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W CAMDEN JOURNAL. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER, PUBLISHED BY JOHN KEftSHAW. ''.SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year, in advance.... $2 50 Six months.... ...1 50 Yhree months 75 I?* Trans:ent Advertisements must be paid for in advauce. ' I JUNIUS DAVIS,. Attorney at Law and Trial Justice. " * * ^ ^ ? >rnr\r O r* fyi" ' ?? ---n n??? n , VOL. XXXI. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH S8, 1873. NO. 30 . *S ' " \ . : . " ;' ; ' '- ' '' ' feb 8 o. v. C.H.DcLOS?E WITH Furchgott, Benedict & Co., # 244 King St., Charleston, Importers and Dealers in Foreign and Domestic IDIR/IT GOODS. 'C/ua/cs, Sbmcls. Hosiery, Soiinns & Ribbons Also, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods. A special department for Carpets, Rugs, Mats. Oil Cloth and Matting. BRANCHES OF BUSINESS. Furchgott, Benedict & Co., cor. King and Calhoun sts., Charleston. Furchgott, Benedict & Co., 22 White street, New York. Furchgott, Benedict & Co., Jacksonville, Fla. dec 7-8m GEORGE TUPPER, BROXaER, M Estate and Insurance Apt, OPTICS OVER W. C. FISHER'S DRCG 8TORE, OPPOSITE COLUMBIA HOTEL, MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, S. C. aug L? ly GRIFFIN, GREEN & CO., Caitaii Vnetars. ? % WilVlt A ?v?v* vj AND General Commission Merchants, No. 122 Pearl Street, S. Y. P. 0. Box 6813. Advances made on Coiton, Naval Siores, kc. Two-thirds of value advanced on cotlon lo he held, and only 7 per cent, interest charged. No charge for purchasing goods for shippers, nov 23-4 uipa. _ ALEX.tXDfcn SPBl'NT, JNO. W. H1NSOX, British Vice Consul. james sprb'T. SPRUNT & HINSON, COTTON FKTOIIS AND Naval Store Com's'n Merchants, WIL31L\GX0X_JL C. . SYlVfrf A "C M I T U ~ irnrvic.L. n. n, DEALER IN ZFTTIRnsriTTJIRIE, Bedding, Window Shades. Oarpcis. &c IS now located in his new building on North Front street, WILMINGTON, N. C. Parties in want of goods in his line will save money by purchasing of him. ft-b 8 Cnt jos. n. nrssKit.. w. h. bf.tuea, Of Wijoin^ioa, N. C. Of Marion, S. C. JOS. B. RUSSELL & CO. General Commission Merchants, WILMINGTON, N. C. Particular attention paid to the sale and purchase of Naval Stores, Cotton, Bacon and other Country Produce. feb 8 3nt sTbissell, DENTIST. Broad Street, Camden, So. Oa. * * i.xnm I'TAV (. ,'A J. I. JIllJlfilJLiIilVil a vi/.3 FACTORS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, BALTIMORE, MD, Having purchased the entire STOCK OK GOODS of Messrs. D. L. DeSaussure & Co., we jrill sell the same at COST fox- CASH, and for that purpose hcieby constitute the members of that firm our agents to effect such sale. ? . '' J. I. MIDDLETON & CO. Jnue g tf SOUTH CAROLINA RAIL ROAD. CAJIDEX BRAXCII. On and.after Monday, Dec. the 25th., 1871 the Schedule of the Camden train will be as follows; Leave Camden at ti 15 A. M. Arrive at Columbia at 10 40 A. M. Leave Columbia at 1 45 P. M. Arrive at Camden at 6 25 P. M. By order of the Vice-President. A. B. DeSAUSSURE Agent. Camden Dec. 23d, 1871. PERUVIAN GUANO ZELL'S PHOSPHATE! PHCENJX GUANO ! AND V WILCOX & GIBBES MANIPULATED COMPOUND OP Guano, Salt and Plaster! For uale by GEO. ALDEN, foblotf Agenf. Extensive Arrivals ! fJHE UNDERSIGNED is dow receiving his FALL STOCK OF GOODS, I Fresh from the Great Markets of the East, consisting in part of Calicos, Ginghams, Delaines, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS. i i i r- n i_ Notions ana rancy uooas, Full Li of each, 1 In Groceries i He is prepared lo show a well-selected stock ^ of Family and Fancy Groceries, Bacon, Laid, 1 &.C., &c. ( 1 To Planters < He is offering Cheap Bagging, Ties and Hope. ( Buys Cotton, t At the liigcst market rates, and makes liberal ' advances on consignments. Having bought for CASH, he is prepared to < sell CHEAP for the same- ] Give me a call. No charge for showing ' goods. ( Tailoring < Done in fashionable style and at [reasonable 1 prices by Mr. C- A. McDONALD. J. w. McCURRY, Agent ' oct 2C-ly j NEW GOODS'! \ 1 ' 1 i AT the si ore occupied ov A. M. Aenncoy, u i few doors north of the Market, will be ] found a stock, consisting of ( STAPLE DRY GOODS, i i Hardware, Iron, Steel. Spades, Shovels, < Garden Iloes, Brady & Elwell Hoes, Plow Moulds, &c., &c. &c. j GROCERIES, i Crushed, Coffee and Brown sugars, R:o Laguira ] and Java Coffiees, Green and Hyson Teas, Smoked ami uusmoked Side and Shoulder ?? ? eon, tlaius La d < Goshen Butter, j Corn, Oats, Sa'., S.ono Litne, Fine Sune and Exi ra Family Flour. Soap, Candles, Starch, Pepper, Sp'ce, Ginger, Soda ! Crackers and Cheese, New Orleans Sugar j House and W. I. Molas es Canned Fruit.Oys- ( ters. Ea.ly Ilosc, Goodrich, Pink_Eye aud Juckson White Planting Potatoes. Crociery, Glassware k, SaMles, Bridles,; Shoes. Ilame* kc., All of which will he sold 1 at the lowest j?'