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YOL. II. m 39. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1872. ; f I
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Indian Chiefs in the City?Their Appearance?Daring
Attempt to Rob a Bank. ^
Capture of the Desperadoes.
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LO THX POOR INPIAN.
I was present at the reception given to
the Indian Chiefs at Cooper Institute, and
occupying a platform seat immediately in ^
the rear of the illustrious warriors, I had 1
an excellent opportunity of noting their (
appearance. A general report of the pro- 5
ceedings I need not give, as it will be in
all the papers, but I merely propose to (
write up a short paragraph ot things I in- 1
dividually saw and heard, and first I will
give the names of the different Indians:?
Red Cloud, Red Dog, Blue Horse, Lone
Wolf and wife nee Ear of Corn, Red Fox,
Little Wolf, Thunder Hawk, High Bear, *
Poor Elk. Stabber, Slow Bull, Hawk s
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Eagle, Black Crow, Carry Crow on his
Head, Little Wound, Big Foot and wife }
WKWA TT? n-1- OAA/1 i,Or\i 1 /\ T-flnf '
/t&C 'I IIUC/ iJO" rv, v?\/vu JL> UliUlV, A?VV.
Two Elk, Blue Shield. Daylight, Poor
Moon, Hard Heart, Coyote, Feathered
Eagle, and High Wolf. Tbey were quaintly
and variously dressed in pantaloons,
second hand dress-coats, and overcoat
capes adorned with ornaments and beads,
while the two wives, Ear of Corn and
White Hawk,wore for their Dolly Vardens
old calico dresses with accompanying Indian
trinket ornaments, and all wore moccasins
save Red Cloud, who had on a pair
of gotta percha slippers.
Peter Cooper opened the reception by
a few remarks in which he said that his
father could remember when a wall had
to be thrown across Duane street to keep
out the Indians. After remarks from Dr.
Fisher and Mr. Tatnur, Red Cloud was introduced,
and he threw the audience into
a hearty laugh by pulling off his coat and
making his speech in his shirt sleeves with
his wristbands unbuttoned; and his speech
like that of Red Dog, was characterized
by tbe same monotonous tone of voice
and continuous gesture of the hands in
one direction, and one who has read of the
eloanence of the renowned chiefs Philin.
Logan, and Red Jacket, must have been j
much disappointed at the sing- song schoolboy
style of oratory of these noted warriors.
While they spoke the others gave
the approbational ''Ugh! Ugh!" and talked '
away among themselves, while Lone Wolf J
turned and kissed his hand to the little .
boy of the Superintendant of Indian Af 1
fairs, who sat behind liirn nodding in a (
chair, and the little fellow didn't seem to 1
have much opinion of receptions, but a
profound regard for sleep, while 44 Ear of '
Corn," a care-worn looking squaw, would *
turn with a maternal smile toward the '
drowsy child. These Indians though *
chiefs are poor looking enough, they are (
sons of nature rude, and ignorant, the ad- 1
vancement of the world has done nothing
for them, they stand to-day in the aborig- 1
ina1. condition of four thousand years ago, *
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proud ot an old blanket, ragged clothes, j
and tin trinkets, and while some of them
arouse our vegence by their attrocities.
they should all have our pity.
At the close of the meeting the Indians
all filed past, and I enjoyed the privilege
of shaking hands and bidding them all |
good-bye, and I assure you that it was
more agreeable than to feel their hands '
twisted in one's hair in the scalping operation,
which I hope never to experience.
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ATTEMPT TO ROB A RANK. f
Sometime since a man representing v
himself as a sculptor in company with <J
two others, rented rooms adjoining the 1'
First National Bank building in Jersey i
City, and afterwards on some plea rented i
others in the same building on the floor n
above. This, together with the fact of b
their coming in and going out of their
rooms at unseasonable hours of the night, a
aroused the suspicions of the other occn f
pants of the building, and one day during b
the absence of the men a young man ef- J
fected an entrance into their room through
an upper window and found the floor lit- n
tereil with the dust of brick and mortar, s
and upon removing a cupboard he found a
a large hole behind it in the wall leading <]
to the vault of the bank, through which, f
in another night the burglars would have Xl
effected an entrance to the bank and the r
vault. The brick and mortar taken out b
had been carefully concealed in a large 1
chest in the room. The young man re- 1
placed everything as he found it, and in- r
formation was given to the bank officers, t
who called a meeting of the directors and "
gave information to the police, who on n
the next night surrounded the place, and c
bursting open the doors at 1 o'clock in the c
morning, they surprised the burglars at a
their work, and, although they presented o
revolvers, and made a determined resis- s
tance, they were all three captuaed and t:
committed to the county jail and their 1)
chances for the penitentiary are as good a
as any thieves' in Jersey. v
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Novel Rehearsal.?A late fashionable c
weddin < in St. Louis, which was desired ii
to cotno ofl without any hitch and in t
proper style and with proper attention y
to the minutest detail, was on the previous
day rehearsed iu full-dress. The n
minister was present, the services gone p
through, all the stage directions fully 6
given, and the various attitudes and j
Sositions correctly learned. The next
ay's " drama" was a decided hit. *
The Franking Privilege.?Before the 1
last U. S. Congress adjourned, Mr. Farns- 1
woith introduced the bill abolishing the c
fraLking privilege, which was defeated c
early in the session. The vote stood 128 \
n favor, to 29 against. j
A Huge Job for the Doctors.
