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- -" * m : " : : ; ~ ^ \ THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER.! I ? ? |fl BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY^ AUGUST 9. 1876. VOLUME XXIY.-NO. 18. i;| ??? ??? I The Century. Through ntorm and calm the years hare led Oar nation on from stage to stage, A century's space, nntil we tread The thresLold of another ago. We see where o'er onr pathway swept . A torrent stream of b!oo 1 and fire; And thank the g-ua.dfan power who kept Oar sacred league of States entire. Oh ! checkered train of years, farewell, With all thy strifes and hopes and fears; But with ue let thy memories dwell To warm and teaoa the coming years. And thou, the new beginning age, Warmrd by the past, and not in vain; Write t n a fairer, whiter page Tho record of thy happier reign. ? William CulUn Bryant. A BIT OF LACE. _ It'8 a perfectly exquisite pieoe of lace, papa." : v>*" I (Jare say, Flor. 44 But I want you to look at it." "I shouldn't know any more about it if I did." 44 Well, then, I want you to buy it" * "Buy it! What for?'' 4 Why,for me." 41 Pay five hundred dollars for a handkerchief for you t" " i'es," indeed. Why, papa, I should think it was something atrocious. All the other girls have tbem, although certainly this is a little, the least little nicer than theirs. I don't know why .Lucy should have a nicer handkerchief 7 than I, jmt because she married. Any1ix>dy else would say it was enough to be married, and eo let mo hare the handkerchief. Married women have everything?love and lace and diamonds. Now, papa, just take out your pooketbook." It was a coaxing voice. 44 Do you suppose I carry five-hundred-dollar bills in my pocketbook ?" " It makes no odds. Your checkbook, then. I've set my heart on it, '; it's Buch a beauty. If you only look at it?look at that wreath of flowers so delicately shaded; here the close work in thd light, yon see, there the opeft work in the shade, so perfect you can quite fancy the colors; and all done in it this one thread. See, papa, there's a . dewdrop, that round hole in the mesh." " Nonsense, Flor; I can't see anything of the kind there." V l That's because your eye isn't educated, sir. Mine is; for I have studied - other people's laces till I could almost work them. That's a good man! I knew . you would. You always do. One, two, three !" And then there was a shower of kisses and tinkling laughter. And that was the conversation of a millionaire and his daughter that Lucian Malt via heard over the open transom ot' the next room to his in the hotel where he staicbovernight a year or two ago, seeing r ather people- nor handkerchief, 'and - ik/vn/*kk A Viftr* * HVUZK5B t?V UUU VUVU5UV Vi ? uouuavivutvi oosting five hundred dollars, which was one-third of the mortgage on his little place, that ho was trying to pay off, he*rt and soul?a conversation that cow incurred to him in a moment of real, ngonv, as the housemaid stood before him holding a little limp rag in her hand Jhat ahe had just snatched out of the washtub, and that last night was a bit of dainty lace that Miss Rose Merrier had called her baudkerchief, and lad giveu him to hold during the galop. * 'Good heavens, how was he ever going to restore it! . . .He was a young lawyer, just entering , upon what in time would probably be ? fine practice, but which was nuw rather i empirical. He hid started in the race for wealth and honor with good legal ability, good name, and good morals, and with no other impedimenta than a f little patrimony in the shape of a modest dwelling in the suburbs, which he had been obliged to mortgage for the means to get a part of his education and his profession, which mortgage he was sfcrivng to pay off, that he might begin the fnture clear of the world. He was a handsome fellow, this Luoian Malvin, an ambitions one too, in pome degree, and very nearly as prond as Lucifer. He used to feel many a pang in the association with those so muoh wealthier than himself to which certain circum. stances had subjected him. He bad had an important case accidentally thrown into his hands, and had acquitted himself so well that the wealthy client took him up and would not fat him down; and, when Lucian remonstrated that it w&s out of his power to keep up each association, and was mortifying to his pride besides, the client had assured him it was not pride, but vanity, that j was mortified, and that the way to be as wealthy as those he met was to keep their company and get their casos ; and i ho thought, on the whole, that perhaps 1 his friend was right, and he began to j yield with an ignobly motive, had never-; . theless become very loud of the ways of J ' the people to whom wealth had given j every opportunity of culture and grace, * nnd who knew how to treat life like a work of art. Moreover, it was not a iT.-I. I,? 1 l.T. mmiiD n( I lunu UO ?* i*0 ?'J faiivua vi these good people. Certain motherly | ladies made him at home with them, and won his confidence aud hisaffection, notably Mrs. Barnetta. Parents with good rentrolls of their own, as Mrs. Barnetta nsed to toil him, were not so insistent in the matter of rentrolls as of Mrtue "Jtnd talent in their daughters' husbands; and he tos invited here and there, and given to understand a great deal more than ho choose to understand. Proud Lucifer, as it was previously stated, he was going to marry no heiress of thorn all and be the thrall of her money; he could not marry a rich woman, he could cot marry a poor one. When he married, he was going to give, not take, and at present he bad . nothing to give. Perhaps he wonld have been a nobler person if he had not been quite so strenuous in this matter of obligation; but then, as Mrs. Barnetta ' ne would not have been Lucian .. M&lvin, and Lucian Malvin was a very good fellow, after all, and there aro few of us but have our faults. It was among these people that he kftppeqed to meet Rosa Mercier. She * had oo'mo from a distant place, and was Visiting his pleasantest acquaintance; and certainly the house was pleasanter still after her sunshiny little presenoe dawned on it It seemed as if, for instance, there never had been any flowers in the house before, although it had always been overflowing; it seemed as if there had been no musio there, no light, or color, or cheer; and now the place was too dangerously delightful for a yonng man who did not want to many to frequent. She was such a lovely little thing; not exactly beautiful, that is, she would not have been beantifnl in a picture, but in flesh and blood, and in Lucian Malvin's eyes, she was exceedingly beautiful, with her soft oolor, her clear dark gaze, and her bright hair that broke into a oloud of sunny rings about her sweet face; such a gentle gayety went with her wherever she did, such a tender grace of manner, too, in the intervals of her buoyant spirits, her voice was such a warbling voice, her ways were 6nch winsome ways. Lucian Malvin felt that he must forswear her presence unless he wanted to make life a burden to himself; and he ceased going to Mrs. Barnetta's, where she was staying, almost as suddenly as day forsakes the horizon in that dreary season when twilights are net. But if he could shut himself out from the Bainettas', he oould not shut Miss Rosa out from general society; and go where he would, he met her