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p The Beaufort g?|3 Republican. f --*?* ? ? ' = 11 ' " INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLTTICS, LITERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. VOL. II. NO. 50. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1872. ' ... : 1 Only a Word. A frivo'ous word,% sharp retort, A parting in angrv haste, The sun that rose on a bower of bliss, \ The loving look and the tender kiss, .. Has set on a barren waste, ^ Where pilgrims tread with weary feet Paths destined never more to meet. A frivolous word, a sharp retort, A moment that blots out years, Two lives are wrecked on a stormy shore, Where billows or passion surge and roar, To break in a sprav of tearsTears shed to blind the s* vered pair, Drifted seaward, a-;d drowning there. A frivolous word, a sharp retort, A flas^ from a passing cliud, Two hearts are scathed to their inmost core, Are aehes and dust for evermore. Two faces turn to the crowd, Jlpsk.-d by pride with a life-long lie, To hide the scars of that agony. A f'ivoh.us word, a sharp retort, An arrow at i andom sp d, It has cut in twsin the mv*tic tie That hud bound two souls iu harmony. Sweet love lies bleeding or dead. A poiso ed shaft with scarce an aim, Has done a mischief sad as shame. A frivolous word, a sharp retort, Alas! for the loves and lives So little a cause has rent apart, Tearing the fo- des* heart from heart ?s a whirlwind rends and rives, Never to reunite again, But live and die in secret pain. A frivolous word, a sharp retort? Alas! that il should be so? be petulant speech the careless tongue, Have wrought more evil and done more wrong Have brought to the world more woe, Than all the armies age to age Records on liist'r\'s bloodstained page. A LIFE LESSONDo not tell me it is the same old story, ami tberciore < I no account. There is no lesson of real life that is not as old as life itself. The blessing which came of the first throb of a loving heart has been daily and hourly re-echoed for thousands of years anoit is as sweet and fiesb to-day as it wa-s in that morning hour when the sun fir>t shone upon the love scene of - E'Jcn. And those lessens of life which lead to the true living, though they may have been preached and expounded over and over again, can never be peached too much. Tbev cannot be worn out. The need of their guidance will c?ase only when this life shall have been swallowed up in the life eternal. So, though tbi* som^ lessoD has been often illuctiated and enforced. 1 d?em it no unset rn'y repetition to tell the s rople story which shall illustrate again. 1 knew Albert Moore well. ? I hate known hiui fioin his boyhood,? and I knew Alice in ihe other years, aKo and the l.s*on of their life which I now write down culminated under my own observation. Albert .Moore, at the ageot twenty-nve. took Alice Warren for his wife, and fancied that lm was going fo be as har py as it is given to ordinary mortals to be. Albert h .s been in the army ? bad gone in at the age of twenty?fought through frbm Ball's Bin 11' to Richmond?had come out with a captain's con mission.?and had found lji? wav, immediately noon his discharge. ?o his earl\ love and demanded the helping bind in the commencement of the peaceful life. AfWoid net refuse him. She had b< ld linn in her heart through the dark years ; and now, in the glow of the glad light, she j >ined hands with biui happih an l hopefully. Albert had come from the army with but little money ; but he uad a good trade a stout heart, ami a strong pair ol bands ; ami he borrowed no trouble for t!m fmuie. Vlice ha 1 saved up a few hundred dollars tram her wages as a teacmr and when the twain had become man and wif" thev found, upon a carelu! invent -rv, that they had enough to furnish a sma 1 house comfortably. Albeit pto posed that tliev should hire a bmertunt in timet; ; but Abce thought they had better secure a pretty cottage in the suburbs?a cottage which they might, nerhap-. in time, make tin-mown. Albert ha-1 r.o disposition t?< argue the question: so the cot'age was found and secured. It was a p'easant, rural 1< citior, and so connected' with the city b\ rail, that Albert found no difficulty in goiug (oand horn his work shop. Billing her five years experience in school-teaching Alice had learned many things, and having been an orphan from an early age she had made the problems of real life one of her chief studies ; and what she lia-1 leaned in this latter depaitment setved her wel in her n? w station. Alter hi! marriage she found Albert t.? he ju?t the man she had known lntn to be in the other \ears He was kiud to a la'.lt : bee-lie:rtc?l and generou> ; rcndv a'wax* to answer the call of friendship; and prone t?? pi trek the fl >w? rs that M onied tcday, regardless ot what might be unrturcd to b'ootn on the moriow. Tiny bad teen mat lied but