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Newspaper Page TextTHE CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S, D, WIKLE & CO., Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDA^,' DECEMBER 1874. VOLUME I. NUMBER 26. MEWS OF THE WEEK. j t«vl out by Great Britain, for explorations in | tho Arctic rogioni, The Hpauisli coasting stearner Thomas Brooks, from Hantingo do Cnha for Eiuulanto, struck on llio morning of tho 81, on tho Mo- rillo near (Inantamo, and mink immediately. About thirty lives were lost. It is kuotvn, in diplomaticciroles, that Hr,.;.. WEST. Omaha wants Nebraska to move her capital from Lincoln. Chicago having promised to take pre- Hartford compnui' again taking r.nke. The calaboom hurried, Unt wed 1 old ■ EAST. The long impending strike in the pot- 'reries of Tronton, N. J., began ou tho 3.1 Just, rhe eetallUliniantH of Yates. Benedict A Allen, and J. Monaa closed. Tho employer» gnaranteoing work for tho winter at a reduc tion of 10 per rout, in wages, tho employes refused with the abovo result. Ono hundred women employed in a factory of tho Now Brunswick mbher com pany have struck against a reduction of xva- The rubM r hand. Tho xtpmg itrodurcd machines for this work, and i need tl»e rates on piece work. As tho worn mild only earn two-thirds of their form At tho final conference lie tween t! Ilia.paid to Great Britain only | t ie indemnity on account of tho Virgin tu* aff.ur, leaving the remainder and other ques tions to be here after adjusted. Tho inspector getienil of the army, iu his annual report, says a legulation is much needed, Indicting punishment on *.>ldicrH who marry without proper permission. Military poets are overrun with tho wives of tlm en listed men . and it H well known that It re quires about as much transportation to move four laundi esses as it does to move a whole cltDpiny of men. A Berlin dispatch trays that Russia contemplates tho roasRombllug next March, in fit. Petersburg, of tho International conference lately hold iu Brussels. Exertions will proba bly ho nude to secure the convent of Great Britain and some minor states. The work of tho Conference will hs confined to tho enact ment of the more purely philanthropic clauses >' of tho programme proposed by ltunnia. If - theno endeavors fail, the three northern pow- ii | ere may | robably lettle the matter alone, os Huge of President MnoMahou red to the n*somhlv last week, lie order has been maintained through- untry. Relations with foreiga gov*- The trade has never bee ing tho last four •cllnn Hid harvest. Tho e i so considerable os m mths. Everything i for- factory results will ho at least c The president insists strongly o I of definite legislation with rep* dtotho cannon, which can bo had at a vory small CJHt, in view of tho reduced number of guns re quired. Tho present types of foreign armol cruising ships carry 4}^' to fl inches of armor, and at present wo have no guns, except tho 15-inch, iu the monitors, which would seriously Injure tho lightest of these armored vessels. Substitute a 7 or H indi rifle for tho ll-inoh smooth boro, which even onr smallest ships carry, and few of them would come off with out gronl damage. Tho report of the commissioners to prepare instructions to postmasters Concern ing the prepayment of newspaper and periodi cal postage after January 1. susta in tho re ‘ommendations of Third Assistant Postman* ti>r-Gonoral Barber. Instead of placing stamps on tho separate periodicals or papers, or on tho package containing them, according to weight, the forms as already printed show tho current account with tho publishers, and after tho printed mutter is weighed, the requisite amount of stamps is pastod on the form of receipt given to tho publisher or his agent at tho time of mailing, the credit and receipt having corresponding numbers. The house appropriation committee have disposed of tho army hill. Tills bill ap propriates the same amount an last year, and makes a omuiili table reduction from the esti mates. Tho secretary of war sent iu estimates for a for n of thirty thousand men, notwith standing tho fact that congress last winter directed the reduction of llio force to twenty- tiro thousand. He evidently considered the reduction as temporary, while tho committee consider it as permanent, and have ll\< «| tho appropriation for next year on that basis. The present mimlsir of tho force is twenty-seven thousau 1, but a largo number of onlislod men soon to he discharged will bring tho number down to twenty-live thousand, as direolod last session. Tho supreme court of tho United fitatos hns Just rendered a decision in which for tho first time the question of tho power of tho confederate government to make a valid SOUTH. Southwestern Georgia ii uttou fields of Arkansas ai Tho steamboat H.ihinc lo come to nu | '• Incessantly agitate 1 by a progagamlaof tho us>y affects tbs J t j guarantee, by measure*, the a lion (if llio [ the state. public powers during tho period of stability | which you promised Franco." Theatenmor La Plain, from Gravesend ) overrun bv ^" r 8in Grendo del find, chartered by Siemens to wor u i n tho I M, " J l '* n r 1,10 telegraph cable, foundered oontract1 had know of the C igly pure'.' adjndica ml Ci plaintiff AJIKHIUA. kilniiiiriitnr uow— Til 1C MIvVIiKT ' Ruder the mDtletooh ^ Not in the far-iway 11 kii.l tlu* Iravrs are a« ilarhly AnU ttie berries a' orlaply \ * t, tn so I alia or II Or ivmUni droopi from the chandelier lh if never a mlnolitrf or harm could fall From it-* modest Intrusion, there or her • low many a Up "made nervously bold, Vlion youthful revet went on, nntlred, But under llio lutatletiM A-c llio dullest Amt (hen, Have tlii> o assist at ttie bridal h letbiuka, If ttie shamrock green dear to an