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? 'y,r .JfB&J,' > :\ ' x'i-'"llf; ' 'ii. * THE TRIBUNE. VOL. I.--NO. 29. BEAUFORT, S. C., JUNE 9, 1875. $2.00 PER ANNUM. Beautiful May. Wiutor'H departing, angry and sullen ; After his footsteps comes a bright baud : Flowerets in numbers start from their slumbers? May is awaking all over the land. Deep in the hollows snow drifts are lying, Like early sorrow, melting away ; Warm rain is falling wild birds are calling? Boaut.ful spring-time, beautiful May ! Oh, could I Bee her come o'er the mountain, Under her eyelids bringing tho day ! Birds would Hing sweeter only to greet her. Girl of my heart's love, my beautiful May! ?Miss Mulock. JUDY. At dawn on a February morning, fifty years since, the lookout on board the sloop-of-war Rosebud, engaged in repressing tho alave traffic on the African coast, reported a suspicious sail about eight miles to leeward. Ohase being made, tho vessel was quickly identified by tlio delighted pursuers as tlie Arrow, n noted slaver, whose capture had hitherto proved impossible ; her captaiu and mate, both English, being men distinguished alike for skill aud hardihood, and possessing a far more accurate knowledge of the coAst than was furnished M those newly-arrived by the imperfect charts of that time. The chase lind commenced about seven o'clock in the morning, and by three land was reported, something less than twenty miles distant; chase five miles still to leeward, and apparently running straight for the nearest headland. As they approached, the land rose high, aud, shelving towards the shore, displayed small blumps, marking itself as that kind of coast which generally terminates in rocks. The sloojt-of-war worked towards the shore as far as it was safe. The captain of tho Arrow evidently knew the coast, aud kuew the little laud-locked course for which he was now making. The crew wero all on deck. Tho first lino of breakers was passed, and their courage rose as they witnessed the ,cool luiari'nn /if *!??? 1- 1 /VHUtu^ v/i UUU WU^bUlih Uiliy lit? betrayed emotiou, turning deadly pale, but without changing a muscle. It was when the sea caught the Arrow on her starboard quarter, and Bhe threatened to broach-to before the helmsman could stop her. But JondrHas a good hand. He checked her at the critical moment, and kept her head right vfall in the centrr, It wuvi when Una saa, >wbioh lifted the vessel and surged along with lior, subsided, that the vessel, as she fell into tlio hollow, just touched the ground. It was but for a moment. The next sea lifted them cleau off the passage, the helm was clapped hard a-starboard, the point was rounded, and the anchor let go iu what was, comparatively, a inillpoml. Sails were furled. She was safo us in Dover harbor. 44 What about the 'obony?'" asked Hawloy of his chief. "The sloop must see our mast above tho rocks, and may try tho passage. In that caso we're trapped." 44 She'll bo lost to-night," replied tho other, coolly. 4 4 Sho could never claw off in this sea, and is too close in to escapo. If sho drifts to leeward only a mile nu hour, she'll he hard and fast and battered to chips by midnight. Send a hand aloft, and lot mo know what the fellow's doing." Ileport was presontly made that the sloop was off the point, some seven or eight miles, carrying a press of Bail, yet apparently dropping shoreward. 44 Hah 1" said the captain, rubbing his hands. 44 She's not to have the picking oi me uttie Arrow tins trip, anyhow ! Well, what ubout these niggers. In these climates the wiud chops round in a second, and thou we should have her boats in tlio cove before we could land our ebony ! They will always keep the passage open?for, if it blows, 'tis thenonly chance." " Well, sir, they'll have'more luck than often falls to such sharks, if they get in hero !" said tho mate. "Well, land the beggars, and away with them to the rear of the hillock, where the old hut stands. Shackle them weii, and land half the hands to watch them. Look after the crew yourself." "Shall I land them all i" asked Itawley. "No, not all. Leave Judy to me," replied the other, glancing towards a corner of the deck where, throughout tho recent perilous maneuver, something like a human figure had lain crouched under a tarpaulin. Tho unfortunate slaves?a hundred and seventeen in number?were quickly landed, and goaded along to their dostiued hiding place. Judy, who remained on board the slaver, was now at the perfection of negress womanhood?sixteen. She