Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-09-16

SEVENTY swARnts OF BEES AT WAR-Ezra Dibble,1
well known citizen of this town, and for many
years engaged extensively in the management Of
bees, communicates to US the following Interesting
particulars ofa battle among his bees
he has seventy swarms of bees, about equally d.
Vided on the east and west sides of his house On
Sunday, August 18th, about o'clock the wealth er
being warm and the windows open, his house was
suddenly filed with bees, which forced the family
to flee at once to the neghbors MIR. D., after get
ting well protected against his assailants proceeded
to take survey, and, if possible learn the cause
which had disturbed them. The seventy swarms
appeared to be out, and those on one side of the
house were arrayed in battle against those on the
other side and such battle was perhaps never be-
fore witnessed They filled the air covering space
of more than one acre of ground and fought des
perately for three hours for sspoils,' but
for conquest and while at no living thing could
exist IN the vicinity They stung large flock of
Shanghai chickens nearly all of which died and
persons passing along the road side obliged to
make haste to avoid their sting little after six
O'Clock quiet was restored, and the living bees re-
turned to their hives leaving the slain almost liter
ally covering the ground, since which but few have
appeared around the hives, and those apparently
stationed as sennels TO watch the enemy. But two
young swarmS were entirely destroyed, and aside
from the terrible slaughter of bees. no other injury
was done. Neither party victorious, and they
only ceased the approach of night and from utter
prostitution The occasion of this strange warning
among the bees is not easily accounted for and those
most conVersant with their management never be-
fore witnessed heard of such spectacle as is here
narrated-Conneaut (Ohio) Reporter.
! CAUSE OF THE SCARCITY OF SILvER--NIr DIsrael
the Chancellor of the Exchequer in England af-
ter investigation of the subject gives the follow
ing as the causes of the scarcity ofslver in the
try The same reason apply in the United States
First, while the annual production of gold has
quadrupled, the yield of the silver mines has re-
manned stationary; and the influx of gold has
given immense expansion to business of all kinds
and increased the demand for every commodity, sill
yer being no plentiful now than formerly, has
become prorortionally scarce. Secondly, Holland
and some other European States silver is the stand
ard of value; and hence the of expectation
from them has to be paid for in silver coin Third
ly and chiefly in India gold coin is not known among
the natives, from whom the commodities of COM
merce are purchased: nor is gold in that country
legal tender; and as the excess of Indian exporta-
ton over importation is exceedingly great there is
an enormous drain of silver from Europe and Amer
lea to pay for the In the year 1852 Eng
land alone sent fifteen millions of dollars in silver
to India.
Mr.. DIsraeli proposes remedy to the grow.
ing scarcity of silver that gold be made the stand
ard of value, and q legal tender throughout the
British possessions in the Oriental world
WHY Mr.. BUCHANAN NEVER MARR1ED.-A cor
respondent of the New Haven Palladium, writing
} from Lancaster, Pa briefly records the reason:
"a short distance from the city is the country
residence of Hon. James Buchanan, American am
bassador to the court of st. James It's general ap-
pearance at indicates that fair hand ID there
to train the creeping vines of budding to their
}, betting place-as you aware that the honora-
bic gentleman still remains in single blesscdness -
The story is briefly told Paying his addresses to a
young and beautiful lady of this city, each became
n deeply enamored, and they were engaged. On a
given evening, she requested his company to party
at friends, which he declined on the plea of bust
e ness engagements. Circumstances rendering it ne.
n he, Lotto i" the evening" gallanted young
oIr harh Il khaI fbo1.r hor
; tilted and chagrined at what she deemed unfaithful
s ness and desertion and imagining the worst she
left the city early in the morning. and returned
corpse Such is the sad story of his early love,
can the high places of distinction and trust make
him forget, the wreaths of honor tn encircle
e his brows bury the memory of the early loved and
/ lost"
asked by friends and others, why the boy in prn
ting Office is called the Devil that give what lit
= tie we know upon the subject.
d The first person who carried printing to any
o event. were John Guttenburg, John Faust Tor Faus
e tus) and Peter SchGher. Germany was the place
n where the art was invented and first carried on
l. The following story is tolt of the first introduction
d printing into France.
l. sin 1862 Faust carried number of Bibles to Paris
which he and his partner SchGfer had printed, ant
disposed of them manuscript at this time the dis
N covery of the art not known in France. At frs
he sold them at the high price of 500 600 crowns
wards lowered his price to sixty, which created uni
s. vcrsa establishment; but when he produced them &C
n cording to the demand and even reduced the price t.
lg thirty all Paris became agitaed The uniformity
the copies increased their wonder, the Parisans con
as siderng it task beyond human invention. lnfor
re nation given to the police against him ma
of gcian his lodgings searched, great number
Bibles were found and seized the red ink with whc
tn they were embeished was said 10 be his blood;
IN was seriously adudged that he in league wit
tn the devil whereupon he cast into prison, an
re would probably have shared the fate of such
whom ignorant and superstitious judges condemned i
O. those days for witchcra He found it necessary
d. in order gain his liberty, make known the dis
covery of the art This circumstance gave rise 10 tn
~ tradition of The Devil and DR.. Faustus' which
oh handed down TO the present time.'
The ignorance and superstition that onsldere
by printing invention of the Evil would also yer
al naturally suppose the men engaged in it as being tn
On servants of Satan actual friends in human shape
1t is universally considered that the above story CAV
re rise 10 the practice of calling the office boy by III
RI name of Devil
IS THE GLOBE WE LIVE INT is known fact i
geology that below the depth of thirty feet the cart
y become regularly warmer We descend. On q
&c average the increase is at the rate of on
Ie' degree of Fahrenheit for every fifty feet A
49, the bottom of the mines at Cornwall, depth of on
aS thousand hundred feet the thermometer stand
H. at eighty eight, equal to high summer heat. At th
en- rate rocks and metals would be melted twenty mile
& below the surface and down in the bowels of tn
earth, several hundred miles, the heat would /
a. twenty thousand times hotter than melted IRON.
nc Who wonder at earthquakes, when all thing
- rest on molten sea of fire
th SERvANrGAL1sM.-Lad u-'' Wish to leave =? WHY
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