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THE STATE LEQISLATUBE.
Thursday July 31,1879.
THESENATE
jaet. President Lester In the chiir.
Prayer by Rev. J. E. Evans, D.D.
The journal was read and approved.
A reconsideration of the bill amending
the law in regard to the order of calling
the Superior Court docket so as the oldest
cases may be tried, wa3 moved by Mr.
Lumpkin. Carried.
The ohairman of the Judiciary, Mr.
MoDaniel, the chairman of the Finance
Committe, Mr. Cabaniss, and the chair
man of the Lnnatio Asylum Committee,
Mr. Cisey,made their reports.
Mr. Lumpkin of tho committee to con
fer with the Atlanta authorities in refer
ence to receiving the city ball lot for the
site of tho now capital reported a resolu
tion looking to tho empowering of & com
mission to receive the lot and certain ad
joining property in lien of the propoaitisn
of Atlanta to erect the capital as per her
preposition. The property adjoining.i
braced in tbe resolution, is the St. P
ips Episoopal property, Georgia Road
round-house, Holcombes’ corner, and will
neoeseitato the closing of Hunter street
and the entrance to McDonongh street.
BILL OH FIRST READING.
Mr. Grant! and, to provide for *he pay
ment of insolvent 0031®. Jndioiai..
Mr. Bussell, to punish tramps and to
define tho crime of beir g oco. Jadi-
ci*rr.
Mr. McDaniel, to provide for oases to
which the State ie a party a special hear
tag.
Mr. Cabaniss, ta amend seo'.lon 64 of
the code.
Bills for a sisoad reading were taken
op and read.
The Heme bill amending section 3793
of the oode relating to confessions. Re
ported on adversoly by tbe Judiciary
Committee. Lost.
A bill amending station 4327 of the
oode was taken up. The Judiciary Com
mittee reported adversely on it. Mr.
Simmons epoko in its favor. Passed.
A message was reoeived from the House
announcing the disagreement of that body
with tbe Senate amendment to the
bill fixing the penalty for burglary.
£P£CIiI» OBDCB.
The bill to repeal the aot leasing the
convicts wsb taken up.
A bill, as a substitute, was offered by
Mr. Cumming providing for the batter
government of tne penitentiary.
Mr. Hair:3cn opposed tho abolition of
the lease.
Dr. Cumming supported his snbsti-
etute.
An amcnlment was offered by Mr.
Folks.
Mr. Preston strongly opposed the lease
system.
A speech was made by Mr. Boyd in
support of his bill. He contended lessees
had no right to whip negroes on the
chain gang; also, that the lessees had
never given the proper bond.
A resolution was introduced to allow
the E location Committee to attend tbe
commencement of the State University.
After some debate on the resolution the
Senate adjourned.
Atlanta, July 31, 1879.
THE HOUSE
met this morning and we3 o.tJted to order
by the Speaker.
Prayer by the Chaplain, Eiv. John
Jones, D.D.
The journal war read and approved.
Mr. Humber of Pntnam moved to re
consider eo much of tbe journal as related
to the action of the Home in defeating,
yesterday, the bill to establieh the Middle
Georgia Military and Agricultural Col
lege at Milledgevills. The object of the
reconsideration was to lay the bill on the
table in order to sttike out the section
appropriating $5,000 per annnm.
Messrs. Caliey, Mynatt, King, Hulsey,
Harris and Hammocd spoke in support
of the motion, Mesers, Miller and
Mathews opposed. The yeas and cays
wore ordered and the vote stood yeaa IOC,
naya 30. The motion prevailed.
Mr. Humber then moved to table tbe
bill. Agreed to.
UTILES SUSPENDED.
Mr. Awtre, of Troup—A bill to pro
vide for & tax on property for the sup
port of common schools. Finance.
Mr. Smith of Walton—To amend the
act incorporating the town of Social
Circle. Corporation.
Mr. McCarry, of Hart, moved to take
up the bill introduced by himself incor
porating the Hartsville railroad for a
third reading. The bill wes read and
passed, the necessary notices of the or
dinary and newspaper being found cor
rect.
The Finance Committee, by their chair
man, made a report.
Tao Committee on Corporations sub
mitted a report.
THE SPECIAL ORDER
was taken up. It was the hill to regu
late the management or disposition of
the Macon and Brunswick railroad. The
bill has been reported on favorably and
was read the second time, and was mads
the special order for ten o’clock next
Thursday.
Mr. Garrard, of Muscogee, for Mr.
Phillips, of Ccbb, introduced a bill to
amend the charter of Marietta. Special
Legislation (by consent).
DILLS OH THIRD READING.
By Mr. Busssell, of Chatham—A bill to
establish a system of drainage in toe
counties of this Stale. Passed by a vot«
of 91 to 0.
A MESSAGE FB M TEB SENATE,
announcing that tbs report of tbe Joint
Committee on the endorsement of the
Nottheastern Baiiroad baud 3 has been
adopted by that body.
A bill to exempt from jury duty den
tists, millers, ministers, firemen and par
sons of similar classes, railroad men, etc.
Passed, 103 yeas to 23 hays.
A bill to fix the fees oi justices of tbe
peaee and notaries public ex-officio J. P.
and constables in appeal eases. Pus>ed
by sobettlnta.
By Mr. Baoon, of Bibb, a bill to pro
vide for the Us.no of bonds to food cer
tain debts of tbe city of M&oin. Posted
by sntstitntr.
By Mr. Yancey, of Cl like, to rsqu're
surveyors to make their surveys vith due
reference to the magnetlo variations.
Tabled pro fen*.
The use of tbe boil of Riprcsant9tives
was tendered to tbe Georgia Historical
Society.
Mr. Hammond, chairman of the (Lm-
mitteo op Local Legislation, submitted a
report. Said report wes t»ken ap nnder
the rales and acted on by reading.
THE O.MMITTEB ON THE ATLANTA PROP
OSITION,
in reference to a new capital, made a re
port on the subject, accompanied with a
plot of the city ball lot. Tbe committee
offered a reso'ntion to tec following ef
fect:
First. That the S a:o accept the ten
der on the part of tbe city of Atlanta of
the lot known as the city hall lot, as a c-
cationofthe capital, and that Speaker
Paeon and President Lester be appointed
commissioners on tbe part of tbe State
to see thatVthe titles on sail tat ere free
from blame and to arrange ail necessary
matters attending the transfers.
Second. That, if the city will add to
said lot several other adjoining paretta cf
uad enlarging said city hail lot, the
State will then release the city from her
obligation to bnildthe capital.
Third. If the second head,’cinnot be
effected and the lot eo i n'arged, then the
Governor, the Speaker and th «Piesident,
on the part of the Stats, shall consult
with the city authorities on tbs amount
of money to be taken in lieu o! said lot
and offer to build.
This resolution was nnaaimcn3
adopted.
The proposed lot will comprise about
eight acres, being a paralellogram of 633
feet by 429 and will bj worth abut
$150,000.
House bills consolidated from e re-
poit on Loeal Legislation :
. A bill to prohibit hunting sad fishing
in oertam oonnties. A^iiaoltnre.
AbUl to encourage the culture of fish
In certain counties.
A bill to fix tbe amount of lie n;e for
liquor selling In c:rtatn coia'i--. Ju ti-
citry.
The rales were anspeneed, and Mr.
Hammond :t Thomas, intro&uocd a bill
to amend seotion 1416 of the oode. Jn-
dioiary.
The Honsa then adjourned till nine
a. m. to-morrow.
Caboltnn.
