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About Crawfordville democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1881-1893 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1882)
Tto CrawMle Dromt JOHN M. GRAHAM, Propkictok. CRAWFORirVFIXE- - GEORGIA. NEWS GLEANINGS. Selma, Ala., has sixty artesian wells. Nashville has a total iudebtednes fo $1,526,277.78. Six editors will hold seats in the next Georgia Legislature. The city tax in Tallahassee, Florada, s but seven mills on the $ 100 . | Gadsden, Alabama, has doubled its population in the last twelve months. X Georgia’s surplus crop of sweet pota¬ toes will reach 400,000 bushels this year. Wah Hing and Tin Bing, two China¬ men, have embarked in the grocery bus¬ iness at Nashville. Florida iH making preparations to re¬ ceive an unusually large number of new settlers this winter. | The Georgia prohibitionists have nominated legislative candidates in twenty-nine counties. A meteor fell a few days ago near Orange City, Florida, killing a colored women, whom it struck. The waterworks at Hot Springs, Arkansas, are completed, and are said to be the liest in the Btat*. Annie Hubbard, who murdered her ehild in Colbert county, Ala., goes to the penitentiary for ten years. I The Vicksburg Commercial says la¬ borers were never in such demand in the valley of the J>ower Mississippi as now. A complaint comes from several por¬ tion* of Florida that the orange crop is turning out bad, and will be short about one-third. The ashes of a common weed, known by some in Florida as sickle weed, are almost pure potash, being as strong as baking soda. It is believed that the orange crop of Florida will this year be worth nearly double that of 1880, which brought over $672,000. A West Indian has purchased ten acres af ground near Tampa, Fla., which he will plant in mulberries for the pure pose of raising silk-worms. The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers complain that, with a population of from 16,000 to 18,000, they can count upon but one mail per Veek. A cow fell Into a pit War Cedar Key, Fla., and remained thete forty‘two !*y* wh -v-r ure of p i am fif] waitf ■ * 0 walk. Ikt. W. H Bennett,'an eccentric citi citizen of Meridian, Mire., died a day or two ago, and hi* estate, valued at $56,000- was left te a negro cook, cut¬ ting off his wife and heirs. The will is to be contested. Georgia’s cam crop is the largest since 1859, and will reach ‘10,000,000 bushels. The oat crop reached 8,000,000 bushels, and the wheat crop 5,500,000 bushels. Jit is thought 1,000,000 bales of cotton will lie raised. Mra. Ann Talley, of Bpottaylvania county, Va., aped seventy years and in robust health, became impressed with the idea that she would die at a certain hout on a certain day. She prepared for the anticipated event, and, true to her premonition, her death came. Goldsboro, (N. C.,) Messenger : A pe¬ culiar and frightful disease has appear¬ ed in Northampton Rttd other counties in the northeastern part of the State. It is called yellow chills or hemorrhagic fever, and is generally fatal in its re¬ sults. Persons affected turn yellow and vomit blood.. New Orleans will experiment with meaquite wood for paving streets. It is a native of Texas, partakes almost of tbe hardness of iron, is very durable, and it is believed will make a better street than granite. It grows abun¬ dantly in Texas, and can be ea-ily and cheaply transported. Mrs. Lizzie Walley, convicted at Nashville and sentenced to a term of three years in the penitentiary for al¬ leged cohabitation with Owen Prentiss, ex-city editor of tho World, is said to b? a nei.v of the distinguished Codfed erate General Bragg. It is hinted that Prentiss will lie released on bond, and the case against him will never come to a trial. At Columbus, Texas, about twenty boy*, ' whose ages ^ from ten to six teen years, about , six mout.'s , ago organ ized a hand of robbers, and since tha time have been engaged in stealing, Thev undertook to rob a freight car, whieh led to their discovery. They had * cave sbross the river where they de posited their plunder. These bovs are •on* of respected citizens, and had no object in thriving other than to gratify a desire for adventure, which they had formed from reading dime novels, a number ot which were fund in iheii headquarters—tbe cave. A writer in me industrial Review advises the introduction of the Lamboo in the Southern State#. Though «apa of growing on the upland*, it is said be especially suited to