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???? * . ? ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER I * . # ? t I ' . - I J BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1878. ' NO, 31. VOLUME XXV. 9 $25,000! TIIE lil&MIMFET STOCK OF n _ . j .. llOOUS ever brought to GREENVILLE! Twenty - five thousand dollars worth of OOODS which ko intend# to dupc?o of , AT OR BELOW NEW YORK ' "D a4tii1 I .1.1)^7 U?U?jl x xivw? f \ V-... .4K* n i If is the Tie for Barjais. COME AND .SEE FOR YOURSELF. CAPT. W R. WHITE Is with me and would be glad to meet with hi* old Frie ds and Customers, and will 8iVfi THEM SOME MONEY. A No. 1, Wagon Yard 171 REAR OF STORE, FEEE TO ALL. liespectfuHy, T. f, DAVIS, MAIN STREET, GREENVILLE, S. C. Oct. 17, 1877.?3aHH J. C. Alexander, Joseph Allen, Yabdbt McBei. ALEXANDER, ALLEN & McBEE, Manufacturers of and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in UPPER & HARNESS LEATHER, Sip and Calf Skins, GREENVILLE, S. C. VU~ Higheat cash pnoe paid tor iuaes. Sept. 26, 1877.?12m GREENVILLE Machine Works AND IRON FOUNDRY, Redmond, Macdonald & Co., PROPRIETORS. STEAM ENGINES, Boilers, 8aw aud Grist Mills, Cotton Gins, Presxes, etc., prompth repaired. We have reoently added to onr estab lisnment an IRON FOUNDRY and are prepared to furnish all kind* of CASTINGS, equal to the beat furnished by any foundry in the oonotry. at short notioe, and on reasonable terms. Cast paid for Old Iron delivered at onr foundry. Worka on RItst Street, rear of Cagle's Planing Mill. October 3, 1877. -12m TSI PALMETTO COTTON GIN, ' MANUFACTVRED BY J.M.MATTHEWS, * NIlfETY-SIX, S. C. DUUXB IX FURNITURE, coffins, Belting and Gio Material generally, and Agent for 8teaui Engines, Threshers, Reapers and Mowers, Cotton Presses, efc. Oondensera, Feeders and Seed Crusher* attached to Gins when desired. Repairing Carefully Done. All commonioationa receive prompt attention. PtimVoam aKrtnl/1 <m1I or ^rr<?fnv\n^ wit Vl him before purchasing 6l?ewhere. June 15, 1877-?tf O. A. TRAYLOR, WITH WILLIAM MULHERIN, D1UZS IN Boots and Shoes, HATS AND TRUNKS, 293 Broad Street, Half Blook below Planters' Hotel, AUGUSTA, CA. JUUrUDIO XXJUWJ KUU OHUOT ? * September 19, 1877.?3m XL 3. WHTTB. E. M. HCOHXS. Fashionable Hat Emporium. WHITE & HUGHES, DEUXM 15 Hals, Cans, Furs, flirellas, UTO.j 269 KING STREET. OPP M??l SfTjHA^:: H. ' s;' t | i Address to Winter. BY on H. AVEBY. ! Ha ! here you come to make us wheeze; I I see your fingers on the trees, j And heard your equinoctial sneeze Last Monday evening. Ton'll soon be here to nip my toes, And paint my cheeks with sunset glows, And fresco this old chin and nope With blue and purple. j I hear you've been?yon roving fellow !? | Among the Polynesians yellow, j And scaring with your fearful bellow The Australasians. You're getting rough ; I fear you pass Your time too much with Boreas And that star-mantled Gypsy laes, The dark-eyed Solstice. Old friend, together many a year We've Journeyed on through foul and cle? 80 now, good comrade, give an ear To my petition : Soften thy cruel northern blows ; In cold Arcturus leave thy snows; ... I pray thoe gently ooine to those WhoAave no shelter. Oh! touch them kindly; kindly deal With those who most thy rigors feel; In tattered legions here they kneel, And crave thy mercy. The timos are hard, and work there's non Ob, give them oft a gleam of sun ! Remind them of that gentle One Who loved the lowly. Bluster around the rich man's door; Make him unlock his golden store, JULca year luuieahuiy luuiv twu uiuic His deeds of kindness. Boar 'round the miser till he quakes; Nip him and strip him till he shakes ; Freeze and squeeze him till he makes A big donation. Let those we love, though they abide Far from us now, oome to our side Happy and well at Chrisunastide, And we will bless thee ! HOW HE READ IT. Although it -was a bachelor's esl lishment, there were few maDsi handsomer than Mr. Howland G man's, and many were the femir hearts who would not have been at iverse to transform the imposing st front and its row9 of plate glass windo a. ainst which the almost priceless 1 curtains fell in foamy grace, into a pi lise that should not be a bachel paradise. Everything was fe .l.tlessly handsc inside, furnished with au exquisite fir of detail that denoted the refined tf of the owner. People wondered?and had been w dering for twenty years?why Mr. C< turn did not marry. Forty-eight found him a portly? too portly?gentleman, with a fine fr face, adorned by a thick, drooping wl moustache, bright laughing eyes, lark as well could be, and thick luxi ant grey hair?a handsome, indeppnd gentleman who had all his life liked bachelor life, and his bachelor he that was so gracefully presided over his widowed sister; who liked the la< remarkably' well, but who had ne been convinced he could love any as he believed a wife should be lo\ nnlpnn tpfl PTfpnt little Mav Dean, wi bine eyes had once or twice been lif to look at this wonderful rich, handsc gentleman, who was Mrs. Andersi brother, and Mrs. Anderson was one those genuine high-bred ladies who not ashamed to condescend to be a wa true friend to May Dean's mother, n if Mrs. Dean did do her plain sewing her. May liad several times seen Mr. C man, and once or twice he had ta especial notice of her, rather enjov her unconscious awe of him, and \ much admiring her undeniable ge sweetness of manner, movement voice. He had come to find hiuiself think frequently about her. so frequently 1 he had been obliged to bring himsel account for presuming to give a secoi thought to the insane probability ( little blossom like bine-eyed May' D caring for him?old enough to. be father. Mr. Coleman sat in his library aloe such a magnificent, imposing rooc was, with its high ceiling, its nic where statues of all the great scho and statesmen stood, its rows of Bhel reaching to the ceiling, its long cen table, its other tiny tables where 1 pleasant-looking chairs were drawn its sweeping green damask curtains, carpet like a huge bed of emerald m Mrs. Anderson had gone out < night, and Mr. Coleman was thoroug revelling in the prospect of a long disturbed evening, when a servant i ped at the door, with a note on a si saiver. Mr. Coleman took it rather abstr edly, fer notes were of such common currence with him, and, besides, he already impatient to be in the dry del of some projected improvement in of his big, flourishing factories?an provement that would be appreciate the hundreds of girl operatives he ployed. &) he took the note rathe^ indiffer ly nntil he saw the name subscribe* full?44 May E. Dean." Just a little look of surprise came his eyes, and there was just the me possible acceleration in his steady pu not enough to make a perceptible tre in his hands?as he read the commun taon? " Dear Mr. Coleman,?T have doubt but that you will be very m astonished when yon find I have ta the liberty of writing to yon; but v I wanted to say I thought I had be write. Please do rot be angry with ' Tor venturing as I have done. I am snre that I am doing right in telling all I do; but I have thought it over over, and have come to the conclui that I will. Of course you know ] poor mamma and I are?how she hu> sew, and bow I have been employee Mrs. Emmett's family with the chilc 1 from nine till three; but she has charged me