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“WISDOM, JUSTIO
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YOLUME XXYII.
ROME, GA., WEDNESOAYMORNING, JULY 9, 1873.
NEW SERIES-NO. 45
The UpippowU, or some other bird
resembling it, is accustomed to utter
during the silent hours of night, the'
singular, monotonous and melancholy
cry of “ Chip-Will’s-Widow” — which
the superstitious and simple regard as
an omen of evil, and associate with
death. This bird and its song have
furnished a theme for the following
little ballade:
Qli Ip-Will’s-Widow.
nr will-o’-tez wisp.
Tell me who was she, my bird—
Chip. 'Will’s- Widow—if ycu please.
I your seng have olten heard, I
Through the night among tho trees; j
Trill your plaintive notes anew,
And your pleasant story tell—
I will pledge my faith to you,
I will keep your secret well.
Tell me, birdie, I must know
Who was Chip-Will,whom she wed ?
Wears tho widow weeds of woe,
Keeping sorrow for the dead ?
Was he brother to that Will
Whom your sister sings sometimes,
When she trills beyond the mill,
“ Whip-poor- Wiir in solemn rhymes ?
Is she young and pretty now—
Would she have a handsome beau ?
I would like to know, I vow,
Does she seek a lover so.
Would you by your notes inspire,
For the lady in her grief,
Sympathy and fond desire.
In some heart for her relief?
Who was Chip-Will, will you say—
Chip of what “ old block" was he ?
Is the widow.rich and gay—
Might her hand bo won by me ?
Chip-Will, bless his pious bones !
Did he will the widow store.—
Golden store, or “ chips and stones,”
Only these and nothing more ?
Well, good-night; I may not slay—
You may still your secret keep:
Will you tell some other day ?
I must go to dreain3 and sleep.
Hapless widow,—all alone 1
Luckless fellow,—poor Chip- Vill!
Birdie, keep thy monotone!
If it pleases, sing thoe still —
“Chip- Will's-Widow!"
How te Take Care of Harness* of increase reported-last year was: Comical Catastrophe.
Mv advice is, do not take any stock North Carolina and Arkansas 16, Sou .Courting in a boarding-house is one
in the well-advertised “ leather preserv- Carolina 8, Georgia and Tennessee 1 of those things that is always attended
atives” and “ water-proofs.” Some may Florida and Mississippi 10, Alabama with great annoyances and inconve-
be good, but not effective in proportion Louisiana 11, Texas IS, and the ave| niences, especially if the courting
to the cost, while most preparations of age throughout the cotton States
this kind contain copperas, sulphate of proximating 13 per cent It will
iron, or other injurious substances that noted that both years Texas makes.
largest relative increase. Re]
eat out the life of leather. Pure neats-
footoil is the best: goose oil is good,
liver or tanner’s oil is good to soften'
while tallow tends to fill rip the pores
and keep out water. The addition of
beeswax to the tallow would have
tendency to harden the leather and
keep out water, and a farther addition
of a little lampblack would improve its
appearance. Neatsfoot oil, as sold,'
usually adulterated. A better article
can be made by chopping up the feet
of cattle and boiling them freely; cover
all with water, when cold shim off the
oil and cleanse it A pint to a set of
feet is costly, but it is valuable.
Scleutilic Intelligence.
bent improvements in telegraphy
“I to 600 words per minute can
hed along the wires. A chemi-
paration of tar has been discov-
which, at a trifling cost, the
[ng properties of gutta percha
aously increased. An experi-
vith magno-electricity for pur-
if illumination is to be tried on
scale in London. The clock
' the House of Parliament has
fleeted for the trial. The ma-
ivill be driven by a four-horse
ngine.
ssemer’s apparatus for firing
sea consists of a toothed quad-
ached to the gun, which works
e rolling of the ship, and at the
I moment acts upon a lever con-
i with an electrical contrivance.
111. Cramptou of Canada East
1 the problem how to utilize
st. A puddling furnace has
i up at Woolwich. When this
[is in operation a stream of air
I dust is blown in; the com-
lis perfect; there is no smoke;
[iron is of much better quality
at puddled in the ordinary way.
pe method is applicable to all
” furnaces, and thus it would
Lt last that there will no longer
fis called “waste coal.” The
“ waste” in the mining dis-
II now bring a good price; and
of steamships will find that
*. coal is better than lumps.
fent English invention is a con-
rby which the ponderous rollers
lling-mill can be made to re-
pir direction without shock and
stopping the engine. Thus
Hest masses of iron may be
fckward and forward at pleas-
advantage which manufactur-
jmow how to appreciate,
bme months past a machine
by compressed air has cut the
k colliery near Glasgow'. This
|is to be introduced into the
Northumberland and Durham;
Id it pass into general use, the
luld become less unwholesome
present, through the escape of
ressed air, and the greater part
1 miners would then have to
other employment. There
Ihundrcd and sixty thousand
boys employed in British coal
bt more than sixty thousand
lanted when every mine has its
Another advantage is the
of the waste which takes
fere the coal is dug by hand;
i at present amounts to about
iillion tons a year. With the
i the waste would not be more
■ per cent, of the whole quanti-
i produced.
ale ur niaiiuiccoui fanptu > entod
Jety-lamp for the use of miners,
iouble the light of the lamp
|t in use, at one half of the
if the miner attempts to
frith it, the light at once goes
1 1 oil which feeds the light is
in a sponge, consequently
be no spilling of oil by an
the Harecastle collieries a
1 for safety-lamps- has been in
bout three years. It is a lock
pks itself, but can be unlocked
powerful magnet. This
ikept in a strong box under
a trustworthy keeper; and
buld be impossible for a miner
Is lamp and incur the danger
plosion, while at work,
yentor has demonstrated that
necessary to groove a rifle-bar-
its whole length in order to
results in shooting. About
kes at the muzzle are grooved;
jst is smoth, by which the in-
jjty of the bullet is mucli great-
“i a barrel grooved from breech
. and the flight of the bullet
direct, or, as shooters say, it
-er trajectory. It is found in
bat the few inches of grooving
puzzle are quite sufficient to
[ bullet spinning.
