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VOL. VI. THE APPEAL. 4VBLJBHEn EVERY FRIDAY, By J. P. SAWTEIX. Terniß of Subscription: V)NE Year. ...$3 00 j Six Months....s2 00 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. IST No attention paid to orders for the pa per uu'ess accompanied by the Cash. Rates of Advertising : One square, (ten lines ortess,) $i 00 for the first and 75 cents for each subsequent inser tion. A liberal deduction made to parties 'who advertise by the year- Persons sending advertisements should mark 'the number of times they desire them inser ted, or they will be continued until forbid and •"harged accordingly. * Transient advertisements must be paid tor >at the time of insertion. If not paid for before the expiration of the time advertised, 2o per 'cent, additional will be charged. Announcing names'of candidates for otbee, $5.00. Cash, in all cases _ - Obituary notices over five lines, charged at regular advertising ra'es. All communications intended to promote the Wivate ends or interests of Corporations, So cieties, or individuals, will becharged as ad vertisements. • ~ . Jon Work, sucb as Pamphlets, Circulars. Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will be execu ted in good style and at reasonable rates. AH letters addressed to the Proprietor win be promptly attended to. To Those About to Marry That certain little hypocrisies are sometimes practiced upon each oth er by young ladies and gentlemen in the matrimonial mood is scarce ly a matter of doubt; but. the ap ' pended simple narrative of one of the devices by which an ardent maiden may be able to preserve an appearance of invincible amiability before her lover—although given upon the authority (partially re vised) of one “ W. C. Q.” in the Rochester Union—seems- ALMOST INCREDIBLE. When Jacob courted Mary Jane. A lass without a fault he thought her. And cv’ry cv’ning, fair or rain, Attired in all bis best he sought her. She’s honest, true, and kind said lie; As she is pretty in her features; And if she’ll only many me, Weil be the happiest of creatures. Ilis parents, hearing lioW he felt, ■ And noticing liis eager flurry, Said : *• Son, be cautious. She won't molt Don’t be in such a precious hurry, Her family are not renowned For being quite’as meek as Moses, And some who married in it found No end of thorns among their roses.'’ ' I’H try her temper,” Jacobserid. “ In all the. ways by spite invented ;' r But-e’er a dozen tricks lin’d tried; Ilis own good nature sore repented. The mqre lie teased, to make her mad, Instead of vixen spunk revealing, She only seemed as meekly sad -As comes of wounded tender feeling. No longer seeing room to doubt That she was mild beyond expression, 'Our Jacob brought the question out, And she surrendered at discretion. In proper course the wedding came,. " With orange blooms, and tears and laughter ; A bridal tour to crown the same, - - And pretty cottage home thereafter* But, ah, alas, for Jacob’s peace l . Ere yet the honeymoon was over, His Mary's temper broke the lease He thought lie had oh life in clover. From beiug gentle as of old. And shedding tears when he’d offend her, She-turned into a perfect scold, As ugly as the Witch of Endpr! Astounded at the feai ful Change, And wond’ring how he had been blinded, The hapless ntan could not arrange The question’s answer as he minded ; Till at her father’s house, one.day ; lie put the querry, quite emphatic : • ■“ HoW did you take me in, that Way Said she, "I’ll show yon in the attic.” And then they climbed the garret stairs, Till, standing under beams unnumbered. The lady showed, with mocking ail’s. - A central post, with braces cumbered ; You see it’s nearly worn iu twain, Or seems to be, with weightit’sjearried ; But with my teeth I gnawed the grain, A fortnight, just, before we married ! “ Whenever you would tease me most, And then had gone, aud left me beamiug, I r Uscd to come and gnaw that post, To keep myself fiom raging, screaming ! I knew you’d never knowyouVmind, If temper I should show forbade you.” Said JaSob, “ that, my dear, was kind ; But don't I wish some other had you !” A teacher questioning little boys about the graduations in the scale «of being, asked: “What comes next to man ?” And here a little shaver, who was evidently smart ing under a defeat in the previous ■question, immediately distanced all competitors by promptly shouting: “His under-shirt, ma’am !” --A local minister, in announcing n lecture by an itinerant brother, paid the following high compliment to the lecturer’s great eloquence: “I have often heard the most fa mous men in America ; but there are times when the flame of liis .pathos licks the everlasting hills wifh.a roar that moves your soul to the depths fathomed by lew other men.” . The following composition has beei) turned out by an American scholar, aged 13: “A boy without a father is an horpbau, -without a jnoihar, a double horphan, but is oftenest without a grandfather and a grandmother, and then he is an Jiorphanist,” CUTHBERT 111 APPEAL. For the Cutbbert Appeal. A Tour Through Texas, < - ' OR - Information for Emigrants. I have been requested to give a chapter on Mechanical and Mannfac turing Labor,and will endeavor to do so. Those desiring to engage many of the ordinary mechanical pursuits, after going to Texas, can find encour agement at good prices in almost all ‘parts of the State- I believe me chanic’s labor, commands about the same prices here in coin as in cur rency iu the Northern States— prices range from $2,00 to, $5,00 per day in specie. Buildings' and other improvements are in demand* in nearly all the towns, and new towns are constantly springing up all over the State. Those who un derstand the different trades and manufacturers will here find a de mand both for their skill, and ample opportunity for profitable invest ment, if they can bring capital.