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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S, D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors. CEDAltTOWN, GEORGIA* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1876. VOLUMfc II. NUMBER 18. TIM ELY TOPICS. Tiiaodkis Fairbanks ami Charles F. 1 'bickering nre the only Americans who have over accepted the nonsensical I '.nlt 1 i-h title of Sir. TllKY have just caught a full grown •lo.-s? Pomoroy in France. lie was taken in the net of killing a little girl, and the remains of three missing children were found in his house. Sinuku, the sewing-machine manufac turer, died, leaving an estate worth nine teen millions of dollars. Just think how many |*N»r women worked themselves al most to death to raise each sixty dollars to make that man too rich t</lie’heal thy. Meat has advanced rapidly within the past few days. It is not due to scarcity, to the HjH'cuhitivo spirit prevailing < long the capitalists of the north and west. At the same time cotton is going down, and southern farmers are com pelled to huy meat which they could hotter have raised at home. When we have lmilt a double track railway from Texas to California, com pleted Fad's jetties, reclaimed the Mis- sissippi river alluvial liottoms, estab lished direct trade ln’twcrn Liverpool and the Suith Atlantic States, and admitted Cuba as a State into the I'nion—then look out for a prosperity in America that would make the national debt a mere • A woman inUaltim. but having no home I (ought jnorphiiie at . drank it as she walked kept c and a , desiring death, n which to die lrug store, and the street. Hhe the drug began to take effect, d of Utys, sup|swing that her staggering was t followed after traversing soyei the boys threw way she died. esiiltof intoxication, At length, after streets, she fell, and ltd oil her. In that One of the provisions of the new con stitution proposed for North Carolina is the following: No person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Christian religion, or the divine authority of the Old or New Testament, or shall hold religious principles Incompatible with the freedom or safety of the State, shall he capable of hold ing ; ofllce r prolil ■ promises i Hint. Uar Of* |s .? t'altDiN’AI. Masnino recently ad dressed u meeting of Roman (’ntholies in Loudon, held on the cite of the new ca thedral, which, it is stated,will cost one million live hundred thousand dollars, ami will Is* one hundred years in build ing. The cardinal remarked that Noah was one hundred and twenty years in liuil.ling Uio ark, an.l Unit. In- ilu.iiglit, should prevent the founders and builders of the now cathedral from giving away to dc*|M)iidency. I mi: Rhode Island authorities will not allow financial aid to 1m- extended to the Full river operatives. This might Im- *-\ |H*cted in this state, when* tin* mill- owners control the state government and own nearly everything. They feu the rebellious spirit of the Fall men might extend to their Imrdci another “ Dorr rebellion” might Universal suflrage does not exist ii Island. It is necessary for the white hi Isircr to have n property qualifie.i Moony hrought over with him from Lngland several blooded sheep and other stock, which he promises to present to his granger friends for the improvement of their Hooks. His ('hieago friends are giv ing to secure the exjiosUion building for bim when In* comes to evangelize that city. In I'hiladelphia. $100,000 have las-n raised to defray the ex|ienses of his meetings there, and a building i« to In- erected especially for tin- purpo-e. This experiment of shipping jienehe* from this country to England on the re frigerator plan, lum at length proved suc cessful. A steamer from New York has succeeded in landing peaches- ot Ismdou and Liverpool in good condition. A few weeks ago two thousand five hvnclred • rates of fruit were shipped on an experi ment, on a vesrs-1 of the i'hiladelphia line, to Liverpool, hut owing to the insuffi ciency of ice, the whole lot was worthless on reaching England. The Queen had cent n special messenger to make pur chases of the fruit for the royal family, and there was much dieipjiointmetit over the failure. The recent success will open up a new channel of trad* the civil department within this Tho city of Mobile had in a large amount of city scrip pnv bv that city, which circulate very gener ally in every department. The United Slates revenue authorities undertook to collect ten per cent, penalty of Mobile for circulating this money, and certain penalties and dam ages besides. Col. .!. I.iltle Smith went to Washington to investlgme.the mutter aiiilMi. Pratt, the (Niimiiissioiier of Internal Revenue, decided that tin- Mobile scrip was not subject to the ten per cent. tax. FOREIGN. The Swedish steamer L. .1. linger, run ning between I.ulteek ami Copenhagen, was burned in the ilultie. Twenty-four passen gers ami eleven of the crew perished. The steamer win a small one and was built in 1S6H S-veral sanguinary engagements have taken place in Ilentegovlniti b-twocn a body of I ,200 lusergents and l.ooo Turks. The first engagemoiit was fouglit on the 2X||i ulti mo near Klepantilza, and two engagements followed on die 20th and 3nih near I’mrnp- larizza. The insurgents lost fifty-six men mid the estimated loss of the Turks ."