The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, February 16, 1876, Image 1
BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAEY 16, 1876.
MASONIC DIRECTORY.
Clinton Lodge No. 3. F. A. M.
W. H. PARKE U. WV. M.*.
J. C. WOS.MANSKY, Secretary.'
Meets 2d Monday in every month.
Hesperian ChapterNo.17,R.A.M.
J. F. C. DcPRE. M.\ E.\ H.\ P.-.
J. D. CHALMEIIS, Recorder.
Meets 3d Friday night in every month.
DeSaow Council Ho, 16, R.US.M.
J. T. ROBERTSON. T.\ 111.-. M.\
JNO. G. EDWARDS. Recorder.
Meets 1st Tuesday night in every month.
DR. JOHN S. THOMPSON,
E DENTIST,
j Offers hiB professional services to the citizens
of Abbeville and the surrounding country.
Office?Over Citizens' Savings Bank,
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
CUNNINGHAM & TEMPLETON
Have on hand a large stock of
Gits' Lint Bison SMrts,
AT VERY LOW PRICE
A large assortment of
JLadies' and G-ents
Merino Vests & Shirts,
BOULEVARD SKIRTS,
Silk Scarfs and Ties.
GIYE THEM A. CALL.
The star Shirt!
Having tried these Shirts, vre can safely rc
oommend them for a good fitting and durable
Shirt.
Collars, Linen and Paper,
LATEST STYLES,
With Cravats and Scarfs to Match.
QUARLES & PERRIN.
Cottaare Bedsteads!
Two hundred Bedsteads just received, war
ranted all bard wood, at prices from $5 00 to
$10.00.
1 J. D. CHALMERS.
Boots and Shoes!
* ? _ -
Oar stock of BOOTS and SHOE3 is now
complete, and at the Lowest Prices for CASH.
Call early and get a bargain.
? DttPRE, GAMBRELL & CO.
C. B. BRUCE,
Boot and Shoe Maker,
Over'Parker & Perrin's Store,
ABBEVILLE, 8. C.,
Doeiros to e&y that he is folly prep&r d to meet
all demands the public may make 1 u bis line.
He keeps constantly on band a large lot of the
Deat nj.noriiu uuu emrrnvB oiuy tne nneHiworK
men. Hei^ops & fall stock of custom made
Boots and^ShoeH, and guarantec.8 the most
entire tatisfaetion in every instance.
M. OOLDSMI^a. P. KIND.
GOLDSMITH & KIND,
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS
(PHOENIX IRON WORKS),
COLUMBIA. . C.
Manufacturers of Steam Enffinea of all sizes;
Hor*e powers, Circular and Muley Saw Mills,
OriKt and Sugar Cane Mills, Fionr MUIh, Orna- '
mental House and Store Fronts, Iron Bailings, ]
Agricultural Implements, etc. Bras* and Iron ]
CaatiugM of all kiadfl made to order on short
notice and on the most reasonable terms.
Also, manufacturers of Cotton Presses.
S. B. NORRELL, ;
HARNESS ail SADDLE MAKER, \
AT HIS OLD STAND
Over Parker & Perrin's Drug Store,
Has a supply of Northern Harness Leather
and other material for Making and Bepairiug
Saddles and Harness.
CARPENTRY.
The undersigned hereby gives notice that he
is prepared to do ali kiuda of
Capter's fort aid Emldins.
He aleo repairs Cotton Giis, Thrashers and
Fans. A full supply of Gin Material always
on hand. Fanners are requested to briiiK
their Gins up early in the season to allow time
to have them properly prepared.
Also Agent for the Taylor Cotton Gin, the
Brook* Coiton Press, and all kinds'of Rubber
and Leather Belting.
D. B. SMITH,
Abbeville. C. 11., S. V.
STEAM
VII I IIIIIA fifiBI I
fLANINu MILL,
. Columbia, S. C.
.FW.WING, Proprietor.
MANUFACTURER OF
Sash, Blinds, Doors,
WINDOW AND
UUUtt r xCAIVLtio,
iisiitPirtBliilsiSlite,
PILASTERS,
Mantelpieces,
HOLDINGS, BRACKETS,
Handrails,
N3wels,
Balusters.
OLL WORK of all Description.
ork Guaranteed A No. 1.
Tlie Lost Babies.
C ine, my wife, put down the Bible,
Lay your glasses on the book.
Both of us are b it and aged?
Backward, moth r, let u? look.
This is Btill the sam old homestead
Where I brought you long ago,
When the hair was bright with sunshine
Th?.t is now like winter's snow.
Let ns talk about the babies
As we sit here all alone,
Such a merry troop of youngsters :
How w. lost them one by one.
Jack, th' first of all the party,
Came to one winter'B night.
Jack, you said, should be & parson,
Long before he saw the light.
Do you see that great cathedral,
Filled, the transept and the nave,
Hear the organ grandly pealing,
Watch the silken hangings wave ;
boo tne priest in roues 01 omce,
With the altar at his back
Would yea think that gifted preacher
v onld be our own little Jack ?
Then a girl with curly treesea
U ed to climi upon my knee,
Like a little fairy princess
Ruling at the age of three.
With the years there came a wedding
Dow your fond heart swelledKrith pride
When the lord of all the county
Choae your baby for his bride !
Watch that stately carriage coming,
And the form reclining there?
Would you think that brilliant lady
Could be your own little Clare ?
Then the last, a blue-eyed youngster?
I can hear him prattling now
Such a tstroDg and sturdy follow,
With his broad and honest brow.
How he used to love hie mother !
Ah ! I see your trembling lip:
Ho is far off on the water,
Captain of a royal ship.
See the bronze upon his forehead,
Hear the voice of stern command
That the boy who cluDg so fondly
To his mother's gentle hand ?
Ah ! my wife, we've lost the babies,
cars ho long ttuu outb tuuuu ;
What are we to these great people,
Stately men and women grown ?
Seldcm do we even see them :
Yea, a bitter tear-drop starts,
And we ait here in the firelight,
Lonely hearth and lonely hearts.
All their lives are full without as :
They'll stop long enough one day
Just to lay us in the churchyard,
Then they'll each go on their way.
They Tell Their Story.
Midnight was past, and the lights of
he vessels lying at anchor infche stream
Fere beginning to be extinguished, when
>VU IUUU UU111CU AkXJJUM uiuviuuv VMWV
ions towards the shore. The elder of
he two had already reached the strand
ind was preparing to make a leap, the
losign of which was not to be mistaken;
>ut at that instant the younger seized
lim by the arm, exclaiming: 44 Sir, I
>elieve you want to drown yourself !"
" You have guessed it. What is that
o you?"
This was the answer, spoken in the
oost angry tone.
" Nothing, I know. I would simply
equest you to wait a couple of minutes
?when, if you like, wc will make the
jreat journey together, arm in arm?the
>est way of dying."
