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A k( #1 -i WEMBER 28 [NO WO p . IS (UDI~isitq, imKJ n * 'FAUFL]LD.. KUALD. ]E'SOREs8 W4&w LLIA MIS, * 2jernm.-Tan fiait A L Ispubiished Weeks in the Town of Winnsboro, at 63.00.in wartably in adne,. S" All traitslent. acT'ertisentn s to be idin advance. .bltusry Notices and Tributes $1.00 per squaare. A Rare ailtqrcstling Case. We chronicle the-fpcts as we heard them of one 6f tho' most remarkable oases of partiul ahoration of .the men tal faculties, an idiosyncracy as rare as it is interesting in a philosophical point of view. A single lady, in her third decade, residing in this county, of most respectable parentage 'ani' connections, and in possession of am. pletneacs, became acquainted some ten years rgo with ,a miister (f the Reformed church who was then and is at present living in Pennsylvania. - He was here at that time on a visit. she beard him preach but once, tind during his brief sojourn but the most. common courtesies of the most casual acquaintance ever passed between them. Since that time shc has read a work published, of which he is the author, and has also read, as they up peared from time to time, several ar tioles of his which were published in a church paper. About a year ago she fancied that the reverend gent re. ferred to had gone through a regular and formal courtship (by letter), that she had accepted him, and that the weddiug day was fixed, not an early one to be sure, but nevertheless one agreed upon by the contrac'ing par. ties. Thib fancy grewin her mind to a fixed-aud eettled faot, and during the past year she has been very indus triously empl. y.ed in getting and pre paring the thousand and one things auppqsed to be indipensable to a lady's trosseau, and also in having ready some of the articles required in house-keeping. At the proper time she ordered an an.ple supply of elegant cake, fruit, contectionary, &c:, indeed, omitted no particular in the variety of an elegant 'and bountiful bridal feast ; then the ivitatiois were izsued, and this brings us to ti e bridal eve, when all was ready but the bridegroom-he was hundreds of miles away, and in blis:ful ignorance that his coming was so anxiously look - ed for, his preseno so necessary to a continuation of the ceremoni.s. So admirably had the lady arranged all her plans-so exactly and succesafull3 had she executed them, that it w.at not until the very last moment that her relatives and friends had reason to believe that she was the victim (if an hallucination. She' now think: that some accident, sonmc dispensation of provi'ernce, prevented bis coming at the time appointed, but he will surely come she doubts not. This i6 such a case ai demand our sincere sympathies, although some un fcling brutes may find in it a source ol coarse jest and vulgar mirth. We ma add that on all other sulejects her mind is iso'nd as a dollar.-Predrick (JId.) Union. Theodore Tillon's Ticket. The Golden .Age (Theodore Til ton's paper) confesses with somethibg of a groan that the Republicans, to *judge from present appearances, will have nothing better as a piatform than to pretend that inasmuch as Mr. ISoutwell has reduced 'the public 'dbbt "Gen, Grant should be bound upon our backs for a second tornrj." To season the .ticket with a ' more palatable ingredient, the Golden Age insists that the Republican *pirty ought to give its next Vice Presidepo y to a negro-say for in strance, F rederlek Douglas or Robert ~urvis, or Senator Revels. or sonme olher excellent citisen whose civic vIrtures God lhas clad in the divine cocieliness of a dark skin." It a ppeals to Mr. tireoley, and asks "Will the Tribune use its great influence 'to execute this justice." , Pnshment of a Gambler. VIhe laws of Kentucky puniish very ad'rerely persons convicted of setting up end playing the game known as eobiok-a-luck. P. Nolan, of Coving ton, was indicted by the' grand jury SCamnpbell county for an offense of thy~ kind, committed at a picnic of tire Grand Army of the Republic, in Jores' Woods, back of Newport, about a ear ago, and his trial took place on 8aturday, in the Criinal Court. .jury brought in a verdict of gu .and adjudged that he pay a fne o' *hundred dollars, or be conaned ini tl# countj jail for two hundred and .flfy days ; to be forever deemed in faimous, and disqualified fromi exer ofg ng the right of suffrage, or hold lo any ofliom, of honor, profit or strust 'lahe Comumonwealthi of Kentucky. 