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DETOTED To r0LIrICS, XORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE VENER ils INTEREST OF TUE COU stY
By Do F, BRADLEY & 0O0 PICKENS, S , THURSDAY, JUNE& 22, 1882. V L I O 0
of )Xempbis is about
O AfOrly 2,400 convicts in her
Ue 49g of.eorgia coat more than
he preachers.
A large cottonseed-oil mill is to be
W4t in Madison, Ga.
Au unusually rich copper mine has
been opened in Cabarrus county, N. 0.
A tourteen-pound cabbage has been
Ahipped from Americus, Ga.
0o0rgia's wheat crop this yea- will be
the best raised in twenty years.
The Richmond, Va., water works are
to be completed, and will cost 860,000.
A Aold-fish 10i inches lonpwas recent
ly taken from a cistern in Macon, Ga.
Virginia, will come to the front this
year with a remarkably large fruit crop.
For the firstitime in seventy-five years
Putnam county, Ga., is without a sa
loon.
Tennessee has 18,000 acres unimproved
land, most of which is covered with fine
timber.
Two hundred and forty convicts are at
work on the Marietta & North Georgia
railroad.
Atlanta, Ga , is to have a watch man
ufacturing company, with a capital stock
of $100,000.
A South Carolina lady has made feath
er fanagi the value of *1,500 for a New
York irm.
Of the 30,000.000 acres of land in
Mississippi less than 5,C00,000 are under
cultivation.
Sutheastern Alabama is said to be
improving more than any other portion
-of the State.
Rome, Ga., has the reputation of be,
ing the pretiest and most nicely situated
city in the south.L
A company lias been organized at Au%
gusta, Ga., to build a railroad from that
city to Elberton, Ga.
A farmers' convention in East Ten
messee adopted a resolution favoring
campu lsory education.
-Rome, Ga., ha8 completed the survey
* i her proposed canal, and estimates the
- cost at $25,000) per mile,
Moss Point, Miss., lhas a glass factory,
a tannery, shoe factory, five plamning
and fourteen saw mills.
The p)ostmiaster at Vicksburg gets the
largest salary of any postmaster in Mis
missippi. His pay is 4'2,700 per year.
George Ra'n and Peter Bang, each 18
years .of age, are to be hanged at Pas
esgoula, Miss., August 4, for n-urder.
Near Lumbertcn, N. C., two girls
mamed respectively Frances McNair and
Jane Kellar fought over a young man,
and the latter was stalbed through the
heart.
Southern paper's point to the im
meme amount of farming machinery
beiug Bold as evidence of tepoprt
of the South. -tepoprt
A rich deposit of kaoline has been dis
ldovered in Macon county, Ala. The ny-.
teICrialir- indisp)(nsable in the manufac
ture of fire brick.
A comipany has been organized in
North Carolina to bottle juniper water,
-' ~ famous as a gentle tonic. The w~ater is
-abundant near Albemarle.
.4 Tennessee has 25 copper furnaces that
turn out 2,600,000 pounds of copper
* each year. The state has also 18,000,000
acres of unimproved land.
*- South Carolina protects the birds by
imposing a line of 10 agains~t ever y one
convicted of robbing a nest. Thirty
daya' imprisonment can be added.
A Norfolk, Va., girl became so in
censed because her sister gave birth t(
an illegitimate child that she stranglkd
the infant to death. The parties belon~
-to a good family and the murderess is ir
*jail.
* The Athens. Ga., cottno factory payi
an annual dividend of 12) per cent, be,
sides putting a like per cent into a sir k.
ing fund for future repairs and addi.
tions.
.Tames Kirkland, of Levy county,Fla.
met with a horrible death while ou
hunting recently. lie stumbled an<
fell on a sharp stake, which pierce<
through his body and held him until h<
died.
The Hebo~w saloon-keepers of Littl<
Rock, Ark., refuse to obey the new Sur
day law, claiming that the -ChristiI
Sunday is not their Sunday..
Willie Morris became joyous at:
Wilmington, N. C., camp-meeting, ani
fell over Annie Williams while the lai
ter was kneeling in prayer, and brok
* her back.
* ~ Augusta, Ga., will soon adid 40,00
people to her population by taking 11
the new factories and Harrisburg, Hiel
ylle and Rollereville, and the Sible'
King and Curry settlements.