-ioe for cash, and we request I a cull from all who wish to purchase. A.D.KExNXEDY&CO. A. D. KENNEDY", . A, M. KENNEDY'. A. M Kennedy will give h^s attention (o the purchase of cotton; is agent for the sale of EtiwanGuano, EtiwanCropFoodaudEiiwan Ground Done. Feblotf TH E~CELEBRATED EDGECOMBE COTTON AND CORN PLOUGH, Manufactured by the Edgecombe Agricultural Works, TARBORO', N. C. Took Four Fi^st Premiums in 1871. HAS twelve different kinds of castings fitting to same standard. Can be nrranged to do every variety of work needed in the cultivation of cotton and corn. It is manufactured in Edgecombe county, N. C , and almost universally used by the farmers of that county, who are behind none in their readiness to examine into the merits of all agricultural implements, and who arc among tho most successful and prosper ous coiion growers 01 meoouui. several planters in Kershaw and Sumter counties have used them with entire satisfaction. PRICES REDUCED For sale by mchl4m!2 A. D. KENNEDY & CO. Marengo Mills. LUMBER! 50,000 ft. ROUGH EDGE LUMBER; 30 000 ft' REFUSE LUMBER; 30 000 ft' SQUARE EDGE lumder5 Seasoned and Unseasoned, Now on hand and for sale by the undersigned at the lowest possible prices, FOR CASH. All orders addressed to or left with Mr. C. , NOELKEN, or with the undersigned, will receive prompt attention. A Idimfoer Yard Has been established on the premises of the above-named gentleman in tile town of Camden, where parties from the town or surrounding country can be supplied at Camden prices by eulhng on him. Nt R. .WARN, i "The Carolina Railroad King." The ability energy and enterprise which has secured the above title to Col. William, Johnston, of Charlotte, N. C., is too well known to require demonstration, but an exchange has so cleverly grouped some of his achievements in the subjoined extract, that we are gratified it being able to lay it before our readers as a proof of the distinguished merits of a worthy fellow citizen and neighbor. Well would it be for us, if his genius presided over the enterprise now on foot, of connecting Charlott with Charleston, via Camden and the central Railroad. Since the war he has built and rebuilt near- ' ly two hundred miles of railroads in North j und South Caroling -without any State aid . from either, among a poor, destitute people: J much of country along the line having been laid in utter ruin by Sherman's army, andal- \ most in a state of revolution; without confi- 1 lence, pecuniary means, or credit. To * rebuild about 50 miles of the C. & So. Ca. f R. R., its shops and bridges, with all its war 1 lebts hanging upon him, we learn that Col. ( Johnston only had about 73 bales of cotton, When the war closed, about Si 5,000 worth of 1 grading only was done on the Columbia & 1 Augusta R. R.?the Company saving out of 6 .he wrieck about 1000 bales of cotton In 8 :hefaulof '06, the stockholders requested 1 lim t go on and build the Road. In 1870 c ;he Road was finished, and is 85 miles long. r L'he Congaree and Savannah bridges alone * jost over 6200,000 in the aggregate?more 0 ban the proceeds of the sale of the cotton * ind all other means of the Company in hand r prhcn he began the work! while the Road a lost over two millions of dollars ! 3 During the entire construction of this Road, amid the other almost insuperable F lifficulties he had to contend with, the South & Carolina R. R.?the most powerful corpora- & :ion in the State?fought him with her v heaviest artillery, bringing suit after suit P igainst his enterprise in almost every form cuown to the law. in an tnw ne succecaea ~ jcyond his most sanguine expectation, wheth- a, ;r as President or attorney for his Road. " How he ever realized the funds.or sustained ^ .lis credit to get through, has been a mystery jo the best railroad men and financiers of the 0 lonntry. 