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THE LINCOLNTONNEWS «*
J. D. COLLEY & CO.,
VOL. I.
WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENTS.
LORENZO SMITH & BRO.,
-OF
WASHINGTON, GA..
IBS OITKEINQ K)B IBB FALL TRADE
CincinnatiBuggies
AT $50 TO $75.
Columbus Buggies
AT $100 TO $160.
Baggies and Carriages of other makes and
grades at various prices. Also
STUDEBAKER WAGONS
At $66 and $70.
TENNESSEE WAGONS
At $60 and $65
WEBSTER WAGONS
$60 to $75.
THREE 3-4 WAGONS
AT $53.
Ole-Horse Wapi,wim Seat,
Own Make, at $40.
KEMP'S MANURE SPREADERS, GRAI.\
DRILLS, ALBION SPRING TOOTH
HARROWS, WINDMILLS,
And a General Assortment of
Agricultural Implements
Also Single Harness from $9 up. Double
Harness, parts of Harness, Hubs, Spoke;
and Rims.
1 Good Buggy SHmessfor $60.
Our similar prices house are guaranteed the Sontb. to be Give as low a?
any in us a
tall. Correspondence solicited.
0. M. MAY ?
WASHINGTON, GA.,
GROCER,
AND DEALER IN
tX3 s=cj
The liberal patronage which 1 have ob¬
tained from the people of Wilkes and adjoin¬
ing counties, I intend to hold by continuing
to sell my goods at the very lowest prices,
and by fair dealing in all things. Also
C. M. MAY & CO.
Will carry on a General Mercantile business
at Double Branches, Lincoln Co., Ga.
MERCIER’S STORE
A First-Glass Store in Every
Respect.
A full stock of General Meicnandiae always
on hand.
J. N. Mercier.
T. H. REMSEN’S
STOKE!
FINE WINES aM WHISKIES.
GENUINE MONOGRAM,
THE AUGUSTA, ELBEBTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD.
ESTABLISHED 1872.
LOWE & BRO.,
RETAIL DEALERS IH
FINE LIQUORS
OP ALL SORTS,
AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF
NORTH CAROLINA CORN WHISK!
APPLE AND PEACH BRANDY, FINE
WINES, RUM, GIN, ALE, BEER,
ETC., ETC , ETC., ETC.
TOBACCO AND CIGARS.
WASHINGTON. GA.
AUGUSTA ADVERTISEMENTS.
BOBT. H. MAT. ▲. B. GOODYEAB
ROB’T H. MAY & C0.’S
GRAND EXHIBITION
OF
And PLANTATION WAGONS.
ALL SIZES.
The largest and most complete assortment
of One and Two-Horse Vehicles ever shown
in ibis section. All first-class work, and will
be offered for the next' sixty days at prices
way below their value and lower than can be
duplicated.
Do not lose this opportunity. On exami¬
nation this work will prove to yon that it
cannot be purchased elsewhere at the prices
we offer.
Harness, Also, a Umbrellas, large stock Lap of Robes, Saddles, Blankets, Bridles
Calf Skins, Sole and Harness Leather, Rub¬
ber and Leather Belting, Trunks. Bags,
Hubs, Harness, Spokes, Wagon Reins, Harness, Axles, Trace Lowest Chains,
Cash Pbices. etc., at
THE EOAD CART
(PATENTED.)
The safest, lightest and most easy riding
two-wheeled vehicle ever produced. Of ail
the road carts made, use and experience has
demonstrated these to be the best. The
Adjustable Balance is a most valuable fea
ture of our Road Carts. Buy no other. Price
$50.
N. B.—We warrant all the vehicles we sell.
Remember onr prices are the lowest.
ROB’T H. MAY & CO.,
BROAD STREET,
Opposite Georgia R. R. Bank
AUGUSTA, GA.
ORDER YOUR
Saw His, Cane Mills
Grrist Mills,
And Plantation and Mill Machinery
Engines and Boilers, Cotton Screws,
Shafting, Mill Pulleys, Hangers, Journal
Boxes, Gearing, Gudgeons,
Turbine Waterwheels,
Gin Gearing, Circular Jndson’s Governors, Diss
ton’s Saws, Gammers and
Files, Belting and Babbit Metal
and Brass Fittings, Globe
and Cheek ValveB and
Whistles,
Guages, Iron and Brass Castings, Gin Ribs,
Iron Fronts, Balconies and Fence Rail¬
ing.
