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On TIN ROOFS our red color is usually preferred, as one coat is equal to five of any ordinary paint. For BRICK WALLS our bright red is the only reliable Slate Paint ever introduced that will effectually prevent dampness from penetrating and discoloring the plaster. These paints are also largely used on out-houses and fences, or as a priming coat on fine buildings. Our only colon are Chocolate, Red, Bright lied, aud Orange. NEW YORK GASH PRICE LIST. o Gallons, can and box $5 50 It) “ keg 950 20 “ half barrel 16 00 40 “ one barrel 30 00 \Ve have in stock, of our own manufacture, roof ing materials, etc,, at the following low prices : 1000 rolls extra Rubber Rooting at 3 cents per square foot. Cr we will furnish Rubber Roofing. Mails, Caps, and Mato Paint for an entire new roof, at cents per square foot. 2000 rolls 2-ply Tarred Roofing Felt, at 1 q cents per square foot. 3000 rolls 3-ply Tarred Roofing Felt, at I}4 cents per square foot. 200 rolls Tarred Sheathing, at % cents per square foot. 6000 gallons fine Enamel Paint, mixed ready for tse, on inside or outside work, at $2 per gallon. H"nd for sample card of colors. All orders must he accompanied with the money or satisfactory city references, No goods shipped C. O. D., unless ex re ss charges are guaranteed, ample orders solicited, N, Y. SLATE PAINT COi 102 & 101 MAIDEN LANE. New York. Ueorge H<-I>iial<rN Story. < na, J ne T °f bis new story is The Princess and l ' l ’ !o „,, embraced in from twenty to thirty uni ts ' ~e two chapters havo.come to baud ne publication will negin as soon as a few more chapters are received. sl r ßß Cn IB E NO W ! For the Examiner and Chronicle. • hshed ererj-Thursday, 39 Park Row, New York, and the Largest, Cheapest, and ly Many thousands the Most Widely Circulated baptist newspaper in the world a elivered by mail, postage prepaid, at $2 50 Now f’ w ;- en Paid strictly in advance. Subscribe JW IW7. Address box 3835. febls-tf CARS?. §2oto $75 cur ij, )’ n , ia^e \'. v good agents in every town selling ur in.- r Stumps. All classes of business men D n g and using them. Send 3 cent postage tor terras, ' E. M. BAYNE, 725 Hansom street, Philadelphia. A ii'( 4 11A wl ° ur large life-like Steel Engkav , 1 sings of the Presidential Candi \l v. 1 paths sell rapidly, send for clrcu •‘D 'lilar. N. Y. 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Flowers and Seeds, vegetable plants andornamental shrubbery Atlanta Nurseries. Atlanta. Ga. M. COLE &, CO , Proprietors. ►Seed and Plant Store No. 2 Whitehall street. MOSES COLE SEND FOR CATALOGUE. ' CAMPBELL WALLACE. Medical Dispensary. Dr. Geo. W. Marvin again ten ders his professional service to his old friends and the public. Dispeii** sary and consultation rooms, No. 1 M Lite hall street, in Centennial buil (ling, Atlanta, Ga., where patients can get reliable treatment for all diseases of the Throat, Lungs and Catarrh. The above diseases treated by inhalation. The Doctor treats all dlsea&s of long standing, such as Eruptions, Gravel, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Go itrv, 1 iropsy, Biliousness Diseases of the Kidneys, Nervous Depression, Dyspepsia, Liver Com plaint, all Diseases peculiar to Wo men, pH Private Diseases, Heart Dis ease Swollen Joints, Coughs, Gout, White swelling, St, Titus Dance, etc. Electricity’applied in cases where it is required. The Doctor is per manently located, and persons who hay e been under the treatment of oth er physicians and have not been cur ed, are invited to call, as he treats all curable diseases, and cures guarnteed or no pay Call and see the Doctor without delay. His charges are mo derate, and consultation free. Office hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. feb22-ly A QIEEIt STORY BTIOTO IIA K LEUf. Some Odd Sort of Beast Sus pected of Selecting a Human Abode, IIIS BEHAVIOR THEREIN AS DESCRIBE ED BY THE SUFFERER'S PHYSICIAN. Harlem lias a sensation in the per son of a negro girl named Hattie Brown, who is supposed to be suf fering from the presence of a live animal of some kind, as yet un known, in her intestines. A repor ter of The World called last evening on her physician, Dr. Dcmarest, of I\o. 330 East One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, and learned the particulars of the case, which he had gleaned from the girl herself, and from a careful examina tion made on \\ ednesday morning, lie was called in early this week to attend Hattie, who is described as being about twenty-five years old, ffurly educated, and having a slight, figure and preposesing features. She