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? ?? - - * I - . . I . . - . . , . % * ....... . ..?,. .: .... -. . .... 4:., :, | -\. ,, J:. .- . MBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER ; . . , rJt ? ' ?"????i,i;n4 j'it'S' - . . ..... ... - , r"\ J f' { i H 5 ? $ r* . .i ',- :> i " ' ' .' -? ? i . ;. > /. V *i;r' EY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1877. . NO. 12. VOLUME XXV. ?J????????1 The Workman's Wife. co My loving bride no jewels hath Save one plain ring she wears, Few roses strew her daily path ~:e Of humble household cares; To dock her head with gorgeous plumes m No bird of beauty mourns, " ^ ? No wondrous weft of cunning looms ka Her graceful form adorns; But Bhe's the bright breast jewel of gj My busy, toiling life, to Whose wish is Lut to live and love Gl As helpmeet ond as wife. White is her gown at morn?a fair, ^ Soft robe at evening's hour, And. if aught she wear in her dark hair, . 'Tis a simple wildwood flower; fr: But, oh! the kiss that bids me forth, Light-hearted, to my work, dc Snrpasseth all the flowers of earth That in the greenwood lurk, sa And the glance that lights me home at last, Cl O i When the day's long task is through, | to is sweeter then is sunward cast UW?m vinlfifa with dpw. i"rom her soft arms our baby spreads j wi Its chubby hands, and crows< ! a The glancing firelight round their heads Its Baintly halo throws; G Aud semetiiues, when I see them bo, #1 Or in the doorway stand, 8U Touched by the sunset's rosy glow, With pence on every hand, J. My thoughts revert, with reverent love, Unto the pictnre mild ! m fll That Raphael wrought so purely of .: Madonna and her child. Few axe the hours wo snatch from toil, Bread-winners in the strife? | N We've little of the corn and oil, , 111 And all the cares of life; - . Yet whiffs wo have of country air Sometimes on afternoons, I , cc With the birds and flowers, in park aud square, That aro such grateful boons; I Aud we envy not the rich and proud, j U( Whose teams and coaches gay We vet mav watch, and swell the crowd j en *TUt linos their flashing way. , . j fe i ?ty "5 & * in And,- bcsfc of all, we never mope j Apart iu grief?alone; i j)( 3Vhon heart fc> heart speaks comfort, hope . j;1 Ne'er quite deserts her throne. ! lJnrd times upon us often preen, j jj. W/ve bread, and little more, I stj Bu' hatever cup of bitterness | sa : M?v bo for mo in store, n . I knoff my wife will drain her part, , (It Though it mantles dark and high, 8H And I know the love that brims her heart til Will never, never die! au ? . . ac Granger's Little Place. to ?* ? ;- ri 77 I ge My friencf-Granger, though born and | bred m Ujo^ity, had always been of whnt ; uc lie?ilieiE"? suruBum"?fondof flowers j ( arijlStrfe^ fjhd\>f^>i<rturew and poems re- | }>rescnling~ouhtry soienes and subjects. [ j j He had also frequently expressed a wish that he could aft'ord to give up his city ! business and retire into the country, ] wj there to devote himself to model farming. ' cn Knowing these tastes of his, I was noti i)C nrtioh surprised ou rehiruiug; to the city j after a minor lengthy business absence, ! UJ to find among my lettersacard, inscribed:! ,,, " J. K. Granger, Woodbine Cottage, I ,n Ros? Terrace," with au invitation to : Rr " Call soon." ur 1 went out on the following Saturday. | The street cars took me into a newly-! Uj created snburb, and within foursquares j v] of Rose Terrace, which I found to be a 1 >Vj row of tiny new cottages, and so called j (f, from hnving boen 1- ft by the recent I 'j', r* >.?,1 i wrr of nn nlnvntinn nf nlimik \ : ..vc... ? "-O I JJ I inclioH above tl?c. level of the street, or 0f rattier road. Each cottage wa? buried rj, in rv Gothic portico or bow window, and nt they were all so exactly alike that I might have experienced some difficulty i in in finding Granger's but for the wood- ! k, bine trained over the portico. On reach- | cr ing the garden gate I perceived Granger ! himself, attired in a loose jacket ami f? broad-brimmed straw hat, busied among some rose bushes and lilacs in the front m yard. He had a pruning knife in his hand and a sickle and garden hoe lay at ^ his feet. On seeing me he came forward, ! el liis round, ruddy faoe beaming with i hospitable welcome. I})( "You find me rather rusticated, I sup- j pose," lie observed, with zest, "but the I w, fact is I found the place sadly neglected i sc ?the lawn quite weedy and the 'shrub-1 bery "?here he pointed to the lilacs and ' n. rose bnshe??"very much in need of i m pruning; besides the grounds have got i to be laid out, you see." I found the house a snug little alT.tir, j (e of two parlors and a libraryou the first j lU] floor, and a couple of chambers above; ' co rather more room tlian was required ^ by a bachelor, I hinted, thongli Granger j ffi, received the suggestion with contempt. ; jja "A wife is too expensive; and I would | hate to lose my independence," said he. I va He took me into the garden nt the back j th of the hoitier-a space of some fifteeu ; yardstby ten?and displayed to me with i th pride what lib had effected. The walks | Qf were tastefully bordered with gooseberry | and currant bushes, but were rather nar-; m. row, and obliged us to proceed in single : th file. There were tiny beds of vegetables nv ?a ?trawberry bed and a melon patch? cucumbers for pickles, and raspberries foe preserves; besides, a trellis-work tu -arbor, to be covered with grapevines. frj " Yoa sedi" he added, " there's noth- jj, ing so pleasant as having fruits and veg- an etablas of your own raising, served fresh jn| and cri?pirom the stalk. It's convenient also, and renders you so independent of mi the market" 'he He called my attention to a row of ; 8e, bee-hives not jet tenanted; also pointed j ov out ai^ncy poultry-house, and a patent1 t], dog-kenneL In the midst of the garden ! n rosea pigeon-house of elaborate design, above which wtv* a weathervane of his oWfi-farentioa?a shepherdess, pointing Bj( with her golden crook in the direction of the wind. On this original idea he a greatly prided himself. j ^ " It suits the pastoral nature of the , place, you see, he observed, complacently ; " and indeed I would not, ja object to a pet lamb or two?only I'm , nj afraid they might interfere with the j ^ _ vegetables." j flj We summon 4-to snpp?r by Mrs. ! ra Mk,Uie Bousekecper, a woman of reso- j 0{ lute aspect and determined mien. She j ^ * looked sharply at mo, and evidently did 1 q not altogether approve of my presence. ( Also, it struck me that Granger ap- ft pearcd a little subdued while she poured | ^ , WV^ur