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Vol. *XT. No. 7.
SOUTHERN NEWS. >
Arkatit: *'baa 9,000 t iin i cit>ztn»
Montgomery, Ala is enjoying a building
boom.
Small-pox in Atlanta, Ga , is cn the de
crease.
Macon, Ga , has adopted the electric light
Bjstem,
The Montgomery Grays restoi d order at
Opelika, A1 a.
Birmingham, Ala., is to h. vo a $250,000
cotton factory.
The cold w a:her is kll iug thousands of
sheep in Texas.
The Florida State Fair will o-.-en on the
13th of February.
Cubans ore airiving on ever, V-Miner at
Key Vest, Florida.
i harleston, t>. C,, has spent $750,000 for
education in ten years.
Smallpox has about disappeared from
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Dr C. N. Abbott, o! MeKcnucy, Tex is,
has been arms' i d for murder.
Gov Hawkins, of Tennes-ee, is going to
practice law in Chattanooga.
Judge Lewis, of Dallas Texas, is waring
the life of Gen. Sam Houston.
A va'uable deposit of n tea ha* been dis¬
covered near Greeny .lie, S. C.
Hon. John P. King, of Augusta, G.»„ is
the oldest living (J. S .Senator.
Prairie tires are Joints gre.-t damage in
w stern and uorlhwestern Texas.
An effort will he made to compel the
saloons iu Rome, Ga,, to close at. sundown,
Hon. 8. Warren Mays, of Augusta. Ga.,
died at Eufauia'Ala , last week,
Mr. William Wicker committed suicide
near Sandersville, Ga. the other day.
There are 800 lunatics in Tennessee out¬
side oi the asylum, and without proper
care.
ii. H. May, of Augusta, Ga., has made an
as-n’ii i oat. Liabilities £82,000. Assets
* 1103 , 000 .
Noel 1) Smith deputy surveyor of customs
at Memphis, has beeu arrested for embez¬
zling i'50.000.
The widow of the late Senator Wm. L.
Yancey, of Alabama, died at Athens, Ga.,
last Sat ui day.
Laborers in Georgia and South Carolina
promise to be scarce next umrner, and
wages higher.
The Rugby colony in Tennessee is begin¬
ning to prosper alter several years of ad¬
verse fortune.
The wheat crop in North Alabama was
sowed late and has been injured by the re¬
cent cold weather.
Joe Patterson, who stabbed his wife in
Banks county a lew days ago, has been ar¬
rested at Belton, Ga.
Anstof . , profes , lonal . . Dead , beat , ,, w,t- .
nesses bailing about [be Lulled tales
Court has been publishied.
Gov. Stephens and staff will attend the
Sesqui-Ce.r,tenu:al celebration at Savannah,
February 12th and 13ih.
A movement has been started to clear
Flint river of ail abstractions so as to per¬
mit free uavigatiou from Albany, Ga,, to
the GuIf.
Bill Banks and Geo Cunningham, tbe
murderers of Herman H. Iiudd, iu Walker
county, Ga., are iu jail at Chattanooga
Tennessee.
Maggie Gregory, a pretty girl, threw her
self under a passing train in Palestine,
Texas and was crushed to death. Her lover
had deserted her.
The Terror of Fort Worth.
Several year 3 ago, when Fort Worth was
a wild Texas town, Duseubery was an exotic
there. He was civilized and cut his hair
and was de-pised by the other men. One
day dapper little Dusenbery surprised ev
erybodv by reforming. He was in Calla
ban’s Retreat when there entered four ot
the most ferjeious lookiug ruffians wo had
ever been seen in Fort Worth. They came
with clanking spurs and fierce beards, two
revolvers to each man and a iarg • bowi.
knife for laguiappe, and they sat down to a
table and cal ed for whLky ail around. A
tremor ran through the assembly. Fort
Worth's best citizens were for a momeni
staggered. But Dusenbery never qua led
The stra gers emptied their graces, called
for more and then, giaucing malignantly
aroun", they launched forth in furious abuse
of Texas and Texans, tbeir language being
garnished with that profusion and orn
tation of profanity peculiar to tbe guileless
cattle drover of those times. As they cea. -
ed Dusenbery marched up to the table at
which the strangers sat. His flashing eyes
bis heaving breast, his five feet of towering
form r. duced the spectators to tpeet bless
ness. Even the strangers paused . aud
seemed impres-e r
• Gent.emen, said Dusenbery. cving mt
his trewser* and bringing up a ancient
silver w&tch, you hav- woundea the floes*
feelings of my nature in your remarks ab u’
Texas, and you aiui-t retract them or—bu
i ever mind. 1 give jou five minutes to re
| act Five minutes to secure vour safe
return to home and friends Five minutes
to avoid a grave upon the lonesome niait.
