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Newspaper Page TextF. R. FILDES, Editor. A-OL. 111. (Quitman gamwr. PUBLISHIiI* KVEKV EKIDAV. f TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. IX AhVANCK. For onp year ** For nix mouths - **” For three months I '* For single copy " TERMS FOR ADVERTISING. in vam atilt in advance. One square. (10 linos, or less.) first insertkn $2.00: each following insertion, SI.OO When advertisements nre continued for one month or longer, the charge will be as follows : j 12 Months.' | 6 Months. ’ A Months, j 1 Month, j Number of Squares. I $ 5 no I sio oo $ la on |$ 20 oo 1...... 800 13 00 23 00 | 113 00 j 12 00 | 1$ 00 85 00 I 45 00 4”!”! 16 00 I 24 00 I 40 00 63 00 »” . 20 00 ! 35 00 I 45 00 ! 60 00 ACol'lun 35 00 I $3 00 I 80 00 I 12(| 00 1 •* 60 00 ISOOO I 130 00 I _2OO 00 Obituary notices, Tributes of Respect. and all articles o a personal character, charged lor as advertisements. For announcing candidates for office, SIO.OO Piocdlaucouo. the iivmi.m msii. A TRUE STORY. Some years ngo, two men, Charles Storey and Edward Ladbury. bad charge ot an outlying sheep station, belonging to Mr. John Hassail, a wealthy Australi an squatter. The first named was the shepherd, the second tin- hot-keeper.— Their hot stood in the midst of a scene of primitive nature. Except the folds for the flocks, there was no inclosures of any description. The country was an open expanse of grass, with a few undo bilious dotted sparsely will) evergreen trees mostly of the stringy hark species. The walls of the hot were hnilt of rough stakes with mud and reeds between them other long poles formed the roof which was covered will) rushes. The fireplace was constructed ot stones collected from the neighborhood, and in this the men baked their daily damper, Composed of flour and water and salt, and boiled their kettle of tea. Their stores consisted of salt beef and pork, flour und l ice in casks a chest of tea, sum - sugar and raisins, a few other articles. Tin cops, and plates, and two or three knives and forks f< rin cd their dinner and lea seiv.ee ; a kettle and saucepan and gridiron were their chief cooking utensils; some rough slabs of the stringy bark trees on tresels tick ing filled with wool a couple of blankets and a kaoguroo-ekiu rug apiece, formed their beds. , Such a life as they led, in spite of its sameness, its solitude and danger has its charms for many men. They were contented. May 1 e.t er< aly days had been spent in poverty and starvation in e one crowded city amid scens of profli gacy squalor, and suffering. Here they enjoyed pure air, a bright sky, and abun dance of food and were removed from the temptations which had once beset them. Those who have once occupied nearly every position in life will be found among the shepherds and Innkeep ers of Australia—men who have been brought to poverty either through their own faults or the faults of others. Few of them like to speak ot their early lives. Whatever had been the position of Sto rey and Eadburv, they were steadily per firming theii duty. Having despatched their early breakfast the two men coun ted and examined the sheep as thcy.came out of the fold, and picking out those re quiring any particular treatment. Sto rey then started with the floes to a dis taut pasture. Ladtuiry had no lack of duties, there was the told to repair here and theie, some sick sheep to doctor, the roof of the hut to patch and a piece of garden ground which he had wisely begun to cultivate to attend to. His usual com panion a favorite dog, had disappeared, he could not tell how, but much feared ithad been bitten by a snake and bad died in the bush. He lit his pipe and smoked and thought awhile. Again he busied himself out of doors and once more returned to his hut to prepare the evening meal for himself and his com panion. He was about to hoo’: the fresh U madedampers out of the ashes, when lie heard a low moan. He listened —the sound was repeated. He burned out j and looked about him. It must have been fancy he thought and was about to return to the hut, when the same sound again reached his cars. It came lrom a cluster of bushes at a little distance off. With an anxious heart he ran to the place, and there found his companion lying on the ground bleeding from nu merous wounds; he carried him to tiie hut and laid him on his