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The Cedartown Advertiser.
Published every Thursday by ID. 33. FRE F]ATAJST.
OLD SERIES—YOL. YIII-NO. 3.
CEDARTOWN, GA., FEBRUARY 17, 1881.
Terms: Sl-50 per annum, in advance.
NEW SERIES—YOL. III-NO. 10.
CHAEI.ES E. WEST,
Attorney at Law,
CEDARTOWN, Georgia.
or special attention to Collection of Claims.
Office up stairs In Ledbetter £ Goode Building.
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C. G. JANES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
tr office In the court Douse. febl»-!y
DRS. LIDDELL & SON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
OFFICE EAST BIDE OF HAIM ST.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
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W. G. ENGLAND,
Physician and. Surgeon.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
OFFICE over J. A. Wynn’s where he may be
found ready to attend calls either day or night.
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DR. C. H. HARRIS,
Physician and Surgeon,
Cedartown, Ga.
B. FISHER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
CEDARTOWN, GA.
Having Just opened out a shop at the store of
a. D. Hogg A Co., respectfully requests the
public to call on him when needing work in his
fine. lebs-tr
W. F. TURNER,
Attorney at Law.
CEDARTOWN, GA.
win practice In the Superior Courts of Polk,
Paulding, Haral-on, Floyd and Carroll counties,
special attention given to collections and real
estate business. * marll-ly
DR. L. S. LEDBETTER,
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - GEORGIA.
All Dental work performed in the most skill
ful manner. Office over J. S. Stubbs A Co. ’s.
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DR G. W. STRICKLAND
DENTIST,
CEDARTOWN, - - - Georgia.
Having permanently located in Cedartown,
offers his professional services to the public,
guaranteeing first-class work and reasonable
charges to all patrons. oct2l-ty
W. M. PHILLIPS & CO.,
MANUFACTURER’S AGENTS FOR
Machinery of all Kinds.
Sixty-four different makes of Steam Engines and Boilers ranging
from 3 to 40 horse-power—new and second-hand—all at very low prices.
Alsc agents for the
Albany and Brown Cotton Gin,
PACKING, SCREWS, SEPARATORS, THRESHERS, CORN MILLS
and Farming Implements in general. We had a fine trade in this line
last year, and general satisfaction was given. We are aleo
Dealers in General Merchandise*
And have in store a well selected stock of
DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, BOOTS, SHOES,
HATS, CAPS, CLOTHING AND GROCERIES,
All of which we will sell low, either for each or to prompt paying time cus
tomers. We are agents for GEORGE A CLARK’S
“0. Bf. T.” Thread,
And will sell at retail and also will job It to merchants at regular whole
sale prices.
10,000 Pounds of Wool Wanted.
We will pay highest prices for all the washed wool brought to us.
Persons contemplating the erection of buildings may save money by
calling on us for prices of LUMBER, LATHS and SHINGLES. Come and
see us.
W. M. PHILLIPS & CO.,
Cedartown. Ga.
JAMES H. PRICE,
CEDARTOWN, GA
Keeps on hand and manufactures to order
MATTRESSES!
My work recommends Itself wherever used,
and is guaranteed to render the most pe feet
satisfaction. No flimsy material used, no work
alighted. I ask a trial. JAMES. H. PRICE.
teblMy.
ISAAC T. MEE,
CEDARTOWN, GA.,
—DEALER IN—
STOVES TINWARE,
Hardware and Hollow-Ware,
OF ALL KINDS.
House-Furnishing Goods
▲ SPECIALTY.
Every variety of Job work in my line neatly
done. I respect-uLy solicit the patronage o>
the public, and would be pleased to have aU my
friends and customers call and see me when lb
town. L T. MEE
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STAR BARBER SHOP.
WEST SIDE MAIN STREET.
CLEAN TOWELS and plenty of BAY RUM al
ways at hand. Everything neat and systematic
about my shop, and customers promptly and
politely waited on. Am prepared to
Clean Clothing.
Bring me your worn and faded garments and
have them made to look as good as new. 1
g l&rantee perfect satisfaction In all branches
of my business.
The repairing of Umbrellas a Specialty.
nov25-ly LEWIS BOND.
J. F. EAVES.
Restaurant and Confectionery
EAST SIDE OF NORTH MAIN STREET.
or Meals Served at all Honrs.
AWAKE.
The sun gets np in the morning
And lifts his stately head ;
Open yonr eyes, my sleepy skioe,
The sun is out of bed!
The moon is very timid,
She dare not meet the sun.
With a heigh ho! the Btare must go,
And hide thfemselves one by one.
The sun gets up in the morning,
The world is all alight.
