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F. K I' ILDFS. Editor.
VOL. VIIT.
MUSK’ IN CAMP.
by Jo us r TitoMTeOK.
Two armies covered hill and plain
Where Rappahannock’s waters
Ran deeply crimsoned writ the stain
Oi battle’s recent slaughters.
The summer clouds lay pitched like tents,
In meads >f heavenly azure;
Anti each dread gun of the elements
•Slept in its hid embrasure.
The breeze so softly blew it made
No forest leaves io quiver.
And the smoke of the random cannonade
Rolled slowly from the river.
Anti now where circling hills looked down
With cannon grimly planted.
O’er listless camp and silent town
The golden sunset slanted.
\Vben on the fervid ait that eatne
A strain, now rich, now tender,
The music seemed itsel! a flame
With day's departing splendor.
A Federal band, which eve and mem
Played measure* brute and nimble.
Hail just struck up w ith flute and horn
And lively clash of cymbal.
flown flocked the soldiers to the bank
Till margined by its pebbles,
tine wooded shore was blue with "T unks,
And one a us gray with ■ Rebels. 1 ’
Then all was still; and then the band
With movi mmls light and tricksy.
Made stream and forest. hill and strand,
Reverberate with ■■Pixie
The conscious dream, with burnished glow,
Went proudly o’er its pebbles.
But thrilled throughout its deepest glow
With yelling of the Rebels
Again a pause, and then again
The trumpet pealed sonorous.
And Yankee Do die was the strain
To which the shore gave chorus.
The laughing ripple sho nward flew
To kiss the shining pebbles--
I,imil shrieks the crowding Boys } n Blue
Defiance to the Rebels.
And yet once more the bugle sang
Above the stormy riot,
No shout upon cuing rang—
There reigned a holy quiet.
The sad. lone stream its noiseless tread
Spread o'er the glistening pebbles;
All silent now the Yankees stood,
All silent stood the Hi bids.
For each responsive soul list! heard
That plaintive note’s appealing,
go deeply‘ Home, Sweet Home,” had stirreu
The hideous (omits of (eeling.
Or blue or gray, the soldier n -s.
As by the wand of fairy.
The cottage 'ueath the live-oak trees,
The cottage by the prairie.
Or cold nr warm his native •tua
Bend in their beauly n et him:
gentling' the tear-mist in his e> f s
The dear ones stand before him
As fades the iris alter rain
[n April's tearful weather.
The vision vanished as the strain
And daylight died together.
Jint memory, walked by nuisi- s art
Expressed in situpi'-t numbers.
Subdued the s i" rest Yankee's heart.
Made light the Rebel’* slumbers.
And fair the form of Music shines,
That blight Cf'.e-tin! creatures.
Who still ’mid war's cmbunled lines
Gave this one touch of nature.'
The Chicago Tribune guys: '*l 11 |
t>f purchased seals in I'o Senate. • •<•«'<•-
liing with Caldwell, . t Kansas, in,•Tides
Clayton, nf Arkansas; H.irlin, of 10w.,;
Ramsey and Windom of Miners 1 <” ; ,
Hitchcock, of Nebraska; Cwi'r-n, o'j
Pennsylvania, ami Carpenter, of u j
•in. Three g' Minn, n "re lo be ten
forced March 4. ly Sargent, of Cahf r
bia; Mile!,. I, ol Oregon; PallCraor, of
South Carolina, and J"n>‘”, of • s ' va<la
Those roffections are popularly fiuppeS' l
to have required (t e disburse-' ent. i>
each case, of from $30,000 to $250 000’
Cash, ami tl e elections cootrobed by
other valuable considerations ate twice
as manv more.” This, remarks the
Philadelphia Age, is a 101 l <’f national
infamy witch brings the blush of si ante
to the chei k of every honest nan in tin
nation. In other days the SennH- con
tained such men as Filas "'right, Jam- a
15 tl chan an, Henry oay D.niel bster,
Thomas H Benton, John C. Calhoun,
William C. Preston and their peers
properly elected to represent sovereign
States. Now that body is made np of
gnch men as those named by the Tribune,
fnen elevated not by votes but l y money.