Geo. R. Lombard & Go.,
FOREST CITY
Foundry and Machine .Works,
NEAR THE WATER TOWER,
1014 to 1026 Fenwick Street,
AUGUSTA, GA.
{3?~Repairing promptly done at Lowea
prices.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GA.
MRS. W. M. THOMAS, Pbopbxetbess
This hotel, so well known to the citizens of
Lincoln and adjoining counties, is located
in the eentor of the business portion of
Augusta. Convenient to Postomce, Tele¬
graph oflice and Depot, and other induce¬
ments to the public such as only first-class
hotels con afford.
LINCOLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1883.
The Little Ones.
Oh 1 when at dawn the children wake,
And patter np and down the stairs,
The flowers and leaves a glory take,
The rosy light a splendor shares
That nevermore these eyes would see,
If my sweet ones were gone from me.
And when at eve they watch and wait
To fold me in their arms so white,
My burdens, whether small or great,
Are charmed away by calm delight;
And, shutting out the world, I live
The purest moments life can give.
But when at bedtime ’round me kneel
Wee, tender, loving, white-robed forms,
With hands upraised iu fond appeal—
Ah! then are hushed life’s weary storms ;
And heaven seems very near to me,
With my Bweet darlings ’round my knee!
THE CURFEW HEROINE.
lt lacked quite half an hour of Gur
few toll. The old bell-ringer came
from under the wattled roof of his cot¬
tage stoop and stood with uncovered
head in the clear, sweet-scented air.
He had grown blind and deaf in the
service, but his arm was as muscular
as ever, and he who listened this day
marked no faltering in the heavy me
talic throbs of the cathredral bell. Old
Jasper had lived through many changes.
He had tolled out his notes of mourn¬
ing for good Queen Bess, and with
tears scarcely dry he had rung the glad
tidings of the coronation of James.
Charles I. had been crowned, reigned,
and expiated his weakness before all
England in Jasper’s time ; and now he,
who under his army held all the com¬
monwealth in the hollow of his hand,
ruled as more than monarch, and still
the old man, with the habit of a long
life upon him, rang his matin in sor¬
row.
Jasper stood alone now, lifting his
dimmed eyes up to the softly dappled
sky.
The walls of his memory seemed so
written over—so crossed and recrossed
by the annals of he years that had
Cone before—that there seemed little
mom for anything in the present.
Little recked he that Cromwell’s spears
men were camped on the moor beyond
the village; that Cromwell himself
rode with his guardsmen a league
way ; he only knew that the bell that
had been rung m the tower when Wil
ham the Conqueror made curfew a law
had been spared by Puritan and Round
head, and that his arm for sixty years
had never failed him at eventide.
He was moving with slow step
towards the gate, when a woman came
hurriedly in from the street and stood
beside him ; a lovely woman, l$it with
face so blanched that it seemed carved
in the whitest of marble with all its
roundness and dimples. Iier great
solemn eyes were raised to the aged
face in pitiful appeal, and the lips were
forming words that he could not under¬
stand.
“Speak up, lass ; I am deaf and can¬
not hear your clatter.”
The voice raised, and th* hands
clasped and unclasped, and rung them¬
selves together palm and palm.
“For Heaven’s sake, Jasper, do not
ring the curfew to-night.”
“What, not ring curfew! Ye must
be daft, lassie.”
“Jasper, Jor sweet Heaven’s sake,
for my sake, for one night in all your
long life, forget to ring the bell. Fail
this once, and my lover shall live,
whom Cromwell says shall die at cur¬
few toll. Do you hear? my lover,
Richard Temple. See, Jasper, here is
money to make your old age happy. I
sold my jewels that the Lady Maud
gave me, and the gold shall all be yours
for one curfew.”
“Would ye bribe me, Lily de Yere?
Ye’re a changeling. Ye’ve na the
blood of the Plantagenets in ye’re veins
as ye’re mother had. What, corrupt
the bell-ringer under her Majesty, good
Queen Bess! Not for all the gold that
Lady Maud could bring me! YVhatis
your lover to me? Babes have been
bom and strong men have died before
now at the ringing of my bell. Awa’!”
And out on tho village green, with
the solemn shadows of the heavens
lengthening over it, a strong man
awaited the curfew to toll for his
death. He stood, handsome and brave
and tall—taller by an inch than the
tallest pikeman who guarded him.
