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THE
jesup noi e,
irn« Bros,
I ITrii l 1 L*. Gr Kt > R(J 1 a.
Juttctioa AttiaUe and via! *t Maoffl staA B;
vSek Kf-ii iSisi.ls
rite sstiut . of tb* ii
ih« ihh«i :» I ft ten shea, by 5 h
1'ii* l*»t n-aet ikt* n< -■ - i ?jr?
sin! rt;ret rn J 0 i.g«ii«ili O-jot.
wi h Witter” so d dr;. »nd -y-y ;
19 ifTrih-fi g i%IiS * *• " u ■
-t.l ®# frip-r *l;y> • N" ? •.*«*;
Ly tJii* It foT to Ilt its*. %%
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Mouse* wul 1 n
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u How Joseph i . look , _ It cuffs x and a a* Studies, »•
Lyman Abbott-writes to the Christian
**8h^espa*re,* I nion: Joseph 'and Cook carries a railroad
> prepares his quota
bons for his unique lecture on the
"Shaki spsiwo OMUicicaoe, ’ on the ears.
He picks up every wi -re; gathers . very
thing. But in private he bewails hut
treacherous memory. I never knew a
student yet who did not seem to grow in
djguant withMmsetf owr toe tmdnenro
fe ten ef all that he ever learned that
Habitually forgot. Mr. Cook is no ex
ception to tic- mie. ict-he marvelonsly
preserves and utilizes the nesulte »f his
readings. violate His methods are peculiar. I
aid no confidence, and I mat give
to students, lay and clerical, if 1 report
here these pu*fctK«l-, as ho told them to
me, tlm- T'.is ri- machiueiy ’ in^lWa
of pieces: *
1 He always carries with him a cheap
memorandum book. b. this he jots
down, wherever ho happens to be, a
thought, him. The a »on book kuiee, a iignro that strikes
fillK op qaieklr. Then
a net «m tafei- its place. He trusts
memory to serve as an index to sug S -wt
to him the date of the r* a ling, the iuci
dent, or the thought tlu-r*; noh-d.
2. He also carttes a packiu-e of earn
tmra*i note paper. Any ex-tract in a
hbr-,r ‘ v ; W) V ffl<t or
figmfl* worthy of careful , -
mow preserva
tiqu, ho noteaou a liali-slmet of pap. r.
TJi «80 lire IWtorted according to* few
htrgo titles. The honmgeneons cm * are
r>umed they together. sewed. As the pile increase*
me " i am going to hetore
tomri,t % smdhc tome -on adtii.mte
America. f put in my bag mv pacKage
of exc rjit# on Ata--nca a hundnvl or
more-^t-.d as a !«,i jirepvratio; look over Hieu i- ve- tins •?> afternoon <.n the
ineaJhlTOtm/ bj 1
3 He Vie hM rot th contempt ncwalu^re of ™
would scholar*, y£*‘iL p* the 1 i
he Sav^, reads and rnarW-' m atrik£ WbW him re
^ w erM * t «
^ <vTw» .
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sccretoSto eecn.tory at * to h£ non, It aa mauvUiotbCTtote many another wife
Sil Mttho^kS 1 ! rir!rllS 8 ^^’ ta “«'•««*« ^r.
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value, them; and ftsstes m otherwise preserve#
the rest we
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ICne Atoms toBniTS, daughter of*
wafl-known farmer living near London,
Canada, was married ;■> a Mi Tan ton. -La of
BarkhiH. After the jr£h .-o-nio-iv the XZt
ding
catch the train at hit Thom-i- When
a ^
o
(Hu' Itesi i Sentinel
\ Oh. v.
vmmtto r»«K.
** <5A«H* v,.
(Mmpecbhslty fej OSw W«b 4 «B Btitmmd
** 11 sd«. ctem* Its trigmf*-; «l «»» b<?w i* geitteo
Irfit Is: ixm urn Dot- Dot vex ve: Uw too hnni tong Bi.ffvrr.iV !y»;
Til !i-iagb &> yemr ;ovt- nr. tarts* jot Feb ten,
The h« ear curfew te It* rn*. Oavar «!* Ute fit*."
~o r. H ni P>*T " fruis Gate,
Fm r.-l. I h*v* kxt ms tin*, fro® sssy early rtiihltiooil
H*r* H*re ts is s pictnn? ttimi will unrt<u-,t»na:
A Lwref.-wi. mxsS.lf/ wawnftof tftroi.-gfc Use wfidwocil
A booX at iaMStw la os»s iwUed Io-owb Tsuul.
Tte. -Metal r. ;l clfeld thin* the i
On -s-fckh ttto hungry «.-«! in t«ed:t;K there:
kruA Mhpli fch* yn*rd wmjwt *h« raid, “Itnowblrc ■
M*v* xnowu Us from tny vtsitflluxA,’* W m !l fair f
h » tot tTw "t *I'P (;!■! wt'.dwoo4 1 swMttie**,
Aftfl for tls« wontf-.-us dream* ttiM eSilidwa ds-eiuu
; u -u u- wrile tiu!’-. ra t-.; ■ i v' ■. -n;; -
T* l HI —Till lay regard mnl B.-y esow-in.
t ■««; tft f*!r the? fhsf ttuvsisrh the ntmiter
Of thy year* tw oovr three *c..re ati.l ten,
Tt» fire thy gnuiu* kir.itiRil (sh»il not slumber:
Cate* gghtefl, it «wa not go ont •gstn.
