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About The Conyers weekly. (Conyers, Ga.) 18??-1888 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 10, 1883)
General news. nrange crop of Volusia county, ^ P " less than 306 localities in ore no found. where gold is Jor of bushels of tomatoes are ^vrnaway D9 Florida ovary season. lands are selling in the oast of Marion county, Ala,, at $1. era P f acre. Brooks county, Ga., TKEveg etables of yielded a net revenue of $100,000 1»« J tliis season. pounds of red Thirteen thousand pep «erereeei ived at Laredo, Tex., a few rtf Mexico. from building of the observatory for ’ m McCormick telescope at the -eat begun last University of Virginia was itPpIy finished the Yazoo Tse grading is on 4 Mississippi valley raikoad and thir miles of track have been laid on the ffen of the line. Jackson end The contract for building the Army and aavv hospital, at Hot Sprin gs, Ark., has been awarded to Cyrus Fristol, of jjjit place. His bid was $86,335. Con. King has s fid his ranehe and rattle,' near Ban syndicate. Antonio, This for $4,000,000 is said to fe m English world. he the largest ranehe in the • Is western North Carolina 1 here are fifty-nine peaks above 6,C03 feet, ninety three between 5,000 and 6,COO, and 143 between 4,000 an 1 5,000, a total of 29C stove 4,C0J feet. , Mobile never s w saw “so much buil¬ ding going cn” ns is under way this sum nel . Many of the buildings are of an impelling character, but the majority of the middle class of citizens. The whole town of Knoxville having b e au aroused by a distant mysterious ex¬ plosion one day lecently, investigation was made, an 1 it proved to be men fish¬ ing in ilie river with dynamite. Foe ingenious methols of murder, an Oxford, Miss., negro gets on the premi¬ um list trying to poisou his family by putting the head of a moccasin snake into the coffee they were about to drink. The Paine Institute will be opened at Augusta, Ga., in October. The aim of the Paine Institute is to train young ne¬ groes for the ministry, and thus fnmish the moans of enlightening and educating their race. Alien P. Morris was thefirs t Con federate soldier to draw a pension under the Tennessee law ‘allowing $10 per month to Confederates in the army. Mr. Morris had both eyes shot out in the battle of Stone river, December 31, 1662. By pouring oil on the floor, and setting fire to it, then gouging out the charred portions by means of a sharpened pike and a piece of scissors, and then repeat¬ ing the operation, three prisoners in the Corpus Christi (Tex.) jail very nearly Biieceeded in escaping a few days ago. The plans of the Georgia ruateh facto¬ ry, now going up in Gainesville, have been changed, and its capacity has been doubled from the &rst arrangement. It will be in full operation in sixty days. I) is rumored that several other manu¬ facturing establishments will soon be added to the industries of the town. A large roofing factory is to be erect¬ ed in Chattanooga, Mr. L. Sagendorpli ; i the Superintendent of a New York com¬ pany, will organize the stock company at g an early day. It will be composed of the wealthiest business men in the city, f and will be licensed by the original com¬ pany to manufacture twenty different styles of roofing. Memphis Appeal: Georgia has reached llie dignity of being “the great melon eenttr of the South,” and it is anticipa ted that before many years an annual great melon pilgrimage to Georgia dur the melon season will be organized by our colored citizens, with low railroad and steamboat fares. Evidently Georgia lias a great melon future before her. Alabama’s improvement does not seem to he confined to her mineral interests and manufacturing. The last census shows that the number of farms have nearly doubled. In ten years the Com crop has increased about fifty per cent., the oat crop nearly quadrupled, the cot ton drop increased nearly sixty per cent. the wool product doubled, and the hogs increased over seventy per cent. “The Point” on Lookout mountain is the property of Miss Whiteside, of Chat¬ tanooga. "Wishing to reside hereafter in Boston, she has offered the Point for Bile. As heretofore stated, a company o; Cincinnatians desire to purchase this property. It is now said that a Chatta¬ nooga firm will be a party