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VOL. V.
THE
EUREKA
AMMONIATED BONE
SUPER-PHOSPHATE
OF
LIME
Is for sale at
All Points of Importance
IN GEORGIA.
WE HAVE SOLD IT
FIVE SUCCESSIVE YEARS,
AND KNOW
It is the very Article
FOR
PLANTERS TO USE.
UAVID DICKSON, Esq.,
Os Oxford, says ■
It is superior to any
COMMERCIAL
FERTILIZER
He has ever applied, and
RECOMMENDS IT
TO EVERYBODY.
WE SOLD OVER
Two Thousand Tons
IN GEORGIA
LAST YEAR.
IT HAS BEEN TRIED
AND ALWAYS
PAID
THE
PLANTER.
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METHODIT CHURCH— R. B. Lester,
Pastor.
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Road Steamers.
From a description given in the
London Times we think the idea of
getting up a steam engine to run
upon common roads has been car
ried out. The engines now on ex
hibition there easily make all sorts
of turns, carry heavy trains up in
clines of from one in eight to one in
thirteen, winding through narrow
lanes, etc.
The Savannah News comments
as follows upon the Times’ article
on this subject :
With very little improvement,
such as clearing the way of stumps,
filling of large ruts, and tliestrength
ening of the bridges, the roads of
our State, except in the most rug
ged mountain region, could be
adapted to the use of the Road
Steamer. It seems also that for
plowing in the rice or Gotton fields
the Steamer could be used success
fully and with great economy. If,
as claimed and demonstrated.by the
tests described by the Times, the
Itoad Steamer can be made availa
ble for plowing purposes in the
heavy clay soil and uneven, rolling
fields of England and Scotland,
surely it will perform, equally as
well on our level fields and lighter
soil, while if steam power can be
used with economy in those conn
tries where labor is cheaper, more
abundant tyid reliable than it is
with us, it may be employed with
still greater advantage and econo
my by our farmers.
For transportation purposes, if
half that is said of the Road Steam
er is true, it is certainly destined
to work a great revolution in the
business of over-land transporta
tion, and may be employed not on
ly as feeders to our railroad lines,
but also for the conveyance of
freight and passengers in cities and
towns as well as for the ordinary
service upon the plantation.—
We are assured "by the Times that
it not only runs over hard roads
and paved streets without jolting,
over soft roads without sinking,
over muddy roads without stopping,
but that it travels with equal ease
over grass fields, through plowed
fields, upon ice, through loose sand,
and over frozen snow, and climbs
the severest gradients with enor
mous loads. A Road Steamer of
eight horse power, will draw a
stage with thirty to forty passen
get s at the rate of eight to ten miles
an hour, and when used either for
transjiortation or plowing, tables of
estimates show a saving in favor of
the Steamer over horse power of 60
to 70 per cent.
Since we met the article from
the London Times in the Wilming
ton Journal, Captain Henry Bryant,
‘of this city, has furnished us copies
of a circular from Mr. D. D. Wil
liamson, of New York, who has se
cured the exclusive right to rnanu
facture in the United States Thom
son’s Patent Road Steamers. Cap
tain Bryant is agent tor the New
York manufacturer, and is author
ized to take orders for the Steam
ers. *
We hope soon to see a practical
test of the adaptation of this new
invention to the requirements of
our section.
A son of the late President
Tyler, only twenty-one years old, is”
an uhlan in the Twelfth Army Corps
of Saxony, and served throughout
the Franco-Prussian war. He had
been for five years a mining student
at Freiberg, but when the clash of
arms came he laid aside his books
and sought admission to the service.
By an especial favor of the Minister
of War this foreigner was permit
ted to enter the ranks of the King
of Saxony. Being a fine-looking,
gallant young man he made an ex
cellent soldier, and his record as son
of an American President was
enough to cause every officer and
private to seek his companionship.