and valuable low-lying, marshy regions, such fringe the South Atlantic and Gulf Its uses are numerous. As a timber for building and construction for tools, implements, etc., it is well known. As an article of food its young shoots Herve as substitutes for vegetables, and are pronounced a* deli cious. Bamboo curry and chow-chow are excellent. The growing plant is invaluable also as a defense against ma laria, sweeping fires aud cyclones. Fruit Jnieet. There is often a decided objection to tbe use of our coarsest fruits, stomach especially in sickness, or when the or bowels may be In a sensitive state, on account of the irritation of tbe angqjar and sharp seeds, and peel or skin. Like the hull of the wheat—or hulls, as there are five different layers, which should be removed, in most if not all cases, from the flour—these seeds and rinds aro often sources of irritation to the sensitive coats of the stomach, caus¬ ing many forms of disease, exceedingly particularly in the hot weather. It Is fortunate that these jufoes do not re¬ quire digestion like the solids, but, like water, enter the system unchanged, afford¬ there to he assimilated, of course ing nutrition, with no use of the digest ive a ppar&tus, or but slight effort, that of a ibsorption. (If desirable, these Juices may be prepared at this season, thoroughly scalded, canned like fruit, kept from the air and in a spring, cool place, and used in the following when such are exceedingly valuable, especially for those having debilitated digestion.) It is very plain that if they demand no digestion, still containing all of the nourishment of the berry, securing rest for the stomach, the dyspeptic, substitute etc., may well use this Juice as a for solids, for such a part of the time as will allow rest, time for the digestive organs to recuperate and become suffi¬ ciently strong to perform their usual amount of labor. I will here remark that their use all the time, instead of at the last meal, or when the appetite tend may be debilitate particularly the imperfect,|would stomach, since, like all to unused would organs, the time would come when it lose the power of action. As of a these general for principle, the substitution solids for one or two meals at most, using the simplest form of solids, as the raw egg, or coiled rice, would be as much as would be advisable, save in extreme cases, when such nourishment for a week or less would be a choice of evils. Milk shonld is not solidified be regarded bofore as of diges¬ this class, since it tion. It is not a proper drink between meals, since it requires digestion like solids. When there is muon feverish¬ ness, with some appetite, the more add juices, like that of the strawberry value or with¬ the currant, may provo of great out sugar, for that Is a “heater.” These tend to reduce they feverishness, irritate the though, stomach, if too acid, may producing the o anfa w.__ “*? lr““ k 1 ■*' le—not ft **'*» and nourishment useful, t ^han apple the containing These more juices be used with potato. propriety when may the appetite great seems wan¬ ing, or when but little food is indicated, for nourishment is obtained without labor.— Oolden Buie. Dominic Stlmsoa’s Wit. ministers Yesterday’s opened meeting with of the Bapt’st by Father was Kansas. prayer Stitnson, of Father Stimson is eighty years old. and has preached told of him for in fifty which years. who Stories are those expect¬ ed to raise the a laugh at tho old Dominie found tables turned against tliem selvos in the most unexpected mnutier. One runs as follows: Father Stimson owned a good horse, but the keeping of the beast was some¬ what of a drain on the Dominie’s pock¬ et, and he was in the habit of dropping a hint to his parishioners once in a while that a little hay would be accept¬ able. One bring day a church Stimson member asked him to Mrs. to dinner. “and, “Certainly,” it’s haying said lather I Stimson, 11 as time, ness 1 put some hay on the wagon when 1 go back homo.” ••AU right. Father,” replied the ehur h member, “ but bring a one horse Father wagon.” took his wi.'e Stimson to sup¬ per in a wagon with an ample hay-rick that would hold a hay-stack. “ See here." said the parishioner, as he helped Airs. Stimson out of the hay rii k, “you said you were going to you’ve bring a appeared one-horse wagon, the and now with most capa¬ cious “Oh, hay I've apparatus 1 ever saw.” one-horse wagon,” said Father brought the “but Stimson, lia\ -rick—that's a tw,.