BY TELEGRAPH
London, July 31.—-Tho Iron masters
in the Cleveland District in the North of
England trade yesterday, gave notioe of
a five per cent, redaction of wages of
their employes, lhe matter will be re
ferred to arbitration.
Berlin, July 31.—Intelligence receiv
ed here from St. Petersburg announces
that abont a hundred persons were ar
rested last Sunday on the estate of the
Grand Duke Constantine, brother of the
Oxar, at Pavelosk, near St. Petersburg.
London, July 31.—A London corro-
epondent of tbe Manchester Guardian
says the Odessa Chamber of Commerce
has manifested much concern at the extra
facilities afforded to the United Slates
for exporting wheat by the deepening of
the mouths of the Mississippi.
London, July 31.—Tho Goodwood cup
was won by Iaonomy—Thebor Si, Parole
31.
A dispatch to tho Pall Mall Gazelle
says final decision of the general govern
ment on tho religions questions at issue
with the Vatican has been communicated
to tho latter. Ic is as follows:
All of tho exiled, clergy who ask per
mission, will be allowed to return to
Germany. The May laws will be tacitly
suspended, provided the clergy ob3y the
common law, and ell fresh nominations
are to bo submitted to the government.
The Pope is satisfied with these terms.
Memphis, July 31.—Five new cases of
fever were reported to the Board of
Health this morning, four of which were
colored. Three deaths havd occurred:
Michael Atby, brother of Chief of Police
Athy, Brooks Wilson, telegraph operator,
and C. S. Forbes. The latter resides
beyond the corporation line. The wife
of Chief of Police Athy was stricken with
the fever la3t night at Raleigh, Tenn,;
his daughter, Eudora, is in a dying cons
dition. The weather is clear and warm,
which is favorable to the spread of the
fever.
Memphis, July 31.—A large meeting of
colored people was held at noon to-day
at Cochran’s Hall. Resolutions were
adopted opposing tho removal of their
people to the oamp and expressing their
determination to appeal -to the abisnt
merchants for assistance. Tne sentiment
of the meeting was strongly cpp. aid to
tbe camp scheme.
Cincinnati, July 31.—Tne Cincinnati
Cotton Exchange to-day adopt*! a reso
lution protesting against the proposed
change of the place of meeting of
tbe
National Cotton Exchange from St. Louis
to New York.
London, July 31.—Tho betting just
before the Goodwood race was six to four
against Isnomy; Twenty-five to one
against the Bear. 10Q to SO against Pa
role. The Bear lead by 200 yards until
a mile from here, when Isnomy beaded
him and won in a canter by 3 lengths.
Parole was beaten i mile from here,
when Isnomy finally headed the Bear,
Time of race five minutes and eight sec
onds.
Atlanta, July 31—A special to the
Constitution from Opelika saya Samuel G.
Grasty, who was on trial for the murder
of Reed, was admitted to $3,500 bail to
day.
Galveston, July 31.—Tho Hews has the
following special frem Austin: The In
ternational and Great Northern Railroad
was sold to-day for one million dollars.
It was bid In by George Seely, of Galvcs
ton, representing Kenedy & S'.oan, of
New York, trustees for the bondholders.
Petersburg, Ya.„ July 31.—Captain
Daniel Dodson, a prominent oltizen, who,
with his entire family, wa3 poisoned by
eating cream a few days einoe, died here
this morning, aged eixry years. He leaves
a large family, all quite ill.
Saratoga, July 31.—Tho third race, a
mile and an eighth, was won by Vagrant,
with Sunlight 2ad and Maxitana 3d. Time
ZiOlf. The fourth race, a steeple chase,
was won by Trouble In G:44J.
London, Jaly 31.—The official returns
show that twenty officers and four hun
dred men died of cholera and other dis<
eases on the retarn march from the Af
ghan campaign, while only about one
bnndred men were killed in action on the
British side daring the war.
Paris, July 31.—The extreme Lift in
the Chamber of Deputies yesterday ab
stained from voting when the estimate
for the salaries of Bishops was submitted.
As less than briftbe Caambir voted, the
vote was inviiid. Caj extremists may
repeat tbe fcaaioouis - w day. The ob
ject of tb9 delay is to coerce the Senate
into passing the anti Jesuit clause of
Jnlea Ferry’s education bill nnder pun
of seeing the ecclesiastical salaries stop
pad.
London, July 31.—The IMaachester
Guardian’s London correspodent saya. that
some Conservative members of the House
of Commons who are abont to take long
journeys, have been assured that they
need have no tears that n general eleotion
will occnr daring the fall or winter.
London, July 31.—A Berlin dispatch
to the Pail Mall Gazette says the German
government has decided to propose a tax
upon dividends on public frauds in order
to reimburse itself for the proposed re
duction of taxation on landed proprietors.
It is understood that the government in
tends (o insist npon the adoption of this
tax.
This afternoon’d GUIs says a letter was
lately received by Mr. Horatio J
Spragne, United States Consul at Gib
raltar, demanding that $3,009 be deposit-
in a certain spot on pain of tho death of
himself and his family. The Spanish
authorities investigated the matter and
arrested fourteen persons on suspicion.
Mr. Sprague has since reoeived a letter
containing still more audacious threats.
Havana, Ja'.y 31.—In reply to the
questions of certain representatives in
tne Spanish Cortes the Colonial Minister
bas rcoontly elated that the export dalles
on sugar cannot be abolished einoe they
afford an easy and sato income for the
exhausted treasury of the Island, and are
compensated fir Ly almost the total abo
lition of the indirect taxes on ths planta
tions. Ho said also that the importation
of genuine Corta Rica tobacco would not
bs prohibited, but that all means would
be employed ta prevent the introduction
of foreign tabicco under the name of tbe
Costs Rica leaf.
London, July 31.—In the Honse of
Commons to-day tho Chancellor of the
Exchequer stated that the Government
proposed to ask a vote of three million
pounds on account of tho war in South
Africa, which eum, if not sufficient,
wonld at all events snffioe until the next
session of Parliament. The new credit
thus aeked for. will raise the expendi
tures for the Zulu war to four and a
half million pounds. The Chancellor of
the Exchequer stated the new credit would
transform the surplus estimated at the
introduction of the budget into a deficit
of 1,163,0C& pounds. He said the Gov
ernment hopes to recover this earn from
the Sonth African colonies and wonld
ask the anthorities to raise the remainder
by Exchequer bonds.
London, July 31 —Too Vienna Political
Correspondence soys Roosia has formally
declared that there ere now only three
cavalry regiments left in Bnlgaria.
A Constantinople dispatch to tbe Bea
ter’s Telegram Company says the British
and Frencn embassadors nave demanded
that the firman of investiture of Twelfth
Pash*, as the Khedive of Egypt, he sub-
milled to all the great powers, so that It
may have an International character.
Hempstead, Texas, July SI.—R. B.
Boothe, ex-oounty attorney, was shot
end instantly killed la ;t night by R. T.
Bpriagfleld, who etot him five times in
the head and or CO II the body. The
mnrdereris still st large, but two sheriff's
poescs are in priaui 3
Clayton, N. Y.,’ July 31.—^.vs ladies
Mrs. Pert alls, of Blng'aampton ; Mrs.
Bo telick, M B- aid Mhs Burke lew, cf
Kirkwood; aid Miss Pollock, of New
York, were drowned in the St. Lawrence
river sear hers to-day by tbe upsetting
of a pleasure boat.
Detroit, July 31.—The pleasure steam
er Lew Wallace, together with the dwell
ing of James Cleveland and three boat
houses, was burned at Gognsck Lake,
two miles south of Battle Creek, Mich!
gan, to-day. Mrs. Cleveland and one
child perished in the flames end two
other ohildren are fatally injured. Mr.