almost nightly, laughing gayly, singing sweetly, danoing lightly, till he declared to himself that if this was going to last, he muet indeed cease going out at alL But that was a little too much; he did not know how positively to deny himself the mere sight of her. Tet things were growing very precarious when ho could not take a book but he saw that blushing face slide in between the pages, when he could not make out a writ without being in danger of slipping her name into the blanks, when he heard the delicious voice murmuring in his ears when he walked, and walked all night with the little spirit when he slept. He made a compromise with himself?it was all he could?and declared that at any rate he would not danoe with her again. It was an idle effort. He might almost as well have danced with her as have stood looking at her, quite unconscious of his general air, and all the lover In his glanoe. Mrs. Barnetta beckoned him to her side ; he stood there jubt as Rosa came up from her promenade and left the arm of one cavalier to be carried off by another. "You are not dancing, Mr. Malvin?" she said. "Oh, would you hold my fan and handkerchief f" He followed them with his eye again as the musio crashed into a dashing galop. What right had that other man with his clapp about this darling ? why did she suffer it? what deoency was there in the society which commanded such sacrifice f In his embrace?whirling wildly to this wild music I. "You do hate him, don't you?" said Mrs. Barnetta, in his ear. "If looks could slay"? He started. Was he carrying his heart upon his eleeve for daws to peck at?? "Oh, I don't pity you a bit," laughed Mrs. Barnetta, low toned. And putting out her hand, she took Rosa's fan and opened it as she talked. "Anybody," said she, "with such a power of making misery, ought to eniry it." " I?I beg your pardon, Mrs. Barnetta, but if you read me riddles, I must ask you also to be their sphinx." " Oh, no; it was the function of the sphinx to propound the riddles, not to solve them." And*- Mrs. Barnettii laughed her low, pleasant laugh. "You do not come to us any more," she said. "And as I used to be in your confidence before you deserted me, I can imagine the reason. I do not like to say it is very shabby treatment of an old friend. 0/ course I cannot say that it is rude. Bui if you do not dance with Miss Merrier this eveniner. I shall be fearfully offend ed. I am not goiog to have my little treasure made unhappy for the Pake of the safety of the prinoe of all good fellows himself."- . Luoien chauged oolor so suddenly that Mrs. Barnetta put out her hand in affright, half expecting to see him fall; but in a moment he was himself again. "Do you? Is Miss Mercier he began, and paused half way. "As if I should say another word, and had not already said altogether tou much!" said Mrs. Barnetta. "There, she has left dancing and gone for an ice. What do you think of round dances, on the whole ?" And they were, to all appearances, deep in a discussion of the subject when Rosa returned and swept her late partner a courtesy, and took shelter on the other side of Mrs. Barnetta. Perhaps she had seen the way Lucian's eye had fol j lowed her, and it had given her a certain illumination that made her shrink. Just then the band began one of the Hungarian waltzes, a sweet and rapturous measure that sot the blood itself to dancing in one's veins. Why not ? One last dance, one last moment of ecstasy, ere he went out forever into loneliness. , Directly be had crampled the bit of laoe into his posket, and was bending before the little Rosa, who seemed suddenly to have lost all her light gayety, and who put out her hand to him with a conscious burning blush upon her face that his heart reflected in a melting glow. And then there was no thought of pride, or of negation, or forgetting ; the music was swinging them at its will; they circled in each other's arms to its delicious and delirious movement. Yet only a moment was it, a few moments, a brief sweet space of half conscious time; and then a faint recognition crept through its spell and warned Lncian of the poison in this honey. He was in the act of surrender; he was about to seal his fate and that of this dear girl; to take her away from her father's wealth and her luxurious ease, and condemn her to the carking cares of poverty. All his nature rebelled; ho chose not to be swayed by this melody of horns and strings; he would have no passion, neither musio nor love, so master his soul as to beoome the element in which it swam, an exclusion of thought and fear, of sight and sound, and all other emotion; and with his imperious determination he chose to break fcli? enchantment? thu real world arept back nnon his senses, he heard the tune, beyond this olond that wrapped them, breaking again into its distinctive measure, and exertirg hi* will, he controlled their stepB aud paused at last beside Mrs. Barnetta, and with a low bow, and without a word, gave Rosa back into that lady's care, and passed into the crowd and out of the place and home to his lonely rooms. It waa daybreak before he sought repose, walking the floor till then, hardly knowing what he did or what he thought, but intent upon conquering himself. He would give the world for Rosa Mercier's love, but he would not give his prido. To him that pride meant self-respect; to marry her, the child of opulence, meant either to sell himself for a price, or to reduce her to trouble and weariness in which her love might soon wear out. He did not doubt that bvenow; without a syllable's speech, he felt sure of it. While it thrilled him wildly and deeply, it cast a sudden shadow of regret; he only hoped, and cursed his fate that forced him to hope such a thing, that presently the love would pass, and some one who would make her happier would claim her. At length, with maledictions in the act, he emptied bis pockets of the gloves, handkerchief, and trifles there, and went to bed, with the sun coming inrougn me curtains, ana, worn uus m body and mind, slept to the blessed and thorough oblivion of all the world. When he awoke it was late in the day. All his trouble rushed over him, bnt in a moment all his will to repel it rose too. Ho dressed himself leisurely; he meant to call that night on Miss Mercier, restore her handkerchief that he had forgotten to give back after the dance, and in some indirect way let her know that he intended never to marry, and so seal his doom beyond hope. He went into the next room when he had completed his toilet, and, after attending to one or two other affairs, looked for the handkerchief that he remembered to have taken from his pocket and to have tossed upon the table there. It was not on the table; it was nowhere in the room. In a panic, he rung the bell; and when it was answered, instituted an inquiry concerning the thing. Yes, indeed, Susan had seen it, and thought it was so yellow and soiled she would take it down and wash it. "Lore, sir, it was the dirtiest little rag," she said. "Just straw color. And I thoiight I'd give it - a run throngh the tub and the bluing and make it fit to be seen." "Good heavens!" he cried, with a horrified flash of remembrance that the yeilower lace was the more precious was on/1 tViof if riAnor was wnAhnri on anv account except by people who did nothing else. " Let me have it at once." And in five minutes afterward Susan stood before him holding up the little limp rag, and with a pang as from a blow of something unknown and dreadful, the conversation that he had heard over the transom of the hotel door, a year or two ago, swept back upon his recollection. Five hundred dollars! And gone to grief in a moment I And he could no more replace it than he could fly, without what was the same to him as absolute ruin. Of course he must replaoe it; he could not be indebted, through the stupidity of his servant, or through any other means, to Miss Merrier in that sum. Without any doubt, slje valued such a bit of lace; and if anything were needed to demonstrate to him the wisdom of the course he had derided on, and tho utter absurdity of having dared for a single moment to look with love on rlarlinnra ?