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It is believed that Gen. McCook's bill
.placing Grant on tbo retired list, with the
rank of general) will bo passed if tt can
be reached this session.
Preparations are, making to make
Washington city a military poet, and
troops that have heretofore bee d stationed
elsewhere are to be ordered to that city.
This is au innovation that ought to be
• discountenanced. There are soldiers
■enough now wiLhin hailing distance of
Washington.” t * ,
A new Journey of exploration in the
•Sahara has Just been undertaken by M.
Lcprovos and another French traveler.
One of the principal objects of the expedi
tion is to ascertain the practicability of
boring artesian wells, which would ma
terially aid the construction of the pro
jected Trans-Sahara Railway. ••
Trnr.ba’.nr’s cart fras standing by the
do j: , the baker. Little cherub
climbed up and looking into the boxes
feasted her eyes on cookies and jumbles
innumerable. “Ob! I’se got a good mind
to take a cookie.” “But that would bo
very wrong,” said nurse reprovingly. “Tbo
baker won’t see me.” *fBtit God will.” “I
know but, bo’ll never tell the baker.”
The wife of : General Winfield Scott
once wrote the following verses in an
album: . , 4 . . • • % . I’ '
“Women have many faults;
Men have only two;
There is nothing right they ssy
And nothing right they do!
“But if naughty men do nothing right
And never say what’s true,
What precious fools we women are
To love them as we do!”
Paris has only four steam fire engines,
and two of these are not in service. At
the recent fire at the Tuileries it was
seventeen minutes alter the alarm was
given before a machine reached the place.
Tlio French papers are telling their
readeis how they manage fires in New
York arid Boston, and Johnny is waking
up to the fact that he must take a few
lessons from Jonathan.' The superior
construction of the buildings in Paris is
their greatest cause of safety. •
Ex-Qukex Isabella, is mentioned by
Mra. Hooper as the possessor of an exceed
ingly sweet disposition. She never says
an unkind word about anybody, and has
a charming and punctilious politeness.
She is tho most generous of women, and
bestows no end of money in charity. She
lias been known to gire away $40 at a
time to any beggar that accosted her
when she drove ont In her carriage, and
when remonstrated with said only.
“Could a Queen give less?”:
Captain Boycott not long ago receiv
ed a notice from the Railway Passengers’
Assurance office, Cemhill, London, in
forming him that his premium was due
and inquiring whether it was his intention
to leave Ireland. He was politely inform
ed that “should you decide upon leaving
the country tho directors will be happy
to continue your insurance iu tho present
crisis; but if you propose to remsin In Ire
land I am directed to stato that we can
renew your policy only upon your reliev
ing the company from liability , for as
sault.”
Florida Items.—Tho orange growers
In the neighborhood of Santa Fe, Fla.,
have established a packing-house at
Thurston Station, on tho Transit road.
The establishment of a packing-house at
this point goes to show that the orange
interest of Santa Fo is rapidly growing
in importance. An interprising gardener
on the St. John’s river a few days a_o
shipped a number of crates of luscious
ripe tomatoes to New York and received
returns netting him $10 per crate. One
hundred and twenty through passengers
from the North and West arrived at
Jacksonville Dec. 10.
Of late the question of tattooing (not
branding) has been revived in tho British
army to act as a check against desertion,
and prevent the reenlistment of bad
characters. Some time ago, when the
desertions were at the rate of 5,000 a year
{one artilleryman had enlisted and sold
his kit eleven times In two .years before
he was detected), Sir James B. Alexan
der submitted to the Horse Guards a small
instrument, with a spring to tattoo in
stantaneously, and with hardly any pain,
a man above the left wrist. Indian ink
rubbed on tbe punctures left the lnpret-
sion of a neat small Queen’s crown in blue,
the size of a sixpence, and Indelible,
Senator Lamar's Health.—A dis
patch from Oxford, Miss., where United
States Senator Lamar resides, says that
the reports now going the rounds of tbe
press to the effect that L. Q. C. 1 Lamar is
in feeble health are wholly destitute of
truth, Mrs. Lamar is in very delicate
health, and Col. Lamar is now with her
in San Antonio for Lbe advantage of the
climate. Sinco the close of the Presiden
tial canvass the health of Col. Lamar lias
improved, and is now better than it has
been for a number of years. He will re
turn in a days or so, and after a brief
sojourn at home, will proceed to Wash
ington and enter upon his Senatorial
duties. During his absence from the
capital Col. Lamar is paired on all politi
cal questions with Senator Blaine, of
Maine.
The Bishop of Rochester, Englaud, ip
a recent sermon at St. Paul’s, Walworth,
a church somewhat notorious for. its high
ritual, announced that whatever was il
legal in tho services would have to he dis
continued. This was greeted by a storm
of hisses and applause. Nearly the whole
congregation ose to their feet and a few
women screamed, but the disturbance
was soon quelled. On his way to the
vicarage to disrobe, the Bishop was the
subject of a hostile demonstration, a great
'mob following him, hooting arid yelling,
and greeting him with many uncompli
mentary remarks. At one polut a rush
was made, and, but for tbe interposition
of the police, he would have been assault
ed. As he left tho vicarage and drove
away, the ill-feeling of the congregation
was again manifested, and his carriage
was followed to the confines of tho parish
by a large crowd, who kept up a continu
ation of groans and hisses. j .
An AnouMENT in Favor. Of Steam-
«ntP Travel.—The Supervising Inspect
or of SteamYesse is shows a falling off of 0
In the number of marine casualties for tbe
year ending June 30lh, 1830. The count
stands 2d for ISSO.and 32 for the preceding
twelve months. The total loss of life for
the year foots up 185, (82 of whom were
employes) out of an aggregate transported-
of 220,000,000 passengers. This gives tho
loss of only a single life in every 1,100,-
000 persons carried. The Inspector Gen
eral contends, and we t^jpk with good
show of reason, that these statistics prove
“that uo mode of travel surpasses steam
vease! i for safety.
Tbe same number of people trudging
on foot to any given point would meet
writh a larger number of mishaps.
AQBICTJLTU&AL DBPABTMBST.
Letter front General Wna. X. Brtvar,
Prof enter of AsrieaUare, Hortlenl-
faro and Katarat History, Velrsr-
wttyot Georgia.
SELECTION OF SEEM.
This is a-matter to which lbe majority
of our farmers pay little or no attention,
and to advice iu regard to which, we fear,
they give little or no heed. Yet, it is one
of the most important things in the opera
tions of agriculture. It is Just as impossi
ble to raise large crops of good quality
from poor, degenerate seed as it is impos
sible to raise fine stock of any kind from
what are known as the “oommon stock of
the country.’’ Recent discoveries in the
physiology of plants, the result of careful
experiment, prove conclusively that Beeds
can be improved, just as bones, cows or
swine can be improved, and that, “pore
bred” seed are just as attainable as pure
bred stock. In a very interesting and
valuable report of experimental work of
the agricultural deparimentof tbe Univer
sity of Tennessee, by Professor McBryde,
we find mention of “pedigreed” wheat
taken from the journal of tbe Royal
Agricultural Society of England, which,
though nothing new in that country, will
be entirely new to tbe majority of our
fsnnera.. It relates to what is known as
tbe Hallet variety and the means by
which it was produced. Mr. Hallet Se
lected, in 1857, from a head or car or
wheat, 4| inces Jong and containing
47 grains, the best and largest grains, and
planted them separately, nine inches
apart infertile soil, obtaining in 1858a
crop from which he was able to cull some
stools bearing ten can. Some of these
ears were OJ inches long and contained
seventy-nine grains. Sowing theso in tbe
same manner as before, he was able to
select in 1859 ears 7| inches long and con
taining ninety-one grains, from stools
bearing twenty-two ears. In I860 the
ears were greatly damaged by wet weather
and did not fill, but some of the stools
bore thirty-nine beads. In 1871 the best
ears were 8] inches long and contained
123 grains, and were from stools bearing
fifty-two ears. The tendency, to bear
such ears soon became established
in tlia plants, and a field
of ten acres seeded with this
variety gave in * an unfavorable seasou,
fifty-seven bushels per acre, tbe average
produc- of tbe field in favorable seasons
and with old varieties being from thirty-
two to forty bushels per acre.”
