Newspaper Page Text
£l)c tOccliln Constitutionalist.
BY STOCKTON & CO.
OUR TERMS.
The following »re the rates of Subscription:
Daily, one year.. $lO OC
Wecklt, one year $3 00
Pat ling.
AN ISC i AT OF THE WAR.
D ep ! s the hush that hangs around her soul.
Far down the agony that brings such tears,
Love’s memories around her spirit ro.l
In a' l the glory of the phantom years.
Pale Grief’s transfiguration-veil is thrown
All o’er the tender beauty of her face;
Fain would she seek to pierce the dark un
known,
A -id read the dim-drawn lines that Fate
may trace.
One lengthened gaze into her warrior’s eyes,
Wb ! ’e burning tears flow down each pallid
cheek;
One silent prayer ascends the listening skies,
And* yet no do those pale lips
speak.
A'l has been said that loving souls can tell,
And now their hearts are on their nation’s
shrine—
And war’s loui clarion sounds its thrilling
knell
Above a sacrifice that’s half divine.
Her little jeweled' fingers clasp the hand
That oft has lingered in her golden hair;
But now must strike for Truth and Father
land,
And work the answer to a nation’s prayer.
What hidden depth is in that vacant gaze ?
Say, does it linger ’mid the years gone by ?
Or does it look far down through future days ?
On one dear form air'd the battle-cry ?
Perhaps, again, she hears those- evering
chimes
That filled with holy sounds the quiet air ;
Or sing again the grand old German rhymes
That breathe of warriors bold and maidens
fair.
Her soul has buckled on Love’s sandals
bright,
And it has taken mighty wings of prayer;
Now it will plead amid the realms of light,
Now it will tread the field and watch him
there.
One loug embrace, and then the quivering
rps
Unite, and seal eternally that love
That can outlive a war-doomed world’s eclipse,
And look beyond the golden gate% above.
Sav, will proud Victory’s final clarion-call
Bring back her warrior to her soul’s and ■
light?
Or will the triumph of heaven’s glory fell
Full on his brow upon the field of fight V
Ah! God knows best! Behind the sulphur
ous veil
That blots the beauty from the Summer
skies,
There sounds a voice above the nation’s wall —
11 Strong in tby glory, thou shalt yet arise!”
Then strike, brave soldier, for ibe Fatherland !
With her warm kis6 upon tby lips, away !
The sword' will truer be to thy right hand
That she remains behind to love and pi-y.
Mayencb, July 22, 1870.
The Unlucky Lovers.
A TALI OF JAPAN.
Fanny Foo-Foo was a Japanese girl,
A child of the great Tycoon ;
She wore her bead bald, sad her clothes were
„made
BfSlf petticoat, half pantaloon;
H«r face waa the color of lemon peel
And the sfeapt Os a table apoon.
A handsome young chap was Johnny Hl-Bi,
And he wore paper muslin clothes;
His glossy black hair on the top of his head
Iu the form of a shoe-brush rose ;
His eyes slanted downward, as if some chap
Had savagely pulled his nose.
Fanny Foo-Foo loved Johnny Bi-Hi,
And when, In the usual style,
He popped, she blushed eneh a deep orange
You'd have thought she'd too much Idle,
If it hadn’t been for her slant-eyed glance
And her charming, wide-mouthed smile.
And oft In the bliss of their new-born love,
Did these little Pagans stray
All aronnd in spots, enjoying themselves
In a strictly Japanese way ;
She howling a song to a one-stringed lut-
On which she thought she could play.
Often he’d climb to a high ladder’s top,
And quietly there repose,
lAs he stood on his head and fanned himself,
While she balanced him on her nose ;
i Or else she would get in a pickle tub,
And he kicked it around on his to s.
The eonrse of true love* even in Japan,
Often runs extremely rough,
And the fierce Tycoon, when he heard of this,
Used Japanese oaths so tongh
That his courtiers’ hair would have stood on
end
If only they’d had enough.
Eo the Tycoon buckled on both his swords,
' In his pistol placed a wad,
And went out to hunt for the truant pair,
With his nerves braced by a tod.
He found them enjoying their guileless selves
■ On top of a lightning rod.
Sternly he ordered the gentle Foo-Foo
To “ come down out oi that there!”
And he told Hl-Hi to go to a place—
I won’t say precisely where.