With these words the younger extend
sd his hand to the elder, whose wa3 not
withheld. The younger continued, in a
lone of seeming enthusiasm: " So be it!
irm in arm ! Truly, I did not dream
:hat a human heart would beat with
nine in this last hour. I will not seels
;o know who you are?ap honest mar 01
i villain. Come!?lot us begin the
journey together!"
The elder held the young man back,
ind, fixing his dim, half-extinguished
jyes searchingly upon the countenance
sf his companion, exclaimed: "Hold I
Fou seem to me too young to end youi
life by suicide. A man of your years
ias still a brilliant, alluring future ic
ais grasp 1"
44 Brilliant I" answered the young
man, scornfully. " What have I tc
liope in the midst of a world full ol
wickedness, falsehood, treachery and
anhappiness ? Come !?quick !"
" You aro still young! You musl
have had very sorrowful experiences tc
make life already thus insupportable tc
you."
"I despise mankind."
" Without exception ?"
"Without exception ?"
" Well, tlieu, you have now perhaps
'oundaioan whom yon willnot necessarily
despise. I have, believe me, during mj
whole life, lived an honorable man."
" Really ! That is highly interesting
It's a pity I had not earlier made you;
acquaintance."
" Leave me to die alone, young man
Live on. Believe me, time heals al
woximls, and there are men of honor ye
to bo found."
Now, if you take this view, why an
you hurrying so fast from the world?"
" Oh, I aifc an old, Rickly man, uuabli
t<-> mol-n o Kvolilinrwl a m!\tl tclin f?ftn
not, will not, longer see his only child
bis daughter, blighting her youth, am
laboring day and night to support him.'
"How, Rir! have yon a daughter wh
docs this for you?" asked the younj
man, surprised.
"And with what endurance, witJ
what love, does she sacrifice herself fo
me ! Sho works for me, she goes hun
gry for me, and has only the tenderes
words of love?a sweet smile for m
always."
"And you want to commit suicide
Are you mad?"
" Shall I murder my daughter ? Th
life which she is now leading is her cei
tain death," answered the old man, in
despairing voice.
" Good sir, como with me to the neai
est inn that is still open. You will re
late to me your history, and, if you like
I will let yon hear miue. bo raucti
however, will I say to you beforehand
chase all thoughts of self-murder out c
your head. I am rich, and, if things b
as you say, from henceforth you an
your daughter shall lead a pleasant life.
The old man followed the youuge
without opposition. A few minute
later the elder began :
"My history is soon told. I was
merchant's clerk, but always uuluckj
As I had nothing by inheritance and th
young girl I married was poor, I wa
never able to commence business on m
own account, and remained on to an ol
age in a dependent, subordinate pos
tion. Finally, I was discharged on a<
count of my years, and then began th
struggle for a subsistence. My wife die
of trouble, and now my poor child i
wearied to gain my support. I cannc
bear to see her working herself to deat
t<\r mo?fhorfifore. it is better I C(
Now, you know all."
"Friend," exclaimed the young mai
" you are the most fortunate man I evf
encountered in my life. It is insane t
call that misfortune. Nobody is easit
to help than you. To-morrow I wi
make my will, and you shall be?no r<
sis tan ce!?my heir. The coming nigl
is my last. Before this, however, I mui
see your daughter, out of pure curiosity
I would for once see how one looks wh
___!!. deserves tho naine of woman 1"
" But, young man, ,what can it be thi
thus early has madttjhn so unhappy S
queried the -
" I believe it was the wealth whic
my father left me. I was the only so
of the richest banker of this city. M
father died five years ago, leaving m
more than was good for me. Sinoe ths
time I have been deceived and betraye
by every one, withont exception, wit
whom I have had any connection. 8om
have pretended friendship for me?o
account of my money. Others hav
pretended to love me?again for m
money; and so it went on. I ofte
mingled, in ?he garb of a simple wort
man, with the masses, and thus one da
became acquainted with a charming be
ing, a young girl, to whom my whol
heart soon went out in love. I disclose
to her neither my name nor my position
I longed to be loved for myself alone
and for a time it appeared as if I wer
going to be happy?at last, at last I
"Theyoung girl and I, whom shi
still regarded as a simple workman, me
every afternoon in tne jQiarcuspiaiz
where we walked up and down together
passing many happy hours. One da;
my dear girl appeared with red eyes
she had been weeping?and told mi
that wo must part, confessing that he
life belonged to another ! With thea
words she tore herself from me and dis
appeared in the crowd. Her faithless
ness decided my destiny. Vainly did
rush into the pleasures which so-callec
4 good society' has to offer, but founc
my lost peace of soul never, never! ]
then determined to bring my joylea
existence to a close. ''
"Unhappy young man," said th(
elder, wiping his eyes; "from my wholt
heart I pity you. I must acknowledge
that I was more fortunate than you; foi
I, at least, was by two women?my wife
and daughter?tenderly loved."
"Will you give me your address,
good sir, that I may convince myself oJ
the truth of your story ? It is not er
actly mistrust, but I must see to be
lieve. To-morrow I will arrange mj
affairs as I have already told you. You
will remain at this inn to-night, and ir
the morning early I will return. Give
me your word of honor that you wil]
not leave this house until I come back,
and that you will not in the meantime
speak to any one of what has taken
place between us ?"
" You have my word ! Go to mj
dwelling, to my daughter, and you wiL
find that I have told you but the aim
pie truth. My name is Wilhelm Salms,
Here is my address.
With these words he handed th<
young man a paper, giving the addresi
of His dwelling. It lay in a suburb in
habited by the poorer classes, at som<
difitance from the city proper.
"And my name is Carl Teodor," here
upon said the young man. " Take thi:
bank note ; it will serve you till my re
turn."
Cnrl rune for the waiter, had the land
lord called, commended the old man t<
liis care in suitable terms, and left thi
house.
*******
Hardly hail the morning broke whei
Carl found himself on the way to th<
suburb where lived the daughter of thi
old man with whom he had become ac
quainted under such peculiar circum
stances. It was a poor placc. Th(
young man knocked, opened the door
and involuntarily stepped back.
The young girl whose inconstancy hai
made his life a burden unbearable stooc
before him!
1?J ^aIa V>n
OUU I1UII glUWU IJUIV IWJ fUlV , ^14
lie knew her at tlie first glance ; it wai
Bertha, whom he had onco hoped t(
call his own.
At his appearance the young gir
sprang tfward him, overcome with joy
holding out her littlo hand. The young
man waved her buck, exclaimiug :
"You did not expect to see me ?"
The poor girl sank into a seat, ani
; covered her pale, beautiful face witl
( her hands.
1 " Are yon Wilhelm Salms'daughter?'
asked the-young man, coldly, after i
uouoa.
"lam," answered the maiden, tim
idly.
" And who and where is that other t<
whom, as you told me at parting, you
life belonged ?"
" That other is my father," answeret
the young girl, looking up to the younj
man with a glance in which spoke th
tenderest love.
With lightning quickness the trutl
dawned upon him; the scales fell frori
his eyes.
