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CALHOUN WEEKLY TIMES. Bv D ’ B ’ FREEMAN SUBSCRIPTION RATES. v One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Ten copies one year 16.00 BSar* Subscriptions payable in advance, and at the expiration of the time paid for, unless previously renewed, the subscriber’s name will be stricken from our books. Communications on matters of pub lic interest solicited. Going to the Well, Across the dewy green she stept, In sweet freshness of the morn. While yet the tears that night had wept, Glistened on grass and hedge-row thorn. 'No fairy maiden she, whose tread T*he yielding clover did not stir; No tiny floweret raised its head, When she had passed, to look on her The bloom of spring was on her cheek, The light of morning in her eye ; Her lids half parted, as to speak, And wreathed with maiden witchery. With quick, elastic, dancing feet She stept along lhe dewy grass ; ’Twould wake the dullest pulse to meet This pretty, blithesome farmer’s lass. And many a rustic lad she met, And greeted with a pleasant smile, Though well she knew the a**h coquette, Who waited for Her at tlie Stil'e- Who waited for her at the stiic, Dowu in the green, secluded dell ; And yet to catch she gave a smile, As she stept lightly toward the well. Hei rustic lovers, as she passed, Stayed their own steps to look at her; And at each sidelong glance she cast Felt their young pulse beat quicklier ; ’Twas pleasant fooling, each oi.e knew, For each one knew (and sighed) full well Who waited at the rendezvous— Down near the well side in the dell. [For the Oulhoun Times.! Memorials; BY KITTY CLYDE. No life is so dark and dreary but what some bright rays of siihshine gleam across the pathway to dispel the darkening glooms ; these little bright spots in our lives arc like oasis’s in a desert wild as we tread the stroilg paths of every day life, we take a sad, sweet pleasure in permitting our thoughts td wander back over the “ liappy bunting grounds ” of the golden past. Who has not some little treasures hidden away—sacred reminders of the “ golden long ago,” the mother whose littlo one has passed from earth to join the angel band above has many memen toes of her lo§t "darling, she gazes at them in secret and wails in “ her first anguish.” OH why could he not have been Spared but time the healing balm of every woUtig brings cohsolation, she remembers he is “ hot lost but gone be fore.” Only a lock of haT yoii say but to the sad-eyed maiden Who bends over it ’tis a lasting memorial of tho young life that ebbed away in tile bloom of youth; the springtime flowers have bloomed in beauty, and the whitening snows of winter have covered his gl-ave With a mantle of spotless purity, but still his memory is revered. Perhaps ’tis only loving words that Were spoken when all the world seemed beautiful and are now hidden away in the secret chambers of the heart treas ured memorials of happier days. Such little mementoes as these will ever be kept sacred by the living as a melan choly reminder of the early dead. Lite is not all roses—there ate many more thorns than flowers on every fose tree, but when our future life seems ob scured by heavy clouds and wc almost sink in the “ slough of despond,” the protecting arm of our best friend sup ports ua and we pass over in safety. Starbnckle*B Experiment. A mathematic person writes to one of the papers to say that, “if Columbus when he first came to America had put away one cent, and not disturbed it un til to day, it would have amounted to the sum of $987,089,909.76.” If this is true, it is a great pity the idea never oc curred to Columbus. He might have have had a nice little fortune to comfort him in bis old age. Hut is it true ? That depends of course, upon where he would have put it. Old Starbucle, of Berks county, Pa., several years ago read in an almanac that money would doub'e itself by compound interest in eleven years if it were put away and left untouched. Accordingly Starbuckle put S9OO in a tin box and buried it in bis cellar. He permitted it to remain there for eleven years, and then he dug it out with the confident expectations that the amount in the box would be SI,BOO. But it wasn’t, and Mr. Star buckle now not only considers the sci ence of arithmetic a transparent fraud, but he don’t repose any confidence in. the almanac when it says Sunday comes on the first day of the week. —Danbury JVcics. An Indian Pony Express. It is wonderful how rapidly news is transmitted among the Indians, and it is in the accomplishment of this work that shows the most wonderful power of en durance. News is