The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, June 23, 1881, Image 1
DEVNYOTED TO POLITIQ, MORLALITY, EOATION AND TO THE GENERAL INTERUST OF TEE UOUNTEY.
By Do Fe BRADLEY & CO. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 188I. VOL. X. NO Al
NEWS GLEANINGS.
North Carolina has 96 counties.
The school fund of Kentucky is $1,
600,000.
Key West, Fla., shipped 900,000 cigars
last week.
Apricots sell in Lake City, Fla., at $8
per bushel.
Pensacola, Florida, is to have a new
hotel, cost $100,000.
Wilmington, North Carolina, has a
population of 17,506.
North Carolina has a commission er o
immigration in England.
New Orleans is to have a school for
A the training of women nurses.
North Carolina has 221 Masonic lodges
at work with a membership of 8,199.
ISix hundred thousand oranges will be
shipped from Enterprise, Florida, this
fall.
Monticello, Fla., has shipped this sea
son 503 barrels and 29 crates of Irish
potatoes.
A green turtle, weighing over 400
JWPun(s, has been captured off the Flor
ida coast.
One hundred children work in the
Maysville, Ky., cotton mills for 75 cents
to -$1.25 a week each.
The Association of Atlanta Preachers
have signed a respectful protest against
the issuing of Sunday papers.
Mr. Matthew Berry, near Ramer,
Montgomery county, Ala., is sending to
the high school his eight children.
Nine spongers came into Key West,
Fla., last week, after a nine weeks
cruise, and sold their sponge for $2,511.
The Adventists of Granbury, Texas,
have erected a large tabernacle for the
purpose of expounding their doctrines.
Six thousand cans of oysters were re
cently sent. North in one shipment by
the canning establishment at Newbern,
North Carolina.
One hundred and two thousand, eight
hundred and thirty-five poundsof straw
berries have been shipped from Chatta
--nooga this season.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution says Savannah is the modern
Sodom and has four hundred bar-rooms,
or one to every twelve adults.
Such a severe storm prevailed in Lee
and Sumter counties, Georgia, that in
one place, for nearly a mile, you could
walk on the trees that had been blown
In Harris county, Ga., dinner-horns
are said to have gone out of fashion.
Provisions are so scarce that when a
horn sounds all the neighborhood re
spond to the call.
Charles Johnson, of New Orleans, the
convicted ship-burnier, says that a num
ter of business men, cotton brokers
Schiefly, were "interested" with him in
his business-the ship-bu rning business.
A number of young men from Greene
county, Ga., started down the river in a
canoe about six months ago to try the
novel business of trapping beavers. The
voyage was very dangerous, but success
11u1, and each man's skins netted him
$700.
aTwo little boys, Clarence Gross and
Willie Dominy, were wrestling in Dub
lin, Ga., and fell on their sides. Willie
got up, leaving Clarence on the ground.
,The by-standers noticed that he did not
stir, and approaching they found he was
dead.
Mr. J. W. Slaughter, near Pineville
Georgia, was having a well dug on his
4 place, and when about twenty feet deep
a Well-preserved oak leaf was found firm
Sly imbedded in the chalk. When about
fifty feet deep a live snake of the black
species was found..
"The Atlantic and Gulf Coals Canal
and Okeechobee Land Company" is the
dignified title of the organization which
*proposes to reclaim the Florida Ever
glades. The company will have a cap.
ital of $l10,000,000, and will build a
canal to drain Lake Okeechobee, east
and west, and also a canal 800 miles long
along the east coast of Florida. Colon
ists from Europe are to be settled on the
lands. Sugar and Indigo are to be
grown on the reclaimed lands. The
company held a meeting 'at Philadelphia
last week.
A oommat of yugmen went out fish
in ,and onet- npwere going ast
a am huseand' ugy e
yelled to the farmer's daughters:
"GQirls, have you any butter-milk? "
The vMPly was gently wafted back to
their ears: "Yes, but we keeit for our
own calves," -The boys cal ted that
they bad business away...ana the
MONOaYLLABLE POEM.
Think not that streon6.h lies In the big, round word,
Or that the brief and plain uost needs be weak.
ro whom can this be true, who once has heard
The cry for help, the tongue that all meni speak,
i hen want, or woe, or fear Is at. the throat,
So that each word gasped out is like a ahriek
Pressed from the sore heart, or strange, wild note
Sung by some fay or fiend? There is a strength
Which dies If stretched too far or spun too line,
Which has mere height than breadth, more depth
and length.
