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3 Jfamtlg Jaitraal—gcboteb to fitfratnre, ^gnodtare, Jntaistrial Jnltmts REE DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. ATHENS, GA. SEPTEMBER 15, J871. VOL. XLI.—NO. 3—MEW SERIES, annci. s UMMEY & jsj ewton, 1 • * ,i.,.t WM.M.i. /n A. ATKINSON, lT rMW HOLLARS PER ATt^UM, /.V ADVANCE. ') fief' J}r,*ul «/., overJ. H. Huggins. KITfiH OF tOTKIlTlSISO. I, tr! i„.iurnt> will b* Inserted at On, Dollar and f,fiy iVlin !»-r Square ofl2 lino, forth* frit,and %,,rnt #M*I ■ -H,r rent, fir each -ubvquent Insertion, mif under one month. For a longer period oturacu will he made. Business Directory. ujiait conn. a. s. kiwis, nownx cobb Cobh, erwix & cobb, \ XT OltNEYS AT LAW, ."V. Athena, uoorgla. Offie* in the Deeptec It ICO Alt *T.. ATIIKNK, «A. IRON, PLOW STEEL, t STEEL. HOES, NAIL'S, PLOWS, MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS, And General Hardware and Cutlery, at Wholesale and Retail. SUMMEY <fc NEWTON then*, Ga., April 14th. tf No. 0 Broad St. ARTHUR EVAN??, Watchmaker & Jeweller, (LATE WITH CHILDS & MOSS,) RESPECTFULLY announces to the citizens of Athens and vicinity that he has located at «h«* New Drug Store of Dr. Win. King, and is pre|»artd to do all kinds of repair* on Watches, Ci.»cks, Jewelry, etc. A11 work promptly done aud warranted. [Apr. 11—3m. , , n. a. CASBLER, \ TtORNEY AT LAW, a. V Jloairr, Bunk* County., tia. Will practice t» the oouk’.ir* Hunk*, Jaclcson, Hall, llat»tr- ihsta and Franklin. H4STIX W. HIDKN, \ T T O li N E Y A T L A W , /and Notary FuMic, Athens, Ca. Will pra* - t jet in the Western circuit; will give particular •;tmtlon to the collection of claims, and will act as o«nt f«*r the purchase and sale of real estate and j»ay U**» on wild lands. JanlMf TO THE PUBLIC. T HAVE PURCHASED the inter- estof Mr. Wm. J. Morton in the late firm of Hitch «t Morton, and will continue the business. I hope, by fair dealing to retain the customers of the lute firm, and to receive a fair share of the trade in my line of business. A fresh stock of Clothing and Furnishing Goods will he received tor the Commencement trade. July 21. J. E. RITCIL »SF.LTO>', C. W. SEIDELL, SKELTON & SKI DEI L. TORN EY S AT L A W, 411. Hart County. Georgia. PITTMAN A IlINTON, A TTORNEYS AT LAW, ll Jcff.raon, Jmchaon county, tin. SAMUEL V. THURMOND, A T T O R N E Y A T LAW, xL Athens, (la. Office on Broad itreet, oyer Usrry A San's Store. Will give special attention tseasrtsin Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of all claims entrusted to his care. J. J. k J. i\ AI.KXAMIKII, 1 DEALERS IX HARDWARE, L-r Iron Steel, Nr"* irriuge Material, Mining ■pi....Ola, Ac., While,, illAtlanta. M.VAX ESTES, A TTORNEY AT LAW, •JTjL lluuttr, ll»nk« County, Ga. j. it. trri.KSKKT. \ T T O R N E Y A T L A W , JT\- Caroesvtllc, Franklin countr, Ga. Office sitrly occupied by J. F. Langston, Esq. U21 A. B. FAItqiTIAR, htpitlor of Penneylvsnia Agricultural Works, Maasfacturer of Iroprovtd [YOUK, Pknm’a. NCUOHbVnM, M HR£52S5J £SW ’ CULTIVATORS Uom*-Po\v*ns, Tiiel.su- . i»<> M 1c1n.VE-s.4te., A.. Seed fur lllaitntti CsldcjM. WM. WOOD, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF P U RNITURE. XPURNITURE REPAIRED, UP- JL’ bolstered and varnished, also a large variety of wood coffins and Flak'a Patent Metalic Burial Cases always ,,u hand. Ware rooms on Clayton St., next to Episcopal Church. Sej.9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD. Fireside Miscellany. The Beautiful Gate. Lord, open (he door, l'or I falter; I faint in this stifled air. In dust and stmitness I lose my breath: This life of sell is a living death: Let me into thy pastures bread t.nd fair. To the sun aud the wind from thy mountains free: Lord, open the door to me! There is a holier life, and truer 'I han ever my heurt bus found ; There is a nobler work than is wrought within These walls so charred by the fires of sin. Where I toil like a captive blind and bound :— An open door—to a freer task In Thy nearer .smile I ask. Yet the world is Thy field, Thy garden; On earth art Tbon still ut home ; * When thou beudest hither Thy hallowing eye. My narrow work-room seems vast and high, Its dingy ceiling—a rainbow dome ; Stand ever tlius by my narrow door, And toil will be toil—no more. Through the rosy portals of morning, Now the times cf sunshine flow Over the earth ami the glistening sea. The praise Thou inspirest rolls back to Thee. Its tones through the infinite arches go ; Yet crippled and dumb behold me wait, Dear Lord ! at the beautiful gate. pay over the $5,000 to the winning, a minute’s hesitation, Mr. Adams did as requested, when several of the gen tlemen went to him. He was found The Integrity of the Bible. O’HARA’S Giant Pocket Corn Shelter, P RICE ONLY SI 50. Call and see it at CHILDS. NICKERSON A CO’S. HARNESS LEATHER, TT’OR SALE BY JD CHILDS, NICKERSON A CO. Carriage, Buggy & Wagon A LARGE and well selected assort- men!, for sale by CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO. Horse, Cow, Hog & Chicken NK W DRUG iSTORE. FLOUR A FEED STORE! 