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JBSV P, GEORGIA
Jutwtto* autasi* ut a«H, i«4 Mmm mi Smat
*:«* SteJ K«4*.
1)« Jttaattao «' ta* l<*r*Ui>f psWIt U <lr««taJ*S
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ta Of*II* *»*r* isamlarto.,' > tr« he l*.-.
Mataii, Burdurt *•« rtaatiu.
win «»* n w .»♦ 4*. a »
“ '"*= 1,4 *vat u*fi*r t M Ktetrttata «*mn t « .*
ui ika pnjutowt, m faixm *r <»*•»<» vli tw*w>r«4
H mttt f.i *.' U {: 9 Vollt* * * i* *U,
•art aa« ,
*►»***,* i-« frsat ».••*, *s4 »*, <>■.
T. S. UTfilFiftB r •fir fitcr.
Bisnmrek.
Atiout thirty-five years ago, when the
*.h:man CUaiici-llor was only plain Otto
yon Bi.-unarck, a I’omeranuua Bqnire and
«nipe-isli<sAing inspector of dykes, he w<«.t out caie day
with a friend, on some
marshy land, into which his companion,
a bis Stout-, heavy man, suddenly sank np to
cate ana-pit.*, hims- lf, the _ Vainly at niggling to extri¬
help, and seeing Herr gentleman Bismarck shouted for
him slowly and cautiously,' approach
ently very appar¬
stiU looking, mt for the rising of
ivjme hi® to stray leave snipe, the confounded piteously appealed to
and [>nll turn of snipe alone
out the abomiuable
swamp into which lie bad sunk so deeply
that its s.tisie was almost ia his mouth.
with “My dear friend,” oalnuncis, r#plied Biemsrek,
the utmost “yon will c«
ta-iniy fo-riy never get out of tlisi hole. No
however, can po^-ihly save yon. It would,
should pain me very much that ym
flitter unnecessarily by slowly
tiffing in this vile ’ Til toll
h swamp. yon
what, inv dear fellow, I’ll nnve. you "the
ag.vv-y - suft\„-,v- o by putting a charge
of shot, into your head, 'Tho* wifi you
die fit once wore swiftly and morers
Bpectsibly.' “Arc. yon toad f* shrieked
t rv other, struggling desperately to free
him«@lf. ‘ f don’t want either to '*■
drowned or shot; so help *ne out, in foe
ftftSte of three <levik!’ f Detiberatoly
hwling head, ffosrr hia life:: fowliag-pisce ra-j-uned, at his ia friend's
„r«-k a sor¬
rowful tone; “K.oe p steady for a mo¬
motif it wifi *oors te over. Farewell,
dear friend' I will faithfully toff your
wife all ai-ntrt ii” Stimulated to super¬
human effort by the eminent jieril uu n
aciug him, the unlucky sportsman con¬
trived to wriggle out of the mud on alb
foxtm and. when- He had recovered hi*
feet, broke out in a storm ol vehement
reproach, Hbjt Bismarck listened to
him with a ssvrdoBW! smile m-ftrriy ohmrv.
tug: after sit? ’Can't F.v Ivcrv yon see for how bioawdf right I was,
back mm f* and,
totnipg .bis on bis infuriated eom
panioe, coolly walked away in search of
mom gam*,
"W hat & CtnuMr’i dtiry Is Conqwscd of,
Confederate Ihirter mom k> » unru
tion of privilege in the club. Bo was
with working m the eastern part of the eitv
a man who w&e totelly injured He
mw foe whole transaction 'and know all
tec particnliMs, j«i-y and ywt when tbe f k»&.
•W* teems® « W8K made op he waa rtLbted ignored
of im color. He felt
a»d adigBatit, «d he hopt-d foe ciab
would not overlook the insalt.
aettoaV llBrodder replied Barker, the- yon Fxeridettk didn’t lose
wa* compliment to "ft
a y«r ioteliigeix!# to
igsomycn. De average C^rmer'v jury
am hums otmpoBea and fol*. of two and loafers, day three old
a wonM have
mstsfoM aat you war de Me. Yon
aaven t got any ease, sab. «»’ ,1® mmir
towdi now te decided split
lurk Mtrcurp.
hr frauf SI V. l| 4
VOL. V.
VSt-MM AI» iom
*r OUTM WRSIVEM. BOSJO*.
]>r*r #E3l«ot *. hot>! tx>y» t J?»t ure Irnlf it m testa
Tha flmflu l«aaotm at Us* iter »o«I fiovsr,
3iw »rf *h«a» ttnag. stfhwj df ho* «» * steals Mweb—
A drnte* sh® m»r-»ai.» tWSUra *%»«sr S~
Twin gw-st, «ee air*»t, sa*.»tfc«r max
H. w tram th* Uti'-top wber« ».;r *y®s fo«f»44
IUn»* f n csii it* r«nk* Uie ^tumsf tilt tad tateawot «t aid malm
!on.it ooloaio*, ia d**j
Th* liT® TMltwao teiatv*. *hut it* atijirj Smh’B
beto rtttec th* si »*!• ■tnititj daft.
