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THE PAULDING NEW ERA. Wm. A. BREOKENRIDGE, Poblisher. . “Onward anti Upward.” SUBSCRIPTION i $1.50 Per Annum VOLUME L DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA.,THURSDAY, JUNK 11. 1883. NUMBER 28. GENERAL NEWS. A tagging factory with a capital of $2000,000 is about to Ihi started in Gal veston, Tuxas, Texas bluegi'uss sued is lieilig tiled in AVest Tennessee. Tu the abacUce of lime this griiss, it is thought, Mill thrive liest in that section. The largest sheep raiiuhe in the World is the one nt Diniment and Webb oouu- ties, Texas, where 300,000 head of sheep sro pastured on 300,000 acres of land. The State Capitol of Texas will pmls ably he built of line granite instead of limestone. It is claimed that this will make it the liest St.it '-house on the con tinent. The ipteeu’s health is evidently u sub* joct of grave fesr in England. Her dis order is arjd to be of a (1)N>)isiual Uilturc, and thr ]irobabilitirs are that she will he a bod-ridden invalid. About a year ago half a dozen colored men, of St. Bernard parish, La., organ ized a mutual benevolent association. Now the association numbers fifty, and they have accumulated a fund and begun the eroytii u of a school-house for indi gent children of their race. Six tluvisml baby alligators’ an- sold in Florida every year, and the amount of ivorx, umnber uf skins and quantity of oil obtained from thu older members of tlto saurian fumily lire siltfieieut to enti tle their. 11 a high piece among the pry-, duet/, of the State, r a;\>.gi,tting control of con siderable lunl in Auturica. In Texas 311,000 aart s liavq JtiMt licen purchased by Air. AA'litillcy, M. p, ; ,.j, English syn- dica’c 111% 1,300,000 Hires of button Natfil in Mississippi, and another compa ny 2,000,000 a wes in Florida A few days agoKnoxvilu finished Work <m her water system at a cost of $150,000 The two reservoirs were hardly tilled with wat *r when thu bottom of one drop ped out. Now comes news tlmt the oili er is in the same condition, the water having suddenly disappeared into unfath omable depths. Savannah News: Joe Brown’s in:omu is said tj bo $1,000 a day. Of this amount In gets $533 it day from the Hade county coal mines. There is no doubt tliut ha is mnking money faster tliun any other Southern man. His for tune is niw i admitted at $2,030,000. The Sena tor's sou denies the soft im- i peach men t. An industrious buzz-saw in New Or leans rau iigaiust an obstruction ill a log . tlurough which it was passing the other 1 day,'but held its t mpor and hixiu cut its enemy in two. When the think dropped oil the workmen found that the saw had liidctod mi eight inch spherical Hindi, doubtless a relic of the war. The exte rior wound hud healed entirely, leaving no trace of the pnssigq of til? sliell 11 its resting pliicb. The Now York Herald makes a calcu lation from the traffic anil passengers that crossed the great bridge to and from Now York on Saturday, from which it appeals that, deducting 40 per cent for sight-seure, the receipts for toll will aver age $2,500 each day, or $1,300,(MM) a year Deducting interest at 0 per cent on the outlay of $15,000,000, the cost of the bridge, there -would remain a sinking fund toward paying that debt, $400,000 a year. - . The agricultural laborers of Mississip pi, 340,000 ’in round numbers, embracing men, women anil children, including trmldren from ten yearn of age up to men and women of .threescore, manage to wrO/g froTji’the bosom of mother earth the magnificent aggregate of $03,701,844 ,per ouniun, or nearly - 118 to every man, woman and child engaged in stirring the soil and gathering its fruits. The money- value of thu farms in that State in 1880 was $93,841,815, agiflust $81,710,576 in 1870, which shows a wholesome increase in value. Of the five field generals of the confed erate army, J. E. Johnston and Beaure- gurd survive. General Johnston is the .. general agent of a prominent New Y'ork insurance compuny, and General Beauri - gnrd is the adjutant general of the state of Louisiana—where he has created the finest body of militia for its numbers in America. He is also one of the commis sioners for the liquidation of one of the old Louisiana state banks, besides which he bus other important business connec