was cheerful and intelligent; so quick, iudeed, of apprehension, that in mtho short time Bhe had been a captive, but distinguished by the captain s favor from l,n. - i - l-5? ?? louunn in luiaiurtuuo, hiiu uitu learned much English, and begun to read. Meanwhile, on board the Rosobnd things looked less and loss satisfactory. Despite all efforts, she had neared tho land considerably. * The wind rather increased than diminished, and Captain Henderson, thongh externally calm and confident as ever, began to feel serious alarm. Again and again had he striven to make out tho narrow entranoe, and been compelled to claw off from tho porilous spot. It was in one of these anxious Hoarchings that ho discovered tho Arrow's masthead?motionless, and evidently in , security. Suddenly, there was elevated on a small hillock an English union-jack. Was this a tender of assistance? Was it intended to direct them to the difficult entrance ? An anxious consultation followed. At length tlio mainsail split and went to ribbons, and thero being no alternative but to anchor, tlio necessary order was given. . i On sounding, they found but eighteen fathoms of water?nmddy bottom? : showing how much they had drifted in shore, but also affording some hope, as the anchors might now hold, thanks to the mud mingled with the sand. Allowing her to drift into twelve fathoms, the ltosebud's captain let go both bower anchors?one backed by tlio i stream, the other by the kedgo?at the same moment, and veered away a whole cable, upon that, so that now he had fivo anchors down, each bearing a proper strain. "Does sho drift?" asked Henderson every moment, in his accustomed steady voice, though an affirmative would have been his ship's death-warrant. " Not an inch, sir," was the invariable reply. Thus affairs remained for more than an liom:. On shore, the captain and mate of the slaver had been carefully watching their imperiled pursuer. The suspicion started on board the latter had been correct. The flag had been so placed that, had the sloop used it as a guide, sho must inevitably have been dashed upon the outer ledge of rocks. As the day shut in, the two worthies resolved to improvo the snare. They obtained a couple of lanterns from the brig, and hoisted them on tho false bluff. This done, tlicy returned on board, where the mate made a kind of official report relative to the slaves. Day dawned. Tho gale had moderated. The Rosebud was safe. She had i held on well, and though she had dragged a little, had still ten fathoms of water, i About noon, a Blight flaw of wind coming off the land, she instantly weighed, and got under canvas. Tho Blaver's people eyed this operation with intense delight, and the captain and mate had a little carouse of con- : gratulation. At last it occurred to the ; wary skipper to see what the sloop was doing, and a hand was sont aloft. The report was startling. " Hove to, sir. Boats just entering the cove. Rawley looked at his chief. " Condemned, sir. Judy "?was all ho said. " No time to land her ?" " Impossible." Tho captain's tanned visngo flushed, and then grew sheet white. The ivtnfco lunufnil nimiiflranflv in fl>e direction of the coming bouts. "Here, Rawley," said tlie other, putting his hand on his shoulder, and whispering iu his ear. "Be quick. You understand. Down, every man of you, i fore and aft," ho continued, " and scrub out the hold as quickly as possible." The hnud3 disappeared, and the mate, who had jumped below also, returned, leading Judy. " Bear a hand, my lad, or we're done ] for I" Those below heard ono loud shriek, sounding above all tho noise they made, i and stopped appalled. But tho mate's i voice was heard, talking cheerfully: " I'll give them work enough ! They shan't get the Arrow out without a job ! They shall weigh every anchor themselves. And here goes auother !" Tho ax was heard to fall on tho stopper, and tho larboard anchor dropped from the bows. At this moment tho Rosebud's boats rounded the point, and dashed alongside. Mr. Hall had come in person. Too shrewd of observation to be easily gulled, he had observed, on entering, that had they steered for the signal they must have been lost. This confirmed him iu his opinion of the character of the vessel pursued, even had she not already been pretty well identified as the victorious Arrow. As the armed boats dashed up, tho captain and mate were seen quietly smoking on deck, much at their ease. "What vessel is this?" demanded Hall, as he jumped on deck. i " The Arrow, of