Horry news. (Conwayboro, S.C.) 1869-1877, July 10, 1875, Image 1
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Mr. Sprigging" Experiment,
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I'll bet you teu dollars I cau!" said
Spriggius.
"And I'll bet you ten dollars you
can't!" said I, emphasing the last word
very decidedly. The moral and conscientious
reader must not bo shocked
at what lie may consider our gambling
proclivities. The phrase, "I'll hot you
ten dollars,"' was simply a cUucher or
climax used by Sprigging* and myself
when we had exhausted every argument
and each tailed to convince
the other that he vvas wrong. And
fiince neither of us, except in rare in*
stances, ever acknowledge ourselves
in the wrong we had to bet ten dollars
very frequently.
Hut we never expected to pay when
we lost. Indeed we never demanded
payment, when the point in dispute
was settled, but contented ourselves
in saying, "I told you so."
The point in dispute in the present
instance rose about an item in a column
of the morning paper. That item
read as follows:
"John Jones, a convict in Sing Sing
prison, has fallen heir to two hundred
and fllty thousand dollars. Effort#
are being made to secure his pardon."
"There," said I, "you see the power
of money. That man was just as innocent
and as guilty, before he was
worth two hundred and titty thousand
dollars, as he was afterwards; but behold
what a change! Wealth hnngs
him friends, who make efforts, to secure
his pardon. Had tie remained
poor, his 'friends* would havo pel milted
him to rot in his prison without
raising a little finger to secure his pardon.
This world is a humbug, Mr.
Spriggitis?a regular cheat; in the
language of a poem I read in my boyhood,
it is all 'hollow, hollow hollow!'
"
Ah I conclude this spiteful little
sneeeh. Mr. SnrJorrrmera utMio-lilcnwl
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himself up ill n way he had when
preparing himself lor a combat; and I
knew we should liaye a fight, our
tongues being the weapons. Without
giving the argument pro and con, it
will sufHee to say that the discussion
was brought to an end by Mr. Springgingri
proposing au experiment. lie
was, bo it understood, a man of means,
h business man of good business standing,
but somewhat ecentrio, and the
proposition he made was to go around
among Sis friends and tell them he
was absolutely insolvent.
uIt/' said he, "I do this, and they
freely advance money to start me in
business, I win. I have no doubt 1
can jiorrow all the money I want, with
nothing but my face as security."
Then, as I stated at the outset, we
bet ten dollars each on the result, and
I awaited with eagerness the result of
the practical test.
I, howeycr, ventured to intimate
that if he carried out the experiment
he might weaken people's confidence
in truthfulness; hut this only made
him more determined than ever. So
the experiment was tried.
He went to Mr. Smith, one of Ids
most intimate friends, and said:
Mr. Smith, I am a bankrupt."
"Indeed!" ejaculated Mr. Smith,
very much astonished. "Aud pray,
how has it come about?"
"I?I?," said Mr. Spriggins, hesitatingly,
for story telling?or, in plain
English, lying ?was a new sin with
him. "I?I went security for a friend,
and had to pay the last cent of it."
''Too bad, indeed," was Mr, Smith's
sympathizing response.
"It I can only borrow a few thousand*,
however, to get started in business
again, I think I cau get on very
well."
Mr. Smith thought there would be
no difficulty in getting the money,
lie would be very glad to advance it
himself, but he was "excessively short"
iusc at the time. Mr. Spriggings
' knew that this was not the case, aud
his opinion of Mr. Smith's undying
friendship underwent a rapid and radical
change.
lie saw all of his many friends and
renewed his request to each in turn
but they all tfenod to be "short'
just at that tiujon. After a lew days
of unsuccess! , . uforts to borrow
money, he hut** "'^ acknowledged he
had lost hia hOjjjjfairlv. and that his
face was not g| clacecurity among his
iiicnds. Jonth, ...
9 "I tola you iJaiu I.
But an unT^Jd-for trouble came
upon him. Ho engaged to a very
accomplished young lady. His truth
in her wa* unbounded. He had often
told me that it there was a good true
woman on earth, it was hie intended.
But her father, hearing of the insolvenoy
of the sou in law that was to
t be, accosted him, saying, "I underr
stand, Mr. Sprigging*, that yon have
I met with a reverse of fortune.
I 44 Yes, sir," replied Spriggings sheep*
1 ishly.
