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/ ©It* PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. f or 8UBSCBIFTION: l mpy one year - - - - - ® * 1 “ six montns - - •“? u one year ----- 10.00 Ti^RMb—Casti In Advance. Aildieas,. ABYttiTigSK PUBLISHING CO., Cbdartjwn, Ga. ^ A B245Tp.nL W0MA5. wLitS house, on a hillside green, ' Lives a beautiftil woman as ever was seen; 1 n the sixty-five years that ehe lived, I may say. She's been growing more beautifnl every day. You do not belief it? Ask Susie, my sister, She's the very first person that ever had kiss ed her, AocHf-tiiei&iiot nursed her by night and by day,, • Poor Sue would have been in a very bad way. I can bring other witnesses whom you may face They will tell you the same—they \\ ere in the same case. - “Ham she lovets?” Yep, surely! No lees than eleven he has seven on earth,and four up iu heaven* -l ifer hair is so beautiful—faded and thin; There are beautiful; wrinkles from forehead andch&; H< r ayes are as chaim ng as charming can be, ■When she looks o'er her glasses so fondly at • me. [ knew by her life, which has beautiful Cedartown Advertiser OLD SERIES—VOL. VI. NO. 43. CEDARTOWN, GA., JANUARY S, 1880. NEW SERIES—VOL. II. NO. 4. ©he gulvcrtijstr. ADVERTISING RATES. SP ACE. t w.ll m.i3 m. 6 ru. 1 y. 1 inch.. $1 (M)i$2 5o|f5(K? $8 00 $1200 2 inches 1 501 3 on! 7 50 12 00 18 00 3 inches 2 0)1 3cO,!UOO 15 00 25 CO % fiolmnn 400 5 OoJlS0C 20 00 40 00 'A co umn 6 UOJ 7 50 i 25 00 40 00 65 00 i column 10 00|20 00140 00 65 00 loo 00 LOCAL NOTICES—Ten cents per line for one Insertion. For two or more insertions, five cenis per line each insertion. OBITUARY NOTICES—Charged at half rates. B, ^flug*s daughter—all giorious . within.” Ah, you’ve guessed who it ii! It could be no g other, ban my_ beautifnl, darling* good "mot'Ker. The Sutor of Selkirk. Once upon a time there lived in Selkirk a shoemaker, by the name of Rabble Heck- speckle, who was celebrated both for dex terity in his trade, and for some other qual- /'iicatifra of a less profitable nature. Rab- me Was a thin, meagre-looking personage, with lank black hair, a cadaverous counten ance, and a long, flexible, secret-smelling nose. In short, he was the Paul Pry of the Vowh. 3Tot an old wife in the parish could buy a new scarlet rokelay without Rabbie knowing exactly within a groat of the cost; the doctor couid not dine with the minister butRabbie could tell whether sheep's-head or * staple commodity of the his three-legged stool as i£ lie had been “yirked” there by some brotfierof the (raft. For the space of twenty four hours bis long nose was never seen to throw its shadow across the threshold of the door; and so ex traordinary did the event appear; that the neighbors, one and all, agreed that it pre dicted some prodigy ; but whether it was to take the shape of a comet, which would deluge them with its fiery tale, or whether they were to be swallowed up by an earth quake, could by no means he settled to the satisfaction of the parties concerned. Meanwhile Rabbie diligently pursued his employment, unheeding the concerns of his neighbors. What mattered it to him, that Jenny Thrift’s cow had calved, that tne minister’s servaqf, with something in her apron, had been seen to go in twice t<% LuckyAVakerife's, -that-the laird’s dairy maid had been observed stealing up the red loan in the gloaming, that the drum had gone through the town announcing that a sheep was to be killed on Friday ? The stranger alone swam before his eyes; and cow, dairy-maid, and drum kicked the beam. It was late m the night when Rab bie had occomplished his task, and then placing the snoef at his bedside, he lay down in his clothes, and fell asleep; hilt the Up tlie Chimney. Philip I.vni'ii an,! .Jrw h Ivn.hv- grasa had a remarkable adventure at Hunter’s Point, Michigan. The form er was blown from a high brick chim ney. The latter had an almost mirac ulous escape. The chimney was 115 feet high, and the two tneu were on a scaffolding, Pendergrass on the upper and Lynch below him-. The wind struck the chimney with territle force and the first scaffolding began to sway- back and forth, cracking and straining. Pendergijfes, seeing the danger, hug ged the Wick work of the chimney. As the storm swayed the scaffolding lrom its fastenings, Lynch was either unable to obtain a secure hold on the chimney or too much contused to make the attempt. Suddenly the upper part of the structure gave way with a crash, and was hurled to the ground, a tangled mass of poles, planks and splinters. Lynch fell with the scaf fold, while Pendergrass, with a des perate effort, sprung upon .the top of fear of Dot being sufficiently alert for In* the chimney, and was left hanging op new customer induced him to rise a consid erable time before 1 dajtbreak. He opened tie door and looked into the street, but ft was still so dark lie could scarcely see a yard before his nose; he therefore returned into the house, muttering to himself: “What the sorrow can keep him ? ” when a voire at his elhow suddenly said: “Where are my shoes (' “Here, sir,’’ said Rabbie, quite trans ported with joy; 1 ‘here they are, right and tight, and miickle joy may ye Lae in wear- in’ them, for it’s better to wear shoon than sheets, as the auld saying gangs.” “Perhaps X may wear both," answered the stranger. “Glide save us," quoth Rabbie, “do ye sleep in your shoon f ” Tile stranger made no answer ; but laying piece of gold on the ‘table, and taking up the shoes, walked out of the house. “Now's my time," thought Rabbie to himself, as he slipped after him. Tlie stranger paced slowly on, and. Ral it was even said that he was „ . . . acquainted with the grunt of every sow. j hie carefully followed him; the stranger ’and the-cackle of every individual hen, in j turned up the street, and the sutor kept close his neighborhood: but this wants eontirma- to his heels; ‘ ‘Odsake, where can he be wife, Bridget, endeavoied to ! gionS” thought. Rabble, as lie saw the confine his excursive fancy, and to chain stranger turn into tlie churchyard; “lie’s £ “him dhwri to his awl, reminding him it was making to that grave in tlie corner; now •All they had to depend on; hut her inter-! he’s standing still; now lie’s sitting down. "Whsiice met with exactly that degree of at- j Gudesake 1 what’s come o him?” Rabbie tehtion which husbands usually bestow on : rubbed his eyes, looked round in all diree- : “ tfowhcfr tendered by their better halvesj tions, bill, loand behold! the stranger, had —that it, Rabbicr informed her that she [ TUiishcd 1 “There’s something no canny knew notliingfifthe matter, that her under- j about this,’’ thought the sutor; “but Ill standing required stretching, and finally j mark the place at ony rate; 11 and Rabbie, that jtffee