Liverpool." i I " Where from last ?" " Sierra Leone." "Your cargo?" " Emptiness," was tho saucy reply. " Jump down there, men," said Hall, : disdaining furthor colloquy, " and examine the vessel thoroughly." Half a dozen men obeyed. " How many men have you on board?" asked Hall, now addressing tho mate. " Six." " What are you doing hero ?" "Getting out of tho way of tho wind." " Then whither bound when wo first sighted you ?" " To Loango." "Working ' Tom Cox's travorse,' eh ?" said tho other, 1 ironically. " You were standing to W. N. W. with a fair wind. Is that tho course for Loango?" " I was working my own reckoning," put in tho captain, " and perhaps I should havo found mv uort iust as well without your assistance." " Show mo your papers." < "Hero." ] There wan nothing in the papers in- i consistent with what had been stated. Tho vessel was bound, apparently, for 1 gold-dust; and, as far as observation t went, there was nothing to justify her i detention The midshipmen reported, i indeed, that tho vosael, though empty, i was not guiltless of that peculiar aroma ' tliat, to tho noso of exjv rlence, denotes I tho recent presence of 1 -grows. And a shackle or two had been found; but, be- i Jond this, there was nothing oil board I > bear put the suspicion that this i notorious craft was still in tie. t inhuman traffic who had hitherto pursued. 1 "Stay. How came you to stick up that flag yesterday in the wrong place?" ( resumed Mr. Hall, sternly. i "There, Mr. ltawley," ejaculated the 1 slaver's captain, addressing his mate, with a sanctified look. "See what men get for doing a good turn. There were 1 we, up half the night, Btrainiug our i blessed eyes out, with ropes and every- ' thiug ready, to render these people assistance, and this is the reward?to be ] treated as slaves and pirates 1" j " That doesn't answer my question, sir," said the officer. " Come, you must Bee the captain; and, as we can t port company with such kind and well-intentioned folks, just weigh at once, and out with you, alongside the sloop." "Weigh for yourself," was tlio sullen reply, " I shan't go out of this till better weather. If you start my anchors, I hold you responsible for anything that may happen to the vessel. Mind now, sir. I tell you, before you begin, not a man of mine shall render you the least assistance. The instant yon touch my aucliors I give up charge of the vessel, aud hold you responsible to its owners. Note that down in the loc. Mr. Itawlev. Mark the exact time. And now, sir " (addressing Mr. Hall), "begin as soon as yon please." The officer hesitated?ho knew the danger of tlie'pussago. The wind was very light, the sea still running heavily on shore, and it was far from certain he ; could tako tho brig out in safety. In this dilemma, ho dispatched one of his boats to the Rosebud, giving an account of what he had seen, and requesting further orders. In the meantime he got , into the other boat, and examined the ' soundings of the cove. On the return of the boat sent to the , sloop, tho midshipman handed a card to i Mr. Hall, who at once pulled back to the i slaver. "You will get under weigh, sir, and i go out to the sloop. There aro your orders. About it, with no more palaver." i " I shall do nothing of the kind," was the answer. "I am in a safe harbor, and here I stay till my sails are repaired ; and my rigging set up. If you choose to take charge of her, do so, but you get no help from me." " Very well. Then I relievo you from all responsibility. Board her, men. Some of you get that topsail 1 aloft, just as it is. The rest weigh anchors. Smartly now. Wind's dropping." The mate here interfered. u WllV fnvfi v/Mircnlf nn?l 11a mnvn trouble than is necessary ? You know very well we shall be back hero in a couple of hours." "Will you?" said Mr. Hall, doubtfully. "At all events, we'll tako the chance. So why not slip the cables and buoy the ends ? There's nobody here to stea the wood." 1 "All right. I've no objections to that. Go slip and buoy, my lads." Giving this direction, while walking forward, Mr. Hall remarked that the larboard auehor, which lay in only three fathoms' water, was upside down. lie therefore ordered his people to slip the starboard cable; and, as ho came aft again, observed to the captain : '' As you've so little cable out on the larboard anchor, we'll weigh that." "Why so?" asked the other, uneasily. " Because, if the wind fails us, as seems likely, we may have to anchor outside. Now, bear a hand aloft there." Meanwhile