/tVflina "if. Wftfl UUU UI uuiiiugn Vk ?v MWW the fact thather handkerchiefs alone were items of five hundred dollars. What a shame! what a wickedneness! what a preposterous folly! How could a young man marry ? He burned with indignation then. But to replace it; one-third of the sum he was saving to redeem his little property from mortgage?all the money he really had in the world beyond that for his daily expenses ! It was the ruin of his hopes, his ambitions, his pride, that scorned so to be anybody's debtor ; it threw him back in the race, how long! But it must be done. He had a trifle over five hundred dollars in the bank. Ee drew his check for the neoessary sum and folded it away in his pocketbook, and then went about his business till nightfall, when he came back to his ireary rooms, and made himself ready for a call at Mrs. Barnetta's. The night had Dever seemed so beautiful, the stars so krge and keen and far 'ibove the earth, so remote and oold? they typified all the dear and happy things of life forever removed from him. j His heart was chilled, and his face was white when ho stood at" last in Mrs. Barnetta's drawing room, and she floated forward to meet him. He had not asked for Miss Mercier. "Itis a delicate errand, Mrs. Barnetta," said he, with a dreary attempt at smiling. "But the truth is that my maid, in her officious kindness, has done such damage to a bit of Miss Mercier's property that I must replace it. And I have corau to beg you, out of your friendship for me, to transact the affair, . if such au article can be replaced here, t believe these little trifles are rather costly, and if you will procure one "? and he laid the check he had drawn that morning and the little limp rag in Mrs. Barnetta's; Imnd?" as like the original as possible, I"? "My dear Mr. MalviD, what in the world] are yon talking of ?" cried Mrs. Barnetta. " Have you raoney to throw about in'this way ? Fiv? hundred dollars?what is it for?" "To replace Miss Merci?r'R handkerchief, if you will be so good as to make the purchase." "Like this?" said Mrs. Barnetta, holdiug up the little limp rag by one corner. "Like that," said Lucian. " Oh, that is too good f" oried Mrs. Barnetta, with a peal of laughter. "It is too good, it is too absurd ? What creatures men are ! Did you imagine that this bit of finery was worth all that ?? this little ficrid of gra^s cloth and German lace ? No wonder the young men don't marry, then I My dear Mr. Maivin, this miserable handkerchief cost exactly two dollars and t half, and was nearly worn out at that. Did you imagine, too, that my poor listle Knsa could wear five-hundred-dollar handkerchiefs, without a cent to her name ?" "Without a cent to her name ?" cried Lueien, springing to his feet. "Exactly. Aha I Is that the trouble ? Now why didn't you come and talk it all over with me in the way you used to do, and save yourself all thia vexation, and save my little Rosa, too ? What an absurd boy you are 1 Another would have waited to hear that she was an heiress; you wait to hear that she is penniless. Well, she is, if that satisfies you, except for what I shall leave my little goddaughter when I die?which will not be at present, D. Y. And there she is in the next room now. But, bless me"? Lucien hud not waited for the rest of the invocation. He was already in the next room, and Rosa wag already in his arms.?Bazar. Circassian Girls. The sale of Circassian girls to Turks still continues. A correspondent of the London Times says that a Moslem dealer makes choice of fonr young, unsophisticated girls, imports them to Constantinople, sells them and then goes back for more.' If he can achieve four suoh trips in a year he can make a good living ont of sixteen women. Many of the Circassians are living in Turkey, and there actnally breed ohildren for sale, having no more shame about it than a fashionable English mother may feel about bringing out her girl* for the matrimonial market. Germany to America. Mr. Oadwalader, acting secretary of state of the United States, presented Mr. Sohlozer, the German minister, to the President for the purpose of delivering an autograph letter of congratulation from the emperor of Germany. Mr. Sohlozer in presenting the letter stated tbat he was instructed by his majesty to deliver upon the fourth day of July to the President in person an autograph letter of congratulation upon the occasion of the centennial anniversary, and wished to add his personal good wishes for the United States. The President briefly replied, assuring him of his satisfaction in receiving this evidence of good feeling on the part of his majesty; that his kind expressions toward the United States were fully appreciated, and that the letter should be properly acknowledged. The letter is as follows: William, by the grace of Ood, Emperor of Oermany, King of Prussia, etc., to the President of the United States: Gkbat and Good Friend : It has been vouchsafed to you to celebrate the centennial festival of. the day upon which the great republic over which you preside entered the rank of independent nations. The purposes of its founders have, by a wise application of the teachings of the history of the foundation of nations, and with insight into the distant future, been realized by a development without a parallel. To congratulate you and the American people on the occasion affords me so much the greater pleasuie because since the treaty of friendship which my ancestor of glorious memory, King Frederick II., who now rests with God, oonoluded with the United States, undisturbed friendship has oontinually existed between Germany and America, and has been developed and strengthened by the ever increasing imnnrtfl.np.fi rtf their mntnal relations. and by ail intercourse becoming more and more fruitful in every domain of commerce and scienoe. That the welfare of the United States and the friendship Qf the two countries may continue to increase, is my sincere desire and confident hope. Accept the renewed assurance of my unqualified esteem. (Signed) William. (Countersigned) Yon Bismarck. The Difference. There was a man who said to himself, whenever I devote a dollar to pleasure I will devote ten cents to charity. This idea he got from personal experience, for he had been chosen for a single day collector for contributions to oelebrate an anniversary, and also oolleotor for a fund for poor widows. He went fortH with the two appeals; in the right pooket he put the money secured for the celebration and in the left the money given for widows. When he got