Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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bli--- ta *Mao 00 bas ao the dtewftjue dawu Isgv7 Ai~qM:J~ w,7vr you WOW seS mid4 The orannu vW-, A sot a dawn, o3A and weak ~Iba on the cheek a has ned? As a Cray roe-loat that bi h Web the cheek wheoe I Oemwyh Ay.oUthtsIde of the bed allnih Aaatched, and Ion this I kissed her lipe, they were halt apart, Yet they made no answering sign. Death's hand was on hrr fali heart, And his eyes said: She is ine. 1 set my lps on the blue-veined lid, Halt veiled by her death-damp hair; And o1 for the violet depths it hid, And e lught I longd for there I Faint day and the fainter light awoke, And the nigt was overpast; And I said: 'hough never In life you spoke, 01A speak with a look, at last I For the space of a heartsbeat fluttered her breath, As a bird's wing spread to flee; She turned her weary arms to Death, And the light of her eyes to me. -U. C. Bunner. n Century Magazine. THE MANIAC CHEMIST. Years had passed since I had seen the metropolis of America-New York. 1 reached the city the morning of the 23d of May, 1856, and arriving at the house of my friend, Richard Carver, I found a piece of crape tied to the knocker. " Who is deadP" was my mental question, as, hesitating not, I opened the door and entered the parlor, where I found Mr. Carver and his wife sobbing as though their hearts were breaking. Mine was a silent greeting, and I soon learned the cause of my friends' distress -Carlotta, their only child, lay shrouded for the tomh in the room over my head. She harf died the evening preceding my arrival, of a strange disease, after an illness of a few short houra. Alive in the morning-laughing at the break fast table; but at night aead-her sin less soul in the haven of eternal rest. With slow steps I accompanied the grief-stricken father up stairs, and we stood by the cofllin which contained the form of his beloved Carlotta. She looked very beautiful, even in the sleep of death-her face wore a smile as if given in response to the beckonings of angels. Her golden hair lay upon her white-roked breast, crossed by her snow-white hands. I laid my hand upon the beautiful tresses, inwardly wishing that I might become the posses sor of one. At that moment Mr. Carver, as if divining my thoughts, stooped, severed one of the locks of the lovely dead, and placed it in my hand. " Mark." lie said, " I ain about to ask of you a favor;" hero ho brushed the tears from his eyes. " Some one must watch to-night, andl I wish that you per form that du tgryou were a friend to poor Carlotta. I told him I accepted the trust. He thanked me, and covering the cold face again, we rejoined his agonized wife below. Time p~assed g1oomily enough till nightfall, when, taking sev eral books and a lamp, I made my way to the chamber of (death. After look ing upon the face of Carlotta, I set the lamp upon the table andl seated myself near it. I soon found that the books I had brought along were uninteresting-I had taken them at random from the parlor table--and that ther would not keep mec awake. I laid them aside, and picking up the lamp, began search ing the room for others. On the top most shelf of a clothes-press I encount ered a volume entitled " Philosophy of Life, Death and Immortality,' and with it resumied my seat. Upon the fly-leaf of the book I saw in delicate let ters the name of her who was so near me and so still, and I resolved to read the book for her sake. Soon 1 was deeply interested, and page after page my eyes devoured. By-and-by I heard footsteps in the hail, and 1 knew my sorrowing friends were seeking their room for the pur p ose of retiring. At last I read the last sentence. ofthe old volume, olosed it, and fell back in the rocking-chair in a sort of doze. I was only in a semi unconscious state, for I heard the rattle of vehicles over the stony streets, and the loud voices of those going home ward from the theaters. Before closiin" my eyes I had turned the light low, andl objects in the room were thereby ren dered some what indistinct. I cannot say how long I remained in my lethargic sleep, when I heard steps ascending the stairs. The footsteps Were those of some one divested or shoes. I roused myself and listened. The steps approached. "0, 'tis only Mr. or Mrs. Carver coning to take a longing look at Car' lotta,' I mused. "'They think I sleep. andl move easily so as not to disturb me." Presently the door opened and the person entered the room. By the dijn light I saw