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1 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.,. WEDNESDAY, MAECH 21, 1877. ; VOLUME XXIV.?NO. 41. . -
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The^Wife's Reverie.
Oh, Heart of mine, is our estate?
Our sweet ostate?of joy assured ?
It came ho slow, it came so late. Uj
Bought by such bitter pains endured ;
Dare we forget those sorrows sore, ^ jn
And think that they will come no more ? m
With tearful eyes I scan my face, j*(
And doubt how he can find it fair . k,
Wistful, I watch each charm and grace m
I see that other women wear ; .
Of all the secrets of love's lore, lij
I know but one, to love him more!
I see each day, he grows more wise,
His life is broader far than mine ;
I must be lacking in his eyes, ^
In many things where others shine. ^
Oh, Heart ! can we this loss restore
To him, by simply loving more ?
I often see upon his brow, 7(
A look half tender and half stern ; ..
His thoughts are far away, I know; , j
To fathom them, I vainly yearn ;
Bnt nought is ours which went before ;
Oh, Heart! we can but love him more !
I sometimes think that he had loved ri1
An older, deeper love, apart co
From this which later feebler moved
Hi? soul to mine. Oh, Heart! Oh, Heartm
4 <
What can we do ? This hurteth sore.
Nothing, my Heart, but love him more ! f11
?Scribuer's Monthly, j!?
TTRT/ETST'S BABIES "r
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With. Some Account of their Ways.
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It was nn enticing invitation from my
only married sister, Helen Lawrence, I11
that moved me, Harry Burton, salesman 111
of white goods, bachelor, aged twenty- t f
eight, to spend my fortnight's vacation
at Hillcrest. Tom Lawrence's cigars
and claret and horses, a splendid flower
garden, plenty of handsome girls, and
unlimited leisure for reading?these were ,
the inducements offered me. Incidentally,
as Tom and Helon were to be absent
on a visit, I was just to keep an eye
on the children, who, I was assured, j,(
would Eot give me "the slightest1
trouble." ?? f f l- ? 3 tTV 1?
Remembering Budge, the elder, as a ij
boy of five, with a serious, noble face' ja
and great, pure penetrating eyes, and r(
Toddie as a happy little know-nothing of 111
three summers with a head of tangled
yellow hair, I set out for Hillcrest without
apprehension irf impending woe.
At the end of the trip I hired a hack- c''
man to drive me i o Tom's. On the way al
our horses shied v iolently, and the driver m
" exclaimed:
"That was one of the 'imps'?that F1
little cuss that set red the hosses. There *'
he comes, ruunin'. Wonder where
t'other is? We call 'em the 'imps,' ^
cause they're so uncommon likely at .
mischief!'" l!1
The offending youth was Budge, in a J,"
vorr /lirhxr coilnr Knit oml tl?A nfhpr ***
" imp," who bore down on us in a cloud <
raised by thrusting a breach into the S1
duat of the road was Toddie !
"They'ro my nephews!" ! gasped.
The recognition was mutual. Bi
"You're Uncle Harry," said Budge, tli
" Did you bring us anything ?" ut
" Bring us anything ?" echoed Toddie. di
" I wish I could have brought you B
some big whippings," said I, severely, ai
"Get into this carriage." i a
In they climbed, each with a very ar
dirty towel, knotted" in the center. t li
"They're not towels," explained *ij
Budge, "they're dollies; we don't like as
buyed dollies; these is lovely." ?
" I want to shee yours watch," re- I
marked Toddie, rolling into my lap, followed
by Budge. he
f Obediently I showed them the dial of lo
htLj three-huiulred-dollar timekeeper.
Vt'" Want to shee wheels go wound," ur
said Toddie.
" No," said I, fearful of dust. di
" Want to shee wheels go wound," dr
repeated Toddie; "want to shee -the B
wheels go wound."
"I tell you I can't, Toddie; dust to
spoils watches."
" Want to shee the wheels go wound," de
murmured Toddie again.
Abruptly I pocketed the watch. To-.- sn
die's jaw droppe<l, and he cried : ed
"Ah?h?h?h. Want?to?shee?the co
wheels?go won?ound !"
"Stop that noise this instant!" lo
" les?(>o?oo?wants to snee ?
'' Toddie, I've got some candy in "? th
" Wheals go wound ! Ah? h?h?h !"
'' Toddie, dear, don't cry so. There m
are some Indies coming in a carriage."
" Ali?h?h?h. Wants to shec P?'
wheels
Madly I snatched my watch from my nc
( pocket, opened the case, and exposed it
the works to view. The passing carriage gf
stopped; my name was called, and, ]l
looking up, I saw?bright eyed, fair Hu
faced and smiling?Miss Alice May ton, a an
lady whom for about a year I had adored ki
from afar! The ease with which she an
greeted me, praised?actually praised!
those dreadful children; and let me dis- Ca
cover that a bouquet from the Lawrence to
garden would be an acceptable offering,
. converte1 my confusion into delight, di
When the carriage started again, Tmldie be
murmured: .? th
" Ueken Hawwy, does you love that en
' lady?" Ni
f P No, Toddie, of course not."
" Then you's baddy man, an'de Lord Kn
won't let you go to heaven if you don't re
love peoples."
You may believe I was glad to get t
those children home and turn them over lo
* to the girl! At dinner they found fault gc
with my blessing, and taught me the one '
their papa savs. Then thev condemned fli
my version of Jonah, and Budge gave re
one certaiuly much more graphic. And tb
finally, after requiinng me to Bay my tli
prayers first, that performance, too, whs
boldly criticised. Budge prayed with , fi]
a face fit for an angel, and then Toddie I fr
closed his eyes, wriggled, twisted, ei
breathed hard and at last began :
" Dee Lord not make me sho bad, an' ti
besh mamma, an' papa, an' Budgie, an' d<
doppity (grandfather), an' both boggies ci
grandmother), an' all good people in b;
diah -honse, an' everybody else, an' my ,
dolly/ A-ft-men !"
"Now give us candy," said Budge, H
echoed by Toddie. >]
I gave them the candy and escaped at m
last to the parlor, where I passed a de- si
icious evening with my books. That w
night Toddy howled for his dolly like a le
young demon, and made me get up and p<
find it for i.im; and next morning, before lo
he was fairly awake, I was appiilled to !
'hearhim nurmnr: i
"Want?to?shee wheels?go? la
wound." -j pj
At breakfast he remarked : th
" Ucken Hawwy, daysh an awfoo th
funny chunt up 'tairs?awfoo big chunt. ai
I show it yon after brepspup." ?
