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\ . ^ I The Beaufort ^Bi Republican. ^ an indef endent family newspaper,devoted to polttics, literature, intelligence. our motto without fear. b - VOL. II. NO. 33. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1872. I . f _ k OUR NEW YORK LETTER. The School of Experience?A Chapter on Dof?8-?New York Docks, etc., etc. |jH THE SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE. ||? A judgment has been granted by Judge MoCunn of tho Superior Court against the Geneva Watch Company in the suit In which the American Watch Company w? re plaintiffs. The judgment forbids Elias Mid his associates from selling watch movements not made by the plaintiffs, upd *r the denomination of Win. Ellery or John Ellery," or whereon is engraved, pr ysed or in any manner made apparent the words "Win. Ellery" or "John Ellerv," or any colorable imitation of the sam The defendants are further directed to . pay or,r to the plaintiffs all the profits made by the sale of such watch movements, as are forbidden by the judgment. and a referee has been appointed by the court to ascertain the amount. Th-'S ends the series of suits and legal proceedings that have so completely unearthed and exposed the saw-dust swindle, the Emigrant Protectory Association, the bosus Spanish Lottery and all the kindred games by which the nest of notorious confidence operators have fleeced the country, and it is to he hoped for the good ?ense and dearly bought experience of the country that such operations will cease to be profitable to the fraudulent conspirators who set them on foot. ' 'Experience is a dear school, but fools will learn in no other," and for every class thrr has graduated in this school the teacher? have filled their pockets with the dollars of their former ignorant dupes ; bm in many cases the fools never take their degrees of common sense, but like njn ldle headed cat-fish at the hook they bite and bite and bite again, or like dunces* at school they hold the spelling-book of experience up side down, and never learn to read the ways of the slippery world. The fall conrse in this school is very thorough ; some tin trumpet concern, first teaches the scholar to read ; some saw-dust establishment teaches him arithmetic, fhe algrebraical significance of X minus i equals nothing. The geometrical proportions of the box containing the sawdust and the v _">nderful art of surveying what he has received for his ten dollars. Next some Emigrant Association or Land Company teaches him geography; then from s^me cure-all whose "sands of life arc running out" he takes his degree in medicine ; and when some philanthropist kindly offers for five dollars to prosecute the swindlers, he studies law and at last investing all the money he has saved during a whole season in the tickets of some grand, benevolent gift enterprise, receives his diploma and becomes a profounder philosopher than ever passed matriculation at his little country schoolhouse. Some operators in New York have only been teachiug the primary branches, but this grand saw-dnst combination have been teaching all branches in their est ah j lishment and have graduated more than : Yale or Harvard or all the colleges in the country combined The next session opens again when the farmers have sold their crops. Who wants to go to school next ? don't all speak at once. N. B. No playing hookey in this school. Scholars must bring their own fools-caps and dunce-blocks. A CHAPTER ON* I>OOS. If dogs Tire the besetting evil of the country, so they are of the city. New York, as well as Brooklyn, is over run with these worthless curs, and you find them every where, under your feet at one moment, snapping at your legs the next, j A warfare is waged against the curs, but it seems as though when one is shot ; a hundred spring up to do honor to his i memory or revenge him, I scarcely know which. On the west side of the town, between Fifty-ninth and 109th streets, running from Tenth avenue to the Hudson, there is a settlement of shanties, I about nine hundred in number. This place is without doubt one of the greatest I dog kennels in the city, as the ratio of dogs to shanties is as three to one. From i this it will be seen that there are no less j than two thousand seven hundred dogs in this place. If they were kept within the periphery of the settlement one might I not care how many there were; but they are allowed to prowl around the streets in j quest of food, which their hungry eyes j sometimes see in the leg of a man's pants. The same fatality attracts to other parts j of the city. From 75th street on the east side, to -lones Wood is one dense dog kennel, and many are the cases re- j ported of persons bitten by the curs. It is said that over 25,000 dogs exist in New | Y >rk. and certainly it seems as though] no family was without one, from the fashionable ladie's lap dog, to the Five Points ! urchin's mangey cur. NEW YORK DOCKS. Hew York Harbor almost equals in j beauty the famed bay of Naples, possessing more commercial advantages for shipping than almost any other city on the globe,. and presenting one of the most animated riews of business and pleasure that the j Wyes could wish to dwell upon; and yet Hfe^Btsents an irregular, dilapidated dockage ; BKpBkt is as mortifying to the people as it is ^e wants buiness. Every m etropolis is marked improvements, a? Every cbi ig.