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XEWS, c tree flfc Micfuiopy, [ > bushels of figs every year. tl)6nam [. Uflage recently located on Ue-eeatebs are given a job on in Georgia—one year for each ^tisemen t. , uii n ois Central railroad shops at . fater Valley, Miss., are turning out twenty-ton coal cars every twenty fcartoiu'S. It is reported from San Francisco IJ in the last has ten been years smuggled $6,000,000 into. r rth 0 { opium [fcat I port- hree cities and towns in Tex- 1 ForU-t separate control of their „ assumed conduct them independ Uiiools and will Lf State system. The rice crop of Jefferson parish, La., ■.feiag harvested and will be very large. Prospects are that the yield of sugar will ! le the largest since the war. fire German carp sent to Florida by He pish Commission does not thrive in lie everglades. The Alligators scare to death and the turtles eat them.. { hitting company a jear ■ Cold Springs, Greene county, Tenn. tothe depth of six feet in a rook, and struck a large ve : n of silver that taw W at that depth $34.71 per ton. I The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle says liit liiiat it is au uncommon thing to find in city a negro who can not read and Inite, Imiiing while there is much illiteracy the whites. I Over 250 dwellings have been erected I luring the past year wituin the city lim¬ its of Savannah Ga., at an approximate | [08 t of $300,000, including $175,000 l wo rth of property improved upon within Ifc city boundaries. I The fruit growers of Florida are pre |paring [protection to form an business. association for the of their The asso [ [jbinped ciation will have charge of all goods from local points, arrange for [fteir sale and secure careful handling. Warren’ Bailey, a colored man of hngusta, Ga., is creating quite a sen nation by his aquatic gyrations and div ingfeats. Ho catches fish by diving for them, aud gives regular exhibitions, which are attended by large numbers of citizens. Georgia has just completed a building (ouinining 500 rooms, for her colored [insane citizens, at Milledgeville. After the colored lunatics were transfered to i their new quarters the work of remodel¬ ing their old asylum began, and in which the white lunatics will be eared for. [ Pulaski, (Tenn.) Citizen: We have in : tie Southern States in operation, or in course of erection, 191 cotton factories. This outnumbers by twenty-seven all the cotton factories in New England outside of Massachusetts, and exceeds by sixteen the number in that State. Selsia (Ala.) Times; To narrow gauge railroads this State must look for the eoiiipletest developements of its re¬ sources. We havn’t got the capital to build broad gauges for feeders for local I convenience, but we can and must send j ["hero narrow-gauges out into every section it will pay. MAjor G. K. Dutton’s turpentine firm, near Live Oak, embraces 18,000 acres of land, upon which five stills are operated and work given to 250 hands, 42 mules, 6 horses, wagons, carts, etc. The annual production is estimated at 1(5,000 galons of turpentine and 14,000 barrels of rosin. I Charleston, (S. O.) News and Cou¬ rier; The system of hiring out convicts is a blot upon the civilization of the South, whether the prisoners are pen | ned pLate up in a coal mine, digging up phos ! rock or in building railroads. It ■ is cruel, inhuman aud murderous. It [ [ should better. be abolished, and the sooner the Apalachicola (Fla.) Tribune; Mr. J (. Bray ton owns a place a short dist ance from the city, near Mr. W. S. Turner’s that abounds in hickory trees. Some¬ time ago Mr. Brayton grafted the pecan into these trees. The experiment thus ferhas proven entirely successful. The trees at present are having a magnificent foliage, and they premise to bear pec ans in large quantities. Aiken (S. C.) Recorder: An alligator I measuring ten feet and seven inches in | |®gth Rilled in and weighing 300 pounds, was Aiken county last week. The existence of this saurian reptile in Glov | er s pond has been known for twenty seven years, and many is the load of [ | buckshot that has been fired at him, but ^ was reserved for the good marksman- 1 a Mp and long rang rifle of Capt. George to terminate liis depredations. The rep ; hie must, not have been less than fifty, 1 an '^ u °t improbably seventy-five years old. Wl Times says Selma has