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? \ ' !' " * X * . ' ? . rn-m^ ?????W??mmm??ifBY W. A.. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1871. . VOLUME XIX?NO. 18. ^ ? ????? 1 '. i in mm????mmmmmmmrnrn? ???^????< Going to Milk the Cows. f Daisies and buttercups blossom 11 In the meadow*just below, Ami the apple-trees down in the rchard Are drifts of scented snow. c And the robins, they ship in the lilacs, s And swing in the purple houghs, }, "While dainty, sweet litlU; Jloilie . Js going to milk the cows. c v "Tripping along so lightly, t Out to the clover lot, * h There are the patient beauties, lilos.iuuis, and .Sue, a:ul .Spot. Lingers she long nl her milking, . Watching the .sunset bright C In the rosy west, anil the round full moon ? Flooding the world with light. s BELLE ALDEN'S TRAVELING-BAG. " 11 tl A train bound for St. Louis had d .just left the depot of Bel I cl on tain e, -c< when a gentleman entered the II smoking car and laid his hand m upon the shoulder of his traveling- r< companion?a tail, handsome man of thirty, who sat musingly blow- in ing rings of smoke into the air. hi "Marcv." said the now comer, y( ""if you want to see at once the l>< -sweetest and saddest sight you ever tli beheld, go into the last car but one bi on the train. There's an emigrant tli German, woman, with four little ei children,*an<l during the afternoon the youngest?a baby?has died, ly The mother and the other children tli are. inconsolable." qi *\I can understand," interrupted to tho smoker, "the sadness of sueh a n< cone, but where is the sweetness T/ you ppoke oi ?" "I'm coming to that. The whole w party have been taken in charge of of by ? young lady. Such a beauty! ar She's dried the mother's tears, and so wiped the children's noses. She's cu divinity! She only need* a few he feathers 011 her shoulder-blades to co make a full-fledged angel of her. If I was not a married man, I'd in never loave her till I'd made Mrs. Angelica Townsend out of her J' nj "That's a speech I shall faithfully report to Mrs. Agnes Town- h:i send," said the gentleman address- L< d a? Marcy, rising. * "1 shall go bl back and feast' my eyes on this beautiful bister ot Ulianty; ana,- sa he added, taking liis traveling yc satchel and shawl from the rack, <4as uestou at the next station, id< which is due in ten minutes, I may ha as well take my traps through with co me, and join }*ou on the platform." br Thus saying, Richard Marcy If threw his shawl over his shoulder, a 1 and sauntered leisurely through the long train?rushing blindly and sh calmly to his fate. For, as he en-! an tered the last car but one he be- foi came a witness and an actor in a , wi scene that influenced his whole fu- j \\l ture life. j nr The poor, grief-stricken German, j of whom his companion, Dr. Town-1 tli Bend, had spoken, with the dead in- j an fant in her arms sat silently weep-; ou .1 . l!nl. 1 1 I ins over me iiuicueau irtce. The three sturdy children, grouped in childish 'sorrow about their so little dead brother, was indeed a | cv touching spectacle. But, standing beside tlieui, was the divinity of ]jC Dr. Townsend's admiration, and an ?he who was most certainly to c0 'share the ends" of the unhappy ! iie "Richard. j jn She was a tall, slender girl of f,.< eighteen, with magnificent eyes and i ^ liair. As he entered the car she ! was speaking, her lovely face flush<jd, and the small, rosy month, dis-' {]] cl >sing a beautiful set of teeth,! turned bewitchingly towards the . R< tall stranger at the door, "Ladies and gentlemen," spoke m t'.e sweet voice, "this poor woman, friendless, penniless, speaking no tr; English, with four little children, rp] was expecting to find work in St. p6 Xouis, to support them. If every- j thing had gone well with her. it i Wi would have been hard for her; but1 ni with Iter little dead baby and sor- i yC rowful heart 6hc is certainly a ,de- ca Berving obiect of charity; and 11 propose thut such as feel willing, m contribute their initc toward a lit- j ev tie purse for bcr immediate wants ! and the burial of her poor baby. x$< And," she added, with a bewitch- j i\( ing smile, "if an}' gentleman will i he lend me a hat I will go round aud te take up a collection." * In an instant the gallant Kichard foe pulled his traveling cap from his blonde curls ahd offered it to the st Angel of Mercy, who accepted it ra -with a smile, this time all his own, gl *nd commenced gathering the readily forthcoming dollars for her ft generous, graceful appeal brought te from the purses of all in the car. liichard watched .the slender r figure in gray gathering the money And looking at the plaid cap in the w white jeweled fingers, lie be- j thought mm 01 1113 own aonauon, 1 and stepping to the seat the beauty ! had just . occupied, he laid "his r< satchel and shawl upon a family of its kind, belonging to the angel in gray, and took rrom his pocket a s ten dollar bill, which he placed in tlio little hand that returued him <3 his cap. Further damage the poor j r follow received, when a second* I smile aud warmly-worded thanks i or his liberal contribution were lealt him from the beautiful iion (h. Dick was in the midst of an elaborate reply, when the cars stopped. -He lingered yet another moment, ' cized his satchel and shawl, with lis eyes still on the face of his ; banner, and then even as the cars . /ere again in motion, lie bchought himself of the doctor, and nrriedly left the car and joined his riend on the platform. 