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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S, D. WIKXE & CO., Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1875. VOLUME II. NUMBER TIMELY TOPICS. Tun discussion as to tbo successor of Benator Norwood, of Georgia, includes tho names of Alexander H. Stephens, the Hon Ben Hill, and Senator Norwood himself. The Japanese aro shipping bricks to California, and cell them cheaper than those made in that state, notwithstand ing that thero is an nd valorem duty of 20 per cent on them. Details of the asHadaiuation of presi dent Morouo, of Ecuador, show that the doadly machete and two revolvers did tho work. Tho movement seems to have been an antiiiltrumontauo ouo, as there is a talk of a massacre of tho priests. Donaldson’s body wi 1 probably bo found soon, and some one will discover .the wreck of tho luokless air ship, and then the curtain will fnll on tho last chapter of a tragedy which was brought about solely to gratify a pnblio curiosity that should not have been gratilled at all. Tur. English liavo put a bridgo over tho Ganges whero tho Indian mother used lo drow hor unmanageable infant, and there is now a direct railroad line betweou Calcutta and Lucknow. Tho bridgo is a little over balf a mile long, with a superstrneturo almost eutiroly of brick, and cost £150,000. Hick is becoming a favorite crop iu some sections of the south. It costs $110.40 to cultivate and send to market an acre of rico, yioUling 1,200 pounds of clear grain, which sells for $81. Tho profit is about 810.00 por acre, and tho crop is not a difficult ono to grow. Tiik managers of tho direct Unitod States cable say that their line will be ready for public traffic in a few works. Tho steamer Faraday will shortly oon elude tho splicing of the Irish end, where a defect had to be cut out, and tlion splioo tho Amorioan end, which had been broken by tho ioe. Captain Eads is in New York, where ho will, iu a few days, hold a consulta tion with government nud other engin eers relative to the work on tho jetty improv ment at tho mouth of tho Mis sissippi river. Tho contractors aro nov engaged placing tho willow fascines in position, nud late measurements show an increase iu the dopth of tho water, Onu English cousins aro disenssing it now, and tho London Review thus Htates tho ca»wt belli: " Jefferson Davis, tho American rebel, has been invited to address tho Wiuno- bogo nativoa. N. 13.—Tho Winnebago area tribe of Indians, formerly of Wis consin state, but now removed to agency iu Nebraska state.” Bhnou I\ C. Annuo, of Now Mexi sold over 200,000 pounds of wool last year. With his father and a business pirtncr ho own nearly 2,000,000 head of sheop, scattered over a range of o< try more than 800 miles square, has had two losses by Indian raids, of 05,000 head aud tho other of 15,000, “but,” ho says, “I hardly missed them." Twenty thousand boxes, containing over a million clay pip js,nre imported into this country annually, the grentc ber being the celebrated " T. D.” brand All these pijwfl are made in Glasgow, Scotland, nnd chiefly by ono firm, W White & Hons, honest old Qaakers, who havo been piping away for nearly a tury and a half, and aro now doing the largest business in that lino in the world. . Fayette County, Tennessee, is said, in tho report of tho department of agriculture, to havo suffered a very groat loss of mules and horses last spring by tbo buffalo gnat. Tho best roraedy against these pests is to put tho stock at oneo in a dark stable, to be kept filled with smoke. "Doath,” says the report, "doubtless is partly caused by tho loss of blood, but mainly by poisoning the circulation.” The bureau of statistics report tho total exports of the country, exclusive of specie, for the month of July at 417,280.391 against 8-17,102,470 the same month in 1874 ; imports for seven months this year, 8210,104,793 against 835,130,903 same time last year. Ex ports for July this year, 841,495,477 against $40,967,184 July, 1874; for soven months this year, 8322,824,387 against 1874 , 8870,94s, 306. These are all currency values. The annual death-rate of various cities in the United Btatos, for four weeks in April, as stated by the Bani- tarian, shows a minimun (Toledo) of 11.01, .and a maximum (Paterson) of 30.63. The rale in New York was 28.70. Philadelphia 24.42, St. Louis 12.65, Chicago, 19.11, Boston 20.31, Baltimore 17.53, Cincinnati 15.15, New Orleans 21.09, San Francisco 17.71, Pittsburg 19.22, Charleston 27.82. The "latest news from Keeley, tho motor man, is to the effect that his machine is now under perfect control, and m engine for railroad purposes is being constructed. The gauge to be used on the apparatus registers 54,000 pounds