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HOYT & GO., Proprietors. ANDERSON C. EL, S. C, THUBS?AY MORNING, MAY 1, 1873. VOLUME VTLT.?NO. 43. The Shad Fisheries of the Savannah River. Hog.?-$eth ^|rte^,;pf NeW: Yjwk, & .now on a visit to-Augusta for the purpose of restocking the Savannah River with shod, by a certain and rapid process of hatching, which will in rare an almost inexhaustible .supply of this delicious fish. Mr. Green has much experi? ence in the artificial propagation of hah, and is an exceedingly intelligent, well-informed -gentleman. He served for several years as ?one of tho Commissioners of Fisheries in the State of New York, being associated witft Hon. Horatio Seymour and Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt In the discharge of this important duty, and to' give some idea of what has been accomplished there, the report of the New -York' Commisioners shows that last year Mr. Green placed .seven millions and: a - half of young shad in the Hudson River, besides 'stocking different lakes and rivers with im? mense numbers of other fish. At the last ses? sion of Congress, an appropriation was made for restocking the depleted rivers of tho coun? try, and Mr. Green has been selected to 'take charge of the work on account of his great ability and experience. His visit to Augusta is in discharge of, this duty, and an examina? tion satisfies him that the Savannah River can be easily replenished, so that in three years, which is the time required for-ti e full growth, that , stream will be perfectly alive with fine, fat shad* If he can procure a sufficient num? ber of what is termed "ripe" fish, Mr. Green ?will begin at once the process of hatching out spawn in his patent boxes, although, a partial investigation among the fisherie i about Augus? ta indicates that his visit is t>o early in the season to obtain the proper fish. As a matter of .interest to our readers, we copy the following description of the hatching process from a recent number of the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel: " When the mature shad prepare to perform the duty of propogating their nice they direct their energies to that, and without intermission. They seem to be pressed by an overpowering necessity, and will do their best to overcome all obstacles that nature or art may have placed in their way, tand> they' never rest until they' have reached their proper spawning grounds. In March they make' their appearance at the mouth of the, Hudson, and continue to arrive until June, when the fishing it the estuary portion ceases, and so much of the school as has escaped the net of the fisherman is at its ap? pointed work of continuing its species. In this month the water is, in its best condition, and at the proper temperature for this purpose; that is to say, during this time it is less subject to disturbance by freshets, and ranges from sixty-five to seventy-five degrees of heat. One of the most fatal causes of injury to the spawn is the discoloration produced by heavy rains and consequent rise of water, signifying as it does that a large amount of earthy matter is held in suspension, and will in the end be de? posited upon the impregnated esgs. The first essential to the safe hatching of the latter is the continued contact of pure water, and silt or dirt deposited upon them will smother them as surely as the deprivation of air will kill a terrestrial animal. Once let them be covered over and life is extinguished immediately, and even the cessation of a steady flew of water all around them will cause their death finally.? Hatching operations have to be carried cn with this important point always in view, and the patent boxes invented by Mr. Seth Green are especially constructed in compliance with this necessity. Another cause of ioss arises from the number of egg" which are swept away by a rapid current, as they are so light as to scarce? ly sink, having but little greater specific grav? ity than water. The ordinarily placid and equable weather of June is favorable to both these conditions, without which shad would hardly have held their own against the diffi? culties of existence. For the purpose of spawn? ing they seek parts of the river where there is a steady current and a rocky or pebbly bottom, and can be distinctly heard of a still night making a peculiar fluttering no: se when they are in the act of parturition, if. that word can be used, an act which is performed by the males and females simultaneously. The spawn is im? pregnated by the milt the moment it is exuded, and then gradually sinks to the bottom .a prey to all. manner of insects and to many species of small fishes. Shad do not spawn during the day, but commence these operations about dusk and continue them till midnight For the pur? pose of artificial cultivation they must be taken when they are perfectly ripe, as it is called, in other words when the eggs are mature and ready to be deposited in the natural way. So it is over these beds, and during the first half of the night, Uat the seines are swept to catcJf the spawncrs and milters which are to be man? ipulated scientifically, as they are