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_ THURSDAY AUGUST 20. 1875.
Abroad in the State.
CTTUBEUT.
Too ttitirh raiu may prove dimis
♦ roll a to tile crops.
If a man wants t> feel tho glow of
patriotic, zeal and fall in love with his
country, let. him come to Southwest
Georgia and till up on milk and peach
es.
Cuthbert Ims a baseball club called
the “Sugar Tits.”
Dilson F. Sapp shot an officer lif
ter being under arrest, inflicting an
ugly wound in the right hand.—Mes
senger.
ALBANY.
The Quitman Reporteh failed to
get the News last w£ck. We can’t
help it—'twiis put iu the Quitman
bundle and duly mailed. There is an
Ageut on that Mail route whose head
would grace a basket. Pr. Arnold,
look after him. Is he colored or
steal ?
Albany lias been challenged by the
base ballists of Jacksonville, Fla.
Hon. J. L. Warren was in the city
this.week, spending some days with
his kinsman, Judge L. I’. P. Warren.
Ha honored our Sanctum with his
presence, ou Tuesday, and we inter
viewed him on the State finances, and
and the Gubernatorial outlook. As
to the former we are only permitted
to say that startling developments will
be made at the next Session. The
people will groan, and cry alonud for
-somebody's scalp. The canvass is
low complicated by Gov. Smith's
■candidacy. He will give Colquitt and
: lardemau trouble.
“Stand up to the rack, fodder or
;i( fodder” —i lie business season is
near at hand.
Maj. Mayo is fattening several can
didates for the convict gang. Dough
erty will send up her quota this fall.
The residence of Mr. Eaton in
Mitchell county was destroyed hv fire
■>o Thursday night sth. Everything
i:i the house perished in the flames,
•ihe family being absent at the time.
As there bad been no fire kindled in
the. house for forty-eight hours, the
theory of incendiaryisni is nu irresist
ible conclusion.
Albany whipped Americus at base
trail last week, by a score of 45 to 10.
The Americus boys were “white wash
ed” seven time.
There will be two moons this
month. Seventeen years ago August
furnished two moons.
Mr. George D. Sylvester was crush
ed under a train on the W. A. R. 11.
lust week. He was "drunk and could
not get out of the way, and the en
gine couldn't go round him.
It may be that our judgement is ut
limit, but it is none the loss sincere in
■darning the Savannah News and Ad
vertiser, the Augusta Constitutional
ist and Chronicle, the Atlanta Herald
and Constitution, the Macon Tele
graph and the Columbus Sun and
Times, as remarkably meritorious
Dailies. Very few States can boast
nine such papers. — News.
am Kiticrs.
The proprietors of the Sumpter
Republican are making a last appeal
to their patrons for answer to the
query, whether the paper shall be con
tinued as a Tri-Weekly or Weekly.
They seem to have concentrated all
their energy in the effort to get a fa
vorable response for the former, but
as yet they are unable to see “dust up
the road.” The truth is it’s a bad
time to put such hard questions, and
we are afraid our friends will have to
jog without a satisfactory solution of
:he problem they so vigorously pro
pound.
An “old citiscu” wants the citizens
to rally for tho Tri-Weekly, and
Among other good reasons, gives this
ouo. “Well do I remember when you
(Col. Hancock) were the victim of
the conflagration of 18G'2, you declin
ed to leave Americus and go to Alba
ny, with the inducement of a dwell
ing and office added to the solicita
tion, by a number of her prominent
citizens,"
The knife is taking the place .of the
pistol iu Sumpter. The Republican
' chronicles three cases of stubbing on
I Friday, Gth—two oolored, and one
white— school-boys, Bobbie Green
htabbed James Bass at Westbrook#
|Bchool-house.
SAVANNAH.
Another trot at the Tenbroek
course.
Lighting a liro with kerosene fur
nished a funeral for Savannah.
The Spelling Bee, to take place at
the Isle of Hope, is attracting much
attention.
We beg to make a brief editorial
note on the subject of law—sidewalk
law. Always take the right side. If
you do not, you arc u self-convicted
I greenhorn. Never, under any cireuui
' stances, take to tile leftqTbe universal
| application of this simple . ile, will
save a deal of embarrassment which
one aces every day, when, two persons
meeting, they bob the same way, stop,
bob the same way again, stop, and
then fairly bob into each other. There
is no excuse for such quandaries.--
Af lvcrliser.