This fire, undying »* the *->o! that, breatbln*
Up -is cold seises, tr.rus thrm luW Same,
f-lvl bum f.*r many <4 pSeesant year*, *ul! wrenthiag
New gntmids teusiortelle* osasid toy name
VsuJ ta*y th* w*n:;!h &n4 trsymrif* at tha matt)teg
w wk*,.”"?- hm tfolilglat aV’T’* ,h tm r , -“ ,h * Rttn5 m 1 in { ••wj-irs.tsg
or c*B**r» in tb* tdstv* latotov* Sbwte*
And vbfeAr* at lUigt. rriAAfo Vttofts ib$ pillow,
Ok., A. «mHit Dtr fujgei.--Dfqith, chill fond drear—
W.&V i tife -soulli wind wltiffpcr to ibe willow
•si?2f tbeiwangft. th WWW hath loved hear!
- . " • ■ ■ Tig tmr*. we ifo»r;< <\ Above thee,
L-f lit© lit iitl all £
W>A Will D-:.t tefill. thetA dead we wll ; tk m
W ill Sip til* tetmmm &lx
Wo’U b>;Ud n t*T pie o'er u o moving timber*
Th* fraRTMit ioMCans .>( tuii thy g*ni\n> rat
And RCarci the that fir* t-. j rove >ov« rom*
« tend lit flw teoeu*e bstning :
Ob ’ brijfMJy &ls&U tt burn through ail tlift fiumittef
Arid bri£hii$ hurnvtbritt wink . «ul ...... , «v-re*’ , ';nntei n , , _
Wkflis W e da-v is deb-d a.
WVB seep it tUUdag «h Use tos»of sight
Anti Love, If a:;ru» by chujice the fin sho-nli ,iti' berl>:<ialh
Til. *ij:Ci fen**aog tecti low, will fan it vilh
;i ■; ;; O-v tfist wa* growuig colder
1 ;a*h tta red llglit up lu t)jc t«c« of fleatil.
IM »!.»«!•! ;'*t, wit! J. pa.t \ bBrtri- gpoven wkit*
S8a:J Ahrlnk into the si GidOWS he cam*,
Wfiiie the old flame* Hijai! leap np iin<i brigktr:;
And write is words at fire iky
tom«rt«3 Ii'-itnorta! light, that sever can grow rtimr
fire, tha! never can gr>.m- cold:
Immort*’ x*niu-, with tlie m *unr)se ri- (tHn.ireir
foaaortai umiis il in t'L« golds
A TABBY REMINDER*
i:
The buck-log in our great Texas fire
place had just Ben punched . after an
aiqiroYed method, and tlie flames w-et
it -'ping itp as flamts will on wind
nights, roaring stea y and start
shadow <i«u m tut Cotaftrs of
rcH>ni Bud tly somo quick chit:
subdued the. flame till it merely hung in
the smoke above tha hearth, and at this,
moment jwireirtlyat a most unearthly door, sound, ap
our very .startled »
into nn tmlie«>n.tin tng » >stare, that w
taken advantage of bv mv friend, wh
chuckles thcreui»ou of in-duiged kind I in could a succesaiou of
a never locate
in iiirn. Ha soon recrossed his legs,
however—he could never chuckle ex
cept with fTOt wide apart......sayuig as hi
did so ■
" You never heard a screech-owl la
fore, I reckon ” “ ¥
Iiidiany—often,” and he added, sft r a ■
little moment, startled more by intensely, thought—‘‘‘often and as if ■
some
" Was that sat owl? Heavens ! it lad
ed more like the scream ot a locomotive
whistle.”
“ Tvs a notion of writm’ home to¬
night, Jim.” } .
... You have , , T L startled sumosf ,
me
rnuen—unite UI H omerent way—as ;
Urn screech-owl s terrible song The ;
u ' !r 'T can- i mo nick to our j fkv
n.-cuug a.ycor before, laking a >!-.
nwr *>oat at Cairo, I found 1
*“® re my smt—room with S u* ! . ucr
raluoi-ne with me, smiv 1 a to- ■
! ‘ ter f:‘ mer ; il1 Kot m ’
favorably at first. „ 1 was a Hew Ln
gt'M toy sa! -nspicions ot t-wrvt.nng ,
«mth of bt. Jwaps, and t-tes num lot sed I
not unlike the men I bail be. n rant : >m u j
«e could not very well help I
very general terms txmt mcliukd -^erv i
one 1 did not know. However, we shook •
hands, exchanged some remarks .meant >
to be facetious, and in a few days I knew
hia name—Willian. Jackaon. *
.
*‘ At home they caU me Bill—short, !
‘ike myself, you see,” he said, and ;
grinncit in a bashful sort of a way that
spot came very In near fact, to he capturing me short, on the :
instead, was not but.
the tallest man I ever saw of
his length of leg and body; for what ha
lest elsewhere he made up in a neck
that never ceaaed to be it wonder to me,
Ii ran up like the watch-tower of a-fire
houre, dim and so reacheS long that*
his while head his shoulders overhung barely all other*, and mW,
was
two inches more tliau sir feet above the
ground. His head was large, too. and
fliat made his general appearance more
hit. ktenerd slimness ot
mouslv booy ended below in a pair of enor
tanned large f.vt Hia face wi... much
and smooth^haveu. ,-xcypt tlm
stubble upper lip, of which flwroe-stem&ig, was covered bvacoara...
sandv wobld hair.