the outlines oX a man. He wvent over to the coffin a i began to lift Carlotta from it. The body was partially lifted from the cofin, when i turned the light up and it flashed upon the intruder. The dead fell from his arms and lie stood erect. He was not Mr. Carver, but a stranger to my sight. He was nearly as tall as I?, and his arms told me that lie had the strength of the Nenmean lion. His hair wa brushed behind his ears, and his eyes-oh, those (lark, dlashing orbs-told me that I faced a madman. I trem~bled as the truth flashed upon my bramn. [ was. alone and unarmed with the dead and the in sane, and in all probability I would have to fight the latter for the former. in vain I tried to look those eyes down--they continued to glare into mine. Then I thought I might calm the madman by words. This is a beautiful night, my friend," I began, trying to carry his thoughts away from the dead. " ethe stars shine like her eyes did once," and he pointed to poor Car lotta. I was at a loss how to proceed. The next moment he strode forward and cried: "But she is dead. They kflled her because they hated her. She shall be mine though, for all that. 1 possess. a liquid that can bring the dead to life. The liquid was sent to me from the spirit land beyond the grve; - the angels--those who hurled Stan over the battlements of Heaven-broughlt It to me a thousand years ago. I will re store life to my Carlotta, and then the angels of Heaven nor the fiends of hades cannot tear her from me. I defy them." *eJ ert' he ashg his toe~ " You wato her! Not byhe lake of sin! She is mine; wq were married in Heaven; our mar riage. Is recorded in the Lamb's book. Yes, arlotta, I will take' thee away." I stood for a momeut motionless, ut not idle. I was determined to defend my oh a ; to save the dead from be in ca ed off by the maniac. I looked around the room for weapons. A heavy hickory cane stood within my reach, nud eagerly I grasped it. The mad man's face was turned from me, and with uj>ralsed weapon I approached him. boon I was near enough I pautsed to strike, when he suddenly Lurned, and with a shriek sprang at me. I struck, however, but the blow fell upon his shoulder. Then we met and clinched in a strag gle of life and death. I exerted all ny strength, and we Swayed from one end of the room to the other. Why did not Mr. Carver come to my assistance? Sure ly he heard the noise our struggling oe ealoued, but no . help came. The breath of my mad antaigonist seenied flames as It touehed my face, and soon er than I had th->ught I was borne to t1w floor, where I lay weak and completely in his power. he bent over ine and took fron his pocket a vial, the con tents of which I saw at a glance were prussic acid. I saw his object and the speedy death In store for me. I tried to scream, but my effort pro duced nothing but a whisper, which made the fiend grin triumphantly. Sud denly he seized the cane and thrust one end of it into my mouth, to prevent me1 closing It against the polson. He then un corked the vial and gradually lowered it. Was there no help? Mr. Carver and his wife must be imitating the seven sleepers. Thus I thought at that dread ful hour. The poison was within reach of my lips. My prayers (the first I had said for years) were going aloft, when a noise near the coflin attracted the maniac's attention, and he sprang to his feet and strode thither. He seemed to forget me, for he began handling Carlotta again. His move ments were slow, and I watched him with my strength slowly returning. At last, the coffin was tenantless, and its tenant lay on the floor. The maniac stooped and began to rearrange the dis ordered grave clothes preparatory to bearing her away. "Yes," he said aloud, addressing the dead, " I will restore thee to life. We will live in Heaven forever, then. We will be happy. I will be King and thou shalt be Queen. How grand, Carlotta. I will hurl Jupiter and Juno from their thrones and we will occupy them. Ha! hla!" By this time I felt my strength fully regained, and, grasping the cane, I cautiously regained my feet. I stood upright a moment without attracting the maniac's attention; then I sprang forward and brought the heavy canej with all my might dlown upon h is un protected head. He sank to the door, the blood trickling down his forehead like great beads. He was insensible. I placed Carlotta in her cotlin, and hurried down stairs to the chamber of Mr. Carver and his wife, which I found with seine dificulty, for it was in a distant part of the'house. I wvondered not