I 44Of course, under your altered cirI
cumstances, you cannot expect to wed
I my daughter."
I Here was a new tutn in affairs for
Be which Mr. Spriggios was not prepared.
H He thought at first of correcting the
falsehood he had himself started; bat
the idea t-uddently flashed upon his
mind that here was a good opportune
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ty of testing the sterling qualities ot
his sweetheart. This frould be a triumph
which would more than compensate
for his defeats in other direc- 1
lions, 1
So ho replied, "Of course, sir, I have 1
a better opinion of your daughter 1
than to suppose she promised to be
my wife for ^ho sake oi my money. '
Marriage for money"?and Sprigging '
was becoming very indignant?"mar- :
riage for money sir, is a *ell degrada- fc
tion, and nothing else, let the world c
call it by whatever natue it may."
"Of course, Mr. Sprigelus, mv 1
daughter thought something of you;
but you know a mat) without means
would bo foolish to think of marrying*
"I havo a good education, and, I
may say, a brave heart; and, though
deprived of fortune, I can earn
enough to support myself and another.''
"It is useless to prolong this controversy,
Mr. Spriggins," said the old
man. "As a man of honor you will
certainly offer to release my daughter
from her engagement. Of course, if
she does not accept your offer of freedom
under the circumstances, I shall
havo nothing more to say. flood day,
Mr. Spriggings; 1 arn in soma what of
a hurry."
"In a hurry, ll he?" muttered Spriggins,
as his intended father in-law
disappeared from view. "Seems to
mo that everybody is in a hurry now
that meets me. All! I understand it. >
The sickly smile, the flurry and hurry, |
means simply that they want to drop \
me from their list of friends. Well, j.
they shall bu accommodated. !Jut
there is one friend that 'stickoth closer
than a brother, she will noi desert
ine. There's great consolation in
that." .
So saying, lie hastened to seo her.
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lie iowlid nor 111 tears. ror iiio iiihi
time since engaged in trying his experiment,
he tell like a very mean 1
man. Ho would have confessed at (
once what a great liar he had been '
making of himself, had not the confession
been a rather awakward undertaking.
"You have no doubt learned," said
he, "that I have met with a suddo.v
le verse of fortune. Your father tells
mo that the only honorable course for
me is to offer to release you from your
engagement. Aud, while doing so,
permit me to say that if, after being
released from your engagement with
Snriggins, the r:ch man, you will
plight your faith to him as a poor 1
man, I shall be the happiest man on
earth. I want to be an honorable
man, and so give you your freedom." *
. AIiss Dulcinea sobbed convulsively, *
but finally succeeded in speaking so 11
as to be understood.
"You are very kind, Air. Spriggins,"
she said. "I am very sorry that our
engagement must be broken off, for 1
did like you so. well."
And so the hopes that Air. Spriggings
entertained were dashed to the
1 IT! 1*1 m I t
grouna. ma isuieinea ntea nun very '
well, but liked his money better, and 1
so when she imagined that was gone, 1
she too left him. Without another 11
word lie strode oft* from her presence, f
a different but by no means a happy 1
man. 1
"So, so!"' he muttered. "The en *
gagement on her part has been a mere *
matter of money. I am the same man (
now as I was before, I am just ris
good and I think a great deal wiser." f
"You are right," said ho to me. *
"This world is a humburg. There is <
not a man or woman among my
friends that's wortl^, a pifich of ?nufV. i
But I will be revenged. I have a I
plau that will spite old Smith delight- 1
lullv." ?
Mr. Spriggins seemed to have been <
struck with a new thought. lie lelt I
me abruptly, and I saw him 110 more <
for several days. Meantime the news <
was spread around that Spriggins was <
not insolvent?that it was alia hoax. 1
The next time I saw him he told |
me, with a sort of malicious pleasure, <
that bo had got about even with his '
"friends." Said he, "I know of an in- ?
vestment that will pay, without ?
