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WHIY THE CR SP, CURLING, LoC S .0F
YOUNG (Flir$ orm t:18,UST o}i.E OFF,
At this moment ovo ,ii o is under
arms. 'cstorday a .hundred thous
-told nign wore beating, the-iopnintaius
and valleys, up hill dil NhI "tale'
tharoughl pr'airiy'ad iforeit, shootiig'
and cousing, lunlting, afoot . andi
a-hgyrseback. The so,4iers of the
chase do not need coaxing. From
the instant the halloo Oouads they
are at their vork of destrulotion. L-.L
its hope that one day, when Ithe hour
for revenga striks, the for cious
hutismen will be in the front rank.
Meanwhiie overything is in a stato
of Clisorganization in the family, the
workshop and the relations of the
loveis. A hundred and fifty thou
sand young mn of the army of the
reserve are leaving their homes to
attend the rehersals of \var in all
our provinces. All Franco has be
como the theater of war--the word
was never better applied. It is the
first time the army' of reserve has
ever bean soon at work. Every on
goes joyously, with the sole regret
that lie must shave off his beard. It
is only France, "tie queen of na
tions," according to 3orange, which
is silly enough to compel liundreds
of thousands of young men who are
only to be soldiers for a month or so
to begin by cutting their boards. It
is is an abomination. * How will
they come back next month without
their hirsu.Lt glories, those liandsmono
anld prolld yotug soldiers' of twenty
saven yc:ars, who are awaited by
loving swoothearts ? There have
boon protests all along the line-my
beard here ! mny beard there I But
the countorsigi is "the art of being
'be:aten," and all must submit to it.
My son, Henry Houssayo, officer of
the Roserve, whom everybody calls a
copey of Lucius Verus, is getting
shavOd this moriing for the first
time of his life. It isa bitter trial to
see the sacrifice of his "erisp, curling
bcard," to use the: words of f heodore
do Barville. What imbecility to
order the disliguremont of 150,000
mom for shamu warfaro, and to permit
them to wear tleir beard when the
real fighting begins. But France.
which lc ds all nations in wit, leads
them also in stuplidity-I meani the
stupidity of her rulers. Moliere hasi
said, "Power is on the side of the
board." It is as silly to touch the
heard of a soldier as the locks of
$aunson. Bu1t thsisis tile secret. The
mn who give tho:ordr of the doy
have have white boards, and so are
willing to slhave ; and why shiouild
hantidsomo young~ follows, with black
01' blodo beards, kcop) the~irs ?
As for myself, I have been a sol
(diMr twiceO and have always kept my
board. Thie first time I had no
board whlen I enlisted ; tile second
timei, thle last warl, there wVas no time
to waste iln shaving. My board ran
a great risk in 1852, after tihe corp~
hetat. Tihe st'rng heads, if not tile
strong boeardsl of France, gave Na
pleonCl IIL, to uniderstand that thle
board was in open revolt against tihe
or'dor of tihe day ; thait as thle mili
tary had .no, right to wear boards,
tile civyilions should not sot them a
bad example. Thero was a ter'rile
raid made in all the deparhtots,
from Ministe o Garmdo Chmupertre:
aL mrillioni 0t boar'ds fell at a b)low. Ast
a functionary of State I wais comn
l)Lrisedt ill tihe harv'oft. M~y 'frimnd
Niounworkerke cameO ta mne one m-' '
mng. He!. wau; enIowned f' ri is 1e r.;i'
but11 he had cult it dohwn ',ec-ilp 1,
face. lHe was inexpressiI y hudi
crous, althiouigh mnelanchm 'dy mean
de~red thlrough all the paths ho had
fmashio'nedl from check to chin. I
swore in his5 prosonfco that I would
not cut my beard. But BaiLlocchi,
wvho wasm secrotaay of the or'ders of
the Emperor foi' the civil . sorvice,
enme to wvarn' m'e lhat I wais in rW'
hollion--that my boar~d wnd thd solo
Ono whlichl remained among all tihe
hiabitues of the Tuileries ; that I
mnust resign myself to the sacrifie.