4'\\rell,". ejaculated that worthy, I began to believe you'd conc'udd to go and bury the dead baby, nd make the protecting, beauty Irs. Angelica Marcy. Isn't sho\i tunner ?" "Townsend," returned his friend don't use slang in speaking of the oble creature." Jle looked after ic train just disappearing in the istancc. 4.I wish to heaven," h.c :>ntinued, "I'd remained aboard. !ow stupid -I was to leave it. I light have learned her name and ?sidence. And now?" tl2sow in all probability," broke i the doctor' "you'll never meet er in this fale of tears. But )u'll k?ow her in heaven, if you shave yourself, well enough to get icre, by her wings, she'll have the iggest of any of them, seeing ley've commenced to sprout on irth." And thus rallying his thoroughcaptivated friend, the two made eir way to the house of an aclaintance, with whom they were * remain that night, and go on the ixt day to their destination?St. ouis. 1 After the first salutation our hero ( ont to his room to remove some J '.the evidences oft* his coat, vest id collar; he had splashed, and " aped, and washed, till his damp iris hung close to his shapely u sad, when lie made a startling dia- f( very. 1' Flushed and breathless, he burst to the next room upon his friend. "Townscnd," cried he, "what >on earth do you suppose? I've n >t the wrong bag. I've charged P ggage with the Angel of Merc}'. )ok at the "slipper?see that thim- v e?contemplate that glove." a "It's evident you've the lady'9 v tchel. And what was there in ^ ?ur?" h "Don't bring up that dreadful ^ ea," said Dick. "Cigars and a " ir-brush, a pack of cards and a n nib, pocket-flsisk and a tooth- J.1 u?h ? everything disreputable. I am judged by that bag, I'm ^ ost man." " 'And this I took for a clean tl irt and Dick held up a frilled ^ d fluted sack, such as to do duty r more extensive night-dresses " th ladies when traveling. Td :e to see Angelica when she opens y satchel.' And Dick fell to "musing, with S( e slipper perched on two fingers P d the frilled white sack spread Jr tt tenderly upon his knees. j1 ***** '' In an upper apartment of a hand jj me mansion in St. Louis, on the I f f.t t i ?.. _ 111 ening 01 uie uay our uitoiuu | st made the reader's acquaintance J autilul Belle Alden, the petted , d only daugtcr of tlie house, sat ,, ntemplating the various articles r conlidential maid was dispos- f' g upon the table?articles taken ^ >m no less a receptacle than Dick arcy's traveling bag. y> The cards and cigar-case-lay side ^ side, and a highly-sceutod party ey were. 'What's in the little silver flask, -t :>sasaid tiw fair mistress. ', 'Brandy, ma'am,' replied tlie j aid. _ * : I' "lie can't be veay dissipated, to j ivel with such a little bottle, i j lilt's in case of sickness, I sup- , ise,' returned Belle. 3 'It's my belief,' said Rosa, who , is a shrewd girl, 'that the gentlcun was a mighty nice one, else . iu'd not so readily excuse the rds and the bottle.' j1 'For shame, Rosa. All gentle- , en play euchre traveling, and ( ery clergyman takes a little bran- n ' in case of sickness,' answered a ?1 lo < A ml tVi ia mnn \vs\q a rrpn" I # V,"V o o y. iman, and a liberal one, too, for i gave the poor emigrant woman a n dollars. What's that Roea V c For at that moment Kosa held ^ itw'een her fingers a letter. Whether it was wrong to read a f) ranger's letter vexed Belle for a a omeut, as her eyes glanced at the y iperscription and hand-writing. b 4Whj-, of all things!' exclaimed a le delightful girl, seizing the let;r. 'Why, liosa this is Jenny 1 .'arcy's writing, and addressed to t ichard Marcy?her only darling r rother?who was in Europe when y e two graduated at Madame Kite's in Brooklyn." Belle read rapidly till slio had < cached the middle of the letter, j 'hen she burst into a merry laugh, i 'Ilear this Rosa,' she said and 1 lie read from the letter: 'Above nil things, Dick, dear , on't fail while in St. Louis to see , ny?bcst friend and schoolmate, , Belle Alden. 