Let but this force of thought and speech be mine,
And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase,
R hich jows and burns not, though it gleam and
Light, but not heat--a flash without a blaze.
Nor is It mete strength that the short word boasts
It serves of more than fight or storm to tell
The roar of waves that dash on rock-bound coasts,
The crash of tall trces when the wild winds swell,
The roar of guns, the groans of men that die
On blood-stained fields. It has a voice as well
For them that far-off on their sick beds lie,
For them that weep, for them that Mourn the
dead,
For then that laugh, and dance, and clasp the hand;
To joy's quick step, as well as grie:'s low tread.
The sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep tine,
And though the theme be sad, or gay, or grand,
With each, with all, these may be made to chime,
In thought, or spo.ch, or song, or prose, or rhyme.
A Ludicrous Elopement.
It's hard for a "country jake" to con
vey to his Susan Jane the exact situation
when first the arrow is lodged in his
heart. The attitudes and awkward com
binations of personal presentation nre
painful to an outsider, to say nothing of
what hc suffers. See him cross his legs,
first one on top and then the other, and
then see him shoot them out in front,
and run his hands in his pockets; then
he draws in his feet, doubles them under
the chair, pulls his hands out of his
pockets and drops them down by his side,
stretches, yawns, blushes, and almost
dies trying to say it. Poor fellow, it is
martyrdom wle it lasts, and when he
does "get his uouth Off," it's like put
ting a beggar on horse back; lie just
canters off to paradise with a happy-go
lucky indifference that is enviable, har
ring an obstruction on the track, and
then over on his head' he tumbles, when
cruel parents intervene and refuse to
ratify.
A ludicrous case of this sort of agony
occurred near the place of my nativity
about twenty-five years ago, in which I
had my sympathies so roused that I was
moved to lend the hero some assistance.
His name was Joe, and his girl's, Mar
the Jane, to whom he had surrendered
his entire heart, stock, lock and barrel
without reservation of any kind, which
she gushingly reciprocated by adding
her entire stock in trade in the partner
ship proposed. But the old folks de
murred-refused to ratify-threatened a
war of extermination-banished Joe, and
belied Martha Jane, besides several other
threatened acts of dire hostility. In fact
Joe and Martha Jane had the biggest
spider put in their dumpling ever known
since Adam's and Eve's apple scrape.
Their hearts all but "busted"-but they
didn't.
The parties were neighbors-lived in
sight of each other-Joe on the ill and
Martha Jane in the bottom. When
Martha Jane came forth to nourish
her young fowls with a preparation of
ground oorn and water, she would1 cast
her loving eyes upward and rest them on
Joe, who would from ab~ove look down
affectionately on his Martha Jane, and
they would sigh and swallow great hunks
of grief as big as app~le dumplings.
Joe was so b)adly off that I1 was sorry
for him, and when he called upon mec to
assist him, I proceeded at once to the
prospective mother-in-law (more or less)
with my eloquence, "from whom
proceeded from whence"--not running,
but my time was good. I reported p~ro
gress, and begged to be excused. Joe
got worse and worse; threatened to
conmmit-well, to steal something, and
did make divers efforts to steal his girl,
but the old folks slept on their arms.
Joe was getting terribly bad off; he said
he must have her; that I nwnt steal her
for him. I tried to prevail on him to
bide his time; but, no, have her he must,
and I must do the job for him; lie knewv
I could (do it if I would, and lhe wanted it
done right off.
When I found Joe couldn't wait, I con
sented to try my hand. I was about
Martha's age, and the thought occurred
to me that I would dressi in woman's
clothes and let Joe steal me, and see if
it would "sorter" cool his ardor. I con
tided my plan to some of the boys, and
they approved it and p~romised their as
sistance. We concluded that w' would
let; the old man, Martha Jane's father,
into the secret, and arrange for him to
pursue us with his hounds, of which he
had about a dozen, when we made the
attempt. The old man entered into the
affair eagerly, for lie despised Joe.