•on. On account of their inferior numheni the iiistir- gent a were obliged to retreat. MtBCGLLANEOUS. Tho fust mull service is voted by the p*(st-ofllee dep artluentade ei dcdsticci >>•. The public debt statement shows a iv- durtion of over three millions nml a half dur- The comptroller of currency re|H>rt» that s:i national hanks have lu-en orgaui/.ed since the passage of the net of .Ian. H, 1876, with a capital of nine million, two hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars, to which cir culation has been issued amounting to $:t,023- 7do. Total amount of additional currency is sued since tile passage of the act is $10,218,- Pennsylvania,At 11,000 to West Viruinia,f • Ohio, Indiana $IO0,(HK) amount $7,700,000 Ims be York, .-fern:,,nonl.v Miinmi 'andinn, $• 11,000by lamlsiumt; Missouri, $1 ,*<1*1,1X10 by In ishi by Illinois. *70.1,noo lo I haraeleristic** of the .Servian People. They are a tall, well-formed race, free, hardy, nml active. They are brave, per severing, ami hospitable, cunning j ptirsti a fully appreciate tin- advantages of bankruptcy. *f their prnj»- with r wives and relnti* however, i* owing t«» the state of the law on the subject, which has been pur|»osely left ineomplete in this respect with a view to despoiling the common enemy, the Turk, whom they hate with a most wholesome and wholesale hatred, which they introduce on every pi—ihle occa sion. For intsance, when the citadel and town of Itelgrade wen- evacuated by the Turk-.otieof the Turkish stipulations was that t Im* mosques and minarets should not be destroyed. This stipulation' was I bv the Servians, but at the • time ill (possible opt- hclp them to fall into d< idloining, and thus prolceting fror atlier Ii ATK8T N EWS SIJMMARY. WIST Oil. Blanton’s cxjicdition to the had lands of Dakota has visited portions of the country hitherto unexplored, between the Uheyenne ami White Earth rivers, ohtniiiing fossils of extinct animal-*. The population of the -late of Minne sota bv the census this year nearly oil officinl and tin- remainder estimated is-*i!(7,018,against I oient gl< j Dusl-.aw Irnrs, t i» t< ll the old, ..III story iilji-rhai nail tlilmt y nfterdny sin- tolled n Itli her nuitc ln«Ui enrtli hi Hat scarcely Ii ml she |ilni-«s| a vvli'kisi hiia.l nr clinm-u laid wa Hilt still her heart she kept, And lyllisl attain, amt Iasi nl«lil, li.nr 1 lisikisl—and Ini I lire© llllle owalloMs i Within thecaiIh-made walls. WIril truth I- here, <• limn 1 Till: PATRONS OF III SIIANORV. VV lull ii lllllliiM noil » Hull' iil'Ui aii|i«'i i an- The uoiniiintionof Mr. Piolette by the democrats of Pennsylvania for the oflleo of state treasurer, attracts much atten tion to grangerism, as he is known to be tin* most prominent leuderof tho patrons in that state, ami an incorruptible re former. lint, to one.who keeps himself thoroughly informed ii|*on the progress of the order of pat rous of hushamlrv, the nomination of Mr. Piolette, is only one among thousands of signs of its rapid growth. Tho progress of the co-operative move ment in England, is (minted at as a won der; hut that has been about forty years in maturing, whilegrangerisin has swelled to its present proportions in ulintiL three years. The truth will be apparent to any one who carefully e.xamim-sthe fuels that ■ |M>wcr is arising llllei , therefore r be California is sending two car louds of pears to tin- east every day, nod the win- guinc Californians hope that in a few years they will realize more money from their ex ports of fruit than from' their exports of *V*“- SOUTH. The fund for an equestrian statue of (m u. lx-ent Richmond novvnim.mil* to £.'0,. A committee will be appointed to go to Washington and urirently appeal to congress to assist ill rebuilding tin- li-veea of lh«- Mis sissippi valley. The number of cattle shipped ordriven pulled down, earth the foundations and ho on, till, at the present moment, they are all crumbling youth, who faithfully |ierform their small share toward accomplishing tin- final ruin. • ■ i- .. . Rut whilst their patriotism and hatred iieach- of the Turk are kept alive bv the le- 1 1 '- ulitions, and stories of the nn- ies of the Servian empire under and, it must also be said, their • to their no less hated neigli- e Hungarians, whom at one time they even forsook to join the Turk ish alliance, there runs a strong vein of that sound common sense through the Servian character that sceins peculiar to mrrtculturnl imputations everywhere. They like to see their wav clear Ik-fore them, and. having once done *o, follow it with a dojfgcd pertinacity, very difter- ent from the basii-iu-the-paii energy of the Latin races. Thus they set ulniut with a will onihe improvements of their road*; in every village then* is a well- built school, an inn with first, second and third ela.