thus secured io their best condition. The moment the seine is hauled, its contents of all sorts is ladled with a scoop-net into a boat, and while it is being set again the fish are handled. The manipula? tor has in front of him on one of the thwarts a tin pan containing a little watei, and taking fish after fish he holds it over this with one hand and gently presses its belly with the other. The ready performance of this is a matter of practice, and if the eggs and milt are ripe they will exude under a si ight pressure. As fast as the fish have been stripped, males and females being used indiscriminately, they are thrown into another boat, being subsequent? ly sold in market for about the same price as the unstripped shad. When the fish have all been stripped or the pan is full, it is kept in gentle motion for fif? teen minutes, after which the water is changed, and the gentle motion and changing of the water alternated until the eggs swell, become hard and distended, and the impregnation is perfected. In the course of the first fifteen minutes the temperature of the water in the pan falls some ten degrees, and the eggs become so hard that they feel to the touch like shot; although when first dropped into the pan they can hardly be felt at all.. This is repeated as often as the net is hauled, and when no more spatvners can be caught, the pans are carried to the hatching boxes and emptied into them. These boxes are covered with coal tar, to prevent the wire rusting on the bottom and the growth of ani? mal matter, and have along the indes sticks of wood acting as floats, and presenting the wire screen at such an angle to the current that the eggs are kept in a perpetual boiling motion. The boxes are fastened one behind the other by ropes fastened to the floats, and need little or no care except to be occasionally stirred at slack tide. The eggs exhibit life in twenty four hours, and hatch iu from four to ten days, according to the heat of the water, and then the boxes are towed into the middle of the river, and the living fish are turned out and left to care for themselves. Nothing further has to be done for them ; and by this simple I and inexpensive contrivance they are saved from all the dangers which surround them in their embryo state, by far the greatest they en? counter ; for when they are once born, instinct teaches them to guard themselves against the ordinary risks incidental to their existence.? Of those eggs which are deposited iu the nat? ural method, it is estimated that not more than one in one hundred escapes the perils that surround them lind produces living young; whereas, by the artificial method, from ninety to ninety-five per cent, are saved?a difference in results of in mense public importance. Jame;( Gordon Bennett in Love with a Dan? ish Princess. It is a great wonder that the newspapers have not already taken up the present subject of street gossip in the metropolis. The subject of this flutter i i young Bennett, whose father established the Herald. He has been flying around Europe and Northern Africa for three months' past, ingratiating himself into the good graces of all the leading crowned heads of the Old Worl d. Bennett has cherished a fondness for one of the daughters of Christian IX of Denmark, and for the purpose of properly paving his way to the haughty old king, he has shrewdly managed the European department of the Herald in or? der to impress tie great influence of his news? paper more firmly upon the old man's mind. And to still further stamp the greatness and poiver of the Ntw York establishment, he de? termined to make plain a mystery that had been a problem which for years the whole world had failed to solve. The story of the lost Livingstone and his discovery is yet fresh in the minds of tie common: ty. Bennett's fame was then flourished to the world, and not Only King Christian but the crowned heads of Con? tinental Europe looked upon young Bennett as a potentate far more powerful than any of their kind. The discovery of Livingstone was his master-piece, and broke down the last barrier between himself and every court of Continental Europe. Bennett's infatuation for the young princess said to be interne, he having first met her in Berlin four yearn ago. Since then he has been spending much of his time in Europe, always within hearing distance of the throne of Den? mark. Why Bennett has been acting so cir cu rasp sctly is this: King Christian is a naughty old sovereign, and ever since the days when the Princess Dowager of Schleswig-Holstein-Noes, the daughter of ? Boston merchant namedB ay, failed to obtain recognition as a Princess of the royal Danish fariily at the hands of the King, together with the recent excitement in the Danish Court upon hearing the news of the marriage of the Marquis of Lome in England, young Bennett, acting under the advice of the most prominent men of the Old World, with? held his proposition. But a few weeks, how? ever, before Benr ett's mother died, he was intro? duced to King Christian, and now it is stated upon the best authority that the marriage has been agreed upoa. The Danish family is destined soon to be