Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?~--~- ; -\ yjy\ ^-" TWO DOLLARS PER A-NNUM. )? VOLUME 3. Ht* .*.-??? jar b*??l 1><> > ft i ?y>r ?_ .,' ; i -aw 2U j4 IdtfCiv J^p/rr A <(-HT iiift l/tw wan a1io<! y>? rralu, !??.?. ?otal nin^m Ifiw li tri A Oil I iffitr ?viriaJoUDj .lot'-.r ui zni :?d) ^/kj '4 boiicp _L GOD ^ISTX) OTT I urOTTNTIiY. TW-?.' >?a* ,1....1. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, i. ? f*,til u(h h?r. .^L - .?wind ? l^AaitiL^. * - tpd^nwoT irieovi mm ?K .B'AVKWOS? .? *.M>\ja?AT ir.?- .mmummmrnmtMm .13A ?di "t" L? ? fit ,'>??'! j -?tiL 'itfi 1.* >)3oia Tfa|MaMW nillal ?? i ? i ^^^^ ? . i as i!??itvoiiL adl uj Jwidva vd Ii<:<!' aid* 1 rix'i'vr dot imiJ od? ot kc , " ? rta% -jdl {livdl A Homo in tho Ocean. Let jn tWt Minqt Light House now, while this storm is at full power. This ledge ia covered by water, except for a short time at vejy low >VWg- It risaajn Boston bay, about twenty miles from Boston and one mile and a hulf from Cooasscf. "* Into it are fitted and bolted down the stones of the tower, whioh are dovetailed and bolted into each other in euch u fashion that no stone can be moved without lifting tower and ledge with it. The tower, light and all, is 114 feet in height; all over it, clean to the very top, the waves are dashing. Docs not their thunder make your very heart tremble? But these keepers tell you there is no danger ! For forty foot the towers are built up solid, except the well, which is in the ccutro, thirty-eight feet deep. It holds a supply of water for ono year. The water keeps good and pure. The well holds 2.000 gallons. It is rather warm in tho summer, nnd in the winter becomes as one the keepers says, "a kind of porridgo ice. We will sup pose wo enter the tower from n boat. To do' so we should either climb' u ladder forty feet long, fixed into the side of the tower, or be swung up in u chair. At the top of the ladder are two sets of oaken doors, against which are uow beat ing the hungry waves. Between tho other doors and the inner is an entry about threo feet long. Entering this room (which is the cellar), from the doors arc seen on the right hand tho ooal aud the wood. There stands also a Hour barrel, and over these, suspended on hooks, hangs buckets of various sizes, containing, doubtless, many flood things for food. On the left is the oil pump for j uinping oil into the tank Sn the oil room. Here nre chests, ropes, brooms, tubs, pork barrels, and a little of everything needed for light keeping aud lnmsc-keopiug. It is dark and .Id.'k hero, and we had better -lacentl. An! how good it smells here, tu the room next above the cellar. Kitchen aud dining-room and everything cosy, com fortable aud neat. A table weil set? but cakes nnd hot coffee and boiled fish, ?'Of course we w^ill." And down we sit, not waiting a second invitation. Well, is not this ft singular situation? It seems like dining in a while's belly. Storuted about aud dashed about, aud poured about by the remorseless sea, ami eating n rclishful meal quite at our case. It is certainly one -'new thing under the sun"'to some of us Each cd' the four keepers is off one week and on three. Communication with the land is oftou dangerous ar.d impossible. In the win tor they cannot get home as often as' - once in three or four weeks. They all have families on shore; and here they sit during storms that shake to its foun dations their lonely tower and envelope its crystal summit in foam, and they thityk of wives and little ones who may be sick or dying without the possibility of sending word to their beloved watch man on the sea. '?Do .you not take pleasure in the sights you must behold during all these isolated days and weeks ?" asked one. Oh, yes 1 We have a very extended prospect, and one which is never twice the aamo. Both sea and sky are forever changing, and everything that is on the sea comes and goes. There is nothing stationary but our tower. Wo sec ail the vessels that go in and out of Boston harbor, and in the summer we are visited by pleasant parties in sailing vessels and ateumors, the latter of which sometimes bring out bauds of music, which play to us. They approach close to us, aud