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METALLIC CASES.
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?II of the various Sizes of the nbove Cases,
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Alee maaufneturea WOOD coffins *fl
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?<- Apply to H. rigos,
aar 6?6m Carriage Munutnctnrer.
w. L. W. RILEY
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idence in Fork of F.rtlftto,
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Warranted Genuine and of ?he lies? Quality.
Lo: ? I VtWB ROAR DE N SEEDS.
Some New Definatl?hsl
In an exchange we find the following
remarkable account ot what took place
nt thb 'recent splendid exhibition of
Lee High School iu Greousboro,' da.,'
when a 'class of sprouts, three feet high
I and in prodigious standing collars.' was
culled to show what its very dangerous
ly precau ions members knew about par
fdug:
OR AM M >R BOIIOOL KXTKA?ltDI NAH V.
Teacher?"Parse man
Pupil?Man is a common noun of the
feminine g( nder.
Teacher?What isthat, sir?
Pupil ? Man is a common noun,
feminine g^ndei?common 'cause he
can be bought cheap; and feminine gen
der 'cause he's always got women ou the
brain : 8th person, 'cause his wile akd
six children comes fust; is it the objec
tive case and governed by a woman.
Teacher?Go to your seat and put a
wot cloth on your head.
Teacher? Next, parse worn in.
Pupil ? Woman is a female noun of
the masculine gender.
Toaeher?Mercy uu us! what did you
say, sir?
Pupil ? She's a female noun of the
in a sen lino gender?mnsoulin c, 'cause she
wears tho breechaloons, and is dcturmin
cd to vote} .lies compounded of cotton,
whalebone, starch, smiles, sunshine and
thunder clouds-?is in the first person.
'Cause she is always the person speaking
plural number 'cause she makes more
noise than a half dozen parrots?is in
thn objective case and governed by the
lash ions.
'teacher?Sit down and rinse your
mouth with prophylactic fluid.
Teacher?Next, parse b>y.
Pupil?Hoy in ;IU uncommon noun of
I 1 ? e g'.ejill uvl.ds.1' uuj . t'v.iat.ilu pClBU?
moo.
T; acher?Thunder ai d black-jacks !
What's that, sir ?
Pup 1 ? Hoy is an uncommon noun id'
the goslin gender i-ud female persia
sion; uncommon, 'cause he's hard to find
now a days, gos.iu gender, 'cause he
soon enters the threshold of go i.sehood ;
leiuule persuasion, 'cause he's always
got the heart sick about some female;
fi ist person, big ike; singular number,
?cause thsie's nobody but himself; iu the
ubjoctiv? case and governed t>y his em
bryo moustache. Schuidutn Schnapps,
ai d the length of his daddy purse.
Teacher?Go home, sir, and bathe
your feet in mustard.
Teacher?Parse girl.
I oral? Girl is an angelic noun of the
'?reciuu bend geuder, and with mascu
line tendencies.
Tcaclu r?Go home, sir, and tell your
mother she wants you.
Teacher?Next, parse baby.
Pupil?Baby is a peculiar noun of
the spoilt gender, 'cause it is allowed to
put its loot iu the gravy whenever it
pleases; grows at a rapid rale; it is in
the objective case aud governed by cau
dy aud sugar plums.
Teacher?Go home, sir, aud toll your
mother to rock you to sleep.
Teacher?Parse matrimony.
Pupi!?Matrimony is an anchiont
noun defunct gender.
Teacher?Hear bun ! You liule vaga
bond, what do you say '(
Pupil?Matrimony is of-the defunct
geuder, 'cause its played out. Girls
area s plentiful us black berries, but
they ve rot nothing. Matrimony is com
pounded of the words mate und money
but when there s a match uow a days,
it's nothing without the money. Third
person, 'causo its spoken by tho girls.
In the objective and governed by tho
fponduliks of the girlsdady.
Augustus to his bride : "And now,
(ieorgie, do explain your odd, cold
treatment of me, this morning." Georgie,
with offended dignity. 'Augustus, 1
am Bbockod at you. When you Were
walking with Mr. b'itztarflrel, on the
parade this morning, 1 heard you Shy,
Ius you passed under tho window, that
you liked to see tho beautiful little
Helle in stays." Augustus with a roar
of laughter : ''My love, I moritit
Captain Clifton's yacht in the act of
tuckirtg" Oh! blisaFuf rooonuilauoo !