Thomas Fergueson, of w'eldon, N. C
careleasly pointed an "empty" ohot-gu
at his three~year-old brother, but it we:
off just the same, and the child was tor
to pieces.
Theo Savannah News calls attention
* the fr~et that the orecution of two wht
tween the spokes in iPs revolution,
knocked him off. The wheels then ran
over his neck, breaking it.
Mississippi has a new law which re
quireb all agents for fruit nuserles situa
ted out of the State to pay $5 license in
every county in which they do business
and give a bond and surety that the
vines and trees sold will come up to the
representation of the vendor.
A mill owner in Clinch county, Ga.,
has found that the sawdust and chips
from his saw mill yield fourteen gallons
of spirits of turpentine, three to four
gallons of rosin and a large quantity of
pine tar per coid. It is extracted by a
sweating piscess, and the newly-discov
ered industry will be generally worked
by mill men.
Laborers at work on a railroad near
Jacksonville, Fla., moved a large flat
stone while grading, which discovered a
hole leading into the earth. A long
pole failed to tontch the bottom of the
pit and a man was lowtred into it with
fifty foot-rope, but this also failed to
find bottom. While he was being pulled
up he discoved the skeleton of a man
lying in a niche in the side of the cav
ern, which had apparently been there
for ages, as the bones crumbled to dust
ai; soon as touched. The pit is to be ex
plored.
They Hugged Him.
Two sprightly and beautiful young
ladies were visiting their cousin,
another sprightly and beautiful young
lady, who, hk'e her guests, was of that
happy age that turns everything into
fun and merriment. They were fond of
practical. jokes, and were constantly
playing all sorts of pranks with each
other. All three occupied a room on the
ground floor, and cuddled up together
m bed..
Two of the young ladies attended at
party, and did not get home until 11:30
o'clock at night. As it was late, they
concluded not to disturb the household,
so they quietly stepped into their room
brough the low, open window.
In about half an hour after they had
left for the party a young Methodit
minister called at the house where they
were staying and craved a night's lodg
ing, which of course was granted. As
ministers always have the best of every
thing, the old lady put him to sleep i
the best room, and the young lady (Fan
nie) who had not gone to the party, was
intrusted with the duty of sitting up for
the absentones and of informing them
of the change of rooms. She took up
her post in the parlor, and, as the night
was sultry, she departed on an excursion
to the land of dreams.
We will now return to the young
ladies who had gone to their room
through the window. By the dim light
of the moonbeams, as they struggled
thftough the curtains, the young ladics
were enabled to descry the outlines of
Fannie (as they supposed) ensconced in
the middle of the bed. They saw more
-to wit : a pair of boots. The truth
flashed upon them at once. They saw
it all. Fannie had set them in the room
to give them a good scare. They put
their heads together and determined to
turn the tables on her. Silently they
disrobed and, stealthily as cats, they
took up their positions on either side of
the bed. At a given signal they both
jumped into the bed, one on each side
of the unconscious parson, laughing and
screaming, "Oh, what a man! Oh,
what a man I" They gave the poor, be
wildered minister such a promiscuous
hugging and tussling as few parsons are
able to brag of in the course of a life
time.
The noise of the proceeding awoke
the old lady, who was sleeping in an
adjoining room. She comprehended the
situation in a moment, and, rushing to
the room, she opened the door and ex
claimed :
" Gracious, girls, itis aman ! It is a
man, sure enough I"
There was one prolonged, consolidated
scream, a flash of muslin through the
door, and all was over.
The best of the joke is that the mini
ister took the whole thing in earnest.
He would listen to no apologies the old
lady could ziiake for the girls. He
would hear no excuse, but solemnly
folded his official robes about him and
silently glided away.
Where There are no Sunsets.
The following is Gongresstnan Cox's
I description of a scene at the North Cape:
a " Here in the uppermost point in
Europe and at this midsummer season
there is no sunset ! Bring burial weeds
& and sable plume, for there is no suniset!
