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Holiday journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1879-1879, 1879-12-17

The numerous superstitions that still
finger among us, constitute very in
teresting, though painful, field for
Thought and reflection. A few of the
most popular in connection with love
and marriage we place before our
readers.
On st. Marks Eve the custom still
fingers among the maidens of North
amptonshire to make the damb cake.
The number of the party never ex-
ceeds three. They meet in silence to
make the cake, and as soon as theclock
strikes twelve they each break por-
ton Off to eat; and. when done, they
walk up to bed backward, without
speaking word-for, il one speaks
the spell is broken. Those that are to be
married see the likeness of their sweet
hearts hurrying after them. Those
that are to die unmarried neither hear
nor see anything; but they have
terrible dreams, which are sure to be
of new-made graves, winding sheets,
and churchyards, and of rings that will
fit NO finger, or which, il they do,
crumble into dust as sooR as put on.
There is another dumb ceremony
also prevalent in Northamptonshire of
eating q yolk of an egg In silence, and
then filling the shell with salt, when
the sweetheart is sure to make his
visit in somSway or other before morn
ing.
The young women Of Scotland, In
former times, determined the figure
and size Of their husbands by drawing
aabbages bIndfold on All Hallow Even.
,or Halloween, the 81st Of 0ctober,)
and, Ike the English hinging nuts into
hhe fire. tits mentioned by Burns that
"the first ceremony OF Halloween is
pulling each o stock or plant of kali.
They must go out hand-in-hand, with
eyes shut, and pull the first they meet
with. 1t being big or little. straight or
crooked, is prophetic of the size and
shape of the grand object of all their
spells-the husband or wife If any
yird, or earth, stick to the root, that is
tocheT, or fortune; and the taste Of the
cnstoc-that is, the heart of the stem
Is indicative Of the natural temper and
disposition. Lastly, the stems-or -
give them their ordinary appellatiOn--
the rHnts, are placed somewhere above
the head of the door. and the Christian
names of the people whom chance
brings into the house, are, according to
the priority Of placing the runts, tie
names in question"
The Welsh have a play in which the
youth of both sexes seek for an even.
leaved sprig of the ash; and tho fret OF
either sex that finds and calls out Cy-
Hiper, is answered BY the first of the
other that succeeds and these two, il
the omen fails not; are to be Joined In
| wedlock. ~
Burning the nuts was once favorite
charm in Scotland. They name the lad
and lass to each particular nut, as they
lay them in the fire, and accordingly az
they burn quietly together, or start
from beside one another, the course and
Issue Of the courtship will be. &
In ireland, when the young women
wished to know if their lovers were
faithful, they put three nuts upon thu
bars of the CRATE, naming the nuts afte
the lovers. If the nut cracked o.
jumped. the lover would prove unfaith
full If 1t began to blaze or burn, h
had . regard for the person making
the trial. If the nuts named after tn
girl and her lover burned together
they would be married ISL.
Holiday journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1879-1879, 1879-12-17

The article Is telling its own story IN the handa
OF thousands who are using It with niost gratIfy-
ing and encouraging results;
Nit. GrsrAvUR =. HALL. OF the Oates Opera
Troupe writes; "After six weeks use am cona
WINGED, Is are also my comrades. that your CAR
OF air where had none for years"
n. McCLARRAS. Sixth Avenue Pharmacy,
Plttshlrg, Pa, saysi 1.-THE cool effects from tile
use Of CAnBoLlNE are brought TO my notice every
day 10 such an extent as To Justify me in reeom-
intending II TO my most Intimate friends.n
Holiday journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1879-1879, 1879-12-17

CAROLINE O. G';si q: s s.%s .''f.'''.
nAppnI IAlE Has q magical effect On gray
uAnDULIIV6 hairs.
nhpnflI IAE Is free from Irritating sad pei.
VftnDUkifVG sonous ohomioas.
CARBOLINE l.: The S.i G.''''' "'''''""'"' for
nAppnH lkIE Has been Endorsed by the high.
OhnpULIENE est medical sutherity.
nApp1I IAIE Gives weak and slekly half Ne
V1iloVkiiaE gloss and vleor Of youth.
nhpnnI IAIE Restores faded or gray half 20
UnnDOhlfSE liz natural color.
NkQIf1l tAiE Is not dYe-rsstores the hair
UHnpUlitNE naturally.
nApRnl IklE curss ell Dlssssss 81 he
uHnpuLlENE Scalp.
CARB0LIhE EE ::s .s .si A''' moist and he
CARB0LINE s Ma s.. 'si h.'' look ''''''
nAppnE LAIC Delightful, fhuraAt, and sure
UR1NDVe=tkNE all the time.
Holiday journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1879-1879, 1879-12-17
@ a e R O L T M e

j. now. presented 10 the .pubiie Without fear o.
SontrHdittipn The hest Restorative aud BeAutis
Price oNH DOLLAR per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09
Home and Farm.