A lady who was stoning raisins loll
the room, leaving bur small boy, forbid
ding his touching the fruit in her ab
seuce. " Well, Charley, did you tiko any
raiiuns?" "No, mamma." ''You know if
yon did, Cod saw you." "Yes, 1 know Uo
did, but He wou't tell '."
The Dutchiiinu and Iiis Frow
'My fmw vos no bettor as she ort to
be till shust before she diet; then she
was so gootk as before,' remarked Mr.
Vandernoard to bis neighbor.
'Your wife was an amiable woman and
you do great injustice to her memory,'
said Mr. Pluggins.
'Vel vat you know so uiucb about
mine flow ?'
'I was not intimately acquainted with I
her, but I am sure that all her acquaiu
tan cos loved her.'
'Yot right had they to love her ?
Maybe?'
'Maybe what ?'
'Maybe you loved iniuo frow, too?
?Why do you speak so strangely.
lVy von day a pig man slmst like you
came to our house and kissed mine trow
ri;:lit beiore her fa<re.'
?Were you present at the time?'
?To bo sure I vos.'
?Wi ll, wh it didyou d>??'
? 'I kicked hi:ii right pehind his
pack.'
'Did he resent it V
'Yaw; he broke me and te looking
ulasM, and all thereat of the crockery in
te house, 'ccpt the feeder pt:d' into
smash ?'?
?What did you do then?'
'Then I cried murter! murter ! mur
tor! auil I called for the sliudge, and
thoshury, ami the police officer and the
constable to come; and he run away t
?Do you intend to charge mo with
taking such unwarrantable liberties
with the coinpauion ofyour bosom ?'
'Me no seh arge for it now, bcciusu
she pe tnul and buried.'
?I will nut allow you to make such
insinuations. You are un old tyrant
and everybody said you whs gli?*l your
wifo d.od:
'Everybody pe ono tarn liar.'
1 saw no Hj mptnms of sorrow.'
'Me Celt more worsht ttu if my best
row had died.'
'Your c? w ! What a comparison '?'
' he was a f.rcut b?sl a heavy lost?
for she 'Vus pig as dat (spreading nut
his arms.) and she wui^hcd more than
t wo hundred pounds '
"hook out, old man, or you will see
trouble. 1 doubt il your wile was ever
kis-ed by any man after your marriage
At nil events, you must apologize fur
what you have said of tue.'
'Yut is apologue?'
'\"it must beg my pardon, and say
von are sorry; if yon do not I will enter
a con plaint apaiubt you and have you
ai rested.'
?I pe B?rry, ten V
'Sorry lor what V
'Sony you kissed mine frow.'
'You incorrigible idiot ! That is not
what you must .-ay ; 1 never did such a
thing iu my life.'
'Must I say I pe sorry that you never
do such a linp ?'
'No you must tak i back what you
said.'
While the Dutchman was in this di
lemma, his friend, Hans Mambcrgor,
ranic nloug, and finally succeeded in
reconciling the parties, when the trio
adjourned to a neighboring coffee
house.
Rksiino One's Hon eh ?"Well
Missus, l'a ugoin to Ic.ivo you," said
Molly to her mistress, whom she had
loved and grown fat with for a good
many years.
"H?ing to Icr.vc rue, Molly ? Why,
where are you going?"
"Oh, I's going to get niarrio 1 ; Iv'o
worked long enough, and I's going to
rest ".nj Lone*.'
Of course Mrs. Jones could make no
objection to this common and natural
female frailty. So Molly went and
nothing was heard of her for a year or
two, when she canto back, poor nnd
emaciated, having lost her husband, nnd
all tho rest of ills human nature is heir
to having lallen upon her. Mrs. Jonos
was much supriscd to sco hor ooming,
and said to her??
"Woll, Molly, have you-".reatetlyour
bona ?" .
"Holly, Missus?I's rested my jaw
bones, and dem's all the bones I've
rested.
