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' ; " |HI IIIIBMIIII j I " " " " ' 5 ' ' 3 ~~^ VOL. XLII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. 1885. NO. 9. i'? "' ..: ___ : ... i II l 1 - J " t Carpe Diem, I will be merry in my self-deceiving-; Leave me to (lreams,thougta bitter be the waking: - V I know?I know the danger in the distance. The clouds that gather now will soon be breaking. 1 wljfbe happy, though the far horizon Be dart with clouds, while lightnings flash .v tfcefr warning: ft. Still will I love the summer sunshine better? Remember more the brightness of the mornlag .?/ 3 ir'i'Hi' agk, Do roses grow less perfect in their beauty Because their petals fall and fade to-morrow? Strafl'l not smfie and sing to-day, forgetting, Though smiles may turn to bitterest tears of sorrow? r ^ ^ t # i ? 7 * i ^ Let me be happy, life is hart! and gloomy; | Its sweetest pleasures grudgingly are given? So stern, at kindest, that we needs must cherish Each brief reminder of our ruined heaven. ?Helen Hawthorne, in The Cottage.Hecrtb. < ^ . Keypad These Voices. J < Dead love, I leave thee In the morning gray. Shunning the heavens, wan and misty smile: Not e'en Its brighter coming can beguile My lingering woe. Love turns to thee alway In passionate hunger. Memory will not stray From thee and all thy radiant loveliness. Wilt thou not waken to one last caress ; That 1 may cease my sorrow to bewray? Farewell, farewell, unheeded here I yearn From thoughts ?f-eartivmy vision.to eet range. God doth not hoed! Man mocks atrnrdespair. And liower-flllc4 hands tenrprme away toturn, Yet blindly weepingpi -cka n'cxer cfcaage? ?' Love guards thy tomb and bids me worship there. ?G. B. Burgin in Detroit Free Press. ^ f WlFEc. "Mrs. Snath, I am"! astonished at y?^ v TTX^ 3l .* ! Now, this was not by any means an assertion sui generis. In fact, according to his own statement, John Smith (; was 4'astonished" at His wife at'least" once a day on an average. Mrs. Smith |r was used to it She was a tall, slight woman, scarcely more than a child in years, with ^ shining brown hair, large dark eyes, and cheeks that had been as pink as sea-shells in the days of her happy maiden life. 4. They were white and wasted now?a circumstance that might . perhaps be easily accounted for by the p* little babe oti her lap: $p?i the ^yearold elf who was tottering about the room in aimless pursuit of kittens, sunbeams. and other baby - delights. "Things are all at sixes and sevens," fent onJlr<-!Smith? tying- his cravat before the mirror and* viciously twist*? rroctofl JUg lb illbU a t?r-thrav?i into, ?ho soap-grease jar,. clish-tr wels taken for stove-cloths, and my" ifeitttbSst pants "sold to a dealer in tinware for a funnel and two pieplatters! I never heard anything so outrageous in my life." "But, my dear," meekly interposed w* the much-enduring wife, "we needed ^ the tinware, and you had not worn the garments for a year. They were full ?f moths." "Thero it is again," said Mr..Smith. "The moths would never have got into 'em if you had taken proper precautions. I never heard of a moth in my mother's time. And now you are actually asking permission to visit your brother ud the Hudson." "I have not been away from home before since-we were married, John," piteoasly pleaded Mrs. Smith. "Heel almost worn out, and I think the change wouUTjffb irfiS gc?>d.'' t what $ to become of me!" H scflforously demanded the husbands Mrs^. John 4>mitk tBought of' the day's masonic excursion last week, the K trout-fishing expedition into the Catskills a fortnight since, the, races at Jerome Park, and the drives to High Bridge with Parker, Betts^atid Frisbee in an open barouche, all within the except;.. "j?4oa t cost much go* Joha. Aamm ii^n lj?ay-Xicay k. lot me go! The "doctor says the fresh air might help baby along with his teeth, and little Johnny is drooping this hot weather." i4Well." said Mr. Smith, as ungraciously as possible, "1 suppose you'il f fcave^ogc^f i)ve dollars :at - least it' wlH^cost me, and altogether our' expenses are ruinous this year. Sec how Georgiana Trotter manages for her husband- I don't suppose It costs them half to live that it docs us. I might have married Georgiana Trotter once. I almost wish I had." It was on Mrs. Smith's lips to utter: - ??C/* Tt" n,Tt stifi lrvol-f?rl fit the lit r W UV A. ? tie children and was silout. "Yes," went on Mr. Smith; "I ^sup-^ p6s??[&>9 WfoStitfa 'Q6ljjrt< ^fqr 5 pity's sake, (Jonvt get mto tlio liaoifbr run?* running all the time. I needn't send up anything from the butGiier'srJLstt^^ pose? I shali dine down-town, and P there'll be enough left on the cold knuckle of yesterday's ham for you!" Mrs. Smith abstained from remindW ing her husband that he had himself breakfasted on the remains of the ham. She only sighed and was silent. "It's his way," she thought "He means well enough. And I suppose all men are so. Only I wish he had ^ kissed mo good-by!" Woman nature all over! She could do without her dinner contented, oating a crust of bread in steadr heart yearned hungrily for the omitted caress, the ignored word of tenderness. Poor Mrs. ^John Smithi } How the. . . strong-minded of her ?ex' wodld have : w pitied and despised her! ^ So light! no fire! It was dreary enough on that chiil August evening, as Mr. Smith screwed tlie night-key into tho latch and groped his way in the halL He sat down in the bay-win^ dow and stared about the vacant room. P There was his wife's work-basket on the tabK?