Every tree is full of glee,
Every blossom bright;
Every bird is singing
A welcome to his King,
With a 4 ‘Well done, beautiful sun !
You glorify everything.”
The sun gets up in the morning,
And so must children, too ;
How dare you keep fast asleep,
The sun is calling you !
Mid ail the birds and blossoms
Your merry voices raise
With a hurrah ! How glad we are
We have got a sun to praise!
A Fiery Steed.
For once May gave promise of being a
May worthy of the many beautiful songs
which have been sung in her praise. She
came dancing along after her sister April—
who had just left in a shower of tears—
with a bright smile upon her lips and a
wondrous rainbow halo about her head.
The young maples began to blush in
happy consciousness of her approach, and
the delicate pink and white blossoms on
the orchard trees opened their dainty leaves
and shyly flung a welcoming fragrance on
the soft, clear air.
All through the fields apd meadows, the
vales and woodlands, and over the hills
ran the violets and trailing arbu.us and
May-buds and daisies and their sister flow
ers. telling glad tidings of sunny days and
moonlit nights and lovely butterflies and
sparkling rain-drops end busy humming
bees, and birds, swinging on slender green
boughs, sang in "sweet twittering notes to
each other:
Neighbor, soon we shall see the roses.
Along a pleasant, windiDg, lonely coun
try road, with splendid great apple and pear
trees standing on either side, and the spring
flowers dotting the green carpet so thickly
that the green is almost hidden, comes slow
ly cn this poet’s May day, a diminutive,
old, odd-looking white horse, drawing a
small market wagon filled with household
furniture, accompanied by an enormous,
shaggy Newfoundland dog, and as pretty
O M E
Cotton and Produce Exchange,
27 BROAD STREET, ROME, Ga.
BRANCH OF THE
Atlanta Public Produce, Cotton and Stock Exchange.
J. F. CUMMINGS & CO., Managers.
Quotations from all t he Principal Cotton ana Produce Markets received Daily, quoting
all Changes in the Market, which are free to the public.
Future Transactions In Cotton, Grain and Provisions. dec23-3m
or Call or send for Circular Explaining Method of Doing Business.
A. J.'YOUNG,
DEALER IN
Gins
Corn and Rye Whiskies, Wine,
and Brandies.
Noyes Warehouse - - CEDARTOWN, Ca.
SOLE AGENT FOR COX, HILL & THOMPSON’S
STONE MOUNTAIN WHISKIES
Tn Cedartown.
I keep such Liquors as may be used as a beverage or for medical
been awfully contrary, and ha3 stopped ev
ery few moments, and the consequence is
that we have already been two hours on a
journey that should have taken us but one,
and there’s just as long a distance to go yet;
and with Charley—oh, you wicked horse!—
standing under that tree, I don’t know how
we are ever to get to Grassto wn.”
‘It's almost as bad a plight as the old wo
man was with her pig, when he wouldn't
go under the stile, and she was afraid she
couldn’t get home that night,” laughs the
young man—a nice looking fellow he is,
with gentleman stamped on every feature
of his handsome lace. “But suppose I cut
you a switch ? Perhaps that, used with
discretion, might have some influence on
the fiery steed.”
*0, no, that would never do!” she says,
shaking her head emphatically. “Charley
was never whipped in his life. He’d be so
scared at the very sight of a switch that I
believe he’d run away.”
Wouldn’t that be a desirable thing, un
der the circumstances?” asks the young
man, with a broad smile; the idea of the old
horse, whose principle desire appeareitto be
not to move at all, running away, striking
him a3 inexpressibly comic, and thinking
Bless her kind little heart!” he continues:
Well, since you refuse the switch, I will
try how a command in a masculine voice
will affect him;” and he commanded
“G’long, Charley 1"
Charley started, turned his head toward
the speaker, recognizing a master, backed
away irom the oak and went off on a quick
walk.
‘ Well, the idea 1” exclaimed his young
mistress.
And now with your permission, I’ll walk
with you to the end of your jou 1’mrney, for
sure if I leave you, Charley wiil-note my
absence immediately, and stop under the
first tree.”
•O no indeed 1 you must not,” says the
pretty country maid. ‘.‘You were going in
an entirely different direction. I could not
think of taking you so far out of your way.
Many thanks for your kind offer, but in
deed, sir, I couldn’t. Charley will behave
well now. Won’t you, Charley ?”
“Good heavens! I never knew my name
wfi# so musical before,” thinks the young
man, and then explains: I was going in an
entirely different direction because I miss
ed my train at the last station, and, if I had
waited would have to hours for another;
but being rather impatient by nature, and
tempted by the fine day, I set out to walk,
my destination being the next village. And
now if I return with you 1 shall have a
much pleasanter walk,catch the next train,
and lose no time after all. Lion approves
ol my plan. Don’t you Lion ?” And Lion
usually very suspicious of strangers, comes
and lays his startlingly cold nose m his new
friend’s hand.
