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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE ‘2(1, IS'
VOLUME II. NUMBER 2.
TIM KIA’ Tones.
A mono the smuggling devices de
tected »it New York in the illicit impor
tation of rittlioiiH hi*l in watch-cascs—
$00 worth in each gbro. Other articles
have been smuggled iu through Con
Miihir otllei.il mail-bug*.
Tiir drinking water furnished the in
habitants of Washington must be n sort
of cannibal soup, thirty-one bodies of
infantile humanity having been found
iu cleaning out the sediment of the res
ervoir last week.
Tun government ia going to send two
entomologists to the west to study the
grasshopper and his habits, with a view
to exterminating him. The people of
Minnesota seem to be mastering the
pest with clubs and other weapons,
without the aid of high science.
A nuNPnKP and twenty Englishmen
propose to visit this country to shoot
buffaloes. How would they tike to
have fifty Sioisx and a scoro or two of
Utes encamp iu their parks, and kill
de«-r and rabbits and such things? Ihif-
faloes are growing scarce, and the wan
ton shooting of them should be prohib
ited by law. The shooting of elephants
merely for tho fun of the thingis almost
ns inhuman as tho murder of men.
Hkcfnt statistics, compiled by the
best authorities in Germany, shows
that Paraguay has actually decreased
in population nearly half a million. Ho
much for the infernal war waged by
Brazil and the Argentines on Lopez,
The Paraguayans were declared by all
uuthoritits to bo tho most enterprising
and moral people in South America,
They are now nearly obliterated from
the earth.
Tub department of agriculture in its
cotton report for June states : The
thioatcned reduction in area has not
taken place nor has the reduced area of
last year been much enlarged. The
comparison with lust year is as follows •
North Carolina, 102 ; South Carolina,
1<W»; (teorgja, W; Florida, Oil; Ala
bama, 101; Mississippi, 102 ; Louisi
ana, P.M ; Texas, 108; Arkansas, 101 ;
T ' nesseo, '.'2. The report of tho con
dition is the most favorable in the past
live seasons with the exception of that
of 1872.
Now comes a Frenchman who defies
drought and proposes to make farmers
free and independent of tho clouds.
Ilia name is Paraf, and the Monsieur
and his plan depend* on tho fact that
chloride of cnlelum absorbs moisture'
from tho nir. By mixing it with the
moat unpromising roils, he has ascer
tained that, a judicious proportion of
the familiar compound will more ef
fectually irrigalo waste lands than any
present system of canals or wells, IHh
preparation retains moisture for throo
days, where water application as now
prae'.iecd would evaporate in one.
The completion of the new Atlantic
cable has led to the recapitulation of
t "degrnphio and cable statistics of some
interest, as pro'cnliug the rapid pro-
f’rees made in the application of tho
cable a-* a means of communication be
tween commercial countries. By these
statements it appears that, aside from
Hu* cables between Europe, and tho
United States, which are now live in
number, »»f an nggregrnto length of
It.oi'fl miles, there have been twenty-
n.ne laid between other countries since
1hi;7 of s total length of about 2(1,061
miles. This gives a grand total of
nearly 38,000 miles.
< 'Konou is very fast returning to
that prosperous condition of nnte-bel-
Inm times which gave her tho enviable
title of the Empire State of the south.
Laborers, both white and black, are-
working with a will, and a very large
portion of the maloa of tho latter raco
link, as reliable and trusty laborers
<’ u the farms as they did when slaves.
IL r crop prospects are magnificent.
There has been but little corn and
bacon cold to her filrmers this year, and
the slack demand from tho south gen
erally is one cause of the failure of the
bulls of the west to make a successful
corner in bacon and corn .— Union and
An immense falling off in exportation
of commodities grown, produced and
manufactured in the United States in
exhibited by government statistics.
During the first ten months of the cur
rent fiiscal year there was a falling off in
value of exports of breadstuffs alone
amounting to $31,000,000, im compared
with the exports of those commodities
during the corresponding period in 1871,
when they amounted to $126,000,000.
Exports of wheat and Indian corn de
creased $12,000,000. The total exports
of cotton this year amounted to $D>7,-
l >00,000 worth, or $26,000,000 less than
last year ; in other words, the exports of
c-tum decreased more than 131,000,000
iKMinds this year.
service has expired, and he proposes to
return home, a new volume of African
exploration inferior in interest and im
portance, to no recent work of the kind,
may bo anticipated. The Inavery and
enterprise displayed by Col. Long ro
lled credit on the American name, and
have already been rewarded by thoofii-
cial commendation of Col. Gordon and
tho presentation by the sultan of a badge
of the Turkish order of merit.