After we had fixed all the p~reliminaries
of time, place and manner of proceeding,
we adjourned to meet the next Sunday
night and have the chase. We met ac
cording to adjournment at the time agreed,
and a woman hitched me up in some of
her gear, with a parcel of things tied
round my waist--I don't know what
they all were, but I know the outside
was calico, and it was in two pieces; one
was the tail, which was tied on first, and
the other was a sort of jacket with sleeves
to it, of some dark sort of stuff. These,
with a white sun-bonnet, and a blue veil,
and some cotton stuffed in judiciously to
give me a shing make-up, having been
provided as despensable to my toilette,
I1 was ready and willing to be Joe's--for
a time.
When we arrived near Martha Jane's
house, the old man was waiting for uR.
We arranged that after we had got about
a quarter of ? mile off one of our party,
(who remained behinA for the purpose)
should notify JToe that we had Martha
Jane, and when Joe came tearing by the
house, the old man 'was to give hun a
salute from his old double-.brelled shot
gun. Very soon here came Joe full tilt
down the bill towards the creek. Bang
went the vemnerable shot-gun, and away
Went Joe, and soon came the old man on
his sway-back horse, with his hounds
atid sIot-gun, and tcoipanied by his
S0l).
Mitelellville Was the objective point
of the expedition, and it was about five
niles off. The boys got Joe's arms from
hini to protect his girl, and prevailed on
imi to rush ahead, pay the toll-gate fees,
proceed onl to Mitchellville and have the
license reidy, so as to have no delay.
Accordingly, Joe went off at a lope, paid
the toll for us, and gave strict orders not
to let Martha Jones' father through; but
when the old man came to the gate ho
just julmtped his old sway-back over it,
and on he came, his hounds in full cry.
The way he "got up and got" along that
pike was a scene not to be forgotten.
The fuss he made aroused everybody en
route.
Our crowd consisted of five, besides
Joe, and we arrived at Mitchellville about
10 p. m. Joe was there, and as soon as
I had dismounted, he was at my side and
led me up to the door and rattled it so
that the startled Justice opened it at
once, blIt, upon seeing, as he supposed,
a female, closed it to arrange his toilet.
Meantime, the old man and his hounds
could be heard nearing rapidly. I whis
pered to Joe I wanted to retire around
the corner of the house to arrange my
dress, and he said, excitedly, " Be in a
hurry, the old man will soon be here."
I did make hasto, for no sooner had I got
around the ccrner than I darted through
a gate, ran down the sido of a fence
crept throngh an opening into a back.
yard, and hid behind an ash-hopper.
When the Justice had got clothes on
hle opened the door to tell us to conc in'
but, of course, I wasn't there, and Joe
was running frantically round the housc
looking for his girl, while the old man
and his d(ogs wvere coming nearer every
ninute. The Justice came out and Joo
yelled for his Martha Jane, but she came
not. Tlen the Justice called out: " Don'"
1)e iihrmed, inadnm, come in; you shan't
be hurt," and essayed to assist Joe te
find her.
By this time the old man, his son and
the hounds had charged into town and
were almost at the door. According tc
previous itarangenent a sham row at once
began between our boys and the pursu
ers, and so well was the thing done that
the citizens (for every man, woman and
child ill the village was up) pitched in to
prevent what they thought would be a
sanguinary affray.
The burly Justice, seeing the turn af
fairs seemed to be taking, and excited
beyond measure, mounted the horse
block and commanded the peace so vo
ciferously as almost to be heard in the
adjoining counties of this State and
Kentucky. This restored quiet, our
boys professing to be law-abiding citi
zens. The old man also simmered down
though he insisted that he had the right
to be a little out of humor at the boys
ror robbing him of his gal, and kept lin.
ering round and "'cussin' " a little on
hie outside.
After the row had been squelched, the
women of the village organized a
searchi for the lost maiden, with a view
af shielding her from the wrath of the
irate 01(1 man.
It was not long before I was discov
ared by one of them, and she, with
mother, made a dash at me. I scuttled
>ff as fast as I could, but I hung my
i)oot in my lawn calico andl madIe a per
reet "shuekin" of it in my haste. It tore
aearly off at thle waist andi split in two,
hnd by the time 1 got to tile next fence I
had a trail two yards long. I had great
trouble in climbing that fence (I can't
see how a woman can clmb1 a fence, no
way); in fact, I half elimbed and half
rolled over, herrst tihe strings round my
waist, ran out of all the balance of my
lower female harness, threw my bonnet
black on my head, raised the yell, and
almost ran over some more women who
were looking for me, and I heard one of
them say,) as I p)assed--"Lordy, Kate,
what w'as that?" I didn't stop to ex
plain, but made good my escape.
