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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S. D. WJKLE & CO., Proprietors, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1870. VOL 111. NO. 19. TIMELY TOPICS. The manufacture of iron in the weal fa rapidly ^increasing in amount. In Chicago alone there are two of the ten Bessemer steel works in the United .States, and these made 85,000 tons of the ‘291,000 tons of the Ilessemcr-stcel rails manufactured in this country last N atpiialimh of the Meteorological society of Scotland noticed last year that herring* in fresh water rose to the sur face only when the temperature had fal len below twelve degrees Keaumur. Fishermen now, when they do not find the fish near the surface,drop their ther mometers until they fall to the required |K>int, and lower their ifetn in accord* ance, with great, success. 1.1 KITTEN A NT-Coi,ONKI. JoHN N CSV- TON, who has had charge of the Hell (Jato improvements, fa a native of Vir ginia, and was graduated at West Point in 1812. He was second in his class, en tered tho engineer corps and was assistant engineer in the construction of Fort Warren in IK-lfl. He constructed the defense' of Washington, and took an ac tive part in the battles of South Moun tain, Antiotam, Fredericksburg, Gettys burg, soigo of Atlanta, etc. The American tour bids fair before long to be as fashionable with Europeans as the European tour with Americans. Hotel-keepers no longer look with speech less nwo at an aristocratic autograph on their register, but call a Ik>1I boy to take his lordship’s valise up to eighty-three with the siune magnificent indifference ns if he were Mr. Smith of Mr. Jones. Dur ing this centennial year carls are in fair supply, and continental counts and bar ons ure too common for notice. Thebe are about seventy-five religious newspapers in this country, having a united circulation of some 5O0,D.0O. The Catholic papers have more than one-third of this, the Irish World and Boston Pilot printing as many as any four other religious weeklies. There are four Ob servers, six Christian Advouatcs, four Presbyterians, three Churchmans, two Registers, two Watchmans, and one Tele scope. The Hebrew papers are $5 a year and have a total circulation of 10,000; tho other papers range from, *2.r>0 to IN- A WIDOW ill Poughkeepsie has oh tained damages, under the civil damage law, from a liquor seller at whose bar her husband became drunk five times • list before dying of congestion of the brain. The jury gave her $800 instead of tho $5,000 she sued for, ns he was a rather poor specimen of husband. The civil dnmage law is theoretically a jier- fcct law, and ought to lie enforced a good deal oitener than it is. Temper- ance tocietics, instead of wasting their breath in singing and exhorting, could do much practical good by finding cases in which families have been ruined by liquor dealers and then "going” for damages. France launched her most powerful iiou-clad last month, the Redoubtable, at lioriont. This vessel, which has been three years building, is three hundred and fifty feet long by seventy feet l>enm. She has an iron rum at the bow weighing thirty tons, and her armor plates weigh twenty-four .ons each. Her armament fa eight pivot guns, capable of being pointed in any direction, and her decks are bomb-proof. Her six thousand horse power engines work a screw twenty-one feet in diameter, and there are smaller engines for working the helm, the wind lass and the pumps. The displacement of this monster war vessel when fitted for sea is estimated at nine thousand M it. EzeKIKI.’scoIIosshI statue ot “ Re ligious liberty ” is nearly finish, and will sik)u l>e shipped from Rome to the I’nited States. It was ordered by the Jewish order of R’nni B’rith for present ation to our government as a ccntenrial offering in commemoration of American tolerance. Its princi|>al figure is a fe male nearly eleven feet in height, repre senting America, clothed in a simple and classic costume, and bearing upon her breast a shield with the stars and stripes in relief. Her left hand rests upon a bundle of tightly bound rods, suggestive of the union of the state*, the scrolls of the constitution, and a wreath of laurel. The light arm is extended forward in forbidding gesture, as if commanding no approach from aught that would in fringe upon the liberty of her people. On the right, and partially sheltered by America, stands a nude boy, symboliz ing faith, with his head and one hand lifted appealingly to heaven, while the other sustains a vessel in which is shown the undying flame of religion. On the other side, and at the feet of the central figure, is an eagle with talons buried in the neck of a monster serpent, Intoler ance, whose body is coiled partially around the bundle of rods, andjextends to the rear -*f the group, finally protruding from beneath the flowing garment of America. Italian journals speak of it in terms of the highest praise. LATEST NEWS. 4UI TII Attn WMT, From