they heard not the madmain's shriek, or our struggle succeding it. In a few moments I related my story, and(, accompanied by Mr. Carver, re turned to the room, wvhere we found the maniac in the position I had left him. We diressed his wound, secured him with ropes, and the following morninig he was taken to a lunatic asylumi from which he had escapedl. From my friend I learned that the madman was named William ComstocK, and was a chemist by profession. Hie had loved the beautiful Carlotta, and upon her refusal to wed him became in sane. After being~ an in~mate of the asylum a week he effected his escape, and all search for him was fruitless. It was suipposed0 that when he hieaird of her death--which he did by means imk:town to any person but himself-h- crazy brain conceived the plan of stealinig her from her coffin. P'oor Carlotta was buried, and as 1 stood by her grave, I recalled the scenes of the past night, and shuddered whein I thought how near death I had been. Had not a rat made a noise in the dIresser, I would not have met you to dareader. m ave sat up with the (lead sin1ce, but not alone; and whenever I am suim moned to such duties I inciuire if aue asylums have lost any of their Inmates lately. Trhat is what streaked my hair with silver. A Runaway Turntable. A rather singular occurrence took place recently at the Pittsburgh division roundhouse, on the Pennsylvania Rail road. A laborer was engaged in white washing the pit, when it became neces sary to have the turntable moved. Al, though there Is an engineer in charge of the little engine which runs thme table, the laborer thought to save time and trouble by starting it up himself. He turned on the steam and te table started around, but when he attempted to stop he made a mistake and turned on all the steam In the boiler. The table went faster and faster until it made about forty revolutions a minute, the white washer vainly attempting to stop It. Workmen stood on the edge of the pit and tried to shout to the laborer to turn the little wheel in the other direction,. but for a time the ox perimenter failed to catch the Idea. In the meantime an old man who had been upon the table when it started had thrown himself down and was holding on to the railroad track for dear life, thinkin every minute that he would be hurle off and grournd up. Fortunately npthing like that occurred. The whitewasher finally got the right idea. He began to reverse the wheel and soon the table was brought to a standstill with no casualties whatever. The Desired Article Fully Described. The following letter was rer-ently re. oelved at Castle Garden: Addresseg muost fill of respect andl humbie. ness to the yery ditingulshed C!oiiarn. of Emigratida in the town of New Yor~k ST. PArL Minn., July 8, 1882. Respected Gentlemen: Throc yars ago I arifed in United States4 at Castle G.arden. I was most kind treat'A bel the gentle meps in the garden which end nao to Minnesota to an employment and I mad monney a great desll. no e I haft a store andI a horree end waggo n only I hat niotaw wIfe and I most respectedly ask the Coimisarys to send me a wife from Sceandinavia. A Swe den girli or a Nlorway giril I want but a Dane grlI do neo love because Danish laingage I Cnot spa well. fonniey she must h af a ttle, and ais dreq andi o~oots and mantel, because cloti ligo are very dear ina Minnesota. I do not wan a girl of more age as twenty fife, and she mumst haf no father or muder with her. Wil the Commissary4, respetfully I ask, gf me a sri like thiss and mend her~ to me inI SLPu Mfn e My nam Is John Olsen. Address, ~)9 street, St. Paul. Raistag TraIt for Proit. Fewer bright anticipations have been realized in raising fruit for the supply of markets that any business enterprises in which sensible and intelligent, and, withal, industrious persons engage. The geat majority of persons who embark fruit-raising as an occupation where by to gain a livelihood are the victims of disappointment. Generally they are su perior In mind, culture and learning to the persons who engage in general farm ng, dairy ing or stock-raising. Ordina rily they have more means tnan the per sons who engage in the other pursuita nameL Considerable capital is required to purchase land in the vicinity of one of the much lauded fruit-growing dis tricts, and more is needed to buy stock and support a family till the trees. vines and bushes come into bearing. Observ ation shows that a large proportion of the p;ersons who engage in fruit-raising on a large scale are men who have been