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THE GREENVILLE ENTERPRISE.
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JOHN C. BAILEY, PRO'R. GREENVILLE. SOOTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 9, 1871. VOLUME IVIir?Nn u
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The Present Condition of the Irish.
We extract the following from
n, letter to tlio Charleston Courier
by Geo. W. Williams, a prominent
merchant of that city, and a
native of Burke County, N. C.,
Who is at present in Ireland on a
Visit:
Talk about American slavery, I
hut sure that I have seen nothing
in the United States in the darkest
days of slavery that will compare
to the poverty and dcs'ifution
ol the slaves of Ireland. We
stopped at Mallow a 6hort time to
look at sonic of its ruins, and unexpectedly
stumbled into a Fenian
l aid, which was telegraphed to all
parts of the country, and doubtless
found its way over the cable to
the Queen City. Driving quietly
through the streets, wo saw considerable
excitement among the
women and iuveniles In n nlmi-i
tiiue we came in sight of the military.
On overtaking them we
found they had quite a number
of Fenian poisoners, mostly boys
and young men. They were nr
rested for breaking into the bar
racks and helping themselves to
arms and ammunition. We saw
poor women on '.he'r n ;es beseeching
the officers for the release of
their sons who, they alleged, were
at their homes v\ hen the robbery
occurred, but these distressed crea
turcs were treated as rudely as it
they had been as many wild beasts;
although of the lower class, yet
they possessed the aching hearts
of anxious mothers I was informed
that many innocent persons
were arrested and thru?t into
prison on 6uspicinn of sympathizing
with the Fenians.
One of thc^iret questions asked
me on landing upon Irish soil was
whether L had in my possession
any firearms. Two of our Minneeota
passengers had their pistols
taken from tUem This indeed
looks like a small business for a
great Government like England to
take from a peaceable American
citizen, a cork screw, tooth pick
and pocket pistol.
Kii kluxistn wi:iv>.ist in old Ireland
just so long as her people are
oppressed as they have been for
the past half century. They are
but obeying one of the first laws
ot nature, which is self protection.
Our forefathers were called Ku
kluxes or rebels for resisting oppression,
and the scenes which are
almost daily occurring in down
trodden Ireland are but history repeating
itself. The strong oppressing.
Perhaps it is foolish for
a handful of ignorant Paddies, to
contend against the English Lion,
but they will be fdund running
their heads against the English
bayonets, and^getting their bodies
into prisons, until they eueccod in
securing something like jnstico. I
am surprised to see the miserable
(hutched hovels the people live in
here. An English landlord would
not put his cat le in 6iich hovels
as their tenants are furnished with.
.[ did not come to Ireland to find
fault, or to write an i% Uncle Tom's
Cabin," but to 6ec and to speak of
things just as they are.
I expect to appreciate that which
is lovely, and abhor everything I
that tends to bring poverty, 6or*
row and distress upon the peasantry,
who live in a mud hovel. I am
...
uuo 01 iuein
light there in the church before
she had time to get dry.
A boarder at a hotel wanted his
bill reduced because he had two
tcetb extracted.
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The Japanese Prinoei?Arrival of
Thirty Young Noblemen in New
York.
Thirty yonng Japanese noblo
men, belonging to tho most ill net ri
otis families in Japan, under the
leadership of Prince Schemidsi
Jugad, have arrived in New York
from San Francisco. The New
York Times says:
The yonng gentlemen are sent
to this country by the Government
of Japan in order to complete their
educations, and especially with a
view of examining mechanical in
ventions. As a general thing,
these young Japanese possess very
intelligent faces, and gazed around
them yesterday with an air of half
nlarm, half astonishment, that was
auito amusing. They were all
dressed in irreproachable black
broadcloth, and had it not been f?>r
tlioir altnond shaped eyes and cof
lee coioreu complexions, t ii o y
would hove passed muster ou
Broadway for well dressed Spaniards.
