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Sod Houses.
On the prairies, far from the woods,
where log cabins are impracticable, the
sod house is made as a substitute. To
build one, a man goes on to the prairie
with his team and breaking plow, and
turns a straight smooth sod some three or
four inches thick. This sod is very tough.
When sufficient has been turned over
the sod is cut into squares and laid up in
a wall as though it were flat stones. Do*
frames and window frames are set in as
the wall rises. When the height of one
story is reached a small timber is set np
at each end, and a ridge-pole placed upon
them, and the sod wall built up or mto
the gable. On this ridge there rest smaller
poles for rafters, and on these sod is laid
in courses, the oourses overlapping each
other like shingles, “ so many inch, es to
the weather.” The only money outlay
is caused by windows and doors. If weft
built, the house will staud for years.
Inside one may “sweeten to taste.” In
the ruder huts the walls are left uncov
ered. In others some are covered with
cheap and cloth, some with building paper
wall paper pasted over it, while some
are plastered and made as comfortable as
any room need to be. Once inside, you
would not know but you were in a stone
or brick house. Then you will some¬
times find elegant furniture, the remains
of better days, sometimes a piano and
the skill to play it; choice books, which
indicate literary tastes; the latest pa¬
pers and magazines, which show that the
inmates keep up with the times. Indeed,
it is surprising to know how many families
of refinement and cultured taste, being
unfortunate, the make a fresh start in life on
vast prairies.
What Vanderbilt Might Do with HU
Money.
Some one has made a very curious
calculation of what Mr. Vanderbilt could
do with his money. William H. Van¬
derbilt’s income from his investments in
$51,000,000 bonds 4-per-cent. Government
is represented at $5,000 daily,
which is $208.25 per hour, $3.47 per
suming minute, or over 5 cents per second. As¬
that he is paid by the second,
be cannot possibly spend his money, as
he could not select his purchases and lay
down the prices fast enough. He could
not throw it away; to pick up, cast, re¬
cover, him pick up and cast again would tako
through two seconds, and, if he worked all
the twenty-four hours without
rest, he could not dispose of one-half his
income. By living economically, saving
up for four years, he could, placing his
6-cent pieces side by side, make a nickel
belt around the earth, or by converting
his savings into 1-cent pieces and mount¬
ing them in a pile, he would, in twenty
years, erect a road to the moon and have
$500 to invest when he got there.
Should his amusement take a charitable
twist, he could, out of a year’s receipts,
donate to every man, woman and child
in the United States 20 cents and have
money left over. Other vast possibili¬
ties occur to the glowing fancy of the
calculator. In one day he could go to
8,000 different circuases, eat 10,000
pints of peanuts, drink 5,000. glasses of
lemonade, his boots blacked. and have money left to get
He can afford t(
have 500,000 shirts washed in one day,
and on the day of his death his income
will buy ten first-class funerals ,—Ithaca
Journal.
A Story of a Screw.
A singular accident happened to a
family Pearl named Hollseher, residing days' on
The street, near died Market, a week few
ago. father about a ago,
and was buried at Lone Mountain. On
Saturday morning the mother visited
the cemetery to decorate the grave with
flowers. .During her absence" the chil¬
dren were at homo under the care of s
servant in girl. A little boy 3 years hold of
age, of small playing brass about the room, got pushed
a screw which he
into his nostril. The girl in alarm tried
to get it out, and in doing so pushed it
further in. Then she ran and called
some of the neighbors in, and they, in
trying to get hold of it, pushed it out of
sight. til the They screw-head continued their beyond efforts reach. un¬
was
The mother was sent for, and after a
night of alarm the child was taken to
Dr. Laine, who, after trying to withdraw
the screw with surgical instruments, put
the little sufferer under the influence of
anesthetics, and cut open the succeeded nose to
prospect for tho screw. He
in life, disfiguring but failed the in child, the object probably of his for
search, and the child was taken home to
die, under the belief that the screw was
working up into the brain. It lingered
along ently only for three from the days, suffering its appar¬
cutting of face
and nose, and on Tuesday morning
passed the screw without distress, anu
then it occurred to those interested that
the screw, instead of followed going the up into air the
brain, had merely pass¬
age from the nose to the roof of the
mouth, and had there been swallowed.
Castor oil effected what the scalpel child of is
the surgeon failed in, and the
now recovering .—San Francisco Chron¬
icle.
Free and Easy Manners.
When girls assume a swaggering man¬
ner upon the street, use coarse expres¬
sions, and greet each other with a rough
“hello!” they cannot expect much de¬
ference from their male friends, A lady’s
manner always controls that of a gentle¬
man; and if she does not respect herself
be will not respect her. When boys and
girls, young I men and maidens, are al¬
lowed to fall lot'. the absurdities of low,
foolish, meaningless talk, it seems to
dwarf them intellectually; they can find
nothing therefore of interest or importance to say,
and make up for sense by fill¬
ing every sentence with needless exclama¬
tions, exaggerations, or misused adjec¬
tives. It requires listen much patience dozen to folks lie
compelled to to half a
and near the strange, inappropriate use
of language. They will assure each other
that it is “awful” warm, or the concert
“•wM * nice; the sermon “horrid”
duU; a young lady is “awful pretty,”
but her dress “horrid such ugly;” the gentleman teacher
“horrid strict;’’ a young
who called had an “awful swell" team
of faat horses, II young people could
hoar themselves as others hear them, it
might result in their reformation.