one of the most powerful in the world. The pres? ent King of Greece is the second son of King Christian, and h >s two elder daughters are mar-' ried to the heirs apparent of Russia and Great Britain. The female'members of the family are said to be the most beautiful women m Eu? rope, and as you jg Bennett's taste ran in that groove, he has succeeded admirably well. Of late there has been a report of a mad scheme set afloat, to the effect that Bennett was about making large purchases in Spain, for the purpose of some day becoming Governor or President of the Southwestern Peninsula. In? deed, Sickles and Bennett have been charged upon various occasions as being directly con? cerned in the abdication of Amadeus, they hav? ing offered sufficient inducements for his re? tiring from the throne. It is also said that Bennett induced the Prin? cess Dowager of Schleswig- Holstein (she hav? ing married the jousin of^he king) to leave the Danish Kingdom in order to pacify the court, and thus make the situation sufficiently calm for his own entree. This, it is said, Bennett did after the st>rn old king bad refused to acknowledge the American woman as a prin? cess of bis court Count Ranizo'v, who is one of the greatest favorites of Christian in the kingdom, is said to have lent the most efficient aid to bring about young Bennett's most cherished wishes. This Count is the same personage who was, and is to-day, so deeply in love with a Miss Laboitcux, a charming young American girl, who ii a companion of the Princess Dowager above al? luded to. The young lady jilted the Count some time ago,, and as she is said to be a rela? tive of Mr. Oonnery, the present managing edi tor of the Herald, Bennett held sufficient in? fluence to satisfactorily arrange matters between the lady and Count Kanizow, and thus secure the latter's valuable services in his (Bennett's) own behalf. In spite of all difficulties Mr. Bennett is re? ported as being determined to bring about an early celebration of the marriage. Jennings, of the Ttniee, is said to be conversant with the facts, and while Bennett is for the time being withdrawn from public affairs, the former win visit Europe to push on the arrangements. The Lava Beos.?Mr. Jesse Applegate, one of the Indian commissioners, gives the follow? ing graphic description of the "lava beds," which figure so extensively since the beginning of the Modoc troubles : "The stronghold of the Modoc Indians is a 'predegal' (an irregular volcanic surface) of the most extensive and elaborate description; it occupies, with but few intervals, one hundred square miles. If you can, imagine a smooth, solid sheet of granite ten miles square and five hundred feet thick, covering resistless mines of gunpowder scattered at irregular intervals un? der it; that these mines are exploded simulta? neously, rendiug the whole field into rectangu? lar masses, from the size of a m atchbox to that of a church, heaping these masses high in some places and leaving deep chasms in others.? Following the explosion the whole thing is placed in one of Vulcan's crucibles and heated up to a point when the whole begins to fune and run togethe', and then suffered to cool. The roughness cf the upper surface remains as the explosion left it, while all below is honeycombed by the cracks and crevices caused by the cooling of the melted rock. An Indian can, from the top of one of these stone pyramids, shoot a man without exposing even a square inch of himself. He can, with due haste, load and shoot a common muzzle-loading rifle ten times before a man can scramble over the rocks and chasms between the slain and the slayer. If at this terrible expense of life a force dislodges b m from his cove, he has only to drop into and follow some subterranean pas? sage, with which he is familiar, to gain another ambush, from when it will cost ten more lives to dislodge him, and so on." ? "Have the jury agreed ?" asked the sheriff, as he met a court attachee on the stairs with a large pitcher it- his hand. "Yes, sir; they agreed to have a half gallon of beer, and sent me out for it." Description of the Lava Beds. The country along the line separating Cali? fornia from Oregon, in which the lava beds are situated, has been the theatre of military oper? ations against the Indians at different times during the past twenty years. It has been traversed by emigrants who settled in the neighborhood, and it is well and favorably known as a cattle range. With the exception of the irregular volcanic region, south of the lakes, the land has been surveyed and laid out in sections. Still very little accurate informa? tion can be had concerning the retreat where the Modocs have continued to defy the power of the government It is known, however, to be cut up with fissures, yawning abysses, lakes, high mountains covered with snow and abound? ing with caves. The lava beds cover an area of 100 square miles. They appear to have been brought into existence by upheavels from below. The roughness of the upper surface remains, while all underneath is honeycombed by cracks and crevices. The largest cave is known as Ben Wright's cave, which is said to contain