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: r/utwvyiw HnniruUwmr. CEDARTOWN RECORD. W, S. D. WIKLE & 00,, Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1S7G. VOL. Ill. NO. 13. TIMELY TOPICS. N’kau Schocncck the owner of n vino yanl destroyed nearly all the hern in that region. Noticing that the l*ec* were anting and destroying Ida grapes,he mnde a trap, consisting of two large planks. 1 here plank* were raid'd by means of a prop a loot apart, and baited with mo- lassos,Jand aftera large nuinberof the lire ha<l congregated ho sprung his “ infernal machine and destroyed thonsamlr at a time. In this manner the l*ee colonies near by were so weakened that one apiarist lost eight of twelve colonies. An extinct from the proceedings o the Providence, It. I , police court: The next victim wns an old colored woman named llalidav. She stood at the bar "ith tears rolling down her cheeks, to answer to the hideous crime of keeping an unlicensed dog. She had paid his Ii- veiiso for seven years, she said, hut this roar it was such hard work to get money that she thought perhaps they would let him go. “ Ten dollars and costs,” said the judge, in his affectionate way. “Oh, sir!" Mid the old woman, “ 1 haven’t got hut just seven dollars. If you would take that, and let me bring the rest Sat urday night, I could N il some of my things and get a little more money, sir." I T |*on thin condition the old woman was released. Daniel McFarland, the slayer of Richardson, turned up in Chicago a few days ago. After his release from the penitentiary lie went to Colorado, where he has been living for the past two years. His friends have tried to assist him, hut In* Hoeinsjo 1m* unable to do any thing for himself. Since his arrival in Chicago he has lieeti living on the charity of some of his old friends and acquaintances. Last evening he wasdiscoverod by a policeman crawling Into a window of a law office at ninety Washington street. Ho was taken to the Armory on suspicion ol Wing a burglar, hut lie produced the key of the office, uud said he had been sleeping there for the past few nights, hut that he could not open the door. I lo was placed in the witness-room to soWr off.—Chicnqo Titnti. I hi: Irish are threatened with a visit Irom her majesty, the queen, hut the cmernlders are not dismayed. She will he received cordially, of course; there is sufficient flunkeyism in the aristo cracy, for timt, and the middle classes ami peasantry would not go out of tlmir May V* do anything that would W un pleasant, but the enthusiasm is not likely to he unbounded. .Still, it may W re called that a year ago some rattle-brained Irish member engaged the attention of commons by claiming that a royal rcsi- doncc in the green isle would W a pana cea for every political ami we don’t know how many other ilU. Her majesty has never been over courteous to her Irish subjects. During the nearly forty years of her reign hIio has visited the island hut twice, and then for only a few days, whereas a third of her reign has been passed at Balmoral, in the high- lamb of Scotland. < If course the illogi cal HiWrnian points to this as an out rage on the sod. proclaiming it simulta neously good riddance to had ruhbage. Magnificent in its dime ‘iisions and very laudable in its purpose is the J’hil- dclphia exjHiMtion, hut there is an exhi bition in progress on the other side of the ocean, at Brussels, which, though smaller, is well entitled to the world’s attention. It is an international exhibi tion of nil the known forms of hygienic ami life saving appliances, and is in ngreehblo contrast, therefore, to those exhibitions of the past where lifo-destroy- ing implements have W*on prominent features. The plan of the exhibition contemplates a division of lifesaving apparatus into ten classes. In the first are comprised all known methods of sav ing life from fire, including plans for con structing fire-proof buildings, for safe storing of explosives and combustibles, preparation of timWr to resist fire and the manufacture of lightning conductors. The second class includes all protective* against death by water. The third is devoted to the exhibition of the means of preventing accidents to travel ers by land over railways and ordinary roads. The fourth class covers appli ance^ for alleviating the sufferings of those wounded in war, and the fifth is devoted to a display of the means by which the public health is preserved. 