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The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-04-29
The Tobacco Fly

From tho GAINESVILLE (Tcnn.) To-
bacco Leaf We extract the following
information about the Tobacco fly:
When they come 10 the top OF the
earth they are very full of eggs, he.
fore they are fully developed or their
wings are formed. It's body 10 thick,
short and plump, and 1t will crawl
up on any bush, weed. grass, fence or
anything 1t can get 10, remaining
there until Its wings are strong
enough to carry the body. AS soon
as they can fly they commence laying
eggs. They deposit their eggs the
first night of their winged existence.
Ihare confined them in room, and
give 1t as my opinion that nine-tenlhs
Of all their eggs are deposited the 1sst
night after they begin to ny. y
OF course they arc likely to be
killed by sucking the flowers, and are
likely also TO leave the tobacco and
90 10 the flowers before dcpositing
all their eggs but according 10 my
observations they are too busy de-
posting their eggs TO pay much at
tention to blossoms. After they have
deposited all, or q great portion OF
their eggs, then they are busy sucking
flowers; their bodies have become
more sharp and elongated they can
fly with greater ease and rapidly, and
have nothing 10 do but suck the bios
Aoms for two or three nights and die.
And II is during this time, when they
have deposited the greater portion Of
their eggs, the largest number OF flies
are killed. ! have confined the ayfn
a. room and provided foriss every,
thing to sustain life, and find that
lives only two or three nights ahel
deposiling its eggs.
Now l would PROFOUND just here
question 10 your readers and cores
pondents. who may be interested II
this subject, many Of whom no donb
entertnin q different opinion iron
myself. When and in what state !
II the worm or fly is impregnated
My opinion is that the fly impreg
mates the worm while it Is on the TO
bacco. And with all due deferenc
aud respect to the opinions Of othesl
in my humble opinion l do not think
the Killing of the fly while suckin
the blossoms will lessen the humble
ofhvrn worms TO any very great 0,
tent.
Now, you ask just here what pre-
pose In the pre- misses. Let the farm
crs throughout the tobacco distric
put in fewer number Of acres--t
lessen the crop one-half would nj
DO too much. Let what ground 20
do cultivate be Of the best quality an
well MANFRED. We believe II poss
BILE to produce, with proper manu-
ing and cultivation, l,500 lbs Of goo
tobacco per acre. Let no worms al
rive at maturity or become lars
enough 10 be impregnated by the o.
Let the tobacco you do cultivate be
better quality than has hereiofol
been cultivated, and the results wi
bethat farmers will realize as muc
more money for what tobacco they
cultivate than at present.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-04-29
Borers in Apple Trees,

&c q nm IA rc-T
Now is d good time, SAYS a writer
in the Raral Sun, to cut, ont these
PESTS where they have not BEEN at4
tendcato. RAN ANN
N Al few DAYS ago / ! went over an /
orchard that has fallen into my hands,
and in one davis work think many
valuable trees hav. rbeen saved. AS
MANY as Eve fill grown borers were
cut OUT ola tree five inchesin. diameter.l
In some Instances these we're found
running up the trunk six inches, and
not over an inch apart parallel. sit,
takes very, close searching sometimes
to fiud them. Sometimes athin wire
can be used with good effect, when the
knife and chisel can hardly reach
them. Ilr quito a nu mber Of instances
4 | found that tie spotted woodpeckcr
had done the work for me- They
1. at # Itv!. ~, l4-- I'll 49,,
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-04-29
J,C. Shannahan,
ROOT and SHOEMAKER

Russellville Street, next door to n.
Schmitt's Saloon, Hopkinsville., Ky.
Repairing done prompt with neatnsss and
dispatch A perfect at guaranteed.
Jan. 10,1y.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-04-29

"spell cat,m said o little girl Of FIVE
years old to o smaller one Of three.
~ can't"> was tho reply" swell,
then, continued tho youthful mistress,
III yOu cant spell Cat spell "kittcn."
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14
A Valuable Law.

