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MENEFEE.
•riir l Doctor.
The hero of the following sketch wns
A nAtive of Kentucky, llie father wan
a fanner in moderate circumstances,
living a few miles from Louisville, who
managed by great labor and scrupu
lous economy to give his favorite and
first-born son an excellent education,
embracing the degree of doctor of med
icine. Young Menefee had a young
and beautiful sister, who was betrayed
by a fashionable villain \of Louisville,
one James Murray, a lawyer, and uni
versally regarded as the most desper
ately brave duelist that Kentucky, the
lan 1 so prodigal of such heroes, ever
produced.
While the father and mother of the
ruined girl were weeping tears of des
pair, John, then only 20 years old,
armed himself, and proceeded in search
of his enemy. lie found him in the
Court House, immediately after an ad
journment, and, without uttering a sin
gle word, attacked and belabored him
dreadfully with a cowhide. Murray on
bis part fought like a fiend, but in vain ;
for the fiery desperation of fierce and
concentrated wrath appeared to have
given young Menefee the strength of a
dozen men. He blinded his antagon
ist with quick and countless blows,
dashed from his hand every pistol the
other succeeded in drawing from his
pocket, and flagellated him till he was
covered with blood.
A challenge was the consequence.
Menefee accepted on these conditions :
That the meeting should take place at
a certain spot the ensuing morning, di
rectly after sunrise. Three pistols
were to be loaded —each was to take
one and fire by turns at a mark ten
paces distant. Whoever bit nearest
the center should then have the remain
ing pistol, and shoot at his adversary’s
head. If lie missed, the other should
be entitled to a shot, and so on bv alter
nation till one of them should fall
dead! These ferocious terms were
mutually settled, and the principals
and their seconds met accordingly on
the banks of the Ohio river, six miles
below the falls.
The seconds measured off ten paces,
and then made a black spot with moist
ened gunpowder, about as high a3 a
man’s heart, on a slender oak tree.
They then loaded the three pistols,
handed one to each principal, and re
tained the third to be given to the suc
cessful marksman. The antagonists
then cut a pack of cards for the first
shot. Murray drew the queeu of dia
monds, Menefee the ace of spades, and
so won the first lire, He immediately
took his stand, turned his right side to
the tree, let the hand which grasped the
weapon, now at full cock, fall until the
muzzle reached below his knee, fixed
his flashing blue eve steadily a moment
on the mark, and then, swift as thought,
raised and pulled the trigger. In for
tunately, the pistol •* hung fire,” as it is
called in the backwoods —that is, the
Hash in the pan was seen first, and
then the explosion of the load in the
barrel, sounding long, like a double re
port. Under such circumstances most
persons would have missed the tree ;
but, as it was, Mcnefee’s bullet barely
cut the upper edge of ihe mark. An
excellent shot!
Murray now took his position. He
was a famous “ level shooter,' having
previously slain three men in as many
duels, sending his ball directly through
their brains. He raised slowly, poised
a deliberate aim. stood several seconds
motionless as the tree at which the
muzzle of his pistol was pointed, and
fired. The crack was short and sharp
as the peal of a bell: and when the
blue wreaths of curling smoke were
cleared away the black spot on the oak
was not to be seen—the white bullet
hole bored into the splintered wood oc
cupied its place.
The seconds then gave Murray the
third pistol, and then lie stationed him
self ten steps from his unarmed adver
sary, who in the meanwhile seemed
calm and fearless, as if an unconcerned
spectator, without the slightest symp
toms of either alarm or surprise. Ac
cording to the terms stipulated, Murray
might choose his own time, after the
elevation of his weapon, to fire; and
the thought appeared to cross his mind
to torture his antagonist by a cruel and
unnecessary delay, lie raised his right
band gradually, and fixed a mortal aim
at Menefee's head, in which position he
continued for more than two minutes,
Hut Menefee still betrayed no emotion.
