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THE SUNNY SOUTH,
A REAL HAII CAP.
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GEORGI A ITEMS.
beheld her teacher, Mies Maun, standing in
the doorway.
‘•Sue!” she called again, “come here, this
instant.”
Assuming a halting, shambling gait, Sue
slowly approached.
“Wbat ever have you been doing to that
young man V said the woman from the door
way; “answer me that ! Don’t tell a story,
for it’ll do no good. 1 saw you, Miss; you
kicked him. Don’t deny it! Who ever beard
the like I You wretch ! the idea of kicking,
of kicking a grown young mar. Shame on
you ! Vi hat have you got to say for your
self V
This formidable speech, accompanied by
various dark looks and stamps of the foot,
ar.d sundry significant gestures of the hand,
which led one to believe a switch was in am
bush behind the door, was enough to frighten
any child, But Sue was not the least intimi
dated. She had passed through such straits
before.
“Miss Mann,” she began stoutly,
wouldn’t have done it, not for the world, but
he call ”
“Don’t you presume to answer me!” inter
rupted Miss Mann, with a severe look and a
vigorous stamp of the foot. “Look at her—
the wicked child 1 Kick a young man ? Ugh!
Kick a—impossible. Wbat do you mean by
such conduct ? Look at her; look atthechild,
I say.”
Having thus delivered herself, Miss Mann
clasped her hands and looked about her in
apparent helplessness. Whether she had
been addressing herself to the china berry
tree close by, or to the chattering mocking
bird upon the fence, or to the door knob she
held in her hand, Sue was unable to decide.
But as all these looked as innocent after the
outburst as before, and feeling sure that she
had heard Miss Mann call upon some one to
look at her, she concluded that the words
must have been addressed to some invisible
personage or deity ever present with formid
able ladies like Miss Mann. Be this as it
may, she quickly dismissed the impression
from her mind; for, seeing her teacher thus
lapse into silence, she considered it a good
opportunity to put in a word in her own de
fence, and accordingly did so.
“Ob, Miss Mann,” she began again, “he
called me a bad egg, and what is a bad egg
but a rotten egg, and 1 didn’t like that. 1—
a—”
“Shut up!” vociferously interrupted Miss
Mann again. “I won’t bear another word.
1 have indulged you too much already.
Come in here this instant!'’ With that, she
pulled Sue in o the sch( ol room.
Miss Mann led Sue to a small room adjoin
ing the primary department and locked her
in.
“You don’t get any dinner to-day, my
young miss,” she said at parting. “You
shall remain here and rt fleet upon your sins,
instead.”
Sue was not likely to “reflect upon her
sins” under any circumstances, and you may
be Sure she did not f pend much time at tbat
occupation now. Long before Miss Mann
was out of hearing she bad rushed about the
room, tried to raise all the windows, kicked
furiously at the door, and screamed at the
top of her voice. This was reflecting upon
her sins with a vengeance. Yet Miss Mann
thought she had done her whole duty.
(TO BE CONTINUED )
GOLDEN GRAIN'S.
There are only three ways of getting out
of a scrape—write out, back out, but the best
way is to keep out.
Our chief want in life is somebody who
phftjl majie qg do wbat we can. This is a ser-
vipe of ft friend;
Glory Is well enough for a rich man, but
it is very little consequence to a poor man
with a large family.
Circumstances afe the rulers of the weak;
they are but the instruments of the wise.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less
wise than each of them appear.
To dread no eye and suspect no tongue is
the great prerogative of innocence.
Shallow men believe in luck; strong men
believe in cause and effect.
We may wait
All unknowing, unheeding, capacity great,
To eDjoy or to suffer; dead levels of life
May reach onward before us; the wearying
strife
Of the days may go on without increase or
rest;
We may seem of but commonplace being pos-
The Monroe Female College will evidently
be rebuilt at an early day. The Advertiser
says the committee soliciting contributions
lack only $250 of having enough to secure $1 ,-
00c promised by an unknown friend when
13 000 have been raised.
The solids met in Atlanta yesterday, when
Augusta and Baltimore were received at the
Exposition. Much of the elegance and
wealth of the Solid South concentres in the
Monumental and the Fountain Cities.
A Harris county negro yesterday closed
up the record by drinking a quart of straight
whisky at a swallow. His widow might con
sole herself tbat his taking-eff is quicker and
cleaner than from a continued career of dissi
pation. If a man takes to drink, the Harris
county plan is not without its excellencies.
It is cheap and heroic.
Mr. J. Scott, of West Point, was found
dead in his bed at that place on Thursday
morning last.
Georgia jails are becoming cremation dens.
The burning of the Rockdale calaboose, with
a frantic inmate some years since, was fol
lowed yesterday by the destruction of the
jail in McDonough. Unless country jails are
oetter watched and better protected from
fire, prisoners may as well provide themselves
with rope ladders and Babcock extinguishers;
procure a speedy writ of habeas corpus—or
else, leave hope behind.