"Toddie's a silly little boy," said h<
Budge; "he always says brepspup for 1 T
brekbus (breakfast)."' , uf
"Oh! what does he mean try clmnt, apoil
udge ?"' " I suits
" I guess ho means trunk." " ]
A direful thought struck me. I rushed i wliaj
j stairs. Yes, lie did mean trunk?my j froed
unk?open ! emptied. A blacking box fings,
my dress hat, and rolled up tightly in To:
y dress coat, one of those dolls ! JBut I time,
orse was to come. X made an exquisite j drunl
juquet for Miss Clayton and put it in a the n
>x which I sent to her by the conch- Alice
an. To my surprise he brought it mom
ick, and Toddie,' shiieking with de- grooi
?ht snatched it and exclaimed : 1 doub
"Oh, darsh my dollyV. k'adle ! Some- Illux
>dy put nasty ole flowers in it; I froed
f
in n v? (tj .
Opening the box he displayed?that
fernal doll! I viewec*. him so sternly Sle
at lie took refuge in sobs, wept plenti- Ba
Uy on my shirt front, and murmured : g
"I wantsh to love you, and wantsh "
)u to love me." Ba
Who could resist ? I petted and kiss- Bai
[ him till he was consoled, and resumed Tif
s sovereignty, with the infantile com-]
and: j TT
"Kisli my dolly, too." Un
I obeyed, but closed the interview ab- Th
ptly, und wrote the bent apology I Cr<
uld frame to Miss May ton. fier.
The next day was Sunday. In the Ch
orning those boys invaded my'bed to ionat
fwolic" and "wide horsie backen,"
id I sadly learned how it was that mv ionaj:other-in-law
had grown so flat cliestecf.
i the afternoon we tried the stories ^ja'
jain, and Toddie told, with the most *ftVor
>irited gestures, how Th
" Dave, let ze sling go bang bequeen brow
liafTs eves, ;.n' "knocked him down Q0
sad, an' Dave took Bliaff's sword an'' ing ii
rorded Bliaflf s head off, an' made it all ip^
luggy, an' Bliaff runned away." 0JU| s
Then Toddie " runned away,^' and got I _
mself stung by a hornet, and rushed , t>0J
, sobbing : llresa
"Want to be wocked. Want shing Pa:
roddie, boy, one day.'" tr.tioi
And I had 'o rock him and sing, line Th
f lino, after Budge, some absurd little ing t
jggerel about a basket, beginning: pe
" Wliere is mv little bartik gone?" k'ls 11
Said Toddie, boy, one day. Se<
When he wi s soothed, those children
?guiled me out to a treacherous muddy *h
rookside, in search of jacks-in-the-pul- aiK* c
t: Toddie tumbled in. and so did Th
adge, and in palling them out I was rnidd
ost horribly spattered! Hurrying r0
;mc, a carriage overft>ok us with ladies tion
. it. Gould it bo ??of course it was ! , gingl
Miss Mayton herself!
" You seem to have been having a real i
iod time together," said she, as the lH>x^
image passed. "Remember, you are "
1 going to.call on me to-morrow after- ^ !
>on." total
And so we did, Toddie bearing an ex- ucxfc
atory l)ouquet. The children raced off Th
watch a grasscutter, and I sat down neck
a delightful chat with Miss Mayton. ! and t
en were Scarce among the summer ]\Io
jarders at Hillcrest, and somehow the natio
azza gradually tilled with the ladies of ; 0f dr
e house. Suddenly a shriek arose
;>m the lawn ; Toddie had pinched his '
lgers "in the little wheels of the cutterass,''
and rnshed up to me, sobbing :1
"Sing, 'Toddie, boy, one day.'". Bome
My blood seemed to freeze, but when of b
ndge explained that " he always wants fctcki
at sour when he's hurt," all the ladies cordi
ged me, and I wrathfully picked Tod- the d
e up and hummed the detested air. are a'
ut the little tyrant was not satisfied, ed n
id successively required me to " sit in distil
u'A/?l;in' " fn cincr flip Trnrrlc "
id to " sing louder," till at last, before : striki
int audience and her, I was obliged to to fe<
ug that dreadful doggerel, line for line, : and
, Budge repeated it. My teeth were keep
t, my brow grew clammy. At last t a few
heard some one whisper : ' into
" See how he loves him.! Poor man ! ' fined
?'s in perfect agony over the little fel-1 rang*
w." They
But the agony was a prelude to a most , gard
lexpected rapture. An apprehensively j tried
cepted imitation to dinner, where Tod- i od 1
e tilted his soup over Miss Mayton's j bridf
ess, led to a twilight tetc-a-tete, which ing j
udge interrupted by informing the lady: tried
" Uncle Hurry 'spects you, Miss May- nse c
u." ~ ' ' help
The little rascal ha<l, that very morning, | at a j
<manded to know whether I didn't i and ]
Ariua Aforfy^n orwl irif^ I
""C JU""' """ ?VVVj?VA. "'VU | 1CCI-,
ispicion my assurance that I " respect-1 migL
I" her very highly. Now, before I take
uld stop him, he continued: . mist*
" Only what he calls 'spect, I calls ; take
ve." . . J Lubl
There was an awkward pause?some- mold
in# must be done. ; paasi
" Miss May ton," said I, " Budge is a i jum,
nrplot, but a truthful interpreter. I"? pcrwe
" When I loves anybody," observed teste
udge, " I kisses them." frien
Miss Mayton gave a start. She did ed s
>t apeak ; she was not angry. Could nnts
be that? ? I acted on Budge's sug- j sad b
isfcion, once, twice. She raised her : frien
*a1 and I saw that Alice Mayton had were
rremlcred at discretion. Then Budge othei
id Toddie came in for a share of the twen
sses ; two or three ladies appeared,' tluw
id I calmly s?id: the s
" Come, boys. Then I'll call with tho ' four
rriage at three to-morrow, Miss May-1 p^rs,
n. Good evening."-' into (
I shall not tell you what I thought or ;
d during that interval, except that I ;
inffht mv ancrelic nephews everything:
ey wanted, beginning with candy wid. ^ "
cling with a goat and goat carria^jthrot
ar shall I say a word about ray ride ; York
tli Misr Mayton, except that it was a lini
ddenly interrupted by a runaway goat 1 ing ti
id two boo-hooing boys; and that night tow-j
ridge prayed: T T he ki
" Dear Lord, bless just lots that lovely, ing v
vely lady that comforted me after the 'friei*
)at was bad to me." . r '' wont
TIip next day was wet and those chil- "iti
en led me a terrible life ! Their only hard'
al comfort was Jonah, or rather, in s]
le ''whay-al," a picture of which Tod- watei
e tenderly caressed, murmuring : er," '
" Dee old whay-al, I loves you. I love
tiks 'twas weal mean in Djonali to get ihe'e
oed up when you hadn't noffin' else to ? do
it, poor old whay-al!" - dbiril
And Toddie amused himself for some from
me with a big box for a whale and a 1 ua oil
>ad mouse for a Jonah, till a mishap oc- aginc
irred which he mournfully announced 1 after
y saying :
" Djonali bwoke he tay-al!"