During the latter part of the war
young Tyler is said to have carried
his cavalry lance into several hot
' engagements.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1871.
Mr. Spriggins’ Experiment.
“I’ll bet you ten dollars I can!”
said Spriggins.
“And I’ll bet you ten dollars you
can’t!” said I, emphasizing the last
word very decidedly.
The moral and conscientious
reader must not be shocked at what
he may consider our gambling, pro
clivities. The phrase, “I’ll bet you
ten dollars,” was simply a clincher
or climax used by Spriggins and
myself when we had exhausted eve
ry argument and each failed to con
vince the other that he was wrong.
And since neither of us, except in
rare instances, ever acknowledged
ourselves in the wrong, we had to
bet ten dollars very frequently.
But we never expected to pay
when we lost. Indeed, we never
demanded payment when the point
in dispute was settled, but conten
ted ourselves in saying “I told you
so.”
The point in dispute in the pres
ent instance arose about an item in
the column of the morning paper.
The item read as follows:
“John Jones, a convict in Sing
Sing Prison, has fallen heir to two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Efforts are being made to secure his
pardon.”
“There,” said I, “you see the
power of money. That man was
just as guilty, before be was worth
two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars as he was afterwards; but be<
hold what a change ! Wealth brings
him friends who make efforts “to
secure his pardon.” Had he re
mained poor his “friends” would
have permitted him to rot in prison
without raising a little finger to se
cure his pardon. This world is a
humbug, Mr. Spriggins—a regular
cheat , in the language of a poem 1
read in boyhood, it is “all hollow,
hollow, hollow!”
As I concluded this spiteful lit
tle speech, Mr. Spriggins straight
ened himself up iu the way he had
when preparing himself for a com
bat ; and I knew we should have a
fight, our tongues being the weap
ons. Without giving the argu
ments pro and con , it will suffice to
say that the discussion was brought
to an end by Mr. Spriggins propos
ing an experiment. lie was be it
understood, a man of means, a bus
iness man of good business stand
ing, but somewhat eccentric, and
tiie proposition he made was to go
round among his friends and tell
them lie was absolutely insolvent.
“If,” said he, “I do this, and they
freely advance money to start me
in business, I win, I have no doubt
that I can borrow all the money I
want with nothing but my face for
security.”
Then, as stated at the outset, we
bet ten dollars each on the result,
and I awaited with eagerness the
result of the practical test.
1, however, ventured to intimate
that if he carried out the experi
ment he might w r eakeu people’s con
fidence in his truthfulness; but
this only made him mor§ determin
ed than ever. So the experiment
was tried.
He went to Mr. Smith, one of his
most intimate friends, and said :
‘Mr. Smith, I am a bankrupt.”
“Indeed !” ejaculated Mr. Smith,
very much astonished. “And, pray,
how’ has it come about?”
“I—l— ’ said Mr. Spriggins, hes
itatingly, for story telling—or, in
plain English, lying—was anew sin
with him, “I—l went security for a
friend and had to pay the last cent
of it.”
“Too bad, indeed,” was Mr.
Smith’s sympathizing response.
“If I can only borrow a few
thousands, however, to get started
in business again, I think I can get
on very well.”
Mr. Smith thought there would
be no difficulty in getting the mon
ey. He would be very glad to ad
vance it himself, but he was “exces
sively short’ just at that time. Mr.
Spriggins knew that this was not
the case, aud his opinion of Mr.
Smith’s undying friendship under
went a rapid and radical change.
He saw all of his many friends
and renewed his request to each in
turn ; but they all happened to be
“short” just at that time. After a
few days of unsuccessful efforts to
borrow money, he humbly acknowl
edged he had lost his bet fairly, and
that his face was not good security
among his friends.”
“I told you so,” said I.
But an unlocked for trouble came
upon him. He was engaged to a
very accomplished young lady.—
HE trust in her was unbounded. —
He had often told me that if there
was a good, true woman on earth,
it was his intended. But her father,
hearing of the insolvency of the
son-in-law that was to be, accosted
'"him, saying, “I understand, Mr.