Speechlessly he rushed to Bertha
took her in his arms and pressed her t<
his breast.
<< fnfVinv* " Via falfArorl
vumu v\j j uui juvuvi-i 4?v
" My father! Oh, heaven! I forgot
Where is he? lie has bsen out al
uiglit. I have watched for him in tear
the long night through."
"Your father is saved. ' Ho is wit;
me," was Carl's answer as he hurriedth
young girl out and through the street
to the arms of her father.
A fortnight later, in tho midst of th
greatest splendor, the marriage of th
rich young banker, Carl Teodor, t
r* il CI .1 i. 1_
LKTlliU O.limS, U>UH pjtK*3.
Massachusetts State Pebt.
The message of Gov. Rice, of Mossi
chusetts, says that the present funde
debt of the Strite is $33,886,461, divide
as follows:
Railroad loava $17,768.91
War loans.. 12.724,11
Ordinary 3 393 21
Total t33,8S6,4(
Net increase of the funded dobt
during the year 54,421,21
Script i Bued during the past year
amouuta to 5,090,21
Paid 011 vai ious loai a during year.. 009,(X
Th<i estimates for 1876 are :
Ordinary expenditures and pay
ments from roveuue 4,9C9,7i
The ordinary revenue of yoer, in
cluding reserve ca*h in treasury.. 3,049,21
A State tax of $l,800,000or $2,000,0(
will be necessary to meet the estimate
deficiency. He compares the Stat
county and municipal indebtednes
which in 1865 was $43,169,543.02, wil
th:it of 1875, which amounts to ?111
413,094.49, and shows that tho bui'dc
r*C in/.i.Mi.o l>no llOOTI 1 /-ilfifkQ 011/I f OTT I
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rather than in the administration of tl
affairs of the commonwealth, and is alf
far in excess of the growth of popul
tion.
Celebrating the Centennial.
The centennial year wa'?j " ushered it
with a great deal of noisoand excitemei
in various parts of the United State
In some of the interior citios the celebr
tion was quite extensive. Midnig]
processions and parades, illumination
fireworks, and salutes of one hundrt
guns, were freely indulged in. Ne
Yorkers were treated to a promiseuoi
serenade of fiah horns, tho bells we:
rung, and one of the great railroad lin<
kept up a tremendous blast?half i
hour long?from all its available stea
whistles. As a fillip to the enjoymen
in the United States, the inhabitants i
Quebeo celebrated the repulse of tl
Americans from that city a hundred yea
ago and the house where Montgomei
was taken to die was dccorated ui
illuminated.
A Bachelor's Choice.?"Oh, M
Grabbles," exclaimed a young mothe
" shouldn't you like to have a family <
rosy children about your knee ?" " N
ma'am," Raid the disagreeable o
bachelor; " I\1 rather have a lot of y<
low boyB in
Russia's Grain Trade.
The London Times, in a financial ar
ticle, says : It seems from recent arti
cles in the Moscow Gazette that great
stagnation prevails in the groin trade in
southern Russia. Russian agriculture
and commerce are threatened with a
collapse. Chief among the causes is the
keen competition of America. Since the
civil war in that country the British im
port of American wheat has increased
until it stands now where the Russian
importation stood in 1864. Then Rus
sia sent out forty-four hundredths of her
total imports, and the United States
only fourteen. In 1873 the United
States sent out forty-four hundredths
and Russia only twenty-one. This does
not represent a decrease to that extent
of Russia's total exports; on the con
Knf
trttry, iiiuj' nit vu oug ii vij xxiv^i. o?.ot?v4j *j*o.v
America's have increased much faster.
The causes are declared chiefly to be
America's superior transit advantages,
her virgin soil, and her more scientific
agriculture. The Gazette therefore
urges the Russian agriculturists to in
corporate new lands, use better appli
ances, and more skill; but says that
cheaper inland transportation is the
chief need. The Gazette's Odessa cor
respondent writes that the oldest inhabi
tants declare that Odessa was never at
such a standstill since its foundation.
No transactions are effected, and bank
ruptcy follows bankruptcy. Houses
have fallen to thirty-hundredths of their
value, and wheat is lying ih the store
houses. Repeated failures of the cropo
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1X1 tilt) fctUUlIitJiU LUBWiUlB Ul ituooin OJ.O
partly the cause of the difficulty. The
Gazette, however, Bays the condition of
affairs is largely influenced by the mis
placed activity of private banking
houses, which made credits absurdly
easy and cheap, which occasioned a
storm of feverish speculation and
created ephemeral undertakings. Now,
forced to curtail credits, they have re
duced to the most awkward position
many who thought such a state of
things would last forever.
Cannot Touch His Money.
Probably the wealthiest young man in
Boston is Joshua Montgomery Sears,
son of the late Joshua Sears, who died
T 10K7 1,
JCUIIUUJ I | XUt/l) iOOlTiUg 1UO OVU MWM
to bis large estate. The lieir reached
his majority on Christmas, but by the
terms of the will, which left the property
in trust, ho now receives but a small
fraction of the estate. The elder Sears
left property of the estimated value of
$1,500,000. Alpheus Hardy, Horatio
Harris and Hugh Montgomery being
named in the will as trustees. Under
their management the property has in
in TfilnA until it, amounts. jiceord
ing to the assessors' returns of May,
1874, to 84,026,400 in real estate in Bos
ton, in addition to investment in mort
gages, etc., etc., of a like value. Young
Sears is at present a student in Yale
College, and lias been educated under
the guardianship of the Hon. Alpheus
Hardy. He is a young man of intelli
gence, and is said to be possessed of
many of the characteristics of his father.
By the terms of the will the sou was to
receive $30,000 when ho was twenty-one,
84,000 annually from that age to twenty
five, $6,000 annually from twenty-five to
thirty, aud 810,000 per year subsequent
ly. * There seems to be no direct pro
vision in the will that the son shall ever
receive other of the estate than the above
save in the matter of his education.
WHO will inueric mis vast pruperiy in
the event of the sou's decease is a ques
tion for the courts.
The Europ an Grain Trade,
The Mark Lane Express, iu its re
view of the grain trade, says 1875 has
unfortunately x>roved a year of general
deficiency and inferiority. Barley lias
shown the best yield of the season, be
ing only slightly below the average, but
its color has been so generally alfected
that its value for midtiug purposes is
greatly reduced, perhaps eight to ten
shillings per quai tor. Sales have been
unusually dull. Oats and beans are be
* ji i-..t
low tne averago, uuu uctiet yiitco j?uu
for the latter compensate tlio detect.
Teas are considerably below the average,
having suffered greatly in sizo and quali
ty. The wheat crop has suffered most,
only one-eighth reaching the average,
while fiV'-sixths sink below it. What
ever dullness now prevails, and may for
a period continue, our large deficiency
will crop up as the season advances.
Should we have a bad spring an import
ant advance must ensue.
