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- ... ! ? ? : . : :? ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. % BY HUGH .WIl.SOX. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1877. VOLUME XXIV.?NO. 43. r <k Breaking: the Ice. " IiT GEORGE LANSING TAYLOR, I>. D. 'Twas the touch of mild weather that midwinter brings. The old-fashioned Jan'arv thaw, When snow hank*, like frozen up lovers, relent. r>v nature's mysterious law. The parson was breaking the ico at his gate? Forty, and frosty, was lie? When line eyed Jeannie came tripping that, way? Twenty, and pretty, was she. j The parson he greeted the lamb of his fold. As cordial as parson could be; "Rut nvAr t)if? \vn.v h#?r Lino t?vA.c ?tr?vAd And why, it was easy to tee; For Jerry was breaking the ice at the church? Twenty-two, and handsome, was he: And Jeannie (with Ida to shield her from harm) Had errands to Jerry, had she. So they crossed, and she took the pick from his hand. And merrily struck a brave blow, Then held her dainty red mitten for pay, And laughed till her cheeks were aglow. And the parson whispered: "She's 'breaking I the ice.' To help bashful Jerry along: If the ice in lii-> heart don't break for that, It must be uncommonly strong." So the parson kept thoughtfully picking away, And Iih mused : '* Ah ! isn't it nice, When a laughing girl, with her heart in her eyes. Helps her lover to ' break the ice!" And he sighed: "Ah! v. ere I but young once more! But Jeannie, she wouldn't bo here. \h. well, the yext best thing is a fee? They'll send for me in a year. They'll send for inc. Tit* the old, old tale That started in Paradise; And the sweetest remnant of Eden that's left Is loving?and ' breaking the ice.'" ???????rr? THE MAN FROM SOLANO. BY BRETT HAKTE. . He came toward me out of an opera lobby, between the acts?a figure as remarkable as anything in the performance. His clothes, no two articles of which were of the same color, had the appearance of having been purchased and put on only an hour or two before? a fact more directly established by the clothes dealer's ticket which still adhered to his coat collar, giving the number, size and general dimensions of that garment somewhat obtrusively to an uninterested public. His trousers had a straight line down each leg as if he had been born flat, but had since developed, and there was another crease down his back like those figures children cut out of folded paper. I may add that there was no consciousness of this in his face, which was g.iod natured, and but for a | certain squareness in the angle of his lower jaw utterly uuinteresting and commonplace. "You disreraember me," he said, briefly, as he extended his hand, " but I m from bolano, in ualiloruy. l met you there in tlie spring of '57. I was temliu' sheep and you was burnin' cliareoal." There was not the slightest trace of any intentional rudeness in the reminder.' It was simply a statement of fact, and as such to be accepted. "What I hailed ye for was only this," he said, after I had shaken hands witn him. " I saw yon a minnit ago staudin' over in yon box?chirpin' with a lady?a young lady, peart and pretty. Might ye be telling me her name ?" I gave him the name of a certain noted belle of a neighboring citv, who had lately stirred the hearts of tlie metropolis, and who was especially admired by the brilliant and fascinating young Dashboard who stood beside me. The Man from Solano mused for a moment, and then said : " Thet's so ! thet's the name ! It's the same gal!" "You have met her, then ?" I asked, in surprise. "Ye-es," he responded slowly. "I met her about fower months ago. She'd ninlrin' n nf rinlifnmv tvifli nnrrip friends, ami I first saw her aboard the cars this side of Reno. She lost her bagpage checks, and I found them on the floor, gave 'em back to her, and she thanked me. I reckon now it would be about the square thing to go in over tliar and sorter recog-nize her." He stopped a moment and looked at us inquiringly. " My dear sir," struck in the brilliant and fascinating Dashboard, "if your hesitation proceeds from any doubt of the propriety of your attire, I beg you to dismiss it from your rainil at once. The tyranny of custom, it is true, compels vour friend and myself to dress peculiar- , Ijf, but I assure you nothing could be liner than the way that the olive green of your coat melts in the delicate yellow of your cravat, or the pearl gray '.if your trousers blends with the bright blue of your waistcoat and lends additional brilliancy to that massive oroide watch chain which you wear." To my surprise, the Man from Solano did not strike him. He looked at the ironical Dashboard with grave earnestnes, and then said quietly: " Then I reckon you'd wouldn't mind shewin' me iu tliar ?" Dashboard was, I admit, a little staggered at this. But he recovered himself, and, bowing ironically, led the way to the box. I followed him and the Man 1 from Solano. Now, the belle in question happened to be a gentlewoman?descended from gentlewomen?and after Dashboard's ronical introduction, in which the Man from Solano was not spared, she comprehended the situation instantly. To Dashboard's surprise she drew a chair to her side, made the Man from Solano sit down, quietly turned her back on Dashboard, and in full view of the brilliant audience and the focus of a hundred lorgnettes, entered into conversation with him. flerr, for the soke of romance, I should liko to say he became animated, and exhibited some trait of excellence?some 3 are wit or solid sense. But the fact is lie was dull and stupid to the last degree, j le persisted in kepping the conversation upon the subject of lost baggage checks, n-,.d every bright attempt of the lady to ?.ivert him failed signally. At last, to everybody's relief, he arose, and leaning over her chair, said: " I calklate to stop over liore some time, miss, and you and me bein' sorter strangers hpre, may l>e when there's auy lihow like this goin' on you'll let me "? Miss X. said somewhat hastily that the multiplicity of her engagements and the brief limit of her stay in New York she "" I feared would, etc., etc. The two other hi ladies had their handkerchiefs over their lc mouths, and were staring intently on the ai stage, When the Man from Solano con- sc tinned : , si " Then, mav be, miss, whenever there tl is a show goin' on that you'll attend, ' you'll jnst drop me word to Earlp's Hotel, to this yer address," and he ai pulled from his pocket a dozen well-worn It letters, and taking the buff envelope tl from one, handed it to her with some- i is thing like a bow. j n< " Certainly," broke in the facetious s( Dashboard,' "Miss X. goes to the i w Charity ball to-morrow night. The | al tickets are hut a trifle to'an opulent Californian and a man of your evident i in O WAVfllV miO ff lUCUllf, ilJlVl lli*J ui'j* VK ?