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m 48—NEW SERIES VOL. 4. NO,
ATHENS,. GA. JULY 28, Iff
Miscellaneous,
mained in Mrs. Wharton’s house for
three days after his decease.
The Philadelphia Inquirer gives the
following account of the early career
of the prisoner:
Ellen G. Nugent was the daughter tlmt
of George Nugent, a large and very have seen i.'
successful importer of this city in the p re pa r i n g ai
last generation. She was born forty-j j e ac ; t i t ) lc . s
five years ago hy Mr. Nugent’s second j Common
wife, about whom little is known, save j k| 10w the s
that she lived up to a few years since, j fueturers'
Th a Humorous in Farm ing.
MJdtIMS FOR BEGINNERS.
The Ouachita (La.) Telegraph sends
this broadside into the tribe of :11 cot
ton ou-the^ brain planters:
Planttire, generally understand their
business. As there may be a few,
however, who do not, we ofier them a
little gratuitous advice.
It is a well settled maxim that corn
grown in the West, is better than that
grown here. It comes further and
Farm Miscellany.
Poisonous Fertilizers.
, the mistake at once. The beat way for
young people, and indeed people of
any age, to learn to spell, is to prac
tice writing. C'obbett, the famous
English radical, taught his children
grammar by requiring that they should
copy their lessons two or three times.
These lessons ho himself gave them in
the form of letters ; aud his French
and English grammars are two of the
most amusing books in the English
language. Of course ‘learning to spell’
came in incidentally."
FLOUR & FEED STORE!
ON COLLEGE AVENUE,
(opposite newton house.)
W3I. IIEN'RY HULL.
Remap (umynsiNo.
, Irani wrasatt will be inserted stOne Dollar and
JMljt p*r Sqoara ofl! lines, for the first, and
- f ■ itr-Str Centsfi>r each subsequent nsertion,
(«. lit tl a* under one month. Fare longer period
ft at mnlrecti will be made.
The Baltimore Borgia.
three hollars peiunnum in advance.
|k >ut)icm
: • ., >1
Jit A A. ATKINSON*
AT Til USE DOLLARS PEtt ANNUM,
srsrcTi. r rx abvaxcr.
t i*. fi>-rut s!., over J. II. Iluggin*.
Business Directory.
B. (i. CANDLER,
T T O R N E Y A T L A W ,
unty. Ot. Will practice
n’ckson, Hall, llai»cr-
IMP0RTER8 OF
. h.> kLT»‘N . r. W. SMDK1.L
SK’ L* i>\ »v SLIDE! I.
T T (iRN E Y S A T L A W ,
l II ir|K li. II irt County, (ieprg s.
PITTMAN \ HINTON,
TTOUN ]■; Y S AT LAW,
JuiTcrsuii. Ia-kw >ii C'Hiiity, (la.
SV.lt 1.1. 1*. TIILUMONU,
V T T O '.l N r. Y A T L :
V- MIimv'il* llr ml street
Ta/ble and
Socket
When you aee a fellow-mortal.
Without fixed and fearless views,
Hanging on the skirts ot others,
Walking in their cast-off shoes.
Bowing low to wealth or favor,
With aliject, uncovered head,
Ready to retract or waver.
Willing to be drove or led ;
Walk yourself with firmer bearing.
Throw your moral shoulders back.
Show yourspine has nerve and marrow.
Just the thing which his must lack.
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense and tone
Than this, backbone.
ANI) MANUFACTURERS AGENTS FOR
silver plated ware.
I y:\Liv:-; in hardware,
. ' I .hi •> .... .Nil ■ r.-: li,- 'I ieri .1, Mining
V!i
a.. 1 ;;.
When you see a theologian
Hugging close some ugly creed,
Fearing to reject or question
Dogmas which his priest may read.
Holding luck all noble leelling.
Choking down each manly view.
Caring more for forms and symbols
Than to know the Good and True;
Walk yourself with firmer bearing,
Throw your moral shoulders back,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow.
Just the thing which his must laek.
last dollar just before you came in.—
But call in to-morrow, and you shali
have the money to a certainty."
“ But what am I to do to-day ? I
have not a cent to bless myself with,
and I owe so much at the grocer's
d jyhere I deal that he won’t trust me for
anything more."
The tailor looked troubled, and the
woman lingered. Just at this moment
the shoemaker’s buy entered.