presumed to meddle in his affairs, after thrusting his awl into the grave, bec&ild be under the - disagreeable neces- j hastily returned home, sity ofegiving her a top-dressing. | The news scon spread from house to To secure tlie necessary leisure for his 1 house, and by the time the rod-faced sun researches, Rabbie was in the habit of ns-j stared down on tlie town the inhabitants ing to his work long'before the dawn; and j were all in commotion ; and, after having ha. was one Dioruiu cr buisly engaged putting 1 held sundry consultations, it was resolved Doming buUly engaged puttiu: • th^tfiflsbiTig stichea to a pair of shoes for \,hftftyffjpqpian 3 when the door of his dwell ing, whichne thought was carefully fasten- . ed, was suddenly opened, and a tail figure, envoloped in a large black cloak, and with a broad-brimmed hat drawn over his brows, stalked into the shop. Rabbie started at bis .visitor, wondering wbat could have oc- mem. con., to proceed in a body to the churchyard, and open the grave which was suspected of being suspicious. The whole population of the Kirk TVynd turhed out on this service. Sutors, wives, children, all hurried pell-mell after Rabbie, who led his myrmidons straight to the grave at which his mysterious customer had disappeared, eaaioned tliis early call, and wondering still I and where he found liis awl still sticking in more that a stranger should have arnvecVm the place where he had left it> Immediately the town without his knowledge. all hands went to work; the grave was ,“You’re early afoot, sir,” quoth Rabbie. I opened; the lid was forced off the coffin; “Lffckv Wakerife’s cock will no craw for J and a corpse was discovered dressed in the a good half hour vet.” i vestments of the tomb, but with a pair of The stranger vouchsafed no reply; but i perfectly new shoes upon its long bony feet, taking lip one of the shoes Rabbie had just! At this dreadful sight the multitude fled, in finished, deliberately put it on, and took a ; every direction, Lucky Wakerife leading turn through the room to ascertain that it j the van, leaving Rabbie and a few bold did not pinch his extremities. During these j brothers of the craft to arrange matters as operations Rabbie kept a watchful eye on his customer. “He smells awfully o’ yird,” muttered Rabjfie to himself; “ane would be ready to 'swetr he had just cam frae the plough-tail. . The stranger, who appeared to be satisfied with the effect of the experiment, mention ed by Rabbie for the other shoe, and pulled they pleased with the peripatetic skelton. A council was held, and it was agreed that the coffin should be firmly nailed up and committed to the earth. Before doing so, however, Rabbie proposed denuding his customer of his shoes, remarking that he had no more need for them than a cart had for three wheels. No objections were made out a purse for the.purpose of paying for j to this proposal, and Rabbie, therefore, his purchase; but Rabbie’s surprise may be j quickly coming to tlie extremities, whipped ;; conceived, when, on looking at the purse, ; them off in a trice. They then drove half -be pereeited itrto be spotted with a kind of a hundred tenpenny nails into the lid of the earthy mould. coffin, and having taken care to cover the grave with pretty thick divots, the party returned to their separate places of abode. Certain qualms of conscience, however, now arose in Rabbie’s mind ae to the pro priety of depriving the corpse of what had been honestly bought and paid for. He could not help allowing that if the ghost were troubled with cold feet, a circumstance by no means improbable, he might natural ly wish to remedy the evil. But, at the same time, considering that the fact of his having made a pair of shoes for a defunct man would be an everlasting blot on the Ileckspeckle escutcheon, and reflectingalso that his customer, being dead in law, could not apply to any court for redress, our sutor manfully resolved to abide by the conse quences ot his deed. Next morning, according to custom, he rose long before day, and fell to his work, shouting the old song of the “Sutors of Sel kirk. •’ at the very top of his voice. A short time, however, before the dawn, his wife, who was iu bed in tlie back room, remark ed, that in the very middle of his favorite verse, his voice fell into a quaver: and then broke into a yell of terror; and then she heard a noise as of persons struggling; and then all was quiet as the grave. The good dame immediately huddled on her clothes, and ran into the shop, where she found the the narrow edge of brick, 115 feet from the ground. Lynch’s mangled body was picked up by some of bis fellow- workmen, and carried to the office oi the company. He was not yet dead, but lived for three hours. Pender grass in the meantime remained cling ing to the top of tlie chimney, while the storm swirled about him, seeming to threaten the overthrow of the struc ture. He succeeded in finding partial protection from the hurricane by crouching on some pieces of plank that had been placed inside the mouth of the chimney to aid in its erection. He says that when he felt the scaffolding giving way under him, and sprang for the chimney cap, he called to Lynch to follow him. Lynch made a desperate effort to gain the top of the structure, but lost his footing and tumbled head long to the bottom, striking in his descent every tier of the lower portion of the scaffolding which did not fall. But another danger beset Pen dergrass. A fire had been a few min utes before started in the furnace below to test tlie drawing qualities of the new “Wed,” I said, as soon as I could steady my voice, “go into the kitchen and have some nice warm breakfast, and we’ll see wiiat is to be done next. ” Half an hour later I was on the way to Oxfordas fast as I could go, and went to my dear Iriend, Dr. Wootton. In the course of conversation I asked him in a kind of careless way akout rhubarb, as a guide for any parochial prac tice. “Well,” he said, “it’s a fine medicine, and I give good doses of it. ” “Yes; what is a good dose.” “Eighteen grams is quite enough for anybody. ” “Eighteen grains!” I said, “why, I gave a man sixty yesterday, and thirty of magne sia.” He opened his great eyes and said, “Is he very old ?” “Yes, over seventy’'’ “Then perhaps he won’t die. Go home as fast as you can, and pour in porter and port wine.” A FlKe County Ghost. illla Plant. The lastest sensation in t he neighborhood of Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania. Fifty-two years ago a man named John Goble was found lying in a pool of blood on the road leading from Milford to Ding-; man’s Ferry. A large gashAvas found in, _ the side of liis head, and it was supposed' ^aron^Wpeffiirhe. The vaimTa throve . that the old man had