What had he done that ho should
die? Little it mattered in those days,
when the sword that the great Crom¬
well yielded was so prone to fall, what
he or others had done. lie had been
seribe to the late Lord up at the castle,
and Lady Maud, forgetting that man
must woo and woman must wait, had
given her heart to him without asking,
while the gentle Lily De Vere, distant
kinswoman and poor companion to iier,
had, without seeking, found the treas¬
ures of his true love, and held them
fast. Then he had joined the army.
But a scorned woman's hatred had
reached him even there. Enemies and
deep plots had compassed him about
and conquered him. To-night ho wa s
to diet - ' -
The beautiful world laid as a vivid
picture before him. The dark green¬
wood above the rocky hill where Robin
Hood and hi3 merry men had dwelt;
the frowning castle with its drawbridge
and square towers; the long stretch of
moor with the purple shadows upon it;
the green, straight walks of the vil¬
lage; the birds overhead, even the
daisies at his feet he saw. But, ah!
more vividly than all, he saw the great
red sun with its hazy veil lingering
above the trees, as though it pitied him
with more than human pity.
He was a God-fearing and God-serv¬
ing man. He had long made his peace
with Heaven. Nothing stood between
him and death—nothing rose pleading
between him and those who were to
destroy him, but the sweet face of Lily
de Yere, whom he loved. She had
knelt at Cromwell’s feet and pleaded
for his life. She had wearied Heaven
with her prayers, but all without avail.
Slowly now the great sun went down.
Slowly the last red rim was hid behind
the greenwood. Thirty seconds more
and his soul would be with his God.
The color did not forsake his cheeks.
The dark rings of hair lay upon a warm
brow. It was his purpose to die as
martyrs and brave men die. AY hat was
life that he should cling to it ? He al
most felt the air pulsate with the first
heavy roll of the death knell. But no
sound came. Still facing the soldiers
with his clear gray eyes upon them, he
waited. The crimson banners in the
west were paling to pink. The kine
had ceased their lowing and had been
gathered into the brick-yards.
All nature had sounded her curfew;
but old Jasper was silent.
The bell-ringer with his gray head
yet bared had traversed half the dis
tance that lay between his cottage and
the ivy-covered tower, when a form
went flitting past him, with pale,
shadowy robes flitting around it, and
hair that the low western lights touched
and tinted as w ith a halo.
.-Ah, Huldah, Huldah!” the old man
muttered; “how swift she fliesl I will
come soon, dear. My work is almost
done.” Huldah was the good wife, who
had gone from him in her eaily woman
j hood his long and for life. whom But he the had fleeting mourned form ail
was not Huldah’s, it was Lily de Vere,
hurried by a sudden and desperate pur
pose towards the cathedral.
“So help me God, curfew shall not
ring to-night! Cromwell and ins dra
goons come this way. Once more
will kneel at his feet and plead.”
She entered the ruined arch. She
wrenched from its fastenings the carved
and worm-eaten door that barred the
way to the tower. She ascended with
flying and frenzied feet the steps; her
heart lifted up to God for Richard’s
deliverance from peril. The bats flew
out and shook the dust of centuries
from the black carvings. As she went
up she caught glimpses of the interior
of the great building, with its groined
roof, its chevrons and clustered columns.
Up—-still up—beyond the rainbow
tints thrown by the stained glass
across her death-white brow; up—still
up—past open arcade and arch, with
griffin and gargoyls staring at her from
bracket and cornice with all the hide¬
ousness and mediaeval carving—the
stairs, flight l>y flight, growing frailer
beneath her young feet, now but a slen¬
der network between her and the outer
world, but still up.
Her breath was coming short and
gasping. She saw through an open
space old Jasper cross the road at the
foot of the tower. Oh, how far! The
seconds were treasures which Crom¬
well, with all his blood-bought common¬
wealth, could not purchase from her.
Up—ah !—there, just above her, with
its great brazen mouth and wicked
tongue, the bell hung.
