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FAIRFIELD HERALD
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The 80now.
BY FANNIM.
i the dark shades of midnight the Winler
king paised,
And ove:' the still earth a white mantle
cast,
The hills and the valleys are carpeted o'er,
And the shrubs are all burdened 'till they
can not hold more.
The feathery flakes, like magie they fall,
They settle like down on the forest tiees
Iall,
Hither and thither they float on the air,
Weaving a gat mnent for the broad earth to
Wear.
What a look of rare sp'eudor when the sun
rises high,
-And hi' beanis in soft radiance on the drift.
ed snow lie,
Vith 'rapt admiration the e'e can long
dwell
*On a scene which the Fairies might envy
right well.
Benutifil snow, thou wvilt soon pass away,
tieiLving no trace of this s1-cudid n, ay,
The chill wimd is wafting the light murky
cloud,
'And sweeping the sky of its sha.lowy
shroad.
[Written for the News and IHerald]
A Christmas Scen&.
[nY zArnia:.]
Small black boy nppearing at the
'door, forgetting to tcrape his 'foot-,
but scratching his wooly heid, grin:.
ing and showing his teeth and wall
ing his eyes,
"I'se eum fur to tell yer rfai-m dim't
arnt Ilannjah ses bein' as dis is Crees.
mus ani' her times up, she won't cuin
fur to cook do broekus dis mornin'."
M rs. Brown r itting in the corbel,
attired in a dressing robe, hair dis
heveled, vainly endeavo. ing to quell a
'tumultuous riot amohg a half dozen
magpies.
" iat did you say, Ton ?"
Small boy shouting in order to be
heard, "Plse eun fur to tell yer,
nari dat arnt Hannah ses bein' as
dis is Creemus she won't cum fur to
,ook do brekus dis mornin' bein' as
her time's up too."
Mrs. Brown in agony-"Gracious
heaven's! Richard, did yod hdar
that 1'
Mr. Brown in the bed-blanketb
comfortably tucked in to his back
yawning and strotching-Qh I-ah I
-what-did-you-say-Maggie I
Those douced children keep such an
infernal uproar, a man couldn't hear
his own ears."
Mrs. Brown shoutidig-"Iiannah
gays her time's up and shi won't be
hero to cook breakfast this morning."
M r. Bro wn-"H annath be cussed i"
Mrs. Brown-"If I was a profane
mhan I woukl not hesitate to co your
-sentiments, but as it is, what Ohill I
do ?"
Mr. Brown groaning fearfdlly, with
his eyes closed-"Where's Let~y, ehy
ban't she cook breakf'ast this morn
ing ?"
Mrs. Brown-" Why Lotty ould i't
bake a hoc cake if life depended upon
it, besides, her daddy came for her
yesterday andI carried her homie.
When I plead with prayers and tears
that she might stay to nurse the baby,
ho mumiblod out something albouit her
being overworked and stunted in
growth, luggitng a great baby about
when every body knows that poor lit
tie Jennie is as thin as a shadow from
toothing. lIe said too that Fatty's
'eddient ion,' as he called it was being
too much neglected."
Mr Brown in an injured tone
'SWell I'in suro my mother neve
troubled my fathor abbut her domnes
tie affaNs, but then there never was
a woan dualto my mother, uitless;
pierap-a Iunless, it wria nay
Mrs. Brown with tears in her eyei -
"Certainiy, Richard, I can get
breakfast If you will keep the chiii.
tiron out of the fire, It would be
impossible for me to accomplish any
thing in the kitchen with this trdop
at my heels."
Mr. Brown apringing up in bed
and kicking the cover right and left
in an uncontrollable fury -"I'll be
blast ding if I put up with this tiny
longer."
Jlawping out of bed and hurrying
on his clothes-"Il be, donsorgnd if
women and children ain't the gfeatest
nuisnce inthis world; '!'opn, you
rascal, go this minute and tell IHannali
to omeandget my breakfast, and
thnyuhurry back and cut some
EiTomuttering to himself
"Yor'i o git dis chap to out yer no
Wood dis day, by granny white folks
is'olear gon6 crazy if dey tink.nIggers
gwine to work for dem allers."
Mrs. B:own prayerfully endbavor.