to the pur¬ chase. In the event the sale takes place some very extensive improvements are contemplated. A gold mine has been discovered on the land of Mr. Gravitt, seven miles east of Cumniing, Ga. Years ago says the Clarion, Dr. Stevenson, of Gainesville, discovered and tested a vein on this land hut for some reason not known notking Mas done about it. Recently more test¬ ing and panning has been done, and the output and the results were of such a character that some gentlemen in Gain¬ esville closed a trade last Saturday night ^ith Air. Gravitt, paying him THE WEEKLY VOLUME Vl, for the property. They will proceed at onoe to put up machinery and place the mine in No. 1 working order. .TOE CORONATION TOILETS. Dresses Worn by the Czarina at Moscow-' Dream of a Parisian Modiste. The following dresses were made by Worth for the Empress of Russia:—A court dress to be worn at the reception at Moscow of the Notables on the day after the coronation has a train four is pieties long. It with is of pale rose velvet and embroidered a line silver design, copied from the court mantle worn by Marie Antoinette at the fete of the Dauphin at Versailles. The petticoat—or the “ sarafan,” to use a Russian expres¬ sion—is of white satin, with silvery em¬ broidery. The two panneanx in out are separated by buttons of diamonds and tassels composed of clusters of dia¬ monds. A ball dress has a train of white satin embroidered with silver daffodils, surrounded with a garland of narcissi. The front is of white crepe, with crystal pearls interspersed with roses and nar cissu This dress is for the ball of the noblesse. Another ball dress, to be worn at the soiree which will be given by the City of Moscow to the Czar, has a train of crepe rave and satin paille crepe, the stripes embroidered in relief with silver sprays and the front em¬ broidered with five garlands of silver grain with a fringe of wild flowers. An¬ other toilet is an opera dress of the Louis Seize style; It is a tea rose satin, with large boquets woven in the tissue; the front of crepe and rose satin, in re¬ lief, with large tufts of swan’s down and tassels composed of clusters of pearls. For the festival day, when the city of Moscow gives honor to the Czar and Czarina, there is a dress of green crepe de Chine, covered with unbleached eam oric embroidered with Valenciennes, with a large ceinture and knots of moire rose. Chapeau capote her of rose velvet. Ou the occasion of arrival at Moscow the Empress wore a costume of crepe de Chine paille, with lace trimmings, and with a ceinture of dahlias and a short cloak to match; chapeau de paille, trimmed with moss roses and clusters of of velvet dahlias. DRESS OF THE GRAND DUCHESS. The following are the toilets which Worth completed for the Grand Duchess Vladimir:—a short dress of crepe de Chine, trimmed with flounces of white silk and muslin, embroidered with white roses. A grand ceinture of moire blanche, with large boquets of lilacs in the centre. A velvet court mantle, cpingte, with pale rose, and embroidered with her imperial arms, set off with rich Renaissance de¬ signs. The sarafan is of rose satin, em¬ broidered with silver and trimmed with clusters of pearls ball and marabout. On oc¬ casion of the of the noblesse she will wear a toilet of white crepe, em¬ broidered with silver violets interspersed with Parma violets, a grand ceinture ol diamonds, with a cordon of violets. At the city of Moscow ball her toilet will be of silver gray crepe, embroidered with silver roses in the Trianon style, trimmed with garlands of roses and silver hazel outs. For the opera she will wear a robe of -white China crepe broclic over a white satin jupe, the whole richly trimmed with cascades of pearls. The corsage Beauharnais is fastened by agraffes and heavy tassels of pearls. On the day of the Moscow festivities she will wear a short Watteau dress of China crepe and satin merveilleux of gris perle, trimmed with insertions of Malines lace and relieved by bows of plum-colored velvet ribbons. The hat is of gris perle crepe, trimmed with gris perle and loops of plum-colored velvet. Tree riauting in New York. The New York Hearld says: Accord¬ ing to a law recently passed and signed, any person in the State of New York who ii liable to highway tax—which means