THE TRIBUNE. ^ "
VOL. I.?NO. 2. 3EAUFORT, S. 0., DECEMBER 2, 1874. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
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The Home Ileart.
The babe that nestled in my arms coos for m<
but in dreams ;
The prattler crowned with golden ourls lives
but in memory's gleams ;
What marvel, then, that loving fear blende
with the pride and joy
That watches, on his manhood's verge, the
bold and bonny boy ?
The happy Btnile of infancy still wreathes hie
rosy lips.
The fearless light of childhood's eyes knows
nothing of oolipso ;
But firmer tread and Btronger clasp attest the
rolling years,
While growing, daring thought and will awake
the woman, fears.
My son, a wleor hand than mine will shapo the
onward way,
A greatov Tower soothe thy night and guide
thee through the day.
?* _ So, in a patient impotence, I Btrivo to stand
apart,
"Only praying, for thy father's sake, oh, koep
tho frank homo heart!
Keop tho pure unstinted charity, tho trust in
all things fair,
Tho hope that mid each earthly cloud still feels
tho sunshine there ;
The faith in goodness, love, and truth, that,
spite of fault and fall,
Looks on the bright world God has made, and
owns His touch on all.
So shall tho light fool spring unharmed along
tho perilous path,
So shall tho bravo hand clasp and keep the one
immortal wreath.
By tho yearning of tho lonely life, whoso chief
eat joy thou arl,
Ob, darling of ou.r severed lives, keop still th<
fresh b',mo heart!
TIIE BASKET OF FLOWERS.
I wondered what peoaliar taste could
have induced either the designers or
decoratora r.* Ah.- craft to 1. .iv cl ipped
such a preposterous Ihing a.s a flower
Laaket on the stern of iliat ship. I was
neater! on a dock mar Hunter's Point
watching the ioaUin.. of a petroleum
vessel?a uaerr, old-fashioned bark.
Hi d tl ? i>'.'or b kipper any floral
proclivities ? Perliups some practical
band in a ship-yard?a master in the
art of hooking figure beads of dolphins
<or cornncopias all out of solid oak?
some one who might have beeh a
Tlioruw*l<lwn but fur the want ol opportunity,
had eliminated that flower
basket from his inner consciousness.
Just as likely it might have been the
production, so far as the poetical conception
of it went, of some captain
through whose composition there ran a
latent vein of romance. Who oould
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1011 uuii iuiu in years long gone Dy tutwoman
tho captaiu had loved had beeu
associated with a basket of flowers ?
So he might have gone straight to the
ship-yard, all aglow, inspired for the
moment, and iu a cheery voice said,
" Here, onrpenter, cut me out a basket
of flowers. Do it good. I ain't particular
about the kind of flowers, so
that there is plenty of them, and that
the basket is all right. Put two handles
on the basket." And so to work
fifty years ago went the carpenter, who
had followed the sea in his younger
days, aud the artist, with adzo and
gouge in hand, had possibly got into
a quandary over tho job, for quite likely
he was more familiar with tangled seaweed
than with the primmer garden
flowers. So in great mental travail he
must havo solved the que-tiou by
taking as a pattern his mother's oldfashioned
sampler, on which in crossflf.i
fnlt U'o a rltminfuil a ^
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and copied it all out in wood and stuck
it on the stern of that vessel, and felt
batisficd with it, though a stifTer or
moro impossible flower basket never
was made. Undoubtedly onoe it was
colored with hues as bright and varied
as a rainbow, and shown out resplendantly
as the ship's stern and was
raflooted in summer seas, and was the
envy of other skippers. Bat when I
saw it all its bloom was gone, for it
had been painted all over a glaring
yellow, and was as ugly as sin. Ornamenting
the stern of a petroleum ship,
odorous with the most villainous of
smells, that poor old flower basket
seemed horribly out of plaee.
"Captain, sir?" I made bold to say
iu u man in me ciocn, wno was giving
Bome instructions as to the moorings of
tho vessel.
| i" JuBt so, sir," was the reply of a
fine, hearty-looking man. " Here, Mr.
