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r whether he hae nub-
scribed or not- is i es^outible (or the amount.
‘1. If a person ordera his paper diaoontinued
he must pay all arrearages, or the publisher
u»»y coutiuue to aeud It until payment ia
made, and collect the whole amount,whether
the paper ia taken from the offioe or not.
3. The courts have decided that refusing
to take newspapers or periodicals from the
postoffice, or removing and leaving them
uncalled for is primaTs
« ntional fraud.
evidence of in*
Thk deficit in the augur beet crop is
rejKirtcd us between 25 and 50 per cent,
leas this year than last. . It will have an
important bearing on the price of cane
sugar when it in remembered that beet
sugar is identical with that of cane su
gar, and that the beet-sugar manufacture
cover* about one-third of the sugar pro
duct of the world.
sec this very certaiuly the last general
conference I shall ever atteud. I have
been greatly honored—more certainly
than I have ever deserved. 1
Thk late captain general of Cuba,
Martinos Campos, is now the premier of
Hpain; and as such he is doing his best
to secure to Cuba the itforms that he
promised (lie people of that island before
he returned to ttpaitt, He is encounter
ing a great deal of opposition in the cor-
tes, especially as to the abolition of
slavery and tariff reforms. A dissolu
tion of the cortes, or a ministerial crisis
will probably occur before the Cuban
i ip-c di^osed of|. , , ^ %
Ikm'ii left out since the time of my eligi
bility as a delegate. I have never done
much. I have always felt inclined to
retire rather than make myself bold and
prominent. I had no expectation, when
it was announced to me tliut I was elected
to this general conference, that I could
be present with you. It may be consid
ered as the first instance in history, at least
in that of our own ministry, that a man
in his ninetieth year has traveled six
hundred miles and occupied his seat
daily in a body like this; hut God has
conferred upon me this very remarkable
blessing.”
ueasure* ifre o^mos
The United Htsi
States Economist
A constant and steady ^xjwrt of \g|ieaU ,
and breadstuff* willuccui throughout tho,
fall and winter months. As the season ad
vances it would < net be surprising if
prices would,gradually grow firmer. Jt
is unfortunate for the general welfare of
the country that great operators ifi'grain
manipulate tlio market in wheat as they
l e6rner wlieat as they do
rail mad'stocks artd thereby unsettle
values tp the hindrance„of legitimate
Any one who has traveled along the
railroads that traverse the coal regions of
Pennsylvania, must have noticed the
huge black hills that stand beside every
colliery. These mountains"arc coal waste,
and have hitherto lieen, not only useless,
but eumberers of the ground, ft is esti
mated that twenty lajllion tonJ of this
refuse is produoed. every ycar; &n<^tt
liecn'a problem l^pd thought -over by
owners, wluit to uo with thlfc waste'.
Home years ago a Pennsylvania man put-
tented a plan liy which the finer portions
of the wastf was to bc)pre*sojl into bricks
fit for uso as fuel, btit the expense of
manufacturing is greater than the profit
accruing, so that plan fell through. Now,
er, a locomotive# ha
without^ any special.. preparation, c
f special, preparation, except
screening. is expected (hatter, 100*-
000 tons will lie used this year and when
stationary engines get to use t!u» waste,
those immense black mounds will rapidly
disappear from the laudscapcof Pcuusyl-
It is stated that France and England
have accepted Austria’s view of the
Rothschild loan ; that Rothschild must
redeem prior loans amounting to £1,400,-
000 in order to have first security on the
surrender of the Klicdival estate. Aus
tria and Germany will accept Anglo-
French representatives in the conimis-
of liquidating, and resulting control
er Egyptian financial administration.
i pi foiled, Tcinovc!'
This agreement, ifacconip
t lie thrcatcncncd hitch in tho Anglo-
French scheme. The Porte and Sultan
arc spending their whole time over the
reform question ami the demands of En
gland. , The position of the other powers
is necessarily orit of reserve in the ques
tion, which primarily concerns England
and Turkey, and in which marked inter
ference would tend to embroil rather
than clear matters. Still, ns regards
Austria and Germany, it may be taken
for granted that their influence is being
exerted in support of the demand for
beginning reforms as well as toward pre
venting any collision. As to joining
eventually in measures of coercion, no
invitation has yet bcon addressed to these
powers. In this respect there has, there
fore, been no occasion for giving an opin
ion on the subject. The French and
Italian Cabinets arc more than usually
reserved on the question, while the Rus
sian attitude in a difference between En
gland and Turkey cannot for a moment
lie doubted. Differences of that kiud
have always lieen regarded bjr fiisrfa as
a most efficient lever for promoting her
political designs in Turkey—a lever sale
to l*c applied on the pfctfbirt occasion if
the complication lift*tlongemiugh togrVe
her an oppojtunity
Ma
people throughout the south
will be pained to learn "of the death of
Dr. Ixivick Pierce, which occurred ii
the home of Jiis son at Hpnrta,Ga.,on Nov
11th. Dr. Pierce was the oldest Methodist
preacher in the United States. Ho has
held every office in the ministry except
bishop. He gave to the chnrch, how
ever, a bishop in the person of his son,
George F. Fierce, who is to-day one of
its most powerful leaders. George F.
Pierce was admitted to tho ministry at
the first Georgia conference in Mae
January 5, 1831. His career is of more
recent date and is a part of contemporary
Methodist history. Dr. Pierce has been a
delegate to every general conference of the
Methodist church, and iu 184$ was the
fraternal messenger sent to the northern
general conference, but was refused ad
mission and recognition. In 1874 he was
one of the three sent in response to those
who came to the southern general con
ference at Louisville. He was unable
to go to the conference north, but wrote
a memorable letter upon the fraternal
relations of the churches. In May,
1874, Bishop Pierce was in Louisville,
attending the general conference, and
lust year he was present at the general
conference In Atlanta. One of the most
notable incidents of the conference in
Louisville was a little s])cech he made
connection with the fauisacthm of some
conferanee business. The aged bishop
said:
“My Beloved Brethren: I stand
before you rather as a marvel in the his
tory of'Mcthodist preachers. It would
oe very unbecoming in nffe to qoftgrutu-
late jou on account of my presence with
you, but it is right that I should eon
gralulate myself on being permitted t«
VOLUME IV.
