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■ •• -s**" 3"-^ ^ "“n ■ *jy — A T A ify+AZ J&Ht ,n£09**~ *«|T i ^ - -/»-«>' 'ltsq««vq j;»!:»<;?{ M xatfI| . - ' :.- ~ ; ••‘ f! ' / - ''■’ ■■' ••-■• - •- • l : i : ! - - /-s.~ -■.: . - :»S?* ISaisSflfflr,; Propr2TgS*£dgY fp 1 Deroted to Home Interests and Giilture. TW^O DOLXj-AJRfe -A. \ oar in -A.dvan < VOLUME IX. PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE IS, IS79. NUMBER 23. 1 THE physical future of ,6W 5 AMERICANS. m ? oresent eruption of Mount Etna j —— ;'. tans to be . the most destraetivei Gep..If. Beard, in an;. article in the has ever occurred, owing 1 to the ! ^ une number at.t\& Atlantic, discussing , "La since that of 1852, in the.fertiL- I flie.pbjsiad ■/future,. of the .American fftfie farms and population and people, concludes that although the ih- ^jlth of the villages. The cone, in habitants; o£.ouc/.> Northern i States are 'hU’thirty new craters have opened a 3 ~ n oh m mi fr r»nn vl tt Jithina few day 3 . “ a summit nearly leren lands, ana nervous, prostration, than those; of year and on the present occasion, I can Eiirope, owing to the chanceful nainre Avouch that starvation Ms' it's'own dis- Of the Clunateand thp extremes'Of hqqt Kn^i Pictarniil nlwaiml nliPTinmona Tn le oi tm J |L.. , -- and c ? ldi/ ^ ekv the ' raCe gradually mitas wide of forests, aud grazing adapting itself to its environments, and and beiow this-ngaidi’ encimmg* fWui« : wilTievrflfe"'a' powerful and stable race of native Americans. He centre - lids nt belt six or these Catanians. w ere destroyed, and in both 1527 and 1852 the streams of lava penetrated the woody regions and over- Jowed'the villages in the lower belt. But before the surface was quite cool, the people were back, building new tomes over the buried mins' of the old ones. Human nature was just as fool ish as now in greediness, and men in as peat haste to be rich when Pindar, 500 jears before Christ, told bow “the tnowy Etna, the pillar of Heayoni the onise of everlasting frosts, in whose breast weje hid the fountains of unap- B fire," slsw her victims by the thousands. There have been some singular cir cumstances in which the eruptions of this volcano have differed from others. Ono occurred in 1852, when, after the flowing of lava lmd ceased, in a certain aiea the trees, vines and even grass were struck dead as if by lightning, with no visible cause. Another was the bur ial of a glacier under the lava, which Lvell states remained* for thirty years uamelted; a gigantic ice-house for the Catanians. Much of the ruin occasion ed by Ike eruption of this volcano in 1755 resulted from the sudden melting of thesnows above tlieVal del Bove and the precipitation of a flood of wa ter, two miles in width. The present eruption no doubt will Kt geologists again to speculating upon the age of $iis most ancient •‘month of lielL" Such speculations are usually based npon the formation of tho cone, reckoning the concentric layers of scorias and lava much as we compute a tree by the rings in its Imek out. horizontally. According to tigdljf estimate, Ettia; wgs .belch-, iog fostiiiher Miyoeftidownidie Yul del Bovoin thofirst'dayoof oieation.-whilo ditions, so that all classes are sharing the earth was Without form and void *9. s° me extent the improvement, al- . . . ' • "" ‘ though it is of and darkness was upon tho face of the top. Probably, too, there will be a fresh outbreak of the old controversies * *<• the origin of volcanio energy. In, hese hot debates the physicists and neurologists Lave been arrayed under Y'h ultimately die out, leaving the the bate of the mountain, is another to the mixture of lava with the soil, is tbe most productive in Sicily, which ac counts for the crowding of fruit and wine growers from other parts ,of the island to this quarter, Where death and fjfflvM.tt' 19 pen of the Bev, S.G. Osborne, in which occurs the following terrible descrip tion of ti^ jj^ijjegtgpai^starvation f • '■“■Bjrom my own experience. t ef-last tinct external physical phenomena. Iu grown-up persoiis, besides df attenuation which seems to have ab sorbed all appearance of flesh and mnsclc, and to have: left the bonesfof claims frame-barely' ’covered' with- some shown a visible improvement in physi- coveriud whiv uuv/iuuiuauiuu ui wcutuu, uo. ncu no progress.of. science and., discovery, . suiting in better food, better horn §hojvn stronger, fuller, healthier—they'weigh more than their parents. “The women of all oar great centres cf population are yearly becoming more plhmp arid die beautiful; and in the leading rain-wording occupations tmr. ntentare also acquiring robustness, “amplitude, qnaiuaty of being. A" thonsaad girls and boys; a thousand men in the prime of years^ taken by; accident in any of