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* ~ TIE CAMDEN JOURNAL. ; AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER, % PUBLISHED BY JOHN KERSHAW. ^'J J SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oni year, in advance $2 50 Six months ' J 50 Three months 75 Transient Advertisements must be paid I tif in advance. . ,SJA JUNIUS DAVIS, - - -i v ? a VOL. XXXI. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 18703. NO. 38 . Attorney ai jjuw mm una Justice. feb 8 m3 CAMDEN, S. C. V. II. lfeLORME k . vriTU JFurchgott, Benedict & Co., B 244 King St., Charleston, Importers am^Dealers in Foreign and Domestic r.3DRY C3-OOIDS. Cloaks, Shawls, Hosiery, Notions <C* Ribbons Also, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods. A special department for > Carpets, Rugs, Mats, Oil (Moth and Matting. BRANCHES OF BUSINESS. Furchgott, Benedict & Co., cor. King and Cal -A- /II 1 ? noun 818., vuuncsiuu. Furcbgott, Benedict & Co., 22 White street, New Y ork. Furchgott, Benedict & Co., Jacksonville, Fla. dec 7-3in "george tupper, BROKER, Real Estate anil Insurance Agent,! OFFICE OVER W. C. FISHER S DRUG STORE, OPPOSITE COLUMBIA HOTEL, MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, S. C. , ??g l?ly ] griffin, green & co., Cotton Factors, .no AND G-eneral Commission Merchants,. No. 122 Pearl Street, N. Y, P. 0. Box G818. Advance* made on Cotton, Nnval Store*. &e. I Two-thirds of value advanced on cotion to he , held, and only 7 pet* cent, interest charged. No charge for purchasing goods for shippers, no* 23-4mo?. ! ILtXAXDKR spruxt, jsq. w. iiix80n, British Vice Consul. james sprvxt. SPRUNT & HINSON, COTTOX FACTORS | AND Naval Store Com's'n Merchants, < . WILMINGTON, N. C. ^DANIEL ^ SMITHS DEALER IN ZE^UIR^XTTTIR/IE], Window Shades, Carpets, ?:e j JS now located in hi* new building on North Front street, M 1 L.MING TON, N. C. Parties in want of goods in his line will save I jnancy by purchasing of Iiim. feb 8 3m t ? - "'II w. ii. nr.THKA, I VW?. B. ......... Of Wilmington, S. C. Of Marion, S. C. I JOS. B. RUSSELL & CO. ; . Mineral Commission Merchants,11 WILMINGTON, N. C. Ifr- Particular attention paid to the sale and purchase of Naval Stores, Cotton, Bacon and ^B^XJountrj Produce. feb 8 8m StStt. BISSDLL, ! ^ " S DENTIST. 'Broad Street,Camden,So. Ca. iy; ? ? KXOX. JOHN QIIL. K.NOX&"GILL, Q^dq Facters & Commission Merchants llfb. 4 Holiday Street, Baltimore, Md. ?io?fltgnment8 of Cotton respectfully solicited. I Lfhral CASH advances made thereon by GEORGE ALDEN, Agent. *nf> 24. 6mon. MEDDLETON & CO., FACTORS , AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, BALTIMORE, MD, * Haying purchased the entire l?TOCK OF CteODS of Meagre, D. L. DeSaussure & I Op.^e wHl wll the same at [ COST for CASH, K #J>4 foj that purpose heipby constitute the J members of that firm our agents to effect such U 0 >> J, I. MIDDLETON & CO, Juueg tf American Watches "TJf SUfejr pases; also the celebrated Roscopf ~ ~jr"Btcm Winder, at fifteen dollars, oil yftirr faaied good time-keepers. I . AtS?ricaI* Clqcjfs of a variety of styles, from r fa#? to ten dollars each. I "VJeflreJry of new patterns; Pocket and Tabje[ kftlfeff, Razors, Soiasors, Spectacles and Fancy (JptKli, J. A. YOUNG. SCHOOL BOOKS! ALL That are used in the Public and Private -Schools. Blank Books, Paper and Envelopes. Miller's Almanacs and Pocket Diaries for 1872. ? J. A, YOUNG. Jan. 4th ml. YOUR ItA?S! " 10,000 pounds Clean.Lipep apd Cotton RAGS wnatad, for which the highest market price will p paid. Apply at this office. Extensive Arrivals ! rpHE UNDERSIGNED is now receiving bis FALL STOCK OF GOODS, Fresh from the Great Markets of the East, consisting in part of Calicos, Ginghams, Delaines, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS. Notions and Fancy Goods, ... full Li of each, In Groceries He is prepared to show a well?se1coted stook of Family and Fancy Groceries, Bacon, Lard, &c., &c. To Planters He is offering Cheap Bngging, Tics and Rope. Buys Cotton, At tlie liigest markctJrfttO'S, and makes liberal advances on consignments. Having bought for CASH, he iB prepared to sell CI12AP lorthe sainc' JSST G ivc mc a cull. No charge for showing goods. Tailoring Done in fashionable style and at [reasonable prices by Mr. C* A. McDONALD. .T W MftflTTRRT. Asont. oct 2fi-ly NEW GOODS! I T the store occupied by A. M. kpnncdy, a I\ few door* north of