The contrast, is a serious one, and should
arouse the p'ople id the country to the
danger which surrounds and me ace
their liberties and rights.
A Massachusetts editor b st a paying \
auLscnber by di all, the other day. wine,
called forth the following editor al
tribute to the memory oi the jb c us
ed: ‘Death stems In iurlt behind every
nil-feme and ••%’■ ly hay-st ick in thi- •
community, and lie in wait lor nut ptnln
inent and choicest cl z ns. To day we
see it, t«-morrow we don’t. Ah, wh
can tell what a day will bring lotih in
such a countiy s ibis? Deatti has a
gain turned a flip flap and c me down a
luoßgst us, at.d snatched iron aiinm-sl
us one oi our best advertisers and we
ever bad. He possessed the b ve, coi.fi
deuce and esteem of all wito knew him,
and some who did not, ands ve is' ghl
poker debt tM • , did not owe a
teal n Ui. w olid-
w
linn I lii t Purred—li xvTliey Met.
| The New Ymk Dispatch n lares the
i following itileresling' stmy of the srpa
' ration and reunion < fa husband and
wife in that city:
j Two days ago, a good looking man, a
j laborer, abmit thirty years f age, took
th cars at O'i tie .treet d-pot, fur NT w
York. Tin re w abut one vacant s at
in ti e car that he entered, and that was
hv tin- side ol an elegantlv dress and lady.
Tie 1 mm sal down, and after bis lair
I ci mpiiiii.u i ad il'mi, vi ,i her veil, lie was
Mlrpi sell to rfeogniz ■ in her bis wile,
I wnmi, I e bad mil seen for more Ilian
twelve yeats Tin lady (brew her arms
ab. tit his nek and I. him I, nderly,
and mutual • Xplanatiio s followed.
It se, ms that they lad been married
! 'list before Ihe breaking out of the war, ,
at l • home of the lady in Missouri.
Hit latliei was tin* owner of a large!
j tract ol laid, I til bad Only a little mint ;
joy. He joined the rebel cause, and I lie '•
Id night, r also warmly adhered to the
j opinions "f the lathi r. Her husband, |
j I low, ver, was a decided Union man.
j She abused him violently on account of j
i bis principles, and told him if no sided J
j with ilie “bloody Yankees,” he might
j leave the pluc ', and st.e never wished to j
see his face again, lie look iter at h. r j
tv. nl. ad the sme n ght lift, her and
joined Fn tniitil’s army us a [nutate. He j
was a, veral limea tak n prison- r, and.
as "It, a i neap -d to our litn s lie press- ;
I'd mi with Sherman towards the sea, j
and at the concTis on of t is term of on - |
listin' 1. 1 j irii il a New Y 'tic I'giineiil,
atnl l,y i, :s means at thee dos the war,
found i is way to Kowaik, Where he has,
since w. i kill quietly in a factory.
IPs wife’s fall et was killed at Vicks
I lllir, aid site w..n I,.ft soh Ilus-i SSOf td
Ihe unenitivated larniß. She stipput ted
In rs if by working in a milineiy estab
lisliiiu ni in St Louis, ti.l after the close
of ti e a a,. Hoi land rose in vain -, and
she sold it fora good pr'co and realized
..bout $5 000. Willi It,is sum C.he slat t
ed a millinery st re of her own iti St
Louis. ulid HiiCCfi rb and splendidly. She
is reputed worth S4O 000 or SSO 000.
Sin: was on her way lo New Y ak to buy
sou o goods wi en alie nu l the man whom
she had supposed long ag'i> dead. I!e~
in mint lor tinting him away, she had
reT.se,l all , lifts ol ntai, iagta The j y
of me, ti' g cu, sed Ihe husband to tot -
gtve Ins wde s err t , and a pies," lof a
or w suit ol clothes, n diamond ring am]
a splendid gold watch, when they arrived
to New Yotk, si rvi tl nia , itally to in
crease Ids respect anil . flection fur bis
tong lost wife. They are now stopping
at alas ionab'e hot, I, joyous ovei the
arc'.,lent t, at nnit, and the,n.
