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emedwith itcaiueiig and dinpat-cli, at moderate
rites.
HOYL & SIMMONS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
DUt H’.S'O.V, - - GEOMi 1.1.
t o. HOTL. janii lr. a. t. stuuoss
cTbTwooten,
ATTORxXEY at law,
2ly T)aw-< (in,.
jTI?. ALLEN,
W.ITfH A\D
REPAIRER JEWELER.
Dawson, G-a.,
IS prep treil to do any work in hia line in
the very best style. <ell2:> t(
J. (i. S. SMITH,
C3-TJN SMITH and
Machinist,
•’ Georgia.
Reniirs sll kinds of duns, Pistols. Sewing
Mahinss, stc.. etc.
W. c. PARKS,
attorney at Law.
Marß l y 0.1 »»’SOrV,«
He. w. WARWICK,
tM’loi'ney at Cate and Solicitor
tn Equity
® • - - geo., I
WILL practice in Lee, Sumter, Terrell ■
and Webs'er. _
J. E. HIGGINBOTHAM,
ATTOKIET at LAW, j
Morgan, Calhoun Cos., Oa.,
Will practice in all the Courts of the South- j
western and Ciifcuits, Juno l
DAWSON ilO TEL
BY WILY JONES
f|l HE Proprietor Ins neatly fitted up the
I Dawson lion I, and is prepareil to make
Iris customers satisfied with both F.irt aud
i.odginy.
Connected with the Hotel is a
BOO.B,” in which ii kept the best li I
in iho city.
X » r»n*n« iH bo spared to plenne. ft*2‘2f>n» [
PAlxMlxNti! PAINTING!
JAS. M- DODWELL,
IICURE AKITMGX MIRIER, &f
DAWSON, Gr A..,
IS prepared to do all work in his line—such
n* house snd sigh t ainting, graitiinr, pa
per hanging kc., in tire Very best style, and
OD theft notice, at reasonable prices.
fehl.Bm.
MILLS HOUSE.
Corner Queen dk Meeting Stri.,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
THIS First Cass Hnt.l has been
repaired, refitiod .ad refurnished through
ont and is now ready for (he accommodaiion
Os the Traveling Public whose patronage is
respectfully soli,*ited. C.aehes always in
readiness to confer Passengers to aud from
the Hotel.
Tha Proprietor promises to do everything
la hit power for the comfort of gne,<i.
{JOSEPH rURCEI.L,
feb22-tf Propile
BROWN HOUS*.
K. K. SHOWY &
Fourth St., Opposite Depot,
Jincon, Georgia.
FROM the Ist of July tl:0 business ofllii-,
House w ilt be conductul b> E. E Ciown |
k Son. tim Senior having asvootafpd his son, (
Wei. V Brown, in tlto management and in- |
terest of the Hotel.
The liou-e contains sixty rooms, which sre
reserved chiefly for the use of travellers and (
transient guests. Competent assistants have
been sea cured in every and pirtment, and eve
ry attention will be paid to ensure comfort |
to their cusromers. Rooms cloin and airy, and
the table always supplied with the best t.h«>
country affords. Porters attend arrival nnd
departure of all trains to convey baggage
end conduct passengers scrota the fl'reet to
(heir quarters.
LSXOT eaowN, inns. n. six* art.
BROWN &STEWART,
Ware House and
CeSKIRSIOI MERCHANTS,
at Sharp & Brown's old stand,
JMW'SOJT GEORGIA.
We ere determined to nse our utmost en
deavors to give entire satisfaction to all who
may favor us with their patronage ! and as
Jhr as possible to be to them, iu this depart
ment, (what we have often felt, and what eve
ry planter mast feel that he needs) ju*t and
erliahle friends. That we may be better ena
hied to carry out this design, we have secured
as business agent,the well known and reliable
Cap*. John A. Fulton.
"A iutt bolmic4," is our motto.
J Jfarch 8 1867^
I.UII. M. THORNTON
Practical X>enti»t»,
oAvrso.r, g.i.
rW Office in Harden’s new bnfding. West
f.Ja,Depot 6 reel. Dec. It ,
CUE DA WSON JOURNAL.
Vol. 11.
Tile l*oriallerVa Slory.
