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Marsh Malaria.

The following, which we take from
Harper's Weekly, gives some interesting
facts with regard to a theory first
broached during the war by DIR. J. III.
Salisbury, then resident of Cleveland
O., pending Investigations as to the origin
of chills and fever, which were much
talked of at the time. We believe he sue
ceeded in cultivating this disease in ordi
nary fower-pots, and propagating it also
by bringing persons within the influence
of the disease-producing plants:
One hypothesis in regard to the origin
of marsh malaria refers this to the devel
opmentof certain microcopical growth,
which are supposed, by their dissent
nation, to effect a lodgment in the human
system, and there set in motion organic
changes, producing the various phenom-
ena of disease.
The subject has been elucidated by
the recent researches, in Rome, of Messrs.
Langi and Terrigi, who have been study
ing the microscopical fauna of the Ro-
man marshes. They find, in the cells of
alga collected there, certain dark gran
ules penetrating into the endochrome, or
chlorophyl of alge having this sub
stance. These become more and more
developed with the death and decay
of the alga, and finally turn black, and
either cause or accompany condition
of putrefaction which results in their
extensive dissemination.
According to the authors mentioned,
the marshes of the Campagna, in the
winter season, develop large masses of
this alge, which become decomposed by
the drying up of the ground, afterward
producing phanerogamous land plants.
Toward autumn the marshy portions of
the undried land exhibit corrupting
layer of slime, abounding in the dark
granules referred to various animal
infusoria. These are found in abun-
dance in the atmosphere dust of the Cam
pagna, and are largely developed from
it by cultivation.
The pigment granules found in the
liver and spleen of individuals suffering
from malaria, have similar properties to
those of the ferment granules in ques-
ton, and they can be developed quite
similarly. Terrigi has found that the
best method of preventing the decay and
development of these granules is in the
application of chloride of lime, of lime,
or of chloral. A filtering Of the 'atmos-
phere several hundred feetabove the sur
face of the earth, revealed the presence
of these bodies, which also appeared in
the liver and spleen of guinea-pigs that
had been kept for some time at the level
| of the marsh.
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and let it boil till the alum is dissolved
then apply it hot with a brush to all
cracks, closets, bedsteads and other
pieces, where any insects are found
Ants. bed-bugs, cockroaches and creep
ing things are killed by it; while there
is no danger of poisoning the family OF
injuring the property.
Vegetables, the edible parts of which
ripen under ground, such as potatoes, car
rots, and parsnips, are heat-producing,
cooling. The latter, including especially
asparagus, lettuce, peas, beans, tomatoes
corn and all fruits, should be freely
eaten in summertime. Meat should not
be eaten oftener than twice day at the
most, and lean is preferable. Tomatoes
are particularly healthy as summer
diet
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GLEANZNGS FROM THE MUSE.
ADoNIRAn PODGE.

Adoniram POdgp was as lank and lean
As a withered up stalk Of corn;
And his face was as solemn as ever seen
Sincc the days when Adam was born.
He lived on a farm in the edge Of town,
And managed to keep on his legs
by the getting Of money and salting il down
When he sold his butter and eggs.
His nose was as long as piece of chalk,
And his eyes were little and gray,
And he hacked when he opened his mouth to talk,
And twitched in an awkward way.
His voice was as sharp a steel-spring trap,
And his head was minus Of hair,
But he covered II up with an old fur cap
That his grandfather used TO wear.
Adoniram Podge got a liberal price
For the truck that he took TO town;
The top Of his measure was always nice,
But shabbier deeper down;
And his wood was straight on the top OF the load,
And crooked and gnarled below;
But the heavier part, on a rutty road,
VIII always shake down, you know.
Adoniram's Bible was worn and old
From the usage that it had got;
But a piece Of knowledge that never told,
Was, whether he used 1t or mott
II 20, his memory served him wrong,
For he was not much Of a doer
To the needy and friendess, who came along,
With the story that they were poor.
capital man in the Church, was Podge,
To groan when the minister prayed;
And ne knew 10 a T the collection dodge,
And how much money he paid;
And he had, In frame IN MS DARK Spare-rOOm,
Kept clean and neat by his wife,
A paper which stated a certain sum
Had made him member for life
AdOnram Podge kept hired man,
And he fed him potatoes and beans,
That were kept cooked up in big tin pan,
Along with some pig-weed green's;
And he made him work from the dawn Of day,
Till the sun took its final lurcb,
And docked him. then, part Of his pay,
To use for the good Of the Church.
Adoniram finally died, one night,
And left the farm TO his son,
Who does, as near as true son might,
The things his father had done;
And he daily drives to the market town
With the mare and her spawned legs,
Aud he gathers money and salts it down,
The product Of butter and eggs.
And he keeps the Bible and old,
And he reads it without doubt;
But the leaf containing the Rule Of God
II somehow another torn out;
And blotted all Of the verses which speak
Sharp things of the tricky doer,
While through its pages 'twere vain to seek
For a word Of cheer to the poor.
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ST. JOSEPH Herald: A Masonic Lodge
in Indiana, was presided over by
Master who had an exaggerated notion
of discipline. One night he met his
Lodge in called meeting (not member
absent) to instruct them in, the work.
Teaching them the use of the gavel, he
had just called them up with three
knocks, when he leaned too far back, fell
through to the ground, four stories, and
broke his neck. Picked up next morn
ing, he was buried decently, but not a
Mason came to the funeral. More strange
still, not Mason appeared any more in
that village. 1t was inexplicable. Forty
women left widows, two hundred and
twenty children left orphans, eighty
four merchants left in the lurch with
unpaid bills. Twenty years after that
somebody went up into the fourth story,
broke open the door and beheld the lodge,
a lodge of skeletons! Strange, but true,
they had strictly obeyed the orders of the
w. NJ, and, waiting for the knock to
seat them, starved to death. Each was
standing in an attitude of respectful
attention, looking to the east" and had
not pitying citizens taken them down
they would have been standing there
still,
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Swans Singing Before they Die.

