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AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, 'LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS?TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR.
VOL. III. NO. 40. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1873. * {V&^YSK:
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- ? I m.-' WnrHnr Piu | Facts *nd Fanciea.
NEW SPEIN& GOODS.
Jas. C. BAILIE & BRO., "
Respectfilly ask tour attes
tlou tb the following DESIRABLE GOODS offered
by them for nl^:
english and american floor oil 1
clotiis.
34 foot wide, and of the boot quality of Roods manufactured.
Do you want a real good Oil Cloth ? II
ao, couo no.w and get the very bust. Oil Cloths cut
any aire and laid promptly. A full line of cheap
FLOOIt OIL CLOTHS, from GOc. a yard up. Tabic
cloths all widths and colors. |
carpets.
Brussels, three-ply and Ingrain Carpets of new dosigus.
A full stock of low-priced carpets from, 30c. s
yard np.
Carpets measured for, made and laid with dispatch^
lace curtains.
French Tambonrd Lace, " Exquisites."
Nottingham Lace, " Beautiful." _
Tamboured Muslin, durable and cheap, from $3.50 1
a pair and upwards.
CORNICES AND BANDS.
Rosewood qnd Oilt, Plain Gilt, Walnut and Gill .
Cornices, with or without centres. I
Curtaiu Bands, Pins and Loops.
Cornices cut and made to fit windows and pnt up.
window shades.
1,000 Window Shade* in all the new tint* of color.
Beautiful Gold Band Shade*, $1.00, with all trimmings.
Beautiful Shades 20c. each.
Store Window Shades any color and any size.
Window Shades squared and put up promptly.
Walnut and painted wood Shades.
RUGS AND DOOR MATS. <;
New and beautiful Rugs. ^
Door Mats, from AOc. up to the best English Cocoa,
that wear three years.
ltKJ seta Table'Mats, assorted.
MATTINGS.
New Matting, Plain and Fancy, in all the different
Widths made.
Mattings laid with dispatch.
WALL. PAPERS AND BORDERS. \
3,000 Rolls Wall Papers and Borders in new patterns,
in gold, panels, hall, oaks, marbles, chintzes,
&c., in every variety of colors?beautiful, good and
cheap. Paper hung if desired.
IIAIR CLOTHS
In all widths required for Upholstering. Buttons, _
Gimps and Tacks for same.
CURTAIN DAMASKS.
Plain and Striped French Terrys for Cortafiis and
Uphobitering purposes.
Gimp-, Fringe, Tassels, Loops and Button*.
Moreens and Table Damasks.
Curtains and Lambraquins made and put np.
PIANO AND TABLE COVERS.
English Embroidered-Cloth and Piano TableCovera.
Embossed Felt Piano and Table Covers. f
Plain and gold band Flocked Piano Covers.
German Fringed Table Covers.
CRI UB CLOTHS AND DRUGGETS.
New patterns in any size or width wanted. p
To all of which we' ask your attention. All work
done well and in season, by
James G. Bailie & Brothers,
AUGUSTA, GA.
arl-17.iv.
H. M. Stuart, M. D.,
Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets, ^
Beaufort, S. C.
SCALES IX V
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, *
FAMILY MEDICINES, |>
FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES,
S TA TIOSER Y, PEIiF UMER Y, ?
BRUSHES, <?<?., dc., dc. "
Together with many other articles too numerous
to mention. All of which will be sold at the lowest
price for cash. Physicians proscriptions carefully
comi>ounded. fcb.ll. ^
PIERCE L. WIGGIN,
ATTORNEY ADD COUNSELOR AT LAW.
Solicitor Second Circuit. <
Beaufort, S. C.
BepM-ly.
* JERRY SAVAGE & CO.,
Wheelwrights & Carpenters.
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Carta, Wagons and Carriage* repaired in the beat
manner at low price*. .
Ail kind* of jobbing promptly attended to.
MAGNOLIA St.,
BEAUFORT, S. C.
J. K. Goethe, M. D. j
Dr. Goetbe offers hia professional services to the |
public. He may be found at his residence,
Ciamt Hill, near VnrnsrilV, <
Beaufort Co.. S. C.
jvn.l-iy. i
, A. 3. HITCHCOCK, !
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
BOUNTY, PENSION* AND CLAIM AGENT.
BEAUFORT, 8. C.
PT.l-yr.
YEMAS8EE
\ Eating Saloon,
J AT THE |
J* P. R. & S. & C. R. R. JUNCTION*. 1
The traveling public will here And Rood meal* on
the arrival of train*. AUo accommodation* for man
and beast, near tho depot. |
B. T. SELIjERS,
YEMASSEE, S. C.
yov.21.lv.
