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BAKIEVS GRANDMAMMA. •No, sir!’ paid D,i. Stone, emphatical ly; ‘no widows for me; I have an un conquerable aversion to them, and have, followed old Weller’s advice to Siimivel since my earliest boyhood, and most carefully beware 'of them. - If ever I marry the bride must be. a young girl; go young, in fact, that lean' be almost 'gore—no one can be quite sure of any thing where a woman is concerned— that I am her first and only—don’t screw up your face in that .outrageous manner, Payne; yon look as if you were going to have a fit. Laugh and have done with it, and then let’s stop talking nonsense, I have not the slightest idea of marrying or falling in love, or any thing of that sort’ ; ‘No' old bachelor ever has,’ said Payne. ‘But I say, Doc. if I were you I’d have a neat little" card hanging from a button-hole bouquet, with the inscrip tion, ‘No Widows,’ foi*, ’pon. honor,you are exactly the sort of a chap a well-to- do pretty, susceptible widow woald be spoons on. Handsome, clever, and just .tamed forty ‘Stuff!’ growled the doctor. ‘What a fool you are Payne!’ And then, glauc- iog from the office window, he contin ued, as his friend,, with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes, was about making some further remarks. ‘And do be si lent a few moments if such a thing is • possible, for here comes young Philips’ nursemaid, and iu a hurry, too, which is something remarkable for tlint usual ly easy-going and eminently genteel young person. ‘Well, my girl,’ as she entered the office: ‘what is tbe mut ter?’ . ‘Ob, doctor,’ she gasped; baby’s took very sick, and we’re awful scared, and his mother is away, and won’t bo home till night.’ ‘Wouldn’t bo much good if she wa muttered the doctor; ‘a young bit of a thing lookiug like a baby herself.’ ‘One of the kind a man might be al most sure had never loved another— hey Stone?’ asked Payne. But Dr. Stone vouchsafed him no re ply.' ‘Who’s with the child now?’ he in quired of the frightened girl. ‘The seamstress, sir. Wo nave sent for bis grandmamma, but we’ro afraid she’s away from home too, ’cause Mrs, Philips scarcely ever goes shopping with out her.’ ‘Well, run ahead; I’ll be there in a' moment,’ struggling into his overcoat. ‘And Payne take care of the office, I won’t be long. There’s a uew book on Burgery to amuse yourself with until I come back. Capital article where the leaf is turned down—a man blown al most to pieces-•but find it _for your- Belf.’ • ‘Thank you,’said Payne;‘but if it’s all the same to yon, old fellow, I- pre fer something not quite so amusing.’ When Dr. Stone arriyed at the dwel ling of the Philips’s the nurse-maid in formed him, as she opened the door, ‘that the baby had taken a turn for the belter, dear lamb, and had been sleep ing peacefully for the last ten minutes. ‘I’ll tako a look at tne - little fellow,’ said the doctor springing lightly up the atairs and gently opening the door of the nursery, r The baby lay in its crib fast asleep, and by its side, hoi ling one tiny hand, sat a very pretty woman, who, at the first glance,.the doctor decided to be about twenty—at the next, at least twenty-five. Her golden hair was knot ted with artistic carelessness atitlie back of her small, shapely bead, a few pretty tendril-like curls escaping to lie like sunbeams on her broad low- brow. Her eyes were large, soft, bright, dark- brown and shaded by long silky lashes. Her nose, slightly ‘tip-tilted’ as Tenny son has it, lent an archness to her face which otherwise, with such eyes And so • perfect a month aud oliin, wonld have been ‘faultily faultless.’ Her dress, of some lustreless gray stuff, with a bright blue ribbon at tbe throat and soft lnce- raffles at the wrist, cluDg close to a beautiful form; and the hand that held the baby’s was small, snowy white, and delicately shaped. All of which the doctor takes in at three quick glances, after the manner of his kind. ‘A seamstress—a princess!” was the judgement he pronounced mentally as bo drew off his gloves, and with unusn al nrbaifity, proceeded to make some professional inquiries about the child. The seamstress answered in a won derfully pleasant voice, and in a remark ably well-bred manner: ‘Baby seems to be all right now,’ she said; ljut I think y°n had better wait a little while Joc- h>r, for fear the spasms might return.’ The doctor seated himself not at all the baby still slumbered entered reto converse with his beautiful ccm- Pauiou. In a few moments he found imself turning over the leaves of a ‘owning which he bad taken from a E ky ber side, and then in an* ue r few moments, giving her to his ®**t surprise, his opinion of that wri- te r and his works. Srcnt surprise, for the a •> or was r eally a shy, reserved man, Prett« 0ta * all given to talking poetry to • As he went on, waxing eloquent, it su ddenly struck him that a needle-wo man would not be familiar with these poems, and be paused, to have her, to his great surprise, take up tbe subject and deliver a criticism far better and clever than his own. From Browning and that more re splendent genius, liis" wife, to Tenny son, Dickens, Thackeray, and at last George Eliot, of whom tbe seamstress' spoke with a deeper crimson on her her cheek and a brighter light in her glorious brown, eyes. . ‘Silas Maraer,’ she said, .‘is the loveliest—’ But by this time the doctor had become so interest ed in watching the play of the prettily curved lips and the bewitching dimples that came and went with every smile, he In September, 1836, General Arm strong’s brigade of Tennessee volun teers, en route to Florida, camped near tbe southern boundary of Alabama.— We bad to procure our water from a swamp near by, where we fonnd cotton- month snakes more plentiful ■ than we ever saw them before. One of the men killed a rattlesnake, and by getting as sistance by driving a peg through its head, he fastened to a large pine tree on the side of the road, so that when we moved off in the morning every man in the army might see it I talked day be fore yesterday with my then Captain, now Judge T. M. Jones, of the Su preme Bench of this State. He says ceased to hear what tbe enthusiastic 1 *be snake’s head was higher than his speaker was saying, and when she look ed him straight in'the face and asked: ‘Don’t you agree with me, doctor?’ He was obliged to stammer: ‘I beg a thou sand pardons, bat what was your last re mark?’ ‘It is I who should beg pardon,’ said the pretty seamstress, with a charming grimace. ‘How * thoughtless I have been. Of courso you have * patients waiting for yon. How could I go on so?’ The doctor wished she’d go an forev er, ‘But pray don’t stay another minute; only tell me what to do if the baby is taken sick again, and if I find that I can’t manage him 1 will send for yon immediately. I hope, however, to be able to get along without you.’ The doctor hoped she wouldn’t—in ternally, of course—and then he said, ‘I assure you madam, I have still anoth er hour at your service.’ Oh, wicked Dr. Stone! and old Mrs. Aspen groan ing with the rheumatism and expecting yon by appointment this blessed mo ment! ‘I shall be only too happy to stay —X mean—I think it necessary I should remain. These childish com plaints are, as perhaps you are not aware, often very dangerous.’ And again, oh. wicked Dr. Stone! for you know you are quite sure nothing serious is the matter with the baby!— Prescribe for yourself, doctor.. It iS you who have cought a dangerous mala dy. In spite of your sneers aud scoffs all yonr life long at the tender passion —in spite of your emphatic declaration not more than an hour ago—you have fallen in love, and she isn’t sweet six teen, and she is—a seamstress! ‘A princess!’ tie repeated to himself ngaiu, and then he said aloud, ‘I will at least remain until the baby's grand mamma ai rives.’ ‘Ob, if that is all that detains you, go at once,’ said the fair oue with' the golden locks, a mischievous smile dan cing over her lovely lips and in her big brown eyes. ‘She is here.” ‘Here?’ repeated • tbe doctor.— Where? ’ ‘ Why, didn’t nurse tefl you? I am baby’s grandmamma, and dotingly fond of my'grandson, too.' then out burst the merriest little laugh, that was hush ed for fear of waking the sleeping child, for the doctor’s face was a comical study. A dozen different expressions were min gled there, ns her remembered the girl- wife—Mrs. Philips had once spoken to him others veet mamma—a widow, and a widow for tbe second time. Bnt who could have dreamed of such a widow, such a mamma, and such a grandmam ma? Scarcely knowing what ho did he bowed himself from the room, forget ting all about the directions be was to leave, and hastened into the street. ‘Good heavens, bow preposterous!' he exclaimed, as soon as he recovered his senses; ‘and how beautiful!’ And just six months from that day Payne was shouting at the tup of bis voice in tbe doctor’ office: ‘Halim! ha! Be groomsman? Of course I will, old fellow! But when I think of tbe young girl who never loved another transform ed into a double widow—ha! ha! ha!