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VOL. XXIII. NO. 20.
The Cartersville Express,
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NEWS AM) NOTES.
Speaker Randall has again been visiting
Gr&mercy Pu.k.
The latest figures of the Herald Irish
Fund are $329,‘203.
Tennessee? State Board of Health meets
in Nashville May 22.
The Tennessee Republicans semi a Grant
delegation to Chicago.
Lexington, Kentucky, celebrated May
day by opening her $50,000 hotel.
The culture of peanuts is becoming more
general in Virginia.
Tom Scott, late of the Pennsylvania rail
road, is worth $5,000,000.
The Sunday liquor law is being rigidly
enforced in Columbia, S. C.
There was another very destructive storm
in Illinois last Sunday.
Cock fighting on Sunday is becoming
fashionable in Pensacola.
Forty million barrels are required every
year to hold the wine of France.
The late session of the Kentucky Legis
lature cost the State $116,393.1d.
Unmuzzled dogs on the streets of Mem
phis are shot down without mercy.
The city of Louisville has furnished SB,-
190,000 to aid the railroads running to that
city.
The average of the wheat crop in Ken
tucky is five per cent, greater than last
year.
Fisk University, at Nashville, has been
presented with a bell weighing 2,000
pounds.
There were only four delegates in the
North Carolina Greenback Convention the
4th.
New Orleans has shipped to France and
Italy within a year 2,400,000 gallons of
cotton seed oil.
Hon. John N. Hudson, State Senator from
Americas, Ga., has been sent to a lunatic
asylum.
The Greenhacders of Tennessee are to
have a convention in Nashville next Sat
urday.
The cotton mills at Columbus, Ga., have
used, during ihe last eight months, 15,462
bales of cotton.
The Louisville & Nashville railroad sys
tem is now the fourth in point of mileage
on the continent.
mi) ring the last 40 years the Appleton’s
have sold 40,000,000 Webster’s “spellers,”
or 1,000,000 a year.
The American Union Telegraph Com
pany, has secured right of way from Cin
cinnati to New Orleans.
The first map of Nashville and its sur
roundings, now on exhibition in that city,
was drawn in 1796 by I). McGavock.
An average of 150 car loads of live stock
are being shipped eastward from the central
stock yards at Pittsburg daily.
During the past thirty years ten and a
half million Germans hav • left fatherland
and found homes in Am- rica.
It is a notable fact that all the daily Re
publican journals of Philadelphia favor
the non in oion of James G. Blaine.
The fifteen car manufacturing companies
of the United States turned out last year
37,350 pieces of rolling stock.
English governmental circles arw much
excited over the discovery of a deficit of
£5,000,000 or over in the India Budget.
A Confederate Memorial Association is to
be organized at Memphis to care for the
heroic dead in Elmwood cemetery.
The Baptist State Convention, of Geor
gia, at its recent session, resolved to estab
lish a Baptist missionary magazine in that
State.
The Northern Methodists, in general con
ference at Cincinnati, elected three new
bishops —F oßs , Hurst, and Warren.
The suspension bridge at Niagara Falls
is to be entirely rebuilt the coming sum
mer, and Bessemer steel will be used large
ly in the process.
W. T. Blackwell A Cos., of North Caro
lina, at a single transaction in Chicago sold
1,000,000 pounds smoking tobacco for $500,-
000 cash.
Governor Colquitt, of Georgia, denies
the charge that he has been speculating in
Louisville A Nashville railroad stock and
lost money.
Two hundred and one suits for divorce
are before the superior judical court at
Boston at this term-one hundred and
fortv-one uncontested and six'y contested.
There has not been a licensed saloon in
ATorgan county, Kentucky, ‘or the last
12 years, nor has a pack of cards been soul
in the county, in that time.
The Southern Pacific railroad company
is now running trains to Cago Station, 300
miles west of Yuma, and the track is being
laid at the average of one mile a day.
CINCINNATI AND THE SOUTHERN.