— Here we have an unequaled supply of tanning material in oak barks,, and in the west an inexhaustible supply of the tanning substance in the native raesquit, the. entire tree being used for that purpose, and considered superior to any other material in the great- rapidity with which it penetrates through the thickest-hides. And' yet they are now sending nearly all their hides to the North to get them and then paying several times the price they get for them, to get them bacK again in leather, and paying heavy charges both ways. Surely it cannot bo long before the manu facture of leather will be found to be th*o most profitable business in Tex an. And is there not an equally inviting field for the manufacture of boots, shoes, harness, sadlery, etc. ? I have not heard of a sipgle instance of failure -when this business has been properly undertaken, in the other Southern States'; and there is certainly no greater demand for it in any State than in Texas. But no branches of business cau *uc cessfutly prosecuted by,any except those who understand them, and our misfortune has been that the scarcity of skilled labor among us is such tli at most of the-first at temp's in pursuits requiring bo h skill and experience were made by those who neither, and whose ef forts are nothing but crude experi ments. ■ Texas offers great induce ments to skill and capital in almost every branch of manufacture. But we cannot dismiss .this sub ject without calling the attention of Northern Manufacturers of cotton and wool to the inviting field -pre sented to thenr in the South, and'es pecially in Tex'as,-for carrying -on their Manufacturing business.— .Were they to transfer their machin ery to Texas in the midst of our cotton districts, we venture the assertion that they would more than double their present profits. I have demonstrated this in previous is sues of this paper, and any intelli gent man, in order to be satisfied of its correctness, lias only to look at the great saving *in the baling, handling, and transportation of the cotton by.land and sea, the una voidable loss that always takes place in the weight, and the still greater loss in the injury done to the staple or fibre by the tremen dous compression it undergoes *to reduce each -bale to the .smallest size possible in order to save freight, and then again the breaking of the fibres by the machinery in order to restore t]ie hard compressed cotton to the condition it was in, when •first coining from the gin, so as to fit it for manufacture. To this should be added the loss of time, and the Interest of the money in vested in this process of carrying the raw material two op- three thou sand miles to the factory, and then bringing the fabric back again to be sold iu the South, and thus ad ding another charge for transporta tion, commission, storage, etc. We repeat that every iutelligent manu facturer of the North' when he properly considers this subject in all its bearings, will hardly fail to be convinced that lie could double his present profits by carrying on his business in the great cotton pro ducing State of Texas. Mr. Sprague, of Rhode Island, seems to under stand this important subject, and is hence establishing factories in the South. I also noticed a paragraph iu the papers to the -effect that the Passaic Cotton Mills at Paterson, N. J., are about to be removed with all the machinery to Flat Shoals, DeKalb County, Georgia.— We predict that this move will be .followed by many others, and that CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1872. it will not be many years before the 'Eduth will have its full share of manufacturing capital, enterprise, and skill, introduced from the North. And whatever may bo said to the contraryby designing politi cians, I here assert that Northern people thus coining to Texas will be received not % only with hearty welcome, but with rejoicing. \ . T. M. -A. hmiiait Immigration. The New York Express has a letter, from Berlin, which gives a striking picture of a “social move men ti’ now going on in many parts of Germany. Large masses of the rural population are swarming across the Atlantic. The lines to Hamburg and Bremen are all crowded with intending emmigrants villages are'half emptied, and forc ed sales of property, at twenty-five per cent, belowits real value, testi fy to the eagerness of owners to hurry away to the western land of promise. 