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BY W. A.LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1871. ; ^ , VOLUME XIX--NCU6. <
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THE SHIP.
J - . .
And see! she stirs!
Hie starts?she moves?she seems to feel
The thrill or life along her keel,
Ami, spurning with her foot the ground,
With one exulting, joyous bound,
She leaps into the ocean's arms!
And lo! from the assembled crowd
rhqfo r<ye;i shout, prolonged and loud,
That to iIk' O^'iu: scfeinod to say?
"Take her, .0 inidegroorn, old and gray,
Titk- bets to thy protecting arms,
With all heryoutli;mdall her charms!"
Row beautiful she is! How fair
*<< 1 M'< within those arms that press
w wiili many a soft caress
" [tj U rne.W'nnd watchful care !
t - . ,it(>ihesea,'0 ship!
v i 'daud wave, right onward
jn * i . *? .
. \ -* -r-i rvthe trembling lip, 1
' a of doubt or fear.
!,: ' > the sea of life,
l-.vnig, trusting wife,
' f- ?m all adversity
.. Din of that sea
viiiTH and thy goings be !
' ii.Ti-'iifss and love and trust
I'cr-anjrry wave-ana gust;
. lit- wreck of noble lives
.ing immortal still survives !
SMITH'S NEW CLERK
Jenkins met Smith, his Senior j
partner, at the depot, who had been
absent on a business tour.
"How's busiuess?" inquired the
latter.
"All right; got a new clerk."
"Got a new clerk, eh! Where
2_ T?? >"
lb u umus :
"Discharged him. An idle, extravagant,
imprudent young
,dog!"
' True enough, and the new one !
wont be any better. Drinking, I
gambling, late hours, and fast!
Jjorses?that's the way with 'em
all." . .
And "Smith groaned.
Jenkins' eye twinkled. He well
knew the peculiarities of his goodhearted
but eccentric bachelor partner.
ry<v*
"Well, the new clerk dou't drink
nor gamble, I'm certain of that, j
.and has thus far been very indut .
J - 1
tnous ana aireimve* ;
"Thus far?- 0, yes. - Wait aj
month. Xew brooms sweep:
clean."
u0h, well, if tlie ue5V clerk don't
suit you, you can send the new
clerk ad rift, tlmt's all. I only took j
hdr-Wjn! ? the uew clerk on
? Air-Smith stared at hi.s partner.
"I suppose the new clerk has a
li.'ime?" he remarked, dryly.
"Oh, yes. Her, that is to say,
the new clerkls name is "Gardner, j
But here we are."
As was his usual- custom, Mr. J
Smith went through the store, pass- J
ed the array of clerks -on either
side of the counter, without glancing
to the right or left. But when
he reached his private office, at the '
irtiv .-???,! In* lrutlr*>fl tlnviiio-li tfiA
junuvi.vinw) *4^ vv'-vH ?.v j
glass"door, which* was so situated i
that iinv-could sec all that was goiog !
on in the storey ? ; '
His eye iell on the occupant of a
iki$k;$$tir the door, he started : * j
that 1" . he said, turning
sharply upon his "partner, who had j
< lowed him. q
-mzkI very composedly :
. - i . slender form, whose
*" * *. / j
\ > . I'd was bent intently
jr i " .H _ <- that lay open upon
? - j.' ' j "
hy. t at's the new
. ... :...>hed his eves and lookI
\ it's a woman !" he exf
.with au air of incredulity j
i ror.
i'?ul<l say it was," said Jencool
!y, "anil a confounded
. ty one at that,"
V-tnith gave his partner a look of
virtuous indignation.
-'Mr. Jenkins, this is no place for
a woman."
/'Think not? Now it strikes me
t'.iat sU'ts the place very neatly."
"The proper place for n woman
.is in the sanctuary of home."
This was a pet observation of
Mr. Smith's which he had read
feoinewhere, and which he considered
as. a clincher in such an argument.
"But suppose she hasn't any ?"
That was a poser, and, in his efforts
to surmount it, Mr. Smith got
excited.
.''Hasn't any! . Why, sir, she
-piust?she ought to have one."
"Very true. In fact so confident
am I on that point, that
. J. nayp some thoughts ct ottering
yon mipo?or, at least, to share it
with her."
"Mr. Jenkins, this is not a fit
subject for jest,
"It's a seriouB matter, I know;
so, on the whole perhaps I'd better'
think it over awhile longer.
Besides, there's no knowing if she
would accept my offer together
with the encumbrance that goes
.with it."
"Jenkins," returned Smith, ?eTrordlr
"will cnn pmra tritliiicr An(i
,vivv f,,,i j vv* ~~~~~ * \ c*
attend to the business iu hand?
This woman must go."
"Very well;you told me you
wanted a clerk that would be faithful
and industrious; that didn't
^ - - . l"
j spend his salary, and all he could
j steal, ou fa'st horses and faster wo- s
! men; and I got you one. It's an N
I easy matter to send her off." *
I "Of course it is," rejoined Smith, c
brightening at the suggsstion. s
"Just tell her she don't exactly
suit, and that we shan't need her
! after to-day." t
j "But she does suit?me; and if j
' you are not suited, all you've got
1- -i - *_ii i >>
UU IS IU ICII IJUJ ?
