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VOL. III. NO. 34. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1873. {!8$.^,?SSS:
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A Recall.
Come from the eouth with hurrying feet,
O breezes soft! 0 breezes sweet!
' And let your fragrant kisses bring
New blushes to the face of spring.
Blow hence the chill from empty nests ;
Blow hither now our singing guests,
And lift the covering of snow
From violets that sleep below.
The Btreams upon their errands run,
And leap and sparkle in the sun;
The mountain-sides with laughter shake,
And from their feet the shackles break.
The ear'.h in robes Joy appears,
Becoming to her sta'e and years,
When from the south the bugles blow
That break the reign of frost and snow.
Come, then, and bid the world renew
Its beauteo'us garniture of dew,
And let y our warm embraces start
The prjbes of her burdened heart.
C^me from the south with hurrying feet,
O breozes soft! O breezes sweet!
Let the clad earth reioico ere lone
In wealth of fragrance and of song.
mr THOMAS BR ASSET, CONTRACTOR.
B Mr. Carlyle invented a happy phrase
M to describe the great employers of labor,
K who play so important a part in our
B modern world. Ho called them "CapB
tains of Indust-y." But this Thomas
] Brassey, the f..mous English railway
contractor, might more properly be
styled a Generalissimo of Industry; for
ho and his partners had in their employment,
at on ! time, eighty thousand
men, whose wages amounted to sixty
or seventy thousand dollars a day. He
thought nothing of giving an order for
three thousand wagons, or ten thousand
wheelbarrows. In the course of an active
life of nearly forty years hp constructed,
in whole or in part, a hundred
and fiCky railroads?in England, France,
Germany, Spain, Italy, South America,
Australia, Canada?which cost, in all,
about four hundred millions of dollars.
He hud, at one time, as many as ten
thousand men employed in Spain alone,
besides thousands more in other countries.
As a specimen of this grand way of
doing business, take this anecdote. In
arranging the details of a contract with
a Spanish banker, the Marquis of Salamanca,
the nobleman proposed to issue
bonds before the shares were taken ; but
to this Mr. Brassey, the nobleman by
nature, objected, as not honorable.
After much discussion Mr. Brassey said
to the Marquis:
"Look here, Mr. Salamanca; if you
and your friends will put five hundred
thousand pounds down on the table any
day you like to name, I and my friends
will do so too. Then the shares will be
paid Tip, and there can be no possible
objection to the bonds beii-g at once
issued."
The Marquis did not see the matter
in that light, and the project was given
?p. This incident shows something
besides the mere magnitude of Thomas
Brassey's operations. It is one more illustration
of a truth which the whole history
of business exhibits, that no business
of the first class which has endured
thirty years, has had any othcr*fouudation
than fair dealing. There never was
a mure sinning case in point man me
success of this man. On one occasion
when lie was hurrying to completion an
^ important railway in France, an enorK
raous brick viaduct, one-third of a mile
long, a hundred feet high, and built at
W a cost of a quarter of a million dollars,
P suddenly fell in, and was utterly ruined.
Within a few minutes after hearing of
the disaster, he set on foot measures for
the reeonstniction of the work ; and,
although the downfall was not his
fault, he refused to represent the facts
to the company, in orderto induce them
to bear their fair share of the loss.
" No," said he, " I have contracted
s to make and maintain the road, and
nothing shall prevent Thomas Brassey
from being as good as his word."
That was the great secret of his lasting
success. He was absolutely trustworthy.
His word was as good as his
bond. He put as good work in the
bowels of the earth where no one would
ever inspect it, as he did on the surface,
where thousands would see it every day.
If he had engaged to open a line of railroad
on a certain day, his part of the
work was invariably done in time. In
the whole of his career he never missed
once.
Next to this, the most important
secret was, liis admirable treatment of
those who assisted him. The greatest
captains 01 industry, iiKe tne greatest
captains of war, all excel in this particular.
Brassey, besides taking great
pains to surround himself with theright
men, made their interest and honor his
special aud thoughtful care. He trusted
them a great deal, liked to have them
to do their work in their own way, and
juged them by results only. Nor would
lie ever hold one of his sub-contractors
to a ruinous bargain. It frequently
happens in constructing a railroad that
a cutting turns out to be rock instead
of earth, and the literal fulfillment of
the contract would ruin a man. Brassey
always took upon his own broad shoulders
such losses as would cripple or
crush a sub-contractor.
One example of this will suffice to
show his way of doing it. Inspecting a
road one day, he came to a cutting
of this kind, tho price which had been
fixed on the supposition that only clay
had to be removed. Upon coming up
to tho work, and perceiving that the
wagons were all loaded with rock, he
said to the " sub
" This is very hard."