I do not think I am naturally supet—
s’fitiou*, but I have all my lifo been
troubled with a kind of superauricular
sense. By this I wish to onvey the
idea that I hear things over and abt ve
the natural sense cf hearing. The
sound, as cf a hunnn voice, cornea to
me in syiables words of irraning, when
L know that no human beiog is nea r ,
and the woole must bo that some kind
of mental deception. Sometimes these
words arc if common import, and setno
timesofdcep*:goificar.ce. Well do l
remember that one.-, when quite a lad
livngat home with nty parents in Par
is, I heard the words spoken in my very
oar as it wrre:
‘Pierre B"i ant, prepare for sorrow !'
I was uh ne in my father’s library at
the time, engjped in s Iving a difli • ult
prolt m, and, thorefi r.’, in no conditioa
for this to be the tfleet of an excited
fancy or an imagination.
What followed ? My fa'her at. that
time was called a rich merchant. Thrto
weeks after he was a bankrupt. If I
had been the m ist imaginative person
in the world I could not have presaged
thi».
Three month* later the same werds
were repeated. I was then alone, on
the road to Troyes, engaged in the bum
ble calling of peddler, to which tny fill
er’s misfortunes had reduced mo I felt
that something serious about to happen,
and I took the first conveyance back to
Paris. I hastened to my father’s then
humble lodgings, ami found him dy
ing, and my poor motber almost distract
ed with grief. Sho was surp iscd to
see me ; but when I told her wbat had
brought mn home, she said it must be
the voice of the Lord. I did not agree
with her in that respect, because I of
ten board that same voice saying trifling
thing*.
Well, my father died, and my motb
|et did not long survive him, and then l
was alone iu the world Weeing Dotlr-
I iug better before me —at least nothing
that better suited my disposition for a
constant change of scene—l rissnicd
tho humble business of a peddler, and
after two or thee weeks spent io France |
I went to Sardinia and estaali-hed »
route for myself among the retired vil—
] lagesof (be mountains, where at least I
| was l tokod upon as iu no wise inferior to
j the firutars, artisans aud peasants with
with whom l dealt.
I was now in a region cold enough to
i suit my romantic turn of mind, and per
j ilous enough to keep tne ia a state of ;.l
most constant excitement, which was as
i much a source of pleasure to mo then as
peaceful serenity is at the pres nt tioie.
Some of the rou’es between ona hab
itation and another were so long that
; oaed'.y’s j mroey would • not take uio
through, aud when I would be obliged
;to Gild my lodging among t’to eaves,
i rocks, or trees, as be-t l cool I. Some
I of our mountain-passes were very dan
gerous, and a siuglo slip or mis step
might send one headlong down a hund
red or a tlou.-and feet. Then there
wero dangers from storms nr.d hurrican*
I some of which wire ter.ible, and not
| least of all was the danger Irnm robbers,
who might be met white least expect
ed. j
For six years I carri- don my ped
dli"s trafio in that wild region, without
any other misfortune dian s>mc so." ecus
! fiohU and hair breadth escapes. I>y
that time I felt that, for a young man,
I was pretty wfll iff, and thought I
would return to Pa’is and set up shop
keeping ; and rn even*, or perhaps I
should rather say tragedy, that hap pen
ed about that teme, fixed my resolution
andjhasteoed my departuro.
As l was goiug over a wild and lone
ly pass of the mondtains, the >uo being
nearly set and Irt least seven ntde?
from the nearest habihaiion, my famil
iar voice which had never left me, said
di-t'r.ctly;
‘Pierre Boisant, beware !’
1 was alarmrd at thiv warning, be
cause I had never received a warning
of the kind in vain. 110 kid ftp to tho
rugged, frewning recks above me, and
down ia tbe awful gull below, anil tl o i
before nnd behiud at the narrow z
path I was pursuing, but taw no living
thing, except* large, black bird of the
vulture species, that was slowly wirg
i-g bis way across the will score, a< if
from one mountain piak to another.
1 knew the voio- was Dot human, and
I felt thefa was some impending danger
but what it was, or where or whir, to
look for it,l could nit tell. It was ;
! not possible for me tc remain where I
1 was, and to go back might be as dm- |
I gerous as to go forward, aud so I col
| tinned to advance, looking care'ully to j
every step, and glancing keenly and
! nervous’y at all the surroundings.