received that it is important should go to some distant tribe or village, and one or more Indians prepare for the work. A feast is made and they eat and dance ; they call on their neighbors and eat again, and con tinue dancing and eating until nature, exhausted, forces sleep. After sleeping a feiv hours they eat again, and are ready for business. They mount the fleetest P°ny in camp and are off, riding day find night, without food, or water or rest, for five days sometimes. Arriving at their destination, they state the news, !in d another round of feasting and lancing commences, to be followed per- Pps by a tramp of 200 miles more i Jri another direction, with the news to another tribe. By these couriers every 'novemont of Custer is reported, and before his command reaches the lack Hills Sioux will be apprised, n °t only of bis approach but bis strength. €«U)oun iUccldn Cimcs. VOL. V. Aurelias Pnforliiimte Young Kkfl, The facts in the following case came to me by letter from a young lady who lives in tho beautiful city of San Jose ; she is perfectly unknown to me, and simply signs herself Aurelia Maria, which may possibly be a fictitious name. But no matter, the poor girl is almost heart broken by the misfortune she has undergone, and so confused by the con flicting counsels of misguided friends and insidious enemies that she does not know what course to pursue in order to extricate herself from the web of diffi culties in which She seems almost hope lessly involved. In thi3 dilemna she turns to me for help, and supplicates for my guidance rind instruction with a niovlhg ‘eloquence that would touch the heart of a statiie. Hear her sad story: She says that when she was sixteen years old she met and loved, with all the devotion of a passionate nature, a young man from New Jersey, named Williamson Breckenridge Caruthers, who was some six years her senior.— They were engaged, with the free con sent of their friends and relatives, and for a time it seemed as if tb eir career was destined to be characterized by an immunity from sorrow beyond the us ual lot of humanity. But at last the tide of fortune turned ; young Caruth ers became infected with small pox of the most virulent type, and when he re covered from his illness his face was pitted like a waffle mould, and his come liness gone forever. Aure’iq* thought to break oft the engagement first, but pity for her unfortunate lover caused her to postpone the marriage day a sea son and give him another trial. The very day befor the wedding Was to have taken place Brcbkinridge, while absorbed in watching the flight of a balloon, walked into a well and frac tured one of Lis legs, and it had to be taken off above the knee. Again Au relia was moved to break the engage ment. but again love triumphed and she set the day forward and gave him an other chance to reform And again misfortune overtook the youth. He lost one arm by the prema ture discharge of a Fourth of July cannon, and within three months he got the other pulled oUt by a carding machine. Aurelia’s heart was almost crushed by these calamities. She could not but be greived to see her lover pas sing from her by piecemeal, feeling as she did, that he could hot last forever under this disastrous process of reduc tion, yet knowing of no Way to stop its dreadful career ; and in her tearful des pair she almost regretted, like brokers who held on and lose, that she had not taketl him at first, before He had suffer ed such an alarming depreciation—- Still her brave soul bore her up, and she resolved to bear with her friends unnatural disposition yet a little long er. Again the wedding day approached, and again dssappointmen; overshadowed it. Caruthers Fell 111 with the erysipe las and lost the use of one of his eyes entirely. The friends and relatives of the bride, considering that she had already put up with more than could reasonably be expected of her, now came forward and insisted that the match should be bro en off; but, after wavering a while, Au relia, with a generous spirit that did her credit, said she had reflected calm ly upon the matter, and could not dis cover that Breckenridge was to blame. So she extended the time once more, and he broke his other leg. It was a sad day for the poor girl when she saw the surgeons reverently bearing away the sack whose uses she had learned by previous experience, and her heart told her the bitter truth that some moie of her lover was gone. She felt that the field of her affection was growing nmre and mors cireum* scribed every day, but once more she frowned down her relatives and renew cd her betrothal. Shortly after the time set for her nuptials another disaster occurred.