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(Tht (tut? Sullivan Brothers, Publishers. Subscription Kates t ()u\ Copy one yenr - - §2 00 “ “ six months - 1 00 l “ “ tliret* months - . 50 r 0 £ I f i V E L V C A S H. Volume 2. Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, May 11 th, 1883. .... , r «■ Number 1. (Tht (Tin* itifhut, Advertising Kates s Transient utlvt. paytibio In ;u.lv«m*c. (‘ontnut ml vs. imytthlo quai'ic* l,v. (;t<i«*ii:, j\»r |K'),- >n.tl In m lU will Ihj rliui -ftl fur as uilvs. t pavnlile in ml vaneo. A'lvs. «K*vui» ( vintf >•(•(*<• jaS position rliai’Unl ‘J."» per rent, sulcikI iniial. Notices union*; reading mailer 10 rents per line, eaeli liweriInn. Noliees In Local A li:t.;lnc\.s column, next to ivadlmr. a rents per line o«v\» insertion. All notice* will be plneetl ninon<; rent)In;; 1 mai ler If not spoeinlly ordered til lierwise. For terms apply at ljij8»»|jlee. Stock in tlu.* cottonseed oil mills, at Lad range in selling nt a premium. Tho farmers of Gwinnett county are very much behind in planting cotton. I.aGrange was carried by tho pro hibitionists, at an election in that town on the .‘Id inst. The President has selected Boston, Atlanta and Chicago as the names of the three new steel cruisers of the navy. The land upon which Cincinnati now stands, was purchased by J. C. Symmes, ninety years ago, for (*7 cents per acre. General Brown left no will. His estate will he worth at least live thousand dollars. That goes to his brother and two sisters in Iceland. A jealous colored husband cut ids wife’s throat and then his own with a shoe knife, in a field in Crawford county, the other day. Both are dead. Jones, tin* wife murderer, in Lex ington Jail, is now trying to starve himself to death. A few days ago lie tried to hire a negro to bring him some poison. Miss Catherine Wolf, the reputed $10,000,000 heiress, of New York, says she lias, on an average, one offer of marriage a day from un known suitors. John Bassen, a negro, was re cently found drowned in the Oco nee river, with $101) in his pocket, which ho had stolen from a Mt. Ver non turpentine firm. MaJ R. A. Bacon is .mentioned as the probable successor of Major Campbell Wallace as Rqjlrond Com missioner, in the event of his resig nation, as it has been intimated. Tn every tobacco factory at Key West, Fla., there is a reader. Cubans cannot talk without gesticulation, and in order to keep them from talking a person is employed to read to the hands during work hours. Nortli Georgia Times: Tho wheat crop from the present outlook is exceedingly promising, most of it is in boot and some of it Leading out. If this month should be dry, farmers say, the yield will necessarily Ik* abundant. Miss Howard, the American fe male physician in China, now treat ing the wife of the great viceroy,, is bosoiged by many ladies of wealthy families, who would rather die than be treated by a foreign male physi cian. Her success is hut one indi cation of the need of female physi cians in the far Fast. “Jack,” an aged mule which grew gray in the service otthe Central railroad, died at Macon last Wed nesday. The mule was recognized as an old friend by railroad men, he having been in the company’s ser vice 47 years. For the past four years, however, In* lias been granted a life of ease, thanks to the appreci ation of President Raoul. Two weeks ago u. child died in the family of a man named Westbrook,- at Graysville, Ga. Soon thereafter other members of the family were stricken down with a singular dis ease. Sunday tin* mother and four children died, and on Monday two more children, making seven mem bers of the family lying dead at the same time. There is only one of the family left, the father, who is crazed with mingled fear and grief. It is not known of what disease they died.—Stir. Xcics. Col. J. J. Tom said to a Constitu tion reporter, a few days ago, 1 know a Holstein cow now ten years old, whose milk record for tho month of last June, 1882, was l,S)88i., pounds. Her highest one day’s yield was S.'l pounds, her average per day for tin* month was IMP4 pounds. For the month of July, 1882, she gave 2,100 pounds. Her highest day was 70 pounds, and her average per day for that month was 7fi. : ‘. pounds. The weight of one gallon of milk is eight pounds and two ounces. The orphanage in St. Joseph’s Asy lum, Washington, Wilkes county, lias an average of eighty inmates, who are clothed and fed by contri butions of tin* Catholic church in tins State. They have a farm at tached to the asylum, from the pro ceeds of which the Institution is par tially supported. The asylum is «>|H‘ntoall who stand in need of care and protection. Rev. James O’Brien, formerly pastor of