Newspaper Page Text
PAULDING
JAS. BREOKENRIDGE & CO., Publisher?,
“Onward nnd Upward.**
SUBSCRIPTION: $U0 Per Antnm
VOLUME I.
DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 19. 1883.
NUMRKU §3.
GENERAL^ NEWS.
Josiau T. Wkll, Florida’s colored ox-
Congrcssmnn, now fanning in Alachun
county, will realize between $7,000 and
$■1,000 net from his vegetable crop this
season.
Since Mio nows has reached the set
tlors on Luke Weir that the Floridn
Soutliorn railroad will pnsB on tho east
side of tho lalto lands have gone up to
fabulous prices. *'
An oil well was struck near Parkers
burg, Wcst Virginia, Wednesday, wliich
is pumping at the nste of 400 barrels of 2?
degrees oil per day. There is considera
ble excitement over tho strike.
A Hr. Lucie river man, who is up huu-
tor, talks of abandoning his place. The
door lay waste his Held, tho alligators and
catamounts take all his pigs and tho coons
and possums decimate bis poultry.
A vessel from Pensacola dischagod a
load of lumber at Poston, and in shaking
out topsails to depart, a huge water-moc-
asin brought nil the way from tho Pen
sacola docks, fell to the deck.
The longest trestle in the world is now
building across Lake Pontchnrtraiii on
tho Northwestern railway. It will be
24 miles in length, and reipiiros besides
tho piles 15,000,000 l’eot of lumber.
Subscriptions amounting to $100,000
have boon guaranteed in aid of the.
World’s Industrial and Cotton Contonnial
Exposition at Now Orleans noxt year.
Tho total amount wanted is $100,000,
Hr. Augustine has a century plant
Which will bloom in a few days. It is
about thirty-five feet high, and the stalk
upon which tin dowel! rvill appear has
shot up to a hundred feet in the last two
or throo days.
Arrangements are being effected for
continuing the Government work at Aran
sas Pass. It is estimated it will require
$.10,000 to oompleto the work to a twelve
foot contour. Tho Government funds
will be expended during the present
month.
A Numiiek of whaYs, one of them 70
feet in length, went ashore recently near
Jupiter inlet, Florida. They are a new
species of sperm whale and a perfect skel
eton of tho largest was obtained, and has
been purchased by the Smithsonian In-
stitntuto.
Col. Ed. Rioijaudson, probably the
largest cotton planter in the world, has
nn excellent crop. Ho has about 17,000
acres irf cotton. If this is an average
season will ship 15,000 bales. He has at
least 20 per eont more grain planted than
ut any former season.
The dredging of-South Carolina rivers
for phosphates is a new industry of con
siderable importance to tho territory
surrounding Charleston. Some of tho
crude rock is shipped to Europe, hut
most of it is ground at home before it
goes to market. At the present time the
demand is great, and all the companies
nro working on full time.
The managers of tho “ Associated
Railways of the Virginias and Carolinns"
gave notice that after the 1st of August,
1883, no piece of baggage weighing more
than 250 pounds will be accepted for
transportation ns baggage, nor will it bo
transported in baggage-cars, but must
be shipped by Express or freight. All
baggage over 150 pounds in weight to
each person will be charged extra.
It is said that Mr. Tulane will appeal
to the Louisiana Legislature, backed by
tho strong public sentiment of tho Htate,
asking that the jjroperty generously
given by him to the cause of education in
Now Orleans bo released from the bur
dens of taxation. Ho has just added
property to his donation, which will in
crease the revenue of the prospective
Tulane University $200 a day, bringing
the donation up to $600,000.
In 1876 'there wore but twenty-four
cotton-seed oil mills in tho country.
During the past season about 300,000
tons of seed wore crashed, the product
of all being estimated at over 350,000
barrels. As the product of seed for the
year was 3,500,000 tons, it may readily
be conjectured that the stock of raw ma
terial will allow a considerable expansion
of oil production. About $1*1,000,000 is
already invested in the mills, which now
form one of the important industries of
the South.
