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LUMPKIN & JORDAN, Editors and Proprietors,
VOLUME 11.
The deficit in the sugar beet crop
reported as between 25 and 50 per cent,
less this year than last. It will have an
important bearing on the price of cane
sugar when it is remembered that licet
sugar is identical with that of cane su
gar, and that the beet-sugar manufacture
covers about one-third of the sugar pro
duct of the world.
The late captain general of Cuba,
Martinez Campos, is now the premier of
Spam; and as such he is doing his best
to secure to Cuba the reforms that he
promised the people of that island before
he returned to Spain. He is encounter
ing a great deal of opposition in the cor
tes, especially as to the abolition of
slavery and tariff reforms. A dissolu
tion of the cortes, or a ministerial crisis
will probably occur before the Cuban
measures are disposed of.
The United States Economist says:
A constant and steady export of wheat
and breadstuffs will occur throughout the
fall and winter months. As the season ad
vances it would not be surprising if
prices would gradually grow firmer. It
is unfortunate for the general welfare of
the country that great operators in grain
manipulate tiro market in wheat as they
do stocks in Wall street. By concerted
action they can corner wheat as they do
railroad stocks and thereby unsettle
values to the hindrance of legitimate
business.
The Catholic Bishops of Ireland have
adopted resolutions appealing to the gov
ernment and to all public bodies and
individuals to help the poor, as the poor
law act is insufficient to meet the neces
sities of the impending crisis. They at
the same time exhort their flocks to bear
their trials patiently, to respect the rights
of others, to pay their just debts as fully
as they arc able and to obey the laws,
while using all peaceful and constitu
tional means to reform the land laws,
which are the main cause of the coun
try’s poverty and helplessness.
■■.my
Ay Y on k who has traveled along the
railroads that traverse the coal regions of
Pennsylvania, must have noticed the
huge black hills that stand beside every
colliery. These mountains are coal waste,
and have hitherto been, not only useless,
but cumberers of the ground. It is esti
mated that twenty million tons of this
refuse is produced every year, and it has
been a problem long thought over by
owners, what to do with this waste.
Some years ago a Pennsylvania man pat
tented a plan by which the finer portions
of the waste was to be pressed into bricks
fit for use as fuel, but the expense of
manufacturing is greater than the profit
accruing, so that plan fell through. Now,
however, a locomotive has been con
structed that will use this waste as fuel
without any special preparation, except
screening. It is expected that over 100,-
000 tons will be used this year and when
stationary engines get to use the waste,
those immense black mounds will rapidly
disappear from the landscape of Pennsyl
vania.
It is stated that France and England
have accepted Austria’s view of the
Rothschild loan ; that Rothschild must
redeem prior loans amounting to £1,400,-
000 in order to have first security on the
surrender of the Khedival estate. Aus
tria and Germany will accept Anglo-
French representatives in the commis
sion of liquidating, and resulting control
over Egyptian financial administration.
This agreement, if accomplished, removes
the threatenened hitch in the Anglo-
French scheme. The Forte and Sultan
are spending their whole time over the
reform question and the demands of En-
gland. The position of the other powers
is necessarily one of reserve in the ques
tion, which primarily concerns England
and Turkey, and in which marked inter
ference would tend to embroil rather
than clear matters. Still, as regards
Austria and Germany, it may he taken
for granted that their influence is being
exerted in support of the demand for
beginning reforms as well as toward pre
venting any collision. As to joining
eventually in measures of coercion, no
invitation has yet been addressed to these
powers. In this respect there has, there-
fore, been no occasion for giving an opin
ion on the subject. The French and
Italian Cabinets are more than usually
reserved on the question, while the Rus
sian attitude in a difference between En
gland and Turkey cannot for a moment
be doubted. Differences of that kind
have always been regarded by Russia as
a most efficient lever for promoting her
political designs in Turkey—a lever sure
to be applied on the present occasion if
the complication last long enough to give
her an opportunity.