| that wealth can do \s accomplished, our buildings seem literally to be baptised in architectural beauty until they glow in Gothic, Corinthian, Composite, cornice, entablature, interlace console, scroll vermiculation, portico, veranda, baldachin, and all the ornamentation that the artist's pencil and the mechanic's skill cun produce at the command of millions. Our grand Central Park stretching away j for miles in the beauty of a miniature Eden, is the pride and envy of onr city the world over. The very inland steamers that tie to our rotten docks are the finest palaces that fioat upon the water, and, yet, of these docks, what are we to say, what language in its severity will do justice to the cause. It would be a blessing to our city if an earthquake could sink them without any other serious result. We have a strange contrast as striking iu appearance as mai vi me iau? at u uica? ball representing poverty in her skirt of rags, and wealth in her glittering diamonds that sparkled oil her rich clad bosom, and gleamed like stars in her raven hair. I refer to that splendid revetment wall of masonry that skirts the Battery, constructed under the engineering plan and super- . vision of Gen. Geo B. McClellan. Such a wall should belt the island round, and j long piers of masonry should reach out to j take our commerce in. The old piers of rotten, sliinv spiling should be torn away until not one would be left as a relic of the former dilapidation. The piers should be filled in solid and flagged with heavy stone, and not a plank should be used in their construction to rot away. All should be kept clean, no rotting rubbish of logs and spars and worn out boats should float within a single dock, and the cargo boxes of steamship aud steamboat companies should be built of corrugated iron, making all incombustible. A board of inspectors should enforce the most perfect system of regulation, and then we would have docks the pride of our city and the admiration of the world. This great and desirable improvement would cost no inore than our fine buildings, and if our merchants do not need fine docks to do business on they do not need fine buildings to do bus-, iness in, and we should not have marble ' palaces on Broadway and rotting old docks on South and West streets; let us j have uniformity by all means and not! have it like Spotless Moreen filthy horror inclose, O? gaiter boo is lac-ed o'er detestable hose." Let the press of our city raise their ; united power against these dilapidated, in- j secure and inadequate docks, and the evil"' will soon cease to exist. FISH OUT OF WATER. To be a member of a State Legislature, particularly iu a great State like New 1 York, is not at all times what fancy might paint it. The present session has been a lengthy one, and many farmers were elect-1 ed to it who had no conception of the tri- i als and tribulations to which they would be subjected. In a place like Albany it * ' ' * i? :?v ,i . docs nor tukc long to ihukc a?ay wmi mc ; pittance of pay, and many have been obliged to use this pay in meeting daily j bill-, while their board bill for the session is still unpaid. Such pinching and tigur- | ing 1 do not believe were ever before seen in Albanv. Members borrowed money ? J | until there was no more to borrow, and when the day came that even the three dollars a day was taken from them, the : prospect looked blue enough. Of course I do not wish you to understand that these economical regulations applied to members from this city or other large cities, for they generally know how to live well and lay up something on their "pay per diem. The ; members who suffered were those from the interior, who awoke suddenly to find them selves transformed from plain, honest, reliable, every-duv farmers or merchants to a political field ot which they knew noth ing. If 1 may he a judge, there are at least twenty meiuhers whom you will not catcli in the Legislature any way, ami as many tnore who will not go again it they can help it. 1 saw one member who was actually placing a mortgage of S400 on his farm to pay his board and other bills, and be said that lie was actually compelled to do this. Said the gentleman: "I fully