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■ THE story of life.
trim! ,»HfcT 'TUI© he born,
\ h.'iwliH Wbr I" grret the light
With »that'i) Sail, «» if iho morri
Enretold a cloud*- rtoon ntnl night;
T„ weep, u>»lcep, »*1?1 *«ep again,
will , ,„nny Mrtitr* between, and thctl t
An i heu apace the infant groS'S
To IW*laughing uprightly boy,
)(•{.)> . «li'|,itc Ills littlfc wi>cs,
W.-ff hi* hut conscious of his joy !
fb U\ hi short, from two to ten,
v merry, moody child ; and then ?
And then the east and trow?ers clad
To learn to Mty the Deealo^ue,
And break it, an unthinking lad,
With mirth and mischief all agog.
A truant oft by tichl and fen
And capture butterflies, and then ?
And then increased in strength and sixe,
To he, anon, a youth full grown ;
A hero in his mother’s eyes,
A young Apollo in his own ;
To imitate the ways of men
Iii fashionable sin, and then?
And then at least to he a inan,
To fall in love, to woo and wed !
With seething brain to scheme and plan.
To gather gold or toil for bread ?
To aue for fame with tongue or pen.
And gain or lose the prise ; and then ?
And then in gray and wrinklei Khl
To mourn the speed of life’s decline ;
To praise the scenes of life beheld,
And dwell in memory ofLang Syne,
To dream a while with darkened ken,
Then drop into his grave, and then?
, FOOLHAKItY FEAT—CROSSING
NIAGARA OX A ROPE.
NO* 51*
ATHENS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19,1873.
trtT Alin humor.
Signor Honrv Bnlleni, nn Italian,
astonished the visitors at Niagara Falls,
on Monday afternoon, by crossing the
chasm on a tight rope, as Blnndin did
years ago. and subsequently diving
below, a feat which bis predecessor did
not a'tempt. The rope, tnc thousand
five hundred feet in length, was stretch-
el from the Prospect Park, on the
American side, to near the Clifton
House, on the other. Both shores
were crowded with spectators long be
fore the time announced for the per
formance. About 4 o’clock Balleni
appeared on.the Canadian side and be
gan to walk out, hut after a few steps
returned and ordered the cable to he
tightened. When this was done at
4:4') o’clock, the start was made.
“All action and conversation” savs
"the Buffalo Kxpnv.<, in its report <>t
the atfair, “ was now suspended,
ami every one’s attention was given
to the ma i on the rope, who marched
along, apparently with the greatest ease,
to the m i-ieofalmnd which was station
ed in fron of the Clifton House. At
4:54 o’cl * -k duHcni reached the middle
of th" rope, where he halted to return J \ Kansas woman, who has won a
Jim - nutation to the tremendous ap- house and lot at a raffle, had to buy a
pla i-5 wine i greeted hi.sexpflVOr-qkffor f**nnt-gun to keep her adorers from
wearing out the steps.
It is not safe to send money by a
pdstal card. .^0 says Josh Billings.
A full purse and a brandy bottle
tarely occupy opposite pockets* in the
same coitt.
Why was Robinson Crusoe’s man
Friday like a rooster? Because he
Scratched for himself and Crusoe.
A drunken man wrote on the wall of
his cell: “Jug not that ye be not
jugged.
Luv kant live on beauty ; it must
liav some hash, or it will fade and di
—Billings.
Matrimonial.—It is uot good now
adays for a man to offer his hand, if
there’s nothing in it.
That w as a wise man who cut a big
hole for his cat and a small one for her
kitten.
The Ohio River has a remarkably
long face. It is nearly twelve hundred
miles from its head to its mouth.
A young man from Macon says
there is no cholera there, hut plenty of
mother-in-laws, which is just as bad.
A Marietta young man’s highest
ambition is to get money enough to
buy -s place in the heart of a beautiful
girl.
An old gentleman stepped into the
office of tho Calhoun Tones the other
day and desired to pay his “tuition”
to the paper.
Bill Snow, the E hiopian Serenadcr,
who used to live in Marietta, died in
Forsyth the other day. This Snow was
hiick.
Mr. Reese, a well-known street , , —, ,
preacher in Cincinnati, was accosted '^ n '. t{ ,e b^ ar d sI'P’ uuL
hv a would-be wag the other day anil
questioned as follows:
Marriage has recently been defined
“a prodigal desire on the part of a
young man to pay some young wo
man’s hoard.”
Suppose a feller what has nothin’
marries a gal what has nothin’ is her
things his’n, or his’n, her’n, or is liis’n,
and her’n his’n.
The recent marriage of a Mr. Day
with a Miss Field, presents this singu
lar anomaly, that although lie gained
the field she won the day.
I <ume to steal, as the rat observed
to the trap. And l spring to em
brace you, as the trap replied to the
rat.
I A Married JIan Tries to Cartry Two
Wash-Tubs, a Wash-Board and a
Wash-Stand at Once,
There is an important difference iu
Monday among those families who do
their own washing. The way of observ
ing it is very-similar. The first thing
is to get the man up an hour earlier
than usual to get down the boiler. We
don’t understand why a boiler is kept
on the shelf where nobody but himself
can reach it. But perhaps it is not
intended we should understand it.