the most ^underfill J 0 se P a rate artesian streams well of in the world. Jff water flow from of entirely different i roperties. efieet is produced by the insertion J 1 a e inch larger pipe pipe within descends a four - 460 the water has no mineral properties T 4U «£ A: WEEKLY. VOLUME VI. and is very cold. The inner pipe de¬ scends 700 feet; the water strongly im¬ pregnated with sulphur anil iron, and, compared with the temperature of the twin stream, is quite warm. Jacksonville (Fla.) Times-Union: Sa¬ vannah is alarmed at the rapidity with which Norfolk and other Virginia ports are drawing the cotton business away from Charleston. The News think much of the cotton which goes to Nor¬ folk is diverted from its natural outlet at Savannah, and that this diversion is due mainly to the pooling system adopted by the railways which transport the cotton thither. It intimates that strong press ure will be brought to bear upon the railways to induce them to abandon it. editorial notes. Foe the six months ended August 15, 160 persons were killed and 401 injured on railroads in the State of New York. The failure of the Edmunds law to de¬ stroy the evil power of Mormonism in Utah has revived the proposed plan of governing that Territory by a Congress ional commission. Gov. Murray is un¬ derstood to favor the plan as the one most likely to weaken and eventually kill tlie baleful system of wholesale pros¬ titution which is practiced there under the cloak of a so-called religion. The Egyptian plague, having number¬ ed about 35,003 persons among its vic¬ tims, is beginning to abate in the towns first infected, but at Alexandria is in¬ creasing in violence. Medical men are disposed to believe that the disease is not Asiatic cholera, but the result of lo¬ cal causes, which belief has occasioned a sense of relief in Europe as well as in this country. At the same t me, clean¬ liness is as much a duty with every one ns though the plague had reachod our shores. DOWN UNDER WATER. What a Diver Saw that Very Badly Frl«lit* ened Him. “Several years ago, about the bagin nin’ of the war,” says a diver. “I got an order to go down to New Orleans, and from there down the Gulf, to overhaul a steamer that had gone down. She’d been claimed by a party who found her topmasts out: but whether she was full of cottcn or iron, a gunboat or merchant¬ man, worth a pound or a thousand no¬ called body knowed. I was loafin’ at a place Petit Ause at the time, and was on the spot in less’u four days, with a young lad, who, accordin’ to his own lingo and general talk, was barehanded the best diver in the State. At that time mostly bells was used, but we didn’t have any, and concluded to try and float her by haulin’ down kegs. So we laid along-side in a schooner, and young Grampus—he was a black chap—offered to go down and see how she looked. I gave him a hook block to fasten to her to lead the barrels, and with a ten-pound bar as a sinker he slipped off her to’ gal¬ lant crosstrees, which was all clear at ebb tide. For about two minutes I fol¬ lowed him by the air bubbles, and saw he was a workin’ aft, and then all at once come a reg’lar boil, and I knew he’d bust, and a second later up he come, risin’ half his length out, and gave a yell that made the cook spile his duff and thought brought all hands up a-standin’. I first a shark had him, but afore I could say a word he was alongside and jerked aboard. turned I ain’t goin’ to say his wool was white, but ef ever a black man turned pale that was the a-shakin’ time. He was groanin’, literally and failin’ I’m to blessed pieces; and ef he wouldn’t a-come all apart ef we hadn’t stopped his guff with aguardi ente. “ ‘Don’task me to go down agin,’ was the first word he spoke. Tse seen do debble; jes’ put me ashore. ’ “When he kind o’ cooled down he let on how he struck the fore hatch and found her a side wheeler, and when he worked aft, there was the devil, horns and all, a-breathin’ fire out of the starn companion way. Of course we all gev him the laugh, but he wouldn’t go down again, an’, between you and me, I begun to feel kind o’ queer about it myself. But there wasn’t much hanky-panky in fif about me, so I dropped deck. over, I and aft, teen seconds was on swum and when I turned the way I’m dan gee? ef I didn’t for a minute get the cold chills. It was kind o’ dark, and