'I’he sixth embraces the sanitary neasures and means of saving life adopted in the various industrial operations, including models of workshop and factories, and plans for lighting, heating and ventilat ing them, as well as protecting life in mines. The seventh chins is devoted to domestic hygienic,the eighth to plans for improvement in the construction of artisans’ houses, the ninth to the public core for the welfare of the laboring clashes, bv the establinhment of evening schools, lecture courses and asylums for children, and the tenth to protection of life from the dangerous incident to the pursuit of agriculture. A northern Iowa farmer offered a tramp his daughter and half his farm for three days’ work in the harvest field. The tramp wavered a little at first, but then the color of the girl’s eye- didn’t suit, and he thought the farm laid a lit tle too low, so decline! the proposition, stole u hame strap and went on nis work- less way. LA T EST NEAVS. MOt Til WI’AT. The Times says that New Orleans is tlu* cheapest city In the union to live in. Farmers in north Georgia have more corn tlinn they cun dispose of. t^nict again reigns among the rice hands of South Carolina. The White Sulphur hall for the benefit of the Lee monument fund netted *300. The net earnings of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad the past year were *765,330. The estimate of the cotton crop lor 1870 places the crop at 1,500,000 to 1,560,000 ha’es, against 8,827,009 for 1875. Country produce ami provisions of all kinds are cheaper in Arkansas than they have been in many years. It is estimated that the Texas cotton crop will he 300,000 hales, nud will he at least 5,000 hales in excess of last year. A Savannah telegram says: Yellow fever here i» not epidemic. There have been only sixty nine cases during the season and ten deaths. The government receiver of Hot Springs collects **J0,000 per month from the people who improve the property, and re mits the money to Washington. Fight citizens of Augusta, On., have been arrested on a charge of complio'ty in ■nobbing the negro rnvhhcr, Williams, Satur day night. Gov. l’orter 1ms offered n reward of $500 for the capture of the negro who out raged Miss Marion McCauley near Nashville Sunday. Texas has more females in charge of post offices than any other state in the south. We mention this to give Rome enterprising jnttrnnliM a chance to snv something about the arrival and departure of tin* males. A negro boy hid himself in a store in Wilmington, N. the oilier night for the purpose of robbing, Imt went to sleep mid was aroused the next morning by being kicked out of the door. The liquor dealers association of Fort Smith, Ark., has issued a circular calling up on the liquor dealers throughout the state to unite in electing legislators who will reduce the license and the license fees attached to the liquor business. (Ills Johnson shot and killed the ferry man at the Coosa ferry, Home, (in., the other day, because he wouldn’t "hurry up.” The report of the gun caused a horse to throw and fatally injure a daughter of lion. C. I’. Morton, who was riding by at the time. Macon, (la., excels to receive during the coming season 715,000 hales of cotton, against 54,000 tills. The new crop is coming In * n few bales each day. Columbus expects to receive 05,000 bates, against 52,000 this year. Picking about the latter city is progressing nqndly, especially o*» the low rich lands. An Omaha dispatch says a heavy northwest wind since Saturday has carried oil’nearly all the grasshoppers. It is impos sible us yd to state what the damage done by them will amount to, but it is thought it will not amount to ns much ns wns pre dicted. A colony of Switzers, composed of wenty-two persons, located in Grundy eouii- tty, Tenn..a few days ngo. Several French colonics are expected to arrive in the same locality shortly. They all intend engaging in the cultivation of grapes ami the niatiti- factnre of wine. The Dike Superior copper mines, after passing through all the‘phases of u specula tive existence, during which plethoric for tunes wee lost an won through the sudden mutations of the stock market, have finally settled down to work, and to earn, if possi hie, a dividend for their stockholders. The dreadful third crop of worms has appeared in Mississippi, Alabama and Louis iana. The Vicksburg Herald believes the damage the pests will do the cotton will amount to a considerable percentage of the crop. They are at work in the richest Isnds of the cotton belt, and nre destroying vast acres each day. There nre ninety-four hanks in Cali fornia, w ith $30,497,000 capital, $117,503,700 deposits and $16,141,3000 cash. The Nevada hank, owned by Flood, O’Brien A Co , of the Big Bonanza, has the largest business, and the hank presided over by ex-aciiator Lath am stands next, Ralston's old hank of Cali- lornia holding the third place. Mrs. Mary B. Hindman, the widow of Gen. Thus. C. llyiilinnii, who was assassinat ed a number of years ngo by llsywood Grant, n negro who was recently hanged in Georgia, died at her resipeuce in Helena, Ark., lust week. Mrs. If. in her young days was considered the belle of the Mississippi valley. Recruiting is to licgin at once in Texas lor the cavalry service at all the posts in Texas. An office for that purpose will In- opened in Han Antonio in n few nays, and nil able-bodied men who sigh for an active life, scalping Indians, destroying rations, etc., will have nn opportunity granted them. The companies arc to be filled up to the standard of one hundred men. G'apt. Richard King is the