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tv. N. BENNS, JAMES 0. RUSS. EdHor»,
“ I l’.T TI Ji-.RE ISK LIGHT.”
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VOLUME V.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1880.
NUMBER 10.
Sod Houses.
On the proirieg, far from the woods,
wliero log cabins aro impracticable, the
sod house is - Blade as a substitute. To
build one, a man goes on to the prairie
with his team and breaking plow, and
turns a straight smooth sod some three or
four inohee thick. This sod is very tough.
When sufficient has beon turned over
the sod is cut into squares and laid up ip,-
a wall os though it wero flat sfonft*. Door
frames and window frames ore sot in as
tho wall rises. When the height of one
story is reached a small timber 1b sot up
at eooh end, and a ridge-pole placed upon
them, aud the sod wall onilj up or into
the gable. On this ridge there rest smaller
poles for rafters, and on tbeso sod is laid
in courses, the oourses overlapping each
other liko shinglos, “ so many inches to
tho weather.”, The only money outlay
is caused by windows and doors. If well
built, tho houso will stand for years.
Inside 6ne may “sweeten to taste. In
the ruder huts the walls are left uncov
ered. In others some are ooverod with
cheap cloth, some with building paper,
and wall paper pasted over it, while some
are plastered Sind made os comfortable as
any room need to bo. Once inside, you
would not know but you wero iu a stone
or brick house. Then you will some
times find elegant furniture, the remains
of hotter days, somotimos a piano and
the skill to play it; olioioe hooks, wnioh
indicate literary tastes; tho latest pa
pers and magazines, which show that tho
lumates keep up with tho times. Indeed,
it is surprising to know how many families
of refinement and cultured taste, being
unfortunate, make a fresh start iu lifo on
the vast prairies.
What Vanderbilt Might Do with HI
Money.
Borne one has made a very curious
calculation of what Mr. Vanderbilt could
do with his monoy. William H. Van
derbilt’s income from liis investments in
161,000,000 4-per-cent. Government
bonds is represented at $6,000 daily,
which ta $208.25 per hour, $3.47 per
minute, or over 6 cents per second. As
suming that be is paid by the second,
he cannot possibly spend his monoy, as
he could not select his purchases and lay
down the prices fast enough. He could
not tlirow it away; to pick up, oast, re
cover, piok up and cast again would take
him two seconds, and, if he worked all
through the twenty-four hours without
rest, he could not dispose of ono-bolf his
income. By living economically, Baving
up for four years, he could, placing his
6-cent pieces side by side, mako a mckol
bolt around the earth, or by converting
his savings into 1-cent pieces and mount
ing them,in a pile, he would, in twenty
years, erect a road to the moon and have
$500 to invest when ho got there.
Should his amusement take a charitable
twist, he could, out of a year’s receipts,
donate to every man, woman and child
in the United States 20 cents and have
money left over. Other vast possibili
ties occur to the glowing fancy of the
calculator. In one day he could go to
8,000 different circusses, eat 10,000
{ nuts of peanuts, drink 6,000 glasses of
oinonade, and have money left to get
his boots blacked. He can afford t<
have 600,000 shirts washed iu one day,
and on the day of his death his income
will buy ten first-class funerals,—Ithaca
Journal.
A Story of u Screw.
A singular oocidCnt happened to a
family named Hollscher, residing on
Pearl street, near Market, a few days
ago. The father died about a week ago,
and was buried at Lone Mountain. On
Saturday morning tho mother visited
the cemetery to deoorate the grave with
flowers. During her obsence the chil
dren wore at home under the care of a
servant girl. A little boy 3 years of
age, in playing about the room, got hold
of a small brass screw whioh lie pushed
into his nostril. Tho girl in alarm tried
to get it out, and in doing so pushed it
further in. Then she ran and called
some of the neighbors in, and they, ii
trying to get hold of it, pushed it out of
sight. They continued their efforts un
til the screw-head was beyond reach.
The mother was sent for, and after a
night of alarm the child was taken to
Dr. Laino, who, after trying to withdraw
the screw with surgical instruments, put
the little sufferer under tho influence of
anesthetics, and cut open the
prospect for tho screw. He succeeded
in disfiguring the child, probably (r "‘
life, but foiled in the object of
search, and the child was taken home to
die, under the belief that tho screw was
working up into the brain. It lingered
along lot three days, suffering appar
ently only from the cutting of its face
and nose, and . on Tuesday morning
S asaed the screw without distress, and
ion it occurred to. those interested that
the screw, instead of going up into tho
brain, hod merely followed the air pass
age from the nose to the roof of the
mouth, and had there been swallowed.
Castor oil effected what the scalpel of
the surgeon failed in, and the child is
now recovering.—ban Francisco Chron
icle. ,J ' .
Free end Easy Manners.