A queer accident happened to a little
girl in Atlanta, the other day. She was
working with a sewing machine, and
was running it at a good rate of speed
when the driving-rod,which was made of
stopped, and in order to romovo the
wood tho wheel of the machine had to he
turned liy hand. *
A gentleman near Dahville, Ga., dis
covered n swarm of hoes in a tree about
forty feet.from the ground one day last
week, and his son, quite a lad, o)imbe$
tho tree to cut tlio limb and lot the bees
down, lmt nnfortnnntely jarred tho limb
and tho bees swarmed again, this time
settling on his head, many of them sting
ing him wherever they could touch him.
He told his father he would ho forced to
fall, lmt his father urged him to find his
way to tho .trunk of tho treo and get
down. He did so, and brought tho bees
flown on liis bond. Ho was stung in a
fearful manner, and it was thought he
eeuld not live.
EDITOR! AIj NOTES.
A law of New Jersey, prohibiting the
solo of cigarettes or tobacco in ony form
to minors under sixteen years of age, has
just gone into effort.
Judue Snell, of Washington, 'says:
“In the eyes of tho law a bycielo is a
carriage,, having in common with other
carriages equal rights in the streets and
highways, protected by the same laws,
and their riders aro amenable to the same
road laws governing tho "drivers of other
vehicles.”
The bishops ore so alarmed at the
storm of criticism ovoked by their oppo-
sition to tho deceased wife’s sister bill
that tlioy aro proparing to publish a
reply in justification, explaining their
motives. The royal family is much
vexed at tho failure of tho measure wliicli
puts the intended marriage of the Prin
cess Bentriee to her widowed brother-in-
law as far oft us ever, that prefect being
said to explain (ho, warm odvooaoy of tho
bill by tho Prince of Wales and' his
brothers.
This printing of the results of tho tenth
censuses well advanced, most of it being
now in type. Nothing but the compen
dium, in two volumes, lias yet been print
ed and distributed. Ho far 11,000 pages
have been put in type. Volumes'embrac
ing tlio following subjects nro in type:
Population, manufactures, agriculture,
public indebtedness, valuation, taxation,
mining statistics, law, etc.; social statis
tics, fish and fisheries, fire and life insur
ance, cotton production, statistics of rail
roads, steamships, etc.; newpapor and
periodical press, water power, steam
pumps and jjftraping engiues, statistics of
.quarry industry, moat production, petro
leum, Alaska Fur Seal islands, etc.
A Louisianian writes: “The time will
soon come when, in our damp climate,
the floors of all the stores in New Orleans
and in other cities in the State will he
built of strong, water-proof and iudcstrnc-
tihlopaper tiles. Tne dampness permeat
ing our dwellings will lie counteracted by,
paper material of a suitable character.
All our city cars will lie built of paper.
The wheels of these will l o made of
paper. The rails of our street enrs and
oven the crossties, so liable to decay, will
all bo renewed in the course of time, aud
lie replaced by paper material suitably
treated to remedy existing evils. Noarly
all tho furniture of our dwellings, so lia
ble to swell or shrink in our dnmp climate
will lie manufactured in an elegant and
artistic stylo by means of paper stock ca
pable of resisting effectually tho sudden
changes of our temperature.”
The relative importance of the oi^
fields of the world are succinctly stated
as follows, in the July ‘Century,’ by E.
V. Smalley, in his graphic aud fully il
lustrated article on “Striking Oil:”
Nearly all the petroleum that goes into
the world’s commorco is produced in a
district of country about a hundred and
fifty miles long, with a varying breadth
of from one to twenty miles, lying main
ly in the State of Pennsylvania, but lap
ping over a little on its northern edge
into the State of New York. This region
yielded, in 1881, 20,950,813 barrels, and
in 1882, 31,398,750 barrels. A little pe
troleum is obtained in West Virginia, a
little at various isolated points in Ohio,
and a little in the Canadian province of
Ontario. There is also a small field in
Germany, a larger one, scantily devel
oped, in Southern Russia, and one still
larger, perhaps, in India. The total
production of all the fields, outside of
the region here described, is hut a frac
tion in tlio general account, however.
Furthermore, the oil of these minor
wood, snapped in two, and one piece 1 fields, whether in America or the Old
penetrated the fleshy port of her leg be- i World, is of an inferior quality, and so
low the knee, tearing the flesh in a ter-j long as the great Pennsylvania reservoir
rible manner. As soon as the broken holds out, can only suply a local demand
rod entered the child’s flesh the machine i» the vicinity of the wells.”