'lt is stated that the ma jority of these emigrants are skilled mechanics and artisans, and as such can scarcely fail to exereise an important influence upon the indus trial development of the country. It is just this class, of imigracts that is needed to restore and build up the waste places of our beauti ful Southern country. But the best mode and manner of getting them is what should first interest otir people. The West presents rich and fertile plains, the North the factory and work shop, besides they, have a regular system for pre senting these claims to those who are expecting To leave the-old coun try, and upon their landing in New York, t{tey are taken in charge and immediately put aboard a train Westward bound, or march ed off in solid column to the work shops" in.the city, and once at work never seek other changers, but com municate to friends across the wa ter their location, -and at once seek .to draw theln in that direction. The South wants emigrants— needs them. But untie a regular systematic course is adopted, and acted upon, wi ll funds sufficient to enable par agents to properly lay*our claims before them, on both sides of the Atlantic, we may nev er hope to-receive them. Wo have on our table an elabo rate ■and w.ell-preprtred memorial to the people of the South, from the pen of Frank Schuller, of Clarke county, upon .the subject of {‘lmmi gration of capital and -population to the South,” which, from our hasty glance at its. contents, pre sents the most feasible and practi cable solution o's this important question we have seen, and which should be engaging the minds of our entire country. We trust the subject of Immi gration will bo discussed in general , by the planters, land owners, cap italists, press, and legislators, and let spine plan be instituted that will turn the tide of immigration to this* the'brightest field on God’s green earth. .Thoughts. And, after all what is wealth ? and in the end what matters pover ty? The rude box that contains the poor man’s remains is as soft a resting place for the dead as the splendid receptacles, prepared for the rich. The briny tear of the poor man’s child shed in grief over her father’s grave, - is as heart born and pure as that of a princess shed at the tomp of the kiog. The wild rose', planted by his dis consolate wife to mark the spot where her hopes lie buried, is a no ble tribute to his honest fame as the stately monument of marble or brass erected to the memory of the rich. And at the last day when the trumpet shall sound to awaken the dead, it will as soon arouse the poor man from his humble sleep be neath the sod as the rich man who reclines in a princely vault, and the green sward that covers the one yields up its charge as readily as the marble tomb tbat contains the other. What, then, is the distinction be tween the rich and the poor, the high and the low, the noble and the ignoble .by birth ? Miserable worms that we are, The span of life is but a dot on the cycle of eter nity ; and yet we live in arrogance and. folly as though our days were not numbered. —“Talk about the jaws of death!” exclaimed a mau who was living with his third scokling wife; “I tell you they are no touch to th 6 ‘jaws of life,” ' ' General J. B. Gordon to Ku-Klhv Committee man—A Rasper. We find the following letter from General. John B. Gordon,- of this State, in the Washington Patriot' of Wednesday: * New York, May 20, 1872. Hon; John Scott, United States Sen-' ator from Pennsylvania: Sir :—My attention has been call ed to some remarks made by you in the United State§ Senate on Friday the 17th instant, in which you al lege that “General J. B. Gordon, of Georgia, was among the organizers and earliest leaders” of the Ku klux. Not satisfied with the prompt de nial by two of your Brother Sena tors, you sought, in furtherance of the political object which is appar ent tltfOughot your remarks, still to impress the idea that “General Gor don refused to tell all he knew upon the subject,” and you effect to be lieve that I bad concealed facts with in my knowledge for dishonest pur poses. It is hot for me to contrast my motives, or my honor with yours; but your persistent reitera tion, in your place iu the council chamber of the nation, of a state ment already stamped as a false hood, demands some notice from me. You cannot be ignorant of the fact that I distinctly stated iu my testimony, that I knew nothing of any such order as the “Ku-klux,” save what I had seen in the news papers; that I had belonged to an organization of gentlemen, the na ture of which was that of police'for the preservation of-the peace in the disorganized-state of our society; that there was no political idea in it; that it had never, wjthin my knowledge, called a meeting of its members; that.l had never seen or heard t>f a disguise in Georgia, ex cept. those worn by two c apt a red robbers, who wer6 members of, and fit represenatives of, your own po litical party', as it exists id many portions of the South, and these two I believe are now iti the . Georgia Penitentiary. This is my impres sion, as stated in testimony before the