Matliias"?this was lo a person evidently
the mate?"have this hawser
eased. Take out the double hitch, and
don't jam the knot. It's too tight. It
wonld take as much as flvo minutes to
unreeve that kuot; ain't you got ?a6e
enough to know that when you are taking
on board this kind of dangerous stuff,
alongside of the factory as makes it,
the whole place is just as likely as not
to be on Are any minute? Tell that
hand forard at tho fall to watch the
capstan and them spiles here, and to
loosen the hawser with the tide. Hhe
can't chafe much. It ain't a bad plan
I to have an ax, and a sharp one, always
ady, so that a fellow can out hit
luoky and run. Capt. Billy Magrude
Baved hi3 brig a year and a half ago, a
' this very dock, from being bnrned up
because he had a carpenter's hatchc
1 handy. You was wanting me, but?'
said tho captain. "What can I do foi
1 you ?"
" Only this,'* I replied ; ' I am verj
? little nautical, and my experience doei
not go beyond yachting ; but I havo, 1
( think, a kind of memory for ships.
' Did I not see this ship at New Bedford;
she was then in tho whaling businest
! some years ago ?"
" Exactly so, sir. You are right.
1 Maybe you found her out by the carving
on her Btern. She is a queer old
i craft, built as they only built 'em fifty
years ago. She has been kept up,
though, all thetiino right through, and
the oil is so soaked into her timbers
that there is no rot in her. For nigh
on to thirty years she pitched and
I tumbled On the Paeiflo ?n<1 nmnir o
whale she has hail alongside of her, and
tried out, and if all the money she has
arned was in my pocket or in yourn, or
only halved between us, why, I, for
one, make bold to say that I wouldn't
be here stowing away coal-oil. The
petroleum business is a kind of resting
place for old-fashioned ships. It used
to be the lumber trade, but now lots
of the old stagers go into ooal-oil."
" It is, then, a kind of cliarnel-houso
for decayed vessels ?"
" Well, that's it, pretty much. 1
Beed you looking at her stern. It's a
real nice bit of work that carving.
Them flowers is all buttercups and
oowslips and sunflowers now from their
color. Thero is a queer yarn about
, this here ship which I don't mind telling.
I* am fresh in her, that is to say,
it will be a year this coming February
sinoo I took hold of her. I ain't hud
much luck, that is for my time of life,
and had hoped at my age to be something
more than captain of an oil-craft;
but luck is everything. Now, we seafaring
men keep the run somehow of
all the ships and the stories about 'em.
You see, some shipB bring luck and
others don't. I've known a ship that
moBtly always made money for her
owners, but alw'ays killed her captains.
I knowed one bark that made every
Bkipper as sailed her take to drink.
Yeu see, the story about this ship I got
from the man as sailed her before me ;
and during her whole life she ain't hud
but Ave men to handle her, and four of
'em, of which I am one, has been on
her during the lust ten years. Afore
that, for nigh on to forty years, only
one man sailed her. Before the keol of
this ship was laid, thero was a seafaring
man as sailed out of Maine. That
man struck salt water nirly, and
hadn't no education when lie was vmini;
but lots of pluck. la tliem days, fifty
year ago, passengers used to tako the
regular liners from 'Boston or New
York and go to Charleston. That sailor
man was before the mast. He was a
handsome, civil kind of a fellow, and
was learning his dnty fast. There
came once aboard the brig he was on,
which was a Charleston liner?one of
them big Boston bugs?one of them
aristocrats of the old time?with a sick
daughter, his only che-ild." My captain,
I saw here, was inclined to bo
melodramatic, as he insisted on this
peculiar, eccentrio subdivision of a single
syllable.
"The v'yage was a long one, and
Jack's duty it was to go down below
and hand that young miss on deck, and
put her like a frostbitten flower in the
snn, for they thought she was dying.
Now this rich man's cheild didn't care
a brass larden for Jaok, but Jack, who
was an ass, cared for her. When
they got South, Jack put the lady in
her carriage at Charleston, and bid her
good-bye, and didn't say nothing more.
That rich man's cheild camo pretty
near dying in Charleston, and Jack
kept calling every day, with the captain's
compliments, so he said, to see
how sho was getting on ; but they wasn't
the captain's compliments, but his own.