~ hfirl^dtockiagrc&arstandi' ing vjjfiaat; fesside is* waile.Johnny's. forgotten rattie lay on the floor cl?se b7"It's deuced lonely," muttered Mr. ^ Smith; with something of a shiver. "I JF hopVJenny won't stay lon^." And-as he lighted his cigar and fe w&ified ai*av a guilty sense of his own shortcomings came upon him. "It must havo been rather a stupid ; ^ life for her here, poor little thing!" ' ^ thajg^ti &0. ?I might have come h^e. early to keea. her company a ; rg$atin?jLtiffies?V I didn't She tad to sew a great deul for the chil I T l X 1 U 4. ? | even. ^ i wis a x nsu wujnt uttc u sexinz machine when she -asked for it. Alason used to bring up fruits and flqgwers for his wife every evening. I wonder I never thought of it for Jenny. ' ? . And, ncu^.-g<Mritt.>t^:jrefiec{ upon the ; matter, Jenny has grown thin and pale 5 ofiafo." He moved his chair uneasily and emitted a thread of bluo; spicy smoke from his" lips very^nneh as 'if he-were not. en joying it particularly. ?. "I suppose they are at Bilberry farm by this time," said he to himself. "I suppd$6 Qfe Touakcrs 3rc in.\beS;. and/; Jenfiy"is^itHn|roct*c?^^rc piazza, listcningto the; ttfeippQOiWiJIs." I've almost a mind-to-goout there to-morrow evening, and take sonic peaches and bananas and thinj^,. Xt_would be a, pleasfL ant sarpri&e^frr ^e^^.iuid?heiloi, ; WhatHsrthat! A ring at tiio bell?" Fiinsring his ei?rar into the unusod grate, John Smitn shuffled along to the door in his slippers. , fc? k "Oh?a telegram! Now, I wonder who should telegraph to me!" "Well," said the shivering :uid raindrenchcd messenger, "p'raps you'd better open it aud sec. Anyway, I've no call lo hang around hero no longer!" And off he went, whiie Mr. Smith carried his buff envelope back to the parlor light and somewhat nervously tore it open. Cowi>:iey, Ang. ?v To Joiix Smith: Railroad accident. Yoar wife is killed ;tnd your child dangerously hurt. Conie l>v the next train. Jaued .Mekeditu, if. D. Again and again -Mr. 5>m:lli's i;ewihlered eyes roved over the contents of this appalling missive before he - * " t j . j ii.. could iuliv coniprouenu us ueauty meaning. "Dead! Kiiied!"' ho muttered to himsclf. "My Jenny killed by a railroad accident!1' . And then, catching a railway guide from the book-shelf, he whined over its leaves with trembling hand. The next traiu did not leave the terminus under an hour and a half! To him the time seemed almost like eternity, iluw could ho endure this awful agony of . soul for an hour and a half? i "Perhaps they arc incorrect," he muttered to himself, wiping the b'iads of cold sweat from his brow. "People can't always judge exactly in such a moment of dismay. Perhaps she is only badly hurt, and-1 can nurse her through'it after ail. My Jenny! my loving, patient, sweet-eyed wife!" A strong sob rose up in his throat as if it ^wotrld strangle hnu. "2vo, no", she is killed!" he gasped, as his eye fell once more on the telegram. "l5ead! and I nover can speak to her again or tell her what a cruel, exacting1 brute I have been! G-oil knows i didn't mean it, and now it's too late to make any amends. Why didn't tlio children go too? How can I bring them up without Jenny?" His head drooped low on his quivering hands; a low, spasmodic groan burst from his pale lip.?. An hour aud a half before he could go to Jen av; half an hour then, before he could look upon her dead face; for Cowdrcy was an insignificant way station some eight or ten miles up the road. "If I could only live my life over again!" he cried aloud to the bare walls, while tight in his arms he clasped Jenny's little wor?-basket, with its strips of unfinished hemming?all that "was left to him of the fair, departed presence.s "If I' could only speak to hor inst onfic. and ask her forgiveness for a thousand things. But, no?it is too late?too late. And " He stopped abruptly. The sound of a hack driving hastily up to the dooi\ the reiterated jerk of the bell-wire roused him once more into reluctant action. "John! dear John!'' "Jenny, my wife!" He stood, pale and stupefied, staring at her as if she were actually a ghost returned from the regions of space and unreality. "There has been a terrible railroad accident!" said Jenny, her voice faltering, as she laid the baby on a sofa and took little Johnny lovingly on her lap ?"a few miles beyond Cowdrey. Three or four people were killed, but, thank "God* we escaped unhurt. Of course, I kook the first train back that I could, fori knew you would hear of it and be "uneasy. And only to think, dear, there was a poor mother killed, with her little babe in her arms, and her name was the same as mine?'Mrs. | j oiin smitn.' " He pointed one trembling finger to the telegram, which lay open on the 'table. ' Airs. Smith read it with dilated eyes and.pale face. "Oh! ray love, what a fright you have had!" she exclaimed. "And only to reflect, it might have been me!" '/' But it is not. Oh! thank heaven, my own darling wife, it is not!" gasped the husband, holding his recovered treasure close to his heart. "And I have yet time to live my life over again!" And from that hoar John Smith was a changed man. To Jenny it seemed almost like millennium, but Mrs. Gcorgiana Trotter turned up her nose and said: "John Smith.must be in his dotage, spending ali his time and money in carriage's to the park, extra help, and fine clothes for that pale-faced wife of ,his. John Smith alwavs was a foolJ" \?New York Daily'i\'eti's. Money Better Than Titles. Yes, it is money that commands respect in this country, speaking generally, writes a New York correspondent. We realty care scarcely anything for distinction of birth. Tho worship of foreign aristocracy prostrates few of us. Noblemen tourists command attention from only an insignificant portion of New York. The hotels are full of titled travelers, and they are not hunted much. "The sallow man leaning against the post," I heard a hotel clerk say to a gaest, "is the-Marquis de Monclar, who has crossed the Atlantic to be the French consul at Quebec. Tho man talking with him is the Viscount de Thuiy,- on a