And so the two young people walk along
a country maid as ever milked a cow, or
purposes with perfect safety,
guaranteed.
jy Give me a call.
Good treatment
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BAKER & HALL,
D. H. LEDBETTER,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
CEDARTOWN, Ga.
All kinds of Repairing of Watches, Clocks
and Jewelry done promptly and satisfactorily.
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry of all kinds fur
nished to order on short notice.
I am prepared to do
PHOTOGRAPHING
IN ALL ITS BRANCHKS.
My Gallery is fitted up lu good style, and I an-
prepared to furnish
GOOD PICTURES.
LIVKRY, FEED
• — AND—
SALE STABLE!
Wright & Johnson, Prop’rs.
CEDARTOWN Georgia.
Being supplied with new Horses, New Ve
sicles. «o., we are prepared to meet the wants
9 1 the public in ear line. jans-iy
DEALERS IN
GENERAL HARDWARE*
SUCH AS
Ready-Made Plows, Plow Stocks, Nails, Iron ant
Steel, Spades, Shovels, Hoes, Rakes,
Manure Forks, Etc.
BUGGY WHEELS. SHAFTS, POLES AND CIRCLES, '
WHEBIsBARriOW S,
SAWS, FILES, LOCKS, HINGES, CHAINS, ETC.
We have just opened a Hardware House in Cedartown, and
ask a trial in Goods and Prices. We are
Strictly in the Hardware Business,
and will be prepared to furnish goods in our line as cheap as
they*can be .bought in any*market. Give us a trial before
going elsewhere.
shades a low brow to which cliDgs babyish
ringlets of hair the color of glossy, satin-
smooth buttercups, a pair of innocently
roguish eyes, cheeks of brown with an un
derlying tinge of rose, a.charming red-lipped
mouth, and a firm, round chin.
Across the brow, however, at this mo
ment flits the shadow of a frown, and a
look of comic perplexity comes into the
sweet young face. The odd-looking horse
has stopped in the middle of the road and
remains perfectly motionless, staring
straight before him, save when he bends
his head to take a nibble at the flower-thick
grass, as though suddenly oblivious of
everything under tne sun except the tran
quility of the June-like May afternoon.
“Oh, Charley ! Charley 1 go on—do!
that’s a dear !” coaxes the girl coming to
his side and gently patting his head with
her little brown UDgloved band ; but Char
ley merely whisks a too familiar fly away
with his forlorn old tail and makes no fur
ther sign.
“Charley, good horse, Charley—oh! why
didn’t I bring some carrots with me ?—
Charley, you bad, bad fellow, if you don’t
go on, I’ll whip you sure as you stand there.
Come, be a darling.” And thus she alter
nately begs and threatens, Lion assisting in
dog language, with an occasional dash at
the heels of his obstinate equine friend, but
Charley refuses to be a “Jarlin,” plants his
feet more firmly and never stirs; and at
last, with an air of resignation, she goes
back to the path, seats herself on a rude
seat formed by nature of the gnarled roots
of a misshapen old tree, and waits patient
ly for at least ten minutes. At the end of
this time Charley looks about with a just-
waked-up expression in his eyes, as who
should say, “Dear! Dear! I quite forgot
there was work to be done,” and starts off
with a quick step that gradually becomes
slower and slower.
With a sigh of relief the young girl arises
and follows—Lion bounding baek from the
wood, where he has been making hasty ex
plorations, having it in his mind that his
mistress is not to be-left without his pro
tection for more than two minutes at a
time, takes his place at her side—and the
perplexed look fades away into a smile
that brings to light two rows of pearl-white
teeth.
But alas 1 the smile is premature. In
another ten minutes again overcome by
the beauty and peacefulness of the day,
Charley falls into reverie, stops once more,
and once more refuses most decidedly to
“go on.”
And in this manner does that dreadful
horse behave ibr a whole hour, making short
progresses and long pauses, until coming to
the conclusion that there had been quite
enough of this sort of thing, he deliberately
drags the wagon to thesideof the road, takes
up his station beneath a wide-spreading oak
and proceeds to munch the young grass at
his feet, with a look in his eyes that say as
plain as words: “From this spot move me
if you can.”