there, a-lookin’ out of the -way, was a critter with horns, and all covered with fire. And what do you reckon it was ? Give it up? Well, it wasn’t nuthin’ but a big Texas steer a-lodged in the hold. His head was clear and a-wabblin’ up and down, and bis long horns a-scrapin’ against the woodwork. He certain did look the old boy himself.” “But the light,” suggested the re¬ porter. the light. You the critter “Aye, covered with this ’ere see, pliophores was eence, that you see on dead fish. She was an old coaster, loaded with cattle, about two hundred head I reckoned, and the wreckers gev her up, an’ I believe she was raised two years after by a Mex¬ ican company.” “B’lieve I’ll try to mend some of my bad habits,” said ‘Jones in a fit of pen¬ itence. “I wouldn’t, dear,” replied bad his superior fraction, sweetly, excellent “your state habits are certainly in an of repair.” CON YERS, GA.. AUGUST 84, 1883. A WISE MAE'S FORTUNE. You can’t surmise Sly great surprise The first time that I advertised. Right after nice They formed in line Customers and old friends of mine. Ail eager to buy, For the reason why, That I was wise To advertise. I do suppose We shall dispose Of all the goods in store. In this event I am hound to rent My neighbor's house next door. You may take the hint, If you want a mint Of money, be, as I was, wise, And go to the pres3 and advertise. PERVERSITY OF PARTNERS. BY WILTON BURTON. “How yon cornin’ on deze days, Marso Jimmie?” “Pretty well, Uncle Toby.” “Looks like you got a powerful sight o’ stuff in dis yer sto’.” “Well, yes; we have a large stock of goods—more than we shall ever sell, I’m afraid.” former The speakers were a merchant and bis slave. The latter had walked to the back part of the store, and, with the air of one that feels himself a privileged character, had taken a seat unbidden in the best chair by the fire. The appearance of the store justified the comment. In one corner, by the fireplace, was an island of bacon sur¬ rounded by a miniature sea of brine; in the other, a group of syrup-casks, one of which rested horizontally on t wo billets of wood, and shed its contents, drop by drop, through a leaky faucet and into a fin can. Between the fireplace the ends of the two counters, that ran lengthwise of the room, was a tangled maze of flour-barrels, sugar hogsheads, and cracker-boxes, threaded by a narrow footpath that piled led to high the with door. The counters were “domes¬ tics,” gayly-colored calico and ready¬ made clothing, so that there was scarce¬ ly room for the two broken show- cases, with their display of cigars, neckties, pocket cutlery, and pinchbeck jewelry. The shelves were filled to their utmost capacity, and up above the cornice the spiders had woven a net of cobwebs over a long array of dusty crockery and wood enware. Truly, there was a “powerful sight o’ stufl” in the store. For some time Uncle Toby sat silently smoking a clay pipe. and Presently f the fire made him drowsy, he ell to nodding. This pastime might have continued in¬ definitely had not his pipe fallen from his lips ’ to the hearth. The crash aroused him, and ho resumed the conver¬ sation; “Seem like to mo I ain’t never been see no better fire to roas’ a tater in dan what dis yer fire is, ef I des had do tater.” “There are some in that barrel— help yourself.” .“Thanky, sail.” And Uncle Toby buried a potato in the ashes and put two or three others in liis pockets for his wife, “Marthy Ann,” he said. “You ain’t got no pardner in yer, is you, Marse Jimmie?” “Yes; Mr. Humpkery owns a half in¬ terest.” The negro grunted disapprovingly. “Mr. Rnmpl ss mighty hol’in’ clever his man. horse He gin me a quarter for onct. I ain’t a-sayin’ nothin’ agin him, an’ I’m hopes you an’ him’ll git along harmonikle; but ef ever you year tell o’ me a-goin’ caboot ’long of a yuther nig¬ ger agin, you can make a hen nes’ out’n my ole hat.” “ Did you ever have a partner, Uncle Toby?” had “Yas, sab, I a partner onct—a erappin’ pardner—an’ could me fix an’ it.” him couldn’t ’grec That no ways bad.” we “ was “ Hit was bad, but it couldn’t be hope, bekase pardners is naicherly worl’. But de meanes’ folks in this newited I ain’t a ‘sputin’ blit what Mr. Rumpless mighty clever man,” ‘ ‘ I suppose you think Mr. Humphrey may be au exception to the rule. ” “To be sho’.” “ I can’t vouch for that; but what did you