tions. There were twenty-one lieuten ant generals in the confederate army from first to last, anil of these all were from the United States army but four, viz: Richard Taylor, _N. B. Forest, AVade Hampton and John B. Gordon. Of them the following are living: D. H. Lee, Eurlv, Buckner, Wheeler and A, P. Stewart, besides the two «u>t fhim the old United State* ttfltoy mentioned aliove. OustaVbfi W. Smith is the ranking major general living, and is Htato commissioner of insurance in Kentucky. W. T. Mar tin lives ill Nnteller,., Hint is a railroad president, 0. \V. Field and L. L. Lo- lliuX nre in Florida, and both lire in the employ of the Unit'd States corps of en gineers. Mnriniidiike Johnson is ill St. Louis mid is wealthy, William Preston lives ill kelitUoky and lias a fortune lie inherited. Humes lives in Memphis, Tonn. Wirt Adams is iui agent for Mis sissippi, and lives in Jackson, Frank Armstrong lives in Ht, Lotlis, and is con nected with Bill ftolltd system of railroads in (lie Southwest. Churchill was Gover nor of Arkansas, and lives at Little Rock. Colquitt was governor ot Georgia, and is United States senator-elect from that statu. Colston has returned from Egypt, and is living somewhere in Virginia. l)i- brell is a member of Congress frotn Ten nessee. Lyon, who commanded one of Forest’s divisions awhile, lives ill Edtly- ville, Ky. I do hot know what Maeknll, who was a brigadier-general mid chief of General Brawg’s staff, is doing, but 1 be lieve lie lives in Georgia. MeGoWuh is a member of tile supreme court of South Carolina. Miles, AV. R., is a cotton- planting magnate on the Ya»oo vifcrr, in Missisaiy.-jii, ft. A. Pryor is apitsper- e-.'S lawyer in Now York, mid mirabilc 0tct.li. T hear that he is mi enthusiastic advocate of Governor B. F. Butler for the presidency. Ripley, “Old Hip," us he was called, is ill Lotldott, the agent of all nuicricon rillu company, and Hotly is them with him, ..Jehu i i. Walker is in Mexico, and is getting rich in silver mi ning, and Holmes is his partner. Wil liam C. Wickham is a prominent railroad man and republican in Virginia, Of t)ic throe Lees who wore generals, Contis, who was Air. Davis’ chief of staff, is tin president of tint Washington and Leo college in Virginia; AVillimu Henry Fitzhugh Lee, generally colled "Rnny,” is a planter mid is prosperous oil a fine estate. Fitzhugh Leo, u cousin of the others, and a famous cavalry officer, owns the “Baveuwood” estate, on the Pub. linn about fifty miles below AVasliiiij. ton, where he is living like a fine Virginia planter of the olden time, Robert Li tint Ham- mTh yolUlK«*Ht H< 11, who HI*TV' Western Stock Raising. No Chance To Shoot. ncTcim drawn or rr bt a niAcmcAi, . 1 °- , *« ftfLimoon. at a hotel in wrsrvnv mav I AJabrtilUi, talking about how gtoat luftnppointlkients flotuetlftlcfi fioitrod , who him had a lengthy ! " c,m fi 1 wl,0 .V“ d l ,T'" C ' l °," lock-raising, says -tlmt ! '« l '»K ‘ohaeco all l.y Ionise f over 1.; „ ..fit i,b..the window turned around and said: A Westelii man oxp.-riouco in stock- the picture drawn of it by many nows-, .. , , j ... ri> *.5t a. a ; s;,? 1 ™ *a xra: .lied Hollars 11, money, invest in sheep, Po]kll llll ; v cn „ mld u lv , m ? d r out then s,t down expee . ,g to bo rich kin , mrd , , „ t() drink m0 ." m a few years. Ho concluded Us letter j " Xlu „/y 0 B u lmvo „ ufforod a grt!Ai diMp . 1. 1 have. Ten years town cleaned mo ut on a mortgage, sold mo out oil mi ex- cutiou, mid chuckled at mo when I took the dirt road for Tennessee, I otter have raising should have at least *5,000. Of , a n.alt in this very course ho COttld start on less Two mn ,t-n-e, sol thousand dollars Would buy hit,1 botecs L cu , j( , <f « k ' |od anil wagon, fix up Ins i much, W hw ' t , 1B ,UH roa.1 for Tentit ordinary expenses, mid btrir hhn 900 him, bat somehow 1 didn’t doit, ! IT 1 I' c'i T m , l IT k M V 2 and artor I got to Tennessee Uiings bd hard, save all he could, anil really ought u mind. Day and o have a partner to lie n do the work. , |t * j h ,f voi ,, 0 Haying: 'Go Even with $..,000 it would be slew work | „ m , ,, lunk . ’ im f j , (wt for several years, I would advise a young man of limited mentis Who wanted to *o west I.U raise Btoek to got Up a parly if three or four and “ peel their Issues ” in- a few Veal's, till they could afford to branch on alone, At any rate, I think i mini ought to liiro himself out to a Htock- mnn for a year lioforo he Invests. He ivill thus have n chance to learn the itminess mid Can look iil'mind for a suit- ilile Investment, and perhaps at the end J a your ho may not like the life and oonelude to return. For the life is a hard mo, full of exposure and discomforts. He may lniVo to do his own cooking mid .rushing unless ho is fortunate enough to : . : '.avc a better half to do it for him. But $,!