give three 'cheers for Ali not Ledge light. When visitors como into the Light we sometimes find as much amusement as they do. We have all sorts of visitors, as you may suppose. They come from China, California, and from nil parts of the world. We havo many famous and some iu famous names upon our visitor's book. It may scent strango that so far as we are from shore w/e should be visited by birds, insects, m. and butterflies from the land. The butterflies aro ol huge dimensions. I have in the morn ing swept off the walk that surrounds the lantern, thirty, forty, and fifty of these little shore birds, w hich allured by the bright light, have flown hither over fhe waters to their death. "Ajid liefe {? a bit of tho glass from pjjO of thp squares of the lantern broken lust week by a large sea fowl, as we sup* pose, for we did tint son tho gentleman. This h iU fe& seclu^ti of the kind gioce the light was erected." "How long was this tower in* build ing?" ?*t8,fl J "Five year* and four mo'H^'nsV "What do you men finh t? your minds and hands with/a'noV kelp) time from hanging too heavily upon you 7" "Oh, we manage to keep busy. We make almost evorything, from'an extern sion tablo to a clothes pin. Then for sport and to supply our table we fish. We don't have to go a fishing. We arc already there All we have to do is to heave a line from tho door, and in a minute we have our dinnor by the nose. Then wo have reading and writing and sewing to do." ?y" this time dinner is finished, and up wc go. The next room is a bed-room. We notice that the rooms are all of one size, twelve feet in diameter, and six or seven in height. Overhead iu this first bed-room is a long piece of joist, which can be put out of the window and used for-raising up heavy objects. Hero is an iron bedstead, a table.on which lies a register for the names of vistors, a ward robe, a marble wash-bowl and a water closet. I'p again, and we conic to the oil room. There is one water tank ? in this room, also a work bench and a box of glass for the lantern. There arc here an oil measure, -a tool chest andfti spare lamp. Another of the steep narrow stairways brings us to the wateh-room sitting-rooni of tho toAvcr. Here is a table, an arm chair, a stove, books, pa pers, a few pictures, and the machine fojr^ ringing the fog-boll. From this room we may now. since the storm has ceased to send the waves so high, pass out on tho balcony that su: rounds it. Well for us that the iron ruiling is so strong. There ! now you've no choice but to go home bare-headed. Why did you not cling to your hut and wit? ? This wind is enough to take hair out by the roots, even if it leaves the head itself. What a scene ! *y,ft-'''^,V.>.n*.,t, dctfrriliiyit- j Let us go on.^TJue mere flight and wo arc iu the li-rbt room. Here is the cb ject for whose elevation and continuance all this masonry was made?all this skill and labor called forth. "And the light, is the life of .men." Thus we render it. At sunset the lamp is lit, and till sunrise it shines on in the darkmss?a beacon and a warning to all who sail oil that dangerous sea. The lamp has three con centric wicks, and is in the centre of a lens lour feet in diameter and ten feet high. Step within and look at your friends through these prisms?how do yon like the looks of faces three feet long ? This magnifies the power of the light, and the glass walls of this room probably have the same effect. There is another walk and balcony without, but we will not try it. It is only on calm, clear evenings that being out there is agreeable. But within, not all the cold and frost and storms of winter, at its worst, can effect one's bodily comfort. One is as thoroughly protected as if he j was iu his tomb. Wonder if these keep ers ever have a nervous fancy that they I are entombed ' li would not be strange. On the first balcony, about three feet wide, we should have seen the fogbcll could we have seen anything for the wind and spray. It weighs 1,500 pouuds, and is hung up against the wall of the tower.?X. Y. Journal of Commerce. A Touchino Story.?The Hon. A. 11. Stephens, of Geoagia, at a lncctiifj? at Alexandria, for the benefit of the Orphans Asylum and free