A few days ago a colored person was on
trial in the Criminal Court for stealing roast
ing ears out of field one night last season.
The only evidence against him was that
given by another colOred person who hap
pened to be in the field at the time (prob-
ably on the same errand) and who recog-
uized the thief The witness swore that he
saw him with the sack thrown over his
shoulders. into which he was thrusting the
corn as he pulled it. When the argument
in the cause was finished, Judge Ray chRrg-
ed the Ijury that as the evidence did not
show that the corn had ever touched the
ground after pulled, they could not, under
the law. find the accused guilty of larceny,
but only of malicious mischief. Among
the number of spectators present was an
ancient African, who listened with evident
approval to the charge Of the Court When
il was finished. he turned to a cOmpaion
and remarked: We'll, times is hard an
money searcer'n white folks in hehhen; hut
fo' God. dat laws Wuth hundred dollars
TO me at de lowest kalkelation. Avalanche.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

The following extract from letter to
Capt w. c. Raum, Deputy Collector, from
James Hill, United States Internal Revenue
Collector, will prove of interest to many
as it applies to the furnishing of tobacco
and liquors by farmers and planters to
hands employed on their plantations
From letters received at this office, it ap-
pears that the opinion prevails to CON
siderable extent that parties who sell to
bacco only to persons employed by them
are not liable to the tax imposed on dealers
in manufactured tobacco, which IS not the
case Judge Hill of this district, has de
cided that parties who sell only to perons
in their employ, without making a profit
from the sales, are not liable to pay such
tax but at the time Of rendering this de-
cison, he stated for the benefit of this class
of dealers, that they were liable at any time
to be brought into court to prove that no
profit was made, and in case they we're ar
rested for dealing in tobacco without pay
ment of special tax, the only thing for the
government to provo was the sale OF to-
bacc0 and the burden of proof was then
with the defendant to prove no pretit 1t
is believed that all persons who sell tobacco
derive profit from the sale i'll some way,
either directly OF indirectly, and should pay
tie tax as dealers in manufactured tobacco.
You will therefore take means TO ascertain
if there are any persons in your division,
who are dealingln tobacco without payment
of special tax; III case there are, you will
at once make demand on forms for return,
on form, upon the receipt of which You will
report the parties for assessment. In case
parties refuse or neglect to make the return
called for, you will report the case 10 tins
Office. All persons VINO sell liquor should
be required topay special tax, no mlti"rin
what quantities they SELL or for what pur-
pose, or whether Il profit is derived ir"n
the sde or rot-N NicllNbgsE Commercial,
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14
NO.. 34.
Rob INGERsOLAis SPEECH.
An Eloquent Funeral Grafton over
tile Body of His Brother.

WASHINGTON, June 3.-The following is
the oration of Bob Ingersoll over the re-
mains of his brother, the late Hon r. Q.
Ingersoll:
DEAR FRIENDsI am going to do thai
which the dead oft promised he would do
for me. The loved and loving brother.
husband father and friend died where
manhoods's morning almost touches noon
and while the shadows still were falling
toward the west He had not passed on
LIES highway the stone that marks the
highest point, but, being weary for a mo-
ment, laid down by the wayside, and using
his burden for pillow, fell into that dream
less sleep that kisses his eyelids still; while
yet in love with life, enraptured with the
world, he passed to the silent and pathetic
dust yet, after all, it may be the best
just III happest sunniest hour of all the
voyage, while eagar winds are kissing every
sail to dash upon the unseen rock, and in
an instant hear the hillows roar above
sunken ship, for, whether III wind, sea or
among breakers of the farther shore,
wreck must mark at last the wreck of each
and all and every life, no matter if it is
every hour is rich with love and every mo
ment jeweled with Joy, will at its close be-
come tragedy as sad, as deep and as dark
as can be woven from the warp and wOof
of mystery and death. This brave and
tender man III every storm of life was oak
and rock, but in the sunshine he was vine
and flower. He was the friend of all he
roic souls. He climbed the heights and
left all superstition far below, while on his
forehead fell the golden dawning of the
grander day. He loved the beautiful, and
was with color form and music touched to
tears.
He sided with the week, and with a viii
ling hand gave aims, With loyal heart
and with the purest hands he faithfully dis
charged all public trusts. He was wor-
shipper of liberty, and friend of the op-
pressed. A thousand times l have heard
him quote these words: For justice all
places are a temple and all seasons a suIn-
ner.' He believed that happiness was the
only good, reason the only torch, justice
the only worship, humanity the only relis-
ion and love the only priest We're every
one for whom he did some 10 ing service
to bring a blossom to his grave, he would
sleep beneath a wilderness of flowers,
Life is a narrow vale between the cold
and barren peaks of two eternities. We
strive in vain to look beyond the heights,
VIC cry aloud and the only answer Is the
echo of our wailing cry From the voices
less lips of unreplying death there comes
no word, but, in the night of death, hope
sees a star and listening love can hear the
rustic of wing, He who sleeps here,
when dying, mistaking the approach of
death for the return of health whispered
with his latest breath, Il am better now.'
Believe in spite cf doubts aud dogmas, Of
Fears and tears that these dear words are
rue Of all the countless dead and now,
% you who have boon chosen from tue
many men he loved to do this last sad Office
If the dead. we give Nou this sacred dust
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14
The Disturbance Of Religious Service
New Orleans Times.

