m. uurwuii tikw or conov.
How\ Money Can be Made at Even 9} Cents
a Pound, by ^liaising Your Otofs Grain
and Provision*. The
last number of the Financial Chronicle,
under date of March 17, contains the
following interesting article on the "Cost
of Cotton Production :*
"Facto bearing upon the industrial condition
of the South have an increased interest,
since it has become apparent that our
- Government is to leave the cotton States,
for the future, free to regulate their own
affairs. This, for obvious reasons, was neeessaiily
a condition precedent to auy general
prosperity in that section. Until, in
fact, this freedom everywhere exists, and is
Used and not abused, a large party ia the
Nowth will haliawa frha flftUth only fjmif it,
jrrrv'- that it mayTTWreai iU labor etieaawweveltt
tionize governments, and live in anarohy.?
Capital ounnot fr<*ely flow South until, by
experiment it is proved that no such disposition
exists?that life, property, individual
rights, and liberty of opinion even, are
^T\ just as sacred there as in the North. To
our own satisfaction this has been ulready
proved; but it cannot bo denied that a doubt
with regard to it widoly prev?ilas(the result
of causes we need net dwell upon) which
nothing but the experiment will remove.?
We hail, therefore, as the most promising
indication of the times, the disposition our
government is showing to interfere no longer
" in the affairs of any State.
At the present moment,-also, every condition
in the South appears to be favorable
"? for its growth and development. In an artiole
on cotton maudfhetures (Chronicle,
February 24), wo stated facts which showed
the important position that section holds on
that question. But our object at this time
was to speak especially of the planting interest
which has grown iuto a new life of
late years. The wasteful system of the past,
hud become almost proverbial. With cot*
ton at 30 cents a pound, the general response
was, there was no fuonej in it; and,
when it had fallen to 20 couts, the a.&SfttuTe"
bankruptcy of tho whole_pfcntiog interest
was, of course, tli^xpccted result. And to
many these descending prices have proved
very diiastyjU8 ju fact) jt js through these
disastersenforced economy since
1 c*11*
l'o75 tk^Wa better basis has been reached.
With the exception of a class of farmers
which have settled in the northern portion
of the South Atlantic States, very few planters
have made money uutil within the last
two years. But the turning point has really
come, and the result of the lust eotton
crop is less debt than ever before. In fact, ]
the vear has nreved that cotton can he rni?. I
cd profitably in the Southern States at present
priqes.
In proof of this last statcmeut, c no illustration
is as good as a thousand. A friend
who has a plantation in south-western Georgia
gives us the result of his year's work.?
lie does not live ou or near his plautation,
but ruus it with an overseer ; of course a
very expensive and prodigal way. "What
New England farm would pay expenses
were the owner to live in Boston and let
his labor work it ? Our Georgia friend
says that the total cotton crop he raised the
past season was 103 bales, weighing when
sold 82,175 pounds. He sold enrly in the
season, and therefore did not get by ljc^jl
lb what he could have realized later. But
^ after paying nil the expenses of sale, com 1,
missions, etc., tho net proceeds of bis crop
were 87,828.50, or about 9}o per pound.?
The total cash expenses for tho year, of
every kind and desoription, including taxes,
five hundred dollars for overseer's wages,
labor, &c., amounted to $5,113. To this
should be added ten per ccut. on $2,000,
the value* df t^'thules employed ou the
plantation?a9 experience shows that per
.centage about covers the wear?mr" ing the
total cost of the crop $5,313. This divided
by pound? sold gives (i.GOc. as the actual
cost of the cotton per pound, leaving the
net profit 2-00c. per pound, or a total profit
of $2,510 50. Had the crop been sold later,
tbe profit would have beeu about $1,000
in ore.
To really appreciate tlicso results, we
must remember that this plantation had a
^ non-resident owner, and was worked entirely
by an overseer who was paid five hundred
dollars a year wages, llad the owner
lived upon the place, he could undoubtedly
also have obtained the support of himself
and funiiv out of it, aud have saved the overseer's
wages. Hesidcs, it is scarcely necessary
to say, there arc numberless littlo economies
which the watchful eye of the proprietor
alone can secure. It has run into u
* proverb at the North that a man, to make
anything out of a farm, must drive his own
plough ; meaning that the business of farming,
perhaps more than nil others, needs the
proprietor's personal constant attention.?
