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HEWS.
« Biinjr part, And
, fcl toe frla&>ttfr»t»*nt
'faJfiWr. 'dS&'fffcoBfe, a resident of
WtAwtfon, agent df the State of Kan-
ma, filed at the Interior Department re
cently, a brief in support of the position
takes brthe State authorities bn sundry
long-pending ^ttbrtions in regard to the
Atchison, Topeka ft Santa Pi Railroad
land grant, arid tire cue; yriQ jfa,bably
eome before the fa fa j
««»*•». as bert^dit. fire brief argues
that a^nalAent of the grant under the
SnpPStte Court decision of 1875 concern
ing it wonld give the State title to about
800,000 acres of land alleged to hare
been illegally certified to the railroad
company, and that, in any eVent, the
State ia entitled tb hdf&o 300^000 acres
now hdd by.Itke rairqad.
The amount of naval stores produced
in North tfcnttai Is aeon than double
the yieid of all the other States com-.
A Mathematician interested in the
sugar trade has estimated that the re
duction in the duty on sugar will amount
to seventeen cento annually for eaeh per
son in the United States.
*Bb msj to say: “I know how far
I can go” in folly's descending car;
Bat easily, easily down we droij
Until death gives the cdhlittaiid to afcope
$nt thottgii a hero we may ddihlre;
town of St Albans with a $39,000 house
for use aa a frso hospital. He will pro
vide a $25,000 endqcment fund, also.
Hsuvia is dependent ou forsign eoun-
tries for her salt supply, and to stimu
late explorations tire government offers
a prize of $80,000 to the discoverer of s
workable salt ariaa in the kingdom.
Suss recently died near Lewiston,
Me., a woman named Latimer, who was
Me most persistent uevourer of books
and nawipfijiera the world b»« ever
knobn. But she derived ns benefit
thereform, for it was literally and not
South, where they go proselyting.
The Railroad bill now pending in the
North Carolina Legislature provides for
three Railroad Commissioners at a salary
of $3.Qp0 a year each.
Over $?,0,000 worth of whale oil has
been shipped from -Brunswick, Ga., tEia
The Arkansas Legislature
a law whioh prohibits feu two ye
selling of liquor within two miles
churoh or school house, except o
tiou of a majority of the adult i
••Well, you can go. but next time
yon come you may find a spring-gun
defending the wood-pile.”
“Dar won’t be no nex’ time, sah.”
“I think you’ll find it cheaper to buy
your wood.”
“Looks dat way, sah—ooks ’zactly
dat way. though I tink Til hole on till I
know whether you has de only b’ar-trap
in dis ward, or whether dar am a sort
o’ placqne-craze an’ ebery family am
stockin’ up to cotch a nigger.”—Detroit
Free Freea.
—According to the existing Russian
law apostasy from the State religion
entails severer penalties than theft or
murder. A Russian subject who aban
dons the orthodox faith for any other
whatever is deprived of his children,
his estate is handed over to guardians
appointed by the state, and he himself
Is liable to prosecution by the Holy
Synod until be abjures. The Ooloo re
marks that this severity defeats Ha own
object, and advises that this antiquated
Privacy.
A worthy wife ot forty years’ standing,
and whose life was not made up of sun
shine and peace, gave the following
sensible and impressive advice to a mar
ried p^ir of her acquaintance. The ad
vice is good: “Preserve sacredly "the
privacies erf your own house, your mar
ried state of your heart Let no father
or mother, sister or brother ever pre
sume to came between you two, or to
share your joys and sorrows that belong
to you two alone. Build your quiet
world, not allowing your dearest earthly
friend to be the confidant of aught that
concerns vour domestic happiness. Let
moments of alienation, if they occur, be
healed stance. Never, no never, apeak
of it outside, bat each other confess,
and all win come out right. Never let
the morrow's sun find you at variance.
Review and renew your vow-it will do
SSehie stronger them death, and yea
—Ladies will no longer wear gloves
with full dress in Paris; the fashion has
changed. Apropos of tlv fact the Vol
taire tells an anecdote of old French
ideas ot courtesy. Formerly ladies used
only to wear knitted silk gloves. W hen
Lotus XIV adopted kid gloves he wore
them at the chase, at reviews and in
the oountry, but never at home. One
day he saw the Marquis of Drosmeull—
who wanted to obtain a military com
mission—speaking to the Duchess of
COuti with gloves on. The Rol-Soliel
refused the commission, stating that a
man vulgar enough to accost a woman
as if-bn were afraroaebing a cannon, was
pot worthy to hold a colonelcy.
Hr. ' Wxnair, the newly appointed
United States Treasurer, is of United
States parentage, though bom in Canada.
He is somewhat over middle ege, and a
very popular and competent officer. He
waa appointed to a clerkship in the
Treasury Department in April, 1863; was
Assistant Treasurer from 1875 until 1878,
when ha sneeesded to the Treasurembip,
adding that pomtkm until 1877, when
he resigned became of ill health. Since
CEbAftfOWN; GA,.,MARCH 29,1883
NEW SERIES—VOL. V-NO. 16.
miles
1 has
, this
j®«, ana it promises to become an im
portant and flourishing business in that
above t
inati Southern road, are causing groat
destruction of timber.
The Hot Springs property, in Bath
county, Va., containing 1,196 acres of
• land, hotels, cottages, bfths and nume
rous’ buildings, have been sold for $100,
m.