Don't pick up a child for a fool. He
will ask you some questions that the eon
,ten«-d wisdom of th world can not
answer.
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
HEB 1 AST LETTER.
■Y LADY LINDSAY. ••v
Ts but a line, a hurrM acrawf,
And little eeem the Words to say.
Yet hold ji;c lu npr-mctiful thrill:
“ You (juarreled with yesterdays
To-motrew you’ll bo sad.”
Aye, And " you'U they be pierce 9ad,” the words are few,
Aye, yet “ you'll be wul,” my soul with pain;
the words are truoj
They haunt “ To-morrow me with you’ll prophetic be strain:
sad.”
We fuarreled, and for what T a word,
A And fofctts'fr tnil» speech that jarred the ear,
Then ip wrath letter our pulses “ Dear, stirr’d:
cam« her : my dear,
To-morrow you’ll be sad.”
Few words! half mirth, and half rejriet,
The last her hahd should ever write—
Freeh $ad words ! learned bn£»go, and yet
wjth new piiin to ear and sight:
“ To-morrow you'll he sad 1*1
In tlic Palace of Truth.
Richard Turner, Esq., a lawyer, let us
lope of futurd fame, returning homo one
aight in an flnenviably bad humor, found
i certain dainty little note awaiting him
m his mantlepieoe. It had just come,
iis landlady said, and slowly tewing
anen the envelope, Dick read as follows:
My Dear Mb. Tcbbeki—M any thanks for
four lovely flowers, which have been greatly
vdmirod. It was like your thoughtfulness to
effiembor my birth-day when I had almost for
;otton it mjrsolf. I was so sorry to have missed
our call this afternoon.
Sinoerelv yours. Florence IIepifeb.
A very gracious little note, but tor
Kane reason it appeared to afford its
reader but small satisfaction. Dusk tdteing read
it twice with a curling lip, then it
into the scrap basket, he lit a cigar,
stretched himself in an eapy chair and
thoughtfully wreaths that observed through float the smoke
“What began to around his
head: a precious little liar she
is! As if I didn’t see her ten minutes
after she was ‘not at home’ to me this
afternoon, Baker in that start oonfoundedly out driving with Tom
of his. Shouldn’t wonder jerky dog
’.art if ho had
; erked her off before they got home;
md served her right too! Why, Snip,
what is the matter with you sir?’’’
Snip was the skye terrier, had who, failing
to understand why he been slighted,
was by sitting seeking to secure and his master’s notice
upright in waving his frqnt
paws to and fro a gentle and dopre
cating fashion.
“Did I hurt your feelings, poor little
boy?” wouldn’t, said Dick, tenderly. “Well, I
I assure you, for a dozen little
flirts like Florence Redifer, but I do
think, Snip, and I expect you to agj roe
with me, that we would all be much b et
ter off if worsen and men, too, would say
out instead truthfully of this eternal what was beating in their minds
around the
bush. candid with Why their can’t fellow-creatures people be a little more
instead
of fooling them to the behind top of their bent
and then laughing their backs?
Do you know, Snip?”
dog Snip didn’t tho world know, to but confess he was his the ignor¬ last
in
ance, so Solomon assuming a look have of wisdom
which might egvied, he
gave a mysterious little bark that himself could
mean anything and composed to
listen.
his “Just 8 o’cloek,” said hours Dick, consulting
watch. “In two I’ve got to
dress and go to Mrs. Grey’s ball, the
doubt; biggest but bore there’s of the escaping season I haven’t a
no it. Aren’t
you glad, Snip, you don’t have to go to
balls?” Snip
barked again, this time in an
affirmative manner. He always accom¬
modated himself to his master’s moods,
and was well accustomed to being ques¬
tioned. Alert and vigilant, he watched
the cigar dwindle down by slow’ degrees,
while he waited in well-bred silence for a
renewal of the conversation. But Diok
was cigar drowsy smoked and out cross, he turned and when the
was his head
aside and fell fast asleep, while his little
dog curled contentedly around liis feet,
looking up into his master’s face with a
world of patient love in his honest brown
eyes.
Seven, eight, nine, ten! Was it possi¬
ble that lie had slept nearly two hours
sad the clock was really striking ton?
Dick jumped up, glanced at his watch
to make sure, and with a stifled groan
prepared to induct himself into his dress
suit. This was never a very rapid pro¬
cess with him, and by the time ho en¬
tered Mrs. Grey’s brilliantly lit-up house
the great eloek in the hall was pointing
to a 11.
