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Mtwt TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. } GOD .A. 1ST 3D OUK COUNTBT. ITA8 \ A. volume 3. i 1 ALWAYS IK ADV^m^ SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1869. tJui umber 22. Agoiiics of an Angler. BT JOHN QUILL, Tliis thing of going a fishing and call ing it sport it redioulooj. Old Isaao Wttlton was a doccivor, and bis "Com* plet? Angler" is calculated to pervert public morals, and lead the unsuspecting jaatray. In ay opinion it's an ovcr Teted book, and ought to bo suppressed. It encourages the idea that fishing ie a genteel pastime, which affords time for meditation, and cultivates a love for the ^beautiful in nature. That is all nonsenio, overj man knows "who over went & fishing in his life. I Cleave St to the sufferers if it isn't. Don't you know that you go out and tnearly burst a blood vessel digging vworms for bait, and thon you have to *?ig ? bole as big as a rifle-pit before you TMn lay your hands on a single solitary worm t Then when you get to the water, you *v?ry likely sit dowu on some blackberry *bush or other, and undergo nearly as tmuch physical suffering as you do when .you stick the fish-hook into your cutiolc ''when you are trying to put the bait on. When you once thro*' in you begin ^to watch the corw, and you look at it .hour after hour, until you nearly go Tblind, and you think you see about twun ty corks, and as it never budges one inch -all the time, you conclude there ain'f | rany fish about, until you pull up, when ?you find that some well-balanced and ;n raidtoue member of the finny tribe has tracked your bait off. After enough patient endurance t6 ecps DoDbing Up Utat eiio gives one jerk and goes under. 'Got him, fly jing! Pull up, and there's i? wretched little fish on the hook, that 'wouldn't satisfy the appetite of a siok ^sardine, and he cost you ijust fourteen ?worms?enough to bait a school of | (mackerel. Throw in again, wait for an hour, and ,*you don't get a single nibble. Then you tbiok yeu aro safe to let go ?and light your pipe. No soouer do you :got match lit, and you can't throw it down because it's the last one you've .-got, than you get a splendid bite; the oock goes clear 'Out of sight, and before .you have a chance to pick up the rod 'the sah gets off. Any man who says this t*n*t aggrava ting ought to diej be isn't fit to associate 'with ordinary human beings. But try to encourage yourself by say ing that while there's life there's hope, and that perseverance and patience over come all things, and by getting off a lot fttclatif old -second-class falsehoods, you *hrow in again. Wffk for several centuries, if you cal culate according to your sufferings, and ?never get any bites but one on the cal.' of jour leg from a sixty-legged spider, ' Who has been on an exploring expedition Up your gHtttaloons. Then you pull out and spit on the bait /or luek; may be you blow on it, if you vre ?upcrrftit?ofts^ and you throw in and get a bite. You pull up several hundred times and never catch him. Then you get mad; you believe it is ? mm eel, and you swear to catch that eel or die. Ton feel that life will be perfect ly -Restitute of happiness unless you get * chance to put your grip ou that cel. ?A'fc'last you hooked him and drew him out. fie if active aud playful and viva cious. He ip a wriggler, and combines himself into letters 8 and C and X, and runs through the alphabet generally, and ?Jap? you in the face, and gets around JSJKT tage, and enters you all over with Then he tangles your Hoe into <a hard knot, a*d when you get your foot on him fM fad he has swallowed the hook, and Ja4|*t Hkely as not you've got to rip thst open from head to tail to get it when you do be vill wriggle ?3??$y ^rata ros and ?nsoy y^- as as you stay there. Eels never die ; immortality is their strong point, and they lay themselves out to make you abjeotly miserable. When yon get all straightened ont and throw in again you wait for an hour, but you only get about one first-elans bite during that time. Ton pull up and you have on an enormous fish, and before you get him near the shore he quickly lets go his hold and drops back again into his native element. It is rough on you, I admit, but when you go a fishing you've got to take it as it comes without growling. How interesting it is when you have dropped the last ono off, and you get auother bite, to make up your mind to get this one anyhow, and then to concen tr?te all your strength and pull up with a violent jerk, and sling your line back on to a tree, and have it wind arouud the branches