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THE JACKSON NEWS. W. * HA HP, Publisher. VOLUME L NEWS GLEANINGS, The oat crop of Alabama in immense. Nashville is to have electric lights won. Texas is shipping cotton to Ban Frau cisco. ''- 1 j - Knoxville, Tenn., bus a good public library. Georgia has seventy odd gold mills at wort, one giving a monthly product of about $7,5C0. One thousand men are employed at the Cherokee iron works, St. Clair county, Ala. P Columbus, Ga., has 20,000 inhabitants, and wants the government to build a a fine postoffice, i j n a population of about 1,000, Dar lington, S. C., has fifteen bar-rooms and no temperance organization. Mississippi ranks first in the union as a cotton crowing State, third m the South as to the entire product of her soil, Texas and Tennessee only out-rank ing her. The Sumac trade of Virginia is in creasing. The Sumac manufacturers now have an organization with a presi dent and other officers. The grinding of 8,000 tons of leaf Sumac is now the annual busineas, representing about 1250,000. • The Alice blast fjtu;nace of Birming ham, Ala., clearer! $12,000 during the month of January. The investment eost $250,000, yielding a net income to its proprietors of $144,000 per annum. Several bales of cotton were brought to Augusta last week from the estate of a recently-deceased planter, which had been raised before the war. Some of it was in good condition, but the bagging had decayed and dropped from the bales. A great deal of cotton which comes into Rome, Ga., is damaged on account of having been allowed to stand In the rain by the planters after it is baled. The outside layers have to be picked •flf,- and every bale 'which* has gotten wet loses from 50 to 175 pounds. Thero alighted from the Piedmont Air-Line railroad, at Gainesville, a few days since, 300 people, who came to set tle on 5,000 acres of land near there, purchased by them through the influ ence of Gen. Longstreet. They are Germans and Swiss from. New York su burbs. 'I s*§ j£ ' £, The Columbus Inquirer says: A coun try papa writes that bis two daughters have been spoiled by newspaper puffing in the town where they went to school. “They have come tome,” he says, “with three or. four notices of thy charming Misses in their scrap hooks, and they hain’t been worth a fo’ penny bit since.” In a neglected spot in Athens, Geor whieh marks the location where once existed the botanical garden of the State university, stands a weeping wil low, grown from a sprout cut from the famous tree ovev Napoleon’s grave in St. Helena, an elm frem the noted el S in Boston common, and an oak which grew from an acorn brought from Eng land by Dr. Ward. On Sunday night in the valley of the Tvron mountain, near the dividiug line between North and South Carolina, Grace Mills went to t|ie house, of Jane Jackson, a rival fox, the attentions of a young farmer of the neighborhood, and called her out in the road. The next morning the body of the latter was found, and indications showed that a desperate fight had talfen place, in which one had lost her life, tt ill supposed that she was struck on the head by a male assistant of her rival, who is unknown. Varnish on the Church I’evri. The seats had l>een newly varnished, and, somehow, the varnish was not right, as it was terrible sticky. Yon know when yon pull anything off of •tieky varnish* it cracks. Well, the an dience had all got seated, when the min ister got up to give out the hymn, and M the basement of his trousers let loose of the varnish of his chair tdiere"Was a noise like killing a fly $n the wall "with a palm-leaf fan. Thfe mihister looked wound at the chair to see if he was all Present, and that no guilty man’s pants nad escaped, and read the hymn. The choir rose with a sound of revelry, and after the tenor had swallowed a lozenge, and the bass-had coughed up a piece of frog, and the a} to hemmed and the soprano had spook (ft jer polonaise t*> *ce if thd jrantisff i*JJ<iwdd on tkeeouth aide, the akdijule bjgfcir to rise.