0.Y COLLEGE AVENUE, (OPPOSITE NEWTON HOUSE.) Wit. henry HL'LL. M .5 :i Wilkie Collins’ Novels. \ KMADALE; iwjmt, SI l>0 ;— - V cloth, $.\ Man aihI Wife ; paper, Si ; t-lolh, }» 50. The Muoo-Siono ; |*4Ikt, Cl 50 : cloth, S . S' one . pa,*er, 51 50; cloth: 2. The Woman in a'n.t ; t>»|vr§i 5v>: cloth, 52 F«*t smIc y HS-tj T A. BURKE. New Rooks. r piIF. COMIC BLACKSTONE; by 1 ... A • i • 11 A'lkt-kcll, villi illU'Inttion* l; it "itic c 11 ii; v . :inr.. One *arge volume. 52 50. Way u 1 !»»• ii i Die? or, the Child from the F.urtpiK-nu: 1’i'o.u the German; by Mt>. A. L. llent D- iu^ volume first of Science f<»r the Young; by Jacob AMxjtt, with uuinerous illustra tion*. $1 50. Callirnou. By Maurice Sami (son of George Stuii). I torn tne Frvm h, by S. A. Driwiite, of Nrw Orleans. 5l 75. better than Phvsic; or, Every body** Life or; by W. W. (lull, M. D. SI 50. I cat heu Chimv; by lire! llarte, with eight For Sale or Exchange. I HAVE 3u0 acres of land in Cle- Imrue Co., Ala., « hich 1 will sell cheap, or ex ebamje for real . .tale in this city. There are M acres clcarcil, ;ISof it the best iK.ttom luml on lane creek, pr«Mlm:tiig 50 to 75 bosbels of corn htr ucre, and cotton in proportion. The reiumiuaer is in the wonds. The farm is JO miles from the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, one and a«|uarter miles from ihe county site. F>lwards\ilie, 6 miles from tiie located del*ot of the Columbus and Ciiat- Urioutta Kailrmul, and one mile tr«m ttie route of ttie (irilhn ant > i There is an exeelle it longiim to the {da rented cbea.p and is a S]>l. mli<l Staud for a Country Store. Titles indisputable. For further information »i>* plv It*, or address On. J. W. MURRELL, March 31-3m Athens, Ga. Alalau d e h hich cau Iltilroad e u it be- bvAight or THE GEM! THE GEM!! ' IMU: BEST FRUIT JAR ever in vented. For sale at the NEW DRUG STORE. HI AT BROWN’S GIN I pur cllascd of buuiniey a Newton (Ageuls for it Athens, niniil two years ago, is as good as new r. and there D in He better. TIIOS. HOLDER. ill ust ratiou • 25 will*. SUMMEY & NEWTOi’l mjiurlrn an,1 Dealer* in \»,W, Kails. Hollow Ware ) iiuiio) liuiiun nuiuj lTlr “V nrita. 4NVII.N. TI»Ea, IIIKDWAIIB. A*", ihiKid Street, At/ten*. Ga. Ao bWfi' Niirthrnstorn Railroad, j Athens, June 17; 1S7I. $ r ^ hereby given that the Gsurr . I/ I {,f >u, ’^ r iptlon to the Northeastern thfo v 1 * art * now open for subscription, at .a H i»t*r cent on the suhscriheJ . H pur cent on the subscribed 1 n °* oue and payable to R. L. Moss, Troas- 0| " < * e Po*i©», at Jefferson, llomer, Ilar- -w/omre and Lexington. , R L Bl,OOM FI ELD. Acting President. i un ' ^"roRD, Secretary. Notice to Planters. \\rE HAVE perfected arrange- YV ments wit tbe lir»*wn Cotton Giu Co., so that we can allow time on these celebrated Gins. All letters chctrftilly answered. SUMMEY & NEWTON. fall and Winter Importation, 1871. RIBBONS, Millinery and Straw Goods ARMSTRONG, GATOS & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOnDKRS OF BONNET, TRIMMING, AND VELVET IBUStBtaHSs ]ion net Silks, Satins and Velvets, Blinds. Netts, Crapes. Bnchts. Flowers, Feathers, , ORXAMEXTS, longs & billups, L, ‘ - TO., |f TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED, SIIAKKlt IIOODS, AC. 237 and 239 Baltimore Street, It is a matter of congratulation that the Bible has passed triumphantly through the oideal of verbal criticism English infidels of the last century raised a premature paean over the dis covery and publication of so many va rious readings. They imagine that the popular mind would be rudely and thoroughly shaken, that Christianity would be placed in imminent peril of extinction, and that the Church would be dispersed aud ashamed at the sight of the tattered shreds of magna Charta. But the result has blasted all their hopes, and the Oracles of God are found to have been preserved in im maculate integrity. The storm which shakes the oak only loosens the earth around its roots, and its violence ena bles the tree to strike its roots deeper in the soil. So it is that Scripture has gloriously surmounted every trial.