the mate had run forward, and was seen assisting busily to unsplice the lower cable. "Belay that," cried Hall. "Unsplice tile other, the starboard cable, men !" The mate made an attempt to complete the work, however, by attempting to slip the end through the hawse-hole. Tint lift W11S nrmill frllufrnfn/1 onmo of the Rosebud's men had stiffened the cable before all, and brought-to the messenger. By this time the sails were loosed, and the men, assembled at the capstan, began to heave around. The result must, 1 think, liavo been anticipated. Very few who have acquainted themselves with the but too authentic narratives of the barbarities practiced by slave captains at this period, will doubt tlio truth of this. They need not; for the circumstances, names excepted, are perfectly accurate. When the anchor reached the bows it brought up with it, lashed to the shank, and gagged to stifle her cries, tho corpse of poor Judy I This condemned the Arrow as a prize. Such, howover, was tho indiguntion of tho Rosebud's men that it roquired tho energetic interference of Mr. Hall to protect the captain from summary vengeance. Unhappily for Rawley, the active instrument in the murder, that miscreant, hoping to escape altogether, leaped into the sloop's boat which lay alongside, with only the boat-keeper remaining in it. Striking tho latter on the head with some lieavv instrument. and sending him into tho water, tlio 1 mato jumped overboard and made for 1 tho shore. ' " Come back, you murdering sconn- ' drol," shouted Hall, whoso quick eyo 1 liad caught tho whole proceeding, rapid 1 is it was. " Back, or we fire !" Ho had scarcely uttered tho last word, * when a shot from tho bows, fired by a ' rnilor who had mistaken tho menace for 1 in order, stopped tho fugitivo. Turn- ' ing round ho r<?so, as by some eonvulsivo ' movement, half abovo tho surface, then, ' with a wild toss of tho arms, wont to tho ( liottom. ' Tho stunuod seaman having been < ipiickly picked up and passed on board, tho boat proceeded in search of tho mate's body, which, owing to a strong ] jddy, had been carried some little (lis- < tanco from the spot at which ho sank. It was at length descried through flic -lour water, and, by means of the boat's anchor, with little ceremony hauled on boird, of course lifeless. The brig was condemned, and the value of the prize was much augmented by the circumstance of her crew betraying the hiding-place of the slave cargo. Those wore speedily resliipped in the very vessel in which they had beeu so roughly stowed, and in duo course regained their home. A Temperance Lecture, Judge Westbrook, in sentencing Batting, at Kingston, New York, to Sing Sing prison for life, for the murder of a man while intoxicated, embraced the occasion to deliver a very forcible lecture upon temperance. Judge Westbrook said : We know that you were not in a physical or mental state to comprehend the crime. You were fired by that which has fired many a man before; your brain was crazed by that which has crazed many a brain before; but can courts, in the prevention of crime, listen to an argument and a plea like that i If they did or could, whose life would be sain or wnoso property secure ( We kuow the safety of human society and human life requires that you should bo punished, because you voluntarily put yourself in that condition. You became voluntarily drunk, and must take the consequences of the act which you did while in such a state. You are guilty of an awful crime, and you are to-day receiving the judgment of this earthly tribunal; but remember you must answer to another which will judge with entire knowledge and in the sentence of which there can be no possible mistake. You have time and space for repentance and to make your peace and obtain forgiveness before you staud in the presence of the august .Judge who shall there preside. Perhaps in saying what we have, our wholo duty is done, yet it seems to us it is a proper time aud proper occasion to utter one word more. 