resides at No. 433 East One Hun dred and Twentieth street with her mother and aunt, and the family are all dress makers. Between five and six years ago Ilattie attended a picnic, and dur ing the day drank some water from a running stream, and now, she says romembers noticing that she swal lowed some object of appreciable size, though it was forgotten almost immediately afterward, and only re called when it was supposed" that some living creature had taken up its abode in her body. Not long af ter this occurrence her health began to fail, and a disease of a curious na ture fastened upon her, which ad vanced with slow but certain steps for several years, until she was final ly incapacitated for work. She was gradually wasted away, grew weak, and suffered apparently from a lack of vitality, and finally remembering the incident related above, concluded —which is nothing new as a supersti tion among negroes—that she was suffering from the presence of some living thing in her intestines. Her theory was confirmed before long by her unwelcome tenant giving unmis takable evidence of its presence by periodically emitting distinct sounds and moving itself from place to place. The girl, having conceived the idea that the parasite had its likes and dislikes, and was aroused to greater activity, causing her consequent pain by her eating or drinking certain things, and consulting her own com fort as well as that of the parasfte, regulated her diet accordingly. The object, whatever it may, be at length grew to such size as to be plainly dis cernible in her emaciated state as it shifted its position from place to place in the intestines, but if touch ed or attempted to be grasped, as fhe had several times tried to grasp it, il Mould fly to the other side of the body, its course being plainly discernible through the abdominal walls. The sufferer attempted sev eral times to grasp it in such a way as to be able to strangle it, but was always unsuccessful. The voice of the creature was variously described as resembling the barking of a puppy and a low, gliding sound, but when heard by the physician resembled the ‘‘kcr-chunk’'which accompanies the decent of a bullfrog into a puddle. The case inis been treated several times as one of simple tenia or tape worm, that being the natural conclu sion reached by physicians whom she has heretofore consulted from her statement of the difficulty, but she now says that she withheld the truth from them and refused to sub mit to an examination through fear that they would desire to perform an operation upon her. The remedies usually prescribed for tape-worm were given her, but were never accor ded a fai' - trial, and her case went from bad to worse. Liquor in large quantities was tried in the effort to THOM ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 31, 1877. destroy the supposed interloper, and in the hope of reviving her shattered system. It was observed that enor mous quantities of liquor would have no effect upon the girl, mHio was entirely unused to them, but would apparently stupefy the para site for a time, laudanum and opium having the same effect. But M’hen the effects had passed away the pa rasite’s movements M'ere conducted with such increased vigor ,and its ree tlcness caused the patient such intense pain, that their use was discontinued. When she takes food the parasite comes up close to the pit of the stom ach, and she claims that she can dis tinctly ‘Heel it swallow.” Dr. Demarcst says he saw with his own eyes and heard with his own ears the movements and voice of the inter loper. A caieful examination failed to detect any signs of any other troub le or disease about the girl, and if this trouble were removed he thinks she would be an exceptionally healthy woman Her appetite is not greater than that of an ordinarily healthy person, the only thing wrong about her being an extreme irregularity of the bowels. He is firmly convinced that the girl lias a living animal of some sort in her intestines and equally sure that it is not a tape worm. A case so unusual, of course, only leaves room for “expectant” treatment, as it is technically called, at least until something further is developed. He does not, however, entertain very sanguine hopes of beneficial results from medicine, but thinks that it will be necessary to open the abdomen and cut the intes tines in order to remove the intru der. This operation, which is an exceedingly delicate one, has been frequently performed with satisfac tory results in other difficulties, and, Dr. Demurest thinks, can undoubt edly be used as a means of settling the