When girls assume a swaggering man
ner upon the street, use coarse expres
sions. and greet each other with a rough
“hello!” they cannot expect much de
ference from their male friends. A lady’s
manner alwnys controls that of a gentle
man; and if sho does not respoct herself
he will not respect her. When boys and
girls, young men and maidens, are al
lowed to fall into the absurdities of low,
foolish, meaningless talk, it seems to
dwarf them intellectually; they can find
uotliiug of interest or importance to say,
and therefore make up for sense by fill
ing every sentence with needless exclama
tions, exaggerations, or misused adjec
tives. It requires much patience to bo
compelled to listen to half a dozen folks
and hear the strange, inappropriate use
of language. They will assure each other
that it is “awful” warm, or the concert
“awful" nice; the sermon “horrid”
dull; a youpg lady is “awful pretty,”
but her dress “horrid ugly," the teacher
“horrid strict;’’ such a young gentleman
who called had an “awful swell” team
of fast horses. If young people oould
hoar themselves os others hear them, it
might result in their reformation.
Don’t pick up a child for a fool. He
will ask you some questions that the con
densed wisdom of the world cannot
answer.
WEB LAST ZJ3TTEB.
Tl« but * line, a hurrM scrawl,
And llttlA leem the *ord* to sAy,
Tfet bold too In repxftaGMul tin nil i
*' You onarrelod with to© yfilfi-dayi
To4uorraw yfcu'll be lad."
u'll be mil."
Aye, " you'll be at
And yet they njon
Aye, "you'll bas
,_.„b my aoul with pain;
Aye, “ yfiu’ll ba sad," the fcapp nro tru«
They haunt me with pmnhotTo strain:
“ To-morrow you’ll bo sad.”
.i speech that Jsrrod the ear,
And thus In wrath our pul«*s stlrr’d:
Thon cam* hor letter : “ Dmr. my donr,
To-morrow you'll bo sad."
Few words! half mjrth, and ball regret,
The last her hind should over wclto 1 -
iad ^oras I learned hbg ago, and y '
ijyUL t
In tho Palace of Truth.
Richard Turner, Esq., a lawyer, lot us
Hope of future fame, returning homo ono
light iu an nfienviably bad biiwor, found
a Certain dainty little note awaitiug Kim
an his mAutiepieee. It had j UHt $ome,
hfe landlady said, and slowly tearing
seen the envelope, Dick road as follows:
Mr Deab Mb.. TunsEit:—Many thanks for
four lovely flowers, which havo betti greatly
tdmlred. It was like your thoughtfulness to
entembor my birth-day when 1 had almost for
gotten it myself. I was so sorry to have missed
four call this afternoon.
Blncerolv yours, Florrnck IlBUiKF.n.
A very gracious little noto, but lor
lome reason it appeared to afford its
reader but small satisfaction. Dick road
it twice with a curling lip, then t<Bsing it
into tho scrap basket, he lit a cigar,
•taetched himself in an easy chair and
ilioughtfully observed through the smoko
wreaths that begnu to float around his
head: “Wlmt a precious littlo linr sho
Isl As if I didn’t see her ten minutes
after sho was ‘not at home’ to me this
afternoon, start out driving with Tom
Baker in that confoundedly jerky dog
tart of his. Shouldn’t wonder if ho had
^erked her off before they got homo;
Aid served her right too! why, Snip,
srhat is the matter with you sir?”
Snip was the skye terrier, who, failing
so understand why he lmd been slighted,
was seeking to secure his master’s notice
by sitting upright and waving his front
paws to and fro in a gentle and depre
cating fashion.
'Did I hurt your feelings, poor little
boy?” said Dick, tenderly. “Well, I
wouldn’t, I ossuro you, for a dozen little
flirts like Florence Redifer, but I do
think, Snip, and I expect you to agree
with mo, thnt we would ull bo much bet
ter off if women and men, too, would say
oat truthfully whut was in their minds
instead of this eternal boating around the
push. Why can’t people be a littlo more
candid with their fellow-croatures instead
of fooling them to the top of their bent
and theu laughing behind their backs?
Do you know, Snip?"
Snip didn’t "know, but he was the lgst
dog m tho worid to couiless his ignor
ance, so assuming a look of wisdom
which Solomon might have cuvied, he
gave a mysterious little bark that could
mean anything And Composed himself to
listen.
'Just 8 o’clock," said Dick, cousultiug
liis watch. “In two hours I’ve got to
dress and go to Mrs. Grey’s ball, the
biggest bore of the season I haven’t a
doubt; but there’s no escaping it. Aren’t
you glad, Snip, you don’t have to go to
bolls?"
Snip barked again, this timo in an
affirmative manner. He alwnys accom
modated liimsolf to liis master’s moods,
and was well accustomed to being ques
tioned. Alert and vigilant, he watched
the cigar dwindle down by slow degrees,
while lie waited in well-bred silence fora
renewal of the conversation. But Dick
was drowsy aud cross, aud when tho
eigar was smoked out he turned his bend
aside aud fell fast asleep, while liis little
dog curled contentedly around his toot,
looking up into his master's faeo witli a
world of putient love in his honest brown
ayes.
Seven, eight, nine, ten! Was it possi
ble that lie bad slept nearly two hours
s|kd the clock was really striking ten?
Diok jumped up, glanced at his watch
to make sure, and with a stifled groan
prepared to induct himself into liis dress
suit. This was never a very rapid pro
cess with him, and by the time ho en
tered Mrs. Grey’s brilliantly lit-up house
the great clock iu tho hall was pointing
to a quarter past 11.
