Port Royal commercial and Beaufort County Republican. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1873-1874, April 09, 1874, Image 1
VOL. IV. N<>. 27. POUT ROYAL, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 0, 1874. lH
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Too Late.
If this love that is gilding lifo'ft summer
Had come in life's spring.
How my soul would have met the new comer,
With garment and ring;
With sacrifice ofTcred in gladness,
With hope for the beautiful yearsAlas
! from tlio depth of my sadness,
I greet it with tears.
Too late do we stand at tho altar!
Too lato you rejoice!
T oo late do you tremble and falter
At the sound of my voice!
The hand that you hold has grown thinner.
The heart has known anguish and fears ;
I am yours, O victorious winner!
I salute you with tears!
You say that love's golden September
Is faithful and strong;
You marvel that I should remember
Love's May-timo of wrong!
The sorrow for you is all over;
Mvheart is prophetic in fears.
AndwNfor your kiss as my lover,
I offer my tears!
What! give to tho cheek in its whiteness,
_ Praise lost to its bloom ?
What! turn from the eyes in their brightness.
Alia warsjiiiji wiuir ^iuuui
The rose in its freshness and beauty,
Yon crushed in your earlier years ;
Will you cherish it, faded, from duty ?
I answer with tears.
Ol'T OF Wt U.K.
44 It's no use, Maria, I have tried
everywhere."
14 But you are not goiDg to give it up,
Teter?"
44Give up! How can I help it?
Within four days I have been to every
book bindery in the city, and not n bit
of work can I get."
"But have you tried anything else ? "
What else can I try ?"
44 Why, nnything that you can do."
44 Yes. I've tried other things. I
have freen to more than a dozen of my
friends, and offered to help them if
they would hire me."
44 And what did you mean to do for
them?"
441 offered either to post their accounts,
make out bills, or attend to the
counter."
Mrs. Staawood smiled as her husband
thus spoke.
44 What makes you smile ?" ho asked.
44 To think that you should have imagined
that you would find work in
such a place. But how is Murk Leeds?"
" He is worso on man i am.
" How so ?"
" He lias nothing in his house to
eat."
A shudder crept over his wife's frame
now.
" Why do you tremble, wife?"
" Because when wo shall have eaten
our breakfast to-morrow morning, wo
shall have nothing."
"What?" cried Peter Stanwood, half
starting from his chair. " Do you mean
that ?"
" I do."
" But our flour ?"
"All gone. I baked the last this
afternoon."
" But we have pork?"
" You ate the last this noon."
" Then we must starve !" groaned the
stricken man, starting across the room.
Peter Stanwood was a book binder by
trade, and had now been out of employment
about a month. He was one
of those who generally calculated to
keep about square with the world, and
who consider themselves particularly
fortunate if they keep out of debt. Ho
was now thirty years of age, and had
three children to provide for. besides
himself and wife, and this together with
house rent, was a heavy draught upon
his purse, even when work was plenty,
but now?there was nothing.
-- " Maria," said he, stopping ami
gazing bis wife in the face, " we must
starve. I have not a single penny in
the world."
" T> J. -1 _ 1 1
" l)Ul UU lllJl utvpir icin, jli^t
Again to-morrow for work. You may
find something to do. Anything tlmt is
honest is honorable. Should you niako
hut a shilling a day, we should not
starve."
" lint our liouso rent ?"
" Trust to me for that. The landlord
shall not turn us out. If you will
engage to find something to do, I will
see that we have house room."
" I'll make one more trial," mutton d
Peter, despairingly.
" But you must go prepared to do
anything."
"Anything reasonable, Maria."
" What do you call reasonable ?"
" Why?anything decent."
She felt inclined to siuile, but the
matter was too serious for that, and a
cloud passed over her face. She knew
her husband's disposition, and she felt
sure be would find no work. She knew
that ho would look for some kind of
work, which wov.ld not lower him in the
soeiul scale, as lie had once or twice expressed
it. However, slio know it
would he of no use to any anything to
him now, nnd so she let the matter
pass.
tOu the following morning, tho hut
hit of food in the house wa3 put on the
table. Stan wood could hardly realize
that he was penniless and without food.
For years he had been g iv, thoughtless,
and fortunate, making the most of tlio
present, forgetting the past, nnd letting
the future tako caro nt' itself. Yetth
trntli was naked and clear; aud when he
left tlio house, ho said, "something
must be done."
No sooner had her husband gone,
than Mrs. Stan wood out on her bonnet
and sbawl. Her oldest child was a gir
eleven years old,and her youngest four.
She asked her next door neighbor if
she would take care of her children
until neon. These children were known
to be good and quiet, and they were
taken cheerfully. Then Mrs. Stan wood
locked up her houRC nud went away.
