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L The Bainbridge Weekly Democrat. BEN. E. KUSSEEL, Editor and Proprietor. "Here Shall the Press the People's Rights Maintain, Unawed by Influence and Unbribed by Gain.” TERMS: $2.00 Per Annum. VOLUME 4. BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1875. 1% l.’r-a.t- — NUMBER 40. X0K internal revenue receipts for last fivsl year were $100,786,398, an excess of nearly $8,000,000 over tb<? estimates. 7j. e niptcniH receipts --ere $157,590,408 or lows l>y 84,409,592 than the estimates, aril $5,466,715 le*B tliau last year. qjje of ilie many good points of the DP w constitution of Arkansas, adopted le# than a year ago, is tho provision for (j)P payment of the state debt. TbiB provision is row heiDg carried out nnder the mean 0 provided by the leBt legisla ted 14- Buell, of Indianapolis, and 1 D. Gilbert, of Athol, Mass., have "nanicd” themselves by a written con- [vivt which is to “be in force daring ■^physical I v-*, provided our mutual ffcrp natures ever ble^d as now—but to (terminate without prejudico by the wish I(/either party, if love shall ever c«ase [ '■) lie mutual. Is 1870, New York city had a popula lion of 942,292, and a municipal debt of ?122,860,780. In 1871, Lor don had a ! population of 3,206,987, and a city d'.bt ■A §25,918,000. These figures are im posing. The city and county debts of tins whole union are estimated to be to day 835,000,000; but as this estimate is only for those having one million and over of liabilities, the total may be set down at a thousand million. Add the etnta and national debts and there re sults a heavy load for posterity. It is quite discouraging to know that tin? importation of fire crackers for nrth of July purposes this year will amount to 300,000 boxes—a large exoess over the receipts of last year, owing doubtless to the centennial typhoid. The Chinese and Japanese make a good thing out of the squibs, as they alone manufacture such explosives, the attempts to reproduoe them in this country having failed. The invention, is deemed by many people, iml highly creditable to John China man’s civilization, The inundations in Southern France have called forth the ready sympathy of Frenou people, for the sufferers, [ua relief funds, so familiar to Ameri flours of Into, are being raised every Wre. Tho city of Toulouse, which i suffered so terribly, is very anoient, h'vmg ocil city of the Gauls then the Romans conquered their conn- Massive walls of Roman work aanship have been broken down by the scent floods from the river Garonne, i whose banks the city is built. The iss of property is now placed at $60,- K),000. ' Later advices from France confirm rovious reports of the frightful oharac- sr of the inundation a’ong the river oronne. Many towns have been snb- icrged and whole sections of country verflowed. More than a thousand lives ere lost, over two hundred dead bodies ring found in one village. Twenty lionsand people are homeless and snf- ?ring. President MacMahon has de- arted for the scene of desolation to etider such assistance as may be neo- ssary. The Garonne rises in the \ renees, on the confines of Spain, and subject to overflow, on account of the Mitral flatness of its banks. vvuw.Mvaanuu ■ rj HilCII UUPtXt, »UU CTCU the sting of defeat has not caused any suspension of the friendly intercourse. A private soldier ef Prof. Jenney’s escort, in his geological survey of the Black Hills, writes that he found gold by means of a pick and a shovel, while the geologists were vying >to find it by scientific principle^ H « advioe is that those desirous of •’gold hunting sbonld hold themself and the instant the nulled to hasten on.jj encountered three French creek. ' ^;l or { n Jfs‘i readiness, treaty is an- party had camps on panning ont People see things differently. For istauce, the terrible earthquake that ofntly destroyed San Jose de Cnonta, Columbia. When the catastrophe egan, most of the inhabitants went own upon their knees and prayed for ■‘lief and mercy. Yet, in the midst of ie scene, when the earth was heaving, uildiugn falling, and the dying groans »d shrieks of men, women and ohildren fling the air, a wild horde of demoni cal thieves and robbers swarmed into io towns, sacking houses, pillaging auk vaults, and plundering the dead, id even murdering. If an earthquake 11 not quioken a man’s conscience, lore is no telling what will. about $10 a day; eit“-~, a-v’ were of- tl»e opinion that, when they got their work ing apparatus in good order, they will be able to rr ^ke $50 a day. The soldier had washed four pans of dirt and gat about five cents to the pan of scale gold, som.'