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DEVILTRIES.
—Walking in yoursleepis now termed
a trance-action.
—When is a bed not a bed?—When it
is a little buggy.
—A man with water on the brain
shouid wear a plug hat.
—“Gentlemen of leisure, taking sun
bathes,” is the title by which corner loaf
ers are to be henceforth distinguished.
—The Boston Post wants someone to
find the word “cat” in the Bible. It’s a
put up job to induce folks to read the
book.
—Dentists say that the teeth of females
are more regular than those of males, be
cause the former have more “jaw” for
the teeth to spread on.
—Dorn Pedro said he found only one
thoroughly truthful paper in America.
Thanks. He has been a subscriber to
this paper for two years.
—When Greek meets Greek then
comes the tug of war, we think, but,
when American meets American it’s
“ What’ll you have to drink ?”
—Buffalo Express: “The New York
Herald says : ‘ According to the Russian
law two brothers can’t marry two sisters.’
Can one?” Don’t be so greedy.
—Josh Billings says I think I kan av
erage a man’s karakter pretty clussly hi
the dog that follows him : if the dog iz
a bully the master iz a coward.
—lt’s easy enough to pronounce those
Russians names. All the practice nec
essary is a slight attack of catarrh and
the holding of three or lour carpet-tacks
in the mouth.
—The man who made a shoe for the
foot of a mountain is now engaged on a
hat for the head of a discourse, after
which he will manufacture a plume for
Oeneral Intelligence.
—“ I‘a, will you answer me a ques
tion?” “ Certainly, my boy ?” “Well,
is the world round ?” “ Yes, of course.”
■“ Well, then, if the world is round, how
can it come to an end ?”
—A Wisconsin constable levied on
“ the undivided half” of a gray mule.
He wasn’t particular which end he took,
and it was thirteen days before he opened
his eyes and recognized bis wife.
—Some scientist has discovered that
dynmatic is nothing more or less than
the essence of a mule’s hind leg. Num
bers of negroes have died, though, with
out knowing what it was that killed
them.
A Pennsylvania woman who went to
Kansas a few years ago writes back that
she has done as well as could be expect
ed under the circumstances. She has
had three husbands, two pairs of twins
and one ague.
—“ How old is he ?” asked a middle
aged female of a young man who was
-offering a pup for sale on the Common
yesterday. “Two weeks old last night
at 10 o’clock,” replied the dog-merchant,
with commendable exactitude.
—One ©four exchanges tells of a man
who at his death bequeathed to his wid
ow ten thousand dollars as a wedding gift
in the event of her second marriage.
What refined cruelty to throw tempta
tion iu a widow’s way like that.
—A lawyer ami a minister, both impe
cunious, boarded with a certain widow
at the South End, lloston. Neither
could pay his board. The lawyer mar
ried the lone woman and the minister
performed the ceremony, thus squaring
accounts.
—There is a woman who bought a sew
ing machine on weekly payments the
day before the renewal of the patent was
refused, and now her stove is never with
out a kettle singing softly for the agent
to come around and collect the second
installment.
—A Milwaukee girl, while out walk
ing lately, lost one of her shoes on the
railroad track. Half an hour later a
freight train ran into it and wrecked
sixteen of the cars, knocked the ends
out of the engine boilers and killed 200
head of cattle, and of such is the king
dom of heaven.
—A lady, who is an enthusiastic Re
publican, named her canary bird Jim
Blaine. He did not sing much, but she
loved him tenderly, until last Saturday
she discovered that Jim Blaine had laid
an egg. Now she declares that no de
pendence can be placed on a politician.
—The vi heat has been beaten down by
the rain, the peaches have been nipped
in the bud, Colorado beetles are after
the potatoes, grasshoppers are consum
ing the hay crop, and altogether if the
war continues, poor people will be com
pelled to live on pie and ice cream next
year.
—The wealthy who keep their balance I
at Coutts’, says the London World, are
somewhat nervous. The senior partner,
aged eighty-five, died the other day, and
the management of the bank is intrusted
to the junior partner, a raw boy of eighty
two, with not more than sixty years’ ex
perience in the house.