*nTHEK\ SEWS.
Jackson, Tenn., has a cbal famine.
Oartersville, Ga,, is to have two oot-
ton-factories.
Corn in feorth.$l per bushel in Goliad
county, Texas.
range trees in
flight la affecting tl
Diffiwftit Louisiana.
pro
working day and night.
Union Citv, Tenn., lias just started a
bank, with $50,000 capitol.
Thera was a state convention of jqiir-
itualists in Texas last week.
Savannah, Ga., received seven thou
sand bales of cotton Tuesday.
Grasshoppers have done incalculable
injury to the wheat crop of Texas.
Chattanooga’s population ha* increased
1,301 duriug the past twelve months.
Lady compositors are employed in the
offices of a number of Sou tin
rn newspa-
nh, H. C.,
The city bonds of Savan
have advanced 3.90 per cent,
gust.
San Antonio, Texas, is to have a pat-
nt gas-machine iu the AUuio, with 300
...cKcfidrce Church, Nashville, which
waf recently burned, is to be rebuilt at
once.
Some line jacks were sofd this week to
parties near Palestine, Texas, at $375 per
liead.
The Seventh-day Adventists of Tex:
e holding a grand c|mp meeting nr;
Dallas. 9
Georgia enjoys the reputat
ing the handsomest govern
Union.
of hav-
the
. $5#Vfoty-gvo cf i|t$ flef brfsliel has been
tw m Memphis ritinre the
1st inst.
Paul It. TTaVne, the Georgia poet, de
nies that li<j intends to move to the
Nortlf. *
Golpmbin, .Tenn., is to have a large
factory for turning out wooden handles
of ali kinds.
The public schools were dismissed in
Chattanooga, Tenn., to let the children
e “Pinafore.”
Texas counts up her four million
sheep and asks that sbe lie called the
' Mutton State.”
The editor of the Key West ( Fla.)
Dispatch, a colored man is in jail on the
barge of robbery.
000 a >
Palace Car c
cy for the Pullmai
oomfumy. *
nrren ibunto, Mississippi, m three
years and ldnc gnmiths.has reduced her
lndel»tednfc^$114,095.
The young ladies of Frankfort, Kv.,
not to lie behind the times have organ
ized a cooking club.
Atlanta has eight banking institutions,
not including Jim Banks, who is a sep
tate institution of his own.
Increased attention is lioing given to
fish culture in Virginia. There arc now
three hatching houses in the state.
Colonel ,E. Richardson, of Jackson,
iss., hn*given $2,000 for the improve
ment of the cemetery in that city.
A German colony has settled in Es
cambia county, Fin., ucar the Pensacola
railroad, to engage in sheep raising.
The Americus, (Ga.), Recorder thinks
that cattle-raising will supersede cotti
growing to a great extent in that section.
The Houston and Texas Central rail
road is receiving new steel rails witli
which to replace those of iron now ii
An extra session of flic Florida legis
lature, to consider *
Florida ship canal
lature, to consider the proposition of tb
’ ’ ill, will probably bo held
Tli# scarcity of water on the route
tlifc Tex as Central railroad is so great
as to "interfere with the regularity of
tfaiiui. „ • v
Tl|e Augusta, Gn., cotton mills ltr
capital of $9(Mk0oo, and pay a dividend
m twity-sighy per cent.
per cent, on the money
Invested.* *
The Whig records the death in Rich
mond, Va., 'of Capt. C. F. Pardigan,
a noted French teacher and cx-Confeder-
There are thirteen thousand volume,
lielonging to the North Carolina State
Library, more than the library building
affords room for.
The New Orleans paper* call upon
police of that city to abate the nuis
catmed by the illegal sale of lottery* tick
ets on the streets.
The court-house at Opelika, Georgia,
was fired by incendiaries Tuesday night,
but the flames were discovered in time
to prevent iny damage.
The progressive towns i«i Georgia arc
striving to secure the location of the
•State Normal College provided for by
the last legislature.
A number of influential newspapers in
the south are advocating smaller farms
nudjjettei: cultivation as the surest way
and prosperity,
ifo, Miss., is furnishing Louis
iana stock-raisers with blooded sheep.
The town is also making preparations to
start a cotton and woolen factory.
Between (500 and 800 laborers are now
engaged in the construction of the Owen-
boro and Nashville railroad lie tween
Adairsville and Russelville, Ky.
The hemp factories at Lexington, Ky.,
have oloscu on amount of a regulation
of the railroad companies raising the
cost of transportation for dross homped.
Farmers in Chattahooehic and Stew
art counties, Georgia, complain of
great scarcity of labor, and the cotU
crop threatens to be diminished in con
sequence.
Louisiana sugar-planter* are el a toil
over the fact that the'European beet
sugar crop for the present year i*
twenty-five or thirty per c;nt. below the
average.
Mrenphi* Appeal: The city la hoc
ing haunted with drummers. They t.
thiiik Memphis is a great city, although
luring the epidemic they gave her a
berth.