The next morning, I got a letter from j '
[elen, inclosing one to her from Alice A (
[avton, from wliich I learned that I of ei:
e .? .?11.
avwii/uic uic duiuiuu OUCUCBB UI Uiy HUliVt
lit to Miss Mayton's " seeing that a man Fran
ho could be so lovable with thought- large
ss and unreasonable children must bo, got, i
?rfectly adorable to the woman he' noye<
ved." ; 1 half i
I have not time to tell you how Budge 1 with
ivealed to stately Mrs. May ton the re- :unaa
tions subsisting between her " little tol t
rl" and his "Uncle Harry," or how Befoi
iat awful Toddie disclosed our secret to he pi
ie liulies of Miss Mayton's acquaint- mout
ice by solemnly declaiming some ?on v
Lines to Alice " he had heard me re- in p
?arsing in the garden; or how the same " Th<
oddie swallowed a " whole bottoo full" and v
paregoric, and was hurried to the i will t
lecary's with such wholesome re- i
that lie reported to liis brother: I
3udgie, down to the village I was a ,
-al. I didn't froe up Djonoh but I <
up a whole floor full of uvver i J
in nud Helen came home in due '
ami at lunch tliat day toasts were ' '
k to "Her " and to "the makers of * i
latch?Budge and Toddie !" And .
insists tliat when a certain cere- '
r takes place they shall officiate as (
nsmen, nor have I the slightest (
t that she will carry her point.?
(rated Weekly.
Fashion >*otos. j i
tJVf? nx, ugnt.
sques are still worn.
ring bonnets are small. 11
nnet crowns are broader.
sques must fit like armor.
?ht jackets are fashionable.
ims of bonnets are smaller. ! i
| '
glazed percales are the best.
e new round liats are very small.
?me Blanche is the magic beauti- ^
' i
enille bonnet cords are very fash- ]
>le. , i
rmandy crowns are the mos(; fash- j <
ile. * 11
ce scarfs for bonnet strings grow in '
~ ~ 11
e spring colors are gray, drab and j
a. j,
Id bead embroidery on lace is com-1 ]
ito vogue. j j
e new spring wraps are dolmans 11
earf mantles. ! '
ne modistes are using coraline as a ] trimming.
j |
risian diamonds are beautiful imi- j ^
is of real jewels.
ere is a revival of fashions demand- i1
he use of lace. i,
uthers studded with steel and crys-1 f
re shown for evening parurca. ! ]
il brown and navy blue are still the \ j
ite colors for little boys' suits,
e empress bonnet is large crowned 1!
if mollified Normandy shapo. !
e empress bonnet is the favorite for j
le aged and elderly lathes. . J
se and blue is a favorite combina- j j
of color in the new Scotch plaid j ]
iams.
d, white and- blue bunting will be 1
for both dresses and trimmings !
summer.
ish collars and muffs are expected <
te the place of fur boas and muffs i J
month. . ; : j ]
e new fichus have lace ruches in the i
rising high abovo ribbon quillings I,
)ands. | ]
dras ginghams in beautiful combi-!'
us of color are seen on the counters I 1
y goods stores.
, i3
Peculiarities of the Ant." - I
t content with having destroyed | i
traditional beliefs on the subject L
ees, Sir John Lubbock is now at- [ i
Qg the reputation of the ant. Ac-11
ng to Sir John, it would appear that |
ifferent species of ants?and there 1 '
bout 700-?" have strongly contrast- j i
loral characteristics." Some are ! 3
lguished by bravery, some by cow- ' 1
e, some are industrious, some are 1 ]
ngly idle. They are too lazv eveu I
1 xt 1 ?1 il '??1 I 1
ill iiifiUheivtfB ur ciciiu uicuiocivcn,
Sir John Lubbock found that to 1
them alive- it was necessary to put: 1
slaves for an hour or two every day 1
the case in which thoy were con- J
, in order that tlioir domestic _ar- i
?ments might be duly attended to. ]
are said to be very stupid with re- i
to.locality. , Sir Job" Lubbock-lms
putting it store of food to be reach-!'
jy paSHhifT over little cardboard
fes, and he found that slightly shift- '
a bridge baffled them. They never 1
to push the bridge, or even to make ,
f a supply of fine mold put readjr to j
them fill the "gap. They "craned "
[ump of about one-third of an inch, |
preferred going a circuit of eighteen .
just as a cautious rider to hounds |
it make a detour of several fields'to |
advantage of a line of gates. It is a j i
ike, too, to suppose that ants will
care of a distressed friend. Sir John
Dock tried just covering an ant with I
where many were passing and re- j
ng. Not one took any notice of 1
They have, however, a singular i
x of recognizing each other, as was ! i
il . by placing thirty intoxicated
ds in company with thirty intoxicattrangers
together in a nest. The :
Were at first much puzzled with the
pectacle. However, twenty of the ]
ds were taken into the nest, five ''
thrown into the water, and the j;
s neglected On the other hand, 1
ty-four of the thirty strangers were j |
vn into the water at . once, and of!
ix token into the nest by mistake, :
were afterward found to be stran- |
and were then taken out and thrown |
llie water alBO. i,
? >
The Too Eloquent Man.
Dominie Miles," was knoVn i <
ighout'thc northern part of New
State fifteen or twenty years ago' sis i
dy worker ftmong seamen?ihclud-1
bose reprobates who swore on the
)ath from Albany to Lake Erie ami1
iew the most effectual way of cle>il-?'
rith the too eloquent man. " My '
ils," said a young gentleman who i
d edify the "cnnalers " in Bethel, .
s good to perceive before me those , j
v mariuerb who go down to the eea j .
liips and do business i in mighty j J
rs. We are, ns it were "? " Broth- j
interrupted the dominie, "do you,,
the Lord?" Muqh' disconcerted, J
lorttent youth stammered; rl I trust .
