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| j WUKjIA, Jackson County.
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ahill seek to have removed the disabilities im
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Tile People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
A Singular Plant.
Ily request, we publish Hielow a portion of
an article which appeared in these columns
several years ago, under the head of “ Notes
by the Wayside.” The subject is an interest
ing one, and well worthy of re-print, and the
author promises to supplement it with others
upon kindred subjects :
And now that the scientific world is all
agog on the subject of carniverous plants, let
me tell of a very curious one, indigenous to
Jackson county, and which may be found
growing in early spring on the waters of what
is known as Big Sandy Creek. A visit there
at that season of the \*ear will convince the
most sceptical that, alter all, the Devil Tree
of South America, and the Cannibal Plants
of the Ocean Isles, are not wholly without
foundation.
The plant to which I refer, and for which I
know no name, has a bulbaceous root of a
reddish hue, and is about the size and shape
of an ordinary turnip. It tastes similar to a
mixture of blood and water. The juice or
sup, which readily oozes from it when wound
ed, if allowed to remain for a few minutes on
the flesh, will produce a clear red blister,
which, if not well cared for, will increase to
a had sore, producing the most vexatious
itching that ever called for the use of finger
nails.
Early in spring, this root puts forth three
broad and firmly knit leaves, which, until
about half grown, lie so flat upon the ground
that a careless observer would not think they
grew there. At this stage, a single flower
begins to shoot up between the leaves, and,
without producing any stem, grows very*
rapidly Into precisely the same shape as an
ordinary tin trumpet, with the large end up
ward. When about ten inches long, this
trumpet-like flower ceases to grow in height,
hut a covering begins to form from one side
only. In a few days the top is covered over
with a perfectly fitting lid, which, however,
is not fastened to the body* of the flower only
by a hinge like ligature at the point of its
first formation. Like the root, the flower is
of a reddish hue, hut is variegated with an
innumerable number of small black specks,
giving it a nebulous appearance. In the mean
time, the leaves have changed their position
by curling into a spiral form, thus forming
three tubes, which rest their cxtremetics on
the upper rim of the trumpet, but never on
the side where the hinge grows. At both
ends of these tubes there are openings through
which various insects can and do readily*
crawl; there being some kind of an induce
ment offered that is unknown to mortals, but
is far more potent in its silence than all the
arguments offered by “ The Spider to the
Fly” ; for just as sure as a common spider, or
any* other small insect, chances to pass near
by, its movements, however tardy or quick
before, immediately' become accelerated, and
with a spasmodic jerk it disappears through
the lower opening in the tube nearest to it.
And, what is most strange, when a spider or
other small insect starts up one of these, its
doom is sealed ; for, by some unknown im
pulse, it rushes to the top, and at the instant
when it places its little paw on the edge of
the trumpet, the lid opens, and with fearful
contortions the victim falls inside. Instantly 7
the lid closes with such a perfect fit that it is
impossible for the naked ey*e to discover the
seam.
If, a few minute3 after the fearful leap is
taken, you will touch the rim of the trumpet,
it will open as it did for the touch of the in
sect, and you will see that the victim is not
only 7 dead, but that it has entirely* disappear
ed, except a dry hull or husk, which will
crumble to powder upon the slightest touch
—all the animal juices having been absorbed
by the flower of this singular plant. In other
words, the victijn has been caught in a trap
more ingenious than any* ever invented by
man, and its digestible parts devoured with
all the voracity of a hungry* toad.
Wondering awhile over the singular fate of
the unsuspecting insect that has just been
devoured, we are induced to examine the
trumpet trap more closely, and find that a
touch on the outside of the rim will cause the
lid to open, and if on the inside it will close.
If the finger he placed upon the inside of the
flower, a strong suction or drawing is inline
diatelv felt, and one cannot help thinking
that the gluttonous hybrid, if mongrel it is,
is trying to swallow your finger, and one in
stinctively takes it away, and finds the skin
of a dark hue. lam of the opinion that it is
a cantharadine, and might be used as a
vesicatory*. I invite the attention of scientists
to this consideration, and ask if the hat he
an intermediate link beween the fowl and the
brute, is not this plant an intermediate link
between the animal and vegetable kingdom ?
for, if any portion of the main tube be cut.
even while growing in theground, it will bleed
to death and wither as soon as any animal
will die after having the jugular veins sev
ered.