the large cities,.ore heavier and more substantial than were the same number of the samje'jjge ani^.walltpf lifeitwerity- five years ago.” We thin IT'our read ers who have exercised any observation will agree with this statement. It is true morfe especially of thd now rising generation. Mr. Beard attributes the tbo improvement largely' to the greater accumulation of wealth, as. well ns the .re houses, more suitable clothing, less anxiety, more ease, and more variety of health ful activity and amusement than even the best situated of onr immediate an cestors could enjoy. There is also, we think, a visible im provement in our country population, largely from the same causes. The New England farmer of the past generation or two, although lie might be well enough off, did not have wife or ser vants who knew how to cook. Heavy and soggy bread, or saleratus biscuit were served up for breakfast; a greasy mass of pork and boiled vegetables for dinner, with fried pork and suety johnny-cake and molasses for supper. Now this is all changed, owing to the great general increase of intelligence, and in the majority of farmers’ kitoh- eus iu New England and elsewhere, however plain the fare may be, it is more healthfully cooked and served np in a more tempting manner. Iu the cities, too, constant betterments are be ing.made an homos amL tenements for the.poor iu reference to sanitary con- lly. among the to any thing we could esteem to be siilelj different banners. Some have pinned their faiUi.to the chemical theo- of volcanoes, and field that the in to reactions which must take place uder enormo.usjore'ssure in the earth’s “> l 8ri° r ^re3raMto produce .those eruptions of which Etna and' Yesuvi weak; millions must pel dreds may survive.”* Who. will, be the hundreds, and who themillions? Why, furuisifed sh6hisplendid ; examplet.i -evidently the former will be those who iglope - noment.to be expl tany moment by the forces raging rithinrit, and that volcanoes afford a safety yalvo for tho extraordinary toms which agitate the molten seas aider our feet.- These, it is true, are ocientWpeculations, and afo 'gradually blown as the contraetiorrtheory. Ac- children in that will be made u appetite,: of: of the persist „ _ 0 Md pf free schools ignorauBLteTtifti p failures .to succeedin' life a prpbl.dtb“ to oth ers, as welTaa to themselves; ‘Th i of the sun is^-by;-contraction. Jt held that the contraction and ernsh- ag down oi the solid crust produce ^rtlrqnakes and set free an enormous aroant of heat which only requires the absence of water to cause volcanic actions. Without water, says Mallet, great advocate of this theory, there ^ be no volcanoes; and it is a singu- het thait Etna and Vesuvius 4BOd and the terribly destructive Yol- of Japan, are all found near the sea. rone of these speculations will afford a^cli coadort o the poor Catanians crops are swept away or burned 7 ue streams of lava, or buried uuder "showers of ashes;but to the rest ^ may be consolatory to know that pforld’s inner fires are fading, and ^ na and her rival volcanoes will ; day he as quiet and as harmless >• e ®itinot erateis of the moon.—JV7 AjUx among the wealthy or well-to-do. Mr. Beard holds that on the principle of the survival of -the.fittest, the weaker indi viduals and families on this continent strongestand best fitted. fp t v. their spr; ronndin^8 ! tb’perpetuate th’e tace. -*'*T1je strength of tho strong,” he says, “must come in part from the weakness of tho 3 mnst perish' that ‘bun- out - i SB— !>» ■«— There are some.men wj are indnstrioits, prudent and economi- cai ;yet, after u long life of striving, THE ~ — - . J . : . j . r, c HORRORS OF STARVA- - v;.;; tion. \ . A book of startling.information, not more tl);m S!S m0 ntus on recently appeared m London, from the from we ll-broken parents and covering; which has but little' semblance fiesh; the skin of all the limbs assumes a peculiar character;. it is rough to the touch; very. dry, and did it not hang in places in loose folds, would be more of the nature of parchment than any thing else-to which I could compare it. The eyes are mucli snnk, into the head and have a peculiar, dalljipainfdl took; .tog shoulder bones are thrown np so high that the-column oL the neck seems tp havj the face and head, from the wasting of tbe fiesh and the prominence of the bones,-hgve a skull-like appearance; the hair is very tluu.tipqn the head; there is over the countenance a sort of pallor, quite distinct from that which utter c ecline of physicalpower generally gives in those many diseases in which life still continues after.the entire consump tion of the muscular part of the body. The skm over to e cliegt.bones and up per part of the stomach is streched so tight that every angle und curve of tbe sternum