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YELLOW FEVER -BLACK VOMIT. It In too noon to forgot tlu ravages of this terrible tlineaMo, which will no doubt return in h inure nrnlig> uant and \iruleut form in the fell month* of 1879. HIRKKBM/tt MKPATISK. h Uemedy dir eoverod til Southern Nu lln And übiml with such won* dortul results in South America where the hiost ag gravated cases of fever are found, causes from one to two ounces of bilt to Ito filtered or stHUnod from the blood each time it naases through the LivtffS as long as an excess of bit® exists* By its woiidt'i ful actum on the Liver uiUl Stfim.icli the HHI'ATINE tiot only pMvtMite to A Certainty un\ kind of Fever and Black Vomit, but also cures ifeotiuehe, t'ousti jiation of the Bowl'll, Dyspepsia and Malaria] dis eases. No one need fear Yellow I*V\ot who will exnel the Malarial Poison ami excess of Idle from the blood by Using MKRBEM.'S HEPATINB, which is sold by all Druggists In Vent and Il .tK) IhuK's, or will la* Bent by exbrc'ss by the Proprietors. A. F. MKRHKLL & CO., Philft., l’n. Dr. Pemberton’s Stillingia or Queen’s Delight UP'.T he reports of wonderful cures of Rheumatism. Rcrofula, Salt Rheum. Syphilis, Cancer, deers and Jwin*s, that come from all parts of the country, are not only remarkable but so miraculous as to be doubted was it not for the abundance of proof. HEM A UK A BLK CU RE of SCROFULA, £c Cask of col. j. c. jiraxson. Kingston, Ga.. {September 15, 1871. Gents : For sixteen years I have been a great suf ferer from Scrofula in its most distressing forms. I liave been routined to my room and lied for tifteeu years with scrofulous ulcerations. The most ap proved remedies for such cases had been used, and the most eminent physicians consulted, w ithout any decided benefit. Thus prostrated, distressed, de sponding, was advised by Dr. Ayer of Floyd county, Ga., to commence the use of your Compound Ex tract Stillingia. Language is as insufficient to de scribe the relief I obtained from the use of the Stil lingia as it is to convey an adaquate idea of the in tensity of my suffering In;fore using your medicine; sufficient to say, I abandoned all other remedies and continued the use of your Extract of Stillingia, un til I can say truly, “1 am cured of all pain, of all disease, with nothing to obstruct the active pursuit of my profession. More than eight months have elapsed since this remarkable cure, w ithout any re turn of the disease. For the truth of the above statement, I refer to any gentleman in Bartow County, (t., and to the members of the bar of Cherokee Circuit, who are acquainted with me. T shall ever remain, with the deepest gratitude, Your obedient servant, J. C. BItANSON, Att’y at Law. A MIRACLE. AVkst Point, Ga., Sept. 16.1H70. Cents : My daughter was taken on the Sistli day of June, lHfid, w ith what was supposed to be Acute Rheumatism, and was treated for the same with no success. In March, following, pieces of bone began to work out of thea-ight arm, and continued to ap pear till the Ih>iio from the elbow to the shoulder joint came out. Many pieces of bom* came out of the right foot and leg. The case was then pronounc ed one of White Swelling. After having been con fined about six years to her bed, and the case con sidered hopeless, I was induced to try Dr. Pembei toa’s Compound Extract of Stillingia, and was so well satis tied with its effects that I have continued the use of it until the present. JJy daughter was confined to her bed about six years before she sat lip or even turned over without help. She now sits up all day, and sews most of her time—has walked across the room. Her general health is now good, aud I believe she will, as her limbs gain strentli. walk well. I attribute her re covery. with the blessing of God, to the use of your jnvaluablc medicine. Vv. 15. BLANTON. West Point, Ga.. Sept. 16, 1870. Gents: The above certificate of Mr. W. B. Blan ton we know and certify as being true. The thing is so ; hundreds of the most respected citizens certi fy to it. As much reference can be given as may be required. Yours truly, CRAWFORD WALKER, Druggists. HON. H. D. WILLIAMS. GP p. Stillingin is pre pared by A. F\ & ('(>.. I‘hilath‘lphia, Pa. Sold by all Druggists in *I.OO bottles, or sent by express. Agents wanted to canvass everywhere. Send for Book—“ Curious Story"—tree to all. Medicines sent to poor [people, payable in install incuts. . Alin ■■ A'-I Stops.asetßeeda.aKneoSwells, Bsetl* n ja3tStoolA r>ook,oiily#PH. tout. Pianos Ula U i®* IliKStooi,Cover* Book only $143 75. illustfateiT NVwspaper sent. free. Address llitiiicl F. neatly, Washington. S.J. Pin Trt ft I ft uninvested in Wall StreetStoeks yIU J U p lUuU makes fortunes every month. Book sent free explaining Address. BAXTKI; A CO., Bankers. 