The story is old about swans singing
just before their death, and our readers
are doubtless familiar with the child's
inquiry in the beautiful stanzas of Mrs
Sigourney, copied into some of our
school-books:
"What is that, mother?
The swan, my love- =
He is floating down from his native grove;
No loved one now, no nesting nigh,
He is floating down by himself to die;
Death darkens his eye and unplumes his WINGS
Yet his sweetest song is the last he sings"
There is also a caustic epigram, by
Coleridge we believe, upon bad verse
maker, which embodies the pretty leg
end, as follows:
Did certain poets die before they sing.'
But the swan figures in the ancient
poets as we'll, and Sir Thomas Browne,
in alluding to his musical habits, re-
marks that he was well known as a min
strel long before the Sirens. Hence it
was after his death Orpheus, the master
of song, became swan; and since then
departed poets have been affectionately
called by his name. Pindar was the
Heliconian Swan of Thebes, Virgil the
Swan of Mantua, and Shakespeare the
Swan of Avon. Horace called him the
bird of Apollo, and describes him as
| drawing the car of Venus over the
waves. Homer compares the Greeks
when leaving their ships and rushing to
battle, to
| The milk-white swans Asus' watery plains :"
and Aristotle asserts that the souls of
poets after death pass into swans, and
retain the gift of harmony which they
possessed in human form. A German
myth informs us that swans soar over
and around the heads of heroes, singing
to them, as though Walhalla were sum
moning them to immortality. There is
pleasant fable about the dying swan
being visited by stork, who told him it
was contrary to nature to sing so much
out of season, and asked the reason for
it. Why" said the swan, am now
entering into a state where l shall no
longer be in danger of either snares,
guns, or hunters; and who would not re-
joice at such deliveranceY'
The voice of the swan is harsh, un-
musical one, and the story about its dy-
ing notes being changed into song is, OF
course, only fancy. Yet in support OF
the story, we clip the following extract
from an exchange:
n sporting 1rlend recently returned
from foray upon the Potomac River
below Mt. Vernon, was the guest of q
venerable and highly intelligent lady
who has always lived on the Potomac
Speaking of the swan, she gave it as hel
decided opinion that this bird was in the
, habit of singing or making a plaintivt
| noise when dying. The reason she gave
r for entertaining this belief was, that OF
, very many occasions in the last fifty
years, she had been awakened at nigh
5 by sweet and exceedingly sad noise
E something like the tones of fageole
| coming over the water, and that OF
t every subsequent morning dead swal
e was found to be floating on the water, O
: to have been washed ashorep'
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

LAFAYETTE HUGHES registered in
the Lindell Hotel, ST. Louis, and told
the clerk that he had come there from
his home in Chicago to stop drunken
ness. He had been on a long spree, and
was very nervous from the effect of it.
He deposited all his money in the safe,
so that he could not buy liquor, and
went to the theater, hoping that the en-
tertainment might divert his thoughts
from his craving for alcohol. Late at
night he demanded his money, saying
that he could no longer resist his appe-
tite, and having obtained it went out
and got very drunk. On the following
morning, being sober and discouraged,
he killed himself.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-08-09