Joe was not to be thus outdone. He
p~erseveredl, and in a short time succeeded
in getting away with tihe right Martha
Jane, and the two were made one. But
Mrs. Joe would never speak to me after
wards, for the reason, I suppose, that I
came so nigh b~eating her out of a hs
band.
It was the nearest I ever came to being
marriedl, and( thlough ,Joc-doubtless in
stigated by his wife-gave me a terrible
thrashing some eighteen months after
the escaplade, I never recall it without a
hearty 1augh1.
The Postal Card Fiend.
'"Thero is a new kind1( of fiend in exis
once," said a post-oflice detective recent
1,y to your corre3pon dent; "the Postal carod
fiend, wvho came mnto existenco with that
species of epistolary effusion. The
nuisance is a much greater one than you
can imagine. No one who is not con
nected with the service can imagine the
nulmber of scurrilous cards sent out.
Ladies come to us-some of them be
longing to the first families in our city
whlo are almost heartbroken over the open
missives they have receiveod. They do
not want to expose thle matter- -often it
is tile result of some family feud--and so
all we can do is to stop the cards here,
while the vihhin is allowed to go free."
I have heard of a case lately where a
young wife was assailed in reputation hy
a former lover-rjectedl, of course-who
kept just within the boundary of the law.
Tihe insinuating language was sufficiently
veiled to keep the young husband un
easy, while it ate dee p into the young
bride's heart. It will k il iher, as she is
dlying slowly of the inward wound. 0f
course ten years in prison would be light
punishment for such a fiend, but these
people always calculate upon an unwill.
ingness to prosecute on account of fearE
(If puliicity.-V, Y, C'or, Philadelphio
Recor<L
SOUTHERN TOWNS.
The Maeshroosa Places Developed 11160
the War-Iron Mlnra'eacres.
IGath's soithern Itter.'
The average Southern town which has
grown up since the war, surrounding a
railroad station, consista of two to lIVe
drinking saloon, a few stores and a series
of cabins or shanties of planks or logs,
set hither and thither, without much
reference to a town in the future.
Through a long range of country there
are no fences on the side of the railroad
track. The trains are kept constantly
whistling to avoid running over cattle or
iules. This is the case within sight of
Montgomery, Ala., where there are some
16,000 inhabitants. Occasionally one
finds a steam saw-mill put up since the
war in the midst of the wood, sawing out
lumber. The rivers are full, almost to
the level of the landscape, in high water,
and they are principally efficient as to
flooding the surrounding bottoms and
creating new soil for agriculture. Alto
gether the most hopeful country in the
South, for various occupations, is Plong
the mountain lines of Alabama, Tennessee
and Georgia, where I saw a number of
iron furnaces, and in two or three cases
cotton mills, built by Northern calital
in a perfect manner. One of the furnaces
which gives the name to the railroad
station was ealled "Stonewall," after
Stonewall Jackson. The next was called
"Teenmseh," after Oen. William Te
cuiseli Sherman, and is operated by ex
Senator Warner, of Alabama, who was
on Oren. Sherman's staff. Warner got
into the train at his station and talked to
me as far as Rome, Ga., and said to me:
"There are just four towns in the South
which are picking up rapidly-4lhat
tanooga, Rone, Atlanta and hiring
ham, Ala. My biother-in-law, Justice
Woods, of the Supreme Court, is inter
ested with me in the Tecumseh furnace.
We worked along for some years (uring
hard times without muu'ch returns, but
we are now making money, and so are
the furnaces generally in this section, of
which there are a dozen or more. All of
them are charcoal furnaces, and two of
these are said to be the largest charcoal
furnaces3 in the world. We have orders
for iron a long way ahead. The ad
vantia ges of aiqking iron here are cheap
ness cf materials and of labor."
He said tlt they paid about one dol
lar a day for ibor, and paid about forty
or fifty cents for cut wood per cord. I
also understood him to say that the ma
terial entering into a ton of ir)procured
on his land cost only about sixty-five
cents. I presume lie meant without la
bor. This was disputed by Mr. Folger,
who thought Warner ust have had said
six dollars and a half, but I am pretty
sure lie said sixty-five cents. Warner
said that the present Governor of Ala
bana was a pretty fair man, and that,
while the State was not impropiug much,
industry would soon start up. A bank
had just burst at Rome, Ga., and Sena
ter Warner was just going ul to see
what had become of $8,000 of his furnace
nmoiney dleposited~ there. Throughout
the South there is a rising opposition to
any more tae h~auks, and a general op
p~osition to my further noise about what
is called "States' right." I have shown
-you in another communication how the
-exaspecration against ''States' rights," so
called, hass broken out among tihe most
dlogmatic soldiers of the reb~ellion1, w1ho0
wvant a bet ter living for their families and
less p~olitical theory.
