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IV. E. HAki*,jphbflf>W.
VOLUME I.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Newton, Ala., will build a cotton fac
tory.
The oat crop in some parte of Geor
gia averages 100 bushels to the acre.
The new custom-house at Nashville is
ready for occupancy.
Eastern capitalists will build a large
cotton-seed oil mill at Chester, £. C.
Virginia contemplates nialditfrnrrang
mentsto ship sweet potatoes to England.
Lagrange, Georgia, is to have a large
cotton factory.
In some parts of South Carolina the
barley yield is forty bushels to the acre.
Little Rock, Atk., cannot pay her
gas bills, and the gas company has shut
off the light.
A package of Stokes county, N. C.,
tobacco recently sold for $65 per hun
dred pounds.
Alamance county, N. C., has two cot
ton factories in operation and five in
course of construction.
A crate of Florida peaches sold in
! New I ork at seventy-five cents apiece.
The six hundred tea plants set out by
I Commissioner Le Due at, Enterprise,
EJa., are doing finely.
Elorida will experiment in the grow
ing of cinchona trees, from the bark of
which quinine is made,
A fruit drying establishment on a
large scale is to be started at Greenshor o
South Carolina.
Vicksburg girls have organized a
band of “sweet sweepers.” This is the
latest Southern craze.
Greater preparations than ever will be
made this year to develop the gold and
copper mines of Mccklenberg county.
North Carolina.
Many fine walnut trees in South Car
olina sell for S4O apiece, toe mu ch ass
ers reserving the right to remove them
when they choose.
The Richmond, Vs., alms-houre con
tains seven men who a few years ago
were . worth from half a million to a
million dollars each.
Jacksonville, Fla., has just made its
first conviction under the new law pro
hibiting the intermarriage ©f whites and
blacks. The culprit was fined SSO.
Plenty of illegal votes are cast in
Clarke county, Ga. The grand jury of
that county has just returned indie t
ments agf inst 121 persons for that of
fense.
Several Alabama farmers report! sone
damage to cotton by cut worms, a means
of damage heretofore unknown; and
they report that it has had a very se<-
riouo effect on some fields.
The Petersburg, Ga., Index Appeal
says the best and largest fruit crop ever
grown in Georgia will be ready for the
market in a few weeks.
In the seven counties around Griffin,
Ga., 150 distilleries wilt be running this
summer. The peach crop in the same
section will be immense.
A boy-genius of Charlotte, N. 0., has
made a small (ire engine, three feet high
and complete in every way. It raises
steam in a minute and throws a tiny
stream of water nerly twenty feet.
Cocoanut growing is becoming an im
portant indusiy in Florida. They grow
to perfection, and promise to add great
ly to the wealth of the State.
A Jackson, Ga., man has discovered
that his stock will feed as readily on
Bermuda grass as on hay, as is preparing
to harvest a big crop of the long de
spised herbage.
The outlook fcr a peanut crop in vari
ous parts of Virginia and North Caroli
na, is very discouraging. Cotton and
corn have suffered severely from the
cold.
The Rome, Ga., Courier says the best
evidence that the South presents
the best field for cotton manufacture is
in the fact that Southern mills run
profitably on full time while Northern
mills have to curtail their production.
Reports from the overflowed territory
in Louisiana differ widely. In some
places benefits are reported and crops are
jdoing well. From others the reports are
ust the reverse. The cut-worms in
some parts is doing extensive damage.
The increase in cotton Ipuming
‘South is indicated by the statistics of
Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Missis
sippi, 1/hiisisna*, North Carolina and
South Carolina, which shows an increase
of 361,600 spindles during 1881 and 1882
This represents an investment of $9,768,-
200 in machinery, and a consumption
of 120,000 bales of cotton a year.
The ferryman at Neal’s fen/, on the
Chattahoochee river, Tenn., found a box
floating in the stream which contained
3 sweet little -balse, alive and crowing.
An abundant stock of fine clothing for
the waif was in the box.
In Troup county, Ga.. a field was
planted in wheat this year which for
nine proceeding years has been planted
m cotton. Strange to relate a splendid
stand of clover came up with the wheat
though it is nine years since it was
planted in clover.
A rare sr and valuable relic was dug up
THE JACKSON NEWS.
in Beilin, La., recently. It is bronze
medal two and three-fourth inches in di
ameter, and weighing five and a half
ounces. It was struck to commemorate
the evacuation of Boston by the British
on the ITtli day of March, 1776, and was
voted to General Washington bv Con
gress. The medal is much rusted, but
the figure of Washington, finely execu
ted on both sides, is very plain.