“ Here are three dollars Mr. Grant
borrowed of you this morning,” sajd
the lad. He says lie’s sorrv liehadfft goes for grain
the money when yon smtior it a while
ago.”
How the faces of both the tailor and
the needlewoman brightened instantly
as it a gleam of sunshine had penetrat
ed the room.
“ Here is just the money I owe you,”
said the former, in a cheerful voice,
and he handed the woman the three
dollars he had received. A moment
after he was alone, but with the glad
face of the poor woman whose need he
had been able to supply distinct before
A stronger word
Was never heard
In sense and tone
Than this, backbone.
(GLASS TOP.)
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T T OR X E V A T I, A \V . j
.lesvlll •, Franklin county, i»a. O.Rcc I *■ ,
<1 by J. F. Lingflton, Ka |. ia.‘I |
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• < W. W. WIL1IOITE.
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I 9 OK Hi-5* Af' C*. K IS S,|
Shelbyville, Iran.
When you sec a politician
Crawling through contracted holes,
lp.r.,ring for some fat position,
In the ring or at the polls.
With no sterling manhood in him,
Nothing stable, broad or sound,
Destitute of pluck or ballast,
Double-sided all around;
Walk yourself with firmer hearing.
Throw your moral shoulders hack.
Show your spine has nerve and marrow.
Just the thing which his must lock.
:»0I> Koss Nails.
( \ 1.1 > DOMINION AND ROME
V ’ i:»4:»ufacture, f.»r sale «t
t llll.DS. NICKERSON & CO’S.
To Mcrcliants.
Win. A. Talmadsj*,
*
“ « A 1 -
rtyzif;
V" :^:wT
We will duplicate any .Veic York assortment of
Crockery, Cutlery or Glass* Ware.
Wc have assorted Crates of BEST
IRONSTONE & C. C. WARE.
ofourowu imi.irtalioi., yackudtoour outer, end
- *rtm*ty inlicd* the wufir 'tf Country Merchant*;
•’ :«■ -, I !•:, ».»or-pla 1
i at iusLriim. ui«. '|N<tiac)efi,riiiiiii
•porting Ac., Ac.
i stork c*< AiofTicau and Iiu-
i Yatches, liuuliluiiuiifi with
n il barivl, excellent Jfitr long
l’islols of all kiluls.
1> net rat ion of hull t»)j
iuchoM into wcmh).
please all, will m*ll thc'abovc g'^wj
at *orv rtNuhinaltle piioea.
TVE P AIRING.
tlesirv t
atches. Clock*, Jewelry, r.una and Piatolt,
up'ly RiD-n lfd to in a aatlsfnctory manner.—
an.i sco for vonr*clvcs. 4
THE ATHENS
containing no high-priced dishes or tureeus, or
other liard slot k, hut just such Go'»d* as those in
constant cash demand.
Wc sell these <’rates f-»r net ca.-h, for $8000, aud
guarantee cniiro satistnetion to every purchaser.
Will send list on application.
A strong word
Was never heard
In sense and tone
Thun this, backlnnc.
A modest song and plainly told—
The text is worth a mine of gold ;
For many men most gladly lack
A noble stiffness in the back.
What Five Dollars Paid.
1 NIr. Hermt was sitting in!
Of the three dollars received by the
needlewoman, two went to the grocer
on account of her debt to him; half
was paid to an old needy colored wo
man who had earned it by scrubbing,
and who was waiting for Mrs. Weaver’s
return front the tailor’s to get her dues,
and thus be able to provide an even
ing’s and morning’s meal for herself
and children. The other half dollar
was paid to the baker when he called
toward evening to leave the accustomed
loaf. Thus, the poor needlewoman
had been able to discharge four debts,
and at the same time re establish her
credit with the grocer and baker, from
whom cantc the largest portion of food
consumed in her little family.
And now let us follow Mrs. Lee.
On her arrival at home, empty-handed,
from the shoemaker, who owed her two
dollars for work, she found a young
girl, in whose pale face were marks of
suffering and care, awaiting her return
The girl’s countenance brightened as
she cantc in, but there was no answer
ing brightness in the countenance of
hi, ..fficjfsr™- j , m#a»if»i!r u t
foundry and Machine Works, ; i
M A N VFACTl’RERS OF
ORASTVILLE, OA. t APRIL 7, 1871.