fifteen acres of open space under ground, in which there is a good spring and many openings through which a man can crawl, the main entrance being about the size of a common window. In this cave it is un derstood Jack and his followers have fortified themselves. The gulches and crevices range [ from a few feet to one hundred feet in width, and many of them are one hundred feet deep. The Indians can travel through these lava beds by trails only known to themselves, and stand on bluffs over persons fifty yards beneath, and where it would require a long journey to go to them. They can see men coming at a distance of five miles, without being visible themselves. They also can permit their pursuers to come within a few feet of the bluff and shoot down and retire, if necessary, to other similar bluffs. If pressed too closely, the Indians can drop into crevices entirely inaccessible to troops, and follow some subterranean passage, with which they are fully acquainted, and gain an? other ambush from which it would cost ten lives to dislodge them. It is represented that the Modocs can shoot from the top of cliffs without exposing an inch of their persons. In the lava beds are a number of small plots abundantly supplied with bunch grass which cattle find by long and circuitous trails. The only thing the Modocs lack is ammunition. Those who visited the military headquarters during the past few months, were detected on several occasions stealing cartridges, and even some of the women were caught in the act. The troops are well posted, so as to prevent the Indians escaping. Their only line of retreat would seem to be in a southerly direction into the Pitt River Mountains. The tribes in that quarter are of warlike character and have given the government considerable trouble in times past In 1858 and 1859, their ambushes were so effective and their manner of warfare so advantageous, that at first very little progress was made in reducing them to submission. The Pitt River savages when pressed closely, would take their canoes and paddle to the is? lands in the lakes, where they could not be followed. After much care and trouble, several boats were built and transferred across the lava beds, and the Indians were cut off from these hiding places. One of the latest measures of I precaution taken by General Canby was to place boats on Tule Lake. The troops, in pursueiug the Modocs, have to follow them on foot, and in passing through the gulches and crevices, must expect to find the enemy on the high bluffs above them at every poiut, or making their way through con? cealed passages to secure retreat The cannon and howitzer command all approaches to and from the cave. Five hundred hand grenades arrived last week at Van Bremens, and the supply of shot and shell is ample for prolonged operations. There is no disguising the serious difficulties that Col. Gillem has to encounter. The Modocs know ever nook and corner iu the lata beds, and will, of course, seek to find safe? ty in flight It would be very unfortunate, indeed, if they succeed in effecting a junction with the Pitt River Mountain. The peculiar feature of the lake country in California resembles the County Antrim, in Ireland, in which is located the celebrated Giants' Causeways. The scientific interest of the latter is enhanced by the beauty of its terraced formations and its great richness and variety of coloring. Like the lava beds, the basalt is from three hundred to five hundred feet in thickness, and like them, too, the pil? lars, caves, wells, &c., in the Giants' Cause? way, appear to be the result of some great convulsion of nature, an upheaval equal to the effect of the explosion of vast quantities of] gunpowder placed underneath the surface, (fillers have not, heretofore, explored the lava beds, but after the cases of Jack and bis tribe are disposed of by the troops, no doubt there will be a thorough examination of this volcan? ic tract, which will always remain identified with a piece of very black Indian perfidy. New York Herald. "Love 'is Enough."?Last summer a Ger? man boy and girl, Henry and Susie, living in Minnesota, fell in love with one another. Her family, at first indifferent, early in the winter put themselves in opposition to the match. But this Romeo was no drawing-room lover. Desperately in earnest himself, and confident of the fidelity of bis Juliet, he bravely went to work to make a home for her. He already owned a quarter-section of land. Taking his axe he went to his "estate," and there cut down trees and hewed out logs enough to make a cabin, which he put up without help and fur? nished in a rude but comfortable fashion. This done he asked Susie to come and be his wife. She consented. Unfortunately, the young man had not yet set up his carriage; and, since it was unbecoming tor a bride to go on foot, a hand-sled, drawn by the bridegroom, was press? ed into the service of the pair. Thus they went forth in secrecy to their new home in the woodland, Bhe riding trimly on the sled, he tugging bravely at the strap. It was eight miles to the little cabin, but love made the journey short. There the wedding was to take place, a