" Yes," replied the man, " it is a pretty
deal harder than I bargained for."
* " What is yourprice forthiscuttiug?"
asked Mr. Brassey.
" So much a rani, air."
"It is very evident," said the master,
f- " that you are not getting it out for that
p rice. Have you asked for any advance
to be made to you for this rock ?"
" Yes, sir," answered tJie man ; " but
I can make no sense of them."
" If,"saidBrassey, "you say that your
]>rice is so much, it is quite clear that
you do not do it for that. I am glad I
that you have persevered with it, but ]
shall not alter your price. It must re
main as it is, but the rock nutst be
measured for you twice. Will that dc
for you ?"
"les, Yfcry well indeed, and I an
very lauch obliged to you, sir."
"Verywell," rejoined Mr. Brassey
" go on ; you have done well in perse
vering, and I shall look to you again."
One of these walks along a line o]
railroad would sometimes cost the con
tractor a thousand pounds in rectifying
similar mistakes. He greatly liked the
principle of giving men a pecuniary in
terest in the work they were doing. He
not only gave his chief agents a share
in the profit of his contracts, but he
liked very much the plan of letting on!
small contracts of mere digging to s
dozen laborers, the proceeds to be equal'
ly divided among them, except a little
extra allowance to the foreman. Several
of his agents made considerable fortunes
in his service.
Like many other men who have made
colossal fortunes, he seemed to care
very little about money. He was interJ
bin AM/iAtlt & on/1 r\ O.
CHICU 1U 1119 VUIJIn>9 lUUtt jniuu nuu
light in doing it well, and was perfectly
aware of the necessity of money as a
means to tliat end ; but when once the
game had been won, he never seemed tc
value the stakes much for their owr
sake. And, in fact, to a man in his
profession, millions are only whal
chisels and planes are to a carpentertools
that he must have. One conse
quence of his being so free from th<
taint of avarice was, that he could beai
a large pecuniary loss, not withoul
equanimity merely, but with cheerful
uess and gayety.
"Mr. Brassey," said one of hif
agents, " never appeared so happy as
when he had lost twenty thoustfnt
pounds."
One night, during a terrible financia
crisis in-London, which threatened tt
sweep away his whole fortune, he wenl
home fully convinced that he must lost
at least a million pounds sterling.
"Never mind," said he. "We musi
be content with a little less; that is all.'
j On another occasion,"in Spain, he re
! ceived a telegram, saying that a certair
bridge had been washed down. Thre<
hours after came another, stating thai
a large bank had been washed away
Other messages followed, of similai
purport, and begging him to come ai
once to the scene. He turned to i
friend, and said, laughing:
"I think I had better wait until ]
i hear that the rain has ceased, so thai
| when I do go,-1 may see what is bft ol
the works, and estimate all the disas
ters at once ; and so save a second jour
ney."
On such occasions he often quotec
the old proverb: " It is no use crying
over spilt irniK.
Thomas Brassey had none of those
early struggles which mark the careei
of most able men of business. Hii
father was a rich farmer of ancien
family, and he Berved a regular ap
prenticeship to the business of land sur
veyor and agent. Ho gave such sgina
f>roofs of ability, that his employer tool
lim into partnership when lie was bu
twenty-one; and he was already i
thriving man, married, and twenty-nini
years of age before he ever thought o
building a railroad. He was accident
ally thrown into company, one day
with George Stephenson, who urget
him to engage in the new enterprise
Being well established in business h<
hesitated to change, and .especially fo:
a business so new and untried. Hi.1
wife's advice turned the scale, and In
became the greatest contractor of hii
time.
He died in 1870, aged sixty-five
leaving three sops, one of whom is i
member of the British Parliament
His life has been lately written by Sii
Arthur Helps, who edited the works o:
Queen Victoria. It is not creditable t<
our publishers that a work so peculiai
and interesting has not been made ac
cessible to the people of the Unitec
States. It ought to be universally dis
semiuateci; especially 111 soma iacton
towns that I could mention, where the
mill-owners are brutally indifferent t<
the rights and feelings, the comfort ant
dignity, of those who work for them.?
James Parton.
An Iudignant Chief.
A chief of the tribe of Haracta, be
tween Ain-Beida and Tebessa, went or
some business to Constnntine. A fev
days later he returned to his tribe, and
calling his wife, desired her to fetel
four posts and some cord. She obeyed
when, to her horror, the chief threv
her down on the ground, lashed her t<
the four stakes, and, taking a stick
commenced beating her with all hii
might.
Her cries brought all the]inhabitant!
of the tents to their doors, and endeav
ored, though in vain, to stop her hus
band's arm. " But what has she done?'
they exclaimed. " She -is the pearl o
the tribe, the best of mothers, tin
model of wives!" "What has sh<
done?" retorted the monster. "Notli
ing. I am only relieving my mind.'