In a series of experiments made by Mr.
Morton and published by him in the jour
nal of the Royal Agricultural Society,
witli sixteen varieties of wheat, the red
varieties were found to have the property
of tillering more freely than tho others.
Col. Le Couteur, of Jersoy, found a vari
ety of wheat “which tillered to the extent
of thirty-two plants.” This development,
by careful selection, “high cultivation and
cross-bieeding” of new and improved va
rieties of the leading cereals, may bo ex
tended to all of onr crops and with tbe
same eucouraging result. It requires of
necessity care, patience and perseverance,
but it pays. Professor McBryde hopes
before long we shall have a “seed book,”
giving the pedigree of the different varie
ties of seeds, corresponding in authority
and value to tbe stud-book for horses, and
tho herd-book for cattle. Whether this
expectation be realized or not, we hope
that the great importance of selection of
seeds, with reference to variety and adap
tation to locality, will bo more widely
appreciated, and that tbe yearly selection
of seeds with a view to improvement will
soon become as much a part of a fanner’s
work as picking his cotton or gathering his
corn. i
This year wo received from the State
commissioner of agriculture a small quan
tity of an improved variety of selected
colton seed raised by the Messrs. Jones, of
Burke county. Wo had just enough of the
seed to plant one-tenth of an acre. We
bavo already gathered 190 pounds of seed
cotton, or at the rate of 1,900 pounds of
seed cotton per acre, and tho promise is
that we shall yet gather 25 or 30 pounds
more. And not only was tho yield thus
large, but the quality of. the cotton i?
superior.
ENSILAGE.
Although it is said that “ensilage” was
a familiar way of preserving forage among
the ancient Romans, and that the Aztecs'
•‘put up” all their bay, et<L, in that way,
it is only quite recently that American
fanners have found out this peculiar mode
of storing ibeir “rougliage.” We are mak
ing up for onr tardiness in hearing of it,
however, by our diligence anil zeal iq
writing, talking and experimenting about
the now process. To a Monsieur Goffart,
of France, we are certainly indebted for
restoring, developing and perfecting this
apparently excellent and economical
method of preseiving fodder com. It is
tbe “ensilage of maize” to which Goffart
has directed his energies and skill. The
meaning of the word ensilage Is, pulling
in a pit, and M. Goffart’s discovery, if
such it can be called, is putting com in an
air-tight pit, and thus preserving it in
a succulent . condition as a
food for stock. Experiments have
abundantly proved that the process will
do what is claimed for it, namely: first,
that it gives a much larger supply of for
age than any other process known in ag
riculture; second, that it is simpler and
more economical Ilian any other method;
third, that It improves in quality the food
so preserved, and lastly,that, in providing
more food it affords the means to keep
mom stock, make more mahurt, tiizz
larger crops, gain more money aud add
yearly to the value of the farm. It ts
claimed on good authority that on land
that would not produce more than two to
three tons of hay, twenty-five tons of corn
stalks, at a moderate computation maybe
raised; and that on rich land as much as
forty tons per acre may be raised. The
cost of gat!iering,cutting and “ensilaging”
is said not to exceed 75 cents per ton. The
slight chemical changes which the green
stalks undergo in tbe silo or pit, improve
their quality as food. The principle of
ensilage is tbe same as that of canning
frnits. That is, the complete exclusion
of air, the oxygen of which is the chief
promoterof decomposition. The method of
ensilage practiced by Mr. Goffart is as
follows: His seed is carefully selected.
The kind sown Is the Cargua. imported
originally from Central America, bnt di
rectly from Algeria. It is planted in drills,
far enough apart to permit the passage of
the plow, on land liigbly enriched by sta
ble manure and superphosphates. During
its growth the crop receives two or three
workings. It is cut when in full bloom,
when in the silk, with sickles, and imme
diately carted unwitted to the silo, where
it is cut up into little disks 4-10tbs of an
inch long and thrown into the silo, where
two men keep it level and packed down.
When the silo is filled a layer of cut straw
a Tew inches thick is first put on, then a
covering ot boards placed across the
length of tho pit and above all a heavy
weight of rock or i;ou, constituting a con
tinuous descendingpressure—the essential
to success. The “ silos are generally
of elliptical form, two or three being
covered by . the same roof, and
opening into each other, about eighteen
feet deep, lbe same in width, and from
eighty to one hundred feet long. When
lbe com is needed for use a door b cut
open, part of the covering removed, and a
vertical section made at one end.
This method may of course be modified
as circumstances may require. Some
times tbo cornstalks are packed away
without bqlng cut, and sometimes they
are cut into pieces half an inch long. The
filos are often much less deep than those
bf Monsieur Goffart, and often tlio com is
packed in heaps above ground, like sweet
potato banks. Fits dug in firm clay, pro
vided^ be perfectly dry, have been found
in this country to answer the purpose
quite as well as tbo expensive arrange
ments of M. Goffart. We propose during
the coming year to test this matter as
thoroughly as may impossible.
I can assure you that in no single int»
stance has the Teethina ever proved a fail
ure. We Lave tried the soothing medi
cines and everything known to us and
“Old Women,” and Teethina is preemi
nently a success, and a blessing to moth
ers and children. J. M. DeLacey,
Hatchecbubbe, Ala.
Alter trying Soothing Remedies with
out avail, and physicians without relief, I
gave your Teethina, and tf acted Wee
magic. J occasionallg give a powder to
litcp mg child's gums softened.
S. R. Baldwin,
Columbus, Ga.
Tbe. Biggest Man in the World.
Chang has arrived. For years vague
rumors have been circulated to the effect
that Europe had a giant that the Tritons
themselves might envy, if an American,
Australian cr Canadian giaot was pro
duced, some scoffing foreigner was always
ready with “call him a giant? You just
ought to see Chang. Chang can swing "his
arm over this fellow’s head and not touch
him." .
Yesterday, when the City of Berlin
readied her wharf, the cabmen fell back
iu dismay at the apparition which loomed
np aud picked bis way carefully down the
gang plank. This was Chang. lie
walked up to a coach with majestic tread
and, resting his liaud lightly on the seat
which was above an ordinary man’s head,
looked down upon the driver and,smiling,
said in perfect English:
“Can you drive my secretary and my-
self to the Spanish Hotel at 23 Great
Jones street?”
“Can-reau you get in the carriage?”
stammered tbe hackman.
“Ob yes, easily,” and the giant crouched
down until his knees nearly reached the
ground, and half slid, have crammed him
self into the vehicle.