doubts, at least fifty per cent. 1
called ou Smith and explain the thing
to him. Ho was highly pleased, and
offered to go into the affair. "But,"
said 1, "you have no mouey?you are i
excessively short." I've called on the |
rest, with a like result, aud now I'm i
revenged." Mr. Spriggins really i
laugh ed, but it was rather a disagree*
i able laugh. "I met," said he, "the 1
i fithar nt hur vhnm T An/ia it>? , 1 ,wl
! V? T1 UV/IM ? WMV/V IIJVVUMVU VV
marrv. He was very tiiendly' but I
told him 1 waa in a hurry and could
not atop to, talk, my time being too
precious. And avary time those false
hearted friends smile on me so pleasantly
I pass on and tall tbetn I'm in a
hurry/1 I suppose Mr. Sprigging has i
bad ahu revenge: bat he is a very <
sad man now. lie is an old bachelor,
and vows that girls oare inore about
money than a good, true heart. He
says, too, that the love atones scat- i
tared over the coootry are without
any foundation iu real life. Poor
Spriggins! H# has learned at great
co*t tho trolls that
Where Ignorance Is Who, His folly to bo
. wise."
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JAYBORO, S. O., SA
lion to Keep Fresh Meat a Loiik Time.
There is no good reason why far- J
[tiers and t heir families should eat so!
nuch salt pork, leaving nil the fresh 1
neat to the inhabitants ot cities and
tillages, whsn the following method
will keep meat fresh for weeks, even
11 the warmest weather. I know, for
I have tried it over ten years; As soon
is the animal heat is out of the meat
?lico it up ready foi cooking. Prepare
i large jar by scalding well wiih hot
tall ami water. Mix salt and pulverzed
saltpeatre iit the proportion ot one
uiblespoonlul ol s&Upealro 10 one teajupful
of salt. (. over the bottom ot
he jar with a sprinkle ol salt and pcp)t?r.
Put down a layer ot meat,
'piinkle with salt and pepper the same
it just going to the table, and con- i
inue in this manner till the jar is till),
t^old a cloth or towel and wet it in
itrong salt and water, in which a little
>1 the salt peat re is dissolved. Press
he cloth closely over the meat and set
n a cool place. He sure and press the
doth on tightly us each layer is renovo'l,
and your meat will keep tor
nonths. it is u good plan 10 let the
neat lie over night alter it is sliced
jefore packing. Then drean off all the
dood that oozes Irotn it. It will he
lecessary to change the cdoth occasionally,
or take it oil* and wash it ?
irst in cold water?then scald in salt
iml water as at firm. In this way
'a nil its can have IVesli meat the whole
/ear round! 1 have kept beet that was
tilled on the 12th ol February till the
Msi ol June. Then packed a large
ur ot veal in the same way during tilting
days and it kepi, six weeks. This
eceipe alone is worth the price c\l any
lcwspapcr in the land.
Cor. New York Herald.
Perpetuating Ignorance.
The Horry News prints an obituary,
bvntien by a school teacher of that
xmoty, verbatim cl literatim, and uses
t as a text upon which to point out
low great, a iit'wi exists tor more at.eiition
to the qualifications of school
eachem in that county. In t;otiii)Osi*
ion, punctuation and spelling, the
ibituary referred to exhibits a great
ack of education, combined with an
,'Vident belief thai it is a very credita>le
literary, eltort. 'l'he writer has
joen drawing a good salary for two
ears as a teacher, anil it is fair to say
hat every dollar paid to him was
worse than wasted. To call him a
.cachet* is to tnisuc terms, lie should
Je called a perpetuator of ignorance.
We are sorry to know that this is no
miliary instance. We were lecently
ihown the correspondence of a county
iehoot commissioner, which contained
otters so absolutely absurd that one
ergot the mournful significance of
hem as indices of the condition of our
ree school system in the enjoyment of
,he ludicnous combination of ignomice
and egotism displayed in them.
The Horry editor points out the tact
hat, though tlie conservatives control
he sell'?ol appointments in that conny,
such a case of {competency is possible,
and uses it as a text to urge
greater care in selecting teachers in
he future. We hope the advice will
)e heeded, and it is equally to be delired
that republican school officers
should begin to act with greater cirniniapectioii
on the same subject.
Our schools at least ought to be free
rotn the blight of politics. They are,
lowever, to as great a degree as oilier
)flices, under its baneful influences,
riuj county school commissioner is
dected frequently to quiet the demand
or some other office. Ho appoints i
Mliol /ti>v t /? / not in .) til AX ft I I*1A/*I I I J I U III
,1 liniui D IU VVIIVI *?4 VIM |M VV'IIM/VU
jo me one's interest. Ho fears to
lemund too hight a standard of qualiication
lor a teacher's certificate, because
he will thereby cut off the means
j| his party friends. Thus are the sa;red
claims ol the next genereation saritieed
to the sordid ambitions of the
present. If it continues, the day will
jorne when the enemies of education
will only need to point to the remits
ol our free school system to tind
i potent argument lor iis destruction.
