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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 1S75. VOLUME II. NUMBER 15. TIMELY TOPICS. Tin: cattle disci in Homo counties i Till: jury in t! I he murderer of ntnli Territory, h ‘not guilty.” to is making sad havoc i England. • case of Wintormute, Gov. McCook, of Ou ght erdict of timnted that already the loi crop of the The Iu^iai path out in ready butchi npjx*nr to Ik* on the war- .estern Utah, having ul- •d a numlier of settlors ud miners. Troops are lM*ing sent for- aid to squelch the red-skins. Tin: success of tin* new Atlantic cable inures communication with KurojH* at inch lower rates than have lierutofore ta n charged. 'The enormous capital now .ihmerged beneath the sea can only In* lade to pay a low tariff ami large busi- nttle unooment that j. r » witment for hoof and mout ine county in England h. ed bv anxious discussions i the spread of the rapidly increasing prle country. ntati ! of meat 1 of the in that all UiiHsia. Old v • l'r.-r.cli jww't. running. Frank IIah Hrooek, astonis! lias written • prove that the alliance with mers, es|>ecially ingle journal of the f the idea he is bv n fav nil’s throe-old colt, Tvi •d tlie knowing ones a making the fastes locating the supixiscd invincible Windier. Ten Broeck is by Bhm*t< eomple- Anglici l/.mlon ■d in England fo ve lieen ulmost ■ the great Bnn- • the one held ill Anglicanism. The I/ondo ate Archbishop I/ningly. churches will Ik* fully rep- lis ecumenical council ol Times gives a summary of the failures in England during the last three months. The liabilities of tweney-nino amount to a total of $2t>,- 000,000, and their assets to $10,000,000, *»f which alkiut one-third are regarded as doubtful. Hut the Times lutH a mis giving that this is verv f ag the t n this \ till hisses of the late pal ew it is probably correct service authorities have epre formation that a company of Italia have gone west with a large amount len-dollar counterfeit bills of the first national bank of Philadelphia. These counterfeits are exceedingly dangerous. f of Egypt. Only a abort time since, and for the third time, was he ten- d the jMsition. This time it was urged ujHm him so strenuously that at length consented, and is making preparation to go over and assume his position immediately. He is to get $100,000 to prepare himself an outfit, is to receive the sum of $20,000 an nually for having supreme control of the army of the Khedive of Egypt. 01- men and IAS women were recently indicted in Russia, of whom 205 wore arrested for participation in the socialist movement. The Procurer General in the indictment, says socialism is rapidlv spreading throughout the Empire. The most ardent propagandists of the move ment belong to the upper classes. Among the indicted are retired officers, professors, justices of the peace, officials of all grades, and several ladies of high family, lie says the socialists] only await an opportunity, such as foreign war, to organize a revolution at home, and put into practice their extravagant ideas. THE SEWERAGE OF PITIES. to provide for the mctro|Hdis of London a system of drainage that should lie ef ficient in itself and that should at tin time leave the waters of tin Thames pure aut I luring seventeen ye more than twonty-i the works have Iks inly itEmt two uncontamiimtcd. . and at a cost ol > million dollars, n progress, and it r there- alKiuts that their ultimato rumple was announced. The sewerage of one large section of Dindon, covering an area of nearly one hundred and twenty i*l tin re miles, is now carried away ill the most iH'rfect manner, and provision is made bv which, for a long time to conic, and making all allowance for the contin uous growth of the city, the drainage The great value of sewerage of a large city is fully acknowledged. That ol . with its dense |Mipulation ol represents a vast animal icy. Yet it is not utilized Hy the great s' aplet. d it is carrie’ mouth of the Thai o How into the i ierinnu Duly admits that the -lilting from such a four milllor amount of mo; the A fo\ •oily is ain that wot ore utilized ii| oinpn ell < London for utilizing in this •rage north of the Tliumes, was then a novel one; at public had not been educated up to appreciation of its value, an * pital. f Engl < >ne the t t li< *i ish root) small i ently Hindu erfeit is probably the most dungerom ■xtant. It is perfect on its face, hut hai i few defuoLs on the back. l»i:-i*rri: the general depression o nisiue-.- since the panic the New Yorl Tribune says then* has been a steady ini the pres list us during i of the during the p« sinuate, •nth the idcrful ve {tower of France is more palpable. It is officially dc- i her trade returns for the first onths of IK sho in the value of exports of 200,000,000 francs (.