. of the pieces being a little larger than a pin’s head. He did not have to dig a foot down for the dirt, and declares that all that Onstar told oonoeming the treasures of the country was strictly true. The statistical reports jnst published by the agricultural bureau indicate wide-spread disaster to tho fruit-grow ing interest, as will be seen from the following notes : Insect depredations are recorded only in Maine, in some counties of which caterpillars were troublesome. Ia New England gene rally the crops were late, and in some parts a tendency to simultaneous blooming exoited remark. In the middle, southern and western states generally, the climatic conditions were very unfavorable. The severity of the winter has not only destroyed the frnit germs, bnt also the trees. The cold snap in the spring enlarged the scope of this injury, and heavy late frosts in maDy places destroyed what had sur vived the winter. In some oases it is noted that the plums stood the severity of the season better than other sorts of fruit. GrapeB in many cases escaped on aooount of late bloaming, bnt the vineyards of several sections were greatly depleted by the extreme cold. Small fruits were less severely affected and are reported as producing very luxuriantly. Col. Boudinot, who has just returned from the Indian Territory, says twenty- seven murder oases have just been dis posed of by the United States district court at Fort Smith, Ark., before whioh all criminal business from the Indian nation oomes. Ont of this number there were eight convictions for murder the first degree. Seven of those convicted, including two boys, one seventeen, the other nineteen years, both are to be hanged together on the 3d of September next. The eighth one, negro, was killed after conviction while attempting to escape. Mnoh out lawry prevails in the* Indian Territory, and ten men have been killed in the vioinity of Fort Smith within a few months. A very bitter contest is now going on in the Cherokee nation for the position of chief of the nation between the Ross and Downing parties, and it is alleged conspiracy and secret assassina tion are rife. Cel. W. P. Rose, present ohief, is a candidate for re-eleotion, and a man named Thompson is the candi date of the Downing party. Capt. Jas. B. Eades has written YISURDAT. BT IDA WHIPPLE BEHRAML W« learn by loaaea; and U -lay. Since earth has grown so »t< angely gray. I And the worth of yesterday. While shadows gather, I can see How white a noon was given me— How fair a son went down wtth thee! I know at last. Thy mortal guise Conoea’ed an angel from my eyes, Swift journeying toward Paradise, Tby golden harp, thy crown of gold, The saintly vesture's spot e-s fold— My heavy eyes could not behold. Ta the white angelhood in Ibee The light of noon-tide blindel me; But now teis midnight, and I see! - And since my life has grown so gray ~k to ths »— «ny ma-i—r -- f *lLd a heaven in yesterday. When from its dross my soul is shriven, Ob, may U then to me be given To find sweet yesterday in heaven! GODIVA’S POCKET-HANDKER CHIEF. Godiva was going to town, hair and all, and that implies a good deal (as it did when one rode through Coventry). From her feet to her hands her appoint ments were perfect. Her chestnut brown hair threw its curling tassels down over a suit of lighter shade, her brown hat served as foil for the pheas ant’s plnme erected thereon, her gloves were No. 6, her boots No. 2. She felt that she did herself credit, and was dis posed to beam on the world generally in consequence. “Town” that morning meant some shopping, some visits, a girl from the intelligence offioe for “Ma”—a little saunter generally, for Godiva was unspoiled enough to enjoy the window side of pictures and pretty things, and was not wholly averse to the prolific view of herself the glass was complaisant enough to hold np for her amusement Did I say she was very pretty ? Yes, she was, exoept when she cried or had a cold in her head, under which circumstances nobody that ever I heard of looked well. So this dainty little lady reached the station without ruffling a feather and seating herself in the oars she glanced abont her for sub jects for mental discussion as young damsels will. There was the usual young woman with the saffron hued baby in a bine cap with narrow white taste ribbons falling into its eyes—and the two masculines in attendance, one apparently the father and the other the nnde, each taking turns at holding the baby in ihe most unnatural position possible, while the mother tied her bon net strings and clucked, with a pin in her month, to her winking progeny. Gndiva recalled the wicked publican as she murmured to herself, “I never did see so many ugly people in my whole life I that woman really makes me ache —she is so Binfully plain, poor thing ! bnt I dare say her husband dotes on her. Achee! achee ! her sentence ended ab ruptly. Oh! thou base conductor,” thought she, “howconld’st thou leave open that door,” feeling immediately her fate was sealed, as a fatal shiver ran over her. She pnt her hand in her ;x>cket for her handkerchief, bnt her ! Etassia leather pooket-book and a small key alone showed themselves in answer. “ It isn’t possible that I have been off and forgotten my handkerchief! ejacu lated she, the oolor coming to her oheeks as a hitherto unnoticed pair of bine eyes belonging to a young man glanced at her from a seat near. “Dear, dear me 1 what shall I do ? I shall have to sniff in spite of good manners. Here she gave a gentle