INDEPENDENT ON ALL SUBJECTS, AND DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SOUTHERN OREGON
ASHLAND! OREGON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1879
ASHLAND TIDINGS.
J. M.
m ’CALL.
TO MY OLD COAT.
MORRIS BAUM.
J. M. McCall & Go
",
Main Street, Ashland.
OFFICE On Mun Str< i», (in s« comi story of MiCall
<S Baum's new building )
Job PrlnlluK.
Of all de icripti'ins done on short notice. Lexal Blanks,
Circulars. Buainr.sa Carila, Billheads, tetterkieaiis. Pos
tar», etc., gotten aP 1,1 »'« m I style at living prices.
NEW DEPARTURE.
Though hardly worth one paltry groat,
Thou’rt dear to me, my poor old coat;
For full ten years my friend than'st been—
For ten years I’ve brushed thee dean.
And now, like me, thou’rt old and wan,
With both the youth of glow is gone,
Bat, worn shabby as thou art,
Thoa and the poe» shall not part,
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Poor coat.
I’ve not forgottun the birthday eve,
The undersigned from and after April When first I donned thy glossy sleeve,
When jovial iiiends, in mantling wine,
18th, propose to sell only for
Drank joy and health to me and mine.
Oar indigence let some despise;
We'cr dear as eyer io thy eyes;
Or approved produce delivered—except And for their sakes, old as thou art,
Term*« ot Siil»N<-rlpti«»n:
when by special agreement—«. short
Thon and the poet shall not part,
Ojecopy, one year..
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Poor coat.
•• '• six lu-iuttea ........
1 5o
and limited credit may be given.
*• •* three months.................................
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One evening I remember yet,
Club rates, nix «■•pies for
.................................. 12 50
term» in advance.
They have commenced receiving their I, romping, feigned to fly Lisette;
She strove her lover to retain,
New Spring Stock, and that every
Term* of Advertisinij:
And thy frail skirt was rent in twain.
LEGAL.
daygwill witness additions to
Dead girl, she did her best endeavor,
f’ 50
One aquare (ten lines or less) 1st insertion..
the largest stock of
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Etch additional insertion............................
And patched thee up as well as ever;
And for her sweet sake, old as thoa art,
LOCAL.
Thon and tho poet shall not part,
.... lOu
Poor coat.
Ever brought to this market. They de Never, my coat, hast thoa been found
Bending thy shoulders to the ground,
sire to say to every reader of
From any upstart, “Lord” or “Grace”
this paper, that if
To beg a pension or a place.
DR. J. H. CHITWOOD,
Wild forest flowers—no monarch’s dole—
OREGON.
ASHLAN’b,
Adorn the modest button hole.
If but for that, old as thou art,
Sold at the Lowest Market Prices, will Thoa and the poet shall not part,
OFFICE \t :!><• Ashland Drn;Xt<>re.
Poor coat.
do it, they propose to do the largest
CASH IN HAND
General Merchandise!
Standard Goods!
JAMES R. NEIL,
A T T O R N E Y
A T
L A W ,
Jacksonv ill»». < h’cgon.
J. W. HAMAKAR,
NOTARY
PUBLIC,
Linkville, Lake Co., Oregon.
business this spring and summer
ever done by them in the
last five years, and
they can posi
tively make
it to the
advantage
of every one to
call upon them in
Ashland and test the truth
of their assertions. They will
spare no pains to maintain, more
fully than ever, the reputation of their
Poor though we be, my good old friend,
No gold shall bribe our backs to bend;
Honest amid temptations past,
We will be honest to the last;
For more I prize thy virtuous rags
Thau all the lace a courtier brags;
And while I live and havo a heart,
Thou and the poet shall not part,
My coat.
Our Resemblance to Animals.
A Frenchman of tho Middle Ages
said that all men were proud of their
resemblance to animal, particularly to
House, as the acknowledged
the eagle, the lion, the tiger, the elephant,
and the owl.
The ambition, power,
freedom, cruelty, strength and wisdom
typified by these lieats were all gifts
For Staple and Fancy Goods, Groceries, which men emulated.