king of the Texas cattle king-. He lias GO,000 acres un der fence near Corpus Christi, Is fencing in 60,000 more, and has besides 140,000 acres in the same tract. List April he sold ton Kan sas dealer 116,000 head of horned cattle, and to make sure of the delivery added 5,000 to the drove; and still had 50,000 head, besides 25,000 head of sheep and thousands of hors, s and mules. The most soulless monopoly this coun try has ever suffered under is the Norfolk, Va., “ Oystennen’s Association.” Why, they actually met the other day and resolved, with a big “ It," that "no member of the associa tion should sell good merchantable oysters f«,r l«s than twenty-five cents per bushel”— that, too, when com can be bought at the same price! A courier just in, left Den. Crook on on the 20th at the mouth of Powder river. Gen. Terry’s supply train was expected in that day, and both commands wore to move nut next morning on the trail lending toward Little Powder river, about ten days old, esti mated at about ten thouannd ponies with In dians, and the camp fires showed seven dis tinct bands. The wagon train reached old fort Reno yesterday nud camped, expecting the command hack about tbo 6th. Although tho crops of all kinds of ce reals promise to be bounteous, insuring a low range of values, yet, taking into eousidera- ion the low price of all, nr ncnily all, the necessaries ef Ife, the exchangeable value to the producer will, as a rule, lie ns great ns heretofore. A bushel of wheat at. ninety cents will buy ns many yards of cnlieont sev en and a half per yard as it would threo years ago with wheat at $1.60, and enlico at twelve and a half cents. The profit to each producer may bo less, but the exchangeable value to each is the same. This same prin ciple runs through the whole course of trade. Tho manufacturer and the merchant make less money, hut the farmer gets as much in exchange for Ills products as hitherto.— y<tthrUle America it. Nows from (’lister gives the details of tho killing of four men near that place nu the twenty-fourth, while on route to their bay camp, although no names lire given. A party pursued the ImliiiiiH, who numbered by the trail twenty-two, followed them to liny Camp, lint the In-linns were tlu-rc hi advance, and taken everythin}! but a grind stone. The place where these men were ambushed was at the head of a long ennoii running eastward; the Indians, hiding in tho rooks, watched for their approach, al though nil were not killed at first lire, ns the hodioH of two men were found in tho rocks, whither they had lied. The complete cen sus of the Indians present at tho Red Cloud agency, to which the rations will bo issued in future, fulls short of 6,COO, nud of the grown males, 10O0 recruits for various regi ments in the field nre daily arriving at fort Bussell. A dispatch from tho Yellowstone ex peditinn, from the steamer Josiiphliic, near the mouth of the Yellowstone, August 20th, byway of Hismarek, August 25t!i, says lint since the Junction of Crook and Terry, it is luqird to overtake ami force n light with the -Sioux. The command moved west to Rig Horn mountains, where, oil the fourteenth, a trail five or six days old nud two miles wide, being the heaviest ever seen on the prairies, was discovered. This trail finally separated, and the Indians were found to In in full retreat, one baud bending for the north, toward the British possessions, with a probable intention of crossing the line; the other going south, along the Little Missouri, for the purpose of crossing the Missouri river above fort Herthnld. There is every indica tion that the liostiles have been heavily rein forced by I lie agency Indians. They have their families, and evidently intend remaining north this winter. The army has n difficult programme, and it will be almost miraculous if they overtake fife savages, who nre welt mounted, and when the supplies urn ex hausted the soldiers will have to return to tho supply camp. A later dispatch,-latcdjAu- gust 23d, by way of Bismarck,says: “ Crook and Terry, after billowing the trail discov ered on the twelfth, moved thirty-six miles down the Rosebud. Tho northern trail was iilmiidouud on the. fourteenth, and the com mand pursued the southern trail, orossed Tongue river to Goose Creek, (bunco re turned to i’uwdcr river, followed it to its mouth, which they reached on tho eight eenth, where they went into camp, and will remain until the twenty-fourth. The wagon train and all supplies at the mouth of the Tongues nrn being shipped to the mouth of Powder river, and it is expected that tho wagon train will . reach there to-morrow morning. The Indian trail diverged from tho east bank of Powder river, about twenty miles from its ino-Jlh, south; again toward tho Little Missouri river, whence the com mand will follow speedily. Tho entire com mand isshort of supplies, and unless other wise ordered, General Terry will march such ns lire not needed over to fort Abraham Lin coln. General Crook’s command will scout towards the Black