Prince Schcmidzo Jngad, who
lias charge of tlio party, was educated
in this count rv, and now oc
cupies a v-ery high position near
the person of the Mikado. The
Prince is about thirty years of age,
and has a very preposspssing ap
pearance. lie converses in English
fluently, and with scarcely a
pcrccptiblo accent. He is quite
intelligent, and though somewhat
reserved and haughty, he conversed
3'cstcrday on various topics
with considerable animation, and
alluded moro than oucj to his
thorough knowledge of the English
language and his familiarity with
American institutions, lie eav6
that the young Japanese, not one
of whom is over twenty years oi
age, are very apt and eagor in
their desire to acquire knowledge,
and will, beyond a doubt, make a
rapid progress in the various studies
to wincti thv, miij ply thwir
minds.
Prince Schcmidzo Jugad further
stated that the young noblemen
are to be instructed with the object
of fitting them to occupy important
positions in the foreign office
of Japan, which has rccently(be
coinc a very important department
of the Japanese State. Upon his
arrival, the Prince, followed by
tlio charges, stepped up to the ho
tel register and wrote, in fair, le^ibl
characters. " Prince Schemidzo
Jugad, Japan, with twentynine
companions." Soon alter
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waru me Japanese were shown
to their respective rooms, as much
to escape tho insolent curiosity of
the crowd which had gathered in
the hotel vestibule, ns to refresh
themselves after tneir long jaunt
across the continent. The distinguished
visitors will remain but a
few days in tho city in order to
view the objects of interest, when
they will he sent in detachments
of four*or five to the different colleges
throughout the country.
Beautiful Ireland
Wo know, of course, that Ireland
is called the u Emerald Isle,"
and the color of the Emerald is
green, but never had it entered into
our imagination that there was
any where in thi* world to he seen
such verdure, as it charmed our
eyes to look upon in the rural disti
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no reman, and had never sympathized
with them, but when I look
upon Ireland under the heel ot the
oppressor, 1 arn not surprised that
her people should rebel against
the hardships they endure. The
result of the census returns, which
have just been published, should
open the eyes of English statesmen,
and it might be well for our
Washington legislators to study
the effects of oppressive legislation.
VVe see the population of Ireland,
which a lew years ago was eight
millions two hundred thousand, re
dticed to live millions four hundred
thousand. This loss of nearly three
millions of her population was not
l>y the emigration of old men and
women, but was the bone and sinew
of the country. Why is it that
while nearly e?ery nation under
the sun is increasing in wealth and
population, Ireland is becoming
def opulated f
Tn* nastor <.< u.?
, I(IV)
cnurch in Cambridge, Mo., baptized
two young ladies the oilier day,
and than mnrriod ?*
. ivib vi ilsinllUi 1 1111 Oll'JJC'B, I III)
knolls, tlio dells, tields of young
grain, over which tlio b?etzes
creep like playful spirits of the
beautiful; tliu pastures, dotted
over will) sheep of the pu est wool,
the hill sides, rising up into mistshrouded
mountains, are all covered
with thick carpets of smooth,
velvet green. Hut Ireland should
also bo called Flowery Isle. Tliero
is not a spot in Ireland, I believe,
where blessed Nature can find an
excuse for putting a flower, but
she has put one?not only in the
gardens and in the meadows, but
upon tbe very walls and the crags
ot the sea, from the great bloom
ing rhododendrons, down to the
smallest floweret that modestly
peeps forth from its grassy cover,
The Irish furze, so richly yellow,
covers all places that might
otherwise be bare or barren ; the
silkworm delights every where,
^'rom thousands of trees, to "drop
its web of goldtbe blooming
hapthorn, with the sweet-scented
pink, and especially the white variety,
adorns the landscape and
the gardens ; w all-flowers of ever}*
uue and variety, clamber to bide
the barsbuess ot the mural supports
; the beetled cliffs of tho
North Sea are fringed and softened
with lovely flowers; and if you
kneel any where almost on the
yielding, velvety carpet, you will
dud little, well-nigh invisible, flow
a u>? * ---ii ?
ui uiof i cu| nuuo| uiuw, imu jviiUVT
wrought into the very woof and
'.fcxture. Ireland ought to bo called
the Beautiful Isle. The spirit
of the Beautiful hovers over and
touchca to living loveliness every
point.?Pall Mall Gazette.
