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Grosaries and Pure I’midulti ?•; • , j You that are in need of goods be us a call. Our motto is ' t! ‘ profits. W are also pronr; -t os <■ - CKIJ'JiKATKI) ‘ TOTA< li tri i ! j sure and give them a trial, they are so! , 'oy all Grocers and Druggist*, throughout •*•'*-rai j States. N* P* SMI’iU SON. ‘i - • - ' : Pf• V.y..- ..... v • • o. ' ■./ c- . | mimaa .. .. c.; - ' - . . |7 CENTS A MONTH WILL HUY 1 Ia for one year. Evory family la 1 able to have The Uazotte at this low price. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. MARCH 7, 1878 A NORWEGIAN WHALERY, On ft mall island opposite to the town of Wu.lso, In tho extreme north of Norway, there exists an establish ment tho ilke of which Is probably not to be met with in any part of the world. Its most appropriate designa tion would be, perhaps, a slaugh ter-yard, for whales; and Mr. Fbyn, its proprietor, conducts tho business of capturing and cutting up the monsters In a manner peculiarly his own. Instead of fitting out the usual-sized vessels intended to make long voyages, and bring home only t he most useful parts of tho animal, Mr. Foyn employs small one hundred and fltfyto one hundred and eighty tons— screw steamers, shoots his fish with a cannon, aud has them towed back, one by one as they are captured, to the shambles at Wadso. As the fishing grounds are within easy reach of the latter, the steamers, as a rulq, secure and return with a prize within twelve hours’ time. With respect to the can non employed, it is a gun having a chamber about four feet long . this Is mounted on the forecastle of the ves sel, and, being very accurately bal anced, can bo easily moved to allow an exact aim to be taken. Tho pro jectile in use consists of a long iron bolt, having at its extreme end four harpoons, bound round with a line so as to lie flat, and close to tho har poons asto 6 pounder shell. A3 soon ns the steamer has approached suffl ciently near to the fish and whales oIT that part of the const are not over shy, allowing a vessel to come with in shot the bolt is fired off, and, if well directed, penetrates deeply Into the flesh aud blubber of the animal. The whale then naturally rushes ofT at a furious pace, thinking thus to elude his pursuers. Unfortunately for him, however, no step could be more suicidal, for the effect of his rapid movement is to make the bolt ! p back a little, thus setting free tno four harpoons from the lines and by means of a mechanical arrangement causing the shell to explode. This generally proves the coup dc grace, killing the fish outright; but occaslon cally the animal is not sufficiently hard Id and its capture in ti at. case Is not so easily ali.-cii and an it dashes away at: a tremendous speed dragging tho steamer after it. CHINESE ARMAMENTS. It is thought by many, that should an European war occur, England may, perhaps, find herself with an Asiatic war on her hands too. The letters sent to the Times from month to month by correspondents in China, show that there are always plenty of disputes going on between English subjects and Chinese officials, anyone of which might be made the excuse for serious quarrel. The Chinese have been preparing for war steadily for for some years. Thirty-five years ago we ridiculed the Chinese armaments; and no doubt soldiers armed v\i h bows and arrows were not very formid able. But twenty y< ars later they had learrft the use of urliil ry, ns our experience at the Tuku forts tan glit us. Enice the war of 1800 the Cole dials have been reorg.im..ing their forces, both by land and sea. They have had the help of English and American officers. They have replaced their junks with ironclads; they have armed these and their land defences with rifled guns of the heaviest metal. They have an army of u million of men, a considerable portion of them provided with breecli-load ing rifles. Above all, the Chinese troops are now disciplined as they never were before. Now, against whom are all these preparations di rected? Anglo-Indians have no diffi culty in answering the question, they say, “Against. England,” against th<J “foreign devils,” as the Chinese cull us. They thoroughly detest us bo cause we have already beaten them, and fined them heavily more than' once because we ..rs ever vexing them by our endeavors to open tip their country. - ~~ 1.1 vs : ban fifteen years ago the city -f Pithole, i’a., was a sheep pasture, and a mighty poor one at that, in . iiree yea or less it grew into a city fiat el,•firm i 10,000 inhabitants. It bad its daily paper, it.T> Mayor’s court, boasted of hotels that ranked with the b-.