A worm-eaten block for a step, and
one hand had clasped itself above the
clapper, the other prepared, at the
tremble, to rise and clasp its mate, and
the feet to swing off, and thus she
waited. Jasper was old and slow, but
he was sure, and it came at last. A
faint quiver, and the young feet swung
from their rest and the tender hands
clasped for more than their pre¬
cious life the writhing thing. There
was a groaning and creaking of the
rude pulleys above, and then the
strokes came heavy and strong. Jas¬
per’s hand had not forgot its cunning,
nor his arm its strength. The tender,
soft form was swung and dashed to and
fro ; but she clung to and caressed tho
cold, cruel thing. Let one stroke come,
and a thousand might follow, for its
fatal work would be done. She
wreathed her white arms about it, so
that at every pull of the great ropes it
crushed into the flesh, it tore her, and
wounded and bruised; but there, in the
solemn twilight, the brave woman
swung and fought with the curfew, and
God gave her victory.
! The old bell-ringer said to himself:
“Aye, Huldah, my work is done. The
I pulleys are getting too heavy for my
old arms. My ears, too, have failed
me. I dinna hear one stroke of the
curfew. Dear old bell, it is my ears
that have gone false, and not you.
Farewell, old friend.”
And just beyond the worn pavement
a shadowy form again went flitting
past him. There were drops of blood
upon the white garments, and the face
was like the face of one who walked in
her sleep, and the hands hung wounded
and powerless at her side.
Cromwell paused with his horsemen
under the dismantled May-pole before
the village green. He saw the man
who was to die at sunset standing up
in the dusky air, tall as a king and
beautiful as Absalom. He gazed with
knitted brow and angry eye; but his
lips did not give utterance to the quick
command that trembled on them, for a
girl came flying towards him. Pike
man and archer stepped aside to let her
pass. She threw herself upon the turf
at his horse’s feet; she lifted her bleed¬
ing anl tortured hands to his gaze, and
onco more poured out her prayer for
the life of her lover; with trembling
lips she told him why Richard still
lived—why the curfew had not
sounded.
Lady Maud, looking out of her lat.
ticed window at the castle, saw the
great Protector dismount, lift the faint
j n g f orm j n armSi an( i bear her to
her lover. She saw the guards release
the prisoner, and she heard the shouts
of joy at his deliverance. Then she
welcomed the night that shut the scene
out from her envious eye and sepultured
her in its gloom,
At the next matin bell old Jasper
died, and at curfew toll he was laid
beside the wife who had died in his
youth, but the memory of whom had
been with him always.
------ ,
jj tre fiHeir
if we knew that every particle of
stale> mU sty, or adulterated food not
onlv poisoned but weakened bodv ' and
brain;
Ifwe knew that a musty egg for
breakfast might cause us to make a
bad bargain before dinner;
' if we knew that the milk of one un
. healthy or feverish cow will infect with
* its distemper the milk of twentv other
Cc ,,
j If we knew that our coal
! were continually sending forth metallic
j j vapors If unfit knew to breathe;
we that every useless mus
cular motion, the result of habit, such
j as leg swinging while sitting down oi
walking nervously about to no purpose
j is in expenditure of nerve force for
| naught as is money - idlv - flung into the
j -
sea;
j If « e knew that every tight-fitting
binding and compressing garment was
“ the expenditure of strength neees
sary in wearing equivalent tojthe car
rying of pounds of needless weight;
If we knew that the person who can
sit perfectly still and hold his or her
mind directly to the present moment
and the things of the moment, and not
allow it to go straying off in longings
to the place where it most desires its
body to be, was hoarding up strength
to be used as occasion shall require;
If we knew that we who despise
thus the day of small things and go on
in all things as we do now, would in a
few years’ time be vainly applying to
some doctor to tinker up our worn out
bodies;
If we knew that every bodily pain,
every feeling of lassitude, weariness,
whether weariness of the spirit or
weariness of the body, was a reproving
and anmonishing sermon against somo
act of disobedience either near or
rernote;
If we knew how blindly and stupidly
we warred at times against our physical
and mental happiness ;
If we knew that tho mind, which
schemes, j !ans, studies, buys, sells,
makes bargains, builds houses, navi¬
gates ships, gets us into difficulties,
gets us out again, acts in the drama,
paints on the canvas, cuts out of mar
ble the statue, thrills from the platform,
writes the story, fights the battle, dis
covers the continent, directs the voice
in melody, manages the fingers on the
piano, is not an unseen myth but an
invisible power within us built up out
of our bodies, improving as the body
improves and influenced for good or ill,
for quickness or slowless, for keenness
or stupidity by every breath we inhale,
by the quality and purity of what we
buy, by the cleanliness of our bodies,
by the fit and ease of our clothing, by
the presence and influence of the peo¬
ple about us, by our habits of method
and precision or the reverse ;
If we knew, believed and realized
fully all this, what then ?—New York
Graphic.