a few months when Alme found that herhu-beoc was cutting bis garments from day to day e\ tef !y according to his daily supply ot cloth. Not a shred was he likelv to save up tor the eutnr ot an extra garment for a is nv day to eotnf. u A'b it," she said to him, onecvrning. " do vou know we ought to be la\ing up a litt'e something All>ut looked up from hi" paper, and wrote 11 for I is vi i<e to elucidate. * ! think 1 heard v u tell Mr. Gieetiough that you had no m?me* ?that you had paid awav your la>t dollar this wrr afterno?in V ; Exae ly. mv dear ; but you know to-inoirovv is pay-d ly." '4 And vou have spent y .u:r last month's earnings ?'' ' Y s." A biief silence ensued, which Albert broke : 4- Come, Abe .?yon've got something on voui mind. Out wnb it. 1 will listen." And th.n Alice, ma smiling; pleasant way, went on to nil her husband that the* ought to be laying up something. Albeit smiled in turn, and asked bo* fncu a thing was to be done when it cost "all be could earn to live. ) I " You earn three dollar? and a bait a fro day said Alice. rei " Yes." st? " George Somers earns only three on dollars ?" coi " You are right." on c And vet be lives, and does not run in foi I debt." " * i ' 11 But he is forced to dcnv himself many l't'le comforts which we enjoy." an " And the one great comfort which int we miqht enjoy we are throwing away." lie " How is that, A!?ce ?" inc "The comfort of a littb sum in the ai bank which we would see growing toward by the answering of future wants V cia Albert could not, fur the life of him, see dir bow it was to be done ; and Alice feared dei that a lesson of "mpty wo-ds might be he wasted. She kne v her husband well. Sh? qn knew that bis ambition needed a substan- ho tial prop. Never, of bis own accord, would on he commence to save by littles. He did vvi no* estimate money in that way. Had da; some kind fairy dropped into hi* hand a mc five-twenty bond for five hundred dollars. pr< he would Lave put it awav gladly ; and 1 with such a nrst-eeg in the start he nvgh Hn< have sought to add to tb store. But be ev< could see no hope in a dollar bill, and much le;s could he discover the nucleus ot a grand saving in a frty-cent sciip, With Alice it was different. From her m( meagre earnings a> school-teacher ?he had, ^ f in less than five years, saved up three hundred dollars ; and Hie fiist savings she lj; had put nv had been a silver dime. She be knew what li' tie by little ould do, and she was dottrmined to sh<?w it to her ^ j hiishan '. She must he patient an<> persevering ; and these qualities she possessed ^ d in an eminent decree. It was to be the in grand undertaking of these first years of 0f her wedded Me, and to do it she would bend every available eneriry. She planned that, it possible, she would get hold of thai mil odd fifty cents every day ; or il she could or dot do that, sh<* would do the best she -pi: could- coi Generous frank, loyal and loving, Albert was an easy prey to the wiles of a wile as 'oval and as loving as himself He gave her me money when she asked tor it ; and she wo asked lor it when she though he had wa any to give. And here let me say that Alice knew r"( her hu?band would nor run ill debt. That we was an evil they had both array?d them be< selves agamst in theoutset. Wu? n Albert's wa purse was empty lie bought nothing ; and , when it was full he was apt to buy more 'ac than he needed. Alice knew all this and tvil governed herself accordingly. mi " I think," said Alice, one evening, sa( ' that I must, fix over my old brown ' cashmere for winter. I should like a new one ; but I don't suppose you can afford ^'h it." sa> Albert looked grieved. The idea tfmt ()e, lie could not atfbrd his wife a new dress ! ^ But tor such an one as she wanted it would cost twenty-five or thirty dollars. "al " If you want if. get. it !" said Albert rf>s emphatically. " I will let you have an< twenty dollars from this month's pay,and roc ihe balance you shall have next month." (j Alice got the thirty dollars, hut she did not get i he new dress. By the outlay of P''1 rive dollars for new trimming she contriv <1 to fix over the brown cashmere so thai ] it looked every hit as good as new. And so Alice worked. Sometimes she A iskt-d her husband f.?r ten cents ; sometimes, for fifty cents, sometimes, for a liedollar ; and sometimes, for more ; ami at [j^ t he end of a year, upon carefully reckon- ( ing no, she found that she had managed to tret hold of rather more than In r fifty t02 cents a day ; but she had done it by of denying berself of many things, some ot Jl(j( which were really needful. , ? ? tor The result of the first year's effort inspired, Alice with new iife and vigor. -ml She had saved up one hundred and fifty l.e dollars, and had invested it it government ^re umds. Through the influence of a dear friend who was in a large hanking escah- 'M> lishtnent, and to whom she hail confided < e' lo-r secret, she was enabled to get tne Sh bonds at their face value. ,,f ] It was only a little at a time-sometiines re0 a very little?but even a penny dropped into the strong box was so much gained. ?Only a little,?but those littles, multiplied by other littles, grew amazingly. \V< The husbandman who should set himselt <rr down by a hill of corn, ami wait to ^ see the tender blade put forth, would he wearied and disheartened ; hut he knows '"lI if he plants the tiny seed, and cultivates drt is lie ought, that the harvest of golden rio grain will come at length. Albert and Alice were married in the -pring ol 1866. it was on an evening ol HV< \ugust. 