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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BARNESVILLE, Ga.
'Y"V‘T"ILL practice in the countie
yV comprising the Flint Judicia
Circuit, and in the Supreme Court of the
State, fcfet?” Office over Drug Store of J.
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Piling and extracting a specialty. Would he
glad to see o'd lriends an new ones too that will
favor him by c dling. janll-3m
Dr. Win. A. WRIGHT,
V. ARN ES VIL LE, GEO R GIA,
Dealer In
Drugs, Medicines
Chemicals, Paints, Oils,
VARNISHES, GLASS,
PUTTY, FINE SOAPS,
SPONGES, BRUSHES,
PERFUMERY, I)YE
STUFFS, TOBACCO,
SEGARS,SNUFF, Etc.
SEEDS,
Of the Best Quality,
ml other goods that are usual In his line. He
-the pleasure of returning thanks for past fa
. and solicits a continuance of the same, and
topes In the future to be able to satisfy those
who patronize him, in
Prices, Quality of Goods, etc.,
and feels confident, that It will be to tlie interest
of all to call on him before purchasing elsew here.
1 ioiiN
Killled on the most Ifeasonables Terms.
* <sj~‘ Thou ; iii arrears mast settle by
the first of March.
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.V I\ew Store
IN ATLANTA.
G. H, M ILLEII & ( 1 ()\S
SOUTHERN SALESROOM FOM
Tito Meriden Britannia Cos.
and
RO j EPS BROS’. FINE
Silver Plated Ware,
BRONZES, ETC.,
At Wlio,. sale uml Detail—prices same as at N. Y.
t.) Pryor Mrci t, Under Kiiuball House,
ATLANTA, - - GEORG A
Thrash's Consumption Cure
Uvil what Dr. LOVIO PIERCE
has to say about it.
Il.au, l'.uoTiu-R Davies—Excuse rue for writing
V'W KU ‘ a:n deeply interested. I have been
ir,,-■ " i" 0 ?, 1 t'vomonths. Could not read and
i mphL' 1 Had tried many things. Got no
e... ’mm any. Since Conference, someone sent
!! 1 '.../..." bottle of THRASH’S CON
' •! U\ i. (,; ItE AND LUNG RESTORER,which
• L been taking now this is the ninth day. I can
•! , , " !t 1 some ea se. I came here among other
s l l plp myself with this medicine. No
‘ ' i . ere bas it on sale. I must have it. I want
1 m go in person to Messrs. Thrash & Cos. and
•i uicm this letter, and make them send me, to
a. tin., two, three or four bottles, with bill.
1 am getting on finely.
-ale wholesale and retail by D. W. CURRY,
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VOL. VIII.
noTvers and Seeds,
VEGETABLE PLANTS AN DORN A MENTAL SHRUBBERY
Atlanta Nurseries* Atlanta* Ga.
M. COLE & CO, Proprietors.
Seed and Plant Store* \o. 2 Whitehall street.
MOSES COLE - SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
UUfc - CAMPBELL WALLACE.
Medical Dispensary.
Dr. Geo. AV. Marvin again ten
ders his professional service to his
old friends and the public. Dispen
sary and consultation rooms, No. 1
AV hite hall street, in Centennial buil
ding, Atlanta, Ga., where patients
can get reliable treatment for all
diseases of the Throat, Lungs and
Catarrh. The above diseases treated
by inhalation.
The Doctor treats ail diseases of
long standing, such as Eruptions,
Gravel, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Go
itry, Dropsy, Biliousness Diseases of
the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Nervous
Depression, Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plaint, all Diseases peculiar to AVo
mcn, all Private Diseases, Heart Dis
ease Swollen Joints, Coughs, Gout,
White swelling, St, Yitus Dance, etc.
Electricity|applied in cases where
it is required. The Doctor is per
manently located, and persons who
hay e been under the treatment of oth
er physicians and have not been cur
ed, arc invited to call, as he treats all
curable diseases, and cures guarnteed
or no {>ay. Call and see the Doctor
without delay. His charges are mo
derate, and consultation five. Oflice
hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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ALONE.
BY CAIiOI.A.
Alone! How lightly spoken!
Yet sadder word is none.