every person who owns real estate—may claim exemption to the extent of one dollar for ever four trees planted property, on the the roadside adjacent to his exemption not to be asked until the year after planting. The law specifies dis¬ tances but allows considerable choice as to varieties of trees. This enactment should lead to the gradual changing of our many thousands of miles of bare country roads into highways that m summer will not inflict the strain they do now on man and beast, This grateful change may occur sooner than would otherwise be expected if farmers, who must do most of the planting, will have enough pride in the appearance of their own property to plant trees instead of mere sticks. The usual plan is to set out poles an inch or more thick and with a clump of roots no larger than a man s head These may live but the man who plants them is likely to die before their tops are large enough to cast shade, jo set trees with larger roots and trunks would cost the farmer very little more, and it might enable the owner of the property to enjoy the result of his labors without waiting half a century. The Gambler’s Dread. —It is said that the greatest dread of a gambler is that he will be paralyzed. They nearly all expect to die from a shock of some kind. It may come from the fact that a great many of them have gone that way. If a man with a withered arm or leg should happen in a gambling house the dealer would quit the chair. Another dread of gamblers is a man who comes in to play with a cane m his hand. That is regarded as bad luck to the house. JgSlSSSt* $3K states^ 00,000 CON YERS, GA., AUGUST 10, 1833. The Arkansaw Farmer. A cattle-dealer stopped at a house of an Arkansaw small farmer, and called to old-fashioned a man who was windlass drawing that water cried with an out with an alarming screak at every turn of the crank. <■ > Light!” shouted the drawer of water. The man dismounted and approached the well, “I am a cattle-buyer,” said the man, “and I’d like to talk business to you.” “Can’t talk business till I give these steers as much water as they want.” “How long will it take you ?” “Blamed if I know. They ain’t had no water for two days, and the well’s seventy-five feet deep, and the bucket leaks; now make the calculation.” “How long have you been drawing ?” “Since sun up; and the’re jest as ram¬ pant now as they was when I com¬ menced. I don’t'low to do nothin’else fer several days yit, fer by the time one gits ’nough, the other one is spilin’ fer some. ” “Why don’t you drive them to the creek ?” “Thar ain’t no creek ia the neighbor¬ hood.” “Why don’t you drive them to the river?” “’Cos they’d rush in and drown their selves.” “Why don’t you drive them to the pond ?” “They won’t drink that sorter water.” “Don’t yon want to sell them ?” “I would if I had the ole woman’s con¬ sent, an’ I think she’s willin’.” “Where is she ?” “She’s jes’ gettin’ ready to go over to see one of the neighbors.” before she “You’d better consult her leaves.” “You don’t know that woman like I do. It ain’t safe to pester her when she’s gettin’ ready to go any whar. We’ll hafter wait till she gits tkar.” “How far is it?” “About nine miles.” “I see you don’t care to talk business.” “No, I ain’t so powerful keen.” busi¬ “If you’d pay more attention to ness you’d live better.” “Don’t wanter live no better’n I am. Suits me.” “Are you making any attempt to edu¬ cate your children?” “Yes, an’ they’re gittrn’ along fine. Jim hit a nigger with a rock yisterday, and Bob sassed a jestice of the peace, Buck ain’t afreed of the devil. That’s a mighty good skowin’, let me tell you;” and the windlass screaked and the steers rolled their eyes. “Are all of your children boys ?” “ They might have been ef it hadn’t been fur one thing.” that?” “ What was “One of them was a gal.” “ Where is she now ? ” “Married to the triflin’est feller I ever 866(3 ” “ Well there’s no use fooling with you; good day.” day." And he turned the “Good crank, muttering to himself: “Nosin’ ’round here tryin’ to find out who’s got whisky. A" man haster be mighty - ( mart" these Hays."