— and a grandmother in the bargain—bo! ho! ho! ‘If you don’t shut yonr mouth, Payne,’ said the doctor, seriously, ‘you’ll have a terrible cold on your lungs, and I won’t answer for tbe con sequences.” Bob /totes- Do not allow natural swarming at all. Tbe old qnecn rlways gees with the swirm. ' Itaspberry honey is said to be second to none in flavor. Keep all colonies strong, aad the moth wilTnot trouble them. A young, weak or discontented swarm is easily set to work by oiving them a onwiliingly, it must be confessed, and1®“* from another liive. trhile the babv still slumbered entered The existence of the young depends on the liquidity of the saccharine food, presented to them, and if light were al lowed access to this, in all probability it would prove fatal to the inmates of the hive. To make the most money ont of your nearest market town, establish a “hon ey route,” agreeing to deliver a. jar ev ery week or two weeks, as Ihe custom er may prefer. If this is effectually done, aud pains taken to deliver the own though he was seated on a tall horse; it was five or six inches in diam eter; he thinks it was eight feet long, and had, I think, twenty-five rattles. There was a rattlesnake, a live one, brought into town last week, that treas ured four feet eight inches in length, three inches in diameter, aud had twen ty-seven rattles. Some thirty years .ago, when making a survey on the head-waters of Big Creek, I came upon two rattlesnake's ly ing stretched across my path, their heads in opposite directions. They were about the same size, four feet long each, and about three inches in diame ter, I waited until iny marker came up and showed them to him. “Can’t you go up quietly and slowly and with your hatclret cut off the head of the snake on your right, and then mov ing briskly strike the head from the one on the left, before the dying strug gles of the other will arouse it?” He looked, at his hatchet; the handle was only a foot long. He shook his head. “Here,” said I, “take my compass and give me the hatchet, I can do it.” “No, sir,” says he, “if you can, I can.”— ‘Certainly, only be cool and steady; strike a sure blow, and there is no dan ger.” He did it. Before either moved both heads were severed fiom their bodies. After the war ended, whore once was a beautiful wood lot was now an un sightly waste, through which meander ed a small creek, and when the spring time came tbe blue grass grew as luxu riantly upon it as ever.. It was about a mile from town, and Major Billy was in the habit of riding out of an evening to graze bis horse. One evening, to his surprise, he saw fifteen or twenty largo yellow suckers lying on a sand-bar in the creek. He rode back home, got a minnow net, and soon landed them.— Running after the fish had heated him 'considerably, as the weather was warm; he pulled off his coat, unbuttoned his collar, and wrapping the halter around the wrist of his right hand, lay down in the shade of a tree to cool off. Whilst lying upon his back and looking up at the clouds passing slowly over him, his. thoughts reverted to the time wheu the Federals evecuated Tennessee, and the box of .cartridges he fished' up out of the creek, and how he and his son Wil liam, after taking off tbe balls, put the powder in a large iron pot and set it by the fire to dry—the fire popped, a coal described a segment of a circle and dropped into the powder. “Fall back, William, fall back,” says tbe Major.— William had “done fell” out of the door. The Major was so badly burned that it was several weeks before be re covered. And then be thought of the time when he hired a soldier to steal - a horse for him, and just as be mounted he beard the word “halt!” and as bedashed down the bill twentyy musket balls whizzed over his head. There was “music in the a-r” as he crossed the bottom, but he escaped with the loss of his hat only. While running on such pleasant rem- niscences, the Major fell asleep, He can tell the balance. Be said: “My friend, God bless you, something crawl ing over my face waxed me; I thought at first it was the baiter, but there was a cold slick feeling about the thing that made'my flesh crawl. I opened my eyes. There was a large water mocca- s : n, his head raised about six inches above my nose, one glittering eye look ing straight snto mine, bis tongue play ing in and ont of bis mouth like sheet lightning- during a hurricane. My friend, God bless you! I expect I hol lered, for that snake tucked his head, and seeing my shirt collar open,, and tbinking-it a safe hiding place, glided down into my bosom. “Stranger, I have .had .the cholera, the small-pox, been blown up with gun powder, and shot at by Yankees, but that was the worst scrape I ever got in to. That snake was squirming about the pit of my -stomach, his head on one side, his tail on the other, just a tick ling. me in' tbe short ribs. How I got out of that shirt I don’t know. The first thing I recollect was- seeing that snake’s tail disappear under a pile of brush in the creek.” “Major, were you scared?” “Well, slightly, stranger; God bless you, slightly—yes, sir, slightly!”