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fflGGINS AND TEE WIDOW.
One Sunday Higgins came into my office and
sat down withe ut a word, f For some minutes
he sat still, watchiug me intently as if he was
trying to make out by the sound of my pen
? what I was writing.
.w^?auire," said he at length, "did I ever tell
; you about my scrape with the widow Horry, up
' here on the river ?"
"Never did," said I, laying down my pen,
'let's hear it"
"They're curious creatures, widows is," said
Be in a, meditative tone, "and the more you
study about 'em the more you don't know any?
thing about 'em. What was this thing I've
read, about in Egypt, or some other country,
that nobody could unriddle ?"
"The Spbynx, probably," I replied.
9 ^Vk^U,' Jhe^CQntjnued, "that was a widow as
sure as y?ti ever had a granny. Everything
else in the earth has been found out but them,
arid they're as much a mystery to-day as the
length of the North Pole.
"You may read the history of the world from
Genesis to Revelations, and you'll find that
w .dows has been at the bottom or top of five
quarters of all the devilment that's been cut
up. Was you ever in love \rith one ?"
"Lots of them," said I.
"You're a great gander?that's what you
i.are," said. he. "A man than loves one and gets
over it won't never git bit by another, if he's
got 83 much sense as a ground hog. I don't
consider that I've gotany sense at ail, but I'm
a little grain too smart to let another of them
get all the trumps on me. The widow Horry
that I was speaking of, is little the handsomest
woman, I reckon, that ever looked a man into
fits, and I ought to be a judge, for I've seett lots
of pretty women" in my day. She was about
twenty-five years old when I went up there to
work, just in the bloom of her beauty, and as
full of .deviltry as a three year old mule colt.
There was a hall over at Jenkins', and,of course
I went, for I always go where there's any fun
.going on, and generally act the fool before I get
w*way. of course.
"The widow was there, dressed as fine as Sol?
omon's lilies, and flying around as frisky as a
young lamb in a rye patch. I got introduced
-to her and asked her to dance with me, and
when she flashed her eyes at me and said "yes,"
I jumped up like I had set down on a hot grid
die. You may talk about sensation, but when
she took hold of my hand and I sorter squeezed
it, I felt a sensation as big as a load of wood,
and it kept running up aud down my back like
a squirrel with a hawk after him. I'm very
fond of dancing, bat I'll be banged if I know
whether Tenjoyed it that night or not, for ev?
ery time she-took hold of my hand I'd com?
mence feeling curious behind my ears and up
and down my back again, and theu I wouldn't"
know whether I was on earth or in a balloon,
or bn a comet, or anything about it. It was
undoubtedly a case of love at first sight, aud u
powerful baa case at that. For a wonder I go?
through the frolic without making myself con?
spicuous or cutting up any extras, as I'm in the
habit of doiDg when I go into public. I'd set
my pegs to go home with the widow after the
ball, but just as I was fixing my mouth to ask
. her, up steps a big, long, leather-faced doctor,
named Mabry, and walked her right off before
my eyes. That riled me a little, but I kept my
tongue' still, inwardly swearing to break his
hones the very first opportunity that presented
itself.' I saw there was no use in saying any-<
thing, so I went home and went to bed, aud all
the rest of the-night I was dreaming about
rainbows, angels, butterflies, fiddles, widows
:.nd doctors, mixed up worse than a Dutch?
man's diun er.
; "Well, 'Squire, to make a short story of it,
1 made up my mind to have the widow, or kill
myself, or somebody eise.
'""So I made it convenient to be on hand
where she was, upon all occasions. I couldn't
c?t nor sleep nor work, and if the thing had
nekl on, I wouldn't have had sense enough left
to skin a rabbit. But I was determined it
shouldn't last long, for I'd been fooled so often
by women that I thought I wouldn't give her
time to think of anything but me. She ap?
peared to take to me right sharply and the doc?
tor seemed inclined to mix in with me, but I
didn't consider hhn no more than a brush fence,
for I was so far gone I thought she could see
nobody on earth but me. Well, Squire, things
(wenfr'on so for 3bout a month, and one Sunday
I screwed up my spunk and nut the question to
her. She sorter laughed ana sorter looked one?
sided, and finally told me she couldn't give me
an answer just then, but if I'd call at her house
next Thursday evening, she'd give me a final
anstter. Thinks I you are mine just as sure as
there's a fiddler below. Whenever a woman
takes time to study she'll say yes. 'Squire,
don't the poets say something about the calcu?
lation of men and rats going crooked ?"