A State Military Academy will he
built at Savannah. Bonds to the
amount of $20,000 will be issued at five
per cent interest, to run thirty years.
.A committee has been appointed to can
vas for subscriptions.
A block of marble was shipped a few
days ago from the Hawkins, Tennessee,
quarries. It contained 185 cubic feet,
weighed 34,300 pounds and sold forever
$400.
’few Orleans Democrat: “ What the
Atlanta cotton exposition did for the
Booth, and we are now realizing the fact
that it brought millions of dollars here,
and that to it is due the investment of
$15,000,000 in southern cotton mills
alone.”
At Griffin, Ga., some one threw a
lamp of vav—ad douth In Abel A.
Wrigb.t’s fiafa pond, causing the death of
no Rjss than 500 fine Carp.
The Georgia Wine Company has 100
mens in vines now producing, and 30
meres for fntnre use. They expect to
'make 20,000 gallons this year. They
get four gallons to the huBhel, and gen
erally gather 150 to 250 bushels to the
Dr. Charles, the Forsythe county, Ga-
miner, writes an interesting letter to the
Clarion. He says the Franklin mine
makes from three to four pounds of
gald per week, and not running their
mills in full regular time. The expen
ses are about $1,000 per month, which is
$12,000 per year, and in this way money
is scattered over the country.
A cariosity is exciting the colored
people of Macon, Ga., says the Atlanta
Constitution. A negro boy, called “the
snake baby,” fourteen years old, came
from an adjacent county. His body is
very diminutive, his arms and legs are
the size of a buggy wheel sftoke. He
lies prone on his stomach all the time
with his feet drawn back. In the mid
dle of his hack white spots are seen.
His tongne licks ont of his meuth—
hence the name, “snake baby.” He
can’t talk intelligently.
The English colony, at Rugby, Tenn.,
which has been in financial straits for
some time, has just received a loan of
$125,000 from a wealthy Englishman,
Henry Kim her by name and a solicitor
by profession. Tie lender receives, as
security, a first mortgage on the Rugby
tract of 25,000 acres and the improve
ments belonging to the board.tfMr.
Kimber is one of the original stockhold
ers in the enterprise.
F The project of establishing a coaling
station, at Fort Royal hangs fire, owing
to the test that no part of the appro
priations voted last year for a store
house and dock could be used for the
purchase ,«f land for the site of the sta
tion. Parry’s Island has been agreed
upon, and an amendment to the Svndry
Civil BUI appropriates $5,000 for the
purchase of the land required.
The planters’ of Polk county, Ga.,
have prepared for the next crop, and
have made more composts than they
have made in the ten proceeding years
all pnt together. They have generally
used Forman’s formula, which has been
used in that vicinity with great success.
There is doubtless real wisdom in aban
doning high-priced commeicial fertili
aero, and, by saving and using domestic
manures, muck, leaves, scrapings from
fence corners, etc., they get a much
better fertilizer at a small fraction of
the oost.
oh prohibits for two years the
liquor within two miles of any
1 school house, except on peti-
.najority of the adult inhabit
ants. In New England spell a law
would give practical prohibition.
Ex-Gov. Sprague's bride is described
83 having regular, pleasant features,
fair complexion, dark brown hair, and
dark blue eyes; gnjeful in movement
of medium height and fine figure. She
traveled in a dark blue walking-dress
with a crimson sash, and on her hat
were red ostrich, plumes.
i
ever
’ and not
figuratively that she devoured them. She
developed a mania for this singular diet
very early in life; indeed, aha herself
dated it from that eventful epoch of to-
faney known as the period of teething.
She wonld eat letter and Wrapper paper
if she oonld hot gel a book or a newspa
pers hftt printer’s ink was the sauce
which gave her an appetite. It ia said
that she was an intelligent woman and
indulged in no other freak, and, more
over, that she inherited her Morbid taste,
whioh, strange to say, was not tite cHittb
of her deatb.
A Lieutenant of the Rnfcfeh Rifle
Volunteers has received instruction from
the War Secretary to form an Army Tel
egraph Corps to take the field in time of
War. The corps will contain two hun
dred men, and will be organised on the
same basis as the Army Postal Corps.
All the neoeesaiy field equipments will
be supplied, and the men will he drilled
in its use.
boosBffls have been consulting law
yers as to the constitutionality of the
new tariff bill. The only ground upon
which a supposition even can be baaed
is that it is a revenue bill, and origin
ated in tlie Senate. Bat among the
Senate and House lawyers, including
those opposed to the passage of the bill,
the point of its constitutionality was not
seriously called into question.
The provision in the last Army bill
exoluding from calculation aa partial the. .?* 8*0,000;
regular retired list prescribed bylaw,
not to exceed four hundred, all officers
retired under the law of last year be
cause of having reached sixty-four years,
or having served forty years, relieves
the regular retired list to the extent of
making thirteen vacancies, which will
be filled at once by the retirement oi
disabled officers.
The State prisons of New York have
paid their way of late, but it is not
probable that they will do so hereafter,
as a bill has already been passed prohib
iting hatmaking by convicts, and other
measures intended to take from such in
stitutions remunerative employments
are under consideration. This ia done
to meet the approval of a class of labor
agitators who believe that prison pro
duction is an injury to outside labor.
The question whether a man ahonld
be permited to marry his deceased wife’s
sister is of perennial interest in England.