tea, and brightened up when, 1 w that dutv performed, she majestically re-! C1 tired. fr " You appear to have a good house- pi keeper," I remarked,.glancing over the p - well-spread table. ei ^ "Qtt? deeidedly, , never saw better tl ' cooking in my life, and for neatness and it order not to be equaled. In fact, some w persoDB might be satisfied with less precision nnd ne-atnees. For instance, she ai prelers tbat I should enter at the baok ti door i tad think* it be?t to hang my * at and hat in the closet under tha ( iiis. Then, too, I caft't always find 1 y books and papers on the table and 1 sk where I am accustomed to leave ] Aw, yy 6m. " Servants can never tinderstand these ] atters," I observed. " It takes a wife ' accomodate things to man's tastes and ] .bits." i "Maybe so ; but I have no idea of ving up my independence. I prefer ] rule alone in my own house," said 1 ranger, with an air of authority. i When Mrs. Mix re-entered * with a 1 ash relay of toast and tea Granger said, f :ry much as if requesting a favor: i " Mrs. Mix, will you be good enough bring the Cheshire cheeso ? My 1 iend here is partial to it." f Mrs. Mix elevated her chin and looked f >wn on us. "That cheese, Mr. Granger, sir," she < id with dignity, " that cheese ain't in ? :actly in tne condition 10 oe a oruumem t tliis here tea table." 1 " Why, what has happened to it ?" f " Rata, sir, has been at it, and nat'rally 1 didn't calkelate that a pared cheese t ould be the correct thing to set before ] gentleman's frien's." i Mrs. Mix retired as before, and ? ranger, after a timid and suspicious ance toward the door, remarked in a ; ibdued tone: " It is really singular about the rats, i had no idea that they were so destruc- 1 re in housekeeping, f can't say how ] any pounds of sugar, butter, flour, tea id coffee they have made away with in c e few weeks that I've been here." ( " Set traps," I suggested. < "I have done so, but without success. ] ot a rat have I succeeded in captur- i ? * " I rather think that I smell one now," 1 hinfp/l "Indeed! Where?" inquired Gran- f >r, with interest, as he looked around, c " Oh, nothing?only it strikes me that rs. Mix may not be sufficiently eco- i maical." i "Oh, yes, I think she is. I don't i mplain of her wastefulness, only I i nr she is a little careless at times. For s stance, on Sunday I had a fine fowl, t lich I did not touch, preferring it cold; f it, on inquiring for it at breakfast next i iy, she informed me that while enterining her cousin she had carelessly left in the kitchen window, whence a range dog had stolen it. It was the [ mo story the week before, in regard to < ham; and that cat also does a good ( al of mischief among tho pies and r\ eetmeats in the pantry. I should ] ink that a woman of Mrs. Mix's sense r d prudence could guard against such c cidents ; but women are so contradic- t *7-" c "A wife "? I commenced; but Gran- ?: r interrupted me. i " Yon see, I'm too old to think of that a iw. Besides, a wife is too expensive, t jau't afford it." _ I On my next visit to woodDine <jorxage g :ound things progressing not so favor- t ly as bad been anticipated. Some of t e vegetables bad not come up at all, t lile others, especially the melons and a cumbers, had grown so rapidly, that c iing planted only "a few feet apart, s ey hail naturally fatally encroached <3 >on each other. The currant and r osebernr bushes had been attacked by t old, and had beside, in their rapid s owtli, become entangled across the c irrow walks, which would have to be i dencd. The chickens had scratched s ) the flower seeds ; the watch dog (of r tiich Granger obviously stood in awe) g is given to eating hen's eggs ; the bees a >r which he had sent per express to ? was) had declined residing in the new a vcs, and the vulgar minded small boys i the neighborhood had not only wor- j rw3 rironnror Kv lru-ilrinor nvAr fllA fftnftA 1 id inquiring if lie were " raising sup- l ies for the Roosliion war," but bad 3 ade a target of the shepherdess, and i iocked off her head and her gilded i ook. . T_ ' '^Tho garden is rather discouraging in t ct," Granger admitted. "The place is j 0 small. I could succeed better with a ] xxlel farm, if I could afford to bny one. c Meantime I think of making some im ? rovements in the house?adding a tow- 1 to the east end, and a high peaked r_ ible on the opposite side?something i *tween a cottage and a castle, you ( tow. What do you think of it? It ould plant ivy around the tower, you E e, which would make it picturesque. t About a week after this Granger paid r 1 a visit, and I could but notice how ( icommonly bright he looked. Inquir-! f g about his little place, he replied: \ "Oh, things are promising much befcr now. Fact is. there is a verv pleas it family next door?a young married ! uple, with au aunt?ahem! A very ! telligent lady, who knows all about; rdens, poultry, bees and such things, j j ,ving a country place of her own. She I ahem !?she has given me some very j) luable information concerning these | J ings?ahem !" 1j Granger's face was a little more florid j an usual; but that might be the effect n his slight cough. On leaving he invited my wife and ^ pself to tea at Woodbine Cottage on | . e following Saturday to meet the Den- 1 s and their aunt, Miss Timms. ! a It was a very pleasant little tea party, j11 d to make it pleasanter, Miss Timms i 8 rned out to be an old boarding-school j 8 end of my wife. She was a nice, mid- | 8 3-aged lady, pleasant *and sensible, | r d also good-looking, and, as my wife 1 ? formed me, remarkably cheerful and ! y adly in disposition. Why she had not j * irried, Mary Jane declared to be to I ? r a mystery, especially as she posses- ' * il quite a snug little property of her j . ??