-w accommodations, and a hos- pital deHtiiififlyfijr the cure of the large imiiiiIkt of paticihs mi fieri rig from the e flee Is id' the diseases they accuse the Turks of having introduced into the coun- uther dogmatical and prohlcinut- . far. Over 10,000 will be wintered on thcWachita. Mrs. J. E. IT Stuart, the widow o: the renowned confederate general of cav alry, has become an instructor in tie- South eru female college, Richmond, Va. ical assertion, I Justice, ajiart from such vagaries 08 those alwvc mentioned, and without ref erence to foreigners, is fairly administered, and their morality—certainly their hon esty and freedom from tendency to theft and pilfering are (icrhans higher than that of most agricultural communities. They are excessively fond of music and poetry ; The prince s bind at Itelgrade would bear comparison with any other military kind : and they are great admir ers of natural beauty. Hut all their virtues are considerably dashed—for the foreigners at loast—by their overween ing conceit and national vanity, which fully equal the Spaniards. A It In. Ii the fact is a disagreeble one to some cla.ss<-siif'non-producers, it is none the less undeniable that the rugged health of the movement arises from its direct hearing ii|«in tIn- |mckets of the members. While there is much said in granger cor respondence iitanit the social features of their work- -the picnics and other festiv ities the chief burden is concerning the wholesale buying and sidling they have done through the machinery of the order. This is, of course, different in difli-reut states. In the west, u large part of the gain is from the wholesale disposal of grain, and it* handling through grange elevators. In the south, planters have saved large sums by using the grange agents in disposing of their cotton. 'The ewspu| lake the agencies inform os that with a .nominal eaj»ilal of papers nrta- thc • the to Is- largely disposed to tin* title* side of tile mg t. least, as taking the sides of (lie grange, hcarsal of the most prominent grange organs by states will do much to open flic eyes of some people to the magnitude of tins movement. It is an interesting fact that scarcely papers are published tins \lleghany Mounta ins, and there are very many more in the south than in New England. In all down east we find no manifest grange organ, and only two or three public, workingmen's papers. It i* -aid that many of the mill owners will discharge a hand who per sists in taking a paper that is devoted exclusively to the interests of that class. All these grunge papers arc known to be earnest advocates of the patrons of husbandry, hut there are scores more not thoroughly identified with the order, but working for it. In fuel it is getting customary for nearly all the western country papers to devote a column or two to grange matters. When • truly marvelous advance, for whereas a lozen years ago writersnnd ^leakers were advocating in vain to the most advanced communities the benefits of co-operation, here now were thousands of the old con servative Pennsylvania Dutch fanners throwing thin selves heartily Into the wmk of an order, the chief feature of which is co-operative Inlying and selling hv producers. EMINt'NTI.Y PRACTICAL. It i* noticeable that through the long pieAiic stories in the Friend dwell mostly on the crowds that attended this and that festivity, and tell rather wlmt they had to eat, than what the speech makers said, they usually conclude with a very prac tical statement about the thousands of dollars' worth of goods bought by the giiQige through its agents. The Pennsyl vanians now have a state purchasing agent, with a large store in Philadelphia, which is filled from top to liottom with samples, for the benefit of visiting pat rons who wish to buy through the agent at wholesale rates. The majority of tIn- order in those parts, seem toMelight in this arrangement, and their letters are all aglow with the fine bargains they luiVe made, and the thousands of dollars they have saved in this way. It is of small use to present glittering generalities in support of the