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V t ...: T ' rr ITO .? Y**3?*3* T<?W8? i : -' * *4' Y*' * ^ ' *"' w?M ' ' ' ; - Y The ^Beaufort Republican^ . . ' . i j i * _ . ' M f **'- " ''* ' ' * - -1 AX INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATTF.E AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO LS?TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. . 'fc ' ! r;.' ?, 7 .1 VOL.111. NO. .19 BEAUFORT. S. C.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13. 1873. ? " Ift$&S&V28f ! t T{ ' ' "So the Story Goes.'' 'Twas once tipon a Summer day? So the story goes? The FrauLlin's daughter chanced to stray Where the mill-stream flows. And as the nwtic bridge she crossed? Ho the story goesOver the rail she stooped, and lost From out her breast a rose. The stream ran fast, the stream ran strong? Ho tho story goes? And ou its waters bore along The careless maiden's roee. The miller's son stood by the bankSo the story goeslie stopped thb wheel; and, ere it sank, Caught up the maiden's rose. Then in his can he placed the flowerSo the story goes? And boldly to the maiden's bower He hied at c.aylight'b close. " Is this thy dower, sweetheart ?" he cried? So the story goes? The maiden blushed, the maiden sighed, ' Oh, give tae back my rose!'' " Two flowers," he said, " bo sweet and fair So the story gees? ' Twere shame to port?one breast should boat Thyself and this red rose." What more tho youth and maidr? said That Summer eve, who knows ? But he kept the flower and w on the maidSo the story goes. - -li *lH1S FOLKS. " I can't stand it, and what's moro I won't," said little Mrs. Hiukle, clutching the bars of her uucomfortable old cage of a roekin"-chair.""*' Mr. Hinble placidly lrttng- Hip his almanac, and went out to sow the early peas. He could stand almost anything, and yet remain as serene as a cabbage head?which, indcee, his wife often said he resembled. Laviuy's tautrums troubled him about as much as a mosquito's buzzing would trouble an ele pliant; but be thought they were kind of wearing to her, and that she 41 came to quicker" alone. So he left her swinging herself sensick in the rocker, and shuffled off to the garden with a hoe and a pint dipper of peas. At the gate he met Miss Niddlius. 44And how's your poor wife?" said she,' snifling. She suffered with a chronic cold in the head, which gave her an extremely sympathatic manner. "A?etobc stirring," replied Mr. Hinklo, shuffling oil Ins .brown leather moccasins. Even a canbage bead may be, as it usually is, ruffled inside ; and deep in his Blow-bentingheart Mr. Hinklo was annoyed at the sight of Miss NiddlillS aild tlu* ombrviiWrrtt Mnrt-tlcking bag which betokened a week's visit. 44 Laviny's putchikv encfUgh without being set on," said no, leuning on his boo in the favorite attitude adopted by scarecrows. 44 Yes, I really think she is," he went on, weighing the proposition deliberately. 44 Not that I mind her being sprv-tempered and spitting out of mo It's onlvn wav she lias, and pomes of liev enjoying bucJi poor health. She'll cool iown ; 4ut that old njaid hain't any coll to rile her^' and hero Mr. Hinkle gave the hoe linxlle a resentful poke, as if it personated the spinster aforesaid. Like many men not gifted in public speaking, he was much given to talking aloud when alone. Indoors his wifo claimed exclusive right of speech. "And here I've stuck, like-a dab of {nitty, from the day I married with leuben," she wns saying to Miss Nid-< dlins. " I've had to walk on eggs, or his folks would be in my hair. They've had their remarks to make about all* my doings, and, you may depoud upon it, it grinds. Mrs. Hinkle must hnvc boon ground very sharp indeed, judging by her cutting tongue. " Foor thing !" groaned Miss Niddlins, using her handkerchief just then because it would produce the effect of pity. " See how I was put upon this morning by his sister rhebe," said Mrs. Hinkle, moving the end of her nose rapidly back and forth with her forefinger* as if she was playing on a Jew'sharp. "That woman had the impudence t? twit me of neglecting Reuben, because 1 leave him to get his t?wn supper sewing-circle nights!" " Don't tell me so!" sniffed MissXiddliws. " Did Mr. Ilinkle complain to her?" "Catch him complaining !" cried Mrs. Hinkle ; " he hasn't got spunk enough. Why, lie's no more grit than a hay-stick and" he's as not. I couldn't mako him break with his folks if I was to suffer. Wish I was single ; then I wouldn't be nosed round Vy 'eifi^* Now lie re jou tro, free to go when' you please Miss Xiddlins sighed in the affirmative. It was her peculiar trial that her relatives never opposed her going. "If you was to separate, I suppose you've got enough to live on," suggested she, cautiously. Mrs. Hinkle's rocker jerked itself into a lull stop. Mio iiau oit.n saw " Reuben must choose betwixt his folks and her," that "she would take herself off," and the like; but to have a third person hiut at a separation startled her. " Well?yes," said she. hesitatingly. ^ " I've got the property I brought with me when I was married. I won't deny but that lleuben has done the fair thing there ; but then, it he'd been some men, he might have doubled it by this time. The long and short of it is, he's half a sleep. I have to keep stirring liim ^H^Rtup, after all, he don't appreciate me !" " I believe it would wake him pretty ^B^^Kioroughly if you should leave liim," ^^H^Bturncd Miss Niddliys. " He'd begin realize whgt a smart wife he'd lo^t.". " He'd clutter the kitchen with his B greasy harnesses, and camp dow'n on the lunge in his boots?that's what he'd B do?the minute I was off!" snapped j Mrs. Hinkle. " He couldn't manage without vou, to save his life," declared Miss Xiddlins eonfidoitly. " He'd go down on his knees to you to get you back." Mrs. Hinkle seemed flattered by the idea. "A pretty figure te'd cut," laughed she, "fat as he is, and looking, you might say, as if he'd been blown up in his clothes!" I < " I'm sure I don't sec how you can iut ' smile, situated as you are," saiil Miss "fi j Niddlins, shoving symptoms of fresh cat i cold- * " J " His folks have tried ray soul out of les rue," cried Mrs. Hinkle, hastily resum- ' iug her wrath ; "and what's madded bei me tue most has been to see Reuben mo ! take it so cooL That man hasn't any I s 1 more nerve3 than a tub of lard! I ?oi wouldn't value jumping off the meet- no ing-house steeple if I thought it would i 1 give him a start." , his " Poor woman !" said Miss Niddlins, | am displaying the red silk handkerchief i ' that might properly be called her badge I coi of mourning. " It's your duty yourself; rot to go where you can take some peace of I hei your life !" j lies " I don't feel clear," said Mrs. Hin- , kit , kle, as she settled the coffee for dinner, mo : anu thus ended their first conference. I But as Miss Niddlins spent the week, | cor justifying Mr. Hinkle's apprehensions, i the ! she and Mrs. Hinkle had ample appor- I wo tuuities for renewing the discussion d ' ngi the latter's grievances, till, from not dir feeling "clear" Mrs. Hinkle, by the to , time her guest departed, came to feel, ! i as she expressed it, " all in a muddle." i ! Even her ox-eyed husbnnd noticed j somethiBg amiss with her. " I wonder whether or no sngo tea : wouldn't be kind of quieting to Laviny," j , I he reflected one morning as he jogged . | along to tho village after turuip-sced. , "I hain't seen her so fractious since B , j she had the ueurologv in her face. If J . I she wasn't a poor sick creetur I don't i J ^ know bift I should get out with her?I 1 really don'tand Mr. Hinkle lowered j ?? his voice to an awe-struck whisper as . or he gave utterance to this treasonous U). thought. |. "His folks" lived in a sick-headache- ! colored house at tho Four Corners, and , !nn his sister Phebe was banging up clothes j |'ei in the back-yard as he drove txp. j , "Got any Page to sparo?" cried Mr. ! . i Hinkle, whoaing Do'ubiu. ; " AIY>r??v? on ! in T.nvinv cninrr to w.. ? ?' ? J n o i * t make cheese in mud-time?' was Miss ; J,11, j Piiebe's answer. ; f"r " 'Tisn't none of her doings," said j of_ Mr. Hinkle, slowly, punishing tke wheel . j j with his wliip-lash ; "but she's in aterriblo nervous way, and I think maybe ; J'ir I she needs something soothing. What's bin I good for her nerves ?" als' "I don't know, without it's a sound of i j scolding," replied Miss Phebe, with her set ; mouth full of clothes-pins. . bla " Now, sister, you're hardonLaviny," at said Mr. Hinkle, in an injured tone. Hoi I "She ain't tough, like what yon be." ' " Her temper is tough enough.; but car I I'm suited if you are, poor soul!" and 3 | Miss Phebe hunted for both sage and ly, j valerian, though inwardly persuaded I the i that all the poppies in the world couldn't i ' , soothe Laviny when she once got " set | Ph i out." | fro Meanwhile Mrs. Ilinkle had been iwe ! doing a furious forenoon's work, and, ! ' ready to drop from exhaustion, was just j coj; hanging up the mopufter scrubbing tlie i i kitchen floor, when dear, blundering SJUl old Reuben scufl'ed across the threshold j "l1 with his torn paper bags, scattering , !* c dried leaves like an autumn wind, and i a(h I leaving muddy moccasin tracks at every , _ ' step. Before thoso clumsy footprints | *ur Mrs. Hiukle's feeble forbearance tied, j rul ; The herbs her husband hud trusted ;ren might prove u narcotic acted upon her j ' I as a powerful irritant. i Rei "Reuben Hinkle said she, bracing | bac he r aching back against the pump, i as i "how muck longer do you think I'm I yor i going to wash lloors for you to litter?" j for j "There, there! now don't fret," i pel ' nlcaded lleuben; "I'll sweep it up. I apt i You do putter round niore'n you're able, ! I'll I that's a fact. You know I'm ready and , ft n ! willing to hire a girl any day." J " A girl smouching tny paint!" cried j dot Mrs. Hinkle, in wrath. " Put down the J out broom, Iteuben; you've made tracks 1 hiu enough. Your folks shall never have tho that handle, that I spend your money on ; fro: , hired help." j tru "You're rather hard on 'cm, Laviny," I her said Mr. Hinkle; " they mean well by ; dor I you. Here's Phebc now been and sent tail , you something stilling. I told licr j Hit what a fizz your nerves had been iu [ con I lately." ! fro: " So you've been running mo down to j fun your folks !" cneil .Mrs. umKio, glaring; au at lier husband. "After all I've stood I hoi from you, Reuben, it's too much." ! hat j Mr. Hinkle was a mild man?mild as j hat | milk ; but even tho sweetest of milk | terJ will sometimes turn 6our in a thunder- hai storm, and oft-recurring matrimonial whi tempests had had their effect upon him. ! the " I've always make excuses for you, ! cov Laviny, and tried my best to live peace- i fee' able," said lie, slowly ; " but I believe i fasl 'taiu't in the power of mortal man to; Mi: I get along with you." ; see i Then, in a state of great amazement it v | at himself, ^e went out to untijekle hoi fhfrbbin and sow the turnip seed. Lis- llei ' toning in vain for the dinner-horn, he i seti returned to the house half an hour past she . noon to find tho tire out, his unlucky i this ' mud-prints dried upon the llo< r, and anf ! his wife absent. j phi " Gone off in p. huff to her sister j lier Tripp's, I guess," said he, patiently leol setting out tiie rmimav remnant 01 u?