'h I 7F.outbgate, of North. A j, Englana, lately sufprised his bhrera by declarihug that buttons, b~ ooppers, old tobacco quids, and the like of that were not acceptable ljriogs to the Lord, and'that, te d~u urage the'udeally rather generous ~qpouring of such contributions, the fUure collecotions of his church would b itaken in open plates. A Ilurderer Makes Con fessIqa an'd Choos es lls. Executiouer. Chas. Thompson, irrested for th< murder of his employer, Wip. -t Crip pn, of Potosi, Mo., has confess, ed his crime.. He makes no meni tion of any money on. the ,pol son. 01 Crippen at the time, as an in ucomenl to tle .nturdpy, nor that any bad .beq taken froi his poeltts subsequent .tc the commision of the crime. Out side those1 btatemnents, however, he repeatedly assured Sheriff. Clarke that Crippen must have had upon bit person at the 'time sonewbere froti $250 to $300, and that, if any one got it at the time of the murder, it mnust have Mitchell, when he draggod the body from the road into the bushes. He also stated to- that officer that all the money he had 6u the trip with Crippen' was $6 that he had got the latte/ to advance him ; and yet' the' faot ls susceptible of proof that lie did exptad $21 for a suit of clothing at Jaoksonport, on his flight, immediately after the mur der. Thompson was reuidily identi. fled along the route, at Doiphan, by various citizens, as the traveling coin. panion of the murdered man, and thQ one who had been seen .cngaged in earnest convermation with Mitchell at Warm Springs, at Haim's house, at various places in Doniphan, and just before leaving that place. Before arriving at Doniphan in custody last Thursduy, the prisoner spoke in ternis of the utmost levity and indifference of the fact that he expeeted to be hanged for the murder of Crip pen, only expressing solicitude that ha might have a fair trial, and that if such should be his fate, Sheriff Clarke would come dome down from Poto.i and perform that little friend ly act for him. Judging Soil by Timber. Almost any one knows that the qu diity of sou may in a great. mesa use be determined by t-he tin.ber which grows upon it, but of the ex act nature indicated by the primitive tree, people are not so well posted. Mr. B. Smith, of Patmos, Ohio, writes to the Neav Yoik Farmers' Club of this matter and says that white oak land is poor ; that red oak and soft. maple also indicate poor land ; that shell balk mostly grows in cold, wet land, that flat beech and sugar-maple lands are good for summer crops and grass, but not for wheat ; that rolling beveh nid sugar land where large p plar and black walnut abound are line grazing lands, ald prodoce, when new, large crops of all kinds ex. copt wheat, where it is whiter killed ; that large white oak and chestnut growing together, and black oak and hickory indicate a loose subsoil, and lainds where the water soon sinks into the oubsoil are much the moat valua ble for grain ; that a soil that will raise large ciops of all kinds of grain, and then clover and timothy, and af ter they run out will come in with green grass and white clover, is the best.-Norfolk Virginian. That Tidal Wave. The great "tidal wave" which some papers have "evolved from their inner consciou-ness" as to take place in October 5th, and have credited to Agassis as ai prediction, is creating quiite as mntch interest on some parts of our Atlantio coast as the seond advent prognostications of Cummings and Miller. It is now less than a month to the time when this great rush of waters will be upon us, fromt Florida to Maine, and it is high time w-i wore making preparations to re. eive it. On another similar ocea sion, namely, the first great deluge, our ancestor, Noalh, h ad a warning of many years Considering, therefore, the extent of the expected flood, our notice is a vory short one, Accord inig to the alleged calculations of the learned prof essor,. this: wave is to sweep the. whole .Atlantic coast, "te the height of fifty feet or more, on the nigh4 of the fifth or the morning ol the sixth of October. We should think sorne folks along shore woiuld be likely to got wet. 4nder the cir cumnstanccs.--Baltimore Susn. Trhe Newberry Hiorald says A bout I o'olock last Saturday morning it was discovered ly the guard at the jail that some of the prisoners wert sakedad d in t from the rear. Owing to the darkness and the position of tho guard on -the porch, the vantage was with the fleeing criminals, who es, eaped through the favoring fields Several shots were fired which resul. ted only. in the hasty return to hit cell of the last escaping whoseo feel, ings were not strong enog~gh to rual before the whitting bullets below. TIhe four who escaped were colored Drayton Douglas, (an irresponsibl< cow thief), under sentence for on stealing ; David Wise, for the mnurdei of his brother, and two- others lately indicted for stealing wheat. T wo of the aboy.v-the wheat stealeri -have been caught and are now ir A cynical man pays the reason we men are so fond of writing l'ettors ii that they rejoice in the opportunity oi saying all they wish without the pos nihilityonf tnn interrtnnttin A Brave Woman. Whenever we bear of the nobic deeds of women in the supreme houi of peril, when death, stares thet and their little ones in the fNoe, we neve: pa-s the w y without notice. Mre. r4 .