The greatest sufferers by such a catastrophe
will he the colored people.
1\? them education is the only force
strong enough to insure the continuince
of their presetit position in our
political system. If it was certain
that thev were to remain lor any considerable
time as ignorant as they are
to-day, there would not be a shadow
ol a party in the United states 1 a voidable
to the universal sullerage experiment.
It is the hope of a speedy improvement
in their qualifications thai
makes their existence as |?olilical lactors
tolerable to the masses oI the
whites. It is with sorrow, then, that
we are obliged to believe that they are
in a great degree responsible for the
existence oi so great an evil as incompetent
teachers in our public schools.
it l* wiltnn our Kiiowicug<3 uiav
whore attempts have been made in
some places to raise the standard of
qualification the cry hrttt beeo raised
thai tho result intended was to force
colored teachers out and to bring iu
the whitefl. Trustees, aud even parents,
have been led to give credence
IV ;hid shallow device of prejudice aud(
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lTURDAY JULY 10,
political pAPrfion, to the evident injury
ol the young committed to their cure.
The near I at tiro Iiuh trials yet in
store for those who have reeentlv uc
quired t lit* suffrage, and lor those who
have hoped ho much from it. The
surest weapon of defense for both will
he found in the prool that tune can be
depended upon to render the objeo I
to ins of their enemies nugatory. An
eflieout, progressive system of cduw.v
tion, having the hearty oo-oporat ion
and warm affections of the rare needing
it so much, will be the best anchor
of hope lor a victory in any such con
test.? Union* Herald.
Origin of (lie Lacustrine Deposits.
by 1'llof. hamulm. al oiiky, i'o. 1> , of
ti1k statu univkus1ty. | nebraska, |
In nyiny portions of Nebraska, the
Pliocene Tertiary deposits alionud.
They contain the remains of hog#*
matntnals and a vegetation of colossal ;
character. Those from the earlier |
portions of these deposits are indicative
ot'a comparatively warm climate.
Towards the close ot the l'lioeene age
the teinpralure of this region was rapidly
falling. A huge glacier gradually
began to creep southward from the
polar regions, and in the course of
Ages covered the whole West, down
to at least the thirty tilth degree ot
north latitude. It u as during this
period that the glacier scratches and
other muikings so familiar to the geologists
all over the North tempeiat.e
zone, were tuude. When at last the
glaciers had accomplished their purpose
in the economy of nattue, and
owing to a change of climate, begn to
tr&appear, a new forest lied again
gradiptllly formed all over the land not
coveriXi bv water. I have often seen
this old forest hi (? ?tnicK hi nigging
wells, in many parts ol the wesl. It i?
found just above t lie glacial drill, and itcomposed
ot black soil, and olten contains
partially decayed and partially
pcirifi< d timber. i?ut the character t f
lliese remains indicate a inucls colder
clima'e than what now prevails lit the
same region. Over this old and now
buried Ibn-st bed, the ext met Elephant
and Mastodon roamed in company
with the Reindeer and Musk Ox.
lint the Elephant was clothed with
hair and wool and otherwise adapted
to a culd climate.
A vast subsidence of the eontirter.t
towards tin' Northwest occurred. All
parts of' i lie Not th of the Ohio, less
(hail live hundred leet above the level
ol the great lakes, were entirely submerged.
This depression was much
greater than that immediately following
the disappearance of the great
glaciers. Now a polar sea swept over
these regions, vast icebergs were
driven south wards, and as they stranded
and melted, left their debris to
lorm the boulder deposits that cover
so many portions of Iowa, Nebraska
and other Western Slates. Thus it is
seen that the early controversy concerning
the origin of the drift had on
both sides, abundant proof to substantiate
its positions. It was wholly
caused neither by icebergs tior by
glacers, but by both acting at different
eras.