$52,000,000.) as compared with the corresponding period of 1874; in the sum- time the value of the imports has decreased |>y 4-1,000,000 francs ($8,800,- °00;) the r. suit is that France obtains the difference in gold. A Spanish organ at Havana, the Hairi.. dc la Marina, admitted recently 1 hat it was possible that the island might become an independent state, and ad- visj d the in-n.-gents to treat for the pac ification of tin* country. Affairs, indeed look promising for the reitels, who over run the whole eastern part of the island, burning sugar plantations and enlisting the slaves as fast as they are set free. The steam vatch Octavin has succeeded in landing three cargoes of supplies for the insurgents on the north coast. Gaum: Advices announce the failure of tl..* Credit Fancier of England. It of $8,000,000, nearly all gli its headquarters were business is chiefly pn the through fur the of tho midland of tlu* local lx■: took on lease f. of twenty-eight intention ol utilizing tin their own district, which illation of alMitit fn health •f la oil, badly cultivated. id inefficiently drained. The * X pci tig. At first tlu* he expenditure, vns onl v $1,055, h cut. lint every narked improvem Months ending M nit still the profit more than cneourag- ceeipts fell far short of In 1870 tlur income irely enough to cover year has shown n -n’t, and when tlu* u<- ROMANCE OF THE INSANE. i»I> i li«> liiiiiiri* ul' ii Viral tv I ft* I .«H mi iiir II nil ii. A short time ago a .Votlng-looklltg wo- am of the middle class, who laid seem ingly lost her mind, Wait arrested in a scnu-destlttlle condition and carried to the central station on Caroiidelet street, charged on the books with being insane and not being aide to give satisfactory account of herself. Though her hair was unkempt ami dis heveled. and her clothing scant, soiled and draggled from her Wanderings far and wide in the streets “looking for her lost husband," as sin* said, there was such a pitiful look about her lace ami eyes that the officials, and especially Lynch, the. turnkey of tlu* station, treated her with more consideration thanisusually shown prisoners of her chew. And as she sat in her coll swaying to and fro, as suffering women often* do -a ■ •it of keeping time, as It wore, to her sobs and moans, all about her lost hus band Lynch, who looked in u|m>ii her, thought ho recognized in the Mary Stephens before him the wife of Stephen Mat I ill, a confirmed lunatic, who had E'en sent to the insane asylum several months ago. This suspicion ho communicated to Hr. Cooper, who at once had tin* woman removed to tlu* insane asylum, whither she would have been sent in tin*end, had she been duly arraigned before Judge When taken to the placed in the reception afterwards Stephen Mi tight in and pla isvlutn, she ul shortly Instantly the I ill, the lunatic ed before her. roman sprang to died forward placed her arms alkiut her husband. McGill, for a moment, stood as though more dazed than ever, and then rubbing his eyes and face with his hands and shaking his head slowly, as if to clear away the obstruc tion placed upon his brain by his disease, said, “ Is it you, Kate? 1 lave you come to sec me at last?” At this mention of the name of Kate the face of the woman Hushed and clouded for a moment, and then recover ing herself quickly she said: “ No, it is not Kate, your Iirt wife, Steve, hut plums, whom you married ufler- er, could not ttilder- tlint the woman before ate of early days, and do uld he kept calling her Him- ” '* li*>um.M.i.1 *»»-ria^e ward McGill, ho stand how K ply “ Kate, Kat was evidently blotted out from his dis tempered mind as though it had never been a reality. Then the two were separated and the man went back to his place of coniine- incut calling now and then lor his Kate, his “own dear wife Kate," until his daily ravings came on and lie was again stark mad —forgetfill even of Ills first love 'riu* shock of tin* meeting had a con trary effect upon the woman. She ii growing better and better and will short Iv he able to con world alone and ioii toilers seeking tliei Orleans Picayune, The IV t again into tin in tie* multitude ol daily bread.—Nru Tn for tin* t Ik> eh, 1875, the cx | tended. Such less than thirty m that there in method of culture. t 1)0 expo o'.fir a farm of ckahirc, tried, hi: paid up Its chic: obit flu; there, the farm being in private owner ship, it is not easy to arrive at the re sults. It is acknowledged, however, l»y the Ear) of Warwick, to whom the place belongs, that the profits are very large. The Earl pays to the town coun cil of I/cainington, $2,250 a year for the town sewerage, and la* has jK’rfected ar rangements for receiving and distribu ting it over tin* farm, which is 400 acres in extent, as occasion may require. It is applied to Almost every description of crons, from cereals and roots, to bean.