prossure, aud a stationary on* gino will bo ou exhibition iu a fow weeks Philadelphia. Tho Philadelphia Times says: "Tho oontrol of tho pateut will not bo vested in a stock com pany. Sharoa lmvo been sold by Mr. Kcoley to parties who advanced him mouoy to finish his work aud scouro tho patent right, nnd tho Blinrcs ulmoat im mediately afterward woro disposed of to other parties at a great profit.” One of tho odd industries, tho natnro aud extent of which aro comparatively littlo known, is tho manufacture of sand paper, the amount of whioh nuuaully produced in tho Unitod States is.csti- matod at not lees than two hundrod thousand roams, including tho various grades nnd qualities. Formorly it was made of ordinary brown paper, glue and sand. At preedit, for tho most part, tho paper is made of old rope, tho best quality of gluo is usod, nnd, in stead of sand, pulverised qnarlz or flint. By this moaus a suporior fabric is pro- duded, of a constantly uniform grade, and at so low a price that tho uso of it has bocomo greatly extended, large luantitios being exportod, to Europe, South America, tho Pacific Islands, aud olsowhoro. For omory paper and oniony cloth, a largo demand has boon created by tho llniBhod iron work in steam on eugino shops, tho sowing maohino faoto- , nnd othor similar industries whioh requiro thorn for polishing purposes. Piumsoll'h statement in nonso of Commons, relative to tho ship ment of soanmu on unseaworthy poorly-equipped vessels, was illustrated Han Frnnoisoo, tho othor day, on tho arrival of tho ship Bremon, from Liver pool. This vessol left that port ou the 0th of February with thirty-soven no* groes bofore tho mast. Thirtoon of thiB crow died on tho passago out and tho reraniudor woro nil seriously ill when tho Broraon got to Ban Franoisco. Tho can so of this mortality was tho lack of v< getablcs. During a voyage Instiug 197 days, tho mon had nothing but poor salt provisions most of tho timo. Scurvy .broke cut, aud tho sufferings of tho victimB are described by them torriblo in tho extromo. Mr. Plim hoI 1 appears to havo had tho right idon when ho said that "tho government playing into the hands of maritime murderers, and ho laid ii|>on tho hend of tho prime minister nnd his fellows all tho blood of all tho mon who shall perish from proventahlo caiisos. ” How a "Corner” is Managed. A B and C combine their moans and orodit to make a corner in .1 uly. Thoy theroforo quietly begin in May to buy LATE NEWS SUMMARY. BAST. The Atlantic mills which suspended tho lOtli of July, will rosumo with full foroo Monday next. Tho mills glvo employment to 1,350 operatives. Halos of stock havo boon largo and tho prospocts aro encouraging for all business. WEST Tho groat bank of California, in Ban Faauoiboo, has oxporioncod a slight cramp, aud stoppod paying cheeks. John D. Loo, tho Mountain Meadow murdoror, recently acquitted at Heaver, through a disagreement of tho Jury, is to ho tendered a publio reception and banquet by his admiring friomls. Bilver has boon discovered in north- om Michigan in gratifying quantities. Tho tests made from tho vein rock glvo a rosnlt of $45.84 por ton, and pooplo are rushing in to buy up tho land. This district Ih tn Ontona gon county, Upper Ponlntmlar. Tho Kansas Central and Black Hills Narrow Oaugo Railroad Company, capital $100,000, has been organized iu Omaha, and will bo built at once from that city through tho agricultural country south of tho Platte river, and ptishod toward the Black Hills as soon as tho development of that region war- Clustavo Humber, of Jamestown. (1 rootio county, Ohio, while intoxicated last week, raado an attempt to kill his wifo. Hh tlod across tho si root to tho house of a neigh hor number followed and made an unsm ooaaful effort to got iu tho house by broakin tho window. lie then threatened to roturn t his house and kill the child, whioh was ahoi: eighteen months old, thinking tho thro* would induce his wifo to come, but failing t have tho desired offcot lie wont to his lions, irod a table-knife, sharpened it on th , took tho Infant from ttio arms of h littlo girl, twelve years old, laid it upon tl and dollboratoly out its throat from oi r. Ho thou throw tbo child and knlfo c the bod, and went back amt tokl his wifo what ho had done. Ho was afterwards arrosted. Ho still rogrots ho did not kill his wife. to bo delivered idually buy nil tho c July. They ‘ i tho if, of necessity, must buy all that arrives, paving for t':o latter what ever is demanded. When a pnrohaso thus made, seller and buyer put- up margin, oitlior in cash, or certificate, or doposit. As soon as tho oornor beofttnos known, there is an effort made to break it. Tho settlement takes place at B p. m. on the last day of the