0 In June last, he finished rebuilding 47 s1 niles more of Road from Charlott to States- f1 fillcs. and built it in five and a half months! ? \ public journal has remarked that Col. J. a has done moro for the improvement and r( levolnpment of North Carolina than any nan living." IIow much more has he done, 81 lowevcr, for South Carolnia? having built n )VOr. 1'U) miles n(' rood wIUua bcr-fruita* 111"r? :ruth. the opinion is that he has doue for ? tier material prosperity more than any citizen ' if that Slate. Without any aid from either ^ jlate. he had, in 1870, constructed more P J fhiin nil nthp.r railroad offi- ? kji /n-u # i/um ?? ?... ? ;crs in both States, while they had millions bonds used in their aid. No man south of he Potomac, since the war, has been able j to accomplish such results with double the means. It is said that when he first built tho ; L'harlott & Statesville road, before the war,; he began it with only SS2,000 If toaccoiu- i plish much, with *muU means, and under tlie I ^ most unfavorable conditions of the country, | is evidence of ability, then he has shown it in the highest degree. Giant Trees.?Botanists were astound- i< ed when Calaveras county and Mariposa Val- 0 by wore cxp'ored, at the amazing altitude of \ gigantiq trees; and then, again to attain such t amazing dimensions as some of them have, \ about thirty feet in diametre by an altitude \ of four hundred feet, scennd like a spasmed- f ic, rather than a progressive development.? c One forty feet and four inches in diametre [ has since been found near Visalia county, \ Southern California. Since thoso discover- e ies. a tree of the Myrtle family, has been ex- a aminCd, in Australia, which far surpasses t the California trees, being even taller than 1 any of them. When the concentric circles t declare a growth of between three and four a thousand years, it shows that tho present 1 condition of the earth has not been essential- c ly disturbed since they have been growing 1 where they still are. Perhaps some of them ( were thrifty saplings when Adam and Eve J were roaming in the Garden of Eden. Certainly, if there is any reliance, to be placed i Jn Enf-mipnl laws ns rvnlained bv scientific t " ~ r V teachers, those California trees antedate the days of Moses and most of the great empires chronicled in history. A Sad Falling Out.?It is indeed a sad falling out when, after years of the closest intimacy, the hair parts company with the j head. Fortunately the lamentable separation may be easily prevented and the twain more j closeiy united than ever by a timely and systematic use of Lyon's Katiiairon, the most potent invigornnt of the hair and promotor of its growth and beauty known to modern pharmacy. It completely obviates the dry and parched condition of the roots of the f hair, which is preliminary to its coming out, j< by supply the precise degree of moisture i ] requisite to its preservation in a healthy s state. It is the only true dissolvent and ( cvaporant of dandruff and other impurities . of the scalp, whose presence is injurious to : { th?? hnir As a beautifier of the head the | Katlioiron has no eq-a). It not only in- I creases the quantity ofthchair.but improves | its quality immediately, imparting a lustrous j appearance and silky texture which are exceedingly attractive. Suicide Committed.?As the result of an inactive state of liver and stomach, pro-, ducing headache, obtuse intellect, dullness,' dcspondepcy. dementia, and finally insanity, is no uncommon occurence. All these disagreeable symtoms and bad feelings are most certainly dispelled by the use of Pr. Pierce's Hidden Medical Discovery. It revitalizes and builds up the whole system, A little b'fik op Chronic Diseases sent free. Address li V Pierce, M P., Buffalo, N. Y. Gi iden "Medical Disc very sold by all druggists, ! j Mistake in the Use of Fertilizers. Th^eause of failure in the use of concenratcd fertilizers is often due to the manner n whiph they are applied. It is difficult ?or thoie who have been accustomed to use sulky manures to realize that the full fertiizing potency of a bushel of animal excrenent may be held in a large tablespoon, and hat a handful of the one adds to plant struc,ures as decidedly as several shovels full of ,he otfcer. A full doce of opium given to jatiente furnishes quite a dark, buly powder, )r pill r but if we separate the alkaloidal jrinciple upon which its hypnotic powder iepenaap, we.nave only a little white powder vhich 4 breath of wind may blow away. Fhe one-eight grain powder will effect the lamam organism as powerfully as ten times ;he weight of opium. If we are so forget:al of 'jtifeencies" as to administer as much >f the concentrated powder as of the )ulky'eMr one, we destroy our patient's if?, otjjht least do great injury to his health. 