Flemingsburg ( Ky.) Times: Wo have
no big pumpkins, but D. B. Hinton has
a gourd that is lot years old. it was
lit from England to Virginia in the
Tho Little Rock ga* company has re
fused to furnish gas to the city for its
streets and public buildings umil the
ity puts an end to its indebtedness to the
ampul
In Lonoke county, Ark., last week, a
1 between Me Armstrong, Justice
of the Peace, and Pink Saunders, result
ed in the shooting of the latter. Death
occurred instantly.
The past summer in Key West, Fla.,
was the healthiest which the inhabitants
of that city have experienced in thirty
years. The mortality was less by one-
third than in any year since 1801.
Mr. W. C. Cotton, of Harris county,
Ga., raised a stalk of cotton this season
that is now bearing nine hundred and
eighty-seven bolls. The cotton is the
Dickson variety.
The Catletslmrg Ilem., says that Win.
Christian, of Lawrence county, claims
to have fallen heir to Fountain square,
iu Cincinnati, and that he has refused
$140,000 for his interest.
Frank Smith of FayMte county Ky.,
has shipped to New York for the eastern
market one hundred head of cattle that
averaged 1,800 pounds. Foqr head
averaged 2,120 pounds.
•Savannah News: Pensacola is elated
because she owns tho steamship Escam
bia, of the capacity of (5,500 bales of cot
ton, which is intended to ply regularly
between that port and Liverpool.
Ex-Governor Alcorn is building a fine
residence on his home plantation, in
Jonestown, Coahoma county, Miss. When
finished it will Ik* one of the finest and
best arranged dweliugs in the State.
A colored woman died at New Orleans
the other day whose age wasgiveu at 100
years by the coroner, but she was sut>-
l bv those who knew her liest
posed by those who knew her liest to
nave lieen at least thirty years older.
Belgreen, the new comity-seat of
Franklin county, Ala., though founded
only eight months ago, has a nice, new
court-house and county offices, and a
brand-new paper—the Franklin New*.
In Walter countv, Tex., the District
Court rendered a verdict of $14,000
damages against the Central railway in
favor of Mrs. Fowler,* whose hushaud
was accidentally killed atllowth station.
Mejnpbis Ledger: Nearly 400 bales of
cotton, haVe bdeii shipped from Captain
William* Forrest’s President's bland
plsntation. The crop will not pH bo
gathered before the end of Jlic pireseut
Columbus Times:
Bans have already
lints for the spring
l the
ops in
ip. Efforts will be
putatioti of raising
southwestern Geor-
Aoonrding to th<* Banner, tlie ybar’*
ojierations of the Nashville cotton fac
tory, closing on the 30th of September,
indicate considerable prosjierity. The
amount of wages paid was $2,807.90, and
thenuodtarof yards of cloth produced
was 5,424,927.
Little Rock, (Ark.) Democrat: The
juryln tho Tom David murder ease was
hung liy ji’oolored man, reported to Ik- a
harbor. The oilier* jurors were white.
T vii :
tim a white m;ui.
Holly Springs, (Miss.) Rejxirte
dedication of the monument, erected to
the memory of Rev. Father Oberti and
the Sisters of Bethlehem Academy,
who died of yellow fever in this city in
1878, took place Mom lay.
The News snvs that a young man
named Randolph Watts, of Savannah,
Ga., who recently appropriated $l,350of
his employer’s money, and left very sud
denly, has returned and voluntarily giv
en himself up to the authorities.
Jackson (Miss.) Clarion : In the death
of Paul A. Botto, of the Natchez Demo
crat, the press of Mississippi, has lost
one of its worthiest memliers. He was
liorn in Italy in 1840. hut has resided in
Mississippi since his childhood.
Little Rock ( Ark.) Gazette: Sever
al wood eases canto up before the United
States Court yesterday. Cutting wood
from government lands has caused a
great deal of trouble, and as ignorance
of the law excuse* no man, the jienalty
is inflicted.
New Orleans Picayune: The British
steamship Ashburn, Capt. Hall, was
cleared yesterday for Livei|iool with a
cargo of 7,120 bales of cotton, 1,378 sacks
of oil cake and L,0S0 piece* staves. This
is the largest cargo of cotton ever ex
ported on any one vcs*rl from this isn't.
One of the brightest voting lawyers in
Arkansas, J. P. Woods, of Johnson
county, has been sentenced to the peni
tentiary for stealing a pistol. The pis
tol was . taken a bile he was drunk, lint
the" worst feature in the ease was that
Woods di<l not tell that he had the pis
tol after he lioeame solier.
Charleston News: The United States
Government employes are removing
10,000 tons of granite from the quarries
nefto Columbia to Wilmington N. C., to
lie used mxin the public works in that
lmrlmr. It is greatly to he regretted
that tLb< stfmc can not Jk: mod upon the
CliurlMon■‘jetties simply becaiise'Gic're
ommuniention b\
ter’sedge.
Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen:
The
tv this vear wifi rcaclil $l?KHt,0(K>.
follows: Wheat, $200,000; cotton, $<><Ml,-
000; mules, hogs and lieef, $200,OHO,
This,* with a population of 32,000, givei
uk nearly $3(8) cash per capital for
l child, black ami white
in the county. Certainly there is lift
in the old laud yet.
One of tho unsung heroes of the Mem
phis plague is John Walsh, an undertek-
there, who luw remained pluckily at
his post for two years. At times ho ha
lieen left absolutely without assistance
and at times he has buried 150 bodies iu
one day.
A young lady, Miss Caledonia Linton,
Texas, residing on' Cottonwood Creek,
while walking in the woods met a large
alligator. Hhe got n rope, tied it around
tho alligator's neck and dragged it two
miles to her homo. The brute ci
near striking her several time*.
The Georgia gold mines yield #1,000,000
a year. The Magruder mine, just in the
edge of Lincoln county, is worked day
and night, and yields 100 pennyweight
of gold per hour, or $800 a day, and the
Georgia papers think that their State
will eventually rival Colorado’s mineral
richness
Memphis Lodger: To bo collared by
an official and charged $10.25 cvcrv time
he comes hero, makes a commercial t
i*t roar, and sonic get off in a hurry.