< beans. " I'd have hitched up if I'd ' wif have knowed she wanted to go. She pro wouldn't speak to me, I s'pose, 'cause her I'd riled her. T hadn't oughtcr done it . thi ?that's a fact." j the Having relieved his mind by this last wit confession, Mr. llinklc ate his dinner Tri with an excellent appetite, and in due sou time his supper also, his wifo not huv- hot ; in j appeared. mij " I expect she calculates for me to go wai for her, and I'd better be off," said he, per as he strained the milk with extreme con carc and deliberation, and bylhis means laii let a slew stream trickle down the out- tinside of the pail upon the spotless pantry , hat floor. " Why, if tin re ain't E/.ra Tripp : wa; now!" and as he spoke, in tho west door ren came his wife's brother-in-law, with un- par ' willing feet, as though goaded 011 by 1 mil the spears of the setting sun behind 3 him. ent " Laviny ain't sick, I hope ?" 6aid Mr. fl\iC Hinkle, anxiously. ; " No,'tisn't that," replied Mr. Tripp, thn twisting his forefinger under his collar, I as if his cravat ehoked him?"'tisn't I that?but?" 1 " She's getting most out of patience ' waiting f?r me, I suppose," suggested sor the unsuspecting Reuben. "Well, I'd oft oughter gone atore, only the off ox sh( broke through the fenco, andw" ' 1 " Laviny 6th* shq won-t oome back,' 1 be errupted Mr. Tripp, desperately; or she's lived with you as long as slie i stand it!" dr. Hinkle flopped down like a starchs dickey. ' I might have knowed she couldn't xr what I do," groaned he. "This ruing, when she was blowing of me, poVe ha'sh to her; I don't see how I ne to. But, Ezra, you don't think, w, she won't never come round ?" VIr. Tripp muttered something about i sister-in-law being " pretty resolute," J turned away. ' I wish you'd carry over Laviny's igh medicine," said Mr. Hinkle, ising himself. "Lord! to think of r hacking in the night, and me not iring her ! And, Ezra, I'd take it ldlv of you if you'd step in in the irning and tell me how she rested." dr. 1'ripp consigned the bottle to hjs it pocket, while fteuben, returning to > deserted kitchen, which already re a masculine air, tilted his chair linst the wull, and listened to the ges of the frogs, or gave expression his feelings by singiug. " As 0:1 some lonely building's top The sparrow tells her moan, Far from the tents of joy and hope I sit and grieve alone." ' A dreadful poor hand I should be sit alone," commented he, as ho idled about to fasten the windows. ' Lavijpy is a master-women for mukC things lively. Somehow I can't ir to lock her outand it is a fact rthy of note that the faithful Reuben, the first time in his arricd life went bed leaving the porch door unbolted, if he had cherished a vague hope (?at wife might steal home in the early ming, he certainly saw no traces of r ruling presence on rising. Instead, s abomination of desolation reigned. ' Soom's if I was just a frame work, :h nothing inside," said the poor n, moving about the chaotic kitchen i i hushed manner, like a person at a leral; " the pith is all knocked out mA ? mo. Jut notwithstanding this alarming ernnl condition, by dint of burning ! ee fingers he succeeded in making a npy hasty-pudding for breakfast, and 0 a cup of coffee, which, by reason the largo amount of fish-skin that 1 tied it, bore an unpleasant resera- , nee to chowder. As he was sitting this frugal repast his sister Phebe meed in. ' Has Laviny left you, Reuben ? It i't be." dr. Hinkle nodded his head solemn- '{ his mouth beii^g not available just ( in as an organ of speech, _ , ' The worst is herown," stormed Miss ] ebc, raining a shower of hair-pins : m her falling chignon. '' I guess ( sha'n't die on her account!" ?1 % rellcction seemed to convey no } isolation to Mr. Hinkle. J ' You never felt right toward Lavinv," il he, sorrowfully, 111 don't lay this again her, her clearing out; I blame ^ in to Miss Nibblins. She always had rendful faculty for onsettling Laviny." ifiss Phebe had a contemptuous nose, , ned upward at the end like a sled iner. It curled higher yet at this ] mrk. I ' I wish you had some of my spirit, j ubc? Hinkle," said she, coiling her j >k hair with a rapid circular motion, i if she were winding herself up ; '* if 1 had, you wouldn't go nigh Laviny one while. She's contrary, and deld upon it she'll be agreat\leal more to come buck if you don't tease her. 1 keep house for you, so don't you be 1 lite concerned." 