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VOLUME XXL
ATHENS, GEORGIA,—WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1874.
NUMBER 8.
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01515, EltWIX Jc COI5I5,
ONLY A PICTURE.
BY JDLIA A. HOLMES.
A glance at best that cauDot fade or alter,
A passing gleam that genius aeized and drow;
A hint of faith that cannot fail or falter,
A glimpse of love that cannot be untrue;
A gracious smile where twilight shadows
gather
And morning sunbeams are so late to fall,
A living dream the daylight cannot shatter—
A picture only, banging on the wall.
A look of pity for each weary failure,
A beam of hope for the weak hour of need;
A ray of cheer for every brave endeavor.
A patient purpose and the baffled deed;
One earthly tie no touch of change can sever,
One sweet, abiding presence over all;
One pure Ideal that is pure forever—
One little picture hanging on the wall.
The precious gift no envious fate hath taken,
A friendship no suspicion e'er can soil;
A love that no satiety can weaken.
And fame no idle gossip can despoil;
One steadfast truth that never can be shaken,
One radiant joy that cannot pale or pall;
Sweet eyes no year can dim, no frowu can
darken—
All beaming from a picture on the wall.
Ot5c
ATTORNEYS at law.
.4 THE.VS, OEOR OIA.
n the Deupton Building. Dec21
B ANKRUPTCY.-—Samuel 1*. Thurmond,
Atlorncy-nt-Law. Athens, Ga.
OUcton Rrnml street,over the «fore of Harr./ A Son,
Wiil "ire apcHnl attention to eases «n Uankruptcy. Al
io to^the collection of all claims entrusted to his care.
TAJIKS R. LYLE,
, | Attorurt at Law.
ji,.,.22 WATEI.VSVH.LE. <!A.
,r
■OHS SI. MATTHEWS.
Attornkt at Law.
DanioUviile. Om.
• mi jit attention will be given to any business an-
to hi* care. Marchl4.
O, tender eyes ! will you hut smile as brightly
When I shall fail toseoyon through my tears.
And when Iturn to leave you, stumbling faintly.
Bowed underneath the burden of the years T
O, Father! when I wander, groping faintly,
Among the shades of death that round me
fall,
Shall I yet sen some angel smiling saintly,
As in this little picture on tho wall t
ITiN'iiLANH * 0RK.
I'J Whtilonalr and Ueti.il Dealern,
and COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Dupree Hull Broad St, Athene, fli.
We are now prepared to store Cotton at 25 eents per
half, and will advance cash when desired. Oct.28.
ITiNtlLISH & CLASSICAL SCHOOL,
JLi For lH»y*. cur. Wray and Lumpkin
apS—Jin
LEE M. LYLE, P;i
T II. HU00INS,
•J # h >losalo ami Rolail Dealer in
|)KY HOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac.
FcMfi Bro.nl Slroei, Athens, Ga.
10IIX II. CHRISTY,
ti Plain and Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER.
Broad St., Athens, Ga.
Office corner Broad and Wall streets, over the store
J*»!«!• 1>. Pittard. **
PAVILION HOTEL,
1 CHARLESTON, S. C
Thil FIRST-CLASS Hotel is situated in the very
centre of the business part of theoity, and nil who
•top there will And every convenience and luxury that
can beproeured. Board, per day, $3.00.
R. II Wilton, S»pl. Mrs. L. II. BoTTBRnilD,1
Do,-12 tf Prnprirtrree. )
qUMMEY <fc NEWTON,
k.3 Dealer* in
Foreign and Domestic HARDWARE,
June9 No. t>,Ur >ad street, Athens, Ga
Q C. DORRS,
Wholesale sad Retail Dealer in
Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. Ac.
Feb9 No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
IJ^MORY SPEEK,
Hi LAWYER, ATHENS, GA.
\< Solicitor General of Western Circuit, will attend
the Court* of Clnrke, Walton. Gwinnett, Hall, Ranks,
Jnckson, Habersham, Franklin, Rabun and White,
and £:ve attention to collecting and other claims in
tho#e counties. MaTeh 19, 1873.
T Z ELIAS, Attorney at Law,
V. FRANKLIN, N. C.
Practices in all the Courts of Western* North Caro
lina, and in the Federal Courts. Claims collected in
all part* of the State. apl6—ly
"TPliWARD R. HARDEN,
J J (Late Judge IT. S. Courts Nebraska and Utah,
and now Judge of Brooks County Court)
Attorney at Law,
julj23 ly Ilrook* County, Ga.
I F. 0'KELLEY’S
0 . PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
Over Williams'Shoe store, Broad street, Athens,
Georgia. sep3.
B P. CAMP,
• Attorney at Law,
CARNESVILLE, GA.
Will give prompt attention to nil business entrusted
t‘> him. He will attend the Courts of Habersham,
Franklin and Hall. sepl7—ly.
E. P. OOWELL.
c. CBRPLKS.
PEEPLES & HOWELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
20 and 22, Kimball House,
ATLANTA, GA.
P RACTICE in the Statoand Federal Courts, and
attend regularly all the Courts iu Atlanta, includ
ing tno Supreme Court of tho State, aud will argue
cafe* upon briefs for absent parties, on reasonable
term*.