and sent the children 1 regular school, and, Mr. Coleraai I cannot imagine what ib to become ot unless you will have me." He pansed point blank, and read long sentence over again, a curious pression coming into his eyes and a si ' creeping under his moustache. " Unless I will have her! Can il possible she has really cared for n cares for me enough to lay aside all < ventionalities, and so gracefully, se bly offer me her precious self ?" His eyes were tenderly solemn, triumphantly happy, as he went touched to the heart by her artlessnei "I know I am very, very bolt daring to ask such a favor of you, am almost sure you will be vexed i?x j 1. U-* re j use me; out- x uo uui> uieau ?u.y uo [ must not let dear mamma lie weigl with me, and I know y?u are very g md kind; and indeed, I will try har please you in every yay. PleaBe, Coleman, let me oomes will jmn t Rnt if ? ? aid ntther not have I of hurting myfeeli Unless you reilh lid rather you ?d<l et because I have ' you will write to just a word I will be very much obliged. Yours, "MayE. Dean." There were more suspicions of emotions in Howland Coleman's eves than had been there for many a long year as he folded up the letter, and put it in hia pocket. There was no thought of the projected improvement in the huge silk mills now ?no thought of the details his very soul loved to struggle with. He walked up and down the library, his eyes on the floor, his head drooped, j his hands clasped behind him, thinking . of the strange revelation the lett?r held, | trying to imagine the flushes that had ! tinged May's fair cheeks when she | wrote it, and being alarmingly conj scious that his heart was at last unhealed, and that May Dean's little hand | had been the instrument to accomplish J that magical feat T : He knew that, although all the love of his mature manhood went out to this ' liffla m'rl -wlm had nleaded her cau?e so well, unless she had plead' ed it, he never would have dared presume to think she loved him. j He did not permit an hour to pass in | inaction. " 8he will be in no enviable state of ! suspense uutil I answer her note. I will go to her at once and tell her how I I love her?how far from refusing her I 1 am." e; | Twenty minutes later his carriage ! stopped in front of the house where i Mrs. Dean occupied rooms, and a mo! ment later he stood in the plain little ! parlor, where May stood, her sweet face i all alight with glad surprise and coni scions flushes. ' "It is very ?f good of you to take the : trouble to come, Mr. Coleman," she ex; claimed, in a low, soft tone. j His heart fairly thrilled under her sweetness and shy graciousness. " You mean it is more than good in 1 you to allow me to come. Little girl, : vou have mad6 too very, *ery happy. | Let me kiss you, May ?" he cried. But she shrank away, surprise in every j feature of her face. | ' Mr. Coleman !" He was pleased with her shy reserve mrtva titan wiMi tier lit.flo lpffpr With a smile on his face he again advanced anil tried to take her hand, ab- j "You must never call me Mr. Cole* ons | man again, dear. But now let me hear ole- ! how it sounds to have you say Howiine I land." ; all " Oh, sir, I never could do that, one Please, Mr. Cole?" ws, j 41 Yes, you can, well enough, you shy ace little girl! Why not now, as well as ira- after we are married ? Tell me, May, or's when shall it be? I am an impatient lover, now that the ice I so dreaded is >me broken." tish j She looked at him in perfect bewilderiste ment, her face alternately paling and j flushing. on-; " I am afraid something is wrong. I ole- ; don't know what you mean." " Don't you ? May, you little rogue, not what does this mean, then ?" ? ank He held her letter to him towards her. jite i " Isn't that the dearest letter that ever as i a man received ? Sandy you know there uri- j could be but one answer to it, and I've >ent | come to tell you what I should have his done long before had I not been in such >me , fear of a refusal from you. You have by | asked me, so enchantingly, in this letter, lies for?" >ver | 8he interrupted him eagerly. one "Yes, sirj for a place in one of your fed, i silk mills. Please say yes 1" iose ] Mr. Howland Coleman stood and ted l?oked at her, all the ridiculous con>me j struction he had put upon her letter ocin's i curring to him forcibly. ? of j A place in the millH! was | Hia very soul sunn witu tue reaction rm, | from happiness to de-pair. veu ; Then he looked at her, and? for l May, you cannothave a place in any 1 of my mills, although there are always ole- i vacancies. But I must tell you what yon ken ! can have, if you will take it?me, aud ing I all the mills in the bargain. May, you erv i will be my wife ?" atle and j Whenever Mrs. May Coleman's hus; band wishes to tease her, he declares ing j she proposed to him, and says Le can iliat j prove it bv her own handwriting. f to j ' a^'B | Custer's Father. 8 ,eftn i Mrs. Custer has a room at Lansing jjer ; full of relics of her late husband. His i pet, a Scotch hound?a great creature e j into whose eyes he used to look and say 1 it i t? wive that no one could doubt that ,^eg I animals had souls?is in possession of a j Cleveland lady, but the other animal, veR j who traveled with him always by flood | ana neia, sometimes across ine saucue ow I and sometimes put into a box and ' j forwarded from station to station, is in Kl | his father's possession, as is also the pg8 ! horse which he rode up to the time of ,jiaj I his death and which carried him to the 'hlv I vei7 8Cene of slaughter. The horse was un- i Purchased by some of Custer's brother " | officers and presented to Mrs. Custer, [Vgr I who gave it to her husband's aged fathj er. The elder Custer is a feeble old ftc^_ ; man with snow-white hair, but not a day oc_ ' passes but that he mounts his "Artie's" wag steed?(Custer's middle name was ^jig : Armstrong, abbreviated into "Artie") one 1 and takes a gallop along the road. He talks of his dead son continually : "All I by my boys were good boys to me, but you en? know 'Artie' waft my baby," he will say \ piteously. A great friend of Mrs. enj_ I Custer, who brought her late husband's j jn 1 asred father from his Western home to I West Point, to attend the burial, saw a into Pa^etic little sight that will show how regj much the poor old mau?old enough to jpeg | have been Custer's grandfather?thinks mor of his dead hero. One day she sought jca. Mr. Custer in the barn, she found him in . the s*- Ul devoted to his son's steed. He no ; had come in from a ride, and having nch fe(* au^mal> had gone to sleep with keu [ his arm thrown over the horse's neck, rhat an(^ ^is white hair streaming over its tter glossy ooat. There were tears, too, on me his withered cheeks. not ? ' y0U Mercury and the Woodman?A. Fable. and A man felling a tree on the bank of a sion river by chance let his axe slip from his ' 1'" *? '1 Ti- Ori/1 11U n I Iiauu. ill uiuppcu IULV uuu n?uci uuu a to nauk to the bottom. In great distress I in at the loss of his tool, he sank down on Iren the bank and grieved bitterly. Mercury dis- appeared and asked hitn what was the co a matter. Having heard the raau's story, t, I Mercury dived to the bottom of the river me and briuging up a golden axe he offered it to him. The woodman refused to the take- it, saying it was not his. Mercury ex- dived a second time and brought Hp a nile silver one. This also the man refused, saying that, too, was none of his. He k be dived a third time, and brought up the io - axe the man had lost. This the poor man con- took with great joy ana thankfulness, msi- Mercury wats so pleased with his honesty that he gave him the other two into the yet bargain. on, The woodman told this adventure to 5s? his mates, and one of them set off for I in the river and let his axe fall in on pur. I pose. He then began to lament his loss and with a loud voice. Mercury appeared rm! as before and demanded the cause of his 1 * A PL 1 XT L ilea gnei. Alter neanng me mau s acwuui>, ood he dived and brought up a golden axo d to and asked him if that was his. TransMr. ported by the thought of the precious lot ? metal, the fellow eagerly answered that me, it whs, and greedily attempted to snatch ings it. The god, detecting his falsehood, ' do and impudence, not only declined to give no it to him, bnt refused to let him have his pen* own again. Thus it ia seen that greed me puniahee itself. 