They were all
Hardware, Clothing, Boots, Shoes,
untameable, unuseful animals, excepting
Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dress
the elephant, and he had his dangerous
DR. W. B. ROYAL,
Goods,Crockery,Glass and
side. No man is complimented by being
Has permanently located in Ashland.
Tin Ware, Shawls,
told that he looks like a horse or a dog
Will idre his undivided attention to the practice of
W
rappers,Cloak
i,
although they are nearest to him in in
medicine. Has had fifteen years' experience in
Oregon Ottico at hie residence, on Main street,
And,
in
fact,
everything
required
for
the
telligence; perhaps their subserviency
opnositc the M. E. Church.
trade of Southern and South
offends his vanity. No woman likes to
eastern Oregon. .
be told that she looks like a sheep, al
DR. WILL JACKSON,
though many women do look like sheep.
DENTIST.
A full assortment of
The miser has his prototype in the
rodents, whose two narrow, gnawing
Jacksonville, ; : : : Oregon.
teeth are eternally reproduced in hu
For Blacksmiths’ and General use.
Will visit Ashland in May and November,
manity.
and Kerbyville the fourth Monday in Octo
her, each year.
To look like an old lion is the proud
Ashland, Sept. 15, 1978.
A Full Line of
peculiarity of the stroDg graybeards.
There is nothing finer, more impressive
in man than his resemblance. Longfel-
Flannels, Blankets, Cassi meres, Doeskins, ow has it as a familiar illustration. We
Clothing, always on hand and
see it often in the best pictures of the
for sale at lowest prices.
old Greek poets. When a man’s eye re
mains bright, although the shaggy brow
The highest market pricey paid for
above it has turned white, the effect is
splendid. There seems to be an un
quenchable fire behind that penthouse.
. t is the lamp which never goes out
Come One and All.
Men of sardonic temper, and smooth out-
The H iff best Market Price,
ines, who are wise enough to wear a
J. M. MeTALL A CO.
white straight moustache, have a grand
And will deliver
resemblance to a Bengal tiger. They
ook cruel, but it is a handsome, strong
JAMES THORNTON,
JACOB WAGNER,
cruelty. No one can help respecting a
W. H. ATKINSON,
E. K. ANDERSON.
Anywhere in town,
Bengal tiger, although his traits are
M1I/L, PKICE8.
scarcely amiable.
No one, however,
ikes
to
look
like
a
cat,
although, also!
WMjfner A Amlerson.
too many of us do. We hate small,
ignoble ferocity, commonplace deceits,
secretive capabilities. To see a cat start
off* on a diplomatic mission across a field,
with no public to deceive, but with only
an obscure mouse to surprise, with all
the precautions against detection which
a Borgia might have used, to see her
feints of going east when she means to
ARE NOW MAKING FROM
go west, is to see old Tallvrand revealed,
and to laugh at and to admire-the desire
Main Street,
of the human race to circumvent some-
holy, to take the crooked path when the
straight one world be so much easier!
The cat is a satire on diplomacy; she
SADDI.F. HORSEC
nVUUlEM AMD < VHKIIGKS,
should be studied.
People look like dogs, sometimes not
And can furnish mv customers with a
unpleasantly, sometimes ludicrously.
tiptop turnout nt any time.
A much-whiskered individual, driving
in
a Victoria down town with his Scotch
BLANKETS,
HOUSES BOA ET)ED
terrier, asked a witty lady what she
thought of them. “Whv !” said she “I
FLANNELS,
On reasonable terms, and given the best
thought you were beside yourself !” A
attention. Herses bought and sold
CASSI MERES,
man of the Dundready type can look
and satisfaction guaranteed in
very much like a terrier. There is a
all mv transactions.
DOESKINS,
noble mastiff type, which is honest and
fine. .Christopher North had it, and
AND HOSIERY. Walter Scott looked like his own Maida.
ei. F. rm 1.1.1 pm .