Many people throughout the south
will be pained to learn of the death of
Dr. Loviek Pierce, which occurred in
the home of his son at Sparta, Ga., on Nov.
RISING FAWN, HAUL COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 1879.
lltli. Dr. Pierce was the oldest Methodist
preacher in th<y United States. He has
held every office in the ministry except
bishop. He gave to the church, how
ever, a bishop in the person of his son,
George F. Pierce, who is to-day one of
ts most powerful leaders. George F.
Pierce was admitted to the ministry at
the first Georgia conference in Macon,
January 5, 18311. His career is of more
recent date and is a par t of contemporary
Methodist history. Dr. Pierce has been a
delegate to every general conference of the
Methodist church, and in 1848 was the
fraternal messengt r sent to the northern
general conference, but was refused ad
mission and recogn itiou. In 1874 he was
one of the three sent in response to those
who came to the southern general con
ference at Louisville. He was unable
to gs> to the confori >nce north, but wrote
a memorable letter upon the fraternal
relations of the chinches. In May,
1874, Bishop Pierce was in Louisville,
attending the general conference, and
last year he was presetit at the general
conference in Atlanta. One of the most
notable incidents of the conference in
Louisville was a little speech he made in
connection with the transaction of some
conference business. The aged bishop
said:
“My B enjoyed Brethren : I stand
before you rather as a marvel in the his
tory of Methodist jrroachers. It would
ne very unbecoming in me to congratu
late you on account of my presence with
you, hut it is Fight that I should con
gratulate myself on being permitted to
see this very certainly the last general
conference I shall ever attend. I have
been greatly honore d—more certainly
than I have ever deseirved. I have never
been left out since the time of my eligi
bility as a delegate. I have never done
much. I have always felt inclined to
retire rather than make myself bold and
prominent. I had no expectation, when
it was announced to me that I was elected
to this general conference, that I could
be present with you. It may be consid
ered as the first instance in history, at least
in that of our own ministry, that a man
in his ninetieth year has traveled six
hundred miles and occupied his seat
daily in a body like this: but God
conferred upon me this very remarkable
blessing.”
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Jackson, Tenn., has a coal famine.
Cartersville, Ga v is to have two cot
ton-factories.
Corn is worth $1 per bushel in Goliad
county, Texas.
Blight is affecting the orange trees in
southwest Louisiana.
The cotton presses of Atlanta are
working day and night.
Union City, Tenn., has just started a
bank, with $50,000 capitol.
There was si state convention of spir
itualists in Texas last week.
Savannah, Ga., received seven thou
sand hales of cotton Tuesday.
Grasshoppers have done incalculable
injury to the wheat crop of Texas.
Chattanooga’s population has increased
1,301 during the past twelve months.
Lady compositors an l employed in the
offices of a number of Southern newspa
pers.
The city bonds of Savannah, S. C.,
have advanced 3.1)0 per cent, since Au
gust.
San Antonio, Texas, is to have a pat
ent gas-machine in the Alamo, with 300
lamps.
McKendree Church, Nashville, which
was recently burned, is to be rebuilt at
once.
The editor of the Key West ( Fla.)
Dispatch, a colored man is in jail on the
charge of robbery.
Judge Lochrane, of Atlanta, gets $lO,-
000 a year as attorney for the Pullman
Palace Car company.
Warren county, Mississippi, in three
years and nine months has reduced her
indebtedness $114,095.
The young ladies of Frankfort, Ky.,
not to lie behind the times have organ
ized a cooking club.
Atlanta has eight banking institutions,
not including Jim Banks, who is a sep
arate institution of his own.
Increased attention is being given to
fish culture in Virginia. There are now
three hatching houses in the state.
Colonel E. Richardson, of Jackson,
Miss., has given $2,000 for the improve
ment of the cemetery in that city.
A German colony has settled in Es
cambia county, Fla., uear the Pensacola
railroad, to eHgage in sheep raising.
The Americas, ( Ga.), Recorder thinks
that cattle-raising will supersede cotton
growing to a great extent in that section.
