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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W. S. D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, I'lUDAY, NOVEMBER ‘21 IN7ti.
CONDENSATIONS Gr NEWS.
TIIK NOITK.
K °y Kin., but n few days ainoo
occupied by nearly twenty happy set-
tiers nil Imvlng coiufortahle cottages, with
fi.M. of |.tnen|,|,|pK „n.I oilier tropical r r ull«,
hut is now a net-no of devastation nnd de-
'traction. The nmst of their dwelling arc
K-ne with all they had, their fields covered
with salt-water, thrir vcsel.-Ocm of the
Sea, Mary IJiaa, Ann, Augufttn and Marion
—high and dry o., ,| l0 ro ,. ks |„ the woods,
and most of Com \^i|| |,c totally lost.
1 'aavo raptured a fish in Florida,
near 'Cedar Keys, which the inhabitants
Vo given the iiiiino of the carpet bagger.
It has the head of a cattish, the body of nn
eel and the legs of a Heard. It is allied to
the si-row fish, well known in Florida, and
whose habits nave hern made the study of
I'rntt, of I’nlntkn. In the summer time,
when the st. John’s yields its beautiful
grasses, it sw ims up Hiid unscrews its head,
w hieh, by the aid of four well-defined legs,
goes out on the hanks and eats the sweet
grasses. When winter eotues it goes hack,
screws the tail on, nnd makes the waters of
the lovely St. John’s its home. Naturalists
hare designated it ns belonging to the family
rchin
Sheep culture is pursued under dlsad
vantages in some portions of Florida. Tin
St. Augustine Press: " Out of one hundred
And sixteen sheep which were crossed over
to the South Bench, by Mr. Bernnrd Masters,
a short time ago, there cun now only lie
found twenty-nine remaining, the balance
having been devoured by hears, which infest
that locality.”
Mias Luta Bowlcy, not yet in her
teens, won the cooking match at the Ander
son, S. C., fair,
A party of Fort Bend, Texas, resisted
nircst by a sheriff and posse, and three
were killed ami two wounded.
Textia him a atato fire association,
is composed of firemen of various cities,
and the first meeting was held in Austin la
week.
Tho greedy grasshopper* are eatin
up all the Texas turnip patches.
An English company 1ms promised to
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, to put on n first-
• lass line of steamships between Savannah
or Brunswick nnd Liverpool at once, nnd
keep them running steadily, provided the
state will give them a bonus of $50,000 n
ycarl for three years. . They guarantee be
sides Hint they will land -1,000 immigrants
per month on (ieorgia soil.
The Atlanta and Richmond air-lino
railroad, between Charlotte nnd Atlanta, will
be sold on the fitii of December.
The foundation of one of the pier* of
the railroad bridge over the Mississippi river
at Louisiana, Mo., bus been damaged by the
action of the current, rendering the bridge
temporarily impn slide. One pier nnd two
«»f the shortest spans will have to he rebuilt,
nt a cost of $80,000 to $ 10,000. The work of
rebuilding will commence immediately. Ar
rangements have been made to avoid inter
ruption to the trnllie of the road by crossing
on the bride at Hannibal, Mo.
Stoves art* ahip|H*d from Richmond,
Va., to Norway and Sweden,
Florida Key of the Gulf. Most, ii not
all the dwelling* on I'lniitniion Key, are de
stroyed by the late hurricane. The small
steamer lately ashore on the reef, has gone
to pieces, nnd her crew is supposed to have
perished. Mr. Phillips, of Fort Taylor, re-
ports the damage nt $*,000. The sea carried
off a large i|uantity of earth, from the outer
ata-wall, besides other injuries.
Montgomery Advertiser - Some ten
year* age a lady of this county, in a spirit
of girlish mischief, called upon a so-called
fortune-teller to have n peep into the future.
Tne seer related to her that she would soon
he married and within a year after marriage
would present her husband with a son ; Hint
in due time, at a second birth, she would
present him with twins, nnd at it third birth
with triplets—and further, that her first
born would die. Hingular to relate, the pro
dictions of the seer have been verified to the
letter.
Memphis Appeal : The cause of tho
accident on the Memphis and Little Book
railroad, .Saturday night, is unknown to Hie
officers of the road. They inform us that
the train was not behind time, and was run
ning at a slow rate when the accident occur
red. Only one man—Mr. Francis Moore, of
Arkansas—was killed. The child of Mr.
Eggleston, of Columbus, Miss., will die from
the effects of injuries received. Mrs.
Gwathney, from the mouth of White river,
will recover. No other persons were se
riously injured.
Norfolk received during September
and October 148,913 hales of cotton, nn in
crease over the corresponding months of 1875
VOL III. NO. 23.
tiu; nr kmt.
Tho biggest tree in ('alifornia is not
the Yosemite valley. King’s river valley in
Fresno county is 5,500 feet above tho
and its walls, which are about 8,(XX) feet
high, are very precipitous. In this valley a
new grove of colossal redwood tree
been discovered. One of them eciips
that have been discovered on the Pacific
coast. Its circumference, ns high
can reach nnd ,mi*s a tape line around, is n
few inches less than one hundred mid fifty
feet. This is beyond the measurement of
any tree in the Calaveras grove. The height
is estimated at one hundred and sixty feet;
and a part of the top, lying on the ground,
is over one hundred feel in length.
