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Newspaper Page Text- - ■-'X. ' Vmlh-¥’.v;t (mm r \ J PUBLISHED £ yEBY SATURDAY UORHINB T.W. & ^ Editors n,vl Fro,.ri.-«" r ~ tkiims ;,ir rnisi'isii-nox: iorllf Iasi itirsian. -' :n RATES OP ADVERTISING i JoJ—- 1 Square <<>oe{nch) flrat inscrtioa....„.7._J 1 Op"X j Hath subsequent tnNertlon.....;”™....^ »** JilIKKISMS. uthing to blush No. 4.1 A MAPI OF BUSY LIFE. _ ; n ■ < ' . . . Athens, Georgia, Saturday, October 2S, 1873. SOL <NE I) SERIES—Volume LTI. W SERIES—Volume II. IMPENDING HORRORS. I lie Terrible Predictions of the Amer ican Srientillc Association. ('Hurting about. C,>m ilod.rrs—Sensible folks who wt .»r bis boot*. ■\Vh it was the fir=t l>et matle ? the nl- ,.h.it"*t. The mouth of riv-1 d evt “l°P n ) ent of new horrors instore Few know the terrible import of the recent meeting of the American Seien- S tific Association at Portland. In its •rani'r. ) , t true : i r- arc ;cr than their heads. \ Tel-*- paper publishes marriage m> for poor humanity it was awfully pro lific. Its members vied with each large onei being lessened and small ones extinguished—there is cause for fright. Lands will become unwater ed, and consequently sterile; crops will lessen in volume until the arid and treeless plains refuse to respond to the incitement of the farmer; univer sal famine will ensue, and the world, entirely depopulated by starvation, will sink into uninhahitativencss, uii- ti. some new change calls another form tie ndt . r Wu head ot “Lost.” ~ | ot,ler in predictions of coming convul- „f life into existence. \ blundering Dulmque printer alludes 9lons °* "at'ire,- and sustained their ■ K 1 1 • ' arguments with truths brought to light from the deepest and darkost walls of science. That humanity is to he ob literated was the gist of five papers read bv five of the most scientific, most last- it is seldom worn to «n Ate rney-at-jaw. The dres-ing-gown is the ins of all OIK. Why is achiukcn on the .fence like a sllvi-i dollar? Because hea son one side and tails on the other. A great many words pass between one's nose and chin, but we have never known the n to fight. When has a man a right to scold his wife about coffee ? When he has more than sufficient ground*. Wlmt is that which ties two 'persons and only ton -lies one ? A wedding- ring. A lady was dreadfully insulted because a gentleman accosted her as an tld ac- quaintam e. Much is said in these days of woman's sphere. Is it not true that her principal fear i- that -lie will not get married 1 Bui k stores undergo incessant periodi cal changes, and yet remain stationary cs- tahlishnii nts. bet all spinsters be happy; they arc never without two good heanx at least, provided they use them well—their el bows A S- Pan' woman uspd to keep three girls n< tv does h-r own work cheerfully. Sh • i'o i .1 her husband throwing kisses at iii ■ *'. A w o .me evening pulled down n lnr ■ r -sign and put it over a lawyer's • lour; i i the morning it read, “All sorts off. :.ing and twisting done here.” An Omaha woman committed suicide the other dav because her husband re- trusted and celebrated members ot the Association. A terrible and total ex tinction of animal life was foretold by all, the only question being whlch'of the five horrors shall first develop it self and perform the work of universal destruction. - THE SITS TO HE EXTINGUISHED. Professor Young, the most eminent living student of solar physics, read a paper on the sun. That body he ar gued, is a gigantic bubble, whose crust is gradually thickening and whose size is diminishing. There is n constant loss of heat, which will end fn its ex tinction as a producer of warmth and light. lie quoted Fraye, Seechi and others to prove that these gases are re tained by some kind of a crust.— Through this surface the tumultuous inner composition is constantly spurt ing and outbreaking with great vio lence. He thinks 'hat this crust “ may consist of a sheet of descending rain— not of water, of course, but of the ma terials whose vapors are known to ex ist in the solar atmosphere, and whose condensation and combination are sup posed to furnish the solar heat.” As this peculiar rain meets the gaseous s: bstanee of the sun it coalesces into a continuous sheet, forming “a sort of m n-ioited in prolane terms when he I bottomless ocean, resting upon thecon- 1',,und a ib nd horse-fly in a wheat cake. ) densed vapors underneath, and pierced III r . erado the people have become so I by innumerable ascending jets and fnv nhl v impressed with the utility of bubbles.” This action of the sun’s en velope will lie a quenching of the great orb upon which we depend for heat and light. It will grow smaller, and more compressed and surrrounded by this crust, until it will be so hidden and muffled as to he practically exclu ded from the economy of the universe. The result will he intense cold and darkness, a cessation of all animal life, and an immediate return to origi nal chaos. irrigation that a great many deem it nec- issiry to irrigate their throats with whis key.’ II i .re of a dog that exhibits any symp- •..'•!i. .if hydrophobia. Ifyou are in doubt as t<» the condition of the animal, the safest plan is to let him bite your moth er in-law, and then watch the result. A Tennessee lady pre-ented her hus- ban I wi ii twin-, and in due sea-on add- nl triplets. -Dear me’.'' exclaimed an astonished neighbor, "I s’pose Mrs. Steli- hiiit. will ha quadrupeds next, and then centipedes A sentry challenged an Irishman for intruding on the mcampment grounds. "Who are y -u said Pat. “I'm the of- fleer of the day.” was the reply “Then, by the powers, what are you doing here at night, at all, all (” A youth stepped into a bookstore and naked, "wlmt t 'm.l of |i. ns do you Sell here, minister t" All kinds, answc.eil one ot the clerks. Do you I” said the little chap: “then give me ten cents worth ..I pig peas.” An Iri-hman's Will—I will nnd bc- q i a h to my beloved wile Bridget all my prnpertv. without reserve, and to my eldest son Pntiick one half of the remain- (1, r. and to Dennis, my youngest son, the r«—t. It anything is left it may go t" Terence McCarty. Mamma, why don’t you wear a hush ? 