THOMASVILLE.
Corn and Corn meal are high iu
Thomasville.
Mr. T. C. Bracewel! lias just execu
ted a gilt sign for Mr. I. Rosen field,
which would be a creditable job for
any painter. It is the first of the
kind ever attempted by Mr. 8., and
that, too, without ever having seen
that style of work done.
The same paper says that the
chain-gang at that place have recent
ly adopted a code of laws, which is as
rigidly and promptly enforced as those
consigning them to the fetters. Ly
ing, stealing, excessive tilth, etc, are
among the tliigns prohibited, and the
penalty, when convicted, is from ten
to one hundred lushes, administered
by one of the number elected as
“strapsinaii.” On Sunday, regular
court day. Quick and the strapsman
were arraigned as violators, and, be
ing convicted, anew executioner was
chosen, who applied the leather belt
in the true spirit of tile law.
Thomas county will make enough
corn for her own consumption this
year.
A revival is progressing in the
Methodist Church in Thomasville.
Pave Guyton, colored, of Thomas
county, was killed by Reuben Slater,
of the colored persuasion, recently.
M. Horn, an industrious colored
farmer in Ibis county, was he that
brought the second bale of new cot
ton to our market, which sold for Id
cen t.
Let the motto of our planters he to !
economize in grain. With care and !
proper economy, coupled with a big ]
oat crop, wo will tide over the late
droughth and its effects.
Those portions of Thomas and
Brooks counties, which should form a
new county, with boston as the site
for court house and other public
buildings, contains probably some of
the very richest and most productive
lauds in said counties.— 'Time*.
CAMILLA.
AVe have been blessed with rains
recently, but it. is too late for much
of the cotton to recuperate. Cotton
planting is certainly getting to boa
precarious business.
Camilla has received two bales of
new cotton. The first brought by
James Baggs, and weighed 450
pounds. The second was brought by I
James H. Everette, and weighed 4GO. j
Both hales were shipped to Mayan- J
mill for sale.
Mr. Ben Eaton, who lives some' five
miles east of this place, had the mis
■ fortune of getting his dwelling and j
its entire contents destroyed by tiro;
on Thursday night last. Ho was
from home, and his family had gone
over to a neighbor’s to spend the
night. At about 12 s’clock the fire
was discovered, the building being
completely covered in flames. The
neighbors, however, succeeded iu
reaching the place time enough to
save the smoke-house and tlio horse,
both of which were in great danger.
This is one of tlio very lowest kind of
incendiary fires, done solely for the
purpose of robbery. The parties suc
ceeded iu getting only a few dollars.
As yet there is no clue to the perpe
trators. — Enterprise.
COLUMBUS.
Abont 11 o'clock last night a white
woman named Missouri Mote, an em
ployee in the Muscogeo Factory, fell
from the second story window of Bi
denhour’s building, on Oglethorpe
street, to the pavement below. The
back of her head was cut, and she was
badly bruised. She was complaining
badly of her chest.
A negro man, Aleck White, in
Wuraraockville, last night was shot
with a pistol by a white man, Bud
Renfroe. He was shot in the chest.
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1875.
The ball lias not been found. The
physician, Pr. Griggs, did not probe
the wound, and lienee cannot tell as
yet as to where the ball lodged.—En
quirer.
BAINIIBIDOK.
Ben Russell, of the Buinbridge
Democrat, will shell out ten dollars in
gold if a Decatur county grange wins
the SIOO premium at Thomasville.
ATLANTA.
Gov. Smith.— The Macon Telegraph
publishes, iu an airy way, what may
he a solid fact before we get through
with it:
“Our old friend, the little bird that
flies about so actively whenever the
political pot shows any signs of get
ting ready to boil, paid us a pop call
yesterday. He had been up the coun
j try to recruit up his health, and on
his way back stopped over at Atlanta
a few hours. "While there, lie learned
j that Gov. Smith was by no means an
uninterested spectator of the moves
| now being made on the chess board
in regard to the gubernatorial race
next year. ‘ln fact,’ said the little
bird, ‘I was positively informed that
the Governor had agreed to leave his
name with his friends to do with it as
they saw best in regard to that office.’