Near Ilixburg, Va.,' three brothers
n med Banton were at work in a iieid
when a black snake of enormous size
completely enwrapped one of them, lick
ing the boy’s face until ho was uncon
scious. When discovered by the other
brothers the snake was foaming at the
mouth, and maintained hii hold until cut
to pieces. The boy was so frightened
that he became speechless, and it was
several days before he could regain the
use of his tongue.
llow to Manage a Kitchen.
“A clean kitchen makesa clean house,”
is a saying which has a great deal of
truth m it. As all the food of the fami
•y has to be prepared in the kitchen, and
as most working peoplo have to take
their menls and sit in tlio kitchen—in
deed, as the one day-room has to be
parlor, kitchen, and nil to many honest
families—it ought to be clean and neat,
or it will not be comfortable and healthy.
First of all, the window and the fire
place must bo clean and bright. No
room is cheerful with a dirty fire-place.
Every morning the room must be care
fully swept, and any hearth-rug, mat, or
piece of carpet must be taken out of
doors and beat daily. The hearth must
be cleaned every day, and the stove
brushed, the fire-irons rubbed with a
leather once a week at least, the grate
must be black-lieaded, and the fender
and irons thoroughly polished, and all
well scoured down twice a week. Cup
boards want great care to keep them free
from dust, cool and neat. Supposing
there arc two cupboards, one on each
side of the fire-plaoe, it is well to keep
one for stores, as groceries, etc., and one
for crockery. Everything should be
clean that is put in the cupboards, and
there should be a place for every differ
ent thing, so that if you wanted anything,
even in the dark, you could lay your
hand upon it. Be sure, whether you
keep the lids bright or not, to keep the
inside of every pan or pot used in cook
ing so clean that it is perfectly dry and
sweet. If you neglect his you may be the
cause of poisoning yourself and your
household. Many families have been
poisoned by food being cooked in dirty
pans. Besides, even if food is not made
poisonous, it is spoiled by not being clean
ly cooked. Be very particular about
this. It is a good plan to have a jar of
soda iii some bandy place, where you
can, whenever you wash up, take a bit
and put in the water. It is very cleans
ing, and both crockery and tins washed
in hot water, with a bit of soda in, will
bo sure to shine and bo sweet. All tins
should be polished once a week. Kitch
en towels require good management. It
is a very nasty habit to bo careless about
towels. Tea things and glass should be
wiped with a thin, coarse towel kept for
that pm-pose. If you have a plate-rack
over tlie sink, plates should bo washed in
hot water, rinsed in cold, and put to
drain in the rack; but if you have no
rack you must wipo the plates; keep a
good dish-cloth to wash them with, and
a good coarse towel to dry them with,
mul use your dish-cloth and your dish
towel for nothing else.
Brecding-off” Horns.
The question of “ breeding-off ” the
liorus of native cattle is receiving at
tention, and there are many who claim
that it “can be done.” Horns on neat
cattle are a relie of barbarism, so to
speak. They nre not only a useless ap
pendage, but positively objectionable.
Not only do cattle do one another injury
in a yard or stable, but they have many
a time, by their horns, caused the death
of, or disabled, other animals. Timid
people are mortally afraid of cattle with
horns, but pass by tbe “mules” with
out fear. In their wild state oattle had
undoubted need of their horns, but
domesticated, there are no ferocious ani
mals to attack them. Nature appears to
ho doing gradually and unaided that
which a little artificial help would accel
erate, as comparison between the spread
ing and long horns of the Texas steer,
and the short ones of the blooded cow
indicates. It is suggested that horns
may be bred-off by searing them when
the calves are young. Everybody knows
that dogs and cats have been bred with
out tails, yet analogy might signify
nothing, as sheep, whose tails are cut
close when they arc lambs, continue,
after many generations, to raise lambs
whose tails, in turn, would be long, if
they were not cut. But a family of
Ayreshire cattle bred in Scotland,
originally had their ears clipped from
year to year to donate ownership. In
timo the calves began to b3 born with
the end of the ear wanting, and now the
peculiarity is fixed.
The Belle of El Faso.