r m T H X $
J jL ! V, r r TT f O
j Five minutes 1" An awful silence fell upon
die crowd. The bio-d curdled iu the vein
of every Fort Worthiau pre*eut. What!
id they been treating this fire eating Ter¬
ror with scarcely veiled contempt ? Had
they been absolutely courting death lor
years ? But just then one of the stranger*
recovered bis power of speech and said :
“Why, stranger, if you feel that way about
it, of course we’ll cut it short. We didn’t
nean it tor you or any of your friends, but
was just taking on loose like.” And with
t- u they all four got up and slunk out,
liner six-shooters flopping feebly agaiust
'heir hips and their very spurs looking
! drooped and weedy as they went, With the
! closing of the door, Dutenbery’s eye reeled
j 1U its socket. The excitement which had
j thus far held him up gave way and he col¬
lapsed, a flabby little heap upon the floor.
The assembled citizeus crowded around
him.
"Why, Doozey, my boy, you took us al\
by surprise. We never thought you were a
fighter.”
"Didn’t you ?”
"No. Why, don't you know those are
four of the worst men in the cattle business ?
And we expected eveiy minute to see them
go to shooting. Were you armed?"
"Well, 1 had a pistol for show, butidon’t
believe it was ioaded, and I couldn’t have
Hied it, anyhow.”
“Great heavens, rnan ! suppose they had
refused io retract, what oil earth would you
have done?”
Dusenbery stopped, looked all around to
see if anyone were passing, palled lys
friend's ear down to his lips and whispered:
‘ I’d have extended the time.”
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How to Read.
One may read much to little profit. It is
the way or.e reads, and what lie remembers
that is of advantage.
Read with attention, then, is one golden
rule that should govern all reading. It is
not an easy thing to read with that degree
of attention which is most serviceable for the
end in view, at all times and in all places,
This very desirable habit must be gained by
effort and continued practice. The results
f ba t w (]l fi ow from such a habit once aquired
will richly repay the possessor of it for the
toil bestowed in obtaining it. It is said of,
Edmuud Burke, who was a great reader
and also a great thinker, that he read every
book as though he was never going to see it
a second time,- and thus made it his own, a
possession for life.
Daniel Webster was one of the most earn
cst and intelligent ofreaders all his life long.
Ilis favorite authors were read aud reread
,v *fh a passionate fondness.
His critical conversations upon the stand¬
ard poets, and essayists, and orators of the
English tongue, are still remembered and
quoted by those who were present to hear
when the mood and opportunity were upon
him.
In one of ihe last evenings of his life he be¬
guiled the weariness of his attendants, by
reciting a poem from Cowper. How he
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c.imi to ie so success u ant sou, < igen a
reader is explained m his autobiography.
' ! ‘‘ ,eVel * l ria ie rt a S ° ° al " S °
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earnestly that he learned . to repeat .t.
“We had so few books,” said he, “that to
read them once or twice was nothing; we
thought they were all to be got by heart
Many other students read more than I did;
but so much as 1 read I made my own.
VVhenahalf hour, or an hour at mo.t bad
olapsed, I stored my book and thought on
what I had read. If there wan anything
peculiarly interesting or striking in the
passage, I endeavored .o recall it, and to lay
it up in memory and commonly could effect
my object. ”
Sell-Reliance on the Farm.
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It becomes the farmer to imitate
as he can successfully in her best work, and
take the hint from her to improve the
which has been done to some extent by ob
servation and piaetice. The philosophers
invariably go to nature for instruction, and
so must the cultivator of the soil, who has so
much to do with nature, and in so many
ways. The physical progress of age is the
application of nature’s principles; in other
words, nature is carrying on her work more
expeditiously through tbe agency of man.
In this work which is now more than ever
deruandejl, the farmer’s interests is the
greatest, covering a larger, more di”ersified
field, and requiring the employment of a
greater number of principles than any other
department Every intelligent farmer can
do something here, whether on a small scale
specially directed, or in the regular work
ofthe farm. Indeed' thestudyofone’sfarm,
its varieties of soil and situation, and the
products adapted to it, is a necessity’ and
compels personal attenticn and investiga
tion by the occupant. Unexpected results
are not uncommon in farming. Thecauses
■ of the result are to be inquired into, whether
favorable or unfavorable, eo as to adopt the
oi e and avoid the other, which cannot fail
to be of advantage.
; Armed with a knowledge of the general
principal of farming, much can be done in
thi sway* specially where there is a variety ot
soil and climate, as in the eastern section of
thecounry -ru The prairies ■ are more uniform;
yet much is to oe .earned there also. Every
tor->nust farmer therefore be to a should certain he exteut-or h.s own instruc- he
find hims-fii left behind in this fast advanc
ing age.