—“ But I pass,” said a minister in the
West End a few Sundays ago in dismiss
ing one theme of his subject to take up
another. “Then I make it spades?”
yelled a man from the gallery who was
dreaming the happy hours away in a
game of euchre. It is needless to say
that he went out ou the next deal, being !
assisted by one of the deacons with a j
handful of clubs.
Cl)c tOglctljoqpc Cci)®,
BY T. L. GANTT.
EIGHT.
[Pronounced by the most eminent critics in
I Europe to be one of the finest productions of
j the same length in our language.]
From the quickened womb of the primal gloom
The sun rose bleak and bare,
Till I wove him a vest for bis Ethiop breast
Of the threadsof my golden hair;
And when the broad tent of the firmament
Arose on its airy bars,
I penciled the hue of the matchless blue
And spangled it round the stars.
I painted the flowers of Eden bowers,
And their leaves of living green,
And mine were the dyes in the sinless eyes
Of Eden’s virgin queen ;
And when the fiend’s art on the trustful heart
Had fastened its mortal spell,
In the silvery sphere of a new-born tear
To the trembling earth I fell.
When the waves that burst o’er a world ac
cursed
Their work of wrath had sped,
And the ark’s lone crew, the tired and true,
Come forth amongst the dead,
With the wondrous gleams of my bridal beams
I hade their terrors cease,
As 1 wrote on the roll of the storm’s dark scroll
God’s covenant of Peace.
Like a pall at rest on a senseless breast,
Night’s funeral shadow slept -
When shepherd swains on Bethlehem plains
Their lowly vigils kept—
Then 1 flashed on their sight the heralds bright
Of heaven’s redeeming plan,
As they chanted the morn of a Saviour born—
Joy, joy to the outcast man !
Equal favor I show to the lofty and low,
On the just and unjust I descend ;
E’en the blind, whose vain spheres roll in
darkness and tears,
Feel my smile, the best smile of a friend;
Nay, the flower of the waste by my love is
embraced
As the rose in the gardens of kings.
At the crysilis bier of the worm I appear,
And lo ! the gay butterfly wings.
The desolate morn, like a mourner forlorn,
Conceals all the pride of her charms,
Till I bid the bright hours chase the night
from her bowers
And lead her young day to her arms!
And when the gay rover seeks Eve for his
lover
And sinks to her balmy repose,
I wrap the soft rest by the zephy r fanned
West
In curtains of amber and rose !
From my sentinel sleep by the night dreaded
deep
I gare with unslumbering eye,
When the cynosure star of the mariner
Is blotted from out the sky;
And guided by me through the merciless sea,
Though sped by the hurricane’s wings,
Ilis compassless, dark, lone, weltering hark
To the haven home safely he brings.
I waken the flowers in their dew spangled
bowers,
The birds in their chambers of green,
And mountain and plain glow with beauty
again,
As they bask in the matinal sheen.
O, if such the glad worth of thy presence on
earth,
Though fretful and fleeting the while,
What glories must rest on the home of the
blest,
Ever bright with the Deity’s smile!
REST AT LAST.
After the showers, the tranquil sun ;
Silver stars when the day is done.
After the snow, the emerald leaves;
After the harvest golden sheaves.
A fter the clouds, the violet sky ;
Quiet woods when the winds go by.
After the tempest the lull of the waves;
After the battle, peaceful graves.
After the knell, the wedding bells ;
Joyful greetings from sad farewells.
After the bud, the radiant rose ;
After our weeping, sweet repose.
After the burden, blissful meed ;
After the furrow, the waking seed.
After the flight, the downy nest;
Over the shadowy river —rest.
Ask the Old Woman.
A gentleman traveling out West relates
the following:
Riding horseback just at night through
the woods in Signor county, Michigan, I
came into the clearing, in the middle of
which stood a log house, its owner sitting
in the door smoking his pipe. Stopping
my horse before him, the following con
versation ensued :
“Good evening, sir,” said I.
“ Good evening.”
“ Can I get a glass of milk from you to
drink.”
“ Well, I don’t know. Ask the old
woman.”
By this time his wife was standing at
his side.