We seem to be on the eve of another
grand »>ra of inventions such ns marked
tho beginning of this century, annihi
lating time and space. Steam is to bo
superseded by Keely’s cold walor the
London Times is arranging to print
newspapers by electricity in a dozen
provincial towns simultaneously, and
now phonography or the art of short
hand writing is to be rendered supur-
lluous at one foil stroke. According
to tho Revue Industrielle, of Paris, M.
llnppinger has invented a machine for
writing spoken words. The instru
ment is described ns being nbout the
size of a man’s band, and operates by
being placed in connection with the
vocal organs, the little maohiuo re
cording their movements upon a band
of paper in dots and dashes similar lo
tho telegraphic alphabet. Hereafter
the reporter, instead of straining bis
ears and fingers in the desperate ef
forts to keep np with a rapid speaker,
will merely attach one of those instru
ments to his own lips and repeat the
words ot his orator inwardly, The
" lip language ” thus produced on the
scroll l»y the movements of the organs
of speech, can be written out aftcr-
mrds at leisure, and with great ac-
uraey than in ordinary phonographic
tiaracters.
lmi slug con
I 1 in*I beard the inuskotH' rattle
running battle ;
' i bunted Holdiern, 1 i
when I tell the
hhIich, but to mo til
ed eoatn null;
lendly chill eoniCH o’er mo. an tl
coins up before me,
h thou-und men lay bleeding i
a the booming of tbo cannon fro
' tbo April
i hoo tliolr
LATK NKWK SUMMARY.
WEST
Chicago omnibuses are trying to hank-
honnticH
SOUTH.
. A. Webster has been appointed
ntRational convention of MissoniI.
. Tho Vicksburg Herald estimates that
heat crop of M
lined.
i f I bn I
One of tho most important changes
proposed in tbo constitution of Althuntn, in to
prohibit Urn loaning of llio atate credit in aid
of rail road h and oilier internal improvements.
It i
order
1 to i
Con. Lo
. the
confederate officer
attached to Col. Gordon’s Central Afri
can expedition, who not long since dis
covered a third great lake at the head-
qaaiteis of the Nile, has reached Egypt
on his return from a journey to the
country of the pigmies, discovered by
bchweiniurth. His journey has been a
successful one, and he has made discov
eries of very great interest bo geogra
phers and ethnologists, As his term of !
fully pioparn tliolr wboat for tlio maiknt, and
not bring it in until it in in good mcrebantablo
condition. When tho grain is smutty it should
not bo tbroabod milII it in perfectly dry.
The Albany ((la.) News says that the
experiment of growing tho Euntliptns Globu
lus, or Australian fovor Iron, in that section
promises success. A number of trees started
from seeds planted there arc growing finely.
Southern crop reports covering all
the staples and from all sections aro all cheer
ful alike, but tbo moat hopeful features <.r the
southern situation aro tho largo food crops
being oilbivaU'd, and tbo condition of im
proved order and industry among tbo laboring
population.
Some of the Georgia papers aro vig
orously urging tho oponing of tho Coosa, and
to achieve that result Invoke the aid of tlio
Alabama towns that would bo specially bona-
lilted. It is claimed that tbo opening of (be
river would revolutionize tho comrnorco of
Alabama, Northern Georgia and Kant Ton-
no-soo. Congress is rolled on Lo do the work
of Improving tho rapids near Gadsden.
A oongrefs representing the cotton
growing slates will assemble at Raleigh, N.
on tho nth of next month. IIjij. D. E. but
ler. of Georgia, is the president of tlio body,
and all agricultural societies and stato or co
operative granges aro Invited to send dele
gates and lako part In the proceedings. The
leading question will bo the production and
transportation of cotton and other southern
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tho special Indian commission has
boon increased to night. They will be paid
eight dollars per day and expenses.
Postmaster General Jewell, accom
panied by one of his trusted special agents
and bis private secretary, lias left Washington
on a tour of iiiApection. He will visit all the
prominen postoflicen in the south and went.
The* agricultural department 1ms sta
tistics, carefully collected by respons bio per
sons in the seven hog leading states, which
show that in Janusry last there were In those
slates, on tho hoof. 11,213.800 hogs. These
were divided as follows Indiana, 2,070,000
head; Illinois. 2,084,000 head : lows, 3.398,200
head. Missouri. 2.0*2,000 head; Ohio, 1,731.
