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SIbHAI,K,} Editor, a.d Proprietor..
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
The Broadway stage strike has ceased.
The hod carriers of New York are on
a strike for $2.50 per clay, stopping all build
ing operations.
A painter named McCulloch, while
working on a bridge at the Three Sisters’ is
land, at Niagara falls, last week, fell off the
scaffold, and was carried by the current to the
edge of the falls, where he caught- on a rock.
After unceasing efforts from the bridge and
shore, McCulloch was liually rescued from his
perilous position by John Conroy, who, at the
peril of Ids own life, tied a rope to his body
and made his way to the jock where McCul
loch had been hanging. *-
y WEST.
Grn. Custar is organizing a military
expedition to the Black hills in Dakotah, the
fabled site of rich goldmines. A host of ad
venturers will follow in his wake.
In 1818 there were five Masonic lodges
in Indiana. There are now 421, with an aver
age membership of fifty-five each. The Ma
sons count one to seventy-two of popu
lation.
The small pox has. been introduced
into Elko, Nev., by Italian emigrants, and is
spreading very rapidly. Tl)e Indians have
the disease and tha people are fleeing fiom
the town. * '
A dispatch from Camp Warner, Ore
gon, says that the inhabitants of that locality
are much excited about a threatened Indian
outbreak by the Ochoes band, aud have al
ready sought protection from the small gar
rison at Fort Warner.
The Chicago Times publishes several
columns of crop reports from various points
throughout.the states of Illinois, lowa, Wis
consin, Ihdiara, Missouri, Minnesota and
Kansas, from which it appears that on an av
erage the acreage of wheat sown is much in ex
cess of that of last " year, and that the yield
promises to be quite up to the average. In
corn, oats and barley, fully the average
amount of land has been seeded, and the
crop will be large. Fruits of all descrip
tions never looked better In several coun
ties in Icwa, Kansas and Missouri the grass
hoppers and chinch bugs have made their ap
pearance.
Last night as the Atlantic express,
which leaves Chicago at 5:15 was, passing be
tween New Buffalo and Niles, two unknown
men pried open the front door of the express
car and knocked down 8. B. Heath, the mes
senger, who was sorting his money packages
for different stations. One of them grabbed
packages containing $2,700, jumped from ihe
car and escaped, leaving the other robber
struggling with Heath for the mastery in the
darkness, the candle having become extin
guished. Heath finally drew his pistol and
shot the scoundrel, and then he himself fell
insensible from his injuries. As the train was
approaching Niles he recovered sufficiently to
call for help, but was unable to rise. The
robber lived only a few seconds after being
taken from the car.
SOUTH.
George Wood, a well-known news
paper man of New Orleans, is dead.
The mills at Opelika, Ala., commenc
ed the grinding of new wheat on the 29th.
The wheat birds are doing much
damage to the wheat near McKinney, Texas.
There are in Natchez five hundred
destitute refugees from the overflowed lands.
They have a touch of the small-pox
at Augusta, Georgia. Fourteen cases in the
hospital.
The monument to Martha Washington
at Fredericksburg is to be completed at a cost
of $1,200.
The Cumbe>rland Presbyterian as
sembly lias decided to locate the publishing
house at Nashville, Tenn.
Gov. Kellogg will send commissioners
to Washington to urge national aid in rebuild
ing the levees of the Mississippi river.
The schooner Texan Ranger, from
Mantansas, with a cargo of sugar, struck a
snag aud sunk iu the river at New Orleans last
week. Loss $25,000.
Coal to the amount of 200,000 bush
els, valued at $20,000, and insured for but
$5,000, was burned at the Etna iron works,
near Home, Ga., the other day.
Rev. Father Charles Ferec, aged 34,
one of the vicars of the cathedral, New Or
leans, was drowned last week in Lake Pen
chartrain Milneburg while bathing.
A phv sicinn in Ouachita parish, La.,
writes to the Minclen Democrat, that there are
three thousand people within the limits of his
practice who are tick aud destitute and need
medicin .
Mayor Wiltz, of New Ol'leaus, has
telegraphed to the mayors of New York and
Brooklyn asking additional aid for the Louis
iana sufferers, ilp says that in thirty-five
days contributions in cash and provisions had
been less than SIBO,OOO, and $1,000,000 is
needed.
A special from Decatur; Ala., says
that a man named Juo. Howe, late of Morgan
county, cut the throat of a niece of Tom
Terry, of Conrtland, with a barlow knife, be
cause she refused to many him. He was put
iu jail, and at a late heur a mob took him out
aud hung him.
Mayor Wiltz, of New Orleans, has ad
dressed another urgent appeal for aid to
Mayor Havomeyer, in which he says : “ Will
New lork come to the rescue of our destitute,
ruined, famishing people ? A deadly famine
in Louisiana would be a national disgrace,
which the wealth of America must prevent at
all hazards.”
A terrible shooting affray occurred
last week at Grider’s landing, just below Cat
island, while the steamer Phil Allen was lving
there, between Henry Burgett and another
planter name Griders, who had married the
widow of Bnrgett’s brother. After exchang
ing some eight or ten shots with guns, Bur
gett, after having been shot five times al
ready, was shot through the body iu the re
giou of the heart aud died soon afterwards.
He was the fourth brother who has been kilted
in combats with neighbors.
The trial of Gov. Moses for grand
larceny, which was set down for Friday at
Orangeburg, did not take place, in conse
quence of the absence of the accused. The
solicitor for the state asked for a warrant of
arrest, but the court refused it. The counsel
for Moses then moved to strike the case from
the docket, on the ground that a governor
eauuot be indicted and tried for any crime,
except before an impeachment. Tae court re
served decision and postponed the case until
the next court, which meets in October. This
is regarded as substantially a triumph for
Moses.
A storm resembling a cyclone, accom
panied by hail, passed over St Louis on the
29th inst., doing much damage to ouildings,
awnings, etc. Several houses were unroofed
aud signs and awniugs were tossed about pro
miscously. The greatest injury was done in
the harbor, however, where the steamer Bis
mark. Bon Accoid and Belle Memphis had
their chimneys blown away. The Jno. Kyle
had the aft part of her hurricane deck and
forward guards stove in. The ferry-boat
Hickley had her cabin and chimneys carried
away, and the Southern Belle was swept clear
from the hull up. A number of other steam
ers and several barges were more or less in
jured.
FOREIGN.
It is rumored that German diploma
cy is waiting to annul the London treaty set
tling the neutrality of Luxemburg.
Dispatches state that the distress
from the famine in India is increasing. Nearly
tnree million people are dependant upon the
government for food,
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
The Journal des Debats and the Jour
nal de Paris say that the Spanish crown was
first offered to the Duke Mont Penzile who re
fused it. Negotiations looking to the candi
dacy of a German prince then began.
Several Madrid newspapers are accus
ing Cashing, the American minister, of being
present at a banquet given, by the opposition
deputies, including Figeraus and Castellar.
The editors suggest that Cushing must be ig
norant of European diplomatic usages as well
as the significance of certain names.
It now appears that the Russian
Grand Duke Constantine’s son Nicholas gave
diamonds belonging to his mother to a Miss
Fenix or Phrenix, a beautiful American. The
circumstances of the theft, together with the
■ fact that hC had deposited large sums of
j money with his bankers to make provision, as
' he says, against necessities of old age, led to
' the belief that Nicholas was insaue.
In the house of commons last week
the proposition to raise the salary of the
British minister at Washington $5,000 was op
posed, on the ground that Thornton’s resi
dence had been a series ot diplomat ic disas
ters, which the Disraeii government could not
indorse in this substantial manner. The nn
der-secretary explained that Thornton was
not responsible for the results ot Geneva, and
the increase was demanded by the high cost
of living at Washington.