—Arkansaw Trav¬ eller. The Elephant and the Ape. An elephant named Grand Tusk and ail ape named Nimble were friends. Grand Tusk observed, “Behold how big and powerful I am !” Nimble cried in reply, “Behold how agile and entertaming I am !” Each was eager to know which was really superior to the other, and which quality was the most esteemed by the wise. So they went to Dark Sage, an owl that lived in an old tower, to have their claims discussed and settled. Dark Sage said: “You must do as I bid, that I may form an opinion.” “Agreed,” said both. “Then,” said Dark Sage, “cross yonder the river, and bring me the mangoes on great tree beyond.” Grand Tusk and Nimble,^ but Off went the stream, which when they came to was flowing full, Nimble held back, but Grand Tusk took him upon his back and swam across in a very short time. Then they came to the mango tree, but it was very loftv and thick. Grand Tusk could neither touch the fruit with his trunk, nor could he break the tree down to gather the fruit. Up sprang Nimble, and in a triee let drop a whole basketful of rich, ripe mangoes. Grand Tusk gathered the fruit up into his capacious mouth, and the two friends crossed the stream as before. “Now ” said Dark Sage, “which of you is the better? Grand Tusk crossed the stream, and Nimble gathered the fruit. ” Each thing in its place is best. Two French Authors. One evening when neither of them kad a sou in his pocket, Belzac said to Jules Sandeau : “Sandean, I must have twenty francs, to go to the Duchess of g-’shall. Murder a publisher, if you like; assassinate a banker, if you can ; but get me the twenty francs. \\ itn out a word Sandeau went oat it was midwinter—and pawned his overcoat, Returning, he handed Belzac the pro ceeds, twenty francs. “Now, Belzac, "oblige me by lending Sandeau me your overcoat ” “Stop; Fere,” said handing hun the pawn-ticket Forgive me; I am a brute, cned Belzac, and threw himself weeping uito Sandeau* arms. Saw Mills.— --States The Umtei 8 has A FRENCH DETECTIVE. How He FIxea u,i eo that no one will Know Hiuio It was on the fourth morning, as I was ordering my dejeuner at the cafe where I had made the appointment, that the detective came to see me; but so com¬ pletely was he changed in appearance, that, notwithstanding his having warned me that I would not know him when we met, I thought at first the individual who had accosted me must have made a mistake; and it was only when he showed me his card, and whispered Police, some¬ thing about the Prefecture de that I grasped the fact that this was in¬ deed the gentleman with whom I had bad the interview in the Rue de Jerusa¬ lem. Instead of a clean-shaved upper lip and chin, he now wore a very neat pair of moustaches with imperial to match. His hair was close cut, which, together with the fact that his mutton chop whiskers had disappeared, makes me believe that when I saw him before he must have been wearing a wig and false whiskers. At the Prefecture ho was dressed in badly-made and somewhat third shabby clothes, and looked like a or fourth-rate clerk of a small office. But when he came to meet me at the cafe he was smart, well set-up, and had the gen¬ eral appearance of a French military man in plain clothes, who was trying to look younger than he really was, or what Frenchmen would call a ci-devant jeune homme, In a word, a more thorough and complete change it would be impos¬ sible for any'man to work in his own ap¬ pearance. him join at breakfast, I invited to mo which he did, and a very hearty meal ho made. But it was not until we were taking our coffee and smoking our after¬ breakfast cigarettes that ho told me why he had changed his dress and genera) bearing. tell monsieur,” he “I must you, ex¬ plained, “ that if we, the secret agents of the police, are once recognized, our occupation is gone, we are of no more use to the Prefecture; and although wo may not be actually turned adrift, appoint¬ we are given some very inferior ment, and very likely never rise again to the salary we have held. This is why we take care never to appear the same in and out of the office. At the Prefec¬ ture we may be seen by any one; and should those we have met there be able to point us out in public, we are as good as lost, so far as our usefulness is con ccrnccl.” On my remarking that such treatment could hardly be called fair, he said he did not take my view of the ease. The police, or detectives, were highly paid, and were extremely well rewarded they had discovered