The, notable elephant Romeo, was
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raveMng with a menagerie in the West.
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Jpon arriving at Ohicago, it wa9 lound ^
hat the animal suffered with sores so
leverely, that he could go no further, and k
Dr. Boyd, of the Chicago Medical College, tr
>erforined an operation upon him. The 1
)peratio^is thus described: Romeo was t(
standing quietly in a bed of hay, with his a
estered lour feet in tubs of water, little n
ireaming what was in store for him. The r<
rounds were inspected, and it was not c<
before the M. I).. discovered that they S1
iad, indeed, an elephant on their bauds. P
Dne of the Forepaogh brothers, who has h
:harge of the elephants, placed himself in u
rout of Romeo with a pitchtork ; an as- w
sistant keeper took charge of his trunk c<
5y attaching several hand-spikes to it; a
Dr. Withers knelt before his victim, and o
n another moment several pounds of ele- ei
ihant steak were severed from the mass. r<
Simultaneously a low rumbling, like dis- y
;ant thunder, vibrated through the tent, ft
>ringing every animal in the menagerie p
o the chorus, and for a minute or two it U
seemed as if all the elements had broken tl
oose in Pandemonium. The next thrust c<
5ronght only a quiver ever the huge car- u
:ass, and after that, during three mortal fi
lours of terrible pain, the animal dis- s]
dayed only the noblest qualities of forti- h
tide. The surroundings of the animal h
>oon presented the appearance of an ill- ei
jrdered slaughter-house. Again and B
igain, under the directions of Professor w
Boyd, Dr. Withers cut, gouged, tunneled d
tnd chiseled into the poor beast, each t<
;ime cutting away or digging out a pound $
>r two of putrid flesh, and each time the si
tnife or other tool was withdrawn the "
slood flowed copiously after it. Like a a;
jracticed miner, the doctor only pros>ected
for a while, feeling his way to the b
;revices. Soon he laid bare a member, sj
ind then entered upon a task that sickened b
;he stoutest saw-bones present. Having c<
:xposed the seats of corruption, he began d
;o scoop them out, bringing handful after ?
rnndful of putrification to the surface. b
Tunneling his way along by means of e
crapers and chisels, his arm would enter ?
he animal's leg to the elbow, until the tl
sound flesh was reached. After a full n
jour spent in slashing, gouging and scrap- tl
ng, during which the poor beast was rid ri
>f fifteen or twenty pounds of putrified u
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nailer anu uesn, anu a puuuu ui mu w >one,
the surgeons concluded that suffi- h
dent for a day might be the evil thereof, ?
tnd desisted from that part of the opera- n
ion, to enter upon another more painful si
ind harrowing. Both legs had been thor>ughly
tunneled, and in many cases, where
he openings were directly opposite, but
slight integuments and fractions of bones
>revented a meeting, men were busy at
he furnace heating huge soldering irons, ^
teveral inches in diameter, to a white
leat. These were now brought into re- "
[uisition to remove the proud flesh. When ^(
)r. Withers approached the animal with
he first of these glowing irons a shiver tl
an through his frame, and he was dis>osed
to resent any further aggression,
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>ut being convinced by the pointed argunents
of his keeper that it was all for his ^
;ood, he issued auother low thunder, *
rhich was echoed from every cage, and
traighteued his trunk and braced himself W
or further martyrdom. The red-hot iron ?(
ras now run into tunnel No. 1 the length ^
if about a foot, and a hissing sound, folSll
owed by dense volumes of fumes and an
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tolerable stench, issuing from the openng.
The poor brute shook like an aspen,
nade a slight effort or two at resistance,
me soon settled into quietness again.
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Another red-hot iron was introduced,
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gain there was a quiver of the whole
rame. but this time he only drew up his
>ack and changed his position a trifle.