bed. ‘lts the work of tlmse black fellows,” said Lad bury, looking round tbe hut. None were in sight. He came back and warm ing some water, bathed pc or Storey s wounds; then he carefully- cut out the barbed head of the spear, and continued bathing the wounds, except for a short lime, when he poured some warm tea down the sufferers throat. Every mo ment while thus employed he expected the natives to attack tbe hut. He had no longer Rover to give him warning of the approach of a toe. There was little J iubt that his poor dog also had been speared. The pain being s iothed, Sto icy at length to Ladbnry’s great j v. re ti rned to conscious ess and explained that he had lueii attacked early in the day ly natives, lie had run from them after receiving several wounds hut lad been speared again half a mile or so from the hut and had crawled the vest of the distance tiil he tainted from loss of blood and pain lie was suffering. Sad indeed was the condition of these two poor fellows, with no white man nearer than twenty miles, and no sur geon within probably two hundred— Niglb at lengtli came on, when, us the natives never move about in the dark, they knew they were safe. But they both felt certain the attack would be re newed by daylight and the event proved they were right. Soon alter dawn Lai bury, who, over come with fatigue had dozed off, was startled by the « und of a spear being forced through the reed-made door of the hut. Another and another followed through the slightly formed wails. "We shall be murdered, mate, if 1 don’t put them to flight,” lie exclaimed, taking his pocket knife and bill-hook, the only weapons he possessed, the first in his left h and the other partly coveied by h’s coat so that it looked like a pistol ‘All ready. We may nevei meet again in this world, so good-lye Charley, but I’ll chance it.” Suddenly he sprang through the doorway, shouting to the blacks nearly fifty of whom ho saw be fore him that he would shoot if they did’nt turn. They, scarcely daring to look at what they believed to boa pistol after exchaging a few words with each other to his great relief began to retire, and a; lie shouted louder took to their heels. "We are saved,Charley” he exclaimed, almost breathless with excitement. “llu' the niggers will bo back again. Do yon think you could move along if 1 were to help yon ?" “No, Ned, that I couldn’t.” answered Storey. "But do you get away. You’d easily reach Jonymugup before nightfall and if you can bring help 1 know you will; if not—why my sand is pretty well j run out as it is, God’s will he done” ‘ Leave you Charley! that’s not what 1 think of doing," said Ludbury firmly. “While you have life I’ll stay by you, and rend you as well as 1 can ; so that matter is settled.” The hours passed slowly away: laid* bury cooked their food and nursed his mute as gently as a woman could have done. Night came, and at Luigtli they both slept. Lad bury was awoke by a call from Storey. "Ned, sleep has done me good; I think \ 1 could travel if I were once on iny legs,’ li • said. | Ladbury silently made up their bed ] ding and the few household articles they p issessed into a bundle, which ho hois ted on his broad shoulders. “Now, mate, Come alone,” he said, lift ing Storey up, and making him rest on his arm. It was two hours past mid night, and they hoped to get a good start of the blacks. But they had not proceeded many hundred yards before Storey found he had overrated his strength und sank to the ground. “Now Ned, you must go,” he whisper ed. “Save yourself; I can but die once, and you’ll only lose your life if you stop to help.” “What I’ve said I'll do I hope to stick to,” answered Ladury. Still Storey urged him to contibue his journey alone Ned made no reply, but suddenly started off at a quick pace. Sad i deed must have been poor Storey’s feelings when he saw him disappear in the gUrnin of night. Death was corning sure enough, i Already he repented of having urged his ! friend to fly. Daylight would discover | him to the blacks and they would finish ‘ their work in revenge for the escape of ! his companion. Suddenly a footstep ' was heard. Ladbury appeared with his ■ bundle. j “What ! did you think I reallywas ; going ?” he asked in a low voice. ‘You’ll i not beg ine to leave you again mate. | Come get on my shoulders ; we’ll see what 1 can do. Ladbury walked