and your partner disagree about.” “ Well", sab, ef you wants and set to know down all in about dat, take a seat dat cheer, bekase dat tater ’ll have plenty time to roas’ ’fore I git done tellin’ you ’bout Sandy Brooks.” “ Was that your partner’s name ?” “Dem was his entitlements, an’ he was a biggity nigger, too. He use more big“words dan what deze yere Mefhodis’ circus-riders use. He think hissef some punkins bekase lie could read au’ write. He Tow he knowed it all. “ I declar’ to gracious, Marso Jimmie, dem cheese smells so good I don’t b’lieve I kin tell you ’bout Sandy ’thought de o’ 1 has a slishe of ’em to toas’ on een’ dis stick. “Thanky, sah. Deze cheese is good, sho’; but cheese looks sorter lonesome ’cep’n’ you has crackers to go Tong wid ’em. Thanky, sah. I always knowed you was de free-handest one o’ old moster’s boys. Ax Marthy Ann ef I didn’t tole her so. “ Well, dat Sandy nigger he w’ar sto’ dose, an’ he smoke seegyars ever’ time he could pick up a ole stump on de groun’. “In clays Mr. Waggintire to dem use keep a sto’ in dis yer same town.” “Yes, I remember, McIntyre and Wagner,” “Yes, sail; dem’s um, only dey fell out, an’ Mr. Waggintire lie tuck an’ tuck (lie whole sto’ to liissef. “Well Mr. Waggintire he had a piece o’ _ lan’, an’ he rent it to me an’ Sandy for the fo’tli o’ what we. could make on it. Sandy had two big stroppin’ gals, named Ritter and Suse, which he Tow dey was es good a fiel’ ban’s es Mr. Anybody, in lie put liissef an’ dem in, an’ I put mysef. I was* to git de fo’th an’ Sandy was to have three fo’ths, bakase he wuk three ban's, Mr. Waggintire ’vance for •us. “ ’Twarn’t long fore I seed Sandy was gwine to git de egwantage o’ me. Ever 1 day Marthy lie sen’ to de sto’ aftersump’nnet’er. Ann Tow we better buy ever*, thing we wants, or Sandy ’d git it all. Sandy but keep his ’count in a little ole book; ever’ time I buy a dollar worth I make a tolerable long mark ou de ckim bly wid a fire coal. Ef it warn’t dat much I make a sorter short mark, ’cord¬ in’ to de ’mount. I know my ’count was de kereckes’. “No sooner we start to pitch de crap de fuss begin. I want to plant de long slipe by de branch in cotton, an’ Sandy want to plant co’n dar; I want to plant de chaneyberry fiel’ in co’n an’ faters an' goobers, an’ Sandy swar by the pint o’ his knife hit got to be plant in cotton. Me an’ him ’sprite an’ ’spute about dat tell Mr. Waggintire had to come au’ ’eide ’twix’ us. An’ lie ’cide jes’ like Sandy waut it, too. Deze yer pardners dey favor kin always git somebody to ’cide in o’ dere 3ide. “ Ever’ Sat’dy Sandy seem like he jes Tileeged to take holiday.” “Didn’tyou take holiday every Sat¬ too?” “Yas, sail; but don’t you see, ever’ time Sandy stop three ban’s stop; when I stop kit was jes’ me one. ‘ 1 When we was layin’ by de plowin’, co’n de sun was powerful hot. I was an’ Sandy wid an’ his two gals was follerin’ me de hoes. Ever’ few minutes Sandy gwine to de b ranch atter a drink o’ water. Den liis two gals dey stop an’ listen at de peckerwood tappin’ on de dead tree tell he come back. “ After a while I says, says I, ‘ Sandy, you must be got de tarryfy fever f’om de way you drinkin’ de branch dry,’ ‘ : lie ’low, ‘ You ain’t got no lamin’, nigger. Don’t you know water’s a good Sude-er-ritter for to make you sweat an’ keep off de sunstroke ?’ “1 says, says I, * Ef you talkin’ ’bout Suse an’ Ritter, dey look mighty jack de nn’-dipper, leanin’ growin’.’ on dey hoehan’ls an’ crab grass a “Well, sail, dat nigger like to bust liissef laffin’. I was a great a mine • to make a rock zoon by his head, jes’ to let him year how it soun’. But I hilt mysef in dat time. “ Atter dat Sandy kick up a rumpus ’bout sump’n nigh ever’ day. Dey warn’t no livin’ in peace wid him. His wife she had to have a han’ in de fuss. She Tow my ole ’possum dog suck her aigs. Marthy Ann tuck it up, an’ dey had it. When womens gets mix up in n ’spute hits bound to git wuss an’ wuss. but My ole I ain’t ’oman payin’ Tow I ougliter ’tention whip Sandy, no to what she sayin’, bekase always I knows jes' how womens is. Dey anxious for dey husbands to fight a ner’er man what dey ’spises, but dey don’t never tink ’bout ter’er man fightin’ back. “When we went to gether de co’n Sandy says, says he, ‘ Look yere, I wants to have ever’thing fa’r an’ squar now, an’ I wants you to onderstand all ’bout it.’ “ I Tow, 1 Dat’s all right,’ (( ( Well,’ says ’e, ‘you know Mr. Wag¬ gintire gits one fo’th of ever’thing.’ <*T eot.n ontraT ‘T Irnnwro A n *■ > 0Q o-.ro T ‘an’ I gits a ner’er fo’th, an’ you to its de yuther three fo’ths.’ “Sandy sorter smile to bissef. << k Well,’ says ’e, ‘de way for us to do when we hauls up de co’n is to put three loads in one ner’er pile for pile me for and Mr. you, Waggin¬ an’ one load in a tire.’ “I says, ah’ says I, ‘What de useo’ mixin’ mine yone? Dat jes’ be makin’ doub¬ le trouble for nothin’. Let me ’vide dis co’n. an’ I’ll ’vide it right.’ it f How you gwine ’vide it ?’ he says, says ’e. “ I says, says I, ‘Mr, Waggintire gits a fo’th an’ I gits a ner’er fo’th. Ever’ time we puts a load on his pile we inns’ put a load on my pile. Den all de balauce’ll be vone.’ “He says, ‘Dat- won’t do,’ says ’e, ‘bekase dat er way you’ll git more de ’n yo’ share. You got to pay part rent same es me.’ “I says, says I, ‘I sees what you up to. You wants to take out Air. Wag¬ gintire’s part, an’ den you ain’t a gwine to give me hut de third. But Ise gwine te have my rights ef somebody nose have to be mashed for it.’ “He says, ‘Who nose gwine to bo mash ?’ says ’e. “I ’low, ‘I speck you ’ll ha’ter fur¬ nish de nose. ’ . “We kep a ’sputin’ an’ ’sputin’. awhile One word brung on a ner’er, an’ after Marthy Ann jine in, an’ de fus’thing you know me an’ Sandy hitched. ” “You fought, did you?” “Yas, sab, we fit—but I speck it’s time for me to lie knockin’ Tong home. I wish Dis yer tater look like hit’s done. you mighty well, Marse Jimmie, au’ I’m hopes you an’ Mr, Rumpless ’ll git along harmonikle.” “But wait. You haven’t told me about the fight. Who got the best of it?” “Well, sah, Sandy he tuck down an’cropetip with a’ on me an’ knocked me ax hel’, an’ den he kick me in de short ribs. Dat was toler’ble hard to take, as you know yo’sef, Marse Jimmie, but I ain’t sayin’ nothin’ tell Marthy Ann run up like she gwine ter far up all creation, an’ Sandy call her a old heifer. Dat sorter ’xcite my riserbles. ” NUMBER 22. “What did you do then ?” “I says, says I, ‘Go ’way f’om yer, nigger, bekase you mought make me mad, an’ ef I gets mad somebody ’ll git hurt.’ “When you argy wid Mr. Rumpless an’ try to show him how de bes’ way to manidge, hel’, he do don’t he ?” knock you down wid a ax’ “No, but he’s as stubborn as a mule, vnd keeps on buying more goods in spite of my protest.” “Well, dat always de way with pard lers. Dey de contraries’ folks I ever lee.” “How did you came out dividing the mop ?” “I come out de leetle en’o’de ho’n. No sooner I git up off’n de groun’ an’ hresh my cloze I went to see lawyer King, bekase hones’ ever’body gin him de name o’ bein' a man, what don’t know no different ’twixt cullud genpleman an’ a white man. I tole him all ’bout it, same like I done tole you. All de whiles I was talkin’ he setten’ dar scratcliin’ his year wid his pen handle. Atter I git thu lie Tow I couldn’t git no more than salt an’ batter out’n dat case. I Tow I was atter co’n an’ cotton. Salt an batter wouldn’t satisfv me. “When I got back home dar stand Mr. Waggintire. Sandy He sent atter him whilst I was gone. took an’ ’vide de crap out jes’ like Sandy want him to, an’ what ’s more ’n dat he tuck all my share, be¬ kase, he say, I done trade it all out in de sto’. “Whenever you git a ner’er man to come an’ settle ’twixt yon an’ yo’ pard¬ ner de pardner slio’ to get it all. Pard¬ ners is mos’ too ’ceivin’ for my use.” “You are about right,” said the white man. “At any rate, if I live to see New Year’s this store shall be all mine or all Humphrey’s, and I don’t care which. I am tired of partners.” “Nowyouheerd me,” exclaimed the uegro. “Yen’s a talkin’ now, an’you ain’t a was’in no bref. Fur as I’m con¬ cern, pardners kin go Tong Liza Jane. “Marse Jimmie, you ain’t got nar ole pa’r shoes ’roun’ yer settin’ in de corn der gapin’ for bones, is you ? ’Kase ef dey’s too little for me dey’ll ’bout lit Mar¬ thy Ann. ” believe pair in the back “Yes, I there’s a room yon can have. ” As Toby passed out with the shoes he said: “I wish you mighty well, Marse Jim¬ mie, an’ I’m hopes you an’ Mr. Runqiless ’ll git-” But he saw that nobody was giving any heed to what he was saying, for Mr. Humphrey had come in, and the dis¬ two partners were engaged in a heated cussion of some matter of business