1 know you will Jail 11 love with-hcr, for besides being the best girl in the world, she's a beauty and an heiress, and father's choice above all others for his son's wife. lie used to think it over home, and hope, and, hope, Belle would not marry before you came home from Europe. She is full as anxious to know you, an'd wears your lniir and mine in'a locket faiher gave her last year. * Give her lots of love and beg of her to over nun rinntt ? 111 n a fVnr-1J f\II O IUVJ1V JUUl lilting IVVVIVIIW) the suke of lier old school fellow, Jenny.' 'Then this gentleman is, of lourse, Miss Jenny's brother,' said Ftosn, 'and what will she say when she hears of your having met in his.romantic way?' 'I don't intend to tell her of it ill I go to New York this fall,' said Uelle. 'Perhaps her brother will jail.' But in this supposition Belle was vrong. The month passed, and the saw no more of the goldenleaded Richard. And she earcfully separated the1 ellow lock in the little keepsake I Vom the dark tress of Jenny's and >ut it back into its place alone, vhile another locket held the bit of renny's. And, somehow, Belle ooked very often at the wee goldin curl, and she never did so but he rest of the handsome head prang up beside the lock; and she roiiId sit and 'contemplate the pic ' 1 A <? 1 ure iier iaucy wrougnt ior ner* ittle dreaming the interest she waS llowing to grow in her bosom for Penny's brother. In the fall Belle and her father rent to New York, and the first ay after arrival found her sitting nth her old friend, who, after the rat effusive meeting was past, sat own to'empty her soul. 'I am so glad you are here, this 1011th,' Jenny said, 'because I'm o be married in October, and I ave always been crazy to have you :>r a bridesmaid, and Dick is to be larry'a best man.' Belle blushed* 'But Diek has fallen hopeles&lv, nadly in love!" Belle turned ale. 'Yes, I was dreadfully provoked rlien he passed through St. Louis nd Jicver went near you. But ^e rent wild over some lady he met' u that trip. lie will talk to me y the hours of his Angelica, iiul when I have spoken of you lie as been positively rude, and asked ie to have done bothering hiiti im about my freckled school iend ? you know your picture lows freckles; but, bless me, you avn't any now! And your picirc don't look any more like you ..1 i:i-- ? -L - i.'.i. t inn it uoes nice mu, not a un. 'But tell me,' said Belle, 'is your rothcr engaged to this lady.' 'Engaged ! Wliy, dear heart, he on't know her name. lie just >und some of her old clothes jmewhere. lie's got her old sliper under a glass ease; he's got her iglit gown done np in lavender; e'sgot her gold thimble -hung on is watch eliniu; and I do believe e*8 got a hair-brush and some I air-pins next to his heart.' Oh, it's J >I!y.to interfere! lie's beyond II hope! I did think the exciteicnt of my wedding would wean im from it; but not a bit. He >oks at my new things as calmly t mi /MI niwl At\ li* Piidl i+C ?n\f 5 till U%)Ol<Jlj tUlU UI1IV BUHI HO IIV/l# j ind of me to repeat it, though,' j roke off Jenny. 'What was it lie said ?' inquired elle, laughing now heartily, j )on"lftar for my feelings.' 'Why, lie said, 'I'll stand up with ' onr friend, Belle, and see .you ; if'ely married; and then I'm off.to inter ii: Paris. I'm done with \ >vc on nl% own aceouut.' It's ositively awful.' And so Belle thought, as she )okeu at her old slipper and glove ring beneath a globe on either ide of the faithful Richard's mane. 'And.' said Belle, 'since he de ires only to meet me on the morn- J lg of the wedding, so it shall be. j will be introduced only as we are | saving the house, and he can do \ s he pleases about continuing the cq u ai n tan ce after wa rd.' liellcwas radiant with happiness /hen she returned to her father, nd delighted his fond heart by tho hange, tor Belle had been very uiet of late. Jenny and Belle shopped, and talkd and visited together, for the next 3w daj'S, and at/d when the morning rrived, and amid a bevy of beautiful irln, Belle sbono like a queen, the iride was eclipsed, and delightfully cknowledged it. "Oh, Belle!" sho said,'I long to lave old stoical Dick Bee you. llark! hero's his step. Come into the next oom now, and be introduced. Don't vait till the carriages come?it's an lour yet.' And- Belle, with a boating heart, iwcpt through tho door and stood jven as Dick first saw her, only in ilace of tho gray traveling dross, a nagnificent white satin full in rich 'olds"about bor and about her lovely white throat lay tlfe 'turquols locket Lhat held Dick's golden curl. Upon the beautiful head. crowned by ils L'hcstnut hair, a coronal of pearls ai\dod to the grace and beauty of an imago that, shrined in Dink's heart, was already an angel, Bcllo did not loolc up, but she felt tlic pi-csence, as Richard Marcy camo up and was introduced to little Jen. n3''s old 6cliool-mate. Then, as be held out his hand, she raised her eyes, and laid her tiny palm in his, aud said: 'I think we had better rcetify that mistake about the traveling-bag, Mr. Alarcy!' Good heaven, Jenny,' said Dick Marcy. 