Alone ! Oh, mournful token
That all on earth is done !
She knew uot how ’twould hauut me—
This word of sorrow’s tone. —
Yet oh! what grief could daunt nr*,
If I were not alone ?
Alone ! Who knows the anguish
That pulses in my heart.
Doomed evermore to languish
From all it loves apart!
Not sorrow’s deepest surges
Can cause such bitter moan
As when the poor heart urges,
“Ever thou art alone !”
Alone ! AVilt thou be ever
O’ershadowed by this doom,
And will it lighten never
Thy life’s enshrouding gloom ?
Then ends thine earthly sorrow,
Poor heart will aught atone
Or on that distant morrow
Wilt thou he still alone?
Woman’s Journal.
DEVICES OF TOBACCO Stil t,-
EERS.
Recent seizures by Custom-House
officials of large quantities of contra
band Havana cigarettes have called
public attention to the enormous
extent of this illicit trafflic, and
wholesale and retail dealers are loud
in compliant that the quantities are
becoming so great as to seriously in
jure the legitimate trafflic in those
articles The high duty upon ci
gars doubles the smuggler's venture
when his schemes are successful.
The duty is in round numbers 100
per cent, on cigars and 500 per cent,
upon cigarettes. The natural conse
quence is that every possible expedi
ent, every conceiveahle trick and do
vice are resorted to by sailors and
others to bring these goods into the
N. Y. without paying duty. Immedi
ately upon the arrival of a steamer
or other vessel from Havana she is
boarded by the Custom-House offi
cers, and a careful search is made
for concealed goods.
And old officer of the Customs
Department tells some of the devices
in which he has detected the smug
glers. On one ship ho saw some
fresh paint on the molding in the
corner of a panel in otic of the state
rooms. The partition was at once
opened and the space within found
to contain thousands of fine cigars.
On one occasion by the merest acci
dent (and it is by accident that most
of the smugglers’ tricks are detect
ed), an inspector discovered 3,000
tine cigars in the bunt of a sail
which had been furled shortly before
reaching port. Another device is to
till the masts of the ship with ci
gars. Of course reference is made
to the iron masts which are now
largely used and which have open
ings in them between decks and at
various points obove the deck. The
sailors take advantage of this, and
the spaces between decks arc fre
quently found full of boxes of cigars.
When this device was discovered
they tied the boxes together on a
long piece of rat-line, and climbing
to the highest point in which an
opening is made, lowered the string
of boxes down into the interior of
the hollow mast. Searching a
steamer of the Clyde line, one day a
water cooler attracted the attention
of an officer by the discrepancy
which he discovered between its si
zes inside and ontsiue. The rivets
below were found to be simply dum
mies, and a partition having been
placed across the inside half-way up,
the lower half was filled with cigars.
On one of the steamers of the Elan
dre line an officer discovered an oc
tagonal piece of wood, grained like
the joiner-work of the ship, and evi
dently cut from a panel in some
part of the caoin. But where ? that
was the question. Where could it
have been taken out and not be of
necessity replaced ? The officer walk
ed the decks and up and down for
two whole days ;at length, after
THOM ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 1* 1877.
having passed up and down stairs a
score of times, he noticed that the
piece of wood in his possession was
identical in color with the gram in"
of the panel at the head of the stairs”
and its size and shape that of the
clock. The clock was quickly-re
moved, and behind it was the "hole
from which the wood had been re
moved. The space between the
joiner-work contained 5,000 cigars
in bundles, tied on a long string and
lowered. And the man who remov
ed the panel not neglected to destroy
the portion of it found by the officer
he might easily have worked his new
game for an indefinite period.
Another hiding place was made by
removing a piece from the side of
the ice-box, removing the saw dust,
and placing cigars in boxes of fUtv
in the space so made, and into which
they fitted nicely.