-et in the laud, and before its.d dine and fall sent and received mails hy raiiroud. Now tnere is barely a house standing. Its daily paper sought fresh fields and pastures new; its Mayor’s court and its lawyers arid clients scattered to tho four quarters of the globe; its hotels have been torn down and taken away, while the vote cast within ire line at the last Cou gresoional election only reached the number of twelvo. This story is told Ivy a Southern paper: —A pond of water on the Deshler place, in North Alabama, embracing ten acres, suddenly disappeared early one morning recently with a loud ruin filing sound. A large hole, down wifi, h the, water poured, is ail that remains to mat h the snot. TUB CARTENTER. Becently a dry goods man in Pitts burg deemed it good that he should have a partition put up in the back part of his store, and so he sent for old Chips, the carpenter, to como and see about it, In tho fulness of time Chips put in an appearance with a lot of sawdust in his hair and a two foot rule in his pocket, and he sounded tho plastor with his knuckles and measured tho length and height of the prospective partition and talked tech nically regarding atuduingand braces. “Well, whut’U it cost?” demanded tho Market street man. Chilis said it was that, kind of work that you could hardly tell, and then ho took fiff his hat, got down on his hands and knees and squinted along the floor to see if it was level. Then he said it would bo an ugly job, and told the man to have every tiling moved out of the way aud be would send two men down iu tho morning. The Mar ket street man, being In a hurry on ac count of the >prlng trade, put all his clerks to work that evening and had the goods moved to one side ; but In the morning the men didn’t come, and the clerks bad to hustle tho goods back again, while the man cursed old Chips, uml swore that if he over had another job ho would give it to Jobbs. Next morning thetwo men dawdled Into tho store with two boxes of tools. One was a big inan, with a dirty face, and the other a little man, with hands like a nutmeg grater and akult jacket. They sat down on a trestle and cut chews off u plug of navy with a chisel, while the clerks again wrestled with the goods, and a this was going on the big man spit some tobacco juice on the stove. Whereupon tho little man swung his log* slowly and remarked that it looked like some of John’s wurk,and he would bet them supports, you know, wasn’t, perpendicular—they leaned too much toward Market,street. The big man didn’t think so. He would bet the drinks they loaned to wurd Wood street. Then the big man got a plumb-bob, and the little man procured a spirit level,and they fought and wrangled over the point at issue until the appearance of the owner of the store, when tney hitched up their pantaloons and began to work. LIVELY FREIGHT. Among the freight landed at. -the wharf recently by the steamer Kalo ratna, says the Ban Buenaventura (Cal.) Free Press, were twenty-nine hives of bees. While handling these hives one of them some way or oilier got open, and the air was soon filled with hundreds of bees, which mani fested their dislike for their long con finement and lough handling by stinging the persons congregated on the wharf and giving the sailors particular fits. The sailors on the ship were running to and fro beating their arms wil liy about their heads endeavoring to avoid the business ends of the maddened insects while the captain whs standing on the wharf fighting the bees with both hands and c 'nnianding the terrified crew to get the br(<l:i'a hive on the deck. “First they would and tii a they wouldn’t” take ho; 1of• he hive. One or two of the men would tube hold of the stand and to .up, 10 ; ji into the sling, when a : v fir, would quietly come in contact ■ i “i tlrolr hands or faces a i ti'.; wot:; i dfo.it, again. Occa sionally s Bailor might be seen fish ing one of tires:' iiise • s out of his hair or shirt front. Then someoneon the wharf would cry out, “Don’t light them; you will only make them worse.” Evnrytlme the officers were stung they bciw.io madder and mad der, ml s'.v <r at the men for not getting flic hive ashore. To add to their disco ufort, many of those on tin wharf found a safe place and laip; .cd as if they would die. At <1 di.i'.ii'nv all was laughter and tnerh ‘ merit, while around the ship the bat tle raged with terrible fury. The sailors uttered impric&iiorjs long and loud against tin* man who shipped the bees and the vessel trial, would carry them, in a few minutes a piece of canvas tvaz procured and wrapped around the hive, when it was safsly lauded, Epito ;ttc. A horse with the epi zootic should be carefully blanketed, kept out, of all drafts of winds, be fed lightly wi.'b good hay and carrots, or other vegetaldes, given no cold water, but all he will drink of water with tho chill taken off, or tepid water. A fire shovel full of hot ashes from the stove Is good to throw into the water once a day; in effect it loosens the phlegm and false membrane, which accumu lates in the throat, lungs, .and stom ach. A