trip around tho world. Ho is a Paris notable. The Spaniard over yonder, in the center of a group of his couutrymen, is the Marquis de C:istelfuertc. The chap who just asked me to send a package to his room was Lord Henry Paulet, of England." The recipient of this information was not deeply impressed. He scarcely followed with his glanco the directions indicated, -and <Utl not deigu a comment on the accumulation of aristocracy. _ l)o you seo the rcc^headed fellow sitting- -on the- sofa?" said the clerk. "He /wis- a bell boy in this hotel ten years ago. He went west, pitched into catSe ranching, and has already made-his million." ?Be hearer was alert7.. His cars OTonaed to quiver wrtfrthereception of the-words,-and his eyeballs threatened fc.qtfit. their sockets to'get a closer vieW;o?t&e? self-enripiied mafridual. "C&a'tc'jou^ -manage .'to introduce me?". ho-asko&.eagerly. Ac hour later I sawHni-stftTdeeply absorbed in conya?atida with-'tho rcd-kaired mab, wimo iw^doubtlcss could't have identified dn&oTtho- noblemen who had been We hear of ""a Bangor young man lately married who went West on his marriage tour and' by way of Niagara Falls. The train stopped at the falls and the newly-married couple both got off the cars to get a better view of the falls and they both lingered longer than th estopping train allowed. 'Ihe bell ^ang aud the young man, forgetting ior the' time that he was married, made a rush to get aboard and barely reached the platform on the rear car. He did not fully realize that he was married aud had left his wife behind, so he says, until he had got fifteen miles away.?Bangor {Me.) Commercial. A CURIOUS CALCULATION. The End of the World K curvd Oaf, and the IVriod Fix?mI at 1899. The following singular and very curius calculation, by which the approaching end of the world is mined, has never before been made known to the public, writes a Waterloo, Kan., correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and may be of very great into those who have been studying the prophecies, or watching t!i<* pr?igu*j3 oJ numau rv?-uts. Believe the losuiis or not. :is we may. nevertheless here arc the figures which any reader can verify for him-Msif. if these results arc liere correcth foretold, then the .startling fact ?tar<\s us in the face that the world is within fifteen years of its close. In the fall of 1899 the linal whiding up is to take place. Here are the calculations. Let the reader caretuilv examine them: To begin. There are several important prophetic periods made known in the script ures, and various dates, as well as significant numbers, sucti as the great period of 2,300 years men-* tioned by Daniel, the period <?f 1.290 years, and the period ot 1,33-3 years. Besides these lite re are in the book ot lieveiatiou other periods an?i significant numbers, sueli as the 1.200 years; the period of the woman's sojourn in the wilderness, 1,000 years tne period of Satan's being bound, and GGG the number of beasts. Enoch's a?c (3G5 years), who prophesied of the second advent among the antediluvian sinners, is also beyond all question a symbolic number. Perhaps, like the SGo days which complete one revolution of tho earth around the sun, making one year, so his 365 years mav be symbolic of the ^ 1- - : :~ J . grout propueuu pexiuus auuku aa "days, one grand revolution of which is to complete oue of time's great years and finish earth's career. '-Seven" is also one of the significant numbers of scripture, aad a "week of seven," or 7 times 7, still more so. The student of scripture will readily recall frequent instances of this significant ligure 7, and especially the more important one of 7 times 7, or 49?the number of final completion, the finishing of all mysteries, the winding up of earth's affairs. Very well. Now, take these figures, add them together, and see what you get: 2,300 years, Dan's great period for the cleansing of the sanctuary. 1,290years, measuring the continuance of the "abomination of desolation." 1,335 years, the period of "blessedness" to the saints. 1,260 years, the duration of the woman's sojourn in the wilderness. 1,000 years, the binding of Satan. 666 years, the number of the "boast" who is to go into perdition. 365 years, the symbolic age of Enoch, the great prophet of the advent. 49 years, the number of final completion. Total 8,265 years. Now remember that before all the catastrophes denounced on maukindjis. the divine judijmien-tu against sni there were'us'ually periods of "waiting" before the judgment fell, so as to afford opportunity of repentance and escape, and these periods multiples of 40, as, for example, before the llood, '120 years; before the conquest of Canaan, 40 years; and before ino fall of Nineveh, 40 days, denounced by the prophet Jonah. Now add together 120 years of Noah's warning before the flood came, 40 years of Israel's warning before judgment fell on the guilty Cauaanites, 3* years that the witnesses laid uuburied preparatory to resurrection, and three years during widen the owner of the vineyard came seeking fruit and finding none, at the expiration of which period the lig tree was to be cut down, and you h:ivo 166} as the sum. Now, to apply these mystic numbers and learn tneir significance, imagine your life divided into the four periods of childhood, youth, manhood, and old age, so as to get it in its completeness. Take your age in years, leaving off months and days, add it to itself threo timo? Cnnfi for r>;ieh of these four periods), add to it the mystic number 8,265 (the sum of the great prophetic periods) in order to ascertain the full sum of time's revolutions, and divide the amount of four (the number of universality, because theso calculations apply equally 10 every human twiiig), subtract from the quotient the other