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ortl| , PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY -AT- BELLTON, G-Jk. By JOHN T. WILSON, Jr. Tbbms— sl.oo per anaam .*0 oeiHe fpr six fijonina; 25 cent* forth fee'mon £K*. rartie* aw&j from Beliton aie requested to send their names with such amounts of mosey a, the/ can pare, ‘rem Sco. to $1 NEWS CLEANINGS. Minnesota has made an assignment at fifty cents on the dollar. Thirty drummers visited Natchez in February, and paid $75 privilege taxes. In the Cherokee nation there are 107 schools where the English language is taught. There are 220 students at the South Georgia Agricultural College, at Thom asville. .The granite for the base of the Cow pens monument is arming at Spartan burg, S. C. It is alleged that the oysters found off the Texas coast are the largest and finest in the world. A license to sell liquor in Nebraska costs SI,OOO, which shows that their drinks are dear to them out there. Lizzie Crompton, aged seven, of Pat erson, N. J., jumped a rope 175 times, and then stopped a few minutes to die. Windom’s home is in Minnesota, he was born in Ohio, married in Massachu setts, and he lives in Washington. A bill has been filed in Chancery con testing the title of lands covering a large part of the fifth ward of Cha tanooga, Tenn. Strawberries cultivated near Charles ton, S. C., are expected to yield 1,000,- 000 quarts for the Northern markets from 250 acres of land. Thomas Smith, of New’ York, who re cently compelled his young son to keep the track in a walking match, was fined SIOO and sent to prisonJfor ten days. A bill has passed both houses of the Florida Legislature taking Sumter county from the First Congressional district and transferring it to the Second. Kansas druggists, according to the new, absurd law, can not sell camphor, co logne or flavoring extracts into which alcohol enters without the prescription of a physician. The Prescott (Ark.) Dispatch say that there are seventy-five saw mills on the line of railroad between Little Rock and Texarkana, and timber enough for 750 more. - Miss Mary Maury, of Milton, N. 0., ■who was engaged to be married to Th os DeJarnette, who is now under sentence of death for shooting his sister in a low house, has married a Mr. Charles Gor don. A correspondent of the Savannah (Ga.) News says that the largest tea plantation in the United States is located about fifteen miles from Fleming. Fleming is about twenty-four miles southwest of Savannah in Liberty county. Karl Gerhardt, a Hartford draughts man, modeled so fine a figure of his wife in clay that Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner have sent him to Europe for education in sculpture. The Money Order Superintendent at New York says the M. O. Department is only sixteen years old. The smallest money order ever sent was one cent. Last year over $100,000,000 was sent through the department. Two of the ’liexas Congressmen nre Georgians. Olin Wellborn began his legal career in Atlanta, and moved to Texas iu 1868. D. B. Culberson went from LaGrange to the army, and then to Texas as Adjutant General of that State. Garfield kissed the Bible on the twen ty-first chapter of Proverbs, and the verses he kissed were these: “Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts.” “To do justice and judgment is more ac- l ceptabl* t > the Lord than sacrifice.” The Maine liquor law is still supposed to be in force in that State, and the Leg islature is still loyal to the prohibitory statute so long upon the Maine books; but for the refreshment of the inner man engaged in the Maine Legislature, liquor is made quite accessible to the capitol building in Augusta. The Texas Legislature is said to have passed a resolution requiring that women stall be employed in the State depart ments for every position that they are competent to fill upon the same terms and conditions as men. The heads of departments, it appears, have hitherto declined to give the women any public employment. The Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff, Chairman of the Bible Revision Committee, an nounces that the Revised New Testament will be published by the English Univer sity presses in May, in different sizes and styles of binding at corresponding prices. The new Bible is protected by copyright 'n England and free in this country. The North Georgian. VOL. IV. Wm. I. Johnson, caressingly called Buckshot Bill, Chief of United States Scouts, is authorized interpreter in four teen Indian tongues and speaks eleven more. Bill was once taken prisoner by Split Nose, a Comanche, and saw eleven of his comrades burned. He says he has 117 scalps hanging in the Smithsonian Institute taken bv his own hands. Capt. Nelms says that there are now about 1,150 convicts at the various prison camps of Georgia. The largest number at any one place is at the Dade coal mines, where there are about 350. The decrease in the number of convicted criminals for the years 1878-9 is said to be about twelve and one-half per cent., and for the year 1880 about fifteen per cent. The Charleston banks refuse to take silver certificates at par. The certificates represent silver-coined