and ribs stands out fn relief. No words can describe the appearance of ’the arms. From below the elbow the two bones (the radins and the ulna) seem to be stripped of every atom of. flesh. If you fake hold of the loose skin within the elbow joint, and lift the arm by it, it comes away in a large thin fold, as though you l>ad lifted one side of a long narrow bag, in which some lo»se hones had been placed. There is one comfort, to be found in these sad cases—there does not appear to be great present pain. It-has never been my lot to hear one single child, suffering from famine or clys entery, utter a moan of pain. I have seen many in the very act of death; still, not a tear, not a cty. I have scarcely ever seen one endeavor to change his or her position. I have never heard one ask for food, for water, for any thing. Two, three, or four in a bed, there they lie and die; if suffering, still ever silent,, unmoved.” r * SENSATIONAL FARMING |3omg -injury is v-done- yto^ the plain simple-minded folk 'by 'the reported statements of enormous agricultural enterprises in California, Minnesota and Dakota, with vast profits growing out of the fabulous operations. One Californian farms, or rather skins 45,- 000 acres yearly by sowing it ih wheat. His harvest is said to have produced 910,000 bnshels of wheat, netting nim $765,000 in one year. One would one years operation; but we now learn that after ten years’ exciting business, •heiriSbs abotfl aamfrionf tfollafs'l afe|§ practically a bankrnpt; “land poor, " which he can orjet go, on his hands. Sdiui the 1 Northwest, wejbave bad re- iffefe#T\ Rctsbf ;wo things essentially different,' they have supposed that, if they were always busy, they wonld be certain to be advancing their well that the facts should be knowD, fortunes. They have foigottehihai mis- and that these giiiferiiii diiected labor is but waste The person who would i marksman firing’ at a target shots miss the mark, they are a .vaste of powder. So in the. great game of fig the whole fabric; specularots, farms; life, what a man does must be made to a man does must be made to crops; armies of^labprers; troops of mitrlit almdst as welF havd horses; parlm ^f Aiiac%ihery; all these np on North .. . W*n. He went to Philadelphia 1 ^ Paid $320 for a a pedio r ^ E °logical table of the kings ofEug- aud ibedog hadn’t been hometwo ’ ^ e ^°. rC ^ ue uext door neighbor kill- 01 with a brick linn .linneo I eonni* or been left undone. Every body knows some one in Ms circle of frivmls who, though always active, has this want of energy. The distemper if we may call it such, exhibits itself iu various ways. In some cases tbe man has merely an executive capacity, when he should have a direct one—in other language, he „ . . . makes a capital clerk of - himself when * i ke ought to do the thinking of the bnsi- n. ^ jjj other cases what is done is either at the nght time, or in the right time, or in the right way. Energy, correctly understood, is activity pro portioned to the end. pnre-blood bird longer than the twelve : - a, «>e I A nam6d Henry AckIey ’ is -s u'lecrhiiu and rare >J cars of p S e > committed suicide m •itUe. S as it is tiouth American; the Philadelphia house of refuge lust ; Monday. i ntg,. ..ts ou the business and meet, current ex- penses, or on the' J inevitable final re sult of mined land, barren fields, wast- nities and a general wreck alone fs left behind of the base- , the weafh- an and marketsheing tbe largest which are risked, and possible success, barren at the best; ? a cheap - notoriety, or final min, are the alternatives. It is ig stories slionid speculative be understood entures in-which ing, and that a grand crash, taiu of vdebt toppling over and ernsh- ere is but one end a moun- involved in one general ruin. This has been, will be, and must be, the end of this illegitimate use of the bo.untifnl soil which is made to ponr ont its life in' a few short years of wasteful, riotous agriculture. .Ten years ago a widow ledy in Lib erty county found a little half-starved lamb. She raised it and took care of it. From the beginning she now has eighty sheep, and has from time to time sold thirty head. The Hmesville Gazette, relating this circumstance, says: “If this is not a good dividend from such a small investment, we would rise to n point of order aud ask what it is? A light snow fell near Chicago ou Monday last, and overcoats were la great demand. 5 &7Lfie■ t x.