She returned at noon bringing some
dinner for lier children, and then she
went away again. She came home in
the eveuiug beforo her husband, carrying
a heavy basket upon her arm.
"Well, Peter," she asked, after her
hnsband had entered and sat down,
"whatluok ?"
"Nothing! nothing !" he groan:", "I
made out to get a dinner with an old
cliuin, but could not find work."
"Aud where have you looked today?"
"O?everywhere. I've been to a hundred
places, but it's the same story in
every place.?It's nothing but one
eternal no?no?no ! I'm sick and tired
of it."
"What have you offered to do?"
"Why, I even'went so far as to tend
a liquor store down town."
The wifo smiled.
"Now what shall we do?" uttered
Peter spasmodically.
"Why, we will eat our supper first,
and talk the matter over."
"Supper! Have you get any?"
"Yes?plenty of it."
"But you told mo you had none."
"Neither had wo this morning, but
I've been after work to day,
"You been after work?"
husband in surprise.
H
"But how?where?what?"^^^^H
"Why, first I went to Mrs,
knew her girl was sick and
might have work to be dodH^^H^E
to her and told her my stor^^HI^H
set me at work at once doing
ing. She gave me food tobri^^^^H
to my children, and paid metl^JHjH
lings when I got through."
"What?you been washing
batcher's wife?" said Peter,^hb
very much surprised. hH^EE
"Of course I have, and have
earned -enough to keep us *in food
throngh to-morrow, at any rate; so tomorrow
you may come home to dinner."
" But how about the rent ?"
<1 r\ t 1
"V/, 1 IltlVt? PCCII 1U1. \Jl in UU1U
him just. how wc were situated, and
offered Lira my watch as a pledge for
the payment of our rent within two
months, with the iutercst on arrearages
up to that date. I told him I did tin?
business because you wore away hunting
up work."
" So he's got your gold watch ?"
" No?he wouldn't take it, Ho said
if I would become responsible for the
rent, he would let it rest."
" Then we'vo got a roof to' cover ns,
and food for to-morrow. But what
next ? What a curse these Ttard 4times
are!"
" Don't despair, Peter, for wo shall
not starve. I've got work enough engaged
to keep us alive."
" Ah?what is that ?"
" Why, Mr. Snow has engaged me to
carry small packages, baskets, bundles,
and so forth, to his rich customers. He
has had to give up one of his horses."
" What do yon mean, Maria ?"
" Just what I say. When Mr. Snow
came homo to dinner, I was there, and
asked him if lie ever had light nrticlc s
which ho wished to send around to his
customers. Never mind that he said.
He did happen to want just such work
done, though he had meant to call unon
the idlers that lounge about the market,
ne promised to give mo all the work he
could, and I'm to bo there in good
season in the morning."
" Well this is a pretty go. My wife
turned butcher's boy ! You will not
do any such thing."
" And why not ?"
" Because?because?"
- ? -a ?;ii i 4.1. _
' say oecause 11 win iuwer me m me
social scale."
44 Well, so it will."
"Then it is more honorable to lie still
nrnl starve, and see one's children
starve, toe, than to earn honest bread
by bouest work. I tell you, Peter, if
you cannot hud work, I must. We
should have been without bread tonight,
had I not found work to-day.
You know that all kinds of light, agreeable
business aro seized upon by those
who havo particular friends, and engaged
in them. At such a time as this,
it is not for us to consider what kind
of work we will do, so long as it is honest.
Oh, give me the liberly of living
upon my own deserts, and the independence
to be governed by my own
convictions of right."
" But my wife, only think?yon carrying
out butcher's stuff. Why, I would
sooner go do it myself."
" If you will go," said the wife with a
smile,I will stay at home and tako
care of the children."
It was hard for Peter Stanwood, but
] the more he thought upon the matter,
the more he saw the justice and right of
the path into which his wife had thus
led him. Before he went to bed he j
promised that ho would go to the
butcher's in the morning.
And Peter Stanwood went upon his
new business. Mr. Snow greeted him
wnrmlv. nraiscd his faithful wife, and
then sent him oft with two baskets, one
to a Mrs. Smith's ami the other to a
Mrs. Dixnll's. Ami the new carrier
worked all day, and when it came night
no had earned ninety-seven cents. It
had been a day of trials, but no one
1 sneered at him, and all his acquaintances
1 whom ho met greeted him tho sumo as
nsnal. lie was far happier now than
j he was when he went home the night
before, for now he was independent.
On tho next clay he earned over a
[ dollar; and thus ho continued to work
for a week, at the end of which he had
i tive dollars and seventy-five cents in his
j pocket, besides having paid for all the
food for his family, save some few
nieces of meat Snow had given them.