Almost every other house was a drink
ing saloon, and the whole place had an
air of dissipation which was rather more
suggestive than alluring. The worst
class of Americans come over from the
other side, preying upon the vices of the
Mexicans to their own profit, and mak
ing what money they can out of their
propensities for gambling, drinking,
and dancing. “Le vir>, le jeu, le* belle*,
voila no* tcule* plai*irs" seemed fitly
to describe their lives and occupation, at
ail events during Christinas week. My
fellow-passenger back in the hack was
an American “belle,” who had been up
to see the “boys,” as she called them,
whom I had visited in prison, who were
friends of hers; and during the inter
view a Mexican soldier had taken ad
vantage of a touching moment to rob
her of $5 and her pocket-handkerchief,
so that I was entertained by heropinions
of the Mexicans as a race, couched in
strong langnnge, during the half-hour I
enjoyed the pleasure of her society.—
Blackwood's Moyaziue.
Devoted to the Interest of Jackson and Butte Countv.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY. JUNE 11, 1882.
TOPICS OP THE BAT.
Within the year the mines of Arizona
Territory have paid nearly $1,000,000 in
j dividends.
Dennis Kearney pops up again, but
not as a politician. He has drawn SB,OOO
in a lottery.
A man who buys a glass of beer in
lowa on Sunday renders himself liable
to a fine of from $1 to $5.
Livery stable men in the East say
the extension of the telephone from vil
lage to village is injuring their business.
Wendell Phillips lms declined, and
Governor Long lias accepted tlie invita
tion to deliver the oration July 4 at Bos
ton.
A monument costing $40,000, and n
fountain $15,000, are to be erected to tlie
memory of Lincoln, in Lincoln Park,
Chicago.
—o—
According to a local papor a man died
in Minnesota from what was “prononced
to be leprosy by physicians, of the most
hideous appearance. ”
Charles Reade is writing a series of
short stories which will appear simul
taneously iu England, the United States,
Canada, and Australia.
The Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
hns issued a proclamation warning drug
gists to desist from the practice of sell
ing liquor “by the drink.”
The Toledo Blade says that tlie
troublo with Mrs. Cliristiancy arose
from the fact that she wanted to be a
sister to too many nice youug men.
Prices at the prominent summer re
sorts will be from twenty-five to fifty per
cent, higher than they were last year.
Second grade people will have to stay at
home.
The Arizona Star declares that by tlie
aid of artesian we lls the desert lands of
Arizona can be made the most produc
tive wheat growing districts in the
country.
To show their respect for Darwin, a
number of students belonging to the
Moscow University have resolved to
wear a band of rnarw around their arm
for twelve months.
TnE Czar of Russia thinks that by in
augurating reforms that he can get
things in shape for his coronation in
about a year. In what abject terror
such a ruler must live.
~lt is thought that cork trees can bo
successfully raised in every Southern
State. Of some specimens planted in
Georgia many are now thick enough for
use.
A naptha locomotive is abont to be
tested on the New York, Lake Erie and
Western Railroad. It is an immense
saving in fuel, provided it works all
right.
An English surgeon says the time is
coming when a man’s stomach can bo
repaired and replaced without difficulty.
It will simply keep him homo part of
the time.
The Sultan has refused to permit
Hebrew exiles from Russia to make set
tlement in Palestine. Two hundred
Jewish families are on the verge of star
vation in Constantinople.
Henry Villaud, the millionaire Pres
ident of the Northern Pacifio Railroad,
was once Washington correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune,hut later, degener
ated and fell in with monied people.
Guiteau starts pn his trip to the next
world just four days before the Fourth
of July and 362 doys after the commis
sion of the crime that placed the Nation
under a cloud of gloom the last Fourth
of July.
Nine million acres of the best farming
land in Dakota have just been thrown
open to settlement by a decision of the
Secretary of the Interior. Here is a bet
ter field for enterprise and industry than
El Dorado.
The hundreds of saloons that closed
in Ohio in consequence of the Pond
liquor tax bill, now that the bill has been
declared unconstitutional by the Su
preme Court, will probably resume busi
ness again.
The Syracuse Herald is in favor of
substituting steam whistles for church
hells. “They can be heard further,
create more disturbance, and it is han
dier to drop in and murder the man who
pulls the rope.”
The contest over the South Carolina
contested case was terminated in the
United States House by the adoption of
the resolutian seating Mackey. The re
maining contested seats will now be
rapidly disposed of.
