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"1..iAi.fi IS TftErSHriPW utk" / / //■ UNIVERSITY OF 6EQRGIA LIBMW • *3r“ wukei county t The Florid* I The »nUll pozj Gwlteao If, g>uk*pfiy Swlched aulcUlo. *■ A a Edf»rPoeCtabhut Title; Aim. SI. Umie bu loet tmnpz«c\j- (rain future*. TheMaronTe nol* with Blllr The law!:* are now open for huh the Macon Art Exhibition. gSOiiq .03 MOGOQOII .aDGAMJAJ- hope.: rlptione t BjTho We item I T nion Telegraph Company op- erMos SjO.OOO miles of wire. The House passed * Mil grunt! ng a pension of Daniel Slate, the "Dan" o! Murk Twaln’i " Innocents Abroad," is dead. The average full bearingcoeoanut Ireeof Flor ida yields from ICO to 200 nuts. Corkhlll has been banqueted by some news paper men for convicting Uuiteau. Maggie Lanahan, of Rock Island, la., killed her father becanse he opposed her marriage. A Louisville 1 telle has in her parlor a beaut! fully embroidered motto. "Kplmlbunpumpum.' The Natural bridge property in Virginia, con sisting of 1.200 acres, has been sold for 155,000. While two horses were playing near Dublin, tia.. one of the animals tore the other's tongue out by the roots. a Germau astronomer hot found a now plan et. Anybody who misses any of his planets should make a note of this. A negro lost year in Louisiana, on rented land and with the help of hit own family, made 60 bales of cotton on 75 acres of laud. •TE/ffroreaiM We learn the cat!* aTe already running nine miles on the Gainesville A Jug Tavern railroad. They are to reach Jug Tavern by theStbof July. It is reported from Jerusalem that a bund of Chaldeans have desecrated the holy graves slid destroyed the Armenian altar and images of, "%be saints. While a Forsyth audience was patiently wait ing a few evenings ugo for a promised lecture from Luther Henson ho was talking to a crowd ed house in Milledgevillc. Kig*. pineapples, coffee, almonds, dates, tara- rind*. pomegrauites. citrons, mango, sappu- I ' . sugar apple, oranges, lemons and limes *o\vn in South Florida. it is said that kerosene will remove stains from furniture. It has also been known to re move the furniture, stains and all, with a stove and a red headed servant girl thrown in. l'art of bald Mountain fell with a terrible eras’, last week, and slid into the valley. A panie ensued among the citisena, who thought U was an earthquake, but no one was hurt. A w riter from Talbotton says Hill Arp’s lec ture was a very poor thing, abounding In vul gar language and Indecent expressions. The ladies present were disgusted and indignant. The Mormons have placed four handsome, educated Knglish females at work in the Wash ington lobby in their behalf. The Mormons know where to strike the average Congressman. The following prise question has been pro pounded by the New York debating club: If n fifty cent piece with a hole in it is worth thirty- five cents, w hat is the value of the hole without the half a dollar. Nelson Brown, while going home near Nova Scot la, was set upon by u pack of wolves aud saved his life by climbing into a tree. His horse was eaten up. and Brown next morning rescued by a baud of passing Indians. I)r. Willis, of McDudie county, killed a cow for beef a few days ago, and found in her maw four freight receipts, a yard of cotton baggiug. a return ticket to kfessenn. a section of a cross- tie and three railroad spikes. She had been browsing about the depot. A gentleman in Ottawa, Canada, gave an or der for a silver-mounted claret ^ug to a Mon ire nl dealer. Instructing him to send it by express marked C. O. I). A couple of days ago the jug arrived, having engraved on it in beautiful large letters, **C. O. I).’’ Col. Seaton, superintendent of me census, thinks that it will be between tight and twelve months before the census work is completed. The printed reports will be very voluminous. There will be about 20,000 pages of them, divid ed of course into volumes. Sylvan!* Telephone: We are informed that a certain young man in thia county, who has not been married over a month, became tired of hli> wife, and a few days since actually sold her to auoUtur party for fifty cents, believing that ho had the legal right to make th® sale. . .* A young man named David V. Neal,- of Augus ta, who, a short time since worked in the Watchman office, while under the influence of liquor, wan*Wcd off last Wednesday night and was run over and killed by a train on the Geor gia railroad, sixteen miles above Augusta. Several years ago Ericsson predicted that the Nile and Ganges would be lined with cottou and other factories driven by solar heat. J. French engineer in Algiers has already contributed to the fulfillment of thia prediction by pumping water and mukiug it boil by solar forct alone. Two little brothers broke through the ice on which they were skating in Cincinnati. While they were clinging desperately to the edge of the ice and efforts were being made to reach them, the elder one cried out: "Be aurc and take out Willie first." But both Willie and his geucrous brother were lost. Of all the cowardly persecutions that have been heaped upon the miserable head of tho assassin Guiteau, tho basest and vilest has re cently developed. Some fiend has been sending him letters infected with small pox. There is no record of human nature getting down any lower than that All part* of the oleander are deadly. A very small quantity of the leaves has been known to kill a horse. The flowers have produced death in those persons who carelessly picked and ate them. Tho branches, divested of their bark ami used as skewers, have poisoned tho meat roosted on them and killod seven out of twelve people who partook of it. Wc informed that the people of Houston county are more than delighted with the opera tions of their whisky law. Many who voted for whisky and thought it was an outrage to pro hibit its sale, are now gratified at the result, and would in another contest vote for no whis ky The beneficial results have been very mark ed even in ond month and a half, and greater blessings are expected to come before the year closes. One reading of tho sufferings of the crew of the Jcanette-lheir wandering sick and sore over a suow covered desert, in search of food and shelter: some of them finding neither, and their fate unknown; others of them probably dead from exposure and starvation; a gallant officer like Danedhowor stricken blind, with Chlpp and DcLong victims possibly of a worse fate—should cure anybody and everybody of the mania for polar explorations. John Gyumber, who got a great deal of space in the newspapers last year, by his long sleep at l<eMgh, !»