*. HV4W.J V/UV. *v You will, no doubt, easily secure :in in- fr vitation. j hi M iss X. raised lier lmndsome eyes for H a moment to Dashboard. "By all means," she said, turning to the Man j " from Solano," and as Mr. Dashboard j d< is one of the managers and you are a tv stranger, he will, of course, send you a complimentary ticket. I have known Mr. Dashboard long enough to know ol that he is invariably courteous to k strangers and a gentleman." She settled herself in her chair again and fixed her eyes upon the stage. w The Man from Solano thanked the tl man of New York, and then, after s( shaking hands with everybody in the si box, turned to go. When he reached ! n the door he looked back to Miss X. and tl said : j ei "Itwas one of the queerest things in ! ? the world, miss, that my findin' them checks"? j11 But the curtain had just then risen on j el the garden scene in " Faust," and Miss j h X. was absorbed. The Man from Solano p carefully shut the box door and retired. 11 I followed him. ! d He was silent until he reached the , d 1 in Cdiil ns if rflnPWl'nP I IWUJf OUVI III til 11V BM4' I) %?** ?"O I a previous conversation : "She is aj mighty peart gal?that's so. She's' a' just mv kind and will make a stavin' . c' good wife." '11 I thought I 8aw danger ahead for the j Man from Solano, so I hastened to tell ! f1 him that she was beset by attentions, P that she could have her pick and choice h of the best of society, aud finally, that n she was, most probably, engaged to i 0 Dashboard. 1 w "That's so," he said, quietly, without, s' the shghtest trace of feeling, "it would j b be mighty queer if she wasn't. But I 1 C reckon I'll steer down to the ho-tel. 11 q don't care much for this yellin'. ' (He i tf was alluding to a cadenza of that famous ' r< cantatrice.SignoraBnttiBatti.) "What's j h the time?" I He pulled out his watch. It was such j n a glariug sham, so obviously bogus, | tl that my eyes were fascinated by it. j r< " You're looking nt that wateh," he said; tl "it's purty to look nt, but she don't go | h worth a cent. And yet her price was . si $125, gold. I gobbled her ut. in Chat- si h;im street dav before vesterdav, where i tliey were selling em very cneap at:" auction." 'w " You have been outrageously swin- ! tt tlleil," I said, indignantly. " Watch and ; 1( chain are not worth twenty dollars." w "Are they worth fifteen?" he asked, I P gravely. n ' Possibly." ni " Tlien 1 reckon it's a fair trade. Ye j see, I told 'em I was a Califomian from , 1' So'ano and hadn't anything about me of greenbacks. I had three slugs with me. j Ye remember them slugs?" (I did; the "slug" was a "token" issued in the 11 early days?a hexagonal piece of gold a P little over twice the size of a twenty- h dollar .gold piece?worth and accepted for fifty dollars.) id "Well, I handed them that and they ! handed me the watch. You see them slugs I had made myself outer brass filings and iron pyrites, and used to ship tl 'em down on the 'boys for a bluff in a I game of draw poker. You see, not C being reg'lar gov'ment money, wasn't counterfeiting. I reckon they cost me, counting time and anxiety, about $15. j So, if this yer watch is worth that, it's ' about a square game. Ain't it ?" ; a I began to understand the Man from, b Solano, and said it w:us. He returned s his watch to his pocket, toyed playfully h with the chain, and remarked : "Kinder g makes a man look fash'n'ble and wealthy, don't it?" s< I agreed with him. '' But what do 1'. you intend to- do here ?" I asked. i ti " wen, i ve got ii casn capuui 01 mgii on 8"00. I guess until I get inta reg'lar d business I'll skirmish round Wall street, v. and sorter lay low." I was about to ^ give hiur ft few words of warning, but I Bl reraombered his watch, and desisted. 11 We shook hands ftnd parted. h A few days after I met him on Broad way. He was attired in another new n suit, but I think I SfVw a slight improve- i' ment in his general ajipearance. Ouly ?' five distiuct colors were visible in his 'd attire. But this, I had reason to believe i afterwards, was accidental. S I asked him if he had been to the ball. , h He said he had. "That gal?and a.S mighty peart gal she was too, was there, 1 h but she sorter fought shy of me. I got' P this new suit to go i*i, but those waiters , "w sorter run me into a private box, and I & didn't get much chance to continniew j our talk about them checks. But that young feller, Dashboard, was mighty " perlite. He brought lots of fellers and ei young women round to the box to see me. and he made up a party that niffht ai to take me round Wall street and in them stock boards. And the next day h lie called for me and took me. And I invested about $500 in them stocks?may be more. You see, we sorter swopped S: stocks. You know I had ten shares in the Peacock Copper mine, tljat you was t< once secretary of." "Tint those shares are not worth a p cent. The whole thing exploded ten years ago." " That's so, may be?you say so. "But then I didn't know anything more about Communipaw Central, or the Naphtha H Gaslight company, and so I thought it }' was a square game. Only I realized 011 T the stocks I bought, and I kem up outer K Wall street about $400 better. You see %v it was a sorter risk, after all, for them P; Peacock stocks might come up !" P I looked into his face ; it was im- ? measurably serene and commonplace. I h began to be a little afraid of the man ; c or, ruiner 01 inv wiuu 01 juugmeni 01 ine " man, and, after a few words, we shook * : liands and parted. tl It was some months before I again saw Q the man from Solanw. When I did I R' found that lid had actually become a member of the stock board, and had a v little office on Broad street, where he " transacted a fair business. My remem- " berance going back to.the first night I t met him, I inquired if lie had renewed r his acquaintance with Miss X. "I 11 heered that she was in Newport this sum- I rner, and I run down there fur a week." t " And you talked with her about the a bagpafre checks?'' ? "No," lie said, seriously, "she gave t me a commission to buy Bome stocks for t sr. You see, I guess them fash'nble fel rs sorter got to rumiin' her about me ul so slie put our acquaintance on luare business footing. I tell you le's a right peart girl. Did ye hear o le accident that happened to "her ?" I had not. " Well, you see, she was out yachting id I managed through one of