* Onafci toßeSco*gfct-uptefef with picket firing in the distance on the eve of battle, and then a few ®ore got up, and the rattling of the un yielding varnish sounded as though the fight iras becoming more animated, and then the whole audience got on its feet at once with a sound of rattling musket ry- The choir sang “Hold the Fort. "hen the choir had concluded the peo ple , Homeliness is almost as great a merit to a book as in- a house, if the reader would abide there. It is aeit to beauty and a very high ark \ ka uaad to vicissitudes is po* TOPICS 0F THE DAT. The President has approved the Anti- Polygamy bill. Congress will probably not adjourn before the Ist of July. Congress has decided that the China man can be kicked out. ’ Ex-Senator Conkung is to retire from politios for the present. Jay Gould is tired of business annoy ances, and is thinking seriously of re tiring. The President is said to look favorably upon the matter of pardoning Sergeant Mason. Now, then, if the President hats no objection, the Chinese will quit discov ering us. The first snow blockade of the winter, in the Northwest, occurred on the 22d of March. Guiteaxt has refused $350 for the suit of clothes he wore when lie shot the President. President Arthur entertained Gen eral and Mrs. Grant at a grand diuner a few days ago. The wheat crop in Indiana is reported to bo 20 per cent, above that of an average year. Cadet Whittaker may go free, and uow perhaps he will make it a point to take better care of his ears. England likes Moody and Sankey so woll that she has invited them to a year’s engagement iu the evangelical work. The press of Chili thinks that country could bounce tlie United States. Yes, bounce like a rubber ball, just about. Fashion is doing away with the long string of bridesmaids at weddings, for which many a fond papa will thank liis stars. The good people of Chicago are still lighting the Sunday theatricals. Mean while theatrical performances on Sunday move right along. We observe by our exchanges that contributions for Sergeant Mason’s “Betty and tlie Baby” have become general throughout the country. Both the political parties in Cincin nati have nominated Judge Force for .Tudgo of the Superior Court. This is forcing matters with a vengeance. Cincinnati carpenters have laid out to strike the Ist of May, if their de mand for an increase of wage is not ac ceded to. The carpenters are a striking set. Cardinal Manning’s doctor ordered him to drink wine, and the Cardinal re fuses to do so. It now stands the Cardi nal in hand to bounce the family physician. Statistics show that Mormons increase their numbers, annually by immigration, 2,000. Add to this the increase by births and you have something frightful to think about. The New York Sun says Sullivan has brought the prize riug into disrepute. Good 1 Will somebody now erect a momument to Sullivan ? His act should ho ennobled. Fathionable uwells in the East now wear but one eye-glass, as do the snobs of London. Well, we are glad the idea of wearing eye-glasses is at least half discarded, anyhow. Whittaker's ultimate aim is to be come an officer in the army, whether permitted to finish his course at West Point or not. He will apply for the position of Second Lieutenant. Tije War Department has provided for issuing 600.000 rations for the suffer ers from the Mississippi overflow. Aid can not come too soon to the distressed people of that desolated valley. Taa House Appropriation Committee cut the tail off of the Dostoffice appro priation hill—the franking privilege— and it is now a question whether it will get hack on again. The members of the House must feel pretty bad about it. THSremarkable feature ot Nicodemus, a negro colony of 367 families, in Gra ham County, Kansas, is the entire ab sence of money, There are chnffßl.es, school-houses, and stores, but the trad ing has to be done by barteiing the pro duce of the farms. The Louisville Courier-Journal says -an Ohio man died after drinking aglass of water. ” We are glad to know he didn’t die before drinking ,he w ® ter ’ T] in the latter case he and fulled to cause ml£ o!in suSss Better always to drffik before i you die. m j the apportionment bill requires most I of the States to redistrict, and the thing s£Vw # a“ U doM lo th but poESca *•£ age. There i little c f u P le MlO “° w Devoted to the Intox’ost ol Jackson and Dutts County JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1882. outrageous a figure the redistrioting will cut on the Congressional map. Had Oscar Wilde come to this country in ordinary citizen’s clothes, there-are very few people who would have ever heard of him. Tlio secret of his fian cial success has been in the extensive advertising he received as a result of Iris outlandish way of dressing. His ideas, while they are pronounced “fair to good,” are not new, and decidedly com mon-plane for the times. “ Betty and the Baby ” Sergeant Mason’s family, and in several eastern cities contribution boxes with these words upon them are located in prominent thoroughfares for the recep tion of nickels. Such a box in the Baltimore American office received 150 nickels iu one day. It seems that “ Betty and the Baby ” will be taken care of, whatever may be the fate of