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^ ~ > W The Beaufort Republican. - .! I - ?* HP AN" INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLITICS, LITERATURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS?TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR ' : ? % B VOL. Ill, X) 5 0. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1873. . . AQWIS rNEW SPRING GOODS. Jas. C. BAILIE &BRO., T> ESPECTFULLT ASK YOUR ATTKN XV tlon to the following DESIRABLE GOODS of* fered by them for sale: ENGLISH AXD AMERICAS FLOOR OIL CLOTHS. 34 feet wide, and of the best quality of goods manufactured. Do you want a real good Oil Cloth T II so, corae now and get the very bust. Oil Cloths cut any size and laid promptly. A full line of cheap FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, from GOc. a yard up. Tabls cloths all widths and colors. CARPETS. Brussels, three-ply and Ingrain Carpets of new de slgus. A full stocfc of low-priced carpets from, 30c. a yard up. w . Carpets measured for, made and laid with dispatch] LACE CURTAINS. French Tambourd Lace, " Exquisites." Nottingham Lace, " Beautiful." Tamboured Muslin, durablo and cheap, from $3.50 a pair and upwards. COUMCES A5D BANDS. Rosewood and Gilt, Plain Oilt, Walnut and GUI Cornices, with or without centres. Curtain Bands, Pins and Loops. Cornices cut and made to fit windows and pat up. WINDO W SHADES. 1,000 Window Shades in all the new tints of color. Beautiful Gold Band Shades, $1.60, with all trim^ miugs. Beautiful Shades 20c. each. Store Window Shades any color and any size. Window Shades squared and put up promptly. Walnut and painted wood Shades. RCGS AND DOOR MATS. New and beautiful Rugs. Door Slats, from 50c. up to the beat English Cocoa, that vear three years. 100 atta Tabla Mats, assorted. MATTINGS. , New Matting, Plain and Taney, 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, fcc., in every variety of colors?beautiful, good and cheap. Paper hung if desired. iiair cloths In all widths required lot Upholstering. Buttons, Ciimps and Tacks for same. curtain damasks. Plain and Striped French Terrys for Curtains and Upholstering purposes. Gimps, Fringe, Tassels, Loops and Buttons. Moreens and Table Damasks. Curtains and Lambraquins made and pat np. piano and table covers. ? English Errbroidered-Cloth and Piano Tabic Covers. Embossed Felt Piano and Table Covers. Plain and gold band Flocked Piano Covers. German Fringed Table Covers. crumb cloths and druggets. New patterns in any size or width wanted. To all of which we ask your attention. All work done well and in season, by James G. Bailie & Brothers, AUGUSTA, GA. spl-17-lv. H. M. Stuart, M. D., Corner of Bay and Eighth Streets, Beaufort, S. C. DCALEB IN DRUGS AXD CHEMICALS, FAMIL Y MEDICIXES, FAXCY AMD TOILET ARTICLES, BTA TIOXER Y, PERFUMER Y, BRUSHES, Ac., Ac., Ac. Together with many other article* too numerous to mention. All of which will be sold at the lowest price for cash. Physicians prescriptions carefully compounded. fcb.ll. PIERCE L. WIGGIN, ATTORHET AND COUNSELOR AT LAV. Solicitor Second Circuit. ^ . Beaufort, S. C. Sept.l.ly. ' IPRRY QAt/ACP A PH #kiii? i vninwu u \J v/ j Wheelwrights & Carpenters. Cart*, Wagons and Carriages repaired in the best manner at low price*. All kinds of Jobbing promptly attended to. MAG-NOLTA St., BEAUFORT, S, C. J. K. Goethe, M. D. i Dr. Goethe off'-ra hi* professional services to the public. He may be found at his residence, Gam? Hill, near YnrnsvH'e, Beaufort Co., S. C. jan.l-ly. A. S. HITCHCOCK, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, BOUNTY, PENSION AND CLAIM AGENT. BEAUFORT, S. C. Dcc.l-yr. YEMASSEE r Eating Saloon, AT TIIE P. R. St S. & C. R. R. JUNCTION. The traveling public will here find good meals on the arrival of trains. Alio accommodations fo. man and beast, near tho depot. 