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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
W. W A. mIrsCHALK,} *<*** ** d Proprietor*.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
The gale of last week resulted in a
loss of thirty-two lives 'along the eastern
coast of New Brunswick, nineteen being fish
ertnen. Four barks and nine schooners were
stranded, and about thirty fishing boats
wrecked.
The Maine Universalist convention,by
a decisive majority, has recognized the eligibili
ty of wo nan to the Christian ministry, in an
amend . ent to the by-laws, which forbids the
committee on ordination to make any discrim
ination against candidates on account of
sex.
In the Women’s Temptranee conven
tion at Pittsburg, Mrs. Dr. Hill said the wo
men engaged in this movement are not gen
eralty those who desire the ballot, bnt those
who thought the day would soon come when
men would solicit women to accept the ballot.
It was determined to issue an evening temper
ance paper.
Foarteen dead bodies have been re
covered from the ruins of the Central Baptist
church, Syracuse, N. Y., the floors of which
fell last week daring a festival. The number
of minor casualties is nearly or quite one
hundred. Among them are about a dozen per
sons with broken limbs and rib*. The cause
ef the disaster was the defective construction
of the building supporting the trass, which
was composed of planks sp'inted together.
The Italian co-operative laborers of
New York city, in a published card say: We
claim the right to put such a price upon our
labor as may seem to us best. We number
twenty-seven hundred artisans and laborers,
under seventy-two foremen. Having heard
that a large number of contracts have been
taken at panic prices by builders who cannot
proceed with their work because of the exist
ing and threatened strike, we hold ourselves
ready to undertake any contract, or furnish
the necessary force at reasonable rates. All
we ask is to be allowed to work in peace. The
record will show that of ninety thousand lod
gers in station-houses in the first quarter of
1874 only twenty-seven were Italians.
WEST.
Those colored miners at Nelsonville,
Ohio, are now doing excellent work.
At Carrol ton, 111., Sunday morning,
a murderer was hanged by a mob of masked
men.
The steamer Charmer, Samuel James
owner, was burned at the wharf at Evans
ville, Ind., last week. Loss about $10,000; no
insurance.
At a saw mill in Tyler city, Ohio, an un
known German fell on a saw, which was rapid
ly revolving. His head and one arm were cut
clean off in a few seconds.
The following is the official vote of
Oregon for the officers named: Congressman
—Ladow, democrat, nine thousand six hun
dred and forty-two; Williams, republican,
nine thousand three hundred and fortv;
Davenport, independent, six thousand three
hundred and fifty.
The Leavenworth Times says mail
advices from Dodge city, Kansas, confirm the
telegraphic reports that the Indians of that
vicinity have assumed a hostile attitude, and are
murdering citizens and depredating upon prop
erty. They killed a man named Warren near
Mulberry creek and took Ins entire scalp off.
Two hunters were killed at Dobey Wells. Four
soldiers 'at Camp Bulivaa were wounded and
a lot of stock ran off. A party of leading
citizens of Dodge city, including Hon. James
Haurahan, J. Kinev, J. Leonard. Red. Clark
and W. Taylor, who started for the Canadian
river in Texas, on the 7th inst., were attacked
on Sharp creek, seventy-3 ve miles from Dodge
city. All their stock was captured and it is
feared the whole party was murdered, as noth
ing can be heard of them. Tom Wallace and
a man named Wiley were killed Dear Canadian
river, and several wagons that should have ar
rived from there several days ago have not
been heard from. Lieut. Randall with a squab
of eighteen soldiers is out scouting for the
murderous red skins.
Important changes have taken place
in the Indian territory. Ail the agents of the
civilized Indians have been relieved excepting
I B. Jones, agent of the Cherokees. and a cen
tral agency has been established at Fort Git
son. The Choctaws, Creeks, Setninolcs,
Cherokees, Chick&saws and other eivi'ized In
dians will all be under agent Jones. This is
regarded as an experiment on a small scale to
familiarize the Indians with self-govern
ment under a future territorial organization.
A number of prominent Indians will take
strong grounds in the coming annual election
in favor of sectionizing government and citi
zenship in the United States. The Oklahama
Star, published at Caddo, in the Choetaw na
tion, opeu’y and ably advocates this doctrine.
The committee of congress appointed to in
vestigate and report on a territorial govern
ment for the Indian countrv, will find the sen
t iment of the country greatly changed in favor
of Col. Bondiuot s advanced position on the
subject of a government for the civilized In
dians and their rights as prospective American
citizens.
SOUTH.
The army worm has made its appear
ance on plantations near Monroe, La,
It is reported that the genuine rubber
tree is found on the St. John's river, in
Florida.
The oourt-house at LaGrange, Old
barn county, Kentucky, was burned to the
ground Wednesday night. Accidental.
A dispatch from Sanlsbury, N. C.,
states that John Allen Ketchey was hanged
there on the 21st, for the crime of outrage.
Texas leads in “ makiDg ” a crop of
cotton this year, having made hers, and got it
to market. It is mnch heavier than that of
1878.
A little boy named Christopher, aged
five years, was run over and killed by a train
on the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
last week.
One of the residents on the St. John’s
river has received an offer from Bamum of
one thonsand dollars for a live alligator twenty
feet long.
Gen. P. M. B. Young, member of
congress from the seven th' Georgia district,
has declined to accept a prominent military
position tendered him by a European power.
The sheriff of Clay oounty, Mo., has
sued the St. Louis Republican and the Globe
for libel in their accounts of the killing of
Detective Wiehey. His damages are $50,000
in each case.
The Duchess of Oneida, a two year
old heifer, purchased by W. J. Alexander at
New York (Mill's sale) last fall for 19,000,
died on Alexander farra. Woodford oountv. Ey.,
of pneumonia.
A Courier- Journal special report® a
heavy incendiary fire in Richmond Sunday
night, starting in a livery (stable and burning
down a carriage factory, a hotel and sixteen
business houses. Tfcxee horses were burned.
No fire department, and a high wind. Loes,
ninety thousand dollars.
At St. Louis, last week, Wm. Myers,
a deck hand, had an altercation with Pat Don
nelly and Joe Hawkins, cooks on his boat,
during ■ ,;ch Ha“rkins knocked liim down and
Donnelly stabbed him three times with a batch
er knife, inflicting wounds from which he died.
Hawkins was arrested, Donnelly is at large.
In conversation Gov. Smith is repor
ted to have said that the two roads of which
the state of Georgia has taken charge for
failure to meet the interest on bonds—the
Macon and Brunswick and North and South
rad roads are making expenses. He has
hopes he will be able to sell them both next
winter.
Gov. Moses, of South Carolina,
has pardoned three oountv commissioners
Of Barnwell, lately con viced of currnption
in office, and sentenced respective!v to
three, nine and ten years in the peniten
tiary. The convicted officials, on their way to
prison, boosts 1 that Gov. Moses would not
dare allow them to remain in the penitentiary
one month.
Several of the most prominent citi
zens have forme 1 themselves into a bridge
monument association for the purpose of
erecting a colossal bronze statue of Jae. B.
Eads, chief engineer of the bridge at St.
Loins, with an appropriate inscription thereon
of all his associates in the work of planning
and erecting the great-structure. The project
is to be carried out bv voluntary subscriptions.
A dispatch from New Orleans says,
about a hundred longshoremen attacked fifty
laborers in Livies’ coal yard in Algiers with
clubs and bricks, in a most violent manner,
driving them from their work, severely wound
ißg two. The assailants took possession of
the yard, but were finally driven out by the
police, lhe men working in the yard were
receiving less thau the union rates, and did
not belong to the Algiers union. Threats of
further violence are made.