"Mice and men, Burns says," I answered.
"Well, mice and rate is all one, and so is
men and fools sometimes, as I have found out
10 toy travels. I was so sure she would have
m'e' I went off and spent all my money for fine
clothes, thinking I would have them ready for
the wedding?and I did! Confound that widow,
l3ayf Confound all the widows! Thursday
evening came at last, though it was a long time
about it, and over I went, dressed into fits, and
feeling as big as Josh Raynor did when he was
elected coroner. I got there about dark, aud
fonnd a right smart crowd collected, which was
not on the bills, but I felt as big and as good
as the rest of 'em. So I marched in like a
blind male into a potato patch, and took a scat
by the fire. I didn't see anything of the widow,
hut I kept looking for her to come in and send
for me, and passed away the time by cussin'
the crowd to myself, thinking they had no bu?
siness there, and I would not get to talk to my
woman a bit Presently the door opened aad
in walked Polly and that long legged Doctor,
and a whole team of boys and girls fixed up
savagely, I tell yon. I looked around for a fid?
dler, they were going to have a ball, but won?
dered what they all kept so still for, aud was
about proposin' a reel, when up gits a little
preacher, and before you could-swallow a live
oyster, he had Polly and the Doctor married
faster than a Mexican greaser could tie a bull's
horns. I was so completely flummuxed that I
set there with my mouth open like 1 was goin'
to swallow the whole crowd, and my eyes looked
like billiard balls till the ceremony was over,
when I jumped up and bellowed:
"I foroid the concern from being consti toted."
"You are a little too late, ray friend," says
the preacher, and they all commenced laugh?
ing like they seen something funny.
"I'll be squizzlad if I don't be soon enough
for somebody yet," says I, "for I was mad,
'Squire, and no mistake in the ticket. I do be
Qeve l could have eat that doctor quicker than
a hungry dog could swallow a squirrel skin, ifl
I could have bad a fair chance at him. It was
too bad after I had fixed up to marry her my?
self, for he rto walk right out before my eyes
ana marry that great babboon."
"It was bad, that is a fact," said I. "Bad I"
cried he, "it was meaner tb.?.n eating fried
.coon. 1 fir.*., thought I'd go ^ti iiitrLr home, but.
then I concluded that wouldn't anile nobody,'
so I determined to stay and see if I couldn't
fet satisfaction out of somebody. You know
'in the deuce to get myself or somebody else
into a scrape when I take a notion, and i'd ta?
ken one that night that went all over me like a
third day chill, so I commenced a study'n out ]
some plan- I recollected hearing the doctor say |
that where he come from (but the Lord only |
knows where that was) the bride and groom al- i
ways washed their faces together before they |
went to bed, as a charm against infidelity or1
imbecility, or some other long word. While I
was studyin' about that, I spied the doctor's
saddle bags sitting in the corner, so I waited
till they went into supper, and then I got the
bags and looked to see what I could discover.
Nearly the first thing I saw was a piece of lu?
nar caustic. I slipped it into my pocket, for I
had my plan as soon as I saw it. Well, I
watched around till I saw one of the girls go to
the pail with a pitcher, so I went out and asked
her what she was going to do with it; she said
she was going to carry it into the room for the
doctor and Polly to wash their faces in. I kept
talking to her while she was filling the pitcher,
and when she turned her head I dropped the
caustic into it. It was then about bed time,
and I got my hat and put out, but I couldn't
help laughing all the way home, whenever I'd
think about it next morning.
"Well, 'Squire, they do say that when they
waked up next morning they both had the
hardest kind of fits, each one thinking they
had been sleeping with a nigger. Oh, it was
rich 1 He a cussin' and tearing up things, and
she a screamin' and faintin' and comin' to and
foin' on again, and me not there to see it.?
'hey made such a unearthly racket that the
folks broke into the room to see what was the
matter, and there they was with their faces
and hands all as black as the inside oi an old
stove pipe. I'd a give half my interest in
tother world just to have been at some safe
place where 1 could have seen the whole row.
As soon as they found out that they was really
the same folks that married the night before,
tboy called for warm water and soap, but just
here the doctor happened to think about the
pitcher, and took it to the door to see what was
the matter. There was a little piece of caustic
that had not dissolved, and as soon as he saw
it he says:
"It's no use washing, Polly, all the soap in
New York can't wash the black off."