At last, being exhausted by his;"owi
fury, he condescended to stop, and ex
plain that, at Constnntine, he had seei
an Arab woman, backed up by tin
French authorities, drag her lnisbnnc
before the court to complain of his ill
usage, and the kadi had actually givei
judgment iu her favor! So raoustrou
an infraction of Arab usages had infuri
ated the chief to such a .degree that Ik
had forgotten tho object of his journey
and ouly hurried home to wreak hi
vengeance, for the insult offered to tin
male sex, on the body of his unhapp;
wife.
Wear of Brain-Work.?A scientifi
paper says that brain-work costs mor
food than hand-work. According t
careful estimates and analyses, thrc
hours of hard study wear out the bod;
more than a whole day of severe physi
cal labor. Anothe revidence of the cos
of brain-work is obtained from the fac
that, though the brain is only one-for
tieth the weight of the body, it receive
about one-fifth of all the blood sent b;
the heart into the system. Brain-work
era, therefore, require a more libera
supply of food, and richer food, tha
i manual laborers.
[ So Wags tlie World.
. lleavy Failure of an Extravagant Phlla,
ilelphla Banker.
The details of tho recent failure of
* Harrison Grambo, banker, of Philadelphia,
throws in the shade anything
\ that has happened in Wall street in this
line in some time, not even excepting
f the recent exploit of the tainted Taintor.
" So writes a Philadelphia correspondent
| of a Now York paper.
Mr. Harrison Grambo was certainly
) ambitious; and, so far as shrewdness at
' the expense of principle entitles a man
? to respect, so far is Mr. Grambo eni
titled to applause for the manner in
which he played his little game. If,
! however, this man congratulates him^
self on the present situation, with his
character blasted and his innocent wife
; and family made to suffer by his operai
tinns. then he nossesses a nerve and
effrontery unequalled in the annals of
, villainy. Mr. Grambo began his career
t at the foot of the ladder; indeed, it is
> said that his father's funeral expenses
' were paid some years ago by a collection
. taken up by the old gentleman's former
t business associates, so reduced had the
- family become.
"After the*death of the elder Grambo
5 the hero of this story engaged in a merr
cantile business, but, owing to the pet
culiarity of his method, it was not long
before he found himself a wreck. His
next effort was in banking. He started
i out on a large scale at once, and so far
s as assumption and cheek could give him
I tone he had it. But the brokers of the
city never took to him very kindly.
Philadelphia is not the place for a
> splurge, and any businessman who ever
t undertook this method in Philadelphia
} has, sooner or later, found himself a
dead cock in the pit.
t Grambo gave sneer for sneer, and
' kept on in the uneven tenor of his way,
unmindful of the steady old burghers,
i who frequently prophesied his downfall.
} In course of time he fitted up his offices
t in a princely style, and wondering
. countrymen were frequent recipients of
r Grambo's circulars, with the interior of
t the banking palace engraved thereon,
i The counting' house and the private
offices, with sofas and easy chairs and
[ all the papers and royal ingrain carpets,
t were therein displayed, and people who
f knew nothing of the inside working of
this wonderful institution said Grambo
- was a wonderfully successful man. Confiding
laborers and clerks and working
I trnmnn nnrl fairnAra Hmnclit, lllTTI thfiip
r money to Invest, and always received
the interest promptly on time; but
> what became of the principal? Echo
r answers, what!
i Mr. Grambo's sisters were provided
t | with a comfortable home. Grambo
i moved into Walnut street, that locality
-j so dear to the heart of Philadelphia ro1
spectability; costly pictures adorned
i his walls, the finest viands tempted his
t palate, and Grambo went on prospering
i with other people's mdney. Not content
? j with possessing the finest offices, he fitf
ted up a sub-office in gorgeous style in
- j the room of the board of brokers, which
, was at once the envy of the younger
i riiembers and an object of sarcasm to the
. older heads.
i The banking palace in Walnut street
r ?Mr. Grambo's office was also in Wali
nut street?although very fine, could
3 hardly be expected to suffice, and he
s began to cast his eyes around for a more
palatial building wherein he might or,
ganize a banking house without a rival
i on the American Continent. There is
. on Chestnut street, between Eighth and
r Ninth streets, a very elegant marble
f building, formerly occupied by Bailey
) & Co., jewellers, and this building the
r adventurous Grambo decided to possess.
- He sought out Mr. Joseph Tobias, the
1 owner, and made a bargain with that
- gentleman. Mr. Tobias agreed to ex7
pend 815,000 in repairs and alterations,
} and Grambo decided to move in as soon
i i na nnsm'hlo Tlip rpnnirs wore eomnleted
I as agreed, and Mr. Tobias congratula
ted himself on the possession of such a
desirable tenant.