SKI.KUTI Ntl A U IKK.
We I arc hem ,1 of the t- st I eing ap
plied to servant gills, Inn John Slat kley
a as the nti.ii, vvlo, applied ft lo Hit* -fli c- j
lion fa wife. Th, St arki, ys and Belk
rotps too! been friends If several g, n- i
et.,lions. 11l the pres, lit gene, at ion j
I tieie w sin the Blaikley family one I
s n, and in tee family of Belknap- five;
,b lighters, and it had f fa it arranged he- j
I ween the pm, Ids that the heir of the!
St atk leys sh, ,0 M take him a wile ftotnj
iOMing I tie daughters of Belknap. J-.lni :
.1 e l,i ir atoretiaid, At the age el five an I j
t went v, lad r,-1,.r -rl Horn Ids travel-,
when Ids father bade him select (join |
the daughters ol the friendly lions,• the j
one he won and I t!V„ -I r a wile. John
was a dutiful son, and his heart wan j
whole, a,,,) as th- mileus were all fail ,
to look upon, 1,,- accepted H e ,
and determined to rnas’er it if possible ■
J .l,ti mou.l s, vral evenings In tb.. !
company ,4 the voner la,lies, and it was
! difficult lo dec,tie which was the most i
e arming. though his laney rested most
I ling, ringly up> 0 I e youngest not t. -at
i she w,s the hands meet, tut she tip- j
p, : ned the most sensible.
I day John Was invited to dinner, I
'a. it in advance of the family lie made!
I l,j s vv; ,j mto tile hall ad threw a brn m ;
i nooii the floor directly across the pas
sa r e t , *he do ing r,, m. By and hy the
| sumun n” sou tided for the men., and
J,,i., V :,,c1.cd |,,r tt,e result. The cid
i danoliter s'eppcd over the broom
1 I fitly. ~ Ttie s, end went i end it. The
j t hi,d gave it a kick 1 1 1 ■oil or path I' e
fourth gave it an ,-xfa kick. The filth,
I the youngest, stooped and picked it np,
land tool- it to tie- far comer of the hall
and Pet it Car, fnllv out of the way
! And J tin selected the meek-eyed,
I fall-hailed maiden wno had thus stood
i itie 1,-st, and tie in ver had occasion t,*
ICS ret Is choice. She proved to be a
J wife wi,,) look, and well l 1 the ways of be,
j household, and her heart had nu lack ol
j faitl, and love.
IS THE UK A HOD?
IT w eloquently dues Ctiateaubramd
reply to til's inqoily :
There is a G,„l! Tne herb tis the val- i
lev, the cedars of the mountains Id,sed
Him; the insects sport in II s beams;:
the elephant salutes Him with the rising ‘
, rbs of ,lav; the thunder proclaims Him
in the In-avens; tt.e ocean declares !!is
imnensitv; mao alone lias said, ’Theie
is no God!’ Unite at thought „t tl e -ante ;
instant the most beatiiifal objects in „a
t,i e; sup,rose you see at mice all t e
lo uts »1 the rloy and ail the seasons ol
I the year; a morning of spring and a
j morning of autumn; a night bespangled
with Stars ai;d U eight covced with
cfouds* meadows ennobled with flowers,
and tons’s heavy with enr.w; 6 Ids
gihKd hy tints ol autumn; theu alone'
HERB SHALL THE PREkS THE PEOPLE’S RI3HTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY PEAP, AND UNBKIBED BY GAIN.
QUITMAN, GEO., FEBRUARY 21, 1873.
'yon will have a just c mcepti n ol the
univ- rse. Winle J'on are gazing on the
still which is phi,'ging under the vault
of the west, another observer admires
him emerging from the gilded gates ol
the east. By what inconceivable mag—
| io does that aged star, which is sinking
j (aligned and burning in the shade of
evening, reappear at the same instant,
fresh and humid with the rosy dews of
! morning? At every instant of the diij
| the glorious orb is at once rising, re
: splendent at noonday, and setting in the
west; or rattier our senses deceive ns,
west, or north, or south in the world.
