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TIE BLACKSHIAR NEWS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY E. Z. BYED, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, BLACKSHEAR, GJA. INSCRIPTION, $1.00 P^R YEAR. Special Rates to Advertisers on application. <X PROFESSIONAL CARDS. R. PHILLIPS, * t i ATTORNEY AT LAW, au£4-tf Blackshear, Ga. A. K COCHRAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blackshear, Qa. Praetiee regularly in tbe counties composing the Brunswick Circuit and in the District aud Circuit courts of the United .States at Savannah or the Southern District of Georgia. my!6-6:n Q B. MABRY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, . Brunswick, Ga. Practice regularly in the counties of Glynn Pierce, Ware, Wayne, Camden, Coffee, Appling and of tho Brunswick Circuit, and Tel I air, ot the Oconee Circuit. augl-tf s. W. HITCH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blackshear, Ga. , Practice regularly in tho Brunswick Circuit aug4-tf A> . ESTES, JR., ATTORNEY AT LAW, Blackshear, Pierce Co., Ga. Practice regularly in the Brunswick Circuit, I'eb28-ly COUNTY DIRECTORY. Ordinary.— A. J. Strickland. 4 Clerk.—J. W. Strickland. Sheriff. —E. Z. Byrd. County Treasurer.— B. D. Brantley. County Surveyor. —Davis Thornton. Tax Receiver.— John J. Smith. Tax Collector.— Alfred Davis. COUBT CALENDER. Clinch County.— First Mondays in March and October. Appxuno County.—S econd Mondays in March and October. Wayne County.— Third Mondays in March and October. Pierce County.—F ourth Mondays in March and October. Ware County.— First Mondays in April and November. Coffee County.—F irst Tuesday after second Monday in April and November. Charlton County.— First Tuesday after third Monday in April and November. Camden County.— Fourth Mondays in April and November. Gi.ynn County.—C ommencing on the first Monday in May and December, and to continue two weeks, or so long as the business may require. M. L. Mershon, Judge, Brunswick, Ga., ami G. B. Mabry, Solicitor-General, Bniuswick. Ga. TOWN DIREC TORY._ _ Mayor.— Wm. B. Phillips. Aldermen.—D r. C. H. Smith, T. J. Fuller, J. M. Shaw ancj J. W. Strickland. SECRET SOCIETIES. . A blackshear Regular lodge no. 270, f. this & lodge a. at. communications of will tie held on the first and third Fri¬ day nights in each month. C. T. Latimer, W. M. A. J. Strickland, Secretary. aug-tf PHYSICIANS. J~^R A. M. MOORE, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Blackshear, Ga. Call* promptly attended to day or night. aug4-tf_ lyjEDICAL AND SUBGICAL NOTICE. DR. C. H. SMITH Offers his professional services to the citizens of Pierce and adjoining counties. Blackshear, Ga., March 1, 1880-tf. DENTIST. |^R. pr WM. NOBLE, 53 b DENTIST, Blackshear, Ga. Office os Maine street, opposite Postoffice. jy28r«f _ MARBLE WORKS JOHN B MARBUE AND STONE WOBKR Monument*, Tombs, Headstones, etc. Esti¬ mates lurnDfied on application for all kind* of Cemetery Work. 205 and 207 Broughton Street, jy23-fcn Savannah, Qa. HOTEL. JESUP HOUSE, T. P. LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor, ft Jeanp, Ga, lffhe attention of the traveling public is m*et*d ^ytotei. to the inducement* offered them by Bs, per day...,....,,,,..,, II S8S8 ■e Meal*................. Be M*tilth • • • » Mo<.n> Ae Week,,.,,.,,.,,,.,,., discount Vi fywihta. Blackshear News. E. Z. BYED, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. IV. A FETE OF BLOOD. The Barbarous Festival of the Shirte Salat sailn i cl Mussett at Cairo. A Cairo, Egypt, correspondent of the Philadelphia Times writes : I have just come from what proved to i>e one of the most grotesquely horrible sights it has ever been my fortune to visit. On learning that the ..fete* of the Shirte Saint Saidna el HuJaen would be cele¬ brated in the mosque bearing his name, I procured the services of a Greek drago man at he hotel and then bent my steps m the direction of the Egyptian quarter of Cairo. The Saint Saidna e Hussen, whose fete we saw, is consid¬ ered by the Sbirte to be as great, if not greater, than the prophet, and it was owing to this that the coming cere¬ monies promised to be most interesting. The chanting of the devotees became more distinct, and we see red banners with Arabic characters worked in gold upou them. The crowd gets more and more feverishly excited, »nd shouts of “Allah” are heard resounding from hoarse throats as the dervishes, now in front of us, slowly pass ; those in the front, naked to the