-horse hat-rick.” lie drove away alter supper \v,th twenty-two hundred pounds * - * hiv. l'athor S’imsun wa* the first to use Gospel tents in the West. who He put them up himself. A fellow passed hint one ntonrng as he was bard at work on his tent called to him in a but i voice: •• Hu do there! Are you goaig to have a ......... circus?” teVmfcn lube., itaipt vmj «u: t<> hire \our-elf for one?” T he preacher was Chaplain in the Ninth Mew l urk Cavalrv in the Th, Colonel wrs fond of l.-ad.ng lb so.diers throu-h d.-cn puddles at 1 he ,. rode lIar U nd the Chaplain one da, around th - puddle, and .hereby fob out 01 the regularorder. The Co'. ^‘ r qj ,i,' 'w limit tm’off cere ruruo ' "together" '’ ¥U with a sneer *• If Cantu n st mson is afraid to ride through nimbly water tor fear of soil £ SdV ^ “ Thank the von,' Government the Chaplain said; “but as provides 1*’ >*'*. I don t see any reason why 1 ^‘ould rule on a jackass. —A 1 . When we asked oor gin to marrv us she t hdn t nnnd---and we have Ml!oe fouud ou ‘ ^ sUe 1 — Toledo American. Tories or the dat. Eight ladies have clerkships if I . regon Legislature. g Oscar Welds has cleared about 000 out of his lectures alone. It ib said that there are one votoi{ mi.fi, more paupers ut England than ^ crayon portrait of Garfiel j )een) \,y suggestion of the Queen, j n Westminster Abbey, Gen. Graft has given it o Philadelphia again that he has nos est in polities or in the pro. • paign. is It is be said the editor that the the Bev. Jose Coy | Wok to of new ega tionalist paper which is to be >t u» Boston. -«§§ The engagement is announc -1 Mabel Bayard, daughter of Bayard, to Mr. Samuel D. Wu Boston. Miss Norton, the i prima donna, is meetiMlMj increasing success «\ne tire. If house, Paris. Matthew Arnold has disco -if- .ait the great want of the French fral ity; of the Germans civil co* and of the English lucidity. It is said that the invent! juto sequent improvements of tfl ,11 plow made a saving on last I fpin this country of $90,000,0001 I Some one has suggest*? rfS iirday replace Thursday as Th f Day. l’he idea is not holidays a bad o jBfSi W >«j ombi nation of two satis factory combination to re. . ----------- . ^ i: Mb. Henry Villabd, idi ‘ of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has of¬ fered to endow Oregon University rith $50,000 if the State will increase its an¬ nual legislative allowance from $2,500 to $5,000. ' ' The . 'earn yacht for Jay Gould, to be completed by spring, will be constructed of iron and steel, and have steel boilers. It will be 210 feet long, 27 feet beam, and 16 feet deep, and will have 1,500 in¬ dicated horse power. The fastest long run by railway ever made west of Chicago was that by the Burlington special train which brought the Vanderbilt party from Burlington- 207 miies—at the average rate of fifty nine miles pef“ By the dei r :V' tore Gray, Mr. Gladstone the sem*4Sl PL-wtt-JH? njCM IjgSjj % Council ki ed as “ “ hands \ a-....., forty-one ....... . ■■ -ears. hen TF 'yea-s on te. The late Daniel Cook, of San Fran¬ cisco, left a fortune of about $1,500,000. He was as poor aa poverty itself in 1858, but between that time and his death, at the age of forty-five years, acquired from books au education, and from mines piles of gold. Mr. Tii.dbn is described by the Yonkers Gazette as greatly enjoying the newspaper reports of his feebleness, while he takes two carriage drives a day, usually an hour’s walk, and frequently a ride of some distance. His eye ic bright, and his mind clear and quick. The wampum belt which W w. Penn gave tho Indians in part payment for the territory now known as Pennsylvania, afterward reclaimed and held as an heir¬ loom in the Penn family in England until 1856, is in the museum of the His¬ torical Society of Pennsylvania. Abdul Kerim Pasha El-Zabar, who is shortly ooming to this country to make arrangements for the emigration of certain of Arabi Bey’s followers, is one of the most noted Oriental scholars. He was graduated at Cambridge Uuiversity, England, and he has translated Homer into Arabic. Ah English artist has come over to make studies for a painting of the battle in Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864—Far ragnt’s great victory. The painting is a . . ... but, when , commission, corn p'eted, an engraving will be published at London, and the work itself maybeex hibited in America. Estimates of the damage done at Alexandria during and after the bombard rneut vary widely. Claims made bv the owners foot up to nearly $17,500,000; b ”, *> ami