As regards its sensibility of touch, we find
its counterpart, at least to some extent, in
the common saw-brier, (schran>kia,) and in the
mimosa tree, both of which grow within sight
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. JUNE 6,1879.
of where I write, and whose leaves suddenly
close when touched. This family" is called
sensitive plants by botanist, and has come
under the examination of children when at
play, as did the trumpet-like flower when the
writer was a little boy.
At that time these curious flowers grew in
profusion on the above mentioned creek, and
I spent many hours in watching them catch
spiders and flies, and in studying their nature
and contexture. Then I did not know that
Linnaeus or Tournefort had ever lived ; but
the scenes witnessed were interesting to me,
and I hope this hasty and imperfect account
of them will be a little so to your readers.
The recent exhibition of carnivorous plants
before sortie of the scientific societies of Eu
rope, induced me, a few days ago, to visit my
youthful field of observation ; but I found
that the beautifully 7 shaded vale where once
my mysterious flowers grew, was covered over
with a field of waving corn. 1 mused awhile
over the mutations of time, and then mental
ly exclaimed : “Is it not strange that nearly
all of the woods in Jackson county have been
cut down and half of the land worn out, and
yet nine-tenths of the farmers are buying
corn at ruinous prices, and dealing it out in
scanty meals to half-starved stock?” Why
is this so? Will some Granger answer the
question ?
Still dwelling upon this subject, I thought
fully directed my steps to a neighboring
wood to look for some representative of my
plants of the olden time. After a few hours
search, I found two of them ; but, as is their
nature at this season of the year, they were
so much decay*ed that I recognized them only
by 7 the withered tubes, which, like the col
umns of an old castle, had crumbled from
their base—a sad relic of their former power.
Rambler.
Serpenls in Connecticut.
The Black Snakes Plentier, Bigger, and
Fiercer Than Ever — llair-raising Stories
Told by Honest Farmers — Climbing Trees
for Robins' Eggs—The Nocturnal Bird
that the Black Snake Fears.
New Boston, Conn., May 23.— Uncle
Josh Peters, when he came from a day’s
planting last evening, remarked that he act
ually believed that he had killed more snakes
than he had planted hills of corn. “ I've
been born and brought up in this ’ere town.”
he said, as he stood with his hoe over his
shoulder talking to a few of his neighbors,
“and I seen a heap of snakes in my time,
hut I never seen so many big black snakes,
regular fighters, as I have this season. It
beats all.”
“How many have you seen to-day, Uncle
Josh ?”
“ Well, now, I couldn’t begin to count back
and reckon on ’em up, but there must have
been forty or fifty 7. Some on ’em were little
fellows, hut there were three black fellows as
big as my wrist, and I should think pretty
nigh six foot long, and they was real fighters,
too.”
“ Did they fight you ?”
“Didn’t give ’em a chance. If I had,
they’d a gone for my throat. They don’t
bite, but they choke a fellur to death. I ain’t
much skeered of snakes if I can see ’em. but
I don’t want to come up on a bunch of the
black ones all of a sudden. I don’t know
what to make on’t. Where do they all come
from ?”
From all parts of the State come reports
that confirm Uncle Josh’s experience. Con
necticut seems to he overrun with large and
fierce black snakes. There have been found
a good many* flat heads and copper-colored
adders, and on the Meridan Hill and in the
northwestern part of the State there are dis
covered almost every season a few rattle
snakes ; but there is no record of so many of
the swift and ugly black reptiles having been
seen and killed in any previous season.