MEsQUIT LAND AND WHEAT.-Mr.
G. c. Watterson, of Live Oak, Bastrop
county, who, some time since, called
attention through the STATESMAN to
the fact that the mesquit lands of
Texas offer the best of soil for the pro-
duetion of wheat, sustains his asser-
ton, AS follows: SAN things have
families, or species, as the horse, the COW
and the hog. So has grain-oats, rye,
corn, cotton and wheat. The horse has
been improved to the racer, the saddle
and draught horse; the COW to the val
liable Durham and Devon, etc. the
aboriginal hog to the beautiful porker;
and We read that the peach, the most
delicious of all fruits, was originally q
poisonous fruit. We do not know
when or hew wheat was produced, but
we do know that it is grain plant,
with straw and blades, and the grain
composed of starch, gluten and the
germ. The mesquit grass has the same
straw, blades, stems, boards, seed,
starcq, gluten and germ; in q
word, all that the wheat has
AIesquit grass is composed of the same
CuGL4iCdlo THAI MuGdb lSs no bhulc
soils that will make one will produce
the other, and for these reasons adj
vocate wheat culture in Southwestern
Texas. Aside from this wheat i'm
proves land; the straw is good cattle
the bran is good cow, hog or
horse feed, and flour is very passsble
food for,msn. Commercially flour has
been imported to country whence it
should be exported. Cotton is low =,
the merchants and brokers have "cor-
neredn on it till cotton has ''corneI eGi''
them. The North and West had q
market for their flour and pork, till
they reversed the production by the
war, and now the South should be
self-sustaining, which she soon will
be, if we viii diversity our crops and
plant more wheat"
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

A New York letter says: -"'Unfa-
vorable advices are coming from many
of the Southern cities that have iater-
est to pay on their bonded indebted7
ness on or aboaS the first of January.
Their creditors are largely in this city
aud naturally there is no little anxiety
in eonsequeueeS-Gpto this time there
is no assurance that even New Orleans
will beAble totaise the less than $780,.
600 to meet the january coupons on
the State debt, while .frem Charles
ton, Savannab, Macon, Memphis
and other points there are iptimas
tons not less discouragiug. Mean
while there is a great dead
of telegraphing between here aud there.
One OF the leading bahks'in this city
is understood to be q large holder-o Of
the New leansobligatious alluded to,
and it has about given MP the hope of
seeing the money. Pie bad effect of
this loss Of credit by these Southern
communities will be serious draw
back to their prosperity for a long
while to come. In some cases. itais
feared, creditors wilfhave to submit 10
q ruinous scaling down OF their 0bli-
cations, or run the risk ofloeing every
thing. by repudiAtioos NJ i'5la'' -
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09


The recent snow storm at Buffalo
seems TO have been of phenomenal vio-
lence.. With the mercury at six de-
grees only above zero on Tuesday morn
ing, at IL o'clock q snow squall struck
the city and continued with, little in
Permission until, Thursday morning,
and was in some places twelve feet
deep. Says the Buffalo Courier: "The
snow, which came in sharp, icy nee
dies, was so thick that it was impossi-
bic to see distance of ten feet, while
a tifty-mile gale swept the flakes so
tiercely into the faces of those who
were abroad as to cause intense pair.
The scene in the streets at this time
was something unprecedented. Rec
pie ran and, shouted and sang as if
they were intoxicated. Gray-hsired
ladies. and young giyls who had
come out to do their Christmas
shopping acted as if they had
taken laughing gas, In face the air
seemed to be surcharged. with oxygen,
and everyone felt its exhilaration and
rocked not of the cold. As the crowd
surged down Main street, for the street
was full, they seemed IN their snow
coated wrappers like creatures of some
strange, unreal world among the
clouds. The stores were almost hid
den by the whirling snowdrst, and it
was utterly impossible to recognize any
familiar shapes. Sleighs and cars
and snow; plows appeared and dhsap-
peared like ships in fog, the drivers
excited and the horses apparently little
less so. 1t was a memorable scene,
and they who witnessed or took part
in it May. esteem themselves forlu-
nate ---.- 90
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09
Alcoholic Drinks - How they In-
crease the Death Rate.