General Custar was a listener at
Duluth to a lecturer on ho?v to?avo tho
Indians. Ho admitted that the lectur
er's doctrines were good for the interior
of a chinch, but insisted that a man
could not practic them upon the plains
uud save his hair.
Humors of the Night.
Returning h'uno last evening, we rau
up against a curious looking thing,
which upon examination, turned out to
bo a bill to reoovcr the waste paper ol
the State; but-as it in related to more
than one subjcot, which was not express
cd in its title?not much?we pronoun
cedit unconstitutional, and stumbled
right along ovor it. Turning the next
corner, we came abruptly upon a caucus
trying to make a Corner in homo inter
ests, concocting a* plan to pay all the
claims not otherwise appropriated,'
whtch were hem by the members of tho
said caucus, or any of their poor kin.
In this peo), fdicro were all kind of
promissory noses, red, white and blue,
the most of" which bad been in soak for
some time wj^^that accommodating per
nonage, my u?flo.' Pursuing our homo
interests we u.^lo further acquaintance
of a mauufdcto; y of bibs payable, agiinsl
the peace and dignity of the State, and
passed it by wiih nu omnious Bhudow
crossing our ylath. Meditating upon
the extraordinary course of humiM)
events, in a finencial way. we paused a
moment to survey a cunning, suspicious
looking individual, digging away at tho
foot of an old troej and upon ijuestioniog
him, he said thj^t he was digging up
some "Id Confederate notes, say three or
four hundred mousand dollars worth,
which he intcnoVd to have tacked on to
some bill, in cam all parties are agreea
ble. In fact thvre was food for thought
every now and tLcu in the journey, and
we have been thinking about all the
various and in'jfnaf?? developments of
these magniliceoA fiennciers, with nomo
thing like an asifirnncc that there is no
royal road to forfjeue.? I'm'onlL rn!<l.
Si uusiu?"fvby is it. my son, thai
when you drflp your bread and butter,
it is always thVe? butter side down ?" '?!
don't know. Jt hadn't ought er. had it?
'1 he strongest side ought to be upper
most, hudu't it, ma? and this is the
strongest butter 1 ever seed." "Flush
up ; it's fotnu of .your aunt's churning."
??Did she churn it? 'J hj great taiy
thing;'' "What, your aunt/'' "No
this ycro butter. To make that n ?or
old wetuan churn it, wheu it's stron;
enough to churn irself." '*Ue still,
Zibi. It only wants working over."
"Well, ma, if it's you, wheu 1 did it.
I'd put iu lots of molasses. " You g >od
for nothing. I've ato a great dual worse
iu the most aristocratic New York
boarding houses." "Well, people of
rank ought to cat. it." "Why people of
rank ?" "Cause it's rank btitfCr."
?You varmint you! What inakos you
talk so hinart." "The ^butter has taken
the skin off my tongue, mother." "Zibi.
don't lie I 1 can't throw away the but
ler. It don't signify." I ll tell you,
ma, what I'd do with it. Keep it to
dfaw blisters. You ought to sea the
flics keel over and die as soon as tbey
touch it." "Zibi, don't exaggerate,
but here is twenty-five cents ; go to the
store aud buy a pound of fresh."
A ccrtiin lawyer hoi his portriait
taken in his favorlto nttitud.?standing
with oue hand in his pocket. His
friends and cliitnts all went to see it, and
everybody exclaimed: '?()'. like! it's
the very picture of him !" An old far
tner only dissented?"Taint like !"
Exclaimed everybody: "Just show us
where it 'taint like." ""faint- n i
'taint!" respondc 1' tho firmer. "Don't
you sec, ho has goti his hand in his own
pocket ; 'twould be as like again if he
had it in somebody's else."
Twelve years ago a quaint old clock
belonging to a citizen of Huston, wns
allowed to run down and left for a long
nap Eight years of silence ousu d, aud
then the clock, of its own accord,
hiccoughed out lorty-six strokes au 1
went to sleep again for four years more
Then it made one solitary gurglo The
clock struck one, and it strikes one it is
a very peculiar proceeding
"A sorvunt girl was askod, "Are you
converted ?" She replied, -1 hope so,
sir." "What makes you think
that you are really a child ef
God?" "Well, Sir, there is a great
change in ma from what thcro used to
bo." "What is tho change ?" I don't
know sir; hat there is one thing ; I
ulways sweep under the mates now."