bred for the learned professions or who have good scientific attainments. Ord' narily they are well ac(uainted with botany, entomology and ornithology. Theoretically they are well ae'iuainted with fruit-growing and the.business re litions growing out. of it.. Many of them have good libraries of books that treat on every department of fruit production and matters pertaining to it. The books that compose these libraries have not only been read but studied. Fruit-rais ers are generally studious persous, They own more books as a rule than farniors do and take more na(azines and papers. They also attend more conventions and meetings devoted to the matters in which they are engaged. No class of men are at greater pains to inform them selves in relation to every department of the business in which they are engaged than fiuit-raisers. They are always dil igent in acquiring knowledge. What is more, they are generally dill gent in business. They also possess another element of success. They are in love with their business, and are oft en completely fascinated with it. They are fond of talking about it in season and out of season. It is as easy to dis tinguish a fruit-raiser as it is a clergy man or a school-teacher by his conver sation. Men often engage. in farm me or continue in it against their ill by force of circumstances. but the fruit-raiser is generally such by choice. He chooses the occupation out of love of it. Of course he expects to make money, and he deserves to (o so on account of the energy he displays. Still lie very often fails. He does not acquire a fortune or gFain- a competence. In many cascs he loses the place he has spent the earings and savings of half a life-time to ac(uire, and is 'then obliged to fall back on some unconge nial pursuit in order to gain a living. Although tile number of professional fruit-raisers is much smaller than that of general farmers, still we hear of more failures among the first than the last. It is somewhat easy to account for these frequent failures. The busi ness of fruit-raising is a hiazardlous one. The fruit crop~ is more liable to injuries thanf ordinary field crops are. A long er tune is necessary to mature it. More kinds of insects injure trees, vines and bushes and the fruit they produce than dlestroy corn1, potatoes and( small grains. The prospect of a crop of fruit is likely to be destroyed by unfavorable weather at any time from the formation of the buds till the period of ripening. It is rare that serral crops of large standard fruits ar raised in succession. Orchard ists know that a ''hearing" year is tol lowed by an " off"' year. D.uring the first fruit is low, and (luring the second there is little to sell. As fruit-raisers are gene rally men of "g'reat explecta tionls" they are liable to run in dlebt. Raising penehecs in tihe region ab~out Delaware Bay has been prolitable for a very long pecriod. T1heo success of the peah-growers there caln be accounted for in various ways. Thme climate is very favorable, thme tranlsportation facil ities are excellent, and several hu-ge cities are in tihe v'icinitv. Raising' ap~ pies in Michigani, New York, and in several of the Newv England States has also been prlolitaLble for' many years. Raising grapes in the vicinity of wvine mlaking establishments where a cash market is always assured is generall va prosplerous industry. TIhet cases of fail ure are much imore common than those of continuedl success, however, in rais ing any kinds of fruit on a laro'e scale in most parts of the country. 'rhe large. fruit enterprise~s established in Southern Illinois and Eastern Michigan have tuedl out imuch like mining enter prises. A few pers'ons met wvith suc cess foi a short time, a much smaller number were quite successful for a term of years. andl a large number com pletely failed in realizing their expecta-. tions. Many wvent into the business with a goodl capital, and1( after strug' ghing for a fewv years were forced tore tire with none. As with mining, so wvith fruit-raising: one fortun ate success causedl many to engage in a business that led1 to disaster. Thle story of the man who realized $500 from an acre of strawberries in one season travels all over tihe country and1 induces many to plant vines. Thie rep orts of the fail ures of a humndredi of these persons nev er appear in print. To render the grow ing of fruit for the supply of a distant city market prolitable it is necessary to have an ex(cellent location in regard to climate andl soil, goodl t ransportation