Having got down the boiler and taken
his place at the table, ami pronounced
grace with a benevolent aspect, he is
called into the kitchen again to lift the
boiler on the stove. He finds it full
of water and weighing about three-
quarters of a ton, but he sinks his teeth
into his lips, lays his eyes out on his
cheeks, and accomplishes the task.
After breakfast, which is enten hasti
ly, and from a table that is garnished
with a bar of soap, a package of starch,
and a blueing hag, lie is sent down
cellar after the tubs, wash-hoard,
bench, etc. He puts both tubs to
gether and the wash-board inside,
with a vow to avoid coming down
stairs again, although he has been
years giving practical demonstration
that those things can’t be carried at one
time. But he grasps the inside of the
tubs with one urm and takes the wash-
bench in the other and starts for the
stairs. No one who has not tried it
can liegin to understand the amount
of circumspection required to engineer
a wash-tub and wash-bench up the
same stairway at the same time, lie
knows it, hut there is an undying hope
in his breast that there is a way to ac
complish it and he starts. Before
reaching the stairs the tubs siidearound
He thinks ut
first that he will put his heel on it and
split it in two, hui changes his mind,
sets down the things, and replaces the
board. Then lie starts again, and
when he has got as far up the stairway
as he can without proceeding sideways,
he turns the tubs to the front, hut as
his hold on them has been gradually
yielding all the while, he finds they are
so low they strike the stair, and iu an
effort to raise them the bench gives,
and to save that he loses in part his hold
in the tubs, and before he can recover
the board slips out and goes back
into the cellar, two steps at a jump,
lie turns round and looks over the
tubs down at the hoard, which the eyes
with an intensity there appears to lie
no call for, ami again attempts the
ascent.
He gets the bench started ahead,
hut the end catches in the top step,
A TERRIBLE CHOLERA STORY,
lie Great Storm of the Centarj,
root in* him-hlrtbr a l>rwr"J>£rio§''the
.Sign ir a r c started on ni-> tramp. I
riii:
:Ui
Y Ml*
.v<-i ii nly stop made, an I a
o’clock he perainbuli-i, looking
a- death, had readied the
ira.i cud of Ins rope, lie having
nad-
ih" t
rip :ii twentv-tivc minutes.
Aft.-r
another rest of thirteen ininuls
v 'i”!i>>r Bai
eni again took hi- pole in
nn*! \
ras off to the middle of the
i-qie
*> mu
ke the great leap.
l!
1 n »k
him just six minutes to
UViVi
at the centre of the rope, and
w.-ii
liitTl
lie at once began making
>i > ii.-initfoii to jump. While engaged
:g >.
:iis
ho lanring pole, which fell
\v:i
ter and sank. A cord six
•n j.
nade of ruhlier hands,
JUr
• l t-,
the rope, ut a point ju.-t one
: n i
ni if tii feet above the i
' rt:i
V O
i • v i er. Balleni caught
Wtl
•1*0 1
end of tho elastic cord 1k--
fore
i
rors though? In- wa ready
t<» .
1
• ascended like an arrow.
arid
p
ring snap of ilie ruhlier
was
IV'UO
! -i'iiultaiieoii<iv with the
lolhi
. ot his fall in the water.
-N o -i
was the splash heard than
the head o
* the Signor came peeping
out of the
water, and he struck out
vigorously
and heariilv towards the
you set your cup of coffee »'*er the obstruction. It has grown
- -- • verv warm ill the last minute, and his
boat which was there to pick him up.
He was quickly hauled into the little
craft, carefully wrapped up with heavy
blankets, and rowed to shore.
HAIR VXD ITS USES.
The Dublin University Magazine, in a
discourse upon human hair, says: It
is not the less useful because it is orne-
mniital. It is a bad conductor of heat,
and keeps the head warm in winter
and cold in summer. It wards off the
effects of the sun : and we find negroes
exposing themselve? without head cov
ering to its burning rays iu tropical cli
mates, without the slightest injury; and
some wild tribes of Arabs, who wear
neither tarboosh nor turban, are said to
relv solely on their bushy headsof hnirns
protection against sun-stroke. The
wa.tache is a natural respirator, dc-
k ailing the lungs against the inliala-
h'm of cold and dust. It ia a protec-
Don of the face and throat against cold,
's equally in warm climates a
’"'"mard for those marts against cx-
ct**.vve heat.
l V ,h mus *che of blacksmiths show
Rod lit C °* or t * l ° d ,,st w bich they
wviViu . a natural respirator, and
n ’ lf inhaled, would have been
,.< “** .The mustache is beneficial
i„ 1’^ v ' no h'liow the trades of rnil-
Wor kers j„ metals, Ac..
tnive,er « into Egypt and
k„ • ■ ,v hen they are exposed to the
Si™ "* san ' , < »f the .ire t. Full
1, f s® 1 *! to lie a defence against
W| . . 'I** and sore throat. It is as-
iW f * 1 l 1 tbe and miners of
Z . nc h army, who are noted for
eiiii>v- IZe and . heauty of their beards,
ijj ’ ® special immunity from aflbe-
j |4 j ■” * " a nature. The growth of
•iat.’n r? n rec °n»mended to fiersons
,able l " take cold easily.
Jerscv'" ^ brother ata Rah wav, New.
artide , off m ^"“ ee . t i D * thus 6lated bis
r e ,l f r V K ^ Christian,’ he
b-n> : f.>oted, an’ do feet am
nv stan’t'! h - Pe **"’ ? hftril y- Whcn
all right.