FOREIGN.
Victoria returns the visit of the Czar
on September 14.
A special dispatch says the Carlist
General Lizarraga is dead.
The bill for the regulation of public
worship has passed the English house of
lords.
France has decided to pay less per
annum on her debt rather than to increase her
tax at on.
The government prohibits the distri
bution in France, of photographs of the
prince imperial.
The Brazilian cable has been success
fully laid, and London is now in telegraphic
communicaiion with Brazil.
The postal oonv=ntion between France
and the United States was ratified by the
French assembly without debate.
The Carlists have established three
entrenched lines before Estelia. The outer
most line is five leagues from the city.
Courbet, the painter, under whose
direction the Column Yendome was thrown
down and destroyed by the communists, has
been sentenced to pay the expenses of rebuild
ing it.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says there
are alarming rumors in Central Asia. One of
the Emirs of Kasgiar has seized the Russian
envoy, and concentrated 10,000 troops on the
frontier.
It is now stated that the meeting of
the Brussels congress on International law
will take place. Great Britain has apparently
waived her objections. The action of France
in the matter is still unknown.
Prof. Goeist, of Berlin, is about to
proceed to America for the purpoee of search
ing the acheves of the differed states for in
formation to aid him in preparing a history of
the constitution of the United States. While
in Washington he will be the guest of Presi
dent Grant.
The Pall Mall Gazette has informa
that the Czar has sentenced his nephew, the
Grand Duke Nicholas, who stole his mother’s
diamonds, to banishment for life to the Cau
casus and deprived him of the cross of Bt.
George bestowed for his achievements in the
Khiva campaign.
An immense water-spout formed in
the harbor at Havana, and passed through the
shipping, causing considerable damage. The
Russian bark Jenny was capsized, and several
boats sunk. No lives were lost. The men-of
war fired blank cartridges, which had the ef
fect of dissolving the column of water.
The relations between Turkey and
Persia are not friendly. It appears that the
Persian government has refused to return to
Turkish territory a tribe of 2,000 families
which Las been subject to the porte, but es
caped across the Persian frontier, and that a
number of Turks have been seized and mal
treated by a band of Persian pilgrims. The
Turkish government threatens force unless
Persia gives np the persons who have abused
its subjects and surrenders the revolting
tribe.
At the instance of Consul General
Seward and other foreign consuls, the Chinese
government has issued an edict to all growers,
manufacturers and exporters of silk, com
manding all precaution to prevent a deteriora
tion of the silk crop, and forbidding all coun
terfeiting and adulterating of silks in bales or
manufactured for export. This resulted from
the representations of several chambers of
commerce that the silks from China last year
vn of inferior quality, and in many instances
adulterated.
A Florence journal says the pope has
been presented with a copy of an address st-nt
from the United States to Archbishop Ledo
chowski, of Posen. The holy father, in re
plying, spoke most cordially of America, and
said : “ The United States is the only country
where I am really pope, in the eyes of the gov
ernment lam always afraid that European
governments shall oppose or control my acts,
whereas I can freely send pontificial docu
ments to the United States without fear or
opposition on the part of its government.
A letter from London Bays the arch
bishop of Canterbury's bill for the better regu
lation is likely to lead to very serions conse
quences. The bill has been prepared, it is rn
mored, under the direct inspection of the
queen, and is intended to check ritualistic
practices now so prevalent. The ritualists are
fnrions about it. and declare that if it is car
ried, the immediate consequence will be the
recession of large number of both clergymen
and laymen from the established church, and
the organization of a church of their own,
with one or two of the colonial bishops a
their head.
A Havana letter of recent date says
the Cabans report that a convoy of four hun
dred men, together with forty carts of provis
ions, bad oeen captured by the Cubans in the
jurisdiction of Santiago de Cuba, and the
total number, 400 Spaniards, bad been shot in
retaliation for the shooting of Cabans. The
Diarso state# the Spanish forces in the field
operating against the Cabans numbers 60,000
men. Of this number 40,000 are supposed to
be guarding the cultivated districts 10,000 on
the sick list and elsewhere, and 10,000 engaged
in active pursuit of the enemy. These 10,000
it says are not sufficient to pursue 6,000 or
8.000 men well acquainted with the country.
A letter from Havana, dated the 20th
inst., says the prospects are that a general re
pudiation of the bills of the Spanish bank
will take effect next week. Several cigar
manufacturers have notified their eustomers
that after next week they will not rec eive pa
per. but will demand go'd and silver. If this
should really take place and become general,
there would be many failures. An address
has been presented to Capt. Gen. Conch*,
signed by the business men of all classes, ask
ing as a remedy for the present financial diffi
culty the imposition of a tax of five per cent,
on the riches of the island which are repre
sented by landholders, property in ihe city
and county by commercial and banking insti
tutions. and others, to be paid quarterly for
two years, beginning July 1, 1874. It is
hoped that at the end of this period the war will
be concluded and there will be no necessity
for a resort to extreme measures. Capt. Gen.
Concha has sued a decree increasing the tax
on slaves to 75 cents per capita.
GENERAL.
A letter of Lyman K. Bass, declining
the appointment of assistant secretary of the
treasury, has been received.
The customs receipts for the week
ending June 25: New York, $ 1.648.117 ; Phil
adelphia. $216,368; Boston, $230,335.
E twin Booth has retired from the
stage—for a year. His nervous system is in
such a state that he must have some rest, or
go to bis final resting-place.
A dispatch from Peekakill states that
Henry Ward Beecher, in answer to a query as
what course he will pursue in view of the
recent statement of Tilton, says that he will
not break the silence he has hitherto observed.
Wm. B. Curtis, of Chicago, won the
diamond cliampionship medal of the New
York Atlantic Club last week, notwithstanding
he was heavily handicapped. The distance
ran was one hundred yards, and the time ten
and a quarter seconds.
Mr. Cress well is making arrangements
to retire from his office next week. Mr. Hale
has not yet signified to the president his ac
ceptance of the postmaster generalship. Mr.
CresswelL in a conversation with a friend, said
the reports as to his prospective appointment
to the Austrian mission are groundless.
A Washington dispatch states that
the chief of the secret service division, H. C.
Whiteley, has resigned and that the impression
prevailed that Whitely acted under instruc
tions from someone authorized to direct him.
This Secretary Boutwell will endeavor to as
certain without regard to whom it may impli
cate.
An exeention h lving been issned in
the case of a furniture dealer against the Dis
trict of Columbia, a sheriff proceeded to the
house of delegates an i made a leTy, taking
possession of the furniture and effects of the
house. Some property had previously been
taken from the hall by retiring members
which they were required to return.
The board to report a plan for a per
manent reclamation of the alluvial basin of
the Mississippi river will probably consist of
Gen. Warren and H. L. Abbott and Maj.
Beauregard, United States engineers. The
civil engineers are ex-Gov. Herbert, of Louis
iana, and John Sickle, of Arkansas. The exi
gencies of the service may cause a change of
the army engineers, but the civil engineers
are kept.
Phelps, Dodge <fc Cos., published an
answer to the recent speech in congress of
Gen. Butler, reiterating many of their former
statements and asserting: “We believe Gen.
Butler knows, but will fully conceal the fact
that the same error and misunderstanding of
an intricate law which compelled us, under
severe penalties, to invoice our goods both at
cash price and at market price, led us in the
case of a great number of importations to in
voice their value above cost, and bo resulted
in gain to the revenue and loss to ourselves,
immensely greater than the govemmen
claims to have lost."
