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ITEMS or INTEREST. ■DNDBIFTlbH UTH 0n« year.. X.J. 51 Biz month* 75 Throe months .. 40 Ifenapaprr Low Declsloos 1. Any person who takes a paper regular ly from the postoffioe- whether diricted to hio name or another's, or whether he has snb* •enbed or not- is responsible for the amount. 2. If a person orders his paper discontinued j THE HERALD. > paperis t I. The com . to take newspapers o periodicals W. N. BENNS, JAMES D. RUSS. Editors. VOLUME IV. "LET TUJiBE BE EIGHT.” BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1880. Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. NUMBER 47. LOOKING OCT INTO THE MIGHT. r MINN ETTA T. TAYOK. winds of the summrr, i sweep of the trees and ones inure a 1 ;entle refrain, - te rush of tho rain, a hare aeorroyful cadence In flight, ics with the inood of my spirit to-night. dozen years or more. ” The door opened and oloaed softly, and the doctor wns gone. ,t Iho last but a acarco r ind thou, heart of mine, in thy shrinking and fear, Hast an angury sure as if whispered in ear— That thou canst not gather the world to thy side, Nor find in its thortm^hfarss ptoapare or pride. 1 * But nation hatluvoioea that speidi to the soul, ^ Of a far reaching past and a far distant goal, Ilf a dual existence unknown to the throng, A realm of the mlnil for the children of eong. And the tints of the sunset, tha-fllm of the blue, That drapes alt- the woodlands when springtime 1* Awaken some chords in the mem'ry that seem Like a tale that is told, or a vanishing dream. The reign o( tfcoYosM, the song of the bird,. The rustle of leaves that a aephyr lias stirred, Call up for a moment & haunting regret, Till the forehead is bowed and. the eyelids ere wet. The gleam of e dew .drop, the glow pf e star, The lisp of a brook that is wandering afar, Beein parte of somo life tluU.hu faded from sight, As the meteors die on the shorn bf the night. Rlow winds of'the summer a gentle dear old gentleman!” thought Mine Lacey; " and these gloves! Well, I have , a piece of work hero, no mistake; must Ith a masterly hand, i g e fc out my piece-bag and find some bits „ Ilk. the .wilt gliding , » f ^ „/... ^ forgetting h its gloom,and its glee, J Tier fears' and weakness, she was soon i doing her best toward repairing the I doctor’s woll-worn driving gloves, j Presently there came a knock at the door, and Mrs. Cameron was admitted, the “very respectable Scotch woman” whom Mrs. Lowell had recommended as a "first-class laundress, neat, honest apd w ohorah member. The woman bore in her arms a goodly, sized basket in which were various j articles of clothing beautifully done up ; As Miss Lgcey rose to receive them, Mrs. I Cameron remarked: s* | "Perhaps some one is sick i’ the ; house. I saw the doctor gang awa’ just I as I was cornin’ in.” "I was not feeling very well, ” anwered MiBS Lacey. " He came to see me." ; "Oh, did he, miss! an’ isn’t the auld i gentleman jis’ lovely?” and in most en thusiastic terms she told of the great goodness and kindness experienced at the doctor’s hands. Told how all her life was bonnd up in her "one woo girlie, i her bonny Janie,” who had never been To the sweep of the trees antfthe rush of tfie rain; For you speak to my heart In a rythmical rhyme, Of a solourn awhile In an alien clime. DR. lARNf’S. PATIENT.tF»«Sjr jBT j had staid until the Corning, and niv I penny of pay would.lio take fdfc it.” " Do you know the yottn#doctor, It ever a portal man was fltljr named, such was the sue wfth Dr. Burnt,,' the ■ name expressing one of the strongest characteristics. Had he been called Dr. Skillful, the same could have been said of him with truth. . And then the ex pression op his face was a faithful index* of another equally strong point of char acter, viz., great kindness of heart. So quick spoken was the doctor on ordinary oocosions, he not only abbreviated sen tences, but words themselves frequently suffered a very perceptible clipping. All the village of L was very much exercised one morning by the intelli-. pence that the two best rooms in Mrs. Lowell’s elegant house, which had been unoccupied for a year or more because the rent was so high, hod been taken by a young lady who was a real live heiress, having no one but herself to support; and she was going to' furnish the roams; with no end of costly * I lovely ornaments; and furthermore, Law yer Peckham, who had' Charge of 'her estate, said she was a beauty, but in very poor health, he believed*'' Bo the good- natured gossips ruminated u to hoW sad it was that one couldn’t have everything in this world. If you 'have wealth, like ly as not you have no health with which to enjoy it; things are pretty evenly dealt out, after all; and so niter the manner of newsvendors. n Damn Rumor seenp, fojjpnoe, jxyhaye heard only the facts in the case, for in -a few days