And with a knowing wink, as if he
saw fun ahead, the lit tie bird chirped
hi, lu, and was ofl'for home in a tre
mendous hurry.”
MONTEZUMA.
The Montezuma Weekly of the
11th, relates an interview with Mr.
Max Coben, who was aboard the ill
fated Schiller, and had just returned
to his home iu Montezuma. It is a
thrilling narrative of the wreck and
his own adventures and rescue. He
was afloat two hours with a life pre
server, and then picked up by tire
same small boat from which lie was
thrown by a wave, and dashed about
at the mercy of a rough sea till late
the following day, when a lauding
was effected ou a small island. Mr.
Cohen's account of the horrors of the
night, and the appalling results of the
wreck, is sad enough indeed, but an
lie says, it presents but ft faint picture
of the disaster.
FOKSVTH.
A nearly successful effort was made
this morning about day, to burn our
court-house. The attempt was evi
dently made by au incendiary, whom,
it is supposed, is a negro, but uo one
lias been arrested. The culprit en
tered by a window, carrying straw,
judging from tlio traces left, which
was placed under each of three flights
of stairs. Fortunately the intent was
foiled, and we still have u court
house. N.
ST. MAISYS.
Lieutenant Brain is running the
“St. Marys River Brick Works,” loca
ted on the Florida side of tho St. Ma
rys River. A few days since he bad
a difficulty with an employee by the
name of Pollard, uud discharged him.
Pollard took advantage him, shot him
li m and fled. It w g supposed hi ho a
fatal wound, at first, but the physi
cian' says that it is not dangerous.
Brain is a splendid-looking man.
Over in Florida.
The Union says the fruit upon the
orange trees' is beginiug to turn from
a beautiful dark green to yellow, and
will soon present a very attractive ap
pearance. They draw the attention
of strangers quicker, perhaps, than
anything that can be found in Flori
da, mid are univarsally admired when
contrasted with tho productions of
the Northern States.
Tho same paper says that oil Sat
urday night last, train No. II (passen
ger), which left Jacksonville at four
o’clock in the afternoon, injured li
colored man fatally about one and a
half miles this side of Ellaville. He
was aslcej), lying with bis head ou the
track. Although not run over, his
head was terribly crushed by the
cow-catcher, so that it will be almost
impossible for him to recover. Whis
key is thought to bo at the bottom of
it.
The Floridian says that'the Mor
mon woo has recently escaped tho
halter by a disagreement of tho jury
on a charge of complicity in the
Mountain Meadow massacre —John P.
Leo—visited Jackson, county, Fla., in
1871 or ’72, and carried with him to
Utah a couple of Jackson county wo
men—mother and daughter, we bc
lievo—oue of whom, at least, was
“sealed" to him as a wife.
Perhaps the Courier can tell us all
about it.
Mr. Joseph Eiland, living near
Brooksvillnge, Hernando county,
while out hunting recently, was struck
and instantly killed by lightning. On
the same day a neighbor had three
horses and several cows killed by the
same agency.
Jacksonville merchants nrc getting
mighty mad with tho Now York
schooners.
A colored nigger lu Jacksonville
cut his wife's throat the other day be
cause she left his bod and board.
I The immortal Cheney came near
being struck by lightning the other
I day.
A lightning rod on n house in Jack
sonville was broken up and melted by
lightning on Sunday. And now the
owner of that house wants to see that
lightning rod man.
Tallahassee expects a largo number
of visitors this season.
Quarantine has been laid on the
part of St. Teresa.
The Floridian goes into the conun
drum business, as witness: Will the
New South tell us what connection
there is between mentioning the ef
fect of a thing and the thing itself?
The Floridian, a few days after the
cowardly assassination of Senator
Johnson, mentioned the fact that his
death created a vacancy in tlie State
Senate, to till which a special election
would have to bo held, adding that
Columbia is a Conservative county,
and that the vacancy ought to be fill
ed by one of that party ; whereupon
the Now South calls it a specimen of
“cool calculation.” And pray where
in ? Is it the fact of tlio vacancy that
is “cool,” or is it the mere mention of
the fact? Suppose that Mr. Adams
were to he suddenly taken off, and
someone should a once say that his
death lias caused a vacancy in the
Jacksonville Post HI -o, and that
Cheney’s chances v 111 b. good to suc
ceed him, would that l.e “decidedly
cool.” Go to, mat v u wanted to
say something by v, ;. .hi helping to
raise the “outrage md didn’t
know well how to do it.