month. Those who havo sold corn to tho oornor and ha.eno corn to deliver, pay tho differ ence between tho price at which they sold, and tho ruling price at tho cloeo of business on tho last day. Ah tho cor ner lias thus purchased sometlmoH five times os much corn as there is to bo had, amounting to millions of hushols, and the price lias advanced ten oents a bushel, tho profit is enormous. Ah tho prices advance, additional margins are required. Those failing to put up tho additional margins, lose what they have already put up. The anti-corner fac tions seek to so crowd sales on the cor ner as to exhauHt its capital and credits, and render it unable to buy at the ail- vanco prices. Thus, tho corner in com pelled to semi out in tho country aud ony for cash all the corn iu sight, to prevent having it rushed into Chicago at the last moment. Those are exciting times. Corn at such a moment may be purchased of tbo comer for shipment, from six to fifteen oents a bushel loss than it is soiling for ou ’Change for de livery during the month. Each timo there is a corner, thero is a crash, sometimes of tho corner men, and at other tlmos of the anti-oomor men. Tho -whole proceeding? are of such questionable honesty, that the legisln BOUTH. The attorney general has issued order dismissing Assistant Altornoy Jamos Jhiz/.olora, of Arkansas. Tho pooplo of llookport, Texas, nnd vicinity aro gathering their own salt h largo quantities off tho Hats on tho bay oobhI near. Tho hot, dry winds havo producod h< much evaporation that tons of suporior sal aio lying around loose, waiting to ho taken np. Mr. John C. Halo, tho owner of tho Hot Hpringa property in Arkansas, dlod at tho Halo Houso, Hot Springs, last Tuesday. His whole life was a tonaclous fight to hold pos session of tho proporty, and tho sultH in con noction thorowith worn carriod into alraos every department of Jimtloo In tho Unite Htatos. A tiro in Memphis on tho night of the oflth destroyed tho MomphlH wood works o Georgia street, togothor wilti a largo amoun of lumber and valuable machinery. A stahlo belonging to tho company, in whioh woi number of wagons andHoveral mnlou, was also huniod. Tho total lows Is about $37,000, which thero is $17,600 insurance. Tho Courier Journal publishes osti it.'M from all sootions of Kentucky, ai i.acco cantors of adjoining Htatos, showing o average and condition of tobacco rod with 1878. The largest tobacoc er known was planted, but subsequent mis- rtnno reduced it to a prospootlwly moderate yield porhaps a light averago, If future con h are favorable. The returns covor territory whioh produces about throo-fourth of tho crop of the Unitod Htatos. In 1805 tho taxable proporty in Ooor- a was $120,085,870; now It ih *273,002,000, oro than doubling since tbo war. There are railways in I ho Htato, with an aggregate longth of 2.3000 mllon. Tho Btate debt in $8,105, KK) aud this in partially offset by proporty iwned by the gtate worth $0,000,000 leaving ho not indebtedness $2,000,000. It has $3,- 102,000 invested in cotton and woolen mills, $735,1(K) in iron foundries, and $000,000 in awaiting shlpmont from Charleston to tho North. Tho Atucrlcau board of directors of tho Mississippi Valloy Trading Company held toting iu Ht. Louis lost week, ai which Mr. Worrall, managing diroot or, was Instructed to visit Louisville with a view of establishing a central office of tho company at that point. h furtlior instructed to visit all seaports from Norfolk to Galveston, Texas, and ro* llielr adaptability aa porta of entry for ships of ttio oompany. Ho was also ro- luostcd to visit all railroads in tho MIshIb- slppi valley nnd Gulf Htatos and report upon tho facilities nffordod by each for tho trnns- po.rtatton of morehnndtBO and products, aud it doalrablo contora for operations of tho company, and upon agricultural, miu- i\ othor roaonrooa pf.the country through which the railroads pass*, eo Ks to onnblo the company lo decide which aro tho host fields or immigration. Tho directors on this side f tho water aro E. B.'Hhanklnml, of Dubuque, own, Judge John 1*. Jones, of Barton, Ark., lev. J. T. Barges, of Now York, Dndloy W. rdains, of Iowa, Col. D. Aiken, of South Car olina, H. T. Smith, of Georgia, and thero aro voral othors yot to ho jjppolntod. MISCELLANEOUS. Donaldson’s children still remain in istltuto elrouraBtanoos in Boohostor, N. Y Tho proposition that a benefit bo given foi them doos not moot with much favor, and »i appeal is being mado to tho charitable hi their behalf. Jefferson Davis lias reooivod invita- iuh from Besmolnos, Iowa, Chariot id other points In tho Wost to dellvor Urn mual addroBH at mootings of various ngrl* Hunt societies to be held thiH fall 111 tho Wost. The ITobrows in Now