appreciate the honor, but it. is too expensive for me. 1 want no more of it." Other members, who can illy afford it, are paying big margins for money to meet their bills. A Femai.k I)i"ei..?Two Mexican ladies of rank at a recent ball at Santa Cruz get- | ting into a dispute in regard to the number of dances due each by a neutral lover, one of them threw her No. 5A kid glove into the other's face, and challenged her to mortal combat. Tliey met the next morning. The challenged, having the i choice ot weapons, chose the short sword, and after a few passes her weapon passed tl.vAiurli tlm u'liitii ou'Anl.orin CUIUI'JCIC-JJ uii \;u^ii inv " niiv on vj u ?i in , ul her antagonist, entirely disabling it. j Frantic with rage and pain the wounded i fury seized a pistol and dared the other to ucome on, Macduff." Nothing loath the other took her position, the* word was given, and again the challenger was wounded, her left arm being broken by the hall of her antagonist. She was carried off the field in a swoon, and the other more fortunate fair married' the casus belli two hours afterwards. The Io8 - ibe^estruetion of the Earrisburg Car Co^^^s buildings is estimated at 33(H>,0^Hfet an insurance of $135,000. Over J^^^Bds were employed by the Con^^^^V Aoove the Cioads. Air. Robt. J. Bell, an Assistant Observer at the United States Signal station on the summit of Mount Washington, writes to the Phi'adelphia Bulletin ah account of liis everyday experiences above the clouds. He was detailed to take the place of William Stevens, who died in mid-winter with uo friend near him save bis solitary companion, Sergeant Hearne. A party of stalwart mountaineers climbed to the summit aud took the body down for burial, j They placed it in a box fitted to runners, which was peimitted to slide down the mountain side, the men holding on to ropes attached to the rear to regulate the motion and direct the course. Air. Bell eays : " We occupy the depot of the Alountain Railroad, in which we have two rooms partitioned off (ten by twelve),'securely chained to the rocks, so that the wind j may not blow us away. One we use as a kitchen and dining-room, and the other as > a parlor, bed and dressing room. We also . occupy the latter as our office, in which | we keep our barometars and telegraphic instruments, the wire connecting with Littleton, N. H., by which means we are not wholly excluded from civilization, al-1 though I must admit that visitors aie very ! few?not a single one since my glorious ascent. 44 We generally supply ourselves in September with canned provisions sufficient to last throughout the winter, reckoning I at the same time to give our visitors a ; square meal when tb<\v come. Our time ! we must occup3r chiefly by reading and studying, for our out-door amusements are very scaice. In case we do have the pleasure of going outside to ramble amid j the snow and ice on the rocks, we are 1 obliged to take advantage of the same, and exercise ourselves by hauling ice, frostwoik and snow, so that we may. procure the ! water necessary for cooking and drinking purposes, as the weather is very severe on the summit, the thermometer since my ar rival having been most of the time below : zero, and the wind at a hurricane. " I will give you a small idea how we 1 felt, the thermometer standing at fortynine degrees below zero, and the wind j raging at a hundred and twenty miles per hour. The cold weather which I have reference to occurred on the 5tli of March, j and the mode we adopted to keep ourselves ' warm was to biing all the coats'and over-1 coats into requisition during the day, j with two large coal iires continually burn- , ing. At night we took advantage of our ' little bed' (which is not a bad one), with i covering enough to suffocate any man in ordinary winter weather, and then I must confess we suffered with the cold. It was j the coldest time that my comrade and I ever experienced. We do not mind dur- j ing the day the thermometer standing at ten below zero, if the wind does not blow ; i 1 t? .u, ? n?..? ? i.,.i lOO Ilili'U, iUI 11JC1I ? *_an iia > v: a iiuiv uv/i. idaj by going outside. But at night, unless the wind is blowing at least sixty miles an hour, we cannot sleep well, lor we are too accustomed to hurricanes." The Proposed Hudson River Bridge. This bridge is to be one ot the largest suspension bridges in the world. Its ex-; act location will be four miles North of Peekskill?at Anthony's Nose. It will be 1.CG5 feet long between the towers, and | 155 feet above the Hudson River water.! It is to be suspended by 2d cables, made ] of 70.302 miles of steel wire?weighing, with the iron and steel in the bridge, 17,- j 005 tons. It will be made strong enough to hold up safely 2,400 tons, and to break | through with 25,171 tons. E. \V. Serrell! the