the rooms were really furnished and occupied ns predicted, and Mrs; Lowell was highly elated over the good looks as well ns atfluerft circumstances of her new boarder, though in.describing her she had said: “ But pqmething ails the poorgirl; she is so nervous, my dear—but fresh look ing as a daisy, and not. the least mite pale or wasted, and my! the way she t ies!” One morning, as Lawyer Peckham was coming out of Mrs. Lowell’s l^ouse, he met Dr. Blunt going in. r "Morning, Peckham,’’ said- the doc tor, in his quiok way. "Good morning, doctor. Guess my client is about to beoomq. you patient, eh?” jerl "shouldn’t wonder,” and A; moment later Dr. Blunt ‘entered Miss Lacey’* room. A very, fair young lady reclined languidly in the sumjht&oiu depths of * "Sleepy Hollow - cM*rJ*bm the quick experienced eye of a medical man knew at a glance that something was wrong; although, as Mrs. Lowell had said,*'shd was rosy and plump, the expression of the eye was troubled, rest less and morbid. The doctor seated him* self beside his fair patient, felt her pulse, aud then vented the remarkable query: "Was it me or the young doctor you anted?” "Oh, you, by KU^meang.” said Lw ©y with a Bmiie, but matantijj troubled looked Yotjttned: She at "I want all the experience possible brought to bear upon my case.” .. "Any parents?” qtiired the doctor/* "No, sir, my mother died of consump tion when I was very young: my father died when I was a mere child.” "Humph! Have any local pains? Suf fer from headache nausea?” "No, sir; nothing of the kind. There seems to be a fear of something all the time, an undefined apprehension; some times .1 thiqk I may die, as mother did, of consumption.” " Got any religion?” "Why. certainly, doctor. I should hope Bo. I ittn a church membor, and have been for years. I love my religion,” and quiok sympathetic tears affirmed'the truth of the prompt assertion. < , " Ever seen Jesus Christ sick and'vis ited Him, or naked and clothed Him, or ministered to the thousand and one wants of the ‘little ones’ forever representing the Savior’s symbolized sufferings?” "Alas, no!” sighed poor Miss Lacey,-"I have wanted for years, but this nervous weakness unfits me fpr anything, useful: or practical. I give regularly to several charitable objects, and hope some good is done in that way. ” ' • * "Huihpkn Well; Pm going nojr. f Don’t know just what I shall prescribe,. but feel confident I can help you. Per haps ni run in again before.night with directions—bless me, what looking gloves) Will you mend these for my dear?” "Certainly, with pleasure,” laughed Miss Lacey, and for thpt instant tl wa* no.trouble ih her.dear ayes. ‘{Top fee, said the doctor,apologetical ly, " my hdudekeeper isn't much on mending, according to my idea, and then there’s only my boy, the young doctor, m people call him—the most graceless piece. As for wife,”‘and the voice grew wonderfully tender—" dear wife has ben ringing in paradise, three "No, Pm a stranger here, and know but very fewporsonp. ” "Well, miss, the yonnp doctor is a winsome lad, and a Christian indeed. He tells me oft I shouldn’t fret for fear my lassie will bo ta’en from me, but iamb, an’ it be his will. He has practiced with his father the year or more, and how the auld doctor loves him! He has a funny way of calling him all kinds of uncanny names, but lveiyono knows lie is the’ light of the aula man’s eyes.” And soon after Mrs. Cameron gathered up her basket and departed. Miss Lacey had succeeded in closing up the gaping rents in the tloctor’s gloves, the tea hour had come and gone, but no doctor had reappeared* " Oh, he think* me too comfortable a patient to need much attention,” she thoughtyepiningly, "but he migljt'have at least: told mo what my compliant was. There! the bell rings; perhaps that is he now.” And that moment a rap at the door being answered. Dr. Blunt entered, burned, flushed, and more abrupt in manner and speech than before. "Say, my dear girl, will you help a poor woman,in great extreinity?”. t . 1 “"What do yon mean, doctor?” prenJ^eajjjffj 41 Oh, "g'Ct your hat and shawl, and pin cQjgp&ny v come now. You’ve no husband to con sult, no children to leave, and a poor danger of loosing her only blanket to wAtch the changing expression of the little sleeper’s faoe. But lie, more accustomed to such try ing scenes, after the first moments of in tense application to the case, began wondering who this angel of mercy could be, working as if her whole soul were bound up in relieving thiB poor little child of a lowly mother. How long he might have remained is uncertain, had not a messenger from another qnartei summoned him away. The next morning Janie was better, and continued to improve until the anx ious mother was again relieved concern ing her. The noxt day but one, Miss Lacey re ceived a call from three bright, interest ing young girls, who, to her