: of dogs for traction vehicles
■hucksters is a notable feature
Tin Berlin. Bakers’and grocers’
^mlk carts, fruit and soda water
niture carts, and lighter ve-
j all descriptions are drawn by
pree dogs harnessed, like horses,
pgle dog harnessed by the side
nan or a hoy. The number of
s registered among the licensed
Pices ol Berlin Is 2186.
Think mo not a silly thing
Have you not my story heard—
Why I sit all night and sing—
* Cbip-WiiTs-Widow ?’
“ Fairest lady was this one—
As a flower sweet and fair,
And all hearts she kindly won,
By her love and tender care;
For the poorest in the land.
She had Bmiles and gifts in store,
And she fed with bounteous hand,
Grateiul birds that thronged her door—
* Chip-Will's-Widow!'
“ Chip-Will beard of war one day,
And bo was so brave and true,
That be could not stay away;
Then with a kiss and fond adieu,
This he said— * My wife, my fair,
In thy prayers, remember mo!
Should I fall, some bird shall boar
Latest thoughts of love to thee—
Chip-Will’s-Widow!'
And no comrade's eye saw where;
But I marked the spot right well,
For my nest was nearly* there ;
And I heard the soldier sigh—
* Birdie, ily and tell my wife
That I think of her r.ad die ?
That I love her as my life—
Chip-Will's-Widow.*
“Then the message home I bore,
To the soldier’s lady fair,
Sitting in her cottage dbor,
In the twilight's pleasant air.
There above tho garden-gate,
From tho willow-branches near—
There I breathea these notes of fate,
For tho first time in her ear—
* Chip-Will's-Widow !*
" Then all night the ladj wept,
Comfortless upon her hed;
And for sorrow never slept,
For her heart was with the dead :
And each night she poured Lor sighs—
* Chip-Wili’s-Widow I shall bo !’
Echo heard^er mournful cries,
And bestowed the strain on mo—
* Chip-Will’s- Widow!’
“And the grateful task is mine,
Still to celebrate her grief;
For I love the mournful line—
Words of pathos, sad and brief:
And among the groves and bowers,
Where the ghosts of lovers pale
Walk amid the dreaming flowers—
There I pour my lonely wail—
* Cnip-WUl’s-Widow!’ ”
A Guy Uviugstone Duel.
The other day one of our morning
papers, taking as its text the recent
duel in Virginia, preached a long and
eloquent sermon upon the barbarity of
the Americans, and their shameful
wickedness, “ allowing .this relic of the
dark ages to remain as one of their cus
toms.” But at the very hour when
this homily was being written a duel
between two English gentleman was
being fought in Piccadilly. These two
young swells had not quarrelled about
a lady, but about a bet; a challenge to
mortal combat had been given ana ac
cepted.; a difficulty arose about the
weapons to be used; the seconds final
ly referred the matter to an arbitrator
—no other than the famous author,
Guy Livingstone—and he decided that,
the bloodthirsty combattants should
meet in the middle of Piccadilly,
each armed with a horsewhip, anc
thrash each other until one or both cried
“ Hold! enough!”
The duellists demurred; but the arbi
trator declared that, as they asked for
l is decision, they should obey it, and
that if they did not he should whip
both of them. At this threat they
yielded, and the awful combat com
menced at the appointed time and
place. Fast and thick were the blows;
shrill through the air whistled the keen
lashes; dense arose the dust from the
well beaten coats. Each man stood
bravely to his work, until at last, as if
by mutual consent, each paused at the
same moment, and said, “Enough!”
Then they quietly shook hands, jumped
into cabs, and drove away amid the
plaudits of the crowd. If yon must
have duels, I don’t know but Guy Liv
ingstone’s plan for them is the best.—
London letter to the Graphic.
count
has been much retarded by the excef
ively wet and cold weather, and th
the pest which usually invest the croi
in such seasons — cutworms —'
commenced extensive operations,
threaten to greatly damage the crop.
ObItuary.--The Man with the Iron Jaw.
The list of distinguished dead for
the present year already presents for
midable proportions. The spirit, of
Bamum’s gorilla ascended amid the
A Father’s Advice to a Bride.
Said a young husband, whoso busi
ness speculations were unsuccessful:
“ My wife’s silver tea set, the bridal
gift of a ricli uncle, doomed me to fi
nancial ruin. It involved a hundred
expenses, which in trying to meet,
have made me the bankrupt that I
am.”
His is the experience of many oth
ers, who, less wise, do not know what
is the goblin of the house, working its
destruction.
A sagacious father, of great wealth,
exceedingly mortified his daughter by
ordering it to be printed on her wed
ding cards l “ No presents, except those
adapted to an income of $1000.”