**, Is novr well aud at work in an iron mill. Ills first remarkable sleep was sev enty days in unbroken duration. Then he awoke, leaped from a window, and fell asleep again for four weeks. After that his sleeps grew gradually shorter. His memory is left a little defective, but in other respects he has recover ed from his ailment, whatever it was. Misses Minnie Madden and Grace Crary, Illi nois girl o! 18 ami 19, are making a tour of the Wcid on bicycles. They started early iu the fall, and when cold weather set in at the North they had reached Texts They are not doing la lor purposes, but for health and diversion. A man servant attends them, and they carry them a small quantity of baggage their trunks being sent ahead by express. They intend to cross the eountry to Florida by spring, and then move up along the coast. • Baby Insurance has taken the place of grave yard insurance in Pennsylvania. The head of a family at Pottsville recently- insured two of his children, the eldest 9 years and the youngest 16 months. The latter died, and the father re ceived ta, the agreement being that he wag to pay five cent* a week on the child, and it It died inside of six months he pros to rsceiVe $8, and If it did not die until the expiration of a year be was to get 116. It Is said that In xnsnp Cafes large families of children have Wu insured. '* K In rerlewlnt th. different newspapers In on StatetlieAmericas Recorder saps; ‘"Thefirst one to attract th* attention of the practical prin ter is the Athens Vimmis. _lt ja often said that a newspaper cannot he printed nlcaFrT made op with taste, and keep oat Me display type and hare a good advertising patronage; hut we think the moet skeptical will be convin ced when they aee the Watchman, in the way olloealthis paper ta par eieellaux, and regular ly icnre* vip to lu reader* from elz to seven col umns ol homdinews, well written up. Its edl- toriala are always clean and bright; wall chosen •ad well written. It is a paper that daservaa patronage, because It te a piper ol procma.’’ Even the independents «n in tevbgpl loxalnating cour*—*—• * —to ctfcijmvent M6*1 . , I was invited to one of tS9 inland aed by the appearance of one of the younger ladies present. She was not beautiful, but united the striking characteristics of a brilliant, fresh complexion and a profusion of hair, white as snow, which was wound on the top of her head. She was very merry, a good talker, and, Imustcon- fess, I contrived to occupy tho larger part of her attention which that ten. deucy towards monopolizing the best which the moments affords that I am told is often observed by my famil iars. After bidding adieu to the ladies, I turned to the obliging friend who bad been ray sponsewnt these incidental gayetles of , and cosnnlly remark ed, after talklngsomewhatof my new acquaintance: 5isu ... “By Jove, what hnir! It accents her whole appearance. Wasn’t she lucky to achieve it young?” My friend removed his cigar. “That depends on how you ipok at it. I am incliued to think, taking things big aifdlKrft^ that she was. I doubt, however, if she wouldn’t say to-day that the price was rasher large. And it was a pretty big price. Do you like stories? I’m minded to tell you one, if you like, about that white hair you admire so much.” We went over to the hotel and some thing like this my friend told me: You have no idea, you city people, the interest we country people take in the courtships of youngfolks. Front the time Harry Wells began to slide up to Mamie Clausen at church so cials until their marriage in the- First Presbyterian Church the entire com munity gave minute consideration to their nfihirs. Mamie’s father, John Clausen, was and is now a prominent commission merchant, generally con sidered wealthy,and has always lived at least like a man of means. Mamie wtis pretty, dashing, a local belie and a great favorite. Harry’s family lived a few miles from town, and they, too, are people of reputation In the coun ty. Old Jack Wells represented us a few times in the Legislature and has accumulated in one way and another a handsome property. The marriage was in every way a suitable one. Harry was cducuted at Princeton and although he had at one time the reputation of being wild, he had sobered down, and was at any rate such a frank, manly young fellow that he was generously forgiven any indiscretion. As I say, tho marriage was the occa sion of general rejoicing. Mamie's futher gave her an unusually good send off, and the details were sent far and wide through the State. Harry- had studied law, although he didn’t have much natural inclination for it, the old man thinking his political ex perience might serve Harry in that way, and had settled down into a country notary, drawing up deeds and doing up hack work of that sort. They lived about five miles out of town and two miles from old Jack’s. He built them a pretty modern cottage on a de tached ]>ortion of his farm. Harry had l»is office, an ornamental little struct ure, a few rods from tho house, and there they- lived as happy as two birds. Gradually Harry picked up business and Anally through his father he be came trustee for the minor heirs. They were an odd lot of children,with a half-crazy mother, and no end of coal landB and mining investments. It was a good thing for Har^-, al though it gave a naturally lazy man some additional work. You may im agine that there was a good deal of visiting at the house of two such pop ular young people, and that four-mile stretch of road was generally kept pretty warm. When Harry had te go away Mamie would get in her phae ton and drive to town, and there was always some of the young people ready to go out and. keep her compa ny. Harry always insisted that she musn’t stay alone?. For a law-abiding