"Well, .L avill not,! t'ad. "Toll thoe
Emperor thait I will give --up" mly
place soonier thanlm lIy boeard." Bac
cioccliht ired( up. "You are nothing
- but a Meorovingian. Napoleon I
ivas clean-faced' belore hiR lpe(ple as
before history. lHe had no boar'd,
nor nufthes,- nmor goatee, nor wilis
kors. 'do not stee why you should
be so 6bstinat.' In vain: I replied
that Napoleon elided' his dabs at St.
e holena for having shaved his beard.
H~e went away unconvinced, threat
ening *6, with phe thunders of imin
istorial; chflire. - Et6 the 3nk1lsh,
gardens of Nicuwerkerke had Aaved
me. When France laughs she if
dis tmed. INot only did I keop m
board by my heroic obstinacy, but I
g a ~rftteuysolf that I saved hun
dr.odsof others by Imrosample.
I ask pardon, my dlai Iede d
having abused your patience by thif
personal ' reminisconeo. I boliove
that if the .150,000 who are about to
bogin their drill at this hour ha i
made a little insurrection against: the
oxdar of thb day, they would 'not be
oinniin fors their boards, and would
'wo114d not be dreading the contempt,
the mnistakes, and the disillusions
whicimro awaiting them at their re
turn. W.
Mimn -dolgatlont.
An interesting set of politicians
from South Carolina , o .juet..eJt.
.here. They' come oitbto eon ter'ith
.|Cadigradaols on the political out
'look-for next year. The delegation
.wea loed by slippery Dick, yclept
R., B. Carpenter, who is fishing for
re-election to the Judgeship of the
Columbia Circuit. The other mem
bers wore Runkle, Northrop, Jim
Thompson, of Freedmen's Bank
notoriety, a little :fellow named
Gaylord, who came along to keep
the party sorer, and see that the
interests of his friend Moses received
no dotriment. After destroying
an immense amount of moan whisky,
and lavishing their money in ques
tidhable ways, the party left for
home-Ga:lord having to purchase
the return tickets. Thor resolved
to renominate 'refornyer Cliamber
lain, ' wit Cain, of Edgefiold, for
Lioutenadt-Govornor. Whittemore
is on their slate for Secretary of
State, and Bowen for Treasurer. If
this combination, wins the people can
best judge of Chamborlains's efficacy
as a "reformer" next year. The
negroes are still liUre who charge
Gov. Camberlhin with cornplici;y in
the Crows murder. 'There is no0 dobt
in my mind that Crews was killed
by Radicals "for .'polihical offect.
Wfashington (Jor. Chiron. f Sent.
A huring frat.
We laRt Sundty witnessed the
performance of a daring feat by Mis 3
Mosslold, of Lebanon, one of thne
most exquisitely beautiful girls in
this region- The false work for the
new bridge across the Santiam is
just in place, and 'rises some
forty feet above the water ; on the
top of this false work is placed a
single row of boards, reaching across
the river, from pier to pier ; and
this young lady on a ibanter, actually
walked this little track clear across
the river and back again. The hight
was so great, the water so turbu
lent, and the passage so narrow that
it actually made our head swim to
look at it, and yet the young lady
marched across it as firmly and con
fidently Rs if she had been wan:lor
ing quietly through some shady
grove, leaning on her jimson wood's
titalwart arm.-Albany (Oregon)
)c;nocrat.
Ex-Goveruor Horatio Seymour, of
Now York, wrote as folloi s in a let
ter declining an invitation to attend
the Georgia Stato Fair :"In fi- e
years from this time the census wvill
shiow our numbers to he more than
fifty millions. The day, then, is
dawnig when the lands of the South
will be greatly lifted up in value. I
have giyen much time and thought
to the agricultural condition of the
Unmitoed States. I have traveled ex
tensively, andl have examined with
eare into the industrm ial interests of
all1 sections, and I am confident that
hioreaftor the South will get a large
and growing share of those wvho are
seeking nowv homes oither frgm~
Europe or froml the older States 'of
the Union. Thinj flood-tide wvill bear
I pay or ho aywhen the South
for uintil it iS 5o th; 'oi be nug as.