York aro agitat ing the subject of establishing a Huproi al sanhedrim in tho Unitod Htates, Himllar its functions to ttio’ l’roshytorlan iHomblioH and tho Epjscopal gonoral lion. Ordors lmvo boon scut to tho offloors ommaiidlng tho Amorloau vohhoIh t Tripoli to donrnnd instant and complete operation fur ttio IndlguitloH offered the .morloan consul and tils wifo by Tripolitan allors. If ttio tomporof tho Tripolitan pooplo, s roooutly reported, Is porstbtod in, it Is not nlikoly that our vessols of war may he o( pollod to again bombard that eity. About $225,000 awarded by tho ct in twon! y-four crhoh, for oapturod and at) donod proporty, will bo paid. An appeal tins boon taken by tho government in other roportod on by tho apodal commissioner, in volving botwoon $800,000 nnd $1110.000. Among ttio lattor Ih ttio caso of II, Mi Doug las, son of tho Into Honhtor Douglas, In whoao favor an award of $1(1.110 was made oouut nf iispliirnd .'mV gbaudouod jjottOU on the oslntn of his grandmother in Mississippi A '.tolegrnm reooivod nt tho nnvy de partment from Oapt. Edward HimpHon, < mantling United Htates steamer Omaha. nounooH that tho Htato of Panama has do- clarod war against tho government of Colom bia. Tho department immediately dors to Boar Admiral Mnllanoy, commanding the North Atlantic station, to hold Ills aval bio forco In roadliioss to proceed without - lay to tho Isthmus, if nocossary, for tho p tootion of American Interests. Tho Treasury offioinlfi lmvo oxporioncod Homo difficulty recently, in performing duties of Inspecting'VohsoIh arriving Southern ports, to nncort&ln their sanitary condition. It appears that Htato am pal authorities object that the right such inspection is in thorn, and not in tho offioorH of tho Eodorat Govornmonl Unitod Htatos slatuto Jsuch hitorforoiioo is constituted an offenno punishable by n flue of $400 in ORch Inslnnco. Tho Department has dotormined to tako Htops to onforoo this pen alty hi caso such Interference is repeated, FOREIGN. Official roporta hIiow that tho whont ops in Austria nnd Hungary have fallen off in quantity and quality, and wll not yield loro than 555,000 quintain. A special from Vienna says tho Hor- 3govlnians massacred ninety-five Turkish A DREAM OF FAIR WEATHER. NtrnnRO wild being, half goal, half man— While post hi in tho plover amt dunlin llow, lulling the rose with a nd dropped by the river where lull reeds grow, Ami wnere bright willows waved to and fro OYr the uost of a teal Iu tlio llags below. In ahoaia tho glittering suu-peroh leapt. ,n oriole, deep In Its braided unfit. On the waves of tho south wtud rooked Nth tho lithe cup fitted so close to It* breast That It looked like some splendid molten goh IMnred from a crucible into a mould. n a hovering cloud of buttorfilos, Lulled by a murmur of drowsy hr os, Amt Hooded with sweets nud the tender dyes Or a tied of bloom In the stream of tho brooi A maiden alopt In tho dusk of the trees.: humming-bird daintily touched her mouth, Finding It sweet ns the lose-hud h In a quiver of rapture the long grass lei Ami swarms of beautiful gllde.l thing I lung trained In the air on filmy wlnii «.yl out of the forest ayouth thorocam .nd away like a bolt tho humming-bird ppod, While suddenly, utterly up ill tho trees, Their singing the emulous choirs did ocaro. Of't In'Vtfeen y* M ream! by it s <1 ro way talon. retired for thirty minuted for vofrosh- monfc. On resuming business it nitty bo remarked that Slmw, who had been vory unfortunate, ns many of his birds in tho first 50 foil dead out of tiio hounds, ontirolv through shooting with number " nino ’’ shot, now oommonoed with number "soven,” nnd by so doing lie mado n mnoh bottor score. This will ho understood when it is said that ho killed splendidly 18 out of his first 20 birds after luuohoon. Tho captain, howovor, continued thumping down his birds also in grand stylo, nnd thero be ing no olinnoe for Slum winning nt the 89tli round, ho being then twelve birds bohiud, ho gnvo up, nnd Captain Bo- gitr.dus was declared tho winner amid groat oiieoring. Tho onptnin, in order to decide a hot of killiug 80 out if 100 birds, shot at throo moro, whioh ho killed, nnd thou retired, nftor hhviug brought down 80 out of 91, nnd Shaw scorod (15 out of 89. Tho match, whioh cornmonoed nt 10:30 A. M., was not oouoludod until 4:80 P. M. Captain Bognrdns shot with hie famous 12 boro broeoh-loadiug doublo gun, of course using ono barrel only. IIo shot with five drachms of powilor, and used No. 9 shot. Shaw usod a Biuglo gun. That Captain Bogardus has now provod himsolf an extraordinary marks man no man cun dony, for tho sooro alone was never bofore equaled iu Eng land ; in faot, the losing man’s (Shaw) sooro is tho largost ovor proviously