school of that city, related the following anecdote : "A poor little boy on a c Id night, with no paternal guardian or guide to protect or direct him on his way, reach ed at nightfall the home of a wealthy planter, who took him in, fed and lodged him, and seht him on his way with a blessing. These ki attentions cheered his heart and inspired him fresh courage to battle with the obstacles of life. Years rolled round; Providence led him on and he reached the legal profession.; his host had died, tho cormorants that prey on the substance of a man had formed n conspiracy to get from tho widow her estate. She sent fpr the nearest counsel to commit her cause to him, and that counsel proved to bo the orphan boy long before welcomed and entertained by her deceased husband. Tho stimulus of a warm and tonacious gratitude was now added to the ordinary inotivo con nected with the profession. Ho under took her cause with a will not oasy to be resisted, ho gained it; the widow's es tates were secured to lior in pcrpotuity," and, Mr. Stephens added, with an cm pathin of emotion that scut an electric infill lUrouuhcut the house, "T/h?l pbj stan Is tofore you " Hormon Assassins. Iljo. Salt -Lako /fc,w/?r g.vcs the kU?w>g, account* of IVighum Young's baud of cut threats: A .certain number, siiid to be> twelve, 'of the itiost dospernto characters In tho Church, were selected fron? among the Dankes to commit such assassination* as might be found necessary by the Prophet foil the "welfare" nnd "advancement" of *his lu$ly cause The murder of Gov. Boggs nnd many others was planned in the secret couclave of the Danitcs, and executed by tho chosen "twelve." The attempt to murder Governor Boggs for tunately failed, and at least one of the would-bo murderers is now kuown to live in Utah. Both of those secret socie ties now exist in Salt Lake City. The discipline is more perfect under Brighum Young than under Joe Smith, and con sequently the aims uiorc sure, tiic objects more certainly accomplished. No sooner doos-n Gentile enter Salt Lake City than ho is placed under tho surveiHinnco of ?the secret police. A member of the Danitc organization is deputed to watch him from the time he comes until he leaves. His habits, words, nnd careless expressions of opinion are noted and reported, that the Mormon authorities may determine whether he is a friend, a secret enemy, or nn open and avowed opposcr of Moruion iniquity. The day has been when expression of opinions inimical to the Mormon leaders would result in assassination to the bold de fender, and sometimes even the mere Kuspicion that a Gentile was opposed to the Mormon rule would produce such a result. Tho true secret of Brigham's great Baoccss in controlling the discordant elements of which bis Church is com posed, is due to fears of the Danitcs. The Mormons know thut certain death by assassination awaits a violation of their oallis. ami thai UTTh??gli tue day'T^ielT' doom may be postponed, it is sure to Come with the opportunity. It is true that many a\ estates have "escaped as sassination, but this was owing to the fact jthat they used* SubterJuge to place themselves beyond Bri^ hum's pawer; but even these instances are not wanting of Dunitcs having followed apostates into different cities of the United States, hoping for a favorable opportunity to assassinate. Others escape, because for the time it is deemed inexpedient to kill them. Recent mysterious deaths of Gentiles near Salt Lake City have for a short t:ine excited comment, but dually they have been forgotten. No coroner's inquests have investigated iacts aud circumstances, and no inquiry has been made by the authorities into the cause of their deaths. But such a system cannot be perpetuated. The Government must sooner or latter throw her protect ing banner over her citizens in Utah, and not allow it to be scoffed at and spit on by a lewd aud lecherous priesthood. Eauly Bihjng.?A young farmer found he was getting reduced iu circum stances. He went to a friend to ask his advice. This friend, with a grave face, said : "I know of a charm that will cure that; take this little cup, and drink from it every morning of the water you must get