> Vi rwa ol f occarf^ul Ion rrlnnnr 1 ^ (Ui Uiiu lid OWii at it was because the right man had i c :ver presented himself. I lyvd never seen Granger so amiably ' ' 'ftming and blissful as upon this occa- ; b :>n, while presiding at his own board. ,1 rs. Mix, on the contrary, maintained j ] mien and countenance of extreme * gidity, and in special regarded Miss ( imms with glances of strong disappro- 1 ition. The table, however, was well ' id, and there was plenty of everything J ce and tempting, though the pride of ^ ie board was a dish of lettuce-salad, inked on one side by a handful of cur- j ,nts in a large glass bowl, aud on the ! her by six or eight radishes, about ] iree inches long, the product of i ranger's own garden. I "You can have no idea what a luxury j J is to have fruit and vegetables of your , ] vn raising," he said to mo iii-'ft'sort of f side, while the rest were admiring the 1 irrants. " Take a little salad?arn't it ! esh and crisp ? Next week I shall exect you to spring chickens and new i otatoes. Miss Timms has been good 1 lough to explain to me about raising j 10 chickens, and, in fact, offered to help j i taking care of tho young ones, if the i eatlier prove too cold for them." j 1 "We walked in the garden after tea, ] ad my wife privately directed my atten;on to our host and Miss Timms, who ] ere lagging oenuaa m earnest discussion i >ver a wilted cabbage ; also to the cotrn;enance of Mrs. Mix, who at the kitchen vindow waB peering at the two with a \ resentful eye. "I am very much mistaken," observed Mary Jane, upon our return home, 'very much mistaken if the reign of e; Mrs. Mix and the rats are not approach- ? ng a speedy end." I thought it improbable, but the superior sagacity and discernment of L voman was soon made apparent. Meet- | r' ng Granger accidentally, I inquired how i ' le was getting on at Woodbine Cottage, I 11 md whether he had yet commenced the J ^ vied tower. P " Why," he replied, with a little em- ? larrossment, yet a good deal of evident :! jecret satisfaction?"you see I con- ^ suited a friend about it and she?ahem ! .! atirla r>f nrnliltpptnrA Tint i ? tllUUj^UU vuo oy*v v* jxactly suited to my little place. Be- E sides," he added, looking at me as if resolved to put a bold face oil the matter, " I am thinking of?of moving a little 'urther into the country, in fact, a ? nodel farm you know?a thing I always P thought myself mot fitted for; and as 11 Eliza's tastes agree with mine?and so P ve're going to improve her little farm; i ^ a 4.1 "I beg your pardon. Eliza I think J ron said ?" . ? "Certainly, MissTimihe, of course, I nean." Here he blushed violently, and w aking off his hat rubbed his bald fore- ^ lead vigorously with his handkerchief. " Warm weather, rather, ^ou can't lonceivo what a luxury it is to me to ? ?et out of these dusty streets into tne ~ xesh air and greenery of my little place. E [ positively feel as though I were a new , nan, with a new life opening to me?a a iort of youth-renewed feeling, you see? f.( ?, ha?" U And chuckling joyously he waved me i hearty adieu as he boarded the street . :ar bound Rose Terraceward. 11 This was sometime ago. For the last ~ ew days my wife has been very much ? nterested in "shopping" in company ? vith Miss Timms, and last night re- ? narked to me what delightful visits we ilinll have to Eliza's beautifnl place in ? .lie country, and what a happy, comortable couple our two friends will e nake. Cl ?? -vv The Sultan's Consternation. ? The ring of pashas at Constantinople g] i.nve fallen into the habit of shouting ^ 4 Russian gold " whenever a fortress is a :aptured. There were about a tiiousanu ^ Carkish soldiers in Sistova, armed with Martini-Henry rifles, and having Bome _ pins; yet they allowed the Russians to j iome leisurely across in large open M jarges, and then vacated the place with- g tut firing a shot. The commandant ex- ^ juses himself by saying that he had no y nstruction8 to resist; but it is believed it Constantinople that his inactivity, like hat of the commandant at Ardahan, had a] >een purchased by Russian gold. The 5 ultan was powerfully affected by the p lews, aud at once summoned the minis- ^ ers to the palace. He asked them, with r) * ' - - 1I..1 !1L 14 ears in lus eyes, now it was iuas, wuu R] n army of three thousand men at their ommand, they had allowed the Rus- a. ians to pass the Danube in a manner so iisgraceful. The ministers could only eply that the affair was in the hands of he coinmimder-iu-chief, to whom the ultan at once dispatched a telegram to s< lemand an explanation. The reply of lc ^.bdul Kerim, as quoted by a corre- t( pondent of the London Standard, was h i early in the following word : "I be- lc eech your majesty not to trouble your- h ielf about the passage of the Russians at w Jistova; it is of no importance. I have n rti excellent plan, which will certainly o esult in the total defeat of the Russians, h md will prevent any one of those who F lave crossed from ever returning alive to o lis own country. Only I must beseech rour majesty to permit me to carry out " ny plan, and to forbid those gentlemen f( u Stamboul to hinder my operations." o Che sultan, being very ill-satisfied with C liis reply, telegraphed again for a statement of Abdul Kerim's plans. Abdul tl lerim, however, positively refused to p sommunicate his plans, and said that the w mltan must either nut confidence in rim, ox* put some one else in his place. The sultan then declared that he -would fi limself proceed to Abdul Kerim's head- c< piarters to investigate his plans. Upon tl his Redif Pasha urged the sultan to ti lend him to Abdul Kerim, and to await o he result of his report. The other mnisters, who were delighted to get rid >f Eedif Pasha, even for a short time, teconded the proposal, and'after] much It lesitatioo the sultan acceded to it. n: Good Times Coming. A speedy return of the good times of ^ ive years ago is predicted by the Toledo ^ O.) Blade, which bases its belief on he immense crop of the year, and the J veil known effects of prosperity among gj nrmers on general business. It appears CJ hat the crops being harvested are the argest the country ever had. The acre,ge of wheat is largely in excess of any ince the settlement of the country, and lie yield per acre is infinitely greater, iav is majmificent, and has been secured n the very best condition. Corn is now m t certainty. Never was the eye glad- ^ iened with the sight of snch fields. The talks tower gloriouslv, and the color is w uperb. Oats, which nave been a failure ince 187-1, will this year yield very much -D aorc than they did then. The Blade ontinues: "We prophesy an imme- w liate and decided revival of business. Lhere have been ' tight times ' for three cars. The farmers have not had money, tor have they had any way to make it. 1 * * This enormous crop, coming w u just at the nick of time, when the ja :alaraities of other nations makes a good tv >rice for it, is the let-up wo have been w ookiug for so anxiously, and waiting for tt io patiently. The farmer will in a few j ti veeks from this have money enough to i jav his debts out of his wheat alone,and j a] le lias bis enormous corn, oata and hay j Gj :rop for future needs. He will pay the tc lebts that have been accumulating for tl liree years, and he will have plenty j ti vith which to get those supplies he has 0] jeen compelled to do withort so long." tc -j Indian Dignity. . jr Washoe Charlie, one of the