'he blood now began to flow from the
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averns in copious supply, a sight that
uade all the other animals of the cat ,
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pecies desperate, and lions, tigers, leop,rds,
hyenas, panthers, wolves, and others
?f the innumerable horde whose cages
ormed a circle about the martyr, joined
n low growls, which were intensified to
oars and shrieks as the fumes of the ^
turning flesh filled their nostrils. This ^
umuit caused a score or two of keepers ^
o rush for the dens of the pets in their ac
espective charge; and as these added
heir not over-gentle voices to the vol- ^
me, and the rage of the beasts tor the ct
once was still further aggravated by ^
udgels and other persuasive things, cal- 01
ulated to stir uj> the animals, the hi <? d<
nd cry was terrific, attracting hundreds 1*
f people from the neighborhood, who ai
urrouuded the tents, though in moinen- ar
ary fear that a deluge ot uncaged wild
easts would come upon them. But against *?
ny such catastrophe the strong cages ^
fere proof. When the din and noise was at
omewhat quieted, the operation was pro- 01
eeded with, and during the two follow- ln
tig hours above fifty red-hot irons were ^
hrust into the poor brute's carcass. to
Vhen the surgeons finally desisted it was ^
lot because they believed their task com leted,
but because the caverns had as- ,s
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uined such dimensions that the two-inch
rons proved too small to be further effecive.
Iiesides Romeo was evidently weak- ^
ning and getting a little." groggy " from
oss of blood, Dr. Boyd estimating tin t he m
iad lost about three pai'fuls during the it
>peration. The openings were then ttior- yi
ughly washed with lotions, and afteri
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vards oarefully bound op. The unfortnn-! ]a
ite beast died a few days after. 1 fc
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Execution of Communists.
The bloody work still goes on in France,
hree of the Communists were lately exeited,
and the execution is thus described
y a correspondent:?
The priest, going up to each in turn,
issed him on both cheeks, in what seemed
) me a hurried and perftnctory manner,
hen, when the sentence- was being read
> the prisoners in a quick, low, quite inedible
tone, Boin made a long haranguel
luch of which was lost in the perpetual
oiling of those ghastly drums. But one
onld distinguish snatches of sentences
ich as ''Soldiers, you are children of the
eople as we are, and we will show yoto
ow children of the people can die. Nous
lonrons innocents," and then opening
'ide his light coat?he wore no waistoat?he
offered his white shirt-front for
mark, and striking his heart with his '
pen palm, he exclaimed: " Portez armes ,
n joue! feu! tirez au cceur! " This he re- t
jpeated several times, and while he was 1
et speaking, standing oot clear away '
om the poteau, and looking death at ten
aces literally in the face, a sword flashed
5 the sun, and the three men leaped from' *
je ground only to fall to it in horrible ]
ontortions. The smoke and report wei?e t
nheeded, for all the senses of the horri- s
ed spectator were arrested by the awful j
pectacle of writhing limbs and twisting
ands. Boin seemed to be rewarded for
is bravery by suffering less than the othrs,
but Serizer literally rolled over, and '
loudin also moved. The surgeon then 4
ent up, examined Boudin first, and thtn '
irected one of the sergeants in reserve to
> give the coup de grace in the ear. Then f
erizer was examined and treated in the f
line way; and lastly, after considerable
iterval, Boin was dragged into position ]
d dispatched. I cannot give you any 1
lea of the sickening impression produced y
y this seemingly deliberate butchery. I ,
\y seemingly, for the men may have j
een dead, but, in any casa, surely if the t
iup de grace must be given, it shouid be 1
one at once. I did not time the pro
eedings, but long as my description is, 1
elieve that not more than two minutes ,
lapsed troui the time that the ambulance i
ragons came on the ground to the time 1
hat the volley was fired. Several more 1
nnutes, however, elapsed before the dull *
lud of the last coup de grace delivered j
ight into the poor wretch's ear struck i
pon the ground. 1 have seen something i
f ihe horrors of war at Sedan and Stras- j
ourg; I have witnessed the degredation f
f a public hanging in England, hut have (
ever seen anything so horrible as this f
uppleuiental butchery of the coup dt grace. *
Accepts the Nomination.
President Grant in accepting the nom- y
lation tendered him by the Philadelphia *
ouvention, said: (
' I accept the nomination, and return \
ly heaiifelt thanks to your constituents <
>t this mark of their confidence ami sun- ^
s
art. 11 elected in November and pro- f
icted bv kind Piovidence in health and 3
rengMi to perform the duties of the high <
list conferred, 1 promise the same zeal f
id devotion to the good of the whole g
?ople for the tuture of my official life as s
town in the past. Past experience may
ride me in avoiding mistakes inevitable
ith novices in all professions and in all
icupations. v
" When relieved from the responsibilities c
' my present trust, by the election of a f
iccessor, whether it be at the end of this fl
'I'm or next, i nope to iea>e tu mm g
xecutive a country at peace within its f,
vn borders, at peace with outside nations, 7
ith a credit at home and abroad, and t
ithout embarrassing questions to threat- h
i its future prosperity. tl
"With the expression of a desire to see v
speedy healing of all bitterness of feeling ?