1870, that Albert come home out tor of sorts. He had been notified that he ex< must leave the cottage. They must give j up the plea-ant home, and 'ose the little garden they had cultivated with so much fondness and care. bai 4t l'iie owner wishes to sell,'' lie explained ; ' and fie has had an offer. He tsks two thousand dollars, and must have ._ five hundred down." ^ Alice's e>es gleamed with radiant light. "P She had been thinking for some tinn gei that she must let her husband into bet tj1( secret. Ir had begun to wear upon her. And now the time had come as though H by providential interposition. Wfl She did not make a scene. She would tto not add to the denouement by any by-play. }irj( She simply got up and went away to her ^ cabinet, ami when she came back she brought a little book iu her hand H'' u Albert," said she, " let's you n e att huv the cottage." str Mbcrt looked at her in amazement ; Cf 'I tin! directly it fl ished upon bitu that there was too much solemnity in her look ,nt md tone for badinage. Something that it: ite had noticed during the ^>a*t month* re| came hack to him. and he trembled with the weight of suspence that fell upon him. Alice saw and understood. At tirst the ')e' great &>od almost overcame her, and she tin was forced to rest, and wipe her eyes. re. before she could proceed. And then she showed her book?that she had more than eight hundred dollars in bank. The ice once broken, she told her story in be glowing words, She told how she had ne saved up little by little, and how she had t]( j at length found herself able to purchase a , fifty dollar bond. And then she told how * i ber uncle, in tbe banking bouse, bad bu taken charge of her investments; and how tin under his management, tht interest had n I accrued in amazing volume. JBut the grand result was not the chief thing. The chief thing was in the beginning?was in the Jlrst littU which had tai been religiously saved until the teeond ch little could be added to it. aiJ And now, as a result of bis wife's careful and tireless working, Albert found something upon which his ambition could j tale a fair start. He never could himself, j 97 >m so small a commencement, ha ired the pile ; but with the structu trted, and its proportions all block< t, he could help on the work. I uld not see how it was done?and n ly that, hut the deinonstr .tion was b e him that the thing could be done. One year has elapsed since Albe >ore received *he lesso* from his wil d by joining hands with her, and ben r his own energies in the same directio has accomplished, during the twelv mth. what would have seemed to hi narvel in the earlier time. He had Is more than titty cents a day; and tl ;ars and the beer, and the other co nents of life which he had surre red t<- the work, are not missed?rath* holds them as so many enemies co ered. And Albert can improve 1 'tie with cheerful heart, and he can s t new trees and vines in his gardi th bright promises, because he see y by day, the pretty cottage growii >re and more his own. The end a aches a little at a time?little by litt but it approaches surely, neverth< les d there is a great and satisfying ji ;n in the labor and in the anticipate Murdered by Indians. ?A Goven mt train consisting of thirty-six mr ims loaded with army supplies for Fc on, was proceeding along Dry Cree tween Carson City and Fort JLvo lorado, under the command of Ste van, wagonmaster, and while in t illey of Dry Creek, the traiu was mir sand. While thus detained a bai 200 Arapahoe warriors, under t mmand of their chief. Little Raver ide an attack, which equals in outra ferocity any annals of Indian massaci ie wagons were burned, and all t atents that could be carried off we ten; the mules were run ofl, and t te< >n belonging to the train were 1< unded or dead on the field. Mr.Bry 8 skinned alive from head to foot 1 i savages. Besides these, fifteen mi re missing. They are supposed to ha eu carried into captivity. The tra s uuder escort of Lieutenant McFa id of the Sixth United States Cavalr th one hundred men, but being ni: les in the rear at the time of the ma ;re, no protection could be afforde . Stanley was with the escort ai len it arrived at the terrible scene, t] rages were just retiring over the hi' vond, whirling their tomahawks ar jutiug in mad glee over their ill-gott< us. Every Indian has abandon*d tl ervation at Camp McDowell. Arizon 1 depredations are going on in all <] tions. Toe troops in anticipation < .'arrival of Gen. Howard with frej ace negotiations, remain idle in canr ETOW THR JUBILJE MUSICIANS we] id.?The Boston correspondent of tl icago Tiibune says: Strauss, was tl it paid of any of the foreign artist received Si7,500 for the seaso sides a guarrantee 52,500 (g"hl) benefi ether with transportation and expens himself, wife and two servants. 