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flVMfpirTIV* B4TBI (>■• tmi .';«4 Mix mon'hr 75 This* inouibs 40 VtKapa^tr U« Dwltltm v 1. A»y person who taksi a paper rtifkisr 1 y from the poktolHoe- whether dir. cted to hie mm* or another’*) or whf Unr he hie enb- ■enhed ornot—iaieapontlblsfor thoaaioaat >. If a (ereon ordure hit,paper diecontinoed lie must pay ell arrearages, or the publish eaade, and eotleet the whole amonnt,whf Iher the paper ie taken frorti the office of not. 3. The con»li have decided that refaiing id thke newspapers or periodical! ffuu the itovir — J 1 —'— **-— /finis natiotnel fraud. TOPICS OF TIIE HAT. The owner of the finest peach orchard in Milan County, Texas, pronounces the peach cr'p a failure in thut section. Aw effort to reduce the President’s sil- ary from $5G,000 to #25,000 per annum ■wan defeated in the House by a vote of 25 to 78. Asad comment ou newspaper meu is the statement that there are more edi tors in the Russian prisons than there are out. A proposition looking to the reduc tion of salaries of Congressmen has been frowned down “by a large majority” in that body. The German Government has decided to increase the circulation of silver twenty per cent. Captain Eads is slid trying to per suade Congress what a glorious thing » ship canal would be. X New Jersey has not suffered for years so great damages from forest fires as during the present season. THE BUTLER HERALD. W. N. BENNS, JAMES D. RUSS. Editor*. “LET THi-.RE IiE LIGHT.” Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. VOLUME IV. BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1880. passtsb mm A low story—the basement. Dead issues— old newspapers. The home, stretch—potting op a clothes line. A u riiORS are spoken of aa dwelling in attics, because so few of them are able I to live on their first story • Life on the ^laine,” a bookjust out. won't be mucl of a success Only six Indians killed in ‘.be first chapter. In rending the personals and depar- ' tuies in the newspapers one discovers , that distinguished visitors, like looee powder, go off with a puff. When a Georgina man geta too j to split u watermelon open with held at Cincinnati in June. It prom ises to be an occaslou of great import ance. Every machine recorded in the history of milling, it is claimed, will he exhibited, making the largest display in this department of industrial art the world has ever known. SOUTHERN NEWS. 2) >ad-l Joseph Emmet s spree in Pittsburr cost him 16.0.0. Nearly all of tin eats were sold for a week of his per formance at the Opera-hou8e,nnd the house had to be cloreJ, the money being refunded. Persuasive efforts did not avail, and he was sent to a hospital, where Le was put into condition *o act during the ensuing week. The philosopher of the Cincinnati Gazette says: Our esteemed contem porary, the Commercial, declares that it is not in favor of free trade iu general, but is for free tride only in an article which it uses. But if every one were In favor of free trade in the article which he consumes, and for duties ou those only which other people use, the result would be free trade. Col. John B. Brown low denies very vigorously Gen. Stecdman’e story that Parson Brownlow bore a “serpentine” mark on his body. Mrs. Belva Lockwood has b-en re fused admission to practice by the Gen eral Term of the New York Supreme Court at Poughkeepsie. General Charles Ai.ams, /ate Special Agent of the Utes, fears trouble with them again unless Congress ^peed ily ratifies the new treaty. Captain Eai* is ttill agitating his scheme fer a ship railway acrosa tie Isthmus of Darieu and a few more mil lions of Govern men t money. One Samuel S. Stunton sues Secretary Scburz at St. Louis for #20,000 dam ages for imprisoning, him in Fort Rus sell, near Cheyfenne, without cause. The famous Tuileries of Paris, which have been in ruins since the reign of the Commune, are to be restored, a dispatch states, and converted into a museum- Correspondence is published in New Vo.k allowing that last March Gen. Kilpatrick was tendered and de clined the Governorship of Washington Territory. _ Home of the Pittsburg glass men talk of shutting down their works during the months of July and August, to re lievo the operatives from labor during the heated term. ** Cincinnati Gazette: Kentucky has a right to boast of the champion Legis lature. It has just adjourned after pats ing 1,608 acts, an average of a little more than twelve for each day of the