Irlsf o ttie mistletoe-berry's silver witholieehn ttku the t And greenly Its stiff-set so dear to an Irish heart,—• ‘Ivor sheen lias been owing no mine s all hearts enshrined "Old Oak Chest." Wliat matter If eentiules long mystery de-p i Htoneln line's unghty heapt e great perennial good, Its Joints spilnghig Midleis e agts withstood. mother land I— >sy to have you here, lone'jr wntting s'amt ir varying Clirlatmaa cheer. uiM'lant your pride of giowth, KilRlIth troth, o silent street 1 iff Uelian "from Hbrovti- (" out, W111 cl I lift A-r w» from Jail by dru Plaintiff brought h recover. TIiIh con Tho | How OCR ROY’S TRUNK, oil I rommnbor it, mipronio ,'mirt »nirm« till. iMSini l, i homo from tlio mnWn-tliiit gronl hulk r.mrt or chilli. , n two sroim.l. , 1. lta'nnM „[ „ | rnl ,l, j | t , V11H HI,,, „ tho pnrohuHo of thooottou and the payment war, according to Bpooinontions—atonu of thooonvidmatlon nuci eimrily totidodtoglve p]nU>il with zino, crossod with aid to tho rebellion, and that all such oc are wild ns contrary to public policy was concurred in by the whole court, oauso the HO-oallod government of thof Htatoa had no oxiHten ! joint out l ed, repot ts I ’clock on tin heavy sea carried aw a; .fill p. m she founds plain and dnctoi lilt of • »•»»/ ot uieoon.iuoravioii uaoueoaruy viMiuuii vogivu | i 1. Fourteen survivors „id to tlio rebellion, and that all such contracth I bunds of Ollk, nud fretted lit * Gareloch, if Glasgow. UI „ nM contrary to public policy. TIiIh and comer xviill spikes of hr is attfilmtiHl to the Hliift- was concurred in by (ho whole court, it. Be- | was our boy's trunk, tlio 11 rut. ho ipparalnr. <»r 250 miles 0auH0 tho so-oalhul government of the Don fed- | owned, for, hitherto, in his abort i) bad been paid | urn j 0 Htatos had no oxistenco except as a con- liter journcyiligfl, n light VhUho hud .piracy lo overthrow lawful anthoritv. In i served to hold bin “ trupfl,” or I hoy hud upport of this second po-itiou of the court, | lmoliod ill tho “ oito rtll.l indivihi ho ol.Uf Justice and six associate justices j •»!« H»ralop,n. 1 Jin liny wuh now, (or seven steward* «•« I collcur . Two Mr. Justice Clifford and Mr. I *l‘° flrat tlrae . loavi ^ ho . ro0 f or . ft ” fourteen seamen and iTiirII( , 0 Davis -dinoont on tho ground that Uh < staff, numbering sit- | R „, lHlln( . ( . nu .,,t was not necessary to tl>o dooin- ir. Blokotte, tlio chief | j ()ll (1 f .j,| M ra . 0 ed, Tlio chief steward, | Tho poBtofilco department has re ived tho filial proofs of the newspaper imps, to he usi (1 under the provision of tlio ov law respecting the p istagoon iiewHpii))ers by the stern. At | poriudicals Tlio design prepared by fid , stem Aral. 'J'lio j Assistant L’ostmaslor-goneral Bail.our, ami the bridge, having j (, XPon iod by tho Continental Bank Note t tho fires were all oming of the 20th. ro oftho boats and i with tho c > patent Ule-rstt^aiiil. w«.nf Jqjauy^of New York, vas living. The " regn- aud are thought to havo , with lato news >Hnu exrthunRo crop 1 or,n °’’ 1 ‘ ,n “ r ”' Vancouver has arrived Uhlim Japs Tin s tho folio' . Mississippi, and ArKansas, •’ go by frost is three and one- i door »in i Dn n lioen sotthd, China con. reqoired by Japan. The latter government lias already determined to return a part, if not the whole, indemnity money. They required it only as an uiiinis iakahln acknowlcilgntucnl of the propriety of ttmir aolieri. That having been vindicated, they are disinclined to keep tho money. There is general complaint agninnt the United States’ much attention iu 11 re under oonsidoratlo Inroe from that place, coking reloaso nl or- mg Kong. Meas- i to prevent future icontly before the f ypara, to purnno his olossioal odiioa- tion. Wo imid t.lm trunk was mado to order, lor our Noil wan impicHHod with tho idoii that no oraftaman hud yot laid a kool largo enough for bin demands ; “ foi you nee, father," ho would any, “I'vr all my summer arid winter dollies to carry, licsiden thono monstrous lexicons, and my skates,'ami boot*jaak, and lots of other little gim-ernoks amount-of lexicons and boy-properties could fill that " Ihreo-story edifice," a* Thackeray calls it, a modern trunk, And so it wan brought homo, a regu lar mailed leviathan, and moored iu tlx family sitting room, preparatory b taking on freight. Ned inspected it with immense approval, walking round it from stem to stern, and I humping overybelt nud hinge. Inside, it as luxurious and almost aH roomy us a lady’s boudoir- a succession of sur prises and ambuscades of convenience— with a fairy sitting on the lid of every compartment, and rising out of every pocket. Npd’s enthusiasm was dashed By a lioa • typl.e I Oct (tally injured, Thirty - tbroo junks were wrecked un i two hundred lives lost In view of tho recent expectations of war. public expenses are reduced in various ways. Tho Mikado and members of tho im perial family havo renounced part of their in comes. Numerous employes have requested a reduction of their salatIoh, and oven tlio scholars in tho national academies have poll- lioiied that tho amount allowed for their odu- ! cation bo temporarily reduced. miscellaneous The number of emigrants w ho lauded ( at Castle Garden from Jan. 1 to Deo. 1 of the i present year, was 145,302, showing a heavy j ro liorfoally satisfactory o-dxy to the Continental to commenoo printing. A short circulars were sont to all tho pout* Itoly to require tli’s elasH of stamps, ut their requisitions, limiting tlitlr to one month's supply. Tlio online beginning to come iu. The depart- if the opinion, Judging from tlio f orders so far received, that tlio stamps required for the mouth of January will not fall far short or a half mil lion dollars. Tills, it Is thought, will, however, oxoooil tho average