I'o not run in debt to the shoemaker.
It is unpleasant to bo unable to say your
sole is your own.
Moral Tendency.
"Where is your little boy tending?"
asked the good man, as he was inquiriug
of Mrs. Partington witli regard to the
proclivities of Ike, who had a hard name
in the neighborhood ? he meant the
direction for good or ill that the boy
was walking.
"Well," said the old lady, "he isn't
tending anywhere yet. I thought some
of putting him into n wholesome store,
but some says the ringtail is tho most
beneficioU8, though he isn't old cuough
yet to go into a store.
"I meint morally tending," said her
visitor solemnly, straightening himscl f
up like an ax-handle.
'?Yes," said fche, a little confusedly,
as though sho didn't fully understand
hut didn't wish to insult bun by Baying
she didn't, "yes, I should hope he'd
tend morally, though there's a great
difference in shopkeepers, ami the moral
tenderness in some seems a good deal
l< s- than in others, and in others a pood
deal more. A shopkeeper is ono that
you should put confidence into, but
I've always noticed sometimes that the
smilingcst of them is the deecivingest.
One told me the other day tiiat a calico
would wash like a piece of white, and
it did just liko it, for all the color
Wushed out of it."
"(iot)d morning, ma'am." said the
visitor, and stalked out with a long
Btring attached to his heel by a piece of
?ruin that had somehow got upon the
lloor beneath his i'ect.
SlIAMKFUh.? Se/ditin is the prcs
called upon to chronicle a sadder trage
day than that which rocontly befell a
young lady of Manchester. She Was
about to bo .married, and the weddiug
was clost at hand, when a heartless,
wicked servant girl stole her eutire
trousseau and vauished with the spoil.
AH tie- new dresses, including the
j traveling dress and the b idul bonnet;
! the dainty wealth of fine linen and
delicate luce of which the more mystor
ji us j art of the wedding outfit was coin
I used : ail the now gloves and boots of
matchless lit. vanished with the villain
1 ous servant prirl. There was nothing to
I
be done except to postpone the wedding
! tlay until a new trousseau could be pro
i vided, and to pursue with the vengence
of an outraged bride and a tantalized
I bridegroom the sacrilegious thief ?
I Guide.
i A storv is told of an editor who died,
went to Heaven, but was denied admit
t lance, lest he should meet some delinqu
cut subscribers, and bad feeling been
pondered into a peaceful clime. Having
to go some where, the editor next a;>
peared in the regions of darkucss, but
was positively refused admittance, as
the place wa? fuM of delinquent subseri
bers. Wearily, tho editor turned back
to the celestial city, and was met by the
watchman at the portals with a smile
who said : "I was mistaken ; you can
enter?there is not a delinquent *?ub.ieii
her in Heaven."
Kvery cord of wood given to tho poor
is recorded above.
LazynesS is a pood deal like money
? the more a mail has of it the more he
wnnis.
No author can be as moral as his
woiks, as no preacher is as pious as his
sermons.?[ Kiohlor.
Count < hambord signs his letters
"Hnnri," which induced Muggins to
say that a man who can spell Henry no
better than that isn't lit to be emperor.
A dandy is a chap who would be a
lady if he could, but as he can't, does
all he can to show the world he is not a
man.
In the dictionary of trade, which fate
has reserved lor embarrassed manhood,
there is no such word as ''fail." It i?
suspensi hi.
For "shutin at bis nabor," a citizen
ol QwiuilOtt county ; (in., was recently
scuteuocd by a ju'Jtioe of tho peace to
"everlastiu' banishment from the lion
orablo county of Gwinnett."
It in stated that the settlors of Oregon
and California are preparing a vaat
number of claims against the govern
ment for supplies ou account of tho
Modoc war.
A lady of the shoddy aristocracy at
St. Joe found, on returning from a walk,
some call cards ou her table. She called
a serwuul in great baste, saying : "John,
I Johu, take these and run quick ; thcrn
' la lieb isjorget their ticket.