question of “What is it ?” and of saving the girl's life, if she can be induced to consent to it. :Y. Y. World. IVintinjj and Journalism in Chi na. A Chinese printing office isagreater curiosity than one would think. The alphabet numbers way into the thou sands, and a cap and lower case goes all the way round the inside of a two story building and half way up the roof. It takes an apprentice twenty years to learn the case, and then he has to use a step ladder to get at the higher branches. A case was pied once in Canton, and it took five days to remove the type from the form of the foreman. They punctuate wher ever they can drop a dot. without re gardtothe prospective. When the editor coins a word the printer whit tles out anew character with his jack-knife. The journeymen set by the square foot, and neyer belong to a union. They do their presswork by hand, and use boxing gloves to nk the type. They have one paper in the empire a thousand years old, and the bound volumes half fill a pa goda. It is rumored that Bennett has started to edit that venerabla pa per. The editor’s head is responsible for all items published in the paper, and is taken off whenever an article of news is published. Not an editor has been beheaded in China for the last five hundred years. The Chi nese have just invented a twenty-five cylinder press for printing tea chests, with wheih they are able to print one a week. —Ex. A Valuable Receipt. We consider the following receipt of such value, that we transfer it to our columns from ihe .Stockton (Cal ifornia) Herald : I herewith append a recipe which has been used, to my knowledge, in hundreds of cases. It will prevent or cure the small pox, though tliep it tingsare filling. When Jenner dis* coverd cow pox i \ England, the world of science hurled an avalanche of fame upon his head ; but when the most scientific school of medicine in the world—thato.' Caris —published this recipe as a panacea for small pox, it passed unheeded ; it is as unfailing as fate, and conquers in every in stance. It is harmless when taken by a well person. It will also cure scarlet fever. Here is the :eeeipt as I have used it, and cured my children of scarlet fever ; here it is, as I have used it, and cured my children of scarlet fever ; here it is as I have nsed it to cure small pox ; v hen learned physicians said the patient must die, it cured • Sulphate of zinc, one grain ; fox glove (digitalis), one grain ; half a teaspoonful of sugar; mix with two tablespoonful of water. ' Y lien thoroughly mixed, add four ounces of water. Take a spoonful every hour. Either disease will dis appear in twelve hours. For a child smaller doses, according to age. If communities would compel their physicians to use this, there would be no need of pest houses. If you value advice and experience, use this for that terrible disease. The German Government has ap propriated four and a half millions of marks for additional buildings to the University of Stratsbnrg, which are to accommodate 1,500 students. “75 LIFE WORT*II LI VINO? ” OP. IS IT ALTOGETHER VAIN ? Sitting alone, in the evening gloom. Sitting alone, in my silent room, Watching the leave* falling, sadly aud slow, Watching the clouds as they come and go, O'er me comes a thought of misgiving, A sail thought it is—is life worth living! Ah! life doth seem like a nightmare dream, Troubled at best, full of unrest; t vain ? I think again ; no, not al together vain. So sad to think the forms M T e cherish. Like those dead leaves, so soon will perish, And the eyes that beam so brightly Sxm will be dim and unsightly, And the lips that smile so lightly In grim death will soon close tightly. Is life worth living? then comes the thought, Are all we live for, then, blit naught? Must the hopes (united with our hearts) be blighted? But as I think it over again, once more, Once more again, life is not altogether vain. And as I sit by my window here, Viewing the scenery brown and drear, The autumn winds, they come to me With congenial sympathy, And as the leaves are falling, falling, Comes again that thought appalling, Is life worth living? do the winds say? We are passing like they so sadly away ? Had I forgot that they speak not, Or that the zone is not known Where they are found, or whither they arc bound ? Yet, could they speak, they would say again, “Life is not altogether vain.” Is life not vain ? then tell me "why, Like those dead leaves, we fade and die Is life not vain, w<?fe we not lx>rn, (As the poet says) but “made to mourn?” Is life worth living ? any sweet realities giving ? Perhaps I’m too fmul of this feeling despond, But t’was said of old that “in each soul A bell of dole hangs reach/ to be tolled .” Ah ! me, but thinking it over agaiu, “Life is not altogether vain.’’ Could life be vain, when there’s a heaven, When there’s a God by M’hom ‘tis giv en ? Could life be worthless when there are legions Of angels watching us from regions Of heavenly bliss? Dear life is sweet; I feel, I know, it is no cheat. But we must svait longer and grow strong- er; Lre’loag we will hear * heavenly dryer Saying, “Come up, my. child, thy place is higher.” Life is worth living, then, t'will be plain Life not be altogether rain. October, 1870. Doi.lie. The New Uarviiai. Mr. Frederick Douglas, the new U. S. Marshal for the District of Columbia, m t lio succeeds Marshall Sharp, appealed at the Court House this morning about 9 o'clock, and going immediately to the Marshal’s office, was received by Col. Philips, the retiring deputy marshal, and they spent a few minutes in conver sation. 31 r. Douglas said iie would lika to sec the bailiffs and others at tached to the offices, and they being sent for, Mr. Philips introduced each one by name, taking occasion to re mark upon their efficiency in their respective positions, and expressed the hope that the new marshal would find it unnecessary to remove them. Mr. Douglas had a kindly word for each one of them, and inti mated that he was not in favor of removing good men from positions. Not having received his commission he did not, of course qualify by ta king the oath luid tilling his bond, and he left the building before ten o’clock THE DEPUTY MARSHAL. Of course there has heen some con jecture as to who will bo the deputy to take the place of Col. Philips, and this question was discussed by Col. Perry Carson and other prominent colored men in and about the build ing to-day. It became known before long that .Mr. L. P. Williams, who for many years has been one of the assistant clerks in the office of the clerk of the court, had on Saturday been tendered the position, and that he hail finally concluded to accept it. This selection is regarded generally as the host which could have been made, and by it -Mr, Douglass has crippled what opposi tion there was to his appointment. With members of the bar and others who have hud business at tlie clerk’s office Mr. Williams had become a great favorite, and lie possesses the respect and esteem of the bench, bar, and the public at large. Mr. \Y ll liams came here from Indiana after the close of the war, having served in the Union army in the South and Southwest, and settled down here, making the District his permanent residence, purchasing property and erecting a residence in the county, opposite Howard University grounds. In the office of clerk of the court he has gained experience which will be valuable to him in his new positions, and, besides, he is a good business man, and possesses much executive ability, lc also become known that the sureties on the bond uf Marshal Douglass would be Columbia Alex ander, of this city, and George Hill, Jr., of Georgetown. MR. DOUGLAS LIVES BOND AND QUALIFIES. About one o'clock Mr. Douglas returned to the City Mail, and (tiie Circuit Court being then in recess) accompanied by Marshal Sharp, Mr. John 11. Cook (of the bar), and Messrs. Columbus Alexander and George Hill, jr., he at once repair ed to the consultation room, where Mr. Douglas, with Messrs. Alexan der and Hill, executed a bond for $20,000 for the faithful performance of tho duties of the office of marshal of the District of Columbia by Mr. Douglas. This bond being approv ed by the Chief Justice, Mr. Doug las, standing, took the usual oath of office by affirmation. Mr. Doug lass immediately returned to the Marshal’s office, and Dr. Sharp turned over the office to him. THE OFFICE SEEKERS ON HAND. A large crowd assembled in the ante-rooms of the Marshal’s office, the most of whom were in the inter est of themselves or friends for office and the anxiety to serve the public seemed so great that Mr. Douglas soon found what it was to have pat ronage. He immediately sent for Mr. L. P. Williams, and the oath and bond having been taken that gentlemen entered on his duties as deputy marshal. To those who came with letters Mr. Douglas said hut few words, remarking generally that lie would not do anything with out consideration. Mr. James IS harp, who has for several years been a deputy in the office, informed Mr. Douglas that he desired to vacate his position, but will remain in the office until his successor is appointed, with a view of giving any assistance in his pow er, ONE OF THE FIRST QUESTIONS Mr. Douglas asked on entering the office was as to whether the bailiffs gave bond, and receiving a negative answer sa.d they should, and lie re quested the deputy (Mr. Williams) to arrange for an interview in pri vate with this afternoon.