Some time ago a lot of twenty in
nocent and guileless looking Hour
barrels laid on the dock of one of
the Havana steamship lines and were
marked in large characters, “For
export.” They remained there sev
eral days, the inspectors not noticing
them particularly until one day an
attempt was made to cart one or
more of them away. The cart was
stopped, and not one alone bin. the
entire twenty barrels were found to
contain line cigars. That experi
ment was not repeated, but one
which was more successful was car
ried on for months, perhaps years,
and, as usual, was finally discovered
by the merest accident. Large
quantities of dye-wood were shipped
to New' York from Havana and pass
ed without question, until one day a
truck drove over the end of one of
the large logs, crushed it, and re
vealed to the astonished agents of
the Treasury Department that every
one of those logs which had come to
New York was hollowed out, filled
with cigars and the ends neatly
plugged. Cigars and cigarettes
have been sent packed iu fruit,
in sugar and in many other packa
ges purporting at a casual glance to
contain some article on which the
duty is light.
The discovery of many of these
modes of concealment by the search
ers has finally driven the smugglers
to the devices lately discovered,
which have caused the greatest con
sternation and alarm on the part of
the owners of vessels, and which can
only le characterized as utterly
reckless. The smugglers have been
discovered to he literally honey
combing t!ie ships in their most vi
tal points. On the Fitv of Vera
Cruz lately one of the water-tight
compartments was found to have a
Dole cut in large enough for a man
of small stature to enter, and con
cealed within the compartment, were
nearly thirty thousand line cigars,
valued at over $5,000. On other
ships the inner sheathing of the hull
has been cut and cigars stowed away
in the space between that and the
iron of the side of the ship. The
decK of one ship had a square piece
cut out of it directly over where a
space had been left when the cargo
was stowed away, and a nest of box*
es had been lowered into this space,
and the trap in the dock replaced.
This trap was cut with a watch
spring saw, Ihe edge bevelled, and
was so skd If illy replaced as to defy
detection. These methods are etu
dangering the lives of passengers and
crew, by so weakening the hull of
the ship and its water tight com
partments as to insure its destruc
tion in the event of a collision or
even a heavy gale of wind. This
fact, in addition to others, makes it
comparatively necessary that some
measures should be taken to break
up this traffic at o:.ee, in order to
insure the safety of the passengers
by the Havana steamship lines, if
for no other reason.
The most successful method of
landing cigars and other smuggled
goods, and one which was successful
ly practiced for a i mg time, was the
“rubber-bag trim. " Large rubber
bags, fitted with :■ t ight compart
ments, were filled u.ih cigars, and
as the steamer c.m ■ in shore they
were thrown owrboa 1 and picked
up by boats which wciv in waiting to
receive them. In tins way cigars
were landed all the w; y from Gape
May to Montauk Point. In New
York a common practice is- known
as “belly cigars that is, stowing
them away about the person, in
which way not a f= w can lie removed
from a ship by so\oral men in the
course of tho four or live drys of a
vessel’s stay in this port. Sometimes
the men are caught, and fifty or a
hundred cigars are taken from in
side a man’s shirt. It is asserted
that these small seizures do not in
variably find their way to the seizure
department, but furnish smoke to
Custom-house officials and their
friends.
Tho export duty at Havana is very
light, and the corruption in the Cus
tom-House is so notorious that it
affords a merely nominal barrier to
carrying cigars on board the ships.
It is well known to any person tra
ding with Havana that captains, es
pecndlv of sailing vessels, are com
belled to present three manifests of
their cargo at the Custom House
there —one “in ballast,’’ one reciting
half of their cargo, and a third giv
ing her actual freight. Either the
one in ballast or the halt manifest is
recorded, the merchant in the first
case paying abont GO per cent, of
the duty which is due the Govern
ment, and which sum is divided
among the Custom House ring, the
Government getting nothing, as the
vessel is, “in ballast.” Clerks who
come out from Madrid with appoint
ments, to positions in the Custom-
House at Havana at SI,OOO a year
salary live at the rate of SIO,OOO a
year. AVhen you see a particularly
elegant equipage driving through the
Padro at sun set, you may be sure
and will be told if you ask, that is
Senor so and so, in the Custom-
House. From this it maybe inferr
ed that it is not a difficult matter co
ovade the export datvj One wav of
getting cigars on board is by draw
ing them up over the bow by a line
from a small boat. The harbor at
Havana is crowded with a myriad of
these little sail-boats, so that it is an
easy matter to send the cigars on
board, even if as has been suggested,
a competent gangway watchman .s
on duty. One or two men can
sea rcely prevent by any huma means
the embarkation of cigars at that
port. Sometimes a trunk is sent on
board with the passage and is quiet
ly put one sidte ; at night it is emp
tied, the cigars placed in a secure
place and the trunk goes overboard.