-Lift the funeral song of woo and tell
a through the land that sunset is no more,
and yet I live I And must I now be
disenchogited ? Do I live, and is sunset
a no more ? Do I see a country where
I the suu is going down, amid a miae en
.scene equal, if o superior, to that
Ohio evening ~rs ago, which I tried
8 th portray with my poor pen, and yet it
does not go down ? Was it not enough
that efor ten lon~ days there was no
night for us, and tat the sun by gliding
a and glowing in the north without any
a. respite had d sturbed our customary
, experiences ? Te reaction might be
'toe sudden. The failure of the old orb
tset mIght-well, there is no telling
.,tecateleptic and other dire conse
n quences. But here was th patent fact ;
here were clouds and ligts ; all the
'" hues of the prism in splen d display and
n yet no sunset after all 1( Midnight, and
yet ight all aglow I No gas, no candles,
no stats, no moon-only the fiery or1b
0 and his traveling clouds of glory.
We #Rt4 is not the sun all-sufficient with
ra Oth '? If he stays up and
9~)14* WMtuore coan the human hoari
W~$wodder that oriental
thinh with the~ majesty
saluted
~ beanu
, TOPIGS OF THE DAY.
SaamAar IAsoN is making shoes at
&lbany, N. Y.
Tim net.debt af New York, JTune 1,
was $97,592,052.
MEXo has repealed the duty on ex
ports of gold and silver.
PAi= is counting on 100,000 Ameri
ans visiting that city thiS summer.
GARxFIED's biograpy is selling in
England at the rate of 2,000 a month.
Mns. GApiimr has been elected to
succeed her husband as a trustee of
Hiram College.
THE present Chief Justice of Alabama
used to set type on a weekly newspaper
for $5 per week.
Ex-SENATOn BLAINE is interested in
the great coal monopoly in the Hooking
Valley of Ohio.
GOVEROR CRITrENDEN, of Missouri,
has been made an LL. D. by the Mis
souri University.
VENNOn, Tice, and Couch, a trio of
weather prophets, all predicted execrable
weather for June.
AT ToMBsTONE, Arizona, a purse of
$2,500 has been raised to pay for Indian
scalps at $10 apiece.
CosrA RICA has accredited a lady
Madame Beatrice-as her Envoy Ex
raordinary at Washington.
NEARLY all the creditors of the busted
Mechanics' Bank, at Newark, N. J.,have
been paid and the bank will reopen.
A DmLL to forbid publishers and agents
of school bqoke serving on school com
mittees has passed the Rhode Island
Senate.
THE cnsus returDs of Japan show a
population of 35,353,991. Of these 18,
423,274 are Males and 16,935,720 are
females.
THE Chicago Inter-Ocean has discov
ered that tb man who pays fifteen cents
for a drink of Whisky is swindled a clean
ten cents' worth.
THE Ancient Order of United Work
mon, in annual session in Cincinnati,
decided to hereafter receive no members
who are over fifty years of age.
THE world moves. An oil pipe line
has been laid across the Caucasus Moun
tains to deliver petroleum at a shipping
point on the coast of the Black Sea.
ALExANTDER 1ll. has presented the
German Emperor with the horses which
were drawing the carriage of his father,
the Czar, when he was assassinated.
TnE S'pirit of the Times says James
R. Keene offered fifteen thousand dollars
for Henlopen, winner of the Juvenile
Stakes, at Jerome Park, which was
declined.
IT 1S conceded by those who are
posted on Congressional matters the
present session, that the member whc
has the strongest lungs is tho greatesi
statesman.
SAYS a cotemporary : Stories used tc
begin : "Once upou a time there lived-'
Now they begin : "'Vengeance, blood,
death,' shouted Rattlesnake Jim," or
words to that effect.
THE entire expenses at Yorktown colo.
bration-per bill audited and allowed b~
Congress-amounting over $7,000, was
for fine old wine and whiskies, cigaxn
and fine-cut chewing tobacco.
INTELLIGENCE from the South Coast o.
South America is to the efiect thal
Ecuador is in the throes of revolution
Peru in anarchy and dis9order, and Chil
smitten by epidemics and cursed h~
brigandage.
AN ELEi~crnxo light wire, buried benoati
an asphaltum pavement at San Franciscc
somehow lost its insulating .envelop
recently, and tho result wvas the electri
fluid found its way into the asphat
which was soon in a lively sizzlo an<
fume.
Mn. GEORGE JAoOB HOLYoAKE, Uh
well-known writer on co-operation an'
kindred subjects,has been commissione<
by the British Government to visit thi
country and Canada and report upon th
chances offered here to immigrant work
ing people.