„ j ^ ftml wnitoll and er. sleen ns In, . ’ . , - flesh mid came powerful licnr going into a decline.” “Yes?” “ Well, that voice kept talking and t kept waiting, but in about three years I shouldered my rille and turned my steps this ivav. my mind fully made tip to shoot old Brown oil sight. Ho had a patch o’ land out west o' liuro, anil used to ride out every day. I made for that spot, ealkcrluHng to niff him as ho drovo Up to llio gate. Nobody hint Been mo, and nobody would know who did the shooting.” “ Yes,’’some one answorodos ho mndo lover slept before, bis ohocks will lie lissod so red Hint his mother would not mow him from an Indian. Hu will have to work hard, perhaps, day and night, for which ho will bo Well repaid by the ncrciiacil Comfort of his lloeks mid i.-rds, and by their increase till they 'over a thousand hills. But this talk of i man who has no means going west, 'nking cattle anil sheep on shares, put- iing up n log house on tli« upon prairie, loing his own work, and making his fortune In a few years, is nil nonsense. It Is a very risky business to say the least, and careful managers will not give dock on shares to anybody who is not veil prepared to take care of them or ■oncerning whom they know nothing. The expenses of raising stock are much heavier than supposed. Tho cost of living is higher than it is hero; wages high, fencing is expensive, corrals in the ranks a greater part of the war, lives on the James river mid owns a handsome estate there. Longstreet lives ut Gainesville, Georgia, and is United Stub's marshal. General Early practices law at Lynchburg. Lieutenant-General A. I’. Stewart is president of the Un'ver- sity of Mississippi, at Oxford, and Lieu tenmit-Geuel-al is prisident of am flier AlissisHippi institution of learning. R. H. anil Patterson Anderson are dead. General B. Frank Cheatham is the super intending coinmishiouer of tho Tennessee penitentiary. General Bate is governor of Tennessee, and AV. H. or “Bed, Jackson, one of Forest’s division com- mmiders, is living near Nashville on magnificent plantation. General AY' 11 ler, who eommandud all of General John ston’s cavalry, is a planter in north Ala bama. General Lawton, the quarter master-general of the confederacy, is a leading member of the Savannah, Geor gia, bar, and General Gorgaa, the confed erate chief of ordnance, died in Alai iiimi the other day. Cockrell, the ranking confederate general from Alissonri, is it United Stab’s senator. A Barricade. On the anniversary iff the Paris Com mune the inhabitants of Stuttgart were surprised by a large blood-red Hag hoisted on a tower in the middle of tho town. It seems that this llag remained there until noon, when tho police suc ceeded in removing it. The-Socialists, who hail hoisted it the night before, had done everything to render the re moval of the revolu unary banner as difficult as possible. The tower gate was found to be barricaded, as well as the windows of the first story, nnd the police had to scale the tower by a high ladder and enter throngh tho windows of the second floor. The flag bore the inscription: “Liberty, Equality, Fra ternity,” nnd “In memory of the Paris Commune, 18th of March, 1871.” At the entrance -was posted a placard, “Be ware of dynamite.” About five pounds of gunpowder whs found strewn about at the inner gate, An elder of the kirk having found a little hoy and his sister playing marbles on Sunday, put his reproof in this form —not a judicious one for a child: “Boy, mil buildings take milch time, lalair mid uonoyi but to olio who is u tiling to work, mil wants to got ahead, I say, “Go West,” mid boo for yourself.. Bisinarek Saving a Soldier. A good BiHmnrek nnoedoto, showing the prince to have been a good comrado from his youth up, is the following : III 1838 ho entered the Potsdam bat talion of "Qardo Jaeger” ns u olio year volunteer, and six months later, at his request, ho was transferred to tho “Sec ond Jaegers" at Greifswold, in order to be able to profit by the loctures in the Agricultural School of Fidelia. Olio of his comrades in the battalion was three years when I hoard hoofs anil looked out for the old man. It wasn't him, True ns you sot them tho old skiu- lliut had gone nnd died only a week be fore, giving mo a tramp of 200 miles to say 1 howdy 7’to his executor I Gentle men, I can't doscrilM! my feelings 1 Just think of one white mail playing such a trick on miotlicr ! It was wuss than Ar- kefisaw swamp mud warmed over for llext senson. I was took with shakos mid cliills and a cough, and hero 1 am, sour, cross, mulish, ugly and realizing that 1 don't stand no more sliowof going lo Heaven when I din than that tlinr' dog does of swallowing a postoffiec with out any preliminary chawin'I”— M. (Jo AD. Preserve the Forests. Olio of tho encouraging signs of the tfinoH is tho fact that tho Bonth is wak ing up to the valuo of its timber lands, “Tho lumber interests of tho United States, mid in fact of the wiiolo world," says The Southern Lumberman, "have assumed such important proportions that it is due to the people that our State Governments each establish a series of surveys and investigations, with a view of dulurmiuitig the exact amount of llioir fun st wealth, and that in lime thu gen eral Government, through ils pro|H:r ile pnrlmeiit, should publish in statistical form tho result i f ouch State’s timlier resources. "AA’liile tliisnutlieiilie report would bo of great value to commerce, tho presence ias a ; (l { fliu bolsnists and llioir assistants young man, who nt tho present day still ,, V( .,.y portion of fin- Slates and Tcr- oounts among tho great landed propri- ritories would arouse the people to etors of the province of Pomerania. He then stood ill tho second rank immedi ately behind Bisinarek. In spite of stringent orders to the contrary, the Jaegers persisted In frequently firing a shot at the numerous storks on the meadows near Grcifswald while out on a march, drilling or exorcising. One day on tho march homo to the barracks, Uis- mnrek’s hinil-man brought down a bird with a bullet. The officers, although marching a good way ahead, heard tlm report, saw tho stork falling down, or dered the battalion to halt nnd forthwith began to examine the gut s. Everything ivns as it should be m tho lust rank The culprit in tho second rank began to tremble all the more for Ids safety, inas much ns his promotion to a lieulenantey wan at stnko in ease lie should ho found out. This Bismarek realized, and while his friend was on the point of voluntari ly denouncing himself in order to clear the rest of the men from an unjust sus picion, he whispered to him: “Look sharp ! tnko your gun in your left arm; I’ll throw you mine.” No sooner said than done—so quickly, in fact, that tho inspecting officer did not notice it, and the case of the kill' d stork remained an unexplained mystery. Over a mug of beer that night Private Bismarck declined to receive tho thanks of his comrade for a service “which was not worth talking about." To this day tho two lire pleasant neighbors anil sworn friends. An Author’s Offence. sense of the wealth contained in their forest possessions, anil would perhaps stimulate them to a more econoAiical two of the. timber, nnd malic them mure care ful about preserving it; nt any rate, the timber, its extent, variety and value, should bo mndo known ut as early a date ns possible.” The Cleveland JleraJd says:—Few, indeed, aril the people who can keep up llu round of AVualiington gnyoty without ■.si'll v showing their weariness. An ex ception to this rule is n young daughter I nu army officer stationed in that city. Ul winter she has been busy with re ceptions and dinners, kettledrums nnd mermans, and on Wednesday, ns she • nne into Airs. Chandler’s parlors she was In sli anil rosy as if it were her first day, 'ly curiosity was aroused, and presently [ (mil an opportunity to inquire of her how it was that she was able to endure that to which stronger women yielded. •‘Oh,” she replied, laughing, “mamma is almost a crank on tlmt subject. She , hound I shall