Miss Emma Houston, of Biiminghzm,
A ia., made au unsuccessful attempt to com
mit suicide last week, on account of di*ap
1 pointmeut in love.
HAMILTON, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 16, 1883.
BEFORE AND AFTER.
My Maggie, my beautiful darling !
Come Into my arm*, my sweet;
Let me ftitd you again to my bosom,
So close I can bear your heart beat.
What ! these little finger* been sewing?
One's beeu pricked bv the needle, 1 see,
These hands shall be kept free from labor
When once they are given to me.
Eight— nine— ten—eleven ! My precious,
Time flies so when I am With you !
1! stems but a moment I’ve been here,
Aud now—must I say It ?—adieu !
Oh 1 Meg, you are heavy—I'm tiled!
(io, sit on the rocker, I pray.
Your weight seems a hundred and ninety
When > ou plump down in that soi t of a way
You had better be mending my coat-sleeve—
I've spoken about it before
And I want to flnish tills novel,
And look over these bills from tbe store.
Eight o’clook! Meg, sew on this button
*As soon as you ftuish that sleeve.
Heigti, ho! I’m so deueedly sleepy,
I’ 11 I* ile to » I believe.
—Exchange.
PARSON RUSHING. *
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am a spinster, aged but no, I will not
te M y° u m Y a 8 e — all( ^ I l‘ ve > a a little white
house on the side of the hill, surrounded by
fruit trees and lilac bushes, while in the
front of the house is a little garden, with
hollyhocks, marigolds, and a plentiful sup
ply of spearmint, which is so nice for soup,
and a sprig of wake-robin, which is very
good for weak eyes. I am plagued with
weak eyes some.
Here 1 live alone by myself—not alone,
either, tor haven’t 1 Towzer, a big black
dog, with a face that is a mixture of gray
and white, and great brown eyes with a
look almost kumaa in them, and a great
deal more expression than has thateimper*
ing Sarah Smythe? She says I am a con¬
ceited old maid, only waiting for a chance
to get married—the ninny ! Why shouldn’t
I, ifliiave a good chance? It would be
handy to have a man bring water, chop
kindlings and stretch clothes lines on wash¬
days. I may be out of the market now
before she is, the little goose; for when 1
turn my cup over after drinking tea—1 al
waps do—the grounds say a long journey
with three dots at the end, which stands for
a crown, and i’ that isu’t marriage I’d like
to know wlmt is ?
If nothing happens to intercept fortune
I shall have him call rue Si Hie; it is so much
more loving arid affectionate than Priscilla,
Now my name is one of those things that
never can be accounted tor ; for why should
they name such a loving person Priscilla
Nettleton ? And to tell the truth, the man
who gets Priscilla might do worse. I don't
want to brag, but the manor woman who
finds any dirt in my houBe has got to hunt
for it; aud I can make pie crust that would
melt in your mouth, and rhubarb tarts and
huckleberry hollows that would do your soul
good. In my mind a man’s love has a
great deal to do with the condition of his
stomach.
Then I am not very bad looking ; I have
a sweet disposition, dress young-and that
make3 me think of Sarah Smythe again;
^ ^ . g ^ .„ my fiegh ghe 8ny8 _
coming home from meeting the other Sun
day—so l could hear her, too,—
' [f 0 l d Miss Nettleton hasn’t got a pink
sint , h(4ln - ugt , ik# mill9 with rilrge
tlounces f
~ j ’
..y ou d f or . not hi n g little minx, why
pjjQuIdn’t ] have a pink gingham with three
fl ounces jf p pay for it ? Your father is in
debt (Q everybo dy in Thomasville I”
"Don’t you think she got mad just for my
say j n g t ba t—folks don’t get mad as easy as
tbat un j egB you hit them pretty close—and
hay8 Bbe —
“You’re a meddlesome, interfering old
maid.”
Just think of calling mean interfering
old maid! Now that is a downright fabrica
tion. I don’t want anybody to be wicked,
but if they are I want to know all about it,
and I won’t uphold anybody in their wicked
ways by withholding my opinions, and if
Abby Nichols is going to have a light in
her front room until half past ten Sunday
evenings, I have a right to call in there
about that time if I want to. And if Sara
Perkins and her husband don’t get along I
want to know that, too. I knew they would
not; why, Sara can’t make brown bread fit
for my Towzer to eat: and that Boggy white
! bread as what has given poor Perkins the
dyspepsia, and in my mind it ha* some
thing to do with his rheumatism. You have
to be very careful about raising white bread
for if it stands three minutes too long or
too little it is spoilt—just spoilt.