been murdered and j greepnoj^es. ’out a3 it was sensitive to cola, robbed. He was buried immediately after j and did not fructify, and its flowers posses- the Coroner's inquest, and in a few years j sed no ornamental interest, its culture wa.s entirely forgotten. About three weeks ag<*j very limited. For a long time the only the stage dri ver who carries the Philadelphia | fruits which came to Europe were from mail between Clifford and the Delaware Mexico, or the -Gulf of Mexico—the only Of all orchids the vanilla is the one most widely known; its fruit is deservedly es teemed and is an important article of com merce. Its valuable properties long ago brought the vanilla into notice. The fruit appears to have been first introduced into Europe in the beginning of the Sixteenth Century. The living plant was imported into England, toward the end of the Eigh teenth Century, by Miller; but we cannot with certainty determine which one of the few species of vanilla now known was then introduced. Linne, however, gave tlie name epidmdrum vanilla to the plant w hich had come into his hands, and which is sup posed U> have beeu identical with that brougfi by Miller. Several years later Swart^ on attentively studying the flower of the vanilla, observed notable differences between it and the flower of the genus epidmdrvm /he was thus led to consti tute a new genus, and epidendrum vanilla now bp^ome vanilla aromatica. Later Grevi)l| brought from America some cut tings ot a vanilla differing from van ill a aromdtica, especially in fhe size of the leaves : to this Andrews gave the name vanilla planifolia. This plant was brought to England, thence to the museum at Paris in 18&;*fthd lastly to Belgium A it the whose fruit p£BSC3se^ thft Water Gap, while passing the spot wife re Goble was murdered, saw an object clothed in white start up from the ground and walk in the road just in front of the horses. Tlfiji experimenters to add K> the interest at driver urged liis te*yn oil, but tlie “gko§t’ still kept a little in advance. After trotting his horses some distance, the driver stopped, and as he dismounted from the stage the ghost sank into the ground and disappeared. This was repeated two or three evenings, and the mail-carrier at last became alarmed and armed himself with a six-shooter. Since that time he has seen the ghost at a distance several times, but lie’ lias not shot at it. The mail carrier’s name is Searleft, and he point'j where the plant was cultivated on large scale,'•'and where its fructification ap peared to be insured. It remained for later t/icbing to this plant, while at the same time, in some degree, augmenting the re sources of the colonies. At this time the impression made by certain recent researches on fecundation in plant s was still fresh, and the questions of hybridation and crossing were closely studied. It has ever since been believed that the fecundation of the vanilla inM exieo and tlie neighboring countries, w ? here-the plant fructifies normalIy* was brought about by the agency of certs' told.liia storv in Milford, where- it spread sects wMcli hitherto do not appenr erer to like wildfire. Parties were oiganized to search for the wandering spirit, and one party saw it at a short distance. They fired several shots at the object, and it disappear ed. A party of young ladies, accompanied ■ by one gentleman, a day or two ago visited the place where the ghost is usually seen. About a hundred yards from the spot is an cramp seemed to bike him in his off hindleg. That’s too thin my man. Where are you from Well, Pvq been down in the southern part o’ thfr fcitffte, and up north, and up in St. Paul, an’ they sent me here.” . “They did?* But where is your home? “Oh! ffeMing for another cramp) my home’s in New Yofk. 5 ’ “When did 3 7 ou leave New York ?” ‘-‘About twenty-four years ago! Oh! Ough! ” (Cramps hi bofh legs.) “There, that’ll do. You’ll get into no county house here, and you want to skip out of this town at a lively gait.” The cramper looked at the-chmf in per- feet asternalunent, crammed both hands intoliis pockets, squirted a stream of to bacco juiceclcar across'Lock-up 5 alley, and remarked: ? . ' ' “ Well, kwow ! this is an almighty singu lar sort of a country if a man’t has cramps and fits can’t get into mo county house durin; the winter!” ‘ ‘Move on!” And he moved on, without a sign of a crAinp, : ‘muttering “I swow,” and squirting tobaccq juice accordingly^ vtoie Bear Trap Mail.' Hang^t dff one "ft life -shade trees at the corner qfMielngaU h^umiand Park place, Di-rrnttUYo Thv Innsf evil-minded, anfi Timlicions-njiiBied bear trap ever turned by the hand of may. It stands four feet high, has a chain.seven feet, long, and it takes a stout man and a l€ver to open the jaws. The former owner of the trap ar rived in Detroit a night or two since, having come all the way from Toronto, and hiring offered his bear trap for sale to ticket agents, conductors, brakemen, travelers and landlords. He was told that there was a 'great opening and pressing need in Michigan for his lone trap, and he came bn here to sell it by the yards, pound, or most any way, and he was willing to take §10 down and a mortgage back to se cure for the other §15. About*S ‘o’clock in the evening tlie man with fhe trap took position on Michigan avanue; near Cftss street, and in ten min utes had. a crowd abound him. He opened tTie trap and' sprii'ng it for 'the benefit of numerous curioud-minded-, and ’when the Jeetli came together everybody for three rods around felt liis back hair lift up. “This •Vre bear tnfp’ needs no ‘ encomi ums from the press,” explained the stranger “Not t>y A Long Sint.” r EFS. chimnev, and thev almost smothered j deserted house, and one of the young ■Pendergrass, who "dared not quit the ,ad f s ’ ‘^ re <= our ageous than the , , \ . j x. . - rest, started to walk around this old house place where he crouched, from lear of ... being blown from the chimney top by the gale that howled over his head with increasing violence, while tlie fumes from the chimney almost took away his breath. “I saw my danger,” said Pendergrass, “and gave up all hope of being rescued. But just then I saw- some men below me doing all they could to relieve me, and my heart bounded with hope.” These were some sailors whose names could not be ascer- tainedi They courageously volunteered to climb the the chimney, and, clam bering up the frail poles and planks that remained clinging to one side (ty it, they succeeded in rescuing Pender grass, who, his nervous System hav ing undergone a terrible strain, fainted in the arms ot liis rescuers. He suffer ed somewhat from inhaling gas and smoke, but is recovering. No Small Doses. * ‘Gudesake, ” thought Rabbie, 4 ‘this queer _ * * ‘ manmaun hae howkit that purse out o’ the C-?