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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26

Boston will soon have a cotton ex.
change similar to the one in New
York.
There were seven million hogs rails
cd In the West last year, which con-
sumed lbs, 0OO, 900 bushels Of corn.
Thirty thousand cattle were trans
ported 10 the new parlor cattle cars
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and
not one died from the effects of heat.
About 8 ,808 persons In Texas devote
their time and attention to sheep rails
ing.
A stalk Of corn was recently ex-
hiblted In Mason, Texas, which was
fifteen feet high, and eleven feet to
the first ear.
A Mr.. Watts, of South Carolina,
has an Angora goat, which gives four
quarts Of rich milk per day.
The Mississippi river has been high
or at Burlington, Iowa, recently, than
1t has been for 30 years.
The English now admit that the
best -four Is made In the United States.
The best -four made In Europe, IL
made In Hungary and France.
There is such demand for canned
pears, nectarines aud plums In Europe,
that a large number Of capitalists will
embark In the business this fall, for
the purpose Of canning alone.
There has been such damages to the
wheat crop In Great Britain, that the
deficiency Is estimated TO be l25, OO0,-
900 bushels.
Leeched wood ashes should be given
to swine-it is good for fattening, and
the health Of the hogs.
notwithstanding the frosts, Florida
will send this season SO, 0O0, 900 oranges
to market. They are now being ship
ped to New Orleans, and are worth
SO per barrel.
cotton was raised the present sea- |
son, at Ottumwa, India, where 1t Is
supposed 1t can be raised with profit. |
That IL more than Is being done IN the |
South.
BY putting tube rose into scarlet
Ink, Il will be drawn into the vein,
giving the rose pretty color.
-Four thousand bushels Of onions
have been raised at Dichton, Mass, I
this season which have been very
profitable.
To make tanks water-tight. paint
with . mixture Of eight parts melted
glue and four parts Of lIuseed oil boil
ID with litharge.
A large business is now being done
Trying potatoes In evaporating ma
shines.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26

II there has bean anything in the
world to test the different varieties Of
strawberry plants 1t 10 the intolerable
heat and drought Of this season. We
had great many new varieties which
cost enough and were pulled up
enough In the newspapers to with
stand almost anything, but they sue
cumbed to the heat, while the old will
sons and the Charlestons stood the
fiery ordeal q great deal better
$ Endlcott, Capt. Jack, 6harpleys,
Charles Downing, Monarch Of the
West and Crystal City, all withered
and died under the scorching rays OF al
most a tropical sun. They are nearly all
sold for high prices and considered to
be our best strawberry plants, but
they proved to be our worst.
1t. is high time our people had
ceased to be humbugged. But the
large, rich, lucious strawberry as it
hangs In clusters on fine ornamented
paper seems to be overwhelmingly at
tractiveand draws customers by the
thousands who pay exorbitant prices,
for what turns out to be worthless.
A correspondent Of the Farmer and
Fruit Grower, from Golden, Illinois,
says:
"Next spring there will be great
fo to Inf fNf
unprincipled hounds who are buying
plants to sell, and can sell any kind
called for out Of the same box or patch.
1t will stand people in hand to be care
full from whom they buy and what they
buy. Anything but the Wilson will
prove curse to them In any way but
plants. This may be considered a
broad assertion, but am not afraid to
risk it. Eighteen or twenty years ex-
perience is enough, If man has any
observation II he has none, 1t does
not matter. But by all means go and
see how your fruit sells and looks In
Chicago, aud how your commission
man handles it, how he comes to send
you Just as much AS he does for Will
sons. There are all kinds OF tricks
played on South Water street to hold
shippers, aud In turn they have to
be dishonest, because half Of their con-
signOrs are dihonest. Not thatit is COM
mendable to do that way by any means,
but commission men are doing BUSH
ness for that little ten per cent, not
for our everlas:i benefit but for their
own In old age. You need not be UNI
easy about their educating you. They
will not do it. All they want Is your
custom and they are going to keep il
some way. But, fruit growers, go to
Chicago and get wisdom and be hap
by; the rest will come.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26
Magnitude OF the Dairy Interess.