They al»o practice in the Courts of the counties con
tiguou* or accessible to Atlantaby Railroad, sepll
M.W.RIDEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
D, S. Claim Apt and Notary Public
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
Mr- OSes on Wilion atroet, below King A Bro’a.
_i\hruary HI, 187S.
,0 >» a. xarca. WADiaox bxli..
ESTES &: BELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
GAINESVILLE GEORGIA.
\\’ ILL practice in theeonntieaaompoaingthe West-
*’ vrn Circuit, and Dawaon anil Forayth eountiea
o' the Blue Ridge Circuit. They will alto practice in
the S upren.o Court of Georgia, and in the United Stater
cJ »n at Atlanta. mayI4
Sirs. Gaines ns a Lawyer.
Belva A. Lockwood’s recent appearance in
the Court of Claims in Washington reminds
the New Orleans I'icmjune of what occurred in
tlie District Court of that city Dearly thirty
ears ago. It was on the trial of one of the
first of the many suits of Mrs. Myra Clark 1
Gaines. Judge Buchanan presided, and the
caso was submitted to a jury. It happened
that the lawyers, some of tho ablest at the bar.
fell into a hitter wrangle with the Judge, and
were so nfiended at his rulings that they with-
diew from tho case and the Court. Mrs.
Gaines and the veteran General, her husband,
were present in Court. The General wore his
mil uniform, his sword and sash, in conformity
to the regulations. Tho lady was there in the
meridian of a beauty, grace and vivacity, even
now preserved to so remarkable a degree, af-
tor reaching the Scriptural limit of human
life. luuneUiatefy upon the withdrawal of her
lawyers tho stately old hero of Fort Erie, tak
ing his wifo by tho hand, led her to the bar,
and addressed tho Judge as follows :
'• May it please your Honor, I was educated
for the bar, aud tho honored relative whoso
name I bear (the celebrated Cbiof Justice Ed
mund Pendleton, of Virginia), impressed mo,
in early youth, with the profouudest reverence
for tho civil courts of my country. Perhaps in
the view of tho world and of the Court, it
would he my duty to supply the placo of my
wife’s lawyers upon their retirement from her
case. If it were a duty that I thought myself
adequate to perform, I should not shrink from
it, for tho lady, besides being my wife, is the,
daughter of my old friend, Daniel Clark, to
whom I am bound by many ties of an ancient
friendship and warm esteem, to render every
service I can in the maiutenanco of the rights
of bis friendless daughter. And this service I
should bo bound, as a soldier and a gentioman,
to render to any lady in like circustances.—
But as the lady is far mere able to argue her
case than I am, I beg that she be allowed to
conduct her own caso.”
And then, raising his bead and gently touch
ing bis sword, bo turned to the opposite coun
sel and remarked : “ For whatever tho lady
shall say or do I hold myself responsible, te
the full measure and in every manner recog
nized by gentlemen.”
Judge Buchanan was greatly annoyed at
this proposition, and fired up at the allusion of
the General to bis personal responsibility. He
manifested bis anger by reminding the Gen
eral that a display of military* pomp and
menace could not be allowed in the Court—
He was uot to bo overawed in that way
General Gaines, in a most courteous and
submissive style, begged to ossnre his Honor
that, if bo referred to bis presence in Court in
military dress and accoutrements, it was from
respect for the Court, and in strict conformity
to the regulations of the service. The sword
which he wore would never be drawn with
more alacrity than in the defense of the civil
authority and tribunals of the conntry. Mrs.
Gaines then took charge of her case, and for
sovoral days conducted it with all her spirit
and zeal, confronting and vexing the learned
connse), and worrying the Judge with her
sharp little speeches aud piquant personalities,
windiug up bor caso with a very effective
speech to the jury. We do not now remember
tho result, but have a very distinct recollec
non that the Judge, who was a plucky but
high-tempered gentleman, did not resume his
place on the bench the next day, and for sev-
oral days thereafter. The final judgment in
the case was in favor of Mrs. Gaines.
A. A.. EDGE,
Hoot, Shoe and Harness
MAKER,
•print—iy WATKINSVILLE, GA.
JAS. L. LONG, M. D.
Surgeon, Accoucheur and Physician,
(Office al Mr. Tkomae Sheaf’ Store,) 4
Good Hope District, Walton oo., Ga.
Offer* hi< prof.tiional services to tho oidsens ol tho
•urrouDdmg country. aug27
Equinoctial Storms.
There is a popular delusion that a three
days’ storm is inevitable when the sun crosses
the line in the latter part of March and Sep
tember, and the unsettled state of the weather
at this period, which usually culminates in
showers of some duration, is always spoken of
as the “equinoctial storm.” According to
Professor Loomis, of Yale College, however,
the equinox has very little to do with the
storms, and excepting that the weather ie gen
orally unsettled by the changes which are
taking place in the atmosphere, there is no
more likelihood of a storm upon the day that
the sun crosses the. line than upon any other
day of the year. So much for one of oar pop
ular theories, which, like onr popular super
stitions, obtain a stronger hold npon the pub
lic mind than the strongest facts. In the light
of this truth it is not difficult to account for
the length of time—centuries, perhaps—which
it takes to discover a popular error or 'estab
Ush a scientific truth; nor can we measure our
J, v u *0*P«hU«paardly tbat\aha/trt«7hatn Indebtedness to the men who devote tbelr
ill “ d wH1 *P* r * no pi iffa to maka
Livery, Feed & Sale Stable,
ATHENS, GEORGIA
W GANN & REAVES, PROPRIETORS,
*JjI‘ Wound at thoir old itaod, roar Franklin
k .“‘•““lid!;.;, Thommi street. Keep alwayi
need good Turn-outs and careful drivers,
ntoea well eared for when entrusted to onr eare.
stock on head for eale at all times. dac25—tt
WALTON HOTEL,
MONROE, GA.