the Mississippi jetties the latest report is thnt thw south pass jetty chnnurl huii now a depth of twenty-two nml one- fourth feet, and thnt the bar does not build up iu advance of the consti notion of the jet ties, ns was thought probable. Tho Echconcc, C»n , Baptist association have deferred the mutter of denting with members who have joined the grange until next year, in order to give the members time to withdraw from liie grange. The following obituary notice in the Savannah N’ows tells the story of the terrible fatality of the epidemic in that eitv: Died, in this oily, of tho prevailing epidemic, yel low fever, August 28, Edward Lee, aged 9 years nml 10 months. September 15, fun Florence, aged 13 years and S mouths. Sep tember 19, Mary Lillian, aged 4 years and 9 months, beloved children of Edward \V. and Mary A. Drummond. Also, on the 27th of September, their father, K. W. Drummond, in the thirty-ninth year of his uge, leaving a broken-hearted wife and one son 0) mourn their lots. At Reaver, 1 tab, on the 10th,Judgo Iloreman passed sentence on John 1). Lee fur participation iu the Mountain Meadow massacre, nineteen years ngi . In doing so he called attention to the atrocity of the crime, the iunhility heretofore of the author ities to procure evidence. The conspiracy to murder was so widespread that I.<-e was finally offered up as a sacrifice to popular Indignatiou; hut others equally guilty might hereafter expect punishment. The prisoner having the- right under the laws of tho tdrri. tory to choose death by hanging; shooting or beheading, nml having chosen to be shot, was sentenced to ho shot to death Janunrv 2(5, 1877. The Texas legislature appropriated $8,000 not for Horry’s portuil of Lee, us lias gone the rounds of the press, but for two pictures, one of which is that of "Lee at the Wilderness," a historical painting and not n portrait. The Howard n»soeintion has a dis patch from Dr. .1. 11. Bruns, of Brunswick (in , saying that the epidemic there may lie considered at uu end. While riding home on a canon that hud been used M.» celebration hear Augus ta, (in., John T. Perdue was jostled off and had ids head crushed by a wheel, nml Deter Mastering received severe bruises. Mr. Per- due was the husband of “ Jennie Woodbine,” the Georgia poetess. The old court-house iu Rappahan nock, Vn., iu which John Walter, Robert Wure, John Shackleford nml James Green wood were iu 1774 arraigned for preaching the gospel contrary to the law of the colony, bus been purchased, and is to he converted into a Baptist house of worship. The mayor of Brunswick telegraphs: "Thanks to our generous friends throughout the union, we announce that we ’think we have enough supplies and monev to carry us tlirough the epidemic." Many lives were lost by the burning of the steamboat •Southern Belle. Among those known to he lost ure Win. Van Pliul, Mr. Drcse, Miss Fannie O’Conner, nn 1 an other Indy, all of Baton ltouge; Mr. Frank, of Port Hudson’ Mr. I^ugiiui, also Frank nn employe, nml the steward and his crew. I, fa supposed that nearly all of those who were -leeping in the nftcr-purt of the boat were burned to dentil, as after the fire had once got fairly under way it was almost impossi ble to get nt the bow of the boat, the only way of escape to tho shore. The cargo con sisted of from 600 to MOO hales of cotton. The boat w.-s new, and valued at $15,000 nml insured for $30,000, mostly in New Orleans companies. Mr. I'.. Herbert, the pilot, held the bow of the boat against the bank until all who could had escaped; he then leaped from tin* pilot-house to the lower deck Hiid It fa said that the managers of the Forrest Home for notors, in Philadelphia, hare received hut one. .application for ad- mis bon— this from an elderly lady in Maine. (Inly sixty mile* from tho city of Now York farmers are feeding their fruit to their live stock, there being no profit on it when shipped to the metropolis. Messrs. Tiffany A <’«)., of New York, hnvc removed from the mniD building ut tho eentcnninl exhibition almost their entire ex hibit of precious stone ornaments. They comprize a diamond neeklace, a pair of soli taire ear-rings, a peacock’s feather contain ing the celebrated “ Brunswick ” straw col ored dihinnnd and over six hundred fine white diamonds of smaller size, and many others, all of which were valued nt $147,M00 They were removed it is said, on account of the obstruction in the passage ways in the vicinity of the exhibit by risitors.curlous to gaze on so much value in so small a space. roiiEiunr. It appears from a compilation recently made by an Edinburgh journal thnt one-sev enth of the land iu the United Kingdom, ex cluding that contained in the metropolis, is held by five hundred and fifty-four peer*,and the aggregate of the laud »o possessed is one- twelfth ot that in the kingdom. One peer has estates in each of the great divisions of England, Ireian 1 and Scotland, and more than one-fourth have estates in two of the three divisions. Nearly nil those