The frost had hardly got out of the ground
when two young men of Bridgeport, strolling
in the ravines near Trumbull, discovered a
nest of black snakes. They were then just
coming out of their torpor, and were still
sluggish. The young men killed forty-eight
without much trouble. A farmer named
Peekham, who lives in that settlement in the
town of Lebanon, known as Kick Hill, began
to clean out his well a few days ago. lie
came up in a hurry. He had seen half a
dozen serpents’ heads projecting from the
stones that walled his well. How the rep
tiles got there he could not guess; for the
well is in his door yard, and some distance
from any* woods. After a day 7 ’s battle he
drove out and killed fourteen. Every one
was a black snake.
Janies Tyler, of North Ashford, a town near
New Boston, in the northeast corner of the
State, came upon six of these snakes sunning
themselves in his lot. He had neither stick
nor stone, and precipitately retreated. Cut
ting a lithe walnut sprout, he returned and
dealt them a blow which broke the backs of
three of them. The others raised their heads,
and with open mouths, the forked tongues
darting like lightning flashes, sprang toward
Mr. Tyler. He jumped back, and with the
walnut stick levelled two more. The last
was- so close that Mr. Tyler could not use his
■ stick. He had the presence of mind to jump
on it, and was fortunate enough to crush its
back with his heels. None of these snakes
measured less than four feet in length.
A Meriden farmer reports that he saw, one
day last week, a black snake fully five feet
long climbing an apple tree in his orchard.
As the snake’s head reached the lower branch
es, the farmer heard the cries of a robin lie
then knew what the snake was after. There
was a nest in the tree, and there is nothing
a black snake likes so well for a meal as rob
in’s eggs, unless it he very small toads. But
black snakes rarely 7 trouble owls’ nest. They 7
lose their eyes if they do. The cries of the
robin brought its mate, and the two, after pa
thetic appeals for help, boldly attacked the
snake. Their pecks hurt him evidently just
enough to anger him ; he raised his head and
darted at them as he moved along toward the
nest. Just as he reached it, the farmer, with
a pole, struck the snake a blow that brought
him to the ground ; but he brought the nest
and eggs with him.
About ten miles from the place where this
battle occurred, and a day or two later, Dan
iel B. Perkins, a middle-aged farmer, was re
pairing a stone wall on his farm. lie sud
denly 7 felt a violent blow against his shoul
ders. and at first supposed that a limb had
fallen from a tree. Then he felt another, and
at the same time heard a hiss. He at once
knew that he was attacked by 7 a black snake.
Mr. Perkins had had a similar experience a
y r ear or two before, and knew that the bite of
a black snake is perfetly harmless, 1 ut that
if one once gets a coil about a man's neck,
its muscular power is great enough to stran
gle him. He seized one of the snakes—for
there were two of them, although at first Mr.
Perkins did not know it—and, while fnditinor
desperately, stooped and picked up an axe*
that lay on the groun 1. Seizing it near the
iron, he managed to cut both reptiles, and
they at once dropped. Then he killed them.
One measured six feet, and the other five and
a half. Mr. Perkins says they would proba
bly* have strangled him had he not had the
axe.
Just over the Connecticut line, in s°uth
bride. Mass., Alvan Grover, one day last
week, while working in his field, came sud
denly* upon a nest of black snakes. lie at
first saw only two, the others being hidden
by a log. and he picked up a stick and struck
these two. Instantly a dozen or more of
black heads, with sparkling eyes and hissing
tongues, appeared from the log, and darted
toward Mr. Grover, lie would have run if
running had been any use. It seemed to him
as if he was surrounded, hut lie kept his face
toward them, and swung his stick right and
left, up and down. After a fight that lasted
fully* fifteen minutes, they* were all dead, or
lay with broken backs. Then Mr. Grover
counted them. There were sixteen, every one
over four feet long.
Death of Wm. L. Garrison.
AN ABOLITIONIST LANDMARK REMOVED FROM
OUR MIDST.
William Lloyd Garrison, the pioneer anti
slavefy agitatior, died on Saturday, at the
Westmoreland hotel, in New York city, lie
had been in failing health for a long time,
and medical skill was powerless to lengthen
his life.
