, 1877-08-04

SVSASRy S&S "a SSS6 WASA@S
Of the colonists."
It is asserted that no less than seven
teen constabIes were found asleep on
their beats in Kingston in one night. No
wonder, according to the following extra.
ordinary statements of tie News Letter;
"MedlcaI opinion gives it hat ten per
cent. OF the c%onstabuIary Force in Kingston
suffer from disease and sickness in conse-
quence OF the improper working of the
men tor fourteen nights together from 9
at night until S next morning without
any relief. In wet weather this service
has to be performed in all the rain with
only q cape for @ covering, which is not
even waterproof, and without a change OF
any kind. Then after these fourteen
nights they have seven DAYS of day service
from haIfpast 4 a. m. until 9 O'Clock D. m.
The men only get 2s. Sd. a day for this
combined service, and for an offence can
be fined 10 days pay and shut up in the
cells for 7 days, while their wives and
children starve and cry aloud for breaI.
Is it any wonder after this that seventeen
cons;ables are found sleepin, on their beats
IN one night in Kingston, or that wharf
and store robberies are common 2"
Lieutenant Governor Rlthworth seems
to continue to make himself acceptable.
He is considered to lose no opportunity
OF showing that he is disposed to do the
best for Jamaica" and to give his "though;-
fuI attention" to any grievar ces.
We learn from the Cleaner that the
jamaica Street Car Company is about ex-
tending its line. The financial state of
the Company is most satisfactory. By a
re port lately presented to the shareholders,
the profits up to 30th. June on the ~invess-
ed capital are about 90 per cent. per
annum
Two seamen OF the steamer Tasmantau
We're discovered on The outward voyat e
DrOaching the cargo, and stealing silks
belonging to some merchants on the Pdci.
H. COAst OF America. They were brought
to Jamaica for t itI, convicted, and sent9n-
ceI to lmprIsonm 3ns with penal servitude.
The annexed interesting extract is from
the Cleaner:
at WINS with much pleasure We noticed
among tn explorations by the Cartbel
Tor New York six bags of pimeut1 leaf.
This is Que of the many useful but waste
articles that admit Of util;z ltion, and we
are glad that it is beginning to DO appre
CITED. A considerable proportion Of the
aroma ic principle for which the berry
called aIlsPice" in Britain and the United
States-is valued, resides in the leaves,
which are also highly astrinsent, contain
ing fannin TO some extent. 1t is said that
Russian leather is indebted to the use of
pimentO in its tanning for its peculiar aro.
ma: Another property of the PIN INTO,
and which, of course, is contained, to q
modified extent, in its leaves. was ~illustra-
ted during the exceptionally severe winter
OF the Crimean War, when the Russian
soldiers, by the free use of powdered pi-
mento in their boots, warded of the severe
effects of the cold in their feet. Should
the expectation by the Czari5e! turn out
TO be successful in o pecuniary sense, the
plmentO grower OF Jamaica, who has the
absolute monopoly of the article, which
grows in no other country, neei not des-
pair whenever his crop of berry happens
to fall short. seeing that be can measure.
bly, bring up the ~lee-way-to use q nau-
teal term in vogue among us-by the sale
OF the leaves, which are never known to
fail There can be no doubt that the pi-
mento leaf possesses very useful medicinal
properties, especially to the convaleScent