Four rnnio in a few night* since, and up-
tin seeing bow it was, they
packed, and the next train ea
out of town.
ft i.
I'd tile,
Mcmpli
ored (hat
there is to be no Mnrdi-Urn*display here
also current that
l* intended by the
next spring, and it
the pageant, at one (
Mcmphi for the 10th of Kebruajy next,
lists been sold, and that it paraded the
streets of Ht. L*ui* a few weeks iu*o u
der the auspices of the Vailed PiCphe
A' house near^Viudsor, 8. C
by two trifling women, each the.
of several children, was burned the
er night, and three little^hild
ished. The women are strongly suspect
ed of having started the fire. One of the
nee before imprisoned for a
nilar
said all her trust was in ( : <>«!
ed he r husband, kindre'- am
sieet liar fit heaven. ! or tw<
"■»« m
due to ' alleviate Jier si
were v ry great, saying -li
in Der sens***, which she did.
ug kindly ami lovingly to all pre-
itu offering her hand to husband
•them when she could no longer
■peak. The household she so much loved
now weep for Aunt Clara, and hoj.
meet her sf
Col. Wm. H. Caruthers, a prominent
citizen of Virginia, died iu Nottoway
countv, oil the Pith of October, at the
age of eightv-three yearn. Though a gen-
•f thorough education ami fine
address, and qualified for a brilliant law-
•, he devoted his life principally to
agricultural pursuits. During the late
vil war he filled the place of major in
Virginia regiment.
Cliattanooga (Tenn.) Titles: L. F.
Johnson met a singularly,sad and tragi
cal death at Washington and Ix*e Col
lege, Yu., last Saturday. He and an in
timate friend named Poigner were play
ing croquet when thev lH*gan (piarreling,
and Poigner struck Johnson lightly on
the hack of the head with.a croquet nail-
let. Johnson died a few hours after.
The grief of hi* brothers and of his unfor
tunate slayer was heart rendering. Poig
ner is in jail.
Master Joseph Brand, son of Mr. E.
M. Brand, of Logainville, La., was the
victim of a most shocking accident at
his father’s gin in that place on Tuesday
of last week. While putting some tur
pentine upon the band leading from the
steam engine to the gin, to prevent it*
slipping, hi* left arm was caught and so
torn ami mangled that it necessitated the
amputation of the limb near the shmfl-
der. Tlie lad suffered most excrucia
tingly and died shortly afterwards.
Brownsville (Tenn*) States: Last
spring, a colored ohm in this county
rented a place and planted a little crop.
He had but one mule, and that turned up
its legs and died just as the cotton com
menced coining up. In sore trouble lie
applied to bis mercluuit lor advice and
help. A mule was bought for sixty-five
dollars and the crop was faithfully
worked, gathered aud sold. The colored
man has paid his rent-^mo hum I red dol
lars—paia for his summer’s supplies, paid
.for his mule and hasalmut three hundred
dollars left.
Mr. S. Brocker, one of the estahlishers
of tho Little Rock Democrat ami for
several years connectdil with the Gazette,
died of dropsy on November 9th. He
wah-e nallra of Cumberland, Md., and
was all nit 58 years of age. lie served
throughout thf xivil war as an officer in
the confederate "light artillery, and was
a maji
lnmanding a battalion ut the
in tlie Btfioks-Baxter trouble in
1874 he was appointed brigadier-gener
al. He was for MCVuraLycaig secretary
and gland master bf tluv MtDbns in Ar-
Mavsville (Ky.) Republican: Last
Saturday an aged and decrepit weman,
carrying upon nor back an idiotic child,
about ten years old. j»a«setl through this
•1(1. J»fl!
to Kfl
she expect* to’join her husband, who
loft herfur Jjmt place year-ago. ^Hhe
was an o^oefof pity and eonimiscration*
as she trudged ;dong with her burden
itpou her mg*!:, <>u her \<
iramp w w pwx
straugdr* forn
was from Martin county. After remain
ing over Huiidav at the station-house,
resting and recuperating her strength,
she started again on Monday morning
for her destination.
Dr. M. F. Stephenson in Oninoslioro
Southern: “One of the most important
discoveries lias recently been made by
Professor Hayden, six miles northeast of
the city, in Harrington vein of chloride
ami bromide of silver, the first found in
d gives promise of immense
' She said she
•igh-
•. The range of assays of sil
the hundreds, and the gold
from twenty to foriy dollar
There are three \\ Ins in this r
lmrliood which are argentiferous,
“ Harris lode,” the Keltan vein and the
Harrington vein; in addition to which isn
ledge of white niRrble, and near by, on
Dr. Ham’s land, is a dyke of porphyry;
associated with it you find a vein of
magnetic iron and manganese.
Mr. L. J. Dupree, editor of the Austin,
(Texas) Statesman, thus writes of a
(ieorgia town: The Augusta Georgia
News says “the third crop of fig* in Ogle
thorpe county is nearly ripe, and there
has not lieen a fight or quarrel in Lexing
ton since last sprjng.” It was of this
ancient village that Bob Toombs said
forty years ago that it was “finished and
fifty
More hi
other
The assertion ha* lieen applied t
fossilized town* but owes paternity to
Bob Toomlis. But Lexington is a his
torical spot. Little, lifeless, rose-embow
ered. its sliiiftng white cottages and resi
dences going to decay, its store houses
nd courthouse n dilapidated
hapless as its fortunes may lie,
deserted its bar room, where the
vs says there “has not lieen a fight
e last spring,” IiOxington is still a
mating spot—for an arehieologist.