home, he took aooount. and found that five hundred men had contributed for the celebration, and only five for the poor widows. Then he moralized. Now here, said he, in this hand I have two thousand dollars, all to be burned up in bad smelling fireworks, and with this five times as muoh value in buildings that these fireworks will destroy. On the other hand, I have twenty dollars for a thousand of hard working widows, who to-day cannot be sure of their din: ners, and then this reckless man saidl loud enough for all the world to hear Go to the average citizen with an appea, for a starving fellow creattire, and you may get a penny and you may not; but show him that you can waste a thousand dollars in five minutes in noise and smoke, and he will immediately give you his cheok for the thousand and thank you for calling. If Hail Columbia were a poor widow, she might starve unless she could eat firecrackers. I How Hesiug Received Sentence. When sentence was pronounoed Hesing stood as if deprived of the power of movement. It was one of those moments which occasionally occur in a court of justice when there is suoh painful intensity of excitement as for a few seconds to rob every one present of their power to say or do anything. Hesing clung to the railing behind which he stood, and the fearful whirlwind of emotion that passed over his face was only observable by the judge and the automation-like clerk. Consternation was plainly visible upon the facet" of the ten defendants left sitting in the jury box. The judge at last considerately came to the relief of the fallen giant. " You may take your Beat, Mr. Hesing," he said. The eld man turned, stumbled baok to his chair, and without raising his eyes to gaze upon theourious crowd watching his every motion, buried his face in his handkerchief and burst into tears. It was, indeed, a bitter moment. ?Chtoago Paper. A Smart B"oy. A traveler etopped at Brussels in a post chaise, and being ebarpset he was anxious to buy a piece of cherry pie before his vehicle should 6et out; but he was afraid to leavo the public conveyance lest it might drive off and leave him. So calling a lad to him from the other side of the street, he Rave him a pieoe of money and requested him to go to a restaurant in the near vicinity and purchase pastry ; and then to make assurance doubly sure, he gave him anoth-. er piece of money and told him to buy some for himself at the same time. The lad went off on a run, and in a little while came back, eatiDg a piece of pie, and lookiDg very complacent and happy. Walking up to the window of the chaise, he said, with the most perfect nonchalance, returning at the same time one of the pieoes of money which the gentleman had given him: "The restaurant had only one piece of pie left, Mid that I bought with my money that you gave me I" The Centennial Legion. The Centennial Legion, which joined the great procession in Philadelphia on the fourth of July, was commanded by Gen. Heth, and oomposed of the following organizations: - Rhode Island Light Infantry, Col. E. B. Bollock oorr.Tnandiug; Clinch Rifles, of Georgia; Phil Kearny Guards, of Elizabeth, N. J., Capt. W. H. DeHart; American Rifles, of Wilmington, Del., Capt. 8. M. Wood; detaohment of the Fifth Maryland regiment, Col. Loney ; Boston Light Infantry, of Boston, Mass., Capt. N. N. Noyes; Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, S. C., Capt. M. G. Moore; Old Guard, of New York city; Fayetteville Light Infantry, of North Carolina, Major Haigh; a section of the First New Hampshire Battery, dismounted, and acting as infantry; the New Hayes Grays, of New Haven, Conn.; State Fenoiblee, of Philadelphia, Capt. J-W. Ryan; Norfolk Light Artillery Bluee, of .Norfolk, Va,, Capt. Hodges, with guns and oainons. THE COLORADO BEETLE. Where It Came From?What It Eats, and hew to Destroy It. The Colorado beetle, or potato bng, was first discovered in the canyons of the Colorado mountains, where it fed npon several weeds, natives of that region, and was known to entomologists long before it became a ptst to the farmer. Until potatoes were plpnted in the far West, it had nothing to subsist upon in a journey eastward, but when the country became settled, the insect rapidly increased with the abundance of food; it was first noticed as injurious to the crops about I860, and since then has progressed eastward and into Canada with accelerated rapidity. It attacks tomatoes, and especially egg plants, of which it seems to be more fond than of anything else. Ornamental plants of the family are attacked by it. It seems, since it has come eastward, to have acquired a taste for other plants, not at all related to the solanum family; pig weeds, mullein, thistles and smart weed among wild plants, and the cabbage among those in occasionally culti? ii 1 L- 1L I 4.^ vauon, are piauwj *i> uaa uoou auuwu wu attaok. So far as experience has shown, the insect on its progress eastward does not wove on, bnt some remain, and while tney do not seem so nnmerons after the first few years, potato growers apparently must accept thn beetle as a fixed fact. It has kept a foothold wherever it has come, and there is no present indication that it will soon leave. It is in vain to hope that it will onre itself, bnt it demands the serious attention of all who cultivate the potato and related plants. To be sure, there are its natural enemies, which we may hopp, judging from other inscct soourges, will increase sufficiently to keop it in subjection, but these slowly follow the pest. There are several of these, one a genuine parasite that deposits its eggs in the larva of the potato beetle, and several others that attack, kill, and feed upon the larvae. Several larv? of the ladybirds are very active in this respect, and should be encouraged, or at least not destroyed, as wo have known to be the case. Tney move with great activity, and destroy nnmbers of the young grubs of the potato bng; these are usually lead colored, with bright orange spots; these and the perfect ladybirds should be unmolested, as should their pupae. The ladybird larva enters the pupa state on the potato vine, attaching itself to a stem or leaf; it ooils up and may be, by a careless oboawtaw mio^nTrnrt /a* q am oil nnfofn V\n O DOA TOIj uiiowiaou AVI U OiUItU k/UQ grub, and destroyed. This is perfectly dormant and attached, while the other will move, and is readily picked off. Other insects in the perfect state, and as larvae, aid in the work of destroying the larvee of the potato bag. The only safe way is to watch every other insect found among them, and do not destroy it until it is found to be injurious to the potato plant. When the potatoes firsi; appear above ground, begin the search for the bngs. The first that appear come out of the ground after their winter's rest. If these are captured at once, before they breed and lay eggs, it will materially diminish their future numbers. Much may be done by mechanical means when the insects are not in overwhelming numbers. Some have been very successful in simply knocking them off by means of alight paddle made of shingle, and catching them in a pan containing water. We have successfully used a pan of sheet iron thirty inches long, with the other parts in proportion. The edges of the pan curve inward and make it difficult for the insects to crawl ont. With this in one