How, Tb-spr*wil»g wh«) the iiflitniili *piit the inijhty rock,
fur; „t tb« *fa*f! *»*
itiw ib* rmm *ctoB )aiu»i the alien ttoek,
A'tH wluta and Wiiej* ih* iun»«i««» tpunu w* wont
To jut tew winter of tbetr dJaoontenX
BN-sirt ibe gD^miup in ihw<t year* ;
N«s Lyeii rt‘«i the ieg«Ti*t of rh*
la ijor empty tames.
Prsniin« of ort* uxareeef earth ankoown,
H*r*0i.«i took* awfitifiMittet (5 h*»tea ward in,tb* «teill*b.t p*k;
best ttscasr.te!«»aw iwtbop hi Wed ulsae.
v.;
H« mortal J»e» »b«*e fvftter miveA
Wbvfofl* !h* ait* r**t«B* of o*tui5 ilrsm-T:
Is rail! tfoelr teagtaii *srain«l ’
To with eye* woskvrtas o»»
*«b jsro th* summii*
Tfc*t ;*.r teaeailt Hurt* cfeiWroo’* fiwi«tcp* lta
8»tin *< nxrfr 8r> t *»•!! waior** '** »• w«y,
UjTtrD. hG|kflfuJ, wiM, thi* bower 'ZXXir*’ of lb%j
GnnwA, prA vjs
J,: - IW,h * r * w * #i ^ mSmag
Chtid 6f our c'Ufolr rC* children yei unborn
When vi* Uiw >eU-.<v p»ge yon Min rwrlfw,
Where ft**? ttrw-fr-:i .?1 iM* Usj-dny mora
in iMrtifjiW end !*d,.d tatter* lie*.
Etc w T«jjiia, h«w g»i« am Smog ghost* wUl r.«-!
Yet in var reins the Mood ran warm nad red,
For u« lit* fields were green, the skive wtrs blue.
T%ijftfe Wb frota our toTid, dust tiiesjdrit 5oaglm*lJe.|,
we w* wiled, wc dreamed like
Btuitei it oar sires sad thought how moth '»«
too
Oh might.nor spirits for one hour return,
All Whea.ihe next emtiry ramtla ttx ftmidreth nag
«he strong., vrrete it shsll wacla to Mrn.
Its wiser rogwi t^k, its sweewr anosusis aang i
Dr. Jex’s Predicaraent,
It was the funniest tiling that lever
saw iu my life. Cruikshaiik would have
tilustrato gloried in it. I wish I had him here to
that scene with the spirited
vigor that only bis dancing peudl gives,
that ^ *?* pleasant ,£i Kentucky land of blue-grass, that it happened— an. to
bacoo, and fine stock, with white-teethed
frat J* “J ^ tr A hM f
1 ick tm Tlui m Gestone, and -hey bad begun .
ate in great contentment arid a liltle
hree-toomed house scaroely big enough ;
to hold the bridal presents. But they
were happy, hearty, healthy. They had
|
“y tl »«r cup was not full? In
Rto’,o i SSSTi’S be ? P * Urd0
*
;£/^ iat J Ii5s u!y Mi *T?'? # 1 U ’n hnr h0 young tmili hnsbgbd , bei r1 <
would never lie able to get oa without
him. He walked all the way from Mis
sforippi to Kentucky, with 'his things
tied up in a moal sack, and presented
hire self before Mabri, annemnemg affably
that he had come to “stay oa.”
“But I haven't any place for you,
Undo Britmuer,” said* Mabel, divided
between hospitality and embarrassment.
’T.jor' iioit. y, you kin jes'tuck mo
arouiT am/whttr. 1 don't take up no
room.”
Mattel looked thoughtfully upon the
_
ottran gray .whiskered old negro,
whose proportions were those of a Heron
?«> lom B g*I rhumb, shook Uncle hm&ead. Brimmer.” “You aro not a
“No, inaatn, said he, sobraismvely.
“but. I’ve got his spirit. Couldn’t I
Sloop in de kitchen, honey?” be went on,
with insinuating sweetness.
“N-h indeed,” cried onr young house
keeper; "I put my foot down on any
hoav sleeping in the kitchen.”
Arad Ifotsey, the cook, Stood by, foil
alie thought ~ Uncle asayrVs Bnmmcrs
hiTbeeu^av^ coming
TW iSK? hers many
IT^SSr&Sftsz
rii'r'v-rtfetM/D'w IJ L° a - n f )’ r,;ath Atmt Pfttsey,
ri.e had mneh delict tW^wtj
viewed with evident
errai"" «ta.
“Darsdelof, Mias Mabel, she »ug
gestett
“ft w too small, and is cluttered up
with tilings already.”
“Oh, alto, chile, dar ain’t nothin’ in
dnt lor ’cep de Tatters, an* de peppers,
an* de dried apples, an’ some strings o’
terbackf, some odds an ftn 1 ‘ ends (h o'de broken chillmi’s, plow, an’ an’
Lucy Cnttenden’s pups. Dor’, dar ain’t
setter “Ho tor speak of in do lof."
can t got m at the window,” said
Mated, shifting her ground.