'tween sections, parties, or races of citi- n
ns, and t!ie time when the title of citizen r
rries with it all the protection and privi- c
[res to the humblest that it does to the a
ost exalted.'' e
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Vaccination.?About two years ago a ft
mall pox Hospital was established at tl
ampstead, near London, on account of T
le increasing prevalence of that disease. ^
he Superintendent lately publi>hed an fi
count of his observations in that hospital ft
'the effects of vaccination in mitigating b
le severity of the disease. Nothing b
?uld be more conclusive than the result. 1
hi. rw?rp..nt!>nrp nf rtpntlic nmnno tlmisp nrl. Tl
itted without vaccination marks was tj
>.43. Among those with one mark the tl
'rcentage of fa<tl cases sank to 17.39 ; ] st
nong those with two marks it was 13.29; fi
nong these with three marks only 10.58 c
r cent, died ; only 8.38 of those with li
ur marks, and only G.13 ol those with n
re or more marks. Of cases of small-pox ti
ter successful re-vaccination thore were o
it three out of 6.221, but there were a
any cases to prove the fallaciousness of tl
le doctrine that persons not susceptible y
i vaccination are proof against small-pox- s<
ut the conclusion is that successful reiccination
after the age of fifteen years
a sure protection against the disease, b
ases are rarer than those of second small- a
ix, and are very mild when they do p
cur. T
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The Effects of Forests.?Whatever p
ay be the climatic influences of forests,
is certain that they are found to afford 1
lluable protection to crops. Iu Wismsin,
on the prairies, the winter wire:.:
seriously injured by the severity of
st winter, while in the wooded districts ii
te crop is quite uninjured. e
The Heat of the Day.
There must be those who bear the heat
And burden : on with weary feet
They toil along the noontide way,
Nor rest when comes the fall of day.
Through dewy morns, through tender eves,
Love's labor keeps them binding sheaves
^Which no man cares for : One on high
Will count their earnings by-and-by.
0 patient heart! heroic will!
That bends to work such strength and skill!
The angels sometimes Stoop to ask
The meaning of thy daily task.
God knows, beyond an angel's ken,
The grandeur God bestows on men
Whom sorrow, failure, pain, and loss
But crown anew at every cross.
Farmhouse Notes.
Sugar Beets for Swine. ? A writer in
;he Practical Farmer says that he finds
lie sngar beet very good to fatten his
logs with. He begins with the beets
ind finishes off on corn. As the result of
lis experience, he found that his hogs
attened earlier, with a material saving
if corn.
Potatoes ?I once limed some pota;oes,
says a correspondent, and found
hat they could not be boiled soft.
[ couldn't eat them hard, and I did not
hint it would be honest to sell them,
10 I threw them away. I would not apily
lime as some do, even to dry the
lieces when they are cut for seed.
Sorrel.?I have seen, says Mr. Stewlrt
in the farmer's club, old lime-kilns
perfectly green with a growth of sorrel,
rhe fact is that no tarmer who produces
10 or 50 burhels of corn per acre, or two
ons of hav, ever complains of being
;roubled with sorrel. If the soil is well
nanured the crops grow freely, and
sorrel, as well as other weeds, become
smothered and killed out.
Cure for Whistling in Horses.? I
lave tried the following, and cured a
lorse that whistled badly. The recipe
vas furnished me by a skilled horseman.
Put from 10 to 20 drops of spovgia
osta on the tongue of the animal in the
norning ; and at night the same propor;ion
of Fowler's Solution, in the same
nanner. Repeat alternately from four
o six weeks, giving more or less accordng
to the severity of the case.
To Prepare Rhubarb for Pies or
1'arts.?Cut the 3talks fiom the plant,
idding them of their leaves. With a
inife scrape off the outer skin, and cut
;ransverselv into little pieces, being sure
0 remove any fibres that adhere, just as
?ou do in striuging beans. To each
lornd of this substitute for fruit allow
lalf a pound of sugar if for immediate
lse, one pound if designed to keep as
ireserve. The addition of a little grated
em on rind is esteemed by most persons
1 great improvement to the flavor. Spice
>f any kind, however, may be added if
'ancied. This is the most common use
:o which rhubarb is put.