According to the Greensboro Herald, there
has been a decided emigration of white peo
ple from Greene county during the past
week. On Tuesday last about seventy-five
persons boarded the train at that point for
Arkansas.
At Dablonega, Georgia, John Bell shot and
instantly killed John Blackstock. They were
both young men. Blackstock was trying to
prevent & quarrel between Bell and another
man and offended Bell. t
A dispatch from Thomasville, Ga., to the
Morning News, says: “The wife and three
year-ola daughter of Mr. Clews were mur
dered on Thanksgiving Day by being knock
ed in the head. Mr. Clews, a highly respect
able and well to do farmer, was absent from
borne at the time. The house was robbed.
No clue has been developed.”
Another special says on Monday Robert
Maxwell, a prominent farmer living near
Cairo, Ga., killed Adam Zeigler, a negro, for
attempting to outrage his little daughter.
GENERAL NEWS.
North Carolina has 112 species of wood and
186 of mineral.
Tne Mpthodist Conference of Texas met at
Houston November 28.
With its commonplace ends to be met; but in
time
To some great height of gladness we sudden
may climb,
Or go down to some valley of grief, where
the dark
Never knows a sun’s rising or song of a lark
Singing straight into heaven, or amid all the
din
Of the every-day battle some peace may
begin,
Like the silence of God in its regal content,
Till we learn what the lesson of yesterday
meant. —Geraldine.
Beware what you say of others, because
you only reveal yourself thereby. A man
doesn’t think to look behind the door unless
he has some time stood there himself.
Do not follow the common course of the
world. The drift of the world is v rong. The
broad and thronged way is the wrong way.
The fact tbat “they do it,” is never in itself
sufficient reason for you to do it. If you
cannot be singular you cannot be saved. The
ancient saints were singular persons, and
some of them stood alone against the world.
You are to present a contrast from the world,
and not a conformity to it. The heart first
renewed should regulate the life. Beware of
the entangling alliances of the world. God’s
the entangling alliances of the world. God’s
dear people should be your closest and best
friends. —Marvin.
Indians and Picklen.
In the summer of i876 1 stood one evening
near the Quartermaster’s t ffice at Fort Win
gate, New Mexico, when two Kiowa Indians
applied for permission to water their fam
ished horses at the Government cistern, of
fering to accept that boon in part payment
for a load of brushwood which they proposed
to haul from a neighboring cbapparaL The
fellows looked thirsty and hungry them
selves, and while the Quartermaster ratified
the wood bargain, one of the tfficers sent to
his company quarters for a lunch of such
comestibles as the cooks might have on band
at that time of the day. A tray ful of “Gov
ernment grub” was deposit* don the adjacent
cord-wood platform, and the Indians p tched
in with the peculiar appetite of carnivorous
nomads. A yard of commissary sausage
was accepted as a tough variety of jerked
beef, yeasted and branless bread disappeared
in quantities tbat would have confirmed Dr.
Graham’s belief in natural depravity; they
sipped the cold coffee and eyed it with a
gleam of suspicion, but were reconciled by
the discovery of the saccharine sediment,and
the cook was just going to replenish their
cups when the senior Kiowa helped himself
to a vinegar pickle, which he probably mis
took for some sort of an off color sugar-plum.
He tasted it, rose to his feet, and dashed the
plate down with a muttered execration, and
then clutched the prop of the platform to
master his rising fury. Explanations fol
lowed. and a pound of brown sugar was ac
cepted as a peace-offering,but the children of
nature left the post under the impression that
they had been the victims of a heartless
practical joke.
Items of Interest.
Bail was refused on Wednesday in New
Haven to the Mallay boys who are concerned
in the death of Jennie Cramer.
New Orleans will be connected by rail with
San Francisco by D.-cember xst. This is the
shortest and best route to the Pacific.
A tenant in couDty Westmeath, Ireland,
hts been shot for paying his rent. The crime
which cost that man his life is one which he
will not be ashamed to defend before the
higher bar.
An interesting correspondence is going on
between the Government and the South Car
olina State Treasurer upon the question of
funding certain bonds now in custody of the
Indian trust fund.
Capture of a Robber by Ladles.
Pensacola, Fla,, November 25.—The
third attempt within a month was made to
rob Mrs. Thornton’s residence last night, af
ter midnight. A negro with a drawn knife
was captured and held by the ladies of the
family until men arrived. The ladies were
choked and bruised, but succeeded in secur
ing the robber.
A curious custom prevailed with the Greeks
of each guest bringing in his own viands in a
box or basket. Such a dinner was called
“from the hamper,” or a “club dinner,” or
“pie-uic,” or “contributary.” Of course the
viands were interchanged according to the
taste of each guest. We read in Aristophanes
of a shabby fellow who used to claim a share
of the good things at a rich table, though he
himself brought only an apple and a pome
granate. Aristophanes would have had
more than one shabby fellow to describe if
he could attend a few Ames cm •. pic-nics.