“O, Cnarley I Charley 1 how can you ?"
begins the young girl, loudly and indig
nantly following him with her small brown
hands clasped beseechingly. “Oh, you
wicked, wicked Charley I”
“Did you call me ?” asks a masculine
voice, to her great astonishment; and as
with a slight start she turns in the direc
tion of the voice, she Bees a young man
walking rapidly towards her the Bound of
his approaching footsteps having been com
pletely lost in the inquiring bow-wows of
her canine guardian.
“Did you call me ?” he repeats.
yNo, sir, ” she replies, blushing prettily,
ana looking at him with frank, child-like
eyes. “I was speaking to the horse. Be
stili, Lion.”
‘•Beg pardon. I thought for an instant
you were speaking to me. It seems that I
have the honor ot being a namesake of your
fiery steed. But you are in trouble. What
r is the matter ? Can I help you in any
way ?”
“These is nothing very serious the mat
ter,” she says with a smile. “Weare mov
ing to day, and father went on ahead a
long wli.ie ago, having some business to
settle with our new landlord, and he must
be at this very moment waiting for me at
the new louse, and wondering what in the
world has become of me. You see, we have
no boys iii our family, and the other girls
are youngig than myself, and father and
mother bofc thought—this being a very
quiet road—that Lion and I could look
after Charley and the furniture, but Char
ley, who generally behaves pretty well, has
no desire, in spite of my agent’s arrange
ments to the contrary, to begin my life at
Daisyville by turning so worthy a tenant ”
(in his heart he added “with so pretty a
daughter”) “out of the house he has occu
pied so many years,I was just proposing to
Miss Grey as you made your appearance
that Charley should be stopped in his mad
career, and once for all be turned toward
his old home. ”
“Are you quite in earnest sir?”
Never more so in my life. Whoa, Char
ley, poor old boy 1” and around went horse
and-wagon, and off started the fiery steed
so fast that they could no longer follow him,
Lion “leaped a yard in the air,” in the
exuberance of his delight galloping by his
side.
“He’s all right,” said the old man, his
face beaming with happiness. And won’t
mother look wondei fully surprised when
she sees him coming up tne lane ? I don’t
know how to thank you, sir.”
Don't thank me. I deserve no thanks,”
says Charles Marks, holding aside a low
hanging tree branch that Bessie may pass
under. “And the new gardener?” asks
Bessie, looking back at him.
Will have rooms over the stable. You
know you said they were ‘very comfort
able.’ ”
“But ycur train ?” persists Bessie, with
the first gleam of coquetry that ever spark
led in her blue eyes.
“I’d much rather walk,” says Mr.
Marks.
der their feet as they go, but Charley, look
ing back every now and then out of the
corner of his right eye to see if the mascu
line voice is still there, never falters, but
keeps steadily on his winding way. After
a few moment’s silence the innocent little
maid raises her blue eyes—they have been
hidden by the long lashes—and says, in a
shy voice:
“You said you were going to Daisyville.
I have lived there all my life. ”
“Not a very long time,” says the young
man with a smile.
Seventeen years. I was born and my
three sisters were born in the same little
farm house we are leaving now. ” And a
tear trembles on the long lashes and rolls
down her round rosy cheek.
The ynuDg man looks at the tear with
pitying wonder.
“And were you very happy there ?” he
asks.
“So happy,” replies the girl, “that we
fear we will never be half as happy any
where else. And”—a sudden light break
ing over her face—“I believe that is what
aiis Charley. He knows it isn’t right that
we should be goiDg to a strange place, and
does his best, poor fellow, to prevent our
going.”
“Undoubtedly,” gravely asserts her
companion. “ But why, if you will per
mit nte to ask are you bidding farewell to
Daisyville ?—G’long, Charley, ” as Char
ley evinces a desire to listen to the conver
sation.
“Father didn’t own the place. He had it
on a long leuse, which ran out the very
week (a month ago) our old landlady died,
and her heir—a nephew—and his mother
are coming to take possession of the estate,
and they want our farm house for their
gardener, Whe Mrs. Marks was alive her
gardener had rooms over the stable, and
very comfortable rooms they were, too, and
the kitchen garden was just back of the big
house. But I suppose the new people are
more styliBh than the old ones, want their
kitcheD-garden further away than Mrs.
Marks’ was, and so they take from us our
home, and we are obliged to move to Grass-
town.”
And are your father and mother as much
attached to Daisyville as you and your sis
ters are I” he asks.
“Even more attached to it,’’she answers,
‘if that be possible. It almost breaks my
heart to see mother’s sad face. But I must
try to make the new home as bright for
them as I can—that is, if I ever get there.
O dear I how very unfortunate that Char
ley should have taken it into his head to be
so naughty this day of all others I”
‘On the contrary, I think. Miss Grey”—
it has transpired that her name is Bessie
Grey—“that it is the most fortunate thing
that could have happened."