"You hired her." I
"And for that very reason I 1
won't discharge her without some ?
[ good cause."
j "No matter," returned Smith,
with an air* of lofty indifference. =
' I can discharge her. I think I am ^
equal to that much."
Jenkins, who had left the room,
put his head back a moment later, t
"Bet you a hundred dollars you v
don't do it." 3
With this parting shot he disap- t
peared.
Now Smith had a nervous lior- J1
ror of women, as his partner well 1
knew?especially of young women s
?and never spoke to one if he
could help it. g
Had it been a mau he would y
know what to say, and experienced i
no difficulty in saying it, but a woman
was quite another tiling. n
But his partner's last words h;id t
touched his pride, and summoning "
all his resolution?, he opened the
door and walked out. n
But his courage failed him as he t
came opposite the desk where she
sat, and he passed by, glancing n
sideways at the unconscious occu- y
pant, who did uot lift her head at
his approach. .. h
After speaking to a clerk at the s
fusther end of the room, he walked
slowly back to where the young lady fi
sat, and who as he paused by the
desk, raised a pair of soft blue eyes
shooting a swift bewildering glance .
in Smith's that he felt to the toes ^
of his boots.
"Miss?Miss''?he stammered. Y
"My name is Georgiana," said <;
the young lady, smiling. "Some v
call me George, for short."
"Well, .Miss George?Georgiana,! h
I'm afraid that you will find your J'
situation unpleasant.
"Not at all, sir. On the contra- v
rv, I find it very pleasant and com/...i
.i.i..??
iunuuiu. # .
uAhem, but I fear that you will J
be hardly eqtial to the discharge J,
of its duties." Ilt
"I hope uot. v If you will run
your eyes over the balance sheet, In
yon wiil find everything correct." i tc
With desperate hope that there j si
would be something amiss. Smith i tl
did so, but was disappointed,. |
' I hope you have no iault to n
find?" said the clerk, rather anxiously,
ou perceiving that he hesitated.
"Yon are a woman." SI
There, whether abashed by the j
sudden, display of dimples in the.
pink cheeks, that grew stiil more!
pink at his rather- unnecessary us- |e{
sertion, Smith came to an abrupt-I ^
pause. _ . jdi
At flits tho ftmilinor fnfft Kftttlftd !l/
into an expression of demure grav- tl
ity. , si
"I must plead gnilty to the
charge of beino: a woman. . But d
O # . ? 0 I
though it may be a misfortune, it l}
ean scarcely be called a fault; at P.
any rate, it is one for which I am
not-answerable!" t]
"You understand me. ma'am. t
What I meant to say was, that t
there are certain duties connected _
with your office, such as opening s
the ftore, going to post-office, etc, I
which you cannot very well per- f
form."
t4I assure you, sir, that I shall (J
like nothing better than au oeea- 3
| sional walk in the open air. And 1
| as to opening the store, and sweep- ^
| ing and dusting, I don't know that
j it should be harder to perform that J
I office for a store than for a house " ,
'"I claim no consideration for my t
sex," resumed the young lady, cast- c
ing a slightly reproachful glance at t
the perplexed .counter ance of her i
employer, "but I ask in common (
inatice. if I nerform mv duties Bat
; O ? -?7 r %/
isfactorily, that you will not dis- (
charge me siinpiy because lam a !
woman." j
I* Muttering a disclaimer of some. ,
kind, lie hardly knew what. Smith ,
beat a sudden retreat to'his own room,
assuming a bold lookashemet |
his partner's inquiring eye, but ;
v\ih an inward con8ciau8i\ess that i
he had been totally routed by the j
enemy. ; '
"Going?" said Jeukins, with 1
provoking non chalanctr. .
"Well, no, not to-day. What
the d?1 are you grinning at?"
"0, nothing?nothing at all,''
responded Jenkins, throwing himself
back in his chair, and regarding
intently h fly upon'the ceiliug.
j "What I was going to remark
was," resumed Smith with qnite an
1 unnecessary assumption of dignity.
' "that I have concluded to let th?
I young lady remain until I can find
1 Cftmn oitnatinn fni< hpr mOl'S ill E(i
: OVSIUVJ OibUAfctVU ?v? * ?. -?? ?- ?
coi^lance with her sex "
"Very kind and considerate in
you," said Jenkins, dryly, "especially
taking into view that she does her
work better than any clerk wo evei ^
, had, and for less pay, too."