We frequently hear complaints from
church going people of this city that they
are greatly disturbed and and annoyed on
Sundays, while attending divine service, by
the numerous bands of music which head
professions that parade the streets OF which
are on their way to some resort OF pleasure.
There is no question but that TINS Is a rea-
sonable ground of of complaint. People
who attend services at the various churches
go there, of course, for the purpose OF "of-
ship. They strive, or ought to strive, 10
shut out from their minds, for the brlet
time that they are in the House OF Gou, all
thoughts of the world, and to give thelr
entire attention to prayer, medltatloh ana
the services. They cannot do thls' AoWN
ever, if their devotions are constantly III
terrupted by the shrill, piercing notes OF
| fife, the sonorous noise OF brass llistru-
ments or tho loud boom of bass drum
Frequently the tumult is so great that tne
voice of the preacher is drowned ana tne
attention of the entire congregation as
traCted. This certainly is an outrage on
religious people. They have rights WHICH
ought to be respected and III which tney
are entitled to be protected. 1t Is very
sorry state of affairs, in any community,
ed free from street disturbances. we do
not find any fault with those people who
prefer to make the Sabbath holiday We
think they have a perfect right to go to the
parks or other pleasure resorts with their
music and banners, and to dance and amuse
themselves in any way that they see proper
All that we contend for is, that while they
are pursuing their pleasures they ought not
70 into oTl ,I11bt M n ha nprm1tf91
to interfere with other peoples rights. 1t
would not b. any very great hardship to
them if they were deprived of the privi~
lege of footing their trumpets and beating
their drums until they had passed beyond
the immediate vicinity of the churches. Of
course, we understand that tho worship
ers in the churches are not disturbed in
tentionally Perhaps these pleasure seek
ers have never thought of the annoyance
which their music gives to those who obey
the Divine command to keep the Sabbath
day holy. Intent upon their own amuse-
ments, they have not sought to find out
whether they were disturbing others or
upon their rights There ought |
to be an ordinance of the city regulating
this matter. Brass bands should not be |
allowed to play in the neighborhOod of
churches on Sundays, when services are be- |
ing held If a band of religious people |
should 20 to the Fair Grounds, or some one |
of the parks where there was picnic some |
Sunday, and insist upon holding prayer
meeting, the chances are that there would
be trouble, and yet such an act would be no
greater interference with the rights of the
pleasure seekers than the playing of brass
bands in the neighborhood of churches is
with the rights of religious people. This |
of religious services is an evil |
which ought to be remedied as soon as pos
Sible
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14
THE CROP PROSPECTS
The following card from Mr.. Jno. P.
Richardson, we find in the New Orleans
Times of the 9Th instant:
A CARD.