dollars in the United States Treasury, and are receiva ble for customs dues; but the demand for silver to pay duties at Charleston is small, and the banks must charge a quar ter per cent, discount on the certificates to pay expressage on them to some city where a large amount of custom house duties is paid. The Concho (Texas) Times says that Judge Pruesser describes El Paso as fol lows: “Imagine the main street of San Angela with the houses all flat-roofed, and about a thousand drunken men, rail road hands, gamblers and adventurers, all swaggering, fighting and yelling through the streets, and you have a pretty cor rect idea of El Paso as it is. That there will be a good town there some day, or probably further down the river, I have no doubt.” Robert Collyer, .Sunday, in the course of a lecture on George Eliot, said: “As to her after life, it isn’t a question of casting stones, but it is whether she did the best possible here with that fine spirit. I believe that her soul is at rest. In the boundless bliss of heaven alone could such a soul find its place. Old Father Taylor, of Boston, once said to a Calvinist who was talking about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s going to the bad place after he should die: “Well, if Emerson goes to hell, he will change the climate.” And so I say of George Eliot. The negrosin Liberty county, Ga., are said to be well behaved and industrious. The Rev. J. T. H. Waite, who located in Liberty in 1874, has done much toward their moral and intellectual advance ment. Th academy which he establish ed at Midway several years since is in a prosperous condition, and numbers 250 pupils on its roll. The assistant teachers are young colored men, one of whom re ceived his education at this academy. Another school has been started recently at Dorchester by the Rev. Mr. Waite, who is devoted to his noble mission. Speaking of the improvements which are to made at Athens, Ga., this sum mer, the Atlanta Constitution says Athens is already one of the most beau ful, aristocratic and progressive cities of its size in the Southrn States, with a population largely made up of the wealth iest of Georgians. Its long avenues, lined with stately old Southern mansions with beautiful yards and shade trees, remindsone vividly of the princely times of ante-bellum days. The colleges of Athens are numerous and of the highest order, and from their halls have gone out men who have become honored and distinguished both in private and in pub lic life. Wl.at is Wine Made Os! As wine merchants are petitioning the French Government to put a stop to the manufacture of artificial wines, the pe titioners asserting that not one-third of the wine used in Paris is made of grapes, the many Americans who turn up their noses at the juice of our own grapes will naturally wonder what the spurious French wines are made of. An exchange says that there are a number of large fac tories near Parts in which wines are made from rotten apples, damaged dried fruits of all kinds, beets and spoiled molasses. But there are not enough of these materials to make as much wine as is required by foreign trade. Turnip juice has been worked over into wine, and American cider is the basis of mil lions of bottles of champagne, but good apples and turnips are too costly to be wasted on cheap wines, such as most Americans buy. Some of the temper ance societies might find the returns they are after by satisfying public curiosity about what wines are made of.—-V. K Herald. Kingzett is inclined to believe tha ozone and hydrogen peroxide are pro ! duced at the same tim? when atmost pheric air is drawn over phosphorus par ’ tially immersed in water. The thing we cauliflower by any other ; name would smell as sweet BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., MARCH 17, 1881. THE NEW CABINET. Biographical Sketches of its Members. PcrMonnl and Political Antecedcuts of Hmine. Windom, Kirkwood, Lincoln, Hunt. James and MacVeayh. New Yorte Herald, JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE, SECRETARY OF STATE. Few public men in America are better known than Senator James G. Blaine, ex-Speaker of the House of Representa tives, and few are likely to maintain themselves so steadily in the forefront of the political battle field for many years to come. As Premier of the new ad ministration Mr. Blaine will share with President Garfield the chief responsibil ities of a policy which will be largely his own, at least to a degree unusual in the annals of recent governments. Mr. Blaine, as is well known, is a citizen of Maine and a native of Pennsylvania, but it is not so well understood that he may be considered in a geographical sense as n “Ohio man,” having been born in the center of the Ohio Valley, much nearer the “Beautiful River” than either Hayes or Sherman. He comes of Revolution ary stock, his great-grandfather, Col. Ephriam Blaine, a native of Scotland, having fought with prince Charley at Culloden in the ’45, and afterward par ticipated in the American Revolution, as coinmissionary general of the Middle de partment during the Revolutionary war. His maternal grandfather, James Gilles pie, settled upon a large