Bills to give this permission have re
peatedly passed the House of Commons,
bnt have always been rejected by the
lords. The Bishops tue generally op
posed to the change, some of them re
garding it with horror, and delating that
not even an act of Parliament wonld so
far satisfy their consciences as to allow
them to sanction by the ceremonies of
the church a union which they believe
to be immoral and expressly forbidden
by the laws of God.
Rev. De. Morgan Drx, of Washing
ton,‘D. C., in a recent sermon, said that
there is a criminal laxity in the regard
for the marriage tie among many women
of fashion. They care for no real home,
he says; they wish to avoid the pains
and the cares and duties of matrimony.
The care of their children they hand
over to servants. They have lax notions
about divorce; and there is a growing
indifference to this “chief <rf all social
abominations.” Speaking generally,
Dr. Dix affirms that it is the faithlessness
of women to do her dnty and mission
that emboldens the “conspirators against
her honor.”
according to tne census, the number
of horses in the United States is 10,838,-
111; males, 1,871,079; milch cows, 13,-
125,685; other cattle, 28,046,077; sheep,
49,237,291; hogs, 43,270,086. The ag
gregate value of all these animals is
$2,338,197,968. The avenge value of
horses is 870.59; moles, 879.49; eows,
$30.21; other cattle, $21.80; sheep,
$2.53; hogs, $6.75. The highest aver
age price of horses ($102.14) is in Mas-
saohnsotts, and the lowest ($37.68) is in
Texas. Illinois has more hones than
any other State, the number being
1,017,915. New York in next highest,
with 622.627.
?h* Washington correspondent of the
doston Advertiser has some interesting
(ossip about the ownership at tbe
Lingers-nouse, near the White-house,
rlenry Clay used to own the lot on
-vhich it stands. He Was especially de
rated to thejAskland fair in and the live
-took upon it. One day old Commodore
fohn Rogers came home from tbe Modi-
-erranean with his naval vessel full of
ive stock which he had picked np
ibroad. The cargo included one fine
Andalusian jackass. Clay wanted it for
bis faith. All his offers were rejected,
until one day the Commodore said, in a
joke: •• You can have him for your lot
opposite the White-house.” “Done,”
waa Clay’s reply, and the animal was
shipped off to Kentucky. The Commo
dore built the now historic house, which
Secretary Seward occupied during tbe
war. Here Payne endeavored to assas
sinate him on tbe night when Presideut
Lincoln was shot The lot is now valued
Andrew JacRson.
Chevalier Wikoff, in his delightful
“Reminiscences,” gives the following ac
count of his first meeting with Andrew
Jackson: I was taken to the White
House, one evening, to be presented tc
the President When they arrived, the
President was still at dinner, but it was
not long before tbe doors were thrown
open, and General Jackson entered at the
head of his company, talking and laugh
ing with much animation. He seemed
in high glee Seating himself near the
lire, his friends formed a group about
him. I was absorbed for some minutes
in scanning the face and mein of this re
markable man. In person be was tall,
Klim and straight as au arrow. TJis head
was long, but uarrow, and covered with
thick gray hair that stood erect, as though
impregnated with his defiant spirit; his
brow was deeply furrowed, and his eye,
even in his present mood, was one “to
threaten and command.” His nose was
prominent, and indicated force. His
mouth displayed firmness. The whole
conveyed an impression of energy and
daring. My gaze was fixed upon him,
and I forgot all else. My friend inti
mated he would present me on the first
opportunity, and the annbuncemaut
threw me into a flutter.
Presently a gentleman hurriedly en
tered the room, went up to the President,
and whispered in his ear. In a moment
he sprang from his chair, his eyes flash
ing and his arms flying wildly about
him
'By the Eternal!” I heard him ex
claim, “I’ll smash them!”
Every one near him jumped to his feet,
astounded at this sudden explosion. He
was surrounded, and all were demanding
what had occurred. I was electrified at
the spectacle. Like a lion goaded to
fmy, he kept on gesticulating and de
nouncing some outrage he would not
brook. At length I was told that informa
tion was brought him that the Senate
had rejected Van Buren’s nomination to
England, and he regarded this as a per
sonal insult. The opposition in alliance
with Calhoun’s friends had thus smitten
the schemer, whom they accused of
breaking np the Cabinet far his occult
purposes. Open war was now declared
between Calhoun and Jackson. The
grand battle come off a little later. It
jsa suggested by my friend that under
the circumstances my introduction had
better be postponed. I readily agreed,
having no fanty- to approach the volcano
in eruption. I considered myself fortu
nate, however, in having seen the fiery
hero in one his towering pesmona. 'What
• contrast to his first phase!
A Trap to Catch a Polar Bear.
The natives of the polar regions have
a most ingenious method of trapping
bears. A thick and strong piece of
whalebone, about four inches broad and
two feet long, is bent double. While in'
this state some pieces of blabber are
wrapped around it, and the contrivance
renders it hard and compact; it is now
ready for use. The natives, being armed
with bows and arrows, and taken the
frozen mass with them, depart in quest
of their prey, and as Boon as the animal
is seen, one of them deliberately dis
charges an arrow at it Tbe bear, feel
ing the result, pursues the party, now in
fuB retreat; but meeting with the frozen
blubber, dropped expressly for it, gwd-
laws the lamp. The chase, the exercise
of the inside soon cause the diaealntion
of the blubber. The whalebone, thus
freed from enenmbranoe, springs beck to
its old position, and makes such havoc
with the intestines that the beast diaoco-
tiiinss the chase, and soon dies.
ftUhtetOtft Aim KfrCCAtlOftAL
to May to toy: "Forget!