The Republique Francaise, a Paris
newspaper, considers the arrival of the em
peror of Russia iu London as a great event,
and says the motive of the czar's journey was
not simply to see his daughter. Again, the
Republique Francaise believes his object is to
bring about an understanding between Eng
land and Russia directed to the mamtainanco
of the peace. “Europe,” it continues, “will
rejoice at such a tacit treaty of alliance and
protection it will afford those meuaced by mi
bridled ambition. The great policy of the
European balance of power still finds defend
ers.”
GENERAL.
The right worthy ; grand lodge of
Good Templars have voted to hold the next
annual session at Bloomington, 111.
Rear Admiral Shubrick, senior officer
on the retired list, died last week at Washing
ton, aged eiglity-three. The secretary of the
navy announces his e’eath in a general order.
Hon. S. 8. Cox leotured in New York
last week on American humor. The proceeds
of the lecture, which amounted to over $2,000,
will be devoted to the benefit of the sufferers
by the Mississippi flood. (
The Cincinnati and New York -bridge
company sue the United States for $475,000
damages in requiring the bridge to be one
hundred feet above low water after it had
been commenced at the altitude of ninety feet.
Out of the ninety seven aspirants for
military honors at West Point, thirty-two wera
sent back to school last week, because they
could not write, spell or cipher, or were not
familiar with maps or grammar. The colored
candidates al. failed.
In the divorce case of Brinkley vs.
Brinkley, the jury found on all the issues for
plaintiff, aud the court granted a temporary
stay, to enable the counsel for the defendant,
Hugh L. Brinkley, of Memphis, Tennessee, to
prepare a bill of exceptions.
The RcA Daniel Swing, of Chicago,
has publicly an lounced his determination to
apply to the Chicago Presbytery for a letter of
dismissal from tue ministry of the Presbyter
ian church. He will, however, remain as pas
tor or preacher for the Fourth Presbyterian
church, in accordance with the expressed
wishes of the elders and leading members
thereof.
The ship Portus, from' Italy for New
York, sprang a leak and sunk in latitude north
26 deg., longitude west 46 deg. The captain
and crew took to the boats. A boat contain
ing Capt. De Ynee, Juo. Wilson, carpenter,
Henry Brown, sail-maker, and Wm. Thomp
son, P. Savage and Richard Schenck, seamen,
were picked up by the schooner Clara. They
had been out nineteen days, and for three
days had neither water nor provisions. On
their arrival at Staten island they were sent
to the hospital. Two other boats, commanded
by the first and second mates, have jiot been
heard from.
The Swatara, which is to carry a
scientific party to the South Pacific ocean, to
witness the transit of Venus, Dec. 10, is iu
full readiness. Twenty-six scientists are ex
pected from Washington with instruments, hi
a few days, and the ship will leave the navy
yard with 200 persons aboard. The company
is to be divided into five parties, to be landed
at Crazato island. Kerguelar or Desolation is
land, Hobart Town, in Tasmania, formerly
Van Dieman’s Land. New Zealand and Chat
ham island. Here the Swataia is to remain
until after the observation. The vessel has
stores for an eighteen months’ voyage. The
instruments are being tested in Washington
now, and are very elaborate.
At the session of the Reformed Pres
byterian Synod, held recently at Philadelphia,
the committee on the order known as Patrons
of Husbandry and Grangers, presented a re
port which states that they emphatically and
unequivocally condemn this and all other se
cret orders, as ensnaring, deceptive aud sin
ful in themselves, as prejudicial to the best in
terests of society, aud as a lawless and ineffi
cient wav of obtaining the redress of griev
ances. They also recommend the synod to
enjoin upon all sessions non-fellowship with
members of this or any other secret order,
and warn all under their care to beware of the
ensnaring influences of such organizations.
The report was adopted by a unanimous vote.
CONGRESSIONAL,
In the senate, on the 26th, house
amendments to the bill donating condemned
cannon to certain parties of the grand army of
the republic were concurred in House bill
to provide for the better protection of frontier
settlements in Texas against ladian depreda
tions was passed A bill was passed to pro
vide for the payment of postage on printed
matter and other purposes. It is a copy of
the bill recently reported from the house com
mittee on postoffices and post roads The
senate lesunv.d the consideration of the defi
ciency appropriation bill, which was further
amended and passed The centennial bill
was passed—2o to 17—with a proviso that the
United States shall not be liable, directly or
indirectly, for any expense attending such ex
position,* or by reason of the same, and the
senate adjourned.
In the house, on the 26th, the time
was taken up in considering the report on the
Sauborn contract, and the bill to amend the
customs and internal revenue laws.
In the senate, on the 27th, bills were
passed : To extend time to pre-emptiors on
public laud in Minnesota to make final pay
ment; to prevent hazing at the military acad
emy ; amendatory of the act. to reduce the
duties on imports, and to reduce internal tax
ation The Alabaum contested election was
tßken up, aud, a resolution offered declaring
Spencer not entitled to a seat, aud tliat it be
awarded to Sykes. Pending discussion there
on the senate adjourned.
In the house, on the 27ch, an amend
ment to the report on the Sanborn contracts,
prohibiting any member of congress from act
ing as agent or attorney for any person in con
nection with the customs or revenue laws, was
adopted, and the bill repealing the law on
which the Sanborn contracts were based was
passed The bill removing the disabilities
of Itaphaal Semmea k of Alabama, was passed.
--..A bill was passed—l 49 to 67i—providing
that all colored persons residing within the.
limits of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations
at the time when the 18th amendment to the
constitution took effect, aDd the children, are
declin f and part of these nations, with all rights
office, to send their children to
public schools, and with all other rights and
privileges now enjoyed by those Indians, and
providing that denial of such rights to colored
persons shall be & misdemeanor A select
committee was appointed, under resolution, to
ascertain the facts in relation to the disturbed
condition of government affairs in Arkansas
Committees reported adverselv on hil's to
abolish capital punishment, and to define a
legal day’s work in certain eases.
In the senate, on the 28th, the bill to
confirm the purchase of portion of the site
of Fort Hudson, at Naslille, Tennessee, and
to provide for the donation of the same to
Fisk university, for educational purposes, was
passed.... The Alabama contested election
case ot Sykes vs. Spencer came up, the ques
tion being on the resolution to award the seat
to Mr. Sykes, which was rejected—ll to 33
and the committee was discharged from fur
ther consideration of the subject, so that* Mr.
Spencer, the present in cum befit, retains hie
seat , . s The bill to estiblisfi fhe territory of
Pembina gave rise to a lively discussion on an
amend incut to extend suffrage to women.
Tue amendment was rejected—l 9 to 27-and
the bill shared the same fate.
In the house, on the 28th, senate
amendment to the bill to legalize and establish
a pontoon bridge over the Mississippi river at
Prairie du Cliien, was non-concnrre§ in....
A bill was pjssed for the relief of the widow
of Capt. Hall. It gives her $1,836 as back pay.
and authorizes the purchase of Capt. Half’s
papers of prior expeditions at a cost of not
over $15,000... .Senate eubst.tnte for the cur
rency bill was rejected—7o to 174- and a com
mittee of conference ordered The bill for
the gradual reduction of tlie army was taken
up and debated. Further action was post
poned.
In the senate, on the 29tli, a resolu
tion was offered to pay Francis 4V. Sykes, late
contestant for a seat as senator from Ala
bama, $8,374 from March 4, 1873, to date.
