Newspaper Page Text
i
Brunswick mmm.
BRUNSWICK,
GEORGIA.
TIMELY TOPICS
The cattle disease is making sad havoc
in some counties in England.
Treasurer New Rays that the
amounts paid by the national banks
ivg the last fiscal year as a tax on
lation was $3,3GG,89s.92.
The heavy rains have seriously dam
aged the crops in Minnesota, it being es
timated that already the loss foots up
fifteen or twenty per cent, of the entire
crop of the state.
The Indians appear to be on the war
path out in western Utah, having al
ready butchered a number of settlers
and miners. Troops are being sent for
ward to squelch the red-skins.
The success of the new Atlantic cable
insures communication with Europe at
much lower rates than have heretofore
been charged. The enormous capital now
submerged beneath the sea can only be
made to pay a low tariff ami large busi
ness.
The announcement that 15,090 cattle
are under treatment for hoof and mouth
disease in one county in England has
been proceeded by anxious discussions of
the spread of the contagion and of the
rapidly increasing prices of meat in that
country.
Frank Harper’s three-old colt, Ten
Broeck, astonished the knowing ones at
Lexington by making the fastest
time on record for the distance,
beating the supposed invincible Bob
Woolley. Ten Broeck is by Phaeton, out
of Nantura, the dam of the famous
Longfellow.
The arrangements have been almost
completed in England for the great Pan-
Anglican synod, similar to the one held in
London some years ago under the presi
dency of the late Archbishop Loungly.
The American churches will be fully rep
resented in this ecumenical council of
Anglicanism.
Emile de Girardin has written
eleven etal)ornte letters to prove that the
best thing France can do is to form an
offensive and defensive alliance with
Germany against all comers, especially
Russia. Only one single journal of the
French press is in favor of the idea he is
running.
JuDOE Parker, whose judicial district
extends over Indian territory and a por
tion of Arkansas, will, it is said, sentence
fourteen more murderers to thegallowsat
his next term of court. They will prob
ably be hung on tho same day as was the
case with the six criminals at Fort Smith
recently.
The London Times gives a summary
of the failures in England during the
last three months. The liabilities of
tweney-nine amount to a total of $26,-
000,000, and their assets to $10,000,000,
of which about one-third are regarded
as doubtful. But the Times has a mis
giving that this is very far from repre
senting the total losses of the late panic,
and in this view it is probably correct.
The secret service authorities have in
formation that a company of Italians
have gone west with a large amount of
ten-dollar counterfeit bills of the first
national bank of Philadelphia. These
counterfeits are exceedingly dangerous.
One of them was recently received at
the treasury cash room and exchanged by
the experts for small money. The coun
terfeit is probably the most dangerous
extant. It is perfect on its face, but has
a few defects on the back.
It is said that the Grand Duke Alexis
has been divorced from the pretty maid
of honor whom lie married last year in
spite of the Czar’s objections. This
spoils a very pleasant little romance, as
Alexis declared that he would never
yield to his father's wishes, and the
young couple were said to be living so
happily together. The proud duke, per
haps, grew tired of his golden-haired
idol.
Despite the general depression of
business since the panic the New York
5 rcn _ j provement in the iron business riurimr
I the present year. The statistics of the
American iron and steci association now
indicate that the production of the
whole county during the past year was
equal to that of previous years. The
consumption of iron and steel has ex
ceeded the general estimate.
Month after month the wonderful
recuperative power of France is more
and more palpable. It is officially de
clared that her trade returns for the first
seven months of 1875 show an increase
in the value of exports of 260,000,000
francs ($52,000,000) as compared with
the corresponding period of 1874; in the
same time the value of the imports has
decreased by 44,000,000 francs ($8,800,-
000;) the result is that France obtains
the difference in gold.
A Spanish organ at Havana, the
Dairio de la Marina, admitted recently
that it was possible that the island might
become an independent state, and ad
vised the insurgents to treat for the pac
ification of the country. Affairs, indeed
look promising for the rebels, who over
run the whole eastern part of the island,
burning sugar plantations and enlisting
the slaves as fast as they are set free.
The steam yatch Octavia lias succeeded
in landing three cargoes of supplies for
the insurgents on the north coast.
It is stated upon what is regarded by
the Atlanta Constitution as reliable
authority that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
lias l>ccn appointed and lias accepted the
position of coinmandcr-in-chief of the
army of Egypt. Only a short time
since, and for the third time, was he ten
dered the position. This time it was
urged upon him so strenuously that
he at length consented, and is making
his preparation to go over and assume
his position immediately. He is to get
$100,000 to prepare himself an outfit, |
and is to receive the sum of $25,000 an
nually for having supreme control of the
army of the Khedive of Egypt.
were about to be either roasted, or
crushed. I got off my horse, which was
dreadfully frightened by the flames and
noise around, and I went up to where
the sick woman lay. She was paralized.