17 Wall St., New York. AGENTS WANTED For the Vest and Fastent- Selling Pictorial Books and Bibles. Prices reduced 33 per cent,. 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Friim SIOO to 1300 a Month can be math; by live men. Rare chance for making money. Address— J. S. McIIONAIrU A 15S Clark St. Chicago. CONSUMPTION) CURED. A wimple vegetable remedy■ for the speedy and permanent curt of CoiJßumu-B tion,Bronchitis,Catarrh, Aathma.W all Thnjatm and Lung Affection, Alho a positive> aildH rndienf cure for Nervous Debility anlaUH 'Nervous Complaints, uhich ha, ibeen tested inm [thousand, of case,. Recii>e. with full directions* (in German, French, or Enirlinh) for prepar- ■ ins and usin*, sent by mail free of charge* lon receipt of stamp. Plea,, name thi, paper.m IW.W SHERAB.I49 Powera’^loch^EocheaterJCYJ HERE S YQI'R HORSE. On tbe2Sth of .fulv, 1879, anagro roan brought a sorrel horse, with a light mane and tail, and a star in his fare, square built and alamt 12 r It years old. to mv house. He stated that lie wue going to work on the Railroad, and wanted to leave the florae with me to pasture until t)j Ist of September. 1879. He said his name was (iforge Lewis, and that he lived in Franklin county, X. C. The sumo evening he crossed Tagain river, and has not been heard of since. On the horse was anew saddle and bridle. I suppose the horse to be a stolen one. The owner .•an get him by applying to the. undersigned, proving property, and paying advertising and other eipenaoe. •▼* a. • Jl'JleJiltiJvJJa., 105 ' Hartwell, or Parker’s Store, Ga. To Rent. THE COCnRAX PLACE, on the Savannah River, will be rented to the highest bidder on Sales in November next. Note ana approved security will be required, A bargain for some good farmer. 155 C. A. WERE, Agent. The Hartwell Sun. By BENSON & McGILL. VOL. IV—NO. 9. FARO BILL’S EXHORTATION. ■’rH<'hlnx nut! I’l.lol. In l.rinl. lllv'n flMpcl.Tent. Carbon Journal. Of course I went to Leadville, that wonderful mushroom city, which can boost of the most rascally gamblers, hardest drinkers, cheekiest bummers and vilest prostitutes in creation. One’s first impulse upon arriving in the town is to start out and see the sights—to gaze upon the many gambling hells, where money is ever changing hands upon the turn of a card. Above the sharp clicking of thejivory checks can be heard the voices of dealers calling upon the players[to “ Make your bets, gentlemen,” while notes of exultation and cursing come forth in strange cho rus, uttered by those who lose and those who win. But it is not of gambling I would tell you. The scenes are hut du plicates of those so familiar to every pioneer in the early days"of the Union Pacific railroad. I was standing in front of the hotel when my attention was attracted by a dilapidated, antiquated-looking speci men of a saloon bummer, who was pass ing along the street ringing a hell. At intervals lie would cease ringing aud shout: “ Religious racket right away at the big tent! Roll up, tumble up, or slide up on yer y-ears, for we’ll have a bang up dish o’ Gospel talk from Faro Bill —and d-o-n’t you forget it!” Turning to a dapper little gambler who stood near, I asked : “ Who is Faro Bill ?” “ Who is he? Well, now, if that ain’t the boss play fur high. You kin break me right here if I thought there was a bloke in the mines that didn’t know Bill. He used to he one o’ the boys, hut got capped into a religious game by a slick tongued gospel sharp about two months ago. lie’s chopped on all his old rack ets, and don’t stand in with nothin’ now that don’t show up a Bible or prayer book in the lay-out. Billy used to be the boss gambier of the camp, and warn ’t afeard to sit in a game with the flyest sport that ever flung a card; hut he’s clean gone on the pious lay now, and seems to have lost all the good there was in him. The boss mouthpiece of the heavenly mill has gone down to Denver, an’ Bill is a goin’ to stand in an’ sling gospel to the hoys as well as he can.” The explanation, given in the most earnest tones, started me instanter for the big tent. It