The Houston and Texas Central rail
road is receiving new steel rails with!
whibh to replace those of iron now in
use.
An extra session of the Florida legis
lature, to consider the proposition of the
Florida ship canal, will probably be held
soon.
The scarcity of water on the route of
the Texas Central railroad is so great
as to interfere with the regularity of
trains.
The Augusta, Ga., cotton mills havea
capital of SIIOO,OOO, and pay a dividend
of twenty-eight per cent, on the money
invested.
The Whig records the death in Rich
mond, Va, of Capt. C. F. Pardigan,
“ Faithful to the Fight, Foarlexx Against the Wrong.”
a noted French teacher and ex-Confeder
ate soldier.
There are thirteen thousand volume*
belonging to the North Carolina IS t ate
Library, more than the library building
affords room for.
The New Orleans papers call upon the
police of that city to abate the nu isance,
caused by the illegal sale of lottery tick
ets on the streets.
The court-house at Opelika, Georgia,
was fired by incendiaries Tuesday night,
but the flames were discovered in time
to prevent any damage.
The progressive towns in Georgia are
striving to secure the location of the
State Normal College provided for by
the last legislature.
A number of influential newspapers in
the south are advocating smaller farms
and better cultivation as the surest way
to success and prosperity.
Handsboro, Mins., is furnishing Louis-'
iana stock-raisers with blooded sheep.
The town is also making preparations to
start a cotton and woolen factory.
Between 000 and 800 laborers are now
engaged in the construction of the Owen
boro and Nashville railroad between
Adairsville and Rusaelville, Ky.
The hemp factories at Lexington, Ivy.,
have closed on account of a regulation
of the railroad companies raising the
cost of transportation for dress heinped.
Farmers in Chattahoochie and Stew
art counties, Georgia, complain of a
great scarcity of labor, and the cotton
crop threatens to be diminished in con
sequence.
Louisiana sugar-planters are elated
over the fact that the European beet
sugar crop for the present year is
twenty-five or thirty per cent. Inflow the
average.
Memphis Appeal: The city is becom
ing haunted with drummers. They now
think Memphis is a great city, although
during the epidemic they gave her a wide
berth.
Flemingsburg ( Ky.) Times: We have
no big pumpkins, but D. R Hinton has
a gourd that is 104 years old. It was
brought from England to Virginia in the
year 1775.
The Little Rock gas company has re
fused to furnish gas to the city for its
streets and public buildings until the
city puts an end to its indebtedness to the
company.
In Lonoke county, Ark., last week, a
AlllHTpl Vuxivr Cun
of the Peace, and Pink Saunders, result
ed in the shooting of the latter. Death
occurred instantly.
The past summer in Key West, Fla.,
was the healthiest which the inhabitants
of that city have experienced in. thirty
years. The mortality was less by one
third than in any year since 1861.
Mr. W. C. Cotton, of Harris county,
Ga., raised a stalk of cotton this season
that is now bearing nine hundred and
eighty-seven bolls. The cotton is the
Dickson variety.
The Catletsburg Dem., says that Wm.
Christian, of Lawrence county, claims
to have fallen lieir to Fountain square,
in Cincinnati, and that be has refused
$140,000 for his interest.
Frank Smith of Fayette county Ky.,
has shipped to New York for the eastern
market one hundred head of cattle that
averaged 1,800 pounds. Four head
averaged 2,120 pounds.
Savannah News: Pensacola is elated
because she owns the steamship Escam
bia, of the capacity of 6,500 bales of cot
ton, which is intended to ply regularly
between that port and Liverpool.
Ex-Governor Alcorn is building a fine
residence on his home plantation, in
Jonestown, Coahoma county, Miss. When
finished it will be one of the finest and
best arranged dwelings in the State.
A colored woman died at New Orleans
the other day whose age was given at 100
years by the coroner, but she was sup
posed by those who knew her best to
have been at least thirty years older.
Columbus Times: Some of our citi
zens have already commenced to sow
oats for the spring crop. Efforts will be
made to retain the reputation or raising
the finest oat crops in southwestern Geor
gia.