A Sun reporter called at the Spanish
Hotel in the afternoon and saw, sitting on
an improvised sect ot two chain with
heavy boards laid across, a presence which
seemed to fill the whole room.. Chang is
unquestionably the largest man in tbe
world. He is gigantic. As lie sat there
smiling and nodding, his thoroughly Chi
nese face looked fully as broad as an ordi-
nary man’s shoulders, aud as long, if not
longer than a flour barrel. His cheek
bones bulge out, and are as large as a full-
sized orange. He is S3 yean old, is the
soil of a wealthy silk and tea merchant in
Pekin, where he was born, is well edu
cated, speaks, reads and writes English,
German, French, Italian and Spanish,
and is thoroughly courteous and gentle
manly. With Chang is his “secretary,” a
bustling, busy, earnest littlo Frenchman
named Neaud, who looks upon the giant
with admiration and delight. ' - i
"What Kind of atrip did you make?”
asked the reporter.
“Extremely rough. The majority of the
passengers were quite ill ”
"Oh, but Monsieur Chaug was not one
little bit sick. Ob! no, uo, no,” interrupt
ed the little secretary. “We had to have
two state-rooms made into one, and
berth eleven feet long built expressly for
him. He wasn’t seasick a bit. He sang
a Chinese song for the passengers iu a
concert on the steamer last Monday with
immense success. OL. he’s a great fel
low !” •
“What is your exact height. Chang?”
“I bavo never been measured, Monsieur.
With our people it is a superstition which
takes the ■ form of a religious creed, that
no man must be measured until dead. I
would ratlier die than bo measured.
In fact, if I were measured l would die at
once, I fear. I am, however, somewhere
in tho neighborhood of nine feet. I will
stand up and you can stand beside me and
judge for yourself.” ,
Cliang rose, anil rising, It seemed as
though ho would never stop. Tho Sun re
porter stands 0 feet 3 incites in height.
He, at Chang’s suggestion, put on a high
silk hat and walked under the giant’s
outstretched arm, near the shoulder,
without coining withiu two inches of Ids
sleeve. Then fixing Abe height of his
head about half way between tho giant’s
waist and neck, tho reporter checked off
three feet at a guess aud found that the
crown of the Chinaman's head was surely
nine feet from the floor. Hie Lauds and
feet are comparatively small and very
well formed. He has exhibited before all
the crowned heads of Europe and
Australia, and has been the pet of several
sovereigns. He wears a solitaire diamond
ring, given by the Emperor Of Russia,
which is valued at $1,400. At
tached to Ills chain is a gold
medal given him by tho Berlin
exhibition, whicli asserts that lie
is the largest man of recent times. He
also has half a dozen immense diamond
rings given him by Rajahs in India, may
ors in Australia, and potentates from all
quarters of tho globe. While talkiugto
the reporter he suddenly dived into his
vest pocket, which was Jarcc enough to
hold an ordinary man’s head, and brought
forth a ring with tlic official seal aud mon
ogram of Francis Joseph, inscribed to
“Cliang.” He also has a watch, given
him by Queen Victoria, which weighs
two pounds and a half, and has a chain
nine feet long, which barely reaches
around his neck and down to his vest
pocket.
Chang was brought over by Baroum,
Bailey & Hutchinson, the new Darnum
firm, who give him $500 a week for one
yeqr.—New York Sun. j — 1 “•
The Value of Carrots for Stock Food
Mr. J. F. Elmer, in the American Dai
ryman, says:
Among the many foods used for dairy
stock, carrots hold a prominent part; they
ate, indeed, one of the very best known,
inasmuch as, subjected to an analysis, we
find them to be composed of—
Water 87.8
Flesh formers . . . .0.0
Fat formers . • . . .0.6
Accessories ..... 4.3
Mineral matter . . , U
By comparison wo will see that tho fat
forming elements surpass the nitrogenous
to such an extent that other food, as the
potato, Is absolutely essential to give this
root Us highest value. AU writers and
experimenters agree in pronouncing it of
considerable utility, not only in its fatten
ing propensities, but for Us medical char
acteristics.
Many experiments have been made to
ascertain the economical value of this
root. My assistant has taken great pains
to get the result of an experiment near
the laboratory, and tells me that tbe
profits and advantages of this root are
more satisfactory to the proprietor thain
any other experiment yet tried. This root
has, upon repeated and extensive trials
for the last three years, been found to an
swer most peifectly as a partial substitute
for oats. When ten pounds of oats were
given per day, four pounds maybe taken
away, and their place be supplied by five
pounds of carrots.
Again, the experience of Mr. J. Quincy
In tbe cultivation of carrots, was that they
cost him about eleven cents per bushel.
The average cost of this root, every ex
pense Included, is probably not far from
thirteen cents per bushel. This very small
cost when considered in connection with
tbe value of the root, at once establishes
the value of Us culture. The leaves of tiie
carrot are almost of equal value with the
roots, as their constitute elements are
very nearly (lie same. They, are most
valuable when given to milch cows, as
they not only increase the flow of milk to
a surprising degree, hut also add to its
quality.
This hardy vegetable is exceedingly
prolific, and a rich spot of at least one half
acre should be devoted to tbe culture on
ovary farm in the country.
What Does Cookery Mean?—Mr.
Raskin takes no mean view of tho digni
ty of the cook’s function. “Wlmt,” he
asks, “does ‘cookery’ mean? It means
the knowledge of Medea, and of Circe, and
of CalypSo, and of Helen, and of Rebekah,
and of the Queen of Sheba. In means
knowledge of all herbs, and frnits, and
balms, and spices, and of all that is heal
ing and sweet in the groves, and savory in
meal; it means carefulness and inventive
ness, aud watchfulness, and willingness,
and readiness of appliances; it means the
economy oi your great grandmother, and
the science of modern chemists; it means
much te ting and no wasting; it means
English thoroughness aud French art and
Arabian hospitality; and itmeans, in fine,
that you are to be perfectly and always
‘iadies,’ ‘loaf-givers;’ and as you are to
see, imperatively, that everybody bas
something pretty to put on—so you are to
see, yet more imperatively, that everybody
has something nice to eat.”
Cause and Effect,
Tbe main cause of nervousness Is indi
gestion, and that is caused by weakness of
the stomach. No one can have sound
nerves and good health without using Hop
Bitters to strengthen the stomach, purify
tbe blood, aud keep tbe liver and kidneys
active, to carry off all the poisonous and
waste matter of the system. See other
column.—idvance. dec 14 2w
MALIGNANTDIPHTHERLA.
ATsattlaa laddwSsf Hw Mpfettie-
rla EpMeale W Brooklyn.
The New York Sun, of Monday, says:
The funeral services of Dr. Wilbur F.
' Sanford, of Greeapoint, L. L» who died
ot diphtheria on Suuday morning, were
yesterday performed in bis native place,
Middletown, Conn. Dr. Sanford was only
36 years old, but he had attained an emi
nent position iu bis profession. AU the
people of Greenpoint seem to mourn his
loss, especially as he lost his life in trying
to save tliat or a patient. Two weeas ago
Dr. Sanford was called to the bedside
of .a chUd who was suflerlng with
diphtheria. It was a very ma
lignant case,.aud- Dr. Sanford watched
the child day mid night. At last tho
air passages were filled up,, aud the child
would have been choked to death liad not
Dr. Sanford, who had his knife in hand,
immediately made an opeuing in the wind
pipe, through which, with a small rubber
tube, be drew out with his own mouth the
poisonous fluid. He prolonged the life
of tbe child for several hoars by the oper
ation, but sacrificed bU own life. This
way of conducting such a:i operation is
regarded by ail surgeons as extremely
hazardous to the operator. Three French
surgeons are known to. have lost their
lives iu the same way. Young Dr. Hucli-
inson,the sou of a distinguished surgeon
of Brooklyn, was the only American vic
tim, as far as known, prior to the case of
Dr. Sanford. • 1 !