Cleveland saved himself and one child by
jamping from the second story window
into the lake. The fire originated in the
engine room of the steamer.
Naw York, July 39.—Bartholomew
McKeon, foreman of the steamer Merida,
from Havana, died this morning of yel
low fever at the quarantine. A. F. Keith,
barber of the steamer Saratoga, died of
the fever at the Earns place last night.
Only one patient now remains in the hos
pital.
Iowa Citt, July 31.—The Democratic
Congressional Convention of the Fifth
District to-day nominated H. E. J. Board-
man, of Marsnaltowr, for Congress.
New York, July 31.—A letter from
Kingston, Jamaica, dated Jane 24th,rep
resents the fiaanoial and agricultural
prospeots of that country as very gloomy-
Tbe officials ore recklessly extravagant
and roiort to increased taxes to meet the
deficiency of the revenue. Large and
excited pnblic meetings have been held
in Kingston to protest against the oppres
sion to which tho colonists are subjected
by the officials, whom the system of gov
ernment renders nttarly irresponsible.
Philadelphia, July 30.—At a meet
ing of the Educational Association to
day, a long paper was read on industrial
education by Alexander Logg, id. A.,
professor of mathematics in the Agricul
tural and Mechanical College of Texas.
Resolutions were also adopted advocating
the donation of a portion of the pnblic
domain for the endowment and mainten
ance of schools for the higher ednoation
of women, and a committee was appoint
ed to bring the subject before Congress.
New Brunswick, N. J., July 21.—A
row boat containing five persons was up
set in the Baritan river near here today,
and two ladies, Mrs. John Donnigan and
Miss Kate Horan, were drowned,
Caiho, July 31.—The Looal Board
ENTOMOLOGY,
Health today passed a resolution that
all persons entering the city bo required
to prodnee a certificate that they have
cot been in fever infected districts within
fifteen daye. Steamers from the South
will bs permitted to land only at the
Vincennes railroad wharf boat, at the
northern limit of the city, to transfer
through passengers. Steamers from
above will bo prohibited from landing if
less than eight days from infected dis
tricts. Tho transfer of through passen
gers from trains will be made at the
Vincennes railroad incline, two miles up
tho Ohio. The health of the city is good.
The following is self-explanatory: As a
matter of precaution, all northward
bound travelers wonld do well to provide
tnemsclves with medical certificates,
whether the locality from where they
come is infected with yellow fever or
not.
(.Signed] John H. Roach,
Secretary of the Sanitary Council of the
Mississippi Valley.
Memphis, Jaly 31.—Four more oases
wan reported to the Board of Health this
afternoon, to-wll: James Hester, Jerry
Croden, Rachel Taylor and Mary Taylor,
One additional death h33 oocnrred—H.
Dapruth, residing six miles from the city.
At a meeting of the Howard Association
this afternoon four physicians were plaoed
oa duty to attend the indigent sick,
Abont one hundred poor poople went to
Camp Marks to-day. A storm from the
Sou (beast i3 threatened.
Mobile, July 31.—The reports of
case of yellow fever in Mobile published
in the New Orleans papers this morning
are pronounced by the Board of Health
and tho attending physicians to ba en
tirdy without foundation.
New Orleans, July 31.—The Board of
Health tc-night adopted the following
\7hereas, einoe the last regular meet
iog of ths Board, sporadic yellow feve
has made ita appsarauca In the cityr
oausing tn the minds of some of on,
neighboring oomumnitles undue alarm
Inducing them to enact severe quarantine
against ns, without waiting to see if the
spread and growth of fever in onr midst
justify such measurer; and
Whereas, Without reflecting in the
least npon the motives or acts of our
friends or questioning their righto to es
tablieh quarantine if eo minded, ths Board
congratulates our own citizens, as well as
those of the States and places contiguous
ton?, npon tho favorable, aspeot of the
weather relating to tbe fever, and the un
likelihood of its putting on any serious
or daegerous form, each as an epidemic;
therefore, be It
Resolved, By the Board of Heairh that
at present we eee no reason for the least
alarm on account of the casual cnee or
few C&833 sporadically exhibited, and ex
press the hope that our citizens will con
tinue their self posJession and confidence
aad that soon the plioes and cities that
have, through great prudence, put up
their quarantine bars against ns, will feel
it in their power to tabs them down and
allow the business cf the country to pro
ceed, when it can do eo without any real
danger to the public health.
Tho resolution to accompanied by the
official statement cf tbe cases to date:
Carrio S. Marnepree, 768 Magazine street,
convalescent; Vincenez Spano, corner
Second and Constance streets, died Jaly
23th; Louis Aafaet, 105 Bourbon street,
has black vomit, bnt hopes of recovery
are entertained; Bernhard Berkson, died
July 31; Jno .Knapp, 123 Seventh atree-,
still sick bat reported doing well.
Dr. Choppin, in the coarse of his re
marks before the board, said the epi
demic cases here are hibernated from
germs left by the epidemic lost season.
Such cases haro followed every epidemic
during the past thirty years. There will
be, perhaps, a few more of these cases,
bnt S3 no foreign fever poison has been
imported, there is no fear of an epidemic.
One case is reported at the quarantine
station end two suspicious cases of chil
dren on Washington street.
Chattanooga, Jaly 31.—This city has
quarantined against New Orleans, com
mencing August 1. No yellow fever
here, nor any suspicious cases. The oity
in in good sanitary condition, and tho
quarantine is rigidly enforced. No out
break of tbe f6var is apprehended.
Hamilton Fisn, Jr., in a note to tno
New York Tribune, copies from Boynton’s
history of WeBt Point the following order
from Genera! Washington on the subject
of profane swearing. It will not, per
haps, bs new to auy reader, bnt it is
worth reproducing as the judgment of
this great and good man upon a practice
so silly and reprehensible that it is dif»
ficult, if not impossible, to find or im
agine a reason for its wide existence:
Headquarters Moore's House.
West Point, July 29, 1779.
Many and pointed orders have been is
sued against that unmeaning and abom
inable oaatora of swearing, notwithstand
ing which, with much regret, tbe General
observes that it prevails, if posiible, tncra
than ever ibis feelings are oontlnnally
wounded by tbe oaths and imprecations
of the soldiers whenever he is within
bosring of them,
The name of that Being from whose
bonctifal goodness we are permitted to
exist and enjoy tbe comforts of life, is
incessantly imprecated and profaned in a
manner as wanton as it is shocking. For
the sake, therefore, of reUgion, decenoy
and order tbe General hopes and trusts
that officers of every rank will nse their
Influence and authority to oheok a vies
which is as unprofitable as it is wicked
and shamefal.
If officers would make it an nnavoida
ble rale to reprimand, and, if that doer
not do, punish soldiers for offenses of
this kind, it oonld not fall of having tbe
sired effeoi.
1—Prince Jerome gtiapoleon’s nickname of
eion-FIcn’ was, it is said, obtained in his
childhood at Btnttgart. where be was a great
favorite with the late K-.ng William of War-
temberg. The King ussd to amass himself
by selling ths littlo Prince hti name, and the
child, who conld not then speak plaln.y, al
ways answered, ‘Pion-Pion’ imtead ot -Na
poleon ’ It wm in this way that he became
known by this name at tbe WiirtomOc-rg
Court, tnd ha bas nev -r lost it slac.
