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David Garrick.
One hundred and two years ago oc¬
curred the death of David Garrick, un¬
questionably the king among actors. No
historiotiie existence ever equaled Gar¬
rick’s. His first appearance on the stage
was at Goodman’s Fields Theater, Oct.
19, 1741, in the part of Richard III.
His success was instantaneous; no such
acting having before Ixien seen, he at
once became the rage in London ; no so¬
ciety was complete dressing-room, without him; nobles
besieged his of his begging for
the honor company at tlicir houses.
Pope said he never had an equal, and
would never have a rival.
The great Mrs. Porter, then retired,
went to London on purpose to hear him.
Wie said the youth knew more at his
first appearance than others after twenty
years’ training. The Duke of Argyle
declared him superior to Betterton.
Even Garrick’s enemies, men who most
admitted unjustly charged him with meanness,
his wonderful genius. Among
those who repaid the actor’s favors with
irowus was the unscrupulous Arthur
Murphy. what But even he, when asked
he thought of Garrick’s acting, af¬
ter a pause, replied : “ Well, sir, off
the stage, lie is a mean, sneaking little
fellow ; but, on tho stage”—throwing up
his hands and eyes—“ Oh, my great
Garrick’s first love affair is very amus¬
ing. He became attached to Peg R'of
lington, and, with her and Macklin, an¬
other actor, went to keeping house, each
to bo m turn housekeeper for a month.
11ns plan early failed, and the love affair
was soon cured. A short time after
ward he w as married to Madamoiselle
V iolette, Garrick a dancer of Vienna.
of the s reception in Franco was one
most wonderful of his career. AH
Paris went wild over him. His pictures
adorned the walls of every house.
Garrick’s last season as an actor was
in 1776. He played “ Richard ” for the
last time with Mrs. Siddons, in the pres¬
ence of the King and Queen. His last
Felix night on the stage was June 10, as Don
in “The Wonder,” and he retired
from the stage amid expressions of grief
and regret ot the most poignant charac¬
ter. Three years later—Jan. 20, 1779—
lie died of a painful malady, and was
buried in Westminster Abbey, nobles
bearing his pall, while poets, scholars,
statesmen and artists stood uncovered
beside his grave.
The glories of our mortal state
Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armor against fate;
Death lava his icy hand on Kings.
Scepter and crown
M ust tumble down,
And in the dust be equal made
With the poor scythe and spade.
Stanley, the Explorer.
from. Stanley, the explorer has been heard
In a letter dated at the mouth of
the Congo, September 13, he says that ,
he lias done much work, and. proposes
to do much more, for establishing trade
and civilization in Africa. After equip
ping one expedition on the East Coast,
eral reconstructing districts, another, has exploring sev
he come via the Medi
terranean, to the West Coast, intrusted
with an important mission by the Inter
national Society, of which the King of
the Belgians is the head. He adds:
t*. I am charged to open - and keep
open, if possible all such districts and
countries as I may explore for the com
mercial world. The mission is supported
by a philanthropic society which num
hers noble minded men of several na
‘ions. It is not a religious society, but
my instructions are entirely of that
spirit. No violence must be used, and
wherever rejected the mission must
withdraw to seek another field. We
have abundant means, and, therefore,
we if are demands to purchase be the very atmosphere,
any made upon us, rather
than violently oppose them. A year’s
trial will demonstrate whether progress
can be made and tolerance be granted
under this new system. In some regions
experience ti lls me the plan may work
wonders. God grant it success every
where! I have fifteen Europeans and
about two hundred natives with me. It
is but too early yet to say much of them;
most of the natives seem not worth
their ra lions. However, patience! We
shall see what time will make of us all,
and how it will mold us all anew for the
good work.”
With Stanley s experience and tact,
and the large means at his disposal, there
is every reason to be hoped that civili
zation may soon penetrate some of the
most fluent. benighted region of the dark con
“There Were Tears on His Cheeks.”
“Lord bless you! but I had never
given him a second look. I knew that
lie was a Norwegian, slow but solid,
hardly able to speak a word of English
and I /lever cared whether he had a rel
ative on earth. Perhaps it looks a
bit hard-hearted in me, but I am driven
from morning till night, and I must drive
tlie men under me. When I want a hod
carrier I look for muscle, and when I
have found muscle 1 don't look further
for sentiment ”
“How did the accident happen?”
“He stepped off the scaffold.”
“And i s badly hurt?”
“ Acs, though I think he will pull
through. Any man might have blundered
as lie did, but since I have learned how
it was with him I’ve felt womanish in my
“ How was it?”
“Well, he had just got liis hod filled
with bricks down there when two or
three of his countrymen came along and
told him that his baby lioy was dead.