on with the wounded man on his back for half a mile or more. Now sit down here, and I’ll go back for - the bundle,’- he said placing him under a bush. No one but a man long accus tomed to the wilds of Australia could have found his way as Ladbury did. He aton again passed Storey with their: ! bundle on his shoulders, and once more returned for him. Thus they- journeyed . j on till the sun rose, when they reached a ! stream which they well knew, having traveled about seven miles. Ladbury, however, was so completely exhausted by- his exertions that lie felt unable to crawl another mile, much less to carry j bis two burdens. Storey had again be come so ill and and his wounds weie s> painful that it seemed doubtful th.it lie would survive if moved further. 1 hough i the danger was gn-at, Ladbury resolved to camp where they were for some days, 1 till Storey had partly recovered strength. At last he bethought him that Storey ! could not walk, and he could no longei carry him on his shoulders, he might drag him along should the blacks not I have traced them out. He accordingly with the aid of some sticks, cut from the 1 hush, and their bedding, lonned a sleigh, 1 which without much difficulty he could i drag along. On this he placed the i wounded man, with such provisions as | remained, and recommenced his toilsome | journey over tbe grass. He could move HERE SHALL TIIE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY FEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN. QUITMAN, GEO., JUNK 2f>, 1S(>8. but slowly, and often had to make a wide circuit to avoid any copses of rocky ground which lay in his course. Even now too they were not safe, f-o the Macks find ng the hut empty- might pursue and overtake them. Still the brave Ladbury toiled on ; his own strength was vapidly giving way. Once more lit was obliged to halt near a stream. “We must camp here to-night, mate” he said to Storey, “l’erhaps tomorrow my legs will be able to move; to-day they can do no more.” The night pass ed away in silence; the morning was us hered in with the strange s muds of the Australian hush, and the gnu rose, oust ing a fiery heat over the plain. Storey had not moved. Lad! ury looked at him anxiously, expecting to find him no lon ger alive. He roused up, however, and after some breakfast, again Ladbury har nessed himself to the sleigh, and moved on. Often he was obliged to hall; some limes he could move only a lew hundred yards at a time; a few minutes’ rest en abled him again to go on. Still the stages 1 ecamo shorter and the rests lon ger, as the evening appr inched, lie fe t that he could not exist another night in the bush. The station could not be far off A faintness was creeping over him. On, on, be went, us if in a dream. Sev eral time he stumbled and could scarce y recover himself A sound reached his ears it was a dog’s bark. With the cmivic tinn that the help could not now be far off, Ills strength seemed to return. ’I he roofs of the woods sheds and huts up penred. No one ivuM he seen. Even ilien he and his friend might perish iflic did not go on. It was the supper hour at the station. On he must go. lie got nearer and nearer, stiimblin ' and pant ing- ’The door of the chiets hut was reached, and he sank fainting across the threshold. Every- actention was paid to the two men. Ladbury soon recovered. Poor Storey was conveyed to the hospi tal at Albany, but so great had been the shock t - his system that in a short time, lie sank under its client. We read of the g Plant ae.t ; of our sol diers and sailors in ill ■ lace ■ I an enemy, but is tl ere no' aim heroism in the oh r tc ter of this Australian shepherd- heroism which might neve.' have b -en suspected had no circumstances occured to draw it out? THUNDERING SPRING IN UPSON COUNTY. A Gut!at Ookiosity —The editor of the Griffin Star after paying a visit to Upson county gives the following account of a great natural curiosity- of Georgia: The first grand point of interest was the famous Thundering .Springs, located in the Nurlheni part of the County, a boat twenty miles front Tho.nastoii. We expected to find quite a curiosity, but were completely amazed to find so remarkable a f eak of mother nature as this spring. It is located in the wildest part of the mountains extending through the county, and there in the solitude ot the wilderness