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BAKIEVS GRANDMAMMA.
•No, sir!’ paid D,i. Stone, emphatical
ly; ‘no widows for me; I have an un
conquerable aversion to them, and have,
followed old Weller’s advice to Siimivel
since my earliest boyhood, and most
carefully beware 'of them. - If ever I
marry the bride must be. a young girl;
go young, in fact, that lean' be almost
'gore—no one can be quite sure of any
thing where a woman is concerned—
that I am her first and only—don’t
screw up your face in that .outrageous
manner, Payne; yon look as if you were
going to have a fit. Laugh and have
done with it, and then let’s stop talking
nonsense, I have not the slightest idea
of marrying or falling in love, or any
thing of that sort’ ;
‘No' old bachelor ever has,’ said
Payne. ‘But I say, Doc. if I were you
I’d have a neat little" card hanging from
a button-hole bouquet, with the inscrip
tion, ‘No Widows,’ foi*, ’pon. honor,you
are exactly the sort of a chap a well-to-
do pretty, susceptible widow woald be
spoons on. Handsome, clever, and just
.tamed forty
‘Stuff!’ growled the doctor. ‘What a
fool you are Payne!’ And then, glauc-
iog from the office window, he contin
ued, as his friend,, with a mischievous
twinkle in his eyes, was about making
some further remarks. ‘And do be si
lent a few moments if such a thing is
• possible, for here comes young Philips’
nursemaid, and iu a hurry, too, which
is something remarkable for tlint usual
ly easy-going and eminently genteel
young person. ‘Well, my girl,’ as she
entered the office: ‘what is tbe mut
ter?’ .
‘Ob, doctor,’ she gasped; baby’s took
very sick, and we’re awful scared, and
his mother is away, and won’t bo home
till night.’
‘Wouldn’t bo much good if she wa
muttered the doctor; ‘a young bit of a
thing lookiug like a baby herself.’
‘One of the kind a man might be al
most sure had never loved another—
hey Stone?’ asked Payne.
But Dr. Stone vouchsafed him no re
ply.'
‘Who’s with the child now?’ he in
quired of the frightened girl.
‘The seamstress, sir. Wo nave sent
for bis grandmamma, but we’ro afraid
she’s away from home too, ’cause Mrs,
Philips scarcely ever goes shopping with
out her.’
‘Well, run ahead; I’ll be there in a'
moment,’ struggling into his overcoat.
‘And Payne take care of the office, I
won’t be long. There’s a uew book on
Burgery to amuse yourself with until I
come back. Capital article where the
leaf is turned down—a man blown al
most to pieces-•but find it _for your-
Belf.’ •
‘Thank you,’said Payne;‘but if it’s
all the same to yon, old fellow, I- pre
fer something not quite so amusing.’
When Dr. Stone arriyed at the dwel
ling of the Philips’s the nurse-maid in
formed him, as she opened the door,
‘that the baby had taken a turn for the
belter, dear lamb, and had been sleep
ing peacefully for the last ten minutes.
‘I’ll tako a look at tne - little fellow,’
said the doctor springing lightly up the
atairs and gently opening the door of
the nursery, r
The baby lay in its crib fast asleep,
and by its side, hoi ling one tiny hand,
sat a very pretty woman, who, at the
first glance,.the doctor decided to be
about twenty—at the next, at least
twenty-five. Her golden hair was knot
ted with artistic carelessness atitlie back
of her small, shapely bead, a few pretty
tendril-like curls escaping to lie like
sunbeams on her broad low- brow. Her
eyes were large, soft, bright, dark-
brown and shaded by long silky lashes.
Her nose, slightly ‘tip-tilted’ as Tenny
son has it, lent an archness to her face
which otherwise, with such eyes And so
• perfect a month aud oliin, wonld have
been ‘faultily faultless.’ Her dress, of
some lustreless gray stuff, with a bright
blue ribbon at tbe throat and soft lnce-
raffles at the wrist, cluDg close to a
beautiful form; and the hand that held
the baby’s was small, snowy white, and
delicately shaped. All of which the
doctor takes in at three quick glances,
after the manner of his kind.