monthly ilomand. It Is estimated that Uio aggregate value of stamps received for the year will not exceed M,000 f . j with a litilo disdain of the f I 000. One month's actual weight of the news- ; furnishings, as being soft aud girl-like, - paper and periodical mall at tho Now Turk | nnd l think ho would have chosen tho - j poetoflleo sh >ws a daily average of nearly fin j grim dillglnoss of u bunk Hhfo, as better tons Taking this in commotion with tho up- comporting with tho gravity of a proxinuillon of business a». other oflloos, rh j studenl.'s life. Indicated by tho posimaetcre' ordora for ' What a bustlo and oonfualon, wliat Htainjln. and tho above ostlmato is roaohod. giving and receiving of orders, while 'llio increased bnsiuoss will yield to llio do- partinent a rovonnO of about half a million annually. Tlio Hlatomont that the mails will ho usod for groat dUtaticos, and tlio express to points near by, to tlio Iohm of tlio govern ment and (ho department, is not eonsidored well grounded. No loss of revenue is antici pated from this soiiroe. the i’uin,ic m in’. rc-cnpituhitio DKIir UI.AUINO doer n*port’arion oonventu i rgia, pio- j The eeorelnr.v f.l til afternoon, tomlorod tho posl | architect of iho treasury t j Jr , of I’liiladolphia. I Tho postmaator-general ha | order forbidding letter carriers New Year's aildiLRios calculated I public to make them gifts. Proceedings have been agtinat Bev. Dr. Taliaadgo, of I B. C. Mitcholl, on tho charge I Mitchell was for a number of v. nent member of Talmadgc’s elm treaanry, tliis hi of saporvisiug John McArthur, | . who j Total i 146,808,075 icted of Illi- I ii Ireasnry t'J, debt during tlio 1,988,884 way by commercial 128,427 June 30, 1874. .. 4,148,007 > PACIFIC IUILUOAD COMI'ASIKH. tians. Tho damages are lai 1 at $5,000. The flow i f currency from Ne.v York to tlio west averages about 62 000,000 a d»y. Cincinnati and Chicago are paying out $W)0,- 00') a day for hogs, all of which passes imnio- dialnly into the regular channels of trado Business of all kinds must soon begin to feel tho effects of this healthy stimulus. Mean while the fact that money is easy and interest low in New York, notwithstanding the large efflux of currency from that city, is a signifi cant feature of the financial situation. It appears from the market of the Courier-Journal that 100,558 hi been marketed at Lonisvillo during tli closed, and 175.748 packed, against 105, in November of la*t year. Tlio rnarkc valno of the hogs packed daring tlio month j W ^ Q lived not was about $3,500,1 the principal pick that a larger buHii __ _ rifle than iu any other city, except Chicago, I but instead of asking him to sib down members "of*The | though l*«t season Louisville was ranked by j to the table with him, lie kept llio b viftthnn wns taking in cargo I Wliat nice folding of oambrio liccktioH, nml assorting of nil Iron ones, from the “Prince Albert” to tho “Butterfly!" Wliat inquest for odd cults nnd derelict pocket handkerchiefs, Med m kite fails, and slowed away in old coals ! Wind, inspection of collars and shirt-bosoms, ami remorseless tossing into tho laun dry basket of any that showed spot or wrinkle 1 Wliat brushing and sponging ■giilHi- lUonllily Hlnicmml lieerenas | n f old garments Slid “trying on" of in .oiovrmiiet, §i«;m‘47. j in-w | What disquisitions on the tailor Tho public debt statement has just hj|{ 0 wuy ,,f folding a coat I Wliat d, ol which tlio following is washing of ink-stands and rummaging | fur pens, knives, pencils and other re coin. “ rolling stock" on which no boy from *1,107.271,700 I Tubal Gain downward ever limw where 552.525,200 j ] n y ],i„ |mnd ! What, squan-'cring of fish-hooks, mill water wheela on | the neighbors 1 Wliat measuring nnd adjusting of books, slates and maps to fit! What ransacking for readers and speakers-—tho hold of our shin being found so prodigious that it swallows up not only tlio lexicons, but all worts of i)'.8S5,fi!)8 I miscellaneous books, to which the hoy 23.015,400 I ljnlpH himsHf with the double purpose of , | filling up and making a brave show on 409,fl2fl,8fi.i Dook-HheivoB. 2.252.650.2001 confusion enough to Imve shipped the stores of an arsenal, tho lower compartment of Ned’s trunk 83,013,702 is pronounced solid as ahriok. Buttons 10,000,811 qnd seams have all been inspected by anxious mamma as carefully as a brake- matt tests his cur wheels, nnd tlio snowy piles of linen havo been laid in with » silent prayer that tlio boy’s heart may be kept as pure and fresh amid its now temptation 1 '. Away in tho upper loft, under the monster’s ribs, the winter’s flannels are bestowed with ignominy, also thick 64,628.512 j Loots, brushes, boot-jack, and slippers, I mr rv7 and tho blanket shawl whioh mother JfiSJn will unfc *- " s “* | Legal tender not oh HonllU-atoH mulepwlt... l-ractional currency Coin uertifioaU.-H. Total witliont intorcst.. 140 780,000 382.075,276 T.- | rninout gaarantec-H ask'd i to protect the national with strict injunction to spread it on the bed ’o frosty nights. 