utter aston ishment, informed her that Dr. Blunt had recommended her as just the person to become President of a Dorcas So ciety. “Oli, you must, you must!” they chirped in concert, and before they left she hod partially promised to accept the position—to her own dismay. But when the minister called, a few days afterward, and said old Dr. Blunt lmd insisted that a class of unruly boys in the Sabbath school who needed a -teacher, was just the work adapted to her class, she succumbed at once, " sur rendering at discretion ” all right to de cide for herself. Miss Lacey finally wrote the doctor a spicy little noto, telling him she believed any more prescriptions wonld undo the •womlerfijl cure already accomplished. But of late the village gossips could pot fail to notice how continually the young doctor called at Mrs. Lowell’s nouse. One morning as the elder doctor wns coming out of the house, he met Lawyer Peckham^ when the following character istic colloquy eiisned: “Hi! Good morning, doctor. Well, I hear the young doctor is about to bring a daughter for you to the ‘.family man- “Yes, yes!”—very quickly. "Well, well, there’s room enough in the house and my heart, for the precious girl, the good Lord knows, and as for young Blunt, M. D.—who actually presumes to believe that he loves and appreciates her better than T do—the renegade! if she can* do anything toward reclaiming that reckless case—There! forgotten my gloves, true os the world must go back for them. Morning, Peckham.” child this; night,, and - some -one must watch with Jior. T jnust* w^off in another direction. *My 3eai* child,” again that tender tone’ "wouldn’t you like to hear your Saviofr say t6 you to morrow morijjiig : ‘ Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these ye did* it unto me ?” "Oh, I’ll go, doctor; I’ll be ready in a moment." ,qbg-tailed dress „ _—. kenrijilo calico; I’ll go nre paflor,” added the doctor, " and wait and take you right along in the.buggy wjth pie. Quick, now; I wouldn't Wait , lopg {for the Queon of Sheba.” ' ‘ Well, of all things!”, thought .Miss Lacey* 1 . "I dJn’t know but that doctor will be the death of me, or—perhaps his ff’jxa 0 ' She flew about the room in a surpris ing hionner for her; don hod n* good warm morning- dress, ami iiyanotiier moment the doctor’s horse was fcariph along the road as if to outrun his musters im- patienoe. Yet during the ride the doctor explained to his companion how she must lie very calm—"and yon can be,” he added with convincing emphasis—for the child was suffering from spasms quite violent, distressing and dangerous. He toM'bricfl/ Jiow the baths must be ad- mhbist«ed, pud the water kept hot all nigJitjTind fi|»plly,^n mentioning the pa tient'sname, Surprised Miss Lacey by re pealing the fact that it was poor little Japie Cameron, who had been taken ill that very afternoon, during her mamma’s absence. . • . - — Arrival'St the tg?nptpy$he poor, dis tressed jpofher became $vpry much oom- •resenoe of " the dear, ly who was too good to _iess toproBotty like —Jt doefltf^VBpjnost minute to b& followed, through, the Jeft'.v^th the cheerful obser- could gnat satis- , .pMthtraght 'Imving hc«towed upon herself dunrig*‘that' long, painful night, with its new experiences of real suffering. All her energies and sympa thies were directed toward helping and comforting the agonized mother and re lieving the sink child. 1 ! About ; midnight, while she.was bend- jng over a warm ba£h, in which she was ftnnly holding the convulsed frame of door Janie, (the door opened and the yonttg ‘doctor entered. - There was no sort of an introduction between the two— who thinks -of formalitieif at such a time?—but at once they worked together over the suffering child. Mias Lacey was vaguely aware that a young man, bearded and mustaohed, with a calm, deep voice and shapely white hands, gave orders which she promply obeyed, apd >£oke words f of hope and enoour- agement to the poor dazed mother. It did not onoe occur to her that there wua anything novel in her position, as, hold ing the ohild in her arms, quieted at last, the young doctor sat close beside her, asking questions and giving advioe, now and tnen turning down m corner of the A Tops; Tnryy Tree, To gather a cnop.of apples from the roots Instead of yie lijgbs of a tree would seenufjr aitti ’ ■ MMHH in gatherinfe "gfapes of thoi tlii«tlei 4 \yet > Johti Meiners, of "Wauwatosa, is the ownei tree tho:*oofii of wliioh now denoOS of an abundant yield irS-vdriving inty thef .venue. attei aftraqi turn m tni tho*eeiddnflfc:en< , the top^of. the Jipoe pickets, is a cirolp oft the.gnomestoi Jeavee* abouL.thir^Tiin gaitf-toiti isthdoWy othMf Optratry.