Spriggins, that you have met with
a reverse of fortune ?”
“Yes, sir,” replied Spriggins,
sheepishly.
“Os course, under your altered
circumstances, you cannot expect to
wed my daughter.”
Here was anew turn in affairs for
which Mr. Spriggins was not pre
pared. He thought at first of cor
recting the falsehood he had him
self started; but the idea suddenly
flashed upon his mind that here was
a good opportunity of testing the
sterling qualities of his sweetheart.
This would be a triumph which
would more than compensate for
his defeats iu other directions.
So he replied, “Os course, sir, I
have a better opinion of your
daughter than to suppose she prom
ised to be my wife for the sake of'
sharing my money. Marriage for
money’—and Mr. Spriggins was he
coming very indignant—and “mar
riage for money, sir, is a self degra
dation, and nothing else, let the
world call it by whatever name it
may. >
“Os course, Mr. Spriggins, my
daughter thought something of you;
but, you know, a man without means
would be foolish to think of marry
ing.”
“I have a good education, and,
I may say, a brave heart; and
though deprived of fortune, I can
earn enough to support myself and
another.”
“It is useless to prolong this con
troversy, Mr. Spriggins,” said the
old man. “Asa man of honor you
will certainly offer to release my
daughter from her engagement.—
Os course, if she does not accept
your offer of freedom rs the best
thing under the circumstances, I
shall have nothing more to say.—
Good day, Mr. Spriggins; I am in
somewhat of a hurry.”
“In a hurry, is he?” muttered
Spnggins, as his intended father-in-,
law disappeared from view.—
“Seems to me that everybody is in
a hurry now that meets me. Ah !
I understand it The sickly smile,
the flurry and hurry, means simply
that they want to drop me from
their list of friends. Well, they
shall be accommodated. But there
is one friend that “sticketh closer
than a brother;” she will not de
sert me. There’s great consolation
in that.”
So saying, he hastened to see her.
He found her in tears. For the
first time since engaged in trying
his experiment, he felt like a very
mean man. He would have con
fessed at once whs t a great liar he
had been making of himself, had
not the confession been a rather
awkward undertaking.
“You have no doubt learned,”
said lie, “that I have met with a
sudden reverse of fortune. Your
father tells me that the only honor
able course for me is to offer to re
lease you from your engagement.—
And, while doing so, permit me to
say that if, after being released
from yous engagement with Sprig
gins the rich man, you will plight
your faith to him as a poor man, I
shall be the happiest being on earth.
I want to be an honorable man and
so give you your freedom.”
Miss Dulcinea sobbed convulsive
ly, but finally succeeded in speaking
through her sobs so as to be under
stood.
“You are very kind, Mr. Sprig
gins,” she said. “I am very sorry
that our engagement must be broken
off, for I did like you so well!”
And so the hopes that Mr. Sprig
gins had entertained were dashed
to the ground. Ilis Dulcinea liked
him very well, but liked his money
better ; and so when she imagined
that was gone,'she too left him. —
Without another word, he strode
off from her presence, a different but
by no means happy man.
“So, so!” he muttered. “The
engagement on her part has been a
mere matter of money. I am the
same man I was before. I am as
good and a great deal wiser.
“You are right,” said he to me.—
“This world is a humbug! There is
not a man or a woman among all
my friends that’s worth a pinch of
snuff. But I’ll be revenged ! I have
a plan in my head which will spite
old Smith delightfully.
Mr. Spriggins seemed to have
been struck with anew thought.—
He left abruptly and I saw him no
more for several days. Meantime
the news was spread around that
Spriggins was not insolvent—that
it was a hoax.