the Market, will uC ' bund a stock, consisting of I STAPLE DRY COODS. ' Iardware, Sf/ijls, Ir?n, Steel. Spades, Shovels, Garijcn Hpcs, Brady & Elwell Ilocs, j JMqH' Moulds, &c., &c. &c. ' > - * > aRQCBRlBS. ! ? nmhcd, Coffee and Brown sugars, Rip Lnguira j aud Java Coffiees, Green and Hyson Teas, Smoked ant' unsmofccil Side and Shoulder Ba- ' con. Hams 1 J.;ird Goshen Ilqttcr, . Corn. Oats, Salt, Stono Lime, Fine Super and Extra Family Flour, Soap, Candles, ' Starch, l'epper, Spice, Ginger, Soda ! Crackers anu Cheese, New Orleans Sugar ] House and W. I. Molasses Canned Fruit, Oys- ] era. Early Rose, Goodrich, Pink_Eyc and Jack- , on White Planting Potatoes. Mery.&taiarefc, Sails, Bridles, Shoes, Haines &c., \ll of which will be sold at the lowest, price for cash, and wo request i 1 call from all who wish to purchase. A.D.KEMEDY & CO. A. D. KENNEDY, A, M. KENNEDY. r* A. M Kennedy will give his attention to the purchase of cotton; Is agent for the sale of Etiwnn Guano, EtiwanCrop Pood andEtiwan Ground Bone. Feb 16 tf Marengo Mills. LUMBER! 50 000 ft' R0UGH EDGE LUMBER; 30 000 ft' REFUSE LUMBER; 30 000ft'8QUARE EDGE LUMBER; Seasoned and Unseasoned, Now on hand and for sale by the undersigned ai 111C lowest pussiuiu {iritcs, FOR CASH. All orders addressed to or left with Mr. C. NOELKEN, or with the undersigned, will receive prompt attention. V: A Lumber Yard Has been established on the premises of the above-named gentleman in the town of Camden, where parties from the town or surrounding country can be supplied at Camden prices by calling on him. J J g. R. ADAMS, sept 14-ly Proprietor Marengo Mills. SHAWLS, HOSIERY, Grloves, THE undersigned intending to discontinue the Notion and Fancy Dry Goods Stock, will sell at 10 to 25 per cept. BEEOW COST, Gloves, Hosiery, Corsets, Ribbons, Braids, and all other articles in this lino, at the abovenamed reduction, and invite the attention of purchasers. I). L. DeSAUSSURE & CO., ccw, agents, a The Fool's Pence. In the year 183?, in the handsomely furnished parlor, which opened out of that noted London gin-shop, called "The Punch-Bowl," sat its mistress, the gaudily dressed Mrs. Crowdcr, conversing with an obsequous neighbor. "Why, Mrs. Crowdcr, I must really say you have things in first class style here! what elegant papering! what noblo chairs! what a nice pair of tire-screens 1 all so bright and fresh 1 Then the elegant stone copings to your windows, and those beautiful French window frames! And you have been sending your daughter to the best boarding-school; your shop is the best furnished, and your cellar is the best filled of any shop in all this part of Lunnun. Where can you find the needful for all these grand things ? Dear Mrs. Crowder, how do you manage ? . ' Mrs. Crowder simpered, and cast a IooTc of con tempt through the half-opened door of the shop, filled with doughty customers, "The fool's half-pence-?'tis the fool's halfpence that does it for us," she said. And her voice rose more shrill and loud with the triumph she felt. Her words reached the ears of one of the customers, George Manly, the carpeqter,who stood near the counter. Turning his eyos upon those around him. he saw pale cheeks, sunken eyes and ragged garments. He then turned them upon the stately apartment, he looked through the door into the parlor, and saw looking-glasses, and gilding, and fine furniture, and a rich carpet, and Miss Lucy in her silk gown at the piano; and he thought to himself how strango it is! how curious that oil # V? iu nnuu nn mw q Vinn on VII i ij m vvviivunwotf vii III^ iw(v t?i4vsuiv& wv made to turn into all this rich finery on my right 1 "Well, sir,?and what's for you?" asked the shrill voice which had made the fool'spencc ring in his ears. "A glass of gin. mam, is what I was waiting for; but I think I have paid the last fool's pence that I shall put down on this counter for many a long day." George Manly hastened home. Ilis wife and his two little girls were seated at work. They were thin and pale, really for want of Pood. * Jhc room looked very cheerless, and their fire was so small as scarcely to be felt; yet the dullest observer would havo noticed the neatness tliut prevailed. It was a joyful surprise to them, his returning so early that night, and returning sober, ind in good humor. "Your eyes are weak to night, wife," said George, "or else you have been prying. I'm ilraiii you