— Washing., ton Star. One hundred and Sixty Millions is the sum justly due and owing her creditors by tlie city of New York. The Free Trade party of England is to make a great effort this year to extend its principles throughout the world. John Sims, colored appointed stew ard at the White House, lias given bonds for $20,000. llev, John Moore lias been ap pointed Bishop, at St. Augustine Florida. In the vicinity of Tampa they have corn waist high, and watermel ons and other vines are in bloom, and the inhabitants expect to cat mutton corn by May. Forty years ago the average daily number of pins made in England for use and export was twenty million. Now it is fifty million. There are from ten to twenty thou sand men and women in New Orle ans out of employment— out of work and out of bread. A summons to answer for the false imprisonment of Thomas Biggins, an alleged lunatic, was served on General Grant. Biggins claims SIOO,OOO damages. Scene in Texas. Hotel table.— “Good morning, stranger ; it looks like rain Stranger—“l think not.” A shot is heard, and the stranger is rolled out of the back door. Moral—Texas is a fine graz ing eountry- Ilere is a chance for some of our M. DFs : “J. F. Burtholf, of Char lottes' Harbor, Florida, offers five hundred acres of desirable orange land near the water and a yearly guarantee of SSOO to an experienced physician.” Edward Wells, a negro, who mur dered William O’Brien, in Burke county, was taken from jail at Waynesboro and lyclied by a crowd of unknown men. Wells confessed that he murdered O'Brien to ob tain possession of his goods and mon ey. A trial recently took place at Pestli, Hungary, of an apparatus in vented by a Hungarian officer, for enabling a horse to swim a long dis tance with a rider without sinking. The officer crossed the Danube at its broadest part, with a rapid cur rent running, and the horse's head was kept up handsomely. The Erie Kail way Company has just completed an inventory of its effects, real and personal It was be gun two years ago, and fills twenty large volumes, the mere binding of which cost $250, sl2 each. It is so minute that the number of spikes of the 1,800 miles of track is given, which is 21,000. There are 250 lo comotives and seventy different kinds of iron in the tr ick. A full in ventory of the Grand Opera House, with its theatrical wardrobe, scenery, etc., is also given. The cost of ta king the inventory was over SIOO,- 000. The value of trees, in a sanitary point of view, in large and overcrowd ed cities, can scarcely be overestima ted. Apart from the sense of relief and coolness which they impart, their value as purifiers of the atmosphere is almost incredible. It has been calculated that a good sized elm, plane or lime tree will produce 7,000,000 leaves, having u united area of 200,000 square feet. The in fluence of such a targe smfaceni the absorption of deleterious gases and the exhalation of oxygen must there fore be of benefit iu overcrowded and and unhealthy districts. The colored people of Raleigh, N. C\, have resolved that the future condition and happiness of their race is not assured in the “political sphere,” and they haye called a con vention at Raleigh, on the first Mon day in May, to devise some plan for bettering their condition, bv coloni zation or otherwise. Zachariah W. llavnes, a deaf mute, was married in August, 1874, to Laura, a daughter of Chang Bunk er, one of the noted twins. Chang had nine children, seven of whom are living. Three of them are deaf mutes. Mr. llavnes is a teacher m the institute for the deaf, dumb, and the blind in Raliegh. The poplar forest in the region of country north of Lewistown, Me , have been cut down for timber for the manufacture of paper. These forests have been considered by the farmers as almost woithless, a great deal of the wood or lumber hardly paying for the cutting and hauling, but now brings a high price. The oldest vessel in Portsmouth harbor is Nelson’s Victory, |the only vessel which the sentiment of the nation will never allow to be broken up. She is one hundred and eleven years of age. She is not the first of the name, a previous Victory, as great, but not so fortunate as her self, having been lost at sea with 1,000 hands. A Sweed is preaching in the Sweed ish language to twenty-live hundred of his countrymen in Mr. Moody’s chivch at Chicago, the sermons be