Everything reduces itself to a single
point, (loin whence l he king of day sends
j forth at ot ee a H ippie light in one sub
stance. The blight splendor is per
haps that which nature can present that
is no st beautiful; for while it gives us
an id. a of ti e perpetual magnificence
and resistless power of God, it exhibits
at the same time a shining image of the
glorious ttinily!
Rival Courtship.
A KTOIIY OF ARKANSAS.
This.story was taken from a long ram
bling letter to '0 (1 Times,’ who livitt in
Ai kansas :
1 was living at 'Squire Jones’. lie
had a gal and she was pretty, you bet.
I used to think she was pretty enough
to eat. To say I loved that gal wouldn’t
be no description lor my awful feeling;
but I was awful haslitu!—l couldn't tel,
1„t about it; and to make matters worse,
there was a feller Coinin’ to see Saily;
l>nt Ijc rl come once a week just ad ragti*
In as llie covvh com-’ up, and he'd buck
i tfht up to Sally and ht*t up halt the
night*
1 hated him, of course, and nobody
couldn’t blurt « : mo | ( ,| p. j dotchuitied
to M"P him or bust . Itillon .* t *f ,|j jn,’
told SallyVj little brother about it j l»tm
name was Ike; he Was p'eased, and we
went to Wuilt They were scaice ol
housr* room, had .1 !».»»(, aud a back mom,
which was used for a smoko iionot*.
Me and Ik• • hI- pt in this back room.
The floor watt (nude of puuc'ieons, and ,
imiued ately und» r our bed, and rtlao nu- j
d< r the Ho*M % \vas the soap troiigdi.
it had about ten bushels of h ft soap in ;
it. y 8 beau whs to he tin fr* that
1 told her taat I Wanted to bleep
with her sweetheart that She
said all light Uo came dressed up in
ins h st. lie had one « f those high col
fared, long - , scissor t a fled coats, lie vv cp
peras pants, sWIUI tight, a high bec-gfim
it. ll a iJ a square yard fed cc/ftow hand
keichief itrouml i is neck.
IJe soon cornered Sally, and me and
: Ike Went to bed—but not to sleep We
liaised the floor over the soap tn ugh,
look the boards oil the bed, all «»nly on
! the left side, whore I was l»* lie—jusl
enough behind to hold up a tied without
a fellow. Ike lay before the fire on a
pa let. I lay on my plume holding very
still. 1 began to think they Would set
up ail night, but finally about t o’clock,
In came in. I snored violently.
lie hauled <fl his linen and over lie
crawled, and in he went, down into the
Boao i.otigh. Ot all the snortiii* and
kickin’ yon ever heaid it v\mh right there.
I b* gan to yell at ti c lop of my voice.
Ike whs making a light, ami just as la*
g.»t u flaming pi he knot in full blast, the
o!d folks came tearing in in their night
clothes tl.e old mas with his gun, and
the old woman with the j ok- r
I had Sally s beau drawn out bv this
lime and stretched out at full length be
fore the fire. The soap wiH half an inch
thick all ever I bn. Ol all the sights \
over saw, tie looked the rhost terrible*. A
kn klux wasn't nowhere, gallic came
with le r dress in hrs hand, and as she
entered the door he broke. The dogs all
w«nt after hirn out of hearing—he don’t
! come hack any more.
There is a woman in Washington wh >
has hurried five husbands. Recently sue
j married a s xth Upon the day of the
wadding a man called at the house of the
groom, asked for the gentleman, and
ti en proceeded to measure bin body with
a tape lire'. The infatarated g»o<>m en
tertained ait idea that thin might bo u
j man sent around by his tailor After
tin* ceremony i" tm- cmc j, how* ver, the
; husband' rprised to observe this
■ same pei-Bon Htaodm t in the vestibule
ai.d winking furiously at the bride as
t"e pat ty came out to tin* carriage. Just
;. H they w re Btarling off the mist«u io
beitig put Ins i c.id into tin* carriage
wind »w and v?hisp r- (1 to the brides ‘Got
a ready made one that’ll just suit him.