There comes Mary Green’s sasay boy. 1
must go out and tell him to wipe his feet
before he comes in—and if he hasn’t got a
letter 1 Now a letter always sets me shiver
sng like, for they are almost always trim
med with black; hut this one isn’t. I most
wish it was, though.
"Dear Miss Nsttletos :—I wrote you
some time ago informing you of the death
of your kinsman, John Vance. I now feel it
incumbent on me as bis friend and the
guardian of his only child, Dolly, to say
that,as she has no.permarient home, it might
be pleasant for you to have he come to you.
If I receive no answer by next week I shall
toke silence as consent and , you can expect .
her the first of the week alter.
\ ery respectfully,
W ’ _
Isn t that cool, though? fthy w . ghe will be as
much trouble as was Towzer in his juvenile
days, dancing in and out, and I shall have
the doors to shut after her, and my kitchen
will have to oe washed twice a day, and
will want to sit in the front room aud have
‘ th* curtains up, and my rag carpet will be
all laded out, aud 1 shall never know where
to find nothing. Now, if I lay a thing down
it stays there until 1 pick it up again. Why
I eonld darn my stocking* in the dark, and
lay my hands on the right number of cotton
j to darn them with. Number sixteen is in
the right hand corner, number eight is
wrapped in paper, number twelve i« in a
rag,
Then thing* will be mixed iu the family
circle. Now I have my «orner, Towner has
his and Nepenthe hers. Did I tell you
about Nepenthe? Well, she’s a remarkable
cat of three colors, is double-pawed, and
has great yellow, moon-like eye*. But it is
no reason because there are lour corners iu
the room that I want Dolly Vance set up
j the fourth< ] dout wait heri bat jl 8Up .
pose she will have to come. It's my mis¬
fortune to have relation*.
She came, Now if I don t tell you how
she looks you will be wondering wbat she
is like, aud if her eyes are like sunshine and
her hair like spun silk. They aren't neither
one nor the other. She has brown eyes that
have sucli a queer way of shutting together
j whenever her hauderchiet J say anything, her mouth. and then 1 she puts
j over suppose
I she shuts her eyes to take in better what I
have to say, and puts her handkerchief to
her mouth to keep the idea in ; as if people
heard with their mouths! And then she
has brown hair just the color of her eyes
which she wears braided down her back
j with the end curled; and the time she wastes of
twisting that one curl would knit a pair
shell stockings. But Dolly don't like to
hint nor scour tin pans, nor to learti any
accomplishments. However, she docs well
enough, and we get along nicely ; anybody
could get along with as amiable a person
as I.
One day Dolly says—
“Cousin I”
Then she made a long pause, and says
I—
“Dolly, if you have got anything to say,
say it, and dou’t wait till that dish-water
gels cold and the grease settles around the
edges of them boilers.”
“Well, cousiu, I was going to say that if
you had no objections, I have a friend from
Sweetwater, Mr. Howard, that 1 would like
to have come here once in a while ; it is so
lonely."
“Lonesome for them that's got nothing
to do,” says l “Now, Dolly Vance, after
all the good advice I’ve given yon! Why,
I’ve talked to you hours and hours about
| the frailties snd disappointments of
i world, aud I've just wasted my breath. As
; if we didn’t have work enough to do now I
There's more than forty chips about that
j chopping-block to bo picked up, and there’s
' that rising sun brd-quilt to IJt set together,
al | d squash pie* to make, Mid that old
j speckled hen’s eoine off with sixteen
chirks; of course she'd hatch every one if
t sbt stole her nest 1 shouldn’t think you’d
ba v e thought of such a thing as a beau,
Wait until you get a little older say u*y
age, now.”
! 1 thins > ha will remember that, for .he
clapped her hands right over her mouth so
h8 nol t0 for „ rt it .
“But I knew it would enme to this— I
‘old you so If it wa. a deacon or a min
'««, er some kind of a religious man, I
wouldn't have minded so much,"
"But Mr. Howard is just as good as—"
”n„ n ’t tell me! I know he is just good
for nothing, or he would want some girl
that knew something about work, and not
one that burns her hands every time she
turns a pie round in the ovn."
Alter this there was a calm in onr mill
pond of an existence—I have read of life’*
being like a river, and why not like a mill
pond, which is much smoother and more
poetical?—and nothing occurred to disturb
my sweet, serene disposition until 1 saw
I Tommy Green coming over again with a
letter. I declare it set me in a perspira
tion all over! I hoped no more cousins
had died and left their orphatiB as legacies
to me
“Ds*a Mrr Nrtti.rtox:—I am a minis
ter in somewhat poor health; have a
ease of the heart; and the doctor says 1
must have quiet and rest for a while,
Hearing of yourHittle Eden ot a place, 1
: hope and trust it msy Vie my good fortune
to enegage hoard there for a few weeks,
Will pay seven dollar* per week.