ing literal translation of Mr. Moody’s discourse in different parts of the country. The preacher was con verted in Sweden, it is said, by read ing Mr. Moody’s sermons, and re sembles Mr. Moody very closely in appearence. An edition of Mr. Moody’s sermons has been published at Constantinople in the Armenian language, and a Spanish edition has also been discovered. A Rem ark abie Woman — The New York correspondent of the Bos ton Jornal says : “Miss Pinkey, who lives in up per New York, is regarded as the wealthiest woman in the city. She is quite advanced, and her moth er, who lives with her, is nearly ninety. She owns six thousand city lots, transacts her own business, and keeps her affairs in her own hands. The two women live together in a I large stone cottage, and live in the 1 simplest and plainest style. She gave the other day some interesting statements about real estate in New York: ‘The city owes $131,000,000. There are $13,000,000 of unpaid as sessment taxes to-day. Against my property there are $400,000 assess ments and taxes. A large portion of these assessments will be paid. The owners of property prefer to let the city take the lots, and trust to their ability to redeem them when times are better. Twelve per cent, is the interest demanded by the citv after the first year. I have held my property in this way. Once in ten years there is a rise in real estate. Then I sell ofF enough to clear mv property, and hold on to the bal ance. ’ ” Anew light that promises in a large measure to surpersede gas in the streets has of late been success fully applied in several places in Germany and France. Sticks of charcoal surmounted by an isolating matter, which slowly melts away, are consumed by electricity. With two of these electric candles, it is claim ed, a light equal to that of 100 gas jets may be thrown on a street.— The cost is about half thatof gas, and the light is of the best quality. It also lias the recommendation that there is no danger whatever of fire from the electric candles. The new light has been introduced in forty large France, and is destined, many believe, to be soon the only light that will be used in large rooms, public places, and man ufactories. Outdoor work can be carried on by night as well as by day by means of the new light, since ft has almost a sunlike clearness and in tensity. A German paper, speaking of the invention, says : “We are ev idently on the eve of as great a revol ution in lighting as when gas super seded oil lamps and tallow candles.” In a temperance address at his Hippodrome in Philadelphia Bar numsaid; “I will undertake, and give bonds for the fulfillment of the contract, that if the city of Phila delphia will stop selling liquor and give me as much as was expended here for liquor last year, to run the city next year, I will pay all city ex penses ; no person living within her borders shall pay taxes ; there shall be no insurance on property : a good dress and suit shall be given to every poor boy, girl, man and woman ; all the educational expenses shall be paid ; a barrel of flour shall be giv en to every needy and worthy per son ; and I will clear half a million or a million of dollars by the opera tion.*’ I xsmashable.—The Queen’s state saloon on the Great Western Rail way, England, is made entirely of boiler plate, and so lined and padded that if the carriage were to go over an embankment and roll to the bot tom the chances are that the occu pants would escape uninjured. Why are nut all the railroad cars made equally safe 1 I’he Queen is not |e culiar in disliking the idea of being smashed or burned to death. rpHK GREAT HARD TIMER PATEIA I The Beet, the Cheapest end the moot ppu- i k Ur. You can't eflord to he without it. CRICKET iff. HEARTH. It ie a mammoth 16-pa*e lUoetrsted paper (size of Harpei’a Weekly.) filled with the choicest reading for old and younn. Serial and abort stories sketch es, poems, useful knowledge, wit an humor, "an gers to coraeeponde&tn," puules, games, “popular songs." etc. Lively, entertaining, amuring and in structive. The largest, haadaomest, beet and cn*aj - cet paper of its daaa published. Only $1 per year, with choice of three premiums ; the beautiful r.