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W. M. HARRELL,
Ittorney At Law,
JUlMIKItiUK. GBORGIA.
I Will I,' 1 found at McGills office. All
entiu-ted to liis care will receive
•mpt at l i-ti 1 ion. t'oilcctions a specialty.
[June I. IHK2-y.
MEDICAL CARD.
i r M. J. Nicholson,
f ir*'" removed I" Twilight, Miller conn-
Jeorria. Office tit J* S. (Hilton s
r n felt.9,’82.
MEDICAL CARD,
r. E. J. Morgan
n»sremoved his office to the drug store,
'irmerlv occupied by hr. Harrell. Resi-
£tte on We«l street, south of Shotwell.
ter; calls at night will reach him.
CHARLES C. BUSH,
ttorney at Law
(OLqlllTT, GA.
Prempt attention given to all business en-
«ied to me.
DENTISTRY.
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pAO. li. R 'Vtl.SON, BYRON B. BOWER.
BOWER & DGNALSON,
Attorneys and Counsellers at Law.
Office in the court house. Will practice
i Decatur and adjoining counties, and
kbeirhcre by special contract. a-25 7
10 C T 0 R M. L. B ATT L E,
Dentist.
Office over Hinds Store, West side
coert house. Has tine dental engine, and
will have everything to make his office*
fiM-c'as-.. Terms cash. Office hours 9
*• m. to 4 p. in. jan.l3tf
IEFF DrTALBERTT -
|A ttorney at Law
I’ttiuhrtuge. Georgia.
Mill practice in nil the courts, and busi
I less intrusted to his care will be prompt!}
lituiuli'il to. Office over store or M. E
| Barnett * Son. feb.23,'82
DR. L. H. PEACOCK,
Respectfully lenders his professional serv
ices to tie* people of Hainbridge and viciui-
tlffico over store of J. 1). Harrell & Bro
Residence on West end of Broughton
Street.where lie can be found at night.
April G, 1881—
House For Kent,
1 hereby offer for rent that comfortable
residence lately occupied by Mr. Fred
sumo. It is commodious, with all neces
Mr ? 0111 houses, and splcndia garden at
tached. Apply to Thomas Scott, or the un
dersigned,
j. Tl! 'S3. j. l Boynton.
H FxMOVAL,
Tics is to noiify my friends, patrons and
tfie publi" generally, that I have removed
Harness Store next to F. L. Rabbit’s on
. 'h Broad street, where llispe to receive
ti future, the congratulations and patron-
°f my friends. Thanking the public for
T**' favors, and hoping a continuance of
the same, 1 am Yours Respectfully,
. J YCOB BORN.
Jnu. 5, 1882.
Biiiiibridge Acat
The above institution will f
“ M Monday in August, the ’J
»n i able corps of teachers wil
! 1 »nd every endeavor made t
txcti.n. Patronage of citixei
ridge and the surrounding cou
'tuition as heretofore.
Re* pect
jy-S-'&L J. E WiT
For special instruction in boc
Penmanship, business arithmet
P°ndcnce, bill heading, Tulegt
general busiucss routine.
W.McKAY, - - PRI
fur terms, information as t
r, c ’ JPPly to the principal-
, Macon, Georgia.
BY BEN. E. RUSSELL. |
BYINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1882.
| YOL. 11.—NO. 42.
Uecatnr County Georgia.
SOME FACTS REGARDING ITS ADVANT
AGES OF CLIMATE AND SOIL, AH A
PROSPECTIVE HOME FOR THE IMMI
GRANT AND SEARCHER AFTER HEALTH
In thi3, which is the last of the series of
letters on the above subject, I shall speak
of the means of communication tbe county
has with the out-ide world, the society,
health, and reviev in a brief way. some of
the points 1 have already treated on.
The question of communication is one of
paramount importance to those who pro
duce crops intended for shipment, and I
shall speak at some length on it.