33. T. SEIiLEIlS, YEMASSEE, S. C. Nov.21-ly. _W. H. CALVERT,~ PRACTICAL . Tin, Sheet-Iron, Copper & Zinc Worker. DEALER IN Japanned and Stamped Tin Wares. Constantly on tinnd, Cooking, Parlor and Box Stores. TERMS CASH. Thankful for past favors, and hoping by strict attention to business in tho future to merit your kind favor. W. H. CALVERT, Bay St., between 8th and Oth Sts., BEAUFORT, S. C. A pi. 3-1 y. CHARLESTON HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. mchM-ly E. H. JACKSON w Redeem Yovir Lands. The Acts of Congress and the Regulations of the I Treasury Department in regard to the Redemption of Lauds now in the possession of the United States by reoKou of the Diroct Tax Commissioners sales can be had at this office. Prion ten cents. By mall fifteen cents. |. PAUL BRODIE, A. ECHITECT, BZAUFOJtT, 3.C. Drawings of Models prepared for Patent Office. Studies for special purposes, made at shsrt notice. Box 81, P. O. ' dacl-ly William Gurney, COTTON FACTOR axn Commission Merchant, NO. 102 EAST BAY AND NORTH ATLANTIC WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Particular attention given to the sale of and shipment of Sea Island and Upland Cotton. Libcial advances made ou consignment-. det7-ly JOHN BRODIE, Contractor & House Builder, Jobbing Punctually Attended To. OFFICE* Corner Bay and Ninth Street, BEAUFORT, S. C. dccl-tf PORT ROYAL SAW & PLANING MTT.T., | Beaufort, S. C. D. C. WILSON & CO., MANUFACTURE!!* OF AND DEALERS IN yellow Pioe Timber and Limber, AND *""* CYPRESS SHINGLES, ALSO, Builders & Contractors. Plaster Lathes, ALL KINDS OP JOB SAWING Promptly Done. Flooring and Ceiling Boards Always I on Hand. T Orders for Lnnber and Timber by tho cargo promptly filled. Terms Ca ib. D. C. WILSON & CO. | nov28-ly _ I THE BEAUFORT HUKULUum i P. M. WHITMAN, Watchmaker and Engraver, Mayo's Building, Bay Street. ; Will (five hi* personal attention to the repairing of | WATCHES, CLUCKS and JEWELRY. Ornamental aud plain Engraving done at abort notice. Gentlemen having line Watcbe* can teat them at thin mtafclinhtneiit by one of HOWARD & CO.'S $500 REGULATORS. Having added to my (dock one of J. BLISS & CO.'S flue Transit Instrument*, I am now prepared to fur. oiah Beaufort tune to the fraction of a second. Alfred Williams, TRIAL JUSTICE, j Crofut's Building, BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C. i N. B.?Court will be held every Friday at Brick j Church, St. Helena Wind. iucli2t>-ly j a. markT BOOTMAKER, Bay Street, Beaufort, S. C. Having opened a shop upon Bay Street, I am pro. j pared to do Grat-class work. I inch'JO-ly A. MARK. I PURE W ATER Guaranteed by the use of the AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL,! i Now being put down in this County. Tbcy are i Oh.oap and,. Dnratolo, And give universal satisfaction. Puro Water can bo ' introduced into any bouse by the AMERICAN DRIVEN WELL in a few hour*. Apply to M. L. MAINE, Sea Island Hotel, or to E. G. NICHOLS, Pormancnt Agent. fct>27-toi S. MAYO, | BAY STREET, BEAUFORT, S. C., HARDWARE, Liquors, Segars and Tobacco, Net Yarns, Fish Lines <L- Cordage, Grlass, Faints and Oils, White Lead and Turpentine. 8pecial attention given to mixing Paints, and Glass cut to order of any sire. febll M. POIiLITZEK, Cotton Factor and Commission Merchant, BEAUFORT, S. C. aepU * The Savannah Independent, A FAMILY NEWSPAPER, Established on the cheap cash plan, at the low rats j of only ONE DOLLAR A YEAR; Address, INDEPENDENT, P. 0. Box K5. Savannah, Oa. . i W. G. CAPERS, Upholsterer and Repairer. Old Furniture pnt In pood order, Picture Frames made. Mattraxses stuffed at the shortest notice. Corner Bay and Ninth Street*. 1 feblS-lr The Canary at Church. i They were siugiug goodwill London, I Aa the evening, cool and sweet, < Drifted with purple Hhadows Adown the city atreet. Bound every churchly window i The lusty ivy clung; The red, faint sunshine flickered Its matchless leaves among. I i The dim nave, with its arches { And clustered pillars rare, Had echoed to the cadence < Of the pale Rector's prayer. ' And now through tender silence The thrilling flute-notes rang, And sweet as angels' voices The rare old tune they sang. When sudden, lo ! appearing On carving quaint and old, Like fair ?stray from heaven, Fluttered a speck of gold. . On to the lecturn flying Up to the Bishop's chair, With clear notes soaring, chanting Ilia wondrous vespers there. Full rolled the singing voices ; Yet sweeter, richer, higher, God's silver-throated chorister Outsang the trained choir. DEATH AND BURIAL OF LITTLE NELL. BY CHABLE3 DICKENS, For she was dead. There, upon her ( little bed she lay at rest. The solemn stillnes was so marvel now. She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from traoe of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hands of God, and waiting for the breath of life; not ; one who had lived and suffered death. ( Her co ioh was dressed with here and there some winter berries and green i leaves, gathered in a spot where she had been used to favor. "When I die put near me