[Cincinnati Commercial, Indianapolis Spatial.]
A Curious Case- An Indianapolis
Woman Takes Desrrees in Masonry
and Odd Fellowship.
An old man, sixty-five years of
age, named George Staats, who
was the janitor ot Odd Fellow's
Hall, ana has had charge of the
private books and work, as well as
the keys, for sotne time past, has
been under the domination of a
woman named Phillbern, who acquired
a fearful influence over
him, and prevailed upon him to
let her witness three initiations iu
Odd Fellowsnip while she was concealed
from view. There is a
rortm nrlinininr* tlm main Kail ni i
the Odd Fellow's building desigucd
for the reception of an organ,
pending which it was curtained,
having been in this condition lor
some time. Entrance to this room
can only be obtained from the outside,
and thereto Mrs. P. was admitted
by the janitor upon several
different nights, and witnessed
threo, if five initiations.
Site was supplied with the private
books and work of the Order,
koys to tho rooms and one of the
stools of the Encampment. These
articles were taken from her a few
days sinco by the chief of police.
It is said the janitor instructed the
woman in three degrees ot Masonry.
She makes her boast that sho
is an Odd Fellow and a Fice Ma
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son, una nas given evidenco that
she knows more than she ought to
about Odd Fellowship.
Now for the reason tor her seeking
that which heretofore to women
has been a sealed book. For
some time past the janitor, has
paid $12 per month for the rent of
the woman's house. She wanted
more money, and demanded one
thousand dollars. This was refused,
when she asked for five hundred
dollars and a mortgage on
one of tho janitor's houses. This
was also refused, when she told
what she had seen and heard.
I Friday night the janitor was
tried before a committoc of Odd
Fellows and expelled from the Order.
lie was defended by the
lion. Win. Wallace. lie is now
reported as keeping closely to his
house.
Romance of Railroading.
A writer in a late number of
Putnam's Magazines gives us this
enticing description of a trip across
tho continent per rail:
" The perfection of American
railway traveling is found on that
greatest of roads known to the
world, the Pacific Railroad. The
lucky holder of a through ticket in
uno in mo so caneu I'uiimnn cars,
who iinda, within the same coach,
hia seat by day and hia couch by
night, and a restaurant whero he
may cither pay a sum of money
for all his meal* during the journey,
or order each time what he
chooses, has a rare opportunity of
enjoving tho luxury of traveling
in Ins fullest extent. As tho train
carries him swiftly along he sees
every phase of civilization unrolled
as in a vast panorama before
his eye ; here in the East, the large
city, with all the evidences of
highest culturo and greatest
wealth ; then tho borderland,
where the new settlor and tho
squatter bring their cheerful sacrilice
of a hard life's work for the
benefit of the coming generation ;
next the primeval forest and the
boundless prairie, with an abundance
of animal life, while the em
igrant's slow oxen and the Indian's
snaggy pony cyo each other suspiciously,
and their masters represent,
striking contrast, the dying
race of the owner of the soil ana
tlio undaunted energy of the usurper.
Then ho catches a glimpse at
the strange Prophet's home, who
rules like Mohammed over a host
of deluded beings, which ho has
drawn to him across the vast ocean
and the great prairies of tho Now
World, from the very centres of
civilization and tho remotest corn*
era of Europe, lie rises from his
comfortablo dinner and smokes his
cigar as ho climbs the Rocky
Mountains, with their weird
canons and their snow covered
heights, and when he awakes again
lie finds himself on the Pacific
slope, soon to see the QoUlen Gate.
opening before hitn upon the still
waters of another ocean."
ArrLFs as Medicine.?If eaten
frequently at breakfast, with coarse
bread and butter, without meat or
tlesh, apples have an admirable
effect on the system, often removing
constipation, correcting acidities,
and cooling off febrile conditions
more effectually than the
most approved medicines.
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-i ny wime author as above
quoted says they prevent debility,
strengthen digestion, correct the
putrefactive tendencies of nitro?
gouons food, avort scurvy, and
strengthen the power of productive
labor.
The Greatest Railroad Feat on
Record.
On Sunday, July 23, a change
in the jgaage of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad was effected
throughout the entire length of
the road, from Cincinnati to St.