hand, and a light brush in the other, one can knock off the :nsects in large numbers very rapidly. mi * *_ _i 13 i L me oruBQ snouiu ue ami eiiuugu iu remove the larv? and not injure the leaves; we find a wisp of straw, or a bunch of some strong growing grass, as handy as anything. There are patented contrivances for mechanically removing the bugs, bnt they promise no better results than these simple means.?Agriculiuris A Story About "Worms. The Allentown (Pa.) Register oontains the following curious narrative : Mr. George T. Hersh, of this city, while on a reoent visit to Hellertown, met an acquaintance, who related a most singular story concerning. an ar.ny of worms. The occurrence took place in Bucks county, and the story is this: "As I was at home they told me that about a mile and a half way there was an army of worms marching from one given, point to the other and thence back again. This seemed very strange to me, and 1 came to the conclusion that I would go and see for myself. Consequently I hitched in the carriage and dr^ve to the plaoe. I tied my horse to the fence, and commenced to examine, and to my great astonishment I beheld the worms in great numbers creeping at the plaoe named, just from one given point to the other, a distance of about three or four hundi ed yards. No worm is to be seen anywhere else. This worm travels only mornings and evenings?evenings after eunset and mornings till about eight or nine o'clock. In the daytime they lie concealed under rocks and in openings. I saw them lie nnder rocks, one ngainst the other. It is so full at their marching time that you cannot help killing a number at every step you take when walking through that place. It is a worm about an inch or an inch and a quarter long, having a whitish or yellowish color, with a blaok stripe over its back. It has sixty-six feet, with which it hurries itself along at a very lively speed. When you catch the worm it screams. It has also a very offensive odor. It is so tender that if you touch it a little hard it goes to pieces. It is not a destructive worm, as it only oats aa?4Vt T nAWAn OAtrf on aVi a an/1 ^{UUil* JL UCTU1 D?n DUl/U (t TT?/iu OUU the curiosity of them prompted me to prooore some; so I caught a number of them and put them in alcohol. Hundreds of people flock to that place to see the worms." In another paragraph the Register adds the following: Mr. Charles Eckert was in Bucks county, and by a friend taken to the place where that singular army of worms holds forth. He reports that the place is visited by many people from all sections of the county and from distant places. An immense crowd was on the ground watching the marohing of these curious worms. Scientific men who have seen specimens of the worms say that they never saw anything like them, and can give no reasonable theory for their presenoe in this peculiar locality. The place where this curious phenomenon, if we may so oall it, oan be sees is about three miles from Dnnnelltown. near Pleuant hill. ' THE LATE SANTA ANNA. A Sketch of the Lire of a Notable Mexican Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, formery president of the republic of Mtxico, died on June 24. He was born in the city of Jalapa, February 21, 1798, and entered the army in 1821. He met with some bu00683, but having been dismissed for insubordination, he raised the banner of the republic in Vera Cruz in 1822, and commenced hostilities against the emperor, Iturbide, and accomplished his overthrow. Defeated in the elections, he shortly after secured the overthrow of Fedraza and the elevation of Guerrero, who made him his minister of war. He subsequently headed two other success ful insurrections, one to replace Guerrero by Eustamenve, and the other in the interest of -fedraza. In Maroh, 1833, he was himself elected president, and was a favorite with the people, though suspected by the army of imperial ambitions. He took his turn at suppressing insurrections, the most formidable of which he suppressed May 11, 1836, by a victory which proved a fatal blow to the Republican party. Shortly thereafter a revolutionary feeling in Texas showed itself in open insurrection against the government and early in 1836 Santa Anna took the field and crossed the Bio Grande at the head of six thousand troops. In March he stormed the Alamo at San Antonio and massacred its defenders. At San Jacinto he was defeated by the Texan army under Houston, and in April, 1831, was by bim taken prisoner. Bos functions as president were thereupon suspended. He came to the United States, and in 1837 returned to Mexico and stood for re-election, but was defeated. Upon the bombardment of Vera Cruz by the French, the same year, he assisted in its defense, and there received the wound which resulted in the amputation of a leg. During the long contest between the Centralists and Federalists he was a leader of the former, and from 1841 to 1844 was virtually dictator, under the title of provisional president. Under the instrument of reconstruction of June 12, 1843, he again became constitutional president, but September 20, 1844, he was deposed by a new revolution, taken prisoner and banished for ten ye*rs. He then took up his re-idence in Cuba. In 1846 he was recalled, appointed generalissimo, and subsequently made provisional president. He at onoe marched northward with 20,000 men, and Fobruary 22, 1847, attacked the American troops at Buena Vista, five thousand strong, under General Taylor, who repulsed him the next day. He then raised a ?ew army and was again defeated by General Scott at Cerro Gordo, April 18. He at once retreated to i the city of Mexico with the fragment of his army, and organized a new one, 30,000 strong, for the defense of the capital; but the storming of Molino del Bey, September 8, and Chapultepec September 13 and 14, 1847, opened the city to Scott's victorious army. Santa Anna made a last stand at Pnebla, but , was attacked by General Lane at Huamantia and forced ; o retire. By permission of the American commander he sailed for Jamaica April 5, 1848, and did not return to Mexico till 1853, when he was appointed president for life, with power to appoint his successor. His rale was bo despotio that a revolution led by General Alvarez overthrew him, and August 16, 1855, he signed his unconditional abdication and sailed for Havana. During the French invasion of Mexico he returned and was appointed grand marshal of the empire by Maximilian. In 1865 he conspired aarainst the em peror and was forced to retire to St. Thomas. - In 1867 he made his last attempt to regain the mastery of Mexico, but was taken prisoner at Vera Ornz and condemned to death. Presided Juarez pardoned him on condition of his quitting Mexican soil forever, and he came to the United States. After tho death of Juarez he returned to his native soil and lived in seolusion in the city of Mexico till the time of his death. The Sioux Chief Sitting Bull. Mr. Maginnis, of Montana, in the United States House, during a discussion on the Indian question, gave the following history of Sitting Bull: The first time that Sitting Bull became known to the people of this nation was during the great Minnesota massacre in 1862. In 1863 he fought Sully in the Black Hills. In 1864 he ravaged the Missouri river, attacking several steamboats. In 1865 he made war upon the peaceable Indians. In 1866 the government sent out a peace commission to Fort Yuma, winch gave him | presents, including twenty kegs of powder, and as soon as he got the presents he broke up the commission and omou fVio ^nmmiRHl'nnAWL In 1867 he oontinued a career of predatory warfare. 