THE LITTLE WHITE HEARSE
in the little white heeme went Rfimnierlon hjr—
The men on the coal osrt Jerked hie llnoe
And smutted the Ud of either off,
And turned end stared at the buslhen slgttl
And the street oar driver stopped slid beat
His hands on Ids shoulders end gazed Up street
Till his eye on tlio long track reached Uieakjr—
As the little wli'te hearse went glimmering by,.
A* the little while hearse went glimmering by-
A stranger petted a ragged child
In the crowded walk, aud she knew not why,
Rut lie gave her a coin for (lie way she smiled’
And a bootblaok thrilled with a pleasure strange
As a customer put hack his change
With a kindly liam! and a grateful sigh—
As tho little white hearse went glimmering by.
As the little white lienrse went glimmering by—
A man looked out of a Window dim,
And his olieoks were wet and liis heart was dry—
For a dead child even were dear to him.
And he thought of tils empty life and said;
“Isiveless alive and lovelesa dead—
Hat wife nor olilld In earth or Bky I"
As the little white hearse went glimmering by
J.W. Bil*t.
LOST TIIEIR LIVES.
A curious mobbing story is that whioli
comes from Devil’sLako, m northeastern
Dakota. About half n mile from tlio
town of Creel City there, which is com
posed of half a dozen houses, was a
quarter section of laud located upon by
a man mimed Boll, The vicinity lias
never been regularly surveyed, the ocou-
poncy was but little inoro than nominal,
ns often hnppuns, and two brothers
mimed Ford, in Boll's nbsonoo took pos
session, built a Beoond shanty aud began
living there. One night reoeutly Bell
went to tho place, found tho intruders,
and ordered them off. They retimed to
go, whoroupon Belli roused tho people of
Creel City wilh tho report that his clAi:
was boing "jumped,” and returned wil
12 otkor men to drive the Fords out
Just how the proceedings began is not
very clear, bnt there appears to have
boon some firing on both sides; and at
Iho close both tho Fords wore killed,
Ono report soys that a memlior of tho
attacking party was wounded in tho arm,
but that is not certain, and none wero
killed. Tho plain truth of tho ease is
that a party of mon in the vicinity de
liberately attacked and murdered two
men for "jumping aclnim,” and the part
of tho business most comjirchunsilile to.
eostom people is Iho fact that the out
rage was justified by the community.
Au inquest was held, it is said that every
ouq of the 13 testified, and nobody con
cerned hesitates about admitting the
general facts as stated, bnt tho verdict
was simply that tho Fords wero shot by.
some unknown persons; no arrests were
made, and the killing is rogorded upon ’
nil hands ns n rough hut necessary ap
plication of justice. And yet tho com
munity is quite' up to tlio average of tin iso
on iho western frontier, and its Bcnti-
mont in this mnttor is merely tlio ono
common under all similar circumstances.
Precisely ns horsp-stenling is reckoned
worse than murder on the plains, elaim-
jumpiiig is considered the greatest of nil
crimes in places like this. Tho laud is
open to all, there is no immediate way of
getting legal title, and an unwritten law
has grown up that ho who first takes n
tract of 160 acres shall hold it, and death
is the penalty for its violation. Tim
Ford boys wore now to the frontier and
■seem not to have known the risk they
.ran. They wero nephews of Congress
man Fnrwell, of Chicago, and thero is
some talk that he may try to bring tlioii
murderers to punishment, but that
would be no easy matter.
The Food of Shad.
Shad has been a mystery for years.
He comes into the rivers in spring in
vast numbers, and soon departs to the
ocean. His food is little known and his
<o» life is a mystery. The bulletin of
Tho United States Fish Commission for
1881, contains a paper which throws
some light upon tho natural history and
habits of the shad. The paper 14 found
ed upon the examination of the shad of
Southern rivers, immediately after they
leave tho ocean. The microscope was
called into use, and revealed a remark
able state of affairs. The shad is
toothless, ard it lias been a mystery how
!:c lived. Tho naturalists of tho com
mission found that there was attached
to tho alimentary canal a great numlicr of
casda, or bliud sacs, like the vermiform
appendix in man.
Those pockets vary from on inch to
three inches in length. They number
about seventy-five in each fish. It was
ascertained that all these pockets were
filled-with food when the fish ontered
the rivers. The theory is that these
pockets are employed as magazines from
which the fish draws from time to time
when in fresh water. Tho food was a
sea weed, with parasitic animnls at
tached. The sea weed add the parasites
were found to be undigested and intact.
