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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S, D, WIKLE & CO., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1875.
VOLUME II. NUMBER 1.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Tits groat match between the Amer
ican rifle t-enm and the Irish shootists
commences on tho 29th inst., at Dolly-
mount Range, Ireland.
Tire Brule 8ionx have commenced
hostilities in Nebraska. They attacked
the settlers on tho Niobrara river, and
u large war party are uow on their way
toward the Ponca Indiau agenoy.
Troops are in pursuit.
Thk design for tno now postal card
has been agreed upon, and is now boiug
engraved at the printing bureau of tho
treasury department. It is very plain,
and will differ from theoard now in use,
in that tho border is left off, and it is to
l»e made of better material.
A letter from 8u Edward Thornton,
British minister at Washington, to a
gentleman in Indiana, is said to contaiu
a prophecy that the governments of
England and the United Htatos will
eventually bo alike in their main fea
tures, that of England beooming assim
ilated to ours.
Tn
t court of appeals of Maryland re
cently decided, in the case of a man who
killed himself and who Lad his life in
sured, that when tho not of self-destrnc-
tion is done duriug insanity it is death
by accident, and the insurance company
is bound to pay the amount of tho pol
icy, when insanity, temporary or other-
wiso, iH proven.
Rinck the terrible Holyoke (Mass.)
church burning, a bill has been intro
duced into tho Connecticut legislature
providing that thu doors of all churches
and public places of assembly shall
open outwardly. This is a wise meas
ure. In ease of a panic thero would,
with outward opening doors, bo no
chance for the ohoking of tho vestibules.
A reward of $6,000 has been offered
by General Bpinner for tho recovery of
the stolen $47,500 package. The fivo-
huudrod-dollar bills are about one-fifth
of tlio whole amount of five hundred-
dollar notes in circulation, and tho de
partment has no record of the numbers
of the stolen bills, which will givo tho
thief a hotter opportunity to escape
detection.
Tub Prussian government js making
great efforts to secure an efficient navy,
nml expects in two years to have one
which will be a fair match for the navies
of the lessor powers. During this
month a largo frigate is to bo launched,
and the wholo German sqnadron will
assemble at Willielmshavuu. Fifteen
war vessels are now in process of con
struction.
Tub Galveston News think* alligator
skins should begin to figure among
Texan exports. Florida and Louisiana
contrive to catch and skin 20,000 alliga
tors a year, and the Nows iH satisfied
that the Toxau Crop is fntty as groat as
both of thoso stales. Tho skins are
exported to England and France, but
chiefly to tho latter country, which fur
nisher tho l»est tanners in tho world.
The postmaster general has been
aroused, by tho sharp comments of the
press and the complaints of the public
to the consideration of tho iniquitous
imposition which n blundering senator
caused to bo levied upon tho peopl
He has expressed his purpose of oalliog
the attention of congress, in Docemt
the law
which
the
Pettenkofer, was estimated to have
betweeu sovou and eight hundred thou
sand leaves, and tho total amount of
evaporation Iti a year was computed to
bo eight and one-third times moro than
that of tho rainfall on an area equal to
that covered by tho troe, tho moisture
exhaled by tho leaves being equal to
soiuo two hundred and eleven inches,
while that from tho rainfall was but
twenty five inches.
A msPATon of tho lltli from “Nor
folk, Va., snys: Oapt. Brown, of the
schooner “ J. 0." arrivod bore to-day
having in charge the iron safe of tho
United States man of war Cumberland,
which was run into and sunk in Hamp
ton Ronds by tho confederate ram Vir
ginia iti 1802. Divers have been at
work on tho wreck ten years, having in
view tho reeovery of tho Hide. The
lucky man had only boon nt the wreck
forty-eight hours, when ho found tho
safo buried in throe foot of mud. Tho
water at tho plaoo is Hovonty-oight feet
deep. By the explosion of a torpedo
the Hafe was crucked and it was hoisted
on deck. A few pieces of gold coin
dropped out. It is generally believed
tho safe contained between sixty and
ouo hundred thousand dollars gold.
Tho safe and tieasnre belong to Oapt.
Brown and O. E. Moltby, of this city,
and Herbert Smith, of Detroit, Mich.
While Oapt. Brown was searching tho
wreck ho came noioes a petrified human
body in perfect state. The captain
supposes the body to bo that of one of
the officers, and intends to roturn and
B ® k [i ' -
LATE NEW8 SUMMARY.
EAST.
~ New England is suffering terribly
from drouth. J.Mt month was tho riryost on
record.