W. H. CALVERT,
PRACTICAL
Tin, Sheet-Iron, Copper & Zinc Worker.
"DEALER IN
Japanned and Stamped Tin Waree. Constantly on '
baud, Cooking, Parlor and box Stoves.
TERMS CASH.
Thankful for post favors, and hoping by strict attention
to businea* In tlia future to merit your kind
W. H. CALVERT,
Bay SL, between 8th and 9th Sts., ,
BEAUFORT\ S. C. Apl.3-1y.
CHARLESTON. HOTEL,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
mchglly E. H. JACK8QS.
Ledeem Your Lands.
The Acta of Oongreaa and the Regulations of the
Treasury Department in regard to the Redemption
of Land* now in the possession of the United State#
by reason of the Direct Tax Commissioner# sales can 1
be had at this office. Prioe ten cents. By mail fifteen
cents.
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PAUL BRODIE,
A. RCHITECT,
BS*uro*r,s.cDrawings
of Models prepared for Patent Office.
Indies for special purposes, made at short notice.
lo? 31, P. 0. decl-ly
William Gurney,
COTTON FACTOR
AJfD
Commission Merchant,
NO. 102 EAST BAY
ANO
NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF,
UHAKJLComa, o. i/.
Particular attention Riven to the sale of tc<l abtrlent
of Sea bland and Upland Cottou. Liberal
dvancea made on consignments. d?7-ly
JOHN BRODIE,
lontractor & House Builder,
Jobbing Punctually Attended To.
OFFICE*
Corner Bay and Ninth Street,
BEAUFORT, S. C.
decl-tf
PORT ROYATj
3AW & PLANING MILL,
Beaufort, S. C.
D. C. WILSON & CO.,
majrrfactxrxiebs of asd dealzus is
fellow Piie Timber ami Liber,
* AND
CYPRESS SHINGLES,
also,
Builders & Contractors.
Plaster Lathes,
all z1xds of
JOB SAWING
Promptly Done.
:looring and Ceiling Boards Always
on Hand.
Order* for Lumber and Timber by the cargo
rompUy filled. Term* Cash.
D. C. WILSON & CO.
novTS-ly
THE BEAUFORT H0R0L0GIST!
P. M. WHITMAN,
Matchmaker and Engraver,
Mayo's Building, Bay Street.
Will Rive hi* personal attention to tlie repairing of
BATCHES, CLOCKS and JEWELRY. Ornamental
ud plain Engraving done at abort notice.
Gentlemen having fine Watches can teat them at
- * ?? ?- nnu'inn a rn 'S
til* eafaoiiiamrm oy uut v. ? ?. ~
500 REGULATORS.
Having added to my stock one of J. BLISS & CO. *8
me Transit Instrument*, I am now prepared to furiiah
Beaufort time to the fraction of a aecoud.
Alfred Williams,
TRIAL JUSTICE,
Crofut's Building,
BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C.
X. B.?Court will be held every Friday at Brick
.'hnrch, St.Helen* Muni. IlldllMy
A.MARK,
BOOTMAKER,
Bay Street, Beaufort, S. C.
Having opened a aliop upon Bay Street, I am pro.
tared to do first-clara work.
ir.cli2o.ly A. MARK.
PURE WATER
Guaranteed by the use of the
IMERICAN DRIVEN WELL,
Now being put down In this County. They are
^to.oap and. DuraTalo,
iud gtve universal satisfaction. Pure Mater can bo
Inta BMP hfttiBA hv the AMERICAN
iKIVEN WELL in a few hours. Apply to
M. L. MAINE, Sea Island Hotel, or to
E. G. NICHOLS, Permanent Agent.
fcb27-Cm
S. MAYO,
BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C.,
HARDWARE,
Liquors, Segars and Tobacco,
Xet Yams, Fish Lines A Cordage,
Grlass, Paints and Oils,
Wliito Lead and Turpentine.
Special attention Riven to mixing Paint a, and
laae cut to order of any aire. febll
M. POLLITZER,
Cotton Factor
AMD
Commission Merchant,
BEAUFORT, S. C.
eeptt
The Savannah independent,
A FAMILY NEWSPAPER,
Established on the cheap cash plan, at the low rat<
of only
ONE PULLAK A TbAIti
Address,
INDEPENDENT,
P. o. Boi 865. Savannah, 0?.
W. G. CAPERS,
Upholsterer and Repairer.
Old Furniture pat In good order, Picture Frame1
made. Mattresses stuffed at the shortest uotice.