drawing of her breath and held her face olose to the window, absorbed apparently in the uninviting prospect, bnt the tickling in her throat, the coming drops in her eyes, ah, no! betokened a cold already upon her. Godiva groaned in spirit. “If only I was that ugly woman ever there, whom 1 laughed at—I wish now I hadn’t—and wore cotton gloves, I oonld give a sly pinch to my nose, as she does, but—O ! what can I do till I reach town ? I feel ▼ary anything j>is (Ojnt. want to be, work is the best specifio,-and so as shop ping is the severest toil a woman is ever known to ac.iimplikh and live, Godiva endeavored to busy her thoughts and shopped energetically; bnt there was more freanevt resunection of them than was aeeable, since every time ’he used the big cambrio she thought * of the young man and blushed. After sue had bought every bargain she oonld find, and engaged front the intelligence office a graceful Hibernian with a face tied up in a dingy towel, and who sub mitted, perhaps, on that account to liv ing with an Hiuglish cook, as “them Hingli«h has or'nl tempers mem.” Godiva lunched very satisfactorilv to heivA',;, vid felt her' cold diminishing j rY*T:i; LetteeVher eet- M ng straw bfcrr-s.oe and loiwn* our hero awhile. He was qnita an elegant fel low. blessed with a blonde mustache and an admirable temper, bnt his name was Peter Brown. One cannot have every thing in this world, so Peter oomforted himself by mental sympathy with Romeo and felt as sweet as if he were called Caesar de Montmorenci. He was fastidiously delicate in his tastes, and a woman with a cold in her head was a horror to him, so, when he found him self regarding with interest the young lad v iu the c»rs who had snoh an evident influenza, he felt he had a new sensa tion, and it was wholly novel to have march off with his embroidered auu jirvuucuig irom ner wora isoie a small white packet whioh she unfolded as she approached her wide-eyed hus band, “and here’s the pooket handker chief. ” “By Jove !” quoth Peter Brown. The New York World makes the stab) ishmeut of a zoological garden in biladelphia the occasion for the pro- station of some interesting facts oon- ?ruing the famous London zoological srdens. The London collection in 73 included 590 quadrupeds, 1,227 irds and 225 reptiles, and was at that me, as yet, the largest in existence, he first rhinoceros cost £1,000; the •nr giraffes £700, and their carriage an iditicnal £700; the elephahtand a calf, 800. and the hippopotamus, though a ft, wag not brought home and housed >r less than £1,000. The oost of maintaining the London gardens is very teat, bnt the receipts axe ample to eet it The American rifle team has achieved great victory in Ireland over the crack lots of that country. A match was lot last week between the two teams, i the first bout, at eight hundred wds, the Americans weie beaten by ae point, but in the two succeeding outs, at nine huudred and a thousand ards respectively, the Americans came nt ahead, thus winning the match, 'he victory of the AmerioanB was re vived with tremendous enthusiasm, and hey were the recipients of the most hstingnished honors from the populace nd their competitors. The oontest has *een marked by the most fraternal feei ng on all sides. The American rifle- nen have been treated with the utmost letter to President Grant and secretary of war Belknap, advising them of the progress of the jetties at the South Pass. The main point in the letter is that pro visional works, ene thousand feet long, are already constructed on the line of the east jetty, and being pushed seaward at the rate of two hundred feet per day. Two hundred mechanics and laborers and fsnr piledriving machines are at work and a large quantity of stone and other material are ready at hand. Ad ditional aooommodations are being pre pared, and in short the working force will be largely increased. Telegraphic oommunioatdon has been established be tween New Orleans and. fhe head of the Pass, and the line is being extended to the works at the mouth of the Pass. Capt. Eads says the provisional work mentioned is what is known as sheet piling, and while it is only preliminary in character, it will temporarily serve the same purpose and produce the same result as permanent jetties. The cap tain is quite sure that there will be twenty feet of water on the bar, at the South Pass, by the 1st of February. How Train-Boys Get Rich. The train-boys think they haven’t mU oh of an opportunity in this world, and other people think they • nuisance. One of them tells the New Orleans Picayune the way in which thev impose npon their employers : “Yon sec,” he says, “each boy is furnished with just so much fruit, so many books and papers, and he is either obliged to show them np at the end of the route or else tarn over the money for which they must have been sold. The only way it can be done is this: We saU a book to a passenger for a dollar and a half. He reads it and then we give him a new book worth fifty oents for the one he has read. He is generally willing to make the exchange, end reads the new