1 little Johnnie of his mother the o-h'-r day. “A hush I” said the Indy, what do you mean f "Why. I asked minty what that was that made her back s irk nut so, and she said, oh hush John- 11:-'. Th- maddest man I ever saw was a poor fellow who had paid nine dollars and a quarter for an accident insurance ticker, traveled three thousand miles, by rii'roads ansi steamboats, and returned (mine without being embraced by an ac- cidi nt. A gentleman in New Orleans was agreeably surprised the other day to find a plump turkey wived up for dinner, and imputed of the servant how it was ol>- t lined. “Why, sir,” replied Sambo, “d; t turke. has b -en roostin onour fence three ni Iks. so dis morning I seized him for dc rent of do fence. It is very wicked for small boys to en danger their lives by climbing out on ft weak branch of a tree for the. purpose of tying a swing to it. Thu proper way is ti> coax a large Boy to perform that ser vice, and it the limb don't break down with him, then the little fellow can swing safely. When there is not a breath of air stir ring. and you are in danger of stilling, attempt to* light a cigar out doors, and you will be surprised at the breeze that "will start up. We have seen n man try this experiment in a dead calm, and liy tin- time he had scratched thirteen match es it was really so windy ns to lie uncom fortable. A paragraph is going the round of the press to the effect that at Lafayette, Ind., the papers are complaining in right down earnest because troops of girls go in swimming in eonspie.uous places in the r>m. It is a device of the new spapers to 'haw the attention of rest-seekers to charms of Lafayette as a watering V'aet. Amo®,, the replies to an advertisement ’’ ” m *L'c committee for a candidate for ,,r 2»nnt, music teacher, etc., a vacancy ■aung occurred hv the resignation of the “tgamstin 0 ;Tiec." was the following: mratf 1 noticed your -advcHfse* , n . , , &ri organist and music teacher, J °t gentleman. Having been ^ sever ,\ j eMS| 1 offer yon iny ser- INSECTS TO END THE HUMAN RACE. Dr. Le Conte, the new President of the Association, read a jwper on the e lormous increase and destructiveness of injurious insects. The present actual annual damage done by insects to crops in the United States is over three inil- SCEXKSIN MEMPHIS. The Horrors of the Epidemic. We surrender some spaefr to the fol lowing graphic account of the situation in Memphis on the 11th iust : Our once fair city is temporarily one vast charnel depot. As vet there is no apparent decrease of the fatal sickness, and the situation daily seems more and more •deplorable. Large stores in business centres heretofore uninfected, are closing up, and their desi>on lent keepers leaving for healthier latitudes. Nearly all the residences on our most frequented streets are shut and their occupants have fled from the pest. As the disease appears in new neigh borhoods, the few remaining families Reaping Ruin—An lowa Farmer's Mel ancholy Experience with the Agent of a Reaping Machine. [Dubuque Letter lb ihc NewJ^ork Tribune.] OUR FIRST B\BY. Married.—By tht Rev. Mr. Smith, J. W. C. to MiaaC. E.O., only daughter of, etc. “No cards.” No baby 1 Nairy time ; I didn’t say a r i- , lit! I have one of those interesting A tew years ago a farmer lived near , s me, who, beingout of debt, was 0I1 I'ttle a„,„,al s at home. It came vyhen the high road to prosperity. He had j 11 ra,ne . d hkc t! *° dev ‘ ' dark f l ,,tch - „ _ ... the promise of a magnificent crop of | m . v umbreLat the-tore, and no cat (cotton, stocks, etc.,) shall be per mi t- ... i i <• r •running. The Doctor lived five miles - • - •• • wheat, ootne weeks before it was , n r , , , due West, and the Nurse six miles time to cut it. an agent came along one , T - . ’ . , T . , a \ T idue Last; and when I got home to daysellmgnnprovedreapers. ‘A beau- •? , , the bosom ot my lamuy, the condensed milk man was at the next door. It’s a funny little chap, that baby; Solferi- no color, aud tiie length of a bologna sausage. Cross? I guess not. Cm, urn; it commenced chasing me down lay selling improved reaper; tiful crop of wheat you’ve got there,” he remarked to the farmer. The latter reckoned ’twould turn out pretty well. “Now, you ought to have a good reap lions of dollars, yet these figures give i p:l{ . k a|1(1 doi , ;lrt at once. At night but an inkling ot what the increase t j le s t ree t^ are totally deserted, and a promises for the future. “Just now,’ says Dr. Le Conte, “a jwirtion of the insect tribe are sufficiently numerous by nature to inflict injury upon inau anil his jiosscssions; but civilization destroys the balances, and permits in the case of in-eets—those previously insignificant in numbers—to become prominent factors in a work ofdestruc tion.” The only methods suggested by this scientist to avert a calamitous plague were “to abandon the crops and.starve out the noxious insects,” or to establish “a system of checks on their increase equivalent to those ex isting before civilization interfered. Either of tiicse plans are, of course, impracticable. The im[vending dile- emna seems to be an increase of in sects so vast that the plague of Egvpt will be more than produced, and that all vegation and finally starving and helpless man lumsclL will lie eaten. All of which argues on early drop ping of the curtain upon the fleeting show of life. We quote : ‘•I would not live always ; I ,-isk not to stay Where storm after storm