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BRUNSWICK ADVERTISER.
BRUNSWICK,
GEORGIA,
TIMELY TOPICS.
; has forwarded 2,000
the state
--^ratsry of Texas for militia purposes
and possible use on the Mexican uumcu.
About ope hundred and thirty bodies
have been recovered from the wreck of
the Schiller, including the Leonhardt
family of Augusta, Ga. 1
The Knoxville and Charleston Railroad
has been finally disposed ef to Maj
Thos. O’Connor & Co., the difficnlties
in the way of the pnrchase having been
satisfactorily settled.
Our national debt is $2,181,000,000
the total of state debts, $890,000,000;
county debts, $180,000,000; city and
town debts, $570,000,000; total, $8,271,
000,000.
The principal object of Vice-President
Wilson’s trip to the south at this time
is said to be to visit the spot at Austin,
Texas, where his only Bon, an officer in
the regular army, died.
According to a recent report from
army headquarters, over 1,700 men
have deserted within the last ten
months, being a proportion of one in
14.
_ A. J. Alexander, of Woodbnrn Farm,
Ky., has sold to Mr. Fox, of England,
the 24tb Duke of Airdrie and the 20th
Duchess of Airdrie at $80,000 for the
two. '
Con. Robert M. and Stephen A.
Douglass, sons of the late Stephen A.
Douglass, receive an award for 1,457
bales of ootton, or about $259,400,
seized in the state of Mississippi on the
maternal plantation.
The terrible fires which have been
Sweeping whole districts in Pennsylva
nia are attributed to the great drouth,
easing from the reckless felling of tim
ber, whidh diminishes the rainfall and
opens an inviting field for the flames.
Spain has settled damages for the
slight put upon the Mecklenburg brig
Gustav. She managed to scrapd np
$17,000 to fork over to the German
embassador at Madrid. The flag Btands
well, and the Dentsoh goose hangs high
pretty much everywhere nowadays.
The luxury of calling a lawyer a shy
ster in Sfc. Louis is so cheap that no
newspaper need practice self denial or
eoonomy in this regard. The Republi
can has just been assessed one cent
damages as cns result of a protracted
libel suit.
There is a noticeable falling off in
the importation pf iron, according to
recent commercial statistics. Seven
hundred and fifty thousand tons were
imported from England alone in 1871.
The imports of this year will hardly
exoeed one hundred thousand, and this
decrease has been gradually effected.
Prop. L. H. Jenkins, superintendent
of the deaf and dumb asylriRi atnuthe,
Kansas, and others, have tested
qualities of grasshoppers as an article
of food, and pronounce them, after be
ing boiled in water to clean them, and
fried in bntter, to be qnite palatable,
and even good eating, like small fish.
Tee girls of Warsaw, Ky., have unan
imously resolved to purchase no dry
goods costing more than twenty-five
cents per yard for the space of one year.
Here is a woman’s reform movement
which, if carried into effect throughout
the entire south, would do more to'cure,
the ills of short crops and high rates
than any plan we have yet seen sug
gested.
Tee San Francisco jockey club has a
big bonanza for four-mile races, as it
offers $80,000 in gold as premiums for
a four-mile-and-repeat race, to be ran
next November. Of this sum the first
horse will receive $15,Q00, the second
$6,000, the third $5,000, and the fourth
$4,000. Special expenses will be
allowed to all horses coming from
Europe or east of the Rooky mountains.
Cardinal Manning has prevailed up
on the Pope to allow English historians
to search the private archives of the
Vatican for historical information.
Hitherto none but ecclesiastics have
been allowed to have atcess to these
precious manuscripts, Protestants’being
hardly able to see a single docnment
they could name. The newly obtained
privilege is expeoted to yield some
highly interesting results.
One of the most recent of the sick-
THE PARIS MUTUELS.
Why They Were Banished from the
French Tart.
At the recent Longobamps races, the
gambleis were out in great force, but
were 'were no Paris mutuel machines,
as they have been abolished from the
course entirely for the second time—
thfr flrst by order of tbeemperor and
latterly by the republican prefect of
police. Cheating had been detected by
the police in the working of these
machines, and the public bad been
nniiiulotl most cgregiously, hence their
banishment not only from the course,
but to the other side of the boundary
lines of France. One way of cheating,
it is said, was by altering the numbers
in the machine on a particular horse at
(he moment of his winning so as to
make more tickets sold on that particu
lar horse than had been indicated before
the start, while another way was by
getting in league with the trainers and
jockeys, getting them to throw races,
and by purchasing all the tickets, or
nearly all, on the horse that had to win,
the public were not only robbed of all
the money they bet on the other horses
in the race, but, worse than all, the
owners of the race horses were sold and
beaten by rascally set of scamps who
had thus bought up the jockeys and
trainers. Villanies of this kind,. it is
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—America has imported $100,000'
worth bf dog?, mostly pointers and set
ters, during tbp.la&t two years. \
—in Oefmapf there are nearly one
million more women than men. and
wives do not lift the hair of husbands
so readily as in countries where the*
supply of the sex is more limited.