The rooms were crowded and stiflingly
hot. The very flowers app eared to droop
under the glare and the L eat, all except
tome deep red roses which had been ar
ranged in a sentence over the doorway,
and whose glowing hearts presented color- the
most sumptuous and intense bit of
ing, even in tftat many-hued apartment, himself
It was strangs. but Dick found
unable to read that sentence, although
composed of<mly three Short words. The
language, even the letters, were unknown
to him, and for half a minute he stood
puzzling incoming over the mystery. Then the
erdfcd gently shoved him aside,
and abandoning the effort, he made the
best of his way toward his hostess. A
pretty little seemingly woman, already magnificently much
dressed, but she half
fatigued with t!i* work in band,
smiled as Dick edged up to her.
“Have you just come, Mr, Turner?”
she said. “I thought you were to tie
of my early birds. ”
one explained,
“Sol would have been,” be and
“only, unfortunately, time.” I fell asleep
did not wake up in
“Oh! that was the case, was it?
Well, such a lengthy nap ought toe to
brighten you up Sometimes, beautifully for know, rest
of the evening. stupid. ” you
you are rather
Dick looked at her to see if she meant
a joke, but her pretty face was gravely
raised to his. “ You are flattering me,”
he said,
“I don’t mean to,rimmed" she an
iwered, plenty quito 'earneitiy. tih* " But stupid, there
ar* of r$en are always
while you can lie rather entertaining,
when tnrootf you gently are from at yonr him best,” and she
to greet a new
batch of guests.
“ Was I ever damned with such faint
praise Iiefore ?’’ thought Dick. '' I won
d«r if I am 'st ay best' to-night?”
For a minute ha stood, 'sking a survey
of tii* scene iiefore him. The musicians
were playing s waltz, and playing it
WATKINS\ ILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 7, 1880.
well; only strange to say there was a
flute among them, which came piping i*
with its shrill persistent little treble in a
manner tive distracting He thought to Dick's over-sensi¬
ear. of Mozart 's saying
that the only thing in the world worse
than a flute in an orchestra was two
flutes, and wondered at Mrs. Grey’s
choice in music. Nevertheless, as long
as he was there he might as well dance,
and looking around for familiar faces, his
first glance fell upon a brown-eyed
maiden whom he had met at a party only
the week before, and whom he had ad¬
mired with the guarded and half-super¬
cilious admiration of a veteran society
man. In another minute they were on
the floor contending with their fellow
oreatures for a little room to whirl around
in, and seemingly slight successful lurch in their
struggle, until a sent them
rather suddenly against another pair o
dancers.
“That was stupid, wasn't it?” said
Dick, ns they stopped to take breath
after the concussion.
“Yes,” replied she of the brown eyes,
raisin" them frankly to his face. “You
are rather a poor dancer. Perhaps you
are out of practice?”
“Indeed I ought not to be,” protested
Dick, charge. in unutterable *1 indignation at the
‘ never danced more in my
life than I have this winter.”
“Is that so? It must be awkwardness
then,” said his companion, gently.
“Sofne people never cah thoroughly
learn, I think it is a natural gift.”
Dick wondered if ha could have heard
aright piping or away if that wretched complacently, little flute, still had
so
absolutely thing bewildered he him. If there was
one than prided himself on more
another—one gift, natural or other¬
wise, which he felt sure of possessing—it
was his dancing. Was the brown-eyed
damsel out of her mind or was she
simply an ill-bred little tiling, who did
not know a good dancer from a bad one?
Whichever was the case lie lost no time
in getting rid of her, and still mute with
amazement and disgust, took refugo
among a group of men at the door.
“You here, Turner!” said one of them.
“I hardly recognized you at first, you
look so yellow and thin.”
“Do I, indeed?” said Dick, shortly,
and wondering what lie was doomed to
hear next.
“I should rather think you did,” was
the Smith, friendly answer. “I just said to
here, as you came up, that be¬
tween your shllow skin and that bald
spot look on like your head, you were beginning
to an old man before your time.
Why don’t you take to country life and
early “Why hours and freshen up a bit?”
don’t you mind your own af¬
fairs and kjndly leave me to attend tp
mine?” retorted Dick, now thoroughly
aroused, word and without waiting for another
he veered arpmid and left the
group, foundly who, astonishe one d and his all, ill spemld pro¬
at temper.
By this time he began to feel a little
uncertain who to approach next. Hav¬
ing been told already that he was stupid,
ugly and a bad dancer, what was there
left for him to hear. Ho certainly had
never in liis life met so many disagreeable people
and he had serious thoughts of
beating caught a permanant retreat, when he
beneath sight of a blonde head half hidden
the azaleas in the conservatory.
It was Florence Redifer, whom he hail
never whom expected to meet to-night and
two hours ago he would have in¬
liis dignantly avoided. But for some reason
contempt for her flattery and false¬
ness had been strangely modified in so
short a time and he felt a positive yearn¬
ing to listen again to her pretty nothings
and to see her blue eyes uplifted with
that tender glance of admiring trustful¬
ness to his. It must have cost her a
great deal of time and patience to culti¬
vate the glance up to its present perfec¬
tion and it was unkind, after all, to sneer
at the result of such honest and endear¬
ing toil.
