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Georgia Home Journal.
By J. KNOWLES and SON.
VOLUME 5.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The peach crop in Delaware will be
enormous this year, aud the shippers art
puzzled how to get it all to market.
Many farms in Maine, it is said, can
It bought for less than the cost ol the
buildings and fences upon them.
In Germany there arc fewer railway
accidents than in any other country
which i<ossesses a considerable railway
system.
Whatever else may be said against
the Chinese, no one can truthfully say
that he ever saw one who parted his hair
in the middle.
V t’Akty of twenty-eight Chinese naval
c ulets are now on their way to J’aris and
Ixmdon, where they will pass a course ol
instruction in the naval academics.
.V >lnoLl.At: case of death by lightning
recently occurred at the Thames gold
field, New Zealand, where a man was
killed at the bottom of a shaft live hun
dred feetdeeo.
/V Motm-iT.oof barrel in w hich clothes
ran l>e safely stored is a late invention.
Hut this leaves the moth at largo. What
is wanted is a barrel in which the moths
can l>c kept, and thus have the clothes at
largo-
Professor A. Jaeof.ii, professor ol
Hebrew in the southern Baptist theo
logical semin try at Greenville, youth
Carolina, has resigned bis jiosition and
connected himself with the Episcopal
church. Mr. Jaeger was formerly an Is
raelite.
The Chicago Journal thinks it is this
way in Turkey : If lie is a Jew, the
Christians kill him. If lie is a Chris
tian,The Mohammedans slay him ; and if
he is a Mohammedan, the Greek church
people come over and chop hint up into
hash.
As extraordinary discovery of ancient
coins has just I icon made on the Montranc
estate, a few miles from Cupare l‘'ife, in
Scotland, the properly of Mr. Allan Gil
more. In draining a portion of land the
laborers struck on what ap|>eared to be a
l.K)wlder,butHiibsc<]iiently was discovered
to he a pot. A stone was lirnily wedged
into its mouth, and on being removed
it. was found that the vessel was tilled
with coins, the total number of pieces
being 0,000. Most of them have the ap
pearance of a well-worn six-|teucc, a few
are of the size of a florin, though not
quite so thick, and a small number are
about the size of a shilling. They are all
silver, and, so far as has been ascertained,
of the twelfth, thirteenth ond fourteenth
ceuluries. It is supposed they were used
in the reigns of Hubert 11., Hubert 111.,
and David 11., and have lain in the earth
more tliau three hundred years.
THE VENUS or MILO.
The report that one of the missing
arms of this famous statue had been dis
covered is followed by the assurance of
Gen. Meredith Head, the American
charge d’ affairs at Athens, that both
arms have been found on the island of
Milo within a distance of less than thirty
feet from where the statue itself was
taken in 1820. For the benefit of those
who will b_' ready to greet this announce
ment with head shakings, and even deris
ion and cries of fraud, Gen. Read says:
The arms are exquisitely modeled. One
holds a kind of disc or shield. The work
manship and the locality compel even
the skeptical to acknowledge the authen
ticity ol these wonderful relies. 'The
lest of the matter will I* to forward the
arms to the Louvre in Paris, where the
mullilated statue has been standing
since 1834, waiting for the rest of her,
and for the solution of the mystery that
hangs over her lovely head ever since she
came to the light of the modern world.
Those lost arms have been the theme
of more wild speculation among artists
and connoisseurs than the lost tribe of
Israel has been to theologians. Kach has
had his notion about the peculiar |>osi
tion in which the body of the statue re
quired them to lie placed. There will
lie great curiosity to see who, or whether
anybody, has hit right. The arms were
also needed to clear up the meaning and
even the name of the statue, for while
the general supjiosition has been that it
was a Venus, and by Praxiteles, or least
a copy of that master’s work, others
have denied that it was a Venus at
all. Our countryman, W. J. Htillmau,
an artist and a very competent judge of
art, trained by long experience on classic
ground, lias given his opiuion that the
work is really a statue of Minerva, and
he presents some very plausible reasons
in suppurL of that conclusion. It is
barely possible that, in these days
of more ingenuity than genius, when
Raphaels are manufactured so as to
deceive the very elect in art, and ancient
manuscripts of any required stage of
decay can be produced to 0.-der, these
long lost arms of the Venus of Milo,
when brought to their appropriate place,
maybe found to be humbugs; but let
us hope not. When image breakers of
all kinds are abroad, let us trust that at
least one single instance of "reconstruc
tion’’ will cheer the hearts of artists and
connoisseurs. In France the discovery
of the lost arma was regarded as an event
of so much importance that the secretary
ol the fine arts issued an official bulletin.