At the late meeting of the National
Butter, Egg and Cheese Association,
held at Indianapolis, Mayor Lord, oil
Elgin, Ills, In speaking of the dairy
interest, said that 1t was estimated
that there are Is, 900, 900 milch cows in
the country, requiring the annual
product of 1000, 900 acres of land for
feed, giving employment for 600, 900
men, and requiring the labor Of $685.
600 horses. Estimating the cows at $50
each, the horses at $50, aud land al
$50 per acre together with 500, 600, 900
for agricultural and dairy implements,
and the total amount invested In the
industry is 81, 2l9, $50, 900. This is con
siderably more than the amount in
vested in banking and the CONNER
einl and manufacturing inter, SITS OF
the country, which is 81 800, 1854 $50.
The cattle and horses will require
two tons OF hay annually. or its equiv
alent. IL it is estimated that five mil
lion are fed with grain, for winter
dairying, aud that the horses daily re-
quire SIX quarts of oats or corn during
the year, they will consume ~, 3S3, 200
tons of hay, "a, $40, 900 bushels of oat-
meal, ], 250, 900 tons Of bran, 80, 1000, 900
bushels of corn, and 800, 900 bushels of
Oats-of a total value of $34S, 459, 400
To this he added the labor Of $50, 900
men at $50 per month, or $3.50, 0OO, 900,
making an annual value of $504, 439, :
400, or an average of $3S 50 per COW.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26

We received last week through Hon.
J. z. George and Prof. Baird, the fish
commissioner at Warrington, lot Of
German carp.
THERE'S no one who understands his
business better, or 10 doing more Ia
propagate different species Of fish In
our ponds, lakes and rivers, than this
eminent fish culturist. The carp,
although they had been on the
way four days, were as fresh
and active, as II they had
been just taken from their native
element. Thetransportation cans are
models for the object they were In
tended. The tin can enclosed In the
wooden, helps to keep the water cool.
The cover, which can be removed at
pleasure, is perforated with several
large holes, that insuies adequate
ventilation. Upon the can is card
from the General Express Agent to
the different messengers, with instruc-
tons to keep the vessel as cool as pos
-sible, and change the water whenever
the fish come to the top, or swim ON
their backs.
We only mention these facts to
show what trouble has been under
taken In order that fish may be trans
ported thousands of miles from the
waters Of the far North, to be trans
ferred to the lakes. ponds and rivers Of
our sunny Soath.
Most of the people who live away
from the water courses and the coast,
are almost wholly deprived Of fish uh-
less they buy few stale and muddy,
and unhealthy cat fish = brought q
long distance. Therefore providing
plenty Of nice fresh fish will not only
be great saving of meat, but luxury
to the people. No fish will answer 30
well for stocking ponds as the German
carp. They seem specially adapted to
our Southern waters-thriving under
both heat and cold. In California
some persons have realized as much
~ $500 from an acre Of water stocked
with these fish. In few years We
think the majority Of our lakes and
ponds will be abundantly supplied
with these thrifty fish which should
be the case. We must not forget the
exertions Of the Fish
Commissioner at Washington, and our
accommodating Congressman.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26
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The Royal Cnsket contains orc superb amethyst
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bracelets nr' scarf pn gold plated lady sset, gold
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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26
SILK Cultivation.
Memphis Appeal.

Il
Since my last letter on "Silk Ctn
ture In the South" have successful,
grown silk In Memphis, and my ex.
pectatiOns have been more than ZEAL
lied. Samples Of silk grown by me
here have been sent To New York ant
Lyons, France, and the result as t.
quality, etc Is the best, and rates
from six TO eleven dollars per pound
for reeled silk. We have prepared
samples Of our reeled silk on exhibit
ton few days before we send It to
the International Cotton Exposition
at Atlanta, Georgia. We have re-
ceived the most encouraging letters
from France and the silk spinners In
the East, urging US to try aud get the
South to raise silk, for the demand Of
silk goods has more than doubled the
past year, and Is still increasing.
Silk spinners and weavers In France
express their great surprise when In
formed that mulberry trees grow wild
In our climate and are still more so
when they find out that the South
has yet to turn her attention to silk
culture. There Is no mystery about
silk culture. Ladies and children are
most successful and profitable silk
cultivators. To raise silk in the South
successfully
First-Get the best silk worm eggs.
Second-Place the eggs, in March,
In the sun with mulberry leaf over
them.
Third-When they hatch, place
them in shallow pasteboard or wooden
boxes.
Fourth-Feed them one mulberry
leaf once day.
Fifth--Keep each days hatchlngs
to themselves.
Sixth-They are full grown in
thirty days.
Seventh-Make roosts for them by
placing them In larger box with
small, round pieces of wood from one
side to the other of the box. IFI
Eighth In two or three days the
silk worm has finished spinning.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26

A method of cooking beefsteak equal
IL not superior to broiling, is as fol-
lows: Prepare the steak as IL for
broiling, by carefully scraping II with
a knife, removing loose bits, specks,
ETC., (Which Is much better than the
old fashioned way of washing 1t. Heat
frying pan very hot, and place the
steak In II dry. e., without grease or
water. After minute or two turn,
taking care not TO let ii scorch. When
partly cooked season with pepper and
salt, adding butter when served. The
nice point In this method Is TO hnve
the skillet hot enough to brown the
steak without burning 1t. Chops can
be cooked In the same way. A little
practice will render this an easy as
well as satisfactory method.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26

