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Excessive Use Of Narcotics.

In the increasing use of certain narcot-
les which are employed to relieve pain
and induce sleep there is, it seems. if we
may accept the testimony of high au-
thorities, good ground for serious APP
prehension. DIR. Richardson, who had
much to do in bringing choral into gen.
eral notice, has recently published in the
Contemporary Reuieto an earnest warn
rgagainst the habitual and careless use
fall such medicines. "This growing
practice, he says, referring especially to
the practice of taking choral, is alike
injurious to the mental, moral, and
purely physical life" He points out in
detail the serious consequences of the
habit, and continues: TO my mind,
and wish to be as open to conviction
as one can be, I fail to discern a single
opening for these lethal agents in the SER
vice of mankind, save in the most excep-
tional conditions sof disease, and then
only under skilled and thoughtful super
vision from hands that know the danger
of infusing false movement and life
into so exquisite an organism as living,
breathing, pulsating, impressionable
human form" If this warning is
needed in England, it is likely, in view
of the special liability of our excitable
American temperament to excess, to be
still more needed here. There is danger
in the habitual use of all stimulants and
narcotics. Whoever becomes enslaved
TO any of them to alcohol, opium
choral, absinthe, tobacco, or even, ]
believe, to tea and coffee-not only suf
fers-from the serious physical derange-
ments which they directly cause, but
also loses certain portion OF strength
and independence of character which il
is our chief business here on earth to
cultivate. He runs very great risk o.
falling into more or less confirmed con.
dition of mental alteration; he forfeits
according to the degree of his enslave.
ment, his self-respect, as well as the
respect OF other people, and he suffers &
degradation of manhood which render.
him less and less capable of the regu
lar and steady exercise of all the higher
faculties which belong to well-balancet
and faithful life.-ReU. W. III. FISH.
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The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
Red vs.. White.

A singular case has been tried at
Coborg, Can, in which 1.-THE and
not unhandsome young Indian, aged
eighteen, is charged with clipping with
and marrying Miss Taylor, a white gir:f
aged fifteen, and one of the prettiest girls
in all Canada. The red man had been
seen in the girls company once or twice,
and her parents forbade her to see him.
On the eighteenth of September the
prisoner bought a marriage license,
making affidavit that Miss Taylor was
eighteen, and that he had obtained the
consent of her parents, and on that day
while her father was away from home
they fled to Campbellford and were mar.
ried. A letter written by the Indian to
his sweetheart was read in court, which
breathes of love in the untutored breast
in a way to make the white mans pas.
sion seem dull and tame. He was con
victed of perjury and clandestine mar,
rage, but discharged on the accusation
of abduction.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