The London Pau JIqH Gazette saws
"Some medical men who entertain
very decided views as to the extent to
which alcoholic drinks contribute to
increase the death rate of the country
have been startled by the fact that in
the last report Of the Registrar-Gen-
eral, issued by DR.. Farr, tho highest
authority on vital Statistics the deaths
from alcohol in England and Wales In
1875 are set down as 1920 only, in
Guiding 402 from delirium tremens,
whereas DIR. Norman Kerr, in a paper
recently read by him before the Social
Science Congress, put the whole NOR
tality, direct and indirect, traceable to
the abuse of alcohol, at no less than
100, 600, an estimate, enormous as it
IL, IN which DR.. HardWicke, who had
also investigated the subject, con-
Cured. This discrepancy is attempted
to be explained in a paper which was
read by DR.. Thomas Morton before the
HarveIan Society on the twenty-frst
of last month, which, with the dis
cussIon that followed it, will be found
fully reported in the Aedical Press and
Circular OF December 4. The ex-
PLANTATION suggested by DR.. Nor
ton seems very natural one. DR..
Farr could only deal with the
returns which were before him; while
medical men who are brought face to
face with the individual facts on which
those returns are based know how
small proportion of the deaths really
due to drinking are certified under
such heading as intemperance. DR..
Morton has gone "behiHd the returns, "
and with the assistance of many med
ical friends, who have ransacked the
counterfoils of their certificates of
deaths, and reported to him how
many of them could be fairly set down
as caused by drink, wholly or partial
~, and applying these averages to the
number of deaths from all causes be-
tween the ages of twenty-five and sew
enty-fve, brings out the result that of
the 1913, 679 deaths from all causes no
fewer than II, 191 were wholly due to
alcohol, plus 90, 700 partially due to
tin all, 81, 900 alcoholic deaths be-
tween the agea of twenty-five and sew
enty-five. DR.. Morton, in conclusion,
suggested that the society, following
some former excellent precedents when
the committees were formed on the
subject of contagious diseases and in
FAINT mortality, with very satisfactory
results, should appoint a commit
tee to follow out the lines of inquiry
by which the whole truth may be ellie
tied and placed beyond doubt. This
was agreed to unanimously. So we
may now hope that an approximation
at least to the truth on the subject will
be arrived at.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09
QuInIne. and Arsenic

Foun the basis Of many of the Agae remedies in
the market, andare theilast resort of Physiclans
and people who know no better medicine to en-
ploy for this Distressing complaint. The effects
OF either of these drags are destructive to the
system, producing headache, intestinal disor
ders, vertigo. dizzness, ringing Of the ears, and
depression OF the constitutional health. AYERS
AGUE' CURE Is vegetable discovery, containing
neither quinine, arsenic nor any deleterious in
gredient, and is an iIifalIble and rapid cure for
every form OF Fever and Auue. Its effects are
permanent and certain, and no injury can result
fromits uss. Besides being q positive cure for
Fever and Ague in all lite forms, 1t is also SUI
peri0r REMEDY for liver Complaints. 1t lie an
exccllenttouie ard preyentlve, as well as cure,
OF all complaints peculiar to malsrious, marshy
and miasmaiic districts. II scts directly on the
Liver and bilaryapPsratus, thus stimulating the
system to vigorous. healthy condition.
3 = FoR SAtx BY ALL DEALERS.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

Major Andre, the Inflated officer
who was the romance of our Revou-
ton, is to be remembered on this side
of the ocean as well as the other. In
August, 1921, the remains OF the ma
jor were disrnterred at Tappan, New
York, and carried back 10 England TO
repose in Westminster Abbey. When
the body was buried, in 1880, two
young cedar trees were set out, one at
the head and the other at the foot. of
the grave. He was buried in plain
pine coffin, and the roots of the cedar
trees were discovered, forty-one years
after~ard, to have grown over and
around it. They had TO be removed
to get at the eofiiu aud It's dust. Both
of the trees were taken 10 England and
cut up into snuff boxes and fancy or
naments and relics by the friends of
Major Andre. Since then the exact
spot where the coffin rested for forty-
one years has becomes matter of dls-
pute. During the recent visit of Dean
Stanley to this country he visited, Tap
pan and met several old citizens, who
pointed out the site of the grave, The
spot and the right of, way to it was
purchased, and Cyrus W Field has
announced that he will erect monu-
ment to the memory of the unfortu-
nate officer. Before leaving for Eng
land Dean Stanley wrote an inscription
for the monument and left it with Mr..
Field. Its pleasing commentarY.on
the healing influences of time when an
American citizen can be found buld-
ing a monument to the memory of a
man whom we executed as a spy. -sst,,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09