1 lition to this lie received .$3,300 (go! his three New York concerts, at J his Jubilee waltz for $550, so th went b ick to Europe after his thn eks' visit, with about $25,000 in li -I. T>..u/.)ib'u T.untm.p r J IN CI. lliauailig X VOVimu .MVi* ved for tlie season of thirteen concert 5,000. Franz Abt, who conducted 01 Ilis own compositions at four concer eived ?12,000*S3,000 for each. Ar la Goddurd received ?500 literally fi ng nothing; Franz Bende) $2,000, ar jlili. SI,250 for two appearances. Tl >at orchestra drew $75,000 out of tl asurv for their first week' salary. Tl isicians from other cities than Bostr w "frlO a day per man and transport n. and the Boston players S8 per da e home brass bands received on i -rage $25 per man for the week. Tl eign bands cost about $5 p. r man a da dusive of expenses and transportatio ard alone averaging about $3 a da e total expenses of the four foreij nds were about ?100,000. A Straxoe Case.?The ITnrrodsbn y.) Peojile submits tlie following ca on the authority of a trustwortl ntleman of Merger county: "Durii i war Mr. M. w as so badly wounded ? arm that amputation above tlie elho is found necessary. After the oper n the patient complained of much pa " -.1 - 1 1 TT . . . [1 (lisoo'tilorc in trie iianu. ue ?a it it whs 'crumpled up' and uneonifor le and gave liitn no rest. One of tl endants told liim lie wr uld go ai aighten the hand. The attendant a rdingly went and took the seven ?mber from where it was buried, placi in a natural position upon a board ni uried it. As soon as the operath .9 finished the patient?without liavii en informed what was done?declar it his hand felt much better, and so< fised to experience auy trouble from >w, what sympathy could the nerves 0 arm have with that part which h en taken away ? The existence rve memory accounts satisfactorily f e fact that a patient may feel a pain p hand or foot alter it has l>een cut c t how account tor the perception e nerves of the altered conditiou ot t iputated member?" Fre r.iit.?bv the increas "itF in western-bound freight, the fii iss rates from New York tc Chics d Milwaukee are $1 |?er "Luixlred, <. te 7oc. To Buffalo 70c. per hundn 1 rate 65o. To fc>t, Luui* 12b, old ri o. ve A Sad Incident. re e(| Among the sad stories told of the Metis le disaster, is the following: In the saloon <>t of th? Narrag wsett, sat a young woman. e" poorly but neatly dressed, weeping silent,rt ly near the snot where the dead body of fe, her husband lay. She was asleep when d- the collision occurred but was awakened n' by the shock, and told her husband to get up and see what was the matter. lie id did so, and soon returned saying that he the Captain had told him there was no danger. He got into bed again, but his " wife could not sleep, and was soon again n. alarmed by the sound of many feet runlis to and fro. A moment later the steward, et a brave man of whofn all spoke well, en rushed into the state room and told them >s, fjg to put on life-preservers as the ship was p- sinking. This was a terrible shock, but they hastened to obey the order. The s' two children of the young couple lay asleep, one a baby six weeks old, the * * Ti.* i? Ottier a Doy or uiree. me inuici iui^ the biggest child in his arms, the mother a~ citing to her infant, and the two struggled 1 *" to the deck. The saloon was knee deep )rt in water by this time, and in less than ' five minutes?possibly the poor woman n' has no very exact idea of the lapse of VP time?man and wife were in the water. bp The waves ran high, and soon the hus6(1 ^ band and wife were swept asunder. The former lost strength, relaxed his hold on the child, and both were drowned. The )S ' mother held her babe above the hungry c< waters until her strength, too, was ex*P , ' hacsted, and then a wave larger than the hp rest <lsshed it from her arms, and she saw rp it sink slowlv to the depths below. Just 01) * as she was exhausted, and after the lifepreserver had slipped from beneath her an , ? , , arms, the Moccasin came up ana she was - recalled to a life which, for the present at least, is bitter indeed. "I have my hus ve J band here," she said, "but they can never in . r find my babes in so large a sea." y. DP About Mad Dogs.?It often happens ^ that a