Laid over.... The committee on finance re
ported adversely on the resolution of the sen
ate, directing the committee to inquire of the
expediency of allowing producers of tobacco
to sell to other than licensed dealers, and I lie
committee was discharged The chair laid
before the senate the liouße finance bill, with
a resolution of the house disagreeing to sen
ate amendments, and asking for a committee
of conference, which was granted The sen
ate proceeded to the consideration of several
bills reported by the committee on pensions,
and adjourned.
In the house, on the 29th, it was or
dered that to-morrow, being decoration day,
there be no session... .The bill for the reduc
tion of the army was further debated aud
passed—ll 9 to 104.... The house then re
sumed consideration of senate amendments to
the legislative, executive and judicial appro
priation bill, one of which was non-doucurred
in, aud the biH now goes to a committee of
conference. Adjourned till Moudav.
In the senate, Jane Ist, a resolution
of the national agricultural convention, re*
cently in session at At'apta, Georgia, in favor
of an appropriation for increased water com
munication from the interior to the seaboard,
was referred A bill was passed, granting a
pensiou ol 459 per mouth, to Louisa A* Canbv,
widow of General E. R. S. Canby... .Thecom
fiiittee on patents reported, favorably on the
bill to amend the laws relating to patents,
trade marks and copyrights, and it passed. It
provides that no person shall maintain .an ac
tion for infringement of copyright, mikcss
every book or ahible cojtynghtcß shall bear
a notification of copyright, together with the
yoar of entry who took out the copyright.
Toe bill also provides thaft n<f engravings, cuts
or prints shall be copyrighted unless they are
practical illustrations or works connected with
Tnfg~artß, but that prints or 1 bor., dcsigued'to
be usad for any other kind of manufacture,
may be registered in the patent office on pay
ment of the fee of $3, which shall cover the
expense of furnishing a copy of the records.
In the house, Junc Ist, a bill was in
troduced to amend the constitution so as to
provide for the election of senators by the
people... .The bill to amend the existing cus
toms and interna! revenue laws was passed—
-177 to 79. Tee fourteenth and last sections
of the bill have reference to internal revenue
matters. One of them allows any farmer or
planter to sell at the place of production of
tobacco, of his own growth and raising, at re
tail directly to consumers to an amount not
exceeding SIOO annually A bill was passed
relieving savings banks that have a capital
stock from the payment of a tax on deposits,
as in case of savings banks having no capital
stock... A motion was madq to take up the
senate civil rights bill, but it was not ordered.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Kegulnr Monthly Statement-Decrease
in May, $*,*56,838.
The public debt statement has just
been issued, of which the following is a
recapitulation :
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN COIN.
Bonds at 6 per cent $1,213,967,900 00
Bonds at 5 per cent 510,279.000. 00
Total $1,724,246,900 00
DEBT BEARING INTEREST IN LAWFUL MONEY.
Lawful money debt $ 14,678.000 00
Matured debt 4,321.200 00
DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST.
Legal tender notes $ 382,076,777 00
Certificates on deposit 56,050,000 00
Fractional currency !... 46,5 8,649 00
Coin certificates. .. 83,179,500 00
Total without interest.. .$ 517,844,927 00
Total debt $2,261,091,027 00
Total interest 33,364,093 00
CASH IN THE TREASURY.
Coin $ 81,938,979 00
Currency 11,177.703 00
Special deposit 56,050,000 00
Total in Treasury $ 146, 1 86,682 00
DEBT LESS CASH IN THE TREASURY.
Debt less cash in treasury $2,145,268,438 00
Decrease of the debt during
past month 4,456,888 00
BONDS ISSUED TO PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES.
Principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 00
Interest accrued and not vet
paid 1,155,587 00
Interest repaid by transporta
tion of mails, etc 5,095,450 00
Balance of interest paid by
.the United States 17,291,241 00
The Ninth Census.
The following table made from the
ninth census shows that there are only
three states in the union wherein
the negroes have a majority, and only
two wherein on a square division of the
races at the polls the negro majority
is large enough to be fairly counted
upon :
POPULATION IN 1870.
11 hit*. Col. Mafty.
Alabama 521,384 475.510 45.874
Arkansas 362,115 122,169 139,956
Florida 96,057 91,189 4,568
Georgia 638,926 545.342 93,884
Kentucky 1,098 692 220 210 779,482
Louisiana 362,065 364,210 *2,145
Mississippi 382,896 444,201 *61.305
North Carolina 678,470 301.750 287,820
South Carolina 289,667 415,814 *126.147
Tennessee 935,119 322,331 613.788
Toxas 712.089 253,475 458,714
V rginia 710,089 592.841 199,248
West Virginia 424,033 17,980 405,053
*Regro Majorities.
Lyric Expression.
A writer in the Galaxy says: “Ev
ery art has limits, in endeavoring to
pass which it becomes not only power
less but ridiculous; but within those
limits it admits no rival, no co-worker.
Hence it is that great music is not writ
ten to great poetry, that music is not
married to immortal verse. A beauti
ful song, like one of those which
Shakspeare has scattered through his
plays, needs no music. By its inherent
quality it attains its end. In itself it is
a song. It sings itself, and is both
words and music. What would * Take,
O take those lips away’ gain by being
sung to any music ? If the music were
great the poetic value of the thoughts
would be lost, or sink out of sight for
the time; if the music were inferior to
the words it could only provoke the re
sentment of impertinence. Hence it is
that lyric writing not of the highest
order—that which embodies the pleas
ant suggestion*of emotion ip flowing
rhythm, without much strength or
beauty of expression—is most frequent
ly made the vehicle of fine musical
thought. The composer expresses
that which the song has suggested to
him. His is the passion, bis*perfect
utterance. Eyrie expression may come
from one soul, not from two. Words
written for music should merely minis
ter to occasion, and be the humble, un
seen nucleus of beauty, like a blade of
grass made splendid by the jewels of
the morning. ”
A Kalamazoo widow, who is not one
of the despairing kind, has the photo
graphs of her three departed lords in a
group, with a vignette of herself in the
centre, and underneath is the inscrip
tion, “The Lord will provide.”
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10. 1574.
ESDIRASCF.
How much the heart may bear, and yet not break 1
How much the flesh may suffer, yet not die! r
I question rnueh if any pain or ache
Of soul and body brings our end more nfgh; ‘*.
Death chooses his own end ; till that is sworn, ' r
All evils may bo borne.
We shrink and shudder at the surgeon’s knife,
Each nerve recoiling from the cruel steel
Whose edge se-ma searching for the quivering life,
Yet to our sense the bitter pang reveal • . ,
That still, although the trembling flfcsh be torn,
This also can be borne. '
We see a sorrow rising in our way, ' ■ J
And tfiy tio ftbe from the approaching ill;- * -.
We seek some small escape, we weep and pray*;- -
' But when the bloW falis, then onr hearts arestill;
Not that the pain is of its sharpness shorn,
But that it can be borne. ii
n u
We wind our life about another life, T ■
We hold It closer, dearer than our own ;
Anon it faintA urn! falls in deadly strife,
L' aving us fetunned, aud strickeued, and alone; . '
But ah ! W 5 fl t Udt tils with 1 those we mourn-,
Behold! we live thronglnifi-Hiings—famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pahi * -all erfef and misery,
All wbc and porto V* Ilfinflicts its worst
On soul amt body, but-we uaumit dte;
Though we be sick, aflfl tfreil, and faint, and worn,
Lo ! all things cAn fie "borne.
AN AUATOLIAN SPECTRE-STORY.
It was in the Mohammedan or lunar
month of Sha’aban, which that year
corresponded pretty nearly with our
December, and which, as preceding
the thirty days’ yearly fast of Ramad
han, is in some measure a festive time
for the followers of the Prophet, a sort
of carnival before their severe Lent.