tract of land in the Monongahela Valiev soon after the Revolution, that region being considered then a part of Virginia. His father, Ephriam L. Blaine, married a Miss Gil lespie, and James G. Blaine, one of seven children, was born Jan. 31, 1830, on Indian Hill farm, West Brownsville, Union township, on the Monongahela, in Washington county, Pa. The county seat was the thriving village of Wash ington—usually known as “Little Wash ington”—a town which has become prominent of late years by its cremation furnace and by the visits of Gen. Grant to the members of his family who reside there. “Little Washington’’ is also no ted as the seat of one of the oldest col leges of the Ohio Valley, and there, after preparation at a school in Lancas ter, 0., where he resided with his uncle, Senator Thomas Ewing, the future Premier graduated in 1847, with the highest honors of a class of thirty-three members, at the early age of seventeen years. In 1850 he went to Georgetown, Ky., as a teacher at a military academy, and married, about 1853, a Miss Harriet Stanwood, a lady who taught an adjoin ing district school. She belonged to a prominent family of Maine, and this marriage was the occasion of the remove al of Mr. Blaine to that State. He had previously taught (1852) in the iVnn sylvania Institution for the Blind at Philadelphia, at the same time studying lair and writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He speedily became connected with the Kennebec Journal, published at Augusta, the State Capital, and was for a time editor of the Portland Advertiser, but soon returned to his former post at Augusta. In 18.57 he was elected to the State Legislature, where he sat for five years, during two of which he served as Speaker. In 1862 he was elected to Congress, to which he was regularly re elected until 1876, when he was chosen to the Senate in place of ex-Senator Lot M. Morrill. In December, 1869, he was elected Speaker of the Forty-first Con gress, was re-elected in 1871 and 1873 and was defeated in 1875 by his Deino cratic competitor, Michael C. Kerr, the Democrats having a clear majority in that House. As every one knows, Mr. Blaine was brilliantly successful as a Speaker, having complete command of parliamentary rules, and possessing that gift of personal magnetism which marks the leaders of men. As an orator and legislator he was one of the notable fig urea of ( ’ongress long before he became its presiding officer, and began to be mentioned as a possible President soon after his first election to the Speaker ship. At Cincinnati in 1876 he narrow ly escaped the Republican nomination, and at Chicago in 1880 was the leading candidate until almost the last moment, when his followers threw their votes for James Abram Garfield, thus securing his nomination. He occupies a fine house at Washington, where he dispenses hospitality; has six children, two of his sons already practicing law, and has a natural taste for diplomacy, for which his character eminently' fits him. He has an imposing personal presence, a phenomenal memory and a reputation for steadfast loyalty to political friends. WILLIAM WINDOM, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. The second prize in the Garfield Cabi net falls to Senator William Windom, of Minnesota, who had some following in the Chicago Convention of 1880 as a possible "dark hirst.” Mr. Windom, like many other meritorious politicians, was originally an “Ohio man,” having first seen the light May 10, 1827, in Bel mont county, 0., almost on the banks of the “Beautiful River,” near Wheeling, West Va., not fifty miles, “as the crow flies,” from the birth place of James G. Blaine His parents were both from Virginia, his paternal grand parents were from North Carolina, and his ma ternal grand parents were Pennsylvania Quakers named Spencer. William Win dom was brought up on a farm. In clearing up the “claim,” splitting rails and chopping firewood, he wielded the ax with the same agilitv as our martyr- President. His early schooling was de fective, but he attended an academy at Mount‘.Vernon, 0., for several terms when a young’man, studying law at the same time, and was admitted to the bar at that place in 1850. Two years later he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Knox county, but in 1855 he settled at Winona, Minn., which has ever since been his residence. In 1858 he was elected to Congress as a Republican, and was continued in his seat for ten years, serving on the committees on Public Lauds and Public Expenditures and the special committee of thirty-three on the rebellious States, and acting during his last three terms as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. He was originally a Henry Clay Whig, and map his mark in Congress by his sue ce.