--Bottom Journal,
it HA SS.
The row in praisM tor its beaming face,
The lily tor saintly whiteness ;
We lore this bloom for its languid grace.
Aiul that for its airy lightness.
We say of the oak : •* How grand oi girth !”
Of the willow we say : “ How slender!”
And yet to the soft grass, clothing earth.
How slight is the praise we render!
Hut the grass knows weJl, in her secret heart,
How we loTe her cool green raiment;
So she plays in silence her lovely part,
And cares not at all for payment.
Each yer her buttercups ned and drowse.
With sun and dew bumming over;
Each year she pleases the greedy cows
With oceans of honeyed clover!
Each year on the earth’s wide breast she waves,
From spring until Mcak November ;
And theu—she remembers so many graves
That no one else will remember !
And while she serves us, with goodness mule.
In return for such sweet dealings,
W* tread her eaiclcssly underfoot-
Yet we never wound her feelings!
Hero’s a lesson that he who runs may read
Though 1 fear but lew have won it--
Hie l*ent reward of a kindly deed
Is the knowledge of having done it!
—Hit far Faucett, in Sf. \ii hvtas.
HUMAN BATTERIES.
I'.’jr fieri turn Is that Hire Heiaavkahte Kv
s u Its,
It ban been known for some time that
the human body becomes much charged
with electricity in the altitudes and ex
ceedingly dry atmosphere of the high
plateau between the Sierra Nevada and
Rocky mountains, but it has heretofore
lieen unknown that such accumulated
electricity is a cause of great danger to
persons handling exploders. Two very
serious and sad accidents have hap
pened within a few months at the
mouth of the Sut.ro tunnel, both
through the sudden and apparently
unaccountable discharge of a number of
exploders in the exploder house. In the
first ease, Henry L. Foreman, formerly
connected with the signal service bureau
at Washington, a gentleman of scholarly
attainments, a good mathematician and
astronomer, was engaged in examining
some of these exploders when two hun
liuudred went off, completely destroying
his eyesight and otherwise seriously in
juring him. These exploders ars large
copper gun-caps, an inch and a sixteenth
in length and three-sixteenths of ail inch
in diameter, and most kinds are charged
with fulminate of mercury.
Two insulated gutta-percha wires con
nect with each cap, through which the
electric prk is scut (after they are
placed in cartridges of the different com
binations of nitro glycerine) which sets
off the cap, and the concussion caused
thereby explodes the powder. 'The sec
ond accident referred to happened but a
few weeks ago in the same (dace ami
probably in the same manner, by which
Thomas Coombs lost his left hand and
part of his arm. He was engaged in
forming ten exploders into a coil around
his hand, when suddenly they went off,
shattering that member in so fear
ful a manner that it had to he amputated.
These sad occurrences leu Mr. Sutro
to at once institute sonic careful ex
periments, for lie was strongly im
pressed with the belief that it was
body electricity, and not concussion,
which had caused these explosions. Elec
tric exploders made by different parties
were taken, one after the other, and
placed in a strong wooden box in Mr.
Sutro’s parlor. This room is covered
with a heavy Brussels carpet, walking
over which tciises the human body
to liesjieedily charged with electricity.
Mr. Hancock, the chief blaster, assisted
in the experiments, and held the wires
while Mr. Sutro walked round the room
two or three times with slippers, sliding
his feet gently over the carpet. After
doing thin lie approached the end of one
of the wires with his forefinger, and in
stantaneously a loud report was heard,
the exploder having been discharged.