I It E subscriber would lespeetfully inform travelers
Senator Norwood. ,
Ut)W HR SNATCHED BUTLER BALD^EADED.
We make the following extracts from Sen
ator Norwood's remarkable speech an Civil
Rights. Criticising Ben Butler's spee ili in the
House of Representatives, be said:
The Ropublican party has often assured
us that in tho late war “ the colored troops
fought nobly," and the Senator from New Jer
sey repeated the declaration in cur hearing on
yesterday. It is true, that interwoven with
the dreadful realities of that stiuggio, there is
much of fiction and romantic episode ; many
imaginary instances of inspiring heroism, dis
played by the colored troops. Fact and fiction
are lamentably mingled in inextricablo con
fusion. But there is one exceptionable in
stance of daring and of death, and so notably
established on the testimony of a single eye
witness, that the Senate must remember it,
and it is worthy of recounting oven in this
august presence. I see that the quick percep
tion and historic learning of this body have
already anticipated my disoovery, and I would
eveu now forego tbo thrilling narration, but
for the fear that some future Muncbansen
might charge me with prejudice against the
objects of the Judiciary Committee's special
devotion, should 1 decline to furnish so valu
able a contribution to his peculiar style and
school of history.
I refer, as you know, to the Balaklava-
charge, made by the colored troops, at the
witching hour of dawn, on empty stomachs—
bayonets fixed, nipplos uncovered—and under
command of a general of renown, on tlie 29tli
or September, 18C4, at New Market Heights.
Tbo historian—who was the general then com
manding, and who seems to have been the
only survivor of those colored troops—tells us
the story with charming simplicity and with
the eloquence of unbridled fancy. He says,
that being himself in the rear, where he in
tended to remain, and wholly nncertain wheth
er tho charge would bo feebly to the front or
with frantic heroism to tbe rear, bo ordered,
as a precaution for personal security, the nip
pies of tbe gun3 to be uncapped, and offering
up the prayer of Fafetaff, “God, keep lead
out of mo,” be gave the order “ Charge!”—
[Laughter.]
He says that there fell, within a parallel
ogram just ten feet wide and three hundred
yards in length, tbe exact number of Are hun
dred and forty-three of his colored associates,
or one man to every twenty and three-tenths
inches; that as soon as they fell, mounted on
his fiery Pegasus, like feathered, or '• Harry ”
Mercury, he marched solitary and alone to one
end of that slaughtered heap, and fixing one
eye wcepingly pendent over tbe dead, and
cocking tbe other fiercely on tbe enemy—the
one tearful as Niobe’s, tbe other glowing like
fiery Mars—he rode, with arms akimbo,
through that parallelogram, over that heca
tomb of bis companions, to tbe farther end—
bis horse meanwhile dancing a minuet in tbe
benevolent endeavor to find ground on which
to plant its reverential feet.
This was an exploit worthy of deification—
Pity it is, it bad not been performed in tbe
pro-Homeric or Hesiodic age, as that genera
tion, so appreciative of horse gymnastics,
would bavo deified and translated tbe heroic
actor, and ho would now bo enjoying tbe
beatitude of hero worship in tbe constellation
of Aries or Taurus; or, happier still, he and
that horse might now be a bright, particular
constellation in themselves, under the proper
name of Equns-anthropos, which lovers, at
parting, would designate to gaze npon at tbe
tender hour “ when twilight dews are falling
fast,” and renew their vows of devotion.
But why that humane general should have
ridden that tender-hearted horse over the dead
bodies of his colored associates, instead of
making a brilliant flank movement along that
geometric holocaust, such as oidy he can when
moving on a custom house, I have fatigued my
imagination in vain to endeavor to discover.
Perhaps, like Mrs. Malaprop, he was trying to
ascertain tbe “ perpendiculars ” of the slangh
ter; perhaps it was to accommodate tbe aDgle
of bis vision; perhaps to test tbe sensibilities
of that horse. Bat conjecture is all in vain.
It was simply one of those direct forward
movements over the bodies of one’s friends, so
often witnessed in political strategy, and never
known iu military tactics, that it must remain
a moral wonder until lapse of iime, and oft re
peating shall consecrate it as a truth, or until
some cruel CEdipns shall rise to solve the rid
dle and destroy its artful inventor.
But gallant as was that fatal charge, and
heroic and solemn as was that perilous eques
trian exploit, they pale into paltriness in pres
ence of tbe sublime sequel to this military
evolution as given in tbe simple story of this
historian. He says that having finished that
horse eouranto—consisting of a coupee, then a
high step, then a balance—he sounded a solemn
halt, faced mournfully about, fixed bis eyes
again as already described, gave the order.