risjs dark o’er the gloomy, death-like silence reigns, while the dark, sombre-looking build ings, with closed doors .ancLbliuds and no signs of life, cause the scene to pre sent a hopeless, melancholy aspest, and the tales of distress and woe rela ted by a wandering “Howard” or cleri cal Samaritan afford no relief from the general depression. Many of the houses in the First ward have lost all their occupants from death or de sertion, and wheu the last inmate was hauled out the police closed the prem ises, leaving the infected bedding and contents to emit a sickening odor. Without the aid of the putrid and foully-stained bed and wearing appall of the sick, dying and dead, the un pleasant effluvia of a hundred varie ties of disinfectants is met i»t every turn, and often exercises an overpow ering effect on weak nerves and un settled stomachs. The new Board of Health are busy with hundreds of hands and carts, sweeping and clearing the streets, but as yet the alleys and by-ways, which arfr the filthiest entrepots, have not laria mornlnz rth»t rtairn on us here ! been touched. The maladv lias spread 1 - beyond tho checkpower,ot human skill or labor, and all such ellbrts will prove futile. The only effective anti- . . *. *.i ij *i*i . | uni * it uhiiuuiiriu Liiii&itiir me tiuwii -ap-r to cut it with, said the agent. I.• Jr „(v.i i ? .1 the pathway of hro just when muslin, “Lnnt afford it; haven t got the I,- 1 , - ,. a J „ „ . „ c ° i linen, and white flannel were the lugh- money, repltiNi the farmer. i , ... - . , , _ .. . . est they had been since Adam built a “I m selling a hrst-class machine— . - e q.-, , , . , ,,,, . ,i * .1.1 i , 1 iiennerv for Mrs. Lves chickens. I he hotter than any that have boon used \ , , • . . , „ , i „ j t • doctors charge two dollars a siiuint, about here—and 1 can aive you one , , ,, h . , * ’ ,i V-iI •» * our dollars a grunt, and on account at abarrajirand wait until it has paid - - ° ■ for itsen: r I don’t want any money pow,” cotitinned the agent, temptingly, and with renffl and paper he shoiVeii! L 1! f'* ,ul,, 'T I " r L ’ lsl J . first how much the firmer would have'^balance January 1st. to pay for cutting his crop that year, I A ,1 U f r l,ttle 1 ‘ m - 19 tI,at b ? hy < * how much grain'],e could cut for otl.e.-' ° f a hke , a ' ,tad . ™ people; and, in short, that before lie , baId ! ls a *l uash ’ and n0 P ,ace t( .’ h . ,t< ' h 1 - - - - ] a waterfall; a mouth just suited to I come the gum game and chew milk. Oh, crackee! you should hear her of the scarcity ot raifl in the country, take what is left in a man’s pocket—no discount for cash—aud send bill l'or ...i it. 1 . . r ,• ! ie j a waterfall; a mouth just suited to would have to pay for the muchiiie he ! would have saved and earned enough with it to pay for it, and still have the machine not half worn out. To make a long story short, the farmer was per suaded to purchase the reaper,, and gave an “ironclad” note for it—that is, a note accompanied with a statement l of property, which in this State is j equivalent to a mortgage. Farmer’s Trading Association--. Nothing is easier than for ten. or more farmers to consult together at any meet ing for the purpose and see what goods they want for six months’supplies, unite their orders, and authorize some one of their number to purchase what is needed, at whole-ale prices. Thou sands of farmers and mechanics are trading in this way, and save some 25 per cent, in the average cost of all they consume. They are fast learning to dis pense with the services of all persons whose labor they do not require. Mid dle men bet ween prolueers and consu mers have i ncreased beyond all profit to either consumer or producer. Sound business ideas dictate the most direct exchange passible of labor or its fruits, bctwi en man and man, with as few hands, as little handling and transpor tatiou as is attainable. Thero ur.» more who live on the toil, of others, rather than their own pro ductive indu-try, than the best interests of the community demand. Corn at fifteen cents a bushel in the West is teaching corn-growers the wisdom of dispensing with the labors of merchants, lawyers, courts and every man who does not give the farmer as much hone-t hard work for fifteen cents as will raise a bushel of corn. Such poorly paid work is as comfortable ior the merchant, judge on the bench, lawyer, doctor, priest and banker, as for the tiller of the ground who rapes bread for all. Wise farming will compel every one to pay tillage and husbandry the highest fees of any profession for five or ten hours’ labor. Do this and farming will he not less honorable than profita ble. Agriculture is coining to the front of all professions. the r.unitLK earth to hurst. Gen. J. <i. Barnard described the interior of the earth as a molten fluid. Previous mu ons had given the earth, however, a rigid exterior surface from one to two thousand feet deep. lie refuted this theory, and claimed for the glohe upon which we live some what the. construction of a ruhiv-r hall filled with melted lead. The suvfaee is, lie thinks, a pliable coating that has lieon gradually formed over the fiery mass inside. A globular form is maintained bv rapid rotary motion, the inner fluid sustaining the soft shell in its position, so that the undulations are imperceptible to us. Thus we are Iteing whirled through space on a huge globule, the surface of which floats on an interior of liquid fire. Only the rotary speed of this bubble keeps it together, and any disarrangement or change in terrestrial phenomena would resolve itself into vapor. Gen. Barn ard does not Itelieve that the surface is of an essentially different composition from the liquid interior—it has only been condensed sufficiently to form a sort of capsule. The tenure of the world’s existence, therefore, is ex ceedingly uncertain, and great disturb ing influence—the breaking out of a huge volcano, any change in the sur face that would render it brittle, the impact of a heavy meteor or comet— may, it a moment, immolate it, leav ing humanity to whirling death amid the horrors of inoragnic space. DARKNESS, SILENCE, AND DEATH. Mr. F. 