handfull of scalded bran is also good to add to each bucketful of water the horse drinks. No other medicine is advised, if the bowels can be kept regular with bran mashes and vegetable or green feed. Rest to a homo in this condition Is requisite to a speedy cure. A little gentle exer cise is all that, should bo allowed, and by no means should fast driving or hard pulling be allowed, even for a short time. ,- - EErnosY. The Lancet Is reminded by “the gorgAms displays, tho festivities, and other manifestations of rejoicing In the East with which the JLTinco of AVidcs has been welcomed,” of th# sad condition of the lepers in Bombay, j What leprosy is no one who has not seen It can well Imagine, and it Is unnecessary to describe it. But in tho Jumsetjee Jojoebhoy Dhurrum snla, a refuge for the destitute and sick in Bombay, the Lancet, on the authority of tho Times of India, says that there are some hundred and • twenty lepers lodged at the present time, sharing its scanty accommoda tion with an approximately equal number of the poor, aged, and our ip pled. The lepers live in wliut are called chawls or colls, some six feet long by live feet wide, and the insti tution is so full that often two lepers are crowded into one of them. They are without furniture or even cooking utensils, but each of them is allowed two pounds of rice and three pico with which to pay for fuel to dress their food. They oonsis' of men, women, and children,the children being the off spring of tho men and women, wome of them being born in the Dhurrum sala Itself, for no separation of the sexes is attempted or, it seems, even thought of. Unfortunate creatures with tliclr limbs wasted till only tho outline of the bones remain, or else swollen out of all form of limbs,, sit or lie about as they choose, wit hout supervision or medical care, except from one charitable physician whose mime is withheld, at, his own request seemingly. They are visited by no friends and by no minister of any re ligion. “They are abandoned,” says the Times of India, “of God and man, and were it not that the Dhurrnmsala gives them the half of a six-foot cell in which to lie, and a haudl'ul of rice with which to sustain life, they would die in their sores along our streets and iu our compounds.” Only those who arc very much afflicted arc ad mitted into the refuge. Those who are not in so advanced a state of dis ease are sent away to beg in the public highways and byways until they are sick enough to bo taken in the Dhur rumsala. - THK TROVBLICS OF KILVK't OH.INOW, The Ht. Louis licpubUccn mentions some of tho troubles that will follow the new money: When a man walks muck, the inside of his legs will be chafed raw. When less than a dollar is to go hy mail it, will have to be converted first into pontage stamps. When you run for a street car money will fly out of your pockets at every jump. Wien 3'ou tt 11 your wife that you have no money, she will say that, you lie, for she heard it jingle. It will be difficult to psy a man a quarter by mistake for a half. When you are in a hurry, the storekeeper will have to weigh the coin in his hand and sound it twenty-live times on tho counter before he can determine whether it is good. The baby will swallow a dime day. A boy with a quarter will lose it in a crack in two minutes, from which no amount of dialing with forks and chips can re cover it. Sleepy men will put buttons and lozenges into contribution bcies, as of yore. TEMPERATE Xtß OF TUB TOE All BS CIO.VS. According to the accounts of Artie voyagers, sudden eloviit iofis of tem perature in the polar regions are not uncommon, even In localities where the ice is moot abundant. These changes, and the occurrence of open polar seas, are usually ascribed to the influence of the Gulf Stream. Profes sor Wildldon suggests an opposing view, which is, that open wafer, melt ing ice, rain after snow, and other phenomena of like character observed in the polar regi me, are due to a cir culation of air hi which warm winds descend from upper atmospheres, be ing a oiivulatlou by which winds boat ed ot the equator reach the poles. vviiira rorn The cultivation of tho white x>oppy ' for tho production of opium, Is said to bo meeting with marked success lri Tennessee. A small quantity of the imported seed was planted last year by Dr. Pitta, and the seed obtained from this was exclusively employed for pluuting tills year. The plants are larger and more vigorous, and the capsules from two to ten tiroes as large as those from the imported seed. The opium obtained from these plants has the ehanioieilstle narcotic odor ; and bititsr to-ito of the. ordinary drug, . and presents a smooth,tenacious mass of a dark brown color. Stumbling into his room he eat \ down on idle edge of flm bed ml sire i liloquised thus: “Pact u<u. th.