'Is there not a most eloquent appeal from that bleediug body of your unhappy victim, aud in his gaping wounds, in your unfortunate condition, and the condition of your family, against that trallic which has brought you to this bar, separated you from your wife and family, and sent Tompkins into the presence of his God ? I trust that this sin and this lesson will be remembered andj never forgotten. If any other jrrgument is needed against the use of intoxicating drink and the trafiic therein, you on this occasion furuisli that armillipni rm?l if. i? wriffnn ftwlair oa if bus oftimos beou before, iu tears, and in blood. An Incident of the War. Gen. Sherman, in bis personal narrative, refers to the fact that immediately after the tirst battle of Bull Run insubordination crept out among the troops of bis command to sucli an extent that be ordered Ayer's battery to imliiuber, ready for action against them. During this "insubordination," an imusing incident occurred. The troops specially referred to were Col. McQuade's 14th New York infantry. Impressed with the idea that their term >f service was out, they expressed a dotermination to go home. Fearful of difficulty, Sherman ordered a section >f Ayer's battery to tako position at the right of Fort Corcoran, 011 an elevated spot, the 14th being encamped 011 a miall plain below. The guns of the battery bore directly upon the camp, and 1 few shells exploded in the Fourteenth would have blown the regiment hi pieces. The boys of the 14th took the matter iu good humor, and seeing the smokestack of a mill torn down near at hand, tliey mounted it on a pair of wagon wheels and organized a battery of their awn. Running tlio improvised gun to the very limit of the camp ground to which the men were confined, they would halt, ?o through the manual of loading by detail, and, at the command "fire," avery man in the regiment would give pent to a prolonged " b-o-o-m." This maneuver was kept up, n new ijuu squad relieving an old 'one when tired, until the thing became such a Farco that Sliorman, very much annoyed, ordered the lieutenant and his section back to park. The lieutenant in eliorpe of tho gnus, ifterwards a distinguished general, was io annoyed by tho 14tli boys that it was with difficulty he could control his temper. Somo olliaer suggested that he tire a blank cartridge over tho corps. "No," ho thundered, "if I open lire Ml tho fellows it will be with shell, and I'll fire low, too." There was no occasion for firing, as tho insubordination was soon settled. Half a Crop of Wheat. Tho Philadelphia Prcns contains a page specially devoted to tho condition mil prospect of tho wheat crop of Pennlylvauia, containg upward of two lmnIred dispatches covering tho entire iliufvilt r.f *lw? Tl... /i:? patches report the condition of tho crop May first in each county, and estimate the probable yield that will bo harvested. Owing to tho severe frost of a late spring much of the expected crop has been killed and tho season delayed eight or ton weeks. A careful survey of the field leads to tho Imlief that not over half a jrop will l)o gathered, and even this imount depends upon tho continuance >f dry weather. Half of tho shadows found in our >aths of life are made by standing in >nr own light. . X. ALCOHOL'S REGAL RIVAL. Hntnn'w Srronil Cholrr for the Ktlllnn of iHitiikliul? Nome Smrtlin? Facts. Another suicide ! In this case, as in many of which no account is taken by tlio daily newspapers, says the New York Hun, tlio poison employed was morphine or laudanum. " Died after an overdose of laudanum" is tlio verdict. That overdose, however, was only the culmination of a long indulgence, extending probably over years. The usual quantity failing to produce the desired effect, it was largely increased, and the end was death. Properly speaking, this was not a case of suicide; it was the result of indulgence in a life destroying vice that was certain to terminate in death. Hardly a week passes in which a case of opium poison is not treated in some one of our hospitals. A cure is occasionally effected, but it is ouly temporary, and the wretched victim almost invariably falls back into the old ways, and the end is at last reached by either suicide or a total prostration of mind and body. " I am a strong man," said a physiciau, "and have repeated opportunities to test my resolution under tho most trying circumstances, yet so insidious and treacherous is this vice, once contracted, so demoralizing is its influence on the power of the will, that I would not dare to trust myself to a continued use of the drug even for a limited time. The nrnviiifr if. prpnt/ifl (lironflv nffpnfa fho mental organization, and eventually destroys all power of resistance. I have known ladies who in their advanced age hud contracted the habit, and who carried the poison about their persons in the form of salts of opium, using it almost hourly. Indeed, the vice is more prevalent among women than among men." With regard to the