The Pacific mail steamer Alaska,
hat arrived at San Francisco, and brings Yo
kohama dates to June 5. Kido a member
of the Japanese ministry, head of the depart
ment of education, had been murdered by his
countrymen. The Japanese government is
sues a notice to the effect that after the Ist of
August next the ex]X>rtation of rice and wheat
beyond the seas will be prohibited. The re
port of the tour of the late Japanese em
bassy around the world is finished and placed
in the hands of the censors. It will be pub
lished in Japanese. The Sagasake Express
says, it is the evident intention of the Japa
nese government to annex so much of the
Formas&n territory as is Dot under the control
of China. The Alaska brought 10,000 Chinese.
The postoffiee department has been
officially informed by the French minister of
the ratification of the postal convention be
tween France and the United States by the
French assembly. The minister expressed to
tne postmaster his desire that the convention
go into operation the Ist of July, but this
cannot be done, as the first of August is the
date fixed, and the ratifications have yet to be
exchanged. The charge for letters from
France to the United States will be ten eents
far the third of an otmee. and from the United
States to France nine cents for the half of an
ounce. Unpaid letters are to pay the above
rates, with five cents additional postage on
books, newspapers, samples, etc., which is
hereafter to be separately arranged by each
countrv.
The stockholders of the Atlantic and
Great Western railroad haTe ratified the
agreement entered into with the Erie railway
company on May 6. The indentures bind the
Atlantic and Great Western company to the
Erie tor ninety-nine years from the Ist of
May. The property of the Atlantic and Great
Western company is sold to the Erie company,
the actual value of the same to be credited to
the Atlantic and Great Western company on
account of dues for labor, materials, etc, to
be paid be the Erie company. Under this
agreement the amounts to be paid by the Erie
company are, for supplies to the 31st of May,
$310,727; due on March pay rolls $109,335;
due on April pay rolls, $192,535; due on April
supplies, $110,000; due for personal injuries,
$8,000; due for personal injuries in suits,
$69,041. Total, SBOO,OOO.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the senate, on the 20th, the reso
lution to purchase the watch presented to La
fayette by Gen. Washington, and to restore it
to his heirs, was passed The senate pro
ceeded with the consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation tali, and the amendments of
the committee were agreed to, among which
was one limiting the cost of public buildings
at Nashville to $377,000. The second section,
abolishing the civil service commission, was
stricken ont by the committee, and anew sec
tion reported restoring the commission, and
appropriating $ 15,000 for the expenses there
of, was agreed to, as was also an amendment
to repeal so much cif the sundry appropriation
bill for the year ending June 33, 1874. as made
an appropriation of $600,000 to replace worn
and mutilated national bank notes.
In the house, on the 20tb, the speaker
presented a message from the president, call
ing attention to the provision in the district
lull for the payment of the debts of the district
in bonds to be issued by the sinking fund com
missioners, running fifty years, and bearing
interest at the rate of 3.65 per cent per annum,
with the payment of principal and interest
guaranteed by the United States. The presi
dent objects to the rate of interest, saying
that bonds bearing 3.65 per cent, interest,
when issued, will be worth mnch less than
tbeir equivalent in cunelit money of the Uni
ted States. This would effect a depreciation
of the claims of creditors and would reflect on
the good faith of the United States. He urges
eongiee? to increase the rate, so as to make
the bonds negotiable at par The confer
ence report on the currency HU was agreed to,
after debate A bill was passed to amend
the gold bank law so as to allow the circula
tion of gold notes to be 90 instead of 80 per
cent, of the par value of the bonds deposited.
A resolution was adopted authorizing the
issuing of a subpoena to John McEnery. of
Louisiana, and others, requiring them to pro
duce the original election returns before the
committee on elections, on or before the first
Monday in next December The supple
mentary civil rights biU came up, and the vote
taken on its passage resulted in yeas 140, nays
91. There not bi-ing two-thirds, as required
by the order under which the business on the
speaker’s table was taken np, the bill was not
passed, and still remains on the speaker's
table The conference report on the defi
ciency bill was agreed to.
In the senate, on the 221, the tariff
bill was taken up, amended aad passed.
The conference report on the postoffice bill
was rejected, and anew committee ordered.
The report of the conference committee
on the Geneva award bill was accepted... .The
resolution of the house extending the session
of the present congress until four o'clock p.
M. Tuesday, 23d inst., was agreed to.
In the house, on the 22d, the confer
ence report on the Geneva award bill was
agreed to The house non-concurred in the
senate amendment# to the sundry civil appro
priation bill, and a committee of conference
was appointed, The house, after disposing
of a great deal; of miscellaneous business,
agreed to confirm the purchase of three acres
of land near Nashville, Tennessee, known as
the site of Fort Houston, and to convey the
same Cos Fisk university A concurrent reso
lution w*e adopted, extending the session un
til 4 p. w. Tuesday.
In the senate, on the 23d, a message
was read from the house announcing the non
concurrence of that body in the report of the
conference committee on the tariff bill, and
asking anew conference. It was postponed
till next December... .The resolution recom
mending arbitration as a just and practicable
method for the Battlement of internal difficul
ties was agreed to The report of the con
ference committee on the sundry civil appro
priation bill was agreed to The postoffice HU
was taken uf and' passed without Giccussion.
The bill providing for the sale of the Kan
CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY S. 1874.
sas Indian lands in Kansas to actual settlers,
and for the disposition of the proceeds of the
sale, was passed House bills to remove the
political disabilities c f Jno. Forsyth and J.
L. Pugh were passed The b ll'to author
ize the coinage of a twenty-cent silver piece
at the United States mints was passed A
resolution of thanks was voted the speaker,
and the senate adjourned sine die.
In the house, on the 23d, various
bills on the speaker's table were taken up and
referred Mr. Sawyer, from the confeienee
committee on the river and harbor appropria
tion bi.l, made a report. In reply to inquiries
he stated that the amount was reduced about
■*250,000 below the sum in the bill as it came
from the senate, but was about half a million
more than when it left the house. Alto
gether. it appropriated little more than half a
million more than the bill last year. The re
port was agreed to Ihe report of the con
ference committee on the postal appropriation
bill was agreed to. It provides that prepay
ment of postage on newspapers shall com
mence January 1, 1875, and that the rate of
postage on newspapers shall be twelve cents a
pound on all weekly and daily newspapers, and
three eents a pound on all publications less
frequently than weekly Conference report
on the sundry civil appropriation bill was
agreed to Senate amendments to house
bill extending the time for completing the en
try of the Osage Indian lands iu Kansas was
concurred in, and the bill passed Senate
bill authorizing the committee on appropria
tions of both houses to meet during the re
cess of congress, to make inquiry into the ma
chinery by which reforms can be" made in ex
penditures of civil branches of the service,
was passed Senate bill in regard to the
survey of lands of the Northern Pacific rail
road company was referred Senate bill re
organizing several staff corps of the army
was passed—l3l to 50... .Senate amendments
to house bill in relation lo courts ‘and judicial
affairs in Utah was concurred in—ll 2to 36
Senate bill removing the political disabilities
of James L. Pugh, of Alabama, was passed.
For some time before the hour of final
adjournment there was a noisy murmur of
friendly leave-taking between the members.
As the hands on the clock dial indicated 6
o’clock, wishmg all the members a safe and
happy return to their homeß and families, the
speaker pronounced the first session of the
forty-third congress adjourned sine die.