something | that has loved the light, and had the < sky above it always." These were her i words. She was dead. Dear, gentle, patient, < noble Nell was dead. Her little bird < ?a poor, slight thing the pressure of a | finger would have crushed, was stirring ( nimbly in its cage; and the strong ' heart of its child mistress was mute and motionless forever. ' j< Where were the traces of her early cares, her sufferings and fatigue ? Ail j gone. Hers was the true death before i their weeping eyes. Sorrow was dead i indeed in her, but peace and perfect | happiness were born ; imaged in her ; tranquil beauty and profound repose. j And still her former self lay there, { unaltered in this change. Yes. The ! old fireside had smiled upon that same |i sweet face ; it had passed like a dream | through haunts and misery of care ; ut the door of the poor schoolmaster on : the summer evening, before the furnace fire uDon the cold, wet night, at the till bedside of the dying boy, there : had boen the name mild, lovely look. | So shall we know the angels in their , majesty, after death. i The old man held one langnid arm in his, and the small hand tightly folded to his breast, for warmth. It was the hand she hod stretched out to him with her last smile?the hand that led him on through bia wanderings. .Ever and anon he pressed it to his lips ; then hugged it to his breast aguin; murmuring that it was warmer now ; and as he said it, he looked in agony to those who stood around, as if imploring them to he'.p her. Sne was dead and past all help, or need of it. The ancient rooms she had seemed to fill with life, even while her own was waning fast?the garden she b ad tended?the eyes she hud gladdened?the noiseless haunts of many a thoughtful hour?the paths she had trodden as it were but yesterday?could know her no more. "It is not," said the schoolmaster, as he bent down to kiss her on the cheek, and gave his tears free vent, " it is not in this world that Heaven's justice ends. Think what it is, compared with the world to which her young spirit has winged its flight, and say, if one deliberate wish expressed in solemn terms above this bed could cull her back to life, which of uu would utter it ?" When morning came and they could speak more calmly on the subjvet of their grief, they heard how her life hud closed. She had been dead two days. They ! nrora all nlinnl her at the time, knowini; I that the end was drawing on. She dieu j soou after daybreak. They had read and talked to her in the earlier portion of the night, but as the hours crept on, she sunk to sleep. They could tell, by what she faiutly murmured in her dreams, that they were of her journeyings with the old man ; they were o? 110 Eainful scenes, but of those who had elped and used them kindly, for she often said, " God bless you!" with great fervor. Waking, she never wandered in her mind but once, and that was at beautiful music which she said was in the air. God knows. It may have been. Openii g her eyes at last, from a very quiet sleep, she begged that they would kiss her once again. That done she turned to the old man with a lovely smile up n her face?such, they said, as they had never seen, and never could forget?and clung with both her arms about his neck. They did not know that she was dead, at first. ****** * Aud now the bell?the bell she had so ; lmnr/1 Kr niolil. And dnv. and I w*i.va A iivmu listened to with solemn pleasnre almost as a Jiviug voice?rung its remorseless toll for lier, so young, so beautiful, so good. Decrepid age, and vigorous lifo, and blooming youth, and helpless infancy, poured forth?on crutches, in the pride of strengthjand health, in the I full blush of promise, in the mere dawn 1 of life?to gather ronnd her tomb. Old men were there whose eyes were dim and senses failing?grandmothers who i might have (lied ten years ago and still been old?the deaf, the blind, the lame, the palsied, the living dead in many shapes and forms, to see the closing of that early grave. What was the death it would shnt in, to that which still could crawl and creep above it! Along the crowded path they bore tier now; purely as the ncwly-fullen inow that covered it, whose day on earth had been as fleeting. Undo:- tlmt porch where she had ant when heaven in its mercy brought her to that pee fulspot, she passed again, and 1h,? old chnrch received her in its <pi\ t .'inde. They carried her to one old monk where she had mauy and many a time