*- v - .^rbtfncL I wonder where he got it. Some ^~dlks say there are bags o’ siller buried near this town. ” ■ Bi t frifl timA’thp stranger had opened the . . purse anTas he did so. a toad and a beetle fell on the ground, and a large worm crawl ing out, wound itself round liis finger. Rab ble’s eyes widened; but the stranger with an ‘ air of nocbalance, tendered him a piece of gold, and made signs for the other shoe. “It’8 a thing morally impossibly,” re- nded Rabbie to this mute proposal, idken, that I hae as good as sworn to thet^uasamaivto hae them ready byday- - light* i|rbi£h will be no long a coming” (the stranger here looked anxiously toward the yrlndow); “and better, I tell you, to afront the 5 king himself than the exciseman. ” - The.stranger gave a loud stamp with his **■?' shod foot,-but Rabbie stuck to his point, of- . Afering,*|ip.wever, to have a pair ready for //*. his.pew customer in twenty-four hours; / j* v .and/a^e stranger, justly enough perhaps, reasoned that half a pair of shoes was of as little use as half a pair of scissors, he / / found himself obliged to come to terms, and ii 0 • seating himself on Rabble’s three-legged - rs stool, held out his leg to the sutor, who, 7, ' „ . kneeling down, took the foot of his taciturn customer on his knee, and proceeded to j three-legged stool broken in pieces, the floor - * - rnqBfiiTrp-jf ! strewed with bristles, the door wide open, .A ' ^“Something o’ the splay, I tliink, sir,” ! and Rabbie away! Bridget rushed' to the - said-Rabbie, with a knowing air. door, and there she. immediately discovered y . jtq answer. I the marks of footsteps deeply printed on the .• ■ “Where will I bring the shoon to when 1 ground. Anxiously tracing them, on and " thdy’re done?” asked Rabbie, anxious to on—what was her horror to find that they * "toufcihe domicile of his visitor. I -Tl Eam ♦ 1. .lt.lt . juiu um me ™»un , terminated in the church-yard, at the grave . for them myself Before cock ! of Rahbie s customer I The earth round the crowing" .responded the stranger in a very j grave bore traces of having been the scene - ■ uncommon arid indescrible tone of voice. of some fearful struggle, and several locks “ ."41001; sir," quoth Rabbie, “Ioanna let Of lank black hair were scattered on the yon hae the trouble o’ coming for them your-1 grass. Half distracted, she rushed through ■ - •sel ■ it will just be a pleasure for me to call the town to commuicate the dreadful in- wfth them at your hou«f .” I telligence. A crowd collected, and a cry “I have my doubts of that,” replied the ; speedily arose to open the grave. Spades, ■. /stranger, 'in the same peculiar manner; and | pickaxes, and mattocks, were quickly put At all events, my bouse would not hold U9 1 in reqdisition; the divots were removed ; • JjoSn ' i the lid of the coffin was once more torn off; “It maun be a dooms snia’ biggin,” an-! and there lay its ghastly tenant, with his ” " swered Rabbie’; “but noo that I hae ta’en ‘ shoes replaced on his feet, and Rabbie s red * 4 four honour’s measure ” j night-cap clutched in his light hand ! “Take your own 1” retorted the stranger; The people, in consternation, fled from • • and giving Rabbie’s a touch with his foot j the churchyard; and nothing ^ further has that laid him prostrate, walked cooiy out of transpired to throw any additional ^ght the house. i u P on tlie melancholy fate of the butor of / ., This sudden overturn of himself and his Selkirk. > plans for a few n oments discomfited the 5 , sutor; but quickly gathering up his legs, he rushed to the door, which he reached just -‘—*7 afr'Lucky Wakerife s cock proclaimed the dawn. Rabbie flew down the street, which j?was terminated by the churchyard, but saw g^-.only the moveless tombs looking cold and ii * chill under the gray light of a winter morn. /Babbie hitched his red nightcap off his s : brow, and scratched his head with an air of I had a gardner when I was still a young man, an old soldier, William Finlay; he h id picked up somehow a great deal of very graphic language, which he used freely upon the ordinary occasions of life. He came to me and said: “I’m bad all over, inside and out, want you to give me some physic. They tell me you’ve got a medicine chest, and a book as belongs to it. ” “Well,” said I, “I have. What will you take ?” “Some rhubarb.” 4 ‘I’ll look in the book,” I said, “and see how much.” Now, the book has (I have it still, with the chest—at least my wife has, for I carefully made her a wedding present of both) at the beginning a table of doses, quite an inexcusable snare, 1 think, to simple people. It is constructed on a hypothetical principle,—If to an adult, a dram, so much to other ages.” The hypo thetical part escaped me; an adult, a dram —a dram, that’s sixty grains—ninety grains n all, I got a half sheet of a newspaper, put it on the dining table, and mixed it up. It looked a good (leal. But I said to my self, ‘ ‘Must be all right, here’s the book; Finlay’s an adult, ile was over seventy, bo 1 rang the bell. “Here’s your physic; I hope it will put you all right.” “I be to take all that?” “Yes, that’s just what the book says; small doses are foolish things.” “All right,” says he. Then 1 began to encourage him, “Now, Finlay, you're not very well; don't try to do any work to-day; go home, keep your self warm, and tell your wife to mix it up in some warm water—not too much water; you’ll feel much better in the morning. I should, if I were you, take it at once.” “All right,” said he. Boor man, his confidenoe in me bad no limits. I thought no more about it until next morning; my conscience was quite easy; I had done a wise and kind thing; I had made a good use of my dear mother’s rift- in search of the “spook.” When about half way around the building she heard a groan, and turning around, she saw, stand ing just behind her, an object about six feet tali, clothed in white. She screamed and fainted, but before the remainder of the party reached her tlie “ghost” had vanished. The “spirit” has since been seen twice, and on each occasion it was pursued, but it always vanished after reaching a certain place in tlie woods. It is supposed by many that the ghost is a man, dressed up in a sheet to create a sensation. Others, who have lieeu observed performing.this func Uoq^j The hypothesis is .almost equivalent to a'cert funt}', now that we know the habfSc of the Orchideac, especially »« re-; ;13 be. pried.open the ponderous jaws for a •gartls reproduction. J fresh spring. * ^Crergyrrien furnish no tes- .. .»timonials as to its merits—almanacs haven’t a word to-^a^ in its favor—I have never advertised it a cent worth, but if thar’s a man in this crowd who thinks it won’t hold a b’ar just lei him put his foot on the snrinapan! Are you troubled with bears? Then buy this trap. Does your neighbor’s dog dig up your pet strawberry plants? Be hold the remedy. Does your, hired girl have her uncle come to see her one night— Her cousin the next—her brother the next, During his | and so on ? Then delay not, but secure a above all j bargain while you ;nay. ” The police drove him off the walk, but he took to tlie centre of the street and said: “I’ll warrant this trap to tackle any thing that lives, from a by.