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| Instable Hopes.
How transient are our fairest hopes,
Delusive as the flower which opes
At early morn /
Opes ! but ere half the day ho past
Each lo if lies scattered 'neuth the blest,
Crushed 1 trampled 1 torn !
Behold the ocean’s face at morn,
Clear, placid, not a ribble borne
Upon its brow, —
Dark lowers the sky! down sweeps the blast 1
The plow of heaven has o’er it passed 1
Behold it now!
Hope fickle ns an April day,
lieiuaive us the darling ray
Of shrouded Sol 1
Hope soars exultant with the moon,
Alas 1 ere evening to be torn
Ear wide its foal!
I've seen a lovely child at morn.
Eie evening to the churchyard borne
A withered thing,—
At morn, hope filled the parent heart,
Even thou, unseen, unsought, the dart
Was on the wing.
Men hurry on with eager eves
To seize some long expected prize.
Some glittering toy !
Brighter the wished lor bauble grows,
He seizes ! nh, too late be knows
Its phantom joys 1
Hope I what is hope 1 alas! ales !
A fair face flitting o'er tho glass
.Of stable fate,
An evanescont smile ! a tear !
A prizj, it ever doth appear,
We reach too late.
HOG CHOLERA.
An Interesting Article <>u tle
.Subject From Dr. 11. C.Sjiinks.
Mr. Editor: —First, Is boy cholera
a specific disease ? If so, is it con
tagious ? It appears tho word hog
choK-ra, as used generally, is a mis
nomer, from toe fa' 1 t no matter by
what disease the hog comes to his
deai h, it is called hog cholera. There
seems to be uneeitaiuty and confu
sion as to the treatment of this dis
ease. In order to treat this, or any
oilier, disease successfully, it is nec
essary that we arrive at a correct
d-aquosis. Faring to do this has
caused an endless variety ot remedies
to be recommended as specific. In
the first place, we wish to discover
wnat vital organ is implicated ;
whether it is the stomach, liver, lungs,
or intestines, and whether or not.
these vital o-guns are all more or less
involved Perhaps we \'i ibe better
able to arrive at a correct conclusion
oil this point by a post mortem exam-
inaiion. A gentleman in the sou hern
pert of this county informed me re
cently. that his togs died with cholera
When asked the p evai.ing symptoms,
nc said his hogs literally sera lied
r rubbed themselves away; that the
skin assumed a lumpy appearance,
and that ihoy continued to scour, or
r bb, against a fence or elsewhere,
until death ensued. These symptoms
cleaily indicated a skin oiseas ; ye:,
he called it cholera. Another citizen,
in the same n- ighborhood, sad Ins
hogs diet! apparently from excessive
purging anil \omiting, anti he caller!
it cholera. Another said that the
trouble with his hogs was a difficulty
in breathing, succeeded by diushea.
which terminael in and ath in a very
short time, and he called it cholera.
In all these cases a different line o
it eatmm, won and seem to be indicated.
Most of my neighbors have lost a p .it,
ami seine all,ot their Logs during the
past three months, as they say, wi h
cholera. Being of a hoggish turn ol
mind just now, I have spent sometime
irying to ascertain, if possible, the
probable cause of the ho-s dying, and
have satisfied myself, at 1. asf. on one
point, that this, the diseases which
has ptevailed all around me, was not
contagious. The hogs of a freedman
on my place died; Mr. Morgan, liv
ing within 200 yards of me, los- ad
his hogs, as did several others living
in less than half mile of me. lam
inclined to l>el eve that il a hog is well
treated from his pig slate, until he is
ready to be slaughtered, he will not
be apt to die with cholera. But, says
one, <: my hogs died fat in the pen
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almost ready to lie slaughtered." I
admit that they do, but they were
not kept in good condition during the
summer mon Its. They were allowed
to loot hog or die poor, and to gnaw
net fI , pine roots, and other crude,
indices ible trash. Besides tho un
wholesome and unnatural food the!