Her blue eyes and her red mouth open in
wonder.
’Because”—answering the look—“if
Charley had behaved well instead of badly
you would have been at Grasstown long
before this, and I should not have had the
pleasure of meeting you. And now 1 am
about proposingjsomething which will seem
extremely absurd to you, although the
wisest thing that could be done under the
circumstances. Suppose we turn Charley’s
het-d in the direction of his old home and
see what speed he will make then ?”
‘But,” looking at him half frightened,as
Lion bounds forward with a loud cheerful
bark to meet a stalwart old man who comes
suddenly around a corner, his hat in one
hand and a red silk handkerchief in the
other, and who shouts the moment he
catches sight of her:
“Why, girl, where have you been? What
on earth’s the matter?”
Bessie leaves unfinished the-“But”—be
gun speech and runs laughingly to him, and,
taking the hat from his hand, fans him en
ergetically while she explains: “Charley
was the matter, father. Y ou can’t think
how aggravating he’s been. He wouldn’t
go until this gentleman”—with another
pretty blush—“was kind enough to make
him go.”
The old man looked keenly at the
young one. “And pray where did you
come from, and who may you be ?” he
asked sharply.
“I will tell you where I came from, and
how I happened to meet yotir daughter, at
some future time. Meanwhile you will
learn from this who I am”—handing a card
to the old farmer, on which was engraved
“Charles Marks, Jr.”
“Our old landlady’s nephew and heir ?”
“The same, at your service; and having
Nailed up in a Mon e.
On the border of the Flushingse Madows,
in Long Island, in a bleak spot„wesl of the
village, near Ireland Mills, is the old Texi-
do mansion, formerly the residence of the
late Captain Manuel Texido. On his death
tne house was sold. It passed into the
hands of Senator,now Chief Justice Priuce
of New Mexico, who now owns the farm.
He sold the homestead to Miss Clarkson of
this village. The house, a few months ago,
was let to a Mrs. Allen, from New York.
She represented herseif to be the sister-in-
law of a prominent official of the last State
Government. She was greatly interested
in religious matters. She said she had a
brother who is a clergyman of the Episco
pal Church in the western part of the State.
About a mouth ago Mrs. Allen, who had
another woman living with her, moved to
New York. Before going, Airs. Allen ask
ed a lady here if it was safe to leave the
premises without any occupant. When
told that it might not be safe, she said:
“Well, I’ve got a competent person to
live there in my absence.”
Miss Clarkson, who did not know of Mrs.
Allen’s removal, recently went to collect
the rent due. Her summons at the door
received uo response until it was vigorous
ly repeated. Then a window was opened,
and a woman’s head was thrust out. The
woman looked wild, and her hair was di
shevelled. She immediately began chat
tering to Miss Clarkson. She said she had
not seen Mrs. Allen, and was starving.
Miss Clarkson not knowing what else to
do, came back to the village for assistance.
She called upon a lady Inend, who return
ed with her to the old mansion. They took
a loaf of bread with them. On their knock
ing at the door they saw the head again
thrust out of the window. The woman
made a heart rending appeal for something
to eat. 1 he two ladies procured a rail from
a fence in an adjoining field, and sticking
the loaf on the end, held the bread up to
the famished woman. She showed the
greatest anxiety to secure the food. No
sooner did she get it in her hands than she
began ravenously to devour it.
Then she begged for water, saying that
a dog that she had with her for company
was also famished. The ladies got a piece
of cord and threw it to the woman, who by
it let down a pail. The ladies filled the
pail with water and the woman drew it
up.
Still they were unable to get into the
house, and once more they returned to the
village called upon a Justice, who referred
them to County Superintendent of the Poor
Sullivan. He, with the ladies, returned to
the mansion. Mr. Sullivan tried to get in
by a window, but it was firmly secured.
He then crawled through the cellar and
worked his way upstairs to the room where
the woman was. He found the door not
only locked, but nailed up with boards,and
the handle was tied with a rope to the han
dle of another door across the hall. Mr.
Sullivan tore away these obstacles and
burst the door open.
In the middle ot the room stood the wo
man, dressed only in a thin cotton skirt
and a jacket of similar stuff. Under her
arms was the remains of the loaf, and a
dog, barking and snarliDg at the intruders,
was at her side. The only articles in the
room were a pile of meadow grass in one
comer, on which lay a piece of covering
four feet square, and a pail. There was no
stove. How the woman lived through the
recently very cold weather it is hard tell
ing.