At leng'h I reached a still wider and
, gloomier place, where it was usual for
i mo, when on this route, to turn off
down into the dark valley, to pass the
! night id a little cave, which I had acci
dentally discovered about a hundred
and fifty yards from the path, and
1 whiee was so secluded and concealed
by a clump of bushes in front of it, that
I believo it was known to do one except
myself Above this cave wt s a steep
ledge of rock*, and by keeping along
tbe meuntain-side, without going down
into the valley at all, I could gain a po
sition directly over it, at a height of,
perhaps, a hundred feet; and though
up to this moment I had not though of
ohangiog my course, I now found my
self instinctively, as it were, mov
ing off in that direction. A momenta
reflection on tho mysterious warning I
had received convinced me this waa the
best thing I could do ; for if there was
any danger,it was most likely from rob.
ber», who were, probably, lying in wait
for me on my regular well-known route
—and as the night was warm, it couid
do me no barm to pais it in the open
aif
go I went on, s ow!y and oautiously
till I ri«oh©d a p int direot’y over tbe
DAWSON, GA., FltlDAl, JTtINEJ Ist, 180 r.
cavu, which I now foun! was tis fur us
l could pro in thnt direction, owlhjf to
the rocks terminating in a prociploe h
lew feet bovond. .Some bush s vvl ich
bad Struggled up from the I tt’e earth
between tho crev'ces uHorded me a
plnco of concealment; ami crawling
into these, l disburdened myself of my
pack, spread out my blanket, and pi o
cceded, without attctnptmg to light u
tire, to cat ttie food I had provided for
my supper. By tho tiinu I had finish
ed my frugal npast the sun had set,
and tee dark shades of night were
coining on rapidly.
* I’erhap* I am fooli-h in taking this
precaution against some fanciful dan
ger,” I mentally said; ‘hut i o innttei ;
I would rather he fcolkh iu this wuy
than fnolhurdy.’’
Scarce y hud the e thoughts passed
through my mind than l fancied I
liearil v ic s speaking in low, gu trded
tor es Thu soundH seemed to come
up from below, and it may ri-Hili y lie
t leditcd liiat l listened most intently,
straining my senses ol hearing to the
utmost, to catch the words, if word*
indeed they were, foi, after ul‘, it
hi the breeze playing among the rocks
and trees
For penhaps five minutes I continued
to hear these sounds, but waa all the
time unable to make out for a cot tain
ty what they were, and then they ceas
ed, and for another five minutes all
was sil nt it had now beeome so dark
that nothing could he dis inct y seen
at any di tanee; and though 1 crept
caut ously to the edge of tho rocks,
and tried to peer down, it was like at
tempting to look into some hlaek gu f
My situation, under tho circumstances
was lonely enough; hut I experienced
a secret satisfaction in being where 1
vva i , and not down iu the cave, where
1 rather felt than ihcught someone or
more persons were lying in wait It r
me
At length that same low murmur, us
of vo ces, was again heard, and again
I 1 slened, w ith my whole sense ol
hear ng on tbo stretch. I soon became
sa idied that words were being spoken
J — hut then came t> e thougnt that it
i might be the mysterious voices L had
1 heard at the intervals ull my lifo.—
This time, however, I was not long
kept in doubt, for presently l could
distingu sh the words as if the speak
! ois in the cave hed rome out into the
open air.
j “It is strange ho docs not make his
appealanee ! ’ said otto.,
•‘1 do not know how to account for
it!’’ replied another.
| “Arc you perfec.ly sure you saw
him at a 1?” i quired a third.
| “Am I sure lam here now? 1 ’ was
tho rejoinder. “Have I not eyes? aud
can I not se* with them ? I tell you
1.0 was within a mile of ho:e, coming
along that narrow, dangerous path,
with his pack strapped to h s back
Here we know is w here he usually
passes the night in this region, and
why ho is not h* re is more than 1 can
coryecturo ”
‘lf be had gone past, we shou'd
have heard from the others before
this.’’ remarked the first speaker,
j “Undoubted'y,” was the reply
“No, lie must he some" here on the
mountain—unit ss he lias fallen over
the preei] ice and broken his neck—in
which ease we shall find ail we want
of him in the morning, and he saved
the Ironh'e cf blood.let irg.”
, ‘ Could he have got near enough to
have hi aid our voices?” inquired un
other.
\ “No, for Ricnrdo is so posted that
lie would have seen or h ard him
fist.”
“Well, then he may be here yet. —
Hark! bush ! theie sre steps mining
this way now !’’ said ‘.he speaker, in a
whisper, which l could ju-t barely
hear, the night being still, mid my po
sition directly over the putties “Now,
then, he ready, nnd let us make quick
vuu k of it !”