-slul championship of the munificent ho'nestead law of 1862. He was always a Liriff man, and gave special attention to the problems of interstate commerce, cheap transportation and the advance ment of agricultural interests. He was appointed Senator in July, 1870, to fill the unexpired term of Daniel 8. Norton; was elected for the full term of 1871-77 and re-elected for the term expiring in 1883. As a Senator he has been promi nent in connection with his advocacy of Capt. Eads’ Mississippi jetties, wrote an elaborate report as Chairman of a com mittee on transportation, was also Chair man of the important Committee on Ap propriations, was the proposer of the exodus investigation, and has quite re cently figured as the pronounced oppo nent of monopolies. SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. The third in importance of the Cabi net portfolios has been awarded to Sena tor and ex-Governor Samuel J. Kirk w - >d, of lowa. Governor Kirkwood was born Dec. 20, 1813. in Hartford county. Mary land,near the Susquehanna river and the head of Chesapeake Bay, in a region noted for the number of eminent men it has produced. He is consequently sixty eight years of age, being the oldest mem ber of the new administration and one of the oldest now in public life at Wash ington. His early education was chiefly received at the Federal capital iu the academy taught by John Mclxmd. His political guardian angel inspired him in 1835 with the happy thought of becom ing an “Ohio man,” and for twenty years thereafter he was a citizen of Rich land county on the edge of the Western Reserve. lie studied law, was in 1843 admitted to the bar at Mansfield, the home of the Shermans; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Richland county in 1845 and 1847, and sat in 1850-51 in the convention which framed the present Constitution of ()hio. Tn 1855 he settled in Johnson county, lowa, where in the following year he was chosen Btate Sena tor, was elected Governor in 1859 and again in 1861, being one of the remarka ble group of “War Governors” to whom was due so much of the glory of the sup pression of the rebellion. In 1863 he declined the offered mission to Denmark, succeeded James Harlan as United States Senator for lhe period 1866-7, was again chosen Governor in 1875. and resigned that office in January, 1877, on his sec ond election to the United States Senate for the period ending in 1883. Governor Kirkwood hies the reputation of being a “rough diamond”—a biuff, hearty, quaint genius in homespun, strongly resembling President Lincoln in height, general de meanor and indifference to outward ap pearances. He is said to be “rich in saving Common sense,” and will need it all if he is to make a success of his in cumbency of that graveyard of reputa tions, the Interior Department. He knows all about the land question and the Indian question, has views of his own about agriculture, and will heartily sec ond the intentions of President Garfield with reference to the education of the freedman and the honest supervision of the Patent, Pension and other bureaus which make up his important depart ment. ROBERT TODD LINCOLN, SECRETARY OF WAR. The personal history of the new Secre tary of War is a brief one, except in so far as it falls within that of his father, the martyr President. Descended pater nally from one of the four Thomas Lin colns, who were at the same time pioneer emigrants from Hingham, England, to Hingham, Mass., and a grand nephew of Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky, he was born at Springfield, 111., in 1844, being the eldest and now the only sur viving son of Abraham Lincoln. He re ceived a good education at the schools of that city and at Exeter Academy, N. IL; graduated at Harvard College and re sided at the White House during much of the eventful period when it was the center of the nation’s destinies. After the assassination of his father he settled in Chicago, 111., where he studied and has since practiced law, and has acquired an enviable reputation as a good citizen and successful lawyer. He married the only daughter of ex-Secretary James Harlan, of lowa, and owes his present appointment primarily to the two Sena tors from Illinois, General Logan and David Davis, who, doubtless, reflect the sentiments of a vast public which ar dently desires that the son of such a father may achieve the highest political success. WILLIAM H. HUNT, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY. Judge William H. Hunt, of the Court of Claims, the new Secretary of the Navy, is a native of South Carolina and settled in Louisiana in early life. He v as educated at Yale College, studdied and practiced law in New Orleans, gaining a brilliant position at the Louisiana Bar, and, like his brothers, Randall and Dr. Thomas Hunt, and all his family, was uncompromisiug in his loyalty to the Union cause. He gained a large prac tice in commercial maratime and ad- miralty law. He was a thoroughly trained criminal lawyer, an able solicitor in Chancery, and for some years pro fessor of commercial and criminal law and the law ot evidence in the New Or leans Law School. He was a ready and able writer, was a valued adviser to Gens. Butler and Banks in Louisiana, was an old Whig before the war and a moderate Democrat for several subsequent years, but ultimately joined the Republican party and was elected Attorney General in 1876 on the Packard ticket. In 1877 he settled at Washington as a lawyer. In 1878 he was urged for the post of Collector of New Orleans, but was given instead a Judgship in the