[ Iannon resides on .. Runuing Qibek,0 niiles from benver. Etrl% inhe morning of the 1 ith of July the ind .ans m 4t their appearance, and her husband and several other -men went il .purisuit, Irs.. Van H. was alone, busily .engage in household duties, when tqiddenly the two chil dren, aged. five and eight, ran into the ranch ory ing, "Maamma, namina, the Indians, the Indians." Two Ohotft fired at the children struck the thick oak door just as the young mother shut it in the face of three Cheyenie warriors. After bolting the door and piling bed, bureaiu and stove before it, the mother sent her little ones into the cellar and shut them in. Taking a revolver and an old rusty rifle, the heroic young woman stood near the open window, shooting only when a painted face made itself visible in the brush. - Although the t ifle was rusty and out of order, the sight of it at the window with the dragon revolver held the three sneaking redskins at a respectful distance. For two hours did Mrs. ran 11. watch and wait the return of her husband and the min w.ith him. Twice the Indians at tenpted to parley and beg entrance to the house, but the young mother had heard of their atrocities in the eout-try and knew a knife and tona hawk awaited her little ores and ciptivity for her.-elf. Fin-liig thze hou e impregnable, and having a mor tal dread of the rifle and pistol in the hands of the determined woman at the window, the party left after set. ting fire to the hay and barn. The smoke attracted the attention of the scouting party, whicb returned to find the brave little women still on guard with her little children shut in the ecl lar.- .cchunge. Equality. An old Scotch ininitter. on' being asked to preach .a aprqp.on in favor eq tality, at a time of great excite citemont, on the subject, said at th. close of a sermon in tiubstance as fol luws : You ask me to preach a st rinon on equality. Since that time I have ranged in vision through the vegeta. ble world ; I saw flowers of equal lus. tre and perfume, trees of equal luztre and perfume, trees of unequal lustre and perfume, trees of unequal height and value, but there was no equality.. I pas ed thro'igh the animal king domit, and saw the trained horses and the fierce beasts of prey, the linnet and the hawk, the sparrow and the eagl?,the sheep-tmnd the horse, cacti occupying a relative sphere. In the Sea wthere the mi'ollua 1 an1i the whal.., the dolphin and the Mhat k the timid and tli fierce, each prop. r ly orgainized and doing its proper Ia bor, but I saw no equality. L-istly, I entered the gate of boa vei, and on a great white thione sat the Judge of the universe ; cherubim aid seraphim fell before him, angels of lesser degree did his bidding. I found seven heavens rising above each other, but nto equality there. I gaz;d on the stars, and found "one star dif forent from another star in glory,'' but there 'was no equality. So you see that there is no eq'uality in all God's vast kingdom. There is no more modest and sen sitive man than the R1ev. Dr. Willisam R1. Williams, the eminent Baptist divine, Hie recently published a oharning little work on the three parables in the 15th of Luke, the appropriate title of which was: "The Lost Sheep, the Lost Coin, and the Lobt Son." Imagine the horrible feelings of the sensitive divine when he saw the typographical blunder of the Christian Union, which reviewed It under the title of "The Lost Sheep, the Lost Cow, and the Lost Sow." The mischievous attempt to estab lish mixed s'chools of white and color. ed in Louisiana, lies resulted as might have been anticipated, most disas trously. TIhe ill-feeling created has destroyed the usefulness of the schools for both white and eolored, the at tendanoce is greatly retduced, and the expense of public instruction greatly increased. The baby-brokerage business in New York is curiously illustrated in the ease of a Dr. Willett. ThIs mant received $80 to take charge of a baby and keep. it until some respectable person would adopt it ; but an h'our after the receipt of the child and money, tehe former was loft at the doer of