The Corn Trade Association of Liver
pool publish a statement of the estimated
stock of breadstuffs there on the 31st of
December, 1875, as compared with the
same time last year. The tables show
the following:
Dtf. 81,1876. Dte. 81,1874.
Wheat (quartern) 793,613 144 211
Corn (quartern) 32.687 50.901
Flour (uttckb) 192 652 153,670
Flour (barrels) 52,068 59,140
Affairs in Cuba.
The Spaniards in Caba claim that the
surprise of Jagua by the raiders was not
due to their daring, or to the negligence
of the military commander of the dis
trict, but to treason among the inhabit
ants of the city, by whose assistance
alone the blow could havo been attempt
ed. Some arrests have already been
made on suspicion of complicity, and
among the prisoners is a Spaniard, who
fy\ Iiqtta nlwciva tfrmrnrl in t.VlA
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loyalist ranks. The papers call for a rig
orous investigation and exempbiry pun
ishment in case of conviction. Arrests
upon similar grounds are beiDg made in
most of the towns of the interior, arul a
correspondent writes from Puerto Prin
cipe rejoicingly, that there are sixty odd
persons in the prisons of that city whose
conduct is being investigated in connec
tion with charges of giving intelligence
to the enemy.
The Spauiards have derived much
comfort from a cable dispatch announc
lUg tnat Clie xsnusn puverumuiiu wuuiu
probably defer answering for the pres
ent the circular noto of jtfr. Fish, and
as they fancy they would have the sup
port of England in any conflict with
America, they may be expected to be
more grandiloquent, now, in their patri
otic declarations, than ever.
Death from Hydrophobia.
Hugh Murray, nged nineteen years,
residing in Brooklyn, was bitten by a
cat, whose anger he Jiad aroused in
some manner. The wound inflicted was
not a serious one, and no attention was
paid to it at tho time. Six weeks after,
however,^he wound began to swell, and
Murray's friends becoming alarmed,
summoned a physician. All was done
fo his relief that medical skill could
suggest, but to no purpose. He died in
?ronf. nomnv. The case is nronounced
one of genuine hydrophobia, and the
progress of tho disease evinced all the
symptoms of that malady.
Bad for Papa.?" Pa, are you in favor
of tho Bible in tho public schools?"
asked a youngstor at the breakfast table
the other morning. "Why, of course
I am," responded tho father, pleased
that such an important subject should
engage the attention of his youthful off
spring. "What makes you ask such a
question, my son?" "Oh, nothing," re
joined young hopeful; " only I thought
may bo you wasn't, as you never hnvo
had one at ltome." The urchin dodged,
but he wasujt quick onough.
Dyspepsia from Eating Hot Bread.
General Clingman, -writing to the
orth Carolina Agricultural Journal,
lis some truths and offers suggestions
)out the causes and results of dyspep
a and indigestion, with especial refer
lce to hot, doughy bread, which "will
>ply to all parts of the country. Read
id heed: .
It has been said that the frying-pan is
ie great enemy to our people. There
ji be no doubt but that it has slain its
lOusands; but bad bread is the slayer
tens of thousands. While traveling
Europe for eight months, I saw noth
g but cold bnad, nor did I, while
ere, see or hear anything that tended
induce me to believe that anybody in
arope had ever eaten a piece of hot
onrl T invarifthlv. howflver. found
e bread good, and the people' I saw
peared healthy and robnst. Some, as
e English and Germans, were espe
llly so. '
With respect to the United States, the
ndition of% things may be more strik
gly and pointedly presented by refer
ee to individual cases. Many years
ice I stopped at the house of an ac
laintance, and, on seeing him, I said:
Fou are not looking as well as nsnal."
No," he replied, "I have the dyspep
i powerfully bad." When dinner was
idy, there was an abundant supply of
sats and well-baked corn bread,
lere was also, however, something
lied biscuit, which was, in fact, rather
irm dough, with much grease in it. I
w that my host ate this freely with his
T /1i/1 ?Af TTTAYi
'abHi J. IDliltui^ou uiiav jl uxu uuu nvu
r that he had* dyspepsia, for that I
old not live a month in that way. I
ggested that if he would eat well
ked corn bread, or, better still, light
ead, he would not suffer as he was
ing. He answered vehemently "that
3 would rather die than eat light
ead." I replied: "This is a free
untry, and you have a right to die in
is mode if you choose, and I have no
ubt but that you will soon die." I
en referred to cases in-which I had
own people to die from such prac
i68. My cool mode of discussing tue
.estion evidently made aa^ppression
his wife. Next summer,"TO meeting
21, I said: "You are looking much
tter." "Yes," he replied,'bursting
io a hearty' laugh, VI /ollcwed your
vice, and took to eating light bread,
d I am as well as I ever was in my
A Margin in Soap.
The fact that a confidential clerk and
shier in a soap factory was able to
ibezzle a sum of money variously esti
ited nt from three hundred thousand
liars to seven hundred thousand
liars in a few years, and to escape de
jtion and arrest for nearly two years
jer leaving the soap man s employ, m
eates a margin in tliis essential of the
let which is surprising. Nobody sus
clcd that the soap business was so
ofitable that a soap man could be
bbed at this fearful rate without find
S it out. Yet the case of Beokwith
ows that the safest place in New York
r a dishonest clerk is in a soap factory,
lis ingenious business man systemati
lly laid aside for himself an increase
ten per cent on all the 'disbursements
his employer's establishment, and
en escaped suspicion for a long period,
is not of the crime we would speak,
v that is of a kind which just now is
mraon enough, nor of the confidence
the soap man in his clerk, but of the
ormous profits of a business which
uld stand such a drain upon it without
citing suspicion. What must Mr.
ibbitt'o profits have been if Beckwith
is able to appropriate nearly half a
illion of dollars out of the ostablish
3nt without even so much as exciting
apiciou ? Evidently the people of this
uutry submit to the payment of enor
ou8 prioes for the most ordinary neces
ries of life without ho much as grumb
ig. Reasonable profits in the Boap
isiness would not long have withstood
ickwith's assaults upon Babbitt's in
me. As it is, the crime is not without
i benefits in the exposure. People
ay learn from this not only the margin
ere is on soap but the enormous profits
acted by business men for everything
ev mako and everything* they sell.
ideed, the corner grocer thinks himself
ititled to a profit of from fifty to a
mdred per cent, for bringing a barrel
potatoes from Washington market
id peddling it ont by the small
easure. These exactions, criminally
lormous as they are, do more to keep
ir working people in poverty than any
ns have suspected. When clerks can
eal a fortune out of n single establish
out in a few years it is time that people
fused to pay prices that make such
imes possible.?New York Herald.
A Felon's Plea.