the bad marksman. Excessive drink and malaria are said to be very similar in their effects upon the human system in Washington, and a Congressman who does not have an oc casional attack of malaria is looked upon as a very fortunate person. If the Potomac flats are drained ns n moans of abating malarial influences, statesmen who get sick from one cause, and doctor for the other, will have a delightful time explaining matters. “Monaco, whose 10,000 inhabitants live entirely on the profits of the gaming tables, has 164 priests to look after its spiritual welfare.” That statement sounds unreasonable,, aud we should refuse to believe it lmd it come from any other source than tlie Cincinnati Gazette. One hundred and sixty-four priests to tlie 10,000 inhabitants is a fraction over one priest to eacli sixty persons. And yet ail these people excepting the priests—are gamblers ! Impossible ! Anthony. Comstock is making anew move against the lottery companies, and lie says he will make a tost case against two Brooklyn men who have drawn the $30,000 prize in tho Louisiana lottery. He is said to have discovered a section of the New York revised statutes, pro- I riding that all money so won shall be forfeited to the poor in the county where the money is deposited. The money was in bank, but tho lucky ones took fright, drew it out, and one of them is already on his way to Europe. Speaker Kmfkb has removed Mr.. Henry S. Hayes, 6uo of the official sten ographers of the National House, and appointed a Mr. Dawson, of lowa, This change has cuuscd general surprise,-, as Mr. Hayes was one of the best stijn .ographers in thecuuptry, and his work in committees and oil> where about the Capitol for years past lias always given groat satisfaction. His -synopses of de bates in Congress were unequaled, and his removal will prove a loss to Congress and the public. The escape of Nihilists from Siberia is becoming quite a common thing. The telegraph announces that a fresh lot have recently escaped. As the geog raphy of the intervening country be comes better understood, the number of escapes will increase, and the alternative left for the Russian Governnent, if it desire to keep persons banished eon fined on a territory,- will be to secure some great island large enough for the purpose and lmild a great wall around it, upon which sentries may be placed. The Sanitary Engineer says the dan* ger tlia: a midwife may carry contagious disease from one bedside to another was the subject recently of some remarks by a physician to the Cleveland Board of Health. He stated that recently, in his practice, a German wife had conveyed puerperal fever to three patients, all of whom had died. The physician had cautioned the women when she was at tending the original case of the fever, telling her she might bo the means of conveying it to others, but his word was disregarded, and three lives, he believes, sacrified iu consequence. The Board of Health were sufficiently impressed by the statement to instruct the Health officer to cause her arrest under a law governing the conveyance of contagious diseases. The “rush for Texas” of a year ago nas now merged itself into a “rush for Dakota.” This is doubtless owning to climatic influences. The incessant warm temperature of the Luue Btar Btate un fits its water for drinking purposes—a most important item to be considered by the immigrant—while the soil is ndt un iversally good farming land by a long shot. It is, in point of fact, a grazing Country. On the other hand the climate of Dakota is cool—decidedly cool usu ally but the winter just past it has been unusually mild in that section of the country. Farming there is prosecuted with the greatest success, and taking all things together, there is doubtless no better section of country for general purposes. Let the “rush” go on. Da kota is a vast Territory and there is plenty of room in it. A dkcm manufactory in Massachusetts, established in 1853, has converted dur ing that tune 30,000 sheep skin* into drumheads, BILL'S BLOOMS. Mr. Arp Laments Ihr Frost Nipping of Ills l'OUl'lU‘3. HE ALSO CONTINUES HIS LAMENTA TIONS AND TALKSWISKII THAN USUAL —HE TELLS. SOME , GpOP STORIES, TOO, ABOUT JUDGE LOCHJtANE,, TEXAS' HANGER AND THE INDEI’ENDEIITS. [From the Atlanta Constitution.] Nipped in the bud. It looks like there is no security from anything. Ours was no second-hand orchard : we planted it and the blooms for three years have lobked so sweet and promising, and now this is the third year the fjjuit has been killed. I suppose we could have built little fires all about, but who knows when to build’em ? ! It is poor comfort to