the.Foundling Hoeapital suffer ing from somec powerful narcotic which Willet had admninistered. The Charleston News says: The eominugtidal wav2 was the topic .of aaai o d'o town yes~prday. iIayt are at a premium, and' prudent f'6lku are anxiously cahtings a bout fur "ri served seats" upon' lofty buIldings; steeples, teleg raph poles and- simid coigns of vantage. A humming-bird's head with dia mnnd cyca isa new car-ring. A Sad Filly History. . The New Orleans Picayune tellb .he following: Shortly after the close of the war, Mrs. Beach, living near Carroll ton, went insane. The cause of ber derangement was uttributed to the loss of her husband in one of the nu tnerous conflicts in Virginai.. Not. trithstanding the unsound condition of her mind, she went about her daily duties as t...nal, taking care of qhildren-bbe had two, a boy and a girl-and sewing for their support. It was only in conversation that her infirmity was apparent. and her utter avei sion for society. Naturally weak and delicate in her organization, her overtaxed strength gave way under the arduous work she perfomed and day by day her thin, pale face grew careworn, and her soft and silent footsteps drew nearer and nearer to the grave. But to all inquiries of friends about her besilth she would shake her head, and say "I'm well ; I can't die; who would care for my little ones ?" The sad and lonely life of the woman exolted c.nmpassion, but she would take no alms. She toiled early and late ; but not a great while since she went for a-gentleman living a short distance from her, and when he arrived saiJ to him, "I am going to die now; my children are provided for." In less th.in two days she was dead, and contpnp.,ra neous with the fact cane the ittelli gence that by the death of an uncle the children had Lecoome heirs to a large fortune in Mar3land. What is Home? "[lowe," says Robertson in his sermons "is the one place where hearts are sure of each other. It i, the place of confidence. It is the place where we tear off that mak of guarded and suspicious coldness which the world forces us to wear in self-defence and where we pour out the unreserved communications of full and confiding hearts. It is the spot where expressions of tendernems gush out without any sensation of awk wardnjess, and without any Aread of ridicule. Let a man travel where he will, home is the place to which 'hio heart untraveled fondly turns.' He is to double all pleasure there. He is to divide pain. A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the eulti vation of his noblest enibilities." "The Union Troops from the South." The Louisville Courier argue, that the best blood of the South was in the Confederate army because of the inferior quality of the Union troops from the dlave-holding States, who lost more flags than they cap tured, while the Union troops fronm the non slave-helding States captured 'uore flags than they lost. The Courier is right in its conclusiotis, but wrong in its Fretnises. It is a .ell known fact that the so-called Virginia, Texam, and Carolina regi ments in the Union army were not composed of Southerners, but were made up nearly entirely of foreigners. negroes and the seourings of Northern cities. We disclaim all responsibili ty for their short comings, 2awl ask no credit for their prowess.-Charksatot Protection of Cabbage Agalast Worms. To procure an efficient remedy against the anvages of the cabbage is a desideratum long needed by our vegetable gardeners and farmers. Mr. Thomas S. Trigg, of Montgornery county, a gentleman of nice observa tion, assa, es us that stale soap suds applied to the heads of cabbago will drive away and keep away all worms. There is something about the soap suds especially obnoxious to the worms, and a few applications of it will pro. toot the cabbage from their ravages. There is another advantage in the use of soap sudd--it fertilizes the land and induces a more vigorous growth of the plant. We haope every farmer who reads this will give it a trial and report on Its efficiency .