Thu voice of Wm. 11. Urawf.
lg spo
e of Wi
familiar on its street"
form. He s:it. in h
Ik-uoIi. . His old lion
that of Joseph Henr
” irgc R. (illme
hit gigantic
i old age, on the
? i* hard by. and
- Lumpkin and of
l of the builder of
the great public bail of Athens. These
old homes of worth and greatness still
constitute monument* to the ancient
glory of J/exington. Then Tom ami
Howell Uobli ami Bob Toombs and Bill
Dougherty and Jack Greer and Alexan
der 11. Stephens, were Imys, loitering idly
aliout tlie village preen of taxingloii.
No wonder the "third crop of figs this
season rilion* in Ix*xington.” Figs hav
less to do there than in any spit of s
lenee, white sand, and sunlight and sol
tude on God’s foot stool.
In the last numlier of the Monroe
(Ga.) Advertiser, Dr. A. C. Rogei-s pay
the following tribute to one of his forme
slaves: Aunt Ulnra Rogers, one of the
liest ami most unexceptional colored
women the writer ever knew, died last
week She was a faithful and trm
vant.in slavery, obedient, honest, confid
ing and lovintr: true to her master
mistress, and a kind nurse. There
not one of the children that did not lov
her. Hhe nursed them nil; cared for them,
and called them her children; and woe to
the dnrkev that dared to offend one
them. After freedom she was tho
kind and faithful friend and servant,
living with her former mistress most
the time, and loving her anil her child
si* in davB of yore. Nothing existed
among them all nut the kindest word*
and feelings. When her miitress sicken
ed and died, sbe sat by her bedside t«
wait on her and see the lost breath de
part, ami then-she Wept with the
dren and lamented'hfw death
the*!
Her di>
the fatal
dark river." Ida re well departed kind
ve bellevo j
ihining white
of the
obe tlier
II Is
MISCELLANEOUS.
A^rtdo-
A list
Te
take.
of age, resiil i i
of
stock
1 300 head of cattle.
John Arnold, of Mineral county, West
Virginia, raised thin year ten barrel* of
rn from one car’s planting.
Mrs. Charlotte Letcher, the widow of
:-Governor Letcher, of Kentucky, died
at Frankfort on the 29th of October.
whole number of Methodists in
ille, Kv., in 1865, was 1,424. The
r at the close of 1«78 was 4,882.
Ashville Citizen says: President
1 Superintendent Jlerliert will
n hav
gia railrc
ml of the North (
m pie ted.
W(mm1 eountv, West Virginia, lias
*liip)Hil this fall 290,000 ixiunds of
grapes, besides the quantity sold at home,
yielding in all a revenue of $10,000.
A correspondent in an exchange gives
hi* experience in favor of cotton seed
meal for milch cows. He feed* three-
fourth* of a iMiund, morning and night.
Under this feed one cow gives an extra
yield of three quarts and another of two
and a half quart* of milk.
A cheap and simple .piece of machin
ery ha* ju.-t been invented and isinwp-
eration at Wcschestcr 8. C., whic h spins
seed cotton Into thread. It is claimed
that this invention will add 100 per
cent, to the profit of the planter, as it
saves him the expenae of ginning, baling,
bagging and ties.
“ Dat cull ud pusauB on de jury, him’s
do mail l objec’ to,” said a negro when
put on trijil in the Marion, H. C., Court
the other day. The black, good man
and true, was unseated, and the prisoner
given acquittal. After his release the
darkey was asked what lie bad against a
jurvnmn of hi* own color. “Nulfin at
all, 1h)s*,’’ said lie, “but, vesee, I knowed
f I flattered the prejudu* oh de odd-
lat I get off, an’ golly I did
jurymen dat I get oil’, an golly I '
iVidiMn- Lnnief. tho pmst-imiiicinti, is
lecturhe at tbisb.lms Hopkins Hui'B'i*-
•HitAs in Baltimore-, <«n “ HngWsI
the lecture treating especially of Hhaks-
peare’s-verse. Mr. Lanier will endeavor
to show tlie artistic glowtta obBervablo
in Sfiakapchre"* later work*, a* com
pared with hi* earlier ones. The final
.lecture will uinkq,qpiiiiiarL*ons liet\y#cn
J*’Hi® Tern|» st,’* wrfttcta after $61^':iml
“ A Miduuimner Niglit^ Dream,” writ
ten 1590.
stunaici
ii Jlh
r th
Uiithouglit of Statistics.
TJie Bpstuii groufR^o-
gethet some statistics of the kiiitrwMeh
almost everybody might know if any ono
took Umd to think of
two square feet to each persbli£i_
population of Boston could ^tam
public garden, with a good
to spare. The entire )K>pttlatiuuof tlio
United Htatcs could stand in Boston
proper (not including Brighton, Dor
chester and West Roxbury.) The entiro
population of the world (now usti
at 1,440,000,000) could stand
island of Martha’s Vineyard, o:
space occupied by tlie town* of Boston,
Brookline, Newton, Needham, Dedham,
Hyde Park and Milton. The state of
Massachusetts would in thii way accom
modate seventy times the present popu
lation of the world. The entire popula
tion of the world, placed side by ride,
and allowing two feet to each potton,
would encircle the earth twenty times.
The states of Maine, New Hampshire
and Vermont, taken together, are ns
largo as England. Any ono of the
states of Georgia, Illinois, Iowa jind
North Carolina, is as large as Engfftnd.
Kansas is a* largo ns England and Scot
land together. Ireland is about rtiesize
of Maine. France is more tluiu thrice
large England, Wales and Hcotland
together. Texas is thirty-live times as
large ns Massachusetts, and as la rue as
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island* Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey, Eennsylvnnia,
Delaware, Maryland, Ohio nml Indiana
combined. The entire population of the
United Htatcs could be provided'for in
the state of Texas, allowing for each
U in xuAH*,uuuwiug Vi wwi mmi,
and child, four notes of land.
