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TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. )? GOD .A iSTD OUR COUNTRY. ?{ ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 3. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18. 1869. NUMBER 31. THE ORANGEBURG NEWS -XK PUBLISHED AT ORANGEBURG, S. C. Every Saturday Morning, ?:o:? TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Copy for one year. $2.00 " ?l ? Six Months... 1.00 Any one sending TEN DOLLARS, for a <?lnb of New 8ohscribers, will receive an EXTRA COPY for ONE YEAR, free of ?charge. Any one sending FIVE DOLLARS, fer a Club of New Subscribers, will receive ?n EXTRA COPY for SIX MONTHS, free of ?charge: RATES OF ADVERTISING. 1 Square 1st Insertion. $1.50 ?? 2d " . 1.00 A Square consists of 10 linos Brevier or ?one inch of Advertising apace. Administrator's Notices, .$5 00 Notices of Dismissal of Guardians, Ad ministrators, Executors, &c.$9 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the 'meet liberal terms. MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, not exceeding one Square, inserted without ?oharge. ?:o:? Terms Cash In Advance, "?a The Coal Mine Holocaust. ? A CORRECTED ACCOUNT OF THE H<>HU1 - BLE AFFAIR. -V The story of tho Pennsylvania disas ter grows more and more horrible as the ?details are gradually brought to light. 'There is a putt of it?the closiug mo ments of the awful agony of those two bundled men?which can never be de scribed. Kven the manner in which the catastrophe originated is mainly a matter ?of conjecture. In nil human probabili ty, not- one of that wretched company (survive to toll the secrets of their prison h??nso. and so to the actual horrors of suffering nn j death is added tho gloom of van impenetrable mystery. The New York- Tribune sums up the facts in the 'following clear and connected narrative : The colliery in which this torrible ac cident occurred is entered by a perpen dicular shaft, 327 foot deep, on the side Mit' a mountain. From 'the bottom of it, 40 feet below the surface of the valley, ? run two main galleries, sloping upward, ?-one 800 und the other 1200 feet long. 'Smaller passages and chambers, 59 in ?number, branch off from these. There ?is no access to the open uir except by ?this single shaft, which hud to serve nil ?tho purp -.ses of a hoist-way lor the work ii.cu and the ouwl, and a'channel for the ventilating current which in all mines rmust be constantly forced by machinery ?through the various galleries and drifts. 'The sides of the shaft were -built up with wooden supports, and a wooden partition ?ran perpendicularly through its w*hole length, dividing it into two pussages, one -for the upward, tho other for the down ward current. Right over its mouth ?stood a great wooden building, contain ing the machinory for hoisting and for 'breaking, sorting and cleaning the coal. To assist in creating a current of air a ?fire was always kept burning in a furnace ?at the foot of the,sbuft, and from this it is supposed tho wood-work must have 'caught. On Monday morning two hun dred men went down that shaft to re sume work* after a long strike. Thoy *were followed, about-9 o'clock, by one of the mule-tenders, with hay for his beasts. As he reached the bottom be was heard 'to cry "Fire !" but what ho saw wo nev er shall know, for in an instant a fierce 'column of flamo rushed up the shaft, ?caught the breaker as if that had been -a house of paper, and wrapped the whole ^structure in sheets of fire. The mouth <of the pit belched .forth destruction. Hundreds of tous of <eoal in the shutcs ?and bins Were soon in a white glow, and ?dropped with the falling beams into the ?'shaft. It was seven or eight hours bc ?fore the engines which were hurried to Hhe scene of disaster from nil the neigh ?boring towns succeeded in extinguishing the burning mass. Workmen had flocked to the spot front the entire mining region for it was known that two hundred of 4beir brethren wore -imprisoned among ?she 'deadly vapors ef that awful pit, (The rubbish was cleared away from the ?mouth, and fifty experienced miners vol unteered to attompt the descent. It was wow about 6 in the evening. To test ?the .purity of ?the air a dog and a lighted Qattip were first lowered into tho shaft as dar as tbcw would go. At tho end of-five tminutes they were drawn up, the dug Was .a'ltvc^ ujhj> 'lump still burning. A miner named Charles Yartue then went down to recounoitre, hut about half way from tho bottom ho found the shaft blocked with f?llen timbers. Two fresh volunteers were then lowered with hatch eta. After twenty niiuutes they were drawn up again, faint and breathless. They had penetrotcd seventy or eighty yards into a gangway, finding three dend mules, and coming at last to a closed door. They hammered at it aud waited for an answeriug sound, but no answor came, and through the crevices poured clouds of sulphurous vapor?the fatal "black damp." Scveiul other parties, iu the course