It was during tlie latter centuries of
this era that the Lacustrine deposits of
Nebraska weie formed. This portion
of the continent was slowly rising,
but the greater part of the region
drained by the Plat to and i?s tributaries,
was covered by a huge fresh water
lake. This lake was connected with
l lie olio into U'liie.li tin* Missouri river
also tell, an J they may be considered
to have been one vast iiody ot water.
The Missouri nver is yet to day, one
ot the muddiest streams in the world.
1Stit ii we ascend this liver, and observe
closely the deposits through winch it
is passing we cannot wonder at iis
character. These deposits are <>l
Tertiary and Cretaceous age and are
the most (liable in the world. The
a'renins which poured into this great
fresh water lake from the West, (Missed
through similar deposits. The Ternary
is largely silicious, and the
Cretaceous is both silicious ami calcareous.
In fact in many places, the
Missouri and ith tributaries flow directly
over the chalk beds of the Cretaceous
deposits. From these beds the
Lacustrine deposits obtained their
huge percentage of the phosphates
and carlKXiates of lime.
Flowing through such deposits for
a thousand miles the Missouri and its
tributaries have been gathering lor
vast ages; that peculiar mud which
filled up ibeir ancient lakes, and disiiiiguisues
them from all other streams.
Being anciently as now, very rapid
mt.reii.ms- am soon as t.hov ?-mt ii d l hem
selves iuto these great l.tke basins, and
the waters become quiet the. suspende?l
sedirr.cot was dropped to the bottom.
While this process was going
on, the last ol the glaciers had not retreated
lurthor than the head waters
ot the Yellowstone and Missouri, and
souic ot their tributaries. The accumulating
lorce ??| tin so mighty streams
was then aided by il?e erosive action
of ioe, and therefore must have been
vastly more active than anything of
lite kind with which wo are now lamil
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1875. NO. 27.
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1 lad a river like the Missouri, or
even like the Hatte Mowed through
i the northern ehnin of great lakes they
; never would have been known to civilized
man. They would have been
I completely tilled up with sediment,
and the tributaries of the St. Lawrence
would have traversed the regions
which tlicy now occupy. Alter the
great Nebraska fresh water lake was
tilled lip with sediment, it existed m??
' a longer or shorter tunc as a huje
marsh. Gradually, different pottions
j of it became entirely drained and dry.
It wan now that the necessities ot
diaiuage began to produce the channels
niid beds of existing streams.
Hero then, wo have an explanation of
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KOlitf AT10N OK TilK Tl.A'lTK VAI.I.KV.
The general inclination of the region
was eastward or became so by the
gradual elevation of the Kooky Mountain
legion. As this great lake had
become dry, the water would How
eastward. This eastward How gradually
scooped out the vast trough that
now constitutes the 1 Matte valley. The
amount ot material which has been carried
down to the Missouri, and from
thence to the ocean, is prodgious. This
is seen when it is recollected that the
Valley is about live hundred miles long
and Irom three to fifteen miles wide,
averaging in breadth at least five
miles. Here then, arc several thousand
miles of sediment carried away,
showing the enormous geological forces
that have helped to chisel this region
into its present form. In the earlier
periods of the history of this valley
when the drying'up process was just
beginning, the Platte covered the
whole bottom from bluft to hluif, and
only when tins portion of the con
iiiKMii was nunuu m ;? mm mgun mvel,
<1 id the volume of water dimmish
suflioioiitl y in the old river l**d and
it-4;ye the inaghificeut bottoms on each*
side dry m.'i'l- Wo can therefore, only
now in iinaginalI?o picture the sir.e ami
majesty of the original J'latte, when it
was a turbulent stream, Irom three to
lilt-eeu miles in width. The ineiiiflK
glaciers at its sources, the vast floods
of water caused by the iuwr.cnao rains,
produced by the moist* climate that
lucn prevailed, and the present form
ol the river bed, are some of the reasons
that induce these conclusions.
We are apt to speak flippantly of
these changes, so much like scenes in a
shifting drama. Hut to u? the icons of
lime in which they were accomplished
are simply incomprehensible. Probably,
then, on the whole, nature was as
stable as now, at least so far as we
have any means ol judging, and yet,
gradually from year to year, little by
little, all those vast revolutions on the
lacd were accomplished.
The Largest Farm in the World.