State we have a yiretty rough element in it, and although we haven’t had much to compla in of here, there is a general sense ott uneasiness. One August afternoon Harry had an unexpected summons to go to Scran ton about a suit connected with the minor heirs. He had recently sold some of their property and had been making various collections, which left in his hands about $4,600. When he found he had to go off at a few moments’ notice lie wrapped up a bundle of papers and this money and took them into the house. Mamie was making preparations for a picnic they were to go to the next day and begged him to wait until the dny af ter. “But, my dear child, I haven’t time even to go down and put these in the bank, so you’ll have to taksnre of them. I’ll try and get back in two days at the furthest; meanwhile no body will know’ that the money is here.” Then he explained to her the value of the papers and handed her a can vas bag, in which was the $4,800 be longing to tho minor heirs. “Where will I keep It, Harry ? Be tween the mattresses?” “Just like a woman! No; but I de clare I don’t know where to tell yon. Tho most Insecure place apparently is often the most secure. Any place, dear, but between the mattresses. I leave that to you. But you must guard it, If necessary, with your life, for remember the money is not ours, and at all hazards l am responsible. I don’t really suppose there is the least danger, for no one knows I have it. But one ought to take proper precau tions, and I beg of you not to admit any tramps while I un done. Tell Sa rah not to even to allow them to -stop long enough to eat a biscuit.” “All right, dear; 1wo won’t let the tramps have a drink even, and I’ll take care of the money, you may be sure." ed home, and every day came adisap- .pointing telegram. By this tiqio she ne accustomed to her charge She flew up the stairs, unlocked the pfcdl<>c£j»ijil opened the trap. Th® man sprang up at tbe.aonnd. Harry bade his wife good-bye and Mamie gave up the picnic. At the end of two days she received a telegram ton$bim t a»yihghehadbeen detain ed, and telling, her to get some one to stay with her for two days, when l^a would be at home, She drove into town and one of her old friends went out with her. At the and oftwo days she had another telegram, saying he was detained until the next day. Her- * tff^nt ^iome, and in place of io»$hird telegram, and so idays he waa cxpoct- lTn *yfraB»X6»a opening from her room. The afternoon of the tenth day was a hot, murky afternoou. Mamie had gone up stairs to take a nap and re fresh before dressing to meet Harry, who was expected home after the longest absence he had ever made from her. ** After a time Sarah came up and told her there was a tramp down stairs who wanted soniethingtoeatand who wouldn’t be dri ven off. “Yon oughtn’t to leave him a- min ute alone, Surah. Go down and watch him and I will come down and send him off.” •* She dressed herself quickly and went down stairs surprised to lind how late it had grown. When she reached the kitchen she found also a messenger with another telegram an nouncing another •isnppoint ment, but the next day without fail, Harry wrote he would lie home. As Mamie turned into the kitchen she heard the tramp and Sarah incident dispute. „ “Yes,” said the fellow, “when that time conies your mistress will have I anotlrer ironing table, helping you, | instead of wearing her Sunday clothes every day.” “An’ spoilin' everything for me to do over. I think I see her. I’ve work enoagli to do,” answered honest Sa rah., not indisposed to have a chat over her work. Mamie found a graceless-looking fellow, unshaven and ill-dressed, who with a certain gentlemanly .instinct rose up as site eainc in. “I suppose my girl told you we had nothing for you, and that it will be a great kindness if you will leave as soon as possible.” “Yes, she did just that, madam, but I took it upon myself to believe it wasn't so urgent. The truth is, I’m very hungry and dead tired, and I didn’t believe but that you would give me something to eat; at least I have waited to ask you in person.” Women are soft-headed creatures. Mamie went and got something to eat, herself. The darkness that had been increasing for sometime came tlown rapidly, and there burst one of those terrific thunder storms that gather so suddenly and with such force in thiscouutry. Afterits strength was spent—and I remember that it was the most violent of the season— there fell steady glioets of rain that brought Roek Creek over the bridges before mornin: “Madam, it’s no use talking. You can’t mean to send a fellow out in such a storm,” said the tramp as the three stood on tho porch watching the storm. “I’m sorry, but I’ve no place for you.” What, in a house like this? It's a pity there Isn’t a cranny for a stowa way. I was walking around it, wait ing for the girl, and it seems to me it ought to he able to hold at least three people.” “You are very impertinent. I tell you I have no place for you, and the storm is already breaking away.’ - As she spoke even the rain came down in blinding sheets, and light ning streaked the heavens. “Well,” he said, carelessly, “we don’t go much on manners on the road, but I know I wouldn’t send a dog out such a night as this. I’m not a particular chap, leastwise not now adays, and I’ll have to insist on your giving me some sort of shelter, if its only your dog kennel.” The man 8]>oke with decision. Ma mie felt that after all they were really in his power, and possibly it might be worth while to do civilly what she would probably have to do at last. “I will keep you on one condition,” she said. “There is a loft to the house, a sort of garret, which is very com fortable. It is closed with a trap-door, and you may sleep on the lounge there, if you will allow us to lock the door on the outside.” Bless my stars and garters!’’he said, looking at her curiously, “I don’t care when you lock the door.” They took him up stairs, and he climed up the steep attic stairs. The women shut the door as he politely bade them good night, and they fast ened the padlock, hearing him chuck le to himself as he kicked off his old boots. “I’d take the key, mum,” said Sa rah. Mamie