‘A seamstress—a princess!” was the
judgement he pronounced mentally as
bo drew off his gloves, and with unusn
al nrbaifity, proceeded to make some
professional inquiries about the child.
The seamstress answered in a won
derfully pleasant voice, and in a remark
ably well-bred manner: ‘Baby seems to
be all right now,’ she said; ljut I think
y°n had better wait a little while Joc-
h>r, for fear the spasms might return.’
The doctor seated himself not at all
the baby still slumbered entered
reto converse with his beautiful ccm-
Pauiou. In a few moments he found
imself turning over the leaves of a
‘owning which he bad taken from a
E ky ber side, and then in an*
ue r few moments, giving her to his
®**t surprise, his opinion of that wri-
te r and his works.
Srcnt surprise, for the
a •> or was r eally a shy, reserved man,
Prett« 0ta * all given to talking poetry to
• As he went on, waxing eloquent, it
su ddenly struck him that a needle-wo
man would not be familiar with these
poems, and be paused, to have her, to
his great surprise, take up tbe subject
and deliver a criticism far better and
clever than his own.
From Browning and that more re
splendent genius, liis" wife, to Tenny
son, Dickens, Thackeray, and at last
George Eliot, of whom tbe seamstress'
spoke with a deeper crimson on her
her cheek and a brighter light in her
glorious brown, eyes. . ‘Silas Maraer,’
she said, .‘is the loveliest—’ But by this
time the doctor had become so interest
ed in watching the play of the prettily
curved lips and the bewitching dimples
that came and went with every smile, he
In September, 1836, General Arm
strong’s brigade of Tennessee volun
teers, en route to Florida, camped near
tbe southern boundary of Alabama.—
We bad to procure our water from a
swamp near by, where we fonnd cotton-
month snakes more plentiful ■ than we
ever saw them before. One of the men
killed a rattlesnake, and by getting as
sistance by driving a peg through its
head, he fastened to a large pine tree
on the side of the road, so that when we
moved off in the morning every man in
the army might see it I talked day be
fore yesterday with my then Captain,
now Judge T. M. Jones, of the Su
preme Bench of this State. He says
ceased to hear what tbe enthusiastic 1 *be snake’s head was higher than his
speaker was saying, and when she look
ed him straight in'the face and asked:
‘Don’t you agree with me, doctor?’ He
was obliged to stammer: ‘I beg a thou
sand pardons, bat what was your last re
mark?’
‘It is I who should beg pardon,’ said
the pretty seamstress, with a charming
grimace. ‘How * thoughtless I have
been. Of courso you have * patients
waiting for yon. How could I go on
so?’
The doctor wished she’d go an forev
er,
‘But pray don’t stay another minute;
only tell me what to do if the baby is
taken sick again, and if I find that I
can’t manage him 1 will send for yon
immediately. I hope, however, to be
able to get along without you.’
The doctor hoped she wouldn’t—in
ternally, of course—and then he said,
‘I assure you madam, I have still anoth
er hour at your service.’ Oh, wicked
Dr. Stone! and old Mrs. Aspen groan
ing with the rheumatism and expecting
yon by appointment this blessed mo
ment! ‘I shall be only too happy to
stay —X mean—I think it necessary I
should remain. These childish com
plaints are, as perhaps you are not
aware, often very dangerous.’
And again, oh. wicked Dr. Stone!
for you know you are quite sure nothing
serious is the matter with the baby!—
Prescribe for yourself, doctor.. It iS
you who have cought a dangerous mala
dy. In spite of your sneers aud scoffs
all yonr life long at the tender passion
—in spite of your emphatic declaration
not more than an hour ago—you have
fallen in love, and she isn’t sweet six
teen, and she is—a seamstress!
‘A princess!’ tie repeated to himself
ngaiu, and then he said aloud, ‘I will at
least remain until the baby's grand
mamma ai rives.’