Her husband, a mule driver, was away.
Some soldiers carried her out of the
house before setting fire to it. The only
thing left her—and that by mere good
luck—was the mattress on which she
was lying. The heat was becoming more
and more intense; their faces were crini-
| son; the children, in their agony, re-
ifloumea their shrieks; inch jioor mother,
J its she looked at them, weeping, ami rail
ing the holy Virgin to her aid. W hat
could be more heartrending than this
picture, framed as it were in fire.”—I/m-
don Standard.
THE SEWERAGE OF CITIES.
The Horrors of Civil War.
The following extract from a letter ad
dict -ed by the Carli.st General Castella
to Colonel do Charette is handed to us
by t le London Carlist committee for
pubi cation. The writer had command
of ti e fortifications at Villareal during
the recent engagement:
“ I have during my life witnessed some
very sad scenes of war, and I thought I
had seen the summit of human misery
in the retreat of the army of the east
(in 1879), of which I commanded the
rear guard. But I can not recall any
impression which can be compared with
the feeling which I experienced on enter
ing with Brigadier Valluorca, the princi
pal street of Villareal, when it was on
(ire from ore end to the other. The
crackling of the flames whose red glare
struggled against the light of the mid
day sun, the heavy crash of windows
giving away and of roofs falling in, the
shrieks of frenzied women and the cries
of children who run with bare feet on
tilO Unlics. the grim despair of the old , tlll „ U|4 _ t
men. as they gazed with dry eyes ami a j j n extent" Y.s
fixed stare upon the scene, the impreca
tions of the Carlist soldiers as parties
rushed in hot pursuit of the incendiaries,
tho rattle of the musketry, all formed a
horrible spec talc which baffles descrip
tion.
“I saw in a side street, between two
burning houses, a woman.K ing stretched
IIo»v London Get* Rid or Hers—Millions
Swept Into (he Sea.
Nearly twenty years ago it was resolved
to provide for the metropolis of London
a system of drainage that should bo ef
ficient in itself and that should at the
same time leave the waters of the
Thames pure and uncontaminated.
During seventeen years, and at a cost of
more than twenty-two million dollars,
the works have been in progress, and it
is only about two weeks ago or there
abouts that their ultimate completion
was announced. The sewerage of one
large section of London, covering an
area of nearly one hundred and twenty
square miles, is now carried away in the
most perfect manner, and provision is
made by which, for a long time to come,
and making all allowance for the contin
uous growth of the city, the drainage
"frill remain complete.
The great value of sewerage of a large
city is fully acknowledged. That of
London, with its dense population of
four millions, represents a vast annual
amount of money. Yet it is riot utilized
in any degree. By the great system of
sewers now completed it is carried under
ground to the mouth of the Thames, and
there made to flow into the German
ocean. Everybody admits that there is
a great loss resulting from such an ar
rangement ; everybody is ready to tell of
the national gain that would result if
that sewerage were utilized upon the land;
but nobody has yet been able to devise a
means by which in practice it can be
done.
A few years ago a company was formed
in London for utilizing! n this way the
sewerage north of the Thames, but the
idea was then a novel one; at any rate
the public had not been educated up to
an appreciation of its value, and it fell
through for the want of capital. In one
of the midland counties of England, one
of the local boards of health in 1870,
took on lease for seventeen years a plot
of twenty-eight acres of land, with the
intention of utilizing the sewerage from
their own district, which contains a pop
ulation of about five thousand. The
farm was a clay soil, liadly cultivated,
and inefficiently drained. The expenses
have been heavy, but still the profits of
the experiment are more than encourag
ing. At first the receipts fell far short of
the expenditure. In 1870 the income
was only $1,035, barely enough to cover
rent. But every year has shown a
marked improvement, and when the ac
counts were made out for the twelve
months ending March, 1875, the receipts
were found to be $6,060, against $2,995
expended. Such a return on a farm of
less than thirty acres is conclusive proof
that there must be some virtue in this
method of culture.
Near Leamington, Warwickshire, a
similar exjieriment has liecn tried, but
there, the farm being in private owner
ship, it is not easy to arrive at the re
sults. It is acknowledged, however, by
the Earl of Warwick, to whom the
place belongs, that the profits arc very
large. The Earl pays to the town coun
cil of Leamington, $2,250 a year for the
town sewerage, and he has perfected ar
rangements for receiving and distribu-
farm, which is 400 acres
from all fungoid growths, and quite fit to
drink. The farm, the soil of which is
a rich loam with a gravel subsoil, has
been under experiment four years.