THlE Prasbyterlan Foreign Missio
Board has opent $592,000 in the pas
year. R has now accepted thirty un
missionaries, mostly young men. Fa
peating a groat increase of work thi
year~, it asks for an additional $100,00
above customary receipts.
SoME~ German newspapers are Vene1
able with age. The Frankfort Journ4
is 261 years old, the M~agdeburg Zeitusn
is 253 years old, and ninety-eight othei
are over 100 years old, and most of thei
papers are no more like a real live Ame:
ican sheet than they were 100 years ag<
TalE Memphis A valoncee keeps t
docket of Judge Lynch's coti, as
states that since January 1, sideen ge
sons haveobeen hanged by mob1n
the South~, ntieteen in-the North ad
in the i mtter States. Thi 4toll
ner
CANoN FARRa who preached in West
minster Abboya qermon on Darwin, took
this -appropriate text: "And he spake of
trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon
even unto the hysop that springeth out
of the wall ; he spake also of beasts,
and of fowl, and of creeping things, and
of fishea."
BRADSTM&M T'S report indicates a de
crease in the acreage and a reduced yield
in the production of cotton. The weather
has not been favorable to the growth of
the plant in considerable areas of the
country, and the demoralization of labor
in the flooded districts has retarded
planting.
Tn popular costume of the dwellers
in Arizona is thus graphically described
by a "tenderfoot:" "In ordinary
weather he wears a belt with pistols in
it. When it grows chilly he puts on
another belt with pistols in it, and when
it becomes really cold he throws a Win
ohester rifle over his shoulders."
TE Italian Idea of Darwin is as fol
lows, from one of their papers: " We
learn from our English correspondent
that Darwin, the famous apostle of the
apes, is dead. In Darwin's opinion men
are not the creatures of God, made of
body and soul, and called to immortality
in another life, but merely perfected
apes.
THAT th dogs of Georgia cost more
than her preachers, and that rats claim
a tithe of her wheat and corn, are among
the curious deductions from a talk with
the Commissioner of Agriculture, who
also sees in 1882 a bad year for cats,
whose places as rat killers can on!y
be filled by black snakes, according to
Congressman Hawamond.
MOVEME.NTS are being made in many
cities for the crection of monuments to
Garibaldi. The municipality of Genoa
have subscribed 20,000 francs toward the
erection of a monume;at, and that of
Verona 10,000 frncs for the same pur
pose. The municipality of Rome have
contributed 80,000 francs for the erec
tion of a monument on Janiculum Hill.
A DRUNK and disorderly man was sen
tenced by an English magistrate to seven
days at bard labor for trying at Leicester
last week to shake hands with the
Princess of Wales as she sat in her car
riage, and poked him away with her
parasol. He was immediately released at
the request of the Prince and Princess.
It is hard to boat an English magistrate
in doing what he thinks will please the
royal *nily.
THmnE ems to be as little economy
in the disbursement of public funds in
New York now as there was when the
Iamented . Tweed built his court-house.
The New York and Brooklyn Suspension
Bridge, which started on a plan of 200
feet above low watcr, and an estimated
cost of $7,000,000, has got down to only
135 feet above water, and up to an actual
cost of $15,000,000, and now the New
York Legislature has a bill to appropriate
$1,250,000 to complete the bridge.
THE trial at New Haven of the Malley
boys and Blanche Douglass, charged with
the outrage and murder of Miss Jennie
Cramer, it is thought by those who have
been watching the proceedings, will not
result in conviction, but rather in ac
quittal--not because the Malleys have
been shown to be innocent, but because
they have not been indisputably shown
to be guilty of the crime for which they
are indicted. .And yet public opinion
will neverthieless hold them responsible
for Jennie Gramer's death.
A NEw YOnK lawyer has earned per
haps the lrgest fe? ever won. The
ruling ci the Supreme (:>urt of the
United States, taking off 50 per cent.
speocinoc duty on hosiery and knit goods
into which wool enters, refunds to the
importers $11,000,000 of the taxes pre.
viously pa~id. The lawyer gets half
$5,500,000-a nice contingent fee. The
Smanufacturers of hosiery in this country
complain loudly of the injustice of the
e decision, taking off all the protectioi
C from their work.