mystic number 166? (periods of warning given to man before the execution of final doom), and from the remainder deduct the number of years you have lived in this sublunary world, and you get the number 1,899?. Now it matters not what :?e you take, that of the little child or the old man. the result is the same, the omnious 1,899J always remains as the one fatal Deriod when everv human life is to close. But the one year in which every human career is to terminate and every life close must bo the final year, the winding up, the conclusion of all sublunary things, the year of doom. A singular confirmation of this calculation is to be found in the fact that, according to an old Jewish tradition, the world was created in the fall of the year, of which the old feast of trumpets, occurring in October, was supposed to be the memorial. And it would be natural to suppose that it would bo very appropriate for it to close its career on the completion of one of its annual revolutions} in othe words, in the fall of the year. And so this remarkable calculation plainly indicates. The three-fourths singularly points out that fact. Hence, & these conclusions are not erroneous, wc have the startling prophccy before us that when earth reaches one of her great milestones on the highway of time in October; 1899,. a mighty hand will be laid upon her aud she will stop. Let I the world look out for 1899. In 1S74 Ciarencc A. Portley, who had lately graduated from West Point, married iUiss M:iggie Alexander, daughter of Dr. Alexander, a New York millionaire. When the wedding ceremony was over he handed his sonin-law an envelope containing $100,000 in go\eminent bonds. "Thankjyou," replied the gr::tilied son-in-law; and then he asked, "But as we are going away would it not be better that you should keep the money till we return?" "I'll do so," answered the delighted father-in-law, and his half-choked words, "God bless you, my children!" were lost among the clatter of the departing carriage and the valedictory shouts. Not long ago Mr. Alexander ! died without a will, and no mention was made of the $100,000. though his property was left to his daughter. A j f lly suit has now been instituted to j determine the ownership of the $100,000, the wife wanting her husband to j have the money. London is the headquarters of the pet dog trade of the world. I The Confederate Capital. Contrary to the common belief, there was no lack of provision? or delicacies in Richmoud at any time during the war, but the prices measured by al-1 leged dollars were simpiy stupendous. ; I do not remember that there was any actual sufierin<T among tho }>eople, although foo?l :ui?l drink were of course economically dealt with. 1 recollect also that there was a bread riot of so large proportions as to call for the intervention of the military, hut the women, black and white, who were the chief participants, wore of the lowest class, and wore instigated not by want j so much as pure deviltry. It is a curious fact that what arc call- j ed the lower classes fared better, as far as provisions wore concerned, than the officeholders or wealthier citizens. The I salaries of the ullice holders, both confederate and stale, were grossly inadequate to provide for their families, and the wealthier citizens at the outset of the war had invested, almost without exception, all their available means in the 8 per cent bonds of the confederate government- Those who owned slaves, i>y hiring tliem out obtained large returns, for labor was in great demand; but the trouble was that the confederate authorities conscripted all ablebodied negroes as drivers of mule teams, laborers on the fortifications, etc., just as they conscripted able-bodied whites for service in the lield, and the hire given to the masters was but a tithe of what could have been procured in open market. Talk about Washington being a city of boarding-houses and restaurants, why it was not a circumstance to tho coufedcrato capital. Nearly every house, and especially of limited means, was filled with lodgers, and nearly every other house was an eating-house. The poorer whites and blacks made money hand over fist by cooking provisions and selling them from stands on the streets and at tho depots to the huge swarms of hungry people who were constantly coming and going. The population proper of Richmond was not a fourth of tho vast crovfd that daily and nightly congregated within its corporate limits. It was the Mecca of tho confederacy, and the pilsrrimasres made thereto were constant in their coming. Officers and soldiers, Jewish merchants, "exempts," blockade-runners, refugees from Maryland and West Virginia and from counties of the State held by the federals poured in a steady stream into the lap of the city, and the people of the city made their living, and, indeed, it may be said in many instances waxed fat, in feeding and lodging the hungry horde. The homo guards, organized to defend the capital, comprised all the officials in the confederate and state departments, and no man was exempt who was able to lire a rille from behind a breastwork. These held no drills, but marched iu a body, with regular order, to ii.e breastworks when the alarm bell iu the capitol square rang forth the warning peal of the appjooch ?^?t^4"a?oonmy. <wv "strokes, I think.?Murray, in Washington Republican. APolitic-il Ec>?