Il is not always true that q pile Of
manure steaming with heat and smell
ing strongly 10 losing ammonia. AM
monia Is 3 very volatile and pungent
r., and might be known by IL pecu-
nar pcent which b freely given on by
close, i1l-ventilated horsf stables, or
b. the coat Of lll-cleaned horses. But
if 3 not often that this peculiar sceut
escapes from manure heaps on the
contrary if b . more disagreeabIe odor,
similar 10 that Of rotten eRgs. This 10
sulphuretted hydrogen, and not am
u,onfa, and. occasions no los to ma
nurs except the, sulphur II IN max
ine . panurs pile some plaster - mix
ed In the lsesp, al the ammonia VIII
b cnnehe and held By Il. and all the
water confained In the manure win
ala oou1ni1 hrge qneatt<y GOO unes
~ 6olk) - y, and VII not give Il on
nta heaf thai en- be rsksedjn manure
~. n ~ mannre = ~ y heat and
RI ar and are fhng, o. slowly burn
IA Whit dry Has stu1. then the
anmon|a 3 fo.t and The manure h
~
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26
retten Masssaesares.


At the Atlanta Exposition, now
open, gentleman read an address on
the growth of cotton manufactures Ia
the United States up to the year 1850,
the statistics being supplied to him BY
the Census Bureau, though not yet
published In form by that Bureau.
Some Of these figures will be Interest
ing TO most Of our readers. The total
capital invested IL $207, 781 ,86S. OF
this New England employs Sl57 $50,
$50, and the Southern States, 81, 075, :
S97. New England pays In yearly
wages to operatives So, 2l1. 79l. and
the South S2,7e3, 093. The total
amount Of raw cotton used Ia all OF
our cotton manufactures is 1870, 2S6
bales or 750,343, 1851 pounds. This -
about one-fourth Of The crop Of 1883,
which was q very large one. The
cost Of the raw cotton was SIS, Gas, 725 I;
Of which New England paid sos, 16s,-
434, and the South $3.50, 40s. The
manufactured cloth amounted TO q
264, s49, 179 yards, of which New Eng
land produced ], sos, O50, al yards, Of
over 80 per cent; the South, las, 05s,-
SIS yards, or less than Z per cent.
The total value OF. these manufacturer
was sls2, ~, $50, and the amount was
distributed as follows
New England---...-..---.....-S14s,0 OH, s45
Middle tates...--....-....-... 8,s17, 492
Southern states---...--...-- 1881, 435
Western States. 2,oze, les
This branch Of industry 10 nptdly
growing In the Smith, where manu-
lecturers have the raw material right
At hand and save the large amount
which transportation costs the New
England people. In fact, New Eng
land capital b seeking investment at
the Boufh and there IL reason 70 be-
Iiexe that. when II once Rstz . good
fbofhosd there. the Southern States
win take the lead In that industry,
and Be able to compete on sdsanta-
geous terms with Manchester and
Lowell IN all the markets Of the world.
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26
For sale

A NICE HOUSE, with good Outbuildlngs, Or
chard, aud FIVE Acres Of Land, situated In North
Jackson.
Also, small and inferior HOUSE In West Jack
son with haif-acre Of land.
Also, LARGE sToRE-H0UsE we'll situated in
Bandon.
The above property will be sold cheap, OF ex-
caneed tor property In city Of New Orea ms.
- Inquire at the Comet Office. may14-3m
The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26
SEEDS THAT SURPRISED

$40 ! J !. !: i
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our instructions are 10 simple and plain,
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w 1Ofrom the very start. No one can fail
who Is willing to work. Women are
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one hundred dollars. IN single week. Nothing
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You do not have TO invest capital In II. We take
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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26

rY7T n Yourselves ny making money
ituII Iwhen golden chance Is offered
AAI Deriy from the door. Those who
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good chances for making money
llIlIl that are offered, generally be-
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want many men, women, boys and girls to work
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will pay more than ten times ordinary wages. We
furnish expensive outfit and all that you need,
free. No one who engages falls to make money
very rapidly. You can devote your whole time 10
the work. or your spare moments. Full iDf0rma-
tion and all that Is needed sent free. Address
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The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1881-11-26
WORTH THEIR WEIGHT In
GOLD.
Is What the People Say
Who Use
DIR. BENSON'S CELERY And CHAM
OMlLE PILLS.
Their Efficacy in Sick and
Nervous Headache,
Headache, Neuralgia, Nervousness,
Indig estion, Sleeplessness
and Paralysis.
Is Fully Established Fact, based on
Actual Experience, and there is no
kind of dorbt but that they
will cure these diseases