- THrE quickest time on record made b'
a train of improved stock cars betweer
Chicago and New York is just reported
The speed from Buffalo was at the rat
of thirty to forty-five miles an Jiour
The shrinkage was only twenty pound
e per head, while the usual loss is frot
-seventy to onie hundred pounds. Thea
cars permit each animal to occupy a ser
arate stall. The animals can also li
Sdown and move about igthout comin
v in contact with each other. For feedin
-and watering the animals without nr
*loading the facilities are ample.
IN~ Rms dispatch to Minister Lowell o
the subject of the relations betwee
-. Great Britain and the United States t
gp the various inter-ocean canal projecti
g Secretary of State, Frelinghuysen, hal
-a ing made his points of opposition on th
e part of the United States to foreign ir
e.- tervention in the matter of the Nicarag
>. nan'Canal, as being contrary to th
Monroe Doctrine of this country, resl
ahis case, with an expression of conf
4 dance that the differences between th
~.two Governments will be satisLactoril
adjusted before the canal will be buill
Zit is a s8?IriR*(i !uiet on personi
ynda when rti x~sae prohibite
conseience happens to diotte. The
other Sunday, in Paterson, N. J., a
gang of Salvationist were parading the i
streets, marking time and singing loudly
the following coplet :
"BIgh left 1righit, left,
e rd Is rht, d the Devil is left."
A captain and lieutenant of the police
force arrested the Salvationists as dis.
turbers of the peace, and in court, when ]
the case came up a number of Hallelujah
lasses were present, who knelt down in
a circle and prayed fervently for the
souls of the wicked policemen who had
arrestod their commanders.
W. A. FzNNER, writing from San An.
tonio, Texas, says that "among the
noted residedits of the vicinity the Rev.
W. H. Murray, 'Adriondack Murray,'
as he is called, is here, a fallen giant in.
deed, with none so poor as to do him
reverence. When he fled from Boston
his fair-haired private secretary, a young
lady, followed his fortunes and has since
lived with him. Last year her heart
bioken father came for her, and after a
despairing effort to get her to return
with him, which proved ineffectual, the
poor old man, disgraced, broken in
spirits, alone in the world and almost
penniless nfter his long search for her, 1
blow out his brains at the very threshold I
of Murray's door. Only last Sunday
Bunday, mark you-I saw him at San
Pedro Springs unloading, with his own
hands, a wagon load of cedar ties that
lie had hauled from is little place , r
the street railroad company. He % as
wvithout coat, vest or collar, dirty and
unshorn, and it woulct take a keen eye,
as a Boston man remarked to me, to de
tect in him the idolized preacher of one
of the proudest pulpits in the Hub."
Hunting Up a Pedigree.
I live in a snlall country parish of 194
inhabitants, and our parish register dates
from 1630. A young American gentle
man came to my friend the Rector, and
said that it had only come to his knowl
edge two days previous that it was from
this village that his father's grandfather
emigrated to America about the year
1750, and there laid the foundation for
the present wealth of his descendants.
The gentleman, with a party of fourteen,
had been fifteen months away from New
York, visiting the chief places of the I
Continent,- the Holy Land, Egypt, &c.,
and ending up with the principal sights
in England and Scotland ; and they were
to embark from Live ol on the follow
ing morning. He h traveled specially
to this little village. Would the Rector
be good enough to refer to the parish
registers, and see if his ancestors were
therein mentioned ? The Rector di4 so
the ancestors were there found in regn
lar descent, from the very beginning of
the register-and the gentleman, in less
than two hours' time, was set up with a
pedigree dating back two and a half con
turies, which he said he should have
drawn up in heraldic fashion, and which
doubtless now adorns some room in his
American home. It was evident, that
the ancestors were of the humblest class,
as in another book mention of " Goody''
--was frequently made as being the
recipient of a tenpenny charity. But
the surname happens to correspond with
one in the English Baronetage, and
while the Rector was transcribing the
numerous registers the American gentie-!
man was busy copying from Debrett the
coat of arms of the Baronet in ~question,
bloody hand and all. I regret to add
that the Rector never received a six
pence for his trouble, though he might
have charged a heavy sum mn fees ; but I
he was restoring his church, and he left
it to the American gentleman to give
some donation for that purpose, either
in money or in the form of a stained
glass window or other memorial to his
ancestors.--Notes and Q.uerice.
Leaf from the Czar's Diary.
Got up at 7 a. in. and ordered my
bath. Found four gallons vitriol in it
and did not take it. Went to breakfast.