<>inist. The racy American irreverence is stealing into England. There they are beginning to guy the sacred professors of philosophy and the great minds who try' to fit life and its eccentricities and 1 r\ f Kaavioc <r*\ ViV WIV|/1UVUM IV HlWilWO Wimv VMA J pV | a little way ami harmonize beautifully with small" things. The studies aud principals of lleruert Speucer have already beeu gently chaffed, and before many years they will be coming to the conclusion that.the hateful agnosticism is a philosophical nolle prosequi. The political economists have got all mixed up long ago. i was once a dilligent student of John Stuart Mill. I went through his political economy three or four times, ex mined his principles of logic rigorously iwice or three times. I investigated A-lam Smith and Ricardo, and all sorts of political economists. I have reached now but one conclusion with regard to capital and 1-ihor f lint1, f lir> wnrtii is nil iinhnlfinnmL and that the slate of your finances, the only subject political economists can not reason upon, is the point upon which all philosophy of a practical kind turns. Tnero are two kinds of people in the world generally speaking, people who have money and people wno haven't, and the weak point in political economy lies right here: that the first class has all the credit as welL You can live on a c.ish basis or on a credit basis. Those who have all the cash have all the credit, aud there will never be peace ou earth or good will toward men until wo arrange matters so that those who have the money must pay, and those who haven't can live on tick. This would appear to be a very simple arrangement, but we have not struck the philosopher or po litical economist who can overcome the objections to it on the part of the partios of the lirst part?the people who own what every bod}- else wants. ?San Francisco Chronicle. < i Obnoxious Enthusiasm. Says Kate Field, in her piquant way: It drives me wild to see grown-up people, accused of possessing common sense, touching a subject with kid gloves when they ought to roll up their sleeves and go in for hard work. This supineness brings many good ideas to naught. They are fed on promises and o o'clock teas. 4I dare not 'waits upon' I would' in a manner to make Lady Macbeth use worse language that sht; did formerly. Want of earnestness is the cause of this tepidity. Society means chaff. Enthusiasm is as obnoxious as the plague. To be possessed of an idea which you are ready to defend with blood and treasure is to be a nuisance. You aro worse than a criminal; you are a bore. To bore is to commit unpardonable sin. Let Stanley cross Africa and James Gordon Bennet tie the American Hag to the North Pole, and both will be feted after they've accomplished their self ap pointed tasKs, oecause society patronizes success in any form?but Equator and North Pole must-not be mentioned in advance. Columbus may discover America, but be won't be invited to dine out or to sjt for his photograph until he returns home alivo. if he doesn't return it serves him right. Why wasn't he content with one hemisphere? Why not let well enough alone? In my private opinion content ment is a swinish sentiment. To be satisfied is to wallow in stagnation. But I keep this belief to myself because I desire to live peaceably with my neighbors. Mind you, this criticism applies to what is called "society." The largest apple tree in the United States is growing at Cheshire, Conn. It is 60 feet high, spreads 100 feet, and yields from 75 to 110 bushels of apples per year on alternate sides of the tree. THE TURCAKOKAS. The story of the Tuscaroras is a chcckercd one. They were adopted into the Iroquois in 1712. They came from North C:iroliun in 170-S. where they had 15 towus and 1,500 warriors. Their existence there was liie .same as all other tribes, the same oid story? encroachments by the whites, who roUbed them of their lands, and when resistance followed long and bloody border wars ensued. They burnt one Lawson, the surveyor general of North Carolina, who had marked some of their territory into lots for settlers. They captured the German Baron de Graffenried, but released him after live weeks on his promise that he would occupy none of their lands without their consent. In 1713 invaders of their territory captured 800 Tuscaroras in a fort on the Ncusc river. Those were killed and sold as slaves into ooutn Carolina. The remnant migrated to Ne^ York as others had previously done. Previous to this Tuscaroras, on the 22 of September, 1711, had filled 130 Whites on Albemarle sound. la the war of the Revolution most of the Iroquois adhered to the English, buianany of the Tuscaroras andOaeidas were friendly to the colonists. When Gei? Sullivan and Co!. Gausevoort made their destructive campaign against the Indians on the route to the lower Mohawk castle they were treated with every mark of friendship and hospitality in passing through the Tuscarora and Oneida castles. These officers luid been ordered to spare the Tuscaroras and Oneidas. Such portions of these tribes as had been English allies escaped in cunoes on Oneida lake, , thence down the Oswego river, and coasted along Lake Ontario to the British garrison at Fort Niagara. In 1730 the luscaroras camped on a mile square given them by the Scnecas, which is a part of tlieir present reservation, ine Holland company subsequently gave lucm two square miles, of which in 1804 they added by purchase 4,329 acres, making the total of their reservation 6.249 acres. The United States government paid for the purchase $13,722, being part of tho trust funds held by the United States on final adjustment of the claims of the Tuscaroras upon North Carolina. Thus the Tuscaroras commenced their settlement in the town of Lewis ton 17 years previous to the advent of the Holland Land company and 19 or 20. years before the commencement of settlements there by whites. . Tho Tuscaroras .were-thus the pioneer settlers in this region, and the most kindly relations have existed between them and the whites.ever since. In the war of 1812 the Tuscaroras were the allies of the Americans against the English. The Mount Pleasant family, of whom John is now the chief