Attention, General!" and in chronic absence
of the Bible, drew from his holster-case
pocket edition of the Massachusetts Pilgrim's
Progress, issued under tbe Maine liquor law,
and kissing one end devoutly with bis face
turned upward, he administered to himself
solemn, oorporal, and general oath, that so
long as bis surviving colored companions would
vote to make him Governor of Massachusetts,
or a Representative in Congress, he would
spasmodically devote the idle moments of tho
remainder of his political and official life, in a
feeble effort to secure to them tbe great con
stitntional right to attend, “without distinc
tion of race, color, or previoas condition
servitude,” every theatre, circus, and menag
erie in the United States of America and tbe
Territories thereof.
He then sealed his oath by pressing bis
feverish Ups once more to the bibnlons end of
that cherished volume, and calling in the eye
which had meanwhile stood sentinel on the
enemy, he dismissed himself from the parade.
IF WE KNEW.
If we knew when walking thoughtless
Through the crowded, noisy way,
That some pearl of wondrous whiteness
Close beside onr pathway lay,
We would pause when now wa hasten,
We weald often look aroaud.
Lest onr careless feet shonld trample
Some rare jewel in the ground.
If we knew what forms were fainting
For tbe shade that we should fling,
If we knew what lips were parching
For the water we shonld bring.
We should haste with eager footsteps,
We would work with willing hands,
Bearing cups of cooling water.
Planting rows of shading palms.
If we knew when friends aronnd us
Closely press to say good-bye,
Which among the lips that kiss ns
First shonld ‘neath the daisies lie,
We would clasp our arms aronnd them,
Looking on them thro’ our tears,
Tender words of love eternal
We would whisper in their ears.
If we knew what lives were darkened
By some thoughtless words of oars,
Which bad ever lain among them
Like the frost among tbe flowers;
Oh, with what sincere repentings,
With what anguish of regret,
While our eyes were overflowing.
Would we cry—forgive—forget!
If we knew, alas! and do we
Ever care or seek to know.
Whether bitter herbs or roses
In our neighbors’ gardens grow 1
God forgive us, lest hereafter,
i Onr hearts break te hear Him say,
‘ Careless child, I never knew yon,
From my presence flee away.*
»L cotnfaruM* who may favor'liim with' thatr patron-
***■ HUaWjM Mill be reasonable. jan28 lm
Agat R. B. ADAIR, D. D. S.,
GAINESVILLE, GA
vmce, Southeast corner Public Square. mar2T
lives to discovering facts in nature and are,
and establishing them npon a scientific—that
is, a real and bnowablo—basis. For it mast
be remembered that theso men are always in
a minority; the mass of mankind are content
What Forrest Thinks might have been.
Gen. N. B. Forrest, of Tennessee, has been
talking to a newspaper reporter about the mil
itary operations of tho war, and on being ask
ed if be thought it would have been possible
for tbe South to succeed under any circum
stances, replied: There were some turning
points in the war which, I think, had they
been properly managed, wonld have made the
struggle a success. The two greatest disas
ters were tbe failure of Gen. Beauregard to foi
low up tho victory at Shiloh, and of General
Bragg to follow up tbe victory at Cbickamauga
I look upon them as tbe decisive fate of our
country. I think if wo bad followed those
victories the South would now have been an
independent nation.
At Chickamauga, on Sunday, tbe root of
the Federal army was complete. Monday
morning I drove the Federal pickets into the
town of Chattanooga, when the enemy was
entirely disorganized, with the exception of a
few brigades. If General Bragg had followed
op bis victory on Sunday night, ho could have
captured tbe entire army with the little horses
be could mounted 20,000 men, including bis
own cavalry, with which we conld have recap
tured Nashville and the State of Tennessee
and could have taken tbe whole of Kentucky
and perhaps Cincinnati, before tbe enemy
could have gotton reinforcements to check us
Had this been done, the backbone of tbe war
would have been broken, and the contest set
tied in onr favor.
Reporter—But do you think it was possible
for Gen. Bragg to have accomplished this in
tlie face of tbe difficulties by which he was
surrounded, and iu tbe face of such a large
army t
General—I think it could have been done
bad tbe pursuit been kept up on Sunday night.
Tbe Federal troops were completely panic-
stricken, and were huddled together among
their wagons and cattle, and other places, and
were in no mood to fight. I think it was one
of tbe greatest disasters in failing to push on
at that fight.
M. Quad’s Tribulations la Getting a First*
Class Sewing Machine.
There was Hnbbard. He drove up to the
door, unloaded a sewing machine, and said
if we wanted a machine that wonld do all
kinds of work, run easily, hem, tack, raffle,
gather, braid and be a thing of joy forever and
forty days more, we shouldn’t fail to buy the
Ligntniog Stinger.’ I bought it, and when
after a week, he wanted a certificate, I cheer
fully wrote one s
This is to certify that I hare had a ‘Light
ning Slinger in my honse for some time past
and I wouldn't bo without it for twice its
cost. It hadn’t been in my honse half a day
before my son recovered from the whooping
congh and my wife found a ten-dollar bill on
the side walk. I think it is the best machine
ever made. I can't bear to go to bed and
leave it.”