Although indigenous to Asia and
Barbary, the fig has been SO long and so
extensively cultivated in Italy, that it
may be considered native. The season
joins hands in October with the vendem-
mia or vintage; but it begins in August,
owingto curious system of culture.
Early in that month, as you sit gasping
under the MONDAY sun, you hear a
wild, eerie strain in minor key, which
goes echoing up and down The slopes
with intense mournfulness. 1t is the
song of the fig gatherers, tossed back
and forth from hillside to hillside and
from tree-top to tree-top. as they squirm
through the twisted branches and "oi
the fruit" The tribe is nomadic, and APP
pears and disappears like the wandering
harvesters of France, no one knowing
whence they come OF whittier they go.
Late in July the masserie are rented to
them, they paying given sum to the
proprietor and taking possession of all
the fruit, beginning with the figs and
ending with the last waxen cluster of
grapes. Rude huts matched with straw
are built by the proprietor in all his
orchards, and there these gypsy-like
creatures live with their families-stal-
wart, fierce-looking men, swarthy,
dark-eyed women, and active, 1.-THE
young rascals of children. Sometimes
they supplement their narrow quarters
with ragged tent-three sticks cross
wise and kettle in the croth consti-
tute the kitchen. Beds are an unknown
luxury Indeed, they seem never to lay
aside their clothing, and day and night
they patrol the orchards with long guns
and fierce dog, the very sight of which
is enough to destroy ones appetite for
those particular figs. The process of
forcing the fruit is at once begun, and
for many days that wild sweet song, into
whose weird melody the spirit of their
homeless life seems to have entered, is
heard from tree to tree, in call and re-
Spouse as far as the faintest adum-
bration of sound can reach. The
methods of forcing the ripening are GU
rious. In one wad of cotton is dipped
in olive oil and gently rubbed on the
flower end of the fig. Fig by fig is thus
treated, and eight days thereafter the
fruit is ready for market, where it COM
mands high price as primeur. An
other method consists in gathering in
the spring the half-formed fruit, which
is strung on ropes as we string dried
fruit. These ropes or garlands are
thrown over the branches of tbs trees
and allowed to decay under the burning
sun. Life out of death. An insect is
born from this decay which pierces the
growing fig and induces rapid maturity
or, shall we call it early decay matu-
rity being only that precious zenith OF
which must inevitably be followed by
decline. Leaving such premature sweet
ness to the epicure, one may we'll be
content to wait the result of natures I'M
hurried process. The fig, when per-
fectly ripe, exhudes slow drop of
honey-s weet juice at the neither end,
which never fails but hangs there, a
standing temptation to bees and men.
When fresh picked. at this stage, the fig
is indescribably lucious, with a rich
flavor entirely lost in the dried fruit
Correspondence Chicago Times.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
Finding HGirl /" in the Bible.

An English town missionary, short
time ago, related remarkable incident.
There was a lodging house in this dis
trict, which he had long desired to en-
ter, but was deferred from so doing by
his friend, who feared that his life
would be thel eby endangered. He be-
came ut length so uneasy that he de-
termined to risk all consequences and
try to gain admission. So one day he
gave somewhat timid knock at the
door, in response to which n coarse
voice roared out, who's there?" and
Mt the same moment vicious looking
woman opened the door, and ordered
the man of God away.
Let him come in, and see who he is
and what he wants." growled out the
same voice. The missionary walked in,
and bowling politely to the rough-look-
ing man whom he had just heard speak,
said:
81 have been visiting most of the
houses in this neighborhood to read
with and talk to the people about good
things. have passed your door as long
as feel ought, for wish to talk with
you and your dodgers"
" Are you what is called town mis-
! sionaryp"
Il am, SIR" was the reply.
swell, them" said the fierce looking
man, sit down and hear what am 60
ing to say. will ask you one question
out of the bible. If you answer me
right, YOU may call at this house, and
read and pray with us or our dodgers as
often as you like; if you do not answer
mo right, we will tear your clothes of
your back, and tumble you neck and
heels into the street. Now, what do
you say to thatp for am a man of my
word"
The missionary was perplexed, but at
length quietly said:
Il will try"
"Well them" said the man, "here
goes. Is the word girl in any part of the
biblep If so, where is it to be found,
and how often? That is my question. .
"Well, sir, the word girl is in the
bible, but only once, and may be found
in the words of the Prophet Joel, iii, 8
The words are, And sold a girl fol
wine, that they might drink
Well" replied the man, "I'm dead
beat; burst to have bet five pounds
you could not have told"
And ! could not have told yester.
day." said the visitor. 8 For several
days have been praying that the Lord
! would open me a way into this house
and this very morning, when reading
the scriptures in my family, / was sur.
prised to find the word girl, and gothic
Concordance to see if it occurred again
and found it did not. And now, sir,
believe that God did know, and does
know what will come to pass, and surely
His hand is in this for my protection ant
your good"
The whole of the inmates were great,
surprised, and the incident resulted il
the conversion of the man, his wife ant
two of the dodgers.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
Animal Rubber,