Corner Bay and Ninth Streets.
JebW-lT w .
Only a Sad Mistake, ?
On] j a blander, a sad mistake ;
All my own fault, and mine alone;
The saddest error a heart can make?
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I was so young, or I would have known? j.
Only his rare, swoet, winning smile ;
Only a lingering touch of his band: b
I think I was dreaming all the while? n
The reason I did not understand. ?
Yet somewhere I've read men woo this way; y
That eyes speak sometimes before the a
tongue: g
And I was sure he would speak some day? a
Pardon the folly, I was to young. t
Wow, I say, for now I am old; fc
Bo old, it seems like a hundred years 1
Since I felt my heart growing hard and oold, a
With a pain too bitter anddcop for teare. b
I saw him lean over the stranger's chair j
With a warm new light in his beautiful eyes, '
And I woke from my dreaming then and there, j
And went out of my eelf-made Paradise.
He never loved me, I know, I see!
Such aad, ead blunders as young hearts c
make!
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She did not win him away from me,
For he was not mine. It was my mistake. ^
A woman should wait for a man to speak
Before she dreams of his love, I own: v
But I was a girl: girls' hearts are weak;
And the pain, like the fault, is mine alone. *
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A LIFE LESSON. t
Albert Moore, at the age of 25, took
Alice Warren for his wife, and fancied
he was going to be as happy as it is t
given to ordinary mortals to be. Al- s
bert had been in the army, had come n
ont with a captain's commission?and
had found his way, immediately upon B
his discharge, to his early love, and de- f,
manded the helping hand in the com- "
mencement of the peaceful life. Alice *
did not refuse him. She had held him s
in her heart through the dark years, n
and now, in the glow of the glad light, f
she joined hands with him happily and
hopefully. ?
Albert had come from the army with
but little money; but he had a good ti
trade, a stout heart, and a strong pair ii
of hands, and had borrowed no trouble w
fer the future. Alice had saved up a ^
few hundred dollars from her wages as
teacher, and when the twain had become t:
man and wife they found upon a careful d
I inMtifnmr iVlof tVlOTrllftd PtlOllch to f 111*11- I)
ish a small house comfortably. Albert li
proposed that they should hire a tene- a
raent in the oity; but Alice thought *
they had better secure a pretty cottage c
in the subrubs, a cottage which they p
might, perhaps, in time, make their h
own. c
Albert had no disposition to argue the v
question ; so the cottage was found and
secured. It was a pleasant, rural loca- s
tion, and so connected with the city by o
rail, that Albert found no difficulty in o
going to and from his workshop. 1
During her five years' experience in g
school-teaching Alice had learned many t
things, and having been an orphan from ?
an early age she had made the problems
of real life one of her chief studies ; c
and what she had learned in the latter n
department served her well in her new 1:
station. After marriage she found Albert
to be just the man she had known <3
him to be in other years. He was kind s
to a fault; free-hearted and generou?, i
ready always to ar.swer the call of friend- i
ship, and prone to pluck the flowers a
that bloom to-day, regardless of what
might be nurtured to bloom to-morrow, i
They had been married but a fdV a
months when Alice found he was cut- ^
ting his garments according to his daily 1
supply of cloth. Not a shred was he 1
likely to sare up for a rainy day to
come. " Albert," she said to him one 1
evening, 44 do you know we ought to be ;
laying up a little something ?" 11
Albert looked up from his paper and t
waited for his wife to elucidate. 1
411 think I heard you tell Mr. Green- t
ough that you had no money?that you ]
had paid out your last dollar this after- t
noon ?" t
''Exactly, my dear; but you know
to-morrow is pay day." t
41 And you have spent your last month's t
_ j .
earnings r ,,
"Yes." I
A brief silence ensued, which Albert j i
broke. 1
j "Come, Alice, you've got something 1
I on your mind. Out with it?I'll listen." 11
And then Alice, in a smiling, pleas- i
j ing way, went on to tell her husband i
J that they ought to be laying up some- j j
thing. 1
Albert smiled in turn, and asked how ! i
, such a thing could be done when it cost i
all he enrned to live. I
" You earn three dollars and a half a
I day," said Alice. 1
j "Yes." i
"George Somers has only three dol- i
| lars a day." <
" You are right."
" And yet he lives, and does not run <
in del t." I
"But he is forced to deny himself 1
l mnnylittle ortnforts which we enjoy." i
" And the one great comfort which J
we might enjoy we are throwing away."
" How is that, Alice ?"