were compelled (o subsist upon, per-'
haps, lice Mere allowed to gnaw
their lank, long, bony skeletons,
i ho poor hogs become confirmed dys
peptics. Indigestion is evinced by
the condition ol the li ces, which when
raided,arc hard ami unnatural, hung*
ing together by indigestible grass,
and tLie like; showing that the vitality
of <he digestive oi-gans are so much
impaired by this unnatural treatment,
that the hog is unhealthy, and il he
is hog enough to live through the
summer (many does net) tho Ist of
October finds his hogship is a bare
living,skeleton; his stomach weak and
much contracted. He is turned out
in the field m the fall in this eman
cipated condition, hungry and glut
tonous, he crowds his stomach ail at
once to its utmost capacity, with
peas, which are good loud, given in
connection with corn, potatoes,
ground peas, and the like. Generally,
bow. ver, he has peas alone, more
over, lit) often suffers lor the want ol
water. This is certainly true, for
many fie ds are d< statute of water in
the fall season. In addition to this
a large pir cent, of the pea crops is
often rotten, and such food is very
unwhole omc, to Siy the least of h.
I think rotten peas have much to do
in exciting disease iu hogs during
f.il and winter. Although the hog
may mend up in ti c fall, ow.ng 'o Ins
glut lotions disposition, with his dis
ci dered stomach and bowels, he was
quite liabl - to take on di ease ot these
vital organs, that, would produce
death, though the hog was compara
tively fat, unless proper remedies
were administered.
My father lost most of his hogs re
cently, as he suppo-ed by c.oh-ra.
Alter making special inquiry about
bis hogs, 1 am satisfied it was not
cholera. He let, Mr. Parker have
three hogs in January. In a short
time they a 1 died, but Mr. Parker's
oilier nogs did not contra,-t the dis
ease. This shows conclusively that
iho di ease was uot contag ous; and
I further learned teat his hogs had
access to green cotton seed sometime
n December, which was the exei ing,
if not ti e prime can e of i is hogs dy
ing. My bro her lost most of his hogs
in January. They ran in t■ is when'
field sometime, wurre he used cotton
s, ed as a fertilizer. The green wheai
and cotum seed were undoubtedly
t o cause of ihe cholera, so cal ed, in
Its hogs. Tney died with deraugt
iii- nt of the stomach and bow. N,
(diarhea.) H. W. Hi ltnan lost mo i
of his hogs not long since. He in
formed me the difficulty with his hogs
was obstinate constipation; apt a
ren-ly impacted excrement in the
intestines. He failed to salt his hogs
regular : y, unci they eat b-acki-.fi mar ,
or swamp mud, which and übtlesß
caused the cholera among them.
Many planters ft ii ks it is unmcei-sa
ry to supply hogs wi'.li salt, from the
fact that when it i* only given ocea
si-naliy thcho.r will eat to excess, ami
will commence to vomit in a short
ti ne, but if tlicv have i-ab where il ey
can get it at pleasure, they will only
eat what their system requires. I
keep salt nnd ashes where they cun
get at it all tlie \ ear round. I can't tell
the modus operandi of the salt and
ashes on tlie hog’s nyst. ra. but I know
from experience and observation,that
when hogs are slaughtered their in
testines me free Irom worms, and
make much better sausages and chit
terlings, than hog3 which Itav#
crammed their stomaches and intes
tines with brackish dirt. 1 know, too,
that if hogs are supplied with salt
continually tlrev will not eat dirt.
I do not wish to be misunderstood,
I do not Boy that tin re is no such
discus as hog cho'era. but I have
never seen a case, and I-am satisfied
that much of die so cal Ad cho'era ra
the l-e-ult ot lice, starvation and bad
treattna.iit generally. But it any man
in “these parts” can throw any light
on this vexed question, tie 9 specially
invited to the front without further
ceremony. Respectfully,
H. O'. Spinks.
Tho little Drummer Boy-
During the C vil War 1 noticed in
a Louisiana regiment in camp near
my place a boy about fifteen years of
age. H • was a drummer, but a more
attractive face I have never seen, —
lair complexion, with short, curly
cheseut hair, and brown eyes that
sparkled and danced with rarth.
It was pitiful to toe to see so young
a boy in the army, and I often won
d, red low lie got there. He had an
unmistakable air of refinement, whim
Seemed to eel him apait from his
rougher companions. With whom,
Lowever, he appeared to be a gnat
favor tc.
They used to mount him on a bar
rel, where he would stand and i-ing
to them lively or sentimental songs,
but S'-ldom the rough camp melodies
which were favorites in the army. His
voice was clear, pure, and of wonder
ful compass lor his age, and in spite
of Lis flow of spirits, it was lull of
pathos.