"Well," rejoined the worthy
nie, " that's ;ill we want to hear 1
you this evening Brethren, let 1j
ig" It is hrifrdly possible td im- (
i a man continuing his able remarks .
receiving such a rebuke.
. ' '!:
;i Tired of Life. - '
California schoolmaster who waa out
nployment and fast losing his si#ht
3il into a shootinc. callerv in San
aifloo on Feb. 18r an?l' taking up a 1
revolver fired two shots at the tarnissijig
each time.- Apparently an1
at his poor shooting he strode j
vny down the gallery and tried again i
tile same result, and then to the , ement
of all present, placed the pis- ]
u liis ear and nulled the trigger. :
:e the bystanders could prevent him j i
it the muzzle of the revolver in his 1
h and fired asrain. Upon his per- i i
rns found the following note, written 11
encil on a scrap of hitter paper : 1
;>mas Biggs, LL.D., disappointed 1
,reary of life, eyesight utterly failing, I
soon be blind." h
Quail on Toast,
A Chicago runner happened to stop at
a tavern m the southern part of the
State, aud called for quail on toast for
ilinner, about after this style : "Landword,
I want a quaiLon toaat for dinner.
Do you hear ?"
" Got lots of stale bread to make toaat,
but ain't got no quail to put on the
toaat," replied mine host.
'' Ah, laudword,do not the feathery quail
.abound iu this weagon of country?" inquired
the runner.
" Yes, but I hain't got no time to hunt
'em. I got to have a dog, a hoss and a
wagon to hunt 'era," was the landlord's
answer.
" Ah, never mind the expense. The
next time I come this way, I want you to
have, for my especial comfort, a quail on
toast. Do you hear, landword?"
" Of course," 6aid mine host, "if yon
insist on it, and are willing to pay the
expenses, you shall have quail on toaat,
Fnr T trn to the timber anv dav and
sjet you a quail or two. Gest telegraph
svlien you'll be here, and I'll have 'em for
F?u."
They parted, and the matter was forgotten
until one morning about a month
ifter the landlord received a message that
[lis patron would arrive the next day,
md be sure to have quail on toast for ins
linner. The landlord loaded his old
[usee, hired ahorse and buggy, borrowed
i dog and started for the timber. The
Jog was a valuable one and well trained,
md they had not gone far when he came
a point. The landlord saw the quail
md took aim. The dog and quail changed
positions simultaneously, and the old
rusee went bang at the same time, and
ihe dog and quail were both shot dead.
The landlord wns in a terrible flutter."
He gathered up the quail, put it in the
:ront part of the buggy, and while undertaking
to put the dog in the back part,
:lie horse took fright and ran to town,
leaving the landlord to foot it home.
When he arrived in town he found the
tvagon broken and the harness torn in
several places, blit he got the quail all
right. The runner came on time and
:ound his quail on toast awaiting him.
He did justice to the dish, and after
inking a cigar called for his bill. The
imdlord had it all made out and ready.
Mr. ??, to the City Hotel, Dr.
Dinner (quail on toast) $ 50
Z>ae half day's hunting 100
\jnmunition 50
Mending harness 3 00
Mending wagon 10 00
3ne dog (dead) .. 10 00
Total *25 00
The runner looked at the bill a moment,
and demanded an explanation,
rhe landlord recited his adventure, and
1. _ *? 11..1 n.. i,;ii
remarKeu mtu uie uui win y&o.
" Twenty-five dollars!" the mnner
sxclaimed; "$25, why, that's an outwage.
rt's an ontjvago, sir; I won't stand it.
No, sir." The dyo on his wliiskers getting
deeper with rage.
" You has to stand it 'cos I won't take
no less," replied the Landlord.
" I won't pay any such bill. No, sir,
t won't," the runner slirieked, and
stamped liis foot with rage.
" You insisted on having quail on toast,
uul said you'd pay tho bill, and that's the
bill, mister," said the landlord, nuldly.
"I won't pay it. It's a terrible outwage,
and I won't stand it. I'll see yon
in Texas first, and then I won't." The
runner had increased his anger, stamped
[lis feet, and made so much noise the
passers-by gathered in to see the fun.
" You won't .pay it ?" asked the landlord.
.
" No, sir, never, never!" he shrieked,
loader and louder. The landlord
" snaked " his coat, and struck an attitude
before the towering, raging runner
and said: "If you don't pay it, and
pretty considerable quick, " I'll give you
such an all-fired licking that yer mother
won't recognize you from a biled ham."
The runner withered before his pugilistic
landlord and paid his bill, amid the
shouts of the lookers-on and departed.
The landlord took pains to tell the story
to the boys, and it soon leaked out, and
the commercial travelers have called him
" Quail on Toast " ever since."
Properly Appreciated.
"My dearest Fiducia," he said, as they
stood beneath a tree in a flood of moonlight,
"I have longed?oh, so longed !?
for this blissful opportunity ; and even
nnw T lmrdlv da to sneak the swellinsr
thoughts that struggle up for utterance.
Not in the blistering glare of the noonday
sun would I whisper to thee of the
sweet love that has tinged .my whole
being with a celestial brightness, but in
this soft silvery sheen of the constant
moon would I syllable forth the ecstatic
song of Eros. Oh ! canst thou realize
how like the radiance of heaven thy
beauty beams upon me ? And shall not
the blessed boon be always mine ? Wilt
thou not henceforth, for all comiug time,
give me th.- right to shield thee from the
rough contact and chilling blasts of an
unfeeling word ? Oh ! if thy smiles could
be mine while life should last, they
would shed?they would shed?a?a?
Ail, dearest, they would shed "? JVliile
lie hesitated and stumbled for a word,
Fiducia eagerly whispered: "Never mind
the wood shed, Augustus, but go right
on with your pretty talk."
A Conscientious Jury.
An old story is well retold m a recent
issue of a Southern journal, as follows:
" A jury in Alabama Lad b?en empaneled
in the case of a Mr. Johnson, charged
with killing his wife. The evidence was
positive and conclusive, leaving no doubt
of his speedy conviction. To the amazement,
of all, the jury, after a short absence,
returned a verdict: 'Guilty of
horsestealing.' The judge, astonished,
iisked an explanation, stating that the inJictment
was not for horse stealing, hut
manslaughter. The foreman, with his
band upon a huge law book, and with an
nmusingly dignified air, informed the
court that 1 it was not a case of manslaughter,
but woman slaughter, for
which the law miide no provision, but
buing satisfied the man deserved to be
lianged, they had brought in a verdict
:>f horse stealing, which, in that country,
would bo sure to luing him.'"