“(Demme try,” said U rale Brimmer,
toe kitchen was % small log-cabin
some distance from the house—“m good
hoUenn Mid, to quote Aunt Pataey.
Above xt was a low room, or loft,
crowded with the m®*f.kaneo®$ articl-as
omunenrted. Tin* ordy way t.f getting
into « was from ti.e out; tic. A tell*:
against the side of the caliia admitted
one, I through than a little window, an longer,
am 8i«e, that of a railway conch,
tlusstorehouse >>f "
into Pal, t.reufmreK, Nanky
who wwi as slim as a snake, was
^anally tb« selected imall to Mob and carry
aperture. But Uncle
t m pra-dy «ho v rt I km do i it,- u >■ i he said,
p ft Tilntln " n P ««« eye, a* he took off his
c,> at^and[prepared W f ****** the to d-»rway try. to be
eao
tlw «\ ! y wat tip the ladder; and after an
z?‘'ibma *'■ nioment Wfodow, ha and n ashed biio.-eH
tra nmphantiy, turning, smiled
This milled the matter. A cot ted
Xm procured.for Uncle Brimmer, and
5l « «oon became tho inair.stKV of the
.fotraly. >ik CfetorfuUy inditferentiy avoiding all the
eating w< possible; all bo canid find as au ostrich
iu cupboard* or
highway*; gaj’ly grimly playing hobgoblin for
mooniight *«®y- nights—memory tw»igin.g hie recalfe banjo on
wuiie/ the
with a Uacie Brimmer! I can
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 2 , 1881 .
close my eye* now and recall him, big,
■hapless, mdislinct ia the awai-darknes#, sing’
aa be sat under the malberty-tree,
srng,
‘•WtaSsI « .i» i» Tonne****,
A-asHSs' in a,y eiioor,
»■ wfstte:? for o*y*»d'o, deurt*
a' *rtu* »roua my
This vraji hi* f»write, Who shall
doubt that it expressed to Lira ail the
poetry, After romance, time passkwi, of life?
a uncle Brimmer fell ill,
and we sent for a doctor.
Dr, Truffles Jex w m the medical amts
of our couuty. Hel ived in Msddlelntm,
seven miles away, m3 he mane trotting
ov??r saddle-bags an & hanging hfry hoT#e, with a pair of.
like Gilpin’, bob
tie*, one on either side. He looked tun
dimimitive as a monkey perched on the
i tall horse a back, and indeed he wa* “a
wee bit pawkv bodv.“ as was Said at
‘
>
ho had found the place to siwnd on, and
could move the world with his little
lever. A red handkerchief carefully
pinned screws his chest showed that he
had lungs and a mother. His boots
wer« polished to the last degree. Hi*
> pm oil l til; md RIICI , b «« 111* dleaB YOIO&—all! . '«e betrayed hlS VOIOe! his
What a treasure it would have V,.;>cn
-'C-.i-i he have let if oat. to mmmemder*'.
Whethor it was just changing from that
reading of youth to that of man. or whether. Lie
and writing, it “cams by »a
| tnre,’’ I can’t tell One iastaut it was
deep au<l bass, the next, s?qaeakinff and
sopmno. No even tenor about that
voice!
Hi hold out Ids hand, with. “Oood
morning, ba!»y Mrs. ffueklestone. I hope the
has not bawl an attack?’
I popped ir.to the dining-room to gig*
gi», but little well-bred Mttbfo did not
<>i ,,n urnit*
' ' ’ft no, fine cried; “itw LncluBnm
mor. ”
gTZ teT^d '"the nf uTto
this moment I warrant it had not struck
her aa anything rmt of Um way that site
must invite Dr, Jax to climb a ladder
and crawl through a window to get at
his patient But as she looke.1 at him,
speckleas, spotless, gloved, scented,
curled, then at the ladder leaning against
th „ waI1 ia a diareputable, j racket* sort
oi wy , g , cene t UjCO ngrmty seemed
te«n* m o„ her sonk To add to her
, a . ;< j m y hilarity, we »u,w that
Uncle Brimmer had hung out of the
window some mvaterioiw under-rigging ragged,
that he wore. Long, red, and S
it “flnunted in tha breeze” aa
“ tbe ^
•• t am afr;U <l f doctor, it will be a littla
awkward,” faltered Mabel; “UncleBrim
Kf “AW -»«-*.• “•> »„«,
p lt in jfauky ?«**» Bare Pul, with to dime disreq^tful de fodder, '
J , a 1
"
; h.iuklo
I thought the little doctor gasped: but
ho recovered himself gaifonflv, and
said
think *■« As I a boy I have climbed tree#, and
can ascend a ladder aa a man;”
and ho smiled heroic all v.
Wo watched bin H*» was encum¬
bered bv the saddle- bags., but he
aged very well, and had nearly reached
fop. ^Iren suddenly Uncle Brim
mer’s head and shoulder* protruded,
giving of its shell. him tho look ef a snail half out
“Here's my pulse, doctor, 1 * he cried
blandly, “I'aiii't extending his bared arm.
here’s no place for then you np hero Aji
my tongue. ” out went his
tongue for Dr. Jex's inspection
The doctor settled himself on a rung of
the ladder, Professional quite willing to be met half
way. when inquiries liegan 5
“A deep mmd attuck like a rising kwO."