investigating committee in W ashington. If your Vision, sir, has not been distorted by a prejudice which, I respectfully submit, is unworthy the high position you hold as a repre senative of a great nation, you would have seen upon your own Southern tour what every honorable man who goes among us -sees, viz : that whatever crimes have been committed in the South are the direct outgrowth of the wrongs perpetrated by tho in'famou's’ State governments you have set over us. 1 challenge your denial of the fol lowing facts ; Whatever apprehensions were felt at the cessation of the war for the peace of society and the safety of citizens, in consequence of the over throw of our local governments, the disbanding of an army suddenly made paupers* and the emancipa tion of a whole race of slaves,-these apprehensions were all soon allay ed. The kindliest relations existed between the two races, peace, and observance of law were everywhere found. And never, sir, until your carpet-bag governments, . through the fears and cupidity of the pool deluded negro, had embittered* him against us,.and by his aid and yours had robbed our treasuries, plunder ed our corporations, blighted our ag riculture, blasted our hopes, and hung debt like a millstone about our necks, never until then, and un til the administration of law became a mockery, and political subservi ency a passport to Executive clem ency for efime, wirs- the pease of the South ever broken or ill-will en gendered between the races. And it is this diabolism you would con tinue m the south.. Like the tor mentor in the Spanish bull’ fights, you continually fling the bloody flag in the face of.the negro, and goad the white man to desperation with the bayonet,, that the inevitable con flict may furnish the excuse for the perpetration of your despotism. I pray that the American people may rebuke this spirit m the com ing elections, and let the reign of constitutional government be once more inaugurated. 'But be that as it may, I shall not permit* you by 'my silence to" bolster up the for tunes of a political party by thus dragging mj T name into notoriety, without asking you to carry the re sponsibility of the wilful falsehood you have perpetrated in the effort. I am, sir very respectfully, yours, J. B. Gordon, of Georgia.- The Production of Iron.— One hundred and forty thousand opera tives are employed in the produc tion of iron in the United States. Forty-two thousand of these are e in preparing ore and fuel; 25,000 in preparing fuel for rolling mills; 42,000 in rolling mills; 12,500 in bloomeries ; 800,000 are engaged in manufacturing'articles of iron. Thus we have a total of 940,000 men employed in the iron interest. The value of pig iron manufactured last year was" $75, 000,000. The product of the roll ing mills and forges was $65,008,- 000, and the value of other manu lactures wa§ $762,000,000, aud the entire value of manufactured iron for the year was $900,000,000, . —Every column, of a newspaper contains from ten to twenty thou sand distinct pieces of type. • The displacement of a single one makes an. error. Is it strange that errors occur ?. * In l iigrafel'nl Railroad. Jones had heard of a widow' wlio had saved* a train of cars from de struction by warning t,he engineer, as the train approached, that a cer tain bridge had been washed away; who was liberally rewarded, receiv ing- a pass for life on nearly all the railroads in the country, and a pres ent of ten thousand dollars from the company whose train she sayed, so Jones thought it pretty profits* ble business and concluded he’d try it. He lived near a railroad bridge, and lie anxillmsiy watched and waited for it to wash away, feeling sure that it must go sometime. Every-rainy' night he got up and paced the floor by spells, aud then took his umbrella and went to see if the bridge was beginning to go, but it was no go. At last he concluded if an acci* dent would not happen*of its own accord he would make one to order, so he got upon a high bank at the side of tho track one afternoon, and rolled a big stone down upon the rails.- It' was just a few minutes before the lightning express train was due, and tln'owing off liis coat and hat so as to' appear as excited as possi ble, he .went forth to meet it. He saw it coming in the distance, so he tied a red cotton handkerchief to a hoe handle, and waved it above-his head in a wild excited manner, as a signal of danger. But he present .ed such au appearance that the en gineer thought him a crazy man es caped from a neighboring asylum, and so paid no heed to him, and tha train thundered on. There was a sudden whistle of down brakes, a rapid reversing of the engine, then a terrible crash. The train was wrecked ; the engin eer and fireman were killed instant ly, the conductor and all the brake men dangerously -if not fatally wounded ;. and about ten per cent* of tho passengers horrible mangled. Jones didn’t got a pass for life on the principal railroads and a purse of .610,000 -but he got ten years in the penitentiary for manslaughter, having been seen by a neighbor when in the act of rolling the big rock on the track which