He was horn at Newburyport, Massachu
setts, on December 12, 1804. At the age of
9 he was apprenticed to a shoemaker at Lyons,
but his mother, finding that the business did
not suit him, sent him back to Newburyport,
where he went to school for some time, work
ing out of school hours in order to pay his
board. In 1818 he commenced to learn
cabinet-making, but this proving also dis
tasteful to him, he was, in October of the
same year, apprenticed to the printer of the
Newburyport Herald. This occupation suited
his taste, and he soon made himself master
of the mechanical part of the business, and
when only 16 or 17 began to write for the
Herald. His contributions, which were anony
mous, were favorably received, and lie soon
commenced to send articles to the Salen
Gazette and other papers, drawing the atten
tion of political circles by a series of articles
under the signature of “ Aristides,” with the
view of removing the almost universal apathy
on the subject of slavery. In 1824, lie became
editor of the Herald, and in 1826, proprietor
and editor of the Free Press, in which he
was accustomed to set up his own editorial
articles in type without writing them out.
This enterprise was unsuccessful, and he went
to Boston, where he worked for a time as a
journeyman.
In 1827, he became the editor of the Na
tional Philanthropist in that city; in 1828 he
joined a friend in the publication of the
Journal of the Times, at Bennington, Vt., and
in 1829 he joined Mr. Landy, at Baltimore,
in editing the Genius of Universal Eman
cipation—a journal advocating the emancipa
tion of the slaves, and published in Baltimore.
His invectives against the internal slave trade
and the men who were prosecuting it led to
his incarceration for libel. lie remained in
prison about two months, when a New
merchant paid his fine and effected his release.
On the Ist of January, 1831, lie commenced
in Boston the publication of the Liberator, a
weekly anti-slavery journal, which he managed
tor thirty’-four years. The legislature of
Georgia passed an act offering a reward of
$5,000 to any person who would apprehend,
bring to trial and prosecute to conviction
under the laws of the State the editor or
publisher of that paper. For the first five
years he was frequently threatened with as
sassination, and his friends urged him to <*o
armed ; but, being conscientiously a non
resistant, he refused. In 1835 a mob in Boston
broke up a meeting of the female anti-slavery
society*, and violently dragged Mr. Garrison,
who was one of the speakers, through the
streets, intending to murder him. lie was
rescued by* the mayor, and placed in the jail
for the night to preserve his life.
lie had visited England in 1833 and made
the acquaintance of the eminent anti-slavery
leaders there. On his return he aided in
organizing the American anti-slavery society,
o( which he was subsequently* president for
twenty-two years. In 1840 he again visited
England, and was cordially received. During
the next twenty years and more he continued
to contend for the immediate emancipation
of the slaves, gaining in influence and power
each year, and when the great result was ac
complished in 1865, he resigned the presidency
of t'ne anti-slavery society and discontinued
the publication of the Liberator, asitsmission
was accomplished. In 1865, after the total
abolition of slavery* in this country, liis friends
presented him with $30,000 as a memorial
of his services. In 1867 he was once more
in England, and entertained at a public
breakfast in St. James’ hall, where the Duke
of Argy*ll and Mr. Bright complimented him
on his public services. —Atlanta Constitution,
Hay 27th.
Another Week,
With all its fever dreams, has gone into the
dead of the past. The funeral drum of time
has beat the grave march of seven more day's.
Their events alone live now in the minds of
men. At the midnight hour we lay our left
hand on the coffin lid of the dead days, and
stretch our right to rock the cradle of the
new-born week that comes with the sun in
the morning. Saturday* night! Who does
not welcome it? It is the curtain lifting
itself from the coucluof repose the day rest
of to-morrow. We have all read “ The Cotter’s
Saturday Night” of Robert Burns, and all
have loved it, too. Each on a Saturday night
relaxes iiis brow of cafe, lets drop his labor
hand and bounds homeward with buoy*ant
heart and elastic step. llis heart-love and
nestlings are there. Happy man, happy home
and happy souls. A week is gone, duty is
done. Awaiting his coming the dear one has
the hearth a little brighter, though it be
always bright, and she smiles a little sweeter,
though her smiles are alvvay*s sweet, to-night.