mado. When wo take into considera tion tlio swiftness of tho birds, thoy being tlio host blue rooks that could bo obtained for the timo of yoar, nnd tho fact of tho captain hoing made to load every cartridge himself with shot singly before ho plaood it in his gun, and also trapping tho whole of his birds, that iH to say, tlioso for Shaw to shoot nt, tho performance must ho doomed a surpris- ing ono. Ho Bhoots exceedingly fair, witli tho gun uloan bo'tow tho olbow, and kills iris birds in a most astonish ing manner. Each appears to roooivo tho stipulated quantity of shot in its body, lioing instantaneously doubled up. Hhaw shot woll enough to boat 99 sportsman out 100 aud ho novor was in tho hunt on this occasion.—Hell* Life. Balt Lako. THE GREAT SHOOTING MATOH. in 11 ago. James tnro of Illinois has deol&red the opora tion of a corner to bo a felony. It i» nevertheless Btill practiced. Corners are attempted in wheat, oats, barley, pork, and lard, and sorao of them havo been qnite successful! in a pecuniary way. It requires nerve, audacity, and money, or credit. Recently a bank here went into a corner, issuing its cer tificates of deposit for margins ; tho oorner failed, and ho did tho bank, and tho certificates have never been paid.— Scribner for September. A Hint to Dyspeptics.—We have seen dyspeptics who saffered nntold tor ment* with almost every kind of food. No liquid coaid bo taken without suffer ing ; bread became a burning acid ; ment and milk were splid and liqnid fires. Wo hove seen these same suffer ers trying to avoid food and drink, and even going to the syringo for susten ance. And have soon their torments pass awav nud their hnn relieved by living npon the white of eggs which had been boiled in bubbling water for thirty minutes. At tho end of tho week we have given the hard yelk of the egg, . MoNoal, a well-known eighteen mllos bolow Memphis on ttio Arkansas sido, was assassinated last Friday. He had Just left the field whoro his hands were al work and rode out into tho road, when they heard a shot and saw his horse riderless, running up tho road, follow ing a man on horseback. When thoy the rood they found MoNoal lying wbolo charge of buckshot having entered his groast. No cluo to tho Reports of tho rosnlt of tlio census of Louisiana recently taken in compliance with the roquirdmonts’ of tho Htato Constitute show tlio city of Now Orleans to contain whites 145,721; colored, 67,047; total, 252,70S, an incroaso of 11,IKK] Upon tho census of 1870. Population of tho whole Htato: whites, 404,- 351 ; colored, 460,029, an oxcoss of colored over whites of 40,008, and a total incroaso of 128,115 ovor tho census of 1870. Those figures may ho subject to the returns of ono boing quite comp)' There is quite a collection of southern lotablcs at Greenbriar,WhiteBulphur Hpringa, Virginia. AmoDg thorn aro Gonoral Joseph E. Johnston, Gonoral Robert Toombs, of Goor- gia: tho Hon. A. B II. Htuart; ox-Unltod Htates Houator Kennedy, of Maryland -, Unitod HtatosBenator Caperton, of Wost Virginia; General G. F. Gilmer, of Goorgia, arid Guslis Lee, Lilloy and Echols of Virginia ; Col. Wal ter H. Taylor, Hpoaker Hanger, II. II. Mat thew, Attorney General of West Virginia; Judges Manning, of Now Orleans. Jackson, of West Virginia, McLaughlin, of Lexington, id Col. Wade Hampton, Jr., of South Caro lina. with the whith the white, and upon this diet alone, without fluid of any kind, we have seen them begin to gain flesh and strength, and refreshing sleep. After weeks of this treatment thoy have been able, with care, to begin upon foqd.—Aledical Journal. —They killed a i>ook agent at Cres- ton two weeks ago, but they had to run ever him with nine freight cars to do it. People who can’t afford to keep a fast freight train in the house the book agents’ mercy. South Carolina raising wheat and grinding it into flour for consumption in Massachusetts is something new under the sun but tho Baltimore Hun, of tho 2Ah, says: Among the cargo brought by tho steamship Calvert from Charleston yesterday, woro three hundred pounds of flour, the wheat of which was raised in Bouth Carolina tho present year, the flour being made at Charleston, at tho Campson Mills. Tho flour is of fine quality, and iH equal to our Maryland product. This shipment, which is the inaugora tion of a new still at j enterprise, goes to Boston. Five hundred barrels of the same kind of flour are now prisoners, captured at Marsnct. Bam surg&nls aro assembling in the moun Jroto. Oapt. Wclib has succeeded in Iris tocoml attempt in swimming from Dover to Calais without float or life-saving apparatus. The passage from Dover occupied 21 hours, minutes. Bismarck is in rotirernont at Varzin, inactivo apparently, but according