She didn't get any better or much worse,
but kept baoking and tilling. When
it got to be time for Jack's brig to go
home, the girl's fathor he came in person
on board to thank the old man for
his civility in sending so often to make
inquiries about his daughter. Now,
this made the captain stare, for the old
skipper, after he had dumped the party
on the Charleston wharf, had no more
thought about 'em than of an odd cask
of nails. 80 the story got about the
ship, and the orew ran poor Jack about
it, as shipmates will, until Jack got
moBt wild. But they knowed Jack didn't
allow much chaffing, so after a regular
knock-down or so, they let Jack alone.
Jack stayed by that brig all that winter,
she going regularly on her trips, and
he findiug out how the young woman
was making out. She stayed South
most a year, and then Jack learnt she
was coming home in another vessel.
What does he do but leaves his own
craft and ships in the other one, und
comob home with the young womau.
Jack hod brushed up mighty in tko
twelvemonth, though ho wasn't nothing
more than a sailor. The father didn't
know him no more than you could tell
one link of a ohain cable from anothor,
hnf. Ilia <1 oncrlifr.Ar T ^iovamnmKn*
exactly how the yarn goes on
here, but as sure as yon aro born the
rioh man's daughter and Jack got to
lore one another unbeknownst to the
father.
M Now, fifty years ago a man that
commanded a ship wasn't thought no
mean shakes of. Now-a-days he is
mighty low down, and ain't considered
as muoh account as a hpad waiter in a
dining-saloon. It was agreed between
'em that Jack should tight it through
i and get a ship, and that then, if the old
i man didn't agree to it, they would loot
> out for themselves. Bo he did, and he
r wuit to South America round the Horn
t anl was gono three years, and oomo
, ba?k second mate. Then he went to
t Chna, and had no end of luck. Ilir.
' captain and first mate died on board
t theship, as did a good many of the
crev, and Jack br; tight the vessel into
r Boson most by himself, and was made
i eaptein and had all kinds of favors
[ shovn him. You see, sir, I have been
thiid mato more nor once on a long
; v'yige, but sotueho w or other no such
i luor never come to me. Well, Jack
ha< broncht from fihinsi r r.nrionn kinrl
of 3asket for bis true-love, and bad
male a regular hot-house of bis ship
witi queer kinds of China plants,
whoh wasn't common in them days in
lh( United States. So now, as captain,
lie made bold to givo the basket to her,
nul they both weuf to the old man and
toll their stories. 4 No, sir, ho couldn't
th nk of it. What, givo his choild to
oib of them no-account Bhip captains ?
Nit if he kuow'd himself.' Well, at
last it was fixed up that Captain Jack
slould make another v'yago, and then,
i: she would have him, they should be
narried. That was all the old man
vould do, and them hard lines was
tgreed to. Captain Jack had a new
ship a-building for kirn, for the China
:radc, as you know, was just busting in
:liem days, and ho wanted his owners
to let him oall his ship after his sweetheart's
namo, but the old man wouldn't
let him. So says she to him one day :
' My dear lovo, in remembrance of mo,
you'll have that basket of flowers put
on your ship, and just while your ship
I floats I'll never forget you, nor must
you forget me.' My wife, air, as is at
Bridgeport, has got that part into
rhyme, something about 4 your heart
smoats,' and 4 the ship she floats,' but
I never was good on poetry, and just as
likely havn't got the hang of it. The
ship was launched, and that there identi/tu
1 l\n olr lit vtron /latwtAil am/1 ?t
viva* womxkjv n it a v/uit .u auu pun uu nci.
It ain't stuck on, sir, but is cut right
out of tlio timber, so as to be everlasting.