3o, in the use of genuine Superphosphate, or jruanoyor Ground Bones and Ashes, wo forget thmr power, and apply too much, or ap- | ilyingihcm directly, we endanger the life of )ur plants. . An experiment made upon com furnishes in illustrative case in point. At the time of ilantiog upon a field divided by a narrow strip of sward land we directed that on one lide a iablespoonful of the mixed Bone and ( \shes should be placed in each hill, and well , sovered with the soil; upon the other, four ows were to be treated similarly, and upon ; ho romainder, the hills should receive a ( loubltf-quantity. It was curious to observe | he effect. The first field and four rows were j emarkably thrifty. The corn' came up well ] nd manifested remarkable vigor from the , tart. j On the other hand the over dosed corn ap- j ?ared"4br a long while as if paralyzed by < onie wasting disease. It could not bear up o much of a good thing. More fire ammonia j ras formed at the start than could be approbated by the tender plants, and many of j hem perished from over-stimulation and eat produced by the fermentative changes nd the active bodits in contract. The corn hat survived grew finally and afforded a large ( eld. Now, if this had happened in the course f ourfegular Agricultural labors, and with- , ut anV understanding of the fertilizing sub- , tanca^used, it is probable it would have been ondomhed as a worthless article, This has j ccn tho case with hundreds of experiments, , nd, irtdced, it has a natural conclusion to uach.;. But we must learn to reason, learn . ) ha<^ patience, learn the character of the ^ nbstcOce we employ upon our lanas. ue instate careful how we reach a conclusion; ' ID Innaly tn aao if it ia -hacfid.-J B~ Correct grounds. There are well estabshed principles iu Agriculture, let us cling o thcm,;and when we get results that are uzzlin? -or paradoxical, we must study _ auscs, and not judge hastily.?Exchange. A Colloqny in Rome. A strange thing has recently happened in tome. A discussion of a most delicate ncstion'has taken place by the permission f the Pope and under his auspices, between jarned catholics and protestants. Some ery active mem^ersofthe protestant church. iave for twelve months been assailing many f the doctrines of the catholic church, and specially that which relates to the Primacy f St. Peter. They asserted that as a historcal fact, St. Peter nover put foot in Rome. Chesp statements were repeated to the Pope, rho, in conversation, undertook their refhtaion. But his own friends were not content vith that limited refutation, and they pre'ailed on the Holy Father to authorize a. tublic discussion of the subject by champi ?ns, chosen by the resjiective churches. The ircliminarics being arranged, a meeting vas held at the Academy of the Tiber, prelidcd over by two catholics and two protestmts. Throe orators on each side addressed he audience, composed of about 300 cathoics and 200 protcstants. The greatest couresy was displayed by the different speakers, ind when the contest was over, they shook lands in testimony of their respect for each>ther. The traditional doctrine i? that St. Peter came to Rome in the year 42, under Claudius, and was martyred in GO, under tfero. The protcstants asserted that this could lot be true; that according to the Acts of ho Apostles, St. Peter was at Jerusaloui, at \ntioch and at Ccsarca at the very tirno he s claimed to have been in Rome. There is 10 authentio account of St. Peter having ieen at Rome. The Epistle to the Hebrews :ven if authentic was writtonTrom Babylon. Papias, the first reporter of the false tradi;ion of St. Peter's sojourn at Rome, was a vritcr unworthy of credit. The catholics reilied, relying mainly on certain German reiearchcs, not yet iu general circulation. The impression left by the discussion was hat though St. Peter's residence at R01116 ,vas not as loner as tradition asserts, there is lothing improbable