Osmand Kaleeb-Zadeh, to give him his
name in full, had set up one night till
rather late in one of the coffee-houses—
here the ordinary resofts —o| the
quarter, amusing biisgelf, after the
fashion of the country, by playing
.bachgammon with a*“frii*Tid of his own
age and position and ehatting on the
ordinary topics of tllfe tjtne. When the
coffee-house had to be closed, a little
before midnight, they were the last to
leave it; and before parting for the
night? they agreed to meet early by the
first dawn at'the public bath close by,
and afterwards to go together into town
.upon some business which they had
arranged in common. They then sep
arated.
Osman went home and to bed, in
tending to be [up before daybreak and
join his'friend at the' bath. But in the
middle of his sleep he was suddenly
awakened by a sharp knocking fit the
door. Getting up quickly and open
ing it to see what was tlie matter, he
beheld standing outside what he r sup
posed to be his companion of the even
ing, before, with a lantern in his hand.
The night was still, warm and overcast,
with low, misty clouds, as nights often
are here during the winter solstice,
cold and storm rarely setting in before
mid-January. “ What has brought you
here so early?” he asked. “It is not
yet near morning.” “How so?” re
plied the other ; “ the dawn has already
broken, only ’tis cloudy and dark. If
we do not make haste we shall find the
bath crowded with people, and have
ever so long to wait for our turn. Be
sides, the sooner the better ; get your
things on and come.” Hearing all this,
Osman supposed that he must havo
overslept himself, and was really be
hind time. So he slipped quietly back
into the hoime, dressed himself and
came out. His friend was still waiting
for him, lantern iu hand, at the door.
No one ilse was up and stirring as
they passed along the narrow lanes,,
now doubly dark with overshadowing
trees, talking familiarly as they went,
till they came out on the little open i
space close -by the eoffto-dtowse where ;
Osman had spent the evening, where
stands a noble plane-tree, and opposite,
beyond, is the low, dark entrance cf the
bath they were going to. But on one
side tlie view opens out across the Xe
nos ravine to the battlemented walls of
the castle opposite ; and beyond these
again rises high in the air the tall stone
minaret or mosque, once a Byzantine
church, and now the principal place of
Mohammedan worship within the limits
of the old fortified town.
Here they stopped to breathe the
fresh air a moment after the close, sti
fling lanes. It was a murky night.
Osman looked eas 1 , but there was no
hint of dawn there : only the tapering
outline of the minaret was traced faint
ly white against the blackness of the
sky. “ How faT off it looks in the dusk,
and how high I” he exclaimed. “Not
so far off or so very high neither,”
said the other, in a stiange, altered
voice, that made his companion start.
“ Suppose we just light it up—shall
I?” And without waiting for an an
swer, he stretched out liis arm, which
suddenly lengthened right across the
valley before them, the city walls and
the houses beyond, till it reached the
minaret, and hung the lantern on the
pointed summit, where it remained sus
pended, glittering like a star in the
gloom. Terrified at the sight, Osman
turned to ask—but his companion had
vanished, and lie was all alone .under
the plane-tree in the silent night. With
out waiting for more he hurried back as
best he might to his own house, entered
and threw himself, dressed as he was,
upon the bed. His wife woke up, and
inquired what had hapvtened to him
—where he had been. He gave some
evasive answer, and then lay quiet, pre
tending to get to sleep, and wishing for
the morning.
Qnlv a few minutes, however, had
thus passed, when rap it came to the
door again. Osman turned ad< af ear
at first; but when it was repeated his
wife- awoke, and, not suspecting what
had occurred before, begged her hus
band to get up and see who was outside.
Ashamed to own either his fears or
their cause, Osman reluctantly rose,
left the room, and opened the house
door. There, sure enough, stood his
friend—or the semblance of his friend
—lantern in hand, waiting. . “ Who are
you? ” asked Osman. The other stared.
“ Why, do you not know me ? ” said he.
“Were we not playing backgammon
together last evening, and did we not
agree to go to the bath together - this
morning? Come along, or we shall be
late; the day is breaking.” Form,
voice, manner—all were those of his
friend. Osman felt again ashamed to
hint his suspicions ; so he determined
to put a bold face on it, and accompa
nied the other into the street.
Before they bad gone far he himself
learnt to despise his own fears ; so thor
oughly did the'easy and, straightfor
ward talk of the one at his side assure
him that at this time it was no trickv
phantom’bnt a real living “man ana
brother” beyond doubt. Still, he re
frained from mentioning the incident of
an hour before, lest he should be
laughed at or disbelieved.
They passed the open place* the
plane-tree, and reached the bath. To
their surprise- Osman’s, at least—its
door stood wide open, and the entrance
hall was fully lighted up : yet no one
appeared to be moving within; the
head bath-keepei ’g aconstomed place
was empty; nor did any attendants
come forward to meet them. But the
bath-wrappers, towels and other requi
sites were already put out; some hung
up ; some folded in their proper places
—everything was neatly arranged and
fit for use. “They must have got the
bath in order, and then, finding that
nobody came, have turned in again for
a nap,” said Osman’s companion.
“ Well, till someone awakes, we had
best change our dress, and make our
selves comfortable, for the meantime,
in the bathing room. ”
Osman agreed, and the+vto exchanged
their out-of-doors dress for the costume
ordinary in an Eastern bath, consisting
of very toga-like wrappers, and went
into the large vaulted inner room,
which was also lighted up and ready
warmed. Here they lay down on the
raised stone dias against the wall, with
dome-like roof some twenty or twenty-
five feet overhead, and the lamp hang
ing .do Vn from it in the centre.
While they thus reclined at ease,
tffl, either a servant or some
1 hehfr RaUfcer like themselves should
enter, Ossaaoj had now no donbts
left in hiy mifid as to the real and bodi
ly his-companion, could not
resist the temptation of recounting to
him -the previous adventure of the
night. s So hm tqM how lie had been
awakenfed-and ’beguiled out of doors by
a phanfom exactly resembling in shape
ami *thh friend now beside him,
had-almost arrived at the
baflj, wfceA the spectre betrayed itself
f<# wlwfEit really was by tlie portentous
F&!ft*al¥eady described. The other lis
tebeff without interrupting the story in
apparent, astonishment, till as the narra
tor concluded : he subjoined,
“ it hung tlie lantern it was cairving on
the top of the big minaret, did it ? Do
you think he could have managed this ?”
and with these words, he lifted a leg
and a foot, which suddenly lengthened
out just as the arm had done before,
and with a kick struck the very highest
point of the central vault above them,
shattering to pieces the lamp where it
hung.
Osman leapt up terrified, as well he
might be, and found himself alone in
pitch darkness, for every light in the
bath had beefi instantaneously extin
guished. However, as he had often
been in the building before, and was
thoroughly well acquainted with it, he
managed, in spite of his trepidation, to
find liis way to the door, and rushed
out, in bathing costume as he was, into
the open air, leaving his own clothes,
which he aid not venture to search af
ter, behind him in the entrance-room.
But as he crossed the open space be
tween the coffee-house and the bath, he
looked back, and to his horror, saw the
dim and distant top of the minaret
within the fortress once more lighted
up by the spectral lanterns hanging
there. Chill and trembling, he at last
got back to bis own house. There he
found his wife fast asleep; and much
was she surprised when he woke her to
see him so quickly returned, and in such
strange attire. He now made a clean
breast of it, telliDg her of all that had
happened to him that night from first
to last, and adding, that when the day
was up he would return to the bath and
fetch his clothes 'from where he had
left them.