The next minute he was by her side.
She looked very pretty: her fair hair
tumbled in some mysterious fashion on
the top of her shapely little head; her
bright face lit up with smiles, and her
white silk gleaming under the colored
lamps with a soft and shifting radiance
that pleased Dick’s cultivated eye. He
was not one of those to whom a woman's
gown is a matter of indifference.
“I came in here for a little air,” she
said; “the rooms are so terribly stupid. hot, and
toe whole affair is very Don’t
you think so?”
“It has been worse than stupid for
P 10, * ie answered, laughing. “I have
Pjselted to. wherever ^ I went. °to;n I irst,
-™ rs \. 1 ® e wft ? very
stupid; then Miss Vincent, do you know
ji 0r ' ,®^ e 18 dancing now with lorn
1 d?? ,, * , know , her; , hut , never mind, . .,
What dul she sav to you.
bad ^J' da e “ ccr told a me n ,d intimated I was awkward that I and could a
’
t learn
-
L1 j renee Redifer burst , into . , a laugh as
0 0ar a,ld ™errv as silver bells . But
. know, M_r. Inrner, she
y° u ^ ds do claim for said, your
^ ou < najj n no * wed- ^not you that
Dick gasped and then recovered; ho
was getting baldened now. “I always
flattered myself I did, ” bo said boldly.
She looked at bini in some surprise.
"Of course, I don’t mean to say,” she
explained, with “that one cannot get around
yon graceful at all, but only that you are not
very and sure-footed. There
are plenty of men here who dance worse
—Mr. Simpson, for iusAnee.
‘*T should hope so,”* said Diok, aK
ipson, a httlo weak-eyed man, who
hell 1 his fair partner re if Ho feared slgs
was pocked with dynamite and was in
re? .yb «* «•:« -.1*^ m!
Florence, I abaft never have tho audacity
to ask you to dance again,” and with a
heavv heart he left tht wwiservatory, now
.fully “BtWted he hud had enough of Mrs.
(/rev's ball.
« He took ft glam of its champagne quality in the
supper-room, where was being
freeJy discus, cd by the young men who
„ lingered ., there, and went »ii, back to pay , hja .
parting rmneet* to W* hosts** There
chill were seemed still plenty of people fallen about, them, but a
todrevo on the
dancers were few, and everybody looked
bored saying or the discontented. last lifts. Grey was
who about words to th apfirtv d * guest*
Were taking 'Ujfflr. '
“Suoh a pity it
failure,” he heart d one of them whisper
in a tone of sympathy, “ And after all
the expense you have' BOhfi < to
“lam x uur sure, sure, then, men, it must have been
the fault of my guests," returned Mr*.
Grey, Id. “for I did my part m well as I
cou ? Why, 1 winder Mr. Tumer, if are you going
so soon you, too, found
my She party looked a stupid one ?’
so harassed that Diok for¬
got the grudge he owed her, and would
gladly liant have declared her ball both bril¬
and delightful, but tho words ho
wished to Say stuck in his throat—he
absolutely An awful impulse could not givo them utterance.
his secret horror was upon him, aud to
hoard own and dismay he
himself assuring her the painful
truth that it was the most dismal affair
he had over witnessed hi bis life. Then
overwhelmed with shame at his involun¬
tary rudeness he turned away, and hie
eyes fell upon tho crimson roses still
blooming freshly over the doorway.
What mi idiot he must havo been!
There in plain English letters were the
three words, “Palace of Truth.” Ashe
looked and road, the magic flute pealed
forth so loudly and with so shrill a
triumph in its" tone that Diok fairly
jumped, kicked tho and in tho violence of his leaped start
out of his sleeping Snip, and gazed who him
master’s way at
with reproachful, wonderful eyos.
“Eleven o’clock, as I am a living
man!” said Dick, yawning, “Three
hours asleep aud no ball for mo to-night.
Snip, you little villain, why didn't you
awnken mo?”
Snip was silent. He felt, tho arrant
injustice of this remark, and bore it with
the equanimity of a stoic.
“Well,” said his master, slowly, as he
lit liis candle, “since you did not, and as
I have had all the dissipation and all the
candor I need for one night., I think, lit¬
tle dog, that you and I will go peaceably
and gratefully to bed. ”
Wlio was Bluebeard?
A gentleman who saw the gray, forbid¬
ding ution castle of Champtoee, of Bluebeard Franco, rising above tells who tho
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the frightful hero of tho nursery was:
Some reader may ask, “Who was this
real, historical Bluebeard?”
I answer that in Brittany he was tho
Sieur Gilles do Eotz, a great feudal lord,
who possessed vast estates and great
power in this neighborhood in the latter
part of the fourteenth and beginning of
the fifteenth centuries, and was, besiai L*Sj
a marshal of France.