They had just to come bring from his house on
Russell street him the news.
He cam" upon the son (fold with his hod,
probably intending to notify me of liis
affliction. His eves must have been full
of tears, and as lie stepped out he missed
his distance and went to the ground.
There were tears on his cheeks when we
picked tered him up, speak and his the dead only lioy’s word he tit¬
wits to name.
1 had looked upon lain only as an old
Norwegian, but I found that lie was a
husband and father, a wan with love and
faith, a father who went home at night
to < * NJ with left hia all baby behind ami to kiss tallow the wife biru
Wil< o hod I like
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The Watkins ville Advance.
VOLUME II.
1I4BBIED FOR LOVE.
Yes, Jack Brown was a splendid fellow,
But married for lore, you kno.;
I remember the girl eery well—
Sweet little Kitty Duff.m.
Pretty, aud icing. and good,
And bright aa a fairy elf,
I was rerv much tempted indeed
To marry Kitty myself.
'• But her friends were all ot them poor,
And Kitty had not a cent:
And I knew I should never be
With • lore in a cottage’ content.
So Jack was the lucky wooer.
Or unlucky—anrway
Yon can see now shabby his coat,
And hi9 hair is turniug gray.
“ But Pm told he thinks himself rich
With Kitty and homely joys;
A cot far away out of town
Full of noisy girls and boys.
Poor J»ck 1 I’m sorry and all that.
But of course he very well knew
That fellows who marry for lore
Must drink of the liquor they brew.’’
And the handsome A u rust us smiled.
His coat was in perfect style,
Ai-d women still spoke of liis grace,
But Andgarehim he thought that their sweetest Jack smile. Brown,
And I night of old;
said ” am growing
X think I must really marry
Some beautiful girl with gold.”
Years passed, and the bachelor g raw
He Tiresome, had and stupid, able and old;
not been to find
The beautiful girl with gold.
And with his fancies be dwelt,
Alone in the crowde I town,
Till The one friend day he of suddenly his youth, tnet Jack Brown.
“Why, Gus !” “ Why, Jack I” Whatameet
Jack tng 1
The bachelor was so sighed happy and gay;
for content
As he followed his friend away
To the cot far out of town,
Scented Sel deep in 1 its il orchard trees.
with eu anti roses.
Cooled with the ocean breeze.
“ Why, Jack, what a beautiful plane I
What did it c wt t" “ Ob, it grew,
There were only three rooms at first.
Then soon the three were too few,
So we added a room now and then;
And oft in the evening hours,
Kilty, tlie children and I
Planted the trees aud the flowers.
” And they grew as the children grew
“ And (Jack, Harry and Grace and Belle. ra *
where are the youngsters uow ? •
“ All happy, and doing well.
Jack went to Spain lor our house—
His road is level and clear —
And Harry’s a lawyer in town,
Making three thousand a year.
“And Grace and Bdle are well married—
But They married for love, as is best;
olten our birtlies come back
To visit the dear home nest.
So my sweet wife Kitty and I
From labor and care may cease;
We have enough, and age can hriug
Nothing but love and peace.”
But over ami over again
The bachelor thought that night,
“ Home and wife, and children 1
Jack Brown was, after all right.
Oh ! it in the days of my yottrh
I had honestly loved ami wed 1
For now I’m old three's no one cares
Whether l’tn living or dead.”
LITTLE HUTHc
AJST OLD MAN’S STORY.
I know I was a selfish old idiot, now,
when I look around me and see the mer
cies given me in my helpless old age, feel
the warm love around me on ail sides,
and realize the desolation my own hand
reached forth to grasp ; but I was blind
to the future in those days when I so
nearly wrecked all its happiness,
This was how it happened: After Mar
tha died—my wife, I mean, with whom
forty j happy ]] years children of my life dead were spent
.— an( a my were or mar
ried, excepting Ruth, there fell upon me
the heavy misfortune that has chained
.me to this chair, or my bed, for fifteen
weary years. I had been a hard-working
man all my life—a wheelwright by trade
—with a large family to rear, to clothe,
to feed, to educate, and, ah me ! one till by
one to bury in the old churchyard,
only Mary, left James and Ruth, our baby, and
were to me. husband Mary married,
went with her to the far West,
James took liis small fortune of a few
hard-earned dollars, and left us for the
golden land of promise, California, and
only little Ruth was left us. Then the
angel of death came for Martha, and
only six months later I was stricken help
less with paralysis,
I am reconciled now to my hard fate,
an q can still here good, happily, glad that my
evesigbt is my right haijd free,
and that I have learned in my old age to
] ov « books, to enjoy did reading, in the hard-work- and even
writing, as I never in those first
months i ng days of my helplessness, youth. But when
of even to
toss and turn in my nervous torture was
denied me, my sufferings were simply
horrible. No agony of pain, no the torture dread
0 f flesh or bone, could equal
ful pressure upon my strong limbs, that
held them motionless, them dead, in little spite inch, of
my efforts to move ohe
j have fainted with lift the frightful efforts I
have made just to once the feet that
had carried me miles in a day with un¬
wearied ease.