Beautiful fit!—bcau-u-tiful I” When
tno happy man demanded the name ol
the intruder, the bride blushed and said
s e believed he whs s'unekind an un
d- rtaker. Then the man was n »t quite
|3o happy. He vvus liardly happy at all,
and a gloom M*emed to overcast the
j hooey-moou. F rhaps tile ui.dei tafcer
, was rather too prompt. But still, w«-
! like to see a cnau take an interest hi his
’ business.
Lsivenwoith claims to be so healthy
! that when it lately became necessary to
| "inaugurate” the new graveyard, they
“had to shoot a man on purpose.’’ On
j the Other hand, a Nebraska mao, when
asked whether all the Kansas people
were fairly honest, said: “IX#n’t know
; a out honest; hut they do say ag bow
tpe Coiks around take iu their stone lei’—
• CCS every night.”
A Scared Yankee.
The following story is told hy the I> >s
ton Commercial Jiulletin ;
'Say! You 1 Mister I Look here!’;
said a specimen of the genus Ameticanj
Yankee, the other day, to a slightly
l-iiilt citizen, who was hurrying pus! |
hint at the southern part of the city.
* W,II, what is it? tie quick—l’m in a ;
burry,’replied the citizen.
‘Wall, I sin,so you cun stop and Mi
ser a civil question, can’t ye?’
‘Certainly—What is i:?
‘ls there much small-pox about now?’|
‘I think t re is; you hud better avoid i
i dr,'W,l„d places, and—’
'Yaas, I know, that's tvlmt cur doctor
told me, so 1 got ant at the Roxhcrry
depo’instid f tidin’ into the Boston bile, j
where there’s a crowd. I’m pesky ’fear,l
on it, tttid I’m walkin’iu daoun because I
‘Bht, sir, I’ve answered your quest inn,
and you roitst excuse me from stopping
any longer.’
‘Shan’t do no such thing,’said Johri
etlian. ‘What in thunder's tlie use ol
yon geltiu huffy about it?’
‘Sir, you are evidently from the conn*
ttyq and don’t consider—’
‘J Usider be da, to il! It's yon city
| pen}.l that consider yourselves so e„ii
iodndi'd stuck up you can’t speak tn
common folks.’
‘I was sihent to --ay,' remarked the
citizen, 'that you don’t consider the risk
you run in stopping a strange! —’
‘Risk?’saul llio man, forgetting his
small p.,x scare, and misinterpreting the
caution. ‘Risk ? why, t lore's y list
(doubling one that looked like a iLtcii , I
bacon j that would knock you iutcr the
middle , I next week.
‘No doubt of it,’ replied the other,
drawing back as it II nu mbed in close
proximity to his nose.
‘Yaas, my little toiler, continued Kits
liens, laying both hands lip »n t 1,,, lapels
of the mao's coat, and drawing him dose
toward him, T could throw you clean
over my I,earl if 1 had it mind tew.’
'Take your hands tiff me, sir. You
don’t know what you ore doing 1 Yon
don’t know who 1 am.'
•Don rko ,w who you lie? Wall, who
are you? G vernnr, or i’tate Constable?’
‘No, I’m i,tie of the nurses from the
small pox hospitals otter yonder, and
I'm going to get some medicines at the
doctor’s office, and you are stopping me
and running something ol a risk in do
ihg so.'
The Yankee evidently was of the same
opinion, lor he let go the I ipels ol t tie
other's coat collar as il they had b, on
ret! hot, and stepped aside as it he had
seen a locomotive coining for him at a
intle ,'i minute speed.
Then, easting a hurried glance at the
'hospital over yonder,’ he left in the op- j
posit" dir, eti-hi. ai.d was last fiet.t, in a
chemist's shop negotiating for „ >•••"j
ol chloride „l lime and a quart bottle ol
disinfecting fluid.
ANOTHER “ANCIENT CITY.”