—Phil- ’ ’ ’ ' " irrdsno'idence Cincinnali Com- Tbe report declarations of Mr. George W. Childs afforded the strongest assurances yet given that General Grant does not contemplate being a candidate for a third Presidential term, but is al ready making arrangements- for a diff erent kind of life. It must have occurr ed to every reflecting politicians that General Grant conld not, with due regard to his own fame, afford to go into what is called “scramble” for the nomi- tion—he conld only take it as a free and pressing tender by his party to serve them in an emergency. It is now appa rent, and has been for some time, that he cannot secure the nomination with out a contest, and we were therefore not at all surprised either by his report ed conversation with a Chinese dignitary or the positive statements of Mr. Childs, Indeed our readers are aware that we have for some time suspected that the Grant “boom” was an'artifice in behalf of some favorite (like Conkling or Wash burn) to whom his strength was to be transferred when the convention met. 4The declension of General Grant, as well as tbe disgrace of Conkling, can hardly 'fail to enure to the advan tage of Sherman, who bade fairtobe the formidable contestant against all oppo sition. Unless some unexpected turn is soon given to the canvass, we do not see how Sherman is to be “headed-'’ He seems to have an open sea and to be steadily nearing his goal. A bad defeat of his party in Ohio, in October next, may be damaging to bis prospects, but Ohio contests are usually so close as to give the beaten party good reasons to hope that is can retrieve its loss with a mere change of the personel of its tick et, and we see no good reason to.look for the overwhelming defeat of either party this year in Ohio. We shall not regret it if Sherman is made tbe nominee of his party, because we believe that it will have much to d° in influencing the Democratic party to make, the contest in the' manner which wc regard as most promising of suceess. Sherman is eminently the representative of the financial policy of his party, and all their efforts to make this subordinate to questions of a sectional character will be futile while sherman is the candidate. They must stand upon the financial plat form of opposition to an increase of the Greenback circulation; in favor of an in crease of the bonded debt,at least no dim- nntion of it by the substitution of green backs; a continual hoarding of coin to meet highly improbable contingencies: and an opposition to the healthy expan sion demanded by the business and commercial interest of the country. The Democftitic party is the natural op ponent of such a policy as this, aud if it makes the contest distinctly and unmis takably upon this issue, it.mnst either thereby effect a close alliance with the Greenbackers or it will draw from the latter their strength by leaving them no independent plank to stand upon. We believe that an immense majority of the people of the country are opposed to the policy which Sherman’s candidacy must necessarily make tbe prominent issue in the cavass; that if he-is the re publican nominee tbe Democrats must and will antagonize him and bis policy by the nomination of a Western man upon tbe opposite financial policy and its representative. For this reason we are not at all disconcerted by events which seem to work together in favor of tbe nomination of Sherman.—Allanla Dis patch. The announcement that Nordenskjold, the intrepid Swedish explorer, has pass ed with hiBgood ship, the Yega, through Behring’s strait and is now safe in Pa cific waters, is of far more of importance than the journals of the country have accorded it. It means that the north western pa ssage has not only been discov ered, bnt it has been made practicable. The Yega soiled from a Swedish port six months" ago with the purpose of sailing through to San Francisco with- ont going around. The coarse of the stout ship was matched with interest ns far as human skill could follow it. It was seen to pass .the highest point of Asia and to fairly settle down in the cold waters of the polar sea. Then we heard reports that it had been caught in the ice and was frozen up. Later it was reported that it had been sighted by some whalers who had come through Behring’s strait from the Pacific. Now we hear that it has passed through all its troubles, and is safe on its way to San Francisco. Tbe arrival of this ship in the harbor of the golden city, will be an event of most tremendous import. There is only one trouble, and that is that we do not be lieve the report that the ship is safely through the straits. We put the whole thing down as improbable; and yet this brave leader with the unpronounceable name, has been successful in his former explorations to a degree that it looks as if be was gifted with inspiration. He has fairly astounded the European govern ments with his work. He has had no fancy theories to advance, but he went quietly about bis work. While other men - theorized, he explored, and by bis extraordinary luck, or or his wonderful sagacity, he so won the confidence of the Russian and the Swedish govern ments that they backed him in the most ample and efficient manner. We cannot bnt doubt that he has sncceded as fully as the telemams have suggest ed, and yet, it is not at - all impossible that he will jet pull through the frozen waters, and moving like a phantom ih p out of tne polar waters glide iuto the sunlit waters of the Pacific.