But even in that time of rebellious
murmuring, of bitterest repining, there
was some consolation. First, there was
the house and five acres of land, my and very
own, free of debt or mortgage, a
small sum in the bank, the interest of
which lifted us above actual want. Then
I had Ruth.
She was just twenty when her mother
died, and others beside her father
thought her face the fairest one for miles
around. She bad the bluest eyes, like
the little patches of summer sky, and
hair that was the color of corn silk, and
nestled in little baby curls all over her
head—rebellious hair, that would never
lie straight under any coaxing, but kinked
np in tangles that were full of sunlight.
Her skin was white as milk, with cheeks
like the heart of a blush rose, and her
smile showed the prettiest rows of pearly
teeth I ever saw.
She coaxed from me my wicked re
pinings by coming to me for directions,
making rue feel that my head was still
needed to direct the work, though my
feet woakl never more carry me over the
door-sill. Then she fitted up for me a
large back room that overlooked most of
the farm, and had Silas, onr head man,
lift me up every morning and put me in
a deep-cushioned chair by the window,
where 1 couhl see the barn, the poultry
yard, and the well, and the fields of waiving
corn wheat. She made me feel my
self of importance by giving me thus the
mastery over my own little domain; and
•he brought up her own meals to cat
with me in the room where my infirmity
held me a prisoner
Ton must Understand what Ruth was
to me, or you will never understand the
simple him story I her* set mytolt to te lling
you. taught urn to use my right
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL *20, 1881.
liand. without my left; and if yon want to
appreciate the difficulty, tic your left
ai m down for one single hour, and try
how often it will unconsciously strain at
the cords. She brought me books from
the village library, and opened to my
old eyes and brain a field of pleasure
never before explored. I had read my
Bible and the newspapers all my life,
but I never even knew the names of
books, now my greatest treasures, till
Ruth thought “reading would be com¬
does pany” for me. Little Ruth, even she
not know the world she peopled for
me in her loving care for my loneliness.
work, When her she was busy abont her house¬
ing, she bakihg, her washing and iron¬
left all the doors standing open,
that I might still hear her cheery voice
os she sang or talked tome. Then,
when all her work was done, she would
put a clean white apron over her black
dress, and sit close beside me, stitching
busily on the household linen, while I
read aloud whatever had most pleased
me in my morning studies.
She devised little dainty dishes to
tempt me to eat; she put saucers of
flowers on my table, that I might cheat
myself into fancying I was out doors, as
their perfume crept out on the air; she
assured me, petted me, loved me, till
even my misfortunes seemed blessings
drawing us nearer together.
And when she was all the world to me,
all that saved me from misery, John
Hayes wife. asked I me to givo him Ruth for his
could have struck him dead
when he stood before me, a young giant
in strength, with his handsome sun-burnt
face glowing with health, and wanted to
take home away child. my one blessing, my only
“I will be a true son to you, Mr. Mar¬
tin,” he said, earnestly. “I will never
take Ruth from here; but let me come
and share her life, and lift some of the
burdens from her shoulders.”
I laughed bitterly. would I knew well what
such sharing be when Ruth had a
husband, and perhaps children, to take
her time and her love from me. But 1
was not harsh. I did not turn this
suitor from my house, and bid him never
speak it. to Ruth again, much as I longed
to do I worked more cautiously. I
let him go from me to Ruth; and when
lie left her and she came to me, all rosy
blushes, to tell me, with drooping lids
and moist eyes, of her new happiness, I
worked upon her love and her sense of
duty till she believed herself a inouster
of ungrateful wickedness to think of leav¬
ing me or taking any divided duty upon
her hands.
I wept, asked her if she could face her
dead mother after deserting her helpless
father. I pointed wifely out to her the would unceas¬ keep
ing round of duty proved that her that
her from my side, and to
the duties of wife and child must clash,
if undertaken under such circumstances
as The wero lov’Lg, proposed. tender heart yielded to
mo
and John was tearfully dismissed.
Through the warm autumn months, when
the corn ripened and was garnered—
when our crops were blessed and the lit¬
tle bank fund was increased by the price
of tho farm produce—Ruth grew very
quiet and subdued. Siie was not sad,
having always a cheery word and a pleas¬
ant smile for me; but the pretty rose tint
left her round cheeks, and I no longer
heard her singing at her work. When I
read the best pages in my liooks to her,
I would see her eyes fixed dreamily on
some idle, far-away till she thought, her work lying
woke with a start at my
fretful questions.