“Gao. Riishixo.”
Of course I would take him ? I would be
flying in the face of Providence aud fortune
not to. Poor, dear man I he had the heart
disease, but I’d cure him of that—that is if
he would take the catnip tea aud thorough
wort. Seven dollars a week, too 1 if he
stayed four weeks that would be twenty
eight dollars; twenty five to lay up in tbe
old tea pot, and three left to spend. I de
, ; ided to buy me a red feather for my bon
ne t with a dollar and a half, and with the
rest get Towzer a new brass collar, with a
little padlock and key on it,
“Dolly," says I, as she came in with her
cheeks as red as one of them red hollyhocks
—I don’t like led cheeks myself—“I’ve got*
a letter from Farson Rushing and he wants
to come here and board a few week* at
seven dollars a week."
"Of course you won't taka him, *ar«
'
, he .
“Of course I shall!" I.
The next week the same one borne chaise
that Drought Doily fetched the parson, and
now_ he « at horn. He is real nice
looking; hig hair and mustache i« gray, but
bis eyes are black and bright, and he i* not
the least bit of trouble, and 1 think after a
while he will get over the dyspepsia and
that hacking cough of his. It is some bet
ter now. He takes long walks in th* morn
• ing for his health and also in the pursuit of
•cieuc* (he i* very learued) and bring*
home lots of bug* and beetle*—ugb I the
nasty thing* ! Not that exactly, either, for
Parson Rushing say* some of them are very
curious aud quite rare, so of course they
are.
Af'sr the iuii has gone down they take a
row on the river; yes, they, for Dolly doesn't
steady herself down to anything, and so she
is ulways ready to set out when the parson
is, while I never, ar scarce ever, go with
them, as I have the dishes to wash in the
morning, and the pans to scour, and the
floor to scrub ; Parson Hushing does so like
to see a white tioor! At night there is the
bread to toast, and he is so particular about
that.
One night I did go rowing, and if it wasn’t
a blessing I got back again and alival
Why, that boa: pitched and rooked and
dove, till my head buzzed and my stomach
ft!IE go queer, all because 1 was physically
billions, and disiuclned toward rowing, the
parson said. But he did the best to make
it pleasant, and rowed until his face was
red; and he would go from one side of tbe.
boat to the other as quick a* lightning to
see ifThere was a fiah at my line, aud then
the boat would give one of them lurches, till
1 was afraid it would take in water at the
side*; and I had to pretend it was delight
tal, when it wa* so horrid. It was like a
nightmare chasing you over a stony pa*
lure.
It was the thankfullest moment, in my life
when Towzer earned -wu toward us and 1
knew 1 was on Trilla fh illa (that's French)
once more. But ray troubles weren't but
halt over, tor when we got home Dolly had
scorched the toast aud burnt the bread, and
the tea wasn’t steeped, and the elder said
he drank such weak tea a* that he was
atraid it would set him in ihe dyspepsia
again, and looked reproachfully at
But don’t you think that instead of looking
meek and being sorry as she should, fh*
heartless girl just laughed and laughed un
til she sie jarred over the tea in the elder’s
cup. 1 always fill his cup full. There are
some people who never do care about other
people’s feelings 1
Now I am not one of that kind, and I f*»lt
very much for the parson ; hut at the same
1 thought it would do him good, for he
would now know better than ever how to
appreciate my good cooking : not but what
he did, dear man ! but now he would come
a fuller knowledge of it by experience ,
anc L too, he d know 1 d given Dolly a chance,
l '°l kept her in the buck ground.
1 1 he other day he was saying that it was
a very exoellent thing foryoung ladies 'that
:’ s ,ne ) !0 have a thorough knowislge ol
housekeeping, and he did not *e« what
some people could be thinking of to bring
'to their daughlere in idleness now
* as brought up when she came heie,
so that isn’t ma-nor what men could be
thinking of to take such girls as wivoe.
Parson Rushing had lieen here three
weeks to a dny, sml an awful hot day it
wa *> *° m F thinking, and 1 had just made
’to mind that when I finished washing the
.floor l would refresh my mind with Dr.
Matt's hymns lor an hour or so and rest
my weary brain. Parson Rushing says
*t |C must have something to feed ot,
as well as tre body. Well, I had just
eomfortafily settled down in my corner,
with my feet placed caretnlly on a cushion,
!i, *t ,ia<i not « ot down t0 lh * bo,tom “ f '''*
*»» l' a K« w ' ,,)n in Tow *‘''• f ’» m « *"h-oh,
horrors I He had scalped Parson Rushing
for there whs his lovely gray curia, am f li
dog came and laid the trophy at my text.