The entire population of the world
could be provided for in the United
States, allowing each persflh ono ami a
half acres of lund
ri< nds weeping "
f the dear departed,
their team for the living
for you,
got .
Maggie,” ly said one day, about eighteen
months after he gained his commission.
“ Guens what it i».”
They were walking along the green
lancesof Perlock, listening to the ccaselcsa
murmur of the sea, as, at intervals, they
had walked and listened ever since they
could remember, at any rate, for she
was six years younger than her former
playfellow.
“ You are going to be promoted,” she
said.
“ Promoted, you little goose! No one
ever gets promoted in the Birtish army.
Guess again.” .
“ You are going to marry an heiress.”
lump iu her throat us sbe
id it.
Wrong again. No inestimable young
m, with green eyes, a turn-up nose,
•ptiblc heart, and fifty thousand a
, has turned up yet. But it’s some
thing nearly as good. I’m ordered to
China
“ Oh,
die casped, and burst
into tears, it was very foolish of her,
but then she was only sixteen, and had
net yet acquired the praiseworthy art
of concealing her feelings.
“ Why, whatever are you cryiug for?”
he asked, and kissed away her tears.
He'd kissed her tver aim <* she was five,
and thought no more of it than if she
had been his sister, or the cat, excepting,
perhaps, that it was nicer- -which it was,
no doubt. “ I shall be nway five year*,
at most, and when Iconic back I’ll bring
you a pig tail and an ivory tooth-pick,
him! a whole lots of thing, and—”
. “Yes?’ she auid, listening alien'
lively.
“But then you’ll ben young woman—
I forgot -and ‘out* and all that sort of
thing, and won’t condescend to sj»eak to
a poor lieutenant; you will have all the
’squires :iud fox-hunters about the place
at your feet.”
“Oh, no! indeed I shan't, Alic,” slio
■aid, eagerly.
“ But I tell you, you will. I believe
you arc a borii little flirt, aud I shall
come back and find—”
But she bust into tears again, and put
up her pretty litile hands us if to stop his
teasing, which she could not bear just
then. It seemed so cruel of him to laugh
and joke when he was going away for
five years. He did not seem to care a
bit, and she could have broken her heart
on the spot, and would have gladly done
so, and thrown the pieces away so na
never to be bothered with It again.
Then, seeing her mournful blue eyes, h«
was merciful.
I believe I shall
> litt
are wow, awd if
we’ll get niarrie.
after, and if we li.
and stnrv
the heiress turns up.”
“Oh, I hope she won't!” sai
like a truthful idiot. “Shall
write tome Alic. dear?”
e back and find
e darling a* you
got any money,
ive happily over
after —u
“ Yes, of course I shall, and I shall ex
pect you to write luiek six pages crossed
and all that sort of thing, you know.”
So Alic Granger went to China, and
Maggie waited hopeful enough for a let
ter, but a year passed and none came.
“ Perhaps lie’s ill, or it’s miscarried,”
she said, tearfully, half wondering
if it could bo possible that a Chinese
heiress had turned up, and that was the
real reason of Alic’s silence. And the
days and the ninths .went by, and Mag-
• A Now story.
Modjeska is writing a story for Scrib
ner* * Monthly. It is a lovfl story. Tho
heroine’s name is Griscldavitch i'owjde-
watehkit/.ky, and the hero’s Vladimir
Tschczarotsh. The scene Is laid in’tho
quiet little Polish village .Stimtupit-
visch, on tJic banks of the classic' lljvci
MuddihscliKy, in the region of the Kot-
zcnbutitzclosky Mountains. We extract
a passage from advance sheets: “ With
in her wan hands she had her face con
cealed, when to lmr Vladimir asked if
she did truly lofe him. “ Yea, I lofo
thcc; by yonder bale moon I adjure it.”
“Let us,’then,” said he,“ flee!” But
she hesitated bv reason of her trunks,
which being still unpacked. The tears
wandered from her eyes, but meanwhile
Vladimir repeated what for she would
not. bo coming pretty soon, not having
been aware of the gash the words of him
made on the inside of her heart.”
sign came from Alic Gran;
and at length she gave him up a
gethcr.
Maggie was twenty years when her
“No,” said sentimental Emmeline, “I
would not marry Mr. Brown; when he
proposed he didn’t pile the agony high
enough. Whgn I give my hand to a
wooer, I want him to call upon the gods
to witness his deep devotion to me. I
want him to kneel at my foot, take one
of my hands between both of his, and,
with a look that would melt an adaman
tine rock to pity, to beg mo to take com
passion oil his dreadful sullcrings, and
then 1 want him to end by swearing to
blow out his brains oil the spot if 1 did
not compassionate bis n^serv.”
The shirred fan bataue revived during
the summer for thin dresses is now seen
in the thickest winter stuff*, which are
made soft and pliable enough to permit
these voluminous gathers without add
ing much bulk. Sometimes there are
three pleats spreading out on each
shoulder, and the shirring i« only at Uie
waist line; other dresses have ^ the
shoulders aud neck shirred also. Home
waists have tho fullness only in front,
while somo others reverse this, and con
fine it to the back. The over-skirt worn
with such basques is usually shirred
down the. front, and often there is a
broad clu*ter of shirring in the mb Hilo
«f the back.
d p
il she and her mother sold out.