The rooms were crowded and Miflingly
hot. The very flowers apponivii to droop
under the glare uud the heat, all except
tome deep red roses which hud been ar
ranged in n sentence over tho doorway,
and whose glowing hearts presented the
most sumptuous and intense bit of color
ing, ovonm that many-lined apartment.
It waft strongs. but Dick found hiniHelf
unable to rend that sentenco, although
composed of only three short words. Tho
language, even the letters, wero unknown
to him, and for half n minute lie stood
puzzling over the mystery. Then the
incoming crowd gently shoved him aside,
and abandoning thd effort, be mndo tho
best of his way to Word his hostess. A
pretty littlo woman,' magnificently
dressed, but seemingly already much
fatigued with tho work in hand, sho half
smiled as Dick edged up to her.
“Have you just come, Mr. Turner?"
she Haiti “I thought you wero to be
one of my early birds. ”
“ So I would liave been,” ho explained,
“only, unfortunately. I fell asleep and
did not wake up in time."
“Oh! that was tho case, was it?
Well, such a lengthy nap ought to
brighten you up beautifully for the rest
of ttio evening. Sometimes, you know,
you are rather stupid.”
Dick looked at her to see if sho meant
a joke, but her pretty face was gravely
raised'to bis. “ You are flattering me,"
lie said, shortly.
. “X don’t mean to r indeed, sho un
sworn!, quite earnestly. “ But there
are plenty of men who are always stupid,
while you can be rather entertaining,
when you are at your best," and sho
turned gently from him to greet a new
batch of guests.
“ Was I ever damned with such faint
praiso before ?” thought Dick. “ I won
der if I am ‘at my best’ to-night?”
For a minnte he stood, taking a survey
of the scene before him. The musicians
were playing a and playing it
well; only strango to say there was *
flute among them, which came piping i«
with its shrill persistent little treble in a
manner distracting to Dick’s over-sensi
tive ear. Ho thought of Mozart’s saying
that tlio only thing iu the world worse
than a flute iu an orchestra was two
flutes, and wondered at Mrs. Grey’s
choice iu musio. Nevertheless, ns long
as ho was there lie might os well donee,
and looking around for familiar faces, hi.s
first glance fell upon a brown-eyod
maidouwhom ho lmd met at a party only
the week before, aud whom he had ad
mired with the guarded and half-super
cilious-admiration of a veteran socioty
man. In another minute they wero on
the floor contending with their fellow-
creatures for a little room to whirl around
in, and seemingly successful in their
strugglo, until a slight lurch sent tliom
rather suddenly against another pair o
dander*.
“That was stupid, wasn’t it?” said
Dick, as they stopped to taka breath
after the oonoussion.
“Yos,” replied sho of tho byown eyes,
raising theta frankly to his fade. “You
are rather a p$or dartcer. Perhaps yob
are out of practice? ’
“Indeed I ought not to be," protested
Dick, in unutterable indignation at the
charge. “I never danced more in my
life tuan I have this winter.”
“Is that so? It mnst be awkwardness
then,’’ said his companion, gently.
“Somo people hover can thoroughly
learn- I third: it is a natural gift."
Dick wondered if h6 Could have heard
aright or if that wretched little flute, still
piping away 90 complacently, hod
Absolutely bewildered him. If there was
one thing he prided himself on more
than auotlier—one gift, natural or other
wise, which I10 felt Sure of possessing—it
was his dnneiug. Was tho, brown-eyed
damsel out of her mind or was she
simply nn ill-bred little thing, who did
not know a good daucer from a bud one?
Whichever was the case lift loet no time
in getting rid of her. aud still mute with
amazement oud disgust, took refugo
among a group of men at tho door.
“You here, Turner!” said one of them.
“I hardly recognized you at first, you
look so yellow and thin.”
“Do I, indeed?" said Dick, shortly,
and wondering what he was doomed to
hoar noxt.
“I shbuld rather think you did,” was
tho friendly answer. “I juBt said to
Smith, here, as yon came up, that be
tween your sallow skin and that bald
spot on your head, you wero beginning
to look likjc au old man before your time.
Why don’t you take to country life and
early hours and freshen up a bit?"
“Why don’t you’mind your own af
fairs and kindly leavo mo to attend to
miue?" rotorteil Dick, now thoroughly
avm\sed, and without Waiting for another
word ho veored tupunil and 16ft tho
jronp, who, one and all, scorned pro
foundly astonished tit his ill temper.
By this time lie began to feel a little
uncertain who to approach next. Hav
ing boon told already that he was stupid,
ugly and a bad dancer, what wan thoro
left for him to hear. He certainly had
uovor met so many disagreeable peoplo
liis lifo and ho had serious thoughts of
boating a pcrninnnnt retreat, when ho
caught sight of a blonde head .half hidden
beneath the azaleas iu the conservatory.