to Fi spies, working like a beaver, and in reality restless than ovor. Thoy also a* Krupp, tho great cannon foundryr has tripled tho number of his workmen. It is reported that tho ICohokan Biugonts have surrendered Kobjondon, a large city fifty miles from Kohokan. Communica tion between Kohjenden and Taschikeud is interrupted. The authorities of Taschlkom aro arming theltusian inhabitants of the city Dispatohos from Europo state tlyit Mr. Wade, tho British minister at Rokin, Iirh asked the government to reinforce tho Brit ish troops in China, as in his iiiterconrso wit officials at Fokin he has beon treated with studied insolence. Tho demands which ho has mado for compensation for the murder of Maragary has boon thwarted and treated with contempt. A dispa’ch states that tho popular fooling In Horvia is very strongly in favor of aiding the Herzegovinian rebels. There Is no doubt of this. A strong party in Horvia is in favor of seizing this opportunity, not so much to aid their neighbors of Iferzigovinia, as to throw off Turkish influence and establish their own indepondnneo. It is hardly possible to restrain thorn, as thoy aro a fiorco and war like people, who bate tho Turks with a degree of venom inconceivable. A speoial from Berlin says tho Euro pean powers havo beon unable to induce tho sultan to suspend hostilities ponding their me diation. This rofueal, however, is a matter of indifforoncc, as Turkish reinforcements havo been unable to penetrate tho mountain defiles. Telograms to tho effect that tho Turks had so succeeded were promaturo. Tho dispatch statos that if tho Herzegovinian insurgents reject tho proposed modfatlon, Austria, who has [assembled an army corps in Dalmatia, will be in a condition to offer the sultan her good offices. Tho great match botwoen Captain II. W. Bognrdns (tlio American champion) and B. Hhaw of Oldham, near Manches ter, for two hundrod pounds a side, took place ou Monday last. Tho con ditions woro to shoot at ono hundrod pigeons oaoh, with ono ounce of shot, twonty-ono yards riso, from ono trap, tho uso of ono barroi, nnd tho gun be low tlio olbow until tho bird was on tho wing. Tlio match, whioh had boon mado only a short timo previously, ox- oitod mnoh intorost, owing to tho fact of its boing understood that Contain Bognrdns was to compote witli Hhaw, tlio best professional shot in England, under tho said conditions of from 1 trap, 1 oz. of shot, 21 yards riso. Not withstanding tlio captain was mado tho favorite iu tho hotting nt 100 to 80, speculation wns not vory spirited, in consequence of the Manchester divis ion not supporting their man with thoir usual freedom, knowing they hud " Wonder ” to vanquish. Captain Bu- gardus is a lino, muscular man, stand ing fully six foot, woight about 15 stone, and is about forty yours of ago. Ho it a wonderful shot at both game und pigeons, a great athloto, nnd providing 11? .... ..» n. Gm font A writor in tlio Galaxy says drovo for an hour along tho southern hank of Halt Lake, fanned by tho breath of its sea air, and looking ovor its waste of waters dotted with mountain islands. It roquirod but littlo imagination to transport onrsolvos lo tlio shores of tho Atlantic, for extending us it does ninety miles to tho north, no laud could bo soon boyond tho lino of tlio oloarly do- lined horizon. Homo years ago a steam boat of throo hundrod tons was built for freight and linsstuigor trnfilo, nooLinn with the Union and Central Pacific roads; but hor fair proBpoots woro ruined by tlio construction of tlio Utali Central, and sho now lios at tlio wharf, hor only value boing hor aid making our imnginury ocean Boom me real. How this groat basin of salt water oamo to lie deposited in tho inte rior of tho continent has boon a study for googrnpliors nnd naturalists. Tho wntor is so donsoly saline that it is im possible for a body to find tho bottom, it is a capital placo to aoquiro tlio art of swimming witli perfect safety. In former times three barrols of wator loft to evaporate would produce ono barrel of salt; lint tho freshening within tho last twenty yours has so woakouod it that now four barrels of it aro roquirod to obtain tljat quantity. It has become fresh, thoroforo, iu a proportion of somowhat moro than ono por oont, yearly. Honoo it follows that in loss than ono hundred years tho namo of Groat Halt Lako should bo chaugod ; for by this timo it will, like Mormonisi FACTS AND FANCIES." In Bouth Amorion there is a prolific honey boo Hint has not boon furnished with a sting. A mr.n said Iris son Imd n well- stored mind, but tho neighbors nover could find whoro ho stored it. It is boliovod thatorooodilos livo lo bo huudrods of years old. Tho Egyp- ' nns embalmed thorn. His "Uuolo Consider ” was quite right, in tolling Eli Pnrkins : "If you got tho host of whisky, Eli, whisky will got tho host of you." —Fifteen thousand dollars is tlio con tract. piioo for the new bronze statue whioh tho city of Providonoo is about ooting to Roger Williams. —A Boston pap'or calls for two sopn rato Henvons—ono for tho good and tho othor for tho fair to medium. Oil, pshaw! Less all go indogothor. Prof, Tyndall now takes tlio ground that Hum was an Indian instead of a negro. Anybody can tako any ground ho wants to those days. —This isn’t a good season for catches" nt tho watoring-plftoos, and many nioo girls nro willing to take up with frooklod- faoed, impoverished mon. Can thoro ho any groator dotage in tho world limn for ono to guido and di rect his course by tlio sound of a boll, nnd not by Iris own judgment and dis cretion ?—Jlabolala, —Tlio wish haH beon oxprcBBOil that, tho portrait of Hon. n. Hamlin might lio put upon n ouo oont. postngo stamp. Then tho righteously indignant people might punch his head every timo thoy send off a newspaper by mail. —To rondor tlio colors of ootton fnb- ..o pormanout, dissolvo throo gills of salt in four (marts of water ; put tlio calico in while hot, and loavo it till oold ; it will not fado by subsequent washing. —An Iowa man obtained a divorce from his wifo and then hired her for a oook. Tho woman is delighted with her change, because now sho can lmvo dross occasionally aud a littlo pin money in hor pookot-book. —Mossrs. Moody ‘and Bankoy lmvo received invitations to visit Now Zea land, but it is moro than likely thoy will consider tho whisky-tattooed aborig ines of Chicago lmvo prior claims oil thoir efforts. —Ex-Empress Eugono is instituting law suits in Franco to got hack somo of tho property whioh Napoleon III. couldn’t take with him out of tho coun try when ho loftHodan. If not all, it is likoly sho will manage to got somo. —Danbury 1ms tlio ohampion patient boy. no comes from a ohronionlly borrowing family. Tho othor day ho wout to ft neighbor’s for a onp of sour milk. "I haven’t got anything but swoot milk,” said tho woman, pettishly. " I’ll wait till it sours," said tho oblig ing youth, sinking into a oiiair. —Although imprisonment for debt lms beon abolished in Groat Rritaiu, twenty thousand persons nearly woro nrrostod for debt iu 1873, ono fourth of whom wont to prison rather than pay. Thoy woro committed, howovor, not for inability, but for umvillinguoss to raeot tlioir obligations. —Thoro is u Maine man who lias preserved a document emanating from a justice of tho peace, to this offeot: " Han oook, bh, Novr lltli 1809. Thou personally appeared Ibrook Eddy or Eddington, und acknowledged himsolf guilty of having uttered two profane oaths on this day, and has paid a fine for tlio snmo as tho Law diroots to mo. _ It Js tho London Telegraph whioh puts forth this slander upon American Imbios : "Tho transatlantic infant lms a peonlinr mode of crying in a sonos of lio cleared of all its impurities. I lmvo proviously noticed tho regular wator lines, called bouoiios, whioh aro so dis tinctly defined ou all tho mountain rangos surrounding those various vnl- toys, and which afford such unmistuka bio ovidonoo that in former days thoy onolosod vast inland sons. Tho doop alkaline soil of tho bottoms has led to tho supposition that those sons woro of salt water, aud that all of thorn, except ing this, lmvo beon comidotoly evapor rated, Hilt Lako beiug tlio solo survi vor, and that hoing dostmod to dwindle to a puddle and thou to dry up forever. Rut tho last part of this theory is uoga- tivod by tho evident intention of the lake to assume somowlmt of its original proportions; while it is becoming frosuer it is growing larger. Within tlio twenty soven yours that tho country around it lms boon settled it has on- oroaohod nil along its low banks nearly a mile upon tho land und deepened five feet. Bevoral fine furms aro now nmncutly under water, and tho Iris mupotilar strength is put to tlio tost, ho is almost, or quite equal to tho lute John Meonan. Tho captain’s opponont, Hhaw, lms proved himsolf a wonderfully fine shot for a considerable longth of timo, by defeating a largo north country sportsmen, fresh colored, spare man, with a vast amount of confidence, and wo should say half a dozen ^oars youngor than tho captain. No timo was lost in ar ranging tho preliminaries, and ut 10:80 A. |M., tho match commenced, both men trapping thoir own birds, tlio best blue rocks obtainable. Hhaw led off but failed to bring down iris first, u very fftHt ouo, and tho oaptain quickly camo forward and rattled down in fine stylo a vory swift bird. Both through trapping their own birds ngainst each other woro somowlmt slow to timo, but thoy shot