-, and |K*;ifl, cabbage, celery, rhubarb, and even strawberries, and with uniformly favorable results. Ilye grass irrigated with sewerage has D*on already cut five times, and it is expected that at least two additional crops will be secured. The root crops are described ns simply enormous; turnips are obtained in js*r- fection throughout the season, and man golds have produced as much ns 82 tons |h r acre. It is also worthy of note that the water which flows off this farm is bright and sparkling, nlisolutcly free from all fungoid growths, and quite fit to drink. The farm, the soil of which is n rich loam with n gravel subsoil, has lieen under experiment four years. Is it t<x> much to say that the sewerage ' hich is every year allowed to flow into the rivers from this city would suffice to make nil the land in the ncighlxirhood for miles around, including the now bar ren flats of New Jersey, highly produc- A writer says: Among bis other great public enterprises Garibaldi, the famous Italian hero, is engaged in plant ing the Eucalyptus or blue gum tree about Home, to prevent the malarial fever with which the Inhabitants of Unit city are afflicted. As this tree is lilth known in our country, some necotin may not Ik* uninteresting. According D the best authorities it is an Australian pro duction, and was first discovered by the French scientist, La Nillardiere, who visited Van DienmnV Land in 17U2. It brought into the south of Franco t tin* beginning of the present cen tury, end noble, specimens of it are now growing in the promenades and public gardens of Nice, Cannes, llyeres, and Algiers. Its medicinal qualities, how ever, did not become known until nlxnit thirty years ago. The Spaniards first discovered that it was a pro fever and the colonists of 'lasinania used its leaves for a variety of pur|K)HCH. It was not until 1800 its full power Ixcnme known, and, a# a hygienic measure, it was introduced in the Spanish realm as an antisetie. The |K*ople of Valentin were suffering from malarial fever; Euenioptus trees were planted nlxmt the city, and a marked improvement in the healthfiilness of the locality followed. So iKipular did it become that the trees limf to Ik* guarded, the inhabitants steal ing the leaves every opportunity they had, to make decoctions to drink. The Spaniards named the Eucalyptus the If * take of : •d u]ion what nit mobilit-r, howl, oi tajB' regarded by j taken t- M reliable that hu d and ha* iander-in ic Boulevard des Ttali l* other day, a well-dressed man •ved walking alone, but with his [•xtended and curved as though iven it to a lady. He looked rith an irritated air and suddenly 1 a j XT-on who had in passing •a/.ed him, “ Look out, you block- voti will hurt my wife.” “ How, ife!” said the other, astonished, v wife,” was the rcplv, neeom- y a blow. < )n being arrested and the station-house 1 that he was wife, who di habit tnhl over the cakes, beat up the whites to a froth and drop on the custard. If the cake is stale it is even hotter, The almolids must lie placed evenly to make the dish picturesque. introduced int< eled to tin Sirilv, South Garibald Alger • aft-- i it a|K* It Ho, id Galifoi trav- pi to introduc Koine is not entirely new. Home years ago a few dozen specimens were planted alxmtthc walls, and although nearly all of the trees lived hut very few of them are vigorous. After a trial of many years in Southern France it has failed to Ixteoine hardy or suck up and destroy the poison ous vapors of the swamps in which it was planted. The trnppist monks of the Tre Fontana have recently set out large plantations of the Eucalyptus trees, and nr<* tending them with the utmost care. This may be looked upon experiment lyptiui tre I of the Jv nitisetie and disinfec- ellent. The districts in which it is indigenous are healthy, and those into which it has lieen introduced and thriven have become healthy. A few miles from Algiers is a farm which was once noted for its deadly fevers. Life on it in summer months was almost impos sible. In the year 1807 the 1 1,000 Eucalypti! An Accomplished English Hangman. CalcratA, tin* hangman in England fur many years, has lx*eome HU|K*raiuumted, and has retired with a pension. Ho was a curiously reticent man, uml the re porters uud others who tried to Interview him never succeeded in getting anything out of him. Ho hud a habit, however, of always whispering in the eur of his victim just before the supreme moment, and various gloomy stories wont uUmt as to what this last message was. Some people said it was a curse: “Down, down to hell, and say I sent you tiiero!" Olliers pretended that Cuicraft always whispered, "Stand firmf Good news for yon! Your pardon has count, and you will hear the sheriff' read it in a mo ment I” Others, still, said that Calcruft was a spiritualist, and