FUN IN FLORIDA.
What Came of a Matrimonial Trule on
the Strwranee.
Sew York Suit'd Florida, Letter.
As I came down stairs the other morn
ing I saw Capt. Frank Sams, a noted
hunter, seated on the edge of the stoop,
swinging his feet into a rosebush.
“Look here,” said he, “yon think you
know something about Florida murders.
The Lang and Cochrane stories ain’t a
patch to the beauties of the Snwanee
country. Oat there they make a whole
ale business o. it. Some time a:o two
men named Locklier and Mundy lived
near the mouth of the Snwanee river.
They raised cattle for a living. Lock
lier had an average look ng woman for a
wife, while Mundy was a widower with
a mighty fine daughter. The two men
got quite thick, and used to cow drive
together and eat in each other’s houses.
After a time Mundy took a fancy to
Locklier’s wife, and Locklier took a
fancy to Mnndy’s daughter. So they
struck up a trade. Alter palavering
around, MuDdy offered to give his
daughter for Locklier’s wife and twenty
head of cattle. Locklier took him np
straight, and the bargain was made.”
I a=ked the captain what kind of girl
the daughter was.
“ Well,” he replied, “I’ve heard she
was a plump little filly, about eighteen
years old. Locklier’s wife was a little
skinny, but she was a good driver and
worked well in harness with her hus
band. The daughter never made any
objection to the bargain, and the wife,
like most of the women, was glad of
anything for a change. So Mundy drove
off the twenty head of cattle and the
old woman, and Locklier shook himself
down in the cabin with the daughter.
Things were all snug. Well, in about
two weeks Locklier’s wifi got sick of it.
She declared that her husband was bad
enough, but he was an angel alongside
of Mundy. She went back home, and
swore that she wouldn’t live with Mnn
dy any longer under any circumstances.
Then Mundy came up to Locklier’s
house and wanted his daughter hack.
The daughter by this time had fallen in
love with Locklier, and you couldn’t
have driven her out of bis cabin with a
pack of dogs. Lockliersaid she shouldn’t
unless the old man drove hack the twen
ty head of cattle. Mnndv said he’d see
Locklier in h—l before he brought back
the cattle, and threatened to shoot him
if he didn’t tarn over his daughter.
Locklier told him to shoot and be dod
drotted. So they parted bad friends.”
I interrupted the captain bv asking
what the neighbors thought of such pro
ceedings.
“ Well,” he replied, “ they didn’t
have many neighbors. What they did
have were like themselves. They
looked upon the whole thing as a bona
fide bargain, and if one or the other
got cheated it was no outsider's busi
ness. As I was saying, Mundy declared
war. He threw np a sort of parallel
around Locklier’s house, and bom
barded it with a double-barreled shot
gun. All day lona he laid around the
house, waiting for a shot. Locklier
was afraid to go out or even show his
face at the window. For hours he would
sit on a chair with his old rifle across
his knees and watch the door. Whenever
the latch moved he would blaze away
without waiting to find out who was
cming in. Tw or three times he
came near shooting his wife when she
was ont after a pail of water. Ton see
he knew Mundy meant business, and he
wasn’t going to let him get a twist on
him. Mnndv skirmished around the
house until dark. Then he traveled
home and got a good night's sleep ; bnt
by daylight Locklier again found him
intrenched outside the door.
“ This arrangement lasted several
days, and Locklier began to get tired of
his imprisonment. One night he took
a oonple of stont cart wheels standing
near his cabin, boarded them on three
sides with two-inch plank, and when
Mnndy pnt in an appearance the next
morning confronted him with his move
able battery. The old man had to fall
back. Locklier followed him np the
road with his battery, shelling him at
every jump. Mundy was driven into
his headquarters, and his antagonist
took the part of besieger. A dozen
shots were exchanged before sundown,
and at dark Locklier drew back to his
house under cover of the battery. Be
fore the roosters stopped crowing he
was again moving up the Toad toward
Mundy’s house, shelling his way every
few rods, and driving the old man and
his shot-gun to cover.
“Well, the war was kept up in this
way about a week, but at last it bad to
come to an end. One bright moonlight
night Locklier thought he would qui
etly wheel his battery up the road and
see if he couldn’t catch Mnndy outside
of his fortifications. So he lai 1 his ri
fle before him and set the wheels ago
ing. He had shoved them about a quar
ter of a mile, and was just turning a
curve in the road when he heard a
scraping noise on his left. Mnndy had
flanked him. By the light of the moon
he could see the old man on his knees
behind a fence, shoving the barrels of
his shot-gnn between the rails and get
ting his head down to take aim. Lock
lier had no time to lose. He snatched
his rifle and sighted it They fired to
gether. Mnndy fell dead with a rifle
bullet in his head, and Locklier tum
bled into his battery with eleven buck
shot in his breast. He lived about four
hours, and declared if he hadn’t been
listening to the crickets he would have
seen Mundy before the battery passed
him. The wife and daughter buried the
two men, divided the twenty head of
cattle and got all the property.”
Thomas Hood died composing— and
that, too, a humorous poem. He r
said to have remarked that he was dy
j ing out of charity to the undertaker,
who wished to urn a lively Hood.
SOMETIME.
WeD, either you or I,
After whatever i* to say is Raid,
Must see the other die,
Or hear, through distance, of the other dead,
Sometime.
And you or I must hide
Poor empty eves and faces, wan and wet
With life’s great grief, beside
The other’s coffin, sealed with silence, yet,
Sometime.
And you and I must look
Into the other’s grave, eo far or near.
And read, as in a book
Writ in the dust, words we made bitter here,
Sometime.
Then, through what paths of dew,
What flash of flowers, what glory in the grass,
Only one of ns two,
Even as a shadow walking, bind may pass,
Sometime.
Add, if the nestling song
Break from the bosom of the bird for love.
So more to listen long,
One shall be deaf below—one deaf above,
Sometime.
For both must lose the way
Wherein we walk together very sea 1;
One in the dusk shall stay,
The other first ahall see the rising moon,
Sometime.
.Oh! fast, fast friend of mine I
lift np the voice I love so much and warn,
To wring faint hands and pine,
Teli me I may be left forlorn, forlorn,
Sometime.
Say I may kiss through tears,
Forever falling and forever cold,
One ribbon from sweet years.
One dear dead leaf, one precious ring of gold,
Sometime.
Sav you may think with pain
Of some slight grace, some timid wish to please,
Some eager look half vain
Into your heart, some broken sobs like these,
Sometime.
AN OREGON ROMANCE.
The lives of the pioneers in the re
mote mining districts of California were
generally devoid of romance or excite
ment, safe that witnessed at the gaming
tables, and to relieve the monotony of
mountain life they generally passed a
few months in “Frisco” (San Francisoo),
or sojourned for a season with the Web
feet, otherwise known as Oregonians.
Mr. Charles Bradbury, of Indian Towd,
northern California, had been fortunate
in mining, and as winter was approach
ing, when little could he done in his
claim, he left it in care of his partners
and set out to visit a relative who resi
ded in the Willamette valley some three
hundred miles distant. A party had
been made up to cross the Siskiyou, on
the summit of which the snow already
lay deep. This, it was understood,
would be the last party which would
undertake the passage of the moun
tains before they should be closed for
the winter.
Near the time of starting they were
joined by a yonng man named Alfred
Boise, whose parents resided in Oregon.