He said be was ever so many times obliged
and he hadn't got out of sight before Kilroy
drove up with tho “ Thunder & Blazes" ma
chines. He began to sevr at the other ma
chine; saidwehad been terribly humbugged
and that his machine was the only fisst-class
machine in the market.
My wifo began to cry, and he soothed her
by offering to trade kis machine—which ho
could sell for old iron—and thirty dollars
to boot. We made the trade. He said tbe
Thunder Sc Blazes” would make any kind
of a stitch, sow any kind of fabric and out
run anything but a locomotive. He came
round the noxt week with a certificate all
written oat, and I signed it:
This is to certify that I have gained ten
pounds of flesh per day since purchasing your
Machine, and that my wife hadn't ran it half
an boar when her uncle died and left her two
hundred thousand dollars. Not one of the
children has had a cold since the day tbe
Thunder & Blazes' came through tbe gate
It plays easily, the strings are not liable to
snap, the stops are easy to manage, and it is
tbe only machine in the world that can be op
erated by a red-headed woman with a cork-
leg. I can stay out until eleven o’clock at
THE RESERVOIR DISASTER.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND DESTRUCTION OF
PROPERTY.
Springfield, May 17.—The Williamsburg
reservoir, which gave way yesterday morning,
precipitated the vast mass of water it contain,
ed three miles down a steep and narrow val
ley into the thriving manufacturing village of
Williamsburg, and thence further down tbe
valley through the villages ’ of Haydenville,
Leeds and Florence into Northampton mead
ows, where the stream empties into the Con
necticut river. l]he huge torrent dashing into
Williamsburg with resistless power, swept
away the manufacturing establishments and
numbers of dwellings, causing an immense de<
strnction of property and a terrible loss of ha-
snan life.
Good-By Hospitality.
The half of hospitality lies in the speeding
of parting guests. Lavish welcomes are easily
enough bestowed; bnt the hospitable thought
must be very gennioe, indeed, which dare to
leave the gnest as free and woioome to go as
tooomo. We all suffer,.now and then, from
andue urging to stay when we prefer to go,
and nearly every one of ns is himself a elnner
in this regard, too. No sooner does tbe gnest
intimate a wish to terminate his visit, than we
fly in the faoe of bis desire, and urge him to
stay longer. Wo sometimes do this, too, (do
we nott)a8 a mere matter of duty, when la
onr hearts we care very little whether the
gnest goes or stays. We feel ourselves bound
to show onr appreciation of onr friend’s visit
by asking that he prolong it. Now, true bos*
Aside from the buildings destroyed and dam
aged, the bridges have been carried away,
the road rained, and hundreds of acres of mea
dow land rendered valueless. Tho total loss
most far exceed a million ofdollars, and will
probably come nearer two millions. It appears
some doubts as to the safety of tbe reservoir
have been entertained ever since it was built,
nine years ago, though less for the last two
years than in its earlier history. The gate
It is impossible to empale the losses, pitality ought to learn its lesson better than
this. Our effort ehenM be, from the first to
last, to make onr friend's virit thoroughly
pleasant and agreeable to him. Wo strive for
this result in welcoming him. It is the desire
to do this which prompts us to offer hint the
most comfortable chair and to set out best
viands, if he break bread with us. It is that
he may enjoy bis stay that we take pains to
talk only npon agreeabre topics. Iu short,
from the time he crosses our threshold until
keeper has several times expressed fears to be rises to leave, we courteously endeavor to
bis employurs, calling special attention once make the moments slip by as pleasantly as
to a point where a break occurred; but the possible. But the moment he asks for bis hat
examiners always reported that it was safe, onr courtesy fails us. Hitherto we have stud-
The other villages suffered only les3 awfully, ied to anticipate and gratify his every wish.
Tbe latest figures of tbe los3 of life make tbe Now that he wishes to go, however, we on-
total 144, divided as folio ivs betwqen three deavor to thwart his pleasure. We selfishly
Williamsburg, <50; Leeds, 49; Hay- try to turn him from his purpose to ours. We
denville, 35. Tbese figures only representthe wish him to stay, while he wishes to go. Cour-
persons whose loss is positively known, though tesy would prompt us to giro his wish proco-
the bodies of all are not yet recovered. Bod- denco to our own, but, as a rule, we ask him
ies are constantly boing found, and in some to sacrifice his own to our pleasure—Hearth
cases those of persons who wore not supposed and Home.