Louis, a distance of 340 miles in
eight hours. Between daybreak
and noon, on Sunday morning, the
rails were all torn from their chairs,
lifted from the cross-ties, placed
npon the new chairs provided for
them, and firmly spiked d> wn. It
was an off day, ana no trnfic was
interrupted. Preparations had
been made for the event weeks
beforehand. New engines and
new rolling stock had been provided,
ana on Monday morning
business went on, on a new gauge,
with a new equipment, as if no
great revolution had taken place.
But the revolution which has
taken place is an enormous one.
The New York and Er.ie Railroad
and the Atlantic and Great Wcs
tern, broad guago roads, which
were absolutely dependent upon
this road for their Mississippi connections,
by it lost a large and
most important portion of their
trnnk lino. The Ohio and Mississippi
Road, which was a New York
road, becomes a Baltimore one,
and a great feeder to New York
is suddenly diverted into a rivul
city. This is what iliis change of
euage means. Baltitn >re and St.
Louis will soon become closely allied.
The Baltimore and Ohio
Road, the Marietta and Cincinnati
Road, the Baltimore and Cincinnati
(a* small independent link, affording
direct communication with
Cincinnati, approaching cotnplo
tion will form one unbroken line
ot railway ot the same gauge, and
identified by interost, between
Baltimore and St. Louis. This
new alliance promises much for
St. Louis, but much more for Bal
timoro In import and export trade,
and tlie business oi emigration.
[Chronicle & Sentinel.
Behind Time
A Railroad train was running
along at almost lightning speed.?
A curve was just ahead; and the
train was late, very late ; still, tho
conductor hoped to pass the curve
safely. Suddenly a locomotive
dashed into sight In an instant
there was a collision. A shriek, a
shock, and fifty pcrsowi wero
slaughtered ; and all because an
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engineer nau ocen ueruno, lime.
Tlio battle of Waterloo was being
fought. Column after column
had been precipitated upon the
enemy ; the sun was sinking in the
west; reinforcements for the do
fenders were already in 6ight; it
was necessary to carry the position
with one final charge. A power
ful corps had been summoned from
across the country. Tlio groat
conqueror, confident of its arrival,
formed bis reserve into an attacking
column, and led them down
the bill. The whole world knows
the result. Napoleon died a prisoner
at St. Helena, because one ot
bis Marshals was behind time.
A condemned man wa9 being led
OUt for execution. II? fftk.Mi
human life, but under circumstance
of the greatest provocation.
Thousands had signed a petition
for a reprieve ; still none had arrived.
The prisoner took his phico
on the drop ; it foil, and a lifeless
body swung in the air. Just at
this moment a horseman came into
sight, his steed covered with
foam. lie bore a reprieve for the
pri oner. But ho had come too
late. A comparatively innocent
man Imit A'ie*A ? >
mi?v? v*?v^v* Ull IllllUlllilllUllO
death, because a watch had been
five minutes too slow, causing the
bearer to arrive behind time.
It is continually so in life. Tho
best laid plans are daily sacrificed
because they are " behind time."
There are others who put off reformation
year by year, till death
seizes them, and they were ever
" behind time."
.A NKW WAY TO DKY PEAcma.
Dr. Jos. Treat, of Vincland, N. J.,
gave last season the following, and
as he says, new directions for parinff
ima^hoa 4V.i? rlxninn
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Never pare peaches to dry.?
Let them get mellow enough to be
in good eating condition, put them
in boiling water for a moment or
two, and the skin will come off
like a charm. Let them bo in the
water long enough, but no longer.
The gain is at least six (old?saving
of time in removing tho skin,
great saving of the neauh, part of
the peach saved, the best part,
less tiine to stone the peaches, less
time to dry them, and better when
dried. A w hole bushel can be
done in a boiler at otico, and then
the water turned off.
How to l>o happy on the cheap;
Qo without your dinner and see
how happy yon will be?when
upper-time comes.
i
TruthsMako
not a fool of thyself to
tnuke others morry.
Without the rich heart, wealth
is but an ngly beggar.
Vanity is a strong drink that
makes all the virtues stagger.