'Walling begnn an essay on “The Dissipation of Energy ” by saying: “Since the days of the anci ents it has been known that all motion is gradually developed by friction, and must filially cease unless maintained by external power ” The lu-at power of rinK , nts llpon raW)ils ; Theli(lllid the sun, which he regarded as the } ^ of an ox that & e|) motive power of the earth, is being sing. 1 have bumjKid it, stuffed my fur cap down its throat, given it the smoothing iron to play with, but that little red lump, that looks as it it couldn’t hold blood enough to keep a | mosquito from fainting, persists in yel ling like thunder. It shows a great desire to swallow its fists, nnd the oth er day they dropped down its throat, . u „ T and all that prevented their going clear to cut Ins crop himself instead of ,, . * , , . .? ?, • • • , vi through was the crook in its elbows, hiring a reaper. 1 hen he did some I t. , B , . • , T , i c li. i It stopped its music, and 1 was happy work with it for other people, hut as .. 11 , , . i>- ,„.i ,i. • ,i ‘mi iii for one and a half minutes. It s a several others in the neighborhood had , .... , , . . . ,, i i . i i • q ,• i ■ . „ pleasant thing to have a baby in -the also purchased machines he did not go r ,. ... , • , ----- house—one cl vour bcllv-uche kind. it worked well, and mv neighbor aid " Poisonous Innoculation with Dead Blood.—The Lint, in a recent number, quotes M. Dav.iine’s experi ments on this subject. It is well known that medical men are often seriously injured by accidentally citting them selves with instruments tliat have liecn reecutly used for dissecting purposes. The wounded part swells, and mortifi cation often ensues, necessitating am putation ar.d sometimes catsing death. In order to determine the poisonous properties of this putrid blond, M. Da- vaineconiniunicatesthere|uitof s^vqraf tiler link boiti vic-.-s edi „, , Send it to the im* ,a c C j . ,rge " ‘ But what are you go- . ”° sem! " to the editor tor?" “’Cause lie '* n | u *’°dy will sent] him a club Tl„ ‘ ,,un > a copy of his paper.” Jh ’? ot " -r ' !III1C near fainting, but “ . <- °nseiou»nes9 enough |,e il"",®?: what do y to ask you 8Up)>ORC know'- tS * r'".'' f " r “Well, I don’t i.- '* the hopeful urchin, “un- * d knock down subscriber! a» 1 P»y for their paper." , ir’s i, Verdicts.—A cor- ^ » ,r .'' "hp&naled to ascertain the hr . tko ^ a notorious drunk- . r, >ught m n verdict of “Death by ior.,;. aroond a runt shop.* In tnista^ ^’roner’s jury, under similar verdict ■ *‘<A e,M -j red a raore courte- king a K l^'' de, " al death while exhausted hv the prodigious lavishness of its expenditure. It is supposed, lie said, that the satellite will fall into plnnets, planets into suns, and suns into a common centre, after which darkness, silence, and death will reign.” lie was not without a shadow of hope, however. He saw two possi ble chances for a postponement, at least, of the dreadful catastrophe: First, a series of natural chemical evolutions attracting to the sun a vast amount of combustible material; and, second, the infiuite magnitude of the universe being sufficient to permit a never end ing concentration of masses. One dreaded effect of a loss of sun power, lie said, is a displacement of atmos pheric forces. Tidal influence or plan etary collisions may hasten the final dreadful cataitrophe, which will be a. glowing of the nwcljioorjf of the uni* verse, until growing stagnation culmi nates in a total extinction of life forcci. UNIVERSAL DBOUGHT AND STARVA TION. Professor Franklin B. Hough fore- to'd a perpetual drought—the result of clearing off of the forests. “The con trast," he said, “between an open and sunburnt pasture, and one interspersed with clumps of trees, must have been noticed by everv careful observer. The foot-that furniture in houses, too much shaded will mould is an instance of the humid influence of trees, and the result of wooden shade explain the fullness of springs and streams in the forest, which dry up and disappear when the trees are removed. rhe rapidity with which forests are disap- peaaing lias already been a matter of Harm ; but when we consider the effect uppp streams—practical illustration of ten days slaughtered. This, by sub- n&i ' dote will bo a cold snap ami several successive frosts. This will hardly re sult until the close of the present month. The Gas Company notify many customers to pay their hills promptly or their supply will be cut off. and then often find their late custo mers dead or fled. Yesterday a saloon keeper near the Overton Hotel, who had aided in carrying twenty-one dead boilies from tliefr beds to the hearse, and after being worn down with watch ing and nursing, was notified to pay or lose his light. As his house has been closed for weeks, and all around art- dead, he returned a curt and appro priate reply. It is pleasant to note, amid hundreds of acts of inhumanity there are thousands of unselfish sat ri- fices that prove the performers to lie heroes and benefactors to mankind. Threat Catholic priests, five Sisters oi MercV, omr tlBntster, four jnittr-m-n, three physicians and some thirty or more ot the Odd Fellows and Masons have succumbed, and lie under the sod. A visit to. the Catholic cemetery last evening to attend the funeral of a beautiful maiden of eighteen, disclosed a harrowing spectacle to your repor ter’s eyes. Many hundreds of freshly raised hillocks told a plain but silent tale of death’s ravages, while at fre quent intervals sorrowing