to be lost, so that it seems perfectly safe to The Prouosed Sea of Saluda,
say that tho total loss of life will exceed 150. | u has boon EroVaol ti ago that
if, indeed, it does not more nearly approach tbe gr0at A f r j can Jegort j 3 lower than tho bed
200. It is impossib le as yet to give details. of tho AUantjc Qcea|1 . and ^ 8uppo8ition (8
the cause of xnE break. that the channel connecting the sea that for-
Springfield, May 18—All acconuts attri- merly covered it has been filled up by accre-
night not. and my wifo hasn’t a word to say. I but0 tbo disaster to the weakness and insocu- t j 0Di or somo migUty volcanic upheavals, most
Formerly she used up four rolHng pins costing rity of tb0 reservoir W ork. Tho walls were probably tb8 latteri tbe wator beiDg evaporat-
two shillings, each, per Jweok. not thick enough to resist the pressure of 125 e( j by j be tropical heat of the suu. Possibly
Then McManus came. I told him that we acroao f water averaging 30 foot in depth. at some very remote period in the history of
had the best machine in tbo market, and he TnE details of the flood. the world, the whole plain was lifted^ above
asked to look at it. He hadnt fair y E ot j Arfl boart . ren( ]j n g. it is feared that many the level of the surrounding hills and oceans,
his eyes on tho * Thunder & Blazes’ l)eforo “° Cana( jj an8 resen tiy arrived to work on the and the water foreod bodily out of it into tbe
commenced to laugh. 1 factories are lost. A watchman discovered the sister seas, whon it sank baok again into its
Ho ! ho! ho!” ho shouted as ho dropped
danger and rode down the valley, making basin, leaving its wide and sun-scorched wil-
on a chair; “ it will kill me did you ever t [breo mi j es lu gf teen minutes, sliouting the derness a plain of arid sand.
oh! ho ! bo !”
I sternly asked the cause of his hilarity, and
he replied that Kilroy had swindled us—taken
us in—cheated us stone blind. 1 he “ Thuu
der Sc BIaze3 wasn’t worth anything, he said
man and patonted by a fool.
My wife began to weep.
‘ But,' said McManus, * that wore his ma
Fashions of Solomon’s Time and of the Present.
It is an interesting fact, and true to a great
extent, that tbe style of dress and ornaments
of tbe Hebrew ladies of the present day—and
in faot, tbe prevailing toilet of all ladies—is
much the same as daring tbe time of Solomon.
With alt the changes and variations of centu
ries, tbe gradations and crinolines, we now
find much of tbe simple grace and easy sym
metry of ancient Greece. The Scriptures nar
rate a great many things about the style of
dress worn in the time of Solomon, and in the
law of Moses several directions are given con
cerning garments worn by the Israelites. In
the Book of Judges the girls of that period
are described by Deborah as ‘ a prey of divers
colors of needlework,’ while Lemuel says:
Their clothing is of silk and purple.’ In tbe
frequent intercourse between the Jewish and
other nations, the ladies, tired of their primi
tive simplicity, sought tho fashions of the cle
ver Egyptians, the elegant Phoenicians and
the luxurious Persians. Even patient Job be
came impatient at tbe dresses, and Isaiah de
nounces the * women of the period’ living for
nothing, bnt to dress and flirtation, with the
one desire to * see and be seen.’ The tunica
worn by the ladies in tbe time of Solomon were
much like tbe polonaise of to-day, and the
belts now worn with fancy clasps are about
the same as the leather girdles and silver
buckles worn of old. We also find recorded
that trains were worn to dresses, and that
camel's hair shawls were common. Embroi
dered mantles, fastened with golden pins, are
also spoken of. The hair was also oiled, dyed
and pat np in coils; little carls were let hang
over the forehead, and, strange to say, the
girls of Solomon’s time, it is stated, used paint.
Veils were worn, and sandals were made of
blue and violet-colored leather with fancy
latchets. Solomon, as is related, said to Shn
lamite: • How beantifnl are thy leet with shoes,
O, prince’s daughter!’ Hair nets were worn,
and ear-rings of all forms and much value were
very common. Bracelets on the right arm,
strings of pearls and heavy gold chains aronnd
the neck, rings on the fingers and other orna
ments were ail worn by the ancient Hebrew
ladies.
alarm. Hero a milkman, with a fleet horse, I It has been proposed to again unite the des-
dnslied ahead of tbe flood some two minutes ert with the sea by an artificial channel, aud
He beat it in crossing a bridge scarcely 20 to convert tbe savage homo of the wild land
seconds, and sped on, screaming the” reservoir pirate into a lake or soa, thns briuging com-
..is coming.” This heroic milkman saved bun-1 mores and civilization to its hitherto dark and
was on old machine invented by a md | ( j re(j8 of person3 wbo fled their homes and Pagan shores. To this the Scientific American
breakfasts for the slopes. The flood rushed objects, on the ground that the waters would
by, carrying hnmau beings, bouses, great iron be evaporated as fast as they flow in, and leave
boilers, huge trees, cows, horses, poultry, tho desert of sand a desert of salt; and that
chine, the ’ Chained Earthquake.’ It wore tho pjan08 an( j b j t( j ca g e s upon its crest. the largest river would scarce fill the plain in
machine, and all other machines were base „ The man who took a g 0S - It proposes a series of artesian wells,
imitations. Wo might try it, and if wo do* I^arriST* I of which would form an oasis.’and lead
like it he would cut his throat with a brick- P , f . D A be f or o 81 eventually to the reclamation of tho waste.