peers in cluded in the five hunrlred and fifty-four have respectable incomes, ano several have upwards of $1,000,000. The Paris exhibition may not l»e held after all. Paris tradesmen are byTso means as anxious as they might be to have it take place, for the reason that’those not already well established and advertised, would have to do the latter at great cost. One -wcil known firm on the Hue de la Pair,considers that they lost 33,000 francs at the exhibition in 1807. They sent several valuable and beautiful specimens of their work, which, not being sold, had afterward to he remade, andthe expense consequent thereon involved the above loss. The dispatches indie ite that BuMia fa r cuce forget it by «tny or night. I fonreil to trust IiIiii ; I tbouglit my lorn is morn Hum tits, ntnl I straw nml pruyed Amt all tho time I was mtro nfrniil. tin boro with Its kept Pnt U h " ln herself not unaware that a slight movement a IiRNNom in trvmti.mj. t,n WlU “* ke Wo,k f «r the vast! M .- frlcm , went over t^Tonc day; armies of Europe. This great northern pow-1 My thoughtsfull ot tho saddest mins *'• Cre,*»re.l tor w„r. She ha. been for years preparing for tho speedy transpor tation of troops throughout her immense area. In Russia proper railroads have been constructed rapidly and advantageously. There are lines oompletcd.to tho extent ot fifteen hundred miles. She can put nt once iu the field 1,5 0,000 men, and in an emer gency would find no difficulty in arraying 2,000,000 snldierH against her enemies. The so-called Russian "volunteers" in Herein nro undoubtedly under official orders. In Russia Tohernnycff is regarded ns a great boro, a champion of Helavlc populations, and he fa clearly the agent of the Russian government. Tho czar’s proposition that Russian troops shall occupy Bulgarin, and that the Austrians shall occupy Jlerzcgo- vlnia and Bosnia, thus treading severely on tho Turks’ corns, may be taken ns a broad challenge to anvbody who wants to "main tain the integrity of the Ottomnn empire" to prepare for a war of largo dimensions." In Cuba tho whiter enmpn^u is open ing with fair prospects for tho insurgents, who were recently so daring as to enter the city of Eiis lumas, and hold possession of part of it. The troops upon whom the Spaniards rely to conquer this wily eiy my are for the most part dUuffocted, having re ceived no pay for over six months. The captain general has even declared that no more soldiers should he sent him, unless ho receives money lo pay thdui. Ueu. Jovel- Inrs's willingness to return home indicates still further tho gloominess of the Spanish Ho patient la^to In tentloriicas; ' rpt my frleml on the far oil sen, showed us U>th how the 1 aid! conhlhlcss. A ml I think when 1 see tho farm end • f thov who nro nnxlons Riul lull ot ( «re, If they trnstixl the l«inl jin would make themglnd, I nr tie loves to answer his chlliben's prayer. THE IJTES. A special from I-n von worth to the St. l.ouis Globe-Democrat says roporta re ceived there indicate that there are learn of a general uprising among tho Ute In dians in Colorado, as the warriors of that tribe have been for some time in a doubt- Ini attitude, and some fear of an out break 1ms been fell, in Now Mexico. Tho Indiana of that tcction have made sev eral warlike demonstrations, and have collided with the United Slates troops more than once. From information re oeived from New Moxleo, it is extremely nrolmblc that the Indians will indulgo m it general insurrection ns soon ns op- portunity offers, as they are without doubt one of tlie most treacherous tribes on the continent. Sheriff Richard doles, of EaPlatte county, telegraphs front Parrott City to dov, Routt, asking for assistance, saying that tho Utoa number fully two thousand, and are about to make a raid. I'ol. Hatch, coin mantling tho New Mexico district, also telegraphs tu Gov. Routt from Santa Fe, saying that If ho so authorized him he would issue arms to tho eitizons, as the inlinbilnntsof LaPlatle, l.as Animasand Parrott ('ity wore afraid of an immediate outbreak. ^ Gov. Uoutttelcgrnphod Gen. Pope at fort Leavenworth, informing him of the state of affairs, and asking him to authorize ('id. Hatch to issue anus to the citizens, but received a reply lo the effect thatonly the presidouleotild authorize him to do so. < Jen. Pope stated, however, that Col. Hatch had enough troops at forts Union, Wingate und Gar land to suppress the outbreak should any occur. This stands at present i tho way the matter A dispatch from Constantinople says the following are the conditions oil which the Porte expects un armis tice: That Sorvia ho prevented from oocu- pyiog positions now in possession of the Turkish army; that the introduction of arms and ammunition into Herein nml Montene gro he prohibited; that the passage of for- tdirn volunteers into Turkish provinces be positively put a atop to; that Hervla and Montenegro be prohibited from giving any assistance to immigrants to adjacent prov inces. 