The next time I saw him he told
me, with a sort of malicious pleas
ure, that he had got about even
with his “friends.” Said he, “I know
of an investment that will pay, with
out doubt, at least fifty per cent
I called on Mr. Smith and explained
the thing to him. He was highly
pleased, and offerted to go into the
affair. “But,” said I, “you have no
money—you are excessively short."
I’ve on the rest, with a like result,
and now I’m revenged !”
Mr. opriggins really laughed, but
it was a rather disagreeable laugh.
“I met,” said he, “the father of
her whom I once intended to marry.
He was very friendly, but I told
him that I was in a hurry and
couldn’t stop to talk, my time being
too piecious. And every time those
false hearted friends smile on me
so pleasantly I pass on and tell them
that I’m in a hurry.”
I suppose Mr. Spriggins has had
his revenge, but he is a very sad
man now. He is an old bach
elor and vows that girls care more
about money than a good, true
heart. He says, too, tligt the love
stories scattered over the country
are without any foundation in real
life Poor Spriggins ! He has learn
ed at a great cost the truth that
“Where ignorance is bliss, ! tis folly to be
wise.”
Bill to Make Grant Dictator.
—The New Orleans Times truth
fully says : “Let it be remembered
that the ‘Southern Outrage’ bill,
now before Congress, virtually
transfers the lives and liberties of
the people of the South to the per
sonal rule of the President, who
thus will wield supreme sway over
eleven States of the Union. Does
history present a single example
where such a step taken upon the
road to empire, was ever voluntari
ly retraced ? Whether the bill pass
es or not, let the people remember
it has been gravely deliberated up
on in Congress and advocated by
' the leaders of the Radical party ?”
From the New Orleans Times.
Moderate Drinking.
BY BEVERLEY.
I have recently been much sur
prised to find the impression afloat
that the churches sustain the mod
erate use of intoxicating liquors as
biblical; taking the ground that the
Bible never prohibits except the
taking of it to excess, and
that the Saviour made wine to be
drank socially at a marriage feast.
This last fact always puzzled me un
til I heard a most profound leeture
upon it by Father Mathew, that
great and good man. To my un
derstanding he clearly proved that
the wines drank at the marriage
feasts at the time the Saviour was
upon earth were not intoxicating;
hence the Saviour did not make an
intoxicating wine. This he proved
by facts gathered upon the subject
from old works giving the customs
and habits of that day. After thus
proving the fact, ho drew a most
clear, conclusive chain of reasoning
from the Bible to show that the
Saviour could not, in accordance
with all the rest of his life upon
earth, in accordance with the at
tributes of His God-nature, have
tempted man to drink of an intox
icating liquor by making it, and
permitting it to be given him to
drink at his own discretion, when
he knew so well the susceptibility
of human nature to temptation. I
never saw Father Mathew but the
onee, but from my inmost soul I
thank him for that lecture, I recog
nize him as God-ordained to his
work, to love him as a noble dis
ciple of Christ. Suppose the Bi
ble does not prohibit wine; it for
bids the use of it when it is red and
sparkling in the cup. Surely, this
clearly implies that there was a
kind of wine not intoxicating, or a
stage of the wine when it was not
so. Away with the idea that the
Bible sustains the use of intoxica
ting liquors, however moderately
taken. Paul’s lesson as to the eat
ing of meat —a custom vastly bene
ficial to the body, and rarely carried
to excess—is the true Christian
principle; and surely, if it may be
appliei to the eating of meat, ten
thousand times more appropriately
may it be applied to the use of wine.
I suppose the idea is gaining ground
that the Church sustains moderate
drinking from the Bible, because of
the punch so temptingly displayed
at church fairs, but this is individu
al as to churches, and not a whole.