Ing to-dress sik ohildfen, all 'of whom,
ekeept thb bry ing baby-, are 3ump.ing,
liioking, dancing and . ydl6ing like
Apache ndians. Mr. Brown sittIng
moodily be'tore the fire, nedi'thiing
upon WIe distreb th4t Women lbanso
ani thuir uter Worthlessness, re
uieniem'ring his bncthtoV 'day? h6 froe
from earn and pining fdr '1single
bIosSednesh" agalin.
Enter Hannah, lea'0ing the door
wide open, thereby giving ibg1bas to
-all the breetesi atid asking impIdent
Iy-1AWhat d'yc 'want Av me, anlh I"
Mr. Brown preserving an Angry si
lence, Mrs. Brdan condituting her
self the organ df the partyAWell,
Hannah1 Uan't you be ind ped to
cook for us this week ? Wo are
willing to pay you extra"
Hannah interrupting her with af ibs
akimbo--"Nomun. Dis is eeesmus
-de poor downtrodden daikey's own
time ani yer don't ketch me cookin'
for no poor white buokra, specially as
I've bin a slaviu' an'a slavin all do
year roun,' a cummin up afore day
obery mornin,' oun rain, cum shine,
tlrougb de win' de sleet an do hail
an de snow an de thunder an de
lightning an gittin' no pay worth
talkin 'bout neithei.'
Mrs. Brown somewhat haughtily
"You are nitaken Hannah. We
never get our breakfast until nine
o'clock and then it is always poorly
cooked."
Hannah, violently-"Ugh I hit is
jis like white folks to want to cheat a
poor darkey out nv ebery ting she
mnakes-a poor littlo pitiful sum At
dat."
Mrs. Brown impatiently-"We give
you fifty dollars in money besides
your victuals and two suits of
clothes."
. Hannah in supreme contempt
"Ugh I"
Mrs. Brown ignoring the exclamation
-Well if you can't cook, won't you or
some of the other women do a day'
washing some time this week if I payr
yea well ? You know the weather
was bad last week and you didn't
wash and there are so many clothes,
particularly the children's."
Ianuah with a disdainful toss of the
kinky head and an imaginary eleva
tion of the painfully flat nose-"No
mum. Wash your own clothes anl
yotit thildrens' like us colored ladies
does. 11m gwine to leave dis piece
I. .is-anti so is do rest uv do darkeys.
White folks specs too much offer
niggers and den biheats um to death
When payin' time cums."
Mid. Brown springing to his feet
and don'onting the et-cook in a pur -
pie passion-"Douce take every one
of ydd. We give you everything
You make and a bonus besides. Clear
yo, tself, ybu wretobe."
PiUkit H annah ; soreatniing at the
pitbli of hervoice-91I.meavi to hab thy
thoney. God knows I duz if I hev to
go tdr tdwn ,and bring d'a Yenkess
herg dis day.'"
Mrs. Itrown having In sdm'e sort
drdssed the dhildren, leaves thent
squabbling a dng thdmsdlvbA and
proe'eds to te kitbdheh, .whei-e for
aut hoti Ad presides dolefdlly bver
the unleAled pdte And ,oh.
Mr. ralwn t tle bl eak'sit Iable;
with an orminous frown-"Soorled
houmioy, i'aw meht, .burnt bread a. d
briokbats for kiggs.'
IMrs. Brown, apiplying a baiidkei'
cbief to her dyes and~ replying in ai
sufoeated vdide--d~My dear, I did the
best I could,. You let the children
Idilt of the Hiouse anid they camd~ ir1
upop1 me like so maeny Ueng~al tIgers."
Mr. Browni, af~ter breamki'st, the pie
tre df green and ydllow ide lancholg
-"Oodfoddld those groas y bisodits
I've got Dyspepsia 'gain."
Mrs. Brown, ismothering ain historical
sob-"Hlave pationce with me, Rlichi
ard. This Is only the begining."
M r. lirown majestiaally - "My
mother, madam, my motheir never
Mrs. Jdrows tainting, children
sordobhing. Elxit Mr. Brown.
1he City of Veilel Wtni.
Tlhe City of Veiled Women; in
Siam, is a clty numbering 9,000 in.;
habitants, all of whom are women.