Deaths in the Na;j.
The deatlis of six rear admirals of the
United States navy took place within a
tew weexs. mis ih certainly u xoluuiaxble
mortality. None of these men were
poung, however, for Admiral Alden, the
least aged of the number, entered the
mvy in 1828. His death from an acute
inflammatory disease whs an indication
;hat his system was little spent by age;
'or morbid processes themselves have not
mch vigor and rapidity in the systems of
Jie feeble. Admiral Wilkes, however,
vas seventy-five, Bailey, seventy-three,
Groldsborongh, sev nty-one, Davis, seventy,
and Smith, sixty-eight.
; A VICTIM TO SCANDAL. *
1 Flic Valentines Driving a Sensitive Woman
i to Nnlrlde-Mnt< Bowers' Fatal Iieap?ParI
tlenlars of the Ninth AYenne Tragedy.
j " She seemed to rest her hands on the
1 side wall a moment as Bhe leaned forward
from the roof and looked do-wn into
the street. Then she swung1 about side
' wise in a queer sort of way, all in a hur!
ry, and hung over the area, her hands
i clinging to the coping for an instant;
i then she screamed and fell."
Soch in brief was the description given
1 by Annie Norman, perhaps the only person
who saw her fall, of the manner in
! which Mrs. Delia 0. Bowers came to her
I death at the corner of Ninth avenue and
| Nineteenth street on the evening of
Washington's birthday. It was be1
ginning to g*>w dark when Mrs. Bow;
ers fell, and her form appeared to Bome
! who saw it in the distance like a bun;
die of clothing thrown from the houseI
top into the street The noise of the
I fall attested quite a crowd from the
J tenements, stores and workshops in the
vicinity, and as the people passed about
the woman's prostrate form the horror
, of the scene crept through them and
pictured itself upon their e?ger faces,
t " What's the matter?" "Is she dead?"
I "How did she fall?" busy tongues not
' more earnestly than eager eyes inquired.
But there was no one there
then to say how it happened. She had
I fallen. She was insensible, or at leaet
: appeared so, and probably would die.
i As her shattered form was lifted from
i the street and borne to her apartments
i the crowd pressed about the door and
I edged more closely to the central point
: to find out all about the woman who
J fell.
i Mrs. Bowers lived at No. 153 Ninth
| avenue, was married and the mother of
1 two children, aged about eight and ten
years respectively, and her death is con|
sidered to be of her own seeking, in
I spite of the implied contradictions preI
sumed to exist in the fact that she was
I much respected by all her neighbors as
a good Christian and an exemplary wife
1 and mother. To an over sensitive dispoj
sit ion is charged the mental condition
which led her to precipitate herself from
i the roof of a house forty feet high into a
i narrow area, just railed in from the open
street. It was a frightful leap?from
which the stoutest heart, in sane mo;
ments, would recoil with a shudder.
What could have driven a good, peace1
ful, Christian mother to take such a fatal i
plunge?
THE VOICE OF SO AND Alt.
The sting of scandal! Such was the
! generally accepted explanation put in
j circulation shortly after her death by her
neighbors and acquaintances, a few of
I whom pretended to know the history of
the whole affair. Reports say that on
j Valentine's day (February 14) Mra
Bowers received from a female neighbor
} some offensive caricatures with accom-1
1 panying lines of a scurrilous'character,
written by the Render. The language
used was very harsh, and Mrs. Bowers
1 worried greatly over the matter. She
showed her husband what she had re-.|
I ceived, and told him from whom she sus-l
i pectcd the slanderous messages to have
i come. Unlike liis wife, Mr. Bowers did
I not see enough in such a silly malicious
I bit of business to give him any cause lor
J worriment. He advised lier to give no
heed to the matter. - Two of the valenj
tines -were said to have had respectively
[the captions: "A Seamstress" and
j "In Love with Every Preacher." But
| what the accompanying lines -were has
| not been stated.
Mrs. Bowers was a constant attendant
! at the Sixteenth Street Baptist church,
I and after a time the story of the scurrilous
j valentines, mingled with some further
j scandal, got to the ears of the congregaI
tion, and itB circulation there capped the
! climax of her mortification. Meanwhile
I the more talkative of her neighbors had
heard of Mrs. Bowers' restiveness under
the lash of these painful stories and kept
astir the petty gossip which the sender of
the valentines gave forth at first. Gradually
the poor woman's nerves gave way
under the ordeal until a few days before
1 her fatal leap, when she even refused to
! eat, so much was she exercised over the
j scandal. Her friends did not entertain
I any serious apprehension, however, and
j the thought of suicide by so devoted a
i Christian and so well conducted a wife
j never entered the head of any one.
I Mrs. Bowers resided in the first house
1 from the corner; and it is considered
! strange by some of the neighbors that
j she should have gone to the roof of the
adjoining house to precipitate herself
i therefrom, with fpicidal intent, when she
l could as easily have thrown herself from
i the roof of her own house. It was no
I very unusual thing, however, for the in|
mates of No. 153, m which Mrs. Bowers
1 resided, to pass over to the roof of the
j corner house. But a flying rumor which
I could not be traced to its source yesterday
lent some importance to the foregoing
I comments. This rumor would have it
| that some one, the gossips could not say
i who, had seen a woman's figure retreat[
ing from the roof of the corner house tol
ward the scuttle of one of the houses
i above just as Mrs. Bowers fell to the
| ground. It is not pretended that any
one pushed Mrs. Bowers over into the
j street, but if this himor were found to be
a fact, and the person fleeing from the
| roof should be identified, there is found
I here as strong a chain of circumstantial
) evidence as many on which convictions
even for murder have been obtained.
The dying woman's last words were:
j "Mrs. is the cause of this."?,
i New York Herald. i
Who Owned It.
Realty is realty. The Iowa lawyers
. have had a wrangle over a meteor. A
! large fragment of the big meteor of 1875
I fell in the liighway on lands owned by 1
I the Amana society, and a German named
: Maas picked it up. The society claimed 1
| title under the law of accretion, the
i realty in the highway belonging to them, ,
and whatever came to the land's natural
; accretion being part of the realty. The !