one. This, when read, he is ready to swap for a ten oent paper, which he leaves in the car when he gets out. This papvr we pick up and put back m our pile, having all our hooka and papers and $1 50. That is abont the only show we have ’; without it we oonld not make a decent living.” worse every moment, and I must have a handkerchief now, I can’t wipe my eyes on mv dress or my petticoat because I can’t* get at them nor my starched sleeves—sniff, sniff, who ever heard of a lady without a pocket handkerchief before! Achee! aohee-e!” This very andible reverberation startled the gen tleman opposite into giving his fair neighbor a quick glanoe through his eye-glasses. Then he pulled his mus tache with a perplexed expression. What does that girl look at me for I wonder? the glanoe seemed to say, and he took off the eye-glasses whioh, O, aggravation, he proceeded to polish nicely on the whitest of handkerchiefs. This was too mnoh for Godiva’s water ing eyes. “If,” murmured she, “I thought he was married I would ask him to lend me his handkerchief, I de clare I would! He oouldn’t think I had any design oh bis heart if he only knew how I felt—O, dear me! dear me! I am a wretched being, and I shall oer- tainly go wild before long, I have to keep my month wide open now, and I never can get through a day in town, never.” Poor Godiva, what avails yoor fine feathers? Necessity, they say, knows no law, and Godiva was desperate. She rose from her seat and touched the gentle man gently on his arm, hurrying him to his feet with a bow and a look of “ at yoor servioe, ma’am,” which deepened into a mingled expression of doubt and amazement as his fair neighbor held out her hand and said, “ Mav I trouble yon to lend me your handkerchief, sir ? ^ He blushed very red indeed, and so did she, bnt he gave her the handkerchief and sat meekly down again wondering like Chicken Little if the sky warn t falling Godiva had possession, winch is nine points in the liw to be sore, but after the first satisfaction ahe could not bnt be aware that she had unlawfully herself of what wasn’t hers, me click of the car wheels would fall into the j indie of “ what will that young gentleman do—do—if he should need his handkerchief too—too—but pern- taps he has another. Some people do carry two—two ! ” and rattle it onoeas- inriv as the train flew on; but the final qifery, “ What will he think of me ? remained unmoved by my philosophy. She felt the bine eyes stealthily regard ing her with a oonnoal look. At last the train stopped and Godiva get out and walked away with the pooket- hankerchief—and the young man gotout and walked away also without any. When one is very wretched or her — cambric; bnt Peter was a yoHthful sage, aDd believed profoundly in all women being “temples of pore marble, lighted by lamps fed by holy oil,” and thought no ill of any. So he went his way; on it he met a special friend of his, a Mrs. Darry, who was overjoyed at this meeting, sinoe she wanted him of all things for some private theatricals she was abont to get np, in which Peter would be “altogether lovely,” as she graphically said. Who oonld resist snoh a speech from such lovely lips. Not Peter Brown; and so it came about that in a month after the handkerchief episode the drawing rooms of Mrs. Darry were brilliantly lighted, and half the world stood on tip-toe to see the other half move on fantastic ones npon the mimic stage set off from tl e end of the long room. The curtain rose to the entrance of our friend Miss Godiva, got op after the fashion of Lorris XIV,, and beautiful to look npon. When in the course of the play mv lady haB to say, “Ah! I have seen Monsieur before,” Godiva gave a very natural start, for in the lover entering she sees neither the stage, Marquis, nor the real Peter Brown, but the young man whose hand kerchief lies in her upper drawer, and whose wrought initials, P. B. are a frequent reproach to her. Godiva saw quickly that her Marquis did not in thf least connect the patched an j rouged lady before Hhn with the catatfhal eia, and the play went on and off with grand success; everybody outdid himself. Peter congratulated himself that he had not fallen prostrate ov.r his long sword, or harpooned anyone with his spurs, and Gidiva herself that she had escaped with her life from her three- inch heeled slippers (this was before their introduction into society). After the inoense pouring was over, and Peter had emptied his censer at the fair Mar- qnise’ sfeet, Mrs. Darry presented Mr. Peter Brown in due form to Miss Godvia—why should I tell _ her other name sinoe the reader sees it must be speedily merged in Brown—dear neutral tint! Godiva and Peter were neigh bors. and what says moral and immor tal Miss Maria Edgeworth ? “ Propin quity is the origin of love.” When this fact was asoeitained, bouquets with the yonng gentleman began to arrive fre quently at Miss Godiva’s door, and suddenly Peter desired to learn German, Godivia being proficient therein. Why is it people in love avoid‘their mother tongue so? Even Bottom was translated when he fell in love ! And so