waist, round which is a loosely-bound white cloth, call gut turally, though still musically on Hus son ; they pass along, keep-ng time to their shouts with violent -beating of their breasts. Their hoarse cries, long, disheveled and matted aureola, hair flying out. in a sort of crini-form coupled with the metallic ling of their chests, as they give blow upon blow, is gro tesque and almost fiendish in its wierd ness. Behind them come men, who, in a circle, made up of about fifty per¬ sons, puzzle us for a moment as to what these red demons may be. Something bright flashes through the air, and tho fervid cjy of Husslen ! Hussen! Saidna Hussen! rises with renewed fanatical zeal in the air of the moonlit night. The flash is caused by a long curved cimeter, which, descending, divides the flesh of another dervish, mak¬ ing the blood spurt and trickle over his already gory body, which shines and glances in a murderous way, as the red light of tho braziers, filled with charcoal, strike * upon it. Thirty or fifty of these blood-beclot ted children of Islam slowly passed by, cutting and slashing each other with an ardor, which even the police, strive though they do, can hardly keep from being mortal in its effects. They are chanting “Hussen, Hussen, Saidna Hus¬ sen,” and opening efieh other’s veins until their shoulders, arms aud loins are streaming, and again uew;ly stream with bright red blood of artery and bluer blood of veins, their long hair drips and trickles with gore, as violent¬ ly moving their heads, they hoarsely cry to their prophet, and their white teeth and partially shaved foreheads gleam and almost scintillate as the blood flows from the long red cuts. There are Nubians among this pack of mad fanatics, and the red blood on their bodies, heads and necks, seems darker as it flows over ebony skins, making them look like demons in some blood sacrifice qf ghouls. The bluish white skins of some, perhaps more northern, Moslem, with his forehead shaved.half way up to the crown of his head, his big black eyes that burn and blaze with almost savage zeal, his white teeth and curved nose, stand out in striking op¬ position to the other red, tawny and black fanatics in this sanguinarily pious dance. Blood streams from him as from the rest, and his loins-encircling white clcth is all encarmieed and be¬ smeared with clotting and half-coagula¬ ted blood. Following this comes a sight at which we can hardly suppress the cry of angry pain and horror that struggles to our lips. Picture it and think of it, ye Christian mothers, who, with your lit¬ tle yellow-haired darlings at your knee, have no thoughts save those of love and care for the youngsters who prattle at your sides, climb into your laps and ask in their deliciously lisping baby talk for “dcodies” or say “want to shee wheels go round.” Picture it, I say again, for here is, as well as my feeble words can describe it, in all its hideous¬ ly horrid unnature a horse covered with a flowing white mantle, whose blood¬ stained folds fall to the ground on eith¬ er side and gain new stains from the bed¬ raggling mud of the street, in whose saddle is a little boy with half-shaved head and tender little eyes, which have now been gazing on the world for but five years. His poor little face is hack ed and cut, and blood trickles from wounds in his forehead and face down on to the white robe which he wears, staimag and spotting it with the blood of this poor infantile victim to the zeal for Islam. » In his hand he carries a cimeter, with which he strikes bis forehead in a mechanical, impotent sort of a way, the blow being rarely bard enough to eaose more tb»n a red mark. This poor little ••hap has ocen w ll trained in the pap¬ er t i.sd, which be toast play in this blood/ natatnaliA. Hi* pale and chubby BLACKSHEAR, GA.. APRIL 6, 1882. little cheeks are very, very white, and his eyes haye not that sparkling, rich, bright and lovely black that you see in the eyes of Moslem and Egyptian chil dreu in this town of Cairo. They have lost their light and the brave little naan, wounds, and terror from h?s surround cf ter-holdmg hV^r a nd° arm. At the end o this fete of blood there will be no loving mother to take her boy into her arms and soothe and calm his poor scattered senses, and dazed and terrified little mind—no 1 She is sitting at home in the harem, or, perhaps, is even gazing on the sanguinary pageant from the street, pluming and congratulating her self that the child, who is flesh of her flesh and