Knur year* ago two Californians plant
ed 1,000acres in walnuts and almonds, and
their crop this season w ill yield them nprofit
of $250,000. •
A moat dastardly attempt wn* made
out week to steal the hones of presideni
Lincoln from the cemetery vault here. The
plot was suspected some lime since, mol
Elmer Washburnc, Fulled States detective
Tyrell nnd assistants, watched the vault-
The scoundrels broke in the outer nnd inner
door* of the vault, opened thu
of sarcophagus nnd were about to mnku off"
with the remniiis, when the detectives
sprang out. The accidental discharge of a
pistol alarmed the robbers and they lied pro-
I cipitatelv, escaping In the darkness. A slight
clue to the! identity remains and their cap
ture is probable.
A drove of .’10,000 horned rattle wan
recently driven from Texas to Kansas, by
seven hundred drivers. The outfit alone cost
50,000, and the herd brought $320,000.
Vorkimn.
Eugenic nnd the prince imperial arc
traveling in Italy.
The African explorer, Gordon, intend*
to continue his explorations in cotiMM|uruce
of having discovered a branch of the White
Nile river, which may p< • sihly i m.Mc him In
avoid the repids, which hitherto barred his
progress, and open a water communication
from Victoria Xyaura to Kburton.
A cable *|H*cial to the Herald says the
Turkish Meet was about to enter the Black
sea, aud will take up'n‘position off Sihopo
and Trehison, both of which the Black sen
forks, ami have been recently fortified. If
this occurs the history of 1853 may he ro
prated, for it will be remembered that it was
off Siliope that the Turkish vessels were de
stroyed bv tlii- Bussinu tic*-1 under the com
mand of Nakuhomo, with a h
of
l,90d.
Georgia if. killing vast numbers of fat
hogs in Alabama.
There are now about 15,000 German
Methodists in Texas.
Italia*, Texas, has system of plank
sewers, and has just received a hint that they
are dangerous to the stability of the town.
Before they sre put down the planks are
soaked in tar, to make them durable, nnd
the thought that this preparation might feed
subterranean fires never entered into the
heads of the builders until the town had
such a fire to fight, Vhich happened a short
time ago. A party of Vfcoper* built a fire
directly over one of the sewers, and the cov
ering being thin, the sewer caught fire,
which soon ran along its whole length, nnd
tent fort dangerous flames at various placet.
Piles of cotton and other property had to be
moved with ditpatch, und the fire depart
ment w as puzzled to know where the fire was
or how to get at it. It was finally stopped
by damming the sewer nnd filling it w ith
water, and happily little damage was done,
except the destruction of the tewer itself.
Dallas thinks of revising its sewer system.
The rubles of the East river (N. Y.)
bridge*' tches across u height of fiom one
hundred . < d seveotv-five to four hundred
ieet above high water.
to the Turks
of tour thousand men. This m l on the part
of Itiissla made the Crimean war inevitable.
The advance of the Turkish Meet into the
Black m*a may fire a mine which all Europe
i-* shuddering to see explode, Another
special from the II. raid'* correspondent at
Vienna declares that .Hervift litis been ten
dered ten thousand breech-loaders for her
militia by the Grand Duke Michael Con-
• t it 11 tie, commanding the ltu-*»iuii force* in
Berra, Arabia. Where the men will hc
found who are to use these arms remains to
bo *-cen. The theory in Vienna is they must
come across the IIiihmIiiii frontier.
Advices from the City of Mexico to
the twenty lintli lastsnt report that Lcrdn
Tejada is declitrvd sleeted picsident by one
hundred and thirty one to fi-Hy-flvc. The
I'ronuneiados »r»» throwing down their arms
in various directions. Their resources are
all exhausted, and a final collapse is expect-
Oaxicn still gives trouble, but Gen. Din/,
il his followers are compelled to keep in
! mountains, and are afraid to meet the
goternmeut troops.
tclegiuin from .la;.art, dated the
sixth, -ays a Japanese naval ami military
attacked the insurgents that day at
Sagrie, in the province of Negate. The in
surgents were beaten ami fled.
The lection of the Brazilian cable lx*-
cen Bahia ami Bio Janeiro, which was in
terrupted some lime since, has hern repaired.
insist* tut an early conference
of the powers on the basis of the English
propoinls. Gen. Ignatieff, the Biissian am
bassador at Constantinople, has been In
truded to support energetically the large
measure of administrative autonomy for Bo*-
, Hcrzcgovinia and Bulgaria, with eftioa-
cious guarantees under the control of the
The duohes* of Aosta, cx-qucen of
•pain, is dead.
Russia is taking stop* to promote cot
ton culture in Central Asia, where the an
nual product is now about £0,000 pounds.
American seed Is to be introduced;
The fruit crop in England this vear
is poor, and large shipments of apples arc
being made from New York.
The German navy li*t for 1876, ju*t
published, enumerates the German war navy
follows: Ironclads, eight frigates nnd
thrte corvettes; cruisers, fourteen corvettes
gun-boat* of the first-class;
vessels for coast defense, seven iron
clad gunboats, eleven torpedo-boats,
eight gun-boots of the second-class,
avisos, nnd two transports; school-ship*,
i ship of the line, one sailing vessel, four
corvettes, and nine brigs; vessels for harbor
service, nine steam transports, three vessels
serving as barracks, five pilot-boats, nnd ten
isels for the transport ot coal.