Not a nerve shook —bis face paled not
a shade. A bitter smile of scorn
writhed his purple lip, and his gleaming
blue eye, gazing fiercely into that of his
deadly foe. seemed to the wondering
seconds like a ball of fire, so intense
and vengeful was its glare. At length
he called out, in a voice piercing and
shrill as the shriek of a trumpet:
“Murray, you d—d coward, why
don’t you shoot ? Are you afraid to
shoot ?”
And whether it was that the position
of Murray's arm, so long extended,
affected the nerves, or that he became
excited by the mocking taunt, or was
surprised at the terrible tones of his
enemy's voice, or quailed with preter
natural dread before the of
bis burning blue eye, it is impossible
to say ; but at least, whatever might bo
the cause, a remarkable change passed
over his features. His cheek grew'
pallid—his pale lip quivered—his hand
shook. He fired. The ball merely
grazed Menefee's left temple without
injury.
Then the seconds reloaded the pistol
and placed it in the hands of Menefee,
and the parties again assumed their
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proper stations. The youthful avenger
of a sister's shame waited not an in
stant. lie was in too great a hurry to
finish his work for suspense. Quick as
; the flash of a sunbeam, he elevated his
weapon and fired. With the roar of
tlie explosion, without a sigh or groan,
Murray dropped dead in his tracks.
llis right eye had been shot out!
Menefee fled the country, and settled
in Conway county, Ark. Thenceforth
the whole current of his thoughts and
! passions appeared to be changed. The
earthquake of mortal wrath, which bad
i burst up from the profound abyss of
his soul, had plowed out anew passage
for the march of ambition—a passage
stained witli ineffaceable blood ! Be
fore, his heart had burned with un
quenchable enthusiasm to excel in
knowledge, in variety, depth, and ex
tent of attainments ; but now he covet
ed superiority only in desperate deeds
—the bloody achievements of brute
bravery. Riots, affrays, and deadly
rencounters by chance medley, were
weekly and some times daily occur
rences. Dr. Menefee took a hand in
all, and yet escaped from each without
a scar, till his name grew to be a thing
of terror, at the sound of which even
brave men trembled. And thus he had
reached the summit of his fatal ambi
: tion. Asa “ famous fighter,” lie was
universally acknowledged to be without
an equal and without a second, and
! that, too, in a country abounding witli
bold spirits from every quarter of the
Union. The Rectors, the Deshas, Wil
son, Conway—the most redoubtable
heroes dreaded him. Fent Noland
himself feared the glare of his fero
cious blue eye.
He devised extraordinary methods
of displaying his courage and contempt
of death. He was known, on several
occasions, without uttering a word, to
approach and spit yi the faces of noto
rious bullies with whom he had no cause
of quarrel, and for the sole end of pro
voking a fight. One personal ad van
| tage, however, resulted from this ex
i cessive desperation. No other physi
cian could be found hardy enough to
| settle in Conway, where such a foe
reigned, and, as a matter of course,
! Menefee got all the practice, lie even
attended on his own wounded —would
1 cut a mail open with bis bowie-knife in
; the morning, and, if called on, sew
, him up with his needle in the evening.
He realized a handsome fortune by his
| professional exertions, and deservedly,
• too, for lie was a skillful and attentive
: doctor, In perilous cases lie was sub
lime, for his bravery urged him always
to take the responsibility ol a lofty
daring in the promptitude and power
of his remedies.
“ The Fighting Doctor,” as he was
christened in blood throughout Arkan
sas, had a neighbor named Phillips, a
peaceful, inoffensive man, who had
never previously been engaged in a
difficulty with any human being, and
hence in that region was generally
deemed a coward. From some cause
which never publicly transpired, feel
ings of hostility arose between the two,
and Menefee sought an early opportu
nity to cowhide the other in the streets
of Lewislnirg. Phillips bore his chas
tisement without so much as an effort
of resistance. Indeed, at the moment
he had no other alternative, for he was
altogether unarmed, while his enemy
held a Derringer cocked at his breast.