That he can bo more prodigal in the South
wc have seen; but with the uso of the same
care, forethought, ingenuity aud economy
which one is compelled to practice in New*
I
England, the profit indicated above could
be easily doubled.
There are throe conclusions apparent
frpm the foregoing. First: That, uw
under present management, a man whcrsK?
raise bis own oorn and small grain can easily
grow ooUon at 9|o per pound, and make a
handsome profit on it; and with closer management,
much better results could be obtained.
Second: As an opening for the
small capitalist, not afraid of work, uo where
else can such promiso be secured. This
must present itself with peculiar force to the
man who is now grubbiug away bis lifo on
a Now England farm, with a bare living,
and that a very modest ono, as the result.?
Third : And finally these facts prcscut in
relief the fading, still fading po.-ition "other
uuuui>ncj are inteiy to noid oti the question
of ootton production in the future; they
he able, to compote with ua -a?Lth?? Lu_ ..
prioo nbr in staplo."Southern
Breeders oe Thoroughbred
Stock.?In view of the profits attaching
to the breeding of thoroughbred stock,
it is surprising that there are so feu South- '
rn breeders. The report of the breeders 1
in tho State of Tennessee is that all of the <
surplus stock there has been taken by South- j
crn purchasers. There should be in the j
Soutn a sufficcnt number of Southern broeders
to supply the Southern demand. The
loss, especially in cattle, from acclimation,
when purchased in a more Northern latitude,
is fcurfully large. This fatality deters many
from investing, as it is not possible for Southern
breeders to supply the demand. Rather
than not purchase at all it is better that
this risk be taken and the basis secured for
thoroughbred herds. In the case of horse*,
sheep and swine, if proplt care be used,
there is but littlo risk from this source.?
No one should bo deterred from engaging
in^bejbrcediug of thoroughbred atook from
an apprehension that there will bo no de- 1
maud for his stock. The Southern people t
v,,v" *? ?"?s> ,"/u" ",m " o1"'' luul i
animal will then do her best At discounting
the lactonl. Four hundred pounds of butter
is often obtained from good stock ; and |
instances are mentioned where the yield ,
was even at a higher figure.?Exchange. ,
? (
Why Not Grow More Barley ??The ,
successful growth of barley is only possible '
with good farming, just as large crops of |
roots need the best culture. To admit that ,
one cannot grow barley is admitting himself *
a poor farmer. Our poor farming is the '
reason why 7,000,000 bushels of barley are |
imported iuto tho United States overy
year, a crop subject to much risk in marketing,
but there is no better grain for horses; :
when ground it is excellent food lor cows,
produoing a rich flow of milk ; it is proba- i
bly tho best food for poultry, and when barley
meal is mixed with boiled potatoes and
led to pigs, it makes tho very best flavored
pork and that, too, moro rapidly than any
other food we have used. With all these
'advantages why not grow moro barley???
arc jubc Doginmug to appreciate the fact (
that there is no profit in retting scrub-atoek
of cny kind. As improved stock increases, (
-tile contrast will become so marked, as to
dcuioustrfttm'OACJb ? lor economy of the one
over the other. iTQ^ , equally profitable, t
there is certain]- *w??ixicrand
breeding tho b. I uJL
bogS autj.- ??-Jijrer wtiuu mo tumuion' ""
iBrubs of the country.?Southern Live- '
Stock Journal _
TuB"^An!tfBH.?When a farmer can so ^
manage his farm as to make 'both ends of s
the year meet,' oven if it be with the most s
rigid economy, he should be contented with
his lot. If we take- a survey of the business
men of our villages and cities, we find ,
that only three or four in a hundred realize
a competency for- old age. Then ^tilhgine
the unhappincss of those wb',~sooner or
later, fail to support themselves and families
respectably?the cares and anxieties
that constantly produce pangs and tortures
that uo farmer ever felt. These men may
apparently lead pleasant lives, jg> the outside
world cannot witness the emotions of
a man who daily strnius every financial
nerve to meet his notes fulliug due at the
bank. The time between one and three
o'clock brings more anxjpty to businessmen
than all the farmers 01 the Uuitcd States
realize iu a lifetime. No, farmers, your lot
is not a hard one. Your food may be plaiu
and the cuts of your coats may not be as
those of the merchants of the day; but
when you lie upou your pillow your repose
is sound and sweet. The horrors of protested
notes seldom keep you awukc ut
night; and iu tho morning, as you go around
to feed your flocks and view your crops that
have visibly grown while you were in the
arms of MorphcuB, you may take more
real cnjojuieut of life in oue hour than
many city merchants aod manufacturers do
iu a year. Our advice, therefore, is, be
not discouraged. . The times may now bo
hard, but you are*promised 'seed time and
harvest', to the.cud, and with hard labor
and judicious management, you come out
iu the end victorious.?Ilural New Yorker.