Japan i* miking progress In political
I social economy. A new census on ac
curate principles is about to be undertaken,
I the codification of the laws of the em
pire is under way. The Yokohama letter in
the San Francisco Atlas, from which we de-
the above information, adds : “Japan
possesses two small railroads. Both of them,
it is only justice to state, ure remarkably
well managed and siugu’flrly exempt from
accidents.”
nUKRLUXKOl’R.
It is stated in social circles, on the
best authority, that, after the excitement of
the election shall have subsided, Mr. John
Kelly will retire from the leadership of Tam
many hall, and marry Miss Theresa Mullen,
the younger .‘of two unmarried nieces of
Cardinal M'CIotkey. Mr. Kelly, when in
quiries wure made concerning his intention
of giving up the leadership *of Tammany,
and retiring to private life, docs not deny
that this is his purpose, although lie does
not directly admit It. A* the eardinnl him
lately recovered much ol hi* former M length,
it i* stated that there Is a -strong probability
Unit lie will perform the wedding ceremony,
Rev. Haul !». WtuMv, l». I who wn*
made president of the Wesleyan Methodist
conference In ts5'J, is dead.
Prominent i>os to dice official* tiro of the
opinion that the poNtolliec eummission now
Investigating the euhiccl of railway mail
transportation will recommend the re-estab-
lishment of the fast mail trains, and will
support the recommendation by strong
deuce of their necessity, Tho testimony
taken in nearly all of the western states is
singularly unnnitnoua in favor of the resto
ration of this system. It is certain, how
ever, that none of the railroads will restore
theic fast mails liulcs* increased compensa
tion is given.
Tho Charlie Rosa cn*o hit* boon re
ived. Ham. Benners, a fellow minted Pick-
It and n trull answering to the nnmo of
Dutch Hal,” are in duration vile nt Itarrir-
burp, Pa., on the charge of knowing some-
tiling about little Charlie Bohn. The huh-
ii ngaiust them is contained in some
letters, in which “a missing jewel” Is re
ferred to, nnd the instructions to the woman
i;n home nnd destroy the clothe* of the
babies.” The trio form a very had lot, and
•ro ” pnrds" of Mosher, and there may he
me tiling in it.
Stokes Is out. Mansfield is living In
Philadelphia, and Mrs. t Stokcs- who wn* di
vorced sonic three years since —and her
daughter, now eleven years old, are in New
York. Stokes is broken in health, looks
fifty years old, though not forty, his father
died broken hearted, and all this misery
about n jezebel.
TIIK EXPLODING TRUNK.
i- I in- IVretell i
r.iiniloiiM
Tito officer* of tho Poiiiisy 1 vitniii mil-
end ttre trying to discover tho sender ol
lie trunk containing the iufcriml inn-
iliine shipped to Neiv York on Friday,
but without Hitne-H. It was cheeked on
presentation of o ticket in tho usual way,
1 there is no mean*of finding out who
owned it, ns fur a* the transaction is con
n'd. A nunilmr of detectives exnnt-
I the machine on Saturday, Inti it is
probable that any etew will ha ob
tained from it. It consists of thu brass
works of a clock, occupying a space about
ix inches in length mid tour in width,
’lie wood-work of the clock had la-on
iw'cil off, aud tin- minute hands taken
from the face. A small pistol loaded
with a nictalic cartridge was firmly
lie clock frame, ami
tho triggor*entch filed dawn until it
hardy held. Tho muzzle extended over
the hack of the clock nt nn acute angle
with the face, leaving (lie lad tom of the
•enterof the dial over thefiguro twelve.
\ wooden button, such a* is used on
hairs, was screwed to the wood-work.
Mich n |N)*ition that one end touched
the trigger, and the other wits in the
course of the hour hand when it reached
twelve outlie dial. Tho clock and tin-
pistol were placed in a pastelsiard box.
1 this imbedded in a mass of hay ami
shavings in a Saratoga trunk, It i*
thought, from tlm fragments of glass
found in the hay, that (In- explosive*
contained in glass bottles. Tho
railroad oilleials think Unit the intention
of the man who put the atucJiinc in the
trunk wus to mb lira puHsonj^ors, (rreuttse
such destruction in tho baggage «aw Hint
h(! mold claim large damages. U the
trunk baa lEen in the lowor tier of
trunks tlm explosion would have de
stroyed much of the baggage, nnd proba
bly wrecked the train. Tho most cartf
ul search on the ear failed to reveal tin-
beck or any |>orlien of the trunk, which
wus shattered and is-nt. The damage to
other trunks was trilling, and no claims
have lx-t ii made hy their owner*. Home
of them were badly scorched, and the*
roof of tlie car was burned, but not to
great extent. About half tin hour
after the train reached Jersey City, a
large man, with a heavy black mous
tache, made several inquires nt the (le|>ot
twilit the mutter,nnd inquired anxiously
dtcre Hilpath, the* baggage master on
ic train, was, and departed to visit, him
t hi* residence in Wayne street, Jersey
ity, but did not appear there. Yester
day the couipany’saelectivcH wore search
ing lor him on suspicion that he might
know something about (he trunk or its
-.V. Y. Tribun,.
Skill of a CliincHc Thief.
