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"Vol. I, ORANGER?R?, S. 0., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1879. 2STo. 37. ?SHERIDAN SIMS} i'r?bHetor?. S?ltsouiimoft. One Year.:tt:..a;;.t:u:::.si.oO Six Months,.:;..^.1.00 ministers of the Uospcl.1.00 AOVKIttlSlCMKNTS. 'First Instertion.$1.00 fEach SubsedjU'ut Insertion.&n Liberal contracts made for :i month ? and over. I job oarariCK la/f'Hfcf'AlUOh ,*0.1>0 /lif, KINDS ?V Jol> ^Printing The Editors' Convention. (Editor, Orangeburg Democrat: .[Respectfully dedicated to 1*.^ whose soul is in sympathy with thli martyrs Who have to plod through wearying Columns of we(a)ekly cohtribtilions, consisting principally of "stale picnic literature.''] In the latter part of the twehtieth century; there once Jived a great rthd learWu eosmologist, who was indeed the marvel of Ins age. Ills generous heart was. often wfung with woe while pondering on the ignorance of his fellow-creatures, lie thought their narrow world too small by far, and longed to burst upon their darkened mental vision like some brilliant comet, which traversing t.ho universe, startles worlds with its lurid blaze ; and by the intellectual light emana ting from his own mind, by the radi ant scintillations of his glowing gen ius, forever dispel the gloom that hovered there, and illume their minds with the broad light of reason. How best to accomplish this, he pondered long while sitting in his laboratory, for, in the pursuit of ^knowledge, he had not adhered to a ^-jtolitary beaten track, and was not oVb' deep in the lore of past ages, but k\ow the secrets of physical laws and phenomena, besides being conversant with nil polite literature. Twilight shades were falling fast as lie still sat buried in thought. "O, pitiful, benighted creatures!" he lamented, "how can I rend the heavy veil be tween us? Shall I appeal to you? shall I wear out' my life endeavoring to walk in your paths, trying to reach you by the orator's eloquence? Im possible ; all could or would not hear, vain, vain I sigh for the victor's meed. My soul recoils, suffers, do apnirs at thought of your blindness? yet what can I do?" He bowed his noble form in speech less sorrow, keenly feeling the con sciousness of powers to do, and noth ing to be done, yearning to overleap the blank wall that stared him in the face. Suddenly there came, quick as the lightning llash over the electric wire; thorhpid transit ol sound along the telephone, or the swift incision by the phonographic hand, an idea which caused him to spring up with face .aglow.. - ??I wiR write 1" he exclaimed, "I will educate?I will reach the masses .?I will edit a newspaper which shall be in reach of all." The longer he pondered, the more desirable and feasible seemed the scheme, yet it perplexed him to think how could he perform the work of a journalist and continue the pleasing labors he was unwilling to sacrifice. "In order to instruct others, I must study myself, and while I expect to contribute a great deal to this benefi cent undertaking, those who will be the recipients of my favors, must be co-workers in the field*" Accordingly, the pre'iminarics hav ing /been thoughtfully arranged, as fnost ?ftcct,m- way ?( bringing BU* * an important subject under the ^jtt?ideratiun of the public, he called ^^r^knvenlion. At that advanced pe riod of the world's history, the cause of education and enlightenment did not languish as it had done in times morn remote, and now proved sul!: ciont to attract a large number pos sessed of but ordinary intellect as well as the literati of the land, who crowd ed the large temple of learning in their attendance upon the Editor's Convention, as it was termed in the "Hourly News," published by Messrs. II. K. Arsay & Co., in the city where he resided, With anxious hearts, the assembled multitude rested their eager gaze upon the high stage where towered the majestic brow of the learned auto crat, who now arose and in n deep toned voice, unfolded in an eloquent oration, his grand scheme, and solic ited, nay demanded their co-opera tion. He announced that "The Great Constellation" would soon illumine the literary world with its effulgence, and that they now enjoyed the un precedented privilege of offering con tributions to this mighty work, and requested each to state in turn the na ture of his offering. A solemn hush prevailed over the vast concourse. Each felt tho impor tance of the hour. To each trembling heart, the spiiit of Fame seemed lin gering at the vestibule of the glorious future, and Ambition sighed for a singlo breath of the ethereal utmos phere she breathed. Each looked timorously around as a pale young man arose. Ills dark eyes binned With hidden lite, :ls in l?wfc eloquent tones lie lirgod the elAimO of the Muse of Poetry; He spoke ot tile Uulo which slio east around the itttittoriul geniuses that make the past illustri ous, null the radiant glory she would throw dlldwn