.
To Make A Cow Give Milk.?A writer
who says that his cow gives all the milk I
it i ? _ _ . _ 1 i? ? n t . 11
mat. is wanica 111 a iauiny 01 eignt persons, J
and from which was made 200 pouuds of t
butter in t he year; gives the following as the j
treatment, lie says :
If you desire to get a large yield of rich 1
milk, give your cow, three times a day, wa- '
tcr slightly warm, slightly salted, in which r
bran has been stirred, at tho rate of one j
quart to two gallons of water. You will (
find, if you have not found this by easy ,
practice, that your cow will gain twenty five j
per cent, immediately uudcr the cfFect of
it! She will become so attached to the
diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless .
very thirsty, but this mess she will eat al- 1
most any time, and ask for more. The 1
amount of this is an ordinary water pail full {
nnnlt hl))a iiiruMiniir iiaaii nwl nirrltf Vaup
HTrBc M*.
Our farmers arc still agitating thd
law, or more properly tho "'stock law," dj
which the stock is to be feoced instead of
the crops. The matter is disoutsed at Orange
meetings, and (here is a funeral disposition
to make one more effort 'to secure tbjs law
for Anderson County. Man^'of the (armory
who had been waiting for tbe passage of
such a law, evidently allowed their fencing
to become dilapidated in tho last few years,
and recently have been obliged to undergo
great expense to repair fences, in order to
mak; a crop this year. They have bud au
opportunity of judging as to the cost of
fcucing, and arc doubtless more than ever
convinced that it is an exorbitant tax upon
their resources. Others who were opposed j
u> ilic sppnmiiOB |>f snob Vflhr to
County bave become convinced that the
best interests of the farmers generally demand
that such a great outlay for fencing
every yoar ought to be stopped, and that it
is far cheaper and more satisfactory to fence
the stock. We have no doubt that a majority
almost equal to Hampton's majority
lost fall could be secured for a "stock law"
iu this County. Our attentidfi has been directed
to this subject at the present time by
die perusal of a letter from Mecklenburg
bounty, N. C., where a stock law has been
;n oporation for several years. Mr. Robert
Stevenson wrote a letter some time ago to
[lev. J. C. Chalmers, who is well known to
nany of our citizens, asking for information
n regard to the practical effect of the law
n North Carolina, and the following answer
vas reocjyed, by him. It wilLbe jcejnfija>ered
that the law originally applied to one
owuship, and it will be seen that it& practi:al
benefits aro to be extended to the entire
:ounty :
Ciiaklottk, N. C., March 5th, 1877.
Dear Sir : Mr. Chalmers having been
iway from home for a few days, and being
sousiderably worried, requosted uie to reply
_ your letter, which was received
ast Saturday.
I will preface my reply by statin^ that the
(encfits acouring from the 'jsfcoclc law" are
o many and so great Jtintftf it is very hard to
tate all.
1. Fromrtho scarcity of rail timber, Mr. C.
hints that it has added at least one hunIred
per cent, to the former value of our
ands. - ?i*~\.
2. That the farms can be cultivated with
ewer hands, and thus at a less cost, for
luring the winter months, instead of fencng
as formerly, wc can be preparing our
and for planting.
3. That vegetation, which was before
;cpt crtlcu do*n by cattle running at large,
s now permitted to decompose on the land,
hus enriching it every year.
4. That the expense per capita to keep up
he neighborhood, district or county fences,
s not near ?o great as to keep up plantation
ences, and the laws being stringent we arc
?ot bothered as before with mischievous
itock. *
5. That fanners generally reduce the nutn>cr
of their stock, and hence have a belter
|uality. Of couree, we Imve to provide
bod for them, but being confined in pastures
thoy ruu loss, and takes less to lccd
hem, so we consider the expense no greater.
iVc arc never bothered hunting strayed catle
or hogs, which you know is very comiion
under the old system.