John certainly deserves to take rank
among the most expert thieves in the
world. There nre several aids to his be
coming nn adept, a*, for instance, his
magpie love for picking aud hiding; hi*
utter shamelessness in the matter; his
stolidity of feature ; hi* looseness of gar
ment*. I well remember being in a
cigar fitore one evening when John en
tered, asked Ids way to a certain street,
wane two mile* oil, with the innocence
of a cherub, and slipped n box of “ Bou
quets” up his sleeve with the adroitness
of a cockney cracksman. A mirror,
however, bad betrayed him,-and John
was delayed in setting out on hi* walk
until a policeman was called. ” Jle has
stolen a Ikix of cigars,” *aid the proprie-
’ »r, “and ha* it on him.” John smiled
ith beautiful simplicity, and kept up a
reiterated protest that “ Me honest boy
—allce same belly good,” and took no
exception to being searched. And then,
began a quest. A box had slid up his j following^inscription
TIIK ST. GOTIIAHD TUNNEL.
Tl»«> Mi-oitlr.it Tiiniiol In Kui-n|io T*’o III-
ri-rt Itnnto l oo in ViiRlmul
to IiiUIii.
The foreign Correspondent of the Boston
Herald, writing front Loipsle says:
“While at Goeschem-n 1 had an oppor
tunity of seeing the St. Gothard tunnel,
which is now being bored through the
mountains from t Joencticiien toward
Italy, and from Ariolo toward Germany.
The approach to the tunnel on tlte
GooncIioiumi side i* in tho midst of the
wildest and most picturesque sccnory. A
mi in lie r of workshops, sheds, enn tines,
aud various small buildings cluster about,
the mouth and give to an otherwise wild
spot the busy hum and noise of enter
prise, for the clinking ol machinery,
whistling of tho engine, and hammering
from the hhicksinithing is im-essant, as
the work i* ocutititled hy day ami night hy
gangs of two thousand men, who, under
M. Kay re’s direction, prosecute the work.
The men have been at work, in varying
number*, however, lust four years’the
present month, and it will take all their
energies, united to tho work of those on
the Italian side, to finish tho undertaking
l>y 1880. This, of course, If the money
does not give out, and there Is a good
deal of trouble in securing all that is
needed. At present tho entire route is
surveyed from Luzerne and Zurich to
Milan, and parts of it cut. In Uiolunnol
three and three-fourth* kilometers have
E’en completed on the (lor lit a n side, and
about four and a half on the Italian.
The tunnel will he ton miles' long. Tin-
workmen employed are almost all Ital
ian*, and work eigth hoursout ol twenty-
four. Hymiinito is used for blind lug, nnd
all the drills arc ordinary chilled steel,
the diamond drill being unemployed.
The usual machine for driving the drills
is employed, and works by^ennnof.com-
pessed air, which is brought from the
reservoirs hy means of u large pipe! The
reservoirs tiro supplied by a nimibcrof
condensing engines, turned by water, for
which purjH.si- a mountain* stream is,
some way above the mouth of the tun
I, diverted intoasluicewuy.’ A strength
of Jen to twelve atmospheres Ms always
maintained. Compressed air Is also used
to work the engine, which carries it*
reservoir behind, like a tender on nn or
dinary engine, only ;it is a boiler sixty
feet long, and of the clylinder-boilcr
make. It runs easily and smoothly, nnd
being without any bent i* much pleas
anter to work. It is used mainly for
hauling the stone from the interior to a
side-track, after it i* brought away from
the immediate vicinity to the blast hy
men ns of horses. Although this tunnel
I route will taken long time to com
plete, it will unquestionably he of the
greatest servicp when time is considered,
as the route is from England to Cologne,
along the Rhine to Frankfort, then Basel,
Luzerne nhd Ht. Gothard, and you are
in Italy. The onglm-cra ip churge prove
sufficiently thatTlni lugb grade to which
the road attains before passing into the
tunnel will in no way impede the hauling
of freight, and that with a good speetL
It will, unquestionably, lie a part of the
direct route to India from England, and
decidedly the shortest to Italy. A com
petitive route through the Rhone valley
and by Simpson puss to Italy is projected
in France to keep this travel through
I*'ranee, blit is still in embryo. It
Hems of Inforesf.
tlie of hupp
have the advantage of having the ritil
road finished as far :us Koissd and built m
far as the foot of the pass.
Tlte An-lie Kxpetlifion.
A uunrioii dispat fit of Oct, ISO gives
the following account of the voyage of
the steamer* Alert and Dipeovcrjr'.ln the
arctic .regions:
A narrative of the 3roll<4 expedition
is published. It relates tliKt alter first
encountering ice the expedition was de
tained some days at Fort I’ayer. It
started thence mi Aug. 8, hut before
reaching the shore of Grincil land tho
vessels were caught in ail ice-puck. After
this their progress northward was an in
cessant struggle through chance openings
made in the ice by wind and current,
the channel through which the ships
moved constantly (losing behind them.
The Discovery wintered in a well shel
tered harbor on tho west side of Hall's
basin, a few miles north of J'nluri* bay.