^ a mmtm ‘♦A tree?” queried the reports*. *’•“ ‘iYefi. that as.an apple, tree. .Twelve yeafp frso planted^orerkl,f8 an experiment an,d, that to the only speci- • moivlio Aaroqr.to ke t 'eu. , ISA iiriot&l ae\) eraT Httpling^, cti.fc them a foot dr two above tne roots, and replanted them by sticking f the v cutcpd-^9 ^.ground apd making' the roots serve to oranenes. Nature seemed to .humor distiller’s whim. The saplings took root and the roots above .grew as limbs. The trunks are. stunted by this process, os you will absolve.' Meincjs found that the low limbs covered too largo an area and was obliged to reduce the number of his trefcs. ” • * • • • • An odd sight presented itself when the reporter stooped to view too shsdy sir|e of the large nut of foliage and fruit. Mr. Meiners’ children had builf; a, ciroulai ta ble about the trunk and placed their toys upon it. The distunoe from the ground to the limbs shooting out at right angles with that trunk is about four feet. The limbs are now propped up at their outer extremes to keep them from. snapping under the weight of fruit they bear. Mr. Meiners takes pride iu exhibiting this rare tree to all visitors to his grounds and it certainly is deserving of the attention of the curious in suoh matters.—Alii- waukec Sentinel Awaiting D$atli. "You know you were to have been hanged to-day, said a reporter to'Wil liam Erb, the wife murderer. "Yes, but thauks be to God, I’ve missed it for a while.” "Do you ever dream about your fate?” "Every night is a perfect hell to me; the whole horrible execution is done over and over again. Sometimes I drop for an enormous distance at the end of a rope, and sometimes I am rescued just as the block cap is being put on me. Some times I am far away from the jail and from St. Louis, and am recaptured and brought back. It would be ever so much easier to die at once and have it all Have a stay. I lay there on that misera ble cot and I lived the whole thing over. I thought about the black clothes they would bring me, and how I would bo shaved and bathed for death. I thought about the procession in which I would lie at the same time corpse and chief mourn er, and I shuddered and wished for day light.” "Well, Erb, you will stand it like a man when your time does come?” "Oh, the mere matter of dying is nothing; anybody can stand that. It is the not knowing whether you are going to live or die that hurts.—St. Low# Ex change. It always makes the immortal gods laugh when they see a twelve-iuoh man trying to fire a fifteen-inch shot. Aud there are jnst several of that kind o! men in the world. lie Making of Memories. These present days, whioh we are in clined to think so vaguely modern, will be the "good old times” when the young people whom we daily meet shall be men and women ; it is our fashions of dress and speech which they will re member for their quaintness ; and ours is not only the possibility but the abso lute certainty of being made the repre sentative, in years to come, in some one’s mind, of the spirit and character of a time that, is past. We know how unwittingly men and women used to im press and influence us. Instead, there fore, of passing these memories lightly by, or thinking that they are wholly n thing of private importance and con cern, we should make them a constant reminder of our own duty in the lino of influence. We can never tell the long and ever-multiplying mischief which we may work by some wickedness or care lessness of speech or action—something forgotten by us as soon ns done, but treasured up in n little heart ns a pos session for a life-time. And, on the other hand, we should be far more anx ious to multiply our wise words and our kindly acts, if we realized more fully how long they may survive in places where we never think of looking for them. The memory of a single kindly deed, or word, or look, quickly forgotten by us, may be the one thing by whioh some person shall longest remember us, and by which he shall be chiefly in fluenced, so far as any act of ours is con cerned. The making of memories is not a thing in which we are responsible to childhood alone. So long as the mental facilities endure, of all those persons with whom we have to do, they are treasuring up permanent records of the whole course of our words aud ways. Neither our good deeds nor our bad ones die with their performance, nor does their effect end with us. What right have we, in great things or small, to curse men’s years to come by adding to their burden the memory of our wicked act or our hateful or improper word ? We are responsible for the mem ories which men, women and children have of us and our belongings; and this responsibility includes not only the non performance of bad deeds, but the do ing of good ones. Day bv day and min ute by minute we are molting memories which can never change hereafter. Is there anything more bitter than the thought that our own evil memories of ourselves are, through our fault, shared by others? And is there anything sweeter than the thought that the' trens- j tired remembrance of kind acts and fit words is a lasting memorial of ourselves, wliioh we can increase every day of our lives ? How we are to be remembered is a question whose answer—at least so far as the rest of our lives arc concerned —is in our own hand.