Saturday evening he met Mark Leeds,
[ another binder, who had been dis;
charged with himself. Leeds looked
; careworn and rusty.
" How goes it ?" asked Peter.
"Don't ask me," groaned Mark. "My
i family are wilt starved.
" But can't yon find anything to do?"
" Nothing."
" JIuve you tvied ?"
" Every where; but it's no use. I have
1 pawned all my clothes save those I have
I on. I've been to the bindery to-day,
and what do you suppose he offered
; me ?"
" What was it ?"
" Why, he offered to let ine do his
hand-carting ! lie has just turned off
his nigger for drunkenness, and offered
me the place ! The old curmudgeon !
I bad a great mind to pitch him into
j the hand cart, and run him to the?"
" Well," said Peter, " if I had been
in your place I should have taken up
with the offer."
Mark mentioned the name of the same
individual again, v
Ml.
"Why," resumed Peter, "I ha^
been doing the work of a butcher's be
for a whole week.
Mark was incredulous, but his con
pauion convinced him, and then the
separated, one going home happy an
contented, and the other going awa
from home to tind some sort of exciti
ment in which to drown his misery.
One day Peter had a basket of pri
visions to carry to Mr. W , his fo
mer employer. Ho took the load upo
his arm, and just as he was cnterin
tho yard of the customer, he met M
W. coming out.
"Ah, Stanwood, is this yon ?" askc
his old employer, kindly.
" Yes sir."
" What are you up 10 now r
"I'm a butcher's boy, sir."
<? \ wimt? "
boy,
as
a dr
som
of rr
conn
f(
ar
vet they lie still because 1^ vo 1:
work for them. Last Saturday I toe
pity on Leeds, and offered Jiim the jc
of doing my hand-carting. I told hi
that I would give liira a dollar and
quarter a day ; but he turned up h
nose, and asked me not to insult hiu
And yet lie owned that his family we
suffering. But do you come to n
place to-morrow morning, and yr
shull have something to do, if it is on
to hold your bench. I honor you fi
jour manly independence."
Peter grasped the old man's bar
with a joyous, grateful grip, ai
blessed liirn fervently.
That night ho pave Mr. Snow notii
ho must quit, and on the followir
morning he went to the biudery. Fi
two days he had little to do, but on tl
third day a heavy job came in, ar
Peter Stanwood had steady work. I
was happy?more happy than ever, f<
lie had learned two things ; first, wh
a noole wife ho had ; and secondhow
much resource for good he he!
within his own energios.
Our simple picture has two points I
its moral. One is-no man can 1
lowered by any kind of honest labo
The secoud?while you are enjoyii
the fruits of the present, forget not 1
I provide for the future ; for no man
so secure but that the day may con
when he will want the squanderings i
the past.
Maxims or taruinai ne neiz.
Somo of the most celebrated nplio
isms ever given to the world are tlioi
of Cardinal Do ltetz. As a writer, tl
fame of De ltetz rests upon the " M
moirs," a " most striking and brilliai
work." But his maxims have tho
value, as the reflections which a grei
and able man formed from long exper
cnce and practice in great bnsines
This was Lord Chesterfield's opinio!
and ho adds, " They are truo conch
sions, drawn from facts, not from speci
lation." Wo subjoin a few of them :
Weak men never yield at tho prop*
time.
There are no small steps in gre
affairs.
I am persuaded that greater qualiti*
are required to form a good party lead*
than to form an emperor of tho un
verse ; and that in tho order of tl
qualities which composes him, resoli
tion should walk hand in hand wit
judgment?I mean heroic judgmeu
the principal uso of which is to di
tinguish the extraordinary from tho ir
possible.
Upon men of small understandh
nothing makes so deep an impressic
j as what they do not understand.
When fear rises to a certain height
| produces the same effects as temcrit
Fear never applies tho proper remed
We should never play with favor ; v
cannot too closely embrace it when it
J real, nor fly too far from it when it
false.
A man who distrusts himself nev*
j truly confides iu any one.
Men never believe others can do wh
they cannot do themselves.
Tho effects of weakness arc inco
ccivable, and I maintain that they a
far vaster than those of the most vi
J lent passions.
I havo remarked that lli-fonmk
enmities are ever the most obstinat
Tin* reason of this is clear. Asoffeus
I <>f that kind exist only in the iiuagin
tion, they never fail to grow and swt
in that receptacle, too fruitful in tn
fancies.
To coramon-placo people the extr
ordinary appears possible only after
has been executed.
A Grand Cathedral.