build ’em when there is no danger. Reckon we will just hnve to keep the orchard for the flowers, like we do a crab-apple tree, for they are mighty pretty. One of my neighbors lives un der the western slope of a mountain and his fruit is never killed. He had plenty last year, but the sun don’t ris6 at his house till it’s about two hours high, and that wouldn’t suit my folks at all. Well, it might suit the folks but it wouldn’t suit my business. It would be dinner time before breakfast. The peach crop is very uncertain among these Cherokee hills but most everybody can have a few trees around the liouse w here they are protected. We can’t expect to have all the good things in our place. My Irish potatoes were killed down the other morning, and that hurt my feelings, for I was a little proud that I was ahead of my nabors. Put they will come out again, and so there is some comfort left and a good deal of hope. Hope says the peaches are not all killed, for a man can’t examine aU the blooms, and may be there will be enough for the children. That is the main thing after all; enough for the children is what the world is working for ; enough money, or land, or food and clothing; enough pleasure and happiness. How we do love ’em and worry over ’em by night and by day. If we had no children I think l would just quit work and toil right suddenly and—-go a fishing. But there is not much time to frolic on a farm at this season of the year, for my almanac says, “About this time plant corn,” and we are doiDg it all around these parts. I can sit on my piazzer and look into five farms and see the darkies and the mules and hear ’em, too, anil its gee and haw, and git along Pete, and whar you gwiue, Nell, come round dar, I tell you; and there’s no end to til’s kind of affection ate, oue-sidod-discourse until the horn blows for dinner, and then the uiyst, knowing mules give a bray all romirff Its astonishing how much they do know and can be made to understand. I had a big mule who would never give but one pull at a root unless the darkey who plowed him hollered out “ Rotten root, I tell you!” and then he would break that root or something else, for he bad confidence in the nigger. It always did seem like there was a kind of confiden tial relation betweeriniggers and mules— a sort of treaty of peace ana equality, for there is no other animal can stand the darkey, and there’s no other human can get along in peace with n mule. When they are alone together in a big field with long rows, the darkey talks i<> him all along the line, and the mule listens in respectful silence, but if two darkies are plowing together they talk to one another, and the mules are snubbed. There is a power of corn be ing planted this spring and not much more, than half a crop of cotton so far as my observation goes. I hope we can make enough food for the country, f< r we can do with less clothing better than be stinted in vittels. There is a power of folks dependent upon the farmers and a great responsibility upon us. Politics raises a mighty rumpus and takes up a sight of room in the newspapers, but when you compare it with farming, it all seemssorter like a monkey show that is going on for amusement, and the farmers feel like doing like Stewart’s Texan Ran ger, who went to see an amateur musical performance in Rome one night during the war. He was a rough specimen, six feet and two inches, aril a hat like an umbrella and boots like stove pipes, and spurs that jingled like trace chains, a couple of navy pistols to set off his beard, and he paid his half a dollar and tookastand behind an empty bench in the rear, and looked on with a lofty con tempt, and whenever the jx-rformers closed a piece and the cheering began the ranger rattled the bench most alarm ingly and exclaimed, “souy, souy, souy,” like he was driving bogs, and he kept it up until he monopolized the show and had it all to himself. These premature candidates for governor, and so forth, reminded me of Judge Lochranc’s story of the Irishman who thought he had a fast horse, and so he put. him in the races and bet on him. He run pretty well, but seemed to run better behind than before, and the Irishman clapped his hands with delight and exclaimed, “ Faith and St, Patrick, just look how he drives’em.” But its all right. I’m glad to see the independents waking up. Its all for the.,good of the peopkand, will keep the old democracy on its good* behavior. There’s nothing like having sentinels on the watchtowers. Home times the party goes too fast, and these independents act like a balance wheel, a regulator, a brakt—sorter like Tinny Rucker’s yearling, for they