the vislit or fcollltilg years) and compared her place in tlte "Great Constellation" to the steady glow of the fixed star which ever shines with a pure and unwavering light, which needs not the reflected glow of distant suns to enhanco its beauty and brilliancy. His period was cut short hv ono of stern, dark mien, whose severe glance emitted a baleful spark as he ridiculed the youthful speaker. "Poetry, forsoolh-J what need has the public tor that? How does it ed ucate? Improver What truths ofi nature does it reveal? It clearly enunciates the wonders of science, 1 suppose? Our poet would imitate the ancient philosophers Who contrib uted Iheir quota in erecting a wall of ignorance and superstition, by build ing up a crystalline structure which dazzled and misled the diligent searcher alter truth. Each self-taught sage thought he could discern the er rors of his predecessors, and establish his own speculations ; consequently, tiiuc-hunoi cd theories arose, which mystified by the obscurity of their oiigin, the incertitude of their found ation, and the intricacy winch invest ed them wi'h an appearance of astute ness. The enthusiastic founder then fastidiously delineated his system in the classic cilics of antiquity to throngs of eager students by whom h?s wandering vagaries were industri ously propagated. Thus thc(Uidosyn crastcs of individuals became merged in a sect distinct from all others and strict in its tenets. The Stoic, the opi curenn, the Platonic, the Pythagorean sects of philosophers?what were they but the reflection and illustration of the characters of their several found ers? It required years of profound study by wise men to refute their er roneous doctrines. But thrpngh/.thc untiring exertions of gontus, they were finally corrected and assigned to the shades of obscurity whence they only emerge as examples to en force the truth contained in the coup let, 'Errors like straws on the surface How, He who would scared lor pearls must dive below.' In modern times, along with the tidal waves of knowledge, far-fetched errors are borne on the current of popular belief, and attain such a wide-spread circulation as to meet with universal reception. The aver age mind is so devoid of penetration as to catch the lloating opinion of the world, ami receding from any intense, individual exertion, merely receives the opinions of others, and by reconciling them to its peculiarities of constitution, imagines them to be its own original conceptions. To up root these false opinions, ascertain the true, and implant them in the clouded brain, is the tn.sk which I purpose entering upon through the columns of your paper. Science be ing thus divested of the dark veil which obscures her brightness, her endless array of wonders viewed through the necromantic glass held up in the vacillating rays of this twentieth century, will dazzle the en lightened world will? their gorgeous panorama." Overawed by this glimpse ?as through a glass darkly, into unknown realms of thought, another portentous silence reigned over the audioi.ce. With a sneer on his handsome face and an ironical smile curving his cyn ical lips, another speaker arose, and with mock gravity, and an admirable imitation of the former's bombastic tone, addressed the philanthropist on the rostrum : "Pompous phraseology and a well dissimulated assumption of genius, mingled with prcsumtive transcend entalisms, very frequently are misin terpreted. Political fantasies and a psuedo philosophy the characteristics of which arc eminently recrcnientions, often infiingc upon the stem realities of life, surreptitiously thrusting them aside, and substituting in their stead Utopian fallacies and trausmulablc speculations which at a cursory view, seem to be irrcprchensible, being founded on apparently creditable hy potheses. A senseless logomachy is then made subservient for reconciling these contradictory ideas and render ing the phantasmagoria impermeable as a consequence, false ideas of life, und nrtllleinl conceptions of duty mi ? lead tht! uninitiated. Bomctithcsi how ever, and I devoutly hope such will bo the ease ih the prescht instance, tins pci iphrnsls defeats its own ob ject ^ nnd the sciolism is repudiated by those wise enough to understand the nomenclature of these superficial productions, which never attain with them even a meritorious mediocrity, but are as the sparkling of a shallow stream reflecting superior effulgence/' His vein of sarcasm was arrested by a manifestation of restlessness, in the audience, so that he made way for a timid individual, evidently much embarrassed, and in dread of erith cism, who, in a few brief sentences, | presented charms of fancy to th? reader, and alluded to the soothing j ell'ects of light literature upon the mind when wearied with severer la bors, concluding his remarks by mod estly reading the opening chapter of a romance he proposed contributing. A large imposing man witli a busi nesslike