The famous Garden Gully united
mine at Sandhurst, Australia, has de¬
clared its two hundredth dividend.
The total profits distributed by this
company reach the large sum of'£780,
qqq The product for the last twelve
1 years was twelve<J>ns of gold.
i PRIMITIVE PEOPLE.
The Warlike Little Principality of Vfontene
*ro—Its Women Little More than Beaatn of
Borden—Secret of Ihe Ruler’* Power.
A correspondent of the London
Times, writing from the capital of
1 Montenegro, gives some interesting
facts concerning that country and its
people. He says: The traveler who
wakes up in Cettinje will have diffi¬
culty in. believing that he is in one of
the capitals of Europe. He will look
out of his window down a straggling
street. To his left, rising above the
j cottages of Cettinje he will see the
prince’s schloss. Above the schloss
is the cloister, and above the cloister
the belfry where the heads of decapi¬
tated Turks used to be impaled in days
gone by. To his right he will see the
hospital. Except these buildings all
in Cettinge is squalid and unpictur
esque. And yet to this village minis¬
ters are accredited from the leading
courts of Europe, and the diplomatic
communication between Vienna or
St. Petersburg and Cettinje is even
; more vi g ilact and frequent than that
j between those capitals and ^London,
| If I am asked what is the present
form of government in Montenegro, I
would answer that it Is at once the
most despotic and the most popular in
Europe—despotic, because the will of
the prince is the law of the land, and
popular, because the personal rule of
the prince meets all the wants and
wishes of his people. No sovereign in
Europe sits so firmly on his throne as
the prince of this little state, and no
sovereign is so absolute. The Mon¬
tenegrins have no army; they are
j themselves a standing army. They go
to war with the same zest that an Eng
j lish schoolboy takes to cricket. We
i should have to go back to times before
j the Norman conquest to find an Eng
lishman of the same stamp as the
modern Montenegrin. In the late war
the prince found a Montenegrin of
eighty years of age in the ranks. The
prince told him he was too old to fight;
the man said, “No," and when the
prince insisted, the octogenarian drew
a pistol from his belt and shot himself.
j Ths prince is naturallv proud of ids
subjects, and often speaks of his capi
j j tal as reing more secure than either
Belgrade or Bucharest.
The women of Cettinje are not beau
! tiful, except the princess, and her high
! ; ness confirms me in an opinion I have
\ long formed, that feminine beautv is
j the product of civilization. But how
, can you expect beauty from women I
who are used as beasts of burden bv
the men? From such treatment yo ;
can onlv expect premature age and
! ternatural llgliness The well-grown,!
.
handsome men who are playing at ball
; before the palace of the prince are the
husbands and brothers of the poor
creatures who are carrving wood and
water to their homes'. This 1
j looking man that so civilly accosts us
; j s Navica Cerovio, the father of the
j minister of finance, and a famous war
rior who has slaughtered I do not»know
how many Turks. It seems fitting to
Montenegrins that heroes should rest!
in peace and leave the work to wives
and daughters. Montenegro is not a
wealthy country. A Montenegrin who
is worth £40, all told, would pass here
for well-to-do. They are not ashamed 1
of their poverty. They have too much
sense for that. A relation of the prince
will frankly admit that he is poor; but !
unfortunately, from the highest down
i ward, the Montenegrins expect and
accept gifts from the stranger. They
have not yet reached that point in civi
lization when a man dislikes to receive
favors which he cannot return.
The Montenegrins are the flower and
aristocracy of the Slav race. The Mon
tenegrins have always paid special at
tention to their weapons, but they are j
satisfied with the same plow that their
ancestors used a thousand years ago.
It is hard for a Montenegrin to become
a man of peace. The present postmas
! ter of Cettinje lost his leg in the late
; war. The poor man preferred dying as
j a soldier to living as a civilian with one
j leg, and it was only at the request of
, the princess that he submitted'to am
; putation. Of this lady it is difficult to
! speak too highly. During the war she
i used—in order to give courage to the
sufferers—to be present at operations
which drove every other woman from
| the ward. Iu peace, and at all times,
she is the cultivated lady and mother
of her people.
There are two newspapers published
in Montenegro—one the official journal
and the other a popular medical paper.