Florenco Redifer, whom I10 lmd
_ _ expected to meet to-night And
whom two hours ago he would lmvo in
dignantly avoided. But for somo reason
his contempt for hor flattery and false
ness lmd been strangely modified iu so
Bhort a timo and he felt a positive yearn
ing to listen again to her pretty nothings
and to see her blue eyes uplifted with
thnt tender glance of admiring trustful
ness to liis It must have cost her a
groat deal of timo and patience to culti
vate tho glanco tin to its present porfoc-
tion audit was unkind, after nil, to p.noor
at the result of such honest aud endear
ing toil.
The noxt minute ho was by hor sido.
She looked very pretty: hor fair, hair
tumbled in somo mysterious fashion on
tho top of her shapely littlo head; hor
bright face lit up with smiles, and hor
white silk gleaming under the colored
lamps with a soft and shifting radianco
that pleased Diok’s cultivated oye. Ho
wos not ono of tlioso to whom a woman's
gown is a matter of indifference.
“I came in hero for a little aiv," she
said; “tho rooms aro so terribly hot, and
tho whole affair is very stupid. -Don't
you think so ?’’
“It lias beon worse than stupid for
mo.” ho answered, laughing. “I have
been insulted wherever I went. First,
Mrs. Gray told mo I was often very
stupid; thon Miss Vincent, do you kuow
her? She is dancing now with Tom
Stern.”
“I don’t know hor; hut novor mind!
Wlmt did sho say to you?"
“Sho told mo I was awkward and a
bad dancer, and intimated that I could
>ver thoroughly learn.”
Floronco Redifer burst into a laugh ns
clear aud merry ns silver bells. “But
you know, Mr. Turner,” she said, “your
best frionds do not claim for you thnt
you dance well.”
Dick gasped and then recovered; I10
was getting hardened now. “I always
flattered myself I did," ho Bnid bohlly.
8ho looked at him in some surprise.
“Of course, I dou’t mean to say," she
dancers were few, and evei
bored or discontented,
saying the last Words to a jfsrty
who were about taking their dftbi
“Such a pity it should l
failure,’ ho hentd one of theta whisner
inn tone of sympathy. “And after all
the expense ybu hate gone to!”
“Iam sure, then, It i^ust have been
tho fault of jfiy guests,” wtipn^ Mrs.
(hoy, “for I did mV part Os well as I
could. Why, Mr. Turner, Are yoil going
so soon ? I wonder u you, too, found
my party a stupid ono ? ,r
She looked so harassed that Diok for
got the grudge lie owed her, and would
gladly have declared her ball both bril
liant and delightful, but the wordB ho
wished to say stuck in hia throat—he
absolutely could not give them utterance.
An awful impulso wns upou him, and to
his own s'oerot horror aud dismay he
heard hiiuself assuring her the painful
truth that it was the most dismal affair
he lmd over witnessed iu his life. Then
overwhelmed with slmmo at his involun
tary rudeness he turned away, and his
eyes fell upon the crimson roses still
blooming freshly over the doorway.
What au idiot lift must have beei)l
There in plain English letters were tflg
threo words, “Palace of Truth.” As ht
looked and read, the magic flute pooled
forth sO loudly and with so shrill a
triumph in its tono that Diok fairly
jumped, and in tho violence of his start
kicked tho slopping Hnip, who leaped
out of hiB master's way and gazed at him
with reproachful, wonderful eyes.
“Eleven o’clock, as I am a living
man!” said Diok, yawning. “Throe
hours asleep and no hall for me to-night
Suip, you littlo villain, why didn’t you
awaken mo?”
Snip was silent. Ho felt tho arrant
injustice of this remark, and bore it with
tho equanimity of a stoic.
“Well,” said his master, slowly, as he
lit, liis candle, “sinoo you did not, tuid as
I have had all tho diBaipntion and all the
candor I need for one night, I think, lit
tlo dog, that you and I will go peaceably
and gratefully to bed.”
Who Was Bluebeard I
A gentleman who saw tho gray, forbid
ding castle of Bluebeard rising aliovo tho
a'atiou of Clmmptoco. Franco, tellB who
the frightful hero of tho nursery was:
Some render may ask, “Who was this
real, historical Bhioboard?”
I answor that in Brittany he was the
Siour Gilles do Retz, a great feudal lord,
who possessed vast estates aud great
power in this neighborhood in the latter
part of the fourteenth and beginning of
the fifteenth centuries, and was, besides,
a marshal of Franco.
Tli is castle was his stronghold, and he
ruled it and tho Loire country around
with a hand of iron and a BWord of fire.
Gifted in youth with physical strength
aud beauty, and nil enormous fortune,
ho impaired both by all sorts of in
dulgences.
When too late, with a defiled and
bloated body, he found himself lashed
by tho scorpion whip that is always sure
to follow sin.
Instead of growing penitent, he
became more bloody and relentless.
Seduced by a wicked and cunning
alchemist to Ueliovo that by bathing in
human blood I10 could claim back his
vanished hoalth, beauty, and spirits, he
entrapped children aud young persons of
both sexes, murdered tliom in the dun
geons of tho castle with his own hand,
and bnthed in their warn blood.