air next arose ; with a wave of Ins hand which embraced the mod ern philosopher, his critic, and the would-be novelist, he began in sharp, incisive tor.es: "I could scarce restrain my impa tience while they were speaking. How insipid the stalo topics agitated thousands of years ago ! We crave something exciting, bearing on mod em events, neither philosophy, nor yet a love-lorn ditiy. Behold in me the chairman of a committee on pres idential affairs. We want to know something about the times and the living men who are ruling our desti nies. Who and what they are, is a question of more importance. Shall jour government be in the hands of I thieves and robbers ? Shall we send men of sense to Congress, or misera ble pettifoggers? Can we tamely sub mit to plundei ? ??" "Oh, leave it to Hie politician on the stage to thunder!" interrupted a bright-eyed, joyous looking young man. "Let those who arc obliged to do so, think and talk about such things. A:tt'uco to your-ofliohda'nnd politicnns. This paper is for our ben efit, and we do not want a national mill to grind out bills and vetoes, ap propriations and elections* Give us something entertaining to refresh us when we have leisure to read. I offer myself as a reportor of all the festi vals, grand occasions, balls, local'ob jects of interest, incidents that trans pire in our midst, including personal items. Let us know what is going on in the social world." "His remarks sufficiently reveal the calibre of his mind," said a'brisk J looking individual, with a wide-awake air, and a conscious smile on his fea tures, who now stepped forward with agility. "Pleasure and festivals?he would like to attend them every day and write them up afterwards for those who did not participate. He would please a portion of the readers at the expense of the others, and fail to meet the public taste. Mr. Editor, I we want the news in general, we wish to know what the world is doing, how we are progressing. History furnish es us with an account of past ages, oral communications will make us sufficiently familiar with topics of local interest merely, and upon these subjects it is useless to waste printers ink. Sir, in the interest of U'J he Great Constellation," I will penetrate the ice-bound regions of the North, ex plore the tropical world, compass land and sea to secure the latest informa tion for its benefit. The names of the most illustrious actors on the world's great stage shall grace its columns? Cavagnari, Biddulph, Larmsdcn,Bing hninton, Bostelick, Burkellon?you shall see them make their bow and say farewell. The latest telegraphic dispatches from Australia and Cen tral Africa shall promptly appear, to gethcr with minute details in regard to tho revolution in Siberia. No part of the globe shall escape my observa tion of ils people, their manners and customs, political and social gossip, while the most experienced aeronauts shall keep me posted on their atmos pheric! exploration? Tn fact, Mr. Editor, I will endeavor to secure a world-wido popularity for this new periodical, by becoming its world wide reporter." His auditors woro a somewhat puz zled expression, but nevertheless, seemed to appreciate the importance of the self-styled "world-wide repor ter," who seemingly entertnined such a comfortable opinion of his own ca pabilities. Though the editor awaited further oilers, no candidate lor literary hon 01 s presented himself. Seeing that the discussion was ended", the foi iner arose, and closed the convention with the following remarks: "i have, been very much gratified to see such a ready response to the call 1 have made upon this conven tion, but at the snmo time I aui ex tremely bewildered. My intentions were to furnish the means of instruc ting and pleasing everybody, but to day I have learned that that is im possible. The poet, the philosopher, the cynic", the novelist j politician, ploasitre-seoker, the cosmopolite bow can their opposing tastes be rec onciled? How onii satisfaction lie guaranteed to all these different minds in the compass of n single newspaper? I despair of a compro mise, and will consider the subject carefully for some time longer ere I take any further decisive steps toward the publication of "The Constella tion." And the bewildered philanthropist while endeavoring toenlighlen others, received a lesson himself, and discov ered for the first lime that unless you consent to do it in their own elected way, some people, absolutely refuse to be enlightened. MiuNON Etta. Not Generally Known. It has long been the boast of Bri tons that the sun never sets oh the British empire. It may he news to many of our readers that the same boast applies with equal force to the United States. When, the sun is giv ing its good night kiss to our wester most isle, on the confines of Beb ring's Sen. it is. already flooding the Holds and forest of Maine with its morning light, and in the eastern part of that Stale is more than an