SrtiflcTte ‘fehriedTt' 1 Wh0 ° * ^ | o’clock, while all the people of this place were ^ odo the objections of that paper
certificate, I signed It. well-founded. The introduction of any con-
“Tbis is to certify that yonr sewing ma- W“ 8 .® 0 '” 8 .? ‘ .. siderable quantity of water into the desert bed
chine has saved me 10 per cent, in fnel and 0lr a ° 10 ‘ . ... would gradully bring about changes that would
20 per cent, in bay and corn since we purchased ance of My ron Day from Haydens lie ovent ually lead to the success of the oxperi-
it. I licked an alderman, pulled a scboolmas- horse obou ;ing T™ -1 h and I menfc If a email artesian well would (as it
ter’s nose and kicked a memberof the legisla- on, aavei yo • ‘ ' ba8 } a man y places) create an oasis, would not
b the second day after wo got the machine. 0 r . when the roar a * ar 8 e J>°dy of water flowing in spread, and
we hadn’t owned it a week when I found where a g0 heard bv tho inhab-1 118 is evaporated, tho air would become moist,
I could get trusted for meat and wood, and if w this time stood at their door-1 rain wouid bo produced and the waters again
found a flonr shed unlocked. It will sow any- He .lashed toward Florence and the retarB0d 10 the soil * The rush of waters will
thing from a log of mutton to a New Hampshire steps He> daabed toward Jlioreiic >, a deepeQ widen tUe , nIett and tbe next gen .
mountain. There hasn’t been a ©toady day I pep a . Bmed t 0 them as the eration would see an artificial sea, bearing on
since the machine first started, and tbo and tb 0 r 0 what ssomed a them as the bft80m c hr!stianitv commerce and civiliz*.
moon now rises two hours earlier and lasts all crest of an enormous moving wood pile flf ^ L on * , he JJ ' ht e d children of • Afric’sbdre-
night. No one should be without it.’ feet high. They knew what it was, and rush- Jion to he bon.gbted children of Africsbdrn
He took the certificate with a triumphant 0 d wildly up the slopes to safe quarters. Their arteslan tbeorv wou)d take aee310 „ ork
, . houses were left ust as they stood, with the ta- 1 ne arceslan tDOor y woula laK0 a S ea 10 ” orK
, ana — ., . r nn ,, rh _ „hiidmn Mt- out practical results; but the ocean would baf-
it I must leave off here. Farnsworth has bles spread for breakfast and the children get- *
, ... . <W i„ nT « w «iRd minlei ting ready for school. In less than three mm- no 100 art8 01 ,ue sa'age roDDera, ana in aiow
just tailed with the Five Jeweled Du P ex ~ . / , ., . d tb _ years bring Africa's interior almost to the very
High Low’ machine—the only leading machine “t 00 tbe stone dam had given away, and the Eurone and America
in market-and he Is telling my wife how we great column of water laden with frame bouses 0 [ P . .S—’ —
got swindled by McManus.—Ilf. Quad. pianos, sewing machines, boilers, iron wheels, ..a wag was requested by an old lady to
— I huge grist mill machinery, cows, sheep, poul- read the newspaper for hef. He took it np
A Playful Varmint. | tr y and human beings from Haydensville, I and read ^ follows:
The bear of the Arctic regions does not hug p i UD g ed j nt0 tbe Valley of Leeds. Me^urea ‘Last night, yesterday morning, about one
like other bears, but bites at his opponent ; j for j mmad j ate relief have been instituted at | o’clock j Dt ho afternoon, before breakfast, a
and he declines to eat his captive until life is I n a y den8V jn e . Mr. Hayden sent on* notice to I hungry boy, about forty years old, bought a
qnite extinct. Among the Esquimaux of reba fl d his works, and offers to employ all who b lg costard for a levy, and threw it through a
Greenland he plays strange pranks, ofton 0ver worked for h j m and as many more as are b rick wall nine feet thick, and jamping over
creeping upon the banter whilst busy fleecing I need y | n clearing away the debris and making j t> broke bis right auklo off above bis left knee,
a seal, and tapping him on the shoulder with pr8parat jon8 for work. Hundreds of acres are and f e u j nCoa dr y m ti|.pond and was drowned,
bis powerful paw. Then it is the unfortunate covored w j tb tbe sad remnants of villages which About forty years after that, on the same day,
man’s eue to “ feign dead,” so that when on j e ador ned the tract of country running an 0 j d cat bad n j ne turke y gobblers, a high
Brownio retreats a few steps to enjoy tho| eigbt mi , e8 tbro ugh Hampshire county and w ] nd b lew Yankee Doodle on a frying-pan,
prospects of bis intended meal, the gnn can I now a ba rren waste of land, stones, ruins and and k |Ued a sow and two dead pigs at Boston,
be got ready before bo returns again to tho I cti . p8e3 I w h 8re a deaf and dnmb man was talking to
attack. Thousands of people have gone from this his Annt Peter.’
..Anoted broker, who hesitates in hisspeech I c j t y Md t j,e surrounding country to Northamp-1 Whereupon tbe old lady, taking a tong
lately gave an except advice about invest- and the scene of the Mill river devastation breath, exclaimed: ’ Du tell !*
meat. One of hi3 friends said to him; to-day. Search for the dead bodies has been “
I’ve just mortgaged my honse, and have going 0 n all day. and will be continued undor ® aeo of Rwarfe Discovered in Africa,
a few thousand to spare. Can’t yon tell me t j, 8 beat possible management for eeveral days, I Rayard Taylor, in a lata letter from Egypt
of something good and safe to go Into, where pcrb aps even weeks. The meadows are l ® tbe New^York Tribune, gives an account of
I can make a neat thing and be perfectly se- L, deep i y covered with debris resulting from i 0000 ® discovery ola race of pigmies in
caret” I the destruction, that it is feared many dead I Ca “ trld f^ Speaking of two in the care
“ Ye-ye-yes, I k-k-know a-a-a flrst-r-r-rate I bodies have been yet undiscovered. A number | 0 .“1®. . v ®\. **? 8 1
thing f-f-for yon.”