tin* church of the Immaculate Concep tion, in Atlanta, is in charge of the asylum, devoting ids entire energy to the work. There is not one cent of remuneration paid to a single person connected with the institu tion, tho contributions going fully to tho support of the orphans. (IOXK WITH A 111 Mist AIK It MAX. JOHN. I’vf* worked In the Held all dny, it-plowln’ the “stony strenk,” I’ve scolded my lenm ’till I’m hoarse, I’ve trumped '(ill my lens are weak; I’ve elioked a dozen swears (so’s not to toll I Jane flhs) When the plow-pint strnek a stone and the handles punehod my rtlis. I’ve put my team ia the barn, and rubbed their sweaty fonts, I've fed ’em a heap of hay, and a halfa bushel of oats; And to see the way they eat, makes me like eat ing feel, And Jane won’t say to-night. Unit I don’t make out it meat. Well said! the door Is locked, hut hove she's left, the key, Under the step, In a place known only to her and me: I wonder whose’s dying or dead, tlint site’s hustled o/t' pell-mell, Hut here on the table’s a note, and probably that will tell. flood (iod I iny wife Is gone! my wife is gone astray! The letter says, “Good-bye, for I’m going away; I’ve lived with you six months, John, so far Uvetieen true; Hut I'm going away to-day with a handsomer man than you.” A luin’somer man thnu met why, tlint ain't lunch to say; There’s han’somer men than me go past here every day; There's hau’soincr men than me—I ain’t of the han'sonie kind, Hut a Ion in'crlntu than I was I guess she’ll never find. Curse tier! curse her! say I, and I give my curses wings! May the words of love I've spoken he changed to scorpion stings! Oil, she tilled my heart with Joy, she emptied my heart of doubt, And now with the scratch of a pen, she let’s my heart’s blood out. Curse her! curse tier! say I, site’ll some time rue this day; She’ll sometime learn, that hate is a game that two can play, And long before she dies, site’ll grieve she was ever horn, And I’ll plow tier grave u IIli hate, and scCTl it down to scorn. As sure as the world goes on, there’ll come a time when she Will read the devilish heart of that han’somer man than me, And there’ll lie a time when lie will Unit, as others do, That she who Is false to one can be the same with two. And when her face grows pale, and when her eyes grow dim! And when he Is tired of her and she Is tired of him, She’ll do wtiat she ouglit*to have done, and coolly count the cost, And then she’ll see tilings'clear, and know wind site lias lost. And things that are now asleep will wake up in tier mind, And she will mourn and cry for tvliat she's left behind, And muylicshe'll snipe time long for me—for me—but 110, I’ve blotted la-rout of my heart, and 1 will not have it so. And yet In hcrgirlish heart there was some thin’ Or other she had, That fastened a man toherand wasn't entire ly had; And she loved me a little, I think, although it didn’t last, ' Hut I lnusu’t think of these things—I’ve hur led them in the past. I'll take my hard words hack, nor make a had matter worse; She’ll have trouble enough; she shall lint have my curse, Hut I’ll live a life so square—and I well know that I can— That she always will he sorry that sho went with that lmn'somer man. All! here Is her kitchen dress! It makes my |mm>i- eyes blur, It seems when I look at that, as If it was bold in’ her; And here her week-day shoes, and there’s her week-day hat, And yonder her weddln’gown: I wonder she didn't take that. "Twits only Ibis morning she rumo and called me her "dearest dear," And said I was making for her a regular paradise here; Oh, Hod! If you want a man to sense the pain of hell, before you pitch him In Just keep him In heaven a spell! Good-bye! I wish that death had severed us two apart, You've lost a worshipper here—you’ve crush ed 11 lovin’ heart ; I’ll worship no woman again; hut I guess I’ll learn to pray, And kneel as you used to kneel before you run away. • And If I thought I could bring my words on heaven to hear: And If I thought I had some Influence there, I would pray that 1 might lie, If It could only he so, As happy and gay as I was half un hour ago. •TANK (entering). Why, John, what a litter here! you’ve thrown thlugM all around; Come, wlmt’s die matter now? and what have you lost or found? And here Is my father hero, awaiting for sup per too; > I’ve been riding with hint—he's “that hand somer man than you." Ha! hul pa take a seat, while I put the ket tle on, And get things ready for tea, and kiss my dear old John, Why, John, you look so strange! come, wtiat 11 as crossed your track? I was only a Joking you know, I am willing to take It back. JOHN (aside). Well, now, If this ain't a Joke, with rather a hitter cream! It seems as li t woke from a mighty ticklish dreatu; And I think she “smells a rat," for site smiles at me so qu.