-v3 QT’' : : TRAINING A SHEEP DOG Commence breaking the pop when not more than six months old. Pnps ancestors on both sides of the kennel are most apt to prove sensible and easily train ed. The best place to train a pup is on the road. In driving sheep on a journey, he will learn more in a month than in herding on a range during snm- mer: The first thing is to teach your pup to mind your word. Call to him kindly by name, and if be doesn’t come at once, pinch bis ears until lie learns prompt obedience. A couple or more severe floggings are an almost indispen sable part of a; pup’s" training, but be sure that he knows for what offense he. is being whipped. Let the punishment follow the offense promptly,' and if it can’t be administered then, don’t whip him an hour or two later, or when he has forgetien all about the matter.— Nearly all directions for the pnp should be given by motion of the hand, in the direction you wish him to go, and al ways accompany the voice by metion of of the hand. After your pup haslearn- iuto the chest; e g | 0 m i n g the word, and is trained to march back and forth from one side of the flock to the other at the sweep of yonr hand, commence to teach him to pass np the side of the flock. To do this make a motion with yonr hand np toe side you wish him to go, throwing your arm out as you would direct a man bryond the reach of your voice, and call ont “Away np!” antil he gets hold of your meaning. To teach him to go clear round a flock and so turn them towards yon, re peat the motion of sending him up the side until he gets partly around the head of the flock and theu call him down on the opposite side. After he has once learned to go around the flock, a sweep of the hand from the side whence you wish him to start to th e other is the proper motion, accompanied with tbe cry, “Around there!” Al ways call his name before giving any or der, and be sure to make tee direetirg motion with your baud. To teach him to drive behind the flock to whatever direction you wish to go while leading on ahead, get the flock in a lane, your self in advance, and if the dog under takes to follow you drive him back, and when he has got to his place keep an eye on him and sing ont occasionally, “Drive them!” To train him to bark whenever you wish, make a fuss your self and get him excited, and theu sing uiit, “Speak to them.” What makes a sheep-dog a shepherd, is the instinct, uatitral or acquired, which leads him to trot to and fro behind the flock, and a well trained animal will take as rnnek pleasure in driving sheep as curs do in following a wagon. Always treat tne dog kindly and rationally, and, when compelled to whip him, pat him on the head to show him you don’t bear mal ice, and to keep him from skulking. One Lucky Bullet Saves Hundbed: op Lives.—In the middle of the fight at Korke’s Drift, when the Zulus had fired the hospital, a rush was made by a band of the enemy to fire the store house, the the other building which outlasted defense. As fast as th fi Zulus came on with firebrands they were shot down, gift in close to tfewail bftod stofehDusa/ Thp defenderaf wife.their rifles through;. the loopholes, could hot slope their weapons to kill him; and it seemed as if his. purpose of firing the thatch on the' 0 roof of the house should succeed. .For tunately, ia young Corporal ot the Army Service Corps named Atwood bethought. rv ' r ’* ' ■* ’ " “ amp of the {there was a dmall square hole in the wall which had been used as a window, and the Zulu happened to get to this. .Atwood, with his carbine, made his way to this hole and pushing ont his weapon let it hang pointing to fee ground. It "was impossible to take aim in this awkward grapd Vision. „ It is a. -p 0b iti 0n> . so he trusted tofate. The Znln had by this time stuck a firebrand on the end of his assegai and was in the act of rising np to set fire to the thatch when Atwood, not seeing the Zqla at all. but knowing about = his position,- fired the carbide with his thumb. The shot prob ably. in fact, saved Natal from an in vasion of fee Zulus. The Zulu at day light was fonud at fee spot with his skull smashed hi and the assegai, with the firebrand stuck on the end of it, held tightly in his dead hand.—Edin burg Scolmaii’s Durban Letter. The British government has been get ting rid rapidly of iis women telegraph clerks. • For two years no women have been engaged as clerks in the telegraph department; and the government has closed the woman’s branch of its tele graph scHooL Its is also stated in the London oVeics that the work of the wo men clerks who remain is made increas ingly severe. No publicity has attend ed the changes made by the govern ment in the clerkships, and they are now brought to notice by communica tions to the pi-ess. It would be of pub lic interest to know why the dischar ges have been made, and what are tbe faults of the women which disqualify them for telegraphic service. THE ARTICHOKE. There seems to be an tmusual interest manifested in regard to tbe artichoke. I have lately read several articles in to® while others differ widely from my ex perience. But