A dispatch from Pottsvillo, Pa., says:
It in tlio general hollof among tlio coal Operator*
nml other woll Informed citizen* that tho min
er*’ wtriko will oml within a fortnight at far-
prohahly i
1111 It HI
Tlio final i*
, Ini
will i
lolliery aftoi
will find enough roady to abi
to begin operation*. To prol
Kintayco of Iron; * will ho i
Htriko i* difhqtoly ahaiulon
on of nil m
l ton niillioin
i million* in
ling operation*, i* o*tl
of which rum tho inoi
rage*. If they hIiouIi
WEST
The following instructions havo beet
given by Lieut. Oon. Hhorldan, on a roque*
referred to. Inclined ii
ic&tioi
'iii Indian*,
toring the co
olngraiu froi
I thoi
bo givon to *11 partio* who contemplate enter
ing the country named that they will bo pre
vented from doing bo by tho military author
ities untl tho order* under wliioli the latter
are acting aro revoked.”
A Courier-Journal letter from Fort
Hill, Indian territory, *ay*: Tlio Quahalia
tribe of tlio wild Oomanohea aro ox pooled at
Fort Hill to aurrendor, agreeing to turn over
to tho military authorities all their arm* and
home* and mule*. Tho homo* number about
4,000 head, and the
» head of millet
raid in
i Toj
probably be placed Iti command of tho depart-
of thtt Bouth, lioadquartor* LouIhvIHo,
Major-General McDowoll, wlm will bo
granted loavo of ah*enoo to visit Europe, and
i hi* return bn placed on tlio retired Hat.
Crosby, the negro sheriff, of Vicks
burg wliilo in a Hftloonon Cherry street, drink
ing with A. Gilmer, a white man, who i* hi*
deputy sheriff and tax collector, was *hot
under tho left eye, tlio ball lodging in tlio
back part of IiIh hoad. A probing of four
Inchon failed to discover tho ball.
A •quarantine of ton days lies been
proolalmod by Gov. Kollogg again*! tlio portB
f Havana ami Vora Cruz from tlio 10th of
Juno. Hut tm-der a now regulation of tlio
board of hoaltli, tho ton day* In the crbo of
all vorhoIb bringing a clean bill of health will
begin to count from tho time of thoir leaving
the infootod port for New Orlean*.
Advioos from Notices oounty, Texas,
report Adjutant General Htoelo on a tour of
observation through tho wostorh oountio*,
making a tiiorougli examination of tlio past
troublor, with a view of reporting to the stato
authorities. It i* stated an enrollment has
boon made of all tlio male* liable to military
duty, between the Gnmlalonpo and llio Grande,
in tho southern oountio*.
A committee of twenty citizens’ of
Columbia, who were appointed to Invefltigato
tlio condition of tho city (bianco*, havo sub-
mittod a report, in which they stato tlio munici
pal debt to bo $627,000, mainly contracted
by fraudulent partioH. A mass mooting was
held and I'OBOhltlniiR adopted, requeuing tlio
mayor ami aldermen to resign. A letter was
rend from Gov. Chamborlaln oxproaulng *ym-
pHthy with tho object of tho mooting
MISCELLANEOUS.
Secretary Delano lias notified tho
Indian bureau that a commission will ho sent
out to tlio Sioux nation to negotiate with tlio
Indians for tho rolinqnlahmont of tlirir hunt
ing grounds In Nebraska.
Tho secretary of tho intorior has ap
pointed Gov. Axtoll, of Utah territory, to bo
of Now Moxlot
dined, and Goo. W. Emory f
vlco (
ildiug
rof Utah.
(toll.
Tho United States supremo court con
firmed tlio dootaionof tho l’cmiHylvaniaoourla
Hustaliilng tho stato law taxing tlio gro*H ie-
oolptB of tho portion of tlio Erie road within
It* borders.
On tho first of July tho international
postal treaty hotwoon the United HtatoH and
most of tlio European countries gooH into of
foot. A single paymont of postage will thou
carry almost anywhere in tlio oivllizod world a
letter weighing llftoen grains, motrio measure,
or a little over half an oui.ee.
An act of tho last congress changing
the rates on domostlo money orders will go
into force about tho Loginning of next month.
Tlio now ratos will ho a* follows : On order*
oding tlC,
over tlC ami no
r fflO and not ex
postage upon trutsiept papers, with th
view of securing a modification of tho
rates.
After expending 81,500,000 in fruit
less efforts to discover a proc
utilizing silk rags, Mr. Lister, a wealthy
English manufacturer, has succeeded
converting such rofnso into tho finest
velvet. Ho now carries on this indus
try in an establishment which employs
some 4,000 workmen, and hundreds of
travelers are also employed whose sole
business is to l>ny tho silk waste, and
this they do in all parts of tho globe.
Tho factory is said to have cost nearly
$3,000,000.
The Wisconsin grangers havo gone
back on tho regularly-constituted life
insurance companies, as they think they
detect a swindle about them, and have
organized a company of their own. Tho
features of the insurance company, or
society, are in many respects similar to
those of tho Odd Fellows’ Life Insurance
company, being on the co-operative
plan. Any member of a grange, in
good health and under GO years of age,
is eligible to membership in tho com
pany. The fees of membership, when
admitted, are: Loss than 35 years of
age, $3 ; from 35 to 45 years of age, in
elusive, $5 ; from 45 to 50 years of age,
$8; from 50*to 55 years of age, $12 ;
from 55 to 60 years of age, $15. Two
thousand dollars is the limit of insur
ance allowed. At the death of a mem
ber an issessment of $1 per member
made.