“Why i
on the chair Mr. June-?’’ asked a
no thy landlady one morning at hreak-
nst. “It is so very weak, ma’n;, I
thought I would let it rest.”
A Western editor, in acknowledg
ing the gifts of a peck of onions from
a subscriber, says: “It is such
kindnesses as these that bring tears
our eyes.”
A Western editor closes an affecting
appeal to delinquent subscribers as
follows: “May the famine-stricken
giiost of uu editor’s habv haunt his
slumbers.”
“Who dat hit me? Whar’s dat
Intern ?” were the exclamations of an as
tonished Virginia darkey, after being
thrown something like a hundred feet
by a locomotive.
A Terre Haute editor who sjteaks
with the air of a man who lias discojr-
t-red a new fact by experience, says
that the way to prevent bleeding at
the nose is to keep nose out of other
people’s business.
Atone time Saturday there were five
bald-headed men in one of our dry
goods stores, looking vacantly about,
and each one thoughtfully rubbing his
head with a finger that had a thread
tied about it.
It is related that an Irishtuau once
visited Lynchburg, and after having
inspected the numerous hills and moun
tain ranges, exclaimed: Bedail! I uiver
was in a county before where they
had so much laud that they had to
stack it.”
During the examination of a witness
as to the locality of the stairs in a
house, the learned counsel asked,
“Which way did the stairs run ?” The
witness, who was a noted wag, replied,
“One way they run down and the
other way they run up.”
What is your business?” asked a
judge of a prisoner at the bar. “Well, l
’spose you might call me a locksmith.”
“ When did you last work at your
trader “Last night, when I heard a
call for the perlice, and I made a
bolt for the front door.”
Courteous Verdicts.— A coro
ner’s jury, impaneled to ascertain the
cause of the death of a notorious drunk
ard, brought in a verdict of “Death
by hanging—around a rum shop.” Iu
California a corouer’s jury, under
similar circumstances rendered a more
courteous verdict: “Accidental dea h
while unpacking a glass.”
“Does this razor go easy ?” asked an
Atlanta barber of his victim who was
writhing under a clumsy instrument
whose chief recommendation was a
strong handle. “Well,” replied the
poor fellow, “that depends upon what
you call the operation. If you are
skinning me it goes tolerable easy, but
if you are shaving me it goes rather voice
hard.”
We learn from Mr. F. J. Settle, of
this county, who has been running a
steam saw mill at Sand Rifle, iu Hen
ry couuty, the particulars of one of the
saddest tragedies in connection with
the recent visitation of the cholera at
that place that has come within our
knowledge. At the time of the first
cholera panic at Sand Rifle the Edding
ton family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs.
Eddington and their four children,
left the place and fled with the rest.
After a short time, however, they re
turned and took possession of their
dwelling, which is situated against the
cliff in the valley of the Kentucky riv
er, which is very narrow at this point.
Within two or three days after return- storm in all sections where it prevailed,
ing, Miss Eddington, a young lady of' we give the following brief telegraphic j
some * : ~* .--i-i —*-'**
jljlne of the most frightful and de
structive storms that has occurred for
yeats, visited Nova Scotia and Cape
Breton on the 24th and 25th of August.
Thfr reports of the destruction of life
and property on land and sea are
frightful—indeed such fearful havoc
has not been known in the present
generation; and the extent of the rav-
ag*. of the storm is not yet fully as
certained, as every mail only brings
additional news of its destructiveness.
Many vessels, it is believed, were lost
with all on board, as vessels arriving
at Halifax report having passed large
qu«ii|lfieaof wrecked stuff at sea. To
show foe character of the havoc of the
A REVEREND AND HIS TWO MARYS.
RE.HIXISEXCES OF A DESPERADO
seventeen or eighteen years, took 1 account of its ravages:
plin'nfn Of 10 »\ in anrl dio/l in I **Tr» tka ImmoltiM
the
four hours. Her brother-in-law, Mr.
Shelton, who waited on her during her
sickness, and afterwards sat up with
the corpse, was taken the same day anil
died within a few hours. Mr. Ed
dington’s son, a young man of nine
teen or twenty years, with some diffi
culty obtained a wagon and team with
which to convey the body of his dead
sister to the place of burial at Union
Church, six miles distant, having pre
vious sent forward a request to some
friends to have the grave dug. He
was followed by his father and mother
and the two younger children in anoth
er vehicle.
On their arrival in the vicinity of the
church they not only found that the
request to have the grave prepared had
been neglected, but the people residing
there refused to permit them to enter
their houses. The young man took the
coffin containing his sister’s body to
the church, and after depositing it
therein repaired to the residence of an
uncle, a few miles off’ but by tf time
he arrived there he was so fiy pine
with the cholera that he died in few
hours. Mr. Eddington, with his vife
and twochildren, went a short distance
from the church to an unoccupied
house receutly vacated by its owner
for a new one. By this time all four
were sick with the fearful disease, hut
it is believed that soon after entering
this unoccupied house its owner came
about iiineortcn o’clock at night with
a loaded shot-gun and with threats of
instant death drove them out. Thev,
too, were then compelled, sick nigh un
to death as they were, to seek shelter
with the dead liody of the daughter in
the church, and there, l>efore daylight
the next morning the two children
died. Later, some good Samaritans
from the neighborhood came forward,
and ^ r for their children took Mr. and
himself completely powerless to lift it Mrs. Eddington to their homes, where
forty-seven buildings were blown down.