For I grew fretful and trying in those
days. I wanted her to give, up woman's
dearest hopes and sweetest affections,
and he the same hand sunshiny Ruth her she love was
before my tore away
dreams. I wanted her to put away all
the loving tender ties of wifehood and
motherhood, and pass her life in devo¬
tion at the armchair of a paralyzed old
man. And when she complied, then with
gentle, touching submission, girl, I
wanted her to be the bright, happy
who had *esigned nothing, and who
could nurse sweet girlish fancies, with
John for a hero. A i unreasonable old
tyrant, wasn’t I ?
* The winter in early that
came year,
and before Christmas everything intense. was
frozen up tight, and the cold was
We piled up coal in the stoves, listed
doors and windows—that is, Rnth did
the work, and I enjoyed the result; but
there came one cold day—one Friday—
when it seemed no coals, no listing,
could conquer the cold. Children
froze on the way to school that day, aud
were found, stiff and stark, leaning
against the fences. Food froze on the
tables. Ask anyliody in Maine if they
remember that black Friday, and see if
gome mothers’ eyes will not fill as they
think of the little scarlet-hooded figures
brought to their doors, white and rigid,
that had lifted rosy, round cheeks for a
kiss only a few hours before.
through On this her cold work Friday, in the morning, Ruth hurried mak¬
ing my room the wannest place in the
house, covering my arm-chair with soft
woolens, and moving it near the stove.
I would have it face the window, for my
glimpse of outdoor life was too precious
to resign; but I was not, as might usual, near
it, for Ruth said there be a
draught.
When all was done indoors, I saw from
my chair Ruth, with a scarlet cloak and
hood thrown over her, going to the well
with an empty bucket. Bho stepped
along quickly over the hard, frozen
ground, and I waa admiring the trim
little feet and the dainty figure, when I
saw her slide to the two steps that were
above the well walls and fall, fthe had
slipped, and she-lay doubled up between
the two wooden steps and the rough sides
of the well, as if she could not rise. Two
or three times her hands clutched the
lower step, and she raised hffHWf half
way up, only to fall back again, as if her
limbs would not support her.
And I could only look the on, powerless of it! to
move to aid her. Oh, unable agony
To know she was hurt, I screamed to rise, and
and I helpless as Silas a log.
«>Ued for help. was somewhere, called Joiuflv f
oould not tell where, sod I
for him. I could see, after a time, that
Rnth, after her frantic struggle*, death was
growing drowsy with the sleep of
cold. The scarlet hood drooped the more well
and more, till it rested against lids
side, and the blue veined closed over
ner eyes. xne sight calk'd from me
such a cry of agony as I thought must
be heard for miles.
It was heard. A moment later John
Hayes, panting and eager-eyed, hurst
open my door.
“What is it?” he cried, “I hoard you
calling on the road.”
“Ruth! Ruth!” I screamed. “She* is
freezing'to He death by the well.”
stopped to hear no more. Out up¬
on the hard, slippery ground, down the
steps then 1 with swift, rapid strides, and
saw him stoop and lift, the little
scarlet cloaked figure in his strong arms
and come swiftly back, bending his face
down over the senseless one on his arm,
while hot tears rained down liis brown
cheeks. He put her on a lounge near
my chair, and then dashed out for snow.
“Rub her, rub her!” he said. “I am
going for a doctor and for my mother. ”
Before it seemed possible he could
have crossed the lots to his home, his
mother was with me, and lifted Ruth
away from the Are to the bed. The doc¬
tor came, and the two worked till my
heart sank with utter opened hopelessness the be¬
fore the blue eyes through again, pale or lips.
breath fluttered the
But it did at last, and God!” John joined me
in a fervent “Thank
But Ruth had broken her leg, and we
knew she must lie helpless for active, many
weeks before she could be ourown
bright girl again. It was but an she appalling
troth for me to face, was not
dead, not lying frozen against the rough
well curb, and I could not but feel thank¬
fulness far, far above the pain of know¬
it ing pil her suffering. mind; I was understand trying to settle
in my to the
doctor’s words, while Mrs. Hayes and the
doctor lifted Ruth to her own room, that
opened into mine. They were away a
long time, and John sat beside me, hold¬
ing my hand in liis, and comforting me
as if I had not taken tho very hopo of
his life from him.
“Don’t grieve so,” he said, gontly.
“She will live.”
“ Thanks to you,” I said. “ Oh, John,
if she gets well, she is yours. Give her
your strong arm for life, John, instead
of my helplessness. nearly I seo to-day whore
my selfish lovo has cost her her
life.”