‘Ob, if that is all that detains you,
go at once,’ said the fair oue with' the
golden locks, a mischievous smile dan
cing over her lovely lips and in her big
brown eyes. ‘She is here.”
‘Here?’ repeated • tbe doctor.—
Where? ’
‘ Why, didn’t nurse tefl you? I am
baby’s grandmamma, and dotingly fond
of my'grandson, too.' then out burst
the merriest little laugh, that was hush
ed for fear of waking the sleeping child,
for the doctor’s face was a comical study.
A dozen different expressions were min
gled there, ns her remembered the girl-
wife—Mrs. Philips had once spoken to
him others veet mamma—a widow, and
a widow for tbe second time. Bnt who
could have dreamed of such a widow,
such a mamma, and such a grandmam
ma? Scarcely knowing what ho did he
bowed himself from the room, forget
ting all about the directions be was to
leave, and hastened into the street.
‘Good heavens, bow preposterous!' he
exclaimed, as soon as he recovered his
senses; ‘and how beautiful!’
And just six months from that day
Payne was shouting at the tup of bis
voice in tbe doctor’ office: ‘Halim! ha!
Be groomsman? Of course I will, old
fellow! But when I think of tbe young
girl who never loved another transform
ed into a double widow—ha! ha! ha!—
and a grandmother in the bargain—bo!
ho! ho!
‘If you don’t shut yonr mouth,
Payne,’ said the doctor, seriously,
‘you’ll have a terrible cold on your
lungs, and I won’t answer for tbe con
sequences.”
Bob /totes-
Do not allow natural swarming at
all.
Tbe old qnecn rlways gees with the
swirm. '
Itaspberry honey is said to be second
to none in flavor.
Keep all colonies strong, aad the
moth wilTnot trouble them.
A young, weak or discontented swarm
is easily set to work by oiving them a
onwiliingly, it must be confessed, and1®“* from another liive.
trhile the babv still slumbered entered The existence of the young depends
on the liquidity of the saccharine food,
presented to them, and if light were al
lowed access to this, in all probability
it would prove fatal to the inmates of
the hive.
To make the most money ont of your
nearest market town, establish a “hon
ey route,” agreeing to deliver a. jar ev
ery week or two weeks, as Ihe custom
er may prefer. If this is effectually
done, aud pains taken to deliver the
own though he was seated on a tall
horse; it was five or six inches in diam
eter; he thinks it was eight feet long,
and had, I think, twenty-five rattles.
There was a rattlesnake, a live one,
brought into town last week, that treas
ured four feet eight inches in length,
three inches in diameter, aud had twen
ty-seven rattles.
Some thirty years .ago, when making
a survey on the head-waters of Big
Creek, I came upon two rattlesnake's ly
ing stretched across my path, their
heads in opposite directions. They
were about the same size, four feet long
each, and about three inches in diame
ter,
I waited until iny marker came up
and showed them to him. “Can’t you
go up quietly and slowly and with your
hatclret cut off the head of
the snake on your right, and then mov
ing briskly strike the head from the
one on the left, before the dying strug
gles of the other will arouse it?” He
looked, at his hatchet; the handle was
only a foot long. He shook his head.
“Here,” said I, “take my compass and
give me the hatchet, I can do it.” “No,
sir,” says he, “if you can, I can.”—
‘Certainly, only be cool and steady;
strike a sure blow, and there is no dan
ger.” He did it. Before either moved
both heads were severed fiom their
bodies.