This castle was his stronghold, and he
ruled it and the Loire oountry around
with a hand of iron and a sword of fire.
Gifted in youth with physical strength
and_ ho impaired beauty, and both an by enormous all sorts fortune, of in¬
dulgences.
When too lato, with a defiled and
bloated by the body, he found himself lashed
scorpion whip that is always sure
to follow sin.
Instead of growing penitent, he only
became more bloody and relentless.
Seduced by a wicked and cunning
alchemist to believe that by bathing in
human blood ho could claim hack liis
vanished health, beauty, and spirits, ho
entrapped both children and young persons of
sexes, murdered them m tho dun¬
geons of the castle with his own hand,
and bathed in their warm blood.
It was believed that more than a hun¬
dred were thus murdered.
After years of impunity the matter be¬
came so notorious and spread so much
fear through the country that tlw people
rose prisoner, in a mass and against iiim, made him a
carried him to Nantes.
There he was tried by his suzerain
lord, the Duke of Brittany, and con¬
demned to he burnt alive at the stake, a
judgment carried into execution in 1440
on what is now the Ghaussee do la Made¬
leine, on the Gloriette Island, in front of
where the great hospital now stands.
Not On Good Terms.
and “Didyou know good that the ?” Simpkinses said Col¬
I weren’t on terms
onel Solon, as ho dropped into tho edi¬
torial chair of the Oil City Derrick, like
a bag of bran out of a wagon.
“No; what’s the trouble ?”
“Dump if I know zactly, Yer invited see,
the other night me’n my wife war
out to a party at Deekin Todd’s an ’ we
wont, caz I knew that the Deekin didn’t
scrimp on eatables a bit, an’ allow had
suthing in a jug down cellar. Well,
when nigh filled, we got an’ there the house was mighty talking
hind o’ loose like, every an’ one complimenting was
a
each other in various ways. Everything
slid along as smoothly as long a chunk of
butter on a hot knife ’till, arter sup¬
per time, Mr. Simpkin, sez he to my
wife, sez nigh he, ‘ Mrs. Solon, yer did looks
'bout as as young as yer ten
years ago;’ an’ my wife, sez she, * Yer a
flatterin' me, Mr. Simpkin,’ eoz my wife
she knows what to say, she does. An’ I
wam’t an’* I seed goin’ Mrs. to be Simpkin outdone t’other in rwrliteness, side of
Sirnpkin, the room, and land so T Goshen, sings out, ‘ Hi, Mrs.
o’ but that air
wig I saw yer liuyin’ t’other sixteen-year-old day makes
yer look as pert as a
gal; when yer git yer false teeth wo
won’t know yer from yer darter.’ An’
then I smiled pleasantly like, but, sakes
alive! Unit air room was just as still as a
hav-mew Simpkin for about two minutes, an' Mrs.
looked like she wanted to kick
somebody, an’ my wife, sez she, ‘ Solo
mon, SoloBlon,’ jest as if I’d sot down on
the people baby didu’t or broke a lookin’-glass. breathe Tho
seem to easy for a
long time, alt’ bumhJire Hern away, an'
my wife sez slue, ‘Bolonym Scion, some
men are made fools, an’ some men are
t
S.ShSSSdSv “““
Uttt ral Itx)1 ot *'
_ There V has , I lately .... turned
icon out at
3®ten a now kind of bread made with
blood from raw flesh. It is said to bo a
preventive ot scurvv, and to do away,
p'mauU, with all desire for aloo
bolus drinks. Tw> iliffieulty of blood oo
uguiation lielng overcome, the “blood
b r ,„„|" w j|| f( , r y ,. ar „. Tw(slH y per
„{ iu ingredients consist in blood, ordi
Hrt( j ) N more nntritkms than the
lmv i </KVM ul uuo ^ut each.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Austin, Texas is to have a capital, cost¬
ing 11,500,000.
The German carp put in Georgia wa¬
ters are doing finely.
Scarlet fever is making it red-hot for
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the people of Natchez.
There are five candidates for the post¬
mastership of Nashville under Garfield’s
administration.
The sugar crop of Southern Texas has
been damaged fully one-half by the re¬
cent storms.
Late cotton has been damaged fearfully
at Cleburne, Longview, McKinney and
other points in Texas.
The Nashville American now figures
up a Democratic majority of six on joint
ballot in the Tenneasee Legislature.
It is said that seventy-eight of the 100
members of Tennessee Legislature are in
favor of paying the State debt.
There is a movement on foot by promi¬
nent members of tho Tennesseo Legisla¬
ture to cut down the number of elections.
James Christopher, of Forest City,
Ark., recently went to tho house of a
colored woman, and, in attempting to
force his way in, was killed by her. She
was discharged on the ground of self
defenses
There are deficits in the budgets
several departments of tho City Hall of
New Orleans. The appropriation for pay
of the police is $40,000 short, and the
Improvements Department is short $32,
000.