This first experiment was with one of the
San Francisco giant powder company’s
exploders. Now one of the Eleelrica-
Construction company’s was tried, with
out effecting its discharge. Next one of
George M. Mowbray’s, of North Adams,
Mass.; which did not go eff on the first
trial, but it did on the second with a
very loud report. After this another of
the giant exploders was tried, which
went off by the time Mr. Sntro’s forefin
ger had reached within two or three
inches from the end of the wire.
These experiments have eiearly estab
lished the fact that exploders may be set
off by electricity accumulated in the hu
man body, and the men about the tunnel
were at once informed of the fact. In
structions were also issued for handling
them hereafter, and a sheet-iron plate
in the floor o' the exploder-house, to
which is connected a wire reaching into
the water flowing from the tunnel.
The men in handling exploders now
stand on this iron plate, and have in
structions to wet their boots before enter
ing, and to put on India-rubber gloves
before touching the exploders. If these
precautions are properly carried out there
will he no danger of explosions hereafter.
Any electricity accumulated in the hu
man body will at once be carried off
through the iron plate, while the rubber
gloves, being nonconductors, form an
additional protection. No accidents
from the explosions have occurred inside
the tunnel, for, since the place is very
wet, no electricity can be retained in the
body. But little doubt exists that both
Mr. Foreman and Mr. Coombs have met
with their misfortunes in the manner
indicated. —Autro (Nee. ) Independent.
GREENESBORO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE *22. I KG.
EXCITING Al) VENTVKE WITH I’OI.AR
HEARS.
Three of, the crew ol the steamship
Intrepid, Captain Sou tar, had a very ex
citing adventure at the Greenland seal
fishery this season. During the time
that their .vessel was fast beset among
the ice, three of the crew—Thomas
Royal. Wolverhampton ; James Winter,
Peterhead; and William Mulligan,
Dundee —set out one day to pay a visit
to the ship Perseverance, of Peterhead,
which lay apparently about four miles
distant. After walking about a couple
of miles it was seen that the distance lie
tween the two ships had been misjudged,
anil that in reality they were six miles
apart, ami the dangerous nature of the
journey began to dawn upon the seamen
when they realized bow far they were
from any vessel, and that tiicir sealing
clubs were the only weapons with which
they were armed. When they canto to
realize the real distance they begun to
deliberate whether it w’ould not lie the
best course to return to their ship. One
of the trio insisted on milking the jour
ney, while the others were of the opinion
that they should give up [the attempt.
In the midst of the debate an unwelcome
visitor came upon the scene in the shape
of a she bear, with one of her cubs, and
as she was fast coming tip between th e
men and their ship, the only chance o
esca|ie was to run on in the hope of reach
ing the Perseverance, a distance of about
four milea. When the men look to their
heels the bear quickened her pace, and
in a short time was close upon the sail
ors. To attempt ui face the animal with
their clubs was useless, and accordingly
one by one the men took off portions of
their clothing and threw them down on
the ice. It this ivav the progress of the
liear was retarded, as Bruin stopped to
sniff and tear at each of the articles as
she came up to them. By this means
the men were enabled to keep a little
ahead for about a couple of miles, by
which time, however, they had parted
with most of their clothing, one of them
having nothing but his p'ants, a cravat
and a woollen shirt upon him. He had
retained possession of his club, and,
fastening his cravat to the end of the
weapon, lie waved it as a signal of dis
tress, and fortunately the attention id
the Perseverance was attracted w t-Wq
perilous position of the three seamen.
Several of the crew of the Perseverance
immediately set out, armed with guns,
and, after running about a mile, they
came up lo the three men just in time
to save them, as they had almost no
clothing left, and were quite exhausted
with the chase. The bear and her cub
were so close behind that the rescuers
had no difficulty in despatching them
with several bullets. The following
morning the three sailors returned to the
Intrepid. They were escorted part ol
f lic way by a number of the crew of the
Perseverance, and the male bear having
been seen in the vicinity, apparently on
the lock out for the she bear and cub,
lie was likewise killed. The most of the
men’s clothes and their sea boots, were
picked up, all more or less torn. The
three men had been kindly treated on
board the Perseverance and supplied
with clothing, so that they suffered no
had effects from their exposure and ex
citing adventure.— Banubc ( Scotland )
A ilverlUer.