1 Jr. Hinkle groaned in answer. As I lgh is without yeast, so was he with- J Laviny. " He needed her t? keep ' 1 up," he said, pathetically ; and ' ugh tortures would not have wrung ; m her the confession, it was equally 1 e that Laviny netted him to keep 1 down. Somo leaven is safest hid- ' i in its three measures of meal. Cer- 1 lly, in her husband's presence, Mrs. ' lklo had betin a patient Oriselda ! spared to what she now was, freed ' in home restraints. She fretted and 1 led in an explosive manner, raising ' unwonted fermentation in the Tripp 1 ischold. Sho hated his folks ; sue ' 1 ed Reuben for not hating them ; sho j 1 ed herself for having borno their in- , 1 ference so long ; und declared she i' I not had " the temper of fly "? 1 ich, indeed, was quite true. .But as I week wore on without bringing the 1 eted vision of her husband at her j t, the elTervcscenco of her mood was t subsiding, when the rumor that >s Phebe was wielding her domestic 1 ptre, agitated it anew. Pretty work 1 ias, to be crowded out of her own ! ne by his folks! She knew now why j' uben had nut como. Thcv had been ! ting him against her. What if he ' mid never come ? For the first time i thought intruded itself, and in her I push she aught relief in the earn- | >r bottle. What right had Phebc in ; kitchen, solacing Reuben with detable cookery, when he should have I, m hungering in solitude after his e V She declared such conduct would ; ivokc a saint, though she did not give authority for this conviction. One ' ng was sure, Phebe should not have j washing of her tea-spoons; and houtdelavMrs. Ilinklesentujuvenile pp to remove these and other perial valuables, choosing the dinner I ir for the erand, that the senic effect I jht be greater. When Mr. Hinkle | ? forced to stir his tea with a fork, haps he would be in more haste to ; iciliate his wife! The plan was well I; but it failed in the execution on gh the tardiness of little Joe, who, J ring a woodchuck to attend to on the , r, did not reach his une'e's till the .luius of the dinner lay cold on the . ltry shelf, and Mr. Ilinkle was half a e nwav St his afternoon plowing. ? ? 1 1.1? ' U188 i'llKDU Will HIO opuoiia uuciu'y, inwardly resolved that Reuben mid not know of this proof of " Lay's ugliness," for she was well aware t only her own repented assurances ,t Laviny would soften toward him j eft to herself had kept him passive is far. ' Seems's if I wasn't doing the hand-1 no thing not to go nigh her," he ' en eaid. " I wonder whether or no s aint counting on my fetching her ?" ' If she oomes of her free wiA she'll likely to stay put," Miss Phebe would answer; " but try to drive her and yoi know what L'afiriy is." Mr. Hinkle did know, unfortunately and, knowing, schooled himself to pa tient waiting. . Thus the days wore on, and he plod ded through the spring work, cheered t littlo iu spite of IRniself by Miss Phebe'i earnest efforts at making him comfort able, while Laviny, mortified and thei alarmed by his non-appearance, wor ried herseli into a course of exasper ating sick headaches, and in every sens< shut out the sunlight from the houso oi the Tripps. In the midst of paint scrubbing Mrs. Tripp $ound no leisuri to devote to her co!?_)laining sister, bill left one of her children to wait upor her. Mrs. Hinkle felt abused. Wlier had Reuben been too busy to bathe hei aching temples? Little Joe made hei nervous as a witch, and one day sh< told him so, and a moment after had the satisfaction of hearing him say tc his mother in the kitchen that h< ' could not get along with AuntLavinj nohow." Why, that was just what Reuben had said?Reuben, who had never spoker hastily to her in his life! Was bIip at uncomfortable persea -to live with ? " 'Taint in the power of mortal mat to get along with you, Laviny." The words came bock to her with the start ling force of a proof-text, and haunted her afterward continually. It must have been in rhubnrd time. The Strait Time*, of Manila, has the following: " In the morning of the 15th af September repented discharges of musketrv were heard from the convict prison. Soon afterward it was ascertained that a large number of prisoners had risen, crying out 'Death to Spain,' lssassinated in a villainous and cowardly manner the warder, and laid hold of jome of the weapons of a company of soldiers quartered there. The insurgents made themselves mnsters of the fort, and kept up a fire on some oflicials xnd country people, who returned it, ind by so doing prevented them from ldvancing toward the town. The townspeople armed themselves, and the mend-war in the harbor made preparations to bombard the fort. The rebels seeing that many persons had come out against them, left the fort?desisted from try II1H ku UKIAC kutii naj Hibu vno iwnn, which, it is said, they endeavored to set firo to, and took refuge in a mangrove forest. They were followed tip, ind three of them killed before tliev reached the mangroves. On the fort being reocupied by the loyal, it wuf found that the convicts had murdered four Europeans and wounded several titers. Several Europeans and sonu soldiers fortified themselves in twe dormitories and defended themselvef bravely; when relieved, they were al found to be wounded, but not severely, After the dead and wounded had beer taken to the hospital, eliasc was giver to the insurgents by Koldiers and ma rines from the