But “hardly had he finished his narra
tion when, to the alarm of both, the same
rep that had twice bsen heard before
was repeated outside. Osman’s wife,
naturally enough, entreated her hus
band to pay no attention to it. But,
like Tam-o-Shanter in a similar case, he
would not take adviod :
Alt. gentle dames ! it gaes me greet,
To think how monie counsels sweet,
Howmonie lengthened, sage advices,
The husband frae tfio wife despisea!
"But to our tale.T Osman, who was
by no means a cownrd, and whose met
al vas now •fairly up, swore that he
would sett the matter out to the end ;
besides, added he, the dawn must now
be neasf, add it couM hardly be a phan
tom aßwadbis time. So he got up,
went, j* bathing apparel as he still was,
to the house-door, and opened it. Sure
enough, there stood-his friend, or what
seemed his friend, waiting. “ What is
the matter with you,” asked the figure,
“ that you stare so wildly at me ? and
how came you in snob a dress?” “My
own wearing - clothes aro at the
bath,” replied Osman ; and forthwith
proceeded to give'an account of all that
lie had seen that night, and how he had
been twice spectre-tricked, thir king to
himself, “If thistimeitbeaphantom.too,
like the others, I may as well provoke
it to show its true character at once, be
fore we go further.” But his friend, on
hearing 'all this, expressed the utmost
astonishment. “Me!”he said; “why
I have only this minute left my house,
and I was going quietly by myself to
the bath, when it occurred to me that I
might as well pass by your door and
take the chance of calling yon up, in
case you might not be awake already.
You must have been dreaming somehow.
Anyway, let us now go at once, and look
for vour clothes, where you have left
them, lest anybody else may come in
the meanwhile and take a fancy to
them.” Once more Osman felt sure
that the speaker was his own neighbor,
and no other. So, after a little more
parley, they went together, and soon
stood before the bath. As before, the
outer door was wide open, and the inte
rior of the building brightly lighted
up, but neither bath-keeper at the en
trance, nor any other living creature.
Osman went to the corner where he had
first undiessod, and there found his
clothes lying, untouched and folded,
exactly as he had left them. His first
impulse was to put them on without de
lay ; but his friend suggested that as
the bath was heated, they might as well
make use of it; so the two entered the
inner room, there to wait till the ordi
nary attendant should enter oa service.
They sat awhile and talked ; no one
came. But suddenly a confused noise,
like that of a crowd, was heard proceed
ing from one of the deep corner recesses
of the hall. Osman looked that way,
but saw nothing ; then turning his head
back a moment towards his seeming
friend, perceived that his face was
changed and horrible, and his stature
gigantic.
And no t from the dark niche whence
the sound had been heard, issued a long
procession of countless figures—men,
women, children, on foot, on horseback,
armed, unarmed, soldiers, peasants,
townsfolk, spears, lances, swords, drums
and fifes; a mixed multitude, large,
small, grotesque, fearful, hideous. They
filled the entire place; they swarmed
round Osman; they pointed at him,
they laughed, they danced, they clam
ored, they sung, they played the strang
est antics, till in a moment, as the first
sharp cry that summons to wakefulness
and morning prayer sounded from the
minaret gallery of the old mosque out
side, they all vanished into nothing;
the lights went suddenly out, and Os
man, left alone in the darkness, fell
fainting on the stone pavement of the
floor.
There he remained till he was thus
found by the bath-keeper who entered
at daylight, and was carried home, still
insensible. But before long he recov
ered consciousness, and told hifc story ;
for some hours; even, he seemed none
the worse for his spectral adventure.
As evening approached, however, feves
came on and for several days he war
like to die ; when the crisis had passed,
it left him paralytic, hopelessly impaired
in mind and body, a mere wreck. Such
he now continues. His friend, whose
semblance the “mocker” had thrice as
sumed, had never, as they afterwards
found, left his house during the fatal
night, nor ever, till late the following
morning. ____________
While oompany D, of the Twenty
eighth Pennylsvania volunteers, was do
ing picket duty, John Moy was plaeed
as sentinel, with orders to examine all
“ passes.” During the day a horseman
came that way and being ordered to
halt handed his pass to Mdy, who leis
urely scanned it, gave it back, and per
mitted the man to pass. Mov’s deliber
ations had been noticed by Lieutenent
P., who called out, “Was that a pro
per pass?” “ Tis, sur.” “What was
on it, John ?” “ Divil a bit do I know,
sur, but with all the readin ’ and writin ’
there was on that pass, it was enough
to pass a major-general to the divil.”
Pi t on your right glove first, stupid.
Then you have your left hand ungloved
to button your right withal. If you
put. on your left glove first you have to
button your right glove under double
disadvantage,
THE BLOOD OF ST. JANUARIES.
The tniimcle of JKapieg-Waiting for Uell
uaro’k IIIojU to Liquefy .
Ban Gennaro (St. Januarius) is held
to be the guardian saint of Naples.
The alleged miracle by which the blood
of this holy person (contained in a
closed phial or glass tube) changefe from
a solid to a liquid state, is well known.
Admitted by special favor, with five or
six others, into the sanctuary of the ca
thedral, and seated within a few feet of
the officiating priest, I had an excel
lent opportunity to observe the ceremo
ny and its effect upon the assembled
thousands who came to await tin* result.
In tlie front rank of the audience,
some ten feet from us, were seated
twenty or thirty women, some very old,
the reputed descendents of the saint.
At their head, aud evidently chid of
this favored corps, was a tall, mason
line woman, of middle age—a very Meg
Merrilies in appearance,—with flashing
eye and the bold port of a popular
ringleader. Like most matrons in the
r ank of small but well-to-do Neapolitan
shopkeepers, he# flDgers were well cov
ered with toassive silver rings, and her
nedt was adorned with a heavy chain
and other ornaments of the same metal.
This Amazon seemed, for the nonce, to
have assumed the lead in the devotional
exercises of her neighbors.
These, when Hie priest first held up
the sacred phial with its clotted con
tents, were quiet and reverential ; ut
tered in low tones, but audible where
we sat, “ Holy Gennaro! Save, protect
as ! Bless the city of Naples and keep
it from plagues and earthquakes and all
other ills. Do this miracle, so we may
see that thy power and thy favor are
still with us. Blessed San Gennaro,
pray for ns,” and so on.
After each installment of prayer there
was an inteival of some ten minutes ■,
then the supplications recommenced,
patiently enough for an hour or more,
during which the still refractory blood
was, from time to time, displayed.
Then, gradually, the tone become quer
ulous, and supplication changed to re
monstrance. “ How long, O holy man
of God ! how long ! Art thou resolved
to weary out our patience? Come
quickly ! Hasten to show thy power !”
then usually dropping back into the re
frain, “Blessed San Gennaro, pray for
us !”
When nearly two hours had elapsed,
the patience of this Amazonian leader
evidently failed. It was a sultry day
toward the end of May, the crowd was
densely packed, and I saw drops of per
spiration standing on her swarthy fore
head.
“ San Gennaro,” she exclaimed, “ are
you going to keep ns here, sweating in
this accursed crowd, all day long ?
Who’s to attend to that little shop of
mine, I wonder, while I’m gone? Do
yon want it to be entered and robbed ?
Yon know I can’t afford to be away from
it all this time.” Then, as if the thought
crossed her that she had pone a little too
far, “ Blessed saint! Holy Gennaro !
Pray for us.”