Times of the 9th instant:
CARD.
On nv return to New Orleans friend
has handed to me paragraph clipped from
the editorial columns of the Chicago Tri-
bune, in which that paper expresses and
endorses the gross conversation of an in
terview which its correspondent pretends to
have had with my father, on railroad Car
as follows
"Mr John p Richardson, son of Mr..
Edward Richardson, has printed in the
Now Orleans Times card in which he as
serts that an interview reported as having
been held by correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune with the elder Mr.. Richard
son, never took place. The younger Mr..
Richardson writes as follows in his card:
'The sole foundation in fact for the pro-
ducton is this, that reporter, CHANGING
to be in company with gentleman who
met my father incidentally, was introduced
to him, and in answer to question IN re-
gard to tho business of the Mississippi
Mills, received general reply that it was
as remun1rative as any other interest my
father had. The other representations pur-
porting to be made by my father are false
the result of an insane desire now preva-
lent among some newspaper men to publish
sensational reports without regard to truth.
We regret to say that the younger Mr..
Richardson is totally misinformed III re-
gard to the facts, or has been guilty of
deliberate falsehood. The correspondent
of the Tribune Is willing to
make affidavit to these facts That he did
have a conversation of over an hour IN
length with the elder Mr.. Richardson on
n train between Vicksburg and jackson,
Nav 6, between and 6 o'clock, p. NJ; that
he reported that conversation truthfully, |
without establishment or reservations: and |
that the report printed in the Tribune of
May 8 is correct in every particular, to the
best Of his knowledge and belief, with the |
exception that the fictitious Tom Young Is
substituted for n zeal name III the anecdote |
told by Mr. Richardson. The elder MIR,
Richardson will not-cannOt- deny these |
several statements because he is an honor
able gentleman, and he knows that they are |
every one true. 1t is unfortunate that his
son did not possess knowledge of the facts
euual to his zeal when he undertook to
meddle in matter of which, apparently, !
he knew nothing. The allegations of the
Tribune correspondent can he substantiated
by other witnesses who took part ill the
In reply to the Chicago tribune, have to
saw that hold statements in my possession
statements from the parties present
confirming in all essential particulars my
card. The interview was a perversion OF
what occurred, and calculated to do my
father great injustice, especially where he
is not known.
The statements of the parties present
-l'a.,-e nf the Pic |
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

Tho telegraph yesterday informed us
Hon. H. u. Money Is soon to take trip to
the Sandwich Islands for his health. Mr.
Moneys health has not been robust for
long time. and he is surely in need of rest
and travel lie has been faithful work
or in Congress. As Chairman of one OF
the important committees he has been con
stantly employed When he reaches the
Sandwich Islands he will be the gust OF the
King. When he first entered Congress he
made powerful speech advocating the adj
mission of sugar and other products from
the Islands. duty free. This speech won
the heart of his Royal HighnesS, and he
has frequently urged Mr.. Money to visit
the Isands and pertnko Of his hospitality
Nickshurg Herald.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14
An ExpIanal lion ana Correction.
CRYSTAL SPINGs, Miss, June 2, 1879.

CRYSTAL SPINGs, Miss, June 2, 1879.
TO the Editor of The Comet
There is communication in your issue
of April 10Th inst, headed "a Personal
Sketch of a Copian County Family" by
Pap, which evidently was intended to rep
resent in the parsonage mentioned, my
grandfather, my father and myself. 1t
is painful to me to be driven to the neces-
sity of denouncing that communication as
slanderous in almost every particular. The
author-Mr. e. d. Eaton, am informed
knew nothing of my early family. He is
comparatively stranger in our county,
having come here since the war, as a tomb
stone agent. If he has received any such
information from others as he has publish
ed, all who are acquainted with me know
much of it to be false. As to one particu-
lar, my lodging conscript officers during
the war, there is not syllable of it true. l
first enlisted under Capt. Liebe, but he
being wounded and having died, l was
next under Capt P. V. Enochs was in the
siege of Vicksburg, and yet that commu-
nioation tries to make it appear that 1 was
lodging about in swamps, to evade my
duty as a faithful citizen. Now if the au
thor of that communication had been as
faithful to the interest of the South as my
SELF think he would have never publish
ed such an article. He would have been q
true patriot 1t is not certain where he
was during the war. He may have been
one of our bitterest enemies.
Now, Mr.. Editor, don't believe you
unless am mistaken in the man-would
have ever allowed that communication to
have even entered your columns, had you
known the whole Truth of the matter.
I hope, sir, you will allow this to enter
your columns as denouncing the commu-
nication referred to, as false and intended
as a SANDER upon myself and family.
Yours truly, CLARK M. JOHNSON.
P. S.-Please ask the G. S. Monitor and
Copiahan to copy. Q. M ).
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