The Alert pushed forward and rounded
the northeast point of Grant’* land, but
instead of finding, a* exported, a contin
uous coast a hundred miles toward the
north, she found herself on the border of
nn extensive seu. with impenetrable ice
on every side and no harbur. The ship
wintered Ix-hind a harrier of grounded
ice.. 'Ilie floating nuiHsiM <r thick polar
ice had in meeting pressed up quantities
of intermediate ice into blocks frequent
ly a mile in diameter and varying in
heigh!, from ton to fifty feet. Obstacles
of tiiis kind destroyed all liojv.- of reach
ing the polo by sledges before the
attempt was made. 'Tho sledge par
ty was obliged to make a road
with pickaxes nearly half the dis
tance it traveled. A* it was always nee-
( usury to drag the sledge loads by.install
ments, the party really-traversed two
hundred and seventy-six miles, although
it only progressed seventy-three. All
tlic cairns rri eted by the i'olnri* expe
dition were visited. At the boat dejxR
in Newman’s bay a chronometer was
found in perfect order. ;\Vlieot left by
the Polaris was successfully grown aboard
Polaris T
That It liman being t . ,
ness is illustrated by Bellini’s exit fr
(bo world's stage, jle went to Paris to
complete his “ Puritan!,” and had
great a sut'ccM that he was carried in
triumph upon the stage, where he wm
decorated hy the king Ho much Imppi
ness in a single day overivhelnim-d him.
lie weltt sick to the house of ti friend at
PutOAtlx and died there. He Was buried
in Pore Luchaise. That was in 18.11;
aud it was only the other day that his
remains wero carried to Italy for inter
ment in his native eity of Catania.
The European cuckoo never lutilds a
Host, hut steals a place for each separate
egg in the home of some other bird.
Occasionally the egg Is found in a nest
so small that the ettekoo could not jhih-
sihly have sot ti|Kin it. For instance,
the egg lias been laid in tho willow
wren’s nest, which is domed, and has
entrance that just admits tho own. ..
How (loos the cuckoo manage to lav her
egg in a nest so constructed ? Vwlllant
obtained evidence that one of the African
cuckoos carries the egg in her bill to tlm
nest she means to usurp, and It is sup
posed hy some Unit tho European species
does t he same.
For years wo used “salts of lemon”
and various acids to remove stains from
table linen, but a person remarked to us:
“ All your labor is useless, Wait till
the peaches are gone and the stains will
also he gone.” We thought this utterly
foolish, Imt decided to try it; and, sure
enough, when tho poaches wero gone tho
stains had disappeared ! Tho blow, in it
self, looks ridiculous; but does not the
table linen get enough regular washing
to take out almost any Htains in the
course of one peach season ? Wo liavo
noticed tho same is true of grape stains,
or of almost any other kind of fruit.
This is very true, and if remembered
save much useless labor.—Otr. />•
troit I'm J'jrsH.
Marble mantles that have become bad
ly tliscoloted hy smoke may bo made
pori’ootly clear, by tho application of ben
zine. I’utjLbn liberally, then rub elf
with a clolHL&ihm'l. II one afiplicnliou
notuoYrofu-ctunlly a second will,
i apply Hoap to marble, it takes oil!
the polisli; lmt grease spots may he i;e
-moved hy the application of powdered
mngnesia.
What iH termed tho “voltaic gas
Bather,” an ingenious device which ob
viates tho use of matches or tapers,
l does away with tho attendant dnn-
• in lighting gas, is coming intoexten-
e use abroad, it consists of a small
bichromate of potash buttery, the zinc
plate of which is so arranged that by the
pressure of the linger it ei
the *hip. When at Polaris hay. tli« Dis
covery hoisted the American flag, und
fired a salute a* a brazen tablet with the
fixed
right arm a minute ago, but wasn’t there I K r *ve of (‘apt. J
< it t
Me
d to the memory of C'apt. Hall,
of the Polaris, jvho sncrincetEhis life in
belly good Chinaman,” said John I the advancement of science^ Thlsiublet
> cigalTce ; ” and the jKtlicewan was W erected by tho British polar expedi-
of leaving, with the convic
tion that a mistake bod been nude, when
he saw something moving about John’s
elbow. A grab tor the part, a smile Irom
John, but no box. Then I saw some
thing moving about hi* right shoulder,
made a dart for the box, and ’twrsn’t
there. Then, while both held an atm,
cigar-man, who was behind, saw
thing creeping across John’s back,
clapped his hand on it, and lo! tin-
cigar*. Then the active officer took a
hand's turn in a pigtail and marched a
placidly-smiling Chinaman ofT to the
notice station ; and, when they searched
him there, they found two more boxes—
one under each arm-pit!—Chicago Tri
bune
tlon, who following hi* footsteps, have
profited by hi* Experience.”
Two sailor* ot the Greenland sledge
party were buried near Cant. Hall s
grave. Tho sufferings ot tie. Hedge pur-
ties from scurvy were frightful. The
expedition und^r Markh.un and Parr,
which endeavor ito roach the pole, con
sisted of sevi!iit|t*n persons.\ Nine l/c-
came utterly helpless and luid^to he
ried on sledges. Three
walk, nnd wftie unable to ren assist-
Ai old Scotch woman
preacher who arrived nt
through go get at once into tl tip!
“Ye'll \p dry enough there '
Ring fluid and put tho buttery
lion. Rising from tho top of the
battery is a light brass stem, like a taper
holder, hut in the form of a swan’s neck,
terminating in a little hell, within which
tho two polos of the battery tiro united
hy a spiral of platinum wire; this wire,
when tho battery is nut in action by
the immersion of the zinc pluto, becomes
white hot. und will instantly ignite the
gqs if held over the open burner, nothing
ire being essential.