THE rASSIOXH THAT INDUCE OIS
EAHI:.
The passions which act mostscverly on
physical life are anger, fear, hatred and
grief. The other passions are compara
tively innocuous. What is called the
passion of love is not injurious until it
lapses into grief and anxiety; on the
contrary, it sustains the physical power.
What is called ambition is of itself blame
less; for ambition, when it exists purely,
is a nobility lifting its owner entirely
from himself into the exalted service of
mankind. It injures when, stimulating
a man to strenuous efforts after some
great object, it leads him to the perlbrm
ance of someexcessive mental or physical
labor, and to the consequences that fol
low such effort. The passion called av
arice, according to general experience,
tends rather to the preservation of the
body than to its deterioriation. The
avaricious man, who seems to the lux
urious'world to be debarring himself of
all the luxuries of the world, and to be
exposing himself to the fangs of poverty,
is generally placing himself in the pre
cise conditions favorable hi a long and
healthy existence. By his economy he
is saving himself from all the worry inci
dent to penury, by liis caution he is
screening himself from all the risks inci
dent to speculation, or the attempt to
amass wealth by hazardous means; by
his regularity of hours and perfect appro
priation of the sunlight in preference to
artificial illumination, he rests and works
in periods that precisely accord with the
periodicy of nature; by his abstemious
ness of living, he takes just enough to
live, which is precisely the right thing
to do, according to the natural law.
Thus, in almost every particular, he goes
on his way, freer than other men from
the external causes of all the induced
diseases, and better protected than most
men from the worst consequences of
those diseases which spring from causes
that are uncontrollable.
Devoted to the General Welfare of the PeoDle.
R A EELIXa FOR FREEDOM.
We translate from a German sketch of
American travel the subjoined account
of an incident alleged to have occurred
on a Mississippi steamboat a short time
before the war:
1 ascended the Mississippi, says the
writer, on a steamer on board of which
were Judge J and General K ,
of Pennsylvania, with both of whom I
was slightly acquainted.
“ A hard set, these Natchez men,” said
the captain, who - met us on the cabin
stairs. “There’s some of them playintra
high gHine. How men can be such lools
I could never see !”
“ I-et’s go down and look on lor
awhile,” suggested the judge.
In the saloon we found fouruien seated
at a table, around which a crowd of
spectators were gathered. The four were
the “ heavy players.”
The game was poker, and the money
changed hands rapidly. We had not
been looking on long when one of the
players, a middle-aged man, whom I
learned was a cotton planter, bet his last
dollar against the hand ol one qf his an
tagonists. The latter showed four kings,
while he had only four queens, lie was
“cleaned out,” and rose as though he
W’erc going to leave the table.
“Arc you broke, colonel?” asked one
of the men.
“ Dead !” was the laconic reply.
“ Never mind ; I’ll lend you.”
“ No; 1 can make a raise, 1 reckon—
here, Pomp?”
“ Here, massa !” responded tin old ne
gro, as lie emerged from one corner of
the saloon.
“ Bring that girl and her youngster
here, that I bought in Natchez. Wait
a few minutes, gentlemen, I’ll raise some
money.”
The old negro went oil his errand and
soon returned with the girl and her
youngster. The “girl” proved to lie a
stately mulatto woman about thirty-five
years old. Her “ youngster” was a fine,
intelligent looking boy eleven or twelve
years old, whose complexion showed him
to Ist much more nearly allied to the
white race than to the black.”
“ Here, gentlemen,” said the planter,
as they entered, “ you sec 1 the girl and
her boy-two as tine triggers' M yiAi cun
find anywhere, r paid eight hundred
dollars for them yesterday.in Natchez.
Who will give me six hundred dollars
for them ?”
“ Will you sell them separate?” asked
someone.
“ No, can’t do it; I promised not to.