work too much by candieJightJ His wife smiled and mid, "Working docs lot hurt my eyes;" and she beckoned to -her ' ittlo hoy who was SUUdtiigTrpAPt iftju&rncr, jvidcutly as a culprit. "Why JohnTwnatTs"^ ibis I spo ?" said his father, "come and tell :11c what you have boon doing." John was a plain spoken boy and bad 1 straightforward way. lie cauio up to his father; looked full in his face, and said, "The baker cauie for his money to-night, and would not leave the loaves without it; but though be was coarse and rough, he said mother was not to blame, and that he was sure you had been drinking away all tho roonoy; and when he was gone mother was crying over her work, but she did not say anything. I did not know she was crying until I saw the tears dropping upon her hands, and then I said bad words, and mother sent mo to stand in the corner." "Tell me what your bad words were, John," said the father; "not swearing, I hope ?" "No," said John, coloring, "I said you was a bad man ! I said bad father!" "And they were bad words, I am sure," said bis mother; "but you are forgiven; so now bring me some coal from the box." George looked at the face of his wife, and as bP wet the tender gazo of her eyes, now turned to him, he felt the tears rise in his own. He rose up, and putting money in her hand, he paixj: "There are my week's wages. Come, come, hold out both hands, for you have not got &1J y<8t. Lay it ont for the best, as you always do.. I hope this will be a boginning of bettor doings on my part, and hap-? ? /\n trnnrfl " piPf Majo vr?* George told his wife, after the children had gone to bed, that when he saw what the ponce of the poor could do towards keeping up a fine house and dressing out the landlord's wife and daughtor, and when he thought of his own hard-working uncomplaining Susan, and his children in want, and almost in rags, while he was sitting and drinking, night after night, destroying his health and strength, lie was so struck with sorrow and shame that he scorned to have come to himself at last.-*? He determined from that hour that he never again would put the intoxicating glass to his lips. More than & year afterward, one Sunday afternoon, as Mrs. Crowder of the "PunchBowl," was walking with her daughter to the ;ca gardens, they were overtaken by a violent shower of rain, and had become at least half-drenched, when they entered a comi'ortablo house, distinguished by its comforts and tidiness, from all others near it.? Its good-natured mistress and her two girls did all they could to wipe away the rain-drops and mud-splashes from the ladieB' tine sijic I gowns, all draggled and soiled, and to repair as far as possible, every mischief done to their dress and persons. When all had been done that could be done, and as Miss Lucy said, they began to ' look themselves again," Mrs. Crowder,who Was lolling in a large arm-chair, and amusing herself by a stare at every one and every thing in tho room, suddenly started forward, and addressing herself to tho master of the hoiisp, whoso bible and whose face had just caught her eyp, "Why, my good man, we arc old friends { I know your face, I am certain; still thpro is porno change in you, though I can't exactly say what it is," ?i used to be in ragged clothes, and out of health," said George A'anly, smiling, "but now, thank God, I am comfortably clad, and in excellent health." "But how is it." asked Mrs. Crowder, "that we never catch sight of you now ?" i, "Madam/' said be, "I am sere I wish_you ? well; nay, I have reason to thank you; for words of yours first opened my eyes to my own foolish and wicked course. My wife and my children were half starved and half clothed only this time last year. Look at them, if you please, now; for sweet, contented looks, and comfortable olothes, I'll match thein against any man's wife and children. And now, Madam, I tell you, as you told a friend of yours one day last year?'tis tho fool's pence that has done all this for us.? The fool's pence ! I ought rather to say the pence earned by honest industry; and spent so that we cto ask. the blessing of God upon the pence."' Mrs. Lrowder never recovered the customer she had lost. IIow Grast Went Into and Came out op "TjtE Wilderness."