engineer, says 3,000,000 tons of coal i from Pennsy lvania, 54,080 tons i1 iron from j Elizabeth port, and 500,000 tons of through j freight from the .Midland and Erie, will pass over this bridge and over the New | fcngianit nan way, wuicu win run irom , Turner's, on the Erie Road, over the; bridge to New York, Boston, and Mont re al Railroad. Part of this will go to New i York, ana the rest will go into New Eng-! land, by way of Brewsters's, Milton, and North Adams, and the linos connecting j these with New England. This bridge, in a word, will niakc a continuous line from iron fields of Pennsylvania to the New England States, and there will he no more reshipping at New York and Jersey City, j The capital stock is S2,500,000, to be di- j vided into $100 shares, according to its charter, asse 1 April '27, 18(58. and amended May 9. 1870. What he Did.?A Chicago girl hearing that her lover had been stricken with small-pox. insisted upon flying to his bed side and becoming bis nurse, It was aj case, but she was unceasing in her devotion, i and principally through her care and skill | the patient recovered. And now she herself tell a victim to the complexion-destroying monster, and although she survived the attack, at its close the beautiful pink and white of her fair face had down forever. and from being the prettiest girl in Chicago she became one of the plainest. Her lover had attended her through her illness, hut when he saw how fearfully she was changed, his love for her departed, and when the marriage-day drew near lie refused to fulfill his part ot the contract* She took his refusal very calmly; no ro proaches came from the once pretty mouth, which had lost its prettiness in saving the ungrateful one from death; her cheek, which the tell-iale blood" used so ofien to tiuge with rosy-red, retained its color, and she married an octogenarian worth ?500, 000. What to Eat. This teim in medicine, according some comprehends the whole regimen life, with regard to air, meat, drink, slee watching, motion rest, the passions, rete tions and excretions. I restrict the ter to eating and drifting alone. The natur constitution of the body of man is sue that ic can easily bear some changes at irregularities without much injury. lis it been otherwise we should be almo constantly put out of order by very sligl cause. This advantage comes from tho wonderful communications of the inwai parts, whereby when one part is affectr another comes immediately to its rclii Thus, when the body is too full, natu causes evacuation through some of tl outlets; and for this^reason, diseases fro absolute ina?ition?a?e generally more da gerbus than from repletiJh, unless the la ter be excessive; because we can more e Deditiously diminish than increase tl juices of the body. Upon the same a count though temperance be beneficial all men, the ancient physicians advise pe sons in good health, now and then to e and drink more abundantly than usu: But of the two, intemperance in drmki: is safer than in eating. If a man 1 obliged to fast, lie ought to avoid all labc ious work. From satiety it is not prop to pass directly into sharp hunger, n hom hunger to satiety; neither will it safe to indulge in absolute rest immediat ly after excessive labor, nor suddeuly fall to hard work after long idleness. Ir word, all changes in the way of livii should be made by degrees. The soft and milder kinds of aliment are proper f children, and for youth the stronger. 0 people ought to lesson the quantity their food, and increase that of the drink; but some allowance is to be ma for custom, especially in cold climates lil ours; for as in these the appetite is keem so is the digestion better performed. Mi pottage is far more wholesome than t with bread and butter: and, if made aft the following manner, is in many respec preferable to milk alone: Let equal qua tities of milk and water be boiled up wi a little oatmeal, which will break the i ciditv of the milk, and be at the sar time more easily digested than the latt in an undiluted state. Besides catmeal a much wanner nourishment than wheat flour and agrees better with weak stoi achs. Ladies as Clerks. The Secretai of the Treasury of t United States hu..? 107 ladies in his ov office, thirty-three in the library, and 1 engaged in counting notes. The librari ic n itflw u'hn deserves more than nassil .o ?. .w.v , notice, possessing ability of a high ord and culture beyond the average man woman. She was appointed to this plat formerly held bj' a gentleman drawing salary of $2,200, and the salary was r duced to the limit of feminine requir ments, which it seems was then $1,20 It rose, however, to ?1,400 soon thereaftt and again a few days since to$1,600. T assistant librarian has entire charge the books and performs the duties of tv desks formerly