I’he .Savannah, Florida and Western
Railway, extending from Savannah west
ward find soon to be connected by an ex
tension now being built, with the system
of the Louisville and Nashville Railway to
New Orleans and the notth-west, enters
tbe county on the eastern side about mid
way its north and south line, and will pass
out at its extreme south-west corner. It
is proposed to make the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway a part of a great
trunk line between New York and San
Francisco by way of New Orleans and the
Southern Pacific. At Thomasville, 36
miles east of .Cambridge, the county site,
close connection is made with the west
via Albany, Macon and Atlanta, or Al
bany, Ga., Eufaula and Mongomeiy, Ala.
At Waycross, 140 miles east of Bainbridge,
connection is made with Jacksonville and
all points in South Florida.
On the western boundary of the jounty
is the Chattahoochee river navigable the
year round as fur as Columbus, Ga., thus
giving overture outlet to the west. This
rivet also gives water communication with
the Golf of Mexico at Apalachicola, Fla,
a great lumber port. The Flint river
which (Iowa into the Chattahoochee, di
vides the county into two nearly equal
parts and is navigable tbe year round as j
far as Bainbridge, and improvements now)
being made by the general government
will make it navigable to Albany, 50 miles
north of Bainbridge.
About midway between the Chattahoo
chee and Flint rivers, ruus Spring Creek,
that can be used for rafting logs and such
purposes. It will thus be seen that while
the means of communication are not as
they might and will be. si ill they are ample
for present emergencies. The Savanunh,
Florida and Western Railway is very lioer-
al in i‘.s policy, giving shippers of early
vegetables ami fruit quick tune and low
rates. At Savannah such vegetables are
placed on steamers, which run to New
York semi weekly, to Philadelphia and
Baltimore weekly, and to Boston and
Providence every two weeks. Vegetables
and fruit can be placed on the market, in
either of the above named cities within,
four days rfter being gathered. I would
like to dwell at length on Ihe luture of
truck farming in this section: During
the preseut year and previous oues as well,
very reinunurutive^esulls have followed
the shipment of various things coming
withiu this category. I know of one gen
tleman who has made a net profit of $9.-
000.00 on 100 acres of watermelons; an
other who has made $500.00 net profit ou
2 acres of Irish potatoes; another who has
made $160.00 oii less than an acre of okra;
another who has made handsome profits, I
have not the figures, on 30 acres of straw- ,
berries. I have given these instances,
not as representing the maximum profits
that have been realized but as average
evidences of what can be done. It will be
evidently understood that the possibility
of such profits carries with it a corres
ponding risk ; if these ware always to be
realized so many would enter the va
rious industries that bring them that they
would be reduced ; I have yet to fee, how
ever. the first instance in which failure has
followed intelligent and well direct-d ef
fort. .Since these letters have been in
progress 1 have received a letter asking for
inf irmation as to the kinds of fruits that
cau be successfully raised in the county.
This is to me a prolific subject, and I
could fill many columns with the injprnia-
tiou asked for, aud thoughts suggested
thereby.
No very great efforts have been made
in this direction, uutil withiu the past few
years, enough has uow been done, to show
the possibilities that lie open to those who
make fruit culture a specalty, or raise it in
connection with other thiugs fur home
consumption. A moment s reflection wculd
convince even the most skeptical that a
section boasting such a soil aud climate
must be the home ot many of tbe temperate
regions and those of a semi tropical nature.
Peaches can be very successlully raised,
the early varieties ripening by the first of
June and continuing until late in summer.
The early and mid-summer apples do ex- (
cellently well. AViuter varieties are not
so successful. Strawberries, fit to tempt
the taste of a Syborite, can be growu in
the open air for ten months in the year.
Grapes, both of the arbor and bunch kind
thrive well ; a succession ot varieties will
grow here from June ’till October.
