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Tnirty IMJB Notices $5 00 F , / Days Notices 8 2o * j\ \,f Lands ttc. peraqr. often lines 6 00 A'v Oivh notices 700 l\ ".i •utus* Notices 10 00 * V i.i,s’ notices of Sales per sqr 2 00 1 ,iU vt? Salks. —Fur these Bale *,for every ii la P'’ o, , t ;tr . sales per spuare $5 00 Hunt tk Taylor, 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. \V. Hightower. dec2-ly %K attorney at law, I \KNFSVII.LE, <A. Will practice in the I > .unties of the Flint Circuit and In the Su preme Court. of the state. sep2B-3m Bt{. Q. /*. G/\pf>BELL, I)K\TIST, Has re-opened an office—Room :j. Eank Building. 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. feb22-3m .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, ‘ " Ca tersville, Oa Call and get a trial bot uior3j cents. TIT.DFM & REFORM. Now ready for -L-LUIjiM agents. The National Hand Book ■id eY IPrs ’ " 1111 idle of Tilden & Hendricks, and ‘ ; M*ose of Rings and Frauds. 500 pages, tllus cis. will secure outfit and territory, a month made. E. B. Treat, Pub., 805 •ifloadway, N. y. ’ |< '-‘H l TIONIST’S JOI 11NALgives ehoic *i- t riaudard and new prices for professional and u j.I "f 10 'ders and speakers, school exhibition, j l ,! Ul c r ' s'ing articles on appropriate subjects. •- the thin.: wanted. Large size, 10 ets. of any i '"'Wleaici' py ma il. T : HVNi.Y &CO 119 Nassau St.. New York. lchri-tr A2<‘lltw! ou, Ufe-llke Steel Engrav " 11 * isos of the Presidential candi- I dates sell rapidly. Sendforclreu sal) vV| iar. N. Y. Engraving Cos., 33 Wall v ■' L lox 3236. N. Y. sep7-lf * ■ o tin- Working CIaSH.-IVe are Prepared to furnish all cla,ses with constant •mp.jyimut at hofne, the whole of theirtime, or for nmre moments. Business new, light and prof • - J.e. Persons of either sex easily earn from 50 to f 5 per evening, and a proportional snm by • ceyotiu-! their whole time to the business. Boys l l mils min nearly as much as men. That all who *'' this notice may send their address, aud test the '“l 1 Talleled offer: To such as are not well satis -1 \ "dl send one dollar to pay for the trouble of Full particulars, samples worth several • J irs to commence work on, and a copy of Home ■V" knrside, one of the aargestaml besi Illustrated "'dil ations, all sent tree by mail. Reader if you ' a "t permanent, profitable woik, address, gf.oboe y- (> 0 ; p ol .t] a nd, Maine. 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. feb22-ly 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 riWiK ORKAT LIAR!) TIMES I*APri> A The Dwt. tb Chnpnit and (hi* mnS popa lar. You can't nfford to be without It. CRICKET HEARTH. II a n.Killin'>th 16-pawe itinerated faper (*i> of llar/iei'. Weekly.) filled with the choice-*! reading for old and Young. 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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. 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