She Was a-Washing.
They had an assault and battery case
Ion trial in Justice alley, says M. Quad,
andl one of the witnesses for the plaintiff
was a colored woman. After the usual
quiestions had been asked she was told
to tell the jury what she knewv about the
case. She settled back and began:
" Well, I was a-washin' out my clothes
when"
"Never mind1 the washing," said the
Ilawyer.
" But it was Monday."
"Can't help that."
"But I always wash on Mondays."
"Never mind that. Tell the jury what
you knlow ablout this aiffair."
"Well, [ was a-sudin' an' a-sudin' my
el >theCs when I seed --'
" Can't you let that washing alone ?
We all kno1w thiat yon were washing.''
" Yes, sah. I h'ad fo'ten shirts, free
tablecloths, twenty-four collahs andl
twelve towels in the wash an' I was a
rinisin' an' a-rinsin' when A0e ole man he
"Say, Mary, won't you tell the jury
what you saw? "
" Yes, sahi; I was a-wringin' an' a
wringin', an' I had my sleeves rolled up
" Mary, I wish you'd hang that wash
ing up to dry."
" Yes, sahi. D)e next fing arteir wring
in out do clothes is to hang 'em out, an'
I was a harAgin' when -'
"I guess you can be excused," said
the lawyer.
"Shioo, now ! Jist hold on till I git
dat wash in' in afi' part of de shirts ironed
an' I'll tell you jist how dat fight began
an' de name of de party who was
kniocked ober de ash-heap an' frew do
aley fence ! Doan' git a poo' woman
way off down yere an den refuse to let
her airn her witness fees."
Opium Smoking.
San Francisco is not of the opinion
that the article in the new Chinese treaty
prohibiting citizens of either country
from importing opium here, and vessels
fiying thme flag of either nation from
carrying it, will destroy the trovle in this
article. Opium smoking, on the Pacific
coast, is not confined to the ChIinese, for
American youths have acquaed the
habit. Says one of the importers: "The
|Chinese will get it, if it is on the top of
Ithe earth."
Begging In New York.
A New York oorrespondent of the Boo.
ton Transcript writes: Among other
kinds of business which are flourishing
in New York just now is that of begging.
The mendicant is seen everywhere.
Chancellor Crosby, in an address the
other evening said that after a month's
experience in personally investigating
cases in which he had been applied to
for help, he had found all beggars to be
frauds. He believed, too, that all the
beggars he had known for thirty years
past had been foreigners, or the cl dren
of foreigners. This is a sweeping as
sertion but it is pretty near the truth.
Begging is made a regular occupation to
a much greater extent than is generally
known.
Yet there are cases that appeal so
strongly to your sympathy that you can
hardly pass them by. I found one the
other evening. I had crossed the ferry
to Brooklyn about dark, when a little
girl asked me for a penny to buy bread
or her sick mother. She was bare-footed
and shivering in her thin clothes, and
seemed to be a deserving object of char
ity. But I thought I would investigate
a little. So I insisted on her taking me
to see her sick mother. Very reluctantly
she led me to a comfortably furnished
apartment in a neighboring street, where
I found the sick mother to be a robust
Irish woman who was bustling about
preparing supper for the family.
There were ornaments on the mantel
and pictures on the wall, and an ample
supply of cold meat, bread, and tea on
the table. I used some vigorous lan
guage appropriate to the occasion, when
the womau said she had sent the child
to beg in the streets, but her reply was
characteristic of the class to which she
belonged: "Shure, and what harm is
there in the child's earning a few pennies
at the ferry ?"
Plans of Polygamy.
Some idea of the avowed designs of
the Mormon Government may be formed
from the following public statements' by
their Bishop, Lunt:
"Our Church has been organized only
fifty years, and yet behold its wealth
and power! This is our year of jubilee.