Tom Scott, -who was convicted on the
large of masked burglary at Utica, N.
and sentenced to eighteen years in
tate prison, was asked by the court if
3 had anything to say. He made the
illowing speech:
I have very little to say, your honor,
id perhaps that will bo of very little
sneflt to me. The verdict of the jury
Des not surprise me, after the officers of
le court had been sworn to tako oharge
f the jury and then to have gone oIT to a
ince, on a fandango, and got intoxi
ited! Who knows but the jury got
rank ? Who knows what was said jo
lem or what was done while the officer
as intoxicated ? I am convicted by a
iry like this. I have very little to say,
ut I want to thank the gentlemen who
ave so ably defended me. * * *
shall go to Auburn, and may probably
ever see you again, l may cuo a con
ict, and be dragged to a felon's grave,
want you and every man on this jury
ud all around me in this court house to j
>member that I am innocent. You
speaking to the jury and emphasizing
is words by rapping sharply on the
ible) have decided my fate for life; you
ave murdered me. Is not eighteen
ears a lifetimo for me ?
The court, interrupting the speaker,
iggested that he should not upbraid
le jury. Scott continued moro calmly:
Well, I'll stop here. As for your
*lf I have nothing to say. I think you
barged the jury as well as you could.
>nt vnnr honor. I wish to s:iv that von
j .? ? ' #
lust admit tliat it was wrong for the
entloman placed in charge of the jury
) get intoxicated. One thing ruore,
our honor. I am twenty-one years of
ge, and I hope you will not lecture me
r give me any advice. All that you
ave to say may not make mo better
or mako mo worse. You can give mo
hat you please, ten, fifteen, twenty,
fty or a hundred yearn, and I'll turn off
ke a man and say good-bye, but please
o not lecture me. I have nothing more
j say.
Tlie Fcniau Prisoners.
The " Shaughraun" is a sort of
'enian play. Boacicault, the author
nd the actor, has been playing it
ightly in London to audiences number
ig 2,000 each with great success. He
ow writes a letter to Minister Disraeli,
lying that these audiences are a jury
f the city of London and of England
nd the play has full* tested the Fenian
nestion in the English mind. In view
f the verdict remlfrod each night he
THE WASHINGTONIANS.
How the Temperance Reform of the Last
Centary Originated.
Hon. Frank W. Miller, a son of one
of the earliest and most consistent mem
bers of the Washington Total Abstinence
Society, has contributed to the Ports
month (N. H.) Chronicle a brief history
of that organization. He says : On
the second day of April, 1840, six men
sat drinking in a tavern on Liberty
street, Baltimore. Notioes had been
published in the papers of that city that
a distinguished clergyman (Matthew
Hale Smith) would lecture on temper
ance that evening in one of the churches.
This subject was mentioned by one of the
six, and, after some talk, it was agreed
that two of their number should attend
the meeting, and report. This was
done, and, after the report had been
listened to, and the subject discussed,
one of them exclaimed: " Jjet us lorm
a temperance society, and. make Bill
Mitchell president." With this under
stands 3, and after taking another drink,
they separated. On the next evening
they met at the same place?the matter
was again talked over, and they resolved
to form, and did form, a society, naming
it after l^he Father of their Country, as
it ^ras quite common at that time to
name most organizations after Washing
ton; The names of those six individu
als were William Mitchell, Pavid Hoss,
Charles Anderson, George Steer, Bill
McCurdy, and Tom Campbell. They
then voted to meet the next night in a
carpenter's, shop, and each agreed to
bring a new member. These meetings
were held almost nightly, and for re
marks each related his own experience
at the court of death. As might be ex
pected, these meetings began to attract
public attention. John Hawkins early
became a member, but was not one of
tb.o original six. xnose reiormeu ihjuu
Were soon invited to visit other cities
and towns, and who of onr older citizens
has not listened to the thrilling and
simple experience of John Hawkins as
he has portrayed the misery of the
drunkard and told the touching story of
his little daughter TTannftVi persuading
him to quit the drunkard's drink. This
new movoment spread from city to city,
and from town to town, until tnere was
scarcely a place in the United States
that did not have its Washingtonian
m-1-1 AV-i.; TT,hn
-1.UILU n.uaillicuua OV/Vlovjr. iuou nuu
hod been drunkards for years burst the
bands that had so long bound them, and
became temperance reformers. The
name being quite long, it soon became
shortened by daily use, and these
organizations became known throughout
the country as "Washingtonians." The
Washingtonian Society was originated
in Portsmouth in 1841, and has been in
strumental in reclaiming more than
three hundred intemperate men, many
of whom kept the pledge till their dying
day. Others still live a blessing to
their families and an honor to society.
? - i?J AT** fn I
xney uemuusi/rttwju tuo gicut uuuu
the drunkard could be saved. While
nearly all the societies of this class in the
country have ceased to exist, the Ports
mouth Washingtonians have always
maintained their organization.
Statistics of a City.
The statistics of a city for a twolve
month contain much Of interest. From
the official statistics we have the follow
ing figures of New York in 1875. The
number of deaths for the year were 30,
67d; the number of malriages for the
year was 7,565; the number of births,
*23,813, and the number of children still
born, 2,2-10. The following shows the
mortality for two years under the classi
fication of deaths :
ClarHJlcation of Death.
1874.
1875.
Zvmotio dieeaee?
9,802
10,840
Constitutional diseases..
0,023
6.002
Local dieaasos
9,987
10,720
Developmental diseases..
1,607
2,080
Deaths by violonco....
1,248 .
480
Dtatlm from all canaee.
27,727
30,122
DEATHS BY CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
187-1. 1878.
8mailpox..w 484 - 1,222
Meaaloa...........'.... . S19 * ; 148
Scarlatina ^.... 879 519
Diphtheria ?... j.,uuo z,io4
The following table, mode up from
tho reports, is sadly interesting:
. -1876. 1871
Infante fonnd in tho streets, alloy,
rivere, eto., dead, from neglect
and exposure, but principally
stillborn 102 112
Deaths by suffocation, principally
infants overlaid in bed.... 43 87
Deaths by accident 573 612
Deaths bv accidental ehooting,
poisoning, eto 22 29
Deaths by being overheated 3 9
Drowning, pot including?suicidal
drowning-kndwn, 114; unknown,
fifty-ono 165 162
Suicide
Homioide
Infanticide
Abortion
Judioial hanging
143 1H4
(19 39
6 1
2 5
3 0
Total
1,110 1,190
The commitments curing 1875 for lar
ceny were of males, 2,444, andcf females,
452. During the year 1,568 females
were sentenced for vagrancy.
Visiting the Pope.
Miss Emma Abbott, whcse sweet
voice promises to place her on the top
round of iho ladder of lyric fame, writes
as follows from Florence to her mother
in "Wisconsin: "In Rome I saw the
Pope; was presented with many others.