of tho evening and uight, made attempts to penetrute into the gangways, but with little more success. Few could remain more than five or six minutes, and when drawn up they were all speechless and exhausted. Several were brought back by their companions entirely insensible. Two brave fellows, Daniel Jones and Thomas Williams, were brought back dead. There was no hope now that any of the miners remained alive, unless possibly thny had succeeded iu walling themselves .in at some renroto part of tho mine so effectually us to prevent the entrance of the foul gosseB from the rhaft. It was ouly tho shadow of a hope j still the work went on, whiio women sat wring ing their hands and weeding for their husbands aud childrcu, and miners from distant rcgious came in huudrcds to offer their assistance. By nine o'clock on Tuesday morning an cngiuc and fnu hud been placed in positions force fresh air into the mine. All duy lung parties went down ut intervals, but the black damp drova them back, und the fuse did nut seem to guin upun it. About four iu the afternoon it was discovered that the fire at the foot of the shaft, which was supposed to he eutircly extinguished, hud been revived by tho fresh ourront, .and communicated with a mass of coul lying (Dear. Thus the workmen had actually becu accelerating the generation of gas, and destroying what/little vestige of hope* might remain for their imprisoned com rades. A stream of water was with some difficulty brought to phi}* upon tho flanks, and the greater part of the night wo?'devoted to the suppression of the fire, tho clouds of gas that came up the shaft being meanwhile so uwful ?Jtut workmen nt the mouth were removed in sensible. Between two and three o'clock on Wednesday morning two bodies were found both fearfully'disfigured and tin recognizable. About 6:30 a party uf four succeeded in penetrating some dis tance into one of the principle gullerios, und cutue upon the bodies of over sixty more where they had met their fate to gether. They had constructed two bnr riers of curs und refuse coal, and stripped off^heirKjlothes to stqp tilie crevices. One poor fellow, whose duty it scents to have been to close the last aperture after all had ?passed beyond it. had falletr dead on the outside, his work not yet completed. J^aehers aufi sons were found in each Other's arms. Somcluy with their hands clenched as if in agony, some with their faces buried in the ground, some in the attitude of prayer. While we write the labor of bringing out the bodies still goes on. The causes of this horrible affair scctu plain enough. The shaft u,piw which the lives uf these two hundred men de pended was u tinder-box, and a fire was made in the bottom uf it! Nut a stick uf woud should be used in such places if irun cun be substituted, as fur most uf the equipment uf a mine it certainly cuu be. And thut there was not a separate shaft fur ventilation is simply monstrous. The miners arc suid tu declare that not another day's wurk shall be done in any mine which has not a ventilating shaft. Doubtless they arc iu earnest, but wc have no cuufidcnce 'flhat their resolution would be kept. The must reckless of men arc always those whose occupations arc most pcrilluus. Minors wc know arc not ignoruut uf thoir danger. Mine owners are not heartless. Hut both manifest u propensity to run fearful risks, which seems to us ontircly inexpli cable. If men nro-fiho "vietmis of such | suicidal tendencies,-it is the duty of the govormuunt to protect them against their own folly. A notorious thiof in Darlington who was arrested by having fourtcon buck shot Judged iu bis side, mado his escape from the Deputy ShcrifT while being conveyed to jail at Marion. The Demo crat thinks uudcr -.ill the ?oiroaurstauces that ithe officer turned >h"rui loose for a rt.tr ice. A New Party. The result of tho recont elections in Virginia and Tennessee has led many grave and considerate people to believe that tho political salvation of the coun try lies in the organisation of a new party. In those States, the union of the Democratic party with the moderate Republicans secured n glorious Conserva tive triumph. Tbe present coudition of South Curoliua must excite the sympathy of nil her sons, and loudly demauds that some measures shall be taken to produce a political rcgeueration. Things could hardly wear a more gloomy aspect than at present. The color of our Legislature, tbe oppressive taxation, the possession of the chief offices in tbe Stato by carpet-bag gers, indicate very clearly tbe political future of South Curoliua, unless some prompt and active steps be taken to pro duce the noecssary reform positively needed in every department of our State (Jovcrnmcut. In what lies the remedy ? Manifestly us at present organized the Democratic party is unequal to this work. As much (is we cherish its noble and pa triotic principles, we verily believe, that aftor the strange events which have oc curred in this country, this