The bull-dog finds his manly prototype
in Bill Sykes, and we have all seen slen
ivr . a . nn
e •
der, greyhound-looking men and little
mean ferret faces on the lookout for
game. Nobleoxenarereproduced in some
grotesque faces, anil Virgil speaks of
“Ox-eyed Juno. ’
Two eyes, a nose, and a month seem
to admit of ^great varieties. They are
OLD AND NEW,
easily imitate«! up to a certain point,
then they become infinitely varied. The
J. IV. RrA«ELL, Proprietor.
Are invited to send in their orders and resemblance to animals is largely dwelt
are assured that they
upon bv the Darwinites, who seem to
find in this lingering look a proof of the
Having again settled in this place
doctrine of evolution. This school of
and turned mv entire attention to
thinkers, however, always ignore the one
the Marble Business, I am pre
great question, as to where and when
pared to fill :dl orders with neat
At Prices that Defy Competition.
the soul entered into the progressive
ness ami dispatch.
Monuments,
cow, cr sheep, or ape. and the animal
Tablets, and Headstones, executed
became man. They do not dwell upon
B^§Tin any description of marble.
that conclusive experiment of the brutal
j^FSjiecial attention paid to or-
savage and the intelligent ape, whom
ASHLAND WOOLEN MILLS
gE^|*~ders from all parts of Southern
some traveler brought from Patagonia,
f^TOregon. Prices reasonable.
and who in three months of training in
England resulted in this fact—the ape
Address:
remained
an ape, wjiile the savage had
J, II. liussell,
learned to read and to write and to pray.
Ashland, Oregon.
SECRETARY. The resemblance of man to monkeys is,
OFFICE In Post Office building. Special attention
iven to conveyancing.
HEADQUARTERS!
IRON AND STEEL
THE
ASHLAND MILLS !
Ashland Woolen Goods!
Wheat, Oats, Barley, Bacon, Lard.
Flour, Feed, Etc.,
THE
ASHLAND
ASHLAND
WO OLEN
Livery, Sale&Feed
MANU FAC’D
- CO.,
STABLES,
The Very Best
NAITIIIVIEI iWiOOILi!
ASHLAND
(»« marblemi
WORKS.
S our patrons !
SHall Receive Prompt Attention !
W. H. Atkinson,
indeed, very remarkable and disagreea
ble. Who was it who that he could not
l>ear to be with them, they looked so
like poor relations! There is the little
old bearded monkey, so like a prominent
philanthropist. There is the cocky little
fop of a monkey, so like our “Jeunesse
doree.” There is the orange mouthed,
big-chinned chimjianzee, the type of a
sensualist. There is the little lady mon
key, with airs and graces so like an af
fected woman. The worst of this re
semblance is we see ourselves, alas ! at
our worst. We see what we may lie to
others than ourselves.
It is curious how the serpent type re
ap] »ears in women. Rachel always sug
gested a beautiful snake—the little flat
head, the sparkling eyes, the almost
forked tongue, the long, lithe body, the
sinuosity, the noiselessness, were all
like the great Ophidian who deceived
our grandmother Eve, as Oliver Wendall
Holmes puts it We often look into
gentle eyes, that suddenly change and
frighten us, and we see the long slit-like
ajierture of an eye which suggests the
snake, the most repulsive of all forms
of animal life. For the beauty of a
snake is as dreadful as the ugliness of
a hedge hog. How suggestive of the
irritable is that sudden physical irradia
tion, “the quills upon the fretful porcu
pine.”
How anger, “that brief mad
ness,” is pictured by this queer animal.
The scandal monger is surely meant by
that jelly fish who emits an ink like
fluid, and is herself lost in it, and Vic
tor Hugo’s monster with no hotly, but
with eyes ami tentaculæ—do we not all
know lier I
The birds have given us many a sem
blance.
We talk of the eagle eye, the
eye like a hawk, the pigeon breasted,
the raven cunning, the cuckoo invasion,
and the dove like innocence as human
qualities and belongings. Brilliant and
over dressed women suggest cockatoos,
and “swan like necks” and ducks, “dear
little ducks,” are common enough
phrases. Why ducks, the most phleg
matic and unromantic of birds, should
have been chosen for a terni of endear
ment is past finding out. We are not
like them, let us hope, when we become
affectionate, Mr. Spoonbill, on the con
trary, (still derived from duck,) is al
ways represented in the comedy as a vo
racious villain, much more typical, one
would think.