that his whlsjH*red farewell message was an injunction to the victim to visit him that night and bring him news from the other world. Another of Ids habits wan always to shake hands with the condemned in*non at the moment of whispering in his eur; but it was observed that his nerves were never strong after the execution of Margaret Walter at Newgate, un unliuppy women who was hung lor the murder of some infants consigned to her care. She seized bis baud with so much force that it was with tlu* utmost difficulty that ho disen gage! himself, and as tie hastened to pull the bolt his face was observed to be fearfully pale. Caleraft's successor is u limn named Murwood; and a eurresjiond- unt who traveled with him in a third- class ear u few days ago thus describes tlu* man: Murwood carried with him in a black oilskin wrapper, fastened by a leathern strut), articles which 1 afterward discov ered to Ikj the implements of his call ing. Sentence of death on sovorul crim inals Imd been carried out that morning, and Murwood, after ixirforuiing his dread offices, was returning to his home in Lincolnshire. In general up|x*amnce, Murwood was not unlike a decent work ingman, just passing the prime of life. His shoulders are brood; his chest deep; liis hack straight and hard; his arms are long and sinewy; his hand bony uml |M)werful, and set upon thick muscular wrists; ami his legs, slightly Ixiwed at the calves and at the hs, gave aditimml power to the whole frame. A casual glance at his countenance would rattier give the Idea that ho was a simple, mild diH|Nisitioii; hut a more earoiul examination discov ers in it little of pity and much of quiet self-approval. \Ve had been running o few minutes when I engaged him iu con- cessation, which was carried on with difficulty amid tin* din of the mail train. Sometimes, so loud was the noise, he placed his ears close to my lips to hear the observations 1 had to oiler. Those were generally applied to himself rather than to tin* horrid details of any partic ular execution in which he had taken part. Ho far as I could gather, Mar- wood, up to within the last four or five years, led an unenviable life. He car ried on the business of master shoemaker iu llorncoxtlc and employed several workmen. He was a well-known local character and was iu his way respected. It was when the old man (meaning Cnl- eral't) began to decline that the idea of becoming a liangmau entered bis mind. “ I Ic felt he could do it,” and immedi ately applied himself to the study of the hanging frame iu order that he might, by the introduction of Improved meth ods, “work off” condemned criminals with dispatch and dexterity. Two or three jobs came in this wav, and acquit ting himself snlisfactorinfly, he became an officer of the crown. For long it was not discovered in Monicastli* that lie had entered upon a fresh avocation. Even his wife was kept in ignorance as (o what liiH business could he when called a' on her majesty’s service. In answer to her inquiries he. would say, "I'm going on a little law IniHiuess, my dear,” ami would tell her when to expert his return. When the truth did conic out noDuly would believe the retiring William Mar- wood, master shoemaker, Churehlaiie, I lornenstlo, could have lx*eu canal to the hanging of his fellows. Hut (this t » me aside) “ I am a I wavs there when I am wanted; manly, firm, honorable!” Of course he was in favor of capital punishment; the law, person and prop erty must 1m* rCH|x*cled, and it was with strong feelings on these points that lie had taken up his present “profession.” Bay was nothing, though lie had no euow of complaint in that resect. It had been Ins endeavor and lie thought lie had succeeded—to put those who came under his attentions out of pain as quirk as jxissihle. On one occasion a murderer, who was hardened to the last, asked to Is: “snapped off' quickly,” and la* was snapped off' quickly, the words scarcely going out of the culprit's month when life was extinct. Indeed, he had brought his system to a state of perfer- tion;die defied any improvements to he made upon it. There was Heap, the quack doctor at Liverpool, who had caused the death of a young woman ; mid Hill, at Bristol, who hail cut his wife's throat—his “working off” in the case of these two men uiigiit be classed among the most expeditious and satis factory of his executions. They were ixith heavy men, and each fell without a muscle quivering. The best Manilla hemp, lie said, formed the rope he used Almost a Duel. Arsene HoUSsave, in a Baris letter to the New York Tribune, relates the fol lowing Lit of personal experience: 1 once Tuul a hill adventure myself. It wn» iu 1800. ll WIM lit (he hull of the Hotel de Ville, escorting Mine. Victor Hugo, while M. lltlgo gave his arm to Mmo. Uouamyo. There was a clutlr empty, and the next