Immediately afterward, however,
Phillips literally loaded himself with
murderous weapons, and returned to
face his foe on more equal terms. They
encountered in the public square while
court was in session, and never did the
sun of heaven shine on a more obsti
nate combat. They first of all fired
two rounds with pistols, and at the
second round Phillips was wounded in
the loins. But this, instead of cheek
ing his furious ardor, only tended to
inllaine and madden him the more. lie
unsheathed his knife and bounded upon
his enemy, who received his thrusts
with a like deadly blade. With clench
ed teeth, foam on their livi 1 lips, pant
ing chests, and blazing eyes, they
fought like maniacs, till both were
bathed in sweat and blood. At length
Phillips ventured on a desperate ma
neuver. lie dropped his own knife,
and, seizing the naked blade of his an-
tagonist. snapped it in two by main
strength, cutting at the same time his
own fingers to the bone! lie then
drew from beneath his vest another
knife, and made a fierce lunge at Men
efee's heart; but Menefee, in his turn,
caught the sharp blade in his hands and
broke off the point—when, lo ! Phillips
produced a third bowie-knife, much
larger than the others, and plunged it
up to the hilt in his enemy’s side, who
fell to rise no more. Menefee, as lie
lay on the gory ground, looked up in
the victor's face with a smile, and gasp
ed, in a dying voice : “ Phillips, you
are King of Conway now, for you have
killed ‘The Fighting Doctor!”
Fussy and partially deaf farmer to
his son: “ John, what on earth have
you been cleaning your harness with ?”
“Nothing, sir." “Then, don’t do it
with that again ; see how it rots the
leather.”
'jv ’
HARTWELL, RA., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER ,13 1878.
W I LI) MAX OF THE WOODS.
A t'l'Hrfiil I'roillitr <n|itiiml In Ilie
Wild* of Tt-iiiieasee null Itroiialil In
l.otiint ttlc fur Kxlilliitlon— lllh Iloily
(owrcil nilli I'lhli-Sciili*.
Louitcille Courier-Journal.
A wild man brought to the city yes
terday by Dr. O. G. Broyler, of Sparta,
Tennessee, is truly a mysterious and
wonderful creature. He will be exhib
ited throughout the country bv Mana
ger Whallen, of the Metropolitan, who
is a third owner in this remarkable be
ing, who promises to successfully battle
all scientists who desire to give a satis
factory explanation of his unnatural ap
pearance. Before entering into the de
tails of his capture, which form quite a
thrilling and interesting episode, a des
cription of the curiosity, which promises
to excite more attention than Barnum's
“ What is it?” will be given. At a dis
tance the general outline of his figure
would indicate that he is only mi ordi
nary man. Close inspection shows that
his whole body is covered with a layer
ofscales, which drop off at regular peri
ods, in the spring and full, like the skin
of a rattlesnake. He has a heavy
growth of hair on his head and a dark
reddish Lc ird about six inches long.
His eyes present a fearful appearance,
being at least twice the size of the aver
age sized eve. Some of his toes are
formed together, which give his feet a
strange appearance, and his height,
when standing perfectly* erect, is about
-ix feet live inches. A nervous twitch
ing of his muscles shows a desire to
escape, and lie is constantly looking in
die direction of the door through which
he entered. Ilis entire body must he
wet at intervals, mid, should this lie neg
lected he begins to manifest great un-.
easiness, his flesh becomes feverish, and
liis sufferings cannot be alleviated until
die water is applied. At times lie is
luugerous, and yesterday morning, when
Mr. Whallen attempted to place him
in a wagon, in which lie intended to
bring him to the theater, it occupied
some time. The strange creature acted
in the most mystericus manner, refusing
obstinately for some time to get into the
wagon, lie has quite a sharp appetite,
having eaten a meal yesterday morning
hat would have fully satisfied four men.
With the exception of fish, liis meals
are all prepared in the ordinary way,
but the fish is eaten entirely raw. Dr.