“ Oh, yes,” said she, “of course you
can.”
While drinking it I asked :
“ Think we are going to have a
storm ?”
“ Well, I really don’t know. Ask the
old woman—she can tell.”
“ I guess we shall get one right away,” j
said the wife.
Again I asked :
“ How much land have you got cleared i
here ?”
“ Well, I really don’t know. Ask the
old woman—she knows.”
“ About nineteen acres,”’ said she
again answering.
Just then a troop of children came
running and shouting around the corner
of the shanty.
“ All these your children ?” said I.
“ Don’t know. Ask the old woman—
she knows.”
1 did not wait to hear any reply, but
drew up the reins and left immediately.
—Hayes’ “ Southern policy” is to stea’
what he can and buy what he can’t steal.
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1877.
CURRENT TOPICS.
--It costs thirty six and a half cents
| per mile to run a locomotive.
—Acting President Hayes owns 3,000
: acres of mineral land in Virginia.
—Vesuvius is belching forth an acid
smoke that blights the adjacent verdure.
—Another whale has been killed near
Beaufort, North Carolina—the sixth this
season.
—A canary that whistles “ Yankee ;
Doodle” is one of the latest novelties, j
Illinois claims him.
—The monster bell in the Cathedral
at Cologne was rung for the first time
last Easter day, and it took sixty artillery
men to do it.
—Pasha or bashaw (accent on the last
syllable like “ pshaw”) is the title of any
high functionary in Turkey, civil, mili
tary or naval.
—A Utica man twenty years ago
stamped his name upon a silver quarter.
Last week he received back the indentical
piece in change.
—An Italian kidnapper died recently
who had made a fortune of SIOO,OOO by
kidnapping girls for transportation
mainly to England.
—American coral jewelry is made of
sour milk or curds, but the secret of
manufacture is known only three men,
who secured it by accident.
—A correspondent of the American
Art Journal says that the girls of Cash
mere make shawls worth $30,000, and
will shows 300 distict colors or shades
which we cannot make or even distin
guish.
—Mrs. Ellen J. Null, of New Bridge
port, Pennsylvania, whose husband was
killed by a train while lying intoxicated
upon a railroad, has just received a ver
dict for SI,OOO against the hotel keeper
who sold him liquor.
—A French paper at Bayeux describes
a “man-fish” lately seen off Diamond
Point, which resembled a human being
down to the waist, while its lower part
were those of a fish. Its eyes were large,
its nose flat and its countenance “ round
and full.”
—Olive Logan writes from London
that the Honorable Judah P. Benjamin,
formerly Secretary of State of the Con
federate States, earns a matter of one
hundred thousand dollars every year, and
could earn more if he could put a legal
extension on the twenty-four hours.
—Gen. Stoneman, the famous cavalry
officer, is managing a large farm in Los
Angelos county, California. He says
that his children have four different kinds
of fruit every day in the yearand there
are only four days in the three hundred
and sixty-five that they cannot go out
and pluck them.
—Miss Jennie Collins, of Boston, the
working girls’ friend, gives some startling
samples of shop girls wages—twenty-five
cents a dozen for fancy aprons, two days
work, and twenty cents a day on an aver
age at some better kinds of work. These
are figures to dash the exultation over the
“ bargains” rewarding thrifty shopping
just now. Think of bargain out of some
sister’s shame or starvation.
—Very little is known of a remarka
ble natural curiosity in southern Illinois
in the shape of a natural bridge. It is
near Pomona, on the Cairo and St. Louis
Railroad, and is a wonderful freak of
nature. It is of pure sandstone, 100 feet
in length on top, and 76 feet from one
abutment to the other. It is 60 feet high,
and 9 feet broad on the top. The aver
age thickness is 9 feet, and a team is
said to have crossed it in perfect safety.
—The residents in an old-fashioned
two-story house at Hampton, N. H., on
arising one morning this winter, found
the snow up to the eaves of the house,
and had to take up the boards from a
chamber floor and lay them down on the
snow to the barn, and then they had to
take some boards from the roof of the
barn and climb down to feed the cattle.