?Jiui Nye, the scnotojyyxom Nevada, made a .grand Bprcnd-eagfe^peech, recently, showing forth the glories of General Grant. lie dwelt with special delight upon his heroe'e campaign in Virginia. The correspondent of the New York World gives an account of the speech, and on this particular point takes up the orator, and shows how Grant got injo and out of "the Wilderness." We quote bis interesting historical facts: Nye launched into a fulsome eulogy of Grant op & soldier, and his campaign from the Ranidan to Richmond and Appomatox Court Ilouse. It is not fur the poor purpose of answering Nye, but to anticipate the thunder of speakers who will be listened to far and wide next summer, when they speak of that hideous compaign, that I revivo the true record of it here. "Grant has been in the Wilderness before," declared Nye, "and he will come out of it as he did before."? How did he come out of it ? Let us sce.-~ Grant, on assuming command, Mr.y 4th, hadof effective men, besides the reserves when he crossed the Rapidan, 125,000. Lee, at the samellate had an effective force of 52,000. Grant's reinforedtoents up to the battle of Cold Harbor, June 3d, were 97,000. Lee's reinforcements up to the same date were 18,000. Grant's total force including reinforcements, was 222,000. Lee's total force, including reinforcements was 70,000 Returns to their respective Governments showed that when both armies had reached the James, June 10th the number of Grant's army that had been put hors ilu combat was 117,000. Up to that date the number of Lee's army who had been put lion (hi combat was 19,000. Grant hf?d more than three men to every one that-Lee had?222,000 to 70,000. Grant lost more than six men for every ono that Loo lost?117,000, to 19,000. Grant lost 99 many men as all Lcc had and 12*000 ovor half as many more besides?117,uvu m i-u.,?oo. a... 1 1?:-p -J? nrgt instance more than twice as many men as Leo ?125,000 to 52,000?yet had to be reinforced by more men than all Lep ever had ?97,000 to 70,000. These enormous armies did not suffice to overthrow Loo. This line which was fought on all summer was abandoned- All this summer and thu succeeding fall, and then the winter, and at last tho spring were spent, before, by this system of exchanging six dead or wounded Norther soldiers, for every one dead or wounded Southern soldier, tho exhaustion of Lee and his army became complete at Appomatox Court IIousc. This being the way in which Grant got out of the military wilderness, we may imagine over what a wrech and overthrow and ruin of the beat interests of his country he will, if lie does escape from the wilderness of popular doubt and disfavor that now environs his path to re-election. The editor of the Utica Ilcruhl says: ")Iy wife had cut an item from the columns of some paper wherein a demented writer told about some impossible woman who, being troubled with a had tempor, counted twenty. c? ?-? C?? ?k/? nmvnlrad fl nrl t.hll.q live, everj imiu duc gw |^viv?w4, became a sweet, dear, amiable ornament to the household of her delighted husband.^ I read the article, and remarked, ,(Bosh." Maria paid no attention to me, but unfolded her plan. Sho said that every time I got mad I should count twenty-five, and that every time she got mad, she would count twenty-five. I asked her who she thought would pay our rent, whilc'wc sat all day long counting twenty-five over and over. Then she said I was always raising objections to her plans for our mutual improvement, and I said I was not, and she said I was enough to try the patience of a saint, and I said she was too, and she came for me, and I told her to count twenty-five; but she forgot all about tlrat, and just tallied one in my left eye. "Then I was going to remonstrate with the poker, and she told me to count twenty-1 five, and I said I would not; but I did before sho had pulled more than half my hair out. Then sho made me count twenty-fivo over and over until I was out of breath, and felt real pleasant and good-natured. So we went f to supper. Now, the cat was curled up in my chair, but I did not see it until I sat down; and I did not see it then, but I was o?ro ir. was t.hore: in fact I knew it JMV.VVJ p?.v. 1 was there as weli as I wanted to, and better too. I felt inclined to rise up suddenly, but as I gathered to spring, she brandished the tea pot, and murmured: "Joshua, your tcmpor is rising; count twenty-five, or I'll break )our head;" and that cat was drawing a map of the tenth ward, with her claws, upon me, with thoBtreeta and their boundaries marked in