refurnish the entire property * stayed for $6,250,000. * * who claims to be an officer . the British that invaded ln army Egypt, made a cold blooded confession to the London Fanitv Fair. “ \fter some Egypian wounded fired on our men,” ile 8,1 J ' 8 ' “! ordered every wounded man to be bayoneted. No end of officers and men were killed in that wav.” , -- — -— - Ax-exandbr H. Stephens declared in a rt'oeut speech at Macon. Ga., that the rheumatism which has disabled him from contracted walking for during the past his imprisonment twelve years, j was Fort Warren after tha war. “I was put in a dungeon low down, ’ he says, d,imp ’ dn PP lu ff Wlth 1 hve | feet thick. I was there three mouths. added, “to a part of my war tf F.Aioia Dickihbok writes to the Phila (lelphia Press to say that she has been had slandered by the report that rfbe 4 eolared against woman’s suffrage, “No one but a fool would believe the story,” she adds. She may have remarked that there was too much voting, but if venal men have the right, venal women should enjoy the same privilege. The life com panions of male brutes "should have on a staff of protection and defense.” | A Connecticut planned thread to exhibit manufacturing at the eompanyrtiad of Boston fair the old fashioned way spinning and weaving cotton in the Booth, but have struck ^ unlooked for an snag. Their Georgia agent writes them : “I had arranged with one negro man and four negro women to go to the Bos¬ ton fair to spin and weave, and should have been there now, but, some fool circulated a story thll they would be sold when I got them to Boston, and all ‘thunder couldn’t convince them to the kpntrary. ” ever.A t* provincial districts rqtl, el Ejn fm? SF baser] the of “fc male snpreufi Sjcccion. ” Husbands ai by oath to wa their p.irt ners choose! hem, anil furthermore! unrsei v. d confession on deliaquen cies. A woman who has beep chosen liy her sister rulers to exercise unlimited authority within the community, allots the penalties, which aie promptly in¬ flicted by resolute matrons. Thriff.t Farming. A great deal of the work in the newer fanning districts of the State is done by men of small means, who often have not finished paying complain for that their is land. hard Sometimes they it to get ahead, and it is true indeed that many drawbacks exist which it is bard to overcome No matter if the crop fails ordinary the family must be supported, the expenses borne and the taxes and interest provided admitted, for. the All agricult¬ this, however, being ural truth remains that failure oftenest comes from want of care and economy, want of observation, and want of ener¬ gy, or stated as a whole, thriftiness. Of no industry on earth tan it be more truly said that “a penny saved is a penny gained ” Yet there is no in¬ dustry subject to so much waste as this, none tha' needs more care to prevent leaks, and few that recehe less. A farm rghtJy dustries, considered combination is a network of of in¬ a vast ma¬ chines. Nothing must be allowed to go to waste. Indeed, this se.ems absolute¬ ly unnecessary uqth the varied oppor¬ tunities ami of disposing refuse of all fertilizer. that is use Bet ul tlib using is all the as a it needs not half story, ov-n cry the energy to develop the capacity of sol to receive fertilizers, to assimi lare il.c n and to give them forth ami 11 in bot c tit. He must learn When the soil and climate will produce thirty quantity? bushels When per act e bushels why raise of half that sixty corn can Ve raised per acre why be raise only produce thirty? On land that can made to two one? tons If of be hay lack why of fertilization be content apply with it that to be obta ned 10 half the land. If it 1 e for lack of labor to give proper cultivat'd!, fur better !o work half (be land and let the balance grow what it will, to be fed off by the stock. The new farms may not be fitted be for high farming, applied. but good There farm 112 is can need every¬ of where no raising two head of cattle to produce the same n eat that can easily be grown in one, nor of feeding two sheep to pro¬ duce wool that one can easily grow. Nor is this a complete statement of the manner in which success is wrought out by the toiler. The farmer, all other things being equal, who is most accus¬ tomed to studying crops elsewhere, re¬ ports, statistics, methods of farming and all that, will gather the greatest profit from his investments and labor. When everybody is planting a certain crop he w 11 uot hasten to enlarge his acreage of that