Pears appear to be peculiarly adapted
to the soil arnd climate ; especially is this
true of a new variety originated in South
ern Georgia within tbe last twenty years,
and known as the LeC’onte Fear; recent
shipments of this fruit have netted $6 to
$8 per bushel; it is a fruit wonderfully
prolific, one tree the Resent year having
borne 35 bushels. The tree is easily
prooegated ; cuttings will root and grow
to a height of ten feet the first year ; the
fruit its®lf ripening ebout the middle of
July, the first shipment thisyearwas made
July 4th, is as large as the Bartlet or
Duches3, and judges pronounce it fully
equal to either in flavor.
It is oqe of the handsomest trees im
aginable when growing being of a perfect
cane shape, will bear at 6 years 3 to 10
bushels per tree, increasing from year to
year until at 12 years it will bear 25 to 35.
This is essentially the home of the fig,
it grows and bears in a way to delight both
the eyes and the taste.
In conclusion on this point I will say
that in no country under the sun can a
greater variety of fruit be grown, and in no
country are they subject to fewer draw
backs.
I have already spoken of the health of
the county in a general way; want of
space and a regard for the feelings of
the editor of this paper, whose kindness I
do not wish to tax too severely, forbids
that I should go into details at lenght on
this point; suffice it to say that the per
son who regards the simple laws of diet
and refrains from unnecessary exposure
will enjoy as good health as he can wish,
and should he be a sufferer from pulmona
ry bronchial troubles in any of their varied
forms, he will find relief, and should he
be in its incipiency he will find a perma
nent cure.
I come now to speak of the social ad
vantages to be had here; I approach this
branch with more reluctance than I care
to confess; it seems like dwelling with too
much emphtsis on what must form the
case, on a delicate subject, to say as much
as could be said on this score. Then, too,
the political cha'atans north and south
have said so much on the want of congeni
ality between the peop'.e of the two sections
that my task is doubly hard. After mak
ing due allowances for the different tastes
developed by different circumstances aud
surroundings I will hazard the ns=ertiou
that no person from whatever section he
may hail can remain long within the
charmed circle that opens to the refined of
either sex, in this sectiou without finding
that h‘t3 hues have-been cast in pieasaut
places.
The people of the South are character
ize l by a warm beaated hospitality that
always captivates, and the people of
this county are no exceptions to
the general rule. Whatever demagogues
may say to the contrary, the northern man.
of any political party, who comes south to
cast hts lot with the people, and r.ot to
ride into office by the suffrages of ignorant
negroes, will meet a hearty welcome;
human nature is the same h*>re as else
where, and the stranger who looses no op
portunity to throw doubtful reflections on
the people will meet with little favor, and
neither does he deserve it. Politics do not
constitute the whole gist of the thoughts
of tbe people, and an entire sense of re
finement will prevent remarks loved to be
unpleasant.
To sum the whole matter up. we have a
soil that yields a wide range of products-
and that in the matter of price is withiu
the reach of all; a climate that it would be
bard to improve; a people kind, courteous
and hospitable, and that stand ready to
welcome good men into their midst; that
stand ready to yield the right of opinion to
all. and that in return will expect the same
right themselves. lie who could not be
satisfied with these advantages is indeed
hard to please, and need not expect to be
satisfied this side of the Celestial world.
Albert Winter.
Bainbridge, Ga.. Aug. 3,1882.
Perhain takes crow. Russell takes crow,
McIntosh take^ crow, Grubb takes crow,
and they all take crow in theirs—except
a few.—Valdosta Times.
No; we are not taking any “crow,” broth
er Pendleton. As a Democratic journal
the News And Advertiser acquiesces in the
action of the State Democratic convention
or. perhaps a more candid way to put it
would be to say that we have ceased our
antagonism to Mr. Stephens since he has
been duly chosen aud declared as the nom
inee of the Democratic party. Mr. Steph
ens is not our choice for Governor, but to
antagonize him now would be to
antagonize the Democratic party atjd the
expressed will of a majority of the people.