The Climax Absurdity.
In our own case we have for sev
eral months .know: f ’their• threats
of personal violent- . in addition to
all their inarinfactma 1 out carefully
propagated slanders upon our person
al and clerical reputation, because of
oar political attitude ; and our friends
are so conscious of the danger oven
to our life from these political con
spirators, that they have not only felt
it due to put us upon guard, but have
thought it uocossary voluntarily to
see that, we were guarded and protec
ted iu all our personal movements, as
they inform us. —Fcrnandtua Observ
er.
That a person can deliberately
write such stuff as is contained in this
extract, and be considered iu his
right mind, is a tax on credulity. AVe
have no idea that any person worthy
of notice has threatened Dr. Hicks
with personal violence, or that lie is
in the least danger from any sourco
whatever, either iu person or proper
ly, life or limb.
Prom tho ravings of tho Observer,
as exhibited in tho specimen given
above, that paper, editod by a man of
peace, whose missiou should be to
sow the seeds of goodwill rather than
hatred aud distrust, is in a fair way
of acquiring au unenviable pre-emi
nence in violence of langnago and
vituperative abuse.— Floridian.
l)r ITicks is now enclosed in triple]
brazen armor, gauntlets, greaves,
casque and cuirass, bullet and dagger
proof. By ingeniously contrived me
chanism, lie can at will, and by a
touch, cause sixty-six spears, each
sixteen feet long, to protrude from
crevices in his coat-of-niail, thus
keeping his enemies at a safe distance.
He carries in ouch pocket a recently
invented mitrailleuse, capable of
throwing a thousand bullets over a
space of five hundred square foot,
with each revolution, lie is provided
also with a supply of patent torpedos,
charged with concentrated gaseous
poison, so terrible in its effects that
lie will only use them, from consider
ations of humanity, in the very last
extremity. The upper story of his
lofty helmet contains a powerful cal
cium light, to be used at night, illu
minating the darkness for a mile in
all directions, and effectually thwart
ing the evil designs of midnight as
sassins.
Iu addition to these sensible and
necessary precautions, four hundred
of the doctor’s personal friends have
organized themselves into a body
guard for his protection. Twenty of
these are detailed each week for at
tendance upon his person. It is their
duty to accompany him wherever lie
goes, and to warn him of impending
danger. Ten mounted men scour the
country in advance, and with tine
field glasses reconnoitre every tree
and coppice. ' Tlio remaining ten,
armed with "Winchester rifles and
trowel bayonets, surround the per
son of the doctor, ready for any emer
gency.
Such a valuable life as his must lie
preserved from the assassin's dagger
and the bandit's bullet.
Every' line of the above silly quo
tation proves the reverend Doctor to
! he au unqualified ass and a stupen
-1 dons idiot. — Jackson villi' Press.
History Kepoiitiiig Itself.
| Tlio condition of things in Groat
Britain after the war, which closed in
1815, was strikingly akin to that
which now prevails in the United
States. We give it below, in the olo
qnont langnago of its historian, Ar
chibald Allison, Esq. :
“These details of agricultural dis
tress and the currency are almost as
memorable for what they left unsaid
las what was said in the course of
l their discussion. Both parties were
ito a certain degree right, and to a
j certain degree wrong in the opinions
they advanced. Lord Liverpool was
j unquestionably right when lie nffiriu
jed that tlio nation, and through it
Europe, hud been saved by the sns
] [tension of the cash pay: icni : icing
| the war, for but for it the armaments
! never could have been produced
| which brought to a successful issue,
j and that the rise in gold which took
[dace iu the latter years was owing to
i the increased demand for that article
of commerce, to meet the exigencies
] of war ou the Continent, where hos
tilities on ft great scale were going
on. Ou the other hand, Mr. llomer
! was equally right when lie observed
] that the extreme issue of paper clu
. ring the war was the cause of the
rapid and extraordinary enhancement
of prices, which then took place in
every article, whether of trade or
manufactured produce ; that the st ill
i more rapid and disastrous fall of pri
ces, which had taken place since the
i peace was the result of the great
j contraction of the currency, especial
!iy of country bankers, which had re
; tired from the prospect of immedi
ately resuming cash payments, in
terms of the existing law, on the ter
mination of hostilities, aud that by
| far tbs greatest evil which confronted
I tho country was the necessity of pay
jingoffin a contracted, and, tliere-
I fore, dear currency, during peace,
j the debts, public and private, which
| had been contracted during the low
j est issue of a plentiful cheap currency
i during the war * * * Butneith
|er by nor bis opponents perceived
I what is now evident to every reason
| able person who acts from disiuteres-
I ted motives, reflects on the subject,
I lliut all those difficulties and dangers
! might have been averted, without
; either risk or detriment, by the sim
j [fie expedient of taking the paper cur
rency, like the ructalie, into tho hands
jof the government, and issuing such
lan amount us might bo adequate to
the permanent and average wants of
the community. Ho saw clearly that
] oscillation in the value of money, and
! consequently iu the price of every ar
! tide of commerce will amount to the
: most grievous of evils which can af
; tliot society and established property,
| aud liniko undertakings of every kind
i insecure, and he thought ho would!