?CBOUPPa^?????I??MM
Smith was by no means the ogre ho th
eeraed. A&idc f.-om his p: ojudica, ho re
vas a sensible, kind-hearted man th
Georgian a was not ealled upon to m<
:pen the store or run errands, though all
he offered to do both. th
Curious to relate, as days and weeks an
>assed, Smith's repugnancc to her a1
>resenee/iot only vanished with them ne
mt he begau to regard it as a positive rir
nua^uiu ?-v
He used often to look through the fin
;1jirs door, watching the graceful pa
>oise of the head and the motions of th
ho deft littlo fingers as they glided c-o
iver the paper, until at last curious ha
ancius seemed to' creep through his mi
rain, and he began to indulge in to
flowing dreams of how wonderfully w<
ueh a little woman as that would th
irighten up his lonely and cheerless n:t
lome. * ed
But he determined 10 proceed oau- th
iously. IIo had it. His housekeeper at<
ais about to leave, he would offer scl
liss Gardner the situation?and w<
hen! de
Having formed this resolution, his
icxt step was to request the young nc
ftdy's presence in his private office, a ha
ummons that was promptly obry- ra
d.. sU
?? ^ * -1 - ?? - - il ?. 1- il. .
Miss uaraner, aon d you ininK me mi
ituation of housekeeping in a quiet foi
lome, like mine for instance, would on
>e preferable lo your situation here?" mi
"Perhaps, in Fome respects it co
night, said Georgiaua. coloring at th
his abrupt inquiry, and the look "that w i
ccompanied it. wi
Was tho old gentleman about to of
aake her an offer? T1
But his next word relieved her of gr
his apprehension. wi
"My housekeepor is soon to leave pa
ie, and I should bo very glad to have tec
ou supply her place." of
Georgiana's cheeks grew red, and ou
ier mouth dimpled wi'h smiles that an
he strove vainly to suppress. I 1
"You arc very kind, sir, but tho ha
ict is, Mr. Jenkin has spoken to me m<
rat-" * hif
"Mr. Jenkins?" bo
"Yes, sir.. He asked me to be his hit
ousekeeper, and 1 told him that I ov
rould." no
"But, my child, Mr. Jenkins is a th;
oung man?it would not be proper hif
or you to keep honse for him. is7ow hu
k ith me it is different." his
As Georgiana inwardly agreed with nu
im, in fact, there wa6 all difference im
\ Im tr\ Iviii* nil
.4 vllt? |u tw iivl *?
"But lie asked me to be his wife as sin
,'ell as housekeeper." eis
"0-o-o-h!" lig
Smith's first feeling was that of in- am
;nse astonishmenr, his next, of quite cot
s strong chagrin. But it all ended hoi
i an cmotiotf of thankfuluess that he we
ot committed himself..
Hut his disappointment could not
ave rankled very deeply, for he at- 1
mded tho wedding; viewing with
niling tranquility, the- ceremony j
uit transformed liis new clerk into
ic happy wife of his fortunate part- jt
er, Jenkins. ' . mj,
. Gu
SERPENTS.
boc
;ories About Rattlesnakes?A Horri- ?01
ble Plaything. ^
ted
The Lynchburg Republican publish- ftrr
5 the following "tnukc stories," and tur
1 hot' nnti Ka n ni i?tf Ai") Kit in ..
\J O IHtJ V/UII uvy OUUOk^lllltiCLU J Oil
isputable testimony. They urc only Xo
)rne of the trifling experiences of doe
jo mouutaineers with tho ruttle- inn
lakes: wi*:
"There are in the Blue Hidgo two <
istinot species?the yellow and tho tra
lack. The yellow was formerly sup- res
osed to bo tho male, and tho black <rol
Lie female; but the fallacy of th:.t ehi
pinion is demonstrated by the fact
liat in many localities only one of tbi
hese kinds is ever seen and also by bee
he great difference in size and form I'd
-the yellow b'ing very thick and wo
hort, and the black long and slender scr
hit both of these species are bcauti- <
ully ornamented with flowers, which gr<
n the sunlight, partake of all the col- urn
irs of tho rainbow. The yellow 0ff,
nake is much less liable to rattle than mc
he black, and therefore most to be Bh(
Ireaded, though no dependence need ani
>e placed in either, as it depends alio- th,
ret her upon tho caprice of the mo- Up
nent w.hen they retreat, advance, tic
attle, or "play possum." Tho par- m,
.iality of this snak?- for the company foi
)f children has been frequently no- un
,iccd among the mountaineers, one wl
A -A* 1*1 /?. ! i . . . _
nsiance or which is laminar 10 some i
)f our Bedford readers. jul
A few years ago a farmer whose dijabin
(stood in one of the wildest lo- in
jalities about the mountains, on com- at
ng into the house one day discovered st<
bis little daughter, two years old, sit- on
ting up in bed, where she had been tl;
placed when asleep by her mother, foi
The child was laughing immoderate- sti
ly, and showing by its every action W
and expression of countenance that jm
it was greatly pleased. Tho father ad
approached, when to his horror he ry
discovered that an enormous j'ellow ol
rattlesnake, tho largest he had ever rii
seen, was in bed with tho child, and i an
actually coiled around her body. His th
presonce instantly wrought a change It
in the conduct of tho snake, which Ii
dexterously uncoiled itself from rn
around tho child and assumed an at- in
titude of battle. Tho mountaineer's tu
rifle hung upon a rack over the door ; cc
Uo irrocn/iH if in l\ifl hnriH uritlt Pm.L Zl.