An insect which produces species Of
india-rubber has been recently discoy-
cred In the district of Yucatan, Central
America, by an American explorer. 1t
is called .Neep, and belongs to the Coccus
family, which feeds on the Mango-tree,
and swarms in these regions. 1t is of
considerable size, yellowish brown in
color, and emits peculiar oily odor.
The body of the insect contains large
proportion Of grease which is highl
priced by the natives for applying to the
skin on account of its medicinal proper
ties. Wher exposed to great heat the
lighter oils of the grease volatilize, leav-
ing tough wax behind which resem-
bles shellac, and may be used for making
varnish or lacquer. When burnt this
wax produces u thick, semi-fluid mass,
very valuable for cement and water
proofing.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
Pioneer Jacks Argument.

A forty-niner from the upper part of
the country, who had SO much forty-rod
aboard that he was oblivious to the
customs of civilized society, dropped
into a saloon in a neighboriag town the
pulled out his revolver and sent bullet
crashing into the wood-box. A police
officer, who by some unaccountable
means happened to be in the vicinity
heard the report, and peering through
the screen to see that there was no dam
ger inside, entered the door and went up
to Pioneer Jack, who stood there, care
lessly toying with the weapon he had
just fired.
''Come, Jack, put her away, and don't
bang around here any MORE" said Mr..
Policeman.
"Why notp" tersely queried the pio-
neer.
Because it's against the law to shoot
so cussed promiscuously in any State,
and especially in California.
Jack staggered across the barroom to
where large atlas hung on the wall
Taking it down he pointed his toll
stained fingers to one of the numerous
divisions.
tThat's Caiiforny, aip'titP" he asked.
"Yes.''
AN that's Arizony, amt it?" he
ontinued, pointing little further to
the right.
Yes
Before any one could prevent he sent
bullet blowing the latter portion of the
map.
''I'm a law-abidin' citizen" he ex.
claimed, as he backed up into corner
of the room and held his revolver where
the officer could look down into the
barrel. Eyer tole not ter shoot in Cali
forny, cause twas State and against
the laws. So thought I'd jest shoot in
Territory"
The official was Immediately con.
WINGED that he had no grounds for arrest
Nevada Transcript.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

Warm the feet by the sunshine, or Big
holding them in the hands, or by scuffin,
them in slippers over q wooden carp ct
but do not put them in hot water or
over a register or stove.-Dr. Foote's
Health MO2sthEu.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
Truth and Honor.

Query What is the best family medi-
cine in the world to regulate the bowels,
purify the blood. remove costiveness and
biliousness, aid digestion and tone up
the whole system? Truth and honor
compels us to answer, Hop Bitters, being
pure, perfect and har Ed.-I,sde-
De7zde3at
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

Tickling induces laughter, except tickling n
the throat, which causes coughing - at ono
removed by DR.. Balls Cough Syrup. Is cent
bottle.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
rhe nerves as : source OF Trial.

The Nervcs as q S0uFco Oh Er.I.
stations some peoples nerves are most dis
tressing endowment. Such sufferers, it will
usually be found, are dyspeptic, lack vitality
and flesh. What they need is more vigor.
There is means OF obtaining it, if they will
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

but avail themselves of that means. It is
Hostetter's Bitters, q tonic which experience
has shown to be of the utmost service to the
debilitated, nervous and dyspeptic. Digestion
restored upon permanent basis by the Bit
tiers, ministers, as it should, to the wants Of
the system and its integral parts, OF which the
nerves are one of the most important, are
properly nourished and invigorated. The
various functions are thus more actively dis
removed by increasing vitality. Instead OF
nervous prostration, new strength and vitality
will be infused into the whole motive ma
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

S1,425.5O Profits In 30 Days.
$40 in legitimate Stock Speculations in
Wall st. pays immense profits. Pamphlets ex.
planning everything sent free Heath & Co.,
Brokers' 1877 Broadway, n. Y.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

Prevent crooked boots and blstered heels
by wearing Lyons Heel Stiffeners. Can be
applied at any time.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
Don't be without c. Gilbert5s starches.