A correspondent, writing from tl
City of Mexico, says : " I cannot pr
tend to give n description of the Cath
ilral. I ne ver saw so lunch gold ai
I silver used as ornaments in the iuteri
of a building in my life?solid silv
| columns, ten or twelve feet liigli, su
porting goUlcn candle-sticks, surrom
? very altar ; brouzo railings protect tl
precious decorations from the cupidi
of the devout worshippers. In eve
recess was an altar, at some of whie
, during my visit, ladies, georgeously c
! tired, were kneeling on the bare no
i beside the tiithy Indian saying mas
and each alike dropped their fee?mm
| or little as the ease might be?into t]
golden box which the priest held or
Paintings on tho walls, gold trappiui
around the sacred alcoves, and bur
ished gold and silver in great mass
behind the principal altar make the i
terior one scene of splendor."
"Grange" is a Frenoh word, ai
means a barn,
/
e THE GREAT COLORADO DESERT.
How It Mny lie Ilcclalmcil or Converted
1* Into a Great Chain ot Lakes.
Senator Jones of Nevada has received
,y full reports of the results of a Bcientic
fic exploration made at the expense of
himself and a private citizen of California
last summer for the purpose of asn
certaining the practicability of reclaimig
ing or submerging the Great Colorado
r* Desert by turning into it tho water of
, the Colorado or tho Gulf of California.
The report of Mr. J. E. James, the engineer
of the expedition, and elaborate
commentary upon it by Mr. R. E.
Stretch, an eminent civil engineer of
Sau Francisco, furnish tho following
>. very interesting information, iruch of
' t which is entirely new :
The exploration shows that the greatest
portion of the Colorado Desert and
tho Mojave Valley and Death Valley,
which lie north of it, are from forty to
i1 one hundred feet below tho level of tho
* sea, and that this great desert, stretching
from Lower California to Inyo
county, in the State of California, and
* ' ~t ji>. n i t>
^ ITCH!! U1C UJlbO Ui tut? vuanu xiau^c
Mountains to the Colorado river, comre
prising an area about300 miles long by
150 wide, may bo converted into a chain
{ of lakes or irrigated by the method
above mentioned ; and also that a largo
[(j portion of this "desert" really consists
of extremely fertile soil, being a deep
)j. alluvium susceptible of fcjio highest cul.
tivation. It is further shown that the
prevalence of what are known as "sand(l
storms," and hot desiccating winds and
]S the deficient rain fall?the evils suffered
( t by the surrounding country and as far
re north as the Tulare Valley of California
?are directly traceable to the existence
of this desert from which, as from n
I great furnace, there constantly rises in
)r the summer time a vast column of heated
air without appreciable humidity.
,,1 Thus the moisture of the rain-boarl(j
ing clouds, which are blown northwesterly
during the summer months from
cc the Gulf of California, is dissipated a?
soon as they reach the ^borders of this
jf. superheated region, and prevented from
je reaching the dry but fertile plains oi
1(| [California beyond. The shells found
fe on the surface of this desert prove that
,)r it has been at one time the bed of a
sea, and at a subsequent period the bed
1_ of a fresh water lake. The shore linen
|(] of both sea and lake can still be seen
and recognized in many places; and
Mr. Stretch expresses the opinion that
)e the Aztec civilization of tho adjacent
r region in Arizona (of which there arc
so many traces) came to an end in con^
sequenco of the climat ic changes caused
by the evaporation of these lakes in
10 Southern California, after the Colorado
river had cnt down its bed in tho Great
Canyon, so deep that its conrse was diverted
at Colvillo to a southerly direction.
The question is suggested whether
r." these desert lands cannot be reclaimed
by irrigation, and thus saved, instead
5 of being totally submerged, as it is conie
sidered certain that covering them with
0- vegetation would tend 10 prevent me
jt evaporation of moisture and at the same
time act as a preeipitant for whatever
ir moisture tho atmosphere may carry ;
or whether both plans might not be
1- combined.
s> Senator Jones expresses the opinion
that, although either courso would in'
volve largo expenditures of money,
a~ the matter is of such public interest ua
l- to be worthy of investigation by the
Government, which alone has the ueces?r
sary resources and appliances at command
for a thorough examination of
^ the subject. If by such an examination
the feasibility of tho work should
,s bo demonstrated, private capital might
bo found to undertnko it. Ho therej.
fore proposes to bring the matter to
jg tho attention of Congress, with the view
to having a survey made by the Govern^
ment.
t,
s- The Funerals of To-Pay.