We bear it often each
get! forgive.!
Bat flsd It a dinlcuft thing to <U>!
4* eisy to say another might
Have conquered in an unequal fight;
Bot were we fated his foes to meet
We might have suffered a worse defeat.
—Girl graduates in England weir
i rowm*’"frciqely like those worn by tuu-
I lenity men.
I .—The Lutheran Church in the United
j Kins has: Ministers, 315% gain 197)
| jhurches, *;W1, gaifl 6Hh coinidtiai-
| toots, 801.48A gain 62,073.
Wiliam 3, Vafiderimjhag just add
in $JO#OOQ io RiSjtiljOtipjOOO. endow
ment ot ylittdefbili tlMiversity;, Tfcfi
late Mrs. Atkinson, of Memphis, left the
tame institution $50,000.
—Harvard has students from every
State in the Union except Nebraska,
Oregon and Virginia. Besides there
Iris student*frbm the Districtoflolum-
bifi, ldaht, Mdntftha, Utah, Armenia, in
Asia, Bahama islands, CStihaft, FfrftfeSf
Gbnnhny, Ireland, Italy, Japan,
Brunswick; Nova Scotia and Prussia.
■rave words are easy enough to say;
Brave dreds, however, will win the day;
does his duty who docs his best.
And finds each day—it is sad but true—
That tosy to say has been hard to do.
-JmcpUm Pollard. to N. T. Led**.
Flatboat Ways.
That brave old warrior, General Win.
0. Butter, who died hot long ago fit his
hohfe ft; Kentucky, tit the daVinihett afeh
of eighty-severt, frai Something ihofe
than a Soldier. He was a poet, and had
at times given undoubted evidence of
possessing the divine afflatus. His poem
commencing,
44 O boatman, wind that horn aftto
For never did the listening air
Upon its lambent bosom bear
So wild, sosoft, fo sweet a strain,”
will long hold its place affiong the gamsi
df American Wetty. But the days wh6n
tee duty iztednis of tr&htyibrtiitkM ah od
great Western rivers was the flatboat
have passed away. It may almost ha
said to be a thing of the past, and hence
the fine flavor of General Butler’s poem
is lost to a great degree to a generation
who only know of it by tradition.
A voyage from Pittsburg to New Or
leans by flatboat was an enterprise once
of greater peril than a tour around the
frond is now. It Whs Certain to be full of
adventure. It required months for its
accomplishment. A shot from the shore
by some TnHisn or reckless desperado
might terminate abruptly the voyage and
the lives of the navigators in blood. A
moment’s neglect of the steersman might
frfeck tbe unshapely craft and all the
hopes of its owners, hundreds of miles
from home and in an inhospitable wilder-
nesa. There was danger everywhere—in
the currents, eddies, whirlpools, bayous
and snags of the tortuous Father of
Waters; but there was no less danger
from the half civilized dwellers on the
banks. The outlawed criminals and the
desperate adventurers from civilization
skulked along the shores, or prowled
with light canoes among the bayous and
creeks watching for chances to plunder,
even if murder was necessary to aid them.
A flatboat voyage down .the great rivers 1
was perilous enough from natural causes,
even if man’s inhumanity to man hod not
increased the peril In those days the
government had not thought of snag-
boats, and the Mississippi was full of half-
hidden dangers. The current was con
stantly changing. It was easy to be de
ceived into an old channel from which
there was no return. Bayous were often
traps—watery cul»-de-sac—leading no
where bnt to ruin. The organized river
pirates and wreckers were always on the
lookout for unwary voyagers, so that a
a slight mishap generally ended in com
plete disaster. If, under such circum
stances, the fiatboatman reached his dis
tant home, footsore and weary but penni
less, months after leaving it, he was
lucky. In the early days of flat boating
a safe return, even when the venture had
not proven financially profitable, was a
grand event, and the occasion of tumult-
nous joy. The business bred a special
class who-sought it for its adventure and
dangers as much os for its profits. The
river pirates met in the fiatboatman of
that early day a class ready, eager and
willing for the fray—a class which, like
the rancheros at the plains, accounted a
trip tame and spiritless it unattended
with danger. They were rough and
ready, careless and care-free. Dreamily
floating slowly down the Ohio, they
whiled awaywith song and dance the lazy
hours. The boatman's horn waked the
echoes from distant hills more musical
than steamboat whistle or that ear-dis
tracting horror, the calliope. It was a
romantic life, befitting the grand scenery
and rude time. Ninety days and a slow
moving flatboat, the scenery constantly
changing but ever wild and beautiful,
was a thing never to be forgotten. The
spice of danger in it only gave it zest.
An occasional adventure with river
sharks only relieved monotony and ad-
dad interest.—Indianapolis Journal.
Kanffeen.
Of all the cotton produced in China,
the most remarkable, as well as the
most beautiful, is that need in the fab
rication of the calico known in Europe
nnAcr the name of nankin or nankeen.
It has been long a matter of debate
whether the texture called nankeen was
manufactured from a raw material,' hav
ing, previous to any manipulation, the
yellowish hue which distinguishes it, or
whether it owed its peculiar shade to
a light dye.
M. Van Braam, who was at the head
of the commercial mission sent out by
Holland to Pekin in 1794, had been in
structed by the European merchants to
request that the nankeen destined for
their different markets might for the
future be dyed a deeper color than they
had been for some time past; and he
lail an opportunity during his stay of
ascertaining that the color of these text*
urea was natural to the raw material,
and not subject to fade.