siu'ed per1vading~ weiinu: in other sec
tins of our Un ion." Tm oso are the
words of anstat;aanp and shiou'd be
p-m. lrotl by the peopl1e of the No. th
0:'emo w.ith~ the RIdicails for pir..
y -i aiimhnical to our1 weflfare' anld
PAnnY -ro T-rS lnoNv AoAIN'.--An
Irishman had sold his farm, and
moved all is pere~onal ptopcrty to
one odjoihinig, which he had pu
chased.
,.:He claimed that stable manure was
personal property and not real os,
tate, and commenced moving the
same; A lawsuit onsued, and the
court declared against him. His
final i-emarks to the .Judge, after the
jury had found a vordlict against
him were auj ol19ws:e
t'Mr. Judge, a horse anf oow are
personal property ?"
"Yen," ssoyeed the Judge.
"Mr. Judgje, corn, ,oats, hay, etc,,
aro ,p~rPonal-'irkporty ?"
.''Yes," respondedY tho' Judge.
"T1hion," sa.id Pat, "ho* 'in the
devil can -personial property eat~ per
sonal property add prod1uce reales
tateT1
Twenty fite 'thousand nnsof
ld6# ~ * lfipped froe e Gitfy
Florida difiga Settibd.
Tlhe Pith of the Ciylohic from Galvestoi.
to Archangel.
We note with unabated interest
progress eastward of the great
V'cas cyclone that devastated. India
nola and Galvestoni After swooping
over the Atlantic in almost a diroet
line from its point of departure on
our coast the storm struck the
British Islannt, whore it repeated
the ravages tlt marked its progrops
in the United te and carried
shipwreck and ruin to the Irish and
English coasts and cities. The valley
of the Lee was inundated by the
9pprpl us rainfall that accompanied'
the furious meteor. Houses wore
unroofted, cattle drowned, and, ac
cording to the telegrams, many
human lives were lost. Indeed, but
or' the substantial character . of the.
bdildings on the territories swept by
the storm, ws would have revl of
disasters that would have create I
terrible parallel-to- those:- experA
enced along the coastrof the Guif of
Mexico. The latest rep irts annoino.
the arrival of the storm cen.e.r ao
Archangel, an inpoidtant seaport of
Northern Russik, situated at the
the mouth of the Dwina, on the
White Sea. At this point the stor.n
appears to have lost but little of its
original force, for we read of nothing
but shipwreck and ruin attending
its passage. On consulting a map
of the northern lefnisphero it will
be observed that the cyclone travwl
ad directly northeastward. A
str iglit line drawn on the nap
touching Fernandina, on the AthLn
tic coast of Northern Floiida, and
Archangel, on the White Sea, will
pass through the British Islands an'l
represent the exact track of the
storm. During its passage across
the Atlantic the cyclone had full
scope for a renewal of its energy,
which was impaired during the con
heot with our Southern States. It
struck the British Island then with
iniense fury and continued its
course over alternating areas of
water and low land, which scarcely
reduced its force. Southern Sweden
and Northern Russia are but slightly
elevated over the sea level, and thie
course of the cyclone will carry it
north to the Ural Mountains into the
Artic Ocean. The manner in which
these great cyclones become docom
posed in the higher latitudes is still
one of nature's secrets, awaiting, it
would seem, the thorough oxplora
tion of the Polar regions before it
hocomes known to science. The ox
podi tion sent out from England for
the discovery of the North Pole will
if successful, return to enrich ouir
store of information regarding these
wonderful meteors, and supply a
want long felt by scientific men in
the investigation of the laws which
unquestionably govern the pho
nomena of their development courses
and decomposition.
Ax UNFORTUNATE COMMENT.---Last
night Mr. Joblink had just hung up
his hat on the rack, and dressed up
his countenance in the amiable and
om g what conciliatory smile with
which he is wont to greet the part
nor of his bosom, when that lady ap
peared and pointed sternly to the
door. She said :
"Leave this house !"