those fel rs to get an invite, too. The whol ling was got up by a man that they sa; going to marry her. Well, one aftei Don the boom swings round in a littl piall and knocks her overboard. Ther as an awful excitement?you've heari :>out it, may be ?" No 1 But I saw it all with a romancer' istinct in ft flash of poetry ! This poo llow, debarred through uncoutlmes ?m exnressiner his affection for hei iuPat last found his fitting opportunity [e lud? "Thar was an awful row," he went on I ran out on the taffrail, and there Dzen yards away was that purty cren ire, that peart gal and I"? " You jumped for her ?" I said, hastily "No !" lie said gravely. "I let th ther man do the jumjiing. I sorte toked on." I stared at him in astonishment. "No!" lie went on, seriously. "H as the man who jumped?that was leu his 'put'?his line of business. Yoi e, if I had waltzed over the side of thn ii]), and cavoorted in, and flummuxei >und and finally fl'^ppc<l to the bottom lat other man would have jumped nal rid-like and saved her, anil ez he wa oing to marry her any way, I don't es :'tly see where I'd hev been representee i the transaction. But don't you sec f, after he'd jumped and hadn't got hei e'd gone down himself, I'd hev the nes est chance, and the advantage of hev ig him outer the way. You see, yo' dii t unilerstanu me?l uon t tiunK yo id in Californy." "Then he did save her ?" " Of course. Don't you see shewn [1 right. If he'd missed her I'd hav [lipped in. Thar warn't no sense i: ty doing his duly onless he failed." Somehow the story got out. The Ma: :om Solano ns a butt became mor opiUar than ever, and of course receiveivitations to burlesque receptions, an aturally met a great many people whor therwise he could not liavo seen. 1 as observed al60 that his $700 wa ;eadily growing, and that he seemed t e getting on in his business. Certai: alifoniian stocks which I have see uietly interred in the old days in th >mbs of their fathers, where magicall jvived; and I remember, as one wh as seen a ghost, to have been sliocke 5 I looked over the quotations on lorning to have seen the ghostly face c le "Dead Beat Bcacli Mining Co., niged and plnstered, looking out fror le columns of the morning paper. A ist a few people began to respect, o ispect, the Man of Solano. At lasl ispicion culminated with this incident He had long expressed a wish to be >ng to a certain " fash'n'ble " club, an itli a view of burlesque he was invite i visit the club, where a series of ridicu >ns entertainments were given him hiding up with a card party. As nssed the steps of the club house earl r-xt morning, I overheard two or thre timbers talking excitedly. . " He cleaned everybody out. Vfhy e must have raked in nigh on $40,000. "Who ?" I asked. "The Man from Solano." As I turned away, one of the gentlf ton, a victim, noted for his sportin ropensities, followed me, and layin is hand fin my shoulder, asked : " Tell me fnirly now. What bueines id your friend follow in California?" " He was a shepherd." "A what ?" "A shepherd. Tended his flocks o ie honey scented hills of Solano." "Well, nil I can say is, blast yon alifornia pastorals !"?New York Sur Sum's Bargain. General R , as he was called, ha son named Sam who was considerec y those who knew him be6t, rathe bupid; but that he had distinguislie imself once and proved that he wo ood at a trade there is no denying. Sam owned a dog that was a constan juioe of annoyance to the old gent, wh ated dogs in general, and Sam's in pai cular. . .. . The general never tried to conceal hi islir-e, but on the contrary, showed it i urious ways; such as throwing h< uter on his defenseless back, trying o averal occasious to drown him, and i nuiy ways showing him that he was nc is friend. The dog revenged this by giving mic i.Cfht serenades under his window, cha: i?r his hens, killing his young duckf ud by stealing more rations than tw ogs could possibly eat. He had ottered* every inducement t im to sell his dog, give him away, ki! im, or get rid of him in Bome way; bi am loved his "dog" and the dog love im, and Sam vowed they should not b arted; consequently the old gentlema as surprised, on coming home to dii: er one day, to hear Sam exclaim: "Father, I've sold my dog !" "Sold your d#g?" said the genera n*. 11 T 1 u ?Uli A itiii f;iuu. JUU vrvio duudiui lough to sell liim. A dog is a nuisanc ay way. I will make you a present In ail-bye, Sam." "Yes, sir, I got sixteen dollars fc im." "What!" exclaimed the general. "I got sixteen dollars fur him,"sai am. "You don't mean to say you got si: !en dollars for your dog, do you V" "Well, yes," replied Sam, " I got fon ups worth four dollars apiece!" Indian Relies. The Indian relics discovered by th lev. J. Qass in a mound near Daver ort, Iowa, continue to evoke discussior 'hey consist of tablets of dark colore late, with pictorial engraviugs, one ( hich represents a funeral pyre or ixerifice, around which a dance is takin lace ; twenty-two stars and the sun an uro uisrj HiiuwUy in ill i-ii iJi c! aic iw lies of a written language iu unknow haracters. On tlie reverse of the tat it, which is rather less than a foe rpiare and about one and one-half inche liick, there are sketches of men, severs ua.lrupeds (including two mastodons' rune birds and trees. Another table as a dial with four concentric circlet ,'ithin which are marked the four card al points and twelve equi-distant cliai cters supposed to represent the signs c lie zodiac. There is no doubt that thee elies were found along with human r< aains, among layers of shell, in a mount f put Hiere for the purpose of impostun hey have been skillfully placed. A uthorities agree that if the relics ai ;euuine they are by far the most impoi ant archaeological treasures yet found i lxis country. _ Our New Minister's Wife's lion net. i ' Well, Sophronia Ann, I'm glnd you've a come. A great many things has hap- < i poneil since you were li^re in house i 1 cleanin' time. You know then I hadn't, 1 been near the Methodist church for nigh ' on to a month; an all Clarence Center 1 ' was a-laughin', an' a making fun of our 5 new minister's wife. How dreadful they j ? did talk 'bout that blue velvet bonnet of i ? hern ! At last the women in the church 1 " couldn't stand it no longer; so they went 1 to Miss Brown, an' thev told her that, 1 i people thought she were a injurin' an' | ] a-keepin' bnck the Lord's work, by a- * wearin' sich a wicked, worldly bonnet. 