John M. Hill, a Little Rock printer,
was re-married Wednesday last to the
wife from whom he was divorced. After
several months’ separation they lwgan
corresponding, which ended in second
bliss.
Under the new code of Mississippi,
any citizen lias the right to arrest or carry
Iiefore a Magistrate or *ny proper officer
the tramp he may find begging about
his premises. It is made the duty of
Magistrates to commit such tramps to
jail, and from the jail he is to be hired
out as other convicts are.
Tvilliam Mattox, an inoffensive old
man, was brutally murdered at his house
near Abbeville, 8. C., Thursday night
last. Two men asked for lodging, and
being denied, entered the house and de¬
manded liis money, killed him and took
$700. No clue to tho murderers lias been
discovered up to this time. The wife of
the deceased was in an adjoiuing room.
Nashville American: Five school
houses—four in Wilson and one in Da¬
vidson county, all near the Lebanon
turnpike—were destroyed by fire, on
Wednesday night last, by incendiaries.
Under what is known as the four mile
law, saloons or drinking-houses can not
be run within an incorporated institution
of learning, and. in order to prevent the
sale of liquor in their neighborhoods,
persons residing at different points along
the turnpike secured charters and built
all the school-houses destroyed last
Wednesday night.
A special from Harper’s Ferry says a
romantic marriage lias taken place on
the railroad bridge there. A gentleman
from Newmarket, Vt., was taking his
daughter westward to prevent her mar¬
riage with a young farmer. While the
father was in depot writing to his wife,
informing her of his safe journey to that
point, the youug lady’s lover, who had
secured a marriage license and a minis¬
ter, put in an appearance, and the twain,
hurrying over the bridge, past the State
line, were married. They then returned
to the station and informed her father,
whe left at once for home, disgusted, the
young couple following him the next
day.
Sunday evening, after his'services in
the Orange Hill Free-will Baptist church,
Richmond, Va,, the pastor, Itcv. S. B.
Ginn, came out with his wife. As they
reached the street Marion Sutton, a
young man standing on the outside, be¬
gan to use abusive language to the
preacher. Mr. (linn asked him what ho
had done to him that he should abuse
him in this way. Hutton continued,
however, and the preacher shook his fin¬
ger in a warning way in the young man’s
face, telling him to stop, whereupon Hut.
ton knocked him down. The preacher
who is a smaller man, got up anil return¬
ed the blow. Hutton knocked him
down again. The preacher came to time
again and put in another lick. At this
point the minister’s wife came to his res¬
cue, and, taking up a brick, threw it at
Sutton, he alleges. The parties were
finally separated, and nextjuorning were
arrested on cross-warrants
In Paris, children’s The decorations jWFties are preten¬ toilets
tions affairs. and
are made as prominent features and as
elaliorate as among older society followers.
At one of tho children’s balls was a child
of eleven decked in thousand* of dollar*
worth of diamonds, sad a toilet ot lace
worth si* hundred dollars, with a g"sun¬
nier fan mounted in turquoise and liearls.
Where all should be joy, life and light |
in thin youthful erowd, there are the
saute rivalries, heart burnings and en¬
vious feelings that embitter aud spoil Urn
pleasure of older hearts.
NUMBER 40.
Powerful Ocean Steamships.
known Twenty years ago the largest steamer*
neglecting (in this, the as Groat in all Eastern, such comparisons, which
was
reach a prodigy of engineering skill) did not
350 feet in length, 45 feet in
horse-power breadth, 3,500 tons in tonnage, or 4,000
indicated. Wo nave before
us at this moment a list of 50 merchant
steamers sailing, in the year 1800, from
which Southampton and other southern ports,
the largest vessels then frequented,
and the list includes but 10 ships of more
than 800 feet in length, none of which
reached the limits of sizo and power just
given, and the whole of which belonged
to two companies, viz., the Royal Mail
and tho Peninsular and Oriental. At
the present moment wo have afloat and
at work tho White Star liners, some of
them of 445 feet in length, 45 feet in
breadth, horse-power; and nearly 6,000 indicated
the Inman liners, compris¬
ing suoh ships as the City of Berlin, 4H8
feet by 44| feet broad, and of about the
same foot steam-power; tho Orient, of 445
5,600 by liorso-power; 46 j feet, with the engines Arizona, developing of about
the same size, with still greater steam
power and speed; and many other
of splondid vessels but little inferior to any
tiie foregoing. And these grand
steamers—many of New York of which reach the quays
with greater punctuality
than railway trains reach tlio London
suburbs from Victoria and Oharing-cross,
and would roach our quays with equal
abominable punctuality if they could avoid tho
sands that bar tho Mersey—
are tho forerunners of still larger and
more powerful vessels now taking shape
upon the banks of tho Clydo and else¬
where. The Canard steel ship, the
Borvia. now building by Messrs. Thomp¬
with son, or Glasgow, is 500 feet by 50 feet,
and over 10,000 indicated horse-power,
will, therefore, doubtless possess a
»l>oed considerably in advance of that of
the very fastest ship at present afloat in
tho mercantile mariue. Tho Inman
steamship Barrow, City of Romo, building of iron
at will lie still larger, having a
longth of 546 foot, a breadth of 52 feet, a
gross registered tonnogo of 8,000, and a
steam power nearly equal to that of tlio
Servia. The Guian line is to ho increased
by and ships of almost equal size and power,
the Allan line is building others
equal to the finest of tho White Star
lx>ate._ magnitude Notwithstanding of the thenumber steamers and
running between passenger
now America and this
comitry only been the traffic is so groat that it has
tion possible to secure accommoda¬
and by arranging passage ninny weeks,
rapidly even months, in advance, while tho
of the United increasing population and wealth
Htates and of Canada make
it certain that the interchange of agricul¬
tural produces and manufactured goods
between them and ourselves will go on
increasing. —Lawton, Time s.