pioneer ; C [ndinn residents of Douglas county, and i Ii in intelligent fellow withal, paid a visit j ir X) the editor of the Nevada Tribxinc a ti :e\\^ days Bince, and this is what followed: K Eo walked into our sanctum with his G son and saluted us thns : "How you C been, colonel? me know you long lime. t< Bow's all the folks? How's times? |I STou neap write 'em, eh; you smart like j w , eh; well, all right. Me all same j C white man; every body Know unariey ;; xi trimme paper, me read 'em; take him I ai home to my squaw." Being a little busy ai it the time, but little attention wa? paid w to Charlie, and, noticing the fact, he cl rose to his feet with all the dignity of an ft Uncus, and said: " My son heap e hungry; give him quarter." .It was b donated. i tl SNAKES, Bine Rnrer Over Twenty Feet T<oni-Two Girls Killed by Rattlers. A gigantic blue racer, twenty feet ight and three-fourths inches in length, ad ten inches in circumference in the irgest place, was recently killed in the rath-western part of the township of lannon, Mich., by a citizen of good spute. He had a terrible encounter ith it. Gn going from his work to a eigiiboring spring to get a drink of ater he saw the grass wave a few rods om him, when the serpent came toward im with lightning velocity and head upfted about three or four feet high from ie ground. When within about ten jet from the man it halted, as if to look .s prey over. It ventured nearer and earer, and finally attacked the man. 'he snake twined itself several times round the man's legs, and felled him to ie ground. The man took his knife tit of his pocket, and with a few deserate strokes completely severed the lonster's head from its body. It had reviously been hurt, or it probably ould have crushed the man, there being lafge bunch on its side. Since then ie man's hair has turned gray. A daughter of Mr. J. G. Briery, of 'win Creek, Osborn county, Kan., aged sine thirteen or fourteen years, went - *-1- 1 1 i-l ? - lm ner urututu* uuo ououiunj muiuiug otlong ago to his claim, Bomefive miles istant, wher he was doing some work, ad the two expected to return together i the afternoon. They changed their lans, however, and about eight o'clock le girl set out for home on foot and lone, carrying a pail in which to gather jme wild berries on the way. Later in le evening her brother returned home, ad great was the surprise to find that le girl was still absent. Search was nmediately instituted, but went on ithout any avail until two o'clock on unday. The pail she carried was found y the roadside about two miles from ai_ mi-J oine, puridY jllucu. imo dccujcu w uuurm beyond a doubt the great fear that )me awfnl fate had delayed her return. Ir. Ward and another party, who were agaged in the search, at last heard a ill, and proceeded in the direction hence it came. There, sitting on the round in a nearly denuded state, th^y >und the poor girl by a pool to which lie had found her way. She was trying ) extract the poison which the fangs of rattlesnake had buried in her foot, by urying it in soft mud. All this time ie had remained there alone, and exerienced the symptoms of a horrible eath approaching, 'or the venom was orking in her system. - Although sufoiently conscious to call for help when was near, her denuded state indicated lat her sufferings had, at^imes at least, riven her to frenzy. She died. One. Monday lately a colored girl, bout thirteen years of age, daughter of ;ichard Dunn, colored, who lives on the remises of Mr. Walter Jeffreys, near' euse Depot, N. C., was bitten by a ittlesnake. The snake was soon killed ad found to have four rattles. The girl ngered a few days, when she died in The Indian's Test of Honesty, An old trader who had established him?lf at what happened to be a favorable >cality among the Northern Indian^ ;lls a good story of his first trials with is red customers. Other traders had >cated in that same place beiore, out ad not remained long. The Indians, ho evidently wanted goods, and had loney and furs, flocked about the store f the 'rader, and carefully examined is gooc's, but offered to .buy nothing, inally the chief, with a large number f his tribe, visited him. "How do, John?" said the chief. Show me goods. Aha, I take a blanket )r me, and that calico for squaw; three tter skins for blanket,and one for calico, ugh ! pay by'm by?to-morrow." He received his goods and left. On ie next day ho returned with a large art of his band, his blanket well stuffed oVina /vf varinna lrinrla. " Now, John, I pay. And with this he drew nn otter skin om his blanket, and laid it on the sunter. Then he drew a second, a lird and a fourth. A moment's hesitnon, as though calculating, and ho drew ut a fifth skin?a very rich and rare one -and passed it over. "That's right, John." The trader instantly-pushed back the ist skin, with: " You owe me but four. I want only ly just due." The chief refused to take it,'andthey assed it several times back and forth, ich one asserting that it belonged to le other. At length the dusky chieftain apeared to be satisfied. He gave the iider ft scrutinizing look, and then epped to the door and gave a yell, and ried to his followers: " Come; come, and trade with the ale-face John. He no cheat Indian; his part big." Then turning back to the trader, he i lid: "Snppose you take last skin, I toll j y people no trade with you. We i rive you off like ft dog, as we drive off j ;hers; but dow you inuian s mena, ana e be yours." Before dark the trader was waist deep i furs, and loaded down with cash. Ho mnd that honesty had commercial value ith the Indians. The "Big Horn" Heroes. General Schofield explains the reason hy the Custer obsequies have been deycd until October. A consultation bereen him and Mrs. Custer took place, hen they took into coDsideration I ie fact tl at at this particular j me many ot the officers of the poBt; e away on a furlough, aud as nearly 1 1 of them were old army friends j : the dead general, it was deemed wise j postpone the funeral respects due to j ie memory of the deceased until some : me in October. This will also give lxis id army friends abroad an opportunity > participate in the solemn exercises, his conclusion was made known to the itimate friends of the family when Mrs. uster left West Point for New York, i the meantime the body will remain i the vault of the Poughkeepsio cemesry. A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kansas, says: The bodies of Captain reorge W. Yates, Captain Thomas W. ? t;?a t? t;^.. UOlCt, JUlDUlCliUill XX, JUJ, UUitl/U, Xil.gU" :iiant James Calhoun anil Lieutenant onald