Oh ! that individual churches,
churches everywhere, would remem
ber their high mission upon ear{h
and trail not the robes of the bride
of Christ in the dust of earth ; raise
them high that the world may look
upon them unsullied ; then may we
ask of men to come within her bor
ders. Let all who partake of the
social glass, however moderately,
remember that all drunkards com
mence moderately, and that num
bers may be lured to the first glass
by their example who will prove too
weak to resist immoderate drinking
finally. Oh! surely everything
tending to so blighting, so damning
a curse, as intemperance, should be
guarded against by every human
being. If there is one subject upon
earth that should be classed next to
the salvation of the soul in impor
tance, it is temperance ; indeed, no
drunkard is in a condition to regard
the importance of his soul’s Salva
tion ; hence, sobriety is an essential
condition to bring men to Christ.—
Surely the Church should favor ev
erything that promotes temperance.
There has also seemed to me a sin
gular opposition to temperance so
cieties, even among temperate men.
I understand how Catholics oppose
them; it is simply their secret
meetings to which they are opposed,
and not their efforts for temperance.
The same objection prevails with
them against Masonry and all secret
societies. Moral and temperate
men oppose them, they say, because
it binds a man by an oath which
they are likely to break, after which
they become worse than ever; but
the present day societies obviate
this by permitting their members to
withdraw. Does my reader ask
where, then, is the good of an oath
if it may be withdrawn from at
pleasure? I answ’er much, every
way. Suppose a man abides in it
only a few months, or even weeks;
for the time he is himself, body and
mind recuperates; and yet more,
for that time, be it long or short,
mother and sisters, wife and chil
dren, look upon him sober, and are
spared his drunken curses and mid
night ravings. Surely no one who
ever entered the home of a drunk
ard and looked upon the wretched
ness of helpless women and children
subject to a mad-man’s abuses, can
think it a small thing to lelieve
them even by the month or week.
There can be no earthly aid so po
tent to the drunkard as temperance
societies, because nothing else so ef
fectually breaks up old associations
and surrounds him with those who
will lure him from it, instead of to
it; then, too, if the society loves
the cause it has espoused, it will be
untiring in its efforts to keep its
members, and who does not know
the power of influence upon the so
ber mind; then there are men so or
ganized that the power of their fel
low-men’s influence is greater than
that of wife or child, and the Sons
of Temperance can be with him on
the street, among men, where wife
and daughter cannot go ; and it is
at the moment of temptation that a
check is most needed and most effi
cacious. God speed the Sons of
Temperance ! God bless them for
their noble lives and influence.—
Let every human being co-oporate
with them. Their’s is a noble mis
sion. They can reach out and take
the drunkard in his imbecility, and
restore him to his manhood, and say
to the church, here he is—ready for
the vast truths you bring to operate
upon him—cast your influence about
him—he can now give his sober
thoughts to the subject. Oh, that
the moderate drinker would remem
ber that it is his example that lures
young men on to drink, and not the
drunkard’s.
Scarlet Fever.
From a circular distributed in
London, England, the Medical Ga
zette extracts the following direc
tions for the management of the
sick room in cases of scarlet fever
and other contagious disorders :
“1. On the first appearance of the
disease the patient should be placed
in a seperate apartment, as near the
top ot the house as possible, from
which all curtains, carpets, bed
hangings and other needless arti
cles of furniture should be removed,
and no person except the medical
attendant and the nurse or mother
permitted to enter the room. 2. A
basin containing a solution of chlo
ride of lime or carbolic acid should
be placed near the bed for the pa
tient to spit in. 3. A large vessel
containing water, in which has been
poured Coudy’s fluid or the solution
of chloride of soda or lime, should
be kept in the room, and into this
all the bed and linen, as soon as it
is removed from the patient, and all
soiled towels, etc., should be placed;
having been kept here some time
the things may be removed and
sent to the laundress. 4. Pocket
handkerchief should not be used
but pieces of rags employed instead,
for wiping the mouth and nose of
the patient; each piece, after be
ing once used, should be immediate
ly burned. 5. A. plentiful supply
of water and towels should be kept
for Jhe nurse, whose hands of ne
cessity will become soiled by the
secretions of the patient; in one
hand basin the water should be im
pregnated with Condy’s fluid of
chloride, by which the taint on the
hands may at once be removed.—
6. All glasses, cups, plates or other
vessels used in the sick room should
be scrupulously cleaned in boiling
water before being used by other
persons. 7. Outside the door of
the sick room a sheet should be sus
pended so as to cover the doorway;
this should be kept constantly wet
with a solution of carbolic acid or
chloride of lime. The effect of this
will be to keep every other part of
the house free from infection. 8.