the^golden winter passed, on into the rose-colored summer and the yonng people walked in the garden as ] overs should. Godiva, half in jest, asked Peter if he oonld furnish German enough to translate for her two lines of Heine's verse of greeting; “ Wenn <tu eine Bote sohaust sag Ich lass Sie gruessen" (“if von see a rose say I send my love to her”), Peter’s heart swelled within him. He thought nothing was ever prettier than the rose blushing be fore him, and said so. “If only she would bloom for him! Would she? So they entered Paradise and spoke a new language from that day, and they found not the slightest difficulty in ex pressing themselves in it, as had been sometimes the ease in German. A year after all this behold Peter and Mrs. Brown, nee. Godiva, at home ; there is a charming little library opening from their drawing-room, a wood fire enjoys itself on the hearth and glows over hyacinths which are opening in heavy spikes of white and cream-colored flowers ; below the fire Mr. Peter smokes his cigar and lazily tries- te puff the smoke through the fur of an unoffending cat near him while he remarks to Mrs. Brown that it’s singular oats shouldnt like cigar smoke; then relapses into silence. “Well?” said Godivia. “Yes, dear, I was thinking jn*t then by a queer chain of thought first of this cat’s sneezing then of colds in one’s head, then of a funny little thing that happened to me onee in the ears when I was coming in town. Did I ever tell yon abont the young woman w |> 0 ried off my pocket—hullo ! eh. a- Godiva blushed suddenly and nestled in her chair. Go on, dear,” aaid she «-Imply. So Peter related the tale twice told, concluding with, She really a very pretty young woman, too, Puss. Perhaps I should have called on her if Fd known where she lived, or if I had not gone to the Dairy theatricals, met yon, and tumbled into matrimony consequence. Who knows what THE LOST FLORINDA. New Orleans Picayune, June J8. Recent revelations have exoited an intense and growing interest in the fate of the fifteen or twenty men who, more than a quarter of a century ago, char tered the schooner Florinda and set sail for the golden shores of California. For twenty-six years the familiej of the adventurers have mourned them as lost. The last news of the Florinda was re ceived late in the year 1849 from Rio Janeiro. She Bad pnt in at that port some time previous and then proceeded on her way, leaking badly, it was said. A vessel touching at Bio Janeiro short ly afterward, reported having spoken the Florinda in the Pacific, just beyond Cape Horn. From that time forward nothing more was ever heard of the Florinda, and it became an accepted theory that she had beeD cast away and her crew lost somewhere on the South Pacific coast. No tidings reached the families of the ill-fated argonauts, and twenty-six yean slipped by without a waif or whisper to disturb the mel ancholy conviction whioh had sealed the record* of their lives. Their ohildren have grown to manhood and woman hood without the knowledge, with scarcely the memory of a father’s love. The hopes that clustered around them have long ago been transferred to that other world in whioh they were be lieved to be. Such is the story as it has passed cur rent all this time, with the general pub lic and with the greater number of the relatives of the Florinda company. At first, of course, there were doubts and fears and expectations, more or lees re luctantly resigned for certainty, bnt to this oonolnsion all eventually came and the loss of the schooner with all on board has, for fully a quarter of a cen tury, been regarded as a fact about whioh there could be no sort of ques tion. The unfortunate men have been as utterly given np as thongh their burials had taken place in presence of the whole oommnnity, and to have told any of their families that they were still alive would have been to ask them to believe that the dead had risen after twenty-five years of sepulture and walked forth onee more among the living. \Tiihinthe past few days, however, oreeisely this proposition has in effect jeen made. The strange and startling statement has transpired that Harmon Jones and his fellow voyagers were not lost as we have thought, bnt are now — — r ~— 1— . Among the remarkable esculents or uuAiiuxu frmorna ” It is micv and flesnv. might have been ?” The cigar rings ascended regularly, and the smoker appeared to reflect on past visions, bnt Mrs. Brown kept de mure silenoe. “What in the world are yon thinking of now, my heart’s de light ?” said Peter, half hoping hia lady wife was faintly stirred by jealousy. “Thinking of, Peter? Why, the moral of your story.” “Moral I What is it V “Me, Peter. Commend me to the dis cernment of men! Did you never really discover till this morning that your amfffling friend and your wife were one and the —m* ? Yes. dear, I’m the moral.” Se saying, Mrs. Brown rose, Edible Fnngi. Very few specimens of are popu larly recognized as being edible, while prejudice in some eases, and fear of poison in others, will always prevent additions to the small number