'why didn't you tell me that 3*our friend Belle was mj* 'Angel of Mercy' ?' 'Because I didn't know till last night and then liclle mado me promi.io not to tell. And besides, you didn't want to meet the freckled school girl till it was positively necessary,' returned Jenny mischievously. It would bo hard to say which of tho four that mado Jenny's bridal parly was the happiest that day. Dick did not go to Paris that winter. lie found that.St. Louis contained more attractions than any for/ t/rn f* i t > 'v But tlic next full will sco Dick and Belle ou their wedding tour, and he vows he will have the two romantic traveling bags brushed np for tho occasion. Dr. Townsend, .who is to go along, says,he know tho minute he saw thatgiul she would one day bo Angelica Marcy, as ho 'felt it in the air.' ' I The Peasant and the Lawyer. Cities havo their individuality a? well as men?manufacturing or mar- j itimo, intelligent or frivolous, they always reveal by their physiognomy tho nature of their inhabitants. Go through Rouen, Lyons, Brest or Strasbourg, and look around you. Everything which strikes your eye will bo a revelation of tastes and habitf; the history of each population will be found as one might say, written in tho streets. Ono is cspc cially struck with this truth when he visits Bonnes. To seo its grand edifices, with their magisterial air, its promenades, with scarcely here and there with some pensive reader, you recognize at oncc the capital of the old Breton Dnchy, the old seat of Parliaments, the city of study, where nil the truthful 3-outhsof theprovinee come to cnltivalo their minds, for the prevalent air of licnnes is gravity; the whole city is calm and severo as a judgment hall, and. indeed, it is the dwelling placo of the law. There you find its temple, its high priests, and its most fervent worshippors They resort hither from tho most remole parts of Brittany to seok counsel. To come to Rennes without consulting a lawyer appears as imposs!ble to a Breton as it would have been to a Greek to pass tho tempto of Delplios without interrogating Iho Pithones i. rn 1 " - " ' I Atnnn/1 I 1%/V ftn/1 nf I J. DIM WIIS il?) U UU l<unaiu uiu viiv* u> the last ccntury as it is to-day, and especially of the peasants, a race rendered timid by experience, and accustomed to take piocautions. So, then it happened, one day, that a farmer, having como to Iienncs forsomo bargain, concluded, after his business was finished, that, as he still had somo hours of leisure, it would be well for him to employ them in consulting a lawyer, lie had oftenfbeard M. Poticr do la Germondaic spoken of, whose reputation was so groat that a cause was deemed already gained if i it were supported by his opinion. The peasant askgd his. address, and repaired to him in St. George street. The clients were numerous, and Bernard had to wait a long timo. At last his turn-came, and ho was introduced. M. Potior do la Gcrmondaio signed to him to sit down, laid his spectacles on tlio desk, and asked what ho camo for. "Faith! Mr.. Advocate," said the farmer, twisting his hat, "I havo heard so much talk of you that, as I was hero, I thought I would tako the chance of consulting you." "1 thank you for your confidence, my friend," said M. Gcrmondaie; "but yo*u havo some suit. I suppose?" ' Suit? I abominate them, and ~ ?- ? 1 l'Cter licrnjiru nuvui nuu n ??iu anybody." "ThenJt is a settlement, a family division^"Excuse me, Mr. Advocate; my family and myself have never had any division to make, seeing wo cat ovt of t'lio same cupboard, as they say." "It concerns some purchase or sale, then?" "Oh, no, indeed! I am not rich enough to buy, nor yet poor enough to have to sell out." "But what do you want with mo, then?" asked tho astonished lawyer. "Oh, well! I have told }*ou, sir," replied Jbernara, witn a louci, omuarrassed laugh; "I want an opinion? for rooney,.underBtand?because I am here at Kennes, and I must profit by th? occasion." M. Germondaio smiled, took a pen and paper, and asked his^iamo. "Peter Bernard," replied lie, happy to bo understood at last. "Your age?" "Thirty years or thereabouts." "Your Profession?" "My profession ??oh, yea j what I do? I am a farmer. The lawyor wroto two lines, folded Iho paper and handed it to his6lrange client. "Is it finished already?" cried Bernard ; "-oh, well?that's-laclcy; one has no timo to grow mouldy, uk they say. How much is it worth, this opinion, Mr. Lawyer?" '"Three francs.,' Bernard paid withojit complaint, scraped his foot, and went out, enchanted with having prolitud by the occasion. When he rcachcd home it was already 4 o'clock. The trip had tired him, arid he went'in