It wos beliovod that more than a hun
dred wero thus murdered,
After years of impunity tho matter be
came so notorious and sprond so much
fear through tho country that the people
rose iu a muss against him, made him a
prisoner, and carried him to Nantes,
Thoro ho was tried by his suzerain
lord, tho Duke of Brittany, and con
demned to 1)0 burnt alive at the stako, a
judgment carried into execution in 1440
on wlmt is now tho Ohausseo do la Made
leine, on tho Gloriotto Island, in front of
whero the grout hospital now stands.
Not On Good Terms.
“Did you know that the Simpkinses
and I weron’t on good terms ?’’ said Col
onel Solon, as ho dropped into tho edi
torial clmir of the Oil City Derrick, liko
a bag of bran out of a wagon.
“ No; wliat’s tho troublo ?”
“Dump if I know zactly. Yer see.
tho other night mo’n my wife war invited
out to a party at Dcckin Todd’i
wont, coz I kuew that tl»o Deckin didn’l
scrimp on eatables a bit, an’ oilers had
suthiug in a jug down collar. Well t
when wo got there the house was mighty
nigh filled, an’ every ono was talking
kind o’ loose liko, an’ a complimenting
each other in various ways. Everytliing
slid along as smoothly as a chunk of
buttor on a hot knife ’till, longarter Bup-
por timo, Mr. Simpkin, sez he to my
wife, sez he, ‘Mrs. Solon, yer looks
’bout as nigh as young ns yer did ten
ye,ara ago;’ an’ my wifo, sez she, 4 Yer a
flatterin' me, Mr. Simpkin,’ coz my wife
sho knows what to say, she does. An’ I
explained, “that one cannot got around
with you at, all, but only that you are not
very graceful and sure-footed. Thoro
ore plenty of men here who danco worso
—Mr. Simpson, for instance.
“ I should hope 60,” said Dick, as
Simpson, n littlo weak-eyed man, whp
held liis fair partner as if ho feared sho
was packed with dynamite and was in
danger every minute of exploding,,
moved laboriously post the door. “If
that is the best you can say for mo, Miss
Florence, I shall never have tho audacity
to ask you to dauce again,” and'with a
heavy heart lie lert the conservatory, now
fully satisfied he lmd hod enough of Mix
Grey’s ball. •
Ho took a glass of clmmpngne in the
supper-room, whero its quolitywos being
freely disoussod by the young men who
lingered there, and went back to-ptiy his
parting Jrssiiects to his hostess.- Thoro o
wero still plor.ty qi peoplo about, .but a I aud it is more nutritious than the ordi-
1 chill seqmefl tpjjavQ fallen ou them, the
Simpkin, land o’ Goshen, but that air
wig I saw yer bnyin’ t’other day makes
yer look as pert as a sixteen-year-old
gal; when yer git yer false teeth
won’t know yer from yer darter.’
thci$I smiled pleasantly like, but, sakes
alive! that air room was just as still as a
1 my-mow for obout two minutes, an’ Mrs.
Simpkin looked like she wanted to kick
somebody, an’ my wifo, sez she, 4 Solo
mon, Solomon,’ jest as if Fd sot down on
tho baby or broke a lookin’-glass. The
people didn’t seem to breathe easy for
long timo, an’ bimiby wo kem away, an’
my wifo sez sho, 4 Solomon Solon, somo
men are made fools, an’ some men
born fools. ’ An’ sez I, 4 Sally, that's
l Mt I do not know for the life o’ me who
sjio was thinking on, unless ’twas tha*
liiit’ral fool oXTodd’s.”
Tiikre 1ms been lately turned out
Milan a now kind of bre^ made with
blood from row flosh. It is said to be *
preventive of scurvv, and to do away,
among poasants, with all dosire f<jr alco
holic drinkB. The difficulty of blood co
agulation being overoome, the “blood
bread” will Inst for years. Twenty per
cent, of its ingredients consist in blood,
1 narv.loaves of one oent e&flh.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Austin, Texas is to have n capital, cost
ing $1,600,000.
The Germnn carp put in Georgia wa-
doing finely.
Scarlet fever is making it red-hot for
the people of Natchez.
There arc five candidates for tho post
mastership of Nashville under Garfield’s
administration.
The sugar crop of Southern Texns has
been damaged fully one-luilf by the re
cent storms.
Late cotton lias been damaged fearfully
Cleburne, Longview, McKinney and
other points in Texas.
The Nashville American now figures
up a Democratic majority of six on joint
ballot in the Tennessee Legislature.
It is said thnt sevonty-eight of the 100
members of Tennessee Legislature are iii
favor of paying the State debt.
There is a movement on foot by promi
nent members of the Tennessee Legisla
ture to cut down the number of elections.
James Christopher, of Forest City,
Ark., recently went to the house of a
colored woman, and, in attempting to
force his way in, was killed by her. She
discharged on the ground qf self-
defense.
There are deficits in the budgets of
several departments of the City Hall of
New Orleans. The appropriation for pay
tho jiolice is $40,000 short, aud the
Improvements Department is short $32,-
000.
John M. Hill, a Littlo Rock printer,
was re-married Wednesday last to the
wifo from whom he was divorced. After
several months’ Reparation they bej
corresponding, which ended iu second
bliss.