Young men go west. Learn telegraphy. Adj
dress r. Valentine, Manager, GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

Sherman & Co.. Marshall, Mich, want an
agent in this county at once, at a salary OF
800 per month and expenses paid. For full
particulars address as above.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

A neglected cough, cold or sore throat,
which might be checked by simple remedy
like "Brown's Bronchial Troches," if allowed
to progress may terminate seriously. 25 cents.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
ssSOlid as Granitcs"

It is pleasing though not surprising fact
that the new business of the Htna Life INCUR
ance Company has been notably increasing
during the past nine months, the advance, as
compared with the corresponding period Of
last year, being especially gratifying. Com
missioner Stedman, who has just completed
the regular examination of the Company, as
required by law, speaks Of its condition with
the utmost confidence and enthusiasm. The
other day he remarked, in conversation con-
corning the Etna Life that its assets are as
solid as granite. Hartford Post. Oct. %, 1879.
To be OF permanent benefit medicine must
reach the source OF the disease. The reason
why Scovills Blood and Liver Syrup is so sue
cesstul in overcoming scrofulous, syphilitic
and eruptive complaints, is that it entirely
roots out those impurities which give rise to
them. The cause of the evil being thus re-
moved and the normal purity OF the circula-
ton restored, the skin resumes its original
clearness and sores and pimples disappear.
Sold by all druggists.
For one cent purchase postal card and
send your address to DR.. Sanford, 162 Broad
way, New York, and receive pamphlets by
return mail, from which you can learn whether
your liver is out of order, and if out of order
or in any way diseased, what is the best thing
in the world to take for it.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

The New York WeetIy TiEness which Cir
culates 1000 has received many hundreds Of
letters saying it is the best paper in the coun-
try. The subscription is $l.50, but it will be
sent on trial till new year Tor ten cents, or a
specimen copy will be sent gratis. Address
John Dougall Co., Frankfort St., N. Y.
At every great worlds exhibition tor twelve
years Mason s. Hamlin Organs have been
awarded the gold medal other highest
honor. This year at the Paris exposition
they have been found worthy OF the gold
medal.
The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19
~ Cure Yourself

Just Published and selling ike wild-ire, a book
entitled EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR.
Practical Household Physician A guide TO promote
health cure disease and p:olong life BY J. Hamilton
Ayers, M. ID. Fully illustrated. S2.5O.
= (Sold only by Subscription; the
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tTerms, etc, address
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The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1879-11-19

This wonderful substance is acknowledged by physi-
clans throughout the world to be the best remedy dis
covered for the of Wounds, Burns, rheumatism,
Skin Diseases Piles, Catarrh ChlblaDs &c. In order
that every may try it, it is put up in 15 ard 70
cent bottles for household Obtain il from your
druggist and you will ind it superior to anything you
have aa
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-28

Charlotte Road found it out, it sud
denly added charge Of twenty cents
a hundred to the local rate, ostensibly
for tho cost Of transferring the freight
from the Wilmington to the Charlotte
Road. Remember, this Charge was
not added until after the road dis
covered tho game. Before that no
extra charge had been made for trans
ferring. This too when the two roads
were practically one, and both used
tho same track from Columbia to
Augusta.
The point wo wish to impress is, if
tho merchants had never shipped their
goods to Columbia or to Chester they
would never have known what the
local rate Of the Charlotte Road was,
and could not hayo prosecuted it for
cxtortions. II the roads are COM
PEELED to make an itelnizcd charge
every Infringement can be quickly
detected.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-28