— There was but one man scalped by the Owens river Indians last year. That man was Williamson Breckenridge Caruthers, of New Jersey. He was hurrying home with happiness in his heart, when he lost his hair forever, and in that hour of bitterness he almost cursed the mistaken mercy that had spared his head. At last Aurelia is in serious proplex ity as to what she ought to do. She still loves her Breckenridge, she writes with truly womanly feeling—still she loves what is left of him—but her pa** rents are bitterly opposed to the match, because be has no property and is disa bled lor working, and has not sufficient means to support both comfortably.— “ Now what should she do ?” she asks, with painful and anxious solicitude. It is a delicate question; it is one which involves the life long happiness of a woman and of nearly two thirds of a man, and I felt that it would be assu ming too great a responsibility to do more than make a mere suggestion in the case. How would it do to build to him ? If Aurelia can afford the expense let her furnish her mutilated lover with wooden legs, and a glass eye and a wig, and give him another show ; give him ninety days without grace and if he does not break his neck in the mean time. marry him and take the chances. It does not seem to me there is much risk anyway, Aurelia, because il he sticks to his singular propensity for damaging himself every time he has a good opportunity, his next experiment is bound to finish him, and then you are safe, married or single. If married, the wooden legs and other valuables he may possess revert back to the widow, and you sustain no actual loss save the cherished ‘fragments of a noble but most unfortunato husband, who honcst- CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY", AUGUST 2(5. 1874; ly strove to do light, but whose extra> ordinary instincts were against him Iry it, Maria. I have thought it over carefully and well, and it’s Hie only chance [ see fur you. It would have been a happy conceit on the part of Caftithers if he had started with his neck and broker! that first; but since he has seen fit to choose n difficrent pol icy, and string himself out as long as possible, I do not think we ought to upbraid him if he has enjoyed It, We must do the best we can under the cir cumstances, and try not to feel exasper ated at him. — Mark Twain. Maxims Worth Knowing. Administrators are liable to account for interest on funds in their bands, aL though no profit should have been made upon them, unless the exigencies of the estate rendered it prudent that they should hold the funds uninvested When a house is rendered untenta ble in consequence of improvements made on tho adjoining lot, the owner of such cannot recover damages, because it, is presumed he had knowledge of the approaching danger in time to protect himself from it. A person who has been led to sell goods by means of false pretenses can not recover them from one who has pur chased them in good faith from the fraudulent vendor - . An agreement by the holder of a note to gi e the principal debtor time for payment, without depriving him of the right to serve, does not discharge the surety. A day book copied from a “ blotter” in which charges are first made, will not b ereceived in evidence as a book of original entries. The fruits and grass on the farm or garden of an intestate, descend to the heir. Mofiey paid on Sunday contracts may be recovered. A debtor may give preference to one creditor over another, unless frauds or special legislation can be proved. A private person may obtain an in junction to prevent a public mischief by which he is affected, in common v\ ith others. Ministers of the Gospel, residing in any eofporrited town, are hot exempted from jury, military or fire services. Permanent erections and fixtures, made by mortgager, after the execution of the mortgage upon a land Conveyed by it, become a part of the mortgaged premisses. A seller of goods, chatties or other property, commits no fraud in law, when he neglects to tell the purchaser of any flatts, defects cr unsoundness in the same. THe opinion of witnesses as to the value of a dog that has been killed, is not admissible in evidence. The value of the animal is to be decided by the juO'- If any person puts a fence on or plows the land of another, he is liable for trespass whether the owiier iias sustain ed injtiry of not. If a person who is unable from ill ness to siyn bis will, has bis band guided in making his mask, the signa ture is valid. A wife cannot be convicted oF re ceiving stolen goods when