] guard effectively against them by lix
i iug the entire currency on a gold ha-!
] sis, forgetting what ho himself at the ]
] same time saw, that gold itself is an ;
; article of commerce, and like any otli-!
er such article, is subject to perpetual
! variations of price, and that from its ]
being so valuable and variable, aud ,
I everywhere in request, it is subject to
I more sudden and violent changes in ■
value than any other article in j
! existence.
| Ho saw the impossibility of paying j
j off’ the war debts iu peace currency, ]
] but it never occurred to him that the j
: whole difficulty might have been
J avoided by extending tho w ar curren-!
| cy, under adequate safeguards against
! abuse, into peace.
The Collection of Taxes. —Tho •
Atlanta Constitution says the Comp- j
troller General, Goldsmith, has is
sued liis instructions to Tax Colloc-:
tors, relative to the collection of tax
es. The poll tax w ill be paid to the ]
i County School Commissioners, for;
school purposes iu the respective |
counties, instead of being forwarded !
to the Comptroller or State Treasu- ]
rer. Collectors get no commissions j
on the insolvent list, and the Receiv
ers no commissions ou tho defalt list. ’
There is no property exempt from j
levy and sale for taxes. Collectors j
j are required to make a statement of j
the amount collected from colored j
I tax payers. Managers of elections,
jor any other person than the Tax j
! Collector, on election days are pro- ]
| hibited from collecting taxes. The i
taxes must be collected by December
I 15th. Collectors are warm’d that the j
j law will be strictly enforced against j
! delinquent collectors without a valid
: excuse is rendered. AVlien tax is due j
| and unpaid hv a person having no
j property, in tlio employ of another as !
a laborer, collectors, under the law of
118G6, can serve a notice of garnish- ]
ment, and collect the same by li fa, as ]
in other eases for taxes due. The tax j
on wild lands must be paid to the j
State Treasurer and not to the Conn- j
ty Treasurer. The State School Com
missioner is authorized togive a draft i
on collectors for the school fund,
which must bo taken up by them and I
sent to the State Treasurer where it
1 will be'received as cash. AH papers
necessary to a settlement of tax ac
counts must lie sent alone to the
Comptroller's office, and all mom y
i alone to tiie State Treastm r.
That Sneaking, Skulking Mr.
Jaskins.
“Can I be protected hern Mister?”
asked a woman yesterday, ns she en
tered the office of the Chief of police.
“ Yes’m.”
“Can my family—my innocent
childred—-also be protected?” she
demanded, striking the floor with her
umbrella.
“Yos'm.”
“If there is any law I want it,,’’ she
went on, dropping into a big arm
chair; “if there isn't, I propose to
take a club to him."
“Alv dear woman, this world is full
of sorrow,” said tlio captain as lie
looked up from his writing; “each
one of us lias his own separate and
distinct grief to grieve over. Tell me
yours !”
“Do you know' Jaskins?" she
asked.
“Jaskins? Jaskins? Seems as if
T had heard the name somewhere.”
"Alan with a limp—one eye gone
red neck sandy liair —got a skulking,
sneaking way with him,” she said.
“And lie in- "ten your poultry,
oh ?”
“Poultry? \iw 1 li s 'Verse than
poultry—it’s next to murdei or
arson !” .