Then he dragged off bis child, whose spasms
evinced
Unusually wild despair.
But the Tycoon, alas! was badly fooled,
Despite his paternal pains,
For John, with a tooth-pick, let all the blood
Out of bis jugular veins ;
While, with a back somersault on to the floor,
Foo-Foo baticred out her brains.
They burled them boib in the Tycoon’s lot,
Right under a dogwood tree,
' Where they could list to tin nightingale, and
The buzz of the bumble bee ;
And where the mosquito's sorrowful chant
.Maddens the restless flea.
Ami olteu nt night, when the Tycoon's wife,
, 81 umbered as sound ns u post,
Ills almond-slmicd eyeballs looked on a sight
That scared him to death almost t
i'Twas a bald-headed spectre flitting about
With a paper muslin ghost I
A wicked young wife eaysi "When 1
want a nice, snug day, all to myself, J i L .||
George dear mother la coming, un i than j
sec nothing of him until one fu ilia morn-
Inf “
The Thoinaavllla Fair was a magnlflcaut
•uoceaa, from 7,000 to 0,000 persona halug
till aiwudiwca
[Cardington Cor. Cincinnati Commercial.
The Ohio Wonder.
A FULL AND TRUSTWORTHY ACCOUNT OF THE
MABVELOUS TWINS OF V>RROW.
Any doubt thai; may have possessed me
regarding the double-headed child reported
to have been born, three weeks ago, in Mor
row county, began to lose ground and dis
appear, mist-like, in the light of evidence
which came to me at once from many vera
cious mouths, this morning, when I found
myself awake to inquiry, in Cardington.
Indeed, the people seemed to have grown a
little used to the marvelous thing, had rub
bed their eyes fairly and made up their
minds to it—it was no dream after all.
“ Seeing is believing,” however, as the
proverb runs, and I had come to see. There
fore, in company with a gentleman who
courteously volunteered to be my guide, I
drove across the country thirteen miles,
into Bennington township, close to the
southwest line of the county, where a neat,
new, wbUe frame house, near our road, was
designated, as we approached it, to be the
house of Joseph Finley, father of the won
derful birth. There was an out-of-door
look of thrift about the place; the lands
seemed well fenced and clean, while a hun
dred yards behind the present dwelling
stoon an older one, which, unless one had a
little ambition and enterprise, must have
seemed sufficient for a ’few years’ longer
cheerful re'dence. Putting these things
together I was prepared to enter a neat,
comfortably-furnished and well kept family
room, in which two or three women were
sitting, and two or three bright, healthy,
black-eyed little girls were playing. A
cradle in the corner of this room did not
escape my first glance, nor did the slight
twitching of the wrappings at one end,
from which a faint treble crying was heard
to arise,
We took our seats. Mr. Finley was
temporarily absent from home. Mrs. Fin
ley was in an adjoining apartment—she
would appear presently. Meanwhile I saw
that at either end of the small cradle was
a little pink face, one of which was in mo
tion, its owner awake; the other quiet and
still in sleep. Now, perhaps, my imagina
tion was a little timid about looking under
the cover to find out whether
THE MOTHER
But here the mother made her appear
ance, quietly greeted us, and sat down.—
She is an agreeable person, of medium
height, rather large in figure, brunette in
complexion, with something sweet and
kindly in her voice and in her dark eyes,
and with something attractive in her quiet
and sel (-possessed movements and manners.
My companion stated the object of my
visit, and 1 told Mrs. Finley that the re
poi i in the newspapers had been some
what various and indefinite, and that many
had doubts of their truth ; therefore, I had
come to get, if possible, the full particulars,
and, if I could, convey them in a manner
that would seem re’iabie and authoritative.
She said that a good many misstatements
had been made, and that one or two of the
commnnicatlons she had seen did not s ow
much polish in the writers. I asked her if
the children play ing in the room were her
own. She told me they were. There were
three of them —the oldest being eleven years
old, the others (I have hinted at their bright,
healthy and attractive look) four and two
years of age respectively.
“ I suppose, of course, yon want to look
at and examine the child,” she then said.
“ Yes, I came especially to see the baby,”
I answered.
“ Well, I will get this one to sleep first,"
she said; “ then yon can see them.