A short time after the operation the
poison which had inoculated Dr. San
ford’s blood began to do Its work. As
soon as it was known that he was suffer
ing from diphtheria, all the allopathic
doctors in- Greet point offered tlioir ser
vices. Two or three were with him con
tinually. The:patient had always been
very delicate, and this was against him.
If by strong nourishment he could be
kept alive for a certain number of days, it
was known that the crisis would bo
passed, and be would recover. Frozen
beef blood was introduced into his stom
ach, aud brandy was injected uinler the
skin. When the patient was able to
swallow anything at all be was given ice-
cold champagne. Food m the most con
densed form was Introduced by every pos
sible means. But nothing could save him,
and he finally said in a whisper: “It’s no
use, geutiemen; I’ve got to go.” . He died
of asthenia, or general weakness^ and (lid
not live long enough to reach that stage
of the disease in which a surgical opera
tion becomes necessary. *
Dr. Van Giesen, speaking of the
the case of Dr. Sanford yesterday, said
“Ifhe had been a.strong man I have no
doubt that we Would have pulled hhn
through. Years ago I strongly advised
him, as a good mauy other friends did
also, to give up the practice of medicine,
as he could not stand it. He finally ac
cepted our advice. Hi went through
the coarse of the Columbia lafr school,
graduating with honors. But soon after
being admitted to the bar he returned to
practicing medicine. He was liked by
everybody, and ho immediately picked up
all of bis old practice.”
Speaking of diphtheria, Dr. Van Giesen
said: “1 have studied tins disease lor
more than thirty years. I have read many
volumes devoted to it, and I have had a
great many cases of diphtheria iu my
practice. Sometimes I have said to my
self : ‘Well, at last I know what diphthe
ria is.’ But if you were to ask me new to
describe the etiology of this disease, I
should answer, ‘I give it up.* Fortunately,
however, we are able treat it successfully
iu many cases. My method of treatment
is told in just one word—sustain. Tbore
are physicians who. assert that they have
never lost a case of diphtheria. Those
pbysicans are either humbugs or else they
have never bad many cases of diphlltoria.
I have sometimes treated as many
as thirty cases successfully, aud then I
have lost, half a dozen, one right alter the
other. It is a disease that lias different
degrees of ruaiiguancy. One year its
attacks may be very mild, and at its next
visit it may kill almost every one who be
comes infected With it. As for the pres
ent epidemic of diphtheria, I am afraid
that we have only seen the beginning of
iL When I see a diphtheria patient, I can
generally make up my miud whether be
can be saved or not. But thu treatment is
the same for all—lood and stimulants.”
There were 108 cases of diphtheria iu
Brooklyn in tlio week , ending last Satur
day, of which 51 proved fatal. There
were 07 casta of scarlet fever, of which 11
were fatal. There were 38 new cases of
diphtheria reported yesterday, and up to
the hour wheu the health office was
closed six fatal cases bad been reported.
The li^w scarlet fever cases were less
than ten. : ' u . .; •
.
An Incident of the Irish Trotjr
les.—One of the most remarkable incl
dents of the laud agitation iii Ireland oc
curred a fortnight ago in tiie village of
Kyleberg, where a farm of 23 acres was
held by widow Dempsey. Sim had five
children, aud her husbaud liad died while
they were young. At the sessions at
Loughrea in January, 1879, an ejectment
process was taken out against the widow,
and in three months the sheriff carried
out tiie work of eviction. Mrs. Dempsey,
after the eviction, went to the agent aDd
offered him the amount sued for, $1,09.'),
but be refused the money on any condi
tions whatever, The ease seemed to have
dleil oat of memory. When the facts bc-
camo known to the men .’con-
nected with ' the Land League
they took tho matter up. At'l o’clock
one morning 500 men assembled, with
carts bearing materials for erecting a
house, and provisions for night and day.
Mr. O'Saillvan, of the Land League, ar
rived at 3 o’clock, took his coat pff and
went to work.. At the Laud League meet
ing subsequently held, which wat attend
ed by thousands of tenant farmers, Mr.
O’Sullivan denounced the eviction of tbo
widow and all concerned in it, and, in
conclusion, exhorted bis auditors; with
uplifted hands, t<> pledge themselves in
future to adhere strictly to the principles
of the League presided over by tiie .only
recognized leader iof the.Irish people,
Charles Stewart Parnell.
An amorous Chinaman having become
enamored of an American girl iu Oak
land, Cal., wrote her this tender missive:
“Miss Maly: My name belong Ah Lee.
My belong that hansom piece young nn a
look see yoireveJiy ; Mine you makee buy
curio tiling. My too mtichce Tub you.
My likee sec you; Suppose you talkee
Sing Foo. What time can do. My come
Oakland you? house talkee your father,
makee you my wife. Sing say you . lub
me, my lub you.—Ah Lee.” But .when
this too loving heart approached the,
house where “Miss Maly” dwelt a stern
father mot 1dm with a shotgun, and lie
was borne into his lady's presence with
blood pouring from cheek and heck.
Conklins: and Bayard.
The charge, says tlio Nashville Ameri
can, which Mr. Conkling really resents, ts
not the one Mr. Bayard did not.make, al
though he-devoted his “card to that one,
but tiie one lie did make. This, was based
on a transaction under the nioiety sys
tem,’a system worse than highway rob
bery, worse than piracy, worse than tiie
levies made -by the Texas and Pacific,
l’helps, Dodge & Co. purchased $2,000,-
000 ot merchandise in Europe. They
were assessed at lower than
market figures, the firm claim innocently,
and thus rendered, the officials claimed,
llablo to forfeiture in tolo. The moie
ty system allowed so much to the in
1 ormer, and so much to officials. Jayne-
tho informer, got $131,030, Arthur, col,
lector, now Vico-President, $21,000; Cor
nell, surveyor of the port, $21,000, o
$271,017 paid by Phelps, Dodge tb OH, to
escape forfeiture of tho whole. Davis,
who sigued the card with- Conkling, was
Janie's lawyer, and it was by his testi
mony before a Congressional committee
that it was known that Conkling was
present assisting at the compromise. We
do not say that Mr. Conkling did any
thing wrong or contrary to his duty as a
Senator, but be was around when an aw
ful pile of Phelps, Dodge & Co.’s money
was divided in a way they despised.
Chronic constipation is not cured by
simply unloading the bowels. The med
icine must possess tonic, alterative and
corrective properties. These qualities
are combined in Tutt’e Pills, and they
will permanently cure this serious disease,
and give tone to the nervous system.
PrO0$edut*» of CoilgifMt. j Mr. Jones, of Florida, from the com- * THX YOilTDWl CfRMTllYYTAf.
WAamVotu* DecemW 18.—In the ' B1 ** t *® 011 Phblie buildings and grounds, I ... : . k ,
Hou^MrFernandoWood, ofNew I f™>r.Wy on tbe Senate ,u- « Win o~»ff YweuSy-mr.
York, ehairmau of the committee on ways I ‘honziua the sectelaiy of lbe treasury to I A Washington dispatch says: “Tbla
and means, reported a concurrent reao- Pro, ,. MC 8 rou “‘ i snd erect a public , psonjina Messrs. Quid, Cochrau and I'ey-
--- - - building at rensacola, Florida, in place of ton, of the Yorktown Ceuteonia! Asaocia-
the one recently burned, said ground and i tion, met with the sub committee of the
building not u» cost more than two hnn- ! joint Cong regional committee on the
lution providing for a recess of Congress
from Wednesday, tiie 22d of December, to
Wednesday, 5th of Jamiary, 1881.