Sixty copies of the latter are sold in
Montenegro. When you read the paper
and find that its articles are on the way
to live in health throughout the year,
the evil consequences of wearing ear¬
rings, the proper treatment of infants,
etc., you are surprised, not that so few,
but so many copies of such a paper
should be bought by Montenegrins. It
is earnestly to be hoped that the lauda¬
tions upon soap, which this paper
{Health) contains may have some in
PUBLISHERS.
NO. 17.
fluence on those that read it I regret
to state that after their baptism tha
majority of Montenegrins do not
often come in contact with water, ex¬
cept when it rains.
Perhaps the most interesting insti¬
tution in Cettinje is the tree of justice.
Here the prince sits, and to him come
the meanest of his subjects. Justice is
well administered in Montenegro, but
all who have, or think they have, suf¬
fered wrong, can go direct to the
prince, and the prince will either de¬
cide the case himself or will direct a
new trial. The expression “new trial
is one of such ill-omen in English ears
that I may at once state that Montene¬
grin law is cheap and speedy. It is
needless to add there are no lawyers in
Montenegro. From this patriarchial
tree you see on your right the palace of
the prince, and on the left a grass plot,
on which several Montenegrins are
lazily lounging. T hese persons are the
criminals of the state. They are self
guarded. Should any of these prisoners
think fit to return to his native village
before his term of imprisonment has
expired, he can do so, but he will at
once be recognized and reincarcerated.
It is extremely rare for them to attempt
to escape from the house and grassplot
which has been allotted to them by
their prince. Most of these men are
homicides, but rarely thieves. There
a few female prisoners. I am told the
majority are in prison for murdering
their husbands. As beauty is a flower
that blooms but in civilized climes, so
are marriages for love a product of
civilization. An affair of the heart,
culminating in marriage, is almost un¬
known among southern Sian. In
Bulgaria, in Serna, in Bosnia, in Mon¬
tenegro, the parents arrange these mat¬
ters, and often a maid has not seen her
fnture husband until she meets him at
the altar.
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J ra nee of a hotel in Lewiston Me. The
b ffal ° comfortably tucked
around a rudd ^ 1111(1 dowDy y0aBg ““j
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«" d Harriet was married tins momm^.
" 6 ve started on a “ ttIe ex ^ xlTSlon -
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a Irttle dmner j and we brought a coffee
pot along- Xow ’ we d like to heat the
coffee and havea table to eat the din
Iier on—and P erha P s a UtUe sllgar>n
mUk ’” The landlord led the innocent
P air int0 the di ning-room and seated,
tnem at a table with other guests, and
tke T took tke cover off fbeir little green
box with celerity. They had a glorious
tiaie > eating their doughnuts, carraway
seed > cookies, squash pie and broad
sbces of chc 'js. If their wedding tour
bad taken them to Niagara, and they
were dining at a fashionable hotel,
"Tb the prospects of paying $3.50 per
plate, they could not have eaten or
laughed so heartily. The gray horse
carried home two hearts that raptu
rously beat as one, and as the landlord
saw them ride off he felt almost as well
in the radiance of their happiness as
if they had paid him 75 cents a piece
dinner and 50 cents for stabling,
Introduced Animals.
The bare enumeration of the animal
org anisms that have in various ways
enlarged the area of occupation through
the direct or indirect agency of civilized
maa would occupy the greater portion,
if not the whole of the columns of an
issue of the Record, and if to this were
added the more or less exactly known
data respecting the date and circum¬
stances of their introduction, the
various countries they are distributed
in, and other facts of interest, a thick
quarto volume would not suffice to
contain all. So, leaving out insects
and invertebrates generally, as well as
fishes and reptiles, many species of the
former of which classes have lately
been transplanted with success, we will
confine ourselves to a short mention of
some of the mammala and birds that
have been brought into the hemisphere
we live in. Our domestic .dog, cat,
sheep, goat, ox, pig, ass, horse, fowl,
guinea-fowl, peacock, goose and canary,
are all natives of the Eastern hemis¬
phere; only the turkey is a native,
taken eastward, domesticated and re¬
introduced, just as the Spaniards fig rein¬
troduced the cultivated Indian or
prickly pear (a cactus.) All these
and more man brought, but with them ■
came the black and brown rats and the
common mouse—creatures which live
with man and at his cost, in spite of
all his efforts, aided though he maybe
by cats, dogs, auxiliaries of other car
uiv.erous tribes, and all the parapher¬
nalia of traps and poisonous foods.—,
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