The Nihilists had placed two torpedoes
on the stairs, but I did not stop on
them. The coffee smelled so strongly
of Prussic acid that I was afraid to drink
it. Found a scorpion in my left slipper,
but luckily shook it out before putting
it on. Just before stepping into the
carriage to go for my morning drive it
was blown into the air, killing the
coachmen and horses instantly. 1 did
not drive. Took a light uinch of
hermetically-sealed American canned
goods. They can't fool me there. Found
a poisoned dagger in my favorite chair,
with the point sticking out. Did not
sit down on it, Had dinner at 6 p. mn.,
and made Baron Laischounowonski taste
every dish. He died before the soup1
was carried away. Consumed some Bal
timore oysters and some London stout
-that I have had locked up for five years
SWent to the theater and was shot at
1 three times in the first act. Had the
s entire audience hanged. Went home to
the, and slept all night on the roof
e ter plc. anFrancisco News
Curing Siek Headache.
A Vermont correspondent writes that
after suffering from sick headache for
Stwenty years, with frequent attacks of
diphtheria, quinsy and erysipelas, she
Shas discovered the cause of all her troub
0 les. Eight months' abstinence from meat
i, has cured her of dyspepsia and all the
.. ailments she has suffered from, and her
health is better than it has been for many
e- years. On a diet of vegetables and cer
*eals with fish and eggs occasionally, she
is well and strong. Happy are they who
e find out their limitations, physical, in
* tellectuial and spiritual, and do not ruin
L. hel~th aid hapless in a vain endoa-or
to digest some ing beyond their pow
era
Tdes weeks oan CT, as the Tera
e a .9u4 o was it, timesizz
I e
Full of "Specs."
The real old-fashioned Yankee is still
fixture among us, though some writers
vould make us believe that he has been
lead for years. There was a genuine
ipecimen in the Erie depot yesterday,
md ho was explaining to several inter
wsted parties:
"Father-in-law lives here in Jersey
Jity, and I'm on a visit like. Thought
['d bring along % few traps and things
md get up a dicker or two. Any of ye
Like to invest in that ?"
He put out the model of a rat trap and
aid:
"This trap not only catches the var
Mints, but it chokes em to death, throws
the body out of that back window, and
then resets itself. In the top is an alarm,
to go off any hour you want and wake
up the family. Here's an apparatus on
this side for grating apices. Any of you
like to buy county rights ?"
No one did, and he then placed before
them a vessel, about which he ex
plained:
"This is now a water-pail. By plac
ing this iron cover on the bottom it he
3omes a kettle. By inverting the cover
you have a spider. The pail is a half
ushel measure to.a grain. Onco around
t is exactly a yard. Its weight is oxactly
wo pounds, and I sell the county rights
,or $50 each."
The next was a boot-jack, which could
)e transformed into fit o-tongs, press
>oard, stove-handle, nail-hummer and
ioveral other things. Ho had an auger
vhmich bored four holes at once, a gimlet
,hich bored a square hole; at vashing
nachino which could also be made to
terve as a tea-tablo, and ono or two other
hiugs, and as he reached the last he
iaid:
"Gentlemen, I am full of speculations.
['ll invent anything you want. I'll sell
mnything I've got. I'll take pay in any
:hug you have, and I'll give every ono
f you a oehpee to make a million dol
tar~s. 's
Could be Beat on ry Land.
An intoxicated colored man made an
mnsuccessful attempt to bury Inimelf
dive in the quicksand bed of the Platte,
Denver, Col. He was industriously dig
ving a hole in the river bed with his
laus-and the assistance of a small
*oard-with the evident intention ol
ourying himself alive, when a number
f small boys who wore playing in the
vicinity discovered him. They imnmedi
itely set about turning . him from hif
micidal purpose by making him a targoi
for stone throwing practice.
Although hit several times by the smal
missiles, lie did not appear at all an
nioyed, but continued to dig as if the of
:fort was one for lifo instead of death
Mr. Charles H. Wright, tho surveyor
happoning along at the time in a hu
manitarian mood walked over to wher<
the darkey was preparing his grave.
"What are you doing?" asked Mr
Wright, trying to believe that the darko
was exploring for a placer mine in th<
river sand.
" Well, I di'mr'no ef ets eny your bees
ness, boss," said the digger, not deign
ing to look up from his work. " but (den
I don mind to tell ye dat I'so gwine t<
bury m'self up h'yar and die."