say when Tinny was a boy.be tried for an hour to drive a yearling out of the pasture, and finally he got him by the tail and they run and run and bellowed and run until somebody hollowed to him ami said • “ You can’t hold that yearling, Tinny; what are you trying to dT” “I know I can’t hold him,” said Tinny, “but lean make him go slow.” Jeeeo. That is all these independents are after. They don't expect office, hut they have more abounding patriotism than anybody, and are holding on to the tail of the concern just to mate it go slow. Some of 'em, I reckon, are a litUe disappointed because the train went off and left ’em, and it don’t do any good to laugh at ’em no matter whether they didn’t rnn fast enough or started too late, Let’s be tender with ’em. for may be their turn will come after while, and they will be tender with us. There are a power of tips and downs in this world, and in politics th'ev are mostly downs— especially down south. Biu. A nr. The Duke’s Death. “Kneel here by my side, Lurline,” and in obedience to the summons, a beautiful girl flung herself in an aban don of grief near the bed on whicJi lay the eighth Duke of Twenty-second street, Rupert Rollingstone! Rupert was dying —dying away out on the West Side. A cold had developed into a quick con sumption. The dreaded disease had made known its piesenoe while Rupert was at the bouse of a friend on Lathu street. “You can not live more than a week,” the doctor had said. “But niv people,” cried the sick mau, in an agony of fear; “they arc on Tweuty-pccpnd. Street, and too poor to bile a ciuringA.' How shall I see them?” and lie wrung his hands .in an agony of despair. “It can not bp done, my lass,” said the sheet-railway superintendent, look ing down kiudly into Lmliue’s face. “I would gladly do aught that might ense the last momenta of a dying mail, but I can not accomplish impossibilities. Avar from Twenty-second street to the corner of Lnflin and Van B\uvn in fivo days? By my linlidom, you jest brave ly,” and, picking up a pair of shears, ho again resumed bis occupation of cutting coupons from government bonds. When Lurline had knelt by the dying man, lie turned to her and spoke: “Lurline, my darling,” he said, “lam dying down. I shall soon be in the sweet pretty quick. But ere I start, I want you to make me one promise—a sacred one, that you will keep forever.” “Name it,” said the girl, in a sob-choked voice. “ When ever you are in a hurry, avoid the street car." “I promise,” ws\ the reply, Rupert’s face lit up with a sweet, peace ful smile. “Good-bye, my angel.” “Bung soir,” was the faint response, ns the girl’s head fell on his breast amid a storm of sobs. “I see heaven,” mur mured the dying man. “I know it is heaven, because there aro lots of street cars, and they run every three minutes.” Rupert was dead. —Chicago Tribune. A New Church Beneficiary. Anew scheme has broken out among the Eastern churches to provide for God's poor.” Esch church is buying a farm, to which poor people arc sent to work out their salvation in fear and tur nip patches. This combination of re ligion aud rutabagas is certainly a happy one, and ought to come into general practice. Steady work on a farm cannot but be far more preferable to the poor of a church than good advice and flno conversation, that is now lavished upon them regardless of cost. Thero is always something on a farm that any body can do, aud do well, and that will be worth good wages, if the laborer is fairly remunerated, andaoburoh society would lie sure to do this. Thou, iu the fall, when the golden harvest was gath ered, the church members would of course give their patronage to their own farm aad lay in their winter supply of potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, etc., from their own vinos pud figtroes, so to speak. The report of Hie Superintend ent would show whither the farm was drifting financially, and if it needed any fertilizing top dressing in the way of a mortgage. Ministers whoso health is poor, from hard study and overwork, instead of being sent on an expensive tour to the Holy Laud, could be trans planted from the stifling atmosphere of the study to the beautiful air of the balmy, breezy country, and set to rais ing cucumbers on the farm. The exer cise would do them good, even if they did not raise enough oneumliers for a iiicss, aud what the church lost on cu cumbers it would more than save on traveling expenses. It Bcems to us us though the true plan of salvation lias been struck at last. It is not through any of the five hundred different plans advocated by the five hundred different churches, but through the modest cauli flower, the lowly onion and the golden crookneck summer squash.