Sir George Staunton, one of Lord Ma
cartney’s embassy, found, on going
through the province of Kiangnan, that
the ootton it produces is naturally of toe
yellow odor, which it retains after spin
ning and weaving. He also says that
when toe ootton is transplanted
to another province it degenerates and
—Aged Bdptist ministers hSve reason
lb thank a wealthy Baptist, whose name
ought to bh known, for the gift of a sis^
teen-roomed house ahd an acre and a
quirtef of ground in. the twenty-third
ward. Tbert they inay find a home
when their work is ended, aiidthe even
ing of life has come.—N. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
—The Japanese Christians of San
Francisco have a Japanese Gospel So-
aiety, whose aim is to extend the Gos
pel affiofig toe Japfmess .who are not
Christians. They have tflsd provided a
tempbrdrt- residehefe. at a cheap' rato,
for tholeTiftheih cdtintrymen who are
out of employmeiit, dr are poht or sick.
—The Interior.
—The thirty-seven Methodist colleges
in this country have 2,786 students and
$100,060 income: the thirty-one Baptist
colleges 4,603 students, and $191,000
income: the twenty-^ix Congregational
College; 2.862 Students, and 872",000
income, and the thirteen Presbyterian
Colleges 1,477 students, and $212,000
iiiecJmi).
—At a receiit Washington reunion
General Chamberlain indulged if! a lit
tle glorification of Bowdotn College
over which he presides. He reports a
considerable relaxation of discipline,
and finds the students “ worthy of all
the confidence which is reposed in
them.” Thht institution has “ furnished
to the Nation a President, twenty-two
Senators and liepresentatives in'Con
gress, fourteen Judges of high courts,
nine Governors of States, eighteen col
lege Presidents, a Longfellow a Haw
thorne and an S. S. Prentiss.”
—The “Brick Church,” of Rochester
(Presbyterian!, introduced a new
method of taking its annual collects ns
about ten years ago. It decided to take
plate collections each morning and even
ing and to, divide the total among the
several claims, according to a prear
ranged proportion. This arrangement
has increased the benevolence of the
congregation: the total amount from
1873 to 1882, inclusive, being $23,163.
besides $2,705 for the poor fund, and
$9,755 raised from the Sunday-school
classes.—Rochester IN. F.J Express.
Home Feat* in Swimming,
Somewhat over 40 years ago a seaman
belonging to her Majesty’s ship Orestes
threw himself overboard as a means of
escaping punishment for some offense.
He was pteked up by a fishing-boat 6even
hours afterward off the coast of Spain,
and stated that he had been swimming
toward the land all the time. About the
same period two men swam np the river
Mersey from Liverpool to Runcorn.
They accomplished the distance in some
thing less than four hours. Passing over
a long interval, daring which many swims
were recorded of a few hours’ duration,
we come to the more recent exploits of
Capt Webb, certainly the most remark
able swimmer of whom we have authen
tic record. After some notable achieve
ments in the Irish sea, he undertook the
astonishing feat of swimming across the
whole breadth of the English channel,
despite its very rough sea. On the first
attempt he could only reach part of the
way, and was for safety brought back
by an attendant steamer. His second
attempt in 1875 was quite successful; he
swam for nearly 22 hours contiuuousty,
from Dover to toe French coast near Cal
ais; he was supplied occasionally with
refreshments by persons near at hand,
but he nevei touched boat or ground
during this prolonged interval. In the
same year a young damsel, Miss Agnes
Beckwith, daughter of Beckwith, toe
teacher of swimming, gave clear proof
that the weaker sex is strong enough to
achieve remarkable results in this art;
Bhe swam down toe Thames from London
bridge to Greenwich, amid the crowded
shipping of that part of toe river. In a
spirit of emulation, Emily Parker,
daughter at another professional swim
mer, slighfly exceeded Agnes Beckwith’s
distance by swimming from London
bridge to Blackmail. Cavil, another
swimming master, accomplished toe dis
tance from Dover lo Ramsgate; he was
six hours and a b4K doing the feat, bnt
he was more distressed with toe heat of
toe son beating down upon his head and
toe sunshine glaring into his eyes than
with fatigue. Quite recently the London
public have bfeen astonished by proofs of
toe great length of time that persons
can remain floating with or without
swimming. At the Westminster aqua
rium is a large tank constructed for toe
temporary reception of a live whale. In
toia tank Agnes Beckwith remained
afloat for 30 hours without touching
ground or sides of toe tank, singing a
little and occasionally reading a news
paper to pass away the dreary monotony,
and taking refreshments handed to her.
The water had a strong infusion of salt
thrown in to increase its buoyancy. Since
that time Capt Webb has eclipsed every
thing else of toe kind known. In the re
cent month of May he remained in the
whale tank no less than 60 hours cor -
tenuously, floating all the time, and never
touching sides or bottom.—From Cham
ber’s Journal
Floating paragraphs.
Spzfftia is silver, silence is golden, and
cheek is brass.*
If isn’t always the candidate irl no 1 (ibis
toe pole that wins toe race.