-Nashvle Union. An Introdndilos, Joffersou D.avis recently dined at the Atkins House, Knoxville, Tena. WVhen conting out of the dining-room, Entrrell, a waiter at thA hotel, ad. dressed Mr. Davis as fpllows: 'Here 's Mars Jeff Davise; used to know yon in Virginny. Hlow do you do Mars Jeff? Mr. Davis replied to the feel ing inquiry, stating thaat his health was excellent. Bursell then asked Mr. Davis if he was acquasinted witht CUaptains Roll,.paoprietor of the At kius Iouse, and be'sag answered in the negative proffere4 an introduction, and, asiting th actien to the word, performed the ceremony with many flourishes: 'Mars.JeK Davis, 'low inc to introduce Mars J ames Bell; Mars James l)oll, tlyis is are Jeff Davis.' ofmalling each othqrs acquaintance. -1t is'al ways in y4ur power to make an enemy by smile(; what folly, then, to make an oneomy py frowns. "Awful jolly san" is a symnpathetic p hrnes wit h L~ondoR miaidenas Life In Death. The cedar i-4 most useful when dead. It is the most productive when its place knows it no more. There is no timber like it. Firm in the grain and capable of the finest poli-h ; the tooth of no inbect will touch it, and time itself can hardly destroy it. Diffusing a perpetual fragrance through the chambers which it coils, the worm will not corrode the book which it protects, nor the moth corrupt the garment which it guards ; all but immortal itself, it transfuses its amaranthine qualities to objects around it. Every Chris tian is useful in his life, but the good ly cedars are the most useful after. wards. Luther is dead but the Ref. ormation lives. Knox, Melville, and Henderson are dead, but Scotland still retains a sabbath and a Chris. tian peasantry, a Bible in every house, and a school in every parish Bunyan is dead, but his bright spirit still walks the earth in its "Pilgrim's Progress." Wixter is dead, but soulh. are quickened by the 'Suint's Re.t." Cowper is dead, but the "golden ap ples are atill as fresh as when newly gatbered in the "silver basket" oi the Olney Hymns. Eliot is dead. but the missionary enterprise i young. Henry Martin is dead, but who cnn count the apostolic spirit: who, Phbnix like, have started from the funeral-pile I Howard is dead, but modern philanthropy is only com mencing its career. Raikes is deand, but the sabbath schools go on.- 1, v. F. Hamiton. Don't, llorace! If it be within the range of humat: possibility to darn a man with faiiit praise, Useless Simpleton Grant will be doubly dawned by the Now York Tribune. The following in Greeley's last thrust at poor old Grant : "We are gradually getting at the bottom of the New Orleans military outrage. The rueionstrarts against the high-handed proceed ings of lar shal Packard atid Collector Ca..ey have iade their formal couiplaints to the President and havo received the asaurance that he never authoriz.d the employment of ITuited StateO troops for the purposes for which they were used by his super.erviceable ap pointees at New O leans. Gen. Rey nolds, it seems, is respoisible for the detail o; the troops, though ignorant (if the porecise character of the eter gency existing. We re-jice that the often expret-sed disbelief of ^.he Tri butne in Gen. Grant's being in any way a party to this disgraceful busi ness has i en jus'ified by all the fact,. And now that the re.,potnsibility eun be fixed upon civilian offieials at New Orleans, withouit any difficulty, we ,hall exptet their removal forth with." Groant i. Greeley. Mr. Oreoley was recently in the \Vest attending aigricultural consven tions, but he nevertheless did not leave bis politics at hoimle. In pars ing through Chicago he was met by Mr. Wentworth and Mr. Grinnell, formerly member of Congress frout lowa. In reply to somie pernonal suggestions froi the latter, he is re ported to have said: "If we nominate Grant we bhall certainly be defeated. The public will stand no more horse jockey and preaent-tiaking Presidents;t we have had enough of them. WVhon we take hold of Grant it will net be with silk gljves on our hands. It has got, to be done. We must throw Grant over board, or we shall be defeated. "I want you, gentlemen, to tell you people here in the Went that we are going to fight against Grant to the extent of our ability. We will not remain pas~ive or iudifferenit, but, to use his own words, "we are going to fight it out on thi- line." The State Lunatic Asylum is so crowded that the Superintendent has been compelled to issue the following circular to the Judges of Probate throughout the State: OmerC 8. C., LUnAvIe Asytut, COLuust a, 8. C., Sept., 12, 1871. Sia: As our Asylum is full to its utmost cap.aity, you will please give no more orders for the admniseron of lunatics, epilepties or idiot8, until you have written to this office and ascer tained whether they can be received. Very respeetfull3, your obedient ser vant, J. Fi. ENSOR. Sup't, &c. The Charlotte Observer says: Jim Dallinger, colored, was arrested yes terday morning about four miles west of Charlotte on suspicion of being the negro who shiot Mr. Sangg some tiuai ago, and after being brought to thie city scars were found on hiis person where Mr. tSnugg had atruck him with a stick of wood, and the coat and hat left behind