"Matilda I"
"Don't Matilda me. Go."
"Dear me ," whimnpered Joblink,
rubbing his bald head with violence
"wvhat, in God's name, have I done
now '?"
"Done now, you brute ?" Look
therie ?"
Joblink took the newspaper held
out and read;
"The English language is more
.appkpmi than any other of the civilized
tonghds."
And on the margin opposite this
innocent statement of fact appea:red1
in Boblink's handwriting the ;nti
mont, "Too true."
< With a gro':, the huashb?' >md
fa/her (lopakrte~ i was aft er m:i
'3:1 Emgoe ~ a e .linn;. room.-~I.
WoMEN AND DE~'Ls.--ld Winmston
wasI a negro pronober irn Virginin,
and1( his ideas of theology and human
nature were oftenm very original,
A gentleman thus accosted the
old1 gentleman on Sunday 1 "Win
stoni; I understand you believe every
woman has seven devils,~ How can,
po rove it 7"
"y el sahi, did you never readT in
do Bible how seven~ debbles were
cast out'or Mary Magalin 7"
"Oh, yes I I've read that."
"Did you you ebbor~ hear of 'em
bein' east out of any* odor women,
sah ?"
"No, I never did."
"Wollh, den, all do oddere got 'em
yet.. .
CHARlLEsToN's Poj'urA~zoiw.-The
census of Charleston, just completed
shows 56,540 so4i, againit 4$8,956 in)
1870, anv increase0 of '7S84 in ,4ve
yea1% The colored populationm is
84 ad the' whi~ 24,628, the
ia6rease of hgjpg~ bee%
66o0i the greats
9ernmany's Noxt r
JaP1AiBING FOI A TUSDI Th "rlia
dol: dhesney, an eminent. military
oditic, has contributed to .Aii
d*:&e .fayazine an aitiale in which
l discusses the nilitary future of
&&#(any. A distinguished officer
in the Royal Engineers, Col. Cheeney
writes with the authority of a scion
tifle soldier, and he ..possesses the
acuteness of a keen political obser.
ver. His paper tht-owh light on
sbine obscure parts of European
politics, aud'we ' therefore state its
salient points.
The time has gone pant when we
bould consider the, next,, European
war. as a sitple duel of nations for
empireoin 'Europe. It will not be
Gorinany against. France or per
aany against Russia; butt Germany
and nose Aan one .power arrayed
+:ngdi3 h Her trit nphant. armzs
uave raise Prussia to a position far
.bove that in which Frederick the
Great pla4ed her. She holds the
first rank in the world as a military
power, but on the .European Conti
nont there is not a nation that is
friendly to' her. She had harvested
a measure of the hatred that Napo
leon I. brought on France by his
aggressive wars. Gernuuy recog
nizes this, and is porfecting her
military organization to a degree the
world has never before witnessed.
Instead of relaxing her efforts, after
conquering Austria and France, she
hais entered with renewed vigor into
Clo task of strengthening the poavpr
of the sword.
Ag.ainst whom are those great pre
parations being made ? Does Gor
many contemplate an attack on some
great power ? There is' no single
continental power she could not with
her present strength easily conquer.
Germany looks forward to Russia as
her great antagonist of the future.
The preparations are hurried for
ward to enable her to moot Russia,
:'ided by another European power.
Germany has to consider the possi
bility of a direct attack from Russia
and a fank one from France. It is
to meet such odds that shit has
turned her kingdom into a huge
camp, where the clank of the sabre is
hoard instead of the hum df industry.
This explains why she is perfecting
a mighty line of fortresses from
Coblontz to Strasburg on the side
of France-from whom alone she
has nothing to fear-and leaving her
western boundaries unprotected
She prepares for an active encounter
in the open field with Russia, and
she is building a barrier against
France, from whom sho expects a
simultaneous attack.
Between Russia and Germany are
all the elements that lead to war.