The discharge from the bowels and
kidneys of the patient should be
received into vessels charged with
disinfectants, such as the solution
of carbolic acid or chloride of lime,
and immediately removed. By
these means the poison thrown off
from internal surfaces may be ren
dered inert and deprived of the
power of propagating the disease.
9. The thin skin or cuticle which
peels off from the hands, face and
other parts of the body in conva
lescent patients is highly contagi
ous. The plan recommended for
preventing the poison from the skin
being disseminated through the air
is to rub oil or lard over the skin.
This practice is to be commenced
on the fourth day after the appear
ance of the eruption and to be con
tinued every day uutil the patient
is well enough to take a warm bath.
These baths should he administered
every other day for four times,
when the disinfection of the skin
may be regarded complete. This,
however, should not be done with
out first consulting the medical at
tendant. The foregoing directions
will apply to all kinds of fever,
«mall pox, and all other contagious
diseases.
The patient having been removed,
all linen articles, such as sheets,
towels, pillow cases, and bodyliDen,
are to be disinfected as by direction
No. 3. This done, the blankets,
counterpains and woolen articles of
clothing are to be suspended on
lines, and the mattresses and beds
placed over the backs of chairs;
the furniture also is to be removed
from the walls, the windows closed,
and paper pasted over the crevices;
the chimney opening of the fire
place is also to be effectually stop
ped up. An old saucepan lid or
other open iron vessel is next to be
placed in the middle of the room,
into which a quarter of a pound of
stone brimstone, broken into pieces,
is to be put; and the person who
does it must immediatly leave the
apartment, close the door, and
paste paper over the crevices. At
the expiration of twenty-four hours
the room may be entered, and the
doors and windows thrown open to
allow the fumet of sulphur to es
cape. By this process the room
and everything in it may be consid
ered to have been thoroughly dis
infected.
Forty years ago Simon Came
ron purchased for one hundred dol
lars a spur of the Broad Mountain
in Pennsylvania. It is now worth
one million dollars. Coal has been
mined out of it for thirty-five years,
and he has realized, in the shape of
royalty, about one hundred dollars
a day.
—ln the North German Confed
eration there were 21,330,000 Pro
testants and 8,175,000 Catholics;
in the new Empire there are 24,-
840,000 Protestants and 13,380,000
Catholics; the relative proportion
being raised from three to eight to
1 two to three.
Foreign Trade of the United States.
From the statistics of foreign
trade for the year 1870, recently
published by the Bureau in Wash
ington, it appears that the imports
for 1870 were $461,115,087, as
against $438,585,994, showing an
excess of $22,529,093. The total
exports, including specie to the
amount of $55,000,000, were about
two millions less than the imports.
The value of goods in warehouse at
the close of 1870 was about 4,000,-
000 in excess of the .stock at the
close of the year previous, so that
regarding figures only, without ref
erence to gold premiums, the bal
ance of trade for the past year is in
favor of this country. In 1869, af
ter exporting $46,000,000g01d, there
was still a balance of about $54,-
000,000 in figures against the Uni
ted States, so that there has been
an actual improvement this year in
the balanee of trade of about $56,-
000,000. When we take into con
sideration that the annual product
of coin in California is about $60,-
000,000, most of which can readily
be spared, it is impossible not to re
cognize the fact that in spite of bur
densome taxation, partisan legisla
tion and Radical demorilization, the
country is developing in a material
point of view.