“To lx; a goose,” is always used in
modern parlance in an uncomplimentary
sense. Yet geese are redeeming their
reputation. They were worshiped in
Rome, because one gave an unconscious
and opportune cackle; they arc not dis
covered by the modern artists to be very
picturesque, pretty and aimable birds.
Not so much sillier than their neigh
bors, either. However, they have given
the world a proverb, and to “be a goose”
is to be condemned to the very lowest
estate.
This idea of the transmigration of
souls is one which repays a little study;
it was the beginning of Spi ritualism,
“materialization,” all thf* forms of that
vague effort which man has made
through all ages to penetrate that dense
curtain which we call death, which God
has let down between us and the knowl
edge we so ardently crave. It was not
an unbeautiful belief, that the soûls of
the dead 2ame back to us, sometimes in
the form of a bird; singing beneath our
windows, feeding from our hands.—
Boston Traveler.
Demand for a “Social Clearing
House. ”
82 50 PER ANNUM
What is a Small Farm ?
British Waste Land Unemployed.
Metropolitan Business Hours.
In some of the older States twenty
acres is somet’mes called a small farm,
and on such small areas a family might
be supported. The qestion is frequently
raised, “What is a small farm in Cal
ifornia 1” The answer in a general wav
is that 160 acres is a small farm, and 80
acres a very small one, if the one point
is kept in view of the capacity of such
a farm to support a family. Smaller
tracts might do it if devoted to some
specialty, an orchard or a mat ket garden,
for instance. Aside from such sjiecial-
ties it will require a much larger area of
land to support a family in comfort here
than in the Atlantic States. The greater
number of these small tracts will lie
cultivated without irrigation, especially
where the rainfall is sufficient to pro
duce a crop. There will, therefore, be
no succession of crops in a given year.
The hay and grain will be cut in their
season. There will be little or no
aftermath. Tho one crop of fruit will
be gather»*«!, and so of all other pro-
ducts. Th«* twenty acre farm, in the
hands of an old-fashioned farmer, will
turn out to be something of a delusion
Some account must he taken of the
climate, of the capacity of the land to
produce, proximity to markets an«l
th«» prices which the surplus pre
duce will bring. The ten and twenty
acre farms appear very well on paper.
As suburban tracts they may be veiy de
sirable. But when a man goes into the
oouutry with his family to live by agri
culture, ho needs more room if he is not
to devote bis energies to a f«*w specialties.
He will tind the 160-acre tract small
enough when lit* comes to segregate fields
for pasture, forestry, orchards, grain ami
so on.
Relatively, it might be said,
that the average farm of this size is
something like a 40 acre farm in some
of the Atlantic States. The 10 and 20-
acrc farms sketched on paper are very
pretty; devoted to market gardening
they are sometimos very profitable. But
for the sale of garden truck to any ad
vantage one must live near the city or
large town. Now, most of the farms
for sale are too remote for such purposes.
A 20-acre tract devoted to ffardenin"
O
o
would supply a small country town. A
small farm in California is one with a
sufficient area to support a moderate
sized family in comfort, with the possi
bility of laying up a little money; and
that at present is about as much as can
be done in this State on a farm of 160
acres.
Still it must be said that this need
not. always tie true in this State, and the
course of events is towards smaller aver
age farms than those of 160 acres.
Where water for irrigation can lie pro
cured the best of our lands will bear as
minute a subdivision as any land ip. the
world, and will nevertheless support a
family in comfort. So long, however, as
wheat-growing is our chief occupation
and source of revenue, 160 acres will
not lie called a large farm. But, as our
population increases, new industries and
products will become naturalized among
us, and we may confidently exjiect that
men will live here, as in other places, on
very small tracts of land.
It happens, in many cases, that twenty
acres of good land near a market is
worth, so far as the ease and comfort of
living is concerned, more than a whole
section further off. An emigrant who
has not means enough to purchase the
160 acres which makes a small wheat
farm, need not despair, but let him buy
what he can afford, cultivate it in corn,
vegetables and fruits, raise all the water
he can by means of windmill or horse
power, and so toil upward Dy degrees.