Nay. more, to antagonize him now would
be a breach of promise and an act of bad
faith—we having been committed to the
partv convention. We cannot consistent
ly nor -conscientiously become a warm
supporter of Mr. Stephens, but, as a
Democrat, we can certainly afford to cease
our opposition of him.—Albany Advertiser.
“An Iowa man was fined forty dollars
for squeezing a woman's thumb.” We
didn’t suppose there was so much igno
rance in Iowa. A man who mistakes a wo
man’s thumb for her waist should be fined
not less than four hundred dollars.
Golden Graiaes.
Ignorance is the mother of all evil.
Whoever is suspicious incites treason.
An idle man is like stagnant water;
he corr upts himself.
Wisdom is to the soul what health
is to the body.
What seems only ludicrous is some'
times very serious.
Beauty without grace is a hook with
out a bait.
Better a man with paradoxes than a
man with prejudices.
In this world one mast put cloaks on
all truths, even the nicest.
To select well among old things is
almSst equal to inventing a new one.
Strong thoughts are iron nails driven
in the mind that nothing can draw out.
The most completely lost of all days
is the one on which we have not
thought.
When we say there is nothing new
under the sun, we do not count forgot
ten things.
We must laugh before we are happy,
lest we should die without having
langhed.
The destiny of nations depends upon
the manner in which they feed them
selves.
Great men are like meteors: they
glitter and are consumed to enlighten
the world.
If all the heores were frank, just and
honest, the major part of the virtues
would be useless to us.
We attract hearts by the qualities we
display ; we retain them by the quali
ties we possess.
Intelligent people make many blun
ders, because they can never believe
the world as stupid as it is.
How many people would be mute if
they were forbidden to- 6peak well of
themselves and evil of others ?
Beware^jfhtm who meets you with
a friendly mien, and, in the midst of a
cordial salutation, seeks to avoid your
glance.
The best government is that which
renders the greatest number happy.
Discretion is more necessary to wo
man than eloquence, because she has
less trouble to speak well than to speak
tittle.
The fllavor of detached thoughts de
pends upon the conciseness of their ex
pression ; for thoughts are grains of
sugar, or of salt, that must be melted in
a drop of water.
Some Things I Have Noticed.
1 have noticed that when a horse
gets up he gets np Forward first and
jerks his hind parts after him, white a
cow will get her rear half up and draw
her forward half np in place; also,
when drinking, a horse will draw in
water rapidly with every breath ; the
cow, on the contrary, will suck in one
continuous draught as long as she can
hold her brftth.
I have noticed that sheep and goats
are both butters, yet a shdep has to run
a few eteps backward before he can
butt, while a goat has to raise himself
on his hind legs to execute the same
movement. One is called a buck sheep,
the other a battering ram. They are
the only two animals I know of whose
butt ends are in front.
A squirrel can run down a tree head
first. The cat and the bear must get
down tail first.
If your dog finds his way into your
cellar and sees a Dice steak, he will
steal it aud run out, but if your cat
gets in and finds a steak, she will sit
right down by it and eat what she
wants (if net surprised before).
I have noticed that a leather strap
buckled about the height of yourself
around a young tree in a few years will
be away*beynnd yonr reach, but if nail
ed at the same distance will nevei get
any higher (only the outer shell runs
up.)
A man can stand on one foot iu the
middle of a room and pall on his shoe
while a woman must lean np against
something to' accomplish the same
thing.
A man holds the needle in his left
hand to thread it,.bat a woman holds it
in her right.
In one thing I think every one will
agree with me : Dress a man as a
woman dresses and you will freeze him
to death.
•Vavenfle Smoking.
Some London gentlemen, with the
eminent Dr. B. W. Richardson at their
head, have done a good deed in form
ing “The National Society for»ihe Sup
pression of Juvenile Smoking.” They
believe that the British boys are
doing themselves incalculable injury by
the immoderate use of tobacco and of
the various ditty aod noxious for it and
adulterations of it. A society with
like purpose might be very useful on
this side of the water if managed by
the right sort of men and conducted in
such a way as to show the boys the
mischief of their course.