she received them of her husbai and. An agent is liable to His principals for loss caused by liis misstatements, though unintentional. All cattle found at large upon the public road can be driven by any per son to the public pound. No man is under obligation to make known bis circumstances when he is buying goods. Money paid for the purposeof settling or compounding a prosecution for a sup posed felony, cannot be recovered back by a party paying it. A stamp impressed upon an instru ment by way of seal, is as good as a seal if it creates a durable impression in the texture of th,e paper. —* ►— Nicholas the First was very fond of masquerade balls, and one night ap peared at one in the character of the devil, with grinning face, horns,and tail, and appeared to enjoy the character very much. About three o clock in the morning he went out, and throwing over him some furs, called a coachman, and ordered him to take him to the Quay Anglais. As it was very cold, he fell asleep, and when he awoke he found that the man had taken him in a wrong direction, for the Quay Anglais is m one of the most elegant portions of Si. Petersburg, while before him were only some miserable houses. Nicholas be gan to remonstrate, but the coachman paid no heed to him, and presently pas sing through a stone gateway brought him into a cemetery, and taking a large knife from his girdle, pointed it at his employ’s throat and said : “ Give me vour money and your furs, or l will kill you.” “ And do you give me your soul !” exclaimed Nicholas, as he threw off the furs and disclosed his personifi cat on of the devil. The Russians are very superstitious, and the coachman was so terrified that he fell senseless on the ground, and the Emperor drove himself back to his palace. A Curious Emblem. —One of the emblems in the coat-of-arms of the city of Glasgow, Scotland, is a fish with a ring in its mouth. An old man made his young wife very unhappy by his j continual jealousy and upbraidings.- i One day in a fit of desperation, she drew 1 her wedding ring from her finger while crossing one of the bridges and threw it into the stream saying, “ [f I am vir tuous and true this ring will come back to me.” A few days after the aged gentleman bought a salmon in the mar ket and carried it home for bis dinner. The cook on preparing the fish for the able found the ring. The Jewels the Months, In Poland, according to a supersti tious belief, each month of the year is undet the influence of some precious stone, which influence is attached to the destiny of persons born during tin month. It is, ih consequence, customs ty among friends, and more particular ly between lovers, to make on birth days reciprocal presents, consisting oi some jtwel ornamented with tho tutela? stone. It is geheral'y believed that thi? prediction of Happiness, or rather of the future destiny, will be re dli£ed according to the wishes expressed on the occasioti. January.—The stotie of January is the jacinth, or garnet, which denotes constancy and fidelity la every sori of engagement. February.—The amethyst, a preser vative against passions, and an assu rance of peace of mind and aiivcori ty. March.—The bloodstone is the stone of courage and wisdom in perilous undertakings, and firmness in affec tion. April.—The sapphire, or diamond, is the stone of repentance, innocence, and kindness of disnosition. May.—The emerald, signifying hap piness in love and domestic felicity. June.—The agate is the stone of long life, health and prosperity. July.—The ruby or congclian denotes forgetfulness of, and exemption from the vexations caused by friendship or love. August.—The sardonyx, denoting conjugal felicity. September.—Tho chrysolite is the stone which preserves and cuies mad ness and-despair. October.—The aqua marine or opal signifies distress and hope. November.—The topaz is the emblem of fidelity and friendship. December.—The turquoise is the stone which expresses great sureness and prosperity in love, and in all the circumstances of life. Nutritious Food. It is stated by a writer in Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal that a very interest ing report on the comparative nutritive properties of food was lately present ad to theFrerielt Minister of the Interior by Messrs. Percy and Vanquelin, two mem bers of the Institute. The result of their experiment is as follows : In bread every one hundred pounds’ Weight are found to contain 80 pounds of nutri tious matter; butcher meat, averaging the various sorts, contains only 31 pounds in 100 pounds; French beans, 23 pounds; peas, 23 pounds; lentils, 9-1 pounds; greotis and