Smyrna times., 1880-09-01

when he SalQ lnerG is many DOy
here to-day who looks on soldering as all
glory; but, boys, it is all hell. look on
war with horror-but, if it must come, l
am he.ew No var for conquest or for
wars sake for this great general; but if
the nation calls him, as in her other time |
of stress, his brave and trre words are,
81 am here" This ocalls Gell Grants
expression to T. zee bismarck: " The |
truth is, l am more Of farmer than a
soldier. I take little or no interest in
mill ary aff&ir3, and although / entered
the army thircy-fiye years ago, and have
been in two wars, never went into the
army without regret, and never retired
without pleasure" These greatest SOL
diers arc also greatest lovers of peace.
The significance of the visit of Mr..
Thomas Hughes, and his connection with
an immigration company proposing to oc-
oupy, develop and improve Southern
lands, is not lost north of Mason and
Dixon's line. They SEQ the possibilities
Of Mr.. Hughes's plan and its indefinite
extension. Mr. Hughes simply took the
charter granted by the Massachusetts
General Court to a Boston company in
the dark days of 1876-77, the company
proposing to buy cheap land in the South
and settle on it Mas 'achusetts families out
of work. The plan was only paper one,
but Mr.. Hughes's company bought with
the charter the land which the Boston
company only looked at, and is going to
settle it, not with destitute operatives and
their families, but with English farmers
and Their families who have money enough
to improve their holdings and bring them
into prompt cultivation. These lands in
Tennessee, are said to be free from ma
laria and very inviting to new settlers.
A CLOSE calculation, made upon the
| basis Of q comparison of the census of
1870 with that now being taken, shows
| that the young men W o have arrived at
21 years of age in the p9st four years,
and who will consequently vote for the
first time in a presidential election on
November 2, will number just about
l,75O,000, or II per cent. Of the total
vote of the country. To this are to be
| added about 100000 voters who have
secured naturalization in the same interval
Of time. 1t is to this great body of fresh
voters that the canvass which both parties
are now making will be largely if not
chiefly addressed. This phalanx of youth
| much more than holds the balance of
power in our elections its members have
the ardor, the energy, the imprcssibility
and susceptibleness Of their years, and
are much more open to persuasion and
conviction than the veterans of party. 1t
is to be hoped that they will be dealt
with by the means of lucid argument
and solid fact, and not by the means of
frantic appeals to passion and prejudice.
WITHIN a few months an important
discovery has been made by the eminent
French micropist, N. Pastcur, and it may
lead to the discovery Of an almost abso'
lutte preventive Of virulcnt diseases. In
investigating a malignant disease of poul-
/ try, known as chicken cholera, NJ Pas
teur found that it was occasioned by the
propagation in the blood of a germ in
troduced by living virus-like smallpox
and cholera in m1n. lie cxperimented
until he found a way of modifying this
virus until chicken that had been inoc-
ulated by It was protected against the
disorder, Ill the same way that vaccination
protects against smallpox. 1t is prophe
sled that similar experiments in the case
Of the virulent diseases to which men arc
liable viii result in similar discoveries
If this should prove to he the case, sucl
diseases as typhoid fever, cholera, dipth
liberia and scarlet feyer-which are tht
four chief scourges in this latitude
might be prevented with quite as mucl
certainty as smallpox is now prevented
: This is not too great thing to hope for
though it does seem little chimer;cal
: and the progress Of medical science ma,
l bring it about within our lifetime
Two of those cases which may well b
pronounced stranger than fiction have ius
. q been brought to light. In Pennsylvani
! a husband has found his wife and daurb
ter after a separation of twenty-five
years, during which period the partie
believed each to be dead. The wife ha
. remarked, but the second husband wa
dead, so that there was no chance for a
/ Enoch Arden case there. The secon
u instance is that of man of seventy. VIII
I has turnedup in Brooklyn after an absenc
d of forty years, and made social senss
{ ton by claiming to be the lawful inherito
;; of share Of the large property left b
woman who died in 1869, after livin
II for thirty years as the wife of citizen {
y Brooklyn. The old man declares tn;
Il he came to Brooklyn in 1852, and findin
a that his wife had remarked, went ava
II without making himself known. To ad
to the legal complications, which al
many, he is accompanied by son VIII
=, asserts that he is sole heir to the estat
:, y on the ground that the children by IL
" second and illegal marriage have no leg
: - existence. The children in question ma
Z urally object, and deny the identy of IL
alleged father and son. All of whic
- furnishes abundant material for a romano
2 Of the first order, and splendid chan,
l,' i for the lawyers.
~ ~ TIE Ocean Grove Record in giving {
to to account of Sunday at the camp just Close
IN there says:
ne " An interval for breakfast, and at g.:
ne the tide of humanity began to set towal
a the great auditorium. All the side mec
ings, for once, converged into the gerlcr
love-feast. Sweeney was giving tone al
D. time to the best melodies of the " "Qui
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