly fitt< d up his Carder, near Harmony Grove, is now prepared to card Wool in a very superior manner. He will famish oil, etc., and card at 10 cents per pound. Wool left anywhere at Harmony Grove will be taken to the carder and returned free of charge. Country produce taken in pay ment for carding. R. C. WILHITE, octlfi-lm. MEDICAL NOTICE. At the solicitation of many -f my former pat rons, I resume the 3Practi.ee of Medicine from this date. I will pay especial attention to tho disease of Infants and Children, and the Chronic Diseases of Females. WM. KING. M. D. ’uue 18. 1375—83-ly Notice to Tax Payers! I will be found at the following places, upon * dates given: M ATHENS, until November 9th. BRADBURY SHOP November 10th.. SAYE’S MILL November I2th. YV1NTERV1LLE November 14th. GEORGIA FACTORY...November 15th. F. B. LUCAS, Tax Ccl ettor Clarke County