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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. oct21-ly 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. Jane-ly 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. Janis-ly 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. febl»-ly 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 jans-ly 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 mr!8-ly 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.