Both ambitious, they ' have their
mutual feelings of envy and dislike,
and view each other as obstacles
to their respective aggressive
designs. The German officers pro
claim it as their next duty to their
country to humble Russia. The bet
ter class of Russia point to the posi.
tion she hold under Alexander I, and
they say it is only a qnestion of time
when a quarrel wvill. be fastened on
their Teutonic neighbor. The
Czarowitz hates Prussia and Prus
sianizing, and represents the war
spihit.
In numbers the Russian army is
slightly stronger than the German,
lju~t it every other respect it is in
forior. Russia huau resolved to re
muove this inferiority. She has en
tered on a course of gigantic arm~y
organization, and is pushing it
vigorously along. When completed
(which will take fifteen years-she
will be able to summon to arms
2,000,000 effective salins, besides
galrrisoning her cmm inry. Sho is
fo rmning, too, an immernrsetU L.uisturm).
A r 'getheor it will make a t.oial of
5, ,00 iij men. Aier making
ren'im ble qddudions it will. be a
RussL ia neds nlo sneh p~reparations
for cfe''se, situnted as she is, anid
hee is no poer but
(Ger mny worthAy of ~sneh >repara.
lions. The pec co armny of tire latter
is 400),000Q, anid c.mf 1)0 treledO at
the wor~d of command, The new
Ladturm law is to provide her
viih 240' additional battalionis. Hier
army is the best equipped, the best
officored the world ever saw. Against
Russia nued she has nothing to
fear. Colonel Chesney seems to
think that. Russia, with an army or
gnzdas she proposes, andi with
Frneas an ally,- would have to-sub
mit at the hands bf the Germans by
virtue of the unity, the superior edu
cation, training and experience of
the latter. The cordon of fortresses
he deems would be well nigh im pas.
sable, except to a force cntro led
by a mind, of superlative strategic
ability. The time when this fight
wvill take plree and the nations that
will be implicated in it, none can
gopfidently forecast.- Chi'go. 7irnei
Mr. Rasnes La. IHubbardJ, of Norwich
Conn4 has given to the Pagk Cihuret
of that 61%ty ani organ btilt, at Wu:
S y, e WInes 1hu a . bugp
1awsueIt.
It was a peace-warrant;. .ase,
tween appuplo,of ..golopd n
n on, bqp a, Georgia gus ice d
the peace. I ,satntei-ed 'inrt the
court-room h just 'in tirno ' to - hoar
Uncle sip,' he. grizlo-haded. old
darkey wh wal. jpos ting, givp
his svidence ;4put. litl 1ti19sa
e~lQm0 to ii estib ifom
the Co1, .'d Zip gave hit.t'fous
ora an extre hits-i and turned, loose.
" er see,' *Ad he, "X wgr .a-sottin'
wid ilia, an' sho war. a'vottin' )vid
me; teLf do troof Mes be 'tok we
uns way . Ufp v s settin' -ter edE
der." I9
said the .Court,
$ns " rele } p. "Well
da e . war ilda's hous,"
I w 'm- -a-se ti'' " h de do';
an' Ti fal d-st in' i do do';
an' , .'a settln', :as I: tole. un
ate -
eovr Ind about that," said the
Justce, impatioitly. "Go on '.with
your story.' G on
"Yassur. Well, don, yel' see,
Tilda, she war a-settin' in do do';
an' I were a-settin' in do do'
"What happened next ?" asked
His Honor.
"Why, nuffin nobor happened nary
time," said Zip. "Yer see we iuns
war bofo a-pottin' tergedder"
"Oh I bother I "interxupted the
Court, "Go ahoad and make out
your case. Confine yourself to the
question."
"Yassur. 'Well, of yer mus' hab
it, I war s4ttin' between urn"
"Between who ?" interrogated the
court.
"Between who ? Oh I yassar," con
tinued the exasperating witness.
"I got uma now. Yer wants ter
know jes' who I war a-aettiu' witd 7'
"Bless your soul, yes I" said the
Justice, very emphatically.
"Well, Mai so Court, dat sorter
mixos up things. Unnerstan' rune
now, I'se a-tellin' yor do troof.