The “ Queen City ” is not mentioned in
Dixie now except with an intonation of
kindness. Yes, we say, Cincinnati has done
a great work for us. The ex confederate, or
ex-rebel —we never care which term is
used —feels that by-gones should be forgot
ten in her beneficience toward the South-
True enough, Cincinnati was actuated in a
pecuniary way to build the Southren road,
yet she did a great work for us, which should
not be forgotten.
I had my “ recollections of sixty-one ”
the heading of an article in Sunday morn
ing’s Fnquirer—“ as I strolled along, mid
her elegant buildings, and thought of ho**
much the war had contributed to her
growth. Busy merchants, who sent substi
tutes to the army, made millions, and now
enjoy the heights in their retirement from
bu-iness. What an accumulation of wealth !
There is less shoddy in the business por
tions of Cincinnati than any city I have
seen—not excepting our great metropolis.
I must say a word of her streets amt alleys.
In traversing much of the city, I found not
a single alley even discreditable. The firm
ness of the stone-paved streets, makes the
noise from the vehicles terrific. To pass a
broken wagon, 1 saw large street oars thrown
from the track and moved past with very
little extra burden to the teams. Splendid
draft horses are used, and cars are large
enough to “ take on ” more than five dozen
persons at a time. Then the dummies trace
crooked ravines with vigorous little engines
to Mount Lookout and Columbia, while ele
vated railways carry passengers a thousand
feet or more up steep inclines in a very few
moments to the beer gardens, with a pa
tronage which justifies large bands of
music—mostly ladies—through the week,
as well as Sundays. Beer at the Nashville
Exposition is, in comparison, as a mole to a
mountain. From the heights, 1 counted
over thirty church spires, and yet there was
a large mass to hear lngersoll. Poor Inger
soU! he has my pity. “A day will come.”
The most entertaining feature to a visitor
is to visit the g?eat music hall. I want to
see, hear the music and Bishop Simpson
preach. I saw, and heard the music, hut
very little of the sermon. Even Bishop
McTyerie’s strong voice hardly appeared
natural and was feeble, while the venerable
Simpson spoke as a midget, to an audienee
of midgets. The great organ and two fine
cornets well handled were sufficient, but the
human voice in that hall is too weak.
What a thrill, however, as seven thousand
persons arose to join in praise! I never
looked upon such an audience, and may not
do so again.
THE TIE THAT B'NDS.
Supper in Ohio and breakfast in Georgia !
I was with the first party that ever traveled
entirely across the States of Kentucky and
Tennessee in a night, as ours was the first
through night express train. Then the
new cars, elegant sleepers, on the best track
in America, (with, perhaps, two exceptions,
I will say, to avoid criticism by rival lines )
I retired early and did not awake until
near Chattanooga, and then, forgetting my
journey, my window curtains drawn, I fan
cied that T was in a mill. The stones were
busy grinding the wheat, hut so little were
the walls of the building affected by the
machinery that 1 felt no jar.
What about “ cutting oft ” the Southern
road? It is amusing to think of it. There
may be combinations against it, which will
somewhat delay a fair share of business, but
it is only a question of little time when its
merits will be so much known that its every
train will be crowded. It offers more to
the pleasure-seeker, more speed to the busi
ness man, and better comfort to the infirm
traveler, than can be overcome. Then there
should be, and I believe is, a public incli
nation to patronize that line, South as well
as in Cincinnati, which will guarantee pre
ference to it, other things being equal.
Surely it will have a fair share of freight
and passenger business, and I am confident
that the sligheat injustice will have prompt
attention by the agent, Mr. E. P. Wil
son, at the headquarter office.”
TIIE. L& N. EXPRESS.
The following is taken from the Louis
ville Post :
For some time negotiations have been
in process looking to the withdrawal of the
Union Express Company from the Louis
ville A Nashville lines, the railroad com
pany to take total control of the express
business, and to conduct it as it does the
freight, passenger, and other departments.
