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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.