I did not set out to crit icise, for I-feel sure all are doing good. Tlie more we talk and write npon this im portant siibject the more we will know about it and the better wa can appreci ate the importance of it The time has come when the farmers mnst deiise some plan by which he can produce pork at a less cost than he can with com, or he must qu : t tbe hog and tarn liis at tention to something else. I have grown the artichoke for a number of years, and daring the time have experi mented in various ways, and I am now ready to say that growing it for hogs is one of the means to produce cheap pork. Usually the crop is ready to torn out on to by the 1st of October. One acre will keep twenty hogs in good growing condition from that time till the middle or list of March; or, with the addition of half the corn, nsnally fed, it will fat ten them in less time than all corn, and, as far as I have been able to see, the pork is just as good. A portion of the crop should be dug and housed -or put in mounds, to be feed when the ground is too hard frozen for the hogs to root. While the artichoke is generally valued only for hogs, I have found it quite valuable for all kinds of stock. HOUSES RELISH THEM, and work horses will look better and feel better on half tho corn usually fed if they get plenty of artichokes. They are fine for sheep especially ewes with young lambs. And if yon want gilt-edged butter in midwinter feed your Jersey cow no corn, but plenty of artichokes, wife good clover and timo thy, hay, and you will get the best. I will not undertake to say that artichokes will cure fee so-called hog cholera, hut I believe it to be a good preventive. I have never known hogs to have any disease while feeding on them. Iu deed, I believe they are as near a natural hog food as any product we grow. I grow a variety known hero us the large white. I have had but little exprience wife any other, bat .from all I can learn from persons who have grown other varieties, J. consider it preferable to all others. I wish to say I have none tor sale. I would like to hear from others on the subject of cheap pork. The nations of tbe world must be fed, but the farmer cannot do it in the old style at present prices.—\J. G. Evans in Rural World. At the close of the trial of the habeas corpns-case in Omaha last week, which resulted in the vindication of the per sonal rights and liberties of the Poncas Indians, whom the United States milita ry authorities were endeavoring to force to return io the reservation assigned to them, their chief, Standing "Bear, pro se u t ed to Mr. Wqhater, the. liwyer : who had won their case' for them, an In dian tomahawk, accompanying the'pre sentation with a speech in which he said: “We had no law to pnnish those Who did wrong, so we took tomahawks and went to kill, * ******** bnt you have found a better way. Yon have gone into the courts-for ns, aud I find our wrongs can be wrighted there. Now I have .no more use for the toma hawk, aud I want to lay it down for ever.” To Mr. Poppletou, another of fee counsel for the Indians, the chief presented a head-dress worn when the Poncas made the first treaty with the white men. “It is true.” remarks the Philadelphia Ledger, “that the figura tive eloquence of the Indian is not to be always trusted, now that dealing with white trickery has sharpened bis natu ral cunning, the defence of all wild thiDgs of the human as well as the lower animal tribes. But this first recogni tion of the civil status of the Indian is a step in advance, embarrasing as it may be to the. present complication of inherited difficulties in the govern ment’s dealings with him. As an indi vidual committing crimes against per sons and property, State court ought to have jurisdiction oyer him, and in like manner, as an individual, he should be protected by the ccnrts.” CAUGHT A TARTAR- Thd Belfast, Me-, Journal says: “A Belfast mau last week had an encounter with a gang of Boston swindlers, in which the latter came off second best. He was accosted on State street by an innocent-appearing young man, who called him by name, began glibly in quiring by name for well known resi dents of tout place, and pnt on sneb an appearance of innocence as to complete ly deceive our friend. The innocent young man professed to be. fee lucky drawer of a lottery prize, and invited his acquaintance to go with him while he got the money. The young man led the way to a room in the alley-way lead ing from Court street to Cornhill. Hav ing secured the prize, fee young man commenced to gamble with his. money and soon indheed the Belfast man to loan him considerable money on bank checks, which lie drew. The game was worked so smoothly and plausibly that several hundred dollars of onr friend’s cash was transferred to