With this she took the baby (I n-e the
singnlar noon for convenience, letting it
oonvey plurality of idea at the reader's
pleasure) upon her lap, laying its sleeping
head on her right knee and soothing the
other on her left. P esently this latter
head became quiet, and, removing a part
of the body-wrapping, the mother invited
ns to see it. Now for
THE BABY THEMSELLVEB.
Yes, here they were. The baby will be
plural I It is perhaps difficult to- describe
or realize them. (Just at this moment the
two pair of eyes were opened, and the two
heads were awake.) But imagine two well
sh iped heads, at opposite extremities, with
a delicate growth of dark hair showing
itself on each; the foreheads nicely propor
tioned, and indicating more than average
infant; intellect; eyes dark and bright,
already indicating the early spirit of in
quisition at moving lights or other objects
—taking notice, as the phrase is. Imagine
these heads properly adjusted on well pro
portioned necks, and each of the latter
based upon perfect shoulders, with perfect
arms and perfect breasts, all of the usual
development and proportion, below. From
each head downward everything is accord
ing to the wonted formation of nature,
until, from each direction, the center of the
figure is reached. There are two distinct
human beings np to this point—each hav
ing individual existence, each having a
brain and nervous system of its own, with
separate heart, lungs, stomach, bowels and
other vital organs. At the center the two
are one flesh indeed. Here, at the widest
part of the body, is one navel, through
which, before birth, both the distinct lives
drew sustenance. There is no mark of
union here, however, no more than there is
at the same place on any human body be
tween its upper and lower portions. But
on the back Is a well-indicated and perfect
spine, running straight between tho two
heads, from neck to neck, and at its center
—opposite the navel in front—are two dis
tinct ossa sacra, each indicating the termi
nation of the spine from Is particular di
rection, but both joined together. Oppo
site the center, on one side, is protruded n
deformed double leg, having two femoral
bones and two thigh joints, but stllfat the i
knee, and moveable at the will of either
individual, or by both st once. On the op
posite side from the centre are put forth
two distinct legs, of customary proportions
and shapely ; but these are not or mutual
use—one belongs to and Is movable by the >
one Individual life, and ono belongs exclu- {
slvely to nud Is movable by the other, I
Mere, at this central point, each Individual
nervous life stales, wlilie the visible flushly
union becomes wen more straugely and
mysteriously an Invisible uuloti Mure the
two children—for there are certainly two
have l» come one female child, with all the
distinctions of ora complete amt pi rivet
Hers nothing la deformed And here tint
two torporiul system* ore miniatured to
ami have their common silts through tbs
saws irstbri sml tbs same reel urn Above
tbs tussling (fiIMM of tbs two perfect Isgs is
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MOBNING, NOYEMBEB 23, 1870.
the os pubis, in its proper position with
reference to them. In their proper places,
too, and well developed, are the glutei;
there Is also a perfect pelvis, and—nature
here, in f .ct, as in the individual heads
and breaits on either hand (above or below,
according to one’s standpoint), has insisted
on her general rule, from which this strange
production is one of the most remarkable
of known exceptions.
I may just here protest against the popu
lar designation of this wonderful birth as a
double-headed child. It is not a double
headed child. There are two children here,
two persons, two souls, using, from some
accidental or extraordinary economy of
nature, one body. The two faces are so
nearly alike that, but for the fact that one
child has been a little ailing and is soire
what thinned temporarily, even the mother
cannot distinguish between them. But that
their lives are distiuct is shown by the s '-
waking and sleeping separately, by the ap
parent sensitiveness to pain of one while
the other is at ease and comfortable —in
every way that lives are shown to be in
dividual and distinct, except by the won
drous bond of flesh which, apparently in
perfect health, they live, move, and have
their being now, and, according to reason
able belief, may continue to do so indefi
nitely.
THE MOTHEB’S EXPERIENCE AND FEELINGS.
Mrs. Finley was asked by one of those
present if she knew of anything prior to
the children’s birth to which could be at
tributed in any way their condition.
“Nothing,” she answered, “besides a
fall that I had six or seven months ago—
last February or March. In going out of
doors I slipped upon some ice and fell, and
hurt myself severely, so that I felt some
thing was wrong for some time afterward.
I cannot help thinking it was this; but the
doctors all say it was not.”
“ Was there nothing else you remem
ber? ’
“ Nothing.”