A Fisherman’s Wife. —Prudent
or otherwise, the fisherman will
marry. Without a roof, without a
rod of land, or a floating timber
hoad he will marry like the rest of
mankind. lie hires a room or two,
a bed, a stove, a few chairs, a clock,
a table, cutlery and crockery to set
and his home is complete. A car
pet is a luxury. Said a fisherman’s
three months’ bride to a landlord,
“You needn’t paint the floor, I’ve
got a carpet to put on it.”
You should have heard the tone
in which this was uttered. Carpet,
it was brown stone front, carriage
and span, and a trip to Paris to her.
The absent fisherman may or may
not be due, but the anxious wife
will begin to look for him early.—
This looking for canfiot last but a
few weeks. The inevitable conclu
sion must be accepted if absent lon
ger. No vessel has ever arrived af
ter having been given up as lost by
the owner.
The picture of a wife and mother
sick at home drew a skipper to run
from the security of a harbor home
ward, with a storm pending.—
Though the wife heard, as she
thought his accustom rap under her
window as a signal for her to open
the door, he never came; but the
certainty instead that the vessel’s
crew perished on Cape Cod.—
Changes often meet him on his re
turn. A young wife about to be
come a mother, said to her husband
who was loth to leave her, —
“Go, John, I shall do well. You
know you can’t afford to lose the
trip.”
He went; in a couple of months
returned. You don’t know how
many names he had selected for his
boy or girl; neither do I. You do
not know the hope that was in his
heart as he lifted the latch ; God
knows. What? No welcome ! The
curtains down ; the room cheerless
and silent. Babe and mother died
and were buried together—the
neighbors told him.
Sweet Potatoes. —lt is desira
ble to plant sweet potatoes as soon
as possible. There is no necessity
for high hills or beds. Break deep
and thoroughly, open furrows with
shovel, 4 feet apart, put in cow-pen
manure, perfectly rotted stable ma
nure, a little cotton seed, or a little
of any good commercial fertilizer;
list on the manure, and plant potato
in this list. As soon as grass ap
pears, run furrows on each side- of
the list. This will kill the grass,
and give the potatoes a start in per
fectly clean land. Some recommend
this close siding and lapping of
dirt, even after the potatoes begin
coming up and the vines are liable
to be covered up, inasmuch as other
sprouts will soon come up in their
places. Moderately rich ground and
rather sandy, kept entirely clear of
grass and planted early, will insure
a good crop, if the seasons are at
all good. It strikes, us that the
sweet potato might be profitably
used as feed for stock, on a much
more extended scale than they are
at present serving a purpose simi
lar to, but better than that which
turnips, carrots, &c., do in England
and at the North. —Southern Culti
vator.
The Reinterment of John C.
Calhoun.— The remains of John
C. Calhoun were exhumed on Sat
urday morning, and replaced in the
vault where they originally reposed.
It will be remembered, by a cho
sen few that, on the night preced
ing the evacuation of Morris Is
land by the Confederate forces, the
bones of Calhoun were taken from
their vault, for obvious reasons, and
were laid iu St. Phillip’s Church
yard, to the east of the venerable
church. There the remains of our
greatest statesman, have rested in
peace during these six eventful
years.
The Rector, assistant Rector and
the Vestrymen of St. Phillip’s
present at the disinterment, and fol
lowed the coffin as it was borne to
the old vault, w est of the church.
It was indeed a solemn scene.
—There was a fatal case of sun
stroke in New York on Saturday,
the earliest on record in that city.
The mercury was reported at sev
enty-eight degrees.
NO. 17
VARIETY.
A good thing to bring the hair'
out—a tomahawk.
Avoid debt—it is better to pay
down than to pay up.
When are soldiers like
nel ? When they don’t shrink.
—A Western editor reports mon
ey “ close, but not close enough to
be reached.”
Anna Story was recently married
to Robert Short.» Avery pleasant
way' of making a Story Short.