"That was the truth, 'Squire, soap and water
had no more effect than It would on a native
born African, and all the chance was to wait
and let it wear off. How long it took them to
get white again I never found out, but one
thing I know," he concluded, getting op to go
out, "the next time I saw the doctor I had the
hardest fight, and come the nighest getting
whaled that I ever did in all my life I"
Hunting the Goat.?It is not often that
we hear of any fun in Hancock county. The
residents of that portion of the moral vine?
yard, as included in the boundaries of West
Virginia, are not given to much levity. When
they do get a chance, however, they make all
there is to be made out of it. They have had
a sensation at New Cumberland. Thus runs
the story :
The Odd Fellows' Lodge-room is situated
over the town hall, or some other public place,
aud a man named Atkinson, desiriug to haug a
chandelier in the lower ball, instead of going
to whoever had charge of the key of the Lodge
room, through the floor of which he desired to
hang his chaudelier, broke open the door. He
is a strong anti-Mason, anti-Odd -Fellow, and
anti-everything else that is not in accord with
his owu shullow aud prejudiced ideas, so he
didn't think there was any harm in breaking
open the dour of such a sink of iniquiry as he
regarded the Lodge-rooiu.
There was not much to sea when be got in,
nor could be find a suitable, place through
' which to bore the hole he desired to make.?
Looking around he found a scccud dcor, that
oi an ante-room, where the regnlia and para?
phernalia of the lodge were kept. Of course
ho broke that open, and there a.ale his ar?
rangements for suspending the ehuLdelier in
the room below.
The affair created great extitemeut in New
Cumberland, as will be readily imagined, and
Atkinson was arrested for the offense. Now
for the fun.
Some wag who had strayed from some place
i where jokes are practiced and enjoyed, got out
a handbill reciting the outrage, and setting
forth that, because of Atkinson's leaving the
door opened when he came out, the goat had
escapea, and offering a large reward for hie re?
capture and return to a brother of the Order,
who was named in the handbill. The reward
was so great as to tempt the cupidity of all the
boys in Hancock county, and no goat now has
a particle of comfort on her hills. No sooner
does a goat show his head than the boys get
after it and take it to the Odd Fellow alluded
to for identification. So many he goats, kids
and everything else of the goat order or archi?
tecture have been offered that Bro.-begins
to think that the goat is a bore. He has told
the boys that the whole thing is a fraud; but
they won't believe him, and day after day they
waltz over the hills of Hancock county, in a
never ending, untiring search for the goat that
got out of the Odd Fellows' Hall.? Wheeling
Register.
The Use or Tobacco.?We observe that a
very lively d scussion on tbe use of tobacco re?
cently occurred at the meeting of the New
York Methodist Conference, on a resolution
recommending the entire abstinence from the
use of the weed. The venerable Dr. Richard?
son made a spirited defence. He said that af?
ter arriving at manhood he was attacked by a
distemper which all efforts of physicians failed
to relieve, but which was cured by smoking.?
On his subsequently attempting to abandon the
practice, a recurrence of the disease took place,
which lead him to resume the habit. He af?
terwards began the practice of chewing tobac?
co, using it in a cleanly manner, without ex?
pectorating, and he had lived to the age of
eighty-three in excellent health. "He felt like
blessing tobacco, every morning oi his life."?
One member of the Conference testified that
the use of tobacco had aided to prevent a loos?
ening of his teeth, and that the temporary re
linquishment of the practice had been attended
with disastrous results. Another member re?
counted fhe benefits bis wife bad derived from
the occasional nso of p. cigar, which was the
only manner in which she could obtain relief
from asthma. Despite these arguments, how?
ever, the resolution was passed.
There ire, says the Richmond Whig, fanati?
cal people who regard the use of tobacco as one
of the deadly sins, and would not tolerate its
use if it cu;ed the diseases that flesh is heir to.
This war upon it will continue to go on, and
without producing the desired reformation it
can be called. People will continue to smoke,
chew and snuff in spite of all that shall be
preached or written against "the noxious weed."
fhey find a comfort in it that nothing else af
ford.8 People who do not like it will not use it,
and it is extremely foolish in those with whom
it does not agree to indulge in its use. Those
addicted to its use should studiously avoid so
usiug it as to incommode, others. If its indul?
gence is not in violation of good morals it, may
be so managed as not to violate good manners.
?Savannah News.
? What a miehty procession is marching to
ward the grave during each year I At the usu- |
nl estimate, during a year, more than 3u,000,000 |
of the world's population go down to the earth
again. Place thorn in a long array, and they
will give a moving column of more than thir?
teen hundred to. every mile of. the globe's cir?
cumference I Only think of it; ponder aud
look upon these astounding computations!?