But no description of Idm U
complete feature it that his did not touch on that
countenance which was of
ten ccmceated entirely and which would
have made him trusted anywhere. A *
'.fellow-traveler said, “ Ills general Usiks
He said his month, but he tm-ant his
^ ^^“V 0ut Jt , 1 Ut tb lt - ttt VM livr 80 ’ , w ln , uc! »* tHi> '
*
<-nect on ton - own person. Burst, arounu
his break two d.. p
wrinkles; - then outside of these two
more; and so on, on till his c—
breughtinto the She whirlpool of wtini.
and and forehead long-atonding shaped ones on hia m ck
themselves to t-h
general effect done supreme expresakn
1)1 ‘Might. It was then you twlmved
sr?«c" k iuaWti ! 2^.5*--“ ‘ wo ^ express i ^ n,
dirt
little Aftor.sJl, often be had, ntina so forth far as I learned,
to so few*of tmet »
revelation «i hia face. But the
amenities of life hod h**n hi«»t ‘ ^to w r
Utt somewhere r lil
s^fcrArdUfrlhtr’Twr ,J ^,V”- »■/ wl fatbei a grand h i
>■
•otvea great, grown-t^j babies—nothing
JKSl’P, OKOIMJ1A, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1880.
more—without arty other feeling than
that they Bust, as Jim said, "hitch on
to some one." All the girln, but one
who died, were too old to "hitch on.”
The boys Aid the beat they could in that
line, wad after a time Jim ** hitched on*’
to rue—it was in Hew Orleans, after com¬
ing down from Cairo—and we soon be
• ame what at the West they call" porda.”
We joined were friends, at any rate, and, hav¬
ing forces farming to the amount Texas of about
S350. were in on poor
lauds os what our landlord calls'!
“ sheen;** that is, he furnished the tools,
mules and land and w* the brain* and
human dividing muscle, the keeping- spoils—that onr own house
and is. tlie
crcqw—espittlly. So, knowing how little he looked
to
any other home than the one around
and him. add 1 could but question hia " notion,”
i
" Who to, Jim?" a rather thought
lass question.
His voice went down almost the whole
length of that, Wonderful Oeck, I thought,
as ho threw his face forward into liis
■- aaads, , and, ? storing , into • . dark , *
a corner
of the fire, said :
"A woman.”
“ A woman, Jim ? why, whs-— 1 Oh,
a only sister, refuge perhaps that- seemed ?” I said, hand. seeking tlie
at
"No. * • * no sister.” A Iona
pause, "It's like this and he said
sently nothing reached mere for some minutes, violin but ab¬
over for his and
pick, d the strings for an almost-forgot¬
ten chord. It seemed to me that his
brain and fingers were working toK&thex,
although he did not know it. At last.
be evidently reached what ho was after,
tor dently he twanged and said, the laying strings more the violin confi¬
aside :
" It’s like this ; We never said noth
ing for to nobody, nor to But ourselves fcnowed. neither,
that matter. she 1
thought a whole farm of her and always
shall—oh, he how good she's been to me I ”
and fiercely distorted clutched his knees, hi*
features and his eyes in tears.
Good to him ! Well, thought I, if ever
any woman loved Jim she was good to
him j she couldn't have wanted him for
a..-. thin « else How hotm-iy aud au
pillar he a looked, his long neck shot out
oward the fire, which in Pebnmry is
to f-ded, even in Texas, to take off the
cb i‘'
Proschtiy there he straightened up,
So, wasn’t nothing said, but i
die Mowed am, and when I left she
asked me to write her, and Pm going to {
doit She’s bin waitin'now too long,’* 1
Tlven he stopped abruptly and began to
look back over the months, while f held
my breath.
he "My said, God, man, it's *ni' on two year,” I
anti, what it seemed his long to me, be saw in !
a moment neglect might
mean; that it had been the very refine- j
tnent of cruelty. Ho at once l>egan
with an almost feverish haste to make s
Cd^i reai bSTvSto* 1 mZ*l tfmTand ssn
not concluding tiU his lamp had out- j
$£:
^,i»at excuses he pat forth in his let- :
ter I never knew. They would not, I
am qmte oertaui, liave answered for any :
love letter I might have sent about that
tune be sifter “we” two rears’ sflenoe ; thbngh, to
nfidehce rare* for {taking the reader both into
W that a moment) were
younger at time, while Jackson was
00, if u day. He may have urged that
he was a {>oor letter-writer. That was
true. I have yet to see bin equal in I
power to wreak a really appalling ven •
,-. : . anw on words which, many ore now :
igreed, have a greediness for
<m wijdering ly equaled by their inexcusably be
arrangement of the same. And
], ts wav G { making up sentences was
something wonderfuL He may have
urged, too, that he had worked early
fl, M latewith scarce a moment of relaxa
tion. T bat was true of both of us oua
i hml wnl many times.
*
Whatever he may have said in that
letter, to which he brought so many
pains, I fear he did not hit on the true
reason for bis long sUence; indeed, it is
possible, even probable, that he did not
know of it himself. For my part, it
w*med then, m it seems now, that he
hail not written, simply because he hod
nofc a“7 letters ot for any pur
pose, found in so ready »
Rieaua of oommuni caticm that he
turned to them without effort And.
mor * Hian all, he had iived by her side
in daily thought mnee the how in which
they parted. Hia memory of her manv
graces was as fresh on the hundredth
tour “ *n the silence second; and, had it been
years of instead ot two, her
tmet in j hu mind 7°^ at the d and of ^ friat « long d »
tlm * 68 thot *K fa ^uly letters had passe 1
between them A contemplation almost
constant had brought her to him to com
tort and console him at any moment.