crop. When any crop is a drug on the market he will not hasten to ig¬ nore its cultivation the following year. Farmers more than any other class of people may live well at a little expend¬ iture of cash. On a thrifty farm near¬ ly all that is eaten can be produced on the farm. In consideration of the fact that a large proportion of the good things of life in the food line i an be and are grown on tbe soil of our oivn cli¬ mate, it is lamentable to see how poorly supplied are many farmer's tables with these same articles. There c; n be an endless round of fruits and vegetables for the whole three hundred and sixty live days of the year. The whole list of grains and meats can be had. ail of the best quality and at cost price, no mid¬ dle-man’s commission or retailer's profit added. It is true that the lack of ready mon ey often prevents farm improvements. Money could be used to good advantage, ^ only money could be had. Labor is «°? U V and °\ new fa ™ s * doos n< ?‘ - , niancnt improve*™!*. Hmul W-* especially farmer is expensive anu possible slow an<i he l must as soon as ava orn-elf ol all the help attiimaole m tne In ''»> <>» neighborhoods "f. m ' chameat helps. newer armor’s .ail f l «*» to g etht 'r 1 * purchase of Mock or 1 n 1 plomentsotherw.se quite beyond thmr ^^d dmR’XSbewTSere.fcvOT l adders aud many other useful and la b r saving implements: always remem I * 1 ” r 1 ^ ’? c n 00 "? 8 -'i°us <5ebt are tew for \\ hen of P?- T m a “y p os i c.rni 'Jrbunc. - —Ttoliert Burns one > in a whHe hit hard at iwr weakne-ses fs he drawing Vour picture whe 1 he -togs; Hut human hodtes -..c fnolt, K»»r t.if.r c *1 fnr*s au i a h *»•>!<, Th*4 wh 1 o i*hI p r »i x Vm They m^k9 vuvw thdtuxuv'B^ to vex ‘e'®~ Profitable Investments. The safest and most profitabfe be found invest¬ ment that can anywhere at this time for money, the use of which is not needed for a few years, is in the purchase of welt selected real estate. This general fact probably no imt-l ig< ut man would dispute, though tome ruen deny the application to particular interests. cases when it does tot suit their It is well recogniz-d that real estate falls faster, as a rule, and further when times ate good, than any other kind of prop¬ erty < f real and solid value. Tlie in¬ trinsic value clianpes on'y with the growth of a community or State, or the ini proveme.it of means of communication; so that for production or use in residence or in commerce the value may increase rapiJly aud greatly, but can decrease siowiy and moderately. But the price, on the contrary, depends upon a market that is more variable than almost any other. At times real estate is wholly unsaleable, no matter what its rea, value or its price may be. At other times it is the object of the wildest speculation, with a very little reference to the present legitimate demand. As a consequence when real estate is not wanted, it sells for a song or not at all; but when it is wanted, there is scarcely any limit to its pi ice. Hence, long headed men are always on the alert t< get possession of real estate after every 'shrewd period purchases of great the depression; whole to such 05 great part of almost every colossal fortune may he traced. We unexampled are ju-t emerging fiorn a period of prostration. '1 lie price of real estate has fallen, as it usually does at such'times, in greater ratio than that of almo-t any other class of property of substantial character. Now, if ever, the purchase of real 1 state may be considered certain to yield excep¬ tionally large profits, if the property is judiciously selected. Another fact, which, as a general one no intelligent man will deny, is that the advance in the price, as a rule, is certain to lie greater in Western than in Eastern real estate. Western States aud cities are growing rapidly; Eastern slowly. Every man knows the fact, and immense volumes of statistics could he given to prove or illustrate it; and yet there are some rnen who refuse to admit the obvious consequence. New York City is growing in population at the rate of seven per cent, in five years, and the State at the rate of 7.2 per cent., while Chicago or St. Louis gains 50 or 60 per cent, aud Kansas 100 per cent., and yet some persons refuse to see that the value of property in the Western city or State is certain to increase in the long run, and, as a rule, more rapidly than the Eastern. New railroads and greater reduction in the rates of freight are con¬ stantly adding enormously to the value of Western property, and as yet so potent are interested motives in blinding men, that there are some who still insist that real estate loans in Western cities and Sfa'es, as a rule, are less safe than loans on Eastern property, where multiplication of roads is slow, and tends mainly to divert residents and industries from cities that are already over-crowded.