Tt may be possible to find the ocean
home of the shad by tho contents of its
numerous food magazines. The fish is
very interesting and very delicious. It
is to be hoped that more of its life his
tory may be traced.
Why Hobson objected. “Hobson,”
said Muggins, “they tell me you’ve taken
your boy away from the graded school.
What's that foi }” “ ’Cause,” said Hob
son, “the master ain’t fit to teach ’im.”
“Oh,” said Muggins, “I’ve heard he’s a
very good master.” "Well,” replied
Hobson, apologetically, “all I knows is
be wanted to teach my boy to spell
’tutors with a ‘p.’”
CAUSED UT A MONKEY.
A Sssll AMSMi-hm Animal Uresis, a Smss-
lisa la Iks Ba sambas Fa mill.
They hod a terrible time up at Bnzem-
heo’s tile other day. It Booms that
about two weeks ago D.’s brother. Cap
tain Bnzcmbae, of tne bark Three Kings,
had brought his niece, little Emily Buz-
ombee, a little bearded monkey from
South America, The monkey waa na
imitative ns a country Congressman, and
tie way ho pretended to shave himself
with a paper knife, thnmpod on tho
piano, and imitated old Bazembeo falling
against the door with a latchkey in hand
at three A, M., was as as good as a cir
cus.
Last Tuesday Mrs. B. was sitting at
I lie window, when a man drove up with
a*inod of ooal, which lie dumped on the
sidewalk, and'then rang thrbell to ooi-
1 et Uio bill. While the . lady of tho
Iiouho wns endeavoring to explain to the
man that no ooal had been ordered, a
phvsleinn jumped out of his buggy, with
a lot of instruments in his hand, and'
wanted to know whether tho patient was
in grant dnngor or not.
Mil. Iluzombco turned away from the
ooal driver to explain to tho uootor that
he had bettor apply next door, when n
grocery boy jumped off a street oar and
inqnirod what was wanted in tho sugar
and coffee lino. Before Mrs. B. could
answer this last comer a oonple of soared
looking policemen Came up tho steps oml
desired to know whether tlio burglar had
gotten away with much. Mrs. B. wns
toq bewildered by this time to notice tlmt
a two-footed district messenger boy was
pnUjng her -aj**, while a hnokmnii
be ahciin> tho.passenger's trunk
if she
eOpor
uses a
e whoop-
and in another
ami were tlirow-
l into the third
sou wall,’’ gMMU t^o poor woman;
mannfstiamo( gettlug the chil
dren off to Mho country aud trimming
Maria’s, now plum-colored .dross and
scoop bonnet lias set mo crazy*. Now
I’ll hate to bo sont withe Napa Asylum;
I'm a raving maniac'.and I'll m> and
lock myself up bofoii.1 mnraor. tho
” Vy. ” r . . i *b** ', , A
And when Mr. Biizombee arrived in
hot haste, a few minutes later, ho found
liis wife holding glint'd over herself in
Iho bathroom, while on tho back of n
olmir in the sitting room the moukoy wns
perched in front of the district telegraph
jnstrnmout still solemnly ringing for
everything on the dial, for the eighth
timo round. The Baz'mbeo menagerie
is chained in the woodshed now.—ft'an
Iranoisco Boat.
Nome Hood Advice.
Bob Burdette’* advice to young men of
ihe present is as follows; “Got away
from the crowd a little while every day,
my deur boy. Stand one side and lot the
world run by while you get acquainted
with yourself, and seo what kind of a
fellow you aro. Ask yourself bard ques
tions about yourself; find out rill you can
about yourself. Ascertain from original
sources if you nro really tlio mnnner of
man people say you are; find out if you
arc ulways honcst; if you always toll the
square perfect truth in biisinoss denis;
if your lifo is ns good nnd upright at
11 o’clock at night an it is at noon; if yon
are as good a temperance man on a fish
ing excursion ns you are at a Sunday-
school picnic; if you are os good a boy
when you go to tho city for a few days
ns you are at homo; if, in short, you
e.illy nro the aort of a young man your
father hopes you ore, and your sweet
heart believes you are. Get on intimate
terms with yourself, my boy, and beliovo
me, every time yon come out from ono
of these private interviews you will be a
stronger, better, purer man. Don’t for
get this, Tclomncnns, and it will do you
good."