One thousand of these ar8 considered
royal, and the remainder are their
survitors. Women blacksmiths, jew
elers; merohants and manufacturers
ate spoken of, and, also woman senti,
nels, solders, judges and execution
era. Tho young Prince who was un
der the edocational influence andl
training of an-Rnglish teacher for six
y,ears, is now "Supreme King of
Siam ." He has recently doeoreed the
abolition of slatery throughout the
empire, thereby emanbIpating 15,.
000,0U0 of elavest nearly four times
the nuuber made free by our -late
war. Doubtl~ei; the judicious moral
tuition of the patient little flnglish.
man Is evidoed by..this enlightened
and Christiau polloy.
The Yorkville Enquiter says: On
Thursday last W. 1.-Spenber was re.
odited at the priiott here; having been
returued from Coldmbia.; tnd M.S8.
Bodei has-been teleased; whid'h .are
the only change that thave tkked place
within the pnat iwo VMA.
The Nation ihell innrin War No 5lore.
Vi-,e-President C.Afax made a
-haceh in Brooklyn', New Y-,rk,'6n the
22 1 of Febrdary, in which, tp'eskhig o
thle abitraltion trialty be -aid3i
"1 give no or'edi't to what I h~aA b
the cable under the 6otAn as to the
'mot her country' (as we call her hete)
'r oedi:ig froni the sqlema oonapact.
[A.plau.e.] O1i no 1.oh, no I W ith
this gloat step in umdvauce, with the
di.'titct understanding all over the
nio ld that every questioh and dif.
ference bet-ween these two nations are
tO b submitted to arbitration nt
Geneva to tile persons appointed by
monarebs to sfettle the questions be
ween the Republic and the Monarchy
applauste] I say neither n-,tion will
darej in the face of the civilized world
to d.sI.r6y that compact which is sol
'emly niadd bbfore God and man, and
to leave those irritutt6ns open for
further.altei-eatidno in thu future [Ap
plause.] No I no i If were not to
receive one dollAr As the readit of ar
bitration, I would stand before may
contry-men uid nag, seatle this ques.
tion, wbethor we rece'va nothImg or
whether dur share becomes bankrupt.
rather than reode a hair's breadth
from the grdat moral 4uestioin that
these nations occupy to-day in rea
poet to other nations of the earth.
[Applause.] It says to the 'dountries
of Europe in trelmupt toijes, 'Disband
yout arinies of uillions of men in
France, Germany, Austria; and in
Russia, an1d copy our example, anU
submit your disputes to imptkrtial.ar.
bitration.' [Great applause.] This
is the c6unsel I would give to you, to
to you men 1it is a warning to Europe
and to all couittries; and thus was it
held by him wh6 was'first in wai, firsl
in peace, and first in the hearts of
his countrymen.,'" [Continued ap
plause.
Maliling NeCspapers.
An order has gone out for the st-icH
onforceeniedt of the new regulations on
newspapers sent by mail. The name
of the i-ender cannot be written on the
paper, as was the old custom ; teo
memorandum or intelligible inscrip.
tion must be made inside the wrapper;
no printed card, handbill or adver
tisement must be enclosed ; no written
notice, letter or written slip of any
kind can be folded in; printed slips
soliciting notices of the press pasted
inside of the wrappers, are in viola
tion ; also, cross marks to indicate
that subscriptions have expired. All
other regulations are as formerly. A
violation of any of these points sub
jects the matter to letter postage, and
the perpetrator to a fnue.
A 5an Decapitated in a Saw-mill.