After this the roobrrs wero ns 'i’ent
ns death, and with feeling thyt must
be left to the imagination, I listened to
the approach! g footsteps, wli ch I
know were mistaken for mine. It was
with a shudder, and a strange kind of
dread, that I heard steps slowly and
sttedily approaching with now and
then a sight rustle of tt u bushes, and
the oceas final loosening nnd rolling of
a stone. I felt thgt some human being
was moving onwntd to his dorm, and
11 w ou’d have cnlle j out to him to be
ware if I had known I could have sav
-1 ed him with anything short if the pen
-1 alty of my own life.
For the few seconds of awful sus
, pense which elapsed, 1 trembled so
| that I was fearful of being heard, and
! the perspiration started out of every
pore.
Suddenly there came a wild, pro
longed shriek, and the thrilling words:
“Olt, heavens ! I am stabbed ! I am
killed ! I am kil'ed 1”
“Graiiotis heaven 1” cried another,
“what have we done ?—that is Ricar
do’s voice ! A light here, quick! a
light!’
K dark lantern was in rendines’ and
the next moment a bright light flashed
iif on the dark figure of a human being
stretched out upon the ground, iu the
last struggles of death.
A scene of consterna'ion and confu
sion followed, when the murderous
robbers found they bad slain their own
look-out, or sentinel, in mistake for me.
Some blamed the man who struck the
fatal How, and some the ili-futed man
himself, for approaching in the way he
did. without proper warning. It was
finally decided that the man had been
killed bv a natural mistake, under the
circumstances, ar.d that no one should
be blamed for a fore-ordniaod fatality.
So ih- ytok up the body, (rom which
tbe last spark of life had low depart
ed, and carried it away for a speedy
burial.
I humbly thankoo heaven fur my
own wonderful preservation, and cou'd
not but feel .hut tho awful retribution
was just. Tired as Itt a«, I reshoul
dered my pm-k, nnd ir. the still, dnbk
hours of that eventful night, retraced
my steps across tho dangerous moun
tain path, resolved to quit that peril
ous wintry foreVer. This purpose I
am stt 1 liking to say I accomplished
Vouiig tinoiit a at Ibe Wheel.
A wo’l known clergyman was cross,
ing Luke Erie some tme ago on one
of the lake steam rs; an 1 seeing n
small lad at the wheel steering tho
boat, he accosted him. as follows :
‘My son. you np|H>nr to he a small
boy to Rteer so large a boat ’
‘Yes, sir,’ w-aa the reply, ‘but you
see T can do it though.’
‘Do you think you understand your
business, my son.’
‘Yes, t-ir, I think I do ’
‘Can v“u box the compass?’
'Yes,’sir.’
‘Let me hear you box it.’
The lw>y Hid as requested, when the
minis'or said: -**».
‘Well, realty, you can do it! Cun
you box it backwards V
‘Yes, sir.’
‘Let me hear you .’
The boy again did ns requested,
When the minister remarked :
‘I declare, my son, you do seem to
understand your business.’
The boy then took his turn at ques
tion-asking begining—
‘Pray, sir, what might be your bus
iness ?’
‘I am a minister of the Gospel.’
‘Do you understand your business?*
‘I think I do, my ton.’
‘Can you say tho Lord’s Prayer ?’
‘Yes’
‘Say it.’
Tho clergyman did so, repeating the
words in a very fervent manner, ns
t'n ugh trying to make an impression
on the lad
‘We'l really,’ said the boy, upon its
conclusion, you do know it, don’t you?
Now say it c nek wards.’
‘Oh, I can’t do such a thing as that,
of course.’
‘Yutt can't do it, eh ?’ returned the
hoy Wei , ttien, you see I under
stand my business u g oat dual better
than you do yours.’
The clergyman thought he had said
enough, ami retired.
Registration of Colored Voter*
In Mew Orleans.
The New Ojrleans correspondent of
the L uisvilto Courier gets oS the fol
lowing :
The registering of voters under the
military is progressing rapidly, tho ne
itroes registering iu great numbers, and
far exceeding the wh tes '1 he sc.ne of
registering is rich an-1 funny. Two
ranks are f rmed ou’s.de of the regis
ters office, principally of darkies of eve
ry grade, ijteispciscd hero and there
by a few white men. The following is
ihepr.ceFß of making voters, or for
cor f ling the franchise on the eoLrcd
citizens if African dcFoent.
II gi-itet— What is yiur name ?
Colored Citizen—My name is Cae
sar, boss.
Rcifis'er- -What is y ur other name?
Colored Citizen—Weil, boss, dey
didn’t gib mo my odder name, but old
massa’s name is Graudison, and I ’*po»e
I must hab bis name now.
ltegis er di I you ever 1 old any ofEc
under the United 5 ates or the State of
Lusianna.