Mr. Guthrie, president of the Union Com
pany, and Mr. Newcomb, president of the
Louisville A Nashville, have been in New
York for some time, and they have tele
graphed to their home force that the details
of the change have been arranged and it
will take place shortly. Until their return
nothing more definite than speculation can
be given as to the plans to be pursued. Mr.
DeFuniak, General Manager of the L. A
N. probably knows exactly what will be
done, but feels at liberty only to say that
the L. A N. will run the express business
and that the probability is that, for a while,
at least, the Union Company’s office, offi
cers, clerks, etc., will be retained. With
such addition toils force, the L. A N. will
run the express business as it runs its reg
ular freight business. Mr. Vol Rese, man
ager of the Union Company, says the de
tails of the change can only be known on
the arrival of Mr. Guthrie, whom he ex
pects home to-morrow morning. As to the
officers and clerks of the Union, Mr. Rose
CARTERSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY", MAY" 27, 1880.
says that they will probably be retained, at
leat for the present, for they are able and
experienced express men and will be need
ed. As to the Union Company’s wagons,
agency outfits, etc., they are all new and
Could not now be bought at the figures paid
for them, and the L. & N. will certainly
take them at a fair valuation. As an argu
ment that the L. A N. will not make any
changes, Mr. Rose mentioned that the L. $
N. is bv far the largest stockholder in the
Union Company, and in buying its outfit
would be buying largely from Itself. Mr.
DeFuniak was asked what effect the
change would have on the claim of the
Adams Express Company, as asserted in
the Short Line case, to do business over any
common carrier road. He said he could
not tell; that it is a question of law to he
decided; but the Baltimore A Ohio, the
Oiiio<fe Mississippi, arid other roads, run
the express business over their lines exclu
sively, and the L. &N. will have the same
rights as those roads, and will probably he
equally free from troublesome claims from
express companies. The Adams Express
people are deeply interested in the new at
titude of affairs, but are as vet totally at
sea as to what will he the result to their
company.
Georgia. —Our sister. State across the
Chatahoochee is, says the Montgomery Ad
vertiser, we are glad to say, in a prosperous
condition. With a quarter of a million
dollars in her treasury above all demands,
with which she is buying up and retiring
some of her 4 per cent, bonds, and with an
intelligent and industrious population, she
is in a fair wav to “wax fat and kick,” so
to speak. We are proud of her prosperity.
We have a love for the good old State,
and take genuine pleasure in noting any
evidence of her rising fortunes. Like all
the other Southern States, Georgia had her
period of trial and tribulation, when a
Bullock and his herd roamed over her pas
tures and throve on her substance. But
she was one of the first to throw oft the
foul blood and assert her light to be gov
erned by the honesty and intelligence of
her own people. Now, thanks to good
government, she has her head above water,
and evidently means to keep it there. And
vet Georgia pays about three times as
much interest every year as Alabama does.
No only is her debt greater than ours, but
she pays a higher rate of interest than we
do, on the greater part of that debt. But
she derives a very considerable revenue
from railroads, and hence, though her debt
is larger and her rate of interest higher,
yet her great source of revenue enables
her to get along with a lower rate of tax
ation than is collected in this State.
Nevertheless, we do not envy her good for
tune. On the contrary, we heartily wish
tier a continuance and an increase of it.
A lex Stephens’ Boyhood—Hon. A. H.
Stephens, in an address delivered in 1848,
at a meeting in Alexandria, for the benefit
of the orphan asylum and free school of
that city, related the following anecdote:
A poor litile boy in a cold night in Janu
ary, with no home or roof to shelter his
head, no paternal or maternal guide to pro
tect end direct him on his way, reached at
nightfall the house of a rich planter, who
took him in, fed, lodged, and sent him on
his wav with his bl ssings. Those kind at
tentions cheered his heart and inspired him
with fresh courage to battle with the ob
stacles of life. Years roller! round ; Provi
dence led him on ; his host had died and
the cormorants that prey on the substance
of man had formed a conspiracy to get
from the widow her estates. She sent for
the nearest counsel to commit her cause to
him, and that counsel proved to be the or
phan boy years before welcomed and enter
tained by her and her deceased husband.