Nix ßßo w"s reason for resuming her
own name is that she is indignant that
the property which she accumulated by
her exertions should pass to her hus
band’s relatives on his death. The
whole thing is an outrage.
TnE penitentiari es are full of murder
ers who will agree to be “ good citizens”
if the Governors wi'Jl pardon them on.t.
This is merely suggested by the negotia
tions pending bet' eeen the Governor of
Missouri and Fra jk James,
Captain Howcute is still in seclusion
and everything seems to be all right.
Whether the authorities at Washington
are anxious to capture him does not ap
pear, but perbaps they are not or we
should hear more about it than wo do.
The period of three years required by
law before n statue can be erected in a
public place in honor of a deceased per
son is nearing its end in the case of
William Cullen Bryant, so Central Park,
New York, will soon have anew monu
ment.
Charles Hunt died in New York of
I apoplexy, at a drinking saloon, a few
days ago. He was well known in Bos
ton, Washington, and Now York as the
unacknowledged son of Daniel Webster,
and has held several important Federnl
l offices.
The London World says: “It is an
open secret in the Irish party that Par
nell dare not go to Ireland, and that
in London, when not in the Houso, ho
is in virtual hiding.” Mr. Parnell’s
crime is that he favors a peaceful Bettle
ment of the troubles in Ireland.
When a lady called upon Mrs. Secro
tary Kirkwood the other day she found
that lady ironing. Hence, wholeoolumns
of praiso and flattery. Had it been
some woman whose husband had a sal
ary of $25 per week, slio would have
received the cold cut forever after.
It seems that Walt Whitman has
written a book—“ Leaves of Grass ”
that is too dirty to be published. We
knew that Walt was old, and thought
also that he was clean, but after all it
don’t do to have too good an opinion of
a man. Walt has erred, and that is hu
man.
The Texas Legislature has showered
a public blessing on the morality of that
State by taxing all persons selling tiro
Police Gazette, Police Newt and simi
lar illustrated journals SSOO per annum,
in each county where such papers aro
sold. That is simply equal to prohibit
ing their sale.
Speaking of the vast strides made in
the railway world, the Railway Aye
gives the following interesting statistics:
Wo believe it is Bafo to snv that there are at
lor.. I Ihvo.. '■cWOf'llg.at
i moderate estimate, a total of twenty-tivo
thoiiHund mill’s, upon which work ia now in
progreHH or iv proposed to bo commenced dur
ing tho present year.
Missouri is in a truly pitiable condi
tion. Rather than hunt Frank James
down and punish him according to law
for the crimes he has committed, a great
deal of red tape and an uucondilional
pardon seem to ho preferred. What
would be tho moral of an unconditional
paidon to Fruuk Janies ?
The home for working girls in London,
called Garfield House, at the formal
opening at .Inch a fortnight ago Min
ister Lowell presided, contains thirty
nine bed-rooms, a dining-room, a sitting
room, and a library, and each occupant
will pay for her accommodation from
sixty-five cents to one dollar a week.
The press generally is circulating ttie
report that Chicago girls would rather
kiss a pretty little dog than a man, and
one Chicago girl has taken the trouble
to write a lettor for publication acknowl
edging tho soft impeachment. Tliore
certainly must be something wronj with
tho Chicago man’s breath else dogs’
noses are a mighty sight cleaner there
than they are here.
(luiteau’s act one year ago interfered
with the usual Fourth of July celebra
tion. His act this year, we are pleased
to say, will have a tendency to add to
the hiliarity of tho occasion. Wo do
not make merry over the prospective
event of the assassin’s untimely death—
I far from it—but it is a source of gratifl
, cation to know that America is still dis
posed to put vicious dogs to death.
Chari.es Lochbruneb weighs about
100 pounds, his wife 300, and their rela
tive strength is fairly represented by
tho same figures. He ostensibly keeps
a restaurant in New Orleans, but she is
its real boss, as ho complains to a police
justice that three days in succession she
took him across her lap and spanked
him terribly. Being arrested she gave
nail to keep the peace, tnough at the
same time she avowed her intention to
j subject her husband to discipline when
ever and however she pleased.
The most serious labor strike of the
year began June 1. Tho proprietors of
the Pittsburg iron mills having refused
to sign the new scale of wages, a strike
was ordared. Some thirty-five or thirty
six mill*, in Pittsburg and vicinity shut
down, and more than eighteen thousand
work men are thrown out of employment.