The sheep were buried under the snow
for twenty-one days, and were then got
out alive.
—The death, at fifty four, lately occur
red of au Englishman, known as the
Norfolk giant. He was a farmer, and
often loaded his own wagon by carrying
four bushels under each arm at a time.
When in great haste to get farm work
done he has been known to harness him
self to one of his own harrows. His
weight was 336 pounds ; height six feet
six inches; w’idth from shoulder to
shoulder across the back, twenty inehes.
He was a most amiable man.
—Curiosities of lawsuits for breach of
matrimonial promises : In Boston, a girl
was engaged to a man who jilted her. j
This was ten years ago. She married |
somebody else. Recently she became a 1
widow, and now she sues the original !
suitor because he will not keep the old
promise. In Minneapolis, a man is the
complainant. He declares that his pock
et and his feelings have suffered an inju
ry equal to SIO,OOO by the refusal of a
wealthy widow to marry him. She
promised to do so, and he gave up his
business of liquor selling to please
her, thus causing his bankruptcy. In
Montreal, a woman of forty failed to se
cure a verdict against a boy of eighteen.
He proved that he had never meant nor
promised to marry her, but had regarded
her rather in the light of a motherly ad
[ viser.
| Sot a Bad bat not a Likely Story.
Among other ludicrous mistakes that
hare happened to Congressmen in Wash
ington the correspondent of the Boston
Journal relates the following: “The lit
tle suits of rooms at the National Hotel
open upon little halls, uniform in ap
pearance, connected by large corridors,
and are all furnished alike. One night
Senator Mangun, of North Carolina,
then President pro tern, of the Senate, a
dignified gentleman of the old school,
had just returned from a party, when
Governor Upham, a Senator from Ver
mont, came in without any ceremony
and took a seat. The two chatted away
on politics, the weather, the social
amusement, etc., until the clock on the
mantleshelf struck one. “ Really, Gov.
Upham,” said Mangun, “I am always
pleased to see you, but I really believe it
is getting very late.” “ I have thought
so for some time,” replied Upham, but
he made no movement. Providently the
half hour sounded, and Mangum remark
ed: “I thought, Gov. Upham, that you
had decided to go to bed, Sir ?” “So I
had, Mr. President,” answered the Ver
monter, yet he did not budge. Mangum
stared at him in amazement, and at last
plainly said : “ But why don’t you go to
your room,Gov. Upham? It will soon
be 1 o’clock?” “My room, Mr. Presi
dent ! why, this is my room, and I have
been waiting for you to go away for two
hours past.” Mangun sprang to his
feet, looking into the sleeping room ad
jacent, and found that he was in Up
ham’s room instead of his own. Mr.
Webster used to enjoy joking him about
his visit to Vermont.
An Egyptian Juggernaut.
A recent correspondent in Egypt gives
an account of an annual “ religious” cer
emony, which rivals the Indian Jugger
naut in superstition and barbarity. It
takes place near Cairo, and not only
native Princes and populace, but foreign
residents and travelers crowd to the vi
cinity to witness it. From two to three
hundred men, adherants of the Mahom
eton sect called the Saadeeyah, are laid
side by side upon the ground, face down
ward, making an unbroken pavement of
their bodies. Over this human roadway
the Sheik of the dervishes rides on horse
back, the horse being led, unwillingly,
over a living pavement, which the noble
animal’s fine instinct would teach him to
avoid. The men thus trampled on are
first stupified with hashish, a strong nar
cotic made from hemp. As the horse
proceeds, the men over whom he has
passed scramble to their feet, if they can.
Some seem to be little hurt, others move
with difficulty, and some are carried off
in fits or insensible. It is a horrid and
most disgusting exhibition, and while
superstition may excuse the Mussulmans
for witnessing it, the love of a “ sensa
tion” is scarcely a sufficient apology for
foreigners. Yet even foreign ladies are
said to go with their male friends to look
at the hideous custom.
A Nevada Phenomenon.