session, fever so many Legislatures have undertaken to make a score like this, hut so* far as known none have i-ucceeded. The Kentucky body ought to have the belt for the mawy-act cham pionship. Henry Clay, a grandson of the “Mill Boy of the Slashes,” will accom pany the Howgate Arctic Expedition as an aid to Lieut. Howgate. Mr. Clay, who is known in Kentucky as “Young Barry Clay,” is twenty-nine years cf a|e. He was born in Lisbon. Portugal, when his father was minister to that country. He is now prosecuting attor ney ?n Louisville, being a man of gem crous nature and varied accomplish ments. _ There are benefits in being a mem ter of Parliament in England other than appear on the face of that honor. ’mberof Parliament cannot be ar rested or imprisoned on any civil action Lnbouchere, the editor of Truth, is de fendant in ft couple of libel suits, and the object in each of theiocasoiis to imprison the lively Labby. Now the plaintiffs must content themselves with a fin# if they get a verdict, aa Labou- chere is a member of Parliament. The steamship City of London, just arrived at New York, reports having seen <?n tho voyage an iceberg three hundred feet in height and seven hun dred feet in length. Babnum won a glorious victory In Springfield. A clergyman, who had been a missionary in South Africa, tested the Zulus by addressing-them in their native tongue, and found them genuine. _ Cbicago Inter^Ocran: Clarence Da vis got five years in the penitentiary and #1,000 fine for having three wives. Can non, M. C., has four wives, geta two years in Congress and #5,000 a year, Have we a privileged class in this coun try ? _ The Erapreisof Russia keeps alive by breathing oxygeD gas mixed with* acid and turpentine, which is adminis tered to her four times a day. The physicians sav that her death cannot be much longer postponed by this artificial process. And now the Russians are complain ing of American competition in the grain markets of that country. Our merchants are shipping corn to OdessA. Freights are so high that the Russian marebants find it cheaper to bring grain from America. James Rsduaih siys that by the present system in Ireland 7,000 land lords get out of the land #90,000,000 a year, and the Government extracts #35,000,000 more. This leaves only #60,000,000 to feed and clothe 5,000,000 inhabitants. Thirty families from Finland ar rived at New York recently en route for Minnesota, where they will engage in farming. That State seems to be pre- erred abive all others by the Scan di navians. Doubtless the climate has /something to do with their location. Louisville bds just completed its hundredth-year* an is as lively as a girl of 'seN|ent^e.n|. jhe place was incorpor ated in 1780, by the Legislature of Vir ginia, which named it from our “ great and ^ood friend,’ 1 Louis XVI., King of France and Navkre. I’he settlement began in 1778, under the celebrated General George Rogers Clarke, one of the belt pf the many leading Virgin ians of those long-taniBhed dayB. It is a city of msrveloi* growth and alike prosperous and be^itiful. The classes in Tale College are di vided into four divisions, according to scholarship, and thi statistics in regard to the use of tobacct in the junior class were recently taken. Of twenty-s'x in the lowest division, ill but four smoked ; of twenty-seven in tie second, eighteen smoked.; of forty ii the first, only ten smoked. Whether hie results from the fact that those who anoke do not iiko to study, or that those who study do not like to smoke, is notintirely clear; but the effect of Bmolcingpn German scho’ar- ship is not usuall; regarded as so marked as this.* And now California is exporting wine to Germany, the first shipment of 100,000 gallons being forwarded a week or two since. The Germans are largely engaged in grape-growing in the Golden State, and claim for their wine all of the qualities possessed by that made in Germany. _ Kalloch, the Mayor of San Fran cisco, is having a docidedly serious time of it. In addition to the numerous chargee brought against him, imputing hie honesty, patriotism, etd., -a young woman now comes to the front whose case promises to break the monotony of the prosecution, M ITCH Jdjllete 1 Tom Buford's eetond trial for the assassination of Juige. Elliott of the Supreme Court of Kentucky is set for the 5th day of Ju,y next. “Shad,” who, during the pint few years, has spqnt the greater ftrtion of his time in the mountains of Kentucky and con tributed extensively