sat musing, and laid their burden softly on the pavement. The light streamed on it through the colored window?a window where the boughs of the trees weru ever rustling in the summer, and where the birds sang sweetly all day long. With every breath of air that Btiired among those branches in the | sunshine, some trembling, changing light would fall upon her grave. Earth to earth, ashep to ashes, dust to dnst. Many a young hand dropped its little wreath; many a stifled sob was heard, some?and they were not few? knelt down. All were sincere and truthful in their sorrow. Die service done, the mourners stood apart and'the villagers closed round to look into the graver before the pavement tone should be replaced. One called j to mind how he had seen her sitting on that very spot, and how her book had j fallen on her lap, and she was gazing j with a pensive face upon the sky. Another told how he had wondered much that one so delicate as she could be so bold; how she had never feared to enter j the chnrch alone at night but had loved | to linger there when all was quiet, and even to climb the tower stair, with no more light than the moon's rays stealing through the loopholes in the thick old wall A whisper went about among the oldest there that she had seen and talked with angels ; and when they called to mind how she had looked and spoken,and her early death, some thonght itj might be so indeed. Tims coming to the grave in little knots and glancing down, and giving place to others, and falling off in whispering groups of three or four, the church was cleared in time of all but the sexton and mourning friends. They saw the vault covered and the stone fixed down. Then when the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the stillness of the place?when the bright moon ponred in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, vale and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave?in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurance of immortality, and wordly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them?then, with humble and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with ntnd O I It is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach; but let no man reject it, for it is one that all mnst learn, and is a mighty, universal truth. When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the earth and blesB it with their light. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed cm such green graves, Borne good is born, some gentler nature comes. In the destroyer s steps there Bpring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to heavon.?Old Curiotsitjj hop. A Centennial Cheese. Among the many suggestions that have been made in regard to the Philadelphia celebration of '76, that from a New Hampshire man who proposes to make a centennial cheese is the most??? uio loCtnr f<-? tViA rcuiuiauuic, mo lui/kv* w ?MW ?? sioners, with the exception of some details which are unliminated, reads as follows : " Dear Sirs : I speak of cheese? cheese in the grandest and most sublime sense of the term ; cheese such as the world has never seen ; cheese ! ? hundreds of thousands of pounds of it. It shall be an immense plain, the consolidated efforts of every cheese manufacturer in the United States, and will be capable, .when laid down upon its side, of accommodating many hundreds of people. Such a cheese as the one I speak of would certainly create astonishment, and would gain for our manufacturers the admiration of the world. I desire space for such a cheese. Can I have it ? Answer." It has been suggested that the cheese would answer a variety of purposes; that it would muke an admirable race course, for its circumference would certainly exceed half a mile. Its surface would be even and free from dust, and when it had worn through, the interior might be scraped out, leaving only its shell, so that windows and entrances miciit be inserted and the whole thing might serve the requirements of a restaurant more wonderful than any of those farmed out by the commissioner at Vienna.? Worcenter (Mass.) Spy. St. Cecilia. " Can you tell mo who St. Cecilia is ?" asks a correspondent, and adds : "I have an engraving of her, and would like to know. She is represented as playing on a musical instrument. What books tell of her ?" All books on mythology give her history. She is supposed to have lived in the third century, and the honor paid to her can be