^sissfSNSijr^ •£SiE?* r •**»* *"*'■
Again ’
« t T””'” SI •
lt A . r4
j n rushed the splendid angry beast, twi¬
SlSgS pawing the gramntt sts airing bis
“ “ ^ dwil were
lord gSTfii.. Bull caught sight » of r tie , , Ti finttonng m,
red rags, aud' charged the side of the
house. And I give von my word, the
next instant the ladder was knocked
from under the doctor’s feet, and he was
clinging Uncle frantically round tha neck of
Brimmer.
Tearful moment,
“Ptill him in, Undo Brimmer—pull
turn in,” shrieked Mated, dancing about,
“I can’t, honey—I can’t,” gwped ths
choking giant; ‘Tin stuck.”
“Hold me np," cried foe doctor
“Send for help.
Uncle Brimmer seized him by the am*
pits. The saddle-bags went clattering
down, and about the head of Master
Bull a cloud of quinine, calomel. Dover’s
and divers other powders and pills, broke
in blinding confusion,
“Ann* Pnisey. go for Mr. Hucklestor.e
at once,” called Mabel.
Auot Patscy looked cautiously out
from the kitchen door, “Ter don’t ketch
rac iu do yard wkl ok Simmer*'’ butt,”
she said with charming independence,
“Then I shall send Nanky Pal."
“If Xanky B»1 goes oaten dat house
111 break every bone in her body.”
Taeu Mabel began to hog: “Aunt Pat
sey, let her go, pleas*. I’ll give you a
w«ole . bagful «jf quilt . pieces, . and
ruby polomuse that begged my
for yesterday.”, rep you ms
Aunt I atsey s head came cut a little
further “Au’ what else?”
And a ruffled ptflow-sham, aaid Ma
be!, almost ia tears, “and some white
sugar, and I U make you a hat—aud
mat s ail ybw f'
l reckon data about as much a* the
chile is wuth, said the philosophic
mother, “Let her bo."
“Pm//’ric^sd^^id _ , „ iT . , Lmfiftii, Vankv ,« ?
ain't amt Art dat soil Mammy am t nuther.
i She »m jes’ waitin’ ter see how much
j you’d Nanky'* give ’’
bare fogs scudded quickly
aemw of htr. the yard. The bull took no notice
tie w still stamping and beflow
a undortliat window. Uncle Brimmer
------the doctor clung together, and only
I a kick now and then testified to tiw htiU
maa’-s agony
“Suppose Uncle Brimmer ahonld let
aro ?" 1 suggested ia a hollow whisper.
“Oil, bn*n,” cried Mabel. “The doc¬
tor* blood would be on ostr heads.'"
“Or the hull's horns,"
It wa* not '.at to ‘h^ tobacco field and
in au iucrediblv short time brother John
came rldiug in followed by half a dozen
stout negroes With wm« delightful idea
play that g ave one quite an of a
Spanish and bull fight, little bis doctor lordship was assisted eap
fared, our was
to tha house.
Gone was tha glory of Dr. TratUe*
lex. His coat wm torn, his knees grimy,
his bands scratched, and ho looked—yee
—m if he bail been, crying.
“Can you ever forgive us?” said Mabel,
piteously. She hovered about him like a
little mother. She made him drink two
glasses asked him of wise; would she mended bis •oat; she
if ho not like to kumthe
baby. the And finally a wan smile shone in
enasiteasnce of Dr. Jax, For me, I
felt ray face purpling, and leaving him
to Mabel, I fled with brother John to the
smoke-house, where we—roared.
Uncle Brimmer got well and went in
to hoc the doctor. He returned with a
new cravat, a cane, end several smart ar¬
ticles of attire, from which wc inferred
that to those trying moments when he
supported tle the suspended doctor, that lit¬
gentleman had offered many induce
me.fite for him to hold fast. When ques¬
tioned he responded chiefly with a cav¬
ernous and mysterious amile, only *ay
Rig
Master Dr. ,Tex is a gentleman;
starch in or starch out, he’s do gentle¬
man And straight”
brother John, who is somewhat
acquainted with slang, said, with a great
chance laugh, “Well, old man, you hail a bully
•^■Harper'* to judge, so you must be right.
Ifee kty.
A Disturbed Prayer,
Tlie Rev, Mr. 'Wiugtop received a
visit from the Widow Pec kies and her
four ehOdmi, “I have come to stay a
month. Brother W’ingtop, and yon may
consider it h compliment, for I never did
like Little flock. You aild uiy husband
were such fast friends that I*ean never
forget Brother you. Were you not fast friends,
‘'Madame, Wiugtop ■
firm myself and your hnstmad
were friend*, but we were not fast,
A minister and his deacon should not tie
fast,” Mr, Wiugtop had hoped that hi*
remark would have a tendency to shorten
the widow’s visit into a day, but alien
she replied that lie was a dear, sly, good
man, the reverend gentlemen realized
that darkness brooded where the bright
light of hope had burned.