Truth's supreme regulations
come in sorrow to individuals and
in war to nations.
Gold is the fool's curtain, which
hides all his defects from the
world.
There is no fault in poverty, but
the minds thnt think so are faulty.
Nurture your mind with great
thoughts. To bol eve in the heroic
wakes heroes.
Thore is many an unfortunnto
one. whose heart. lik? n
always appears lovlicst in its
breaking asunder.
The wound of conscience is no
scar, time cools it not with bis
wing, but merely keeps it open
with his 8cytl.e.
It is the pale passions that are
the fiercest, it is the \ iolencc of the
chill that gives the measure to the
fever.
fso love from children is 6wcet?
er than that which follows severity
; so from the bitter olive is sweet
oil expressed.
lie who spends all his time in
port, is iiko one who wears notli
sag but fringe*, and eats nothing
but sauce3.
Great efforts from great motives
is the best detinition of a happy
lite. The easiest labor is a burden
to him who has no motives for performing
it.
The liarsb, hard world neither
sees, nor tries to see, men's hearts,
bat wherever there is the opportunity
of evil, supposes that evil
exists.
Goodness of heart is man's best
treasure, his brightest honor and
noblest acquisition. It is that ray
of Divinity which dignifies humanity.
How TO HAVE A LIVING WlKK.
A correspondent sends the-follow
ing to the Phrenological Journal :
If you would have a loving wife,
be as gentle in your words after as
before nicrriage; treat her quite
as tenderly when a matron as a
a miss; don't make hor maid of all
work and ask her why she looks
less tidy and neat than when you
first knew hor ; don't buy cheap,
tough beef, and 6cold her because
it doos not come on the table por
ter house; don't grumble about
equalling babies it you can't keep
up a nursery, and remember that
the bahy may take after papa in
his disposition ; don't smoke and
chow tobacco, thus shatter your
nerves, and spoil your temper, and
make your breath a nuisance, and
then c;tnp'ain that wife declines
to kiss yon ; go home joyous and
cheerful to your wife and tell her
the good news you have heard,
and not silently put on your hat
and go out to your club or lodge,
and let her afterwards learn that
you spent the evening at the opera
or at a fancy ball with Mrs.
Dash. Love your wito, he patient;
remember that yon are not perfect,
but try to be ; let whisky, tobacco
and vulgar company alone ;
spend your evenings with your
wife, and lead a decent, christian
life, and yon will be loving and
true?if you did not marry a
thoughtless beauty without sense
or worth ; if you did, w ho is to
blame if you suffer the conse
qucrccs ?
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Lively Timet in Conrt.
During the past week, the following
cases Were tried bv Trial
J tint ice Hemphill :
Wesley Marshall, charge with
malicious trespass, in killing the
hog of Ann lJratton, was tried by
a colored jury, and found guilty,
but appealed.
Clark Cunningham, for the same
offence, committed on a cow of
Iienry Shoemate, was found guilty,
and fined $10, and costs, or 27
day in jail. He paid the line and
costs.
T T11 nl?ni?r?AA
V>WVM Vy?l(H >Y I I t I IfCIH
larceny, in stealing a pair of shoes
from the storo of Qunrles, Porrin
& Co., was tried by a mixed jury,
and found not guilty.
Cldoo Gilliam, charged with
petit larceny, in stealing calico,
from White, Smith <fc White, was
found guilty, and fined $5 and
costs, or 20 days in jail. She paid
the tino and costs.
Thomas Williamson, charged
with assault and battery, on Isaac
Jay, plead guilty, and was fined $5
and costs, or 10 days in jail, lie
paid the fine and cost.
John McCord, arrested under a
peace warrant, was committed to
jail, in default ot bond for $1,000,
which ho failed to give.
[Abbeville Press and Banner.
Col. J. N. Bonaparte, latoof tlio
French arm}', returned to New
York, last Friday, from France.
Tiik Buttom Out.?The State of
New Jersey is in a bad way. A
dispatch dated the 22d ult., says
that " the bottom is dropping out
of the Statoof New Jersey in Warren
county. During the last tew
days a number of deep holes have
been suddenly made by the earth
sinking down into some fearful,
unknown subteiranean depths.?