A few days ago, before Grambo-was
ready to move, an ugly rumor touching
his solvency began to spread. An investigation
proved the correctness of
the rumor, and it required but two or
j three days to ascertain definitely that
Grambo had failed for $700,000. Aman
to whom he was indebted for gardening
j went into the stable one night, and
j there found two furniture cars loaded
] with household furniture, awaiting the
: flight of a few more hours for its re,
moval to the house formerly occupied
i by the Grambos. A few evenings ago a
: crowd was attracted to the new banking
1 house to see an iron manufacturer remove
some iron work that Grambo had
I ordered. Two or three more days
elapsed, and the financier of the period
found himself arrested on three distinct
charges of embezzlement. Bail was
j furnished in each instance, but there
: are more charges pending.
I At a hearing in the case of Grambo it
was announced that a warrant had been
; issued forcing him into bankruptcy,
j His liabilities are $700,000 and his assets
$100,000. His residence cost, with
the furniture, $120,000; but it is heavily
mortgaged.
Oxygen Needed.?Oxygen is the
H | great life principle of the animal body.
. JjOI us org you, men, to Rive wir mtn
e person n full and constant supply of
fresli air. If you keep him well covs
ereil, lie can never take cold by having
q the windows open day and night. If
Y the wind blows upon him, rub his face
, and neck with your hands frequently,
. and there can never be a mischievous
c impression made there. Remember
e that although a well man may live on in
0 a room with imperfect ventilation, a
e sick one must have the help of a pure
v tonic atmosphere. Remember that
_ when typhoid fever attacks an army,
t! and there is a deficiency of hospital
t accommodations, those who lie in an
open shed or exposed to the dews and
s storms do much better than those who
y eujoy the average hospital facilities.
il Several miners were killed by a flren
damp explosion in the Parish of Rhiwabon,
North Wales.
Dutch Social Customs.
The tyranny of social custom is the
basis, n3 it is the bane, of Dutch life.
Every ono submits to it, and in his own
turn exercises it; the rich man in his
own manner; the poor one in his. We
remember a very characteristic case in
point. Custom does not permit riding
on horseback in the streets of Amsterdam?a
prohibition whioh doubtless
sprung into existence from the ancient
cleanliness of the town, and which has
always remained a tacit assumption if
not a recognized fact. A young
progressist philosopher endeavored in
our presence to disregard this prohibition.
A saddle-horse was brought, and
he mounted it at his father's door.
Hooting and hisses followed him to the
very outside of the city, and the children
threw stones at the legs of the animal
he bestrode.
On the next and following days he re?
newed his attempt with true Dutch
phelgra, when the people again opposed
him with he same perseverance. Crackers
were exploded so often under the
horse's feet, that the life of the rider
was in danger, and no one, neither the
police nor public opinion, dared to interfere
in his behalf. His own father,
quite indifferent to the want of success
attending his son's rashness, said as
much to the effect that the Dutch people
had but exercised their right in resisting
innovation.
A married son or daughter never
dines with the family without an exriress
invitation. The same sort of for
mality is also established between brother
and sister, for they only visit each
othor on the footing of guests. "We
were one day praising to a Dutch lady
the conservatory of.a brother of her's
who lived in the same citv.
" I have never seen it, she said, " as
I only visit him in the evening:"
As a rule, never do married children
live under the same roof with their
parents. Therefore some difficulty
arises for them in the contraction of
marriage, since they must first of all
secure a home, and that is not always
an easy matter in many of those semiaquatic
towns, more particularly in
Amsterdam. Buildingground is scarce,
and the pile foundations cost more than
the honse itself. Such extravagant exf>enditure
as was common at the Repubic's
zenith of prosperity is not to be
renewed often; thus generation succeeds
generation in the occupancy of
the dwellings built centnrios ago. A
family must therefore emigrate or die
out before another can take Its place,
and hence it is that the fathers of families
look out for a vacancy before marrying
their children. In the meantime
the betrothal takes place, which, under
the double guarantee of honor and
Dutch sanr/ froid, forms a sufficient
bond of security, even though years
elapse before the marriage is celebrated.
Chapped Hands.