At Beaver Harbor fourteen buildings
were leveled to the ground. At St.
Peter’s, Cape Breton, several houses
and ■ hams were blown down, and a
partially finished church was demolish
ed, and the materials scattered over
two acres of ground. Men, women
and children were killed by the falling
of houses, etc. Vessels drifted to sea,
and many were stranded on the shoals.
The shores are lined with wrecks, all
along the Nova Scotia and Cape Bre
ton coasts.”
“A large numl er of vessels are re
ported ashore on the north side of
Prince Edward’s Island, which was
exposed to the full fury of the gale.
Only* twenty vessels so far are reported
ashore there, hut the full extent of the
damage along that shore can not be
known for some days. Two dead
bodies lashed to a spar were washed
ashrnj at Tradic; at the north side,
three oi four dead bodies were found
Tuesday. It is feared the wrecks an 1
loss of life on that side of Prince Ed
it so happens that all the preachers
who do bail are eloquent speakers, and
unusally zealous in the cause of re
ligion, as well as handsome men gener
ally. At least this is is always stated
of them, iu order, perhaps, to explain
how thev become so facinating as to be
irresistable and also how strong the
temptation must become to them.
That’s all right, but they ought not to
pretend to be so pure and holy while
they are doing their dirty tricks. If
they would leave off a little of this ex
tra stress of virtues and religion, they
would get some sympathy when their
irregularities become known, and they
need it. But they publicly hold them
selves so pure that mortal clay feels
afraid to touch them. Rev. M. Ken
dricks—He spelled his name Hendrvx
for effect—was the pastor of the church
of Greensburg, Indiana, and like all
the rest of them, he was eloquent and
zealous, and pure and handsome, and
the church had been wonderfully pros
perous during his ministration in the
pulpit. His preaching was effective,
so was his insinuating manners and
noble form. Everything went on
swimmingly, especially his baptismal
duties, as will presently appear. He
was engaged to he married to Miss
Mary Wheatly, of I^cxiugton, Ken
tucky, a lamb of his former flock.
His wife had died last January, but
he took occasion to tell Miss Wheatlv,
one day, that he believed Providence
had taken his wife away from him in
order that he might marry her. This
indicates the ardor and religious charac
ter of the Rev. Ilendryx’s love. Miss
Wheatly was the recipient of many
letters indicating the affection of her
former pastor. His reported engage
ment so soon after the death of his
wife, made some unpleasant talk about
him, and he requested Miss. Wheatly
to write him a letter stating that the
breath conies very short and quick,
and it seeme.s as if the arm which holds
the tubs will soon drop oil at the shoul
der and leave him a cripple for lile,
and at this juncture the tub loosens anil
commences to slip and threaten troutde.
He presses his arm all the tighter to
the inside tub, and tries to get his knee
up against the outside one, but it is too
late. There is a squirm or two, and
then it is over. The outside tub is
down with the wash-board, having ac
complished the trip witu a noi-s: that is
almost defaening. The other tub fol
lows at once, being urged thereto by a
kick that near y throws him from his
feet, and then getting the door open he
slinvs the Bench into the kitchen and
clear across the room, to the apparent
jeopardy of the legs ot tae entire
family. After that lie gets up the
other things—making no remarks to
anybody, hut looking around on every
one in a manner calculated to reflect
the greatest ainounLofdiscredit. Then
he puts on his coat, rubs his arms, and
starts down the street, and gets out on
the walk, when he is willed back to
bring up some wood. If that wood
was in the shape of a burial casket it
is extremely doubtful if he could have
looked more solemn in taking it up
stairs. At noon he comes home to
dinner and finds only one leaf up, the
table-cloth in the wash, and that his
wife has cut the bread after cutting the
soap. What comments he contem
plates making on this state of affairsare
never made. He is sent out in the
yard armed with a clothes line, and nn
injunction to not drop it iu the dirt,
and in the seclusion of the space devo
ted to the back yard he vents the spleeu
that hns been gathering within him,
and whips that clothes-line around with
sardonic joy. After that he conn s in
with his teeth together, and lifts two
tubs full of water to the floor, and
then goes into the bed-room aud puts
on a jwir of dry pants, aud grimly eats
his dinner. It may occur to him that
there is no difference in this Monday
from any that has preceeded it, hut he
can’t help but wonder what kind of
misery that is which comes up every
time so fresh and formidable as to ap
pear entirely nevtr.—Danbury News
When Mrs. Siddons was playing
Lady Macbeth in Dublin, at that part
where a drum sounds, and she ex
claims, “A drum! drum! Macbeth
doth come!” there was some difficulty
or neglect in obtaining the necessary
instrument, and to her amazement a
trumpet sounded. She immediately
saw how absurd it would be to say
“drum” while the sound of a trumpet
filled the ears of the audience, so she
they finally triumphed over the foil
disease and were restored to health.—
Frankfort (Ay.) Yeoman, August 2(5.