Messrs. Mcllride «£* Co—Atlanta, Ga :
Wc have jusj marked tt.fc Crockery, Ac. We are
pleased with the bill. Allow us to congratulate
you on aecuring such a Good Packer. Scarcely a
piece broken. Fill the order for Cutlery at lowest
prices. Truly Yours,
GARRETT d. ZELL A US.
une 2*,-ly. . *
F I N li) FLOUR
CITY MILLS.
ABOVE MILLS have es-
WTIIERN FAN MILLS,
\ MIUXOUNCU.D the tie plus ultra
1 8 »in tloanen.
-Uiicaiim
* I.I.feSSi iTKD
11 orso Powers,
VSBI'PS 1 AXI> 2,
« . * farainipll ity, »trvngth and apeed. Do-
• > !e I t., invc Tliratlu'in from a Laud-whv.*l,
T»S Ftatott,
V halanr —gcarwl h«*r» -power, on lorg frauv*, wii
j» k- iearitig. 1 *r.ihrc.-hcra from a baud wheel,
« r through tumbl.nj- od and gearing.
THE BILL ARP,
f PIIE
1. tahliiihed agents in various part* of the town
lo sell their Hour, and will sell at published rates.
The mill guarantees every saca oi flour with their
name Mhm)j»cd or printed on the sack. All others
urc at the risk of me purchaser, lie careful to no-
tico the name •• ITT* MILL, A. M. tO:” on the
sack, as this is a guarantee.
Snow t'lnl'C S3 SO prr IOO Fanwfii
While Ito.c, 5 OO •» •• “
Su rrfinc, 4 30 “ « “
The above price* will continue untilfurthcr vo
ice. It. I,- BLOOMKttXn, Agent.
one day wlien a lad entered and hand-! am sorr - v - 1Iarriet - but Mr - Grant P ut
me off until to-morrow. He said he
hadn’t a dollar in the house.
ATLANTA
BUSINESS COLLEGE,
CORXEB WHITEHALL AND HUH TER STS.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
y '.idproponent upon the Lout8\U!ol!onH-ruw(r.
’•r v •« * he thresher oy tu:ohliu^-UKl,:iml with pul-
d.iv.r* the Gin to proper spved. This power is
»od lo ho a favunic.
The Excel Threshers,
sires, f ir the field or house, to run by
tier powjr, or from gio-g«*ar;ng, samo as
pans of theso Majhi.us kept constantly
u* U il.tate rep.irs.
Ah. :u,k tfr s uf
H||.i>, to-T«\ PRE8S?->,
• fuinj n!U { \fin Qwring, and Ma-
„ dtinery, »(r., A'e.
r: prices call and see, or address
K. NICKERSON, Agt.
YOU* C MEN AND ADULTS
PraciicaUv Educated for Business Life by a Thor
ough Course of Instruction In
BOOK! Klfc^UKTQ-.
In all its Branches, as practiced by the best Busi
ness Men.
Ts'.ght in a manner unsnri*asse<l. Specimens sent
on application.
ed hint a small slip of paper. It was
a bill of five dollars, due.to his shoe
maker, a poor man, who lived in the
next square:
Tell Mr. Grant that I will settle
this soon. It isn’t convenient to-day.”
The boy retired.
Now, Mr. Herriot had a five-dollar
hill in his pocket, but he felt as if he
couldn’t part with it. He didn’t like
to be entirely out of money. So, act
ing from this impulse, he had scut the
boy away. Very still sat Mr. Herriot
for the next five minutes. Yet his
thoughts were busy. He was not al
together satisfied with himself. The
shoemaker was a poor innn, and need
ed his money as soon as earned. lie
was not unadvised of the fact.
“ I almost wish I had sent the five-
dollars,” said Mr. Herriot at length, j
half audibly. “ He wants it worse
than I do.”
He mused still further.
“ The fact is,” he at length exclaim
ed, starting up, “ it’s Grant’s money,
and not mine; and what is more, he
shall have it.”
So spying, Herriot took up his hat
and left the office.
“Did you get the money, Charles?”
said Grant, os the boy entered the
shop. There was a good deal of earn
estness in the shoe-maker’s tones.
“ No, sir," replied the lad.
“ Didn’t get the money ?”
“ No, sir.”
“ Wasn’t Mr. Herriot in?"
“ Yes, sir; but he said it was not
convenient to-dav.