In a healthy condition the skin is j
kept supple by an oily secretion, which 1
answers the same purpose as oiling j
leather. During warm weather this j
secretion, in common with all the other j
secretions of the skin, is more abundant
than in cold. When it is insufficient
the skin becomes dry and harsh ; and ,
injthose parts of the body where the i
skin is thick and subject to much motion,
as on the hands, it readily cracks
or fissures. The amount of this secretion
is so much reduced in cold weather
that the frequent washing of the li?nds j
with soap causes them to chap readily, j
and this the more certainly if the soap j
is not thoroughly washed off. The alkali j
in soap is usually in excess, and this
combines with the oily secretion" and so
deprives the skin of its natural lubrica- :
tor. To prevent the hands from chapping,
then, be careful to wash all soap
from them thoroughly in clean water.
This will ordinarily suffice ; but if not,
it will be necessary to make good the
removed oil by the use of glycerine,
honey, mutton tallow, &c.
What it will Do.
Iron made into steel, a rod one-fourth
of an inch in diameter will sustain O.OOq
lbs. before breaking; tin steel, 7,UUU
lbs. ; iron wire, 6,000 lbs. ; bar iron,
4,000 lbs. ; inferior bar iron, 2,000 lbs.;
cast iron, 1,000 to 3,000 lbs. ; copper
wire, 3,000 lbs. ; silver, 2,000 lbs.; gold,
2,500 lbs.; tin, 3,000 lbs.; cast zinc, 160
lbs.; sheet zinc, 1,000 lbs.; cast lend,55
lbs.; milled lend, 200 lbs. Of wood,
box and locust, the same size, will hold
1,200 lbs.; toughest hickory and ash,
1,000 lbs.; elm, 800 lbs.; beach, 650
bs.; poplar, 450 lbs. Wood which will
; bear a very heavy weight for a minute
i or two will break with two-thirds the
force acting a long time. A rop of iron
is about ten times as strong as a hempen
cord. A rope an inch in diameter will
bear about two and a half tons, but in
practice it is not sufe to submit it to a
strain of more than about one ton. Half
j an inch in diameter, the strength will be
one-quarter as much ; a quarter of an
inch, one-sixteenth as much.
Protecting Boilers.?In order to
protect boilers from scaling and foamj
iug, without the use of chemicals, the
plan has been introduced in England of
utilizing the waste heat escaping through |
i the smoke box, by forcing compressed
I air through a coiled tube in the box;
, which air, thus heated to 600 degrees
1 Fahrenheit, is forced with the water
along the bottom of the boiler, through
i a pipe perforated with small holes, at a
' downward angle of 45 degrees, aiding
i ebullition. It is stated that by thus
mixing air and water, no incrustation is
1! formed, nor is there any foaming. Al ;
though these advantages are conceded,
, opinions differ as to the saving of fuel
I by aero-steam ; but the diminished coni
sumption?which in mines is very
II marked?is attributed to diminished in1
j crustation.
A Michigan Dutchman lately killed
. himself by drinking three pints of
. sweet milk and three pints of sour milk
to cure the ague.
Postal Cards.
Hon. E. M. Barber, Third Assistant
Postmaster General, has issused the ts
following important regulations : ^
Prices.?Postal Cards will be sold for al
one cent each,'neither tnore nor less, al
whether in large quantities or in small. ai
Uses.?The object of the Postal Card B
is to facilitate letter correspondence and ^
provide for the transmission through 1*
the mails, at a reduced rate of postage, ai
of short communications, either printed
or written in pencil or ink. They may P
therefore be used for orders, invitations, "
notices, receipts, acknowledgments, ei
price lists, and other requirements of
business and social life; and the matter ^
desired to be conveyed may be either 7
in writing or in print, or partially in li
Vir>tVi W
In their treatment as mail matter they n
are to be regarded by Postmasters the
same as sealed matter, except that in no n
case will unclaimed cards be returned a:
to the writers or sent to the Dead Let- 81
ter Office. If not delivered within sixty c:
(60) days from the time of receipt, they b
will be burned by postmasters. Q
Irregular cards. ?An ordinary printed ?
business card may be sent through the c'
mails when prepaid by a one-cent post- F
age stamp attached ; but such card C
must contain absolutely no written mat- F
ter except the address; otherwise it w
will be treated as not fully prepaid, a:
and refused admission into the maiU. d
Counterfeits.?All cards different b
from those herein described, with p jst- ^
age stamps printed or embossed there- F
on, and purporting to be United States b
Postal Cards, are counterfeits, and the a
manufacture of such cards, or the at- C
tempt to use the same, will subject B
the offender to a fine of five hun- u
dred dollars and imprisonment for five k
years. '
Spoiled Cards.?Postmasters will not T
under any circumstances, be permitted B
to redesm or exchange Postal Cards that o:
may be misdirected, spoiled in print- w
ing, or otherwise rendered unfit for use, P
in the hands ?f private holders. 11
Requisitions.?The Department will C
not furnish less than five hundred (500) ^
Cards on the order of a Postmrster. 11
Individuals desiring Postal Cards will P
purchase tliem of a Postmaster, as in no a:
case can they obtain them upon direfct 0
application to the Department. b
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Learnjto Keep House. ?