Mr. Sullivan and the ladies questioned
her, but all that she would say was that
Mrs. Allen had been very kind to her. She
said she had some property at Locust val
ley, L. L, and had been so importuned by
Mrs. Allen that she Chaffy assigned it to
her, the deed being on record in the County
Clerk’s office in Jamaica. The woman had
been confined for over a month. She look
ed like a living skeleton. It was teamed
that she had a sister in Locust Valley, and
after being cared for she was sent there by
superintendent Sullivan.
Tne Toad.
It has been demonstrated that the toad
is highly venomous. Dogs and other ani
mals inoculated with toad poison have
goon died. A boy in Paris accidentally
seized a toad, received the poison through
a wound in hi^ hand, and in spite of the
best medical assistance, shortly after died.
This poison exudes through the skin of the
back when the animal is violently molested,
and is the only defence it has against its
numerous foes,‘for it cannot bite like the
snake, nor bound out of sight in a single
spring iike the frog. A toad might be
handled a thousand times without ill re
sults, since it is a necessary condition thai
the akin of the hand should be broken to
afford the liquid poison ingress to the
veins; yet considering what has been
proved by patient investigation, it is not
unimportant to warn all, but. particularly
boys, who are so often inclined to emulate
each ether in clever feats, not to make a
plaything or a pet of the toad, nor, on the
other hand, to ill-treat it, but simply to
let it alone. Dogs froth at the mouth when
encouraged to worry a toad, and cats, it is
said can never be got to touch them. The
poison has been proved by recent experi
ment to be exceedingly active, and no one
can be too careful in avoiding contact with
it. At the same time the creature is per
fectly harmless when not meddled with,
and useful as a destroyer of insects. When
it is overtaken in the lane, or on the foot
path, it will always show the greatest hum
bleness and respect; it will hobble away
out of sight as fast as it can, and give you
all the road to pass. The eye is the only
part of the toad that can be called beauti
ful, but is seldom observed. The lustrous
eye is unquestionably a jewel of rare valne,
and it is the only attractive feature that
the toad is endowed with to compensate
for its general ugliness.
A Romanes of the Sea.
The British steamer West Indian, which
arrived at Baltimore in the early part of
January, brought from Jamaica the news
of one of the most heartrending marine
disasters which even the present tempest
uous winter has caused. About the middle
of December the British barque Fontabelle,
Captain Nixon, sailed from Jamaica for
London, having on board a crew of twen
ty-five men and ten passengers, including
the captain’s wife and three children, and
two young couples, who had been married
only six weeks before. The voyage
opened with promise; the wind was fair
and geDtle, and everything indicated a
quick and pleasant passage to the English
shores. The West Indian seas, however,
are treacherous, and when one day out the
wind fell and the vessel lay becalmed,
rolling lazily upon the long waves. Four
days after sailing, when eyery sail was set
to catch the listless breeze, a hurricane of
prodigious fury fell without warning upon
the barque, and stripped her of masts and
rigging in ten minutes’ time. The gale
increased In fury, and the dismasted hulk
was driven violently before it, being re
peatedly swept by huge waves, which mo
mentarily threatened to sink it by the very
weight of the tons of water which they
threw on board. The passengers* and
crew, abandoning hope, crouched under
the bulwarks, and through the long night
listened to the howling of the wind and the
shrieks of anguish, as, one by one, their
numbers were diminished by the relentless
seas. Vivid flashes of lightning at times
illumined the scene, making its details more
temble. With every flash the passengers
who crouched in the stern could perceive
one of the young married couples clinging
to the wreck and to each other, the hus
band standing over his wife to shield her
from the force of the waves. One wave
of unusual power struck the pair and tore
from the body of the young wife the night
clothing in which she was wrapped, where
upon the husband, stripping off his own
clothing, fastened it about his wife, and
leaving her bound securely to the side,
plunged down into the hold, at the risk of
his life, and brought up for her more suit
able attire. Just as the dawn was break
ing the climax came. A tremendous wave
hurled tne vessel high in air; it came down
crashing upon a reef; another torrent of
water struck the deck, and the captain
and ten men, with the young bride, were
hurled into the sea. As she was torn from
her husband’s arms the latter appeared
stupefied, but the next moment he leaped
after her with a terrible cry, and he, too,
was swept away and out of sight of the
horrified survivors. To these the prospect
of instant death was not to be avoided, and
they clung to their fastenings and waicbed
with despair the slow crumbling of the
vessel beneath the blows of the sea. About
noon the storm abated, and the survivors
began to gather a little courage. Tue
night came, and the other bride, overcome
by exhaustion, died in the arms of her
husband. Day dawned again, hut ouly to
arouse one of the seamen, who, crazed by
thirst, leaped into the sea before the eyes
of his horrified companions, and sank lor-
ever. In the clear water they could see
hia body descend, until, thirty feet below
them, it lodged in a hollow of the rocks.