took the key with her, and the two descended to shut up the house. After they had made every thing secure they went back upstairs. “You must sleep in my room to night, Sarah,” the mistress said. Sarah dragged in her bedding and made a pallet on the floor, and then, after the custom of women, they ex amined the closets, looked under the bed and piled the chairs against the back door. — - - — * The rain was still falling heavily and the night black as ink. The mis tress and maid went to bed, and al though worried and anxious, finally wont to sleep. After midnight Mamie found her self awake and a bright light shining in the room. She started up and saw that it was the moonlight. The storm had cleared away at last. She got up, unable to compose herself immedi ately, and went to the window. Thl moon was indeed shining brightly. As she stood looking at the peaceful scene before her she saw way down to the road, for it was as bright as day, several horsemen. It was such an un usual sight at this hour that she stood watching them as they came nearer. To her surprise they turned up the lane leading towards their house, and on reaching the gate came into the yard. Now, almost paralyzed with fear, she saw that they were masked. The truth almost blinded her. They knew that site was alone, that she had this money, and they had come to get it. Ffj £ n*6m«itr staff WUs paralyzed. She remembered Harry’s last words: “You must guard it with your’life if necessary.* 1 She ran to the sleeping Sarah and awalfenetf her. She gotdow: rifle, which he had loaded and taught, her to use. The sleeping. $rl was soon thoroughly Awake, and she explained to her their condition. ‘It’s the tramp that's done It” ” — ■ ■ - '/®a FASHION NOTES. , n greens is a iu | ^yIteh|ffi^«|^(i^^dSum sft& . ’Hie ne w red is carnation color. Satin,‘with Jet heads,' is the new gimp. ,283f ,R: 2? t .7.,■v-ru;: v>~. Redingotea .and polonaisies are re vived. - • -Combination costumes are losing ...sown senses alert, and hearing the noise of the horses below and steps about the house, he followed her with out a word. At the foot of the stairs she stopped. “I have a large sum of money in the house and those men have come to get it, thinking I am alone. If they kill rue that money must be guarded.” "What have you, pistols, gunsT” he whispered, taking In the whole situa tion. ’ “Here is my husband’s rifle. It is loaded. “Get behind me. I will fire at the first man that enters. How many barrels are there?" “Six, all loaded.” “Very well. Keep this cane for me in case I need it." There was no storming of shutters. They heard the key applied to the door softly. It opened and a man fol lowed by two others confidently en tered. The first figure walked direct ly to the stairs. He had taken but a step when three shots came in rapid sufehssron'/ The¥e was a-ffeavy" this man dropped and the other two turned and lied. Sarah ran to the window and two horses galloped down the lane. •‘Don’t faint, madam; there’s work yet to do,” said the tramp. Mamie caught hold of tho rail for support, and then went into the room. “Get a candle, Sarah.” They lighted’a candle and gave it to the tramp, who went down stairs, the two women following with bran dy and ammonia. The man had fallen backward and lay with his face up and head toward the door. “Raise the mask and give him air first, madam.” Mamie raised the mask and fell back with a wild shriek “Do you want to know now why her hair is white?” he asked. “It was Harry Wells!" I answered “It was that smiling and popular young scamp.” “It’s no use to ask why he did It. don’t care. Motives don’t matter in 8ucha case. But she, Mamie—Mrs, Wells—she has her gray hair, but there is no trace of the midnight trag edy in her face. I believe she was ill for a long time," answered my friend. “They say small-pox cures one of other dis eases. Well, some griefs are like the small-pox; they cure you of lesser weakness—tenderness of the heart, for example. This, I think, was one of them.” “And the tramp?” “He and Sarah were, of course, the witnesses at the inquest. The next day he was off on his journey, and I have never heard of him since.” -Ti* better to commence arKreAr ; , 'i? - > And Irom that point begin. We have no rizht to judge a man T'ntTnie'* fairly triettr Should wc nut like h i* company, We know* the world La wide. Some may have fault*—and who has not? The eld as well as young; Perhaps we may, foranght we know. Have fifty to their one. I’ll tell you ofe better plan. And find it works full well: To try rfiv own defect* to cure . Ero uier'a faults 1 tell;. And though I sometimes nope tote ' -' No worse than some I know. ilv ownahortcomiugs bid me let The faults of others go. Then let us all, when we begin To slander friend or foe. Think of the harm oi\e word may do To those we little know. Remember—curses, sometimes like, our chickens—roost at home; Don’t speak of other's faults until We have none of our own. VALUE OF THE COTTON SEED CROP. Tlie cotton boll, as brought In from the field, is one-third lint and two- thirds seed. For every bale of cotton weighingoOO pounds .sent to market, ,000 pounds of seed were formerly left about the gin-house to rot, or at , best to be hauled out over the planta- f "years ugo man ot large proportions was carried into the clinic room of the University Hospi tal yesterday afternoon, where Dr, Wil liam Goodell waa busy arranging a case of glittering surgical Instruments subse quently employed in on operation of an unusual character. The subject was a woman 31 years of age, the mother of three children, who had come from her home In the little hamlet of Blanchard, Centre county, to have determined by the kuife tlie question of her existence. There were about 30 physicians pres ent, including Dr. CareHo, TJ. S. N., Dr. Parker, U. S. N., and Drs. G. W. Smith and Rolla of Hollidaysburg, and a group of students, whe watched the operation with interest. The patient was about 5 feet 5 Indies in height, and by actual measurement 5 feet inches in girth, or *ithin 3 inches as great around as she was In stature. Ths cause of her abnor mal condition was au ovarian tumor, which had already attained a weight