Address of Professor J. E. Willet
on Entomology In Ita Relations
to Horticulture, Before the
Horticultural Society, at its
Fourth Annual Meeting, July
29th, 1879,
Mr. President and Members of the Georgia
State Horticultural Society:
la my first report on entomology, at
your second annual meeting, I presented
some thoughts on the origin, distribution
and food of insects in general, together
with the general methods of keeping
them in oheck. I propose, in the present
paper to discuss, in a familiar way, a
much narrower topic, vis: The insects
injurious to the cabbage, the squash and
the tomato, with the remedies.
INSECTS injurious to the cabbage—OUT
WORMS.
The first assailant of the cabbage, In
the spring, is the ent worm. Harris and
Riley describe at least seven cutworms
and their moths. In the Northern States
the moth comes cat in the summer, lays
her eggs in autumn at the roots of plants
and dies. The young larvae or cat worms
feed on the plants or their roots until,
driven down by the cold bslow tbe frost,
they become torpid and lie asleep till the
spring thaws them out and furnishes
them appropriate food. Some ot onr cat
worms may pass tho winter in the same
way, which will explain their appear
ance in the spring long before there
is enough heat to thaw ont a moth,
or to hatch one of their eggs. Bnt I
am persuaded that many cf onr ent-worms
pass the winter in the chrysalis stage,
and that the moths come forth from them
in spring and lay the egge which produce
the later cut-worms. Thu3 there may be
two broods at th9 Sonth where there
only one per annum at the North.
The transformations of the cut-worm
at the Sonth require some study, as
shown by an experiment of mine this
spring. I placed, from time to time,
grown cut-worms in a flower pot filled
with earth and buried in the ground.
Soon one moth came forth, but none
since. I examined the pot July 16th, af
ter, as yon know, an exceedingly hot and
dry term. Iexpeoted to find nothing
alive, bnt there were one living chrysa
lis, one dead chrysalis and seven or eight
living cut-worms, the latter, however,
sorely shrunken and blanched. One
worm had perfected a moth ia a few
weeks, while, in two months, two had
become chrysalids, and tbe others had
undergone no change.
REMBDIIS.
There is bo remedy worth naming, ex
cept digging up the worm!, one by one,
where they have cat down plants.
CATERPILLARS.
The “worms,” which eat holes in the
cabbage leaves at intervals dating the
snmmer and fall, are tbe laruo or yonag
of two white batteiflies.
Oar native cabbage butterfly pieris
protodice, I saw last fall, but hive
caught none this spring or summer.
Their caterpillars are of a light green
color, and live mostly on the nnder side
cf tho leaves. They web np, sometimes
on the leaf, but frequently under leaves
and trash on the ground.' The butterfly
is white, with square black spots on the
wings. The male has ton: of these epoto
on each fore wing; the female four on
each fore wing, together with a notched
border of black, and on tbe hind wings
a black border and shading of black,
Our imported cabbage-butterfly, pieris
rapae, is now much more numerous aid
destructive. It is the common cabbage-
butterfly of Europe, andVas doubtless
tho familiar garden butterfly of our ex
cellent President, in bis Belgian home.
It was first seen in Amerioa at Montreal,
in the the ysar 1857. It has been abont
Macon, at least, two years past. I have
caught it in every month, except Januv
ry and February, since last October. The
buttoifly doubtless survives the winter
in Georgia. The mate has white wings,
with one round black spot on each fore
wing and on each hind wing; the female
has two black spots oa each fore wing
and one on the .hind wing. The cater
pillar to of an olive color, and has
the singular habit of always lying
lengthwise, along one of the rib3 of
the leaf, on the nppar side. It feeds on
the bud-leaves and heart of the cabbage,
and is the therelore more destructive than
the other worm. This butterfly, being a
now comer among up, has outstripped
its insect enemies, and is hence so abun
dant. But its enemy, an ichnenmen fly,
bas been found in Canada and Ver
mont, and will Eooa reduco its num
bers.
Remedies.—Hand-picking of the cater
pillar ia one ot the be3t remedies. Hot
water, nearly boiling, has bson used suc
cessfully. The butterflies are easily
kept in check by means of a hand net.
the Harlequin cabbage bug.
There appeared throughout the South,
about tho time of the late war, a new
enemy to the cabbage, a black bag
rather prettily striped with red and or
ange. This wes supposed to have been
brought into tbe country, in Eome way,
by the Federal army, and was generally
dabbed the Lincoln bug. Its history has
been studied since then, and tho Murgau-
tia histrioniea of tho naturalists is found
to have come from the (South instead of
the North, being a native of Guatemala,
Mexico, Texas aad Arizona. It had been
probably kept ia its Southern home, un
til the settling of Texas and the south
ern belt of States with a civilized popula
tion, which had gardens whioh famished
it appropriate food. Finding abundant
forage then, to the North it began its
travel?, which may again be limited by
its reaching a climate, whose winters may
bs too rigor jas for its survival. It has
gone rap’aly from Texas to Missouri in
the W*ni, and along tbe gulf and Atlan
tic o, .or North as Maryland and Dsla-
wru: * It may have been a satisfaction to
some, several years ago, to have known
that this striped pcBt was going from cs
to our Northern friends, instead of com.
ing from them to ns. But, I believo we
are better tempered now.
The rapid spread of this harlequin cab
bage bag, from Sonth to North, over
thousands of miles,within onr own knowl
edge, is to the natnrslist a fact as
interesting as the migration of nations is
to the historian.
We have had, within twenty-five year3,
in America, thres great migrations of in
sects. First, that of the European cab
bage butterfly. It was first seen in Mon
treal in 1857; then “>*a New England
along the different railroads leading from
Canada; in 1870 in New Jersey; then in
Philadelphia and Washington; and sub
sequently in Georgia. This migration
was from north to sooth, and has not
been much noticed by ns because of the
general resemblance cf this butterfly to
onr native one. 8eoond,that of the Colora
do potato-beetle. This confineditself to Us
native homo in Kansas, Colorado and Da
kota, until abont 1859; wben it began to
eat tho potato leaves of tho new settlers,
and, finding abundant food in tbe Irish
potato, traveled eastward at tbe rats of
seventy miles a year. It readied tbe At
lantia coast in New England abont 1876,
and crossed theaoe to Dublin, Ireland, in
1877. This migration was from west to
east; and has been a terrible scourge'to
the Western, Middle and Eastern States.
And, third, that of the barteqnln cab
bage-bug, from Bontb to nortb, as just
described.
The.harlequin is specially noxious, be
cause, like all its great olaas, hemiptera,
it finds ita food on the same plant alt its
life. The caterpillar feeds on the oab*
bage, bnt tbe butterfly subsists on honey
from many kinds of flowers. A few of the
harlequin bugs survive the winter. These
lay their eggs on the oabbage and other
erro tsrovs plants in ths sp ing. F Q a
these eggs hatch young bugs, which suck
tbe leaves of the plant, tbtongh all thalr
charge, and continue tho same fed.
even when they have attained w’njs and
maturity of growth. Remedy— Hand
{.taking is the only remedy.
PLANT LICE.
T.o oatbige plant loose, aphis Brassi
eae, is so well known as to need no des-
oripTo?. By Us nnmten it exhausts
young plants, and frequently injures old
and vigorous plants.
There are many kinds of plant lies. Al
most every kind of tree or herb is more
or less Infected with a kind peculiar to it
self. The dreaded grape philozera be
longs to the Aphididae. I will say a few
words on two pecnliarities ot tbe Aphi
des. The first is an anomaly in their re
production, which Is oonflned to very few
olasaesof animals. I have known them
survive a cold of fourteen degrees, and
pass througb the winter. Now suppose
one of these hardy females to bj quar
tered on a oabbage plant. She will, as
soon as the spring Is sufficiently ad
vanced begin to prodnoe, not eggs, bnt
living young aphides. These young,
strange to say, are every one females. In
dne time e&oh of these bring forth not
eggs, bnt living young, and these young
are all wingless females. Tnese prodnoo
another brood of females; and so on,
through the whole spring and £tunmer.