mourners were seen kneeling in supplication and with tearful eyes praying to the Al mighty for the souls of the departed and comfort in their personal affliction. Flowers and numerous ♦ mementoes were strewn upon fresh made graves, and half a dozen or more squads at the work of interment told the story of the pestilence; with the public highway leading toward the city covered with two continuous lines of vehicles, the returning travellers moving rapidly, and the other on a trot exhibited the stolid indifference of the Jehus aud their hurrying desire to hunt another funeral. The railroads are granting half fare passes to the moneyless, and the re lief committees labor incessantly to help the distressed. An idea ofthe prevailing want may lie inferred In stating, that long before the relief offi ces opened this morning several dozen sufferers crowded the door waiting to be aided with provisions and neeessa- Thc Howard Society have nearly out” with it as much as lie expected. At length his note matured, but he had no money with which to pay. He had sickness in bis family, ami had not got us much for his crop as he had expected. The agent was sorry, and, after a good deal of hesitation, “supposed” that if the farmer could not pay, the time would have to be extended, but in that case he should have to charge twenty per cent, interest! lie would much rather have the money than that oven. So the note was renewed on those terms Fiie tanner paid the i terest once or twice, hut, finally, as the quarterly day came around, he saw that he was not likely to have money to pay even that. There was nothing then left for him to do hut to mortgage his place, borrow tlie n o ey and pay the note. And still lie ran behind hand,' so that instead ot redui-ing the mortgage he was obliged to increase it fro.-n.tijije.to. time until in the end he had to sell out, take new land and begin again. Now do you supp se that man thinks to-day that he was ruined by a reaper? No, sir; lie lavs it to sickness in bis family, bad crops, -mail prices, railroad extortions, a d ariir. But his firs'. ( e it wis for i he reaper IMPORTANT. As a matter of general information, and for the benefit of those interested, we publish below the 4600th section of the Code of Georgia, which says; “No person, after having executed a mortgage deed to personal property 1 .Square 1 month ........ “ l Column I 40. Op - » 3 1 -— ...a«a«) :...«»m ....—.. T .ioo oo . INSPECTING THE PANTALOONS. ted to sell or otherwise dispose of the same with intent to defraud the mort gagee unless the consent of the mort gagee be first obtained before the pay ment ofthe indebtedness for which the mortgage deed was executed; and if any jierson shall violate the provisions of this section, and loss thereby is sus tained by the holder of the mortgage, the offender shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convictiou thereof shall be punished by a fina double the sum or debt which said mortgage was given to secure; and upon failure to pay said fiue immedi ately, the person so convicted shall be imprisoned in the common jail for a period of not less than six nor more than twelve months.” cutaneous injection,lie administered to bis subjects, in varying quantities, ob taining by successive dilutions with water the most infinitesmal attenua tions. Killing one animal, he would take its infected blood and force the same into the veins of another and so on until he reached what he tc.-ms the twenty-fifth generation. On this last experiment lie says: “Four rabbits re ceived respectively one trillionth, one tcn-trilliont h, one hundred-trillionth, and onequadrilionth of a drop ofbiood from a rabbit belonging to the preceding generation,that had died from the ef fects of a one-trillionth dose. Of the four, but one animal died— that which rqqeivcd the one ten-tr'JliqnthD It ap-, pears, then, that the limit of transmis- sibility of the poison in the rabbit reaches tho one-trillionth part (Fa drop of decayed blood.” . In the dead of night, I am frequent ly awakened by a little hand stealing out "from the crib by my side, with the pleading cry : “ Please take my hand, papa ! ” Instantly the little boy’s hand is grasped, his fears vanish, aud, soothed by the consciousness of his father’s presence, he falls to sleep again. In the same spirit of childlike trust, the Christian may stretch out his hand toward his heavenly Father, and find pe.ace. A Roomy Place.—A Dallas two hundred nurses at work, and more are coining from other cities. . Odd Fellows, Masons and other orders also have a numerous corps of nurses busy. The aggregate deaths since the fever broke out up to noon to-day is 962 persons, and the usual ratio of mor tality would thus make over 4,000 suf ferers. Reports made to-night place the number of fever sufferers now un der treatment at about fifteen hundred. The total mortality to-day was fifty one, of which forty-six were from fever. Among others who died to-day was Judge J. T. Swane, a prominent and well known citizen. Joe Potts, an Italian, died in a house No. 39 Main street, and his corpse, ufter being unattended twenty-four hours, still lies unburied. A Howard found it out too late last evening to do any good. A man in the old post office building sent to the Howards for a nurse, and when one reached there the patient was dead. A little girl in New Orleans has won, after a patient labor of three months, a prize of a silk dress, by successfully accomplishing the feat of multiplying nine by nine, and eighty-one by eighty- one, and so on, using each succeeding product as its own multiplier, until the op( ration was performed nine times. The prize has been offered for several years, but never befifre earned. It is said tho work comprises 262 numeral (Texas) newspaper says there is room ^m|Wuodsand 90 ) OpO figures, and the Exciting Scene in A Menag erie.