- w chroma, “Yes or No TANARUS" aise 16x19 ihches; any one of the celebrated novels by Charles Dickena, or an ele gant box of aationery. Paper without premium only 76 eta. per year. Or we will send it four month on trial for only ft cents. K9~Sperimen copy sent on receipt of stamp. Agents wanted. Addree* FYM. LUPTON k CO., Publishers, J 7 Park Row, N. Y. NO. 17. Fahlon Xole*. Ball dresses arc now studded with blue steel stars and ornaments to match. Silver mistletoe berries with grot n foliage make up the fashionable wreath. Wreaths of trailing flowers are worn over the shoulders en banddiere. The new beads of Venetian are worn as headings to fpnges and galloons. The effect is novel and beautiful. The diamonds worn by Mine. Mu sard at the opera ball the other uiglit when placed in a row measur ed nearly nine yards. The newest cloak is called the “Nemesis,"’ which costs so much that husbands arc continually growl ing. Dculli of Bill Arp Fort Worth Daily Democrat : “Bill Arp, late of Georgia, the man who furnished the witticisms and odd sayings which Charles 11. Smith prepared and published some years ago, was accidentally killed near tiiis place (Decatur, Texas,) last Mon day, March sth. He fell from a wagon loaded with corn, the wheels passing over his neck, killing him instantly. When he left home in the morning he told his family h would never ugain be permitted to enter the house alive, and strange to say, lie was within fifty yards of the house, on his return, when the sad accident occurred which termina ted so fatally. He was a reinarka man—perfectly illiterate, but replete with original iJcas and witty savings he rarely ever spoke without saving something pithy. Over 4,000,000 sewing machines have been sold since they were first introduced in 1853. Treasurer Renfroe has concluded an arrangement with the Fourth National Bank of New York by which the temporary loans required by the State during the year will be made at six per cent, per annum— lowest rate since the war. The Court of Claims, a few days ago, rendered a decision announc ing as the unanimous opinion of the court that for any and all sums of money paid by the government offi cials to and individual under mista ken view of the law, the government has a legal right of action against that individual, and may compel him to pay back the money, regard less of the well settled rule an.l privilege that, as between individuals under similar circumstances, there can be no such recovery. A farmer in Douglass county was taken ill in the month of June, last year, after the crop had been plan ted and there was no one to carry on the the farm but his wife. She un der took the work, and plowed and hoed the crop—making 770 pounds ot lint cotton, thirteen wagon loads of corn, 500 bundles of fodder, 50 bushels of potatoes, and 40 gallon of sorghum. In the midst of the busy season she had to drive her husband to town for medical atten tion. About twenty years ago a .some what abusive opponent of the Bap tists was publishing a book ,v r ain.- them at the office of the printer of the acts of the Mississippi Legislaten. By some inadvertence the sheets got mixed, and before the confusion w.t detected several copies of the acts were so bound as to exhibit the . fol lowing astonishing piece of legisla tion, the grand result of a thirty years’ war against immersion : “jV it enacted by the Senate and Hous. of Representatives of the Statt- of Missouri, That bap means to put un der the water, and tizo means to pull out,” Horned Men in Africa. —Capt. J. S. Hay, an African traveler, pre sented a paper before the British As sociation in which he described a tribe of human beings whom he had found in Western Africa many having horns. This peculiartv was coir fined entirely to males : and the hor ny growth seemed to be of the char acter of excrescences growing from the cheek bones and projecting for ward upon either side of the nose. The natives themselves consider the horns as undesirable deformities, and in some cases adopt every means with which they are acquainted to stop their growth, though their efforts m this direction are unavailing. A sup ply of horned skulls lias been sent for with a view to investigate more care fully the nature and causes of this curious abnormality. I’iie principal hot spring of the group in Uncompatigrc Park, Col orado, is described as a round basin, fully fifteen feet in diameter, ai t five feet deep, in the bottom of which, and surrounding a shelf or ledge four feet wide, is an inner or deeper circular hole, about seven feet in diaiucterand twelve feet iii depth ; full to the brim of clear, limpid water—seventy-six to eighty degrees in temperature, and con stantly bubbling up and steaming, mi that it can, on a cold day, be detec ted miles away. An underground outlet allows the water to escape to a lower hit of ground, where it again bursts forth in several s rings. The water contains traces of iron, soda and salt ; and is quite palatable \i!kb drunk hot, ret mg as cathartic.