"The comfort of a little sum in the <
bank, which we would see growing toward
the answering of future wants." <
Albert could not for the life of him i
i see how it was to be done; and Alice
feared that a lesson of empty words
might be wasted. She knew that his
ambifion needed a substantial prop.
Never, on his own accord would he com- ,
menoe to save by littles. He did not
oafimntA Tnnnpv in that wav. Had some I
, kind fairy dropped into his hand a fivetwenty
bond for $500, he would have
put it away gladly; and with such a
nest-egg in the start, he might have
sought to add to the store. But
he could see no hope in a dollar bill,
and much less could he discover the nu.
cleus of a grand saving in fifty-cent
scrip.
With Alioe it was different. From
her meagre earnings as school-teacher,
she had in less than five years, saved
8300; and the first saving she had put
' by was a silver dime. 8he*knew what
little by little could do, and sne was determined
to show it* to her husband.
/
Ihe mast be patient and persevering,
nd these qualities she possessed in an
minent degree. It was to be the grand
mdertaking of the first years of her
oarried life, and to do it she would
tend every available energy. She
ilanned that if possible she would get
told of that oda fifty cents every day ;
r, if she could not do that, she would
io the bent she could.
Generous, lrank, lovpl, loving, Albert
ras an easy prev to the wiles of a wife
a loyal and as loving as himself. He
;ave ber money when 6he asked for it;
nd she asked him for it when she
hought he had any to give.
And here let me say that Alice knew
ler husband would not ruty in debt.
?hat was an evil they both amed themelves
against in the outset. *When Alert's
purse was empty he bought nothrig,
and when it was full he was apt to
my more than he needed. Alice knew
.11 this, and governed herself accordngly.
"I think," said'Alice, one evening
' that I must fix over my old brown
ashmere for the winter, i should like
new one, but I don't suppose you can
fford it."
Albert looked grieved. The idea that
ie could not affcrd his wife a new dress]
But for such a one as she wanted it
rould cost twenty-five or thirty dollars.
" If you want it, get it!" said Albert,
mphatically. " I will let yon have
wenty dollars from this month's pay,
nd ihe balance you shall have next
aonth."
Alice got the thirty dollars, but did
iot get the dress. By the outlay ol
ive dollars for new trimmings she conrived
to fix over the brown cashmere,
o that it looked every bit as good as a
ew one.
And so Alice worked. Sometimes
he asked her husband for tea cents,
ometimes for a dollar, and sometimes
or more; and, at the end of a year,
pon careful reckoning up, she found
liat she had managed to get hold of
ather more than fifty cents a day ; but
he had dene it by denying herself of
iany things, some of which were neednL
The result of the first year's effort inpired
Alice with new life and vigor,
ihe had saved up 8150, And had inested
it in Governmeutfunds. Through
he influence of a dear friend who was
a a banking establishment, and to
horn she had confided her secret, she
as enabled to get the bonds at their
ace value.
It was only a little at a time?someimes
a very little?but even a penny
ropped into the strong-box was so
inch gained. Only a little?but those
ittlea, multiplied by other littles, grew
mazingly. The husbandman who
rould sit himself down by a hill of
orn and wait to see the tender blade
ut forth, would be disheartened, but
e knows if he plants the tiny seed and
ultivates it as he ought, that the barest
of golden grain will come at length.
Albert and /Uice were marritd in the
pring of 1865. . It was on an evening
f a n orn nt 1870. that Albert came home
ut of 8ort8. He ha<l been notified that
ie mu8t leave the cottage. They must
five up the pleasant home, and lose
he little garden they had cultivated
vifch so much fondness and care.
" The owner wishes to sell," he exlaimed
; " and he has an offer. Et
ales two thousand dollars, and must
iave five hundred down."
Alice's eyes glistened with radian!
lelight. She had been thinking foi
ometime that she must let her husband
nto the secret. It had begun to weai
ipon her. And now the time had come
is though by providential interposition.
She did not make a scene. Sin
vould not add to the denouement bj
ind by play. She simply got np anc
vent to her cabinet, and when she canu
mck she brought a little book in he;
land.
" Albert!" said she, "let you and ]
juy the cottage."
" Albert looked at her in amazement
md directly it flashed upon him tha
here was too much solemnity in lie;
ook and tone for badinage. Some
hing that he had noticed during tin
last months came back to him, and In
rembled with the weight of suspens*
hat fell upon him.