— There gathers around it a dense “cloud of witnesses,”—from the ruins of Nin eveh and the valley of the Nile; from the slabs ami (/asrc/iV/s of Sennacherib and the tombs ami monuments of Pha raoh ; from the rolls of Chaldee para phrasis and Syrian versionists; from the cells and libraries of monastic scribes and the dry and dusty labors of scholars and antiquarians. Our present Bibles are undiluted by the lapse of ages. These Oracles, writ ten amid such strange diversity of time, place, and condition—among the sands and ditfs of Arabia, the fields and hills of Palestine, in the palace of Babylon and in the dungeons of Rome—have come down to us in such unimpaired fullness and accuracy, that we are placed as advantageously toward them as the generation which gazed upon the book of law, or those crowds which hung on the lips of Jesus as he recited a parable on the shores of the Galilean lake, or those Churches which received from Paul or Peter one of their epis tles of warning or expostul tion. Yes! the river of life, which issues out from beneath the throne of God and of the Lamb, may, as it flows through so many centuries, sometimes bear with it the earthly evidences ot its checkered progress; but the great volume of its water has neither been dimmed in its transparency, nor bereft of its healing virtue.—North British Review. man. The mode adopted for settling the question was planned hv Hampden, the advocate of the flat theory, aud the experiment appears to have been con ducted in all respects as he desired.— The ground selected was a six mile level, on the Bedford Canal. Three long poles of equal length were pro vided, and' planted at equal depths, and at a distance of three miles apart. A telescope was then employed, through which it was clearly and unmistake- ably perceived that the central pole was five feet above the level line of the telescope, which at once proved that the earth was not fiat but rotund: Mr. Hampden expressed himself satisfied that he had lost the bet, and the money was accordingly paid over by the referee to the winner, Mr. Wallace. The experiment and the telescope were level, but not so the head of Mr. Hampden. He that’s convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still. It was not long before Hampden woke up to the mortifying conclusion that he had made a blunder, or that in some way he had been befogged. His reason told him that the earth was still flat, not round, as that lying telescope and those fibbing poles had affirmed. He concluded, also, that Wallace was a thimble rigger, pickpocket, a liar, and a swindler, and went about pro claiming these libels in the most un blushing manuer. This so annoyed Wallace that he brought suit for libel against Hampden, and the jury lately mulcted him in $3,000 damages, mak ing a sum total of $5,500 cash paid out on accouut of his theory that the earth is flat. Poor Hampden is indeed a martyr to science.—Scientific American. to be wounded as mentioned, and as the wound was bleeding very freely a wagon was procured in which he was conveyed to the Worsham House, where he had been boarding. Drs. Rogers and Lynch were summoned and madcan examination of the wound. The surgical aid arrived too late, however, for he gradually sunk under the excessive hemorrhage until a few minutes after one o’clock, when he died. MR. BROWSES STATEMENT OF THE AF- An Avalanche reporter called at the station house last evening and convers ed with Mr. Browne, from whom he received the following statement: I don’t care to go into particulars getting a gun, but finally hired one for three days, telling the man that I was going hunting. I just walked into the store and had the gun pulled down ou him before he saw me, when he drop ped, as if shot, behind the counter. I ran around some ladies who were in the store and shot him. My gun snap ped the last time. After shooting him I walked out and came to the station house, where I gave myself up. My daughter told him some time ago that if I ever found it out that I would kill him on right He laughed at her and “ allowed” that he could shoot, too. 1 gave him uvery show, but he would not repair the damage he had done me; and this is ill that was left me to do. While making his statement, Mr. Browne evinced much emotion; at times, half-suppressed sobs swelling up in his throat so as to almost stop his about this thing, as it is a very unpleas- s P eech ’ whUe hia micd with tears ’ A Just Retribution. An Old Nempaper Man Kills a Clerk for Ruining His Daughter. BROAD ST., ATHENS, DEALERS IN DRUGS AND I «/:o.,\$trar ail Radies’ gats, chemicals, DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, PUTTY, ST YTIOJNERY ; rtWrURRY. MQIJ0R8. BITTERS. A SD KVERYUHING usually V.r" ,u ‘»5- ttpl in a Firat Claaa Drug Store. 