A Cyclone Incident.
A vivid impression of the sudden fury
J tho southern cyclone iB conveyed by
this brief statement of Mr. B. F. Jones,
if Beauregard, Miss., who, tho moment
lie saw the danger coming, called liis
wife and little boy into the yard and
made them lie flat on the ground and
grasp some small shrulis which stood
within reach: “I put one arm about my
wifo,” says Mr. Jones, “while with the
other I clasped a small tree, and made
my son lie close up to me, and then I
said to them, ‘Hold on, hold on, for
Cod’s sake! It is for life 1 ’ and then
the wind came. Thero was a whirl and
i roar. I was shaken, and heard the
’rash of my falling house. An,instant
nd it was over. I still held my wife in
my aims, but she was insensible, anil
my boy was still nestling close up to mo,
lmt bruised and bleeding.” All three
escaped without serious injury; thanks
to Mr. Jones’s presence of mind and the
prompt obedience of bis wifo and child.
The Chalked Hat.—Judge James
bawrenson, the veteran notary of the
Pont Office Department at Washington,
■ells the following story of Gideon Gran
ger, of Connectiout, who was Postmaste'-
General many years ago. Starting from
homo for the capital, he said to the boy
who was selling tickets for passage in
t he stage coach : “I am the Postmaster
General. You must let me ride free.”
■Are you really?” “Yes.” “Then
gimme your bat; and seizing the hat the
hoy wrote on it with chalk : ‘Pass’ this
man free ;’ ” and Mr. Granger rode all the
way to Washington on, or rather under,
that unique pass.
A Washington Story.
The departments wero just 1 loginning
to disgorge the great slices of, humanity
that tlioy had swallowed in tlio 1 morning,
I wns standing by One of the great piles
ns the men nnd women began to come
out slowly at the first. The first two or
three, wnftlctl by experience, had am-
brellns, under which they went jogging
slowly home at olcrkly gait. The fourth
wns n woman In widow’s clothing—rather
shabby clothing which lind been worn n
long time. Bho was thin, slirunkan, gray
anil pule, nnd seemed broken with a
weight of bad years - n sad memory, of
bettor dayB. The carriage of tlio Beero
tary wns rolling to nml fro Iieforo tho
Mg entrance of the building. His gray-
whiskered colored coachman with diffi
culty restrained his blooded horsey. *
f Tno Sbfirotnry Was signing his name a
great many times on a great mnny dif
ferent documents in liis lofty, velvety
office. Ho might bo out in a minute.
Ho might not lie out for nn hour. .Tust
ns tho ghostly widow ontuo slowly down
tho'' big steps tho flno old oonchmnn
turned his |irnnoiug pair toward tho en
trance. Tlia poor old gentleman enmo
down to tho sidowalk with nn ovidont
difficulty, whioli spoke of rhenmntism.
Btio wns porplexed aud puzzled by tho
nnexpeotod rain-storm. Bho had no
umbrella, nnd I don’t believe aho had
ear fare. Tho block angel on tho Boo-
rotary’s carriage spied her ns she stood
in the pouring rain, nnd rcqognlzcd un
der all lirao's disguises the fen hires her
faaliionnblo friends hail not soon for
years. It's wonderful wlint sharp eyes
these good old colored “uncles” and
" mammies ” linvo.
Ho drove up to tho curb at once, nlid
leaning over on his porch invited the
poor puzzled woman to got into tho
Hcorotary’s carriage nnd ride- home.
She murmured her address, fortunately
near at band, and sank book luxuriously
on tho soft cushions of the handsome
carriage. Taking all the rifiks, tho tine
old fellow drovo carefully.yet quickly to
the shabby boarding houso, nnd was
b.iok' long beforo tho. Heorotnry was
ready for him. I would never have
known had the loyal old servant not told
mo, that tlio widow’s- husband won a
general who was famous when. tho Boo-
rotary wns unknown, although I eould
have boon quite sure that old ThomKs
drove her carriage when she had one.