Alice saw and understood. At firs
lie greut flood almost overcame her
ind she was forced to rest and wipe he:
?yes before she could proceed. Anc
hen she showed her book?that hac
nore than eight hundred dollars in th<
sank. The ice was broken; she tolc
jer story in glowing words. She tolc
low she had saved up little bv little
ind how she had at length founcl hcrsel
ible to purchase a fifty dollar bond
\nd then she told how her tincle in th<
uanking house had taken churge of tin
investment ; and how, under his man
igement, the interest had accrued ii
nmnzing volume.
But the grand result was notthechie
thing. The chief thing was the begin
ning?was the first little which had bee;
religiously saved until the second littl
:onld be added to it.
And now, as a result of the wife'
nn/l tiroloco ivnrlrinc Alb'jr
Jill ri m auu utvivuu 0,
fouud something upon which his nmhi
tion could take a fair start. He neve
could, himself, from so small n com
mencement, havo reared the pile ; bn
with the structure started, aud its pre
portions all blocked out, he could hel
on the work. He could not see how i
was done?and not only that, but th
demonstration was before him that th
thing could be done.
Ono year had elapsed since Albei
Moore received the lesson from hi
wife, and joiniug hands with her, am
bending his energies in the same dire<
tion, he has accomplished during th
twelve months what would have seeme
to him a marvel in the earlier timet
He has laid by more than fifty cents
day ; and the cigars, and beer, and th
other condiments of life which he ha
surrendered to the work are not misse
?rather, he holds that they are so man
enemies conquered. And Albert cu
improve his home with cheerful hear
ana he can set out new trees and vine
in his garden with bright promises, b<
cause he sees, day by day, the prett
cottage growing more and more his owl
The end approaches a little at a timelittle
by little it approaches surely, ne'
ertheleBs ; and theie is a great and sa
isfying joy even in the labor and in it
anticipation.
4
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The Isle or Shoals fluraer.
The Testimony of the Only Living Witness
of the Oonble Tragedy.
Among the -witnesses examined at
j Alfred, Me., at the trial of Wagner for
the murder of Annethe M. and Karen
Ohristenson was Mrs. Mary S. Houtvet,
the only witness of the tragedy and who
j fortunately escaped being one of the
i victims. She is a very intelligent lookl#
ing woman. She testified:
' I am the wife of John C. Houtvet and
. sister of Karen Christenson. I hare
lived five years at Smutty Nose Island.
Before the murder 1 was at Lome. Thai
day my husband and Matthew Houtvel
, and Ivan Christenson left early in the
- morning. The next I saw of them wat
. the following morning, March 5, at 1(
o'clock. Karen Christenson, Annethe,
[ and I were there, we went to uea ai
i 10 o'clock. I 'slept in the western pnrl
i of the bou?o in the bedroom. Annethe
i and I slept together, and Karen slepl
on a lonnge in the kitchen. The curi
tains were up ; as the night was pleas[
ant I did not haul them down. The
; outside door was not fastened. Karer
was undressed. The first thing thai
awoke me was Karen crying: "Johr
i scared me! John scared me!" The
clock fell down on the lounge, and wai
; stopped at seven minutes past one.
She then cried again: " John is killing
me! John is killing me!" He coui
menced at her with the chairs. I jump,
ed up and tried to open the bedroom
door, but could not. He kept on strik
ing her until she fell under the table,
and the door was then opened. I saw t
, great, tall man. He .grabbed a chair.
I tried to pick Karen up, and took hei
, to the bedroom. While doing so he
struck me twice. I told Karen to lifl
the window, bnt she said she coald not.
: She was on her knees with her arms or
my bed. I told Annethe to take some
clothes and run and hide away. Annethe
opened the window and jumped out
When I stood at the bedroom door he
thumped three times and tried to gel
in. Finding he could not get in thai
way, he ran out of the door. Annethe
saw him and cried three times, " Louis1
Louis! Loais!" until he struck her with
a big axe. I saw then that the man woe
Louis Wagner. He hit her on the
| head. He struck her once, and aftei
she fell he struck her twice. He went
back to the corner, jumped out,' and
told Karen to come. She said, "I am
so tired, I cannot." I ran to the henhouse
and opened the door, but I Baw c
| little dog coming and I was afraid tc
hide there because I thought the dog
| would bark. I ran to. the beach, meaning
to get the dory and go off with it
! I heard my sister .crying. I hid in the
> ?1._ t?^ fi.n fjmA moon was near
rUUHB ll?m * .
1 y set untjl half nu hour after sunrise,
When he camo the axe was outside oi
the door. I had known Louis Wagnei
; a year and a half. He had boarded
' with me seven months.
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The Havana Lottery.
i
[ A Caution to thoae who will tmjr l.ot<
tery Tickets.