i hour high. At the, very moment when the Aleutian Qshcrman, warned by the approaching shades of night, is pulling his canoe toward the shore, the wood-chopper of Maine is begin ning to make the forest echo with the milsic of his axe. _From the fnrr tbest eastern point oToiu1 counti'3', at Eastport, Me., to the farthest of the Aleutian Islands?acquired by our purchase of Alaska?the (distance is one hundred and ninety-seven de grees of longitude, or seven degrees of longitude, or seventeen degrees more than half way mound the globe. Freedman's Saving Bank. The experts'employed in examin ing the books and accounts of the Freedman's Bank arc massing some evidence of the irregular manner in which the business was transacted and the deposits accounted for. They have discovered leaves cut from the original ledgers, leaves without numbers pasted together and bal ances not brought forward. Omis sions occur to every book found. In deposit ledger "A" balanced foot up, with amount duo depositors, aggre gating $10,000. Whether these have been transferred or finally settled it is impossible to tell, there being no indexes to the ledger, these being loin out and destroyed. Unfortunate ly the statute of limitation will pre vent a prosecution of the persons re sponsible for this mismanagement of the affairs of the bank, but the depos itors urge that it will be some satis faction to know who the rascals are. How, Now ? The mild form of bulldozing which prevails in the New England States is as dangerous to the freedom of the ballot and to Republican institutions as the more violent form which is charged upon the South. The Wal? lace Congressional Committee, at i present engaged in taking testimony I in Massachusetts, has had many wit nesses before them who testified that they were discharged because they refused to vote in accordance with the wishes of their employers. It ie apparent to every thinking man that unless men are allowed to vote as they wish the day is not far distant when a Republican government in this country will be declared a failure. TilE exodus in Texas is assuming a queer phase. Near Galveston the negroes, having become dissatisfied witli their condition, had determined to emigrate. The white people ap proved the decision of the colored brethren, mid formed a committee on emigration to raiso mono} to send the negroes North, and soon steps will be taken to bring in white men to rcplncc the blacks, Suddon Dentli. Miss Mario E. Whaloy, the chiest daughter of Miij) T. B. Whaloy, a prominent lawyer of Orangeburg, died Very suddenly lust Wednesday afternoon, at the residence of Mrs. Ii. Alison's. Miss Whaley carne to Aiken early In the stunnier for the benefit of her health, and her friends supposed she was improving, but in this they were mistaken. While walking out in the garden she was taken with a violent lieminorrhags and in.less than fifteen minutes the spirit of tliis lovely young lady hud tnken its.flight to the land beyond the skies. .lust in the full Hush of happy wo manhood, her denth is clothed with something more than common sorrow. Words cannot express the losn mis taincd by her grief-stricken father and brot hers, whose chief consolation will be a hallowed remembrance of her pure womnuly character while on earth ami a happy re-union beyond the grave. "The good die firsts I lit they whose hearts are ilry as summmer's dust, burn to the socket.*'?Aiken Journal Ji' view. j For the Girls. This item, which we take from an exchange, is for the girls: "The blooming and beautiful young lady, rose-cheeked, and brighl-cycd, who can darn a stocking, mend her own ! dresses, command a regiment of pots land kettles, feed the pigs, milk the cows, and be a lady nil at the same lime, is the gill that sensible 301111g inen nie in quest of for. a wife. But you pining, wasp-wnisted, doll-dress ed, consumption-mortgaged, music murdering, novel-devouring daught ers of fashion and idleness, you are no more fit for matrimony than a pub let to look after a brood of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my dear girls, you waijt less of restraint and ?more liberty of action ; more kitchen landless parlor; moro exercise and less sofa; more pudding and less piano ; more frankness and lass inoolv modesty. Loose your corsets and breachc the puro atmosphere* and be come something good and beauti ful as nature designed." A Fatal Frolic. Three young Tad ics who were pas sengers on the steamer Danube dur ing a recent trip to Sbrcycpoit, La., landed nt Minden while the boat was wooding. In a spirit of gaycty they got into an ox cart Jor a ride. The oxen ran off, upsetting the wagon. Misses Carrie Brewer und Mattic Joyce were maimed for life. Miss I Van Bokern, the other lady, was the only one who escaped apparently un injured, but the shock to her nerves was so great that she was taken ill, and her illness terminated in death. She was an orphan, her mother dy ing but