1 •>*» been nerd in the aeleclion I 10 *b* Purity and reliability of out I JV-'u'lir. and phyaielanaare assured that I Our fc’M with proiuptneaa and fidelity. iSL K *FANCY GOODS pekfumehy' tmbnelat **"** T * rle,y toilet articles, brushes, COMBS, &C. Aye i» . .‘" D anri Hitter, "'“"3'ind » l'rf|.urations. Hurley’a 4 xapar’lla. Urate’s ’ Crimean BtliTlllOKR, no. Offer the largest stock to be found in this conn- try, and unequalled In choice variety nod cheap ness, comprising the latest European novelties. Orders solicited, and prompt attention given. Aug II St Wm. A- Talmafige, POST OFFICE. COL. AVENUE, ATI1EX Is the World Round or Flat I A few minutes after ten o’clock yes terday morning an elderly man, dress ed plainly as if a farmer, carrying a double-barrelled shot-gun, entered Sessel’s dry goods store, on Main street, and asked for some lawns. One of the clerks, Mr. Thomas J. Beasley, showed him several pieces, after which the man asked to see some domestics. This class of goods was kept in the rear portion ot the store, and asking his customer to step back, Mr. Beasley started in that direction. Near the center of the store is the “ wrapping” counter, aud when they came to it Mr. Beasley asked the man if he would not leave his gun there until they returned. “ Oh, no; I don’t care, I will just carry it along with me," was the reply and they passed on hack. To the right of aud near the end of the store was the “ cassimere” counter, under the charge of CapL J. Theodore Adams. That gentleman was at the time engaged in waiting upon some ladies. In walking back Mr. Beasley was a few feet in advance of his cus tomer. and after passing the ladies mentioned he turned to look for tliat person. To his great astonishment he beheld him with his gun at shoulder taking deliberate aim at Adams. Tliat gentleman, looking up and see ing the man, dropped behind his coun ter and commenced crawling towards some boxes, behind which he could screen himself. When he dropped to the floor the man ran rapidly around the end of the counter and again tak ing aim fired, and immediately after snapped the remaining barrel. The contents of the gun—a quantity of large buckshot—struck Mr. Adams in the me? many „• ’ ,0o ** ! »iHr*GermanHlttfin, ' lavr !*>l»«»Ur preparation* alwaycon iX?, 11 (j AIIDEN SEEDS »n*i\ *!l l ,*'??'**. T! Mietl«* on hand and for • uuuiny tlwlrwl Al*o Gnwa Seed. ,„ST. LOUIS LEAD, W " rlf "r purv—th. bnt in th. market XTEW cn 111 ’ 8 C ° 0k Book * N EW SUPPLY just received, by T. A. BURKE. Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver-pie Ware, Musical Instruments, Speotecles, Gun Pistols, Sporting Equipments, Ac. Ac. A Select Stock of American and Im ported Watches, Double Uuna with 40 Inch barrel, rxcrllrml/ur long ranor. Pistols of all kinds. Penetration of bull 6% iuchoa into wood. With a desire to please all, will anil the above good at very reasonable prices. REPAIRING. Watches, Clocka, Jewelry, Guns and Pistols, promptly attended to in a satisfactory manner.— laee for yourselves. apr4 which we are offering at very low price*, stoves sold by u* WARRANTED IN EVERY PARTICULAR. SUMMEY & NEWTON. About a year ago, an eccentric phi losopher of London, England, named John Hampden, having convinced him self beyond all peradventure that the world was flat, not round, os common ly supposed, undertook the arduous missionary work of converting man kind to his way of belief. Not making much progress by following the ordina ry method of private preaching, he re sorted to the expedient of offering a bet upon the subject He made a pub lic announcement, offering to stake $2,500 against $2,500, to be put up by any scientific man, that he cauld prove that the earth was flat, and not round, as every body else believed. No one appears to have taken imme diate notice of this absurd offer, where upon Hampden came out with another announcement, in which he boldly de clared that scientific men knew they were guilty of an imposition in pro pounding the round theory, and that in consequence, they were afraid to take up his challenge, and stake $2,500 as he proposed. But the challenge having come to the notice of Mr. Alfred Russel Wal lace, a gentleman ot high reputation, and a member ot several scientific so cieties, he accepted the conditions, and put up his $2,500. This amount, to- To Housekeepers. TUST RECEIVED, a large assort- ?J ment af WTOU AU gether with a similar sum put up by Hampden, was deposited, subject to the order of the referee, Mr. Walsh, editor of tbe Field newspaper, who was to ant subject; but I will tell you the events of the past few days. Friday last I discovered my daugh ter’s condition, but never learned its author until yesterday morning. As soon as I learned of it I went immedi