The girl who marries a railroad brake-
tuon seaures not only a husband, bnt a
twifftyf*
AncoTr’s .Kttfe pheS Sf Batty ji
being produced in this' shOikhr* #sty hr
Massachusetts':
cab*; iw» «•/£■&.*!(! ikj;
Soon as bora bPsifis tacry, i,
Day and night does baby y-U, „
And makes iu daddy mad aa—vffl;
Mad aa anything.
A sailboat upset on Lake Huron a
few days ago, and the first person saved
was a dressmaker. Survival of toe fitist,
(is firtart. ‘
Ain. foSthi are iftit fitted tar » college
education. It i* hot best to' make' 3 one-
story brain try to' carry A firtee-stoty edu
cation.
An exchange has an article entitled
“The Best Farthing.” The best farm
ing, we take it, is tost which! ifr done by
tome other man.
(i western plumber takes half ti
“Cast Iron SidtiSl" Rut great Scott!
who ever said it didn’t?
•Young man know thyself. A $12 snk
hat looks well on some persons, bnt we
can’t say it becomes a fellow whose
Sfflkty ie too weak to stand np to $1 a
day.
An exchange sayS: “(Soffd wives are
wanted iu the northwest” Surety this
is riot strange. Is there any place where
they are ridt fronted?—Elmira Free
Frees. '
Ths First OD WelL
. A story is published in a Cumberland
Valley newoffttyer to. jibe effect that oil
was found in largo qnactiHeff neorJlurks-
ville, Kentucky, 0s early as 182e: Un
fortunately all the witnesses are dead
H,if claimed, however, that some of the
oil li slffl retoii^d in bottles, but we will
have to insist tiiai f-Wr toatimony is not
competent The article appeOTro ip the
Cumberland Courier, and is as folio!??:
gome time since we read an article in a
Northern journal making the statement
that Colonel Drake, who pnt down the
first oil well in Pennsylvania, had been
pensioned for the great discovery made
by him The fact is indisputable that
Colonel Drake did first sink a well for
oil in Pennsylvania, yet many years
previous to that a company of Cumber
land Comity gentlemen, who are long
since deceased, formed a copartnership
for toe purpose of boring for salt water,
and in pursuance thereof they sunk a
well near toe town of Bnrksville, Ken
tucky, about two and a half miles from
this place, on the Columbia Road.
When they hsd reached the depth of
eighty feet they strnck petroleum in
great quantities. It flowed for two
weeks, filling Banox Creek bridge deep,
and running off into the Cumberland
Kiver, covering the river for twenty
miles, when some mischievous chap set
fire to it, in consequence of which naviga
tion was impossible for dajB. It is
estimated that thousands of barrels
escaped from this well at that time, and
thousands since. This was in 1828.
Some of our oldest citizens remember
this, and will verify our statement. It
was toe first and is toe oldest oil well in
toe world. At this time the company,
knowing nothing of its value, its use
and qualities, abandoned toe work. In
toe course of time, however, some enter
prising quack doctor, strolling through
the county, discovered that it had great
medicinal qualities as a liniment.
He therefore engaged with toe owners
of toe well to deliver to him, in bottles,
great quantities, to be shipped North,
where he prepared and Bold it for medical
ailments of all sorts, shipping to Europe,
as well, where it soon became very
popular, and called and known there as
the “American Oil,” from which circum
stances the well was called, and is now
known here as the “Old American Oil
Well.” There is now a large number of
bottles filled and corked, ready for ship
ment,- as per contract made with the
owners, still in possession of Mr. Ed.
Baker, son of one of the company, which
was never, for some reason, delivered.
We have seen too oil, and can certify to
its superior quality. Since this time
(1865), when to strike oil was a fortune,
many wells have been sunk in the county
with like success; in fact, the county is
fnll of oil, and the wells sunk too numer
ous to mention. It is only a question of
time as to its development—Petroleum
World.
Caught In a Bear Trap,
About a week ago a resident of An
toine street, who has a fine w ood-pile at
the L ack of his lot discove- ed that some
person was helping himself in the most
literal manner. Instead of loading a
stick with powder, or of posting b n-
self to watch, he set a large bear-trap
where he thought it would do the most
good. Nothing came of it the first
night but soon after midnight of the
seconjf a great nois : was heard at toe
wood-pile, and the citizen roused out of
bed to find that be had a victim. It
was a colored man about forty years
old. and he was taking on in the most
energetic manner. Nothing was said
until the iaws of the trap were sprang
back and his leg pulled out Then he
sat down on a log and coolly observed:
“I reckon you is kinder earns to
know bow I cum to be cotchcd in dat
trap?”
“Well, yes.”
“Hasvoubin nrssin’ anj wood?”
“About half a cord.”
“Well, dat wood was tooken by my
nex’ doah naybur, an’ it went agin
h;s consci nee so much dat he axed me
to bring hack what he hadn't burned.
1 toted it ober heali on de sled, an’ was
pilin’ it back when dat b’ar-trap jumped
for me and gin me s ch a shock dat I
ervoot-c tn tramhln fnr n hull wflnlr ”
Mints to barOTes.
Tim ii-ii: Of Mark non WMek Will
InSMMlH in* Ur* otMaltat.
£From the Hartford C*8rant’.]
Jt S» mf« to sb “ tout nine ont erf fen of
the met ffjto lbeetyon lW streets in our
cities shave, or aie shs^d- Some
shave the mustache, AbWi shave the.
chin, some toe cheeks. Indeed, one
must go into mathamatics to toe tables
of permutations and combinations to find
bfrfr many varieties of shaving ore possi
ble. ’WfriaeH is accused ot being the
party who’devotee her time to appear
ances and frivolities of the mirror, but,
riftersR, mtri does: his share of it. The
reason fre escapes' toe charge is ifiat he
blandly sets dofrfr his decorative work as
being a matter of ne&ssHy.