610,011 I'(’In re goes tlio overcoat, too, though ! Ned insists it is quite superfluous in (it 8i,),fi >2 j L 0 j n( j now Angus 1 ), but punches it be cause it will help tho other things to “ride snug.” told of n couple of farmers i Next come tho “drawer* find things,’ groat distance apart, | as Ned styles the fancy compartments, fed for being vor> Lis neighbor called sheen. , liaa been ilonoin Louis-1 upon him while he was eating diun-r, ' pod her plumage; there, a cake of nview 1 Bilauco of interest paid by tho shave United Mates r;;* 1 : Giving a mill. A story i .srho lived t , Tho latest returns frorr. ; oue 0 f whom w&h noted for being very riere repose the neckties, in variegated penurious, Ono day his neighbor called j sheen, ns if a bird of paradise had^flrof >f all sizes, 1 hit 1 udod. waxed and knot ted. There in a pray cushion for tho toilet, with “ Ned Wither*” so blazoned pinstlm tho proposes to nail it out side for a doorplate, nud a small circu lar oue for his pocket, bristling enough to impale that dreadful Greek verb which is tho up(n noir of boys. Also is ii littlo baud mirror, for must, not onr Neddy see tho bnok of his head, when combing nnd perfuming to go to tho president’* levees, aud to onll on tho professors’ daughters ? Well, the trunk is gone. Wo saw it locked uuil strapped, and lifted into tho great, wagon. We saw, in a mist, a boy sitting on it, waving his hat, hurrahing and shouting bood-byo. How still the house is 1 Dow dismal the day I Booms if we have been having a funeral. Gome homo again,’did you say? Oh ! yos, 1 suppose ho will ; but ho’ll wear badges, nnd liuvo whiskers, and bo pre cise and proper. Ah I tho littlo boy of long ago will never oomo back any moro I” A lotter from Ned. “ I’ve got n jolly boy for a chnpi. Ho can play on the fiddle, nnd baa got a stunning lot of necktioB. lln’s going to give mo ono beenuHo l lot him use my bnoljnek. My trunk onme all right, only one hinge is simmg, and the iron band round tho ltd got smashed in at one corner, 1 tore my pants on it, nnd had to pay twonty-fivo cents to got them mended. You ought,, to have seen the porters sweat and swear when they brought it up stairs. I couldn't put it in my room, because it in too big, and it* stands just, outside) in tho hall. The boys come along and kick it, and any, “ t lint's a bully chest of voura—holds a ileal ot plunder, don’t it, ? I say old fellow, how'll you swap V ’ But I shan't swap, for I’ve soon every trunk in our hull, and I like mine best. But, I guoHH T won't bring it home for tho short va cations, they jam things so on tho cars. M you muv send up my Vftliso be’oro the term cldpos. That will bo in ten weeks nnd three days." And so Neil's vuliso plied back nnd forth between borne and school, lilto a brisk little Ing tomling a man-of-wnr, and levin- Ilian’s stately bulk was movod only at Hie long vacations. But, alas, one sad Christinas Eve, tho trunk oamo home with its siok master, to return no more. The next, morning ho stooped feebly before bin old com rade, and with weak, pale lmndfl undid llio fastenings, nnd took out some of hiH ospobiaWTonsures ; then said, “Hot it by till I feel better, and then I’ll unpnek tho rest." Hut the next day ho was xvorso- .and the next. Ho wo made him a ploqNnnt couch in the sunny par lor, and pushed the great, trunk into tho hall. There it stayed ranuy weeks, and wo forgot Us existence, while we sum mon! d doctors, and mixed medicines, and gavo ourselves to nursing tho pro- oiotiH boy book to health. But, the pale face grew paler, nnd the beautiful eyes larger nnd more lus trous. The hands that, had boon so alert with hat and ball grew white nnd thin, niidiono morning he said, with and surprise, “I oauuot open my pen knife.” A few weeks longer and louder arms lifted him from side to side; and so; indtf ^)y^ inch, Ufe retreated aud death came to tlio front. We all knew, though wo could not say it for tears, that our Ned was soon going on a journey where they take iioitlior purse nor scrip, nor cumber themsolvoi with earthly gear. Oh, how it, comforted us to know Hint, while leugth of days was set ln-fore him, ho had committed him self to One mighty to save—to feel as sured that, while wo, with tondorest min istries, could go xvilh him only to the river’s brink, yot. not alono, no unat tended should bo his “(llHomWUmg on that awful strand! ’’ Leviathan now Simula in tho chamber of tho desolate parents. It, is no longer a trunk for gross nnd common uhch, nor is it, iu dtingor from “ jonrheyings oft." It, is an Ark of Memorial—a witm ss be tween tho living and tho dead. Nobody Iuih turned ti c key in its rusting wards since it fell from tho siok hoy’s hands. Whenever wo find a scrap of paper on xvldoh tho dear hand has traced itself, in however trivial fashion, wo lay it, soft ly away in somO of tho boxen or drawers. His'letters are tliero—bright, joyous, full of tho frolic and eagerness of the life that npw is—tlioro uro tho composi tions. showing indeed, the “’prentice hand” of tho youth, unfilled, as yot, by loro uuil observation ; but thoughtful, e intent, renohing out in their dim ques tionings toward tlie 'immortal sen.’ Bore is the littlo purse, lean and xvorn .-.pnnr little purse -which was ulwayn emptying itself, always filling with school bills, society hills, class bills, fully home for pupa to audit, will) the playful injunction, “Lot, thoae bills, O pater, be to thee for Would we could audit such accounts again I In this littlo box is a tuft of silken rdiestnut hair, shorn from the beautiful log—Ned’s playmate and bedfellow who went into the great Bayond- a s forerunner—many years ago. ITow well remember the tear-stained face of ♦ ho child, ns ho came iu from the small mound under the apple-tree, and aekml i to write to Tennyson about his dog, because,” said lie (we had been road In Memoriam lately), “perhaps ho oulil write about Don.” Onr dear boy’s Biblo is not among those tender treasures ; for, with living breath, ho gave it to Lin cousin, adding in a whisper. “Perhaps you won’t think that muon of a Ipresont; but X think a gi eat deal of that Bible.” We are growing less sordid and worldly now ; for who shall oomo nftor us to cherish the things our hands havo handled ? Wo shall ho able to oonsolo ourselves if thieves carry off tho fumily plate, for who, a generation hence, will muse fondly over tho old fashioned relics ? They may take down the piu tures from the walls, for nobody, by and by, will look Up to tho