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Iron County register., 1886-07-29
HOOKS AND EYES.
The Ingenious Machines Used in Their
Manufa cture.

The Ingenious Machines Used in Their
Manufacture.
For more than dozen years the
manufacture of hooks and eyes for
women's and children's dresses may be
said to have been dead, buttons having
superseded them. But there are indi.
cations that hooks and eyes are again
to come into use, at least to consid-
cradle extent. If this should prove to
be the case, it will gladden. the hearts
of some who have preserved their ma
chinery from the scrap heap. Thirty
years ago the State of Connecticut had
manufactures within her territory that
produced these little articles to the
value of $4,000 annually at fifteen
cents a gross. Previous to 1880, or
thereabout, hooks and eyes were made
by hand and sold at $50 per gross.
The machines for making hooks and
eyes are quite ingenious, those for the
hooks being capable of making ninety
per minute and those for the eyes one
hundred and twenty per minute. That
for making the hooks takes the wire
from a reel through astraightener, cuts
off the wire to the exact length, when
blade strikes the piece in the middle
of its length, and two side blades
moving simultaneously bend the wire
double, laying the two halves of its
length close together and parallel.
Then two pins rise, one on each side of
the ends of the wire. to form the eyes
of the hook, and two semi-rotating
pushers bend the ends round the pins,
making the eyelets for sewing the hook
on to the fabric. The unfinished hook
is still perfectly flat, when horizontal
pin and a vertical bender working up
ward, curve the double end of the hook,
and a presser t1attens the end to a
.swan BILL"
The eve is formed in another ma
chine, but by means of similar appli-
ances. Brass wire is used for silvered
hooks and eyes and iron wire for the
black or japanned goods. The silver
coating is made by mixing an acid pre-
cipitate of silver with common salt
and the cream of tartar of commerce to
produce a paste. Certain proportions
of this paste and of the brass hooks
and eyes are placed in a tumbling
barrel, and by attrition and affinity the
brass and silver unite. The articles,
as they come from the tumbling
barrel, are of lusterless white, but
are polished by being placed in cotton
cloth bags with bar soap and rubbed
with hot water under the vibrating arm
of a washing machine. e.-ProUideaace
,TOur,aal
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
SCOURS IN LIVE STOCK.
Treatment of Diarrhea and Dysentery II
Cattle. Horses and sheen.

Treatment of Diarrhea and Dysentery IN
Cattle, Horses and Sheep.
The most prevalent disorder of the
summer months among livestock is
diarrhea, commonly called scours.
This trouble affects cows, calves, sheep
and lambs, and is usually mistreated
under the mistaken apprehsion that a
too laxative condition of the bowels
calls for astringent medicines. Hence
popular remedies, such as alum, cop
peras and oak bark, are usually given,
not only without good results, but
often mischievously and gradually IT.
ritating the mucous membranes so
much that fatal dysentery occurs and
the animals perish miserably. Young
creatures often suffer in this way for
the mistakes of their owners, and the
heat of the summer to which the ami
mails are exposed, with the want of
water. aggravate the disease and make
it rapidly fatal.
Diarrhea is an indication that the in
testinal canal is suffering from the
presence in it of irritating and indi.
gested matter. There are other causes
of this disease, as inflammation induced
by cold or the results of impure water;
but improper feeding, or the indiges-
ton of the food, are the most frequent
causes. 1t is obvious then that the use
of any astringent medicine would have
the very opposite effect to those de.
sired, as they would tend to retain in
the bowels the injurious matter which
nature is exerting all its power to eject.
1t is equally true that all acrid and
stimulating substances, such as tur.
pentine, alcohol, cayenne pepper and
others, often given in cases of diarrhea,
are, at the best, only questionable, and
may be positively dangerous as i'll
creasing the irritation and inf1amma-
ton of the already diseased organs and
so only adding, as it were, fuel to the
fire.
In most cases the treatment should
be gentle and palliative. Raw linseed
oil, in doses of one ounce for each one
hundred pounds in live weight, is the
most useful medicine. 1t soothes the
tender and inflamed stomach and bow
els, and gently elects the offending
matter. 1t is not drastic in its action.
but gently laxative and soothing. A
great deal may be done in feeding:
linseed, or oatmeal Cruel, slippery elm
bark infusions, and any other gummy
and mucilaginous liquid food are use
full; if any tonic is thought proper, a
dram of ground ginger to the quart of
liquid and a liberal quantity of sugar
or molasses will be beneficial. Food
and excess of water are to be withheld,
and pure water as cold as can be pro-
cured is desirable. In bad cases, ice
water in small quantities at time has
good effect. After the laxative has
operated, the following mixture may
be used, viz: One ounce of laudanum,
one ounce of tincture of rhubarb, two
ounces of essence of peppermint, one
ounce of prepared chalk to pint of
water, slightly thickened with gum
arabic, all we'll shaken in a bottle. OF
this mixture, a teaspoonful may be
given to a lamb and two to a calf every
hour. Half the above quantity may be
given at one dose to a cow or a horse,
but smaller doses frequently repeated
are Observation-Disclosures, AgricuI.
tIriSt.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
A TIMELY RIDE.
The Part Played by Lame Boy in the
Revolutionary Struggle.