Earth’s Richest flold Mines
The property in tlio Trnnsvanl, Houth
Africa, from which enormous quantities
of gold—reaching in certain oases ns
rnuoh ns 1,000 omiccu to tho ton.—wero
likely to be taken, has been acquired by
an English company, whose onguiccr'and
geologist, sent out to examine tho pros
pects of tlie undertaking, have sent £0149
most' satisfactory reports on the subject.
“Two diggers,” sayu one of them,
“employing seven Kofi Ira, liiul just
cleaned up for the week' seventy-three
minces of gold, and their menus of work
ing most iueflioient. ' It is by fur the
richest place 1 have over seen, and tho
amount it will produce is something
fnbnlon*.’’
One lnrge reef lias been discovered
running through (lie property and traced
at the surface for over two miles. A
series of treuehes, out through it at the
surface, prove tho width to fie from 2
foot to 18 feet. Tills reef is eoraposod
of quartz, strongly charged with iron,
somo of which, having boon washed, lias,
yielded very fair prospects of gold, suf
ficient, ns‘estimated, to produce from
two ounces to three ounces to tho ton.
Tho engineer is of Opinion tlint tin's reef,
when developed to a depth of 50 feet to
100 feet, will prove of morn value than
tlio wholo of tlio smuller veins nt present
being workod.
Borne quartz reefs which' liqve boon
already partially worked, give, according
so the diggers, 200 ounces to the ton.
This proportion, indeed, is-what they ad
mit having got from tin}; quartz which
they piok out in their sluicing. Besides
tho quartz there is a large quantity of
alluvial soil, some of which is reported to
contain the extraordinary qiOintity of
an ounce and a half to the cubic yard. If
those prospects aro realized in practical
working the Lydonburg Goldfields may
claim to take rank among tlio richest in
tho world, oven if tho exceptional return
ings on the “Lisbon” property have
been provod to yield tho unprecedented
quantity of 1,900 ounces of gold to the
ton. •- •
According to tho certificate of tlio as-
sayerelho nverago yield of thirty-eight
samples, takAit under the supervision rff
the Into Gold Commissioner for tho
Transvaal under the British Government,
is 48J ounces of gold and } ounces of
silvan to the ton of ore. The refuse, tilt
recently thrown away by tho miners on
tho spot, contains sufficient gold to pay
a bandsomo profit on the working of the
stuiL
“So you are going to marry that small
wheezy, consumptive-looking specimen
of a man, are you ?” said 0110 girl to an
other. “I really don’t see what you can
see in liim to love.” “Mary,” said her
friend, “Mary, your father is a small
man, isn't be?” "Yes,” was the reply;
“what of that?" “ Nothing, except that
if he wasn’t small it would be doubtfid if
your mother would be tlie boss. I’m
f oing to marry that small man because
'm fond of having my own way and won’t
accept any risks.
“Oh, yes," said Mrs. Snaggs, “my
sister and myself married soldiers, and
when we want to go off for a day and
don’t want them to bother us, wp just
get ’em to talking about their exploits in
the war, and they just sit and talk and
forget all aliout dinner and never notioe
fiat we are away.”—Boston Post.
. REPAVS& iVS YO U.
If I eMM hSVS my dearest'wish fulfilled,
' And lake my ehUoai of aH< earth's treuwNt
too. • O
Or ehonse from Heaven wjjataoe er I willed,
. I’d ask for you.
Toil and privation, poverty and care,
Undaunted. IULMy, nor fortune noo.
Raving my wife, no Jewel else I'd wear,
, If I had jt<ju.
No man I'd envy, nelthetkm nor high,
Nor king in eaetle old or palace new.
I'd hold Oyicomls'H mines bus rich Ilian I,
If I had yon.
(•
Little I'd earo how lovoly site might bo,
How graced with evory charm; how fond,
how true.
E'en though j.crfoolion, she'd' be naught to
me,
Wereehe not yoit. ■
There Is more oharm for toy tmo loving heart,
III every thing yon think; or say, or do,
Then a|l tho Joys tlmt heaven could e’er impart
Reeaiise it's you.
FURNISHING A FLAT.
[From the Now York Journal.!
My fiance gave me $400 and told me
to suit myself, nnd I added $100 of my
own. AVo took a flat. It contains a
parlor,'kitchen, dining-room, throe bod*
rooms mid a bath-room, with • private
hall.