fading can vas and say, wit,h filial pride, “That, my father." Till: KING OP TIGIG). A H.m Era liaison paper quoted this metrical conundrum of Joaquin Miller's and proceeds to answer it-; King of Tigre. oonmulo Iran! Where in nil llilmi isles uni thou ? Hailing on Fonseca blno P Noitrlni' Ainapsla nowp King of Ttgro, xvlioro art thou ? Brilling for Antilles' qunon ? Huhro hilt, or ollvo hough ? Grown or Oust, or laurel groon 'e Roving love or mnrringo vow ? King nud oomuiilo, xvlioro art thou < Hailing o ^ Holuior-Hlngor, where art thou ? Coasting on tho Oregon ? Baddio how. nr blrohou hrow P Bound the Isles of Amazon ? Pampas, plain, or mountain hrow P I’rlnod of rover*, xvlioro art thou ? Thou art strong, and 1 would rest \ lti'uoh a hand with liftod hrow- King of Tigro, xvlioro art thou ? nia majesty, thus charmingly oallod upon to disblodo his whorcahouts, is alive and xvoll, having his throne ot present in a Han Eranotsoo hotol, Al though registered as plain James Thom as and uuaooompaniod by even a servant, his history, glanood at in the oxquia to poom quoted, is fo various and unique ■ih to be worth tho narration. Ho was b. rn iu Noxv York of lmniblo parents, and having punned a laborious youth commenced the study of laxv in an Ohio village. Drifting to Oiuoinunti ho saw n popular notroBB in tlio role of Juliet and with tho ardor of a Romeo ora- bri ood tho stage. Ho wore out his boots in profitless tredding of its boards, and when tho onrtniu descended on his IshI histrionic failure, he was in the streets of Now Orleans, penniless and alono. It ‘covering from the yellow fever ho left the hospital to join the Lopez ex pedition to On bn. He bore a bravo front in tho disastrous campaign, aud escaped tho island in a canoe. Alter flontinf about for t-omo days, experiencing tlio pangs of thirst and hunger, lux and his oflmpnnions xvorn pick* d up by a kindly schooner and oarriod into Now York. Tlioro bo became a Bohemian, nud by unexpected good luck, seotirod an edito rial chair in llio rooms of a Brooklyn paper. As soon as ho heard the jingle of a few eagles iu bis pookot, ho sot off for New Orleans, where lio scoured a journalistic position, remaining until a quarrel loil to a duel in which ho xvas painfully, lim antagonist mortally, wounded, lie tied to Texas, and nftor some wandering brought up in Califor nia. After joining a filibustering ex pedition which failed, ho returned to Texas, There he fought n duel with a desperado nnmed Juok Tilley, known ns “the Diamond Merchant,” from hav ing stolen a large number of the prec ious stones In Brazil aud escaping with to this country. Ho planted a hall iu Tuloy’s shoulder, uuothor iu his ribs, und received ono in liis leg whioh lamed him for life. After the failure or Walker’ll Nicaragua expedition in whioh tic joined, Thomas proceeded to Peru and arrayed himself with tho revolu tionists against, the established govern ment. After sustaining, with ills fol- low-froobootors, a five months’ siege in Aroquipa, lie xvandored through South , ing and talking, just as though the visi- Th i protest i gainBt the proposed rec ; * tor had not n month in his head, procity treaty with Cinafia Is about to bo is- j “Well, what's tho nexvs, neighbor ailed by the national wool growers a nocia'ion. | Brown ?’ “ Nothing much.” “ No Tlie document, which ia signed by Hon. Henry j news up your way, oh ?" he a«hed, still S. Koiid&ll,) rfe,i,leut, dirocu, .ttantion to u,. heipinp InmBcIf to his good dinner con„„«l given !,y Gen. W..Ulnglon lo .void | »!»>» •*>» no,«W,',r looked on with .mi- politic.) .Iliancee in extending it. corr.rnerei.l \ "J*, n pP e lt • . * ., ? eB > eland by the typhoon of Nov. i relations of the country, and states that the FOREIGN. A King6ton, Jamaica, letter puts the Cashmere bouquet bestowed by Cousin Alice, who, fresh from Dotheboys Hall, is sure nothing but yellow soap is evei provided in hoarding schools. Also, there is stationery of all sorts, from sturdy foolscap lo not© paper of such tender hue anil embossments as color ♦ ho suspicion that Cupid instead of Minerva, presides in acadamio groves. But they will not want'this old bat tered trunk. They will not oaro to riflo it, of its dingy books and yellow papers. When the ache and emptiness of bo- reavoment pro j s too severely upon tin xvo go to it. softly, and take out ono by one the well-worn volumes—-for he a scholarly lad, and his books worocom rades—and put. our fingers on the pagei his dear hands have pressed so often, and unfold tho psckngi Amerioa, and finally drifted back to Now York. After some failures in mer cantile ventures, lie essayed tho lifo of a planter, choosing a ranch iu tho Isle of Tigro, in Fonsooa Bay, off tho ooast of Honduras. Tlio island is about, twen ty-live miles in oiroumforonoe, is luxu riant in vegetation, and then had a pop ulation of some six thousand nersons, mostly Indians. Without Booking it. lie acquired such inflnonoo among tho lnlnnili>rn Mint hn wnn known nlong tlio nonnl. n» King nl Tigro. Hu rnignml uu- innntionuil, wiih tumporntu, humnuo, frugal uuil liappy, lu nu unlnoky mo- i,lent ho was induced to join a Boheme for tho consolidation of tho oontrui American states. With a thousand armed men ho joined Bnrras ; dofeated he returned to tho island with but a hundred of his followers. His seaport was iu possession of tho onomv, xvhom lie routed. Ho raised fresh volunteers, threw up some rudo fortifications, aud was besieged —finally dofeatod by the troops of Honduras, ho wandered in tho woods with a prico upon his head, os onped momentarily by swimming to ni island some six miles distant, where in betrayed, urrested, courtmartialod. and seuieucod to be shot. Huoh was his popularity in Tigro that it was doomed post not