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About Blackshear news. (Blackshear, GA.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 20, 1879)
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Guurdiausbip.......... 5.00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors......... 4.00 Application for Leave ’ 6.00 to Sell................ 4.-W Administration Sale (not exceeding two squares)................................... COUNTY DIRECTORY. A Ordinary— A. J. S trickland — Sheriff—It Z.Byrd' Clerk of Court—A. M. Moore. County Treasurer—B. D. Brantley. County Surveyor—J. M. Johnson. Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Purdom. Sessions first Mondays in March and September. J. L. Harris, Judge, and Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor General. $ Oct. 31, 1878. v - POST-OFFICE NOTICE. This office will be open every day (Sundays ex¬ cepted), from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. On Sundays from ft a. m. to 10 a. m. Money Order and Register business from % a. to 4 p. is. Mails daily from each way—Last end \V< sf. Eastern mail arrives 7.80 p. m. Western mail arrives 4.80 a. h. oct31-ly T. J. FULLER, Postmaster. Professional Cards. DR. W. E. FRASER J PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Elacksliear, Ca. Prompt attention to cal’s day or night. I®*" Diseases of Women and Children a specialty. oct31-iy DR. A. E. H00RE, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Blaekshear. Ga. oct31-!y s. w. HITCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, lllaokshear, Ga. Practice regular iu the Brunswick Circuit. oot31-Jy J. C. NICH0LL8, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Itlackshear, Ga. Practice regular in the Counties of A puling. Clinch, Camden. Charlton, Coffee, Echols, G.ynu. Liberty, Pierce, Ware, and Wayne. oct31-ly W. R. PHILLIPS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blac/eshear f Ga. sct31-ly BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1879. CLAY ON CROWS. Cassius M. Clay liaises III* Voice In Behalf of the Birds—What Keep* From la the Plagues of Ecypt. Cassius M. Clay writes to the Rich¬ mond Register as follows : I was pain¬ ed to see in your journal lately an ac oount of the slaughtering of the crows, without protest. Nature 6eems to have provided for the greatest sum of animal life. First vegetables, then insects, and then high¬ er animals, man i anding at *he apex. All insectivorous li Jrds are tk , allies of man; without birds the human race would have a hard struggle for exist¬ ence, and would perhaps be exterminat¬ ed. Over all the world the groat breeders of famine—the locusts and grasshoppers—are birds ruinous only where cannot exist. The swarms of locusts, which the Bible tells infested Egypt, exist yet, and will exist until trees shall* be planted or caused to grow in all places where grass grows ; then the birds will have come and destroyed the locusts. So the same law pre¬ vails in interior Africa and in the United States. All along the Platte river for hundreds of miles, wherever I saw a few trees and shrubs there were hawks hovering over to pounce down upon and destroy the birds. The prairie chickens are de¬ allies stroyed the by man, and between those two birds are lost and the locusts spread ruin; every green thing is eaten, and men fly for life to other lands or perish The phylloxera 1 in sect, has inflicted, France, a small in¬ vine, loss than by the ruin of the more the German war! In early years our State was full of woodpeckers and kindred birds. They ate some apples and other fruit; our fathers destroyed them. Then our veg etables were fine and perfect; after the birds have been killed we are overrun with insects; perfect fruit and vegeta¬ bles are now almost unknown. I believe that the quails or par tridges, though gramnivorous, also de¬ stroy many insects. Whilst all our other birds feed mostly upon insects, every bird has his special habitat. The swallows, several species in Ken¬ tucky, feed on the wing; the owls upon the tips of trees and leaves—pinching off insects, often unseen by the natural eye. The wren and sparrow are very active feeders near and upon the ground. When the peas are sown I have observ¬ ed the sparrows following the lines and picking up the pea bugs as they emerge from the ground. There are many birds which peck the rose bush and grape¬ vines. All the woodpecker and sap sucker tribe eat bugs and not sap. For many years X have kept a box nailed to a tree near my library window; I feed about a quart of crumbs and fourteen hominy a day. Last winter I counted varieties eating them, among others, the beautiful red-birds, which, though almost naturally shy, have become as tame as the sparrows. I had rather a sportsman would shoot down and carry off a pig than one of these beautiful songsters! And new with this preface I come to the crows. For long years I have ceased my early war upon the crows. They are eminently insectivorous. The crow, when the weather is very cold, will eat the eyes of weak, prostrate lambs, other birds’ eggs and young; take corn from the ground when it is first sprouted, and follow and eat the soft, half-digested com from fed cattle in the fields. But for all this they should never be killed. In many lands the buzzard, as a scavenger, is protected by law. The crow is also a most aetive scavenger, but, as I said, is mostly in¬ sectivorous. I dissected young crows in the nest, and never found a seed or grain of com. I fonnd bugs, beetles and, above all, caterpillars. This morn¬ ing, all over my bluegrass pasture, the mercury standing at twenty-eight de¬ grees Fahrenheit, and a thin crust of rozen eart A and a fine snow existing, there were honsands of crows feeding. They were eating grasR and the eggs of grasshoppers. In France the government pays a price for the gathering of these eggs. Here the crows do the work much more life effectively for nothing. I have in hit seen whole meadows stripped of blade and seed by grasshoppers. Who can say that the crows do not keep us from famine ? The announcement bv your paper of the destruction of the crows struck me with the same sensibil¬ ity as if one had boasted that he had dried up all the wells and all the .