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Tie Jesi Seattle! Office i» the 1 two’floors tp H -< trt uttsi on Crter-rj street, front Broad 81. PUBLISHED EYKUY tflDNFdb A V B5f T. F LITTLEFIELD Subscription Rates : Postage Prepaid,} Our veto..... m Sir nioutN ... „ t Three mcath*.... .... Advertising Rat os. Per stjav-. firri s f. ta..................... .$! Per wjuorr, each sulnK-qtieat lusvrtioB. > #*“Spe'dal >enl. rates in yeaily »ad huge -c veri; TOWN DIRECTORY town- omesas M.*y< w: M. IV *4 Oiijiy ftuie-a m. w « w s_ M v < lt-1 It *» d TreiW-.to., ref .1. L. 'J m , s :■:: KT V orrmsss. ririhuary &<rb*rd B B 01 -.ps. SberUt—J P Ctork 8 ipen r'Ot««—Bvab O MuiiBei Tax Up .- r i vy -JCH :. r Tax K\,i act r-~W It (.' -nsev i’ji.UBTT If ;.:! 1 IV Si Spoil, ■ Caaiitf Cdgmuif .tri fo.i S; n*r--~j fftstt Motegy —tt i Superior Cvatt, Wayse corn.ty—M.’irtl f. peishORj Jnegv ; 8i< «n A\ lliteti :» ! ■<• < <► ••‘••Ol'- ’S- ,-hl-jl *>;, t M . in Mii.ct, sad itepkm BAXLKY, G EO KALI a AtPUsr, Cot stY Of.vh;k»: Ormrmry - -ihc: A. f'reshy flherht—*f. H f h t uuniy Cteifc—Vf. V.! TreasiKW—S. W *■»,*.*! e'riv Tax I J. I? > vs8 lax < ii£i €i)ni:tv Coujiiy t.ui-nr. —J Mi-.-ti C. i: a i < I • - a ri r s* — H. M c B ac hm, John O. Ha-rf. A. m. G Stewart. Jawt a Wa > sock, bliitia Carter Oifi - aunty W, - 8 on;r-;; Jti - -ra.-ifbyvft R*,J, c-e aft i , Mti C- <ira» Imn thy:. lUt lite-n? rz * B v I vt-.-rd srj, Ap y *mt t TR A J.)KKA HIU„ s - A txr4Si.voa tocftVr nysoo&s* rtritiiiaiv—itHatcbsr. HtieriS—Joknh"r .-. tlefck—J, W. it c: Co u rt Cale it dw, KchoU—8*:v.feti'! Mondays in. March etui gpjstensirer, Appling—-Third Monday in March aod Bsptemhsr. Fourth St ci-lfty Wayne— in March as i 'ii«p ember. Pierct <>—First Monday in Apn; mu 0 .- 1 - Nr Ware—8-swid M.itutey in April a a <h ioNr. Ajntinted Clinch-.....Tuteday O utter third .M a ay :.a - Coflee — Tovs-.'iay after tonrth Moail !» April Usaidfof and —-T»«s<tayafter C ir. se-comi Mncday in May Cbarhon—i; and Novt ru : t ! Mcad-jv in M»v **fl No wfisber. Glynn— Fea i Monday in M No vember. ~r:~ 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*. %% nt :io Fkk- 1 i Am ^ a arm be Mouse* wul 1 n i>{ lbt ptt>px 1 im pat ■H mtb* it & :-\; I.:' kkma.B la md Tr* it, ?. p, urmmtB >• re- 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» . '•* sccretoSto eecn.tory at * to h£ non, It aa mauvUiotbCTtote many another wife Sil Mttho^kS 1 ! rir!rllS 8 ^^’ ta “«'•««*« ^r. - value, them; and ftsstes m otherwise preserve# the rest we ..... ....... ...... - 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 ---------- 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. _____ 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. ' 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?