ings which cannot be described, and ni
awaite(f an opportunity to shoot. He tii
iind no sooner dono bo than the snake et
i-ommenced caressing the child by in
rubbing his head fondly .against h?r w
cheek, and darting his forked tongue m
almost in her eyes. Then he would d<
raise his tail and rattle so rapidly as n<
10 make one continued sound, at
which the child was greatly Relight- ti
ed. But upon the least movement on Ii
0 part of tho almost distracted pant,
the snake would entirely change
e tone of his rattle and swell to al:>st
twice his natural size. During
this timo the child tightly grasped
e snake with his chubby little hands
d jerked and twisted him about in
rery rude and unceremonious manr,
laughing and talking to her hor1
plaything in a perfect ecstacy of
light. This state of things was
ally ended by a movement of the
rent, which so enraged the snake
at ho drew himself up into a tight
il, leaped out of bed, and would
vo buried his fangs into tho farir's
face had ho not quickly dodged
one side. As it was, the serpent
?nt over his shoulder and out at
e dooy, where he renewed his sig1
for battle, but was quickly stretchout
stiff in death by a shot from
e riflo. Tho child cried iinmodcr2ly
for her pretty plaything, and if
t down in any part of the yard
mid immediately toddle toward the
ad reptile.
A party of young men in the same
ighboi'hood, only a few years ago,
d a very interesting adventure with
ttlesnakes which may be briefly
ited. Early in the Fall of the ) ear,
d before the snakes had 'housed up'
* the Winter, this party went out
c night on a raccoon hunt. About
dnight the dogs 'treed' a family of
ons in one of the largest trees in
e neighborhood. It was.decided to
?it until daylight to capturc them,
ih thi? Imno fli'ii tho. down
tbc tree could be dispensed with,
ic young men laid down upon the
ound, and were amusing themselves
th telling stories, when one of the
rty, who was thoroughly acquain1
with the habits and peculiarities
the rattlesnake, suddenly called
t,'Lie still, boys ; don't move for
ything. There's rattlesnakes here;
leard one's rattles hit a rock.' lie
d scarcely spoken when an enor>us
rattlesnake came crawling over
> foot, and following his. leg to the
dy, crosscd over his breast, striking
> next neighbor's face, and crawling
er his mouth. The third party was
t touched by the snake, except
[it his rattles tapped lightly against
5 cap-brim as lie passed. The fourth
ntsman heard the rattle, sprang to
\ feot. and ascended a tree with reirkable
agility. This snake was j
mediately followed by another, not I
ile so large, and then by four very |
all ones, all of which travelled preely
the same path. When dayhtcame
the raccoons were shot,
d then tho search for tho snakes
rtmenced. ' The}7 were found in a
How stuinp, but a few steps olf, und I
re all killed."
)o Not Forget Your Pocket-Book.
Don Piatt, of Cincinnati, is not an ;
:ouraging man to trust with a lady, I
teems, from an account of a droll !
*ad venture which he gives in the
luxy. He writes:
'1 never left a depot yet that someiy
was not put under my care. 1
i't know why this is; I suppose it
lomething in my countenance ; if I j (
dw what, I would have it cxtrac-1,
, J don't like having unprotected |
lales and school b03*s and girls1
ned over to me. It's a little bard j
a man. And what is it ^ood for? ,
body needs protection j if any one j
;s, it is a benevolent, good looking,;,
ocent sort of a man?such a? the i
iter of this. I,
i WHS lUilVIII'^ MJII UIC HiUrUillg
in once from Philadelphia, when a-i
pectable looking old scoundrel in 1,
d-ritnmed glasses asked me tp take 1 (
irge of his daughter. She could '
re taken charge of me. She was | (
rt}7, if a day, with u face that had j
>n on the offensive for ten years, j,
like to see any man attack that i
man; I'd go odds ten io one on the j
atch.
'The old fellow seemed to be in a j
at hurry, and thrusting the lady. |
der my arm, left the cars and drove j
, In a thin, angular voice that was ]
mnt to be very sweet, and was not, I
j asked me to take her pocket-book j
d get the necessary ticket. I left,!
j car for that purpose, but when I !
proached the opening where the j
ket agent, kept in solitary confine- j
nit, snaps at the world outside, I 1
md that I had left my pocket-book
dcr my pillow at the hotel, and i
nit was worse, my watch with it. j
had about twenty minutes, and |
wiping iuto a hack I promised the j
I ? Vi W v U U VIUU o IX 11U >v UUIU Ucll'K I
time for the train, lie started oft'
a furious rate, ran over an apple <
md, crippled a venerable gentleman |
the corner opposite, and in less ;
an the time stated I and the driver i
und ourselves marched off to the I
ition in the hands of the police, j
e wore taken before a corpulent
xticfc of the peace, who had as much
ipose in his head as most men car
about their muscles, and it-took the
d fellow just two hours to tr^, rep
litlud, and fine us for our drunken
id disorder!)' conduct. Of course i
e train went off with my charmer.
went off without her pocket-book.'
never saw her again, although I j
ade diligent search and ad^eitised j
the daily papers. But ono urifornate
day, some months after, 1 en
luntered a male member of her fami',
who made some serio'us charges |
jaiust me connected with the deser[>n
of a lad)", and stealing her pock-book.