In the Senate, tbe committee on pubiie
buildings and grounds authorized Senator
Jones to report favorably ou his bill ap
propriating $250,000 to rebuild immedi
ately tbe custom house at Pensacola, re
cently destroyed by fire.
Mr. Msxey introduced a bill for tbe re
lief of Gcueral Urd—autiiorizing the
President to place him ou tbe retired list
according to his brevet rank of major gen
eral; with the pay and emoluments there
of. 1 ■ -i •*■ ' . '■*
The Senate refused to adjourn over till
Monday, defeating tbo mot’.on of Mr.
Burnside to that effect, by 11 to 31.',.
list, and a brisk purchasing movement
was inaugurated, which resulted in a
rapid advance in prices, ranging from j
to 10| per cent, the latter in Houston ana
Texas, .which, however, reacted 0 per
cent. The general market also reacted a
fraction.
Washington, December 16.—The
President to-day sent to tbo Senate the
following nominations: La Fayette Mc-
Laws to be postmaster at Savannah, Ga.;
Silas A. Sharp,. Statesville, N. O.; Edgar
Waters, Lebanon, Tenn.; John Mahoue,
Holly Springs, Miss.; Woodson H. Ken-
non, Columbus, Miss.
Washington, December 10.—In the
Senate, tbe Vice-Fresidont submitted a
recommendation of the Secretary oi War
for an appropriation of $10,000 for a mili
tary bridge across tiie Pecos river, Texas.
At the expiration of tiie morning hour,
tiie Senato resumed consideration of the
bill devoting a part of the proceeds of the
sale of public lauds to public education.
Speeches thereon were made by Senators
Teller, Hoar, Pugh, Vest and others.
On motion of Mr. Edmunds, tbe Senate
took a recess of ten minutes, in order that
members might welcome Gen. Grant, who
was present In the Senate chamber.
At 3:05 the Senate was called to order,
and debate on the educational bill was
continued by Messrs. Hill, of Georgia,
Maxey, Morgan aud Morriii. At 5 p. tn.
the Senate adjourned until to-morrow,
leaving the bill as unfinished business.
In the House, tho resolution concern
ing the recess for the holidays was agreed
to by yeas 125, nays 74.
The morning hour having been dis
pensed with, the House went into com
mittee of the whole outlie pensions ap
propriation hill. Mr. llubbell, of Michi
gan, explained the provisions of the bill,
and said it appropriated fifty millions, or
exactly the amount called for by the esti
mates. After some discussion and the
adoption of one or two unimportant
amendments, the committee rose and
tiie hill was reported to the House and
passed.
The House then took a recess of ten
minutes to give tiie members an oppor
tunity to greet General • Grant; who ap
peared on the floor. Nearly alt the metn-
beis approached and shook hands with
him.
After the recess, Mr. Bland, of Missouri,
asked and obtained leave to have printed
in tlio llecord a substitute which lie pro
posed to offer lor tho fuuding bit!,Ad
journed. ■ • y
New Orleans, December 10.—Tho
steamship Scindla, from Palermo, brought
210 immigrants, most of whom will go to
plantations in this State. ■ ■*
WAsntNGTONjDi c;mb( r 10.—The Sen*
ate committee on patents took tip to-day
the application for an extension of the
Eclipso cotton gin patent, and referred tbe
same to Senator Coke as a sub-committee
Tor. examination.
The electoral vote of Tennessee was de
livered to tiie Vico President by a special
messdnger from that State this morning.
Chattanooga, December 16.—Sam
Cunningham, freight conductor on the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad, tell
between the cars of a tnovingi train to
day, and both legs were cut off. Death
was instantaneous, hi ifo’ooa ,
Washington, DecembeM0.4-The fol
lowing is a summary of the debate in tbe
Senate on the education bill: Mr. Teller
said lie approved of (lie purpose of Urn
hilt, bnt doubted Its adequacy.' Illiteracy
in tliis country Was largely in the South
ern Slates. The present bill would not
realize more than seven cents for each
child or school age in the whole South.
Iu view of the fact that tbe, Southern
States have already appropriated an aver
age of one dollar per capita annually: for
educational purposes, h? did not tliiuk the
national appropriation ol'a few cents per
capita would materially increase their ed
ucational facilities. He was in favor of
devoting tiie cutiro proceeds of tlio public
lauds to tliis purpose.
Mr. Hoar said ho thought iL would be
unjust to devote the whole of the proceeds
of the public lauds to the education of a
single generation. Ho regarded the pres
ent bill as entirely adequate.
Senator Pugh delivered'’a written
speech in support of the bill,,which he
said was of vital interest to the part of the
country he represented. Representative
government depomlod upon the Intelli
gent co-opcifttlon of its people.
Slavery and the civil war
have incorporated in tbe population of
the Soutii four and a half, millions of col
ored people too ignorant to exercise intel
ligently tho right ofsuffrage.|They should
be educated. Slavery had beeq a powder
magazine in the superstructure of our
political institutions. It btRl exploded In
the war, and now there remained ouly
tho danger of the sectionalism growing
out of distrust and ' ignorance-ignorance
of the real feelings, disposition and pur
poses of tiie white people of the.South,
and ignorance of tiie colored voters >ntlie
business of lawmaking andcivil au min
istration. 11
"I emphasize the declaration; made on
personal knowledge and in full view of
my responsibility as Senator, that tbe
white people of die South have been com
paratively united in their working power
for no objeict or purpose unfriendly to the
rights, interests or pursuits of any sccttion
or of any people,’ white or. colored.' They
have been and are comparatively solid
for self-defense and self-preservation
against an unfounded distrust by a ma
jority of their fellow-citizens of the North
and against tbe dire evils that have and
must again follow the domination of ig-
uoranco in the State governments of the
South. Tho unavoidable and unal
terable results of tiie war have made
my conviction exceedingly deep and :
unchangeable, that the highest inter
est aua . greatest satety and prosperity
of the South arc to, be found ;in a har
monious, confiding nationality; not a
nationality resulting from a centralized
government; hut the nationality secured
by fidelity to tho constitution with all its
delegations, prohibitions and limitations
of power, ana to the promotiohlof all the
great objects recited in it as niasohs for
the formation of our iudissbluble uuiou of
Indestructible States. . .
“No leglslatiQu xviLliln the range of the
constitutional power of Congress can bo
more uniformly beneficial than that pro
posed by this bill ill strengthening the
basis bf American institutions, in freeing
tiie, masses from .’sectional, distrust, sec
tional jealousies, aud rivalries, aud sec
tional criminations and recriminations,
and in raising the people to a higher plane
whore they wil, sea and understand each
oilier and be above the arts aud appliances
of, the demagogue aud mischief-maker,
and where they can’ cultivate sectional
pacification and harmonious union.
hlr. Hill, of Georgia, said Ills only ob
jection to the bill was its inadequacy.
Mr. Maxey supported the bill on the
ground that In a government resting on
universal suffrage, universal education is
the element ot strength and vitality. The
ignorance of the colored population made
some provision like this bill absolutely
necessary. The national government bad
made the colored people of the South citi
zens; it was only fair' tliat tbo national
government should help tbe States to edu
cate them.
Mr. Morgan spoke at some length upon
tiie importance of technical and practica
ble education among both sexes.
Washington, December 77 In the
Senate the nouse joint resolution, pro
dr ed aud fifty thousand dollars. Tbe bill
was passed.