fa cilities, and an oppor'tunity of disposing of articles at cnnning establishments that cannilot lie disposed~ of in tihe gen eral market. --Ch/icago Times. The Human Roadway. At the close of one of the great re ligious festivals of the Moslem year a number of Arabs are seen to detach themselves from the cro)wd anid to lie dlown sidle by side in the (lust, face (down ward, like log~s upon a "'cordulroy" roadi, while their frienda, crowding around them, press down an arm hk.re aiid there, in order to make' this living pavement as compact a~s p)os-ible. When all is reaudy the (crowd1 falls back, while a horseman coming up from behind p asses at aquiick walk over the prostrate bodi1 es. This is called the Doseh, or '"trampling.'' Each man receives the full pressur~e of the iron-shod hoof in the smaldl of his back, and not a few may he seen to writhe undier it like trodlden worms. The moment, this horrible pageant is over the friends andl relatives 01 the trampled men rush u in) them and (10 their utmost to make it appear that they have received no in jury from the pressure. The odious farce, however, is always nnsuccessful, the groans and wriihings of the sufferers being a very sufficient evidence to the contrary. The whole spectacle is re voltinig in the ext!reme, but deserves at tention as striking proof of the lengths to which Auperstition and fanaticism can The EPy mn China. The date of the intnodulton of o pnm in China is a moot oint. . Even Sir Bob ert Hart, the Inspector-General of Chinese Customs, In is reports can say nothing more definite about it than that "native opium was known, produced and used long efore any Europeans be gan the sale of the foreign drug along te coast." Chinamen themselves are no better informed; and it is only ih -re fore, by references to the poppy an I to opium in the literature of the country that we can gain any positive informa tion on the subject. The dic.tlonaries tell us that the poppy has at different periods been known under the names of Yu me hwa, "imperial grain flower;" Me nang hwa, "grain-bag flower;" and Ying suh hwa, *.'pitcher-grain flower." Both the last names refer to the shape of the seed-capsules, and the other finds an explanation in the "History of the Later Han Dynasty" (A. D. 25-220), where we read that at that period it was the duty of two especially appointed court officials to superintend the makin" of Yu me (poppy-seed) cakes for the'km peror's use. Of course the seeds of the poppy do not contain opium; but it Is obvious that some glutinous substanco must have been used in making up the cakes, and it is not a rash conjecture that the juice from the capsules was that used for the purpose. This is the more probable since the juice has long been employed in a like manner in mak ing the cakes known as "poppy-juice fish." According to K'anghe s cele brated Encyclopadia (published in 1726), these cakes are made of flour formed into dough by the admixture of the juice of the poppy, and are then kneaded into cakes shaped in the like ness of fish. Under the later Han Dy nasty just referred to, the capital was in the province of Sze ch'uen, where the poppy is at the present date largely grown; but we learn from the "Shwuy king ciroo," a work referring to a some what later period, that the plant was not contined to that district, since men tion is therein made of its flourishing also in the province of Kwang..se. The instinctive admiration which the Chinese have always felt for coloring, especially in flowers, has gained for the poppy a high place in their estimation. But, from the nature of the literature, the expression of their admiration must be looked for inainly in the works of the poets. Their enthusiasm for the poppy blossom, however, Is vastly heightened by an appreciation of the charms of the juice and the strengthening qualities of the seeds; at all events, these virtues of the plant find prominent mention in Chinese poetry. With Yung T'aou, of the 'ang dynasty (A. 1). 618-907), the pleasure of sight seems to have pre dominated. While on a journey this poet was so enchanted by a field of pop pies, possibly because they reminded him of similar scones in his native pro vince of Sze ch'uen, that he forgot (he says) all the griefs of ten thousand miles of travel. The poet Soc Chehi (1039 1112) dwells, in an ode, on the curative andl invigorating effects of the poppy seeds5 and( juice; and( So Sutng, of about the same p~eriodi, a native of Fuh-kueen, p raises the beauty of the plant. which he speaks ot as~ being grown " overy wvhere" (ch'oo ch'oo). 