400 Lead ; Kentucky, 1,706,000 bead; Wiscon
sin, 587,800 Lear). It is estimated that (he
returns fiom other states will make tho hog
crop for this year over 18,060,000 head.
I’OHJkUUN
Portugal has prohibited the introduc
tion into that country, arid the adjacent
islands, of jKilaloe* from the United Htato*
Two millions of people were saved
from starvation by tho interposition of the
lieutenant governor of Bengal in the famine
of 1874. The c oat efficient h hirumont was
Tho Spanish government officially de
clares that from the present time the electoral
period ia open, and (hat, cone qnonliy, the
presi i.i entitled to dincUAB a! constitutional
question», on condition that it does not attack
the monarchical principle and the representa
tive system.
II "l 1 "" ’
Poor old soul
a grandma, “what’s the matter
* all this noise snd chatter?
scalping Indian ilovilu oomo t
My sides were slinking iu tli
” pinking,
talk
r Indian* whon tho guns
the Mi hawks killed her father with
their bullets through the door.
Thou I said, “ Now, dear old granny, don’t
you fret and worry any.
For I'll soon oomo back and toll you whether
this in work or piny ;
There can’t bo inisehiof in it, ho I won't be
gone n minute"
For a minute tlinn I started. I was gone the
Uvo-loug day.
No time for bodloo-laolng
llow t
blooi
or for looking-glass
I hurried, tumbling
uowing, when there's
household feola I
Iu the street I heard a thumping; mid I knew
it was tlio stumping
or the corpora', our old neighbor, on that
w ooden leg ho wore,
Willi a kui.i or women round him it wan
I lind fe
) 1 followed with the other
hey were making fer tin
soldier and Ids people
lie pigeons circled round
the creaking stair,
ist across the narrow rivi
i, and the corporal
Htcrplo - tho old
< bill-top that but j
ud it; w ell wo knew v
Though (lie ea
Here were him
Wild upc
And tlielr lips
wife
tl " ,l
, looking
Tho hour has come I"
The morning ‘lowly wasted, not n morsel had
And our heads wore almost splitting
When a tlguro tall mid stalely
: thrill,
do sodate' v
the hill.
lolil i
lie walked aromi
At cloven the Htriiols \
red coats’ ranks
At noon in inarching ni
to the piers ;
How the bayonets gleamed m
we looked fur down and
To Die trampling and the dr
bolted gronadlurH.
; lie eoni-
, standing
h strolling
vanning, for the
ey were moving
At length tlio
In their scarlo
And the roddc;
have started, with
{iuioutalH, with Llioii
And the heats catne back for soldiers, i
for soldiers, soldiers still ;
'The time second everlasting to us wi
w the front
thrown away tliolr shot;
r behind their earthwork lying, a! the balls
in would
i the old
H if they
alt were hearing
And In- wooden leg tliuuipa fiercely on the
dusty belfry floor
“Oh! fire away, ye villains, and earn King
George's shillin'**,
Ihit yo'M waste a ton of powdor before a ‘rebel’
falle ;
Yon may bang tlio dirt and welcome, llioy're
as safe as Dun’l Malcolm
Ten foot beneath the gravestone that you've
splintered with your halls!"
In the hush of expectation, in the awe ami
•trepidation
Of the dread approaching moment, wo are
well nigh breathless all ;
Though the rotten bars are falling
The robbing, murdering ml-cdats, that would
burn a peaceful town!
They are marching, stern and solemn;
the slanting walls so steep
IIa.vo our soldiers got faint-hearted, and
noiseless haste departed?
Are they panio-struck and helpless A
they palsied or asleep ?
Now ! (he walls they're almont. under I searoo
a rod tho foes asunder !
deck dashed against them I up tlio
vengeance of tlio storm
' again, with immlcroUfl slaughter, pelted
braves of Howe;
And Wo shout, “At last, tliov
their barges they have i
I hoy are beaten, beaten, bt
And wo looked, poor timid creatures, on tho
rough old soldier's features.
Our ups afraid to question, but lie Idiow what
Haying, “Gal! vou’ro looking shaky; have
a drop of old Jninaiky ;
I'm afeared thoro'll bo more trouble afore the
Job is done:"
Ho 1 took ono scorching swallow: dreadful
faint I felt and hollow,
Standing there from o»rly morning when the
firing whs begun.