“Do you mean that?” John asked,
with a little trembling in his voice; “do
you really mean that ? ”
“I do, indeed. Let her stay here,
John. I will not be a burden on your
purse, for the house and farm and all I
have saved are Ruth’s; but lot her givo
me what time and love she can spare from
you.” “Gladly,” ho answered
; “ but we will
not wait till she is well, Mr. Martin. Let
me have With Ruth broken for my ieg, wife sick, now, helpless?” to-day."
r a
r Does she not need me tho more?
Give her to me now.”
But he had to wait until the bans
were called in church three times, though
ho came to us that day, caring for me
with the tenderness of a son, while his
mother nursed Ruth. They wero alone
together, as we were, and they had shut
up their house, and come to live with* us,
never to leave again. For one morning,
propped up with pillows, Ruth was
dressed in white by Mrs. Hayes, and we
had a wedding in the little room. My
chair was moved in, and the neighbors
came from far and near to hear the
solemn words that made John and Ruth
man and wife.
And happiness has shed its true light
upon our homo ever since.
Evolution In Plants.
Darwin, in showing that thore animals, was
evolution in plants as well as in
points out that there are certain species
which decoy insects into the folds of
their leaves and crush them, actually
feeding on the insects, while a plant in
India will masticate a beefsteak, a rabbit,
or a chicken. These plants, being in a
wild state, of course are effeminate, but
if cultivated could be brought to wonder¬
ful tended, proportions and given physically. all the food If and carefully drink
they required, with a horrizontal bar to
practice on, there would seem to be no
reason why they should not join a tur¬
ner society and .might carry off a prize
of a silver water pitcher, ferocious Mr. Darwin
claims that all plants are to a
degree, arid only need to lie denied their
cu tomary sustenance and tempted with
animal life in order to have their savage
natures developed and brought to light.
Home wealthy people, followers of Dar¬
win’s school, are already making experi¬
ments in this direction, and it is when possible
that the day is not fur distant the
traveler, who is forced to travel through
a lonely wood, will find himself suddenly
confronted by a murderous band of
cucumbers, and he will bi forced to
yield. If the wealthy savauts pursue
their experiments to th e fullest possible
extent it may be no unusual sight, semi
time in the next century or thereafter, to
see a carrot arraigned in court on a
charge saloon, of stabbing a parsnip, of lifteen-ball in a rr w
in a over a game
pool. When the savage developed, nature of what plants
shall become fully a
terrible revenge may the be descendants expected from of
the cornstalk upon
all those who are now connecting its
SSsSii'jni sugar-producing shrub of the
the coun
try. We trust, however, that the corn
stalk will not bear malice, and will be
srr«s£
trouble enough driving and away marauding
bands of tomatoes, their allies, tho
onions, without giving unnecessary of
fense to plants of other varieties. Re
see now how it is that of President Hayes
has always made a pet the pumpkin,
and sought to curry favor with the
Hubbard squash. He was making him
self solid with these vegetables. This is
also proved by his appointment of so
many Ohio men to office. He fears the
time when their ferocious natures will
lie developed believing that he will live
a thousand years, as m his shown by the
way he takes care of money. Ho
desires to get along and peaceably, would not and for agree¬ the
ably with all, hands with jnlos
world stain ins tbs of
(he best, or chop a rod oabbage into tour
krout Peek’s Sun.
“Who inaugurated *1 # fi.ll campaign’/ ’
inquired a “Adam,” teacher in quickly one of onr public
schools. responded
the sharp youngster.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
In Mississippi there are 5,021 public
schools and 969 private schools.
The little county of Wythe, Va., pro
duced last year $1,000,(XX) worth of iron.
The Houston (Texas) Post says that
over 100,000 people petioned the Legis¬
lature on the prohibition question.
During Match the yellow pine lum¬
ber shipped from Jacksonville, Fla.,
amounted to -1,831,779 feet.
Tho Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald says
that the cotton factory at Water Valley,
which has been idle for some years, will
soon be put in repair and run again.
Col. James Crook, one of tho A labama
Railroad Commissioners, told a reporter
of the Atlanta Constitution that Gen.
Gordon owns 270,000 acres of the finest
coal lands in the world.
Gainesville (Ga.) Southron: The gold
mines of Northeast Georgia are yielding
large dividends, with all the drawbacks
of a winter and spring unequaled for se¬
verity in half a century. The rainfall
in March and April largely surpassed
that of any season within the memory of
the oldest inhabitant.
Memphis (Tenn) Appeal: With the
citv-debt bill in force, and also the State
debt hill, the rate of taxation in Mem¬
phis will be as follows ; State-debt com¬
promise on the $100, fifty cents ; city
debt compromise on the $100 fifty cents;
city taxes for all purposes, $1 60; State
and county tax, seventy cents; total
amount of tax, $6 30.