Recent experiments tend to show
that forests increase atmospheric humid
ity by the action of their roots rather
than by any attraction
clouds. The moisture,
comes from below, an.i
The roots seem to t*
through which water <i
earth is conducted to the leaves and
passes thence into the atmosphere. An
Oak tree, experimented upon by Prof. 1 who h»a been relieved by Gen. IngaliB, will
rted on rair
Jther words,
m above,
s outlets
from tb<
t fro
Tim b
past five years, and tlio authorities havo ai-
WHVH failed to induce them to come on tho
reservation. They havo boon anxiously looked
fur almost every year by tlio Fourth United
Htatos cavalry on tho Staked PlahiH, under
command of Gen. McKenzie, but soldotn wore
they, or any portion if them, found Texas
will ho rid of a tronblosomo enemy, lint one
nmail band of Apaches aro now out, and it Ih
rumored they will follow tlio example of thoir
Quahaha friend*, which would leave tho
Houthern Slaked Mains free from hostile
Indian*.
SOUTH.
Gen. Doff Green died at his home in
Dalton Goo., last week.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is being
strongly uigod for tho governorship of Geor
gia.
Louisiana will raise 200,000 barrels
of rice lid* season, or twice as much a* la*t
Gen. Henry W. Barry, a member of
the house of representatives from Mississippi,
died suddenly on tho 7th Inst., in Washington
city of appoploxy.
Jefferson Davis has been tendered
and will accept tlio presidency of tlio Texas
mechanical and agricultural collego, at Bryan,
at a salary of ♦4,000.
Tno headquarters of tho national
grange of tlio patrons of husbandry, which,
been in Washington, will probably bo removed
to Louisville in a short time.
The report of the Missouri board of
equalization shows the aggregate value of the
taxable property in that state, for 1875, to be
♦M9,503,471, a docrea-io of ♦49,009,411, a*
compared with tho valuation of last year.
The president has directed that all
the lands lying contiguous to tho Mississippi
river, within twelve miles of the month, be
reserved for military purposes, under tho act
authorizing Capt. Eads to construct Jetties
for deepening tho cli
Miss Mary Telfair, a daughter of
ex-Gov. Telfair, who died last week in
Havamiah, loft to various religioi
tional, and charitable institutions in Georgia
legacies amounting to a total of over ♦ 1,000,•
000.
In Bine Earth county, Minnesota,
600,000,000 grasshoppers aro said to havo been
killed in two days last week, by the people,
who get $2 per bushel bounty for them. The
i 600,000,000 hoppers co*t the county *4,000,
I hut it is considered a good bargain.
Meigs, quartermaster-general,
oxer oiling (SO, 15
flooding ♦40, 20 couis •, ovpr *40 and not ox-
cooding *50, 25 ooutH.
Tho secretary of tho treasury has in
spected tlio cash-room of tho treasury depart
ment, nml otlior rooms where money is handled,
willi a view to having tlio construction of tho
doaks altered, oto., for tho bettor protection
of government funds. Hereafter, visitor* will
not l>o admitted to tlio bureau of engraving
and printing, vaults of tlio treasury or any
rooms in which money is kept or handled.
As tho visit of the Sioux to Washing
ton to negotiate with tho government for tlio
relinquishment of thoir possession of tlio
Black Hills linn proved n failure, and ns tlio
Indians loft hero much dlssnllsflod, diflloultJoH
nrc apprehended between them and Much
white* who may onior thoir country for the
purpose of seeking gold, it i* estimated Hint
tho Hloux can muster from throe to five thou
sand warriors, about half armed with rifle*
and tho remainder with hows and arrows. Tlio
government monnllmo will endeavor to pre
vent adventurers from going lo that country,
still having *ome hope, through tlio medium
of commissioners, to effect n treaty willi tho
Hioux.
Tho steamship Stato of Georgia
which arrived at Now York la«t week, brought
live seamen of tlio Dominion linn steam
ship Vicksburg, from Montreal for Liver
pool, which was sunk by ico Tuesday,
June 1. Tho men wore picked up Juno
5, nearly dead from oxposuro, hut
siuco then havo boon rapidly improving. 'J'lioy
toll a fearful tale of distress. Other boat*
wore launched witli a largo number of persons,
but tho greater number wore scon to porlsh
getting on tlio boats. Tho Vicksburg
.wn in tlio rnidsl of ico and tlio Is
rounded by icebergs and Hold Ico wh
pie) od up. Tlio otlior boats are not yot hoi
mi. Tho livo mon rendued had thoir f<
d legs very much swollon, so much so tl
oir boots had to bo cut from their fn
They are still suffering from thoir groat
A :r uy
h ‘-Awake T’Vi’i'uie'imiqJ^Wforward and Jfetit
LOST IN AN AFRICAN WILDER
NESS.