my blood. I rose to explain, and said, "My doar, 1-^," but she caromed on my head with a well shot tea cup, and sprinkled my face with a quart of hot tea, and I sat 1 down and counted twenty-five; but it killed the cat. The old fellow died hard though. I could feel him settle as his nine lives ffent out one by one. "A fow days practico of this rule, under the loving instruction of Maria, has enabled mo to conquer my temper completely. Nobody can got me mad now; I am in a state of perpetual calm, and I want to see the man who wrote that story. I want to fit him for the hands of an undertaker and make a demand for mourning goods among his friends. Then I can die .happy?counting twentyfive." .-r The Town of Sitka in Alaska. * m f * r:i ' The village contains forty or fifty houses. The populat ion consists of one thousand Indians and two thousand dogs. Of the dogs, all but one arc of the same sharp eared, wolfish type seen among the Indians of the plains. The exception was a bandy-legged, lop cared eur of civilized breed, the only one among the two thousand that Bhowed a lack of civilty by barking at our heels. The houses much more resemble the semi-subterranean abodes of the Laplanders and Esquimaux than the wigwams of American Indians. Liko the oak described by the American poet, they extended as far into the earth as above it. Some of thorn arc from twenty to thirty feet square, and built of very wide cedar planks, many of them more than four feet across, worked out by these rude people. We entered several. Creeping through apertures, both scjuarc and round, not more 1 than three feet in diameter, wo descended 1 flights of steps into the large single room. In ' the centre of each a fire was bnilt on the ' ground, and in the centre of each roof ahole, ' out of which passed a small portion of the ' smoke, the most of it romaining for the bene- ! fit of the salmon hanging over our heads, : and to make sore eyes for the inmates. The 1 whole inside is floored, except the fire-place * in the middle. Ou both sides are the sleep- J ing places, covered with skins and blankets, ' and in some instances, seperated by low par- ' titions. In the rear, and on shelves below ( the dormitories, were stored potatoes, and * dried salmon in large bales, covered with ] matting. Their largest potatoes are the size 1 of a hulled walnut. ( The ladies beautify the,v complexions t with soot and red paint, and still further j enhance their charms by wearing a bone ' through the upper lip, the size of which is J increased from year to year, until, in some of ( the old one's it attains a width of two inches. f A ?i Tri/)!?in lurlir iliiiaorlArnarl trlfli Urttifon 1 J.All lUUiUU ??UJ tllUO UUU1 llVCtj IMU1 UU VUUlOVj < black, uncombed locks hanging in matted * profusion around her beautiful pig eyes and 4 lop oars, is only resistible to those whose 8 affections are thoroughly preoccupied. The ^ delights of courtship must be double by the v pleasunt aroma of salmon which pervades the ^ premises, and, us I have heard," their per- * sons. I Among them the crow and the raven are r held sacred, and fly around their abodes * undisturbed. They live mainly on fish, and have a monopoly of the trapping. There is but one white trapper in the country, and he r is at Cook's Inlent, 6U0* miles northwest, f He came down to Sitka once to go to Kodiak. k Learning that no ves'sol would sail for a " month, and growing tired of the place, he d r traversed alone that mountain wilderness for ii threo weeks. He had no covering at night h but the skins of freshly slaughtered animals. J lie returnedin good condition, and in answer u to questions boasted that he had lived better u than his questioners. J Russian Sensitiveness. 11 The St Petersburg correspondent of tho Prcslau Gazette writes to that journal that ^ the protest of certain Germans in Milwaukic ^ against tendering a formal reception to the 8 Grand Duke Alexis has greatly exasperated f the imperial family of Kussia. "The Em- 11 press," he says "who has ever watched with a maternal solicitude, over the progress of her v favorite son through the United States, was 1 loud in denunciation oftho boorish conduct a of her countrymen in that city, the more so, Y as it is now well understood here, that the 1 Grand Duke Alexis, during his sojourn in Berlin last summer, was engaged to be married to the daughter of one of the most