— Peck's Sun. A Romance of British High Life. Many years ago a young man made his appearance in Stratford, and j,nested a few weeks at the tavern which then existed to afford shelter to stage-coach travelers. Whence he came, and what was his business, uoue could guess. Directly opposite the tavern stood the small cottage anil forge of a blacksmith named Folsom. Ho Inal a daughter who was the lieautv of thp village, and it was her fdrtune to captivate tin Tioatt of the young stranger. He told bis love, said he was traveling mop//.; but, in ooji* ttdence, gate Tier his real mime, say ing that ha was heir to a large fortune. She returned his love, and they wore married a few weeks after. The stranger told his wife that lib must visit Mew Orl-finA He did so, and the gossips of the town made the young wife unhappy by dis agreeable hints , and jeers, fn a id# months the husband returned; but before a week had elapsed he received a large 1 Midget of letters, and told his wife that. raiist at once -return hi tin gland, and must go alone. Ho took hip depart ur, and the gossips had another glorious op portunity to make a confiding woman wretched, To all but hersolf it vvas a clear case of desertion. The wife be came a mother, and for two years lived on in silence and hope. By the end of that time a letter was received by tls> HtraUprd beauty from her husband; directing her to go at once to New Y>>rk with her child, taking nothiug will} Ijer . but the clothes she wore, imd egibark in a ship for home in fill glut id. On hoe ar rival ■'in Ifpw York ’sins found.a vessel splendally fqruished with every con venience "and luxury for’her comfort - ,' arid jtwo servants ready to obey every wish that she might exprcwi.. The ship duly arrived in FTngTand, and the Strafford girl became mistress of a mansion, and, as the wife of a batohet, was saluted bv the aristocracy as Lady Samuel Stirling. On the death of her husband, many years ago, the Stratford hoy succeeded to the title aad wealth of lii father; and in the last editiofi of “Peerage _ and Baronetage,” ho is spoken of a, the issue of “Miss Folsom, of Stratford, North America.”— Toronto (Out.) Olobt, The British Soldier. The British soldier always presents tho appearance of scrupulous cleanliness. Ho is scoured, brushed and scrubbed beyond reproach. His hair is -ourieliod with pomatum and his shoes are radiantly polished. His little Cap is worn in a manner determined by considerations purely (esthetic. HWcurries a little calm w one hand and a pair of white gloves in tlie other. He holds up his head and oxpAnds liia chest portentously, and bears Liaise]f generally like a person who lias reason to invito rather than to evade the fierce lighLqf lUdaei'n.criticism. He is the darling of the apjfrdchting housemaid* of the West Rnd, and on this gtound considerable ill-feeling ovists between him and,his rival, "tho bobby,” or policeman, Susan sometimes favoring tlio ode, semeHiiies the other, and some times—-horrible dietuf— both. On the Other hiuiil, when on parade, the extreme perfection of lus appointments makes him look very well, and anyone who sees the big parade for the Queou’s birthday or a general review- at Aldershot, will have no heJltittidn in saying to himself that these are tho handsomest troops in the world. Tho long 'squadrons of cavalry and horse artillery shining and shifting, the dragoons, hussars and lancers, the beautiful lioispa and ac coutrements, tiia capital riders, the handsome faces, the wonderful wagons and guns, swim' even more theatrical than military. Hut tho interior aspect ot one of these brilliant regiments is quite a differopt thing. To see the man carrying their coal, cleaning their bar rack rooms and breakfasting on dry broad, is not suggestive of heroism or romance. It fs distressing to see a splendid life guardsman, in shining cuirass and plumed helm, jack boots, long spurs and clanking sword, worrying a basin of weak tea nud a pioce of bread, which lie is about to consmno, with the aid of a suvology or a pennyworth of butter from tho canteen, for his evening meal. He ought, according to his ap pearance, to sup on si chine of beef and a flagon of nut brown ale, as iu days of yore, when a soldier was not such a mere regulated pert of a machine, and was bettor paid in proportion to tlm a niings of the community. Thore is one word --Jiich affords a kind of magic key to tlio whole evistencoof the soldiers of the British army. That word is re gulations. Whether on or <>• fluty, whether on pamffo or in his Viarriuv. room, whether sick in