" Oh, he come back, sir ; but not at
the end of thrco years, nor in his own
ship. In Munila he took the fever, aud
was left for dead, and she, the rich
man's cheild, was made to believe that
her sailor lover was gone, or didn't care
for her, so after awhile she married
another fellow. I never heard she was
unhappy. My wife says ah? was ; but,
then, women, you know, sir, has such
strange ideas on them subjects. Jaok
took to his ship again, and the old
wooden basket of flowers, carved and
painted on the stern of his vessel, was
all that remained of his true love, and
they do say, no matter how rnsty his
old craft became, whether ont at sea or
in port, he used to have them old
flowers kept in a regular blaze and
bloom of glory. He was a mighty restless
old fellow, aud never staid a day
ashore, always lived on ship board, and
a-going all the time. Whaling he took
np some time in 1840, aud kept it Tip
for a long time, a-living in the ice,
maybe a-trying to freeze the love out of
him. Ho died mighty rioh, and
singularly crusty aud cranky, a matter
of eight year ago in Maine, where he
was born. The yarn is a true one. because
I heard tell how in his will he
left some of his money to tho woman
he had loved onoe, beoauso times had
changed, and she and her family had
tinnt* flnma #1/% uo*i fluif
man's daughter and her family had
been supported by that old whaling
captain for years. So, you see, he
didn't bear no malice. This old craft
never was cxaotly unlucky, and that
old basket of flowers has hung to her
so long that I ain't going to have it
taken off while I sail hor. Guess them
flowers has been a good deal patched
up since they was first put on hor, as
may be my story, though, saving the
soft parts, which I can't work in like
my wifo can, it's pretty muoh as I havo
been telling it to you. I am going to
keep that old flower-basket fresh, mind
I toll you, no matter what yellow ochre
does cost a pound. No, sir ; no ghosts ;
not even a rat; petroleum is pison on
rats. Wo are for Trieste. Rates
mighty poor?4s. 3d. a barrel. It may
be a matter of seventy-five days before
I get there. She is steady, sir, though
she can't be said to bo fast. No objections
to your writing it out. I
might like you to send the story to ray
folks at Bridgeport, only my wife will
be euro to tell me I have left out all the
nicest parts. Women are so queer,
yon know, and spin things out so."
How He Hot *100,000.
An item of mncb historical interest
is contained in the account of the es
tato of Robert Roberts, of Medfield,
presented in the Probato Court of Dedham,
Mass. It seems that the father
of Robert Roberts, whoso account lias
just been filed, was captain of an
American vessel, and during the first
French revolution, when Robespierre
was in power, called at a French port.
While there e wealthy Frenchman, who
had gained the hostility of tho government,
secured a passage on Captain
Roberts' vessel and plaoed the sum of
$100,000 in gold in the cabin. Pre
vious to tho sailing of the vessel the
government arrested the intended fngii
tire and beheaded him. Captain Roberts,
fearing he would get into trouble
and perhaps lose his head, immediately
set sail from the port, and, upon arrivi
ing at home, left the dangers of the
i deep and invested the $100,000 in the
l Massachusetts Hospital Life Insuranoe
i Company. A number of heirs laid
l olaim to the money at the decease ol
i the son, but the oonrt has aoknowl;
edged the present holder tho rightful
> heir.
REVIVAL OF BUSINESS. 1
| the UronDitiwell of a. Kreeh Start In pen?
Comuierclal Activity.
Although nearly one-half of the Qe
period assigned for the short-time Pens
movement in the New England cotton mittt
mills has now elapsed, says the United tary
States Economist, it is yet too soon to 5,758
determine with the requisite accuraoy pens:
the effects of the movement on the annu
trade. But that the movement at the of 8,
time was a salutary one cannot be incre
doubted. It imparted confidence to of $-1
the trade, and at least temporarily from
averted the downwarn tendency which 105,
threatened such grave results. At tho of re*
i present time prices aro by no means lid j
| settled, aud judging by recent develop- annu
j monts it is not improbable that a general
revision of the entire list may take ?
place. Bat the general tone of tb6
market is decidedly improvod, and there TTCre
is a bustlo and activity apparent which on
are in marked oontrast with the stagna- ^
tion of a few weeks ago. The improve- mcre
ment is still more marked in prints and was
dress goods, owing, it is probable, to ?* P'
the active demand that has ^set in for
the retail trade, the requirements for w^?"
which are likely to be much heavier a^OTP
than were deemed either probable or
possible a short time Binoe. The gen- PenB1
eral feeling now is that we shall have a afc ai
large and active winter trade, especially
if the season should chance to be an ro^ 0
open one. In confirmation of the im- namG
proved tone of the dry goods trade of ^50,1
New York oity the news from the mann- there
factoring districts is unexpectedly an<* c
favorable. The short-time movement a^ an
in the cotton trade appears to havo al- 195.5
ready reached the turning point. 4,572
Several mills which went on two-third sions
time have resumed full work ; others
are preparing to do eo. Now, this
movement is chiefly important as illus- On
trating the improved feeling and is by 551 3
no means on a scale to warrant expectations
of important changes. * aBut
from the West the news is more ?^eas
decided of coming activity. At Chi- P.e
cago, St. Louis, Louisville and Oinoin- o
nati there is an active demand for money .