“ Oh, dear, I’m sorry 1” came front
atiropXfor - twelve "or thirteen
months, corn will not answer at all.—
Planted in March, you can’t work it
safely aftetr June, and you are bound
to get out of the field in October or
November at the farthest; otherwise
it will rot. As a manure for next
year’s crop, peas or cotton is much
better.
Corn is objectionable, because it
does not need any bagging or ties;
yon can’t send your wagons to market
fifty or sixty mil s, if you raise corn,
and bring back pork, bacon, lard, etc.
Corn is a good provender for stock,
but not so good as cotton seed, and
they are just the thing to make soon
pork of pigs.
In- the Spring, when the weather is
not warm, and the earth loose and dry,
as in Summer, corn must necessarily be
worked. It will not wait aud go
through a *t June sweat” like cotton.
Horses and cows grow much fatter
on cotton blooms than green corn, and
a roasted cotton boll is superior, as an
article of diet, to a roasting ear. Little
children will cry before they are out of
their little beds, for roasted cotton bolls.
Try it.
In the Summer, Fall and Winter,
you will have very little to do, if you
plant corn. You will be compelled to
keep your hands employed, to improve
your fences, set out orchards, raise
stock, build out-houses and lots, and do
other wholly unnecessary things so ns
to kill time until the next planting sea
son opens. Or, if you prefer it,
you may reduce your laboring force
and curtail your .pay roll. This,
1^MMV|S!«r9eanReta a coun-
-<
The girl’s disappointment was very
great, for the smile she had forced into
life instantly faded, and was succeeded
by a look of deep distress.
“ Do you want the money very bad
ly ?” asked Mrs. Lee, in a low, half
ehoked voice, for the sudden change in
the girl’s manner had affected her.
“Oh 1 yes, ma’am, very badly. I
left Mary wrapped up in tnv thick
shawl, and a blanket wound all around
her feet to keep them warm ; but she
was coughing dreadful from the cold
of the room.
“ Haven't you a fire?” a=ked Mrs.
Lee, in a quick, surprised tone.
“ We have no coal. It was to buy
coal I wanted the money.”
Mrs. Lee struck her hands together
try where there are no taxes to pay—
like ours, “ for instance."
It is a result of growing corn, that
the couutry always has an surplus stock
of poultry, of meat, and some money
to lend at interest or to invest in pub
lic works. It is much better to buy
provisions to the West for cash, to
operate at home on a credit, with one
eye on bankruptcy, and to appeal to
foreign capitalists to build your rail
roads, etc.
It is a .grand thing to have a com
mission merchant and support hint lib
erality—and let your old minister and
his horse starve!
“ What’s the price of cotton ? How
could you ever ask that question, fill
ing your mouth with the words, if you
should make a fool of yourself by rais
ing a good crop of com ? People
Baltimore lias bad a first-class sensa
tion in the arrest of Mrs. Ellen G.
Wharton, a lady who has moved in the
best circles, for the murder of Gen.
W. Scott Ketchum, by poison, and the
attempt to murder Mr. Van Ness, her
business agent. Gen. Ketchum ar
rived at her house from Washington
bn Saturday evening, June 2d. He
and Major Wharton had served togeth
er in the Sixth United States Infantry,
and their respective families had al
ways maintained the most friendly re
lations toward each other. Gen. Ketch
um had lent 82,000 to Mrs. Wharton,
for which sum he had her note, and be
fore leaving Washington, he mentioned
to several persons tliat the ohject of his
visit was to collect the money. The
note can nowhere be found among his
papers, and his friends therefore con
clude that he took it with him. Short
ly after his arrival at Mrs. Wharton’s
he was taken ill, and was attended by
Dr. P. C. Williams, who suspected
poison front the peculiar symptoms of
the case. He died on the following
Wednesday. At the suggestion of Dr.
Williams the body was removed from
Mrs. Wharton’s house, and a pod
mortem examination was made. The
stomach was analyzed by Prof. Wm.
E. Aiken, and twenty graius of tartar
emetic discovered.
THE POISONING OF MR. VAN NESS.
Mr. Eugene Van Ness, Mrs. Whar
ton’s confidential business agent, was
taken ill at her house a few hours be
fore Gen. Ketchum’s arrival. He
drank a glass of beer, and was presently
tdken side. Mrs/ Wharton showed
much alarm, and went for Dr. S. C.