blood of her blood, has thus poured out some of herself in testimony anil to the glorv aud truth of the one only true religion. Behind this blood-stained child come more dervishes, nak«l to the waist, though, thank goodness, not bloody. I don’t think I could stand that again. These are armed with bags filled with bits of iron, each of which may weigh from five to ten pounds. They call hoarsely on Hussen, keeping time to their sing-song, melodious shouts, by blows with tho bags on their own anil each other's bodiefi. A hideously fan tastic company aro they, and as they turn half round, as they go slowly chanting, one wonders what it ail amounts to, and marvels and is puzzled at this display of religious zeal. These close the pageant, and the shouting, now falls thoroughly wrought-up, crowd in behind and surges along, with cries to Allah and the Prophet. Wa wait a little while for the street to "dear, and then start homewards with a dazed feeling, as if we had been passing through tho incidents of some horrid nightmare. Funeral of the First President Who Died in Office. During the illness of President Har¬ rison there were no telegraphic hallo tins; tho telegraph then was but a philosophic experiment; five years wero yet to pass before the first practi¬ cal wire should be laid, Railroads vere but ten years old; such a trip as was planned and executed for Garfield would have been, in Harrison’s time, wholly impossible. Mail communica¬ tion was not one-third what it now is. There were but twenty-six States. The nation scarcely exceeded seventeen mil¬ lions. Yet the sorrow was as sincere and tbe tokens as earnest and cordial as those ihat are now witnessed. The shock to the country was heightened by the fact that Harnson was the first President who had died in office. The wheels of government had revolved for fifty years without this check. The people were unprepared for the event, and were uncertain—nay, anxious—as to its consequences. They had not the assurance we enjoy that the political system would bear the strain. As now, bo then, everywhere were seen demon¬ strations of the national grief. In Washington city nearly every building boro tokens; the public build¬ ings were shrouded, the elegant dwell¬ ings wero heavily draped—even the lowliest abodes bore some inexpensive badges. Business was suspended. The pageant was, for that era, very ceremo nious. The procession was two miles in length, and comprised the United States troops stationed in and near Washington, with many regiments from other cities the general command of Winfield Scott, besides numerous civic societies and a vast body of civilians. It was marshaled by officers in mourn ing. The remains of the deceased President were laid temporarily in the congressional burying ground, the bur¬ ial service of the Episcopal church being read by Itev. Mr. Hawley, and military salutes fired, The car on which the coffin was borne from the cemetery is described in contempora¬ neous accounts as a splendid one, dec¬ orated with black plnmes and drawn by six vbite horses. In July the remains were transferred to their permanent Bend, res’ing-place near North upon a beautiful knoll rising two hundred feet above the Ohio river. In Australia. The marriage laws among the natives of Australia are very definite. Men and women who carry the same irest, or abstain from eating the same animal, or plant, may not marry. Another restric tion prevents marriage between rela tiveson fhe mother’s side—that is, no eon the can marry any girl who belongs to same tribe as his mother, however remote'? she io, roav be removed Th«J Chief* may rnnr have huve as many wives as they UW like, Lut subjects »mJy one. Girls are In* trothed at a very early age, and as aw n as tbe betrothal ceremony bt ower her mother and aunt* mar. not *puak to the lover. Subscription, $1,00 per Year. NO. 50. FARM, GARDEN AMI HOUSEHOLD, - Carrots a* Foe* for Canto. In Europe the carrot is grown to a great extent for feeding to cattle in the winter mouths. Boots of some kind are ^ 'S)°Zhels | «>ws says Vcre" he is per Carrots increase the flow of milk and improve the appearance and quality of butter. Beets are prefera.de to carrots for increasing the flow of milk ; the milk, however, which is produoed from beets it not as good for butter. The breeder mentioned above has found it difficult to raise his calves on clear Jersey miik, and advises the feeding of that which has been bkimmed. - clover. N - Griffin, at the Elmira Farmers’ Club, said*: “There is no substitute for clover, so far as I know -nothing to tak « place. It is better in its effect 0X1 lail( l 111411 any other forage plant. It is that a good crop of clover—say 8Uch a crop as will yield two tons o. cured hay lrom an acre—will leave an e T lal weight of roots for tho soil. That is likt ' a coat of manure. I am sorry to hear that clover is falling into disrepute, * or its renovating power is greater than ^at of any other plant. Lately clover ^ OP8 better than in a few years past, so 1 lu, P a we shall soon have all the old measure of success. Many years ago the farm « in Dutchess county used to give lcr K° crops of timothy and they wero tak « u away 1111,1 Those farms are now exhausted-ruined because the crops were taken off. But clover is never all taken off when the roots aro left -. Forty-five year? ago a great deal timothy and was raised in Tompkins county the land that produced it rau Jewn under its production and the occupants had to turn their attention to clover. At first it was difficult to get it established, but little by little under its influence the lands grew better. Farmers had to ditch their lands as the first condition, then they used plaster, and at last got fall crops of clover and better crops of grain, for their lands improved been through tried, clover. Hungarian grass has but, like timothy, when the crop is taken off nothing is loft and the soil becomes poor. The best crop is that which leaves most to the soil, and that is what clover does. I hope it will not lose its place in our farming, for there is no other plant ho beneficial in its effect. Planting a Vlnevnrd. The distance at which the vines may be planted varies with the different va¬ rieties, the character cf the soil and the mode of training. Most varieties have a tendency to make more wood on light, sandy, gravelly or loamy soils than on elajs. Delaware Slow-growing and varieties, snob as Catawba, may be planted nearer together in the rows than strong sorts like the Concord and Herbemont. When the training is to be upon trel¬ lises, in any of the several modes, the distance between the vines should be greater than when the training is to be on stakes in the serpentine or bow sys¬ tem. Many growers lay out all the rows six feet apart, as this is a convenient distance for cultivating and gives space enough for man, horse and plough or cultivator. With the rows six feet apart they plant all strong-growing varieties from eight to ten feet distant in the rows, while Blow kinds are planted about six feet apart. A rule given by P. Barry is as follows : Bet strong-grow¬ ing sorts in loamy or rich soils, and to be trained for trellis, ten or twelve feet apart; on heavy clay soil reduce the distance in the rows two feet Plant varieties like Catawba and Iona eight feet apart each way. Delaware and other short-jointed varieties plant at six feet in the rows, the rows eight feet. Select good strong one or two year old plants with plenty of strong, well ripened roots that are smooth and firm and have also well-ripened, short jointed wood. Having * prepared the soil for the reception of the plants ac~ cording to directions previously given, make an excavation for each one eight or ten inches deep in a slanting direc tion and wide enough to admit the spreading out of the roots. Raise a small mound of well-pulverized earth in the center and then lay in a plant previously pruned with its tops and roots shortened in, resting the lower end on the mound of earth ; spread ont the roots evenly to all sides and fill in with well-pulverized earth, leaving the upper bud above ground. Tne depth to which the roots are cov. red should never be less than four inches above the upper or crown line, and if the position ls a southern one, and the soil naturally a^T’.I* 1 * wl11 he betu : r - A Ul ? * ork * hou <l ** ,]oTih , wli, . ‘ n tLe gronnd is in good condition ami dry and mellow enough to bo worked in among the roots. __ HouM-ii(,i,t Him.. Enameled cloth makes a neat and THE BLACKSHEAR NEWS. RATES OF ADVERTISING I ^UARE*. 1 time! 1 MO. | ——^ fi MO. I TEAM One........ * CTOOtfeCOtOH oo' K. "50|: ( 0DW ssgggg * 8 00 $10 00 Two....... AA AA ssssr.; 88888 Three...... 00 OI Fonr....... 00 ! *3 50 Eight...... oo; S oo Sixteen.... 