11 8 *..? l\ tj . << t i i All UICU BUJ'O 1U.1BB JU1UII11 . O-KVUi^o, JL j should like r new bonnet very much. . ] , The bluo velvet was my wedding lint, < nearly two years ago. Since then my , < " husband has been so poorly paid he lias 1 not been able to buy me anything new. 1 '' So T have been obliged to wear this hat < n summer and winter." Now, Sister Pip- 1 kin she had an old black silk apron, jest ' as good as new, an' she said if the others ' " would take hold an' help, she would have ;' 0 a sewm' bee, an' make up Miss Brown a ] r decent bonnet. 1 didn't care nothin' 'bout the bonnet, but seem' Miss Pipkin 1 was a-goin' to the pains of a-prittiu' up a < supper I thot I'd go and help 'em. "Well, 1 1 1 if I do say it, we made one of the pur- j < '! tiest bonnets you ever laid eyes on. 1 ; There was none of them higlifalutin' 1 L things about that bonnet. An' we sent1 1 '' it to her that very night. Now in meet in', next Sunday mornin', they all looked ' \ 8 at Miss Brown's seat to see how the new i Knrnof lnnlrn/1 nr> Jinr lipnil llllt, gllft ] wasn't there. After the prayer was 1 over who should they see but Miss Brown a-comin' up the aisle, a-holdin' ] ; her head higher than a kite. An' do you suppose she had on our new bonnet? " No, indeed ! But she did have one of , 11 them new black felt hate that come way i down over a person's eyes, an' are all covered with black hen's feathers. It 8 looked a great sight wuss than her old e one. An' the meanest of all was, next Q momin', when old Byer the washwoman, came to do Miss Pipkin's washin', she Q had on that very same black silk bonnet i that we had took sich pains to make for ' i Miss Brown.? Woman's Journal. tl ! II " ~ t Knights of the Garter. ! 8 Prince William of Prussia has re0 ceived the highest honor which it is in 11 the power of the queen to confer on a 11 foreign prince?an honor, too, which is e sometimes coveted in vain by reigning. y sovereigns. Guizot mentions how glad i '? Louis Philippe was to receive the Garter, which lie only did upon his visit to Eng- | ? land in 184-1, when lie had already been , ? fourteen years upon the throne. He is said to have expressed the feeling that now at; " length he could no longer b^ called a mere king of the barricades, buf was : r fornlidly received into the brotherhood of I ;? monarchs upon equal terms. Napoleon : III. was equally pleased when in 1855? : less than four years after the coup d'etat j 4 ?he was invested with the blue ribbon ; by her majesty in person. On the other j l" hand, we find Lord Palmerston (in Lord !? Dalling's Life) writing to his brother, j Sir William Temple, and tolling him that j y " Bernadotte has been flying a kite for e the Garter," adding that his Swedish | majesty was not to get it. At the present moment a decidcd majority oi' the kings are entitled to wear this highly prized decoration, but the kings of Spain and Sweden are as yet left out in the cold. The only foreign* princes, not ac" tually reigning sovereigns, who are 5 Knights of the Garter, are the Crown Prince of Germany and lus son, Prince 8 Louis, of Hesse, and Prince Christian, ! of Sleswick-Holstein. Three out of these i} are heirs to crowns. The Duke of Cum ] berland has worn a crown, and is, more- j n over, a lineal descendant of George II., < and by a statute passed on the seven- , ir teenth of January, 1805, the order is to . l* consist of the sovereign and twenty-five , ? ' " ' -~s x a 1 ?i.l. T. ! 1 Knignis companions, wgeuier wiui such ; , lineal descendants of King George II. as ( may be elected, always excepting the , d Prince of Wales, who is a constituent , part of the original institution. Special | !r statutes are passed for the admission of i ( d foreign sovereigns or princes as extra I j 18 knights. ' How a Jewess Married a Christian, j \ r_ The Nashville American says: Mr. j ] H. L. Oliver, a young lawyer of good 11 [B standing at the Nashville bar and of re- j i n spectable family connections, waa mar-! ^ ried to Miss Hannah Weil, laughter of j1 n Mr. S. Weil, of this city, at her father's ! < n residence, Friday evening, by Juutice 1 Creighton. Feeling that her parents 1' would oppose the match, as it is against j1 j. the Jewish creed to intermarry with : ] j. other people, she went to her father, and ! < , put to him the following insurmountable j 1 q interrogatories: 1 " Father, how old am I ?" ! 1 0 Father? Nineteei' years old, my1' Q uauguter. it Daughter?When does a young lady ! j become of lawful age ? ie Father?At the age of eighteen. n Daughter?Then I am free to act for !, myself, am I not, father ? Father?I see no objection to it. Daughter?Well, then, Mr. Oliver ' j 1 loves me ever so much, and I love him |g ever so much. I want you' to consent to 1 ,e our marriage, for if you do not I fear we 1 will have to run away, and I'd much 1 rather be married at home. ,r The father was very much astonished 1, at her pointed inquiries, and more so I when he found her betrothed a Christian j j gentleman, but, after pondering the j! matter awhile, gave the sensible re-. t_ sponse: " Well, if you are bound to i' marry, I would rather you would be | ir [ quietly married at home." | And so the young people were married i and left for Huntavilie that evening. An Extravagant Editor. i- John King Lovejoy, a character well J : i. known on the Pacific coast, where he . d i was known in the double character of | >f j journalist and minpr, recently died in j ft j Nevada. JL'liiR story is toui or jiiiu ; i g I '' When conducting n newspaper inn cl ' Dowuieville, being in need of funds, lie 11 o | started out througli the mountains to j 1 n | get subscribers. He was gone two weeks, j i >- i WJien lie returned lie passed his sub- j ] >t i seription book over to his partner. It I ] s j showed a list of subscribers with sums | < il ! set opposite amounting to some ?2,500. ! j ), ) All the subscriptions were marked j < >t ' paid.' The partner was rejoiced, and i i, told Lovejoy bow timely the money j i i- would be. 'What money?' asked Love- ; ! r- joy. ' Why, this money that is sub- J i if 1 scribed here,' was the reply. ' That j ic 1 money,' said Lovejoy; 'why, I used Cfll | ( ?