Mcintosh, of the Seventh cavalry, ho were killed with General George A. uster in tlie massacre of the Little Big [orn, on tho twenty-fifth of June, 1876, reived from Chicago on the morning train, nd were at once taken to Fort Leaven-1 orth, where they now repose in the 1 liaoel. Thev will be buried in the I rational cemetery. All the commissionil officers at this post are to net as pall earers, and the soldiers are to act as ae funeral escort. The Man With a Family. Mr. Jasper Throckmorton, who lives out on Summer street, is the father of ten children. Yesterday morning Mr. Throckmorton was just on the point of putting on his hat to start for the office, when Mrs. Throckmorton called after him from the kitchen: "Stop at Sodder's and tell him to come up and fix the water pipe, and get a big tin dipper and bring it with you this noon. Don't tell them to send it, they'll forget it." Mr. Throckmorton said he would, and then put on his hat and started. As he reached the front door his eldest daughter shouted from up stairs: " Pa ! pa!! pa! 1! Go to Greenbaum & Schroder's and ask Mr. Scott to give you two yards and a half of brown satin, cut on the bias, to match the dress I got last week. He'll know the kind. Bring it with you. I don't want to wait for it." And Mr. Throckmorton, pausing with his hand on the door, said he would get it, and then sighed and opened the door. Just then his eldest son shouted from aiff.iT*ct iwrrn * " Father! the man was up here twice yesterday for the money for my new boat, and I just gave him a note to yon and he'll call at the office to-day for his money and will give a pair of patent oar-locks and a dip-net. Bring them up with you when you come to dinner." Mr. Throckmorton kind of stifled a groan like, and, saying he would attend to it, went out. As he passed down the porch step his second daughter leaned out of a window and cried : "Oh, pa ; do stop at Parsons' as you come to dinner and tell them to send a man to lay the new hall carpet when they send it up, and you can get ten pounds of cotton batting and bring it up with you, for we want it right away and can't wait." The parent paused with his hand on the gate latch and, with a visible effort, Eromised to remember the errand and ring up the cotton batting, and opened the gate. But the voice of his younger son from the side yard caught liib ear and held him for a moment. "Pap, oh, papl Want ten cents to pay for a winder I broke in the school house, and I can't go to Sunday-school till I get a new hat and some shoes, and please can't I have a quarter to go to the picnic ?" Mr. Throckmorton silently registered a flogging for the broken glass, a negative for the picnic, and Baid he would | get the boots and hat. Then he turned to go, but as he passed down the street his six younger children came running after him:. , " Oh, pa* don't forget to stop and see if the old umbrella's fixed, ma says." " Stop at the dentist's and see when he can fill.my teeth." "Bring my shoe home from the Bhoemaker'B. " Ma says be sure and tell the doctor to come up to-day and vaccinate the baby!"" Pap ! Kin I go swimmin' in Hawkeye krick to-night?" " Pa, oh, pa ! gimme five cents to ride on the street cars!" , And Mr. Throckmorton went down town and amazed Fred Scott by telling him to cut him off about thirteen feet of water pipe on the bias, and he asked Mr. Parsons to let him have eleving dozing skeins of cotting batting and send him up a man with a tin dipper; lie told Dr. Cochran, the dentist, to come right up and fill the baby's teeth, and begged the doctor to hurry right away and put a half sole on the school house window, and then he ran to the shoemaker's and asked him if he had vaccinated h'*s little girl's shoe, and amazed a sir. pat car driver by asking him for a bath tickct, and when the man came around with the oar-locks and dip-net, he told him to take them up and lay them in the front hall, the girls would show him where. And by three o'clock in the afternoon it had got all around town that old Mr. Throckmorton was drinking aB bad as ever again, and liadn't drawn a sober breath all day .?Burlington Hawkeye. Bismarck. Bismnrck leaves Berlin for a spa or hid favorite country seat, Yarzin, which he purchased after the war of I860. In the German capital he if rarely mejt beyond the precincts of the foreign office gardens. His constant companion in his walks is Sultan, a splendid Danish mastiff, presented to him by a friend in ooutn urermnny. rua gruwiug wipulence?not, however, disproportionate to his height?has compelled him to give up riding. His personal presence is almost too well known to need description. Small feet and hands, bald head, lofty brow, small gray eyes in deep sockets, almost hidden by bushy eyebrows and martial mustache, now nearlv white, which covers his mouth, are the features chiefly noticeable in the ; man. He nsually wears uniform?for the most part that of the Seventh Oni- ; ra&siers?which consists either of a wlxite with a cuirass and a large helmet, I or a blue undress coat, with a yellow collar. He only appears at court on state ] occasions, alleging, as excuse for his ab- i sence, that standing fatigues him. The j more correct explanation is that among i the leading personages surrounding the j emperor are several of Bismarck's bit- i terest personal and political foes. More i than once he has almost come to blows i with some of his fellow-courtiers in the j imperial antechamber, and altercation ; three years ago with Count Nesselrode, | the lord high chamberlain of the empress, ] a staunch Catholic, was followed by mutual challenges to a duel, which the | interference of the emperor alone pre- ] vented. ] New Test of Death. The importance of having some readi- j ly applied and indisputable test of i i the fact of death is apparent, and many '; are the processes that have been offered j . to determine it. Nevertheless, such a j < test appears to be still a desideratum? i unless, indeed, we accept that offered ' by Kappeler. In course of his research 1 es on the electrical stimulation of dead 1 muscles, Kappeler subjected twenty 3 corpses to the action of various electric < currents, noting the times of disap- 1 pcarance of contractility. In persons! 1 emaciatod by chronic maladies, it dis- ] appeared much moro rapidly than in i well nourished individuals, or those < who had had acute disease. It disap- ] peared seventy-five minutes after death ! at the quickest, and six and a half hours i at the slowest. In cases where a rise of J temperature is observed after death, 1 electric contractility persists longest. 