Five Bales to the Acre.
Mr. T. C. Wartheo, a thrifty planter
living near Sandcrsvillo, (Ja., has man
aged to raise five bales of cottou to the
acre, and thus explains bow be did it.
"Tbc soil is sandy, with clay subsoil,
lias been in cultivation for sixty or
eighty years, I suppose. About half of
tho acre was an old dung-hill, tho other
half very poor before manuring. The
guano I used was Kcttlcwell's A. A.,
or l'hospho Peruvian, 1,100 pounds;
raw pine stra.v from the wood, b'O ox
cart loads ; grc;n cotton seed, 00 bushols;
stable manure, well rotted, 400 bushels.
The pino strnw, cotton seel and stable
manure I hauled out in Jnnuaay, and
strewed broadcast over the laud , thou
turned under with a two-horse plough,
breaking oi; ht inches deep. Then with
a sixteen inch scooter ruu in tho two
horse furrow, breaking from five to
seven inches ; in the whole thirteen to
fifteen inches deep. I then followed in
the scooter furrow with the guano or
subsoil furrow, so on, till completed. In
February I repeated the breaking in
the same manner, leaving off mauuring.
In March., the same again, breaking
caeb time crosswise, or in opposite direc
tion. In April, I harrowed the laud
I twice, to level the soil and d -troy the
youug vegetation. Then 1 checked off
my rows thsee feet each way, with a
small bulltouguc plough, and on the
13th day of May I planted my cotton
seed in the hill, six or eight seed, drop
pod by hand and covered with the foot;
the seed wheu covered being on n level.
The t-ecd were the "Cluster Cotton"
variety. I purchased them from IUvid
Dickson, Esq., Oxford, Georgia, to
whom I must confess I am indebted for
my tuccess, to acertainexte.it. The
t?ced, 1 am confident, wero half the
buttle. The cotton was thincd to one
stalk to the hill iu June, with exception
of the outside rows, iu which I left two
stalks. Theu I ploughed with twenty
four-inch sweep "Dickson's," shallow,
one fin row to the row, and about eight
days alterward 1 repeated the same,
running <>:ie furrow to the row, just
scraping tho earth enough to destroy
the young weeds and gras*. Did not
u-e a hoe in it, iu order to avoid sinking
the cotton, in fact, had no use for any.
as the cottou grew so fast the shade
( thereof prevented all vegetation from
growing underneath."
ViotiniH of the I'lmi^o.
The Memphis Appeal says : 'Nearly
two thousand of the citizens of Mem
phis bavo passed away from earth since
the yellow fever began its death work in
September last. Think ol this army of
nearly two thousand men and women,
vuried here and there with little chil
dren, sent to their long account. They
w?-re strong in health and full of life
and hope seven weeks a:,o They might
have been saved. The homos that have
b. eu darkened by their deaths and the
hearts that still ache for the never re
turning light of their smiles aud the
sweetuess of their love, might st ill be
bright and happy with their living pre
?'tice The widows and orphans tint
mourn for them, ns only the p >or can
moiAn that have been oast upon the
charity of strangers and the short-lived
benevolouco of a world toj busy to ro
mcmbcr them to morrow, might havo
had their natural protectors to-day win
ning for them their broad. A fearful
responsibility rests somewhere.
Who Pears Labor Stries ??-We
know a gentleman of the County, a man
well advanced in years, and a master of
a grange, who lias, with tho aid of
another white man, also advanced in
years, tended, the present year, forty
three acres in corn, rice and potatoes
j inclusive, lie purchased some chemical
i ingredients and manipulated his owu
manure, thereby effecting an immense
saving in its cost. His crop is looking
finely, and will yield probably ten bales
of cotton, with an ubuudanco of the
staff of life to carry him through noxt
year. If this isn't an illustration of the
homely adage, "Luck's a fool, but pluck's
a hero," we dou't kuow what is.?
Clarendon Press.