Said he, “ you must not expect to be
gin life in the style I am able by many
years of labor to indulge; and I know
of nothing which will tempt you to
try, more than the well-intentioned but
pernicious gifts of rich friends.”
Such advice is timely. If other pa- “^“dishes, while for breakfast he sim-
Sui8'W spared years of
incessant toil and anxiety; they would
not find themselves on the downward
road because their wives had worn all
of their salary or expended it on the
appointments of the house. The fate
of the poor man who found a linchpin
and felt obliged to make a carriage to
fit it, is the fate of the husband who
finds his bride in possession of gold and
silver valuables and no large income
to support the owner’s gold and silver
style.
The Prismatic Railroail.
Yesterday Col. J. W. Beck, of Opeli
ka, Ala., (a native Georgian, bom in
Washington county, and colonel of the
44th Georgia regiment in the late war)
was in the city, exhibiting models and
drawings of the new railroad now in
operation in Opelika, of which the
readers of the Sun have already had
some information. This is a railroad
whose cars run upon a single rail, and
not upon two rails. It is called “ Pris
matic,” because the track is triangular
or prismatic in shape—tho single rail
crowning the prism or triangle, the
sides which support the cars on the sin
gle track—though we have no space to
describe it minutely. It Is the inven
tion of .Mr. E. Crew, of Opelika, patent
ed and entirely owned by Mr. Crew and
Col. Beck A railroad one mile, on
this plan is in operation at Opelika.
It is a pronounced success, and Messrs.
E. Crew & Co. have just dosed a con
tract with the proprietors of the Talas-
see cotton factory to. build a road for
them to Opelika, five miles. A com
pany has been formed in Atlanta to
build a street railroad to Dr. Angier’s
Ponce de Leon Spring, and they are
about closing a contract with Col. Beck
to do the work.—Atlanta Sun, 20th. ■
showman’s museum, and later, old
Charon blistered his hands puBing the
ethereal form of the Welch giantess
over the Styx. Shack-Nasty John, the
Modoc, next left his earthly shdl and
engaged in the pleasant pursuit of
pushing clouds and exploring space,
and ere his collections of spring scalps
have become sufficiently dry for parlor
ornaments there comes the announce
ment of the death of the “ Man With
the Iron Jaw,” who traveled with Bar-
num. •»
Of the cause of his disease we know
nothing, but his iron constitution show
ed signs of giving way several months
since, and the high price of pig-iron,
add^jjgtfu his small salary, increased
Iris tra^ \3s and destroyed his mettle.
He was file son of an iron miner and
an ironical woman of noble birth, and
inherited the strong qualities of both.
He cut his teeth on a cast iron monkey
wrench, and at the age of four years
began to manifest those traits that made
his jaw a thing of beauty and profit
ever after. He was matched by his
parents against some of the most rapid
jawed females in his native village, and
always beat them in a talking contest
His diet during his younger days was
simple and nutritious, and consisted
chiefly of sheet-iron griddle cakes, gar
nished with carpet tacks; cast-iron
(dough) nuts, which he bolted without
chewing; malleable biscuit; fish-hooks,
parboiled and served with quinine
sauce; while for dessert he never ate
more than two ten-penny nail tarts, a
horse shoe dumpling, or something of
that sort.
As he matured, however, and his
system required more solid food, he
boarded at iron-foundries and first-tlass
blacksmith-shops, where the hill of tare
irts i
cate a prevalent increase in 1
amount of fertilizers used. Then
cultivated will fall considerably
that planted. *Acold.
causing much of the seed to rot i
ground; a very wet May, preve
work arid increasing the subs
demand for it, and the impossib
obtaining sufficient labor to s
over the whole breadth sown, 'the e
cessive weed and grass consi
on the excessive wet season, con
to make this result inevitable.-
returns concur in placing thecrop i
two to three-weeks later than usual.
“Florida reports an acreage com
of two per cent above an averagr _
all the others fall below. Virginia
Alabama 7 per cent, North Car
15, South Carolina 12, Georgia
Louisiana 6, Mississippi and Ark:
8, Texas 14, .Tennessee 10. But it
be seen from the extracts below
very generally the weather in the _
days of May was favorable, and thi
couple wish* to Iii5e themselves from
rgas, in the corner of the parlor. The
liar boarder argues that he .has as
:h right to the parlors as any of the
other boarders, ana refuses to take the
hint that two are company and that
three make a crowd. Then, again, it
often happens that the back parlor is
let but as a sleeping room, and that
(words uttered or kisses- given in the
parlors are distinctly heard in the ad
joining room, and it invariably happens
that when a young gentleman boarder
finds' a sweetheart in the house, that
there is a second gentleman anxious to
monopolize his young lady.