Mock Gooseberry-Fool.?Cut up and
icrape as much rhubarb as will be enough
;o half fill a glass bowl of the size you
vish to use. Stew in enough water to
;over it well. When tender, rub through
i colander to a smooth pulp. To a quart
)f the fruit, well sweetened and flavored
vith lemon peel, add a quart of sweet
ream, stirred smoothly in till well mixed,
leap the bowl up high with whipped
yllabub. If you have no cream, substiute
a quart of custard, made with the
oiks of six eggs. In place of the svllamb,
use the whisked whites of the six
'ggs, sweetened with six tablespoonfuls
>f fine white sugar, and brown the top
lightly with a hot salamander or clean
hovel.
A Word to Fathers.
We have read a story of a little boy,
rho, when he wanted a new suit of
lothes. begged his mother to ask his
atlier if he might have it. The mother
uggested that the boy might ask for himelf.
"I would," said the boy, "but I don't
eel well enough acquainted with him."
'here is a sharp reproof to the father in
he reply of his son. Many a father keeps
is children so at a distance from him
hat they never feel confidently acquainted
nth him. They feel that he is a sort of
lonarch in the family. They feel no faliliarity
with him. They fear him and
espect hjnvand even love him some, for
hildren cannht help- Joving somebody
bont them ; but they seldom get near
nough to him to teel intimate with him
'hey seldom go to him witli their wants
nd trials. They approach him through
he mother. They tell her everything,
"hey have a highway to her heart on
rhich they go in and out with perfect
eedotn. In this keeping off plan fathers
re to blame. Children should not be
eld off. Let them come near. Let them
e as intimate with the father as mother.
,et their little hearts be freely opened,
t i9 wicked to freeze up the love fonnlins
of little ones' hearts. Fathers do
tiern an injury by living with them as
:rangers. This drives many a child away
rora home for the sympathy his heart
raves, and often into improper society.
I nurses discontent and mistrust, which
lany a child does not outgrow in his lifeme.
Open your hearts and your arms,
h, fathers! be tree with your children:
sk for their wants and trials; play with
liein; be fathers to them truly, and they
rill not need a mediator between themelves
and you'.
Poisoned by Wild Parsnip.?Three
rothers were recently poisoned to death
t Flint, Michigan, by partaking of wild
arsnip, supposing it to be sweet-cicely,
'hey were found dead in the field. Two
ompanions who had also eaten of the
oisonous plant were saved by swallowing
obacco, which was admimstered by their
ither.
Philologists say a cat is superior to man
a one respect, as she can sound five vowIs
at onoe in y-a-e u-i-1.
Southwestern Stock-Raising.?Stockraising
is carried on in the Southwest on a
scale of grandeur which is almost inconceivable
to persons living in the vicinity
of the great cities of the North and East^
where land is worth ten thousand dollars
an acre, the corner lots sometimes sell for
a hundred thousand dollars apiece. For
example, there is a farm, or ranche, in
Texas, which contains one hundred and
forty-two thousand and forty-eight acres.
It is kDow as Rolideaux Ranche, and lies
between the Neuces and Rio Grande
rivers. It is a peninsula, running lar out
into the Gulf of Mexico, and the head of it
is guarded by thirty miles of plank fence,
with herdsmen's residences at intervals of
three miles along the whole distance. If
a man had a farm in this region as large
as the island of New York, it wonld be
looked upon as a pretty good-sized piece
of real estate; but this Texas rancbe is
more than ten times as large as the island
of New York. And it is stocked on a
scale commensurate with its extent.
Thirty thousand beef cattle, and tens o!
thousands of horses, mules and sheep feed
over its grassy stretches, and yield a vast
revenue to their owner. There are othei
ranches in Texas, comprising respectively
over a hundred squire miles?sixty-four
thousand acres?and stocked by thousands
upon thousands of cattle, horses, mules
and sheep. And so favorable to stockraising
are the soil and climate of that
State, that the increase of stock is said to
average twenty-five per cent, per annum.
A Lot of Suns.?Some astronomers
have computed that there are no less than
75,000,000 suns in the universe. The fixed
stars are all suns, and have, like our sun,
numerous planets revolving around them
The solar system, or that to which we belong,
has about thirty planets, primary
andsecondary, belonging to it. The circulai
field of space which it occupuiesis in diameter
3,600,000,000 of miles, and thai
which it controls is much greater. That
sun which is nearest neighbor to ours is
called Sinus, distant from our sun 22,000,000,000
of miles. Now, if the fixed stars
are as distant from each other as Sirius is
from our sun, and if the solar system be
the average magnitude of the systems ol
75,000,000 of suns, what imagination can
grasp the immensity of creation? Every
sun of the 75,000.000 controls a field ol
space of about 10,000,000 of miles in diameter.