-1 that up in exjjenses, and had to borrow ; i 1. money to come home.' Five or six : < it ! years ago he bet a new coffin with a i 11 i neighbor that he would live over a year. 1 e | Ho said t<> us afterward : 'It was a good r- j bet. I shall want the wooden overcoat i n | before long, and it will be handy to have I it around.'" J Preparing Cod Fish for Market. A correspondent of the Montreal j Gazette, gives the history of ft cod fish j from the moment when, on the hook of | :hc fisherman, it is dragged from its na-; j. tive element till it disappears down the j g liuman throat on the hanks of the Amft- j t son, the Parana, the Tagus, or the Po : ] c ifter a few expiring wriggles?and it is ^ i comfort to be informed by naturalists , ;hat fish are almost insensible' to pain? ! f ;he cod is flung from the fisherman's ^ Doat upon the rough stftge, where it is c received by the "cut-throat," who, with B i sharp knife, lays open the fish across ^ ;he throat and down the belly, and <] passes it to the header. This operator ! j proceeds to extract the liver, which is : x Iropped into a vessel by liis side, to be I j inverted into codliver oil. He then ex- j tracts the entrnils and wrenches off the head, and throws these into another receptacle, to be preserved for the farmer, to mix with bog and earth, thus forming v most fertilizing compost for his fields, rhe tongues, however, are taken out, md also the sounds, and these, fresh or I pickled, are an excellent article of food, the fish is then passed to the splitter, who, by a dexterous movement, cuts out the backbone nearly to the tail, and thus [ays the fish entirely open, and capable af being laid flat on its back. This is the nicest part of-the operation, and the splitter always commands higher | ivnges than the rest of the operators, j Ihe saltor next takes the fish and washes i it well from all particles of blood, salts j it, and places it iu piles to drain. After ! laymg the proper length oi time it is t tvashed, and spread to (by on the: t " flake," which is formed of sprnce f boughs, supported by a framework restng on upright poles. Here the cod are j ^ spread out individually to bleach by ex-! c posure to sun and air, and during this | \ process require constant attention. At1 , aight, or 011 the approach of rain, they i t ire made up into little round heaps, with \ she skin outward, in which state they IE look very much like small haycocks, j ( When the "bloom," or whitish appear-1 c mce, which for a time they assume, ! jomes out on the dried fish, the process j * is finished, and tlicy are quite ready for 3 storing. On being conveyed to the I ( premises of the exporting merchant, they I ire first " culled," or assorted, into four I different kinds, known as "Merchant-! ible," "Madeira," "West India," and ' " Dun," or broken fish. The first is the s best quality, the second a grade lower, ! 1 the third is intended, for the stomachs of 1 $ negroes, and the fourth, which is incapa-. c ble of keeping, is used at home. The , ] iod sent to hot countries arc packed by ; f screw power into small casks called: i 14 drumsthose which go the Mediter-1 i ranean are usually exported in bulk, j Large quantities of dried cod fiph are | shipped to Brazil, and there is hardly \ ( 111 inhabited corner of that vast empire I c where the Newfoundland cod is not to : [ be found, being carried on the backs of 1 miiloa frnm flip KWienasf, into the ITlORt i r listant provinces of the interior. The i nogroes of the West Indies welcome it f is n grateful addition to their vegetable t :liet. To all parta of the Mediterranean t it finds its way, Italians, Greeks and t Sicilians equally relishing the produce f )f the sea. harvest. The Spaniards and 1 Portuguese are our best customers, and i ill over the sunny peninsula the "bucalo" 1 < is a standing dish. In the warmer I regions of the earth the people seem to i r uave a special liking for the dried and ; { jalted cod, and to them it is an almost j i indispensable article of food. \ Fertilizing Influence of Snow. Snow is often called the "poor man's : 1 manure;" and if it is true that it has any i manural value, the farmer's prospects for i c the next season are certainly flattering. ! j The body of snow upon the ground in < ill the Northern and Middle States is : j very great, and millions of acres of land 1 ire covered by it as with a blanket of the ! i whitest wool. It is probable that sel- ; i lom, perhaps never, has so wide an area ! i af our country been covered as during \ i the month of January, 1877. The ques-' i tion whether snow is capable of affording j j bo lands any of the elements of fertility , \ is one often asked; and in reply, the i < Boston Journal of Chemistry says that j i it probably is. The atmosphere holds 11 immonia and some other nitrogenous j ( products, which are without doubt 1j brought to the soil by snowflakes aa well, ? is by rain drops. I < Experiments both here and abroad t nrould seem to prove the truth of this j ] xraclusion. i < Rains are not only valuable for the . f noisture which they supply, but for ( ivliat they bring to us from the atmos- \ phere. During a thunder storm nitric [ icid is produced in considerable quanti- : i iies; and dissolved in the rain drops to a | < aigli degree of attenuution, its effects \ ipon soils are highly salutary, an the I i litrogen permeates the entire soil. A Remarkable Man. j ] The British House of Commons has a j j eery remarkable member in the person I, :>f Mr. Kavanagh, a country gentleman, \ 3f ancient family and great estate in Irp- i ( [and. Although born without legs or 1 j irms, he rides, drives, and does all, and ( indeed more than all, that most men do, ( and his dexterity is such as to lead to the j conclusion that nature must have given t him at the shoulder joint something ! j which answers the purpose of a. hand, j lu 1765 there was living in Somerset- j -1- - rt a/invnoltr laca SUirtt, JZjU^liim.1, <( iwimc-i ni/cii. v/wj *v>ou , remarkable. He was born without arms or slioulders, but endowed with such ex- : traordinary strength and dexterity that be could, uy some contrivance, do almost the same as other men. His teeth were 30 amazingly strong that he could lift ten pecks of beans with them, and with j liis feet could throw a sledge hammer further than other men could with their arms. He married, as has also Mr. Kavanagli. A Romantic Life. Miss Cora Dickson, a young girl ofJ twenty-two, arrived in Paris the other :lay from South America. Her life has thus far been a checkered one. At the \ ige of fifteen, tired of the monotony of home, she ran awny from her father's liwuse with a large sum of money. She silt her hair short and donned a boy's i jarb. After becoming in succession a ;abin boy, a clerk, and a horse dealer, j ?ho turned up in Buenos Ayres, where t *he entered the army, still disguised. ' e Jhe distinguished herself in the service, c rad became a colonel. Some months , x i j..