All through those hours of trial I hudwatehed
a calm clock dial,
As the hands kept creeping, creeping-1 hoy
were creeping round to four,
When the old man said, “They're forming
with their bagonets fixed for Storming ;
It's the doatli grip that's a coming—they will
try tlio works unco more!"
Willi brazen trumpet blaring, (lie dailies be
hind them glar
Still <
they i
before I hem. i
ward, upward lolling, like a dragoi
•-nolllng-
1 warning the i
Like Ike I'littlonniih
v irboratlng drum
Over heaps all torn and gory shall I tell the
Willi tliolr powder horns all emptied, like the
swimmers from a wreck?
It has all boon told and painted; as forme,
they any L fainted,
And the wooden-logged old corporal slumped
And I hoard through all tho finny, "Bond for
n
him from tlio battle, and
lie ooulil not spr,.....
of our brave fellows.
As tlio homoapuii plainly showed us which llio
dying soldier wore.
For tlioy all thought, lie was dying, as limy
gathered roiled him crying
And they said. “Oh how they’ll miss him!"
and, “What will Ills molhor do?"
Then, his eyelids just unclosing, like a child's
i lint hiiH been dozing.
Ilo faintly murmured, “Mollior'" and I saw
” o blit*
Ills 1
" Why,
, how ynn're winking!'' -
aii, my cniin, it Huts me thinking
of a story not like this one. Will, ho somo-
how lived along;
Ho wo came to know oacli other, and I nurmid
him like a mother.
Till at lust he stood before me, tall and rosy-
eheukod, and strong,
And wo sometimes walked together in the
pleasant summer weather,
• 1'lease to toll ih what his uuino was ?"-•■
•lust your own my little dear
There's Ids picture deploy painted; wo be
came ho well acquainted,
That— in short, that'H why I'm grandma, ami
you children nil are here!
belfry railing,
u crowding
vaves against a v
glimpse I
against tlmm like tlm
Like a moi ning ri
ended : the tempest'*
gathered, like a Ifanri-
Oh the sight our eyes d
I/lack smoko blows
Tho red-coats stretched
a the bluo
lying, there a heart
broken and shivered
od, the fight i
They aro boat if can't be doubled !
grim old soldier's smile!
hardly speak, we shook si
j they beaten ? Are they
they beaten ?"- “ Wait a
o?" (wo could
beaten ? Arts
imbling and tho terror! for too soon
Imfiled, not defeated; we have driven
scattered, round
their
Oh the
They ar
them back in van
And tho columns that
colors that wore tattered.
Toward the sullen, silent fortre
bolted breasts again.
All at once, hr we are gazing, lo the roofs
Charlestown blazing !
They have fired the harmless village in
hour it will be down '
The Lord in heaven confound them, rain
fire and brimstone round them,
Sr. Lotus's Fountain, Tlio HE Louis
Oloho-Duinoorut buys of tho public
drinking fountain which is soon to bo
Gloated on Olive street iu that city:
The fountain will be constructed of
Knoxville mnrblo and galvanized iron,
and the inoiintb gs and ornaments of
ailvi r-plate and pluto-gl/iss. Its height
will be fifteen and a half foot, with a
diameter of three and a half foot. It
will bn surmount! <1 with an ornamental
spray fountain and urn, beneath which
will be a gun lamp. The dips are made
of nickel silver, silver-plated and gold-
lined. The Btyio of architecture in pn-
tirely at variance with every public
drinking fountain in this country. Thin
fountain will not only meet the water
demand, but will be napplied witji
clocks, thermometer, and barometer’
in flint, it wiil prove a combination of
public conveniences, tho present want
of which will bn made apparent when it
is placed in position and in'running
order. The filter, through which the
water pasHos, has a capacity for 2,000
gallons per diem, and it in calculated
that 60,00i) pounds of ice will bo used
during the Hummer.
A Whole Family Die ok Starvation.
—Hays tho Fort Smith (Kan.) Monitor :
It is reported that an entire family, re
siding on tho Bine, a few miles south of
Kaunas City, died of starvation a day or
two ago. The pontons referred to lived
in an isolated locality, and the first in
tclligc-nce of their cpstrcsseil condition
wan carried to the house of a farmer by
ono of tho children, who stated that
both of her parents wore sick, unable
to leave the house and wanted assisfc-
nnee 11 appears that for Homo rouson
no attention was paid to this reqncst
until tho following day, when parties
who went to the house indicated and
found the husband and wife and two of
their children had actually died of star
vation. The third child, who had been
the messenger of the day before, was
lying senseless upon the floor.