The Manassas (Va.) Gazette states
that a few days since Mr. George
Root, a young man employed to help
run a saw-mill near that place, was
standing on the carriage, engaged in
sawing logs, when another employee of
the mill and his his foot caught in some
way, and the carriage was stopped
suddenly to extricate him. The car
riage, however, stopping so suddenly,
thrbe Mr. Root forward on the saw,
which, being in rapid motion, first
struck him oi the shoulder, and out
tlhg through that, passed to his
neck; neat-ly severing the head from
the~ body and causing instr~ntaneous
death.
blentl of flajor W. II. Whitner,
It is with the decepest sorrow that
Iwe tearn ft-om thd Anderson Initelli
Jgenhcer of the dleath of our true and
trictd frIend, illhj. Wmn. Henry Whit
tier. Ite died at Madison, Florida,
on the l'&hm Fcbrilary. liaj. Whitner
wast well anid favdrably known in this
bommnuluity autthe foi'mei- 1 v partner
of Col. Jas. F"arrowv; now of Kansas
City. Missouri. lHe was a gallant sol
dlier in the late war; and a warm
heatrt~d1 high tondd gentleman; who
made tronps of friends wherever lie
linitedi Sttec ldrshiliklp for S9oitI Clito
. M1ajor .lohans.m, the United Afaifsha1
for South CJardlilla; is in this city,
(says the WVaahingtvun (Di. 0.) Nation:
al RepinblIcan; or TPuosday.) Ilo yqa.
terday tendered his resignation tothid
lPresident, but it has not yet ~eeiI
aoepted. ie makes some bompflaint
iri regard to military interferende, in
a political way; with his duties us
Marshal, and demandd an intestigatiodl
of tho matter.
Truie.
We are glad to learn (says the
Chester Reporter) that a guamo foter
prevails among the farmers, and that
larger qj uantities of commercial ferti
hizers are being ordered than Iid auf~
previus year.. The earth is never
ungratefulin, and if well fed and d+orkas
ed will abuindantly reward the huis
bandmwan with her hidden wealth.
The Norwegian monarchy is to
celebrate the 1000th year of its es
tablisment by oreoting a large gran.
ite monument.
An exchange says: "de don't so
why the Norwegian monarehy should
stir in its grate for such an lisignifi
cant matter as that. The Eypflai
monarchy is upwards of 4000 years
H1d.'
fhe air is rifvwi r ,4dra of OW nve.
m'eits on the pdlit ical 'chess-board.
Tlh re 'an - longer bo a'tij doi)6t there
a nsing 1s'r6 W St ', 111 Ot
-'.Te an It 'e' o 4 e
mosat venal.res'6ality Admong tij0 ad min
\it'ralion officials e telling teat fully ition
the availability the pr Aelit ocecpant
of the White uq1 .Hs0d,) i
would, very pro erly, bp regiarde as
an endorseme:i k. of these offnotisps
ngaist. lioriestv atd official irimhgrity;
and the pairty ale Afraid to g- b*foro
the pliblic as tife defenders of s8itel a
ecord as is beidk made up in New
York'and clseviere by those holding
positions iuder tie administration. TIe
new candidate for foyor, upon whom
there seems to be i deteroiined concen
tration of nction' is ec Congressman
Janies V'. Wilsoh, of Iowa. It is
elained that an effect.ive organization
in his hejialt, including stich men at
,Iorace Greolsvyr'ohn tridey, and
others of eaR al politi6al note, ha li
ready been complete. 'And tha t so st rong
a hope have th6#4 bii'ged in it of de:
featint GrAnt AU i1iuilphia that they
induced t1ioa e gaged in the Liberal
Replblia thd'ei ent to ngree to post.
polet heff 'cohvehtion, which ws to haye
me', ii May, to the 2h of 'uri. It
reall' ,appears noir as if there was a
pr'd eet that th Grant bubble is soor
t6 bi rt. . Bt the President is Nt to
yield withodt a Itrdg gle, ri, 6 t/
think lie will bo: defeated. HO owns
tog many selfisly and dishonest office
holders and they Will control the Phila.
del~ ~ , hi"o,'ll .~ thdit Fre'e PA..
briginl of !r lahdli
The quostid aa ' the origid 8f tile
orth iileri' tidans iO revi've by
the fact. of a Ja11e11 julk having
gone aslior' in Alaokt witli tiie live
natives on boafd., wentyltired of
the crew had piergish6d fi-Om hilnger.
Forty ybarh ago it is salid a OIlinese
vessel, with iPing tni ob board,
drifted ashore at Wih tiioitth of the
Columbia riforr As tb iunks at
present In es5 by eastern antloh are
qo impio4ement on those, df one
thousand years go, it is quite "ot-si
ble, that long b "'ef--dlun do ailiul.
ed Salvador, tiadkes df Mhidi A
Japan had been drifted to the shored
of Adtie-loa.