- r _a> _i ..?1 1 igo, ai h meeting 01 oiiiutub, mik ? Id with one of those present. A duel 1 followed, and she killed her adversary. I On examining the dead man's papers, I the found that she had killed her oldest i brother, who hud left home when she j was two years of age. Horror stricken, c she threw herself at the bishop's feet, c who promised to intercede with Lei . ' father. I ' FA EM, GARDEN AN'J) HOUSEHOLD. A Cheap Food for Cattle. A Maryland fanner has prepared wht te calls a chcap foud for cattle. H owed land in corn, and the first of 0< ober, when it was in tassel, he had : iut down witli a reaper and passe hrongh the ordinary process of choj >ing, using for that purpose an ordinar eed cutter. The fodder thus produce 1 ?Jit. ,.i_ VltS IU1ACU Willi nuiUYV iil bUC upwx VL\J if four-fifths corn fodder to one-fift traw. It was then put in trenchef rampled down, and covered with eartl Che fodder remained in this state unt: ast Christmas day, when the trenche vere opened and the fodder taken or md fed to the cattle. The fodder wa bund to be in as perfect a state of pree irvation as when it was first put in, an he cattle seemed to relish it from tli irst, anc". now preter it to any other kin if feed. The coct of producing this foe ler was only about one dollar a tor riiich is only one-twentieth as much a lie cost of timothy hay, which is nc squal to it in any respect. If the lan s planted early in the spring, twenty o hirty tons can b?raised to the acre, but i France the land is highly manured and tli :oni is sowed only two feet apart, whic )ften makes the yield as high as eight ons to the acre. The same land ca ifterward be planted in barley, nnd lose lone of its strength by the planting t lie corn, as it is a principle in agricuitur hat the strength of the land is only los n the formation of the grain. By th ise of this fodder every farm of one hur Ired acres, planted with ten acres of thi odder, would be able to fatten one hur Lred head of cattle during the wintei vliicli would yield a profit of fifty pe :ent., besides the immense advantage c laving such an amount of stable manure vlricli in itself, if utilized would pay fc he fodder thus used. The advantages of this method is bet ihown by a comparison between the cos >f production of this fodder and the cos >f timothy hay : 'hosphatcs, ten acres, at $16 filf ["earn and p ow for thirty dayB ( Ian to tend the team..". ] /Utting 1 lauling and preserving 2? Total cost $5( A fair estimate of the crop of these te teres would be five hundred tons. Fiv mndred tons of timothy hay would cof $10,000, and as this five hundred tons ( shopped fodder will answer the sam mrposes as the timothy hay, it is easil leeu that every community can thus rais ts own meat at about half the cost t mport it. Modirnl Hint*. Toothache.?1. Take of creosote, on lrachm; rectified spirits of wine, half a mnce; distilled water, half a pint. Mi: Hie mixture is to be used daily and hi jitually. Let the tooth brush be firf noistened with the mixture and applie ;o the teeth and then a little cold watei iffnvw.ini Ttrlinfzvtror f/vnf.li n r?pi son may be in the habit of using. * i yum reduced to an impalpable powdei ;wo drachma; nitrous spirit of ethe: seven drachms. Mix, and apply them t ;he tooth. 3. Take of .compound tim ;ure of Benjamin, and Battley's solutio )f opium, of each, one drachm. Mix. . ittle of this mixture, dropped on cotto ind applied to the hollow and along tli jum of a decayed and ft prtinful tootl (vill afford great and sometimes effectui relief. Hot Water as a Liniment.?" Tli patient," writes a physician, "was ei ?aged in a machine shop, and while h: mud was upon the anvil of a trip htm ner the hammer, weighing seven hui Ired pounds, fell. It so happened tin i file was on the anvil, and in this wa ;lie force of the hammer was nrreate ibout half an inch before it reached il jed. When the hand was examined wis found that the whole palm was nass of pulp. The metacarpal born vere comminuted extensively, and thei ,vas apparently but Bmall chance of sai ng the hand. . It was, however, place n hot water, and kept there for two c ;hree weeks, and then taken out an Iressed. In three months the patiei vas sufficiently well to leave the hosp ;al, and now?nine .months after the a< ;ident?he is ftble to move the fingers ind has quite a useful hand." Bruise md injuries do muoh better when trea ;d with hot than with cold water. Th emperature should be about 103 degree Fahrenheit. Another case is reporte )f compound fracture and dislocation c ;he ankle joint, in which the proximi ?nd of the first metatarsal bone pre ;ruded from the foot. The dislocatio viis reduced and the foot placed in lie vater. At the end of a week it was take mt and dressed in the ordinary raannei Hie foot is now doing well and promise i good residt. Sonic Points In Cheese Making. At a recent meeting of the America Dairymen's Association, Prof. Amolc n reply to questions, said that one c .lie greatest difficulties in cheese makin ivas that of maintaining an even heat i lie curds. One reason why Ame* ica :heese failed when it became old was th nequality with which it was ripenec )wing to the almost unavoidable diflfei inces in temperature in the mass. Hi dea was to keep up throughout the lien it which the rennet was applied, and t emove the whey from the curd as i 'ormed. The best Swiss cheese makei leated the milk to 120 degrees, applie ;he rennet at that temperature, an naintained it throughout. The inventio vf ? * ollrvnr nn PrPn fpTY] icrature to be maintained should be th Drincipal object of experiments anion lairymen. He did not regard the form ition of acid as very important; in fact ;he peculiar nutty flavor was found i: jheese made with the least acidulation is the essential oils were not cut by th tction of the acid. Lactic acid in sma] juantities, however, helped the action c he rennet, but he did not believe in th ise of mutiatic, sulphuric or nitric acidf Phe reason he recommended the removti >f the whey as fast as it formed, was thu n warm weather foreign ferments wer leveloped, producing undesirable taint vhich were reflected upon the curds. Oxen in Harness. The Burlington (Iowa) Hawkey jrints the following : A sight that ai racted many spectators appeared on ou itreets the other day. It was a team c iviri nttfiAhfid fn n. wood wairon. The vere equipped in full harness even to th )its. The collars and hames, instead n jeing placed as when on the equin least, they rather -were placed right th everse?upside down. Yet they wer 11 proper position, for they could be ad listed to an ox iu no other manner. Th Iriver, a halo old farmer, employed th >ld original horse Vernacular: " Get up, 'whoa," "back," and made no use c 'gee" and "haw." ! THE DEAD CAMILLE. , Her Secret Marriage with Flenry Herbert Byrne?W^y thev .Separated?Pursued by it the .Shadow of an Erring Sister's Siu f