The above are ouly a few of the benefits
irising from the 6ysteui, but wc think
inough to convince any unprejudiced mind
,hat it is by far preferable to the old plan.
Had we ten acres of forest land to one iu
jultivation, we would be unwilling to return
to the old system. In fact, I don't
,hink there is one who has tried the new,
vould be willing under any circumtances to
cturn to the old plan. The system is rapdly
cxtendiug, and recently, by an act of
>ur Legislature, tho whole of our county
Mecklenburg) is allowed the benefit of the
otv Vnuro frnlw
' L. mrmcalistell.
P. S.?I forgot to state a very important
item, namely, that we can cultivate any
*ich piece of land too small or inconvenient
;o fence, and you can about make your
jrcud* on the fence rows.?Anderson In'clhffcnccr.
.?. . . ?
Lemon Pudding.?One pint of Que
aread crumbs, one quart of sweet milk, one
;up of sugar, yelks of two eggs, grated rind
if one leuion ; beat the yelks well; add the
ither ingredients, with a little salt, pour into
i woll-buttcrcd pudding dish and bako
until done. When the pudding is cold
beat the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth ;
add one teacup of pulverized sugar and the
juice of one lemon ; spread this on the pudding
; put it in the oven until it is a delicate
brown. To be eaten with cream.
Potato Puddino.?Peat well together
fourteen ounces of uiashed potatoes (free
from lumps), four ounees of butter, fcur of
Bugar, five eggs, the grated rind of a small
lemon, a pinch of salt; add a small teacup
of sweet milk; pour the inncturo into a wellbuttered
pudding dish ; pour a little clarificld
butter on the top, and then sift plenty
of white sugar over it. Pake in a modento
oven three-quarters of an hour. i
i On TlHII? II ..gUlfKM*.
M-rub 9. ? SQB^lloour.x<^4?*#-i?a?e not
forgotten what fejpfttaQather *?>M l?ft
night. The aleyieuU w$jre erily at war.?
park and.angry olouda ahut put all light
from the firmamnpft. above, remjerios the
flight dark nit lie extreme. Wind wan
blowing a perfect galefc and the ram wm
?Mmeg in to.rr^to/^'Amid auch a a&we,
a with aach surrounding* as these. tha
thdn bound to Charlestctf moved out fWbi
Tnolfenco, something dvor ah hour behind
'the regular schedule time. Aft aho rushed
rapidly fortrartl tbrodgh the blackness of
the night, oct&afohttlly a sensation of dread
or hnrnir would enltM /iwnc'tfnnr iv>i^*innn
dent, and many of the terrible railroad disasters
of the post would oome vividly before
his esind. There seemed also to be a feel-,
ing of unreal, of uneasiness, pervading the
?tu weRRaod terms ae to whether or oot wo
would bo permitted to make a safe trip
down to the ' City by the Sea." These
gloomy forebodings of ours were oot without
foundation in roality. We were running
betweeu Lane's and Sailors at or about
a place called "Dixie" when an accident occurred.
The traiu was moving at the rate
of twenty or twenty-five miles an hour, so
said the engineer. Suddenly aud alarmingly
there was a violent shook and n tremendous
crush, and then for two or three minutes
a succession of jolts and jars which
came near dashing the passengers from
their scuta. There was a little or no constcrnution
among those on boatd, but the
writer must admit that his feelings were any
other thau pleasant, for cither from imagination
or fVom fear, the coach seemed to be
gradually sinking, and he did not know
what moment would find the entire.train a
complete wreck down among the timbers of
some falleujr- stlc. It was not
over, before the train was motionless, and
then there was a gcncial rush to ascertain
the cause of our coming so suddenly to a
halt-. The voice of the polite and oourtoous
conductor, Cupt. Cain, was heard sounding
out among the disturbed elements, inquiring
if any one suffered injury. lie seemed
to be liLo any good conductor ought to be,
under such circumstances, extremely solicitous
concerning those under his charge.?
From the engiuccr, Mr. Win. Jackson, the
writer obtained the following points in connection
with the c!iuhc and event of the
disaster : lie was running, as stated above,
at the rato of twenty or twenty-five tnilcs
an hour. The fireman was throwing wood
into tho furnace, and light therefrom prevented
him (the engineer) from seeing distinctly
any object ahead. IIo saw an object,
however, and took it to be a white horse
on the track. Did not worry himself much,
thinkim? that, he could.cn si Isfcrnlr. h???.