’lain Talk to Girls.—Your
every day toilet is a part of your char
acter. A girl w ho looks like a “fairy”
or a slave in the morning is not to be
trusted, however finely she may look
in the evening. No matter how hum
ble your room may be, there are eight
things it should contain, viz: a mirror,
wash-stand, soap, towel, comb, hair,
nail and tooth brushes. Those are
just as needful as your breakfast, liefore
which you should makegood and free use
of them. Parents who fail to provide
their children with such appliances,
not only make a great mistake, but
commit a sin of omission. Look tidy
in the morning, and after the dinner
work is over, improve your toilet.
Make it a rule of your daily life to
“dresss up” for the afternoon. You.-
dress may. or need not lie. any thing
better than calico; hut with a riblxm.
or flower, or some bit of ornament,
you can have ati air ot self-respect and
satisfaction, that invariably comes
with being well dressed. A girl with
fine sensibilities cannot help feeling
embarrassed and awkward in a ragged,
dirty dress, with her hair unkept,
if a stranger or neighbor should come
in. Moreover, your self-respect should
demand the decent apparelling of your
body. You should make it a point to
look as well as yon can, even if you
know nobody will sec you but your
self.
ward’s Island are enormous. Two; rumor of their engagement to marry
American fishing schooners are repor- 1
ted to have gone down during the gale,
with all hands, forlv in number.”
“In Braddock, Victoria county, C.
B., -Shirty hams and houses were
blown down withiu a radius of ten
miles, and several dwelling houses
were completely destroyed. One large
house was lifted bodily and raised
twenty feet.”
The Glory of the Farmer.—The
benefit conferred upon mankind by the
farmer, and the pleasure which at
taches-to his vocation, are charmingly
portrayed by Ralph Waldo Emerson,
in one of his essays, as follows:
“Jhe'^lory of the farmer is that, in
create. All the trades rest at least dir
A Beautiful Young Lady Sell
ing Chickens.—A ,Danvil!e corres
pondent of the Richmond Whig writes :
Among the local incidents of the past
week was the appearance of a beauti
ful young lady from North Carolina
seated in a wagon in the market space,
with chickens and butter for sale.
Her beauty excelled any seen in these
parts for a long time. She was ac
companied by her mother and a little
brother, and was modest in appear
ance, with a countenance that indica
ted a good and true heart within.
Her beauty attracted many of our
young men to the wagon in which she
was seated. One of them lie came so
enamored with her that he actually
bought all her marketing and sold it
for the same he paid for it, consider
ing that the sight of her had amply re
paid him for anv loss he might sustain.
This beautiful youug lady did not
wear a two-story chignon, with the lit
tle appendage on the top of the head
called n “bonnet,” nor was she attired
in twenty-two yards of dry goods,
doubled anil trebled with the usual
“tuck-up” behind; but she wore a
plain and tidy dres-’, consisting of
his primitive authority. He stands
close to nature, lie obtains from the
earth the hread, aud the food which
was not he causes to be. The first far
mer was the first man, and all historic
nubility rests on the possession and use
of laud. Men do not like hard work,
but every man has an exceptional re
-poet for tillage and the feeling that
this is the original calling of his race,
that he himself is only excused from it
by some circumstances which made
him delegate it for a time to other
hands. If he had not some skill which
recommends him to the farmer some
product for which the farmer gives
corn, he must himself return into his
due place among the planters. And
the profession lias in all eyes its an
cient charme3 as standing nearest God,
the first cause. Then the beauty of
nature, the tranquility and innocence
of the country, his independence and
pleasing arts, the care of bees, poultry,
sheep, hogs, the dairy, the rare of hay,
ot fruits, ot orchards and forests, and
the reaction of the workman in giving
him strength and plain dignity, like
the face and manners of nature—all
men acknowledge. All men keep the
farm in reserve as an asylum, in case
a mischange, to hide their poverty, or
as a solitude in case they do not suc
ceed in society. And who knows how
many glances of reinorce nre turned
this way from the bankrupts of trade,
mortified pleaders in courts and sen
ates or from the victims of idleness and
pleasure ?”
Salt as a Fertilizer.—Mr. A.
II. Moll, of Greenfield, and D. H.
Whitney ofLincoIn, in Monroe coun
ty, Wisconsin, have both experimented
some in the use of common salt as a
fertilizer, and in every trial it has
proven to he of great power and utility.
r Mr. Moll had fenced and undertook
to cultivate a piece of ground that had
been occupied for some years as a pub
lic wagon road, but was not able to
raise grain on it of any amount. He
took a barrel of meat brine, reduced
it three to one with water, and sprin
kled it over the laud, and ever since it
has produced very heavy crops. He
has used it on o her portions of his
farm with very desirable results. Mr.
Whitney says he sowed on one acre of
clover about 35 tbs. of common salt,
and side by side common land plaster,
and where the salt was used the crop
is much the best.
My opinion is that it is a powerful
fertilizer, if used in proper quantities.
Mr. Whitney’s trial was a great suc
cess. I should be glad to hear from
any of your many readers on this sub
ject. , ! Wm. Farnum, Jr.