THIls and via FctU-rmnn, home. Crook and Terry both think it too late for extended field operations. The In dians on the southern trail arc believed to In: making toward the agencies, and Terry will, if possible, intercept them. Tho cam paign is therefore praetienlly closed, unless further instructions conic Irom the lieuten ant-general. Tho sentence of Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston murderer, has been commuted to im prisonment for life. The Delaware. Lackawanna and West era Pennsylvania and Delaware and Hudson canal companies will reduce the wages of the miners ten per cent. The Offenbach garden, a very contly est'ihlishrncnt opened by Ofl'ciibncli, in Phil adelphia, has failed and closed. The owner isn'wcnllhy New York Indy named Cameron. The Forrest s minion concerts having been abandoned by Thcadore Thomas, and the Operti gar-’en being in tbe bands of a re* ceivcr, three great centennial “side shows” have ended In disaster. Intelligence has been received from New York that tbe beef which was shipped from tbe abattoir to England by the Cunard steamer Abyssinia arrived in an excellent condition, and brought good prices in the 1/indon and Liverpool markets. The meat was as fresh and tender as if killed only two days previously, and the English cattle mer chants were amazed. The American beef was rapidly bought up at less than half the price charged for English beef. Now that regular ice compartments have been provid ed on certain steamers, arrangements have been made for shipping five hundred cattle a week to England. rORKIUS. It m said that eight hundred and fifty men of all arms, with’ Krupp ami Placentia gnus, will embark at Hautamlcr and Cadiz for Cuba, before tbe first of November. The claim holders in the African dia mond fields are about to atop digging until the price of tbe precious stones advances The Cape Standard says: “ Diamonds are dirt cheap.” A few days since tho poor empress Charlotte escaped from the chateau do l^u-kcu, where she is still under care. After flndiu : tier it was difficult to make her re turn, and slu- was induced to do no at length hy the strntogem of Hinging (lowers before her, ns slu- is fond of (lowers. Advices received at tho Mexican con sulate at Son Francisco, from the scat of war, state that Sinn loo is favorably disposed to the government. The revolutionists un der Guerra, who inis captured Otlliean, the capital, and threatened Mnzatiiin, have evac uated Calionn. Federal troops are now on the march to occupy tho city. Karl Russell has addressed a letter to Lord Granville on the eastern question, to which lie says: "It seems to me that we ought, with our ficot nt Bcsikn and our inn- hussndor nt Constantinople, to limit t on nu instant termination of the attrocitlos prac ticed in Bulgaria and other parts of Turkey. A thousand men landed from our Heel would accomplish the object, nud if they fall, they might ho reinforced. Ultimately, if wo cun- not keep the Turks from being barbarous and cruel, we might ally ourselves with Rus sia, ami concert means to accomplish our objects. The whig party toast is, ‘Civil nud religious liberty all over the world.' From this cause 1 shall not depart.’’ A dispatch front Belgrade says the keenest anxiety is felt to hear of an armis tice. Every day increases the danger of the war spreading. The Servian army is fast be coming u Russian auxiliary force, fighting on Servian soil. Russians are exposing themselves in the hruiil of the battle with reuiiirkahlo valor. Out of sixty-eight who fought as a company at Alexinotz, thirty were left dead oil the field; The Servians nre becoming jealous and afraid of the Rus sians. They feel the control of their army slipping from their hands and they will joy fully accept peneo if it onii he obtained on good terms. The seven days lighting before Alexiuatz has been grently exaggerated. It is estimated that the Servians entire loss is only n few hundred killed ami 2,300 wound ed. Nn lot of killed and wounded has been published hero since the beginning of the NIINOKI.IiANKOIIN. Tho number of day laborers in tho United States is estimated nt 1,000,000. Caleb Cushing, minister of tho United States, will soon sail on leave of absence. < lormnny hna decided to send an officer to the Turkish headquarters to report any further cruelties. The merchandise ox ports of tho United States during the pant fiscal year amounted to $610,381,1171. mid tho imports $400,741,100, an excess of exports over imports cf $79,- 643,481. Tho previous year the Imports ex ceeded the exports by $19,662,725. The spe cie and bullion exports in 1877 amounted to $56,506,302, an excess of $40,660,621 oyer Im ports; in 1876. tl.io excess of exports was $71,231,425, the total hofliK $92^32,1-f" Tho recent experiment in shipping fresh beef to Europe was, perhaps, a hazard ous venture, hut it hns thus far proved suc cessful and remunerative. The English epi cure tire eager to test the quality of Ameri can steaks nud sirloins, and have pronounced