not look passe at the end of this my second winter. Every fight when T get home, no matter how tired linn, a worm hath is given mo, ; ,rtiT which I drink a bowl of bullion, •id am put to bed m tho guest chamber, ihicli is more quiet than my own. In : ho morning I am not called, but arise •• lieu I awake, which is not often before lunch time. It grows monotonous, I • sure you, but if l go, I have to submit, I tell mamma sbe treats mo as if I was a Maud S. or a prize fighter.” Shelling it Village. The shelling of an Alaskan village, of which so tragic an account was current some months ago, is described by Contdr. Atorriman of (lie navy, wito did it, ns a wholly justifiable piooecding. Ho says that ho is represented iih wantonly burn ing tho Indians’ houses, bedding and winter’s food, anil turning their women and children to ]Huisli in the pitiless cold of the Arotio night, simply beenuse they had made a vague throat to destroy property. The t’ruo history, ns ho narrates it, is as follows: A medicine man of the Ilootsnoo tribe, 80 miles from Sitka, was acciden tally killed while whaling with two wlnto men, whereupon tho tribe seized tho whites, demanded 203 blankets as ransom, and finally waited to goi a third white man (as one of the two captured had Imt ouo eye), intending thou to put two of them to death—otic for the medi cine man, and another for tlm death i f an Indian while felling timber, some time before. It seems that it is either a lifo for a life, or a hundred blankets—that being the native valuation of an Indian, in their current money. They also took possession of a steam-lnnnoli and other property to tho valuo of several thousand dollars. Gomdr. Atorriman arrived at tho scone on tho day whoso evening would havu soon the prisoners put In death. Ho rescued them and immedi ately demanded of the Tudiaiis 400 blankets, told them if ho did not receive the blankets hu should burn the town, and gavo them till the next day to com ply. They at first said they would, and tlii’ii, sending him only 80 I'laiiiiels, and those stolen from the house of mi absent chief—they took their winter provisions, bedding and blankets into tlm woods and defied tlm officer. AVhereupon lie was iih good iih his word, and, though ho says lie spared a number of dwellings to Hlmlter them, they were left under tho Impression Hint ho meant to destroy everything they hail, and ho “ivnntoif them to think so." lie adds that “tlm property-holders and missionaries agree with me, and I lio- lievo tho lesson will Inst tho Indians for a generation, although they rebuilt their houses in a month.” Ho gives thu Alaskans a good charac ter in the ntniti, ami declares that, if tlm presont prohibition of distilled liquors wero extended to limit liquors, and schools established for tho children, tlm Alaska Indians would bo n valuable population, for they aro “ut all timi’H willing to givo an 'holiest day's work for ruasonablu pay,' an attrihulo not pos- sessoil by any other tribo within my knowledge." fining Into Exile. Capt. Thomas Osborne of (ho steam ship which took Aiubi Pasha and his companions in exile to Ceylon, and ar rived at Bombay on January 10, has fur nished the following acoount of the voy age : "AVe took Arab! Pasha and his associates mid their families on board at Suez, anil sailed from that port on De cember 27, bound for Colombo. They were seasick for the first two or threo days, and after tlmt they brightened up mill wore always more or less cheerful. Eventually, in fact, they become as happy as if they wero going to paradise, "Tho dullest of tho lot was Arabi. The exiled parly wont ashore in four squads. In tho last onewiut Arabi, On landing tlm people crowded round him. [ should call it, fairly mobbing ouo. Some kissed his clothes, sumo got down on their knees and kissed his boots, Tlm parly wero driven away in carriages to the Cinnamon Gardens, where they wore local'll in some handsome bungalows. On the whole, I don’t think any of them regretted his lot. They never exhibited any symptoms of fear, and believed a happy future to be before them." Heavy License. The most recent example of the work- tug of a high license system for bar rooms is in Bloomington, III. There aro thirty-two saloons in tlm place, and a population of nearly 20,000. The fee is $50 