was used at night tor a variety theater, where artists (?) of a question ablecharacter performed acts of still more questionable decency, and was rented for religious services every Sunday morning, 1 found the tent filled to its utmost capacity. Many had, no doubt, come through curiosity to see how Bill would deport hitnself in this his initial sermon. Upon the stage sat a burly, red-faced man, witli arms folded in a careless manner, who looked over the large audience with an air of the most decided independence. This was Faro Bill, the speaker of the occa sion. When he arose, he glanced around the tent for a moment, evident ly collecting his thoughts, and began : “ Feller citizens, the preacher bein' absent, it falls on me to take his hand and play it fur all it’s worth. You all know that I’m just learnin’ the game, an’ of course I may be expected to make wild breaks, but I don’t believe thar’s a rooster in the camp mean enough to take advantage o’ my ignorance and cold deck me right on the first deal, I’m sincere in this new departure, an’ I believe I’ve struck a game I can play clear through without copperin’ a bet, for when a man tackles such a lay-out as this he plays every card to win, and if he goes through the deal as he orter do, when he lays down to die, an’ the last case is ready to slide from the box, he can tell the turn every time. “ I was readin’ in the Bible to-day that yarn about the Prodigal Son, an’ I want to tell yer the story. The book don’t give no dates, but it happened long, long ago. This Prodigal Son had an old "man that put up the coin every time the kid struck him for a stake, an’ never kicked at the size of the pile either. I reckon the old man was pur ty well fixed, an’ when he died he in tended to give all his wealth to his kid an’ the brother. Prod give the old man a little game o’ talk one day, and in juced him to whack up in advance o’ the death racket. He’d no sooner got his divy in his fist than he shook the old man an’ struck out to take in some o’ the other camps. He hed a way up time for a while, an’ slung his cash to the front like he owned the best payin' lead on earth ; but hard luck hit him a lick at last, an’ left him fiat. Ihe hook don’t state what lie went broke on, but I reckon he got steered up agin some brace game. But any how, he got left without a ohip, an’ a Granger then tuck him home an’ set him to herdin’ hogs, an’ here he got so hard up an’ hungry that he piped otf the swine while they 1 were feedin’, an’ he stood in with ’em on a husk lunch. He soon weakened lon such plain provender, an’ says to 1 himself, says he : * Even the old mans HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29, 1879. hired hands are livin’ on square grub, while I’m worryin’ along here on corn husks straight. I’ll just take a grand tumble to myself an’ chop on this rac ket at once. I’ll skip hack to the gov ernor an’ try to fix tilings up, an’ call for anew deal,’ so off he started. *• The old man seed the kid a com ing, and what do you reckon he did? Did he pull his gun and lay for him, intending to wipe him ns soon as he got into range ? Did he call the dogs to chase him off the ranche ? Did he hustle around for a club and give him a stand-off at the front gate ? Eh ? Not to anj r alarming extent he didn’t. No, sir! The Scripture hook says lie waltzed out to meet him and froze to him on the spot, and then marched him off to a clothing store and fitted him out in the nobbiest rig to he had for coin. Then the old gent invited all the neighbors, and killed a fatted calf, and gave ttie biggest blowout the camp ever seed.” At the conclusion of the narrative the speaker paused, evidently framing in his mind a proper application of the story. Before lie could resume a tall, blear-eyed gambler with fierce mustache, rising, said : “ ’Taint me as would try ter break up a meeting, or do anj'thing disreligious. No, sir; I am not that sort of a citizen. But in all public hoodoos it is a parlia mentary rule for anybody as wants to ax questions to rise up and fire them otr. Ido not want ter fool away time a questioning the works of religion ; oh, no. As long as it is kept in proper hounds and does not interfere with the boys in their games, I do not see it can do any harm. 1 just want ter ax the honorable speaker if lie has not given himself dead away ? Does it stand to reason that a bloke would feed upon corn husks when there w\as