party, unaid ed and alone, will be powerless to pro duce this desired change. In tho ranks of tho Democratic party is more true, genuine patriotism to-day, than any where else; but patriotism is at u dis count at present, nnd those who seek the Interests of the country at largo, and whose devotion to tho laud of their birth catrnot be questioned, uro force.! to hung heads in shame and sorro.v at the politi cal aspect which our country has assum ed. In our owu State, wo are vastly in tho minority ; and it seems that when ever Democrats are elected to Cong-r-oss they aro not even permitted to take thoir seats.. M'c would, therefore, as inijch as we regret the necessity, which -requires it suggest that a now party, to bo styled Conservative, be at ouce orguuized throughout the State. To this party Democrats -can ally themselves without any abandonment of their cardinal prin ciples, and our colored people, who are daily entertaining a commendable dis gust for Radicals, will unite with us by thousands, at least in such numbers as to enable us to cast a decided Conservative majority. Our colored people have swallowed the Radical pills. <i<l nauseam, and are ready foi a*ohat)ge. While they may have some unreasonable aud ground less prejudice agaimtt the word Demo crat, they could have no objection to the' name Conservative, for time has proved to them that their best friends arc their old masters and employers, who could with little sacrifice co-operate with such a uew party. Indeed, if the white t iti tens of our State could be persuaded to form a Conservative .party, we believe the colored tpcQplc would in a large number of cases prefer to be Conservatives than Radicals. The election of white citi zens to a majority of our tow-nshu) offices, leads us to believe that the color ed people, of BarnwoH County are ready to co-operate with the white people iu bringing about a healthy reaction in the State. Tbe contest iu future will then bo between Conservatives and tbe ex treme Radicals, and not as formerly be tween Democrats and Republicans. What shall be the platform of principles of such a party, should rather be deter mined in u regular convention, ami not set forth just at this time by a single journal. Our readers may bear Iroin us again. Aro tbe people ready to bear the above suggestions 1 Nona verromt.? Bamwcll Journal. The Hurricane at the Huh. The >ew England papers are filled with the accounts of tbe great gale which recently swept over that section. At 1'rovidcnce, R. I., the force of the storm was so great (hat the ?en swept into tbe main street, and the people in many localities were only rescued through the prompt action of boatmen, who paddled through tbe business streets. The Boston papers givo tbe following details of the late hurricane : On the Common and in all parts of the oity strong trees were twisted, split aud torn up by tho roots. The -'old elm" survived tbe gale with the loss of a few branches only. Cambridge, Chelsea. Obarlustown and other places suffered in tho same proportion with Boston. No serious disaster to the shipping has becu reported. Tho damage in Boston and vicinity is estimated at over a million of dollars. The once imposing Coliseum is now a little hotter than a mere wreck, and its ruinous and dismantled condition gives u wore striking proof of the fury of the storm nnd the havoc which it wrought than any other iustuncc that cuu be cited. Shortly before 0 o'clock a furious gust of wind struck upon the orchestral end of the huiding '-like u hrmmer," as sailors say. In a few minutes the lurgu circular window, which is twenty feet in diameter, yielded to the blast, and tho wiud getting inside, the building quivered like a rood. The wholo orchestral end uow crashed in, and the blast, sweopiug with resistless fury to the other extremity, as speedily forced out the other ead. Iu a few moments the whole edifSce seemed to be the sport of the elements, and the win 1, gottiug underneath thoaoof, playfully lift ed it olf, piece by'piecc, until the whole of the transept was entirely unroofed. The air was darkcued with fulling aud flyiug timbers, which were tossed and blown abuut like shavings. The crash w?s tremendous, uud struck uwo into all beholders. The organ was spcedily lcvclled to the ground, und buried iu a chaotic mass of timber. The big drum was also laid ilat, aud pierced in several places by the fulling timbers. Immcusc pieces of the roof were car ried cousideruble distances, and fell ou every side. At the time of the gale there were ten visitors within the build ing, sevou of whom were ladies. There were also two boys working, and Samuel Wilson, the doorkeeper, aud a dog. Directly the end wiudow was forced iu, the ladies rushed out iu a state of the greatest terror and bewilderment, and sumo of them made their way amid a shower of lulling timbers to the open j ground. Oue or two of them turned baok into the building, but were urged to go out again by fate doorkeeper, who feared that they mig?