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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.”