The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-08-29

Inc CAuu0TGville, Ga., Herald: One OF
the most successfnl planters In Georgia gave
MS, some time aimee, the secret Of his al
ways having o amoke- house well stored
with good bacon. Said he, "A few years
back found in the spring that my stock of
hogs would be insufficient for my next
years supply Of bacon. Early in the
season planted an acre of good, prcduc-
tive land 10 speckle peas. These cniti-
waited well, and as soon as the peas began
to harden tarned my hogs upon them for
an hour or so every morning. l never
saw hogs improve as fast in my life. This
pea patch, together with the pasture after
my oat crop had been harvested, last
until could open a field where the corn
had been gathered. After my pastures.
put my fattening hogs upon corn for Q
short time. The result was, that instead
of being, as feared in the spring, short Of
meat for one year, / made an abundance
OF excellent bacon for three gears, and bet
ter meat never raised in my life. have
fpointing ont the patch of lnxuriant peas
upon which his hogs were then feastiogo
and find that it pays wonderfully" When
bacon can be raised SO easily and at so lit
tie cost, is not strange that 80 many smoke
houses apon the farms of Georgia are en-
PITY one half of the year,
PENNIES IN THE SoUrH.-The Atlanta
(Ga.,) Herald has started an evening edi-
ton at three cents per copy, and thus de-
scribes some of the experiences sustained:
cit was stated in the prospectus of that
paper that change in coppers would be
given to all purchasers as far as the specie
resources of the city will ad NIT. After q
careful search of the town, we were unable
to find over four dollars worth of pennies
in Atlsnta. There is a volume of homily
in this statement, and the consequences
that it carries. It is our opinion that
people that recognizes no piece of money
less than nickel can never know what
true thriftiness and economy mean. For
years we have been epjoining the people
TO the use of pennies and the various frac
tions of the nickel. We have now deter
mined to purchase aud bring here a large
nnmb. Of pennies with which all the Her
aid newsboys will be supplied, and with
which they will make change when q
nickel is offered them for the evening
paper. In this way we expect to gradually
work the humble but useful cent into
general circulation, and feel assured that
it will be found when they have become q
usual machine of purchase, Tat three
fourths of the articles for which we now pay
a nickel can be bought for a fractional part
thereof"
In New York city, says the World, there
are eight thousand places licensed for
the sale of liquors. Most of them dispense
the vilest poisops. Many are music balls,
worse than the old Broadway concert sa-
looms, and frequented by the same class of
scapegraces who were ruined in those
glittering dens. To some are attached
small gambling rooms, where scores of
habitual criminals and Migrants gather
nightly to prey upon one another and con-
coct all manner of deviltres. At night
the windows of these places have the
| fascination of basilisk's eyes to thousands
upon thousands of the restless, thirsty,
discontinued poor. Some have money to
buy pint or glass of the stuff in bottles
! labelled before them, but can lily afford it.
Others have not enough to pay for a nights
lodging. Upon this multitude descends
the terrible temptation to steal that they
may drink-that they may bay an hour OF
| two IF blind forgetfulDess. Every days
arrests show part of the direct results oil
this temptation. If Mayhew's estimate be
correct, that intoxicating liquors are at
agent in three-fourths of the crimes com
mttted in large cities, then the effects OF
bad liquor and of longing for bad liquor il
New York City are, according to the po
lice statistics, something fearful. OF the
ASIA arrests in 1872, including 63 fol-
| homicide, 459 for burglary, 81 for arson, 81
for forgery, 1l9 for highway robbery, / so;
for grand larceny, SO for robbery, the RES
for every kind of criminal Offences, nearly
20, 900 were traceable to persons more OF
less badly addicted to drink.