now used as food. Great cantion is undoubtedly proper in the essay of the untried species; bnt prejudice and ignoranoe should not stand in the way and prevent the use of the many esculent species whioh are allowed to rot in untold thousands. Science will no doubt dissi pate these fears and prejudices, and make te our food crop a large and cheap addition. In Great Britian thousands of people, particularly of the lower classes, will eat no mushroom except that known as field mushroom, while m Italy end Hungary a strong prejudice exists against this same species. This preju dice arises from the fact that other fnngi are confounded with it through ignor ance, and fatal accidents sometimes occnr which would be prevented by ob serving that the true field mushroom always has purple spores, gills at first of pink oolor and afterward of pnrple. a permanent ring or collar around the stem, and that it is never found in woods, its home always being on the open plains or commons. The meadow mushroom grows in low land pastures, and has a stronger flavor than that of the fields. In England it is sold in great quantities and is there known as the “horse mushroom” be cause of the enormous size it attains, a single specimen sometimes weighing fourteen pound’. In addition to these two there are forty-nine other varieties of mushroom that are known to bot anists as esculent and excellent, some of them attaining a diameter of fourteen inches, others five or six inches, and another, “the nail fungus” scarcely ex ceeding one inch in diameter. Hills, plains, valleys, fields and pas tures all over the world are as alive with these nutritious fungi as the soil of Nebraska is with grasshoppers. Mil lions of tons of them are allowed to rot where they spring np, simply because igt orance or fear prevents their utiliza tion as food. It is true that the dis tinctions between the edible mushroon and some of its unpleasant cousins oan not he easily understood by any bnt botanists, and yet this difficulty might be materially obviated if botanic writers would d i-sen be the distinctions in words that oonld be popnlarly understood, or that, at least, may be fonnd in diction aries. The botanical nomenclature may be as good as it is ingenious, but to non-botanists it is as incomprehensible as the inscription on the Elgin marbles. Let it be preserved for bookworms, if need must, bnt let it be also translated for common use. About a month ago a friend of Mrs. Harmon Jones read in an English paper an account of some British vessel having been driven ont of her course-in a storm and sighted an unknown island. Mach to the surprise of the crew the island tamed out to be inhabited, and stall more astonishing, by men who spoke he English language. The rest of the story, as given in the paper referred to, is that the castaways told the ships company that they were the Florinda parly who had sailed from New Orleans in 1849 bound for California, that they had been wrecked on the island and had dwelt there ever sinoe, it being then more than twenty-five years that they had not seen a human face or a sign of the world from whioh they were so utterly eliminated. The paper gave the names of several, all of whom ate known to have been of Florinda’s crew, and in many other ways, according to the version of Mrs. Jones’ friend, the iden tity of the party was established as none but themBelves oonld have established it. It was further stated that the British vessel offered to take the men on board, bnt they declined, saying they had been lost for a quarter of a oentary ; that they knew not in what situation they would find the families they had left, and that they preferred staying and ending their days there rather than venture back to such a doubtful and uncertain future. This paper was four months old when Mrs. J ones’ friend saw it, one month ago, and the events nar rated were described as having occurred four months previous to the issue of the paper. It is just nine months then sinoe the island was discovered by the British vessel, and at that time all, or nearly all, of tbe Florinda party appear to have been alive. . It need not be said that this news has aroused the deepest interest To the oommnnity at large it recalls the famil iar occurrence of the Florinda's sailing from New Orleans with its adventurous company. To the families of the ill- fated men it oomee like a message from another world, and is as thongh it were the announcement of a resurrection. Within the past few days the relatives have been living in a state of constant excitement, an<f many of them, espe cially the sons of Harmon Jones, Jno. A. Sidney, and Capt. Kenmore, the skipper of the Florinda, have devoted themselves to the task of following the due given by the friend who saw the English paper. Extensive inquiries are now on foot, and the British consul has kindly interested himself in the affair so far as to agree to forward to the war offioe in London • full statement of the circumstances so that the name of tte vessel which toadied at the castaway's home can be ascertained and the