8 Transient advertisements il.00 per Aral ii> eertion; 50 cents for esch subsequent one. Special notices 10 cents each insertion Bills due immediately after first insertion. useful covering for the wide lower shelf in the pantry where bread and cake aie cut. It is useful also and looks well on the kitchen table and can be kept absolutely clean with little trouble. b Jr^Mm^in^areVade S th^in® JSJE? crochet if‘some^lo^ anl 0 ,£j pen-work ^ pattern the width and th £ yon ah , finish with a shell ed a d draw throngh tll0 * r.noons oi any ooior agreeable dentifrice for good , 11 is ma<le from an ounce °f myrrh in tino P°wder ant * a ./ lt ^ e powdered Breen sage, mixed with two spoonful 0 “ one y* A druggist wi.l make U P compound, and teeth should be washed with it every night and norniug. Lentil Soup.— Mix a tablespoonf.il of lentil flour and a teaspoonful of com flour with a little milk till as thick as cream. Boil three-quarters of a pint of milk sweetened a little and flavored to taste; pour this slowly on the flour and milk, stirring meanwhile. Boil alto gether for ten minutes, still stirring, Add a whipped egg. This is a most nourishing albuminous food and a good substitute for beef tea. Apples as Food. From tho earliest ages apples have been in use for too table as a dessert. The historian Pliny tells us that tbe Romans cultivated twenty-two varieties of the apple. In these latter days we probably possess over two thousand. As an article of food, they rank with tho pota' o, and, on account of tho variety of ways in which they may be served, they are fur preferable to the taste of many persons; and, if families would only substitute ripe, luscious apples for pies, cakes, candies and preserved fruits, thero would be much less sick¬ ness among the children, aud the saving in this one Horn alone would purchase many barrels of apples. They have an excellent effect upon the whole physical system, feeding the brain, as well as adding to the flesh, and keeping the blood pure ; also preventing constipa¬ tion and correcting a tendency to acidity, and which produces rheumatism neuralgia. They will c >ol off the feverish condition of the system; in fact, they are far belter for these pur¬ poses than tho many nostrums which are so highly praised in tho advertise¬ ments and so constantly purchased by sufferers. A lipe, raw apple is entirely digested in an hour and a-half, while a boiled potato takes twice that time. Now that apples can be purchased at such cheap rates, every iamily should keep a dish of them in the dining-room, where the children can have access to eat ail they pleass of them. They will rarely receive any injury fre m them, if they aro thoroughly masticated. Baked apples should be as constant a dish upon the table as potatoes. Every breakfast and every tea-table shonld haws a plate of thorn. Baked sweet ap¬ ples are a very pleasing addition to a saucer of oatmeal pudding, and when served with sweet cream they are very appetizing. They are not as commonly used as they should be, as they will supply as much muscular a id nerv;.us support as dishes of meat and vegeta¬ bles. Thousands of bushels of sour apples aro used for pies and puddings in hundreds of families, where well baked sweet apples would prove more nourishing food and much more eco¬ for nomical. They are also good food old people and are usually greatly relished by them. In my own family they are always, when in season, a part of the meals of the day and are asc.rn monly used as a slice of bread.— Coun¬ try Gentleman. Spoiled the Romance. \ romantic story is told of a young California lady reported engaged to Lieutenant Danenhower, whose boat, with five men from the .Jeannette, was reported at Yakutsk, Siberia. She was, according to the story, bitterly opposed to his going on the expedition, but having been ordered by bis country to tc almost certain death, “his honor would not permit him to break his word, even for the being he worshiped.” She fainted on parting with him, and }m S spent most melancholy years pining during his absence, and changing so within that time, that she dow looks like a woman of thirty, instead of a gj r j 0 f nineteen. Such is the story. It j H somewhat weakened by the fact that the officers on the Jeannette were not ordered to go, but were all volunteers ; and Dv the understood fact that one of the officers went, not, against the pro test of a loving maiden, but to seek in the icy arctic regions surcease of sor row caused by his having lieen refused t,v “the being he worshiped.” ' ■ . ..... — The zoospores (microscopic the ote animal*) tha awirm abcut in n ure oo surface of a leaf or stem. Film though it be, it is an oeea to sueh Hah.