Court of Claims. He was recently recom i mended by the Bar of Louisiana, with out distinction of party, for a seat on the Supreme Bench ii place of Justice Strong, but the prize was awarded to Judge Woods. His decisions in the Court of Claims for the past two years show him to be a dilligent, learned and upright magistrate. Judge Hunt is related by marriage to the Livingston family of Louisiana, originally from New York, and has a sum mer residence in this State on the banks of the Hudson. He will have no diffi culty in ruling all that there is of Uncle Sam’s navee, and has a fine opportunity to distinguish himself by supplying a “long felt want” in that direction. THOMAS L. JAMES, POSTMASTER GEN ERAL. A universal chorus of applause salutes the elevation to the Postmaster General ship of Thomas L. James, the most pop ular and efficient Postmaster New York city has ever possessed. Mr. James is a native of Utica, Oneida county, N. Y., a city not wholly unknown in connec tion with the distribution of political honors —in short, the Ohio of the Em pire State. He was born in 1831, and when fifteen years old was apprenticed to learn the printing business in office of the Liberty Press at Utica, under the veteran abolitionist. Wesley Bailey. Five years later he, in partnership with Francis B. Fisher, purchased and edited the Madison County Journal at Hamil ton, N. Y., and he continued to publish that periodical for nearly ten years, first as a Whig and afterward as a Republi can organ. Hamilton was a Democratic stronghold, but Mr. James was largely instrumental in 1856 in carrying the Republican county ticket against the powerful Know Nothing combination lie became a general favorite in Hamil ton society, took an active part in pro moting all local interests, was influential in the management of political cam paigns in the county, and filled for sev eral years the local office of Collector of Canal Tolls. He was well known as a life-long advocate of the temperance and abolition causes, and enjoyed the warm friendship of his neighbor, the venerable philanthropist, Gerntt Smith. In 1861, through the influence, as is believed, of Mr. Thurlow Weed, he exchanged the quietude of a country town for the post of an inspector of customs in this city, under the collectorship of Hiram Bar ney. In 1864 he was promoted without solicitation to the position of weigher, and in 1860 to that of Deputy Collector in charge of the third division (ware housing department,) the most responsi ble post in the collectorial office. Three years later, in 1872, he was strongly urged for the Surveyorship of this port, then vacated by Alonzo B. Cornell, but to his own surprise and that of his 1 friends President Grant sent in his name 1 as postmaster, upon the resignation of I Gen.' P. H. Jones. Several of the most! eminent citizens of New York, including Thurlow Weed, E. D. Morgan, A. B. Cornell, Thomas Murphy and Abram Wakeman, volunteered to become his sureties in the large sum of $1,200,000 required as a qualification for that re sponsible office. Os his administration of his great trust it is enough to say that he has been an ideal postmaster, and that every citizen of New York, while rejoicing in his well-earned promotion, will regret the necessity of his severance from the office he has filled so well. WAYNE MACVEAGH, ATTORNEY OEN *RAL. The new Attorney General, Wayne MacVeagh, of Pennsylvania, has long enjoyed a reputation a-s lawver, orator, scholar, diplomatist and civil service re former, which could only be faintly sur mised from the record of the few public offices he has filled. Born in Phoenix ville, Chester county, Pa., April 19, 1833, he prepared for college at Freeland Seminary, Montgomery county, Pa., and was one of the prominent members of the famous class of 18.53 at Yale College, where he greatly distinguished himself as an orator in the Linonian Society. Admitted to the bar of West Chester, Pa., in April, 1856, after studying in the office of Mr. Joseph L. of that town, whose daughter he married, he was elected District Attorney a year or two later, entered the Union army in September, 1862, as Captain of a cavalry company, in the emergency of the threatened invasion of the State, and in 1863 was for a short time Major on the staff of Gon. Darius N. Couch. He early distinguished himself in the arid field of Pennsylvania ixflitics, becoming in 1863 Chairman of the Republican Central Committee, married in 1867 as his second wife a daughter of Senator Simon Cameron, and attained a lucrative and important legal practice. In 1872 he was appointor! by President Grant Minister to Constantinople, but he re signed that post the following year. In October, 1873, having become a citizen of Harrisburg, he was chosen a delegate to the convention for revising the State constitution, was a member of the Com mittee on the Judiciary, and Chairman North Published Every Thumbay at BELLTON, GEORGIA; RATES Os SUBSCRIPTION. One year (62 numbere), $1.00; six month* numbers) 60 cents; three months (13 numbers), 25 cents. Office in the Smith building, east of the <1 epot. NO. 11. of that in the legislature. He was prominently mentioned for