—Sunday Times. Fid©. It sounds queerly to tell of a poodle driving off a bear, but a lady writer re lates such a Btory in the Rural New Yorker: Twenty years ago when Dr. G. and his prettv young wife decided to tako Horace Greeley’b advice and "GoWest,"the “question arose, "What shall we do with Fido?” Fido was the family pet—a snow white dog six inches high—but with a spirit as Yiravo as that of any mastiff in a the land. *, "Take him, of course,” said Lottie. "How can wo live without Fido?” "But, my doar, that is absurd. Take a dog a thousand miles?” u However, the deed was done. One night, two years afterwards, the ^‘family were seated in the cottage talking hopefully of the bright prospects before them, and longingly of the friends they had left behind, when Fido came running to the door barking violently. Thou he ran back to the temporary stables, where the fine horses were kept which the doc tor had brought all the way from the old Empire State. "Fido bos started another Badger, 1 guejs/’ said the doctor, resuming the conversation. But this did not answer. Back and forth from the stables to the cottage the little sprite ran, almost fran tic with excitement, and barking furi ously. At length the family went out with lanterns, to try to quiet the faithful dog more than from fear of any danger. They found one side of the stable torn off ana a horse loose. Something was moving away across the field, and little Fido wus in hot pursuit. "It is a bear,” said the doctor, exam ining the track. The animal was killed the next day, a huge fellow, who was disappointed in his hoped-for meal off the horses by the spiteful little vixen. Fido was a hero after this, and always wagged his tail proudly and looked up knowingly when any one told the story of Fido and the bear Fob some reason or other M. Thiers would not have an almauae in his study, and was often unable to date a letter be cause he could not remember the day of the month. Upon one occasion a Gov- ernment ejeffci to Wll0m he had prom ised a letter of recoinmendatfiih; came by appointment for it, oqd M. Thiers, _fiii—;* aaked him the ; • moment the not IattcmW if, Wd ted: -'wjtMfnot like- ly to ifijiik » good twltnimflkafcor i! you ' ‘hOiUyof tU month!" •, hfftpver, saying, as ; ‘^Always . f • <0r-young ’ A DAX&9L from over • river Was l^kingAM^ jNmqj^raBkL?* QuMoy bookHtore,i6nd(‘avoring'tomake a selec tion. when Qte «oM0%‘.'Hiked, “How would you like the. *. Autocrat pf the B»eakiast Table£ ” She replied.: "0h, we’vy fjWi two .of •’ejn now, one of Jem SOUTHERN NEWS. justasgpsfl as ‘new-only l>een washed twice. Arpo. Jones propounded, the following the other evening, after sipping of hut al leged tee:. "Why is this drink like mflk?” Of OQurse nobody oould guess, und after be had divulged by saying it was a lack-teal fluid, nobody dared to smile. They knew that the landlady’s qjref’were upon‘them. •a :so£6 ..'JfcY :n The exact population of Little Rock is 13,198. There is nearly $800,000 in the Texas State Treasury. The census shows thirty-four seta of twins in Union County, N. C. The colored population of Charleston, S. C., has decreased since 1870. The denth rate of Raleigh during the past year was eighteen per 1,000. North Carolina will probably loose a Congressman by the new census. The census returns show a heavy in crease in the population of Virginia. Louisiana has had an increase in pop ulation of twenty-seven per cent, since 1870. The colored Methodists are building a $10,000 church at Wilmington, North Carolina. An alligator fonr and a half feet long waa shot in the Cumberland River at Nashville. The State Lunatic Asylum in Georgia is so well filled that no new patients can be admitted. The Mayor of Atlanta is paid a salary of $1,000, and the members of the Coun oil $200 each. The ice factory in Charlotte, N. C., will have a manufacturing capacity of two tons per day. A man aud wife in Uvalde County, Texas, are aged ninety-two and ninety years respectively. A quantity of sea shells were bored up from a well twenty-seven feet deep in I Sumter County, S. C. Here is the vote of Jackson County, Temi., oh it lias stood for several years: Democratic, 1,700; Republican, 1. The timber and lumber business in Georgia will amount this ye*r to 300,- 000,000 feet, and will exceed $5,000,000 a year. A wild cat, weighing twenty-two pounds and measuring thirty-five inches iu length, was killed iu a flower garden n Savannah. The State of South Carolina has re ceived from the United States Govern ment a set of weights and measures of tlie-metrio system. Hydrophobia is epidemic throughout the country adjacent