Cigars are concealed in the dirty 'lin
en sent to the wash in New York, or
sent off with clean linen at Havana
—in fact there is no limit to the in
genuity of the men engaged in this
trade.
F. C. Humphreys, Florida elector,
becomes collector of customs at Pen
sacola.
Half of the million realized from
the old Philadelphia navy yard ap
pears not to have been stolen but di
verted to uses not authorized by law.
Under the fostering influences of
our protective tariff and an inciden
tal war in South America, the price
of quinine has recentlv been raised
to $4.50 an ounce, with a threat of
still further increase.
Mr. Russell, united States Min
ister to Vcuezula has been recalled
for acts justified and required by
the State administration. The real
cause of his recall arose out of the
old scandal of the Yenezmlan claims,
to which so much attention was
given in the hist an 1 proceeding
Jongresses, and comes from a des
patch which he sent to Seeretaiy
Fish two years ago charging that the
Venezuela officials were a corrupt
set. lie will probablv bo given an
other position.
It is expected that tne Supreme
Court will render a decision in the
case of the stockholders of the Cen
tennial Exposition as to the dispo
sition to be made of the $1,500,000
appropriated by Congress a year ago
for the Exposition, it was the in
tention of the act ot Congress, it
will he remembered, to make the
Government a preferred creditor to
this amount, but the lower court
has decided that it goes to the
credit of the stockholders, and it is
intimated that the decision, if ren
dered, will confirm tho judgement
of the lower court, and that the
Government will therefore lose tho
amount appropriated.
In the operating rooms of the
Western Union telegraph company a
large number of prominent citizens
assembled to witness the exhibition
of Professor Gray’s telephone, on
which numerous pieces were played
by Professor Boscowitz, the sounds
being transmitted to the audience
assembled in Stein way Hall, New
York city. Telegrams were receiv
ed from New York at the conclusion
of each piece, describing the suc
cess of the transmission and the en
thusiasm of the audience in Stein
way Ilall-
Twenty-three States have Demo
cratic Governors. There is a Demo
cratic majority in the House. The
Senate is nearly equally divided,
and in two years will be controlled by
Democrats. There is a white ma
jority of more than a million Dem
ocrats in the LTiited Slates, and an
absolute majority of a quarter of a
million. A Republican who was
not elected President, holds the of
fice through fraud. A hundred
thousand Republicans hold the mi
nor Federal offices through the same
fraud. This is the political situa
tion in a nutshell, and it is well to
remember the leading facts. —A.
Stin.
Tnere is a newsboy in San Fran
cisco, James Hanley by name, who
is rapidly acquiring a fortune by the
sale of papers. He is but fourteen
years old, yet owns two houses and
several building lots on Telegraph
Hill. He recently built a third
house there for SI,BOO and sold it to
his brother for $2,200. The broth
er also a newsboy, sold it again for
$3,100. Jimmy aspires to a profes
sion, and attends the Lincoln School,
where he stands high in his class.
The Whitehall review is responsi
ble for the following extraordinary
statement: “We make public the
astounding fact that a section of
members of the Church of England
have taken measures for founding
what will be nothing less than anew
Anglican Communion. This reso
lution has been come to in conse
quence of the action taken by the
Anglican prelates, and the Public
Worship Regulation act. A brand
new Archbishop, with a very an
cient title, is to be consecrated by
one or more foreign prelates. Sec
ondly. two suffragans, each with ti
tles from old English sees, are to he
consecrated simultaneously, but (as
we are given to understand) inde
pendently. aid are to begin their
conjoined labors in England, in the
High Church interest, iu July next.
The difficulties attendant upon the
consecration of the Archbishop and
his suffragans (as for as regards
any interference with existing juris
dictions, whether Popish or others)
will be surmounted by the ingenious
plan of consecrating them upon the
high seas. The formularies of this
new ecclesiastical body are based up
on the dogmas and rites of the Latin
and the Greek churches. A brief
‘Sacramentary’ has been officially
drawn up containing the order for
the administration of the Seven
Sacraments. The manual contains
instructions fur the use of the chrism
or prayer-oil as in the Greek and Ro
man Churches.”