Broyler says that when alone he will
sometimes mutter an unintelligible jar
gon, which it would he impossible for
anyone to understand, but, that in the
presence of visitors, lie remains perfect
ly silent. Yesterday afternoon, from
■me to four, a private exhibition was
given, and a number of physicians
were present, among them Die.
Brady and Cary Blackburn, who
said that lie was a great curiosity.
Dr. Blackburn said that his scaly con
dition could not be attributed to any
skin disease, but undoubtedly lie was
born in that condition. He will be on
exhibition in one of the private rooms
of the Metropolitan theatre this after
noon and to-morrow between the hours
of one and four o'clock. Only physi
cians and those especially invited will
be allowed admission, liis exact age
is not known, but for the last eighteen
years he has been running wild in the
Cumberland mountains in Tennessee,
near the Caney Fork and Big Bone
creek. He lias been the constant ter
ror of the community, although lie was
never known to attack any one until
the day of his capture. Dr. G. G.
Broyler, of Sparta, Tenn., says that
since the surrender of the confederate
army it lias been liis intention to cap
ture this creature and exhibit him
throughout the country. The doctor
says the parents of the wild man are
respectable citizens of North Carolina,
named Croslin ; that their son is un
questionably a mysterious freak of na
ture they do not deny, but they could
nbt account for liis scaly skin. At the
tender age of five years, having always
been possessed with a roving disposi
tion, lie left his home and plunged im
mediately into the mountainous region
of Tennessee. Here lie lived as best
he could, subsisting on the products of
the country, such as roots and herbs
and small animals that lie could caj>-
ture. When in the water lie was in his
element, lie would dive clown into the
depth of the inland lakes, remaining
under water for a considerable length
of time, and finally emerge with both
hands filled with small fish, which he
would devour at once in the raw state.
Dr. Broyler says that until about eigh
teen months ago he had not attempted
the capture, although he had been
watching the creature’s actions for the
past twelve years. About the 15th of
September he ftirted into the moun
tains fully determined to succeed in the
capture.
The “ Wild Man of the Woods,” as
he was termed by the people of the
vicinity, was unusually fleet of foot and
possessed a great deal of agility, bound
ing over the mountainous regions in the
most fearless manner. During the
chase they kept the wild man constant
ly in sight, and their plan was to tire
liim out, in which they finally succeeded.
He was pursued through the wild,
i mountainous country, over lakes and
precipices, until his pursuers almost
despaired of success. fMrntagem was
finally resorted to. The lariat was
thrown at him witholit success, ami
then a kind of net was formed, into
which he was decoyed and captured.
He ran fearlessly into the net, and be
came entangled in the meshes. Cap
tured, but not conquered, a struggle
| ensued, in which Dr. Broyler was seri
ously wounded. The wild man fought
with liis hands, after the fashiou of a
bear, and bruised and scratched the
doctor in a frightful manner. At last
they quieted their unwilling victim and
brought him to Sparta. The doctor
immediately telegraphed to Mr. Whal
len who purchased a third interest in
the wonder, and had him brought to
Louisville yesterday morning. The
presence of this wild man in Louisville
lias excited considerable attention
among the doctors, and also a large
crowd of curious persons, who are anx
ious to see the wonderful creature.
There will be only one public exhibi
tion in this city, which takes place at
the Metropolitan theater Saturday after
noon.
The First brace.
Athena Chronicle.
A wild young man engaged to be
married to an amiable young lady, wlm
was mischief personified, arranged to
meet her at Big Creek Primitive Bap
tist Church, in the days of Auld Lang
: Syne, bn Saturday of the meeting, and
spend the evening and Sunday at the
good old aunt’s and at church. He
went and heard old father Miller Bled
soe preach, as usual, about Bunker’s
Hill, how they whipped the British and
'Tories in the Revolution war, and many
other good tilings. He went with liis
betrothed to the good old aunt's —five
ladies there, he the only gentleman.