Dunlop was offered a home in Lon
don by a *sistor who was well ofV and
bad-tempered, and it was thankfully
cepted. Maggie was informed that slio
must get her own living, which, beinj
intention, slio advertised for a situa
tion as governess. Now, Maggie had a
come and tell you, so that you migl
practice for an hour or two till after
dinner,” ami she sailed out of the room,
evidently considering the matter settled,
and Maggie meekly proceeded to prac
tice the Mabel waltz aud the Flick
and Flock galop. Then she put on
her shabby black evening gown, and
ay of white flowers into
lir, and waited patiently for
. summons, hoping she would wait in
•aim It very soon came, and with a roll
f music under her arm, and a flush on
ier innocent frightened face and a scared,
almost hunted expression in her eyes,
almost hunted expression in her eyes,
she descended and timidly opened the
the drawing door, and there stood still
fora moment, staring iu astonishment at
the scene before her. There sat the
heiress, with an eager, pleased expression
on her face, and leaning over her, talk
ing and laughing, and more hand
some than ever, and sunburnt and sol
dierly-looking was Alic Granger. There
was no mistaking him. The color rushed
to Maggie’s face as if to say a hurried
good-bye, and then left it altogether.
If-possession, how
and walked with what she flattered her
self was great dignity towards the pi
ano. Hhe felt rather than saw him
raise his head and look at her, and the
next moment he was by her side.
Maggie—my dear Maggie! Why,
fancy you being here; where did you
come from? I have been trying to find
you out for months.”
“ I thought you’’—and then slio did
not know liow to go on, so added, al
most piteously, “ I am the governess
here.”
“Are you! Oh, I see, that is the
reason I have not seen you before, I
suppose.”
“Do you really know Miss Dunlop?”
the heiress asked, coming up and speak
ing in her coolest manner.
Maggie wished sincerely she could
liuk into her shoes and bury herself.
“ Why, of course I do; we hav# been
E lay fellows ever sinec we were born—
aven’t we, Maggie?”
And Maggie, feeling that she was
backed up, auswered bravely:
“Oh, Indeed! How interesting!”
Then turning to Maggie: “Will you
be so good a* to begin a waltz, Mis Dun
lop? This was to be our dance, I think,”
to Alio, and she glides ofl with him tri
umphantly.
He came to her directly after the dance
“ I went down to Perlock to try and
find out where you. had gone to,’ he
said. “ hut nobody knew.”
“It didn’t mat-tcr,” she said huskily,
letting her fingers wander vaguely over
the keys to make believe she wasn't very
much interested in what he said.
“ Yes, it did—it mattered a great deal.
Why, I’ve got a box full of curiosities
for you—clubs to fight with, a littlo
heathen god or tw<», and a statue of Bud-
dah and alls »rts of things. I told
Do
you livelier®—I mean iu this house?’
He said the last word* under his
“ Oh? but Alio
“ Oh, but
stooped and kiai
more could be said, "1
and there stood the ^
stood Maria l’attersofl
“ Mfro Dunlop!” hc^
ror struck. *
“ Mr. G range rj
ir. astonishnienf
“ Hoitv-toitj|
onel, ‘ what
“ My dea^
“it’s all m
so did tl)4
house m\j
Dunlop
gaged, bl
other wti
miles bel
moment .
last nightjl
calling or"
were just i
week when j
Quite ri]|
Granger,” sou
“ you shall be i
“Oh, pleaaS
let me go at oncri
ing her little tou
“ I think it w<
factory if Miss ]
relations,’ said i
So thev all agreed, i
ternoon Maggie packet
belonging* and all thd
went to the well-off ana
aunt.
Tho bad-tempered aur]
niece very graciously ,
she was going to mariyn
week. It is amazing hod
of rich relations, even 1
concern them little j
your
before their wedding 4
“ Nothing, Alic, onlr
away I used to thinJ
perhaps, you’d marry I
with a pigtail.” I
“ The sort of thing!
he said, grandly; “as ft is^l
going to marry a little gi
jiigtail, and I am very happy^
“ Very, very,” she said. And sheJ
rniTrr* t iiR.
11 hr losiden's rpotlea fama
jit Iw th* <tii«fu! rumor;
in hrart mar tx> (lie maid;
i. n>*>'■»•* world will whlsfwi
•vTKTamT
To ask a /in to 1^
ud m <lu/ '
A
bill is as ensl
:luur -
The oyflook in Washington-1
•vato/r.
modest idea of her own merits, ami
fore only asked for £25 a year and
ifortablc home, so no less than five
answers came to her announcement that
she could teach English, French, music
ami the rudiments of drawing.
One of these answers cauic from Wool,
wich, and stated that Mrs. Marshall re*
quiroa n governess lor her three little
girls. Mrs. Marshall was a stiff-necked
irt of a woman, and stared at poor little
twice as pretty as ever) through
double gold glasses Col. Marshall, her
husband, was a nice old man with a
gray head and an iron-gray mustache,
and there was a grown up daughter, a
Miss Patterson, Mr*.Marshall's daughter
by her first husband, who was really the
mistress of the establishment, for Maria
Patterson had a strong will, and she was
an heiress. •
One evening, when Maggie had been
about a year at Woolwich, and she
sitting alone in her school-room as usual,
for her pupils had just said good-night,
and been delivered up to the tender
mercies of their nurse, Miss Patterson
walked in very much dressed, and rather
flushed and excited.
“Miss Dunlop,” she said, “we shall
hnvo n few friends this evening, and I
know one or two of them like an iim
proniptu dance; will you bo ready to
OMtuo into the drawing-room and play,
if we should want you?”
next minute he was cjirried
roith Mrs. Somebody, at the other end of
the room, but not before Maggie had
nodded a reply to him. Soon after that
Miss Pntt<yw»n on mo up to the piauo,
and saying she wished to play herself,
r.nd that Maggie looked tired, dismissed
her without being able to get even an
other look at Alic.
The next niornincr, to Maggie’s very
great surprise, Miss Pattenon came into
the school-room before the children had
assembled.