to metropolitan journals of the Stale’s crimes and crimi nals, has made Judj© Elliott thp central character fa His fothcoming novel, en titled “The Gentkican of Adair; or, the deled#* of Deliw’ Kentucky cele brities comprise its If a ma tit pereomE, and it is understood tha the undercurrent of the aiory will sjtirise the practical working of dur judical system. London Life, a so-called society journal, haa taken tD Victoria Wood- hutl'and announces tlat she is about to marry a prominent ^Englishman and become one of the “ qieen’s of society.” The Woodhull manajes to get herself written up very liberally in English papers, beginning wth her egregious sell on the eminent!; respectable Ex aminer, which gravejr announced her probable choice bj the American people as their next President. A re ligious paper, the Chiittum Union,, fol lowed with a high eultgy of her virtues as a pietist. How tht worn ad seeuies such notices is a mytery—but she is careful to have nttneroua marked copies sent to the newspapers of this country. An old woman wht went into the poultry business, thinking she could make a fortune by sellikg ej maxe a xortune oy seJlilg eggs, gave it wJW djegust, beraasc, is she said, “ the h interest is ex F reared In C? JL^IsUy wH«a eggs «e dear, (nWuational Ei,billon to bl ' ‘fr* b, **“ “ *•» " “* Frogs are shipped North from Bed ford, Tenn. Tiie new court-house at Corsicana, Tex., will cost #40,000. The culture of peanuts is becoming more general in Virginia. The proceeds of the Frog opera in New Orleans amounted to #1,250. Texas 6 per cent, bonds are quoted at 102 and aro scarce in the market. Only one ho*el in Jacksonville, Fla., will remain open during the summer. Unmuzzled dogs on the streets of Memphis are shot down without mercy. N&arly 2,000 workmen are emyloyed upon new buildings going up in At lanta. The summer uniform of the police Richmond, Va., includes wnitc gloves. It is estimated that the present rice crop in Louisiana will be double that of last year. A cotton compress, costing #40,000, will be erected at Brenham, Texas, this summer. Fisk University, at Nashville, has been presented with a bell weighing 2,000 pounds. During this year 4#0,000 bushels of corn have been shipped to Europe from Richmond, Va. Virginia is set down for #326,000 in the Congressional River and Harbor Ap propriation Bill. A good quality of white porcelain clay has been discovered in Forsyth County, N. C. A grand agricultural and mechani cal fair is to be Held at San Antonio, Tex>s, next fall. Mrs. SallieGray,of Meridian, Mass., is 117 years old and still engages in letter-writing. In Henry County, Ga-, a whole drove of hogs, while lying in a heap, were killed by lightning. Long staple seed cotton Is so scarce in East Florida, but one-third tho usual crop will be planted. New Orleans has shipped v France and Italy within a year 2,400.000 gal lons of cotton seed oil. An evening paper has been established at Lynchburg, Va., making three dailies now published there. The Hon. John N. Hudson, State Senator from Amcricus, Ga., has been sent to lunytic asylum. Therf is - lady postmaster at Elon, Amherst County, Virginia. Her last predecessor was also a lady. Tns Legislative Council of Memphis ^as passed an ordinance abolishing all hanging signs from over the side walks. A colored barber at Macon, Ga., was stabbed to death with an umbrella while engaged in a quarrel with another man. A Confederate Memorial Associ ation is to be organized at Memphis to care for the heroic dead in Elmwood Cemetery. The average yield of the oats crop in the vicinity of Austin, Texas, this year is from eighty to one hundred bushels per acre. J. F. West, who killed a negro some time ago at Barnesville, Ga., has been refused bail and is now in jail at Griffin. A farmer in Montgomery County, Tenn., drove the bugs from his tobacco- plant beds by treating them to a dose of rotten eggs. Tub water in Wolf River, so long de tested by Memphians, has been officially pronounced the “ third best water in the United States.” The plantera of Alabama and North ern Mississippi are more engrossed than ever in the cotton crop, and are neglect ing everything else for it. The President of the Mississippi State Agricultural College, at Stark- ville, receives an annual salary of #2,500, and the professors #2,000 each. Over #400,000 has been raised in the North for the construction of the new Sibley mills in Augusta, Ga., and the remaining $200,000 is promised. The