1 So long : -i there remains the least flicker i of life tl o contractions continue intact. ] In the .nost. prolonged faints, in the 1 deepest lethargies, in poisoning by . carbonic oxide, chloroform etc., there is ! no contraction as long aa life lasts. Put : if the muscles make no response to the 1 electrical stimulation, Kappeler pre* < Bounces life to be extinct. : Three Wise Sayings. A wealthy man was one day strolling through hie garden in a very gay am happy mood. Suddenly he stopped t< look at a little bird that was confined ii a cage suspended from a tree. Judge o his surprise, when the bird opened ifc mouth and began to speak. "Oh, give me my freedom, gooc man," he said; "what good can itpos sibly do you to have me shut up here' You see I am not handsome, therefore i cannot please you to look at me; I do no sing like other birds, therefore I canno amuse you. I would not answer for food because I am too small. If you wil give me my liberty, I will tell you thre< things that may serve you througl life." . The owner of the garden looked at th< little creature with an amused smile, an< said: " Well, since you cannot sing, yoi certainly are of little value to me; bu come, let us hear what wisdom you hav< to impart, and I promise that if you tel me something that I have not heard be fore, you shall be free. The little bird replied : "Never regret the past! Do not wisl for what you cannot obtain I Never be lieve impossible things!" " You have indeed spoken wisely,' said the gentleman. "Go, I give yoi your freedom 1" He opened the cage door, and the bir< flew up into a tree. No sooner had h< alighted among the leaves than he begai to laugh. ""Why do you laugh so merrily?' asked the man. " Over my easily attained freedom,' answered the bird; "but still more a he folly of men who think that they ar< wiser than any of God's creatures. Now if you were as wise as I, you might no\ be the richest and happiest man 01 earth!" " How is that possible ?" asked th< man. " Bv keeDincr me. for know vou that! carry within my body a diamond large than a hen's egg." The man was thunderstruck, but, sooi recovering his presence of mind, set U work to repossess himself of the treasuri he had lost. " Now, you think you* are fortunate little bird, because you have your free dom,"hesaid. "Reflect a moment. Th< summer will soon be gone, and the winte: storms will bo at hand; the brooks wil dry up, and yon will not be able to fine a drop of water to quench your thirst You will want for food, and the frost ant cold will kill you. Come with me; I wil take care of you and place you in a larg< room, where you may fly about as mud as you please. You shall have plenty o food, and nothing Bhall be wanting t< make'you as happy as possible." The bird laughed louder and longe: than ever. - : The man lost his patience, and crie< angrily: "Why do you laugh all thi time ?" ' ' "Because I cannot help it," replie< the bird, " when I see how silly you are You set me at liberty because of th wisdom which I imparted to you, bu you haven't the sense to profit by it You thought that I deserved to be se free on account of it, yet you forgot i in a moment. Now let us see what I tol< you: "First: 'Never regret tue past! You are already regretting that yuu gav< me my liberty. " Second: 1 Do not wish for what yoi cannot obtain !' You are wishing that 1 would return to my cage, though my lift is a burden to me unless I ram free. 'Third: 'Never believe impossibli things !' Yet you believe that my bod; contains a diamond larger that a hen' egg, though I am scarcely so large." With another laugh the bird flev away. A South African Snake. We take the following exciting episode from a work called "A Year's House keeping in South Africa Hard-by this camp a keen sportemai was lately pursuing a buck. He had n< dogs except a pet Skye terrier to help ii the chase, nothing but his pony and rifl and a trusty Kaffir ; yet the hard-preese< buck had to dash into a small soli tar patch of the thorny scrub for shelter ant a moment's rest. In an instant th< hunter was off his pony, and had sen the Kaffir into the bush' to drive out th< buck, that he might have a shot th< moment it emerged from the cover. In stead of the expected buck, however? I must tell you the story never statei what became of him?came loud cries ii Kaffir from the scrub of "Oh, mj mother! oh, my father 1 oh, my friendi and relations! I die, I die!" The master, much astonished, peeped as well as h< could into Ihe little patch of tanglec briers and bushes, and there he saw hii Kaffir stooping motionless beneath a lov branch around which was coiled a largt and venomous snake. Tho creature }jod struck at the mon'f head as he crept beneath, and its forked tongue had got firmly embedded in th( Kaffir's woolly pate. The wretchec beater dared not stir an inch, he darec not even put out his hands to free himself, but there he remained, motionleet and despairing, uttering these louc shrieks. His master bade him stay perfectly still, and taking close aim at the snake's body fired and blew it in two. He then, with a dexterous jerk, disentangled the barbed tongue, find flung the quivering head and neck outside the bushes, Here comes the only marvelous part oj bhe story. " How did he know it was ? poisonous snake?" I asked. "Oh, well; the little dog ran up to play witli the head, and the snake, or rather the half snake, struck out at it, bit it in the paw and it died in ten minutes. A Long and Weary Walk. The Reno (Nev.) Gazette of a recent late says: " Two tramps yesterday, while cn route from Wadsworth to Reno, discovered a Polish woman lying an the Central Pacific. railroad track, ibout six miles west of Wadsworth. They soon ascertained that she had been traveling, and had lain down on the track completely exhausted. She had o roll of blankets with her, and, as was afterward found out, had traveled on foot from Sacramento. Her irtentions were fco make Chicago, but the warm weather proved too severe 011 the poor old woman, ind she had sunk down discouraged and axhausted, and perhaps soon would have perished had sho not been discovered. She is neiir fifty years of age, nrjd cannot speak one word of English. The tramps footed back to Wadsworth and informed * 1 -?1.1 .'i.' 1.1.? tne rauroau autuonwes ui wo jlikm iu the case. Superintendent Free at once sent nil engine and coach to where she lav, and had her brought to Wadsworth, where she was placed in charge of D. A.lleu, proprietor of the Wadsworth Hoto!. It is very probable that the railroad company will take her East. Certainly. when a woman of her age wnlkp over 200 miles she is entitled to a free rid? the remainder of her journey." i FARM, GrARUEN AMD liuust-uuui. [ Household Hint*. ) * Fruit Stains. ?To remove fruit stains, i let the spotted part of the cloth imbibe f a little water without dipping it, and s hold the part over two or three lighted brimstone matches at a proper distance. 