The Y irginia, Nevada, Enterprise says
that much excitement was recently crea
ted in that city by one of the strangest
phenomena of the century. At first it
had the appearance of sparks of fire com
ing up through the pools of water beside v
the street. These sparks seemed to
explode on reaching the surface, in many
instances producing reports loud enough
to be heard across the street, and being
accompanied by a little cloud of smoke
and emitting a decidedly sulphurous
smell. After watching these perfor
mances for a long time, and tracing them
all along the street, it began to be noticed
that they occurred only on one side and
that under the telegraph wires. This
led to a closer examination, when the
following supposed solution was arrived
at: The sparks seemed to be caused by
drops of water falling from the wires,
which exploded when striking the pools
of water, with the effect above mentioned.
This solution was seemingly confirmed
by the fact that when the wires became
dry the phenomenon ceased. There still
remains to bo explained, however, why,
under the circumstances, such results
should follow the falling of the water
drops from the wires.
Great Londou.
There are in the city of London j
4,000,000 persons. The metropolis con
cantains more Jews than the whole of
Palistine, more Roman Catholics than
Rome itself, more Scotchmen than Edin
burg. The port of London has every day
ou its waters 100 ships added to the pop
ulation daily, or 4,000 yearly, a birth
taking place every five minutes, and a
death every eight minutes. On an aver
age, twenty-eight miles of streets are
opened and 9,000 new houses built every
year. In its postal districts there is a 1
yearly delivery of 238,000,000 letters.
On the police register there are the
names of 120,000 habitual criminals, in
creasing by many thousands every year.
More than ©ne-third of all the crimes of
the country are committed in London, or,
at least brought to light there. There
are as many beer shops and gin palaces
! as would, if tbeir fronts were placed side
by side, reach from Charing Cross to
Portsmouth, a distance of seventy-three
j miles, and 39,000 drunkards are anually
, brought before its magistrates. The
j shops open on Sundays would form a
■ street sixty miles long.
A PREHISTORIC CITY.
The Remarkable Rnius Discovered in
the Valley of the Animas, in Col
orado.
Lake City, Col., May s.—Prof.
Hayden has given southwest Colorado a
new interest by discovering *and describ-
I ing the ancient ruins in that section, and
in southeastern Utah v The stories told
about these ruins are very interesting.
! The fertile valley of the Animas was
densely inhabited and highly cultivated
by an enlightened race of people centu
ries ago. The ruins of the houses, cor
rals, towns, fortifications, ditches, pottery
ware, drawings, non-interpretable writ
ings, &c., show that many arts were cul
tivated by these prehistoric people which
are now entirely lost. Their houses were
built of most every kind of stone, from
small boulders to the finest sandstone.
The finest of these ruins, and the near
est perfect, are situated about thirty-five
miles below Animas City, in a large val
ley fifteen miles long by seven wide, on
the west side of the river. This valley
has been discovered with buildings of
every size, the two largest being 300 by
6,000 feet, and about 300 feet apart.
They are built of small blocks of sand
stone, laid in adobe mud, the outside
walls being four feet, and the inside walls
from a foot and a half to three feet thick.
Iu the lower story are found port holes
a foot square. There are rooms now left
and walls for about four stories high still
standing. About the second story, on
the west side, there was once a balcony
along the length of the building. No
signs of a door are visible in the outer
walls and the ingress must have been
from the top, in the inside there being
passages from room to room. Most of
them are small, from 8 by 10 to 12 by 14
feet, the doors being 2by 4 feet. The
arches over the doors and portholes are
made of small cedar poles two inches
wide, placed across, on which the mason
ry is placed. The sleepers supporting
the floors are of cedar, about eight inches
thick, and from 20 to 50 feet long, and
about three feet apart. A layer of small
round poles was then placed across the
sleepers, then a layer of thinly-split ce
dar sticks, then about three inches of
earth, then a layer of cedar bark, then
another of dirt, then a carpet of some
kind of coarse grass. The rooms that
have been protected from exposure are
whitewashed, and the walls are orna
mented with drawings and writings. In
one of these rooms the impression of a
hand dipped iu whitewash on a joist
is as plain as if it had been done only
yesterday. In another room there are
drawings of tarantulas, centipedes, horses
and men.