'Ilie Porte proposes that the armis tice shall extend to the fifteenth of March, 1877, and requires the powers to appoint delegates for the settlement of details. It hits ordered Turkish commanders to come to an understanding with these delegates and with .Servian and .Montenegro commiiudcrH, tin* line of deniarkation between the oppos ing armies to be regulated by tho positions they now hold. Turkey, however, is to evretmto her positions in Sorvia If fc engine* lint to occupy thorn. j • A Berlin di«,mtch «ny» Iho uld report J Wnlts. fa revived that the czar thinks of abdicating i ll «t’“bHc«ii.^ if u war is decided upon. Tho Russian ml- Thfi wails of Mormon womeii&ontlnuo dctiUtin Austria ami Uermnijy* who are Bo. f W/fift- from, ^HlV'Lilia* GJ,ty ^through blu fo serve fif thV nniiy have been ordered , * rl *nipotw of nccttsioim! rorrrsnon- borne. Tho Black sea squadron is ready to I ? 1 cn J tH, l T,loro WHH 0,,,:0 u prevailing bleu lurry 100,000 iiitn tana Hi.' nortli.rn to that till.' women were pcrfrctly content western slu.r. w r.f ll... A I . I . . I mul** r tllO <1 Oil)III1111Ol) ol UlO HuilltH, 1111(1 ont.-.;.o "o. 1 I„. ,„y.' l'rubably they were «. happy n, iin I 11 hi.ui got eminent Ims bueu nskod by married women usually arc, and would Bushin to co operate. Persia, iu obedience,' huvo remained ho had it not been for the is sending troops to the Turkish frontier. ollort« ol correspondents to unsettlo The reserves nro being called out in some t.f them. Agitation appears to have made the western provinces of Bushin. Troops ^ ,c,n "8 misflrflblc tut their worst cne- havo been moved toward the northern and i c “ l, ld "dsh them to he. Their eastern frontier of Galeein. Twenty tlmt.. j W tM ,invo M ?‘ ,, . lcn [ c,I | 1,1 tho } l,oor y ...» b. it... ... t* ti * | man at,a time, and thnt a yian has no ug in IIUMla l o am . heso measures are k llhinc . Krt lo j OV o many women an he believed to |£ intended lo force Austria and can. This wrecks the penco nf ovory 1 orkey to oonoede the Independence of the polygamous household. Multiply tho southern Sclavnuinns Vithout war. ' trouble one woman can make in a home —— — I when she sets about it by five, or twenty, Cnti.se ortho Yellow Fever In Sa van mill, j or thirty, as the case may bo, and an «p- Marunnaii n.-w« J proximato estimate of tho domestic woo Hr. While, think* l hnt the prwnt cpi-: ; ,f "• ^ l T '"> 'lernie i« (linhren. in vory mn.ly <-»cnti ,U lot• »tan.l thnt H.,.t ol from yollow fovor.,," .hit foyer iuut licrr- i """« l "r P i V ',' r ' ""•' l , ll r l ; , ," k ",r 11 l Kll W 1 : loforrr noino nruler hi. oiwprvn-1 f| ro|. r."t of tlm Mormon rrr i rt lion. Tlmt it | S mixed largely with tho i A wn , u ffiT 1 ! r0 When typo Of malarial favor, ami 'mw'imilllt^ I Jf’.ISTf" »? h tf orai "S“ to what wna known voarraL-o in (Jlmrloi. 11111,1 tllc wl '" kn "' v 11111 loiril.lo ti - tho nock firm.' Hoi.xatlklio'd is , dt ' lld ' Tll ° tlmt rdinnrv Iroalmont for tho y.l- I M, ; rm ". n "ro hog.nning to talk if low frvor rrannot lio purouod with oliocl u "‘ ,"" d M ,ll “ l "'T r >' in tho firm now ravaging our oily, ,„„1 P" rol « ion f " r Uio inell, but mighty that the good rom,It following tho ql.l- ,'“ pd ™ ll !? "™e n wl>" *• nol la-hovr, nine treatment nuned generally hy .ho nny . n ' rmJ tlmt 11,0 ,dd l° v <; roii.iiinH iimt nrofirmirm indienlea tlmt malaria rntrrra i l ‘ lr ' ,, . l h' "» '’.or when tho new love largely into tiro diagnosis of the disere-e ' , , , l " , . l “ > llm T 1 J" 11 : lhl '" r y The doctor, alluding to tier sanitary erne : L X, V?J""V rli.ion of .Savannah,Haiti thnt ho fimud the ' e “' ®. nl ”y t0 "'.' r I|U "' cny propurromnrknhlycIoaM,..otl.i.ignp- in . ’ ", 8 0 18 , d ", tv !j ,,,l,ld > 11 parontly presenting itself to account (Fr i’ 0 "™ 1,10 J».n.ly, »bo iloca ti.o toxic poison hy wbiel. tho city was i wlt ! ,0Ut ,l whimpor, lmt often hnds envolojs d. 'That the suurceof lids no!- j 8,d ""' ln 8 cup of <•« rt pulson. Seven, son wasnot found in the Hpringfield iijnn- ^ , UW M * ,n '° reported, and lotion, on the western part of tin, oily, i '"F'l" tl ".“ nre instinctive y but tlmt from an examfitatlou of BiblJ« | °PP" wtl 1,1 polyRimy, which is n» death, canal he was Hatfaficd that that reservoir of the poison which bad devas tated our city. Jt was in a very foul condition—the numerous bars formed by the action of tide and water created so many reservoirs, n« it were, for lhe jk/i- Hon: theextremehotweatherexpcrienced in July and August had acted as a gen orator, and the east winds had scattered the jXMnon to every part of t he city. I>r. White thinks it would he suicidal policy to disturb one spadeful of earth at tli’o present time, and was very emphatic in the condemnation of any measure which looked for relief from the influence of the toxic poison by attempting to clean out the canal. He is satisfied that it would result most disastrously. Felling of (lie .Mammoth Tr Ravnrd Taylor, in his interesting work entitled 11 Home and Abroad,” thus de scribes the