What a spectacle, as they move on?tramp,
tramp, tramp, forward upon this stupendous I
dead march. )
"The Learned Professions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes tn>"';s f''0 f?>lh wing !
dissertation upon lawyers, ministers and doc-;
tors, which will be recognized as measurably
true to the actual experiences of life;
The lawyers are a picked lot, "first scholars,"
and the like, but their business is as unsympa
thetic as Jack Ketch's. There is nothing nu-1
manizing in their relatious with their fellow- j
creatures. They go for the side that retains |
them. They defend the man they know to be j
a rogue, and not very rarely throw Buspicicion |
on the man they know to be innocent. Mind
yon, I am not finding fault with them ; every
side of a case has a right to the best statement,
it admits of; but I say it does not tend to make ;
theui sympathetic. Suppose in a case of Fever j
vs. Patient, the doctor should side with either I
party according to whether the old mieer or his
expectant heir was his employer. Suppose the
minister should side with the Lord or the devil,
according to the salary offered and other inci?
dental advantages, where the soul of a sinner
was in question. You can see what a piece of
work it would make of their sympathies. But
the lawyers are quicker witted than either
of the other professions,* and abler men gen?
erally. They arc good-natured, or, if they
quarrel, their quarrels are above-board. I don't
think they are as accomplished as the minis?
ters, but they have a way of cramming with
special knowledge for a case which leaves a
certain shallow sediment of intelligence in
their memories about a good many things.?
They are apt to talk law in mixed company,
and they have a way of looking around when
they make a point, as if they were addressing
a jury, that is mighty aggravating, as I once
had occasion to see wheu one of 'em, and a
pretty famous oue, put me on the wkuess-stand
at a dinner party once.
The ministers come next in point.of talent.
They are far more curious and widely interest?
ed outside of their own calling than either of
the other professions. I like to talk with 'era.
They are interesting men, full of good feeling,
hard workers, always foremost in good deeds,
and, on the whole, the most efficient civiliziug
class, working downward from knowledge to ig?
norance, that is?now aud then upward, also?
that we have. The trouble is, that so many of
them work in harness, and it i? pretty sure to
chafe somewhere. They too often assume prin?
ciples which would cripple' our instincts and
reason and give us a crutch of doctrine. I
have talked with a great many of 'em of all
sorts of belief, and 1 don't think they have
fixed everything in their own minds, or are as
dogmatic "in their habits of thought as. one
would think to hear 'cm lay down the law in
the pulpit. They used to lead the intellijzence
of their parishes; now they do pretty well if
they keep up with it, and they are very apt to
lag behind it. Then they must have a col?
league. The old minister thinks he can hold
to his old course, sailing right into the wind's
eye of human nature, as straight as that fa?
mous old skipper John Bunyaii; the young
minister falls off three or tfour pointii and
catches the breeze that left the old man's sails
all shivering. By and by the congregation
will get ahead of him, and then it must have
another new skipper. The priest holds his own
pretty well; the viinister is coming down every
generation nearer and nearer to the common
level of the useful citizen?no oracle at all, but
a man of more than average moral instinct,
who, if he knows anything, knows how little
he knows. The ministers are good talkers,
only the struggle between nature and grace
makes some of 'cm a little awkward occasion?
ally. The women do their best to spoil 'em, as
they do the poets ; you find it very pleasaut to
be spoiled no doubt; so do they. Now and then
oue of them goes over the dam ; no wonder,
they're always in the rapids.
By this time our three ladies had their faces
all turned toward the speaker, like the weather?
cocks in a northeaster, and I thought it best to
switch off the talk on to another rail. J
"How about the doctors ?" I said. .
"Their's is the least learned of the profes?
sions, in this country at least. They have not
half the general culture of the lawyers, nor a
quarter of that of the ministers. I rather
think, though, they are more agreeable to the
common run of people than the men with black
coats or the men with green bags. People can
swear before 'em if they want to and they can't
very well before ministers. I don't care wheth?
er they want to swear or not, they don't want
to be on their good behavior. Besides, the
minister has a little smack of the sexton about
him ; he comes when people are in extremis,
but they don't send for him every time they
make a slight moral slip?tell a lie, for in?
stance, or smuggle a silk dress through the
Custom House; but they call in tho doctor
when a child is cutting a tooth or gets a splin?
