The Weekly Defiance, 1882-10-24

Selma, Ala., has sixty artesian wells. Nashville has a total indebtednes fo $1,526,277.78. Six editors will hold seats in the next Georgia Legislature The city tax in Tallahassee, Florada, is but seven mills on the $lOO. Gadsden, Alabama, has doubled its population in the last twelve months. Georgia's surplus crop of sweet toes will reach 400,000 bushels Wah Hing and Tin Sing, two China Chinamen, - men, Chinamen, have embarked in the grocery bus business - iness business at Nashville. Florida is making preparations to re receive - ceive receive an unusually large number of new settlers this winter. The Georgia prohibitionists have nominated legislative candidates in twenty nine counties. A meteor fell a few days ago near Grange City, Florida, killing a colored women, whom it struck. The waterworks at Hot Springs, Arkansas, are completed, and are said to be the best in the State. Annie/Hubbard, who murdered her child in Colbert county, Ala., goes to the penitentiary for ten years. The Vicksburg Commercial says la laborers - borers laborers were never in such demand in the valley of the Lower Mississippi as now. A complaint comes from several por portions - tions portions of Florida that the orange crop is' .gM&jflk'nut bad, and will be short about «BRlird. ashes of a common weed, known Home in Florida as sickle weed, are almost pure potash, being as strong as 'baking soda. It that the orange crop of xF lorida will this year be worth nearly of 1880, which brought over $672,000. A West Indian has purchased ten acres af ground near Tampa, Fla., which be will plant in mulberries for the pur pose of raising silk-worms. The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers complain that, with a population of from 15,000 to 18,000, they can count upon but one mail per week. A cow fell into a pit near Cedar Key, Fla., and remained there forty T wo days without food or water. When discov discovered - ered discovered the animal presented a pitable pict picture - ure picture of pelt and bones, but was still able to walk. Hr. W. H Bennett, an eccentric citi citizen of Meridian, Miss., died a day or two ago; and his estate, valued at soo,ooo- was left to a negro cook, cut cutting - ting cutting oft his wife and heirs. The will is to be contested. Georgia's corn crop is the largest since 1859, and will reach 30,000,000 bushels. The oat crop reached 8,000,000 bushels, and the wheat crop 5,500,000 bushels. It is thought 1,000,000 bales of cotton will be raised. Mr>.. Ann 1 alley, of Spottsylvania county, Va., aged seventy years and in robust health, became impressed with the idea that she would die at a certain hour on a certain day. She prepared for the anticipated event, and, true to her premonition, her death came. Goldsboro, (N. C.,) Messenger: A pe peculiar - culiar peculiar and frightful disease has appear appeared - ed appeared in Northampton and other counties m the northeastern part of the State. It is called yellow chills or hemorrhagic fever, and is generally fatal in its re results. - sults. results. Persons affected turn yellow and vomit blood. New Orleans will experiment with mesquite wood for paving streets It is a native of Texas, partakes almost of the hardness of iron, is very durable, and it is believed will make a better street than granite. It grows abun abundantly - dantly abundantly in Texas, and can be easily and cheaply transported. Afi-s. Lizzie Walley, convicted at Nashville and sentenced to a term of three years in the penitentiary for al alleged - leged alleged cohabitation with Owen Prentiss, ex-city editor of the World, is said to' be a neice of the distinguished Codfed erate General Bragg. It is hinted that I rentiss will be released on bend, and the case against him will never come to a trial. At Columbus, Texas, about twenty boys, whose ages range from ten to six sixteen - teen sixteen \ears, about six months ago organ organized - ized organized a band of robbers, and since tha thatime - time thatime have been engaged in stealing. Th®? undertook to rob a freight car, w hich led to their discovery. They had a cave abross the river where they de-