Under tho new code of Mississippi,
any citizen has the right to arrest or enrry
before a Magistrate or any proj>er officer
the tramp he may find begging about
his premises. It is made the duty of
Magistrates to commit such tramps to
jail, and from the jail he is to be hired
out as other convicts are.
^Villiam Mattox, an inoffensiv
man, was brutally murdered at his house
near Abbeville, S. C., Thursday night
lost. Two men asked for lodging, and
being denied, entered the house and de
manded his money, killed him and took
$700. No clue to the murderers haH lieen
discovered up to this time. The wifo of
the deceased was in an adjoining room.
Nashville American: Five school-
houses—four in Wilson and one in Da-
idson county, all near tho Lebanon
turnpike—wero destroyed by fire, on
Wednesday night last, by incendiaries.
Under what is known as the four mile
law, saloons or drinking-houses can not
within an incorporated institution
of learning, and. in order to prevent the
sale of liquor in their neighborhoods,
persons residing at different points along
the turnpike secured charters and built
all tho school-houses destroyed Inst
Wednesday night.
A special from Harper’s Ferry says a
romantic marriage has taken place on
tho railroad bridge there. A gentleman
from Newmarket, Vt., was taking his
daughter westward to prevent her mar
riage with a young farmer. While tin
father was in depot writing to his wife,
informing her of his safe journey to that
point, the young lady’s lover, who had
secured a marriage license and a minis
ter, put in an appearance, and the tw
hurrying over the bridge, past the State
line, were married. They then returned
to tho station and informed her father,
whe left at once for home, disgusted, the
young couple following him the next
day.
Sunday evening, after his''services in
the Orange Hill Free-will Baptist church,
Richmond, Va., the poster, Rev. S. B.
Ginn, came out with his wife. As they
rcaclud the street Marion Sutton, a
young man standing on the outside, be
gan to use abusive language to the
preacher. Mr. Ginn asked him what he
had done to him that he should abuse
him in this way. Sutten continued,
however, and the preacher shook his lin
ger iu a warning way in the young nian’i
face, telling him to step, whereupon Sut.
ton knocked him down. The preagher
who is a smaller mail, got up and return
ed tho blow. Sutton knocked him
down again. The preacher came to time
again and put in another lick. At this
point the minister’s wife came to his
*, and, taking up a brick, threw it at
Sutton, fc lie 'alleges. Tho parties w
finally separated, and next morning w
arrested on cross-warrants
Powerful Ocean Steamships.
Twenty years ago the largest steamers
known (in this, ns in all such comparisons,
neglecting the Great Eastern, which was
a prodigy of engineering skill ) did not
reach 350 feet in length, 45 foot in
breadth, 3,500 tons in tonnage, or 4,000
liorse-power indicated. Wo have before
us at this moment a list of 50 merchant
steamers sailing, in the year 1800, from
Southampton and other southern ports,
which tho largost vessels then frequonted,
and tho list includes but 10 ships of moro
than 800 feet in length, none of which
reached the limits of sizo and power just
given, and tho whole of which belonged
to two companies, viz., the Royal Mail
aud the Peninsular and Oriental. At
the present moment wo have afloat and
at work tho White Star liners, some of
them of 445 feet in length, 45 feet in
breadth, aud nearly 5,000 indicated
horse-power; the Inman liners, compris
ing such ships ns the City ol Berlin, 488
feet by 44 J feet broad, and of about tho
samo stenm-power; tho Orient, of 445
feot by 461 I 0 * 3 *, with engines developing
5,600 horse-power; the Arizona, of about
tho samo size, with still greater steam
power and speed; and many other
splendid vessels but little inferior to auv
of tho forogoing. And theso grand
steamers—many of which reach tho quays
of Now’ York with greater punctuality
than railway trains reach tho Loudon
suburbs from Victoria and Chnring-cross,
and would reach our quays with equal
pmictuolity if they could avoid the
aboniinablo sands thftt bar the Mersey—
aro tho forerunners of still larger aud
moro powerful vessels now taking shnpo
upon the banks of the Clyde and elso-
wuore. Tho Canard steel ship, tho
Sorviu. now building by Messrs. Thomp
son, of Glasgow, is 500 feet by 50 feet,
with over 10,000 indicated horse-power,
and will, therefore, doubtless possess a
spoed considerably in advance of that of
the very fastest ship at present afloat in
the mercantile marine. Tho Inman
steamship City of Romo, building of iron
at Barrow, will bo still larger, having a
length of 540 feet, a breadth of 52 feet, a
gross registered tonnage of 8,000, and 5
steam power nearly equul to that of tho
Servia, Tho Guion lino is to 1)0 increased
by ships of almost equal sizo and power,
and tho Allan line is building others
equal to tho finest of tho White Shir
boats. Not withstanding the number and
magnitudo of tho passenger steamers
now running between America and this
country tho traffic is so great that it has
only been possible to secure nccoinmoda
tion by arranging passage many weeks,
and oven months, in advance, while the
rapidly increasing population and wealth
of tho United States and of Canada make
it certain that the interchange of agricul
tural produces and manufactured goods
between them and ourselves will go on
increasing. —Lendon Time*.