determined to rest. However, his hay had been cut two daj^s before, and was completely dry. Oue of his boys came to ask if ho must go bring it in. "This evening?" interrupted the farmer's wife, who had joined her husband, "it would be a shame to go to work so late, when you could do it to-morrow without tiring yourseu." xn.o ooy remarked that tljo weather might change, that tho teams were ready and the hands unemployed. The wife replied that the wind was from a good quarter, and that the night would soon interrupt them. Bernard, listening to both sides, did not know how to decide, when . suddenly ho recollocted the lawyer's paper. "Stop a minute!" cried* he, "I have got an 'opinion' here; it is from a famous man, and cost mo three francs. That ought to settle it. Let us see. Thcrcse, tell us what it says, you who can read all writing," The wife look tho paper and read, hesitating, these two lines; "Never put off till to-morrow uhat you can do to day." ' There it is," cried Bernard, struck as with a ray of light. "Come, get the carts quickly Girls, boys, let us get in tho hay. Still his wife tried to niako objections, but he declared that tho poople did not buy an '-opinion" for three francs for nothing, and they must follow the lawyer's advico. lie himself set tho example at the head of his laborers, and worked until all tho hay was got in. The event seemed Hont on purpose to prove the wisdom of his conduct, for the weather chang' ed during tho night, a sudden storm burst over tho village, and the next day at dawn they perceived tho river overflowing the meadows and carrying off tho new cut hay. Tho harvests of all tho neighboring farmers were completely destroyed. "Bernard alono lost nothing. This first experience gave him so much faith in the lawyer's opinion-that from that day he took it for the rule of his conduct, and became, thanks to his regularity and diligenco, one of the richest farmers of the eountry. Ho nev .er forgot, either, the service AL (iermanduie had rendered him, but carried him eC-cry year, from gratitude, a cooplo of his fattest fowls, and was accustomed to say to his neighbors, whenever they spoko of lawyers, that "after the laws of God and the Church tho most profitable thing in the world was a lawyer's 'opinion.' " $ # Anecdote of Henry Clay. 1 It is known that Mr. Clay was re- j markablc for his recollection of face?, j A curious incident of this wonderful power is told of his visit to Jackson, Miss,in tho year 18?. On his way , the cars stopped at Clinton for a few moments, when an eccentric but KtroiiL'-inindcd old man made his way i ? . - I up to him, exclaiming as ho did so, j "Don't introduce me, for I want to see if Mr. Clay will know me." t "Where did I know you?" said Mr. , Clay. (' "In Kentuey," answered the keen- j sighted, but one-eyed old man. * Mr. Clay struck his loifg, bony fin- r gcr upon his forehead, as if in deep j thought. "Have you lost that eye since I saw you, or had you lost it i before ?" inquired Mr. Clay. "Since," said the man. "Then turn the sound side of }*Our face* to inc, that I may get your pro- J file." ; Mr. Clay paused for a moment, his thoughts running bnck man}r years. "I have it," said ho. "Did you not j give mo a verdict as juror, at Frank- j fui't, Ky., in the groat case of the United Stales versus Innis, twenty- | one years ago? ^ ' 1 did! 1 did!" said the overjoyed old man. j "An*l is notyonr namo," said Mr. Clay, "iiardwicke?" j "It is, it is,'' replied Dr. Hardwicko, bursting into tears. "Did I not tell you," he said to his friends, "that ho y knew me, though I have not siren him from that timo to this? Great'* men can never forget faces." ?o 9 Dn. Frankltn's Toast.?Dr. Franklin once dined with the English and French ambassadors, and tho following toasts wero-drunk:. The British ambassador said: "Eng- ; land?the sun, whose bright beams enlighten and fcrtllzo the remotest corners of tho earth." Tho French ambassador, glowing i wi-)h nation ai prido, but to bo polite t to tho previous toast, drank; ''Franco t ?tho moon, whose mild, steaky and 1 cheering rays aro tho delight of all ' nations, consoling them in their dark- j noss, and making their dreariness ] beautiful." . i Then Franklin arose, and with his ( usual dignified simplicity said : George I Washington?tho Joshua who com-j 1 4 l.rt ditrt nml trt Ofnn/1 I 1 IlltlllUCU 11IU Dllll uuu 1IIUUU WV/ still and they obeyed him." < i - j A thirstv wag, imitating what Josh Uillitl^s call *'poetic prose," wrote the following: "Pick apples now, and cider make, and through a barrel jtiieo it; then get a straw without a Haw, and through a straw reduce it." Playing on feeling?"Oh! Mr.Low oil, j'u sooner do ti vioiimsi imin any thin# olso .in tho world. Wouldn't }*ou?" Modost Youth?"Well, if'}-ou were tho vioJpnist I think I'd?;i ? Boouor bo the violin." Then and Now. A stretcli of primrose sky, Therobin9 madly singing, While far away or nigh The maples sottly.sigh, With scarlet blossoms swinging. Two lovers at tho gate; They linger, linger, linger, Ite binds tho ring and fate? The ring of love and fate? 11/jth r? I'too -iiiiAn //) 1 ri/t> rt CI/* tU'JV #IW # #?