Tlie true cause of the separation between Mr. Byrne and the late Matilda Heron is now published for the first time. Miss Heron matte herde&t<?in San Frahcisco December 26th, 1853, and, making y a wonderful success, fame and wealth were rapidly acquired Among the host F of friends her talents gathered around her none were more 'assiduous in their '? attentions than Henry Byrne, and their !: friendship having developed into a deep affection it was an earnest wish of his that ? she should leave her profession and become his wife. This Miss Heron did 8 not want to do then, as already arrangeJ" ments had been completed for her broth" er to escort her abroad, and she desired ? to defer her marriage until after her rei ! turn and the fulfilment of two theatrical engagements she had made?one in Pittsl> burgh and one in New York city. At last, * moved by his frequent solicitations, she ^ consented to a secret marriage and becl came Mr. Byrne's wife, both determining 'r not to reveal their relation to each other n until after her return and the completion ? of her contracts to play in the two cities above mentioned. J i With loving words and bright hopes n for the future they parted, the wife, ac18 companied by her niece and brother, to go in one of her father's vessels to Eu'? rope; the*husband, with fond expect!fc i ancy, to await her return as the realizae tion of all his dreams of happiness. l* Miss Heron had been absent some time 8 when a large number of prominent gen[' i tlemen of California met at a social din ? ' ner, Mr. Byrne malting one of the party. * ! The conversation turning upon women, mention was made of lilies Heron's re?? , markablc abilities, when some one sneer,r : ingly alluded to her being an actress. At this Mr. Byrne requested "that Miss ^ Heron be spoken of with more respect, i as he would answer for her being a !t lady." One of the party satirically remarked : " Probably she is as much of >0 ! a lady as the original of this," taking a W ' daguerreotype from his pocket and hand[j!' ing it to his next neighbor at the table, jq ; who, in turn, passed it to another. _ , Every one upon seeing it exclaimed : )0 1 "Miss Heron!" Mr. Byrne, upon look1 ing at it, said : "My God ! where did j ,e you get this?" "Gentlemen," replied j. | the owner of the picture, " that is not Miss Heron, but a picture of her sister, e called Kate Ridgely, and the proprie_ ; tress of a jrilded palace of sin in New ^ York, known as the ' House of Mir0 ors.' " The effect of this statement upon j\Ir. Byrne may be imagined, he being an ; excessively proud man. The irregularities and uncertainties of 'e the mails was Mr. Byrne's excuse for not n writiug about this affair to Miss Heron, 1 c* and he long kept brooding over the m:it" ter. Her silence 011 the subject he is ^ j said to have considered willful deception 011 her part, and gradually his mind ber' came biased against her. Upon her rej* turn to this country, he met her at Pitts" burgh, and he at once broached the subr' ject that seemed of such importance to r' him, "reproaching her for bringing a stain ? upon his name and deceiving liim." " How could he take her to California ? i and acknowledge her as his wife when j her sister's position was the talk of the n State ?" This and much more he said, ie } and those knowing Miss Heron's high 1; spirit and integrity of purpose will not I wonder at the reply she made him. 1 "Seventeen years ago (she said) I rete i member, as a child, seeing a vountr wid l- j owed sister an inmate of my father's is i house* then she disir peared, my brother l- ; followed, was absent* two or three days, l- : and returned, bringing her little girl of it j two years back with him. The child was y J brought up in my father's house, but t :e d j mother's name was never mentioned in ts | the family. I have heard that I remarkit i ably resembled, in form and face, that a I sister; but since childhood I hav& never :s j seen her. What temptations or trials e j caused her to fall I do not know; but t- j wherever she is my prayers will follow d ! her. As for my not showing you this >r blotted page in our family history, I did d I not think of it in connection with our afit | fairs; but now, thank heaven ! our mari j ringe was a secret one. You return to > j the friends whose noble occupation is the it ! bandying about of a woman's fame. With is | them cherish your spotless name. I am t- not ashamed of mine, but will cling to it, j e i and from henceforth will be wedded to j is | my profession." After reflection changed ! d j Mr. Byrne's views of the subject. He.j >f ; followed Miss Heron to New York, urged il her to forgive his injustice and return )- j with him to San Francisco; but all his n ; persuasions, aided by the entreaties of >t J her brother (whom he had enlisted in his n j cause), did not avail to change her decisr. | ion. Ambition took the place ,of love :s ; and made her heart dumb to all his i pleadings. Finding there was no hope i lio fin(i 11 v Ai-inB?jnfWI to a separation. : though neither of them ever obtained a n i divorce. | On being asked recently why she did not refute the aspersions made upon her i 8 character by publishing the true facts n connected with the separation of Mr. ' u j Byrne and herself Miss Heron said: "I j 61 cannot do it. The sister who was the | | unfortunate cause of our trouble could not *" I cling to evil; bitterly repentant, she j 18 ! changed her course of life and at last married a gentleman of jjosition and ? wealth, after making him acquainted ! f with the errors of her past. Now she is j "8 aged, and her days are spent in doing i d good to others. If I wrote a indication j ^ j of myself the public would expect names ' a | and particulars regarding her, which j l" , would tend to wound and humiliate her ' e deeply; therefore I will bear it for my ; 8 j sister's sake." Thought her hearer&tlien, l" Matilda Heron, your insanity does not '? i reach your heart, or if such a resolve is a j the result of mania God grant more per > sons in this world may turn mad. ? ; The funds with which she was enabled to '1! go to California to contest the will of Mr. { Byme were part of the proceeds of a e grand benefit tendered her by generous ' dramatic friends in New York. The benefit was a splendid success, but a man ' ! who managed to get possession of the e ' money swindled Miss Heron out of all a except a few hundred dollars. \ . The Wheat Crop. The receipts of wheat at the principal e markets of the West for seven weeks ^ endiug February 17, in three year? were r i as follows: ,f < i'fart. liuthth. 1^77 2.371.