Chew herself. Mr. Van Ness remained
at Mrs. Wharton’s house under the
medical care of Dr. Chew till the fol
lowing Friday, (six days), whea he
was removed to the residence of his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Frick. Hb wife
was with him all the time.
An hour or so before Gen. Ketch
urn’s death a milk punch (prescribed
by Dr. Chew) was brought into Mr.
Van Ness’s room. Hb wife poured
some of it into a wine glass, and before
handing it to her husband, out of some
little freak of curiosity tasted it. There
was a bitterness about it that alarmed
her. She poured it all out of the gloss,
and in the bottom there was a sedi
ment. Mrs. Col. Loney (Mrs. Van
Ness’s si-ter) quietly put the glass in
her pocket and brought it away. Prof.
her husband having died before her,
during the prevalence of the Caliiornia
gold excitement.
The early years of the daughter were
spent near Conshobocken, at s place
called Gulf Mills. Her father idolized
her, and expended large sums of mo
ney in gratifying her every whim. Her
character was one of great recklessness
—a dash and fastness then little known,
hut which has grown somewhat into
fashion in these latter advanced <lays.
She was proud of dress, and spent
enormous sums of money in that di
rection, with the remarkable eccentric
ity of paying the debts of her favorites
and lavishing money and fine dresses,
jewelry, and what not upon various
young ladies of her acquaintance. Her
father paid all bills cheerfully, aud was
only too glad to satisfy the claims of
hb daughter upon hb doting care.—
She was very beautiful, her society was
greatly sought, and she was the centre
of fashionable Philadelphian society.
It created an intense excitement when
the friends of Miss Nugent heard one
morning that site had determined to
get married. Soon afterward the wed
ding invitations were sent around and
chemically {tare acid should l>e used.
The common ackl ufteu omUu»
Email quantity of lead and arsenil„
both of which are known to be absorb
ed by plants when presented to their
roots.
Dr. Edmnnd Davy, professor of ag
riculture and agricultural chemistry in
the Royal Dublin Society, published a
paper in 185B, calling attention to the
danger of using luoaures containing
arsenic; yet there has not, up tv the-
present time, I b liHc, been a pirn
article of superphosphate of lime put
in the market. I think the use, for
the purpose mentioned, of acid contain
ing arsenic or lead ought to lie lavthib-
ited by law.
Remarka.—The aliove absurd item
has been “ going the nuuub” of the
press during the pest six inonfhe, imi
it b quite time that it was stopped.—
This attempt to frighten farmers who
arc enterprisiug enough to dissolve
bones and prepare their own fertilizers
hurtful to the interests of agriculture
and derogatory to science. In the or
dinary sulphuric acid of commerce-
which is made front Sicilian sulphur
and condensed in platinum retorts, tho
the wedding day followed close upon ftmoUnt ufRuIphate of lei ,d present b
would laugh at you. And how could ! A5kcn anal >’ 2ed the sediment
and an expression of pain was about j you ever draw a dran and have the
Commercial Calculation „ . , . , , .
By Rie bc»t an t must rapid practical —c-Uuds. ■ the shoe-maker, in a depressed voice.
BUSINESS PAPERS, A woman was sitting in Grant’s shop
BUSINESS FORMS, j when the boy came in; she had now
Commercial JLatc, See. I arisen and was leaning on the counter;
a look of disappointment was in her
passing her lips, when the shoemaker’s
b« y came in.
“ Here are two dollars. Sir* Grant
sent them.”
Got! bless Mr. Grant?” Thb ex
clamation from Mrs. Lee was involun
tary.
On the part of Harriet, to whom 81,
was due, a gush of silent tears marked
the effect this timely supply of money
produced. She received iter portion,
and without trusting her voice with
words, hurried away to supply the
pressing wants of home.
A few doors from the residence of
Mrs. Lee lived a man who some months
before had become involved in trouble
with an evil-disposed person, and had
been forced to defeud himself by means
of the law.
thrilling pleasure of having your draft
“ protested?”
“ My father’s house,” said a little
boy to auother, “ b finer than your
father's cause it’s got a cupola on it."
“ No it ain’t finer,” retorted the other,
“ cause my father’s house got a mor
tgage on it 1” If you raise plenty of
corn you will never get to the eminence
of a mortgage on your house, and
you will die without a big succession
for the lawyers and courts to fight
over.
, j«
lar Institution in lb* country, nod worthy the pat
ronage of tho young men of the South.