^hen too, “ he had f 7“' "hitched on” and, 40
me every right h that was r hi* in th© man
ngement of onr small business Honest
himself—almost pitiably honest, for it
'-nme from an innocence that had been
quarter of a century —he plwed the
ullest “to» ° fa08<:n
, ^ *ora , wi h. So be lclt much at
ease
with little thought of the future, except
when long droughts, undm a aky like
! j brass, mau© u» despair restedin of profit from
terming in Texas He th* love
'
he was sure of, and did not once think
that, tlm flame he had somehow fanned
into scuned sight— miracle th.mgli it must have
to him. for he Ww that he was
homely • -would need any further care to
hi v*—«•'«**
^11 this passed in my mind while
riding Lt 6v«- miles the following evening
?1) tw ‘ the “ sG precious oreriotut letter tetter, which wtuen I I
iifi , 1 , to ,t oot hand. 80
1 a ! '' *'
mnen ®^ depended , on it that it seemed
“P tlie 08 usual g»*nght mail m
: l prosaic way, in commcm
; ‘T Once away from , town, however, and ,
I & -x‘
steel pen-.mad holder, perhaps. * *’ *
!
It’s a pity, though, that reminder," the owl waited i *
so long. It was a tardy
1 mentioned the coat of anas to him «
meat vliffl he I stropped and his violin took for it a mo- j
as canto in, ha good
naturediy. So far a# I could see--and
Jackson concealed mAhing, he wa* like
a child in had that—every done had thought of with the
wrong be gone away
the the letter, and he evidently had no fear
of result.
“I fold her,” j^rrastA; he said;.bounding hia
™ &S3 fo write-.....’twaan’t 1 didn’t j ,
promise 'cause j
thiak of her with ev’ry seed ot cotton
and ev’ry kernel of corn we planted, and
with avry stop I tteiMte; . I seen her , face . :
hi everything I did, and when I see a •
pretty sight alia seen it, too, ; and there*# j
lots of strange things here.’ - :
What a glow sight- for hot-house lovmw ]
this, tlie dropped that cause to Jackson’s j
face as ho his violin across his I
knees and lingered in thought on the ;
ha j py moments thev liod each day spent i
they togsthcr, only imagined in imagination! That j
were scenes never oc
curred to him, for he saw in her face :
from time to time ail the pleasure kho
would have enjoyed in notiig with him
fce niamge I’eaturea of a country strange
to hi >kh .
He si&id, tfairing for a few mo
mentis to bring wiii a refractory string into
its i&lhrw§» md Umm
drawing hid round, sweet notes the length
uf bow— * * Yes, Yin dogoued sorry,
bat she knows me! ”
01 .
There should have Ik-.hi an answer to
the* letter in about two weeks if eh* as
A© other woawa, But two, yes, throe
weeks and more pa-sod hy without a
word. The fire died cut on onr hearth,
as the hot summer came on swiftly, aud
whs not renewed. March surrounded
us and revealed wotid*-r» to the limited
Now England experience which barely
liecomes acquainted with the amt of tlie
extreme Bo«tiu*m States. April came
itlk E going out into the past left thirty
bedecked perfect days behind, Lower Texas
m a suit of green, not laid on
« n»'at s ft remnant,_but wasteful, stotied w a in Savishnewal- face
your at
fir>t and then laughed aloud, her notes :
pt joy bubbling from a thousand throats. |
«nd A »]HJal baaked life, on conoealtnl th« glaring before, stonea. crept The oat
air
was » but * constant intense hum, unnoticed by !
»*. to those whose ear*
were attuned to it The very earth at j
‘-’«r It feet seemed 1“** opening to tltn.b -May with when life 1 |
■ w **® cam. j
from the postoffice one evening and laid
down before Jackson the letter he
had mailed weeks before. It came from
the Dead Letter Office--that morgue of
to many hopes—and in the same mail
wa * u paper from what bail been his ‘
home town, together with letters for my- •
SAW'saiiss-"
« <* * not think at first he felt so
deeply sorry that it had miscarried as 1
$£& U ^S£?Z£J£XS;
? ?' t "'hat he had
*nttea, and evidently trying hard to
JP*?** deep sigh at ».»,«, an<L fuliy aiiuoot. He getting gave *
?, p ^ r ? m cdlR1 r -' lta *\ by,
{f oa E h suli in . f-He , then took the
home paper and scanned its meager col- ;
umns careleatdy, from his former looking first, as on<
list awaya of deaths and In-medoce, at the
few and of special marriages. They were
no interest to liim;
but as he glanced over another column,
devoted for the meet part to small town
talk, he must have scan this paragraph
for he fell forward on his fat like one
about to die if not already dead crush
mg hia joining violin discordantly beneath him, its deep
moan with the
mocking hoot of the screech-owl far out
m the darkness.