from such a spring. But remember you must draw it yourself at five o'clock or the charm will be broken." The next morning the farmer walked across his fields, for the spring was at the farther end of his estate, and spying his neighbor's cows which bad broken through the fence, nnd were feeding on his pasture, he turned them out and mended the fence. The laborers were not yet at work ; when they came loiter ing along after their proper time, they Were startled ut seeing their master so early. "Oh I" said he, "T sec how it is ; it comes of not getting up in time." This early rising soon became a pleas ant habit; his walk and cup of water gave him an appetite for breakfast; aud the people were, like him, early at work. He soon acknowledged that the advice his friend, had given was as good as it was simple. A Frenchman who was alllictod with the gout, being naked what difference there was between thut und the rhuema tism, "One very great difference," be replied. ??Suppose you take one vico, you put your litiger iu, you turn dc screw till you boar him no longer?dat ?i do rlr- mtir, ; den s'po??o yo? give him one turn uiorc, dat is dc gout." A Mad HoasK.^l^Vcst Chester, Fa. Rrpvbliyan of ;M-4*d># r?(iyB: - "On Saturday ^^00??/^^^*?: Sewell Chambers, a jfeolorod u^at) U^jV* iu Thornbury township, was seized wh}h hydrophobia. Tho animal had been con fined iu a but by some means4g|*'?ut of the enclo sure into tho puhlic road.II It attackud a team belonging to, William Farroll, who was engaged in hjiuling stone to the railroad. Tho driver .uF the team succeed ed in driving off tho mad animal, and it is not believed that it injured any of the horBes attached to the team. When the fit was off, the poor, brute would become very weak, stagger, apd.f.ill. When tho spasm returned it would again rise, and attack everything in its road. Several persons w.re chased to the tavern porch, and one individuat* narrowly escaped being bitten. Iu its fage to bite its own tongue was nearly biften off. The anifnid was finally secured in a lot, where it died during the uight in great agony. It was a valuable horse, and was used by Mr. Chambers in threshing grnin, with a machine, thrbngh the neighborhood. What is still more t,etrible to contemplate is the fact that this horse is supposed to have been bitten by a dog belonging to Mr. Elias linker, that was thought to he mad, and bit two pei>ons some three weeks since?an account of which was published iu this paper. This supposi tion is strengthened {(y the fact that Mr. Maker's dog bit tw*d other dogs ok the? farm of Mr. George Faucett, where the horse was kept. Tho dogs of Mr. Faucett were killed immediately alter. The two young men who-were bitten, as well as their immediate friouds, aro much dis tressed over these facts; but it is hoped that the means resorted to in their cases will prove effectual-against this malady. - ?????T. ?? I? ?? - In a Tioht Sigfrp;?At L-.on i Sunday evcuim^*j%&lgncd l>y hin long f jrr?iTTT y, *^M*;.jt<;\cr^t,lSf Wn -r.>hn drove tho team into a good range, and determined to pass the Sabbath enjoying a season of worship with the good folks of tho. village. When the time lor worship arrived .lohn w;:s set to watch the team, while the wagoner went in with the crowd. Tho preacher had haully announced his subjcot before the old man fell fast asleep. lie sat against the partition in the centre of the body slip, while just against him, separated only by the very low partition, sat a fleshy lady, who seemed all absorbed in the sermon. She struggled hard with her feelings, until, unable to control them any longer, she burst out with a ' loud scream, and shouted at the top ol her Voice, rousing the old man hall awake, who thrust his arm around her waist, and cried very soothingly : ??Wo Nance! wo! Here .lohn, cut the belly band and loose the breeohiug?quick or she'll tear everything to pieces!'' It was all the work of a moment, but the sister forgot to shout, the preacher lost the thread id" his discourse, and the meeting came prematurely to an end. while, deeply mortified, the old man skulked away, determined not to j;o to meeting again until he could manage to keep his senses