Half an hour more elapsed, and still,
as the venerated relic was held od high
before the congregation, the obdurate
blood remained unliquefied. At the
sight, our dame of the silver chain and
rings, unable longer to stand such
treatment irom her canonized ancestor,
broke forth. Pointing her long, lank
finger at the silver gilt hurt of the
saint (which had been brought from his
chapel aud set on a pedestal near us),
“ Faccia gialla /” she cried. “ Yellow
face! You! It’s past all bearing. Have
you no mercy ? Hurry up ! Be about
it.! Come, set that blood a-flowing in
God’s name, at once ; and let us depart
iu peace !”
Her face all aflame and the nervous
agitation of her whole person, as she
rose to her feet and tossed her arms ex
citedly, attested the vehement reality of
her emotion. Had I been inclined to
laugh, which I was not, I think any
ouch exhibition of levity might have en
dangered my life, at the hands of that
exasperated multitude.
It was some ten minutes after this ob
jurgation that the priest, stepping to the
front—this time witha complacent smile
lighting up his face—showed tliemiracle
wrought, and the blood flowing freely
in the tube.
Then there went up from the assem
bled thousands such a wild shout of ex
ultation as one hears only in southern
climes ; and there only when fear and
expectation, wound up to highest pitch
and endured for hours, burst forth in
triumphant congratulations at last.
While all this was passing, the priest
who officiated had very politely brought
to ns, for ixamination, the vessel con
taining the blood ; affording us satis
factory evidence that it was at first co
agulated and that it had liquefied at
the close.— Robert Dale Owen's Rem
iniscences of Naples.
Alligators as Pets.
Absurd as the alligator may seem for
a pet, it so happens that we once had
some of them, and very pleasant little
pets they proved to be. It was during
a residence, not far from the bayous,
where alligators, great and small, are
to be had by the hundred thousand.
Instead of going in person to catch the
little fellows, we secured the services of
an aged American citizen of African de
scent, who knew more than we did about
keeping out of the way of the parent
alligators. He scooped up a dozen or
two of baby ’gators, and brought them
iD, his face ornamented a broad
grin of delight, iu anticipatio'n of the
dollar he had been promised for catch
ing them.
For several months a number of these
lively little fellows occupied a neat
aquarium tank in the library window,
where the sun shone on them. They
were as lively as little cats, and quite
as playful. Equally happy in the water
and out of it, they would frisk about
like so mauy monkeys when they felt so
disposed, and when* they felt lazy (for
alligators, like other folks, are subject
to attacks of laziness) they would stretch
themselves out, or lie in a heap, one on
the other, and bask in the sunshine.
They had a habit of eating almost any
eatable thing that was given to them,
their principal luxury, being live flies.
In catching these insects they exhibited
great dexterity. Large beetle cock
roaches also afforded them much pleas
ure. There was an abundance of these
in the house, and the alligators consid
erably reduced the stock. These alli
gators were in their first summer, and
were only a few inches long. They would
run over people’s hands and clothes, and
climb upon shoulders with great liveli
ness. We gave some of them away, and
the rest, probably pampered by petting
and over-feeding, died..
We once owned an alligator which
was six feet long. Bat he frighfened an
old lady out of her wits, and so we gave
him away. He was too large for a pet.
But, in their first or second year, ’gators
are pleasant pets, and no more danger
ous than kittens.
A Jewel Down in Georgia.
The following graphic description of
the real jewels of the fair south is given
by a paper printed in the state of Geor
gia : “Among the many visitors who
came to our city on Saturday last to sell
their country produoe, was a young
lady from an adjoining county who had
chickens, eggs and butter for sale.
Her beauty was of transcendent excel
lence. Bright, flashing, intellectual
eyes., and face round and rosy, while
her ealioo dress was p*ain and neatly
made, and fitted beautifully. Her rich
black hair flowed in luxuriant richness.
Highly educated, she conversed flu
ently, and deported herself with be
coming modesty. She wore no false
bustle or purchased complexion j had
no top-knot on her head, or false fix
ings to present, but stood in the majes
tic beauty of a created intelligence that
would not yield to the despotic dictates
of frivolous fashion. It has been a
long time since we gazed upon such a
sight. The young men crowded around
her wagon with curiosity in their eyes
and admiration in their hearts. The
old men wept for joy that there was one
who had not bowed to Baal. She sold
her country produce, went heme,
milked the cows, cooked supper for ten
farm laborers, ad went to church that
eight with her sweetheart.”
Taking the Bull bj the Horns.
The Southern Methodists, in confer
ence assembled at Louisville, have
taken a very bold position on the tem
perance question, and one which is
; much more radical, than aDy northern
church has assumed, fly a very large
vote—32s to 38, being more than the
neoessary two-thirds —a minority report
that any person making, buying, sell
ing, or using as a beverage intoxicating
liquors, shall be, upon conviction, de
barred from membership in the church,
was adopted. This action will be sent
rouud to the local conferences, and if
the majority of three-fourths concur it
will become a law. The vote was pre
ceded by a long and excited discussion,
in which all the points which have so
bewildered our local clergy were can
vassed. As there was no apparent pos
sibility that scriptural texts could be
reconciled, or that the views of dele
gates would admit of any compromise,
they decided to take the bull by the
horns, and throw the animal out alto
gether. The whisky-manufacturer, the
whisky-seller, the whisky-buyer, and
the whisky-drinker were all classed
under the same head, and the ban was
pronounced. Asa test of the feeling
in the conference, one of the most
prominent members declared himself
in favor of this special legislation,
even if it struck 50,000 members from
the roll. This action does not admit
of equivocation, and tlie Methodist
church south has done itself credit in
taking an attitude which cannot be
misunderstood. If the church is to
lake any position at all, it should take
a radical one. If all drinking is an
evil, it is folly for the church to com
promise with it. The teachers of vir
ture have no right to meet vice half
way. By this bold action the church
south will no longer have to squabble
over fermented and unfermented wine.
It will no longer have to apologize for
the condnct of Noah, Joseph, David,
SolomoD, and the rest of the drinkiDg
patriarchs. It will have to adopt tritu
rated currant jelly as a substitute for
grape juice and the extracts of rye and
corn. It will not have to explain that
miracle at Cana, of Galilee. It sets
the seal of its disapproval upon all
such practices. It pronounces these
old and erratio patriarchs as unworthy
of membership in the Methodist chuich
south. Nevertheless, the conference
is to be credited with courage in throw
ing out alcohol altogether. Now, will
the Methodist church north have the
courage to follow in the steps of their
southern brethern, and leave the pro
ducts of the vine and the distillations
of cereals to the sinners, and forever
clear their skirts of responsibility, and
set an example to the children of dark
ness ?—Chicago Tribune.
Different Kinds of Eyes.
No branch of science has been more
thoroughly mastered than optics. The
principle of vision mnst be essentially
the same in all eyes, but they differ re
markably according to the habits of the
auimal. Birds of lofty flight, as the
condors, eagles, vultures and carrion
seeking prowlers of the feathered race,
have telescopic visions, and thus they
are enabled to look down and discover
their unsuspecting victims. As they
approach noiselessly from above, the
axis of vision changes—shortening, so
that they can see as distinctly within
one foot of the ground as when at an
elevation of one mile in the air.
This fact explains the balancing of
the fish-hawk on its pinions, half a mile
above a still pond watching for fish.
When one is selected down the savage
hunter plunges, the focal axis varying
always to the square view of his intend
ed prey. As they ascend, the axis is
elongated by a curious muscular ar
rangement, so as to see far off again.
Snails have their keen eyes at the ex
tremity of flexible horns, which they
can protrude or draw iu at pleasure. By
winding the instrument around the edge
of a leaf or stalk, they can see how mat
ters stand on the opposite side.