hash facto ries in the camp ? Would anybody hev refused him the price of a square meal if he had struck them for it ? Would any of the dealers that heat him out of his coin see him starve ? As I remark ed afore, I do not want to make any disrespectable breaks, but I must say that I have got it put up that the speak er has been trying to feed us on cussed thin taffy, and no one but a silly would take it in.” Bill glared upon the speaker, and fairly hissed: “Do von mean to say that I am a liar ?” “ Wal, you can take it just as you choose. Some would swallow it in that shape.” Bill pulled his revolver, and in an instant the bright barrels of numerous weapons flashed in the air as the friends of each party prepared for active duty. The brevet preacher was the first to fire, and the rash doubter of spiritual truths fell dead on the ground. Shot followed shot in quick succession, and when quiet was again restored a score or more of dead and wounded men were carried from the tent. Having secured attention Bill said: “ Further proceedings are adjourned for the day. Yon will receive the dox ology.” The audience arose. “ May grace, mercy, and peace be with you now and forever, amen ; and I want it distinctly understood, that I am going to maintain a proper respect for tiie Gospel if I have to croak every son-of-a-gun of a sinner in the miues. Meetin’ is out.” . The crowd filed from the tent as coolly as if nothing had occurred, and as I gained the sidewalk I heard a man remark: “ Bill has got the sand to make a bang-up preacher, and I would not won der if he made a big mark in the world yet.” A Hawk’s Instinct. An engine driver on a French railway gives some singular details concerning an old hawk which is accustomed to profit by the fear excited in young birds by the noise of the locomotives on that line. The little bird of prey displays an instinct closely bordering on reason. “He is,” says our informant, “ accus tomed to fly beside the trains passing be tween Mesgrigay and Romilly, and has been known to the officials for more than fifteen years. Having learnt from ex perience that the terror inspired by the trains drives such birds as may be near the railway out of the hedges an either side of the line, the hawk soars evenly a few yards above the carriages, and carefully keeps himself hidden in the cloud of steam emerging from the fun nel. So soon a3 a suitable victim ap pears, he is iucontineutly pounced upon and devoured. Should, however, the piratical bird fail of his object, he re turns to his place amid the steam, from which even missies cannot dislodge him, a slight turn of the wing always enables him to evade them. The bird’s flight is extremely rapid.as, indeed, that of all hawks is well known to be. If the train is say from 150 to 200 yards ahead, and going at express speed, a few seconds suffice to place him in turn the same dis tance in front, even after chasing a bird along the hedges,” Devoted to Hart County. The yelliu injuu is on the war path, Dennis Kearney is a tearin around, Conkling is waving the bloody shirt, Cox and Kelly have bolted the track, and there’s right smart mutiny on board ! our good old ship of state. Nevertheless notwithstanding I am trying to be reconciled. Wliat is to he, will be, whether it happens or not. Whom the Lord lovetli he chasteneth and I’m afeenl them Radicals don’t have much chance for heaven, for they’ve got all the power and money aud offices aud sinecures and sine que nous and ev ery good thing you can think of. We haven’t got much of anything down here outside of children and cats and yaller dogs that’s always hungry. Our “ great exertions ” have vanished. The prospect for a good time is on the other side of Jordan, and if them rads whip us out next year wc may lmng up our fiddles and the bow for there’s no use hoping against hope. I was in Rome yesterday, aud above the rumbling of drays and cracking of whips, the hissing of locomotives, and the awful breathing of cotton compress es, I heard my friend Newt Tumlin hail me about 200 yards up street. He talk ed at the top of his voice until lie got to me, and says I, “ All hail my sweet and gentle friend ! Thy whispering ac eoute remind me of the sweet south wind that breathes upon a bank of vio lets. Is it well with thee? Art thee all sanguine and sereen?” “ Not by a dingnation sight, Bill Arp, I’m a busted individual —a dead horse in the woods, and the buzzards