Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-08-06
From Daily Journal, 5th inst
Good for the Wholesome.

selves committee to look after the public health Fear
ing that the night air and the dogdays might be pro-
ductive of iasma and consequent Sickness they nave
been burning tar-barres to drive away the fever and
keep the people healthy. Also, other antifogmatics
have been employed.
Some folks, who have no music in their souls,--who
dead to the appreciation perception of the phlan
thropca in Others might, perhaps, set up different
tarba1rel theory and say that there something of
self in the matter-that the spos of Office were looming
up and that the very uncommon-unheard OF, and
singular element of senterest was mixed up with the
considerations which dictated the sanitary precautions
of our respected and respectable candidates for Sheriff.
This only gees to show the influence of our artificial
state of society, in nusng the baneul element OF sus
picion into all our relations We cannot credit
to the sun himself for his laudabe efforts to light and
warm this earth of Astronomers will tell you that
he is like the overgrown centre of federave system, al
ways trying to draw this fair earth of into him. in
order that he may swallow up in the mass of his great
body burn up in his fiery embrace. perfect co.,
soidatonist, while the earth, with her companions
Messrs Jupiter Saturn Uranus Mars and Mercury, to-
gether with Madame Venus and others too numerous to
MENTION animated by the States Rights impulse OF fly
ing off the handle Away with all these absurd eaousies Of
the Sum- He is good jolly old fellow of warm tenn
perament and not only warm himself but the cause of
warmth in others.
Well the tarbarrels are all burned, the parades all
paraded the speeches all spoken, the game half way
played out and all ready to be closed by shutdown. If
we are little suspicious the tar-barrel question,
little more so than christians ought to be- still we trust
we are christians and repudate the spirit of the pagans
when denouncng woe to the vanquished. Let the vic
tor, whoever he may be, be satisfied with his victory,
and the vanqushed console themselves with the reec
ton that there has been free fight and open field with
plenty of tar-barrels
And torchight procession is beautiful sight, es-
pecialy going up or coming down HILL when the long
line of the lights is made plainly visible in the darkness
of an unmooned night when the very struggling char
acter of the line gives fitting irregular pcturesques
ness to the whole and the prolonged cheers mel
lowed by the distance like the faro of the ocean
Fat lghtwood and tarbarres form institution and
we repeat again that their employment by our candi
ddates for the Sheri1alty sanitary precaution
adopted for the protection of the public health the
ddates being actuatcd thereto by motives of the high
est and most dsnterested philanthropy. Hurrah for
the nominees, Ellis, Ashe, Moore and Bryan
baE@ Some days ago remarked upon the excessive
heat and the danger of Ldugng in strong fiery liquids,
saying that ii people 1cW drink something, and of that
there is no sort of question: would be much advsa
Bile drink light winesor beer than erocous chainght-
ming whiskey fighting brandy blue ruin GIN There
fore did venture to express the hope that the day
of light, cheap domestic wines at hand when also,
small beer would not be unknown. We predcated this
wish upon the certain conviction that something Or 9th
nf u4iY
as they will have narcotics Tobacco is certainly bet
ter than opium hemp juice. Light beverages arc
better than almost unminglcd alcohol.
But that is not the thing exactly. We find in Har-
per for August an article headed "Vagabondzing in
Belgium. The writer speaking of the universal beer
drinking habits of the people there instances certain
experience Of his in Antwerp, by way Of Illustration
He says:
One day in Antwerp asked if they had good water
thera A washer-Woman sitting near me, with larger
pot in hand promptly answered, "Oh yes, ex-
celent water all the Engishmen here bring such
gray dirty shirts but twice washing here brings
them white as milk A sevedore close by, seeing by
my countenance that my question not fully
3D. undertook to set the matter right by saying, oh
yes we have rsrate water only that sometimes in win
ter it gets hard top that the vessels can't at ALL
then comes tight times for all us commercial people -
The landlady (who is also cook and barnmaid)
corrected the ignorant, uncivil PERSONS it was
not the rverwater the seaWater that the gentleman
was inquirng after at ALL but it the welwaer, that
the gentleman wished to know about and proceeded to
inform the gentleman that it was the very incest
water in the known world, and made the incest
soup Gust by adding little beef and cabbage and tur
nps and potatoes and few such little thngs that ever
gentleman partook of But the gentleman himself cor
rected and startled the whole company las much
heavy company could be startled,) by asking, "Was
it good to drink" Each heavy head swung slowly upon
its heavy shoulders each heavy eye was aimed directly
at the queriss face and stretched wide open with stark
astonishment At such crisis only the landlord had
1Uords to offer That important and heaviest individual
of them al-he who seldom designed to make long
speeches whose placid nature seldom rufned-whC
eemed it pious to drink and smoke and who devouty
followed the path of duty-he who, saturated like 9
sponge sweed from the topmost bristle to the tips
his toes with honest lager-he whose favor had ASST
duousy courted and whose respondent the face had be-
gun to beam bengrly DER my foreign faus-now turn
ed upon me looks of pity and contempt and stretch
ing the double chin full half an inch above his massive
chest in his sharpest tones demanded To what ?? ther
feeling that he had full we'll resented the serious insult
to his profession and his country he slowly turned upor
his broad fiat heels elevated his ponderous elbow, con
Meeting spring turned up his face his jaw dropped down
his eye rolled up, short faint gurge long sigh
and he glanced serenely through the bottom of larg
glass tumber. But | never reganed the great man.
esteem nor do l. to this day. know whether the water
Belgium is fit to drink
13~ There is good old common sense rule, so gOot
that some folks, outspoken than strictly reverent
have called it the eleventh commandment. That rule i
embodied in an injunction expressed in the four word
following, Mind your own business" which we com
mend to the earnest consideration of those very careful
aboutotherpcope papers of the opposition
who are so drcadtuy exercised the fact that MI