The girl swears f she’ll t-aks her life if
she’s separated from her boy, and the old
master said that he was sure slic'd keen
her word. But don’t yon all Hee that
Hie gill is worth more than J ask for both
ol them? Come, who’lljgive me six.
hundred for both ?”
The planter waited a moment lor a re
ply, and then said:
"Well, I must have some money.
Come, what say you to a raffle—thirty
chances at twenty dollars a chance?
Out. with your cash, genllentcn. The
first on the list lias the first' 'row*' ” '
This proposition created a decided stir
among all present. Tlio Ifetfeeiplayers
at the table led off by it iking three
chances each. Their example was fol
lowed by the spectators, add twenty
chances were taken as rapidly as the
planter could write down Up'names and
take the money. was a
slight pause. The planter himself now
took two chances, and li was followed
by his three fellow players, who each
took one chance more, j finally, three
more chances were takes by the sjiecta
lors, when the planter eyed out :
“ Two more chances, p iilleiiieii; who
will have them ? ”
General K whiskered something
in Judge .1 ’near, anil (.ben went to
the table and laid two teuolollar gold
pieces on it. <
“ Name, sir, please.” r
“ Never mind theiianlf. I?ut it down
(or the woman—” j 4*. *
“ Eh—what! for llu/yrl herself ?”
“Yes, certainly; ly< give her a
chance.”
“All right: One (f>r Ninette. And
now—” L, '
“ That’s for the foy,” said Judge
J—, quietly, as be lad twenty dollars
on the table.
“Good! bravo! fcr&vo I” cried the
planter awd severaluojfjhe bystanders.
“ One for Tornmv, wbi'h makes the
thirty. Now,gentletieri, let’s see whom
luck favors.”
The dice were brought and the throw
ing liegan. Each chance entitled the
holder to three throws.
Tbirty-six was the highest thrown un
til the holder of the eleventh chance
threw. He scored forty-two. Then a
less number was thrown until number
twenty-one scored forty-nine.
The excitement irow became intense.
Forty-nine was hard to bent; tne highest
throw jxjssible beilig nine sixes—sixty
four. *
Again and rattled in the
box, until it can*e"\o number twenty
nine. -w.
“ Come, your turn now!”
As the poor woman came forward, her
hands crossed and pressed convulsively
against her breast, it was truly painful
to witness her agnation.
“ Won’t the gentleman that took the
chance for me please throw?” she asked
in a low, tremulous tone.
“No; let your boy throw,” replied
the general, “perhaps lie may have more
luck than I.”
“ Come, Tom,” said the planter.
Tom came forward and picked up the
liox. The woman pressed her lips firmly
together, and clasped her hands as if in
prayer. The boy trembled like an aspen
leaf, but shook the dice and threw—
three!
For a moment he stared at the dice as
though he could not lielieve his eyes;
then he put down the Ihix and stepped
back, pale and dejected.
“Come, Tommy, throw again,” urged
the planter.
“It’s no use, master; 1 couldn’t throw
forty-nine now."
“True, true! But you have your own
chance. Throw that.”
“Certainly,” said Judge T—, “that
one was your mother's. Now, throw for
yourself, on the chance 1 gave you.
Have a stout heart, my boy, and may
heaven smile upon you.”
Again the boy returned to the table
and took up the Ihix. He pressed his
lips together and did his best to control
his trembling limbs, Not a sound was
heard in the saloon hut the rattling of
the dice. For a moment every man
seemed to hold his breath.
“Two lives and a six—sixteen!” said
the planter, putting down the number,
while a murmur ol' satisfaction ran
through the crowd.
One of the bystanders gathered tip the
dice and put them in the Ihix, and the
boy threw again.
“Two sixes and a five—seventeen !’
The excitement now knew no bounds, j
and the “bravos” resounded on every
band. 'I he boy, as he took up the box
to throw for third and last time, was
as nearly colorless as it was possible lor !
him to be with his yellow skin.
Out rolled the dice, and up came three
sixes, which made fifty-one.
“Tommy, my boy, I congratulate
you !” cried the planter. “You are your
own and your mothe r’s master. Fill up
the necessarw papers, captain and 1 will
sign them, 'phese gentlemen will lie the
witnesses!”