I took if np and wulked on tip foe to the
sitting room, where Parson Rushing and Dol
ly were taking notes of their morning rain
bie. Having arrived at the door 1 paused
—why or for what reason 1 cannot say; it
must have been some presentment of the
great sorrow that was already over my head.
Having, »s 1 said, come to the door, 1
paused, flow this door had an aperture a
crack—that extended the whole length of
it; unto this upeitnre I spplied my eye,
and—but words are inadequate to express
my thoughts, letter* are not black enough
convey my feelings. There sat Parson
Rushing (for it was he) minus ihe gray
curls, bereft of gray whiskers, which were
in a ohair. and in their stead were short
black whiskers and mustache and close
cropped black eurls; his eye* and nose,
which had a little scratch on it from Ne»
penthe’s claw*—I with »he scratched more
affectionately'—were the same
Well, the,re he sat, looking a* coo! and
: comfortable, and beside him that little
witch, Dolly—I always knew there was
something deep about her—and he was
i Htk j r ,g away, and she a chattering. By
and by h a took one of her hands, and, bend
; r , K „ ver —would you believe it? I cun
hardly—kissed it! unreciprocated at
At this sign of love,
f PCt |„ u bur st in from the door.
“How dare you trifle with a confiding
maiden's love ? How dare you—"
“lam not trifling at all; I was never
more in earnest in my life. Allow me to
introduce you to my affianced wife
Saying this he arose and took Dolly by
the hand ; she began with,
“Cousin, this i« the friend I »poke to you
about when I first came, but you would not
allow „ bim 0,m Tlsit 1 m , on |^ h « was a He.
con or a mini,ter. Accordingly , he , adopted , .
lhe | aWr role. To-day the weather w M so
unbearably warm that he was forced to take
off h -, a whisker, and wig. I hope you will
forgive us. cousin. girl who
'That I never will!” sai 1 I. A
^ju deliberately steal the affections of a
man from sach a t rutting. * k>vir»z woman
j „ »
ag pecul.ai
“But, cousin."—with a very
' *mil*—“I had hi* *ffection betore be ever
cam* here. Had I not, Georgs T'
''That you had, my darling, and always
will have.”
Tbeu he said a lot more of foolish stuff
that 1 don’t remember, But the short and
long of it wo*, they went to the city and
were married and settled at housekeeping
in no time at all. I occasionally drop iu to
have cup of tea when 1 go to the city shop
ping. But I never will forgive them. Tow
has his brass collar, padlock and all
A Curious Race.
The Jagans impress one as a poor race.
In general the men are scarcely more than
of medium stature, while the women rarely
reach it. The fact's of this race are round,
large and Hat, with high cheek bones, low
foreheads, flat noses, very black and restless
eyes, wide apart, large tumid lips and
strong jaws furnished with beautiful teeth.
The head and cheat are disproportionately
large compared to the extreme slenderness
of arms and legs, and it is a marvel how
the latter can support the well developed
trunk and heavy head. In spile of this
Btrange formation both men and women
have uncommon strength, and 1 have seen
them carry weights that would hive taxed
the robustost of our sailors. No less sur
prising is the smallness of their hands and
^ (eel wbb , b if a beauty, ’ is very disudvauta
)( , tbe mcn> who (;IU1 carry on ] y one
or ,, vo ob j flctg j n (heir hands at the same
t ; m( . They have rough, lustreless black hair
wb ; ob they wear long arid falling over face
ftn ff shoulders. Some bind it with a leather
strap, but the most let it grow to such hd
extent that tlmy look more like furies than
tulman bein g„, -|' h(! men buve v) . ry little
beftrd and tlm( little they pluck out, white
either men nor women have ,anj hair on
their bodies. They do not tattoo, but use all
ltind8 0 f , )ttilll- Two or three hues oi color
„n the face and a few necklaces of shells or
bird „> >, olms i(l th „ UBUtt! dre8H 0 f tt Fuegian.
For protection against the terrible hurri
oan<H , > j,h e enown that fall rluritiK t en inontbn
)b( . ycar , md tb( , torrential rains that
daily visit this miserable archipelago, the
J<’u(*gian only wnars a small mantle of seal
or guanaoo skin over his shoulders. Tho
w jjr walns arB only made of intertwined
launches fixed in some sheltered spot, hut
ar „ t(K| W( . ak , 0 keep oul lll8 Hm)W ttnd
, These wigwams are used by the Fue
^; anR who dwell near the few residents ol
UJscuiimiia or the mission; the other natives
scarcely ever remain more than one or two
days in tho same place; they lead a vagrant
; j n t b() j r canoes among the complicated
of this broken up oounrty, fishing
nlll j hunting for their subsistence, of which
the sea furnishes the larger part.