recently. Leaving home, and in a few weeks dying among comparative strangers willi not one of her few relatives near to receive the last farewell on earth, is peculiar ly sad, even heart-rending. Indians. An illustration of the facility with which the Indians are defrauded and the Government is made responsible for their loses, is found in the case of some of the l'otlnwatamies, lately in Washington. Under the pretence that certain members of the tribe, wlto were fugitives in Mexico, were j dead, speculators represented them selves as their administrators, and secured their lands and shares of trust funds, amounting to $13,1)00 al together. A small moiety of this was recovered, but the Government must make good the remainder, the veritable and living Indians having returned to claim it. Another spec ulator takes several of the claimants in charge, and, appearing in Wash ington, makes application for their dividends. Divine service in the English par ish church of Cljattcris was strangely interrupted a fortnight ago, A boy who was snaring birds in a garden incar by saw a cat. run up a tree with i a young rabbit in his mouth. Hav ing a loaded gun, the lad on the im pulse of the moment fired nt the cat, in a straight direction for the chancel of the .church, lie missed his aim, but not the church window, for up ward of tw.cn 13' shot penetrated as many panes of glass and alarmed the worshippers. Foi Innately, no one was sitting in the chancel. The vicar stopped the service, sent for the police, and scolded Die offender* EDUCATIONAL COLUMN. AH Cftinmillldattorts ItCtelMfod for (Mh column phouUI lio iwltlrcRBtfil to .T. 15. <rs. llu|lowny, Kmj., wini Iijik kit 1II3' ('.undented' w edit it. Mit. Editor.?I sec the following item in a late issue : "That knife is worth a dollar. How is 'worth' parsed in the above sentence?" Theogly difficulty, I am persuaded, consists in the very defective and er roneous systems of grammar now in common use. Our schools suffer no Imposition so egregious as in the cumbrous grammatical text-books in common use. They are full of con tradiction5*, and worse than useless di visions and subdivisions, iuuplness ol definitions ami want of precision, that can serve no earthly purpose except to destroy the very science of English grammar, and to overtask the.verbal memory and obscure the mental per ception of the pupil. Once disen cumber our grammars of all this use less and contradictory jargon, (intro-| duced into them by the early writers to assimilate tho Latin, when they, have no manner of practical adapta tion to pur language,) und arrange a system on the true scientific princi ples of the English language, and the I study becomes plain and simple. There will be no difficulty then in parsing any correctly written sen tence. "The British grammars of the En glish languangc, appear to me to be very imperfect, and in some particu lars, very erroneous."?N. Webster's grammar, page 4. If they are import lect why not supply their dclicienccs? If they are erroneous, why not correct and explode their error? Who was more competent to do this than Web" stcr ? It. must be a sin to teach what we know to he "error and, it is high lime that the truth should be made known. "So defectivo and. erroneous nre the British grammars, and the compila tions in the United Stales* formed; on their principles, that, without fur ther helps the. construction ojT many established and legitimate phrases and sentences in our language cannot be explaincd.?'-7?Webs(,er's,G.rainmar, page 4. Then why not have the helps? And not "helps" in the form of moro additions, rules and notes to the old systems which would only render.con fusion worse, confounded ; but "helps" by utterly discarding everything from our grammatical text-books which tends to only perplex and confuse and is of no earthly use in aiding Hie pu pil to speak and write the English language correctly, and compiling a grammar in accordance with the true scienlilic principles of the language. Employ apt, simple and suggestive terms as the names of the parts of speech, and then 7xtr.se every word ac cording to its use. No matter what the word may be, if its use in the sen tence is that of a verb, parse it so? if used as on adjective, parse it as an adjective?if used as a preposition, parse it accordingly, and so on through the whole of the parts of speech. When we "nave removed the accumulated mass of complicated ab surdities from our system of gram mar as now in use, the difficulties of the study will vnnUh as thin air. In Kirkhatn's Grammar, page 1G2, j may be seen the following sentences, ? classed as idioms, anomalies and in tricaeies: 1 "The wall is three feet big i." 2 "His son is eight years old." 3 "My knife is worth a shilling." 4 I "She is worth him and all his conm c \ lions." ? "He lias been there three times." G "The hat cost ten dollars." 