The case of Noble Faucher, the
Brooklyn lady whose reported, exis-
tence without food and alleged clair
yoyant powers have attracted so much
attention, is, still the object of warm
controversy among the physicians. In
spite of the skepticism 10 some quar-
tiers some. of her, neighbors, who have
known of her case for years, declare
that there is no deception The fam
lily is well off and have noneed of re-
sorting to any tricks for gain, aud as a
matter of fact they have attempted to
keep the matter quiet and exclude
visitors. Some enterprisiag sbowmar
applied recently for an opportunity tc
put the unfortunate girl ON exhibition,
and be was promptly ordered out OF
the house. A Chicago doctor came
on the other day Tor. the express pur-
pose Of seeing her, but was 'deehned
an interview in spite of iHn ofTer Of
$1,000 for, the privilege. 's1imff
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

Although Edison has obtained pat
ent on his electric light, he still keeps
mum about the details of the discov-
cry and zealously guards the Menlo
Park observatory from all outside in
trusion. There are still other i'm
provements, lately made, which are
yet unpatented, but essential to the
complete success of the light for COM
mon use. He Is already selling his
patent rights, however, at home and
abroad-the privilege of electrically
lighting the South American continent
gong to well-known company. Pro-
lessor Morton, who a while since COM
forted the gas monopolists, in con-
vention at New York, with slkeptical
words about the prospect of Edison's
achieving cheap electric hight for the
million, presents new suggestion
concerning the possible light of the
future. This is not 10 be attained by
electricity, but through phosphor-
essence. 1t is already successfully APP
piled to clocks. The dial is filmed
with cheap compound of lime and
sulphur, which has the curious prop
erty of absorbing light by day and
emitting il at night, aud the color Of
the illumination may be varied at
pleasure. When thissmethod of light
ing is perfected it will SIMPLY be nee
essary TO whitowssh the ceilings of q
house with this suiphlde of calcium
for interior Nominations, and to paint
the outside with 1t 10 make the streets
glow with soft and pleasing radiance
by night. And then 1t VIII be so cheap
that even electricity will stand no
chance beside It. II gas is ever sup
planted for lighting purposes, 1t is
likely to find ready at hand other prof.
table uses. Aside from the vast field
Of domestic heating, il can be econom-
ically utilized in dnving small engines.
Last weeks ScisnfVie 4merican con-
tanned descriptions of two promising
new gas motors, one for light house
hold purposes and another calculated
for printing Offices and lighter manu-
fseiurss generally. a.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

China hiss q governor geseral-by the
name of Ii Hung Chang, he. is at the
head az the pFolFessife parry in that
country, whole grsst aim 2 % avoid
ho.co6rse pufsned ~ the JAPANESE in
leaning 50 much upen Europeans, and
70 develop China by Cinnamon. With
this view variety of great undertake
isgs are IN contemplation steam
nazigation company, extensive mining
operations, the gradual Introduction OF
railroads and telegraphs, and postal
system on the ordinary model. With
Z view Of attracting Investors the COM
petilive system Of selecting employees,
which for some so00 years has been
rigi0ly adhered 70. Is 70 be at once laid
Aslde, and any contributor to the stock
Of certain Of the neE schemes will have
tho right Of nominating ! clerk. No
a.ienans st improving the postal COM
nunication WITH the capital simme-
0Aseiy contemplate but during the
taumer correspondence between Pekin
and Ticnsin IS 10 be carried on daily
IS donkey or horse mail, and in winteI
by . route which At best involves ten
days.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

An unhappy social scandsl is re-
ported from Washington, The widow
Of Gen. Gordon Granger having 1een
inyeigled into matfyihg q higamist.
After her husbands death she was en-
ployed at the quartermasteT-gene
once at 500 . month, receiving also a
monthly pension Of SEQ, aud .whea
Vanderbilt died he lefs her $50. 600.
She was also young Aad attractive,
and had many suitors, but, Lieut.
Thorlas Blair, OF her husbands old
regiment, won the prize, and they we're
married II Santa Re. New Mexico. Il
now turns out, however, that Blair
bad 3 wife and children. in scotland
when the marriage took place, and be
Is 10 be prosecuted by the, civil courts
and c6uft-inartiAled FOR his rascahty.
While Gen. Sherman. Mrs. Changers
warm Trend, has written her 70 come
back 10 Washington. = ~
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