On Hanover street, Baltimore, there
is a well-conducted boarding-house, and
on the list of boarders is a handsome
young lady. She had a decided pref-
1 ice for one of the young male board-
and at the same time does not hes-
to make anothergentlemanboard-
believc that he is the favored suitor,
second young man is possessed
f a very jealous disposition, and on
.Friday night his jealousy placed him
in a situation not at au pleasant to
himself or to tiie young lady in ques
tion. When bean No. 2 sterted'for his
was a favorable prospect that the coi , on -, When bean jno. L startea tor ms
dition would rapidly improve.” ] chamber on Tuesday night he observed
-1 J f ,, . through the transom over the parlor
Another part of this report wi door opening into the hall, that a dim
show that worms and caterpillars ha’ fX ^TbSming in the* apartment,
made an early appearance at vanoi ^d hJaboheard whatbe supposed to
points and are causing considerable a Hss
prehension of destructive ravages. Vi ' At firet he felt d^ed to enter the
nia, from which four counties report! par i OT ^d break up the courtingmaich,
e culture of cotton last year, report* Ling perfectly satisfied that his rival
all P^A re fwlS ge | 1,a8 reveling in clover; but on second
thought he went to his room. After
preparing himself for bed it occurred
,', i e statistical returns of cpm coz that hemightquietiy slip down
£» ia of L a SCieCClKJKK
the rest of the boarders.had retired to
rest, and he had no fears of being seen.
At least such was his argument, and
it was not many seconds thereafter
before he was standing upon the newel
post and endeavoring to see irito thei
- . . . parlor. The effort required some bal-
Georgla’s Tribute to Governor Jenkins. £ ncing on his part) and,.just as he was
The presentation of the gold seal to tn the act of shifting his position, he
ex-Govemor Jenkins occurred at Au s li ppe d and fell to the floor with dull
gusta last Thursday, Major J. B. CumJ thud.
ming making the address. GovernoJ phe noise, coupled with an hon-
Jenkins responded briefly, stating hi[ ggt “ugh” from the unlucky .one;-
would put tne substance of his remarks caused the people in the parlor to rush
in a letter to Governor Smith. Cham-imo the hnU, just in time to see Charley
jagne followed, and, during the toasts, attempt the’difficult feat of trying to
jtovemor Jenkins gave the history of con ceal nearly six feet of. thinly-clad
his removal from the executive chaii humanity with a shirt less than three
by military usurpation. He also f ee t in length,
quoted a remarkable incident neve [ The young lady uttered a
before made public. During his vist f ran back into the
, . ._ • „ . ° a A|fairiUv- j szs
for an injunction from tnc Suprenc 1 stairs and at each.* landing encountered
„ . . Court against the lawless usurpation in Imoie and female boarders, who had
whirlwind of fire and smoke that Georgia, ho visited President Johnson? been awakened from thehMueep by the
marked the destruction of the great His interview was broken by the en- | Scr eam of the young lady in the parlor.
trance of Senator Cowan, of Pennsyl-j in the morning Charley failed to put in
vania, and he withdrew to one side at an appearance at the breakfast table,
the request of Johnson. Cowan, with-; and at noon he caused his baggage to
out knowing Jenkins, spoke of tlieW moved to another boarding-house.
folly of the reconstruction measures,]: , m r -
id, in a bitter maimer, said: ] Ihe ^ Bee r Bibbing.
The Germans in the United States,
nd those Americans who affect a fond-
ess for lager beer, don’t drink it as it
3 drank in Germany. They rush into
, restaurant and gulp down two or
hree glasses and move on. Here a
_ . Jcrman never thinks of finishing his
emor Jenkins said that these senti- blass of beer in less than ten minutes,
iTlPTite. rnmincr frnm a Ynrflipm mnn o 3 .. 3
The American Iron and Steel Asso
ciation, in its report of the business of
the iron trader in fliis country in 1872,
states that them were 941,692 tons of
railroad rails mnnu'aetuml during that
yfear, an increase of 166,259’ tons over
the product of - the previous year. As
is usual in this important industry,
Pennsylvania was the heaviest pro
ducer, hermanufacture of rails amount
ing to 419,529. tons. Ohio came next,
with 121,928 tons; Illinois third, 106,-
■ 916 tons, and New York fourth, 82,457
tons. These were the largest manufac
turers of rails, twelve other States pro
ducing smaller amounts. It will thus
be seen that sixteen States have rail
road iron maufacturing establishments.
In New England, Maine and Massachu
setts produce small amounts, and Ken-
fennessee and Georgia, are also
l producers in the South. Miclii-
wisconsiri, Indiana, Illinois, and
ittri are makers of considerable
amounts of railroad iron in the West
The bulk of the manufacture, however,
is conducted by Pennsylvania and her
immediate neighbors, New York, New
Jersey, Ohio, West Viiginia and Mary
land.
Victoria as a Landloid.
large number of laborers on the
Queen’s estates in England recently en
tered into a combination with a view
to pressing certain demands npou their
royal mistress. Utterly ignoring the
steward, the men addressed themselves
to the Queen in the form of a memo
rial, which they signed in a “round
robin.” In this memorial the laborers
asked her Majesty for an advance of
;es, and for a shortening of the work
time by one hour daily,
hey also requested to be allowed to
leave work on Saturday afternoons at
four o’clock so as to enable .them to
attend to their domestic duties, prepare
for the Sabbath and improve their
minds. Further, they complained of
the beer hitherto supplied, and they
asked the. Queen to grant them six
~>ints Of good beer per day during the
ay and harvest seasons.
Extra pay for carting wood, coal, etc.,
wap also solicited, and the men wound
upj with a request for 6A an hour when
~ ’ over time. Her Majesty- or-
e memorial to be sent to her
ard at Osborne, with instructions
to make inquiries. This command was
duly obeyed, the men being called one
byi one before the steward, who has
discharged seven of the memori-
i, and given them notice to leave
their cottages in five weeks’ time. •
A Voun; WIl3’s Choice.