much greater than her body and was slowly and surely sapping t\,er vitality DOMESTIC GREETINGS. As homeward comei the married man He's met by his wife at the door. With fond embrace and loving kiss. And—** Baby’s throat is sorei And did you think to stop at Brown'a And get that marabout I ordered yesterday? And dear, Fred’s boots are uli worn out. "I'm plad you are so early. John—^ So much I miss you, dear— I’ve hud u letter from mama: Nhe's comim? to live here. How very you look, dear John: I knew that you would be— Tlie flour’s out. the butter, and You must bring home some tea. "Tlie plumber’s been here again— If you don't pay he’ll sue; And Mr. Fcndergast called in To say your rent is due. Fred’s trousers are all cotton, John; You thought they were all woslf Oh! that reminds me that your son Was whipped to-day at school. ** The roof lias leaked and spoiled the rugs r ou the upper hall; Jane must go, the c .She let the mirror full To-day when she was moving— . (The largest one, dear John). Of course it broke: it also broke The lamp it fell upon. " What makes you look so grave, my love? Take off your tilings aud wipe Your feet—and only think, to-day Jane broke your meerschaum pipe! Oh, John: that horrid, horrid word! You do not love, ine dear; 1 wish that 1—boo hoo—were dead; You’re cross as any bear!" other use for it was scarcely dreamed of.' Now it is known to contain a large number of valuable constituents and new developments of its utility are constantly being brought to light. A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun shows that in the last two years over fifty mills have sprung up for the manipulation of tiie seed into the various products for which there is a large and increasiug demand. A no table effect of the new industry has been au advance in the price of cotton seed within tlie year past from six to twelve dollars per ton. This means, of course, for each bale’ of cotton an additional profit to the planter of six dollars. From the 1,000 pounds of seed, costing six dollars, the manu facturer gets about 17>j gallons of oil, worth to-day 40 cents per gallon, while the resldumoako is considered more valuable as a fertilizer than the seed from which It is mode, and sells for as much as the seed costs. ' The oil has met with a-’strong demand at Marseilles and Xihcoa, where skillful manufacturers have devised refining processes which convert it into ihi ar ticle hardly to be distinguished from the best olive orf. As such It is said to be largely imported into this coun try. There is no reason,’ of coarse, why it should not be used as a substi tute for the French or Italian product if it shows in Use no difference of taste or properties, especially as It is much cheaper. An oleomargarine using people will certainly not object to the purj, clean product of the snow white cotton boll. The refined oil, under the name of cotton butter, is already taking the place of lard for cooking purposes, according to our Southern correspondent’s showing, and from an economical point ofvlcw, with the happiest results.. Tlie crude oil sells at 50 cents, but the “butter” Is worth over a dollar per gallon. It is free from the water which forms part of the weight of ordinary 1 lard, and is consequently, all things considered, some SO per cent, cheaper. The but ter made from the seed accompanying one bale of cotton is worth $16—an al most net addition to the value of the cotton crop. It Is of interest, also, In this connection, to mention the use in the Northwest of cotton seed oil to adulterate cheese. The utilities in volved in the new cotton seed indus tries may be comprehended when it Is stated that they add 25 per cent, to the value of tho cotton crop. The crop for the census year 1870-80 was 5,787,257 bales, worth $280,862,850, to which, if the figures of our corres pondent be correct, the new cotton seed industries add a value of $72,713,' 210. The tumor made its appearance nine years ago ; and from the start grew with amazing rapidity. For sometime tlie woman has teen absolutely unable to assume any other than a sitting posture, tlie very act of lying down making death certain by suffocation. Dr. Goodell, after administering ether, placed the insensible subject In the best position her great bulk would permit and made the incision. The keen edged knife sank deep into the flesh and the deft fingers of the skilled surgeon were busy in separating the tumor from the life it was feeding upon. When the mass liad teen completely taken away it was placed in a tub of the largest size and filled tlie vessel within three Inches of the top. The tumor was then placed upon the scales and was ascertained to weigh 112 pounds, the largest, it is be lieved, ever removed from a human be ing. Subsequently the patient, now re duced to a mere skeleton and hangitig to life by tlie merest thread, was gently lifted to the scales and was found to weigh but 75 pounds, or 37 less than the mass just taken from her body. On recovering consciousness the pa tient could scarcely express the sense of relief experienced. The absence of the weight that had been a burden to her for so many years was so novel and yet so pleasant that she was comparatively bouyant in spirit. Dr. Goodell, when the woman had been.placed in bed, ex pressed tlie belief that she would live, favor. -fjjDoufelc-breaafed sacques are out of tine ;plnk’ Is a. new shade for spring."; WGrtb )a bringing plain stuffs into- foahlon. . perado of Eastern literature. r mountains are, of coarse, dimly dite I > ! cotton satinettes areas lustrous cernible in the distance, although the I 11 1 tenderfoot la not always exactly cer-1 Jersey dresses are fashionable for tain whether they are the eternal billsd little girls. or only an insubstantial bank or cloud. Colored Spanish laces ornament A similar hallucination Is apt to be | new bonnets. terr" 0 ' - - wheel hat, wlio is looked upon as em-1 _ .. bodying all of the characteristics of a I,, braid tt,,d 8 oId lac e trim new dime novel or literary weekly here, I ac onne ts. generally turns out to be no more a I Stained glass designs are copied in man slayer than the clouds are com-1 new spring goods. P ™* t £p e “ ,n * dicsoShetT e fe Tastes ar0 W>m b> ' station has encouraged the bold, bad | men who kill foj fun to emigrate, and I Sleeves made of fine flowers are the wide hatted, long haired, Bangui- j new on evening dresses, nary looking fellows who hang around the Denver street comers are for the I ers, appear on nevv- bailTresses' most part hollow Imitations of the! blood thirsty heroes of fiction. Most , und lar « e P°lkn spots will he of them, however, are quite willing to I 8 J slfor B Pring dresses, be mistaken for “Buffalo Bills,” and I Small mantles of figured India ■>y r K use no little braggadocio of aharmless J mere are worn with black dresses. klnd,withaviewofglvlngtheraselves| a reputation for homicide tendencies. . . . eather rosettes, in pale This desire to appear terrible Is well {bonnets ^ U8Wly ir,lportcd understood among themselves and |- when one of them wishes to say some- Maiden hair fern Is mixed with or- thing particularly flattering of anoth- | au (?c blossoms for brides’ dresses '£Z'SZt'ZlSSn ™‘" COmrU ■•“»>» 1- wmen oj manj would be looked upon 8 , gI1 for camlirk . s d , as extremely libelous. J Two of these worthies recently enter-I ^ ew riding habits have narrowc. ed a railway car in which a News man I ^J.^ orter s ^* rts tnan those hitherto was seated, They were picturesquely attired in soraberos, rubber boots, I Foulard handkerchiefs have large and pearl colored suits of military cut. j balls of three colors on a white ground. They glowered around the car a mo- j Vo _ , , , ment and then seated themselves and I . .| c ° a vS * avu a PPliques of commenceda whispered conversation. PlUSh aU over the satln Thoughts of train robbers flashed Jasmine and white lilacs are min- througli the minds of the tenderfeet I 8^ ed with orange blossoms in bridal in the train, and a conservative look- I wreaths. Ing old gentleman was noticed to sur- Quarter trains are more stilish than reP w°S 8li P hla goW watch and either short skirts or demi-tmin, pocket book under the cushion. Sud- denly one of the “Wild Bills” stood- iNa J' r f u ’ b »nds or Greek fillets of all- up and thefe wasagenerai movement J ver ribbon are worn on tlie hnir. among the tenderfeet to throw up their Berthas, tabllcrs and wide flounces hands and to allow the supposed des- of lace are used on full dress toilets, peradoesto get through with their] ... work of acquiring their booty as expe-l , J? be,ow the hack of the dltiously as possible. But a general 1 8 on 116 nuWest ,lreMSt ‘ s - feelingof relief was experienced when | Gilt nails, with flat square heads it was found that the blood thirsty I are used to fasten cloth dresses instead looking fellows merely wanted to bor- °f buttons. row a chew ol’“navy” from an ac- Lenten costumes will be made of qualntance in the opposite end of the flue black wool( trlmmed cor - or with lace. He had scarcely left his seat, how- j * PAUL MORPHY'S MEMORY. When to Stop Advertising. HOME EDUCATION. When every man has become so thoroughly a creature of habit that he will certainly buy this year where he bought last year. ' . When younger, fresher and spunk ier concerns in your line cease start ing up and using the newspapers ’ iu telling tlie people how much better they can do for them than you can. When nobody else thinks “it pays to advertise.” When population ceases to multiply and the generations that crowd on af ter you, and never heard of you, stop coming on. When you have convinced • every body whose life will touch yours, that you have better goods and lower prices than they can ever get any where outside of your store. When you perceive it to be the rule that men who never did advertise are outstripping their neighbors in the same line of business. When men stop making fortunes in your very sight, solely through the discreet use of this mighty agent. When you can forget the words of the shrewdest and most successful business men concerning the main cause of their prosperity. When you would rather have your own way and fail than take advice and win. \ When yon want to go out of busi ness with a stock on hand. When you want ta get rid of waiting on customers. ’ - - . — Big Things. The largest deposits of anthracite coal in the world are in .Pennsylva nia. * 1 y J ‘—* '-a The greatest river in the world is the Mississippi, which is 4,100 miles long. t I .7* The largest lake in the world Is Lake Superior, being 430 miles long and 1,000 feet deep. The largest cave in the world is the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, con taining a navigable lake with eyeless fish. JO th 10 koy .of.the 43 ion at3 Cif-er 500,000 square miles. The greatest mass of solid iron in the world Is the great Iron Mountain In Missouri; It is 450 feet high and two miles in circuit. The greatest cataract itr the world is the falls of Niagara, which plunges over the rocks in two columns, to the depth of 170 feet each. ’ ThaJMSSfi* jMtond bridge In the world la the hunral bridge ovei r Ce* darcreek, in Virginia; itextolifeovir a chasm 80 feet wide and about 250 feet deep. LA The following rules are worthy of being printed in letters of gold, and placed in a conspicuous place In every household: 1. From your childrens earliest in fancy, inculcate tho necessity of in- stajit obedience. 2. Unite firmness with gentleness. Let your children always understand tfiat you mean what you say. 3. Never promise them anything, unless you are quite sure you can give what you say. 4. If you tell a child todo something show him how to do it and see that it is done. 5. ' Always punish your child for willfully disobeying you, hut never punish him in anger. 6. Never let them know tliat they vex you, or make you lose your self- command. 7. If they give way to petulance or ill temper wait till they are calm, then gently reason with them on the impropriety of their conduct. 8. Remember that a little present punishment, >-hen occasion arises, is much more effectual than the threat ening of a greater punishment, should the fault be renewed. 9. Never givo your children any th! ng because' they cry for it. 10. On no account allow them todo at one time what you have forbidden under the same circumstances, at an other. 