Mr. Blaiue offered a resolution directing
the judiciary committee to Inquire into
tbo expediency of increasing the number
of judges in the Supreme Court to thir
teen. Agreed to.
Iu the House, the morning hour having
been dispensed with, Mr. Felton, of Geor
gia, moved that private busiueas be laid
aside for tbe purpose, as he stated, of then
,moving to go into committee on the mili;
taiy academy appropriation bill.
Washington, December 17.—In the
Senate, tbe pensions appropriations bill
was read twice and referred to the com
mittee on appropriations. The Senate, iu
committee of the whole, then resumed
consideration of the public lands and edu
cation bill, and brief remarks thereon
were made by Messrs. Cockrell, IogeRe,
Davis of West Virginia, Bailey, Morris,
Allis'jn, Hoar, Morgan, McDonald, Pen
dleton, Blair and Teller. Tbe amend
ment offered by Mr. Teller, providing
that the entire proceeds of the safe of pub
lic lands for the next ten years shall be
devoted to public education, was adopted.
In tho House, the motion of Mr. Felton,
to lay aside the private business calendar,
was rejected. „ •
On motion of Mr. Harris, of Virginia,
a bill was passed changing tiie time for
holding the terms of the Circuit aud Dis
trict Courts of the .United States for the
western district of Virginia. , ; v4j!
Tiie House then went into committee
of tbo whole on the private calendar, and
subsequently reported to tbe House
bills for the relief of Jsmes D. Grant, of
Texas, and William S. Burgess and oth
ers, of Tennessee. The bills were passed,
and at 3:45 n; m, the House adjourned
until to-morrow.
Washington, D. C., December' IS.—
Tbe House, the morning hour having been
dispensed with, at 12:15 p.m. went into
committee of the whole (Mr. Reagan,
ot Texas, in the chair) ou the mllitajy
academy bill. . _ p i : ■"
Mr. Forney, of Alabama, made a short
exploration of the bill, which appropriate!
$322,135, after which it was read by sec
tions lor amendment. ,
Washington, December JS—Ir, tbe
House, tbe committee at 1:1$ rose and re
ported tbe bill, wheu it : was passed in pre
cisely tiie Same terms in which iti was re
ported from the committee on appropria
tions. *
Tne House again, at 1:45 p. in., went
into committee ot’tho whole (Mr. Hill, of
Ohio, in the chair) on the consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill.
. Mr. Singleton, of Mississippi, proceeded
to explain tbe provisions or the bill. It
appropriates $1,190,435—an increase of
$10,000 over the bill of Jsst year. Iu tho
.diplomatic portion no change-whatever is
made from the law of last year. In re
gard to the consular service, tiie commit
tee on appropriations had adopted some
changes proposed by the Secretary of State,
comprising chiefly the transfer of consu
lates from one class to another.
After some debate the hill was read for
amendment,' but none being offered, the
committee rose and reportod the bill to
tho House, when the vote was taken, re
sulting: yeas 140, nays 2 (McMillan and
O.,Tumor). .. , j “
As there wa3 not a quorum voting, tiie
House at 4310 p. m. adjourned, aud the
hill weut over until Monday.
Furniture.
We are told that before tiie middle
agaTthere wasno.such thing as furniture.
There was a bed and there was a chair
—tuore like a throne—aud there was a ta
ble almost like a platform; but there was
very little else. The ancient sculptures
and the contents of museums of antiqui
ties arc appealed to in support of this
view. Even the middle ages supplied few
additional items to the furniture of a no
bleman's room. Ai t iiad chosen auother
direction for its civilizing influences, and
carvings in ivory, enamel, jewelry, Uzzas
inlaid with gents, cameos, chalices and il
luminated missals usurped the tkste of ar
tists and tbe patronage of amateurs.' Even
tho carved woodwork of Bel
gium ’ ’ and ‘ Switzerland seemed
to be lunited to church decora
tion and pulpit ornaments; but it was the
carvings of pulpits which supplied the
transition between sculpture and furni
ture. At first oak, front its hardness, was
tbe principal material used, find soon af
terward ash and walnut came iqto vogue.'
Tho introduction of light fancy woods,
such as satin, maple,, tulip, belongs to a
much later date. France was, of course,
the originator of art furniture, and the
Gobelins tapestry, whicli Louis XIV.
patronized, and which came from the
institution which lie founded, was incon
sistent with dark woods or delicate
carvings. Tiie style known still as
“Louis. Quinze” also demauded profuse
gilding and florid decoration for tho
framework of the delicate needlework
whicli adorned tlio chairs cf the period. It
was not till the end of the seventeenth and
the beginning the eighteenth. centuries
that polished woods aud severe out
line took the place of the flamboyant
carving and gilding which preceded
them. It was at this period that maiioga-
ny owed to an aeddont its introduction,
aud itjnadc its entry into tbe salons of
Europe, not through Parisian influence,
hut through the London market. In tbe
year 1720 a ; Dr. GU»oii received front a
brotuer of his, the captain of a trading
vessel, several balks of a new kind of tim
ber just imported from the Indies.
The doctor, who was furnishing a house
which b* had taken .in .King street,
thought to utilize the.wood for the doors
and wlitdowfi’of his rooms. But tbe build
ers and carpenters refused to have any
thing .to do with it.:.- Tbe grain was ao
close and tho surface so hard that they
could not work it with their tools. Dr.
Gibson toots specimens of the wood to
Wollaston—at that time an eminent cabi
netmaker. A whole suite of furniture was
planned and executed, and at once a new
fashion set in. This was tbe'origin of
mahogany furniture, which in England,
at least, lias survived a 1 ! the changes or a
fluctuating fashion for a period of over a
century and a half.—London Globe.
Attention is called by lbe Raleigh
Kiwi and Observer to tbe strange mis
statement circulated by many Northern
journals, whose conductors ought to know
better, that the South has gained thirty-
five Congressmen by tbe enfranchisement
of tbo negroes. The actual gain of rep.
rcsentatives to tliat. section was only nine.
The mistake arose from counting the ne
groes in a mass, in ignorance od the im
portant fact, or witiiout stopping to con
sider it, that when they were slaves five
of them were reckoned as the equivalent
of three persons in ascertaining the basis
of representation. S^»r from tiie ante
bellum enumeration ot three-fifths ot-the
slaves having given the Squib any ad
vantage over the North, so emiuent a
Massachusetts jurist as Judge Story de
clares with emphasis, In his “Commenta
ries on the Constitution,” that the priva-
tioniof representation of the other two-
fitths to wbicli the South submitted was a
concession in thu interests of tiie Union
of the inof-t patriotic character.
Among tbe outrages reported from Ire
land in a single day are these : A landlord
named Kennedy,' living near Loughrea,
was fired at as lie was walkiug in his gar
den ; the Rev. Mr. Biddulpli, sou of an
extensive landowner In Tipperary, was
fired at from behind a hedge; a landlord,
named Robinson, was driven ont of
AUieury by a mob, who kqd learned that
ho had come to collect his rents; a case of
cattle mutilation occurred iu tiie Parsons-
town district; the Itev. Mr. Vereker, of
Ciaremoms, was assaulted because he
answered a mob, who interrogated him,
that he did not belong to tbe Land
League.