cotton mills at Carrollton, Miss., have been bonght by one King, • Georgia manufacturer, who will add 200 oporative to the working force. The credit of the State of Mississippi is at par. Her warrants are equal to currency and are paid on demand. Her bonds command a premium in the mar ket. There is not a single liquor saloon in any town on the line of East Tennes see and Georgia railroad, between Chat tanooga and Knoxville, a distance of il2 miles. Local option has proven a success in Jasper County, Texas. Not a case of drunkenness bfs been seen on the streets of the town of Jasper during the present year. The people of Charleston, 8. G\, have subscribed about *500 for the relief of the familiee o* the two negroes who died from foul air in cleaning out one of the fire wells in that city. The sculptor Clark Mills claims to be something of a horseman, and to be pre pared to defend his bronze horse against aU adverse criticisms by judges of horses in Tennessee. . A brick the else of an ordinary cigsf box, made of the counterfeit nickeb j lected in the street-car cash-boxes, is >ne , ^ UMBIjR. 3b, j relatives bogin to look around at L — -. . — - . --- ' see wh&tfc the best they can doonahead-J of the curiosities which sdorns the new sticks lor guns, when he casually asked I Terrible Scene In a Theater. I 8 % streetcar office in Memphie. them what they were doing, and re- : A , L . rri , )Ic xenc took place in the ’ Indv, “le the St ™puTr color’for I ' The Sunday liquor law is being ] ceived the reply: “Weis playin' rev’- I Teatro del Circo at Madrid n few days | bride.” We may bo a little particular rigidly enforced in Columbia, 8. C. One nan was fined $10 for delivering m Sunday morning a bottle of liquoi that he had sold the evening before. New Orleans has a cork manutac- tory employing fifteen men and turning out 2,500 dozen corks per day, which Joes not even supply the local demand. The establishment Is soon to be cr.- laiged. Two South Carolinians, who have betn at law four years for the possession of a bull, are still at it. The costs exceed $1,000, exclusive of counsel Tees, and the bull is dead. It has been stuffed, and is to be produced in court Mrs. Rogers and one of her daugh ters, of Buncombe, N. C., made by their own labor, during last season, from two and a half acres of land, $684 worth >f tobacco. This amonnt was realized alter paying a rent of one-third of the crop. The man at Luray, Va., who has kisjted nobody during his entire man hood has conscioutious scruples in be matter. He became convinced in hi youth that kissing was wicked beenuse Christ was betrayed by a kiss. At a business meeting held last Sun day in the First African Baptist Church of Richmond, Va., attended by 2,500 people, the confusion being so great that the Mayor sent a large detachment of police into the building to.preaerve order. Clark Mills, the sculptor, ie seventy yearn old. ‘ Until his fortieth ]|ear he was a plasterer, and n^ver had any idea of becoming a sculptok. At the time he undertook his first equestrian statue of Jackson, he had never seen the General nor an equestrian statue. It is stated that a Mr. Willis, now living in Bradford County, Ga., is 106 years old. He is able to walk Jo town, some six miles, and alro able to support Himself by his own labor< He has 135 descendants in GeorgU and thirty-two in Florida. In Middle Tonnessee a drunkard fled to the woods while wild with delirium tiemens, dug a grave and was found n it dead. His wife w»a reude'.cd (ramie b r the sight, and prayed that she m'ght Richmond has a University Club, composed of graduates of that institu tion, who are trying tp aid in the prising of funds to make available the trne tele- irdope, Bijd,.tc bo the,beet,in 'America, presented ,to thejr Alma jfater by Mr. McCormick, of Chicago. . TfiE last grand jury of Telfair dounty, Ga^frecppMehded.ttejt, Rep resentative and Senator use their influ ence securing the passage of a bill by the Legislature fixing the liquor license in that county at $5,000 a year. The Young Men’s Library Associa tion of Atlanta, Ga., received from all sources during the year ended, $6,312.