'The first medi cal man who spea~ks of the juice of the po'ppy in a professional point of 2 iew is a certain C'hoo Chin-hiang, a native of Che-keang, who lived dluring- the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century. ''At the ~present day,'" writes this author, " nmany peo ple sulfering from cough and weakness take the juice of the popp)y as ai remedy. It is also ai cure for fever arisingo fro'm damp, and for dysentery. .But," het adds, ''though its value as~ a mediciine is great, it yet. kills men like a do ule edged swordi (Shai jin joo keen'), andu its use should therefore bc avoided at all Electrical Light. There are different maclines for pro-. ducing electric light, and1( to describec them intelligenily and accurately would regr~uire much more space thani can be given to the subject here. Besides, to make it at all fairlyv understood nmany pictorial illustrations would b~e neces-. sary. Only the slmplest facts in rela tioni to this matter can be given in this. article. It is generally known that an electrical current can be sent through a. wireo coil or circuit; that if such a cir-. cuit is interrupted by cutting the wire, and the ends of the severed wire are brought niear to each other, the electri cal current will leap across the gap, and. if the current is strong enough it will cross it in glowing sparks. If a combus tible substance is placed in such a gap it is inflamed. A small platinum wire or thread of carbon may be heated to aglow ing white heat. If two pieces of carbon lbe attached to the ends of the severed wire the electricity, as it passes from one to the other, will strike off glowing particles of carbon from the carbon on the positive end of the wire (that from which the current leaps) to the carb~on on the negative end or po01e (that to which it leaps). A glowing arch of sparks may fill the gap. If the ends of the vire be united-inside of a hermeti cally scaled glass globe-by a loop of bamboo thread, burnt to chiarcoal, the elcetrical current, in passing over the carbon loop, will heat it to a luminous white head. This is Edison's lamp. Various means of generating the elec tricity have been dliscoveredl, but thn'y caiinot be explained here.---Chicago Inter-O0ea~n. HIits to Letter-Writers. It is a matter of common complaint in business offices that a large number of c'orrespondents4, many of them of the most intelligent class, often neglect to give the name of the State as well as the place from which their letters are dated. Subscriptions to newspapers, ordlers for goods, and many other comn munications are sent through the mails in this incomplete form, and the receiv era are neither able to fill the orders nor to return the money for want of the full address of the senders. Sometimes letters calling for answers are p~osted~ without even a date; some times they have dates, hyt the postoffices 'or States are wanting. Tlhere are firms which number cases of this kind by the thousand. It does not always answer to take the postmark on the envelope, even when that is legible, for the regular postoffice of the writer; because he may have posted tbe letter at some other than his re'gular postoffice, or in a postal car. There i'f but ono business way ofcm mencing a letter, and that inebules the legible inscription of the pla~ce where 'written in fulf, unless the writer p refers to give this information at the foot of the page. When the commnunication is on bnsinena lei as~ -aenr-al rula in all KOMB AND AIRE. -Veal Stew: bol about two and a half of the breast of veil In wa ter eno to over, for one hour a half, a dosen potatoes and i boil half an hour longer. Then add a pint of rich milk, thicken and season and pou over slices of toast.-Rural Neo -A worm soahewhat resembling the c true army worm has says 'a Kentoky exchange, done much damage to barley crops in that State by cutting off the < stem just below the head and letting the e grain fall to the ground. It is desdri bed as being a little darker and its locomo I tion is different from the worm that ap pears in wheat. -Satin can be renovated in the same way that velvet often is-that is, by taking a hot iron placing a wet cloth I over It, and holding the satin in the steam, the wrong side nearer the heat. Of course, when the satin is worn off I this does no good, but when it is crushed or wrinkled the effect is surprisingly good.