The ceremony took place in tho palace
of tho Vatican. All the gentlemen had
to wear black dress suits and white ties;
tho ladies black dresses and Spanish
veils. Jilvory one was in pmce ana wait
ing in breathless suspense for the I
entrance of, the 'holy father' at 11:45
o'clock, the appointed time. I had just
concluded that he was not coming, as a
full hour and a half had elapsdd, but at
length he was announced, and we all
knelt down. He passed up one side of
[ the room, speaking to each one, and
then down on the other side. Every one
kissed his hand, and devout Catholics
kissed his crimson slippers. An Italian
woman who was next to mo told me of
the miracles he had wrought, and said I
1J TTtlmn Y\n primp.
and that I would be unable to speak to
lnm. But, on the contrary, when I saw
tho kind, good natured face of his holi
ness, f smiled, and he smibd, and asked
mo where I wan from; and then said, as
he i>assed along: ' Aildio carrmima'?
' Good-bye, dearest.' J ran acroas to tho
other side of tho room, and when ho
came to me the second time I told him I
wa* an artist, and aaked his blessing on
my voicc. He gave it, bnt said I must I
' pray rather than fling,' at which he l
laughed, ami the priests and attendants
around him laughed too. After that,
the Pope addressed the people in French,
and blessed them, aud the great ordeal
was over."
Would not Sell.
A correspondent sends tho following
reminiscence : When Congressman La
mar was returning home at the close of
the session of Congress in 1860 a news
boy on the Memphis and Charleston rail
road insisted that he should purchase a
book ho repeatedly offered him. An
noyed by his pertinacity and anxious to
be rid of him, Mr. Lamar said to him,
with a wave of his hand: "Ob, pshaw I
don't bother me so. I wrote the boi'k."
Quick as thought the little felloy an
swered : "Ah! now I know, 'jpat's
wlutt makes it bo darned hard to so
The Year 1875.
Another year has gone. As we wel- j
come the new year, standing now at the
threshold of the second centnry of our
national existence, it is well to glance [
backward over the leading events of the g
twelvemonth just closed. I
The year 1875 has not been a very f
eventful one. We recall but a single r
change in the map of the world as a re- r
suit of war, and that is nothing more r
than a fresh extension of tile Russian r
dominions in central Asia, a process that [
has been going on for many generations, r
and that will doubtless continue. The c
Dutch war against the Atchinese has c
not been brought to a close. 1
The only other wars of note have been c
civil wars; the Carlist rebellion in Spain, {
the Cuban insurrection, and the rising j
in Herzegovina?more important than
either of the others. The Carlist cause
seems to be at an extremity as the year
wanes, and possibly before this review
reaches oar readers, it may have come
to an end. The war in Cuba continues
with little change. The Herzegovinian
revolt has gained an importance during
the last mouths, and unless it oan be
speedily put down, may prove a fatal
calamity to the Turkish empire.
Political changes and revolutions have
been few. Near the beginning of the
year Spain cast aside the Republican
form or government, which had been a
name rather than a reality, and called
Alfonso, the son of the deposed Queen
Isabella, to the throne. The revolution
was bloodless, as was that which drove
out the now restored Bourbon dvhasty.
France, on the other hand, has by the
action of the national assembly, set up a
republic, framed a constitution, and
made all the preparations to set the new
machinery in motion a month or two
hence.
Elsewhere there has . been quiet
political changes, or important reforms.
Mr. Disraeli's government in Great
Britain has met with no serious check.
Neither in Austria, Italy, Russia, nor in
anv of the countries of northern Europe,
and good order, without
has anything occurred to attract the at- 1
tention of the world. ' > 8
At home there have been bnt few e
striking events. Two cabinet changes c
constitutes the only ohanges in the gen- e
oral administration. A law providing for 1
the resumption of specie payments at t
the beginning of the year 1879, was the t
most important measure of the Congress f
which adjourned on the fourth of March, t
The new Congress has as yet done little
except to organize and to get into work- j
ing ord.r. c
It has been a good year for crops, par- t
ticularly in the United States; but a '
very bad year for business, almost s
everywhere. We have gathered a grain r
harvest nearly equal to the largest, and
a cotton crop more abundant than was o
ever before known. Bnt trade has been L
very dull, prices havs been falling, and
many thousands of people have been un- t
employed. Other countries have suf- e
fered, but probably none so greatly as v
the United States. As the year draws
to an end, there are encouraging signs a
that the worst of the season of depres- d
sion is over.
Death has removed many men of name
and fame. The young emperor of China,
who had ruled that vast empire but a x
short time, was the only crowncd head i
that has died during the year. Vice- t
President Wilson and ex-President
Johnson/ ex-Vice-President Breckin- I
ridge, and Jesse 1). Bright, all of whom, 1
during their lifetime, presided over the t
American Senate, have passed away.
Science has lost Sir Charles Lyell, the i
geologist, and Prof. Wheatstone, the r
electrician. The mo&t noted preacher t
who has died is M. Coquerel, the French
protestant clergyman. Literature s
mourns Charles Kingsley and Hans t
Christian Andersen. The death of Wil- 1
liam B. Aator, the richest man in New t
Yorlif if not in America, reminds us that t
tho rich are not spared by tiie great ao i
stroyer.
A Hero and a Martyr.
Few of thoso who read and -wondered
at Charles Reade's thrilling story of
James Lambert, as it was published a
year ago, says the New York Tribune,
imagined that we had here at home a
hero in humble life whose achievements
rival if they do not surpass those of the
now famous cotton spinner of Glasgo v.
John Horn, the hero of this story, is the
son of a waterside tavern keeper at De
troit. The list of men, women and
children whom he has rescued from
drowning numbers over one hundred.
Repeatedly he has barely saved himself
in the gallant attempt to sav e others, and
the reward which he seems to have gen
erally earned by his exertions is a fit of
sickness. It has not been mere fair
weather heroism. His most memorable
achievements have been performed on
dark and stormy nights, or when the
water was full of floating ice. We can
oimnof HflliAVfi that it is a custom in De
troit when anybody is drowning to post- |
pone other appliances for rescue and *
call John Horn f for this young man g
seems to have been repeatedly summoned j.
from home to plunge into the water
while crowds of spectators stand sympa- j
thetio but helpless on the bank. How ?
he has been kicked and bruised and
strangled and injured internally and
otherwise maltreated by the people he ^
has been trying to get out of the river ^
our readers can easily imagine.
"Drowning men," as Mr. Horn ob
serves, " are always crazy." j
We do not find in his narrative an ;
exact parallel to James Lambert's most fl
remarkable exploits; bnt there is some
tiling which comes very near if. iu theac
count of what lie modestly calls " the
worst night ho ever had," when he
saved no fewer than nine men. That
would be accounted rather a good night,
we think, in most men's lives; but John
Horn is not a boaster. The citizens of
Detroit gave him a medal for his gal
lantry, and ho lost it while saving the
life of a young lady in 1873. Last year
he applied to Congress for a medal, and
his claims to renown were made through
the agency of the Hon. Moses W.
Field, who represented Detroit in Con
gress and was au eye-witness of several
01 tllG events WlllCll tms letwir reuuma,
There can hardly be a doubt that John
Horn ought to have the little testimonal
ho asks.
United Stales >"avy.