Hon. Horace Greeley »ny»:
•• I wish erery man hail such an educr tlon—crery
young man especially. And If cither of my son*
had tired, and I had trained him, a* 1 should hare
tried to do, to be a great and rood farmer, I ahonld
h ire wanted to send him at least six months, to a
Business College, to gire him tho aptltnde, habit*
and form* of a thorough business man.”
Students may enter at any time. No teaching In
— tied on application.
It. F. MOORE. Principal.
iCinf HI*— 1y
SYRUP CANE MACHINERY.
y Dunum Murhlnc Kindly.
P-ssagoS* feet In length, through
V .. U li.waste matter of the SJI-
.. i. " * w ‘ rt ' a membrane as
4u - -m-l
w 1 "" ' u * k " •«
r meiM>7.n.. h Ltil’ ’’’‘"c* “tfnialwg
— - will, a lurious l.urtMlivc
r pHE SOUTHERN Manufacturing
X Co., Naihrille, Tcnn., are now putting np
Cane Mill*, Qaritten, Evaporators,
(seamless), Saeharometers, Test
> ’»]#, Steamers, &c..
Tbit ibr durability, simplicity, e(T<
and easy management, are not excelled,
riicif Kll' l'l nltVKR is a desideratum.
Send Tor descriptive catalogue and pries list, to
W. T. COLQUITT,
June I (Kit General Agent, Atlanta, Ga.
I a* sensitive as a net work of
. Neither constipation, colic,
: , . 1 * in '. ran "'"ft "» r »»y other bowel com-
0, J, "lsafcM "eniedr in fur t“* pnigatlv?
T '••iStht/ui' - - '* ,h * 1
1 tou c laxetive,
* .‘e! ii nt s N ‘Itzer Aperient,
whlbiMiSi . , ’iii l ,i or y»» the irritated
mo,bH
* n ALL druggists.
EDDLEMAN & BROWN,
Wholesale Dealer* in
" 'j Shoes, and Leather,
Tj'RENCH and American Calf Skins,
1/ Lasts, Pecs, Lining and Binding Skins, Sboa
Findings, Ac. Opposite Kimball House, Decatur
street, AtUnta, Ga. P. O. Box tM.
Shoe manufacturer* and Merchants will And It to
then advantage to call on ns before making their
pnreha-es. fan Mm
face.
“ It can’t be helped, Mrs. Lee,” said
Grant. “ I was sure of getting the
money front him. He never disap
pointed me before. Call in to-morrow
and I’ll try and have it for you.”
The woman looked troubled as well
as disappointed. Slowly she turned
away and left the shop. A few min
utes after her departure Herriot came
in, and after some words of apology
paid the bill.
“ Run and get thb bill changed,”
said the shoemaker to hb boy, the nto-1
He had employed Mr. Herriot to
do what was requbite in the case, for
which service the charge was five
dollars. The bill had been rendered a
few days before, and the man, who was
poor, felt very anxious to pay it Ha
had the money all made up to within
a dollar. That dollar Mrs. Lee owed
him, and she had promised to give it
to him during thb day. For hours he
had waited, expecting her to come in;
but now had nearly given her up.
There was another little bill of three
dollars which had been sent in to him,
and he had just concluded to go and pay
that when Mrs. Lee called with the
balance of the money—one dollar—
which she had received from the shoe-
ment hb customer had departed
“ Now,” said he, as soon as the
change was placed in hb hands, “ take
two dollars to Mrs. Lee, and three to
Mr. Weaver, across the street Tell
Mr. Weaver that I am obliged to him
for having loaned it to me thb morn
ing, and sorry that I hadn’t as much
in the house when be sent for it on
hour ago."
“ I wish I had it, Biro. Edeleb, but
I assure you I have not,” said Mr.
Weaver, the tailor. “ I paid out the
maker, Mr. Grant.
Half au hour later, and the pocket
book of Mr. Herriot was no longer
empty. Hb client had called and paid
hb bill. The five dollars had come
back to him.
bottom of the gloss, and found fifteen
grains of tartar emetic.
The milk punch was prepared by
Mrs. Van Ness herself on the morning
of the 28th. Her husband drank a
gloss of it and was much refreshed.—
The remainder was set in a refrigerator
in the dining room, and it was when
the second glass was about to be given
to Mr. Van Ness that the pobon was
discovered as above related.