Half a dezsn or more generations are thns
prodnoed In six or eight months. Dnring
this period the little colony is a mode
female republic, with no* a m&te to dis
turb the peaoefuljeerenity.
If summer were perpetual this Rtrsnge
parthenogenesis wonld continue forever,
Bntthaooldof autumn breaks tbe spell;
winged males appear in the later broods,
and the females then lay the first
eggs of the whole year. These eggs re
main through the winter to be hatched
in the next spring. The second pscnl-
iarlty of th9 aphides is their friendly re
lations with the ant tribe. Whenever
ants are seen going np and down grape
vines, apple and peach trees, the cotton
plant, etc., it will be found that the plant
Is infected with aphides; and that the ante
seek them out, go among them, and fon
dle ard caress them in a very familiar
manner. Observations will show, that
the ant has a good reason for these
tender attention?. Tho aphides secrete
a honey-like liquid, whioh they give
forth almost constantly from two tabes
The ants are fond of this secretion, lap
it np most heartily, and, when the aphides
are somewhat slow in giving forth the
sweet drops, tbey gently remind them by
familiar signs.
REMEDIES.
Tho cabbage plant louse has
many natural enemio?. The most
deadly of these, aro the meek-looking,
gaily-colored lady-bird?. These feed on
aphides almost exclusively, throngh their
whole lives. I have watched them in
crease in the spring, until nearly every
nphia-infeotod plant had from two to
half a dozen lady-bags; when they and
the heat wonld be too much fox the aph
ides, and would sweep them away in a
few days. The gardener should oherish
tho lady-bugs. O.her remedies'are
tering infected plants with water nearly
boiling hot, and with hot tobacco water,
one pound to the gallon.
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE
SQUASH.
of
THE STRIFED SQUASH BEETLE.
When the squash vines pat forth the
first pair of teaves, the leaves are attack
ed by a small beetle, with two black
stripes on each yellow wing-cover; the
inner pair of stripes, however, coalescing,
eo 03 to form apparently three black
stripes along the back. This beetle,
Diabratica viltata, perforates the leaves
and seems to poison them, so that the
plant frequently dies in a few days. At
a later period, the beetle will be fonnd
hiding abont the root of the plant It
is here engaged in laying eggs npon the
stem. Wo have probably 3 or 4 broed] of
the striped beetle daring the ssason. It
hibernates, probably, both as a chrysa
lis and as a psifect beetle.
Remedies—When the beetle attacks
the young vines, prompt hard-picking is
the surest remedy. A few minates’ work,
for a day or two, will destroy most of the
beetles. Ashes sprinkled on tba plants,
when wet with dew, seem very distaste
ful to the insect.
THE SQUASH BUG.
When the sqnash vines begin to have
a few rough leaves, the well known dark
bag, eoreus irislis, called pumpkin bug
in the Sonth, begins to be seen on the
yonng vines. These have passed through
■the winter. They Boon lay Bmall brown
egg3 in patches on tho leaves. From
these hatch ash-colored lart to, resembling
tho parents in shape, but without wings.
They pierce the leaves with their beaks
and suck their cap. If the colony on a
leaf bo large, tbe leaf wilts, and the
whole vine shows their presence, by its
sickly appearance. A3 they mature, they
collect at the root of the plant, and bore
and suck the batk of the stem. Eggs
continue to be laid during tho whole
season, and brood after brood of larvso
ooue forth to vex and annoy the gar-
doner. If the bugs be allowed to breed
undisturbed, ho soon gives op the field to
them in despair.
Remediss. As with all enemies, it is
best to Etribe early, before tbey have
time to marshall thoir forces. Compara
tively few equaah-bugs survive the win-
te>; but they are the parents of the sum
mer host. By keeping vigilant watch,
killing the bags, and tabbing the eggs
from tbe leaves as fast as they appear, it
is not difficult to keep the bags In ohcok.
Some reoommend covering the bags; bat, >
bytxcladlng otbor insects, whioh carry
the pollen from flower to flower, wonld
doubtless greatly interfere with the fruit
ing cf the sqaaeh.
THE EQUAEH LADT-BIRD.
Every good role is said to have an ex-
caption. So have tho lady-birds. The
natnreliats never tire of singing their
praises, as lhe tireless, relentless enemy
cf aphides. But one lady-bird, at least,
In America does not feed on aphideB. It
is herbiveion;; feeding mainly on the
leaves of the squash, pumpkin and mel
ons. The sqnash ladybird, epilachua
borealis, is a large hemispherical yellow
beetle, with seven large black spots on
e*oh wing-oovor. The beetles are first
seen feeding on tho leaves, eating ont
the psrenobyma, end rednolng tho leaves
to a net-work. These beetles have prob
ably survived the winter. At a later pa
rted thair eggs are laid on the leaves,
from whioh come forth curions oval yel
low tervee, studded over with rows of
haice. Probably two or three broods are
produoed in a season.
Remedies.—These beetles aro so con
spicuous, and so few in number, that
they are easily controlled by hand pick
ing.-
THE (QUASH BORER.
I planted no squashes for several years
on account of the fatal ravages of a borer
which worked insidiously at tbe root, and
kilted the vine suddenly and irretrievably
in the period of a day or two. Sometimes
the vine, when a runner, remained
healthy at tho root, bnt was pierced at
tho extremity in the bud; two or three
inches wilted at first, but in a few days
the whole vine succumbed. Every gar
dener has had this vexatious experience.
This year I planted the patty-pan squash
again, in order that I might study this
mysterious borer. The mischief at the
end of the vices Lai cot occurred this
year; and I am not prepared to say
whether ths borers are identical or not.
My vines ran the gauntlet of the striped
beetle and of the cqaaab bag successful
ly. In June, however, one vine began to
wilt. I immediately examined the stem
at the ground, and found a leaf with a
hole in ita hollo w Btem. Cutting this off
close up to the stem, 1 found a hole lead
ing from the hollow leaf stem into the
stem of the vine. In this stem were
abundant evilences of mischief. The
joints had been bored through, and the
Btem hollowed out np and down. Abont
two ijeh?3 above ground, nicely stowed
away inaoavityaad busy feeding, lay
the author of tho harm, a piump white
grub with a dark head. It was three-
quarters of an inch long. I found them
of various ages and Bizes In other vines.
Altar the exhaustion of the vines by
age, heat and the worm?, I examined the
earth st the roots, and fonnd the eacoons
formed by the grabs after attaining ma
turity. These cocoons ware about an
Inch long, of a dar£ oolor and formed of
grains of osrtb, cemented with a sort of
gino secreted by tbe insect. The materi
als of the ocooon is tough and leathery.
Oao had been formed in a vice, which
the grab bad not left. Some empty shells
of the brown chrysalids were found on
tbe enrfaoe of the earth; the
ob-ysaiis of this borer hav
ing the unusual power to mate its
way cat of the cocoon, end to work its
way np throngh two or three Inehee
earth to the enrfaoe, where the moth
cepes from it
To effect this, there ere thirteen rows
of small teeth half way aroand the abdom
inal segments of the ohrysalis and all
pointing towards the tail. Wriggling of
the tail, then, wonld foroe the chrysalis
heed foremost through the earth. It is
probable that the moth gets its head ont
of the ohrysalis skin, eats a hvls throngh
the ooooon, and then makes its way
thesurfaee protected by the ohrysalis
skin, where it escapes folly and flies
away.