Toward night the wind again rose, and the
storm raged so fiercely that, when the morn
ing came, seven more had beenswept a.vay,
and only the mate, one seaman and tne
captain’s wife remained alive. Late iu the
afternoon of this awful day a vessel hove
in sight, perceived the plight of the surviv
ors and sent a crew of six men to rescue
them. But the pitiless sea had not yet
been appeased with victims ; a wave over
turned the boat when it had almost reached
the barque, and the entire crew were
drowned in the surf beneath the very eyes
of those whom their bravery had vainly
attempted to save. Another boat wa3 sent
off, however, and at great risk brought on
board the men and the woman wlio had sat
with death for eight and forty hours.
This is but one of the terrible tale3 which
are every year brought home by those who
go down to the sea in ships, and which
make the romances of imaginative writers
seem like idle tales. It is raiely that a ship
wreck occurs which is attended by more
distressing details, but the sea3 are full of
terrors, many of which are known only to
those who die in them, and whose fate is
never known. Such narratives as these
give a lively stimulus to the imagination m
thinking of the multitudinous wrecks from
which no survivor has ever come, and
which go to swell the chapters of romance
of the mysterious and threatening deep.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
At 10 o’clock a boot-black stood at the
south door of the Postoffice in Detroit
looking across Larned street. A woman
came out of the office and banged the door
against his head and back and heels and
lifted him clear off the steps by the con
cussion.
‘I don’t care—you had no business
there!”, she snapped as he picked himself
up.
‘Say, that was real mean,” he said, as
he rubbed his head.
‘Well, then, keep away from the
doors.”
I was goin’ to make you a Christmas
present,” he remarked as he followed her
up Lamed street.
“1 don’t want any.”
“Yes, I was goin' to buy you a fifty-
pound sack of flour and put it in yer
stockin’.”
“I don’t care!”
“That’s what I was goin’ to do. but I’ve
concluded not to. Yer see, it would slip
down into the foot ot your stockin’ an’ fit
so clu8 that ye couldn’t git it out without
buildin’ a stagin’ an’ hirin’ carpenters an’
goin’ to more trouble than the flour was
worth I”
She gave him one awful look and he fell
back, but she had no sooner turned the
corner tuan she halted before a window for
no other purpose than to get a sly look at
her feet and see if tney had swelled any
since she left home.
Hotr to Hans Thermometers.
In the first place the temperature of the
wall of any building, at any hour of the
night or day, is not the true temperature
of the circulating air and is of no use to
science. A wood wall radiates its heat
more rapidly than a biick or a stone, and
the amateur scientist who hangs his ther
mometer on a wood wall can force his
mercury down below the amateur who
selects a brick wall. The proper way to
expose your thermometer is to surrouud it
with a light wood frame covered with slats,
like shutter work, and roofed over. This
will protect it irom the direct rays of the
sun and reflected heat. Run a light wooa
bar across the centre of your instrument
shelter, to which you can attache ther
mometers, which should be, when properly
exposed, on the north side of the bunding
and the thermometer at least one foot irom
all objects. If these directions are followed
erroneous reports of extreme cold weather
will not find their way into print so olten.
It is not a very funny thing for the press
to report 25 deg. below zero when 15 deg.
represented the true temperature of tne
circulating air. It gives persons a wrong
impression of your climate.
—The Ohio Legislature is thinking of
employing girls as pages.
—Mississippi has 198,000 voters, of
whom 106,000 are negroes.
—Lancaster can boa3t of 76 good sub
stantial tobacco warehouses.
—In 1851 Wisconsin had ten miles of
railroads; now it has3,133 miles.
—A hundred of the French Jesuits
have appeared in Constantinople,
Boston’s original area was 7S3 acres;
its present territory includes 23,661.
—Over twohundred deer were killed
in Forest country during the past sea
son.
—It Is said that the wine crop of
Californ ia this year will be 10,000,000
gallons.
—The loss l>y fire in New Orleans
during tha past year has been only
$121,740.
—The Pittsburg pension agency pays
out two million dollars annually in
pensions.
—Charles O’Conor aged 76, has be
come a citizen of Nantucket, where ho
is at work on a law treatise.
—It is stated that it will cost over
$31,000,000 to run the New York city
government the coming year.
—General Walker has already esti
mated that in 1900 this eountry wilt
have a populatian of 65,000,000.
—Thirty thousand square miles of
pine timber are now awaiting the saws
at Beaumont, Texas.
—The statement of the Imperial
Bank of Germany shows a decrease in
specie of 74,000 marks.