upon which itwasevident they could not agree. — The Continent. Summer Dresses. Prifited mull dresses, Harper’s Bazar tells us, are the novelty for watering sheerest place toilettes. This is the white mull, as silky looking as gua/.e or as India muslin, and on this transparent surface are flowers of most natural hue and design, printed makes there them by look some fine if process that as painted by hand. The great rose pat¬ terns are liked by young ladies, flower, while their mothers wear the scabieuse and purple fleur de Us, or hunches of pansies or lilacs. These thin tissues are made up over white silk, a separate white under-waist answering with several dresses, but the silk skirt lias the ma¬ terial placed directly on in each breadth, and sewed up with it in its seams. Flounces of scantily gathered white lace are the trimmings, and the skirt when finished is of scarcely perceptible weight. Seven flounces of the lace cross the front and sides, but only two full pass dra¬ around the skirt. The short pery crosses in front, has a lace frill on the edge, and its longer back breadths are looped to represent a great sash bow with ends. Some of the waists are basques shirred in surplice shape, and others are baby waists full and belted, with the neck cut square. The waist lining of silk is also high in the back, but is cut out in a point or square to match the outside waist. Rose or olive satin ribbons are made into loops for these dresses, matching either the flower or its foilage in color. Dark velvet or pansy colored velvet ribbons are used when the flowers are of these dark colors. Of Interest to Depositors. J. W. Smith, a depositor in the Brook¬ lyn Savings Bank, recently recovered judgment for $1,050 against that institu¬ tion, most of which amount had been paid to his brother, who had presented plaintiff’s bank book. Appeal was taken by defendant to the General Term of the Brooklyn City Court. That tribunal re¬ versed the decision of the Court below and granted the bank a new trial. The General Term holds that all sums with¬ drawn from a bank and properly entered consid¬ in the depositor’s book must be ered valid returns from the bank to the depositor, though care and discretion must be exercised by the authorities. In commenting on the above the New York Herald says; “This is rather a startling decision. If it is a correct in¬ terpretation of the law, then the law countenances part of exceedingly these institutions loose methods in deal¬ on the ing with the money intrusted to their keeping. The Court qualified its deci¬ sion by saying that the bank must exer¬ cise care and discretion. But thirf quali¬ fication amounts to little, if any person by merely presenting a depositor’s belong book can draw money which does not to him, and the defrauded depositor is left without recourse against the bank.” Oveii the left—the roof of the railway station. HOW THE AMADOR WAS FOUND# The IHIue wblcli Enriched .Senator Jooe* and Alnny Others. I have recently heard, says a news newspaper touching the correspondent, a story of Nevada which early life of Senator Jones and is most interesting, which I am told is true in every respect and illustrative of the characteristics of a class of men almost passed away—the story: “forfcy-niners” in California. This is my Jones had gone to California with thousands of others when the won¬ derful discovery of gold in that far-off land tlirillecT every hamlet aud village. He had good and bad fortune. Among those who went to seek their fortunes there was a man n\amed Hayward, from Vermont. He was rather the superior of liis associates in education, and totally unlike them in habits. They were working first had in pretty good-pay dirt, and at fair success, and fiually one after another went to more promising localities, until Jones and a few others, among them Hayward, were left at the old diggings. Hayward had a claim on the mountain side that had as yet shown no it. particular promise; still he stuck to One hot summer day, when the Red Hills were quivering with heat, Hay¬ ward came to see Jones. Said he: “Jones, I am very near to a wonderful vein. I know it; I feel it, but I am flat broke, I want $2,000; with that I will make both our fortunes.” “Now, old fellow,” said Jones, “I have known just 1,000 men who were exactly in your fix. They only needed $1,000, anil