He had recently been suffering from in
disposition and was cautioned not to un
dertake the trip, which was sufficiently
arduous even for the most vigorous ;
but his anxiety overcame his prudence
and he set out with the others. Before
the summit was reached he became
quite exhausted, and had it not been
for the kindly assistance of Bradbury
he must have perished. From this oc
currence they became strong friends,
and at yonng Boise’s urgent solicitation
Bradbury accompanied him to his home
near the head waters of the Umpqua,
where he was cordially welcomed by
the family. A sister of his friend,
named Adaliza, was a charming girl of
seventeen or eighteen summers, and at
once won the admiration of the suscepti
ble Californian. His 6tay was length
ened from the few days which he at
first purposed remaining, to several
weeks. Not wishing, however, to pro
long his visit to a visitation, he bade
his new-found friends a reluctant adieu
and continued on his way to the Willa
mette. Here he purchased a fine horse
and not unfrequently tested his spieed
with that of the best horses in the
neighborhood, and always to his entire
satisfaction.
Bradbury remained a few weeks
with his relatives, but the spirit of un
rest possessed him, and he soon turned
his face southward, urging as an excuse
that his business at Indian Town de
manded his presenoe. His business,
however, was not so pressing but that
he turned aside to halt awhile at the
ranche of his friends, the Boises. His
admiration for the fair Adaliza had
deepened to the tender pas ion, and
this fact he was not slow to declare.
But she replied;
“ You Californians like nothing bet
ter than to come here and make love to
ns web-foot girls,and when you have won
onr hearts, you go off to your cabins
and your claims and never come back.”
“But,” said Bradbury, “I will
marry you before Igo back, and when
I have * provided a home for yon, yon
shall come to me, or I will come after
you.”
But she would give no direct answer,
but remained on very f iendly terms
with him, and they often rode together
to the neighboring village and to other
points about the valley.
One day they were slowly riding to
ward home, and Bradbury was urging
his suit, and pleading for an answer to
end his suspense. They were nearly a
mile Irom the ranche, near which grew
two large live-oak trees, standing very
near each other. Said Adaliza :
“If you will pass those twin live
oaks before I do, I will go with yon to
California some day.”
Bradbury prided himself upon his
horsemanship,“and accepting the chal
lenge with a wave of the hand and a la
conic, “ I’m your man ! ” dashed spurs
into his steed and sped like an antelope
over the plain. The girl wa3 taken by
surprise at his sudden movement, but
gave her horse the word, and he too
“ stretched neck and nerve till the hol
low earth rang.” It has already been
intimated that Bradbury was well
mounted; his companion was no leas so,
and they rode on as only those can ride
who are at home in the saddle.
Bradbury’s sudden movement had
given him the advantage by a few rods,
but he soon realized that it would be no
easy matter to maintain it. The girl
was urging her horse by whip and voioe.
and having been the winner in many a
hotly contested race,] he bent to his
work in true race-horse style, “ reach
ing long, breathiDg loud like a creviced
wind blows.”
Little more than one-half the distance
was passed, when Bradbury became
aware that his competitor was pressing
hard npon his flank, and he knew that
his weight was b ginning to tell on the
noble beast, which seemed to realize the
value of the stakes for which he ran.
For a quarter of a mile he held his own;
Miss Boise, however, coming once or
twice very near, but not maintaining
her position at Bradbury’s side. The
goal was almost reached aud he was
confident of victory. But he had not
counted on his opponent’s Bkill as a
race-rider. She had restrained her
horse for the final dash and now came
on with a burst of speed that plaoed her
fairly at Bradbury’s side and seemed
sure to give her the vict ry. Indeed,
the victory seemed already hers, for
with long and steady leaps her horse
was sweeping past at the moment, they
were to pass the goal. At this period,
however, the fore-feet of Bradbury’s
horse went down in the burrow of a
gopher, he stumbled upon his knees,
the girth parted and Bradbury went
over the horse’s head and into the air
like a rocket, landing beyond the goal
and a yard or two ahead of his fair
competitor. Striking upon the mellow
earth he performed a series of evolu
tions, bat regained his feet with no in
jury save a pretty severe shock from
the abrupt manner of dismounting.
He had sufficient presence of mind to
exclaim with his first breath : “ I be
lieve yon’re mine !” while Adaliza, rein
ing in her stead with a steady hand,
sprang lightly to the ground, and in a
moment was at his side anxiously in
quiring if he were hurt His horse re
gained his feet and stood near with a
sheepish expression, as though he were
the veriest culprit on earth.
Bradbury found himself able to walk,
and before he and his companion reach
ed the house she hai promised that
when C hristmas should come again she
would beoome his wife, and go with him
to his mountain home. And bo it was
settled that at that time he should come
for her. With this understanding he
again clasped hands in parting, and set
ont for his home in the Siskiyou. He
found his partners eagerly awaitiDg his
return, and all were soon busy with
pich, shovel and hydiaulic.
As autumn approached and the water
in the creek become too low for mining
purposes, Bradbury set about erecting
a house somewhat more pretentions than
lhe limited quarters occupied by him
self and partners.
A pleasant site near the town was se
lected, and thongh the house was far
from being an elegant or imposing
stricture, it was neat and comfortable
and far superior to a majority of the
homes of pioneers.
Not long after he left Boise’s, a
young drover fiom Southern cregon
called at the ranch, and stopping for a
day or or two became quite enamored
of* the fair Adaliza. Hii attentions
were not received with favor, but he
persisted, and at the first opportunity
proposed.
The girl frankly told him that she
was affianced, and that her lover was in
California. Of this he was already
aware, but had feigned ignorance. He
langhed at the idea of her trusting to a
miner fro a the mountains, saying they
were like the sailors, and made love for
pastime.
After some time, becoming wearied
with his importunities, she told him
that if Bradbury did not return by the
appointed time, she would talk with
him, but until that time she wonld have
nothing more to say to him on the sub
ject. He then took his departure, not,
however, until he had made an arrange
ment with a friend, who lived near by,
to notify him promptly if Bradbury did
not return by the twenty-fifth of De
cember.
While engaged in building his house,
Bradbury received an injury from a
falling timber which di abled him for
some weeks, and occasioned some delay
in his departure, so that Christmas was
already passed • when he set ont.
Crossing the mountains, he stopped
one night at Jacksonville, and then
pushed iorward as rapidly as possible,
for his forced delay had occasioned him
no little anxiety. On the seooed day
after leaving Jacksonville he fell in
with a traveler, riding like himself on
horseback, and in the same direction.
This stranger gave his name as Hark
man, and after a few hours became oom
municative. He said that he had be
oome tired of leading a single life, and
was going down to the Umpqua to
change his condition. Bradbury ap
peared to take but little notice of his
remarks, but contrived to keep him
talking until he learned that the yonng
lady whom he was going to see had
been engaged to “a chap from Califor
nia,” bnt as he, the Californian, had
not appeared at the appointed time,
Harkman expected to step in and win
the prize with scarcely an effort. They
continued to travel in company, and
when they came in sight of Boise’s
ranehe, Harkman remarked with much
assurance :
“There is the home of the future
Mrs. Harkman !”
Bradbury said nothing, and pretend
ed that he was journeying on to Port
land or Salem. Harkman, however, in
vited him to call on his fair Dalcinea,
and touching his horse’s reiD, they rode
together to the house. Adaliza was at
the door in a moment, and as Bradbury
sprang lightly from the saddle she
came to his arms as only Oregon girls
can and do come to the arms of their
lovers. Harkman looked on with sur
prise, but at length found words to ex
claim :
“ Euchered! what a grouse (Oregoni
an foT simpleton) I was not to know it!”