We have seen a success made on ton
acres, even when the produce had to be
shipped forty miles to a market. It is
better, though, that a man should, if
possible, struggle through, and, for his
children's sake, win a larger tract, say
the typical 160 acres of which we have
spoken.—S. F. Bulletin.
There are no less than 12,000,000
acres of waste land in the United King
dom capable of profitable cultivation, of
which 5,9(10,000 are in Scotland. Were
the latter cultivated the country might
be self-sustaining. Yet these are kept
waste for the pleasure of a few men,
while tens of thousands are expatriated
that might find happy homes on them.
One is sometimes tempted to think that
the venerable Professor Blackie may be
right and that “an agrarian outbreak
would do good.” Wfi have hrvl two or
three premonitions of exhausted patience
north of the Tweed. The government
even thought it was time to be doing
something, and promised a Game Law
amendment bill. Nay, they even intro
duced it, but then played and dallied
with it until the lateness of the season
gave them an opportunity of slaughter
ing it with the innocents. The case was
this: The case of a farmer in Scotland,
convicted, under the Night Poaching
act, of killicg a rabbit outside of his own
gate, had excited much indignation, and
at the suggestion of a Scotch member
the government engaged to mitigate the
brutal severity of this act, by enacting
that when the convicting magistrate was
of the opinion that the crime of killing
a rabbit at night was not aggravated by
violence, actual or contemplated, the
penalty might be diminished to that to
which the offender would have been
liable had the horrible crime been com
mitted in the daytime. It will hardly
be credited outside this enlightened
country that under this atrocious Night
Poaching act the magistrate in sentencing
has no discretion, but must condemn to
imprisonment with hard labor. The
government brought in their bill, and
though the Night Poaching Act applies
to the whole country, the mitigating bill
applies to Si’otlaml alone, . P. A. Taylor,
member for Leicester—that radical of
radicals, as well known, perhaps, in
America as here—not liking the idea
that the English farmer and laborer
might be kicked and flouted more than
their Scoteh kinsman, moved that th3
bill should apply to the whole country.
This was agreed to, and friends of de
cency and justice congratulated them
selves on the fact that at last one little
step hail been taken toward investigat
ing the shameless atrocity of the Game
Law Code. But they cheered before they
were out of the woods. The bill went
to the wall w ith other innocents, and the
poaching laws are vet unamended, much
to the annoyance of the Scoteh esjiecially.
As I write the report comes to hand
that within th»* last two weeks no fewer
than seven applications have been grant
ed to farmers for sequestration in the'
Sheriff Court of Fifeshire, and that in
the Eastern counties the number of
farms on the eve of being given up is
steadily on the increase, the occupiers
intending to try their fortunes in Can
ada and the States, where they will only
have the weather to contend against, and
not heavy taxes and extortionate land
lords also. It is poor consolation, but it
is nevertheless true, that now, as in days
gone by, England is suffering from the
folly of unwise legislation. — London
Corr. N. Y. Herald.
Few of your readers have an idea of
the pressure under which business is
done in this city. Everylxxly in the
great centres seem to be working against
time. The contiast between business
hours in the country and in the city is
one of striking character. In the former
they continue all day, but here the limit
is from 10 to 3, and in some instances
less. At the ’Treasury, for instance,
where the transactions cover a million a
day, the time is only from 10 to 2.
The great sjieeie house of Trevor <fc Col
gate observe the same rules, and anyone
who should come even but one minute
after the clock had struck, would be too
late. Four hours a day may appear too
brief, but after this comes the finishing
of accounts, which requires the remain
der of the afternoon. The system thus
referred to presses an immense amount
of traffic in a small space, and hence
time becomes immensely valuable.
This explains the various notices which
may be found in different places of busi
ness, one of which reads as follows:
“Call u|xjn a man of business in busi
ness hours. Transact your business and
then go about your business in order
that he may be able to attend to his
business.”
The above, which con
tains much good advice, is a feature
often met in our leading establish
ments. The same idea is sometimes ex
pressed in more sarcastic language, as
may la* seen by the following, which is
also visible in some offices: “Our office
hours for attending to church subscrip
tions, 11 to 1. Book agents received
from 1 to 4. Balance of our time de
voted to other miscellaneous calls. N.