turnips, which are the most aqueous of vegetables used for domestic purposes, furnish only 8 pounds of solid nutritious substance in 100 pounds; Carrots, 14 pounds; and what is very remarkable, as being in opposition to the acknowledged theory, 100 pounds of potatoes only yield 35 pounds of substance valuable as nutri - tious. According to this estimate, 1 pound ol good bread is etjdal to 21 or 3 pounds of best potatoes; and 75 pounds of butcher meat are equal to 300 pounds of potatoes. Or, again, 1 pound of rice or of broad beans is equal td 3 pounds of potatoes; while 1 pound of potatoes is equal to 4 pounds of cab bage and to 3 pounds of turnips. This calculation is considered perfectly cor rect, atid may be Useful to families where the best mode of supporting na ture should be adopted at the least ex pense. Forgot His Broom. Some years ago there was a crossing sweeper iD Dublin, with his broom, at the corner; and in all probability, his highest thoughts were to keep the crossing clean, and look for the pence. One day a lawyer put his hand upon his shoulder, and said to him : “ My good fellow, do you know that you are heir to a fortune of ten thou sand pounds a year ?” “ Do you mean it V” he said. “ I do,” he said. “I have just re ceived the information. lam sure that you are the man. The man was convinced. lie left his corner, be walked away, he forgot his broom, and he made haste to seek the 'inheritance. Like the women of Sa maria, “ left her water-pot” by Jacob’s well, and hastened to the city to pro claim the presence of the Messiah whom she had seen, so this poor man, filled with strange thoughts of wealth and plenty, forsook his labors and forgot his broom. But are there not many who ralk of their title to a heavenly and eternal heritage, who yet hold fast the and cling to aii the cares and trifles and follies of this wretched world ? O man of earth, look up '( God has provided sonic better things for mortals than wordly good. Drop your muck rake, forget your broom, and seek an eternal heritage, a never-fading crown. Here is an Irish gentleman’s letter to his son in college : ,k My dear son : I write to send you two pair of my old breeches, that you may have a rew coat made out of them. Also some new socks which your mother knit just by cutting down some of mine. \ our mother sends you ten dollars without my knowledge, and for fear you may not use it wisely, I have kept back half, and only send you five. Your mother and I are well ex cept that your sister has got the measles, which we think would spread amone the other girls if Tom bad not had it before, and he is the only one left. I hope you wdl do honor to my teachings; il not you arc an ass, and your mother and my self your affectionate parents. “*~*“*" A colored gen’lm’n on a grand jury was in favor of sending the prisoner to “the plenipotentiary.” An Index to Marriage. It don’t require an aatrokurer, a me dium, ora gypsy with a pack of cards. It is very simple—lies in a nut shell, can be expressed in a few words. They are these. The list person you would naturally think of. If a girl expresses a fondness for ma jestic men, with large whiskers, make up \our mind that she will marry a very small man with none. If she de clares that “ mind ” is all slie looks for, expect to see her stand before the altar with a pretty fellow who has just sense enough to tie a Cravat bow. If on the contrary she declares sKe must have a handsome husband, look about you for the plainest person in her circle, “ that is the man,” sot- it will be. Men arc almost as had. Tllo gentle man who desires a wife, a mind marries a lisping baby who screams at the sight of mouse, apd hide§ bet face when she hears a sudden knock at tlie door. And the gentleman who droaded anything like strong mindedness, exulted in the fact that his wife is everything ho de clared he detested. If a girl says of one, “ Him ! I’d rather die,” look upon tho affair as settled and expect cards to the wedding of those people. If a man remarks of a lady, “Not my style at all ! await patiently the ap pearance of his name in the matrimo nial column in connection with that very lady’s. If any two people declare themselves “ friends aiul nothing more,” you may know what will come next. There is no hypocrisy in all this and such matches arc invariably the happi est. People do not know themselves, and make great mistakes about their in tentions. Love is terrible perplexing when he first begins to upset one’s the ories, and when his arrow first pierces the heart thefo is itlbh a fluttering there that it is hard to guess the cause. Besides man proposes and