Columbus (Ga) Advertiser: Numbers
of our planters are now paying high
prices for hay to feed stock on, and in a
short while will be paying nearly the
same per 100 pounds to have the grass
killed in order to make a bale of cotton
to an average of three and a half acres
of land. This is one reason why our far¬
mers can accumulate no money, and in a
great measure accounts for the many
poor horses, cows and hogs to lie found
in this country.
Emigration has set in from the Valley
of Virginia to Piedmont, Va. A num¬
ber of farmers in the valley have recent¬
ly sold out and bought farms in Fauqui¬
er and Piedmont counties. At Warren
ton, last week, a farmer arrived from
Rockingham county seeking suitable
farms for twenty-five neighbors in that
county. The cause assigned for the
change is that Piedmont (Va) lands be¬
ing cheaper, the farmers can own lajger
tracts,
Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Times: Tuscaloosa
has three newspapers and one magazine ;
a Methodist, a Catholic, a Presbyterian,
a Baptist, an Episcopalian, and several
colored churches; a University, two
High Schools for boys, and a number of
good schools for small children; two
banks, one national and the other pri¬
vate ; two cotton factories, two planing
mills and furniture manufactories and it
cotton-gin factory; an Insane Hospital,
and a Theological Seminary for colored
preachers; and fifty business houses.
Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution : Mayor
English told me yesterday that the in
crease in city property this year would
go sharply over $1,900,000. Boh Griffin,
one of the assessors, estimated that of
this amount fully $. r >00,000 was in new
houses that had been added during the
year, and the ballance in increased va!
ues. This is a capital record for a young
city and puts our total assessments above
$20,000,000. The debt of the'eity is
about ten per cent of the total value, but
it is decreasing while the city is growing.
Mayor English thinks that in three
years the debt will have shrunk to sev¬
en per cent of the total value, which is
highest rate permitted. The outlook for
building next year is quite as good as
last.
A writer in the Reidsville (N, C.)
Times, speaking of the birthplace of Ed
Richardson, said to l>e the richest man
in the Mouth, says that he was born in
Scrgeansville, Caswell county, N. C.
He and Enquire Harnuel 8. Harrison
were born not half a mile apart and
within two weeks of each other. The
..... ladies used , to say that , when , one
died of old ago the other would quake
w ;th fear. His name is Edmund K
’« a
**’ t ‘"it a young man clerking in Dan
ville at Sullivan’s Hotel, the “Old Bell
Tavern.” Forty years ago he drove all
and there wasn t a railroad ^ to lie , seen Mr . ;
now see the difference. They wsnted
him for Governor, but lie wouln’t hear
10 It - When spoken . to about . , it .... he said . ,
it was the very last place he should
think of; he would as soon have the
U)Wn ^table's.”
Columbus . (Ga.) ,,, Enquirer-Bun ... . a ..., R he
:
the grange was a flourishing institution
j n Oglethorpe county, some years since
^ customary, 3 when a member want
ed credit for a committee to examine in¬
to his solvency. If found solvent the
officers of the grange would give him s
written recommendation. In numerous
instances these debts were not paid and
now the officers are being sued. J f the
,.„ U rl decide that lb.«- written re.......
meudatious are binding, the officers will
1# bankrupt.
NUM BEK 8.
Orangeburg county item in Hilaries
ton (S. O.) News and Courier: Theques
tion of ... fencing slock , dis
crops or was
clissed two weeks iigo-at a meeting of tho
citizens of Pine Grove township, and a
vote ol those present taken to test the
sentiment of the people on the question.
lhe result was an almost unanimous
vote in favor of tho law as it now stands,
and it is thought that there ave not move
than twenty or twenty-five citizens of
that section who favor the new law, ’ that
. fence , in the stock and not tlie
is, crops.
Tampa, (Fla.)Tribune: Capt. James
P. McMullen, living near Bay View, in
the Clearwater section, has a citrus tree
which boars both oranges anil lemons,
which was never grafted and bears the
characteristics of the sweet orange tree.
What is further remarkable about it is
that some of the oranges aie one-half
yellow and one-half red, each color be¬
ing confb ed to one hemisphere, and the
line of demurkalion between .he two col¬
ors being as distinct as if the coloring
had been put on with a painter’s bru-li.
Capt. McMullen sent us several speci¬
mens of this fruit Mr inspection.