“ What were your feelings after the birth
of the children ?”
“ I was beside myself—l did not know
what I should do; I was greatly troubled.”
“ Have your feelings not changed in this
respect? Do yon not feel to.vard them
now much the same as you felt toward your
other children?”
“ Yes,” she said; “ only, may be, I feel
more toward them, because they are so
unfortunate and helpless. I ieel that I
must do what I can, if they live, to take
care of them, and be content. But if it is
to be that they shall die, then I will be
content, too, when I think how helpless and
how sad life will be to them.”
This seemed to me a pioper womanly and
motherly feeling, and the tone of quiet ten
derness and resignation to a fortune she
could not command with which she spoke,
left a good impression.
I asked her how she felt with respect to
the reported intention of exhibiting the
children
“ldo not think I should like that.—
Finley lias had many offers. I feel as
though I’d rather not make up ray mind,
for awhile, about that. But, after awhile,
if they live, perhaps we will. Too soon,
this Winter, it might injure, them. lalffoys
feel for them. If they live, it may be that
we will. If they die, I'll have nothing to
regret. I have concluded to do the best
we can for them. It seema as if they might
live.”
Allusion was then made to a contract
which the parents are trying to have broken,
entered into with O. C. Brown, an loan ranee
agent of this place, whereby It was stipula
ted that Brown should have the privilege
for two years of exhibiting the children, he
taking the family with them and paying
their expenses, with SSO per month beside.
Mre. Finley said that neither her husband
nor she were in their right mind at the
time they signed this contract, it was the
second day after the birth. People were
crowding Into the house. Brown came,
and, as it were, forced them to sign a con
tract, paying $5 down to make it binding.
Mrs. Finley was indeed unconscious of
having signed it all, she said.
“My state of mind was not good. We
hardly knew what we were doing; and I
could not talk and make up my mind.—
Finley was word out with loss ofsh ep and
nursing. At least a dozen were here on the
third day, wanting to arrange for exhibit
ing the children, taking photographs, &c,
The people crowded the house, coming aud
going, so mnch that we were almost crazed,
and had to charge admission as a sort of
defense against them.
“Some days, I understood, as many as five
liundted people from the country round
about sere pressing into the yard and
house te see the remarkable sight.
THE PARENTS.
Joseph Finley, the father is a native of
Pennsylvania, but, came to Union couny,
Ohio, in 1845, and is forty-one years old.
He enlisted in the Ninety-sixth Ohio Vol
unteer Infantry in 1862, and served in the
South and Southwest for three years.—
Twelve years ago he married Anne E.
Marks, a native of Champaign county,
Ohio, and, as I have already mentioned,
they had three healthy and interesting
children previous to the’ last birth. They
are in fair circumstances, not wealthy but
not poor, having a neat little farm of eighty
acres, which seems to be well taken care
of, and they certainly wonld be foolish to
leave it and go about the country for fifty
dollars per month, with their unfortunate
fortune on exhibition, at the beck of a man
with “ awful expression in his eyes,” named
Brown.
THE BIIITH ITSELF, &C.
After leaving the house wcsiw Mr. Fin
ley coining across the fields, and went to
meet him. lie Is a rather slight, dark com
plex! oned man, with n thin f cp, Homan
nose, and of average uneducated intelli
gence, apparently quiet and “easy going,”
as tljc phnse Is, with little shrewdness,
and not more than ordinary energy. From
him little of importance was gathered In
addition to what had been ecru and heard
at the bouse. j asked him about the cir
cumstances of ill* birth which had created
so much talk, ami whether there was any
thing to wliidt lie attributed It in any
way.
” Nothing," he said, "exfipt a severe
fall wlileh my wife had last Winter," and
then he told ua of tlmaame that Mrs. Pin
ley hail mentioned. "For a long lint" after
(Ida she complained of atrsnuu fa lings,"
lie said
" Wars there any reasona why she up
ureheuded lbat there was anything wrong,
iiuuo dlelely todors her i onflnciuniil f"
" Yh." be Mtlil," tor two or three months
Mur* alts thought that souudbiug must lig
wrong, and often said that she did not be
, lleve she would live through her confine
ment.”
“ Did she suffer much at the time of her
confinement?—what physician was pres
ent ?”