Dinner,was announced, and he request
ed to take the head of the table. lie
did so to wait on the ladies. He had
never “said grace.” Being seated amid
profound silence, the hostess, folding her
• arms across her breast, reverently said :
| “ Mr. J., ask a blessing.” A clap of
i thunder from a cloudless sky, would not
have astounded him more. However,
liis father’s Sunday grace occurred to
to him : he said it, but forgot the Amen
part. lie then piled on two or three of
liis father’s short graces, inextricably
1 mixed. Could sec no Amen yet. The
perspiration hurst out on his forehead.
Oh, the mental agony of that hour!
Next came the Lord’s Prayer and por
! tious of the Catechism —lie had been a
; Presbyterian Sunday School scholar,
and had by heart the Lord’s Prayer, the
Catechism, and many of David’s and
Watts’ Psalms. A portion of a Psalm
burst from his lips, whether in prose or
i poetry, he cannot now say. But in the
i confusion of the occasion, ns strange as
it may seem, no place occurred to his
mind to say Amen, and close what must
j have seemed a ridiculous farce. He
opened his eyes, liis tongue still proceed
ing with the exercise. -She whom he
j loved Wetter than all others was sitting
at his side convulsed .with laughter.
, Good old limit .J—y, at the foot of the
table, still sat with folded arms, gravely
reverent. The other three ladies were
looking down smilingly, and evidently
i struggling to avoid a similar exhibition
as that made by his left hand supporter.
In despair, lie stopped short in the mid
dle of a sentence, and bawled out:
“ Amen.”
Dinner over, liis sweetheart ran out
oil the piazza. He followed, crest fallen,
mortified, and in despair; thinking that
she would never many a man who had
made such a ridiculous exhibition of
himself. With a mischievous twinkle
in her eves, she naively asked if lie did
not think that a two hours’ sermon from
Father Bledsoe before dinner was suffi
cient w ithout liis stringing together three
or four graces, the Lord’s Prayer, the
Catechism and the Psalms, both in prose
and poetry.
But the pious old aunt was different
ly impressed—for next day, she said to
a friend: “They say that Mr. J/s a
wild young man, but the Lord is doing
a wonderful work of grace in his heart;
for at my table, yesterday, lie asked the
famouset blessing I ever heard.”
He lives to describe this scene—the
only survivor.
NorristovTn Herald: A masked bur-
glar entered a room where a man and
his wife lay asleep. They both awoke,
when the robber pointed a pistol at
their heads, and quietly backed out of!
the room and got off with liis plunder.
The startled slunilierers were terribly
frightened, “the man’s hair turning
white before morning.” The woman
was as much scared as her 1 u hand, hut
upon examining her hair, which hung
over the back of a chair, it was found
not to have changed a particle. Some
thing strange about this.
The planters of Southwestern Geor
gia have become so independent of the
grain growers of the West that corn is
selling in Terrell County at forty cents
per bushel, and the papers are advising
t-lie planters to hold fora higher market.
WHOLE NO. ID?.
The River Time.
The following which we find floating
like a wind driven waif upon the great
sea of. American newspapers, without
name or index of ownership, is certain
ly one of the most beautiful things we
have ever read. It is indeed almost
matchless in its beauty. Mho can he
the author of it ? Docs anybody
know ?
Oil ! a wonderful stream is the river Time.
As it runs through the realm of tears;
With u faultless rytlim and musical rhyme.
And a hroad'nittg sweep, and a surge sub
lime
That blends with the ocean of years.
How the winters arc drifting like flakes of
snow,
And the summers like buds between.
And the year in the sheaf—-so they come
and they go.
On the river's breast, with its ebb and flow.
As it glides through the shadow ami
sheen.
There’s a magical isle on the river of Time,
Where the softest of airs are playing;
There's n cloudless sky and a tropical
clime.
And a song as sweet as a vesper chime,
And the Junes with roses straying.
And the name of this isle is the Long Ago,
And we bury our treasures there;
There are brows of beauty and bosoms of
sorrow.
There are heaps of dust, but we love them
so !
There are trinkets and tresses of hair.
There are fragments of songs thnt nobody
sings
And a part of an infant's prayer ;
There's a lute unswept, and a harp with
out strings.