The Part Played by Lame Boy in the
Revolutionary Struggle.
It may seem at first that the boy men,
toned in this incident, which is given
bv Edward Everett Hale in his ''Boy
Heroes" did nothing either heroic or
remarkable, but it is good illustration
of the value of doing ones very best
under all circumstances.
There was boy whom / will name
Luke Varnum. He was fifteen years
old. and he was lame of his left foot.
So. when every other boy in Number
Five. and every man, old and young,
shouldered his firelock and marched OFT
to Join General Stark, and 60 and fight
the Hessians mt Bennington, Luke was
left at home. He limped out and held
the stirrup for Lieutenant Chittenden to
mount, and then he had to stay at home
with the babies and the women. The
men had been gone an hour and half.
when three men galloped up on horse
back. And Luke went down to the
rails to see who they were.
.Is there nobody here?' said one OF
them.
eyes said Luke, Il am here
81 see that" said the first man laugh
inr- ..What mean is, is there nobody
here can set shoe?"
II think | can" said Luke. al often
tend fire for Jonas. can blow the
bellows. and can hold a horses foot
ANYWAY. will start up the fire.
Luke went into the forge and took
down the tinder-boX and struck a light.
He built the fire, and hunted up half-a-
dozen nails which Jonas had left unin-
tentionallv, and he had even made two
more. when fourth hOrseman came
slowly down on Il walk. 'What luck. )"
said he. Ito find forge with the fire
lighted
boy who knew how to light it. "
The other speaker flung himself OIL
the horse meanwhile. And Luke pared
measured the shoe. which was too big
for her. He heated it white, and bent
it closer. to the proper size.
1T is a poor fit, "he said, '-but it will
do"
1T will do very well, said her rider.
..But she is very tender-footed. and j
do not dare trust her five miles unshod. ="
For prde's sake, the first two nails
LIKE drove were those he had made
himself. And when the shoe was fast.
he said; '.Tell Jonas that l het up the
forge-aud put on the shoe"
1--WE will tell him. said the Colonel,
laughing. and he rode on.
But one of the other horsemen tarried
a minute. and said; boy, no ten men
who left you to-day have served your
country as you have. 1t is Colonel
Warner.
When l read in history how Colonel
Warner led up his regiment just in time
to save the day at Bennington. am apt
to think of Luke Varnum. When
read that that day decided the battle OF
Saratoga. and determined that America
should be in dependent, L think of Luke
Varnum. When go to see monuments
erected in memory of Colonel Warner
and General Stark. and even poor OLD
Burgovne, l think of Luke Varnum ana
others like him. And then sonnet mes
wonder whether every man and boy of
us who bravely and truly does the very
best thing he knows how to do. does not
have the future of the world resting on
him YOUTHS Companion.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
Web-Footed Cows in Nevada,

The cows down at Empire, on the
Carson river, feed on the numerous
small, low, fiat islands at that point.
which divides the river up into many
meandering sloughs and branches. A
short time ago, when the river was
high, these islands were completely
submerged, but now they are above
water again, and covered with short,
sweet grass, which the cows eagerly
seek. They are so used to wading g and
swimming from one island to another
that their feet have become broad,
with a strong. thick web, like sole
leather, formed between the toes. Any
one of those cows can out-swim row
boat or an alligator Virginia City
(NeU. Enterprise.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
How He Wanted Them Made.