Augustus Simon, a Gentile, 22 years
of age, married Bertha Dobezinski, a
beautiful Jewess of 17 summers. After
the ceremony she went home and told
hej father. He shut her up, refusing to
letjher husband see her until he had
the Jewish faith. The hus-
in a bitter manner, said
“ I tell you what I would do if I were'
Governor of one of the Southern States.
I would go before the Supreme Court
of tiie United States and ask for an in
junction against the military officer in
command, against the Secretary of War,
and against you, Mr. President” Gov-
biue;
rill
ply ate a coal-scuttle full of iron-find
ings hashed and served warm, or a plate
of stewed screws and a piece of shingle-
nail pie. He was also passionately
fond of crow-bars and old lightning
rod cut up in five foot lengths, which
he ate as a school-boy would licorice.
But notwithstanding all this he is
gone, and we fall back on the Phila
delphia Ledger once mo’re for words to
express our feelings:
Farewell, thou man of Iron Jaw,
Your labor! all *-e o’er;
No more on hoop iron will jon chaw.
You’ve reached the golden shore.
And now that you have quit earth’a scenes
And mingls with the blest.
Be not disturbed by earthly dreams,
But give your jaws a rest.
—St. Louis Democrat.
The Cotton Crops.
The following is from the Bureau of
Agricultural Statistics:
“Twelve months ago an increase over
the previous year, in the cotton area,
was reported in every State. An in
crease over that of last year is now re
ported in every State. The percentage
of increase in a State, as found by
vidingthe aggregate of inreose in coun
ties by the number reported is a rule
too high, because ’ almost always the
larger per cent of increase will be from
counties having a comparatively small
acreage; but counted in that rough way
of estimation, the increase indicated is,
in North Carolina and Georgia fourteen
per cent, Viiginia twenty-five per cent,
South Carolina two per cent, Florida
three per cent, Alabama nine percent,
Mississippi and Louisiana four per cent,
Texas thirty-one percent, Arkansas ten
per cent, Tennessee fifteen per cent .
“ This makes the average increase in
the cotton States, reckoned in the same
way, nearly. 12 per cent. The per cent.
ments, coming from a Northern man, a
senator of Pennsylvania, and in such ac
cord with his mission to Washington
at that time, so electrified him that
he turned suddenly in his chair, almost
without knowing it, and sat face to fixee
with Cowan—each staring in silence at
the other.
An introduction and explanation fol
lowed. It was a remarkable coinci
dence of sentiment.—Savannah Adver
tiser.
Catching a Wife.—The most curious
ceremony known to the Esquimaux,
says Dr. Hays, in his lecture, is, pi
haps, that of marriage. It is done
thus: When a boy kills a polar bear, it
is considered sufficient proof of his
ability to maintain a family; he is,
therefore, told to go and catch a wife.
Watching his opportunity at times, he
pounces upon a victim, and attempts
to carry her off; she, however, struggles’
and shrieks, until she has collected
around lieu a group of sympathizers.
She then turns upon her captor, and
bites and scratches until he is compelled
to release her; she then darts into the
crowd, and attempts to escape; he fol-
l°S3i ^Dfe T/lh'WSmerftake scourges of
dried seal skin and flaggellate him un
mercifully as he passes, making at the
same time every effort to arrest him in
his i course. If, despite these little ex
periments in matrimonial bliss, he
should catch his victim, the biting and
scratching scene is renewed, and m all
probability he is compelled to release
her, and the chase, witn- its attending
comforts, is resumed. Should he over
come all obstacles, the third capture
usually proves effectual,and the victim,
ceasing her struggles, is led away amid
the acclamations and rejoicing-of the
assembled multitude.
* Tor to drink it without eating something
• -i the same time, even if it is only a
rust of brown bread. In fact; a Ger-
uaninthe Fatherland is constitution-
illy opposed to doing anything in a
any, and especially to drinking beer
ith“ rapid speed.” The consequence
i] that we do not see men with great
Auge paunches, as at home, capable of
swallowing a keg of beer after supper.
iThey seldom treat one another, but sit
down to the tables, and although they
drink together, each man pays for what
be consumes, whether it be beer or
food. This of itself is a neat prevent
ative of excess, aSj if a half a dqten or
’oTlozen were to Bit down to drink, as
With us, each must treat in turn, and
thus six or a dozen glasses be guzzled,
whether they want it or not If our
temperance friends could institute what,
is called a “Duteh treat” into our sa
loons, each man payirighis own reck
oning, it would be a long step toward
leform.. in drinking to excess. InBhOit,
beer in Germany is a part of each
man’s food. He takes it as a susten-
flnoe, and not as a stimulant—Vienna
Letter.
Touching plagiarism, it is to be re
membered that all men who have
sense and feeling are being continual
ly helped; they are taught by every
person whom they meet and enriched
by everything that falls in their way.
The greatest is he who has been often
aided; and if the attainments of all ] with pincers to leave
human minds could be traced to their
real sources, it would be found that the
worid had been laid mo6t under con
tribution by the men of most original
power, and that evety day of their ex
istence deepened theii debt to: the race,
while it enlarged their gift to it—Eus-
Mn.