hospital or taking his walks abroad, tlie soldier must be have according to regulation. Tlio guide to his daily course of life is to bo found in a red book entitled, “The Queen’s Regulations and Orders for tho Army.” Not onlymusta private soldier be dressed and accoutred exactly according to rule when ho appears on parade, but even when lie walks out of barracks iu pursuit of recreation. Tie may or may not have a chilly habit of body, or ho partial or not to carrying a slender enuo iu his hand; but tlie wearing of a great coat or tlio carrying of n ct jio will depend, not upon his own notions, but upon tlie re gulations issued by his commanding officer. The Spartan Inw-Givcr, Lycnrgns. The history aud legislation of Eycur gus are involved in considerable obscur ity ; indeed, to such nu extent th at many of the leading scholars of modern times have viewed them with no little sus picion. The generally accepted account of the celebrated Spartan law-gtvor is to the fffTect that Lycurgus lived about 880 years before our era, or, according to others* about tlio year 1100 B. C., and was descended from tlio Doric family of the Proclidao. Polydectes, his brother, King of Hparta, died, and to his widow was born a posthumotis sou. Tlio widow mid mother proposed to Lycurgus to destroy the unborn babe if be mar ried her. Lycurgus was shocked, but pretended partially to consent by saying it was as easy to make way with an infant after as before it camo into the world. When the child was born Lycurgus at once proclaimed him King, and his undo became his guardian. Then it is recorded that Ly enrgus traveled in many lands in Asia Minor, Crete, Egypt, and even India, but as to the latter it is decidedly uncertain and unlikely. He studied tin; constitu tions of tlio nations he traveled among, and finally, after many long journeying*, he returned to Hparta. During his ab sence affairs bad become disordered in Hparta, and on his arrival almost the oil tiro community requested him to draw up a constitution for them, to which he consented. Then ho induced them to solemnly swear that they would make no change in the laws till lie enma back, nnd * lie left Hparta. aud it wiut never kuow u exactly whither he went or where be died. By his departure and failure to return he had hoped to make the Bpartan Constitution eternal; mid the people saw ho was a god, and worshipped him. Probably suelro person ns Lycurgus ex isted, who, ut sumo remote time and critical juncture in Kpeitan affairs, iuny have been selected, perhaps, on account of Iris wisdom and reputation, to prepare a code of laws for the better govern ment of the State. It cun uot be im agined that the entire legislation of Sparta was first invented by Lycurgus and imposed upon the people all at ollco ; it is reasonable to. suppose, how ever, that he collected, modified, ami en larged the previously exuding institu tions of Hparta. It is related by Plu tarch that Lycurgus “ commanded that ail gold and silver coin should be called in, and that only a sort of money made of iron should be current, a gjuat weight and quantity of whxjb waflMpf'but. IMa .worth ; so that to lay up twenty or J thirty pounds there was required a pretty large closet, and, to remove it, j | nothing burn than, a yoke of pxon. With.; l the diffusion of this money, at once a i number df vices were banished from > Laced se in on; for who would rob auerther , of, such a coin? Who would unjustly detain or take bjr forco, or accept ass bribe, a thing which is not easy to hide nor a credit to have* Dor, indeed, of ny j use to cut in, pieces ? For when _it was just red hot, they quenched it in vinegar, aud by that means spoiled it, and made it liliii'-ist incapable of being worked.— Ohicayo Inicr-Uccan. < ptutwt dwritMH h I It’s a wise roil?oasd stock that knowp it own par uowauaya. TERMS: $1.60 per Annum. NUMBER 30. HUMORS OF THE DAT. A half loaf is better than a whole loafer. Never too late to mond—A tern ten dollnr noto. A real estate transfer—moving a cart load of dirt. A lover has all tlie qualities a hua baud lias not. A fool and an accordeon are both easily drawn out. What is sauce for the turkey is cran berry fur.tho dinner guests. Man wants but littlo hore below, and that’s just about what he gets. Bank cashiers are generally smart fel* lows, butthoy are frequently flighty. Of ALLsliftres, plow shares are tho most reliable. They always turn out some thing. Thkrr are people who will buy any thing on sight if they can be allowed to pay lor it on time. —Sew Orleans Pica yune. “Its scold day when I get left,” Znn tippe remarked when Socrates went olf to the oil-oils without her.