ships of war, in the di rection of the village of Tehuun. The former succeeded in entering the vil lage, because its inhabitants were ignor ant of what had taken place, but ai soon as they became aware of it, thei armed themselves and drove out tin vi'lains. who find to tho bush, leavinj twenty killed. Of the country people three were killed, and from seven t< ten were wounded. On the lfith, 2">( Zumboangaus, armed with muskets spears, <fco., together with a number o troops and country people, set out ii pursuit of the fugutives, and followet them up vigorously for several dnvs notwithstanding the difficult nature o tho country, killing and capturing i great many, with scarcely any loss 01 their own side. Up to the fid of Octo ber the people of the inland districts including even the Mohamedan portion continued to bring to Znmboanga tin heads of the insurgents whom they hiu killed; o'wer insurgents were brtegh in alive. The Governor of Zamboangi has issued proclamations thanking tin people for their loyalty during the in surrection, and their zeal in putting i down. On the 3d of October impres sive funeral ceremonies in honor of thi loyal people who hod perished durinj the rising took plat^e there. Out o 129 convicts some seventy took part u tae insurrection. " It is good to be bharitable, but to whom?" "That," s^s.Is JF.ontaiae 41 is the pelnt." for dandelion greens had gone by, wher *.io morning little Joe niched in witl the terrible tidings that " Uncle Reuben had fallen kcr-chu7ikirom& beam iu the onm. Mrs. Hinkle tore the bandages from her head and started np. " Where's my bonnet, Susan ? I'm going home!" "Maybe he isn't badly injured. Wait till we kfcar further news," urged Mrs, Tripp. " I tell you I'm going home, Susan Tripp! Where's my bonnet?" and Bnatching it by the string, Mrs. Hinkle sprang into the wagon just vacated by her nephew, and drove away at a doctor's pace. Little Joe turned a series of somersaults, and then lay writhing on the grass in a fit of uncontrollablo giggling. "Didn't Aunt Laviny Rtreak it?" Bliouted he. " AndUncle'Reubenwasu't hurt a mite, but she wouldn't let me tell her! Tee-hee-hee!" Yet, thougk no bones were broken by Din fall, it is a fact that Mr. Hinkle fou ul ,'his two hundred pounds avoirdupois considerably shaken, and he was actually, according to lais wife's prediction, "camping down on the lunge in his boots," when; openinghis eyes, they rested on her frightened face in the doorway. " Whv, bless your heart! come right in, Laviny," said he. And she went in, and shut the door. Five minutes afterward, ns Miss Phebo lifted the latch, she heard her sister-in-luw say, " I know I've hectored you awfully, Reuben, but I do mean to live peaceable now, and put up with your folks." And Reuben answered, heartily; "I haven't blamed you a bit, Laviny. I knowed 'twas Miss Niddlin's work. But after we'd lived together so long, she might have let us be till God divorced us." i i.-... _i Criminals Let Loose. i About .Mushrooms and the Like. The Atlantic Monthly for February . is promptly out. Among its articles are English Folk Hongs, by J. V. Blake, . with words and music; Boy Life in a i Scottish Country Seat; The Bride of ? Torrisdoll, a poem; Mr. Parton's Tliom as Jefferson as Secretary of State; A i Chance Acquaintance; Idionyncracics; . A Hunt for Smugglers; Edible Fungi, . Ac. The author of the last named nrti5 cle furnishes a vast amount of useful [ information in regard to these arti. clcs of food. We quote a few pas> sages: t No American has as yet published i any treatise on the subject, which leaves i our inquirers in the dark. We have ; r distinguished mycologists who doubt- i r less have arranged our fungi scientili-1 ? cally, and can give the name to any j [ iorm uiey may see, uui meir ianors j > have not been published in suck a form ; ? as to become a common guide, nor do ! ? we know whether those who made their ! classification a science e\?r demonstra- \ [ ted by actual experiment their edible ' i value. i The writer has tried the edible qnali-1 tics of forty kinds of fungi, but is ig- : i norant of the specific names of Ameri; ! can fungi, so that possibly to the scien- I tific ear his descriptions may seem inI correct.. Armed with plates of English I I and French fungi, and works giving | , ! their scientific names, ho has collected ; i ! some very bad and poisonous kinds, j i and some'wliich were very delicious, i , Tkc edible qualities of various Aga- 1 > i rics are well known on the continent of j j Europe to the common people, who eat i j them freely and make money by their ! sale, while in Great Britain scientific i ! men only have ventured to explore the field and the forest in search of addi; j tions to the table. On the Continent, eaten fresh, dried, ; preserved in oil, vinegar, or salt, fungi i 1 constitute, for weeks together, the food [ : of many people; and in Rome there is j i nn inspector of fungi who daily exam- ! -1 inos the supplies which come in from i the conntrv, and condemns all that ! . are unsound or unsafe, to be thrown . j away; and, curiously enough, the law ! J points out by name our favorite Agari. I cm campcstris a3 poisonous, and orders : it to be thrown into the Tiber. | It is commonly supposed that fungi ; j are the