“ There was none. She had been about
the house all the timeand at worknight be
fore. She was taken with l.er pains early
in the morning, and in fifteen minutes ft
was ail over. There was no help in the
house but a servant girl we had about two
weeks, to help in cleaning our new house.”
“ How did you feel about it—l mean the
child ?”
“ That,” he said, “ and some other things
have nearly worn me out. It seemed a ter
rible thing to us. My wife was nearly in
sane with trouble about it at first.”
brown’s SPECULATION.
He also alluded to the contract with
Brown, which, he said. Brown had almost
forced upon them when neither of them
were able to think about anything. “He
followed me, after having written out the
contract himself, and, reading it to me
hastily, so that I hardly knew what was in
it, said, as if commanding me, ‘Sign it!
Sign it!’ And I was in such a broken
down state of mind that I was unable to
resist him, aud so had signed it before I
knew what I had done.”
THE FATHER’S SENSIBILITIES.
Finley didn’t seem to have any scruples
of delicacy about exhibiting the children for
money, but thought their lives should not
be endangered by possible exposure this
Winter. He said that himself and wife did
not feel responsible for the strange advent,
and seemed to think it would, not be un
justifiable to indemnify themselves for the
strange imposition of Providence by ns!ng
the same to their worldly advantage.
LEAVE-TAKING.
Returning by way of the house we took
a last look at the children, contenting our
selves with a glance at the two little faces,
lying one at each end of the cradle, quiet,
gentle and placid in sleep. I naturally
hesitate and draw back from what are call
ed “ monsters.” It disheartens me to see
nature, the awful mother, making more
sport of us than we, sadly enough, make of
ourselves. But, I thought, can any one
call these gentle, hapless I icings, these two
frail prisoners in one wall of flesh, mon
sters ? Technically, only—not with the
popular feeling of the word, certainly. And
I came away with a feeling of tenderness
toward them.
The Champion Snake Story.
Mr. Ulysses Lewis, of Itussell county,
Alabama, writes to the Columbus Inquwei'
as follows, under date of September 21:
“Yesterday evening, just before night,
Mr. Rufus A. .Strong, a gentleman who re
sides in our village, and owns a farm about
a mile and a half out, came into town from
his farm accompanied by a negro man
bearing two live snakes on the end of a
long pole; one a Urge rattlesnake, the
other a kingsnake, one of the largest of
his variety. The latter was tightly wound
three or four times aronnd the neck of the
former, and once around the middle of his
body, tbns having his head drawn around
to his side, and firmly held there—about a
foot of each end of the kingsnake being
disengaged—and In this condition they
were brought a mite sad a half, the pole
being run through the loop made with the
body of the rattlesnake by having his head
tied to his side as above mentioned. I sup
pose the kingsnake was afraid of the other
biting him, else he would have turned him
loose long before they had brought them so
far. When they were first found, the king
snake had nearly his whole body tightly
colled aronnd the rattlesnake and was
biting him on the throat. It is not known
how long he had had this advantage. The
struggle in the contest must have beeu des
perate.
A crowd collected aronnd them as soon
as they api eared on the street—which was
in front of the hotel—aud in abont ten
minutes the kingsnake began to relax his
bold, and soon becoming dlseugaged, he at
tempted to escape under the hotel; and al
though it wonld seem lie was entitled to be
set at liberty for his noble deed, yet he was
a snake, and going where he wasn't wel
come, a few licks with a club placed him
lifeless by the side of his hated encmv, who
was dying from the severe and protracted
choking he had received. The kingsnake
became frightened at the crowd, otherwise
I don’t think he wouM have turned his ail
tagonlst loose until he was dead.
Dr. John Norwood, John 11. Lester, Al
bert K. Lgpn, Rufus A. Strong, Judge
O’Neal’s family and myself are all that I
now remember who were present before the
snakes separa'ed.
I measured them this morning and found
the rattle snake to be four feet four inches
long, Including the length of ten perfect
and one imperfect rattle; and the king
snake, though much th ■ smallest, weighing
two or three pounds less than the other,
was four feet six inches long. Both are
now lying near the railroad, where many
of our citizens went to look at them this
morning.
I am fully aware of the extent to which
I jeopardize my character for veracity in
relating such a remarkable snake story,
and nothing but its entire truthfulness and
great peculiarity could have induced me to
communicate a like article over my signa
ture. Uniike most of the tellers of big
snake tales, we have got the snakes and
the witnesses to prove the facts in this
case.