traced to that time. She was the daughter of J a noble Roman, who, with his wife, had secretly become Christians. Cecelia was in childhood remarkably serious and pious. She early made a vow to chastity, and devoted herself to a religi ous life. She always carried a copy of the gospel in her robe. She especially excelled in music, and composed and sung hymns so sweetly that angels came to listen to her. But the instruments employed in secular music were insufficient to express the music of her soul, uud she invented the organ, and consecrated it "to the divine service. Her body lies in the" Church of St. Ceceliain-Travestere. She is the patroness of music'and musiciaus. Her proper attribute is the orgau and a roll of music. She is richly dressed, oft?n has jewels, a crown of roses, and an attendant angel. At the Custom Hons*. Kate Field writes to the American J2cgi*(cr, of Paris, in the following l sprightly strain : " Arriving at the Custom House we climbed to it by way of a poll, or some equally convenient means, and then sat down in gloom and emptiness to await the transportation of our luggage. Tradition asserts pati- 1 ence on a monument smiling at grief to 1 be the acme of cheerful resignation. Tradition, as usual, is wrong. Patience i in a Custom House, leaning on an um- , brella and smiling at two porters, sole transporters of thirty passengers' lug- 1 gage and much freight, the latter com- 1 ing first, is as much more virtuous than 1 monumental grief, as grief is more wretched than mel. ncholy. I smiled, and smiled, and made no more observations about the slowness of the old country than was compatible with serenity. I kept myself alive by studying the number of poses that could be taken in connection with an umbrella. I never before realized how much there was in an umbrella. The next time you are left in a station to wait for your luggage, fall back on your umbrella, and remark its many companionable qualities. You pose with it, you walk with it, you poke with it, you express your feeiings with it, you write your name with it on floors and walls, you knock imaginary brigands down with it, and finally you point out the trunks dear to your pocket with it. Couldn't I bear off my property without examination ? No, I must have one trunk opened for the ?ake of appearances, ana i mum swenr that I had not therein concealed tobacco, wine, spirits, or silverware. I asked an obliging young man, who was inclined to do the handsome thing by me, whether I looked cnpable of tobacco, wine, spirits, or silvtrware. He replied by writing hieroglyphics on my several trunks and my banjo-case, over which I took the necessary oath, while assuring the obliging young than that said banjo contained the very best of spirits. Some Facts About the Oyster. The oyster when spawning does not cast its eggs like other fish, but dissolves, as it were, a part of its own body, which passes off in long, slender threads, as fine as a spider's web, upon which are congregated millions of little eggs, not visible to the naked eye, but which, when put under a powerful magnifying-giass, astonish the beholder by their number. It is estimated that about seventy per cent, of the spawn is destroyed by fish,and about ten percent from other causes, leaving twenty per cent, to find theii way into market. These little "seed" cling to whatever they tonch, generally old oysters ; and the many little shells one often sees clinging to large oysters are but the growth of these seed. When oysters have spawned in a clear place, and free from their fish enemies, their growth is very rapid until they attain the size of a quarter of a dollar ; and it is at this period of their existence that the oystermen take them for transplanting. The shells are very thin, and the inside meat scarcely larger than a shirt button, and having the rest of the shell filled with a milky fluid, which in time forms the body of the fish. Oysters, after they are transplanted, are, with a few exceptions, not fit to eat under three years. It might besupposed that the oyster, with its hard shell, was free from all danger, but such is not the case. He has two deadly enemies? the star fish and the borer. Theformer will fasten on the month of an oyster, and in a short time suck the life out of him. The latter, with his little saw and gimlet bill, bores through his shell, and, once through, the oyster is soon destroyed. Easy Puzzles. It is remarkably easy to