*/V# * * * * * O sky r too sad for tears! O naked trees above us! See how the cruel years Turn all our hopes to fears, liob us of all who love us. 0 filfal wind that grieves! 0 empty gate,-wide swinging! O dead bird 'noath the leaves! The At; arc life's harvest sheaves, The end of all our singing. ? AUGUST. ITcro is somo practical and useful information, such as is immediately adapted to our latitude, clipped from that valuable sem-weckly, the Farmer and Gardner, published jn Augusta, by E. II. Gray, Esq., tho Secretary of tho Cotton States Mechanical and A fi-rienltural Association, and odited by the well-known Horticulturist and" Pomologist P. T. Berkmans, Esq, under the head of "Work for the month": Usually tho month of August brings with it refreshing showers which seem to bo the opening of a second spring for vegetable life. We should avail ourselves of this and replenish our vegetable gardens with another crop of escnlonts of various kinds. Rutabaga ' turnips, if not sown by tho end of July, should be put in the ground during the first part of this month. For winter keeping tho middlo of the month is profcrablei Sow turnips for fall and early winter use. Early horn carrots, beets, salsify, kohl rabi, (when prpperly cooked tho best substituto for cauliflower,) snap beans of which tho early China is the best, German wax beano, Butch case knife, both being pole beans of great fertility and fine quality. The latter most desirable for salting for winter uso. Irish potatoes for second crop can be planted as lato as the 15th. If tomato plants sccmj through bearing, make cuttings of young shoots, and cut a foot long, remove leaves cxccpt terminal and plant up to tho last bud. This will give plants which will commeucc bearing in a month or six weeks. Winter, cabbages must bo set out. riant cucumbers for pickling, the long green is- preferred for this purpose. Now is the timo to prepare for your winter supply of vegetables ; it is true tbathat moro care is nec-es 3ary to securo a good stand than in ?pring, but it will amply repay for the trouble and outlay. August is the best month to commence probagating poach trees bj' judding. If quineo stock have not jeen budded iu Juno they must be iltcndcd to at once, as the vegeta,ion of tho pear tree is not vigorous ifter this month and buds become too Iry to succQcd well. After the ground s moist, layering roses and other lowering shrubs is yet advisable. Fhc operation is often moro succcssul during this month than if practised in June. Layers aro loss liublo to m burned hv tho cxtremo heat of Tilly. Cutting of roses, cvonymus, and >ittospoi urns can be made now ; place .hem in a shady place and keep the iartli moist. The vineyard will now yield its irops which will call the vintners art n practice. At this season thero is itile care needed in the orchard. Toward- the end of the month dahias will commence to give some good lowers if our previous advico as to linching off buds has been followed. Jontinue to'gather such seeds as riK-n and of tho desirnblo varieties. Juttings of most elases cf soft woodid plants can now bo struck. Thcso vill form good blooming plants for Winter. Among the most desirable )lants for present propagation aro geraniums, stevi as, heliotropes, ngerail ms, cuphea,^salvia, skinnerii, cupaoriums, etc. Chrysanthemums if I iropagatcd now and set out in open j ground in September will ensure a fino: lisply of flowers late in* the season; v'",% * " <? * 1 iinwt nf thn vi>nl? I jliili 13 31/1 U v U (11 I/IIIO Iftiliu VI unv> j vur* ;rc especial:y dceirnble for blooming n pots during the curly Winter. ?? *4B> After many wonderful mutations, t is said that Xapoleon III propo^oj o again setfk a home in Switzerland, .ho free land which sheltered him in lis early days of exile and obscurity. L'hus the right of asylum, which despots nearly all ignore, anU which Najoloon himself would R%ve readily violated when he was at tho height )f his power, is once more invoked from a liberal European republic, and the Ex-emperor goes back to her tracing mountains to dream of past greatness, or perhaps, to concoct u-hoinos for the restoration of his dv nasty. A lad)' was urged by her friends to marry a widowej;, and, as an argu-1 ment. they spoke of his two beautiful-1 children. "Children," replied tho j lady, "are like "tooth-picks?a person 1 wants her own." "God mado him ; therefore let him pass for a man," is the way tho