God disposes, and it is the “I don’t know wHat” with which peoplo fall in love; and not those peculiarites which conld be given in a passport. The Oldest Members of Congress. Samuel Thatcher, of Bangor, Maine wris a member of Congress for Massa chusetts from 1802 to 1805. lie was born July 2, 1776, two days before tlie signing of the Declaration of Ittde perldencfe. He is now living in the 99th year of his age: Enos T. Throop. of AtlbUrn, New YArk, who w r as 90 ybars old on the 21st of July, was a member of Con gress in 1814-1816. He was Governor of New York from 1829 to 1833. He was born August 21, 1784. Ilorabc Binney, of Philadelphia was in Congress in 1833-1835. He is now in the 95th year, havittg beet! born Jan uary 4, 1780. ’The above were all members of the House of Representatives. The oldest members of the United States Senate still liviiig rire : Peleg SjAagtie, of Boston, Massachu setts, who was Senator from Maine, from 1829 to 1839. lie was born in 1792, and is, therefore, 82 years of age. Ether Shcplcy, of Portland., Mel, how 85 years of age —having been borh in 1786 —was a Senator frodl that State from 1833 to 1&38. Charles E. A. Gayarre. of fteW Or leans, now in his 70th year, was a Sen ator in 1835. Alexander Mouton, of Vermillion ville, La., was a Senator in 1837 1841. He is now 71 years old. Horace Binney and Samuel Thatch er are, I believe, the oldest l'ving grad uates of Harvard College, the former having been graduated iu 1797 and the latter in 1793. John Buggies, who succ eded Peleg Sprague in the United States Senate, from 1835 to 1841, died at his home in Thomaston, Me., three weeks ago.—- J. N. in A r : 1 * even ing iMst. The Praying Sailors. A ship once sprung a leak in mid ocean, and there seemed no escape for the Crew from a Eatery grate. The captain, with deep emotion, gathered his men around him, thirty two in num ber, aud briefly stated their condition. “ Are you prepared foi it ?” he asked, feelingly. Two men stepped forward. “ Cap tain, we believe that We are prepared for death.” “Then," said he, “ for me and your shipmates. I know that I dot ti ot prepared." The two men knelt down with the company, and earnestly prayed God to save them all for His dear Son s sake. There was no jeering now at their pray* ing shipmates. No ofte to s*off at their religion. Every one felt that there was comfort and safety for them in God. While they were praying their signal of distress was seen, and a lifeboat sent, to their rescue. They felt as if God had sent an angel to their help, and their thanksgivings were as earnest as their prayer meeting for assistance had been. A daily prayer meeting was established among them, and before port was reach ep each one of the thirty-two was hope fully converted. It is a blessing beyond evert oi'hcr earthly uood to be associated with a piaying Christiaft people. We do riot know how many times the Lord wards oft danger and trouble from us on this account, and how many blessings come to us in answer to their prayers. Choose such company in preference to any oth* ! ep, if you would enjoy the blessings I God bestows in this life, and be fitted at li’ast tor such companionship in the life beyond. A SFIRtTBD youth—Oue dead drunk'. A Wild Girl Hunt, Jj is a tale of Idaho. There are youngsters in the NVeSt as tfell as in the East; arid two of them, who are fund of t e chase, hare liad a romantic ad venture. They were out repairing theii flumes near Idaho city. Near by a hardy old miner had squatted upon a quartz lead, but he was rarely seen, and the youngsters were not aware that with in that old man’s tunnel resided a sylpli like creature, the joy of the oil miner Looking over toward the old tunnel on the hillside they saw a sight that thril led them with rapture. A young girl, about fifteen years of age. beautiful as Cleopatra, barefooted arid bareheaded, with a wealth of rich auburn hair drop ping aßotit Her like a silken robe, stood siinning Hehself on a grassy knoll in the bright tnorHirig. Stick a divinity had never been seeti iti the wilds of Idaho befdrb, and they supposed she was a wild girl. She was game that must be bagged alive. Cautiously they crept through the tangled thickets to ward the spot where the beats iful Na netta drarik Iti the glorious beauty of the morning. All at once, from under cover, the hunters made a dash for the Wild beauty. But she was off like a frightened fawn at the approach of the sportsmen. Suddenly she disappeared, and “ though lost to sight, to memory dear,” the chase was not abandoned Into the dark tunnel, as the likeliest place of refuge, the keen hunters