-N. Y. Post. -Cabbage Fried with Cream: Chop a quart of cold boiled' cabbage, fry it a fifteen minutes with sufficient butter to prevent burning, season it highly with t pepper and salt, and stir into It half a e cupful of cream or of milk, with a tea- I spoonful of flour mixed with it; let it cook five minutes longer, and serve it hot.--Prairie Farmer. -A Missouri farmer writes: As soon as I find an animal in distress from bloat, from eating wet grass or clover, I wet It along tfie back with cold well water, and also place a large cloth or blanket of several thicknesses over the paunch, after being saturated with all the cold water that it will absorb, and over that a dry blanket. If the cold water is properly applied, one will not have to wait long for a cure. -Melons and Squashes: Last year, as a test, I pinched the ends of the long main shoots of the melons, squashes and cucumbers, and left some to run at their own sweet will. One squash plant sent out a single stem reaching more than forty feet, but did not bear any fruit. Another plant was pinched until it formed a compact mass of intermingling side shoots eight feet square and it bore sixteen squashes. The difference in favor of the yield of an acre of melons treated by this process may easily amount to 100 barrels."- racticat Farmer. -Tapioca Pudding: One cup of tapico, one quart of milk, four eggs, one tablespoonful melted butter, and two tablespoonfuls of sugar; nutmeg. Soak the tavioca four hours In two cups of cold -water; it should absorb it all. Warm the milk slightly, and soak the tapioca in this an hour longer. Rub butter and sugar to a cream, and having beaten the eggs very light, whip all these together before putting in tapioca and milk. Pour into a buttered pud ding-dish, grate a little nutmeg on top, an dset in the oven. In five minutes stir up. carefully from the bottom to hinder the solid settling of the tapioca. Shut the oven and bake until "set" and uicely browned. Eat with pudding sauce, or with sugar and butter, if you send to table warm. It is good cold with milk and sugar.-Thse Ho us?ehold. Frnanklin Pierce's Beginning. The first step made by President F'raniklin Pierce towards distinction is thus related: One man had stabbed anothe'r in an affray, the knife entering the left side below the elevenith rib, and is conseqjueceL the injured man had diedl. The murderer was to be tried, an'd some tyro could avail himself of the (opporotunity I(o defend the doomed man. Tlhis tesk fell to young Pierce, just the en1(ltering the profession of law. The caI 0 waIs so clear that most lawyers of avon more experience would have b~eeni e:>nitent with a moving appeal to the jury. Not so the embryo executive, ~ ho0 set abiout in goodl earnest, despite al1 evidence, to prove the mian innocent. First, he adroitly managed to have the trial postp~oned three months, lie then went to the oficee of a. physician and ask ed him if he would take a student, inti mating his (desire to purisue a course of study in physiology. The practitioner staored at the p~roposition, but resp)onded in! thle atiirmative, and Pierce begau to stud v. and he persevered for the ensu ing three muonths, taking care to make h imaself thorouglly conversant with the lhuiman frame, and chanrging his memory with all technicalities so that he had evcry term at his tongue's end. The trial commenced in usual form ; th - surgeons were sworn, who testified thi the man thus wounded must have died of the wounds inflicted. At length Piece was permitted to cross-exammne the surgeons. Ho demanded what tis sue andl membranes the knife must have passed. The surgeons, who had not supposed it incumbent upon them to "study up," could not explain ; they were, of course, positive that the victim was nmnrdered, and that the prisoner ought to he punished ; but undler the close questioning of Pierce they halted andl blundered. This prep~ared the way for the defence to make an effective plea. H~e cautioned the jury against being swvayed b~y men so ignorant thait they could not even tell the names of certain tissues, and thence cunningly argued that the victim did not (lie of the wound, and that the prisoner was not, therefore, guilty of murder. Thus lhe won upon the jury, and to the amazement of all, the guilty man was acquitted.