After the war ended, whore once was
a beautiful wood lot was now an un
sightly waste, through which meander
ed a small creek, and when the spring
time came tbe blue grass grew as luxu
riantly upon it as ever.. It was about a
mile from town, and Major Billy was in
the habit of riding out of an evening to
graze bis horse. One evening, to his
surprise, he saw fifteen or twenty largo
yellow suckers lying on a sand-bar in
the creek. He rode back home, got a
minnow net, and soon landed them.—
Running after the fish had heated him
'considerably, as the weather was warm;
he pulled off his coat, unbuttoned his
collar, and wrapping the halter around
the wrist of his right hand, lay down in
the shade of a tree to cool off. Whilst
lying upon his back and looking up at
the clouds passing slowly over him, his.
thoughts reverted to the time wheu the
Federals evecuated Tennessee, and the
box of .cartridges he fished' up out of
the creek, and how he and his son Wil
liam, after taking off tbe balls, put the
powder in a large iron pot and set it by
the fire to dry—the fire popped, a coal
described a segment of a circle and
dropped into the powder. “Fall back,
William, fall back,” says tbe Major.—
William had “done fell” out of the
door. The Major was so badly burned
that it was several weeks before be re
covered.
And then be thought of the time when
he hired a soldier to steal - a horse for
him, and just as be mounted he beard
the word “halt!” and as bedashed down
the bill twentyy musket balls whizzed
over his head. There was “music in
the a-r” as he crossed the bottom, but
he escaped with the loss of his hat only.
While running on such pleasant rem-
niscences, the Major fell asleep, He
can tell the balance. Be said: “My
friend, God bless you, something crawl
ing over my face waxed me; I thought
at first it was the baiter, but there was
a cold slick feeling about the thing that
made'my flesh crawl. I opened my
eyes. There was a large water mocca-
s : n, his head raised about six inches
above my nose, one glittering eye look
ing straight snto mine, bis tongue play
ing in and ont of bis mouth like sheet
lightning- during a hurricane. My
friend, God bless you! I expect I hol
lered, for that snake tucked his head,
and seeing my shirt collar open,, and
tbinking-it a safe hiding place, glided
down into my bosom.
“Stranger, I have .had .the cholera,
the small-pox, been blown up with gun
powder, and shot at by Yankees, but
that was the worst scrape I ever got in
to. That snake was squirming about
the pit of my -stomach, his head on one
side, his tail on the other, just a tick
ling. me in' tbe short ribs. How I got
out of that shirt I don’t know. The
first thing I recollect was- seeing that
snake’s tail disappear under a pile of
brush in the creek.”
“Major, were you scared?”
“Well, slightly, stranger; God bless
you, slightly—yes, sir, slightly!”—Phil-
’ ’ ’ ' " irrdsno'idence Cincinnali Com-
Tbe report declarations of Mr.
George W. Childs afforded the strongest
assurances yet given that General Grant
does not contemplate being a candidate
for a third Presidential term, but is al
ready making arrangements- for a diff
erent kind of life. It must have occurr
ed to every reflecting politicians that
General Grant conld not, with due
regard to his own fame, afford to go into
what is called “scramble” for the nomi-
tion—he conld only take it as a free and
pressing tender by his party to serve
them in an emergency. It is now appa
rent, and has been for some time, that
he cannot secure the nomination with
out a contest, and we were therefore
not at all surprised either by his report
ed conversation with a Chinese dignitary
or the positive statements of Mr. Childs,
Indeed our readers are aware that we
have for some time suspected that the
Grant “boom” was an'artifice in behalf
of some favorite (like Conkling or Wash
burn) to whom his strength was to be
transferred when the convention met.
4The declension of General Grant, as
well as tbe disgrace of Conkling, can
hardly 'fail to enure to the advan
tage of Sherman, who bade fairtobe the
formidable contestant against all oppo
sition. Unless some unexpected turn
is soon given to the canvass, we do not
see how Sherman is to be “headed-'’
He seems to have an open sea and to be
steadily nearing his goal. A bad defeat
of his party in Ohio, in October next,
may be damaging to bis prospects, but
Ohio contests are usually so close as to
give the beaten party good reasons to
hope that is can retrieve its loss with a
mere change of the personel of its tick
et, and we see no good reason to.look
for the overwhelming defeat of either
party this year in Ohio.
We shall not regret it if Sherman is
made tbe nominee of his party, because
we believe that it will have much to d°
in influencing the Democratic party to
make, the contest in the' manner which
wc regard as most promising of suceess.