!l" Modest funerals at modest prices arc
,g not tho rule in New York, a locul papei
m says. A prominent undertaker says
that every funeral ho has had charge ol
in the last few months has cost at least
$475. That sum represents only the
ic amount paid to himself. Metallic ensis
kets only are used in fashionable fu13
nernls, except for very old people, who
are content with wooden coffins covered
Lr with cloth, costing S90. Tho caskets
. rango from $90 to $350. The last are
n marvels of luxury and are furnished
with all tiio modern conveniences. In
a funeral, then, whero sorrow can be
re indulged in to the wildest excess, the
?* enslcnfc will cost $350 : the hearse. $12 :
), eight carriages at $7.50 each, $(10 ; por|
ters, SO; gloves for she pail-bearers,
' " porters, mulct taker, ami clergyman,
' s $-00; undertaker's attention, SlO; and
tlio opening of the grave, $7, which
, makes up tlie total $175 that the underl'
taker receives. If the funeral tak'ef
place at a church, tlio sexton receives
$10 ; there is $1 extra on each of the
1 carriages, The choir in most churches
is paid. In Catholic churches tin
organ, choir, and draping of the church
completely in black will be furnished
16 for $160. These expenses added, which
e- aro by no means unusual, bring the cosl
e- up to $655, and by no means includes r
, number of important items which gi
' to make up a fashionable funeral. Xol
or the least of these is the flower.*. Tiioj
er arft furnished as certainly as the coffin,
p. forming r. very important part of whal
I one might call the trousseau of death
,l These are, to bo sure, not ull furnished
ie by the family of the dead, but the}- ar<
ty in part. A moderate basket of flowers
jy sucli as are usou on mese occusious
1,' costs 820, out of season ; ami ono bas
kct of flowers is scarcely perceived ii
or the floral luxuriance which usually ii
is, seen.
jh
tie "If a naughty girl should hurt you
it. like a good girl you would forgive her
gs wouldn't you?" Yes, marm," she re
n- plied, " if I couldn't catch her."
es
nThat
man is rich who has a good dis
position?who is naturally kind,patient
id cheerful, hopeful, and who has a flavoi
of wit and fon in his composition.
INSANE ASYLUM ATROCITIES.
Inhuman Treatment of Pauper Lunalloi
In Pennsylvania.
Tho Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
publishes a lengthy and interesting description
of the treatment of the insane
poor in certain county almshouses iu
Pennsylvania. The Bulletin states
that terrible abuses have grown up in
this connection which only need exposure
to bring about a speedy reform,
and announces its intention of publishing
all the faots that can be obtained
concerning these abuses. A visit to one
county poorbotise betrayed a terrible
condition of affairs in the Insaue Department.
All sanitary measures were neglected,
and a siokening odor prevailed in the
department named. The insane paupers
were confined in wooden cages,
having only a small opening protected
by iron bars, to admit air and light.
The interior of the cages were covered
with piles of dirty straw and filth, and
1 t_ _ t_ 1 _ T.,
the atmospnere was inuescriu;iun\ ?u
cage No. 1 was an agricultural laborer,
clad in rags. He was quiet and civil,
his derangement not being of a violent
character.
He had been shut up in that filthy
box for eighteen months, simply because
they had no other place to put
him in. In the other cages the scenes
presented were oven more inhuman and
revolting. The unfortuuate inmates
were nearly naked, two of them wholly
so. They crouched among the straw
and litter in their dens, some asleep or
in a stupor, and all suffering greatly
, from the wanton neglect of their keepers.
Some could not rise from weak,
ness, their limbs having been so lonp
in a crouching attitude that they could
not move them.
A still more shocking sight, however,
was revealed on proceeding to the
basement of the hospital. There, in s
similar cage, lying on a heap of loos*
i straw, was a young woman twentv
i years of nge. She is dumb, distorted,
i and idiotic. For eighteen yearH slu
! has been confined in the poorhonse,
1 and six years she has been confined ic
, the cage, her ouly clothing a piece ol
i coarse bed-ticking.
1 She is so weak from lying that slu
i can neither move her limbs, riso noi
i walk. The almshouse in which these
[ terrible sufferings were witnessed is ter
i miles from E iston, Penn.
; The Bulletin, in concluding the exi
posure, calls upon the State to see to il
that the Board of Public Charities doof
its duty in wiping off this deep stain or
civilization and humanity.
IIow a Hundred Lives were Saved,
The explosion at the west shaft of the
Hoosac tunnel was accompanied by ?
' thrilling incident. John Greene, f
blaster, left the office where Donnelly
I was engaged in charging the cartridges,
not a minute ueiore me explosion, win
i twenty-seven pounds of nitro-glycerim
1 in a can, ready for charging tho holes
below. Ho had reached tho cage, souk
| fifty feet from the office, at the time o
the explosion, and ho realized that if In
remained where he wan, and a seconi
explosion occurred, all tho buildings
would be demolished by the consequeu
i explosion of tho nitro-glycerine. Sonu
i told him to throw tho can down th<
i shaft; others shouted, " Drop it am
: run 1" but he did neither. Dashiuf
' j through tho back door of tho cage, lu
rushed to an old building somodistaucs
from the machine shop, where he pu
, | down the can, and then returned to set
' what had become of his comrade Don
i! nelly. He had just reached the ma
| chiue shoj) door, about 100 feet fron
! tho office, when the second explosioi
took place, but?thanks to his fore
thought?without exploding the glycer
ine. Greene was within a few feet o
James Mullany when the piece of won
1 struck him with fatal effect, but Ik
(Greene) escaped uninjured. By hit
remarkable preserico of mind, Green*
. saved tho lives of perhaps a huudrei
persons.