Profitable Investments. ' The safest and most profitable invest investment - ment investment that can anywhere be found at this time for money, the use of which is not needed for a few years, is in the purchase of well selected real estate. This general fact probably no intelligent man would dispute, though some men deny the application to particular cases when it does not suit their interests. It is well recognized that real estate falls faster, as a rule, and further when times are good, than any other kind of prop property - erty property of real and solid value. The in intrinsic - trinsic intrinsic value changes on 1 } with the growth of a community or State, or the improvement of means of communication; so that for production or use in residence or in commerce the value may increase rapidly and greatly, but can decrease slowly and moderately. But the price, on the contrary, depends upon a markt t that is more variable than almost any other. At times real estate is who'ly unsaleable, no matter what its real value or its price may be. At other times it is the object of the wilde*t speculation, with a very little refruice to the present legitimate demand. As a consequence when real estate is not wanted, it sells for a song or not at all; but when it is wanted, there is scarcely any limit to its price. Hence, long longheaded - headed longheaded men are always on the alert to get possession of real estate after every period of great depression; to such shrewd purchases the w hole or great part of almost every colossal fortune may be traced. We are just emerging from a period of unexampled prostration. '1 he price of real estate has fallen, as it usually does at such times, in greater ratio than that of almost any other class of property of substantial character. Now, if ever, the purchase of real t state may be considered certain to yield excep exceptionally - tionally exceptionally large profits, if the property is j udicii>usly sei ec ted. Another fact, which, as a general one no intelligent man will deny, is that the advance in the |>rice, as a rule, is certain to be greater in Western than in Eastern real estate. Western States and cities are growing rapidly; Eastern slowly. Every man knows the fact, and immense volumes of statistics could be given to prove or illustrate it; and yet there are some men who refuse to admit the obvious consequence. New York City is growing in population at the rate of seven per cent, in five years, and the State at the rate of 7.2 jper cent., while Chicago or St. Louis gains 50 or 60 per cent., and Kansas 100 per cent., and yet some persons refuse to see that the value of property in the Western city or State is certain to increase in the long run, and, as a rule, more rapidly than the Eastern. New railroads and greater reduction in the rates of freight are con constantly - stantly constantly adding enormously to the value of Western property, and as yet so potent are interested motives in blinding men, that there are some who still insist that real estate loans in Western cities and Stages, as a rule, are less safe than loans on Eastern property, where multiplication of roads is slow', and tends mainly to divert residents and industries from cities that are already over-crowded. - New York Public.

Fruit Juices. There is often a decided objection to the use of our coarsest fruits, especially in sickness, or when the stomach or bowels may be in a sensitive state, on account of the irritation of the angular and sharp seeds, and peel er skin. Like the hull of the wheat - or hulls, as there are five different layers, which should be removed, in most if net all cases, from the flour - these seeds and rinds are often sources of irritation to the sensitive coats of the stomach, cann canning - ing canning many forms of disease, particularly in the hot weather. It is exceedingly fortunate that these juices do not re require - quire require digestion like the solids, but, like water, enter the system unchanged, there to he assimilated, of course afford affording - ing affording nutrition, with no use of the digest digestive - ive digestive apparatus, or but slight effort, that of absorption. (If desirable, these juices may be prepared at this season, thoroughly scalded, canned like fruit, kept from the air and in a cool place, and used in the following spring, when such are exceedingly valuable, especially for those having debilitated digestion.) It is very plain that if they demand no digestion, still containing all of the nourishment of the berry, securing rest for the stomach, the dyspeptic, etc., may well use this juice as a substitute for solids, for sueh a part of the time as will allow rest, time for the digestive organs to recuperate and become suffi sufficiently - ciently sufficiently strong to perform their usual amount of labdr. I will here remark that their use all the time, instead of at the last meal, or when the appetite may be particularly imperfectjwould tend to debilitate the stomach, since, like all unused organs, the time would come when it would lose the power of action. As a general principle, the substitution of these for solids for one or two meals at moot, using the simplest form of solids, as the raw egg, or boiled rice, would be as much as would be advisable, save in extreme cases, when such nourishment for a week or less would be a choice of evils. Milk should not be regarded as of this dass, since it is solidified before diges digestion. - tion. digestion. It is not a proper drink between meals, since it requires digestion like solids. When there is much feverish feverishness, - ness, feverishness, with some appetite, the more acid juices, like that of the strawberry or the currant, may prove of great value with without - out without sugar, for that is a "heater." These tend to reduce feverishness, though, if too acid, they may irritate the stomach, producing the canker. The fresh juice of the apple - not fer fermented - mented fermented juice, or cider - is very appro appropriate - priate appropriate and useful, the apple containing more nourishment than the potato. These juices may be used with great propriety when the appetite seems wan waning, - ing, waning, or when but little food is indicated, for nourishment is obtained without labor. - Gotaenjßtde. W hen we asked bur girl to marry us she said she didn't mind--and wo have since found out that she didn't. - Toledo American,