puzzle people if you show by your words or manner that you expect them to be puzzled. We once propounded the following to a company of gentlemen : A owes B {*500, and admits the debt. A's father dies intestate, and B's father takes the benefit of the bankrupt uct. Does this discharge A's obligation to B ? After no little consideration of the problem, several of the company decided that it did ! It seemed to the friend with whom wo were arguing perfectly easy for any intelligent person to throw out all the latter items of the statement as having no possible connection with the first; but the test established the-point for which we were contending, that this could only be done l>y n mental effort to which some men were not equal at the moment the question was asked. If we had not witnessed such exhibitions, we should suppose that a question proposed by our frieud at Morris^ New York, wus designed as a quiz. lie supposes uie case of a hunter pursuing a squirrel, which dodges around a tree, and ius the man with the gun follows around to get a shot, the nimble game he is seeking keeps always exactly on the opposite side of the trunk. Now comes the allimportant query : Has the gunner, having thus goue around the tree, also gone around the squirrel? The town from which the question comes seems to have been divided as to the true answer. Do not be Fooled. Unsophisticated persons who hanker after chances to get richon$400capital, may learn a lesson from the experience of a Brooklynite who saved up that sum by dint of hard work and economy during au indefinite period, and then paid it over to a New York advertiser of " business opportunities," who guaranteed a half interest in a profitable business. The trouble was, the busiuess was profitable only for the advertiser, who took the entire g400and didn't give bis victim even a half interest. Being shown some very tfat cattle at the Home Farms at Windkor, and understanding that they had been fed upon oil-cuke, the Shah grew qnite animated, and said to the interpreter, "Ask if oil-cake is good for wives." The Alton Disaster. Horrible Suffering* of the Unfortunate 1 P*a*rngera. Mr. A. S. Burgess, conductor of the * Pullman Palace car on the train which waswiecked on the Chicago and Alton 1 Railroad, has given an account of the j accident, from which the following extract* are taken : ( When the collision occurred Mr. Burgess was standing at the door of the f car marking off berths for the passen-1J gcrs on the dingram. The first concussion threw him forward against the } door, the second hurled him over the brake, and the third back again to the j door. His clothes were torn and his ( legs somewhat bruised, but he immedi_4_1_ TUl'fll til a rPHfc of tlie ! 1 ttl/CIjr n CUV iVinmu n ?..v , passengers to see what was the matter. 1 "Never in my life," said lie, " liavi I witneflsed such a sight. It was the fifth 1 collision in which I was a participant, 1 but never did I see such utter misery. In the meadows on either side of the I track were lying human beings, yelling j in agony?their flesh boiled off them. < The freight engine had run clear under- ( neath the smoking-car, and there exploded, shattering the car into little j pieces, and blowing the occupants high | tip into the air and over the fence into , the imadows. The other engine burst ] at the same time. A man?I don't know , who it was?ran np to me, phrieking with agony, and threw himself into my arms. I tried to hold him, but his , clothes tore off him, and the flesh came , off with them. I was nearly stunned at , the sight. There were a dozen or more, . stripped stark naked, running up and down, crazv with pain. They were tearing at their bodies, and tearing off ] great handfuls of flesh. The passen gers behaved admirably. They took up 1 the victims and carried them into the 1 coaches. I told them to bring them into the sleeping-car, and they did. 1 First thing I knew the ladies, Goa bless them ! were tearing up their under- i clothing to bintl up the sufferers. Why, i sir, in half a minute they had scarcely 1 anything left on them. There was round i one man's hand a lace handkerchief that I must have costa small fortune. I could j not stand that any longer. I did not caro what the company said, so I just . gave orders to open the lockers and tear np anything that came handy. And J they tlid. There were two or three ladies tearing sheets into lengths to J hind up wounds, while half a dozen others were binding them around the bloody arms and bodies of the wounded ' ? ?? i men. Reporter-Did any one in the smokingcar escape unhurt ? 