Atlanta, -(Gil.) ('outfit ution heads an article in regard to a I'eliow who passed - - 1 'I-- ? v..4',.it 11i 11 nit !L cliil/1 H iiliu utMiar uuu?.vi*v?w - in that cily. * Watering-place Society. A Long Branch correspondent gossips as follows: As a specimen of the i class, of moihers and daughters -who t make up fashionable society to waterin ir nlnries let me illustrate bv tho fol lowing little episode I listond to last Sunday in tho parlor of the West End: . . L Miss , alighted from hor carriage, came- daubing into the parlor lHce a thoughtless remp. Her mother " an aged lady, whoso husband became c wealthy by a fortunate turn pf events in tho lato rebellion, was engaged in c reading one of .the * latest novels. a Her daughter's voice drew her attention from tho book, and she said in a ) drawling tone, "Well, Sally, my t love," taking off her spectacles, "now give yours poor mother, -who was too t sick to.go to chuch, a sketch ' of the sermon. Where was the text?" ' Oh, don't go bothering mo about tho text," responded the light headed a Sally as she threw herself into a ^ chair, "I don't know wbero it was} I've forgotten; but, would yon believe ' it, mother? Mrs. P wore that t horrid bonnet of hers. I do think ....... 1 - 1 * J.' . 1 T some pcopie are most riaicuious. 1 $ couldn't keep my eye off of it all tho s time. Miss T had a magnificent lace shawl on that on that must have cost over two hundred dollars. For j my part, I can't see how such a girl } as she is can got such dresses honest- > ly. Mrs^S looked like a perfcct fright. Why will sho dress so unbe- > coming and extravagantly? "What a taste some people exhibit! I saw y Mrs. M go dashing by me as if j she had mo respect for Sunday. Indeed, mother, I don't think she has although she makes great pretentions to be a good Cristian. She ought to t be ashamed of yourself." 1 "Stop, stop, child; you must not t talff that way about people/' said the venerable mother. - ''Sallys if you . have not the forgotten all. about the j sermon, you have not the audience." * "That hateful Mr. J was thero { looking at me all tho time so I could not hear a word of the sermon. Mr. , B spoke to me as I came out of j church, and ho was so pleasant 1 e could have " t "There, there." chimed in the old lady abruptly;,''don't bo foolisli. I don't sco that going to church helps to I improve you much. Go right up your t room and put your things away," and t the old lady put her spectacles on her hose and resurapd her reading. Such is watcring-placo. society. } ? 1 SriAKiNO tiie Table-Clotii.?"Mer- c cy on us! Carrio, wliere did all these p.icccs of bread and cheese, of J of calce and sandwiches, dried beef and pie, came frorji? Enough to * njako somo hungry child a meal." .Carrio looked out of tho window, c It was her father who had spoken, i He was standing on the icy pavement \ before Ae door,. regarding her curi- s ously.. t <;Oh!" said she, it is whero I shook a out the.table cloth." e "WhflM irnn nhnnlr nnt t.hfl tfthle- I? cloth, may daughter 1" Carrie's mother was a very careful woman; but sbe^iafl been sick a tl day or two; and the work* had been. 01 done by Carrio. P Her father wag all ready for a walk a< hia over-coat buttoned to the chin, ^ his fur cap drawn down over his ears, C( and an umbrella in his hand; but he u turned and earao back into the house and sat down. Carrie knew that lccturo was coming. Now* liko most littlo girls, and some large ones, she ? was not fond of lectures; but in tho 11 case prosenfc it could not bo helped,' P and she knew sho deserved it; so she a knew sho submitted with tho best j1. possiblo grace. "My daughter, if you want to grow up to bo a careful, prudent and saving J woman, and do honor to your ?: mother's training, you must be care- ci ful how you shako-your tablecloth. Many n. man, despite his hard toil aud ti labor, had been kept a poor man for n life because his wii'o did. not know 0 how to shake' her table-cloth." "This world is all a fleeting show," lr ... ,1 . 1 q{ said a priest to a culprit on mo gai- " lows. "Yes," was tho prompt reply, ,r) "buo if you have no objection I'd- like a, to sec tho show a littlo longer. ?j tl About that conundrum, "What shall v iny son be?"