He turned his horse’s head in the di
rection whence he came, and no grass
could even sprout beneath his horse’s
feet until he was out of sight.
On New-Year’s day there was a wed
ding at Boise’s ranche, and a few weeks
later a horseback journey down to the
Willamette, and when the early spring
had come, and the skies were clear, a
longer ride [through the flower-be
sprinkled valleys of Oregon, and over
the fir and pine clad Siskiyou to the
neat cabin at Indian Town.
My friends in that distant mining
town tell me that the voices of beauti
ful happy children may be daily heard
around this unassuming home, but
whether they are web footed I have
not inquired.
Another Prince of Wales.
It is rather startling, is it not, to hear
that “ the Prince of Wales was married
on the 15th of last month to Lady Alice
Hay, a daughter of the late Earl of
Errol, at the Roman Catholic church
in Spanish Place, London ?” Such, how
ever, is the fact. And yet the husband
of Alexandra, “ sea king's daughter
from over the seg,” has not committed
bigamy. The “ Prince of Wales,” who
has just married a young Scottish lady
of old cavalier and Jacobite blood, is
the wrong “Prince of Wales.” He is
commonly known as “Colonel Count
Charles .Edward d’Albany, the only son
of Count Charles Edward Stuart and of
Anna, daughter of the Right Hon. John
de la Poer Beresford, and niece of the
first Marquis of Waterford.” When
the right Prince of Wales last veai went
to the Vienna Exhibition, he had the
pleasure of seeing this great grand
nephew, or whatever he may be, of the
pretenders of the last century figuring
in a Highland dress among the officers
of the Austrian army. It is rather
doubtful after all whether the “Count
Charles Edward ” is so nearly the di
rect representative of the royal Stuarts
as to deserve even in that way the com
plimentary title of the wrong “ Prince
of Wales.” Asa matter of fact, we be
lieve the direct heir of the English
crown in the Stuart line to-day is Fran
cis Y., ex-Duke of Modena, *• by right
divine ’’ Francis L of Great Britain and
Ireland, king. But the count is con
ceded to be a Stuart, and his reappear
ance in England to marry a Scottish
noblewoman is at least a curious inci
dent of the day worth bringing to the
notice of the lovers of historical ro
mance.
Ruskin on Lectures.
I find the desire of audiences to be j
audiences only becoming an entirely
pestilen character of the age. Every
body watts to hear—nobody to read,
nobo ly to think ; to be excited for an
hour—and, if possible, amused ; to get
the knowledge it has cost a man half
his life to gather, first sweetened up to
make it palatable, and then kneaded
into the smallest possible pills, and to
swallow it homeopathically aDd be wise
—this is the passionate desire and hope
of the multitude of the day. It is not to
be done. A living comment quietly
given to a class on a book they are
earnestly reading—this kind of lecture
is eternally necessary and wholesome ;
youi modern-fire-working, smooth-dow
ny-enm -and-etrawberry - ice -and - milk
punch-altogether lecture is mi entirely
pestilent and abominable vanity; and
the miserable death of poor Dickens,
when he might have been writing blessed
books till he was eighty but for the
pestiferous demand of the mob, is a
very solemn warning to us all, if we
would take it.
HYDROPHOBIA
Haw to Tell When Dogs Are Mad. ud
4% hat to Da Ira Cases ot Rabies.
The following timely letter appears
in the columns of the London Times :
Daring the last few months an unnsu
al number of dogs have been affected
with hydrophobia in the metropolis, as
well as in other part* of the United
Kingdom. From the circumstance that
several cases of the disease have very
lately occurred in the practice of the
Brown institution, as well as from infor
mation received from other sources,
there seems to me to be some reason to
fear that it is still rather widely preva
lent.
As the danger to the public which
arises whenever this is the ease, how
ever horrible in itself, is one which can
be avoided by the possession of the re
quisite information, it is clearly desira
ble, even at the risk of exciting alarm
in the miods of a few sensitive persons,
that such information should be commu
nicated for the general good. I have,
therefore, pnt down in as plain words as
possible what appear to me to be the
most useful criteria for the recognition
of rabies in the dog. In doing so I
have been assisted by the experienced
veterinary surgeon of the Brown insti
titution, Mr. Daguid, and by my friend
Mr. HuntiDg, of Derby street, Mayfair,
who has paid special attention to the
disease. I have also the advantage of
writing with an actual case under my
observation.
Persons are liable to be bitten by mad
dogs under two sets of circumstances :
first, when a rabid animal escapes from
home and is at large; and, secondly,
when a dog not supposed to be infected
is caressed by its master or those who
have to do with it at home. Consequent
ly, it is quite as important that the pub
lie should be aware of those slight in
dications which afford ground for the
suspicion that the disease is impending,
as that they should know the character
istic signs by which it may be recog
nized when it has declared itself.
The premonitory indications of rabies
in a dog are derived almost entirely
from observation of changes in its de
meanor ; consequently, although they
may be too trifling to be noticed by a
casual observer, they are fortunately
sufficiently striking to arrest the atten
tion of anyone who is abont a dog and
familiar with its habits and individual
peculiarities.
A dog about to beoome rabid loses its
natural liveliness. It mopes ahout as if
preocupied or apprehensive, and seeks
to withdraw into dark oomtrs. From
the first there is usually a foreshadow
ing of that most constant symptom of
he disease—depraved appetite. Mad
dogs not only devour filth and rubbish
of every kind with avidity, bnt even
their own excrement—often immediate
ly alter it has been passed. Indications
of this kind appear early and are more
than suspicions.
Aleng with this peculiarity of beha
vior it is of equal importance to no
tice that an infected dog, from the
first, snaps at other dogs without pro
vocation. This snappishners in most
dogs in very striking. If a dog previ
ously known to have no such habit
snaps indiscriminately at the first dog
it meets in the yard or in the street, it
is probably not safe.
So far I have had in mind what is te
be observed in dogs tied np at home.
A dog which is at large is also to be
recognized as in a dangerous state by
its demeanor. A healthy dog in its
progress along a street or elsewhere,
shows at every step that its attention is
awake to the sights and sounds it en
counters. The rabid dog, on the con
trary, goes sullenly and unobservantly
forward, and is not diverted by objects
obviously likely to attract it. This
statement, however, is subject to the
important exception already referred to,
that it is excited by the sight and sound
of an animal of its own species.
Of the symptoms which accompany
the final stage of the disease, the most
important and characteristic are those
which relate to the organs in which it
locates itself—the month and throat.
Attention is often drawn to the condi
tion of the mouth in an aDimal sup
posed to be healthy by the observation
that it tries to scratch the comers of its
month, aw if attempting to get off the
ropy mucus which is seen to be dis
charged from it. In and >gs that are tied
np it is noticeable that the bark has en
tirely lost its ring, and acquires a pecu
liar hoarseness, which can be recognized
even by the most unobservant. As the
disease progresses the discharge in
creases, the lower jaws hang as if par
alyzed, and the animal has evidently
difficulty in swallowing. Along with
this there is often loss of power of hind
limbs. If now lhe dog is watched, the
peculiarities of behavior which have
been always noticed are seen to present
themselves iu a mnch more marked de
gree than before. It is observed, first,
that it is subject to paroxysms of excite
ment, in which it makes often-repeated
efforts to bite objects (snch as wood,
straw, etc.,) within its reach, while at
the same time it continues to exhibit
the tendency already mentioned to de
vour its own excrement; and, secondly,
even during the remissions, its excite
ment is at once renewed by the sight or
sound of another dog.