1868, when this treaty waa made at Laramie, he refused to come in and be a party to it. In 1869 he attacked , the settlement on the Mnsser Shell, ( which was the first time he was ever de- ( feated, because the settlers had got notice of his coming and had ambuscaded him and killed thirty-six of his war- , riors. In that same year he made war upon the Crows and the Mandaus. In 1870 Gen. Hancock thought of an expedition to subdue him. About that time this peace policy fever was raging, and on consultation with the other generals of the army, Gen. Hancock recom- ' mended that another effort should be : made by the government to make a treaty with Sitting Bull. In the suo- i ceeding winter Congress appropriated | $750,000 to buy peace from Sitting Bull. That was the celebrated Teton-Sioux ap- ' propriation, in regard to the expendi- ( ture of which some criticism had been made. Any how, they succeededin get- j ting abont one-half of his force into the | agency at Fort Peck, but he himself re- f fused to come in. In 1874 he still car- , ried on war upon the settlements of Montana, and ravaged them constantly. , He also carried on war upon the Crows, whom he drove from their reservation, upon the Shoshones, and upon every , Indian tribe friendly to the United States. In 1875 h? attacked two gov- , ernment stages, run off the stock of j the stage company, and again drove the , Crows off the reservation into Montana. ; By this time the peace commissioners saw that he was intractable, and that he must be disciplined. Messrs. .Brum and ;, Stewart, and peaceful men of like character, petitioned the Indian department j to take steps to subjugate Sitting Bnll. j | This petition resulted in the Wur de- , partment finally taking hold of the mat- \ ter. I ask whether the government has ] violated its faith hi making war on this j intractable Indian, who has never re- i cognized its flag; but who defies its , authority, and boasts that, if he could ( get the Sious nation to join him, he >, would drive this government into the ocean. Mr. Townsend (Rep., New York)?Is this the same Indian who organized the conspiracy to murder Senator Allison and other citizens, last summer ?" Mr. Maginnis?It in the man who planned and organized that conspiracy. A true American 1b tooproud to beg and too honest to steal. He gete trusted. THE UTOIAN SLAUGHTER. The Battle and the Battlefield?Narrow Escape of Rene's Command from Annihilation ? Forty-el*ht Bonn Flffhtln* with Indians?The FrWrhtfnl Fate *1 Caster's Force Gradaallr Discovered?No Llrlni Men Left-Total Loss 861 Killed In Both Commands?Future Operations. Farther particulars of the desperate enoonnter which OoL Reno had with the Sioux Indians on the twenty-fifth of Jane tell of the sufferings which his command experienced while it was so oomploJy hemmed in by the Indians. For thirty-six horns the troops were without a drop of water. The appeals of the wounded for drink were heartrending, while the others were almost exhausted, in many instances their tongues protruding from their mouths, and few of them able to speak aloud. They tried to eat crackers, but oould not moisten them. Others attempted to ohew and swallow blades of grass to secure relief, but these clung to their parched lips and intensified their agony. It was while thus suffering that they determined at all hazards to gain the water from which they were out off, and made the desperate dash whioh, while it cost them a number of lives and many wounded, secured that which they so much needed. It was then early night, and when firing ceased Col. Beno at onoe took steps to relieve his animals, which, like the men, were completely exhausted. He knew well that the Indians would resume the attack in the morning. ? It was in this position that Qen. Terry, with Gibbons' command, consisting of five companies of infantry, four of cavalry, and the Gatlin battery, found Beno. Terry bad started to asoend the Big Horn to attack the Indians in rear, while Custer attacked them from his point of contact. The maroh of the ^two columns was so planned as to bring Gibbons' forces within co-operating distance of the anticipated soene of action i? IL. ; ? i.i-~ noiL mu? uy but) evening ui mo auuju xuo iuuiuing of the 26th brought the intelligence, communicated by three badly frightened Crow scouts, of the battle of the previous day and its results. The story was not credited, because it was not expected that an attaok would be made earlier than the 27th, and chiefly because no one could believe that a force such as Caste? commanded could have met with disaster. Still the report was in no way disregarded. All day long the toilsome march was kept up, and every eye bent upon a cloud of smoke resting over the southern horizon, which was hailed as a sign that Caster was successful and had fired the village. It was only when night was falling that the weary troops laid down upon their arms. The infantry had marched twenty-nine m;ies. The march of the next morning revealed at every step some evidence of the conflict which had taken place two days before. At an early hour the head of the column entered a plain half a mile wide, bordering ine xeic oanK 01 lue Little Big Horn, where had recently been an immense Indian village, extending three miles along the stream, and where were stancLjg funeral lodges with horses slaughtered around them, and containing the bodies of nine chiefs. The ground was strewn everywhere with carcasses of horses. Their camp was strewn with robes, gaudily painted, with finely dressed hides and interesting and valuable trinkets. The ground was covered everywhere with carcasses, of horses, besides buffalo robes, packages of dried meat, and weapons and utensils belonging to the Indians. On this part of the field was found the clothing of Lieuts. Sturgis and Porter, pierced with bullets, and a blood stained gauntlet belonging to Oapt. Yates. Further on were found the bodies, among whom were recognized Lieut. Mcintosh, the interpreter from Fort Rice, and Reynolds, the guide. It was evident also that the Indians had shown little solicitude for their wounded, as the ravines were oovered with dead. main n a tViflflfl ffloomv difiOOV "***"" ' " O CJ- */ * eries a scout came up in breathless haste with the announcement that Col. Reno, with a remnant of the Seventh cavalry, was intrenched on a bluff near by waiting for relief. The' command pushed rapidly on and soon came in sight of a group surrounding a cavalry guard upon a lofty eminence on the right bank of the river. Gen. Terry forded the stream, accompanied by a small party, and rode to the Bpot. All the way the slopes were dotted with the bodie3 of men and horses. The general approached, and the men swarmed out of the works and greeted him with hearty and repeated cheers. Within was found Reno, with the remains of seven companies of the regiment. In the oenter of the inolosure was a depression in the surface, in which the wounded were sheltered, covered with canvas. Reno's command had been lighting from Sunday noon, the twenty-fifth, until