W, regret to lexm t«t <W-tw«ii. M w KO to prw , m
day thMwk Henry T. car
wteemad townsman of thi: n me, died i» h t
night after a bn* ijtores of three flay*. The
w «* T-ymturtv
W
wffl to
rstnambered bv many of our reader* &- Mi
KttlM Barton," who lived «»l:! *na vaa amr
**•*.»* £„ kem* <* Thon»« j8ck J«-kson, brother
»‘J?? l n, * 0, S **' 11
... o/trial . , , '. '. ‘ «ttremity “
_ &n m w w «
hi« hour #
*
; IT
; Several months Ini.-r I t dked with the
writer of the above lines in his ‘sane
turn.” as he frequentiv calletl it I
' found him a shrewd Yankee who Du«le
! »‘is jwper simply Ids i-enefit, a l,-v t -r to move other
mattora to and the “beet
fbu-,1'man (so b- nhri-<.al iti in tl.e
entity. I A questioned him'some a« to
Mb- Es the marriage
1 . "She’d speak of. been gold’ aa^ with helnawS the Jackson
you os you
» But I’d know’s there was anythin* 1*
tween them. S'posin’there was: a worn
wi can’t wait forever for a man to spit
it out, and he wan't much to wait for
anyway. I guess h« was honest ennufi
aa they say here ; he was always • hitch
“’ on ‘ to •«“ t,ue - Besides. Ton
that is, Thomas Jackaon- -got poor an 1
hadn’t ma4y a place for her, Lnong and in m: u
was or go strung, w
Times was hard “RHio and it Wta^l-- bad t co- -V i
what it did, Lk. nerlmp*? ’
toted more’n you touW
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A nom,E of ^iu..4 disbeliever* i-V^uFr in spiritual ”•"«>'
ism attended a
r- ;„i
' a ? i '- v, “ ‘ J ; “*'• °| iS^’p u :‘ i:,( , H „. " ,q nw-o-n them » i;«:u.«i tot of Htar glu
t * m: 'from lus dead sister." .-’J*, though he
, . • .
* , . , L ... . ' tohTttofwL^I . ' , B
k ■ The tne snirit spim p->.»Vfed mired h be taa wifcof
L“r 5 a '’ u a a ^3 m.u*r. razed emb, ^ and
, ,
w.-^Vv* f h'«‘t*a beuig highly frw>rat>le, '■“& ■e* fora row. ™*
€ck *
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Texas' has an immense {.wean crop
OoAdiwa is becoming fashionable »t
Richmond,
Th*X pay $1 each for wild-cat scalps
in Florida
l>t-RHAM, S. O., expects to handle 18,
ikHi.OOO pounds of this year’s tobacco
crop. 4
0 ,
,™» P* 8 otemased fifty per cent, since
b"" 1 1
-
1. he money-order ^ , bosmesa . . at . Macon, „
jp * ftnkn „ nt .. j,,.;.. tha
’ "
T<,ar to ,
* '
A faiuikr named Jackson, living near
Savannah, has over 85,000 ' tea plants on
k; s farm
™ oountics of Cherokee, . Graham,
‘ rt *
* w »b», Jackson and Macon, N. C.. con
tain 1,109 Indians.
PatHrciAVsin Montgomery are alarmed
,, the „ increase of cigarette . smoking ,
* mon « ^ In thftt «*7
•JEKBY I3uoki.kb, a letter-carrier in
Nashville, has walked fourteen miles
t.M,y day, except ^ on Sunday, a , for , four
t-i-a years.
Mitr.-BDOEvxr.T.a ships 15,000 htles Of
cothm annually, has over aixtv business
ami yet has no bankmg-honsc.
MrcHAjen Dbotos, a hvena-tamei
connected with Coup’s Circus, was torn
Pieces % three’ infimated Menas
d«fag the street parade at Wmcfn-ster,
' U '« UIU -
Rrw, A.m* js about to start on a lecture
tour in the South his subject beimr
1'ixie now and Dixie "1 then” Ama ‘ {
- Charles - H.
p name is . . Smith, . and . . he
ii elT-r m the Presbyterian Church.
A: ox was captured in the river »t
Jf, w bv’s Point, twenty-eight miiee above
Wjimiiurton \ V C \7 bv g
“ «<*tbo»t and towed , to the , city, swim
behind the boat every foot of the
way.
Florida fruit-growers arc bcarfnnina
to ! cultivate "r /*0 the lemon with 4 . g *****
' 1 ," :ir r *; and wlth good A results , that
it ^ KltevAd i that m little while
a
thi; State will furnish almost a* mimv
lemons to the trade as she now does
oranges.
*« fl P l , ^ — HateMrawn* . .. , _ Island, , .
P»ite . Savannah, op
which is intended to
keep the river from overflowing and in
that way improves the sanitary condition
of the cite, has l>een completed It i«
f «*‘ a ‘ ^
A wums boy Reared on the street
w ^ ), f; Si-reral of th« ™ ntJ* eggs «n were broken, tot
‘ ,tk dw<. vered they all eon
tamed embryo alligators, which led
.smut ,>i tue purchaser* to fuiry their eggs
in mud and Band, aa is the fashion of
fibat animal ' with tlie ie “°P* hooe of <» 1 hatching *te!>b,o
. , ,,
/ rhu,'' 'gators, owwtporf
, .