Yorktown celebration to confer with re
gard to preparations for that affair. It
was agreed that the Yorktown Centen
nial Association should to-morrow submit
a programme for the celebration, and that
Urn congressional committee should adopt
ft. This will give to the Yorktown Asso
ciation the duty of arranging the pre
liminaries. Under the programme to be
submitted to-morrow tbe celebration will
last twenty-five days. The United States
government will be allotted the open
ing day (October 6,1881), tbe day of iay
ing the corner stone of the monument
and the doting day. On the opening day
the United States troops and civil officers
will participate, and formally receive the
French visitors. * Then one day will be
allotted to each of tbe original thirteen
States for a display in tbe name of.those
States respectively. This will bring tbe
celebration up to the 19th, ou which day
the corner stone of the monument will be
laid. On that occasion tbe United States
troops, Masons, Odd Fellows and other
organized societies of all kinds will take
part. After the 19th, one day wil! be al
lotted to each of the States that have been
admitted to the Union since the revolu
tionary war, and on the cloeiug day the
United States Government will again take
charge with'a’grand display.
The above Is the proposed ‘outline of
the celebratiou which will probably bo
adopted.
Senator Beown’s Speech on the
Educational Bili The Constitution
has the following blast upon Senator
Joseph E. Brown’s late speech in the Sen
ate on the educatioual bill. Next to tusk
ing a good speech is the securing of a
good trumpeter. The Constitution’s tel
egram displays the powers of a master
upon that wind instrument:
Washington, December 15—Senator
Brown to-day delivered a characteristic
and able speech upon the subject of the
education of the masses by the general
government.
In March ofiast year Senator Burnside
introduced a bill to establish ah educa
tional fund by forever consecrating the
net proceeds of the sales ‘of public lands
and the net proceeds of patents to the ed
ucation of the people. The fund will be
a large one, and will increase from year
to year, it is thought, for many years to
coma. The distribution will bo made for
the first ten years upon the basis
of illiteracy, which will give tbe South
for ten years nearly seven-eighths Of the
fund. ■' ... '■ I,
Senator Brown’s speech attracted pro
foaud. attention, and- the ucauimotis coa-
tueut was that it was replete with states
manship and common sense, as all his
speeches are. When he concluded, Sena
tor. David Davis seized his hand and said
that it was one pf the best speeches
he had heard delivered in the chamber
for years. Senator Hill, ot Georgia, and
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, compli
mented it highly, as did other Democratic
Saunters. Senator HaoiJiii, of Maine,
walked over to Senator Brown and shook
his hand and said that tiie speech contain
ed more good sound business-like, practi
cal common sense than any speech ne had
heard for years. A dozen other Republi
can Senators warmly congratulated him
on his effort—one of them remarking he
liked It because Senator Brown confined
hintself to tbe practical question before
tbe Senate, and there was no politics in
it. He bas been requested to have it tx
tenslveiy circulated iu pamphlet form.
A prominent gentleman from Louisi
ana remarked this evening that he had al
ready subscribed for a considerable num
ber of copies to be, sent to his own State.
No speech this season has attracted any*
thing like as much interest and attention,
and the Gaddistown boy who ploughed
tbe bull, is ..taking rapid, strides to tbe
Democratic leadership of tbe Senate of
these United States.
A Lstdy’a With.
“Oh, how I do visit my skin was as
clear and soft as yours,” said a lady to her
friend. “You can easily make it so,” an
swered the friend. “How 7” inquired tbe
xunc luo nuun jutuv imnuuuu, pm-. first lady. “By using Hop Bitters, that
riding for an adjournment from Decern-1 makes pure, rich blood and blooming
iter 22d to January 5th, was disagreed to I health. It did it for me, at you observe.”
her
by a vote of 27 to 30.
Read of it.—Cairo Bulletin.
2v
The Young Woman Poe^Ji
It is at this time of year,’especially,
■that the presence among us of the young-
woman poet is discovered. With an ear
nest desire to meet tho holiday demand of
the public for a liber&i allowance of verses
in handsome bindings, the publishers give
her her head in a way that at other
seasons of .tbe year, and in their calmer
moments, they would not even dream of
—aud she is the sort of a person to make
the very mostot this favorable opportuni
ty. With the best heart aud tbe liveliest
confidence in her own powers, she dashes
blithely into print—garnering what she
heretofore has given utterance to through
the long-suffering kindness of newspaper
editors, adding thereto some fresh lucu
brations pertinent te the purpose and in
spired..by tbo splendor of book-making,
and casting the whole collection hope folly
out into tiie literary highways of the world,
with that most exacting and exalting word
“Poems" written upon its back.
But the trouble, too often, with these
“poems" is that they are not poems at all.
Tbe misnomer is Dot wilful,, tbe youug
woman does not mean to obtain money
under false pretenses by hawking her wares
by a false name, she simply lies under •
misconception ef the meaning of the word.
In her sweet simplicity she honestly be
lieve that a pcera is any structure in tl e
shape of verse in which tbe metre is
smooth, the lines of corresponding length
and the words at the end of the lines
made to rhyme. Sometimes such is her
boundless faith in tbe elastic character of
the wont poetry, she is roady to avow—
indeed, by her actions she does avow—
that metre and feet and even rhyme itself
may be slaughtered and yet that
through ail this death of its constituent
parts poetry may survive. These are her
views as to the merely mechanical feat
ures of veise. Iu a vague way it is proba
ble that she sometimes may have thought
tliat -verse, to be poetry, should have a
soul; should not be simply au arrange -
meut of words in graceful forms, but a
grouping of such forms about vital, earn
est Ideas. However, her views on this
head never have passed beyond the stage
of nebuise, and they certainly have not
the smallest possible effect in determin
ing her practice. Even wheu the me
chanical construction of her verses is wbat
it should be—and this is not often—of
anything more utterly destitute of soul
than they are it is difficult to ernteeive.
It is out oftbie strange and unhappy
misconception of poetic requirements,
coopted with a not less strange and even
more unhappy misconception of her own
invocation, that the young woman poet ia
made. Taking a base advantage of the
willingness of the publishers to publish
anytliing at this iiappy holiday season
tbat looks like poetry, aud tliat will serve
as an excuse for a pretty binding, she
lays her Offering of alleged poems at tbe
luckless public's feet, aua softly sighs her
soul out, as it were, iu her longing after
fame. It is au evil state of society that
breeds the young woman poet, and hu
manity would be happier were she gone;
not gone utterly out of existinence, only
out of business as a manufacturer of de
fective verses which the world does not
need. Even a young woman poet, being
placed definitely upon the retired list,
may do tbe world good by darning stock-'
tugs and making bread.—Philadelphia
Times.
Try it; keep trying it, and try it again.
We say this because we believe tbat tiie
health, happiueas and prosperity of the
people depend upon the proper use of
these medicines, which have proved so
successful in eradicating diseases and de
feating death. The medicine so effective
in its cure of diseases is tbe great South
ern remedy, Simmons' Liver Regulator.
Try it; we believe that the first trial will
be satisfactory. lw.
Tis autumn, ana the leaves are cry
and rustle on the ground, and chi ) ><
wiuds come whistling by with iow und
pensive sound. To guard against cot ghs
and colds you should go to Lamar, J ton
kin A Lamar’s drug store and get. a bTAle
of Coussen’s Hooey of Tar. Pries V)c.