one to it contained a hat. 1 took up the hat and gave the chair to Mine. Hugo. Of course 1 did not pur|M)Hc to hold the lint all night, so I put it on the floor. Its owner soon ar rived. It was a celebrated duelist, M. Sherbet tc, a deputy from lsilxsons. lie came straight to the chair which had laid the honor of holding his hat. lie uhout to attack Mine. Hugo, hut as is talking with her he turned upon Is it you sir, who have displaced my lint?" “Yes sir.” Did you put it on ic floor?” “ Yes, do you think l ight to have put it on my head?” But, sir, you have iusultcd me. Here my card.” 1 took out a card and throw it in his hat. Monsieur I” said the deputy furi ously, “do you suppose I am going to pick*up my hat I” “ 1)0 you suppose,” I said, “that I am going to put it mi your head?” Victor Hugo laughed, Mmo. Hugo smiled, but Mine, llouasnyc was not at all amused. “ 1 require, sir,” said the deputy of Ixilssons, “ that, you replace mv hat on the chair where it was.” I began to laugh. A little circle had gathered. M. Shcrbottti finally picked up his hat under tlu* pretext of taking my card. “Minis. Arsene lloussayo,” lie said, “we are from the amu* pfaeo, a reason umre for your mooting." “ I await your seconds, M. Bhorbotto,” I replied. “At what hour?”. At this hour. We can light jih soon as we leave the hall.” M. Bhorbotto bowed to the two ladles, and went on search of two seconds. 1 usked Victor Hugo and the Marquis de Belloy to net as my witness in this ridic ulous affair. M. Blierbutte's seconds soon appeared. It was decided that we should fight with pistols at twenty paces at tlu* Blois dc Boulogne at daybreak. It was then hardly midnight, but wo re solved to pass the rest of the night at the ball. At that time 1 was very fond of waltzing. They told Mine. Ilousaye that the affair had been amicably settled, so that we amused ourselvcH pleasantly until nearly dawn. As ill luck would have it, we all met iu the cloak-room, principals and seconds, “ It is a nuisance,” said one of Slier betto’s seconds, "to go to the Blois in this snow storm.” “Como," said the other laughingly to M. Sherbette, “ you are the injured party, you can apol ogize.” “NeverI” said M. Sherbcttc. The two seconds came to me. “ Say one word to free us from this task, Wo want to go to lx*d.” “ Never I" 1 cried in my turn. M. Sherhctte put on his hat with a slant over the right ear. I put on mine with n slant over the left. The four seconds besieged us, and said they would not accompany us unless wo were good-natured nlxmt it. all,” said Victor Hugo, offending my hat lie did not offend me 1 will hold myself satisfied. I declared that I laid not aimed at M. SlierlM*tte under Lis hut and the duel was at an end. It was agreed in the verbal proees-verhal, that whenever we met thereafter wo were not to salute each other with a touch of the hat. Halo Around (lie Sun. NewspaiMTH printed iu Syracuse, Utica, Heiincctady. and Troy, N. Y., Rutland, Vt., and Laconia, N. If., make mention of a remakahlo halo which was seen around the sun on a late Sunday. The Syracuse Journal thus dcscrilicH it: Shortly after ten o'clock a complete lu minous circle around the sun, or the col- of the raiulKiw was seen, and at tho n* time, in the cast a segment of bril liant rninDiws, with another scarcely less distinct in the south, and, directly over head, scvcrals concentric rings like their oiintcrpurt, the main circle nlxmt the un, were also visible. This phenouie- ioii continued in much brilliancy for about half an hour, and for an hour the halo about the sun was distinctly, though brilliantly visible. During a part of the time, the sun’s disc was traversed by irtical hand of white, and tin 1 around the sun inclosed an elliptical hand of white, whoso extreme length tended from of the circle, northerly and southerly, With tin: aid of a slacked glass these various Imjwh were distinctly to lie E. Johns! accepted the I with* hint , , chief of the c^>llide«f with the -pint.—r< piritualist, and eking a walk l a single feet in thirtee : of fev id they oritlis, and law tlicr • fet apjK*a - thcr cake Tii-y Cake.