’
I’hk next issue of the Southern his tori
cal jiapora will contain a letter written bv
the 1*resident of the late Southern i,«L r.„
federaev “ in relation to to a t- Ion « ‘bspute. n ,
1,1 .» l f t n , seems m , has , been g> iug .
on among
**»*»* >« «»« mends of the two parties in
concerning the command of At
lanta, why Mr. Davis put the late Gen
flotoj in charge instead of Gen Hardee 1
ri * *? ' 1 ^T ed <h>u L «°y> wko ,
-
trfdmt.' Hardee’s aMK In
thi-uidence Mr. Davis TOmi>Um-u\t. siK-aks in
tM kindest and most ° v
teii' ! , ' . gh character . and *; military ‘
' 1 i u 1 lft ao gen tinmen, Petvrx-
1'ukx ippial
d’,,: aiithoritjes of the nbartofte R fte
!ninl *
■, ‘.i‘ > ,i ^ l , MV * 3 J** 1
'
1 u. 11 l, vl to pay its portion . of the
'■
af^-* >• lh-lI for the salary of the
Kuiiroad €onmiissioncr of South Garo
Hu-* this J year. Last year J«*r the me South sonUi
C r “; * ia n , wa8 the 0116
* h,a, » «“* oot oontnboto its
t,ut tbe am ount in questiou, aud its aa
toasmentfor this war. were paid seveud
weekeega The .Savannah and Charles
ton. Greenville and ‘ Columbia °° iU mbia, North- \ H
^ an<1 T‘ Au « “"J usta , ^ ... Builread lnu, ‘gton authonues arid Columbia have
s ” ) far tiikm n " “"Mae of an unofficial
«“* cd the CmmU-mucr asking inter
m*ti.,u as to then- intentions in the
matter.
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Capital Punishment.
penalty oZliest for marder 'in has all prevailed from
the times treason parte of tlm
world. In most nations or rebel
Uon ^tCpunteW®^Tto^gW against- lawful government has also tud
elsewhere re V
fo^f£SSS5T 1 T.t,!YTa* «^SSS oSr I
at the’nri tLm lur^^te nuto^h *
able
tion a„*«g«f'jssgST&
dvil administrations the modes most
the prevalent block have boon decapitation upon
“ " aaed for AT oolitioal -,V oraninahi
-c . 3 .
France ’ - in * I ni. h cou ntr ies the gam-to;
Ln . baD /?
Japan, f for some oflenses, T* n0V toe ;, criminal « m » is
presence of officials. ^ I 11 ^ (Tuna ^ deoapita- **
cheeks, 5^^*srs.‘KT3f arms, legs, and afterward dis
^nboweling ami quartering..
\<». :i.
I
Perfumes—Him The* Are Extracted ;
,'*vr „ . . . .' , ^'ftt-.unu-ih , .
K ;.f . ' l'' f ‘V . un *« (,ra *’* N 5*-' 1
( unu.-s m Prance. V In their ;: se ) locality f
alone, annually, are consumed
Orsftge flower* Pounds Jj.
1,0od,W S.i *oo'K! *
:
V, iB-'nniv ’aaojiioo lAflOO mjm
&
T tc.MO
.-r<>ue 8to“K> 25,060
t this . prmtuct . ,
tom are mfmnftv.'tur.-d
pomnls of scented oils and
grease*. bt'SKh* orange flower and rose
tel t ruin the r* u j farms ia the
nmgiiiM.arlteM.Ki . . of Adnanopoto'in Tar.kcy
, «hayi>v»,.r
/" '< 11 »•. o.,, V
° , ; . r " n 8 hr , ['• is brue
i Wctracti. m»u»> from novers
u,
‘ > a»«l Alg-rm, but tit© south
! to v ," nt, " r
t iu - -, .
i F'.':’.-''/. 1 ,or.lower-raising{-. l ’v is » .'{torfuutoryi o f, vv i.o
■
j ,!-rf * * lamn bu
' ' • l!ts •* J 1
'
. *° .. .
: 8t ' reB ?'f* t *
: abb- ! well ti wann^nver hTo
asme !. U-rcse rt3M - and ««i»twro m »i
I aluuuhuitiv , , . with bnt little* cultivation,
j ? ?T ,f r-'
! ^ ;
i 1 1 i.-s 1.110 < .is=ue, or scoasia, M-li-l
; and the Hour grange Uowhl Of these
j jw-ge quantitu* are nwa every year, un.d
• tro »‘ <heiu-eomj«rcs - favorably
j ^d Jf td tov/off^bfi
ninl ns the tout of the latter is seldom
\ ,ls ucstructtau o its blossoms
1 ^ ,n ? J> TCS ' B 1 ^ n,1T
I { manti'ttea a* the or«ie ZUr . . *" ^
j the fra
granco from flowers an- four, namely:
| ,.Wr ’ e*P«WWB, maceratkm and
! ‘bstillatioa The process of expres
] kwinl h»cd to the citron ** se '? family, cee -, oi such , ’ 1 ! 19 as cou the ‘
j lemon gen-rallv orange been performed and b.-rgamot, by and has
grating the
! ”“ a * ' I *‘ :er » tlun hIul at-A-.riition, which
! th ;i . pnwcsiw*, are
f on the affinity of odorous moleo
: ni S ^ V, ' s!i - '«<*% “to
] soiled 11 ** tfowera by them of when strong brought odtvr, such m contact, as the
; n'se, orange flower, eftssio and violet,
!
<»ndi* perform-;d
u!- Ug mamier : A certain
; q^idity of grease . w put in a W pun.