"Creat was his surprise nnd all may, however,
when the engine ran iutoapine tree, which
had fallen directly across tho track. 80
great was the momentum of the traiu that
the body of the tree, being about ten inches
in diameter, was cut off aud tho huge fragment
was carried forward by the engine;
not very far, however, before she leaped
wildly over it, tearing way her trucks and
burying herself in the embankment. The
engine Was completely demolished. The
express and baggage car followed closely on
behind The car rushed upon the log, and
the result was the trucks were lorn looso
aud it was thrown upou its sido on the opposite
bank from the engine. The express
agent was lying upon a table, aud was thrown
on the flo >r, sustaining no other injury but
. : L:. p mi. - - -?
a Muijuc buniiuu on ihh iauo. J. nc oilier
cars did not Icavo the track, and it is thought
that the prompt use of the air breaks prevented
them from becoming a complete wreck.
When we consider tlio extent of ttie dipaster
and the immiucnt peril in which all
wcru placed, it is really miraculous that nd
ouc was hurt. The engineer escaped as by
the breadth of a hair, lie did not leave
his box, but when the eugiuo stopped, stepped
ouc from tho very jaws of death. The
fireman and wood-passer were thrown off,
but were not injured. As we left, Capt.
Corrie, with a large number of hands was
clearing tho track. Trains will probably
pass through this aftornoon.?J U YEN IS,
in Nctcs and Cmiricr.
A Duel on Hoilbkback.?New Orleans,
March 9.?Iu Qntahoula Parish, on
Saturday, two Jives Were r-acrificcd for a
faithless woman. John Henry, colored,
loved the wife of Lew Butcher, also colored,
and iu order to get tho husband out of the
way invited hiui out to hunt. When in tho
woods, Ilenry'lagsed behind, and. when tho
opportunity presented itself, lodged a load
of buck-shot in Butcher's back. Butcher,
although mortally hurt, turned iu his saddle
to sec whether he had been shot through
accident or design, when noticing Henry,
scarcely a yard distant, trying to reach his
musket, which, after the shooting, he had
laid across his saddle, the truth burst upon
him, and he knew that his only chance for
hfe lay iu killing Henry. Leveling his
musket, Butcher fired just as Henry turned
to flee, and sent a load of buck-shot through
his back, causing death almost instantaneously.
Butcher hastened home, which he
reached iu time to tell his story and die.
Calling to Churcii.?It appears by the
following extract from the records of Springfield,
Massachusetts, January 8, 1646, that
the method of calling people to church
adopted by the ancient settlers of that town,
was as follows :
"It is agreed by the plantation with John
Matthews to beat the drum for the meetings
for a year's space, at 10 of the clock,
on tho leeturo days, and at 0 o'clock on tho
Lord's days, and he is to beat it from Mr.
Moxon'8 to K. Stebbi^'e bouse, and ye meetings
to begin an hodr after, for which his
payns. he is to havo 4d in wampuui ofe\er
family in tho town, or a peck of Indiny
'corn, if they havo^o wampum."
-. She l?j? U'h naughty to do so,
f; So please to take it bMk.
I cannot in what harm tlitta Is
, In ?uah a thing, can you T
But mother seems so very wroth,
Please take it back?now do.
It scoses to me quite natural
For the lips to moot that way ;
But mother says it's very wrong,
So take It b&ek, I pray.
And come to think of iu I'm sure
inM BVTvrsi iiuira iwh ugne ,
So, now, to ronko It right, b? ^ur?
To lake book every one.
I would out .have you think it's mo ;
I do iwt cars a aits ;
Uut mother's so particular;
Please take (hem back to-night.
* "" * ^^115^awjhMM'S J. "
Tho New York Sou has a long account
of a negro watch moating somewhere in the
South and it contain** tnost extraordinary
sermon, from which tho following extracts
ar? tuado:
'm tMf'teJVyou a li ttle alWorio or speech by
de figgcr. Trtith and Lie started 'ftut for
to trithole. They stopped to drink at dc
ribbor of Jordan. Truth was thinking no
'tfvil, but lie ptished hlfti, and ITc fell in and
was drowned- Lid got out,' stole Truth's
hoots, and meetin' a cullud puaaon who was
rpotin' 'rouud whar he had no business,
entered into him aud sot up his habitiou.?