in it, and there are reasons to believe that it was a reality. The speeches were stenographed and will be pubished. This is a great advance?the corner stone of papacy discussed under the shadow )f the Vatican ! The llouian population of ill orders profess to be delighted at this first :ssay of free and corutcous discussion. Woman's Fortitude.?I have often had >cc. sion to-notice the fortitude with which vomeu sustain tbo most overwhelming re'erees of fortune. Those disasters which jreak down the spirit of a in .n and prostrate lim in the dust, seem to call forth all the enirgies of the softer sex, and give such introjidit-y and elevation to their character, that ' h' v.it! it times it approuones to suuiiuwy. nuuimian bo more touching than to behold a soft mil tender female., who had been all weakless and dependence, and alive to every trival roughness, while treading the prosperous laths of life, suddenly rising in mental force o be the comforter and supporter of her msband under misfortune, and abiding with inshriukiug firmness, the bitterest blasts of idversity. Croflut, the Table-Talker of the Chicago Post, advocates a new departure in advertising. It has always seemed that it would pay to start a Magazine of the size and character of the Atlantic or Galaxy, to be devoted to advertising. For it such contributors as Bert Hart, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Helen Hunt, Henry Ward Beecher. .Tames Russcl Lowcl, Howel, Field, and Parton, should be engaged and liberally salaried. In all the stories, reviews, essays, and poems,, advertisements should bo inserted at snch a bight of rates as the nature of the enterprise and the character of the publicity given demanded, The Table-Talker will not further elaborate this idea, but will conclude with a tew specimens from the advance sheets of the April number. From "Beseiged by the Paynim: A tale of Granada."?Bayard Taylor. * With a sad heart the whitehaired Conde, leaning heavily on the arm of his daughter, ascended to the top of the barbican. A solitary sentinel, in harbergeon and corslet, armed with mnsqnetoon and sword, paced his rounds. The moon, hidden by a bank of decp-bluo clouds, showed occasional glimpses of her wan faco. The country, far as the eye could roach, twinkled with the camp-fires of tbebeseigers, the#neying of whose chargers, and the disinul braying of whoso gongs could plainly be heard. Suddenly a whizz was heard, as of an arrow, and the sentinel fell dead, a shaft which had pierced his brain quivering in his heart.? 'By St. Jargo, we are observed," said the Conde to Marftana, as he drew the timid girl behind a battlement. "Ha!" he added, "by 3t. Mnngo of the Abenccrage, what bave we bere ?" By the pale moon light Miratana aw a letter fastened to the arrow. She detached it. it was sprinkled with the heartsblood of the sentinel, stout Ruy Guzman.? She opened it and read these words: Messrs Bliffkins & Junk, 183 South Park Street bave received a large consignment of dressjoods, etc., etc. From "The Beauty of Galoot Gulch."?Bret Harte. * * * "Wall, pardner, I rake them ire persimmons; dog gone my gizzard if I lont." So saying, the gamblers threw down their cards. Jay Bird had four aces. He iniiled a quiet kind of smile, and drew the < lour barrel full of gold dust down towards j lim. With a mnlovolent smile, Chawed .Sose slowly spread out his cards. He had ive eight of clubs! "Ax your parding," be said with a fiendish chuckle, "but how is this yer for high ?" Without a word, Jay Bird drew his derringer. A sharp report was followed by a duli fall. The ball had passed through Chawed Nose's brain, and, passing off, knocked the glass of dog's-nose which Judge Buzzard was drinking, into a thousand fragments. He uttered a terrible oath. But Jav Bird did not heed him. He was kneeling with compressed lips beside tlichi mil wind mfliini _ ''^TKLaway. Scootv," he said, hoarsely, "and you Skiddy Biiiirat, " dust out of that, let the girl come." The men stood aside as the bequty of Galoot Gulch advanced to the side of the father whom her lover had slain. "Dead as pork, T" reckon," she said, "and you've smashed one of our best tumblers, mister; blast your eternal pictur' if you haint." The rude men had stood with averted countenances and wet eyes during the beauty's grief. But Hogs Eye now advanced and seized one of the five eights of clubs. "See here," he exclaimed. A dozen bowics were drawn, but fell from the nerveless hands of their owners. There on the card these men read the solemn confession: "Buggin's Cathartic Pills Never fail." Gen. Sherman as a Lawyer.?The Lawrence (Kan.) Tribune is credited with the following:? The "early judiciary" of Kansas transacted business on equality principles. A good many of the justices were* like necessity'? they knew no law?but they generally did :?. - -U....