It may be well to note that the dis
ease occurs at all seasons, that the mad
dog continues to recognize its master
and manifest pleasure when kindly
spoken to, that it does not shun water,
and that in many cases from the first to
the last that wild fury which is common
ly supposed to belong to the disease is
conspicuously absent.
The Swift Comet.
The new comet lately discovered by
Professor Swift is likely to be an ob
ject of great popular as well as scien
tific interest. It is steadily approach
ing the earth, and with an opera glass
it can be seen as a nnclens hazy mass
with a bright point a little on one side.
With a good telescope the tail is very
clearly defined. It is now situated, at
one o’clock in the morning, directly be
neath the pole star, and about twenty
five degrees from it, and is just visible
to the naked eye. So directly is it
moving toward the earth that it seems
to stand stiU. During the latter part
of July and beginning of August, when
it will* be nearest the earth, it will
doubtless be a conspicuous and beauti
ful object, as it will then be two hun
dred and forty-five times as bright as at
the time of discovery, while now it is
only five and one-half times as bright
II is many years since any oomet has
been near enough or bright enough to
attract the attention of the public in
any marked degree, and we may there
fore expect to enjoy a very decided as
tronomical sensation during the ap
proaching heated term. Pro. Swift is
not, as might be inferred from the vari
ous announcements which have been
made, the first discoverer of this comet.
It was first seen at Marseilles, France,
on the 17th of April.
The Dismal Swamp.
The next neighbors to the Dismal
Swamp want its name changed, so that
they eaD sell their real estate. The
Suffolk Herald aays that people “ write
that the country must be dreary and
gloomy, indeed,* and they fear that they
could not always live under a fog—they
must have some sunshine. How little
do they imagine that instead of a dis
mal, dreary, foggy wilderness, the
swamp in question is now clothed with
a beautiful foliage. The graceful
cypress, the stately juniper, the yellow
jasmine and climbing woodbine, sweet
honeysuckle and fragrant laurel, are on
every hand, and under a May-day sun
the appearance is more like the poet'*
dream of Arcadia tbanadismal swamp. ”
Moorish Women.
The Moore, unlike the Othelloe :f our
childish fancy,N*re simplyiArabs who live
in towns and have intermarried with
other races. They have the same
straight features, oval faces, and clear
brown skins, only a good deal fairer
than the nomad Arab. But their dress
is different They wear a turban or
piece of white mnslin wonnd round a
little red shashea, or skull cap, a jacket
of bright colored eloth, and two waist
coats, richly embroidered, full trousers,
bare legs, and large loose shoes. The
dress of their women out-of-door is the
haik of their Arab sisters : but in doors
they wear a gauze chemise, with short
sleeves, wide trousers, bare legs, and
vellow babottchce, or slippers. Their
beautiful black hair is simply knotted
behind the head, while a little velvet
shashea, richly embroidered, is placed
oiquetbahly on one side. A kind of
vest of the same material is sometimes
added to define the shape ; and all have
beautiful jewels, fine pearls, emeralds
or sapphire®, wretchedly set, and atum
pierced through the middle or strung
on pack-thread ; bnt still genuine pre
cions stones. No Arab will wear a
/alee stone, and or that reason they
prefer that they should not match, as
they always suspect the regularity of
our English jewels. As to their posi
tion with regard to the other sex, it is
no better than that of the Arabs, They
are utterly uneducated, and the rich
and those of high rank never leave
their own houses. We went to see one
of them, the Princess , who had a
little girl of fire who was fiance to a
little boy-cousin of six, the most snlkv
impersonation I ever saw of a small
Moor. This lady told us that formerly
she had been allowed by her husband
to go on the terrace of the house, but
that now it had been glazed over. She
had never s en any of her own rela
tions since she was a little child, and
never went beyond those four walls. If
the parents are poor, the advent of a
girl is looked upon as a positive mis
fortune by both Arabs and Moors.
When a boy oomes into the world, the
wile is presented with a beantiful cir
cular brooch to fasten her haik ; but
blows and a curse are her only reward
for producing one of the other sex.
Madame Luce and the Sisters of Char
ity are striving to raise these poor little
things from this miserable position,
and by teaching them needlework and
embroidery, to enable them to get sit
uations in better-class houses. One of
these children was servant in the prin
cess's honsehold which I have just men
tioned, and a more faultlessly beautiful
face I never saw, with soft, almond
shaped eyes and the most winning
smile. But, alas ! for her, poor child,
sheuld her master cast his eyes upen
her beauty! —Lady Herbert's “Al
geria.”
Where is the Antarctic Centincnt 1
It has long been a disputed question
whether the Arctic Ooean was an open
sea, and whether at the South Pole
there was land. The late Lieut. Maury
had an ingenious theory that opposite
to land we wonld always find water,
and hence if there was an ocean about
the North Pole there must be a conti
nent at the South Pole. This theory
has seemed to have been confirmed by
many disoovaries of land in the south
ern hemisphere, and among others of a
stretch of coast line which has loDg
borne the name of the “ Wilkes’ Antarc
tic Continent,” which Wilkes claimed
to have seen in January, 1840. Its ex
istence has often been called in ques
tion. The letter which we publish
from Lieut. Hynes, of the Challenger,
to Dr. Haves, shows that no suoh land
exists; that Wilkes saw, in fact, noth
ing but icefields and icebergs.
Thus we see one problem after an
other solved with the greater accuracy
and perfection of scientific appliances ;
but is not often that a whole continent
is so suddenly bowled down, as it were
but one of a set of ninepini, on the
general plan of progressive science.
Notwithstanding, however, that the
Challenger has in point of fact sailed
over the land of Wilkes, yet we must
believe that land does exist in the vicin
itv of the South Pole ; for otherwise,
wiile whatever ice might be formed
upon the sea, icebergs could not be cre
ated, inasmuch as laud isnecesaary, the
iceberg being a fragment of the glacier,
which is always of mountain origin,
and, Recording to the best accounts,
icebergs are more numerous and larger
in the Antarctic than in the Arctic seas.
The truth is, we know too little about
either of these dreary regions of the
earth. In the interests of oommerce
neither of the poles are likely to prove
of greater valne than for the capture of
whales, sea elephants and seals ; bnt to
science they are of infinite importance,
and in the new awakening of geographi
cal exploration they cannot much longer
be a simple “ myth to the ignorant and
wonder to the wise.” —Hew 1 or k Her
ald.
A. H. Stephens on the Sundaj-SchooL
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens ad
dressed the teachers and pupils gath
ered at a recent Sunday-school reunion
in Crawfordsville, Ga., and in the
course of his remarks gave the follow
ing interesting personal reminisoences :
“It is a source of high gratification to
me to say to yon all, and especially to
these little boys, that the first awaken
ing of snch thoughts in my mind, w
well as my first taste for general read
ing, was quickened and brought into
active exercise in a Sunday-school. It
was at the old Powder Creek log meet
ing-house, not five miles from this place,
more than half a century ago, I be-i&mc
a pupil in what was known as a “ Unior
Sunday-school.” The day I entered
was a great epoch in my life. It was ii
the latter part of the summer that the
school was opened, or when I entered
it, and though but a small boy at the
time, still I had to do such work on the
farm as I was able to do during the
week. This was picking cotton or peas
or going to mill, or other light work o!
like character. It was only at night,
and by a pine-knot light, that I had any
opportunity to study the lessons as
signed me,'and yet so deeply did I be
come interested in the questions of the
Union Catechism that 2 o’clock often
found me poring over the chapters of
the Bible set apart for the next Sunday’*
examination. To the impressions thu i
made I am indebted in no small
degree for my whole future course in
life, whether it be for good or for evil.