—When a woman is care-laden and
heavy-hearted, nothing shakes the me-
grans out
nrttnkr.r than for a-
No woman ean wake np at 2 o’clock
in the morning and listen to the oease-
lesa crowing of a dozen neighboring
roosters without an emotion of thank
fulness to a merciful and all-wise Provi
dence for denying man both the genins
and the inclination to crow.
Now it is Queen Victoria who is again
threatened vrith assassination.' O’Oon-
jK.rj wLOj nCuie time since, made an
attempt to shoot her, was found stand
ing in the identical spot, the other day,
where the former affair took place, ob
serving the queen, Of course he was
packed off to the insane asylum.
Merchants of NewtJTork city com
plain that their expenses have been in
creased by from $500 to 6,000 in con-
sequenoe of the double postage on third
class mail matter. The board of trade
have appointed a committee to oollect
the facts and take measures to obtain a
repeal of the law by the next eongresa.
ening St. Louis sensations is that whioh
tells of the discovery of the putrefy
ing body of a small-pox patient in the
bottom of a well, from whioh a num
ber of families had been getting water
for some time. Strange to say, the
people did not detect any peculiarity in
the taste of the beverage. They will
henceforth be proof against the small-
pox. - -
A toung man left Walla-Walla several
weeks since for the purpose of making
a general tour of Northern California.
Before starting, he solemnly promised
his friends to write back all the par
ticulars of the oountry. But one letter
has been received from him, containing
two lineB, which says: “ The girls are
all from Boston, and whisky is twenty-
five cents a drink.”
Dio Lewis declares that he refuses to
lease a hotel of his " except on condi
tion that wine and brandy are excluded
from the cooking.” He is quito right
in this. We never see a parcel of men,
women and ehildren go reeling and
staggering from the dining-room of a
hotel where wine and brandy are used
in cooking without shedding tears of
blood and experiencing emotions of the
soul which can be soothed and quelled
j only by a Buiiiboa oooktuU or a. glass
or two of beer.- Ji'xcfiangc.
i The Cheyenne leader evidently lacks
confidence in the veracity of Red Olond.
It says: •' Prof. Marsh may or may not
be as good a'fossil sharp* as he is a
jndge of the veracity of an Indian, but
he is making himself ridiculous in try
ing to impress upon those who will con
sent to be so bored by him that Bed
Cloud is a truthful, reliable man. We,
in Wyoming, know this distinguished
Indian to be a treacherous murderer
and a treaty-breaker, and a h&rborer of
Indian murderers and thieves.
reported here, were Dracticed by a cer
tain gambler in the United States last
year, who was not a worker or owner of
the Paris’mutuels, but a great better on
races. He bribed the jockeys to throw
races, and by this fellow’s tricks many
a good horse was beaten when he should
have won his races. I mention this
faot, as many people over here seem to
know something of the manner in which
gambling is conducted in America. It
is said also by the police here that many
of the operators of the Paris mutnel
machines in France became owners of
race horses themselves, or obtained
control of them through bribery, and
were thus enabled to defraud the baokers
of horses opposed to those in the in
terest of the mutuel machines. When
this villainy was detected by the police
here, the books of the gamblers- were
seized, as well sb the cash in hand, and
they scattered the villains from their
haunts, to find other instruments than
1 the Paris mutuels to do their swindling
with. Bnt for, these exposures the
Paris mutuels would be still in opera
tion,
Health and Fashion.—The Science
of Health says : Not until we deal con
scientiously with nature as we do with
tradesmen' shall we, as individuals, be
entitled to rewards of merit. We ask
for a load of good wood, pay the market
price for it, get the worth of our money,
and have the satisfaction of warmth
from the fire it makes. Suppose the
dealer knew we would not pay for it
He wonld not be likely to give ful
measure of the best quality. The dainty
bits of lace, jet ornaments and plumes,
rose-buds and velvets, composing a hat,
are very becoming to some faces. The
dressy hat has a price: it takes money
to pay for it.' The little lady wishes to
look stylish, pays the price, and is satis
fied ana happy until the fashion changes.