are a sail ing round hunting for my devoted car cass. Sold my cotton yesterday for !)i cents, and here it is ten and a half this morning. Lost a goodjhundred dollars iu one day, and I’ll never get it back in the round world. I’m now going round taking up a contribution for my poor orfin children. Give me ten dol lars. The last four are gals, and all come in a litter like rabbits and I never expect to see ’em grown, for I’m a wear in’ out, Bill Arp. I’m a wearin’ out. I’m as weak in the back as Billy Ra mey —broke down in the lines, and my lungs are as hollow as an empty bee gum. The infernal astma has attacked my eserpagus, and I cant talk above a whisper. It all come from my hollerin around last fall for Gordon and Lester, and I didn’t do ’em a durn bit of good. I’ve quit now, Bill Arp, for wc are all busted. These yankees have got us for the next hundred years to come, ami there’s no chance but to jinc ’em. I’m tired of totin wood and water —tired of these cverlastin minorities. Let’s do like Dr. Miller said when he quit the old Whig party, let’s hunt for a party of size. Let’s jine ’em Biil, for they make a powerful fuss over new converts. When the old Whigs come over to us the Democrats took ’em up like the prodigal son and killed all the calves and give Stephens and Toombs and Jenkins and Miller and Underwood all the best offices. That’s the way they do it. Don’t you"! see how they tie onto Stephens and Felton and Speer and they didn’t flop clean over either, hut just slipped through the crack of the fence and left their tails hanging out on our side. And Gus Wright he’s a slippbi’ and slidin’ along preparin’ to flop, lie’s for Grant right now, and that shows his political sagacity. Let’s jine ’em Bill. 1 wish I had a voice to talk to you. Lord help us all. A hundred dollars fone betwixt sunset and sunrise. Thud luvall has jined ’em and now he comes to town every day for a great big letter from Washington City, tellin’ him to put two hundred lighten’ rods on the custom-house in Atlanta at fifty dollars a rod. That’s all right and I hope he’ll git it. We needn’t make a blowgun about goin’ over for the cussed editors like Dick Harris will be a pitch in into us, but just quietly get the password from the old doctor and then set down and wait for an offis. Offis and money will make anybody respectable. Ding nation take that cotton. Why didn’t somebody tell me it was a goin’ up. A hundred dollars gone and my poor chil dren suflerin for the luxuries of life. Good by, Arp; if I hadn’t lost my voice I’d talk to you, I must swindle somebody before I leave this town. Bam i Morgan thinks he played Julius Caesar !in putting cotton up this morning. I’ll t swap horses with him some of these days CRAWLING OVER WITH HIM TAIL OS THE OTH It SI lit'.. Hill Arp Ip Wit It II In 01.1 Friuml, Xt'wt Ttimlln, IVlihi tlt<> ■•ulittrnl Sllimtlon In HlN<-nnl-<l I'piui —A Ouli.'f Slipping •vrr to Omni. Atlanta Constitution. Ohio has gone, and they say New York is going. The Grant boom grows bigger, aud ever and anon it seems to me 1 hear the thunders of our subjuga tion reverberating in mournful mutter iugs from the cloud capped pinnacles of the Rocky Mountains to the pine clad peaks of Keunesaw. There’s no com fort when we look abroad and the spark of political peace grows mortal dim at home. Our golden opportunity is lost. “ Hope for a season liade the south farewell And freedom shrieked when Sammy Tildou fell." $1.50 Per Annum. WHOLE NO. 165. j and he’ll think, thunder and lightnin ! struek him. He’d better see Thad T)n --j val and get a rod on his hat. Farewell Bill —Hurrah for Gordon and Lester. Tell Henry Gradv if ho wants anything to draw on mo. I love Jleitry though lie was for Sneer. He smells the bottle from a fur. I tell you, William Arp, this Democratic party is going to tlmu (lcratiou. It’s too dingnation unanimous lat the South. You see the Republican I party at the North is the respectable j party, rich and smart and high strung and their Democracy is weighted down with rag-tag and bob tail and every vag abond in the country. If we could just mix our Democracy with their respecta ble Republicans it would he all right. Let’s jino ’em and do it, and if they don’t divide out and tote fair, we’ll bust up the concern. lam tired out awaitin for the rewards of my patriotism. We can’t do nothing from the outside, I’m for myself now. A hundred dollars is a power of