The tmekesturmor-plfllooverproduced
s recently In-art rolled at the Heummoll
works, SluHicId, England. From four
1 oiiodmlfinches, the sizelitiH been itt-
ased, slephy step, till it finally readied
fourteen incites, and now limy nave suc
ceeded in producing one of twenty-two
inches, this being eight inches thicker
than any armor-plate ever yet rolled,
tho plates of which this is a sample are
'll tended for two war vessels now being
'(instructed for the Italian government,
and the gun to he used in testing this
groat pluto. which weighs thirty-five tons,
js none hundred ton Armstrong gun.
The vesmal* are to havo two turrets, each
turret to contnw 'woof these enormous
pieces of artillery. 'The niuu-pfiuikaiar
HtaU-s that if these guns succeed* in peno-
1 ruling this plate, he mIiiiII have no hesi
tation in rolling ono of thirty or even
forty incites in thickness.
Zinc that is used tinder stoves snouid
never lie dampened. If it become* soiled
or dim, rub with u flannel and a little
fresh lard, in this way it will always
look as new and bright as when first pur
chased.
Concerning tho condition of tho farm
ers of the northwest tho Milwaukee Wis
consin thinks tho general condition of
tho farmers in these states at the close of
the season in 1876 is as good as it was
in 1876. .It admits the wheat crop is
short, not more than half a crop, hut
hold* that they have far more corn Ilian
last year.
Insects in all parts of the world are
becoming more tuan over a terror to the
husbandman. Tho western farmers,with
their experiences of grasshoppers and
potato-bugs, can sympathize very acutely
with the poor wine grower* of tho Gir
onde. Great a* arc the achievements of
science-in Europe .and America,its claims
to bpajftlng are made almost ridiculou hy
the impudent aggressions of these little
insects.
To iwilish furniture use equal purls of
boiled linseed oil und kerosene. Apply
it with a flannel, and rub dry with an
other flannel. it will remove all white
murks and scratches and should he kept
always ready for use. It gives the room
a fresh appearance to rubullthofurniturc
with this preparation. One feel* well re
warded for the labor. II any whitespots
nre so firmly fixed that the polish doe*
not remove them, it can he done by
rubbing with turpentine; then holding
a hot shovel over them.—Jirlroit Free
Pram.
Any good housekeeper will have her
pickle jars and fruit cans thoroughly
cleansed, when emptied of their contents,
before putting away. To do this, throw
in a good handful of washing soda, fill
up the jar with boiling water, cover aud
let it stand for an hour. Then wash in
the soda water, scald and rinse in two
boiling waters aud wipe dry. II any odor
remains repeat tho process. To clean
bottles, putu dozen large tacks in with
strong soda water, shake well, and every
thing adhering to the inside of the liottlo
will ut once disnpftear.
Purdy’s Fruit Record gives the most
successful planting of inspls-rries as in
autumn, by the lollowitig mode: The
young plant* are carefully set, the roots
well spread out, and the mellow earth
which covered them beaten with the hoe
the plant, to show where they wore.
A»soon us the ground froze in wint< r a
wagon-load of manure waedrivcuovcr tin*
plantation, and a shovelful placed on each
heafett spot. Early in spring the whole
surface was harrowed, which scattered the
manure and mixed it with the soil. This
mellowed the soil and destroyed tho weeds
that were just ready to ('onto up, leaving
a clean surlueo till the young raspberries
wero halt it foot high.
Bad Uliirogrniriiy.
The anecdotes told nt the expense of
the late Horace Greeley’s had cliirogru-
phy, if gathered together ami published
would fill a good-sized volume. Many
of them aro true, but a fair proportion
have no foundation in fact. It is not *o
generally known that John W. Forney,
of tho Philadelphia Press, writes on ex
ecrable hand, hut he does, and most eom-
jMisltors who have had bis “copy” know
it by theexprcNsivcmunoof“chow-chow,”
and the colonel is somethm-s familiarly
alluded to l>v this soubriquet. Like
Greeley, Mr. Korney experiences great
lilllculty in rending his own writing
when it grows cold.
The writer remembers on one occa
sion imparting a piece of intelligence to
the colonel which he concluded to send
as a “special” to the Press; und accord
ingly he wrote a message on a tolographic
blank while in his room in the hotel at
which he wus putting up, and, after fin
ishing It, sent it downstairs to the opera
tor. The lightning manipulator vainly
endeavored to understand it, nnd finally
ure desperation, for your thorough-
brod operator bates to acknowledge him
self cornered in a thing of this nature,
walked up stair* to have it translated.
Heitraoly half an hour had elapsed be
tween the time tho dispatch was written
and when it waa returned to thu colonel,
yet he could not decipher it, ami hud
not the remotest idea of It* contents.
Tito opportune return of the writer fur
nished Mr. Forney with a clue, having
obtained which he managed to unravel
hi* own hieroglyphic*.
An occurrence which net (tally took
place during the time that Forney con
ducted the (.’hronlclo is also related hy
mployo of the paper, and as It never
appeared in print it will doubtless
, '0 interesting to most renders. It
happened upon tuo occasion of a visit of
a delegation of firemen from a ncighbor-
*UK,V' l y. The “lire ladles,” after their
jiarmle was over, concluded to serciindo
the (-Itrotiiclo office,with their hand. The
design was carried Into execution, and
Col. Forney made a speech in response to
tho compliment. Not caring to trouble
the ret Mu ter to report his remark*, ho
made them out and handed them to the
reporter to work in with tho description
of the remainder of tho demonstration.