Dr. Harris desoribes the moth thus:
‘‘This is oonBptoaons for its orange-ool
ored body, spotted with black, and ita
hind tegs fringed with long c range col
ored and blaok hairs. The hind wings
only are transparent, and the fore wings
expand from one inch to one inch and a
half. It may be seen flying abont the
plants.”
By placing the eocoo&a In a goblet
partly filled with damp earth, the pretty
moth may be oanght. Dr. Harris first
deeoribed this inseot, and named it egeria
cucurlitae. It Is an interesting faot that
it belongs to the same genus with the
peach tree borer; egeria
exitiosa ; the psar tree borer
egeria pyri; the grape root berer, egeria
polisliformis; and the currant borer, egeria
tipuliforme. All have very similar struc
ture and habits.
Behidie3.—Examine the squash vines
early in Jnne. By paring off the lowest
leaves at the stalk, and some of the bark,
the presence of the borer will be discov
ered, and may bs pierced with the knife.
If the soil bo then drawn over the Wound
the vine will oontlnne to grow.
I have described this insect at some
length because it is less known than the
other sqnash insects and much the most
destructive.
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE TOMATO.
The cabbage and squash are perpetn
ally harassed by insect enemies, and,
when drouth supervenes, frequently die
outright. The tomato has fewer enemias
but they are interesting. I will describe
two:
THE TOMATJ WORM.
This large green worm, with white
Biashes obliqely across the sides, and
with a short horn on the tail, is well
known to all. It feeds usually on the
leaves of the tomato, bat, when pressed
for food, devours tbe greon tomato and
the stems. It consumes a large amount
of food and attains a length of two to
three inches. The tomato worm, Macro3
sila Carolina, has & mortal enemy in a
small ichnenmen fly, microgasier congre-
gala, which deposits its eggs in its bedy.
From these eggs batch small grabs whiob
feed on the sweet juices of the worm till
they attain fall growth, when they eat
their way out of the ehranken bod y and
spin little white silken cocoons attached
to the body of the worm. Fully ons
half of the August brood of tomato worms
are decked with many of these little pen-
dulous silken bells. If one of these
worms be placed nnder a tumbler, for a
few days, the little ichoneumon files will
came forth from thecoceon?. Tomato
worms thus pierced never come to matu
rity. They should not be crushed, as
thereby our valuable little friends, the
ichoneumon flies, will also be destroyed.
When the tomato worm attains matu
rity, it leayes the plant and descends into
the earth. Here it casts off its caterpil
lar skin, and becomes a long, brown,
chrysalis, with a long beak bent down
along the side. It resembles somewhat
a brown pitoher with a long handle. It
passes the winter in this form, and is
i’reqnently ploughed np in the garden in
the spring.
From this chrysalis emerges a large
moth, with a very long proboscis. It
flies at twilight, sucking tho flowers of
tho petunia and of the James town weed;
and from its resemblance to tbe ham
ming bird, is frequently called the hum
ming bird moth.- Every boy is familiar
with it.
I have not had an opportunity to verify
it; bat etomologists agree that tho tomato
worm is the same as the tobacco worm,
thei great enemy of the tobacco plant. In
the . Northern and Eastern States, they
have another slightly different tobacco
worm, called Macrosila quinquemaeulala.
Remedies.—Hand-picking the wormB.
Professor Glover recommends that a
little cobalt or fly poison in sweetened
water, be dropped into the flewers of the
Jamestown weed as a poison to the moths.
THE BOLL-WORM.
Occasionally, a green tomato is eaten
by a reddish, tawny caterpillar, one and
a balf inches long. It is the boil-worm,
heliothis armigera. It is a pernicious
feeder, attacking cotton bolls, tho silk
and yonng grains of roasting ears of
corn, bean?, pumpkins, eto. It is proba
bly known all over the world. If one
be fed with tomatoes, in a covered vessel
holding damp soil, it will, on attaining
its growth, go down into the earth, and
become a chrysalis, whence in three or
four weeks will isane a moth, with pate
yellowish wings, each with a dark spot
and a blaok transverse band.
Remedies.—They do not attack the to
mate in each numbers 03 to require ac
tive interference.
CONCLUSION.
This concludes my sketch of the in
sect enemies of the cabbage, the squash
and the tomato. Let me orga npon all
who have gardens, to bestow some atten
tion upon tbo insects hero described.
This will easily lead to tba observing and
destroying of other enemies of oar gar
dens and of onr orchards. Especially
get yonr boys to take an interest in these
matters. Give them this report, should
it be printed, and let them seek ont and
study out tbe cabbage-butterflies, ths
squash-lover, ths tomato-worm, etc., etc.;
and, if they have a taste for such things,
tho work cf ono year will greatly devel
op them. They will find out what eye3
are made for; that tho little
insignificant insects aroand n3 aro
fall of the greatest wonders;
and that in them they can find a lifetime
of investigation both interesting and
profitable. Just 6uoh work of your boys
will give U3, in a few years, intelligent
amateur entomologists; aad, maybap,
(what we have not, to my knowledge, in
the whole South—be it said to onr shame)
a native skilled entomologist. As a help
in these home studies of home insects,
I am glad that there is a good book to be
gin with. This is Harris’ “Icsects Inju
rious to Vegetation,” illustrated edition
by Flint. It was written as a report on
noxiooa insects to tbe Massaohnietts Leg
islature in 1843, intended mainly for far
mers. Flint’s edition is enlarged, and
has abont 300 beautifnl engravings. In
vest $4 in this work, and, my word for it,
this horticultural sooiety will feel the in
fluence of the investment bifora five years
have rolled aronnd.
The tfudollnata,
—At Buffalo Lake, Dakota, theta ie a Rtf-
byteriin Churohof fifty-lire members, ati
The night Is still, tbe window* tre opon, | full-blooded Dakota Indians, with Rev.
The air with odors ia sweet; Hazawacanayana, ox Lon Thunder, as pu-t
Hark! some one is humming the Mandoli-1 tor.
—Six carrier pigeons, taken from New
Along the open street.
The Mandolinata! Ah me! as I hear it,
York, were liberated at Colombo*, Ohio,
Bon day, at balf-put firs in tbe morning.
One of them arrived in New York at uTTs
A. M. and another at 2 50 P. M. yesterday.
—Ex Gov. TUden’s summer home at Yon
kers ia known as ‘Greyatone.’ The grounds
cover thirty-three acres, including lawn.
How we jested together, and hummed to- I meadow and forest, Tho mansion and
gethor grounds, which are leased by Mr. Tiiden,
That old and threadbare scng, { ooet 6400,000.
With forced intonations and quaint affecla- | —Nothing is lost in Franoe.
Before me yon eeem to rise
From the other world, with yonr gentle pres
ence,
Yonr tender and emilicg eyes.
tiODBy
That ended in lAnshterllone!
How oft in the morning beneath yonr window
I frame! to it bantering words,
Tbe orange
bloeaoms and gTass in the publio gardens of
P-ris aro sold to the highest bidder, and at
a country railroad station a visitor lately
saw a sale of the grass on the embankments.
An! heard from within yonr sweet voice The purchasers were peasants’ wives.
answer'
With a flute-tone like a bird’s!
And you opened yonr shutters and sang,
"Good morning,
O Troubadour, gallant and gay 1”
And I chanted, “ O lovely ana tizy 1
I die of this long deity!
Uzylady,
_ :ongdelay"
Oh, hasten, hasten 1“
coming,
Thy lady is coming to the;
And then yon drew baok in yonr olambsr,
laughing—
Oh, who were eo foolish aatfe?