She has the smile, the caress, the loveword
for him, who through the weeks, has faith
fully fought his life battle, and with these she
greets his coming, and he, and each one,
feels that she before him is the best wife in
the world, because she is his world. Ah, well,
this is as it should be.
Canadian Indians and Their Canoes.
The amount of cargo an Indian canoe will
carry is astonishing. Half the load would
sink a wooden keel-boat of the same size.
The extreme buoyancy of the material and
the shape of the birch-bark canoe give it its
greatcarrying capacity. Every one is familiar
with those market baskets made of thin strips
of wood, interlaced, and having a stoat cross
handle of the same material, while the rim
pieces hold the whole together. Suppose such
a basket to have an outer covering of birch
bark sewed and gummed to it, ami you have
a good idea of the construction of one of these
canoes. The strong cross-pieces crossing
from gunwale to gunwale, where the seats
are placed in a wooden boat, and the gunwale
itself, represent the handle and the rim of
the basket and hold the whole fabric together.
Remove them, and it would fly all apart, for
every piece of wood in the boat is bent
against them. The bark is only the outer
skin of the canoe ; and a very tender one, too,
requiring much care. No nails are used in
the consturction; what is not gummed is
sewn with fibers of the hemlock root. In
loading the canoe, the cargo is placed in the
middle and the boat filled till there remains
room only for the two men who paddle.
These sit at either end, and the stern man
steers. When thus loaded, it is safe to sit
on the cross-pieces; but without a load, or
when only lightly loaded, one must sit or
kneel on the bottom to paddle, for the canoe
rests on the water like a wooden bowl and is
easily made top heavy. In making landings,
one come-? up carefully broadside on, which
brings the pressure equally on the elastic ribs
of the boat. To run on shore bow on. as with
a wooden boat which has a strong keel, would
simply result in tearing off the bark skin and
cracking the canoe across the middle. If the
shore be rocky, you must keep it afloat and
wade to land. Shooting rapids in boats like
tills is, as may be supposed, rather dangerous
work to any but the most skillful; but is
better than portaging. The portages are
such important considerations in voyaging
that a line of route is always spoken of in
connection with the number of portages
which must be made upon it. Thus, a place
is referred to as distant so many days, with
so many portages. The men who follow the
business are called indifferently voyugeur*
or portugeurs. A chief part of the rules and
regulations under which they work relate to
the portages, and the cargo of a canoe is made
up in loads convenient for carrying. 'l'he
regulation load for one man is two hundred
pounds, and this' weight may have to be
carried anywhere from one hundred yards to
S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM*
( SI.OO For Six Months.-
three miles. In some places where a.stream
may run too s*viftly to paddle against, and
vet not enough to make a portage necessary,-
the canoe is poled up. Poles for this purpose,
about five feet long, shod with iron ending
; in a stout spike, are part of the equipment tit
every canoe. If a piece of the bark-skin gets
torn oil against the rocks, a landing is made,
| the canoe thoroughly dried, and a patch of
! bark from the nearest birch, or a strip of
canvas, is gummed on with a thick gum,*
carried along for the purpose.
The construction of these boats is whtflly
jin the hands of the Indians. For a canoe of
I the size I have described the Northwest Coin*
pany pays them (in trade) S6O. The Indiant?