“Go on, madam—go into the par
ticulars I”
“Well, lie boards next to me. I'm a
widow. Reen alone these fourteen
years, and if I do say it myself, I’ve
always had the respectublest kind of
name. I've a daughter Jane. She’s
sevouteun. She’s a good girl.”
“Yes, madam.”
“And that sneaking, skulking Jas
kins is after her I” she exclaimed.
“Possible I”
“He just is ! AA'as after me first.
For weeks and weeks he’d hang
around our gate and smile at mo and
inquire if I wasn’t lonesome, and scud
up strawberries, and look his lovingest
out of that one eye.”
“And then.”
“And then, when ho found I wold n’t
marry him to save his neck, and that
he couldn’t get my property to run
through with, wliat d’ye suppose he
done ?”
“Cut his throat ?”
“Naw I He turned right around
and went to loving Jane 1 He has
sent- notes to her in those long, pink
envelopes; he has sent her bouquets
and eoeoaiiuts, and perfume aud cher
ries, and lie’s skulking around yet!
I’ve talked amfl talked, but it don’t do
no good. It’ southin' ain’t doue I be
lieve JanoTl marry him!”
“How does she act?”
“She’s grinning and looking soft
and loving like, and sho won’t mind
half 1 say, aud is getting notes and
writing answers and—and —!”
Aud she broke, down. Sho wiped
her eyes, softly rubbed her nose, aud
after a moment, jumped up aud de
manded.
“Is there any law?
“Lots of law—dead loads, madam 1"
“And you’ll put the law to him ?' 1
“I will, madam. I'll make this 1
town a volcano for him before lie’s a
week older I”
“And you’ll break up tho match ?"
“Either that or break his back!” |
“Good! Tho police are worth suu-j
thin after all !” If you say you'll
wait on him and toll him he’s got to !
back right down or go to jail, I’ll
chain Jane to tho table leg and sit by ]
her four weeks, but what I’ll make;
her forget him.”
“I'll do it, madam."
“Think of uiy Jane marryin a man !
with one eye! and a rod neck I aud a
limp ! O-li-h ! when I think of that j
skulking Jaskins sneaking around my •
innocent Jane to make her his wife, 1
could t-e-a-r his houso down.”
She sat down, aud they fixed up a ,
idan, and Mr. Jaskins had best leave !
for the AYost this very day.
A Fish Stoby.- A Florida corres
pondent of the Atlanta Herald, in the!
course of an interesting communica
tion regarding Florida fisheries, says:!
“Tho best fishermen in Florida are;
the pelicans and ospreys. A pelican
consumes about a peek of fish a day.
They flock about tho straits and in
lets by thousands. Supposing there
are 2,000,000 pelicans in Florida—
anil there are certainly more than
that —they would oat 500,000 bushels
of fish each day, or 182.503,000 bush
per year. The millions upon
uillions of white aud blue
cranes, herons, curlews, gulls, fish
hawks, kingfishers, and other water
fowl,'devour thousand of bushels of fish
every twenty-four hours. Ail experi
enced cracker estimates that 700,000
bushels of fish a day are required to
feed the birds of Florida alone. This
would make 225,500,000 bushels each
year. Add to this tho billions of fisli
swallowed by sharks, bass and others,
and the sum total will roach nearly
2,000,000,000 bushels destroyed by
feathered and finny (fishermen on the
peninsular in twelvemonths. At first
glance these figures appear enormous,
but let any man make his own esti
mate, aud carefully figure it up, and
he will find them under instead of over.
How to Keep Meat Fiiesh a Lono
Time. — AYo have for authority the
Inter-Ocean for saying that the Allow
ing receipe is worth tho subscription
price of any newspaper in tlie land:
As soon as the animal boat is out
of the meat, slice it up ready for cook
ing. Prepare a large jar by scalding
well with hot salt water. Mix salt
and pulverized saltpetre in the propo
tion of one tahlespoonful of saltpetre
to one t-. acupful of salt. C'overi the,
bottom of the jar with a sprinkle of
salt ami pepper, l’ut down a layer'
of meat, sprinko with salt and pepper,
the same US if just going to the t able,
and continue i:i this manlier till tlio
jar is full. Fold a cloth or towel and
wet it in strong salt water, in which a
little saltpetre h dissolved. Press
th<’ cloth closely over the meat and
set in cool place. J’. sure and press
the cloth on tightly as each laver is
removed, and your meat will ts.-T-p for
months. It is a good [dan to let the
meat lio over night after it ii slicod,
before packing. Then drain off all
the blood that oozes from it. It
will be necessary to change tho doth
occasionally, or tale it oil' and wash it
! —first in cold water then scald in
salt and water a.s at first. In this
: way farmers can have fresh meat the
1 year round. “I have kept beef’ gays
the writer, “that was killed t 1 12th
of February till tie 21 s t.lu , ....