-cr; I hope she don’t', good I.ordl I hope they dhln’l hear! "I'was one of her practical drives—she thought I'll understand! Hut I'll novel*tireak the sod again until I gel the lay of the land, Hut one things settled with me—to appreciate heaven well ’Tlsgood for a man to have some llftcen mill* tiles of liell! A HOY I'.AMlfT. Daliai, (Tex.) Herald. Sheriff Smith ami Deputy Lewis brought in front Hutchins yesterday ami lodged in jail Lewis Milieu, a beardless youth iff some sixteen summers, whom they arrested at his home, two miles of that place, on the charge of robbing J. F. Snell, the agent of the Texas Central Rail road, at that point Thursday even ing. The clock in the freight office marked the time 8:B0. The somlt- hound passenger train had just pulled out, and the agent and \V. F. Jones and I). W. Keels, clerks, were chatting, awaiting the arrival of the north-bound passenger train, due one hour afterwards, but the rattle of the outgoing train had not gotten out of hearing before a boy walkbd boldly into the office, and leveling a cocked English hull dog pistol on the agent, remarked in a decidedly dangerous tone of voice: “Here, d—11 you, pace up here and pony up your money, or by the Eternal I’ll shoot the top of your eocoanut off.” As ho spoke, lie stepped a few paces backward so as to get the three men in range, and commanded them to holdup their hands, which they did with alacrity. The boy bandit then ordered the agent to turn his pock ets inside out, l’iile the safe and put all the money into a shot bag which lay on the counter. The agent glanced down the barrel of the pis tol, and readily complied, putting $18, every cent he had, into the bag. The other two men were then in structed to show up, and when they exhibited empty pocket books, made them shake them, hut finding lie had made a water-haul so far as they were concerned, ho backed to TIIK (.'HICK A3! A HU A* 1I0MANCH. Another Chapter AtiiW’4—A Sister Seeking: her llrother. A ttQriU.KTKAGKftV. A Negro ItuhH unit llrutally Jlunlei.i (Mil H'tv. 'them was not tu Thursday mornint ( usy ('om-! SI. I.ouls Glohn Democrat. j t'hiiltiuiuoKa Times. Another chapter bus been added : Alabama comes to the front with to the romance of the war, which, in mi most brutal and inhuman murder. a condensed shape, has been going the rounds of the newspapers fora month or two. In the tit’st place, two foes—a Federal and a. Confed erate officer—who mot for the first The details are shoc/cing as to al most surpass human belief. The crime was committed at Florence, Ala., on the 20th ult., but no intelli- I gonce was receive until last night. riv j euUivatiu quest ioll, 1 iiuisnir. ( \ jiiwiiuii^; * mu- i i tiiissioncr Henderson announced in j ■ Hi*’ Constitution, atul in every oilier | daily paper in the State, that lie! ! would be glad to dispose of the silic i worms. Fortunately there seemed j to be a general appreciation of silK culture in Georgia. Applications came in at once from all parts of the State, and bv yesterday morn- •and last time on one of tlie hardest j The gang worA’ing for the govern- [ Otg every \\ orm had gone to ft Geor- fought battlefields of the war, one of them bending down over the other as he lay desperately wounded among the heaps of dead, to receive what was thought to be his dying message to his wife, have been called to each other’s mind by a newspaper article, the result being a correspondence between them.— And now comes a sister of the woun ded Union officer, who now for nearly twenty years Juts believed him dead, making inquiries, anti asking help, “for the sake of God,” in finding her brother. The story met her eye in a condensed shape in the National Tribune, of Wash ington, where it was credited to the New York Times. As she found it, it was as follows: The latest story of the war might furnish a capital plot for an American drama with a little development. A South ern Gentleman, who was a colonel in the Confederate army, recently wrote for a newspaper an account of a great battle, as he remembered meat at Muscle Shoals, were paid off on Friday, April 20th. Among them was Robert Betliuno, a white boy, 1- years old. The poy had been carrying water for the'men, and do ing sundry jobs for the gang. He received $10, which he placed in his poc/.’et, and started joyfully home ward to his widowed mother, lie had worked hard for the money, and frequently expressed the joy his mother would feel when this mea ger sum was addetl to her scanty purse. His path lay along the Ten nessee river, and as lie walAed gaily along, he was accosted by a negro named George Ware, who stopped him, and after a struggle in which the boy was powerless to defend himself, the blue/* brute tooA* the hard earned money from him. After securing the money, Ware tin *ew the hoy into the river, Imping in tills way to conceal the robbery. But the brave boy swam bac/r to tho shore. Ware caught him and again threw him hac/.’ into tho river, it. This narrative jn the course of a I The poor boy, in his desperation, month or two, was reprinted in a ! swam bac/.’ to the shore, only to St. Louis journal with the author’s m6et the, same fate. Eight times signature still attached. One of the subscribers, and presumably a con stant reader of the St. Louis journal is a veteran who fought for the the door witli his pistol still leveled i preservation of the Union. He read the graphic narrative with keen in- on them, with the remark: “I never saw so many empty pocket- books, and so little money,” and lift ing Itis hat with a grace which would have done honor to Chesterfield, he stopped out into the darkness of night, and before the agent and his companions had time to recover from their surprise lie was gone.— The boldness of tho beardless youth completely unmanned them, taken I wrote a letter to the ex-Confederatc as they were by surprise, lie wore ! colonel, asking him if he did not re- 110 mask, and every motion lie : call to mind a hitherto unpublished did the poor boy roach the shore, and as many times was he thrown bac/r into the river by the lilac/.- fiend. Seeing at last that it was im possible to drown the boy, Ware too/.’ him out and tied him down.— lt"lf* uiv flying ivllli cliulci’ii in S.-iivcu. Tlii'l’o in no nlioi't cut to excellence, In eve ry depart ment nt human achievement, anporl- orlly In tamed upon toll, and auccdtit In reach ed hv cit'ort. made was so quick and full of deter mination, that the robbery was committed before they realized the true situation of affairs, and their amazement at the audacity of the kid, and their fear of the firearm, was supplanted by chagrin when all was over. When the news reached the city yesterday morning, Sheriff Smith and deputy Lewis repaired to the scene of the robbery, and the result of the investigation was the arrest of Lewis Miller. When tin* officers approached it is hou.se, he ran, but they pulled down 011 Him, bringing him to a stand, and when they took charge of him an English bull dog pistol was found on Itjs per son. He was taken to Hutchins, anil was identified by the parties, and was afterwards brought to this city and lodged .hi jail as stated. As he was being carried through the streets to the jail, three young coun trymen galloped up on horseback; and spoke to him. After the jailer had finished searching him, a Her ald reporter had a talk with the prisoner, lie insisted that he was innocent of the crime with which lie was charged, and said he could readily prove an alibi, as lit* was at home at the time the robbery was alleged to have been committed.— I £e stutetl that he was free to confess that for the past two months he had been evading the officers on account of a fight he had with Bate Bass, who forced him to fight, and whom ho stabbed twice with a knife. The quarrel was about a young lady whom Bass objected to his going to see. lie was, and still is engaged to her, and expects to marry her.— Since the stabbing affray, lie lias spent most of the time in Archer and (.'lay counties, where lie worked for Allen Palmer, herding cattle.— When the jailer opened the door, he stalked into itis cell in a dogged manner, and when the steel bolts closed with a clash, he gazed at the jailer defiantly for some time, and then sat down as though lie would ponder over the affair. It is said that the young man conics of a good family. I’AYXAKTKU UOIIIIKI). A Dallas, Texas, special of 4th inst., says: On Saturday last Pay master Wasson, of tho United States army, accompanied by Ms chief clerk, arrived at Fort Worth 011 his way West to pay off the troops on the frontier forts, lie missed the train, and had to remain over until ten o’clocK Sunday night. He lmd in a valise with him $2-'>,(HKI. He claims that ho secured a berth in a sleeper, and placed Ills valise be hind him, Imt when he invoice the next morning It was gone. Two men who had berth tlcicets for Big Springs got off at Cisco, some dis tance this side, and this is tin* only clew. A detective was telegraphed for at Dallas, but had a cold trail to start on. Mr. Wasson lias been paymaster of the Government em ployes in Texas for ten years, tercst, and when his eye fell upon \ Securing a large rite/.’, he doliber- the signature of the author, he felt | atcly dntmed out the boy’s brains, a strange thrill in