for business purposes. The erain trade ?iune
appears to have received a new impulse, &187
the receipts and deliveries one weeli r~ ..1
recently reaching to something near
the iignres at corresponding periods in tue r
former years. But the chief cause of
the present activity appears to be the
requirements of the pork trade. This
will liberate a very largo amount of
money, which will be distributed ali _er
over the West in payment of hogs. . j
The farmers who, from whatever cause, .
held back their grain, will now bo in a dec_
position to realize on stock, and will bo .
in a position to settle up their old store e<^C
bills and make now purchases. a
The South is harvesting her cotton llIU<
crop with an activity whioh shows that '
the granger polioy of holding back ***.
produco for higher prices has made Pqic
very little headway in that part of the ?> *
country. The proceeds are put into "eat
immediate general circulation ; and al- * (
though, owing to causes which are a ra
disgrace to our country, they no longer widc
flow back in a stream of wealth to the m.
North, yet the money received for the fiirtSS
crop is devoted to the wiping out of in- n-ig c
dividual and looal indebtedness. Even
at present prices planters receive a Z:
good profit. *
The general outlook, then, is not un- *
favorable. It is true there is nothing
particularly bright or attractive in the
immediate future, bnt at the same time pe
there is nothing particularly depressing jnva]
All our iudnstrial interests, without
exception, are in a sound condition,and
this encomium could perhaps now be jnVft|
more truthfully applied to the general ijr-n.
finances of the country than at any ' '
former period in our hiBtory.
wido
How to Manage Her. reas(
A man named Taddles, in Virginia, bou>
has got his wife in proper subjection, p,
and moans to keep her so. "Oh," ty la
says he, in tolling about it, " there runti
ain't many who know how to rule a The
wife properly. Now, my old svoman is
one of the bost-natured women in tho ^
world, but she's got a deuce of a tern- pii0fl
por. Whenever I see she's got her mim
madness up, if it's a dozen times a day, ing
1 just quietly say nothing, but rather pond
humor her, and she oomos around all 8crni
right after a while. Even when sho jowa
throws thincs at me or oivn? n noilr! 1
u- o ? UX1HI
dash at me with the broom or rolling- of CJi
pin, I just dodgo a little, and she never been
hits me a third time before 1 get my cienl
eyes on her, and let her know I disapprove
of such actions on her part.
Perhaps I have to leave the Loubo to wibto
show her this, but she sees the point, of tl
Then, by being careful not to irritate be P
her, and letting her have her own way, ing
I manage make her do as I please. And bom
> you bet I make her understand and appreciate
my discipline. Oh, I keep Ai
, her under perfect control I A man a po
has, you know, got to be master in his w
own house, or your wife will ride you thirt
> down as if yon wasn't nobody. My robt
p wife's a perfect angel in her natural ter v
disposition, but any other man but me repli
, would spoil her." the <
I has
> The best shot ever heard of has been foun
I made in Calais, Maine, where a gentle- the i
! man fired, in midnight darkness, at the mid
bark of a dog, and the next morning will
1 touad the animal dead, the V1 t h sv- be it
i ing hi;, him in the throat ; and
UNITED STATES PENSIONS.
Ion tloll of the Army and Itavjr <
of the War ot IRIS.
n. J. H. Baker, Oommissioner of j
ions of the United States, has subid
his annual repoit to the Secre- ]
of the Interior. During the year,
1 new applications for army invalid 1
ions were allowed, at an aggregate 1
al rate of $39,332.50; the pensions
063 pensioners of this olass were j
a sod at an aggregate annual rate
116,257 50 ; the losses to this roll j
death and other causes were 3,- <
whose pensions, with the amount
duction of the rates of other inva- 1
pensions, aggregated 8377,452.55 <
ally.
1
THE ARMY PENSION ROLL. |
the 30th of June, 1874, there
102,457 army invalid pensioners 1
le roll. The aggregate annual pay '
lis olass was $10,058,377.54. The 1
ase in the number of this olass ]
2,653, and the aggregate inorease
?nsions was $431,137.45. During
year, 3,051 new pensions for army 1
urn nnd dariATiiIcnt vAlafivaa urara t
ed, at an aggregate annual rate of
433, and the pensions of 12,932 ]
[oners of this class were inoreased |
1 aggregate annaal rate of $408,- i
2. There were stricken from the
>f this class of pensioners, 7,623 1
s, whose pensions aggregated $1,- 1
13.05. On the 30th of June, 1874, 1
were on the roll of army widows '
lependent relatives, 107,016 names, j
aggregate annual rate of $13,637,- ,
6, tho dcorease for the year being ^
names, and the deorease of pen- <
of this class being $424,568.08.