consequence of decay, and we do find the greatest number on decay| ing substances; but wo find them also on glass, flints, metals, in poisonous so- ] i lutions, in pure and undecomposed ] water. An instance is given of a black- , smith who threw aside a piece of iron at night fruah forged, ajni found it in i the morning covered with nn Ethalium ( ; tw# feet in length. (iuubarrels and , 1 sword-scabbnrds loft in damp, clese |, 1 rooms have become covered with a blue i ! mould in a few days. The rapidity with which many if not j all fungi grow baffles calculation; the , great pull-ball I.i/copcrdua giganteum, j will grow as large as a peck measure in , I forty-eight hours: and specimens of, ' Af/urlcus cmnpc tutrix have deve'.ped j | from the button which is a hud of the j ! size of a pea to a mushroom as largo us i : a coffee saucer in a night; but it must ., not bo supposed that all this increase : ' of size is a single night's gi-owtb. ( Agarics are many weeks forming under , I Di.t.fanA. ilw.il- nro Kmnll nurl I ! closely packed, and ready to expand j i i when the moisture and temperature are i ;favorable. ; There is a good field for investigation I 1 in the fungi; and as the edible fungi I , are very numerous, both as individuals \ and species, and might add a great deal ' | of food as well as flavor to our culinary j, resources, wo hope some other inquirers j | will carry our experiments further, i There is *110 more reason for rejecting j ; the good fungi because of the bad spe- i , cies than for declining to cat apples, | j pears, peaches, and strawberries, be: cause strawberries poison some people, i ' and bitter almonds almost everybody, j, ; There is hardly a family of edible plants j j that is without some offending member; j and were the bad to exclude the good, 1 the list of useful plants would shrink ' j into very narrow compass. . 1' : I Hallway Ilcstaurauts. Not long since, in travelling from i Basel to Paris, we became hungry. As j if divining our condition, the guard , 1 put his head in at the window of the train and politely asked, " Shall I order j a dinner for you at the next station?" , ; " But we do not stop long enough to eat j I it," was our reply. "True; it will be , served in the train for three francs, and ! 1 the dishes removed at the next stop1 ping place." "By all means order it," The telegraph carried the order ten miles ahead iu a moment; and when the train drew up at the next station, the , door was opened, and a circular basket, . three feet high and one foot in diameter, was put in our compartment. Upon the top were knife and fork, spoon and 1 napkin; a bottle of water, and a flask of wine, and a glass; a little salt and pep- 1 per and a large roll. Opening a door in the side of the basket, we saw four i shelves, on each shelf a dish. The first : 1 was a hot Roup, the second a slice of ; a In hiodc beef, the third vegetables, and the fourth half a chicken and salad. ; ? i 1. ..e ?tul, I X UUIllIi \J 1 IU1IV IWUO ?? ??? ???r?v# , found on one of the shelves, i : Wo ate our dinner quietly and com ! fortably, while the train rushed along } at thirty miles nn hour, and then rej stored the dishes to their places. When J the next stoppage was made, a porter removed the basket and received the 1' pay. We reached Paris after a twelve 1 hours' ride, weary and hungry, but ! neither faint with exhaustion, nor suf' feringfrom a fit of indigestion. ' Recently it became necessarv for ns 5j I to make a shorter journey in tliis conn-, . try. About midway the train stopped, aud the conductor shouted " Ten inin. i I utcs for refreshments!" The passengers am rushed forth and crowded into the close, : ? dirty, uninviting room, where at a long, [ _ ! high counter, four wonderfully capari- j " soned females dispensed poor coffee, ! worse piecrust, and oysters stewed in \ water flavored with bad butter. No ( i bread, no m*at but ham, no drink but bad coffee and 6?ur ale. Before even ' i these uninviting edibles could.be swali i lowed, the shrill screech of the locomtfc , , (tiwe-harrietHbe passeni6?s* away fb the I honors of dyspepsia and headache. An Eventful Life. Ed ward George Bulwer Lytton, whose death was lately announced, was born at Haydon Hall in the County of Norfolk, England, in 1805, and was conseqneutly in his sixty-eighth year at the time of his death. He graduated at Cambridge University in 1820, and in the same year published a collection of his useful effusions, entitled ' Weeds and Wild Flowers." . His first novel, " Falkland," was published in 1827, followed in 1828 by " Pelhara; or, the Adventures of a Gentleman," a work which was received with considerable adverse criticism, but which has since been regarded by many as one of the best of the deceased author's efforts. His subsequent novels are well known, and need not be enumerated. Many of them were received with favor, and attained to a high rank in the estimation of the reading pirblie. As a dramatic writer he enjoyed a good reputation, and his plays to this day hold their own on the British and American stage. Of these "The Lady of Lyons" is be6t known, but " Richelieu" and the comedy of "Moaey" are very frequently pi esented. No writer in his day lias perhaps been more read on the continent of Europe than Bulwer, his