The hammer-headed shark has its
wicked-looking eyes nearly two feet
apart. By will or effort they can bend
the thin edges of the head, on which the
organs are located, so as to examine the
sides of an object the size of a full
sized codfish.
Flies have immovable eyes. They
stand out from the head like half an
apple, exceedingly prominent. Instead
of smooth hemispheres, they have an
immense number of facets, resembling
old-lashioned glass watch seals, each
one directing the light directly to the
optic retina. That explains why they
cannot be approached in any direction
without seeing what is coming.
The Development of Tennessee.
A writer says: “The mountain re
gion of east and particularly the south
eastern part of Tennessee, one of the
most charming places that can be found
for grand and beautiful scenery, has re
ceived the title of the Switzerland of
America, to which it is fairly entitled.
The sportsman never fails here in meet
ing abundance of game, and both land
and water teem with the spoils that made
East Tennessee the favorite hunting
ground of the Indians. But it is the
almost fabulous mineral weath of this
region that is drawing so much atten
tion to it. Here tilted up on edge
are the different strata of minerals of
various kinds and astonishing richness,
only waiting for the hand of man to put
them to their proper uses. Both
coal and iron were known to exist
in large quantities in this section, but
they were not developed, simply because
the habits of the old slavey days led
the owners to have no relish for the
busy conflict and strife by which the
wealth and power of the nc rthern states
had been so rapidly acquired. Since
the war, however, a change lias come
over the spirit of their dreams, and
Chattanooga, thanks to the energetic
northern men, drawn hither by her
great natural advantages, has become a
thriving manufacturing center, and
promises to beoome one of the most im
portant points in the south. ”
President Anoell, of the Massachu
setts society for the prevention, etc.,
writes : “ I am represented as saying
in the paper which I read before the
American social science convention, at
New York, on Thursday, that animals
have neither thoughts nor language.
What I did say was, that animals do
have thoughts, language, intelligence,
affection and gratitude, and that if the
beliefs of a majority of the human race,
including such eminent Christian theo
logians and scholars as John Wesley,
Jeremy Taylor, Coleridge, Lamartine
and Agassiz are correct, then they have
also immortality. Permit me to add,
that there may be no mistake, that up
on the latter point I desire to express
no personal opinion, enly the hope
that in some futoi e life they may be
compensated for wrorgs they suffer
here.”
New York people have tried hard to
like horse meat, but they have had to
give it up and go back to beef.
WOMAN’S WORLD
The Mother. —
Women ku:>w
The way tc rear up cbiltlreu ( to be just) ;
They know a simple, merry, tender knack
Of tying sashes, fitting baby shoes
Aud singing pretty wonls that mak s no sense.
And kissing full sense into empty v ords ;
Which things are corals to cut life upon,
Altuough such trifles children lean by such.
Love’s holiest earnest iu a pretty pUy:
And get not over-early solemnized -
But seeing, as iu a rose-hush, love’n divine.
Which bums and hurts not —not a single
bloom—
Become aware and unafraid of love.
Such good do mothers. Fathers love as well—
Mine uiil, I know —but still with hea' ier brains,
And wills more consciously responsible,
And not as wisely, siuce less foolistly:
So mothers have God's license to b< missed.
Young mans who want to r
anything write it down and p iste it on
the looking-glass.
Placards on the St. Louis si reet-cars
declare that “this car can’t wait for
ladies to kiss good bye. ”
The great want of Fair Play, Col.,
“is a car-load of marriageable girls,”—
and no foolng about it, either.
The Cincinnati Enquirer aids to a
marriage announcement, “Thfir moth
ers did not know they were out.”
Going to Europe to s udy music or
marry a r obleman is the average ex
pectation of young lady travelers.
Mrs. Grundy decidedly objects to
cremation, for if there is anyt lung she
does like it’s a nice respectable burial.
When a Cine’nnati woman shoots at
her drunken husband and misses him
the newspapers say: “ Another bullet
wasted.”
According to the Kolnische Zeitung,
the armory of feminine weapons has
been increased by the invention of arti
ficial blushes.
An Atlanta firm has named anew
brand of whisky after a female crusader.
It will empty a man into the gutter af
ter a few drinks.
The average length of a courtship in
Nevada is only three hours aid a half,
but very often they get disgu; ted with
each other in five minutes.
A Michigan manufacturer his 18,000
broom-handles ready for shipment.
This ought to set husbands thinking
about coining home earlier.
Bobbs complains that his wife is an
inflationist. Bhe blows him up every
day, and makes him circulate until he
actually feels that he is beyond redemp
tion.
An lowa schoolmistress lately had
under her charge a little boy with such
a ridiculously soft head that Le died
suddenly just because she broke a chair
upon it.
The couple resolved themselves into
a commit'ee of two with power to add
to their number, is what a western pa
per has the audacity to say cone erning
a recent happy event.
In Brooklyn there are twenty-five
lady physicians. Three of them at
least have very large incomes, one of
them enjoying the satisfactory stipend
of ten thousand a year.
A contest in archery has recently
taken place on Dorchester heights,
South Boston, in which ten younp ladies
participated, and a gold medal, valued
at SIOO, was won by o. .e of them.
A young lady in Ohio was so moved
by a sermon that in the midst f the
congregation she took out her earrings
and stripped the flowers from her bon
net. Fortunately it was not her new
spring hat.
A Washington belle has forty-eight
pairs of shoes. Some curious wretch
calculates that if they were arranged,
heel to toe, in a straight line, its short
est possible length would be a fr iction
over one hundred and ten feet. He adds
by way of postscript, “That girl came
from Chicago.” *
Uncle Bob Breedlove, aged seven
ty, was married to Aunt Betsy Ph llips,
aged sixty-five, in Kentucky the other
day. Though their epidermis is inder
the cloud produced by long cen mries
of too ardent African sunshine, yet
their love is as white and pure as that
of two young doves in the back yt,rd.
Everything appeals to be biaded
now in the feminine dress line, from
sunshade to underskirt. All kirds of
beads are used, from the real jet to
those sold at five cents the string. The
newest bonnets, said to be imported,
are literally covered with beads on top,
and the same may be said of the sun
shades, which, to be admired, mnst be
always kept up—sun or no sun !
There is one decided change in the
fashions. After having for nine years
worn comparatively short “ wai ts,” the
ladies are gradually going back to the
old-fashioned long ones. It is pre
dicted that this fashion will bring
tight-lacing into vogue. In fact, slim
figures are already bt coming much
more common than formerlv, and art is
accused of having something to do
with it. Doctors are glad, and so are
corset makers.
Swim in injr for Liberty.
The New York Herald publishes a
communication from Rochefort. He
says :
We had heard it said that sharks in
their hunger assembled ordinari y in
the neighborhood of the slaughter
houses, which are situated not far from
the peninsula, and that, feeding plen
tifully upon tue refuse from butchery,
it seldom happened that they would at
tack a man. Oliver Paine, who was ig
norant of the first principles of swim
ming, went energetically to work, and
one month after my arrival became one
of the best swimmers of the peninsula
We then familiarized ourselves with
dangers by swimming in the sea for two
or three hours each day.
I cannot give all the particulars with
out compromising certain brave piople
who lent us their assistence. Th< fact
is, that three prisoners, simply residents
of the place, Achille Ballierce, Jourde
and Bastien Granthiele, negotiated with
the English Capt. Law, of the three
masted bark P. C. J.
Law, fully understanding the impor
tance of the prisoners he was to ta te on
board, consented to receive and condnct
us to Australia, but the peninsuli. was
guarded much too strictly to permi t him
to approach, and all he dared pr miee
ns was to receive us if we had some
means of boarding his ship, which was
at the end of the roads of New Caledo
nia, that is to say, more than :hree
hours from our fortified place.