In Wheeling upwards of five thousand
men went out, and some seven hundred
or eight hundred quit work on the other
sid of the river, in mills whose pro
prietors refuse to adopt the new scale, at
’least until it is accepted by the Pittsburg
mill-owners. The strike i likely to
spread to all the iron mills west of the
Alleghany Mountains, and will be long
ai id obstinate. It is impossible to meas
ure the loss to the productive interests
ov the country which this strike will
entail, or to compute the hardship and
■ suffering R wdl bring to the families of
the workingmen. It can not be regard and
pthcr than as a public calamity.
The New York Reporter.
A reporter’s lifo is not a happy one.
lie is the slavo of duty nt all hours of
the day and night. To-day ho is hero,
to-morrow there. On Monday lie may
bo among thieves and murderers, on
Tuesday among politicians and states
men, and on Wednesday among ladies
and gentlemen. Ho may be oven among
all three on tlie same day. I remember
a cold, raw morning in February when I
had to got up long before daylight and
mako a breakfast out of Oliver Hitch
cock’s coffoo and cokos and run for a
train. That afternoon I found myself on
board of a large European steamer,
which had stranded high and dry on the
New Jersoy sands. I shared tlio cap
tain’s dinner while tlio waves oamo dash
ing against tlie vessel’s side with a force
that threatened to mako us food for sea
worms at any moment. I came back
wot and woary that night, but there was
ne rest for mo yet. To Delmonico’s I
must go, as soon as I could change my
clothing, and partake of a greatbanquet.
Sueli is the life of a nowspupor reporter.
Ho knows not at any time where he will
take his next meal. Ho often is sent
from a wedding to a funeral, or from a
ball in tlio Academy to a murder at tlio
Five Points. Like an army on tlie march,
ho must always have liis baggage pre
pared, for at five minutes’ notice lie may
bo sent soveral hundred miles where
skirt-collars and handkerchiefs aro un
known. Ho may bo sent to scour tlio
bay for missing Jersey shanties, or Long
Island woods for mysteriously disappear
ing personages.
Not only must the reporter he able to
tell an interesting story, but ho must
also, if ho wants to earn liis salt, have a
knowledge of the world and possess that
tact and discretion which conies of such
knowledge. Young men fresh from some
inland college, who come to Now York
newspaper offices under tlie impression
that reporting is something that they
can do if they cannot do anything else,
are quickly undeceived. One mil hif the
news which is printed in tlie local col
umns every morning is obtained from
people who do not care to furnish it, and
who have to bo “run down” very often
with as much skill as tlio most cunning
of foxes. And for all this tlio reporter
is paid but little moro than the average
mechanic. It may surprise some of you
to learn tliat he gets even that much,
but he does if lie is good for anyth iug.
That good ones get no more is mainly
duo to the fact that there aro so many
bad ones competing with them.
Yet with all the drawbacks of Jong
and irregular hours, inadequate remun
eration and “assignments” that are often
uncongenial, there is a charm about a
reporter’s lifo which all who liavo over
1,l ’"embers pf tho r— iUua "
knowledge. There is a romance con
nected with it which docs not entirely
die out of oven the older members who
now keep to it because they liavo been
spoilt for anything elso. The new genera
tion of metropolitan reporters, which
differ considerably from the old, is kept
to its work probably moro by this flavor
of tlio adventurous than any tiling elso.
The Bohemian spirit of poetry and beer
has almost died out and tlio ranks are
recruited from a class which hus less of
the literary and more of the “bo up and
doing” spirit about it. They waut. an
active lifo and they find it here. As they
grow older, however, they become more
straight in their desires and there aro
consequently constant droppings out.
Either they work their way into tlio edi
torial chairs or they go into Romo other
profession or business and then - places
*re. filled by new-comers, who, nowadays
►re generally graduates of the loading
colleges. So then, hero is
To tlie truthful ru|>ort(T
Who nevor print# hut what heougliter;
An example Hublimw
Of tho men of hi# time.
—Georue C. Clement-
Tlio Modern Caucus.