] whicli is placed m a larger one filled auto
? T A quantity ot tlowers ar*j thrown
tiie R" r ' fliui-totr to digest a certain
•
™u«g T ^
i Z7 if d t p w t ] , *f Pa^wl
oJoagf. norse-hiur = , • . hugs, m, ! the
• @c, iw»‘
; ' Ul tHf U, J J’ tny * * xtl 'acted all the
j f ' , j. fn”’
K-v alwrnH moanV -• im'< t V t -
i if mraac 'with i- th« ton
i flower* the crease with, mi ss bRt
i ! 'jL & JSTSig wiS !*
wocai. spread over grease tsz and
| %&£rs
: qn cUa11 fred ^ sufficient daily until strength. the pomade has ate
j For making extracts for the liandker
clncf this p.minle is token and alcohol
Added to it, to which tha ©dor is readily
and the product is the pure
<?xteac * flower. However, the
nBm ber of flowers cultivated for thei*
i odor* are few, the skilled perfumer
j imitate nearly all others bv a ju
i dicioms combination of the six or
i seven he possesses, aud in this consists
! the important branch of the perfumer'
j j *t. His truly artistic work is in study
mg the affinities aud blending the scute
S as a painter does his colors, —Aw Or
lean* Democrat.
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1
! How Swinburne Bored Brownfne.
Hw u “ lbun , * e “ a warm admirer . . of Brown
. tog., Nwmbume. . Drowning The # qualified adnnrer of
i elder poet once met
the u ttI,g ” r at a rwlr*^! station, and
shook v hia . umbrella at him, exclaiming:
, "Ah, you foolish boy, why will you de
grade such splendid taii-nt ‘ If the
| truth must be told, this is I ml a mwlifieff
: Vl which ' Mun of rather Browning's actual words, print
I were too strong for
j One day Swinburne called on Browning,
who received him courteously, and bade
him be aeatetl, much marveling the while
; why he carried with him a small foot*
j 'The mystery waasoon cleared up, U
f(#f 3winbfmie j- (1 tlw u „d
Browning’s Ho feet and sat himself th. ro
uj-on. could not arrogate equality
| with a master of the diviuo art; his sole
i | «»bition ^ was to ait at- hia feet. Brown
^profoundly bored, and in mortal
f*' ar sometealy might call and bo
. come a spectetew of the interview. He
j knew his visit.* well enough to under
: stand that the latter would not budge for
i an intruder. urbanity* It speaks volumes for
P»Mv»U.v Browning’s and cmi«-dlv that with he the convert erratic
| ; one for the space of an hoar; then—feu
i humanity is frail, and some men will not
j take a hint—hia nerves gave way. "And
ii"»V said the host, "you must forgive
S 7 ll,hum ? to-;k up his stovd auo
! IndT'hSSTvTTtf.jV"'t R^ftow «i^*d JLS hi
fil >or th aak. Brewuin^ asaumlM. torn m he
W «.V
scryioo ts that you to him. would Swinburne allow to rephed: «t at "It
me your
' mmuKm." The tone was
on * ot *niperturbable gravity. Brown-
1E F aaaentod, and the pair walked up
8 re”, ® wi ?^ n 5** carefully re
placed,his footstool and aat ‘iss out the full
2 i«. 6 t had fiuallv " departed.’ ‘ ’ must have
W >,%' n a study tia 5 r -,
“Tell me whom you admire, . , arid . ... 1
will tell you what you ara ” would be aa
good a variation of the well-worn prov.-rb
a# any other. The god of Mr Swin
bnrae’s hftodiW idaiatrv Sinct is Victor a^t Etuco or^num to wl-ni
th.
The great Frenchman re ails then n'l
oonaideni Hwinbume* ' the’ first of living **
. Engaah lyrist*.—Xcstefa** /Hfok
BETTER THAI A SHAKE ,STORY.,
A H«J '* » iil't'Mnii" Willi Mail l« a v»«u—
H«l» steal WOfSEte I’minst r.**te.
-nw > >’«.) !. e»»r to th* S.t* tmt Su».j
isiots _ Twenty owned year* or so ago, Herman Mia
Creek, this a place, brewery A along French
tunnel wt li'.-Joriging the storage brewery vault or
to *«
excavated in the able of the MB nearly
two hundred fo-t in length. Th«re wa#
a great flood in the creek in 1805, sad
the w,u.-r threatened to HU the vault A
large' quantity of beer was stored them
at the time. In attempting to save 1 ,h#
beer from being carried away Brews!
.Miutnch was drowned. Phillip Gross
man which now keeps a saloon near the vault,
he uses to store cheese, bologna,
and beer in. The vault tor come time
has been overrun with rata of an enorm¬
ous h size. amuber* They and frequent the tunnel in
»«« are so hold and .ag
gressiye . that Grossman has long found
it i.o.'oasviy to toko some one with tuns
to fight the rats awav while he takes out
c i,<*se or beer The cheese is kept- cov¬
ered with tin cast*, through which the
can not gnaw,
Araon « < Irossroan’s children are two
boys—PhiUy, • old. thirteen, and Eddie, eight
years fond of Swiss, They cheese, are both extremely
A few da vs ago
they determined to make a raid 'on the
store of their favorite cheese in she old
brewery'vault. They knew it would \m
ne/'C»sury order to fight the an army of rat/, in
but that to secure prize stey otwetad, ‘ Phiiiv
did not d»u«r 1 wr them 1,1
o'to«d hiiBoelf ... with « heavy .pice* of
Luxtp-irun, and the two boy* entorerrnia
vault, the youngest one carrying the l -
tern. when They the had gone but a dispute few fact their only
rats began to
paasago. Rata stnunpered about them
oh every skis, and it was with difficulty
that Pliilly kept them off of himself •> 1
brother by the active wielding of Jii*
piece of iron. Some of the rats were .t
mm, and the army kept Use
hoys toward entirely the surrounded, moving along
further end of the tunnel
x ' ith tIu ' m Bmi keeping up a loud and
outcry Ul as they marched. boM Several
toe9 »“* « ^ U»an*his
compautons, would jump Savagely atone
or the other of the boys; but these in
variably blows met death ot wcjhs disabled by
\* from Eliilly’s l iron. ,t< The younger
>7 g ° 'TK ? f “/ at , had
his feam, and told him that the rate were
only lW playing,
the time the boys reached the end
1. where the dieesew* kepk
«,! rum.big over the •LdT. the
effort*of the older o £5 c to .. >1 Ht
philly took off his >at and'
around his little brother to protect
from the rets, and then proceeded to on
cover a cheese. The rate piled upon
him and all atarat him, as though frantic
with the prospect of getting possession
,>f the clitH*e themselves. PhUlybest
about him right and left-, lmt finding sotLt it
imp.^ible to drive R* the ret* away.