* .. o u-oll iiu /v.ir cruris JUSl'LL'U UUUUI/ no nun A ca.se was tried in 1857, in which Gen. Sherman, who then resided on a farm in what was then Calhoun county ,^was employed as an attorney. The General came in with an immense pile of law books, and his precedents well selected. He expected to try the case before 'Squire Gibbs as a good lawyer should, and had taken the case more for the purpose of aiding a neighbor in what he had been made to believe was a good case, and to relieve him from in justice, than for any fee. The jolly old justice came into court and announced the case for heariug. The General said the plaintiff was ready. A long, lank, lean-looking genius who stopped a string of cattle and a log-wagon in the street, and stuck his wip, with a twelve-foot lash, behind the door, appeared for the defense. Gen. Sherman delivered his arguments and presented the law in the case in an able manner, as a good lawyer would. lie read from the common law ofP'ngland, and cited eases in the report of several of the Amerim? - 'i -i?i? w can Mates. i ne una VYIIilCIVUl luuunvu . and ridiculed his precedents and scouted at the books. He said it was an insult to the Court to road from ''the common law of England," and declared that "if we were are compelled to take any of that aiistocratic British law," he wanted "the very best Her Majesty had, and none of her common law." I That was enough; the Justice's face was set, and the General lo,st bis case. It was the last he ever tried in Kansas It is said that two men are heavily ironed and chained to the floor in a house at Arnold Station Mo., waiting to be seized with madness. They have been bitten by a dog supposed to have been rabid, nnd their con-1 siderate friends have put them in bondage before any .symptoms of hydrophobia have appeared, through fear that they may do them some personal injury when tho paroxysm couies. If they do not become mad, it will not be through the fault of any of their friends, who are evidently doing all they can to reduce them to that condition. ADVERTISING- BATES. Spaci. 1M. 2 M. 8M. 6 M. 1 Y. 1 square 3 00 6 00 8 00 12 00 3 0 00 7 2 squares 1 6 00 9 00 12 00 18 00 26 00 8 squares 9 00 18 00 16 00 24 00 85 00 " 4 squares 12 CO 16 00200080004800 ? column ' 15 00 19 00 24 00 84 00 60 00 * column 20 00 30 00 40 00 66 00 80 00 Lcolumn 80 00 50 00 60 00 90 OOjlSO 00 All-Transient Advertisements will be charged Oke Dollar per 8quare for the first and Siva* tt-fivb Cests per. Square for each subsequent insertion. ,\ ' The Kind's Mistake-* A number of politicans, all of whom were Bcekiug office under the government, were seated under a tavern porch, when an old toper named Joel D., a person who was very > loquaoioua when corned, bat exactly the op* > poeite when sober, said that he woula tell them , a story. They told him to fire away, whereupon he spoke as follows: "A certain king ?I don't recollect his name?had a philos- . opher upon whose judgement he always de- , pended. Now it happened one. day that the king took' it into his nead to' go hunting, and summoned his nobles, and miking the necea* sary preparations he summoned the phi!oa> opher and asked him if it would rain. ' The i philosopher told him it would not, and they started) While journeying along, they met a countryman mounted on a jackass. . "He advised them to.return, Tor/ said he, 'it will certainly rain/ They smiled contemptuously upon hiin, and passed oh. Be- . fore they had gone many miles, however, they ' had reason to regret not having taken the rustic's advise, as a shower coming np drenched them to the skin. When they had ru- ' turned to the place, the king reprimanded the philosopher severely. ; '* 'I met a countryman,' saitj he, 'and he knowB a great deal more than yon. He told me it would rain, whereas you to.d me it would not.' The king then gate him his walking papers and sent for the countryman, TL'Virk coon Viia ennAortinPA IT UV DWU U. uuy UIW " 'Tell me/ said the king/ how you knew, it would rain.' 