ToMAIIj Wis.
was false. He said the li tter would
do him a great deal of good in Greens-
burg, and would in no way interfere
with their ultimate marriage, bliss
Wheatly did as requested, antj then
she lost her reverend correspondent,
for he was careful to write to her no
more. Then it became the town talk
that Hendrvx was engaged to Miss
Mary Wilson, of Greensburg, and this
lie did not deny. Mary was a favorite
name of his. The Lexington Mary
heard of the Greensburg Mary, and
the story troubled her. Hendryx pro
ceeded to marry Miss Wilson, and
Mi s Wheatly laid her pile of love let
ters bc‘oie a committee of the church
of Greensburg. They investigated,
fiegavo for "Tdi'S aiu ngol iss' \Y liftfTiy
and cleaving to Miss Wil-on is inter
esting. He had baptized the latter, and
when lie baptized her he became enam
ored of her, giving as his reason ‘ that
her voluptuous form had charming ad
mission,’ and is, doubtless, the plain
truth. It must he a delightful sensa-
tiou to fall in love while administering
ii sacrament of religion. The end of
this whole beautiful business is, that the
church told the Rev. Hendrvx that
he must leave the State of Indiana
right off, and quit preacliiug and bap
tizing forever.
Down the Hill.—The eveniug of
every man’s life is coming apace. The
day of life will soon he spent. The
sun, though it may he up in mid-heav
en, still pass swiftly down the western
sky, and disappear. What shall light
up man’s path when the sun of life is
gone down ? He must travel on to the
next world; hut what shall-illuminate
his footsteps after the nightfall of
death, amid the darkness of his jour
ney? What question more important,
practicable, more solemn, for each
reader of our journal to himself? That
is a long journey to travel without a
friend. Yet every man must perforin
it. The time is not far distant when
all men will begin the journey. There
is an evening star in the natural world.
Its radiance is bright and beautiful,
and cheering to the benighted traveler.
But life’s evening star is a good hope of
heaven. Its beauty and brilliancy are
reflected from the Son of Righteous
ness, whose bright rays light up the
evening of life, and throw their radi
ance auite across the darkness of the
grave into Immanuel’s land. It lias
illuminated the footsteps of many a
traveler into eternity. It is of price
le<s value. A thousand worlds can
not purchase it; yet it is offered with
out money and without price, to him
who will penitently and thankfully
receive it.—Exchange.
At Haniburg, the longest day has
tan squar, on deni four feet we’m
.i.?" S k.“ Vel .‘ l “* * letter or-
from the gallery called out
“Macbeth doth stump it!" at which
thehuuse brokeout intoa peal of laiigh-
“Do you believe what the Bible ter and applause, and the tragedienne
eavs about the prodigal sou and the advanced to the footlights and bowed
fatted calf?”
said : “A trumpet! a trumpet!” aud! ‘ he P ,ain .?, n , d st > de of ? Wen tin ‘f
stopped short, amid breathless silence, I Lucky will he t e man w o succeeis
not knowing how to rhyme, when a I >n captivating sue ajoung a j or
about eight yards of calico, made in seventeen hours and the shortest sev
en. At Stockholm the longest days
has eighteen and a half hours and the
Cettainly I do.
Well, can you tell me whether the
calf that was killed was a male of
female calf ?
Yes, it was a female calf.
How do you know that ?
Because, said Reese, looking the
I chap in the face, I see the male is alive
1 now.
her acknowledgement for the relief.
She afterward tried to find out who it
was, but foiled to do so, and never for
got what she considered the most gen
uine piece of wit »he had met with in
all herexperieuce.
When is an umbrella like a person
convalescent? When it is reoovered.
wife.
A philosophical Kentuckian, who
had but one shirt, and was lying in
bed while the garment was drying on
the clothes-line in the yard, was startled
by an exclamation from his wite to the
effect that “ the calf had eaten it.”
“Well,” said the Kentuckian, with a
spirit worthy of a better cause, “well,
them who has must lose.”
Questions for ethnologists—Are
there any lunatics among the no-mad
tribes?
A correspondent of the Little Rock
(Ark.) Gazette writes as follows to that
journal, of the 29th ultimo, in refer
ence to Manes, of Perry county. Ark.,
whose name has figured so prominently
in connection with recent acts of vio
lent lawlessness in that State:
“ Upon Cane Hill, in Washington
Arkansas, there lives an old man over
whose head fourscore years have passed.
For fifty years lie preached the gospel
of Christ from many a church through
out Arkansas. More than this, he
practiced that gospel by living strictly
according to its teachings, and thus
bore witness to tho truth. He served
his Master too faithfully to find time to
dabble in politics, and never even cast
a vote in his life. When the recent
war broke out he took no part, except
to alleviate suffering, to whisper conso
lation in the ears of the dying and bind
up the wounds of the afflicted. lie
adhered so to his Masters work that,
as Confederate and Federal armies al
ternately held sway over the country
where lie lived, he commanded the love,
the confidence, and esteem of men of
both.
“ lie was either supposed to he, or
was, the guardian of valuables which
were left with him by his ueighlwir.s
and friends. Be this as it may, this
reputation was sufficient to draw upon
him the eye of cupidity. Among the
soldiers, or those connected with the
army stationed in Fayetteville, was a
Kind of wretches who made it a prac
tice to visit persous suspected of having
treasures, and torturing them until
they confessed where their treasures
were hid. One night a baud of dis
guised men visited this man of God,
and demanded to know the hiding
place of his trusts. He declined to re
veal it. An oven of hot coals was
brought. He was threatened, but
still refusing, his feet were placed upon
the living coals. The smoke ascended
from them and filled the house. The
poor old man’s feet hissed and crackled,
and the living flesh was blistered and
roasted. But old John Buchanan was
of the blood of which Scotland’s mar
tyrs were made. If the paltry treas
ures lmd hecn his own they would
have been delivered up, but, a sacred
trust lie would die before he would
betray.