by remaining awake. Tg-DXy And To-Mourow.?To-day, wc gather bright and beautiful flowers ?to morrow they are faded and dead. To-day a wreath of leaves shades us? tomorrow, sere and lallen, they crumble beneath our tread. To-day the earth i- covered with a carpet id' green?to-morrow it is brown with the withered grass. To-day tin; vigorous stalk only bends before the gale-?to-morrow, leafless and sapless, a child may break the brittle stem. j To day the ripening fruit and waving grain?to-morrow, "the land is taking its rcul alter the toil." To-day we hear sweet songsters ol mead .ws and forests, the buzz and hum of myraid insects?to-morrow breathe Softly, all nature is hushed and silent. To-day a stately edifice, complete iu finish and surround)- g. attracts the passer-by-to-morrow a heap of ruins mark the site. To-day there ate cattle upon a thous and hills?to-morrow they fall by slaugh ter. The fashion of the world pass-cth away. Hut let Christ dwell within us, and though we pass away like the faded loaf and shapeless stalk wc shall arise to newness of life. "Where -vvihisiiiu' iprftig abide, And never wdueling Hovers.'' I"SFBs t'iiNiCAi. '?uiT?k.?Love Letter rnih aTTailor to his Sw?ct-heatt, a Man tuaHBaW-u**^mnnwt;-of r#y? tMpdftff May I be ripped from the border of your e^ecjiu.ajjd nover be buttoued to the lpof? KuySlS.f kindness,. byit^I^m stron^y fjcatncu to them by your beauty. May I, oefcV loose a tltimbleful of your favor, but you have entangled the thread of my understanding with that' pretty outside of yours., Odd bodkio l.I am surely, yours every inch of nie?and myucedlo follows you. Therefore blunt not the endeavors, but let me baste myself to your kindness, that I may sit thither to your affections. I love you beyond measure, but its so hard to cabbage one sweet look from you, that I almost, de spair of having enough to finish my suit. Pray put a favorable construction on this, and. for the same shall always sit cross legged for your sake, being my dearest little flouncer, your. CABBAGE." A B^AUTIFCIL IN'CIDKNt.?A naval .officer being at sea in a dreadful storm, his wife, who was sitting in ' the cabin near him. aud filled with alarm for the safely 01 the vessel, was so surprised with ,his composure, and serenity that she cried lout. My dear, are you hot afraid ! "flow is it possible you can be so calm in such a dreadful storm i Ho roso from his chair, lashed to the .deck, supporting himself by a pillar of | the bod-place, drow histword and point ing it to the breast of his wife exclaim ed: "Are you afraid ofthat sword ?" . She instantly answered, "No." "Why?" said the officer. "Because." rejoiued the lady, "I know that it is in.the hands of my hus band, and be loves me too well to hurt I uie. '?Thoit."?aid ho. "remember, X know in whom I believe, aud that he holds the wind- in Ills risi-H ami tl.o wntrr in the hollow of hie bauds." A Wonderful Story.?For a week post the daughter of Mr. Wal.-hauor, aged about three years, ami residing at the corner of Spain andGrcatnuin street complained of an itching ache in the stomach, which she attributed to her parents, as being caused by ants. This irritation lasted from that time until half past seven o'clock Thursday night, when she was taken worse. The lather of the child, suj pusing that worms was the cause of bcr illness, administered a worm powder. About midnight she was taken seriously ill. accompanied by a choking sensation, and it was feared she would die from the effects, when she suddcuL vomited, throwing up, among other mat ter, a live mouse, about an inch and a b ill* long, not including the tail, which was near the same length. As soon as the young girl was relieved of the ani mal, she. immediately exclaimed to her anxious patents, "Oh, mother, look, this is the thing that has been troubling me so much." When wc saw the child. Frid iy morning, .