bear ings of the island taken from her lo# It would greatly facilitat this end, however, if a copy of the paper girag the original aooount were found, and rt is still hoped that some one who sees this publication may have noticed the paper and be able to tell hb where a number can be had. On that oontrn- gency depends much that will simplify and expedite the quest, but it is certain that in any ease the friends of Florinda s crew will never rest again until the mystery is fathomed to its uttermost depth. steak fnngni” It is juicy and fhahy, and its sections resemble beef in ap pearance. Dr. Badham, a Student of fungi, fonnd one of them five feet in circumference and weighing eight ponnds, and another was found by a Dr. Graves, nearly twenty feet in cir cumference and weighing thirty pounds. It grows in parts of Germany where it is sliced and eaten with salad, and it is highly esteemed as nutritious food. A species of puff ball, botanically known as lycoperdon giganteum, when yonng is of a cream like consistence and an excellent addition to the breakfast menu. A single one is large enough to fe- d ten or twelve persons, and some members of the species are a good sub stitute for truffles. A specimen men tioned in the Gardener’s Chroniole weighed ten pounds and was three feet four inches in circumference.—Balti more Sun. —Only two hnndred years ago the old moss-back who was governor of Virginia got np and said: “I thank God that we have no free schools nor printing presses, tod I hope we shsll oot hiv© any for a hnndred years; for learning baa brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, ami printing baa divulged them end libeled govern ments. God keep us from both!" How He Caught Them. Some years ago, an eccentric genius, the Rev. Thomas P. Hunt, used to give temperance lectures. One night he an nounced that he would lecture in Easton. Now, temperance was not in favor among the male portion of the burg. The women, however, were all in for the pledge, and consequently, on Hupt’s first night not a man showed himself in the ball The benches were pretty well filled with women, thongh, and Hunt commenced; but, instead of temperance, he put them through on the vanities of dress, etc. They wore great puffed faultier sleeves then. They—the sleeves —caught it, then their tight lacing, and so on through the whole catalogna of female follies; not a word abont temper ance. And the ladies went home hop ping mad, told their husbands about it, and voted old Hunt down to the lowest notch. . , _, He had announced that he would lec ture at tbe same place the next night. Long before the time appointed they commenced to come, and when Hunt hobbled down the aisle the building comfortably well filled with men. The old fellow looked about, efauckled, and muttered : “ Hogs, I’ve got yon now I” The andiencs stared. “ Aha, hogs, I’ve got yon now!” After the crowd had got aniet a little, the lecturer said: “Friend*, you wanted to know what I meant by say ing, hogs, I’ve got you now, and Fll ted yon. Ont west the hogs ran wild; and when folks get ont of meat they catch a yonng pig, pnt a strap under his body, and hitch him to a yonng sapling that will just swing him from the ground nicely. Of course he squeals and raises a rumpus, when all the old hogs gather round to see what is the matter, and then they shoot them at their leisure. T^at night I hung a pig np ; I hurt it a little, and it squealed. The old hogs have turned out to night to see tbe fun, and I'll roast yon.” And so he did, pitching into their favorite vice with relish and gusto. Flint and Potash in Plants.—They have many experimental farms, gardens and orchards in Germany, to which we are in the habit of looking for new facta in agriculture and horticulture. An ex pert says: “ Divest the soil of all silica (flint) and alkali were useful plants and beautiful flowers are to be grown, and not one would attain to perfect develop ment, simply because silica and potash me eminently essential to impart stiff ness to the stems and elasticity and tenacity to the leaves. When grape vines, for example, whioh are growing in a sandy soil, have access to potash i r abundance, the leaves will appear as tough as leather, and no mildew or rust will ever affect the foliage.” FACTS AND FANCIES. —Recent advices from the Ssndwioh Islands state that “ rum is digging the grave of the Hawaiian race.” —The oonstrnotion of a gun weighing 100 tons has been begun by Sir William Armstrong in England. This gun is to be a muzzle-loader, 17-inch bore, and, if successful, will be the most powerfal weapon ever oonstruoted. —Mrs. Chibbles has great ideas of her husband’s military powers. “ For two years,” says she, “ he was a lieuten ant in the horse-marines, after which he was promoted to the oaptainoy of a reg ular squad of sap-heads and miners.” —“ Sir,” said a little blustering man to a religions opponent, “ to what sect do you suppose I belong?” “ Well, I don’t exactly know,” replied his oppo nent, “ but to judge from your size, appearance, and oonstant buzzing, I should think yon beloaged