- 77. The increase in the number o! volumes during the year was 1,035. Misi Emma Abbott is a paid-up life member of the association. Fannie Hunter and Macha Thomp son, colored, who were convicted ol burglary-«tid sentenced to the penitenj tiary for life at Anderson, S. C., in the fall of 1878, have been pardoned by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Judge and a numerously-signed pe tition. Mibb Sarah Martin, a Cherokee gill, wrote a letter to tht Evangelist, E. L. Moody The letter w*s shown to a wealthy friend of Mr. Moody, who was so well pleased wRh it that he placed $1,000 at the disposal of Mr. Moody for the continuation of Miss Martin’s edu cation. The Jolly murder is still the absorb ing topic of interest at Decatur, Ga. The general opinion in that section is that Weaver was also con erned in the murder of Victoria Norris, snd it is probable that he will be indicted by the next grand jury. The St. Lawrence Presbytery, In connection with the Southern Presby terian Church of Texas, has passed resolutions condemning the use of tdbacco by ministers, and directing tht Committee on Education not to recom mend any candidate for help in his education who uses it At Newbern, N. C., J. L. Rheen planted a crop of peas on the 1st of Feb ruary and finished gathering the product on the 20th of April. He then cut the vines from forty-five acres, and cured them for forage, and on the evening ol April 80 had the ground planted in cotton. The principal plank in the platform of the Rev. Jefferson Washington, col ored, independent candidate for Con gress in the Fifth Georgia District, is thus stated by him: “ i am opposed to having our children gobbled up by these medicated students, and I’m bound to stop it” At Argents, Ark., an immense cotton seed oil mill is to be erected immedi ately by Memphis and Little Rook capi talists. They will also erect a powerful cotton compress, the prose coating #80,- 000, and having a pressure of twenty- five hundred tons to the inch—capable of reducing a bale of cotton to six and a half inches. A gentleman passing a oolored school at Tocooa, Ga., aaw a number of nue men hunting for Jicker." j ago The evangelism Moody and*Sankey passed through Indian Territory last week, and while at Muscogee in the Creek nation, Mr. Moody arranged to eceive ten Indian girls from that na tion, for whom he will provide frre ducation at the Young Ladies’ Semi nary established by him at Northfield, Mass. The colored Republicans of Missis sippi demand that Blanche K. Bruce, now a United States Senator from that State, shall have the second place on the Grant ticket. Bruue is a colored man of limited education, a native of Vir ginia, and a Mississippi planter Binco the war His term of service as Senator will expire next March. A newspaper in Georgia says that if the farmers of that State would devote less of their energies to the raising of cotton and give more attention to the cultivation of sugar-cane, rice, arrow- root, the tea plant, wine-growing, and the production of early fruits, vegeta bles and melons for the Northern mar ket, they would be much more inde pendent and happy. A force of men stationed by the United States Bureau of Internal Rev enue in Fanni, Union, Towns and'Rabun Counties, Ga., to break up the illicit distilleries in those counties and to bring the offenders to trial, is being raid #5,000 a month. These men look uron their occupation as a “ fat job,” and will hardly apply for a discharge until the appropriation runs out. At the office of the Commissioner of Immigration for Florida, were rec ived on Siturday two letters which were somewhat unique as to the requests con tained in them. One was from a Greek firm iu London, which wanted a cargo of orange-wood sticks, and the other from a gentleman in Kentucky who wished a water monkey forwarded to him. The season for elopements has beguu in Virginia. In that State such even are much more likely to ocf , » , * f during the cheap excursiona.- i n A ummer 10 ....... ... INI During the performance a in <1- in such matters’, but we should prefer • forced his way into the house, white one. | armed with a hatchet, and contrived to j If Bismarck insists on his resignation, c.imb from the auditorium upon the j the Emperor William knows our address, stage, where, brandishing his weapon I Up two (lights of stairs, and knock at furiously, he announced linn-elf to the ! the right-hand door. Don’t kick the terrified audience us “the Avenger of j panda.