—Courier- Journal. Justice to tbe Farmer. Thorough Cooking. ‘ y women, but this woman was so j honey in attractive shape, there will be Montgomery, Ala., tl1 - 1 no difficulty in disposing of it, 100 new buildings. i - ■' *! ® over It is one of the most common mis takes of the cook to give too little time to tbe cooking of meat and vegetables. She is careless about getting them over tbe fire in season, and to make up for tbe delay she attempts to rush things by using a very hot fire, spoiling the food by too furioas boiling or baking. Hard boiling toughens tbe fibre of meat and spoils tbe texture of vegeta bles, but a long steady boiling beat gradually softens or makes tender the toughest fibres. Many persons sup pose that ceitain articles of food do not agree with them, when the whole diffi culty arises from the imperfect manner in which they are prepared- Some veg etables are thought to be especially pro vocative of flatulence, but a more thor ough cooking usually remedies. that evil. Flatulence has other causes, as over-eating or too great a proportion of sugar in the diet, but those articles of food which are usually associated with the evil may be robbed of these terrors by a more prolonged cooking. Cook dry beans several hours—a gentle bnt steady simmering—live hours are not too many, even after an all-night soak ing. Dry peas need thesame treatment. Vegetables need more and moreitime as they grow older. By spring, ruta bagas need cooking almost half a day, and onions should be boiled an hour or. more. Salsify aud parsnips, especially the former, need more than the twenty There are very few farmers who will not appreciate the following tribute to their profession, delivered by Judge Farrar, at the • fair of Amelia county. Virginia: “The term ‘clodhopper’ will soon cease to be a term of reproach.— Why sbonld not the farmer be the first aud the foremost—the peer of the high est? His manner of life makes him in dependent, tolerant and happy. Above the smile3 and frowns of the fickle pub lic, his empire is his home, his domin ion his smiling fields, with no inspira tion for duplicity, no temptation fur in trigue and chicanery. Free from the bickerings of fashionable society, none of the jealousies of professional life mo lest. the even tenor of his way. What are tbe honors of the world to him? When the toils of the day are ever, he finds his greatest pleasure in the sweet rest of home. Why should he not be the truest of patriots? Will ho not strike for the home.be has earned by honest toil? The homeless, shiftless adventu rer can never feel such a holy devotion fora country os the one who has a home to love and a hearthstone to defend. Magnify as you please the laws and the constitution, it is the strong home feel ing that gives the potent influence. The man who has a spot on earth, where he has planted a tree or his wife has nurs ed a flower in the hour of trial, will evince a devotion and heroism that will put to shame the hollow pretensions of all the blatant politicians and dema gogues in the land. And, above all, a farmer should be the best of Chris tians. His life is farther removed from temptations and worldly influences; bis mode of life should fill bis mind with grand and holy conceptions of .bis God, and bis dependence on the benefac tions of a kindly Providence.” Republican papers have bad much to say lately in regard to tho action of the people of Yazoo county, Mississip pi, in forcibly preventing one H. M. Dixon from becoming a candidate ‘for Sheriff, and in compelling him, even at the muzzle of the shot-gun, to pledge himself not to become a candidate. Tbe occurrence has been put forth as an il lustration of the alleged lawless disposi tion of the Southern Democracy, and of their resolve to crush out by force and violence ull opposition. It has been used as a text by the*republican papers from which to preach the doctrine that Democracy in the South means intoler ance, intimidation and disregard of law. We’ve been tauntingly asked have we no opinion on this subject tli=it we dare to give. We answer, now, that we have an opinion. And