HY AL1UCRT HALL.
Captain Harris's exposition, on its
return from tho Onsoan mountains,
chose an as yot untravolod routo by way
of tho Vaal river. Proceeding some
distance south of this river, the country
still scorned a litoral menagorio, afford
ing opportunities for tho olinsc such as
tho most enthusiastic sportsman could
scarcely hope for. Now they would
encounter a lierd of hollowing buffaloes,
now ride down a troop of towering
giraffes, now secure some new species of
antelope, now bring low sorno tawny-
maned and furious forest kin$ or in
quisitive rhinoooros or thick-hided nml
almost bullet-proof hippopotamus.
One day numbers of blosboka—a
whito-fnooq and variegated antolopo—
were seen grazing on the richly carpeted
plain. Onptaui Harris mounted his
favorite steed and, his zeal in no whit
abated, dashod into the thick of the
herd. A hill shaped liko a pineapple,
about five miles to the east, he relied
upon as a landmark to diroct his return
to tho road.
Scouring tlio plain, an unerring
marksman, aftor several shots ho de
sisted, as tho herd eontimied to inorense
from hu ml rods to thousands, reinforce
ments pouring in from every side. Dis
mounting, he ladened his horse with
tho pnrti colored robes of some of the
slain, and set out to rojoin his pnrty.
But they wero nowhoro in sight, i:train
ing his oyos to discern tho obscuro
wagon traeks, ho redo to and fro, search
ing in vain. Tho pineapple hill upon
which ho had depended, by the refrac
tion of tho sun’s rays—hot treacherous is
tho mirugo in that region -now scorned
as if poised in tho sky, and could no
longer bo trustod as a guide. Other
wise, tho sameness of the lundsonpn
tended lo confuse, and thus our traveler,
losing tho points of tho eompasH, became
nt last utterly bewildered.
It was impossible to rotrnco ids steps
over tho plain so recently trampled by
innumorablo Lords. Now the wlrito
tilt of a wagon would seem to loom in
tho distance, but would prove to bo
only a noli (ary q Huzza, or some oilier
denizrn of tho wilderness. Now a group
of pigmy Imshwomen. walking unheeded
among a herd of blosboks, magnified by
the mirage, he would mistake for his
own uttendnntfl following witli the cattle
—quite a drove of oxen boiug a hooch-
wary appendage to tho expedition for
the purpose of relays.
Fatigued with searohing and burning
with thirst, 1m continued to ride hither
and thither, still on tho watch for traces
of his caravan, nor finding in all tho
flowery waste—a veritable garden of
pinks and marigolds— stream or. pool
whoro bo might moisten bin parched
lipH.
Tho refraction dissipating as tho day
doclinod, throe table-topped mountains
which had for sorno tirao served tho
party as landmarks, again became vini-
blo on tho horizon. Consoling himnclf
with tho thought tluit ho was now nt
least advancing in tho same direction ns
liis company, Cnpt. Harris hastened
forward, refreshing himself witli a
draught of clearest water from a wind
posiiri) to wot ami cold, hut are recovering ah
fast a* could bo expected
FOREIGN.
The lieutenant governor of Lower
Canada lias dissolved the assembly and ap
pealed to a new election to take place July 8.
The troubles in Formosa, between
the Chinese and tlio Aborigines, are now ox-
ending to tlio east and north of tlio island.
The town of Morshank, on tho right
bank of tlio rivor Tsna, Itoasia, has boon en
tirely destroyed by lire. It hod a population
of 20.000, and contained throe churches and
a number of manufactories and saw mills.
Messrs. Adger and Wicks, appointed
by tlio federal union of agricultural labor, of
London to make an examination of the Mis
sissippi valley, for the purpose of ascertain
ing its suitability for settlement by emigrants,
will leave for the United States in two weeks.
Nows has been received, by way of
8t. Thomas, of a terrible earthquake iti New
Grenada Tlio destitution was greatest in the
valley of Cucut, on the Venezuelan frontier.
It is reported that 16,000 lives wero lost by tho
calamity.
At Havanna on tb<f 7th, a duel
fought between Dr. Algernon Bidney Ci
of New York, and H&lvador Cortreal, a to!
merchant of Havanna and New York,
combatants ha/1 been intimate many years
and lived together in New York. Dr. Curtis
w&s stopping at Cortreal’s botno. Five shots
were fired by each contestant, beginning at *
diHtance of twenty feet and firing as they ad
vanced. At tho fifth discharge Dr. Curtii
was Herioasiy wounded in the hip and fell tc
tho ground fainting from pain and loss of
blood. Upsn recovering consciousness, he
says be saw Cortreal reload his revolver and
lace it at his temple killing himself.
which ho reached ut dusk. ItH
banka wore bordered with willows and
itH sandy bod was imprinted with the
footsteps of a troop of lions.