ter in its finger. So it doesn't mean much to
send for him, only a pleasant chat about the
news of the day ; for putting the baby to rights
doesn't take long. Besides, everybody doesn't
like to talk about the next world ; people arc
modest in their desires, and find this world as
good as they deserve ; but everybody loves to
talk physic. Everybody lovcS to hear of strange
cases; people are eager to tell the doctor of the
wonderful cures they have heard of; they want
to know what is the matter with somebody or
other who is said to be suffering from "a com
Elication of diseases;" and above all, to get a
ard name, Greek or Latin, for some com plaint
which sounds altogether too commonplace in
plain English. If you will only call n head?
ache a Cephalalgia, it acquires dignity at once,,
and a patient becomes rather proud of it. So
I think doctors are generally welcome in most
companies.
I What to do when is Trouble.?Don't
j try to quench your sorrow in rum or narcotics.
I If you begin this, you must keep right on with
I it, till it leads you to ruin ; or if you try to
I pause, you must add physical pain aud the coi -
I sciousness of degradation to the sorrow you
I 6eek to escape. Of all wretched men, his con
| dition is the most piiiful who, having sought-io
j drown his grief in drink, awakes from his de
j bunch with shattered nerves, aching' head and
depressed mind, to face the same trouble again.
! That which was at first painful to contemplate
j will, after drink, seem unbearable. Ten to one
the fatal drink will be again and again sought,
till its victim sinks a helpless; pitiful wreck.
Work is your true remedy. If misfortune
hits yuu hard, hit you something else hard;
pitch into something with a wilT There's
nothing like good, solid, absorbing, exhausting
work to cure trouble. If you have met with
losses, you don't want to lie awake taiukiug
about "them. You wan't sweet, calm., sound
sleep, and to eat your dinner with appetite.
But you cau't unless you work. If you say
you don't feel like work, and go a loafing all
day to tell Dick and Harry the story of your
woes, you'll lie awake and keep your wife
awake by your tossing, spoil her temper and
your own breakfast the next morning, and be?
gin to-morrow feeling ten times worse than you
do to-day.
There are some great troubles that only time
can heal, and perhaps some that can never be
healed at all; but all can be helped by the
great panacea, work. Try it, you who are af?
flicted. It is not a patent medicine. It has
proved its efficacy since first Adam and Eve
left behind them with weeping their beautiful
Eden. It is an officinal remedy. All goud
physicians in regular standing prescribe it in
cases of mental and moral diseases. It ope?
rates kindly and well, leaving no disagreeable
segualltn, and we assure you that we have taken
a large quantity of it with most beneficial ef?
fects. It will cure more complaints than any
nostrum in the innteria niedica, and conies
nearer to being a "cure-all" than any drug or
compound of drugs in the market. And it will
not sicken you if you do not take it sugar-coat?
ed.?Scientific American.
? Two young ladies in Knoxville have a
suit for the possession of a gold ring, claimed
by both as the evidence of plighted troth from
a young man who has proven faithless to each
of them.
Ail ftoris of Par .^raplis.
? "My wife," said a critic, "is the most
even-tern nCred woman in the world?she is al?
ways maa."
? A printer's devil in an Omaha office was
bitten by a dog a few days since. The dog lin?
gered several days and then died in great ago?
ny.
? A Omaha paper advises the people "not
to make such a fuss over the shooting of one
constable, a3 there are over forty candidates for
the office."
? An editor out West advertises to take corn
in pay for his paper. He says he prefers it in
a liquid state, but will take it in the ear if he
can't get it otherwise.
? An old bachelor at a wedding feast had
the heartlessness to offer the following toast:
"Marriage?the gate through which the happy
lover leaves his enchanted regions and returns
to earth."
? Somebody has been fool enough to waste
good ink in printing a book entitled "Lectures
to Married Men," just as though they would
buy that which they get for nothing every
night at home.
? She lived a life of virtue and died of the
cholera morbus, caused by eating green frnit,
in the full hope of a blessed immortality, at the
early age of 21 years, 7 months, and 16 days.
Reader, go thou and do likewise.
? A temperance lecturer, being seen coming
out of a tavern wiping his lips, effectually dis?
armed suspicion by explaining that he had a
severe toothache, and only went in to get a
clove to put in bis tooth.
? If six men eat ten apples,, how many
pumpkins can four cows eat? Multiply the
ten apples by the four cows, and divide the re
suit between the six men and the pumpkins.
The true answer will be the amount.
? It is said that many people owe their long
lives to their nannels, and it is a known fact
that external preservation from damp prolongs
life, and that even in the hottest days in eum
? mer, flannel garments should not be discarded.