various works having been translated in all the living languages; while in America he had and still has n wide circle of appreciative renders. Mr. Rnlwor BiiCRApded in 1844 to tlie Knebs worth estates of his mother, and exchnaged, by-royal license, his sirname of Bulwer for that of Lytton, by which he was subsequently known, rfe entered Parliament in 1831 as member foi St. Ives, and was created a baronet in 1858. In June, 1858, he became a member of the Derby Cabinet, as successoi of Lord Stanley iu the office of Secretary of State for the colonies. He was shortly afterward elevated to the peerage, and took his seat in the House oi Lords. The later years his life have no! been marked by any brilliant efforts, but ho has always been a distinguished statesman and debater. It is as a novelist, however, that ho will be chiefly remembered, and his name will, undoubtedly, go down to posterity as one of the most famous writers which the nineteenth century has produced. A Hocking Stone. In many parts of the world are found huge stones or rocks so poised on a narrow base that they rock to and fro under slight moving force. Sometimes r1ir? r^ Jiaag or "logging" in caused by the wind only, without direct contact, but generally muscular or mechanical force has to be applied. One of the most familiar examples is the Logan or Logging Rock, in Cornwall, near the promontory of Castle Treryn. This stone, which attracts numerous visitors, is 1 etween sixty and seventy tons' weight, and so nicely poised that n person can easily set it in motion. L)r. JJorlase, tlieUoruisnnummary, imly described the rock, adding that it was "morally impossible tbat any lever, 01 iudeed force, however applied in a mechanical way, could remove it." This statement was put to the test by a younp officer of the navy, Lieutenant Goldsmith, said to bo a grand-nephew el Oliver Goldsmith. He was in command of a cutter iu the neighborhood, and with ten or twelve of his men threw the rock off its balance and sent it rolling toward the sea, where it would have been lost but that a chusm intercepted it. The exploit justly gave great offence to the neighborhood, and the mischievous prank being reported to the Admirality, the yonng officer was compelled to replace the rock. This was not done without much labor and exertion, and the aid of machinery from the dockyard at Plymouth. Sir iDavis Gilbert and others subscribed for the fund necessary to restoro the rock to its site and the iieutcnaut to the good buoks at headquarters. For 6ome time afterward chains and other protections were used, but theso have neen long since removed. The stone, however, does not "log" so well as it did previous to ib What a Seliool-Tcachcr Did. A school-teacher at Jiulson, Blue Earth County, Minn., Hugh Jones, (hiring the late snow storm in that section refused to permit his scholars to leave the school-house, and kept them there forty-eight hours, in stfetv and comfort?procuring food and bed-clothing from a neighbor. A local savs this it a cheering example of good judgment, interest in the safety of the little onet under his ekurge, and courage to pro vide for their wants even at the risk ol suffering danger. There were fron thirty to forty children in the school? and the number affords an indication oi how much Mr. Joues hnd to do, t( clothe, feed, and warm them. One mai living near Judson left his horses in t piece of woods, and saved himself bi remaining in a straw stack twenty-fou: hours. One hors-? was frozen. A mat driving a yoke of oxen from Lake Cry? tal to Butternut Valley, found partin safety in a stack, but the cattle weri frozen. The published statements o the ninny people frozen to death durini the storm would indicate that Minnuso ta is a cheerless place to live in whei the thermometer goes down to its bot torn and spirit registers are required t show that it is forty-live degrees beloi zero. ^ Tim Sea Serpent Aoaix.? Cnptaii White, of the "hip Sea Serpent, whic] arrived at New York, reports that o the outward passage from New York t China, in latitude 29 deg. 38min. 8 sec. longitudo 17 deg. 45 min., his attentio: was called, on the 15th of May, by th seaman on the forctopsail, to a larg sea serpent passing within six feet c the ship's quarter. When the serpen was some fifteen or twenty feet astern ho lifted his head above the watei opened his month, and looked arouni atter the ship with apparent surprise As near as Cant. White could judge, th serpent must have been fifty feet Ion ana two in diameter, and of a dee brown color. Aboat three minutes &J terward another of the same specie was passed on the other side of the shi about fifteen feet. He was coil* S, and had the appearance of bein eep. A Facts and Fancies. i Samuel Treat undertook to sing at his i brother's wedding in Reading, Eiiglaud, and fell down dead. Rev. Henry Austin, ot Texas, pre.v ? ches with his hat on to cover the place where his scalp once was. j It has been frequently proved ; that cattle to be kept sleek and healthy | must have a regular weekly allowonco j of salt. In one house in Pubnico, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, there have boon seventeen cases of small-pox, of which six were fatal. An American Colonel at Baden-Ba' de* having lost his money lately, thought