with the true facts in the case before us, as given in this morn ings paper, facts which are stated upon authority no man will question, we say that the actiOD of the Yazoo people in the case of H. M. Dixon was right and perfectly justifiable. Who wss this Dixon who was prevented from becom ing a candidate for Sheriff? According to the testimony herewith published he was a desperado of the worst character, a man who had been three times indict ed for murders which' he never denied having committed; who shot down men in the streets deliberately and in cold blood; who committed the worst and basest of crimes openly and shameless ly; who surrounded himself with a mob of bullies, cut-throats and villians as deeply dyed as himself; and who, to crown .his work of infamy, tried to stir up a war of races, and incite the negroe to insurrection o rriot. This is the man whom tho decent and respectable people of the South, fearing for their lives and the sanctity of their homes: forcibly stopped in his infamous work aud this is the man whom tho Republi cans have been holding up ns an iuno cenc and independent-minded citizen persecuted for his opinions. Now that the true fnets have appeared, republi cans are welcome toany comfoi t that they can derive from the Yazoo affair. Their hero has turned out a miscreant and a murderer; his “independent” candidacy an attempt to excite riot and provoke bloodshed, and -the “intimidation,’ on the part of the people thero a necessary step to defend their lives and homes against imminent and deadly peril inci ted b.v a desperate vidian, whom righteous retribution has finally over taken.—Columbus (0.) Democrat, Aug. 20. i of lies The Tenth Census- A special from Rome states that tbe negroes there have tbe ezodus fever badly and will hold a big meeting on the subject next Saturday. It is sta ted one of the main inducements held ont by the advocates is that every ’cul- lud lady will have a white husband, and every ’cullud gemmen a white wife. On Sunday evening last little Charlie Mapp of Rome, about ten years of age, while throwing a stone at a chicken, accidentally lilt his brother Frank, aged thirteen years, just - back of the ear, causing his death in a few moments. Fifty millions'of dollars, or fifty dol lars for every, man, woman and child in the State, is what the Minnesotiaus .ex pect from their wheat crop tLis year. And the people of Georgia may reason- aoly expect fifty millions of dollars, or nearly fifty dollars for each man wo man and child in the State, for their cotton crop of this year. But the mis chief is it takes twice the labor and ex pense to raise fifty dollars worth of worth of wheat. There is where the shoe pinches. Cannot our farmers do minutes boiling usually prescribed for something to make, more clear them. * out of their labor?—AilarUa Disr> ycting Gov, Wiltz -has received communication from tbe Department of the Interior giving the apportionment of supervisors of the next General cen sus of the United States and Territories. Three supervisors have been assigned to Louisiana. New York has eleven, Pennsylvania ten, Illinois and Ohia eight, Missouri seven, Texas six, Geor gia, Tennessee aud Kentucky five, Ala bama, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin four, California, ' Kan sas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minne sota, Mississippi, New Jersey and South Carolina two, Colorado, Dela ware, Florida; New Hampshire, Oregon, Bhode Island, Vermont, the Territories and the District of Columbia one. Tbe apportionments have been made after a careful consideration of the proba ble exigencies of enumeration each section of tbe country, having ref erence to tbe extent of territory, the compactness or sparseness cf the settle ment, especially the occurrence of cities and large town, the existing facilities ol transport and postal communication, the various constituents of tbe popula tion, and tbe nature of the principal industries pursued; at least so says Francis A. Walker, superintendent of census, m a letter to Hon. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior. , » The Swiss Government abolished tbe death penalty some years ago, and its prisons are in const qnence filled with criminals. The government finds the support of these convicts somewhat ex pensive and yet cannot afford to turn them loose on tho country. It is said a solution of the difficulty has finally reached, which is to ship the aforesaid criminals to the United Sates as emi grants. The practice is already pur sued by the German * Grand Duchy of Maehlenbnrg-Scliwerin, which uses Chicago as its penal settlement and pays the passage of all its criminals to that city. The Russian and English comrnis sicnjrs have seriously differed relative to the delimitation of the Russo-Turk isb Asiatic frontier, each disputing the accuracy of the'other’s map. Negotia tions on this subject liavo been sus pense to raise Hity dollars worth of pcl;de(1 for the prt . sent . cotton that- it does to raise fifty dollars n-i — .i Two hundred citizens of Dallas have signed a petition to tlieGovemor to cal, an exlra session of the legislature to re- labor?