Sherman is eminently the representative
of the financial policy of his party, and
all their efforts to make this subordinate
to questions of a sectional character will
be futile while sherman is the candidate.
They must stand upon the financial plat
form of opposition to an increase of the
Greenback circulation; in favor of an in
crease of the bonded debt,at least no dim-
nntion of it by the substitution of green
backs; a continual hoarding of coin to
meet highly improbable contingencies:
and an opposition to the healthy expan
sion demanded by the business and
commercial interest of the country.
The Democftitic party is the natural op
ponent of such a policy as this, aud if it
makes the contest distinctly and unmis
takably upon this issue, it.mnst either
thereby effect a close alliance with the
Greenbackers or it will draw from the
latter their strength by leaving them no
independent plank to stand upon. We
believe that an immense majority of the
people of the country are opposed to
the policy which Sherman’s candidacy
must necessarily make tbe prominent
issue in the cavass; that if he-is the re
publican nominee tbe Democrats must
and will antagonize him and bis policy
by the nomination of a Western man
upon tbe opposite financial policy and its
representative. For this reason we are
not at all disconcerted by events which
seem to work together in favor of tbe
nomination of Sherman.—Allanla Dis
patch.
The announcement that Nordenskjold,
the intrepid Swedish explorer, has pass
ed with hiBgood ship, the Yega, through
Behring’s strait and is now safe in Pa
cific waters, is of far more of importance
than the journals of the country have
accorded it. It means that the north
western pa ssage has not only been discov
ered, bnt it has been made practicable.
The Yega soiled from a Swedish port
six months" ago with the purpose of
sailing through to San Francisco with-
ont going around. The coarse of the
stout ship was matched with interest ns far
as human skill could follow it. It was
seen to pass .the highest point of Asia
and to fairly settle down in the cold
waters of the polar sea. Then we heard
reports that it had been caught in the
ice and was frozen up. Later it was
reported that it had been sighted by
some whalers who had come through
Behring’s strait from the Pacific. Now
we hear that it has passed through all
its troubles, and is safe on its way to
San Francisco.
Tbe arrival of this ship in the harbor
of the golden city, will be an event of most
tremendous import. There is only one
trouble, and that is that we do not be
lieve the report that the ship is safely
through the straits. We put the whole
thing down as improbable; and yet this
brave leader with the unpronounceable
name, has been successful in his former
explorations to a degree that it looks as if
be was gifted with inspiration. He has
fairly astounded the European govern
ments with his work. He has had no
fancy theories to advance, but he went
quietly about bis work. While other
men - theorized, he explored, and by bis
extraordinary luck, or or his wonderful
sagacity, he so won the confidence of
the Russian and the Swedish govern
ments that they backed him in the
most ample and efficient manner. We
cannot bnt doubt that he has sncceded
as fully as the telemams have suggest
ed, and yet, it is not at - all impossible
that he will jet pull through the frozen
waters, and moving like a phantom ih p
out of tne polar waters glide iuto the
sunlit waters of the Pacific.—Courier-
Journal.
Justice to tbe Farmer.
Thorough Cooking.
‘ y women, but this woman was so j honey in attractive shape, there will be Montgomery, Ala.,
tl1 - 1 no difficulty in disposing of it, 100 new buildings.
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It is one of the most common mis
takes of the cook to give too little time
to tbe cooking of meat and vegetables.
She is careless about getting them over
tbe fire in season, and to make up for
tbe delay she attempts to rush things
by using a very hot fire, spoiling the
food by too furioas boiling or baking.
Hard boiling toughens tbe fibre of
meat and spoils tbe texture of vegeta
bles, but a long steady boiling beat
gradually softens or makes tender the
toughest fibres. Many persons sup
pose that ceitain articles of food do not
agree with them, when the whole diffi
culty arises from the imperfect manner
in which they are prepared- Some veg
etables are thought to be especially pro
vocative of flatulence, but a more thor
ough cooking usually remedies. that
evil. Flatulence has other causes, as
over-eating or too great a proportion of
sugar in the diet, but those articles of
food which are usually associated with
the evil may be robbed of these terrors
by a more prolonged cooking. Cook
dry beans several hours—a gentle bnt
steady simmering—live hours are not
too many, even after an all-night soak
ing. Dry peas need thesame treatment.