Deacon ob de Baptist church I is
an' I ouddn't toll a lie of I wanted
to. Well, den, Tilda war a-settin'"
"Hold up !" cried His Honor,
*eizing a ponderous law book.
"You've got to stop that everlasting
'sottin',' or I'll settle you. Toll me
-it once how many of you were at
this woman's house."
"Dat's jes' what I'm a cumin' at,'
said old Zip very calmly. "Yor
soo, in de fus' place, dar war
Tilda"
"Good !" remarked the court.
"Au' Tilda, yor see, war a--I
mean she war in do do.' An' dar
war me next. I war a-I war in de
do', an' we war bofo"
"Dry up!" said the Court. "Now
tell us where the defondint was."
"Dunno war ho war," said Zip,
scratching his head doubtfully.
"Spec'" .
"Do you mean to say 7" askec
the Court, with a rising inflectiong,
"that the defendent wasn't pres
ent 1"
Sartinly," replied Zip. "Ain'
got tor dat pint yit awhile. Isc
takin' yer back ter de beginning,
more'ni two yeah ago ; an' as I wvar
a tellin' yer, we war a settin', an
settin."
"Mr. Bailiff, adjourn this court !'
shouted His Honor, purple witi
indignation. "And make these par
ties settle their difficulty out in the
back yard."
The investigation came to an
abrupt close, and the last I saw ol
old Zip lie was complaining louidly
because ho couldn't toll the entiri
history of his cas.--WV. 1'5 Ree(
in the inldepenfdent.
A hack horse roll down on Gratioi
aivienuo, and amnong the ' crowd whiell
gaLthl're~d we' sovorpal negroes, one(
of whom sou~ght to boss the jol:
of getting the horso up again. HA
was~ doing~ a good deal of talking
when a r)iend and( brothe: walked
up iand domancdd:. .
"See hmenh,~ who is you ?
"I is Stephenl Iaker, sah," was th<
dignifiea reply,
"And was you in do war ?
"Xar ? war 1"
"Yes, ear, was youc inh de war 7"
"No, sah."
"Well, den, What b)usiness5 yor
got bossing arounde' 'here 'I Yoil
jest stand back and lot somnebody~
who w'as in do war (1o (10 talking:
Now deni, folks, lif't up on dat hiose
aW' kenp elfar of his hind heels.'
Thme one who was not in~ the wai
mneklf isat. dlown oms thme cifb stone
President Grant has been accept
ing thme hospitalities of Brigham
Yonng, just as though he was not
living in open defiance of the laws o1
the Unvited Stiate.. But sincell
made that speeh at D~op Moines hec
can har'dly be consid 'od roponibk4
for wlaa4 h doe..-- Porteidru
I' GenerM4Jf hms aaie
with the prediction that bythe Jai
of .Jammy,~ the Mje;iss ppi rive)
will have.~ aut a new cIlinnel, udt
Viekseburg, leavidg tilat lace tv
mile$s inand,
At tittle G 'b rswe
-t was a pl'as
1 QligA,pgry fJ t i
op atal oi roa of 1
a6'r6i e g oor f vp;-.speo in hisl90
and thoylsat on can e-boxes,e .
A cndle 4utdinate4, the board, ep-.
bliug tho rap;ter" (wbo hair d>op
pod in .o g'ta p i ua of sugar) t see
tidt'bh' han E a number of 4$lite.
boans'in front of hihh. They.wore
playing I arde, and i ept , h
romr p to the otlher ani,
hor'f hutadle, maybs p6r aps." O
iilan soem&d to be doing mbst of'the
tking is name 'wa g
g . .o talked,lileo , pegphe,1
aut the reportor ac t owin o1i a boor
keg 'il listened 0o in.
"I tell you ther's no use taulkiung
The best thiing'a ian 'can tlo is to
git iarried. Ginie three and !,bt
yon live beans., ,oin' single. has its
advantagos. Boo it and raiao y1
six. '13it the confort a rnah tk
ha iin' A 'wifeintijc a librao f -hit own-,
can't be told. -Raise me ten, eh iI
see it and call. Duimlit, you've got
the spot again, Jim. Put a bit of
ico in mino and a dash o' bitters.