-glar down to a mouse. If it ever fails to go off I’ll walk Frascuelo, whom all Spain has applauded for ten years, whom tlie prettiest women of all the Spanish provinces have in turn calleckFrascuolito, died recently of a bom thrust-naturally received in the exercise of Ids profession. Frascuelo, among Spani ards, was a hero, and as Theodore de Ban- villc said of Victor Hugo, he had already become Immortal. He will forever reminin tlie prim a »pada of legends, lifetime he was tlie curiosit others^ that liis countrymen showed to stran gers, and he was proud of his distinction, lie wai horn in Andalushi and at the age of ten years he went to work in tlie slaugh ter houses of Sevilic, where all the matadors begin weir career, these slaughter houses j 100 miles to return the money. It is better being i;r them a sort of academy. At j than a lime husband for a widow; it Perils of Housekeeping;. are more superstitious, believes it is the spirit ol John Goble, searching for his mur- eightefih he wa3 engaged in the famous j knocks the socks off a burglar alarm; it derer. Whatever it is, it ccrtaintly succeed- j conx^ Y of El Tato, who also died of a ‘ gives a shot-gun have an hour to start and ed in creating a decided sensation. At first Jie,was a simple cliatq, j catches up before midnight, and the price — -»♦».' V; ilSRBpHay, he wa?charged with tne duty ; is—” ‘ of exciting the bull, by shaking a red hand- j RTglit here cai^Z a climax. Somebody I kerchief before his eyes. Then he was ; m the crowd encouraged a big spotted dog ; promoted to the position of banderillero j to wade in and chew up two peaceful | The mesion of the banderillero is to plaut 'Newfoundlands, and in a minute there was ! little javelins in the shoulders of the ani- | a three-cornered fight and hair flying in all mals. At this dangerous game Frascuelo ! directions. The crowd had to skip out and was wonderfully expert. When the bul' igive’m room, and the man with tlie trap rushed at him with lowered head, he step- j called out: ped lightly between the animal’s horns and 1 “Shy ’em off—shy ’em off! If they roll bounded clean over him, planting his ban- into that b’ar trap they’ll be chawed to deriilos while in tlie air. Or he would ! death in a minute.” await the attack, leaning on a long pole. | But they couldn't be shied. Some one Have you paid the milk bill. The coal is out The stove wants fixing. My night-key is broken. That front door be’.l wire is loose and the be 1 ! won’t ring. Get some fresh meat. That cat hasn't had anything fresh for nearly two days, She won’t eat cooked meat. The poker is broken. Veel,” he muttered, as he retraced his steps homewards, “he has fooled me this time, but sorrow* take me if I’m no up wi’ him the morn.” ’/ All day Rabbie, to the inexpressible sur- ^ prise of his wife, remained as constantly on Never refer to a gift you have made or a favor you have rendered. Never associate with bad company. Have good company or none. Never, when traveling abroad, be ever boasting of your own country. Never look over the shoulder of another who is reading or writing. Never punish a child for a fault to which you are addicted yourself. Never appear to notice a scar, deformity or defect of any one present Are guns spiked by the bolts of ar tillery. Get some screw hooks for the cupboard. I When the animal rushed at him he would i just screamed out that if his dog was We must buy a new clotLes line. I leap over him, using the pole for support, j chewed up it would cost the owner of the The salt is out. j The bull might break the pole, but Fras- j trap a ,§50 bill, when the bundles of ca- Mem.: Mark’a last butter was bad. Must j cuelo would be sure to land on his feet nines rolled between the jaws and the buy somewhere else. , some five paces from his former position, | machine went off. In the rush and amidst The iceman has “riz,” and he leaves j and solemnly salute the spectators. It was I the yell the owner of tlie trap lit out. They dreadfully small pieces at that. ] by a unanimous vote that he was raised to j wildly called for him to liberate the howl- Get some wire. , the dignity of prima spada. One day at ring dogs, hut echo answered. When it Ditto oxalic acicL St. Sebastian his chief, Lagartijo, was pvas proposed to wollop him he wasn’t Ditto bug powder. j wounded and was unable to continue the there to be wolloped. The police finally Ditto a nutmeg grater. fight. The crowd called for Frascuelo I got the hang of the thing and gave the im- Ditto some nutmegs. j to take his plaee. Frascuelo picked up the Shall we buy a new parlor carpet? The ; sword, ran at the bull, and classically old one'sgetting faded. planted the weapon in the back of the ani- Wan’t a new tin stewpan. mal’s neck. After that day he killed over The teapot leaks. j three hundred bulls in the same manner, Send for furniture man and find out how ! and was often wounded. The crowd much he asks for re-covering the sofa. j worshiped him, not only for his skill and Buy a new market basket. j courage, but also for the singular richness The old cat has four kittens. How many | of his costumes. He thought nothing of spending §4,000 for au equipment, and, shall we drown? We suspect our hired girl of stealing the j like a pretty woman w*ho changes her dress tea. That last half pound went very j for every ball, he never wore the same quick. | costume twice. Frascuelo left a consider Schnapps, the grocer, will persist in giv-' able fortune, aud his heirs, moreover, will ing us coffee which lias lost its flavor, i find in his desks, i.n immense collection of Change him. ' love letters, locks of hair, faded bouquets Somebody has stolen the ash-box again, j —in fine, a collection a like of which is not Fifth in tliree weeks. I possessed by any living man, not excepting Get a paper of carpet tacks. i even tlie most applauded of tenors. Mrs. Doe borrowed our tack hammer a month ago, and has never returned it. Our canary bird is sick. Buy a ball of twine. ^ ‘ Ditto six small screws. Ditto a hatchet. The ieeman forgot us to-day. “lie cold meat and milk is spoiled. Creoips and Fits. i A healthy-looking specimen of the genus tramp stepped into the police station and ’ inquired for the chief of police. Chief Munger i wa3 there, and asked what was wanted. “1 want