There are broken vows, and pieces of
rings.
And the garments SHE used to wear.
There arc hands that arc waved when the
fairy shore.
By the mirage is left in air ;
And we sometimes hear, through the tur
bulent roar.
Sweet voices we heard in the days gone
before,
When the wind down the river is fair.
Oh ! remembered for aye be the blessed
isle.
All the days of life till night—
When the evening comes with its beautiful
smile.
And our eyes are closing to slumber awhile.
May our *• greenwood ” of soil be in
sight.
Arrival of an Engineer to Survey the
Savannah River.
Anjuata Evening Sentinel sth in at.
In the river appropriation bill, pass
ed by the last Congress, an appropria
tion of $650 was made for a prelimi
nary survey of the Savannah river
above Augusta. Mr. J. P. Carson,
one of the assistant engineers on the
National Corps in new York, has been
appointed by Col. J. A. Gilmore, of
the United States Engineer Corps, to
male* the survey. Mr. Carson arrived
in this city this morning, bringing an
introductory letter from Si nator Butler,
of Carolina, to several of our promi
nent citizens, lie was taken charge of
to-day by ex-May or Estes who took
him up the canal this morning. Mr.
Carson will, in a short time, begin his
preliminary survey so as to report the
result of iiis survey to the General
Government. He will make this sur
vey up to the junction of the Seneca
and Tugaloo rivers, reporting depth
and width of the stream, the nature
and probable cost of obstructions to
be removed, the channel of the river
at different stages and seasons, and
the class of commerce to he benefitted
by the improvement in navigation.
We trust that Mr. Carson's work will
be complete and satisfactory, and can
assure him of the hearty co-operation
of our citizens.
A Big Dose of Salts.
A man living in the country, far from
any physician, was taken suddenly ill.
His family, in great alarm, not knowing
what else to do, sent for a neighbor who
had a reputation for doctoring cows.
“ Can't you give father something to
help him?” asked one of the sons.
“ Wa’al, I don’t know nothing about
doctorin’ people.”
“ You know more than we do, for you
can doctor cows. Now what do you give
them when they are sick?”
“ Wa’al, I alius give cows salts. You
might try that on him.”
“ How much shall we give him?” in
quired the son.
“ Wa’al, I alius give cows jest a
pound. I suppose a man is a quarter as
big as a cow —givo him a quarter of a
pound.”
This item is going the rounds: “It
may not lie generally known that com
mon cooking soda is a sure remedy for
the bite of a rattlesnake, if applied scon
enough. An incision may be made to
the depth of the wound made by the
fangs of the snake, and into this cut the
soda should he sprinkled. It will im
mediately bubble up and turn green,
caused by the action of the soda in neu
tralizing the acid of the poison.”
“Anything new with you to-day?”
inquired a man of his friend who was
suffering from inflammation of the lungs.
1 “ I should think so,” replied the sufferer.
“ What is it,” asked the first sneaker.
“ Pneumonia,” answered the victim.
A SIMPLE TANNING PROCESS.
I.rnlher Rarcnufiilb' Tunned With
drce>i rino Itran.
MUUdiftvilU (da.) Itecorder.
During the war niv brother, A. IT.
Washington, of Nashville, Tenn., was
superintendent of the clothing depart
ment under Mai. G. W. Cunningham,
and lie informed mo that an English
man had been experimenting for twenty
years to find some material for tanning,
which would shorten the time and leave
the hide pliant, so that a lnrge amount
of oil would not ho necessary. All his
trials however had proved futile until
chance threw him into the Confederate
States, where ho tried an experiment
witli green pine straw witli complete
success. My brother showed me samples
of sheepskin tanned in eight davs —calf
-kin tanned in eight weeks, equal to the
best American call’—and sole leather
evenly tanned in four months. A lon
ger time for the latter would no doubt
have produced better leather, hut the
emergencies of the service required an
abridgement of time, and the pine straw
enabled the tanners to fill the require
ments. Since the war the French have
used spirits turpentine directly in the
manufacture of leather, with great suc
cess, hut I cannot now recall theautlior
itv for the statement.