felling of one of the largest specimens of the f?ierra Nevada : “After a st adv labor of six weeks the tiling was done, lmt the tree stood un moved; so straight and symmetrical was its growth, so immense was its weight, and so broad its base, that it seemed un conscious of its own inhabitation, toss ing its outer branches derisively against the mountain wind that strove to over throw it. A neighboring pine of giant size was then selected, nml felled in such a way ns to fall with full force against it. The top shook a little, but tho shaft The Mortality of Savannah During i «tood as before; finally the spoilors suc- Se tile in her I ceeded in driving their wedge into the , . . , * (cut. Gradually, and with great labor, During the month of September the | on ,. H i ( l e of the tree was lifted; the number of deaths in Savannah from all mighty mass poised fora moment, and causes was seven hundred and thirty-1 then, with a great, rushing sigh in all its fi ve. Of there five hundred and thirty- boughs, thundered down. 'I he forest eight were caused by yellow fever. Tim was ground to dust beneath it, and for number of dentin caused each day by I n mile around the earth shook with llm tne infection was as follow.-: j con ,. uw .j jn ." ••h-l::;:::: in !■»}' i " 1,1 IMI ‘ ;*•! The mere felling of it cost, at Califor- ‘i i.f.'i it ii., k-'t i!::::::: I Ilia prices for wages, the sum of $550. Ml, \ f .[; ^ ‘J The smooth top of the Htunip of the tree ;jj‘ ’’ r i ’• which Mr. Taylor saw fall is a floor nine- jWj! i .is r.lj] 'A Uy feet round. TauE happincsa is of a retired nature i; and an enemy to pomp und noise; it arises, in the first place, fr< ient of one’s self," and in the next, from te conversation and friendship of a few companions. False happii A curious feature of she health of the city is found in the fact that, although the colored population is within a thou- loves to be in a crowd, and to draw the sand or two. of the white, only one him- eye of the world upon her. She does not '■red and fifty-four negroes have died receive any sitfafaetion from the app j during September, or a little over oue-! which die gives herself, but from tli * fifth of the whole number of deaths. | miration which she raises in others. Touting the Souse or Touch. UbiiiMcIu'b Flvo Son sob of Mini. For this experiment two persons are required, ono of whom tests tho sense of touch of tho other. For this purpose a pair of comnaHses is taken, whose points, somewhat blunted, nro placed at a cer tain distance from each other on a part, of the skin of the other person. Tho lat ter must then say, with closed eyes, whether he loels the contact of two sep arate points, or whether both seem to he merged Into one. Tho result of this ex- |>crimcnt upon the less sensitive parts of the skin is very surprising. If the points are placed on t he forearm in the direction (•fits length attho distance of 1.58 inch the sensation is a double ono, but so soon as the distance is reduced to 1.18 inch the contact is felt as a single jsiint, and the person experimented on feels consid erable surprised on opening his eyes when he sees that two points have been touched instead of one. Tho tip of tho tongue is found to be the most sensitive, the two points being extinguished when only .0894 of an inch apart. If tho points of the compass be placed on tho cheek near tho ear, ho that both can bo clearly distinguished, and then brought slowly over the skin to the lips, a sensation is experienced ns though the points were being separated from each other. The skin of the hack has tho dullest sense of touch, since when the points arc at a distance of 2.11(1 they nro still perceived as a single touch. It is quito astonish ing how greatly the distanco between the two points must he increased un thobnek before we nro clearly conscious of a double impression. Weber explains there facts by assuming tlmt tho termi nal limits of a norvo fibre are much smaller than sensory circles, ho that the latter always contah$a great number of isolated nerve fibres. If two terminal limits are excited, and if a certain num ber of isolated fibres unexcited lio be tween them, the impression is only ii single ono. A curious illusion of touch is seen when (he fi«st and socotid fingers and a |»ea is picked up between them in this unnatural poison. The impression is particularly strong that the hand is holding two pons, ami tno illusion is especially powerful when tho pea Is rolled back and forth between the ilngorH. Fall Fashions lu Paris. I .my 11. l(o()|H)r. What are the fall fashions to be? is ono of tho interesting questions of tho hour. Very unbecoming lo stout people is the natural response to begin with. WlmV with prlneesso drosses, laced up the bnck. and with the .darts in front prolonged the full length ol the skirt for homo wear and polonaises for the street, and tied-hack skirls and iicxt-to no pet ticoats at all llmoH, it will take a flesh and blood Venus to look well in such a very close-fitting attire 