I first bought tho carpets, for tlio
parlor, and the Itcd-room off ft, whioh
we turuud into a library and music room
combined, I purchased a good Brussels
carpet of an olive green; ohoootnte and
dark orimson small rimnin^ pattgrn for
ninety-five cents per,yard, thirty yards
liking used. The other two bed-rooms I
carpeted with pretty ingrain, ono of
blue gud gray, the other of crimson and
\vhf(o. Tho thirty yards fbr tKitlf these
rooms came to $22.50. Tlio diningroom
and kitqhep floors I both had stained for
$5, lind n pretty rag for tho former cost
trie $10. 'Tho bathroom oil oloth amount
ed to $1.50 ns tho space is very little,
nnd four mats of Brussels cost mo $3.
Htx corn Hnon shades with patent wollors
cost mo $5, thus my ourputs and shades
enmn to $76.50 first, furnished the parlor
nnd library. I disliko “sets” of furni
ture so I bought two pretty sofas, ono
mnrb of a Turkish Jotuigo, tho other a
tote-a-lotn. The first cost me $18, tho
iHoapnd $7. Tlioy wore ooyoroil with n
sort of rawHilk iu Persian, design to cor
respond with tho fwpot.' Ono T placed
In tlie library. Blx light ohoirs oust mo
$12, nnd two lovely easy chairs j;ist $5
a piece. Two hassocks eamo to $1, 11
mantel mirror with n very narrow framo
80, throo pnira of ourtuina rnndo ol crim
son nnd .old gold cafitori'flannM $6, n
graceful rending lamp $8 and throo littlo .
brackets $1, making a total for the two
rooms of $55.
The two hcdwMfms look very cony and
losteful.. I purchased two, excellent
light-wood Eastlako liodstcnds, with
spring mattresses, ono linir mattress
each and pillows. Ono cost me $35,
tlio other $28. Two pretty dressing-
tables to correspond cost me $8, two
jroekers $1 60 each/ aud a half-dozen
chairs of tin;, sumo wood $3. A little
escritoire for my private belongings I
I snight for $8. My bedroom furniture,
therefore, oost.mo exactly $85.
‘ The kitchen, a cheerful littlo room,
with a good range, I furnished first with
rocker, cost$1; an ice-box for $10; a
pine table for $1 50, a lamp for $2; two
scuttles, $2; four pine 1 chairs for $2.50,
nnd the pots, pans, kettles, spioe, sugar
and coffee boxes, with the uumberlesa
small articles necessary, cost mo $5. I
have a large supply, most of which I
hpuglit nt a five cent store, My kitchen
furniture entirely cost $24. •
In the protty little dining-room I put
n mahogany bonffo which costume .$15, a
good extension' table, costing also $16;
six good chairs for'$8, a loco curtain of
four yards, nt thirty-live cents a ward,
nnd a tall screen costing$LC0. Total,
840.50.
v An exquisite little cliinn tea set, in
crimson and gold, cost mo only $9.50,
and a oompleto dinner-set of lilue and
white ware $14.50. A little plated silvor
service cost $12, nnd 11 half-dozen solid
silver teaspoons, $20; imd''half-dozen
plated knives and forks, $10. .For table
linen I have four nice tablecloths, each
Costing $1.50 each, and a extra fine one
$3; while a half-dozen napkins cost me
$1.50, making a total of $10.50. A half-
dozen sheets cost mo $4, a dozen good
towels $4, a pair of blankets $15; and
three excellent comforters $8. On add
ing up you will find that it just amounts
to $398.50. Tho $101.50 wliieh I have
left I intend to keep until after my wed
ding, then I will see what presents I re
ceive. I will spend the money on-pret
ty articles, such us pictures, clocks, vases,
etc., eto.
No Lamb.—An example has been sei
by Queen Victoria in ordering that no
lamb shall be served this season in tho
royal household. The bitter March
weather has been fatal to lambs and to
breeding ewes to snoh an extent as seri
ously to reduce the stock of sheep. As
a result of the Queen’s order, the price
of spring lamb in the London market
1ms fallen from 14d, to 9d. the potrad.
He Flew.—A Hudson fWis.) lady
being awakened a lew nights ago by a
noise in the house, arose, stamped the
floor and said sca-o-o-tl whereupon
a big tramp soatted oat of the pantry,
through an open door, and fled away in
the darkness. The lady was too mnoh
frightened to purr-sue.