According to the Banner, the year’s
operations of the Nashville cotton fac
tory, closing on the 30th of September,
indicate considerable prosperity. The
amount of wages paid was $2,807.90, and
the number of yards of cloth produced
was 5,424,927.
Little Rock, (Ark.) Democrat: The
jury in the Tom Davis murder ease was
hung by a colored man, reported to be a
barber. The other jurors were white.
The prisoner was a colored man, the vie
tim a white man.
Holly Springs, (Miss.) Reporter: The
dedication of the monument, erected to
the memory of Rev. Fat her Oberti and
the six Sisters of Bethlehem Academy,
who died of yellow fever in this city in
1878, took place Monday.
The News says that a young man
named Randolph Watts, of Savannah,
Ga., who recently appropriated $1,350 of
his employer’s money, and left very sud
denly, has returned and voluntarily giv
en himself up to the authorities.
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion : In the death
of Paul A. Botto, of the Natchez Demo
crat, the press of Mississippi, has lost
one of its worthiest members. He was
born in Italy in 1840, but has resided in
Mississippi since his childhood.
Little Rock ( Ark.) Gazette: Sever
al wood cases came up before the United
States Court yesterday. Cutting wood
from government lands has caused a
great deal of trouble, and as ignorance
of the law excuses no man, the penalty
is rigidly enforced.
New Orleans Picayune: The British
steamship Ashburn, Capt. Hall, was
cleared yesterday for Liverpool with a
cargo of 7,120 bales of cotton, 1,378 sacks
of oil cake and 1,080 pieces staves. This
is the largest cargo of cotton ever ex
ported on any one vessel from this port.
One of the brightest young lawyers in
Arkansas, J. P. Woods, of Johnson
county, has been sentenced to the peni
tentiary for stealing a pistol. The pis
tol was taken while he was drunk, but
the worst feature in the case was that
Woods did not tell that he had the pis
tol after he became sol>er.
Charleston News : The United States
Government employes are removing
10,000 tons of granite from the quarries
near Columbia to Wilmington N. C., to
be used upon the public works in that
harbor, it is greatly to be regretted
that this stone can not be used upon the
Charleston jetties simply because there
is no communication by railroad to the
water’s edge.
Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen: The sur
plus agricultural products of Giles coun
ty this year will reach! $1,000,000, as
follows: Wheat, $200,000; cotton, $600,-
000; mules, hogs and beef, $200,000,
This, with a population of 32,000, gives
us nearly S3OO cash per capital for every
,man, woman and child, black and white
in the county. Certainly there is life
in the old land yet.
One of the unsung heroes of the Mem
phis plague is John Walsh, an undertak
er there, who has remained pluckily at
his post for two years. At times he has
been left absolutely without assistance
>and at times he has buried 150 bodies in
one day.
A young lady, Miss Caledonia Linton,
Texas, residing on Cottonwood Creek,
while walking in the woods met a large
alligator. She got a rope, tied it around
the alligator’s neck and dragged it two
miles to her home. The brute came
near striking her several times.
The Georgia goldmines yield $1,000,000
a year. The Magruder mine, just in the
edge of Lincoln county, is worked day
and night, and yields 100 pennyweights
of gold per h#ur, or SBOO a day, and the
Georgia papers think that their State
will eventually rival Colorado’s mineral
richness.
Memphis Ledger: To be collared by
an official and charged $10.25 every time
he comes here, makes a commercial tour
ist roar, and some get off in a hurry,
■our came in a few nights since, and up
on seeing how it was, they never un
packed, and the next train carried them
out of town.
*• tl. CHy IRV llfUCll
bv two trifling women, each the mother
of several children, was oth
er night, and three littleJehilcTren per
ished. The women are Jmingly suspect
ed of having started the fire. One of the
women was once before imprisoned for a
similar crime.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: L. F.