presents a most reiuarka j ble phenomenon. The dimensions of the spring proper j are about live feet in diameter and ot an I unknown depth- for experiments have j repeatedly sounded its depth in vain, land no bottom can be reached. The | water boils up with great force; bubbles of gas constantly rise up through the : water, and explode at the surface. j ! This gas is highly combustible, and is I frequently set on lire as it makes its es ! cape. Such is tiie force with which the ! water rises that a human body cannot ! sink, but is u yed up in a standing posi j tion It is a lamous bathing place, and ; we took tiie first opportunity to plunge i into this bottomless well. | There we could stand upright for hours, with m thing to support us but water.- The earth around tiie spring is a beauti ful white sand of very fine grain, giving away reodi!y|at the touch ol the toot, but immediately reforming as before.— The walls of the well are perfectly sym metrical, as if dug by the hands of man . As low down as we could reach with our feet, we could kick a hole in the wall, and'as soon as the foot was removed the wall would immediately reform as lie lore. The temperaturelis delightful and the waters are invaluable, especially lor diseases of the skin and blood. The spring constantly makes a low lumbling I noise from which it derives its name. To Clear a House op \ brmix. —Bur- leigh of the Boston Journal says : ‘I tell you ladies, a secret that may be worth your knowing—a new remedy to clean and house of roaches and vermin has been found. So complete is the remedy that men offer to rid premises of all these pcs tilenlial nuisances by contract. Ihe ar ticle is sold under the name of Trench green and other high sounding names and at quite a high price. But the arti cle in plain English is common green paiut in powder. Six cents worth used about any house will ‘clear the kitchen, and all its surroundings. These pests infest many houses in this city, ad liau sc-um, and we believe the ladies will thank us for suggesting so cheap an eradicator.” Napoleon once entered a cathedral and saw a dozen silver statutes. ‘W hat are these?’ asked the emperor. ‘The twelve apostles,’was the reply. ‘Well,” said be, ‘take them down melt them and coin them into money and let them go about doing good as their master did. CULTIVATE LITTLE AND IK) l'T WELL. Dr. George U. Loriitg the popular President of the New England Agricul tural Society, made some pointed re marks in a recent agricultural address. On the subject of small farms, lie said : ‘l have an idea that the business of farming in the next generation will b< brought into as accurate laws as the business of running an engine or woolen mill or making steam engines or carry ing on any of the mechanical arts with which we are acquainted. I am satis -11 and that the loose system of agriculture will be abolished before the youngest man in this room dies. 1 am satisfied that the business of farming will be sys tematized so that every man will feel that ho lias something besides accident to guide him in the business of carrying on bis farm. Let us see: there are men here in this 100 m who nre owners of large farms two hundred, three hundred or five hundred uerts of land, who are carrying them on for the pni poso ol getting a liv ing and endeavor ng to reap from the soil, from these large tracts of land a competency for themselves and their famil es They are proceeding in the business of fanning just as their fathers did. Tiny raise a little corn and a few potatoes, own a cow or two, and now and lli-mi a few cattle raise considerable grass make some butter a little cheese, ■now and then sell a can of milk and a lew apples with a little cider thrown in perhaps. That is the old fashioned busi ness of New England fanping. Take a farm of five hundred acres of that des ciiption and what is th percentage upon the general average cost of the land in New England? It gives a man's fami ly a good living clothes his'children ; tiiore is a school within his neighborhood and lie sends them to it; he carries him self well through the community is elec ted representative or selectman or town clerk and he is a good citizen any way, because, he owns laud and cant help be ing a good citfien pays his taxes does well has a good farm house ; everybody says ‘T here is a go id farm ami a ruspec I able farmer that, lives on.’ The other side* illustrates that nice careful business of Now England farm ing to which 1 have alluded. I know a man in Massachusetts ivho in 1835 bought twenty' acres ot land, lie has applied to it all the accurate knowledge of farming he could possibly 7 gel. I here is no month in the year that something does not bloom on his farm —through the snows ot January and the suns of August there is something green there, and lie always from the first, day of January to the last, (lay of December, has some crop to send to market. Twenty acres ot land is all he has and you walk through it and you find liis alternate crops grow ing in Vows just as accurately as the WITI and warp of a cotton mill goes through the loom—carefully accurately and properly—what, is the result? From 1835 until this time, that man has made $250,000 off his farm of 20 aces, lie has saved his money and invested it carefully ; he lias educated his boys well liept himself in good condition has made his $250,000 and has done it by 7 that cureliil accurate systematic (arming of which 1 have spoken. His land happen ed to be in a good locality near a market but he might have devoted himselt to. just the same farming that a man does on 500 acres does not? Don’t you know many a little farm house in New Eng land surrounded by twenty acres of land and a few apple trees or two or three hard looking peach trees with starved cabbages 011 one corner of the ground, and a cow with a small bag ! c oning up to be milked { iliac man could "have done so with his twenty j acres just as easy as with 500 acres ; He didn’t choose to do it but he applied himself with care and system andaccura cy and lias made just as large a fortune off from his land as tlm man who bus 1 made $3,000,000 out of a cotton mill in the last five years. That is the business of New England farming. There is no illegal farming no illegitimate fanning, no careless farming that will apply to New England. Yon cannot conceive of such a tiling.’’ The Secp.et of Eloquence. —l owe my •success in life to one single fact viz:— That at the age of twenty-seven I com menced and coiitiuned for years, tiie process of reading and speaking upon the con ten tsjof some historical and scien tilic book. These off-hand efforts were 1 made sometimes in a cornfield, at others in a forest, and not uufrequently in some distant barn, with the horse ana ox for my auditors. It is to this early practice in the great :rt of all arts, t .at j lam indebted for the primary and leading im pulses that stimulated me forward and shaped and modeled my entire subse quent distiny. Improve then young gentlemen, the superior advantages you enjoy. Let not a day pass without ex j erclsing your powers of speech. There !is no power like that of oratory. Caesar 1 coiitr llel men by captivating their af fee ions aid sway ng their passions.— Tuo milaence of the one perishing with , it s author, that of the other continues to -7 day,— Henry Clay. Wanted. —A pair of scissors to cut a ■ caper. The pot in which a patriot’s b ood boiled. The address of tbeconfoc tioner v ho makes ‘Trifles light us air.”— j And a short club broken off the square i root. Couldn't Net no Longer. A young Connecticut clergyman had just buried his wife. In the early fresh ness of his grief he was waited upon by one of his deacons, with the announce ment that Brother Smith had left his church and gone ito the Methodist, and Brother Smith does say that you, his own minister, have hurt his feelings so that he never can get over it. The ten der-hearted shepherd was touched by this imputation, and eager to atone to the aggrieved sheep for any unintention al wrong he might have done him. * So up lit'pook his little crook, Determined lor to find him” which ho did, sulking over some job of his trade ot house carpentry. After an expenditure of much affectionate entrea ty 7 and skillful erossqiiestioiiing, the min ister dieted the following: "Well, the fact is, I knew there wasn’t much chance ol your wife’s getting well, and so 1 went to work two or three weeks before she died, so as to have it all ready, and made just the greatest coffin for her that was ever turned out in this town. I’d took her measure a hun died times sitting right hack of the par son’s pew, you know. I didn’t say noth ing about it to you beforehand, ’cause my woman had a notion it would sort o’cut yon up. 1 don’t know why, but when I heard that you’d telegraphed to li istoii f. r me of them new franglodbury ing concerns, 1 must say 7 1 felt as it, I couldn't set under your preaching in loti ger ” And ' s. 7 t” he didn’t. Ctifec.as a Loafer. — Our friend of the Monroe Advertiser, who says something gH)d every week, has the following up on Ouffee as a loafer: For instance, CulVee falls below modi ocrity as a statesman —though the odds are that lie would make a model Con gressinan. Asa husband and lather lie. is indifferently had, and us. a Christian we are bound w say he is careless.