H" came to the hmise on some er
rand one day, and I determined lo
gra ify my curiosity.
“You are very, 'oung to be in the
army,” I said.
“1 am?” —with a shoit laugh, “i
never thought I was I haven’t much
to do, ma’am, you know, and the men
arc veiy good to me.”
“But how came your fat her and
mother in allow you to join?”
“I have no motlur, ma'am, my fa
ther is Col. Singleton, of tin- 8 h Lou
isia, aud he's been in Viiginia for
over a year. He left me at school,
aud oim day the large boys of the
-culinary made up their minds to join
the army. I wasn't going to be the
only sneak among them. Every one
of thi-m are in this regiment, and we
have fine limes laughing over old Dr.
Duclos’ lace, as it looked win n we
marched in one day and told him we
wi re go ng out.”
“Docs your father know ?”
“0, I guess so, by this time. Le -
tors are very uncertain during the
blockade, but, I wro e to i im the very
day I join- <l, and to Eugc-c, too.
“Eugene? Who is lie?”
“O, nit eldest biother.”
“He was at Princeton when the
w r broke out, and lie’s never corn
home He was to have graduated
last year. I wish you could see him
He’s a splendul fellow, and there’s
noth ng lie enn’t do. He's as go and
as he's handsome, too. But they say
he is Union, and tb it is the reason he
don’t come South to help us. But
that is all nonsense, you know. Why,
he is my own brother,” —as much ns
to say, “That settles the question.
“Perhaps ha is with your lather,”
I suggested
“I've thought <>f that. Anyhow,
wherever lie is, he is sing t. Eugene
couldn’t do wrong if he tried.
“I wish he was here to advise you,”
I said, my In ait yearning over the
motherless boy, who, I saw plainly,
had taken up arms jg avoid being
called a sneak, not dreaming of the
dreadful p. ssibili ies which lay in the
war tiack bis young leet were tread
ing.
‘•lndeed, my child, you are too
young lor the life you have chosen.
What is your name ?
‘•Ktnneth, maW; —oh, no, I am
not oo young. Why, Col. Mills has
prombed I shall be color-bearer iD a
short time. Won't that be splendid ?
"Splendid 1” Ah me ? how well I
emembered one as bright, and more
beloved than the boy before me, who
went out in the early morning wi h
i he Pelican flag waving over h e head’
and was brought back at noon with
its bloody folds wraj pod around his
dead body.
. “You would not think it-splendid
if you hadevti- been in battle,” said I.
I’ve been in two sharp skirmishes—
one at Yellow Bayou, and one at In
glewood. I just longed to be in front
all the time. When lam eclor-bssr
er I promise you that the flag won’t
bo in the rear. But I must go.
ma'am,”—rising from his scat. “It
seems like being at home to have n
talk wih a lady, a .id to see pictures
and books nga n. I’ve almost for
gotten how they looked since 1 have
been in camp.” He laughed gayly,
touched his cap, and was gone.
I saw a great dial of Kenneth flin
glcton after that. I encouraged him
to spend all his spare time at niv
house, which he seemed glad to do.
He found a listener for all the non
detfnl tales he hud to tell about his
■ln ro Eugene, and I think that was
what he most, desired. He never
wearied talk ng about him.
But at length the regiment to
which Kenneth belong, and left the
neighborhood, moving up the Red
Iliver, aid for some months I heard
nothing ot my little dt ummer.
The Battle of Pleasant Hill was
fought and won; the Southern forces
fe I back, and one morning I rose to
see the white tents of Col. Mill's reg
linent pitched on their old camping
ground, just outside the front lences
ol Widow GLn.
Kenneth will be hue immediately.
I thought, gad at the piospectsol
meeting him again. But the day
wore a way,and no Kenneth appeared.
Towards evening Col. Miiis rode up,
and after the first greetings, I asked
aboin my young friend.
A grave expression settled upon
the stern Lee of the soldier.
“Ah, I remember, the hoy was a
favorite of yours Poor little man, he
fed at Pleasant Hill! He carried the
colors. We bad sharp work fora few
hours, and of course nobody thought
ol the boy. Alter it was ovi-r, I licuro
lie had been shot. But the ag never
f li; for you know when out co or
bearer falls, someone is always at
nand to take his place. Poor ii tie
fellow ! t was a sad thing, but every
thing about this war is strange and
unnatural.