1 . There will be a cer tain variety in out-of-door wraps, long loose sacks, und short half-fitting ones being shown ns well as tho omnipresent |M)lonaise. As for colors, the reign of red has sot in decidedly, and we nro even menaced with red ball dresses. This is the natural reaction from the dull (dives and dusky browns and sickly blues and pinks that we have worn so long. As to nonnnts, a lively friend of mine has christened tho provnilingstylo thoSairoy Gamp, and certainly it recalls the head- gear of the romarkahlo remain. A iKiintcd Tyrolean crown, with abroad lirim flat toned down at (ho sides and left to stick up iu front, which front is filled lu with hrigul-hued flowers or with full rucliiugs of tulle—such is the bonnet of the period. Toques, or turban hats of feathers, will he much worn, especially hy young girls. Tho feathers most iii vogue nre cock's leathers, lophophoro and peacock plumage. Heart draperies will lie extensively adopted for trimming house dresses; in fact, they form the only silk or stuff trimming that can ho used on the gored princesse style. Tho latest shade of the fashionable red is a rich deep cherry color most beauteous to behold. WreatliH and trailing garlands of red flowers will he much worn on while hall-dresses. Tho favorite flowers are Hlill the drooping, fringe-liko styles, such ns honeysuckle or fuchinH. 1 ml In u Sweating Trent men!. fa tlor lo Dilroll I-’roo P/ms. While coming down’ tho Rosebud, through the deserted Hioux villages, I noticed the remains of a great many sweat or medicine topees, or lodges, which shows that tho Hioux must huvo had a great many wounded in the Hose- lmd and Little Horn battles. Their treatment for sickness or wounds con sists almost entirely in the sweating process, very much like our modern Turkish baths. Tho sweating treatment is performed hy placing the patient—no matter what the disease may bo—under a small wickerwork frame, covered al most air-tight with skins. Hot stones taken from a fire near at hand are, then passed in to the patient,(who places them in a small hole iu the ground iu the centre of tho sweat-house, or tepee. A pail of water is then passed in ami poured on tho almost red hot stones, From this an almost suffocating hot steam arises, which soon produces a profuse perspiration. The patient is then taken out and plunged in the cold running stream near at hand, or in winter rolled in a snow hank, the patient nil the time being in a nude condition. This treat ment fa, of course, as a rule fatal curacy, which I bestow exclusively upon tho poor.’ ‘ Then you have a patrimony, sir? 1 said the bishop. 'Now, my lord.’ ‘ You speak In riddles,’ rejoined his lord ship; 'now do you contrive to live in this manner?’ ' My lord, 1 have a con vent of young damsels hero, who do not let mo want anything.’ 'How! you huvo a convent? 1 did not know there was ono in (his neighborhood. This is all very strange, very unaccountable, M r. Curate.’ ' You arc jocular, my lord.' ' Rut come, sir, I entreat that you would solve tho enigma; 1 would fain see (ho convent.’ * So you shall, my lord, alter dinner; and I promise that your lordship will ho satisfied with my conduct.’ Ac cordingly, when dinner was over, the curato conducted the proluto to a large inelosuro, entirely occupied hy bee hives, and pointing lo the latter, ol>- BCrvod, ' This, my lord, is tho convent which gave us a dinner; it brings mo in about eighteen hundred livres a year, upon which I Iivo voiy comfortably, and with which I contrive to entertain my guests genteelly.’ Tho surprise and satisfaction of the bishop may 1>o im agined." Tho Centennial A mini a 11 urn Img. New York Sun. When the centennial exhibition started wo heard a great deal about the patent American system of awards fur excellence to he adopted at Philadelphia. This system was the product of the inventive brains of the officers of the centennial commission, headed by director general Goshorn, assisted by (hat eminent statis tician, Gen. F. A. Walker. This system has now been f ried, with results not altogether satisfactory to the exhibitors or the public—indeed with results absolutely disgraceful. The chief peculiarity of the system Is thnt the awards are not made hy tho judges ap pointed to examine and discriminate l>e- tweon the articles exhibited, lmt hy a few of the officers of tho commission themselves. Another peculiarity is that there is no grading in tno awards, no first or second prizes, no honorable mention, no different sorts of medals; Jmt all are on a par. Tho eonseuuonco has been that the judges, seeing there was no use iu doing it, huvo exercised littlo nice discrimination. They had no encourage ment to weigh carefully and accurately the comparative merits of the dillereut exhibits. Therefore the awards were scattered right and left with a confusion that turned the whole Imsinoss into a laughing stock. Tho exhibitors fail to tiri/.o their medals, and no incentive to improvement has been offered. They all iu a