Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-08-06

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as against cleared land. The wood
choppers of Maine are far more free from dis
ease than the farmers of Illinois, and scarcely
know, in all their exposure, what it is to be
by rheumatism or parched by fever.
Dismal Swamp is as healthy as Sulliyan's Island
and the maleria which hangs along all the
Southern sea-board ilnds no place IN that
dreadful thicket Pestlence does not. choose
those sections Of country or those quarters OF
cities which are most bare aud open. Damp
ness ia not the source of malaria, bnt decom-
position caused by too rapid drying, whether
Of vegetable or animal ininsoria, bitches and
stagnant pools sxt, to be sure, not very desira-
Bile purifiers 9Cfhe surrounding air, and gem
crate more s4ious plaques than their legions |
of frogs; but a ditch which alternates from |
wet to dry, or nDpoDl that is weekly emptied |
and replenished, N9s wind and shower follow |
each other, gives $Tth n much more deadly |
poison than any groHpl which IS steadily and
uniformity saturated VII, water. Over these
waters to-day the poisel hangs and fingers,
and gives itself TO load tls bgeeza tomorrow.
In woods, ON the conference.-the the decompo-
sition OF vegetable and animAi> matter goes on
far more slowly, the poison which is evolved is
taken up by the trees themselves, TO which 1t
is food and nourishment.
&c Mr.. Timothy Flint, in his account Vi the
mississippi Valley, mentions the fact, thak the
wood-cutters on the banks st the stieGVns
where the trees had been cut away were G2n-
stantly attacked by malarious levers, Wins
such diseases among workmen i'll the forest
were comparatively rare, although the ground
ON which they worked was quite as moist
Every tree which they left to decay on the
ground helped to create the poison, while every
tree left standing helped TO absorb it. Many
cases might be cited where The cutting down
of woods has had most unlayorable effect
upon the health of the surrounding rcgion.--
Roman pun IN a rnlphrntnu
stance of what is q very common 1eX perience.
Every schUoboy is taught how plants purify
tho atmosphere by revolvingits excess of car.
| bon, and supplying its defect and waste of OK
ygen though this teaching is usually coupled
with the cautious prOviso. that plants absorb
! oxygen by night, and are, therefore, unhealthy
companions of the chamber. Bat we hay
| tested it abundantly, in travelling, that, when
ono is properly protected from mosquitoes, the
night air is most pleasant in the Immediate vi
entity OF woods, moro easy to breathe, and
more softly soporiilc, than even the salt at
mosphere of the famed watering-places. A
nights sleep is quite as refreshing in the
Inn at keswick as in the inn at Brighton, in a
North Conway cottage as in u Newport no.
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There are several reasons why forests at
feet tavorably the health Of locality or neigh
| borhood Two of these we have already mem
tioned-that they check the formation OF pois.
onOus miasma, and that they absorb II when 1t
is formed, and so prevent its perncious infu-
ence. But Il cir effect upon climate il even
more noticeable and unquestionabe They
equaze the heat of the atmosphere, and so
prevent those extremes which have come, in
these latter years, to he the hane Of New En-
| gland. There can be little doubt that the cut
ting away of such large tracts of forests in
Canada and Maine has had great share in eau
sing the intense cold of our recent winters, il
matt 4
in summer, and that the rapid changes which
transpose, at the caprice ofthc.wuds, the place
of the months and the seasons, are due largely
| TO this cause, In II warm day, certainly, one
feels the heat more in the woods than on the
| open prairie, when the wind is blowing. But
thermometer will give u lower temperature in
the former than in the latter position. A fair
way to test the difference is to sit for a while
in u boat by pond surrounded by woods, and
then to go into the woods. The sensation will
instantly be one of refreshing GOODNESS. In
winter, on the contrary, the Thermometer shows
| q much higher temperature in the woods than
| in the open field with wider variation in
proportion as tho external cold is greater
| Transfers know this, and, even on n still day
in january feel relief from tic cold the mo-
ment they reach the protecting woods.'
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SCHOOL TEACHER CVP 70 PIECES IN TENAs.-
terrible affair took place about eight miles east of
Greenve Texas, on the "a ult, between school
I teacher by tao uame of a1O0ra nnl II man by the
name OF Howard nRl his fur A letter says:
| "Muorc uGdertook to chastse Towards son about
| " years old Tor writing indecent language in a
| young ladys copy book. lie Ind struck tho boy
but four or i've blows with switch when the boy 5
brothers into tho school house with Tubs, aud
ono OF them struck tho teacher with heavy club
on the forehead and teIled him to the Ionr. The
other struck the teacher several times while down,
but the teucber recovered himself and got out his
LoGRet.knfe and drove them ont Of the house
But at this junGture the old man. two other sons
and two sons INLAY arrived, and tho old man rush
ed into the house with largo dirk pocket knife -
Moore begged Howard t. spare his ite telling him
he was then nearly dead. AT this time Moore had
severe confusion on the forehead AMI was covered
with blood. But Howard. disre sariing his entrGa,
tics, rushed upon hin. and plunged his long knife
into him twice his r5 hit side, bDth ii which wounds
entered the cavity Moore broke from him. wheG
Howard cut him on the right shoulder, making d
frghtfu cash four inches long and to the boue-
With all his wounds, Moore bToka from tue house
and ran twenty rods, The boys outside threw clubs
| at HIM as he ran one or two OF which hit him
"Moore was II young man OF slight make, and
poor health, who had lately come to the State. lie
was man OF uneXceptiOnable character and IL sue
cossful teac en- He will probably die OF his wounds
II victim OF revenge SO low ami despl;ablc thar
humanity bushes at the recital
HORRIBLE BRUTALITY "A Wipe MURDERED
BY HER HUSBAND john Meagney II blacksmith
was arresied on Thursday, 3Dh ult. in Hobart
Delaware county, for the murder Of his wifu undtl
Tue tohoWlhs shoe4lhE circumstances -,uH ihosdaJ
last lleaghey went home to Dinner AMI found tina
nUne had been prepared his @ffu alleging q res
sou that ahe had hn wood to sunk with The SAME
reason was assigned ny hrs' iteasney lor nut pre-
parlng supper lhereupon ne began to beat nor
Stocked hor down. throw several pliis OF water over
her. and gave her a severe blow on tho head, liz
hhally Went 70 bed taking the infant WIN him, and
leaving her all nigat upon the floor,
In tho morning. finding her sill alivS, he again
fell to beating her, and made her get tt She waf
scarcely able 10 crawl to a trundle bed where hel
hhuman husband left her all tlIy with tho infant
and little seven yeais old taking with him to tic
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