? A German, while crossing the Alleghany
Mountains during the winter, states: "Dat ven
going up de mnuntains his foot slipped him on
the ice, and he coom down on the broad of his
back, mit his face sticking in de mud, and
dere he sthood."
? During the examination of a witness as
to the locality of the stairs in a house, the
counsel asked him which way the stairs ran.
The witness, who, by the way, is a noted wag,
replied r "One way they ran up, but the other
way they ran down."
? A lady who loved Bnlwer entered a book?
store just as one of the clerks had killed a large
rat. "I wish to see 'What Will He Do With
It?'" said she to a boy behind the counter.
"Well," said the boy, "if you will step to the
window, you will probably see him sling it into
the back lot."
? The Danbury News tells of a lady strang?
er who accosted'a little shabbily-dressed lad in
that town : "Where is your home, my little
son?" she asked. "I hain't got no home," he
answered. "Got no home ?" she repeated, the
tears standing.in her eyes. "No, inarm," said
be, equally affected ; "I board."
? A Mississippi paper tells a very refreshing
story of a young lady who, on graduating from
school, went home, hired a few colored laborers,
and went to funning. The result of the first
season's experiment was six hundred bushels of
corn, a large quantity of potatoes, and !>969 re
nlizcd from the sale of cotton, after all the ex?
penses of the year were paid.
? The season of ice cream being close upon
ns, it may be proper to call attention to the
fact that a number of German newspapers are
discussing various cases of poisoning by vanilla
ice cream which have occurred of late in differ?
ent European cities. There are many opinions
as to the source of the poison, but all agree
that the cool delicacy is sometimes poisonous.
? Lately at a Chicago picture gallery a
country couple were observed to stop entranced
before a picture of "Lord Ullin's Daughter,"
in which the drooping form of said daughter,
as the boat was tossed about by the waves, was
represented as being upheld by the stalwart
arm of her lover. While the male portion of
the rural pair gazed in silent admiration, the
female was heard to innocently murmur, "How
natural."
? Josh Billings never said a better thing
than this: "I hev allurs observed that a whin?
ing dog is sure to get lickt in a fight. No cur
of well regulated morals k.in resist the tempta?
tion to bite a cowardly purp that tries to sneak
off with his tale between his legs. The whinin
business man is just so. A good ringing bark
is wurth more to put greenbax in a man's pock?
et than forty-two years of whinin.""
Ceuebro-Spixal MExrxGETi.s.?The follow?
ing suggestions in regard to the prompt treat?
ment ot the first symptoms of this disease have
been printed under the sanction of a physician
of experience, and may be of service. Prompt
treatment is admitted to be of great, impor?
tance. In case where medical advice is readily
obtainable, the patient should of course be left
in the hands of the physician ; but when this
is not the case, some knowledge of the proper
manner of treating the first symptoms is desi?
rable.
"The disease is ushered in first with las?
situde, a chill, sick stomach, vomiting, pain,
especially along the snine and extending to the
head, and occasionally severe headache is the
first indication.' .-k>o<'. the extremities become
cold and moist, with a clammy sweat; blue
spo's appear under the skin, etc., etc. Any
combinatior of the above should give a warn?
ing of what they should expect.
"\'our first duty then i?* to send for your phy?
sician, losing no time, and jiutil he comes ap?
ply your domestic remedies thoroughly, first
by immersing toe feet in warm mustard bath,
rub the limbs thoroughly with tincture of red
Copper or of tea of the same, as well as the
ly genorally, and more especially along the
spiue from the bead down ; apply cold water to
the head and internally ; you may also admin?
ister cayenne and brandy, and other diifusable
stimulants.
"In thus filling the time your physician will
find you have been doing what nature indicated,
and his opportunities for saving a life are very
materially enhanced, whether he persists in
your treatement or substitutes some other to
suit the requirements of the case, or to gratify
his own fancy. Yet let me assure you, you
have done no harm if you have been thorough,
for I am well convinced these early efforts do
more to save life than all that will follow. The
disease is not contagious, and no one need fear
it on that ground, but clearly epidemic in cer?
tain neighborhooods, the cause of which has
not yet been satisfactorily explained."