Colored Citizen—Yah, yah ; well
yes, boss ; I sweeps out au ussurnce of
fice and a lawyer’s office.
Register—D.d you ev r r give aider
oon>fort to the Conf' derate Sfates ?
Colored Citiz. n—l didn’t g b nuffiti,
’case I didn’t hnb onffio to gib.
Register—Did you ever serve in the
frderad or rebel army ?
Colored Citixen.— Well, boss, I didn’t
serve neidrrj but de yankees went to
take tnc to mako brefworks for em, and
so I went to cork for de rebs.
Reg : s'rr—Then you gave them aid
and comfort didn’t you ?
Colored Citixen—Wby, no boss ; dey
gib uni ail dc aid and comfort, for if it
was not for detu I’d been dead Digger
loDg ago.
Register—Swear him in.
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How to Mark Butter —The Pe
tersburg Index says every body likes
good butter, nnd very few know how
to pul .it up so as to keep il fresh nnd
sweet. For the benefit of those who
desire inhumation on the subject, wo
publish the annexed recipe, and rec
ommend them to try it, knowing that
it answers the purpose exnc iy :
Take two quarts of good salt, one
ounce of sugar, one ounce of Salt petre.
Use one ounce of the composition for
one pound of butter. It should be
stamped and left to cool before putting
in jars. Butter prepared in this way
should not be used for two or three
weeks. You \vi 1 find that your but
ter will be very fine, as it will have no
bri'.tle or salty look or taste. By fol
lowing this course your butter will
keep tho year through, in warm as
well as cold weather.
The Louisville Ciurier, speaking of
the crops in Kentucky, remarks :
The crop prospects in our Btate are
favorable for wheat and fruit, bnt the
coru is extremely backward, owiDg to
the long continued cold weather, which
has prevented the corn from jerminxting
or growing, and farmers who planted
early in tho month or late in April have
been compelled to harrow over the
ground and replant. The cold weather
though unfavorable for oorn, was highly
favorablo for the growing wheat, and
tho wheat, as far as we learn, all through
the State, promise! a goed and prolific
yield.
muscular Oevelopeueat «f
Women.
The Indies ol Warwick, England,
have organised a Boating Club, nnd
pro|)ose hereafter to compete with the
sterner sex up the picturesqe and tins
sic Avon There i« no reason why
the English women who are fond of
the chase, nnd delight in fishing and
pedestrian tours, and other out door
exercise, diould not aspire to a skillful
use of the onr We shall not b« sur
prised, therefore, to see them general
ly taking like ducks to the water, nnd,
in time, < hullenging the wrrld for a
wherry race or regntta contert.
It is a matter of congratulation that
ihc out d< or sports which impart ro
bu t constitutions aud ruddy counte
nances to the gent'er sex of England,
aro brooming yearly more [wpu’ar
nntong our American women The
etfemimt'e customs of other years are
giving way to a fond non fur hor cra m
ship, skating, croquet, &c., and, ns a
result, wo witness a decided improve
ment in the constitutions of our women.
They are becoming mrte ahd mote
convinced that physical delicaiy, ener
vation, effeminacy, and hot bouse
draw ing-room confinement, do not im
part genuine beauty and attraction to
them. They are learning that a pmtty
!nco is, in n man’s estimation, no com
punsu ion for a frail cons itu'ion and
numberless doc'or’s b lls. We have
s rang, no ive men, and v a want strong
active women who aro not always coin
pluinrg of excessive fatigue, and luck
of vitality ; women who do not keep a
running account with physician*, and
have to be “patched up” and dosed
year in and year out ; women who are
not afraid to sh.adder wsponsthilily,
and bear their share of life's bn don 6 ;
wi men, iu short, who aro fitted by
physical as well us mental training and
development to become what their
Makorintended them to be—helpmates
for man.
And to th's end it ia to be hoped
that tho spirit oi reform wII continue
to gr >w and prevail among them.—
Those who exercise on influence in
molding and shaping tha customs of
society should foster and develop this
spirit The managers of our Fetutle
Educational Institutes should imitate
the example now being set by the Now
England Cos legos, and provide liberal
means lor physical training
and dcvelopetnet t. Preachers
and teachers have it in their power to
aebive a vast am unt of good to hu
inanity in this respect. Said au emi
nent Methodist divine of this city not
long since : “If I could have my way
I would have a ten pin alloy attached
to eVeiy church in the country, w here
Uijs and g rls might deVelop thbtr.s lvs
pi ysicnlly dhnng week duva, and thus
1 econie the better prepared to receive
sjiritual training on the Sabbath.’’