It would appear that a certain clasi
> of Americans are doing the two-sidec
' wcrk of making fools of themselves anc
t contributing liberally to help Spaii
conquer Cuba. A well-informed cor
1 respondent writing from Havana, say!
that American people annuallly inves
S3,210,000 in the delusive tickets of tin
s Havana Lottery, of which sum $810,
000 goes directly and undiscounted int<
' the hands of the Spanish government
According to the correspondentreferret
to, only six persons, out of thirty thou
[ sand ticket-holders, can, by any possi
bility, draw a large prize, and forever
. capital prize drawn, 29,299 aeparat*
[ castles of sanguine hopes must be ruth
r lessly demolished. Moreover,the ticket
sellers' profits are enormous, beinj
3 equal to two-fifths of the entire price o
j each ticket sold. For example, a tirke
j whose selling price is $28, costs thi
vender only $16.67; the acUuul per
^ cenbige of profit being within a fractioi
of 70 per cent, on the money invested
j, Looked at from n common-sense stand
j point, this comes within only 30 pc
j c ut. of highway robbery, and certain
p ly, considering the small chance of an;
j return whatever to the ticket-buyer
j the transaction savors of a ennfidene
operation of the find water. When it. i
f considered in addition to the above
that eight out out of every ten ticket
* in the Havana Lottery, said in th
s United States, are out and out coun
tcrfeits, nnd of no value whatever, i
1 seems more than ever strange tha
people should invest their money i
? these tickets.
a Life In Death.
e ^ M. Papillon recounts in the followin
paragraph the celebrated "dog"ei
t periment of Brown-Sequard: Th
i- most remarkable instance of a momer
r tary reappearance of vital propertie?
l" not in the whole organism but in th
head alone, is tho famous experimer
p suggested by Leg.dlois and carried or
t for the first time in 1858 by M. Browr
e Sequard. This skilfull physiologist hi
e heads a dog, taking pains to make th
section below the point at which th
"t vertebral arteries enter the bony sheatl
s Ten minutes afterwards he sends th
J galvanic current into the different pari
! of the head thus severed from its bod
e without producing any resujt of mov<
d ment. He then fits to the four arteriei
?. the extremities of which appear in th
ft cutting of the neck, little pipes connec
e ed by tubes with a reservoir lull?
d fresh oxygenated blood, and guides th
d injection of this blood into the vesse
y of the brain. Immediately irreguli
n motions of the eyes and the facial mu
t, cles occur, succeeded by the appearain
'8 of regular harmonious contraction
s- seeming to be prompted by the wi]
v The head baa regained life. The m
i. tions continue to be performed durir
? a quarter of an hour, while the inje
v- tion ef blood into tho cerebral arterii
t- lasts. On stopping the inieotion tl
ie motions cease, and give p'aoe to tl
spasms of agony and then to death,
lllO kJWmco ii&ut-v?m
A New Trial Granted.
On the 6th of January, 1872, James
' Fisk was shot by Edward S. Stokes in.
the city of New York. The following
1 jnorning Fisk died. Since that time
Stokes has had two trials, and at the
' last was sentenced to be executed. The
i decision of the Court of Appeals was
. promulgated at Albany, the case on a
bill of errors having been referred to
that court. The Court were unanimous
1 in their opinion that the appellant is
> entitled to a new trial The decision is
based on several grounds, the broadest
. and most sufficient of which is that
; JndgeJBoardman's charge on the second
' trial was erroneous on a most important
? point. The Judge, it seems, charged,
i according to common law, that the law
I presumes murder from the fact of kill,
jng and calls on the prisoner to mitigate
t or justify. Under the-statute law tney
: decided that, the killing admitted, the
> onus probandi rested with the prosecu- ;
; tion so far as concerned the degree of
. guilt, or, in fact, legal responsibility at
. all. There are other minor points in
i the opinions delivered. One is against '
i the decision of Judge Boardman to ex;
elude evidence as to alleged threats by ]
i Fisk to kill Stokes and on the points of
> evidence elicited from Jennie Turner, i
i the servant ef Mrs. Morse.
The steps by which the case of Stokes ,
r has reached its present level are as fol- <
. lows: After the Coroner's inquest an j
. indictment was drawn against Stokes,
i Motions to quash the indictment were {
. discus led for some time, and at length j
, the curious spectacle was offered of a
i petit jury trying the Grand Jury for
, passing upon the indictment. The inr
dictment was sustained and Stokes was 1
j called upon to plead toWsrds the latter ;
fc end of June, 1872. The tryil lasted
, from the 19th of June to the 15tli of 1
i July and resulted in a disagreement of
i the jury. This was, of course, a tem- i
j porary victory for the prisoner. Then
, began the second trial December 19tb.
i On the 6th of January 1873, one year
I exactly from the murder, Stokes was i
\ condemned to death in accordance with
i the unanimous verdict of the jury. (
[ The Court of Appeals at Albany has
i decided that a new trial shall take place,
i and the result of this trial will be look
ed forward to with no little interest.