In some of the rooms have been found
human bones, bones of sheep, corn cobs,
goods, raw hides, and all colors of va
rieties of pottery ware. These two laige
buildings are exactly the same in every
respect. Portions of the buildings plain
ly show that they were destroyed by fire,
the timbers being burned off and the
roofs cavedJ/i, leaving the lower rooms
entirely The rock that these
buildings were built of must have been
brought a long way, as nothing to com
pare with it can be found within a radius
of twenty miles. All the timber used is
cedar, and has been brought at least
twenty-five miles. Old ditches and roads
are to be seen in every direction.
The Navajo Indians say, in regard to
these ruins, that their forefathers came
there five old men’s ages ago (500 years),
and that these ruins were here, and the
same then as now, and there is no record
whatever of their origin.
ASnake Story.
The Jackson (Tennessee) Sun of last
week contained a remarkable story about
a lady and snake in that city. According
to the particulars recited, the lady, who
is fifty-seven years of age, had for twenty
years or more carried a live snake in her
stomach. The reptile was always more
lively in its movements a short time after
meals than at other times, causing to the
victim the most unpleasant sensation of
both mind and body—producing nausea,
heartburn, and a slight distension of the
stomach. These movements ceased about
three weeks ago, and, a week later, a snake
ten inches in length and as large as a
man’s finger was discharged. Mr. Rob
ert Gates, the editor of the Sun, who is
now on a visit to Louisville, in a conver
sation with a Courier-Journal reporter,
says he knows the lady well, and sub
stantiates the story by the most positive
affirmation that he knows every word of
it to be true. He gives the name of the
lady as Mrs. L>r. Alex. Jackson. He
says that Mrs. Jackson thinks she must
have drank the snake in embryo from a
spring while attending a squirrel stew in
West Tennessee twenty years ago.
Approaching London.—Long before
one reaches London the smoke of the
great city can be seen darkening the air
and forming a heavy rim on the distant
horizon. London is so vast that it is
hard to tell where the city ends and the
country begins, but many miles before
reaching the city proper the approach is
marked by clusters of villages and out
lying suberbs, with an occasional public
building or palatial residence. In the
occasional stoppages of the train the
distant roar of the city can be heard even
before its spires can be seen, and a heavy,
rumbling sound like suppressed thunder,
seems to fill the air. It is like the roar
of the sea, and London might be appro
priately termed an ocean ef humanity
VOL. Ill —NO. 33.
Old Egypt.
A correspondentent writing to the
Rome Courier from Cairo, Egypt, gives
the following interesting points:
Heliopolis lies six or seven miles north
j°f Cairo. The obelisk of Heliopolis is
almost the only thing to mark the sight
lof that learned and cultured city. It
I stands in the middle of a field of wheat
and bears upon its faces, in well preserv
ed hieroglyphics, the history of its erec
tion by Osirtasen 11., lour thousand nine
hundred and forty years ago—five hun
dred years before Abraham visited
Egypt!
As I stood knee deep in the luxuriaut
dark green wheat, which promises forty
bushels to the acre, a few thoughts sug
gested themselves: The land is not fresh
land—far from it; it is very old—as old
as the hills. For five thousand years—
and I do not know how much longer—it
has been in cultivation, yielding heavy
crops of wheat, barley and corn ; and it
is still friable, mellow and rich.
But, to return : Near the obelisk was
the celebrated Temple of the Sun, whose
priests taught philosophy and astronomy
to the world. Plato lived here thirteen
years under their tuition. Joseph’s
father-in-law was at one time the high
priest; and, later, Moses played around
their grounds as a school hoy! Over
these identical fields roamed the He
brews in search of stubble to make bricks,
after the taskmasters, by command of
Pharaoh, had refused to furnish straw.
A few hundred yards from the obelisk,
standing by the roadside, is an old syca
more fig tree. It is bent and wrinkled
and venerable with age. Under its
spreading branches, according to Egyp
tian tradition, the Virgin rested one hot
summer’s day, during the flight into
Egypt. A rich Copt has enclosed it to
protect it from mutilation by visitors
and has planted a garden around it.
Paper Flonr Barrel!*.