statement (hut the grange is really the great rising |Miwer in the laud, which many (nitrons say it is. Fortunately facts'and figures are not wanting. It is a pretty good sub stantiation of the assertion that the grangers number a million and u half, to iind that the merely nominal sum paid by the subordinates to the national grange gave that body in 1X7-1 an income. offUlfi,- • IS1. Its receipts have so increased be yond all calculation, that some new means of using the excess must Ik* de cided upon, or else the fees must Ik- re duced. In view of such prosperity, it is almost (sissiblo to. believe what one of the organs of the order says about the pecuniary benefits accruing io members, viz.: that they have saved $21,000,000 through Its machinery already. WHAT THEY A III-: I Mil N't I. A meeting of state agents of the orde was held at IndiunaiHdis, in August. In diana, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky nail Iowa were represented. They all report that business lias grown wonderfully in the past year. The watchfulness of tho order over all the interests of the people, is seen io the fact that in Illinois the stale grange has'' made arrangements to fiirnjsh country schools with cheap desks, ehairsand tables, while in a certain California county the putronsap|>Qintodu committee to examine into the assessment rolls, and they have ulrcudyVnrreeted some notable cusch of iindervaliiatioii. The Wisconsin grangesluiveesf iblishcd forty-one eo-operat ivcunsocial ions rbr* , *'l|- Ing goods and manufacturing,and I wenty- niu«* insurance companies, all nourishing and representing capital to theiimmintof $•1,000,000. The three graotre insurance companies of Muscatine and Cedar counties. Iowa, carryover $1,000,000 of risks. An ex ample of the way in which the patrons are investing in halls and stores is seen in Decatur county, Iowa. There they have bought the I lousier Hall at Crceiis- hurg for $10,000, and will use the lower part lor a general store, and the hall for meetings. There arc ‘2,002 subordinate granges in Missouri, and 2,001 in In diana. Iowa use to lead in numbers, and she IiiiA now, in proportion to population, a larger number than any other state in tin* union. The state lecturer of Kansas illusl rates the profit of grange shipping warehouses by instancing that of Florence, Ks., which was erected on a basis of $ 120, has cleared $1,000, and is not. otic cent in debt. The patrons of nine counties in the southwestern part of the same state have united in a commercial agency at Wichita, and their agent informs millers and grain men that they have over two million bushels of wheat to dispose of. That, sort of work, kept Up honestly and wisely, would put a considerable chock upon grain speculation in cities. A ii instance of one of tin- various ways in which factories are being established under grange auspices i-> found in Mis souri. \ i'i-s|ioiisihle Iirm invests at least $10,000 in a factory at Macon, upon condition that granger* furnish $6,000 $10 po isidc the fad that reli gion-. Masonic, and other mutual aid societies, established for many years in this country, only support two or three organs apiece; it Is-coim-s apparent that an order that is already Mipporting and given tone to several score pa|>crs must have a tremendous membership and a strong hold upon the [Kipulnr affections. TIiere is a singular difference between organs of the movement in different state-. In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,Kansas, and Missouri, they are so taken up, as a general thing, with letters, speeches, and arguments in favor of greenback currency, that they have not room for many Orange particulars. In the northwest, the origi nal scat of the movement, they are still hard at work in their unti-monopily figet with railroads. Indeed, the people of this country, as a general rule, seem It think that grangerism simply means wm against railroad extortions. In I’ennsyl vania, on the other hand, the Farmer’i Friend has been all summer forcibly illus trating the practical character of the I'ennsylvaniu Dutch and Quaker-. Its columns have been full of letters describ- j ing the picnics that have been held all ' over the state. These letters showed a boa at : per payable in implements at cost. Tine propose to manufacture plows, eultiva tors, hoes, rakes and other implement!