IL Will DC carried and sold. Where it is
, sold, there will the liens and contracts
for supplies for tho next ensuing year
bo made, and all surplus monoy will
be spent. However, small the amount
may be to the individual seller, yot in
the aggregate, it is sufficiently large to
greatly benefit or seriously injurc the
mercantile prosperity Of q place. If
trade i'll agricultural produce languish-
cs and ceases, then al people living in
that centre suffer, the value ofrcal es-
tate appreciates, houses become tenant
loss, all businesses droop, languish and
finally die out. So it is our interest
as farmers to do all we can to assist
the merchants in this vcXcd question.
1t is as much our fight as theirs, and it
beliooves us to throw all the material
aid wo can into this matter.
Tho county, town or home cotton
buyer gives as high II price for cotton
as ho possibly can. His giving price
OF the day is entirely regulated by the
last reports from his shipping market,
leaving only q sufficient margin to
cover expense of handling, transporta-
tlon ana factorage per cent. for self.
Ills cotton unttcrgoes sudden, unac-
oountoblo and unforeseen fluctuations
in price. lie becomes spcculator
(somc say cotton gamblcr) and de-
pends entirely for his gains or loss
upon a rise or decline in tho prioc of
cotton in his shipping market after the
day nc has made the purchase, and not
upon the differences of prices in tho
place he buys, and tho place he sells as
It was on tho same day, but depends on
future riso for his gains. In fact
homo buyers frequently give to those
who have liens with them, higher
price than the margin between home
and shipping prices warrant. 1t is true
they make i vory large profit on the
liens, but then, very few, if any Of us,
can make crop without q lien or on
credit prices, and~we have to depcnd
on our crops and the price W, get for
them to pay for the living of tnat year.
If we have a good CROP and Get n hi"h
price, wc have little over; if not, it
leaves us behind OH the books,
So it is our duty as citizens, and it
behooves us as farmers, to throw nil
the influence we have, and give all the
moral and material aid we can, to as
sist in putting down tho rate Of rail-
road transportation and this grasping
spirit Of those possessors ofn woula-be
monopoly, and thereby enable the mcr-
chants to reduce the margin between
the homo price and shipping market,
20 that we may get the benefit of the
reduction of tho margin. For it is fact
that merchants (cotton) should, and
those who sell merchandise who are
alive to their own interest, do throw
oat inducements to come to their
markets. And it is an indisputable fact
that the producer and the consumer
pay for all these intermediate costs and
expenses. just with the facility as
trade is diverted from place, so rapid
ly does the mercantile community col
lapse. So let us all give long pull, a
strong pull and pull altogether to get
the freight on cotton reduced to its
true worth.
ONE WHO LIVES ON WHAT
COMES OUT OF THE Soil,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-06-28
4 COAMON CAUSR.
Low Freights Necessary for tho Prosperity
ofall ClRsses.-How tho Farmers arc In
terested.

Low Freights Necessary for tho Prosperity
ofall Classes.-How tho Farmers arc In
terested.
Afessrs. Editors: was truly glad
to see In Tuesdays issue of THE News
AND HERALD that tho merchants of
your town have had tho nerve to make
up a "tcst case' with the Railroad
Company as to the enormous freight
charges on cotton, and have determined
to let the courts adjudicate the matter.
Not only does not this ,exorbitant
charge made on the transportation of
cotton affect the interest Of the NOR
chants Of your town, but every real
estate holder and every and each citi-
zen Of whatever business, trade, call.
ing or occupation I'm Winnsboro is as
equally interested I'm and as seriously
injured by it.. Ills true the merchants
are more directly affected as q class by
1t, for whatsoever retards or diverts
the raw produce from a commercial
centre, in on equal degree curtails tho
sale tf all prepared and manufactured
articles Of merchandise offered for sale
therein. Cotton sellers will 60 to the
neaFest homo market, provided tho
ruling prices Of the home markets and
those further eAsre in just proportion
to the trouble aud Inconvenience of
getting to tho latter. for nindcpendent''
cotton secks the highest price, and
goes where merchandise can bs pro-
cured on the nhost advantageous terms.
| # the prices ip the home market are so
much lower than those further off that
1t wil pay the producer fer all trouble,
Inconvenience and wear asd taEe on
stock aad wagon to haul 1t, then there