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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.
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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.