Col. W. T. Roberta, who recently
went down to Arizona, hunting lot dia
monds, etc., reports ti e discovery of tlm
rttii.s ~f an ancient ei'y, which covered
an itteaol about three square mil's. It
was enclosed hy a wall of sutuLtone j
neatly quarried fthd dressed, ten or j
twelve feet thick, and which, judging hy ;
the debt's, was fifteen or twenty bet
high tn (ore its tall 1" most places tl
had crumbled away and fallen, and was
even'd with sand, but in many places
it was stiil standing six or eight lee'
„t„ ve the sand banks which had diiflcd
around it.
The entire sea inside of this bad at
one time b en covered with houses, built
„„ solid sandstone, which s owed excel
lent masonry in Heir construction.
Thi* ancient city is situated in At'zona,
about ninety miles from tbo boundary
Hoe bet ween Utah and Arizona, and lie
same oistanc'C from the o,dorado hue
It I,«s the appearance of b ing un old
I AztcC city that lias been deserted lor
hundreds of yeats and fallen to ruins,
i It is entirely id stone, and not a slick ol
i work' and timber is to be found among the
ruins. Nothing but the walls are stand- ■
ing, and none of them now are left tnme
than eight or ten set above tlm sand,:
which is eight or ten feet deep. The j
walls still bear traces-of many hiero
glyphics, cut deep into 'hem, showing
! various Indian cost ms and supersti
tious. .’There are also the mins of state
ly monuments, built of sq ,re blocks ol
! sandstone, well quarried and snowing
! good masonry, waictt are worked with
I notches and crosses cut into them at
regular iuterv ,ls.
The city is covered with sand, which
it is thought has been blown there tr tn
l the desert. Toe sand has become solid
! and packed by the rains Under the
! sand is a layer ol blue Clay, six „r eight
feet deep No b ties, implements ot
Indies ol any kind were found, with the
I exception of pieces of pottery of dark
•color. These were embellished with
1 1) ratings of flowers and ornaments fig
| tires in blue culms. 1 tie coloring mut
’ter is of Idt,e mineral Kut,sia,ice ol some
| kind. It is perfectly ind dil.lo, and piec
es ot pottery, which have bo, u exposed
ito storms, which have worn away the
' solid masonry ol too walls of the city,
i show their colors as fresh and biigat t"
i all appearances as when now. The pot
jtery llselfiia* bed, f U"d m .fectly liro
! proof Upon trial i„ crucibles and furua
' ces,
WELL ALONG IN LIFE.
A Man is Almost 200 Years of Age.
The oldest man in the world, not ex
cept ing the "oldest graduate of Yale, - ’
who is a well known character in news
paper literature, lives in Brazil. The
news is sent to the Liverpool Post by the
Churn:,'llor of Ike Consulate General of
Brazil, and it is obtained Irom the Rio de
Janerio correspondence of the Lisbon,!
Journal de (tomercio, dated I) c 8, 1872.
I ho writer soys: ‘' There is living in Calm
Fiio, province ~f Hi" de Janerio, a poor
man minted Jose Mat tins Ooitinho, burn
|in Saquarcmu in lfi4 and be ng now
; 178 years of age; ids descendants reach
j the i,timber of 204 pet's-ns. It is worth
| the while of the New York Herald to
j send Stanley to discover this Patriarch,
and find <ut the secret of Ida long so.
joiirn on too earth, whether it results
I nun love of life or fear of death. Prob
ably tint old man is the possessor of some
wild p ant, unknown td the materia mod
lea, some Brazilian root, which he has
eaten in sec et all his days, and the
effects of which has been (o' lengthen
lis days and to make him a permanent
boarder mi the earth. If the govern-
ment Could get hold of this plant, and
distribute it, as the cumlurungo was ü
bnui to be distributed, we might all link
forward to un extended old age. Only
thete stioii'd be a provision that the
present lace of office holders should not
eat of it, under p,malty of I" sing their,
positions. Conin',n is to us at tills dis
taece a pleasing figu e and it is perhaps
ungenerous to find any fault with a man
who has lived So long. But really, 204
is not very many; it is tr l"'g'gaily lot
considering the time. Suppose Oontinlio
had been the lather of twelve children
at the age of lilty—a not ui common
feat By H e time he was one hundred
years old these twelve might have mul
tiplied to 1.740. When he reached the
age of one hundred and fifty, by a simple
mult qd cation his descendants might
have numbered 20 880, This, to tie sufe,
does not allow for death ami accident,
but there is to be offset against tnis the
end,l>, „ Coiniinlio may have had after
he was titty years old Too human
mind shrinks from those figures. ’
Uo\\ A ITOOSIER (Jilt 1 , PREVAILED.