the night of the twexty-sinth, when Terry's arrival caused the Indians to retire. Up to this time Reno and those with him were in complete ignorance of the fate of the other five companies which bad been separated from them on the twenty-fifth to make an attack under Ouster on the village at another point. While preparations were being made for the removal of the wounded, a party was sent on Custer's trail to look for traces of his command. They met a sight to appall the stoutest heart. At a point about tb>"3 miles down tne ngnt bank of the stream, Gen. Cnster had Bvidently attempted to ford and attaok the village. From the ford the trail was found to lead back up the bluffs and to the northward, as if he had been repulsed and compelled to retreat, and at the game time had been out off from rejoining the forces under Reno. The bluffs ire cut into by numerous ravines, and all along these slopes and ridges and in the ravines lay the .dead, lying in the order of battle, as they had fought. Line behind line showed where defensive positions had been taken up and held, till at last few were left to fight, and then, huddled in a narrow compass, horses and men were piled promiscuously. At the h'ghest point of the ridge lay Ouster, surrounded by his chosen band. Here were his two brothers and his nephew, Mr. Rccd, Capt. Yates, Licuts. Cooko and Smitii, all lying within a cirule of a few yards, their horses beside them. Here behind Yates* company the, last stand had been made, and here one after another of these last survivors of Custer's Jive companies had met their death. Xiie companies uau nuotx??iveiiy thrown themselves aoross tho path of the advancing enozny, and had been annihilated. Not a man had escaped to tell the tale, bnt it tree inscribed on the surface of these barren hills in a language more eloquent than words. Two hundred and sixty-one bodies have been buried from Ouster's and Reno's commands. / The history of Beno's operations comprises all that is aow known of this sanguinary affair. It seem? that Ouster, with eight oompanics, reached the river in the forenoon of the 25th, having marched continuously all the previous day and night. Seeing the upper or southern extremity of the village, and probably underestimating its extent, he ordered Beno to ford the river and charge the village with three companies, while he, with five companies, moved down the right bank and behind the bluff, to make a similar attack at the vill CT end. Beno made his charge, but finding that he was dealing with a foroe many times his own numbers, dismounted his men, and sought shelter in the timber which fringed the river bank. The position appearing .to him untenable, he remounted and cut his way to the river, forded under a murderous fire, and gained the bluff where he was subsequently found. Here he was afterward joined by Capt. Benteen with three companies which had just reached the field, and by Oapt. McDougall with his company and the pack mules. The position was immediately after competed invested by the Indians, who for more than trwenty-fonr hours allowed the garrison no rest and inflicted severe loss. Bat for the timely arrival of relief the command wonld have been ent off to a man. The number saved with Beno was 329, inducting fifty-one wounded. The loss among the Indians was probably considerable, as bodies have been found in every direction, and they left behind only a small portion of their dead. Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence of the United States was dralted by Jefferson, and examined and slightly amended by Franklin and Adams. It was written by Jefferson in the first room of the second story of the house of Jaoob Graff, southwest corner of Seventh and Market streets, Philadelphia, which is still standing. Jefferson was a boarder in that house, and in that chamber, oravirdtnff tn hio own ntjitflmAnt. marl ft in a letter to Dr. James Mease, September 16, 1825, the Declaration of Independence was written. Congress adopted the declaration in secret session. It was already known on the fourth that Lee's resolution, which was the vital act in the opposition to Great Britain, had been adopted on the second. The declaration was merely an assignment of reasons for the passage ol the resolutions, a vindication of an act already done. There was, therefore, no excitement in Philadelphia at the time the declaration was adopted. In fact, the character of the declaration was not known until two days afterward, when it made its appearance in Dunlap's paper. On the tifth of July Congress sent out circular letters, to all the assemblies, conventions and councils of safety of the various States, asking that the Declaration of Independent^ should be proclaimed. Saoh proclamations generally followed. In Philadelphia, the declaration was first read to tna people on Monday, the eighth of July, by John Nixon, in the State house yard, from an observatory erected there in 1769 to observe a transit of Venus over the sun. Nixon was a member of the council of safety, and read the declaration instead of the sheriff of the bounty, who was originally requested to perform that service. In the afternoon the declaration was read to the five battalions of associators on the oommona. The king's arms over the door of the supreme courtroom were torn down by a committee of associators appointed for the purpose. In the eveniiig they were burned amidst the acclamations of a large crowd of spectators. Bonfires were lighted, bells were rung, and the most noted of all the peala which sounded over the city was that of the old State house bell, whioh had been cast twenty-four years before, bearing upon its side the prophetio and remarkable motto: " Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof." Tlio Bill to Suppress Lotteries* The fact that both Houses of the United States Oongress have passed a bill ??n liA?tA aff/irtt if /varriod nnt WU1UU VTUl UOTO l/UV VUVW) M WMV| of entirely suppressing the lottery business in the United Stat**, or even the circulation of lottery tiokets or advertisements, has escaped publio attention. Suoh a bill was sent to the President for signature. The first section relates to the circuhtion through the mails of obscene literature, and is a slight amendment, of the present law. The second section amends section 8,894, so that it will read as follows: No letter or circular concerning lotteries, so-called gift conoerts, or other similar enterprises offering prizes, or concerning schcmes devised and intended to deoeive and defraud the publio for the purpose of obtaining money under false pretenses, shall be carried in the mail. Any person who shall knowingly deposit anything to be carried by mail in violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500 nor less than $100, with costs of prosecution. How They Fined Tories. The Frederick (Md.) Examiner prints the following : In looking over the old records of the clerk's omce or tms county, the following criminal proceedings, among others, were discovered in the prosecutions for Toryism instituted near the close of the Revolutionary war : State against one A. 0., presented for saying " he wished all persons who went about warning people on militia duty might be hanged, not by the necks, but by the heels." Fined ?25 specie. State against J. H., presented for "da*nning