—Bake a sponge a mold of some fanciful device—the le ad of some animal makes tin* best show and can Ik* procured in tin. When the cake i- three or four days old or more, put it in n deep glass dish and put brandv or sherry over it until it is well soaked, then stick it full of almonds, having first blanched them by pouring Deling water over them and carefully removing the skins. Now make a rich custard of one quart of milk, six eggs, h aving out tin* whites of two, sweeten to the taste, no flavoring. Four the cuh- d of it he had inserted ring, so that the noose might slip freely when the lxxly fell. His sole ob ject was dispatch, and it was always bis aim to snap the spinal cord. By the improved system which he had intro duced, all from the pointing to the final “cast off',” could Ik* accomplished in less than three minutes. He never spoke to the condemned, nor did he ever shake hands with them unless they wished, localise he considered shaking hands brought on weakness. He did every thing “manly, straight and firm; stir nlxmt it.” It was a good “fall,” he considered, when tin* noose was drawn tight that the neck was compressed three or four incites. Death was then Htuntnneous. Tiikee hundred tons of living marine animals, that had been stealing ride the hull of the Great Eastern, were moved recently. the naked oppressive. Tho ixiw in •pixis'itii loosing their hold from exhaustion, the liny having meanwhile jH*rlHh<.'d, and rntVed them to the light-house. Miss Lewis should lx* among the first to reeoivo tho new decoration to lx* bestowed by congress for heroic deeds in saving life. Springfield Itcjuiblican, Tvkhitahle little duck. MIm llcrk m lili'ii Five .Ml lea N tv I in from l.oiitloil Mi-Mao lo Mreenttleli. A young gill named Agnes Alice Beck with,* daughter of the professor of swim ming at Lambeth baths, yesterday ac complished the difficult feat of swimming from London Bridge to Cl reeitwieh. The distance is rather more than live miles, ami tho time was remarkably font—namely lb 7m. 45s. Mr. Beckwith has been con ducted with the Lumboth baths for nearly a quarter of a century, mid for fourteen years held the proud position of champion swimmer of England. The heroine of yesterday's proceedings is but fourteen years old. of slim make and diminutive stature. The object was to decide a wager ofjC()0tojC40 laid against her hy Mr. Bavlis, the money being deposited with lkU'« Life, The event created a great deal of excite ment, and all along the route the progress of the swimmer was watched hy excited crowds on the wharfs and barges. In ad dition to the London Steamboat Com pany’s Volunteer, a private steam launch, ami a rowing boat containing tier father, the referee, and some half dozen others immediately interested in the result, a perfect swarm of boatH accompanied—and Indeed impeded—the swimmer the entire distance. London bridge was crowded, as were the vessels and other points whence a view of tlu* start could be ob tained. MISS DECK WITH DIVED front the rowing boat ill nine minutes to five, and at once commenced a rapid side stroke, which she maintained to the finish. .van attired iu a swimming costume of light rose pink llama, trimmed with white braid and lace of the same color. The water was very smooth ami the title running about three miles per hour. Swimming about a couple of yards iu the rear of the referee's bunt, Tunnel Bier was reached at 11 minutes past five. At llorseferry dock (5:22) a salute was fired, and the swimmer was encouraged with lusty cheers. The Commercial dock was uickly left behind, and soon after the lihla, on her return from Margato, rowdud with excursionists, passed the flotilla. Bossing Mill wall Miss Beckwith crossed to the north side and took advan tage of the strong tide. At tliirt point she was met by tnc saloon steamer Vic toria, whose passengers were vociferous iu their applause. The Foreign Cattle market at Dopford was breasted at twelve minutes to Hix, and, as Greenwich hos pital appeared in sight, the intelligence was conveyed to tho swimmer by repeated cheers, a salute being also fired from the Unicorn. The pier at Greenwich and the grounds of the shipyard woro crowded with people who cheered to the echo when the spirited strains of “See the Conquer ing Hero Cornea” announced the success of the attempt. Miss Beckwith swam some distance beyond the pier, and was taken on Ixiard at 5h. 5Hm. 45s., having accomplished the d (stance, as stated above, iu lh. 7in. 45s. She seemed almoat as fresh as when she started, and to all appearance was capa ble of going considerably further.—Ao/i- tlon Stamford. think that Arsene Houssaye having in sulted only M. Bhorhette’s hat, might make his apologies to it. At this moment a word from M. Sher bet tc changed the face of things. “ If " Arsene llonssayo declares Hint iu Tho registrar-general's report on the agricultural statistics of Ireland for 1875 Ireland’s Agricultural Condition. comes to eon firm the sanguine estimate of Irish prosperity in which the lord- lieiitenaul indulged at Derry. Borlmps tho most striking piece of evidence is that of emigration returns, which Vliut in ciiiigruviuii iuiiii un, mum wu only include among agricultural statistics hy something like'a “hull.” That 81,- 000 jxirsons left tho shores of Ireland during the first six months of the present year, as compared with the 45,000 who emigrated in the same period Iant year, shows that Die domain! for labor is really improving. The inference is suggested hy the return of total acreage under