An aged citizen who was ono of tho
early settlors, was seen coming out on to
the sidewalk in front of a place where a
caucus was being held, a few nights be
fore election, on his ear. lie seemed to
bo propelled by somo unseen power,
and as ho got up and picked up his hat
out of the gutter, brushed tho mud off
his sleevo and wiped tho blood off his
nose, a friend went up to him and
asked wliat was the matter. The old
man said, “ Well, I liain’t attended a
caucus in thirty year, but my nephew
wanted mo to go to-night, and when I
proposed that the meeting ho opened
with prayer, I think the stove fell over
on me. A fellow said, ‘O, give us a
rest ’ and I don’t know bow t got out
here, but I did. Why, in ’49 they used
to open political meetings with pwjvt,
and close ’em the same way. This cau
cus opened with a knock down and I
s’poso it will close with a riot. Hello,
tliore is another man riding down stairs
wittiout any saddle, and I s’pose he, pro
posed some old-fashioned custom. Hay,
do you think my eye will lie black? I
told tho ohl lady I was goin’ to mootin'
and I wouldn’t like to have her think I
had lost my temper and struck the flex
ton. Well, that’s the lost politics for
me.” Tile old man, however, got a
policeman to go with him while ho voted
on election Any.—Milwaukee Sun.
Wood Wearing.
This industry belongs strictly to the
town of Ehrenberg, on the Austrian
frontier. SparUrie work, or weaving of
wood, was introduced more than a cen
tury ago, but has been confined until
within a short time to the manufacture
of cheap hats, glued together, and worn
by the lower classes. Lately, however,
owing to the interest taken by tho Gov
ernment, Ehrenberg lias been able to
send out fashionable hats and various
fancy articles, all made of wood and sold
at very low rates. Tho aspen is the only
tree whoso fibers are tough enough to
admit of weaving, and all tho timber
having been used in the vicinity of the
town, tho material is brought from
Poland. The process requires the utmost
nicety in dividing the wood, and as the
divider must always follow the direction
of tho fiber, it is necessary that the
threads should be prepared by hand.
The weaving itself is done on large
looms.
The roost diffusive pleasure irom
public speaking is that in which the
speech ceases, and the audience can
i turn to commenting .—Georye EdoL
Furious History.
When George Washington, who,
though only twenty-five, had won re
uouu by liis gallantry under Braddock,
visited New York, ho was the guest of
Beverlv Robinson, a young Virginian,
who had come hither a few years pre
viously and married an heiress. The
latter (.Jane Phillipso) owned a manor
on tho west side of tho Hudson twenty
miles in extent. This, howover, was but
half of the paternal estate. On tho
east side of the river was a similar tract
belonging to the other sister—Mary
Pliillipso. The last mentioned tract
continued tho Phillipso manor house,
which is at present tho City Hall of
Yonkers. Mary Phillipso was at tlio
time above mentioned, living with her
sister, and was rendered, by wealth and
personal attractions, one of the leading
toasts of tho day. Report says that
Washington offered his hand to the
heiress, but was refused, ns sho did not
care to bury herself on a Virginia planta
tion. Another s litor, Capt. Morris, of
the British army, was moro successful,
and having won an opulent bride, he
immediately constructed a mansion suit
able to his new position as lord of tho
manor. Yonkers was too far from tho
city, and hence he solected tho present
site. Carpenters were brought from
England and tho building wns erected
in a slow and solid maimer, its date of
completion being 1760. Tho lord of tho
manor lived here iu grand stylo until
the revolution, however, broke up their
establishment. When Washington was
expelled from New York lie passed
several days in this vicinity, during
which tho Morris House was headquar
ters. His old flame had taken refuge
with somo Tory families in the vicinity
and her liusbunu (now a Colonel) was iu
tho British army. After the war both
wont to England, where Mary Morris
(lied in 1820 at the ago of four score.
Blie always felt a doep interest in Wash
ington, nnd having lived to see her
formef lover iißoumo tho chief captain of
the ago, she survived him twenty yoars,
but nevor mentioned his name without
admiration and almost omotion. Perhaps,
like Maud Muller, sho sometimes suid to
herself, “It might havo been.”
After tho revolution tlie entire manor
was confiscated and the Morris property
was sold. Boforo this took place, how
ever, Washington visited the place in
company with somo of his Cabinet, and
a grand dinner was served by the tenant.
They were deeply interested in tho as
sociations of that fearful soeuo whore
one disaster after another awnitod tho
patriotic army. Tlie Morris estate after
ward had soveral owners, and was at last
purchased in 1810 by Stephen Jumel, a
rotired French merchant, the price paid
oemg U„ j n f„ w yeurs,
leaving lus wife st,lo owner, and uus
woman lias given tho place a notoriety
far greater than its previous roeoru.