- and the object of getting grangers to tak stock is to insure their good will. There are (107 granges in Arkansas The secret nay of the stale grange says “ From every part of the state account are cheering; every grange expects l fill op this fall." The number of mem * the deaf as the last •plied the “ •!uilly or not guilty 7" The man held his hand to hi* - replied: “ You'll have to talk up loud.' " <fiiilty or not! ” yelled the “ You’ll have to s|»euk up!” r “ Come here.” called the court, crook ing his finger. (idling the prisoner where lie could yell in hi* ear, he continued : "I can't fool around mid Inird a blood-vessel by straining my voice! (let out o’ here!” “ Of course— of course,” replied the man, and lie got. Mr*. Monroe being the only one to go up, the boys made up a purse and Uiught her a banana, and as she sat and | ice led it they sang: Ri sin t if ii I maid of tin- lee, A WONDKRFl’L l AHRIC. itlulioi-ale Ili-M-rlptloii nl' A. T. Na-nni-l'* TV ii Tlimntniul llollm-t i*i-|m-1. Among the niativ treasures owned bv ho “merchant prince” is a magnificent arpet, which was once intended to grace the halls of royalty, having been manu factured for the emperor Napoleon. Its is about forty feet square. The cen tre-piece, its most prominent object, occu pying nearly one-half of the whole area, represents a bountiful oval-shupcd picture sot in a gold frame, and, suitably hung, would at a distance lie easily mistaken for an elegant painting. Tho picture shows the Imrlxir, castle and surrounding country of Marseilles. Fram e. In the fore-ground one isoharmod by the blue water and the stately ships ai anchor; further hack, tho lmrlior and ancient castle, rising gradually III its magnificent whiteness against the green foliage enveloping the base of the moun tains which form the Imck-ground, and lift their hoary heads into a blue sky, finked with fleecy clouds. Napoleon’s coat of arms surmounts the picture, and a Latin motto, wrought in gold on a blue ribbon-like ground, lies ball' unrolled at the base. Immediately surrounding this lovely picture, in u bed of rich brown, is a gar land of beautiful (lowers, much larger than natural size, but so brilliant and delicately and accurately represented that it seems as If one might stoop and lift the petals one from another. Out side of' this garland, and serving as u Isirder to the carpet, is a wreath formed of over-lapping oak leaves ami acorns, also in natural colors, their various shades of green and brown iileudiug in exquisite bounty. lt is quite imjMissible to give an idea of this wonderful fabric, which was made with t he needles of poor women, who wrought it ill sections and set it together after the manner of the camel's hair shawls. Its texture Is as delicate as a silken robe, and no painter could portray color.or detail with greater skill. It ac tually cost $10,000 to make it. Mr. Stewart saw it at tho i’uris oxposition, and purchased it as a novelty to exhibit to friends who visit his “uptown” store. It has been suggested that an effort he made to persuade Mr. Stewart to allow it to be brought to Chicago and exhibited at our exposition. Old Age and Grcnl Work. The men who have written oi achievements of their fellow-moil have dealt with most intcrcfll on the work of the younger. Alexander and Napoleon are constantly adduced as examples of tho prodigious power of youth for exeeu tipn. In literature, wo are told that Hy mn died a youth; so of Clmttortoii nml Kirko White, and many others of their ••lass. Indeed, every department achievement is examined with great ei and the result of all is, as many teach iih, that the young do tho great work of the world. Wo must Infer, Hi that after a man has reached a certain age say sixty he might as well lay aside Ins implements of' labor, and stc| aside for the young gentry to carry on the great enterprises of life. An admit'- able procedure this I Away with such absurdity! When a mini has reached his threescore he iH ready, if he has lie... just l<> his mind and body, Io do the most magnificent work of his whole life. Of course hcciiuuoLdo this if ho bus wrenched .Ids voice to pieces hv the time ho was thirty, or addled his (train by stimulants or laic night-work, or by any irregularity in life and labor. It is not difficult (o find among living men most excellent examples of the union of old age and brilliant achieve ments. As Americans, we are habitually reminded that our great men die young. I In L we have abundant proofs to the con trary. Our (Kiel Hryant is an aged man, and the greatest literary triumph of his life is his latest hook, the translation of tin* Iliad. He has noon working ever since he was a freshman at college, and his editorials in the Evening Font would make a small library in themselves. And instead of his being an exception to the law of longevity and labor, we claim that lie illustrates wlmt would he the rule if we only remained true to the require ments of mind and body. Who is more sprightly than llaneroft, now nearly eighty, and yet who among us has done more'’steady service for fifty years? There are two dist inguished features of the happy