ately to Mr. Adams, who was staying in Vessel’s and told him that he must marry my daughter. This was about 8 o’clock, and he told me to go away, and he would meet me at my store, 315 Second street. I went! away and waited at my store until hr lf-past ten, wliee, he not coming, I again went to Sessel’s. Going up to him I asked him why he lmd not come to my store according to promise. He made some frivolous excuse about aome one being sick, and that he could not neglect his business. I walked up to him aud said (shaking his index finger slowly, as if iu great earnestness), “ You must meet me.” I then left and returned to my store, where in a short time his brother, John D. Ad ams, made his appearance. He said tliat he had heard there was some trouble between his brother and my self, and that he had come around to see if he could not effect a compromise. I told him that a compromise could be effected in but oue way, and that was by Adams marrying my daughter. Telling me to come around to a cer tain store on Union street he went away. In company with my son I did go around, and there met Adams. He said he could not marry my girl, be cause he had no money. I told him that, while I did not have much, I could and would help him along all in my power. My daughter was willing to marry him and 1 had nothing to say. He then proposed to send her off to some quiet, secluded place, where she could give birth to her child, after which she could return home and the world would he none the wiser. Says I—“ What will you do with the child ?” “ Put it in an orphan asylum,” he replied. Oh, no!” says I, “ that will never do; you must marry her.” Upon his again flatly refusing to do this I said, “ I will go unarmed to-day; but if you do not marry my daughter this day you take your own life in your hand.” He laughed at me and said that was a game two could play at, aud that he could pull and shoot as quick as I could. Coming out on the sidewalk he said: “ Well, 1 suppose you will not take any advantage of me. You will give me a show.” Says I. “ What show did you give What show did you give ray A warrant was sworn out by Captain Athey before Recorder Scales during the day, upon which a preliminary ex amination will be held this morning. Mr. Adams was an ex-Confederate soldier, going all through the war up to the battle of Petersburg, where he lost his right leg, it being cut off by a cannon hall. Since the war he has been engaged in mercantile business, and was esteemed by a large circle of friends. General J. W. S. Browne is an old and much respected citizen. He has resided in Memphis fourteen or fifteen years, during the greater portion of winch he has been a newspaper press man. He connected himself with gas fitting and plumbing a year or two ago. Mr. Browne is a native of Ohio, and many years ago was a brigadier general of the Ohio militia, from which tact was derived the title of general, by which he is best known. He (in connection with the late M. D. Potter.) was one of the founders of the Cincin nati Commercial. He is probably fifty- five years old. Farm Miscellany. j Poultry as Farming Stock. The press at tbe present time teems with articles on poultry, written to supply the wants of tbe public to be informed respecting the rearing of poul try as a source of animal food. The majority of both the works aud articles recently published are thor oughly worthless compilations, con cocted to supply this demand, and it is therefore all the more gratifying to turn to a practical article on the subject, evidently written by a practical man. Such a one was recently published in the Agricultural Ornette, and from it we may adyantageouriy reproduce the following extracts respecting the man agement of poultry as farming stock: How many farmers might obtain lots of new accommodations for poultry by simply making use of the buildings they already possess? and how many The Etiquette of the Labor Question. WeUHuTa'gotjd'iffhr aTiofil HSR eti- qucite of the b'iU-nxmi, and Iwmnj wj» children the importance of politene*4 and good breeding in their intercourse with the world. It has been said that “ manners make the mauand if it be true that somethiug more substan tial is needed to (lerfect the human character, it must he admitted that true politeness goes very far, not only in regulating the influence which a man or woman exerts, but is a mast impor tant element of business success. True politeness consists not only in pleasant manners, but embodies the spirit of tb«r golden rule, to “ do unto others as wo would that others should do unto us.”’ The mere mannerism of the drawing room—the graces of the French dano* mg master—are but the “ sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal,” if unac companied by honesty of purpose, a fid a plain, matter of fact sense of justice. farmers consider fowls unworthy of Good breeding leads man, in Li i inter consideration, because of some supposed | course with his fellow to difficulty or expense in erecting suita- i •* Be to Ids \ irtucs ever kind, ble houses ? And worse than this, how Be to his faults it little blind.” left leg, directly at the knee, shatter ing the bone and cutting the femoral artery. After snapping the other bar rel of the gun the man turned around, and, without saying a word, passed through a row of terror-stricken clerks to the front door, where he handed his gun to a young man, who was evident ly in waiting. Standing for perhaps a half minute an the sidewalk, as if deliberating, the man started up Main street to the Ad ams street station house. Meeting Captain Athey at the station house he said: I wish to surrender myself. I shot a man in Sessel’s store a few minutes ago, and I guess I killed him. Going in with him he gave his name as J. W. S. Browne, and after being searched was taken back and placed in a cell. Mr. Adams, after being shot, cried out, “ Don’t shoot. For God’s sake, somebody take him away.” The pro prietor of the store and several em ployes of the house who were up stairs at the time, hearing the report and daughter? I will take any and every advantage of you that I can, as you have done the same with me.” We then separated and I returned to my store, where Col. DuBose came with John D. Adams about twelve o’clock to see me. Colonel DuBose said that he had come, as a mutual friend, to see if this thing could not be arranged amicably. I told him that it could by Adams marrying my daugh ter, and by that way ouly. He said that Adams was willing to send my daughter away during her accouche ment, but that he would not marry her. He also spoke of the disgrace that would attach to my family by this being made public. I told him that I had thought of all that, but that my honor was above all things. Says L “ This is no child’s play; I am terri bly in earnest, and that man must marry my daughter.” That was the last talk I had with them. When returned home last night I met my daughter and questioned her. She told me that Adams had asked her if I was a Mason. She told him yes, and subsequent confusion, came runuiug he said that he was also a Mason, and down, and were the first to ga to Mr. Adams’ assistance. That gentleman was evidently in great agony, and was brandishing a revolver in bis band.— Fearing to approach him while thus excited, and not knowing how danger ously he was hurt, one of the clerks told him to throw away his pistol and he would come to his aid. After about that Masons were under obligations to protect each other's families, and that whatever they did that way was all right. By this kind of talk he suc ceeded in effecting bis purpose and ruined my daughter. Well, this morning I got up and told some of my folks that I was going af ter Adams. I had aome trouble Concerning a Dictionary* Who, that ever read it, has forgotten the irresistible funy description of the career of a dictionary, which Mark Twain puts into the mouth of one Coon, “ a nice, baldheaded man at the hotel in Angel’s Camp,” In the Big Tree region of the Calaveras county, California. It was to a rexuest for tbe loan of a book to enliven a rainy day, that Coon replied: “ Well, I’ve got a mighty responsi ble old Webster Unabridged, what there is of it, but they started her sloshing around the camp before ever I got a chance to read her myself ; and next she went to Mury’s and from there she went to Jackass Gulch, and now she’s gone to San Andreas, and I don’t expect I’ll ever see that book | again. But what makes me mad is, that for all they’re so handy about keeping her sashshaying around from shanty to shanty and from camp to camp, none oi’em’s got a good word for her. Now, Coddington had her a week, and she was too many for him— he couldn’t spell the words; he tackled some of them regular husters, tow’rd the middle, you know, and they thrtw- ed him. Next Dyer, he tried her a jolt, but he couldn’t pronounce ’em— Dyer can hunt quail and play seven- up as well as eny man, understand, but he can’t pronounce worth a cent; lie used to worry along well enough though, till he’d flush one of lhem rat tlers with a clatter of sylables as long os a string of sluic-boxcs, and then he’d finally lose his grip and throw up his hand. And so finally Dick Stoker harnessed her, up there at his cabin, and sweat over her, and wrestled with her for as much as three weeks, night and day, till he got as far as R. and then passed her over to ’ Lige Prcke- rell, and said fhe was the all-firedest drying reading that ever he slruck.’ A Medical Humbug Exploded. —Lest some within the range of our circulation be deluded to their injury, we copy the folic wing paragraph from the Washington .Patriot: The September of the “ National Medical Journal' of this city, gives a quietus to the commercial speculation in cundurango, which a ring of charla tans and jobbers have attempted to impose* on the public, as a cure for cancer, by a persistent and shameless exaggeration. There has not been a single attested case of cancer, treated with this vegetable, which has resulted in any benefit whatever, and all state ments to the coutrary are wholly un founded. We say this with emphasis, because the marvellous statements about the pretended virtues of the plant, originating in a ridiculous and apocryphal story from Ecuador, were fabricated and sent out from here, which is the headquarters of the decep tion. All the experiments mode by reli able medical men with cundurango, in tbe navy, in private practice, and now in the New York Hospital, prove it to be utterly worthies, and nothing more than a bold imposition. many farmers try to make poultry pay, without any result beyond continual vexations, merely from lack of inge nuity in brmgiug ordinary appliances into play ? “ Why bother," they ask, “about raising chickens in cowsheds and outbuildings, when you can set out as many coops as you like on the grass of a paddock, the gravel of a stable- yard, or upon the scattered rickyard straw ?” Because, generally speaking, half your chickens die under the com mon farmyard treatment. They get wet feet, and die of cramp; they drink the high-colored soak-water of manure heaps, rain water out of cart-ruts, or the straw-yard drainings and other filthy slops, and consequently sicken and die by dozens. We have a troop of adult breeding fowls loose in tbe farm- ynrd; they pick up a large part of their living there. But they do not thrive so well or keep so healthy as other troops of breeding stock which we have stationed at houses purposely erected in grass fields, far from the homestead. For a very small sum you may knock up a square boarded house, tarred out ride, lime-whited inside, and covered with asphalted felt Each of the four sides is in a separate piece, the roof (if of gable form) in two pieces, all hooked together at the corners by staples and pins. So a house (say six feet or Beven feet cube) can be popped up in a cart, and temporarily set up in a pasture, or a stubble, or wherever there may be a good picking fur the fowls. A couple of perches, a few neats and a drinking pan form the furniture; while the ground covered in by the house (for there is no wooden floor) is spread over with loose earth, ashes and mortar.— Such is the home for one cock and eight or ten hens and pullets during the breeding season, or the home of double this number of half-grown chickens.— The house should be placed against a hedge, or in a corner where two hedges meet, so that a few poles and posts may protect it against cattle. There can be no good reason against grazing fowls as well as other “ ani mals and the farmer who tries it for the first time will be surprised at the amount of “ grub" (literally, perhaps,) which the active scratchers and peckers find in a grass field, in and under the droppings of sheep and cattle, among hedge-roots, upon ditch sides, aud so on; only a small supply of grain being necessary twice a day. We wish that many farmers may take our advice— procure what hardy sort you most fancy, Cochins or Brahmas that endure close quarters, game that arc strong, old English birds, Dorkings that like dry chalk and gravel countries; or, if you are in a low or wet neighborhood, on a tenacious soil, put a Cochin cock to Dorking females (no cross-breeds al lowed for parents, mind; but get good blood of pure breeds), and you will have hardihood in your chicks as well as weight and quality in your couples for market These suggestions are eminently prac tical. Small portable poultry houses of the kind recommended, however, are no new feature. In Lord Holmesdale’s park at Linton, numbers of those may be seen scattered about the domain, and in one respect they are superior to those suggested by the writer quoted. Each house is raised about two inches from the ground, resting on the axels of two wooden rollers, so that every few days it can be moved, by the aid of a lever, on to fresh soil, thus avoiding the de struction of tbe grass underneath, and preserving the air of the roosting bouse in a constant condition of purity. In reference to the last suggestion as to rearing hardy table fowl, our expe rience is much in favor of the converse of bis recommendation, and putting a short-legged Dorking code to Cochin or, still better, to dark-pencilled Brah ma bens. Size always comes from the female ride, and Brahma hens are heavy, hardy and very prolific, to say nothing of their being good sitters and admirable mothers.