White's Cream Whits Varmiftige »tbe
bwtwonn killer. oet!2tf
CoL KoCInre on South OBdat,
The brake and faiinted edifdr of tbe
Pht^Melphia Times, one of the most in
fluential of Northern journals, u traveling
Sooth, and thus speaks ot the Palmetto
State in a letter written from' Columbia:
“There is no State in the South that
has more thoroughly learned the true les
son of the war than South Carolina. It
hag ail of Southern pride surviving its
sorrow and desolation; tbe traditions of
its people are as sacred as ever, as they
must be with men who are worth nation
al fellowship; it is not a convert to tbe wis
dom of free labor or the enfrenahisement
of freedom; hut it does thoroughly under*
stand tbat the traditions sndcustoms of
the past belong to the peat, and that civil
rights are as sacred for tbe lowly as for
the mightiest in the land. The two
racer are more nearly in harmor y
In South Carolina than iu any
of the other slave States, and 1 believe
tbat there ia more kind feeling for the
colored man, as a fellowcitizen, in this
State than in any or tbe border States.
Wade Hampton made the first successful
experiment iu dividing tbe colored vote in
1870, and that ended the rigid colored line
in South Carolina. The colored leaders
and their fellow carpet-bagger* had plun
dered tbe common wealth^ impoverished
both whites and blacks, and the. helpless
freedman turned to tbe plantation and to
his old master for com and bacon as a
deliberate and wise choice of evils. Since
then, with the exception of the coast
region, there ha.s been as cordial
harmony - and matnaiitv of interest,
in both politics and bdstaee*, between
the whites and blacks, as is common
in communities of one race, and the
men who are ruling the State te-day are
as jealous of the richts of the colored peo
ple as they are of their own. Schools
have been multiplied In every county
with the must scrupulous equality of edu
cational advantages between the races,
and over eleven hundred colored teachers
are now teaching iu the colored schools in
tbe pay of tbe State. Of the nine colored
members of tho Hooso of Representatives
five are Democrats, and Gov. Havgood
justly voiced tbe sentiment of the State
and of its government when be declared,
In his iast inaugural address, that lbe fa
cilities for the free aud equal education of
both races must be enlarged, as intelli
gence is tbo safety of free government.”
A Ton Cat op the Olden Tike.—.
Genzan Yorimasa was a brave warrior
and a very useful mao, who lived more
than 8,000 moons ago. On account ot hit
valor aud skill in the use of the bow he
was called to Kioto, and promoted to be
chief guard of ihe Imperial palace. At
that time tho Emperor, Laraeito, could
not sleep at night, because his rest waa
disturbed by a frightful beast, which
scared away even the sentinels iu armor
who stood on guard.
Tbe dreadful beset had tho wings of a
bird, the body and claws of a' tiger, the
head of a monkey, a serpent tail, and tbe
crackling scales of a dragon. It came af
ter uigbt upon the roof of the palace, and
bowled and scratched so dreadfully that
the pocr Mikado, losing all rest, grew
weak and thin. Noue of the guards dare
face it in hand-to-hand fight, and none
had skill enough to hit it with an arrovt
iu the dark, though several of tho Impe
rial corps of arcliei* bad tried again and
again. When Yorim&sta received hU
appointment, he strung his bow carefully,
aud carefully honing his steel-headed
arrows, stored his quiver, and resolved
to mount guard tbat night
with his favorite retainer. It
chanced to be a stormy night. The light-'
ning was very vivid, and Karaiuari, the
thuudergod, was beating alt his drums.
Tho wind swirled around frightfully, aa
though Fuden, tlio wind god, was empty
ing all his bags. Toward midnight, the
falcon eve of Yoritnasasaw, duriDg a flash
of lightning, the awful beast sitting on the
“devil’s tile” at the tip of tbe ridge pole
on the northeast end of the roof. He
bade his retainer have a torch of straw
and twigs ready to light at a moment’s
notice, to loosen his blade and wet its
hilt-pin, while he fitted the notch of hia
best arrow to the silk cord of his bow.
Keeping his eyes, strained, he pretty
soon saw tho glare of one eyoj now two
eyes, as the beast, with swaying head,
crept along the great roof to the place on
the eaves direetly under the Mikado's
sleeping room. There it stopped.
This was’Yorimasa’sopportunity. Aim
ing about a foot to the right, of where he
saw tbe eye glare, he drew his yard-length
shaft clear back to his shoulder and let
fly. A dull thud, a frigbtfu! howl, a heavy
bump on the ground and the writhing of
some creature among the pebbles told in a
few seconds’time that the shaft had struck
flesh. Tbe next instant Yorimasa’s re
tainer rushed out with a biasing torch and
joined battle with liis dirk. Seizing the
beast by the neck, he quickly despatched
him by cutting his throat. Then they
flayed the monster, and ihe next morning
the hide was 1 shown to His Majesty.
Ail congratulated Yorimasa on his valor
and marksmanship. Many young men,
sons of nobles, begged to become his pn^.
pils in archery. The Mikado ordered a
noble of very high rank to present Yorfe
mass a famous sword named Shlsni-no o
(King of Wild Boars), and to give him a
lovely maid of ltouor named Avaml to
wife. And so the brave and the fair were
married, and to this day the fame of
Yorimasa is like tiie “anre-take-matsu”
(plum blossom, bamboo and pine), Irag-
raut, green and ever enduring.—Japanese
Fairy World.
Cheap Light Wanted.—In a suit
pending at Cleveland between the Stan
dard Oil Company and outside refiners, it
was in evidence tbat the price of oi! for
household use is about 20 cents per gallon,
whereas it could be sold at a ^ood profit
for 12 cents per gallon. An unjust corpo
ration tax of 8 cents per gallon upon the
poor man’s light is a bard thing to bear,
in the course of a year si amounts to mil
lions of dollars. This is the penalty paid
lor sending dolts to the Legislature to
grind out charters for scheming monopo
lists. For many years there bavo been
ten Representatives at Harrisburg inter
ested in laws to prey upon the people,
where there has beeu one with ability and
courage to expose them.—Record.
Tbe \ oltatc Belt Company, Marshall
Michigan, will send their celebrated
Electro-Voltaic Belts to the afflicted upon
thirty days trial. Speedy cures guaran
teed. They mean what they lay. Write
to them without delay.
Or. Wllllta A. Gnstw,
Macon, Ga., writes: I hare tested the
virtues of Coldeu’s Liebig’s Liquid Ex
tract of Beef in debility, weakness, de
pression, dyspepsia, loss of appetite and
nervous afflictions, and have found it the
best remedy I aver used. Sold by all
druggists.^ lw.
A Poster Mode Happy.
I have been- greatly troubled with my
kidneys aud liver for over twenty years,
and during that entire time I was never
free from pain. My medical bills were
enormous, aud I visited both
the Hot and White Springs,
noted for tbe curative qualities of
the water. 1 am happy to say that 1 am
now a well man, and entirely as tbe re
sult of Waruer’s Safe Kidney aud Liver
Cure. Not only this, but ray little dough
ter has been cured of St. Vitus’ Dance by
Warner’s Safe Nervine, whicli I always
keep in my family. With such glorious
results, 1 am only too glad to testify re
garding the remedies which have made
me so happy. Rev. P. F. Markleb.
Coai Run Crossing, Arkansas.
A roal-tsMiM Naosn
is even worse lhau a foul-mouthed man.
But no one need be foul-mouthed if they
will only use Sozodont and rub it in well.
Don’t spire tbe brush and spoil the mouth,
as some parents do witli their children
when they withhold the rod. lw.
Sara Bernhardt had the duties on
the contents of her truuks remitted by
claiming that her magnificent stage
dresses were the necessary implements and
belongings of her profession, which she
could only wear on the stage. “Wearing
apparel in actual use,” and “implements
and tools of trade” are on the free list.
While tbe stage paraphernalia cannot be
said to be in “actual use,” yet such arti
cles are Sara’s “Implements and tools at
trade.”
