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- VOL. II. NO. 33. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1872. I
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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.
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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