* be killed, as the whole strttctuiu cx^u.cd- as if if wonld come down. The dog was panic stricken, ?lud would not move. Fortunately no one was hurt. Tho catastrophe was witnessed by several persons. A ear was brought to a stand still on Berkeley .street, and some men getting out iu a state of alarm were speedily blown to the ground. An Indignant Viiigin.?We heard a good joke oh a resident of Dog Creek, the other day. The party referred to i.s a bachelor, and lives on the wagon road. A few days ago an emigrant wagon from Oregon came along and oautped near our friend's place. 'fire head of the family soon made himself acquainted with the proprietor of the promises, and asked him why he couldn't have a woman to keep house for him. The answer was that he intended to many just as soon as be could lind a woman willing to enter the bonds of matrimony. The Oregonian remarked that ho could (iud him a part ner, if he would take her. The bachelor said that was right into his hand, and the emigrant invited him to bis camp. The emigrant called oul u bouncing damsel of about twenty years, and in formed her that the gentleman accom panying him was "on the marry," and willing to take her for better or lor worse The damsel, delighted at the prospect, advanced, and, seizing our Iricud by the hand, assured him that she was glad to see him, and was ready to many him at the "drop of a hat;" while the <-l<l lady hastened up to congratulate her "darter" mi her good luck. Surprised and alarmed at the serious turu milters had taken, mir friend, who is constitutionally op posed to the institution of matrimony, endeavored to explain by saying that he was Ollly joking, and did not want tu marry. At this, the Oregonian became indignant, and the would be bride ve quested her lather to take bis rifle and diap the varmint in his tracks." At this affectionate suggestion, tho bachelor left for bis fortifications, the la>t thing he heard being the voice of tin: old lady consoling her "darter" with the remark that it Was best to -Jet the bilk gi?." ????????? ?i A HlNI TO M't rii Kiis.-- If you allow a child to get into the habit of sleeping with its bead Utldoi the bed clothes, and thereby breathing its own breath over und over again, that child w ill assuredly grow .pule, <weak and ill. Medical men have c:rses on record of scrofula, appear ing in children previously healthy, which could only be accounted for from this habit, and which ceased when this habit stopped. What is a Good Cow. What wo need i? a good cow tint can eat and digest a deal of food, and can then convert it into milk, not into meat or fat. It is by careful attention to aud development of some points, that the good milker is at last obtained. What are these points ? First: health, good constitution or digestive apparatus, for which we roquire a capacious belly. Second: that the largest possible de velopment of the animal shall be behind, in the udder aud parts adjacent. A good oow is likely to be wedge shaped, of which the head is the smaller end. Big heads, or horns, or shoulders are not to be desired, because they have to be nourished by the food. But these are indispensable; a large bag, aud bind quarters to support and minister to it. How have they bceu attained, and how can they be further perfected? By al ways breeding from the cow having this development and from the bull descended from such a mother. More and more these perfections will increase as they descend from mother to child, until at last the greatest possible milk producer is reached if indeed, it be not already. Possibly an individual cow may have reached the limit in this direction ; but what we need now is the certainty that every calf will grow to be such a cow. We want, not that one, but that every cow shall give tbir!y quarts in summer, and twenty in winter, then we will agree to stop awhile, Observe, both parents should have health, and both should have these posterior developments. By using due care, thusc properties will become so fixed is to be continued with ccrtaiuty to their descendauta. So little attention has beep given to this matter in this country Tf that our great milk raisers say; "We noth ing of brecdH j we prefer the nntffp cow." And what is the "nstivq cow?" As early as 1S08, it is supposed^cattle were brought from Kughmd into Virginia; in 1G24 into New Kagland ; in 1025 into New York from Holland ; in 1627 into tho Delaware country from Sweden; in 1831 into New Hampshire, etc., etc. All these, coming from various sources, have been mingled iu every possible way, aud are knowu here an "natives." They have no distinctive peculiarities which they transmit, but iu many cases care and climate and good food have produced from them excellent cows, aud the "red oxen" of Connecticut are not easily equaled. The vast majority of our cows are of this kind, and arc poor ; and irom these the milk raisers are obliged to so lect. Wh.it do our mill.men look