Whatever position in society a young ii
lady occupies, she needs a practical P
knowledge of household duties. She ?
may be placed in such circumstances
that it will not be necessary for her to
perform ^domestic labor; but on this
account she needs no less knowledge a
than if she were obliged to preside per- ci
sonally over the cooking stove and pan- 1(
try. Indeed, wo have often thought is
that it is more difficult to direct others, w
and requires more experience, than to a;
do the same work with our own hands, ^
Girls should early bo taught the art of A
cooking well, and indulgedin the dispo- ii
sition which they often display, even as A
children, to experiment in bread t;
pastry baking. It is often but a trouble- fl
some help that they afford, still it is a h
great advantage to them. Some moth- a
ers give their daughters the care of e
housekeeping, each a week by turns. It j.
seems to us a good arrangement, and a
most useful part of their education. a
Domestic labor is by no means incom- e
patible with the highest degree of re- ?
finement and mental culture. Many of I
the most elegant and accomplished wo- n
men we have known, have looked well i{
to their household duties, and have ?
honored themselves and their house- 1
holds by so doing. Economy, taste ?
skill in cooking, and neatness in the 11
kitchen, have a great deal to do in mak- 1'
ing life happy and prosperous. The ^
charm of good housekeeping is in the ^
order, economy, and taste displayed in J"
attention to little things, and these lit- "
ile tilings have a wonderful influence. I
A ilirtv kitchen and bad cooking have "
driven many a man from home to seek v
comfort and happiness somewhere else. V
None of our excellent girls are fit to be j1
married until they are thoroughly edu- v
cated in the deep and profound mys- F
teries of the kitchen. P
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Running Amuck. jr
The St. Louis Republican says: "We r
sometimes hear of Texas steers on the T
rampage in the thronged streets of a J
city. There is a terror in their wild- j.
ness, and people give them a wide berth t
when they are fortunate enough to be n
able to get out of their way. They aro "
no respecters of persons whom they n
meet, and appear to regard all the world i
V
as arrayed against them in a deadly
strife. When a Texas steer gets on such 0
a frolic, his career is near its close. He <never
gives up the chase but with life. n
A Texas man appears to be a still more c
dangerous animal, and one of the kind jj
closely related to the brute lately broke
loose in Galveslon. Ho started out n
much as the steer starts, except that, in j,
addition to his horns, he carried a largo j,
! knife, which he took occasion to plunge
in the backs and sides of people who
i were in Ins way. ne stauueu six mcu
in nil, killing' one outright, mortally n
1 wounding another, and making sore a
places for four others. It was a police- 0
| man he killed, and another policeman .
whom he mortally wounded?the other
four were common riff-raff. He was ?
finally taken alive, and nt the prelimin- b
ary examination he tried to make it ap- c
pear that he was suffering from delirium r
tremens. He seemed to regret that he s
killed only one of the six, and thinks c
he could clo better than that if he had t
another trial with a better knife. For v
a time some of the people thought that 1
legal forms in his case would be of no i
UBe, and almost made up their minds to f
take charge of him, but they finally con- 1
eluded to let the law take its course
His name is James B. Helm, and hi/) t
father and mother live in Floyd Oonnty, )
Virginia. )
The Late James Brooks.
James Brooks, whoso death has lately
iken place, was born in Portland, Me., c
ovember 10,1810. At eleven years of
he became a clerk in a drug store, ^
id at sixteen exchanged the mortar
id pestle for the schoolmaster's desk. <]
l.e graduated at Waterville College, C
[aine, at the age of twenty-one, studied
iw, turned editor an d became celebrated 1
i a traveler. His letters to the Portind
Advertiser, descriptive of scenes, j
eoples and personal experiences dur- r
lg a pedestrian tour of Europe, attractI
attention and were extensively copied, c
n 1835 he was elected to the Legis- I
ire of Maine, and in the following *
ear he went to New York and estab- ^
shed the New York Daily Express, j
ith which his name has been so inti- (
lately and constantly associated.
In 1817 Mr. Brooke was elected a 1
lember of the New York Legislature, 1
nd fr?m 1849 to 1853 he ^as a retire- '
entative in Congress from NeW York
" ii? r\ nn D.,k. .
liy, serving on rue ouuiiuiibcc uu jl uu- a
c Lands. He was elected to the Thir- t\
p-first, Thirty-second, Thirty-eighth, (
'hirty-ninth (the seat in which was sue- (
essfully contested by Mr.W. E. Dodge),
'ortieth, Forty-first and Forty-second .