They rather imposed upon Mr* Greeley
out West. At Lawrence he was taken In a
carriage to see the city and Its improve
ments. Keeping htin engaged in converse
tlon, the Irreverent scamps of 1»L escort
diove r.va or six times around a square, at
ouch circuit passing a very flue building In
course of erection. At about the fifth
round he broke far lb i " Well, well, Law
rence Is growing rapidly, Why, there la a
verv large number of fine buildings going
up. Don't you fancy there la a little mo
notony In the architecture, though."
It^MaiiKsni.K,—Tim Mobile Itry.eur men'
Hons a mysterious and almost suiieni-ita
rai occurrence >
•'in Hie Hathollu graveyard, a gentle
shutur ha» falleu lor five days In dry, clear
weather, <w the lot where are hurled ulnrun
of als tnolne family. The r»ln fell In the
tjiulosur*) and nowhere else The suit woe
shining ill around This atmospheric
wonder la atlraeting oekmtile attention.
New Yobk Rice Market.—The Daily
Bulletin, of the 7th lnstapt, says:
This commodity, the raising of which
was so much reduced by the late War, is
again rapidly becoming an article of im
portance in this market. The crop in Geor
gia and South Carolina promises to be
larger than for many years past, being esti
mated at about 80,000 casks for the present
year, against 65,000 in 1869. The Louisiana
crop will fall short, being only 75,000 bar
rels this year, and 100,000 last year. This
will make the aggregate crop of the United
States a trifle larger than last year. That
prices must still further decline seems to
be the general opinion, in view of a pro
spective increase of the crop in India over
last year, and the war in Europe, which
disturbs the export business to Germany
and France, leaving Great Britain as the
only undisturbed market for the surplus
crop, which promises to be a superior qual
ity thnn of last year. Under the pressure
to sell, prices have fallen very considerably
within the past two months, and the mar
ket is dull. There is very little foreign
stock on hand, but the quantities to ar
rive a:e large. The importations of rice
to this port have been gradually decreasing
since the close of the war, and last year
only amounted in value to $247,982, which
is a large decrease on the business of former
years.
The Golden Syrup Swindle.—The
following is clipped from the New Orleans
Times:
My attention has been, directed to a
substance sold largely by dealers, under
the name of sugar drips, and afterward re
tailed as golden syrup, which, upon inves
tigation, appears to be a triumph of
science over nature, since it contains no
sugar a‘, all, but is produced by the de
structive action of strong sulphuric acid
(oil of vitriol) upon starch. As some pre
fer giving their young ones syrup made
from sugar cane, the old way, I will state a
method for distinguishing the difference:
Dissolve a teaspoonful of the “golden
syrup ” in a wine glas9 of rain water; then
add a few grains of tannic acid, when it
will turn black ns ink if the article ie
spurious. If not convenient to procure,
make a cup of strong tea (which contains
tannin), and add a teaspoonful of. the
“golden,” and a fair quantity of ink will
appear. I would suggest the name of
brazen syrup to distinguish the vitriol
from that of sngar cane.
Very respectfully,
Joitn H. Pope, Druggist.
Another Fizzle in the Libel Busi
ness.—The Cincinnati Enquirer thus pleas
antly relates how the libel solt recently
decided in its favor came abont: “ About
a year ago this jonrnal took occasion to
apply the term ‘ blackguard ’ to a couple
of elegant young men, who were engaged
in elevating the moral tone of the commu
nity by conducting a can-can and low vari
ety establishment on Fourth street. It Is
supposed that Immediately thereafter these
eminent Christians fell into disrepute:
their business was seized with a kind of
marasmus or wasting sway, and they felt
it to be their doty to call upon na tor the
payment of the sum of SIO,OOO to ena
ble them to make up their lose and vlndi
cate their character before the community.
We declined to pay the amount upon de-
I" an u iPWf! bunted np a brief
tess barrister—a kind of mushroom flour
ishing In the excrement deposited about
the walle of the court boose—and this
scab, being anxione to attach bis name to «
prosecution which might carry it into the
papers, instituted a suit tor libel. There
was no ground whatever for action, but
the dolts who brought it, and the half
starved barrister who engineered It, have
been figuring aronnd the courts for a year,
trying to get np a case.”