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. - Prof. Storer, a blind musician of North Adams, Mass., has been appoint appointed - ed appointed a teacher in the Royal College for the Blind at London. - Wilkie Collins is paying the pen penalty - alty penalty for trespassing upon the capacity of that most abused organ of the hu human - man human anatomy - the eye. His sight is failing, and he can no longer read or write. He is dependent upon an aman* uensis. - N. Y. Independent. - Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour, of New York insists that he is an old man, and it is true that he suffers from physi physical - cal physical weakness in his legs, which disables him seriously in walking; but he retains his old simplicity of manner and con conversation, - versation, conversation, as well as vigor of mind. - - Chicago Journal. - Mr. and Mrs. Squibbs, of Sullivan County, Tennessee, were married about two years ago, and now seven, little Squibbses make it interesting for the fond parents. Three of them were born about a year ago, and the quar quartets - tets quartets are but a week or two old. This squib is the eighth. - William S. Jett, the man who led the soldiers to the hiding place of Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Lincoln, and who, for his connection with the capture of Booth and Harold, has been immortalized in history, wss a few days ago sent to the Maryland State Insane Asylum a raving lunatic. - N. Y. Herald. - One of the most noted women in New York journalism is Miss Middy Morgan, who does the cattle reports for four New York papers, among them the Tribune and Times. She has acquired a fund of knowledge of cattle and horses, both on the farm and turf, which may be envied by the most experienced male sportsmen. - Mr. Mudford, who controls the Lon London - don London Standard. is sometimes called the "irresponsible editor." Though he owns no share in the paper, the late proprietor's confidence in him was so great that he provided in his will that Mr. Mudford should have sole control of the paper while he lived, or as long as he might see fit to retain it. - lt is not generally known, says the Philadelphia Press, that Mr. Joseph Sailer, who has recently retired from the financial editorship of the Phila Philadelphia - delphia Philadelphia Ledger, was not only the oldest editor in that position in this country, but the first to write a regular money article for any daily paper, as the Ledger was the first in this country to print a money article. - ln a little red cottage on the shore of a lake called the Bowl, near Lenox, Mass., Hawthorne wrote "The House of the Seven Gables." Mr. J. T. Fields used to tell of carrying out to him there one hundred dollars in advance of work, but after accepting, Hawthorne's sensi sensitiveness - tiveness sensitiveness found the obligation irksome, and he handed it back. "Take it, Fields," said he; "the house isn't Ing enough to hold it."

Dominie Stimson's WIL Yesterday's meeting of the Baptist ministers was opened with prayer by Father Stimson, of Kansas. Father Stimson is eighty years old. and has preached for fifty years. Stories are told of him in which those who expect expected - ed expected to raise a laugh at the old Dominie found the tables turned against them themselves - selves themselves in the most unexpected manner. One runs as follows: Father Stimson owned a good horse, but the keeping of the beast was some somewhat - what somewhat of a drain on the Dominie's pock pocket. - et. pocket. and he was in the habit of dropping a hint to his parishioners once in a while that a little hay would be accept acceptable. - able. acceptable. One day a church member asked him to bring Mrs. Stimson to dinner. "Certainly," said Father Stimson, "and, as it's having time, I guess I'll put some hay on the wagon when I go back home." "All right, Father," replied the church member, "but bring a one onehorse - horse onehorse wagon." Father Stimson took his wife to sup supper - per supper in a wagon with an ample hay-rick that would hold a hay-stack. " See here," said the parishioner, as he helped Mrs. Stimson out of the hay hayrick, - rick, hayrick, "you-said you were going to bring a one-horse wagon, and now you've appeared with the most capa capacious - cious capacious hay apparatus I ever saw. ' "Oh, Ive brought the one-horse wagon," said Father Stimson, " but the hay-rick - that's a two-horse Lay-rick." lie drove away after supper with twenty-two hundred pounds of hay. Father Srimson was the lirst to use Gospel tents in the West. He put them up himself. A fellow who passed him oik 1 morn'ng as he was hard at work on his tent called to him in a lou I voice: " Hu-lo there! Are you going to have a circus?" "Yes," said the preacher, continuing hi-, work without looking up, " and I'm looking for a baboon. Don't you want to hire yourself for one?" Ihe preacher was Chaplain in the Ninth ?ew York Cavalry in the war. The Colonel was fond of leading the soldiers through deep puddles at the regular drill, and the Chaplain one day rode around the puddle, and thereby fell out of the regular order. The Col Colonel - onel Colonel noticed it, and at the close of the drill, when the officers came together, said, with a sneer: "If Captan Stimson is afraid to ride through muddy water lor fear of sow sowing - ing sowing his clothing, 1 will carry him across the puddle myself." "Thank you," the Chaplain said; "but as the Government provides horses, 1 don t see any reason why I should ride on a jackass." - A'. F. Hun.