to Woodville, Miss. Muny "valuable" dogs have been de stroyed for this reason. Vegetables are so scarce iu parts of Virginia that quantities are purchased at Petersburg and sent thirty and forty miles into the country. The new park at Augusta, Go., has been fitted up with a grotto, two foun tains, and a miniature lake. It is also to lie adorned with statuary. A British ship has sailed for Texas with 3,500 barrels of oil, mode for the purpose of preserving railroad ties and bridge timbers under a new prCoes*. The New Orleans schools have been closed until there shall be money enough on hand to pay expenses. Teachers’ salaries are already $175,000 in arrears. The principal cotton ports in the South rank as follows, in the extent of receipts of the staple: New Orleans, Nor folk, Savannah, Galveston and Mobile. Twenty towns in North Carolina, whose population was about 46,500 in 1870, now contain 73,306 persons, an in crease of 27,800, or nearly sixty per cent. The Georgia Baptists have 755 white Sunday-schools, with 3,750 officers and teachers, 22,550 scholars; 720 colored schools, with 2,$80 officers find teachers, 21,600 scholars. The Gazette, says a woman came to Little Rock on a bridal tour. Her hus band did not come, as he had only money enough to send her and buy a few articles Mie needed. Shauk fishing is one of the prinoipsl sports at Beaufort* N. C., this season. There have been large numbers of them around there, and some measuring eight feet have been caught. There has l»een a gratifying increase iu the population of all the counties in Tennessee from which census returns have been received. Marion County re ports an increase of 102 per cent The largest cotton-seed oil mill iu the United B totes is being ereoted in Little Rock. It will have a capacity of using three hundred tons of ootton soed per day. The tvo*;k will employ six hundred aud fifty men. Near Cleburne, Texas, a single high, way-man, apparently not over eighteeen years of age, attacked a Btage, scoured the mail aud robbed the only passenger of $125 in money. He then rode off on horseback and eluded the officers sent in pursuit. Gold mining in Virginia is becoming an important industry. The mines of Buchinglmm, 8j>otaylvauia and other counties, are being energetically worked, aud with profitable returns. The county of Montgomery is now developing a promising business. The Georgia Historical Society was organized in 1839. Its first volume was published in 1840 and the second in 1842. The new building was occupied in 1849. It has since that time issued a large number of valuable publications and increased its library to 12,000 volumes. Asheville, N. C., has three smoking tobacco factories and one sale warehouse. The warehouse during the past four months sold 60,000 pounds of tobacco, some of which sold for as much as two dollars aud fifty oents par pound. The cost of raising tobacco in Buncombe and adjoining counties is abo ut six cents per pound. A State officer is preparing a table showing the financial condition of every county in South Carolina. So fa\* twenty- five counties have reported, and their aggregate indebtedness, bonded and floating, amounts to $1,137,435.65. In cluded in these twenty-five counties are the counties of Horry, Laurens, Lexing ton and Anderson, not one of wliich can be Baul to owe a dollar. Little Rock Gazette: The colored people who recenly prayed for rain are now petitioning for n "letup." Whiletho colored people of our section prayed for rain at nightly prayer-meetings, those of another neiglilxirhood prayed for sun shine. The minister of tlio wet district sent the following note to the dry: ‘‘You folks oughter be ashamed of yourselves. This cross-cut prayin’ is enough to get Tie Lord so bothered that he don’t know what to do. ” Two noted colored preachers ap peared, by invitation, in a church at Montgomery on Sunday, each Imving prepared to deliver an elaborate sermon. Neither would yield the other prece dence, and the result was they finally had a regular "knock-down and drag- out fight” over the matter. The congre gation looked on in partial wonder and amusement, and let the two preachers fight each other until they were exhausted. Then the congregation dispersed and left the two combatants alone. They were tried liefore a magistrate the next day and held in bonds of $200 each to keep the peace. Stoue Mountain. Dark, grim and uncompromising Stone Mountain stands, 11,000 feet alwive far reaching fields of pink aud white cotton blooms and yellowing grain that smiles at our genial Southern sun. Bleak und barren you would call it in mill-winter with its dumps of ghastly-armed trees, interspersed now and then with cedars: a jingle with icicles, or an occasional bright green holly with JroBted bevvies, all clinging helplessly to its bold perpen dicular sides. You would call it desolate if you