for in selecting milk giving cows ? Tbe first appearance, to a judge, will convey an impression as to the health or constitution of a cow. He will ask, also, a bony frame one that does uot steal tho ! fat from the milk ; he will teel the skin, t<> lind it flexible and covered with close, soft 18)1 hair; he will ask tor good lung room, a capacious belly, a wide rump aud a well developed bag covered with soft hair. Kxtctiding lrom this bag forward be will be desirous to see promiuunt the tw<> great veins which loso themselves in the belly ; and on tbe back of the udder be will look for many well defined branching veins. Then comes (iucuon's "milk-mirror," which is a broad strip of hair running up from the udder to the vulva, which he considers the one thing needful ; but which has not, iu this country, been found an infallible test, though it is a good one. Ii, in addition, the cow is gentle and good tempered, you are almost sure a milk-maker. Look for that kind.?uThc Alxlk Maliers" in April Galaxy. V kry SiNdt i.ah.?From Bcll'sStntion, Tenn., come the particulars of a most singular phenomenon. William Row ell was struck suddenly deaf and dumb, a lew days ago, when <?/? mute to Memphis from his place of residence. Uut of mere sport, when a newsboy came round aud offere'l him a paper, he feigned to he. both deaf and dumb, and in this way annoyed the vender. The newsboy passed on, but the unfortnnnto joker nerer spoke again. When lve began to realise the extent of his misfortune, he got off the train, bound for Memphis, at Mason's depot, and took tbe first return train. On the ears, 'be indulged in loud lamenta tions und cries, as if sorely distressed. On his arrival home, as soon as ho step-, ped out on the platform, ho Kfd nod, a pencil and u bit of paper from a utucn. and wrote, ' struck dumb uu. account of my folly," and continued weeping iu Utoet piteous tones :u\a$hyifo Banner. liOie, slrnluuay jsuu Bees. The presence of the green-eyed monster is as frequently perceived in high as in low estate. Pretty young ladies are, it is said, peculiarly liable to the disease. It creeps into their hearts in such insidious disguise that the artless little beauties are not aware of its existence until it erops out in such passionate excesses that it frightens them to contem plate it. No doubt it was precisely in such a way that a young lady on Franklin street, Albany, became amenable to its influence. For some time past she has regarded a youth with especial favor. Charlie possesses many attractive qualities. He dresses iu the latest mode, wears an "Alpine," and cultivates a moustache. Vet he is fickle in his disposition, and while his lips were attuned to the harmony of sweet words, and a low passionate recital of love's anguish for the lair Julia's cars, his mind is enumerating the attractions of tho pretty little widow around the corner. Now, this widow is no friend of Julia or she of her. For her life she can't see what Charlie admires iu her. Indeed, Charlie denies any special interest in the coquettish beauty but he goes to see her none the less. The fact that Julia disapproved it had no effect iu changing his practice, and longing with a woman's curiosity to know what it meant, Julia determined to find it out She forgot her self-respect, aud became a spy. The pretty Julia became an eavesdropper. Seeing Charlie entering the front door of the cusy little cottage wherein the widow abided, she hastened to admit her self into the yard by the rear gate, and peeped in at the window. Just under neath the window, however, was a little square box, on which Juli?stood to get a good look iufh tho room. Her worst feats were realized. On a sofa just Urge enough for two, tho pretty widow and Charles sat, with heads inclined, and a low ? monotone issuing from the lips of either, telling, as plaiuly as words might have done, of love's confessions. Julia stepped back, the box turned over, and innumerable angry little insects issuing, proclaimed it a bee-hive. Of I course they stuug her. Fierce as mimic ( warriors the angry little demons laid I hold of her shapely extremities, popping a sting iuto her plump little hand,another into her rounded cheek, and even the silken hose were no protection to the exquisitely fashioned ankle. She rolled on the ground and crushed ruthlessly in mud and mire her hands, feet and body The house was alarmed, and the in mates came rushing out to learn the came of the uproar. Even the impudent Char lie looked cunningly over the widow's shoulders: but that might be pardoned, had he not asked sympathetically, (Tf the bees had uot stung her?" Hurts horn and camphor were called iuto requisition, and Julia, swathed in flan uels, and poisoned by the sting of tho bees, consigns buth Charlie aud the widow to very disagrcable lives hereuftor. Stoop a Littlb.?Tho following story related by Dr. Franklin in a letter to Dr. Mather, has been often told, aud is well worth tolling again: '?The last time