The first noticed was in the bot
torn of the Morris and Essex canal
| on the seven mile level between
Broadway and New Village. All
tho water in the canal went down
that hole. Then a half dozen
more holes opened in the cornfields
and roads, taking down into
the bowels of the earth great patch
cs of corn, and oven sinking trees
oat of eight. In uddition to this,
there are scores of great, long and
deep fissures. Then on Wed ties
nay night, another big hole opened
in the canal. Humbling noises
were heard under the Methodist
church on Broadway, and nobody
will venture into the building for
fear of its going down. The wild
est excitement prevails among the
people who deem that any given
8pot ot land in all that county is
liable to plunge through half way
to China at any moment. Prices
of real estate have naturally gone
down as the real esiato has. The
Morris and Essex canal is utterly
ruined, its course must bo alto
getber changed to avoid destruction,
if it is intended to ever hold
water enough for a sun lish to float
in."
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rKKrARati*>n of FoOD for St- CK.
It has been long admitted that
chopping the food given to our
horses, mules nnd cattle, increases
the digestibility of the food, and
makes a smaller quantity, supply
sufficient nutriment. The steam
ing and softening the chopped
t'oud by wafer was a fnrtlj^r improvement
in the preparation of
stoek food, both as to quality and
in economical point ot view, and
now another and, it is said, greater
improvement has been introduced,
namely, the grinding or
crushing lodder, hay and straw,
by which they are made quite soft
and succulent, more cary of diges
lion, more nutritive, and more pal
a'ablc. The grinding is done by
ordinary millstones, and is very
simple and inexpensive in its operation.?So.
Farm and Home.
ArrLKS as Food.?Tho impor
tance of apples as a food, says Leibig,
has not hitherto been sufli
ciently estimated or understood
Besides contributing^ large p o
portion of sugar, mucilage, and
other nutritive compounds in the
form of food, t ey contain such n
fine combination of vegetable ac
ius, exirncnvo snnstanccs una aromatic
principles as to act powerfully
iu the capacity of refrigerants,
tonics and antispeptics ; and
when freely used at the season ol
ripeness, by rural laborers and
others, they greatly maintain and
strengthen the power of productive
labor.
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IIow to Curb NVarts.?Mr. W,
A. Davis writes to the Southern
Cultivator, and says : 1 will tell
Inquirer in last December numbci
how to cure the warts on his mule
I know a mule that was covered
from his head to his knees witl
warts that had been treated witl
nitric acid, h*rtffr cftu^ic, been cui
off, and scarred \vith>ot iron with
out being fteatfr'6yc#?which wa?
finally cured not a wart re
mains on him, with a strong ret
oak. ooze and alum". Apply tin
wash three times a day, until cur
ed, which will be in a lew weeks
1 know tliis to be so.
A Human Footprint Found S0(
Fkkt Undku Ground.?Col. T. J
Graham, while up the Kannwlu
River a few (lavs since, saw tlx
perfect impression of a man's foo
in a lump of canal coal taken fton
the mines at Cannelton, ten miles
I).low the falls. lie lells us tha
the impression of the foot is per fee
in all its details, leaving no roon
to doubt its identity for a moment
A hill eight hundred feet high-n
immediately over the coal mini
from which the footprint was ta
ken. As the Colonel is a gooi
judge of man's toot?or a woinnn'i
either?and a gentleman ot relia
hility, we leave tho geologist t<
figure this out.
[Portsmouth (0.) Tribune.
A Sciinktcady editor complain
nine parents are in tne iiaiut o
locking young peoplo out of tli
house after nino o'clock. Ttio c<]
itor saw a couple thus lockctl oul
Ilio other night, and tlicy wer
hanging on the gate. They wor
BO Iliad that thev knot tiitinrr <??io
-j ?r h '
other?ono being a young mainland
tlio other a young wonmn.Such
cftfioa of hydrophobia nr
common hero, too.