Yes, boys, a wife's a good thing, you
bet your bottom dollar. Whew l
ton 'to coma in I All right, Jim.;
stra,ddlo your blind. NQw, when a
man gets through his day's work, an'
fools tired an' worn out, -.what's
nicer'o to go h6me an' "find a gbod
little wife waitin' fur you, tend to
throw her arms 'round yor neck an'
-Oh, Lord I"
A hush fell upon the corner' gro
cory as -she vwalked in with a
shawl over, hor thead and brought
hiin o1e on thO side of hor head that
sent his Cards flying and upset his
ouckta il. Neither of thorn spoke a
word, but he lodkJod as if he had lost
one foot of his six as lie followed her
otit Evcn the sibdded' siicker 'be
hind him cduldi't make himr look
meanor.-Vr ( e(',n.) O.hrontle
A Fair Gane, But Ne4 (qnm!.
During the war a Georgian started
to 14arietta vith some chickens for
sale. He met a squad of soldiers, and
they bought all the chickons but one
rooster. Ho insisted they should
tLko him, but they wero out of money
and couldn't buy.
The old man said ho hated to go
on to town with only one chicken,
and was greatly puzzlod about it.
At last one of the soldiers said
"Old man, I'll play you a ganio of
soven up for him."
"Agreed,' says the old man.
"They played a long and spirited
game. At last the soldier won. The
old man wrung the rooster's neck
and tossed huim at the soldier's feet,
and mounfod his swah-tailod pony
and started home. After getting
about two hundred yards he sidden
ly stopped, turned round, and rode
back and said :
'You played a fair gamo and won
the rooster fairly, but I'd like to
know what in the h-1 you put agin
that roostor.'-Mer'idian Home
Rare' and dainty stockings are
' worn; to correspond to other costly
details of thw6 toilet. Black silk
stockings are worn which are cov
orod with flowers ombrofdered ini
tihe brightest of silks. CIreanm-col
ored stockings have soles and side
pointed gores of crimson ; pale
blue wvith rose color black with
scarlot. This latter style has small
polka spots embroidered with
Swers followingthe pattern. Paile
I hwsilk, stockings hmave the feet
and ext'ehding above the ankle cov
cr~ ,with; a deep) bine. Sitnilar
styhvs are worn haing a flesh color'
anid faint b;lue, pink and whlite,
anmbr' and wivtoi, n I exquisiItely cm
broideredi with flosn.---New Yor/1c
Tr'',ibunc.'
A C'onnootient girl baby came into
the world the other dgay to find lher
rulationn so mfixed1 up thnt shme will
never get thom straight as long as
I he lives. Hecr greategrandmother
it; first cousinl to her gW'eatgrand
father ; her step-grandifather is
first cousin to. her ;iother;. her
uncles and atints are h r second
(5)ltRins, and her mother is 'hex' third
cousin,~ But of' course the poor
littlei thing doesn't know' It yet.
HoF.-amuel J. IRandall ad.
dressed a Democratic meeting in
fng, bei g'ifntrotifeed 'as "the next
Spokker of the rfotrte of Kepresen
t~tives 'at Washigto1i? Hoesaid
tie saW evr'y. indica&ti~O. of a ccess
ijrtle city and State, .i hloped
that ,the~ Democratio oraion
Iwould be af' doinplete ain'Oio
tn th~at cao 'thog lIad nothinug to
W1 In'n
e 14m Ioe a t o(br idlfrado
L esok'Msto her spe'chu :' "1- .0tfes
y oia-etoff n'on Waw, is her
dairnare e"Lhie ega went hatch.''
- renutTopics.