— New York Public. The fixpenslveuess of Modern Warfare. Thi of modem warfare is so rest fcbly deters imtion t from gettin<|*!fo s,r 0 : 1 s uriuhics, an" for that reason aids in making arbitration popular the Some idea of the of Alexandria expensive¬ ness of bombardment in July each hist round may be fired gathered by the iron-clad from the eo-t of fleet. Ever,' round fired from the eighty-ton guns on the Inflexible eost $127-50 per gun. The twenty-five-ton gun-, of which the Alexandra carries two, the Monarch ‘our and the Teme raire four, eost $05 per round per gun. Alexandra The eighteen-ton guns, of which the carries ten, the Sultan eight, the Superb sixteen, and the Temeraire four, eo-t $26.25 per round per gun. The twelve ton gun , of which the In¬ vincible carries len, the Monarch two, and the Sultan four, cost $ 1 N per roun I per gun. The Penelope, which alone carries nine-ton guns, has eight of them, which were <!i charged at a eo-t of $16.75 per round per gun. The Mon¬ arch and the Bittern each lired one ~ix and one-half-ton" gun, the co t being $8.85 per round per gun. 'The Beacon pounders and the Cygnet the have two of discharging sixty-four each, eost which was $ 4.50 per round per gun. The Penelope entries three forty-pound¬ ers, the Beacon two forty-pounders, and the Bittern two forty-pounders, the eo-t of discharging In addition which was to this $8 per there round is per gun. bo calculate 1 for the firing of a sum to the smaller armaments of the Cygnet, Condor and Decoy, lfc-ides the dam¬ age done to public and private buildings in Alexandria by tlie bombardment. Egypt will have an enormous bill to pay for missiles causing atm powder destruction expended by the licet in the on ■J o— Exehana ;. Mine. Gndf. There is holders nothing and in royal their rank families to de¬ of prive its any advantage derivable from having a surname. Bourbon, Romanoff, Wittels bach, Nassau, Braganza, Wasa, Hohen zollern, Habsburg, Valois, Stewart, Jagellon, point: and and Hohenslauffen regards are all eases in as Queen Victoria’s children, their family name is their mother’s, not their father’s, a# her rank was so much superior to his, and she was the heiress of a greater family. And her family name is Gwelf. When a late Duke of Bran-wick was outlawed for debt in this country 1 remember that the proclamation of out¬ lawry was directed again-t “George William Frederick Gwelf, Esq., com¬ monly called Duke of Brunswick.” There are, no doubt, sovereign houses whose members do not use any sur¬ names, but in some of these cases they possess them. That of the Saxon House, for example, Frederick is Wettin, the surname of that Elector who was grand¬ father of the Ernest and Albert from wh 'm the two main branches of the family are named. And the royal house of Italy has used Savoy as its family name for many centuries,from Boniface, Of Savoy, thirteenth Archbi-hop century,down of Canterbury in tbe to “Eugenio von S.tvore,” the colleague of Marlbor¬ ough.— The Sjsectutor. WIT AUD WISDOM. —An exchange asks: “What is Pe¬ troleum ?” It is a very easy method of getting rid Independent. of fire-kiodliqg servants.— Marathon —A Baltimore beHe has married a policeman, j His beat was in front of her bouse for over a year, and she no¬ ticed that he never snored. — Philadel¬ phia Hews. \ sh —In ip all 1853 the peach eleven cars Delaware managed that to¬ crop of was sent outside of the State by rail. To-day it takes sixteen engines, 400 cars and ninety-six men. “how —A correspondent Ras-el-Tin?” wants to know don’t we pronounce it all; only write \V% pronounce at we it. Do you suppose we read the papers to the subscribers? —Courier Journal. —The Egyptian war will give about & hundred that pa rag-raphe the Bedouins rs the opportunity to say are no great sheiks, and that no matter how they are treated they will always be-do-in some¬ thing atrocious and inexcusable. War is, indeed, a great evil .—Texas Siftings. the —A Chicago lady who had gone into country at the invitation of some relatives, wrote to her husband: “Dear Charley—When bring I left home I forgot to once.” my slippers received with me. Send then* at She a telegram th* next day to the following effect: “Ex¬ press companies can’t Buj- spare the pair.”