Madamo Jumel was fuseinating nnd
beautiful in early life, but in lator years
she displayed many vagaries, and as her
years were prolonged to ninety they
were marked by many of the weakness
of old age. Sho and her husband hud
lived several*yuars i/. Paris, wlioro they
gathered many curiosities which still
adorn the ancient mansion. Visiting tho
place recently, I passed through an
ancient gnto and followed tho road,
which leads from the turnpike, till I
reached tho portioo which, as has been
remarked, lias a grand prospect. On
entrance one is struck'with the breadth
and dignity of tho hall, which is rich in
relies, both of furniture and art. Among
tlio latter is a fine portrait of Madamo
Jumel with lior family, and also a pieturo
of Aaron Burr, who became lior socond
husband. Other works of art adorn its
wulls, combining the past and tho present
in a very interesting manner. —New York
Letter.
Nluving Off a Hun.
In times of severe panic people have
been known to rofimo Bank of England
notes and prefer local notes. In coun
try districts of Scotland tho old one
pound notes were greatly preferred to
sovereigns. It is said that when there
was a run upon the Bank of England
in 1765 the device was reflortod to of pay
ing tho country peoplo in shillings and
sixpences. One acute Manchester firm
painted all their premises profusely, and
many dapper gentlemen were deterred
from approaching the counter. A story
is told of Cunlifl'e Brook's Bank. Wlion
there was an impetuous and unreasoning
rush for gold, Mr. Brook obtained a
number of sacks of meal, opened them
at the top, put ft good think layor of
cloth upon tho contents, then placed
them untied whero the glittering coins
would be manfest to all observers. 010
bunk procured a number of people as
confederates, to whom they paid gold,
then slipped round again to a hack door
and refunded it, and thus the effect of a
stage army was produced. At another
hank the chief cashier himself examined
every note with the most searching scru
tiny, holding it up to tho light, testing
the signature, and making believe that,
on account of alarm os to forgery, there
was need of tho most scrupulous care.
When he had completed his pretended
examination he handed the note to one
of his subordinates very deliberately,
with, in slow and measured terms, “You
may pay it.” Other plans were to pay
the money very languidly, counting it
twice over, so as to bo sure the sum was
right, and to give a sovereign short, so
that the customer should complain, and
tho counting havo to bo done over again.
At one of tho hanks peek measnres in-
verted were placed in the windows facing
tho street, a pile of gold upon the top,
after tho manor of the fruit exposed for
sale at street corners in the summer
At another the coin was heated in shov
els over the firo in tho parlor behind nnd
hauded out as "new” at a tempornture
of 300° Fahrenheit. The clerk in
charge, accommodating his phraseology
to the occasion, cried out loudly every
half hour, “Now, Jim, do bo get tin’ on
with them sovereigns ; folks is waitin'
for their money.” “ Coming, sir, com
ing,” was the ready reply, and the
“folk” thought the supply boundless.
It is always the simple-minded and the
unimformed who constitute on such oc
casons the chief portion of the throng,
just as the people who go to extremes are
tho half-educated ones. The crowd was
easily persuaded ; the proof that all was
right was burning their fingers.—Lon
don Society.
2 EKM*: $1.60 per Annum.
NUKBIR 40.
HUMORS OF THE DAT.
Can’t a coffin shop properly be called
a bier saloon?
Br contracting a disease you help U
spread it. Queer, isn’t it?
“ I can’t account for it I” exclaimed
the defaulting bank cashier.—Philadtl
phia Item.
Hmokinq and chewing are two evils,
and ye who select the former chews the
less.— Courier-Journal.
Food says he never finishes a cigar but
ho thinks, “Another temptation removed
from tho young men of America,”
It is bad luck for thirteen persona to
Bit down together at a table, especially
if there is only dinner enough for ten.
Thb cat is tho great Amerioac prima
donna. If bootjacks wore bouquets,
her nine lives would be strewn with
roses.
“And phat wud ye want sich a man as
Patlirich for?” said Mrs. McGlone. “Ye
nivor cud thrust him out yer sight, onliss
yo was wid him.”
What is called respectability is a great
help to many men. Once they have at
tained it, thoy can put in a lie where it
will do tlio most good.
An Indian chief in Washington went
to boo tlio Ideal Opera Oompauy. When
M. W. Whitney gave a particularly low
note tho chief said: “Ugh! him heap
dug out. ”
Rest is said to be the solution of many
nuzzling perplexities. If that’s so, we’d
like to solute a puzzling perplexity about
throe hundred and sixty-five times
year.— Courier-Journal.
