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BRUNSWICK.
GEORGIA.
AMERICAN SILVER.
ITS
ENORMOUS PRODUCTION — WHAT
SHALL BE DONE WITH IT?
Speaking of the demonUizaiion of
silver in Europe, a Washington letter j ver to rail, and 0 v
of' December 30, in the New^Vork Bui- its present and worse prospective de
basement and demonitization, are de
legal tender tor more than 810.
proposition will be apt to be
made law at this session. There are a
good many little amendments of law,
of great moment, to be made by con
gress, touching our financial system,
and they will lie made within three
months, or the secretary will distress
the country by accumulating silver and
gold under the authority he las.
The Pacific Coast people, having sil-
iewing with dismay
ietip, concludes as follows:
The liearing of these facts upon the
silver mining interest of this country is
manifest, and begins to take definite
form in the action of capitalists on the
Pacific coast. It is a fact that a num
ber of gentlemen from the Pacific
coast, some of whom have arrived,
actually propose and ekpect to carry
through congress, at this session, a
E revision making silver coins an un-
mited legal tender in payment of all
debts.
Only yesterday there was a dispatch
from San Francisco to the effect that,
by some mysterious new process of
smelting, the bpginess of Swansea and,
other ore smelting cities of the world
was to be wiped out. The story of this
inventor gains friends, as did the “mo
tor" for lveely, nobody knowing any
thing about it, but all the miners say
ing “lie’s got it.
The silver mines in Nevada Hive
ore enough in sight to keep all the
miners that can work busy years, and
with the appliances they have dis
covered for getting it out, and the
amount they are certain to put on the
market for years to come, comes with
the owners of the mines a great anxiety
as to what they will do with it. They
do not propose to make silver plated
come down to near the value of 'plated
ware, nor to sacrifice their bonanzas
through over production that might
bring reductiou of price by any reason
connected with the law of supply and
demand.
Thqy arc shrewd men who set the
miuts: of Europe closing one by one
against silver coinage. They see in the
Imperial demand that caused the pass
age through one German house of
parliament, as above mentioned, the
bill that threatens any day the demoniff-
zation of the thaler. They see the
threat of the Latin states, thrown out
bv the announcement of the Brussels
(Convention. And they see our mints
turning out silver pieces as fast as the
machinery will do it, in order that the
silver clause of the Resumption’aot of
1875 may he carried into effect. And
we are to have another mint in the
Mississippi Valley. We are sending
trade dollars to Asia, and they like
them so much that we can not coin
them fast enough. There is to be a
proposition made soon in congress to
make a trade half an8 quarter dollar of
silver, and it will be likelv to carry.
So our mints will have afl the work
they can do to coin silver for years to
come. Their entire hope is, therefore,
in the United States. They are pro
ducing silver ton after ton, and tney
want it used.
Now the currency we hAve in this
country is the hone of contention as
strongly as the negro was in 1858.
They talk here of repealing the legal
tender act, funding the greenbacks, and
doing ali sorts of radical things ; n the
direction of specie payments
are probably ten earnestly and strong-
And^en^S^ resumption^act stands
forward, possessing an imperative place
in the statute books, to guide and di
rect executive movements.
The issue, therefore, lies between
the Government and the miner of the
Pacific. So long as the Resumption
Act says the secretary of the treasury
ahull accumulate silver and gold, so
long will he Wauthortoed and disposed
accumulate it. But neither the
termined to make the United States and
Asia and Mexico take it and use it as
the metal for standard coinage. The
government officers look upon its de
monitization as an evidence of pros
pective pre§t in the proposed supplant
ing of fractional currency by it. Dr.
Linderman, director of the mint, and
the secretary of the treasury, are es
pecially pleased with the prospect of
buying silver cheap for silver resump
tion. But the Pacific coast people say
they have the silver, that the govern
ment wants it, and that it can be easily
put in the place of both gold and paper
if congress provides mints to coin it
fast enough, and permits its use as an
unlimited legal tender or effective
money at the customhouse and in pay
ment of debts,. They say they do not
use green hacks except at a discount,
and that they will furnish material for
coin as fast as the mints can coin it, so
that hard silver money may soon be
come a fact.
Scarcity of Southern Farm Labor.