—The Ozar has Joel issued orders for the
construction of six new State prisons, to ac
commodate 3.6C6 convicts, and has decreed
thirty millions of rouble* for their building
and fitting np. Taro other huge State prisons
are being erected, one in Biberia and one in
trana-Ganouia, to accommodate some ten
thousand offenders. This throws an inatrao-
rm coming, T’m tiva light on the struggle new going on in
' Basils.
Ah me! that vision comes np before me;
How vivid and youcg and gay!
Ere Death like a sudden blast blew on yon,
And swept life’s blossoms away.
Buoyant of spirit, and glad and happy,
And gentle of thought and heart;
—Ismail, ths ex-Khedive, left Oario vary
ibeatrtoally. Under an open canopied com
partment ha embraced Tewfik and oommlUsd
him to his people, and as ths train moved
off the last seen of him was a bobbing, bow
ing figure forgiving its enemies and leaving
them its blessing and ita debts. He looked
ten years older; his face was white and blood
less; his beard uear'v white, an! his eyea
ware sunken.
Club Law.—Although the list ofviotims
Ah 1 ; who won’d believe you were mortally to the police dub in N> w York on Tuesday
wounded,
Bo bravely you played your part ?
We veiled our fears and onr apprehensions
With hopes that were all in vain;
It was only a sudden cough and spasm
Betrayed the iaward pain.
In the midst cf our jesting and merry laugh
ter
We turned aside to sigh.
was perhaps shorter than usual, yet tbe
World gets ont of patience and quietly Inti
mates that a reply to the club stroke by bul
let mightprovoan efioaoioas remedy. Bay*:
that paper: The monotonous old story of
tho clnba is kept np again to-day. Who can
onder that it ie? The wanton dabbing of
saoeable citizens by policemen will proba-
[y oontlnne until some peaoeable bnt law
lessly ovcrclubbad citizen kills the police-
Luoked ont of the window, and all the land-1 man who Is lawlessly dubbing him, Then
soape I it will probably stop.
Grew dim to the brimming eye. I Co vediass Fishing fob Salmon. —E. A.
j Sothem and Wm, J. Florence, the well -
And at last, one pleasant summer morning, known comedians, returned to New York
When roses were all in bloom, {last week from their trip to the salmon flsh-
Death (gently came with the wandering I ing grounds of Lower Labrador, where they
breezee have been roughing it for the last two months.
To bear yonr spirit home. I Ths first salmon was oanght on the 23! of
A smile on yonr lips—a tender greeting— I Jane, when ihe ‘Hon. Bardwall Slots’ piffled
An! all that was once so gey in a twenty-six pounder, and when they broke
Was still and calm, with a perfect sadness, ] np oamp the talley showed an aggregate of
And you had passed away.
Through the casement the wind is moaning,
On the pane the ivy crawls,
The fire is faded to ashes,
And the black brand, broken, falls.
The voioes are gone, but I linger,
And eilenoe is over all;
Where onoe there was musia and laughter
Stands Death in the empty hall.
There is only a dead rose lying,
Faded ana crashed on the floor;
And a harp whose strings are broken,
That Love will play no more.
Wm. W. Story, in Blackwood’s for July.
Philadelphia Times.)
When Postmaster General Key sets ont
on a tour of inspection he doesn’t mean to
overlook anything Heinspoited the lam-
her mi’ls near Orono, Maine, yesterday.
Boston Transcript.]
Talk of the bravery of the sterner Eex!
Do yon remember the first time yon asked
her, “ Will you take my arm?” When yon
tremble! all over like tbe narrative cf the
stamp-tailed dog, and experienced tbe een-
e ? tIon ,. of .. 1 £I in S X1 there are eighteen arehbUhocs or btshopsT
pie, what did she do? Why she took your 2 U0 priests, and 1343 Roman Oatbolio
arm as coolly as she would eat a pickle. j pIaoe# g f woft ’ llip whil6 tb0 Bcmia Catholi =
t’8 fish, weighing 1,323 pounds, while ‘Dun
dreary* had only bagged 47 salmon. The
Dnkeof Beaufort aedffir John Reid Were
with them a part of the time, bnt became
disgusted with their look early in the season
and left for other fishing grounds.
—Freeman, the Pccasaett (Mass.) adven
tist, who murdered his little daughter un
der a fanatical delation that Go! wonld res
tore her to life, and who is still in jail at
Barnstable, refuses to take asy legal advloe,
and say*, should the State furnish him coun
sel, he will not permit him to smooth over
the faots to make a good defense. Ha con
tinues to assume that he was ‘justified of
God’in slaughtering his ohild. His wife,
who shortly after her arrest seemed to see
the enormity of the deed, has again fallen
nnder the old delusion, and thinks her hat
band did perfectly right in sacrificing the
child. They both talk rationally npon every
other subject.
—Last year there were no less than 120
Roman Oatbolio diooeses or districts admin
istered by bishops in the British empire, the
Roman Oatbolio population ot whioh is com
puted at nearly 14,020,000 people. There
are thlrty-foor Roman Catholio peers, twee-
ty-aix boldine ee&t# ia the House of Lords,
and fifty-one Roman Cathclio numbers of
the House of Commons. In Great Britain
Philadelphia Times.)
Captain Eads, having got the Mississippi
jetties eff hlsmind, is looking aroand for
some now enterprise to take np his time,
and has revived tho schsmo ot building a
ship railway, Instead of a ship canal, aoroas
the Iatbmns of Panama. The idea is to lay
a track forty or fifty feet wide, construct a
oar big enough to float a ship and a locomo
tive powerful enough to draw tho load, and
then just take the vessel onto! one ocean,
carry it aoross and dump i; into the other.
Memphis Avalanche.)
A well-known phyaioian of this city is re-1 iy maintain eo. between Benin ana_ cologne,
sponsible for a story that, although disgust- *3
population remains at little over 2,000,000.
There are no Roman Catholic Judges in the
superior coarts in Great Britain, bnt five
members of her Majesty’s Privy Council are
Roman Catholics.
Railroid Spaed in Europe —The swiftest
speed made by railroads in Europe is in En
gland, where the London and Dover express,
the London and York and the London ana
Hastings etch make 50 miles an hour. In
Bslginm some of the trains travel nearly 42
miles an hour. The Bordeaux express, on
the Paris and Orleans line, average 89)^
miles, and the same rate of speed is regular,
ly maintained between Berlin and Cologne.
bTgTmyseVvSSI£o7£w ^tSr/tilowfever SSSSSS«XA te
germ was preserved through the intense cold I Switzerland is only 15}£ m Jea. In tiffs conn-
of lest winter: A Sou‘h Memphis woman, j mOss an_ hogl
whose husband died of the fever last year, I ^ 4V ® exoe ®J®£* 72
not only preserved the clothing whioh he had P“® 8 ,’. b ,^
on when he died, but even the sheet npon I ■*****•*•*■ tiisn that iuEn^Und, our rqada
whioh be lay, covered as it was with stains
of black vomit. Eho keeps these relics in a
wooden chest, and every now and then takes
them ont, because, as she says, ilia smell
reminds her of her dear Willie.
being mere crooked and not so well btilas-
ted.
Philadelphia Times.)