could g* a raised, he toK hi* lit
tie brother to go l>a«k and tell his father
to conic into the vault as soon as txjeai
hie. The little fellow hastened out, l»«v
j with n g PhiUy the rate, alone which in the dark, battling
ting the lietter of him. were He grwluallv placed get
hi*
back against owe side of the tunnel, a u4
wielded his weapon continually, killing
,»r Wlmn disabling a rat at almost every blow,
the younger child carried the
news to Ms father that PMlly was in the
vault surrottuded hy the rets, Grossman
and two neighbors armed themselves
wthdubs and burned tothe rescue of the
,H>r wh ^ ® n rats they seemed reached to num- the
kr ^ d5irjf^asr4stt ^ . “*». ^.t
Were ^" r f ’
a »
^el^rridc 6 -Zd' th^miSllS wm* «o
sS*s?S filf#
ovM eight pounds. Wwagon The iSWa carcasses mid 1 a
twiehorse
loud for a team to draw away Thso<m
bme.,1 weight of the rate wM over a ton
V. f/ive Letters,
* commonly . said, that the art «■?
; ; tln has perished, and t
-• cpwtolni. g ,i
stately phraseology .-v correspondence—to of uoe the
ahecte our grandmother*
' ^bich cove r- -,i upon sheets of
pnper pl^wngly closely *‘crosw4, ft ntten has over and often per
Iwien superseded
'\v three-cornered notes and postal cards.
We cant>..t bring ouraelvc* to regret the
ctrcumstai.c, communication for, perhajw, of all forms
of letters are the moat
tiresome and never could have been re
sorted to on a larg. - ute-ive by people
who had a portc ms amount of tune
on their bands, t! there is one siwiea
of lotfk-r writing w ch, we balteve, atfil
survives. IV»v u le re are still written
still read and sti answered, ami still
oometimes retnniod; and we *ui)|>.*e
eloquently they continue to justify the the description
j g »«’ given of them bv immortal
fr rn , rendered bv Pope
rxwj hr ti,.tjn-r atoe what lo*« ti,
pirn, .'V -V £1'. ll (»1 to it* ts
x i.^TteL a. lt gif r<-»
Kn-,i, , , n -utr out the hwirt
froiu *»u) t<> *
»"«*> r ' " a im » to ill# Polo
A*-'™ n« “ ,^ mun hTh! erects
L. !" toHmh Ii “ ’l lV, s, ,,-.-r b' mflvW v
*V', v r » !l .‘‘‘ 1 »r L-,- -dwith ansv i.'•’V on tlm |*
‘V'; A- ?’ ,L*h tlite tomb their
^ lt lt marks th ’ 8J< , t
} 1 ^‘“envo membere mcmicn at 1 tlie Bpencer *R r
, "pj,.^re^diw '’f - '', l”’ drew tom-thw llLn flf »R v
“ u doVmt . J hml 'rt l.L
X^V;.! >v blv ZmmduTty oL olo , 1?
tosvictona after another
, ‘ , (W ' j them- but who he was
. j M> l . << .,, r t-d llt >d. Bill Young
_ },.m, j r , d bv a ruob but- a iurv lmd ac
v ,,| there nothing
t j_. u was at
Hi lust, words wore: "I am
as imi.Kvnt of this thing a. the angel*;"
hnt th ’' Radius of (ho. lynchers replied
.. Yon q v tt lit . ,,d man to hang, the’county anyhow
Hi. wife now sued fo,
M0 quo dun-- - . *• H
Postage Stamp*.
The number of different kinds of post
age stamps which have been hitherto {*
sued all over the. world ts estimated, m
SoJrssjiS..^ns 1
ocrere D'fl-"> --to Kiuin* -'V tin Oue. ns «’« ..n.
titani Graad Duke, six I’ri'ic.-- i mines, tout .d ft gt* --.t »t
number of Presidents, etc. Some of U.<
stamps bear ooata-of-arms and otlier wn
bleats, aa crowns, the pa{ial h.'rsemen, keys, aud
tiara, „L anchors, eagles, collection mca
toXof:ii,«n5 ■ rU ,... The IVrIS nrwn-i KflW
included on lulv 1 JM7** 1 498 rnvci
2 s
^ “*” ^
What dAtli it profit a man if b< i
" well-hociati.' yet hath * bunion?