She desires health mid elasticity of step,
buoyancy of spirit. Gould they be'pur-
chased at Stewart’s or of Worth mil
lions of dollars would roll in to the
credit of their bank accounts. Alas,
poor child of fashion I Gold cannot
bay for you the dewy freshness of a
vigorons life. The sunshine and rain
drops are gifts. Roses in cheeks, cher
ries in color of lips, come from within.
The price is servioe, and faithful ser
vice, too, under the direction of the most
generons and exacting physician, Moth
er Nature. Her rewards are sure; her
punishments certain. There can be no
appeal to a higher court—no amend
ments to her divinely-appointed “ con-,
stitution.” W»l* you enter a willing j
student- ? Are you willing to measure I
your life by her rule end compass and ‘
square? “No?” Then there is little
hope for you.
couple of ladies to stop in front of the
bouse loeg enough for her to examine
the trimmings on their bonnets.
—Lewis remarks that most any wo
man can sit down gracefully in a street
Car, but not one in a hundred can de
scend from the back end of a buggy
when the horse is running away, with
out feeling that she’s going to overdo
the thing.
—If properly gathered and preserved
beans wuf retain vitality 2 y 0; cab
bage, 4; carrot 3; sweet corn, 2; cu-
oumberB, 10;‘lettuce, 8; melon, 10j
onion, 1; parsnip, 1; peas, 2; radish,
8; squash, 10; tomato, 7; turnips, 4.
«• Then you won’t lend me that dime
our chimney burns you shan’t come into-
the yard and holler.”
—The Louisville Courier; Journal, in
reply to the pathetio question of &
woman, “ How shall I keep my Lhs-
band at home in the evening t says it-
can be done easily enough by open
ing a first class beer garden in the
back yard.
—The' newest seaside umbrellas are.
intended to shelter an entire family, if
we are to jndge from the sise. They'
are about the dimensions of a “side-
show tent ” belonging to a circus, and
have a pole ten feet high to stick in the*,
sand, and they form a canvas house.
—Weston is still walking. The an
nouncement calls up once more a feel
ing of grateful appreciation of the
Swinbumian assurance, “ That no life
lives forever; that dead men rise up
never; that even the weariest river
winds somewhere safe to sea.”
—The cure for this sleepless condi
tion is simple, although the treatment?
must be radical. The first essential is-
to abandon the particular class of brain
exercise which has induced or attended!
upon the difficulty. The next thing is,
give up coffee, tea, tobacco, ana all
stimulants. To use any form of alcohol
in such a case may do suicide. Finally
live out of doors, exercise daily till yon
are tired out, aha then go to bed u &-
quiet, well-aired, cool room. Ir
month you will be well, and may go
in the old brafo-wearing, destructive
way, if you have not learned the lesson-
of prudence by suffering.—Hall's Jour
nal of Health* s
—The people cn the coeet of Corn
wall, off which the Schiller was wreck
ed, have long had a bad reputation as
wreckers. When a ship was seen off
the rooks, on a Sunday, the minister
wonld give them a holiday. One of
their principal men. several years ago,
was charged with having tied up the
leg of an ass, hung a lantern round its
neok, and driven it by night along the
cliffs, so that its halting motion would)
imitate the plunging of a vessel under
sail, and thus fetnpt ships to ran in.
where they would suppose was sea-
room, and drive them to destruction..
The inhabitants areas inhospitable ae-
their rocks. ■
—After reading Sherman’s book and
the violent comments upon it, 'one
might suppose that all military achieve
ments are mere matters of accident,
ana time no particular person is enti
tled to any great amount of credit for
winning a battle. Ton Moltke himself
is Baid to have been a little surprised at
the victories won by the Germans.
Who knows but the good time is dose
at hand when the rnmiary hero ia to be
politely conducted to the back seat
reserved for him by an improved civili
zation?
A Word in Season.—Health is a
blessing, which comparatively few en*
oy in au its fullness. Those endowed'
>y nature with robust frames and vig
orons constitutions should be careful
cot to trifle with them.
When we enter the seasons of period-
{fevers, the increased heat ef the snn
levelops a. miasma whioh pervades the
air. The evil is inextinguishable; our
duty to guard againBt it is imperative I
Fortunately for those whose lot is cast
in low marshy districts or new olear-
ings, nature provides a cure and pre
ventive. Dr. Walker’s California Vine
gar Bitters are endowed with rare pro-
phytactic or disease-preventing po were,
and as “an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure,” should be
taken in the foil vigor of health, so as
to fortity the system against the assault
• summer disease, and thus seonre by
their life-givinf
atives, and ant
against atmospheric poison.
icnihg, restor
es, a defense