THE NAVY PENSION ROM/. J
the 30th of June there were 1,- i
navy invalid pensioners, at an ag- l
.i- onnnnl ? * A1 /?rt iArt *_ 1
tw P.dhu^I rate ui m- J
o in tho year of 121 in the number '
nsioners, and $18,954 25 in the an- J
rate of pensions of this class; On
0th of Juno there were 1,785 pen- 1
>rs on the navy roll of widows and <
ndent relatives, at a total rate of <
534, an increase for the year of 15 1
e number of names, and $6,984 in ]
ate of pensions. i
THE VETERANS OF 1812. ,
e names of 571 new pensioners
added to the roll of survivors of
no,. n# 1Q1<> on/1 1 _1
VTA AUAM, nuu X,MA I Ui VUIO U1MO I
lost by death, leaving on the 30th
me, 17,020 pensioners of this class
total annual rate of 81,691,520?a
;ase for the year of 646 in the num>f
pensioners, and $62,016 in the
of pensions of this olass. The
js of 813 widows of soldiers of the
of 1812 were added to the roll, and
were kmt by death during that
>d, leaving on the 30th of Jane,
5 pensioners of this olass?an inle
for the year of 259 in the num>f
pensioners, and $21,864 in the
of pensions.
>WS OF REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIERS,
io total number of pensioners of all
es on the 30th of June, 1874, was
541, a decrease of 2,170 during the
; th > aggregate annual rate of peni
of all classes on June 30th was154,071.10,
a decrease from the preig
year of $5,645.13. The roll oon
i the names ?f 410 widows of soli
in the Revolutionary war.
rtain specific increases allowed to
id pensioners, by lawn passed at
last session of Congress, and the
ly inorease in the number on the
lid pension roll will, probably,
; the disbursements to invalids for
present fiscal year up to those of
year ; but in the payments to
ws, minors, &c., a red notion may
>nably be expeoted.
rTY LAND WARRANTS AND CLAIMS.
iring the year, 234 claims for bounnd
warrants wore allowed, the wari
calling for 35,640 acres of land. ,
number of applications for bonnty ,
9 received daring the year were
There are now tipon the snspendiles
of the offioe nearly 100,0(X) ap- i
itions for bounty lands. Of this !
her 350 cases were prosecuted dnrtlie
year. The existence of sus- ,
led claims is a temptation to unpnlons
agents to fabricate testiy,
with a view of obtaining the since
of claims not admissible upon
,ing known evidence. The last act
ongress granting bounty lands has
i in force for twenty years, a suffib
time for all those who are entitled
s benefits to avail themselves of its
isions. It would, therefore, in the
ion of the Commissioner, be oonnt
with justice, and for the interest
10 Government, that a limit should
ut by Congress to the period durwhich
the various acts granting
aty lands shall oontinne in force.
jottt the Butter.?After buying
und of butter of a Detroit grocer,
oman indignantly remarked that
iy-seven cents per pound was sheer
ery, and she couldn't see how butras
so high. "I'll explain,madam,"
ed the bland grocer. "Yon see
exceeding parchednees of verdure
resulted in a dearth of lacteal
dation for butter, and not until
atmosphere is rendered more huby
some astronomical procedure
the supply of oleaginous matter
icreaf" ?." Bhepondered a while;
weut oit feeling much letter.
Items of Interest.
The last thing a man should be oat
i>f?Temper.
To keep eggs through the winter?
Don't eat them.
A oorn-eztraotor that has never been
patented?The crow.
1 Advertising costs money." So does
store rent; so do all good and useful
things.
" Where is ' parts unknown ?'" asks
a correspondent. "Where they don't
advertise."
Don't tell an editor how to run n
newspaper. Let the poor fool flud it
out himself.