American 1 ubucco.
While I was at Ferrieres, In Italy, 1
heard a comical story from the wifo of an
American gentleman who resides in the
neighborhood. It seems tobnceo is a
Government monopoly; tho raising ot
moro than a dozen plants by any one
person is strictly prohibited. Tho gar
dener engognd by my friond had ratlier
a liking for the plant, aud embellished
several of his ornamental flower-beds
with it. So ono day the lady was waited
upon by the Comminsaire, who iuformed
her that, as sho had transgressed the
rules respecting the cultivation of to
bacco by nou-authorized individuals, she
would have to pay a fine ’of somo $30.
But, fortunately, tho Republican Dup-
uty from tho district was on terms of
great intimacy with tho family, aud he
offered his services to get them out of tha
scrape. Ho went, therefore, to call ou
the local Magistrate, and represented to
him that the offending plants were of
American origin, and, consequently,
woro of a kind that were totally valueless
for any other purpose than that of orna
mentation. Tho dignitary professed him
self ns being quite satisfied with tho ex
planation, .aud, in view of tho non
existence in commerco of any such an
article ns Amoricau tobacco, my friond
got off scot free.—Lucy Jlooper.
The Quickest Trains in the World,
Tho paco of tho quiekest trains in En
gland, says ail English paper, is great«-r
by ten miles an hour than that of the
quickest trains of auv other country. In
Great Britain the average velocity of tho
express is fifty miles au hour. In Bel
gium it never exceeds forty-ono miles nji
hour ; between Paris and Bordeaux it is
thirty-nine and a half miles an hour. In
Russia And in somo parts of Switzerland
tho rate is twenty-seven miles an hour.
■antra, iu England railway travcl-
... 0 .j attended with more risk than in
any other country in the world. Ket
thus tho perils of tho steam loco
motive are much exaggerated, for a
French statistician, alter a very labori
ous examination of tho dcuths occurring
from railway accidents over tho surface
of the whole earth, states tho result of
liis examination thus: “If a person were
to livo continually in a railway carriage,
and spend all his timo in railway travel
ing, tho chances in favor of his dying
from railroad accident would not occiu’
until I10 war- 060 venrs old.”
A who opens oyetori tdoco
by halves.
Thum’s lots of cold comfort in % hun
dred pounds of ioo.
Oxb-uauf ot the world doesn’t know
how the other half lies.
A Neyaiu ball report says: “Honora
was full of eclat—iu fact, the eclatcst
lady preseut. ”
You can’t play that on me !” said the
piano to the amateur who broke down on
a difficult piece of music.
O.'tz touch of you, mo, makes tho
whole world spin,” as the boy said when
his mother boxed his cars.
'DaBLtxa husband," she said, “am I
your treasure ?” “Certainly,” ho re-
plieil, “and I should liko to lay you up
in heaven.”
The editor of tho Cincinnati C'onimer-
rial, Who has farming ideas, thought
thnt to lmvo buttermilk he must buy a
gout.—New York Jferald.
One of tho first requisitions received
from a newly-appointed railway station
agent was: ‘‘Send me a gallon of red
ou for the danger lanterns.
When you see -two dogs growling and
gettiug ready to fight, romombor that It
is only a joint debate, and the liveliest
dog will get away with the joint,”
^‘Do you get any holidays in your of
fice?” asked a returned divine of a cher
ry-looking worker in secular walks. “Oh,
yes, we got a day to get buried on."
“ Ciphering:" School boy (kept in)—.
44 Let's seo—one fin's ought’s ought.
Twioo ought’s ought. Throe t’m’s ought
—oh, must bo something—stick it down
A yofno lady at an examination in
grammar was askod why “the man bach
elor was singular ?” She replied imme
diately, “Because it is vory singular thoy
don't get married. ’’
44 You wouldn’t take a man’s last oent
fora cigar, would you?” “Certainly I
would,” remarked the proprietor. “Well,
here it is, then,” passing over a cent,
“giro me the cigar.”
A Western writer thinks that if tho
propor way to spoil tho is "though,” ate
is “eight,” and hoes is “beaux,” the
proper way to |spell potatoes is pough-
teighteaux.—Cleveland Sun.
“There Aro No Birds in Last Year’s
Nests ” is tho title of a song. Probably
not. If it were equally sure that there
are no ruts iu last year's rat holes tho
public mind would be more at rest.
The Vermont housewife who read that
English nobles have lots of hares in thoir
preserves, says sho tried it to the extent
of putting a whole chignon into some
blackberry jam, aud tho jam didn't seem
a bit bettor for it.
“ Shall wo sell or abandon our girls?”
editorially asks the editor of the Hawk-
eye. I)o neither. Give ’em away. When
a girl is given away, if she is not “sold,”
tho young limn is—in a majority of cases.
—Norristown Herald.
Two ladies iti the horso car wero talk
ing about au actress whom they had just
seen. “Site Is too stout,” said one. “Oh,
no," replied tho other, who slightly
tended towards embonpoint. “She is
mure than stout; site’s fat.”