It is always an ungracious task to
recommend workmen who have noth
ing to do in our over-crowded Atlantic
cities to “Go West;” it subjects the
.giver of the adviee to the imputation
of cheap philanthropy, while the ad
vice itself, except in rare instances, is
never heeded. The Bulletin, there
fore, drops the west, hut would say a
good word for the south and the ad
vantages it has to offer to all who are
willing to labor. At this moment, as
we learn from our exchanges, there is
an- urgent demand for almost every de
scription of farm labor, especially
throughout Mississippi, North Ala
bama and Tennessee. In Mississippi
there is still an extensive area of cot
ton yet ungathered, most of which, it
is feared, will be left to ruin in conse
quence of the mere lack of hands re
quired to do the picking. According
to a statement in the Louisville Cour
ier, planters are willingly paying four
and five cents per pound for this work,
which would yield to industrious men
from three to five dollars per day,
For day labor in other departments of
farm work two to three dollars per day
is paid. If the proper authorities in
our large cities would take the matter
in hand it is reasonably certain that
avast amount of suffering would be
relieved by providing the requisite
facilities for immigration to the sec
tions where this demand for labor ex-
Ms. Once there, industrious laliorers
of steady habits would have no trouble
in obtaining employment as societies
are forming which will give places to
as many good hands as may come.
The subject is certainly deserving the
attention of all who recognize that the
best way Lu relieve the present de-
Thpre 1 piconcd couuitiuu of the labor market,
north and east, is to transfer idle
hands from places where they are in
excess to those where they are really
wanted, and where they would be
amply recompensed.—New York Bul
letin.
Curran’s Ingenuity.
A farmer attending a fair with £100
in his pocket, took the precaution of
depositing it in the hands of the land
lord of the public house at which he
stopped. Having occasion for it soon
afterwards, he lesorted to mine host
for payment. But the landlord, too
deep for the countiyman, wondered
what he meant, ana was quite sure
no such sum had ever been lodged in
bis hands by the astonished rustic
After the ineffectual appeals to the
recollection, and finally to the honor of
Bardolph, the farmer applied to Cur
ran for advice. “ Hare patience, my
friend,” said the counsel; “speak to
the landlord civilly—tell him you have
left your money with some other per
son . Ta ke a friend with you, and lodge
another hundred with him in presence
of your friend, and then come to me,
He did so, and then returned to his
legal friend. “And now I can’t see how
I am going to be better off for this, if
I get my second hundred back again
But how is that to be done?” “Go
and ask him for it when he is alone,”
said the counsel. “ Ay, sir, asking
won’t do, I’m afraid, without my wit
ness at any rate.” “Never mind,
take my advice,” said his counsel, “do
as I hid you and return to me.” The
farmer returned with his hundred,
glad to find that safely in his posses
sion. “ Now, sir, I must lie content,
but I don’t see as I’m much better oft’.”
“Well, then,” said the counsel,
“now take your friend along with you
and ask the landlord for the hundred
pounds your friend saw you leave with
him.” We need not add that the wily
landlord found he hail been taken off
his guard, while our honest friend re
turned to thank his counsel exultingly
with both hundreds in his pocket.
Milton’s house in Westminister ia
still standing, although slightly altered.
We believe that William Hazlitt lived
in the house for some time, and that
he caused the tablet to Miltou’s memo
ry, to be fixed to the garden front of
to .»». , . . r, -
president nor the secretary of the j the house, which now look.* toward the
tfeasmy believe in making silver coins j Wellington barracks.
Scientific Appearances and Reality
In bis latest book (“Ziele und Weg e
derheutigenEntwickelungigeschichte*)
Professor Haeckel, the great apostle of
Evolution in Germany, announces the
discovery of the following law: “In
all the magnificent scientific institu
tions founded in America by Agassiz,
the following empirical law, long recog
nized in Europe, has been confirmed,
viz: that the scientific work of these
institutes and the intrinsic value if
their publications stand in a» inverse
ratio to the magnitude of the buildings
and the splendid appearance of their
volumes.” “ I need only refer,” he
adds, “to the small and miserable in
stitutes and the meagre resources with
which Baer in Konigsberg, Hchleiden
in Jena, Johannes Muller in Berlin,
Liebig in Giessen, Virchow in Wurz
burg, Gegenbaur in Jena haVe not only
each advanced his special science most
extensively, but have actually created
new spheres for them. Compare with
these the colossal expenditure and the
luxurious apparatus in the grand insti
tutes of Cambridge, Leipzig, and other
so called great universities. What
have they produced in proportion to
their means ?”—Ball Mall Gazette.
Women who Never Wash.