We look forward with perfect confidence
to the day when we will hold the reins
of the United tat.s Government. That
is our present temporal aim; after that
we expect to control this continent. We
do not care for the territorial officials
sent out to govern us. They are
nobodies here. We do not recognize
them. Nor do we fear any practical
interference by Congress. To-day we
hold the balance of political power in
Idaho: we rule in Utah absolutely; and
in a very short time we will hold the
balance of power in Arizona and Wyoi
ing. A few months ago Presi(lent Snow,
of St. George, set out with a band of
priests for an extensive tour through
Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Idaho and Arizona to preselyte.
We also expect to send missionaries to
some parts of Nev'ada, and wve design
to lalnt colonies in Washington T1eri
tory. In the p)ast six months we have
sent more thian 3,000) of our people down
through the Sevier Valley to settle in
Arizona, and the movement still pro
gresses. All this will help to build up
for us a political power th at the denma
gogues will 1be forced to recognizle. Our
vote is solid, andl Will always ri~nill so.
It will be0 thrown where the most good
wd'il be accomplished for the Church.
'Then, in some great p~olitical crisis, the
two great political p~arties will bid our
supp)ort. U tah will then b~e admitted as
a polygamous State, andl the other Terri
tories we have pe(aceflly subj1ugated1
will be admitted also. We will then
hold the balance of power, and will dic
tate. In time our prmncip~les, which are of
sacred origin, will spread throughout the
Unitedl States. We wvill possess tike
ability to turn the p~olitical scale in any
oarticular community we (desire. Our
*)eople are obedient. You can imagine
Lhe results which wisdom may bring
about with the assistance of a church
organization like ours. It is the comn
pletest onie the worldl has ever seen."
Decline of the Italian Race,
One of the reasons for the deformed,
rickety, dirty, wretched, thievish inhab)
itants of Italy is the total absence of
proper sanitary arrangements in Italian
towns and villages, from the palace to
the hovel and room tenement. Italy
the land of sunshine, art and song-is a
landI of filth ard vermin. There arc
marble palaces, art galleries and blue
skies, but neither se wers, dlrains nor ade
quate scavenging. Hence strangers who
are tempted to visit the world-renowned
cities pay a fearful penialty in risks from
fever and certainty of mosquitc stings,
as also of punishment from other do
mestic torments. There is not one
Italian city properly sewered, drained
and scavenged. The best hotels use
cesspools, out of which pass foul gases
and putrid fluids to contaminste both
air and water.
Ironcladls with 100-ton guns, Royal
Cuirassiers, IRoyal Carabinieri, customs
officers, excisemen, police, municipal
guards and Jesuits will avail Itidy noth
mng in removing the fearful causes of
disease and human distortion. When
will statesmen learn that the greatness
and strength of a nation are not alone in
magnificent cities, ~palaces, ironclads
an d standing armies, hut in the health,
comfort and content of the people ? The
further lesson also requires to be learned,
namely, that, where the mass of the peo
ple are allowed to grovel in filth and
misery, there can be no true security for
property. A whiff of grape-shot wl not
cure such disease.
H: whio can plant oourage in a human
soul is the boot nh~hninian -
INTERESTING PARAGRAPH%.
Youvo men may be too fresli, but eggs
-never.
WE have no objection to a man's bor
rowing trouble; but. we want him to keep
it to limself after he has borrowed it.
Buffulo ('<orier*.
"Wonstv are either thinking about
nothing or ele tlihikiig amut sometlinig
else." This pafsses for wAisdom because it
was Maid by Duimas.
SINCE. 18(66 ninivi thousand divorces
have been granted in Italy, Milan being
Met down for no less than three thousand.
Since 1870 Rome has 'had six hundred.
AN exchange remarks that gout, which
is becoiling cquite fashionable, will never
affect the editorial professioni, as cracker
and beer lunches never produce so high
toned a disease.
WHEN iPliiladelphians see a man with
a black eye, bloody nose, and geiierally
larrupped appearance, they point to him
and whisper: " He's a statesman."
B1oston Post
A cuuncu never splits on account of
its numerical strength. It is only whieni
two deacons can't decide which one is to
boss the sexton that need is found for
aiiot her building and minister.-Deroit
Free Press.
Accomuni to Professor Sviiig, ''the
(comniig man will be teiperate, chaste,
merciful, just, generous, cltritable'
large hearted, sweet-tempered, Christia i,
a good neighbor and faithful citizei,'"
What a nice time the coming woman will
have.