a month, or $000 a year, and this brings into tho city $10,200 a year, or nearly one-third tlm whole revenue. Tlm saloons aro said to he orderly, anil generally in tlm hands of substantial men, who own tho buildings in which limy aro kept, und who would stubborn ly resist a return to low license. The present arrangement 1ms prevailed nearly twenty years, and is, therefore, no longer an experiment. In Dresden, Julian Hawthorne, the nu- tlior. is credited with the following ex- A odkroyman at Cambridge prencliod ploit: He had been driven from the side- a sermon which one of his auditors com- ivalk many and many n time by the Get-1 mended. “Yes,” said the gentleman to man oflici-rs, till finally one day coming | whom it was mentioned, “ it was n good over the Elbe on one of the bridges with- \ sermon, but he stole it.” This was told out a friend, ho vowed that the next j to tho j,readier. He resented it, and German officer lie met should at least I called the gentleman to retract what he give him half of the sidewalk. Ho soon j bad said. “ I am not,” replied the ag- met one, mid neither being willing togive | gressor, “very apt to retract my words, way, they walked directly into one an- 1 but in this instance I will. I said you other. Hawthorne did not budge, neitli-1 biul stolen tlm sermon. I find I was er would the German; they glared at i wrong; for on returning home, und ro- •acli other for a few moments when tlm \ furring to tho book whence I thought it German drew his sword nnd attempted Hill, who is in North Carolina; Stephen ing awfully, "—Doan Ramsey do you know where children go to who | 0 H ti-ike Hawthorne with the fiat of the play marbles on the Sabbath day 7” blade. In a twinkling Hawthorne “Ay,” said the boy, “they gang down to knocked tho c the’field by the water la-low the brig." ovay from hil “NoI” roared out tlm elder, “they go tolaud threw it hell anil are burned." The little fellow, ' really shocked, called to his sister: Come awa, Jeanie; here s a mail swear- knocked the officer down, took his sword him, broke it across his knee into tlm Ellas. The dis- rner of having lost Ins sword was so great that the officer never dared to men tion the cireumstane •; so Hawthorne lscaped without fine or punishment, was taken, I found it there.”—Exchange. esiilent A Snow Decision.—'Tho Supremo Court of Illinois decides that no nmu Is obliged to clean the sidewalk opposite Ins bouse Tlm case was that of of Bloomington, who let 'he ululate ij. front of hispiop it.v lined muter the city orillnioii. to the court, A Heroins.—Reporting the death of a Mrs. Baker, at Fort Fairfield, Ale., recently, at the ago of 97 years and 11 months, a correspondent of tho Lewiston Journal savs: “Aliniy years ago she came, with her hnslmndmid three small children to tlm Upper St. John, where she made for themselves a homo in tho wilderness. They settled on wliat was afterward the disputed territory. Mrs, Baker, being a patriotic woman, manu factured an American flng, which her husband flung to tho breeze on a Fourth of July morning, for this display of Yan kee patriotism on wlmt was claimed as — ,. - T - British soil, Air. Baker was arrested anil l nnu J. was , j odged j n j a jl u t Fredericton, where lie remained for more than a year, while his heroic wife managed the farm and kept everything in good order nt home.” Tire Chinese have no word that is equivalent to hell, noil no conception of siieli a place. A missionary in an agri cultural district of China states that when he tried to explain it, tho people asked if it was anything that could lie raised. AV« trust he answered that it was.—Bouton Boat, and, I" i *>1*1’' AMERICAN FABLES. lncrntilw<lc«~Tlir It nek r I Mhop-Tha Piirnep mill thi* Fox. Sown SPECIMRNS OP r.NOJtATITIinK.