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Tiik Prksknt Life.?The present
life is sleeping and waking; it is
41 good night" on going to bed, and
44 good morning " on getting up; it
is to walk in ilie garden and see
the flower open, and heat tlio birds
sing; it is to have tho postman
bring letters; it is to have news
from Kast, \Vest. North and South ;
it is to read old books and new
b oks; it is to seo pictures and
hoar music ; it is to hnvo Sundays;
it is to pray with a family morning
and evening; it is to sit in tho
twilght And meditate; it is to bo
well and sometimes to bo ill; it is
to have business to do, and to do
it; it is to have break fas', and din*
ti ?r, and tea; it is to belong to a
town, and to have neighbors, and
to be in one circlo of acquaintance;
it is to have friends to love one ; it
is to have sight of dear old faces ;
j and with some men it is to be klssI
ed dailv bv ihn annm
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for fifty years ; ami it is to know
themselves thought ot many times
a day, in many places, by children
ami grandchildren, auil many
friends.
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40
A gentleman driving up to a
country inn, accosted a youth
thnsly :
" My lad, extricato my quadruped
from the vehicle, otabulate
him, donate to him a sufficient supply
of nntr'itious aliment,and when
the aurora of morn 6hall again nllun.inate
the oriental horizon, I
will award you a pecuniary compensation
for your hospitality."
'I lie boy becoming puzzled, and
not apprehending the gentleman's
high-sounding effusion, ran to the
house and exclaimed :
"Daddy, theies a Dutchman
out here who wants lager beer."
Pins, found in the ruii.s of
Thebes, made 3,000 years ago,
have been placed in the Louvre
Museum. We venture to declare
they wore not found in a pincushion.
W o never find one there.?
1/iok on the flour, the mantel, or
the table', you n av find tbc-in
sticking in tho window cut tains,
' wall paper, lying loose in the bureau
drawers, the book cases,stuck
to tho head iu the pillows, artistically
stitched in the table cloth, the
bed clothes, between the leaves of
bouks, and we once found one in
n I? L *
_ ^uuumg, unt never iook III
a pincushion for a pin, if there is
a girl in the house?never !
Tiiky Say.?"They Say " Is a
nuisance. He is forever making
mischief. Forever poking his
I nose into somebody's business.?
Forever vilifying somebody's character.
Forever doing something
mean. We suspect " They Say "
has ruined as many people as whisky
and the faro-hank.
* They Say " is a snake in tho
grass. Professing the warmest
J. friendship to your iacc, l.c vilely
I traduces you behind your back?
^ not in the first person singular, he
it remembered, for be is too crafty
for that, but he retails, with
Atninidab Sleekliko sorrow, what
other people say of yon ? in short,
what " They Say."
| " They Say " is a humbug.?
, Tear olf the hypocritical mask ho
nv>u? iui'i you snail see, very ofj
ten, baseness aiul knavery of tlio
blackest kind. Sometimes 'Ao ml1
mit " They Say " is weak-minded,
J ami slanders people more through
ignoiai.ee and thoughtlessness tl.au
a wish to destroy their good name,
nit be is none the less a nuisance
, for that, and (Jod help hie victims
in either ease.
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True two Candida e. for Govei of " /
cf Kentucky are on the stump to- /
jctlter. Govcnor Leslie, the
( Democratic nominee, said, in reply
to General Harlan, a few
' days ago, that the Democracy do
not propose to oppose the thin
. teenth, fourteenth o r fifteenth
amendments, or to disturb the
rights of the colored people under
. them ; but when the opportunity
. was afforded for their being set
aside by the proper tribunals, they
would favor such action.
.! Ma ink is ecnding granite for
. thu construction of two ot the lar11
gcst bridges in the world. From
g | Mosquito Mountain, in Frank tort
it goes to St. Louis to build tlio
y jiieis oi the great railroad bridge
across the Mississippi at that
point. The New Yorlc to Brooklvn,
is receiving material from
B Blue Ilill.
f - . ? ?
e W* learn that Wimbwdi. colored
I- Senator from this country who, like
b many other country l< gulalore, remove
?d to Columbia last spring because he
^ thought it would be more wholesome
f>r hiin, has not improved, but is declining
rapidly with consumption ?
e consumption of what? is the ennum*
j .hum.? lleporttr.