I Imd buried my face in my hands
as the colonel spoke. I saw Kenneth
before me, his bright, handsome fact
aglow wish enthusiasm as he spikeo
his beloved brother. I shuddered
whm I thought ol the same face
trampled in the dust, by horses’hoots,
lint 1 must know all. “Did he die
immediately ?” I asked when I could
spenk.
“N-; I ana coming to that; but you
seemed so dis lvsscd, I thought i
would wait before telling the story.
W ien he baitle was over, he was
found mortally wounded, with his
arms around the neck of a dead Yan
kee officer, in a lieutenant’s uniform
—as tall and sp'endid a specimen of
manhood as I have ever seen. We
trii and to unclasp the boy's arms; bu
he resisted.
‘IPs my brother—it’s Eugene,’—h
cried. ‘Nr, no, don’t take him away
from me!’
The m n nfted them together and
they were laid on a in a negro
cabin near by. l‘ve gone through a
deal since this war begun,—l‘ve al
most losi all sense of acute feeling
but that scene wakened every spark
that was left. The dy boy was
delirious from his wound, but nevei
loosen his g asp on bis brother, —for
we karned afterwards that it really
was his brother.
‘Don't try to move the corpse,’ tin
surgeon said. ‘lt will only excite
him, and he han‘t an hour to live.’
‘So wc left Eugene near him. He
would lay his head on the cold bn ast
and babble of bitd-.nesting and trout
fishing, and all the* little home sports
I presume the brothers used lo enjoy
together. Sometimes Kenneth s<em
Lo know os, and once he said to me :
‘Colonel I did tny host with the
tLg, but I raw Eugene just bi fore me,
and somehow I got dizzy aud lost my
hold. It wasn't taken, was it?”
But these intervals of semi-con
scionsnes were rare. M.-st of the
time he was hugging his brother as
tightly as his weak arms would let
him, and kissing him. He never
seem- and to realize that Eugene was
dead—only sound asleep that he
could not be wakened.
lie tried to sing once, but broke
down, and said he was too sleepy to
ring well. He must have suffered,
from the nature of Lis wound, but
never even groaned.
At I.*si he seemed quite gone, bu
rallied suddi nly and said distinctly,
‘There is the bell, and my lessons not
ready. Do help me Eugene to learn
this one before I go,’
These words were uttered with his
last garp. He had learned that cruel
iesson of cleath, poor little man ! But
it's tin* fortunes of war.”
“Does that reconcile us to it?” 1
cried tlnough my tears. “Docs that
make its horrors less, because its
‘fosiune’ bri gs son against lather,
brother against brother?' Perhaps
Kenneth fell by his b other’s hand ?”
“No; I made special inquiries. The
brothers were un wounded when they
r< cogn zed each other. It. was in
striving to get together that they fell,
and Eugene was shot th'ough the
heart. They were laid in the same
grave. It is, as -1 have sad before,
mi unnatural war; but the gray and
(lie blue slumber peaceful together in
many graves besides that of the two
orotliers. Their father is to be pdii d.”
Two years later I mure fully real
ized what a blow had fallen upon the
childless old man, as we stood to
getlnr besides the last reeling place
of Ins boys. He had had them re
moved from Pleasant Ilill to his own
family graveyard. A simple marble
column rug.- above them, which bore
their names, the date of their death,
and these words:
“Lovely were they in fheir liv-s
and in death they were nut divided.”
Maria JB. Williams.
in Youths Companion.
The Governor of New M.xico has
deeply offended the ecclesiastics of
m at Territory by vetoing a bill to
repeal what is known as the “burial
law,” which prohibi ed the burial ol
the dead beneath the floors ol
churches. Until the passage cf the
act, two years ago it was the usual
practice of the wealthy New Mexican
Roman Ca holies to bury tweir deed
in the churches. The price of a sen
u chre ranging from $260 to SI,OOO
according to proximity to the altar.
When the ground under the floor was
lull of dead bodies, they were exhum
d, and reinterred elsewhere—a prac
ice which has been twice repeated in
the parish church of Albuquerqe.
The bill was passed over the Gov
ernor's veto by n almoitt unamiHOU.-
vo:e, as was also another bill forever
exempting the propeity of the iSoeie
ty ol Jesus from taxation.