- An exchange asks: "Whatif Pe Petroleum?" - troleum?" Petroleum?" It is a very easy method of getting rid of fire-kindling servants. - Marathon Independent. - A Baltimore belle has man led a policeman. His beat was in front of her house for over a year, and she no noticed - ticed noticed that he never snored. - Philadel snored. - Philadelphia - phia snored. - Philadelphia News. - ln 1859 eleven cars managed to ship all the peach crop of Delaware that was sent outside of the State by rail. To-day it takes sixteen engines, 400 cars . and ninety-six men. - A correspondent wants to know "how we pronounce Ras-el-Tin?" We don't pronounce it at all; we only write it. Do you suppose we read the papers to the subscribers? - Courier Journal. - The Egyptian war will give about a hundred paragraphers the opportunity to say that the Bedouins are no great sheiks, and that no matter how they are treated they will always Be-do-in some something - thing something atrocious and inexcusable. War is, indeed, a great evil. - Siftings. - A Chicago lady who had gone into the country at the invitation of some relatives, wrote to her husband: "Dear Charley - When I left home I forgot to bring my slippers with me. Send them at once." She received a telegram the next day to the following effect: "Ex "Express - press "Express companies can't spare the room to transport them. Buy a new pair." - Brooklyn Eagle. - Courage. - "Suffering sisters." ex exclaimed - claimed exclaimed the speaker, energetically shaking the hair pins from her head in her excitement, "women will never ob obtain - tain obtain their rights until they display more courage. Let me say to you, in the words of a famous Freueh orator, 'Courage! courage! courage!* " At this stage of the proceedings somebody threw a box of caterpillars upon th* platform and the meeting broke up in great terror and confusion. - N. Y. Post. - A nouveau riche had his bouse robbed of several valuable pictures. Ha appreciated them because they cost him a great deal of money, and when he made his appearance in an art-shop ha was in a very excited state. "I want you to get my pictures for me." ha said. "What do you mean?*' replied the polite attendant "Why, I was robbed of them the other night, and I come to you for satisfaction, " was tha answer. "But, my dear sir, we are not receivers of stolen goods, nor are we detective officers," said the dealer. " Then," shouted the indignant million millionaire, - aire, millionaire, "you had better take in your sien, 'Oil-paintings restored.' " - Boston Coi wrier.

The Expensiveness of Modern 'Warfare. The cost of modern warfare is so great it probably deters nations from getting into s jr.ons troubles, and for that reason aids in making arbitration popular Some idea of the expensive expensiveness - ness expensiveness of the bombardment of Alexandria in July last may be gathered from the cost or each round fired by the iron-clad fleet. Every round fired from the eighty-ton guns on the Inflexible cost $127.50 per gun. The twenty-five-ton guns, of which the Alexandra carries two, the Monarch four and the Terne Terneraire - raire Terneraire lour, cost $35 per round per gun. The eighteen-ton guns, of which the Alexandra carries ten, the Sultan eight, the Superb sixteen, and the Temeraire four, cost $26.25 per round per gun. The twelve ton gun , of which the In Invincible - vincible Invincible carries ten, the Monarch two, and the Sultan four, cost $lB per round per gun. The Penelope, which alone carries nine-ton guns, has eight of them, which were di charged at a cost of $13.75 per round per gun. The Mon Monarch - arch Monarch ami the Bittern each fired one six and one-half-ton gun, the cost being $8.85 jer round per gun. The Beacon and the Cygnet have two sixty-four sixty-fourpounders - pounders sixty-fourpounders each, the cost of discharging which was $4.50 per round per gun. The Penelope carries three forty-pound forty-pounders, - ers, forty-pounders, the Beacon two forty-pounders, and the Bittern two forty-pounders, the cost of discharging which was $3 per round per gun. In addition to this there is a sum to be calculated for the firing of the smaller armaments of the Cygnet, Condor and Decoy. Be-ides the dam damage - age damage done to public and private buildings in Alexandria by the bombardment, Egypt will have an enormous bill to pay missiles ana powder expended by the fleet in causing the destruction on shore. - Exchanae.

Slobbering Horses. Some horses will slobber nearly all they eat; others when they eat certain plants, usually in early summer, and others are never known to do so. Horses thus affected will, when their diet is much restricted, sometimes cease the habit. Clean timothy and red-top hay, and clean oats fed in the straw (clean meaning free from weeds or oth other - er other plants,) will usually cause a con confirmed - firmed confirmed case of slobbering to stop tem temporarily. - porarily. temporarily. A little clover, clover-hay, rag-weed in the oats, and many other weeds, are liable to start it again, in fact, will be quite sure to do so. Thus it is clear that the tendency is constitu constitutional - tional constitutional in the animal, that a cause that would excite slobbering in one animal will not affect another, and that it is excited by different plants which the horse u-es for food, either in the green or dry state. Besides, the habit is said to come from partial paralysis of the nerves of the face, or of one side of the face. Usually, however, it comes from some article of food, and it is more often caused by the second growth clover than anything else. Veterinarians have recommended astringents to be employed in solution, the mouth being washed with a decoction of oakbark, witchhazel, alum, etc., but no perma nent benefit comes from these applica applications. - tions. applications. Partial relief has been experi experienced - enced experienced by confining the horse to a diet of clover, as this excites the salivary secre secretion - tion secretion most violently. After a few days a return is made to different food, with the hope that this sudden change would stop the -sivc secretion of saliva, which it ' J ways does for a while. - Aqrieiu - '