1 - i _ -i-.? i a
| (ierman put in a counter cuurn uiujeu
i npon original discovery and the nine
points of the law. The court has decided
that the society have the better 1
title, and the fragment of the meteor '
will be placed in the State University. J
Bealty is realty, whether a deposit be j
j made during the glacidl period)
| or yesterday. Scientific tramps who i
j spend their nights in trndging along the I
i liiehwava and hunting for meteors may
as well "go to bed at curfew. Realty is
realty. ,|
1 j
Theus, the Albany butcher who re- j
cently killed a boy by throwing a knife i
j at him, pleaded guilty to manslaughter,
I and was sentenced to the penitentiary
! for three years. He said he threw the
i knife in anger, without intending to kill
the boy, anil that the white face of the
boy is constantly before him, turn which j
way he may, both day and night.
A Great Bridge on Fire.
The St. Louis Republican saye: A
disastrous fire occurred about midnight
at the eastern end of the bridge. The |
first seen of the fire was about half past j c
eleven o'clock, when the engineer of an ; e
east bound train crossing the river s
noticed that there was fire in an-unoccu- : t
i pied two storv frame building at the
I north side of the bridge. He sounded his |
[ whistle, but failed to attract attention, j l.
Then he stopped his train, and all hands 1
| shouted and yelled and whistled till an T
alarm was sounded. Meantime the frame ! *
j building had become enveloped in a light1 ?
' flame. The high wind from the north ;
speedily swelled the strength of the fire,, ;
which communicated to another building, i *
The flames were swept by the breeze di- f
rectly toward the south, and began to J
threaten the wood-work of the bridge. ' ?
Before the Bteamers could effect a cross-1
i i - J j 1 i.i. - i. i
ing, me names nuu uapiureu tu? uu^n, 3
and were crackling among the plankB ' c
and timbere of the trestle. The steam- j. 3
era went to the other end, but, being un-, b
able to pass, .Chief Sexton sent them , ?
back, at the same time sending word to c
the ferry company to bring them over, i 1
Whether there was a misunderstanding I j
about the landing place, or whether the c
'ferry company did not care to stop the 11
burning of the bridge, does not appear. 11
A boat started across, and, it was report- ! t
ed, took three steamers on board, but up c
to one o'clock the one steamer of the St.
Louis department that first crossed was
without assistance from her mates. , *
The one engine then went vigorously .
to -work to stop the spread of the fire. I ^
By this time a long row of frame build- 3 rj
ings on the north of the bridge waa half . ^
consumed, about three hundred yards j j
of the bridge approach "was burning, and
the fire had reached a number of frame ' v
buildings south of the tracks. The whole '
ground for an acre in extent was a sheet 1 ?
of flame, roaring, surging, leaping up j c
and across the open ground on the river (.
beach as each succeeding gust of wind _
would toss it and whirl it about. It! *
swept along the ground, ' driving the!
crowd of sight-seers far back from its.
fierce heat. It crept through the trestle, |1
twining itself about each brace and ?im- , *
bfcr, and it stole along the railings, mak- *
ing rapid progress in every direction n
where it could find combustible material j1
to feed upon. Before the engine had ?
started a stream the waiting room on top i1
of the bridge was completely enveloped, . *
and the blaze had climbed the two tall1 ^
flag staffs to their summits and whb set- r
ting off a shower of sparks therefrom. 1 *
The efforts of the firemen were directed j *
to prevent the flame going further west,11
aiid deu.'oying the staircase by which foot f
passengers descend, upon Bloody island. (
The loss may reach $200,000. A great
number of people crowded over on the *|
bridge to witness the brilliant conflagration,
which was really grand- Till after , <
two o'clock the crash of falling trestle ^
work could still be heard in this city, as c
the red-hot iron bent .and yielded to its < *
own insupportable weight, and tumbled '
to the ground in glowing curves and 1 c
| angles. -r ^
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Effect of the Jersey Execution. {
! A bill has been.introduced in the New j J
' Jersey legislature which makes it the (
duty of the court on a trial for murder 11
in the first degree to pasB a sentence of! f
imprisonment for life whenever a verdict J j
of guilty shall be accompanied by a rec-, j
ommenuation to mercy on the part of j
the jury. The effect of the passage of 11
the bill would probably be the virtual t *(
abolition of capital punishment in the I (
State. Very few juries would oOnvict I \
without a recommendation to mercy. In ; j
I the first place it would be difficult to j r
i get together twelve men all of whom up- ] ?
1 linld lficnl stmnrnilfttions. and in the 4
) next there would be in almost every mnr|
der trial enough sympathy for the prisf
oner to render it certain that some of
j the jury would insist on securing for j
j him the more lenient sentence. The ;
; bill, no doubt, owes its origin to the i
i feeling of dissatisfaction engendered by |
j the refusal of a new trial to Ryan and |
| Oschwald, and to the fear that these men I
: may have suffered death for a crime of 1
i which they were innocent. New Jersey 1
| does not generally lean to the side of 1
I mercy, and the proposed change in the j
! law shows how firm a hold the doubt of j
i the guilt of Ryan and Oschwald has taken i
! on the public mind 1
! The new movement in the legislature, 1
j viewed in thiB light, must serve to open j
the eyes of the Jersey authorities to the |
j duty of exerting themselves to discover j
whether the murderer of Officer Brock is t (
still alive and unpunished. When a s
j whole community is so earnestly im- .
nrpRqpd with t,h? feelmi? tlint iiifltice mav ' ~
: have gone astray it is due to public Ben- '
; timent that all doubt should be cleared i
away. It will not do to settle quietly j
I down with the idea that as two men hove j
j paid the forfeit of their lives for the i
' crime there is an end of the matter.
! Justice to the murdered man, justice t# 1
the memory of those who suffered for
I the murder, if they suffered unjustly, '
; justice to the State requires that if a mis- j
' take hfts been made it shall be rectified |.
' and that the real offender shall be called
. to account. We have not yet heard that
, any steps have been taken on the part of '
the Jersey authorities to ferret out the '
truth. It is to be hoped, however, that
they will promptly follow up every clew [
that can lead to "the final settlement of
the question as to the guilt or innocence'
, of the two men who have been sent to
their graves as Brock's murderers.?New
York Herald. j
A Bine Glass Experiment.