Gen. Washington and the Congress of the United States of America." Fined JG15 specie. State agai'ist E. L., presented for " drinking a health to King George and damnation to Gen. Washington.' Fined ?5 specie. Tho minutes of the court show numerous orders passed by the court appropriating money for tho support of the wives and children of soldiers in the Maryland line. | A Concentrated Jury. In a land case being tried in San Antonio, the jury having been dispensed with, his honor acts as judge and jury both. To Lave a single man acting for twelve seems very simple, but it is be-1 wildering to the deputy sheriff, who has j been attending juries for a long time. i One morning, for ins tan oe, he looked j fixedly at his honor, and after counting ' him several times, inquired : " Where is the rest of you ?" "When court adjourned, the sheriff' said, rather sternly, we thought, to his honor: "Now, don't you go talking about this case among yourselves, ana all of you boys be on hand promptly, or I'll hunt some of you up in a way that you won't like." What the hog laoks in culture he makes up in sealjand enthusiasm, Items of Interest. The longest periods in a boy's life are those between meals. There is no man clever enough to kstiw all the evil which he does. Two hundred liquor sailers of Portland, Me., have just gone out of business. " Leisure is sweet to those who have earned it," and it is very comfortable if your uncle has earned it for you. Dobba says the first time a girl kissed him he felt as if he was sliding down a rainbow with butter and honey in each hand. A couple of young women at Fryeburg, Me., appeared on the road hoe in hand a few days since to work ou their highway taxes. Ask no favors of any one, and you will suoceed a thousand times Deiter than those who are always beseeching some one's patronage. A man in a neighboring town who had a good spyglass looked at his third consir through it, which bronght him as near as a first cousin. This is the season of the year when man delights to lie beneath wide spread- ing shade trees, communing with nature and getting bugs in his ears. * . The nominating days have come, the maddest of the year, When every politician chap strata round like chanticleer ; He flaps bis little wings and crows, and makes a mighty noise, And then he strikes the candidate for oash to treat the boys. To feed sparingl y and irregularly is . to lose all you give to fowls; but to study into their wants and anticipate theja is ? to render them very profitable. A woman who was purchasing some cups and saucers was asked what color she would have. " Why, I ain't particular," she said ; *' color that won't show dirt." "How ministers are killed" Is the caDtion of an article circulating through the newspapers. Ton may not have one to kill, bnt it is well to know how it is done. Agricultural journal: Question-?Will the editor please inform me how the , Hollanders salt cucumbers ? Answer? The most common way, as we observed when abroad, is to salt them with salt Young ladies who intend celebrating can do so to the best advantage by inserting the butt of a firecracker between their teeth before igniting it It often crimps the front hair splendidly. \ And now sorre one says that it is idiotic to suppose that sunstroke is caused .by a stroke of the sun; tha t, in fact, it frequently occurs at a time when there is no sun fat all, and that the - ' physical break down called sunstroke is simply nervous exhaustion aggravated by. excessive heat, whether in sun or shade. All this may be -true, even though it docs knock over a venerable pet theory. 7-' The Indian Question. Mr. Steele, of Wyoming, in the United States House, dnzing a discussion on the Indian bill, said it was not a fact that the military operations were carried on without reference to the peace policy. In 1888 the United States had made a treaty with the Sioux nation, which was a grave misUke, if it was not a national dishonor and auugraoe. That treaty had been the foundation of all the difficulties in the Sioux oountry, and the cause of the death of Ouster and his men in the Big Horn oountry. In 1856 . < Gen. Pope established posts at Forts Phil. Kearney, Reno and 0. F. Smith, . so as to open the roads to Montana and fn fvmntrv of the friendlv Crows from the hostile Sioux. In keeping these posts and opening that road many men, citizens and soldiers, had been killed. Notable among the actions that had taken place there were the massacre of Fetterman and his command at Fort Phil Kearney?ninety-six men and offioers; and vet after these men had sacrificed their lives the government went to work'and made a treaty by which it ignominionsly abandoned that oountry to these savages, dismantling its own posts, and leaving there the bones of the men who laid down their lives in the > wilderness. Was it to be wondered at, nnder these circumstances, that Sitting Bull and his men believed that they were superior to the general government? Anybody who knows anything about the Indian's nature, knows that the legitimate result of that cowardly policy of "peaoe at any prioe" was only to defer the evil day which has now come upon us. Sinoe that time the Sioux have been constantly depredating on the frontiers of Nebraska, Wyoming and Montana; and more men have fallen there in the peaceful avocations of civil , life, without a murmur being heard, than fell under the gallant Custer on the twenty-fifth of June, The friendly Crows have been raided upon with every full moon, so with the Shoehones, and at last these outrages have become so great and so long continued that even the peaceable Indian department could not stand them any longer, and called on the military arm of the government to punish these men. It was in carrying out this poliov that Custer and bis men have been sacrificed. I was up in that country at the time that the commissioners were there attempting to negotiate with the Sioux. At that time Young Man Afraid of his Horses, the hereditary chieftain of the Ogallala tribe and the man wno oy Dirin is entitled to rule over these people, told me that there was not in that northern country, under Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, more than from one hundred to two hundred lodges, which would not give them over eight hundred fighting men, all told, and yet the report which we now get is that there were 1,800 lodges, aggregating 3,500 or 4,000 fighting men in the encampment or village attacked by Custer. Where did these men come from? They came from the agencies where they had been fed and fattened by our government and where they had been better armed than the soldiers are. They came from those reservations to fight our troops, and if the present policy is continued they will go back there as soon as the snow falls to feed themselves and their ponies for new operations next spring. To Make thb Hath Grow upon a Spot which has Bsoohb Bald.?Bum and sweet oil; mix equal parts ; then wash the spot three times a day. Bum constantly used to wash the hair keeps it very clean and free from disease and promotes its growth, and is also very strengthening to the roots of the hair. Bhobt Gakb.?One pint of buttermilk or sour milk, one teaepooafnl of soda dissolved in the milk, one tablespoonfu of lard, a little salt; mix soft, and cut with a tumbler or cake cutter; bake nti a griddle.