> A Somnambulist.
Belshazzar Smith hod a very-bad and
. very dangerous habit of walking in his
k sleep. His family feared that during
' some one of his somnambulistic saunter|
ings he would charge out of the window
and kill h'mself; so they persuaded
) him to sleep with his little brother Wil"
liam, and to tie one end of a rope round
; his body and the other end round the
; waist of little William. The first night
[ after this arrangement was made, Bel1
shazzar dreamed that a burglar was
pursuing him with a dagger. So he
crept over to William's side of the bed,
stepped over William's slumbering
form, jumped out on the floor and slid
under the bed. He stayed there awhile
fast asleep; and then, his nightmare
) having changed, he emerged upon the
I other side of the bed, and got under
. the cover in his old place. The rope, it
1 ^ 1??tU *!,? K.i/1
i will be observed, wun ucucmu mo wu,
i' and it was pulled taut, too. Early in
.: the morning, Belshazzar, about half
. ! awake, scrouged over against William.
To his surprise the movement jerked
1 William clear out of bed. Belshazzar
i leaped out to ascertain the cause of the
- phenomenon, and at the same time his
j brother disappeared under the bed,
Belshazzar, hardly yet awake, was scared.
and he dived beneath the bedstead ; as
1 he did so he heard William skirmishing
- across the blankets over his head. Once
more he rushed out just in time to perf
ceire William glide over the other side,
u Belshazzar then became sufficiently con*
r sciou8 to feel the rope pulling him. He
- comprehended the situation at once, and
? disengaged himself. And perhaps little
f William was not mad ! He was in the
t hospital undergoing repairs for about
e three weeks, and when he came out he
- had a strange desire to sleep alone,
i Belshazzar anchors himself now to an
anvil.?Max Adeler.
r An English Millionaire.
^ When people talk about millionaires
they usually mention Rothschild first,
e but there is a man in England by the
H name of Ward, in comparison with
g whom any Rothschild is a pauper. This
e man Ward inherits a vast property,
with accumulated investments and esj
tates, which give him an enormous int
come ; he has the most magnificent
ui house iu London, the finest collection
of art, and the finest country seatk in
the Kingdom ; his wife is celebrated
for her beauty, and her display of diamonds
at a recent festival given by the
S Emperor of Austria, in Vienna, made
[. all tho other ladies, the Empresses,
p Queens and Princesses, look poor.
| What the income of thisBritishtCroce^us
| is we have never seen any statement
of, but a Manchester paper gives an
e account of his annunl profits derived i
.? from his coal mines, which amount to
tin enormous sum of ?4,900,000. So
the income from one source alone of
1- this inordinately wealthy person is not
3- much short of twenty-five millions of
e dollars a year.
ie
? Opium Destroying Veracity.
16 '
s It is a by-word, says a lecturer, among
j the Chinese, that an opium-smoker is
> never to be trusted. The testimony
^ given by men of all classes, merchaits,
missionaries, Europeans, opium dealers
>f themselves being the judges, shows that
>e the baleful effects of this drug upon
Is the human system are the general deir
terioration of all the mental faculties,
s- debility, sallow complexion, lividness of
;e Hps and eye-lids, languor, lack of lustre
s, in the eye, and hellowness of the voice.
11. VHien the periodical thirst comes on,
o- muous flows from the nostrils, and tears
ig from the eyes ; the burning sensation
c- in the throat oannot be allaved until the
es potion is administered. If the pipe is
ie wifehneld altogether, coldness and arhinsr
ie pains penetrate the body, accompanied
with diarrhoea, ^ death finally pn*Ufs>
The Mammoth Cave is for sale; price,
lalf a million.
The best scholar in the Princeton, HL,
ligh school, is a colored girl
James Carruthers was hanged at
Barrie, Canada, for the murder of his
rife.
An Indiana schoolmaster declares
;hat the use of tomatoes as food induces
insanity.
An unknown metal has been found
>n an old Indian camping ground near
Semper, 111.
The Illinois river at a point between
Peoria and Spring Bay is 97 feet deep
it low water.
A St. Louis woman took the veil recently.
She was caught and had to give
l? uf -"""6 ?
A fellow in New Orleans is. said to
lmve eaten a box of Castile soap to get
rid of freckles.