The Charleston Journal of Commerce
says: Mr. Blimley read about i
blue glass until he became a convert to 1
the doctrine. Having a boy baby about r
three months old who has been some- t
what puny and has given evidence of a
weak lungs, he had ar eaet window of 1 e
his house paned with blue glass and r
exposed him to the sun's rayB for an a
hour or two for several days. Last, v
Sunday, being a sunny day, the baby t
was left under the blue window for tliree \
hours, at the conclusion of which time <j
he got up and went down stairs, declaring t
that he had had enough of that "dog- l
goned foolishness." On Monday he was 1
exposed for fonr hours. At twelve j
o'clock on Monday night he threw his I
off foot into Mr. Blimley's stomach, and . t
knocked the lower portion of Mrs. Blim-1 s
ley's chin off with Ins right list. As Mr. 1 o
Blimley lay under the wash-stand, trying p
to decide whether he had been struck by
lightning or was in an Ashtabula disaster,
young Blimley set up such a yell
that a neighbor next door, who has been
howling for war since the eighth of n
November, went down into Ins cellar ana r
hid under an empty flour barrel, under o
the impression that a general insurrection
hod broken out. Ah soon as Mr. , b
Blimley recovered sufficiently he procured '
a hammer and smashed every pane of , (
blue glass he could find. They now keep
young Blimley gagged and chained to an I lj
anvil, i f;
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
.i! yd) it <4? '
Useful Hccipes.
Cream Cases.?One cupful of cream,
me cupful of sugar, one egg, one teaipoonful
of BaieratiiB, one teaspoonful of
lalt. Stir in flour until the batter is aa
hick as in malting pancakes.
Baked Rice.?Boil a tea cupful of rice,
>r a half a pint, as directed above. Place
in fViA V*Af+nm a( a Vmlrinnp rli'flli ni'n'nrr
vith it a lump of butter the size of an
!gg, a teaspoonful of salt, a well beaten
!gg, and a tea capful of milkr or enough
o make the dish conveniently fall. Set
he dish in the stove, and let it bake on-,
il nicely browned. Add a teaspoonful
>f salt in boiling.the rice. As a vegetable
his forms sometimes an acceptable i
ihange from the ordinary way of preparng
nce. - i. .
Stewed Beef.?Cut from a cold roast. \
>f beef as much as will be sufficient for
rour family, in nice, moderately thick
lices, fat and lean mixed together.
Jlioe into small bits a carrot, a whole
lucumber pickle, and two or tnree Irish
)oiatoes, with a teaspoonful of allspice
>owdered or whole. Add a large lump
?f butter?say, a tablespoonful?a little
vater, and thicken, not too muoh, with a
ittle brown flour, and stew until very
ender. Send to tabl6 hot, and under
over.
South Carolina Rice Boiled.?A tea
upful of rice will be sufficient for a small
amily. To that quantity allow one pint
if water ; put it on in a covered stew pan,
,nd let it boil rapidly for ten minutes.
Fhen tufn it out into a colander, and let
he water in which it has boiled drain from
fc. Pour over it oold water; and return
b to the stew pa^ with only as much
l ater as adheres to the grains, and, coyring
it lightly, set it beside thfe fire to
well and dry.? If nicely picked and
leaned, it wfll be white as snow, every
rrain distinct, swelled to its full size, and
et perfectly tender. Do not forget to
idd a little-salt, in the first instance.
Bed Beahv Stewbd.?Take a pint of
ed beans and two quarts of ^ater. Soak
hem over night. Next morning put
hem on in two quarts of fresh water 1
.8 soon as yoor breakfast fire is made.
rVhen they nre^perfectly soft, break them
l little, without throwing off the water
n which they have been boiled.. Add
wo tablespoonfuls of butter; season
vith pepper and salt, paroley, thyme,
md a little onion. The onion must be
rashed clean, and wrung in a cloth. Afer
the beans are seasoned and are soft
ind mashed, take the stew pan off the fire, j
md set it in the corner to simmer until j
linner time.
Pruning Grape-vines.
?- J ?#.i I k > . . : .
However widely vine-dressere may I
liffer iu their summer treatment of
jearing grape-vines, they agree in rec-:
jmmending one annual winter pruning i
o insure a crop of full-sized berry and
)rmch. This annual cutting conflists in
sutting bRck the great bulk of the prerious
year's growth, leaving only three
>r four eyes each on the shoots that proluce
the fruit the next season ; removing,
at the same time, all the unripened
end superfluous wood. As a matter of
sourse, the largest and most vigorous
ihoots are selected for bearing canes,
ind these left not closer than eighteen
nches apart on the main branches. The
ime usually chosen for this annual prunng
is from the first of January until the
iret of March. Most gardeners prefer
sutting not later than February, so
hat the wounds will have time enough
? heal before the sap begins to circuate,
and obviate "bleeding, "as it is techrically
called by the fraternity. This
'bleeding" of the vines, or exuding of
he sap from the ends of the cut shoots,
s not looked upon by modern intelligent
gardeners as doing much, if any, injury
o bearing vines. The operator should
dways trim vines with a sharp pruning
cnife, making in each instance a clean
:nt, a little slanting, and not nearer than
wo or three inches from the eye. In
:aee cuttings are to be made of the new
vood, than the earlier in the winter the
n'npq nrr> nrntiwl the better: for the
:uttings should be made, tied in bundles, j
md buried on or before the middle of j
Tan nary. These should be cut square .
m the lower end and slanting on top,
with an average of three eyes to each
sutting.?Scribncr'a Magazine.
Rejavcnntlnff Oltl Batter.
It frequently happens that butter j
lealers and butter manufacturers have a
juantity of butter which becomes rancid |
tnd unfit for Bale, either through im- i
proper handling or carelessness in its !
nanufacture. Such butter can be worked j
>ver and be made to appear fresh by the
ollowing method, communicated to the I
Ohio Farmer by a Mrs. JB. Smith : " In i
i perfectly clean wat r barrel, filled with !
vater, put half a pound of alum and al- '
ow it to stand until the impurities in the I
rater liave all settled to the bottom of
he barrel. Fill a large boiler half full j
villi the alum water; heat as warm as ,
he lmnd can bear?but not boiling?and
hen add what butter the boiler will hold !
ionveniontly. Stir it thoroughly for 1
if teen or twenty minutes and put the j
mtter into a churn, adding one gallon of;
lew milk for each ten pounds of butter. ;
Idd butter coloring enough to give a
ioh, yellow color and churn the whole, j
Vlion the batter is gathered m tne i
burn add salt; wash and work it well,
ind it will have the taste, smell and apjearnnce
of fresh bntter."
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Othello in Nevada.