and brought to any veiy had difficult do when case. they They wliat they to told en the service, and they were the first the penalty of failure, are among them men who have in almost every class of life, and of them has what may be called a line of business of his own. In course of their duty some of them with the receivers of stolen goods; with thieves; many with what are in Paris commercial rascals, and a few with those whose “ industry” is to melt silver and other property of like valuable nature. Fingers, shnrpers all kinds, house-breakers, and horse¬ very numerous and most in¬ class "in Paris—have each and their special agents of the police, who them and know where to lay upon them when they are wanted.” Ex-Senator Tabor’s Troubles. A letter from Denver, Col., says: In Criminal Court here the trial of H. Bush, ex-Senator Tabor’s in the Windsor Hotel, and until manager of the Tabor Opera on the charge of having embez¬ while $2,000 from the Opera House Bush was concluded. Mr. was innocent after the jury had been five minutes. The suit was brought Mr. Tabor as the result of a quarrel himself and Bush, because of refusal of Mrs. Bush to associate the new Mrs. Tabor. It was the impression that the prosecution The malicious and groundless. prominent Club, the most organ¬ of the kind in that membership, city, has ex¬ Mr. Tabor from its at the same time a resolution to effect that the expulsion is due to fact that he married a woman with the members or their families could associate. The significance of the action is seen in the fact that ali prominent politicians of Denver are of the club, including Senator Secretary Teller and Henry R. It is understood Mr. Bush now bring suit against Tabor for for alleged malicious prosecu¬ tion. The trial lasted two days and has a great deal of interest. The Croat Fire. ^ a p a p er rG£L( j before the “Chicago jjj s t or ical Society, £. C.“ Lamed esti the number of human lives lost ; n the great tire at upward of 300, but there were no means of getting at exact number. Speaking of the wor j £ done by the Chicago Relief and g oc i e ty, he said it handled over $5, 000,000 in money alone and accounted for every / dollar; that it received contri bution of m0 ney, food, or clothing from every State in the Union and almost every country on the globe; that it as aisted 156,968 persons all but 21,692 pi whom were of foreign birth, and that it built 7,983 houses for persons unable to build with their own means, and that SOUTHERN PROSCRIPTION. The IUauoy Couple who Settled In illlt* slsaippio In the suburbs of Natchez I found a Northern man. He was digging worms alongside the fence and getting ready to go fishing, and his wife sat on the track steps smoking a com-cob pipe and kick¬ ing with her bare feet at the chickens whenever they came too near. The man had black patches on the knees of gray pants, a leather belt in place of sus¬ penders, and he chewed plug tobacco and squirted the juice around with a vigor which would have earned him two dollars a day in any other locality. There was only one room to the house, and the furniture would have been no load at all for a skeleton mule. “ Yes, I’m from the North—from Ul¬ anov,” he said, as we sat down in the shade for a talk, “and I made a great mistake in moving down here.” “ How came you to move ?” “ Well, some of the folks back there got down on me because they missed some hogs, and it got so hot I concluded to move.” “ And how do yon like the South?” “Not a bit. It’s no country for a go ahead man. There’s nothing here to rouse a man’s ambition to rip and tear and bust things. I’ve accumulated four dogs, three fishpoles and a shotgun since striking this country, but I feel home¬ sick and discouraged.” ‘ ‘ How does your wife feel ?” ‘ ‘ Clear discouraged. Why I’d hardly know her to be the same Sarah Jane Baker. She’s run right down to a skele¬ ton, and she’s got heaps on her mind. ‘ ‘ Say, we’ve been here better’n a year and not one of the ladies in Natchez haa called on her!” “No!” “ Solemn fact, stranger ! When we first came she greased her shoes and washed her best calico and called on every lady in town, to show ’em that she wasn’t proud nor stuck up, but nary oue of them has returned the call. They know we are from the North, you see, and