The stimulus of a warm and tenacious grat
itude was now added to the ordinary mo
tives connected with the profession. He
undertook her cause with a will not easily
resisted ; he gained it ; the widow’s estate
was secured to her in perpetuity ; and, Mr.
Stephens added, with an emphasis of emo
tion that sent its electric thrill throughout
the house, that orphan boy now stands be
fore you.
Sailors’ Snug Harbor —A five story
building has just been completed by the
corporation known as the “Sailors’ Snug
Harbor,” on the Southwest corner of Eighth
street and Broadway ; it has about 60 feet
front on Broadway, with 100 feet front on
Eighth street. It is built of Philadelphia
brick with free-stone trimmings, and is five
stories high above the basement. In this
fine building there are two book houses.
Messrs. Wells A Cos., the old house of Fow
ler A Wells, will occupy number 753 with
their publishing and bookselling business,
and for the exhibition of their very exten
sive and valuable Phrenological Cabinet,
which is always open to visitors, and free.
This cabinet consists of many hundred
casts and busts, with fine portraits of emi
nent and notorious persons of ancient and
modern times. This firm is well known as
the publishers of that staunch old month
ly, the Phrenological Journal and Science
of Health, and a large list of practical and
useful books, especially on the science of
man in all its relations, including works
on Phrenology, Physiognomy, Psychology,
Health, Hygiene, etc. Their catalogue,
which is sent free, should be in the hands
of all who w'ould improve their condition
physically, mentally, or morally.
BILL ARP ON THE LABOR QUES
TION.
From the Dixie Farmer.
Some farmers say white labor is the best,
and some prefer black. They all try first
one and then the other, for its human na
ture to want a change. Folks get tired of
the best tilings as well as the worst. Peo
ple get tired of their preachers, anil some
would swap oft their wives for a temporary
change. Gaston had white men to cook for
him last year, but now he’s got darkeys.
When I asked him for a reason, he gave it
to me, for he always has a reason. 1 asked
him the other day what made cotton seed
such a good manure, and he said it was the
oil that was in em —the oil greased the
ground so that the plants and the roots
could get through the dirt slick and easy.
Gaston says the main reason why lie took
niggers was that the white men set round
the fire at night and smoked and chawed to
bacco, and scrowdged his children away,
and tread on their toes, and didn’t help his
wife about wood, nor water, nor cleaning
up the kitchen fixings. They was good
workers in the field, and he could depend
on em to plow deep and not cover up the
coin nor the cotton, and they took good
care of the stock. They had more princi
ple than niggers, and was more particular
about keeping up their reputashun. “Now,”
says he, “a nigger will sing along all day
and his mule will go long about as slow as
the song, and he wont stop to uncover a
stork of corn unless you watch him, and
you dont know whether he is plowing deep
or not, unless you are right there, and he
is powerfully afeerd of a little shower of
rain, and will bounce on his mule and trot
off' to shelter, and by the time he gets there
the shower is over and he has to come
hack again. Its mighty few niggers who
will do a good, honest day’s work by them
selves, but in a pinch you can get more out
of em than out of white folks, for they
can lift bigger logs, and split more timber,
and they aint so particular about dirty
work, or what they eat, or where they
sleep, and they keep out of your family
room, and go off most every night to see
some other darkey, and are gone all day
Sunday, and a body dont mind calling on
em to bring a bucket of water or cairy out
the slops, and they are best natured people
to children in the world. Niggers will
humor children more than white folks, and
its curious what a liking white children
have for em. When I was a yearling boy 1
would rather play with little niggers than
with white boys for I could order em
around, and fbev was always nimble. Its
all about balanced, major, and its even or
odd betwixt em. A nigger is at home at
one place as another, and if you turn him
off he knows he can go to the mines, and
so he dont care.”