caused the calamity. And now he is learning to manu facture shoes by the original pro cess, and is of the opinion that rail roads are a curse to the country. A Masonic Story. Two men had beenfast friends. Iu an evil hour they quarreled. They did not speak, and had not spoken for years. Mutual friends tried the art of reconciliation in vain- Oue of them became a Mason after the estrangement, and it happened that the other remained ignorant of the fact. One evening he too was ad mitted to the lodge. Almost the first voice he heard, and certainly the..first face he saw was that of.his enemy, who presided over, the cere monies'of initiation, and was obli ged, accordmg to usage, to address him as “brother.” This was a pecu liar situation, and a severe ordeal for both. After the lodge was closed, the Apprentice sought the Master, and without any prelimina ries, the following colloquy ensued, commenced by the newly made. M ason : “Are you . a member of this lodge ?” The answer was, “I am.” “Were you present when I was elected ?” . “I was.” “May I ask' if you voted ? ’ “I did.” “Now will you tell me how many votes it requires to reject a candi date on ballot-for admission ?” The Worshipful Master answered “One.” There wa.- nothing more to say. The initiated extended his hand, which was warmly grasped by the other, and uttered with thrill ing accents, deep emotion mellowing lns.yorce,f“ Friend ! Brother! you have taught mo a Lesson I shall nev er forget.” This is a little. raj r of Masonic light. . No language is so eloquent as the silent.throbbing of- a heart full*of joyful tears. While this kind of cement is used in our moral edifice should it not be ensuring ? Masonic Trowel. —Two Deivs boys were stand ing before a cigar store, when one asked the other, “Have- you got three cents?” “Yes.” “Well, I have two cents ; give me your three cents,'and I will buy a five center.” “All right,” says No. 2 handing quL the money. No. 1 enters the store, procures the cigar, lights it and 'puffs with a.great deal of satis faction. “Come, now, .give us a* pull, said Nq. 2. Ifurnished more than half the money!” “I know that?’ said: the smokerA “hut then I’m president, and you, being only 1 n stockholderj you caii spit.” A Touching' Story. . A few years since a family of poor imniigrants—.a widow and her, daughters—returning from the lar West to. their old home in Ohio, halted in a little grove bordering an Illinois prairie, a large tract of which, though it was dotted over with comfortable’dwelling houses and productive farms, had no buil ding yet, consecrated to Hie worship of the Lord. They had halted to bury their dead—a child of ten years old called as in a moment — the only son and brother, the light of his mother’s eyes, once the pride of the father’s heart. The body had been lowered into the earth, and the sods were being piled above it, and the woman seated on the trunk of a fallen tree was ga zing with dry eyes, and a stony look in her face, at the spot she would most likesly never "see again.- The youngest of the two daugh ters, a slender, feeble girl, with eyes unaturally bright and deeply flushed cheeks, was briefly telling to a few of us, who had gathered around the strangers, the sad story of her mother’s life—the hopes, unceasing struggle, repeated dis appointments and the present des pair. The horses had remained hitched to the wagon. It was late autumn, and tha remainder of the fair, sweet day must 'be spent' in prosecuting the now doubly Weari some journey. When tho last sod was returned to its place and the window, lifting , herself from the earth, was moving away from the little mound, the men who had been performing the last sad officers for the dead drew near each other and exchanged a few words, and then one of them, taxing a paper and pencil from liis pocket, steped to the woman.and.suid in a low, pitying tone : ‘(Your child shall not be in a nameless grave ; what shall bo put on the stone wo will place .here to his memory ?” lie was oblidged to repeat the words before the bereaved mother comprehended their, import, but when she did understand, .the numb cold, stern look gave place to one of deep gratitude. The hard toil worn hands seized the pencil and paper—warmth seemed, to dif fuse itself through her whole frame —and she began to write carrefully, as if she was engraving—that dear name upon the—“ Mark,” And then she paused and glanced down upon the solitary grave and then toward the clear blue sky. “His name is written in heaven,- she said, and it will always stand there !” Let the sum you would raise, that it may be remembered liere for a little while be my contribution to the building of a house—His name shall be heard—who is the resurection and the life.” It was little she did ; but we who to day bend tlie knee in St. Mark’s. thank the Lord that the poorwidow tarried with us a few hours on that sad autumn day ; and though her life may seem to . herself but one only of “strife and loss,” we believe that she will not ,go omptyhanded' to her master - when called.