An Irish gentleman, hearing of a
friend having a stone coffin made for
himself, exclaimed: “Be me jvwL so'
that’s a good idea! Bhure, an’ a none
coffin ’ud last a man his lifetime.”
A Pennsylvania boy reoently swal
lowed a horse-shoe nail without experi
encing any ill effects. If it had lodged
iu liis throat it would have made him a
little horse sure.— Norristown Herald.
“Is this the front of the Capitol?"
asked a newly-arrived stranger of an
Austin darkey. “No, sab; dis heah aide
in front am do roar. Ef yer wants ter
sco the front yor must go around dor
behind on de udder side.”— Texas Sift
ings.
“My son,” asked a clerical parent of
liis hungry boy who was just in the
starvation period, “I wish you would
mako a study of ‘Watts on the Mind.”’
“ I will, pa,” was the quiok answer, “as
soon os I have studied what’s on the
stomach ”
Calculated to fill it: “I tell you,”
continued Pingr/w “ Brown isn’t fit for
tl.o piUGu. x*> fOt, X ClOll b nuun Ol A
place that he is calculated to fill.”
“Don’t be intemperate in your remarks,
Pingrey,” said Fogg; “you forget his
stomach.”
“Yes,” said the injured party to the
owner of tho dog, “I know tho dog was
only in play when he bit about half a
pound of flesh out of me. Oertainly he
was only in play 1 And I waa only in
play when I took an ax and made hash
of him. Only in play, sir. Nothing to
get mad about!”
“Tell your mother I’m eoming to 8*56
her,” said a lady to Mrs. Gibson Bige
lovu's little boy, who replied: “ I’m
glad you are coming. Mamma will be
glad, too.” “How do you know your
mother will be glad to see me?” asked
tlio lady. “Bccauso I heard her tell
papa, yesterday, that nobody ever came
to the bouse except men with bills to
collect. ’’ —Austin Siftings.
His exit: There had been a seeming
coolness between the lovers. One day
Emily’s schoolmate ventured to refer to
tho subject and asked her: “ When did
you see Charlie last?” “Two weeks
ago to-niglit.” “ What was ho doing?”
“Trying to get over tho fence.” “Did
he appear to bo umch agitated?” “So
greatly,” returned Emily, “that it took
all the strength of papa’s now bull-dog
to hold him.”
llic Speed of Thought.
Helmholtz showed that a wave of
thought would require about a minute
to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirsoh
found that a touch on the face was recog
nized by the brain, and responded to by
a manual signal, in tho seventh of a sec
ond. He also found that the speed of
sense differed for different organs, the
sense of hearing being responded to in a
sixth <>f a second; whilethatof sight re
quired only one-fifth second fo be felt
and signaled. In all these cases the dis
tances traversed was about the same, so
the inference is that images travel more
slowly than sounds or touch. It still re
mained, however, to show the portion of
this interval taken up by the action of
the brain. Professor Bonders by very
delicate apparatus lias demonstrated this
to be about soventy-five thouaanths of a
second. Of the whole interval forty
thousandths are occupied in tho simple
act of recognition, and thirty-five thous
andths for the act of willing a reponse.
When two irritants were caused to oper
ate on the same sense one twenty-fifth of
a second was required for the person to
recognize which was the first; but a
slightly longer interval was required to
determine the priority in tho case of the
other senses. These results were ob
tained from a middle-aged man, but in
youths the mental operati ns are some
what quicker than in the adult. The
average of many experiments proved
that a simple thought occupies one
fortieth of a second.
Gov. LiTTi.EFiExn, of Rhode Island, is
a man of the people, having in his early
days worked in a cotton factory at
Natick, one of the villages which have
grown up around the Sprague mills.
While Littlefield was toiling at the spin
dle William Hprague was Governor. By
a turu of fortune’s wheel Sprague be
came a bankrupt and Littlefield m
Governor,
“ How much do you oliarge for your
peanuts ?” asked a lady at the fruit stand
at the Central station. "Ten cents a
quart,” said tho clerk. “ Too dear,” re
! plied the lady. “ But,” persisted the
young man, “these are hand-picked, and
! we warrant them to cure consumption
and heart disease.” The woman actu-
I ally purchased two qnarts. —Rochester
Chronicle.