I was talking to my nabor Murray about
ern the other day. He came from Canada
a few years ago, and is a tip top farmer. He
says they are a curious institution. Some
times lie likes em first rate, and then again
be wishes they were all in Africa where
they came from. They are just like chil
dren, and you’ve got to treat em as chil
dren. They’ve got no idea of saving their
wages or laying up a dollar. They’il spend
the last cent for Sunday dotes and will get
in your debt if you will let era. They will
shep 24 hours at a stretch, or they can do
without any, and fish, or hunt opossums
the live long night, and work hard the
next day.
Hut there’s one class of people niggers
dont iike and that is poor white folks. They
dont get along together in this country. It
dont do so well to work em together.
Somehow the niggers havent got ’any re
spect for a poor white man. They rather
work for -a rich man for less money and he
ordered around like they use to he in slave
ry times. Its their nature to want a mas
ter, and I reckon they will have em as long
as they live here, fieedom or no freedom.
Just give em a meeting house where
they can get together at night and
on Sundays and shout, and sing,
and carry on they’ll stay in the settlement
and be happy. The common Irish people
wont live where there aint a Catholic
church and a priest, and I reckon we are
all alike about those sort of things whether
we admit it or not. The difference with
the nigger is his spells of religion come and
go like the fever and ager. He can shout
and sing till midnight and steal a chicken
before day in perfect harmony. They don’t
seem to conflict. But after all I like the
nigger. I like him like Ido a good faith
ful dog that will suck eggs, or a good horse
that will pull the pin out of the gate. I
like him in his natural place which is a ser
vants. I like him most any where except at
the polls or in the jury box. They’ve got
no business there, and they are not going to
be there much longer in ray opinion, for
they are getting tired of it, and are learning
some sense ab ut it. Theres lots of em
round here who say they aie done voting;
that the election fuss among the white folks
aint nothing to them. It wont be lon.tr be
fore they will all settle down in the old
tracks and let politics alone, and be con
tent to labor for their bread and clothes
and have their own schools and churches,
and look up to the white folks for employ
ment and protection. Them Yankees have
t.ied for fifteen years to set em up higher,
but they was on a fool’s errand, and are
finding it out. It was against the order of
nature. Yours, Bill Arp.
Carterville, Ga.., May 15 1880.
Vanderbilt University has fifty students
from Keutuckjr,
The Cnt Worm.
Dr. Harris, the great entomologist, says :
After a careful examination of all the agri
cultural journals and publications, I am
convinced that these insects and their his
tory, are vet but little known or under
stood by the very persons who havesuffered
most by their depredations. The truth is,
all the varieties of the cut worm are but
subterranean caterpillars, and are produced
by a fly or moth. In this latitude thev
come forth in April aid May, and soon af
terward lay their egos in the ground, in
plowed fields, in the gardens and meadows,
rhe eggs are soon hatched, at which time
the little subterranean caterpillars live
cl it fly on the roots and tender sprouts of
herbaceous plants. On the approach of
winter they descend deeper and deeper into
the ground, and coiling themselves up re
main in a torpid state until the following
spring, when they ascend towards the sur
lace and renew their devastations. They
are changed to chrysalids in the ground,
without previously making silken cocoons.
Whole corn fields are some times laid waste
by them. Potato vines, beans, beets, cab
bage plants, are cut oft, and many other
culinary vegetables are destroyed, ami the
products of our flower gardens are not
spared by them.
Several years ago, I procured a consider
able number of cut worms, in the months
of May and June. Some of them were dug
up among cabbage plants, some from potato
hills, others from corn fields and the flower
garden. Though varying in length from
one and a quarter inches to two inches,
they were fully grown, and buried them
selves immediately in the earth provided
for them. They were all thick, greasy look
ing caterpillar?, of a dark ashen color.