on the night the deed was committed was recognised by ottiers as belonging to him. W~e wIll bere state that Dallinger has boon living in fornliention and adultery with a white woman on the plantation of Mr. Charles Foster. Pillow-case parties arc the Narra A Good Move. The Louijsville Daily Commercial says : The Kentucky Masonio Relief Association is a now insurance sobeme which has been inaugurated in Louis. Ville with a view of benefiting all mauster masons in good standing in the St.ato. The otlioers are: David L. Boutly, President ; John Oral, Vice l'rosident ; John 1B. Davies, Soore tary; Wmn. Crowly, Treasurer; Dr. Samuel Griffiths, Solicitor for Jeffer. son and Oldhain counties. Thorn are twenty-five directors, fifteen of which are in the city, the remainder in the State at large. The State is divided into twenty six districts, to each of which is ap pointed a responsible agent. This association is established on the same principle as the railroad conductors,' which has been in suoooseful opera tion for some years. A payment of a fee of five dollars admits any master mason in good standing In the State fifty cents a year is exacted for payment of the expenses of the asrociation, and one tin lar is levied on each member on (he death of a brother, which hum goes to the family of the deceased. I'hme association is meeting with suo -ess, and will undoubtedly be accept ed throughout the State. A Washington Dispatoh to the New York Herald says : "The spe ein) report of the sub-conmnittee sent. sonth to investigate Ku Klux outrages in South Carolina will be ready for isi ribution next week, and will make 1 volunn of several hundred pages. ft it ineuded to be a formidable in dictment against the disturbers of peace in that section of the country. The Ku Klux committee meets 1.ere on the 26th in-,tant, when it will be determined what further in vestigations are necessary in order to secure additio.nal evidence. It is probable a spCiAl committee will be sent to Alabama and Mi.-sissippi. rhe attorney-genoral will await the reassemnblhng of the cominittee before mauking any recommendations to the President on the enforcement of the Ku Klux law in South Carolina." We olip the following from the New York Telegram. Another of tho., i d 1- w in which the conmoatan:s a ve' sear-e13 any idea of what they are quarreling about, occurred this morning on the corner of Sixty-second street and Ninth avenue, between Denis Burns, Thomas Cain, James McNamara and Timothy Hurley. It appears that an old grudge Is long existed be. tween Burns and Hurley, and Burns took the opportunity of a bar room discussion to draw a revolver and bhoot his enemy. The ball struck him in the left shoulder, causing a dangerous wound. The man fell over on the floor, anid his companions thinking he was dead fled precipi ttely. They wore, however, follow ed by a policeman and finally cap. tured. H Iurley was attended by a doctor, and sent home to Sixty-sec ond street and Ninth avenue, The Cincinnati Commercial takes one "Major Travis" (negro) in hand after the following style: "The celebrated 'Major Travis 'is the most active of the electioneering local politicians of African descent. lie supposes himself to lie a candidate for the Btate Senate. lie abould bena candidate for judge. The fellow known as much about the aduministra tion of justioe aq about the manufac ture of law. The probability is he would make as good a judge as he would a legislature. Hie might learn to deliver a judicial opinion without sticking his tongue out." They are having a clash of authori t y between the oflicials in Macon, Ga. Two constables arrested the Sheriff last Friday night for being drunk and dlisorderly on the streets, and commit ted him to the guard honse. The Sheriff, after being released the next day, arrested the constable on the charge of assault and battery, and lodged them in the quarters be had lately occupied. A langhable thing took plaee at a revival n~ceting somewhere in M issis sippi, not long since. Thme minister noticed a seedy looking chop in one of ,thme seats looking as though lie needed religion, or a good -square meal. So ho stopped up to him and asked him if he was a christiani. "No, sir," said he, "I am editor of the Radical paper in this place." "Trheni, in the name of God, let us pray," replied thme devoted minister. Mrs. Margaret Finloy, living near WVabash, Indiana, rumardbred her three children Wednesday forenoon. Shea took her babe by the feet and beat its brains oute ga . stone and cut the throat of her t~wo eldest children, aged nine snd eight years, respective ly. The womnan was arrested