Instead of using it for this purpose
the wicked Falter slave deliberately car
ried it to a restaurant and gave the pro
prietor to understand that it was an or-
to entertain the firemen. Tito boys
e brought in and treated very liitiid-
oly, the best tlieestablislinientaflordod
being set out for them. A short time al
ter a hill was brought in to Col. Fornny,
which of course lie repudiated, on thu
ground that he had never contracted it.
The supposed order was produced; when
after a good deal of labor its true charac
ter wuhdeveloped. Tho rcstaurant-kceper
still mourns over the undesigned liberal
ity manifested hy him, and tlte reporter
has since abandoned the profession, lie
was too smart lor the lmsim-Hs,
and has gone into something that is
more adapted to his stylo and con
genial to his tastes,— Wilmington Chron
icle.
iiotii
I trail n linnilllfiil uimm-nt,
Amt I liilil It hy with n
I tiiii1. il It rli>K« with lim i
In n irapklit linn slut fair
" It In (nr tonroMly n ruin
Ho ni-vnrnt morn or cvi-nlng
I pul m v gimm-iit oil:
It lily hy (Ini-K, miller rlnn|i nml k. v;
In the |N-i|inne<l dunk nlone,
Hi wuMileifill broidery hiihlen
Till lira ti jr n ilnv hud gone.
Thorn worn gueitN who rainn lo my |»
v frlnmln who sat with uit-
Tlinro v
e poor who utooil at my ttortnl.
•linn, it Nought my c-
.i-mlon-Nt r“ “
hid nothing In-Mdt-'i
i IIIKI ..Illy the heiuillful gurmeiil,
Amt the mliuont (or dnlly wenr.
At IhnI, on n ten -1 ituy’s routing,
I thought III my dre-n to mIiIiii. ;
I would |ileiUMi myself with tho lustra
• ( tin tdtlfllug colors fine ;
I would walk with pride In the marvel
Of IIn runny rion iloalgii.
Ho oilt from the dual I tMirofit—
The In tender foil nwnv-
A ml fold oil fold I held' il on
To tlm neaiehlng.light of tnodu.v.
i glory had periihed
] III llapli
Who Nocku for tho fadeles-. beauty
Muut M-ek for I ho ll«n Dial nchIn
To ttm grnro of a uouulnut Idi-Mlng
e folded rotie nlolio
While I
I In- ln-nutf that i
ol ililo the folded
Tlm moth with it* blighting tdrnl-i.
Not Too Much, Considering.
Tho Lancaster (Pa.) Examiner says:
A Lnlmnoii contractor had hooio men
working lor him in the rural districts.
A t thu end of each month ho usually
paid their wages. Horn.'* Atoif agf?
ecivcd the followMg*bill und letter from
a man who Jim'been furnishing the stall
of life D on© of Ids workmen:
notiso Mounting r relit
k-hiiinn koiintu
.September Out |H7(I
AH* DunlRon to 1’ D , esq deter
to Wii-ilicn glose I months Id ec-ats
to 53 times cud at 20 scot-. 10 dolors tJO
sent* get drunk fiddlers
Mister—her in A. dutiigeo hi* hurt hit, it
5 dolor* charged gel drunk, it is slicap lie
mng N" ii- ■— *« • - -- *
mulch nussens
liev ngtiii for dwiss
lie preuk my lookeii rIukr, and trtvo my pigs
mil u slitom-M and preuk ids pug, und mug
much ony n
up do devil , a __
va* n lonotiek iihilcm fi dolors i chnroli veil
you d«nd pay it i church 10 dolor*.
Your* 1» 1) Esq.
A Russian Palace.
One of the curiosities of the emperor
of Russia’s puluco at Tsarslcoo Solo iH tho
horse asylum, where tho imperial char
ge* live in Hittig quarters when tlioy are
no longer fit for use. Near the comfort
able * tables i* the cemetery, where the
history of many a famous steed may he
read in tiiu inscriptions on the Innli.
stones. The room* which present the
greatest historical interest are those
which are occupied by Emperor Alexan
der I., and which arc shown exactly as
hejoft them; nod the chamber which i*
considered of the greatest curiosity i* tho
room in which all the walls are of amber.
Beyond thu garden,’ in front of that part
of the palace occupied Ity their majes
tic*, is a little island in which there is a
Rursian cottage, a garden, a cowhouse—
in short, a complete establishment on a
diminutive scale, arranged for the amu*o-
ment of the duchess of Edinburgh when
she was a child.
The Vengeance of a Fly.
A poor man died a few years ago in
tho hospital at Paris from n carbuncle
produced by tho poisonous puncture ol
a fly. Deceased informed some friends
that one night a large green fly kept him
awake with his buzzing ; to punish it he
plucked off three of it* leg* and set it
free. Four day* afterwards he fell u*leep
after hi* breakfast and was awakened by
a Hting on bis cheek ; ho raised hi* hand
to the spot and pieked oil* the insect that
had been Bucking hi* flesh und found it
to he the very fiy that had been muti
lated. 'This time ho crushed it past sur
gery, but forgot his wound till mortifi
cation set in nnd rcBulted in death.