1 The sulphurous gas which is discharged . soon causes the spots to disappear. Or ? all bright colorea fruit stains can be.ret moved bv scalding in clear, boiling t water, before any soap if? applied, t To Preserve Autumn Leaves. ?Have , a middling hot iron and rnb on quickly 1 a little white wax, then quickly press a both sides of the leaves; wax the iron i anew for each side of the leaf; only rub the iron once over the leaf. 44 Forest s tree leaves for wreaths " are prepared in 1 the same way. i To Prevent Flies Injuring Picture t Frames.?Boil three or four onions in s\t pmoli mnr f ram pa J VSUts yxuu Ui TTUVU^t JUJ.UOU TV'M 1 over with the liquid. No fly will touch . them, and it will not injure the frames. To Destroy Vermin.?Boil some bits of alum in a pint of water, and wash x over the slats of the bedsteads. Scatter . pans green in the corners of the beds and on the slats, and you need never fear ' the reproach of harboring bedbugs. To i kill and drive away cockroaches,crickets, etc., scatter powdereu borax plentifully J over all their haunts, and not a bug will b be seen. To drive away red and black i ants, obtain a large piece of chalk, and rub it on the edges of your shelves, the ' tops of barrels of sugar, .or on firkins, and it will prove a Rubicon to the ' largest army of ants. Scotch snuff will t also kill cnokote, cockroaches and ants. 3 To Clean Black Lace.?Black laces t of all kinds may be cleaned by alcohol. ? Throw them boldly into the liqu'd ; i churn them up and down till they foam ; if very dusty, use the second dose of al3 cohol; squeeze them out, " spat" them, pull out the edges, lay them between [ brown paper, smooth and straight; leave r under a weight till dry; do not iron. Good Use for Soap-suds.?Save your a washing suds for the garden; if they are a I poured over the roots of the plum trees, a they mil kill the curculio; n turned at the roots of geraniums, rosea, etc., they f will enhance their beauty tenfold. Ibonino.?To iron smoothly purchase a a few cents' worth of beeswax, and rub r it over the leaves of a thin pamphlet, 1 which have been heated through with 1 the flat-iron; keep it with the ironing . sheet and blanket, and when the flat1 irons are to be used, run them over the 1 waxed surface: then wipe gently on a 9 soft cloth. Shirt bosoms can be easily i ironed in this manner. f Earth Pulverizers. 5 Not the least valnable implement for a farmer or gardener, says the New Engr land Farmer, is a good drag for smoothing and pulverizing fields which are to 1 be planted or sown. There are several e methods of constructing such a drag, but one of the simplest is to take two * pieces of joists, each with the front end beveled like the front of a sled runner, 9 and then nail on plank across them, on t the under side, letting the plank run out by the joists a foot or more. They may t be of any size or weight desirable, act cording to the amount of team to be 1 used. Some farmers recommend to nail t on one or two narrow strips upon the face of the plank to collect the lumps 0 and soil, and draff them along till crush ed, or till all inequalities in the surface J are filled up. We recently received a I cut and description of a pulverizer with 3 a half dozen or more cleats nailed upon the under side of the drag for more 3 thoroughly pulverizing and leveling the f soil. They are nailed on the outer ends 8 forward of the middle, and thus tend to gather the soiMownrd the middle, and 7 prevent ridges being left at the sides of the drag .when in use. Either of 'the various styles are very useful in their place, and the cost of making one is so 3 small that every farmer should have one " of his own. They are sometimes used for covering potatoes, fodder corn, or 1 other crops, and may often pay for 5 themselves in a single day's use. On 1 land clear from stones tney may oe usea ? at seeding time instead of a roller for 1 fitting fields for the mowing machine or \ scythe. f, 1 A Good (Jovr# 9 A farmer, poetically inclined, gives the t following definition of a good cow: a Long in the face, she'e line In the liorn, 3 Quiokly gets fat without cake or corn ; Clean in the jaws and full in the chine, Heavy in flank and wide in the loin ; 3 Broad in the ribs and long in the ramp, t Straight and flat-backed without oer a bump; Wide in the hips and calm in tho eyes, 3 Fine in the shoulders and thin in the I ) 3 Lipht ia the neck aad small in the tail, I Wide ia tee breast and will fill tho milk} P^il; Fine of the bone and silky of skin, Airy without?a meat market within. 3 ________________ , Fights Between Iron-CIads. i Mr. Scott RnsselJ, an English writer ) on naval affairs, thinks twenty minntes L will be a long time for an engagement? I that is for the period which will elapse between sighting an enemy and either j sinking him or being sunk. This is I staggering, but Mr. Marshall has his rea sons, and puts them forward boldly if 5 not theatrically. "Standing on the s deck, twenty-four feet above the water, I I see my enemy clear on tho horizon. He is seeking me. I am seeking him. We , are six miles apart?at a modest speed a f mile takes six minutes?at that rate we t shall meet in eighteen minutes. What , to do in these eighteen minntes is a i serious question. There is not a heavy > sea on, but an ordinary swell; our ships ) roll gently ; steam steadily ; our guns are charged; all is ready; twelve minutes are consumed in the mutual approach and the disposal of the next six minutes ; is serious. During the first three he maintains the only course is to meet the i enomy boldly nncl run at him and insists ; that a commander's orders, must be ' Stand by I Steady ! Full speed ahead!' Then the three minutes are soon over! The engineer gets all in order for the i crash ! All in the ship is already made . | fast! The commander's eye never leaves the enemy. At the end of a minute he i sees the enemy hesitate. Then, if the i enemy is not sufficiently alert to double ' or tack, ho must sue for mercy, or the only course of .dealing -with him is to ' stem on, stein into him. His side is i open to the sea.'" Mr. Scott Russell's conclusion is,' however, that, " whichi ever side may win, it seems unlikely flmf an Annnnnt^r between two such