“Miss Dunlop,” she said, stiffly, “I
should like to know where you say yon
mot Mr. Granger?”
“ At Perlock. His unde lived next
door to my mother. He is a very old
friend, indeed—”
•• Thank you. I merely wished to in
quire, because, of course, you must be
aware that it is not usual for a person in
your position to make herself icmarkable
by having long confidence talks with any
gentleman who mav visit the house.”
“I don’t know what you mean. Miss
Patterson!” Maggie said indignantly.
But Miss Patterson bad swept out
of the room without deigning to reply.
Then Maggie went to her own littlo
room, the one place she had in tho
world entirely to herself, and cried
till her eves were red and her head
ached.
The lessons did not progress that morn
ing. Maggie was thinking of Alic
was no doubt strolling about the
inon, listening to the band ami making
love to the heiress. The children were
more than usually stupid, too, and all
tho world seemed upside down, and all
its ways turned crooked. Suddenly, at
about 12 o’clock, just when Maggie was
in tho middle of expounding, ns best she
could, the eccentricities of the French
grammar, there was a knock at the
jcliool-room door. •
“Come in,” she said.
The door opened, and there stood be
fore lier astonished eves the form of Alic
Granger, and behind him was a man—
evidently his servant— with a box on his
8houldars
“All right, Tim, put it down; that's
right; now be off. There, I’ve brought
the curiostics round, Maggie; I thought
you’d like to see them.”
“Oh! What will Mrs. Marshall and
Miss Patterson say?” said Maggie in con
sternation.
“ Nothing to you for tho next half
hour or so, for I have iust seen them
safely on their way to Woolwich, and
thought I should just get a quiet chat
with you. My dears,” lie said, turning
to Maggie’s wide-eyed, oiien-mouthea
pupils, “ I’m quite surd you’ll like to lio
let off your lessons, so I’ll let vou off for
an hour; run along,my little dears,” and
he cqiened tho door for them, and shut
it after them.
“Oh, Alic!” she said in fear and tremb
ling.
“ Oh, Maggie!” ho answered, mimick
ing. “What did you mean by going
away from Perlock, and uot leaving any
address?” _
“ l couldn’t help it, and you novel
wrote,” she answered helplessly.
“ No, I never write lotters; don’t know
how to 8j>cU well enough. But I have
boon hunting for you all over tho place,
and never dreamed of finding you here.
Now we’ll unpack the box; I had it
opened before I camo, so it is only fast-
cued by a lock.”
“ But, Alic ; they’ll never forgi
Ch/kity begin^At home, a
a foreign miaatan * ^ ^
TuKouly *
A womc in tho oheetnnt is ^
in tlie mouth.
They callodibe old i
r bemuse big
food talker
“ To lie continued
fond youns mother
the woes of her
To use the new
fashioned
rub.
A MitftcnrAftY wnis
rich blind girl, Mid he
crawatt •<&
“ Wonder whether Na
down on a pin withou'
Jiazar.
It doesn’t require
blows to pound a man 1
jelly be not too solid.—CY;
day Night.
The reason that some m«n
such hard, bitter things,
most ink is usually mnd<
gall.
The girl who is
called a “ dough nut’
ried, is usually swi
“do naught” after
A FRIEND of •
reason the softer
is localise they hi
Logic by the armfi
“ Ho ends my h
tlie taiy, at the sa
practical illustr^
I f-
>ar 1 cannot play dance music
11: I now r keep time,” said Mag-
id thought I would
Never mind; it doesn’t matter, be
cause if you arc good I'll take you away
next week. Besides tlieyjl fe^y me
anything.
— — OHdy<
ved the'Colonel*
-*♦1
» you think
ducted bui
A little boy
ntly and said: * Mam mi
ink' that if I was made
mid got muddy in*ide when I
J \ME8 PARTON and Bob II
joined hands. I hoy sire sb]
heaven, becaifii
“There’ll lie no Parton th3
A poet sings, “And I covAd her up
with tho kis* I gave.” He mu - *-, have
lieen a coachman and put her under tho
'bus —Oil City Dfriick..
We arc offferir.g a chrpmo for a book *
agent who is not selling the finest work
ever liefore presented < r fdr public pat-
Mawy persons belie* all tha snake
stories printed In the hew papers, and
refuse to placo any creder ’ *"
, B . . moo in the Mr-
pent story to be found to the first ohap-
tars of the Bible.—Nonidotcn Hrnmld.
He said lie wanted her to be hiahelp
)li# f
meet, and she replied that iho could
never be more than roister to him.—
Lot ton Post.
Tim New Orleans PicoyMe says: It
takes twenty able-bodied man to stand |
and look at one poor lit!.-) sign painter I
while he is st work.
The Puris fashion of Is iro taking teal
in bonnets and gloves doesn’t seeflfl
boy wh# often drinlT
absurd tot reowstoa
water frontois
A Citrctoo man
Ao
_nk litmarw
out to shadow^ his wif(
on the beoiyotn wall, instead ol
earthly moihter with fbaa horns.
“It is caper to raise
raise n dimer said a youn
who has topped shavi
Derrick, \
“ Yes,” *dd Joluroy, “
th* Latin ftr ‘riip/bat
when mother taps us itfpaally
■lipiier.
r OA i.led twice snd found you oi
Mrs. Jones.
Mr*. Hraith; " I hod
irocceded to pull out the content* of th#
*■ * ‘heschool-rooir
Jr Btrldha, 1
the mutter, Mag-
them,
thorn’s
gic?” i
Nothing, only yon will get mv in
•ndful trouble—you will, # indeed.
Miss Patterson came in thi^mqrelng,
A Meriden wm
Confitaion.”
, R on tv mali-
found it. O'*
A iuaow
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