AFTER an experience of over twenty-five
years, many leading acknowledge
that the GRAFENBERG MARsHALL's Uterine
CATHoLICoN is the only known certain
remedy for diseases to which women are
subject. The GRAFENBERG VEGETABLE
Pills, the most popular remedy of the day for
biliousness, headache, liver complaint and
diseases of digestion. Sold by all druggists.
Send for almanacs. Grafenberg Co., New
York
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New YORK Commercial AdUertiser: A
daily chicken train has been started on
the Pennsylvania Railroad. They have
passenger Cochin the rear, and loco
motive to pullet.
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The Markets.

I.-Flour-Patent, SO 5O@1O; fancy
extra S. sO@5 so superns, s5@5 25 low a grades,
So 25@3 rs. Rye Flour, So S5(94 40. Grain-Wheat,
prime to choice red, 81 151 2o prime to choice hill
Corn, 47@49c., rye, new, No. 2 60c., track; old
rye, No 3 &c. in elevator. Oats, choice white
bushels; prime to choice mixed are offered at ele-
vator at 33@36c., and prime to choice white at 500
35cc. for white on the spot Hay, prime to choice
timothy, S9@13. Mess pork, S13 75@14. Lard, So
@1O1ac. Cotton, 1O1a@1313c.
family, SIS 25@6; No. 1, Sc 5O@6 75; fancy, $40
so. 1 Grain-Wheat Wheat 81 So@1 l. 40; Corn; 5S@55c ;
81 ST. a@ii 5Ss Ga5 a. hsF aaE si@l2 Mess pork
INDIANAPOLIS-Flour- process 50 75@
10 25 fancy, IS 1903 25; family s. 75@S 25; extra,
Sc 5d7 25; low grades S3 25a5. Grain-Wheat, No
3 81 25; oats, new, 25@27c. rye, 50@55c; corn, A
@45c Clear rib rides, 74e. shoulders 52se. boxed,
and 51sc. loose. Sugar-cured Hams 919(61014c.
Lard, prime steam, 9a91sc.; prime kettle, 94a10e.
NEW YoRK.-Flour-No 2 and No. 3, ss@45o;
superfine State and Western State, Si@4 65; COM
good Western and State, S5 75 a6 10; good to
choice Western State, Sc 20@6 So; common to choice
white wheat Western Sc 40d6 65; fancy white wheat
Western extra Sc 70@S 65; common to good extra
Ohio, s5 SOds; common to choice st. Louis, SIS so
@9 IS; Minnesota patent process, extra good
| Rye Flour, 81 65@5 10. Gran-Wheat, 81 4s69
| 60; rye, No. 2 Western, 69c.; corn, 561a961c.
oats, 25@soe. Mess pork, new, s14 IS. Lard, DID,
| PHILADELPHlA.-Flour - Western superfne,
| Sc; Western extras; 81; Minnesota extra
family 81 75@s Sc; Pennsylvania extra family, SIS 25
@9; high grades, S9@10 Grain-Whe heat, No. .
red and amber, 81 55@l 60. Rye, Pennsylvania,
70@75c. Corn, yellow Western, 6ic.; mixed, 62(6
Csc. Oats, white Western, 400 4Sc.; mixed Western
S9@41c.; Pennsylvania white, 42@45c. Mess pork,
new, Si5G15 25. Petroleum. refined 13146131%c.
S'foCK MARKETS.
| CINCINNATI-Catte-C Common to medium, 50 25
al; good to choice butchers grades, 81 50@5; fair
to good shippers, So 25 Sheep and Lambs-Com-
mon to choice sheep 50 5O@4 50 fair to extra lambs
| $3 50@5. Hogs-Common, 81 5O@4 so; fair to good
light, "a 10d5 25; fair to good packing grades, S5
as 20; selected butchers. s5 20G5 IL.
| BUFFALO.-The market for Beef Cattle is dull
Sheep and Lambs-Canada sheep, IS 12is; best
Canada lambs Sc 121a. Hogs-Iorkers s. %. Yards
generally bare stock.
NEW Y0RK.-Slles made of several carloads o
choice Kentucky steers the best drove in the market
| 12I3c.; poor to Medium native steers S34112S4c.
size; fat steers sold at III SC. Sheep and Lambs
| Extreme sange for lambs, 5@7c. per H.; sheep,
| (G715c.
| WOolA-We quote the latest Philadelphia, rates
Ohio, Pennsylvania. and West Virginia, douhl,
| extra and above, iS@50c. extra 46d lSc. medium
extra, i6@l47i &C.; coarse extra, Zoe; New York
Michigan, Indiana, and Western, fine, i61I7c.; me
dium fine, i6pi7c; coarse fine, 40c; comhing
washed, 50655c.; combing, unwashed S7dS9c; Can
ada combing 50@55c,; fine unwashed, 299S2c
coarse and medium unwashed, S0@S5s4c.; tub
washed, 43@45c.
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PONDS EXTRACT.-The marvellous vege-
table Pain Destroyer, has a career of thirty
years as standard medium. 1t has made a
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THE gourmet talks eloquently about
truffied quails, pate de .toie gras and other
such delicacies. Pin him down, though, and
you'll find he admits the supreme importance
of good bread, biscuit, rolls, etc. Here all
agree on the basis of true gastronomy. To be
sure of the most delicious things baked from
flour use DoOLEY's YEAST POWDER.
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THE proprietors of Hateh's Universal
Cough Syrup gave me the virtual formula OF
this medicine. Knowing from this that 1t
must be of value, I recommended it to my
customers. An experience with it OF six
years has shown me that it has no superior.
/ have sold by far more bottles during that
six years than of any similar preparation. l
consider it safe in all cases.
W. H. SCOTT, NJ. D., Friendship, n. Y.
Sold by JOHN D. PARK d SONS. Gin. 0.
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The story is old about swans singing
just before their death, and our readers
are doubtless familiar with the child's
inquiry in the beautiful stanzas of Mrs.
Sigourney, copied into some of our
school-books:
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Co., Proprietor, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-17
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past, with errors Of Republican leaders or
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can never cease 10 be true to Republican
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money, the sanctity OF the National faith,
and equal Justice TO all classes Mt the South,
which formed the cornerstone of President
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THE SUN.
1877. NEW YORK. 1877.
1871.
THE TRIBUNE,
NEW YORK.