—liurdetle. Upon one of tho attendants | Yury red-haired passenger—“ I tajr, Man hind.’ approaching hfn with the object of p sunding him to withdraw from tho stage j jv, he smoti the unfortunate man to tho ! ,, earth with one deadly blow; and lie managed to keep the police off*, when they attempted to arrest him, by whir - ing his hatchet round his head with such force and swiftness that none of tl:o ‘ agents of authority ’ dared to rush in upon him. Presently, however, a party of soldiers made its appearance iu lie theater, under the command of un of ficer, who Hummo-.ed the raging maniac to give up his weapon and surrender himrelf, but in vain; wliereup detachment received orders to fire at with blai-k cartridge, in the hope Good gracious, sirl , . r head in; how can you expect to go on while the danger signal is out? ’ “ I know a victim to tobacco,” said a lecturer, “who hasn’t tastdd food for thirty years.” “How do you know he hasn't?” asked an auditor. “Because tobacco killed him in 1850,” was the reply. Over five gallons of castor oil have been used in oiling tho skates of the Hartford rink. Wo are thankful that a new iine of industry has opened to the dreadful stuff’.—Danbury Newt. He—“ Why, you see, the fact is, my dear, I knocked your mediieval teapot off the top shelf and broke—” She— “Oh, my prophetic soul ! My teapot?’ Ho (liiilnrlvl^ 11 Vn Moralv mv hoiwl! 1 of frightening him intosubmiasio this while lie was yelling at the top of lii» voice, flourislii. g l»i rt hatchet, and threatening to kill any body who should approach him. KccugnUing the impos sibility of overpowering him without risking the soldiers lives, the officer in command gave the oruer to load with lml* and lire upon him. A minute later the wretched man lay a corpse upon the stage, three bullets having pu.ssc-d through his head; and, this highly-sou- j y our face seems very familiar to me” aitioual dramatic episode having been Customer-”Very likely, dr. lwaalong thus brought to a close, the audience re- I n sheriffs officer. (Gent collapses.) returned to their places from which ! » • a#- J tliey kail fled in terrorwUen the madman I . A Oeumaj. traveler In Africa charac inuue his tlrst und k»t ap^arnnee , I a ptople he j-arne .crow a. >n. ■ he.ug.,and.h.eveningperfu,,«,U | He (bitterly)—” No. Merely my head! ’ 4 See, mammal’ exclaimed a little one, as puss, with arching spine und ele vated rudder, strutted around the table, “ J*ee, kitty’s eat so much she can’t shut her tail down.” Heavy swell—(to a customer of the house)—“I think 1 have seen you before; mod at the point at.vhi, l, they | P "jyrhjnc, propnathu^, diohotomnio | ma A young i knocked down for less than taeen a that. in who plunged Into the ued a maiden who had Heat on Bnlldlng-Sione. j Sf “J. Tar bottom, The powers of the various kinds of by her hand. 8he couldn’t lioubt his building-stone to resist pressure and at- | affection; she knew Kao was ready to dive “aspheric influences are well kuown, ! for her. but th* re scarcely ever occurs does not emphasize the effect of heat nti-Dn ThU need Hiram A. Cutt ' n 8> State Geologist of ,t undertaken to supply by tne cneap excursions,- ■uuiiuor Washington City the North. In deed, Washing*- m regarded as a sort of national Gretna Green. In many of these cap dH 110 cru |l parents interpose *n.t objections to the match, but the hypothetical elopement was adopted with a view of economy. It saved a wedding outfit aud entertaiments that usually follow marriages. The Richmond (Va.) State attributes the failure of foreign immigrants to settle in the South to th® presence of the negro as an important clement of the population of Hut section. On the other hand the Richmond H7*/<7 says: “Prejudice against the negro is indige nous only to the soil they inhabit, and it is especially noticeable that the im migrant class of foreigners when they first come among us know little or noth ing of such distinctions until they have imbibed it from accociation with our selves.’’ It is likely that a Congressional Com mittee will be appointed to visit North ern Georgia and North Carolina this summer to make a thorough investiga tion of the charges that have recent 1> been made in regard to the lawless, re bellions, cut-throat 44 moonshine” popu lation said (o exist in that section. These charges are now believed by the Commissioners of Internal Revenue to be false to a great extent, and to be slanders upon a people that are iu the main peaceable and law-abiding. Em*»ibON says everything good in wan leans on something higher. Emer son is right. We have seen a man lean ou u telegraph pole, and the only good in him was beer. At least he said it was good. “ Hrav John, don’t rat thorn ertektn up," • Well." uid John, Vermont \ , - ri -, . •w-^vi'ies of experiments, the