A cowardly fellow having kicked a
newsboy for pestering him to buy an
evening paper, the lad waited till another
boy accosted the ''gentleman," and then
shouted, in the hearing of all bystanders,
"It's no use to try him, Jim?be can't
read:"
Tho debt of this State is placed 1 at
815,851.037. 22. Of this araounithere
is about $5,595,000 included in the oom
version bonds, which are dead without
redemption, so to speak, by tho aotion of
the Legislature. But whether , the
bondholders will accept the fbrty-eents
on-the-dollar bill, or whether they will
seek to enforco the Morton-Bits^, ^poi
sion is not yet settled. The main ques
tion stems to be to strike that middle)
courso, which will give the bondholder
some chance to enter tho fold. Our
Pomocratic friends may be relied 0,* to
vote all the time for a scaling of the
debt to the verge of repudiation, and it
is not wondorful to And thorn on the
side of any suoh measure.
However, the Legislature in its wis
dom will, we are satisfied, settle on tome)
courso satisfactory to all parties before
this corning session closes.? L'nion-I(er
aid.
The news of discovery of a rich gold
mine near Kittitass, W. T., on the) Pad
fie coast, exciting as it first seemed, fades)
into insignificance before the fat streak
of luck which Somebody struck a few
days ago on the opposite side of tho
continent?up ameng the Blueneies of
New Brunswick, where piratical tree*
ure, in the shape of East India SpaaVa
gold coins (probably Kidd'a treasure,)
rolled out plentifully from a bank near
tl
he son. The finders keep their 9*t
secret, aud there is an air of pnvaey
about the rheie satter "hieb ~~~r^~\r^~
us to request that nothing should bo said
about it where it will get "out 'roundV*
and entice panic stricken spooulaters
away from their native laud.
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Rus-ia, so far from being backward
in the race of progress, is taking thai
lead of other continental countries, ia
respects. The Paria Amcriciut Register
says that a slow but silent rcvoluttou ifl
gradually transforming tho Empire into
a liberal aud progressive State, The
abolition of serfdom by the present
Kmperor, the establishment of trial bj
jury and a thorough reform of the. judi
cial codo, have completely changed tho
face of the country. The Register poiftta
to several incidents which have occurred
recently as an evidence of the great
changes that arc taking place in the
character and ideas of both Government
and people.
The Philadelphia centennial casa
u.ittee on plans have awarded the fonr
great prizes for designs far the building
as follows: Collins and Autonreith,
54.000 j Samuel Sloan, $3,00 ;McArthur
& Wilson, 52,000 ; II. A. & J. P. Situs,
$1.000. All a*e of Philadelphia,: iThe
committee acknowledge their indebted
iicss to the pavilion plan sent in Ijy
.Messrs. Yuuv. &, Bradford, of New York,
which, howevc, did not comply with
the conditions of competitions 'for the
prizes. The building is'to be of iron aud
brick, 2,0-10 fee; long, least width 680
feet, w idth at centre and ends 952 feet.
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Tho Boston tailors have adopted a
horrible expedient. They th retten to
publish the names of those "boats" who
buy clothes aud won't pay for them. If
all the cities nnd all the traders of the
country would adopt somo means
compelling men to pay their honest
debts, and spend no money but thai
which actually belonged to thorn, panics
would only be heard of by cable,
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A New York paper thinks tlfat the
Americans live up to or above their it*
come as a general thing. He ice, agree*
deal of the present distress. Nins Ottti of
every ten since the war have acquired
their means rapidly, and, 'therefore,
spend them just as rapidly. Few have
slowly ace u ml a ted. Fewer still are "lay
ing by something for a rainy day." I
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A Texas editor proposes to plaoe all
the banks in tho oonatry in the middle
of the Attakapaa prairies and thaw ble>*?
them up with gunpowder. He ieef tftf*>
opinion that he can regukte the finariew,
of tho country by this action in a i
factory manner. His proposition: tOI
us sensible as the average of Ufaai Mb
mitted by the country press. ^w*$
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The Milwaukee papers are
about an unsuccessful merchant wlro
went from Wisconsin to Illinois. They
say the last state of that man was worse
than tho first.
The baU are so thick at YorSfeS?,
Vi, that evening church service* sra
interrupted by the minister dodgioj. JJJ