I will not /lUciiijil. to dcscril.o
scene that followed. In the general sat
isfaction, one of the roughest-looking
men in the crowd proposedasuliscriplion
for the freed negroes. The proposition
was received with such favor, that in less
than five minutes fifty dollarswcrc col
lected. — Ajtjiklon’a Journal.
WORK OF FIENDS.
An Atlenipl lo tlreek a Train ami Shout
the. Train V/jiciahi.
As the txpress train on the St. Louis
and San Francisco railroad, late Atlantic
and I’acitic, readied a point one mile
and a half west of Wooden station, one
hundred and fifteen miles hxmi St.
Louis, Inst night, the
kind of obstruction on the in
stantly applied the air not
quickly enough, for when reaching the
sjHit. where the obstruction was, thq.
engine mid baggage the track
and
hundred mid forty Samuel
Richardson; fireman, and l)r. E. L. At
kinson, who were on the engine, were
killed instantly, and Frank Gaton,
engineer, so badly wounded that lie
died in two hours. Cnton and Atkinson
lived at Pacific City. The latter was
the physician of the railroad company
and was riding on the engine with Ca'ton,
who was a personal liieild. Richardson
lived at Pierce City.
Conductor Wilson was i . the rear car
at the time. The air brake wa> applied
immediately. He rail forward and
found the engine and baggage car down
theienibankment. He started at once
for the engine, and on the way heard a
pistol shot, and a ball passed through his
bat. Several other shots were tired and
the passengers say they saw five men
standing near wffio'werc revealed by the
flashes from the'pistols, hut' noboby was
hit. Two baHs passed through the bag
gage car, and although two express mes
sengers and the baggageman were in the
car neither of them was hit or hurt by
the accident. On examining the track
it was found that the fishbars connecting
the rails on both sides of the track had
been unjointed and the ends of the rails
moved so that the train would run down
the embankment. A monkey wrench,
* iron pick and claw bar also were
fdlind on the track. This, in connection
with shots fired and the men seen, left
no doubts in the mind of the conductor
ami passengers that a diabolical scheme
had been planned to run the whole train
down the embankment and rob the ex
press and plunder the passengers; that it
was not carried out may be explained by
the fact that the night was intensely
dark ; that it rained heavily and that the
train was running at a speed ol ten
miles :tn hour, which prevented any of.
the passenger cars from leaving the
track. No clue to the prc|ietrators of
th fiendish act. The locomotive was
capsized and badly wrecked— tit. Louis
Thru’*.
Thk remains of Mrs. Madison, u sister
of Patrick Henry, lie in an almost un
marked grave at Bowling Green, Ky.
TERMS: $2.00 Per Annum, in Advance.
THE AIT EUR lORNAVO.
Rote It .Ipproaehetl lit. lftn.tn.tl Ttttrn o
Mt. Carmel. 111.
The natural phenomena that presaged
the fearful storm were as grand and
awe-inspiring as was the demonstration
of its awful power. Due west of the
little city, at a distance of several miles,
is a forest which skirts the prairie that
stretches thence to the town. Nestled
amid the undulations of the ridges, the
inhabitants of the doomed town watched
the gathering of the tornado with no
1 fear at first. In the west a bank ol
clouds began to form, first on the edge
of the horizon, and then grew with
magical swiftness, crecpiug up against
; the skv, which it presently totally
I covered with its terrible frown. Blacker
and blacker it grew, and onward it
rushed with frightful velocity, the face
of the cloud dark and the edge fringed
with fantastic wreaths of vapor, whirled
into a thousand varying forms as the
awful and death dealing tenqiest swept
over the lace of the smiling country.
Although it was daylight, a dusk almost
like that of twilight fell upon the little
city and the smiling fields and blooming
plains t hat girded its flourishing borders.
Then fear fell upon the inhabitants, who
began to think where safety might lie
found. The school building, which was
thronged with children, was in the path
of the tempest, and the little ones,
frightened by the appalling spectacle of
flic galloping storm, begged leave to fly
to their homes. They were all huddled
on the ground floor, except a few who
could not be restrained, where a s|iecial
Providence appeared [to work out their
safety.