Shreveport’s Room.
I will state what Shreveport now has,
which can be filed for future reference by
those who have any desire to know how much
the city is benefitted by the forthcoming
railroads, to wit: The New Orleans and
Pacific and Vicksburg and Shreveport roads.
Shreveport, then, has now about 12,000 in
habitants, a cotton seed oil mill on a large
scale; a cotton and woolen factory, which
runs over -one thousand spindles, two iron
foundries, a cotton gin manufactory, a fur
niture manufactory, and factory and several
small shops where articles are manufactured.
Several business houses here do over a mil
lion dollars in business annually. There are
two banks, and the property assessed in the
city amounts to over two million dollars.
Tnere are excellent educational advantages
and church privileges here and almost every
secret society and order has a branch here.
There is a Cotton Exchange in a very flour
ishing condition, S. B. McCutcbeon, presi
dent; a well organized fire department, a
charity hospital, an infirmary and an excel
lent market. The Cumpston Hotel is the
leading one here, and it is in this spacious
house where all ze drummers do congregate
as soon as they reach this city, and as they
all know where the fat of the land lies, that
is all that need be said of this well-kept house.
An Eye to Business.
(New York Star)
During the days that the body of President
Garfield lay in state in Cleveland a woman
annoyed the widow and the friends with
whom she was then staying by most persis
tent efforts to get Queen Victoria’s wreath
and some of the other floral relics from the
catafalque for the purpose, as she then rep
resented, of embalming and preserving the
flowers for Chicago ladies to present to Mrs.
Dai field. She was frequently rebufftd, but
finally procured a card from Stanley Brown
to the Mavor of the city, from whom sbe
succeeded in getting a number of the Aural
pieces. She look them to Chicago, and now
has advertised them for sale, claiming to have
paid several thoueand dollars for them.
“Guitean Rust Die.**
Cincinnati Commercial.
Cambridge, O., Nov. 22, 1881.—The man
Jones, arrested for ihe attempt on the life of
the miserable assassin, is certainly the wrong
man. The man who did the shooting is a
gentleman of intelligence and character, and
a member of the Gai field Avengers. Our
men are on duty and sworn to see to it tbat
the scoundrel is punished, in their words—
dies. It doesnt matter a particle of differ
ence wbat view of the case the jury may as
sume, Guiteau must die. It is written—it is
decreed. The jury nor the court can cheat
the devil of his due.
Garfield Avenger.
The Yorktown commemoration cost the
Government $40,000.
Bourbon county, Kv., after paying her in
debtedness, bas $6 955 63 in bank.
Seven hundred Indians are to be employed
on the Sunset railway in Texas.
The Texas University will probably not go
into operation before the first of January,
1883
During the last four months there have been
thirty-eight applications for divorce in Cuat
tanooga.
A silver mipe that is thought to be very
rich is reported as discovered fifty miles west
of San Antonio.
Three hundred and sixty thousand dollars
have been expended in new buildings at Cov
ington, Ky., this year.
Several daily papers in Indiana have been
indicted by grand juries for publishing ad
vertisement of lotteries.
It is stated that 15.886 miles of railway
construction have been undertaken for i882,
to cost nearly $400,000,000.
The Legislature of Haytl has curtailed the
privileges of the Roman Catholic clergy on
account of alleged abuses.
A lighted match dropped in a barrel of coal
oil, completely demolished the sngar house
of Mr. Geo. Banckner at St. Martinsville.
“Te ins are sh'pped from Pointe Coupee
parish, La., at $12 a barrel. The receipts
this year from this crop will amount to $10,-
000.
Mr. P F. Bourgeois, of New Texas Land
ing, in Pointe Coupee parish, La., has shipped
and sold this season over $8ooo worth of cot
ton seed.
A telephone has been placed in one of the
Fort Worth churches for the benefit of those
members who haven’t any new clothes, we
suppose.
Some voters in Virginia favor an amend
ment to the Constitution prohibiting any
oachelor or widower from holding the effii
of governor.
To the Dutch, the ladies of all nations are
indebted for the invention of the thimble
The Dutch achieved this great invention
about the year 1690.
The census work has thus far cost $3,860,-
068 and there will be a deficiency of $54(0,000,
which Congress will have to appropriate.—
The work has been dope well so far.
The crop this year from a pecan orchard
near Victoria, Texas, is worth $14 000. The
citizens of Luling have expended $io,oooin
beer and ice during the past summer.
The very Rev. Mother St. Pierre, sister
superior of the Sisters of Ciiarity at San
Antonio has just returned from France,
bringing with her seventeen young postu
lants.