8a nkky is accustomed to toll, n* the
origin of “Hold the Fort,” about Sher
man's message signalled to Gen. Corse,
at Altoona, “Hold the Fort—I am com
ing.” The evangelist, however, doc* not
(jnot© Gen. Coo-c’s reply, which
“I am short a cheek-bone and an ei
am able to whip all hell yet.”
FACTS AND FANCIES.
A cynical Indy, rather inclined to
flirt, Hays most men are like a cold, very
easily caught, but very hard to get rid of.
A i*rutty reply of a French mother:
“Which of your children do you love
most?” “Always theouc that is absent.”
SoMK hoarding schools fit young ladies
for keeping hoarders after they marry
id havo a husband to support.
A nAunnTKit of Mary Fairfax Som-
merllcld, the mathematician, is about to
creel a monument to her mother in
Naples.
Major I’aulinu Cushman, who wits
a spy in the war and afterward* an tie-
tress, has opened a hotel at San Gabriel,
California.
To got up a handkerchief flirtation-
rule first, get two handorchiefs und two
tools. Tho other five rules nre unneces
sary.
A of,ham of delight passes over the
anxiotiH brow of the housekeeper, like a
wintry sunbeam falling across a stock
yard, as she sees tho files that havo made
life a burden to Iter, flattened hopolossly
against the ceiling with chilblains.
Wiikn I was president I did not go
hunting. I wrote sixteen hours a day.”
—Tltiera “Ho loved hooks and was a his
torian hy trade. War is my profession,
and I muko war on wluit I cutw—I haul.” .
-MucMithnn,
OiilLDItliN must have love inside the
house and fresh air,* and good play
and sonic good companionship outsldo—
otherwise young life runs the greatest
danger in tho world of withering or
growing stunted, or at best prematurely
old ami turned inward bn it*elf.
“Oil, mamma, that’s Cnpt. Jones’
knocked I I Inow Ito hits come to ask me
to be his wife I”
“Well, my dear, yon in list accept him.”
“But I thought you lotted him so!”
“Hate him ? I do—so much, that I
mean to he his mother-in-law I”
I OURTAINLY never said any thing
uguinst woman’s rights, and they always
scorned to me lo l>c a kind of rights, that,
if I inijghLiiidjje of my practical ex
perience, are very to Mo of
themselves. I say UiTHlfB^iWftUllififUniUl _
of long standing.—Judge ffaar.
A MirAVABKKH paper report*“onehun
dred mid twenty three deaths from small
pox, of which tliirty-thrco were fatal.”
The disease must have assumed ait ex
tremely violent form If this statement is
trustworthy. When, in the course of an
epidemic, death becomes fatal, tho com
munity afiiictcd should lose no lime in
electing a new hoard of health.
Tiiky wero two peanut vendors, and
when they mot they set their baskets
down and hooked hands silently. Then
one said. “’Owe tho trade, Bill, wid
yornow?” “Hawful,” the dried-up old
man replied. “Yer seo the eastern
question and that pivotal hmincss in
New York i* crushing us down. I tells
you I fears the markets a going up, and
so I laid in a stock for the winter. I’ve
Invested forty cents a* a speckerlation,
and if wu don’t have war in Turkey I’m
Iji* Lhm fffy him!jrijotttjJfygj 7
j ilvt-if .i t'liotmanil yean uiul tli«n llraeoth
tip Hid tnketli u l-'rcsh Hold for yturs
twr-nlv thoUAund.
ch I* tin) VuNiiii-f,*, tlio (.raiidcur. the Greatness
of the milmllo liu I* n Jlig Tiling I
Why I* he ii Thing ilml In I
A nt snd^.’onildor!
lie ii Hi* Imcniimi lift Is not l.iltlu, nnd
UlgnoH* diffiireth from l.lttlem-.* even n* tho Flos
dllli-retll from Urn limn drmi.
lift wine, nil Mnn. I’ud nut thy nkull with Knowl
edge nnd fount Wisdom of me, tho Fool of.
Nature. -Martini'. T-TP—U.
It is a great thing to bo able to see a
point. Here is a happy instunce ot abili
ty in that line. A countryman, wander
ing with his wife through the art gal
leries of tho Philadelphia exhibition,
stood before Riviere’s picture of Circe
and the companion* of Ulysses. He
gazed earnestly at the painting, wondered
what was meant by the handsome young
woman playing on her lyre, while a herd
of swine wallowed and tumbled about nt
her feet. Ho then looked up the pic
ture in hi* catalogue and pondered over
the title, “The companion* of Ulysses.”
Haid lie : “Well, if that isn’t thu hardest
slap old Grant’s got yet.”
Tue Scientific American prints tho
following comforting intelligence for
persons who tire dally annoyed hy tobacco
fiends : “The effects of tobacco-smoking
arc discoloring of tho teeth hy carbon,
excitement of the salivary glandk by the
ammonia, headache and " lassitude from
tho carbonic acid, disease of tho heart
from tho carbon ic oxide, nausea from tho
hitter extract, and a tainting of the
breath hy the volatile empyreumatic
suhxtuncc. The system may become used
to these thing, yet i* made liable to
consumption, nervous exhaustion, par
alysis, nnd other ailments.”