This suggestion will strike m st pco
pie as being decidedly novel, to say
the least. It however reveals an appre
ciation of the importance of devoting
more at’ention to physical cul ure aud
development, which we should bo glad
to fiud prevailing generally among ed
ucators aud Uiolders of public opinitn.
N. Y. Com. Adv.
A Great. Surgical Operation.—
Dr. Johnson, of Paris, an American,
recently perf rmed a diffiou t opera
tion, in connection wi h another Aruer
i an physician, upon the person of a
Mrs Booth, also an American, and
from Mussachusetth. She had a tumor
on tha bowela which weighed forty
pounds. It had absorbed all the
strength of tbe patient, so deforming
her that her rib* were distended to a
monstrous size She was told that she
mi {bt live a few years il sho declin
ed ’.he operation; but that if she
accepted it she had a barely possible
show of surviving “Then," said she,
“let it be done ” After administei ing
chloroform to the patient, her abdomen
was laid open with tlie knife and the
bowels taken out. Then a probe with
a valve in it was reached Up to the tu
mor, and through tbe hollow tube of
the probe the parasite made to dis
churge. It was found to be a -cellular
tumor, with thir y odd cells in ic, and
each cell hadto bo opened. When the
ope ation waa done and the abdomen
sewed up, the subject had declined in
weight from one hundred and thirty to
ninety pounds She was living at last
accounts, in good spirits
Forage.— Sow, also, in tbe drill,
Egypian Millet, Chinese Sugar Cane,
common oorn, cto., as heretofire often
direoteil. K-.member, a planter never
haaforoge or hay enough to carry him
through the winter. Gmno will pay
in making forage crops—betterpiircbarc
manures tbau pay freight next sjr og
on Northern bay.
Sweet Potatoes —Every spare
peace of good land—every row thrl you j
can work deep and manure well, should
be put ia Sweet Potatoes. Those are
among tbe chobest blessings of our fa
vored country and climate, and deserve
special labor and attention. ‘Draws’
may be set even in very dry weather,
by dipping the roots in a thick batter
of wood-eartb, ashes and fresh oow duog;
thsn pouriog water in the holo after
planting, pu'ting the draws in protty
deeply, as wo have often directed. Soap
suds scattered liberally over your piant
bed, will greatly increase the growth of
‘draws.’ IF the weather is very hot
when you plant, select the evening lor
the werk.—Southern Cultivator.
It is ungenerous to criticise our fash
ionable young ladies for walking on
their tiptoes as thoy do now-a-days
They han’t help it. The waterfalls oo
ths top of their heads, draw up the
back hair so tightly that they can’t put
thair heels down Mftnrely without great
wiimt
ISo. Sil.
Remedy fok Bud Worm. An old
plauler gives tho Columbus Hun the
following temrdy for this pest of the
farm and garden :
* Di solve bait a it potted of saltpetre
in nbcut six gallons of water—-or in
same pronortion fdr a large quantity of
water. Then put ia x suffiit ncy of teed
corn to float the watci through, and
soak it well. Let tho corn soak for
twenty-four hours. When taken out,
put in s fresh supp'y of corn, and add
at each change about two tablerpoons
full of salipeiro to keep up tie strength.
And thus repeat until planting is md
el. This is Cerliduly a cheap remedy,
and is wi hin the reach of every rive
ter. The corn should not be stifle ed
to dry before it is put into the ground.
Power r>F Scent t n a llorsf.. A
writet says : “There is one perception
that a horse possesses that but little at
tendon has boon paid to, and that is
•he [tower of scent With some horses
it is as with the dog j and for the ben
efit of these that have to drive nights,
such as physicians and others, this
knowledge is invaluable. 1 never know
it to fail, and I have ridden hundreds
of miles dark n'ghta; and U considera
tion of this jow r of scent, this is my
rimplc advice : Never cheek vour horae
of night", but givo him u free head,
and you :u y nst assured that be will
ne»cr get out of the read, and will oar
ry ox| editinUily aiid s ifoly. In regard
to tho power of scent in a horse, I ance
knew one of a pair that was stolen, and
recovered mainly by the track being
rnt.tlo cut by his mate, and that after he
had been absent tix or eight houis.’