Remarkable Preservation of a Human
Body.?The body of Mrs. Young, who died of
; cholera in this city in the summer of 1S54, was
j exhumed Wednesday last by undertaker John
T. Efinton, and taken in his "hearse to Mt. Ster
I ling, where the deceased resided previous to
her removal to Paris. At the time of her death
I Mrs. Young was landlady of the hotel now
I kept by John Griffith. Two or three weeks af?
ter her interment the family of the deceased
? went back to Mt. Sterling, and as she was bur
' ied in the strangers' lot her grave was neglected
and the mound almost le\ellcd with the com?
mon earth, so that when the two daughters
came la?? week lo see the removal, there was
some doubt as to whether they had found the
right grave, but they said they could tell if it
was their mother when the coffin was opened by
a pair of crescent-shaped ear-rings, and the
work of exhumation was commenced. When !
tlie burial case was brought to the surface, the !
plat covering the face was taken off, and the j
daughters, who expected to behold nothing but J
a skeleton, recognized the features of their dear
mother as natural as when the coffin-lid hid
them from view, with the exception of a slight
yellow discoloration and sinking of the eyes. \
The wreath of flowers upon the bosom looked j
quite fresh, but bad a yellow tinge; tho rose-!
buds in her hair had not fallen from the parent j
stem.?Paris 7hic Kenluckian.
Extraeta from Josh Billings' Essays.
FASTIDI? OBNESS.
Fastidiousness iz merely the ignorance ov
propriety.
I hav saw people who had rather die and be
buried than say bull. They wouldn't hesitate
tew say male cow. If the thoughts are pure
and the language iz chaste, it will do tew say
almost ennything.
The young lady who, a fa years ago, refused
tew walk akrost a potato field-, bekauze the po
tatoze had eyes, ran away from home soou af?
terwards with a jewelry pedlar.
Fastidiousness, az a general thing, iz a holly
day virtew, and i bav frequently notissed that
thoze individuals who are alwus afrade they
shal kum akrost sumthing hily improper, are
generallv looking for it.
Fastidiousness and dclikasy are often kon
fouuded, but thare iz this difference?the truly
delikate aint afrade tew take holt ov things
that they are willing tew touch at all with
their naked bands, while the fastidious are
willing to take a holt of eony thing with gloves
on.
Delikasy iz the coquetry ov troth ; fastidious?
ness izthe prudery ov falsehood,
love.
Love iz one ov the pashuns, and the most
difficult one ov all tew deskribe.
I never yet hev herd love well defined.
I hav read several deskripshuns ov it, but
they were written by thoze who were in love
(or thought they waz), and I wouldn't beleave
such testimony, not even under oath.
Almoste -every boddy, sum time in their life,
baz bin in love, and if they think it iz an eazy
sensashun tew deskribe, let them set down and
deskribe it, and see if the person who listens to
the deskripshun will be satisfied with it.
I waz in lore once n.isclf for 7 long years,
and mi friends all said i had a consumpshun,
but i knu all the time what ailed me, but
couldn't dwkribe it.
Now all chat i kan rekolekt about this luv
sikness iz, that for those 7 long years i waz, if
enny thing, rather more of a kondem phool
than ordinary.
Love iz an honorabel disseaze enuff tew bav,
bekauz it is natral; but enny phellow who haz
laid sik with it for 7 long years, after he gits
over it feels sumthing like the phellow who
haz phell down on the ice when it iz very wet
?he don't pheel like talking about it before
folks.
The First Confederate General admit?
ted to the United States Senate.?The
Washington correspondent of the Boston Globe
makes the following comments upon the ad?
mission of Gen. Ransom, of North Carolina,
to the only vacant seat in the United States
Senate:
To-day there walked to the open space in
front of the Vice-President a gentleman whom
a sarcastic Radical reporter in the gallery above,
characterized as "the advance guard of the
Confederate army." It was appropria tely amen?
ded by the suggestion that he was "its rear
guard." Ex-Major Gen. Ransom, cf the Con?
federate army was sworn in as United States
Senator from the old North State, aud so the
vacant chair, originally made so by che inaugu?
ration of a movement for which so much was
sacrificed, was filled by a man who was a very
gallant and believing soldier in the army which
struggled to make these vacancies a finality.
The associations were iudeed peculiar. The
special na.ure of all represented in the presence
of that very handsome and dignified-looking
man, came up in vivid and striking memories.
Senator Ransom is the first man who has en?
tered the Senate after such service.
Senator Rausom is a man of about thirty
eight or forty years of age. He is tall, over
six feet I judge, and finely proportioned. Very
dark in complexion, his close trimmed black
beard and hair, as well as his keen dark eyes,
make^ up what the ladies might say, slightly
changing the tense, with rare old Chaucer, as
"Piercing their hearts with his pulchritude."