—London Field. But the reader may ask, what ha# this to do with the c iqueltc of the la bor question? Much, every way.— Every farmer—especially in these lat ter days—is beset by difficulties grow ing out of a proper regard for the righto of others Our laborers arc ignorant, and governed by caprices rather than by a sense of what is right. In our dealings with them we may do much by example to elevate their low stand ard of conscientiousness. The tempta tion, an.i the practice too often is, while stinging front a sense of injustice or faithlessness ou their part, to rettfSafa by violating the golden rule, and aveng ing one wrong by the commission of another. Our farms and our home*, in countr}- and in town, arc beset with annoyances on accouut of the recklefl# disregard of contracts by laborers.— These troubles are much aggravated, and too often caused, by a loose habit of hiring servants without stopping to- ascertain whether they ure under obli gation to others. Tom comes at early dawn, and graciously taking off his hat, inquires if you want a hand. The crop is in the grass, the fodder is dry ing up, or the cotton is ready to pick* and Sam having left without cause, you need a hand badly, and Tom is engaged without even asking where he has been living, or why he left his employer; and as you need help you pay him more than the usual wages, and ask him to come to-morrow and, if possi ble, bring two or three hands with him. Now Tom had engaged by the year with Smith, and left for some trifling misunderstanding. Elated with hi* success, Tom goes to Smith’s and p r- sondes two or three more of his hand# to leave, trader the prospect of better wages by the day, with a negro’s heed less indifference to the length of the job. In a few days the crop is laid by, the fodder is pulled, or the cotton picked, and Tom is no longer needed, and spends some weeks in idleness.— Meantime Smith’s crop is ruined, and when Tom goes back t» hfe» to hire for the next year, and expresses the real re gret he feels for leaving, Smith, having lost confidence in him, wiafl aot hive him, and he takes to stealing, from sheer hunger, which, to bis nude mor ality justifies the act. And Sam, who was the apparent cause of all these troubles, knocks about until Fall—here a day and there a day—and finds himself at the end of the year ragged, without money, and without a settled home. Possibly, too, Sam was badly treated, and had good cause for offense, which might have been prevented by a simple act of sheer justice; possibly he was wrong, and might have been reconciled to stay, by a little exercise of patience, and a little kind advice. Just such cases as these are constant; ly occurring all over the country, and the gossip of the day, among men and women, teems with lamentations con cerning the unreliability of labor. We are not defending the efficiencv or fidel ity of the negroes; but it is simple truth to say that employees are sus» gravely at fault. If the golden role were more carefully observed, toward servants and toward each other, by employers, the evils of the labor sys tem might be greatly mitigated. Let employers first requireserronl*to bring a written recommendation from those with whom they have lived—and bo careful not to hire those under engage ment to others—and a great cause of the prevalent demoralization would be removed. Treat them honestly; pay them fair money wages promptly; or if they crop on shares, have their du ties and their righto so plainly marked out that they cannot misunderstand them, and their interests and necessi ties will attach them to settled homes, their labor will be far more elective, and many of the trying embarrass ments of the labor system wi ll be rem edied. We have had more than one good servant beguiled from our employ with in a twelvemonth, by offers of higher wages. These offers were thoughtlessly made by neighbors and periMinalfriends, who did not realize the wrong they were doing to us or to the servants.— They were in a strait for help, and without thinking of tl «e righto of others, or of the law they 1 iolated, hired the first servant they oould get. There is a first class opening for the exercise of the “ golden rule” in this matter of making and keeping eon tracts, between employees and sen ;19 I b fl &1 1 1 9 1