Dakota is ambitious to be the thirty-ninth
State in the Union, and an effort to have her
admitted will be made at the coming session
of Congress. She claims a population of
150,000.
BOSTON BAKED BEANS.
The New England City’s Favorite Dish—
A Weekly Consumption of about
Two Hundred Barrels.
While an ignorant lecturer was describing
the nature of gas, a blue stocking lady in
quired of a gentleman near her, wbat was
tne difference between cxygen and hydro
gen?’ “Very little, madam,” said he: “by
rxygin we mean pure gin; and by bydrogin,
gin and water.”
A romance in one couplet:
A lass she loved a sailor.
And the sailor loved; alas.
A Weak Substitute.
Boston Post.
A Chicago man recently tried to bnild an
automatic mule. The hind legs were hung
on steel springs of tremendous power, and
when they flew, a can of dynamite exploded
and added its force to the kick. But the
thing was a failure The first man hoisted
by it said it was no mule that bit him. It
was too feeble.
Hits the Nall.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
It is now universally admitted tbat the
Ninth Massachusetts Regiment behaved
most outrageously while in Richmond. Va.
It would be unjust, doubtless, to say toat
this organized mob of rougbs represented
Massachusetts culture and refinement; but,
since Massachusetts scouts the idea that it is
to be judged by such a gang of outlaws, it
may be induced in luture to be more just in
its estimate of the Southern people.
Gov. St. John, of Kansas, says that the
Brewers’ Congress at Chicago authorized the
expenditure of an unlimited airouut of
money to defeat the enforcement of the pro
hibition law in Kansas,
In the United States twelve manufactories
produce 10,000,000 teeth annually, at ana to
every five persons. The amount annually
squandered on teeth is $r,ooo,ooo. A half a
million of gold is used every year to fill
teeth.
France appropriated for agriculture, 1881,
in round numbers, $780,000. This grant in
cludes agricultural education, expenses for
breeding studs and keeping up 2500 stallions,
inspection of woods and forests and prizes to
regional forests.
i |“Great Pond” is a lake lying between As-
bury Park and Dead Beach. On the night
of the 14th, a high tide cut away a sandbar
between it and the ocean, and by daybreak
next morning the lake, which bad covered
acres had disappeared.
Dr. Tucker, son of General Tucker who
was killed recently in Mississippi, gives the
information tbat a white man named Sim
mons has confessed that he received $1500
from a white man named Shaw to kill Gen,
Tucker, and he gave a negro $3oo to do the
g '-noting.
France, it is said, has already spent nearly
$9,000,000 on her expedition into Tunis, and
the work and expenditure have scarcely be
gun. Her people may find it as burdensome
and hardly more glorious to waste milliards
in Africa than to pay them on the demand of
Germany.
Mr. Charles H. Norton, who died recently
in New Haven, bequeathed $125,000 to
Trinity College, Hartford; to Hartford
Hospital, $50,000; Cbrist Cliurcb, $10,030;
Hartford Library Association, $5ooo; aud
$35,000 to erect a chapel at Cedar HilL The
rest of his estate, about $600,000, is to be
divided amoDg bis heirs.
A monster octopus, or devil fish, has been
captured near one of the wharves at St.
John’s, New Foundland, where it ran ashore
It is thirty-three feet in length from its tail
to the termination of the loog tentacles.
This is said to be the first complete and
unmutilated specimen of this monstrous fish
that has been secured and landed. ’
Mr. Joe Ney, of Medina county, Texas, is
still owner of two bat caves, one in Medina
and the other in U vaide ccunty, which he
valued respectively at $25,000 and $100,000
for their depoeits of bat manure. Mr. Nsy,
during the Wlar made 100,000 pounds of
saltpetre from the manure in one of these
caves, the saltpetre being 95 per cent, purity.
Since the first of January there have ar
rived at New York 186,120 emigrants. They
are coming at the rate of 7000 a week, and in
the remaining five weeks of this year the
number will doubtless be made up to 400,000.
The number received at other ports of the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts and those who
cross over from Canada will easily make up
the number of foreign emigrants for the
year to half a million.
According to the last report of the Com
missioner .of Agriculture it appears that
7,600,coo persons in the United States are
engaged in agricultural pursuits. The total
value of the farms and farm implements is
$12,461,200,433 or two-thirds of tne product
ive wealth ot the nation. The value of farm
product and live stock for 1878 was $3,000,-
000,000 against $2,800,000,000 of mining and
manufacturing products.
Paris bas more poor than any other city
in the world. Tne number of registered
poor who have received relief during the
present year reaches the number of 245,812,
of whom 200,000 receive outdoor relief. The
Lumber supported wholly by charity is over
150,000. In 1789 every tenth person was a
confirmed pauper. The annual poor rate of
Paris is 114 francs per head, or $125 per
family. Paris supports 28,000 orphans and
foundlings, pays the expenses of 15,000
mot hers too poor to defray expenses them
s« Ives, and bas the names of 5o,ooo poor fami
lies on its effi-'ial list.