—Ex chanye. . The Washington correspondent of the Savannah News telegraphs the following on the 21st: The officials at the White House are very much exercised over a telegram from prominent Georgia Republicans, conveying information that the Republican delegation from that State to the Philidelphia Covention were not instructed to vote for Grant; that through the manipulation of certain parties com netted with the Savaimah Custom House Ring, the entire, delegation was cast with a view of throwing its strength for Boutwell. It has been decided by- a Now Jersey court that legal notices re quired by law to be printed in a pa per published in the county where the process of law is to be executed, can not be properly printed in a pa-, per with patent outsides printed out side the county. It has also been deci ded that such papers are not enti tled to the benefits of the provision of the post office law which allows papers to go free to any part of the county in which they are published. —A fashionable mother’s advice to a newly married daughter . “Do not get in the habit of taking your husband with you to evening par ties. Nothing is so stupid as a husband at a party, nor so everlast ing in the way. To' Cuke Soke Throat. —Take the whites of two eggs, and beat them with two spooutuls of white sugar; grate a little Aulmeg, and then add a pint of lukewarm water. Stir well and drink often. Repeat the prescription if necesSary, and it will cure the most obstinate case of hoarseness*in a short tiiue. The South as a Manufac turing Power. It is not often that John \V. 'For ney has anything good to say of the South, says, the Savannah Re publican,. either present or prospec tive; hence the following view of our future under the influence of the great staple, cotton, riiay be regarded as candid as it is ’true. He says in the Philadelphia Press of the 20th, and we desire to call to it special attention. “Hitherto, it is said that less than one-fifteenth of the cotton crop lias been worked up in Southern facto ries. Yet.-water power and coal abound in the cotton districts, and if the peeper efforts were made skill ed labor and capital could be ob tained there, as easily as elsewhere, and by' thus bringing the factory and the plantation together a large item in the cost of transportation is saved. “The time is coining when one third, if not one half the eotton of the South will be made into yarns, at least, in that section, and, when it does come, what has been the poorest portion of the eouutry will become the richest. Stimulated by the greatly increased home market for food, grain, farming and gra zing will then be no less profitable than eotton growing. Thus there will boa ; practical diversity of in dustries with its resulting prosperi ty, and there will be no longer ah excuse for exhausting and abandon- to a worse than their primitive wilderness whole tracts of land. “Let but the Southern people generally be stirred by this indus trious awakening, eschewing ran cors of politics, except to see that neither demagogues nor carpet-bag adventurers misrepresent them, n£l a glorious future awaits them, an era of wealth, business activity, peace, and good feeling, which shall consign to a perpetual oblivion the distraction, disolation, and bitter hatred which resulted from the war.” The" Local Department of a Paper.-— ls there is any poor devil upon the face of the earth who needs the charity of liis race, it is that unlucky individual, the local editor of a newspaper. He is ex pected to be everywhere, and to be a creature of circumstances in its broadest sense. If a correct ver sion of some ugly affair is given, who it is too harsh for ears polite; if the private grudge of every man, who has anything against another, arid lie has not the courage to face his object of hate, is not paraded before the public, he is" charged .with-corruption or fear. If a friend ly noticed of some worthy individ ual is made, he was paid to do that, and it is disgusting. The local edi tor is expected, in short, to serve up-every morning something to please the taste of every body.— There is no business on earth so much abused and censured as that of the newspaper, and -we are yec to find the first of these fault find ers, but who could, in his own esti mation, run a paper successfully, and we have' never yet seen one of them who had capacity or educa tion enough to write a sensible par agraph. “ That’s what sort" of a fellow” these chronic fault finders are.— Griffin jVews, 24th. * Swiftness of Birds. —A vulture can fly at the rate of 159 miles an hour. Observation's made on the coast of Labrador convinced Major Cartwright that wild gee3c could travel at the rate of "90 miles an hour. The common crow cau fly 25 miles, and swallows, according to Spallangain, 92 miles an hour.