Formerly it was a comparatively rare
thing for a boy to be a regular smoker
Now it is common for young clerks,
errand boys and even school boys to
smoke several cigarettes or cigars a day.
The worst damage done is to their
nerves. The boys do not believe it
when they are told, but it is neverthe
less true that the constant use of as
potent a drug as tobacco produces dam
age which caooot iu the ordinary
course of things be repaired. Boys do
not generally realize bow important it
is that they should arrive at maohod
with their whole mental and physical
systems in the best condition.
If smokers began to smoke at the age
of twenty-five or thirty, the effects
might be much less pernicious than
they are ; for by that time the consti
tution, if not damaged by youthful ex
cesses and imprudences, is in a fair con
dition to resist attacks which at four
teen or fifteen may result in great evil.
The boy* who smokes tobacco is laying
up for himself an inheritance of nerve
diseases ranging all the way from in
digestion to paralysis. The fact that
he docs not see this, and that he sneers
at the advice of those who tell him
about it, makes the habit all the more
dangerous.
The boy who wants to have, when
he reaches manhood, a clear head, a
bright eye, a steady hand, a good white
set of teeth will do well to resolve not
to smuke his first cigarette till after he
shall have cast his first vote. The
society which shall succeed in impress
ing on the boys of this generation the
truth of this doctrine and the import'
ance of living up to it will accomplish
a noble work.—Ex.
Confucius.
For one word a man is often deemed
to be wise, and for one word
he is often deemed to be foolish. We
ought to be careful indeed what wc say.
When the mulcitude hate a man, it
is necessary to examine into tbe case-
When the multitude like a roan, it is
necessary to examine into the case.
When we see men of worth, we
should think of equaling them; when
wc sec men of a contrary character, we
should turn inward and examine oar'
selves.
Things that are done, it is needless
to speak about; things that have had
their course, it is needless to remon
strate about; things that are past, it is
needless to blame.
“It is according to rules of proprie
ty,” they say. Are gems and silk all
that is meant by propriety? It is
music,’-’ the, say. Are bells and drams
all that is meant by music ?
The man who is fond of daring, and
is dissatisfied with poverty will proceed
to insubordination. So will the man
who is not virtuous, when you carry
your dislike of him to the extreme.
What is the good of being ready with
the tongue ? They who meet men with
smartness of speech for the most part
procure themselves hatred. I know
not whether he be truly virtuous, but
why should he show readiness of the
tongue ?
Do not be desirous to have things
done qnickly ; do not look at small ad
vantages. Desire to have things done
quickly prevents their being done thor
oughly. Looking at email advantages
prevents great affairs from being accom
plished.
I would not have him act with me
who will unarmed attack a tigar, or cross
ariver without a boat, dying without any
regret. My associate must be the man
who proceeds to action fall of solicitude,
who is fond of adjusting his plans, and
then carrying them into execution.
Tommy asked bis mother if the school
teacher's ferrule was a piece of the board
of education.
WIT A NO HUMOR.
Au auctioneer once advertised a lot of
chairs, which, he said, “had been used by
children without any backs.”
“We read io de good book,” says a col
ored Baptist preacher.“of John de Baptist,
never of John de Methodist.”
A wag lent a clergyman a horse that ran
away and threw him, and then claimed
credit for spreading the gospel.
“Wilful waste makes woeful want,” says
the old proverb, and some fellows often
have a woeful want for a wilful waist.
“There now,” exclaimed a little girl,
while rummaging the drawer of a bureau,
“grandpa is gone to Heaven without his
spectacles.”
The following legend is inscribed on the
front of a butcher's shop in Pennsylvania :<
“Kash pade forlittel kalves not mourn two
daze ole.”
If there is one time more than another
whm> a woman should be entirely alone, it
is when a line full of clothes comes down
in the mud.