They soon changed to chrysalids of a shin
ing mabogonv color, and early in July
came out of the ground in the moth state.
Much to surprise, however, these cut
worms produced five different species of
moths. *
There are several species of cut worns,
the larva of which are injurious to culinary
vegetables, but the chief culprit with us is
the same as that which is destructive to the
young maize. The corn cut worms make
their appearance in great numbers at irreg
ular periods and contine themselves in their
depredations to no particular plants, all
that are succulent being relished by them ;
they are indiscriminate destroyers of all
tender vegetation, but prefer young maize,
young pumpkin plants, young beans, cab
bage plants, and many other garden and
plants. When tirst disclosed from the
egg they subsist on young grasses. They
descend into the ground on the approach of
cold weather, and re appear in the spring
about half grown. They seek their food in
the night or cloudy weather, and retire be
fore sunrise into the ground or under stones
or any substance that can shelter them from
the rays of the sun ; here they remain du
ring the day, except while devouring the
food which they have dragged into their
places of concealment. Their transforma
tion to pupte occurs at different periods;
sometimes earlier, sometimes later, accord
ing to forwardness of the season.”
.Southern Agriculture.
Prairie Farmer.
The cotton 6elds of the South have added
a vast amount annually to the wealth of
the world, bringing profit to the middlemen
nr factor-*, the manufacturers and mer
chants, and in fact to all connected with the
industry, save those who have raised the
crops. Such, at all events, has been the
case during most of the years that have in
tervened since 1864. The energies of the
planter have been strained to produce a
maximum of this single staple, and in do
ing so, he has reduced his means in order
to meet his necessary wants The past year
was an exception, perhaps, hut there is
abundant authority for saying that, as a
rule, the statement made is true. In all
those years there was no over-production of
that staple in the cotton-growing regions of
the world. The demand has exhausted the
supply, and although the crop of last year
was exceptionally large and good, there has
been increased consumption, so that the
price of goods —and, in sympathy the raw
staple—has advanced.
But at no time of late years have the re
turns been satisfactory (if we except 1879),
for after paying the necessary expenses for
producing the staple, little was left on the
right side of the planter’s ledger, while fre
quently the final balance has been on the
wrong side. The showing is not a subject
for pleasant contemplation. Favorable sea
sons, good crops and good prices, cannot be
expected always. There will occur now
and then a bad season, and possibly two or
more in succession. With only a single
staple to rely upon, this means to many men
bankruptcy and ruin. That no people can
become permanently prosperous who are
not self-sustaining is accepted as an axionl
atic truth by some of the wisest and most
eminent thinkers and writers upon political
economy, and observation has shown that
planters in the South who have followed
this suggestion and lived within themselves
are more independent and carrv less indebt
edness than those who confine themselves
to cotton.
Asa whole, the Southern States comprise
one of the most favored portions of the
earth. With fortunate conditions of a va
riety of soils and climates adapted to al
most everything of value that grows be
tween the tropics, with untold mineral
wealth in her mountains, and water power
S. A. CUNNINGHAM.
in abundance, the South has opportunities
that only need to be developed to place her
in a condition of prosperity and wealth sec
ond to no other part of the earth of like ex
tent. in almost every branch of the rural
industries, she may equal, if not excel,
other portions of the Union. In the pro
duction of textile fabrics she may stand
pre-eminent. Cotton and flax, and hemp
and wool, are products that she can pro
duce of superior excellence. The cereals
and root crops, fruits, etc., are all at home
within her borders. The best grasses flour
ish luxuriantly, and live stock, in all
branches of that industry, may form one of
her mo-t important interests. With aueh
opportunities it wonhi seem an easy matter
to so direct her labor* and energies as to
realize to its fullest extent the benefits
wnich flow from a system of diversified in
dustries.
The Farmer-a Daughter.