“ Unfortunately for them, the vil-
lians delayed at their work and talked
Oar Cash Rates of Advertising.
AdTertiaenienu, from this date, In^Srtcd »t
One Dollar per Square (of one Inch) for (be fill
naertlon, and Sovcnty-tire Conta per Square for
each additional inrortlon.
Funeral Notices and Obituariee charged Sir
at regular Adreftislng rates.
No extrachargo lor Locator Speetai'oolumn'
•Hr Transient Adrertlaeocntacaab. Other b.'Ua’
collected every ninety days. 4
aw Liberal contracts made for «ay period ever
one month. ^ _
XOTES FOB THE LADiEIS.
iir'ld
Latest Styles la Silk, Colors, Etc,
Silks for the fall, says Harper’s
Bazar, are soft gros grains of medium
fine reps, with brighter lustre than
those of last year. The cloth colon?'
now in vogaiu are again brought out
in deep hues so nearly approaching
black that they are well named “in'-;
visibles.” Conspicious ninong sillc
importations are the great qualities
of dark blue shades; summer linens,'
with cashmere linens, with cashmere,'
camel’s hair and other fine wool fab-'
rics, have became so popular in these
hues that it is prophesied dark blue
silk suits will find special favor ns
winter costumes; by way of further
commendation, merchants say these
French blues arc equally becoming to
blondes and hrunetts. The newest
fancy for arranging
DASHES
w'om with evening dresses is to drape'
them in a half circle in front, letting
them swing low around the edge of the
over-skirt apron ; they are then caughi.
up to the walit on each side and tied
in a Jong loose bow, with hanging e» di
on the left. Watered ribbon sashes
draped in this way are admired'fol'
muslin dresses, and garlands of flowers
are similarly arranged. Velvet sashes
are rather heavy for this style, but are
worn nevertheless. Instead of neck
ties with ruffs
A CRAVAT BOW
with very long ends is worn in front,
and is preferred to a brooch. This is
a simple bow of black velvet ribbon
or of colored gros grain ribbon, two
inches wide, with ends a yard long-
hanging straight down in front. The
black velvet Ihiws are worn with light
dresses, while colored bows brighten
black costumes. Another fancy is to
wear a bow of China crape high on
the left side of theruft’ instead of in
front. Pretty little tri-color clusters
of rosebuds are worn io the same way
on afternoon dresses, and are espeeia}-'
Iv pretty with black grenadine and
white muslin toilettes. Ladies are also'
wearing tiny bouquets of natural, loose
cut flowers stuck in the belt, or else in
the button-holes of the double-breasted
polonaises, precisely as gentlemen wear
their button-hole bouquets,
sriORT UMBRELLAS
are worn stuck in the belt like a dag-
enough for the old man and his family ! ger, protruding behind and before in'
to know the voice, form and features ! an inconvenient way, not nearly as
of the ring-leader. On visiting the j graceful as the fashion of hanging an
Federal camp afterwards, Mr. Buc- j umbrella by a chatelesine. This is,
lianan pointed out one Manes, who ! however, a part of the
was arrested^ ri trjy4..UK.o ftr ^v*'.tTU“Vi5“A
shortest fife and a half. At St. Peters
burg the longest day has nineteen and
the shortest five hours. At Finland,
the longest has twenty-one and a half
and the Shortest two and a half hours.
At Waalorbus, in Norway, the day
lasts frai the t wenty-second of May
to the fifet of July, the sun not getting
below thf horizon for the whole time,
but skira ning along very close to it in
the Norl i. At Spitzbergen the longest
day lasts three months and a half.
What intion is most likely to succeed
in a difli suit enterprise ? Determina
tion..
Explanation of the Electric
Telegraph.—‘Sam,’ said a darkey to
his ebony brother, ‘how am it dat dis
yaa telegraf carries de news froo dem
wires?’
Well, Caesar, now you s’poso dnr
am a big dog free miles long.’
Nelier was such big dogs; don’t
b’blieb dat!’
‘You jess wait minit; I’se only illus
tratin’, you stupid nigger. Now. dis
yaa dog*, you see, jess puts his front
feets on de Hoboken sho’, an’ lie puts
his behind feets on de New York sho’,’
‘Yesser.’
‘Now, s’pose you walk on dis yaa
dog’s tail in New York ’
‘Yes=er.’
‘He’ll bark, won’t he ?’
‘Yesser.’
‘Well, where will dat dog bark?’
‘In Hoboken, I ealeflate.’
‘Dat am jess it! Dat’s way de tel-
egraf works!’
‘Yesser; dasso—dasso! You’se
right, by golley.’
-H\5l ^tai^pciracmiai v. He, however,
made his escape before reaching the
place of imprisonment.”
Mica Mines of North Carolina.
—A correspondent of the Raliegh
Daily News has been visiting the Mica
mines of Toucey and Mitchell counties.
Here are mines that are richest and
most profitable, although others have
been opened in almost every county in
Western North Carolina. This mica
mining may he a new idea to many of
our readers. Mica is only found either
in conjunction with white quartz rock,
usually lying between the quartz and a
superincumbent layer of feldspar. It
requires good tools aud hard labor to
separate it. It is supposed that the
mica being indestructible by fire, was
forced up with the rocks when the
latter wasin a molten condition.