—A terrible scc:,e took place in Mander’s menagerie, at Whitby, in England, on September 13. There were several hundred people in tho show, when hoartrendering cries, as from one in mortal agony, went through [lie air. A panic ensued. The peo ple, terribly excited, ran cn masse to the narrow outlet, and endeavored to escape by other means. A cry was raised outside that one of the beasts had burst through the bars of its cage, and the excitement among the crowd with out was scarcely less intense than that within. In the rush to the door many people, particularly the weaker sex, were injured, and the coufusion was increased from the circumstance of a couple of camels blocking up the doorway. Meanwhile the cries con tinued, and it was discovered that a poor bov named Langley was the vic tim of the viciousness of a hig tiger, placed alongside another next to the cage containing the lion that worried to death poor McCarthy, the lion- tamer, at Bolton last year. The tiger was infuriated, and was making stren uous efforts to draw the lad through the bars of the cage. The beast growl ed frightfully, and what with the piti ful cries of the boy, the shouts of the men, and the screeches of half-fainting women, the scene was one of the most terrible description. Home men ran for hot irons, while others n beat the buist with theirs ticks and umbrellas, and clidall they could to draw the brute from its helpless victim. Tjlti- mate’y, after a sev o mauling, the ani mal relinquished its prey, and the boy, helpless and faint through loss of blord from the injuries,he had received, was borne away through the crowd. His wounds, upon being dressed, appeared to be of a serious nature,, though they are not likely to prove fatal. The brute seems to have caught its victim just below the elbow, and tore a deep lump of flesh right down the forearm to the wrist. There is also a deep gash in the palm of, the left hand, from which the hemorrhage is great. The patient lie3 in great pain, aud it is fear ed that he will not recover the perfect use of his arm. One of the keepers has also been' severely injured. He was struck by one ofthe elephants, and his ribs were smashed in. The man was taken to tho workhouse in a help less condition. Think of the pleasures of a father in dishabille, trembling in the midnight hour, with his warm feet on a square yard of cold oil-cloth, dropping pare goric in a teaspoon by moonlight, with the nurse knocking on the door, while the wife of your bosom is shouting hurry, and the baby yelling till the plastering falls from the ceiling. It’s a nice time to think of dress-coats, pants, ties and white Iritis. Shades of depart ed cocktails, what a picture for an ar ticle in plaster paris. I have to get up in the cold and shiver while the milk warms; it uses the bottle. I have a ciadlc with the representation of a miraculous sooth ing syrup-bottle on the dash-hoard. I tried to stop its breath the other night, it was no go; I rocked it so hard it missed stays, and sent it slap Clear across the room, upsetting a jar of preserves. It didn’t make anv noise, then ! Oh, no! its mother says only wait till it gets bleached, (it’s be ing vaccinated,) and old enough to crawl about and feed on pins. Ye; l am goiug to wait. Wont it be de lightful. John, run for the doctor, sis has fallen in the slop pail and is chok ing with a potato skin; sis has fallen down stairs ; sis has swallowed the tack- hammer; shows signs of the mumps, croup, whooping cough, small-pox, dy sentery, colic, cholera infantum, or some other darn thing to let the doc tors take the money laid by for my winter’s corned beef, and all'this conies of my shampooing and curling my hair, wearing nice clothes, and looking handsome, going a courting and mak ing ntv wife fall in love and marry me. Lost oS Mont Blanc.—Mr. Longfellow’s popular little ballad, “Excelsior.” wa- illustrated airw in the case of Professor Peditschrena, a Russian gentleman from Moscow, who attempted the ascent of of Mont Blanc on Sunday, September 21, with the intention of making a scientific study of the great Tacit! glacier, and feM down exhausted in a snow storm. The Swiss Times thus tells the story: “They set out at three o’clock in the morning. The wind was very boisteroust all the forenoon and a heavy rain set 'n about two o’clock i-i the afternoon a d lasted i n ii : fter midnight The Professor was a t d! powerful man, an 1 trulting to his strength was but slightly clad, and the party, moreover, had only two bottles of wine with them and a slender sup ply of p;o.-’sion-; Toward live o’clock they perceived that snow was falling on the summits an 1 as fir down as the Montanvert. They stuggled forward in their atanpt to desend, hut overcome w th the cold and exhaustion, darkness overtook them while they were amonc the in- tracie-ofthe serans of the G1 icier du Geant, anil finally the unfortunate Professor sank down utterly powerless and soon after d'ed, while his at tendants were helpless to aid him. They left the remains when the neces sity became apparent for providing for their own safety.”