The Nation says the truth is, be 1t
painful or agreeable, that although it
is the Correct thing IN the party for a
politician to profess to be horrifed by
the outrages, and to storm about them
in public. and threaten that be will
not rest quietly in his bed another
night without finding remedy, after
writing his fierce article or delivering
his indignant philippe he smiles pri-
Vltely over the whole affair, and goes
tl'bed and sleeps as sound as top.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09
Humorous.
Are wate.ed silks dry goods

- - ECD1Es
hottofor toper-Mihd your rye.
Dissg-eeable Tnusic- Overture notes.
The cad OF IL last m n Ia. waxed
end.
An editors chair IS ike back tooth
Hard TO ill.
The demand Of the hour is a burgIa.-
proof grave.
You cannot mend your ways with
the thread of discourse.
When is man thinner than.a shin-
gief When he is a shaving.
The Bible often speaks of hand
maid, but never of a machine made.
There are two things We are never
quite prepared for-TwinS
A boy who was spanked said the
sensation was thrilling TO an extreme.
We venture to say that some men
who have seen a good deal never saw
wood.
No 1rlshmsn has a sinking of the
heart so long as there's bit OF Cork
in him.
When tramp demands g meal of
an Arkansas woman she sticks pistol
under his nose aud tells him to ''eat
that" .,
The Esquimaux amt much on Gu
chre, but when you come to tackle 'em
on an old sledge, JUS draw game every
time. r4oI
A Milwaukee man calls his wife "a
new broom, !" because she sweeps clean.
And she calls him ga thief" because
he is one. H t .-f
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

The Springfield Republican says ::
''Governor Rics's decision in the case
of Wade Hampton's requisition for
Kimpton, South Cafolina's ex-inancisl
sgent, seems to have come to roost
very near home. Governor Van Zandt,
of Rhode Island, decides not to sur
render Patrick Kenpey, the Providence
~oor merchant, Charged with swim
ding numerous Boston creditors out
of about 5000, 0O0 The Klmpton and
Kenney cases possess similar features,
and Attorney General Traia is said to
have based the requisition for the
Rhode Islander on almost the same
grounds on which that for Kimpton
was decided.
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

Some Polish Roman Catholic priests
in the province Of Grodno lately sue
ceeded in inducing their Pensioners
to abandon the use of alcoholic liquors.
The lccalauthorities complained of this
to the Governor, who thereupon or
dered an inquiry. The priests were
found to have acted solely for the pur-
pose of beneitung their Pensioners,
but the Governor of Grodno ordered
them to be transported to the interior
of Russia, in order to give them time to
rtfl4ct there on the presumption fde-
priVing a paternal government, by
preaching sobriety, of the revenue
from the duty on spirits. g..
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

It is said that Lieut.. Flipper, the
only colored cadet who has been grad
uatetisfrom West Point, has decided to
write tor Authorize d book describing
the hardships which he had to endure
there on account of his color. iii
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09
NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
rHE STATE OF TEXAS

To az ,er-aa. iaf>rss fsd Il, ne ss'afe q Selea
4 -ErKisasy. q Dt.aor;
james p. Mckinney. guardisn 81 said minor,
has aied IN he County Court Of Travis county
an application for q SAFE Of certain real estste
heloagiAg 10 said nlino. Tor the support and
maiatenance Of himself and his estafe. which
" u b. heard 81 tue next tern. OF said court.
commencing the third Monday in January, is19,
n ne courthouse thereof. In the CITY % Aus
II. a. which time persons interested IN eatd
DEMONSTRATION nay appear ard contest said APP
piic4tiou II they see proper.
Wines FrAE.k Blown. 0erk Of said court.
aud the eeai thereof attached, this twelfth day
q Decenber. ISIS. PRANK BRO ~,
The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-09

L osr.
Land scrip No. s. for GO acres OF land. Issned
by the Commissioner OF the General Land Onlce
on the twentylrst day Of Nay. 1878. 10 j. V.
Massey in accordance with the provisions OF
An act 10 provide for the Improvement Of the
NAVIGATION OF Sabine Neches and Angelina riv-
ers and Pine IslSnd Bayou, in the Stste Of
Texss,r approved April -, 1874. II not found
in ninety days, application Will DO made Tor du-
plicafe 70 the proper once.