Tho setting sun having giyou him tho
bearing of the throe mountains, ho now
discovered that ho had crossed the road
and ridden too far to tho eastward,
hopo of retrieving his error lie followed
the course of the river until, night
closing in, he was obliged to bivouac
among some bushes, the stars, which
are far moro brilliant in that latitude
than in our northern skies, being con
cealed by tho clouds of a gathering
thunder-storm.
As ho was preparing for his night's
rest, suddenly there gleamed out upon
the water tho light of a beacon-fire.
Approaching it with tho joyful expocta
t on of joining his own people, imagino
his disappointment on beholding a band
of bushmon, strolling dwellers of those
plains, whoso propensity for horse-steal
ing made it necessary for onr traveller
to retrace his steps with all haste and
quietness, lest tho loss of his steed
should render the situation still moro
deplorable.
The restiveness and uneasy snorting
of tho horse indicated the presence of
lions in the vicinity ; but fear of being
discovered by his two-legged neighbors,
the bnahmen, prevented Harris from
building a fire for it.« protection or for
the purposes of cooking. So the clam
ors of hunger had to remain unsatisfied
until, about midnight, having excavated
an underground oven, he ventured to
light a fire sufficient for roasting a wild
fowl, which served for his Christmas
dinner, this being tho 25th of December.
The morning set in with a heavy rain,
and the traveler arose from his sleep
drenched, cold, and cramped. The
soil consisting mostly of a red, loamy
earth, the ruin easily destroyed all
vestiges of the wagons and rendered
futilo the hope of finding tho trail.
Harris now decided to follow tho course
of the river, which curved to the west
ward, several milcB farther, and then,
should he not moot with his party, to
cross tho country in a direct line to the
conical hill—a btill visible landmark—
thus intersecting tha road at some point
should it not be entirely obliterated.
After a second day’s wandoring lu the
scorching boat of tho midsummer sun,
( xtrionting himsolf at ouo time from a
concealed pitfall made bv tho bushmon
for out rapping game, dining off tho
fiosh of a spring buck wliioli ho Imd
ahob, Harris took np his night’s lodg
ings in a oavo on the summit of tho hill
referred to, having dotooted no tracos
of the road.
Tho night was oalm and the stars
magnifloontin thoir brilliancy. From his
stronghold ho gazed out upon tho wido
expanse of plain boueath, and for hours
listened for some sound which might
diroot his bowildorod footsteps—some
melody such as his followers wore wont
to troll, tho cracking of whips, or tho
boom of signal gnus which ho know
would bo fired for his guidance.
Ho hoard only tho shrill notching of
tho zebra, tho bloating of tho timid
spring bnok, tho hollowing of tho gnoo,
tno roar of tho prowling lion, liko tho
low nimbio of distant thunder. All
olfio was siloouoo, solitude.
Ho now dobatod whether to make at
ouoo for Capo Colony or to continue the
search for his caravan. Bydoing thofirat
ho must pass through an unknown and
inhospitable region, but could probably
reach tho frontier, about two hundred
rnilos away, in six or seven days, should
hi* horse not give nut. But tlio anxiety
and uuoertaiiity which his companions
must ondure, meantime, determined
him to make one moro effort boforo
abandoning tho sonroh.
f,, he third day dawned with a glory
hioh seemed to mook his forlorn situ
ation. Tho purple canopy of clouds re
treating in an array of innumorablo
fantastic figures from tho pathway of
tho sun, tho wholo heavons wore tinted
by tho field of rose and crimson
beyond, with every variety and depth of
shade. Tho sunrisos and sunsets of tho
southern hemisphere so far surpass onr
own in thoir rcsplondencc.
At noon, lifting his eyes from tho
ground, whoro they wore almost do-
spairingly seeking vontiges of tho cara
van, ho suddenly recognized tho place
whoro it had Invited for breakfast on tho
morning previous to his separation from
it. With unnttorablo joy and roliof ho
dashed toward tho spot, and instantly
hit upon tho trail of tho wagons. Stead
ily following this, ho soon came up with
a hand of savages, who fled terrified at
his approach ; but encouraged and em
boldened by the offer of a broken cigar
they returned ; and when ho, by signs,
indicated that lie wuh in search of his
wagons they understood, and, holding
up tlnir hands, pointed townrd tlio
horizon.
The women of tho band, though at
first oxcoodingly timid, had meanwhile
taken note of tlio brass buttons on tho
stranger’s jacket, and pointing to thorn
(ixolaimcd, “Tullana, tullanal" (but
tons, buttons B Upeuj being' presented
with those, nml also with tlio knife with
which they had boon cut off, they wore
mad with delight, and declared their
intention of accompanying the capt ain
in person, hoping to rcceivo more gifts.
Placing himself tinder tho guidanoo
of those peoplo, in the course of an hour
ho came within sight of the wagons.
Weary and wayworn, ho was joyfully
woloomod by liis follow travelers, who
had, meanwhile, taken every possible
moans for bin recovery, fearing that ho
was dead.
Bohomianism.