Butter from Milk of Different
Cows.—The question Whether the cream
from the milk of one cow changes to
butter more easily than that from the
milk of others, was recently asked by a
correspondent of the New York Farmers’
Club. In reply It was said that It was unt
doubtedly so, and that the milk of some
cows was nnsulted to pi od nee butter, or
even to fatten a calf, and required much
churning to obtvn what little butter It
contained, Mr. 8. J. Sharpless, of Phila
delphia, who makes the splendid butter for
which the Continental Hotel Is famed,
finds that no two cows are alike in the
time when their cream tnrrt9 to butter.
He has churned the cream of two good
cows In the same mess. One wonld turn
to butter first. He took that out and con
tinued to churn, and a second batch of bat
ter was the result. He Is satisfied that
butter is often thrown away in buttermilk
when the milk of different cows is churned
together, and says the best way is to cbnrn
each cow’s milk by itself till the character
istics of her milk are well understood.
When he would make a prize article and
get the best returns from his dairy he uses
the old-fashioned np-and-down cbnrn, and
takes the cream from one cow only at a
time.
A Cubious Oasf,. —A post mortem ex
amination was held on the body of Mrs.
Elmira Steele, of. Paterson, whose death by
suicide was reported yesterday, which
elicited the fact that the brain was suffi
ciently so'ted from excessive indulgence in
liquor to have caused death, although,
from the clrcum dances, It seems the direct
cause was the power of Imagination.
She went to I)r. Morse’s drug store fora
dose of poison, but the clerk, having been
notified that she had threatened to take her
life, gave her two powders of taitnr emetic,
labelling It In large letters “ poison.'’ It
seemed tho woman took the emetic, and
In the retching taut followed death ensued.
[Asia York Herald, Not. 11.
" GooutcHs."—A cotemporary say* that,
of peanuts, Virginia will send to market
lids year 41*0,000 bushels; Tennessee, 1100,•
000 ; Georgia and the Garolluae, from IV),-
000 to 400,000 bushels, which, together
wlHi what we import from Africa, will fur.
nlsli au abundant supply, Fannsoi And It
quits profitable to raise peanuts, and In the
course ot a fuw years the Dulled mates I
will be raising those nuts by th« million
hnsbela,
A stuttering editor In Wisconsin recent I y
nailed on a brother quid and his call was
announced neat day "I, lists jeylur,«f
the |, | If Dross* /aMT, W W W W’WWWWOS
if town y-y y ysauwaay *
VOL. 29. UO. 47.
i Bonn Piatt in Chicago—Women earn
Side Saddles.—“ Do. yon see that broad
shouldered man, with black, mutton-chop
1 whiskers, on a face that would be.hand
-1 some but for its assurance ?'
“ Certainly.”
“ Well, he is famed for his affhirs with
1 women. It seems to be his profession, for
he is continually the hero of some noted
adventure. What bothers one Is, the why
he should be so successful- A fellow ask
ed him once, and he said the secret was to
be found in the fact that he lived in a first
class hotel and carried a side saddle in his
trunk.”
“ What in the old scratch has a side
saddle to do with it ?”
“ Well, I don’t know. But the gay Lo
thario is a graceful horseman, and few fast
women abont first-class hotels can resist a
ride on horseback.”
“ Well, that is the oddest view of female
human nature I ever encountered. I have
known women ruined through fine clothes,
and blasted by diamonds, but a side saddle
is anew fact and anew feature.”
“Certainly, and therefore to be enter
tained. The ch,ap who drew out the se
cret gave me some other talk of this female
killer. He said that in every first-class
hotel were certain fast females, addicted to
gay apparel ami the pub ic piano. He
said that fellow who was noted for his
success could win his way through a few
songs, and complete his triumph through a
ride on horseback.”
“How disgusting.”
“ Very. Don’t you wish you had a good
tenor voice and a side saddle?”
“ Not if the court knows herself. There
is nothing so beastly disgusting as a pro
fessional deceiver. One may have, through
accident, his little affair, and romantic-se
crecy gilds the sin. But to go prowling
about with a tenor voice, like a tom-cat in
a gutter, is vile.”
“ Korrect.”
f Cincinnati Commercial.