money. Good-by, William, I wish I could talk to you. Hurrah for. Gordon and Lester," 1 like Newt Tumlin. He’s a good shot. He can kill more game with a scattering gun than any other man with a rifle. The last I seen of him Jimmy Smith was trying to hire him ns a tele phone from Rome to Kingston, hut Newt insisted lie was losing his voice and he shouted to me in tones that shook the depot: “ Bill Arp, don’t you put me in the Constitution and 1 won’t Yours, Bill Aiu*. I’- S. —Tell Mr. “Lounger” 1 surren der and won’t misunderstand him any more. As General Lee said at Gettys burg, “It was all my fault.” Tell him when lie comes to sco us just give us three days grace oil a postal card and we will honor his coming with “all hail to the chief.” B. A. Not Sinitji’s Cow. Lenriston (Me.) ClazrAte. There is a certain man in Water ford whom wo will call R., who is quite a man for practical jokes. He pastures his cow, together with several of his neighbors, in a pasture about half a mile above his house. There is a man whom we will call Hiulib (a name per haps familiar to all) who lives about a quarter of a mile below, who also pas tures his cow there. R.’s and Smith’s cows resemble cacli other very much, both being red and about the same size. One day last June about six o’clock, R. went up and got his cow, and it being rather early, he let her feed a little in front of the house. Pretty soon Smith came along, and seeing, as he supposed, his cow standing in front of the house, he said : “Isn’t that cow intruding a little neighbor It.?” “Oh, no,” said It., “ not at all; let her cat. Sit down and tell us what you think of the elec tion.” So Smith sat down and they talked quite a while, then he started to go, but It. wouldn’t hear of it, and made him talk on, and so lie kept him until about dark. Pretty soon Smith jumped up and said he guessed lie must go, and started driving the cow down the street. He got her down a few rods, when she dodged , him and back she came. Smith swore a little at her and again headed her down the street. This time ho got tier down a little way further when she again wheeled past him and came rushing back to the house. Again he came back, pretty mad this time, and by the help of a club ami some well assorted profanity, got her considerably further toward home; but in an unguarded moment she got past him and came prancing homo. This time Smith was in a white heat, and as he reached the house almost in tears, U., who had been calmly watching his operations, stop ped him and said lie had a civil ques tion to ask him, which was this: “ What in thunder are you trying to do with my cow ?” Smith took in tiie sit uation at a glance, and handed out the cigars, borrowed a lantern, and went up to the pasture after his own beast, who had been patiently waiting at the bars for him for two hours or more, if you want to see him get on his muscle just ask him if he wasn’t the man who tried to steal R.’s cow. “Good afternoon, my dear friend; I am delightee to see you. And to what am I indebted for tiie pleasure of this i visit?” “ I’ll tell that presently ; hut first per mit me to embrace your charming child. Can't I, my little man?” “Yes sir, if you’ll promise not to cut into papa.” “Gut into your papa?” “Yes, cause papa said when he saw you coming, * i lere comes that fellow to bore me again !’ ” F. T. Barntim says he will sell his show at tiie close of tiie present tent ing season, to accept the management of a combined winter garden, museum, menagerie and aquarium to be establish ed in New York by a number of capi talists, who ltave formed a stock com pany for tiie purpose. He says he will take $150,000 worth of tiie stock. Why is a flea like a railway ? Be- I cause it travels over sleepers. ON A 150011 ? i / ■" X I ,1 t III.: Sinyhiiiinil lUvrr n n MtnlwaM M mum. Auijusta Kerning Sties, 'ibth instant. At 11 o'clock Saturday night the depth of water at the bridge across the river in this city measured only 5J feet. At 10 o'clock yesterday morning it showed 22 feet—show ing a rise of nearly 17‘ feet in less than twelve hours. it was raging, anil one could see ft bulging up in the center, spreading out at the* sides and carrying übwn with its almost resistless current, everything before It. This sudden, unexpected and nil heard of rise in the Savannah was of course caus ed by heavy rains in the lip country na the only ruin which fell in this immediate section for