as tight aa if it had been pulled by a steam engine, and in such a bewilderiug condition that you can't get it loose in a week. This is calculated to make you use hard expressions, but not any more so than it is to have your cork drawn under gently and steadily, aud go down, down, down until it is out of sight. "A catfish, most probably," you say; "they always pull in this manner." You draw your line in gently, and the catty togs at the other end. "They always do thin," you observe Yon pull op slowly, so aa to keep him on the book, and when you get your line out you must probably find au old snag with more branches Iba? the Pennsyl? I vania railroad, and covered with mud, and not a solitary fish in the neighbor hood, while all the time **_re is a hoy ^only tries to insult you by asking you if | rou "k etched any ?" but feels that he ins you in his power, and makes you pay >re money than you could buy out a rho4e oyster-sloop for. No^Sl don't see any sport in it, and if | I wanted to make a man utterly wretch ed j if I wflten^to hurt his feelings and break down his spirits and ruin his nio rahi, I would fit.t him to go a fishing about once -a week. I approve of abol ishing penitentiaries and jails, and mak ing convicts fish for the benefit of the State. A Wild Man. A correspondent of a Hornellsville pa per tells the following veracious story : "For the very strange story I am about to relate I scarcely expect, nor do I solicit belief. Indeed, were it not that hundreds of reliable men and women in tho county of Steuben are ready and willing to vouch for its truthfulness, I would never ask you to pnt it iu print. The facts are as follows. "During the four weeks last past a wild man has been prowling around the woods in the towns of Woodhull and Troupsburgh, in the southern pirt of | this county, coming frequently into the ' highways and oleared fields, to the in tense terror of women and children, and evon strong mea. So great is the excite ment in some parts of the towns men tioned, that schools havo been broken up?parents not daring to send their little ones along tho public highways to the school-houses. At first the whole thiug was considered by most people as a hoax, inteoded merely to frighten old women and children; but as many of the most prominent citizens vouohed for the actual existence of the wild man, and the disturbance of the schools was mak ing it a mailer of publie importance, the people of Woodhull and Troupsburgh determined to do all in their power to ferret the matter out. Accordingly, on tke 12th inst., about 200 men assembled at the residence of Nr. S. 0. Brown, and proceeded to search the woods in that immediate . locality. ?mior the leadership of Cap*. J. J. Bne1>%naa and the writer of this artioie, erow?? search?d the woods for hoars, bat with no success, further than the finding of a oarop fire and the track of a barefooted man im printed in the soft soil of a marshy part of the forest; and the whole party, at about 3 o'clock P. M., returned to Mr. Brown's house, and getting ready their teams, started back to Woodhull village. The party - had proceeded scaiccly fifty rods from Mr. Brown's when on the outskirts of the wood, and within twenty rods of searchers, appeared tho veritable wild man of the woods ! Myself, Capt. Buchanan, and others immediately started in full pursuit. We approaohed within six or eight rods of this strange being without attracting his notice, when suddenly, with a wild, unearthly shriek, he notified us that we were porceived. I drew my rifle, intending to halt him or send a bullet crashing through his skull. I ordered hin to halt, when he sprang with tho agility of a deer toward the woods. I did not fire because on second thought I doubted my right to take the life of any human being, how ever wild, until ho had at least violated some law. "So far I have related facts, which will be vouched for by at least 100 pcr sous. I wil 1 now give you a pcrfeot description of this wild man?or animal ?or "What is it"?as she. or it appeared to me. He was barefooted, bareheaded, and wore no clothing except an old pair of soldier's punts; his hair, which was black, spriukled with gray, was from two to three feet long, frizzly and matted, hanging over his ucck, face, shoulders, and back, reachiug half way to the ground ; his beard reached to the waist band of his pants, and was jet black; this together with a springing, jerking hitch in his gait, gave him moro the appearance of a wild animal than n hu man being; and though I am not of a nervous temperament, may all the saintn in heaven shield and defend me from ever meeting w*\b u fiu??li?!