< pring* of the county! Should I arouse the State to pass efficient laws for the pro¬ tection of crows and other birds, I will have done more for my country than all the politicians and warriors so justly made illustrious. The Necessity of Plenty of Sleep. A writer in Scribner , considering “ The Relations of Insanity to Modern Civilization,” speaks of the loss of sleep as a prominent cause of insauity, and says: 1 During every moment of conscious¬ ness the brain is in activity. The peculiar process of cerebration, what¬ ever that may consist of, is taking place; thought after thought comes forth—nor oan we help it. It is only when the peculiar connection or chain of connec¬ tion of one brain cell with another is broken and consciousness fadeB away into the dreamless land of perfect sleep, that the brain is at rest. In this state it recuperates its exhausted energy and power, and stores them up for future need. The period of wakefulness is one of constant wear. Every thought is generated at the expense of brain cells, which can be fully replaced only by periods of properly regulated repose. If, therefore, these are not secured by sleep—if the brain, through over-stimu¬ lation, is not left to recuperate, its ener¬ gy becomes exhausted; debility, disease, and finally disintegration supervene. Hence the story is almost always the same; for weeks and months before the indications of active insanity appear the patient has been anxious, worried and wakeful, cot sleeping more than four or five hours out of the twenty-four. The poor brain, unable to do its con staut work, begins to waver, to show signs of weakness or aberration; hallu¬ cinations or delusions hover around like floating shadows in the air, until finally disease comes and “ Plants bis siege Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds With many legions of strange fantasies, Which in their throng and press to that las hold onfoond themselves.” How to Utilize Old Fruit Cans. Perhaps of one of the most appropriate uses an old fruit can that can be de¬ vised is to make it contribute to the growth of new fruit to fill new cans. This is done in the following manner: The can is pierced with one or more pin holes, and then sunk in the earth near the roots of the strawberry or tomato or other plants. The pin holes are to be of such size that when the can is filled with water the flaid can only escape into the ground very slowly. Thus a quart can, tion properly arranged, will extend its irrigr to the plant for a period of several days ; the can is then refilled. Practical trials of this method of irrigation leave no doubt of its success. Plants thus watered flourish and yield the most bounteous returns throughout the long¬ est drouths. In all warm localities, where water is scarce, the planting of old fruit cans, as here indicated, will be found profitable as a regular gardening operation .—Scientific American, A sailor on board a vessel in the har¬ bor of Zante having been struck by lightning, there was found on his breast the number 44, being an exact copy of the same figures on a part of the ship’s rigging. NO. 50. ITEMS OF INTEREST The national game—Turkev. Nebraska has pop-corn sociables. The Turks prefer sour over sweet milk. » A hard thing to sharpen—The water's edge. , A locomotive drinks forty-five gallons a mile. Nearsightedness is uukuown among savages. There were 7,4*22 deaths ia Chicago last year. The ice harvest is harvested doubtless with an icicle. The man who has a fellow-feeling— The blind man. A tbiug sometimes brought to pass— A counterfeit bill. Some men are like brooks, they ure always murmuring. The world’s production of gold is one third less than in 1850. A tunnel uuder the Mississippi river, at tit. Louis, is projected. Anti-beer driuking societies are spriugiug up iu Germany. If “ home is where the heart is,”* what a vagraut is the coquette ! “ The world recedes, it disappears J Hid from sight by asses’ ears. Orgaus were first introduced into churches by Pope Yilalianus, m 1780. that Nothing can constitute good breeding has not good nature for its founda¬ tion. cold Wife—“But, my dear, I shall catch Husband—“ coming down so late to love;‘i’ll let vou in.” Oh, no, my rap you up well before you come down." There isn’t much difference in spell ing “hero" and “ zero,” but you see how wide tho difference is when you discover that ready’ __ drop your ears are to off on the slightest provocation. Across the face of tho Prussian bank¬ notes is priuted some fifty times, in very small type, the penalty for counterfeit¬ imprisonment. ing, which is from five to fifteen years’ Convicted counterfeiters cannot plead ignorance of the law. A village home, a village borne, With a village stream and tree, Where the hearts are clean and tie grave* are Oh, green, a village home for me! The Norristown Herald indicates it belief iu the Oriental origin of man by stating the well-known fact that both the poppy and the mammy come from the East. Comer loafers the New Orleans rieayune proposes to utilize by la¬ beling them with the names of the streets they infest, for the convenience of strangers. A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains with¬ in itself the seeds of its own destruction, and, without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of ts owu iniquity. Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, is described as having a square, honest looking face, with coal-black hair “ banged ” on his forehead and braided behind. He wears garments displaying all the colors of the rainbow. boundabo ct. Sweet, my sweet, My being upraises Its voice in light lilt To warble thy praises; Sweet, my sweet. Thou delicate treasure, Empty would be Without thee—life's measure Sweet, my sweet, Happy Daintily tender, am I When thou dost surrender Unto _ my lips, In melting caresses, 7 hvaelf, as oool dew The parched meadow bleu** Sweet, my sweet, • f > Sweet, Faithfully fickle— my sweet! (Which the same i* sweat picket.)