- Motley, I he historian, is still very
feeble from the paralytic stroke which
disabled lain right, side several months
ago. He is said to be much changed
by his physical misfortune and the loss
of his wife. His friends fear he will
never bo rble to resume his literary
pursuits. He spends hie time partly at
hin own bonne near the Hague, and part
ly at tho residence of hid bon-in-law in
England,
THE HORSE.
A few words, then, concerning Georgo
Bartholomew, tho
MAN OF "KINUNKBH ANI* PATIENCE,”
In 1861 ho went into tho show busi
ness, and then began to train horses.
11 is prineipal oxporioueo has been with
horses, and his speech and ttelious
show that ho considers them intelligent
creatures, and entitled to as much con
sideration iih human beings, lu per
sonal appearanoo Mr. Bartholomew
not rotniu'krblo. A quiet, unassuming
gentleman, of medium height and
build, with raven black hair and dark
eyes, a well-shaped, intellectual head,
and an expression ami a manner that
denote kindness and llrtnuess - a
who is absolutely devoid of fear, and
who would not hurt any living creature
unnecessarily.
llis horse-training abilities were first
practiced upon a colt, which became
noted as the 11 neat trick horse iu Oali-
foiniu. He then turned his attention
to
Till', ntlONeitOH.
or wild horses, of Lower California.
These horses are descendants of the
Andalusian animals that were brought
from Spain by the early Spanish con
querors. Until 186-1, or thereabout,
they wero very plentiful in Lower Cali
fornia, running iu herds like the mus
tangs of Texas, with commanders and
Hub'OfllcorH, and apparently governed
by a military oode of their own. They
are of all colors, from tho purest white
to tho deepest black, and perlmpH one-
fifth of them aro spotted. Ono way of
catching them is to build a corral nuross
a canyon which fortua ono of their run
ways. The corral is made of
and wings spreading out from the
mouth of the canyon aro formed by
cutting down Ireea. Tho herd is driven
into this corral, and, when all are in
side, or a sufficient number, the mouth
is closed, and the hunters lasso the
horses at their leisure. Another way
is to “ereuHo the spine,” which can
only be done by a sure shot, as the
bullet must strike the spinal column at
the back of the neolc throwing the an
imal, and stunning him fora few min
utes, during widen time Im is tied so
that ho cannot escape. To accomplish
the feat of creasing tho spine, "on the
wing,’ its we may say, requires that tlio
lniutuf should bo no slouch of a shot.
Another way is to oreop up on them, or
to run them down, until tho hunter
gels near enough to lasso the animal
which In' Ims sclcolnd. In (his way
Mr. Bartholomew him lassoed four
bronchos, which 1m lmd picked out for
his purpose. Among thorn wero Bravo
and Bonito, his two favorite horses,
,.v..t...i>i >T tar. trained of any in
his exhibition. They were supposed to
bn twins, an they were of the sumo size
and general appearance, and always
kept together in tho herd.
THIS TAM I NO
of these wild homos is begun, says Mr.
Bartholomew, by himself and every
body else, by throwing them and put
ting a Spanish halier on them This
halier iH quite a severe means of re
straint, but. is absolute y necessary for
a time. He then worjis upon them
tarofullv and gradually, tho first neces
sity being t<* ucoustom tlmm to his
presence, and to instill into their minds
we speak liftin' tlm manner of INIr.
Bartholomew—the belief tliut ho is not
their enemy. When they are first
caught, they have only two ideas or
emotions—the fear of man, and the do-
to get away. The sight of a man
produces in them paroxysms of four and
anger, and they will kill themselves, if
not restrained, in their blind and furious
struggles for liberty. Their tuition, at
thin period of existence, requires not
only ixtraordinary patience, but a great
deal of nerve, lu fact, tlm training of
wild horses is a decidedly dangerous
business. We may quiet a savage deg
by feeding him ; but it is useless to at
tempt to tame a wild horse by menus of
In's stoinuoh. At first they will eat
nothing, and they oannot bo persuaded
to touch Halt, wliioli plays such an im
portant part in tho domestication of
animals. There is nothing for it but
patience, kindness and equanimity. A
horse trainer must
NKVF.lt LOSE IMS TKMI’Klt,
and must never show fear. There is no
animal Hint will not discover in n mo
ld the slightest indications of fear or
doubt, and no animal that will not take
(vantage of hii li a discovery. Tho
horse-tamer is continually liable to be
struck, kicked and bitten ; but ho must
never strike back. Mr. Baitholomow
carries,severe sears upon his head and
other parts «of his person, but boliovos
that ho 1ms never struok an animal that
under bis tuition a blow in ungc-r.