- Mr. O’Clarence purchased a pew i pair of pants Saturday, When hC got : home his with was mixing btettd. She wiped her hands on her!' apron atfd made a careful examination of the , pants. First she pinched one leg of them and asked him what he'paid for them, and then pinched the other and ' asked him if .he dindn’t think it was too 1 much. After, that he stood off arways : so she could get a look at the fit, so as to form a right opinion of jt. She .pinched them 1 Again, taking lip lus leg ami eycin-z itl thoughtfully, while ho clutched the table with hie hand nod hopped around oti the other leg to .rest hitiLdlf. She was uot quite confident that they were all cotton—tliose cloth- ing people do lie so—but she was not quite sure. However, she could tell better at the window;; und dpew him' ' over there, r tp the imminent'ranger of tippling liinr over aud breaking his spine. Hlw rubbed them again and turned up the leg so as to see the other side, aud all the while her. mind gath ered doubts and forebodings. If ho had only said lie was going to buy a pair of pants, she would have went with him herself and picked them out. But tailors know that » . man can’t tell one kind of cloth from another, and will.put off anything on' him. Then she abruptly dropped his leg and went to the hack door and. Called iM rs. Mugont. Mis. ALugent eaiue in, and, being made acquainted with tho particulars, pinched 'Mr. O’Clarence’s leas herself and-Hsked ’him why he didn’t buy tho cloth and hawhis pants made at Home. Mrs. Mugent said an uncle of Mr. Mugcut, whoi lived in Bridgeport, got a pair of all-wool pants last April for $5, and you would have thought they cost 619, if a cent; th# 1 cloth was just as fine and firm an any thing could be. Mr. Mugent would sometimes get tho impression that be ■ pants, and If they "’ere Mr.' Mugent’s, she would have ’theh’i taken hack. This exactly what Mrs. O’Clarence thought, and in spite of Mr. O’Clar ence’s protestations, she took them back and got another pair.—Danbury Sews. between plow handles in that country for twenty thousand young men, and not a square foot behind a counter or in an office for those who want clerk ships, or any other soft places. There are many other counties, like Dallas, Texas, aud '‘that’s what’s the matter.” of paper. covers four or five square yards A Peusylvania girl went blackberry- ing five weeks ago, and when heard irorn the other day was house keej»' n with' her husband fn Gfeorg^ A Boy Hero.—A boy hero has been developed ut Nagy-Brenza, an obscure Hungarian village, lately visi ted by the plague. Among the vic tims was a poor peasant woman, who left behind a son aged fifteen, but no property. In consequence of this latter circumstance, the parish priest and the rest of the villagers were in no haste to make arrangements for her interment, and, in spite of the prayers and tears ofthe poor lad, the body re mained in the but. Two days later a peasant woman of property also died, and a grave was immediately dug to be ready for the funeral next day. When, however, the body was carried to the grave-yard it was found that her rave was already filled in. The su perstitious villagers fell on their knees and crossed themselves, but the priest, guessing bow the matter stood, sent two of the peasants to the hut of his poor parishioner to see whether the corpse was there. They returned, having found that the body bad been removed, and bringing the boy with them. Oubeingasked where the body of his mother now was, lie pointed, sob bing, to the newly, made grave, saying that by exerting all his strength he’had dragged the corpse to the grave yard, placed it in the ground and shoveled in the earth. Nothing Like A Trade.—A re turn to the old plan of apprenticing boys is beingadvocated. The hosts of young men in every largo city who apply for employment and foil to get it, tor .the reason they cannot truthfully affiwi' that they are educated or specially fit ted for any particular business, consti tute a potent argument in favor ot re form. Under tjic apprentice system we should have fewer ignorant mechanics and incompetent business men. A trade is half a mail’s fortune. A large sturgeon, weighing one hun dred and fifteen pounds, was caught by Mr. George Hall in Oconee River, on , near Park’s bridge. The Sand-Club is a weapon used hy rowdies and criminals in Sin Fran cisco, resembling in principle the sand bag used by the same sort of scoundrels in New York. The sand-club is formed by fillin'? an ce! skin with sand. When this instrument was first brought into use, the authorities were greatly puzzled by deaths, apparently from violence, yef no marks could be found on the outside of the body. A burglar was finally captured with a sand-club in bis possession, made out of an eel skin stuffed with sand. Being closely questioned, he explained its u<e. When the victim is struck, for in stance, on the head, he drops insensi ble, and soon dies from congestion of the brain. Often the skull suffers no injury from the stroke; and if tiie person struck recovers sensibility, lie gradually relapses into a condition of idiocy. Sometimes a man struck in the body will be knocked down bv the peculiar force of the blow, and feel no immediate results from it. In a few weeks however, the flesh will begin to mortify under the line of the blow, and rot down to the hone. How a Methodist Preacher was Sold—having a charge in the southern portion of Giles county, Va., went to call upon one of his members not long since, and was very cordially greeted, and earnestly entreated to make himself perfectly at home. Tlu‘ lady then stopped-out to* “wririg” the chiokon,i and when she came hack,- found the parson- in the act of taking- the ashes from the fire-ploce and pot ting them in tiie -scuttle, preparatory to carrying them out. “Lor-ze-mo. Brother , what are you doing that for?” “You told me to makemyselfat home mndame, and if IM been at home, and found all these ashes in tho fire place, I would certainly have taken them up.” Wilted, did she? Don’t you bet on a Giles county lady being thus msily out-witted. She went straight to the kitchen, stuck every feather hack in that chicken, sewed its head on, and the smart preacher didn’t get a bit of it. Retribution.—There is . an old lady now living in the city of Louisville who, in 1825, succeeded in gaining the affections ot a married man, who got a divorce from his wife and manned the lady aliove referrod to. By liis divor ced wife he had one son, who is now living in Cincinnati, and is wealthy. By the preferred lady lie had seven boys. The fat her died some time-ago, and the first son hy his second mar riage wn.