‘ ‘Does it, after all, pay to be bonestf ’ a dis
appointed young man writes. No, my son,
cot if you’re honest for pay, it doesn’t. Not
if you are honest because you think it will
pay; not if you are honest only because you
are afraid to be a rogue; indeed, my dear
boy, it does not pay to be honest that way.
If yon can’t be honest because you bate a lie
and scorn'a mean action, if you can’t be hon
est from principle, be a rascal; that’s what
you are intended for, and you’ll probably
succeed at it. But you can’t make anybody
believe in honesty tbat is bought and sold
like merchandise.
Trough Boston has acquired some fame
as a large consumer of this esculent, baked
beans have been from time immemorial a
favorite dish throughout New England.
The sturdy men and women of generations
ago. who braved danger and hardships in
planting an independent colony, added
strength to their sinews and muscles by
eating simple food, of which baked beans
were a mnoh cherished ingredient, and of
all ancient dishes none have stood better
the test of time and the caprices of the ap
petites of the people. But it ia a little sin
gular that, while New England is so large a
consumer of baked beans, and New England
ers, more especially the residents of Boston,
have acquired the mystery of cooking them
perfectly, the dish is not in mnch favor else
where, and that the knowledge of baking
them properly is exceedingly limited. It
may be said that one circumstance is due
to the other—that is, that where it is not
known how to bake beans properly, they
are naturally not a popular article of diet.
If the method and. process of baking were
patented, it could hardly be more exclu
sively held by New Englanders. In New
York and other municipalities, a contempt
is often expressed for the Athenian love for
baked beans, and yet, not long ago, a
fashionable club house, on the occasion of
a special gathering, sent by express to this
city for twenty two quart pots of Boston
baked beans. This manner of obtaining a
dish they affect to despise is frequently re
sorted to, undoubtedly with a profit alike
to the buyer and seller. An experienced
baker of this city, being asked why baked
beans were not as popular in New York as
in Boston, said : “ Because they don’t know
how to cook them. They don’t soak them
enough, boil them too much and then take
them out of the oven before they are half
baked.” “But it would be easy enough
for them to learn how to cook them ? ”
“Well, if it is, they don’t learn. That
much I know.”
There is a lunch counter in one of the
busiest sections of New York, where genu
ine Boston baked beans are served, which
is reported to be doing a thriving business.
Travellers in the West and South have
noticed in the windows of restaurants in
cities and towns placards announcing Bos
ton baked beans, bat, on entering and eat
ing a dish, find but little resemblance be
tween it and the “home article.” Custom
has prescribed either Saturday night or
Sunday morning as the “ correct time ” for
eating baked beans, and the scene at the
baker’s then is the busiest of the week.
Among the hundreds of bakers in the city
there are few who do not “ put to soak ”
on Friday night from one to five barrels of
beans, which added to the number cooked
in private dwellings will give one a concep
tion of how well deserving is Boston of her
fame as a bean-consuming city. A well in
formed gentleman estimates that the con
sumption of beans in Boston is abont 200
barrels per week, or about 10,000 barrels
per year. One reason why Boston baked
beans are considered better than any others
is that almost invariably they are baked in
brick ovens over night. Besides baking a
quantity to sell, the bakers, for the nomi
nal sum of five cents per pot, receive and
bake the beans that are prepared by their
customers, thus adding materially to their
own and the convenience of the public. It
is a fact, certainly not universally known,
that there is in Boston an establishment
devoted exclusively to the baking of beans,
entirely separate from a canning institution.
It is the only establishment of the kind in
the world, probably, and it is exceedingly
doubtful whether it could live anywhere
else. At all events, attempts have been
made to establish similar institutions else
where, and nothing but failure has been
the result, tmd it is now plain enough that
a bean-eating community is requisite to
support a bean-baking establishment. The
success of the Boston bean-bakery was as
sured from the start, and its enterprising
proprietor has climbed up the road to
wealth by the bean alone, without assist
ance from the pole. Every night in the
week the fire under the spacious brick oven
is in fall blast, and two teams are kept busy
daily in delivering the pots and their smok-
ing-hot contents. Of the customers of the
bakery, full one-half are restaurant keep
ers, who pay twenty cents for two quarts
of beaus, and then retail them at ten, fif
teen and twenty cents per plate. The
bakery consumes from 1,900 to 3,800
pounds of beans per week, and its oven has
the capacity to bake 450 pots in a single
night. It is, perhaps, worthy of note that
the bakery is located in a fashionable quar
ter of the city, within a stone’s throw of
Washington street. In conclusion, it may
be said that the Athenian fondness for
baked beans continues to increase rather
than to decrease, and that, in spite of what
the world may say, Bostonians intend to
have them Saturday nights or Sunday
mornings.—Boston Herald.