1 7 "The load weighs a ton." 8 "The spar measures ninety Jett. Now, I understand Kirkham to say that while these sentences are correct English, yet our grammars do not furnish any rules 01 instruction how i they may be parsed. These are but specimens of hundreds of similar ex pressions in daily use, ami something must be radically wrong if our gram mars furnish no rules by which they may lie intelligently parsed. Why can't these sentences be parsed ? We are told, "dollars" in the Gth ; "ton" in the 7lh; and "feet" in the Sth, have no governing world, because "cost," "weighs," "measure," beipg aetjve-inlransitive verbs neither have nor can have ol jeets after them. But I must contend that these verbs do have object? after them, especially, when I seo then) frequently, as in the examples under consideration, gov erning objects. I must believe my own senses, any number of gramma rian!) to the contrary notwithstand ing. Is it not bettor to teach the pu pil the truth rather than an error, merely because the error keeps in vogue uii old rule taken from a Ian gunge governed by different scientific principles, and which Contradicts the very senses of the student? "lie lias been there (lit-cc timee* Whrtt is difficult about this? ??Times is rt noun without any governing word." Brit I beg pnraon^Uimea1? is not a noun in lids sentence. He has been there often, frequently, firsif last, Belt/om, qualify "has been;" "three limes'* is used in like manner, und words used alike should bo parsed alike. In the 3rd example "worth" is n preposition (relative would be a much , more suggestive and pioper term) and governs shilling ; so in like man ner in the -Ith, "worth" governs "him" and "connections,^ and in the sentence in your last issue "worth" governs dollar. In the 1st and 2nd examples from Mr. Kirkkara, "The wall is three frit high," and "His son is eight years old," "high*' is an.apjectivc (descrip tive i? a much belter.term) and de scribes the wall and'.'three feet" help i "high" describe the wall, and there- 1 lore are helping or auxiliary descrip- ffl lives. And iu tho second, "old" is jgP descriptive and "eight years" helping deseriptives. Is not this easy enough for any child of ordinary capacity? "The difficulties that belong to tho subject (grammar) have been increas ed by tho use of terras merely tech nical in designating tho parts of speech."?Webster's Grammar, page 3. "Attribute is a word better under stood than adjective; though it were to be wished we could lind a more familiar term for that class of words." ?Ibid. ; What could'be better than "Descriptive" when we consider (lho ' use of that class of words in ??r lan- ; guago? - I 'am indebtedj fo* what I may know of Kng?sh Grammar and' ffar ' the ideas and views above expresscdi : to a grammar written by Prof. I. ' Mot'rib, and which deserves to take?. the place of all other English Ctoflmkl' > roars; >wa$\^m I <'?? ?;<"Ki-V^stlyy- ? '._? ?: ??fi ? . A New One. "Pshaw," said Czardinc, ' as he* scaled himself in the Democrat sane* tum, "the snake stories that are go-, ing about are all too thin. Why just'. look here. Last spring I went out into the woods. I took along an umbrel ler, which I laid dawn onto some rocks. Well, sir, about an hour af terwards I went to get my umbreller as it had begun to rain a little. I took hold of the handle, and as I gave it a shove something begun to tear, nr:'. as the umbreller flew open a live black snake fell to the ground split in two from its bead to its taiL The confounded critter had actually swallowed inj* umbreller, and I never noticed it until I shoved up the dumb thing and split the cuss open from stem to stem. Adultery. We saw last week in the courthouse a white woman with her three mulat to children. She was arrested for adultery with a negro, under the re cent law. We mention tho fact to ask If adultery is any worse between a negro man and a white woman than between a while man and a negro wo man ? Is Ihe law any respecter of persons and colors? Is the law to be impartially administered and all mis creants punished? If so, it is weil.. If not wc cannot nee the virtue of hunting up a few isolated cases of in dividual crime, isolated in being brought under the law, but not nt all so in its criminal existence. Take them all up or let that poor creature out of the jail and repeal the law.? Kingstree Star. A darkey was once attempting to steal a goose, but a dog raised an ob jection, and Sambo retired. The next night during a thunder shower lie attempted it agaic, and just as ho was on the point of gelling a.wa$* will? bis fowl, tho lightning sltuck close by and tho noise nearly fright ened the poor fellow to death. Drop ping the goose, he started away mut tering, "Peers to me dar's a beep,of fuss made bout a .common goose." Tijf.y will have to search .Grant, when he arrives nt San Francisco to see if he lias any cholera germs se creted nliout his person. That terri ble scourge is raging, in Japan. Let Ulysses be well quarantccd and disin fected.