Hoff to Avoitr the Cut Worm.—
It has been said that the cut worm is
peculiarly b-d in corn planted after an
overfllew. Tbe Planters'll inner says : i
A planter soggist* to us that where I
ground was pl-iwttdaud ready fir plant- I
ii:g before the overflow, corn may be j
plautrdasthe water h avis it, in tie ;
over fl .wed,- egi ms, by thrusting it into j
the mud, even where tho hands wade
in the waVr furrows The o.>rn comes j
up quickly, and is soon out of the way j
of the worms. Our inf >rtner has tried
it and with the best success iu former
years, where other planters have lost
their crops by the Worm. Soaking the
coin in lime water is also said to be a i
good p otcctiun against tho worm.
Wo have heard tar watch rccomcnd
cd.
CjW Peas —Plant, at cnee, full and
heavy orops of oow peav, both for hay
and peas For the latter, plant in drills
for the former, sow broadcasr, <n rich
and moist land. Use plaster as a nia
nurc, sowing it over th« crop, ju»t as j
the third aud fourth leaves appear, at
the rate of one bushel per aero. \Ve.
will furnish directions hereafter for
making pea vine hay. A f-w quarts of
rcas should bo planted in drills ar sown
broad cast over each aero of orn bbfore
working, to be covered theieby. They
| will shade the ground al'cr tbe fodder
i* taken off, and enrich it if plowed in or
consumed there by 6t<'cb, ridding mnch
vegetable matter and soluble potash and
other salts required by surco d'Dgcrop-.
Persons. — When born enn expect
about thirty-nine years of life. 11 they
live one year their chance* are good
for forty-five ; at five for fifty-seven ; at
ton for fifty nine; ut twenty for sixty
one; at thirty for tixty-four; at forty
for sixty seven ; at fifty for seventy
ohfl; at sixty for seventy-four; at sev
enty for eighty; at eighty for eighty
five ; at ninety for ninety-throe ; at one
hundred for one hundred uml two; for
one hundreo nnd three wo cannot
promise qu te one year of life. We
get this from an o’rl lifo insurance ta
ble of London. Worn n average lon
ger life than men, and married people
live longer than single on s.
Chattanooga must be a ban! place
The citizens were composed of such a
hard set of cusses that Brownlow had
to send a Metropolitan Police to take
charge of them, nnd attend to the elec
tion of city officers. Finding tbut
wouldn’t do, ho next sent a company
of loyal militia to a tend to the election
of State officers. FirniTy last Satur
day night it became necessary for ilio
United States army to step in and take
cure that the loyal militia and police
both didn t bieak the law. Aiu’t wo
the devil ? asks the Chattanooga Un
ion
A Curious Fact— l have found
that the men who are ready the most
fond of the ladies, who chciish for them
the highest respect, are celdom the
most popular with the sex. Men of
great assurance, who makes words sup
ply tho plac; of > lea", and place com
plirrrnt in tbe room of sentiment, are
their favori es.—Addison.
T 1 e Dubuque Herald «ays that whole
fields of ; r fin in Western lowa have
born stripped of their crops by immerse
flocks of pigeons One farmer residing
two miles ea-t of Indt pendenee, had
I sown ibree acres of wheat, and was pre-
I paring to harrow i, ia when the pigeons
1 made their af pcaranee and gobbled up
every kernel before he couid get it cov
ered.
They have an odd way of doing up
rampant female* at Memphis. They
rack’em. A Memphis paper sayi:
An obstreperous woman wentto tho
Adim’sstreit pvlUe stetion oa M*Dday,
night; tied up io a bag, her bend only
being ont. She kept from do
ing mischief, and was carried along on
the bach of a sturdy black man.
A na’ive of Afiiea, who had visited
England a few years ago, when asked
what iee was, said :‘Hiiu he water fast
•sleep.*
iluii. Fact and Fanrfi
Time is a traveling thief, ever steal
ing; yet no man can catch him.
It ia best not to be angry ; sod beat,
in the next place, to be quickly recon
ciled.
There i‘ no right which ia enjoyed
by man without involving on hia part,
a corrospoßding obligation.
CoUragw ia evincH its words ns
m nh as in deeda, and iff nuts of onib
sion not lets than in tboM of commis
sion .
Tbs body is tbs shell of the eoui,
and dross Is the husk of that en«if
but tho busk often tel e what Ike leer--
uel is.
Perfect valor consists jn doing, With
out witnesses, all we should be capable
of doing before the whole world.
An Ohio paper says there ie a tnaff
in Clcaveland so mean that he rite rn
the door ttc[B, Sunday*, to save the
wears of hi* cushions.