* The Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle says:
i. lady who determined to surprise her
lusband a few nights ago bought him a
lew pnir of rubbers and placed them by ,
he bedside, so that when he came in
he could enjoy his delight at.snch a fond
ixliibition of love and affection. The
uan stayed out so late that his wife* fell
:sleep, and when he came in his eye fell
ipon the overshoes. He was just about
o stab himself with a cheese-knife
I'hen he reconsidered his intention and
letermined to rouse his wife and tell her
hat lie knew all. Grabbing her by the
uiir he yelled out: "This once happy
Lome irt desolated by a faithless woman's
lertidy," and pointed to the overshoes. ;
t t(K?k neajly two hours to explain, and
hen lie forgave her, with the under- i
tanding that she would mnke him a pair !
f slippers with his monogram and a J
re en dig on the top.
Couldn't Keep a Little Still.
"Home visitors are coming, and you
lust keep a little still this afternoon,"
emarked a Chicago teacher to her pupils
ne day lately.
"Wr? cnr.'t keep a little ' still,' or a
ig on<\ either," chimed in one lad,
'leastwise hi can't 'nless we pay a
overnment lictnse!"
The teacher then remembered that the
ioy was the son of a former revenue de- i
milter, and pardoned his remark. i
Items of Interest.
Light tinibe??sunbeams.'
Sweden declines and China oonsenta
to participation in next year's Pari? Exposition.
The French leather trade is suffering
greatly. Over production is the chief
cause assigned.
*r? x-il. -1 1 i--U? tinf tlia
iueu lilUX UUUUb LUC lluc nuiu, uuv UUO
wind is always busy, and, like a cheerful
farmer, whistles at its work.
The Senate of Nevada has.paesed a bill
to tax the profits of churches,' secret
societies and colleges, and -earempt
mortgagee
It lias been officially decided that the
reason why a law book is like a frolicsome
ram jumping over a fence,'is because
they are both boundin' sheep..
A woman is verv much like a kettle,
if you come to think of it. She sings
away so pleasantly?then she stops?and.
when you least expect it, she boils over I
The Jesuits,-according to an annual
just published by themselves at Vienna,
now number 9,546. France has 8,001;
Germany, Austria, Belgium, Holland,
2,535; Italy, 1,466; England; 1,165;
Spain, 1,382; North America, 727;
South America, 384.' ' >
a _ t 4
Another new design of postal oara
to be issued by the poet-offloe department.
Many people, it is said, still persist
in writing the message, address and
signature on the same riide with the
stomp, and it is to be the object of the
new design to make it impossible to
write more than the address on the proper
side. ,> (i
Edward Ivory, colored, ia Augusta, .
Ga., put . on a white shirt, and went to a
barroom to display himself thus attired.
He fell asleep there, and William Henry
Sullivan made pictures with a lead pencil
on the glossy bosom of the snirt.
Maddened by the indignity aa he. awoke,
Ivory immediately killed Sullivan with a
revolver.
The news from India in regard t* the
famine existing in Bombay and'Madras
is not cheering.' The number of persons
now on the relief works in Bombay
has iucreased to 337?000, while in Madras
it has risen to 1,015,000 besides those'receiving
gratuitoiis'support. Bengal and
Burmali are exporting large .quantities of
grain to the distressed districts.
An English factory inspector says that
" cleaning machinery in motion continues
to lead to very numerous and painful
mutilations." In the half year ending
April, 1876, 126 persons, were killed in
England by factory accidents, 481 amputations
were necessary, there were 260*
fractures of limb3 or bones, and* 2,193
rtfhor in in rips?in all '2.497 males and 769
females.'??*; ;:?>
The entire coet of moving the obelisk
colled Cleopatra's needle from Egypt to
London, is to be borne by on eminent
English surgeon, Sir. Erasmus Wilson.
He had made the necessary arrangements
with Mr. Dickson, the civil engineer, at
an estimated cost of $50,000. The obelisk
will be surrounded with water-tight and
air-tight casing of boiler plates, will hare
a wooden keel and an iron deok, and will
be towed through the Mediterranean by a
powerful steamer. ' ' .
Thoughts for Saturday Mght.
Friendship is full of dregs. "
Pity, the tenderest part of love.,
Ye stars thatju;e,the poetry of heaven I
Poets are too frequently merely poetf.
You will find poetry nowhere unless
you bring some with you.
Politeness has been well defined as
benevolence in small things.
Power is seldom innocent, and envy is
theyokefellow of eminenoe.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a
haughty spirit before a fall. ? ;
Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice
to God?anda scourge to aatan. /f
Pride and weakness are Siamese twins,
knit together by the indissoluble
Inmlipn
*V
Laws act after crimes have been committed;
prevention goes before them
both.
A mind that is conscious of its integrity
scorns to say more than it means to
perform. * . The
higher the rank the less the
pretence, because there is less to pretend
to. ?
The sourest man is not wholly hopeless
when he will not blaspheme before
his son.
"We should accustom the mind to keep
the best company by introducing it only
to the best books.
To have religion upon authority is like
a finger watch, to be set forward or backward
as he i^easea that has it in keeping.
>'ew Orleans Creoles.
In New Orleans, too, the Creoles make
up a very large proportion of the population.
The city proper is divided by
Canal street into " French town " and
" Americantown." Frenclitown haa
about 80,000 inhabitants. Of these, as
estimated, not over 2,000 are of AngloSaxon
descent. Fren chtown is to all in
tents and purposes a ioreign oiy iu nn
American State. American town makes a
better showing. It Las about 120,000
souls. Of these, it is safe to say, not to
exceed twenty per cent., are of pure
Anglo-Saxon blood. New Orleans, in
fact, is decidedly a foreign rather than
an American city. It has "within itself
all the elements* of revolution. History
but repeats itself. They have broken
forth more than once in the past They
are found as comprising, in t^Te main,
the revolutionary forces of the revolutionary
government of to-day.
Your Louisiana Creole, to sum him
up, is at best an anomaly in American
politics. He is decidedly un-American
in everything save in being, as it were,
a natural product of the soil. Louisiana,
from his standpoint, is a sort of heritago
of his own. He is bitterly hostile to nil
net either to the manor born or of foreign
blood. He has about ns comprehensive
an idea of American politics ns
has the native of New Zealand. He
knows nothing of liberty save as identified
with license. He can have, from his
nature, little respect for a government,
save as it shows the strong hand of
power.
Cure for Diphtheria,
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A little son ol xur. j eremiau jvmicj m
Hughesville, Del., who lias been dangerously
ill with diphtheria, was successfully
treated by inhaling the fumes of
slacked lime, last week, and is now out
jf danger. A small piece of lime was
placed in a cup and the fumes conveyed
to the mouth of the child through a funnel
with a long tube. It is said that in
i short time after the treatmeut a lnrpe
lump of tough mucus was discharged
from the throat, after which the little
fellow at once commenced to get better.
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