What is it t*
B-b-b-buy that m jrt-mort-gago 1’
I have been recovered today, and it is nowl 1 The little fellows looked at me wi*,h bright
thought yesterdav’s estimate of two hundred Zoning steady eyes, while I examined and
lives lost; may fall even below the actual truth. T “ b ( bul ™ ^ty-nix inches
I The extent It the disaster increases rather
he
..Anoted him ter or South BcMtantM aod lt , , | mt „ a iw, to“<i ^ “'■’I* “» b “ 1 ' ttr.»t,-fo.r,
f“ “» Mr*:' “Hn.ro “roll nnd rotlnb!. ot tho I* of
a gnn that scatters shot badly, so that it is
[give
! property and life
A. H.,d.osrlll. to-d.y, GO I 10 Tho hood nod arm.
rrrrrrr. 1 -
an advertisement in a city paper offering to
send information whereby each “scattering”
of shot could bo effectually prevented, on re
. . . , . . , „ . , enrved in remarkably from tho shoulders toe
rary funds furnished from Northampton yes- h ,... w
terday are exhausted, and a mass meeting has • U,# hipjolnt ’ tbr0W,D * 0Ut tbe abdomeD ’ " hich
ceipt or fifty cents. He sent tbe monsy, and been called at Northampton this evening, to j ^ d(et / f beans aud bananas^ Yet the head
inane time was informed that to prevent bis devise means for continuous and systematic tha nhrinldani hn tha ii«i> nm.-ctm
gnn from “ scattering” he should • pat in only reHof of th0 8uffe rers. The whole community *“ «ect, the Raiders on the lino of gravitn-
““ 'is moving In th. .ch.rmh.r.n.d.*53*. ’VSLKSL?
Isa Nut-Shell.—The Detroit Free Press
remarks: “ We should never have had a war
if tbe men of tbe North conld have known the
men of the South, and cice versa." To which
that sterling Domocrat, the Manchester (N.
H.) Union, replies: “Thousands of people
live agreeably side by side, who don’t know
each other at all; but each knows his own bn-
to take the world as they find it, with all its' skuas and attends te it.
..A planter in Virginia, being dressed for
some special occasion, said to Uncle Ben, an
old family servant, * Uncle Ben, how do I
look f • Why, yon looks splendid, marstxr,
splendid. Why, yon looks as bold as a lien.’
• What do you know about a lion t Yon never
saw one.’ ‘ Why, yes, I did, marster, I’se often
seedalion; offen.’ ‘Where, Uncle Bent’
‘ Why, down on Master Johnson’s plantation;
they’s got a lion, and yon seed him, too; I
know yon has.’ ’Why, yon old goose, yon,
that is not a lion; it is a jackass, and they
have named him Lion.’ • Well, I don’t care
about dat—I don’t care for dat. Yon looks
just like him.'
the body, as in South Africa. Tubbnl measur
ed twenty-six inches around tbo breast and
-.Gray was the most careful of poets, and I that tan will be done to alleviate the suffering
so severe was his taste that he expunged the Hayden, Gore & Co., at Haydenville, pro-. . . ..
following beantifnl stanzas from his immortal I prietors of tho destroyed brass works, ohm- ° b * abdomen.; his
Elegy in a Churchyard.’ Even Lord Byron ra0 nced the work of re-bnilding this morning,, tUt
said in his Diary, February 27, 1821, * I won- b nt have been obliged to desist on account of
der that Gray could have had the heart to tho rain. They will resume their work os soon
omit each lines : as the weather allows, and hope to have their
Here scattered oft, the earliest of the year, building ready for occupancy in three months'
By hands unseen, are .showers atviolets found, | ^ M( , H l. James, woollen manufacturer
at Williamsburg, whoso mill was left standing,
although badly damaged, wijl prepare for full
resumption of business as early as possible.
Most tbe other business men affected by the
It has been well said that the leavings of I disaster will probably resume as early as prao-
Gray are superior to Xhe finished compositions ticable, but the suffering of tbe laboring classes
of most other men. * must inevitably be very savers.
The'red-bresit loren to build and warble here.
And little footatej)» lightly printthe ground.
With grim delight Ihe brood of winter view
A brighter day, and heavens of aiureblue,
Soent the new fragra.nee of the breathing roae,
And quaff tho bluah ing vintage as it growa.
large, only the knee joints being disproportion
ately thick and clumsy. The facial angle
was fully up to tbe average. There was a
good development of brain, fine intelligent
eyes, and a nose so flattenod that in lookiDg
down the forehead from above, ono saw on!/
the lips projecting beyond it. ral'hc nostrils
were astonishingly wide and square. The com
plexion was that of a dark mulatto.”
. .Sapphires have been discovered in Colo
rado. This is the way they try to gat mar
riageable young ladies to emigrate to that
Statfe.