crops, as compared with the acreage un der grass—tho former showing an increase of 02,000 acres, the latter a decrease of 40,000 acres. Thus there is a slight turn in the tide which set in after the famine, and some land apparently that was given up to pasture lias been recon quered hy the plow. Tho danger is that in the uncertain climate of Ireland this reaction may go too far, and Hint crons of too speculative a kind may again is: grown. At present this is not so; the acreage under wheat, of which the culti vation in Ireland is not safe in one year out of five, has diminished by one-third since 1871, while oats, barley, and green crops show an increase. Botalocs, which are a fine crop this year, are less in favor than they were, partly owing to the pop- the other ulnr change of habits, and partly to tho dread of tho American pest—the Colo rado lxetle.—J/mdon /Spectator. taclr east and south were in ••jijKisition to the ring nlxmt the sun (like the ordinary how,) hut only a small part of either of ' e arches were visible. The Heroine of Newport. Ida I. from Lime Rock lii Ncwport harbor Thursday, and rescuing a man from drowning, recalls the earlier achievements which have given her the title of “the Grace Darling of America.” She first came into prominence in 18(5(5, when on one of the coldest and most blus tering days ever known in this latitude, she saved the life of a soldier who bad started for a sail on the barlsir in a light skiff. One day, iu the autumn of 1807, while a terrible gale was raging, two men set out to cross the harbor with several sheep, and in trying to rescue one that had fallen overboard, cuiiio near swamp ing their Imat; seeing their jM*ril from the window of her father’s light-house, Miss Lewis went to their aid, and, after land ing them safely, wont hack and rescued the sheep. But her greatest exploit was performed on the 21Hh of March, 1801), when a Ixiat containing two young sol diers and a Imjv was struck hy a squall on the harbor and overturned. Though ill at the time, Ida rushed out of the house, launched her lifc-lwmt, sprung in, with neither hat on her head nor shoes on her feet, reached the wreck just in tijnc to * ivc the two sailors as they were about White Field Labor in the South. How is it that a white man can nov labor in tho rich fields of our State, where formerly the climate was consid ered an insurmountable harrier? Has tlie climate changed? Are the men of a different breed? No! Only the taken ideas of tlie insalubrity of the liinnto, false impressions about the height to which the thermometer attains midsummer, have, hy dint of self vestigntion, aided hy the press, 1m:cii dis pelled, at tlie least in small circle , there are still many in tlie west and north, and also in Europe, who mentally compare the fertile lands of Gulf States to the mephitic Itonmn coitipagna White labor, and particularly the purtic ipation of tho planter or farmer himself in the lalxirs of tho field, have of late tended to shorten tho jicriod necessary for tlie cultivations of most of our crops, who application of science to farming, Tliich naturally follows iu the wake of white labor, will not alone raise large crops on a given urea, hut also improve the quality of the harvest. Once let it Im: generally understood that a white man can work in the field in this State as well as anywhere in the west or north, with 1 letter health, more comforts, and with at least a double profit, and thou sands of small fanners from the sterile sections of other states will take up tlie rich alluvial lands of Louisiana which arc awaiting tin* husbandman's coming. —NcW Oilcan* Price Current, SAVINGS AND IH^m A mahuiaoi: on a railway train may pro|wrly Ik* termed a railroad tie. “No ballot, no haiiies,” read a trans parency at a recent woman-suHinge dem onstration. A MiuiiATOliY sheep-raiser in Beatrice, Neh., lias a (lock of 800 sheep. 11 in home is on wheels, and with his family he moves from place to place, wherever he enn find good grazing lands. When a Missouri engineer ditched his train lie faintly asked: “Did it kill any one who parted his hair in the middle?” They answered that three such were lying dead. “ Thon 1 die happy 1” ho siglicu, and was soon no more. “Is he anything, anyhow?” said ono young lady to another iih they prom enaded Laramie street, and discussed a nice young man. “ Oh yes,” replied tho other, “he’s something; lie’s an awful big fool.” “ You lutvc been boro a long time, I suppose?” said a t raveler to an old hunter Oregon. “You may swear I have,” and then pointed to Mount Hood, ho con tinued: “You see that mountain there? Well, sir, when I first rnnie to tills country that mountain was a hole in tho ground.” A kind gentleman prevented some hoys from stoning a pigeon fastened hy the leg, and extricated it with much