the lottery- dealer's till, the till being at last closed and-the money declared forfeited. Onr friend being a man of nerve, proceeded to knock down the lottery-dealer, wrench open fee drawer and transfer the contents to his pocket. A confed erate, who came to the resene, was also knocked .down. The Belfast man then finding the door fastened from fee ont- side, kicked it open and gained the street. Meeting there the innocent young man. aforesaid, the two proceed ed to the steamer Cambridge, where, ou counting the money, onr friend found that he had something over $400 more in good money than when he en tered fee lottery shop. He ref nrned to the smooth young man fee amount that he had staked and lost, retaining 870 in excess of his disbursements. During the day hi was visited by nnmeroos members of tbe lottery-dealing tribe and sham policemen, endeavoring to recover their money. But he brought it away and keeps it as the reward of his exertions in behalf of the- cause of right and justice.” Salmox in the Scottish rivers are suf fering from a pestilence. It begins as a entaneons disease, and soon a white mould eats into the head of the fish, which rubs itself te pieces in its agony against gravtl and rocks. Mr. Buck- land, a connoissucr iu salmon, writes that the plague is the result of over stocking; that “preservation carried on for a eeriis of years possibly brings about this disease, particularly when there are many keits in the river, just as in old times overcrowding originated typhus in jiils and work-bouoes." SUBSTITUTING THE LAW FDR THE TOMAHAWK. Could be Settled. A Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin says: “Johnston in conversation with yonr correspondent recently said.- ‘I have always received the most generous treatment from Un ion soldiers wherever I have gone, and many courtesies which I sincerely ap preciate, have been extended to me by Union officers and soldiers since I have been in Congress. If the so ldiers who fought in the war, on both sides, were permitted to settle the difficulties that now beset ns. it wonld be soon and promptly settled to tbe satisfaction of both the North and South. We heard, and believed, during the war just what General Johnston said in his last sentence, but it will be now, as it was then—the soldier’s will not be permitted to settle it—these matters are easily originated or settled by the men who do the lighting.—Lynchburg Neics. Soft Water.—Those who are obliged to use hard water to do washing may prepare 4 t by boiling wheat bran iu it. Two or three qnarts.of bran are quit in a bag made of strung, bat tbin muslin, tied np and put in a boiler full of cold water, the boiler placed upon a stove and the water allowed to boil for an honr or so, when it is poured out aud the boiler refilled. The bag of bran is putin and again boiled foi\ an hour or so. This operation is repeated nntil enough water has been prepared, for-all the rubbing, boiling, etc. The .water in whiih the clothes are rinsed needs no preparation, but is used as it comes from the well. Ladies who have used hard water for years and have tried lye, soda, sal-soda, eta, tells us that the water washes better and injures the clothes less prepared in this way than in any other in which they have seen it prepared. A bag contain ing three quarts of bran may be boiled in three boilings of water, but if more wa ter than this is required, fresh bran should be used. The water acquires a softness from the bran that renders it more pleasant to the hand and is not injurious to the colored clothes, flannels, etc., as when prepared with the alkali. From South Afhica.—The Zulu king; Cetewayo, on the 16tb, dispatched an envoy to Colonel Crealock asking him to send an European to him to discuss the terms of peace. John Dunn according ly went to Cctewayo’s kraal, but has al ready returned. The negotiations fail ed, because the British refused any terms but an unconditional surrender. Cetewayo’s good faith is doubted. It is thought probably he will shortly threw his whole strength against the lower Tugtla column, which contemplated a rapid march against Cetewayo. The kraal at Ulundi has been abandoned. Transport difficulties are increasing, owing to tbe searciiy of grass. The health of the troops is improving. It is: ep >rted Major Chard who distinguish ed himself at Baoke’s drift has died of fever. It is again rumored that the Zu lu commander, Dabulmanzi, while on his way to surrender to the British, was intercepted and killed. A great fire at Grey town has destroyed large commissariat stores. A max coming out of a Texes newspa per office, wife one eye gouged out, bis nose spread all over his face, and one of his ears ehc-wed off, replied to a police- man who interviewed him: “ T I didn’t like