Y it can't 100 l Indiana lovers easily.
They don’t pride themselves on their
modesty, bat do on their persistency.
Recently a preacher of Peru forgot a:
engagement to marry a cuplo, and went
t,, bod. VVli' li the bride anti groom ar
rived at his house they were considera
bly astoni-hed to hear taut he was in
bed. The groom remarked : ‘Tnis is
thundei’in mean anyhow. Ne’die, I sup
pose we'll have to adjourn it till some
Other time.’ ‘I came here to get married.’
u b,t tt„- «< rit'c-Nuliio, 'and married I’m
goto’to be afore I leave this ’ere gospel
shop. If lie doesn’t git up amt Collie
here and do the splicin’ IMI go to his
bed-room and put a head on him, and
drag him out here in his shirt tail, l’il
do it in live minutes or I ain’t an honest
woman.'
The minister descended cm the lapse
ol five minutes, and t',e young couple
went on th, ir way rejoicing as happy as
a euup'c of oysters in the month with an
R.
That girl had pluck, like one we once
knew, she was ‘hurtoi to marry.’
It is well known that the Chinese
government legalizes slavery, inasmuch
a, il allows persons to give themselves
or membets of theit families as seenri
nes for debt. But it will uslonLb some
of <),,i read' ra to learn that this practice
is kept, up to some extent, at least, by
tlm Chinese settles in this Country
That such is the ease, is evident from an
advertisement which lately appeared in
the Virginia Oily iMnuntainian, and
which tlm editor ot that paper says is
bona fide, and pad lor. The following is
the advertisement : ‘Wang Gen owes
Dr Y'ee Chough five hut,died and fifty
dollars. He c ,till'd pay it. So, accord
ing to Chinese law, he left his woman,
Sm Gin, ti D,. Yew Chough's posses-ion,
as collateral nul lhe money shall be
paid. Ail right. By and by, all same
yesterday, Sill Gin stole three hundred
and seventy dollars from Dr, 7 ee Cheugb,
and ran away. Now then, all China j
men take notice that if you keep .Sin
Gin, you iiiii-t pay me nine hundred and
iwentv dollars, all same YVang G' u,
Dr. You Uneugh, Virginia City, Dec, 10,
I 1872
WHY SOME PEOPLE REMAIN [POOR.
! Cream is all.,u>ud to mould and spoil.
Silver spoons are used to scrape th
j kettles
The scrubbing brush is loft in the \va
j ter.
Bones are burned that would make
! soup.
iVce handled knives are thrown into,
hot water and spoiled.
Dish-cloths are thrown where mice
can dostrov them.
Tubs and barrels are loft in the sun lo
dry U, and fall ap H t.
Clothes are Udt on the line to whir, to
nieces in the win'd.
Pic crust is left to sour, instead of
making a few taila bu tar.
Veg'tabbs are thrown away that
would wa in for brealcast.
1 Bites of meat are Un wn out that
would in ike hashed meat "r hash.
1 The cork is !•- It out o( the molasses
|$2.M nor .Annum
j I K' mid the ti is lake possession.
l’uik spoils for toe wont of suit, and
beef because tln> bi'iiio wants scalding.
C IT c, lea, pepper and spices are left
open and lose their strength.
Potatoes in the cellar prow, and flio
j sprouts are not removed until they bo
! come useless.
The bread is sifted in a wasteful man
ner, and the bread pan left with tho
dough sticking to it
Cold puddings are considered good for
nothing when olten they can lie steam
ed lor tho next day*
BREEDING HOGS.
The following is the substance of the
Report of the Illinois State Swine Breeds
era Association:
1. The lower the price of pork, the
greater tho need for growing those
liieeds from which the product can he
most cheaply made. Depreciation in
prices should he (net by greater efforts
to improve the stock.