Somebody in Louisville thought that
General Grant, now that he is restingat
Lon^ Branch by the salt sea waves,
woula like above all things, a little alli
gator, as a pet for his son Jesse. So he
I sent one four feetTong, a scaly nionster,
the sight of which! would hiVe' made
the youthful Jesse bawl to the extent of
hits lungs.. The President! dedlingd ihq I
preeenfe^It is said that h? did it very,
awkwardly. He was not used to it.
He paid the express ‘ charges, however,
■Iffie lively young giftwith the
3 man. Under the circumstances
be best thing, probably, it could
lied. ■ ; : .T ,
j»t!ome romantic , sjgflpftee'ifexecuted
Dg^Ca& hangman’s noose, and then
brought to life, and Charles Lamb once
wrote a whimsical essay on the pleas-
ureaandinconveniences <Sf being hung.
These imaginary cases are equaled by
a r real one, which’lately happened at
Boris. We give it as we find it:
ATnan had banged himself in a gar
ret in the Rue SaintiJacques, and hav-
inedical men, was pronounced to be
dead. The clinical lecturer, however,
desired to try one last experiment, and
he opened the chest and attempted arti
ficial respirationi .btit without success.
He then applied the poles to anelectri-:
’cal battery to the pneumo gastric nerves,
and passed a strong current at intervals
of four seconds. SOon after some signs
of'respiration appeared, and in five
imlThe tongtiPliad'to be drawn out
pincers to leave a passage for the
air. A few ounces of blood were ob
tained: from the modic-cephatic vein,
ofu&hecame more and more manifest,
a few'drops of alcohol were administer
ed, some slight muscular contractions
became visible without the aid of elec-
pulsation in the carotid arteries recom
menced, and the; patient was saved to
lifeand health.; ^ ’ ty ~ J
A Taunton basjrho read for the first
am and the wolf,
heir’s most amia-
mto”a cellar drain, and
her with a bunch
a torch. When
,yowl-
lat liis-
leg, and
i of her af-
madeiti
tight Si
weeks,
fection I
at of 1
on a writ of habeas corpus on
y. Mr. Dobezinski asked that his
daughter might be allowed to stay with
him until Monday, so that he might
employ a lawyer to present his defence.
Hip daughter, he said, desired to live
with him, and would say so. He called
upon her to inform the court of her
wishes. Bertha stood up and hurst
into tears. Judge Ingraham:—“Bertha,
what do you want to do?”
'ertha weepingly replied: “Iwant
o with my husband.”
ter father angrily replied: “All
it; go with him, then.”
_ertha sank in her chair, weeping.
Her husband supported her from the
court-room, Mr. Dobezinski calling after
them that the dress she wore hadhettcr
be returned to him.—-New York Sun.
A recent write: disposes of the con
nection between comets arid meteorites.
The showers’ of “ falling stars” he' con-
by no means the scattered re-
of some shattered .fiery visitor;
ond-the idea entertained liy many that,
on the night of the 18th of November,
1866, the world plunged through the
blazing particles of comets, is put down
as : “ more than problematical.” The
conclusion is that ccmeta exist merely
ill a gaseous condition; that the rapid
ages in form and shape, the violent
ssions’of matter, the contraction or
ansioi> of the nuclues in approach-
_ or leaving the sun; the entire loss
anil subsequent recovery of the trailing
’ " thousands of miles in length; the
irig and turning of these strange
appendages in every direction, or the
of several distinct .tails si-
■, together with the clpudy
clearly gaseous,transparent appear
* ” entire body, leave the im-
than showers of material
E
'Hie Boston Journal says of Butler’s
candidacy for governor of- Massachu-
»“*<B,that “he will fail of a nomination
ply bgfetuse the great mass of the
inblicans do not .belie verin him, do
_. want him, and dp not mean to have
hirih” These three reasbris ought to
be j sufficient; but first of all, let the
Journal prove’ that thiv inspire “the
,t mass” aforesaid, jiofi year, with
powerful influences against him that
he now commands, and with the
anal presence and eneigetic opposition
of [Dawes; who has gone to Europe for
the summer Butler nearly, divided the
the Worcester convention. ’Die
ions are that if defeated for the
ition, it will be because of .his
connection with the back salary grab;
~’ ’ch he engineered through Congress
is now attempting to defend Before
the people. ^ ^ ^ ,
Spontaneous Combustion.—At one of
tiie large riiantrfacturing establishments
iri [Middletown: on Friday, a handful of
:used to
.our after it hai
Hitwasin flames: This roused
the curiosity of those who saw it, and
another piece was saturated With Boiled
linseed oil; and UktafcSttoQrtari tXHtit
i around
und she vnauliken dot pooty
9 dot ygs
lliwlwif III Til* ’
’Sf-fhri New in
_ Representatives
reported in favor of female suf- _
i in the seho^filMpfriefafit,.nD .smoJIsi;
SnrpriseC by the Stor--:—A C.mij.i.iy of
- Troops Engulplied..