Performances in the Japanese theaters
begin at siz o'clook in the morning ind
olose at nine at night
Glory iB well enough for a sioh man,
but it is of very little oonseqqenoe to a
poor man with a large family. 4
" I was very near selling pay boots
the other day," said Joe to a friend.
" How so ?" " I had them hhlf-soled."
iVouldst thou be a rebel? Coma",Sebel then,
For an experiment against thy heart!
3aet thon nevor been a rarer 7 well, then,
Bale thyself, O man, whoe'er thou art.
A Frenchman intending- Ao oomplinent
a young lady bj. oal&US *-er tt
jontle lamb, said : " She is <K)6 mutton
is is small.
An Englishman has 'just bought at
Bordeaux, for $1,800 francs,'three bot;les
of Medoo wine, of the-year 171)3?
|120 a bottle. . >yi
WWW v i * as w _ m l _ M
we snail nan me a ay oi ^omaie ?uifrage,
for then the monotony of seeing a
rooster at' the head of every victorious
aewspaper will be relieved 'by the occasional
intersparsion of a hen.
Without any desire to bragi the Detroit
Free Press points to a ^Jichigan
mnflower nineteen feet high, and reipectfully
inquires after the health of
>ther sunflowers around the cfofantry.
Two ladies oanghi small-pox from
rearing dresses which they had hired
to go to a ball in, London. One died,
ind the other brought suit against the
proprietor of the costutoe-snop. The
iatter at gues that he did not'irent the
lis ease. The lady took it without his
permission. Oase still on. r
Twenty barrels entered as " salt
meat " and " Australian beef " were
seized at Portsmouth, England, and in
each barrel was found the corpse of a
lull grown negro. They reached England
from the United States and were
intended for disseotion in London ; but
who sent them, and where did the
sender get them ?
The main features of a new plan, on
trial in the British navy, for raising
sunken ships are olosing hermetically
the hatches and all openings in the upper
parts and pumping down air. The
air thus introduced rises toward the
under side of the deck, and, not being
able to escape, presses the water down
and ont through the holes made in the
ship's bottom. The vessel by this
means will be rendered buoyant and
rise to the surface. ?/
Suffering In Nebraska.
ri.i \t a tr tv yi tt a a i ?
i/ui. 11. a. iu. j^uuiey, u. o. a., uub,
at the instance of General Ord, commanding
the Department of the Platte,
made a careful inspection of those
counties in Nebraska that were visited
by grasshoppers. He his just submitted
an elaborate report which contains
by alljadds the best statement of
facts in regard to the scourge that has
been made. Oolonel Dudley rode from
house to house, accompanied by eoucr
iers, and aoquired his information personally
and at first hands. In Bed
Willow oounty he found many houses
abandoned, and the settlers who remained
had only ten or fifteen days'
provisions on hand. They informed
Colonel Dndley also that tyej did not
know where a further supply pould be
obtained. The grasshoppers have left
their fields bare, the buffalo, hAve gone
to distant pastures abdut the head
waters of the Bepubncan, far beyond
the reach of thetto pobFpfe&ple, and
their domestic animals atorbtnoed to
mere skeletons. A thorongh oanvass
showed that there are G#4?pflrsona in
Bed Willow oonnty who aanskhave help
within ten days. In Furnas oonnty,
substantially the same deplorable state
of affairs was found. Many settlers
had left, but others oonld not get away.
The settlers on the Sappa itnd the
Be. ver were brought together by couriers
to meet Colonel Dudley at Arapahoe.
There are 9,800 people in Fornas
connty. One-fifth will require aid in
thirty days, and the number will be increased,
so that full three-fourths will
have to be supported beforq spring.
Many instanoesof actual present suffer- .
ing are mentioned. Htfrian'oounty has
many suffering families already. Meetings
held in the interests of relief were
attended by men whose wives and children
were " absolutely without food."
Colonel Dndley gives the -fadts in a
precise manner, oy precincts, ana tney
all bear the same oomplexion. The
same is true of Gosper county. The
following is quoted from Oolonel Dudley's
report:
"Great suffering exists in all fire of
these extensive frontier counties to a
fearful extent. The settlers are, in
most instances, scattered ever a large
extent of country, a large portion of
them living far up numerous streams
flowing into the Republican. If the
winter should be as severe ss thai of
1*70-71, and deep snows fall, beyond a ;Sn
doubt hundreds will starve."