A correspondent of tHe London
Standard writes:
Those of your readers who have
traveled to Spain have certainly re
marked the dirty stripes on the necks
of the lovely scr.orac*; no devout Span
ish woman dares to bathe without per
mission of her confessor. This aversion
to cleanliness has come forward from
the time of the anchorites, Sabinus,
Pachomiuus, Beraoion and the other
saints of the desert, and, indeed, whole
sects of that epoch condemned all ab
lutions as heathenish, and were lauded
because they wore their clothes so loug
that they rotted and fell off of them,
or because their bodies became as
“ pumice stone” from the crust of dirt
on it. The superstition that cleansing
the body soil* the soul exists to-day
among the women of those Christian
nations who have long carried on con
flicts with the Mohammedans, on whom
the Koran enjoins frequent ablutions.
A female Bulgarian is permitted to
wash only once in her life-—on the day
before Her wedding—and in most south
Sclavonian families the girls are rarely
allowed a bath, the women never. I
recall with a shudder the interior of
the Montenegrin huts. When a woman
offered me wine she always dipped her
linger into it, the same fingers which
had just been engaged in the chase on
her children’s heads, or which had been
gently scratching the pig, the pet of
the family, which is addressed by en
dearing names. The adults squat or
lie down, the children tumble about in
the liquid manure which covers the
floor of the hut, and rpanv women are
blear-eyed in consequence of the creo
sote caused by the smoke, which can
only escape through the door. The
Princess Milena, as I have said, forms
an exception.
The Centennial.
At the recent dinner given to the vis
itors from Washington at Horticultural
Hall, on the centennial grounds at Phil
adelphia, the following statement was
made showing the foreign appropria
tions and the subscriptions received and
required for the enterprise:
Foreign appropriations—Great Brit
ain, with Australia and Canada (gold),
$250,000; France and Algeria, 8120,-
000; Germany, 8171,000; Austria,
875,000; Italy—government, 838,000;
Chamber of Commerce, $38.000—$76-
000; Spain, $150,000; Japan, $600,-
000; Belgium, $40,000; Denmark,
(gold), $10,500; Sweden, $125,000;
Norway, $44,000; Chili (owner of all
goods exhibited,and all expenses); Ven
ezuela (all expenses, amount unlimit
ed); Ecuador, $10,000; Argentine
Confederation, $60,000 (owner of all
goods exhibited).
The amounts of money which have
been subscribed toward the work are as
follows:
Total itock laWrl^.ou* •2,1)7,750
In which arc included :
Now Jersey .•ino.OOG
Delaware 10,000
Connecticut 10,000
New Hampshire 10,000
Wilmington, Del s.ooo
—J3;, (y*|Q
uifts. concessions, and interest Kn|oo»
Further receipts from concession HO,000
Appropriation by Pennsylvania 1,000,000
Appropriation by Philadelphia 1.500,00#
Makings total ot •7,187,750
Amount-till required to prepare for opening
up to May 10, 1376 1,027,100
Total COStj $07,24,350
The smoke from the wick of an ex
tinguished candle is very deleterious,
and breathing it in quantities would soon
death. Valentine mentions a
case of a company of earousers who
tricked a boy sleeping in the corner ot a
room, by one of their number holding
to the boy’s nose the smoke of a blow n -
out candle. After half an hour the
boy fell into short breathing, trembling
and cramps, and died in three days.
The composition of this smoke is
carbureted hydrogen,, carbonic oxide,
burnt olein, &c. When putting out a
candle-light before going to bed, al
ways . do it so that there shall be no
burning wick left to poison the air of
the room.
,* Throw Phyiie to the Doc*' I’ll None
We do not in the least feel like blaming
Macbeth for this expression of disgust; in
deed, we are rather inclined to sympathize
with him. Even nowadays most of the
cathartics oflered to the public are great
repulsive-looking pills, the very appearance
of which is sufficient tn •< f. jr n one’s stomach.”
Had Macbeth ever token Dr. Pierce's Pleas
ant Purgative Pellets he would not have
uttered those words of contempt It is really
encouraging, when one is ill, to find that a
ing pills. These little Pellet^ unlike other
cathartics, are really nature's physic. Tbey
do not debilitate, but tone and invigorate
the system. No family should be without
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets.
A bmmu sueetM.
, The Chabteb Oak Stove in our kitchen
is a grand success, the best stove we ever
used, and we cheerfully recommend it with
a dear conscience, knowing we do our friends
and neighbors a favor who are looking for a
first-rate stove.