Howard Ross is a gay young lad
whose clothes fit him just right. He is
considerable of wag in his way and a
few days ago he ordered a new pair OF
trousers. He is fond of a neat fit, and
had his measure taken accordingly.
Later on he got to looking at the styles.
and the result was that he sent word
down to his tailor that he wanted those
pants made sober" After consulting
everybody on the block. the tailor final
ly caught on. to the fact that the trousers
We're not to be made tight
1t is thought that another break OF
that kind will be as much as his consti-
tuition viii stand, A change of climate
will then be absolutely necessary .-Ner-
chant Iraceier.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
Is it Really Consumption?

Many case supposed to be radical lung
disease is really one of liver complaint ano
Indigestion, but, unless that diseased
will so clog the lungs with corrupting mat
ter as to bring on their speedy decay, an6
then indeed we have consumption, which
is scrofula of the lungs, in its worst form
nip this danger in the bud than is Dr
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery" By
druggists.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

John Yesterday wants to-day the
sum of seventeen dollars and forty-tive
cents from this Government together
with interest thereon. Yesterday s
claim is in every sense of the word a
claim of yesterday. The debt was in
Cured February IA, 1898. The interest
now is many times greater than the or
iginal debt. Yesterdays claim is one
of those that 60 on yesterday, to-day
and forever. ."-DetroH Free Press.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
Ancient Cigar Consumers.
IFreeman's Journal.l

A Pompeiian tourist from Cooperstown
writes that he accidentally left cigar
holder of rubber among the small
relics in the relic museum of the
ancient city and now understands that the
scientists have proved that the ancient
Pompeiian smoked cigars in rubber hold
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

OLD pill boxes are spread over the land
by the thousands after having been emp
of sickening, disgusting medicine the poor
stomach has to contend with. Too much
strong medicine. Prickly Ash Bitters is
rapidly and surely taking the place of all
this class of drugs, and is curing all the ills
arising from disordered condition of the
liver kidneys. stomach and bowels.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
Five Hundred Dollars

is the sum DR.. Pierce offers for the detec-
ton OF any calomel, or other mineral poi
son or injurious drug in his justly cele-
brated pheasant Purgative Pellets" They
are about the size of mustard seed, there
fore easily taken, while their operation is
unattended by any gripping pain: Bilious
ness, sick-headache, bad taste in the mouth,
and jaundice, yield at once before these
Little giants" OF your druggist.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
The young lecturers SMILES wer

-1he young lecturer S SMILES were
gathered in heap when he ex-
pressed the whole body of his argu-
ment on deceit in the following:
''Oh, my brethren. the snowiest shirt
front may conceal an aching bosom,
and the stifest of all collars encirele a
throat that has many a bitter pill to
swallow. y Chicago Journal.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

extracted without pain" remarked: Il
never could get any teeth extracted with
out ayin'."-N Y. Ledger.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

An anti-tobacco reformer has found
that of the seventy-six United States
Senators fourteen chew tobacco, and
ffty-eight use it in one form or an
other, while of the 325 members of the
House only few abstain wholly from
tobacco.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes use DIR. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it. 25c.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

THE "Favorite Prescription" of DIR. Pierce
cures "female weakness and kindred at
fections. By druggists.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

HALLS Hair Remover is cooling to the
scalp and cures all itching eruptions.
For ague bilious, intermittent, break
bone. and swamp fevers, use Ayers Ague
Cure.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

SHUN OINTMENTs AND LOTIONS for skin dis.
eases, cuts, sprains, bruises, &c, and use
GLENN's SULPHUR Soar. HILLS HAIR AND
WHIsKER DYE, Black or Brown, SOC.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

"AL1. the worlds a STAGE" but the fare
does not suit every body.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

WHEN is an umbrella like perspirationa
When it passes through the pores.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

An itching for notoriety is not enough to
secure mitch in the temple of Fame.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

IT is only on the biggest scales that you
can learn the weigh of the world.-Tezas
SJtimgs.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

you have means, live within them; if
you have not, live without tthem.-BdltinaoTs
Meas
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

The best cough medicine is Piso's Cure
for Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
THE MARKETS.