The great truth is, that a man who (In
to train horses and stock generally,
must have thorough control of himself,
before ho can hope to properly control
his four-footed creatures. Thus ondotli
tlm first lesson, and a long and difficult
o it is, for both man and beast.
In tlm course of time, by tlio exercise
of patience, forbearance and familiarity,
Mr. Bartholomew gets acquainted with
bis horses, and they with him, and they
become comparatively gentle and docile.
Having tamed thorn, tho next thing is to
train them, to educate thorn not only to
do his will, but to understand bis lan
guage. This is like treating a child,
"only more po."
TUB RULE OK KINDNESS
must be continued, but the occasional
use of the whip is a necessity, although
it must bo used sparingly and judioious-
Iv. Mr. Bartholomew’s horses i-how no
marks of the lash. There is a great deal
iu the proper uaoof tho whip. Tnetruinor
must know just when and where and how
to toiioh Ids animals with this reminder
and persuader, and roust never apply it
in anger or with violence, or he wilf be
likely to lose all the ground he has
gamed by a long course of patience and
kindness.
The great desideratum in horse edu
cation is to get tho animal to understand
tho meaning and purpose of his trainer.
To accomplish thin object it is neces
sary, if not to change the nature of tho
horse, to instill into his mind—Barthol
omew, again—new ideas and aspirations.
This is a uork that requires almost
boundless pains anil patience. The
trainer must persevere in talking to
them, in explaining his meaning by J
motions, pushes mid signs, and ill ju
diciously worrying them with tho whip,
until they catch ids idea. When they
once begin to understand what is ex
pect ed of them, it is astonishing how
rapidly they will learn. The i xpros-
sion of thoir faces shows that they aro
studying, that they believe that some
thing is wanted of them, and are anx
ious to understand oloarly what it is.
When they reach this stage, their edu
cation will be limited only by the ability
and porsuvorauco of their trainer. Mr.
Bartlioloniow’s uuinials are ho perfectly
trained, exhibiting such remarkable
docility and such amazing intelligence,
answering to thoir names, oboying the
word of command, and apparently in
fluenced in all their notions by intellect
hardly below that of the average human
being, that* the ouriosity of tho specta
tor is naturally excited to learn by wlmt
method these astonishing results have
been produced. His ouriosity iH fur
ther stimulated by the fact that these
animals were originally wild, having
experience of service with man or edu
cation under him, and no traditionn of
service and oduention, except such ns
must linvo been very remote.
A FRIGHTFUL DISASTER.
Grimnilii -Sixteen 'I'liniiinnil l.lv«s IJ«-«
Mtrnyml.
Further information has boon received
by way of Havana of the terri
ble enlnniity in Now Granada. Tho
whole valley of Ononta, in Now
Granada, near tho Venezuelan fron
tier, lias been devastated by an
earthquake, and it iH said that 1(1,00(1
persons have lost their lives. The val
ley of Ononta is in the province of Pam-
lona, a mountainous section of Now
Grauada, in wliioli tho peak of Almor-
zudoro, 12,850 feet high, is situated.
The range to which this belongs is
about two hundred and fifty miles from
the Pacific coast,about the same distance
from the Gnrrihean sea, and but. a short
distance from tho Venezuelan frontier.
In this region traces of the most violent*
volcanic action nro visible on every
hand. This notion is of so recent a date
many places to keep tho soil iu ii
heated condition.
There have been numerous earth
quakes iu the United States and South
America, but none iu connection with
wliioli such tremendous destruction iM
recorded ns in the tiDovo, In 1811 oo*
roil tho famous series of ourthqunkQH
Missouri, wliioli Humboldt studied
and described. Over an extent of coun
try stretelling for 300 miles southward
from the mouth of the Ohio river tho
ground rnBo anil sunk iu great, iindulii-
tious for months. The disturbances!
anntlimud over what lias since been
mlled the "sunk country" until March
2(1, 1812, when they doused ooineidontly
with the great eart hquake of Caracas.
About midnight on February 20,1835,
Mm city of ConooPWOh. Chili, was de
stroyed by an earthquake. It probably
originated near tho islands of Juan Fer
nandez, where a volcano burst forth
through a depth of 100 feet of water,
sending up a column of fiery ejeota,
which killed immense numbers of fish
tho vicinity. Many thousands of
persons lost* their lives on this occasion.