‘ t I boots, a sore on one l:i ;: 1 ’ a f, j on t’otner,and no ho-, •;< to *'t. m .. ! Pings got to be dif'rejn-. ETicu f mo* I g t married, else get a bootjack, I wiskall X do?” * NUMBER 10. ONE-SIDED MEN A writer in the Popular Science Monthly says: l was once sitting in k cool under ground saloon at Leipsio, while without people were ready to die from the heat, when anew guest otitered und took a seat opposito to me. The sweat rolled in great drops from his face, and ho was kept busy with his hand kerchief, till at last he found relief in the exclamation, -‘Fearfully hot!” I watched him attentively as lie called for a cool drink, for I expected every moment that he would fall from his chair in a fit of apoplexy. The man must have noticed thH I was observing him, for he turned toward mo suddenly, say ing : “I am a curious sort of person, am I not 7” “Why?” I asked. “Because l perspire only on the right sido.” Ami so it was; the right cheek and the right half of his forehead were as hot as fire, while the left side of his face bore not a trace of perspiration. Iliad never seen the like, and, in my astonishment, was about to enter into conversation with regarding his physio logical curiosity, when his neighbor on the left broke iri with the remark ; “Then we are the opposites and counter parts for each other ; lor I perspire only on the left side.” This, too, was the fact. So the pair took seals opposite to each other, and shook hands like two men who hadjust found each his other half. THE CAPTAIN’S GEESE. An old whaling captain, who hod spent the whole prime of bis life on the ocean with but indifferent success, havescraped together a low thousand dollars, retired from theses, iu nved into the country with his family, and bought a small farm. One of his neighbors raid to him alter ho settled on the farm; ‘ (’apt. IC., you’ve got a nice pond on your place, and you ought to have a good large flock of geese, ft's a grand place to keep ’em, and they’ll ho profitable to you.” “Yes, 1 think they will," said the captain, "Eve got some nice ones to sell ye,” continued the hind neighbor. “You come over and pick ’em out yourself.” So the captain selected n suitable number, making his choice as he would among a school of wbalcs when “brought to,” or as a bov would from a Basket of apples. ' In the Spring following he happened to he visiting at the farm of another neighbor, and among other things inspected the geese, making comparison in his mind highly favorable to his own judg ment. “Don’t think your birds are so hand some as mine.” he remarked. “Do you have any eggs yet?” “Oh, yes; they have been laying freely for thi< month or more.”' “ Well, 1 don’t know how ’tis,” said Capt K “l've got the handsomest flock that I've seen anywhere this season—picked ’em out one by one from my neighbor June’s flock, and 1 feed ’in high, too. But not an egg have they laid yet. 1 Only wish you would come over and see ’em. Perhaps you can give an idea how to tonnage 'em.” liisfrienddid “come over und see ’em” the next diiy.and, as soon as he could speak for laughter, he enlight ened the ancient mariner as to the cause of the non-productiveness by informing him that they were—all ganders! A RAT IN THE TELEGRAPH SERVICE. A telegraph insi >ector in England recently pressed into his service a rat under tho following peculiar circum stances : It was necessary to over haul a cable of wires Inclosed in iron tubes. A certain length of the cable had to be taken out of the tube, And tho men commence haul ing at one end without having tajten the precaution to attach to the other a wire by which it might be drawn back into the tube after insi>ectlon and repairs. The question arose how the oable was to bo restored to its proper place; and here' the ingenuity of the inspector, was manifested. He in voked the nid of a rat-catcher, and, provided with a large rat, a ferret, and a ball of string wound on a More pa per drum, he repaired to the opening in the tube. The ‘‘flush-boxes” were opened and the rat, with one end of the jitiing attached to his body, was put into the pipe. He scampered away at a riming pace, dragging the twine with him qritli he reached the middle of the length of the pipe, and there stopped. The ferret was then pul in, and off went the rat again until it sprang clear out of the next flush-box. One length of the cable was thus safe, and the same operation was oommeno ed; with the other; but the rat stop ped short a few yards in the' pipe and boldly awaited the approach of the fer ret A sharp combat here commonoed aud It was feared that one or both of the animals would die in the pipe. But after sundry violent jerks had been given to tho string, the combatants separated; the ferret returned to his master, and the rnt, making for the other extremity of the pipe, carried the string right through, and so re lieved the inspector from his anxiety. —Popular Sciivve Vrathly.