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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.
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" 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.
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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.
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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
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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
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: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
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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. ^
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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 '!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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