to carry the sentonoo into cation, and, after suffering a long and painful imprisonment, he was released. Ho now leisurely devotes himself to the a. ntlo arts of peace anil tho companion ship of such poetasters as Joaquin Mil* ' r and Algernon Bwinburno. Life-Having Rafts. Among the many varieties of life saving apparatus invented during the last, few years for uso on tho son, two rafts, known respectively as tlio Mon itor and Ammen, have recently received espoeial attention. The Monitor raft consists of two strong vulcanized rubber cylinders, twenty two feet long by twenty-six inches in diameter, aovovod by stout linen canvas or duck, to sus tain tho pressure, and supported by a wooden frame, fitted with seven thwarts or seats, nnd cushions filled with cork shavings. The frame thwarts, etc., uro so arranged that when folded up the raft occupies a spaoo of about nine by two feet. Tho cylinders are inflated by hollows at one end. The proprietors set its buoyonoy at five tons, the time required to inflate it at from four to six minutes, nnd its weight 450 pounds. One of the most interest ing experiments with a raft of this eon struction was made in January, !Hf57, when twenty-live soldiers and all their equipments, with four days’ rations, an officer and fopr seamen, were lauded from a vessel anchored three miles from shore, pulling with four oars at tho rate of five miles an hour, and shipping no water. The Ammon raft is fitted with oars, mast and a sail. It consists of two cigar-shaped oylindere made of cedar, put together in staves like a cask. These are hooped with hem found using thoso iu tides, ono of whom oonfossed that ho kopt two bnuk accounts ! Tho companies will havo to Iry again-—ingrained or oonllrmou dis honesty is hard to bent. When, more over, men xvith two or threo aliases are found as couduotois ou tho New York Third-nvenuo road, it is a pretty good sign that Micro is something xvrong. DRUNKENNESS, Its Kmientrlflltlra Pori rayed by Oeorff* \V. IliuiKity. When a man is manufactured into a drunkard ho depreciates in value, bo- oauso “ tho raw material is worth moro than tho article that is manufactured besides, it won’t hold xvntor, and tho market is overstocked. Iu glancing at the unhappy nnd unfortunate men who drink to oxoesv, wo boo how differently they aro affeotod by habits of intempor- anoo. Ono man is like tho old-fashioned spirit, thermomotor—tho Honor risoH to tlio bulb, aud hiH bond is drunk, while tho rest of Ids body Booms to bo sobor. Ho stands np straight, aud walks in a direct lino, but all tho faculties of his mind aro staggering nud reeling under tho inflnonoo of rum. If bo liaa taste (for auytliing but liquor), it is perverted and tipsy. Ilifl understanding (snvo that part of his per son on whioh lie stands) is drunk. His tongue staggers iu speooh, and his words oomo spraxx’ling over his lips, like sim pletons hustled out of a saloon nt mid night. He looks nt you with drunken eyes. Hood says you can toll when n man Jins boon at his cups by tho sizo of his saucers. Another man, instead of golting drunk at tho top first, appears to bo hollow, nnd what is ponrod into him seeks the lower extremities; honoo, his foot > ro nffooted first, and seem to bo entangled with invisible twiue. Tho toper motes ns though ho xvas stepping on a tread-mill. lie carofully lifts biB foot high abovo the ground, and then permits them to fall suddenly—a proof that great bodies do not always move sloxvly. Ho would walk ou both sidos of the road at the same time if ho could, but that is a feat, no foot oan perform. The more ho fills up his body with I iiinor, tlio loss power be hns to keep himself up; so ho falls, and when on his buck ho tools upwards for tho around. Gin and gravitation aro too much for a man of oalibro. His head is not so far gone as his heels; ho is “down at tlio heels,” and his hosd ih “abovo water —not mu oh above whisky and xvater. A vory littlo of tlio ardent will intoxicate some finely organized persons, _ while others will swallow tho poison xvitli nil tho stiffnesR nud Solidity of junk bottles: and ono xvill havo to pour a great deal of noxv wine into suoli old bottles boforo they will hurst. Talk about tho drachms that make a sample, they will take any number of drams without sornplo. The morning sling, tho noontido drink, tho evening toddy, tlio eye-opener, tlio np- potiter, tho digester, tho *ottlor, tlio night-onp, tlio sleop sootlior, nro a foxv of the leading drinks they take, and tlio spaces botwoen them aro filled up xvitli treats and calls. Bud) a drinkist is a walking pnnoh-bowl. Touch him xvitli a lance, and bo bloods ptitioh; walk him out iu tlio hot sun and ho porspires punch ; appeal to his tender aympaiuios, and toll him lio oanMrbavoapothor drop, anil he weeps tears of punch; toll him a funny story, and his laughter sounds like tho gurgling of punch spilled from tho bowl. A man of this stamp boasts of bis oapooity to hold u largo quantity of liquor. Ho looks contemptuously on tlio poor tippler who only holds a pint or less. Tliero is tho facetious topor, who, if Darwin’s idoas of tlio origin of man are well founded, mnst bo tlio descendant of an npo; lio chatters over tho first glass, lie becomes frisky over tlio second, and outs up “ monkoy- shines” ovor tlio third, nnd degrades himself in tlio dirt nnd filth of beastli- ness over the fourth; ho laughs whon thoro is nothing to laugh at in himself or in his associates—’“ in vino veritan. Ho mistakes tho pump for a polioo offi- eor, and oxpressoH a hone that tlio officer will not striko him with his olnb. He wonders wliat makes tho ground nndu- lnte and heave bouoath liis feet. Is It an earthquake that mukos him quako? Tho combative drinker is always spoil ing for a fight; lio