bis breast. The Not satisfied with tills, the lnsatla- naine recalled to him the smoke ! ble wretch beat the head entirely ladened air of a bloody battlefield, j off the body. A man named at the dead of night, lie was again j Thomas was upon the opposite lying, wounded, among the dead | shore, upon a high bluff. Although and dying, on the damp earth. He ; he witnessed the entire proceeding, pondered for awhile, and then J he was powerless to help tho boy or stop^jie brutal work. The river is very wide at this point, and he could not succeed in maA’ing him self heard. lie hastened down the river to the bridge, and gavo.fhe alarm. Accompanied by an officer he hnst- gia home. Generally they were given in lots of •">,()( 11), but to persons with especially good facilities for raising them more were allowed.— A gentleman with 100 flourishing mulberry trees was given 20,000. Clarit university lias an experi mental farm near to its college building, and 30,000 worms went there. Their growth and multiplication are so rapid that a start with 0,000 will soon give all any one with or dinary arrangements for silic cul ture will want. A gentleman liv ing near Atlanta who tooic some of tlie first lot was in the city yester day. He stated that the worms, which were just popping their tiny egg shells last Monday are now three quarters of .an inch long, and eating Mice tramps. Several lots of them are growing up in the city.— The mulberry is by far the best food for them, though they will five on the osage orange. The silic they maice from the orange is coarser than that they, spin from the mul berry. The impression that it is a great deal of trouble to raise and care for the worms is said to be erroneous by those who have made the experiment. Children can fur nish them with the leaves and give them any attention that may be necessary. There is a steady de mand for the cocoons at good prices. Mr. McKitti’icic wants to give silic culture a boom in Georgia and the other SuMthern States, and he will buy all the cocoons that can be raised. incident of the great civil conflict. To this letter he signed his full name, with the rank he held in the Union army—that of lieutenant in a Kansas regiment—before lie was mustered out of service. Within a few days the mail brought him a re ply. The Confederate veteran did remember the Federal whom he had found apparently ing on tlie Held of battle. The coin- j and demanded the HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS. Tin: w.vrrat mii.i.. oil, listen to tlu- witter mill, (liroutfli all tliu HvHoiijj day — "Ycnir salary will stop nliout the lime you lose; your pay. The fellow at tlie luthier’s top to hint all glory Ami tin* fellow a! the bottom is the fellow no one knows. No yniul are all tho ‘had linens,’ for In country and la town, Nobody (Hires how hlu r h you’ve boon, when once you have come down. When once you have been I’resldent, and are President 110 more, You may run n farm, or tench a school or keep a country store. No one will ask about you; you never will t o missed; The mill only grinds for you while you supply the grist,” Must a man, who has no front teeth, necessarily be a back-biter ? • There is one town in Connecticut that lias no fear of the nieuslqgt. It’s lladdam. It is it curious fact that some men will work harder to support their opinions than they do to support their families. Forty-seven million hogs are pro duced in the United States regular ly, not counting the regular mem bers of the Republican party.—Con stitution. The poet who declared that earth had nothing softer (hail a woman’s heart, evidently icno.w nothing of the head of a dry goods cleric, who came to see her. We lose confidence in the woman, lie she ever so amiable, who cele brates the anniversary of her wed ding regularly, but disregards the yearly recurrence of her birthday. ‘Balt, Jove!’ exclaimed young Dudiblo ‘the weathali is getting so mild, yer /now, that T must have the ferrule tateen oil my cane. It’s too heavy for a warm day you Know.’ ‘The bees are swarming, and there’s no end of them,’ said farmer Jones, coming into the house, llis little boy came in a second after wards and said there was an end to' one of ’em, anil it was red hot, too. . Banner-Watchman: There is a family living in Augusta named ened to the spot, and soon secured tlip foul murderer, and lodged him in jail. As soon as the news spread, the excitement grew intense, and a veteran mol) numbering upwards of a ban- ^mimhn were informed that redress rently dy- dred men, gathered around the jail j must be through the- Wurts. The claimants employed a regular at- the hands of tho populace came on here to have their wrongs re dressed, and plastered over with government shetcels. The Chi- heso Minister called tlie attention of -the State 'Department to the case. The result was that the Chi- prisoner. The nel was surprised to learn that the jailor came otrt, and with much dif- wounded soldier of nineteen yejys ilculty succeeded in getting the mob before was still alive; hut he rem-'( to listen to him. He told them that bored the message with which the | his wife lay in a most delicate eon- latter had entrusted him, to be Me- j dition, and begged them to desist livered to the wounded man’s wife , for the present, as the excitement in Indiana, and he declared that lie j would certainly cause her death, hml done all in his power to convey | They wore moved by his appeal, tornoy here to conduct their case.— Through him it is learned that in the intercourse between Itis clients and the Chinese Minister, the cus toms of tlie t'fete Celestial empire were rigidly adhered to. The Chi nese Minister is of tho royal blood. He is a. grand tycoon of three but- the message to its proper destinu-; and agreed to wait. The event that j tons and the royal peaeocK feather, tion. Besides writing a reply to the ! was daily looiced for in tlie jailer’s NyrthernolHcer,whose acquaintance | family did not taKo place up to last I10 had formed antitl such grim sur-1 Huturday, and the people still roundings, the Southern officer i smarting under tho outrage perpe- wrote to three of his old' comrades, 11rated in their midst, once more asking them if they remembered ! gathered around the jail. A few of He is a sacred person to tho com mon herd, a prince of high degree. In fact, lie is in China what Don Cameron list'd to lie in the United States—a boss. The attorney for the Chinamen was to use his own ex- the incident, and the message that j them entered the jailer’s room, and j pression,completely paralyzed when lie undertook to send through the tenderly talcing the bed upon which Federal lines to a lady in Indiana, the wife lay, safely transported her Two of those gentlemen, ransacked their memoirs to 110 effect; another having been concerned in the mat ter. This eorroHpbiulence has now been made public, because the sum of $110 which David Baker entrus ted to his tender-hearted Yoo, Col. B. F. Sawyer, on the battlefield of Chickamaugu, to bo sent to Baker’s wife, who, it was expected, would have been a widow long before the money reached her, is still missing. Baker arrived at his home alive, and settled down to earn his living at a peaceful calling, and lie saw in a newspaper as above stated, the name of Col. Sawyer, who says lie wrapped the money In a leaf torn from a'note book, hastily wrote upon it, by tlie light of the pale moon, the address given him, and started it upon its Journey. It will be noticed that no addres ses are given in this article, and the only clew upon which the anxious sister can hang a hope upon of find ing her brother, was tho mention of a St. Louis newspaper. Clipping the story from tlie newspaper, she inclosed it in a letter to Postmaster Hays, telling him that David N. Baker was her brother, and adjur ing him to aid a broken hearted sis ter in finding him. A plump, comely woman who Imt- ded in New Yortc Monday, in com pany with 300 Mormon converts, changed her mind on touching the wharf, and decided to go to iter brother up the Hudson instead of to Utah. The Mormon agents who to a neighboring house where site would he safe. Ware, the murderer, was then ttVKen from jail and led to tlie depot, were preparations were quicKly made to mete out to him his richly deserved punishment.— Ware bore himself bravely, and faced death without a tremor. He con It *SS(‘ (1 tlie murder, but scorned to inui-re any defence. The excite ment at this point was Intense, hut order was preserved. A rope was placed about his necK, and lie was hanged to tho wall of the depot.— While the body was still hanging, it was literally perforated with bul lets. Tills is the most horrible murder, that ever tooK place in this section, hut the prompt and efficient pun ishment will doubtless prevent a repetition of crime for a long time. A MIM.ION SILK IVOUMS Set to Work on (li'oruki Mullii-rrj Tri'f'fi l»y the Aft* rlniltiiral Department. Atlanta Constant Ion. Last Monday Commissioner Hen derson received from Mr. McKitt- t’icK, of Memphis, a famous silu worm culturist, a quarter of a mil lion silic worm eggs. They were rapidly hatching and had to he dis posed of at once. The announce ment of the arrival of this first sup ply of worms in Tuesday’s Constitu- ' tion brought enough applicants to tiiKe them all. During the wook Mr. McKtttrlcK has sent 750,(MM) more worms, redeeming his promise to give the department a round mil lion. They came in little boxes, paid her passage, tried to compel! 