THE FIRST 8U8PICION.
Suspicion did not at first attach to
Mrs. Wharton herself, but to an hum-
The Eye ia spelling.
Some one wishing to be witty on a
gentleman with a large month, asked
him “If he had a long lease of that
month of hb?” when he, as good
humoredly, answered: “ No; I have
it only from year to year."
Many a'sqbolar at school has mas
tered the spelling-book so as to be able
to spell orally every word contained in
it, who could not write a line on the
most ordinary subject without stum
bling on the simplest words. There
should be much practice in written
sjielling throughout the child’s course
at school. The little child, with slate
and pencO, shouldprint the words till lie
becomes able to form the scrip char
acters. The more advanced pupils
should write lists of words, from dicta
tion, and should also have much prac
tice in copying lessons from their read
ing-books, and selections from news
papers and miscellaneous books. Prac
tical and sensible are the following
hints:
“ Often, in writing, a simple word
b required* of the orthography of
which the writer is not sore. The
dictionary m&y be referred to—but b
not always convenient. Au easy way
b to write the word on a bit of waste
paper, in the two or three ways of which
you are in doubt- Nine times in ' ten
the mode which looks right b right
Spelling—particularly English spell
ing—b so completely a work of the
eye, that the eye alone should be trus
ted. There b no reason why ‘ receive’
and ‘ believe’ should bo spelt differen
tly, yetsounded alike, in their* second
them. The prospective bridegroom was
a Mr. Williamson, whose claims as a
suitor had not been suspected, and who-
was, indeed, comparatively unkuown
to the circle in which Mbs Nnge'nt
moved. But on the day of the wed
ding what was the still greater surprise
of the guests upon attending the cere
monies to find that the bridegroom had
not made hb appearance. He was sent
for by the parents of the bride, and the
startling word brought back that the
bridegroom *knew nothing of the mar
riage,' and had received no intimation
of the event, whatever. The guests
departed in surprise, and the parents
and bride were left in discomfiture—
perhaps to a wordy quarrel
The upshot was that Mr. Nugent
concluded that hb daughter was instate,
and determined to put her in a mad
house. Bliss Nugent, however, became
acquainted with the design, and a few
days before its projected accomplish
ment, ran away, no one could tell
where. A short time afterward intel
ligence was received that she had mar
ried Lieut. Henry W. Wharton, a
young man whose claims, like those of
Williamson, had not been known. The
couple put up at Jones’s Hotel in thb
city, but were soon forgiven, and re
turned to the family mansion at Gulf
Mills. Afterward they resided at Nor
ristown, and still afterward at Phila
delphia again. Mrs. Wharton was as
lavish in her habits as Miss Nugent,
and her father was as kind in settling
all her little bills.
Lieut. Wharton became Capt. Whar
ton, and was stationed at Fort Kearny
for six or seven years. His wife ac
companied him in hb wanderings until
hb eyesight kecamc defective, and he
returned to Philadelphia, where he
placed himself under the care of an
occulisL The war breaking out, the
captain got a commission in a Delaware
regiment and afterward was appointed
but a mere truce, seldom exceeding one
fourth of one per cent. The saute may
be said of arsenic; some specimens of
acid from the best makers do not afford
even a trace of thb metal or any of its
salts. The duucc who started this
item, probably read in some old book,
or journal, that specimens of acid, pre
pared in England some years ago from,
iron pyrites, were found by Dr. Rees,
Mr. Watson and others* to-contain ar
senic, and hence seized hold of the idea
of making a sensational srtidc on
poisonous fertilizers.” Such loose
statements are- firaugfit with evQ, and'
cannot be too- severely condemned. It
may be said that the-quantities of lead
and arsenic found in tTie worst speci
mens of commercial add would not
have the- slightest influence upon crops,
whoa presented through the medium
of superphosphate. Farmers and hor
ticulturists need have no fear of dele
terious effects from the use of any of
the aetds found in the market—Jour
nal of Chemistry.
ble domestic in her family. It was I dbbursing agent He mnHa hb rcsi-
syllables. Yet, write them ‘ recieve’
Mrs. Wharton’s subsequent conduct
which turned the current of suspicion
against herself. Two days after Gen.
Ketchum’s burial Mrs. Wharton went
to Washington, and calling upon Chaa.