— room to transport them. a new Brooklyn Eagle. claimed —Courage.—“Suffering the speaker, energetically sisters,” ex¬ ter shaking excitement, the hair “women pins from will her head ob¬ in. never tain their rights until they display more courage. Let me say to you, in tiio words of a famous French orator, ‘Courage! of the courage! proceedings courage!’ ” At this stage threw box of caterpillars a upon platform and and the meeting broke up in great terror confusion.— N. Y. Post. —A nouveau riche had his house robbed of several valuable pictures. He appreciated them because they.cost him a great deal of money, and when he made his appearance in an art-shop he was in a very excited state. “I want you said. to “What get my do pictures mean?” for me,” replied he the polite you attendant. “Why, I was robbed of them the other night, and I come to you for satisfaction,” was the answer. “But, my dear sir, we are uot receivers of stolen goods, nor are we detective officers,” said the dealer. “ Then,” shouted the indignant million¬ aire, ‘Oil-paintings “you had^better take in your sign, dourier. restored.’ ”— Boston. PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —Prof. Storer, a blind mnsiciail of’ North Adams, Mass., has been appoint¬ ed a teacher in the Royal College for the Blind at London. —Wilkie Collins is paying the pen alty for trespassing abused upon the capacity hu¬ of that most organ of the man anatomy—the eye. His sight is failing, write! and Heis he dependent can no longer read amjitii or uensis.— N. Y. upon an A Independent. Seymoy^fo over nor Horatio l New York insists tha ' e is,an an U it in true Liiwr ue oi»i» JTnii mi i eal weakness in his legs, which him seriously in walking; but he retains his old simplicity of manner and con¬ versation. as well as vigor of mind.— Chicago Journal. —Mr. and Mrs. Squibbs, of Sullivan County, Tennessee, were married about two years ago, and now seven little Squibbses make it interesting for the fond parents. Three of them were born about a year ago, and the quar¬ tets arc but a week or two old. This squib is the eighth. —William S. Jett, the man who led the soldiers to the hiding place of Wilkes Booth after the assassination ot President Lincoln, and who, for his connection with the capture of Booth and Harold, has been immortalized in history, was a few days ago sent to the lunatic.— Maryland State Insane Asylum a raving N. Y. Herald. —One of the most noted women in New York journalism is Miss Middy four Morgan, who does the cattle reports for New York papers, among them the Tribune fund and knowledge Times. She has acquired and a of of cattle horses, both on the farm and turf, which may male be envied by the most experienced sportsmen. —Mr. Mudford, who controls the Lon¬ don Standard , is sometimes called the “irresponsible editor.” Though late he owns no share In the paper, the proprietor's confidence in him was so great that he provided in his will that Air. Mudford should have sole control of the paper while he lived, or as long as he might see fit to retain it. —It is not generally known, says the Sailer, Philadelphia Press, that retired Mr. Joseph who has recently from the financial editorship of the Phila¬ delphia Ledger, was not only the oldest editor in that position in this country, but the first to write a regular money article for any daily paper, as the Ledger was the first in this country to print a money article. —In a little red cottage on the shore of a lake called the Bowl, near Lenox, Mass., Hawthorne wrote “The House of the Seven Gables.” Air. J. T. Fields used to tell of carrying out to him there one hundred dollars in advance of work, but after accepting. Hawthorne’s sensi¬ tiveness found the obligation irksome, and he handed it back. “Take it, Fields.” said he; “the house isn’t big enough to hold it-” —The bad cow-boy from Bitter Creek was on the Comstock last night. He went into the Gem saloon and thus de¬ scribed himself: “I’m a raee-horse in an advance and a tortoise in retreat! When you hear my voice above the racket yon kin begin to measure off land for a graveyard!” About this time the “race horse” found himself doubled up in a corner, and as he sadly wiped and the dripping blood from his nose bulging upper lip he exclaimed: “X d du’t mean to cast no slurs onto this place, for here t know the land's meas— iireq off and the graveyard established.” — Virginia (Sev ) Enterprise.