1 Apple Product of the United States. From an article on the "Ups and Downs of the Apple Trade," given in a recent number of the American Cultivator (Boston), the following facts of interest are taken : The crop of apples of 1876, ' it will be remembered, was the largest ! ever grown in the United States, and i prices were lower than for at least twenty ; years, In some sections the fruit was j so plenty that the farmers could not i give it away, while the cider-makers | were overrun with a surplus of stock, j The yield this year is not so large as it | was a year a^o, but the quality is somei what better, although many bad lots | have come to market. Prices are higher j j than they have been for several yeai s, j and stand just about the same as they did i in 1875. The orchard products of the United ; States are estimated at a value of $60,- i 000,000 annually, in which New York j leads, Pennsylvania, Oliio, Illinois and Michigan come next; but there is no data showing the number of barrels, of apples raised in the country, either in a single year or from one decade to another. And yet the apple is the national fruit, and is the only fruit of the orchard that is, like the oereal ! ; productions, exported to foreign coun- j I tries. We know pretty nearly how i | many potatoes are raised in the I country every year?some 200,000,000 bushels ? and how many pounds of beeswax, but as to apples, we are left in a state of dense ignorance. Mr. Young, ; who has had charge of the national bureau of statistics for a series of years, ought to be reminded of the fact that the apple crop is an important crop in j this country, and of itself constitutes a I mine of wealth. Over nine hundred varieties of apples are found in the gardens of the Horticultural Society, London, and over fifteen hundred varieties have been tested there. Most of the improved varieti es are the result of accident or of accidental crossing. It is generally considered that apples grown on the fertile lands of the West, though large and fair (Colorado not excepted, with its phenomenal capacity to produce the fruit in nearly all its varieties) are yet inferior in flavor to those grown on the strong, gravelly and sandy loams of this section. Hence the preference given to the Michigan, New York, Massachusetts and MaLirf fruit, while the apples grown in the British provinces, of which thousands of barrels are sent to Boston and New York every year, are, in some respects, among the best sold in the eastern markets. Ia this connection, and we have the testimony of Colonel Wilder, it is a remarkable fftct that where cultivation and protection from insects have been regarded, as in our gardens, the apple is as fine now as it was in its pristine days, going back even as far a& the days of the Garden of Eden. It is also a significant fact that the apples originating in New England ? for iustance, the Baldwin, Rhode Isiand greening, Connecticut and Roxbury russets?are still the great favorites for market, and that from Western New York annhafly there are uent more than 1,000,000 barrels, Thoroughbred Horses. There exists in the grossest ignorance as to what constitutes a thoroughbred horse. Nearly e* ery agricultural society in the land has a class in its premium tost for thoroughbred horses; and yet few of them have a definite idea as to what is requisite to render a horse eligible in this clasB. Scores of cases are referred to this office each year, from the managers of county, State and district societies, for a decision as to eligibility; and many of these are cases in which a very slight knowledge of the subject onght to enabie the officers of these societies to decide for themselves. In the firnt place it should be understood that we derive the tn'rm, as well as the breed of horses to which it applies, from our British cousins across the water. The term, when applied to horses, is used to designate one particular breed, and that is the running horse. In England this blood has been kept pure since the reign of Charles II., without any admixture, save an occasional fresh infusion of Oriental blood from /which it was originallytfresh created; ! and no horse is a thoroughbred unless j his descent can be traced, in an un; broken, unmixed current, to this ances1 try. Stud books were introduced at an 1 onrlv /I at* and the nedierees of I thoroughbred horses have long been j kept with the most scrupulous exact! ness, nothing being admitted to registry j that is contaminated with any outcross j however remote. All our American thoroughbreds are, j therefore, imported from England, or are descendants of animals so imported, I A recent cross with an imported Ajab or j Barb, while it does not vitiate the blood I nor render an animal ineligible as a i thoroughbred, is it not usually regarded j as desirable, from the fact that the i course of selection which has been prac| tieed by the breeders of thoroughbred 1 horses in England and America, for the ! last hundred years, has given us a race that is generally considered to be far ! superior to the Oriental horse of to-day | in speed, size and stoutness. The coin! pilers of stud books for thoroughbred | horses in this country have relaxed the j English rule somewhat, and admit to ! registry animals that show an unmixed , | descent for five generations of pure | blofld; and while, under this rule, many j animals may be admitted that are not, ! in the strict sense of the word, thorough! tirod vpf if for five ceuerutions nothincr but thoroughbred sires and dams are to be found in the pedigree, the quantity of alien blood remaining must be intinitesimally small; and by usage, the animal so bred is, in this country, ranked as a j thoroughbred. If our agricultural societies would : bear in mind that none of our American j trotters, no matter how long the pedi| gree, and none of our imported or native draft, horses, nre eligible to compete for premiums offered for thoroughbreds, they would spare themselves much trouble; and nine-tenths of the money spent for postage stamps in writing us for information on this subject would be saved. No pedigree that has RyBdyk's Hambletonian, Abdallali, Morgan, BellI founder, Hiatoga, Mambrino Chief, ! Rojal George, Patchen, or any other j of our prominent trotting sires in it, can ; belong to a thoroughbred. It may ap; pear strange to some that it is necessary ] for us to make this statement; yet we Dave Bseil pioiuiumn Biioiuuu mi. thoroughbred class to trotting stallions, at both State and county fairs, quite often; and we have known some cases where imported draft horses have been entered in this class, and were supposed to be eligible.?National Live Stock j Journal. What the Miscroscope Reveals, I Mold is a forest of beautiful trees, ) with the branches, leaves and fruit. 