11. Teach them that the only sore and easy way to appear good is to be good 12. Accustom them to make thfelr little recitals with perfect truth. 13. Never allow tale bearing. 14. Teach them self-denial, not self- Intfulgence. A State for a State House. Chicago, Feb. 13.—The immense tract of land set aside by the State of Texas to pay lor the erection of a new State House has been trantferred by tlie State during tbe past two days to Abner Tay- ever, when his companion turned to BURIED CONTINENTS-CHANGES IN hiB nearest elbow passenger and re- j jfjE MAP OF EUROPE marked: j “That’s the hardest man in Color-'I phUa - Evening star. ado.” j the indications of buried continents “Has he killed anybody?" in the Atlantic, moreover, are so mark- allied anybody? You betcher life. I ed as to establish a presumption that More’n you’ve got fingers and toes on | * be Atlantis of Plato was a solid geo- you. Why, that’s Dead Shot Bill. I graphical reality. In fact, according Never lias to waste a second cartridge. I bes t calculations, it will take only Always takes ’em an inch above the j * million years for the Mississippi right eye.” I river to fill the Gulf of Mexico. Com-" “Is he a robber?” hesitatingly In- j menting on these and kindred facts quired the passenger whom Dead I In a review of Professor WjncheU’jr Sliot Bill’s companion had taken Into I last work, the- New Ybrk’fltar says: *" his confidence. I G ne of our difficulties, growing out of “Naw! be ain’t nothin’of that sort, the limitations of the human mind,in He kills for sport. Would not steal dealing with' the phenomena of tlie nothin’. globe, is to grasp geological time—aud “Might I enquire if he has shot any °ne of the essays in the volume deals one quite recently?” I wit h this subject in a fresh and help- “Waal, no; not since a week ago | ful way. People found it hard to real- Friday, that I can recollect on.” I lze tb at they are living in the midst This was carefully noted down by a | of terrestrial revolutions; that the Ori- stout, tat gentleman, who appeared to ent and Occident were united by an be all ears, and looked as though he isthmus which held the place of Beh- might be an English tourist. ring Strait; that the Yellow Sea was enthali I asked him to stor, a mn- “Well, don’t the authorities make (dryland; that Since man first appear- ® any attempt to—to restrict his amuse- j ed in Europe the Nortli Sea lias been ment?” solid ground and that Great Britain “Authorities? Guess not; why he’s I has been joined to the Continent twice Sheriff himself of this comity, and or more. Europe was populated ltefore since he shot the last Judge lining him | the beginning of continental glacia- for contempt of court when he shot a ] tion, when Great Britain was a part of lawyer that had the impudence to say the Continent. A subsidence of from that a fellow the Sheriff had taken in 11,200 to 1,300 Isolated Great Britain for stealing a horse was not the right I from the Continent. The next change man there hasn’t been anybody felt annexed it to France and Holland like taking his place.” 1 and made the bottom of the North Sea Then he rose and joined his bloody dry, and Scandinavia was a continua- named companion. tlon of Scotland. Continental Europe “Do you know these men?” asked stretched to Icelapd, Greenland ana the News man of a quiet looking stock Spitzbergen, where the climnte was man, who had got on at the same sta-1 mild and the vegetation of the tem- "Mon. peratg zone flourished. The rivers of Know them? Well, yes. I’ve England were branches of the Rhine, known them for a few weeks, since whi ch joined the ocean in the latitudo they came from the East, and I hired of the Faroe isIands . Afterward tho them to look after a flock of sheep, but continental glaciers dissolved, a subsl- I’ve had to let them go because they dence 8UCCe eded, the climate grew were afraid to leave the rancho on ae- cold and humk , t lmmenBe marahes count of the Indlans-in their minds.’ formed !n Northern Europe, and Great Wild Cat Banka. [ Britain became insular. Another ele- - , „ vatlon was followed by another subsi- The banks of the various States d8nC e, and prehistoric times slowly quoted as uncertain, broken or below i me rge into the historic period. It is par, are in number as follows: New hard for men who live by minutes, York, three, including the bank of and often by seconds, to take such Albany, quoted at Jf; Massachusetts, va8t periods np into thought, all its banks except two at *£, includ- j ing Boston, Springfield, Birmingham and Nantucket; Rhode Island, one broken, all others ; Delaware, >one uncertain, all others }£; Maryland, Baltimore *£, all others from % to *4; Brentano’s Chess Monthly recalls this instance of the remarkable mem ory of the greatest chess-player the world has ever known: Of Morphy’s gigantic memory I had indubitable proof from my own observatioq at the time he was playing his celebrated match with Lowenthal. Both oppo nents had agreed to regard the games played as their intellectual private property, not to be published. I was aj the time editing the chess columns of the Sunday Times, and anxious to reproduce them there. In order to ob tain the requisite information, I had to apply to one of the contesting par ties. I first went to Morphy, who re ceived me cordially, and declared his entire willingness to dictate forme the last partie, played the day before. I begged him to repeat the game on the board, as I would in this manner be better able to follow the progress of the contest. Morphy consented, and at the tenth move of his black (Low- ment, since it seemed to me that at tliis particular point abetter move might have been made. “Oh, you probably mean the move which you yourself made In one of your contests with Dufresne?” answered Morphy in his simple, artless way of speaking. I was startled. The partie mentioned bad been played in Berlin in 1851, seven years before, and I had totally forgotten all its details. On observing this, Morphy called ft*- a second board, and began, without the least hesita tion, to repeat that game from the first to the last move without a single mistake. I was speechless from sur