—A young man at Hopkinton,
lowa, noticing that his tobacco
didn’t “ chew right,” dissected the
plug and found that a lizzard had
been pressed between its folds.
—An old lady in New Jersey
has given up snuff and sends the
savings to the American Board of
Foreign Missions. She used two
cents worth every four weeks.
A poor author is much like a-'
worn-out printing press. He may
stride hard and use much ink, hut
he will nevor make a good impress
sion.
Diseaze and pills, w r hen they enter
a man’s body, are like two lawyers
when they undertake tew settle hit
affairs ; they compromize the mat
ter by laying out the patient.
—A Missouri paper has the fol
lowing advertisement:
“ Wanted, an able-bodied man to
hold my w r ife’s tongue —she and I
being unable to keep it quiet. Con
stant employment given.”
—Atlanta has made a move to
ward a street railroad by subscrib
ing $15,000, and electing R. Peters
president of the company.
Last summer a mare waff
bought in Augusta for $125, and
was considered very common. At
Charleston, untrained as she was,
she won-the principal race—best
two in three in 1:51 time. She is
now valued at SI,OOO and is to be
regularly trained.
The Lawyer and the Irishman.
While a number of lawyers and
gentlemen were dining at Wiscas
sett, a few days since, a jolly sonl
from the Emerald Isle appeared
and called for dinner.
The landlord told him he could
dine when the gentlemen were
done.
“ Let him crowd among us,”
whispered a limb of the law, “ and
we will have some, fun with him.”
The Irishman took his seat at
the table.
“ You were born in this country,
were you, my friend ?”
“ No, sir; I was born in Ire
land.”
“ Is yonr father living ?”
“ No, sir; he is dead.”
“ What is your occupation ?”
“ A horse-jockey, sir.”
“ What was your father’s occu
pation ?”
“ Trading horses, sir.”
“ Did yonr father cheat any per
sons while he was here!”
“ I suppose he did cheat many
sir.”
“ Where do you suppose he went
to ?”
“ To heaven, sir.”
“ And what do you s’pose he’s do
ing there ?”
“ Trading horses, sir.”
“ Has he cheated anyonethere ?”
“ He cheated once, I believe, sir ”
“ Why did they not prosecute
him ?”
“ Because they searched the
whole kingdom of heaven, and
couldn’t find a lawyer.”
Curiosities of Advertising.—
Grief and business have seldom
been more thoroughly mixed than
in the following obituary advertise
ment. The residence of the defunct
we omit, and the name we have
changed, therefore it will not wor
ry his friends:
“Othneil Sitgreaves, we are sorry
to stait, has decesed. He departed
this last Mundy. He went 4th
without any struggle, and sich is
life. He kept a store, which
his wife now waits on. His vir
chews wos numerous, and his wife
inherits them. We are happy to
stait that he never cheeted, speshul
ly in the wate of makeral, wich
wos olways nice and smelt sweat,
and his surviving wife is the same
way. We niver knew him to put
sand in his sugar, though he had a
big sand-bar in front of his house;
nor water his lickers, tho the Ohio
River past his door. Piece tn his
remanes. He leves 1 wife, 9 chil
dren, 1 kow, 4 hoses, a growcer’s
and other quadroopeds to mourn
his loss. But in the landwidge of
the poit, his loss is thare eturnal
gane.”
“Now. gentlemen,” said a per
ipatetic lecturer to a somewhat noisy
crowd who had gathered to one of
his seances in an Eastern village,
“how would you like a good black
guard story ? All in favor will raise
their hands.” Nine tenths of the
dexter paws present instantly went
up, and there was a sudden hush of
all noisy demonstrations. The lect
urer went on with his original sub
ject for a few minutes, when some
incautious individual broke out
with, “where’s that story?” “Bless
you,” was the reply, “I did not in
tend to tell any such story. I only
wanted to know how many black
guards are present.” You might
have heard a pin drop any time du
ring the lecture, after that.