first result j of which is to confirm and give exact ness to the general impression that gran- j itc is a poor heat-register, and the second j to show that there is wide choice—even 1 in granite-in this respect. He tested | twenty two specimens of the best known quarries, and found that while nil were ! unaffected by the 600° of heat, damage u.ually began at fl00», « Kriou. and j pUi'y ‘-Pinafcr,- to thorn, they still kept on growing, wo ■Atijr’a pap." for ua^ * or < * 00, » 'i y u",*° about It. then? baby'A pap?" Fancy Farmer” asks: “How do you keep weeds out of your garden ? ’ B'lewi soul, we don't! We tried having a frequent n't 800°, and »t 1,000°, all the : , “"“- or “ n n, ” v ■pecimon. wore ruined, the stone from ,, , • , , - - Mount Desert .landing life tee-, p-rlmps 1 let SL? 10 Ik.tier thnn nnv other He p VC i it I --- llen ‘ gIW - t water c better than any other. his opinion that the effect heated granite is rafher*npnarent than j real. The importance of this informa tion is very great, especially to bu lders and insurers. In spite of these hints, this favorite stone will probably con tinue to be used in “ fire-proof "’build ings, and possibly without serious dan ger, if it is only used iu very solid walls, but to use it in buildings supporting columns, especially withiu the walls, is only to invite the gutting of the whole interior of the building if a fire should break out. WIIKN the intellectual typo ian’t careful, Ol the poet’aroluntaiy *1—— j™ He la pretty aui For a printer’! wotk DoecimUd by tlmt f^r Gieeley and Long Writers. Congdon says : When Mr. E. C. Stedmun, who was then a much younger writer than he now is, and by no means so well known, offered his poem about “Lager Bier, I remember that Mr. Greeley waa much pleased with it, which was the more remarkable because he probably did not know the taste, even if he knew tho smell, of the mild tipple which Mr. Stedmun celebrated so melo diously. He called out from his den that the poem reminded him of Thack eray's ballad of “Bouille Raise”—a re mark worth repeating,--not because Mr. Stedman’s poem is particularly like Mr. Thackeray r s, but because it shows that Mr. Greeley was familial with the great novelist’s best things. 'J here was a wed- dingabout that time which created much sensation in New York society of a cer tain class, and' which was very fully re ported and magnified and glorified and commented ireon in the New York It was called “The Dia- □g,” because the bride was reported to have received most costly gifts of diamonds. Mr. Stedman came forward with a light satire upon fushion- able frivolities and unequal matches, which was printed. The young bard meant no barm, but he nearly involved the newspaper into a libel suit for which there was not the least possible reason, and himself in a duel with the irate* papa of the bride, which would have Dccn more unreasonable still. Alas! this was a great many years ago, but I remember that we had no end of fun out of it at tho time. 1 cordially bear testi mony to the fact that Mr. Stedman was much pluckier about the matter than he would probably be in a like affair just now, since years have brought him mul tiplied responsibilities, a literary reputa tion well worth nursing, and, if he w‘ll pardon me for saying to. just a little more of the commodity called and known aa common sense. A BENEVOLENT Detroit dentist an nounces that on a certain day he would scnooi ai loccoa, us, saw a number ox u teeU) frce for poor persons and pro- llttl. chap, pi.,log In the btulm-u II Vide laughing ga.. He ated 700 g.lfoni the, were hunting (or eome one, tulng of gu end extracted 371 teeth. 1 Learned Coiftosllor. George W Corom a Utica composi tor, who lias been making his logs his compasses and seeing the world, writes to the Observer; “j am succeeding very nicely at the Khedive's printing office, and have been paid for my ten days work in March, 385 piasters’or #2". I havo frequently a chance to see the American and European newspapers, and find thorn very good company. The banking system here is done ori the re verse principle— they charge the deposi tor a per ceniage for keeping his money. The matter which I have to 4 set up ’ in the composing room is most'y in the French and Italian languages, snd I have become pretty familiar with the work. In the office a number of lan guages are used promiscuously—French, Italian, and Arabic, but vory little Eng lish. The Arabic is much more gut'eral than the