He is a lawyer by profession, was, as can be
seen, a young man when the rebellion began.
He was among the hrst to enter the Confed?
erate services, and was, i believe, in the field
to the end, serving for a long time as Major
General and doing severe service. He is a
Southern Democrat of the strictest sect, but
personally, modest and unobtrusive in pressing
his opinion, though likely to be a useful ally
on his side of the chamber.
Southern State Bonds.?In the financial
column of the New York Herald, of the 6th
inst. we find the following in reference to
Southern State bonds:
The bonds of the Southern States, never very
active in this market, are gradually sinking in
the scale of securities. This will continue to
be the case until some different course of poli?
cy from that now practiced in the South is in?
augurated. The financial status of nearly all
the Southern States is far below that of their
Northern and Northwestern sisters. Since the,
close of the war they have been drifting on
from bnd to worse condition, until they have
actually reached a point which makes repudia?
tion almost necessary. It is not yet too late,
however, for them to recover their former po?
sitions, s.nd save themselves from the disgrace
which attends and always follows a bankrupt
government. Their political condition requires
to be revolutionized. They must choose law?
makers who are ready to go heart and soul
into^the cause of retrenchment. They must
elec* legi si a tors who are anxious to perform
their duties in the interest of the State and for
the welfare of the people, and who are willing
to work for redemption instead of personal ag?
grandizement. They must have officers less
actuated by selfish desires, aud with greater af?
fection for the public good Ail who are en?
trusted with responsible positions should pos?
sess, in some ?tegree, at least, those cardinal
qualifications, virtue, justice, prudence and
fortitude, added to honest intentions and? disin?
terested motives. Until the Southern people
can effect a change in their political relations
that will lead them nearer to the requirements
above recited, they must not expect to regain
the proud and commanding positions they once
occupied in the Union family.
How the Nomination of Horace Gree
ley Was Brought About.?The papers are
crowded with reports from and speculations
and comments upon the Cincinnati Convention.
A dispatch to the Washington Patriot gives
the following account of how Horace Greeley
happened to be nominated:
Greeley's nomination may be said to have
been caused by one of those storms of passion
to which all popular assemblages are exposed.
Every vote changed was cheered by the New
York delegation with a sort of wild enthusiasm,
which operated magnetically upon the States
that followed. When the sixth ballot com?
menced, Adams led the poll fifty-one votes, and
all the indications pointed to his success, and
the contest did not grow animated until Geor?
gia suddenly broke the line. From that in?
stant the stampede was general, until it resul?
ted in an overwhelming victory for Greeley.
The usual formalities were quite forgotten iu
the uproar that followed the motion to make
the nomination unanimous, which came from a
New York delegate. The motion was finally
put; but while there was a loud and general
aye, there were a great many nays, and the
chair decided that it was not unanimous. He
decided, however, that Hon. Horace Greeley
was the nominee of the Convention for Presi?
dent of the United States.
? Ex-Gov. H. H. Wells, of Virginia, used
to be an inveterate smoker. He would average
twenty cigars a day. He never went without
them, never stinted himself, and, being a man
of powerful constitution, never experienced
any ill effects from them. As counsel for Cha
hoon, he was present in the Capitol at the time
of the dreadful accident (if such it may be
called,) went down with the rest, and sustained
frightful injuries. His breast bone and two or
three ribs were broken, to say nothing of con?
tusions and other injuries. For a long time his
life was despaired of, but his iron constitution
brought him safely through. After his recov?
ery he was surprised to find that his fondness
for tobacco had disappeared entirely. Nay
from that day to this, he has not only not had
any desire for his once loved cigar, but the very
smell of it is unbearable. The violent shock
to his nervous system appears to have wrought
an entire change in his constitution?so great a
change, indeed, that it is probable that he will
never again be able to tolerate tobacco in any
form.
? In a little village in Virginia there lived
a family named Ransom. They were not pious
Eeople, and they never went to church. Once,
owever, during a revival, the family were pre?
vailed upon to attend preaching. When they
made their reluctant and tardy appearance the
services had begun, and they hau scarcely ta?
ken their seats, when the preacher gave out the
first hymn, reading it somewhat thus: "Re?
turn, ye ransom' sinners, home." "Allright!"
cried the head of the Ransoms, getting up in a
rage, and clapping his hat on his head. "Come
along, old woman and gals, we'll go home fast
..enough, and everybody in the old church knowe
we didn't want to come."
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Charleston, S. O.
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