1 Butterflies are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes. Therfjnrface of our bodies iB oovered j with scales like a fish; a single grain | of sand would cover one hundred and j fifty of these scales, and yet a scale I covers five hundred pores. Thrwugh I these narrow openings the perspiration forces itself like water through a sieve. E;ich drop of stagnant water contains a world of living creatures, swimming with ae muth liborty as whales in the sea. Each leaf has a colony of inaeota grazing it, like a cow in a meadow, c hange, LIFE IN MODERN EGYPT. A Visit to Cairo Denrrlbed?Htreet Life, the iHosqnea and the Koran-Oriental Ediicatlon. A clergyman has an interesting account of a visit to Cairo in the Independent. He writes: Cairo, the capital of Egypt and the Arab world, is also a cosmopolitan capital of Mohammedanism and the East, second in importance only to Constantinople. It is the precise counterpart of Paris, Loudon and New York, the cosmopolitan cities of Christendom and the West. It has a thoroughly Oriental character, though not so exclusively as Damascus, but, like Constantinople, with a considerable infusion of European life and civilization. The great mass of its 400,000 inhabitants are Egyptian ArabB and Mohammedans by faith, The rest are Oopts (or Egyptian Christians), Turks (who are, of course, all Mohammedans), Bedouins (or Arabs of the desert), Jews, Italians, Greeks, French, German, English and a few Americans. The greatest charm of Cairo is the street life. It is moving panorama of all natioialities, creeds, languages and costumes, with a strong preponderance of the Oriental and semi-barbarous element. It is a perpetual carnival, which defies description. The boulevards of Paris, London Bridge and New York Broadway cannot compare with it. You may enjoy this unique spectacle quietly sitting on the veranda of Shepheard's Hotel, but still better in the old town, especially the Muskee. The streets are alive with gaudily-dressed men and veiled women, water carriers, peddlers of all kinds of wares, braying donkeys, growling camels, barking dogs, horses and carriages?all jostling against each ? " * -* T? If otner in enuiess cuniumou. xu mun&ce the crowd is so dense that it seems impossible to get through, and the noise so loud that you cannot hear your own voice. Every carriage is preceded by one or more fleet runners, crying to clear j the way. The mosques are covered with carpets I or rugs, for kneeling and prostration, and a pulpit or reading desk, but have no seats, no benches, no altar, no pictures, and betray the iconoclastic char- j acter of Mohammedan worship, which j consists simply of pravers end occasional j preachmg from the Koran. The Arab j music re monotonous and dull. The Koran has no idea of an atone- j ment, and, hence, no room for sacrifice, | except the commemoration of Ishmael's \ (Isaac's) sacrifice by Abraham. Allah is, indeed, " all merciful " and forgives | sins, but arouramy ana airecuj, wiuiuub ; satisfaction of hie justice. The devotions i of the pious Mohammedan are impressive, and put many Christians to shame. He 6ays his prayers nnd goes through his bowings and prostrations regularly and punctuallv five times a day, in the mosque or at*Lome, or on board a ship, or in the street, or wherever he may be, regardless of his surroundings, being alone with his God in the midst: of the crowd, his face turned toward Mecca, his hands raised to heaven, then laid on the lap, his knees bent, his forehead touching the ground. His usual prayer is the j first Sura of the Koran, which serves I liim the same purpose as the Lord's j Prayer does the Christian, but bears no comparison to it in beauty nnd compre- i liensiveuess. Sometimes a few other I verses are added, and the ninety-nine | beautiful names of Allah which form the | Mohammedan rosary. Therd are three j stated hours of prayer: four minutes I after sunset, at nightfall, at daybreak or { after smnrise, a little after noonday, and j in the afternoon. The Prophet fixed the time of prayer a little after sunset and sunrise 10 ttYOlU tut; Ul^UUUUUCM nun and star worship, which he had to contend with in Arabia. The muezzin of the mosque announces the time of prayer from the minaret by chanting the "Adau/'orcalltopraytr, in these oraim- j ilar words: "God is most great. I testify i that there is no deity but God. 1 testify | that Mohammed is God's apostle. Come J to prayer ! Come to security ! Prayer is better than sleeping. God is most great. There is no deity but God." ; Besides prayer, the Koran enjoins fcsting, % almsgiving, and pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in a man's life, as the chief exercises of piety. The power of the Mohammedan religion and the j secret of its success lies in its monothe- j ism. Its fundamental dogma is the j ever-repeated "There is no deity but i Allah, wnd Mohammed is his apostle." In entering a mosque, you may keep | on your hat, but must take off your i shoes, or cover them with socks, or put j on slippers, in commemoration of the { divine command to Moses: " Take the shoes from off thy feet,, for tlie ground ' on which thou standest is holy." Slip- i pers or sandals *f straw are always pro- ] vidod at the entrance of the mosques, 1 and must be paid for. Women are seldom seen in the mos- i qnes. The Koran does not command J them to pray, and some Mohammedan i philosophers doubt whether women have ; souls. Yet they are necessary for the f sensual b iss of paradise, where the i humblest believer is allowed 80,000 slaves r and seventy-two wivesf besides those he |. had in this life, if he chooses to keep them. One of the most instructive sights to me was the old Moslem' University, j founded in 975, in the Mosque El Azhar. j It is the largest in the world, and num- ' bers 10,000 pupils and 320 professors, , from all Mohammedan nations. Many, however, attend it to escape conscription to the army, which in Egypt aud Tur key is feared more than death. It is >' the hotbed of Mohammedan fanaticism. The Koran is the only text book for ' grammar, logic, and philosophy, as well ! as theology. The university has the ap- j pearance of a huge Sunday school. The ' students sit cross-legged on the floor, in j small groups, reading or listening to the : instructions of the teacher. They also j eat and sleep on a blanket or straw mat. They support themselves, or are sup- j ported by the alms of the faithful. The , professors receive no salary, and are j supported by private instruction, copy- { ing books, and presents from rioh sohol- j ars. There are no benches, no chairs, j no beds, no comforts of any kind. The 1 simplicity ana seit-uemai 01 mis ptu^uu j life is something marvelous. Our theo- j