The Englishman’s Confederate patent
was worthless, ami as he had failed to
take out a Uniter! States patent in the
long time since the close of the war, he
mav justly lie supposed to have aban
doned liis rights, and 1 have, therefore,
concluded to lav the matter before you
for further experiment. The pine straw
j being cheaper than oak bark, obtainable
at all seasons of the year, requiring only
a short transportation and richer in tur
pentine than the northern pines, would
give you very decided advantages in
competing for the markets of the world
in tlie production ol’ leather.
Since my brother's information, I re
tail my slmes by mixing a mixture of
equal parts of turpentine and tallow
over a gentle fire, and then saturate
both .sole and uppers with it, the conse
quence is, my- shoes last more than
twice as long as usual; niy last pair,
witli two half soles, lasted fifteen months.
I doubt not thnt if the straw was cut
and bruised by being run through a
straw-cutter with short feed, it would
very quickly impart its virtues to the
water in the vat and make it more effi
cacious than if used without the cutting.
Having no patent royalty to pay, you
can at once reduce the cost of the pro
duction of leather to a minimum, and en
hance your profits accordingly. With
a belt of pine 170 miles wide, extend
ng from Virginia to Texas, the South
can tan leather enough to supply the
United States and numerous foreigu
markets.
As this is no theoretical assumption,
! to be verified by costly experiments. I
1 doubt not you will give the subject the
attention it certainly deserves, and profit
accordingly.
Yours respectfully,
B. 11. Washington, M. D.
To Clean Cloth'ng.
Put a teaspoouful of ammonia in n
quart of warm soapsuds, dip a cloth in
it upd go over vour soiled clothing, and
see how rapidly the dirt will disappear;
no scrubbing will be necessary. To a
pint of hot soapsuds add a teaspoonful
of the spirits, dip in your fork or spoon
(or whatever you wish to clean), rub with
a soft brush, and then finish witn cha
mois-skin. For washing windows and
mirrors it has no equal. It will remove
grease spots from every fabric without
injuring the garment. Put on the am
monia nearly clear; lay on blotting pa
per, and set a hot iron on it for a mo
ment. Also a few drops of water will
cleanse and whiten laces and muslins
beautiful lv.
N. Y. Dispatch: Mr. Deßartli is a
very modest young man, who never
drinks. He has hut one bad habit, and
that is tobacco chewing. The other day
he rode in a Fifth-avenue car, and he
had a quid of tobacco as big as a loaf
of bread in his mouth. At Fourteenth
street a young lady entered the car.
Great Heavens ! It was his girl! What
should lie do? She took n scat beside
him, and chatted away right merrily.
The conversation had not progressed
very far when Dcßarth’s face begun to
turn red. He felt for his h and kerchief,
hut lie had none. Then his face turned
purple. In two minutes more his cheek
began to swell. What could lie do?
If his gill caught him chewing tobacco,
that would settle it. The passengers all
noticed that Mr. Deßartli was dying,
hut none of them moved to assist him.
The crisis had come, and in a fit of des
peration It. 15. pointed to the front of
the car. All hands, including the girl,
looked in that direction. While they
were doing so he spit down his sleeve.
Then he took the quid from his mouth,
and, without looking in that direction,
threw it out of the w indow—or attempt
ed to do so. It went up against the
pane with a s.vash, and flattened out
until the car became darkened.
A Georgia farmer bought a Grand
piano for his daughter. 11 is house is
small, and, to economize room, the lower
part of the partition between the kitchen
and the parlor was cut out,and the long
end of the piano stuck through. Pris
cilla now sits at the keyboard, singing,
“ Who will care for mother now?” and
the mother rolls out doughnuts on the
other end of the piano in the kiteheu.
Danbury News: From the open win
dows of a Pine street house, p’riday
noon, there floated the airof the “Sweet
Bye and-Bye” and cooking onions.