dog, as soon as he feels ill, run4* ^ away from-home. One would say that I he is conscious of the danger which his ^ presence might cause to those he loves, ^ and that he intentionally goes to die in a corner or get killed in a street. SomeEm times, and exceptionally, yielding to ^ a natural attraction, he returns, and re|.' sponds to a caress with a bite. Once really mad, and running about at liberty, j he attacks every living creature he meota, giving the pr? ference to dogs over other animals, and preferring any animal to human beings. It is a great consolation *E to know that a person may be bitten by ie a ledly mad dog without contracting ie die disease. A bite through clothing lias rarely serious consequences; the n' saliva?the only vehicle of infection? lt- being thus wiped from the animal's e?" teeth. Oat of twenty individuals bitten, n it is uncertain how many will go mad ; perhaps Done. But it is quite certain that they will not all go mad. The cause Ht of the escape is unkno.vn ; but such ee escapes make the fortune of charlatans. 18 cuuning men, and practisers of superstie" tioii8. Bitten persons, who have taken ,8' such and such drugs, or have gone le through such and such devotional forms, 18 and remain unharmed, never fail, they M* and theirs, to attribute the result to the means employed. But it is a reassur i ing thought, likely to have a favorable j ie influence, without hindering the em- : ,e ploym< ntof rational precautions, to know ,e that, although bitten, it is quite possi>n hie not to be touched by the poison. Infinitely better is it to persuade the .v* patient of this than to hazard remedies in which will make as many victims as there K* are persons foolish enough to try them. I y, n. v Persevere against all disconrago" ments. Keep your temper. Employ 3 * leisure study, and always have some, work iu hand. Be punctual and method- j rrr ical in business, and never procrastinate. | se Never be in a hurry. Preserve self- i possession, and do not be talked out of | ,,T conviction. Rise early, and be an jn economist of time. Maintain dignity w without the appearance of pride; mnnH ner is something with everybody, and :fl everything with some. Be guarded in , j(j discourse, attentive, and slow to speak. X<>ver acquiesce in immoral or pernicious I opinions. Be not forward to assign 1(l reasons to those who have no right to 0 ask. Think nothing in conduct unim e(l portant or indifferent. Rather set thai; e(| follow examples. Practice strict temper. Ij(j ance, and in your transactions remcmber the final account. r\ir I I ed Light.?'The lamplights of Edinburgh on recently struck work, and that the streets j it. might not be left dark at night the allot thorities ordered that the lamps should ad be left burning all day. But John Musof grave and William Robinson did not br like to see the public money wasted in in this way, so they extinguished some of IT, the lamps. When taken before Baillio by Miller they pleaded guilty, but added be that they thought they had done a meritorious and by no means criminal deed?why burn lamps when the sun is ?d shining ? The BuiJlie asked them if they rst were willing to become lamplights ; they go said that they were not, but one of them >ld avowed his readiness to light the lamps ^d, he had put out. This would not do, and ite so both were fined ?5 for practising their yrivate thrift on publio works. Making Lead-Pencils. Tin wood most commonly used in the manufacture of lead-pencils is the Florida cedar, except an inferior grade, chiefly for the use of carpenters, which is made from white pine. The lead is the well-known " plumbago," or graph ite, of the best quality of which there is now only one available mine, that being in Asiatic Siberia. Hence the limited supply and high price. Many pencils are now made by grinding and cleaning what was formerly regarded as refuse in working the plumbago, and making a paste by mixing it with clay. In mixing the clay and graphite great care must be taken in selecting and cleaning the clay and getting the proper proportions. The mixture, after being well kneaded, is placed in a large receiver, and forced out through a small groove at the bottom in the shape of a thread of the thickness and style required?eithpr square, octaoronal, or round. Thie thread, or lead wire, is cut in bars of the i il i.i -i?