plunged, only to stand aghast at the sight that met their gaze. When their eyes became accustomed to the dark ness they beheld ther beautiful wild girl swooning in the arms of the rough old miner. The burly miner had seen the poor frightened lawn chased to the tun nel and saw the keen hunters at bay before him. lie disengaged his arms from the inanimate creature. lie ad vanced a few paces, made a little ora tion of one word: “Ruffians!" then lifted a htSavy boot, drew it back a few feet, see sailed ttirh it a little in the air and sent them back , with their saws and hammers at the flurries. That entire day the fliiuie was neglected. The young Wild-girl hunters wore busy ie-. pairing tho canvas seats of their trow sers and reducing swellings. They have no longer a desire to hunt wild girls in the Idiho thickes. Moral: Mover go wild-girl hunting without the permission of her papa, if you woul 1 avoid pantaloons rents and tailors bills The Future of the South. The condition Os affairs among the white people in some of tho Southern States is one that cannot be investiga ted too closely. These people .nurtured in the lap of luxury afid refinement, highly educated, possessing a fine and cultivated taste, have been doomed by the forße of circumstanbes to suffer the greatest privations. They have iu many instances been deprived of even the necessities of life, forced to labor with their hands for the merest pittance, and subjected to all Sorts of indignities by those were their former slaves and servants. Steeped in the depths of poverty and misery, these high-spirited, proud, refined people have at last re signed themselves with the philosophy of a stoic, to their condition. In the depths of their despair and misery, they have absolutely turned their faces to the wall, as it were, and given themselves uji without a thurmur or complaint.— The little property remaining to them Is being swept away by the Hatid of the tax-gatherers. Turn which soever way they may, they see no avenue open to them for relief. But this state of things cannot long exist. “ The mills of God grind slow ly, but they grind exceedingly small," and unless the administration takes heed and inaugurates some plan for allevia ting the distress of these people, the same spirit of justice which gave rise to that series of circumstances which re sulted in freedom to the black man will be set in motion to bring compensation to these suffering white people. The wail df despair and supplication which comes forth from hundreds of these peo ple cannot fail to meet with a response, and woe betide this natiofi if the ap peal is not heeded uritil it is left to gather volttme and fcrce—until like the mountain torrent it overleaps all bounds and carries everything before it. — Pomeroy's Democrat. The stock of horses in Russia, it is said, would be insufficient for the wants of the farmers of the Empire, in the event of a mobilization of the army.— A committee of the general army staff reports that 350,000 horses would be wanted in the event of a war, an 1 that not more than 200.000 eottld be spared from the agricultural pursuits for ordi nary road and street traffic and for em ployment in the army. Rttesia requires more horses for agricultural purposes than any European *iotfntry, and yet has fewer horses, in proportion to the p>p illation, than any other. One of the queerest (fuels oh record was that in which Sainte-Veuve was cn gaged. It began to rain slightly after he had taken up his position, whereup on he coolly held his Umbrella over hid head with his left hand, while holding his pistol With iis right. The expos tulation of his witnesses bad tlo effect, upon him “It js all very Well to be killed," Said the famous essayist,” “ but I object to cat idling cold in my head ” ~~ A Scotch chrgym n, p caching one day, (]U‘ ted the passage : •* And l said in my h. ste that all non are li--rs:! and added: “What’s that, Mr Psal mists? Said it in your haste, did you? Had you lived in our day you would ha"e said it at your lei.-gro ” . . . -i - • “Crusade Sirup,” in 3*dh much called; Hut ith certain? Westtwij towns. ADVKHTISINQ R VTKS. it®"* For each square of ten linen r>t len?» ! for.the #r*t insertion. i»n f l for each nut* sequent insertion, fifty cents. I No.tvj rs | I Mo. | 8 Mos. | h Mot. | 1 year, ihvo rsr*7w I *7.00 1 #12.00 jV-iujo, Four “. | (*•(%) ! 