They still ksep np some of the old fash
ions down in Georgia, and every now and
then some man in pnblic life, who is presum
ed to do a little deep thinking, is asked to
address the Legislature. The awful tones ot __
Mr Robert Toombs’late effort have ecaicely I and what”do yo"u' , Buppo8‘o‘’ttia“f6Uow “d2
ceased to reverberate, when Congressman | then? By Qsorge. air, he proved it ? '
N. Y. Eon.)
It was not Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, bnt
an cx Governor of Georgia, who once re
marked : “ I never deny newspaper stories
now. An editor on one occasion printed a
most dreadful accusation against me in a
paper published in my own town, where it
reached ths eyes of all my family and
friends. I denied it, of coarse, promptly
and circumstantially, over my own eiguature.
Stephens is called out. He made his speech I
yesterday and opened np the Presidential
campaign by some remarks abont Secretary
Sherman. The Georgia Legislature, howev
er, ccnld be in worte business than listening
to a veteran like Stephens.
Memphis Appeal.
A careful survey or the city reveals the i
fact that the population has bean cut down
about fifteen thousand, of which number
not more than four thousand are white],
aud of these fully one-half have had the yel
low fever daring one or olhsrof the preced
ing epidemics. From these figures there is j
reason to hops that, although the disease
may prevail until November, and carry off
many victims, it cannot find anything like 1
the nnmbor it took from ns even in the epi-
demio of 1873. Add to this the fact, gene
rally admitted by all the doctors, that the I
fever is of an nau-ually mQd type, an! that
tne weather is not at all favorable to the
dissemination of febrile diseases; that the
atmosphere is purer than it was at this time
last year, and there are sonn grounds for
gratification if not congratulation. By this
THE GENUINE
BR.C.MeX.ANE’S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
evening tho second and largest oamp will he I
established, with accommodations for fully
,50 J persons.
Farmars in tbe 'West.
We often groan about the condition of
the agricultural interests in the South
ern States, but how much better are they
n the West? By way of illustration, we
dip the following from the testimony be
fore the Congressional labor committee,
taken the other day in Chicago;
Gaorge.M. Sloan, a fanner in Wiscon
sin testified t Farms were mortgaged
to their fall vriae throughout the State.
Theprloeof farm labor was lowering at
present, being from seventy-live cjots
per day to ten dollars per month. The
penal law of Wisconsin against begging
bad destroyed the surplus of labor. Farm-
era seemed blind to tbe fact that three-
fonrths of the so-called tramps were hon
est laborers ont of work; thought an in*
crease of oorrenoy wonld benefit Wiscon
sin. Tbe panic of 1373, erased by too
mnoh spaonlatiOD, oanssd the existing
depression among tbe laboring olasses;
thought tbe government] committed a
great wrong iu contracting the ourvenoj;
contraction meant national enioide; it
foroed men to do with one dollar what
they bad agreed to do with two.
“Farms all mortgaged to their.fall vil-
ae 1 ” That does not Bound pretty well for
({ie great and growing Weet.
Promises kept inspire oon&denoe; and
Dr. Bail’s Baby Syrup never promised
relief in the diseases of ohildhood without
at onoe effecting it. Henoe the pop alar
Reliance upon it. Prioe 25 cent* a hot*
ile.
Eli jo i Joxs3, or GzoaeiA.—The Phila-
delphte Times cf Tuesday thus handsome’y
coital] a new edition of Major Jones, which
has Just boen produced by the Petersons:
The writings of William T- Thompson, far
more widely known as ‘Elsj or Jones,’ are |
classics in the rough, possessing merits so i
positive as to secure to them—notwithstan
ding their many very obvious faults—an en
during plans in our distinctively American
literature betids Judge Haliburton’s ‘Sam
Slick,’ ShiUabsr’a ‘Mrs. Partington,’ and the
racy sketches written in our own day by Mr.
Bret Harte. In his especial field Major
Jones has remained unsurpassed—though (
fairly rivaled by the brilliant ‘Georgian
Scenes, by a Native Georgian,’ of whioh the
first oopyrigbt edition was published In th9
year 1813—and his rich, mellow humor, broad
but true to nature, together with his graph o
representations of a phase of life that has
now altogether passed away, assure to hia
writings permanent apnreaiatlon as well as
permanent value. The laots that the Pete-
sons have just istneda new edition of the
immortal ‘Courtship’—a previous edition
having appeared so recently as the year 1872,
on the expiration of the original copyright—
affords ample pro f of the deep and strong
hold that theas ooaree but power fully-drawn
sketches of Georgia life have npon ths po
polar mind. The new edition Is a handsome
small 4 to, illustrated by the old outs by
Darley—drawn many long years ago, and
interesting now as showing how very badly
Darley drew at the early period of his career.
,f T'HE countenance is pale and lead*
1 en-colored, with occasional flushes,
or a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes became'dull; the
pupils dilate; an azure semicircle
runs along the lower eye-lid; the
nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes
Needs; a swelling of the upper lip; ■
occasional headache, with humming
or throbbing of the ears; an unusual
secretion of saliva; slimy or furred
tongue; breath very foul, particularly
in the morning; appetite variable,
sometimes voracious, with a gnawing
sensation of the stomach, at others,
entirely gone; fleeting pains in the
stomach; occasional nausea and vom
iting; violent pains throughout the
abdomen; bowels irregular, at times
costive; stools slimy, not (infrequent
ly tinged with blood; belly swollen
and hard; urine turbid; respiration
occasionally difficult, and accompa
nied by hiccough; cough sometimes
dry and convulsive; uneasy and dis
turbed sleep, with grinding of the
teeth; temper variable, but generally
irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR.*C. MgLANE’S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
CONSUMPTION CORED*
in any form; it is an innocent prepa
ration, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLane’s Ver
mifuge bears the signatures of C.
McLane and Fleming Bros, on the
wrapper. —:o:—
An old physician, retire 1 from practice, hav-
n* had p!ac*l in his hands by an Ban India j
missionary the formal* of a simple rase table
remedy for the ipeedr and permanent cure tor
Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh. Asthma, and
all Throat and Long Affection*, also a positive
and radical cure for Nervou* Debility ana all
Nervon* Complaints, after having tested iu
wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases,
has felt it hi* duty to make it known to his
•uttering fellow*. Actuated by this motive and
a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send
free of charge to all who desire it, this recipe,
with full directions for preparing and using, in |
German. French or English. Sent by mail by |
addressing with stamp, naming this paper. W w
SHA2AH, 143 Powers’ Block, Rochester. N Y.
eb!4 6m
DR. C. EIoLANE’S
LIVER PILLS
arc not recommended as a remedy “for
all the ills that flesh is heir to,” but in
affections of the liver, and in all Bilious
Complaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Head-
ache, or diseases of that character, they
stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
The Memphis census returned in a
classified form, was a* follows: It ag<
gregatea 16,110:
Whites 4,283
Colored 11,827
Adults 10,651
Ohildron 5,559
Had yellow fever 9,743
Unacoliroated 7,867
Uaknown 1,723 ]
—Ths importation of Amenoan leather „
into Europe has increased over one hundred j C. McLANX S Liver Pills, prepared by
No better cathartic Cun be used prepar
atory to, or after taking Quinine.
As a simple purgative they are un*
equaled.
JBEWANJB OF IMITATIONS.
Ths* genuine are never sugar coated.
Ekch box has a red wax seal on the
fid, with the impression Dr. McLane's
Liver Pills.
Each wrapper bears the signatures of
-Q,-MjcLAKS and Fleming Bros. »-
Iusftt .upon having the genuine Dr.
percent, since 1S73. In that ysar Boropa
received 659 9.2 hides, and to Jadga tjy tba
exporta from ths United titatea Was fat this
▼«« it will receive it the dose over 1.500,-
COQ.
KJfcming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name MeLaige, spelled differently buy
’altos.
same pronunciat:
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