occupied by two gentlemi receiving salaries respectively of ?l,4i and ?1,600 per year. This lady's abili is recognized and appreciated by the chi clerk and head of the division. She is relative of Justice Story, formerly of tl Supieme Bench, and commands a salary ?000. The correspondence of the Secret ry's office is all copied here by the ladi of the bureau. It was formerly done 1 gentlemen who received salaries of 1.2< ?1,400, and ?1,600 for doing it. The are five ladies in the Secretary's offi holding clerkship* of the first class v. i salaries of ?1,200 per annum. In the li reau of the Comptroller ot the Curren there are twenty-eight ladies, includi: one who receives ?1.200 per unuurn. T work done here is the same as done 1 gentlemen m other bureaus. One la< does the correspondence. Another is ; account en t. of acknowledged ability, a: is valued for accuracy and lidelity, ni there is al>o a stenographer who writes 1 the Corontioiler. This kind of work done in other bureaus by gentlemen wi salaries racing from ?1,200 1<> ?1.800 p year. A Doo and Her IYppies.?The follow tug story shows the natural love of a d< to the offspring so strong as to make blind to the fact that its little ones we dead : A preacher named Hueholz, wl lived at ilasmark, in Hungary, had to | to the village of Kperies. about twentv-ti miles di>tant. and he took with him 1 dog. lie staid there several days, ai had to return home without his do which, in the' meantime, had a litter puppies. Bucholz had not been long home before, to his great surprise, 1 dog appeared with a nuppy in her rnont which she carefully laid on the mat whe she commonly slept herself, and then si rushed out of the house along the w; leading to Eperies: after some hours s appeared again with a second puppy in h mouth, and in twenty-four hours she we and came back four r > more, on e.*v r- turn bringing hoi ; s puppy ; of cour all were dead. As she laid down t last puppy on the mat, the poor dog cou scarcely stand for weariness; she whin and trembled, lookinj^ni^Ml^^^^ de&^ puppies, and aft round, slie lay dHBH^HHH and died in a few mifl H tour she had eighty Items of Qeneral Interest. to The piano was invented 155 years ago. of .Lobsters will be very scarce this year, p,; Connecticut will cultivate more tobacn_ co this year than ever before. m Late reports from Delaware promise a half or two-third crop of peaches. Two thousand women or girls are emJ' ployed in Birmingham, England, in the brass-foundirg trade. A young boy in Lafavette, Ala., shot st his mother dead on her refusal to allow ht liim to go out hunting. 5e In a fight between two boys at Kansas , City, Mo., lately, one of them had his r throat cut from ear to ear. During ber imprisonment Laura Fair, 2'- by careful speculation, has increased her re fortune by more tfian $150,000. be The maple 3Ugar season is said to m have been a bad one in the Northwest, opening late and being very windy. t It is estimated that China will be a market for American butter and cheese x" to the amount of 5,000 tons annually. ke In the Ohio Senate, the Apportionment lC~ bill was passed, dividing the State into to seven Democratic and eleven Republican ,r. districts. at A small party of Indians drove ofl j I several head of stock from McPherson Station, Neb. A detachment of troops are in pursuit. ',e The steamship Baltic, which sailed '1" in Mil JJlVfipUUi 1V1 XlVtv XV4?, er out ft number of persons who intend tc form a colony in Nebraska, or J lje The memorial edifice to Theodore Parker is to 3tand on the corner of Berke* eley and Appleton streets, Boston, and to will be completed by Christmas, i a Mrs. Wharton's attending physicians njr having certified that her ill-health rendered an immediate trial dangerous, the case will be postponed till next fall. or j(j Lembup.g and Kelly, the alleged counterfeiters of nickel coin, underwent ji of preliminary examination at Boston, and iir were held for trial in ?3,000 bail each. (^? The suit for the recovery of damages ke for the destruction of the office of the ;r< Bangor (Me). Democrat by a mob, during iL. the war, has been settled bv the paymeni of 83,000. Alexander Robinson, chief of the Po er tawatomies, whose name is intimately associated with the history of Chicago, n- died at the Indian Reserve, near thai city recently, at the advanced age of one hundred years. riThe law* of Virginia provide that per nc sons guilty of burglary shall be punished er with death, or, in the discretion of the is jury, by confinement in the Penitentiary en for a period not less than five nor more ^ than eighteen years. A Chinaman in California, who was un able to speak a work of English, was accused of receiving stolen goods and was hung up to make him confess from he whom he obtained them, has been made ^ permanently insane by the outrage. 