A firm at Syracuse, N. Y., are now
manufacturing a novel flour barrel. The
barrels are composed of straw-paper pulp,
which is run into a mould made in the
shape of one-half of a barrel cut verti
cally. The pulp is subject to a power
ful hydraulic pressure, and when reduced
to the required thickness the ends of the
halves are cut off at the ends. The
pieces are then placed in a steam drier
and the sides are trimmed evenly and
the substance thoroughly dry. It comes
from the drier ready to make up into
barrels. There are three heavy wooden
hoops and two hoops fastened together;
and into groves cut into the staves the
paper halves, which have an average
thickness of three-sixteenths of an inch,
are slid. The ends of the barrels are
made of paper of a similar thickness,
constructed upon the same principle as
the sides and protected by heavy wooden
ones. The advantage of these barrel
over wooden ones are lightness, cheap
ness, durability and the prevention of
flour sifting out while in transit. They
are constructed entirely by machinery,
and the halves are cut so true that any
pieces of the same size will readily fit
together. They will not cost more than
one-third the price of wooden barrels,
are lighter, and fit so nicely iu the
grooves that there is no chance for flour
to sift through, which loss is quite a
heavy percentage in the use of other
kinds.
An Earnest Shepherd.
A young man who lives on a farm
near Bochara, Australia, lately went to
sleep on a sofa after a hard day’s work,
and had deen lying there sometime when
he got up and went outside. His com
panions observed that he walked with a
staggering gait, but little notice was
taken of the matter, as they expected him
to rejoin them immediately. The som
nambulist, for such he was, passed
through three or fourgates, untying and
retying the fastenings, which are made
of rope, and made his way to the wool
shed. There he hung his coat upon a
nail, took down a pair of shears he had
been usiDg in the daytime, and proceed
ed to sharpen them. He next caught a
sheep, and had ju3t finished shearing it,
when he was wakened by the sudden
arrival of his friends, who had come with
a lantern to search for him. The shock
of awakeuing caused him to tremble like
a leaf, he soon regained his equanimity.
The sheep was shorn as well as if the work
had been performed in broad daylight
and the night was by do means a clear
one.
Spotted With Graves and Itiflle Pita.
From the Kansas City Times.
A young man writes to Mr. Place, of
Lawrence, Kansas, about the hardships
he experienced in the overland trip to
the Black Hills. He left Cheyenne on
the 27th of March. He tells a doleful
tale of snow storms, want of fuel on the
route, and the terrible condition of the
roads. It sometimes took the combined
force of men and teams to puU through
the mud. A snow storm overtook the
party when within ten miles of Dead
wood, where the men and animals were
detained two days. Many person were
returning home disgusted. Wages are
from three to six dollars per day, hut
living iu very high, and the hotels are
all full. Gambling is the rage. “ The
road over which we passed,” says the
young man, “ was spotted with graves
and rifle pits.”
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RIRBARKS IN AOVTir CAROLINA.
A Coroner's Jury of Xejfroes Finds a
Verdict of Death front Incantation.
An outrageous case of superstition ir
creating great excitement on Coosaw
Island, and it is feared bloodshed may re
sult before the interested neighbors are
convinced that they are the victims of
their own blind faith in thesupcrnatural.-
It seems that a man named Srripe died a
short time ago of consumption, and ort
his death-bed remarked that if he die<{
his death would be owing to the influ
ence of one Dago Hagood, who, some
time last January, came up behind him,
and, putting one hand on each shoulder
asked, “ Who is it ?” a common custom
among all classes. The circumstance
was forgotten by both, and, but for the
death of Snipe, would probably never
have been recalled had not Snipe, before
his death, professed to have had a vision
revealing to him that Hagood’3 playful- 1
ness had been the cause of his sickness.
The friends of Snipe, believing that hi*
dying declaration must be true, sent t j
Dr. Johnson to hold an inquest, but the
Doctor, after hearing the particulars, de
clined to do so. Snipe’s father then
threatened that if the law would not pun
ish Hagood that he, himself, would shoot
him on sight. The neighbors again came
to Beaufort for a coroner, and, after con
sultation, Mr. Carleton concluded, for
the sake of preserving the peace, he had
better go; and went and held an inquest,-
but no further testimony could be elicit
ed, and when then jury retired to delib
erate he told them that no verdict against
Hagood could be rendered, as there was
nothing to implicate him in the death of
Snipe. The jury, all colored, after a long
deliberation, refused to render any other
verdict than that of murder against Ha
good, and so the case stands at present.