1 Tho concussion wrenched doors fron
i their hangings insido the dwellingi
near the office, both tho doors and win
dows from the machine shop across tin
way, and tore the whole side of tin
1 | compressor building and boiler-house
strewing tho fragments for a long dis
i i tance in every direction. Mullany, tin
* blacksmith who was killed, was ono o
the best meu on the work, and hadbeci
i employed there for ten years. He wai
' | u sober, industrious man, much belovec
s | by all who knew him.
j Now York City.
l A correspondent writes : New Yorl
, City is tho entiro area of an island tci
I miles long and averaging ono and a hal
l in width. This island contains twenty
> I
, j two square miles, or 11,000 acres.
> Building lots are luiil 20x100 feet, am
1; this is the full measurement of a lot
| sixteen of which are contained in ai
[ | acre. The number of building lots
i ' after deducting the parks, is 110,000
t I and more than one-half is covered witl
i | buildings. Tire population is abou
> i 1,000,000. At the close of the Revolu
t j tion it was 10,000, and in fifty years i
has increased 800,000. Central Purl
, | contains eieht bundled and fifty acres
t j and cost $10 000,000. It is open to ull
, ' but is seldom visited by any except tin
I rich or their servants. Tho tax is ni
? | unjust one, as it favors a small class o
, | our population at the expense of a vas
, number who reap no benefit from it
- j During the year seven hundred am
1 forty fires have occurred, with loss esti
i! mated at more than 84,000,000. Tlien
are three hundred public schools uude
charge of the Board of Education, wit}
an average attendance of 105,000 schol
' | nrs. The cost of these schools is 83,
000,000 a year. There are, it is sup
posed, one hundred establishments ii
the city where stolen goods are received
and there are two thousand professiona
thieves besides those in office.
t ,
r Lazy husbands are known out Wes
a8 stove watchers,
div x
The Late Charles Sumner.
Charles Sumner was born in Bostoi
Mass., Jan. 6, 1811, received his ear'
education at Boston Latin Sohool, an
graduated from Harvard College i
1830. After a year of private study, 1
entered the law school at Oambridg
where he formed an intimate friendsh;
with his teacher, Judge Story. He wi
admitted to the bar in 1834. He wi
appointed reporter of the Circuit Cou
of the United States, and in that c
pacity published three volumes knov
as " Sumner's Reports," and at tl
same time edited a law journal, ent
tied the "American Jurist." Durii
the absence of Judge Story ho acted i
lecturer to the students, and, not u:
frequently, had entire charge of the la
school. } n 1837 he visited Europe, r
maining there three years. On his r
turn to Boston ho 'resumed praotic
/J in 1 R1A..K mililifilipd an plahora
edition, with annotations, of 1 Vesey
Reports," in 20 vols. Although he In
always been a Whig, he took no actr
part in politics until 1845, when, c
July -1th, he pronounced an oration b
fore the municipal authorities of Bo
ton, deprecating a war with Mexico, i
sisting that peaceful arbitration shou
be substituted for the ordeal by batt
in public, as it already was in priva
affairs.
About this time he came ont as
strong advocate of anti-slavery, ai
eventually separated from the Wh
, party to join with the Free Soilers,
whose candidates, Van Buren and A
ams, he lent support in the Preside
tial contest of 1848. After the wit
drawal of Dauiel Webster from tl
Senate of the United States by h
. entrance into the Cabinet of Mr. Fi
; more, in 1850, Mr. Sumner was eleot<
[ to fill the vacancy by a coalition of Fr
Soilers and Domocrats in the Massach
setts Legislature. Once in the Senal
( he immediately took up arms again
t slavery, his first important speech bei)
i in opposition to the Fugitive Slave n<
r This course exasperated Preston
, Brooks, who assaulted himdangerousl
> May 22, 1856. After his entire reoc
, ery, iu 1859, Mr. Sumner's first impoi
i ant speech was a denunciation of t
[ influence of slavery on character, soi
ety and civilizatiou, which was subf
> quently printed under the title of "T
Barbarism of Slavery." He was an c
j tive supporter of Lincoln and Hamli
i in the Presidential contest of 1860. T
to the time of bis dentil ho continued
. hold his position iu the United Stat
I Senate. At the olose of the war ]
5 made his famous motion that the nam
i of Federal victories should not be e
rolled upon the national standard. T
vote of censure of the Massachuset
Legislature which this action brong
out, was rescinded just before 1
> death. Mr. Sumner had bceu an i
t valid for some years, and had, in vai
t songiit reuei irom uis Bimeriugs.
