, 1877-06-20
JAMAICA.

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to a close, has not been uniformly good.
In come parishes there has been a fair
return, but in others the heavy rains at
the beginning Of the year have caused the
the crops to fall very short. We notice
however that one estate alone, "Bushy
Park" which has ine system of irrigation,
has made 4 crop e su5.r and rum worth
Sl25,00O.
There is every prospect Of good coffee
crop, and a large quantity Of tobacco Of
good quality has been reaped.
Messrs. Lanyier & Co., Of Kingston, have
received a testimonial from the Philadel-
phia Centenary Exhibition for the Choco-
ia.e prepared by them from native cocoa.
The entire Island of Jamaica has been
visited for about three weeks by an "almost
continual shower of RAIN" enough to stop
the usual amount of business in Kingston.
We extract the following from the
GleQner
There is one Inconvenience of a serious
nature that sometimes attends an inordi.
nate fall Of rain. 1t is the " aftermath, -"
and is sometimes witnessed in northern
ATTITUDES, in the form Of an after crop of
grass, wheat, barley, etc., after the in
gathering of the regular harvest. This
secondary crop never amounts, and can
not amount to much, so as to be profta-
lie, because before it can be harvested, if
it be worth harvesting, the first frosts Of
winter are on it, rendering it impossible
to convert it into hay, without which it is
necessarily worthless. Two or three
years ago, a cognate phenomenon was
witnessed in regard to the canes in some
Of the Northside parishes, which showed
symptoms resembling the aftermath in one
important point. 1t IS true that rat
looming canes is one Of the most desirable
things in this island, for the reason that
rattoons make the best sugar. But the
"aftermath, " SO called, must not be con-
founded with rattooning. Rattoons grow
from the roots of the canes left in the
ground, after the canes themselves have
been cut, carted away, and converted
into sugar and rum. The aftermath on
the contrary, is a subsidiary growth from
the still standing canes, caused by a super
abundance of moisture in the soil, and
it necessarily rObs the principal plant of
eacchar;ae matter in order to feed its own
worthless self. 1t is, in fact, a different
manifestation of +" the Scotchman h|ugging
the Creole, " &c illustrated in the wild fg
tree entwiniaG SCI. round the ceiba or
cotton tree, so.aIng its juice and flourish
ing, while the ceiba dies from exhaustion.'
From Calls News Letter we take the
subioined account Of danger. and providen.
tial deliverance through the heroism of a
Mr.. Davis:
"On Wednesday about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon, Major Locock, Royal Engineers,
drove down in bis carriage with Mrs. Lo-
cock and daughters from Montgomery
Corner to the Hope Road. The blinkers
broke and the horses took fright, gnlloping
away with the ladies, and leaving the
Major and the coachman behind, they
having aIigbted for the purpose of replac.
ing the bIinkers.-Tho horses dashed for
ward with frighttul rapidity, and several
attempts at different corners to stop them
by wayfarers on the road proved futile,
when Mr.. Hugh Davis, riding slowly on
horseback from the Retreat Pen, st. An.
drew, was overtaken above the Bamboo
Pen, on the Hope Road, and, hearing the
cries Of the ladies, galloped alongside of
the vehicle, making frequent attempts to
lay hold Of the name of the horses. ter
there were no reins nor bIinkers. At last,
at the risk of his life, he succeeded in