AFTER q pleasant and exhilarating
iit to the South, upon his return
me, this is what Henry Ward Beecher
inks of us Southerners
In my Judgment, when consider that a
oud people have seen themselves emptied
t of power, their political existence al
lst annihilated, their property swept out
their hands as by consuming flame,
Q ascendancy of the despised slave estab-
he'd over them by what was to him
reign arm, l should not have wondered
there had been ten times the Resistance
At there has been to recohstructive meas
es. Never in history has people borne
much with so much patience, gallantry
d patriotIsm-a spectacle of moral gram
ur and of substantial good intent and
nor in those who have been SO terriically
urged, which is without parallel.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

sAAo COHEN says he will follow Dennis
lrney to- alb, hem the place that Bob
.ersoll fepuaiates. Cohen doesen't need
,99or. He'll get there. And when he
S gst thoye he'll get big, warm recep-
D. The only trouble will be that when
calls for whisky straights he will be
we'd with ladle of hot lead.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

JUDGE HIhL's rulings in the attachment
is recently tried in his court, full text
which will be found in other columns
The COMET to>day, embrace points upon
ich the Supreme Court hasnever passed,
i are, therefore, full of interest and inns
rtance to the legal profession.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

CLAY CHISHOLM told Philadelphia news
per reporter that it was unsafe for him
visit Kemper and testify against the par
8 who had killed his father. The Kem>
r Herald guarantees him pleasant stay
4 q safe return.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

JAYENNE pepper was thrown in the eyes
a bank messenger in Chicago the other
7, and a package containg ten thousand
lars was snatched from him by two men.
@ robbers made their escape. From
accounts Chicago is bold, bad town.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

The Governor of Kansas has been heard
IN. He says that he has carefully in-
stigated the matter, and finds that only
zee thousand negroes have arrived in
It State from the South, and that two
rds of them are paupers.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

masons at Toledo, have
en- duped by trickstcr, whose
me is @. G. Burt. Burt promised to
lfer the Egyptian Masonic Rite, or nine
degrees for ten dollars. After he had
lected $3.50, he plead a sick family in
ckson, but stated that he would return
the following Monday. That Monday
) never come. He failed to meet the en-
cement. SO these mansons are unhappy
the tune of ten dollars each.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

SENATOR HAMPTON is in favor of passing
b Appropriation Bills and adjourning.
! seems to think that it is best to appeal
the people at the polls for a decision of
lis question.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

Grand Grucrassino Sir ". q. Benhrank, OF
R,sllie Commandcry, NJ. ., ol this city, leaves oI
Columbus IN Sunday ey, ming, 90 attend meeting
uf the Grand Commaudefy, X. T., to be held there
ON the 2lst iu>t.-NatlhCz sun
Just how many honors a man can wear
and bear, Is shown in the fact that besides
being Generalissimo, Mr. Benbrook is
Postmaster and Mayor of Martin.-Port
Gibson Reveille.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-14

asv. 49, - ..--s s'~ 20" '''''-''
he had scarlatina ?"
sDoctor-"The color of his hands.
Nadame-''His hands Why he is a
dyer -
Doctor -''Ihen why in the deuce didn't
Won tell me so at first p