And it is true that shuting is a' very
old custom, nor have we anything to say
against it, except that it is unnatural,
End is, and should be acknowledged to
Be,- s concession to toe looking-glass and
iff f Unity. Brit the point is, that old as
is the art, R >* a singular, thing how few
know how to shato. e ' Nearly all men
sha!veintoe passive votOO.” This May
bb taken as the grammatical' fAriase' oi as
an frjkfifrfrredgement of the voice of toe
barber which they have fo endure. Each
signification is true. Ant} while nearly
S men consent to refer their sBaVilig to
rife# who make it a business, only
a fraction 6S that few understand their
There is a financial bfurider at the bot
tom of it that makes trouble au through.
The dogma that a shave is a shave m a
Mistake. One man with a stiff heard
and ri frill face will choose to have his
whole expriuSive ArttateDRnoeclean shorn;
another will share on bk Upper Hp. To
ericb it is “a shave,” and each is charged
aEsft ttae maj’ require thirty Mhrates’
station, Other tip minutes. Ths
first wlli dull a raS#/ ffljd the second not
affect its edge. To eacli ft is 10 Pfinis.
Now, a harbor’s working day, if If will as-
ten hours long. If he is octfr-
pied iftrO^-iftrittters of the time, he must
be busier totifi fe'iWttfdly appears to be.
This gives him seven h'brrifr labor, and
if he struck a day pf half-horii 1 his
whole receipts would be $1.40. If ri&
Rf<* .gave him ten-minute cases, he
would tafeo hi $130, Even this would
not pay were ?t irot for the seductive
side issue*—the haff-b'htff rind shampoos
of the trade—that brin$ lit (rrjiy per
hour than the fundamental indll-sfiV'
Now, as the circumstances of shad
ing go, it is a constant hurry to finish a
man, as shaving scarcely pays at the
best, and if he is one of toe most absorb
ing subjects—full shave and stiff beard
_Jt is a loss to work upon him. To suave
him carefully takes too much time and
costs toe edge of toe razor. To skim
over his face, cutting off sections of beard
here and there, and leaving odd oases of
hair along toe deserts of toe cheek, saves
the razor and spoils the person who pays
for the operation, and who should not be
entirely forgotten. The scale of prices
ought to be regulated by what one gets,
and barbers ought to have the courage
to charge for what they do.
This done, a revolution in toe art
wonld follow. Speed would not be the
great aim. Attention conld be given to
the removal of the beard, which, iu old
times, it was as important to remove as
the lather, and the man who went ont of
the barber’s shop would leave satisfied,
instead of hoping that the next time it
wonld be better We recommend these
considerationstothe trade without charge
for the advice. Shaving is a custom of
civilization; playing with soap babbles is
a game of childhood. It is now a matter
of jack which of these falls to toe bar
ber’s patron to-day.
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Long or snort Vacations.
Long, of course, say all toe children.
Two months, at least, say toe tired
teachers. For once, teachers and pupils
are in perfect accord. The vote is unani
mous, and there are no dissenters.
But there is actually a movement to
return to the old-faahioned vacation of
two weeks in August. In some parts of
flmada we see the teachers have much
trouble to get toe whole month for a rest.
Among ourselves there is a strong pres
sure brought to bear upon school com
mittees in some counties to shorten toe
vacation.
Afather says: “My boy bathes in the
river seven tones a day when he is out
erf school, and plays himself to death;
he is never sick except when school is
dosed.” A poor laboring mother cries:
“What! are my four children to be
thrown cm my hands the whole sum
mer?” A man of business declares: “In
thirty years, I have not had a vacation
of ten days, and yet six weeks are not
enough for toe teachers!”
We see there are two sides to this ques
tion. It is certainly desirable to keep
children from running wild, and yet both
they ahd their teachers need change and
rest. It may be found best, in the course
of time, or even now in some places, to
hold a sort of picnic every morning dur
ing toe heat erf summer at and around
toe school-house. The girls could bring
their sewing, the boys their pencils, and
all of them their singing-books. Avoid
ing hard lessons and all the usual rou
tine, toe school conld spend toe morn
ing in singing, sewing, drawing, reading,
and listening to reading. Such a plan
wonld be more agreeable to the parents
and children than to the teacher. For
teachers need and must have rest.—
Youth’s Companion.
Oremutanees Alter Some Cases.
The case was that of a man who was
accused erf discharging fh-e-arms in the
city limits.
Recorder—“You fired off a gnu twice;
did you kill anybody ?”
“No, your Honor.”
“ Don't you know that it is a very se
rious matter to fire off a gun and not kill
anybody? Don’t yon know that yon are
liable to be punished severely for such
carelessness?’’
I do, your Honor; but there are
are they, and are there many
of them?”
“They are eats, and there are any
number of them.”
Recorder (brightening up)—“Soyon
are bothered with cats, too, are you?
Gome here one moment Tell me, how
many did you kill?/
“ Three wth the first barrel and two
with the aeeoind.”
“Splendid! Glorious! What size shot
do yon use?”
“Iuse duck-shot”
“ That fetches ’em, does it? Humph!
Couldn’t—you—lend—me—your—gun-
for—*—few days?”