Vegetables need more and moreitime as
they grow older. By spring, ruta
bagas need cooking almost half a day,
and onions should be boiled an hour or.
more. Salsify aud parsnips, especially
the former, need more than the twenty
There are very few farmers who will
not appreciate the following tribute to
their profession, delivered by Judge
Farrar, at the • fair of Amelia county.
Virginia: “The term ‘clodhopper’ will
soon cease to be a term of reproach.—
Why sbonld not the farmer be the first
aud the foremost—the peer of the high
est? His manner of life makes him in
dependent, tolerant and happy. Above
the smile3 and frowns of the fickle pub
lic, his empire is his home, his domin
ion his smiling fields, with no inspira
tion for duplicity, no temptation fur in
trigue and chicanery. Free from the
bickerings of fashionable society, none
of the jealousies of professional life mo
lest. the even tenor of his way. What
are tbe honors of the world to him?
When the toils of the day are ever, he
finds his greatest pleasure in the sweet
rest of home. Why should he not be
the truest of patriots? Will ho not strike
for the home.be has earned by honest
toil? The homeless, shiftless adventu
rer can never feel such a holy devotion
fora country os the one who has a home
to love and a hearthstone to defend.
Magnify as you please the laws and the
constitution, it is the strong home feel
ing that gives the potent influence. The
man who has a spot on earth, where he
has planted a tree or his wife has nurs
ed a flower in the hour of trial, will
evince a devotion and heroism that will
put to shame the hollow pretensions of
all the blatant politicians and dema
gogues in the land. And, above all,
a farmer should be the best of Chris
tians. His life is farther removed from
temptations and worldly influences; bis
mode of life should fill bis mind with
grand and holy conceptions of .bis God,
and bis dependence on the benefac
tions of a kindly Providence.”
Republican papers have bad much
to say lately in regard to tho action of
the people of Yazoo county, Mississip
pi, in forcibly preventing one H. M.
Dixon from becoming a candidate ‘for
Sheriff, and in compelling him, even at
the muzzle of the shot-gun, to pledge
himself not to become a candidate. Tbe
occurrence has been put forth as an il
lustration of the alleged lawless disposi
tion of the Southern Democracy, and of
their resolve to crush out by force and
violence ull opposition. It has been
used as a text by the*republican papers
from which to preach the doctrine that
Democracy in the South means intoler
ance, intimidation and disregard of law.
We’ve been tauntingly asked have we no
opinion on this subject tli=it we dare to
give. We answer, now, that we have an
opinion. And with the true facts in the
case before us, as given in this morn
ings paper, facts which are stated upon
authority no man will question, we say
that the actiOD of the Yazoo people in
the case of H. M. Dixon was right and
perfectly justifiable. Who wss this
Dixon who was prevented from becom
ing a candidate for Sheriff? According
to the testimony herewith published he
was a desperado of the worst character,
a man who had been three times indict
ed for murders which' he never denied
having committed; who shot down men
in the streets deliberately and in cold
blood; who committed the worst and
basest of crimes openly and shameless
ly; who surrounded himself with a mob
of bullies, cut-throats and villians as
deeply dyed as himself; and who, to
crown .his work of infamy, tried to stir
up a war of races, and incite the negroe
to insurrection o rriot. This is the
man whom tho decent and respectable
people of the South, fearing for their
lives and the sanctity of their homes:
forcibly stopped in his infamous work
aud this is the man whom tho Republi
cans have been holding up ns an iuno
cenc and independent-minded citizen
persecuted for his opinions. Now that
the true fnets have appeared, republi
cans are welcome toany comfoi t that they
can derive from the Yazoo affair. Their
hero has turned out a miscreant and a
murderer; his “independent” candidacy
an attempt to excite riot and provoke
bloodshed, and -the “intimidation,’ on
the part of the people thero a necessary
step to defend their lives and homes
against imminent and deadly peril inci
ted b.v a desperate vidian, whom
righteous retribution has finally over
taken.—Columbus (0.) Democrat, Aug.