> l<u?M?i? j being lace to face again I The long, matter hair; the thick, black, uncombed beard; tho wild, glaring, bloid-yhoi eye balls, which seemed bursting from their sockets; the savage, haggard, unearthly countenance; tho wild, beastly appear ance of this thing whether man or ani mal, has haunted mo continually by day and night; and I do not wonder that when this strange being rapped on the school house windows, children wore frightened half out of their senses, aud refused to be pucified; for, although I have seen tho chiefs of filly different tribes of ltocky Mountain Indians, painted for the war path, and have looked with wonder on the Btuffcd gorilla, Barnum's "What is it,' the man monkey, &c, I never beheld anything in the hu man form half n? hideous as tho wild man of Woodhull woods. "I will close by saying that twenty five years ago a man named William Little suddenly disappeared from Wood hull, and has nover been hoard of since; and as the farm on which the wild muu spends most of his time was formorly owned by tho absontee, it is supposed by some that the wild man is none other than William Little himself, returned in this disguise to the home of his youth. But I hardly think this theory the true one. I do believe, however, that a woman and a baby are somewhat mixed up in the matter." A Fast Prince. The London correspondent of tho Cin cinnati Gazette writ cm; The public talk is Ireland, but tho private themo is the Prince of Wales. When the dinner is over, tho ladies havo retired, and the gentlemen have resumed their placos aud their wine, his Royal Highness is sure to bo very soon and vory thoroughly discussed. Tho old ru mors beariug upon his manner of life are rehearsed, and new ones are added. And, as persons arc frequently present on such ocoasions who speak that which they know, and testify to that which thoy have seen, the conversation is not uufrequently oi a very piquant descrip tion. One "has it from tho very best authority" that the heir apparent called upon a certain very beautiful and bril liant American singer ; but she, having recovered from the startlement occasion ed by the presence of suoh a visitor, maintained her composure and self respect, emphasised, perhaps, by a color ing of indignation. The company agree that a visit by suoh a visitor to such a person eould have oo grounds for ex ouee, and could have but one expiana tiou. Another aeys tho Governor of -told bim he feit'?great load of re sponsibility taken 08 when the Prince had taken hie departure; for while he was under bis oars he didu't know what scrape his Royal Highness might indulge in; and a third informs us that another earl's daughter baa gono to Paris to cover her shame ana} the Princes, crime, and a fourth relates iukl the other day one of his maid servants said to his wife: "Missis, is there asJHhing the matter with tho Prince of Wake?" "Why do you ask, Biddy?" "O, because, ma'aUf, I 'card one man say in the hoinnibus to another that he'd better mind or he'd get shot yet." "So you see," added the gentleman, "these stories must be circulating among the lower classes if they are discussed in the (busses." The stmc speaker con tinues; "I recollect seeing the Prince of Wales and the Duko of Edinburgh stop up to a group of ladies in the Bo tanic Gardens, and et tor into conversa tion with them without removing their cigars from their mouths. Indeed, they smoked right in the ladies' faces. Now, either the latter were not "ladies/ or the former were not gentlemen." "Well," says a tided gentleman of high station and character, "one thing is certain, England will not tolerate another George IV. A licentious court in this country would produce a revolu tion. We have seen an end of the Georges as far as their vices arc concer ned." "But the King's licentious courses would be more covered now than in the time of George IV, and so, however the people might suspect, they oould not feel sure." "Don't you believe it. With our freedom of speech, liberty of the preys, a'*d popular jealousy of the privileged crises, there would / be no keeping the court veiled from people. They .......j.i ? ii.?fhruiiL'h it Without much provocation. Such is the outline (I dare not print any more than tho outline) of a conversa tion wbieh is a con versa t ion highly speciamcntary of what is talked all ovur England, in dining hall and .servants, ball, in omnibus and club room by your West Eud host as he touches glasses with you, and by yonr East End shop keeper as he tells his tale of woe in flected by a wandering couut and prod igal prince, by your barber as he cuts your hair, and your Iurkish but hist as he rolls you over on the marble slab. -???