The women are looked upon as slaves and
)k( , eater part of the work falls to their
, llBre I hme often seen the men sitting
quietly round a good fire while the poor wo
|BOn wtl r* exposed in fragile skiffs to
snow, wind and waves, fishing tor their idle
and angry husbands. The greater the num
| M , r 0 f w j v ,. g 0 r slaves a man has tho easier
hr ,, im K ig )o fillrt R living; hence the
prft) .(ice of polygamy, which is so rooted
Braoll)J tbe Kueg.ana that in spite of the at
f 0r(8 n f tb c missionaries it is no rare
t0 8ee a invert sudd« Dl y break through re
BtrR ;„ t and add lwo or OT ore wive to the one
„ 1|ow(1(1 him by his now religion. ) 4ut
though a Kugisn may marry as many wives
hg p)ea8 cs, he seldom takes more than
| ()nr „ nd „ eB with tha , 8ma n number it is
rliflioult to j.reHerve domestic poace.
wj^wnin is the scene of daily battle and
sometimes the prettiest of the wives pays
with her life the preference of her husband.
The Fuegian* women are prolific. Beven
or ; 8 t l„. average number of children,
b „( 0 ft Pn a still your g woman will have ten
or twelve. The children, however, seldom
a |f survive their parents., for the mortality
hetween lwo and leu yiars ofKge is extiaor
d j„ ary The variable and rigid climate,
want of nourishment, the terrible heats and
bltd treatment, by the parents are chief
,. auBH s of the death of these miserable in
f M1 t s , yet unarmed against the frightful
R tiuggle for existence.—London Daily
jq^ws,
♦
Clark Mills, tbe Sculptor.
—
| 1 he celebrated sculptor died in this city,
Mr. Mills was a native of New k ork. In
184 b he produced a marble bust ot John
( alhoun, which wa* purchased for the city
hall in Charleston. He made a number
other fine busts, and was about to start for
l'»ly ,f > pursue his art studies, when, m
1*48, he was invited to furnish a design
,U1 equestrian statue ol General Jackson
f° r l-aVayette square, in this f ij- 111
design was accepted, and i,e finish'-' alter
tw " T ’ ftr ' 1 *“° , ’ r ’ H
-
'er, which was so balanced that it rested on
hom * bln ‘ l { ‘ h) alo, “‘' wl,ho “ t othor
support. Ihe design when viewer } t n
committee who assigned him t ie wor , was
almost ridiculedlas U was not ttioug t po*
•' ’ ' * " ‘8 ,jr ' w '“ , ‘ 1 r ''’ W ,‘ °.‘
euppoit. J* ' 11 was ims i
' **'' Vattte
°’ 0,1 “ * ,,' ' of
" w ‘ "' an ‘' 1 ‘ “ • ( j, w ,
‘
comp.et.nl at a wn u am" ’
Ingres* made him an appropnat.ou o
•moon as a reward for hi* success. At
^ lh( , 8um rf f50 ,ooo wa.
M I nBt ,. d for a colwwal eq^trian
^ ^ ^
'
^ ^ { M waH tb .
ing of the colossal statue ot Liberty, from
a design by Crawford, which now crowns
the dome of the eapitol. It was finished
I*** and placed wh.le ... the ..
in m position
* ar was in progress.—Washington Cor.
urier ourca
&I.OO a Year.
Little Duties.
A letter carrier in one of our large cities
a few mouth** ago found, on reaching tho
post office after a long round of delivery, a
letter in his bag that be bad overlooked.
It would have taken him half an hour to
return and deliver it. He was very tired
and hungry. The letter was an ordinary,
unimportant looking missive. He put it
in his pocket aud delivered it on his first
round the next day. What consequence
followed ? For want of that letter a great
firm had failed to meet their engagement*;
their uoles had gone to protest; a mill
closed, and hundreds of poor workmen
were thrown out of employment. The tel¬
ler carrier himself was discharged for hi*
oversight and neglect His family suffered
during the winter for many of the neces¬
saries of life, but his los* was of small ac¬
count compared to the enormous amount
of misery caused by his single failure iu
duty.
Another case: A mechanic who had
been out of work a long time in New York
went to collect a small sum due him. The
gentleman who owed it, being annoyed at
some trifle, irritably refused the money.
Hie man went to his wretohed homeland,
maddened by tho sight of his hungry wife
and children, went out to the back yard
and hanged himself. The next day an old
employer sent to offer him a permanent
situation. Here was a life lost and a fam¬
ily left paupers because a bill of a dollar
or two was not paid at the right time.