union of old age and good work. ()ne of these is the repose in work which distinguished the early period. Too great rapidity of accomplishment in youthful years has usually resulted in premature cessation. Men who have wrought with the intensity of our own Roe in literature, or of Kunnnertleld in preaching, have seldom lasted. They They have jerked their organism into hopeless disorder. There is a calmness in work and work of a fearfully earnest character, it may lie-which is requisite for longund successful continuance. Wal ter Hcotl might have lasted many years longer had he not overwhelmed himself in debt, and then written day and night, at home and on his journeys, to keep the wolf from his door. We find, as we ex amine the inner life of the world’s long workers, that they kept themselves free from undue excitement, and yet never forgot their enterprises. Life Insurance. The remarks made by Mr. Finch, Com missioner of Insurance for Indiana, at the National Convention of Insurance Comissloncre and Hupcrintcmlc support of We Rat take i: of \ And r nir Iicnith, 8nrnli Monroe. 1 Tin: school lward of London has ranged that three hundred selected girls shall he taught cookery by the teachers of the National Training School for Cookery at two centers—-one at Maryle- bone and the other at Greenwich. The .Society of Art- offers five free teacher- ships of cookery to he competed for, and the education department gives an an nual grant to schools on behalf of each girl taught cookery according to the code. pornry for the benefit of life insurance companies to have policies in large mini liers lapse by a failure to pay premiums; but such surrender implies a lack ol con fidence in the companies which in the end must lie greatly to their detriment. It is for the Interest of companies as well tin* insured that the business he con ducted on a sound and satisfactory basis, lt is notorious that of late years most impunics have become, with increasing age and financial strength, more and more regardless of the rights and interests of policy-holders. They will escape the payment of death claims whenever it is possible; and tho court records through out the country show how often they will only make a settlement after pro tracted litigation. People have grown to he chary of entering into relations with corporations which, while eager to Insure a man’s life, mid prompt in de manding the payment of premiums, will take advantage of any slip to evade their just responsibility. Men do not want to Insure their lives for the purpose of leav ing their families a legacy of litigation ; does life insurance strike them as being particularly desirable when, after years of constant and punctual payments, they may by a failure to pay one pre mium lose all that they have already paid. Nor is this the worst feature ot the business. Life insurance companies, howovor cautious they may he in accept ing risks, take precious good care, after the death of an insurer, that every tech nicality in the policy shall he enforced. very letter of t he bond must, he ad hered to, and the companies in every case take their own time in the settle ment of death claims. Mr. Finch makes a number of sugges tions as to appropriate remedies for the existing evils in connection with life in surance which nre at least well worthy of the ennsidernt ion of law-makers. It would not lie a harsh requirement to insist that all policies issued by life insurance com panies shall bo absolutely lion-forfeitable. The schedule of rates is made upon the supposition that every policy-holder will constantly keep up Ins policy; and it is unjust to an insurer to provide for the forfeiture of all premiums paid in ease of any default. Companies who act on this principle do not give life insurance; their insurance is simply temporary, like fire and marine insurance. Any man who takes a life policy Is charged life rates from the outset, and his representatives ought to be entitled to some return if he pays only one premium. It is reasonable also, that companies should he held to a performance ortlieprouiiseHof tlu-ir agents and representatives. The proposition of Mr. Finch, that companies he debarred from making a defense for misstiitenientH in the application after live annual pay ments have liecn made, is perhaps too broad* It is truo that after a premium has been paid for five successive years the presumption is strong that tho insurer Inis acted in good faith; hut if fraud he proven the company should have the privilege of contesting tho claim. In justice to all concerned, hoivovor, it would lie only fair to provide that the company should, in any case, make a re turn to tho representatives of tho de ceased of tho sum which the moneys he had paid in would amount to at a fair rate of interest at the time of his death, with an allowance, perhaps, for company expenses, and Hint they should he de barred from making any defense in court until they had made this tender.