At night, when the family had been
summoned into the sitting-room to hear
a long prayer from the minister, Wie
widow managed to “s-pia-h’' three of the
children. The other one, ft boy, ran
into the dining-room, “Let him alone,”
said the minister, “in good time Use
Lord will eaten him,” but the same time
he though? that if the Lord ever did
catch the boy extraordinary time would
have to be made,
"Let us pray,” said the monster,
glancing widow slyly around huddled to see if the
bad securely her chil¬
dren.
“Onr Father,” he began, “we thank
Thee for Thy—”
“Mai oh, Baal George is taking off ths
also. 1
“Thank Thee for the great privilege
of sacred communion. But for tha—”
"Ms, make him quit. He’s trying to
put his sock under my nose.”
“I ain’t, mi."
“Bot for Thy love we would ere this
have teen cut down ns cucumbers of the
ground We see areuad m —"
Just here foe boy that had escaped to
the dining-room watered with n stick of
stove-wood and an old boot. Advancing,
he struck at one of his brothers wifo tjie
boot, bat anfcwtuuatoiy hit foe min¬
ister.
“Madam,” said the reverend gentle¬
man, of rising, “throw those the' young boasts
out the room, out of bouse, and
in fact, out of the yard. Daniel was
cast info foe Hems’ den, where be enjoyed
himself, but if hewers panned up hirrap- with
these rlrinoceroscH tie would lose
ut&iion in ten minutes.
Ufo In Germany.
With an outlay which seems miserably
small to th» American, Germans con
trive to lead a merry life. Fine music
and dram* at cheap piiDee, the love of
out-door lift* and the multitude of boli
days which allow him to gratitir it, a
passionate fondness for singing, an
abundance of beer, cheap wines sunl ci
gars, will atone, in the German mind,
for a
are cheaper or more ahtmdast. Tea
thousand oew titles or*' printed every
year. In Prussia, compalsorv education
wot«» a good average culture. Thu
new empire is fax ahead of ns, not
only in foe organization oi its army,
but in the organization of its cml ser
vice and foe conditions of tenure of of
fie*. Its schools are in many respects
superior kindergartens toonxs. We have borrowed its
advantage and features might borrow with
some of its university
life. We have adopted its postal-ewrde.
The money-order system i* very con
veniont, the money being brought to
your door. And do we not owe uu im
mouse debt to German learning ? .As to
music and art, w* must stand with our
hate off. With all its sauerkraut, sausage
and bear, there ia a charm abori
German hrvia.v 1 ifo that cannot b<j ig
noted. Them is a sweetness of affee
riouin foe temt.y circle, a fidelity to
friends, a stability of character aud a i
j obstinate homely ingenuousness prejudice which the most l
It is frank and innocent can hardly life, resist,
a always
j open to inspection.
j ------
i Wmr, haymalSlffit sTinltoh* twn 'well-iUn mrmt tnennKi.
i is a f«t
that wuld oate are beat sown by 7 moon
^
SOUTHERN NEWS,
The paid capital «f Charlotte, N. C.,
banks is 8825,000.
The contract for building jetties at
Fernaridiaa Fla., has b -n rcawarded.
In Moitresville, N, C., out of 710 cases
of measles, there lias been one death.
Au attempt is to be made in North
Carolina to create the office of Railroad
Commissioner*.
Eight thousand logs broke loose in the
Lower Pearl river and floated out into
the Gulf of Mexico.
Subscriptions to start a glass factory
at Mum Point, on the Mississippi coast,
amount to $18,500,
One thousand immigrants are expected
to arrive shortly in Southeast Missouri
and North Arkansas.
Four large ratth?«aakes, killed recently
in Gnvone’ county, Ala., had fifteen,
fourteen, twelve and ten rattles.
Last year was the most bountiful
known in Texas since the war. The cot¬
ton alone amounted to 1,20ft,0W bales,
A pe«wn writing to a Mississippi paper
thinks that cotton seed is better for fer¬
tilizing purposes than cotton seed meal.
A company is to lut Chartered to devel¬
op the granite <juarri«« near Petersburg.
Va
An alleged petrified baby, said to have
been unearthed near Eureka Springs, has
'bee® sold at Russellville, Ark., for
$4,000.
It is suggested in West Virginia that
the State shall appropriate $10,000 to
send au agent to the North ol Europe to
induce toe immigration of families of
Swedes and Danes,
The estimates of the expense*Af the
State government of Texas for the year
ending February 28, 1885, aggregate
$1,857,013
St. Stephen’s, in Savannah, is the 'only
colored Episcopal church in Georgia.
The twenty-fifth anniversary ha* recent
ly been celebrated
The loss to the bnaums sugar inter
cats by the cold and wet weather is now
carefully estimated at 85,030 hogsheads
or about ten per cent, of the expected
crop.
Mr. Cape told the Hagar-planters’ A#
sociation at New Orleans that in hi#
opinion Hotlnng could equal a negro as a
laborer on a sugar plantation when he is
properly paid and handled.