DIR. Bcnson's Celery and Chamomile Pills are pre-.
pared express, To cure Sick Headache, Nervou.
Headache, Neuralgia, Nervousness, Paralysis,
Sleeplessness, and Indigestion or Dyspepsia, and
will cure any no matter how obstinate II prop
eriy used. They not a curcall, but only for the
special diseases. They contain no opium. NOR
phine or quinine, and not purgatiye, but regu-
late the bowels and cure consumption by curing OF
removing the cause OF II. They have q charming
effect upon the skin, and lovely, quieung effect
thousand hungry, yes In some cases, starving alb.
sorbent. Theygmake or create nerve matter and
give power. force and bouyancv to the nerves, and
brilliancy OF mind. Nobsdy who has q nervous
- stem should neglect to take them two o. three
months IN each year, simply q nerve food, II for
no other purpose. Price 90 cents a box, or boxes
for " So postage free Sold by all druggists. uei
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Orange Culture In Florida.

Orange trees are set on. in rows usual,
from twenty-five to thirty feet apart eacl
way. and when budded commence bear
ing in four years. seedlings in from sever
to ten years. They require light cultiva
ton two or three times wear. either with
the hoe. harrow or small turning pillow,
drawn by one horse
To tertilze II is customary To raise sew
eral crops of corn peas each year and
pillow under the vines. which have IN in
tluence similar to our clover. The rich
hammock lands need no fertilizing to grow
the orange or lemon, but many persons
raise vegetables between the trees until
they commence bearing. In this case il
becomes necessary TO use commercial fer
tilizers. In this way. by close attention.
intelligence and industry, which every
business requires, there may be realized
from each acre in vegetables from sl01 10
500 per year. When the orange tree is
of full bearing age and well cared for,
each years crop is worth about 81 .000
per acre. about equal to fifty acres oil
wheat. have heard OF some groves eX,
ceeding this for instance, the Spurs
Grove. near Lake Monroe. at four and
one-half acres, yielded few years since,
rs | am informed, $1,000. aud Colonel
Harris fine grove of about seven acres,
near Palatka yields an annual income OF
from $4,000 to $l2,O00--a nice income.
Uncleaned lands are. worth from - to
$50 an acre. according to quality and
proximity to towns and transportation
and those that are desirable are being
RAPIDLY taken up, as there is an i'm.
,vA, r. a
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Nervons Irritabilitg. Sea;ea, and all painful Nerv-
oas Disca-es-A treatise by well known physician
specialist these subjects. concludes az follows
gals Of the painful Of diseases aad IS
attended with less nervous irritation seiat-
lea il alsn a form Of neuralgia, aud all painful ner
yous diseases come under taat Neuralgia
ss ans nerve ache and ia. refOre YOu suffer with
neural a in any part of the body the nerves are
supplied to ever part.
have for uanv year, closely studied the cause OF
neuralgia, and the nafsr- of the nervous system,
with tie many diseases that it subject TO, and have
found by actual expcren.e that the true and primary
Of neuralgia {, poverty Of the nervous haid-it
l.rr,is4 impoverished and poor, and IN cases
-tarv. not bscsu-,- the patient does rot eat, but
beca8-e what r. II not appropriated 20 the ner-
you. SYSTEM their maug Cause tor i1is, but Dr
g. v. fsn-on'- celery and Chamom'.r ills nave IN
ms hand. proved PERFECT remedy for TIM CONDITION
aud these diseases.
Sod by all druggist. Price, 5ocents II box Depot
o5 North Eutaw ST., baltimore, Nd. By mail, two
boxs- for or six boxes for s2,jO,,to any address
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OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF OF KsxNEnEc COUNT Y
STATE OF MAINE.


KrNNEREC SIS, October 10Th, a. ID. 1851.
rINHIS is TO give notice, that the tenth day
L of October A. u. ISL, q warrant in insolvency
issued Of the Court Of Insolvency for
said County of kennebec, against the estate of
Fred 4. jackson of Win krup in said County,
siudgei to be insoiyent debtor, on petition of
said debtor, which petition filed on the
tenth day of October, A. u. ISL, TO which
last named date Interest on claims is be computed
that the payment OF any debts and the delivery and
transfer of property belonging to said debtor, TO
him Tor his use. and the delivery and transfer of
any property by him forbidden by law; that a
meeting of the creditors of said debtor prove their
debts and choose assignecs of his estate
will be held at court of Insolvency 10 be holden al
Augusta i'm said County, the fourteenth day of
November A. u. 1881. Al two O'Clock in the afternoon
Given under INV hand the date FIRST above written.
SUMNER SoULE, Deputy Sheriff.
A. Messenger of the Court Of Insolvency for said
County of kennebee. octl.flt&w2w