to get into the county house,” The cat persists in carrying her kittens j said the tramp, all over the house, and won’t stay in the; “What do you want to go to the county nursery soap box we fixed for her. j house for ?” Get some naptha. j “I’ve got to! I aiut got no place to The water pipe leaks again. Send stop!” plumber. I “Why don’t you go to work, and earn Out of soap. j your living?” I can’t find no work, and, besides, I’m prisoned dogs a chance to limp away, and the trap is now being held for its owner. If this meets his eye let him come in the night and take.it away and convey it to Toledo, where cows and pigs and bears and wolves and geese roam at will and jfehe for a chance to put a foot in it. Overland Boating. Truth is mighty and must prevail, but for all there is a heap of hypocrisy in this world, and ten thousands of people rather slip aronnd the corner than to come right out with an honest opinion. A day or two since a strapping young man, having tlie biggest foot between Detroit and Omaha and the worst pair of cross eyes in four States, entered a Woodward avenue drug' store in Detroit and said to the proprietor: “If I a«k you a question will you give me an honest, straight-forward answer?” “Yes, 4 by jingo!” was the prompt reply. “Well, t hen, aiu I what you could call a passably good-looking man?” “Not by a long shot! ” answered the drug gist, as he stood back and surveyed him. “Would yon refer to my feet as ‘wash- board’s if you were writing me up!” “I should. They are tlie biggest and most ungainly hoofs I ever saw on a man!” “And how are my eyes?” asked tlie stranger without a wince. “Awful, sir—perfectly awful! I never saw another such a pair in my life, ami if I were a woman I’d run across thejoad rather than meet you!*’ “Anything eT.O*?*' quietly asked the young man. “Well,” replied the druggist, as he looked him over, “the back settlements are your best hold.” “Stranger said the young man, as he extended his paw, “I’ve asked fifty men the same questions 1 put to you, and they evaded them. You are honest aud plain- speaking, and I’m grateful to you. Give me an ounce of peppermint essence, a tooth brush and vour address, and if I can work —Quebec was fodr.ded in 1608. —Maryland was settled in 1654. —Texas has a single flock of sheep numbering 60,000. —It is said that Leadville has already yielded $10,000,000 in silver. —The lumber trade of Chicago is as great as the trade in wheat. —Boston will be two hundred and fifty years old on September 17, 1880. —Until 1S14 the London Daily Times was printed at the rate of *250 copies an hour. —Rhode Island was originally, “Roode” or Red island, and uence the present name. —In 1591 the business of cap-making was ruined by the common wearing of hats, which then came into general vogue. —There are in California 150.000 goats^and in ihe Pacific territories 50.000, making a total of 200,000 on the Pacific slope. —The earnings of ‘he Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad for the third week of October was $292,000. an increase of $103 731. —Earnings of the Union Pacific rail road fer the first twenty-one days of October were $1,003,401.70, an increase of $172,185.70. —Hon. E. M. Shrouek, of Somerset, Pa., has been acquitted of using illegal means to secure his election to the Leg islature. —The “Father” of the English House of Commons is Mr. Christopher Talbot. up any trade for you in the pine woods you wiio has sat continuously for Glamor- slmn’t he forgotten!” j ganshire since 1830. —During October over 35,000.000 pos- a Constitutional coward. j tal cards were sent from the Holyoke | factory—the largest month’s business I served on Gen. Hooker’s staff for near- j ever cione * ly a year, and on one occasion was assigned i ^^ thousand salmon fry from to duty as Judge Advocate of the General ^ an Francisco have been put into the Court Martial before which a private soldier Meuse, at Bioriek, Holland, and 20,000 of a Michigan regiment was brought charged j more are expected, with desertion. The evidence showed that; — If - is said that a very large number the prisoner had deserted three times, on the j 9? **‘. e best gold and silver mines in last occasion “in the face of the enemy.” The Court Martial ordered him to be shot, aud the record of his trial and conviction was forwarded to General Hooker for his approval. A short time subsequently Gen eral Hooker come to my quarters, which adjoined his own, aud said: “Bond, in this case against private , what do 3’ou think had better be done ? Are there no extenuating circumstances ?” “None that 1 know of, General, lie has deserted three times.” “Isn’t there something in the case upon which you could based a recommendation of mercy?” “Not a thing. The proof against him was positive and not denied, and tlie wit nesses say further that when he was with his regiment he was a worthless fellow and a constitutional coward. ’ “That’s just the thing,” said the General postively. “The man is constitutionally a coward, and you recommend him to mercy on that ground. I’ll tell you what’s the matter, Bond, his mother is at my quarters begging for her son’s life, and I want to spare him. In accordance with their sug gestion, the recommendation for leniency was written, and a few minutes thereafter a feeble young lady with silver gray; hair and a tearful face was bowed out of the General's door by the brave old hero, and turning away she exclaimed, with* uplifted hands, “God bless you, General Hooker.” The Strange Story of a Bank Note, Out of matches. Ll> . 1 She wants some worsted three shades j sick! While I wa3 dressing in the morning, I j darker than the last lot but one, and one j “Sick! You don’t look sick! What’s looked out of the window, and there was * shade lighter than the last lot. the matter with you?” * '*‘I have cramps in my legs sometim«.s— mighty bad cramps in my legs.” 1 “Well, that wont prevent ycur Working Finlay standing between me and the gar den wall. He looker, so to speak, shad owy, almost ghostly: the wall, as it were, was visible through him; but, as it was daylight, I wasn’t afraid. “Hope you’re better this morning; glad to think you must be, or you would not have come up.” “Well.” said he, “I be a trifle better.” 4 ‘Ah!” I said, “I thought so; you took your physic, of course?” “Why, didn’t you tell me to take it? i’ll tell you all about it. I goes home to Hyacinths In Pots. pot s depends in a great measure on the quality of the soil used for the- purpose. The best compost is made up of one-half good fibrous loam, the other half of equal proportions of well-rotted dung and leaf soil; the pots should be from five to six inches in diameter, and deep and narrow rather than shallow and broad. In potting about two-thirds of the hulb should be my wife and saj r s, “There, you mix that buried, ana the soil must not be pressed too up; mind, not much water.’ ‘Lord sake!' she said, ‘you be not going to take all that; why, it would kill a horse and a cow.’ ‘You foolish woman, hold vour tongue; go aud do as 1 bid you. Master s got a book, and knows a sight more than you. ’ So she goes and mixes up in a slop basin, and brings it back with a spoon standing in the middle.” At this part of his report I liegan to have misgivings. He weut on: “I got him down—but it was a tough job—and goes to bed.” I draw a veil over what followed. I Tlie successful cultivation of these in when you don’t cramp!” “I can’t find no work; I've looked every where!” “That is a likely story. There is plenty of work for any one who wants it. I’ll -give you work. 1 want some wood sawed.” The tramp’s jaw dropped as he ventured to inquire : “W—what kind of wood is it?” 4 ‘Hard wood, ” “What’ll you give me to saw it ?” hard about the base of the bulb, or in the j “One dollar per cord to saw it twice.” act of rooting the firbres will be unable to ; “And board ?” penetrate the soil, and the bulb gets forced j “No, sir, not if I know myself—board upward. After planting, the plots can be yonrself.” placed in a cool, dry, dark ceIlar, or out of j “Humph,” contemptuously responded doors, on a spot somewhat screened from ! the weary and heavy laden son of toil, “a wet, and if the pots be stood on slates or i rn an can’t earn his board a-sawin’ w*ood tiles, so much the better; they should have | twice fur a dollar a cord.” a thorough soaking of water, then be cover- “Not if he boards at the Nicollet, but ed with fine ashes to the depth of from one ■ you are able to saw a cord per day, and you to three inches. If planted about the end ' can get board at §2.50 to §3 per week.” of October the bulbs will have made shoots j “Nice board, for that. But I can’t saw an inch long by the beginning of February,! WO od owin’ to the cramps in my legs, you The proposed construction of a ship rail way across tlie Is’.hmus of Panama has called to mind the similar though smaller portage system formerly employed by the State of Pennsylvania. For many years the system was used in transporting canal- boats (built in sections).from the canal be tween Couemaugh (near Johnstown, Penn.) on the western side of the Alleghany Moun tain?, and Hollidaysbqrg on the eastern side. By tills arrangement boats without break ing bulk wore passed between' Pittsburg and Philadelphia via Columbia. The port age of the mountains was made by means of inclined planes, at the-top df which were stationary engines to draw up or let down the cars or trucks Using a heavy hemp rope running over pulleys between the rails to keep it from the ground. After reaching the top of the plane a small locomotive was used along the “levels,” as they were called, until the next plane was reached. By this means transit was quick and the expense ot handlingthe cargo twice was avoided. After tlie construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the introduction of locomo tives that could draw loads up grades that years before’ were oifiy capable of ascent by means of ropes and stationary engines, the old portage road of the state, becoming the property of thfe Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany by purchase, was abandoned^ and now the traveler c-aa. see, as he is whirled along in a palace car, only the ruins of what;was,forty years ago one of the most wonderful public improvements of the age. A similar"systeSn is stjll employed in New Jersey for changing canal-boats laden with coal from one canal system to another. and they can then be taken to the conser- ! se e, and 1 have fits, too. reeled about with laughter, struggling to j vatory or greenhouse, or wherever it is in-; “What kind of fits?” look sympathetic, but my misgivings in- tended they shall flower. A little warmth j “I dunno what kind they be, but I have creased His exact account of what had : and plenty of water-will greatly assist the awful bad ’no-. befallen him during the night I took down j production of fine spikes of flower, just as it came out of his mouth. I shall be happy to communicate ipsissimis verbis to anybody who may like to complete the tale. —The work of extending the Long Branch pier 200 feet further into the ocean will propably begin in December. ‘When do you have ’em?” “Mostly in the night time.” “Well, that won’t interfere with your sawing wood. ” “Yes, but my cramps! Och!” And a Not long ago a well-known collector of curiosities in Paris, who had devoted con siderable sums of money to tlie gathering together of bank notes of all countries and all valuables, became the possessor of a Bank of England five-pound note to which an unusua'ly strange story was attached. This note was paid into a Liverpool merchant’s office in the ordinary way of business sixty-one 3 ears ago, and its re cipient, the cashier of the firm, while hold ing it up to ti e light to test its genuineness, noticed some faint red marks upon it, which on closer examination proved to be semi-effaced words, scrawled in blood be tween the printed lines and upon the blank margin of the note. Extraordinary pains were taken to decipher these partly obli terated characters, and eventually the fol lowing sentence was made out: “If this note should fall into the bands of John Dean of Long Hill, near Carlisle, he will learn hereby that his brother is languishing prisoner in Algiers.” Mr. Dean was promptly communicated with by the holder of the note, and he appealed to the govern ment of the day for assistance in his en deavor to obtain his brother’s release from captivity. The prisoner, who, as it subse quently appeared, had traced the above sen- tence upon the note with a splinder of wood jDerorWjlliaI ; Gortsch ' aWf and Era- dipped in Ins own blood had been a slave peror A!exand er,v-i!l have passed away, to the dey of Algiers for ^eleven yeara A1 , are in failing health, and all, ex- cept Bismarck and Alexander, over Mexico are passing into the hands of United States capitalists. —The engagement of MiS3 Stanton, youngest daughter ot the late Secretary Stanton, to Lieutenant Bush, of the Fifth Artillery, is announced. —Ten tons of paper pulp have been shipped from Soled ad, Los Angeles count3 T , Cal., to New Y"ork city as an experiment. It is from a wild plant. —It is said that the Eniperor of Rus sia purposes celebrating with great solemnit3 r the 25th anniversary of his accession to the throne, March 2d, 1880. —The pen used by Prince Bismarck in the hotel at Vienna was sold for $50. The man who cut the Prince’s hair i3 making a little fortune out of lockets. —According to Smith’s History,Pow- haten the Indian chief or Emperor, as Smith