others, and each of the charac ters represent sounds as in ihort-liand. The otlier day we experienced a hurri cane, the first blow of the hot, dry wind from the desert called the Khainscne. This generally occurs at tho beginning of summer. The sight of its effects here wss very striking. Suddeuly tho galo, laden with fine, yellow sand, swept through the city. The streets, narrow, dirty, and dotted with mud holes, were tlronged with peuple of every descrip tion and nation, carriages, carts, camels, donkeys, goats und dogs. They pre sented a lively appearance ns they hur ried in every direction, their movements accompanied by the slamming of doors and blinds, breaking of glass, etc. As I walk about the city wearing my turban, I am generally taken for a Turk or Greek, and so escape many of the beg gars and their picas for buckshcesh a gift of money.” A Succcsg'ul Plonoer. An old Elmirinn writes to t^^^drrr- tien from Kansas ns follows*^^^ \ e been in the West twenty-five yeitWTjind do not know that I am any more liable to be blown up here thnn the editor of tho Advrrtiser is in his sanctum. 1 have been in Kansas six vears, the grasshopper year included, and have made enough (luring that brief pcriol here, so that men who have lived all their lives in Chemung County, and ore now the old men there, and have delayed and slaved all their lives among the stumps Hnd stones for a precious living, cannot to' day buy out my last five years’ accumu lations. And I can point the editor to young man, literally within a stone's throw of Elmira, who to-day arc work ing hard on the best farms there are there, and who are barely making a living from hand to mouth; and who if they were here, could put themselves on a basis at once to grow up with the country, and become thrifty and inde pendent farmer* within the next five year*. . time, A man out West obtained a divorce from his wife, and married again within three days after the decree was granted. An Irisman commenting on the man's action, remarked: “Bedad, he couldn’t have had much respect for his first wife, to l»e marryin’ again so soon after laviu’ her.” He win little lawyer man. Who meekly blushed whjle he began Her |>oor dead huibanilTwill lotfcmh no ■mill'd while thinking of hie tv Then said to her, so tenderly. " You hare a nice fat legacy.” And when he lay next day In bed, With plasters on hla broken head, He wondered what on euth he’d nld. Colonel Ingersoll says he doesn’t see 44 how it is possible for a man to die worth * " O,0Oi» or $10,000,000 in a city full of want.” Nor do we. Editors should club together and resolve not to die worth $5,U00,00O or #10,000,000. We would rather not die at all than to leave this world worth that much money. —Norristown Herald. A War Anecdote. During the late war General McLaws, now postmaster at Savannah, was riding down his picket line, and encountered a genuine son of the Old Pine Tree State on duty, who hud tuken his gun apart, with the intention of giving it a thorough cleaning. Tho General halted in front of him, when the following conversation < nsued: “ Look here, man, are you not a senti nel on duty?” “ Well, y-a-s, a bit of one!” 44 Don’t you know its nr °nf5 to take your gun apart while on duty?” 44 Well, now. who the deuce are you?” The General saw his chance, and with a sly twinkle of the eye, replied: 44 I’m a bit of a General.” 44 Well, Gineral, you must excuie me. You see thsris so many Warned, fodh> ridin’ ’round here a feller can’t tell Gineral and who ain’t. 1! y6tfll jisfir wait till I git Betsy Jane fixed ^ jjitl- give you a bit of a s’lute.” The General smiled and rode on, firmly convinced that that Benbiuql wqpld prove e(|ual to any emergency — IfyvannaM Tho Darwin Jerk. M ’ A new method of saltiting ladies on the street has lately been adopted by the nobbiest swcllgent lemon pf tender years. It is done in one time mid four motions. The bat, bv a right hand grasp, is lifted from the head, brought forward on a line wi ll the nose and then suddenly lowered to the pit of the stomach, then, ns sudden y, the hat is returned to its place, following the same angular route. The head, at the same time,, must be bobbed forward about three inches, and immediately sprung back to Its natural position. TTie beauty and perfection of this sulution depends upon the rapidity of the execution of its niove is known as the “Darwin hand-otgau monkeys pu their littlo caps with the a motion. Fubtio is j tree which grows i West indies;