The old Spanish proverb says, "There is
no such thing as a trills in the world."
\\ hen we think how inextricably the lives
of all mankind are tangled together, it
seems as if every word or action moved a
lever which set in motion a gigantic ma¬
chine whose effect is beyond our control.
For this reason, if for no other, let us bo
careful to perlorm promptly and well the
duties of life—oven the moat trivial.
Thirteen at Table.
English papers toll an amusing story of
a well kilim n hanker, of Li' ge, Belgium.
A short time ago he gave a little dinner
party to wlneh ten guests had been bidden,
beside h mself and wife, making twelve in
all. They were just uK ut to Hit down wbeB
m dropped e, friend from the Amipodcs
and invited himself to dinner, thus making
the fatal number thirteen. The ounker, to
prevent ill luck, rushed.down stairs to his
office, found the cashier just about to leave
for the evening, dragged him up stairs, fit¬
ted him with a dress coat, and led him tri —
, 1 . 110 ,
"" 111,0 lsw ' n K room amu
•
1 ' ' 1,1 '* IHV B , ***'*i I iree 0
w iom t ec aret tialtieywou not sit own
1 1 sst inner ever serv i l ere were
1 hr " ,i ' 1,110 1 ‘ ^ moment 6
' lnc j H ' lot * w "" h ' ou « h ' u > r an ® ol ^
km si. wn > a. wiii nw sin i en y a eu I ,
1 '". w ’’ consequenty* was utm a to re¬
in,ul1 ' ' 111 Hgion ir oom ant < spair,
a ' H 1( ashler, lui mg umsc I tie ouat
° 1 11 1 V0Uin Kt yu untee re to < t.part. e
0,l,ll ‘ fi r saw him down stairs, and was ex
P r,, ^ ul k ' nr « g'* Jl w * e " j"y 1 a aim y
<lootor 10 H '“ ,he host
’ 1,1 ""‘K® L t0 |°i
^Pltah >e. ol h.s table to bis kmd heartod
tt,Kl *°”' ljr T™* fitn P lo J«, th « threeretorned
W the drawing room. Dinner was ordered
b ' ! u P‘» n »•"« ®* ftli
WMF. »« »•<>•»«■. * h< > ,a d«hcat«
,ealt ’ a " d W ." been nn ' luly 0X0
,,v a “ , 1 lft 11,1 W *| r blD e ,
'
_
11 ’* 'J * ,0 P u ^ **’ •
. not
us lime t iew. was mg or t e
,alnior , g‘> an im wi w mt appe
" * ult ” ' Hl ^ * nearest restaurant,
Bold ot the Ancients.
Gold was in excess in ancient times and
mostly taken from tbe rivers in Asia. Tbe
fables of I actolus, of the golden fleeced
bo Argonaut*, ot the gold from Ophir, the
history of King Midas, etc., all point to an
Postern origin ot thte metal. According to
Piiny, * yrus returned with 34,000 Roman
pounds of gold (about $10,000,000). Ibe
treasures exacted fiom I eraia by Alexander
the Great amounted to 361,000 talent* or
000,000. (void also came from Arabia
and upon the Nile from theinterior«f Africa,
1 liny Cells Asturias the country in which
the most gold is found. A tablet bearing
the following inscription was found in loan
ha \.-lha 1 ortugal Claudius Ruffs re
turn* his thank* to Jupiter for havingper
milled him to tend one hundred and thirty
pounds ot gold. I hese source* of wealth
have ceased to flow and the endeavor of aer
era! Englishmen to reopen them have been
unsuccessful. Iteihemi*, Mahren, Silesia
and I K°‘ r|1 produced gold and the
receding of ihe glaciers has caused old
^ ’’ 1 "'er*d, while upon the Ita
tail side, at Monte Rosa, \ al Resina and
x al Ausaea gold mines are sti wor ed to
day, s thong i with indifferent success: The
only works o any note are t *e of Krem
«uz, Hungary^ 11 maj, therefore, be safety
a,! ' ert ‘’ | “ -urope.m cijinpe y ex s¬
,m i . r. 1" < p ar nee on
Louts Blanc,
- i.„ M
* "™ - n
Lou,. . Blanc, .he I ranch st.te.mau and .
agitator, who died the other day, was hi*
dwarfish size, The wife of an Engli.h
dignitary once almost drove bim
a ^ q( gu|cida , (rens!y hy Mki
him, when he was detaine.1 in her country
bouse by a storm, whether be would mind
sleeping in he a child’s bed. rendered Another supremely day, at
Brighton, wa*
wretched because be wm taken at the pa*
vilBon for Gen Tom Thum!> . AnoW
said to him: “You darling! I must really
kiss you.”