A bill has been brought forward
in the English Parliament to abolish
the death penalty. It is proposed
that whoever is convicted of murder
after the passing ef the act shall lie
• kept m penal servitude for life, and
whoever is found guilty of high trea
son shall, at the discretion of the
Court, he sentenced to penal servi
tude for life or for any term not less
than seven years.
Reports have been spread that the
gua'io.beds in Peru, had been ex
hausted, and that the genuine arti
cle conhl no longer he obtained.
These rumors are pronounced false.
Since the exportation of this article
commenced, more than thirty years
ago, it has not ceased at any time,
and new deposits have been recently
discovered, while no doubt many
exist that are as yet unknown.
Tne Georgia Medical Association
will conyene in its twenty-eighth an
imal session at Macon on the 18th
of April.
'Uhe railways in the State, except
the A&W. P. and A. &G, roads
will pass members going and coming
for one fare.
Chief Justice Story on G'o-E<lii'
cation.
Editors Journal.— Chief Jus
tine Story m his autobiography says,
“There is one circumstance con
nected with my studies at Marble
head Acadamy. which has probably
given a turn to my thoughts, which
you may easily trace. Girls as well as
ooys went to the same school at the
same hour, and were arranged on
opposite sides of a large hall on their
appropriate forms. In the simplici
ty of those days, it was not thought
neecessary tu separate the sexes in
their studies. Generally we studied
the same hooks, and as we recited
our lessons in the presence of each
other, there was a mutual pride to
do our best, and to gain an honest
portion of flattery or of praise. I
was early struck with the flexibility,
activity, and power of the female
mind Girls of the same age were, on
an average of numbers, quite oui
equals in their studies and acquire
ments, and had a much greater
quickness of perception and delica
cy of feeling than the boys. . Re
maining thus at school with tliem
until 1 was about fifteen years old,
I could not be mistaken us to their
powers; and i then imbibed the
opinion, which I have neyer since
changed, that their talents are gener
ally equal to those of men, though
there are shades of difference iu the
character or their minds, resulting
from several causes. My impres
sion is, that the principal difference
in intellectual power which is mark
ed in after days, results not so much
from their original inferiority of
mind, as from the fact that educa
tion stops with females almost at the
time it effectively begins with men ;
and that neither their habits nor
pursuits in life enable them after
wards to cultivate science of litera
ture with much diligence or success.
They have no professions which con
stantly require and constantly en
courage them to master new sour
ces of knowledge.”
The above 1 have copied from
page ten of the “miscellaneous wri
tings” of Chief Justice Story, edi
ted by his son. William W. Story,
Boston, 1852, aud 1 ask for a place
for this extract in your valuable pa
per. A. Y. M.
The Star says the interview be
tween Senator Paterson and Wade
Hampton was brought about in this
wise ; Senator Patterson sent his
son to Senator Gordon, asking him
if lie could arrange for him, Pater
son, to have an interview with Ham
pton, who said he would be pleased
to see Senator Paterson, whereupon
an hour was appointed, and Pater
son called. He assured Governor 11.
that while he had antagonized his
claim to the gubernatorial seat, that
now since he was virtually recogniz
ed by the president, he (Patterson)
was willing to forego all factious op
position and accept the situation, and
do w hut lie could to promote the
welfare of South Carolina. Govern
or llam]iton said he was pleased to
hear such expressions from him, and
that he will, as Governor, adminis
ter the office for the whole people,
and with no special reference to
parties. The interview lasted over
fifteen minutes, and was exceedingly
pleasant.
It is also published that Sheriff
Bowen and Prof. Greener, of South
Carolina College, gave their adhesion
to Hampton.
Jlitisiiig Jeweler.
The Atlanta Constitution of last
Thursday, gives a long account of
the leaving of George Sharp, jeweler
in that city, under suspicious eir
cumstances. On Monday morning
of last week his store was seized by
his creditors :
It appears that for some time Mr.