Johnson meta singularly sad and tragi
cal death at Washington and Lee Col
lege, Va., last tiittmlav. He and an in
timate friend Poigner were play
ing croquet began quarreling,
and Poigner struck Johnson lightly on
the back of Uie head with a croquet mal
let. Johnson died a few hours after.
The grief of As brothers and of his unfor
tunate slayerxvas heartrendering. Poig
ner is in jail.
Master Joseph. Brand, son of Mr. E.
M. Brand, of Logansville, La., was the
victim of a most shocking accident at
his father’s gin in that place on Tuesday
of hist week. While putting some tur
pentine upon the band leading from the
steam engine to the gin, to prevent its
slipping, his left arm was caught and so
torn and mangled that it necessitated the
amputation of the limb near the shoul
der. The lad suffered most excrucia-
tingly and died shortly afterwards.
Brownsville (Tenn.) States: Last
spring, a colored man in this county
rented a place and planted a little crop.
He had but one mule, and that turned up
its legs and died just as the cotton com
menced coming up. In sore trouble he
applied to his merchant for advice and
help. A mule was lwught for sixty-five
dollars and the crop was faithfully
worked, gathered and sold. The colored
man has paid his rent—one hundred dol
lars—paid for his summer’s supplies, paid
for his mule and has about three hundred
dollars left.
Maysville ( Ky.) Republican : Last
Saturday an aged and decrepit woman,
carrying upon her back an idiotic child,
about ten years old, passed through this
city on her way to Kansas City, where
she expects to join her husband, who
left her for that place years ago. She
Mas an object of pity and commiseration
as she trudged along with her burden
upon her back, on her long and weary
tramp, depending upon the charity of
strangers fora subsistence. She said she
was from Martin county. After remain
ing over Sunday at the station-house,
resting and recuperating her strength,
she started again on Monday morning
for her destination.
Mr. S. Brocker, one of the establishers
of the Little Rock Democrat and for
several years connected with the Gazette,
died of dropsy on November 9th. He
was a native of Cumberland, Md., and
was about 58 years of age. He served
throughout the civil war as an officer in
the confederate light artillery, and was
a major commanding a battalion at the
close. In the Brooks-Baxter trouble in
1874 he was appointed brigadier-gener
al. He was for several years secretary
and grand master of the Masons in Ar
kansas.
Dr. M. F. Stephenson in Gainesboro
Southern: “One of the most important
discoveries has recently been made by
Professor Hayden, six miles northeast of
the city, in Harrington vein, of chloride
and bromide of silver, the first found in
Georgia, and gives promise of immense
value. The range of assays of silver go
into the hundreds, and the gold will
give from twenty to forty dollars per
ton. There are three veins in this neigh
borhood which are argentiferous, viz:
“ Harris lode,” the Kelton vein and the
Harrington vein; in addition to which is a
ledge of white marble, and near by, on
Dr. Ham’s land, is a dyke of porphyry;
associated with it you find a vein of
magnetic iron and manganese.
In the last number of the Monroe,
(Ga.) Advertiser, Dr. A. C. Rogers pays
the following tribute to one of his former
slaves: Aunt Clara Rogers, one of the
best and most unexceptional colored
women the writer ever knew, died last
week She was a faithful and true ser
vant in slavery, obedient, honest, confid
ing and lovinsr: true to her master and
mistress, and a kind nurse. There was
not one of the children that did not love
her. She nursed them all; cared for them,
and called them her children; and woe to
the darkey that dared to offend one of
them. After freedom she was the same
kind and faithful friend and servant,
living with her former mistress most of
the time, and loving her and her children
as in days of yore. Nothing existed
among them alfbut the kindest words
and feelings. When her mistress sicken
ed and died, she sat by her bedside to
wait on her and see the last breath de
part, and then she wept with the chil
dren and lamented her death as one of
them. Her disease was the fatal and
tormenting cancer, which she Imre with
calmness, fortitude and resignation. She
aid all her trust was in God, and exhort
ed her husband, kindred and friends to
meet her in heaven. For two days before
she died, she refused to take any more
morphine to alleviate her sufferings,
which were very great, saying she wished
to die in her senses, which she did.