Captain Alexander! Moore, of the
Third United States cavalry, has made
a special report to General Ord, com
manding the Department of the Platte,
of the (usastrous freshet on the night
of Mav 31st, by which six of his men
were drowned while he was on a scout
from Fort McPherson, Nebraska, with
one guide, one wagon-master, five team
sters, and fifty-five enlisted men of
Company F, Third cavalry, for the
purpose of patrolling the Republican
valley. He says:
About nine P. M., May 31, a terrible
freshet, without any apparent cause,
swept down the valley, carrying every
thing belore'it. Men, tents, horses and
army wagons were swept along like
corks. For five days previous we had
nt> rain, and where this water came
from so snddenly I cannot yet under
stand. The valley of Blackwood is
abont forty-five miles long, and ahont
one mile to (Jne-and-a-half wide. This
entire stretch of country was one raging
torrent, at least from six to seven feet
deep, and how any man or horse es
caped 13 marvelous. The only, thing,
indeed, that prevented total destruction,
A case lias,just come before Justice
Daly, of the court of common pleas
in New Yoffe, whose history involves
quite a Series of pursuit, dodges and
vicissitudes of various kinds. The
pjaintiff in the case is a young and
good-looking girl of Guttenbnrg, Aus
tria, named Anna Horaczek, who, in
lifer native country and in her father's .
house, was wooed and won by Aloise
Parelusek, a Bohemain tailor, about a 1
year ago. When asking the consent of
the young lady’s.parenta they asked for.
the customary references and learned
that he was married, which he did not
deny, though stating that he was legal
ly ditorced, which reassured them.
en the day was fixed for the mar
riage ceremony, however, Parelusuk
absented myself on some trifling ex
cuse, and this mysterious avoidance of*
the nuptial knot he repeated on several
subsequent occasions that were ap-
pointed. At last he was missing aito-
;ether, and inquiries being made it was
ound that he had fled to America.
His spirited fiance embarked by -the
next steamer and at once in New York
engaged detectives to hunt up the
truant. He was finally found in a
tailoring establishment, and the lady
demanded a consummation of his vows
at once, giving him $250 toward de
fraying expenses. When theappointed
day arrived Parelusek had the lady ar
rested for stealing $250 from him, and
she was put in the station-house but
•discharged next morning. Miss Hor
aczek has now very properly procured
two warrants against her tricky betroth
ed, one for false imprisonment, claim
$1,000 damages, the ocher for breach of
promise, dairping a like amount, and
as he has no money he will doubtless
remain in jail long enough to learn a
wholesome lesson.
was the tact that my camp was sur- the dwth of the greatest
rounded by a belt of timber on thrw and one of the grea
sides, and as the men were earned off - r i - it. j.-r.i „i
by the current they were enabled to
save themselves by catching the limbs
of trees.
When day broke on the morning
of the first of June it showed al
most all the men of my company on
the tops of trees, without any covi
except remnants of undercloths,
beneath them the torrent still raging.
After the lapse of a few hours the wa
ter began to fall, and a few men who
could swim got to the hills. Afterwards
the others, myself among the number,
were gotten off by life-lines and various
other means. Up to this time nothing
was to be seen of what had been my
camp except the top of an army wagon
which had stuck to a log on the gronnd,
and on this wagon were collected eleven
men, who were thus saved from a wa
tery grave. The settlers at the mouth
of tbe Blackwood lost almost all their
stock and property. The stock, how
ever, was almost all recovered when the
flood went down. Six men of my
company were drowned, and twenty
six horses lost. I remained at the scene
of the disaster four days, and recovered
five of the bodies of tiie men and all
of the equipments of the command.
The men were almost destitute of cloth
ing and rations, and worked laboriously
for four days recovering the bodies and
property, without a murmur.
Why Aunt Sallie Never married.
“ Now, Aunt Sallie, do please tell us
why you never got married. Yon re
member when you said once that you
were engaged to a minister, and prom
ised us you would tell us about it some
time. Now, aunt, please tell us.”
Well, you see, when I was about'
seventeen years old I was livin;
Utica, in the State of New k
Though I say it myself I was quite a
;ood-looking girl then, and had several
icaux. The one that took my fancy
was
man
He
kind of took a fancy to him, and things
went on until we were engaged. One
evening he came to me ana put his
arms around me, and kind of he
me, when I got excited, and some
touted. It was a long time ago, and I
don’t know but what I might have
hugged back a little. I was like any
other girl, and pretty soon I pretended
to be mad about itj and pushed him
away, though I-wasn’t mad a bit You
must know the house where I lived was
on one of the back streets of town.
There were glass doors in the parlor,
which opened over the street These
doors were drawn to. I stepped back
a little from him, and when he came
up close I pushed him back again. I
pushed him harder than I intended to, was
and don’t you think, girls, the p#or
fellow iost his Jialance, and fell through
one of the doors into the street”
“Oh, Aunty! was he lrilled?”
“ No; he fell head first und as he’was
going I caught him by the legs of his
trouses. I held on for a minute and
tried to pull him back, but his suspen
ders gave way, and the poor young
man fell clear out of his pantaloons
into a parcel of ladies and gentlemen
along the street”
“ Oh! Aunty! Aunty! Lordy!”
“ There, that’6 right; squall and giggle
os much as you want to. Girls that
can’t hear a tiling like that is without
tearing around *J»» “Y“ ““ a UB ' n ty 1 9^
ii —a way don’t know enough to
come in out of the rains. A nice time
the man that marries one of you will
have, won’t he? Catch me tellii
ivthing again.”
“ But, Aunt Sallie, what became of
him? Did you ever see him again?”
“No; the moment he touched the
ground he got up and left that place in
a terrible hurry. I tell you it was a
sight to be remembered. How that man
did run! He went out west, and I be
lieve he is preaching out in Illinois.
But he never married. He was very
modest, and ’ I suppose he was badly
frightened that time and never dared
to trust himself near a woman again.