The journey to the English ship was
a dramatic episode in our escape, and
we should certainly have succumbed to
fatigue if our friends of New Cale lonia
has not saved ns the longest part of the
journey in coming up to us on a dark
night in a whale-boat, which took is in
naked and all torn by the waves and
rocks, which cut like a razor.
'the Saratoga Mnoumen„
The Saratogian says of the monu
ment for which New York state has ap
propriated $50,000, to be erected at Sar
atoga in commemoration of Burge yne’s
surrender : “The plinth is seventy-five
feet square; the shaft at the bese is
forty feet square, exclusive of the apex
eight feet. The gable niches will have
representations of the three gen erals,
Schuyler, Gates, and Morgan, with their
accessories, the fourth being vicant,
with the word Arnold inscribed under
neath. Within the monument, the first
story is one room twenty-five feet sq uare,
the second story seventeen feet, the
third fifteen feet. These will have
historic tablets, memorials, caset, etc.
On the four corners of the platfor n are
to be mounted four bronze guns laken
from the English at the surrender.
VOL. 15--NO. 24.
SAUM.S AXD DOIN6S.
The Pawnee Indian*? want boots with
red tops, or they’ll raise another fuss.
Bket Harte’s last poem has to be
read nineteen times before its pathos
can be appreciated.
Queen Victoria is reported to be fol
lowing established precedents in the re
lation of mother in-law.
Some lord in England has ordered
two hnndered living prairie chickens
from Grnndy county, lowa, and will
try to acclimate them.
Autographs of George Washington
are selling in Philadelphia at SI apeice.
The manufacturers are about introduc
ing some improved machinery,and when
that is in they can be had at
a dozen.
At a conference meeting in Salt Lake
city recently, Brigham Young, Jr., ex
plained his system of praying for his
enemies: “I pray for our enemies,
brethren, but I always pray that they
may go to hell! ”
Daniel Boon had a very brief relig
ious creed. It was simply to love and
fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do
all the good to your neighbors and
himself that he oocld, and as little
harm as he could.
Earl Russell is not with the Wash
ington treaty. He told the house of
lords the other night that it had “tarn
ished the national honor, lowered the
national character, and sacrificed the
national interest.”
“ I wouldn’t be a oook for the whole
world,” exclaimed a fashionable young
lady to her betrothed lover. “Of
course not,” he replied: “if you were
cook for the whole world you would
never get through your work ; but you’ll
be able to manage it nicely for our
little family.”
A Connecticut lady remained too
long on a train to kiss female friends the
other day, and, trying to get off after
it had started, was thrown on her face.
“ If ever I kiss anybody again 1” she said
revengefully, as she arose, “any woman,
at least,” she added thonghfully, “ then
it will be when I am crazy.”
“Would my little Ezra,” asked a
fond mother, “like to be a missionary,
and go preach to the poor, suffering lit
tle heathen?” Tears—bright, pearly
drops of feeling—glistened on little
Ezra’s eyes as he murmured : “ Naw, I
wouldn’t; but I’d like to be on the per
lice long enough to put a tin roof on
the big lummax that stuck shoemakers’
wax on my seat to-day. You hear me”
Rev. Mr. Walton, of Hightown,
N. Y., placed a sealed can of beans
upon the live coals in the stove to
to assist in the opening thereof. An
instant explosion followed, shattering
the stove, upsetting the tea-kettle,
scattering the coals over the carpet,
and plastering the beans to the ceiling.
The whole family had a narrow escape,
and the dominie concludes that he
“ knows beans ” now.
The Chicago Times chronicles the
fall of an enormous aerolite in the vi
cinity of Farmersville, Livingston
county, Mo. The shock of its impact
with the ground is stated to have been
like an earthquake, and the molten mass
is described as fully twenty feet high
abve the soil, and some twenty feet in
diameter. It presents the usual ap
pearance of such bodies, being a black,
shining mass of meteoric iron.
From the account of the Sanders
ville, Georgia, Herald it appears there
was something to laugh at in the escape
of the convict from the Washington
county gang hired for agricultural la
bor. The overseer had some dogs that
he was training to catch any of the
gang who might escape, and he turned
this convict loose to exercise the dogs
and instruct them in their parts. But
the fellow took his part in earnest, and
as the dogs failed to come up to what
was expected of them he was not
taught.
The idea that Dickens intended a
portraiture of his own thriftless sire in
the character of Wilkins Micawber sug
gests to a sagacious London corres
pondent that the latter name is but a
disguise of the literal expression,
“My father.” Change the “y” to
“ i,” the “ f ” to “ c,’’ the “ t ” to “ w,”
and the “ h ” to “ b ” —and behold you
have Micawber at once ! This power
ful speculation reminds one of the old
explanation of the derivation of Mid
dletown from Moses—you drop the
’oses and add the ’iddletown !
Quantities of unsafe dams have been
discovered in Massachusetts since the
Williamsburg flool. The latest dis
covery of the kind is that a dam near
Worcester, which confines a body of
water twice the size of the Mill river
reservoir, has been in a dangerous state
for eight years, and was six years sine*}
condemned by the county commission
ers and ordered to be removed. The
order has never been complied with,
and when the dam bursts the city of
Worcester will vanish.
The old question, does lager intoxi
cate ? came Before a court in Dayton,
Ohio, a day or two ago. A Germ n
testified : “If you drink five or six
glasses of lager in a little while you
will feel more pleasant as if you drink
five or six glasses of water in the same
time, and if you drink five or six glasses
of water in a little while you will feel
more disappointed as if you drink five
or six glasses of lager in the same
time.” The jury were out four hours,
anti stood seven to five.
The value of carrier-pigeons was so
plainly shown during the Franco-Ger
man war, that the French government
has decided to erect a large house and
to keep constantly in it for th* next six
years 5,000 pairs of pigeons for breed
ing purposes. Bach fortress is to-have
a pigeon-house, with a capacity for 1,-
000 birds, and tao general stations are
to be established, with accommodations
for GO,OOO birds. The Germans too are
breeding carrier-pigeons on a large
scale for the use of the army.
The spring brain-work has began in
some of the principal newppaper offices.
The St. Louis, Democrat says: “In
the spring, the spurs grow longer on
the gaudy roosters legs ; in the spring,
a pallet’s fancy lightly turns to thonghts
of eggs.” The Minneapolis Tribune
says : “In the spring, the vernal blub
ber ripens in the burnished whale ; in
the spring, a tadpole’s fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of tail.” The Boston
Globe says : “In the spring, th’ um
brella-owner ’gins to wonder which is
his; in the spring, the soda fountain
lightly turns to thoughts of fizz. ”
Crop Prospects West and South.
Reports from the west and sonth,
which are generally regarded as trust
worthy, do not indicate favorable crops.
The area of cotton is not only less, but
the planter has suffered from frost, flood
an 1 lice. To a considerable extent re
planting has taken place, but not nnder
circumstances that encourage hope. In
western barlev the falling off is said to
amount to folly ten per cent., while the
reduction of acreage planted in spring
rye is fully six and one-fourth per cent,
'fhe wheat prospects, however, are re
ported to be flattering, although from
some localities come complaints of bad
weather. This is especially true of
southern Illinois and the corresponding
belt of country. It would be more
gratifying, however, to know what is the
condition of crops abroad. If they are
likely to be short the United States will
be the gainer, for we can sell with a
profit and employ our ships to advan
tage. If, on the other hand, they are
abundant we may again see the melan
; choly spectacle of corn burned as fuel
and the smaller grain entombed in store
houses.