--l.l?, ^ Ann A proper icngtu, tucu sinu^uicucu, uucu at a moderate heat, and packed in airtight crucibles and placed in the furnaces. The grade of the lead depends upon the amount of heat it is exposed to, the amount of clay used in mixing, and the quality of the plumbago. The lead is colored by various pigments. The wood, after being thoroughly seasoned, is cut in thin strips and dried again, then cut into strips of pencil length. These strips are grooved by machinery, then carried on a belt to the gluiug-room, where the lead is glued in the groove, and the other half of the pencil glued on. After being dried under pressure, they are sent to the turning-room, and rounded, squared, or made octagonal by a very ingenious little machine, which passes them through three sets of cu'ters, and drops them ready for polishing or coloring ; the former is done on lathes by boys, and the latter by a machine which holds the brush and turns the pencils fed to it through a hopper. After the pencil is polished, it is cut into au exact length by a circular saw. and the end is cut smooth by a drop kuife, the pencil resting on an iron bed. The stamping is done thus : a hollow die is heated, the gold or silver foil is laid on the pencil, which rests on an iron bed, and the die is then pressed on it by a screw lever. The pencils are then ready to be packed for the market. Strange Poisonino Case.?Mrs. Charlotte Lamb has been arrested in Trumbull, Perce county, Wis., accused of poisoning five person*. In September, 1871, her lm band died very suddenly, showing symptoms of poisoning. In Miy last her son, aged teu years, became suddenly sick, was afflicted like his - i- i ?! :_ 1 T? tatlier. ana <ne<i wnuin ?u uuur. xu June her daughter, aged eight years, died equally suddenly. Last month Mrs. Lamb went to Mrs Jane Oilman's house to assist in taking care of her while sick, mixing a powder for her patient, which Mrs. Oilman drank, com plained almost immediately of violent pains in the stomach, and in a few minutes was dead. Royal Garland, another neighbor of Mrs. L imb, is her last victim. Mrs. Lamb was cooking for him during the harvest, and after drinking a cup of tea prepared by her, he was seized with violent pains and died in a short time. The stomach of Mr. Garland has been sent to Dr. Hay of Hudson to be -- 1 .1 1 :i : : 1 ? :ilJ:11 Yzeu, iiuu n is suiu puisuu ?us luuuu. The bodies of the other victims have been disinterred, aud the stomachs are now with the doctor lor analyzsis. Mrs. Lamb's house was searched, and strychnine and arsenic were found. Her examination will begin on Sept. o. The Matter of Size?If a greyhound were as large as an elephant, and had the power and stride that would correspond with his size, he would kill himself in running a inile. The material of his frm ie would not stand the strain. The draught horse is never a race horse. Beyond a certain weight, the loss of the power of th'etness begins. Nature puts her materials into the best forms for securing her objects. The swallow is swifter than the swan. Ship-builders have found, to their sorrowful and disastrous cost, that above a certain size a ship is profitless' Taking into consideration the material of which ships ate made, the modes of handling them, and the needs of commerce, two ships, possessing the aggregate capacity of the Great Eastern, are worth twice as much as she. The statement will doubtless be good for all time. There is a limit, fixed by nature, in this matter of size, on all the instrumentalities of human commerce of every sort, beyond which results are unsatisfactory. There will never be a railroad with a twenty-five feet gauge; there will never be another Great Eastern. Suggestive.?The following pleasant news for wine connoisseurs is contained * ' ' ' /-il 1 i.T i. in a leiier irora uarisrune: ?jusi as usual, several cart-loads of bilberries are passing through our city en route for Wurtetnberg, where they will undergo a process of pressing, and be sold to the *ine dealers for coloring wines, etc. Many a wine-drinker thinks, while he quaffs his red wine, that its tint has been derived from the glowing sun of Bordeaux or the Upper Rhine, whereas, hi rtality, it is indebted for it to the pine loreaU ol K)deiiwuliL'* i The Car o Juggernaut. The Iudian correspondent of the London Times recently wrote a letter in relation to the Juggernaut festival in which he said he thought the cruel ceremonies hitherto in vogue were no longei common. Irr reply to this another gentleman writes: Home twenty-five years ago, I was managing a large estate in Lower Benga belonging to a Hindo geutleman. Ir the chief village of this estate there wai a Ruth, or Juggernaut car, which hav ing become dilapidated, underwent rath er extensive repairs. These cars ar< supported on a number of wheels whicl arc invisible externally. On the d;r when the Ruth ought to proceed on it t journey, the huge multitude found i impossible to move it. As I afterward learned, the priests had locked tb< wheel?. For two or three days the peo pie tried to move it, but in vain. A last it began to be whispered that a hu man sacrifice was required to inaugurat the newly repaired car. A day or tw< more, and I was told that the victim lia< been procured in the person of a leper who li.id sold himself for the sum of ?6 I was also told that the Darogah, or Su perintendent of Police, hid been