So Lie has lowed to dwell along wid cullud
folks ever siuce. It's my bizness to pint
out dese tings to sense you of do tricks of
de debble. Lie den sowed his seeds amoug
us cullud folks. I axes you, ain't dis a fac7
Don't de produos Correspond with the
seed?
Mb matter how hungry you ?U*, if won
IfffWWflT the Lord's gwine to feed you.?
Dere wos Daniel, a man who was sot agin
i circus shows. De olowu eoteh him prayin'
out dor winder, and put him to starve in
the lion's den. De angel oue day met
Beelzebub enrryin' soup to his forder, who
was hoein' his crap. Ebcnezer come a ridin
along on a mule, lie had been to town to
buy some whiskoy. Dc mule he seed the
angel, and lie kicked up and knocked Kbcnczer
heels over head, and he drupt hi*
whiskey bottle. Bclzobub he seed de bottle
and picked up nud put in his coat tail
pocket. You sec, he found it, and dat make
it hisscij. Do aujuBl kotchcd Belzebub by
his wool on his Watr, and toted him off jist
as he was, wid his tin bucket of soup and
do bottle of whiskey and he drapl him in
do deu where Daniel was.
I nebor heard dat Dunucl got drunk, but
Scriptcr tells us Noah who was shy of water,
kept a bottle of Loosianncr rum under his
"tJCcT *3ou?e colored p'roachOtt suy Woafi'Wds '
d^casion of de bralc folks iu dis wise :?
Noah had one gal child named Cane Anny,
a sassy, dissipated gal who would steal her
daddy's bottle when ho wos asloep and drink
his rum. He ketch her one day tipsy and
uiakin'n spcctaclo of herself. Do ole man
cussed her good fashion till she turned right
black in de lace. I dont pend much on
dat, ease it oau't be proved Cane Ann's
head got kinky. No, uiy 'pinion is colored
folks is de most wonderful production of
nature?dey growed jis so. I axes who
uiado deni f When was uey made, and
whar? nobody answers. Dose p'ints can't
be proved by de .Bible; dars nuflin iu de
Holy Writ about ucgrocs, and dat circuuistaneo
shows dey is a nation 'culia to dcre
own nations, an* Is'e nebbcr seed dat one
was uot proud of his coi >r. Do 'postlc says
to de 'pistle, 'Kuow thyself.' 1 'terprets
dat, 'Be ye seekers after knowledge how
jou's so comically made in de flesh.'
l'ou tinv6 vrtt o??J aIm onjdfl sycuuiore
tree; dat circumstance is a berry intc
rest in' fac iu de bible. Dcrc was a very
small colored miiu named Nigger Demos.?
lie kept public house and done his own
cooking. Ho heard ouu of de 'ciples done
borrowed a jinney and was couiin in great
glory to preach. Nigger Demos tliot if he
could ouly get to sec dat good man de 'luuibager
he carried in de small of his back
would cease, llcarin folks a shoutin h?
flung down his dish cloff and went out to
sec de 'eiplc. but by de 'casion of his stumpy
legs he couldct' sec nuflin. A big sycamore
was crowin ritrht before his cabin, so ho
shitted up dar aud looked down at de 'cipic
who weut ridin' by and ncbbcr seed Nigger
Dcuios. Poor Nigger Demos did cry !?
lie way so hurted, bis tears was so hot dey
blistered do bark wharevcr dey touched.?
One of dem tears hit de jiuney on her back
aud hurt her so bad she kieked up. Dat
'ciplc den fookdd up and seed Nigger Dcuios
tmd said : Coute down poor fellow! I'll
stop at your house and take a glass of your
'siutmou beer. Nigger Demos was proud of
de honor. Sycamores been blistered ever
since. Now, we must bury our heads in
do dirt and pray long and fervently. I
hopo iny endeavors to give you de true light
to carry you froo de next year will bring
forth fruits without iusccts. Tho Lord be
wid you all.
Laughtp.r.?Laughter very often shown
tho bright side of a inaD. It brings out
his happier nature, aud shows of what sort
of stuff lie is made. Somehow we fell as
if wo never thoroughly knew a man until
we hear him laugh. We do not feol "at
home" with him till then. Wo do not
moan a mere snigger, but a good hearty
round laugh. The solemn, sober visage,
liko a Sunday dress, tells nothing ot the
real man. He may be very foolish, or rery
profound, very cross or very jolly. Let us
hear hi in laugh, and we can decipher hhn
nt once, and tell how his heart beats.