I tried to explain, but failg
10 get m}' words in satisfactorily, ;
as forced to mako an assault on this !
ale member of her family thflt en?d
in some black eyes and bloody
JBUH.
"Now, what was the good of put-1
ng that aged fem^Jo under my caro?
t, only led to her giving mo that
:
pockot-book and the catastrophe that
followed. Sho could just as Well*
have gone off on the Pennsylvania
without a? with me. The thing is an
outrage. If people want to put their
femahjs under the care of anybody,
let them try the conductors?they are
hired for such purposes?and not impose
on innocent passengers."
She Catches Him.
A lady correspondent of the New
Yorlc Commercial Advcrliecr, writing
from Long Brunch, describes her uneasiness
at the loo lrcqucrit * and too
protracted absences of her husband,
who is spending the season thero with
her. Finally, she linds him out, and
reclaims him, as follows:
1 made a discovery a few evenings
since which relieved my mind from a
great deal of. worrimont. Our sex
arc, naturally, suspicious and inquisi
live. I was having a pleasant chat at
the room of a lady friend, when I
thought I heard my husband's voice
over the fan-light of a neighboring
room. We listened, and heard boisterous
laughing which soon convinced
us that both our husbands wcro
there. Wo could hear distinctl}',
' Chip," "Chip,' 'Chip," 'Twenty
better," "What ye got," and a score
or more of odd expressions. Woman's
curiosity was not long in being
gratified Wo had no occasion to
peep through the keyhole; we learned,
to our entiro satisfaction, that our
husbands were wedded to 'two pairs.'
1 wish 3*oii cotuu have witnessed
my husband when he entered our
apartment about 3 o'clock next mornintr
I had been waiting for him ?
had a sleepless night. Ho entered
stealthily, and commenced undressing
himself, lie was arrested for a moment
by my snoring. I confess I
snored, but only in fun. It was just
to fool him. lie, poor fellow, stared
at me with all the eyes in his head;
ho had never heard me play before
on the nasal' organ. I went it as
strong as Levy, but with not quite so
much harmony. There he stood, like
patience on a monument, when I commenced
talking in my sleep?"Chip,''
"chip," "chip," 'twenty-five better,"
"two pair" Wasn't he a picture,
though. I could stand it no longer,
and so roared right ought. 'lie confessed
all, and promised to do bctte'r,
and to give more attention to his deserted
wife.
^ ^
CUNDUKANliW
A Large Supply of the -Cancer Weed
Coming.
From the New York Times.
The victims of cancer who have
been anxiously looking forward ' to a
time not far distant when they would
he able to procure a supply of the
South American ppe':ific, "cundurango,"
will be pleased to learn that Dr.
D. M. Bliss,, of Washington, expects
very soon toobtain a sufficient quantity
to furnish all who may be in need
of it. lion. A. LI. Laflin, naval Officer
at this port, made application a
few days ago, in behalf of a friend,
for some of the specific, and in reply
Dr. Bliss wrote, on the 15th inst., that
he? had none to spare. He says: ""1
receive but a small quantity at a time,
and it being my purpose to treat a
few eases here, where {hoy can be tiuder
my own observation, it will be
impossible for mo to Solid any of it
....... 'I'l.i, nntno/lv HQ Wf>ll 11U mV.
uy. iuii jv.mv tj, MU .. v.. *..j
self, having been attacked, I desire to
demonstrate to tho public what it will
do, which necessitates the above
course." In a circular note, however
the doctor ?:iys he expects to receive
a sufficient quantity by the 1st, or the
15th of August at the farthest, to supply
the profession or the public as
they may desire. Hp. says that
enough has been developed by its use
to assure him that it in the most powerful
alterativo ever in the hands o?
the profession, and that it possesses a
specific influence over the poisen of
cancer "From the statements of the
physicians of Quinto, and my own experience
in its uso, I am convinced
that the 'cundurango' is quite as reliable
as a spec ific in cancer, scrofula and
other blood diseases as cinchona and
its alkaloid have proved to bo in
zymoticdiseases."
* Food fou Chickens.?Chickens
do not require feeding till about
twenty-four hours old, and then
they may be fed corn meal sparingly.
Soaked pieces of bread are
better for the first few days; jmd
boiled eggs, mixed with a lime
corn meal, moistened, are still better,
especially for the first day or
two after commencing to feed. After
the chickens are old enough to
eat meal ground coarse, it is better
to feed such, .than that which is so
line as to be liable to bake in their
crops ; and when older feed barley,
buckwheat, or cracked corn, and
give tbenf-a wide range to catch insects,
and they will seldom be?ome
diseased.?Lkc Stock Journal.
"When tlio Emperor of Brazil arrived
at LisGon, the King of Portugal
sent his Chamberlain to say that the
royal palace of Neeessidatus had been
specially prepared for his reception.
But the Emperor, declined the offer,
observing that he was in mourning,
that he had come to Europe on a tour
of study aod observation, and that he
should feel that he was less in the
way of his royal relations if he stayed,
like any of the private gentleman
at one of the hotels.