She lives within a quiet home,
No model of the graces,
Unknown to culture’s higher walks’
Or fashion’sgiudy places: -
A thoughtful giil. so sweet, so wt*e,
With earnest face, and loving eyes—
The farmer’s gentle daughter.
On baking days her titty hands
Are busy at the making;
No bread more light end sweet than hers,
Was ever made by baking.
She churns the butter golden, sweet,
And keeps the dairy white and neat—
The farmer’s useful daughUM-.
Her garden is an Eden fair,
Abloom with pinks and roses—
She knows the name of every flower,
And makes some gorgeous poses—
Grows peas, and raddishes, and cess;
And corn, and squash, and herbs to pre-s
The fanner’s happy daugheer.
Long may she bravely smile on us—
Our darling household fairy,
The queen of garden, house and lot,
And princess of tne dairy—
To teach us by her pleasant way
To love the things of every day—
(tod bless the farmer’s daughter.
Carelessness of One, Profit to Another.
Rural New-Yorker.
It is amazing to consider the extent to
which losses are incurred on the one hand,
and sales and occupations afforded on the
other hand, by the inexcusable carelessness
and wastefulness of people who know bet
ter and ought to do better. The fastening
of a well bucket h deranged, or a hoop is
loose, but the thoughtless man or woman
never notices the trouble until the bucket
is dropped in the well or the bottom is out.
Then time is lost, the family is put to in
convenience, and perhaps a neighbor gets a
job of work and the pay for it. The gate
latch is out of order; no attontion is paid
to it; the hogs or cows get in ; the yard is
rooted up; the shrubbery is destroyed;
the gardener is employed, and the nursery
man has an order. A tire is loose on the
wheel; the wood is swiftly wearing away,
a little care would set the matter right; no
pains are taken ; soon on the road a whee
is crushed, and the wheelright ha 9 some
employment. A ihingle is out of place on
the roof; one nail would mend the trouble ;
that nail isn’t driven ; the rain steals in,
and soon the plasterer is called to use trow
el and brush. A bridle rein is weak; a
hit is worn; nobody thinks of examining
either; a horse is drawn to one side, or a
horse runs away; a vehicle is broken; a
carriage-maker or a blacksmith is profited,
and perhaps a surgeon has a profitable pro'
fessional engagement. The water of a well
is impure; those who use it complaiu ; no
proper steps are takfn; the family have
serious sickness; the druggist sells his
medicines and the doctor gets his fees. In
the same way, the cellar is foul; the
mephitic gasses escape through the floors;
Lite blood is poisoned ; the fevei rages;
some suffer; some die ; the physician has a
harvest, and even the undertaker and sex
ton find employment. So of many—vexy
many other things.
The general tluoiy and belief that fish
are cold blooded—that is, that they take on
the temperature of the water which sur
rounds them, with no power to resist it,
and that they develop little or no animal
heat themselves, ha*, by thorough investi
gation, been found to be untrue. In a
series of investigations, most of the fishes
showed a perceptibily higher temperature
than that of the water, varying from 8 to
20 degrees warmer. The tests were made
by opening the fish as soon after they were
taken out as possible and inserting the bulb
of a thermometer into the cavity of the
heart, or the branchial artery.
No Fence Meeting. —Agreeable to no
tice published in the McDuffie, Ga., Jour
nal, quite a number of citizens in favor of
the Stock or No Fence Law assembled at
Thompson for the purpose of organization,
etc. The chairman stated the object of the
meeting and made a short speech in sup
port of his position as a No Fence man.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Gibson,
Tutt, and Hamilton. A committee of seven
for each Militia District in the county
were appointed by the chairman, for the
purpose of canvassing in favor of the No
Fence Law, with power to appoint any
other committees they saw to be necessary.
Anew kind of artificial fuel is being
manufactured in Germany, which is*aid to
be better and much cheaper than wood or
coal. It is made in the form of bricks or
blocks, out of peat, coal dust, and other
combustible material, which, after beiug
moulded into shape and dried, is covered
over with r coating of pitch,