Who can survey a plantation containing
75,000,000 circular fields, each ol
them 10,000,000 miles in diameter ? Such,
however, is one of the plantations of Hint
who has measured the water in the hollow
of His hand, and meted our heaven with a
*pan, and comprehended the dust of the
earth in a measure, weighed the mountains
in scales, and the hills in a balance ;
Him who, sitting upon the orbit of the
earth, stretches out the heavens as a curtain,
and spreadeth them out as a tent to
dwell in!
IlrsRANDs and Their Wives.?Some
husbands never leave home in the morn
ing without kissing their wives and bidding
them "good-bye," in the tones of
unwearied love, aud whether it be policy
or fact, it has all the effect of fact, and
those homes are genera ly pleasant ones,
provided always that the wives are appreciative,
and welcome the discipline in a
kindly spirit. We know an old gentleman
who lived with his wife over fifty years,
and never left home without the kiss and
the "good-bye." Some husbands will
leave home without saying anything at
all, but turn round at the last point of
observation and wave an adieu. Some
never say a word, rising from the breakfast
table and going out with a heartless
disregard of those left behind. Their
wives seek sympathy elsewhere. Some
husbands never leave home without some
unkind word or look, thinking that such
a course will keep things straight in their
absence. Then, on returning, some husbands
come home pleasant and happy,
unsoured by the world; some sulky and
surly with its disappointments. Some are
called away every evening; some doze in
speechless stupidity, until bed time. " Depend
upon it," says Dr. Spooner, "that
home is the happiest where kindness, and
interest, and politeness, and attention are
the rule on the part of husbands."
Up in a Balloon.?The immense balloon
which has been building for five
months at Chelsea, to be used at the next
Forth of duly celebration at Boston has
been entirely destroyed by spontaneous
combustion. The Boston Times says:
Mr. King, the owner, intended to have invited
about a dozen newspaper men to
accompany him to the npper regions, and
there is consequently some disappointment
among the quill drivers on account
of the news from Chelsea. A couple of
press-men met, and this colloquy ensued :
"Too bad about the balloon, isn't it?"
said the younger to his elder and more
practical brother. 44 Yep, rather severe."
44 But it's better to burn on the ground
than up in the air with a dozen reporters
in it," said the first speaker. 44 Yes, may
be it is !?but," after a pause, 44 it don't
make half so good an item !" The youthful
scribe was horrified.
A certain idiot, allowed to frequent the
grounds of Eglinton Castle, was one day
seen by the Earl taking a near cut and
crossing a fence. The Earl called out,
44 Come back, sir 1 that's not the road."
"Do you ken," said Will, 44 whaur I'm
gaun r' No," replied his lordship.
44JWefi, boo do yr ken whether thi? be
the road or no ?"
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Hay Sixty Tears Qld.
The farm is remarkable for its odd
characters, leading isolated lives, taking
no paper, and never venturing beyond
the nearest market-town. We have
heard of men who kept their bops and
wool safely stored for twenty years,
waiting for higher prices. And lately
we have fallen upon a gentleman of the
old school, who boasts of hay in his barn
cut in the year 1812. He has an excellenl
grazing-farm, and bay has always been
one of its chief products. He inherited
a propensity to keep over old 3tacki
from his father, and the propensity hat
grown with his years. At the close ol
this season of foddering, when hay hae
been quick of sale at forty dollars a ton
he has at least a hundred tons on hand
Stacks are numerous, from two to sii
. years old, and some so old that the topi
grow "an annual crop of weeds. -H<
could have got thirty dollars a ton fo;
i his hay a year ago. It has startled hin
, that hay has risen twenty-five per cen
in a year. It is easy by ciphering t<
' show that he has made a thousand dol
lars by holding on, within a year. Hi
l holds confidently for a rise, and expect;
fifty dollars a ton next spring. The ha^
j crops on hand to-day are worth mori
than the farm would sell for. He neve
I ciphers on the waste of dead capital o:
; the reproductive power of money wel
. invested. He has been so saving of ba^
that he has always been afraid of stock
ing his farm up to its full capacity. Th<
one thing needful in his life has beei
more old hay. This is a good illustratioi
of the persistent abuse of old proverbs
It is well enough for a farmer to kee|
over a few tons of hay to guard agains
: the contingencies of a dry season, whicl
may compel him to sell stock at a loss o
to buy hay at extravagant prices. Bu
a hundred tons of hay unsold, whe]
worth 840 a ton, is another story.i
Hearth and Home.
Sewerage Waste.