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Romance of a Bale of Cotton,
We clip the following from the
New York Journal of Commerce, and
commer.d it to the attention of our
farmers, as furnishing an example
worthy of immilation:
The^ cotton market was surprised
yesterday by the sale of a single bale
of short staple Alississidpi, (Leo county)
cotton, at fifty cents per- pound,
il. _ U..1- 1 f I I J
uiu uuio weigning lour nnnuiuu ?nu
forty-tbreo pounds. It was raised by
W. Ji. MeShaw on liis plantation in
Leo county, Mississippi; picked, and
then taken into tho parlor If his residence,
where it was carefully cleaned
of soeds, sand, leaf, bark and other
impurities by the fair hands of Mrs.
and Miss MeShaw. It was sent to
the agricultural fair at St. Louis last
Octobor, and received the first premium,
$500, for the best bale of Bhort
staple cotton. It was al60 entered for
tbe 81^000 prize, sweepstakes, for the
best bale of either long or short staple,
and won it. It was then presented
by Mr. MeShaw to tho Southern
Educational Society, and by that society
sent to tho St. Louis Corn Ex
chango for sale. It was sold to Mr.
D. G. Tuft at thirty cents per pound ;
and b}7 him presented again to the
same society, who sold it at twentyfive
cents per pound and afterwards
for'thirty-eight cents. Tho society
once more received it as a donation;
then raffled it for $1,000; sold it twice
after that for prices not quoted, and
at last disposed of it to Messrs. Shy
rock & Rowland, of St. Louis. It
was then sent to gladden the eyes or
tho New York Cotton Exchange, and
was exhibited by the well known
firm of Norton, Slaughter & Co., for
whom it was sold at the price given
above, fifty cents, by Messrs. Mann,
Son & Co., brokers, to Jonathan Earl,
treasurer of tho Norfolk and New
Brunswick Hosiery Company, at
New Biunswick, New Jersey. It is
the intention of tho company to manufacture
tho bale, and to escertain if
it will not surpass in texture any
cotton goods yet mado in America.
Mr Earl has shown considerable sagacity
in purchasing this celebrated
bale of cotton, and it is possible that
the fancy price paid for ic may stimulate
southern producers to improve
their methods of cleaning and packing
uutil they obtain similar results.
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Diamond Cut Diamond.?A correspondent
writing, from Saratoga
relates this incident:
"Among our visitors, is a young
clergyman. lie is smart and has his
eyes op*n. He is a churchman and
will make his mark. An incident
will illustrate this. His college chum?
is settled in the Baptist ministry.
Our church friend made a call on his
chum. It was Sdturda}', and he proposed
to spend Sunday with bis old
associate. He was made welcome,
but with the least bit o? embarrassment
that he did not fail to observo.
At length the Baptist brother spoke.
'I should be delighted to have you
preach for me to-morrow. But the
* ?-_ * nr..
iact is, ic is our commucion. nc
have it directly after our morning
service. It would bo very awkard,
you know, for you to preach for me
and then go out of the house with the
unregenerate, for by the rules of our
church, you, not being baptized, cunnot
commune with us.' The churchman
laughed, and 6aid: 'Oh, don't be
uneasy. I will preach for you.' But
were I forty times baptized, I could
not sit down to your table, for by the
rules of our church, you know, are.
not ordained, and cannot administer
tho ordinances at all.' And so ho
preached, and at tho close went out
to his dinner, while the saints sat at
their table."
Farmers in Wiiconsin have engag?
' *" ? AAnoMAMnKla 'Avfonf in
cu iu n vuijr tuusiu&ittuiv, uavvuv in
tobacco raising, the fields Mnging in
extent from the garden-paten to forty
acres, with mtijority from five to
ton acres. So raany children Jiave
been placed at work in xhe fields as
to seriously affect the schools.
A merry, light-hearted damsel rushed
into a citizen's arms at Savannah,
claiming, "Oh, you ar^ my long-lost
brother!" She soon discovered her
mistake, and rushed of in a confused
manner, accompanied by her long
lost brother's pocket-book.
Quilp and his wife had a bit of contention,
the other da}\ "I own yon
have more brilliancy than I," said the
woman, "but I havo the better judgment.',
"Yes," said Quilp, "your
choice in marriage shows that!"
Quilp was'jusily informed that he was
a self conseited brute.
Henrj' "Ward Beecher preached the
other Sunday from the tost, "My
soul cleavelh unto tho dust." It cer
tainly does; and a $20,000 salary is a
pile of dust well worth cleaving to,
too.
j Tho recent census returns for Irej
land, .contrasted with th06e of tho
past thirty years, shows a steady decrease
iu tbo population. In 1841,
jtbe population was 8,196,587. In
j 1851 it yvas-6,574.278, whilo this year
it is but 5,402,858, nearly 400,000 less
than ton years ago.
Tho excess ofawomen in Great "Brittain,
as revealed by tho recent census
is exciting mucn attention. The disproportion
between the ?exos is 913,163.