—De troit Free /‘ram. A Caii Load.—The following is esti mated as a car load : 20,000 pounds, or 70 barrels of salt, 70 barrels of lime, 00 of flour, (10 of whisky, 200 sucks of Hour, (1 cords of wilt wood, IX to 20 licud of cattle, fit) to HO head of hogs, SO to 100 head of sheep, 0,000 foot of solid boards, 17,000 feet of siding, HI,000 feet of floor ing, -10,000 of shingles, one-half less of hard lumber, one-fourth less of green lumber, one-tenth of joiHls, scant ling, and all other large, limner, IM0 bushels of wheat, 600 of corn, HH0 of oats, *100 of hurley, JJ00 of (lax seed, 11(50 of ap ples, 480 of Irish (Hitatoc-s, .‘100 of sweet potatoes, 1,000 bushels of bran. resolution that there is a for legislation for the protection of policy-holders, were exceedingly timely. The business of life insurance within the past few years has grown to enormous proportions. It requires hut little argument to convince a prudent man of the good policy of paying a small hiiin annually for the purpose of securing one large enough to be of benefit to his family Til ease of his death, it is this view of the matter which has swelled the number of holders of life insurance |*ol- ieies to hundreds of thousands; but there is another view of it which is graudully causing the people to lose faith—not so much in the principle of life insurance, as in the manner in which the business is that which is already showing its effects in diminished receipts for the Insurance companies and in a re duction in the number of applieatians for life policies. It may perhaps lie tern* conducted—and the conscrj uen A Romance of Cat ii fisherman’s widow, gone down in darkness so had lie. Morning, i paced the Iwii -She ek had and tempest, and non and night she Ii for some memento of the shining sands stretch faraway. Hhe watched the sea birds come and go. She heard the legend ot the waves, and that was all. And yet it wasn’t. Ono golden eve, with heaving breast and starting oyo-halls, she espied a Iwttlo dancing toward heron the Inllows. It came within her reach. She clutched it eagerly, chewed out the cork, put the muzzle to her mouth, found not a drop of whisky in it, and dropped like n life less lump U)>on tho shore. And so they found her, working the sand with her A clergyman, meeting a little hoy of his acquaintance, Haiti: “This is quite a stormy day; my son?” “Yes, sir,” answered the Imy, “this is quite a wot rain.” The clergyman, thinking to rebuke such hyperbole, asked if he knew of any other than a wet rain. “ I never knew personally of any other,” returned the Isiy, “but 1 have read in a certain small book of a time when it rained fire and brimstone, and I guess that was not a very wet rain.” Specimens of old carved wainscoting are in much inquest among collectors. The Huron Adolphe de Kdothchild has just bought for thirty thousand dollars the magnificent wood-word of the Hotel Hrctonvilliers, in the Isle Saint Louis; mid Huron (iustay de Rothschild has purchased all the wood-carving of tho Hotel du B«»cre ('omr, Rue de yavcgucs, for his new house in Paris. It furnishes three rooms, one of which is worth twelve thousand dollars. Tiik postal-card factory at Springfield is now making cards of the new pattern at the rate of alniut h'ix hundred thou sand a day; but, as there are still two million seven hundred thousand in tho vault, the public will not do any corres ponding on the new cards until next month. The new cards lias a liner sur face than the old, and can he used for copying with a press. It is heavier than the old card, but is calendered so throughly that it is somewhat thinner. It is said that the Digger Indians are never known to smile. They are grave Diggers. SMILE PROVOCATIVES. Advice to old bachelors who dye their hair—keep it dark. • Why is a lovely young lady like a hinge? Hccauso she is something to a-dore. Cl! till AN was once asked by one of his brother judges, “ Do you see anything ridiculous in tills wig?” “Nothing hut tho head,” was the reply. Mn. Henjamin CIinninh some time ice presented tho poor of tho city of Liverpool with £200, upon which a wag wrote, “ A good H. (Sinning;” Two Sharpers on ’change \Voro discuss ing the merits of a third. “ Yes,” said of them, winding up the conversa tion, “he’d rather lie on sixty days’ time than toll the truth for cash.” A man in an American settlement, who has been an inveterate smoker for twenty years, has suddenly and perma nently given up the practice. He knocked the ashes of his pipe Into a keg of blast ing powder. “ Will