to the class generally called insect.” —A Swiss boatman recently palled a would-be-suicide out of Lake Geneva. An hour or two after the boatman dis covered the same man hanging by the neck to a tree, but did not interfere tnat time. The magistrate summoned hhn to answer whj he did not prevent-the snieide, bnt he replied that he supposed that the gentleman had only hang him self ap to dry. —It is well that a parent should know the peculiarity of the pulse of each child. The pnlse of a healthy adnlt beats seventy times in a minute, though good health may be enjoyed with f9wer pulsations. Bnt if the pnlse always exceeds seventy, it indicates disease, the human machine is working itself ont- there is fever or inflammation some, where, and the body is feeding on itself. —The college orator is now abroad in tbe land. His voice is heard from the four quarters of the earth, telling, of the efforts he has made for distinction in tbe past, and his hopes and aspira tions for the future. He is sanguine— far more sanguine, than he will be a few years hence, when he shall have encountered and been con inered by some of the stern realities of life. Thus far his education has been only theoret ical ; in the future it will be practical. Whether the former shall fit the sub jects for the latter, the future alone can determine. —If a man wants to go anywhere in a brief space of time ho must'"#£lk fast, bnt he loses his popularity in propor tion to his rapidity. Balzac, who seems to have thonght it worth while to notice this contemptible fact, says: “ Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade, bnt one sits for hours lost in thonght and r~aiv—*1 ^.-“’’.T-ters of a lake. ijraoions {Sneoi voice—ail of whlcffh&y reacquired—give a m.Jfcrere man an immense advantage over tnose vastly superior to him.” —A Brussels paper gives a painful account of the ex Etnnress Charlotte of Mexico. Her physical condition is good, but her mental condition is hopeless. She lives in constant communication with imaginary beings, end dislikes the preserce of any living person. She speaks only when obliged to do so, and gives orders to her attendants in writ ing. She dresses herself without per mitting assistance, taxes a fixed walk m the park every morning when fine, fre quently plajs on the piano-forte, and sometimes ’draws and paints with de cided taste. Sue recognizes no visitors, not even her brother, King Leopold or the queen. The latter always accom panied the physician on his monthly visit, when, in reply to his inquiries as to her health, the empress coldly says she is well, and immediately retires. She has become stouter, and shows a tendency to corpulency, bnt at present it is stated that this has only increased her beauty, whioh is now truly striking. It has been justly said that.tbe greatest discovery of our lives is that the world is not so bad as, in the first di appointment of youth’s extravagant expectations, we are disposed to regard it The passage from boyhood to man hood is “ over the bridge of sighs;” and our first experiences of life as it is, resemble the flavor of the forbidden apple—we are enlightened and misera ble. Gladly would we command the secret of feeling as we once did; but, i0fm every dsy takes from ns some happy error—some charming illusion never to return. We are reasoned or ridiculed out of all our jocund mistaken, till we are jostwise enough to be miser able, and we exclaim with Lady Mary Wortley Montague, “To my extreme mortification I find myself growing wiser and wiser every day. Bnt a time comes, at length, when our views are more just. We leave our imaginary Eden with “solemn step and slow, and begin to appreciate the good qualities of those whose friendship we thonght hollow, and the necessity of that labor which we deemed a curse. We ex change ecstasy for oontent, and, for getting the lour rivers of our id®*! heaven, open our eyes to the mamfola beauties of earth—its skies islanded stars, and its oceans starred by islands, its sunshines and calms, and the good ness of its great heart, which sends forth trees and flowers and fruits for our benefit and exaltation.”—Professor Mathews. Natural Beauty. —All our moral feelings are so interwoven with our intellectual powers that we cannot af fect the one without in some degree addressing the other ; and, in all high ideas of beantv, it is more than prob able that urnch of the pleasure depends on delicate and untraoeable peroep:iona of fitness, propriety, and relation, which are purely intellectual, and through which we arrive at our noblest ideas of what is commonly and rightly called intellectual beauty. Ideas of beauty are among the noblest which oan be presented to the mind, invariably exalting and purifying it according to their degree. And it would appear that we are intended by the Deity to be con stantly tinder their influence, because there is not one single object in nature which is not capable of oonveying them, and which, to the rightly-perceiving mind, does not pro rent an incalculably greater number of beautiful than of de formed parta