Is it too much to say that the sewerage
which is every year allowed to flow into
the rivers from this city would suffice to
make all the land in the neighborhood
for miles around, including the now bar
ren flats of New Jersey, highly produc
tive. If means were taken to utilize it,
the city would find a new source of rev
enue, and the provisions of many kinds
would be cheaper.—New York Times.
A VERITABLE LITTLE DICK.
JIIm Heetawith’a Five Mile* Swim front
London llrldgre to Green wleb.
A young girl named Agnes Alice Beck
with, daughter of the professor of swim
ming at Lambeth baths, yesterday ac
complished the difficult feat of swimming
from London Bridge to Greenwich. The
distance is rather more than five miles,
and the time was remarkably fast—namely
lh 7m. 45s. Mr. Beckwith has lieen con
nected with the Lambeth baths for nearly
a quarter of a century, and for fourteen
years held the proud position of champion
swimmer of England. The heroine of
yesterday’s proceedings is but fourteen
years old, of slim make and diminutive
stature. The object was to decide a wager
of£60to £40 laid against her by Mr. Baylis,
the money being deposited with Bell's Life.
The event created a great deal of excite
ment, and all along the route the progress
of the swimmer was watched by excited
crowds on the wharfs and barges. In ad
dition to the London Steamboat Com
pany’s Volunteer, a private steam launch,
and a rowing boat containing her father,
the referee, and some half dozen others
immediately interested in the result, a
perfect swarm of boats accompanied—and-
indeed impeded—the swimmer the entire
distance. London bridge was crowded,
as were the vessels and other points
whence a view of the start could be ob
tained.
MISS BECKWITH DIVED
from the rowing boat at nine minutes to
five, and at once commenced a rapid side
stroke, which she maintained to the finish.
She was attired in a swimming costume
of light rose pink llama, trimmed with
white braid and lace of the same color.
The water was very smooth and the tide
running about three miles per hour.
Swimming about a couple of yards in the
rear of the referee’s boat, Tunnel Pier was
reached at 11 minutes past five. At
Horseferry dock (5:22) a salute was fired,
and the swimmer was encouraged with
lusty cheers. The Commercial dock was
quickly left behind, and soon after the
Hilda, on her return from Margate,
crowded with excursionists, passed the
flotilla. Passing Millwall Miss Beckwith
crossed to the north side and took advan
tage of the strong tide. At this point
she was met by the saloon steamer Vic
toria, whose passengers were vociferous
in their applause. The Foreign Cattle
market at Depford was breasted at twelve
minutes to six, and, as Greenwich hos
pital appeared in sight, the intelligence
was conveyed to the swimmer by repeated
cheers, a salute being also fired from the
Unicorn. The pier at Greenwich and
the grounds of the shipyard were crowded
with people who cheered to the echo when
the spirited strains of “See the Conquer
ing Hero Comes” announced the success
of the attempt. Miss Beckwith swam
some distance beyond the pier, and was
taken on board at5h. 58m. 45s., having
accomplished the distance, as stated above,
in lh. 7m. 45s.
She seemed almost as fresh as when sho
started, and to all appearance was capa
ble of going considerably further.—Lon
don Standard.
The Black Flag in Cuba.—Since
the outbreak of the Cuban revolution in
October, 1868, it has lieen the infamous
policy of the Spanish government to sus-
jiend the ordinary rules of civilized war
fare and shoot all prisoners taken in arms.
Hitherto the Cubans have not retaliated
is applied to almost every description of
crops, from cereals and roots, to beans
ana i>ens, cabbage, celery, rhubarb, and
even strawberries, and with uniformly
•quire. It f in kind, but it is understood that the
new president of the republic, .-enor
Spotorno, will inaugurate a new policy
in this regard, make the war really a
fftierra al cuchillo, and execute his prison-
nn i. . xl. • 1 nil
least two additional crops will lie secured.
<*»t o» !l mattress, surrounded by little The root crops arc described as .-amply
children halt naked, who were uttering enormous; turnips are obtained in per-
mercmg cries. The atmosphere was un- feetion throughout the season, and man-
bearabl •. The flames all but licked the
paths; the burning ruins were falling
down on all sides quite close to them;
and this family, abandoned in confusion,
favorable results. Rye grass irrigated ers as the Spanish execute theirs’ The
with sewerage has been already cut way in which this struggle has lieen per-
five times, and it is expected that at | mitted to continue now for seven years is
a disgrace to the United States as well as
to Spain. Valmaseda is responsible for
making the war barbarous by his procla
mation at the opening of the year 1872;
few will blame the new president for his
retaliatory measures, however much they
— _ may regret the necessity which has corn-
bright and sparkling, absolutely free polled them.—New York Graphic.
golds have produced as much as 82 tons
per acre. It is also worthy of note that
the water which flows off this farm is