1 Mr. Burgess?It may seem like a ro- 1 mauce, but it is strictly true, and I ] think you would like to hear the story. 1 There was a crazy fellow on his way to the asylum at Jacksonville. He was noisy and dangerous, and was handcuffed and placed in the smoking-car when we left Chicago. Just after tlie explosion a young girl came to me and wanted me to find her brother. I toid her he would be looked after, and tried / to quiot her down, but she would not remaiu still. I was afraid of hergetting into trouble. She told me her brother was crazy, and could not look after himself. I tried to keep her for a moment, but she escaped me. Presently she came back with the crazy fallow, who appeared to enjoy the scene immensely. She had found him jpst where he fell in the meadow. He had been blown by the force of tho explosion twenty or thirty feet, and had not a scald or scratch about him. Send for Mother. " Dear me! it wasn't enough for me to nurse and raise a family of my own, but now when I'm old, and expect to have a little comfort here, it is all the time, 'Send for mother.'" And the dear old soul growls and grumbles, but dresses herself as fast as she cud, notwithstanding. After you havo trotted her off and got her safely in your home, and she flies around, administering remedies and rebukes by turns, you feel easier. It's right now or soon will be? mother's come! In sickness, no matter who is there or how many doctors quarrel over your I case, everything goes wrong, somehow, till you send for mother. In trouble, the first thing you think of is to send for mother. But this has its ludicrous as well as its touching aspects. The verdant j young couples, to whom baby's extraordinary grimaces and alarming yuwns, i which threaten the dislocation of its j chin, its wonderful sleep, which it ac- 1 complishes with its eyes half open and no perceptible flutter of breath on its lips, causing the young mother to imagine it is dead this time, and to shriek out, "Send for mother," in tones of anguish?this young cctple, in the light of the experience which three or four babies bring, find that they have been ridiculous, and given mother a good many " trots " for nothing. Did anybody ever send for mother and did Blie fail to come, unless sickness or the infirmities of age prevented her ? As when in your childhood those willing feet responded to your call, so they still do, and will continue to do as long as they are able. And when the summons comes which none yet disregarded, though it will be a very dark and sad one for you, then God, too, will send for mother. In the Water.?It is important for every one who ever ventures into or upon the water, to remember that when a person falls into deep water he will rise ' ??- ii...? :/ i,? to the suriace, ana camini}e w?r, u uc does not elevate bis hands. If bo moves nis bands under water, in any way be pleases, bis bead will rise so high as to give him free liberty to breathe; and if he will use bis legs as in the actof walking up-stairs, his shoulders will rise above the water, so that he may use the less exertion with his hands, or apply them to other purposes. Those who have never learned to swim should bear in mind these simple directions. Items of Interest.. The number of Formers'Granges now s said to be 5,147. . The qnestion of taxing church prop* ?rty is now widely discussed. In these times we fight tor ideas, and lewspapers are our fortress. Milwaukee has fined Dan Rice $10 for leing " drunk i nd disorderly." It is no good nowadays for a man to iffer his liaud if there's nothing in it. " Natural lemonade" from the acid wrings lit the geysers is sold in San' Francisco. Twenty republican newspapers hare >een suppressed by the Frencu Governnent this month. Horace Ifuynard is mentioned as the irobable Republican candidate for lovernorof Tennessee. A herd of Kansas buffaloes was three lours passing a given point, and nobody vas chasing them either. TIip late Dr. Storrs, of Massachusetts, pre -ched sixty-two years fmm one pulpit at an annual salary of $800. A local geologist of Terre Haute says :bat any person having a taste for gold inning can clear from forty to sixty ents a day almost anywhere in Vigo bounty, Ind. m wtipn a man "squats" on another nan's claim, in Nevada, lie is first told M " rise." If lie