—Italy has seventy-two theaters de
voted to opera.
—The Prince of Wales is charged
with growing old faster than Ks years
and giving evidence of impaired health
and strength in many ways.
“Marian, the Amazon Queen,?’ ia
ntiv exhibiting in Glasgow. She is a
Motive Uf Germany, seventeen years of
age, «2oyC r eight feet high. She is
plump and sfjjgpd figure.
—It is said the old Omnibus
Company, of LonOMfy which runs about
650 vehicles, loses an WvSsage of $360,000
a year by dishonest c«/(|fnetors. Posi
tions as conductors arc' consequently
much sought after.
—Near Metz a tame bear wan'walking
in the woods and suddenly cam'c apon
an Alsatian hunter, who pointed hSgua
to fire, when the hear stood on his hind
legs and danced. The hunter thought
it was the devil and fled.
—The population of Manila was being
decimated by cholera, says a colonial
paper, when ft tremendous hurricane •
swept over the island and acted as a
meteorological antiseptic, for on the fol
lowing day not a single additional ease
of cholera broke osi, and none have
been reported since.
—The London Truth does not re-
njember to have ever seen the firflowing
lines fa print, which, rightly or wrong
ly, are ascribed to the late Lord Bea-
consfield:
Nor beiress-huntimr, to eternal fame
Beiccys Long Tylney Ifdlesley Loogpole’e
Bat sure WfM not fit to blaclctby boots, )
Coutts- Burdett-JteUiaead - BartTctfr BprtWtt
Coutts.
—A most extraordiftny Kid Rainful
phenomenon has intui t seriated in
Warsaw. A lady (fifed Oder somewhat
peculiar circumstances, which gave rise
to a report that ller death had been
caused by her husband’s ill-treatmsnt.
Hence several weeks after the interment
her body was exhumed for post-mortem
examination, when R was found that
in the grave a perfectly healthy child
had been bum.
—Mr. O’Donovan, the intrepid Merv
cofWspondent of the London Daily
News, earnr having been paid liberally
for his services, was, on Ins return to
England, presetted by the proprietors
of that newspapd? with a check* for
$6,000. “I owe'my jnecess and good
teCterne," Mr. O’DonovaS recently said,
“to ififmtd, that reared me; to my old
frieze cost, that protected me ; to the
Daily News, that encouraged me, And to
Merv, that imprisoned mo.” .
Sir Julius Benedict, the veterafe
English musician, now seventy-two
year? of age, is as hale and hearty as lie
was when he came to America with
Jenny Lind, a trip of which he is still
fond of talking. He recently sat up
comnosiur music forty hours without a
composing music forty
moment’s sleep or rest, and when at
last tow work fa hand was finished, and
Lady Benedict urged him to go to bed
and rest, he gayly responded: “Yes,
after I’ve read the evem’Dff papers.”
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
A great many ladies who save evety-
thing else waste their rose leaves. Dried
they make toe most delightful filling
for sofa pillows, pin cushions, etc., re
taining their fragrance a great length of
time.
Pork Cake.—One cup; of molassee
one of sugar, one of boiling water, one
pound of raisins, one-half pound of pork
cut fine, one pound of currants, one
spoonful of soda; spice to taste.
Egg Sauce.—Boil two eggs ten inm
ates. Chop the whites, put them CVith
the yelks, and chop together, hut not'
very fine. Pnt in a quarter erf a pound
of nice batter melted, and pour into a
boat.
To keep dried beef: Do np in thick ■
brown paper each piece separate; take »
box, pnt m a layer of dry ashes, then a
layer of beef, then alternate; cover the
top with dry ashes; set in a cool, dry
place.
Sally Ltjnn.—One pint flour, butter
half the size of an egg, one teacup milk,
one egg, two table-spoons sugar, one
teaspoon cream tartor, one-half teaspoon
soda, one teaspoon salt. Bake twenty
minutes.
Stair carpets can-be made to last a
long time by having a yard more than
toe length needed to cover toe stairs,
for then you can change it bo that the
same place in the carpet will not come
upon the edge of tha stairs every time it
is pnt down.
Creak Pie.—To one pint of milk put
two even table-spoonfuls of corn staroh,
two of sugar, one egg, a small pinch ot
silt, and flavor to taste with extract of
lemon and orange mixed. Bake in •
rich paste.
To “‘xx baking powders : One
pound of bi-carbonate of soda, twelve
ounces of tartaric acid, two ounces of
cream of tartar, and one pound of flour,
mix well through a sieve. In making
biscuit use one teaspoonful of toe pow
der to one pint ot floor.
Eating Lemons.
A good deal has been said through the
papers lately about toe healthfnlness of
lemons. The latest- advice as to how to
use them so they will do the most good
runs as follows: “Meet people know
the benefit of lemonade before breakfast,
bnt few know how it is more than doubled
by taking another at night, also. Tha
way to get the better of a billions sys
tem without bine pills or quinine, is to
take toe juice of one, two or three lem
ons, as the appetite craves, in as much
ioe-water as makes it pleasant to drink,
without sugar, before going to bed. In
IK. morning on rising, or at least half
an hour before breakfast, take the juice
of one lemon in a goblet of water.
This wfll dear toe system of human and
bile, with mild efficacy, without any of
toe weakening effects of calomel or con
gress water. People should not innate
toe stomach by eating lemons dear; toe
powerful add of the juice, which is at-
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Published every Thursday by P. B. FREEMAN.