25 At Hamilton, Ohio, a vouug man, an named Samuel Schofield, who was tc have been married in a few days, comnp mitted suicide by shooting himsell er through the heart, on learning that his or employer, who owed him 1,200, had as ,e signed his property. a Since the beginning of the session the President of the U. S., has approved c" thirty?three bills which originated in the Senate, and one hundred and twenty ?0. from the House. The House hits acted on all the general appropriation bills ex ' cept the fortification and the bill for the payment of certain civil expenses. A young man named George Doup s u mysteriously disappeared from New Proven idence, Indiana, aud fears are entertained JO that he committed suicide. He was entv gaged to be married to his cousin, and , - her parents had refused their consent tc lc the marriage on account of cousanguini1 * fv. Df?up owned a tine farm in Clark he County. of Canadian papers snv that the eniigra a. tion of French Canadians to the United States from the townships, is assuming e> larger proportions than ever. Since y January, 1871, no less than 125 farailie? ^ Mt ? 1 # C? X -1 L?U nave leit me parisn 01 rjomersei amue, re which is said to bo a rich parish, and th* emigration is largely composed of well to-do farmers. 1 It is believed that the struggle aboul u" to take place in Spain between the gov?y eminent and the Carlists will be a severe a(r one. flu* number of insurgents now in I the field is estimated at 10,000. The wife of Don Carlos accompanies'her busW band in bis campaign, and has resolved Jy to share whatever dangers he may meet an in his movements. [id Edward S. Stokes writes a letter " tf the public," in which, after deploring his su In-rings on accouut of confinement, or 1 lie goes over the ground of his trial. Ht ,s indignantly di-cl 'ims the alleged eollnth -ion with Miss Mansfield to blackmail cr Fisk. Of the other hand lie asserts that he was robbed by Fisk when i:i trie oil business with him, and entrapped into r set lenient by which he lost over ?150,v" 000. The trials of the persons who were II charged with murdering the hostages in re the prison of j-<a Roquette during the |10" reign of the Commune have terminated, and their sentences have been pronmlga1"( ted. The woman Gavart, who was tin ve principal actor in this tragedy, has been lis sentenced to death, and thirty other per1(] sons who were connected with the crimhave been sentenced to imprisonment foi various terms. The pigeon trade is developing rapidat ly in Michigan, fifty-seven barrel having lis been shipped in one week from Hartford 1, County, averaging twenty-three dozer per barrel. About one-sixth go to Chi eago, the rest New York and Boston. ',e The price obtaiL^u 111 the latter places if ay $2 25 per dozen, and in Chicago %1 75. |ie Hie whole cost of catching and shipping, including commissions, is only aboul ir twentv -five cents per dozen, nt , A man named Franklin, living in St. '11 Louis, 1ms sued for a divorce from his se wife on account of cruel conduct toward lie him. This amiable woman has stabbed ]j her husband on four different occasions. , She has repeatedly struck him with clubs, and has often seized him by the^hroaf In the S&nd. Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell waB in my hand, I stooped and wrote upon the sand ki My name, the year, the day ; As onward from the spot I passed, tl One lingering look behind I cast, w A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away. ir 1 * d And so methought 'twill quickly be With every mark on earth of me! A wave of dark oblivion's sea ^ Will sweep across the place Where I have trod tbo sandy shore Of time, and been, to be no more ; Of me, my day, the name 1 bore, To leave no track or trace. ^ And yet with him who connts the sands, o A **/! KaLIq fko n* o f or m TTio auu uuiuo vuw nwwt .u mm , I know a lasting record stands jj Inscribed against my name, n Of all this mortal part has wrought, jj Of all this thinking soul has thought, (J And from these fleeting moments caught, tl For glory or for shame. It Farmhouse Notes. F Camphor.?A lady, who was a devout b . believer in the power of camphor, scatter- rr ed the powdered gnrn thickly over her capes and muffs, and for two or three years J 1 tri umphantly wore them, though all win- o ter long the disagreeable odor was retain- o ed in the far. But this was not all. Even v i the first year the hair seemed to have lost d 1 a little of its gloss and life, and by the third ; was too dull, old, and worn-looking longer 0 ! to be admired. Taking them to a fur- ^ dresser for renovation, our neighbor was ^ [ dismayed to hear that the gum-camphor ?