In the United States navy there are
forty rear-admirals on the retired list,
who receive ?4,500 per year salary. Fol
lowing the list of rear-ad inirals there ap
pears a list of thirty-eight commodores.
Thirty-five of these commodores are on
the retired list and receive $3,750 per
year each.
There are thirty captains ami com
manders on the retired or pension list
who receive nn average of $3,000 a year
each.
After the captains and commanders
come the lieutenants, lieutenant-com
manders, masters, ensigns, and even
midshipmen. A "starred," or retired,
lieutenant-commander receives 82,250 a
year, a lieutenant SI,950, a master SI,500,
an ensign $1,150, and a midshipman
$750. After these come the staff offi
cers, and the exhibit is somthing appall
ing. Thero are twenty-five medical di
rectors at $3,300 each, thirteen other
medical officers at an average of $2,000
each, fifteen pay officers at an averago of
$2,000 each, and thirty-eight engineers
at about the same average.
UNITED STATES PUBLIC DEBT.
Ln Interesting Stateqienf of the Financial
Condition of the Nation.
The increase of nearly two million dol
ars in the pnblio debt of the United
States last month, a Washington dis
>atch says, is attributable to the large
ailing off in revenues, usual for the
nonth of December. The receipts last
nonth from customs were less than eight
nillion dollars, and nearly three millions
ess than in November, which was the
ightest of the first five months of the
iresent fiscal year. Compared with De
ember, 1874, which was the lightest
aonth of the last fiscal year, the receipts
aat month fell off about one and one
[uarter millions. The customs receipts
or the six months ending December
??? nao?lTr t/vrrv millinnfl nlinrfc
LLUVjr-iUOV (UU UWIUI^ J.VU* J ???.
it the receipts for the corresponding
leriod of 1874. For several years past
he debt statement for December has
hown an increase in the publio debt
n December, 1873, the increase was
18,463,273; in 1874, $3,669,968, while in
876 it is $1,915,063, or about one-half
rhat it was in 1874. Compared with last
rear there is a marked improvement in
iur financial condition. 'For the six
aonths ending December thirty-first the
rablio debt has decreased $8,866,631,
gainst $4,089,930 for the corresponding
teriod of 1874. The internal revenues
how an increase over the month of De
ember, 1874, which indicates that the
Qcreased tax on whisky is being oollect
d, and that frauds upon the revenues
ehich have been checked have caused a
erious loss heretofore. The debt state
aent shows that during December the
oin balance has fallen off $2,000,000,
nd the currency balance nearly $900,
00. The coin certificates have increased
rom $20,000,000 to $31,000,000. There
ias been a decrease of legal tenders for
he month of $614,552, and an increase
q fractional currency of $1,079,967.
A Scene in the Sheriff's Office.
The newly elected sheriff was sitting
a his office sad eyed and haggard. He
leld in his hand. a stack of manu
cnpc represeutuig iue appuutuuuo ui
light hundred and. seventy-nine candi
lates (or positions of deputy sheriff,
iach of whom said he had worked for
lim at the polls, and had gained him all
he way up from two hundred to one
housand votes from their personal
riends who did not vote the opposition
ickefc.
A man attired in a blue shirt, with a
>aper collar and a red nose, entered the
iflice, and, grasping the hand of the
irod official, greeted him cordially.
'Ah, Mr. Sheriff, but it's glad I am to
ee you looking so hearty; don't you
emember me ?"
"I don't think I do," remarked the
fflcial, "although there is something
a your faoe which is familiar to me."
"Ah. Mr. Sheriff, I thought you'd
:now me. I worked for you all day
lection, aDd got you one thousand
ntPB and I come for that place."
" Well, I am sorry to say that I have
Jready promised all the places at my
lisposal."
" Oh, give me a place ; I don't care
rhat it is."
"Oh, by-the-bye," said the sheriff,
rith a malicious grin in his eye, " thfte
a a place, but it's not much, and I don't
hink yon'd take it."
" Ah, Mr. Sheriff, I'll take anything ;
! don't care what kind of a place it is.
Pell me -what it is, and I'll jump at it
rifch my coat off."
" All right," said the sheriff; " there
s a man going to be hanged at the jail
loxt month, and ho wants somel.ody to
ake his place. I think it will suit you."
The man with the red nose ceased to
mile, and asking the sheriff for a qnar
er to pay for his lodging that night, he
eft the office and mingled with the
lu-ong of would-be deputy sheriffs on
he outside.
The Morrill Redemption Bill.
The following is the full text of the
)ill introduced in the United States
Jenate by Senator Morrill, of Vermont:
To provide for the redemption of legal
ender United States notes in accordance
nth the existing law. Be it enacted,
tc., that to further enable the secretary
if tho treasury to provide for the re
lemption of the legal tender United
) bates notes, in accordance with the ex
sting law, he is authorized to issue, sell
>r dispose of, at not less than par in
egal tender United States notea, either
if the descriptions of tho bonds of the
Jnited States, bearing interest at a rate
if not exceeding four and one-half per
ent. per annum, described in the act of
Congress approved July 14, 1870, en
itled " An act to authorize the refund
ng of the national debt," with like
inalities, privileges and exemption to
lie extent necessary to carry onto full
iffect the act of Congress approved Jan.
4.1875. entitled, "An act for the re
umption of specie payments," and to
ise the proceeds thereof for the pur
>oses aforesaid; and the said legal notes
o obtained npon the issue of said bonds
hall be held and considered as a part of
he final redemption of snch notes pro
dded for in the act of Congress herein
ast mentioned, and shall be treated ac
jordingly and canceled; provided that
he principal of the bonds herein author
zed may be made redeemable at any
ime not less than thirty nor exceeding
orty years from the date of issue.
. a x?j
Seo. 2. Tiiat ail contracts euw;reu mw
>r made after the first day of January,
.878, shall be payable in accordance
nth the legal tender standard of gold
.nd silver, unless otherwise provided at
ho time of the contract.
Seo. 3. That all national banking as
ociations shall be and hereby are re
tired to hold in coin as part of their
awful money reserve, on and after the
irst day of January, 1877, one-fourth;
.fter the first day of January, 1878, one
" " - i.?-r
ia.11, ftca aner ui? uxtt u^jr ui
878, three-fourths.
Active Life.
The trouble is, Barnum, the showmau,
ays, wo do our work superficially; we
lash ahead to make a fortune and retire;
hat is a great mistake. About eight
' ears ago I tried it. I had three rnuse
>mo Vinroml snnond fire I
;onsidered it a notice to quit. So I
)ought a houso on Murray Hill, kept
ny country seat aud retired. I felt very
lappy to think I bad retired. Well, I
vent along that way about two jears,
ill I got rusty. Ono day a physician,
irother-in-law to Baron Shurtz, came to
lee me and said : "I hear you have re
ared?" "Yes." "Well, you are going
;o die." " I suppose so, sometime."