Ir d7O10,0 Ooo AS(NALt
bt5 debts, debts I Tai
ktaoes I The amount of ta"
ow grwbn from the American p
tleu aling. The Federal, tli
taffs~e, a the municipal goe
34en f till United States are o#
tcuhidd -'ith mountain lbad 0
debts, (ar railways and incorp
fed jstitutions of every kind
doy4, with, the same com lain
euting upon this, the
"In a short article on taxation
America, ,which we copy to-da O
the IWorWh that paper sho ;the
th. pplo pf the United t tted pa
annyaly, ii the way of' taxes, th
suin of seven hundred and sixty inil
'libns of d61lars--being an amoun
vastly in 4*coss of the value of
their exportable crops, and ignount
hng to. ovg five and one-half pe
cent,,on the assessed valuation of all
thd thxabld property of the country,
Nd*,' as: that per contum- of cl
income from property is really
a large .ono-probably above the
rata in any country in the world ex
copt the United States-the proper
tyitsolf is virtuall struck out o
existence as assets by this showing,
and the country as a unit might
well be doclured in a condition of
bankruptcy. If we are worth any
thing at all, it lios only in the degree
of undervaluation of this property
fortaxes, and iu the unreturnea
property.
It isa desperate showing, demande
ing a tuhivorsal uprising of the peo
pl for retrenchment in government
reduction of taxes. And besides all
that, it egnfounds us to conjecture
how these furious contractionists
propose to meet this enormous out.
lay for yearly taxes with a currency.
which nmubt be substantially limited to
the amount of specie which cal be
found or retained in the country--..if
it is to consist of redeemable
paper.- It is an alarming scheme
and will virtually double the tax on
the people by taking away half the
funds to pay it.
On Wedncsday night last, Odom*
Kennedy and Adam Johnston, both
colored, confined in the jail at
Aiken, made their escape by digging
beneath the cell door. They toro
up the brick flooring and made a.
hole largo enough to force their
bodies through, and it is presumed
that between the hours of 12 and 1,
o'clock they mndo their exit.
A Westerly, B. I., cergyinan
married a couple the other- night,.
received his fees and sent them
away, apparently satisfied, but a
day or two after, the bridegroom
returned and said that he had: come
to pay more;- as the woman had
turned out much better than h ex.
poeted.
The Now York World says : "The
Ohio election prognosticates no
good to any of the Republican Presi
dentialcandidates who have been
herctofore prlominent in the field.
It brings forward at onae into the
front rank a now candidate, with
p ortontous claims. Governor Hayes
hssuddenly asuned the leading
position in Ins party."
A genitleman from Augueta informe
uk of the burning of 'the town ptf
yohnston; int Edgeliold .County, on
lho C. C. & A. R. I.- The best part
of fho towvn is destroyed, there being
no loss than severi of the' principal
business places' burned.- Tihe fire
was '1lat observed late- on Sunday
hight but not in' time to -savo the
STmtowsi AwAY.-An inebrikate ir.
tdividual staggeored into the' Detroit'
City Hlli aul yolled oup:.
"Rahi f'r Fou'Lh July !"
"13ouzth of July, youi donghihead,'
repliiefa poli coman-.."'yhy, its~
N[ know i."
"The 16 th day of September."
"0ourso 'tis, an' zhont Fou'th July#
alhts come on shi:dconth day 2 6ep.y
tomber ?"
"No, you idiot,"
zhont ?":
ebiato, "to go'n frow- wnf' all' shi
drimk I!
And ho-staggered'nadly'out'.
On Sunday night- last,- 'Wo ior's
saw ill,- situated-a few mihlJ f6m
GrM'itoville; was comple1 dbtroy -
ed by fire. The loss an e ted at ,
about $500, oil which theN6iR tio in
surance. The fire is sny)$~bed'ti,'B
~he work of an iioeridiatjf as there
wa& nothing about the illl whicht
6oiuld have been the-accid nrtal cause'.
of the conflagration.
MipON JUxdE n' usdB :ifle.'E
Ievlflouit ittates tha 6ion jtriced
id$as a pargle, fE ary eflicaciedP
eedinec against 4itheria-addhMin14t
tirddat trou~oe. ReIohaat ste stfitE
ly tRus employed it for over j
teen y'oars..-iceaiflo .Amerea