?which is tho name of a book, you know?tho Boston Post v ventures a Yankeoguess: "\Yo should r suppose it would bo a boy." ij tl a A bad marriage is liko an olectric f< machine; it makes you dance, but you b can't let go. t u Balloonists don't care about making much money, If they can make as- a cent they aro satisfiod. " n * * A! "Pa, why do they plant gnns?do o they grow'and have leaves?" ii "No, my eon, but like plants they ? shoot, and then other* do tho lcav- It ing." ? ii It is not always ho who has tho most noso who knows tho most. \ c Why isj-our chambermaid immortal ? Sho returns to dust every ? day without dying. jj 0 Speaking of npples, itis remarkable 'I that tho first appro in*pnradiso should d have turn out the first pair ? L mm. The Wv^ expenses of last yetr vsre jnst a million dollars less than he appropriation. The arrival of the cotton wvm la hronicledfn Louisiana. ' ' * The sale of newspapers bos begun. . q the streets of Berlin* : ; - ' ^ Taglioni. the Once fatnotis dansens^ iied at her villa on Lake Como, rec ently, aged 102. f The fare on San Francisco -fitrest ars has been reduced from six and , quarter to four cents. [The tide of Eafopean. passenger ravel has tamed for the season. Americans ar<j Degmuing 10 come . *. >ack to America.The statement is now made iii Indiana that Ticc-PreSident Colfax, .fter his term expires, is to -bg rc-eleced to the Hoase ot Representatives rom his old District. . "' ^ The Empress Eugenie is aboat to nake a visit to Spain to see her mot fair. Napoleon is purchasing proper- * y near Geneva, in Switzerland, with i view of- residing there. An express train between Ply- . nouth and London makes the distance 194 miles, infour and acmarterhonrs. Deluding, fifteen ' minuierf stoppage. Ibis is probably tho fastest traveling n the world. A Boston jftil holds a beautiful and pell educated girl, who. Wis wrested br stealing $2,000 from her employ* >r3, a dry goods firm. Indiana youths who give bints to heir father*.at ibeend of a Bowie cnife are properly locked up for iwonty years to study the point. .J *'. . A couple at Dan bury," Conn., hav ; ugvnreiuty wusiuuntu vw ,i|ttOroW or twerjtyfive years, hay* recent^ iecided to got toarried. The <>rder of tho Society of Jwaa ' vith their General at their liead, iavo loft Komo to establish themleivea in Sicily, principally Paterno. 4 * - 'Vv' f* :r. V;..1 -* -<! Tho town in Coos .Coanty, K-2^ lamed "Success" is. a failure. Afide . wcnty year*, it lias only fiye inhabiants. ' " CoDventions bcingthe order of t' a v* lay,, some wag in . this Hafth pro? )oses one of the Grrant andJ/efit Jamlies. He prophecies that it wonld ha >ne of the largest and granHest gathiringsof the times, and by sheer veight of numbers, wield an Impor__r :-a - iL. i*.; 1 auu iimucuuo upuu mo puuuuiu comf, jlexion of the next popularvote. A Canton, III.,farAer says: VI was joing oul past my < o n crtfrtbe otht? Qoruing, whjen 1 observed a larai Tat nth bis head erect, carryfng'jl IhU ized ear of corn in his moutff. At he same time his tail was wrapped. round anothe^ and an extra, mrgp ar, which ho was dragging behind im." Some arithmetician discovers that be French war' indemnity of 1,000,00,000 .would, in five dollar gi>Ia ieces, cover more than nineteen . ures of ground used as paving.- It -ould take one man 222 years to "Hint, them, at tho rata of 100 a mia> te for tweivo hours a day. * : A California genius has invented 'hat he calls the Eureka boofepuller, 'hich consists of a leather belt, havlg two hooks attached to it. He laces the belt over his right shoulder djusts the hooks in his - boot-strap?, nil then leans backward!, and tno glflcsc boot is conquered; The old traditions about th'e Car <ff ugcrnaot aru apparently about to bo xtinguished. An eyewitness'of tho sremonial says that the old storios ro grossly exaggerated, that no vicras are erttsbed, and that there i? no lore orgy than may be witnessed at English eonnty fair.. A new-device for aiding the postffico revenue has bcen?propounded 1 England. It is proposed that tho damping instruments" should be ar? inged to give a brief advertisement round the margin, and that adversers conld then engage to have all he letters going to certain points bey might desire .to reach stamped ritb their advertisement. Constantinople is to be connected rith the opposite Asiatic coast by a ailroad tunnel, consisting of sheet ron dojjblo tubes, under tho water of ho Uosphorus. The tunnel is to bo bout twelve hundred feet long, ten / et in diameter in tho Clear, and to e thirty-Six feet below the level of fio water, in order not to obstruct avigation. ijiie insurance poueies are put up t auction and sold to the highest bidor in England, the buyer somotimea mking, sometimes losing by the opration. # Keccntly a policy of ?3,000 n the life of a Liverpool merchant i his 70th year was disposed of for 150. The merchant died two daya ftorward, and the purchnser realized n "forty-eight hours $15,000 out of 750. A colored man, by the name of Vright Afoore, of Stfttesville, N. C? ame to his death, on "Wednesday list, in a singular manner. Ho and mother colored man woro chasing a ,0g, and wcro running at considers ilo speed, came in contact with each thor, both foil. Wright falling on top 'ho concussion, it .is supposed, proluced an internal injury, from which ic died in a short \vhilu,