The colored man ref used to exp~lair
matters further and Mr. Wright retire(
to a respectful distance to await th
result of the odd freak.
When a hole of suflicient length ha(
been dug to the depth of about a foot anm
a half, the colored man laid in it, anm
commenced to pull the damp sand ove:
him. It appears that water had bieex
struck in the bottom of the hole, and be
fore the odd suicide had reached anything~
like the climax of his intentions the
moisture and coldness of his p)ositioI
had quite cured him of his design.
Leaping to his feet, he muttered loui
enough to be heard by Mr. Wright: "Dat's
too much-too much ; fl'd wvanted t'e
drown, I'd jump inter do riber. No sah
I can 4pat dat yer on dry Jan'." Up ti
a late hour the coroner had not bee:
called.- -Denver Tribune.
The Figs of Commerce.
The fruit of the fig tree may be reek~
oned among the staple foods of man fo
ages before cereals were cultivated b;
any settled agricultural population. I]
the temperate regions wI'ere it thrive
best, it tills the place~ of the banana o
tropicad climes, andl yields its fruit durn.
several months of the year. In Asia
Minor, where the tree is founid wil
and whero the best figs of comnnereo ar<
chiefly grown), the fruit begins to ripe!
in the end of June ; and the summire:
yield, which gives emlyetto
large popu~lationl, comes to malrket ii
immenso quantities in Septembe ir amhl
October. TIhe trees often give evenI
third crop, whichl ripens after the leave.
have fallen. Th'Ie best figs for drying~
come from the valleys of thme Meande:e
and Kaistros, to the south of Smyrna
where the trees are planted regularl:
wvith care, and the ground is1 (1 og am
hoed from four to six times (during th
sumwmer. The Smyrna and Aidin Rail
way now affords great facilities for th
transp~ort of the fruit, which former1;
had to be brought long distances o:
camels carrying about 500 each. WVho
figs reach Smyrna they are sorted b
women and packed in boxes by mer
They are best when newly packed, an
as the months go by get dryer an
harder in the ware-houses or the grocer
shop. No one who has not eaten the'
in the Lievant at the commencement<
the season, packed in the ornament
pasteboard drums, with glowing pictur
on the top, in which they are sold f
local consumption, knows what the be
figs are like. '1 he card-board for the
boxes is su pplied chiefly by Belgium mn
Austria ; 51,000 caumel-loads of fo
Ikintals each, or nearly 12,000 tons, ha
Ireach ed Smyna on the 22d day of Octobj
last year ; and the production increas
annually. Fifteen years ago not me
than half the amount was recorded f
the wholo season. England ai
America take by far the larger portion
the exports ; France, where the small
and mulch inferior figs of the Mediterr
nean are chiefly consumed, taking itt
or noue of the Ane fruit of Srgyrnla.
New Orleena &Iugar Planter.
0owcw~ait the strongest New E
iis $t4ar$ a estimato is mlade th
A 0cofta ot
And,
70u, mny frsepar'..
WXaarner C4417
mne some i. T
you've
hangedi Dinuew%@ r
Tnar say, "tis jat kq
dawn," but the ma'orke
night to hunt for a
corner of the washstand
could be any darker.
"I r outside my window
filled with mold, and sowed it
What do you think came up ?
barley or oats ?" "No-a policeman
ordered me to remove it."
Tim discouraged collector~ agnie
sented that little matter. "Well,"
his friond, "you are round
Yes," says the fellow, with the acon*
in his hand, "but I want to get squard
"LADIEs and gentlemen," said anTAi
nmnagor to his audience of three,
there is nobody here, I'll dismissy a
The performance of this niaht Wil not be
performed, but will be rejeated to-hare
row evening."
A LrrrL boy entered the fish market
the other day, and seeing for the Irst
time a pile of lobsters lying on the eoun.
ter, looked at them intently for some time,
when lo exuluinwd: "Thoms ihe big.
gest grasshoppers I ever seen.
WIATS imanna, nothglin, ambrola and aloh
To Olo OlHargarine?
tu odor so fragrant, In color so rich
O- O'Margarino?
Thou'rI guiltle-s of pastures and milk-m.ds' .muls.
Thou'rt guliless of churning and Aairy-maIds'
wiks.