jdo all their traveling, and nearly all their
trapping and hunting, in them. A party of
three were trapping along the river while wo
were there. \\ e saw a canoe lyinsi on the
hank, as we passed along, and supposed it to
belong to some party from Mattewan, until
we approached quite close, when the bowman,*
catching sight of someone. exclaimed i
j“ \Y hy. its Indians.” A few strokes of the
J paddle brought us to land, and my companion!*
recognized in the old Indian (there was only
!one in the camp at the time) an old acquain
tance, with whom they were soon in friendly
chat. Had I not been told that this old
fellow had Indian blood in him, I should
never have suspected it, for there was noth
ing in his look or dress to distinguish him
from any hubitun of the settlements, lie was
j not pure blood, of course ; and, indeed, it
would be hard to find anv great number of
Indians in these regions who are of pure blobtf,*
so much have they and the French intermix
ed. Nor has this intermixture come only
from Frenchmen taking Indian wives. Cana
dian women of the hubituu class seem to have
little scruple about accepting husbands partial
ly or wholly of Indian blood. This is one
ol the causes why the whites and red race
! have always dwelt amicably together in
, Canada. The English Government gets th6‘
credit lor it. The credit really belongs to the
French. The repugnance to mixture with
and the haughty disdain of colored races
characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon people, is
quite foreign to the Latin races. lam hope
less of adequately portraying tiie wide dif
ference in the feelings toward their Indians
felt by the French of these regions, as com
pared with those felt by people living near
the frontiers in the Stales toward the red men
there. One must have lived among both to
understand it. The English Government iu
Canada inherited the good will which the
labors of French missionaries and of French
governors had built up between the white and
red races. It had only to preserve what had
been built up for them, which they never
could have built themselves; for, though the
English may make themselves respected bv
a colored race, they are never loved, and it
is in Canada only that the)' have had subjects
of a different hue from themselves that they
have not at some time made war upon. Ilerff
the French had won the affections of th 6
natives ; and the circumstances of the country
were such that there was little difficulty iu’
the British Government preserving that affec
tion. \\ hat the red man wanted was to keep
his land ; and for this there was little de
mand by the whites. lie, therefore, had noth
ing which they coveted, and consequently
there lias been no cause of quarrel. 'fluff
time has not yet come in Canada when ther
whites must press hard on the steps of the reef
man. With a territory almost as large as
that of the United States, the while popula
tion is only one-f<->urth larger than was that
of the English colonies at the time of the
Revolution, while the number of Indian’s rs
less. Hence, there is room for all, and the
conciliatory character of the French people
in all their dealings with the colored race ex
plains the rest.— New York Times.
The Boys Won.
Ezekiel Hayes, the great-grandfather of the
President, was a successful mechanic iii Con*
necticut, and kept a number of apprentices.
It is said that sometimes, like apprentices ir\
all ages, they felt that they had long work and
short rations. At one time anew cheese
was put on tiic table whole. It stood uncut
for a day or two, Mayes saying, at each meal,-
“That is a nice looking cheese. It is a pity
to cut it!” The boys thought this was grow
ing rather monotonous, and planned t 6 show
their sentiments. The bind smith had one
day got a bar of iron nicely heated, and laid
it across the iron anvil to be cut the proper
lengths. The boys, with chisel and sledges,
were to cut it off. But no hand was raised.
Hayes asked why they did not “strike.”
One of them replied : “That is such a nic3‘
bar of iron ; it would be a pity to cut it.’’ Hayes
quickly saw the point, and shouted, with a
laugh, “ Strike ! boys, strike ! and the cheese
shall be cut!’’
—O- <* * * v <}►-
Justice in IneHg.*
According to the Rev. Mr. Seudder,- a
missionary in India, four men bought a quanti
ty of cotton in copartnership. That the rats
might not injure it they bought a eat, and
agreed that each should own one of its legs.
Each leg was then adorned with beads and
other ornaments by its owner. The eat acci
dently injured one of its legs, and the owner
wound a rag round it, soaked in oil. The 1
cat by chance set the rag on fire, and, being
in great pain, rushed among the cotton bales,
where she had been accustomed to hunt rats.
The cotton was totally burned. The three
other partners brought suit against the owner
of the invalid leg to recover t he value of their
cotton, and the judge decided that as the in
jured leg could not be used, the cat carried
the fire to the cotton with her three remain
ing legs. They only were culpable, and their
owners were required to compensate the'
owner of the injured leg for his share of loss.
“ Why, Charles.” she exclaimed in great
surprise, " are you chewing tobacco?” And
Charles lapped the quid carefully under his
tongue, and replied: “Why, no. dear; !\o
been out a good deal to-day and my teeth'
got badly sunburnt..'’ It was anew idea to
her, but she would rather have his who'a
mouth sunburnt than to find him chewing to
bacco. These women are so suspicious.—
Detroit Pott.
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