Lads with a love of literature who
fancy that it would be a fine tiling to be
a Bohemian like Savage and Ghatterton
and Dormody, had better think twenty
times boforo they rush into any such
folly. For, in the first place, if there
were no materia! points to bo consid
ered, beginners should take heed of the
waslo of ability which tho so-called
Bohominn life brings with it. They
will not find it pleasant at tlio oml of a
loose and unbridelod career to reflect
that they might havo done much and
havo done so little—a fow verses, a tale
or so, a farce, a few jokes in tlio comic
newspapers, nml a miscellany of pen
and ink stuff forgotten in tho reading.
Of course, thoir light performances
have creditable elements—brilliancy,
porhapH, humor, good feeling, n simpi-
oion of high and honorable aspiration.
It in generous, doubtless, for a writer
to nut his best into his public writing,
and to reserve his worst for his own
daily lifo and conversation; but snob
liberality comos to no good nt last. Bad
liubits take away the power of good
work. Without thoir constant com-
nanionshii), a man forgets what, is in the
lio iks. Exigency will make him toler
ant of his own hasty fuulta, and un
mindful of tho duty of doing his best
for tlio more snko of doing it. Hensnnl
pleasures will render tho finest hand
coarse in time. He who drinks boor,"
said Dr. Johnson, “thinks boor and
the stronger the beer, tho smaller the
thought, may be added. Moroovor, a
want of method will make rosults frag
mentary nud quality unequal, while tho
waste of precious time and the unim
proved “once" of opportunity, will
crown tho disaster of un ill-spent life.
Then will oomo men’s pity, harder to
hoar than their reproaches ; tho sting of
oonsoieuco; the senso of failuro ; want,
mortification, the»xtremo of discomfort,
and at last death and the grave, with the
undertaker’s bill paid by tho charitable
and a monument raised by subscription!
Young gentlemon still in Libor Primus
this is the brilliant Bohomianism of
which von sometimes pleasantly drearn.
Our advice to you is to have nothing to
do with it. Love literature as much as
you please, but cultivate a habit of pay
ing your debts, of saving your money,
of improving your timo, of keeping
sober, and of wearing clean shirts 1
There isn’t a writer living by his wits in
this great city, who will not, in liis
serious moments, toll you that this is
good counsel. He may repeat it to you
over tho rang of beer which you aro to
pay for, warning you to do ns he preach
es and not as lie practices. Then ho
will drink the beer and wait for you to
offer him a cigar.—N. Y. Tribune,
—In one place wo read that Julia
Ward Howe says womon need roat, and
in another it is assorted that sixty
thousand women ure exhibiting their
spring bonnets on Chestnut street,
Philadelphia. Such contradictions us
this aro ulways turning up just as the
searcher after truth has come to a con
clusion, and he has to begin all over
again,
USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
HunaartAn grass seed should bo
•wn, fur hay, at about, the rate ot
throe pecks per aoro; many use a
bushel, others not ovor ouo-half a
bushel. Sow from tho first of Juno to
tho fifteenth, and oven to tho first of
July in ordinary seasons.
Hicn-manhue, mixed with lonm and
spread broad oust., or scattered in tho
drills, is an excolleut dressing for pota
toes, and for almost any farm or gnrdon
crop. If very much concentrated, it
must not bo placed in largo quantities
very no r the seed, as it will destroy
tho lifo of tho young sprouts.
Hundreds of ohildron havo falling
victims to soarlot fever in thin o'.ty dur
iug the past three mouths. Concerning
tho treatmont of this disease, an omi-
nont physician t ay a that ho does not
fail in effecting a euro moro than onoo
in a hundred oases by giving the patient
warm Icmouado with gum arabio dis
solved in it. A cloth rung out of hot
water and laid upon tho Btomnoh should
bo ronowod as rapidly ns it becomes
cool. This simple treatment tho most
obstinate oases seldom fail to sueoumb.
Germantown Telegraph*
Water-proof Varnish.—Hero is an-
otlior way to prevent, water from getting
through shoes. Tho composition also
makes a good harness dressing. Take
noat’u-foot-oil, 11 piutH; beeswax, I
ounce ; spirits of turpoutiuo, 1 ounces,
and stir until cold. Spread and rub
this composition over the leather whilo
" ' damp ; leather will absorb oil and
flo better when damp than when
dry. For tho polos, take pine-tar and
ill) it iu boforo the fire until tho solos
will absorb no more. Throe or four
applications will bo noedod. Thedura-
utiL.. a.« m much in-
A correspondent of Iho Country
Gentleman, writing of tho ndvautagos
of a short rotation of crops, says :
“Glover is at its best for pasture or
hay tho second your aftor seeding. If
allowed to grow through that year its'
roots oxtoml ns fur as they over will,
and the ley is in host condition for
plowing. If kept longer tho plover
runs out and its place is left vacant,
or filled by weeds or intorior grasses.