American Tobacco.
While I was at Ferrieres, in Italy, I
hoard a comical story from the wife of an
American gentleman who resides in the
neighborhood. It seems tobacco is a
Government monopoly; the raising of
more than a dozen plants by any one
dener person engaged it strictly by prohibited. The gar¬
my friend had rather
a liking tor his the plant, and embellished
several of ornamental flower-beds
with it. Bo one day tho lady was waited
her upon that, by the Commissaire, she had who informed
rules respecting as the transgressed the
cultivation of to
bacco b iy non-uuthorized individuals, she
would have to pay a fine of some $30.
But, fortunately, the Republican Dep¬
uty from intimacy the district was on terms ol
great offered services with the family, and he
his to get them out of the
scrape. He went, therefore, to call on
the local Magistrate, and represented to
him that the offending plants wore of
American origin, and, consequently,
wore of a kind that were totally valueless
for any other pinpose than that of orna¬
mentation. The dignitary professed him¬
self as being quite satisfied with the ex¬
planation, and, in view of tho non¬
existence in commerce of any such an
article os American tobacco, my friend
got off scot free .—Lucy Hooper.
The quickest Trains in the World.
The pace of the English quickest trains in En¬
gland, by says an hour paper, is greater
ton miles an than that of the
oniekest trains of any other country. In
Great Britain tho average velocity of tho
express is fifty miles an hour. In Bel¬
gium it never exceeds forty-one miles an
hour; between Paris and Bordeaux it is
thirty-nine and a half miles an hour. In
Russia and in some of Switzerland
tho rate is twenty-seven miles an hour.
JPcr contra, in England railway risk than travel¬
ing is attended with more in
any other country in the world. Yet
even thus the {Minis of the steam loco¬
motive are statistician, much exaggerated, labori¬ for a
French after a very
ous examination of the deaths occurring
from rail way accidents over tho surface
of the whole earth, states the result of
his examination thus: “ If a person were
to live continually all his time in a in railway railway carriage, travel¬
and spend
ing, the chances in favor of his dying
from railroad accident would not occur
until he m SMJ0 yearn old.”
A Female brume.
Ii De Foe had only known of a female
Crusoe living on an ocean island, he
might, perhaps, have wrought out a story
superior to his Robinson Crusoe. Alex¬
ander Selkirk’s brief life on Juan Fernan¬
dez was trivial, either in tho hardships
endured or the difficulties native conquered,
compared with that of a woman
on on island opposite Southern Cali¬
fornia. South Barbara
The Catholic Fathers at
were transporting the natives of the Is¬
land Bt. Nicholas to the mainland.
Among them was a mother who discov<
ered that her babe had been left behind.
She begged that the ship refused, might be riho put
back, but the captain swim ashore, but
leaped into the sea to thought
as a storm prevailed, they all
she was drowned. landed
Eighteen years after a company
on the island. They found traces of Ufo,
and after long search discovered the wo¬
man, and took her with them. babe, The poor lorn
mother never found her but
managed to live in comperative comfort,
though very lonely. Alter her long life
chinny in the op©B wr, nil© ooti.UI not
I tear the confinement of a bouse, and
soon sickened end died.
TOallumiil*/ jj&mttt.
A WIIXLT PA PH, PtBLiaaas at
Watkinsvil!e, Oconee Co., Georgia.
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p. HTJMOBOUS BREVITIES.
A man who opens oysters tdoes hinge
by halves.
Three's lots of cold comfort in a hun¬
dred pounds of ioe.
One-hamt of the world doesn't know
how the other half lies.
A Nevada ball report says: “Honor?
X was full of eclat—in fact, the eclatest
lady present ”
“ Yon can't, play that on mo I” said the
piano to the amateur who broke down on
a difficult pioce of music.
“One touch of you, ma, makes the
whole world spiu,” as the boy said when
his mother boxed his ears.
“Darling husband,” she said, “am I
not your treasure ?” “Certainly,” ha re¬
plied, heaven.” “and I should like to lay you up
in
The editor of the Cincinnati Commer¬
cial, who has farming ideas, thought
that to have buttermilk he must buy a
goat.— New York Herald.