-he was as well as could bo. and romping about the streets as happy as a "gay sunflower." The mouse which was so mysteriously lodged in the child's stomach, was captured by Mr. Albert Weilbacher, the druggist, eorner of Spain and Greatmen streets, and pre served iu alcohol, where the curious, as well as skeptical, can examine it at their leisure. How, when and where the ani mal found its way down her throat, and bow it maintained lifo, is a matter of conjecture.? A'. V. Time*. . A BltAVE (iint..?A little girl in a Sunday school was asked by her teach er : ? "Mary, do you say your prayers morn ing and night ?" '?No. Miss, 1 don't." ?Why. Mary, are you not afraid to go to sleep iu the dark without asking God to take care of yon and watch-over you until the morning'!" "No, Miss. I ain't afraid, cause I sleep in the middle." A young Cincinnati dentist was intro duced to a fashionable beauty the other evening, and gracefully opened the con* versation by saying : "Miss-, \ hope that I may consider that wo are not on tiroly unacquainted. 1 had tho pleasure of pulling a tooth for your fathor only u abort timo ago." A highly educated constablo some where iu the northwest exposes for salo ! a roan horse, "or so much t hereof as may 1 be necessary" to wiisfy the judgtneut. unsophisticated country lasses visited NVbiVs; \F^:t^fA^rW^^^ aeaWA?-^hW'^B^lHrttaF glider? ^lMd oytttJ^n-'tDade theirappearance tho stage, they bcoamo restless and' fidi50tJftj odj nwth %adb? vd 1 "Oh, Ann^c!" cx5laltn^ jftfa^, voce. ' , ^ttnWi nie*? IdoVt like It." l;H?b!" i "J don't earo, it ain't nice; and.I w*>*i der why auut brought us to such, a place !" "Hush, Mary ! The folks will laugh at you 1" After ono or two flings and a pirouet?, the blushing Mary said : ^OhyAunie, let's go; it ain't nice, and I don't feel comfortable!" , "Do hush, Mary," replied the sister, whose own face was scarlet, though it wore an air of determination; "it's the first time I ever was at a theatre, and I suppose it will be the last time ; so I am jost going to see it out, if they dance every rag off their backs I" ?; f I a ?_vs Napoleon is building a villa nt Rome on the spot where the palace of the Caesars once stood. A London railway is asked to provide cars for the special accommodation of ladies With pet dogs. Grenoble, in France, being in want of a hero, in about to erect a statute of Jon vin, the glove-maker. Mr* 11. Odell Duncan, of Newborrv. has been appointed Consul of the United States at Naples. Chicago now has thirteen railways connecting it .with other places, add seventeen more are building. Petroleum is said to have been dis covered on the lino of the Pacific rail way. During jubileo week Boston instead of1 being the uh?b of the universe," will be" ?bo-hub.bulu - +mf Tho Atlantic cable's feccipts aro orer 83,000 per day. The New York Medical Society hare resolved that one day of rest in seven is necessary for all men. A Tennessee suicide carefully took off his wooden leg before shooting himself. A $30,000,000 embezzlement has just been discovered in tho Austriau War office. Niucty-cight lake vessels arrived or departed from Chicago one day this week, A man iu New Haven has inveutcd a machine by which one man can sew six hundred pairs of shoes in a day. The oat crop of East Tennessee will be very short this season?about one third of a crop. Corn looks badly, but the wheat crop is line. s The Unitarian Church in New Bed ford. Mass., has voted to dispense with the bread and wine in Communion. "Remember who you are talking to, sir!" mij an indignant parent to a fractious boy; "I am your father, sir!" "Well, who's to blame for that?" said young impcrtiueuce; "'taint me!" A large number Journeymen brick layers of Cincinnati have refused to work iu consequence of an attempt of tho bosses to reduce thoir pay from five to four dollars per day. A woman of 75 was married to a man of i)5, iu Tiffin, Ohio, last week. The woman has been married twice before, and has children older than her present husband. Horace W. Carponter, of Oukland, California, offers to give $60^000 for the establishment of an orphan asylum in that city, if five other citizens will do tho same. An editor says, "our best things will bo found on the outside." That's the way with the most of tbo world. Tho Strongest Kind of a Hint?A young lady asking a gentleman to see if one ot her rings would go on his little linger. A landlady in Boston, it is said, makes her biscuit so light that the lodgers oau 8oo to go to bed by them.