5,000 .All were in Iter to goon, but v ore prevented. , l,01 idltnm ot the first lot, rapidly : hatching, and how to dispose of Gov. Hoyulon’a tn-utc U worth *50,000 In tier thoiu.to parties who' would inuK.c own right, Hite is a imu i I'-u'i.x -u.vo yvuv* eta. on honest experiment of wising and! trick in many places. ON Tit Kilt IIKNDKD KXKKS. A dispateh from Washington, D. C., says: It will be remembered that the case of two Chinamen who lived in Georgia, and who claim to-I ^ gentleman as/rotl one of have sustained worldly dan.tage at' the y° un S about tlu>lr l*^alt-l». She sakr, ‘Father is sicA, mother is unwell and Willie is sic/.’. In fact,’ she said, ‘tlii>.whole Dam fatftily is sic /,-.’ ‘ • A young lady writes that ‘kisses on Iter brow are the richest diadem a woman’s soul aspires to.’ And yet a fellow who kisses it young lady on her brow while her rosy lips are making motions like a patent clothes wringer, is not the man for the position. The President’s style of fishing is said to he very peculiar. The French coo* mixes it in the sltade with a little sugar and a pieue of lemon peel. When it is all ready, Mr. Ar thur turns his hacA’ upon the water and allows the decoction to glide into Itis stomach of its own weight.— Constitution, Aldermen Cobb, it is stated, is au thority that Elbert Head’s fish pond has four and a half million trout in it, forty-five inches long, the space between eaeli one being filled with cat and bream. He says that Head lias to haul water to cover the fish. This whopper, so the Al derman says, is vouched for by A. A. Wheeler.—Americas Republican. A lover thus appealed to his ten der dulcineit for a parting A-iss: ‘Terribly tragical and sublimely ret ributive will ho tlie course pursued by me, if thou do not Instantaneous ly place thine alabaster lips to mine, enrapture my immortal soul by im printing angelic sensations of divine bliss upon these indispensable mem bers of tlie human physiognomy, and then A’iiully condescend to al low me to taA'c my departure from the everlasting sublimity of thy thrice glorious presence.’ The Creator seldom makes a man without providing him a place to he kicked. — Whitehall Times. And some one to kick him too.— f,’inston Leader. Wince you speak of kicking Robinson, did you ever have a fel low to slide gently up behind you and bring Ills too in juxtaposition with the kindness of nature? And if you have do you remember tho sweet oiyshin thoughts that roamed around tlie cerebral convolutions of your sharp and witty bruin, and how the stars twinkled; and how the sun seemed to he subjected to Venus’ transit anti do you remem ber tlie awful, tlu* horrible pain and tin'—what you said?— 117/nom Sift- imjs. We have never been kicked in that way, brother Camiway, hut when angina pectoris strikes the cardiac region, you will know what ii-kick is, and you will not only ‘see the stars In myriads twinkling,’ hut a new comet, and the transit of Venus will be nothing to your tran sit across the river Wtyx,— HVa.s/eo Lttukr, lie made his first visit with his eli cuts to the august Minister. He dill not Know what was going to happen. He was tuKen completely by surprise'. The three repaired to the Chinese legation, which is loca ted in tlu* house that Boss .Shepherd built and lived in before li is col lapse, They were shown into the audience chamber. When the Chi nese Minister entered tin' attorney acted line any other Molicun man would under the circumstances:— He advanced, bowed and sIiook hands with the alnioned-eyed offi cial. He looKecl around, expecting that his clients would do the same. At first he saw nothing of them.— But he heard a mighty humping on tin* floor; LooKlng down lie beheld tht' two Chinese prostrate. They were heating their heads upon the carpet. They did not lootc up or rise until the Minister hade them. Even standing, they showed the most servile front. Two or three times after this the attorney called witli ills clients upon the Minister. Every time the same beating of heads was gone through with. Titus right in the midst of our enlight ened civilization do the mummery practices of the Orient flourish. A NKW THICK. Anjowa villager laid a wager that a stranger, whose acquaintance lie had casually made, could not. within ^Ix hours w.oo, win and marry n young woman who had Just arrived at the same hotel. The suitor Introduced himself to her, she smiled upon him, a minister was called in, and the ceremony was performed. Tlie couple left on the following morning, witli no incon siderable sum of money’. They were husband ami wife of long standing, and had played the same