the post of Secretory of the Interior in 1875, and iu the following year removed his law office to Philadelphia and his residence to a fine farm in Lower Merion township, Montgomery county, Pa., near Consho shocken. He then formed a law part nership with Mr. Tucker Bispham, and became counsel for the Northern Central and Pennsylvania railroad companies. In March, 1877, he was sent to Louisiana as the leading member of the so-called “MacVeagh Commission”—composed of Gens. Hawley and Harlan, Gov. John O. Brown and Judge C. B. Lawrence— to investigate the state of political affairs. His report was influential in securing the withdrawal of Federal recognition from the “carpet-bag ’ government, and this fact naturally made him a mark for the bitter indignation of Gen. B. F. But ler and other Republican “stalwarts” of that time. In 1877 he was mentioned for the post of Minister to England, but the two Camerons successfully exerted their influence against him, notwith standing his connection by marriage with the family. Last year he was one of the organizers of the National Repub lican League and exerted himself at Chicago against the Camerons and the nomi nation of Gen. G ran t. Subscq uen tly lie visited Russia for the business inter ests of Mr. Wharton Borker, of Phila delphia. He was proposed as a candi date for United States Senator during the recent deadlock in Pennsylvania, but did not seriously enter the field. Mr. McVeagh is an eminent authority on railway law, a brilliant, learned and effective orator, a forcible writer and a representative of the reform element in American politics. ENTERTAINING PARAGRAPHS. Twenty years ago an iron theatre was shipped to' Australia, from England, iu convenient sections, so as to be put up easily on arrival there. A woman at West Cornwall, Conn., failing to induce her husband to move out <if a house which she did not like, deliberately destroyed it by lire. Let us not despise homely persons. They serve to remind us that a but slight variation in our facial lines would have irremediably marred our beauty. A writer on dogs says that every one given to sedentary pursuits ought to keep a dog, as the necessity of giving exercise to the dog will exercise the man. The following is au epitaph from a toinluieur Versailles: ’E'. ’‘ pt in 1859. dining which for several days she took lessons ou the piano, her life was without a stain.” “I wish,” says Dr. Schliemann, “that I could have proved Homer to have lieeu au eye-witness of the Trojan war! Alas, I caii not do it. ” Still the doctor has not lived hi vain. During the reign of Niijnileou I. a book of birds for children was suppressed because it contained the phrase: “The cock is rather the tyrant than chieftain of the farm-yard.” Every shell tired by an army during liege operations costs, with the powder with which the mortar is charged, the sum of eight dollars—enough to support n poor family for a fortnight. ( )ne of the inodes of punishment in China is to compel a criminal to the of sleeplessness, by keeping him awake, a week, night and day. Ten days is sure to prove fatal and is terrible agony for the victim. An official return puts the feminiue “models” in Paris at 675. The puv for a sitting is from 50 cents to $lO. Most of the models are Italian; thirty are American; 145 have been in the hands of the police. There is a man iu Newark. N. J., so close that when he attends church he occupies the pew farthest from the pulpit to save the interest ou his money while the collectors are passing the plate for contributions. The stages and theatres of the Greeks and Romans were so immense that the actors, to be heard, were obliged to have recourse to metallic masks, contrived with great mouths, to augment the natural sound of the voice. A gentleman in Buckingham County, Va., has among liis domestic animals a large rat, which was caught twelve months ago by a cat; but, instead of devouring it, the eat nursed and fed it, and they now play and sleep together, like cat and kitten. A sad story is related by the Pittsyl vania (Va.) Trihuur. A young man "in that county bought a house, fitted it up from garret to cellar and purchased hi* wedding outfit. But the wedding didn’t take place. On the day fixed the bride married another fellow. The Milwaukee Sun sfieaks of a per son who “turned as pale as the ace of spades. ” We always supposed the ace of spades was red, and was hard to distin tinguish from the jack of—diamonds, as we believe that card is called where the figure wears a crown.— Norristown Her ald. Anothrbb of the Blue Laws in ye olden time was: "No one shall run ei; the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverentially to and from meeting. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair or shave on the Sabbath day. No woman shall kiss her child on the Sab bath or fasting day.” It is a melancholy fact that crysto palaces do not pay. That at Sydenham has been a financial failure, and now the Alexandria Palace, on the northern heights of London, with its beautiful park of four hundred and seventy acres, is announced for sate. The expense of keeping up these places is so large «a to absorb all the profits.