superinducing causes of the evil a distinguished physician say3: They may be divided into two chesses, the physical and the moral. Under the tirst head should be placed all persons suffering from neuralgia, rheumatism, dysiuteric affections, tic-doloureaux, consumption, hysteria, uterine affections, etc. In such cases opium in somo form is usually first prescribed by physicians, and continued by the patient after the habit has been acquired. The moral causes are often pecuniary embarrassments, disagreements, jealousies, sensualism, etc. In these case? the drug is resorted to to drown thought or promote excitement. There is no doubt that oninm is too miscellaneously prescribed, perhaps to the extent that if it did not exist the liuniau race would be better off. It is a most useful therapeutic agent, but of all tho articles of the materia median it requires the most intelligence and eare in its use. Patients suffering with delirium tremens have been killed by it, and yet in tho same disease, with proper caution, it is a most beneficial remedial agent. In gunshot wounds, in railroad accidents, and in excessive hemorrhages, opium, if properly administered, is a boon to mankind; but if thrown into the system inj udiciously it is most disastrous to human lifo. Then the physical prostration produced by the use of opium renders its victims liable to contagion, unless they are continually under the influence of the drug. The sudden discontinuance of the use of the drug has a somewhat similar effect to that produced by a discontinuance of the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants in the case of confirmed drunkards. It is followed by a sort of mental collapse or groat prostration of the mental energies. Opium gives and takes away. It defeats the steady habit of exertion, and creates spasms of irregular exertion. It ruins the natural power of life; it develops preternatural paroxysms of intermitting power; it brings 011 hypertrophy or enlargement of tho liver, habitual constipation, bronzed complexion, rigiditv of skill, vacanev of exnressinn. iwm. oral hyperesthesia, ami insomnia, or sleeplessness; a morbid condition of the stomach, rejecting many kinds of food that are regarded by medical men as simple and easy of digestion; acute, shooting pains that are confined to no one part of the body; and unnatural sensitiveness to cold, frequent perspirations in parts of the body, and a chronic tendency to impatience and irritability of temper, with paroxysms of excitement wholly foreign to the natural disposition. In the long run it saps the vitality. It engenders sterility. The offspring, if there be any, is generally marked by organic cerebral defects?impaired intellect and unconstitutional cachexia, or deteriorated vitality. The amount of opium imported into tho United States in 1874 was about two hundred tons, and it is estimated that twenty-one hundredths of the opium sold by retailors would cover all tho prescriptions of physicians proper, and live per cent, excepted from the entire as an extra allowance for the vltrious nostrums afloat would be liberal and abundant. This is from a comparison of opiuions enter tained by many apothecaries of New v?_i. _:i.. i i-. ii il.~ I III IV I'lty, HUM \AJ HH'fHJ imifUUIIM O tuu experienced Dr. Carnochan adds the ?}>iuiou that while the therapeutic value of opium has suffered no abatement in the estimation of the profession, the total of prescriptions is proportionately less than it was twenty years ago, A disease, resembling the murrain spoken of in tlio Bible, is causing great havoc among the flocks and herds of Turkey. On the plains of Troy the skeletons of thousands and thousands of sheep cover the ground. Shepherds, stripped of their outiro herds in many eases, have gone insane over the calamity. In the country about Adrianople fully thirty per cent, of the horned cattle and horses have already died of disease i Items of Interest. The Kansas grasshoppers speak very highly of this spring's early cabbages. A cross-eyed girl advertises for a husband affected in the same way. What a cross-eyedear I Dr. Lviingstone found that the ostrich could run at the astonishing speed of twenty-six miles an hour. " Gently the dues are o'er me stealing," as the man said when he had thirteen bills presented to him in one day. The San Francisco directory just issued estimates the population at 230,000. The Bulletin is willing to believe it 30, 000 less. Artificial batter making lias never proved a