If in the midst of any evil that has
marred that coarse there is anythin*
good to be found, or anything worthy
of imitation, then it is due to thst
Sunday-school and to the great cause
which you to-day celebrate with inspir
ing mottoes, banners and music.”
British Cities.
The register-general makes the fol
lowing estimate of the population of
the great towns of Great Britain in tl e
middle of this year 1874 : London, 3,-
400,794 ; Liverpool, 510,670 ; Glasgow,
508,109 ; Manchester, 335,339; Salford,
133,068 ; Birmingham, 330,882 : Dnblni,
314,666; Leeds, 273,793; Sheffield
261,019 ; Edinburgh, 211,691; Bristol,
192,889 ; Bradford, 173,056 ; Neweastl s
npon-Tyne, 135,438; Hull, 130,996;
Portsmouth, 120,486; Brighton (with
suburbs), 109,319; Leicester, 106,202 ;
Sunderland, 104,378.
The manufacturers of baby wagons
look with alarm upon the proposed sup
pression of the Mormons.
VOL. 15-NO. 28.
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.
Memobt is the receptacle and *h**th
of all science.— Cicero.
Interest blinds some people and en
lightens others.— La Rochefoucauld
Edwin Booth will play no more for
a year, overwork having made him an
invalid.
The difficulty is not so great to die
for a friend as to find a friend worth
dying for. — Howe.
Detroit girls sit on saw-logs and
dangle their limbs in the wavelets rath
er than go to a summer resort.
The individuality of each man is that
peculiar influence with which he is. in
! trusted for the good of society.
Mexican ed tors don’t care about an
extended circulation. The fewer sub
scribers they have the fewer times they
are shot at.
The most untalkative person seldom
fails to make few remarks when with
bare feet he steps on carpet tacks at two
o’clock in the morning.
Tor can judge something of the weight
of a Milwaukee woman when it is stated
that the crash of one falling on the aide
walk can be Aw® ukkxp away.
The price of steamboats has fallen
ten per cent, along the Ohio and Missis
sippi, and poor folks who contemplate
laving in a steamboat should buy now.
Tv you want to find out a mans real
disposition, take him when be is wet
and hungry. If he is amiable then, dry
him and fill him up and yon have an
angel.
What is even poverty itself that a
man should murmur under it? It is
but as the pain of piercing a maiden a
ear, and you hang precious jewels ib the
wound. — Richter.
Aloft, on the throne of god, and not
below, in the foot-prints of a trampling
multitude, are the sacred rules of right,
which no majorities can displace or over
turn. — Charle* Manner.
Old age is never honored among ns,
but only indulged, as childhood is; and
old men lose one of the met precious
rights of man—that of being judged
by their peers. — Goethe.
Neves burn kindly-written letters,
the mute utterances of those afar, yet
dear, whose faces yon mav never lock
upon again. Demember now many a
little notion in tinware they will pro
cure.
Charles Mathews, the comedian,
brought up his son ae an architect.
When asked what profession the young
man was intended for. he replied that
he was to draw house*, as his father
had done.
Coggia’s oomet is cow approaching
the ea th, and persons who know where
to look for it can see it. Its tail is half
s degree long, and resemble*, to tbe
heated imagination of the astronomer, a
half-opened fan.
Colorado hailstones weigh a pound
apiece. This is taken right from a Col
orado paper, and it offer* to forward a
few for inspection. The story of Wil
liam Tell may be exaggerated, but this
is a straight case.
Longfellow says that “lives of great
men all remind ns we may make out
lives sublime but the melancholy fact
remains that they remind us of, quite
the contrary. However, it doesn’t mat
ter much what a poet says provided the
jingle is all right.
Thebe is a judge in Nevada who re
fuses to listen to argument from a jmot
gun. His plea i§ that it scatters, where
as a Derringer goes straight to the point.
So, he admits, doe* a bowie, but he
thinks a six-shooter is apt to revolve
around the question at issue.
Recipes for the preservation of furs
abound in all the papers, but the old
plan promulgated by Punch long ago is
the best. This is, to roll out all the
hairs with tweezers and varnish the akin.
In the spring remove the varnish and
carefully stick all the hairs in the old
places. * ~ . „
This is the way it generally is. Mrs.
Jones will say to her undutiful little
son, “Why ain’t yon like Willie Brown?
Mrs. Brown will remark to her hope
ful, " Whv ain’t you like Jimmy
Jones?” the boys have lots ef fun
about it, especially when they are steal
ing watermelons together.
The new liquor law of Mississippi re
quires that no person shall be lioensed
to retail liquor until he has first secured
the recommendation of more than hslf
the men over twenty-one years of age,
and more than half the women oyer
eighteen years of age in the corporation
or township where he desire* th* liotnse.
The cleansing of cotton which has
beer used for oiling machinery is *
regular business in Weatville, Conn.
By the aid of machinery the oil is ex
tracted from the cotton and sold for
lubricating purposes. The cotton is
then subjected to a bleaching prooeas,
by which it is restored to it* original
whiteness. . . ,
Novmi/rx has charms that our minds
can hardly withstand. The moat valua
ble things, if they have for a long while
appeared among us, do not make any
impression, as they are old. Bat wmu
the influence of this fantastical humcr
is over, the same men or things will
come to be admired again, by a happy
return of our good taste.
Pbof. Ttsx>all exhibited his fireman 's
respirator at a recent meeting of the
Royal Society in London. It is attached
to a mask, and consists of an iron cylin
der packed with ootton wool, glycerine,
and charcoal. The wearer is enabled to
remain in an atmosphere of smoke,
which he oonld not otherwise breathe,
for a quarter to half an hour.
Seth Gbhes says that the death < f
gold fishes that inhabit glass globes in
dne to OD6 of three cause® —“ handlinf,
starvation or had water.” Apreooeions
boy of eight summers with whom wo
are acquainted attributes the death c t
a pet gold fish—his sister’s idol—to the
fact that it couldn’t take a joke. He
used to catch it occasionally with a
bent pin.
Because her Britannic majeetv be
came indignant at being introduced to a
divorced American woman, the Chicago
Times is also indignant, and it aaka:
“ Can it be the same queen who wrote
to the sultan informing him of Alfred’s
wedding, and received an autograph
letter in reply addressed to hia ‘august
friend and allv?’ Ia Victoria, who in
sulted a woman because she had legally
taken a second husband during the
lifetime of the first, the friend and ally
of a man who has a concubine in every
corner of a palace bigger than the expo
sition building?”
The bloomy Western Outlook.
Avery gloomy account of the condi
tion of the western business of the Chi
cago railroads is given by the Tribune
of that city. It says that Chicago now
presents the rare spectacle of the city
sending out more produce than is re
ceived in or passes through it The
railroads suffer severely from lack of
business. This falling off is attributed
to the depletion of the western grana
ries, scarcely anything being left for
fanners to ship east. The lines of road
intersecting the mineral regions are
particularly depressed. Many of the
rolling mills consume ten or twelve cars
of coal daily, and vast quantities of iron
ore. Now th j re is no demand whatever
for iron. Scarcely any interest is so
oompienety prostrated. One year ago
sufficient vessels could not be secured
to carry away the enormous yields of
the Lake Superior district. This season
not one-half the furnaces in the Mahon
ing and Shenango valleys are in blast,
and the remainder report their inten
tion to blow out as soon as their stock
on hand of ore is exhausted.