Mr. Georgia Grant, the enlightened
founder of Victoria colony, in Kansas,
who has been spending a couple of
days in this city, le't lor Kansas last
evening. The owner ol 570,000 acres
of laud, embracing the County of
Ellis, which is larger than any dukedom
in Europe, he is entitled to the
credit of a public benefactor, by the
introduction ol the best blooded stock,
and showing, by example the best
manner of rearing, feeding and improving
the foreign and domestic
breeds of horses cattle and sheep in
this country, lie has just wintered
7,00 sheep with a loss ot loss than one
percent, lie wintered 537,000 cows
without feeding them, except on several
cold nights with hay, with only a ]
loss ot lour calves and one cow. Uis
success in this respect is due mainly
to good shelter. The secret of saving
feed and preserving stock is shelter.
During the past year, Mr. Grant c.\- ;
pended $0/200 in constructing shelter,
and he has such faith in its advantages
that lie will expend double the amount
during the coming season. Ife has
$250,000 invested in stm-k, and is the
owner of the thorough-bred English
stallion Flodden, \ alued at $25,000,
the lather ot which wen the race in
1800 at Derby, in which half a million
dollars changed hands. Mr. Grant
has just returned from the East, and
has oil the way to his farm thirty odd
brood mares, jiurehased in Oluo, Virginia
and Kentucky. Mr, Grant is
disposing of his land to actual settlers,
and sells only to such as can afford to
purchase a mile square or upwards.
Among the large number of resident
colonists and stock, raisers who have
purchased laud ot him, and are now
raising in Victoria colony, are many
youug nieu of prominence, both (u
this country aud England. The Hon.
Walter Maxwell younger son of Lord
i r l.i 1 ir l
Harriet*, oc uvvruigiiura paric, iorutthire
Kugl&od, uwiih iwo sections, aud
18 comlortably Mfttled dowu to the
healthful life of the rouober*. Then
thoie are three bachelor sons oPa
Derbyshire clcrgymau, and the nephew
of the Karl of Wioohelsea, who is
now ou his way over from Kogland to
take up his home thore. Two ucphews
oi Mayor Guthrie, of New York
oily, and two young tthjelds, of ttoaton,
are also among the number.
St. Louti Republican.
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t> cent* /.?r fafli OikMt;queul inyjrlioU. . .
Oiiu in? '? ?]?*< \A*III constitute * square
w hot her in brevlsi or dinplny type; l<vu< than
an Inch will he charged for ah * squire.
Marriage notice* free.
li'jMlh* aiitj Funeral nOticee free.
1 Miun.it i notice* of one square fr.?e.
A liberal discount will be m a tie to thoee
wIkiw advert i.tuuieuts are to be kept in for
three month* in longer.
California fMtU
The gold ol California was notw;?A
by *urly Spanish explorers, and wan
I a^aiu discovered on the Colorado
lvi\er, just a century since, in 1775,
but attracted a ? attention till it* rediscovery
early in 1848, when Una
; existence ot v? ry rich gold alhwiurmi
; was made known. A rapid iiniuigrution
to the ivgion at once (followed,
and it reported in August ol that
year that the daily prod notion of gold
>vas Irom *30,000 to *50,000.
' it was not until lrt51 that the gxddi
bearing veins were discovered, and the
larger part ol th? gold ol California
! has boon got from th^ nJaeers, as tho
alluvions ureca'led. it * * itfOm the
"partial exhaustion of these ?bat iTne
productions has of lato years coosderubly
diminished. In 1848 it was estimated
at * 10,00),000, and reached its
maximum of *05,000,000 m 1853. in
1070 it had fallen to *25,000,000 and
reached *J9,000,no0 in 1873, hut rose *
again Ui 1874 to *20, 300,000. The
total yiehl, since the opening of tho
mines in 1848, a nounls to more than
* 1,000,000,000. The working ol the
gold* bearing veins and ol the deeper
alluvions or placers has of late been
systematized and greatly improved,
and Irom the ahu.idance' and richness
<f these, and the persistence of tho
veins in depth, tins region may b?
exjHjeted to produce great amounts ol
gold for generations to come.
"]?)?.?;ksi wiikk fiiwa uatchsd.**
?Kx-Senator Nye has been failing for ? * *|5
many months, hut up to very reoeotly
has hipl lueid intervals 'd a lew moments
duration, in which were almost
pniulully appaient Hashes oi his o 14
self. When Senator Itooth went Kast
last *|>ring, uu; uaugnt/er ot oeoat??c
Nye, in uu ctlbrt to amu^e hnn, b?n4
over I tie old statesman and sabi."Father,
Senator Dooth haw reached.