The Jewlih Messedgr hitas in .Art -
ole upon "Distinctive Judaism," in
which we find this genial paragraph :
God has formed us to bd a pecu
liar people, distinct from all others
in our religious dutips. But 11ot.
this distinction ends. Iii etery kd6d
act which tends to elevate humanity,
we are copartners with the world ; we
rejoice in their happiness, sympathise
with their sorrows, elevate the lowly
and educate the ignorant. To be
plainly and properly understood, we
are jews in the synagogues and in our
dwellings; buih the walks of life
we are citizens ofjyo world, cosmopoli.
tan in feeling and sympathy and ac
tion.
Education does not commence with
the alphabet. It begins with a moth.
er'slook-with a father's nod of ap
probation or a sign of reproof, with a
sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or
a brother's noble act for bearance
with hanmdsfull of flowers in green
dells, on hills and daisy meadows
with birds' nests admired but not
touched-with creeping ante and al
most imperceptible emmwets -with
humming-bees and glass bee-hives
with pleasant walks in shady lanes
and with thboughts directed in sweet
and kindly tones and words of nature,
to beauty, to acts of benevolence, to
deeds of virtue and to the source of all
good, to God himself.
The . followiag despatch, bearing
the date of Columbia, B. 0., Februa
ry 22, was sent to the press through
out the country:
Iti eorted that the delegates
616 o the Philadelphia Convention
have determined to go Washington,
as soon as the Legislature adjourns, to
see President Grant, and to make the
feoifotal of the present Federal officers
in Sodth Catrolina a condition of their
support of lisA ronomiftation.
A young lady at Fod dii Lee was
nitribdwitoutshoes or stockings on,
hhohtdaf; in aceordancA wfth an
Id whitU that such an act would
bring good lubR:
'I'li fiin in 'rei tl otn
tebi, #'ith 2,000 deaths a day. This
hee been going on for thonths,,.and
suggestA the dioMt awful plottire of htt
tnan caldmlt? possible to 6ou~ieive.
With a litt.e house *dil filled, a
little land well tilled, a little wife
well willed, a husband well s~i)jled,
and serfants well dafiba; & Ilhlie
time may be wlit killeda
in ekssadhndett d~ billfs bofore
th~e lieglilattn'e fir fibiting lf elec
tion of acy persons' aj justio~s o f the
peace exoepting Iawyers.
Ths ejitor qvi the Stii 94 being
in jail for libel, .improvps tska shining
hours 6~ getting .up A polded~ of "Jail
dOwtr esight thoeisand uinger~s offded
thetr services for the choruses of the
Boiton jubilee this summer.
ioro oi W Lory Outa*s.
A disputtch d.ated Moss Nook.
RoFb'ou UVuty, S. G., )61W inst.,
Henoy idrrr 'Lowry, th. notorious
oila*, and his confederates, have
b'een i6lding a carnivil here for two
days, ileeplag at %.store near the
railrund statnion When the down
train fom Wilminton arrived here
to day they had a barrel of oidor
rolled out of the store and were
troatinv a large orowd. When Lowry
was told that he h-ad better keep a
good look out orsome one would kill
him or some of his gang for the re
wards offered by the State, he replied
that all they asked was to be let, alone
and they would lenve everybody else
alone. They were, he said, deter.
mined to kill one man, who was trav
eling backwards and forwards on the
trAin.
Whil% te *as saying this the indi
vidual wlorm they had doomed was
at thut Ve'y ninient r uoheod under
a seat in the roar oar. He has Incur.
red the auger of the outlaws froid tfio
fact that be volunteered l.ast winter aS
the executioner of Oxendine, one of
their gang who was hung at Lumber'
ton. As the train moved off tlieg
saluted the conductor in military
style, and took deliberate aim at the
train with their rifles and continued
to fire until it was beyond gunshot
Aianoo' The man whom they have
threatened is known in. Wilidingtod
by the name of Frank Marsden, and
is a sailor boarding-house runner.
A Iood ok1e ; aLegislature.