Speaking kindly and lovingly to all pre
sent, and offering her hand to husband
and others when she could no longer
speak. The household she so much loved
now weep for Aunt Clara, and hope to
meet her again on the other side of the
dark river. Farewell departed kind one,
we believe your robe there will lie
shining white.
Mr. L. .T. Dupree, edkorof the Austin,
(Texas) Statesman, thus •rites of a
Georgia town: The Augusta Georgia
News says “the third crop of figs in Ogle
thorpe county is nearly ripe, and there
has not been a fighter quarrel in Lexing
ton since last spring.” It was of this
ancient village that Bob Toombs said
forty years ago that it was “finished and
fenced in fifty years” before his time.
Sic assertion lias to other
*>ii towns Lmt owes paternity to
Bob Toombs. But Lexington is a his
torical spot. Little, lifeless, rose-embow
ered, its shining white cottages and resi
dences going to decay, its store houses
empty, and courthouse a dilapidated
rookery—hapless as its fortunes may be,
and deserted its bar room, where the
News says there “has not been a fight
since last spring,” Lexington is still a
fascinating spot—for an archaeologist.
The voice of Wm. H. Crawford was once
familiar on its streets as was his gigantic
form. He sat, in his old age, on the
bench. His old home is hard by, and
that of Joseph Henry Lumpkin and of
George R. Gilmer and of the builder of
the great public hall of Athens. These
old homes of worth and greatness still
constitute monuments to the ancient
glory of Lexington. Then Tom and
Howell Cobb and Bob Toombs and Bill
Dougherty and .Tack Greer and Alexan
der H. Stephens, were boys, loitering idly
about the village green of Lexington.
No wonder the “third crop of figs this
season ripens in Lexington.” Figs have
less to do there than in any spot of si
lence, white sand, and sunlight and soli
tude on God’s foot stool.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A widow 70 years of age, residing near
Austin, Texas, takes care of a stock
ranch and 300 head of cattle^
Mrs. Charlotte W widow of
ex-Governor Letcher, of Kentucky, died
at Frankfort on the 29th of October.
The whole number of Methodists in
Louisville, Ky., in 1865, was 1,424. The
number at the close of 1878 was 4,882.
John Arnold, of Mineral county, West
Virginia, raised this year ten barrels of
corn from one ear’s planting.
The Ashville Citizen says: President
Fain and Superintendent Herbert Mill
soon have their end of the North (Geor
gia railroad completed.
Wood county, West Virginia, has
shipped this fall 290,000 pounds of
grapes, besides the quantity sold at home,
yielding in all a revenue of SIO,OOO.
A cheap and simple piece of machin
ery has just been invented and is in op
era t ion at Wesehester S. C., which spins
seed cotton Into thread. It is claimed
that this invention will add 100 per
cent, to the profit of the planter, as it
saves him the expense of ginning, baling,
bagging and ties.
“ Dat cullud pussun on de jury, him’s
de man I objec’ to,” said a negro when
put on trial in the Marion, S. C., Court
the other day. Tire black, good man
and true, was unseated, and the prisoner
given acquittal. After his release the
darkey was asked what he had against a
juryman of his own color. “Nuffin at
all. boss,” said he, “but, yesee, I knoMed
if I flattered the prejudus ob de odder
jurymen dat I get off', an’ golly I did.”
Sidney the poet-musician, is
lecturing at the Johns Hopkins Uuiver
sitv, in Baltimore, n “ English Verse,”
the lecture treating especially of Shaks
peare’s verse. Mr. Lanier M ill endeavor
to show the artistic groM th observable
in Shakspearc’s later M-orks, as com
pared with his earlier ones. The final
lecture will make comparisons between
“ The Tempest,” written after 1610, a
“ A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” T
ten about 1590.
TERMS : si.oo perAnnwm, in Advmnee.
NUMBER 4.
riRTCE’S FAME.
Like a quiv’ering, crystal bubble,
Floating on the summer’s air,
Is a maiden’s fame for virtue,
Jewel of all jewels rare.