A MAN who writes poetry in his hat Is q
versatile man.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

I aoas cured before
The second bottle Of
Ey's Cream Balm
aods exhausted. Iacas
troasbled NTH chronic
catarrh, gathering In
head, difficulty an
breathing and dis
charges from my
edrs.-C. j. Cor6in,
923 Chestnut Street,
Philadelphia.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

Apartice is applied into each nostril and Is agreeable
to Price 50 cts. by mail druggists Send for
circular. ELf BROTHERS. Druggists, Owego. N.Y.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

Principal ONCE, ssl Main st., LOUISVILLE, KY.
Iron County register., 1886-07-29
"Iydia Locket lost her pocket,
Lydia Fisher found it,
Not a bit of money in 1t,
Only binding round it."

which, instead of being an impromptu
verse, is part of song from Gay 5
"Beggar's OPERA" first performed in
1927. Miss Clayton, IN her ''Lives of
Celebrated Singers" asserts that from
that opera the tune was derived; but
the fact is that it was only one of the
many popular airs of the time that were
incorporated in the opera. During the
revolution, when arms and ammunition
were carried from Boston into the coun-
try in carts, ostensibly loaded with
manure. the British officers adapted the
following words to the tune:
Iron County register., 1886-07-29

whatever he undertakes-H VII II. C7en,
ems, in Chicago Current.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-15

From the Albany (Gd.) Netos and AdUertissr.
The Nel1s and Advertiser is in receipt
of letter from e. H. Green, written from
Palatka, Fla, in which he gives dolefuI
account of the treatment OF the lasorers
who recently left this section under the
fiattering promises Of recruiting agents.
This correspondent, whom we suppose is
a colored man, says he had always
thought the Georgia law taxing recruit
ing agents was unjust, but his eyes are
opened and he now sees the wisdom of the
law. Instead Of receiving the 81 % per
day, as promised, the laborers are SWIM
died out of it. These labOrers are re-
quired to take the weather as it
comes, to wade in water, and
when they refuse or ask for a ''set.
Element" they are treated like dogs. And
where these hands lett in body they were
pursued and fred into. This correspond
ent begs us to make these facts known
that other laborers will not be likewise
entrapped. Many of those that went
down to Florida with these agents will be
heard of no more, says Green, ''until
Gabriel shall wake them with his silver
trumpet" Continuing, he adds ''Beg
them not to come down here, for it would
be more tolerable for them in the United
States prison, or the Georgia chain-gang,
than in South Florida in its present
state" The correspondent winds up by
praising the Georgia law as 70 recruiting
agents. and says: "Double the fines of re-
cruiting agents five times"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-15

Money is scarce, employment scarce. and
hard times and cold weather have pretty
we'll discouraged everybody. To meet the
crisis. we have placed our prices on our entire
Winter Stock Of Gents, Youths and Boys
Clothing so low that any one with the slight
est dlsDOsltion to purchase can't avoid dong
so. We, however, stick to our lone price to
all" system, because 1t is the fairest and SIM
plest. There can be no doubt that our prices
are as low or lower than the same goods can
be bought anywhere else in Savannah, and
we mean TO sell every stitch OF Winter Cloth
ing in our establishment at prices lbitAin TIE
reach OF Everybody. Our tailor will Nc each
garment Jree Of charge. We extend cordial
invitation TO the public to call and get real
bargains. Congress, Whitaker and ST. Julian
streets, A. FALK & SoN.-Adr.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-15
80 BAoK RY FRosTs.
Effect OF the Cold Weather on the
Vegetable Crops.

NDANtobAo
Truck farmers say that there will not
be any early vegetables this year. Every
thing Is or will be late. The January
freeze and the subsequent cold snaps
killed all Of the vegetables that were grow
ing and set the season back.
Ordinarily Florida vegetables are three
weeks earlier than Georgia truck, which
in turn is three weeks ahead Of Norfolk.
1t was apprehended that as the freeze had
put all OF the truck farms in the same
condition by running cabbage, lettuce,
splnage, peae, and in short all OF the
crops, the fresh crops would all DO plant
ed.ab0ut tho same time throughout Ge0r-
gia, Florida, the Car0linas and Virginia.
| The result would have been that the
crops in all Of these sections
would have matured about the same
/ time and all would have come into
| market together, This bade fair 10 prove
true go far as Florida and Georgia were
concerned.
1t so happened, though, and fortunately
too for the Georgia truckers, that the Jan
uary freeze was followed by another,
which, though less severe, nevertheless
gave the tender plants another setback.
Florida suffered worse from the late cold
waves than this section Of Georgia did, so
cOuraged them to think that this spring
they will beat their Florida rivals into
New York and got the best prices.
Dealers in seeds candidly admit that
they have sold twice as many vegetable
seeds this season as In any previous year.
Numbers Of growers had TO plant two,
three and four times.
a truck planter remarked yesterday
that In his opinion the freeze will turn
out TO be pretty good thing for the tar
mers after all. "The cold killed out bill
lions Of bugs and insects that eat up our
crops every summer, and Wen have less
trouble from worms and insects this sum-
mer than for twenty years. See if what
say don't come out true, and lift don't I'll
give 20 ripe peaches tor next Christ
mas" This old gardener added that the
intense cold frOZe the insect larvG which
were buried in the soil within an inch or
two Of the surface. The freezing and
thawing also lOOsened up the soil, and it
consequently requires a little less work
to put 1t in good order and to keep it
loose.
A leading gardener, who grows largely
for the Savannah and Northern markets,
states that he thinks the Chatham county
vegetables will be a little earlier than
North and Middle Florida vegetables.
Other market men expressed similar
opinions. The first strawberries and Con-
cord grapes will come into market in
about three weeks, MIR. j. W. Cell, a
large grower, stated, unless another
cold spell comes along. The mud weather
Of the lest ten days has given the growing
vegetables a good start and they are now
promising well.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-15
BASE BALL GOSSIP.
What Is Going On Among the Southern
League Teams.