A Ilattlo or Rattlesnakes.
The formation of rattlos upon t
, tail of a rattlesnake is a curious pi
, nomenon. The notion that one
, developed every year is incorrei
j Young ones liave been known to ha
? six or more ; sometimes two of the
1 appear in a singlo year. Tho skin
? ono that was six feet long, now in t
J museum of the Long Island historic
* society of Brooklyn, has thirteen r;
1 ties. DeKay cited, in 1812, the Clati
I newspaper, published at Bolton, N<
? York, which stated that two men kill?
> in three days, in tho town of Bolton,
t Lake George, one thousand one lit
i dred and four rattlesnakes, socio
* which carried from lifteen to twee
rattles. They were killed for their e
i The same author slates, on the a
i thority of the Columbian Magazine 1
- November, 178'-*, that a rattlesnake w
killed having forty-four rattles, whi
f seems an incredible number. Tho n
1 of tho rattles is a subject of discussic
i They aro evidently well developed
s not rudimentel merely?and the cc
i elusion is irresistible that they aro
1 sendee to tho creature. Wo cant
suppose tno organs wnicn ?ro uuuom
i in a class of animals could have ori|
s nated, if entirely unserviceable a
useless to it. Professor Anghey sn
9 gests that a whirring rattle is a en
3 note by the animal to its mate. T1
, it was thus used on one occasion whi
l.o was eye-witness ; or to paralyze
? victim with fright, or to call assistac
f in danger, lie says: "I ouco w
) nessed an attack by seven hogs on
s rattlesnake. Immediately the sna
1 rattled, aud three others appeared; I
the hogs were victorious."
Disgraceful Scenes in Dajton.
? A letter from Dayton, Ohio, sa^
! Tho crusaders marched this afterno
f; in three detachments of twenty ca(
. 1 and stormed thirteen saloons on Fil
| aud West Third streets. A large turl
1 . lent rabblo followed them from place
j i place, and tho turmoil at times was
! i most deafening. The voices of praj
' aud songs were frequently inaudib
' I Ribald jests were bandied about
> ' rritli indecent lo
| I l.? UUWUU
. I talk, and rougli, swearing crowds
beer drinkers pressed into and infest
| the saloons nnd drunk as fast as th
. ' could, mocking tlio praying worn
v with loud blasphemy and louder b;
' clianalian songs.
' : Even women joinrd in ribaldry, a
j at once place flung out bits of bolog
j and fragments of crackers among t
, ! crusading women, who meekly be
theso gulling insnlts, and persisted a
j1 prayed.
Wocld Not Go.?A commodore bei
a coufined to his room by a severo lit
r i tlio gout, fiomo sweeps were emplf
I cd to sweep the chimneys of the hot:
- next door to him, and oue of the boys
-; mistake came down in the commodor
- J apartment. The boy, confused at 1
II mistuke, seeing the commodore in b<
, said, "Sir, my master will come for y
I; presently." "Will he?" said the co
j modore, leaping out of bed, "I beg
1 -? excused for staying here any loi
t ' '2*. ud immediately ran do'
, j .
Items of Interest.
q, "The rear admirables of the Navy"
|y is good.
j California produces lemons weighing ^^9
lQ 21 ounces apiece.
The population of France decreased H
one per cent, last year. H
e' Defaulters are now more elegantly ^H|
'P called " hypothecaries." H
M Lore is an egotism of two. The first H
as sigh of lovo is the last of wisdom.
rt The way they bunch up dresses in H
a- the back now-a-days is astonishing.
m A Eeokuk butcher gives away a IH
)6 cliromo with every ten pounds of meat.
:i. The wives of Brigham Young are the
ig envy of their sex. They remain always
as Young.
n- Th 3 tari ff on snuff is 50 cents a pound
w This makes it mighty expensive to
e- sneeze.
e" By industry a good farmer in Europe
e> can cret 850 a year and a suit of clothes H
fik w
, as wages.
lcj A hungry panther recently tried to JH
7e rob the U. S. mails between Burksville I
)Q and China, Tenn. H
e- The Parisians are confident that the
s- Column Vendome will be done in time
n- for the next Commune. g^H
Id The Ohio women have closed up 338
le saloons thus far, leaving some t villages H
to without u drinking place.
A lad of fourteen is conducting a re8
ligious revival in Illinois, and is win* H
|(1 ning converts by the soore.