trouble, putting it tenderly into his 1hmom. The next day he remarked that it made a much nicer pie than ho ex pected. John Hunky had a guest at dinner tho other day, and during a pause in tho con versation the nfant terrible spoke up: “I wish I was you.” “ Do you, my little boy, and why do you wish you were me?” “Com you don’t get your ear pinched when you eat vittles with your knife.” “ Fine cane you’ve got I” said Crab- apple to Bhawnoyhaum. “ Yes, sir,” said Shawneyhaiim : “ 1 brought it from llcnglund. “ What kind of wood is it 1” said Crahapnle. “ Well, sir, it looks like 'iizel or 'iekory, or you might tako'it for a helm or a hook ; hut, hal'tcr hall, it’s only a hash I*’ A vet eh an picnickor says: “Girls with small feet are the most veilluresonto in climbing trees or wading swamps. Tho girl who will fly in terror to the arms of her escort at sight of a toad, will if she happens upon a snake hy herself, deliber ately catch it hy tho tail and jerk its hcml off. One ordinary handkerchief is not large enough for two persons to^ siti upon at one and the same time. Tho young man whoso pants have been tho most mercilessly torn hy thorns is the most urgently solicited to climb trees and fix wings. Bugs have no sense of pro priety.” On, she was an Al Ciiniicaut belle, of e “very first water,” or more; and she married a regular fine-haired “swell” who clerked in a dry goods store. And ho clerked and lie clerked, fill at last he fell into trouble with some of tlie money; and they went out west iu a way, folks tell, not particularly funny. And, after a time, the hollo come, tho old folks for to see; and the neighbors asked, when they found she'd come, what her husband a hi/, might lie. “ Oh, he iH a railroad man now,” slu* said—“assistant conductor,” said she; hill sonic ono asked, as he shook his head, what tho dickens that might ho. And then, with that high old “style of hors, she answered the Interrogation: “ He assists in slacking the sjieed of tho ears when the train approaches a station.” •1 *tt tabu la News. Till?centenary of Michael Agelo has revived tho interest of tlie Italians for q very thing connected with the great artist, anil to tho discovery of some in teresting facts concerning him. Thus tho examination of the judicial archives of Home, has disclosed the existence ol an official inventory made hy order of tho city, immediately after the death ot Uuonnroli. In that document are men tioned, not only the furniture, the clothes, tlie money, and the horses belonging to him, Imt also different unfinished statues, ral cartoons are spoken of. Homo information is also to lie found as to his domestic: arrangements, his illness, etc. An equally interesting eircuhistaneo is the discovery, or rather the deciphering, published sonnet hy him. It is written on the hack of an original draw ing of his, which forms part of the col- lotion made hy Sir Thomas Lawrence, and purchased hy the University of Ox ford. ^ Gkjantic Tunnels.—At present two gigantic engineering feats are in contem plation-one a tunnel under the Straits of Dover, between England and France, the other a like opening between Spain and Morocco, under the Straits of Gi braltar. The recent achievements in tunneling leave hut little doubt of tho ultimate success of tho enterprises should competent persons undertake them. Tho length of the Dover tunnel will licit little •ver twenty miles, hut at no ]x)int is tho Jcpth of the water 170 feet. The com pletion of such a work and the extension of a railway to the continent would he a grand improvement in every point, of yiew. Tho Suez, canal is no more im portant work relative to difficulties or commercial advantages than the Dover tunnel would Is*. At present the union of Spain and Africa by incansofn tunnel, does not seem to offer such a vista of convenience and profit, though the ad vantages would undoubtedly increase in time. The distance is only nine miles, but the maximum depth of the water is 2,021 feet, or nlmut half a mile. Ho tho difficulties for boring here are much greater than at Dover. Wo nlmll expect the former work done before tho latter. Spain is a kind of Bedlam; Morocco is famous for any thing but enterprise or exchangeable wealth. So neither affords u very respectable exit for a Gibraltar tunnel. Hut a Dover Most farmers keep currycombs, cards, brushes, and the like in the horse-barn, and use them daily: but how many cows throughout the country ever him a ‘•ard- hriish applied to their dirty sales / 1 fie dairy rows conic out of the stable in the spring looking more filthy than tlu* swine in the gutter. Does it pay to keep tho cattle clean? Ask any intelligent farmer if’ it pays to use the brush on his horses, and then ask him to point out a reason why it does not pay equally as well to give the cows the same attention and care.