Some mad wag one very near
playing a grand Joke of' on the Ala
bama aeislatdIe sometime ago. An
bkehatige says :
A bill was litely introddoed in
the Alabana Legislatdte to prghibit
tJie sale of liquor. within two miles of
Z on hdrob, fIontgombrf coutity.
The bill was read twice, and was ps
the verge of passing when, at the
last moment, it was diseovered that
it was a negro church just outide the
oorpdration of the crpital city and of
course the introduction was equiva
16nA to shdtting of' the supply from
Ulb eity, pa well as the etire Legisla.
lature. The mtimber intrdslucing- the
bill was not aware of where he Blhu'ob
was located.
It is, perhaps, unnecessary to add
tiat.tlie bil did not reach a third
rcadini. Th'e law tiiakrsi- had no
ndtion of being deprived of theii isu
al per diem of afflatus, while the
ieiolber *ho introduced the bill
*hen k8en last; *as hunting for the
ihai who liad Imposed upon him.
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. Frful Explosion;
A correspondent, writing to the
Augusta Chrodiole and Sentinel from
Dalton, Ga. as tHie bdiler used by
tie Messrs:*13 rookdr at Eleir w-mill
near thalpplace; eplqded on Wednes.
day, the 21st instant, Rilling four men
and wounding fifteen. The iomes of
the killed tre Wiloh' uillain,
Brinkly add CPaP66,: bilastain was
a little boy; and was. loiW one hun -
dred yards through the trees, and was
torn to pieces by a tree-top. Such a
sight was never seen before. Mr.
Brinkly was thrown fifty yards, and
was torn td pieees dd i aliidip, his
head striking first.
Strange to say, the ouginoer was
not killed. The boilor was thrown
one hundred yards through the woods
tearing down large trei in itiiliight.
The lumber yard lookid like a ildugh;.
ter pen, for the blood and limbs of
men were seattered over the whole
place. Nothing remains of the mill
b ut the saw, the engine being thrwr
in every d irecton for three milos; as
some parts of the engin~e dvero picked
up actually three mnilesfronA the place
of explosion.___
The Legislature of Minnesota .vis
ited the asylum for the dumbh a Fairl
bault recently, and reeived the fol,
lowing curions and rather ludicrous
addreess "For you are the men to
furnish the means to help the bian
that built the mill that ground ths
feed that fed the horse that drew ille
eart that dumpod the dirt that Paddy
shoveled to build the road for palace
ears to go upon. These are the men
that make our laws, and furnish the
means to buy a house to cover ouir
heads, that warm our toeus; htl#I
our mouths, that give us fod thiat
feeds ths mind, that Mbakeu m en amit
women strdng; to fodu uponw e bid
you weleothe, and for pyoe eall siriN
your kindness to repay."
LInes In Lord Byron's Bible.
These lines were copied fronm the
fly leaf of Lord Biyt'on's 1ible---f-o.
bably the very one his .sister gave
him, as the Marquis do lboisey writes
this wvas the one ho daily u'sed
Within thissaoi-ed voluime lies
The mystery of mysteries.
Oh I happy they of human race,
To whom our God bath giveni grace,
To hear, to read, to feelj to pray,
To lift 6lke Iatohj add fo.96 the way;:
But bbtt had they never been hors
Who read to doulbt, o oad to soota;
La gs eba have wholejoqse rii$
tre nfair 60mple1 .'
Al ew York datae wore s ,5400(
dresl, to a char. a.
The Plain TrOth.
The Riohmond Dipat6h clo'ses
leadini article with the following sug.
gestive paragraph %
"The country is ruled through its
fears and its ignorance. We of the
South on 'do nothing. We san only
hope for a, etter day. It does seem as if
the passions arouse0,.by. the war ought
tohave subsided b'ofre now. But
they haie not... And the e'easob is
that there are s'o My .,oplo e*ven
now in the North who know that in
the late war the South fought for the
true principles of constitutional liber
ty and the North against them. Gree
ley and other honest Republicans,
who have no knowledge of cbnistitu
Lions and laws except such as they
have picked up in newspapers, and
who believe that the Constitution was
never even strained, much less destroy
ed, by Mr. Lincoln, are in favor of
uniVersal 4mdesty., Th y are satis
fied with the war afid wi h its results.