That, giris, is the reason why I never
married. I felt very bad about it for a
long time—for he was a real good man,
I’ve often thought-fo myself that
we would have been very happy if his
cnennnrlnra aivnn owor ”
suspenders hadt given away.”
Particulars of the San Francisco Explo
sion.
The following are the details of the
recent explosion: In Virginia City,
Nevada,-last night a terrible explosion
of . nitro glycerene and giant powder
occurred near the corner of Taylor and
B streets, killing IQ persons and wound
ing many others. A large number of
are missing who are probably
debris of the ex-
S Ionian. Six cans of nitoo glycerene.
• is supposed caused the disaster, the
concussion of which caused a sec
ond explosion of fifteen
: There is. a remarkable sinkhole on
~ ' T cw Jersey Midland
Foundland. It is in
which all efforts ha
unable to fill u-
ive been laid
work
wlth-a gravel which is d
it, but still it sinks. One night the
,ek was raised three feet above the
de, the next morning it was out of
*ifi
Heath of Hiram 1’owcrs.
The telegraph announces this mom-
itest American
greatest artists
of modern times. He died at Florence,
yesterday, after a protracted illness, in
the sixty-eighth year of his age. He
was bom at Woodstock, Vermont, July
29,1805, of humble parents, was educa
ted at the public schools in his native
town, and early in life embarked in the
world for himself He worked at vari
ous occupations until he reached Cin
cinnati, wherehe became apprenticed to
a watchmaker. Here he firet discovered
an aptitude for art, which he turned to
some account by modeling wax-figures,
which, being much talked of, attracted
the attention of a Prussian sculptor,
then in that city, by making a bust of
General Jackson. From him he received
some lessons, and Mr. Longworth be
coming his patron, be went to Europe
in 1827 and settled in Florence, where
with few intervals, he has ever since
found a home. Mr. Powers was munif
icently patronized by the art-lovers of
Europe and America, but failing in tho
lobby interest was neglected by our
government, much to its disgrace. He
leaves a wife and several children, and
a brother, who resides in this city to
mourn his loss.—Memphis Appeal.
A Sad Story.
It is not hard to believe that Dicken’s
early hard experience was a grief even
in memory. The despair of children is
keen — as keen as their innate sense of
justice. Here is a sad little story from
Germany, the moral of which is appli
cable to any civilized country. In Mul-
renburg a boy only ten years old lately
hung himself in his school-room, leav-
inga letter in which he placed his death
at his teacher’s door, bequeathed his
smaB property to his sister, and asked
pardon of his father and mother for the
sin he was about to commit. Inquiry
showed that during the morning’s lesson
the boy was inattentive, and his
teacher, instead of expecting fatigue,
could think of no better remedy
for this than censuring him and
publishing him, in spite of his being
usually a willing and industrious
cholar, and of a constitution not strong.
Taking exhaustion for laziness, the mas
ter struck, threatened, and at last lock
ed him alone in the school-room, where
the unhappy and tired little fellow, ut
terly hopeless, scribbled his pathetic
letter and went out of the world.
School and family discipline has
changed its methods much in late years,
but there is still enough of the old ob
tuse system left to make this incident
A New Infebnal Engine.—Admiral
Pothuau, lately French minister of
marine, recently issued a circular warn
ing insurance agents that an American
was trying to sell a machine, a small
torpedo, for destroying overinsured
ships with impunity. It looks like a
block of coal about six inches by three,
and could be put into the coal bunkers
without the slightest suspicion. Once
there, it would, when once thrown
into the furnace, explode after a
fixed time, thus enabling the captain
and crew to get away, or might be ex
ploded as it lay. Of course, the story
was denounced as a “sensation inten
ded to help Plimsoll,” but unfortunate
ly, the Birmingham Daily Post has re
ceived one of these infernal machines,
which will, it alleges, perform 4hfe da-
ties rea™icU or it. Governmentshpnld
get a few; they might make’ useful
shells; and, at any rate, keep a sharp
eye on an invention by which a foreign
sailor in war time might destroy his
ship.—London Spectator.
m »
Why Charles Beade Don’t Come to Amer
ica.
The average Blue Grass fanner would.
starve in London. I was talking to
Charles Reade, the novelist, the' other
day, about going to America, and he
said, “ I dare not think ofit.”.
“The deuce you can’t,” I said; “ why
not?”
“ Well,” said he,'“ in tire first place I
can’t drink nor smokis, and I should not
orpf’nn vptv wpII witli fViA not?voq NYvxt.
jolly lot of good things to: eat that I’m
afraid I should cram myself to death.”
What do you think of him for a
Worsted Britisher with a. level head?—
Lyndon .Cor. Louisvide Cpurier- Journal.
The Coolie Trade.
The Coolie'trade of America is how
exciting* the cupidity of-ship owners.
A Pacific mail steamer, on the average,
brings 1,200 Chinese. At $45 each this
represents an aggregate of $54,000. As
the staple of food is rice, the profits are
* ly remunerative. Huddled togeth-
l steerage -hertls, the Chinese take
_ the ship safe. An
ordinary state-room of' the -Pacific
mail steamer occupies the space
” ' ’ bteen Chinese berths do, and
ic single person who usually
the state-room and pays $300
e voyage, and consumes half of it
Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat, of
ublishcs the report of the
;a!t!i, which shows that ten
’ ’n that city from
; and seven col-