prise. Here was a.man, whoso atten tion was constantly distracted by countless demands on his memory, and yet he had perfectly retained for seven years all the details of a game insignificantJn itself, and, moreover, printed in a language entirely un known to him. Southern Bourbons. - The following is an extract from an article in the AUantio .Monthly, written by an independent and thoughtful gen tleman, whose letters to the New York Tribune last year attracted so much at tention : “As used, In the North, this word ’Bourbon’ designates a class of white men, composed chiefly of the leading citizens of the Southern States. The Bourbons are the principal business men,, lawyers, physicians, teachers, cler gymen, merchants and farmers of the South. They are everywhere the leaders of society, in the best sense of the word- They sustain the churches/and glvo.effi- clency to the moral-activities and disclp line of the local communities as they, have thus far attained. Taken broadly or generally, tho class includes the best people of the South or most of them. They are Bourbons because in politics ’they are Democrats, and act in oppoei*. tion to the principles, policy or methods of the Republican party, which has ad ministered -the National Government since the time of our civil war.” . The largest valley in the world Is that of tbe Mississippi;.It contains" lor, Bon. C. B. Farwell and John R. / » i i - FarfreU, of Chicago, and A. O. Babcbct of Canton, Illinois, who will furnish the necessary funds for ereoting the build ing. This domain is larger than the 1*444 west corner tbe State, and the survey extends south 197 miles, With an average width of 27 rolies., Two railways afe alrt ady projected through this seatloh of tbe State. The transfer of these lands is probably tlie largest sale ever made to private individuals, and the purchasers aiti the largest land owners in tbe world; j-ijia'.*(. t, ' } A Welsh lady named Broderick, for many years a resident of Ansonla, and for over 40 of America, had the mis fortune when a child of 10 or 12 to step upon somb glass by which the sole of one of her feetVas filled with the' bro ken pieces, which, however, were, ait; was supposed at the time, .all extract ed. '* ’ ' ' .” {.r.V A few weeks since she began to have a soreness In the foot, and it in creased until It was found necessary to consults physician—Dr. S. R. Ba- State of Connecticut, and five times lar- ker, who; upon pressing the' finger ger than Rhode Island. It is in the north- upon aeertain place, found a hard upon spefeugiioh was very sensitive _tojhe touch. An incision was made'ahd a piece of glass over an Theh long and three-quarters of an Inch wide at the’ base, tapering to a sharp point,.yr|£ snugly hldden.under the bones of the Instep, where it had.probably lain for ne^riy or quite fifit years. i L. . t-v-.-w ...Jrexa.«-4<:s< **. — Tho Development of Taste. The Independent. Iu tho natural growth of the world, taste has been rapidly developed, aud Virginia, Bank ot Virginia and its I tbe people of all nations are now produ- branclies, Leesburg, Charleston and I cin 8 each its own peculiar and wonder- all others, £4 to 1; District of Colum- j ful treasnres. Who can remember or bia, Merchants’ and Farmers’ Bank ] describe them? AVho can tell tho extent of Alexandria broken, Bank of Col* j tbe riches or the beauty of the gold- umbia 25 to 30. Maine, six banks en, jeweled ornaments now admired and broken, all others 10 to 12; Vermont, I worn by a thousand million people? all banks %; New Jersey, one broken, What pen can describe all that is seen iu two uncertain and a score or more I cultivated gardens and parks adorned from to >£; Pennsylvania, banka of with trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers? Philadelphia and ten others % to & Greensburg' broken, Gettysburg, ChaxnbersbUrg, Carlisle and Pitts burgh, all others 5 to 50; South Car olina, Charleston Hi Georgia, Augus ta, Savannah afld Darien, from 8% to 3 and 4; Ohio, five banks 5; Kentucky, Bank of Kentucky and branches and all othen uncertain; Tennessee, State and ^aiihyUle banks uncertain ; Lou isiana, New Orleans 5 to 6; Mississip pi and Alabama, 0; North Carolina, 2 to 2%; Canada, Kingston uncertain, all others3H to 3 - „ .... , We learn that a gentleman in Barns- ville initiated a colored a man as a ser vant'last week. The negro was instruct ed, aa one ottha first orders, to make a fire in the grate in the parlor. He arm ed.himself, with fuel and proceeded to the paj-lor. After thoroughly examining the room for a fire-place in which to raise a fire, he discovered the open space "**■“' ^^“ “'"^led’bythepedkls as He fixed iu tho luel, and was about to Introduce fire when the gentleinau who gave the order for the fire happened to walk Into the parlor, \Ve. will not toll what ensued; • V! ■ i?' t't.da Where can we learn, in books or else* where, tlie names of all that is beautiful that blossoms from the whole earth; all that is beautiful that the brush produces oncanvos; all that the weaver’s shuttle and loom produce; all that tlie skilled Is ol the carver on wood, stone, and marble produce; all that the combined colors of the rainbow have produced, as shown in fabrics, ol silk and satin, and cotton and wool; all that is beautiful in architecture, and in tlie adornments of tbe world’s most renowned cathedrals, and beautiful in all its famous kingly palaces. Bat life is too short to -search out and see all that is beautiful. We can only get a glimpse, now and then, at some of the world’s greatest treas ures. The most favored season for such sight-seeing is Christmas. A New Banking Institution. Mr. David Rikanl, who ‘lives near --tnwxwat tv - cj — - t Prosperity, Newberry county, 8. C., hid the 'only thing'resembling! a fire-place, away $240 in gold and $700 in green- TTn Avnrl Aiwa 1 - _* a Y t 1 1*1 . k 1. I S ; 5«« M, slvjw --tfr-r. .... --jMe » .*•»*: Kuti«r .**«* ».$» | AM* mill add «,! «n-'i oi «ciu'<Y-i fihrfww bqqks in % potato bonk for safe keeping. Some thieves who were after potatoes made a raid on the hank aud carried off tho gold, but somehow, left the green- bWkv. > ttyou/xaim .-no.vi'^Avc'j', .'uirtffi-r* wan