But thosb men who know bo* they
have wronged the Southern yeoyle
and ilp'osed upon their own, will
never Be ready to forgive us for hav
ing had the ri6ht side in the war. The
pronegdoer never forgives his victim.
Thi isthe trde itseret of the opposi
tion to amnesty and o' the iostility
to the South."
A Queer Surgleal Operation.
A singular operation was perform
ed relent Y by a San VFranoisoo pby.
;iolan. he pati4An had been shot.
The bullet entered the right side a
little above the hip, and in probing
the wound the surge'on discovered
where the bullet lay. He was com
pelled to enlarge the orifice of the
wound in order to introduce the for
ceps, and had just got that instrd
ment on the bullet, when the wounded
man, who was under the influence of
i4uor, struck him a powerful blow on
the side of thn head, which aused
hini to fall to the floor. He then ran
away, and rhea the doctor recoveired
himself he found the forceps i one
corner of the room; and near thi in
strument was the btillet, which had
been extracted by the force of the
blow. The doot9r says that, as a sur
gical operation, it was a comylete auc -
cess, but still he is not partial to the
method.
ACirious gold Robbery.
The Augusta Chrionicle relates that
Mr. W. W. Haughton had his store in
Augusta robbed on Saturday night,
and among other articles 1,800 in
gold was stolen. Mr. Haughton had
adopted the following curious method
of taking care of his gold:
For fear of ago ents, we suppose,
fdr tbdde er tieillih times, the coin
was placed in a tin box in layers, and
between each layer was placed et-.
ton, wired, down. In this way the
box contained a solid mass, which
made io noise, when shaken. The
box was then. placed in a mould of
sand and melted lead poured around
it, until an apparently solid block of
metal-was fornied: This block 4tii
kept in the store dn4 tied to out
wads, and for other p' rooses. Thlis
precious block was in the stdre on the
night of the robbery auid the birilars
took it.,6ither llnoVwrig its value, or
earryting it of t dsell as old metal.
WuliIll d'~ 1lirriTree;
ino~ 0i,'f olir oit.} Itationail bani~ks
yestirday e observed a small placard
a p nofnedhg that the bank would be
cl osd..Thursday, Fe'br,uary 22, and
"all paper maturing upon that day
must be paid Wednesday, Feb. 21."
The noticeable feature of the placard,
however, was a pencil sketch illus
tratin~g 'h celebi-ated event of Wash
ligton ou ting do'n tho bherry tree;
The pio ire displays the te;ee chopped
short of at clhe bottom, lyiiig pros.
trate on the ground youpg Geoile
itsiidh nia ~ y witsi his hands and
hut~list telii d him, demurely gazing
downpard; while a .burjy; Teu tonic
individuial in knee bi-eeeobes and short
waitbdat; ooocuplos a mienaciidg atti
tie opjposite him. Thme latter is
taking his pipo out of his mouth, and
as lhe allows the switch to rest in his
hand ltor a moment, utters those
"G.eorge, dot *as a voolish ding.I
r~afher you dell mie more as a dousand
ites dan cut me down one cherry
ti-ue."
1o butch farmer* at INinderhook,
in their rep#eotive felds, when one
heard an tinuivally loud hallooing in~
the .dreotion of a gap iii a high dtond
all an dran wih all speed to the
looae kod ,the folowing brief con ver
at.n ensped
"Sh6n tatlGh d5 shater 1" "Vel
den,4afe Mlon; "I was trying to
clitnb to tog of dish h'lgh athone
nlsianad fetll 6fand all tb sthone vall
tvlI dLdwn unto me and has broken
one of mnie legs off and both of min'e
atin, omashed mny ria lIn and dese pig
athon.at loig on ae top of mine
body.? Ja at all ?says the other ;
"ivy youi hollow so loud I tot you got
It 1's tied at swndig clerk,
as ited aMokett, has been arrested in
Memphig.
True us Preaching.
'The Shreveport Tines utters tho
Olowin'g, wiich though true as Oos
pel, wilbe news to a great many
newpaper patrons. The Fimes says :
The-o Is one feature in the news
paper business the g; ieral public
never se'orq to comiprehend,.nanely :
that the space of the paper is the
publisher's stock in trad'o, just as
g ocer's flonr and bacon are his.