With the lightning speed of a race
horse the tempest came onward aud
leaping over the wood # that skirted the
praire, rushed upon the ground and
swept toward the city with the un
earthly shriek of a fiend. The residence
of Dr. Harvey, midway between the
forest and the city, sitting fair upon the
level plain, fell shattered before the
fearful blast, which a moment Inter fell
upon the doomed city aud .iite in
habitants. \
With an awful crash the inrnndo
swept through the streets with Vi con
tinuous noise like the explosion of bomb
shells. So frightful was its velocity and
so vast and irresistible its force that the
buildings of the town shivered before it
like sand, and fell as if crushed by the
weight of an omnipotent hand. Enor
mous substances weighing hundreds of
]H>unds were lifted upon the wings of the
wild wind and borne fosward like dead
leaves upon an autumn gust. Walls
crumbled like sand and went prone upon
the earth, and massive buildings erected
to stand the test of years, sank under its
Jorce and left scarce a trace of their pres
ence upon the devastated earth.
This lasted but a moment, an awful
moment, pregnant with the fell harvest
of death and destruction, and the fright
ened and awe-inspired people, who had
beared the crash of their homes and
looked upon the relentless tempest which,
like an infuriate monster, seized upon
the fair village and toro its beauty from,
“♦he face could, scarce y
realize, the truth that their senses bore tes
timony to. This horrified amazement and
stupor lasted lint for a moment. Fol
lowing in the wake of the tornado came
a torrent of rain—tears which Heaven
seemed to shed over the desolation'll
had wrought,and with which the pitiless
flames that began to leap from the ruins
was partly quenched. Then thunder
crashed and lightning flashed front the
sombre, sky and fed upon the homes the
wind had spared. —Evansville Journal.
THE vitors.
The rains of the past two days were
much needed, hut there is fear that there
will now be too much of it. The crops
in the south arc "now reported encourag
ing, and that prospects north are gratify
ing, and were it not for southern Cali
fornia there would bean unbroken array
ol good liar *t promises all over the
country. The grasshoppers and the
jxitato bug are not so formidable as was
feared, and the farmers have almost for
gotten to grumble. The probability is
presented that the United States will
raise a greater amount of food, cotton
and wool this year, and get mOre mouey
for it than in any year before, and we
can not ask more than to realize that
probability. —Memphis Appeal.
WILH HOES /.V CALI FORMA.
Wild hogs abound in the tule lands of
San Joaquin, California. They were
doubtless originally propagated from do
mestic stock that have escaped into the
jungle, and liecome as wild as the famous
game infesting the Black Forest, the
hunting of which affords so much pleas
ure to the German nobility. They live
and thrive on the succulent roots to be
found in the tules, but are exceedingly
shy. and it is only by accident that one
catches a glimpse of them, as they in
stinctively avoid the haunts of men.
They are trapped and caught occasionally
in an ingenious manner by the ttlle
farmers, who build sinail but very strong
corrals or pens on their stamping grounds
| 'or this purpose.
NUMBER 25.
GRAVE AND GAY.
Motherhooit.
All atMHit the dreamy h*>ua€ *
Flit* a punlream, noftlj bright.
(toldlocka with treasea light
Dancing, topping up and down ;
11, aweet heavens! tor such miun
In and out where all is still,
Sound sray tones in shout and son;::
Dimpled cheeks, laughs loud and iougj
From pure merriment within ;
Fun and she ate near ot Kin.;
and down the \uiet room,
In the garden, on the stair,
I’uliy-llps is everywhere;
< 'haltering a*<'hifdhm>d will,
Duly when in mischief, Mill.
‘Mamma” this, and "Mamma” that,
•‘Tant 1?" "Tan 1?” all lli* hours,
Fvcs like stars ami breath llkellos-rrs.
Husy little hands and feet ;
Dod maces motherhood so aweel.
/At'Tree in The. (*vMrn llvtr.