THE ABCHBISHOP’S WIFE.
The Archbishop of York has a charming
wife, her name is Zoe. There is a funny
story told that when the Archbishopric was
conferred on Dr. Thompson—then Bishop
of Gloucester and Bristol—he was ill in bed,
suffering from neuralgia, and his letters
were taken up to him and read with his
breakfast. Upon opening the official docu
ment which contained the notification of
his advancement, the Bishop rather hurri
edly rang his bell and desired that his wife
might come to him at once. On entering
the bedroom she was met by the startling
exclamation, “ My dear, I am the Arch
bishop of York ! ” The snrprised lady im
agined that her husband’s malady had af
fected his senses and that he had become
suddenly delirious. So, pretending to hu
mor his fancy and gently aoqniescing, with
out expressing her astonishment, she re
tired without congratulations to summon
the doctor to treat this new and distressing
symptom. Not until his arrival and a close
inspection of the official document was she
persuaded that the Archiepiscopal chair was
no delusion, but a real and substantial rec
ognition of her husband’s abilities and
merits. Since that time she has been his
frequent and sympathetic companion in
much of his public work, and on all occa
sions when a lady’s presence is needed to
render his actions complete she ia sure to
appear,
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The Oneida Communitt.—A circular
just issued by the Secretary of the Com
mittee appointed some time since by citi
zens of Central New York in reference to
the Oneida Community. states tbat the
General Committee, which met for united
counsel with a view to suppress the im
moral practices of the Oneida Community,
in the interests of public and domestic vir
tue, were gratified in the voluntary surren
der of that Community to the settlement
which had been called forth, if not created,
by the action of the Committee. It is sat
isfactorily established, to members of the
Committee who have accurate information,
that the change in domestic life has been
made in good faith, and that the former in
sufferable principles aud practices see ef
fectually stopped.
Science For the People.
Prehistoric Tillage. —Among matters
of prehistoric archeology which of late
have attracted attention in Germany are
the “high-fields” or “heathen-fields,"
where the marks of ancient tillage are
traced on ground now waste or forest-
grown. These resemble the “ elf-furrows ”
of Scotland, but in neither country has the
old agricultural race been identified.
Solar Radiation.—With a new “ra
diograph” for recording the intensity of
the sun’s radiation Mr. £>. Winstanley has
observed a curious “thermal twilight.”
The instrument shows a rise in the tempera
ture before sunrise, owing to solar radiation.
A more remarkable circumstance, however,
is that, a fall of temperature being indi
cated a little after sunset, the index mys
teriously rises jnst before midnight and
sinks again, although the sun is then di
rectly over the opposite hemisphere.
The Largest Animal.—The largest
land animal which is known to have existed
on the globe has been described by Prof.
Marsh. Its name is Atlanto-saurm im-
metnis. The thigh-bone of the monster is
over eight feet long, with a thickness at
the largest end of twenty-five inches. A
comparison of this bone with the femur of
a crocodile would indicate that the fossil
saurian, if of similar proportions, had a
total length of one hundred and fifteen
feet. That the reptile was at least one
hundred feet long when alive is probable.
The other bones of the animal which have
been found are proportionately gigantic.
One of the caudal vertibras measures more
than sixteen inches in transverse diameter.
Pitting in Small-Pox.—Somebody has
ascertained that in small-pox poor people
are pitted less than the rich, and no classes
are pitted under their dress. Poor people
have less light in their homes than the rich,
while under the dress there is of course lit
tle light in either case. The explanation,
according to this observer, is a scientific
one. The sunlight consists of three pri
mary colors. The red, the blue, and the
yellow rays have distinct and characteristic
properties; the red gives heat, the yellow
gives light, and the blue gives actinism or
chemical effect. Now, the pus of variolar
pustules absorbs, by its yellow medium, the
actinic rays, which results in corrosion of
the tender flesh at the base, thus leaving
pits.
The Stab Theta.—The haze or mist
seen with the naked eye around the middle
star (Theta) in the Sword of Orion is due to
the fact that this star is composed of sev
eral comparatively bright stars, forming
what is known as the “ trapezium of
Orion.” With telescopes of moderate pow
er but four stars can be seen. In 182(1 a
fifth was discovered; in 1830, Sir John
Herschel found a sixth ; and more recently
Profe sor Bond, of Harvard, discovered a
seventh. Other searchers, with equally
large instruments, failed to detect the lat
ter. But the last number of Natan men
tions the fact that the seventh star has
been caught by the great reflector—the lar
gest silver on glass reflector in the world—
lately mounted at Ealing for Mr. Common.
Ammoniacal Sulphate op Copper in
Neuralgia.—The value of ammoniacal
sulphate of copper in the treatment of
neuralgia has been asserted by M. Fereol
in a communication to the Academie de
Medicine. He states that in cases in which
every treatment has failed, even the ad
ministration of gelseminum and of aconitia,
h cure or remarkable relief may be obtained
to the most severe symptoms by this drug.