you please insert this obiturny notice?” asked an old gentleman of a country editor. “ 1 make hold to ask it because I know the deceased hud a great ninny friends ulxiiit hero who’d he glad to hear of his death.” When a man goes to a quilting party nlmut ton-timo. and sits down on a bull of wieking with a long diirning-ncedle in it, ho will think of more things con nected with darning in a minute than ho an mention in two hours. A wooden soldier in front of a Troy igar store is armed with an old army musket. A few days ago the oiviut loaded the gun, and the Ixiy who next playfully snapped the look had never been scared before in all his life. “ Did anything about the defendant strike your eye as remarkable?” asked u judge of the plaint id* in a case of as sault and buttery. “ It did, yor honor. “And wlmt was it?” continued the judge. “ His list, yer honor.” An old lady visited a traveling circus. She was delighted in every rcHpcet but one. Speaking of the proprietor, she said, “ He has everything in his show that is on the bills but tho hippodrome. I wonder where he keeps his hippodrome? Is It dead?” I.EAHA NT-LOOKING 1111111 stepped the platform, -and, inhaling tho fresh air, enthusiastically observed to tho hnikcnmn, “ Isn’t this invigorating/ “ No, sir; it iH Ilarriaburg, said tho con scientious employe. Tho pleasniit-look- ing gentleman retired. « Ann the Bpikenses hack?” inquired Mrs. Stuyby, who hasn’t been out of town this season. “Ycsm. replied the cook, “and Mrs. Oadby got home from Scarborough’s last night. “Then Mary, you open the front shut ters, and let’it'be known that we’ve got buck too.” There is a man in one of tho suburbs who supports his family In handsome style by simply tying an able-bodied cat by tlio tail to a clothes-line every night, and then going out in tho morning to collect the soap, shaving-cuiis, brushes, etc., thrown into the yard by angry dwellers in adjoining houses. A precocious youth devoured the larger part of a glmyof ico-crcam at a sa loon in this city a few evenings since, nml his appetite not being appeased, caught a couple of files, and mixing them with the small quantity that remained, called tho waiters attention to it, who immedi ately furnished him with a second glass. One day Moore, who had stolen a lock of hair from a lady’s head, on being ordered by her to make restitution, caught up a pen and dashed off the fol lowing lines: Oil oiii* nolo* condition, love, I might ha led With lids beautiful ringlet to part; 1 would gladly relinquish the tori; of your Could I gain hut the key to your heart. FACTS ANI) FANCIES. —A New Haven Isiy stole some ap ples and hid them under his shirt; then a horse kicked him and the apples wived his life—which is a story not to ho told in .Sunday-school. - -At one of the colored A. M. E. churches of Columbus, (la., the other night, a woman screamed. “ Glory I Isc jest like soda water! Isc bllin’ over I —Conclusion of the Inst Philadelphia obituary poem; “Gone to meet her favorite uncle who died nlxmt twelve months since on her stepbrother b side." —Tho Young Men’s Christian Associ ation of Washington owes thirty-three thousand dollars, and can’t nay it, and the creditors can’t find anything but a table, three chairs and a long-haired young man to levy on. —Tho worst case of selfishness that we have ever been permitted to present to the public emanated from a youth who complained because his mother put a bigger mustard-plaster on his younger brother than she did on him, after they had partaken a little too freely of melons and nard apples. —Tho government tombstones con tractors put the name “Jones” on a stone when a longer name won t lit, and it is a little monotonous to walk through sonic of the cemeteries and sec how many of the .Tone’s family died for free dom and sixteen dollars per month. —All ingenious Englishman has in vented a pulpit which promises to be popular with congregations. Attached to the plimit is a clock, which at the end of the half hour gives an alarm, ami if the preacher doseirt end within three minutes thereafter, down comes the pulpit with its occupant. —A soap-kettle exploded at Macomb, N. Y., one day last week, which is an other warning*to housekeepers. It used to he that nothing exploded but steam- bont'iHiUors and wildcat hands, but now everything explodes. Even a jug of buttermilk i around. not u safe thing to fool —A philosopher in America can t get more that fifty dollars a week for his work, while a leading negro minstrel can make five hundred dollars in that time. And yet when an Englishman happens to Hf ,y that our tastes arc low, and that ignorance is gnawing at the vitals of the republic, the American eagle looks around for some place where it can get up and scream.