^ Anything pito you dare?" inquired ono Dutchman of another, while engaged in angling. No, nothing at all. Vail I returned the other, noting pito me too, A pre veher in New Hampshire, dis coursing on the subject of Daniel in tho Lion's Don, said; 11 And thar he sot all night long, looking at the show for noth ing, and it didn't cost him a cent." Tho venerable Bishop Andrew, of the I M. K. Church, 8?v?th is m \rr*?*&^ ete-, 1 and looking well. Movnlns &** ? ilrtii^l asss? We are ia favor of' be allowed tfe-v?fe.o* Sfef> ^ ?repre?eotatiop.Jl{ ? that Adam was a yellow man.' I -flow fo'iribreduroua ft1fl<Milwao sky rna?> koy; Buch Ada?' ?fcihf?*^ ??? "Ktios have injured Kalltew^ Xnssj fca Too much; water rhas always, heal effect on Kentucky corn, bt still-use it. . , "Sherman declines not&i#*?*?* noticed thslt on his4 'OnateTi to'tikUtfi-f*0 "Chained ligh*enrng?/ ?? ' Ii* shocking of all. t.-yl esoodaale 9von{ ' Victoria ia to n?k*. f ^&f^MPki trip this summer.*" Wo don'A eats * "continental" if she docs*. *J "*\ "A woman has died of 6^ ja^idfi^ weight in Philadelphia." This pwvw ? that "Time and tide weight for bo BJOO t or woman either. Being collared by a big fellow ltoay.be seizinable advice; but nobody likes it. Those who imagine that one stream cannot cross another, hav?"n#fW %feti a "stream" of cattle croesiog. a strsafe of .7 "Water." [aa-.trlfA. Work has been commenced on theoeW ' jail at Darlington. Prof. Korr, find* a quantity in the vicinity of Wilmington, N? olina. Bennett, Jr., baa a new yacht Like- . h|m, it is uncommonly fast. Cuba appears to be pretty essentially confused. It ia difficult to tell which faction is uppermost. There are G.00O prtutingnoase* iu tho United States, of which Sew TTorh Sta*.1-41 na*aTL| ??> t&k Sir E. fiimard's propdstjr ist Bm^wk'f] was sworp at ,?300,000. ' Qeo. W. Childs is to give a Vo90^t$j of July dinner to his Ledger emplojeg?^ at Atlantic City. The Puko of Hamilton siaads site feet in hifl stockings, is purple in the face ana red of hair. A publishing house and type foundry have been started in Shanghai by enter* ' prising Chinese. Ciniunati claims a population of ttfe} f hundred and sixty-five thousand. Reversible parasols, Which close With the lining outside, are the newest in this article. As late as the 5th instant,travellers in northwestern Maine were delayed by' deep snow drifts. At the recent Convention of the Kpis copal Diocese of Pittsburg a new ptgstft I of strong ritualistic tendencies wattre? fused admission by an overwhslning vote. Miss Craig gave the jury a splendid banquet after the one hundred thousand * dollar verdict. Dennis Been, convicted at Cambridge, Mass.. of murder, on Wednesday last saVed the Stale the trouble of carrying out the sentence, by hanging himself. A juryman was asked whether he had been charged by the presiding Judge. "Well, Squire," said he, "the fellow that sits upon the pulpit and kinder bos 8CS8 it over the crowd, gin us a talk I tat I don't know whether he charges tasxj. thing or not." During tho first battle of Bull Ran a Brigadier-General discovered a soldier concealed iu a hole in the ground, and ordered him to join his regiment. The man looking him full in the face, placed bis thumb upou his nose and replied : "No, you don't, old fellow, you want this hole youreolf." At a country town in New Jersey, a little boy, who was jumping about anil > bawling loudly, Was asked why he wept. The following reply touched all hearts: "I want my mammy; that's whet's the matter. I told the dar.iod thing she'd loae mo." ?': sai Tho North-German papers are telling a wonderful story about a girl, a resident of Hamburg, some twenty-three years old, who after an illness of some week*' apparently died ou the Tuesday before Pentecost. Tho physician, howev?*, farbade her to be buried, as he perceived none of tho positive proofs of death. The girl lay inanimate for nearly a fortnight, until orders were finally given tapvepare for tho funeral, when, it being the* Saturday and scvon o'clock in the morn-, ing, she suddenly canto to life. Her death-like swoon had lasted efere? <?aMQ {ot: the reagv' ,,u ?^et^B AvWi* 1 steam voyage.