several weeks was the hard shower of Saturday, and that of courSQ, did not effect the rise. It was a great surprise to all. Thou j sands of cords of wood went floating down, and all day yesterday hundred:* of negroes and whites were ont in the stream capturing it, and. beft >re night the banks from the Haw k’s Gully to the lower bridge were literally covered with | piles of wood. Flats, boats, gates, hen | coops, rails, fencing, fish baskets and fish traps, formed no inconsiderable amount Jof the captured property. Hundred* of i pumpkins and a good many watermelons were brought on shore, giving evidence that the low grounds of the upper vaL 1 have suffered severely. These arti | cles were piled up along the hank in great profusion. On the lower wharf fifty barrda of syrup, which had been landed on Friday from one of the river steamers, were covered with water, and may at this mo ment be used ns sweetening for the cat fish of the lower river. The watchman who had been left to guard the syrup went to sleep and came near being wash ed away. After lie saw the water had covered the barrels he quietly went oft” and Jet the fact be known. A number of wood boats moored to the wharf wore upset and soon lost. Corn on the bottoms in many places is washed away. Wc learn that several planters below the oily had just pulled their crops and had them piled up rewdy for housing, when this unexpected flood ruips, them. Indeed the oldest inhabi tant cannot recollect a more sudden rise in the river. A Brother at.tl Sister Marry. A young and respectablo-looking couple, brother and sister, named Fred and lxmi.se Kuuckmunn, son and daugh ter of quite a respectable farmer, re siding iu Bone Grove township, about twenty miles from Vandalia, Illinois, boarded the train a few days ago, went to al. Boms ana were made man anti wife. They remained in the city a day or two, then returned liomeward, get ting off the train at Brownston, and for fear of being detected, wandered out in tine woods near the town, and rr tnained there until found and arrested. The man is about twenty-one years of age arid of good appearance, and his sister nineteen and rather good-looking. When asked why he was induced to commit such an act lie said : “ My sis ter loved me so well we thought the best tiling we could do would be to get married.” lie w r ns further asked if he did not know it was wrong and against the law to do so, and also why they hid themselves in the woods and kept away from their parents. This ho answered by saying : “ We did not know it was wrong, and only hid in the woods for fear of being discovered by our folks, as they were very much opposed to oar marrying.” Their parents are very re spectable people, and are sadly grieved over the unparalleled act of their chil dren. They were tried, found guilty, and were bound over, the man’s bond being fixed at SSOO and the woman's at S3OO, in default of which they were committed to the county jail. The af fair has created great excitement in that section. Hut it Cured Her. A young lady well known in fashion able circles of Edinburgh was accustom ed to use her eye-glass in the street in a a way that often bordered on imperti nence. One day she received a stinging rebuke, which made her drop the impu dent habit. While walking in the street w ith several other fashionable ladies blio met a conn try clergyman, a man of em inence and keen wit, but ungainly in appearance and rough in attire, rut ting her glass to her eye she w atched him very intently. The clergyman w as quite equal to the emergency. Walking directly to her ho took her hand and said : ‘•My dear Marie, how do you do? How are your w orthy father and vener able mother? and when did you come to town?” Overwhelmed with surprise, she said, with some alarm : ‘‘You are mistaken, sir!” “What! Is it possible,” he replied, “ that you do not know me?” “ Indeed 1 do not, sir !” “Neither do I you,” said the minister, “ Good morning, madam.” Making a ceremonious bow, be walk ed away, while her companions laughed at the bold girl for the rebuff she had re ceived. Her eyo-glass was never used again to quiz strangers. “Ma,” said said an inquisitive little girl, “ will rich and poor folks live to gether when they go to heaven?” “ Yes, my dear, they will be all alike there?” •‘Then, ma, why don’t rich and poor Christians associate together here?” The mother did not answer. 1 This will be a severe winter.