A. Ketchum (Gen. Ketchum’s son),
informed him that she had given hb
father 84,000 in Government bonds to
keep for her, and that she was about
tfl go on a visit to Europe, and wanted
the bonds or the money.
Young Mr. Ketchum told her he
knew nothing about hb father’s having
84,000 in Government bonds belonging
to her, and referred her to hb unde,
CoL Brice. She made the same de
mand of Col. Brice, who informed her
that if she was depending on any claim
against Gen. Ketchum’s estate for mo
ney to take her to Europe, she had
better abandon the trip at once. He
then called her attention to the fact that
Gen. Ketchum’s books showed that she
owed him 82,000. She said that she
had paid that debt on the 17th of Jan
uary last On being asked for the
note, she said when she paid it Gen
Ketchum handed it to her, and she
tore it up.
An entry in Gen. Ketchum’s day
book shows that Mrs. Wharton paid a
half year's interest on the note Jan. 25.
He is said to have been a most careful
manxiit all hb business transactions,
and kept hb accounts with systematic
exactness. June 15th he charges her
dence in Hamilton place, Baltimore,
and had hb office in Eutaw street. He
resided at thb plaqp, with the exception
of a temporary sojourn in Washington,
until the time of hb sadden death in
1867.
Bln. Wharton has been indicted by
the Grand Jury, and b in jail awaiting
her trial. 8he is said to be subject to
fits, and will of course plead insanity.
and ' beleivc,’ and the eye shows yon
Cakbd Bag.—Wash it several
times a day in cold water. Horse-radish
cot up with potatoes or meal, and fed
once a day, is excellent.
To Remove Staihs.—Pour boil
ing water on them, and let it stand until
it cools Don’t use soap sude before
soaking—it will set the steins.
Doughnuts.—One quart flour
two tcMpoonsful cream tartar; one tea
spoonful soda; two eggs; one and a half
cups sugar ; twocupmilk, ha!f cup but
ter, and a tittle salt.
with another half year’s interest on the
note. * Gen. Ketchum’s clothes re-
iRian Potato Pudding.—Take
two pounds potatoes, one pouud butter,
one and a half pounds sugar, one and
halt dozen eggs, nutmeg and mace to
taste, a wine-glass of Witte; bxlce with or
without pastry.
Chicken Cholera.—A writer
in the Poultry Bulletin says mix tobacco
or snuff with meal and feed freely to the
fowls. A teaspoonful of strong tobacco
juice fed occasionally in the food of each
it is said will cure them.
To Clean a Rusty Nm.
Take a quart of water and pour
slowly into it half a pint of sulphuric
acid. (The mixture will become quite
warm from chemical action, and this is
the reason why the acid should be
poured slowly into the water, rather
than the water into the arid.) Wash
the mould board (or any other iron
that b rusty) with thb weak arid* and
let it remain on the iron until it eva
porates. Then wash it again. The
object b to give time for the arid to
dissolve the rust. Then wash with
water, and you will sec where the worst
rusty spots are. Apply some more
acid, aud rub those spots with a brick.
The acid and the scorning will remove
most of the rust. Then wtuh the
mould-boprd thoroughly with water, to
remove all tho acid, and rub it dry.
Brush it over with petroleum, or rather
oil, and let it be until spring. When
you go to plowing take a bottle of the
acid water to the -field and apply it
every bout to any spots of rust tlwt
may remain. The arid and the scouring
of the earth will soon make it perfectly
bright and smooth. If all iron work
be washed over with petroleum as
soon as wc put our toob, implements
and machines aside for the winter, it
will keep them from rusting and save
a great deal of trouble and annoyance,
to say nothing of depreriation and
loss.—American Agriculturist.
Forest Leaves.—Forest leaves
are invaluable to every gardener and
horticulturist. They act not only as 4
mulch for growing plants, but are
capital for incorporation in the manure
heap. If decomposed by themselves,
they form a natural mould, admirably
adapted for the successful cuV are of
flowering plants in pots. All our
florists are glad to get wood mould.
The question has been asked h* to their
irial value. The an wor has
r been fully satisfactory. Owing
to their bulk, they are not a- valuable,
in proportion to timo o>- npied in
gathering, as if the sam>- time had
been spent in outing muck. But, for
the.successful propagation - .t' plants in
green-houses, decomposed leaves arc
always worth the trouble t» secure.
An Irish editor cohgra' ulates him-
self that “ half tho lies to'.J r.bout him
ain’t trne."
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