band somely bribed, and that he would repor to the magistrate 'Accidental death.' did not believe all this, especially as m; informant was a woman who, I thought might have been imposed upon b> whn we call 'bazaar gup,' or common gossip but in two or three days more I was in formed that, to the joy of the whol mnnt.rv rnnnrl nbrvnf tVio "RnfVi a last moved, but that uufortunately, poor leper falling nnder the wheels ha< been crushed to death. It was, how ever, a purely accidental occurrence, fo after a most searching inquiry, the Dc rogah had so reported. After this es perience I made a practice of watcbin the Ruths, of which there are a grea many in Bengal, and invariably foun when one refused to be dragged by tb people, as the smaller car of yourcorres poudent did,its first motion was attende with a serious if not a fatal accident Your correspondent thinks tbe fact th;i the man whose thigh was crushed dran gin proves that he could not be a fitsul ject for a Hindo sacrifice. It appear he does not know that all those wh swing at the C'mrruck Poojah are per sons of the very lowest caste, or rathe no caste at a'I, who are paid by wealth Hindoos to do this penance in thei stead. The fact of the man's being a outcast, is a very strong proof that h was a purchased victim, and this is sti further confirmed by the native-like at tempt to divert the suspicions of th Sihebs by the loudly-expressed blam of the god for punishing him. Anothe suspicious circumstance is that the pc lice had got themselves and the statio magi trates away from the 'smaller ear, | so that there might be no interruption t : what was about to happen." Forbade the Bans.?A little chord in Iowa, at a place called Tete des Morts was lately the scene of such an exception i and the uproar created by it appears t< have been intense. A young couple wer in process of being united, when a gentle man rose in the church and forbade thi marriage. He proceeded, amid extraor dinary excitement, to set forth the44 jus cause or impediment," which, in his view rendered the propose ! union inadmissible The lady, it appears, had been previously engaged to himself, in proof of which tin jilted one forthwith began to read in j loud voice some of her love-letters wliicl lie drew from his pocket, and which wen couched in a strain of extraordinary warmth and eloquence. On this, tin friends of the bride, naturally averse t< publicity being given to her gushing ! effusions, set up an indignant outcry, ant I tried to silence the reader. His friend: J on the other hand, stood by him ant insisted ho should go on. A violen altercation ensued, which the clergymar vainly sought to suppress, and at last tin churoh became what a Dubuque papei calls 44 a perfect pandemonium'' of shout ing and recrimination. With infinit< difficulty, the combatants were got out o ! the sacred edilice, only to continue th< row in th?* church-yard ; but the mail object of the interruption was, at al events, secured, for the marriage wa stopped, and is now said tone lndennitei; postponed. Detection of > elf h uric Acid e \ ineoab ?ihe following process for de tecting the u(J0th part of free sulphuri< i acid in vinegar, it is stated, is sufficient : ly accurate for all practical purposes i A fluid ounce of the vinegar to be ex amiued is, by < vaporation upon a watc: bath, reduced to about half a drachm or the consistency of a thin extract when quite cold half a fluid ounce o strong alcohol is to be thoroughly in corporated; the free sulphuric acid wil be taken upjby the alcohol to the exclu sion of any sulphates; the alcoholi< liquid solution should stand for severa hours and tnen be filtered; add to thi fil mtp one fluid ounce of pure distille< wattr, and evaporate ofl the alcohol b the application of a gentle heat; the re maining liquid is again left standingio several hours and again filtered; to tlx 1 filtrate, previously- acidulated with a fet drops o! hjdror.Lloiic acid, a solution o culoride of banum is added, which, i sulphate acid be present, will jield, i white precipitate. ^ y Brevities. It takes 3864 sergeants de ville to kee , Paris in safety. t New York is fond of frnit, and has paid 82,100,000 for it this summer. Time will by and by hang np his scythe; that is, he will when he shall be no mower. TTrr cheapest meat i3 deer in British 5 Columbia. You can buy a whole carcass I for two dollars. . 1 Cider apples sell for ten cents a bnshel s in CobnecKcut. The barrels will probably cost more than the cider. " . Two newspaper editors in Montana 3 Territory .have bet their offices, good-will snd alh ow: the Congressional election in 1 a certain district. f A domestic servant in a Michigan town s hus turned out to be a Pennsylvania t heiress who was alxluctel from home in s her orplmned infancy ?tt the instigation e of her designing next of kin. A sharp old gentleman travelling ont I Ttr?