some¬ times only $100, to make their eternal all.” Hay ward entreated. Finally Jones said: “I will give you this money. I have $3,000 buried under the fireplace, aud when the fire goes out and my Chinaman leaves I will get it out for yon, but don’t ask me for any more; I cannot afford to lose more than that-, and I give it to you with the utmost hearti¬ ness, don’t ask mo for any more.” Hayward got the money and said: “When I strike it I will give you a quarter interest.” One afternoon about a month after this happened Jones was sitting in his cabin, when Hayward suddenly burst in as white as a sheet, “Jones,” said he, “I have struck it.” “Struck what ?” said Jones. “I don’t know just what yet,” an¬ swered Hayward, “but I have struck the richest vein I have ever seen. ” They went together to look at it, and, sure immense enough, bonanza, Hayward had struck au gold. or “pocket,” of pure Jones, with his experience, saw it was the richest mine in California. They sent to San Francisco for Eugene Kelly, then a young mining expert of great ability. He pronounced it tho greatest strike in his time. Hayward had found the New Amador, the richest gold mine in the world. He sold it to Wells, Fargo and some others for and the day tho sale was made he gave Jones $1,250,000. Jones ard married Hayward’s daughter. But this is tho the history of tho New life Ama¬ and of great start in of of Nevada. A Notable Western State. Iowa is so filled up with people from the Eastern States that the following item will interest many of our readers;— The semi-centennial celebration in Bur¬ lington, Iowa, on tho 1st hist, was a very spirited occasion. It was in com¬ memoration of the treaty w ith tho Sao and Fox Indians, which went into effect on June 1, 1833, and which gave over most of the present State of Iowa to the occupation of white congratulation. men. The State has good reason for Fifty years ago it was in the possession of the savages. been Tlvirfy admitted six years the ago Union it had only just with population to of as a State, I'o-day a it has population some 116,000. a of 1,600,000, aud of a singular excellent character, sober, intelligent, brief energetic, and prosperous. During her career as a State, Iowa has furnished to the na¬ tional Government some of tho ablest men that have taken part in it. Seven¬ ty-five thousand of her people fought in the national armies, of whom more than 12,000 gave tlieir lives to the country. A few years since Iowa was on the extreme frontier of the great North¬ west. To-day slie must be ranked with the main body of the vast peaceful army which is moving steadily to take vigor, posses¬ in¬ sion if the continent, and in telligence, and civic virtue her people give assurance sf a future progress even more impressive than that of her com¬ paratively brief past Not One Missing. It is a common belief in Mexico that Montezuma, at the time of the Cortes’s invasion, ordered all his treasures to bo bidden. After his order had been obeyed, lie put to death those employed in carrying it out, so that only two per¬ sons, himself and hiding-place. the higli-priest, were cognizant Occasionally of the stories told which are seem to indicate that some of the Mexi¬ can Indians know where Montezuma’s treasures are conoealod. Some fifty years ago, a priest received several valu uable contributions to his church from the poorest of his congregation^ The priest learning through the confessional that the valuables were procured from a cave, and were supposed to Ho be persuaded part of Montezuma’s Treasures. a man to lead him to the cave, on con¬ dition that he, the priest, should be blindfolded. The clever priest, thinking to outwit the Mexican guide, contrived took several rosaries with him, and the to drop the beads one by one on road. After seeing the cave and its treasures, and returning home blindfolded, the shrewd priest was thus addressed by his shrewder have guide: kept faith with Rever¬ “I your ence; you had the misfortune to break your rosary, and drop the beads on the ' I picked them all and the way. up, return them to you; you will not find one missing:.” ‘ Thebe is one thing connected with your table,” said a drummer to a West¬ ern landlord, “that is not suspassed even by the best hotels in Chicago.” “Yes?” replied the pleased landlord; “and what is that?” “Thesalt.”