dis- I tinguished sons of Germany, the Princess 1 Elizabeth Louisa Frederica, eldest daughter 1 of Prince Frederick Charles, of Prussia.? ? This engagement was brought about by the t joiut efforts of our Empress aqd of the Em- i pcror William, of Germany. The wedding 1 will take place in]the autumn, after the ictarn i of the Grand Duke t'? Europe, i "The C'sar, himself is also quite incensed 1 over the Milwaukic incident, in so much as J it srives the National press here a welcome > I " ? * * pretext to vent their hostility to the Ger- ' i mans, and covertly to attack the friendly < policy of th$ G?ar. towards the German Em- i pirc. The Golos hore has, in effect, alroady 1 availed itself of the wished-for opportunity, ' and published two characteristic articles in ' which the editor tries to prove that the con- ' duct of the Germans in Milwaukio towards 1 Prince Alexis shows conclusively what the ^ real seutimonts of tho German people to wards Russia arc." 1 Some ok the Results of Politeness ? ' Down in Wilmington, some time ago, an < ! old man who was very feeble was helped i across a crowded street by a youth of twenty * A mont h afterwards the old man died, and as 1 an expression of his gratitude he left the i youth forty thousand dollars. And now no < old man's life ie safe in Wilmington. All 1 i* ii i i._ j *i_ v!i.: tl)C young lenows uavo uuu lueir itmuuiuii excited, and as soon as any venerable man < appears on the sidewalk hujf a dozen chaps ' rush at him, grab him by the coat an the i collar, and the back hair, and try to carry him across tho street whether he wants to' 1 go or not. When ho gets there a lot more 1 fasten on to him and set him back again, and < then present thoir cards. So tho old men in 1 Wilmington are having a lively time now, 1 and they have to tack up tho street whenever '< they go out for a walk. Thus far very little ] money has been evolved, but all tho young 1 men study the ohituary advortisements carefully, and when tlioy see the words "at the f ago of seventy six," or "sixty-six," or any- < where in that neighborhood, tlioy hurry down to the office of the Register of' Wills and pore Over the last testament of the de- 1 ceased. All this goes to show how much | distress one inconsiderate act will cause. If i that first old man had left us that forty thousand dollars this foolishness might have been : prevented.?Max Aclekr, -V ADVERTISING BAflES. Space. 1 M. 2M. 3M. 640 u Y, ' -4 : 1 square 8 00 6 00 8 00 12 00*16 0Q 2 squares 6 00 9 00 12 00 16 00 28 00 3 squares 9 00 18 00 16 00 24 00 84 00 4 squares 12 00 16 00 20 00 80 00 43 00 \ column 16 00 19 00 24 00 84 00 60 00 ] column 20 00 30 00 40 00 56 00 80 00 1 column 30 00 50 00| GO 00 90 00100 00 All Transient Advertisements will b? charge^ One Dollab per Square for the fiyat at?d ty-7xvf. Cents per Square for each subs6?Ma4 APlea8ant Account op an Explq* ston.?The Danbury News elves th$ follow-" ing cheerful account of the late disaster in that town: '-There was a trifling aflair in Branchville on Friday. Philos W. Bate# haa a quarry about a auarter of a mile east of the village. He is also the owner of a Mack-* smith's shop, near by, where he employs two or three men to sharpen the tools used in quarrying the stone for the Shepaog road si Bethel. In accordance with a good old bottom in New England, the powder is kept in the blacksmith's shop. There wero two kegs partly filled and perfectly p?jppeed? and one keg unbroken, in the shop at the time our story opens. It was a pleaseet flay% There was no genial sunshioe, but the gene* ral appearance of things out doors was mellow and comfortable like. One of the men was hammering at the sultry end of a crowbaI.T~ A few grains of. powder had fhltoi on tha floor while replenishing the quarry ft*? >tb* open kegs. We came near forgetting, to state this, which was a more important Qjat* ter than at first sight seemed probable. Tha other omployes were bnsily engaged, as the 30ns of toil are apt to be when employed'by the day. A balsamic perfume filled theatmoe* phore of the shop. Suddenly a flake of st?eanfc? ' intr hot iron shot from thp. anvil and dawn o ~ rT*T" "** " among the grains of powder, which held their slumbering fires to the floor: There were * few unnoticed pops and flashes, then came a hiss as the flames shot over into the open kegs. Tho man who held the erowbar me* jhanically passed