>-*? ? ? GIANTS.?In a recent lecture a dis tinguished gentleman said : The giant exhibited at Rouen in 1830, measured nearly eighteen feet. Goradius saw a girl that was ten feet high. The giant Calabra, brought from Ara bia to Rome under Claudius Ccesar was ten feet high. Fnnnuin, who lived in the time of Eugene IT, meus tired eleven and a half feet. Tho Chevalier Scro, in his voyage to the peak of Teneriflfe, found, in one of the caverns of that mountain, the head of Gunioh, who had sixty tenth, and was not less than fifteen feet high. The giant Ferrugus slain by Orlando, neghew of Charlemagne, was twenty eight feet high. In 1814, near St. German, w?? found the tomb of the giant Isorant, who was not less than thirty feet high. In 1580, near Rouen, was found a skeleton whose skull held % bushel of corn, and who was nineteen feet high. The giant Racart was twenty-two feet high; his thigh bones were found in 1804 near the river Moder, In 18U0, noar the castlo in Duuphiue, a tomb wus fouud thirty feet long, six teen wide and oight high, on which was out in gray Btcno these words, "Kinto lachus Rex." Tbt skeleton was found entire twenty-five ?nd a quarter feet long, ten feet across tho shoulders, and fivo feet from tho breast bone to the back. Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1516, was found tho skeloton of a ginnt thirty feet high ; and in 1550, another thirty-four feet long. Noar Mazrine, iu Sicily, in 1815, was fouud the skeleton of a giant thirty feet high ; tho head was the *>ize of a hogs head, and each of his teeth woighed five ounces. A new diaeese has broken out among the cattle in Illinois, which carries them off in a few hours. 8?T LOVKNGOOD a1a Cakut P?LL ino.?I had s> heap of trouble lass Christmas, and He tol you how it hap pened. De ken Jone'sgals give a candy pullin, and I got a sU)lr ai they say in North Karl it; a, nnd s(Dvoi I goes. Sis ter Poll and me went >gcther, and when we got to ole man Joes the house was ehuek full. Bog my cats ef there was room to tarn round. There was Suse Harkina, these aa big aa a skinned boss, and sixty pt her Har kiosos, and all the Scrogginse^and Wil liamses, and Siramonses, and Bedigrews, and the school master asd his unl, V> sides the old Ddun and the Dekenses, sod enough little Deleoses to sat up a half dozen young felks in the faaiili business. Well, bymcby the pot began to bile, and then the fun began. We all got our plates reddy, and pit flour on our hands to keep the candy from stiekin, and then we pitched into pullin. Woxent it fun ? I never saw rich laffiu and cuttin up in all my born daze. I made a candy bird for Era Simmon*. Her and me expects to trot in double harness one of these daze. She made a catdy gooso for me. Then we got throwin randy balls intu on 3 another's hair, and a runniu from one side of the house U tother, and out intu the kitchen, till everything on the place was all over goramed with candy. I sot on a pine bench, and Em Sim mons sot close to me. Suse Ilarkios, confound her pictcr, throw! a candy ball sock intu one of my ixe. I made a bulge to run artcr her, and hecrd sumthin rip. | My stars nlive ? Wozent I pickled? I looked around and thar was the gable cend of my bran sew britches a stiekin to the pine bench. I backed up agin the wall sorter craw-fish like and grinned. "Set," scs sister Poll, "what's the mat .tor?" **Shet np," says I. ? Sut," says Em, "Come away from that wall, you'll git all over greasy." "Lit her grease V aayt? I, and I sot Omr< w*a m -' ? . . _. _ ?rf. . acros6 a tub feolin worse than an old maid at a weddon. Purty soon, I felt somethin hurt, nnd purty soon it hurt agin. Ice?whiz ! I jumped ten feet high, kicked over the tub, out flue old Jones Christmas turkey, cod you ought to n seed we git. I cut-for tall timber, jutnpt staked and ridcrcd fences and smuuhed down brush like a runaway horikan tili I got home, nnd weut to bed and stade there two dnze. Ef old dekin Joneses barn burnsdown next winter, and hue arrested for it, and enybody peers as a witness agin me, ile bust hi? doggoned hed ! Them's my sentiments. SUT LOVENGOOD. TEnRini.r. Traukpy in London?A Whole Family Poisoned.?A terrible domestic tragedy bus just transpired within the limits of the city of London. By the first post yesterday morning a letter reached the hands of the police at the Suiithfield Station, informing them that their services would be required at ten o'clock that morning, at a certain house in Hosier lane. Two police