20.
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The Tenth Census-
A special from Rome states that tbe
negroes there have tbe ezodus fever
badly and will hold a big meeting on
the subject next Saturday. It is sta
ted one of the main inducements held
ont by the advocates is that every ’cul-
lud lady will have a white husband,
and every ’cullud gemmen a white
wife.
On Sunday evening last little Charlie
Mapp of Rome, about ten years of age,
while throwing a stone at a chicken,
accidentally lilt his brother Frank, aged
thirteen years, just - back of the ear,
causing his death in a few moments.
Fifty millions'of dollars, or fifty dol
lars for every, man, woman and child in
the State, is what the Minnesotiaus .ex
pect from their wheat crop tLis year.
And the people of Georgia may reason-
aoly expect fifty millions of dollars, or
nearly fifty dollars for each man wo
man and child in the State, for their
cotton crop of this year. But the mis
chief is it takes twice the labor and ex
pense to raise fifty dollars worth of
worth of wheat. There is where the
shoe pinches. Cannot our farmers do
minutes boiling usually prescribed for something to make, more clear
them. * out of their labor?—AilarUa Disr>
ycting Gov, Wiltz -has received
communication from tbe Department of
the Interior giving the apportionment
of supervisors of the next General cen
sus of the United States and Territories.
Three supervisors have been assigned
to Louisiana. New York has eleven,
Pennsylvania ten, Illinois and Ohia
eight, Missouri seven, Texas six, Geor
gia, Tennessee aud Kentucky five, Ala
bama, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina
and Wisconsin four, California, ' Kan
sas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minne
sota, Mississippi, New Jersey and
South Carolina two, Colorado, Dela
ware, Florida; New Hampshire, Oregon,
Bhode Island, Vermont, the Territories
and the District of Columbia one. Tbe
apportionments have been made after a
careful consideration of the proba
ble exigencies of enumeration
each section of tbe country, having ref
erence to tbe extent of territory, the
compactness or sparseness cf the settle
ment, especially the occurrence of cities
and large town, the existing facilities ol
transport and postal communication,
the various constituents of tbe popula
tion, and tbe nature of the principal
industries pursued; at least so says
Francis A. Walker, superintendent of
census, m a letter to Hon. Carl Schurz,
Secretary of the Interior. , »
The Swiss Government abolished tbe
death penalty some years ago, and its
prisons are in const qnence filled with
criminals. The government finds the
support of these convicts somewhat ex
pensive and yet cannot afford to turn
them loose on tho country. It is said
a solution of the difficulty has finally
reached, which is to ship the aforesaid
criminals to the United Sates as emi
grants. The practice is already pur
sued by the German * Grand Duchy of
Maehlenbnrg-Scliwerin, which uses
Chicago as its penal settlement and pays
the passage of all its criminals to that
city.
The Russian and English comrnis
sicnjrs have seriously differed relative
to the delimitation of the Russo-Turk
isb Asiatic frontier, each disputing the
accuracy of the'other’s map. Negotia
tions on this subject liavo been sus
pense to raise Hity dollars worth of pcl;de(1 for the prt . sent .
cotton that- it does to raise fifty dollars
n-i — .i Two hundred citizens of Dallas have
signed a petition to tlieGovemor to cal,
an exlra session of the legislature to re-
labor?—Atlanta Dispatch. ' peal the Suday law.
For people with skin
bolic ba*hlfchoni,
Always take a
and iu tepid water,
robust, %
Twenty minutes in the smoke of wool*
will take the pain out of the worst"
wound, and repeated once or twice,- it*
will allay the worst case of inflamma-”
tion arrisiDg from a wound we ever 1 '
saw.