1 The enormous loss to the country o
' fertilizing material through the waste o
' sewerage of our large cities shows a re
' markable lack of enterprise on the par
. of our people. In Europe great progres
has been made in the introduction o
means for utilizing the sewerage ot cities
' and practical exi eriments indicate tha
this is a work which can be carried 01
with gTeat profit to those who undertake
it. At Crossness, near London, are tic
works of a "native guauo company,1
1 which is now in successful operation
> deriving its material from sewerage
> At Crossness is the reservoir for tin
I southern sewerage of the great metropo
lis. At this point 50,000,000 gallons o
1 sewerage are daily discharged. Tin
works of the guano company are buil
f on one side of the Government pumpin<
station, from which is drawn daily 500,
000 gallons of sewerage, which is ope
rated on by the ABC process, so calle<
because alum, blood, charcoal, and clay
are the ingredients used for purifvinj
the stuff, 5,000 gallons of the ABC
mixture beiDg added to 50,000 gallons o
sewerage. The whole is conveyed int<
mixing pits, whence it is transferred int(
tanks, where it remains from four to sij
hours. During this period the precipi
tated matter accumulates at the bottou
as fine as mud, and the water which hai
become clear, odorless, and chemically
pure, is dra^n off. The residue is ther
! dried and packed in bags for the farmer'!
use, meeting with a ready sale at 817 5(
per ton. This leaves a profit to thf
manufacturers of S10 a ton. It is esti
mated that if the whole of the seuerag<
of London could be tieated in this man
ner, the result would be a clear profit ol
' over six millions of dollars annually ol
the manufacture, while the lands ol
Great Britian would gaiu in value mucl
more than the cost of the guano fron:
the return to them of so much fertilizing
material.
A Grammatical Dialogue.?The fol
lowing conversation between a young
lady who wrote for magazines and an old
gentleman who believed he could epeal
English, occurred somewhere in Massa
, chusetts, and is quoted for the benefit o;
grammarians:
Old Gentleman?"Are there any houses
building in your village ?"
Young Lady?"No Sir. There is a new
; house being built for Mr. Smith, but it is
the carpenters who are building."
Gentleman?" True; I sit corrected,
To be building is certainly a different
thing from to be being built. And how
long has Mr. Smith's house been being
built?"
Lady?(Looks puzzled a moment, and
j then answers rather abruptly.) "Nearly
! a year."
Gentleman?''flow much longer do you
think it will be being built?"
Lady?(explosively.) " Don't know."
Gentleman?41I should think Mr. Smith
would be annoyed by its being so long being
built, for the house he now occupies
being old, he must leave it, and the new
being only being built, instead of being
built as he expected he can not?"
Here the gentleman perceived that the
lady had disappeared.
When the Dark Cometh ?A little
girl sat, at twilight, in her sick mother^
room busily thinking. All (lay she had
been full of fun anil noise, and had
many times worried her poor, tired
mother. "Ma," said the little girl,
" what do you suppose mikes me get
over my mischief and begin to act good
just about this time every uight ?"
" I do not know, dear. Can you tell me
why ?" " Well, I guess it's because this
is when the dark comes. You know I
am a little afraid of that. And theD, ma,
I begin to think of all the naughty things
I've done to grieve you, and that perhaps
you might die before morning, aud
so I begin to act good." " Oh 1" thought
I, "how many of us wait till the dark
comes, in ihefbrm of sickness or sorrow,
or trouble of some kind, before we 4 begin
to act good !' How much better to
be good while we are enjoying life's
bright sunshine 1 and then, 4 when the
dark comes'?as it will, in a measure, to
all?we shall be ready to meet it without
fear."
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A-Chicago woman committed suicide
because she thought her soul was lost
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Brevities.
The St. Petersburg Hob*says that the
. personal expenses of the Grand Duke
! Alexis,, duriug his travels iu jhe United
, States, amounted to upward 6f$20C>,000.
, . ITJc All r*f7\j 1 7i Jv
L Russian agriculture, is of a very primitive
character,. They use.th^sarae old
' wooden plow that had served their an!
cestors before civilization came to them.
! A Bachelors* Union has been formed
i at Kalamazoo, Mich. We never heard
[ of but one bachelors' union that was
} successful, and that was called marriage,
j No person can enter the Russian do[
minioos without an accurate description
i being taken of his person. His age,
( employment and the object of his visit.
ing the country are all reoerded.
t Those best acquainted with the topos
graphy of the Colorado desert are conflJ
dent that a larger subterranean stream
r runs nnder ft, tfnd that the dntire desert
i may be reclaimed by artesian wells.
^ The California Republican is iflcorrup5
tible. A man sent the editor" ft basket of
" strawberries and a leader. He ate the
5 berries and sent back the leader, which
3 shows that his morals are all right.