Columbia, (8. C.) special dispatch to
the Charleston News aud Courier: Ten
immigrants arrived this morning, anti a
party of eight or more will reach the city
to-morrow, it will Iks seen that arrivals
are of almost daily occurrence, and they
are promtly engaged. Of those not
hitherto disposed of, J. W. Davis, of
Ridgeway, Fairfield county, takes seven;
Edward P. Mobley, of Fairfield, three;
anti C. C. Montgomery, of Richland, sev¬
en. Two of these gentlemen had obtain
ed members of the first party, and was so
much pleasetl with them that they have
secured more. Reports come iu that
they tlo twice ns much daily work ns the
negroes, and do it well. From March 18
to (late (about three weeks) 144 immi¬
grants have been received and settled by
Col. Butler. This does not include those
who will arrive to morrow. Col. Boy¬
kin will probably leave here to morrow
for New York in place of Col. Butler,
and will make a personal examination oj
the method of securing immigrants to
the Castle Garden and familiarize him¬
self with the work before him.
Strange Forms of Fungi.
A gentleman who reeontly had oc¬
casion to explore the chambers, drift*
and caverns of the old deserted Ophir
and Mexionn mines says fungi of evory
imaginable kind have taken possession
of the old levols. In these old mines,
undisturbed for years, is found a fungus
world in which are to bo seen counter¬
feits of almost everything seen in our
daylight world. Owing to the warmth
of old levels and to tho presence iu them
of a certain amount of moisture the tim¬
bers have been made to grow some
curious crops. Homo of the fungi in tho
old chambers are several feet in height,
and being snow white, resemble sheeted
ghosts. In places are what nt a little
distance appear to be white owls, ami
there arc representations of goats with
long beard, ull as white ns though carved
in the purest marble. Tlie rank fungus
growth has almost closed some of tho
drifts. The fungi aro of alrnort every
imaginable variety of growth. Home
kinds hung down from tho timber like
great bunches of snow-white hair and
others aro great pulpy mosses. The last
generally rise from the rock forming tho
fbior of the drifts and seem to have
grown from ground something dropped or spilled in
on the at the time work was
progress in these mines years ago.
These growths have in several places
raised from the ground rocks weighing
from ten to fifty and even one hundred
pounds. Home of tho rocks havo thus
far been lifted over three feet from the
ground. In the higher levels, where the
air is comparatively dry, the fungi aro
less massive in structure than below, and
are much firmer in texture. Home re¬
semble ram’s horns, at they grow in a
spiral or twisted shape, while others,
four or five feet in length and about the
thickness of a broom-handle, hang from
the cap timbers like so many suakes
suspended by the tails. One kind, after
sendiug out a stem ot the thickness ot
a pencil, to the length of a foot or two,
appears to blossom; at least produces at
the end a bulbous mass that has some
resemblance to a flower. In all the in¬
finite variety of these underground fungi
it is somewhat strange that not one was
seen at all like those growing upon the
surface in the light toadstools of day. mushrooms Nothing in
tlie nature of or
waa found.
Men Are Liberal 10 Be Seen or Men.
An a eminent 2 * British clergymen . _ waa
severely opposed to what ha called ten
rational methods gatherings oolleo
faons. He denonneed the practice of
baxes or baskets
through tlie oongregatton, and said it
waa anscnptural. lie believed that giv
mg ought to be done on principle, with
out special impulse, and without appeal
to the feelings. Ho determined to pnt
his views into practical operation in bia
own way So he told hi* people that for
one for missionary year they might put their donations
work into two large boxen,
which ha placed for the purpose in the
church vestibule*. Thera boxes, which
were made of stoat oak, were securely
ocked, and would not be opened onto!
the close ofthe year, when he hoped
they would be full of money. He wanted
riief!d’lv^mrein thel JthT w!h D
ill tail two shiliSil rndto inZ^rZin.
The eminent clergyman still believes
that hi* theory of iwuevolenee is the oor
root one. But he tralieve* that he is In
advance of his age, for he it persuaded
that nraetioai tlie people will not put his view into
operation.
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INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
A vbbmont railroad company has paid
a passenger who lost an ear in an acci
dent $1,600.
Over twenty-five thousand tourists
have visited the 1865. Yoaemite Valley since
its discovery in
French railroads do only is one-third done
the passenger business that by
English lines.
The man who comes himself about solely strictly to
kil j time 0006110
0 113 olvn lm0,
Sv. Louis girls object ,. to . rubbers, ,,
**the>y draw the feet so.” It must be an
awful load, even for India rubber.
Adjectives aro the millinery of litera¬
ture, and like the trimmings of a dress,
they should not be allowed to obscure
tho original fabric.
If Americans would sit longer at din
ner-table and be happy while they eat,
they would have religion. less dyspepsia and a
move eheorf ul
It is a groat pity that old. some It people
grow hitter as they grow seems
na though the more teeth they lose, the
more they want to bite.