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A Brief History of Long Branch.. ^
?Long Branch takes its came from
a brook, a branoh of the Shrewsbury
river. In the year 1793 the place 0j
was inhabited by Indians, and was
styled Land's End About that time
four men," named respectively Parker, M
Slocum, Wardell and Hewlett came
irom Rhode Island and established a ,
settlement there. A considerable portion
of the land which they obtained
cobtioued in the possession of the
alocums Until thirty years ago, ana.
some of the laDd wai rants are still in
existence. A fow years later other, y
hardy settlers from neighboring provinces
bought land in Long Branch
at twenty shillings an acre, built
dwellings and occupied themselves
with farming and fishing. It now c;
embraces a population of four thou- n
sand live hundred.
The Liberty.Pole is the name given
to the village, from a flag staff c
erected there during the war of 1812, 0
while the coast portion, upon which
the cottages and hotels are located, is f(
known as the Shore, fronting the a
ocean. Land purchased at the edge- .
of the village by Mr. Samuel Laird,
in 1863, for 2.5D an acre,: was sold for *
$4,000 in 1870, soon after tho Bnr- s
lington Pathway was opened. The
first hotel erected at Long Branch ,
was the Ocean House. There ore *
now accommodations for twenty 11
thousand people. -Three years ago '8
Blythe Beach, south of the present
West End Hotel, comprised only far- c
ming lands. To-day it is laid out as a 0
park, with, new roads from seventy c
to one handred feet wide, and beautiful
sites for cottages, r Of these there
are now.two hundred. c
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Haste and Health.?It is not
at all wholesome to be in a hurry. 1
Locomotives *have been reported J
to have moved a mile in a .minute
for short distances; But locomotives
have often come to grief by "
such great rapidity, Multitades in "
v. ai r Vioofn f a fir a i*inn^ I ^
VUVli VV UV| AAVU MA W * UAUVVt
every year. The. men who do
things maturely, slowly, deliberate- j
ly, are the men who oftenest sue- I
ceed in life. People who are.hab- l
itually in' a hurry generally have to
do things twice over. | The tortoise
beat the hare at last Slow men (
seldom knock their brains but ,
against a post. ; Foot-races are ininjurious
to health,-as are all forms
of competitive exercises J steady 1
labor in the field is the best gym- J
nasium in the world. Either labor *
or exercise carried to exhaustion, '
or prostration, or. even to great r
tirednessj expressed by "fagged c
out," always does - wore-harm than t
the previous exercise has done
good." All running up stairs, ruu- j
niug to catch up with a vehicle or t
ferry-boat, are extremely injurious r
to every age, sex, and condition of
life* It ought to be the most press- f
ing necessity which should induce f
a person over fifty to run twenty
yards. Those live longest wh,o are tj
'deliberate, whose actions are meas- t,
nred, who never embark in any enI
terprise without "sleeping over it,",
and who perform all the every day B1
acts of life with calmness: Qua-! *Jj
kers are a proverbially calm, quiet
people, and Quakers .are thrifty
lolk. the world over.?Dr. MaU. ^
tmt . * ft
M. Gaml etta is said to be more e
p ipular than any other man in the
A cmv That nart of the armv which
votecl for Paris gave him upwards of s<
1,700. while General de Ciese/ onlv ti
obtained 1,300, and Andre anl Wol- o
ow?ki, tho Alpha and Omega of the
anti-petroleum party, received only
1,100. Gambetta proposes to sit for I1
the Va, in order to offer the elders
of Paris the opportunity of retufflig ?
hie friend M. Kane, who is regarded
by the extreme party to which he n
belongs, as tlie ablest nian in that n
party. a
, m, c
A Newport correspondent says: ,
"Let me nere say that one of tfio b
greatest nuisances at a hotel is a hand- n
some young man. He is an intolera- e
ble bore to all the ladies of good sense g
in fho house. If I might be allowed h
j a suggestion I would advise overy
' father who is threatened with a hand!
some man in tho family, just to take a v
clothes pounder and batter his nose to '
a pomice." ^
It is paid that when Brigham t
Young was asked the other day which b
?~ l.n/4 Waat. Prtint. tha nnnun. '
DUU UU U*M\JL ft ?w ~
drum so staggered iiini, that he was
obliged to refer to the family record *!
to solve it. 'Do they miss me at 1
home?" is not much sung in thatfam- 1:
ily. \
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One of the negro legislators of Mississippi
shot a a white man for refusing
to argue politics with him. The i
Boston Post thus expresses its indig- c
nation: "If a negro can't compel a c
whito man to answer whqn spciken to, i
what in the world, is the use of civil f.
rights?"-" * c
? ? t
Mrs. Claflm, in the last number cf
her paper, lays this down as ? social
axiom: If a rigid analysis of thepresent
condition and the general re- '
suits of the marriage, as dow practi- 1
cod, wero to be gone iuto,. we doubt i
if there Would be found a single cir- 1
cumstance to recommond its contin- *
uance. 1
. i m t 1
A man, commenting upon the ruins t
of Pompeii, said that it was a very e
mposicg city, but very much out of i
epair. ;
a*.
- ' - - * ' - s >*,-">7.'rv
SCRAPS.