logical students could not stand it a week. Attuched to the mosque is a chapel for 300 blind scholars. I visited the university twice, in company with Dr. Lansing of Cairo and Dr. Hogg of Osioas, who familiarly conversed in Arabic ; but some scholars looked rather suspiciously at us. "We had first to get permission from the headquarters of the police, and to wait nearly an hour till the formalities were gone through. The head of police?formerly a' Circassian slave?sat there in his dignity, and politely treated us to a little cnp of dark coffee and a cigarette, the usual manifestation of Oriental hospitality. He wrote j his orders, not on the table or the divan, hnt. nn f.ViA lrnofi. to the minv servants I who passed in and out. The Orientals write from the right to the left; they eat with the fingers ; they keep on the cover of the head and take off their shoes in their houses. In striking contrast to this old university iB the new university, founded by the Kbedive and superintended by Mr. Door, the minister of publio instruction, a very intelligent Swiss by birth. Ho gave me much information about the schools in Egypt, and complained of the want of funds, lite new university represents the modem nyatern of secular education, without re? ligion, and affords instruction in all modern languages, while in the old university the Koran and the Arabic are the exclusive object and organ of teaching. It numbers, however, only 300 pupils, and is looked upon with suspicion by the genuine Moslems. Texas Colonists. Bishop Garrett, of the northern Texas Protestant Episcopal diocese, delivered a lecture in Philadelphia a few evenings since on Texas. He spoke chiefly of Northern Texas, because, in his opinion, it was the best part of the Lone Star State for immigrants, and because he was mow intimatelv acanainted with that region. Between the Trans-Continental and the Texas-Pacific railroads is a parallelogram of rich land, suitable for pioneer farmers. A belt of timber laud runs south from Texarkana, the entrepot of the two roads ; west of it is the agricultural belt, and still further we6t is the grazing land. The agricultural belt, 200 miles wide, and running the length of the State from north to south, appeared to him the finest land in the world. It has a black, waxy soil, impregnated with lime, free from sand, fifteen feet deep and productive of the staples of both North aad South. But it is hard to cultivate, and, therefore, some immigrants despair. Thirty-five miles or so away from the railroad, land is cheap, and if an immigrant has money enongh to bnv a piece, station himself upon it and work hard he will soon come ont master. But XlkA -MAM 'WAAn oV AM 1A 1^0T?Q uXIC XlitLJLi WI1U gUCO UUilUCi Diivuiu ua?u his 81,000 when his foot is finally planted upon the suitable spot. If he has the $1,000, is industrious and sober, he will be independent in five years. But there are too many poor people there now. Texas does not want absolutely poor p.-ople. "I would not advise poor people, who have only money for transportation," said he, "to go to northern Texas, fertile and promising as the conntryis."' There are no charitable abodes for the sick and unfortunate; the immigrant should not* go to that State unless he can maintain himself until a foothold is established. Nor should any man who drinks go to Texas. Whiskey will not do there. Bullets are plentiful for all but the sober, tmd if a man keeps sober, Texas is as safe a place for him as Philadelphia. "If you cannot live without whiskey, you "had better not set your foot on Texas sail," said the bishop. The kind of men to go to Texas are the sober, horney-handed ones, with a little capital. Tradesmen with $1,000 can locate at Sherman, Fort Worth, and especially Weatherford, further west, and start up successfully, bnt no shop clerks, with fine apparel and immaculate tiAA/^n^ Tf ia otv.orrir?nr Trrhof UliUbOl) aiD UCCUCUl JLU AO UUiuuiug TTUU? interest the people now there take in religion. They are keen, acute, and remarkable good judges of a sermon, so that clergymen with empty heads and cold hearts will soou find that they are in the wrong place. The bishop concluded bv. advising all who desire to immigrate to see to it that they get trustworthy information of land and of land titles. No man should go to Texas until he has counted the cost. Words of Wisdom. It is easier to blame than to do better. If you wish to succeed in life, govern your temper. ^ We love much more warmly by cherishing the intention of giving pleasure | thau an hour afterwards when we have given it., I If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizcn of "the world, and that his heart is no island cut ; off from other hearts, but a continent ; tbat joins them. ! The lust, best fruit which comes to | late perfection, even in the kindliest j soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forI bearance toward the unforbearing, | warmth <3f heart toward the cold, and 1 philanthropy toward the misanthropic. In this world a man is likely to get ?t i i _ ? _ -\r?i an 1;W ~ wnac lie givvs. iuou h ueuno mc nac u whispering gallery to you. If yon ! speak softly, a gentle -whisper comes ' back ; if you scold, you get scolded. With tho measure you mete it is measured to you again. Cheerfulness is an excelleut wearing quality. It has been called the brighter weather of the heart. It gives harmony to the soul, and is a perpetual song without words. It is a tantamount to repoBe. It enables nature to recruit strength ; whereas worry and discontent . debilitates it, involving constant weai and tear. r The greatest; man is he who chooses i l ight .with the most invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully ; who is the calmest in the storm, and the most fearless under menaces and frowns ; whose reliance on truth, on virtue and ou heaven is most unfaltering. A "Balsa." Ensign Lucien Young escaped from the wrecked sterner Huron on a "balsa," which is thus described by an exchange: The balsa is a raft or float, and on the Pacific coast of South America, whence the name is derived, it is made of whole hides of bullocks sewed into air-tight bags, two of which are fastened together at the smaller end, and form a float, upon which a board is la'd crossways. On thie board the occupant of tbe balsa sits, with legs dangling in the water, and, by means of a paddle guides the buoyant raft through the surf. The balBa is much used by Peruvian women, who go out to vessels at anchor off shore to sell provisions, fruits and whiskey to the sailors. As they sit on the cross-board, with the inflated bags spread out like two wings from their point of junction, near which the board is placed, one end of the balsa is elevated high above the'water, and it is only necessury to turn this end to shore as the balsa approaches the breakers to insure a safe passage through them. The balsa of the Huron was probably an air-filled India rubber doat, sufficiently like its South American prototype to bear the family name. It saved the liveB of two men, and, under more favorable circumstances, might have carried a line ashore and been instrumental in saving the lives of others. xue rctu Many of the oolda which people are said to catch commence at the feet. To keep these extremities warm, therefore, in to effect an insurauce against the almost interminable list of disorders which spring ont of a "slight oold." First, never be tightly shod. Boots or shoes when they fit too cloHely press h gainst the feet and prevent the free circulation of the blood. When, on the contrary, they fit with comparative looseness, the blood gets fair play, and the spaces left between the leather and the stockings are filled with a comfortable supply of warm air. The second rule is, never sit in damp shoes. It is often imagined that unless they are positively wet it is not necessary to change them. This 18 a fallacy, for when the least dampness is absorbed into the sole, it is attracted nearer the foot itself by the heat, and thus the perspiration is dangerously checked. Any person may prove this by trying the experiment of neglecting this rule. The feet will become oold and damp after a few moments, although on taking off the Ehftee and warming them, they -*Hli appaftr quite dry. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. God Bleu the Form. ^ God blesri the farm?the dear old farm! ^ God bleBa ita every rood, t] Where willing hearts and sturdy arms 81 Can earn an honest livelihood? n Can from the coarse and fertile soil if Win back a recompense for toil. tl a1 God bless each meadow, field and nook, ^ . i Begemmed with fairest flowers, n ! j And every leaf that's gently shook o; i I3y evening breeze or morning snowers ; ^ i God bless them all; each leafs a gom h j In nature's gorgeous diadem? tl | The orchards that in early spring, j j Blush rich in fragrant flowers, i And with each autumn surely bring Their wealth of fruits in golden showers; ^ I Like pomegranates on Aaron's rod, y, A miracle from Nature's God. j] i And may he bless the farmer's home, i Where peace and plenty reign ; No happier spot 'neath heaven's high dome ei j Doth this broad, bounteous earth contain, Than where, secure from care and strife, The farmer leads his peaceful life. b j Unvexed by toil and tricks for gain, b; ; He turns the fertile mold ; ? i Then scatters on the golden grain. P; And reaps reward a hundred fold ; jV He dwells where grace and beauty charm, For Ood hath blessed his home and farm. .lledical Hlnto. Enlarged Joints.?If the suffer ^ from sore and enlarged joints in the feet A will bathe the parts with iodide of am- y monia he will be speedily relieved. ' For Kheukatism.?Take small doses & of Rochelle salts at intervals (every n, j morning before breakfast is best); rub ft the part with camphorated oil or with 8{ spirits of hartshorn-, not leaving it on. \ Fob Whooping Cough.?Two-thirds ol I castor-oil, one-tliird syrup of ipecac, w I Dose : Half a teaspoonful from two to ai six hours apart. Shake the mixture al well before using. It is almost iufalli- ci ble. It To Cure Biijous Headache.?Drink *( the juice of two oranges, or of one ? lemon, about half an hour before break- ? fast every morning. " To Cure Corns.?Corns may be C( ! cured with greater certainty and fl j rapidity than in any other way by $ I simply applying, morning and evening, s] I a drop of perchlorate of iron by means 8( i of a bit of straw. This treatment, con- h j tinued for fifteen days, will, in most jj I cases, effect a cure without involving u I any pnin. ai | Frosted Feet.?For frosted feet take d | pure flax-seed oil, bathe your feet well r< and heat the oil well before going to a: bed ; wrap some old clothes around the 1 feet to keep the oil from rubbing off, and bathe again in the morning. A few applications will remove all soreness p and itching. a 1 Drink in Sickness.?In cases of sick- tl ' j ness, when ardent thirst prevails, plain T | toast and water is most simple and ac- a: '! ceptable. Place this slices of bread, v> i well toasted or browned, in a dish and p cover with boiling water, and when r< cold let the infusion be strained from c the bread. vi SaTlas Winter Hoots. H It is an erroneous opinion, although a usually considered otherwise, that o | roots for winter keeping, as beets, , turnips, parsnips, carrots, salsify, etc., Bl ! are better for having the crowns and a ? | portion of the leaves left adhering. In ai 1 j just proportion as these are left, will the tl I , juices of the bulbs or roots be dissipat- ? | i ed. As they begin to grow, which they h 1! will under ordinary conditions in the P ; winter, the succulence of the root will o: | be impaired, until at last they become ?' ; i pithy, and utterly worthless for house- G I hold use. To obviate this, the crowns fc I should be severed as closely as possible. ^ II In preparing beets for pitting, in the jc ! manufacture of sugar, the entire crown ;' is cut away below the leaves, since this ,' portion contains no saccharine, and the ! growth of leaves from the dormant eyes hi 11 changes the saccharine juice of the tl: beets, thus impairing the yield of sugar. E .; Nevertheless the beets so cut, are pre- hi : served intact, a callus quickly forming la ?: over the cut surface. From this an im- h: ;! portant lesson is taught the farmer and ai , | gardener. Bulbs and roots intended for w , i long keeping, should be cut below the h: [ I crown. In the case of flat turnips the yi . j eyes may be scooped out. Then if ct !1 packed in dry sand or road dust, and a kept nearly at the freezing point, they oj j remain intact until late in the season, o: j even well into Mav. Of course this is fe 1: not practicable when large quantities tl J are kept for market use. Gardeners | si ; i have either means that answer the pur- j d : i pose measurably. For family use, low- o 1 | ever, it will be found to succeed admira- rc " i bly, and is comparatively little trouble, w 1' ' w i, ' b Looking: For Her Husband. a A well-dressed prisoner, about twenty ^ years of age, clad in a neat gray over- ? j j coat, fashionable tronsers, a Byron u collar and a black silk cravat, stood : ; before the bar of the Fifty-seventh I i street police court. 'i " Well, young man," said Justice c II Wandell kindly, for, as he said after- & j wards, lie was rather prepossessed by the a '! looks- of the bov, "what are you here a 1 for?" d ' j The officer who had the prisoner in ti i charge turned red, fumbled awkwardly k J with the greasy Bible, which he had just * ''kissed, and then said: " Yer honor, P she aint a boy, he's a woman; that is, a 1 sir, it's a woman with men's clothes on." a Justice Wandell looded over his gold- ft i Kniv&rl oro.rrlnsHPH and saw a slicrht d 1; figure, with a smooth round face, closely- P | cropped brown hair and mild blue eyes, j 3' ' " Well," exclaimed he, "young woman, j 81 ' what are you here for ?" j ? 