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ing the year l-17 will be the same as dur
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the counting of votes, enforced by militia
~ violence. IL will endeavor to supply
its readcrs-a body now not far from a
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reporters from Washington, especially,
Will be full, accurate, and fearless; and it
viii doubtless continue to deserve and en-
JOY the hatred of those who thrive by
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will cndeavor 10 merit the confidence of
the public by defending the rights of the
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Missionary Baptist.

Rev. J. W. MELTON breaches at Coal
Springs, al Sabbath in each month and
Saturday bcfore-At Sharon, near Lisbon.
4th Sabbath of each month and Saturday
hciorc-At Homer on the Ri Sabbath and
Saturday before of each month.
REV. A. HARRIS breaches at Antioch,
LIST Sabbath of each month-At Rocky
Springs, 81 Sabbath of each month and
Saturday beture-At New Friendship, 4th
Sabbath OF each month and Saturday be-
fore.
Rrv. W, c. MORELAND breaches at
Athens, LIST Sabbath in each month and
Saturday before.
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-17
Town of Homer:
Jury List for October Term Dist. Court.

STATE Of Louisiana, Parish Of Claiborne.
IN this the 10Th day of July, i.77, we, the
" the undersigned Commissioners, pursu-
ant Ia an Act relative To Jurors, met al the
Courthouse in the town of Homer to draw
the general vcniIe. .iRiors to serve at the
regular term Of the District Court in and
for the parish of claiborne, commencing
on the THIRD MONDAY of OCTOBER
next, being the 18th day of said month,
when the following named persons were
drawn according TO law as Jurors for the
trst week to-Wit:
Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1877-10-17
Come Up-and-Settle.

4 hare a number Of Accounts made
,eth the Parish Recorder for ,rork
done, Transferred to me by Mr.. Ram.
sey tn settlement. These claims are
tor CASH WORK, and should hare
been paid ,chen the cork ,oas done
re bills are mostly small, and those
ieno o'ee them can pay If they niU.
1 icant the money. So come sp and
settle at once, else they ciH be placed
." tie hands Of Collector.
Sept. 26, Is77.
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RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
Homer Circuit-M. 3. Church South.
Rry L A. PARKER. PASTOR.

Tulip Church - First Sunday IN each
mouth, at II o'cl'k. d. m. Hesrd's Church
Services same day AZ above, at - p. m.
Homer-Second and Fourth Sundays in
each month, at IL o'crk, a. M, and Second
Sundays at . p. IN. Arizona-Third Sun.
day, mt IL q. m, and sp. IN. Williams
Chapel-Fourth Sunday, at 81 p. m.