an article that penred in the paper last week, an’ I went in ter see the mau who writ it, au’ lie war the rp, ’ > - THE THEORY OF ADVERTISING. Use the Newspapers—Keep at It. 3255866 YI Some adyariisers .thiuk (hat becadso an advertisement which appears to-day is not followed lo-morrow by an ap preciable increase Of sales the adver tisement has done no good and .tho' theory of advertising is false. Though it is perhaps impossible to insert 3 no tice that shall not bo read—-let .any Didymus pnt a three line Oafd, “Want-' ed—A Dog,” in the obscurest corner,’■- and be convinced of this—it is not to.bo' expected that the moment a person casts his eye upon an advertiser’s an nouncement lie sets out for the adver tiser’s store. He may not; at the timo need any articlo iu the merchant's line; or he may deal with another house: Bnt if the representation is attractive he will almost iuevitably, when he Heeds anything of fee 'kind announced, ho' sure to turn to the paper where he saw the card and give the advertiser a trial; The merchant should regard his outlay for advertising as he would that for painting his building or pnttiDg up biff sign-board —as a necessary charge upon tue whole year’s business, tbo effect of which is not to be perceived immediate ly. Men do not sow wheat one day and harvest it the next. The man who bus begun to advertise' must keep ou advertising if he desires «■ continual iucrease in the volume, of liis business. He may keep a steady, clien- tels of customers, but the chances are’ that some of these may be detached by seeing the advantages of other dealers' persistently advocated. He will cer tainly not attract new patrons. They will go elsewhere, just as they wonld seek another store than his if, on com ing to his door, they found it locked and the shutters put up. The testimony of a leading dry goods house in New York is herewith present ed: “Of all the methods open to the mer chant for advertising his business, an experience of nearly half a century, en ables us to unhesitatingly declare in fa vor of the newspaper. It is, without exception, the most economical, persist ent painstaking and successful canvas ser any business firm can secure for tho' purpose of bringing their goods to fee 1 attention of the consumer.” No comment upon this recital of ex perience is needed, furtner than to’ note that the firm who write this have' taken the sound scientific view of ad vertising, that they recognized the ne-‘ ccssity for persistence and understand that the newspaper has done its duty' when it has brought tbe advertiser’s- goods to tbe atention of the consam-' Sugar from Indian Corn.—Near tile' close of the Centennial an exhibit was made of crude crystallizable sugar, made from maize Indian corn) grown in Penn sylvania, and in the Ledge) of December 1, 1876, Mr. F. L. Stewart, fee invent or of the process of extracting sugar from maize, described the results ho had obtained, claiming feat his process- afforded a much better prospect of suc cessful sugar raising in tbe Northern’ and Western than could be expectvd- from beet rootculture. Since that time be has fully tested the process, and’ claims to be able to make sugar from luc'ian corn wherever tho latter can be economically raised. The sugar is said to be in all respects similar to feat pro duced from the tropical sane, and tho' inventor declares that fee yield is as- great.—Philadelphia Ledger. A Dress-of Beiders’ Webs.—A dressr woven from tho webs of fee Large spi der common in South America has been presented to Queen Victoria by tbe Empress of Brazil. It exceeds in fine ness any manufactured silk" known, and is very handsome. Spaniards nearly two hundred years ago endeavored to* make gloves, stockings, and other arti cles of spiders’ webs, but they yielded so little profit, and necessitated so= much trouble feat fee manufacture was abandoned, tn 1710 the calculation was made that the webs of about 700,- 000 spiders would be required for about forty yards of silk. Such dres ses are oceasi mally seen in Sontlr America. The Proposed Isthmus Gaxal.—A Paris dispatch state that M. de Lcsseps has already commenced the formation of a company to construct the proposed tide-water inter-oceanic canal from Co lon to Panama, across fee Isthmus of DaricD, the route Selected by the In ternational Congress. A first subscrip tion of 400,000,000 francs will be open ed simultaneon.-ly all over the world about September next. It is to be an es sentially popular loan, without the gov ernment aid or guarantee. M. de Les- seps, it ls farther stated, will go to Pan ama via New York to take, ont the first spadeful of eaife on fee 1st of January, IS80. The British troops and their African allies are getting close quarters, is said to Cetewayo in the Zulu