Frank H. Walworth has pleaded not
?uilty of the mnrder of his father, for
which he has been indicted.
By way of consolation, the next time
fen are haijl np, reflect that the Bank
)f England has a capital of $90,000,000.
Of the 45,000,000 United States three
per cent, certificates outstanding Nor. *
1,1870, all but 80,000 have been called
in and redeemed.
A New Albany, Ind., Judge has decided
that if a man gets drunk every
atlier week, and stays drunk a week at a
time, he is not an habitual drunkard.
Seventeen persons have been arrested,
fifteen tried, and fourteen convicted
find sent to the State Prison in New
fork for circulating immoral literatuM.
Two girls at Athens, Ga., were made
Suite siok by swallowing the poisonous , .
owers of heartsease, under the romantio
notion that whatever they wished
then would come true.
A very sensible law has been passed
in Massachusetts and should be copied
in every State in the Union. It prohibits,
under severe penalties, the defacement
of natural scenery by quack
advertisements or otherwise.
A veteran proprietor of summer hotels
declares that whenever a landlord has
had two prosperous seasons in succession
he Bnould always retire from business,
since it is the result of his experience
that the third season usually loses
what the other two seasons have made.
At Steubenville, Ohio, at the house
of a miner named George Edmonds, a
can of gun powder weighing 125 pounds
exploded, killing * three children and
fatally wounding another. The can had
been placed in a cupboard, and in the
absence of their parents the children
had set fire to it.
Gov. Austin, of Minnesota, after serving
fwn Tflars in the Executive office,
4U8 ?f
declines a renomination because it costs
him $3,000 a year more than his salary
to live. ''This," he says with some
show of reason, "when a man has made
what little he has by hard knocks, is
not very satisfactory.
A nicely-dressed gentleman applied
for a marriage license at Dover, Tenn.,
but when he spoke the lady's name the
polite County Clerk suggested that,
if it was all the same to him, he would
prefer that he should nanje some other
party, as the one mentioned had become
his wife the previous evening.
Here is an instance of a mother's love
from a Rhode Island paper: " A Newport
woman recently discovered that
her children, seven in number, Bhowed
unmistakable signs of having the scarlet
fever. Being unable to procure any assistance,
she worked, watched, and administered
medicines day and night to
her children, until her system gave out
and she became insane, in which condition
Bhe still remains."
On one of our eastern trains the other
day, a newly married couple starting on
their wedding tour, gave vent to their
emotions as follows:?Husband (leaning
over very tenderly toward the partner
of his joys and sorrows)?"'Oose
little pet lamb is 'ou ?'' Wife (with responsive
tenderness)?"'Oil's." Husband?"
'Oo does 'ou love?" Wife?
" 'On." I. G., being a single man, was
1 . t tin's noiut of
completely ufnwuis ?? ...? ,?the
conversation, nnd joined the euchre
pluying crowd in the smoking car.
Follies of Fashion.
Who is it that sets the fashions ?
Whom havo we to thank for all the hideous
excrescences by which beauty is
distorted and comfort ? disturbed ?
Parsing periwigs and pigtails, as things
happily extinct, we wonder who invented
chignons, corsets, stick-up collars,
chimney-pot hats and high-heeled boots.
As regards these last named instruments
of torture, see here what is said of them
by somebody who knows: " It was impossible
to imagine a more depraved
form of foot-covering, or one more injurious,
than the high-heeled boots now ^
worn by many women. The five toes
were crumpled up together, and a greater
weight than it was ever intended it
should bear was thrown upon the ball
of the great toe, rendering long-conI
tinued muscular exertion a thing imI
" Phie ladies may declare that
due ladies have no need of undergoing
a continuance of muscular exertion, and
that they therefore have no need 10 give
up wearing high-beeled boots. Of
course, due ladies keep their carriages,
and, except perhaps in dancing, never
liave occasion for stretching their ten
toes. So they let these be deformed
and crumpled up by high-heeled boots,
and grow misshapen and distorted like
the feet of the Chinese. Deformity
becomes n proof of fashionable breeding,
and it is beiter to be hideous than
not dress a la mode.?Punch.
A Utopia? Rxtrsat. ?People in search
of felicity are floeking to Danville. N.
H., this summer. There is not a lawyer,
doctor, lightning-rod man. sewingmachine
agent nor hotel clerk in the
[ilace. while more than 400 beautiful,
ong-haired, rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed
maidens, with natural teeth and wnite
dresses, meander through the streets at
even tide, chewing gum and on
theyoungmen about.. So,at least,says
a Western paper.
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