« drowned at saa, being a sea captain ; the second son was drowned in the Ohio river, opposite this city ; the third son was hung as a deserter from tho United States artny; -ihe forth was shot in Louisville while set tling up some business with his part ner; the fifth was struck by lightning; the sixth had his neck broken hy a run away horse, and the last died a natural death after barely having escaped thi> penitentiary for stealing. The Uncertainty of Killing Cats Demonstrated.—A certain in dividual who chanced to he passing through the streets a few evenings since on his way hom’e, thought that ho would do an act of kindness to the neighborhood in which locality ha > was, by depriving it of one cat. Observ* ing, as lie thought, a huge species of grimalkin, snugly ciiddl&F'ilp inside of the bars of a window, he ntisCd his stick gently nnd then, with tremendous force, levelled a blow, when lo, instead of a Thomas hopping out aud running at a two forty gait, an old colored auntie, with her head comlortably ban daged in a neat'white ggnibric of some kind, who had keen taking a nap, sprang up and yelled .in a. vociferous manner, murder, thief and robber. The screams were sufficient to unnerve? a man who was Conscious of having done nothing, but here was our indi vidual who had unintentionally t dp»e something. Startled by the cries which aroused the entire neighborhood he made a rapid run for home, and tak-* tug advantage of all the short cuts and by-ways, as though his scalp depended on gaining an entry, into his own do micile. V»’c. predict that this gent will hereafter think twice before he strikes at imaginary cats perched iu somebody else's window. ; A Texas Family’s Fatb.-7-<Scu? : Antonin, Texas, October A.—-.Captain Cooney, of tHe flth CalCary, stiltloned n*nr Ghtbp Colorado; : TexHs,' 1 i-eports that tlivi girl riot Jong'sinCeiudnU by a -- surveying ivpjty gauging to; a tree aud scalped,.was the daughter of Mr, Wil liams', Who lives Yweive miles below Crimp-Colorado,, on'Jimneds flrtek.' 1 The Indians attacked the hoiisaffluring the absence, of . FjflkVts and Dis son, nnd trjed tp force Mre.. Wiffians away, but filially ‘thev'shot tier with an arrow nnd pistol. ' llffr fcirl the Indians'took ulong, and her infant son, about seven months old, they throw, into the fire, Mrs. Williams, whoiwas shot near the house, crawled to her baby; and took it out ot th£ tire. " Bhe died that night, and the baby a worik riftCr: 'Her oldci* son came jt st in time-to see his mother dying, and toquetfeh her thirst.- A woman in Cameron, Missouri, Who? A II.vity Marriage Notice.— A St. Louis local editor was recently married, and his brother local of the St. Louis Democrat gives him the flil- lowing good notice ; “Some people get married and some don’t. Some men prefer maids and some other men prefer widows—that is a matter of taste. Each hprn of the dileinna has its advantages. One advantage possessed by a widow that she has graduated, had her eye teeth cut, and knows what’s what. A Virgin has everything to Iearr, and it requires patience and per evcrance to instruct her. -Our gold-haired friend, George Centre Broivn, the sensational writer, preferred a widow. He picked out the best one in the city —Mrs. Jennie S. Jenkins—and on Saturday the twain were made one. The effections of the lovely and gush ing widow have for some time centred iu Centre, and she was his’n from cen tre to circumference. Three exquisite children, ready made, assist materially in comenting the union. ’Tis sweet to be called “papa” by cherub lips on one’s wedding day. The evening went . off smoothly—skies serene—friends in tures of extraordinary -interedH^One good spirits and nobody hurt. We I of the most startling of its eccCntncitieb congratulate our sensational friend up-; will bj the calculation which assigns to on securing the monopoly of so hand-[ Jesus Christ the age of forty-nine Jyears some an “item.” I at the time of liis crucifixion. • ‘ ought to liave becri married bfi't wasn’t, left her baby op the stops of the Bap tist church. Whcu the minister of that „ house of the jLprd got horae.be found bis wife ready with a broomstick and a gallon of warm water. W (th singu lar perception he Jeft without asking any explanation for the singular and warlike attitude of the partner of his bosom. At a camp-meeting at 'Middletown, Cal., recently, a pretty, delicate little woman became greatly excited, and while shouting and,-clapping her hands, declared she wanted to diq . there. Htr wisli was granted, for,she .pimust instantly fell back and' died in a few minutes. iC •• - : ‘ ■ - Age of the .Savior.—The Lon don correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says that the forthcoming volume, by Chevalier Ernst Bunsen, on the “Chronology of the Bible,” which is to bo issued simultaneously not only on both sides of the Atlantic, but in four of the leading languages of Europe—English, French', _ Gefman, and .Italian—will present some fea- A large rattlesnake was killeding Oglethorpe' county the other day. It was four feet arid four inches in length and nine and- three-quarter inches around-, the body. , This has been a remarkable year fur this species of reptile* , ,,. . The celebrated extracts of Buchir. put tip Helmbold and ^tbef&ooqsisls of molasses and . water* .resip, gwnphoff and about jin ounce ofBuchu(leaved lo a bai-rel qf water. is harmless,- and useless as it is innocent. A daughter Is generally right wherf she end&tvors (o' frriitaffi. her mother f but it does, not necessarily, follow that a mother is equally right/wb**, at a certain'period of herlife,she makes every effort to imitate her da tighter.