< had rendered her furs valueless. ^ In Case of a Bad Cut.?The first thing to be done is to notice the blood n ! that flows from the wound. If this is u of a bright scarlet color and spurts out * irregularly, an artery has been cut. Tie a l a ligature, if possible, above the wound a i (between it and the heart), and send some one for the doctor as fast as he can C go. If the blood is dark and flows reg- o ' ularly, a vein has been severed, and the ti ' case is not seiious. You may be able to * [ attend to the whole matter yourself with i: ' some liut and sticking-plaster and a h t}n^ i p a??a ia mnnli v\1 on/1i'r? rv I'2lUU(li^C. JJU\> 11 tUDi%j in liiutu uiucuxu^ the doctor should be called in. Piper clay or whiting with some dry lint over j i it, the whole confined by a bandage, is p ' an excellent remedy for a bleeding fli 5 wound, and many a man has saved his t] life on the battle-field by clapping a 0 - handful of dry earth to his wound. t j Feed Your-Crops to Cattle.?A. C. I Lockwood, Monrofe; Iowa: lam the own- a , er of a small farm upon which I can and ^ do raise good corn, wheat and oats, as well Q as hogs. But there being a question in ^ my mind, and also, I believe, in the minds a | of some others here, as to whether a man a largely in debt for his land can pay the j1 | same by selling corn and oats at 20 cents, J1 ' wheat at 75 cents to $1 per bushel, and D hogs at 2 to 3 1-2 cents per pound, I nat- kurally wish to inquire whether I cannot > turn a small portion ot my land to a better account than raising these staples, and if ' so, how? Not having a home market, will t i it pay to go into strawberry or grape cul- , ture, or to raising vegetables of some kind? e . Mr. Stewart?Let him raise stock and n [ feed out his crops. By grinding his grain t; t he can feed all his stalks or straw, and ' thus make his farm carry double or treble I as much stock, and keep it rich, and de- " . pond on sales of stock to discharge his lia- o ! bilities. a Feed for Fowls.?Gutelius Snyder, v i Pavilion, Mich.: A great many people com- si plain that they get no eggs during the ? [ winter. This fault does not belong to the ^ chickens, for they alone are at the mercy I of their owners for their living; hence if x i hard corn once a day is given, and nothing it more, how can the fowls be expected to p ; retnrn any " hen fruit?" ^fy method is sj this: For 50 fowls take 12 quarts of fine, well-cured clover heads or Timothy hay, * [ and cut up fine: scald this thoroughly d r with boiling water, having sufficient hay h J tea to admit two quarts of corn meal or ( bran, so as to mix with the scalded hay. If von have any sonr thick milk add as you 0 . wish to help to cool it. but don't be afraid ? to mix it too much. Put it in troughs or si pans: then call up your family of fowls, e . chickens, turkeys, ducks, ttc., and see how freely it will be partaken of, and mark the increase of eggs. Soon after discouraged " [ hens will begin to sing; careless roosters h , will soon crow every hour in the day. t This is a cheap food, and supplies the tl ^ fouls with what constitutes a large part of . their food during the summer. fi 7. \ I Geeat Eruption of Vesuvius.? A des- c ' I patch received from Naples, and read by ), J Mini-dor L-mza in the Italian Chamber v of Deputies brings terrible news of the I j eflerts of the eruption of Vesuvius. J. .! Flames are said to have burst from the I 1 earth under the feet of the inhabitants, a t and two hundred persons have been c burned by the lava. The town of Torre ; del Greco, on the southwest foot of VeI suvius, is threatened with thp fate of (] Pomp, ii The people are tiving from 1 their homes in all directions, and the authorities are making temporary pro- " ' vision for them?no light duty, as the t town of Torre del Greeo alone contained c 4! some 13,000 inhabitants. A telegram 1 j from London announces the prevalence s '' of rumors that sixty tourists, who had I approached too near the volcano, had ebeen killed and wounded. The Bay of p Naples is covered with spectators and ^ the scene beggars description. It is 1 : worthy of remark that Torre del Greco n I is built of the lava which buried the p t greater part of the previous town in the 0 i eruption of Jnr1791. . I 8 T Railroad Accit vt.?An accident oc- j curred oil tlie G, * Western Railway, three miles west < r Suspension Bridge. " Owing to a mistake of a telegraph oper- t ator, two freight trains c.nne in collision, r damaging two engines and seven or ( eight treight cars and their contents. There was no serious delay to passen- " Brevitle?. The cattle in Newtown County, Ga., * :e dying very rapidly from some uu- / nown disease. / Chicago is agitated just at present over le question : " Shall policejloaptains ear plug hats ? " Addie Ballou married a couple, and i the nuptial lecture told them 44 crales were cheaper than divorces." At a wedding in Poughkeepsie, not >ug ago, the parents of the bridegroom aarged the invited guests ninety cents a ead for supper. There is near Knoxville, Tenn., a spot hich nestles between the mountains nd rejoices in the appellation of th# Happy Valley," where we are told only -? ne death has occurred in twelve years. The water in the town well at a village a Mississippi having grown to be too luch on the mineral spring order, an ivestigation was made, and eighteen ead dogs were found resting in peace at ae bottom. A youth of twenty-five married at) old idy of sixty in Mayfield, Kentucky, a liort time since, and turned all her roperty into greenbacks, after which oth himself and proceeds turned up r'ssing. At the Providence Opera House, Mis* sodora Cameron was made the recipient f a number of floral offerings, and one f the boquets contained a small silver use, in which were four one hundred ollar bills. A mechanic in a Vermont village put ut on a placard, " I Will Not Truit No lore," whereupon his rival across the treet put over his shop door the words, 1 Trust Here Forever." Could competi- j ion do more ? ajfl A Wisconsin school mistress was re- M loved lately for " catching a young man V p by the legs and jerking him around nth great force, striking the left temple gainst a bench or some other obstacle ud bruising it severely." As two men were out hunting near - Georgetown, Texas, the other day, one f them, while imitating the call of a urkey, was discovered by his companion, rho, seeing only his head, and supposng it to be a turkey, fired and killed Im. In Gaston County, North Caroliua ? uring the temporary absence of Mr. larrison Gant and bis wife, their twe ittle boys, aged respectively five and even years, found a jug of whiskey and rank a large quantity, from the effect f which they were thrown into eonvulions and died within a few hours. J A Mrs. Dr. Satir, at Napoleon, Ohio, at * recent local election, succeeded in get ing in an entering wedge for woman uffrage. She was escorted to the poll?. ?y a judge who said that it was all right, nd her ballot was taken. Then cam* nother,but of the tribe of Belial or Woodmll; but that was too much for th* ndges, and they refused to accept any aore ballots from women, l< aving Mrs. laur the only female voter 1n Ohio. A Republican Wedding. Nothing could have been more diverting han the manner in which the bride of Sir 'harlcs Dilke arrayed herself for the great ~~?^ vent of her life; and as it ushers in a ew style of marriage ceremony it is flting that our lady readers should know the etails. It is told by a lady, thus: " Misa bell, the bride, called early one morning n an intimate family friend of mine and sked her to go shopping with her, to rhieh my friend consented. When their hopping business was concluded, Misa hell asked her if she could spare a little irther time to accompany her to chprcb, ~ ?- ? -- ~ ? Vv/v . ? nn</\/I f K rt f m/\rn s sue was guiug iu uc loiuncu ium uiviujgt She said she would Dot keep her ^ )tig, as the service would be short, aud he would not have to answer any queaions. The bride, I may tell you, wu ressed in a waterproof cloak, and wore a rown straw bat, and these articles of ttire she kept on during the whole of the eremony. Immediately the service wu oncluded she rushed into the vestry to ign her name in the register, without ven waiting for her husband. As soon s this was done she seated herself in the rougham, bid my friend adieu, and told ?r that she should be happj' to ece her hat day fortnight when they returned rom their marriage trip, as on that occai.on they intended to give s>me of their riends a Champagne luncheon. The eitie? and citizeness then drove from the burch to several of the shops, and then to i- house in Sloane street, where the lady rrote various letters and invitat lie Chammane luncheon, ate a >r tlu n left ristoemtic republican husband fo;B Hj ountry to spend honey-moon." Sei.f-mi'rdering Children.?Se]f-rS^fl^HH| er by children, is now frequently r> -? d ; the last is that of a boy fifteen yetrs^^^^^H Id, in Boston?is due, in part at least, to he detailed reports of this and othct rimes to which their attention is so contantly called by part of the newspaper ress. If a lad coines to look to his fathr's morning journal or to the penny beet which he can buy upon the street Dr thrilling accounts ot bloody scenes nd crimes of violence, his mind readily rows morbid, and what is possible with thers begins to seem possible with himelf. When in this condition trival cir I utnstances may overturn his reason. The^^B^HJ loston boy who killed himself on ay left a note ''expressing the opir^^B^^^^B hat he was insane." The poor lad ight; but whatever the cause of t^B^Bf^^B emporary insanity, we doubt that itwg^B^BH^B avo had this terrible result if he had iH^^B9H