—Atlanta Dispatch. ' peal the Suday law. For people with skin bolic ba*hlfchoni, Always take a and iu tepid water, robust, % Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool* will take the pain out of the worst" wound, and repeated once or twice,- it* will allay the worst case of inflamma-” tion arrisiDg from a wound we ever 1 ' saw. The prime conditions i house depends upon c air aud unpolluted water, aud thorough removal t tho perfect exclusion of all foul ma arising outside the house.- ■ When a finger pricks as though there” was a thorn in it, and throbs intolera-” bly when held downward, and yet there' is no external sign of mischief, the’ probabilities are that a felon is in pros 1 ' pect says an exchange. Go at once to' tho butcher’s and procure some of the’ spinal marro w of a beef creature. Take” a piece, say about two inches in length-* wise, wrap it around the affected finger,’ covering of course with cloth. In afew' hours change tbe piece of marrow for a 1 fresh cue, and continue to keep the” finger so encased until all pain has'ceas-* ed and there is no discomfort when the 1 marrow is removed. The finger will* look strangely white and porous, but ’ tbe cure is complete. This remedy ought to become professional. It is* vastly better tban tbe surgeon’s knifes and more effectual. - A Human'Otter, ■ Some one writing from Reedy river;*. S. C., to the Charleston News and Cott-- rier says: Reedy river is a poor stream • for fish. Perhaps by a wLoIe day’s fish ing tbe angler may be rewarded by-’ one-half dozen little catfish. We bad ai visit last week from the Rabtmrs creek- fishing otter, Wm. Vaughn. He-said t there were fish in the river and he hndl come after them. Its was amusing to * see bun in the shoals, diving down un der the rocks and bringing up the cats;; sometimes he would come np with one - in each hand, and occasionally, witlii three fish, one in his mouth and onein> each band. After fishing tbe shoal be tried bis band on the suckers and red! horses in the deeper water, diving: down nnderthe banks,-, and bringing.; up tbe fish in bis hands. He caught , about twenty five suckers,weighing one,’.' two and three pounds each, Vaughn > has been known to catch ns high as six: suckers at one time in his hands. He» says, when under the water he can rub’ 1 a sucker on tbe side stnd it will lie asjstill l as.ajngwben you are scratching its '> side. I think we had better ship him down to the city and let you make him ‘ a submarine diver. If he was on tho sea const, where fish are so plentiful, he» wonld show something extraordinary in i the fishing line... Cabbage Worms,, Jarring the cabbages Inoticed*would'j cause those of both kinds that were eat ing the outer leaV&s to fall to the ground, where they can be killed. Boards plac ed among the cabbages, raised a couple of inches from the ground, will serve*as a place for the-worms to change lo chry- alitls, where these can be destroyed once. a week. This and the insect parasites; together with the birds, are sure to les-_ sen Ihe nnmber. One writer says that he steeped sweet elder leaves and sprink-. led tho cabbages with the decoction, whioh ki'led ths worms. The remedy I- use is hand picking. As my garden was small this answered e very purpose. I usually hunted them early in the. morning when they were in a position to be readily seen.—G. H. French. The Cutbbert Southron says but few. know to-day the extent of grape cult, ure and wine manufacture in Randolph county. Some years ago a few. pioneers in this branch of industry test ed the matter, and fonnd that there was. a handsome margin for profit in the. production of wine, and numbers of vineyards have sprang up in every part the county which are now flourishing and vigorous, turning out thous ands of gallons of wine annually. These, lands seem to be" tbe home of the grape, especially the senppernong variety, and) a good vineyard there is a fortune to its possessor. There are 11,00 colored Catholics in, one ward in New Orleans. ■Major -John S. Branton, collector at the port of Norfolk, Va., is dead. Foxes are over running the ctuulry. .round Fair river, in Lincoln county. Missippi. To keep apples from decaying, put them in a cool place—w.iere there is a targe family of children. It is better to dwell on a house-top, than in a tent with a woman who wants a new bonnet.