success. The difficulty lies iu putting in the hairs bo they look natural. Comforting isn't it, to be told now, that if there had only been telegraphic communication with the mainland, all on board the Bcliiller might have been saved ? The Milwaukee Sentinel says it is all right for Lotta to give a fountain to San Francisco, but it would be more satisfactory to the world if she gave her agent a clean shirt. "Why do you use point!" asked a violinist of his daughter. " For the same reason that you use rosin, papa." "How is that?" "Why, to help mo draw my beau." "Every tree is subject to a disease," said a speaker in a fruit-growers' convention. "What ailment can you find on an oak ?" asked the chairman. "A-com," was the triumphant reply. It has been discovered that the New England lady who spelled six hundred and fifty words out of the word " oongregationalist," has never learned to make a loaf of bread out of flour, yeast, and water. A gun factory in Upper Austria is making 250,000 rifles for Germany. It has delivered 180,000, and has received a further order for 75,000. A Vienna firm is reported to be executing a German order for 30,000,000 cartridges. One of the crew Schiller was arrested in Hoboken for being drunk a few days before the vessel sailed. Recorder Bohnstodt sent him to jail for five days His time expired the day after the Schiller sailed and he escaped the fate of his companions. _ Talk of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica," or Appleton'sl An Imperial Chinese EncylopaBdia is now, and has been for a century, passing through the press, of which nearly 100,000 volumes have already appeared, and 60,000 volumes are yet to come to complete the undertaking. It is said that during the thirteen years that Oliver Charlick was president of the Long Island railroad he never drew any part of his salary, although it had been fixed by the board of directors at $10,000 a year. This makes $130,000 which his estate will, of course, call upon the company to pay up. The recent fire in Oshkoeh, Wis., burned four hundred houses, seventy stores, fifty manufacturing establishments four hotels, four churohes. About 3,000 people we.e burned out of house and liome, and three hunted families aro destitute. Over 2,000 are out of employment. Inspector (who notices a backwardneas in history)?Who signed Magna Charta? (No answer.) Inspector (mcro urgently)?Who signed Magna Charta? (No answer.) Inspector (angrily)?Who signed Magna Charta? Scrapcgrace (thinking matters ore beginning to look serious)?Please, sir, it was not me, sir! Two friends meeting after an absence of some years, during whieh time the one had increased considerable in bulk, and the other still resembled only the " effigy of a man," said the stout gentleman: " Why, Dick, you look as if you yon had not had a dinner since I saw you last." "And you," replied the other, ".look as if you had been at dinner ever since." A stern father got wind of an intended elopement of his daughter on a certain night, and when that sweet thing was on the point of stealing dowu stairs, she beheld a ferocious looking bulldog standing at the bottom; so she concluded to go back to her room and postpone her elopement. Her father never told her it was a stuffed dog, which he had borrowed from the man living next dt>or. ' All Want Medicine. The Griffin (Ga.) News says: The colored people liave some strange ways, and one of these is a disposition to giant or have ailments. Tins weakness is more plainly shown whenever there fil a remo/lxr fthnnf. nanAniollxr if fitaf "rnmn/ltr " is anything on the line of medicine. Wo overheard a gentlemen discussing this matter the other day, and he remMked that he could not keep a bottle of rndflfe cine on his premises and let itbe known. It made no differenoe what kind it was, * if they thought it would do them good. Ho wiia "sorter ailing" and being in town, hod a bottle of bicters fixed up by his physician. Returning home he took two doses, and found it so rough that he was going to throw it away, but, thinking for a moment, he stepped to the door, and said in the hearipg of some o? his negroos that ho had some splendid medicine. Next morning one OMM grunting around, saying: " Boss^I'se mighty ailing dis morning; ain't you got something for me ? I'se got a pain in my misery." Ho was properly "dosed," and went on his way rejoicing, lees , than twenty-four hours six of. them had " destroyed " the entire bottle, and ?oh of thorn ud a difierent somplaint.