calls him, had no less than 100 wives, “of whom a dozen young wo men were favorites.” —Among the new towns on the Hue of the Northern Pacific, which have a promising future, is Sanborn, Barnes county, Dakota, about 72 miles west of Fargo, and 25 miles east of James town. —Mr. Eugene Hale, it is thought, will be obliged to quit politics for the present in order to take charge of his late father-in-law’s large estate. Mr. Hale is the son-mriaw 01 the late Sena tor Chandler. —The number of foreign Aims en gaged in commerce in China is 351, and the total foreign population 3,814. The population of the treaty ports is esti mated at 4,990,000. The American residents number 420. —The merchants of St. Louis have organized a movement for the erection of a spacious and permanent Exposition Building, like those of Chicago, Louis ville and Cincinnati. It is intended to finish it for next fall. —A company has been organized in New York to build an elevated railroad from the Pennsylvania Railroad 111 Jersey City to Hoboken and Jersey City Heights with branches to Union Hill and West Hoboken. —A relic of Burns has iust been plac ed In the Kilmarnock Museum. It is the draught or ‘checker-board which was used by the poet aud his brother in their hours of recreation while they were engaged in farming together. —According to the last census the po pulation of Greece, which in 1870 was only 1,457,894, amounts now to 1,679,- 756. The population of Athens has in creased in the same period from 48,000 to 70,000, and that of Pirmus from 11,000 to double. —It is possible that within five years Beaconsfieid, Gladstone, Bismarck,Em- when his strange missive first attracted attention in a Liverpool counting house. Ills family and friends had long believed him dead. Eventually his brother, with the aid of the British authorities in the Mediterronean, succeeded In ransoming him from tlie dey and brought him home to England, where, however, he did not long survive his release, injured by exposure, privations and forced labor in the de\-’s galleys.” Fireside Bores. A Famous Wine. The most famous Madeira ever known was the 4 ‘1814 pipe.” It was fished up from the bottom of the Scheldt, above Flushing, in .1814, having remained there since 1778 in the timbers of a ship which had been wrecked at the mouth of the river in that year. It was sold by auction at ant- irerp, the greater portion being secured for Louis XVIII., who dispatched an agent with instructions to secure it regardless of cost. Th3 King (or tlie agent) presented the French consul at Antwerp with several dozens which he sold to tho Due de Raguse. In 1859, after the death of the Duchesse de Raguse, four dozen remained in her cellar, and they were sold for something over their weight in gold to Baron Rothschild. On one occasion, when the Duchesse entertained Taglioni, several bottles were produced, the hostess rightly considering that to be thought worth3* of the precious liquor was the greatest honor that could be paid to any body. Fireside fun is promoted by exterminat ing all the bores. The first of these is the man who likes to read aloud. As a rule lie never wants to read anything that an}*- bod3 r else cares to hear. The respect of si lence must be paid his efforts, and persons who like to read for an3' length of time aloud seldom read well. The woman who likes to play the piano for a whole evening is another nuisance that civilization ought to suppress. She either plays old pieces that all have heard or performs new ones for the sake of practice. Worse than both of these is the youth, who has fallen in love and spends his evenings in silent ado ration of his sweetheart either at home or abroad. If he talks about her at his home he drives the famii3* nearly wild; if he talks about her at her home the family flee before him and leave him in possession of both parlor and lady love. “Not Mach Lack AByhv A citizen driving in on the Holden road, near Detroit the other dav’ met a lad about twelve years old on the highwav* some six or seven miles from the city. ’Die boy had j tained from the blossoms. Roses-'Wil l a shot-gun as long as himself, but no game yield there 2,000 pounds to the acre, seventy years ot age. —The total number of tlie Hebrew race to-day is about what it was in the days of King David, between 6,000,000 and 7.000,000. There are in Europe, according to the latest statistical infor mation, about 5,000,000; in Asia, 200,- 000; ini Africa, over 80,000; in Ameri ca, from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000. —Norfolk, Va., did an export busi ness last year of $10,000,000, and with her cotton returns now ranks as the se cond cotton exporting port in the Uni ted States. It is the first peanut port in the world, receiving the entire crop of Virginia, which is much larger than the growths of Tennessee and North Carolina. —In return for jokes played upon others some one filled the overcoat pocket of Mr. F. P. Guise, a young at torney of Williamsport, Pa., with steel pens. A number of them stuck in his hand, and in taking them out several broke off. The hand is terribly swol len, and it is feared the consequences may be fatal. —The late Walter Hastings, of Bos ton, h»9 directed in his will that the trustees he appoints shall erect upon the grounds of Harvard Coliege a building to cost not less than $200.00 > and not more than $250,000, this build ing to be called the “Waiter Hastings Hall,” in memory of his father, grand father and great-grandfather, all of whom graduated at Harvard College. * —A new industry in 'California is flower farming, which is about to be introduced into Santa Barbara and Ala meda counties for the scents to be ob- ond the citizen inquired?” “Out for a hunt?” “I was out for a hunt,” was the reply. “And you haven’t killed anything?” “Well, no.” “And 3 T ou don’t expect to?” “Not unless I kin git within striking dis tance. You see, two of us come out to gether. After we got out here, I wanted to shoot ostriches, and so we divided up. He took the powder and shot and I took the gun. I’m over here looking for turnips aud he’s over in that field watching a holler log for bears. It’s such hot weather I guess we.won’t have much luck, anyhow.” from which essences worth $375 caff b« extracted; orange trees, 2,000 pounds, value $250; violets, 1,600 pounds, worth $S00; acacias, 900 pounds, worth $450. —Dr. Spots wood, of Mobile, i3 re ported to possess a sword which once belonged to General Washington, and which the General himself gave to Alexander Spotswood, of Spotsylvania Court House, Va. General Spotswood visited Washington a year before the latter’s death, and found him using this same sword as a pruning knife in trim ming his trees. He had with his own hands filed one edge of it into a saw.