B.—We attend to our business at night.”
This compression is of modern growth,
and results in no small degree from
the fact that so many people live out of
town. There was a time when our
banks were closed for an hour daily, in
order to allow the cashier and his clerks
to go home and «line, ami the business
was continued until 5 o’clock. How ri
diculous would this apjiear at present!
Then our merchantmen lived within a
half mile of their stores, but now, in
some instances, the distance is thirty
miles. Hence, men are now workrtl
prodigiously during the brief interval
devoted to business, which, in fact, is a
daily battle, full of intense and exhaust
ing effort. Instead of going to dinner
as it should be eaten,they rush to a lunch
and fill up with whisky. No wonder
so many of them are drunkards. The
amount of stimulus thus taken is im
mense, and the universal plea is heard:
“We cannot get through without it.”—
New York letter to Rochester Demo
«■rat.
Setting out with the declaration,
which it says is “the admitted state of
affairs,” that “among women a call lias
erased to be a scheme for meeting peo
ple, but a tedious and laborious way for
not meeting them,” the Springfield Re
publican says: The crying need of so
ciety among women is clearly a plan un
der which cards can be exchanged and
calls made without the risk, which now
exists, of finding ¡»eople “at home that
Not Self-Mindful.
catastrophe which wrecks the best laid
schemes for paying all one’s social debts
in a single afternoon. What is wanted
An accident, a somewhat ludicrous
is a social clearing house. The banks of one, too, of the fire at tho Hagerstown
New York long since found it past their Hotel, has been told us by one who was
patience to go from bank to bank with there and who literally “barely” escajxsl
the checks against each. They accord with his life. He is a traveling man.
ingly devised a “clearing-house,” where Being suddenly awakened that night by
their representatives could meet and pay a bright light shining in his face, be dis
off their balances by mutual exchange. covered that the window-frame of his
Society needs a mutual exchange for so room, on the third floor, was one blaze
cial debts. A room ought to lie fitted of flame and that the apartment was
up down town near some popular mil rapidly filling with smoke. He at once
linery store and as far as possible from left. How he knows not, but finally
the neglected public library, with little succeeded in reaching the ground by a
pigeon holes marked Mrs. A—, Mrs. jump from the second-story window.
B—, Mr?. C—, Mrs. D—, and so on When safely landed he stood watching
through the social alphabet. A woman the work of destruction, and near by
with calls to make coul«l go there and de him were a group of very thinly-clad fe
posit her cards in the pigeon-holes of her males, also gazing.
While thus standing ha noticed a
acquaintance, secure that she would find
none of them “at home.” She could go party of firemen hurrying past with a
to her own pigeon-hole, obtain the cards quantity of feminine apjiareL He im
there deposite«l an«l triumphantly return 1 mediately, with that gallantrv so in
the calls on the spot. The work of keeping with a traveling man, hailed the
weeks could be done in a iky. Every men with :
“Look here, you fellows, give th«*se
end now subserved bv calls could be ac
complished at a very great saving of ladies some of those clothes.
The roply was in an instant:
time. All the useful information in re
“All right, stranger, we’ll do so ; but
gard to servants, the weather, and other
people’s business now laboriously dissem don’t you think it would be a good idea
inated by calls should be stereotyped on to put on a pair of spurs yourself V
The last remark caused him to inves
the cards.
tigate himself, when he found“ that his
“Well, Pat, you didn’t come to the whole costume was a shirt, a vest and a
two o’clock train to get me as I told you.” pair of gaiters, while the rest of his gar
“O, indade I di«K, sor; but I got there ments hung idly over his arm. Our
too late for that train, and so I waited friend blushed, sought a refuge and
for the next one.
pulled on his pants.—Norristown Herald
Acres of Perfume.