A WRITEr in the London T/iptth says
that, the "fifteen puzzle" was worked o'ut
ml MUton's "lReerentionls inl Malthematlii
cal Science" more than fifty years m,
The Hlindoos, Chinese, n'nd Egyt ian i s
were familiar with the puzzle, the squnare
of sixteen beiig coiscerated t4) Jupiter.
A MAN is either a fool or a physiciiiii at
forty, and wheii he is the latter there is
no physician- in this country at le:a1t
--who can teneh himni anything. li(
knows sornebody's domestic medicine by
heart, and imagines he is sti'fering froiii
every disease known to the books. In a
medical point of view it is occasionally
not a bad thing to be a fool.
WHEN a Chinaman dies on the home
ward passage from San Francineo t.
China, his rer. '- " """ - I--- .
companions, 1 G I With (''uiij .1i( Greiiville to and
method. A g , ;G nd 1 < n ri aiGrnieoa
an artery open I -it 1 h ld (l i ville to and
of arsenical s t 1n a n1 an Gvi
ve'ins by mean u d t'' Gn es1 kn eire
arelry 'iete ai p Wih l-'1.t nurg niiul A sheville, and
artery is te sot: uii itmn an C (otinnbia to and
THlaced in a o): llowi 1 -n and Asheville, and Alston
lished, giving, I 1 wu h C es ernii Lenior Narrow Guage
her and natioii I Il i hiil 1ia lhll ' ,11,1 Clh sle
engaged on the Uhfil'sh Ne miz ''late - --- a
lijpleasantiless:"
Per cent.
Nativo Americans.........1,523,300 75.4:1
(I e'nai . .................. .)',50(0 8. 7;
Irish ....... ............. 144 2(10 7. 14
Jlritishi Ameri~icani...........5:3,500 2.-10'
Other foreigneris--.........48,4002.:
Engl1ish.... ..............45,5010 2.-1;
Foreigners uniknown.......2,500) 1.33
[Total nimiber...... ...2,018,200
A YOUNO Italian painter, Signor Carlo,
in Paris, has been astonishiing a select.
circle of spectators with some wondlerful
perOformanees'I~ in the~ wa of raidi( 0ecen
tion. A menmber of tihe company
chooses a subject, and without a m<>
ment's reflec'tioni, the painter pr'ceeds to
depict it on a large canivas, six feet hv
three. In four or five ninuites the pie
ture is finished and~ replete with details.
Of course, being produced at such1 a
rate, the work leaves much to be dlesired(1
but as an instance of lightning speed,
combined with a harmonious enscmlie,
it is simpilly marvelous.
A Pleasing InIh~ciet.
There is a lady living in a little four
room cottage ini the environs of Bostoni
whose nameio is well known to litj'rary
p~eople. She depends wholly upon her
own) exertionis for the supp)Iort of herself
and1( chiildreIn, tand dloes all her own house
work, yet her ('ottage is the focus of the
1best Hociety of the locality. A gentle
manli enLhniig tlie're recenitly was r(ee-eivad
at the dloor by a dlaughter of the lady,
who tohld him her mo(thler wasL too busy 'to
1be enlled, but that lhe could see her in
the kitchen if lhe pleased; and hie fol
lowed her to that room. The lady
greetedl him without the least embarrass.
ment, though she had on a big apron
and her sleeves wvere pinned back to heri
shoulders. She was cutting a pumpikini
into strip~s for pies; and there sat a yen
(ralhe gentleman gravely paring the
strip~s to the accompaniment of brilliant
conversation. I was asked to guess who
the gentleman was, and, after severa
fruitless attempts, was told that it wvas
the poet Longfellow. While the pump
kin-paring was a success, another dis
tinguished1 poet called, and he also in
sistedl upon being impressed into the
tservice. It was a dreary day outside,
and no one caredl to leave the pleasant
cottage, so they all stayed to lunch, one
of the pies forming the /)i('e dIe res~ist
onuc of the occasion. Speaking of this
incident afterwardl the lady saidl: '' My
frienids are kind enough to comfe and see
me, though they knowv I cannot leave
my work to entertain them. Visiting and
work must proceedl together, atnd when I
set my callers at wyork wvith me we are
sure to have an agreeable time."-ip
.A CURIOUS uee was made of the mar..
niage ceremony in Cincoinati thme other
day. A young girl having put her in
fant to death was, at the suggestion of
her lawyer, married to her lover, who,
was the only witness against her. The
two bei.g married the State was de
nried of a nly evdece