One of the first requisitions received
from a newly-appointed railway station
agent was: “Soudme a gallon of red
oil for tho danger lanterns.
When you see two dogs growling and
potting only ready joint to debate, tight, and remember tho liveliest that it
is a
dog will get away with tho joint. ”
“Do you get, any holidays in your of¬
fice?” asked a returned divine of a cher¬
ry-looking worker in secular walks. ‘ ‘Oh,
yes, we get a day to get buried on.”
“ Ciphering:” School boy (kopt in)—.
“Let's see—one t'm’s ought’s ought.
Twice ought’s ought. Three t’m’s ought
—oh, must he something—stick it down
one.”
A young lady at an examination in
grammar was asked why “the man bach¬
elor was singular ?” She replied imme¬
diately, “Because it is very singular they
don’t got married,”
“ Yon wouldn’t tako a man’s last cent
fora cigar, would yon?” “Certainly I
here would,” remarked tho proprietor. “Well,
it is, then,” passing over a cent,
“give me tho cigar.’’
A Western writer thinks that if the
proper “eight,” way to spill tho is “though,” ate
is and hoes is “beaux,” the
proper teightouux. way to |spell potatoes is pough
—Cleveland Sun.
“There Are No Birds in Last Year’s
Nests ” is the title of a song. Probably
not. If it were equally sure that there
are no rats in last year’s rat holes the
public mind would lie more at rest.
T ms Vermont housewife who read that
English nobles have lots of bares in their
preserves, says she tried it to the oxtont
of putting a whole chignon into some
blackberry bit better ]am, it. and tho jam didn’t seem
a for
“ Shale wo sell or abandon our girls?”
editorially ]>o neither. asks the Givo editor of the Hawk
eye. ’em away. When
a girl is given away, if she is not “ sold,”
the young man Is—in a majority of cases.
—Norristown Herald.
Two ladies in the horse oar were bilk¬
ing about an actress whom they had just
seon. “She is too stout,” said ono. “Oh,
no,” replied tho other, who slightly
tended towards embonpoint, “She is
more than stout; she’s fat.”
The truly affectionate and sensible
wife approaches her husband with a bo
nignaiit expression of countenance, and
gently observes, laying “Charley, her hand upon his shoulder,
spend dear, please don’t
any more money for cardamom
seeds. I'll try and stand it if you won’t
kiss mo on the lips.”
A TiAUV correspondent of tlio Cincin¬
nati Nnauirer says: “I know a fashion¬
able hello who has her arms lathered and
shaved from end to end by a barber once
n month.” Aha! This explains why
female arms become bald-headed at such
an Herald. early ago .—Philadelphia Chronicle
_
A Womlerfnl Blind Man.
A ve iry remarkable blind man, named
John Metcalf, a native of Manchester,
was living and, at the beginning of this eout
ury ; strange to say, his occupation
was no other than that of a guide, his
living being through gained intricate by his conducting
strangers routes dur¬
ing the night or when the roads were
covered with snow. Stranger still,
however, was the calling which he sub¬
sequently followed, aud this we are told
was of highways that of a “ projector ilifficult. and surveyor
in and mountain
ous parts. ’ With the aid solely of
a sta ff which he carried, he was often to
lie seen traversing valleys. roads, mounting hills,
and exploring It was under the
-direction of Metcalf that many of the
roads over the I’eak, in Derbyshire, were
altered ; anil he also designed and su¬
perintended the construction of a new
road in the s«me neighborhood, formed
with a view to open a communication
with tlio great London road without the
necessity of passing over the mountains.
A Bonanza of Bears and Lions.
John Howies left his sheep ranah, near
Keefer’s Mill, for a day’s sport. He did
not get very far before he discovered
bear tracks, both large and small. This _
discovery number was followed the “varmints” up by his coming taking
upon a, under spreading manzanita
things easy stood his a ground manfully,
tree. John
and blazed away with his deadly Rem¬ bears
ington, and two of the full-grown although
were killed outright. The third,
badly wounded, went for liis scalp, and
Jolui hod to retreat to the crotch of a
tree close b y. With admirable forsight
he froze to his gun, and as soon as the
beast came up to his roosting-place through he
laid him out by a splendid shot for liis perch
tho eye. On coming down with the sight of
John feasted his eyes
his victims, and while enjoying this
pleasure he heard some looking cubs crying for
their mother. Iu around the
brush ho found two floe cubs, While which he
secured and took home. on his
way back he fell in with two California
lions, which he of bagged, thus making a
perfect bonanza came for one day’s
sport. Johnny feels bigger now than old
Grant, and will not soon forget his
splendid luck ,—Chico (Cal.) Enterprise.
Two Iowa boys were amusing them
yes throwing a heavy ramrod as high his
llH they could. One of them met with
[ by th© mhsMii© de#c©iuliug
t ho velocity of a bullet and {Kiuotruting
his head.