had never seen it when enchanted; wnen covered with ice the mountain spirits burn their mystic fires, that rising up meet an answering sun gleam, and the whole mountain side is one blaze of jewels on a silver background. “Far off the dim and misty morn Bogan to quicken to the sun," When my friend and I equipped in sub stantial shoes, palm leaf faus and a silver mounted seven-shooter, should danger befall, set merrily out. We reached the top at length and stood looking around us, os utterly alone os the eagles that build their eerie nests on its concave north side. Far away to the right Kennesaw Mountain lifted its dim blue bead, and to the uortwest the lofty peaks of the Blue Ridge pointed heaven ward. "Facilis descensus Averni,” Virgil tells us, but the descent to the "Devil’s Cross-Roads” we found exceedingly diffi cult, but by means of impromptu ulpen- stalks and sliding down points where we could not keep our footing we reached on the east side a small cave. Stooping we crawled in; it widened and deepened into a fissure in the once solid granite ex tending more than a hundred feet, in depth and width. At its widest point it dark and dungeon-like, and though walls wore of white granite we preferred craw-fishing to remaining so near the "Devil’s Cross-Roads.” We ran, slipped and crawled down the remainder of the eastern side, where dry pine straw facilitated the sliding move ment and rendered dangerous our rather reckless running. Taking the white beaten road around the picturesque, ut terly barren north side, the guide pointed out the different points of interest. That shelving rook, towering so many hundred feet above us, is called Lover’s Leap. Tradition has it that the pale faces, in trying to capture a red skin, Powantona- mo, so hemmed him up that either cap tivity or death on the rocks below was open to him, and he loved his lilxirty so well that he leaped from that ledge, and his freed spirit continued its way on the trail to the nappy hunting ground. We reached home in tlie dewy after glow of an amber sunset, with woefully worn shoos, and a seven-shooter minus never a cartridge.—Stone Mountain (Go.) Letter. American Olive Oil. We notice in the Mining and Scien tific Press a formula for making olive oil on a small scale, as produced in Cali fornia, coopering this with a description in the Pharmaccutischc Jlandelsblatt of the manufacture of olive oil in south ern Frauoe. Iu California they grind the olives before pressure. This appears to be an error; they should be crushed between two stones turning against each other vertically. We can quite under stand that crushing leads to quite differ ent results from grinding. In cider-pro ducing counties in England apples ore prepared for cider in the same manner as the French prepare their olives, by grind ing them under revolving stones. Cider thus prepared will keep for years, and improves with ago, some say, on account of an essential ml pressed from the ap- J >le pips. In America cidei is made rom crushed or chopped apples, and possesses neither the flavor or the keep ing properties of that produced in Devon shire or Herefordshire, England. There is another point which may be important on the "Rhone.’ The oil, when Altered, is stored iu stone vessels. On the Pacific they use tin cases. Two velocipedista beat a railroad train mar Havre. France, in a 10 mile race. A thee in Now Mexico fell the othel diy upon Matthew Lynch, and thoughha wr worth $4,000,000, killed him. It costs the Queen of England $40,000 a /ear to ride between England and Soot- In id. A. Russian teacher commited suioids jumping off a precipice into a river on htrseback. is not much difference, says ail exsliAugc, between a grass widow and a •ishhopper. Either will jump at the rst ekunco. Although paper collars have to a great extei t tone out of use within the last ten years, 200,000,000 of them are now man ufactured annually TiitRK is said to he a cabinet-maker in Pans who fires small shot into his cabi nets to give them an appearance of worm-eaten antiquity. Is tlie London zoological society's col lection there is a black Imbed 6pider which can stretch itself to several inches in length, and eats mice. Of the bishops, judges and other offic ial ]Mjrsonago8 who took part in tlie cere mony of Queen Victoria’s coronation forty-two veal's ago, all are now doad. Lydia Thompson says that the costume worn by an English luily at a ball would produce a hiss if worn on the variety stage. But then English ladies don't kick up their heels. Kansas girls walk seven mil os 1 footed to trade a dozen eggs at a c store for a spool of thread, for stuck up about girls whoHre'Tlut ohi No. 1 wives. A statement wos tiled recently of a cor- K iral ion with the name: "Hall’s Air Blast. ty-Placer and Pulverized Quartz, Gola and Silver Extracting aud Amalgamat ing Machine Company.'’ A cat at Wappiuger’s Falls, Dutchess County, N. Y., revcntly gave birth to five living kittens that were joined to gether by u ligament after the fashion of the Simese twins. The kittens were drowned. From the fact that tlie lower animals arrive nt maturity much earlier than man, and the inferior races of men develope more rapidly than the superior, a French biologist inters that precocity indicates a low order of development. He wns a little verdant* or he never would have said: "Perhaps we had bet ter walk on till we come to a settee where we can sit together.” ‘ Oh! no,” she re plied sweetly; ‘ you sit down in the chair and I will lie the settee.” A Respected woman at Lafayette, Ind., has never been legally murried to the man whom she regards as lu-r husband. This is her way of keeping the property which, by the terms of her first hus band’s will, she would lose by marrying again. A young mau in Dubuque, Iowa, has become portiully deranged over a mus tache which refuses to sprout. He was formerly lmppy and good tempered. He is now morose, despondent, and melan choly. One day lie visited a prominent drugstore and purchased all the tlie dif ferent hair restoratives to be had. After completing the rounds he carried the bot tles to his it mm aud put them aside for future use. When he left the loom his sister found over a hundred bottles in the bed tick, and all were warranted to cause hair to grow on tlie smoothest skin. A natural ice house is one of tho cur iosities of northern New Jersey. It lies behind Blue Mountain. The ice gorge is several hundred yards iu extent, ton to thirty fee deep, with caves and clefts in tlie rocks where the ice lies. Tho shade at the gorge is very dense, tho sun ajj,-^- parently never penetrating it. Tlie'bot- toin of the gorge and the litile caves and crevices are filled with ieo. Tho ther mometer which registered the nineties in Newton, marked thirty-eight degrees at tlie bottom«>f this gorge A few feet f rom one end of a spring the most delicious sparkling water hubbies up. The water in this spring stands at thirty-four degrees. There ias wide difference of opinion as to the number of apples eaten by Adam n the Garden of Eden. Some say Eve 8 (ate), ami Adam 2 (two); total, 10; others, Eve 8 and Adam K, total 16; others say if Eve 8 and Adam 8 2, tho total is 90; but if Eve 8 1 and Axlaiu 8 2, the total is 163; if Eve 8 1 abd Adam 8 1 2, the total is 893; if Eve ate 1 1st (ate one first) and Adam 8 1 2, the the total is 1,623; if Eve 1 4 Adam, and Adam 8 12 4 Eve the total is 8,93$, if Eve 8 14 Adam, and Ad- 8 1 2 4:2 oblige Eve, tho total is 82,056. Still wrong. Evo when, she 8 1 812 many, and probably felt sorry for it; so Adam, iu order to relievo her grief, 8 1 2. Therefore, if Adam 818 14 2 40fv Eve’s depressed spirits, they both 81,896, 864 apples.-tChristian at W.ork. —^ The Peddler. Woman, bring trustful by nature and ignorant of evil, is the predestined prey of tho peddht-. When he assures them that ho is oflaring them an opportunity to buy valuable articles at u redicu- lously cheap!rate, they hasten to buy. What is really inexplicable is the fac$ tlmt, though % woman muy bo cheated by six sneoessivepoddlers, shenover permit* her oxperienoo to lead her to distrust tlie seventh. This faith iu peddlers, rising triumphant over every obstacle, is sub lime us well bi touching, und, is a dis tinctive trait of all good women. —New York Times. I The Fiudiin Physician says that there is no m<»fe valuable indication:©f disease tlmn the temperature of the body as measured by the thermometer, and especially in tlie case of children. It gives curly information of disease, and admits of ail infected child being set apart before mischief is done. The Physician consequently advises mothers to learn how to mo a clinical thermome ter—a very simple process. The proper temperature of the body is 98.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Lord Bbaconhuield is completing a novel which ho began long ago. Queen Victoria lias shown her kindly feeling for him by hanging his full-length por trait at Windsor. 8omeb<sly, it is said, once asked him how it was that the Queen showed him so much favor, und got a simple answer: " W<11—<r the fact, is, I—er—never eontrudiofc; er—I sometimes—er forgot Watered Milk. If people care anything about know ing wheUier milk is watered all they have to do is to dip a well-polished knit ting-needle into a deep vessel of milk, and withdraw it immediately in an up right position. If the milk {spare some of it will hang to the needle, but, if wa ter has been added, even in small pro portions, the fluid will not adhere. " I didn’t at all expect day,” said a lady to her v not-very-pleasant look, you will make yoursol "Yos, indeed,” repli starting off, "I will home as boo: "ftlLRNOB any out) bee silence], "Have Jimmy V” Jinun; to talk at dinner.