—The duke of Westminster, the rich
est man in England, was raised to his
present title by Mr. Gladstone.
—The Washing’ou banker Corcoran
has given away $4 000 000 and has only
about $1,010,000 idt lor himself,
—There are 40,000 negroes in Wash
ington, ot whom not more than 5,000
rre stea ly at work during the year.
— It is estimated that the Indian
river country of Florida will alone pro
duce this year 70,000 boxes of oranges.
—A farmer in Chilton couny Ala
bama, rai.-ed 408 bushels of yellow
yams ou a half acre of common pine
land.
—Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee
are the three most populons states of
the South. Georgia ranks next to Ten
nessee.
—The wife of Gen. Sherman is in
such uncomfortable health that she
will no; perform any social duties this
season.
—Tile Colorado bullion production
tor 1380. is e-tmated at $12,0)1,0 )0, ot
whifli Leadville is credited with $15,-
oco.ooo.
—A silver dollar of 1798, “in excel
lent condition,” is worth about $1 50.
Half dollars of 3812 are worth about
sixty cents.
—Commissioner Ls Dne-has located
his experimental tea farm 20 miles
trom Cuirleston ou Che South Caro-
iiau tailroad.
—Kansas harvested 25,000 acres of
Egvpttau or rice corn last year, the
average yield being twenty-five bush
els to the acre.
—It takes two and a half million dol
lars to pay the annual expenses of the
20,009 Pounds said to he owned In
Great Britain.
—During the past seven years the
mines of the United States nave pro
duced $284,000,000 of gold and $271,-
50o,000 of silver.
—The total coinage of all coins, gold,
silver and minor, from the foundation
of the Government to the present time,
is $1,433,719,935.
—We have now outstanding m green
backs, $362,5S8 4241 national bank
notes, $343,219,933—total, $805,808,307
in paper currency.
—The first turnpike ever made in the
United States was that constructed be
tween Philadelphia and Lancaster in
1793, costing $500,000.
—The first time the White House, at
Washington, was thrown open to the
public was at the New Tear’s hevee of
President Adams, in 1801.
—The Russian Army has 25,000 offi
cers, which just(equals the whole army
of the United Stales, counting in hos
pital stewards and the rest.
—Nearly $9500 has been contributed
in Cincinnati for the benefit of the
families of five firemen who lost their
lives at a recent fire in that city.
—The num her of croquet sets sold in
this country during the past five year*,
is estimated at 8,000,000, and still we
continue to send missionaries to Africa.
—Vanderbilt draws $510,000 from
the government every ninety days,
that amount being the quarterly inter
est on the 4 per cent, bonds held by
him.
—The gross earnings ef the Missouri
Pacific railway for the year ending
December 31, 1880, were $25,404,106.08,
an Increase of $4,884,401.34 over those
of1S79.
—An English writer places the num
ber of horses in the world at 49,000,-
000, of which the United States and
Canada have 11,000,000, and Russia
21,000,000.
—Eastport, Me., exported 65,000
cases of sardines last year, worth $650,-
000, against 25,060 in 1S79. Seven new
lactones were erected, making thirteen
now in operation.
—It is estimated that the railroads
of the country have required this year
1,595 new locomotives and 68,420 cars,
worth $65,079,920, and $71,146,000
worth ol new ties aud rails.
—The exports of grain from the port
of New. York during the year 18S0
reached 107,000.000 bushels, an excess
of nearly 13,000,000 bushels over the
exports of any previous year.
—The most careful estimates, allow
ing tor the losses by bad weather aud
tne scarcity of labor, puts the cotton
ciop ol 1S8J at 6,017,-161 bales, an in
crease over 1874 01 256,000 hales.
—The Personnel of the German Navy
comprises 10,0o0 men, of which num
ber during me twelve mouths coding
oil flic 1st of April last, on an average,
5,lc7 were afloat and 4962 ou shore.
—Tne Maharajah Dbuieep Singh,
the v. ell-known Eist Indian priuce
who lives in England, advertises 3,U'J0
pheasants and 1,000 hares fur sale, all
on the E vedon estate, near Thetlord.
—The Moccasins, necklace and other
barbarous personal property of “Don’t
Know-How,” a meiub.r of the Yank-
touuais trioe of Sioux, have been re
ceived by Secretary beburz by mail,
that Indian haring no further use for
them.
—The total number of paupers in
Louuon on .he last day of the third
week in December was 92,262, of whom
51,5G6 were iu workhouses, and 40,708
received ou.door relief. Compared
with the corresponding week in 1879,
these figures show a decrease of 3,550;
but as compared with 1878 and 1877,
they show an increase of 6,061 and 6,605
respectively.