League Teams.
The Schedule Committee will meet at
the KlmbaI house tomorrow at 10 O'Clock
a. m.
Nearly all clubs have finished signing
their players, and are now ready to shit
home runs"
The deposit OF $500 is to be made March
! by all the clubs to the league treasurer,
j. n. Birch, OF Macon.
Shaffer, Atlanta's brag pitcher. played
l6-inning game last season against the
WilliamspOPts, and they made only four
hits off him.
President Proudft has not yet appoint
ed the umpiTes, but will do so in the next
few days. 1t is SAID that be will probably
appoint Green, Brennan, McQuade, and
Bowers. saa T.rcbt
Atlanta now has her team complete
and is anxious for the fun 90 begin. Will
Hams, Lynch and Gunson catehers: Shat
fer, Conway, Mitchell and KimbeF pitch
ers, V. Cline short stop, Mcdonald first
base, Stricken or Peak second, Lyons
third, Moore left field, Percell centre, and
Bradley right.
Charleston has three good pitchers in
Jacobs, weighing, and Lanser, and in
Brosnan she has one OF the finest second
basemen in the country. Nashville has,
IL is said, secured Baker, the laughing
pitcher, under a recent ruling of the Arbi-
tration Committee. Nashville has signed
10 men and is still after another pitcher,
although she already has five.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-15
THROUGH THE CITY.
Items G altered Here aud There by the
News Reporters.

Items Gathered Here aud There by the
News Reporters.
DeKalb Lodge No. 8, l. 0. o. F., meets
this evening.
There will be % cases from the Mayors
Court this morning.
Clinton Lodge f. A. M. will hold a reg
ulaT communication tonight.
The Georgia Historical Society will
hold it's annual meeting tonight at s
o'clock.
The Railroad Loan Association will
hold it's 3Oth regular meeting tonight at
Metropolitan Hall.
Capt. @. N. FOrsstromson's funeral from
| the Lutheran church was largely attended
! yesterday afternoon,
George Williams, Isaac Mack, Robert
| LOudOn, Josephine johnson, Annie John
son, and William johnson, all cOlored,
were arrested early yesterday morning by
| Officers Bender, Smith, and Morgan for
gambling in house on Cleburne street.
They will be given hearing before the
Mayor this morning.
A passenger from Macon yesterday re-
ported that the wreck on the Central rail-
road between Sun Hill and Tennille was
not entirely cleared away yesterday
morning, although trains could pass. The
accident occurred while the freight train
was rounding a curve, and is said TO have
! been caused by bale OF cotton slipping
of of one of the cars and rolling under
the wheels.
| Andrew Gribble and Joseph Holmes
went to the office of the Ocean Steamship
Company on Saturday and drew the
weekly wages of Wallie Giyens, Loudon
Waters ana Thomas Butler and failed to
turn over the cash to the proper owners.
| Complaint was made at the police barracks
and Grlbble and Holmes were arrested
yesterdy by Policeman Fitzgerald, OF the
Ocean Steamship force.
The Young Mems Christian Association
held a lengthy meeting at the Baptist
Church yesterday afternoon and dis.
GUESSED the proposed constitution by sec
tons. A spirited debate took place on
the section which provides that no two
officers snail be members of the same re.
ligiOus denomination. The members were
divided very nearly equally on this point
The matter will come up again next sun.
day, when It is expected that an agree.
ment Will have beeu reached and the
constitution will be adopted.