of the Tuscaroras,1have a prominent history in the border wars of the old time. His grandfather was a "bio; Indian,." having been a captain in the British army, and at one time commandant of Fort Niagara. His son John was the father of the present chief. He was 68_jears-?ld in 1849, "una fiastetc.eeorus of his early experience "in this region. He states , therewere no crows in the Niagara region until after the war of 1812. Deer were not plenty, and the wolves haunted them, driving them into the lake, and waiting until they, wearied witb swimruing, came on shore and were caught and devoured. When the wolves were .hunted ont deer-became plenty. Beare were plenty in some localities, and panthers were occasionally killed hereabouts. Bittern's white owls, and flocks of swan were seen about Niagara falls and on the islands aud in the marshes. Wild cranberries abounded, and theire were a great number of beaver dams. Salmon three, feet long were often taken in Eighteen Mile creek, near Lockport, and below the falls of the Oak orchard. The "woods are full" of Indian stories and romances throughout all this region of Niagara county. The lands hereabout belonged to the original Holland purchase. The first white child born on the great Holland purchase was on the 19th of June, 1801? "a fine boy," as the records state. He was subsequently Col. Henry B. Ransom, of Clarence. In October, 1798, which was before tho Holland land purchase, on the present site of Buffalo, there wore but eight buildings, all I linncrto \x/Vt?r?Vi Aun RnnflATTI fW copied one. He subsequently removed to Pino grove, and was the father of the "fine boy." As late as 1806 there were only 19 dwellings in Buffalo.? vilte (N. Y.) Cor. Troy Budget. Oregon Gold. The gold fever is breaking out again in Idaho, Montana, and Oregon, It is in the air and must have a run. Men are at work along the Snake river for 350 miles, ana every day new fields arc opened. Last week a deposit was found in a clay bank at the mouth of Billingsley creek that is turning out from $40 to $100 a day per man with the most primitive form ui rocker-apparatus. While this is ;i singularly rich streak, the ground for some miles back from the liver prospects well! At Silver City, Idaho territory, one of the oldest camps on the Pacific coast, mines abandoned. years' ago arc being reopened with good results. Out of twenty-five mines and prospects in that locality there is not one but that will pay largely. The old Oro Fino is be ing put m snape ior wording, anu it. is estimated that the, yield this se^sofl from the extension of that mine alone will be $100,000. It is worked by three men with picks only. Largo nuggets of free gold are daily taken out or the War Eagle and Florida mountains from the pay streaks. The ledges also average well in gold and silver sulphurets, aside from the free gold. In Wagontown, nine miles from Silver Q}ty, there is a Jow-grade quartz ledgo forty feet wide, running from $12 to ?20 per ton. The building of the Oregon Short line has afforded a means of reaching the Idaho and Oregon mountains, and the development from this time on will be rapid. The recent find near Huntington is a legitimate one. This field is called Pine Creek, and is in the southeast portion of Union county, Oregon. It was disepvered about thirty days ago by placer prospectors, and ig now a camp of over two hnmifed peo? TV*ie Avfnocit'A Tvunn?#?>l U1W? 44 yVi-i ? V/ wbelt, 40 by 180 miles, stretching away into eastern Oregon, north and south along the Snake river, and from this belt $50,000,000 in gold has been taken by placer miners alone in the past 20 years. This fine gold is supposed to be washed from the ledges in the mountains whero the new quartz fields have been located.?Cincinnati Enquirer. A Boston statistician says that $1 will buy as much of the necessaries of life to-day as $1.50 in 1875, $1.32 in 1855, 91 cents in 1845, and $1.19 in 1825. In other words the purchasing power of $1 is 19 per cent greater than it was in 1855. A dollar wi'l buy more to-day than in most previous'periods in the history of the nation. / . How a Great Military History Was Written. One day early in 1S23 he went for a walk with Lord Langdale, one of his intimate friends, ovorsomu fields which are now covered by the mansions of Beleravia. The conversation turned on Sou they's recently published narrative of the Peninsular war. LordLang.dalo was greatly struck by Napier's remarks on . the events of the struggle and the characters of tho principal actors. Suddenly he asked him. what ho was thinking of duing. "Do you mean," replied Napier, where :?m I going to dine?" No," said Lord . Langdale; "what are you thinking of . ?... .... ? turning oo an ULLU^UUUU IUWU lie urged him to turn to literature. The article on Jomiiii proved that ho could write. He must uot waste his :lifo in more amusement. Why should he not write a history of the war himself? On returning homo Napier told his wife what Lord Langdale had said, and added that ho himself felt doubtful ;whether ho was clever enough to write properly such a book as a history of the war. But she, believing firmly in her husband, encouraged him to try. For several nights he lay awake thinking over the matter. At last his scruples were overcome by the thought that ho might be able at least to vindi-i cate the calumniated memory of Moore; and ho resolved to make the attempt. Those of his acquaintances who did not really know him were surprised to hear of his intention, and remarked that being comparatively a young man, he was presumptuous to think that he could write such a history. Having formed his resolve he lost no time in proceeding to execute it First of alJ, ho called upon the Duke of Wellington and asked him for the loan of his papers. The