they cut us on that account, I tell yon, the Northern family has to suffer down here. They are entirely ostrichciaed from society. Sarah, Sarah Jane!” Sarah came around to om side of the house in answer to his call. I remember that I judged she had on just the single garment of a dress, and half the buttons were missing from that. Her bare feet went spat! spat! spat! and I further judged that they hadn’t been washed since the winter break-up. “ What you want ?” she growled out. “ Say, Sarah, haven't we been ostrich eised here in Natchez, ’cause we’re from the North?” “ Dead right you are, old man,” she replied as she blew a cloud of smoke from her mouth, ‘ ‘ but what do we keer ? We kin hold our heads up and bust around for all that. If they don’t like us let’em look t’other way. Come, ye’d better be off to the river after suck ers. If ye don’t git fish to-night ye’ll ge to bed with a atomaoh as empty as y ft wallet. M. Quad. NEARLY A MILLION STAMPS. The Tedious Task ol a I*ady Collector It Philadelphia. “I have been collecting stamps foi nearly four years and have now aboul 850,000, counted, assorted and tied in little bundles of fifty and one hundred each,” said Miss Ntvvbold, of No. 1518 Pine street, Philadelphia, to a reporter of that city. “Of course, my desire is to procure the greatly envied million, which is the ambition of so many other ladies. But a million stamps are a great many, you kuow.” The lady pointed out a pile of at least thirty pasteboard boxes, all filled with stamps, neatly tied and labeled, in bun¬ dle* containing fifty and a hundred each. The boxes were marked with the quan¬ tity of stamps therein, ranging from 6,000 to 50,000 per box. “I can vouch for the accuracy of the figures,” resumed the lady, “for they have all been carefully counted. The great bulk of the stamps are, of course, of the United States, but every nation on the globe is represented. I know of only one person who has secured a col¬ lection of the full million and she lives in New York. Several years ago a gen¬ tleman of that city offered a premium of $500 to any one who would bring him one million stamps, procured That by prize his the or her individual exertions. lady I referred to received, and he then made a second offer for another million, but this so far has not been claimed.” “But how do you procure all these stamps ?” asked the reporter. and in “Well, my friends in the Army business saved stamps and sent them to me. Besides, I have received many from England, Germany, Egypt—in complete fact from everywhere. I can my million, I think, in a short time—if I have the patience to keep on counting.” “What denominations are they princi . >a )i v ?” ... and **Xhey are of all denominations, include a quantity of Internal Revenue gmmps. ” Any that are tom or mutilated Miss Newbold discards. Many have i^ cn subjected to a steaming process to remove the mucilage, but generally they tre in the same condition in “ft inch they -when removed from the envelopes. His Bfward Rewabd. —The Abbeville ^ (Ala.) n g 4-ho worked for a man last ,, ....derstandine J that he waa ...Jl*;,,,, A of the year, as com Steer f, ir hte services doubled- the man’s i iwP for a rifewda hot-cun and having labored , NUMBER 20. WIT AND WISDOM A Westers paper has started the dis* cussion when men should marry. Our idea of the proper time is when they get the girl’s consent and the money to pay the minister. “Can you tell me,” asked Twistem, “ the difference between ray cook, thia •noming, and a passenger on a new rail¬ road?” One wns bakin’ shad and tho other was shaken bad. Pater is now employed for the con¬ struction of domes for observatories. It Las also for a long time been ntilized in the manufacture of Western mining claims and township speculations. A Brooklyn girl is much worried since the first of May. Her lover has moved next door and she is afraid he will see her putting out the washing, and expect her to do it after she is married. “My son,” said an American father; “how could yon marry an Irish girl?” “Why, father, If I I’m married not able Yankee to keep girl two I’d women. a Lave to hire an Irish girl to take care of her.” A West Point girl says it is unkind of, the Government to allow only men in the Army. She says women would do jukt as well, or better, as they like to dress up and strut about for inspection and admiration. A Scotch parson said somewhat sar¬ castically of a hard drinker, that he put an enemy in his month to steal away his brains, but that the enemy, after a thorough and protracted search, re¬ turned without anything. A teamster in Maine conquers balky horses by taking them out of the shafts and making them go round in a circle. This is the only method of prohibition producing dizziness in Maine, which is a State .