them excellent. lienee our shippers have been encouraged to loerease the consign ments. They have thus far found a ready market for them, and the prospect is that in tho future this will constitute u permanent and porhapN an important branch of our ex port trade. One curious feature of the Charlie Ross ease has been pointed by the New York Evening Post. It qpnsiHts of the fact that so many children supposed lo ho the lost Ross boy have been discovered in various parts of the country. These children, or many of them, must have been held under suspicious ci rcu instil lines, and the inference is that the crime of abduction in much more common in this country limn Iiiih heretofore been imag ined. No doubt many children have been stolen concerning whom there has been no public excitement. The will of M. 0. Kerr devises in sub stance that all the law books which lie shall be the owner of at tbu time of bin dcuth, and used by him as a law library, shall bo Veld in trust by his wife for the use of bis son, Sam uel B. Kerr. He leaves all bis property, real mid personal, in trust with his wife dur ing her life, and at her death, if her son should survive her, tbe property will be be queathed to him. lie also provides that his mother and his wife’s mother shall be pro vided for, so far as bis wife’s ability may per mit her to do so. It concludes with beseech ing his son "To cherish always a sinner love of justice 'and truth, and to make all his aims in life consistent therewith, and they cannot fail to be high and noble.” He makes bis wife sole executrix of bis will. The paper is dated May 27, 1865. Past and Present Prices of Colton. I/,ini,,ii Corrcxpondnnmof the Ituir.iln Commorclnl Advertiser. A Manchester man writing to one of his local papers gives some curious facts with regard to cotton which will he inter esting on your side of the Atlantic. Tho price of cotton cloth is now lower in Lancnstcrshirethan it ims been for twenty years, while the raw material is lower than it has been for six teen years, and tho manufacturers com plainthat they are now Helling! heir goods manufactured at less than the wist prices. Yet at the retail shops extravagant prices are obtained for cloth of the most inferior quality. It is not, therefore, wonderful to read in the trade circulars particularly concerned “no demand from the home trade.” Cot ton is now ns cheap or cheaper than it was in the year of your wonderful crop (1800), ami while the finest quality— American and Egyptian—is that which is most abundant, tile consumer fails to benefit either in quality or price. These very significant and instructive facts are, we may fairly presume, attributable Holely to increased cost of production. The wages of spinners and weavers have been steadily advancing from sixty to seventy-five per cent, during the period mentioned above, while rents, fuel, ma chinery, etc., hnvo also increased in cost. All through Lancashire manufactures are reducing wages and scheming to bring down the cost of production. ritIKNIIMIIII*. l-*rl(*nnhl|> In not Unit brltlln lit-, ' M ”-' ’ •mi tin birth tm|lo, mol |mn'In ninu, i*i a brlttlu tiling. An inmiy tin, I runout Mult, Tlml fih-nilNhl|i'N only hum to it In, Who tluiN In-iit.N (ili iiiUiilp In lu I’imni Nut worthy of tier holy mum-. I*'rlon(lahl|i tin* Inntcd, nml will InM, In wuo.s to t-onin—lu IiunIiIon |ihn|, Amt In forovnrmnrn tho winn*, Whim wo provo worthy of her nniuo. call tho hrlttln IIiIiir, In tint tho olniilow of hur 1-T li'ii<lnhl|> ivo rourt -tbo prim wo giiln, Tin'll trout hor I unruly nml prtilmio, MonrntiiK, Min IiIiIn iin tlion adUni, Wo unit horfitlNO, then, amt lint rue. o piovo worthy of hor nnino, In Iniril, I him*, oiiviona honrto, oi r will hoiM-lf nnfuhl, A. STORY OP 1776. Till' l.«iM allot of (Ik- !ll«w-lii«iilt- lli-1-o or llrmtilywliii*. Near Dilworth Corner, nt tho time of tho llovolulinn, there stood a quiet cot tage somewhat retired from the road, un der the tho Hlmdo of a stout chestnut tree. It was a quiet cottage, nestling away there in the corner of the forest road, a dear home in the wilderness, with slop ing roof, walls of dark gray stone, and a easement hidden among 1 11 s and flow - Her , at the time of the Revolution, there dwelt a young blacksmith, Iiih young wife and her bubo. What eared tho blacksmith, working nwav in that shadowy nook of the forest, for war? What eared ho for the peril of the times, ho long as his strong arm, ringing that hummer on tho anvil, might gain bread for his wife and child ? Ah, he cared little for war, he took littlo nolo of tho panic that shook the valley, when, Home fow inorningH before the battle of Brandywine, while Hhooing the borne of a Tory refugee, he overheard a plot for tho surpriso and ea-iture of Washington. Tho American leader was to he lured into the toils of the Tolies; his person once in tho British camp, tho English general might send the “ Traitor Washington" homo to he tried in liondou. Now our hhickKiuith, working away there in that dim nook of