'I didn't know/ said the rustic; 'myjackass told me so.' 'And how, pray, did he tell you ?' asked the king. 'By pricking up his ears, your Majesty/ said the rustic. "The king sent the rustio away, and procuring the jackass of him, he placed him? " the jackass?in the office the philosopher fill, ed. i . /a "And here." observed Joel, looking very , wise, "is where the king made a great mistake." . "How so V' inquired the auditors. " Why ever since that time," said Joel, with a grin on his phis, "every jackass wants office." A Temperance Anecdote.?Speaking of temperance reformers, some one tells a good story at the expense of one of the moet ardent of them, a person whose whole heart was in the work to such an extent that he hadn't time to mend his fences or take care o% o k J A ' oi a is i arm, j\ aistingoiaueu umiporauw lecturer was to address the citixena in the ' u town where the reformer lived, apd the latter took it upon himself to meet him at the depot, and take him home with him to entertain him. The lecturer was talkative and full of "the cause." "That, now," said he, as they drove by a handsone farm-house, "any body can see at once, that a temperate man lives there. Everything indicates it; there's thrift and industry and contentment, am*no-<l?ttbt a happy home there. Isn't it so V "Yes," was the reply, "Squire is a ;; temperate man, and has a very pleasanthomc and family." "I was certain of it," said the lecturer.? "Bill here is a place," he continued, as they came to an old house with dilapidated fences, and a neglected appearance, "that you'd pick out anywhere, as the house of a drunkard. See the old hats in the windows, tho broken-down fence, and the neglected appearance that everythijp has?you can't make any mistake about such a place?it sticks out all over it, that it's the house of a sot," He was about to appeal to bis host for the truth of his surmises, when that gentleman nulled rein, and turning the team up to the neglected fence, and remarked wit? something like a sigh, "I live here." And what could the lecturer say ? He might have said, VWell all signs fail in dry weather," but he didn't. A Cullud Revelation.?A few weeks ago, a colored man and brother, preached in a court house in Ohio. The house was filled to overflowing. The preacher seemed much elated at his large audienoe, and delivered his sermon with much aeol. The following is an extract: "My dear sistern and brethren, I see a great multiplication ob do people present dis ebenin; I casta mine eyes around you, and my soul is filled wid sorrow; for I see you all astandiua deep circulation pit, and surroundin your dewoted bodies I sees a great circumfcratin fiah! and tho illuminatin and serpinatin flames is reelin aroun your delectable frames like a big black snake circumnavigatin a big red oak tree. Yes, my sistern and brethren, dose pelluced flames is risiu higher and higher, and now I can see pinacle shafts of de highest red-forked flames spitefully lappin off the lower culls.? I look, and still dey don't stop, and my soul almost siuks widin' me, for now dey are aroun' your reported heads, and I smell the harr scauch!" Strange Effects of Vinegar.?In Washington, a few days since, the landlady of a certain boarding-house in that city sent out for a gallon of vinegar. The servant brought hack the jug, and the cruets were filled with the supposed vinegar. At dinner, the landlady preceived that her guests were using the vinegar (?) pretty freely, and she was compelled to have the cruets filled several times. The vinegar (?) had a very strange effect. The ladies began to chatter like magpies, and some of the younger ones began to tell of love scenes. The ladies looked decidedly"spirituello, though their tongues r-ittlfd as fast as sewing maohines. The gentlemen grew spirited, and talked with vehemence and volubility. Several members of the legislature were present. One, imagining himself in the representative hall, east his eye on the youthful wearer of a blond chignon, and addressed her as "Mr. Speaker! I call the previous question." Upon an examination of the jug, the so-called vinegar proved to bo corn whiskey. A poor placo for a hungry pig?th<9 trough of the sea.