he had no use for brains and so blew them out. ! A novel idea at the funeral of aNorth! field, Vt., man who died the ot'ucr day ; was the taking up of a collection for his wife and six cnnareu. A Chicago paper says the women of . Utah have recently altered tho orthography of their creed. They now spell ' it Moremen instead of Mormon. There are not scaffolds enough in the State of New York to hang at one time _l the persons charged with murder now ' in confinement in New York City. Bret Harte denies that he is the la[ ziest man in tlfe world, but admits that he don't see the use of rushing nround . | when his boarding honse isn't on fire. John P. Hale is a confirmed paralytic >, and has softening of the btain. Ho : can not leave his room, and will not probably live a great while. Ho is nearly sixty-seven years old. 1 An eminent statistician has ea!#:ilnted ' that California will produce wheat flour ' | enough this year to make 56,158 miles ' of French loaves, or "more than snfli1 cient to girdle the earth twice. A good method of keeping potatoes for family use is to pack them in barrels with sun-dried sand, covering the tops ' with turf, and keeping th< m in a dry ' and cool atmosphere. Then they wiil neither shrivel"nor shrink to any real ' extent. ' . t '* A physician, on presenting his bill to , the:executor of the estate of a deceased , patient, asked, "Do yon wish to hnvd my bill sworn to?"?"No," replied the executor; "the death of t#e deceased is evidence that you attended him professionally. " i To cure a smoky chimney, inflate a lrge ox bladder -with air, and tie it by i .lie nock to a stick, and place it across ; the inside about two feet from tho too. The buoyaucc of the air keeps tljft bliut tier lh a "circular motion, and thus pre-' vents the down rush of air. Josephine Mansfield, through cottn-' sel, 1ms attached the property of Nathan ' Appletou, of Newport* R. L, to tho , amount of $20,000, for loss of $12,000, which she deposited with Bowles Bros, just before their fnilnre. A hearing of tho case will be had in April. The inconvenience of frozen Cisterns i and gus meters may bo obviated by putting n lump of salt into the water once a week, and into the closet trap the last thing at night. The explanation is that - water holding salt in. solution requires . 25 degrees of cold more than pure water to freeze it. The Presidential vote for 1872 is Grant 8,592,840; Greeley, 2,8852,830. i In 1868, Grant, 3,013,188; Seymour, 2,: 703,600. It will lie seen that Mr. Gree1 ley received about 150,000 moro votes than Mr. Seymour. Of Gen. Grant's increase, 247,000 came frym States disfranchised in 1868, and of Mr.Greeley's, 214,000. Tho following we clip from Mr. 1 Punch's Almanac for this year: Doctor ?" I am pleased to say, Mrs. Fitz' browne, that I shall be able t* vaccinate your baby from a very healthy child of I your neighbor, Mrs. Jones " Mrs. 1 Fitzbrowne?" Oh! dear, doctor, I could not permit that. We do not care to be raized up with the Joneses in any way." A party of swindlers from the East have taken advantage of the fact that ' there is no law in Nebraska against lot' tn fulvertise extensively the Ouiuha lottery, in aid of the State Orphan Asylum. The scheme has no connection whatever with the Asylum, is not under charge of State officers, and those who ' buy tickets in it cun expect to lose their 1 money. There arc nineteen large tanneries in Maine, which use annually 110,000 cordr, | of bark. This bark tans 10,000 to 11,! 000 tons of leather. The average cost of bark ia $6.50 per eord, and aggregat| j ing $715,000 annually. The leather is generally tanned by the hundred or ton, j for which $40 per ton is paid, and this i costs carer $400,000. The freight on hides and leather costs $50 per ton, and j aggregates $200,000. ) | A correspondent commends onions as i : a specific against epidemics?not us an i J esculent, but sliced and kept in a sick ? I room, where they will absorb any ntr i mospheric poison. They ahould lie rei plnced by fresh ones every hour. It is | noticed that in the room of a small-pox 1 j patient thev will blister and decompose e; very rapidly, but will prevent tho f j spread of the disease. Their nppliea7 ; tion has also proved effective in the cose - j of Himke bites. ' j If your horse should accidentally }, stumble, never raise your voice?the j ercntiire dreads its master's chiding ; 1 never jog the reins?the mouth of tho 1 horse is far more sensitive than the liun 1 man lips ; never use the lush?the horse I) is so timid that the slightest correction a overpowers * its reasoning faculties. 0 : speak to the creature ; reussnre the pal( ! pitating frame ; seek to restore those n i perceptions which will form the best e | guaruuguinst any repetition of the faulty e action. . , f The Bev. John Allen, well known as t "Camp-Meeting John/' opened a late i, : term of court, as follows : "O Lord, '' \ 1 let us prsy for tho lawyers, for thou d j knowest they have abundant* use for >. I prayer. They too pften try to make a e ! good case out of a hod one, and' a bad g i case out of a good one. O Lord, help p | them to be honest..r And help, too,-the r. HI witnesses. ThoukupweaVOi-ord^thM s I sometimes they stretch the truth and I *-y g the whole truth end nothing but the truth.