Washington* lJo yoa rduetuheit"
him?" "Doolli, I Sooth!" replied ik?s
lailiug chief; 4tis he not of California:'"
%4YfH," tnud the daughter. *'/)o yoa.
reniemher him? Sirs friends in California
think lie is' the coming man.** n
Tlwt beginning to lade in the
uid eagle's eye, leib be answeied as lie ^
would ot old. .Shaking lift head siow^ ^
Iv, he HjHike: 44 Iboy are mistaken* /
Dooth in like a squall?he wan biggi?t
when lirst hatched."
J "Iffjifj /'it ( V/y Ifnter}>rtMe. d
While Lady Franklin is lying on the
sick-lied I rum which it is believed that
she will never arise, asti-ainoi sails out
of Portsmouth harbor, equipped at the
joint expense of ibis noble woman, ot"
Capt. Allen Young, anil ol our valiant
coulrymun, Mr. James
Gordon Dennett, to continue tho
search which has *niplo\ed so many
years ot Lady Franklin s career. J>h*
lias devoted a ?j nailer of a century to
the pious task w liicli thus employs her
latest hours, The expedition ol MoCliutock,
in which (Ju pi. Young bore
a conspicuous part, koived the long
sought secret ul ?>ir John Franklin's
tale, and this voyage ot the Pandora,
it may !>cconfidently hoped, crow n will
Lady Jane's laliorH, hy bringing home
the last relies ot tin: distinguished navigator.
Will the loviug wile be on
earth to receive liuj burden when it arri
vc??
, - - m m * - u
vk'wioc Mauuiko ink vicr Nor a.
W f L1|/ Ilk I Ulttl \ I r? 1? J# III k?? A I..11
** mm; iv. im i ??* i n. i-xwi'-i ii.nn iril^
wife u! George J. Amndell, of Albany.,
obtained ;iu aloulute Uecree of divorce
from hiiu, and on ike :*d vt June, I >74,
nhe wan remarried t?> luu\ by lie v. Dr.
llridgciiian, ami mow , according to a
o>U)pl.ii111 tiled iu the county clerk \?
office, il appears thai, although lw it e
married, Mr*. A. j* not legally a w ife. ,
'I'lle compiaint u<Uege?t Dial, alter t'ho
second manage, she w an yci'MUbdcd Uy
Atundell to Hiirreiider certain valuable
papers which put Inr iu possession ?d
property, and -that i-be is advised ly
1 counsel that the Her on HI tn&rruge .:a
out! and void, an the decree ot-d1vuroc
ju'ohibitcd Aiended M'nui again uiarrjang
during Die lite <>i Ion wile, and
j ?he, therefore, prays the euu.rt, U* itmuu
au order to restore her the p.tpes* gran.
ted her hy the decree of divorce, and
surrendered by her to Am* loll alt, r
the second marriage.
I "Mighty Ousurliu."?Gu the lenry,
boat crossing the Mississippi, ruotuuUy,
mtere an old couple Irum Lo mamma,
; couruio to \ i^it iricud* iu Vicksbirrg..
TiH) old gentle viae wa? walking
around, despite bin witc'n predictu?na
that Komeilnng would happen u? htm,
i and be suddenly found himself iu th?*
river. She heard his yell aud Caught,
sight oi hun, and leaning over Lhe rail
she shouted: 44 There, Samuel, didu*C
I LuJi vnu ho' Now. thou. work, vour
log*, flap your artus, hold your WrcaUt
and r?j>e.u the Uwd'a Prayer, tor il'a
mighty outtoruu, Satauol, whether**
you'll laud iti Vickaburg or eternity."
Llti lauded al Liic iofo,i*?r?
Appreciating hi* loCturc osj Priday night of
last ve?k, the Jewitfb element of KtieigU
presented Uovonw?r Va/K? ?u Haturday laafc
with a handsome gold watch. Tbo preoewtslioo
wan nad? hy Mr. M (Jrauwwao to atfr*
qwent maimer, aodth* gill was MMoiwMl %/
ho (ioYCfuor iu hb uiual felicitous stylo.