Sharp lias been carrying an immense
load of debt. His credit lias been
impaired, and he has had very little
accommodation in the banks. He
has hence been forced to borrow
money on the streets and from per*
so mil friends. He has succeeded in
getting large amounts from these
quarters, by paying high interest and
depositing diamond collaterals. He
has been shifting about from one set
of lenders to another fora year and a
half It has been his custom to go
to the holders of his diamond col
laterals and borrow the collaterals
whenever ho saw a chauce to sell
them. If he sold them he would pay
the money over, and if he failed he
would return the jewels.
On Friday last he went to every
man who held any of his diamonds,
and solicited the loan of them, say
ing that he had a chance to sell
them. lie got them as usual, ex
cept in one case, where a bond was
demanded for tbe return of the
jewels, and finally obtained.
He bad done this before and when he
had failed to sell them returned
them. In cases when he sold the
jewels, he paid the money. Some
thought lie must have carried otT
from £75,000 to £IOO,OOO worth of
Diamonds. Others think he had
less. He is said to own about £45,-
000. The banks suffered but little.
The friends of Mr. Sharp were the
greatest sufferers, because of their
friendship and confidence being im
posed on. A sum of £IOO was made
up for telegraphing and despatches
were sent all over the country. A
sum of £1,250 was made up by Ins
creditors, and is offered as a reward
for his return. Two doctors state
that he inquired of them very pir
ticularly, as to what poisons would
kill in the shortest time. The
impression now seems to be that he
wished this information in order to
destroy himself in case lie should be
arrested, preferring to die rather
than come back. In order to show
the manner in which he imposed on
those who favored him with loans,
one of them says :
“He came to me Friday, and ask
ed my advice, stating that he was
in a desperate condition, and was
thinking about taking a trip to try
and sell some goods. I advised him
to do so, saying lie had better unload
a little. He then asked me where
lie hud best go. I could not advise
him,and asked him where he thought
of going. He said there was in Au*
gusfa a lady who had wanted two
costly diamond ear-rings, and
thought if her husband could see
them he would buy them, these
ear-rings were among my collaterals.
If 1 would let him have them he
would goto Augusta. I then surren
dered all the diamonds I had, which
must have been £IO,OOO worth,
saying that I was his friend and
would trust his honor. He pledged
me faithfully he would be back by
Tuesday, lie came later in the day
and borrowed £IOO in cash from me
for traveling expenses ; and still la
ter be besought me to go on bis
bond for £3,500 worth of saleable
jewelry that lie had placed with a
bank, and desired to take out I
did so and he left. I have not seen
or heard from him since. I believed
up to last night that he would re
turn, according to his promise. I
have now lost confidence in linn, but
intend to bring him back here if I
have to run him all over the world.”
tupes in Chickens.
J. W. S., Bartlesville Ga., desires a
remedy for the gape worm. He
says : “I have lost three-fourths of all
the young chickens hatched. They
contract the disease from the time
they are a few days old till large
frying size, and die by dozens. I
have tried various remedies without
beneficial results. The disease is
discovered bj- the chickens occasion
ally raising their heads, slightly
stretching their necks and gaping,
which becomes gradually more fre
quent until within a few days the
gaping is constant, accompanied by a
flirting of the head and a gurgling
sound as though they were strangling.
Upon examination, i found from six
to a dozen worms, about the size of a
Xo. 4 needle, from an inch to an inch
and a half long, in the windpipe.
The worms were forked about one**)
fourth of an inch from one end,
both of the forked ends being a
square, fiat bead.”
ANSWER.
BY PROF. C. E. RILEY.
The nature of the animal which
produces “gapes’’ is well understood
by zoologists. This parasite is a
worm (syngamus tracheal is, Sieb),
and not the larva of a true insect.
Closely allied species are found in
many other animals, as the intes
tines of horses, asses and mules, the
fat of hogs, etc.