The Swiss colony ia North Carolina is
Mid .»■. , t0 , hare discovered ,. ...... that the muloer
ry tree grows with as nmdi luxuriance as
th-M-hprrv. and that the soil and climate
•New-** «* -a.
The capacity of the Charlotte, N.
.-»tton mills is five bales amndtcJ of cotton rer
day a»>, there then U-i te .ng w ten! 5,800 spiadtea. W: Ike
umt hmerj u all an one floor. The waifs
arc very thick and the floor is triple,
thus neutralizing toe effects of the iar
rine of the heavv ‘ .nne!i!n*rv ‘ *.
-
The Birmingham Iron Age rerxwte 1 a
con tract with parties ,• from - Chicago . for ,
tea* of com lobe delivered on toe
Use of the New Orleans and Jackson
n>a j_
New OrUam^wfos: Mr. Duncan F.
Kenner is the first planter to take toe
wi#e precaution to lav trarawav* from
his cane-fields to his sugar-houie ' Ills
example ____ should , ... be . followed. ... ,
The soil and dimate of South Florida '
said , to , i> very ravorable , , to the cul
..
ti ration of sugar cane. The yield is
sometimes a« much m 4,000 poa.nds to
the acre
More than $15,000 bas teen raised for
the endow raent of the tfolumbia, !*. C.
*
ThetihimVil ’ * "-Vi* r. ,v * ‘l
’ '
seminary . new . has ?i 10,000 r/iA . invested .
m
funds, and that the outlook i« very in
couraging. 6
... '-iv«r duo „ pupils , . attendance
are now in
at the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege of Misshtrippi. This is the limit \ of
j " ' 1 ’ * nd n reiu
“ w accordingly anneunecd that no more
pupils will be received.
''*• IT* ^ mx e**™ W’ from tv>0 to $/6 ™ Abta,
•’ y mm® 1
few receiving as much aottoO, Hu! { w
«»«tract* have been made, » maioritv f
prt.trisg interest in iha tie crop or rental.
TheMoatgtoaerc ' (Ala.) Advertiser re
,. ’teparmre , of . conquerable .,
I X(r,v a
number of carpenters for Densscoia, Fla.,
where they expect to find work in there
kaildimr 0U ” k of the burnt ourntaistnct. diatrict
The failure of Welsh A Bacon at Al.l
h , 0a j* said to be twrham 5 1 th ’ *!««, ,arg ' j
f wt single tsuiure that section haa ever
known. The gross amount of assets is j
reported by Col. Nelson Tift, the 1
„ , he *40* **•*,**■ *6*17 17 and and foe the liafob-1 It.vm '■
■
tics ?4 Hi.zfo ./!,*. i
phe oldest living student of the Uni- i
'f" tjr ° f Snrth >ort V L ™ n * u u, ^ flon t, -|
Mark Alexander, , of Mecklenburg
county, Va., who matriculated in 1808,,
aw g ig now in hi* eighty-ninth rear o I
’
»» • ? th Mi
? M 1 ''““P*
OD *’ of *’’* *-..agress of 1«19, and the -
^7 Virginia *»tvivor convention©! bat one 1*20-80, of foe celebrated of which
President Madison, Prerideat Montoc and i
“>••>? b” said I>ad<ly Wotherapoon,
after a short pause. That’s the win
ter we used to give the homes melted
hail to drink, and keep a hot tiro under
Via so it wouldn't harden till they got it
down. But that was noUiin’ to the spell
of 1817. We begun to feel it ia the tat
ter part of August, and she boomed
stiday through rill the tho whole flflth of June. living I in‘an got
Kse-house. It speH by
was too cold to go out
house. doors, and I jut camped in an ice
You remember that season of
1817. That’* tho winter we wore nn
SSS? "* “ rf ' w, ' r to ^ “ p *
“Weil, t ahonld my I did/* retorted
Ff>i>h» Hammy. “ \Yhat ’ rumember
F817 ? Deed I d°. That was tho spell
when it _ took a steam grindstone four
da-.« to light a match. Av, *v 1 Bot
that, winter V *** an^^rmhly warm
“How so?” demanded Daddy Wotb
empoon, Biuuiia* breathing around hard,
“ yoar iee-houae to
find out where you got in. It wan an
awtol spell, though. How long did it
l«d? From August till the GOfeh of
Ignern of you’re right. But ym
mind the snap 1818, don’t you? It
oommenoed on the 1st of July, and went
around and lapped over a week. That
S^ar tha smoke fro»> in the ehimnevs
imii we h** 1 *° <*ri with dyna
^ j think that was Ae worst wo
ever had. All the docks frose up so wo
dido ’ t inow the tim<5 for * y«M, and
when men used to set fire to their build
in’s so’s to rmse the rant. Yes, indeed,
£ got *0,000 a mouth for four burnm*
buildin’s. There was a heap at sufferin’
thftt "“H betJtuwe wo lived on aloo
hoi and phosphorus, 4t till the alcohol
!w,«ii to ve tin btotoy
ends of matches and jumped around tiU
thev caught fire Say. you-”
^S£SjS^T But p«l<ly Wottiempoon hud fled I :
~
no. n.
Chief Justice Marshal were membars.