lunij) together. Another thing: tho centennial com missioners wore not hound to give the awards as recommended hy tho judges. They did as they pleased about it. II they didn’t wish to give a man a modal, he didn’t get it; if they did, 1m got it. If Ihoy wished to give an exhibitor three medals, two of them on his own report us judge, they did it,.oven .in spite of protest. Tho exhibition, thorofore.in its awards, has dune nothing to stimulate cempeti* lion and encourage excellence. The whole thing haH been niado jicrfectly ridiculous at Philadelphia. • He Noeial. Men who isolate thomselves from society, and have, no near and dear family ticH, are tho most uncomfortable of human beings. Ryron says "happi ness was born or twins," but the phrasd, though pretty and poetic, does not go far emough. We are gregarious, and not intendea to march tlirough lifo either single or double file. The man who cares for nolxaly, and for whom nobody cares, has nothing to live for that will pay for the keeping of soul and bodv together. You must have a heap of embors to have a glowning fire. Scatter them apart, and they will bocoino dim and cold. So lo have a brisk, vigorous life, you must have a group of lives, to keep each other warm, as it were, or afford each mutual encouragement and confidence and sup port. If you wish to live the life of a man und not of a fungus, he social, he brotherly, he charitable, be sympathetic, and labor earnestly*!or theygood of your kind. Dull Boys. Don’t be discouraged. Slow growth is often sure growth. Homo minds are like Norwegian pines. They are slow in growth, but they are striking their roots deep. Some of the greatest men have been dull boys. Drydcn and Swift were dull as boys. So was Goldsmith. So was Gibbon. So was Sir Walter Scott. Napoleon at school had so much diffi culty iu learning his Latin that the master said it would need a gimlet to get word into his head. Douglas Jcrrohl was so backward in his boyhood that at no he was scarcely able to read. Isaac Harrow, one of tho greatest divines the Church of England has evor •reduced, was so impenetrably stupid in iis early years that ids futher more than nice said that if God took away any of his children, lie iioped it would fje Isaac, as he feared he would never he fit for any thing in the world. Yet that hoy tire genius of the family. To What Rase Uses, nurllrston Btovkoyo. ujt i M The practice of using tho portrait of Ver'med papa of. his country to embellish all j 10r() j ( .‘ • | manner of business signs has a very do- — ! elded tendency to lower that great and The Rlsliop and the Rees. good man in the estimation of tho rising , , generation. A prominent music dealer W O fin.] tho lo]lowing good Story in a | thu cH „ who lives on Columbid.tfeet, foreign journal: A ItciicIi blaliop, very f,„ e ,teel engraving o being about to make bis .annua vima-, | ti w . and bung It in his parlor, and tK.n, ran word n a certain cunte.whoio wh e„ the youngest hone of tho family ecc csins tea benefice was oxtremly r .» m0 borne from sclionl be was told that tolling, tlmt lie meant to .line with him, ,| 10y picture. The boy's eyes at the same time requesting that he I * • • • • • •• would not put himself to any extraordi xpenso. The curato. promised to attend to the bishop’s suggests time requesting that he | "vit!.' nutLi pat ion nml pK lintiself «nv ||re ; , mt a-hon they led him to see too treasure his face was clouded with dis appointment and disgust. ‘Ho I" he exclaimed, mindful of the pictorial sign of tho establishment which furnished the table with its fleshy viands. "Hob ! old meat market picture!" The moral is obVious. he did not keep his word, for he provided a most sumptuous entertainment. His lordship was much surprised, and could not help censuring the conduct of the cu rate, observing that it was highly ridicu lous in a man whose circumstances were narrow, to launch out in such expense, y, almost to dissipate his annua! in come in a single day. 1 Do not be tinea- that score, my lord/ replied the curate, 1 fori <;uj tu-a ure you that what you now see is no; the prudence of my Wk have ready for distribution blank forms of petitions and •ummons for county judges, police judges, county clerks and justices of the peace, required to be kept by them by act of the last 1< gidature.