Duke replied that he had himself thought of writing a plain, didactic history of the war, which should be published after his death. Till then it would be impossible to make known the whole truth without giving pain to many worthy officers, whoso only fault had been dullness. For these reasons he told Napier that ho could not lend him his private papers; but ho intrusted him with a number of important documents, and gave him authority to obtain from the Qaartermaster-GCneral, Sir George Murray, all his orders of movements. Of his own accord he promised to answer any questions as to matters of fact which Napier might wish to ask him in the course of his work. Murray, however, refused to let Napier have the orders of movements, stating that he. reserved them for a history which he himself intended to write. After taking these preliminary steps Napier went to Paris to collect materials for the French side. He walked about the streets, exploring the contents of the bookstalls, and bought every book that seemed likely to be of any use to him. He also went regularly to the Depot de la Guerre and made copious extracts from the documents which were stored on its shelves. On returning to England ho took up his abode Tora time at Strathtieldsaje ^P|' -:tIio'piTrppsc"of consulting the Dui^S Marshal- Soult, witH-'^wbofn wheh$Sr Paris he had struck up an acquaintance, lent him valuable papers; hccor! responded with Marshal Jourdan, and received information from officers who had served on the staff of Ney and \t ? L-cAn N.i mIca on AAV U*OV WA*W M44 iUiLuuuso mass of letters and journals from British officers.?%'lic tfuliotuU lie view. Ah American Marrijigf. Among the various tribes 'of Asia none aro so rich or well dressed as the Armenians, says the Glasgow Iicrald. To them belongs chiefly the merchandise of precious stones, which they export to Constantinople. The Armenian girl whose marriage is to be described had delicate flowers of celestial blue painted all over her ncck and breast; her eyebrows were dyed black, and the tips of her fingers and nails of a bright orange. Sho woro on each hand valu-. able rings .set with precious stones, and round her neck a siring of very fine turquoises; her skirt was one of the finest spun silk, her jacket and trousers of cashmcro of a bright color. The priest anij hi? dpagon arrived, the latter bringing a bag coutaiuiug the sacerdotal garments, in which thy priest arrayed himself, placing a miter ornamented with prficious stones on his head, and a collar of metal, on which the twelve apostlos were represented in bas-relief, round his ncck. He began by blessing a sort of temporary altar iu the middle Qf the yoom; the mother of t^o bride hc?" by li'u hand, and, leading her forward, she bowed at the feet of her future bus band to show that sue acknowledged him as lord and master. The priest, placing their hands in each other, pronounced a prayer and then drew their heads together until they touched thrct? times, while with his right hand he made a motion as if blessing ti.cm- A second time their hands were joined, and the bridegroo{n\yaa askedj "Will yoq be her ^sbandB" *'I will," lie answered, raising at the same time the veil of the bride, in token that she was now his, and letting it fall again. The priest then took two wreaths of flowers, ornamented with a quantity of hanging gold threads, from the hands of the deacoD, put them on the l\ouds of the married couple, changing them three time? from-ono no:id to the other, lu^joubiug vauu iiuiu, x uuuu j vu uiiu bind you one to another ? live in peace." A Liberty-Loving Italian. Ceracchi was an Italian sculptor, who came to the United States to perpetuate the likeness of our Revolutionary chiefs and sages, and thus to identify his own name with the infant republic. His busts of Washington, Jay, Alexander Hamilton, George Clinton, and others, are now, as mere portraits, above all priee to this nation, and they have besides a classic grace about tliein which entitles the artist to no contemptible rank as a statuary. Ke had a grand design of a national monument which he used to sho\y to his visitors, and which ho wished congress to employ him to execute in marblo or bronze. Of course they did not do so, and, as it happened, ho was much more usefully employed fcr the nation in modeling the busts of onr great men. But the nation was not ripo for siaiuar)?u uuzeu UUSUJ eiuuusveu. IUC patronage of the country?and congress was too busy with dollars and cents, fixing the revenue laws and funding the debt, to think of his grand allegorical monument Ceracchi could notlive upon liberty alone, much as he loved :it, and when the French revolution took a very decided character he went to France and plunged into politics Some years, after ho returned to Rome, where he was unfortunately killed in an insurrection or popular tumult, growing out of the universal revolutionary spirit of those times.? Ben: 1'trley Foore. Decaying Wood. It is generally admitted that the vicinity of large quantities of decaying wood is dangerous to health, but the evidence as to this is scanty, and by no means definite, nor have wo anything but more or less probable theories as to hr w disease is produced in this way. . Yellow fever, typhoid fever, and various forms of malarial fever have been attributed to this cause?not that rot- . ting wood is supposed to be alone sufficient to-produce them, but that their specific cause seem to flourish and increase when introduced where it is pres- . ent in large quantities. It is a fact that, in a number of in- . stances, the prevalence of yellow fever * in epidemic form has been connected with the presence of decaying timber in or beneath piers and wharves, or of mnscAs nf rnf-.tina sli?vinors_ china, saw- ' dust, etc. This