The euiporter of the Maury county,
Tuun., Bible Society distributed to fam*
Bins in that county destitute of the
Word o f God six hundred Bibles and
Testaments (during the past year, u
probably the time). The Maury county
Bible Society is the oldest in the State,
having been organized in 1818.
The second ammaj report of the At
!«nta Board of HeaHh states that the
total, number of deaths was 679, an an.
uual death rate of seventeen and eight
tenths for each thousand inhabitants. Of
the whole number, 288 were white and
391 colored. The death rate for the
whites is thirteen to each thousand, and
for the colored people twenty-three and
eight-tenths.
The following excellent suggestion is
made of Gov. Jarvis, of North Catolina
“No court requiring a jury or witnesses
either civil, criminal, inferior or swp-rior,
should be held in the month of June.
Our people are eminently an agricultural
people, and to take a large number of
laborer* nut of the field* for a week, as
is now done in many of the counties in
the busy month of June, is a serious in¬
jury to the farmers of that coufitv,”
Rev. J. II. Campbell, of Columbus
Ga., one of the most active philanthrop
i-sts In the State, writea to the Columbus
Tin** that in all his fifty year,' expe*
rh rice among the poor, ho never 1 a« had
an application for charity from art Is
....... is*—— ..-hi.,—,
lor the poor, but sever ask charity for
themselves Luring the rwflt cold
term, when white and colored people of
•» ...................■«»»,.», .or
wood, he specially notes the standing of
the Jews, to whom he says the facte arc
highly creditable
The New Orleans Picayune reprint
the following advertisement* from the
l-ouiriana Gazette, printed in Now Or
leans, and dated February 17, 1823:
“Passengers for Madisonville—An el©»
gant sleigh and four will leave Basin
tin- ■ k for
MadimnviUe, by way of the Ckuutl and
I-tTce I'ontchsrtrain. It will be provided
with buffalo robes and other, aceoromoda
lion * f, ‘ r p -% ht passengers. Apply to tho,
driver, on l*,..anl, or at Ltbriskin's stahk.
Pasvafe five dollar* Hk«tc*—A few
pairs of Holland*made skates for sale
at Ill Custom hffnse street ready
strapped,”
Cold Hoaps.
‘Mere havin’ some pretty wintru® . |
weather,” L’ncle said old Daddy Wotberspoon
to Sammy Honuiwell, as the two
Evtittemen met near the City Halt,
Sammy. l8ai 44 Reminds me of the fall of
- It comnnmced flong the fore part
^ «»*! Irosto stiff tiU March.
that Good,_ it amiirt wentter, ©old. too. in Brooklyn I remember that
was so i
November that Idlin' water froze over a :
hl) | I
and Daddy braced «. Wothernpooxi , looked at him .
himself. “ Yes, yes,” said, j
H “X-mind it well, Tliat’athe fall tlm |
took froze in the cows. Bat the cold
RMl8 on was fo 1827. It eomnumeed in
the middle of October aud ran tlirongh ;
f " April. didn’t All the oil froze in the lamps, 1 j
and we have a light until spring
“'“Ay. growing ay,” rasponded Uncle Sammy,
rigid. I 44 It’s just like yesterday
t4J mft - walked 140 miles due east
( wiek, ,0! “ SvD owing ^ [ to the m mm the verity iee, wd of slid the
earth, you know. It was down hill !
cold eonito* foe this winter way. of But 1821. that That wasn’t as j
as season ;
oommenoed in September^ and the mur
ctary didn't rise a degree tail May. Don’t
i vu tomemlser now w'ft tsted to breathe
hard, let it fooeze, cut a hole in it,
aud crawl in for shelter ? You haven’t
that?”
BITS OF IffFORMATION.
I'jtit fiddle is spoken of « eajrW as
1200 A T)., ia tho legendary Ufo of fit.
Christopher,
€ham<>i« skin* are not derived from
tlse chamois, as many people suppose,
hut are tho flesh side of sheepskins.
The skins are soaked ia lime-water, and
in a solution of saiphtints ; fish oil
is poured over them, sad they am c&ta*
folly washed in » solution of potosh.
Is 1789, when the Federal Govern*
mein was received organized, head* of depart-
nu-Kta $3,500 per annum salary.
The principal BeCretwrioe who formed
State, Washkgton’a first Cabinet were; Of
’Thomas JoBt-rson ; of the Treas¬
ury, Alexander Summon ; of War, Geo.
doiph. Kjk>x ; Attorney General, .Kdtnond iiaa
Tits heaviest loss inflicted npon the
American arms in any battle of foe Rev
oiatioftory Long Island war was «,t the battle t.-f
and priaonors. —2,000 ia killed, wotmded
Bat 10,6? 0 Americans
were engaged, >«i Batik* l the 5 we was iMxmftoa, only M
per sent. At the of H
> t, 700 patriots engaged 1,200 British
ti‘o*.ps, and 3tl4 were killed or wounded
—nearly House, 50 per cent. At Guilford Court
Gen. Greene lost 1,200 out of
4,400—a lose of 110 percent,
Ysj.now bananas come from Jamaica
and Aspinwall, and the red bananas from
C iba, The yellow b&muuis * t 11 the best
btmnae they grow more to the bunch.