If timothy is mixed with clover
at Hooding,‘ it will partially occupy tho
ground as tho clover retires, but, uovor
so fully uh if the original seeding was
timothy. In short, keeping olovor sod
over tho second or third year, at most,
is generally bad policy, and should be
discouraged. For one or two yours
land in clover increases in fertility,
after that tho udvuqtago
another Herding is had."
Halt for Oaimiaok.—A, Now Jorsoy
gardener considers salt necessary to tho
development of oabbago, especially ih
places far from tho const. Ho finds
them moro crisp, of bpttor flavor, and
lo hoop bettor when salt is used than
without. Ho usod it as follows: “A
fow days after sotting out tho plants,
and when they aro damp, oitlior after a
rain or when tho dow is on, I tako a
small dish of flue salt nml walking
among tho rows, sprinkle a little pinon
of salt on tho eontor of each plant whon
tho loaves begin to grow. I repeat tho
salting, oud when theeonterof tno loavos
bogin to form tho Load, I apply salt
again, scattering it ovor tho loaves;
after this I look tliom ovor occasionally.
and if I find plants that do not head well
and appear diHoasod, 1 sprinkle tho salt
ovor freoly; this will nave all such
plants. A quart of salt is sufficient for
flvo hundred plants in a season, although
more can bo used with safety,”
To Prevent Disease —It may bo as
sumed, says tho Herald of Health, with
out hesitation, that whonovor a pro
nounced case of typhoid fevor breaks
out in an isolated country house, or
whon any form of low rover occurs,
though it may fail to assume a distinct
typhoid character, there is in that
house, or about it, or in oonnootion
with its supply of driukiug-oollar, s
ovorflow from a ham-water, some
cumulation of noglootod filth, Homo pile
of rolton vegetables in the yard, some
spot of earth saturated with the slops
of tho kitchen or sorno other form of
imparity to which tho origin of tho dis
ease may bo distinctly traced. This
being tho ease, it lies porfcotly within
until
FA0TS AND FANCIES.
—A broker says “ Giv<f mo tho bonds
of a government., and I care not who
breaks its laws.”
—Tho average Amorioan boy will
make a great fuss and complain bitterly
that it will spoil his clothes, if asked to
bring in an armful of wood for his
mother; but givo him a gun, and ho
will crawl half a mile on liis stomach,
through a ditoh with fonr inches of
wutor in it, to got n shot nt sorno ducks.
—A writer discussing tho oompara-
tivo economy of horses and mnlos, aftor
saying “ the* only superiorty I see in
tho mule is tnnt he will stand rough
trtntmont bettor,” adds what is very
true whon he Hays, “ but thero is neither
religion nor greenbacks in harsh treat
ment of stoolc,"
—“ My vory d-o-a-r ohildron,” said a
traveling Sunday-school gimlet. “ I
lovo you so much I could talk all day to
you, but time forbids. But I h-o-p o to
moot you iu heaven, and then—” “I
hopo he won’t,” said a restless, rod-
hondod bov, “ he'll talk t.s to (loath;
won’t ho, Jim ?"
—An ox will oonBtxme two per cent, of
his weight of hnv por day to maintain
his condition. If put to modorato labor,
au increase of this quantity to throe
per cent, will onablo him to perform his
work and Btill maintain fiosh. If ho is
to be fatted, he requiros about four anil
a half por oout. of his weight daily iu
nutritious food.
Old Zaohariali Jackron, of Rooky
Gnloh, Nevada, is a “ forty-niner who
had boon through tho mill. ’ Tho otlior
day ho hobbled up to a party of now-
oomers and observed : “ 'Tend to yor
biznoBB, boys, and yo'll ho all right.
I’vo boon boro nigh on to thirty years,
anil lmvo boon lyuohod, shot and
stabbed, knookod down, thrown off a
mountain and mopped around generally,
but I’m here to day, biggoru’n a box
oar.”
—Tho laws of Paris arc a strong por-
suaatvc to honosty on the part of trades
men. Jewellers aro obliged to distin
guish plated from genuine waro by tho
word “ imitation ” placed where the cus
tomers cannot fail of seeing it if a
grocer is detected Bolling adulterated
articles ho is heavily fined; liis name
and place is published at bin own ox-
ponse in tho official journal, nud ho is
compelled to oxpoRQ in his atoro for a
specified time a placard statu.g that ho
had been ttued for selling adulterated
goods.
—Every duty briugs its poonliar de
light, every douiul its appropriate com
pensation,’ ovory thought its reoom-
jiouho, ovory lovo its olysium, ovory
cross its crown ; pay goes with perform
ance ns effect with cause. Moannoss
overreaches itself; vice vitintoH wlioovor
indulges iu it; the wicked wrong thoir
own souls ; generosity grentons ; virtue
exalts; charity transfigures, nud holi
ness is tho essence of angelhood. God
docs not require us to live on credit; llo
pays us what wo
or evil, heaven o
choice.