The truly affectionate and sensible
wife approaches her husband with a be
nignant expresriou of oouutenauoe. and
gently laying her hand upon his shoulder,
obtervea, “Charley, dear, please dou’t
spend auv moro monoy for cardamom
seeds. I'll try and stand it if you won't
kis» me oil the lip a."
A lady correspondent of tho Cinoin-
nali Enquirer says: “I know a fashion
able belle who has her arms lathered and
shaved from oud to end by a barber onco
n mouth.” Alia! Tills explains why
female arms bccomo bald-hoaded at such
an early ago.—Philadelphia Chronicle*
Herald.
A Wonderful Blind Man.
A very remarkable blind man, named
John itietcalf, a native of Manchester,
was living at tho beginning of this cent
ury ; and, strange to say, his occupation
was no other than that of a guide, his
living being gained by liis conducting
strangers through intricate routes dur
ing tlio night or when the roads wero
covered with snow. Stranger still,
however, was the calling which he sub
sequently followed, and this wo are told
was that of a 44 projector and surveyor
of highways in difficult and mountain
ous parts. ’ With the aid solely of
a staff which ho carried, he was often to
bo soon traversing roads, mounting hills,
and exploring valleys. It was under tlio
direction of Metcalf that many of tho
roads over tho Peak, in Derbyshire, wero
altered ; aud he also designed and su
perintended tlio construction of a now
road in the same neighborhood, formed
with a view to open a communication
with tho great London road without the
necessity of passing over tiio mountains.
A Female Crusoe.
If Do Foe had only known of a female (
Crusoe living on an ocean island, ho . splendid luck,
might, perhaps, have wrought out 11 story
superior to his Robinson Crusoe. Alex-
under Selkirk’s brief life on Junu Fernan
dez rvns trivial, either in the hardship
ondnred or tho difflcultiea conquered,
compared with tlmt of n nutivo woman
on an island opposite Southern Cali*
f ° The Catholic Fathers at South Barbara
wore transporting the natives of the Is
land St. Nicholas to tho mainland.
Among them was a mother who disc '”
A Bonanza of Bears and Lions.
John Bowles lofthis sheep ranch, near
Keefer’s Mill, for a day’s sport. lie did
not get, very far before lie discovered
bear tracks, both largo and small. Tliis
discovery was followed up by las coming
upon a number tho “varmiuts” taking
things easy under a spreading manzanitn
tree. John stood his ground manfully,
and blazed away with liis deadly Rem
ington, and two of the full-grown boars
were killed outright. Tho third, although
badly wounded, went for his sculp, and
John lmd to retreat to tho crotch of a
tree close by. With admirable tonight
lie froze to liis gun, and as soon as tho
boast came up to his roosting-placo ho
laid him out by a splendid shot through
tlio oye. On coming down tor liis porch
John feasted liis eyes with tho siglit of
his victims, and while enjoying this
pleasure ho heard somo cubs crying for
their mother. In looking around tho
brush I10 found two lino cubs, which ho
secured and took home. While on his
way back ho fell iu with two California
lions, which bo bagged, thus making a
perfect bonanza of game tor ono day’s
sport. Johnny tools bigger now tlmn old
Grunt, and will not soon forget his
(Cat' Enterprise.
ered that hor babe had been left behind.
Chawed by a Bear.
Recently near Riverdnlo, in tho Town
ship of Greenock twelvo miles from
Walkerton, Out., two women and thoir
children, who had gone to the woods to
pick acorns, were attacked by a l>ear.
The women took up the younger children
in tho arms, and got away, but a boy
about five years of age, son of a farmer
named Charles Symons, was seized by
the ferocious brute. Assistance arrived
about half as hour, tho cries of the
In Paris, children's parties aro preten
tious affaire. The decorations and toilets
ore made as prominent foaturos and as
elaborate as among older society followers.
At one of the children’s balls was a child
of eleven decked in thousands of dollars
worth of diamonds, and a toilet of luce
worth six hundred dollars, with a gossa
mer fan mounted iu turquoise aud pearls.
Whero all should be joy, life and light
in this youthful crowd, there are the
same rivalries, heart-burnings and en
vious feelings that embitter and spoil the
pleasure of older hearts.
She bogged tlmt the ship might be put culling for bis father guiding the
back, mit tho captain refused, olio 1 to tho spot. The brute mude
leaped into tho sea to swim ashore, but - • — te *1--uo-
as a storm prevailed, they all thought
slio was drowned. , ,
Eighteen years alter a company landed
on tho island. Thoy found traces of life,
and after long search discovered tlio wo
man, and took her with thorn. The poor
mother never found her babo, but had
managed to livo in comparative comfort,
though very lonely. Aftor^lier long lifo
thoir approach, and the child ’
found Btill alivo but dreadfully mangled.
His entrails wero torn out, tho ribs were
broken from tho back, and the lleeli
eaten off in large quantities. The poor
littlo fellow diea shortly after.
Two low a boys were amusing them
selves throwing a heavy ramrod fi« high
ns they could. One of them met liis
chiefly in ’tlio open air, sho could not death f>y the missile descending with
boar the confinement of a bouse, and the velocity of a bullet and penetrating
soon sickened aud died. bis head.
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