2 To avoid possible deterioration, it
is best to preserve tlie distinct breeds
pure.
| IS. Before furrowing, give sows such
; food as will incite the secretion of milk.
After furrowing, fed lightly at first, in
creasing tne quantity carefully up to
the fhll supply. Teach the pigs to eat
as soon as possible.
4. Alter weaning, the pigs slionld
have the hi st of care. Milk, with oats
and corn ground together, is excellent
food, in pioper quantity. Plenty of ex
ercise is iudisp usable to health.
5 Market at niue to fourteen montl s
old for profitf
6. It was thought best not to encour
age the breeding of pure-bred animals
lor general pork-making; that is, it is
not necessary to coniine it to any puro
lin ed to insure success, lint that tho
mixing of pure breeds tor this purpose
bus, in the main, given very satisfactory
results.
7. Ground or cooked food will, per
pound, make more pork than unground
or uncooked; but, it docs not follow that,
under all circumstances, it ts most prof
itable to grind or cook it. This will de
pend oh price of gram, tne expense of
grindioo and cooking, and the Cost of
f eding" Each farmer must decide, the
jqu slum for himself, and by his own
surroundings. It is hotter to shell and
soak corni than to leed it in the ear.
8. Most diseases among animals are
attributable to want of judgment and
care ill tlieir management. All remedies
for diseases which prevailed in 1871
failed. Kill the sck hogs, and find out,
il p issible, why they became si, and
then in ply the remedy to,the cause. The
style of architecture, although to be ro
gaided, is net the most important part
of a pigg' ty. A pen well covered with
e, -arse, wild hay, and Kept Clean, where
I lie pigs are regularly fed and watered,
in all that is indispensable to success.
KISS ME.
Avery funny inciih nt occurred a few
days since at a certain store in the city.
It is too good to he lost . One of com
posers has written a very pretty song
entitled "Kiss in"." Avery pretty
blushing maid, having heard of tho song,
and thinking she would get it, stepped
int<- the rims c storo to make a purchase.
One of the ch rks a modest young man,
stepp 'd up to wait on her. The young
lady threw hack her veil saying:
T want'Rock me to Sleep.’
Tho c'lefk got her the song and put it
before her.
•Now,’said theyoung lady, ‘I want
thr* ‘Wandering Refugee.’
'Yes ma’am,’ said the clerk, bowing,
and in a few minutes ho produced tlm
Refugee.
‘Now ‘Kiss me,’ said Ihe young ’ady,
of course meaning the song above men
tioned.
The no ir clerk’s eyes popped fire al
mosi, as he looked at the young lacy in
niter astonishment, ior ho was iot a
ware of the fact that a song by that
name had been published,
‘Wh—what did yen say, Miss?’
'Kiss fire,’ said she.
‘I can't do it; I never kissed a young
I .ily in my life.’ said Ihe clerk.
And about that tune a veil dropped, a
young lady left ftf a hurry, clerk f It
sick, and the dealer lost tho sale of so.no
music.
In consequence of Stokes’ infatuation
with dosie Ma- sfield, his wife procured
a divorce. Ihe same steamer that car
ried that document to her in Europe,
.-al l ied also the news of the murder of
Fisk. Oh ace .uat nt tho same, Mrs.
Simon, a si-tor of Stokes, lias la-on dis
c.n-tli || by her husband for adhering so
strongly to the fortunes of her hapless
brother. The senior Stokes fins been
rendered bankrupt thereby, and one
brother, a young man of great promise,
died Slime thrte inoullis ago, of grief and
shame, while the remaining members aio
in the deepest distress. Stokes, the
murderer, was, not very many years sgy
a handsome and affectionate hoy, aim
tne pride of his parents. Verily, the
nteps of her that ‘Both in wait, take
nold on bell.’
A m n in New Yo k attempted t |poeh
the snow from the roof of a lour si ly
lui ding wi h hisfict. The coroner was'
called to view his remains eighty lent
b. low the enterprise, hot did Uot consid
er an imp t at necessary.
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