Ent a breath—and gone the bubble.
Never more to be the same;
Cut. a whispered word of scandal—
Hone the maiden’s spotless fawuk
False may be the direful rumor;
l’ure in heart mav be the maid;
But a heartless world will whisper,
And the forfeit must be paid.
Warts on Amimals.
Inquiries are made fora cure for warts
of different kinds on horses, mules and
cattle. Many remedies are prescribed—
many barbarous and cruel to the ami
mal. I will give you a remedy often
tried and never known to fail: Anoint
the wart three times with clean, fresh
hog’s lard, about two days between times.
I have had warts on my horses—bleed
ing warts of large size, rattling warts
and seed warts, to the number of mor*
than one hundred on one horse’s head,
I have never been able to find the warts
for the third application of the lard.
All disappear after the second applica
tion.
I have sent this prescription to several
agricultural papers, hoping it would be of
some use to farmers. But they all
seem slow to believe; perhaps because
the remedy i3 at hand and costs nothing.
It ought to be at the head of the veterinary
column of every agricultural paper. I
own I was slow to believe myself, but
having a fine young mare with large
bleeding warts that covered part of
the bridle and girths with blood when
ever used, I thought there would be no
harm in trying la rd on them. When the
mare was got up for the third applica
tion there were no warts and the scars
are there now after more than fitteen
years, with very little change.
Right here I may say that for cuts,
bruises, galls, etc., the application of fresh
lard—either for man or beast—is worth
more than any patent liniments in use.
It will relieve pain instantly and does
not irritate raw flesh, as all liniments do.
Let all papers wishing to benefit the
farmer ana his friend, the horse, copy
this—not once, but often enough that all
mav learn.— V. P. Richardson.
The Biter Bit.
A Sheffield, Eng., paper tells a good
story of a revenue officer and a chemist
in that town. The former wanted to
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him to sell and deliver two gallons of
methylated spirits. The chemist sold
the spirits and got his cash. He “ jumped”
to the officer’s Httle game, however, and
knowing that though he could sell two
gallons, he could not legally deliver
more than one per day, sent half the
quantity to his customer. Then that
officer was angry, and wanted to know
why the whole had not been sent. “Oh,”
said the chemist, quietly, “ don’t be
alarmed; you’ll get the rest to-morrow.”
The officer, seeing he was “dropped
upon,” got angrier still, and wanted his
money back. Not so—the man of medi
cine was fairly satisfied with the transac
tion as it stood, and the customer has
more methylated spirits than he knows
very well what to do with.
Raisin Making.
The United States is the greatest
raisin consuming country in the world,
and uses annually more raisins than the
whole of Europe. This market is mainly
supplied from Spain, the raisins known as
“Malagas” being considered the best.
They come from a comparatively nar
row strip of country in the south of
Spain, which has hitherto been regarded
as surpassing all other regions for raisins
of that character. The annual yield of
Malaga grapes averages 2,450,000 boxes
of thirty pounds each. It sometimes
reaches 2,500,000 boxes, and last season
about 2,000,000 boxes were marketed.
Of this enormous yield the United States
takes fully one-half, on which it pays a
duty—as on all other raisins—of two and
a half cents per pound. The American
raisins are made from a white grape, the
“Muscat of Alexandra,” to the raising of
which the soil and climate of a large
portion of California are well adapted.
Type-Setting Machines.
An English newspaper, the Liverpool
Daily News, has for a year past used four
type-setting and seven type-distributing
machines, it a saving of about $2,000
per annum, as compared with the same
amount of work by hand. The com
positors working the machine earn better
wages than their fellows at the case,
while the saving to the establishment is
over thirty per cent. The machines are
used for every kind of composition ex
cept tabulated and displayed work, the
matter being set, spaced and justified
with greater accuracy than by han'
labor. Each machine cost $750, and ♦’
average speed is 6,000 ems per hour.
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be a great mistake and agrea*
if the return of good timer
back the old fervor for p'
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