<578 7 1876.......................... 4,'002,278 e | 1875 5,522,0521 * ; The visible supplies at the principal e poiuts of accumulation on the seventeenth e of February, were as follows : 0 ' > ' , Yearn. BunheU. | 1- I 1877 11,088,627 0 ' 187H 17,089,460 o 1 1875 12,201,784 " , These figures have, of course. 110 if; reference to the movement and stocks on | I the Pacific slope. i Items of Interest. The Japanese are manufacturing waj ter-proof boots of paper. The Rothschilds have five family manj sions in Paris, valued at 100,000,000 j francs. The Missouri Legislature has paased a bill making it a misdemeanor to pay for . lobbying. There are 991 lighthouse keepers employed by the United States, at a cost of $594,600 per annum.. The public -wishes to be managed like a woman?one must say nothing to it j but what it likes to hear. The Hub is showing the beneficial ! effects of its civilization by shipping j baked beans to Philadelphia. i "We're in a pickle now," said a man i in a crowd. " A regular jam," said anI /-vflioi. " VToqttcti nrooorvn 11 a " flftid fln old lady. An English critic says that the habit v of dressing children for fancy ball and concert exhibitions induces in the children ft foolish conceit and an immoral j tone of ideas. No man should be too sure in speaking of the advent of spring. He may wake up some morning and find that hie win' ter clothes have all been made over for j the boys. The San Francisco common council has has passed a special bill permitting a certain Chinaman to carry a pistol three months because his life is threatened by persons against whom he has testified. "Piety,-" remarked an Arkansas preacher to his congregation the other day, "does not consist in noise. The Lord can see you give to the needy just as easily as he can hear you pray the roof off." Surprise is the essence of wit; but sometimes when a man is climbing down a ladder in a hurry and neTer finds out that ono of the rounds is gone until he tries to step on it, it never seems very funny to him. r i . Scene?Becitation room in natural history. Instructor: "Mr. X, have you ever put your head down on one's breast and listened to the heart beats as Huxley describes them?" Mr. X (blushingly): "Yes, sir." The talk about blue glass has had the effect of sending tramps about the coun. try peddling blue glass spectacles, with forged certificates from distinguished physicians. Farmers should beware of spoiling their eye sight. A man who had shot himself was found lying in a San Francisco street. He was asked his motive for the act. "None of your business ; and you're no gentleman if you inquire into the private affairs of a stranger," was the reply. A New York lecturer on health ridicules the Graliamite system. He recommends less starch and more mastication, less tea and -more milk. He said bran bruad had killed nearly all of his family, and rendered twenty-five years of his own life miserable before he discarded it. It is reported that a certain old geologist, who was a bachelor, boasted that every rock was as familiar to him as A 13 C. A lady who heard him, said that i she knew of a rock which he did not I know. "Name it, madam,", said the ! angry Ccelebs, and the lady replied : " It is rock the cradle, sir." j ' j Good Deacon B. having, as some of his friends thought, shown too little in! terest in the public affairs of the day, was charged by a brother with being ; "on the fence." "Yes, I am on the fence," was the reply, " and there I propose to remain as long as it's so cont founded muddy on both sides." | A party of robbers boarded a locomotive at Long Point, Ind., killal the engi1 ueer, set the engine in motion, and drew 1 an Adams' express car away to a con| venient place for rifling. This was in i 1875. A few days ago five men and a woman were arrested as the robbers. The : woman is Jennie Osgood, and it is said j that she not only planned the crime, but J was a leader in its commission. She | wore men's clothes and a false moustache, and was one of the two who killed the I engineer. An Admiral's History. A correspondent of the Portland Press gives some interesting particulars concerning the late Admiral Alden's family. His grandfather was Robert Tate, the fourth son of George Tate of London, who came to this country some time before the year 1756. George Tate had been a seamen on board the first Russian frigate that ever went to sea. When he came to America he built a large two, story, gambrel roofed house at Stroud water, Me., which yet stands unaltered, outside or inside, and is the best example in that vicinity of the prevailing style of good houses at that time. He died there in 1794, in the ninety-fourth year of his age, leaving four sons, all born in England, His third son, George, entered the Russian naval service. Catharine II. appointed him lieutenant in 1770, and she afterward raised him to the rank of rear admiral. Alexander I. made him first admiral and a member of " a. -at? ii t. tne ilussiau senate. a ur uio vnuum services at the siege of Ismail he received from the Empress Catharine a gold medal bearing her likeness and suitable inscriptions. He also received from the different sovereigns under whom he served the badges of the orders of St. Waldimer, St. Alexander Newski, St. Ann, and the military order of St. John. He (lied in the service in 1821, unmarried, highly horored and respected. His last visit to Maine was in 1819, when he erected a handsome monument to his father and mother at Stroudwater. The fourth son of George Tate, P.obert, had one son and several daughters. One of the latter was tho wife of Capt. James Alden of Portland, and the mother of Admiral Alden. One of Admiral Alden's sisters married T. S. Arthur, of Philadelphia, the well known author. Wants ins i more si aisu. The Allen town (Penn.) Bulletin says : Twenty years ago a man living in this city lost a wallet containing $60, aiul a lady living in Catasnuqua had the fortune to find the money, but lacked the honesty to return it to the owner, tlxmjzh she knew who lie was. Years passed on, the husband of the covetous lady prospered and grew rich, the man who lost the pocketbook with the money got poorer and poor, till the other day the i lady found him in this city in actual want. Her conscience pricked her sore, and going home she got $fi0, and took it to the man's family. The family was very grateful, but the man, as soon r.> he found out who it was that had kept his money so long, immediately instituted suit to recover interest. ' We presume the claim for interest will be settled before the matter goes out of the hands of the alderman. *