is tlio greatest enemy to himself; ho cannot master himself; he iu ever on tho alert to rosont roal or imagined grievances with 1st, dirk, or pinto], ana represents that cruel and pmlljetit (llnmi of not. who koop Iho oulendnr of oriino roil wilh Iniiooonf blooil. They nro tho woIvoh of Hooicty, but tenfold more dnllgotoUB tlliill nuy I,i,until of proy, nud tliolr nonlpH nro worthless. Splin has appointed a board of imenioacra. with Ca-itc-lar as i!a president, to ! treaty would surrender this Bum and add it to feree^eut that country at our centennial expo- i our overweighed industries and make Canada r: ii. I a thoroughfare for smuggling for all the world, j j u g?” “He stands and looks on like a | frosted pound cake by way of rendering Cant. Geo. H. Naree, now in command , Tho chief of the bureau of ordnance, ! darned fool, just as I’m doing now.” I Per prescriptions necessary. Insornta- , f Ik-:’ majesty’.-! ship Challenger, lias beer {in bis annual re; ort, recommends the rcarma- j “ Oh, ah! Hannah, put pn another | hie mamma ! Of course there are but- -jle.ted to I’ommisj tut expedition to be fit- j moat ot the navy with breech-loading rilled | plate.” I tons enough for a Peggotty, and needles But hero conies the mother with n med- tliat I think on’t, there is just a grain | ioine chest whioh must go in—pepper- of news. Mr. Jones’ cow has got five ■ miut for oolio, oil of hemlock for ear- calves," replied the visitor. “ Five ache, camphor for toothache, “ compo- c-tlves ! I never hoard of such a thing, i sition” for n cold in tho head, hot drops Why, what the dickens does the fifth j for indigestion, etc., nnd having seen one do while the other four are suck- j these safely cushioned, she slips nf linppy leb gnlvnniaed i nod Buntnined tiirR. unil'takGiip’tiiu vnrioun reiica/oach I by n "3’"*°'" ®J. written nil over with nemo plennnDt his- light wood, so nrrnngod that tho jwliole „... f few moments, we lose mrselvos in the illusion that tho sainted child loans lo us from the skies. Louise Knnnona fastens her garters with 9500 diamond clasps. Aunu Dick inson snaps a pair of amethysts round her little calves, nnd the widow of Capt. Jack ties her old army socks with u pair of Hhaeknasty Jim’s old suspenders. —“Matchless maid ! ’’ is the way u presumptnonR young man addressed a lady of a very uncertain ago. thing oan ho readily taken apart nnd put together in a few minutes, leaving the cylinders intact and in form to throw'over in case a large buoy should ho wanted. This raft iu put on board of many United States vessels. The “bell punch,” invented to keep oar conductors honest, lias ho n beaten. Two kinds of spurious bells have been Gen. Leo lu the Hour of Defeat. Eggleston says of Gen. Lee in “ Bohol’s Reoollections “I saw him for the last time during tho xvar at Amo lift Court House iu tho midst of tlio final retreat, and I shall never forget the lionrt-broken expression his face woro, or tho still sadder tones of bin voice as ho gavo mo tho instructions I had come to ask. The army was iu ut ter confusion. It was already evident that we woro boiug beaten back upon James river, and oould* never hope to maoh tho Roaneke, on which stream alone there might ho n possibility of making a stand. Gen. Hhoridan was harrussing onr broken oolnmns at every step, and destroying ns piooomeal. Worse than all, Gen. Loo had boon de serted by the terrified government in tho very moment of Ills supreme noed, and the food bail been snatched from tho mouths of tlio famished troops (as is more fully explained in another chap ter), that the flight of tho president and hiu followers might ho hastened. The load put thus upon Lee’s shoulders wus ry heavy ono for so conscientious n i as lio to boar; and knowing, as every southerner does, his habit of tak ing upon himself all blame for whatever went awry, we oannot wonder that he was sinking under the burden. His face woe still calm, as it always was, hut his carriage was no longer erect, os his soldiers had been nserf to see it. Tho troubles of thoso last days had al ready ploughed great furrows in liis forehead* His eyes wore red as if with woeping ; his ohoeks sunken and hag gard ; his face colorless. No one who looked upon him then as ho stood there, in full view of tho disastrous end, oan ever forget tho intense agony written npon his features. And yet ho was calm, self-possessed, and deliberate. Failure anil the sufferings of his men grieved him sorely, but they could not daunt him, and his moral greatness was never moro manifest than during those last terrible days. Even in tlio flnnl correspondence with Gen. Grant, Lee’s manlinosB and courage nnd ability to endure lio on the surface, und it is not the least honorable thing in Gon. Grant’s history that lie showed himself oapablo of appreciating the character of this made and sold to imitate tho “true manly foemon us he did whon he ro- ring.” Ono of those is curried in the turned Lee’s surrendered sword with palm of tlio loft hand, and tho other up the remark that ho knew of no, one so | tho sleeve. Hovers! oonduotors have | worthy as its^owner to wear it,” SAYINGS AND DOINGS. Kino Oofphh is said to have been formally deposed—driven off, in fdob— and to have boon suooeodud by big son. Just about this time many a fat gob bler is wondering about tlio liboral lionrtodness of its owner about feeding. Timms are only 0,083 surviving sol diers of tlio Mexican xvar out of ovor a hundred thousand engaged in that con flict. MitjXvaukibk women aro getting to bo vory thoughtfnl. They always notify tho ooronor now before they tread on ‘tv man. BmoiiAM Youno says it is not very pleasant to know that evmy newspaper in tlio oountry ban an obituary of him nlrondy in type. FiunADDbrniA is to have an Irish