10.00 j 18.00 86. OC | column* 0.00 } 15:0*) l 26.00 40.00 i •* j 16.00 I 3a.00 140 00 06.00 1 “ 1 26.00 [4OOO | ft* 00 1,6.00 Ten lines of .nojid lire>l*r, hr* ita equivalent in space, make a MISCELLAKEOiv An Up-country exchange calls i- V Gogin’s Comet.” Next it will be old codger’s. A laity at, Saraloga wears a ljorhih breastplate of emeralds and diatnefA-*! purchased at London for $12,000. The young lady who mistook a b-»t- Hc of mucilage Lr flair, oil has b •* too “stuck up ” to go to any f>arn ■ sinccl NO. 5. “ Go lot it wbhot !" was tli*» exhortation rural y‘odth to H lady love, as Hp handed her a foam ing glass of soda water, She went I •«’ it. A Saratoga belle, who six monin* ago was so languid that she could scarce ly support herself at the altar, m>w throws a flat iron 55 feet, and hit* her husband ctery time. A gentleniari, on presenting a lac, collar to his adored oue, said, carefully: “ Bo not let any one else rumple it.'”—» “ No, dear,” she replied. “ I’ll take it off" A man travels around in Kngland, exhibiting himself at fairs who, wiih his hands tied behind him, kills a cer tain number; or fils WltHlti a given time with his teeth. A Kansas gcfltlerndn has thoughtful ly put his front gate in the jiarlor, 6o that his daughter and ) 7 oung man cap swing on it without taking cold during the cold wed their. “ Old \Voils Dug Out ”is the of Dewitt Talmago’s last book, and a religious weekly, with a facetiousness very rare in papers of lb’ bias*; watfb to know who the—Moses old Wells il* A Delaware man was arrested for murder, proved that on that night and at the hour of the murder he was at home mauling his wife, and this fact saved him. A word to the wise is, and so forth. An lowa lady concludes an anti-suf frage letter as follows: “ You may look at this matter in whatever light you will) but simmer it down, and it is but a quarrel with the Almigty that we are not all men." Some friend was remonstrating with Clarke, the actor, about his profanity, and quoted the Scriptural, injunction, “ Swear not at all.” “ I don’t," said Clarke ; “ I swear at those who offend mb.” An old veteran was relating his ex ploits to a crowd of boys, and mention ed having been in five “ That’s nothing," broke in a little fe!> low; “my sister Alma has been engaged eleven times." Anew gamo {las bceii slatted in tfie. mountain*? called “ Granger seven-up," Three pcrSoHs play for can of oysters/ The first man out.gets the oysters, the. last tHc cart, and tllb “ middle mad'’ don’t get ahytiiitig. IT a seiitfian 4ould turn back every time ho encounters a head wind, he would never make a voyage. So he who permits himself to be baffled by adverse, circumstances will never make headway in the voyage of life. There is ode trobd of which four oth ers can be niade, Which alternate curi-. ouslv between tho genders : “ Heroine" ia perhaps as peculiar a word as any in our language. The first two lettters of it are male, first three female, the first four a brave man, and the whole a brave woman. A wealthy parvenu lately gave the church he attends, two tablets of stone with the Ten Commandments engravC en upon them; whereupon a witty lads member of the church remarked that his reason for giving away the com mandments was, that he couldn’t keep' them. Two yourg princes of Austria enter ed into a violent qdarrel; vfrhen one of them said to the o£her. “ You arc tho greatest ass irl Vienna." Just theri the Emperot their father, entered, ana said indignantly, conic, “ Come, young gentlemen, you forget that I am pres ent. tl Is there any person voii would wish me to marry ?" sni Ia wife io a dying spouse, who had been somewhat of a tyrant in his day. “ Marry the devil, if you like." was the gruff reply. “No, I thank you. my. dear, one husband from tbc game family is enough for me." An oh! negro returning one nigjti from a dancing frolic, when crossing tho river, lost both oars, and came near be ing swamped. Determined to do what he had never done before, he dropped on his knees, and exclaimed, “ Oh Mds- Sa Lord if eber gwine to help Ira, tictw iJ de time !" Several hundred persons attended the funeral of a tame bear near Boston a few days ago An invitation tg be present was sf-m fo.the Aufoprat of tpp Break fist Table, who responded as fol lows : “ Dear Sir—Many Blanks sos your polite invitation to attend the ob sequies of the lamented plantigrade.— fam sorry (hat it will not he in my power to bn presepl, upob the Melan choly occasion. I have a great respect for hears since those two female ones taught the little children of Bethel and of Belial that they must not be rude to elderly persons. I think a loose bear or two might be of service in our com munity, and I regret much the loss of an animal who might have done sn much as a moral teacher for the young of this city and its suburb*. I am* dear sir, yours very tru y, O. W. Holmes."