..When n man begins to find fruit
with other people he may wel! be advised
to Umk for evil in bis own heart and life.
.. “ Wliat lino of business do you think
I had liest adopt?” asked a young as
pirant for the stage of the “ leading
mail.” “ Well,” said the old stager,
gazing critically at the youth’s elegant
costume, “ I should say the clothes line
would suit you best.” —Boston Commercial
Butte, in.
..“ I fell you, sir,” said I)r. one
morning, lo the village apothecary, “ I
tell you, sit, the vox jtopuli should not,
must not, be disregarded.” “ What,
Doctor!” exclaimed the apothecary,
rubbing his hands, “ you don’t say that’s
broken out in town, too, has it? Isjrd
help us! wliat unhealthy times these
are! ”
..“A lover ” writes us: “ (Suppose I
see a young Indy home from church, aud
the night is dark and rainy, and upon
arriving at her house she darts through
the door without saying as much as
‘good-night,’ lcavingme standing out
side—what would you advise me to do in
such a case ? ” You had lietler Btart for
home immediately, if you have an urn
brella. Under no circumstance should
you stand on the steps ol the youuglady’s
house all night. It would be preferable
to crawl into the nearest friendly store
box, and await for day-light to appear or
the rain to disappear. NoiritJasu
UrraUK > <
I tin ELIZA i.\ A SCRAI’E. *'
The good hsari of Ann F.liza Young
got that lady into an unpleasant predica
ment the other day. She was on her
way to Kalamazoo, Mich., and, having
travelled quite a distance, was very tired.
At Hudson, Mich., when the train stop
ped, Mrs. Young was resting her hqpd
on some of her baggage as she was read
ing away at the half-dozen periodicals
obtained from the train newsboy, so she
did not notice the conductor passing
from the front to the rear of the car
with a strange-looking man. It being
the last ear, the conductor was taking the
man to the Wick end to let him off. as
he lacked the “wherewithal.” The con
ductor bad put him off, when the man
asked jiermission to make a request of
the passengers. Permission was given,
and the strange-lookiug man boarded the
train and called out in a very excited
manner: “.My wife is a little insane,
blie is trying to get away from me. Her
.baggage is checked through to Kalama
zoo, and I have not sufficient mouev to
me off unless I obtain it. Will any gen
tloman here give me enough to see me
through? I have friends in Kalamazoo,
bo I can refund the money when I reach
there.'’ Mrs. Young’s heart was touched,
and she furnished money enough to carry
the man on to White Pigeon. The “ in
sane wife” directly appeared, and hurst
into tears. It was evident that if either
was insane the man was. The woman
had determined to desert him, for he bad
on the previous evening drawn a knife
on her and threatened her life. He was
a worthless, shiftless fellow with a very
bad temper. “The last I saw of Mrs.
Young,” says a correspondent of the
Inter-Ocean, “she was taking the un
fortunate woman to dinner at While
Pigeon, while the crazy husband wart
begging Irom the crowd for aid with
which to follow his runaway bride to
Kalamazoo.”
i'jOX'T KILO JiMOR EH - LEO
HOUSES ANY MORE.
It is now argued that it is unnecessary
to kill broken-legged horses; and a point
in case is stated : Twelve weeks ago,
the right hind leg was broken of Mr.
William’s valuable and favorite marc,
in Utica, by a kick from another horse.
The fracture was half way between the
fetlock and the gambrel joints, and was
complete. A veterinary surgeon under
took to set the leg. A canvas sling was
arranged, and the mare suspended in i
in such a way that she could occasionally
rest upon her uninjured limbs. The
fractured leg was then set, bound with"
hickory and leather splints, with a heavy
leather boot outside of all. The mare
did well, and never missed a meal. After
three weeks a plaster of Paris bandage
was substituted, and in seven weeks
“ Nellie’' was walking around the stable.
There was no sign of the fractur^, and it
is thought that she will keep her 2:40
gait.—A. F. Tribnne.
The five months of the present year
have been notably prolific of Berious fires.
Insurance companies claim that the loss
to them thus far has been double the loss
for the same time during 187*1.