Since the above was written we have
seen a copy of the verdict of the jury,
which is worth preserving, and is as fol
lows :“ That Adam Snipe came to his
death at Coosaw island, in Beaufort
county, on the 11th day of April, 1877,
and that his death was caused through
one Dago Hagood, he having some time
previously put his hands around de
ceased’s neck producing a cough and
poisoning said Adam Snipe, thereby will
fully, unlawfully and feloniously causing
the death of the said Adam Snipe, con
trary to the peace and dignity of said
State.”
Mr. Carleton very properly refused tor
commit Hagood on such an absurd
charge.—Beaufort Tribune , 4/ h instant.
The Port Royal Advertiser says that
the jury brought in the same verdict
three times, and that Dago Hagood is
now in jail.
Mr. Parker and His White Hull-Pup,
Mr. Parker was walking down Broad
way yesterday, a benevolent smile on hia
ruddy countenance,and a fat, white bull
dog trotting complacently at his heels.
Occasionally Mr. Parker would look
around at the dog and chuckle to him
self.
“The Board of Aldermen be darned, ,r
said Mr. Paiker. “ I’m not going to put
a four-foot strap on your neck, Marcus
Aurelius,” and Marcus Aurelius wagged
his stump of tail. Just then a small boy
exploded a boom directly under the dog’s
black nose, and that animal gave a howl
and made a dash at the small boy.
“ Look a year,” yelled a policeman to
Mr. Parker, “ you want to put a strap on
that year dawg. He’s mad.”
“ He is not mad,” said Mr. Parker.
“Well, old fellow, whose the judge? 1
say that year dawg’s mad, and I’m goin'
to knock ’iin on the head with my club.”
Mr. Parker, for the moment looked
frightened. Suddenly, however, a twin
kle came into his, eye, and drawing him
self up to his full height, he addressed
the policeman haughtily :
“ Officer, you evidently do not know
whom we are- We had desired to pre
serve our incognito, but you force us to
reveal ourselves. We are the Grand
Duke Alexis! and that is our bull-dog..
That dog is an alien ; he is not a citizen,
and must not be bound by foreign laws
and straps. Do you wish to embroil your
land in a war with Russia? If you do
just club that dog.”
“ Well, call off your dawg,” said the
policeman.
“ Here, Bloyiskinourskiroxcurobiskin
aschowhockouski,” said Mr. Parker,with
out the slightest hesitation.
“ Well I’m blowed,” mused the officer
as Mr. Parker and his dog disappeared.
“ I’m blowed ef that dawg couldn’t work
a free lunch route of! the people’s legs
afore the Juke could pronounce half his
name.”— N. Y. W'rrld.
Jury Lbt.
The following is a list of jurors drawn
to serve at April adjourned term, on the
4th Monday in ay, 1877 :
William R. Vaughn, W. J. Fleeman,
J. O. A Patton, George K. Smith,
B. A. Maxey, F. M. Goolshv,
Robert W. Huff, Jacob T. Patton,
Marshall Epp, John Glenn,
R. A. McMahan, F. E. Goolsby,
Thomas J, Howard, Thomas B. Moss,
Arthur Haire, Henry M. Witcher,
C. C. Oliver, T. J. Bowling,
B. H. Witcher, J. F. Murphy,
James M. Bushin, John A. Jewell,
John W. Jarrell, Jesse M. Arm-stead, jy
I;ham H. Pittard, J. G. M. Edwards
K. I. Smith, C. J. Landrum,
R. L. Hargrove, O. P. Finley,
Edgar Maxwell, I J.T. Landrum,
Jasper Haynes, | Wm. F. Smith,
William M. Tiller.
—A man in Ontario county, Canada,
worth SIOO,OOO, has been arrested for.-
stealing a horse blanket