An Illinois minister announced on his
Sunday night bulletin, "Tho funeral of
Judas Iscariot." To which an obliging fellow
added : "Friends of tbo deceased are
'cordially invited "
"The nomination is - ft?rrr Wf With
soj elsu. The colored people ? <*et approve
of it, for they say that.while Dough as
assumes to be a representative"of their race
he is "too hi^h-toncd," and prefers associating
with white peoplo, whore be oan do if,
tr? th(M? of hi* own oolor Tk* fiililtDS
generally of tho District do not approee of
it, as they any that so important an offico
should not be givcu to him. Tha lawyers
aro Tory uiuoh disgusted orar it, and one of
the District judges said that Douglass was
entirely uufit for suoh a position ; that it required
Tory fine business capacities, in which
he was entirely deficient, as Ihowd by hfs
miserable management of tho affaire of the
Freeduiaa'e Hank. It is stated Tary poeiiUaly
that aUkowgh ? * Wayne tlE
rested his purpose to do something rery
and8oina for Mr. Douglass, he never would
hsTo nominated him as marshal if that officer
was expected to o$t as master of ceremonies
ut the White House, at was always
the oaso until (he latter jjart ofGcn. Grant,a
administration. Wheu thp,n?me of Mr.
Douglass wot first suggested for the naarshaiship
it was thought that one of hie duties
would bo to attend at the Presidential lerees
and receptions, and introduce the guests.?
A confidential friend of President IIayes remarked
: "Do you think tho President
will hare a nigger to introduce people to bis
wife?" Afterwards it was found that this
was not necessarily a part of the official duties
of the innrsbal, as it was mentioned
that for seTcml years Gen. Babcock and
others of the immediate household of tha
President hns acted as grand high chamberlain.
It was therefore understood that Mr
Potior.fa to nave no connection' with the
White ilouso. Two senators requested
President Hayes to withdraw the nomination,
which ho declined to do unless at the
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U1U11UU U1 L/UUglUOO 111 UIOV J/twvv,
colored senator from Mississippi, who resides
with Douglass, urges him to stiq. . The
uinrshalship is said to be worth about.SAO,
000."
A Biuoiit Sunday School PyriL.?
The superintendent ef a Sunday school, having
organised a splcudid treat for hi* pupils,
thought it time to connect some lesson
with their evident appreciation of tho fruit.
"Have you enjoyed these strawberries,
to day ?"he asked!
"Yes, sir} yes, sir," camo from all sides.
"Well, ohildren, if you lind men these
berries growing in my fgarden, and had
slipped in through the gate without my
leave, and picked them, would they have
tasted ss good as now t" , , Ttr ,
"Why not T" aAkod 'tfie'grnti^r'mastJt,
anticipating the virtuous answer obviously
suggested.
".Because," said one of tho little flock,
"then we shouldn't have had the sugar and
cream with 'em.
A commercial exchange says : "Hogs are
dull." We never thought hogs were very
sharp. When one breaks into a cabbage
patch you may chnse it fourteen hundred
times around the lot, and it wiH try to crawl
through cvory throe inch crack in the fence
without once seeing the hole it made te got
iu.
A mothor admonishing her son, a lad
about seven years of age, told him he should
never put off till to morrow anything that
he could do to-day. The little urchin retried.
"Then, mother, let's eat the remain
tier of th? plum-pudding to-night!"
?
A little darkey slipped off of a steep roof
ana c*vu;..-J idGooa Lord, ketch me !
ketch me, good Loru7"~ ?jn?*
broeches caught on a nail and hald him,
and he cried out, "Nebber mind, good Lord j
a nail done cotch me."
Mrs. Loss who is lecturing in Boston just
now, tells the girls that uiurringo is tho
business of their lives. According to that
view of the ease there arc now over 30,000
Massachusetts maids who arc out of employment!
The iurenter of the "self buttoning glovo"
is missing. It is thought he lias been assassinated
by enraged young men.
What a gain it would bo in these bard
times if a mirror could bo invented Jwhich
would make an old bonnet look like a new
ono.
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