Thou'rt guilty of naught but inscrutable. l*,
Ole O'Margarine.
"IF this coffee is gotten up in a board.
inig house style again to-morrow morning,
I think I shall have good grounds for a
divorco." said a cross husband the other
niorning. "I don't want any of your
saucer,' retold his wife, "and what
I've sediment.
A FRIEND who lately called on the
Premier found him guiet, but not without
a leam of his peculiar saturnine humor.
"t is a strange thing," said he; "but
people lkep calling at this house and
asking after me-sa though I had had a
childl!'
Mn. MArToM remarked to Erekine that
his phyvsician had forbidden his bathing
hgititumf," said Erskine. "But," con.
tinued Mr. Maylum, "he says my wife
may bathe." "Ah," replied Erkin.,
"s 1e is miatum in se."
" TN dimes make one dollar,' said
the schoolmaster. ' Now go on, sir.
Ten,1 dollars make one-what?" " They
make one mighty glad these times," re-.
pulied the boy; and the teacher, who
hadni't got his last month's salary yet,
concluded that the boy was about right.
Timr Chicago Intecr-Ocean having come
to the conclusion that "a full-grown man
who throws banana peels upon the side
'walk is no Christian," the Cincinnati
L (Commncrcialt anxiously inquires " Well
-what do you think of the banana pee~
. that throws a full-grown man upon the
, WaIHLF Bishtop Ames was presiding over4
- a conference in the wvest a member began
Sa tirade against univetsit~ies, education,
etc., thanking God that he had never
been corrupted by contact with a college.
r A fter proceeding dius for a few mliutes1
the 1bishop interrupted him with the
questioni: ''Do I understand that the
- rot her thanks God for his ignorance ?"
- ell, yes," was the answer; "you
can put it in that wvay if you want t."
"WVell, all I have to say,"said the bishop,
in his sweet, musical tones, "is, that the
brothler has a great deal to thank God
for."
I Why Amerieans Die.
" When we learn that in the year.188O
the death rate in New York was 28.48 to
i1,000 inihabitants, that in the year 1881
the rate was 31.08 per 1,000, while in
L2ondon for the same period the average
death rate was 22.14, and that forty
eight cities in the United States during
the same time exceeded the death rate
of New York, it becomes us to ask,
'Why are Americans dying out?' in
1881, in this city, there were 12,494 more
deaths than births, and in the months of
e January and Februray, 1882, the deaths
exceeded the births by 2,446. In Lon..
a don, during the year 1880, there were
a 81,128 deaths and 132,128 births, or 51,.
047 more births than deaths. I have
considered these facts worthy of close
attention. One reason why Americans
tare (lying out is because they eat too
-.nmo'h andl too fast. A person studying
r clc. ily the habits of Americans would
think that their object in life was to eat.
1Americans can't converse flye minutes
a without something to eat. - Another rea
fson why Americans are dying out is be
caSuso they (drink too much. The curse
of our nation. is intemperance. A third
reason why Americans are dying out is
because they gamble too fast. We are
b~e'omning a nation of gamblers. This
- spirit of gambling is undermining all
ho~nest industries. Another reason is
disappoinated ambition. We are a nation
of rivals. Each man desires to lead his
fellows. A Republic has many bless
a ings, but it possesses one disadvantage
the failure to satisfy the grasping amnbi
tion of is teeming millions. The last
reason for Americans dying out is their
r false standard of success, money. If a
man In Europe foils in business, or loses
his money by some unexpected calamity,
-his friends will still remain true to him,
e as a rule. But in this country let a man
y lose his fortune by adversity, and he is
Li quickly forgotten. We should not gauge
ai the amenities and duties of life upon a
y person's bank book, for in doing so we
. introduce those causes of discouragemnent
a inaction and national death which will
d not only make Americans die out, but
s' every nation under the sun.''-Retv.
sGeorge W.2 GaZ.f New York,
1 Preachers as Eaters.
es Th Evangelist Harrison is a manl of
or delicate frame2 and of such almost dfem
at inate expression and appearance as to
so make it easy for~ him to preserve othe9
1d title of 4'JBoy Piueacher," under which
ur he first became famous. A lady at
nd whose house he was some time en.
or tertained noticed the fact that he
smore than enongh for a.oU4
re !spoke of this one day at ditu
risaid she thought it was an evideu
gra mt sniritnality and heavenly mM