Curious Adventure of a Mechanic—
He Confines Himself in a Bank Vault.
—The Louisiana Savings Bank is building
a large vault. Admission to it is gained
through large wrought iron doors, to which
are affixed patent locks. These locks were
recently put In order by a locksmith named
Tympe. After arranging the fastenings on
the door he lit a candle and proceeded in
side the vault to see how they fitted. Clos
ing the door after him the eccentric catch
of the lock fell, locking him in. Those upon
the ontside could render him no assistance,
since It was a combination lock, and no one
knew the numbers at which it was set In
this narrow cell, shut in by the four walls
of the vault and the huge iron door, the
man felt as if he was bnrled alive. The
only means by which he could obtain air
or drink was through a small hole in the
door,not the twentieth of an inch in dia
msty,~~-fPfae atmosphere of the cell-like
place was fetid and noisome, and the man
felt as If he would suffocate. Fortunately
he had carried with him into the vault a
hammer and chisel, and with them, the only
Instruments he had, he proceeded to cut
his way out. The work was slow and tedi
ous, and required two hours and a half of
incessant labor. He succeeded at last, how
ever, and was taken more dead than alive
from the vault. The wonder Is that he 8M
not suffocate.—jFete Orleans Picayune.
General Lee’s Kindness and Liber
ality.—Biographers and newspaper obitq
m writers have united in ascribing to
Gen. Robert E. Lee the best qualities of
heart ami mind. A Cincinnati paper re
lates tae following anecdote of the deceas
ed, which does him honor: “One day last
Autumn the writer saw Gen. Lee standing
in his gate talking pleasantly to att huna
blyclad man, who seemed very much pleas
ed at the cordial courtesy of the great
chieftain, and turned off, evidently delight
ed, as we came np. After exchanging the
salutations, the General said, pointing to
the retreating form, ‘That is one of oof
old soldiers, who IS in necessitous circum
stances.’ I took It for granted that it was
some veteran Confederate, when the noble
hearted chieftain qoletly added, fought
on the other side, but we must not think of
that.’ I afterwards ascertained—not from
Gen. Lee, for he never alluded to his chari
ties—that he h»d not only 9poken kjndly
to this * old soldier’ who had * fought on
the other side,’ bnt had sent him on his
way rejoicing in a liberal contribution to
his necessities.”
Is the Bond Issue Neyeli to Stop?—
We are informed that Governor Bullbck
has Issued Another Three Quarters of
a Million of State Bonds. This makes
the v.'ist sum of Three Million four hundred
ana fifty-six thousand dollars of bonds in
less than three months. From this enormous
issue but $250,000 has reached the State
Treasury; and only about $400,000 of
State debt is to be lifted.
The mind staggers under the possibili
ties of wrong involved in the stupendous
use of State credit.
The Governor is evidently going it while
he can. He either thinks there Is no here
after, or else he is depending cn raJroad
palaver to make wrong right.
With hand signing bonds, and month
yelling railroad, Rufus looks for his crown
of gubernatorial glory from a bamboozled,
people.— Atlanta Constitution.
Gen. Ewell is now engaged In planting a
few miles from Greenville, Washington
county, Mississippi. He is reported by the
Greenville Times to be in the enjoyment of
fine health, aud looking remarkably cheer
ful and well.
By returns now in from the Bbutb ft If
evident that no Southern State will show
a large Increase of population except Texas.
Tho galu In the whole territory south of
the i’otomne and Ohio, exclusive of Mis
souri, Is not likely to exceed a million ana
a half, or thirteen per etut. Missouri has
gained about a hull million, but nearly the
whole of this came from the north of
Europe.
The mid* shcit on the form of Owl. Homer
Miaokmeii. I» Bollock county, Ala., known
lisShs " Middle I'lueo," together with twelve
or /Uurteea thousand pounds of fodder and
oafs In the loft, was burned on Friday
night of last week, it wa* the act of an
Incendiary
The gin Imnes end screw wf Mr J. T.
Hoi lend, oil the Clleekley or Miller Held
place, lu Alabama, two wiles from Uuium>
ims, Oj i was burned Thursday uvsulwg,
• bout 7 o'clock, With twelve MUM of *u|-
inn, ted I,NO pound* of euttuii sw>4 nup
yendliHMlwy Mil Isms, fg^vu