.Toaqoin MiIjI/Kr thus describes a remi¬
niscence of an old California friend:
"Dear Dave Colton. I hoar he is dead.
Wo first got acquainted each one night iu
Yreka while shooting at other.”
A Milwaukee published clergyman, asking of a cor¬
rection in a report “I do one of
his sermons, remarks: not mind
so much being taken for a heretic, but
seriously object to anything which will
condemn mo as a lunatic."
A BitrDGEronT carpenter, while in a fit
ot anger, throw a hammer at a follow
workman, and swallowed a screw lie had
in liis mouth. It was an unfortunate af¬
fair. but it swallowing was hotter than hummer. throwing the
screw and tho
“Yes,” remarked a musical critic re¬
cently from Kansas, “the fiddlin’ was
lmlly, but I toll you, when tho fat chap
with the big mustache laid hold of that
buss fiddle and wont for them low notes
iu tho violin-collar, I just folt as if a buzz
saw was a playin’ ‘Yaukee Doodle’ on my
back-bono.”
A Texas girl wouldn’t cross a river to
reach the only minister who-could marry
her and her lover, and tlie minister on
arriving at the brink of ewollen stream
refused joined to cross hands to and them. They shouted there¬
upon river they the
service across tho to one another.
That’s tho kind of "high-toned” wed¬
dings they have in Texas.
A traveler out West stopped at a
farmer’s well to get a drink of water.
Tho water was warm and brackish, and
the wayfarer remarked to the farmer
that tho well was not a vory good one.
“It’s well enough for me,” replied the
granger, somewhat gruffly. “Then I
guess I will let well enough alone here¬
after,” was the traveler’s rejoinder.
Mr. BEEcnER says that one-half the
human family immigration, aro eaters, not I prtxlucers.
Speaking of 10 says that
there is no fear so long as our institutions
have the assimilatin ingpo wer, and when
the lion eats the kid he does not turn
into kid, but tho latter turns into lion.
When tho children of immigrants get
th rough the puhlio school thoy are all
A mericuns. The greatest needed revival
is not of religion, of tomimranco, or of
commerce, but of common schools.
Three cotton mills near Augusta, Ga.,
have during the past four years, with a
capital of cash #1,600,000, paid and their their opera¬
tives in $1,560,000, stock¬
holders $540,000 in dividends, besides
expending $5,673,000 for the purchase of
cotton and other material for manufac¬
turing purposes. Such substantial figures
as but these intelligent ought to laborers attract not from only capital points
where work is scarce.
A New Way to Make Hair Grow.
T do not think I have yet told you of a
new system to make Jiair grow on the
head, even at the most advanced eighty age.
It lias been tried on persons’over
nr ninety years of ago, and has always
succeeded as yet. But it requires great
patience and time. You must rub I ho
head for half an hour every day, either
morning or evening, as you wish; then,
if your head be dry, rub it another half
hour head with a stimulating pomatum. If
the be moist, rub into the roots of
the hair a stimulating wash, roadaof
rum, quinine, cantlmrides, etc., which
any eh emist will easily aud cheaply make
up for you. The great thing is to rub,
rub, rub the head for fully half an hour
before applying the medicament and for
half an hour afterward. Sometimes,
after one hundred hours, you may Itegin
to see the liair ready to shoot np from
the most slowly ivory-looking but pate. and The liair
grows months surely, it takes as
many to rc-gro w as took years
youthful to fall. Suppose, then, you lost your
locks twenty years ago, it will
take twenty months for them to grow
again to their original length and thick¬
ness. Tho newly grown hair, also, is of
the original color of the hair before it
began to fall
Thoee who have the time will certainly
try J the ThU experiment, at leant for a month or
tw 0 . who have ladies’ maids may
B , Te themselves tlie trouble, leaving the
care to the maid; but the person’s own
hand is better. Beveral Roman doctors
are going to try the experiment, as the
inventor of the Hair-dressers system is a disciple of
Hahnemann. are also try
iDg it on those customers who consent to
ma k a th* trial, and several very remark
able cure* have already been effected,
_ R(me utter in Philadelphia Bui
Mistook <hc Animal’s Agq.
E . T . Hapi-ersatt, ‘X’ily, a farmer residing
ncar P , ain his Ohio, barnyard who is near
sighted, went into )>e and »ee
j njf w h*t he presumed to a favorite
F‘ ,red for8 ,n the W *“ d c0 <- about the face
‘ > *' “ t * rm ’ il *nil cam* and corrected
bjr dn “® in K hhn ou ‘ o£ lho
3
“Mr bat plan, said one actor to an
oth *G "•hall i adopt to fill the lipase at
my benefit ?” “Invite your creditors,”
waa the surly reply,