—A Burglar who had risen to tlioHcmlof Ids i’lufi ssiuii olio day ealleil upon a Lawyer nml said: "I have come to demand tho Prot: o- (ion of tho Law.” “Y’ou shall have if, mv Friend—foe live dollars,” "Last night a limn mimed Jones, liv ing on Seventeenth street, eliot at me,” continued tho burglar. "And what were you doing?” "I was about to crawl into one nf his Windows lo pack up bis Silver ami take it down to tlm Safe Di posit Company's vaullH for safely.” “Truly, such Ingratitude must lie Re buked nml l'uuisbed,” said llio Lawyer, “AVe will have him Arrested forthwith, nml though he may Defend his Silver agaiiisl Burglars bo cannot Defend his (iri'enbaoks against tho Law." Tur. Buckut Shop. -A simple-minded jYnsiiiit. who hail heard a gnat deal about Bucket Shops, .entered ouo of them one day and asked: "AVlmt will it cost me to get, a bucket ?" "Five dollars is our lowest Figure." was the reply, Tlm JViiMuiit handed over his cash and was told to wateli tho Ticker anil the man who olmikcd on the Blackboard, lie watched milfl weary of tho Occupa tion, and llieii said: "I gneas I’ll take n,y Bucket and jog along Imnn', as it is about timu to feed llio i'igs." “AVIiv, sir," replied the owner of the Cooper Simp, “tlm Bottom dropped out of your Bucket Imlf iih hour ago. "Then I will take tho hoiqM home lo show my AVifo that I speculated nml lost.” “Base ingrntc I" slnmlcd tho proprie tor, “is it not enough Hint you have not Imd your pookois picked and your hunt! mushed with a club? After having put us to the trouble of taking your money you would 1101V squeal! Go luuieo I Como here no more! Hereafter get yourself robbed on the highway or buy Alining Storks I” This Faumrh andtiirFux.—A Farmer having missed a number of bis fine, fat Fowls, planed bimselt lo watch for the Deprecatin', mid ere long lie lmd the I’lensiiro of Sending a bullet into a Fox. “And so it was you who gave mo this Fatal AVounil ?" gasped the Fox ns ho fell. "Bat you worn taking my Chickens,” plot listed tlm Farmer. “Tlmt is true,'out I was also nursing a litter of Foxes for you to kill. Tho /•kin of one Fox is worth four times Illy price of a C'liiokon, and f was raising Family of five. Sen what you have hen. by slaying me, and Behold wlmt base Ingratitude has repaid mv efforts '( bnngyou AVeultli I”—Detroit ErcePrtf A lliijrtiun Duke. M. Toussniiit-Liigorillo, n fttll-bkssxvl negro, ouoo tho “ Duo do liiGrand-T'orrn,” and fiiinriciul agent in Franco of the Emperor Soulmiquo, has just died in Furls, Hu was successful in securing a consiilcrablo loan for tho black Ctnsar, by promising to pay tho most incredible percentage—aeunrding to ouo account, cVfm going so far as 2,000 per ooi't. He also bought up an enormous quautity of old military uniforms of all European nationalities, second-hand generals’ hats, anil other adornments, for tho decora tion of Sonlouquc’s soldiers, generals, nml officers of stuto. lie did not forget to procure, also, a considerable quantity of French brandy. Soulouquo was so delighted witli tho hiiooohs of bis agent that liu sent word to him that ho hud i lcvutoil him to thu dignity of a Duke. TIiIh made tho man ,a butt for French wit, nnd ruined his credit. Then Sou- louqiin became angty at the decrease of supplies, mid, fancying that his agent was growing careless, lie degraded him into a Marquis, then to a Count, next to a Baron, afterward to a mens Chovulier, nnd ultimately deprived him evon of tlmt remnant of aristocratic distinction. Mcunwhilo M. Toussaiut-Lagorillo hod also lost faith in his imperial master, mid began to carry on his business on his own account. AVIien tho Emperor was dethroned, and (led to Paris, ho sum moned thncx-Duko to uppear before him; but Logorille refused to obey the sum mons. Ho bail managed to build up for himself a property of some 00,000 francs, upon tho interest of which he lived with comfort mid great self-complacency to extreme old age. A London AIvstehy.—A lonilon pap< r says: “A sad story of lifo will tic found this morning among the reports of in quests. Seventeen years ago a baby was found oil the ateps of a workhouse. There the child was kept three yours till it was time to send her to Hunwell School, mill from school the girl passed into employment as a domestic servant. She was, her muster says, cheerful and happy. But a few days ago Bhe sud denly disappeared from tho house, anil next day her lifeless body was found ill a pond close by. There was nothing to show, liotliiug'to suggest, a reason for suicide. No one cun tell of whom she was born; no one knows tho manner of her death. From darkness to darkness, with a little spuce of happy life between." Caucuses for town meetings will soon oe in order. A caucus is whore thirty or forty men got together anil vote as one man tills them to,—Marathon fndfr pe/ick nt,