* j ' oAiif Kuai.lo hia wifa in a ?? t^l/ a scav wvo.-... ...? ... _ crowded railway car by requesting the * yonng man who sat bv her to please e watch tbiat tfmhan while he went into 3 another car, as she had fits. 3 A terrible disaster has occurred at , Oporto. The steamship Perseveranza went ashore there in a fog at the eu'' trance to the hajbor, and was totally lost. Thitty persons on board perished - before assistance could reach them. t In consequence pf the disappearance f of a child abducted by gypsies and not y yet discovered, the German Government proposes to lay a bill before the next '' Parliament seriously restricting the * liberty of wandering gypsies and Tagil abond troops. i- In a recent debate, a member of the e California Legislature exclaimed: -'The ,t honorable gentleman f from Calaveras County is undoubtedly a person of great a abilities, am n of talent?a natural born d genius; but there is one thing I defy him - to do, ind that is, to bite the bottom out ir ot a frying pan without smutting his nose." ' J '! > i The Emperor ot United Germany lost '* bis stick the other day, and advertised for ? it in the daily newspaper, as any old it burgher might have done; atrifliDg fact, 3 which indicates the fjne trait of the German character?perfect simplicity. The e old sovereign had attached himself to that > stick, which was given him by an Alsatian d peasant on his return f^om the war. Two marines, named Welsh and Donit nelley, were taken from the United k States frigate Worcester, sent to the State Prison at Weatheisfield, Conn. '* They were tried at sea for using disrepu"8 table language to an officer. They were o sentenced to seven gears' imprisonment .. each, but the sentence was commuted at Washington to four years each. v Of forty-two Atf otic steamers lost at sea between the years 1841 and 1872, r thirty-eight were of iron and four of n wood. Of the line of iron ships running e into the St. Lawience and Portland II Rivers, nine were lost between 1857 and 11864, and five iron sailing vessels, all built in Great Britain and sent to sea e in 1865 and 19Gft, have never been heard e from. . ' * wf. r ; ~ J *TW VmA Af n.Atrlp?rifllrp* D Under the name of " crotalus horridus," 1 the poison of the rattlesnake is utilized in 0 homcepathic pharmacy. Messrs. Thompson & Capper of Liverpool,having recently (j imported a number of rattlesnakes, ab1 stracted the venom frbin the live animals j , in the following ingenious manner : The 3 reptiles were in separate compartments of e a case, fitted with a double lid for extra . security. A long staff, fitted with a thick B India rubber noose at one end, which . could be loosened or tightened by the t hand at pleasure, was inserted through the partially opened led, and the opportunity quickly seized of slipping the loop i over the snake's head, the loop being j immediately drawn tight by means of the t cord attached thereto. With a similar , contrivance the tail was next fastened g and the snake being thus securely held, . was lifted out of the box to the floor 3 of the room. A pickle bottle containing , chloroform was then thrust over the t snake's head, and carefully held in its j place by keeping time with the animal's s efforts to extricare itself. As tl.e reptile j became stuoefied, the noose was gradually ralnr^ tr. ..naf.la tlia lnrifTj tr? liuvo full 1 play, and when it appeared powerless, the ? snake was laid in a long, narrow box r made for the purpose .with an aperture at one end, out of which its head projected, s while the after operation was performed, f Its jaws were then opened and fixed, and s the poison glands were then pressed with 1 forceps, then with the gloved finger and j thumb, while a small blown graduated ? phial was Jiehl to receive the drops as they oozed slowly out through the poison fangs. Twenty drops was the average quantity yielded from each snake. The * venom is of a straw color, thick and gummy in consistency and decidedly acid J iD its reaction on litmus paper. It is readily soluble in glycerine or water, but precipitated by strong alcohol, the precipitate being redissolved with the r addition of a little water. Its toxicologi' cal properties were fully tried on a variety ? of animals. Half a drop produced death ^ on a linnet within three minutes after ' being injected under the wings. The ' symptoms produced in all cases were very " similar.? Cowt Journal. c 1 Singular.?At Gaylordsville, in Faire field County, CtM there resides an old I lady named Sarah Gaylord, who is so ? deaf that a large bell, rang immediately - near her ear, cannot be heard by her. r Despite this absolute deafness, she will e go to chnrch-Jisten to a lengthly sermon, ^ v and then return borne and be able to II r*peat the discourse word for word. Her a emire knowledge of the eeionon is gained Ilrom the motion of the speaker's lipa. a