On March 10, 1873, tho city of Han
Halva- or was utterly destroyed. Three
shocks were experienced, but theiuluib-
Hants were, by the previous noises, so
well warned that a comparatively small
loss of life (about five hundred) took
place. The frequency of earthquakes
in this region is expressively told in the
mime given to it by the aboriginal In-
diaiis—CJufioatlan—"the land thatswings
like a hummock.”
But by fur the most awful eiirthnuake
-or recorded in history is that of Lis
in, on tho 1st of November, 1755,
About nine o’clock in the morning a
hollow thunder-like sound was hoard iu
the city, although the weather was clear
and serene. Almost immediately after
wards, without any other warning, such
an upheaval and overturning of tho
ground occurred us destroyed the groalor
part of tho houses, and buried or
crushed no less than 30,000 persons.
As it was a festival day most of the
churches were filled with their congre
gations, and each church became a
flaming sepulchre for tho hapless vie
tims, for the burning tapers sot tlio
woodwork on lire, and the people wero
both crushed and burned. In the
whole region about 00,000 persons lost
their lives ; and on the opposite side of
the Mediterranean, in Morocco, the
earth opened and swallowed a town
with 8,000 inhabitants. The enormous
waves caused by those disturbances
destroyed hundreds of vessels with thoir
Swkkpino Oaupjcth —Floor coverings
o a great source of discomfort, anil
O ’ten of disoaso, on noconnt of tho dust
nicy continually give off when disturbed.
Tho lungs become irritated with those
particles of dust, wliioli often result in
disonso. But carpets wo will have, and
the best thing iH to keep them as ulenn
as possible with the loast raising of
dust. Toil leaves are excellent, if moist,
to segregate, the dimt in pellets without
spotting the carpet. Indian-meal is ex
collcnt to scatter over tho cloth before
sweeping. But tlio most effectual plan
to take equal parts of meal and salt,
sweeping off immediately, before the
suit becomes disolvod in a moist atmos
phere. Halt is u groat absorber of
water, and becomes quickly moist, thus
entrapping the minute particles of dust
und preventing them from rising. Dur
ing these house-cleaning times when
carpets aro taken up, revealing a great
amount of fine dust, it is well t-i sprinkle
tlio floor thickly over with damp salt
before swooping. In any case where
sprinkling is usually employed before
seeping, damp salt is far better to use,
The following is a man’s opinion :
Tlio femalo lip that Iiiih boon profaned
by the touch of any man, unless it bo a
relation, ought to lose all honor and
respect. Wlmt remains for tbo bus
baud if tho lips—tho very outlet to the
soul have mingled thoir breath of life
with others? When a lady becomes a
prodigal of her kisses we are instautly
forced into one of ttyo conclusions, that
either she holds he! virtue by a very
slbnder thread or tbut she is incapable
of drawing the nicer distinctions,
which is ono of the oburaoteristics of a
pure womao,”
FACTS AND FANCIES.
—Tho stock of the Ophir mine has
been reduced in prioo at San Francisco
from $320, wliioli it was worth a few
months ago, to between $30 and $10 a
share, and yet the mine is worth just as
much as ever.
—There aro ho many catastrophes oc
curring just now which furnish groiiuds
for appeals to the eharitablo, that all
truly good men aro exchanging their
ready cash for United States securities,
—Brooklyn Atyun.
—A party of rugged Chinaman re
turned to San Francisco tho other day
from Nobraska where they had boon
farming and mournfully and confiden
tially told a reporter: "Too muclioe
lioppoo all around liko hell.”
—When one looks around and sees
hundreds of doughhoads getting rich
doing nothing, while he is working like
a slave for his daily bread, wo tell you
what, it makes a fellow feel as though
tho buttor of this world was spread by
a step-mother.
—Tho London Builder suggests that
in order to provont the wall of hospitals
from absorbing the miasma of disease
and in time becoming saturated with
tno foulness, they ought to be lined
with thiok glass, the edges of tho plate
being oomrntnd.
—An exchange declares that "the
chief purpose of long droHSoa is to en
able thoir wearers to cheat in playing
croquet.” That may be the chief objoot.
but we can't hoc how any woman of
tasto omild consider tho oonooaling of a
gigantic pair of feet a secondary objoot.
—Australia has a big tree, too, and
it is gratified to think that there is not
time for an American vandal to go over,
chop it down, and take it to tho conteu-
niul, It is 180 feet long—an announce
ment which will shako the midriff of
hundreds with envy, hjitred, malice and
all linchiiritablcnusH.