the forest, without earing for battle or war, had Htill a sneaking kindness for this Mister Washington whoso name rang on the Up of all men. So ono night, bidding Ins young wife a hasty good-liv, and kis sing tho babe that reposed on her bosom, smiling us it slept, fie hurried away to tho Ainorlean camp, and told bin story to Washington. It was morning when ho came hack. It was in the dimness of tho autumnal morning, that the blacksmith was plod ding Ins way* along the forest road. Same few paces ahead there was an aged oak, standing out into Hit jroud— a grim old veteran of tho forest, that had stood the shocks of three hundred years. Right beyond that oak was tho hlack- smith’s home. With this thought warming his heart, he hurried on. Ho hurried on, think ing of the calm young face and mild blue eyes of that wife, who the night before had stood in tho cottage door wav ing hint out of Hight with a beckoned good-by—thinking of tho Imhy t hat lay smiling as it Hlcpl upon her bosom, he hurried on— lie turned the bend of the wood—he looked upon his home. Ah ! what a sight was there 1 Where the night before ho had left a peaceful rottngo, smiling undor a green chestnut tree, lu the light of the setting sun, now was only a heap of black and smoking emlHirs, and a burnt and blasted tree. And there stood the blacksmith gaz ing upon that wreck of his hearthstone —there he stood with folded arms and a moody brow ; ImL in a moment a smile broke over his face. lie saw it all. In the night his home Imd taken fire, and then burned to cin ders. But his wife—his child had es caped ; for that ho thanked (Jod. With the toil of his stout arm. plving there on tho anvil, he would build a fairer house for wife and child; fresh flowers should bloom over the garden walks, and more lovely vines trail along the casement. With this resolve kindling over his face, the blacksmith stood there, with a cheerful light beaming from his large giay eyes, when a hand was laid upon his shohler. He turned and lie-held the face of a neighbor. It vas a neighbor hut there was an awful agony stamping those plain fea tures-- there was an awful agony flashing from those dilating eyes—there a dark and terrible mystery speaking from those thin lips, that moved hut made no sound. At last, forcing the blacksmith along the brown graveled walk, now strewn with cinders, lie pointed to the smoking embers. There, there—amid that heap of black and smoking ruins, the black smith beheld a dark mass of burnt flenh and blackened hones. “ Your wife !” shrieked the farmer, as his agony found words. “They British they came in the night; they—” And then he spoke that outrage which thejiipqulvers to think on,which the heart palsied to tell—“Your wife," ho shriek ed, pointing to that hideous thing amid the smoking ruins; the British they murdered your wife, they flung her dead body in the flames -they dashed your child against the, hearthstone." This was the farmer’s story. And there, as tho light of breaking day fell around the spot, there stood the husband, the father, gazing upon that mass of burned flesh and blackened hones --all that was once his wife. Do you ask me for the words that trembled from his white lips? Do you ask me lor the fire that blazed in his eye ? I cannot tell you. But I can tell you that there was a vow going up' to heaven from the blacksmith sheart; that ilenced hand, upraised in the. of the breaking day. s, yes, as the first gleam of the au tumnal .lawn broke around the spot, as the first long gleam of sunlight streamed over tho peeled skull of that fair young wife—she that was last night—there was a vow of a maddened heart and anguished brain. How was that vow kept? (lo there to Brandywine, and where the carnage gathers thickest, where tho tight is most bloody, there you may see a stout form striding on, lifting a huge 1mmmur into light. Where that hammer falls, it kills—where that hammer strikes it crushes I It Is tho blacksmith’s form. And the war-cry that he shouts? Is it a mad cry of veiigoanco—half hotvl, half hurrah ? Is it but a fierce yell, breaking up from his heaving chest? Ah, no I Ah, not It is tho name of—Mary I It is the name of his young wife! Oh, Mary—sweetest name of woman— name so soft, so rippling, so musical— name of the mother of Jesus, made holy by pootiy and religion—how Blrungely did your syllables of music ring out from that blacksmith’s lips, as ho went mur dering onl “Mary!" ho shouts, as ho drags tho red-coated trooper from his steed ; ‘‘Maryl" ho shrieks, as his hammer crashes down, la/ing that officer in the dust. Look I Another officer, with a gallant face and form—another officer, glittering in tinsel, chums that black smith by tho knees and liegs for mercy. “ I have a wife—mercy 1 I have a wife yonder in England—spare me I” The blacksmith, crazed iih he is, trem bles; there is a tear in his eye. “ I would spare you, hut there Ih a form before me—the form of my dead wife! '1 hat form has gone before mo all day I She calls on mo strike