-/yracuse Journal. -A good joke is tohal of a certain Dublin professor-a stieikler for ventila tion. Being recently put into a room at an hotel with aniothier guest, he asked thme latter to raise the wiindow ait nighlt, as the air wvas so close. " I ('nt raise it,"' said the guest, after workinig at the wmndow for a wvhile. "Then knaock a pai:e of glass9 out," said the professor, which was dlone. After a while the pr1o fessor got up and broke another: t hen he wvas able to sleep). But in the morn ing he discovered thmat he had only broken into a bookease. -N. ). Post. THrE Richmond (Va.) Slate writes : Ex-Mayor J. A. Gentry, Manchester, this State, was cured of rheumatism by St. Jacobs Oil. --Mr. C'orliss, of Wade lanlftationl, Me., an old1 gentleman, seventy-fivo years of age, hunted down and shot a h~ear recent ly in Perham, whose skIn measuredl secen and a' half feet from snout to tail, six andl a half feet across the shoulrier4 and hips, and five andl a half feet acoss the narr'owest part, anad whose carcass was larger than a goodl sizedi two-vear-obi heifer. Mr. Corliss ha3 hunte'1 bear~s ever sinenO he was sev enteen years of age, and has killed over a hundred. Wz KNtW from experience that St. Jacobs Oil will cure rheumatism.-Peo ,.~ f tia Paianrinn. -Mrs. Carrie Ch lives In ing. ampton, N. Y., and as a shoemaker by rade. Due ha piegged forty pairs 0? moots in ten hours, and averages twelve pes a week of good work. She also inderstands and -oes with equal rapid. yevery branch of the work.-N. Y. BEING entirely vegetable, no particular are is re ied whIle using Dr. Pierce's S 'Pleasant Purgative Pellets.' They operate vithout disturbance to the constitution, let, or occupation. For sick headache, onstipation, Impure blood, dizziness, sour ructations from the stomach, bad taste In . nouth, bilious attacks, pain in region of idney, internal fever, bloated feeling bout stomach, rush of blood to head, take )r. Pierce's "pellets." By druggists. -Not very long since, a naturalist in England was fined for keeping a parrot wo days without water. and It is now leclared by naturalists of thirty years' xperience, at the Zoological Gardens, n London, that parrots do not need water, and that they give them none. R A Fertune nay be made by hard work, but can neither E e made nor enjoyed without health. To hose leading sedentary lives Dr. R. V. ierce's "Golden Medical Discovery" is a 'eel friend. It stimulates the liver, purifies P. he blood, and Is the best remed for con uniption, which is scrofulous disease of he lungs. By all druggists. -The friends of women suffrage have been reckoning up their gains in the recent Massachusetts elections, and find that twenty-six towns favor the cause Rgainst eleven last year, while good minority votes are recorded in eighteen towns.-New Haven Register. Dr. Pierees "Favorite Fresewisote" Ll ways becomes the favorit e remedy of those 6vlio try it. It is a specific for all female "weaknesses" and derangements, bringing strength to the limbs and back, and color to the face. Of all druggists. MR. FRANCIs RIoHMANN, the time tried, fire-tested Democratic candidate for Sheriff, is well along in the canvass, and his friends are confident of his eleo tion by a large majority. Complete. SAVANNAH, GA., Feb. 21, 1881. H. H. WARNER & Co.: &rs-I have been completely cured of stone In the bladder and kidney difficulty by your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. J. D. AUDUS. -It may be wrong to laugh but one cannot help smiling at the odd picture of a man trying to commit suicide in a rain-barrel. William Wilson, of Wil- a ton, Pennsylvania, recently tried it with great success. A tragical companion piece to this would be the picture of a young lady who fell from a height of eighity feet, and lit in a mud-puddle. It soiled her clothes but it saved her life. Christian Union. LYDrA E. PINKHAM's Vegetable Corn poundl doubtless ranks first as a curative agent in all diseases of the procreative sys tem, degeneration of the kidneys irritation of the bladder, urinary calculi, Abc., &c. -An old man in Hampden, Me., is said to have a trunk (size of trunk ntot stated) filled with silver dollars, which he saved up years ago, most of them being dated between 1803 and 1831. MERCH ANTs, PEDDLERs A&UCTONEERS IL Write' to L. A. BALL & Co., 19 Marietta St. A tlanta, Ga., for catalogue of prices of cheapi Jewelry and Notions. Cash buyers, we want you to see the advantage. --Nicholas McNulty, a Syracuse fires man, after talking with a friend for a minuto at a fire early a few morning ago, turned to attend to his engine and fell dead.__________ " Buchuspallia." Quick, complete our~ all annoying Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases. S1. Druggists. Mtend for pamphlet to E. 8. WELLS, Jersey City, N. 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