The one under consideration
lives in the wind pipe and bronchial
tubes, not alone of chickens, but of
turkeys, pheasants, partridges, ducks
wood-peckers crows and many other
birds. J'he males and females—the
latter being much the largest—are
almost invariably found united firm'
ly together, the integument of the
male soon becoming organically unted
to that of the female, so that copu
lation is permanent or for life. The
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NO. 19.
ta g- lire vvrv minute an.3 The
embryo develops while ii.i _arc
still hi the ovidt anti u t” nr
mites, and they juo *.t y t -capo by n
runt ure of Du* iniegMuteot of the
fern.ilc. Chick-and |M>ui:s. win i
ultackcl lv it. open wile 13 1 *■ il*
mi mi tbs, gnspiiiir for bi\*Hth. at the
-am ■ ini * sue-ring ami Rttcnip ag
to swallow This affection. slight ai
first, gradually becomes more and
more oppressive, until it nUimately
destroys the patient. Very few re
cover; they languish, droop ami
die. Dr. \Viesenthal. professor- of
anatomy, at Baltimore. accuratel*
discribed tbe disease as early ns
1707 ; and traeed it t<> its pi *p r
origin. Various curative metin* ;-
may be employed. Dr. Aiesellial
pointed out long ago that the sim
plest plan consists in stripping a
feather except ji small portion near
the tip, which is introduced into the
windpipe, tw is tod round a few turns
and withdrawn. Several of the
worms will be found attached to the
feather. Although this plan, if re
peated, often proves entirely
factory, it occasionally fails to dis
lodge all worms. It D more affec
tive when the feather is steeped in
some medicated solution, which w;!l
destroy those worms' remaining in
the wind-pipe. Salt, a weak infu
sion of tobaeeo or oil, is often suecet
fnlly employed. An external appli
cation of turpentine to the throat
is sufficient to kill the worm.-, but
unless much care is taken, the bird
itself mav be killed by tin* drug.-
emploved 1 1* verv’bad ease, where
immediate* suffocation of the loul
seems inevitable, the trachesMuav 1 •
opened and all the worms removed
at once,’when relief will generally
follow. This surgical oj e;\: ion
quires some skill. Placing a few
drops of clilora form upon cotton,
and holding!it to the nostrils, the
skin of tin* neck should be divide i
with a very sharp knife, and the wind
pipe opened by a longitudinal s.i !
about a quarter of an inch lorn .
The worms are. then removed by a
pair of small forceps, and the : incis
ion of the skin is closed with one <n
two stitches. My friend, Dr. X. 11.
Paarcn, of Chicago, recommend. ,
as the only remedy which he found
serviceable, carbolic acid, both as a
preventive and as a pretty sure reme
dy.
*He dissolves one grain of pure
crystalline carbolic acid in ten drop
of alcohol, and adds half a drachm
of vinegar. a feather stnpp *<l
as described and'moistened with this
solution, the windpipe is cleared.
A few twists will dislodge the worms,
most of which adhere with slime to
the feather ; those not removed in
this manner will die from thecontai
with the mixture. Great .-kill and
dexterity is required, and also son. '
little knowledge of the anatomy ot
the parts, or the already half suffoca
ted bird will be killed instead of cur
ed. The bird is next put into 'a
clean coop, with some shavings mois
tened with a solution of carbolic acid
(half an ounce of crystal!nc acid
well mixed with one quart of water).
Flour ot sulphur, with a little gin
ger, is mixed with the food, compos*,
ed of barley, meal and coarse coni
meal, which is given in tin box<
placed conveniently to the patient.
A few drops of the last named solu
tion may be added to tbe drinking
water. The mouth and beak of tin*
bird should be washed with some of
the solution, and the old shaving;
replaced by well sprinkled fresh one
each morn.ngand evening. If tin*
disease is at all curable and the bird
is kept dry in a warm place, it will
be cured within three days. Mr. J.
H. Darkness, of St. Louis, who ha
had large experience, lias good suc
cess by using sulphurous acid in-tea l
of carbolic acid, diluting it with
about live parts of milk, and apply
ing it with the feather, as already
described. Prevention being better
than cure, great care should be taken
to destroy the parasites after remov
al by burning them, else mature
eggs will escape destruction, and De
young parasites will ultimately find
their way into the air passage of # oth
er birds.
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show mercy to the other, ami it is
not probable that strife will cease
until either the clergy or their ene
mies shall have been crushed.
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