— Burlington Hawke ye. A DERBY doctor killed a fox, and the Derby Tranteri.pt sardonioally remarks: “The doctor means business when ho gets after ’em.” “ My daughter,” exolaimed a fashion able Mother, “is innocence itself. You can’t say anything in her presence Unit will make her blush.” Solomon iu said to have had some mao hundred wives of all sorts. Wliat it must have cost him for fries in boxes when he stayed out late. Hens scratch up flower beds only when they are barefooted, That’s why women run out and “shoo” tho lions to keep them from doing damage. Hail to tho thief who in triumph advances, Tlie more ho Hteala the more renown, The logger his pi In the more he prances, Apt! cuah keeps him up, while others go down. — JLftinpfon. If some religious people wo know would prey on their neighbors less aud their knees more, tho world would bo better oil.— Baltimore Kerry Saturday. “ Mamie,” said he, aud his voice was singularly low, “will you be my wife? Will you ding to me as the tender vine dings to the ” “Yes, I catch on,” said she. A New York tourist who ate an nlli o-“nr for a beefsteak iu Florida didn’t geti the u.,e. *„t G f ],j„ mouth until he bad eaten half a pee*. onions and four dozon herrings. A preacher who had turned specu lator and bought a lot of iiogs on a ris ing market, telegraphed his agent: “Hold the pork, for lam coming.”— Steubenville llerald. Shakespeare asks, “What’s in n name?" Well, it is a good thiDg, some times. Not necessarily for publica tion, but merely as a guarantee of good fuitli. —Detroit Free Prctt. “I call tlmt very rare,” said Jones to a workman who had done some work for him. “Ah?" answered the workman, highly tickled. “ Yes,” wont on Jones, “rare, very rare—not half done.” That cooked tlio workman, and ho retired.— Steubenville Herald. A fashionable lady witness fainted dead away while giving her testimony, aud the doctor who was summoned said it resulted from her corset being too tight. The incident was very properly entered upon the minutes of the case as “a stay in the proceedings.” A prominent citizen, whoso idiosyn crasy iH that of becoming intoxicated and going to bed with his clothes on, was surprised with the following the other morning, from Iris wife : “You were not as drunk as lisnal last night, Henry, dear, wore you?” "Well, I don’t know,” said lie; “ whatmakeß you think so?” “ Why,” she replied, “I see you took your overshoes off before you went to bed.” The Cannibals’ Good Points. Since everybody, including Judns and Nero, have tlie.ii- apologists, the Feejeo cannibals are now declared not to be so black as they are painted. In the flist place, they bad, in the way of flesh, nothing but each other to eat. Except flying foxes and rats, there were no four footed animals on the; islands. The pres ent names of their domestic animals be tray a European origin, collie, lor dog; puitsi, for cat; nsr, for liorso ; eerpr, for mutton ; goli, for goat; and bullami i lcow, for beef. The wooden spoons for human broth, aud cannibal forks, eight een inches long, with four or five prongs, are still in existence. A berry, resem bling a tomato in shape and color, was the special and proper vegetable to be eaten with “long pig.” Ono of the chieftains lately said ho would like to sec a woman who would not cat her full share, and, declared that human flesh was ever so much better than pork “ Long pig" was sometimes made into puddings. When a friendly neighbor ing tribe visited another, the chief of the latter would make n raid among Iris enemies, and bring back women enough to make a Joust for his visitors. Fifty aud eighty people were served at some of these feasts. Formerly, when cue sneezed, they said, “May yon club Homebody." Now they say, “Bless you,” or “ May you live long !” Chief tains wore distinguished by the nunibei of persons tiiey had oaten. Before he was converted to Christianity, one of these had devoured of his follows. 'Stray stood at the gate beneath the 'sfanfght, In a few hours ho weald be whirled away across the prafries, and , shf> would return alone to wander wearily , and Wily amid scenes endeared by a thousand tender recollections —if it i hadn’t been that she wasn’t that sort of a girl. “One last kiss,” he murmured i I'omlly, “one last look—one last word— what "shall it bo?” She gave him the • kiss, she gave him the look, and she gave him these last words, “Remember ! your promise to me not to eat any ouiops.'’ —► -r ■ ■■ * " The silver coins of the United States and of Franco are made of mne parts of 1 silver aad oao part of copper. Less copper is used la making the silver oi Great Britaiu, '•