— Courier Journal. FACTS AND FANCIES. A ouiiKR old gentleman being asked what ho wished for dinnor, replied," An appetite, good company, something to eat, and a napkin.” - There is nothing bettor for fever iu the feet nf horses than bandages wet with wafer. It is better than ‘‘stuffing’’ with filth, so often recommended. It is said thnt tho bite of a blackbird will breed a case of hydrophobia, and, all things considered, no man is safe un less ho goes down a well and has n trap door shut upon him. A nnionT-BYKD little girl un being tuught hy her orthodox mother that Jesus was God and tho father, said: “Why, mamma, how con God h* on tho right hand of heself.” The most bitter piece of satire on a man generally affects him least. It is written and composed after his death, and is commonly known ns “an obituary notice." A dreamy philosopher has discovered that mosquitoes nro animated by tho souls of wicked men who have gono to their lust account. II this is so a good many wicked men’s souls are being plastered upagulnst bedroom wuIIh. Mokh. CoLOMUiEit, a merchant of Paris, recently deceased, has left 80,000 francs to a lady of Rouen, for having, twenty years ago. refused to marry him, “through which, says tho wi!', "I was enabled to live independently and happily as a bnehelor,” Dr. Holland thinks it does not pay to ho an author. Very true. When u man attempts to write poetry who might he better employed opoiiing clams, there is some mysterious power that interposes to keep him pour. A Nevada gambler said he would blow his brains out if ho lost his last five dollars, and when ho lost it ho was ns good as his word. If he had said: “I will quit gambling” ho wouldn’t have had diameter enough to sustain his resolution. A NECitto boiiig asked what he was iu jail for, said it was for borrowing money. "Rut," said the(luestionnr, “they don’t nut pcoplo in jaif for borrowing money.” “Yes,” said tho darky, “but! had to knock tho man down" free or f'o’ times before he would lend it to me." Tommy—who has been allowed a Heat at the table on tho occasion ot a tea-party, and is scrutinizing tho engravings on his tea spoon, which is odd—“Why, mother, these spoons vere on Aunt Juno's sup portable tho other night, when cousin Fred had his party.” A “look from tho inaternul, and a smile all around. Tim: New Orleans Hulletin says ho now thinks it is unsafe to lcavo blotting paper around tho office. Jlia wife /Lund this on a piece : : ouS tseracd .sevolg lo xob duos lliw I .eilijW. “Gimme something to euro a boil,”.he exclaimed as ho dashed Into a drug store. “Ah, so you’ve got ono of the things now, have you V” smiled the elork. “ Yes, sir, and its just in tho right place.” “Just in tho right place?” repeated tho clerk; “why, where is that?” “On an other fellow,” came tho sweet reply. Tins German mind is sometimes very quick to reach a conclusion. Illustrat ing the opposite of this remark, Mr. Ferguson told Hans of tho Gorman who sat 8,000 years gravely contemplating his toes, and then, rising, said with a sigh of relief, “Veil, 1 don't see nodings the matter witii thorn.” “Hah!” said Jlnns quickly. “How 1 cot you there. Itvasatam lie. No man ofer lefled t’Tee t’ousand years, hey ? You must bln grazy." A iiUHRAND having arrayed hirnsol elaborately with gaiters, gnmebng and gun, nccotnpuuicd'by his faithful dog, goes forth to hunt, but shoots nothing. Impossible to return empty-handed to tho house, ho stops at tho market and huys-a hare, which lie presents to ids wife. Tho hare was terribly high—not alone in price. “Ahj!" said his wife, with a sniff, “so you killed it? You were right. It was high time.”—Pari* Vapor. It was in the famous old parish of St. Clements, Ixmdon, that Dr. Donne buried his wife, ami preached her fu neral sermon to the text, “Lo, I am thu man that have seen affliction.” and there lived the poor widowed tailor, who, con demned to the gallows for some petty larceny, an offence which incurred the same penalty as murder in those by-gono days, passed tho timo in Newgate, be tween the day of ids conviction and the monthly hanging day at Tyburn, in making nine suits of mourning for his ’ o little children. My friends,” said a returned mis sionary, nt one of tho anniversary meet ings, “let us avoid sectarian bitterness. The inhabitants of Hindustan, where I have been laboring for many years, have a proverb that, ‘Though you bathe a dog’s tuil in oil and bind it iu splints, yet you cannot get the crook out of it.’ Now, a man’s sectarian bias is simoly the crook in the dog’s tail, which cannot he eradicated, and 1 hold thnt everyone should be allowed to wag his own pecu liarity in peace.” Prince Bismarck would have made his fortune as an interviewer in the press. Writing to his wife from a watering nlnco, he says: “Opposite mo (at tho table d'hote) sits the old minister , one of those figures that appear, to us in night inures, a big frog without legs, who, at every bite, opens his mouth like a carpet-big, from e.ir to ear, so that I, in a fainting state, have to cling to the table. My other, neighbor is a Uus.-ian officer, a decent young fellow, built like a bootjack, a long, thin body mid stumpy, bandy legs." Disraeli once said:—“Tho disap pointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth ; let us hopi that the heritage ofold ago is not despair!” ‘T cannot nee the wit,” says Iluzlitt, “of walking and talking at the same time. When I am in the country i wish to vegetate like the country.” Not only nre the southern Himalayas of stupen dous height, rising to a maxiumum of nearly 29.000 feet, hut Thibet itself is a table land, iu uo part of it perhaps less than 8,000 or 9,000 feet above the level of the een.