Iu New Orleans recently, Vincent Blbod
(colored) cut William Thompson’s (col
ored) throat. Thompson was trying to
bite Blood's (colored) nose off.
During a thunder storm out wes a book
agent took shelter under a tree and was
struck on tbe cheek by lightning. The
lightning was badly injured.
“Cast iron sinks,” is written on the
sign of aciljr plumber. “Well, who in the
(hie) said it didn't?” said an inebriate
man, after reading it over three times.
Now that the word “hymeninl” is so
commonly used in reference to weddings,
it is suggested that births should behead
ed “crytnenial,” and deaths “dymenial.”
During the recent freshet an editor tele
graphed to another at the scene of action,
“send me full par*'cularsof the flood.” The
answer came, "You will find them in Gene
sis.”
There is an old lady without teeth out
West, who wants to know if the Yankees
can’t invent some wew way to put on
pillow cases; meanwhile she nails the
cases up against the wall aud drops the
pillows in.
A Philadelwhia officer who is very fond
of a joke, got up a jury of cross-eyed men,
and it took the Judge sonic time to decide
whether io fine him for contempt of court,
or laugh.
One of the earliest sei tiers of the Isles
of shoals seeing the name Psyche on the
hull of a yacht the other day, spelled it
out slowly, and then exclaimcn : “Well,
ef that ain't the durndest way to spell fish.”
Tbe colored preacher took for his text
the words. “Though after my skin worms
destroy the body, yet in my flesh I shall
see God,” which he divided into three
parts, as follows: “First, skin worms;
second, what they done; third, what the
man seen after he was eat up.”
“What is the devil?” asked a Sunday
school teacher of tbe new boy. who was
quiro small. “I don't know what it is, but
it can't run as fast as pa can.” “How do
yon kuow that the devil can’t ran fust?”
“Because, I beard pa say that he always
catches the divil when he comes home late
at night from the lodge.”
A man started in the livery stable busi
ness last week, and the first thing he did
was to have * big sign painted, represent
ing himself holding a mnle by the bridle.
“Is that a good likeness of me?” he asked
of an admiripg friend. “Yes, it is a perfect
pictnro of yon, bat who is the fellow hold
ing you by the bridle ?”
At a party some young ladies were dis
cussing the relative benefits of the spar
rows and the worms, when one of the fair
ones appealed to yonng Fizsleton, who
had just joined them, and bad not caught
the drift of the conversation. “Which do
you think the worse, worms or sparrows?”
What did the stupid brute do but answer
innocently, “I don’t know; I never had
sparrows.”
A Satisfactory Explanation.
“Hello, Boggs ! I hear you are going
to be married,” said one gentleman to
another, meeting on the street the other
day.
“Yes, Thompson; it is a fact.”
“To that young lady I saw you to
church with last Sunday ?
“That is the prospective Mrs. Boggs,
sir,” proudly replied the gentleman
bearing that name.
‘•What a fool!” ~
•‘Look here, Thompson. Don’t call
me a fool!” exclaimed Boggs, angrily,
pulling up his coat sleeves, and throw
ing himself in a pugilistic attitude.
“Oh, you misunderstood me, Boggs
I never called you a fool. I was refer-
ring to the prospective Mrs. Boggs,"
replied Thompson, apologetically.
And the two walked away arm in
arm, apparently better friends than
ever.—Ex.
HilllaK the Cotton Worm at •
Coot of a Cent and a Quar
ter aa Acre.
Prqf. J. P. Sfftle, in New York Cotta*.
We do not know what London pttr«
pie is now selling at in the leading cities
of the cotton belt, bat suppose it mast
range at figures somewhere between ft
and 10 cents per ponnd, which ie
bringing the cost of rottoo worm poison
pretty low, you see. Undoubtedly it iff
a good poison. The strongest objection
that can be urged against it » its oolorj
It is a reddish or purplish powder, and
being very fine is not decidedly nice to
handle, as a matter of course. But it
does not stain the cotton which hap
pens to be open at the time of making
application—no complaints have ever
been made in that particular.