It is in detached masses, weighing
from one to one hundred pounds and
over,and measures from three to twenty
inches square. When taken from tl»e
mines it is at once cleaned and spilt as
thin as desired. These are cut out info
various patterns, and range in price
from twenty-five cents per pound for
the smallest to five dollars for the larg
est. The profit is frequently large, al
though the price has of late years de
creased fifty per cent. One lot shown
the correspondent of the Newt as worth
nine hundred dollars cost only forty
dollars to prepare for market. One
curious fact in connection with these
mines is that they exhibit signs of
having been worked at some previous
period.
Sick Headache.—A remedy may
he kept on hand that has always eased
me when I have tried it; it may he
carried in the pocket, so if attacked
from home, as one often is, by taking
it you may be relieved. This remedy is
boneset blossoms, and I take them in
this way: take what would make, when
pressed together a bunch ns large as a
chestnut; put in the mouth and chew,
swallowing the juice; as the bile begins
to circulate in the stomach a sort of
chill is often felt, and the excess of
blood circulates from the head to other
pnrts of the system.
bend first appeared.
The Right of States to Tax
Freight.—The following points of a
decision by the Supreme Court cf the'
United States, in the case of the'
Reading Railroad Company against
Pennsylvania, will interest all con
nected with railroad transportation :
1. The transportation of freight, or'
of the subjects of commerce, is a con
stitutional part of commerce itself.
2. A tax upon freight, transported
from State to State, is a regulation of
commerce among the States.
3. Whenever the subjects, in regaVd*
to which a power to regulate commerce’
is asserted, arc in their nature national,-
or admit of one uniform system or plan'
of regutiou, they are exclusively with
in the regulating control of Congress.
4. Transportation of passengers or
merchandize through a State, or from*
one State to another, is of this nature.
5. Hence a statue of a State impos
ing a tax upon freight taken up with
in the State and carried out of it, or
taken up without a State and brought
within it, is repugnant to that provi
sion of the Constitution of the United
States which ordains that “Congress
shall have power to regulate commerce
with foreign nations and among the
several States and with the Indian*
tribes.”
Tiie medicine of powdered human
skulls, which Charles the Second’s phy
sicians commended to his lips on his
death bed, is surpassed in oddity by a
New England remedy for consumption.
This is the heart of a rattle-snake just
killed. This strange dose was said to
have been administered to a young
consumptive, who had been previously
“given up.” He recovered instantly.
There is a man in Brown countv,
Indiana, who is most portentously
paternal. Thrice has he led a blush
ing bride to the altar. No. 1 brought
him ten pledges; No. 2 brought him
also ten; the present incumbent eight.
The grand total, up to August 7,1873,
is, therefore, twenty-eight. Still this
patriarch is ambitious. He sighs for
thirty.
To a man who applied to Col. Berry
for victuals, the Colonel said, “Haven’t
you got any money?” “No,” said
the man. “Advertise, then,” said the
Colonel; “that is the way P. T. Bar-
num made his money.”
Ebony wood weighs eighty-three
pounds'to the cubic foot; lignum vitae
the same; hickory fifty-two pounds;
birch forty-five pounds; beech forty
pounds; yellow pine thirty-eight
pounds; cedar twenty-eight pounds;
white piue thirty-five pounds, and
cork fifteen pounds.
Keep a List.—1. Keep a list of
yonr friends; and let God be the first
in the list, however long it may be.
2. Keep a list of the gifts you get;
and let Christ, who is the unspeakable’
gift, be first.
3. Keep a list of your mercies; and 1 -
let pardon and life stand at the head.
4. Keep a list of your joys; and let
the joy unspeakable and full of glory
be first.
5. Keep a list of your hopes; and
let the hope of glory be foremost.
(5. Keep a list ot your sorrows; and-
let sorrow for sin be first.
7. Keep a list of your enemies; and
however ninny there may be, put down
the ‘old mau’ and the ‘old serpent’
first.
8. Keep a list of your sins; and let
the siu of unbelief l>e set down as the
first and worst of all.—Prompter.
A colored brother at a Rahway
New Jersey, camp meeting, thus
stated his * article of faith; “Ebery
Christain,” he said, “am four-footed,
an’ charity. When we stan’ squar, ore
dom four feet, we’m all right.”
Twasnight. Areal warm coupler
stood In tho pale, cold moonbeams.
Their lips touched, and there was a
sound like a cow hauling her hoof out
of the mud.
A Cincinnati man on his dying bed
remembered that his wife was smoking
some hams, and he said: “Now,
| Henrietta, don’t go snuffling around
Unshod tears are never wiped away, and forget them hams.’
Mrs. Partington does not approve
of the new fangled stuff, diabolic acid*
but she is highly delighted to see there
is an antioeptic.
Faceti.e.—A woman’s love for it
military officer is generally uniform.
The soiter the head the harder ther
work ot driving anything into it.-
A drug clerk who put tip - pbisoff
for quinine took the matter very coolly*
saying the victim was old and would 1
have died in a few years any way.
To cure nose-bleed, the’ Scientific
American says, vigorously move your’
jaws. Mothers-in-law never have iSv