and lodged in jail. Hecr husband died last winter, She seems perfectly sane, and sa a~ she killed the children to get ri of theom. An old lady on a train not far from Lafayette, bearing the breakmen, sing out "Eubank's tnt' sailed to the door and sked, "I fe ha ui mu,.h ' The Tagaboad lge. An old man of very active physiog nony, answering to the name of Ja. cob Wilmot, was brought to the police court. His clothes looked as though they might have beo bought second-band In his youthful prime, for they had suffered more from the rubs of the world than the proprietor himself. "What business 1" "None ; I'm a traveler." "A vagabond, perhaps ?" "You are not far from wrong. Travelers and vagabonds are about the samne thing. The difference is that the latter travels without money, and the former without brains." "Where have you traveled ?" 'All over the continent." "For what purpose t" "IObsorvation." "What have you observed V "A little to commend, much to een sure, and a great deal to laugh at." "Hlumph I what do you commend 1"' "A handsome woman will stay at home ; an eloquent preacher that will preaub short sermons ; a good writer that will not write too much, and Da fool that has sense enough to hold his tongue." "What do you censure ?1" "A man that marries a girl for her fine olothing ; a youth who studies medioine while lie has the use of his hands ; and the people who will eleot a drunkard to offie." "Who do you laugh at ?" "t laugh at a man who expoeLi his position to command that respect whiclh his personal qualflitions and qualities do not merit." He was dismissed. What a Bustle they Make. A letter from a lady correspondent at Newport relating the later gayeties of the season, gets off the following: "Sitting on the hotel piazza the oth er morning, watching a group of young ladies, I overheard a curly-headed lit tle maiden, who was frizaled and pan. niered and puffed in the height of the atyle exclaim, 0, I like the Indepenf. ent best I' A moment before I could have sworn that la ptite never looked at a newspaper, an somewhat surpris ed I took the liberty of listening fur ther. 'The Tribune suits me,' said her blackeyed companion. 'I take the %'vening Posi,' chimed in a stylish, saucy4ooking girl, who was peltin somebedy over thie railing with pond lilies-a beautiful bunch, by the way, which five minutes before I had seenv Ia gentler.an' care fully selecting for her from a little urchin's basket. And when, I wandered, do you girls get time to read the newspapers ? Fold them four double of course,' was the neXL sentence I caught; and more puz pled than before, I very impolitely walked near the group, when every thing was made clear to me by the blonde little one saying, I had rather have a newspaper any day than the hest pannier that was ever made in Paris.' I fell hack into my seat, un certain whether to laugh or to fbel pro voked with chatter-boxes, who had strolled off to lay seige to a party of gentleman jnst from the beach. Think of it. Mr. Tilton I think of it, Mr. Gree ley in fashionable circles." The Tomato --ha Properties. Dr. Bennet, a professor of some celebrity, considers it an invaluable article of diet, and ascribes to it very important medical properties: I. That the tomato is one of the most powerful aperiente of the Mate ria Medics, and that in those affec tions of the liver and organs where calomel is indispensable, it is proba bly the most effective and least harm fulI remeidial agent known to the pro. fession. 2. That a chemical extract pill can be obtained from it which will alto. gether supercedo the use of ealomel in the cure of disease. ~3. That tie has successfully treated diarrhoea with this article alone. 4. That when used as an artiele of diet, it is almost a sovereign remedy for dyspopsia and indigestion. 5.'IThat the citizens in ordinary should make use of it, either raw, cooked, or in a form of a catsup, with their dlaily food, as It isi a mnosb healthy article.--epository. A young man serenading sang the following under the wrong window : "My dear Carona, My dear tiarona" Just at that moineeet an old scratch poked her head out the window and sang : "Young man below there, Young man below there, Your dear Carona Lives four doors below here." E~very day somne newspaper tells us of a wonman burned to death, and adds, "she was trying to kindle a firo with kerosone." AllU women who do not take the newspapers, and who do takse coal-oil, should at oee memoriso and sing .hourly the good old hymn beginrning: Poot- lBiddy. Brown, to hauten thingsa, Pours oil upon the oal; T1he neighbors meet at night, and I '-avu muorev on her soul."