. *' -J Vi
Nevada is vegetating in minerals
' all kinds. Mobile
export# more oranges th*n
iesaina. #
- W- :
St, Louis lias * forty-eight schoolauses,
valued at $1,730,000.
*\ V. . Wj * * v * **'
A Toledo genius starts , baulky
or&es by blowigg.in their ears.
Boston sells 40,000 bean-poles ft
ear to suburban agriculturists."
' * . ' ' - * . 1 * .'-f - '
An Illinois man preaches Sunday*
nd drives stage week days. *
Ib Heligoland all foreigners are
ailed "skit,*'which in their, dialect
leans dirt.
' '' '
In New Orleans recently, as%<Mnan
hoked herself to death with a pair
f suspenders. "
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The Empress Eugepisis in treats
>r the sale of her diamonds, which
re valued at ?320,000*..
If you are afraid you ehonld scream
rhen your tooth is being pulled..you
neuia noia your jaw.
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A Philadelphia judge has decided
hat a procession has no right to
aterrupt the ordinary travel .on the
treets. - "f <'i: ' i
An exploring party Id Wkhit^
ouoty, Texas, found an arrow head
f pure gold and very fine specimens
if copper. - . .
Gov. Holden's impeachment trial
oet the people of Carolina
he nice little snmof $61,540.
The wife, of Colonel Alexander
lamilto^, son of the great Hamilton,
nd a niece of President Monroe, died
X New Brunswick on Friday night.
fun, commenting on the proverb
Peace: hath her victories,'*, says,
Just so; more fall in Love than in
ear."
i>> ~ t-lg ?' iw; ' ** ;*
A sale of oak trey is reported in
Unnlan/t in TirKtnk Ifcvma tlMUntkt na
iM '?"?wu ytvwyiy w#
iigh as $360. TheywerQcut for
imber. . / *
\ ?. ^ .? ;' : : j
/The New York Herald shrewdly
raggests that "no public mad in tbepe
lays can afford the luxury of & qatf- f
rel with a newspaper."** * *' *"
^ riz~Q '.X
"Worth, the celebrated French male {>
nodisto, has returned to Paris, and is
toceinore catting and fitting, dresses ;
br ladies'of the. nobHity. '
The Tredegar Iron "Wotks at Rich*
nond, Va., are reported as turning .
mtflvotons of iron nOw to every one. rned
oat before the war. ,*f - '
In the Kentucky lottery -proseeaion,
a lawyer for the defence claimed
hat lotteries were' '-a great moral,
eligious and Christian institution,!!
L'Mende, of P?r2fe, proposes that
Joraica be tendered to the Pope an
iviolable residence, by which means,
; claims, the supremacyoi' France aa
be defender of the faith will-be suifnlined.
^
The O'Donofcue,' Mi P.,, Who has
pent a targe ( fortune, haff made an
rrangemebt wftV "his-,creditors, aed
tie bankruptcy proceedings will -fce
nnnlled. . ; ,,i
A patriotic Indiana youth took his
ither's cow to the* pound, and -replied
fifteen cents for Fourth of. July
xpenses.
Bismarck.had to kiasi< sixty hand
ame joang1 .'uuies ax u rceeuu rwop*
ion, and did it without the assistance
f a clerk. v' , . *, ...
'
A parliamentary speaker lately rejarked
that innocence is like an nm<
rella, when once we h&ve lost It wd .
lay nover see It again.
A sarcastic young la<jy says, she
ever was so much in love with a '
Ian tbay wo rainy days together in
country house would not' effectually
ore her. . t .
A little boy, after watching the
urningof the schoolhouse until tbe
ovelty of the thing had ceased, tftart
d down street, saying: "Golly! I'a
lad tbe old thing's burned; didn't
ave nrp jogfry lesson nohow J"
A Virginia paper is puzzled to know
whether whiskey should be spelled
nth an e. Spelled any way it is a
ad speli for most people, and... it
jnnlft tint. hA had to dwin all the let.
ere and so get rid of the word, ia ?
ope the thing itself would follow..
There is but one peddler in all Xreind.
He takes his certificates jfrom
he county of Down. 'The &ct aplears
in a parliamentary return, and
ccupies a whol^page. "Th^ aw itx
Sngland and, Wales 66,964 peddlera,
,nd in Scotland 11,862.
M. Rockifort has had his troubles
ncreased by the elopement of his
laughter, aged 15, with a young man
>f 18. She was schoei in Jersey, it
8 said, whence the pair went to Lon?
Ion and were married.. The mother
>f the bridegroom, however, followed #
.hem, seized her son and packed him
)ff to the colonies, while the bride
E?as sent.back to Jersey,
Dolly Davenport broke his leg, in
rexas, recently, and nursed by his
hnen stavinc at the Wash*
nriAVy ?*? * o ?
ngto Hotel in Galveston, His landord
called at his room die other day
lud presented bis bill in full for six
,veoks. Dolly examined it and r?narked
that it wdh receipted. ''Well,"
taid the old fashioned landlord, "you
ihould always take good care of your
-oceipts. It's just a littlecomplimfftt,
ij-pu sco. Goodmcwftiog*