was the case in Provi- ( dence; Baltimore, New York City, and 1 Norfolk, and the presence of rotten . timbers or planking in yellow-fever ships has been noted so often that by many it is thought to be something more than a mere coincideuce. Collections of damp and decaying sawdust have been in a number of instances charged with the production of malarial disease, and in some of the ( northwestern states, and especially in Michigan,the evils from this cause have been the subject of discussion by sanitary officials. , Decaying wood pavements or sidewalks have been suspectcd ef causing malarial affections in Memphis,, in { Washington, and elsewhere, although the relation between causc aud effect does not appear to have been clearly established. We do know, however, that green wood contains a very considerable amount of albuminoid matter, which affords food to micro organisms which decompose it, producing phenomena of < putrefaction and giving rise to more or less offensive odors. Prof. Brewer, of New Haven, has re- ^ ported tho results of a number of experiments on tho results of soaking green woods of various kinds in cold water, and thns removing the albuminoid mat- < tore Tltaf; orrivn lnmhpr/xinl'.n.jns unmo. O ? thing which greatly favors its decay, and which way be removed by long- , continued soaking in water, was well known many years ago, and gave rise to the process' of water seasoning, in which the planks were sunk in large bodies of water and kept immersed for from six months to a year, when they were raised, piled in the air, and thoroughly dried. Flooring lumber thus treated is a little liable to decay, ior the simple reason that it contains little ] or nothing that is lit for the micro organisms and fungi that cause decay. The albuminoid material which may be thus extracted from wood appears to ^ support the life of various micro organisms which, so far as wo ktiow. are not directly or indirectly iujurous to ] health. We can only infer that it will also support the life of other organisms which may be injurious?the germs of specific disease?and conclude that it ' ^ sufficient ptobabie that this is the /case,--to-warrast the giving of special attention to this subject in investiga- < tions as to the cause of the local prevalenee of certaiu disease.?Saniiary Engineer. ? ] The Unlucky OpaL "The prejudice against opals may , bo dying out, but a great many people stilf hold to the belief that thev brino1 bad lock," said a jeweler the other da}*. "I could tell you of a little inci- I dent that occurred here that way make you wonder whether some people do not manago to got themselves bom three centuries too late. A man came here with a ring that had a beautiful opal set in it, and told mo to take oat the stone and let him see some other S gem to put in its place. I asked him if he was goin?r to get rid of the opal altogether, anu he said ho was going ^ to destroy it. I was rather surprised, and said: 44 4Don't do that; I'll gi?o you $50 for it' 4'He c[e?l$rod that he didn't want moi\cy for it; that it had brought him nothing but bad luck sinco he bought 1 it; that he had failed in business and lost two of "his children, and all, of 3 course, on account of a little piece of stone. I went over to that bench and took the opal out of its setting, and while looking at the ring X laid the gem on the bench beside me. As quick . as a iiash that man picked up a ham- ' lner that was lying among the tools a and hit the stone a whack that smashed it into a thousand pieces. There 1; was nothing left. Then he said 4Tiiere!' in a satisfied manner Tt.'a t too bad, for the opal is one of tho prettiest gems in the world."?New York Sun. Leg Before "Wicket, I Very young ladies, who enjoyed the f doubtful privilege of having schoolboy brothers, were sometimes permitted or a compelled to join in their games of cricket. So long as they reveled in the short skirts of infancy tho experiment was fairly successful, but tho crinoline of maturer years interposed an impenetrable screen between the . ball and tho wickets, to the cxaspera- I tiou and despair of the bowler. Gal- . lantry no less than decorum forbade ? the perpetual verdict of "leg before," which, in strict justice, should often have cut short the fair cricketer's inning. This seriously interfered with the success of feminine cricket, and occasionally-^aqoh is tho frank brutality of toyhood?with harmonious relations between tho players. With the dcclinc of this special branch of C sport the question has really lost its 2 practical interest But it is to be fear- j od that the difficulty, so far as it survives, must remain insuperable until a c rcgenerato Europe shall rise to the idea of that "bifurcation of aether 11 garmenture" in the opposite sex which was the dream of a fair reformer across a the Atlantic,? London Socuty. A correspondent asks where the saj'- 1 iugs "A nine days' wonder" and "Of two cviis cJioosc the least" originated, d It is supposed that they were common <j stock iu conversation long before they got into print The first trace of the p phrase "A nine days' wonder" is said to be found in "Caaucer." The adage "Of the two evils choose the least," is ^ found in a Latin form in the writings of Cicero. Thomas a'Kempis, who fi wrote iu the fifteenth century, says: $ "Of two evils the less is always to be choseu." There are probably 2,500,000 sweatglands belonging to each human being, the object of tbe existence of this per- ? spiratory system being to remove the excess of water and noxious gases, and ^ to regulate the temperature of the bodv. PersDiration is always <roin<r on j- - n o ~ and under normal conditions it . amounts to about two pints a day for each person. 1876. 1885.; 11. 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