'j "I don't know, sir," answered the | ei ; prisoner in a pleasant voice. " I came j ! to the city sir, from Paterson, N. J., to 1 look for my husband, who has deserted 1 j me and my two children. Don't you <1 think its right for me to find my hus- P | band if I can ?" tl I "Whatis your name?" nc 1 j " Nellie Raymond, sir." w j "Mrs. P.aymond," said his honor, "I oi j would advise you to discard that male : ati-ire directly." c< . " But I have no other, sir." L "Well, well, well," said the oourt, tl LI "of course I mean as soon as you can. tl j You are discharged, and I advise you to h l go right home," h I "Thank you, sir," said the prisoner, tii j turning and walking rapidly out of court, P | the picture of a bank clerk in a hurry, h j ?New York World. ft ! ____ fc A Huge Stick. The Gold Hill (Nev.) News says : Probably the largest stick of timber ever al brought to the Comstock was recently w received at the new Yellow Jacket works, m east of the second railroad tunnel. It is tl to bo used as a chord for the pump-bob, ?i and its dimensions are thirty-eight by hi fortv-eierht inches, bv fortv-three feet in g< length. The weight is 21,900 pounds, Ji and the freight from Saa Francisco B amounted to $416.70. Two cars were T required to transport this Btick, and it f<: cost twenty dollars to load it. The ei timber came from Oregon, and ooet over hi 8200 delivered in San I?ranci?oo. Good, bi heavy material is being put into the m maohinery at the new works of the ui j Yellow Jacket Mining Company, and it w i will stand the strain for jre?w to ectnej 0 Peeping Frogs. It is well for all people in the country j know the difference between " peepig" and- "croaking" frogs. Among iie first and most noticeable of the pring sounds that comes to us from the eighborhood of the ponds and streams j the voice of the peeping frog; and lis little creature will well repay one's ttention. It is commonly thought to e the young of the bullfrog, but this is ot so; it seems to bo a distinct variety I the frog family. He makes himself eard in the spring as soon as the ice as melted, and is most musical during he evening. You will find him sitting mong "the old broken grasses and leaves L the edge of the water; and as soon as e hears your footfall, down he flattens imself, and you would easily mistake im for a brown leaf, but, trusting to our ears and not eyes, you soon will see lis little brown leaf cautiously rise up, veil its little throat to half the size of s bodv. and crivo a "peep" shrill iougb to leave no doubt as" to what lakes that sound. These frogs are, ben sitting, about an inch long, and iry in color from a light to a very dark rown. They are easily caught; and y putting them in a wide-mc uthed bote, covered with thin muslin, and lacing this under a hat, or In any place fray from the light, they will continue leir peeping for some time. Whole Farms Washed Away. The Intelligcnccr, of Romney.W.Va., as this to say about the recent floods in xat section of the country : Never in le memory of man has there occurred ich a rise in the streams of Hampshire junty, W. Va., as by the recent flood, or so great destruction of crops and sncing. So extensive "has been the de"i/iKnn +liof if ommmfji tn n. Aalftmifv long the South Branch scarcely a shock E corn or a stack of hay remains; the hole vallqy is a clean sweep; crops ad fencing; and the embankments are 11 broken and swept away. All the fat ittle and other stock of every kind are )ft on the hands of the farmers without >od, and probably not a sufficiency of round; consequently the cattle must e thrown on the market, or seek a more ivored country for food. A dispatch from Moorefleld, Hardy aunty, says that the destruction by the ood in that county alone will reach 400,000. There are not a thousand locks of corn in the valley of the juth branch of the Potoma3. Farms ave been washed completely away, and tnd that was worth $100 an acre is now tterly without value. The suffering aiong the cattle is very great, and hun-. reds of farmers are ruined. The tor;nt reached from mountain to mountain ad was twenty feet deep. Taxes on Editorial Faith. x One of the greatest trials of the newBaper profession is that its members are Dmpelled to see more of the shams of le world than any other profession, 'hrough eveiy newspaper offioe, day fter day, go all the weaknesses of the orld; all the vanities that want to be uffed; all the revenges that want to be japed ; all the mistakes that want to be orreoted : all tl 3 dull speakers that 'ant to be thought eloquent; all the leanness that wants to get its wares oticed gratis in the editorial column, in rder to save the tax in the advertising alumns ; all the men who want to be nt. riahfc who wore never richt: all the rack drained philosophers with stories 9 long as their hair, and as gloomy as leir finger nails, of all the bores who 3me to stay live minutes, but talk five ours. Through the editorial and reortorial rooms all thefollies and shams E the world are seen, day after day ; ad the temptation is to believe in neither rod, man, nor woman. It is no surprise > me that in this profession there are )me skeptical men ; I only wonder that ?urnalist8 believe anvthing? Talmage. He Made a Mistake, A Michigan farmer, named Harris, has ad so many adventures with burglars lat he never dares to go to market, in Detroit, without having a gun behind im in his wagon. Soon after daylight at Tuesday he saw something on th ighway that looked like a horse blanket6 id while he was getting out of the agon to pick it up a man confronted im and cried out: " I was waiting for 3u to come along." Without delay the mtious farmer seized his gun and fired charge of bird shot almost in the face f the enemy, who retreated in great disrder, screaming and yelling. The irmer drove on very complacently, unking that he won id nave a gooa :ory for the boys at the tavern, bnt iscovered a few yards down the road a roben wagon loaded with poultry. The lan whom he had stuffed with bird shot as not a robber, but a small farmer ho had lost his horse blanket and gone ack to look {pr it, The repentant larksman went back and tried to amfort his unfortunate fellow-traveler, ad found him sitting on a log and countlg the wounds? some thirty or more. What Whisky is Made Of. The Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal anfirms the statement that probably 99 gallons out of every 1,000 that re sold as brandy- are made from vile compound of whisky swill, istilled spirits; and chemical abomina,on, and adds : "If the world at large now of what villainous stuffs brandy nd whisky and wines are made the resent crop of drunkards would be bout the last, or, at any rate, all future rops would bo small. Nearly or quite lithe liquors that are retailed nowaays are undoubtedly a slow but sure oison, and to drink them habitually is imply a roundabout way of committing aicde, and unless you guard yourself irefully, the way is not so roundabout itber." Courtesies of War. It is stated that there had been fre* uent communication between Osman asha and General Gourko previous to le fall of Plevna, the opposing comlanders exchanging very pleasant notes ith each other from time to time. On tie occasion the Russian general sent ) Osman a most courteous letter, ac jmpanied by several numbers of the iondon Times containing reflections on le inevitable fall of the town and on le necessary surrender of the be>aguered army. The Turk returned is thanks, acknowledged the imporince of b**ing made acquainted with the i eril of Plevna, and added that were 0 not otherwise engaged the papers irnished would afford welcome reading >r the Jong winter evenings. Pretty Well, Thank Too. " Why, howdy do. Mrs. Crippins ; are 1 the folks pretty well ?" asked one oman of another, in market, the other orning. "Oh, yes, tolerably bo, tank you. Father is laid up with his de again, and mother's rheumatism is got bo bad she hasn't been able to ?t down stairs for a week, and Martha me had another fit yesterday, and illy cut his foot with a hatchet, and omray can't ppeak above a whisper ?r a sore throat, and Eliza has a gath-ing in her ears again, and the baby is had four spells of croup, and my husindcan hardly work with his sore eyee, id i tnougnt i a aie jasi nigoi wiin a ok headache, but -we're all about ?r ell aa common. HoVe your folk? incinnati Breakfast TabIf Items of Interest. The language of the suspender is supposed to be : " Brace up I" Counting ont the number of lost in the present war, Russia has still some 70,000,000 men left. The Troy butcher who hanged himself in his ice box has furnished the (Molest case of suicide on record. The old maxim, " Be chaste and you'll be happy," is contradicted point blank by a Black Hills man, who Was recently chased ten miles by a party of redskins. /innnnl ran/Yrt. ftf ?