Congresses, and was re-elected to the 1
'orty-third session of Congress. He 1
as serving on the Committees of Ways !
nd Means and the Pacific Railroad
uring the Thirty-ninth session, when
is seat was successfully contested by i
[r. Dodge. He was a delegate to the 1
hiladelphia National Union Conven- <
on in 1866, and in the succeeding year ^
delegate to the State Constitutional 1
Convention. The political career of Mr.
irooks was chameleon-like in its changes j
ntil he gave his unswerving allegiance >
) the Democratic party. An old line i
/big in past days, he became in later i
ears an unqualified revenue reformer, i
[is speeches on the tariff question and
n the question of American commerce j
ere remarkable for their vigor and ,
ower. The position occupied by him j
i the last days of the last session of ;
ongress in connection with the Credit ]
[obilier investigation is still fresh in
le recollections of our readers. In
erson, Mr. Brooks was tall, graceful j
ud good looking, and one of the lions !
f Washington society. His loss will .
e severely felt on the Democratic side !
f the House, where his long experience
nd keen judgment made him a a prom- (
lent leader. He wrote an account of
is travels around the world, which was '
ublishcd in book form and attracted a 1
reat deal of interest. ]
j
A Mixed Case.
There is a subtile and delicate flavor
- ' * # * i- X. 1 .
bont (Jaliiornia crime noi mi ue mmvu
il by the felonies of any other known
icality. They taste of the soil, There
i a region in Sardina the bitterness of
hose earth is perceptible in its honey;
nd delicate tasters havo noticed in
incs of Eastern France a flavor of
int; in those of Burgundy a smell
ke that of the sprouts of wild eglannd
the soil seems to transmit itsqualiY
to human actions, as well as its
avor to honey and wine, or grapes or j
lurel blossoms. Here comes record of
little criminal drama in five acts,
nncted there by the borders of th.*"
'acific, in which one Whitney, having
sum of money in bank and owing an
qual sum, consulted one Dixon as to
lie best means of avoiding payment.
)ixon promptly counseled that Wliitey
should withdraw the money and
xlge it secretly in his hands, so that it
ould not be attached by legal process. <
'his was done ; but when Whitney j
esired to withdraw the sum from his
agenious and guileless friend, the ,
itter denied all knowledge of the
ransaction. Thereupon the despoiled '
Whitney craves the interposition of the
iw, and makes a clean preast of it.
.'he legal myrmidons overhauled
)ixon, and it is at last;discovered that J
ie has made over the cash to an evil
roman named Richardson, with the
Lnderstanding that both are to fly, re
oining each other in a distant city,
diero they can diffuse the booty in
teace. Searching and urgent investi;ation
of this person disclosed the fact
hat she had just perfected herarrangenents
to throw overboard her felow
felon and run away with another
nan ; a man of the Hoodlum order,
rith a taking eye and a correct taste in
lair oil. Search for this young man
irouglit to light the amusing fact that
ic had spent quite a good portion of
he money in purchasing a fugitive
mtfit for another young woman, who,
,s soon as she had got the articles, did
iterally and actually fly with still
nother young man about whom nothng
is known, except that he seems to
>e the only one in this strunge succesion
of criminals who has reaped any
>f the fruits of the original crime.
Jonsidering the extreme complication
nd embarrassment of eveirbody conerned,
and the small likelihood that
le will ever get any of his money back,
t is possible that Whitney may now
lmost wish that instead of mobilizing
lis capital in that secret fashion, he
lad quietly paid his debts with it.
Womex as Pael-Beabers.?A cerennnv
nf sincnlnr interest was witnessed
t a funeral in New York, at the Chnrch
f the Immaculate Conception. The
[eceaseil was a member of the Church
lodality, and the funeral was conducted
>y the ladies of the society. The proeBsion,
composed entirely of ladies,
aoved from the house of the deceased
ister in East Fourteenth street to the
hurch. Six young ladies as pall-bearers
>ore the casket, preceded by two ladies
rho carried the society's banner. A
arge multitude followed the prooession
nto the church, where moss was peroral
ed by the Rev. Father McGuire.
It the conclusion of the church service
he pall-bearers carried the casket to
he door, and deposited it in the hearse,
rhence the remains were taken to Calrary
Cemetery.?Sun.
Industrial Progress.
Scotland produced 15,500,000 tons of
oal in 1871.
The British Mining Record office diodes
the United Kingdom into 14 coal
[elds.
It is reported that extensive borax
leposits liave been found in Kern
bounty, California.
The condition of mining in the vicinty
of Helena,'Montana, is reported to
)e very satisfactory.
A company has been incorporated in .
Portland, Oregon, for the purpose of
uanufactuiing railroad and bar iron.