I saw your father," says Dr. Franklin, "was in 1724. In taking my leave be showed mc a short way out of the house, through a narrow passugc, which was crossed by a beam overhead. We were still talking as I withdraw, he accompanying mc behind, and I turning toward him, he said hastily: "Stoop! St o]>!" I did not understand him till I felt my head hit against the beam. He was a man who m ver missed an occasion of giving instruction, aud upou this ho said to nie, "You aro young and havo the world before you; JStoop <t little us you go through it, aud you will avoid many hard thumps !" This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it when I see pride mortified aud misfortune brought upou a people by currying their heads too high." Col. E. T. Htac-khouse, of Marion, a man of good judgment?ia of tho opinion that the Northern^Vatjoa of this Cnion is the best hold .from a* hied, to ob tain the ohm of immigrant,* \yv. need, The breastworks thrown i\p by the Confederates for tho protection of Peters, burg, have grown a continuous line of peach trees of every varieties?thus for ming a peach orchard fifty-five miles long. It yicldud a good crop this year. Sorrows best antidote is employment. We are used to a thing, and therefore it is right, say many. Let your promises be sincere, and wtth in the compass of your ability. Indolence is the rust of the wind U?d , the inlet ot vice. Who spends before he thrives wi!! beg before he think*. There are now 80 000 white voters in Tezaa out of 125 000 registered. The while Sulphur Spring* paid fc? proprietors $30 000 apiece thin season. Tbe London Lancet complains that tight lacing has again made its apearance. In South America and Australia there are said to be 123.500.000 sheep. Isabella occupies 00 rooms In a big hotel at Trouvillc, and paja $?0,000 a month board. Ex-Senator Hob. A. O. P. Nicholson is suggested for the Tennessee, settatoi ship. Columbus, Miss, is to hare a three days, tournament, beginning ofe the Cth of October. Thero are one hundred towns in Kansas that claim to be the "railroad centre of the State. The venerable Archdeacon of Mon treal, who is over sixty, has married a young lady of seventeen 30,000 troops have bees concentrated at Constantinople for review.in honor of Eugenie. A glover down East has hung up a sign: "10,000 hands wanted iwifili ately." The registry lists ia Savannah have been closed. Whites, 3,294 ; col* rod, 1,400. Paduca, Kentucky, is constructing ten cisterns, of a capacity of 525 barrel* of water each. Tbe drinking, smoking and chewing of the- laboring .neu of New York costs them $6,720,000 per annum, t The coachman who tarried the Giea Cove young lady offers to relim^tSM all claims for ten thousand dollars. A young lady iu Staunton, Va., keeps, a list of her' male acquaintances in at pocket diary, and calls it her him book. A woodcock shoeter ia Connecticut missed his bird and winged his fin* her, putting out his eyes. The Philadelphia Labor Convention represented over 1,000 branches of Unions and more than 200,000 members. The-Alaska Times, printed at Skka, boasts oi representing more territory than any other paper in the world. Texas ha? a young lady who drives her father's reaping machine over aa ex* tensive farm. The earnings of the Pacific Bai|pf|>| for August were $572,000 showing a steady increase in passengers aad iu freight. Rome, Ga., is improving at a rapid rate. Eight brick yards fail to satisfy the building demand, and lumber is also scarce. The present population of Atlanta is thirty-five thousand, and there are eleven hundred new houses iu process of con struct inn. A Counccticutcr invested a dollar aud a half iu a rattlesnake, opened a "show" at ten eeut.s a head and cleared about six dollars adj. At London, Vermont, a few days since, a tame dove flew into the Congro j gational Church during prayer time, and perched upon the clergy man's head. A figuring tMom OMwyatos saat the bands of magazine readers iu this coun try travel 12,000 miles a jearin cutting the loaves. Mr. A. II. Walker, of MiUbrldge, Mo., has avciagod at Iiis lobster factory in that pUoo about 50,000 cans mouth iy. Girls who ase uot handsome hate those who are?while those who are handsome hate ono another. Which class has the best time of it? The Richmond Whig says that *he disastrous drouth in Virginia, and tk* consequent inevitable scarcity of pro* visions next winter, will drive thousand* from that State to more favored regions A wouamu tUudj recent ly in Trenton, Michigan, iu giving birth to her thirty. fvpfi.1 child. Among the thirty-one were three pairs of twins, and tbe eldest of them all, if living, w ould ho only twenty nine years old A Mrs, Lcvi, who died in Paterson, NT. J., last Saturday, before breathing ner last, culled, her family (among whom are grown up children) to her bedside, and said that in all her married life of twenty-fivo years, neither a cross word or look bad ever passed between. Herself and husband.