— But if you wish to see the of five genius ol the race crop out, setCutloe to doing nothing. The amount of energy and perseverance w! ioh ho displays in doing it is wonderful. He is perfectly at home in this occupation, and follows it up with a certain miacilcr in vwdo (so to speak) that is positively charming in this child of nature, lie is a professional loafer, in short, excelling in this regard every oth or person of every other race. llis manner of doing nothing is per fectly artistic; it is instinct, his nature, his forte. In his rollicking humor, he laughs to scorn the axioms of Benny Franklin. Ralph, the llaven, might choke li mself with his cheap platitudes ere Cuffee heeded them. “Early to rise” indeed! Not if he knows himself Fret doni —that means work is no freedom at all, argues this sable philospher. lie re sembles Diogonus in one important par ticular: so goes in’rags. There is only a slight difference between him and 1’lato; the latter preaeed immortally, and the f inner practiced immortally. So much for Colli o He is a vagabo and and he is free. We hope lie is able to live at it, but we have our doubts. There are porbably over a million of these profess ional vagabonds in the South. 'J lie next century wll doubtless find them in peace. Didn’t Foster No Sucli Feelin.’ Deacon Simcs was an austere mail, who followed oystering, and was ol the hard-shell persuasion. The deacon “al ius made it a pint” to tell liis customers that the money which lie received lor “in ters” did not belongjto him. “The good Father made the ister,” said the deacon, 1 “and the money is his’n; I’m only a sloo-i art” They do say the deacon had a way of getting about ten cents more on ; a hundred by his peculiar method of do ing business for somebody else. One Sunday morning the old fellow was tear ing tound from house to house, with a suspicious bit of currency in his hand, and more than suspicion of rage in his face Nome one had given him a had fif ty cents, and “lie wasn’t goin to meetin’ till that are was fixed up.” “Why, dea con,” said one of his customers, wlmm he tackled about it, “what’s the odds?— wh it need you care? tisn’t yours you know; you are only a steward; it isn’t your loss.” The deacon shilled liis shoulder, walked to ihedoor, unshipped his quid, and said: ’ Yuiis, that's so: hut if you think that I’m agoin’ to stand by and see ttie Lo.d cheated out ol fifty i cents, you’re mistaken. I don't foster no j nach fadin'!” BgL. I)r. Thomas when Bishop of Sal- | isbury used to tell the following story . “While 1 was chaplain to the British factory at Hamburg, a gentleman be longing to the factory died at a village' about ten miles distant. Application i was made to the. pastor of the parish j for leave to have him buried in his church-yard hut on being told that he was a Calvinist I e refused. ‘No,’ said he there are none but Lutherans in my churchyard, and there shall bo no other.’ This being told me, (says Dr. Thomas,) I resolved to go and argue the matter with him but found him inflexible. At length 1 toid him that he made me think of a circumstance which once happened to myself when I was a curate in Thom as street. I was burying a corpse, when a wo man came and pulled me by' the sleeve in the midst ot the service saying “Sir, sir, 1 want to speak to you,’ ‘J’rytheo,’ [53.00 per Annum NO. 21 says I, ’woman wait till I have done.* No, sir 1 must speak to you immediately ‘Why, then what is the matter ?’ ‘Why then what is the matter ?’ ‘Sir,’ says she yon arc burying a man who died of the smallpox next niv poor husband who never bad it.’ The story had the desired effect and the pastor permitted the bones of the Calvinist to ho interred in his churchyard.” COOKING WITHOUT FIRE. There is a place in Oregon called tho Smoky Valley where the people have * very curious way of cooking. They do not have the trouble of making a firo every morning when they wish to get breakfast. They just walk out wiLli their kettles coffeepots and whatever else they need and cook at the boiling springs. Thu water seems a great deal hotter than common boiling water, and all they need to do is to bang their ket tles in it a short time and their food i* nicely cooked. They are able even to bake in i*. The bread is pi t into a tight saucepan and lowered into ttie boiling flood lor an hour or two and then drawn up most exquisitely baked with but a thin rim of crust over it. Meat is cooked here and beans which are the miner’s great luxury It takes but a minute to cook eggs or to make a put of coffee or tea ; but if there should chance to be a ‘slip between the cup and the lip,’ the food would be gone beyond red very. Who can tell the unknown doptim to which they would descend ? How fear ful it scorns to contemplate these vast underground fires, of which we only catch glimpses here and there over tire face of the earth. There, are many wonderful things in these far offlands which later ages will •no doubt be as familiar with as we are with Niagara Falls. What a resort the -smoky Valley” would be, if it were on ly within reach of our railroads and in a country free from the attacks of savages No uouht there are slill greater won ders which, no eye has ever seen uu’coi it tie 1 hut 1 I the red man. lint God makes and sees them alt and no doubt Bv.ry one has its use in llis kingdom. They certainly teach us wonderful les sons of God’s greatness and power over all the elements of the earth. Haunted. —A young lady was taken fix charge in the streets of Chicago the oth er day who was laboring under the illu sion that the spirit other dead husband was pursuing li -r, and demanding, witu skeleton arm 1 utstreched, her money She had already thrown S3OO at tho feet of the a iparitiou and fled, but it still pursued. T e insanity of tho woman is the last act of a tragedy that occorod three yeats ago. At that time she was tho bride of an old divorced man, who at mice doted upon and was terribly jealous of her. One evening he asked her for SSOO, which he had given her in a mo ment of tend mess. She tauntingly re plied that stie had given it to her lover. He demanded the name of the man, threatening to blow his own brains out if int informed. She told him to blow u way. The next moment lie lay dead at her feet, his brains scattered over her night dress. Her conscience now con jures up the old man, continually haunt ing her and demanding his money, as on the fatal night. figy A bashful young man in Dele ware who was afraid to propose to his sweetheart, induced her to lire at him with a Liistol, which he assured her was loaded with powder, and after she had done so, fell down ’and pretended to be dead. She threw herself wildly upon the body; calling him her darling and her beloved, whereupon lie got up and married. A dissipated young mail, wh > ran away from home a id spent liis substance in riotous living, resolved at last to return to the paternal roof. His father was kind enough to forgive the young rascal for nis wickedness, and rushing into the house, overcome with joy that the boy had returned cried out to his wife, “Let us kill the prodigal; tho calf lias return ed!” Refined —There is a young lady in Camdentown so refined in her language that she never uses the word “black - guard,’ but substitutes “African senti nel” jgy Way did Joseph’s brethren cast him into a pit, ?’ asked a school teacher of liis c’ass. ‘Because,” said a young lady, ‘they thought it a good opening for a young man.’ The gentleman whose lips pressed a lady’s ‘snowy brow’ did not catch cold. g-gy "Ah, how doth you like my moustache, Miss Lame?” lisped a dandy to a merry girl. “Oh, very much. It looks like the fur cn the back of a cutter pi Her. 'flic Tribune thinks that the votes of the Southern Stati s will be a’ oil equal . ly divided between tiie two parties, and that tho biltle ground will be in the 1 States ol Uoiniectii ut, Now York, New Jersey, I’ennsylvania, and Ohio. Tiie electoral vote of New V ork is 32, Peuu sylvania 20, and Oh.o 21. —A relative of Bismarck, with tho same name, is in jail at Cl icago.