in thoir turn. Out of the first ton birds shot at by the American ho brought down nino, tho second oight, and tho third lot all foil to his aim. At tho fourth ton nino camo to griof, at tho fifth overy bird foil. Con sequently it will bo gathered that ho brough down forty-six out of tho first fifty birds. Hhaw, it will bo seen, was never on favorable terms with the oap tain, for in his first ton ho missed throo birds, and in his second tho sumo num ber, and this mado him throo " rooks ” to the bad. Out of tho third ten birds tho Manchester man brought down splendidly oight, but in the fourth four escaped, and out of tho fifth 10 lie only brought down six, thereby scoring 34 out of 50 birds—just 12 less than his opponont scored. At this point oI tho contest tho competitors and their friends ■harp, npnemoillo yelps, very cUOna* from tlio BOBlcnuto howl of tho British bantling, nud witli intonation an though it woro prematurely striving to reoito tho dootnrution of indopondenoo ifith il» mouth fnll of peanuts and popcorn, -A Parisian tliiof at tho Antonil steeplo-olmsos was naught hy a dotoo- tivo witli Ida hand in n Indy a pooltnt. a j , im no thief,” tlm pickpocket indig nantly protested, “I am fn love with tlds lady, nud was only slipping a nnto into her pookot,” nnd ho produced uh proof a lovo letter hidden in the palm of ids hand. As, however, tlio Indy was old and ugly, nnd forty-one parses wore found on tlio ingenious Frenchman, ho was token off to dnranoo vile. —Thero is a megatherium iu tho De troit museum. Its stomaoh must liavo boon about the site of a boor vat, and a correspondent of tho Graphic doosn t understand how it oould possibly havo satisttedits appetite with ants. Unnoi- entiflo minds are always oritiolvdeg ev erything tliat they do not comprehend, whioh wo travelled has boon moved fur Undoubtedly tho megatherium used to inward to acoomodato its aggressive- HIJoU it „ ftU ts with a "n," and found it nosH. At tho same timo that this change is going on 'atmospheric caused for a part of it aro appurent. Tho climate is becoming moro mild, although it is still exoossivoly dry. But oaoh succeeding season brings a groator rain-full. This has doubled within twelve years.” Diary of an M. D. A pookot diary, picked np in tho street of a neighboring city, would seem to indicate, from the following choice ex tracts, that tho owner - a “ m " Kase 230, Mary An Perkins, Bianco, wash woman. Hioknoss iu hor hod Fisik some blue pils a soaperifik; ago 52. Fed mo ono dollar, 1 kuarter bogus. Mind got good kuarter and mak hor tak mo fisik. " Rose 231, Tummos Frink, business, Nirishmon. Livo with Pady Molony who keeps a dray—Hiknvss digg in ribs and tow blak eyes. Fisik to drink my mixtor twiot a day of susiporily boro and jollop, and fish ilo, with usifodity to make it taste firiky. Rubod his faoo with kart groso liniment, aged 89 years ago. Drinked the mixter aunwuddit pay mo bukaso it tastod nasty, but tho mixter’ll woik iris inards, I reckon. " Kase 282, Old Missts Boggs. Aiut got no bisnesH, but plenty of money. Hiknos awl a humbug. Gav hor sum of ray celebrated 1 Dipseflurikon,’ which sho sod drunk like oold teo—which it waH too. Most put snmthink into it to make hor feel sik and bad. The Old , Women has got the roks.”—Sanitarian, spoil its outs v vory easy to livo on thorn. A man nf kindly natnro is apt to provide for tho comfortable old ago a homo that lias low? earned him, an 1 would ho grieved to sell such an ani mal to a poor master for moan work and miFerablo treatment. Vovorty may furao consent; bat n certain gratitude is felt for old and laitliful Hoivioo, still moro whoro there is personal affection, as m n dog. Bat when thoro is no personal relation it would seem that our rights , ovor nnimol life are increased b.y a cer- .tai-tJomnsticity. If by defending sheep larfinnuun thoir numhors to inercft-u'. our 'wocauso thoir numhors t.. — _ , right to tako tho lives which would not have existed without our cares appears greater than in tho case of wild animals wholly independent of us. Instrument to Imitate the Human Voice.—Aourious iuvontion is roportod from Cologne, whoro, at tlio last of tlio admirable popular lectures, winch havo formed so marked a feature ,m this spring’s progrummo for tho instruction nf Jho masses In tho Rlionish capital, “an'inaSSt wa. skews by the ieo. turor, 1-rof. Amborg, which m a do to imitato tbo human voico. liy this in genious invention, to which tha am bitions namo vox fiumana has been irivon, all the vowel sounds and tbo labials can bo rondored with perfect oloarnoBH and accuracy ; it aleo gives somo of tho gutturals, but os yot tho instrument has not succeeded in ron doring the hiHsiug or tho dooper luryogoal sounds.