out of doors. Another son )f toil, who with his back to the danger waa ooking through the window, turned arouncfc in time to detect one end of the shop moving >ff, followed by a comrade whose shirt had ;one up in a flame. The two partly filled tegs had exploded with the customary vioence, and the full keg was on fire. At this uncture was displayed an act of heroism seh lorn exhibited in Fairfield county. Mr. Bates seized the burning keg [tho wood, not the )owdcr, was on fire] and hurled it oat ifyto he snow in time to quench the flames,.save he bahn ce of his shop, and the lives of hi oh elf and his mon. Two of the men wera >adly burned, a portion of the shop wa& necked, and two roosters who h&dhfP1* ighting near by at once buried all animqeiipa pntrAn/loroH V?vr fVin frorr immort y started over the hill for homo with ' the apid and graceful gait poouliar to thofee leathered Mormons."- I km ??^???? si Justice to Dogs.?When the late Ada^l-. al Freeman was a midshipman serving on oreign station, a brother midshipman apd limself had each a favorite dog. The othter midshipman took some offence at our herc4'% log, and threatened to throw it overboard/-? 4iiZyo5rs shall follow,"'wastho quick eply. Doth dogs were insraurry rnrowirover n quick succession. Enraged at the loss of is dog, the other midshipman came np to freeman and demanded satisfaction, challengog him to fight, "lie calm, sir," said Frcdeian, "you have acted most brutally toward* ay 4??. and I have retaliated uppni yours, as promised I would do. You are entitled to io satisfaction from me, but your unoffenflng dog is. I therefore propose to Bare the ifoofyour dog if you will do so by mine.'" "ho proposal was aoceded to by his companion, foung Freeman instantly leaped overbeardk warn to his opponent's dog, secured him and cached the vessel, where he was hanled up a Ir'.umjh. His comrade follov e 1 hie exuiple and was equally successful They rcre both punished by being sent to tho nasthcad. When far advanced in life tho dmiral declared that he always reflected irith great satisfaction on having saved tho ivcs of those dogs. J To Develop Talb.vt.?Place a man in o josition that will fcarftilly tax him and try lira; a position that will often bring tho >lush to his cheek and the sweat to his Drow. i position that will overmaster him at all ,imcs. and cause him to rack his brain for csources. Place him in a position like thia. But every time he trips go to his rescue; go rot with words ol blame or censure, but go vith manful words of encouragement; I00I5 lim boldly in the eye. and speak them with ioul and emphasis. This is the way to make n 1 ? A ^f r\ n TP q man i man 01 a uoy, a g;?ui/ ui a umu. ^ ? ui?? lias pluck and talent, do matter whether ha jver filled a given position or not, pat hiih, n it, if worthy, and he will soon not only ill it, but outgrow it. But put one in a position with a faint heart. This is the way ;o kill him. Put him in grandly with most, inmistakable confidents?. Drop no caveat^ jut boldly point the way, and then stand by ,vith a will and countenance of a true friend^ Hi us try twenty men, such as have been lamed, and nineteen will succeed. r A Good Garden*.?No work pnys better;han work in the garden. It pays in money t it pays in comfort, and it pays in health. It should have a little attention, a leisure halfbour, every day and the more taste in its lay-, mg out, and the largor the variety of itsjproIncts, the moro intorest there will be in it, ind (generally) the more profit from it. It should be made before the fields ara touched, so that whatevor is planted in it in-ty be early, as well as abundant and jood. Thorough trenching, or its substitute, deep ploughing, with an abundance of barn-yard uanure or other enriching substance, is jssential. The laying out is $ matter of* .aste, but should be of such a character a& vill eive the finest out look whon the crops ire growing?the lowest ycgetablcs near the :>aths. and the tailor oues in the bacl{ jround. Put brain into the garden as woll as turnip cod and green cofr, and it will be a pourca )f delight the summer through. "Mister, how do you sell sugar to-day?"' 'Only twenty cents a pound, sir." Can'^ give it. I'll drink my coffee without sugar, uid kiss my wile for- swoetening. Good dayt When you get tired of that kind of sweeten-, ing, please call round again." "I will." He called next day. ' V