It is said that the difference of two
c|. farthings a pound in the price of rice
Q. in India brings on a famine. Hi
h- The New York Chemist says there Is
he not a hair dye in the market which will I
is not in time make the bead bald.
11- An Indianapolis reporter aptly oalled I
-d the lite unsuccessful printers' strike in
ee that city a "typographical error." H
u* Gold hunters aro leaving Oregon in f-j|
large numbers for the Alaska mines. - V
l8t The mines have not yet been praotically JD
I'Z explored.
S. A Montreal man said, " By the Lord
yt Harry 1" and a justice fined liim 37 and 41
iv- costs. How aould a Yankee ever pat 1 fl
rt- up a stove in that oouutry ? * H
he Hot alum water is a reoent sugges* % I
si- tiou as au insecticide. It will destroy H
ie- red and black ants, cockroaches, spi
he dors, chintz bugs, and all crawling
tc- pests. 9
J1' "And did yon hear him call her my J
[P dear, or anything like that ?" asked the I
to lawyer. " No, sir! of coarse not; why, J
*8 she was his wife," answered the lady
0 witness.
q? Tho Green Bay girls, having heard 3
jie that certain young men would not marry
a woman who could not do housework, i
jlt can now be seen every morning sweep- -J
tj8 ing off the doorsteps. ^ 1
n. A Baltimore jury recently brought in 1
U) a verdict for the respondent in the oase j
' of a will contested because it was writ- Vjj
ten partly in ink and partly with Ja
lead pencil and was not signed. J
, Merimee says, in one of his letters, v
PHI
u " I don't like relations ; you uro uvnBou
'6- to bo familiar with people you never
is saw, just becauso they happen to bo
,? sons of the same father as your own
father."
TO
At Chatham, England, thero is a man
:m who regularly refuses to have his chil-?f
dren vaccinated, and will not pay the
ho flues. Tho Anti-Vaccination Society
>a] support his wife and family while he is si
. in prison. M
on "So you aro taking lessons in draw- jjfl
s ing, Baltic?" "Yes, and the teacher
, says I am an apt pupil, as I draw more Vj
CJ inferences, insinuations, admirers, and
allowances than any girl in the
academy." I
[fcy Americans who pay nearly a million
,i? for an artillery regiment may well envy
lUl the fortune of Sir Garnet Woiseloy, I
or who hired all the soldiers ho wanted
a8 from two African kings at $50 per jh
el, thousand men. 5
ise Tho editor of a New Y'ork child's
?n. paper received a letter from a lady 3
1? Hubscribcr recently, in which was
>n- written : " Our Anna died last week,
of after reading the last number of your "
lot valuable paper."
"it A quarrelsome couple were disenssing
the subject of epitaphs and toinbtl(l
stones, and the husband said: " My
'f?" dear, what kind of a stone do you suppose
they will give me when" I die ?"
lllt " Brimstone, my love," was the nffecc"
tionnte replv.
1 f Q ( "
Sneaking of tho half-naked statue of
'.c'? Washington, which cost 3d0,U0U, in tne
East Capitol Park, Grnco Greenwood
, a wittily says that his outstretched arm
^ points reproachfully toward thoso glass I
'u cases in the Patent Office, where hang
his much-desired habiliments.
A worthy Quaker thus wrote : " I I
expect to pass through this world bnt JQ
Ts' once. If, therefore, there be any kindon
ness I cau show, or any good thing I
?j, can do to my fellow human being, Jet g
me do it now. Lot me not defer nor 1
neglect it, for I will not pass this way 1
,u* again."
to The King of Masindr, in Upper M
al- Egypt, having died, was lately boned, H
:er his* wives being interred alive with him. H
i A number of prisoners of war were fl
. ' taken to the immense grave, their limbs
\ broken, and tlnir mutilated bodies ^
flnng on the dead king and his wretched
ed widows. ^
A Cruel Disappointment.
*0* A story is told in Paris of a son of M. i
. Bixio. This eminent man was for a """^1
na short time incarcerated in tho fortress j
he of Viucennes, after the coup d'elai. I
>re His wife, accompanied by one of her 1
U(^ sons, went to see him. They dined |
together in his chamber. The son wag
ncr extremely sad and taciturn during the
of dinner, and at lost attracted his father's j
)j- attention. ?
ise "Why, my dear boy, what Is the mat- J
by ter?" '
o's "Nothing, father," replied the lad of j
lis eleven. m/m
?<1, "Nonsense; I see something is the J
on matter with yon. Come, tell me what _d
m- it is r
to The boy blabbered, "Why, pa, I am 1
ig- so disappointed. I made sore ol see* *
wn ing yon in a dungeon, chained to the J