The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-07-01
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The havoc of the army-worm among
the farms of New Jersey and Long Is
land bids fair to be complete and without
remedy. The vineyard and farm lands
of Burlington and Ocean Counties, New
Jersey, tract greater than that lately
burned over, are being eaten clean by the
pests, and large portion of Long Island
is being overrun by them, though the
multitude is thickest on the south side
around Islip, Amityville and Freeport.
They march in solid column, eating ev-
srything as they 60; corn-felds are
ruined in night, and wheat, rye, oats, bar
ley and grass fall before them, and moth
ing but clover escapes them. at Baby
lon the roads are black, at Westhampton
and Mattituck they are likened to the
sands of the seashore, and their advance
through the grass can be plainly heard.
The worst thing about it is that the far.
ners seem utterly helpless none of the
usual remedies have been successful /;
Paris green and London purple have no
apparent effect, and their number is so
great that tar proves but temporary
Check. Many of the farmers are there
fore cutting their half-ripe grain to use
for fodder. Prof. Riley, the Government
entomologist, will visit Long Island, but
saws little can be done now, and that the
only sure protection is to burn the stubble
in winter or early spring. The only hope
of the farmers now is that 4 prolonged
period of hot weather will check the
creatures.
- The news from Constantinople gives
warning that everything is going there
from bad to worse. 1t is not only the
row in Albania or the frightful state Of
things in Armenia. Anarchy is eating
into the heart of the empire. The dis
organization in the capital is only less
than that in the Provinces. There is no
public revenue. The officials squeeze
the taxpayers, but is like drawing blood
from turui ps. Not a single promise or
Undertaking entered into by the Turkish
government with respect to the internal
administration of the country has been
observed, and what is thought most
ominous in the future is that the Sultan
protests so much.
There is not only great deal in the
art ofsaying things, but of doing things
also, us was lately illustrated in Ger.
man comic paper, which had a picture Of
a youth astride of a horse, which the boys
father was anxious to dispose of to GUS
TONER who stood by. The lad, in igno-
rance of the nature of the bargain, is rep
resented as leaning forward and in an
audible whisper asking his parent: "Fa-
ther, shall I ride him to buy or to sell ?"
How much of the worlds business today
is done on that priuciple--shall ride
him to buy or to sell? In the one case
depreciate the article, in the other praise
it.
i St. Augustine Fla, has always been
accounted the most ancient town in the
republic. While a landing was made
there by Spaniards as early as 1912, there
was TO settlement until fifty-three years,
later, when fort was built, fixing its age,
to date, at 3l5. This honor of antiquity
is now disputed by Western village,
Tucson, Arizona, organized, it is claim.
ed, MS a pueblo or Spanish town site in
1912, nearly twenty-three years earlier
than the settlement of St. Augustine. 1t
has ever since kept up its right to the
tract of land which is by Spanish law
granted to an incorporated settlement.
- There are several hourishing schools
in China conducted by American teach
e.s, and through the translation depart
ment of the empire more than $4,000 vol
unes of translated works in science, art,
ETC., have beeu sold. In the schools of
this country 120 Chinese youths are re.
ceiving instruction:
= Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is credited
with saying of that dashing rebel caval-
rymau, Gen. Forrest, that "he was the
brightest military genius the war pro-
duced on either side, if we were to judge
him by the rule of accomplishing the
largest results with the least material"
- There is not single liquor saloon
in any town on the line Of the East Ten
nessee and Georgia railroad, between
Chattanooga and Knoxville, a distance
of 1l2 miles.