A bunch of yellow hananas *v« rages
•bout ten dozen, and sometimes they
average the ted bananas as high a» seldom twelve dozen, while
dozen. run over Ova
The bunches are sold at about
the same price, so t he retailers eaa r.lT-rd
to still the yellow ones for less and still
make a better profit than thnv ran on
the rod ones. The flavor of the banana
depends is raised. greatly on the soil in which it
Tub English guinea was so called be¬
cause tho gold of which it was first made
was trading brought from Guinea fey an African
tended that company. the gains* Originally should it wm in¬
be worth
20 shillings, but, owing to a masher of
errors in cukulafeug the proportion of
the value of gold and silver, it never
circulated at that value, fc;r lease New¬
ton fixed the true value of the guinea,
in relation to silver, at 20 shiuuigs 8
P«iw, and, by his advice, tho crows
proclaimed that in future it should ha
curren t at 21 shillings.
The hanging garden* of Babylon eon
sisted of art urtitefe) momtmn "400 fmi}
OB eaeh *i<Kri*«tt by raooawive ter*
ss selves iarsne fumed
were of a sacemiun of
piers, ths tops of which were covered by
sixteen tost long and four
* a^jarir.ssjs^ bitumen covered with thick sheets
of
lead. Upon this solid pavement earth
low, wm heaped, some of the piers being hol¬
so iw to afford depth for tic
f tb f. th^p^eaoSto Wator the“yftte'ara ws* <Wa
whteh
poarance of a mountain covered in verd
nr ®
The day opon which any historical
'l. folhX
iug and rule divide ; Subtract 1 from tl.«- date
the remainder by 400. 2.
Point off the centuries from the result¬
ing remainder and divide the odd years 'quo¬
by tient 4. by 3. Multiply the rranlting
5 and to the product add tho re¬
mainder. 4, From the sura iwibiract twice
the nuaibtr of centuries poiatetl off and
divide the remainder by 7. 5. Add the
resulting remainder to tho day of the
year upon which the event happened
and diride the sum- by 7. 6. To tha task
resulting remainder add 1 Then will
the sum be the number of the day ,f the
week required- When the first quotient
& two or when it is 1 Mid the centartea
pointed off 3, unless there be a ram wa¬
fler, to avoid negative reunite, add 27 to
the date instead of subtracting 1 from it*
*r
“Something Good in the Fellow.' 4
An eminent public man who shall bo
luuucless—a man of gra nt intefownud
power, of real.Koodnees broken of hesart at bob
tom, but wtoly and demoralised
h 7 11 fong-oontinued eourao of wrong
living and much wrong-doing—was
ooce told by a boon, cotnpanioa bow a
<«rtain other public num had been abtta
iug him.
“Nevermind,” said onr eminent
friend, whoso soul was really above the
level of petty scandal and . malice, “ The
ftdtow is only a dirty blackguard, and
I care not to know what h« say a ol
me
“ But, my dear air, if lie is allowed to
go on iu toot way ho will ruin your char*
actor ; he will desteoy your credit; uad,
porhaijs, mjttre your prospoato i* the
future.”
there “Tut, is tot? My character—what
of it—is too tough for such a
man to injure it; as'for iuv credit is a phaa
tom. at lw«t; and ray ptoapecte
in ton future, I doubt if h« mtn mates
them more dubious than they now are,”
little 44 Well,” permuted hew do the friend, after a
pause, “ with' you like toe idea
of his making free too name of yottr
wife?”
The matt was aroused on the instant,
“ He ! Does he dare?”
“ Y*-s He deoleroH that your wife is
filtogetlier What too good be far yon.
“ ? Does my that ?"
44 Well, Yes, be has said it repeatedly,”
44 well—there’s someikiag good
in the follow after all. Bit*** him f<»r the
truth he tolls—for, my (tour fellow, that
is true—«e true as gospel. ”
The great mnn sat for many minutes,
with bis bead bowed down upon bis
band, and when he next looked up, bis
face bad grown won (irons jy soft and pa¬
thetic.
44 Yea—he told the truth ? I think I’ll
go home and have a chat with that
woman. Who know but that she may
help tlii me -Zounds Bless 1 I fuses! have not
minding night of her, t Yes, sir the I He told for tho re¬
mo
troth there 1”
Aral the worker tor the nation—tho
politician, find the work being and wotsry—cot. of earth forth to;
one in whom,
when all else should have failed him, ho
felt lie could trust.
Mamma,” Raid a little- chap, as Ids
in.dnlge.at pmapkm parent gate Mia » oeeanfl
piece of pic. “ msmmii, I game
this i» locomotive pie. ” “ Why so ? ”
queried his puzzled fait! parent “'Owise,
mamma, it gone so ” And in two
ariauteft he passed his plate for a third
piece.
A not* from her father’s counsel, of¬
fering charge, to conduct ter divorce unit five of
was ara-uig the prestmte i t ceived
by a Fnilodeipbia biide.
ft hi oot «riy -_ «*»»»*, butttto ptofll* _ -
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