officers at once weut to the spot, nnd, having forced an entrance into tho dwelling, found tho whole of the inmates dead, consisting of a wan, his wife and six children. All were in bed, the man by himself in a hack room, and the woman and the children in the front room on the same floor. A medical man was called in and it ?oon became ovident that death in every instance had resulted from the uso of prussic acid. In each case death must have been almost instan taneous, and there is reason to suppose that the mother and children perished I some hours before the maq, There is no doubt that the man himself wrote the letter to the police, and that he was tho prime agent in the dreadful tragedy, though it is suggested that the wife may have participated iu the crime, either actively or by consent. The name of tho family is Duggin, and the man had boon for some time in the em ploy of a manufacturing firm iu the samo street. Duggin is said to have been about thirty, and his family ranged from babyhood up to twelve or thirteen years of age. It was asserted that ho was seen walking out with his children late on Sunday evening, and that a light was noticed in one of the windows of the house at feur o'clock yesterday morning. The letter written to the police spoke of another one sent to Duggin 's brother in Bristol, which it Was said would give full particulars of the affair. It is thus possible that so much of myste. y as sur rounds the dreadful transaction nay be dissipated.?rZ.-OTus&'n IStr?ttl ?7uitc 2V. - A Lauv Gcr.su bt a Pe*r?The Savannah News of Monday says t "At an early hour yesterday morning, as a lady, residing in the Southern part of tho oity, was returning fron early tnass st St. John's (Catholic) Church, through Liberty-street, she wss attacked by a deer kept by a gentleman in that vicini ty, and which had, iu some Way, got into the street. The lady was knocked down, her clothes badly torn, and her face and bead quite severely scratched and bruis ed, a ring being torn from one of her ears. Deer, while young, are gentle and harmless, but, as they grow strong/they become vindictive and dangerous, and frequently do much mischief. Those who seep such dangerous pets should see that they are properly secured within their enclosures." She wife of a farmer named Hunt lost her life in a singular manner, near Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday. On trat morning Mrs. Hurst, in lower ing some butter irom the cellar down into the well, Qer balance and fell into the well. She gav* - ^ and her husband ran to her ass*- _ 1 He managed to got her to the top of' the woll, when her hold gave way and ehe fell back again. A second time he raised her slowly to the top, and dUce more she fell back into the water, and by the time that assistance hud arrived, and she was hoisted for the third time, sho was found to be dead. - Deceased was a woman of about middle age. Murdbr at Ashkpoo.?From a gen tloman from that section of the country, we learn that on Tuesday last a moat diabolical murder was committed near AshepoO Ferry, on the Savannah and Charleston Bailroad. Four negro men were in a field together when an alterca tion ensued, brought on by jealousy, which resulted id the shooting of one of the men by another. After the murder td map was shot, the two other neyre?? eat in his skull, and haeked off his arms and legs with hoes, and having buried him fled. ? We learn that the two men who beat and buried the body have been arrested, and that tho man who shot him has escaped.? Charleston Cou rier. Impressions at First Siairr.?This subject at the supper table waa getting talked "over," when the lady who pre sided "o'er the cups and tea," said "she always fur med an idea of a penon at first sight, and that idea she found was gen erally a correct one." "Mamma 1" said her youngest eo*> in a shrill voice, that attracted the attention of all present. "Well, my desr," said the fond mother, "what do you want? '*I want to know what you thought when you first saw me?" There was no answer to this query, but we learn that "Caarliu" was taken into the kitchen immediately by the ser vant. A hard-shell baptist preached in Washington city lately, and took for his text, "God made man in his own image." He then commenced, "An honest man is the noblest work of God." Then he made a long pause, and looked search ingly about the audience, and exclaimed, "But I opine Qod almighty hasn't had a job in this city for nigh ou to fifteen years." A New Hampshire man told a story about a flock of crows three miles long, aud so thick you could not see the sun