j fillips will Inst through more than three ! minutes, or that the time of an engagei ment will be prolonged. Eighteen i minutes to meet, and t ighteen minutes' j close quarters seems a Ioug time to I fight." So, the lessons he would have i us learn, by way of preparation for this j rapid work, are first to possess the | "greatest strength to strike an enemy i j with most harm to him and lerst to me," i: and the second, " to possess the greatest ' gunpower," iieru vi ajum;i cat* The pawn-broker is a loan-some man. To keep house?Don't put a mortgage thereon. " Not very useful in the long run?A policeman. The best muzzle for a bad dog is a gun muzzle. The poor man's summer resort?a palm leaf fan. They have swimming matches for ladies in San Francisco. The fanners had four majority in the last Mississippi legislature. Peach cobblers is the name of a favorite tipple in Kentucky. TVizi linn wnn Sflfln toViAtI n. VOtMff v*vr ~?? ? ? y - V man has his hair cut short for a ball. A base ball player is said to be like a railroad employee when he's out on a strike. The latest and apparently most engrossing fancy work for yonng ladies is carving in wood. At some of the bathing establishments in New York men are employed to teach women how to swim. The American people are said to resemble the French in a capacity for hard work without respite. . Miss Bertie LeFranc has walked forty-two miles inside of ten honrs. Nice girl for a long stroll in the country. The word calico, a fabric from wjiich - 5- -3 ! J sa many dresses ore maae, is aenveu from Calient, a city on the Malabar coaat, A coquette may be compared to tinder, which lays itself out to catch sparks, but does not always succeed in lighting np a match. A man in Ohambersburg, III,, has been sued for destroying property by spitting tobacco juice on the floor of a church. The boy who does not know when a gun is loaded has just sense enough to point it at another boy, who finds out the fact for him. "MV 'Bomnm in toll in tr t.Vlfi "Rncrlinh people tbat a man's riches consist not in the extent of his possessions bat in the fewness of bis wants. Inventors are industriously engaged on electric lights, and it is affirmed that in doe time the use of electricity will supersede all other methods of illumination. Gen. Tom Thumb's* house has lately been raided by thieves, who took away all bis shirts under the impression that they were making a haul of liandker CQleiB. When you see a piece of; ice lying on the walk after ten o'clock a. m., you may know that the husband is determined and the wife obstinate, and that they are waiting to see who will give in. .,A Mobile paper says that there is a goat in that city which stands on a board fence and eats peaches off a tree. Pooh! There's a rooster in Detroit who stands on his dignity and wouldn't eat peaches unless they were sliced up and covered with sugar. 1 In the United States in 1776 there vtere only nine1 public libraries, with 45,623 volumes; in 1876 there were 3,682 public libraries, containing 12,076,264 volumes and 1,500,000 pamphlets. Of these libraries, nearly 3,000 have been organized since 1850. ' Avery strange proposition was made last month to tho Vienna museum. A Hungarian family of Nagy Mihaly offered to sell it an eleven-year-old female baby with a head as big as a man's fist and face covered with beard; she doesn't talk, but eats, jumps and generally behaves like a monkey. Two little girls arc better than otto, Two little boys can donble the fun, " Two little birds can build a fine newt, j Two little arms can love mother best, Two little ponie? mast go to a span, Two little pockets has my little man, Two little eyes to open and close, Two little ears and one little nose, Two little elbows dimpled and sweet, Two little shoes on two little feet, Two little lips and one little chin, Two little cheeks with a rose set in, Two littlo shoulders, chubby and strong, Two little legs running all day long, Two little prayer? does my darling eav, Twice does he kneel by my side each aay, Two littlo folded hands, soft and brown, Two little eyelids cast meekly down, And two little angola guard him in bed, Ono at the foot and one at the head. A Rough Practical Joke. An English farmer has recently been compelled to pay the costs of a practical joke. He was sitting in the barroom of the Greyhound inn one night and taking his usual taukard of ale, when his eye chauced to fall on tho sleeping form of a man with a long beard. He went to tho fire, and, lighting a piece of jmper, deliberately applied it to the sleeping man's beard. There was a bright, rushing flame for a sreond or .two ; the man sprang to his feet in agony; the joke wiis complete, andlhe farmer roared in ecstacy. The unfortunate sufferer, who Jinrmonp<1 fo hfl the villaee tailor, knew ~"jrr that the farmer was ft man of substantial means, and acted accordingly. He brought an action for $250 damages in the Malmesbury county court in due course. According to the plaintiff's evidence, his beard was eighteen inches long when he laid down, after having some ale. The next thing he remembered was his face being on lire, while a man helped to put out the flame. The defendant sat in his seat roaring with laughter, and did not offer any assistance nor did he tender any apology for what he had done. His lips were burned severely, bis face was blistered, his beard, eyebrows, and eyelashes were burned to the skin, and one eye and one ear wore scorched. The magistrate awarded him $250 and costs. The Life*Sa?ing Seryicc. The statistics of wrecks which have occurred within the range of the lifesaving service during the last fiscal year have just been made up at the Treasury department, and show that the number of vessels driven ashore by stress of "" 11 ion weatner aunng me yeur wju> ?uu. that they had on board 1,253 persons. 01 this number of lives there weie 1,214 saved and 39 lost; the number lost being about three per cent, of those imperiled. The estimated value of the vessels wrecked was $1,740,464, and of their cargoes 81,348,876, making a total valuation of $3,095,331. The whole amount of property saved, so far as reported, was $1,554,505, and of that lost $1,053,826, leaving $487,000 not yet ascertained whether saved or lost. At fifty of the 1 11 - rtrtwt.JnA onnoro. disasters me me-niiTiug n-mw tus wa? successfully used, and 838 persons were rescued by it. Additional signals are preparing to be incorporated into the national code for use of vessels .-mil life-saving statioi b, which will greatly facilitate communications hetwe?u the vesBele ??id the shore(