* XIAO (UUllUU Jk b^VI. ? V* - w?_? vision of taxes in Philadelphia shows a total depreciation of 850,000,000 in taxable property as compared with last year. The Brazilian parliament has voted a yearly sabsidy of $100,000. during ten years for a line of steamers to the United States. This is one of the first fruits of Dom Pedro's Centennial visit. The farmers in Scotland have suffered severe loss this year by bad weather, and their aggregate revenue will fall short of that received in goodyears by an estimated amount of $40,000,000. A band of Portugese amateurs have started out from liishui to explore Central Africa in Stands tracks, and to negotiate, if possible, treaties of commerce with the natives along the route. A farmer' residing near Tork, Pa., has kept a record of the number of tramps visiting his premises in quest of food. The number fxom April 1, 1877, to November 18, was 545, or an average g of about sixteen per week. Says the Pioche (Nev.,) Record. The latest curiosity or freak of nature is apples without seeds in them. They come from Utah, along with the regular seed apples, and cannot be told by the outside appearance from them, but on 'the inside they present no appearance of ever having contained any seed. ' ooi/1 if woe a/\ a IHrHI, piBUUig DOIU IV mm excellent a beverage that, though taken' in large quantities, it always made him fat. "I nave seen the time," said another, "when it made yon lean." "When, I should be glad to know?" % inquired the eulogist. " Why,no longer ago than last night?against a wall.h Notwithstanding famine and rewards, noxious animals multiply in India from the religious dislike of Hindoos to killing anything. Cobras, lucky reptiles, are held by them especially sacred, and, with other snakes, managed in 1875 to kill 17,000 persons; but 270.185 snakes were killed. The loss of cattle from the same cause was very heavy. What's in a name ? A Chinaman in San Francisco found there were thirty days. He stole a 'Frisco man's door plate and fastened it on his own door as an ornament. He didn't know that the name would betray him as he thought that was merely carved on for the beauty of the thing. The Chinaman now languishes in prison, another victim to the mysteries of English orthography. The Arizona Miner tells a laugliable story of two friends who were recently attacked by Indians in that State. They were both on mules and the arrows were whistling by them in clouds. The mules were of unequal powers of speed, and the foremost man sang out, "?ioe, wny don't yon come along?" Joe, whoso arms and legs were flying in the air like a runaway windmill, replied, as an arrow grazed his ear, " Dor I lbok like a man who is throwing off ?" Harry Mainjoy, a colored man, o Exeter, N. H., who died recently in the eighty-first year of his age, had a remarkable history. He was born in Africa, about a week's journey ton fo::i from Senegal, and was stolen from his. home by slave traders in 1806, who tock him to Senegal and sold him for $25 to Emery, of Exeter, who brought him home, taught him the English language, and gave nim good school privileges until he was twenty-one years old. He was an industrious and useful man, and brought up a iamily of children, who survive him. ' x Andrew Johnson, it is said, preserved all his papers, and died leaving them in the upper story of a shop in Greenville. Throughout Ins life he carefully saved all papers, and even took to Greenville complete files of three daily newspapers of Now York covering his presidential term. Of telegrams alone he must have left more than a bushel in a compac form. He saved them all; none wer considered of so little importance as not to he worth savin?. He remarked onr how little space avoided letter took nj. and what small trouble to save then-, and how important they sometim ? became. Commander George P. Ryan is the second of the class of 1861 of thr United States Naval Academy who has lost his life by shipwreck ; LieutenantCommander William F. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, who was executive officer of the touted States sloop Oneida, being the other who perished in the collision of that vessel with the British steamer Bombay, in the bay of Yeddo, Japan, in 1870, when only two officers and fifty-seven men out of twenty-four officers and one hundred and fifty-two men were saved from a watery grave. It is a singular fact thrtall of the unfortu nate national ships ^pet within the la/' decade were named after the Indium tribes, as follows: Saranac, Saginaw, Idaho, and Huron, in all of which thenwas a fearftil loss of life. Pim.i+itallHr nf Wnrtha Washington. v Miss Peale| the daughter of Jamo Peale, tells this story of the punctuality of Martha Washington : My father ha.! an engagement to paint a miniature of Mrs. Washington in Philadelphia, the general being then out of town. He was obliged to go to her honse, and the appointment for a first sitting was arranged for seven o'clock in the morning. My tather arrived at the house, ami taking out his watch he found he was exactly on time. The thought then struck him that possibly it might be to early to disturb a lady, and he decided to give ten minutes' grace before knocking at the door. He accordingly walked the pavement, and at the end of ten minutes pulled out his watch and rang the bell. He was ushered into the, parlor, and Mrs. Washington accosted him, drew oqt his watch, and said she had given hW orders for the day, had heard her daughter take her lessons on the harpsichord, and had read all the morning papers, and after all this had been waiting for him ten minutes. A Fatal Flat-Boat. John B. Painter, of Pittsburg, Pa., yrith a party of colonizers, thirty souls in all, left that city recently in a flatboat, intending to travel by river to Arkansas. They launched their boat about two o'clock, and had only floated a short distance, when one of the steering oars broke, and the boat began to drift luitVi t.Vio mrrent .Tlisf fls tllflV entered the Ohio river the flat-boat struck a fleet of coal barges, and the flat-boat parted in three pieces and broke up, throwing the immigrants into the water. Some of them climbed out on the coal barges, and others were rescued by skiffs. A Swiss family named Rife, consisting of father, mother and two children, and a man from Philadelphia. name unknown, perifhed. All the reel were saved, although with the greater difficulty. On? woman, with an infant. r*H* bffnre was titekei1 up! ' i