The Indian* are ba*y collecting their
poll tax in the West. They take it out
ia birr.
The greatest organ In the world la
the organ of speech in women—it’a as
organ *i hout stop*.
The b.iy who undertook to tide >
horse radish is oow practicing oo a lad
die of tnuttott.
Hoff a man may be known from it
fatigued dog Otte Wonts a shirt, tbe
o'her paribv
Widows hnve been computed td
green word, which, white it is burn
ing on one side, ia Weeping oh tho oth
er.
Prejudice* ar* like rate, nnd a man’s
m'nd like a trap) j they get in easily,
and perhaps rnu’t get out at all.
Whntistho difference between n
house life mid an editor? One sets ar
ticles to rights, and the other writes ar
ticlee to set
“Will you lend father yotir b <Wspa
per sir ? lie only w unt* to read it.
• Yes my boy. and ask him to lend tnd
bis dinner, 1 only want to eat it.”
A bachelor friend of ears has leftfa
board in which there wete
a Dumber of old maid*, on aocuunt of
tho miserable fair sit before him kt
the tabic,
F ort to Sight — A m»n in New
York has got so deep in debtthat oo one
of his creditors has been ablo to see
him for rn jcths.
The Newburgh Journal Doticos a
birihou tbe cars, anti heads it, “Born
at thirty-nine miles an hour.” If that
yontn isiJtf ist, it Won't be because he
hadu't a good start
An insurance SgSnt/tirping a citiim
to get Lts life insured, said ; “Get yous
lifo iusured for ten thousand dollars, and
then if you die next week the widow’s
heart Will sipg for joy.
Many a girl thinks she bah do noth
ing without a husband, and whan she
gets one finds she can du nothing with
him.
It happens a little unluckily that thn
pehftohS who have the most cobteittpt
lor moucy ure tho same that bnvo the
stiongi tft will to do good with it.
As n person’s yet nnd no, so is all
hi* oh: true ter. A downright and
no inaras the firm ; a quick, the rapid;
and <t slow one, a cautious or timid
character.
The Enjoyment gs remembering
Tt is often del ated which is the moat
enjoyable- -the aoticij ation of a pleas
ure or its reaction ; hut the power <«l
recalling, meilriwed and hallowed by
the lap&e Os lime, ia more potent than
either.
A man near Chambersburg, Pa.,
eo!d iiia wi r « the other day to a pea- 1
dler for 817. Cheap.
Question* and Answer*,—As thd
late Professor- was one day walking
a ar Aberdeen he met a well koowtl
natural.' ‘Pray,’ aid tbo professor,
•jow long cn a man lire without
brains?’ ‘1 dinas ken,’ said Jemmy,
scratching his head ; ‘tut how old are yi
yourself ?’
The way they w eigh hog* in K»tl
sae ia as follows : They first tie tho
hog to one end of a rail, balanfco th*
rail on a fence with rooks tied tb the
other end, and then gucas bow tnllch
the rocks weigh.
A constable in ifi publish
ing some p rsonai property for saie pu
up a no’ice with this oltuse: i wjli a-*
spose for sail he 5 da 1866 uv j»o won
lyttlo rone has or so ranch tharof a* tna
be nessary tos&ti tfl sed gogiteot.’
Gefnhium leates it is Mated, are
exee’lent for cuts of brtiiaen, where ti n
skin is rubbed off, and other WoUndn
of the kind Une or two leave* thuet
be bruised and opp'ied to the part,
and the wound wilt be cicatrised m a
suort time.
An Arkansas editor has rccrntly had
anew shirt collar p'esentsd hie, and
he is now waiting fur someone \o give
him a skirt, so that ho may put the col
lar to use; at piesfent it ia a perfect an -
peifluity.
False ears are one of the latest things
out. They are invented in Kmgland,
; nre made of flrsh colored india rubber
and aie intei <?ol for large cared ladier
! who conceal the genuine organa under
I the hair to display these improve—
I men's.
A printer at a dinner tabic, being
: asked if he would tske some pud
ding, replied in a fit of abstraction «ow
j ing to the crowd of oiher matter, we are
unable to find room for it.”
The climax of superfluous politeness
I has been declared to be that of holding
i an umbrella over a duck in the rsin.
He who knows not when to be silent,
knows not when to speak
A typographical error makes tbo
beading fao article in an exchange
' read thus : “Ciocinaatti as eeeg by r
I sTacger—How jt him.”