Among the examples given of its nse was
the following: Trifacial neuralgia of two
months’ duration, with complete insomnia,
was unrelieved by the extraction of teeth,
quinine, bromide, aconitia, or tinctnre of
gelseminum, hypodermic injections of mor
phia, or arsenic. From the first day of the
administration of the ammonia-sulphate of
copper there was a notable remission in the
symptoms and cessation of the insomnia.
In one case the dose was pushed to eight
grains without any other accident than
nauseiu
Heat IN Deep Mines.—Mining at great
depths is attended by greater difficulty on
account of the heat than is generally sup
posed. At fifty feet beneath the earth’s
surface it i3 believed a point is reached
where the temperature is entirely unaf
fected by the sun or any external influence,
the temperature at that depth being conse
quently uniform in all sections of the globe
(volcanic districts of course excepted). In
this zone the thermometer is found to in
dicate fifty degrees. It has also been shown
by further observation that the tempera-,
ture increases at the uniform rate of one
degree for every fifty-five feet of depth, so
that at seventeen hundred feet about sev
enty-eight degrees is indicated. This heat
a severe test of the endurance of the
miners, and at one thousand feet greater
depth mining is impracticable. Accordin;
to this rule of increase, the temperature
four thousand feet below the surface must
be not less than one hundred and twenty-
one degrees, and at ten thousand feet the
boiling point is exceeded.
Blooming of Evergreens.—In the for
ests of the St. Croix and the Virgin Islands
Baron Eggers notes that. no one species
prevails in any particular tract, as with us ;
but that a few each of a number of species
will mix altogether and form the group,
even to the mixing together of evergreen-
leaved and deciduous kinds. Those which
can stand heavy evaporating forces remain
evergreen, while those which seem to lose
their moisture freely become deciduous. A
remarkable fact is that the evergreen-leaved
trees have no regular time of blooming;
but they bloom only once a year, whatever
that time may chance to be. The decidu
ous trees drop their leaves about January,
and start into leaf again about April. They
flower at this season without leaves. Dur
ing the summer, when the moisture be
comes copious, they make a vigorous
growth, and then flower again. It is at
this time that the evergreens generally
flower. The evergreens are of the broad
leaved families, no conifer® or allied plants
being indigenous there.
Lightning Photographs.—R. Crowe,
of Liverpool, communicates to The British
Journal of Photography, an account ot
some attempts to photograph a landscape
by the aid of lightning flashes. A gela
tine plate, requiring by day an exposure
of two seconds, was exposed from 10.15
p.m. to 10.45 p.m. during which time there
were 120 brilliant flashes and about half
as many minor ones. Most of these were
in horizontal direction, and five or six
of them were imprinted on the negative.
A perpendicular flash which struck a church
tower half a mile away was rendered with
extraordinaiy sharpness and brilliancy.
The surrounding objects, in spite of the
long exposure, were but feebly impressed ;
whence Mr. Crowe argues that though the
light of a flash of lightning is of a very ac
tinic character, there still ia not sufficient
volume of light to illuminate a landscape or
building to allow a successful photograph
to be taken. Mr. Crowe further suggests
that an attempt should be made to photo
graph, for scientific purposes of reference,
the varied forms assumed by lightning at
different times and in different countries.
HUMOR AND ANECDOTE.
“X shall give you ten days or ten dollars,
said the recorder to a trembling wretch. “All
right, judge,” said the t. w., ‘Til take the
ten dollars.”
I hope this is not counterfeit ?” said a lover,
as he toyed with his sweetheart’s hand. “The
best way to find out is to ring it 1” was the
quick reply.
Dreamy young lady in railway carriage to
cheerful ana exceedingly beadthy-lookiDg
young man—“Oh, sir, are you Withetic ?”
"No, ma’am; I’m a butcher.”
If a man really wants to know what the
community thinks of him, all he has to do is
to run for some office, and then read the
newspaper items about himself.
Curiosity is sometimes easily satisfied. If
you want to know whether the hornets are
at home just tap with your cane on the nest,
and they will come out and tell you.
There are said to be 50,000 idiots in the
Uuited States. And they all stand at church-
doors waiting for the fair sex to depart, ac
cording to the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser.
The man who doesn’t get as mad, and run
as fast to get his cow out of his neighbor’s
corn-field as he does to get his neighbor’s cow
out of his own, hasn’t got the answer to the
golden rule.—Glasgow Times.
Jones—“What did you think ot my argu
ment, Fogg f” Fogg—“It was sound; very
sound. (Jones is delighted.)—Nothing but
sound, in fact.” (Jones reaches for a brick 1
—America's Habits of Good Society.