For soma weeks Mr. Pierce, who lives
in Geoigotown, lias heard a peouliai
noise at night, and dircovered the grad
ual loss of chickens. He came to the
conclusion that it must be made by rats.
Friday night ho and his wife were awak
ened by a sharp cry of distress from the
crib adjoining their bed, in v hinh their
two-year old infant was sleeping. Mr.
Peirce immediately sprang out and dis
covered a weasel at his child's throat.
Gab b ng the animal with his hand, he
tlnew it to the floor, killing it at once.
A few moments later, the Ihtle one
would certainly have been killed, as a
deep gash was already made in its
throat.—[.Washington Star,
Subscription, $2 00
The new Election law of Utnb i an
improvement on the old, inasmuch as it
provides for the tecret ballot at all elec
tions, as well as a registration of voters.
The registry agents, in person or by dep
uty, shall visit each and every dwelling
within their jurisdictions, and register
tlie names of persons c.aiming to bu
vo ers. Woman, as well as men, may
register anti vote. The faw provides for
the publication of the names of voter®
registered,for the addition of new names,
for the appointment by the county courts
of three discreet and competent persons
in each precinct (one of them to belorg
to the minority party, if there be one)
to be judge ofelections, for the counting
of ballots, and the punishment of perjury,
bribery, and intimidation.
It is said that of two ol the children
of a Pennsylvania blacksmith, “One is
a girl of six years that weighs eleven
pounds, and can neither walk nor freak.
She was born without eyes no; eye lids,
the skin being drawn tightly over the
sockets. The other is a girl almost four
years old, and is, also, very small, but
a irifler smaller than her sister. She is
similarly delormed, the principal differ
ence that she has the partial sight of
one eye. Their bearing is good. They
are in perfect health, 6at as heartily as
any of the family, and takes a great
delight in being noticed.
A telegram from Harrisonburg, Ya;,
where Charlotte Harris, colored, charged
with arson, was hanged ihe other night
on a blackjack tree, by masted men, saya
it took five men to bend the sapling down
wl ich being accomplished, a rope suspen
ded from the ttec was fastened to the wo
man's neck, and t..e tree then allowed to
go up again. The woman was tossed in
the air and landed on the opposite side
of the tree, which was propped lip with •
fence rail, and there left hanging. This
occurred Wednesday night last. The
body was not cut down until the follow
ing Friday afternoon.
There is some excitement in Cedar
Cieek Township, Allen conntv, Indiana,
ove: a bold outrage committed there a
tew days ago. Some tramps went into
'be house of Benedict Schlatter, whila
his wife was out of doors, and took from
he cradle her infant child about five
months old. One of the btu.es took the
baby in bis arms, but was pursued by
the mother, who overtook him at the
distance of about a mile, knocked him
down with a club, and took her child'
home.
Mr. Ilham Lewis was riding on horse
back near the Patrick school honse, a
few miles from this place, on Sunday,
;he 10th inst., when the high wind that
•vas blowing, at the same time blew down
a pine tree which struck Lewis’ horse on
the back and shoulders, killing the horse
instantly. Mr. Lewis discovered the
falling tree in time to spring from the
-addle to the neck of the horse. Truly
a narrow escape.—[Montezuma Weekly.
Sab Death. This week it beemaa
our sad duty to chronicle the death of
Capt. S. G. Evans, which occnred at bis
home in this county, on last Monday.
The deceased, an hour before bia death,
had carried a heavy peice of timber upon
bis shoulder some distance, and it is sap
posed that in throwing the wood from h :
shoulder, he received internal injnriea,
which terminated his life in less than an
hour.— [Dawson J'urna ! .
Mr. and Mis. Bai nes met in San Fran,
cisco after a separation of twelve years,
lie bad been seeking a fortune, with
very modera e success, on the Pacific
J 7 '
coast. She had been living in Pennsyl
vania. D and they rapiuronsiy embrace
at sight of each other? No! She drew
a revolver and fired three tilm-s at him,
and he knocked her down with a cans,
it ge.ms that he bad desarted her, and
nhe bad found him after a long searoh.
There is a species of wood found
no where in the world, go claimed,
but in the Apalachicola river, in
Florida, and it is said will never rot.
The four post which supports tbo
lamps on the Capital Square in Tal
lahassee was made of this wood.
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