The arsenic employed by os in otxf
experiments of last summer was the
common- white arsenic, costing by the
barrel, lauded in Texas, from three to
four cents per pound. We snppcse it
would cost about the same at the pres
ent time iu either Mobile, New Orleans
or Savannah. A permanent solution
was made by adding to five gallons of
water five ponnds of arenie and one
pound of sal soda, and then boiling
' over a fhe in a common iron pot, until
all tho arsenic was dissolved. This
makes a solution of arsenic that will
keep for any length of lime without the
slightes precipitation. We have noW
in our office a bottle of the sointiod
made on this plan last summer—it is
just as perfect to-day as it was on tbo
day when we made it.
Of this solutiou one quart was pdt
into forty gallons of water, which wag
then sprinkled over a field of worm in
fected cotton in the usual way. It
destroyed the worms, which were its
strong force when the application nmt
made, lcaviug tbe plants uninjured to
any — extent worth naming. Several
similar tests were made, all with uni
form success. Forty gallons were
found amply sufficient to go over an
acre of cotton of ordinary growth.
Here we have a remedy with whieh
we can save our erops from the eotted
worm at a cost of one cent and a quar
ter per acre, l ating the price of arsenkl
at lour cents per pound, and that of sal
seda at five cents, which would be very
high for the latter. This, it seems to
us, is whittling the matter of costdoWn
to a point decidedly fine. Of courw
there must be addod in the final footing
up of all outlays, the further cost of
preparation and application, but one
cent aud a quarter pays for the poison-
And as to the cost of tbe application, it
is no greater than that .of any other
liquid remedy ; indeed it should not
be so great, owing to the fact that the
liquid is a perfect solution, and, there
fore, does not require the agitation
necec -ary to keep in suspension the in-
solnable poisous, as London purple and
Paris green. The extra cost of prepar
ing the saturated sulution of araenie
might be put down as a very spiallitem}
but we thiuk this is more offset by the
advantages of having a perfect eolation
at the application, made in a moment,
without the necessity of stirring and
“gauming” for an hour or so with some
kind of coloring matter, “daubing” np
one’s clothes and everything else aroand
after a manner that could scarcely be
considered entirely argreeable. Noth
ing of this kind in preparing the arsenie
for the cotton field—you pour a quart
of clear solution into the bung-hole of n
barrel containing forty gallons of Water,
and all is ready. And then, as to the
saturated solution, since it will keep an
indefinite length of time it may be.—
made at odd spells wheirtiterHs noth
ing else in particular to do.
Coujual Contempt.
Mrs. Topnoody was much agitated
over the reports of small pox, and the
other evening when Mr. Topnoody
came in she said .* “Mr. Topnoody,
are there any new cases of smallpox 1 n
“Yes, dear,” he replied, setenely.
“Oh, where are they ?”
“In Pittsburg, dear.”
“Indeed! Have you: been vaeei-
nated ?”
“Yes, dear; but I’m not afraid, any
way. The smallpox has too mnrh mint
to take a big, strong man like me.”
“Oh it his, has it ? Well, Topnoody,
I wish I had been the smallpox when
I was young.”
“Why, dear, I thought you feared
it rnomily.”
“I k now it, Topnoody; Bot if I’d been
the smallpox then, maybe I would bar*
bad too much sense to take yon, ten.”
Then she looked at him with that
cool, insiduous significance of a woman
who has a man where the hair is short;
and Topnoody got up ami went Out into
the kitchen to start the fire.
Facts WortU Hemeaabertag,
Most eminent physicians Rive testimony
that tbejjcst, safest and mildest remedy for
all forms of blood-pisoniug, whether inherited
or contracted, is Ackei’s Etood Elixir, which
Rives tone and vitality to too system, throw
ing ok all evils—removing pimples, ocrofnla,
rheumatism; etc. bold by C. L. Beach * Cot
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