Iende', peopl'a very often wish this or
that little notice inserted gratuitous
ly when they would be disgusted if a
customer would ask them to throw in
a cask of bacon upon the arength of
his having purchased a box of eandka
or a horse because ho had bought A
saddle blanket.
The franking privilege last year,
says an exchange, cost $24,000,000
Twice the whole cost of [ohn Adams'
Administration. Nearly half the ex.
pence of Buchanan's most expensivo
year. To transport Radical cam.
Oaig'd docustionts, champagne baskets.
quack medicines, demijohns, boots,
stupid speeches, and traveling trunki.
Twenty-four millions a year-two
millions a month-five hundred thous.
and dollars a week - seventy.one
thoimand dollai's a day -three thous
and dollars for every hour of the day
and night--fifty dollars fo- every
minute-nearly a dollar for every sec
ond, every clock ti'k i All to save
a horde of thleving Congressional
millionaires fio m pu ing .otagb ou
of their gigantic stealings
The log.
The hog has the name of being tho
most stupid of animals, and the ep
utation is far from deserved , for
many instaigces might be nctironed
wheio a hog thowed itself as tiacta
ble as the most intelligept of dogs.
An Engli.,h giniekeeper has recently
broken a black sow to hunt game 1i
the woods, and she ran in the Iiitit,
with wonderful success. She would
track game, back and stand, and
point pai-tridges, pheasants,asnipes and
rabbits na skilfully as a bred pointer.
She would bound in response
to a whistle, and wtould , wa4
her iead and tqueal with delight on
being ebosa a gutl.
The Whooping Cough.
That diatressing malady the whoop.
ing cough, is said to be effectunlly
cured, or at least greatly nodiied by
the introduction of gas. An Indian
a,)olis paper states that large numbers
of persons visit the purifying room of
the gas works of that city every day,
remaining in it from ton to fifteen
minutes, and that five or six visits
generally accomplish a cure, relief be
ing usually felt within a day.
Fire I GrenvilN
At about half.-past nine o'clook
Monday night fli was ' ibovered is
suing froth the stable ot 'apIain John
Vestideld in (reenville. 7'he fire
men were juiekly oi the ;pot, but
thdir efforts were of no avail in saving
the building, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that some fiftnen or
more head of mules could be gat out,
as they were made unmanageablo by
the fire. It was the work of an i(con
diar.I
A California papci- talls of a dance
which took place recently in a wvine
tank. It says :"A largo party of
ladies and gentlemen, invited to the
dedicatory ceremony of dancing in
one of the.largest vats in the United
States, were in attendance, and par.
ticipated in the hospitality of one of
the most enterprising vintners in Call
fornia. The monster tank d+is lit tip;
the musicians announced :"Take
your partners for d~ q'nadrille,",,.idd
dancing comnmened a fteF old lBava.
rian style---w,hilo one set danced,
there was plenty of' room for twenty
spectators and the musicians." The
vats have a capacity for 50,000 gdl.
Parson Thomas, of Dayton, Ohio, ai
D. D. of good repute and fine goiali
tics, had a son of sprightly parts anid
progressive idoas. Thise son had been
visiting at the house of a female re
lative, where lie took some primary
lessons in the history of the Amnerican
Revolution, and howv the Americans
whipped the Britishors. The lad re
turned liome f all of .his now suiject,
and pat the tea table said to his father:
"Pas, be you a Britisher?1"
"Yes, my son; I was born in Eo~g
land."
"Well, we whipped you I" retorted
the youngster.
A Deluge In Dnillee.
The cable gives an aconni, of dhe
oocirrence of a destructive fbod iti
Scotland, in the valley of the 'Tay,
caused by the rndden rising of the
waters of the l'rith arnd the Tay.
The 1l 'nd poured into thi plains on
both sides,sw'ept overything boos it;'
and extended from Dundee to Perth,
Great damage is reported in Dundee,
as well as to valuable property be.
tween the two plass.
The Alabama Liegislature has pass.
ed a sinkling fund bill for tbe extano.
tion of the State lablihtiesr.
iBlack silk and - muelia ngrcne have
enma into faakian *gemn