—Lowell Citizen. Is New York, a few days ago, a hand organ grinder’s monkey attacked a boy and bit and injured him severely. It is supposed that the boy called the mon¬ key a dude, and the wonder is that the lad was not torn to pieces .—Norristown Herald. A poor woman in Lawrence was visited by a female missionary, who, in the con versatiou, asked her if she intended to bring her boy up to any trade.. “Well,” said the partv addressed, “wid respects to yer, I think I shall bring him up to be an Odd Fellow.” McKee Rankin is said to be the daddy of the word “masher.” He once said to Thorne, alluding to the applause given Thorne by the ladies, “Charley, I’m no¬ where in this ‘rig’ (alluding to his cos¬ tume), I only touch their hearts, but by the gods, you mash ’em !” Punished for Cutting Prices, Lung Foy started a laundry recently in Paterson, N. J. The other Chinese laundrymen charged ten cents for shirts and three cents for collars, but Lung Foy put the price down to eight cents for shirts and two cents for collars. A number of liis rivals demanded that he put his prices up, but he refused. On Sunday morning thirteen employees of other laundries went to Lung Foy’s place and made threatening demonstra¬ tions. Ju the afternoon Hunk Jum, whose laundry is in Goodwin street,asked him to come down there and see soma friends who hud come from New York. Lung Foy went down, As soon as he inside, the doors were locked, and ho seven of the Chinamen who were his place in tlie morning. They him they had sent for him to punish further for cutting down prices. Without he says, they attacked him with hatchets, chisels, old files, and Their object, he says, was to him and punish him, but to Btop of killing him. Finally which they they sent had him home in a carriage in waiting at the door. Lung Foy was so badly hurt that he was unable to notify the police of the Then oc¬ till Wednesday morning. in was brought to the station bouse carriage. One eye was closed, there was a stab on one arm and a hatchet cut oue side, and there were hacks and all over his body. He was evi¬ in great pain. Tlio doctors say are no fatal injnries. his Lung Foy gave the names of seven as Moy Chin, Moy Hing, Moy Jim, M< y Dock, Moy Fee Ni, Moy and Moy See. The interpreter the singularity of the first names owing to the fact that they were all A Prolific Potato Patch. About 1855 or 1856 a man by the name Parker, who lived on the Mokelumno in San Joaquin County, made before the Commissioners of the San Joaquin Agricultural Society that had raised 2,500 bushels of potatoes on an acre. The story was so astonish¬ ing that a committee was appointed to investigate it. They reported that the ground was planted as usual in the spring, and matured a large crop o£ potatoes; that before the potatoes were dug the June rise of the river sent the water near to the surface, producing ground, a second crop on the surface, the being nearly covered with the potatoes. When the -water went down, a month, or two later, a third crop set in and ma¬ tured below the first. The Committee dug several hills, which produced from, seventy-five to eighty-seven pounds each. The top potatoes were sunburned and worthless for the table; the first crop was, of course, worthless, and but a small quantity of the lower or third crop was good. The digging and weighing of the potatoes were not carefully done. A close estimate would probably have re¬ duced the figures considerably, but no one who examined the field bushels placed tha tha yield at less than 1,200 exhausted, to acre. The ground was utterly after, producing nothing for some years —San Luis Obispo ( Cal .) Tribune. “Is the howling of a dog always girl fol- ol lowed by a death ? asked a little her father. “Not always my dear; sometimes the man that shoots at tint