The prime conditions i
house depends upon c
air aud unpolluted water,
aud thorough removal t
tho perfect exclusion of all foul ma
arising outside the house.-
■ When a finger pricks as though there”
was a thorn in it, and throbs intolera-”
bly when held downward, and yet there'
is no external sign of mischief, the’
probabilities are that a felon is in pros 1 '
pect says an exchange. Go at once to'
tho butcher’s and procure some of the’
spinal marro w of a beef creature. Take”
a piece, say about two inches in length-*
wise, wrap it around the affected finger,’
covering of course with cloth. In afew'
hours change tbe piece of marrow for a 1
fresh cue, and continue to keep the”
finger so encased until all pain has'ceas-*
ed and there is no discomfort when the 1
marrow is removed. The finger will*
look strangely white and porous, but ’
tbe cure is complete. This remedy
ought to become professional. It is*
vastly better tban tbe surgeon’s knifes
and more effectual. -
A Human'Otter, ■
Some one writing from Reedy river;*.
S. C., to the Charleston News and Cott--
rier says: Reedy river is a poor stream •
for fish. Perhaps by a wLoIe day’s fish
ing tbe angler may be rewarded by-’
one-half dozen little catfish. We bad ai
visit last week from the Rabtmrs creek-
fishing otter, Wm. Vaughn. He-said t
there were fish in the river and he hndl
come after them. Its was amusing to *
see bun in the shoals, diving down un
der the rocks and bringing up the cats;;
sometimes he would come np with one -
in each hand, and occasionally, witlii
three fish, one in his mouth and onein>
each band. After fishing tbe shoal be
tried bis band on the suckers and red!
horses in the deeper water, diving:
down nnderthe banks,-, and bringing.;
up tbe fish in bis hands. He caught ,
about twenty five suckers,weighing one,’.'
two and three pounds each, Vaughn >
has been known to catch ns high as six:
suckers at one time in his hands. He»
says, when under the water he can rub’ 1
a sucker on tbe side stnd it will lie asjstill l
as.ajngwben you are scratching its '>
side. I think we had better ship him
down to the city and let you make him ‘
a submarine diver. If he was on tho
sea const, where fish are so plentiful, he»
wonld show something extraordinary in i
the fishing line...
Cabbage Worms,,
Jarring the cabbages Inoticed*would'j
cause those of both kinds that were eat
ing the outer leaV&s to fall to the ground,
where they can be killed. Boards plac
ed among the cabbages, raised a couple
of inches from the ground, will serve*as
a place for the-worms to change lo chry-
alitls, where these can be destroyed once.
a week. This and the insect parasites;
together with the birds, are sure to les-_
sen Ihe nnmber. One writer says that
he steeped sweet elder leaves and sprink-.
led tho cabbages with the decoction,
whioh ki'led ths worms. The remedy I-
use is hand picking. As my garden
was small this answered e very purpose.
I usually hunted them early in the.
morning when they were in a position
to be readily seen.—G. H. French.
The Cutbbert Southron says but few.
know to-day the extent of grape cult,
ure and wine manufacture in Randolph
county. Some years ago a few.
pioneers in this branch of industry test
ed the matter, and fonnd that there was.
a handsome margin for profit in the.
production of wine, and numbers of
vineyards have sprang up in every part
the county which are now flourishing
and vigorous, turning out thous
ands of gallons of wine annually. These,
lands seem to be" tbe home of the grape,
especially the senppernong variety, and)
a good vineyard there is a fortune to its
possessor.
There are 11,00 colored Catholics in,
one ward in New Orleans.
■Major -John S. Branton, collector at
the port of Norfolk, Va., is dead.
Foxes are over running the ctuulry.
.round Fair river, in Lincoln county.
Missippi.
To keep apples from decaying, put
them in a cool place—w.iere there is a
targe family of children.
It is better to dwell on a house-top,
than in a tent with a woman who wants
a new bonnet.