I packed a lev i.ir ji .
same way during i ,i...... j.. j
it kept six v.
U • I’’i iN MILLS.
: P - o American says they
"'•m 1 1 oi ked up at the South
tor ti: following reasons :
1 " ibor is cheaper at the South
th; . at. the North.
In consequence of n milder eli
niiito ti e necessary expense of living
is 1 -•-• ■ ■re thm in New England, ns
is 1 1 •’ o- heating factory build
ings, etc.
3. t '-il ; -a’> ndanf. in the South,
and cheap \ . , r res raft bo
obtained in every direct iv'i.
4. The pnreh.is !’ i material
direct from the producer sales tlie
producer, saves the profits ..f numer
ous middlemen, the cost of several
building aud long transportation.
l’o these advantages the writer says
still another of great importance can
bo added. The Southern factory
should buy the cotton in tho seed,
gin and then spin it without packing
into bales.
Some of tho advantages of such a
system would be :
1. The yarn would he stronger.
Baled cotton cannot be prepared for
carding without beating, and thus
weakening the fibre to a greater or
less extent.
2. There would be less waste.—-
Frequently much cotton is discolored
and otherwise injured byloreigu sub
stances that have been [lacked with
it. At the Nortn and in Europe it
takes from 10.8 to 115 pounds of cot
ton to make 100 pounds of yarn ; and
although the waste is not so great at
the South, il is nevertheless consid
erable.
Tho cotton need would bo press
sed at thi> same establishment, iWid
the oil and oil cake sold.
4. The interest on gins and gin
houses, which now are idle tho great
er part of the year, would bo saved to
planters.
5. The raising of cotton on small
farms would be encouraged. The
plantation system is not adapted to
free labor, and is steadily breaking
up ; but until cotton can be readily
sold in tho seed, few small farms will
bo opened in the cotton section, for
the reason that a man cannot afford
to buy and operate a gin if ho only
plants a few acres of cotton.
The Oukiin of the Bin-Back Punas,
Mrs. Jiulv O'Flanuigan was an
Irish lady, with limited menus and n
good constitution. She, therefore,
liko a sensible woman, used the latter
to preserve the former by taking in
washing, and soon became noted as a
purifior of soiled linen.
Airs. Judy was a widow, having
buried her “dear Alike" a few days
after his return froln a fair with his
head broken in seven places. “Small
loss,” said the widow to herself, yet
she waked him in a manner worthy
the O’Flunnigans in olden times.
Now July lived in that modern
Babylon called Loudon, and it chan
ced oilo day that Madatno la Afodo, a
noted French modiste, while visiting
“pertide Albion,” required tlio Ser
vices of one of her craft, and being
recommended to Judy, called and
found her busy over her tubs, her
ample skirls well pinned back, and
her person resembling a huge clothes
pin with a sheet tied around it.
Aladamo was charmed ; to her it
seemed a novel sight, ns they always
do things differently in la belle France.
There tho washerwomen are not
troubled with long skirts ; besides
they generally use the river for a
wash tub. Siie immediately felt in
spired with tho birth of anew fashion,
and on her return to Baris produced
tho dress called the “Blaiichisseiise,”
which, meaning simply' washerwo
manjKlid not suit on this side of the
water, and the one now in uso was
adopted in its stead.
A party of ladies iu Louisville, Ky.,
were recently overheard enthusiasti
cally discussing a baptism. One re
marked : “Alamie looked perfectly
splendid in a magnificent mauve-col
ored dress.” “Alauve-colored V” ejacu
lated another, ‘why, who ever heard
of any-ouu being baptized in anything
save white ?’ “Oh’ well," said the
other, “white will be well enough for
some people, but Alamie never expects
to be baptized but cnee, and sho
thought she would get up something
stylish. lam sure'nobody lias any
right, to complain at such a tiling,
when it probably will happen but
! once in one’s lifetime.”
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