through it. "Don't believe it," was tho reply. "Wa'al," said the narrator, "you're a stranger and I don't want to quarrel with von ; so to please you, I'll take off a quarter of a mile in the thin nest part" "Well, madam, how's your husband to-day." "Why, doctor he is no better." "Did you get the leeches." "Yes, but he only took three of them raw; I had to fry tho rest!" Smart Bet?rt.?"How long oan a fool live?" asked a lawyer of a witness that he was examining. I don't know, i am sure replied the witness. "How long have you lived?" Petticoat influence is supreme in Paris. The red flag parade in the Quartier Bell eville, during the election riots, was a red crinoline mounted on a broom. Five hundred thousand people flocked in the streets to see it. 6uoh is the power of crittothie. Hon. T, J. RoBMereoW, tJ?#4!BI? Hon. T. J. Robertson; UoiU?Mjfc Senator from 8outh Carolina, m rit%|%? California, overland, called yesterday on W. vt Marsh, Esq., W*1n& HfM$ they spont the d*y in visiting the ob jects of interest 1 in ^eo^ooW'jib^Jp snhurbs, Avond&Ie Spring) <3ifflPB tery, Clifton, Ac. In the dQf way visited the Commercial HMftB?t JMBl other plaees oC beere* wlifc* ?M? gnhm the Queen <Jfey. ^^T^ In the evening, in ^frrefrtt]ijHf?W Mr. Marsh and Dr. E. W. Wheeler, 9k* Robinson made his appearance" tUlif the residence of Mr. Marsh, and mWFm pleasing serenade by Mentor's e^lebrs?I band, the Senator made a &w well-timed and appropriate remarks, inviting all who wished to migrate to the most MfltfMM portion of onr noble Union to come & South Carolina, where they could flaft choap and good lands, and a fine, heattftr climate. He cordially invited perso&o of both parties, promising them pet feet freedom of speech and opinion. He urged them to come and investigate the oolitical and financial condition of fit* . u ~ wrombing them they had B^S^ After the Senator*! i warmly applauded, the party ted to partake of en abundant supply native wine, still and sparkling charopaigoe, sherry, kc. Aile^ the Senator was escorted to House, and took the T A. M. fcHkMa W day for Washington, D. C? Gmc&naH Times, July 7. _ ? -- ..U. 8 Victor Bmanuat's abdication is for, An addition to the former royal ly of Spain is expected. A Fittafield farmer claims a kind of a potato "just SiWo minutes earlier than ti, o Early Rose." I Thomas F. Bell, avail-known auction eer bookseller in Philadelphia, is dead. It is stated that there are seven thou sand Americans now acting with the in surgents in Cuba. There was a frost iu Northern Penn sylvania, Monday night, 5th instant A new shot-tower at Chicago is HB? feet high, coat $50,000, and can njjfe 80 tons of shot a day. Distilling whiskey from garhaga |gn been invented in Cincinnati. About four hundred American families aro sojourning at Dresden. Jacob Cram, Esq., a promnient cit&eu of New York, died on Wednesday, aged 87 years Gen. Bragg and family are spamlfegf the summer at Chalybeate Spring} Mer iwether County, Ga. A Nebraska editor says "hell it i less," and taking that original for a text} he warmly exhorts his | to '-plant trees,', in order to difference between Nebraska and hell. The Reutcr Telegraph Company, it is announced, haa been awarded an indaVfct nity of $3,630,000, under the fee* of Great Britain, by whieh the Government has taken possession of the telegraph linef. San Franoiseo is extending out to sea. The sale of lots thai are en?rajj, *ttvnrttf\ by water, and over many of whieh steam ers daily pass, amounted, at last teeounte, to 863,000. Ex-King George, of Hanover, attd all his family very naturally hate Bbmafek and the King of Prussia. They go so far as to have caricatures of the detested be ings on the dishes from which they take their food. Milwaukee claims to be the banner circus oity of the Union. Managers can not a ceo mod a to more thau & fraction of those who wish to fatten'd, the country turning out a real Peace Jubilee crowd. Jennio June sums up an article on the woman question in these Word*: "The modern wife, who demands every thing, but gives nothing in return, is a libel upon womanhood, and has a claim upon nothing but toleration or contempt." An in'dia Rubber Belt four ftfet wide, three hundred and twenty foot long, sad weighing 3,600 pounds, hue recently been manufactured fer s> Grain Elevator at Buffalo. It is said to be the Urgeat bolt iti the United States. The cabbage fly, whioh is Vary de structive to cabbage and cauliflower U wee first seen in America i? Quebec in 1854, end was probably brought to the State in grain from Canada. It reeea> blee the common butterfly in general ap. paaren?*