military oompany of “Gallowglasses,’ ovory member of whioh is to bo six feet in height, or taller. Mus. Barnttm was a poor girl onoo; now she wears six diamond rings on ono hand. -Why will poor girls bo oon- tent to make shirts at thirty cents npieoo? Boys will bn boys. At Alton, Illi nois, aproaoher asked all Bunday-sohool scholars to stand up who ip tended to visit tho wicked, soul-destroying circus. All but a lame girl stood up. Those graooful littlo hanging pookets xvorn by tho Indies now nro just tho thing. Jones says ho picked ft note out of one, and lonrned that Smith had tlio start of him, whioh saved him tho hu miliation of being rejeoted. Drlawaius is peculiar at all times. This your sho lias a full legislature— thirty men—with not a lawyer among tho number. Tlioro nro fnrmors, and merolmnts, and pliilosophers { but not a member ol tho legal profession. Men iu Nexv York who got drunk in a saloon, nnd thon break all tho glnss- wuro iu tho plftoe, oannot bo made to pay tho damage. The seller of the liquor in, under tho proseut law, liable for all tlio injury done by tho drinker. Advertisement iu a Frenoh paper : “A young mail of desirable presonoo, and desirous of getting married, would like to niako the aoqunintanoo of an aged nnd experienced gentleman who could disnado him from taking tho fatal step.” BmuitAM Youno has an nhundnnoo of vitality left iu him. Instead of prepar ing for n mansion in the skies, hn is building a magnificent residenoo in Balt Lake City, wiiioli, he says, shall out strip any house in Now York or Han Francisco. The attention of philanthropists is ro- speotfully oallod to the following case : A dandy swell in New York is in a fix. His pants were made so tight for him that lie can’t get liis boots on ; ai d if lie puts liis boots on first, he can't get tho pants ou. This is a oase of genuine dis tress. Copper is plenty in Italy, bnt gold is ■oareo, and tho copper money «f Italy and Frunoo are of the same valno, so a traffic xvas or/ anized of onrrying copper money into France on a pretty large scale, nnd getting gold tq roturn to Italy. Ono daulor was arrested xvith tflOO in copper money in his possession. Bis ms albums aro the latest fireside diversion. Pictures olippod from illus trated publications are pasted in a scrap hook, and tho collector’s scriptural knowledge is exercised in ohoosti g an appropriate vorso to writo bolow each out. Bare and expensive pictures uro sometimes used. Pbiikinh, of tho Cincinnati Times, ex plains why short drosses give tho ladies oornB. “The contraction of the skirts, ho says, “acts as a lovor upon tho fo- mnlo mind to shorten tho shoes, and thus prodtioes that hard, horn-like ex- oreeconoo, or induration of tho skin, known ns a corn.” Piiop. Lockwood, in Popular Haience, 'escribes the Poponias ohromia, a fish hat feeds on young oysters, allowing md swallowing shells and all. Just heforo it is ready to dine, it gives forth a sound something like that of a drum, tbiis informing tlio oysters that they are on their death-bed. Omo is going to send to the centen nial show a cheese weighing fourteen tons. Tho export of big cheese from this country to England, by the way, is vory large. An Inman steumer from New York recently took out a number weighing from 800 to flOO pounds each, one weighing ovor 1,200 pounds and ono 2,200 pounds. Franklin, who stayed away from homo a great deal, thus wrote : “ What influence hath woman ovor tho heart of mnn, to soften it, and to make it tho fountain of cheerful and pure emotions. Speak gontly, then ; a happy smile and a kind word of greeting after the toils of tlio day aro ovor, cost nothing, and, go far toward making a homo happy and peaceful.” The Lilliputian war-danoe which Mul- lott is said to havo described around tho handsome and placid secretary of tho treasury in his resignation soone, recalls tlio description ouoe given of him by Secretary Olioso. “ Multett, Mullett?” said tho secretary. “Oh. yes; Mullett is the littlo follow from Cincinnati, who explodes at the^ lowest pressnre of any man now living.” The St. Louis Republican is convinc ed that there is no girl like the St. Lonis girl. To have “o lovah in N(»o Yawk” is tlie affeettaion of tlio Chicago female. To receive “ viaits from a Bal timore gentleman ” delights the heart of the Louisville stunner. While the Cincinnati maiden receives attention from whatever nouroe it oomes. Tlie St. Louis girl, however, confides in the yonngtnan who lives iu the next square, and contents herself with him and the St. Lonis Ropnblioan. Geo. Fbanoib Train breaks silence by douatiug 400 acres of Omaha town lots to the city of Omaha for a public park. Mr. Train's solo conditions are that the oity assn mo certain mortgages and takes on indebtedness of about 860,000, now dne, and that there thall be no vote of thanks, monumental com pliments, or any nonsense of that sort. Mr. Train naively explains that.he con siders property unsafe to hold in thoi e communistic times—not too heavy, but simply unsafe. Wm. Brown, xvho trained for Mr. Ton Broeck in England, and in recent years for Francis Morris, has been engaged by Pierre Lorillard to take charge of his extensive stable of thoroughbreds, ho receiving the largest salary ever paid to a professional trainer, five thousand dollars a year, and a oommisBion of ten per cent, on the horses' winnings. Mr. Morris' “ string” of horses will also be trained in the same stable, Mr. Lonl- lard receiving one-half their winnings as compensation for the training ex penses. This stable, whioh is at Ban- coons, in Burlington county, N. J., will be tho largest and most powerful ever trained in the United States, numbering over forty thoroughbreds. lari. Ou being arrested, ruii 6 euory made a I DODJJV