I" And the hummer fell, and then rang out that strange war cry—“Maryl” At bust, when the battle was over, he was found hy a wagoner, who had at last shouldered a cart-whip in Ills coun try's service—he was found sitting hy the roadside, his head sunken, his leg broken—the life-blood welling from his many wounds. The wagoner would have carried him from tho field, but tho stout blacksmith refused. “ You hoc, neighbor,” hcsuid.in a voice husky with death, “ 1 never meddled with the British till they burned my home, till they Ho could not speak the outrage, but Ills wile, bin child, were there before his dying eyes. “ And now I've but five minutes life in me. I’d like to give a shot, at the British before Idle. D'yo see that cherry treo ? D'ye think you could drag a man of my build up tlmr? Place me thar; give mo a powder-horn, three rifle balls, an’ a good rille; that’s all I ask.” Tho wagoner granted his request; he lifted him to the foot of the elu-rry tree, he placed tho rifle, the halls, tho powder- horn in his grasp. Then whipping his homes through the narrow pass, from the Hiiinniil of a neigh boring liuight he looked down upon the last scene of Hie blacksmith’s life. There lay the stout man, at the foot of tho cherry treo, his head sunk, IiIh broken leg banging over the loadsidu. batik. Tho blood was streaming from his wounds—ho was dying. Suddenly ho raised Tils head—a sound struck on Ids ears. A party of British camo rushing along the narrow road, mad with carnage, and thirsting for blood. Tlioy pursued a scattered band of conti nentals. An officer led tho way, waving them on with his sword. Ths blacksmith loaded his rifle ; with that eye, bright with death, he took the aim. “That’s for Washington," he shouted as he fired. Tho officer lay quivering in the roadside dust. On anil on came the British, nearer and nearer to tho cherry tree—the continentals swept through the pass. Again the blacksmith loaded — again he fired. “That’s for mad Anthony Wayne !" he shouted, as another officer hit the sod. The British now came rushing to the cherry tree, determined to cut down tho wounded man, who, with his face toward them, bleeding as ho was, dealt death among tliolr ranks. A fair-visaged offi cer, with golden hair waving in the wind led them on. Tho blacksmith raised his rifle; with that hand stiffening in death he took aim —iitf fired—tho young Briton fell with n sudden shriek. "And that," cried tho blacksmith, in u voice that strengthened into a shout, “and that’s for—" Jlis voice was gone. Tho shriek died on his whito lips. His head sank—-his rifle fell. A single word bubbled up with his death groan. Even now inethinks I hear that word echoing and trembling there among the rocks of Brandywine. That word was—Mary ! Capacities of (he South. Now York Kxprcitx. But few people of tho United States take in just what the south is, in extent and capacity. The area of tho slave holding Htatcs is about 816,(100 square miles; and in all of this territory there has boon but little over 100,000 square miles in cultivation—a surplus equal to that of Alabama and Georgia. An address sent to us from Arkansas, pared by Daniel Dcnuot, gives the pri-parnl I following i interesting record. Six south states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala bama, Georgia, Tennessee and Arkansas, are selected as the basis, not because they arc letter or offer better induce ments to immigrants than other states, lmt because more conveniently to illus trate certain facts: Louisiana, within surface of more than 20,000,000 acres of land—over 20,000,000 acres of tillable land—has never culti vated 8,000,000 acres. Mississippi has never cultivated but about 6,000,000 acres, and lias an area of about 80,000,000 acres. Alabama lias never cultivated 0,000,000 acres out of more than 82,000,000. Georgia lias cultivated about 8,000,000 acres and lias an area of 87,000,000. Tennessee has cultivated less than 7,000,000 out of 20,000,000 acres. Arkansas less than 2,000,000 out of 38,000,000 acres. Previous to asking for a cigar, Prof. Huxley always delivers a discourse on the origin and purpose of tobacco, and tho dealer is so impressed that he hands out a ton-center and takes only five cents for it. FACTS AND FANCIES. John iiotti.kjoiin, Lllllo John ItottIcjohii lived mi n lilll, Who llvnd In tin- iloi-p liluoM-n. “ ’na slu- UIM to Bit tlm r<M-kn hy tlion " Oh, littlo .Inliii llottlojiilin 1 priitly .tiilni Hot I lo- John I Won’t you como out to ino ?’’ I.lttlo .tolm Hotth-julin lionnl liomoii^, And ho o|N-iiod IiIn littloitoor ; And ho Iio|i|hnI mid hi* iiklppi-d, nnd ho Hklppod mid ho liop|H*d Until ho on mo down to tin* nliort*. And llioinnii ii rook wit tho littlo niormnld, Muslim m * ottlujolin John I Won t you pomo out to mot” Littlo John Itottlolohn nimlo n l> i» poifoolly nwi-itlnn v •nippy i, littlo.1.din llotllojohn I orotly John IkittlojohnI Won't you nunc down with mo o Loth Minn Id hot l.lllh- John l’nltlojohn on id : I'll wllllnaly uo with you Ami 1 imvi-r will ipinlliil tli For |M-rliiipn I may mow ono ton. Oil, yen, ■pinll id tho Mailt of your tail, — hiura K. I'lchanlt, SI. A’lcholat “Real Kentucky whisky for Halo here,” is a sign dangling over a littlo shop in Alexandria, Egypt. Speak HU Kmut was tho first speaker of t ho house who has ever died while holding that ofllco. A UoNBOTICUT farmer finds guinea hens the best, potato hug destroyers lie has tried, lie keeps 60 of these fowls, and they Mo tho work thoroughly. Tiik hutch cure a lazy pauper hy pul ing him into a deep cistern, letting in the water, and providing him with a pump that, with hard work, will just Itcep him from drowning. “ WllP.HF.VKn I go,” Haiti an elderly traveler thoother day, “I find men wear ing out their old clothes and hats; hut tho ladies, almost without exception, have brand now and expensive dresHCH.” Rumor slates that a movement is on foot among tho hotel keepers of tho United States to secure another visit from Dorn Pedro. Tlioy took, in all, about $10,000 out of film during Inst year. A BOUTiiKUNF.n, writing from Cape May to his homo paper, wondorH why a prudish girl who will dance with no cym but her brother will run along tho bench “ naked as to the knee,” and kicking sand at her beau. It is difficult to explain the workings of tho youthful mind. A hoy who will listen indifferently lo tho sublimes!, truths of theology will l>o roused to tho lieu test interest hy tho progress ol a caterpillar over tho collar of tho bald- headed man in tho pew in front of him. Jai'ANEhk poetry: I mi w n |iIk'<oii milk Ink hre-nd; I miw ii fdrl ciiiiiiminimI of tlirnml; I >h« a lowol ono milo iMimri); 1 miw ii mi-ixlow In tlmnlri # f niiw a rorkol walk u milo ; I nuw ii iioii v miiko n III*-! I MlW II mill-KKIIlltll In a Imix ; I miw an ornnao kill mi ox ; I nbw it Imlcltor miulo of stool s I miw a |H>ii-kiilfo ilmiro it torn. They say that it’s owing lo their wearing silk drcHses that ladies are so seldom Hlmelc hy lightning. And, fur thermore, it’s slated that in choosing be tween a man nud n dog, tho electric fluid always gives tho canlno the preference. Tiik reason why great men meet’ with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to ho this: The friends of a great man were mado hy Ids fortunes— his enemies hy himself; and revongo is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.—Cotton. If the money which our young men throw away every day for cigars wore devoted to charity every man, woman and child In Romo could have ico cream or supper and tho stomach-ache and threo Kinds of cholera medicine before morning.—Rome Sentinel. Tiikrk is poetry oven in that Sitting Bull of winged torments, tho uneasy mosquito. Think, young man, as you listen to his grace boforo meat, that the hill that focus upon your marble forehead may only a little while since hnvo caress ed tho damask check of her whom you JoVo. A Nkw England chap has got a pat ent for a now tin lion. Ho fills tho thing with oyster shells, boiled starch and extract of carrot, winds her up, puts her on a nest, and she will lay nn egg every day for a week. Ho has a way of kooping hor from working on Hnndays. Tjiby arc taking evidence in a divorce case for cruelty ; tho husband is under examination ; ids wife, prostrated with grief, is weeping bitterly, covering hor face with her handkerchief. “Now,” says the judge, “arc you not nshaned to have thus brutally treated your wife, a tender young woman of twenty-five ?" tender young woman oi iweniy-nvo i The wile suddenly raises her head. “ I beg your pardon,” she sobs; “twenty- four only.” And she again gives way to her grief.—Paris paper. Burlington llawkeyo; Mrs. Astor, when she wants to feel dressed, wears a million dollars’ worth of diamonds at a time, and when a hotel clerk or a min strel end man passes near her, hisunusu- ally magnificent cluster just shrinks and folds itself up until it looks as if ho had only spilled a drop of molasses on his shirt front. A NKMIOCAMI- MKKTINd IIVMN. Why ilon'I you do iih Fetor did, A-M'ulklnj c Hi rowed 1 UryliiK, \t: tilxivi! Ills In-ad, j. ntnii-iiiiior nte.” miber Hu- rh h nml rouicinlicr fhn |khii, r'iii«-inl>cr Ilio iHMilid and free, i'ti you are doin' reniuiiiherinK around, good I/mi, ri-nu'inlx-r me. ould Maud where Monoh Mood, A ml view I lie land.Noniie o'er, il throw tlu-.vi lej-N iih font m* I eoiild- Aml I'd ro for Ihn milk-white Nhore in lair I ho poor, inber the rich and r And reniciiilter tho l*ound mm ire-, A ml when you are done ronilwrlng »roiind, Then, eond Gird, renionilmr me. —Chicago Tribune. “ Wiiat is my bill ?" anxiously asked a man who had stayed over night at ono of them, lately. “ Your bill ?" was tho calm reply; “how much money have you along?" “ Twenty-nine dollars," gasped the innocent and retiring guest. “ Well, that’s—that’s your bill," re marked the considerate proprietor. And as the centennial visitor started out on foot for his home In Indiana, he mut tered thoughtfully to himself: “ So this is tho way that ‘tramps’ are made."