—Tho sale of soda water is falling off
all over tho country, and costly foun
tains. manufactured in the eastern o tioa
lor from *!I00 to 8a,n00, vraulil [>°
stock iu tho drug stores but for tho sale
of mineral waters. If lager boor wore
to bo had in tho private oa/en and
bought for ladies, it would finish tho
soda altogether. Thousands of rnou
now, aro in tho habit of Bonding bottled
lager home to thoir wives, particularly
nursing wives, whereas, a glass of boor
from tho keg is equal in freshness to a
gross of bottles. Tartars add is tho
principal and generally tho only adul
teration of boor.
earn it, good
heflf according to our
Nnpoloon » Sfoond Marriage.
A writer roviowiug Lunfroy’s “His-
toiro do Napoleon I.” says: Tho oir-
eumstanoos attending the divorce or
Josephine and her husband’s marriage
with Mario Louise aro detailed at con
siderable length by the author. On the
28th of December, 1809, boforo the
Metropolitan Tribunal had confirmed
tho dissolution of tho religious murriago
with Josephine, Oaulainoourt, the
French Ambassador at St. Petersburg,
opened negotiations for thp hand of tho
Grand Duchess At no, sister of the Czar.
wo... K uuu iw nvn i/uuou... nuiuu A projeot of OOUVOIltioU botWCOll tllO
tho province of ovory household to ro- two powers in respeot of tho affairs ol
move any souroo of infection to which Poland was thou under discussion, its
tho lionso may bo liable. Vegetables principal articles wore: 1. A reciprocal
in any considerable amount should not engagement not to suffer the ro-estab-
ho kopt in tho house-cellar and at least lishmeut of the kingdom of Poland. ^
onoo a week tho floor of tho cellar The suppression of tho names iolarnl
and “Polish" in all public and private
week the floor of the collar
should be swept and every shrod of
waste vegetables removed. Even whon
this is dono, thu oolhir should be ven
tilated by a window or other small open
ing toward tho quarter least exposed to
cold winds (and in summer on every
side). Tho privy, if a privy is used,
should bo well away from tho lionso,
and especially far from tho well, unless
its coutents are roooivod in a tight box
and entirely absorbed by dry earth or
ashes, and even then frequently re
moved ; tho chamber slops of tho house
should never, under any circumstances,
bo thrown into the privy vault, nor into
a porons cesspool, from which thov can
leach into the ground und through tho
ground for a long distance into tho well,
or into and around tho foundation of
tho honse. The same disposal of the
liquid waste of tho kitchen is desirable,
but not so absolutely inportunt. It is,
however, important that this shonld bo
led by an impormoablo drain to r point
well away from the house and from tho
well; swill and all manner of nonde
script refuse materia), suoh as is
sloughed off by every household in the
ordinary course of its living, should be
removed nt least daily from tho near
vicinity of the dwelling, and tho vessels
in which it accumulates should bo fre
quently cleansed and airod; manure
heaps should not bo left to ferment and
send off their exhalations at a point
whence frequent winds waft them to-
wurd and into the dwelling, nor should
tho barn-yard bo allowed to drain,
either over the snrfaco or through a
porous Boil, toward tho house or well.
If all theso precautions are takou the
well will be tolerably safe; but if there
is any donbt on the point, thon let no
water be drank exoept after boiling; or
the drinking water of the houso may
bo taken entirely from a filtering
cistern, of which the filtering bed is
I sufficient to hold back all organic matter.
documents. 8. Tlio suppression of tho
old orders of Polish chivalry, and of all
autonomy of tho duchy of Warsaw.
Alexander, tho sinoerlty of whose ad
miration for Napoleon is questioned by
M; Lanfrey, was adverse) to tho match,
but would probably lmvo consented to
it as tho price of tho French adhesion
to tho project of convention. Ho there
fore returned a courteous answer to
Ganlainoourt’s propotal, _ professing,
nevertheless, that tho decision did not
rest with him alone, a ukase of the Em-
poror Paul, his father, havir g, left to
the ornpresH mother tho disposal of hor
daughters in marriage. He would en
deavor, liowovor, to obtain hor consent.
A fortnight later tho ambassador re
ceived instructions to demand a cate
gorical answer from the czar iu ten
days. Tho reason of this singular ulti
matum— uuoxamplod id tho annals of
official courtship—was that Napoleon
had ulready changed his mind. He had
no liking for the Polish convention,
which would have deprived him of a
useful weapon against Russia; more
over, tho grand duchess was but six-
leou, and her relations u«ked for a delay
of one or two years. Napoleon, witli
his habitual impatience, would not
hoar of this condition, and Austria hav
ing spontaneously suggested an alliance
between tho courts of Vienna and tlio
Tuilerios, tho murri igo with tho Arch
duchess Maria Louisa had boon vir
tually decided upon before an answor
from St. Petersburg could possibly
havo arrivod. It is fortunate that the
invention of the electric tolograph and
tho steam-engine was postponed till
after the fall of a man who would havo
made such terrible' use of them. Even
the snooesea of Wellington might have
been arrested could the Emperor have-
communicated daily and hourly with
his lieutenants.