Nervous old lady—policeman I po
liceman I there's a strange dog that will
stick to me, and won't leave me, and l
can’t get rid of him I Couldn't you take
him iu charge, or somethingV Polioo
man (who doesn’t liko the job)—Very
sorry, ma'am, but wo can’t interfere
with any dog so long as lie’s a fullerin'
o'somebody I
— Vrinoo GortsehakolV makes gront
use of the ladies. Ho is one of tho
■ist polito men ih Europe, and iu the
midst of abundant small chat he may
be gathering iu great information. In
bin own country lie knows every thing
that goes on iu every family of impor
tance. No mean spies, no policemen,
vilo paid agonts impart the informa
tion. It comes gently, delicately,
doubly distilled in Jotters fu»n< ln««-
cmuiuuiu limy correspondents.
A young lady was standing on tlio
wharf, waving her handkerchief at a
schooner lying in the stream. "Knew
anybody aboard?” queries her compan
ion, as bo onmn along. "No, I (lout;
but tlmy’ru waving their lmmlkercliiefs
at me,” she replied. *'Hand (bo I) ker
(boo) chiefs I" ho exclaimed, dropping
his basket, and leaning against a wood
pile ; why, Hu m's tho mm’s shills hung
out to dry.” She waved into a ware
house.
—" No, grandmother ; it’s all of no
io I I love him, I’ve loved him for
years, and lie loves' me, and they may
part us, and it may kill me; but I'll
never care for any body else, and I’ll
think of nothing in the world but liiin,
morning, noon and night, until J die I”
" Poor darling 1 Now, take my advice.
Come and spend a few weeks alone with
me at Little Peddingtou, and lend a
quiet life, you know, und look after the
geese and poultry, and all that, ami
you’ll soon forget him I”
—lie said ho hud an original poem
for sale which he would part with
cheap, as times wero hard and ho
wanted money. Tho poem contained
twelve lines, and lie would sell it at
seventy-five cents a lino. The editor
told him tlioy weren’t paying out mtioh
for poetry jitftt at* present, but naked
iiim to read it. no oommeneed in a
low, sad tone of voice, as follows :
“ Doaiust father, thou haul loft iih,
AihI thy loss wo ilouply fool - "
And when he picked himself up at the
bottom of tho stairs there was “a
shadow on his brow."
They were standing at the gate.
The young man spoke sadly and soberly
of hard times, high taxes, and of getting
work at the rolling mills. Her beauti
ful oyes filled with tears that glistened
like pearls in ocean’s depths, as she
softlly answered: "tlohn, lot us get
married and trust, in the Lord for the
rest.” "All right Mary," replied the
young man, bitterly, "if you will buy
your bats and dresses of the Lord, f
will stand tho rest." A prolonged ni-
lonoo followed, and w« went on our
way.
—According to G. W. P. Curtis’fl
recollection*, tho grooming of Washing
ton's white horses was something sur
prising. Tho night before tlio horsos
wore cxpeoteil to bo ridden tlioy wero
covered entirely over with ft paste, of
which whiting was tho principal compo
nent part ; then the nniniuls wero
swathed in body clothes, and loft to
sleep on clean straw. In the morning
the composition had become bard, was
well rubbed in, and curried and brushed,
wliioli process gave to the ooats a beau
tiful. glossy and satin-like appearance.
The hoofs wero then blackened and pol
ished. tho mouths washed, teeth picked
and cleaned, and tho leopard-skin hous
ings being properly adjusted, the white
hoargers were led out for service.
Mrs. Fawcett, in her new novol
tells of a precocious infant who devel
oped a marvelous originality in extem
poraneous prayer. When she said her
prayers at her mothor’s kneo, having
boon told that she was not to h am any
form of prayer, but to ask Ironi her
heart for whatever she most desired,
she prayed for "a rod cloak wiv velvet
buttons, ’xuctly like Amy Grey’s, vero
is anover at vo shop.” Thou, when in
structed not to nsk for material, but for
npiritual blessings, her interpretation
lor a spiritual blessing was tliut there
might always bo short sermons in
church. When she had scarlatina, and
her mother had bogged her o pray for
her recovery, she having been told that
whon she was beginning to get better
hi r skin would peel off, and when it was
all off she would be quite well, joined
her little bands in bed, and said in a
ppft voice, " 0 God, peel me quick.”