Some idea ef the magnitude of the
business of raising sweet-scented Howers
for their pe~*ume alone may I m * gathered
from the fact that Europe and British
India aloite consumes about 150,000 gal
lons of handkerchief perfume yearly ;
that the English revenue from French
eau de Cologne of itself is £40,000 an
nually, and the total revenue of England
from other imported perfumes is esti
mated at $200,000 each year. There is
one great perfume distillery at Cannes,
in France, which uses nearly about 100,-
000 pounds of acacia flowers, 140,000
pounds of rare flower leaves, «32,000
jiounds of jasmine blossoms, together
with an immense quantity of other ma
terial used for jierfume. Victoria, in
New South-Wales, is a noted place for
the production of perfume yielding
plants, because such plants as the mign
onette, sweet verbena, jasmine, rose, lav
ender, acacia, heliotrope, rosemary,
wall-flower laurel, orange, and the sweet-
scented geraniums are said to grow there
in greater ¡»eifection than in any other
part of the world. South Australia, it
is believed, would also be a good place
for the growing of the perfume-produc
ing plants, though they are not yet
cultivated there to much extent. The
value of perfumes to countries adapted
to their production may be gathered
from the following estimates of their
growth and value per acre, as given in
the London (England) Journal of Hor
ticulture: An acre of jasmine plants,
80,000 in number, produce 5,000 pounds
of flowers, valued at 1,250; an acre of
rose trees, 10,000 in number, will yield
2,000 pounds of flowers, worth $375;
.300 orange trees, growing on an acre,
will yield, at ten years of age, 2,000
|»ounds of flowers, valued at $250; an
acre of violets, producing ],G00 pounds
of flowers, is worth $800; an acre of
cassia trees of about .300, will, at three
years of age, yield 900 jiounds of
flowers, worth $450; an acre of geranium
plants will yield something over 2,000
ounces distilled attar, worth $4,000;
an acre of lavender, giving over 3,500
pounds of flowers for distillation, will
yield a value of $1,500.
Dumas is working up another drama.
Political Duels in New Yprk.
This city, writes a corresjxindent, has
always been noted for its political
warmth, and many a bloody duel has
been thus occasioned. In two instances
the victims were of the famous Hamilton
family.
Captain George Encker shot
Phillip Hamilton, and in less than three
years afterward the father of the latter
fell by the hand of Aaron Burr. Among
other tragedies of the same kind was the
Coleman and Thompson duel.
The
former, who was the first editor of the
Evening Post, challenged James Cheet-
liam, editor of the American Citizen,
but the latter declined the combat. One
of his friends, however, Captain Thomp
son, took up the quarrel and challenged
Coleman.
The meeting took place in the suburbs,
and Thompson was mortally wounded.
DeWitt Clinton and Richard Reker also
had a hostile, meeting occasioned by po
litical opinion. The latter was wounded,
but fortunately recovered. Politics are
not as bloody as in former times, but
this is only because duels are no longer
fashionable, and the war is carried on by
the press
Speaking of duels, it may be said that
the oldest duelist in this city, and perhajis,
indeed, the only one, is James Watson
Webb, who fought with Thomas F.
Marshall, of Kentucky. Marshall was
counsel for the noted forger, Monroe
Edwards, and the first day of the trial
Webb’s paper, the Courier and En
quirer, contained a severe attack on the
prisoner. Marshall naturally retorted
in the ojiening of the defense, and gave
Webb such a scathing as called forth a
challenge. In the meeting which fol
lowed, Webb was wounded in the leg,
and has ever since been slightly lame.
He was indicted on his recovery for
violation of our anti-dueling laws, and
only the executive clemency prevented
his sharing Monroe Edward’s fate—a
sentence in the State prison.
A Romantio Burial.
A young lady was recently buried at
Brighton, England, under romantic cir
cumstances. 'Die day of her interment
was the day originally fixed for her mar
riage, and her friends complied with her
dying wish that she should l»e drawn
to the grave by the horses which had
been engaged to convey her to
church.
To the catafalque there
were attached four grays, whose beads
were deckid with floi-ai rosettes of white
and red gei'aniuins, and the coffin was
covered with white and amber silk pall.
The carriages which followed were also
drawn by horses ca|»ari.soned similarly
to those which drew the hearse.—Troy
Times.______ ~_______
In R ticulo mortis—the oyster.
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