[ 5 It is so pleasant to know that Agassiz
p-has found a few species ?f-gasteropods,
fourteen kinds of shinederus, including
j an ouryeal, fifty specimens of ophiuraus,
aud, to crown the whole, a large helias[
ter.
~ At a boarding house in Chicago, iom
1 mon fish oil is used in the lamps. The
proprietor, who evidently has a sharp eye
to business, says that " it is good as the
" boarders go to bed quick 'cause he smell
?t so bad."
1 A band, which serenaded a young
-~-l awVm-Ko,,
j? lUttrricu uuupiU) m uuc vi oui. * * ??- *
^ towns the other evening, selected a peq
culiarly happy and flattering piece
_ known as "The Monkey Married the
Baboon's Sister."
A correspondent of the. Iowa Homestead
describes a pear tree which was
grafted on the hawthorn in 1808, and
1 which is now about fifty feet high, trunk
f five feet liinef inches in circumference.
It bears fifty bushels of pears annually,
t A sportsman who, during the shooting
a season, had gone to pass a week with a
f friend in the country, on the strength
if of a general invitation, soon found, by a
t gentle hint, that he would have done
3 better to wait for a-special one. " I saw
e some beautiful scenery," was the visitor's
R first remark, " as I came to-day by the
" upper road." " You will see kill finer,"
was the reply, u as you go back to-morj.
row by the lower one." I
e A lady correspondent asks us if a Dolly
- Varden can be box plaited, whipped and
f gathered in a yoke, or is it best to hsve
3 insertion and flounces with puffing. We
t think that neither way is good. Two
5 rows of bobinette, hem stiched, and in
serted with double gathered ruffles of
- brocade tape, with a guyset and hem
1 stich or two at each end, and this quilt7
ed and made en rerers in the back, with
? bias cuttings, double puffed, of blue or1
gandie, running transverselv across the
f whole, lined with point applique ticking,
) and fluted, would be for more stylish.
) .
c Thfl FuhariM.
j Samuel Collins, one of the charterers
i and crew of the fishing schooner Fiola C.,
7 of Gloucester, seized in Trinity Bay by
| the cutter Stella Maria, for alleged illegal
) fishing, arrived at Gloucester recently,
> and has sworn to an affidavit of the par
ticulars of the seizure, before Collector
J Babson, of that port, which has been forf
warded to the proper authorities at Washi
ington. The affidavit sets forth the folf
lowing facts:
' That the Euola C. was at anchor, was
r not fishing, and had not been fishing in
&hore; that she was boarded by the Captain
of the cutter Stella Maria, who engaged
in friendly conversation; that Oapt.
' Cunningham asked the Captain of the
' cutter in regard to the treaty, as he would
" not fish in shore until assured that he
had a right to do so; that the Captain of
^ the cutter replied that the treaty had
passed Parliament by a large majority,
' and that in his opinion there would be no
trouble in fishing in shore; that the Captain
of the cutter said his was not a rev5
enue vessel, but a light-house tender, and
had nothing to do with the fisheries; that
' some of the crew, boarding the cutter,
' asked what a brass gun was for on board
a light-house vessel, and were told that
' it was to be put on Bird Iiock as a signal
I gun? that, acting on tnese assurances, the
Euola C. proceeded to lish, and the next
day the Captain of the cutter came down
stream and laid in ambush, as he afterward
informed them, from noon nntil 6 o'clock
in the evening, waiting for the wind to
die away, so that the schooner could not
escape, when, with three Indians and seven
white men, airarmed, be came alongside
and boarded the schooner; /hat he
then read hi9 commission and took charge
' of the vessel, ordering one of his men to
the wheel; that, when charged with bis
duplicity by Capt. Cunningham, he replied
that he bad no right to give Americans
information; that they mnst look
' out for themselves. The schooner was
taken to Father Point; telegraphs were
exchanged with the authorities at Ottawa,
and the schooner was towed to Quebec Dy
the steamer Druid.
Another Queer Wat of Marrying.? v
A pair were married at Plainview, Min- (
i neaota, in an unusual way lately. The |
ceremony was performed in a dancing
hall, the door of which was filled for
dancing, except one set. Then the happy
couple followed by three newly married
couples, stepped forward and formed the
lacking set, the minister stepped into the
centre of the circle and performed the
, ceremony, the mnsjc struck up, and the
t dance wen? forward as if nothing bad
, a -aT ztt 9"
; happened. f, ^ ^ f
i Thb Second Session of the Fqrty-sec,
ond Congress has ended, and both
looses' stand adjourned till the first
r Mtakhty itf ?ecefhber. ?be closing
r scenes in t>ofch houses were exciting.
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