It is claimed that the colored marble
>f Salano County, California, is superior
in point of beauty to any European
stone of a like nature.
The quantity of ores exported from
California has decreased, for the satisactorr
reason that more is now smeltid
at home than was done formerly.
One inch of rainfall distributes 100
x?ns of water over an acre of land?a
suggestive fact in a mechanical as well
is angricultural point of view. * ?
There are 851,000 sewing-machine
nade annually in the United States.
rhi-AA compemes make more than 150,
WO each. A very large profit is reanz>d
on them.
Recently 3,986 tons rf rails were made
n a fortnight at a Bri^'fih iron comjany's
works?the largest quantity ever
nade in England onder one too! within
;he same space of time.
Much anxiety is felt in Russia regardng
the destruction of forests, which
proceeds very rapidly, and threatens to
ieprive the country of one of the most
valuable of its export prodncts, wood
'or building purposes.
London has a " SalvAge Corps," sup>orted
by fire insurance companies,
vhichaids the fire brigade inextinguishng
fires, guards property in burnt buildngs,
and looks after the interests of the
nsurers generally.
"Indurated tar," a substance whioh,
t is claimed, does not crack, shrink,
lor blister, and on that account.would
>e well adapted for coating iron vessels,
s now being tested for that purpose in
British government dockyards.
Experiments are making on a British
railroad to test the rival merits of the
;wo patent railway carriage lamps.
Both lamps burn petroleum oil the flashng
points of which is 200 degrees, and
;he cost of burning is less than half that
jf the oil hitherto used.
The finished iron-makers of England,
representing 5,000 to 6,000 puddling
furnaces, recently offered their workpeople
to continue payingi.12 (12s. 6d.)
per ton for puddling, and other wages
in like proportion. Some of the workmen
have the offer under advisement.
Silicate Boda has been discovered to
sxert a very decided chemical action in
checking alcoholic fermentation, in this
il.: Bimilar to borax.
respect uexu^ouiucnuu.?
although much more energetic. A small
quantity of the silicate will entirely arrest
the fermentation of wine, as alib of
milk.
During the year ended June 30, 1872,
the United States imported 490,631 tons
af coal, whereof 257,447 tons came from
the New Canadian Dominion, and 233,184
tons from other countries. We exported
during the same time 400,878
tons, of which 291,047 went to the Dominion,
36,000 tons to Cuba, 37,000 to
the States of Colombia, and 18,700 to
China.
It appears from the official report of
the British Challenger exploring expedition,
that in the Atlantic the summer
heat penetrates to a depth of about
300 feet below which the temperature
is uniform all the year round. The experiments
made also demonstrate that
it a depth of from one to two miles the
temperature of the water is everywhere
28 deg. to 4 deg. below the freezing
point.
If there are a good many arts and inventions
lost, there is no lack of new
ones, to judge from the advertisement
of a patent broker .in the interior, who
offers "the cheapest and best form fence
ever built, "a new gas lamp that costs
only half a cent an hour," "a horse rake
that has no equal,,' "a new glass-cutter
that beats the diamond," " a grate bar .
that doesn't burn out," and finally, a
"toy engine that every boy should have
for instruction."
Regarding Bessemer steel, which is
now so largely manufactured in the
United States, a Sheffield (Eng.) correspondent
observes: "Bessemer steel
continues in great request, its application
to new purposes being almost weekly
extended. It can be produced so
much cheaper than cost steel made in
the old way, and yet is so tough and
endowed with many of the virtues of
best cast steel that there is no wonder
that its use is becoming pretty nearly
universal."
Revealing a Husband's Secrets,
Lady Davies, in her " recollections *'
tells the following amusing story: While
we were both standing opposite Mr.
W 's dressing-room, the door of
which in the haste of his departure had
been left open, I perceived a gentleman's
wig hanging there, and inquired
of Mrs. W to whom it could belong,
for Mr. W was the last man I suspected
of wearing one. She burst out
i l.:.,,. of mv rmentinn and in reolv
JOUgUlug UV J >1 , .
to it exclaimed, " for goodness' sake,
don't let him know?pray never say
that I told yon; bat that whig belongs
to my husband. Nor that alone, for he
had fonr in all?one with very short
hair, aa if it had just been cut; another
with very long hair, as if it wanted cutting
; another with the hair moderately
long; and one elaborately dressed for
parties. Sometimes," she added, "I
can scarcely prevent myself from laughing
when I hoar an intimate friend ad- *
vise him to go and get his hair cut, and
perceive how, by change of wig, it is
supposed that such aavice has been
promptly taken."
" Sir Understanding that you insert
rhymes in your excellent paper, I
send you some. "Sir:?We do not
insert rhymes without reason."