- It is said that a falcon was discovered at Malta 24 hours aftei the depart ure of Henry IV from Fontaine bleau. If true, this bird must have flown for 24 hours at the rate of 57 miles an hour, not allowing him to rest a moment during the wholo time. When you find a newspaper on a ballroom floor it is not always proper to pick it up -and wonder where it came from and ask un necessary questions concerning the peculiarity of the fold. A young man did that not long since, and he couldn’t get another girl to dance with him during the whole evening Accidents will, happen in such a bustling throng of peoplo as are generally congregated upon a ball room floor. —-A citizen of Gosport, Indiana the other night, mistook his wife’s yteast bottle for his favorite brown jug, and took a “long pull and a strong puli” therefrom. He is now regarded as it rising man. —A man having announced that he wanted to marry a girl that had plenty of snap in her, a paper adr vises him to “go for the Wiscon sin girl who swallowed forty per cussion caps the other week.” To Keep Butter. —A wiiterin the Hearth apd Home wraps each churning separately in rags dipped in strong brine, and pack it in a box dr barrel of dry salt. It does not become too salty, and is as good in winter.as when nc-w. NO. 23 Riuts Tor Young Mothers. The three "requisits soy babies are plenty of sleep, plenty of food and plenty of flannel. The saying that man is a bundle-of habits 'is as true of babies as it is of grown chil dren. If an infant is accustomed to sleep from G o’clock at night till day light,'the habit of early sleep will be formed, and the mo'ther can have all her evenings- to herself. If the baby sleeps all night, a long morning nap will naturally come about dinner time, after which the child, except when very young should be kept awake till 6 o’clock. Pcrseyeranfc in this routine will ' soon result in securing quiet eve ning for ’both child and parent. Some mothers have a long season nearly every morning and every night getting the baby asleep. An infant can be accustomed by a little training to go to sleep itself for a morning nap’as well as for the longer rest at night. While the mother should exercise a constant care in securing its utmost physi cal -comfort, she should secure rest and recreation for herself. In no other way can she keep fresh in feeling and bouyant in spirit. Nothing is so wearing as the un ceasing tending of a fretful baby. Every means should be employed to aid the child in taking care of itself and giving as little trouble as possible. It may learn in babyhood, to amuse itself with toys or watch ing movements going on around it. Fashion as well as good sense re quires infant dresses to be made with long sleeves and high in llio heck. Fashion requires childreif of all ages to be warmly clad. Flan« nel should incase the wholo body with the exception of the head and .hands. The fruitful cause of colic in infants is the nakedness of their necks and arms. Regularity in feeding is as important as either of the other requisites. Babies cry as often fromjx'ing over-fed or fed too frequently as fiom hunger. Let the mother obey the dictates of common sense in this matter and not force food into a baby’s stom ach for every little complaint it makes. Let the young mothers who read this column experiment upon these few suggestions, and we are sure they will have many an hour in the nursery for reading and thought. l Ai'iiold’s Treason. A noted man used to enquire, wheneverhe heard of the perpetra tion of any great crime, who the woman was :—From the exclusion of Adam to the fall of Jirii Fisk, ‘women have made much trouble., We are reminded of this remark in reading an article on Benedict Arnold’s wife, by James Parton. Site was tbe daughter of Edward Shippen, an opulent Philadelphia merchant, who was inclined to the King’s side during the Revolution. Margaret Shippen was a reigning belle in Philadelphia in 1778, when the British army was there, and at a grand festival given on the retire ment of Sir William Ilowe from command, she was one of the beau tiful young ladies dressed in Turk ish costume. She wore in her turban one of the favors for which the knights contended in the tourn ament, and Andre was one of the knights. After the British left, Arnold 'as sumed command there and married Margaret Shippen. A year after, he was in command at West Point, and when the treason of Arnold was discovered, she appeared to be frantic with grief. This is Colo nel Hamilton’s story. But Colonel Burr, who had known her from in fancy, declared in his old age that she knew all about Arnold’s trea son from the beginning. He also says that when Mrs. Arnold was sent from West Point to her fa ther’s house, she stopped at Mrs. Provost’s over night. Colonel Burr was there, and she told the C.olpnel and Mrs. Provost that she had de ceived General Washington and Colonel Hamilton by her frantic outcries, and declared that she not only knew of the treason, but that it was she who induced her hus band to commit it. This ijs Colo nel Burr's story. The autorities of Pennsylvania believed with Burr that she was a traitor. A charact<wistic anecdote ia related of an out-at-elbow poet who, by some freak of fortune corhinginto posession.of-a five dollar bill, called to a lad and said : “Johujry,iuy boy* take this , William., and get it changed” “ do you nioan by calling it William?” inquired the wondering lad. “Why Johnny,” replied the jioet, “I am not euffi ciently familiar with it to take the liberty of calling it Bilf.*