11 No, but very soon. When you Ameri
jans retire, you always die ; you work
ind dig and are all business till you get
rich, and right in middle life you retire,
md your brain, hitherto active, shrinks
fr<?m disease; your skull dou't shrink ;
that creates a vacuum, and you die."
Well, I have no doubt there is a great
leal of truth in that. I took his advice
md started a traveling show; I got out
my programmo and told some pretty big
stories; then I thought I ought to keep
to thorn audi had to work pretty hard to
do it. The doctor came to see me again
and said : "Well, you have got into
business again ?" "Yes." "Well, you
die." I inquired why, and he said : "I
did not tell you to work yourself to
death; a man of your years (over fifty
five) cauuofc exert his braiu as milch as a
man twenty-fiyi The doctor wes quite
right.
Items of Interest. <
The En glish riflemen have accepted
the challenge of the Now York riflemen
for a match in America (faring the Cen
tennial celebration. Sir JETenry Halford '
will be the captain of the English team.
A middle-aged gentleman, deeply in
terested in the Centennial, asked a mia*
of sweet sixteen if she knew what im
portant event 1876 would be noted for,
and she promptly responded : ''Leap
year."
Peter Herdie, a millionaire of Wil
liamsport, Pa., made the Protestant
Episcopal church of that place a Christ
mas present of a new edifice, fully fur
nished with an organ and other reqni
sites.
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If debating societies are out of sub
jects, they cannot do better than to
wrestle with the conundrum: "Why
is it that, proportionately, there are
fewer elopements in iargetowns than in
small ones?-,'..
" Ob, I am so glad yon like birds I
what kind do yon most admire i" said a
wife to her husband. "Ahem! Well I
think ar good turkey, with plenty of
seasoning," said the hnsband, " is as
nice as any."
Daring the past fiscal year the.amount
of money which went to the deaii letter
offioe in Washington was $77,166.86, of.
which $22,629.49 oonld not be returned
to the forwarders, owing to there being
no clew to their address.
A fellow in Derrisville, California, had
a mother who disliked the girl whom he
had engaged to marry. Said the, mother:
"I'll give yon the brindle tteers.aod the
mole if yon don't marry her." fie took
the brn tee in preference to thegirL
An nViio ftnnnla recently celebrated
their golden wedding on the forty
eighth anniversary of their marriage.
Some one chanced to open the family
Bible while the festivities were in pro
gress, and the mistake was discovered.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says
that a poetical New Yorker, learning that
the kte N. P. Willis named his reriaenoa
" G!en Mary," after his wife, concluded
that that was just about the thing to do,
and so he colls his house " Glen Matilda
Jane.". .....
A nice point for casuists has just beea
raised in Montreal. Two men were
quarreling on St. Francis Xavier street;
and A knocked E down, whereupon a
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iiorse, aiavmea at one euxuggio,
B on the head and killed him. What is
A guilty of?
A simple looking country lad, to whose
lot fell the leading questions in the
catechism, "What is your name?" re
plied: "Carrots!" "Who gave yon
that name?" "All the boys in the
parish, sir," whiningly replied the red
haired urchin.
"Charles," said a young wife to her
linoVionrJ as fhflv sat at the window '
watching the fashionables on their way
to church, "when you die anfkl get
hold of the insurance money I sHend to
have a for cape and muff just like that
lady has on over there."
A man in New Hampshire had the
misfortune recently to lose his wife.
Over the grave he caused a stone to be
placed, on which, in the depth of his
grief, he had ordered to be inscribed:
*' Tears cannot restore her?therefore ;I
wocp."
This is the kind of weather when a
man sees his wife coming into therooin
with a scuttle of coal, and after she h?s
poured every bit of it into the top of
the tall stove, says- " Darn it, Hariner,
you ought to 'ave asked .me to do that.
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A letter from Fayal, one of the Azojre
islands, holds out this incentive to im
migration : " Hero you get a bottle of
wine for six cents, a meal for eight
cents, board by the day twenty-five
cents, while fifty cents will buy as much
as five dollars will in the States. ..,
A Western lady gives the following
advice to girls engaged in looking up
husbands: "Look out. for physical
health and beauty for the sake of the
race. Do not bestow a glance on the
lean, dyspeptic, cadaverous biped ; shun
him as you would a pestilence.", >
Mr. Ruskin pitoheB into the young
lady Sunday-school teachers. "At pre
sent," he says, "you keep the dancing
to yourselves end teach your scholars
the catechism. Suppose you were to
try for a little while learning the cate
chism yourselves and teaching them to
dance." *
Candle light is generally considered
to enhance the beauty of one's face and
complexion, and we are told that it will
be the fashion this winter to use wax
candles at parties instead of gas. Young
ladies who have more freckles than they
frt /In rrifh will read this witn
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gratification.
A correspondent of the National
Baptist, Philadelphia, tells a romantic
story of a young man named Randall,
formerly a resident of New York, who
was captured in Syria by the Bedouins,
married a chief's daughter, and has con
verted her and others of the tribe to the
Christian faith.
The bodies of Gens. Lecomte and
rrru hw, Tn/yfimn nf the Com
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mane, who were assassinated on tha
eighteenth of March, 1871, were recently
exhumed from {heir original resting
place, and, after remaining a day for
solemn service at the Invalides, interred
in Pero la Chaise.
The Chinese entered California in
1850, drawn thither by gossip about the
land oi' gold. Senator Sargent remem
bers seeing the first Chinese jnnk that
anchored off the California coast. At
the present day the thin musclcs of the
Chinaman are prominently effective as
far east as Wyoming.
One of the young men employed in a
Daubury hat factory discovered a brass
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was masticating the other day. He is
looking for a new boarding place. He
says what he want3 fire the comforts of a
homo, and not the excitement and con
fusion of a dollar store.
It has never been accounted for, and
probably never will be, why a boy Who
will eat four fneals, play ball three hours,
gorge himself with unripe fruit and ro
in swimming sis times daily during all
vacation, and be 'healthier than a tomb
stone, will be seized with all sorts of
maladies the moment the school bell
rings.
One of the curious incidents of the *
past holiday season is a call from the
I British Post-office department for a re*
j mittance of 8150,000 on account of
{ money ordersdrawu in the United States
I 011 post-offices in Great Britain, in ex
j cess of similar orders drawn there upon
| offices on this side of the Atlantic. The
I iiwo lioionoj jo (imlained by
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the largo number of immigrants from
the British empire, who make uso of
money orders in remembering " the old
folks at home " at Christmas and New
Tear's.
The London Lancet calls attention to
the - importance of early detection of
scarlet fever at this tima of the year. In
the initial stage the throat symptoms are
most trustworthy, the soft part of the
palate being extremely reddened, and
not merely the tonnils, as in ordinaiy
sore throat. If the nkin is hot in addi
i tion, the pulse quick, and the tongue
j thickly furred, scarlet fever may bo
' looked for. Sickness generally follows
tho attack within twenty-four hour<s.
Parents and schoolmasters should be
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