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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.”