won't rise, lie is shot it. and if this fails, a crowd of men !iaul him up to a limb and leave him to jnjoy the morning air. Here is the inscription on a tombdope in Pennsylvania: " In memory of Fabitha, beloved wife of Joseph Wright, Thomas Andrews, Eben HaJsted, Edward Murray, and Charles Dean, bv her devoted husband, Cyrus Morgan. A baby was found in a Boston depot, lately, lubeled, "This baby belongs to Mr. Dane, of Lowell, living on Middlesex street; whoever will return the jhild to its parents will be well rewarded. I took the baby in a fit of in- % sanity." An English exchange predicts that steel bars will sbortlv be substituted in that country and the United States for bells. They are light, and give more scope to architectural design in the steeple. Thpy are more easily rung, and arc not liable to cruck. A servant girl employed in a St. Paul, Mich., family recently used the compound " Sap lio" as a toilet soap in taking a bath. The result, as regards jleanliness, was eminently satisfactory, but dreadful to relate, she " blossomed in purple and red" from head to foot. At latest advices she was a delicate pink. Cold water, copiously applied, is regarded as one of the best remedies for sun-stroke. If all who are forced to expose themselves to the direct raya of the sun during the hottest mouths would lay a cloth wet in cold water upon the top of the head within the hat, it would u-ually be an effectual protection against injury. A house ought to be a work of art, just like a picture. Every bit of furniture iu it should be a particle of a great composition chosen with reference to every other particle. A grain of color a hundredth of an inch ucross, is of the utmost importance in a picture ; and a little ornament on the chimney pitme is of the utmost importsiuce iu a house. ~ " " n t-ll- tl.i-, The Detroit tree J'rcitn i4rjjo who juHV on nome of its friends: A family of six persons arrived here from the East yesterday morning aud desired to go to the house of an old acquaintance to get dinner, and save two or three dollars' eupense. They drove about from one place to another uutil the expressman's charges amounted to $/>, and then the search was pursued 011 foot, the assistance of the police having been evoked. About one o'clock the residence of "old acquaintance" was found,the front door bearing the placard, " Gone into the couutry." A Little Game in the Trunk Line. Smashing trunks is not the only pastime of depot attendants, it seems, nor is smashing the only ill-fate to which the "Saratoga" is liable. There is another way of making *he traveler miserable. Probably it is not necessary to say that a hack driver has been arrested for it, and it is therefore a shrewd trick. The person in the guran takes a short trip, and takes his trunk with him. It is well known that trunks have no legs, and cannot run away; so, trusting in this fact, the baggage-masters in the smaller places are very apt to leave the trunks nil in a heap until the cars arrive. This is the opportunity that the designing traveler has in view. He steps up to see if his trunk is all right. In looking it overlie takes its check off, and nuts it on the best looking truuk in the lot, ami puts that trunk's check upon his piece of burgage. Then he wanders away satisfied. On reaching his destination he tukes the trunk to which his check entitles him, and drives off with it. There are, of coarse, all sorts of ciances in the matter, bnt experiment always pays, since the piece disposed of is only ballusted, and utterly valueless. Ridiculous Mess. A Keokuk lady, while engaged in the pursuit of her domestic duties, encountered a monse in the flonr barrel. Now, most ladies under similar circumstances would have uttered a few femia1.rw.lrn ntwl then KOUffllt BafetV in the garret. But this oue possesses more tlian the ordinary degTee of female ; courage. She summoned the hired man and told him to get the shot-gun, call the bull-dog, nud station himself at a convenient distance. She then climbed half way up the stairs and oom1 menced to punch the flour barrel vigorj ously with a pole, presently the mouse made its appearance and started across the floor. The bull-dog at once went in pursuit. The man fired and the dog dropped dead. The lady fainted and fell down stairs, and the hired man, tninking that she was killed, and fearing that he would be arrested for murder, lit out, and has not been seen since. The mouse escaped. ? ^