“Gentlemen ot the jury,” said a blundering
counsel in a suit about a lot of bogs, “there
were just thirty-six in the drove. Please re
member the fact—thirty-six hogs; just three
times as many a3 in that jury-box, gentle
men.” That counsel didn’t gain his case.
No, young man, it doesn’t hurt you a par
ticle to sow your wild oaks. Go ahead and
sow as many as you wish. But it’s the gath
ering in of the crop that will make you howl
And you have to gather it, too. If you don’t,
it gathers you, and one is a great deal worse
than the other.—Horace Greely on Farming.
A young man in Boston is in a mood to
join the anti-vaccination movement. While
walking with his sweetheart he pressed her
arm, aud she uttered a little cry of pain. He
mistook it for resentment; the engagement
was broken; and he did not learn that he had
molested her vaccinated arm till they had
decided to be as strangers forever.
An old rancher told a Sunday-school mis
sionary. ' who had penetrated the wilds of
Tex ts in order to prosecute his work where
he deemed it to be most needed, that the re
gion thereabouts had already been “nerded,
lariated, and belled by the devil.” Tne good
man did not understand this figure of speech
well enough to be discouraged by it, and he
now has a flourishing Sunday-school there.
An old judge of the Naw York supreme
court meeting a friend in a neighboring vil
lage, exclaimed: “Why, what are you do
ing here ?” “I’m at work, trying to make an
honest living,” was the reply. “Then you
will succeed,” said the judge, “for you will
have no competition,”
“How do you like the rooms ?” asked Mrs.
Dotonart, while showing the Smithingtons
over her house. “On, they are perfectly
lovely !” exclaimed Mrs. Smithington, “and
they are furnished so sweetly 1 What ex
quisite plaques those are, aren’t they, Smith
ington l” “What 1 them dishes on tne wall 1
Yes, they are pretty enough, but why in
thunder didn’t they have closets in the house
to put the crockery in ?”
There was only one passenger on {board a
certain sailing-vessel, who took bis meals in
the after-cabin with the captain and mate,
and who always suspected that those two
worthies defrauded him of his due share of
the eatables when they got the chance. One
day a jam roly poly-pudding appeared at
dinner, just enough for three; and the pas
senger, who had a sweet tooth, was instantly
on the alert to see tbat he got bis fair and
proper third. “Mr. X., do you like pudding-
ends, sir r the captain asked, with his knife
poised in air ready to cut the delicacy. “No,
1 do not like ends, sir,” replied the passenger,
who considered that ne had as much right to
the middle slice as any one else. “Ah, well,
then, me and my mate does !” was the gal
lant captain’s observation, as he cut the pud
ding in two and deposited half on the mate’s
plate and half on his own.
GEns OF THOUGHT.
It is not so hard to earn money as to speed
it well
Idleness is the refuge of weak minds, and
the holiday of fools. 3 > ... > , w .
Why stand ye here idol?” as the missionary
said to one of tne hea hen gods.
The great men of the earth are but the
marking stones on the road cf humanity;
they are the priests of its religion.
If a bank cashier, with the whole board to
watch him, can steal $2,600,000, how much
can the unwatched board steal?
Night brings ont stars, as sorrow shows
us truth. We never see the stare till we can
see little or nought else, and thus it is with
truth.
An indiscreet man is more hartful than an
ill-natured one; the latter attacks only his
enemies—the other injures friends and foes
alike.
Real glory
Springs from the silent conquest of ourselves;
And without that Ihe conqueror is naught
But the first slave.
The heart of woman draws to itself the
loves of others as the diamond drinks up the
sun's rays—only to return them in tenfold
strength and beauty.
In walking, always turn your tees out and
your thoughts inwards. The former will
prevent your falling into cellars, the latter
from falling into iniquity.
The most fervent love becomes more fer
vent by brief interruption and reconciliation.
Our affections must be agitated by a storm
before they can raise the highest rainbow of
peace.
Wbat is called ill-nature and want of gen
erosity, is very often nothing more than a
quick eye for the injustice and unreasonable
ness of others, and a determination not to
gratify it; not the desire to save one’s own
money or trouble.
Day, panting with heat, and laden with a
thousand cares, toils onward like a beast of
burden; but Night—calm, silent, holy Nigbt
—is a ministering angel tbat cools with its
dewy breath the toil heated brew; and, like
the Roman sisterhood, stoops down to Dathe
the pilgrim’s feet.
Do not be guilty of the too common trick
of parading your happiness, and trying to
increase it by contrast with the wants of
others. Remember prudent happiness dreads
and shuns envy; perfect happiness does not
want it; generous and noble happiness would
be violated by it.
DIED.
Near Coffeevllle, Mississippi, October 23d, 1881,
Emma Geaham, infant daughter of Roland W.
and Emma Clonston Jones.
“See how he calls his tender lambs
And folds them in his arms.”
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