clergyman having promised to be in waiting to make them man and wife. Unfortunately the clergyman was not there, and Susie was frightened and ashamed. She wanted to go home. But Henry, grieved at her distrust and yet secretly pleased with her modesty, proposed that until a clergyman could be found the cabin should be divided, by a partition wall, into two cabins, of which one should belong to her and one to him. To this she agreed, and the young man went eleven j miles through the snow after the boards for the wall, dragging them home on the sled which had just carried a more lovely burden. When the parents found their runaway Gretchcn it was under these circumstances? she was keeping house by herself; he living like a bachelor, and bearing himself in every way with a chivalrous courtesy worthy of Hen- j ry Esmond, himself. The father ana mother, i notwithstanding tlie'r griof and anger, were touched by the unconventional honor aud pu? rity of the young people, and wisely concluding that the match was made ill heaven, gave their heartiest unseat to it. From the Southern Presbyterian. Sunday Morning Christians. TLe church has long been familiar with the phrase, Sunday Christians, as applied by the world to a class of professors who accomplish the entire business of religion, both ceremonial and moral, in one day of the seven. But an "age of progress" has developed an improved class who have the proud distinction of having approximated the minimum of religious servi? ces still more closely. Not longsince I entered a church on Sabbath evening, which bad been full in the morning, and was astonished to see not one-third as many present. I wondered what was the matter. The weather was pleas? ant and the church comfortable. Had the sex? ton failed to ring the bell ? Had some pesti? lence broken out during the afternoon ? What was the matter? I thought of some mothers detained by small children at home, and of a few aged and invalid persons who could not safely venture out at night. But these allow? ances did not near cover the case. My amaze? ment was increased when I learned that those I expected to see at this church were not at any other. And still more, when I was told that the same state of things prevailed in many other communities. In my perplexity I con? cluded to ask you, Mr. Editor, what is the rea? son why so many attend only the morning service, and also to ask you whether there is a remedy. Meanwhile .1 cannot help revolving in my mind some of the evil results of this absen? teeism, whether it can be accounted for satis? factorily or not. I could see well enough that it affected the minister very painfully. He certainly found it harder to speak in an almost empty house. "He also appeared depressed and disheartened. True, the few souls to whom he was preaching were of infinite value, and war? ranted his best exertions. But he saw that those persons, though present, were less inter? ested from ?seeing so many vacant seats, as evidence of general indifference. Then the subject matter of the sermon was adapted just as much to the absent as the present, and was even more needed by some of them. Indeed it seemed to be a fit sequel to the instructions of the morning, and it appeared to me that by losing the second discourse, they virtually lost the first. I tried very hard to imagine these absent persons at home, lamenting their ina? bility to attend, and carefully and prayerfully meditating on the precious truths they had heard in the morning, but my imagination was too feeble, and completely broke down in the effort, and I fell to thinking that they had car? ried very little home with them, and were per? haps then engaged with some unprofitable reading or talk. But, perhaps, that is unchar? itable, and I take it back. Yet really, Mr. Editor, I am puzzled?and I come to you for light. It seems to me that, to attend the ser? vices of the sanctuary only one-half of the day when it is convenient to attend the whole day, does show a want of love to God's house, worship and word. And that certainly as much sacrifice and effort ought to be made to honor God in the devotions of public worship, and to secure our spiritual profit through the preached word, that we ordinarily make for worldly ad? vancement and grati6cation. I have observed that strangers and others which constitute the "building material" of the church, are more inclined to attend the night services than the morning, and have been pained to see them virtually driven away by the slim attendance they see on such occasions. Let those who need no more instruction themselves consider this point. How Do They Find the Way??Two weeks ago an account was given of a dog that had been carried seven hundred miles some? where at the West, but not liking the place, alone, guided by a faculty quite unknown to man, he footed his way to his old, loved home without making inquiries, consulting a guide board, or travelling out of the way, at the rate of nearly a hundred miles each day. An old horse, purchased of a farmer in Ver? mont many years since, was shipped at Sea brook, Connecticut, with others, to the West Indies, for grinding cane. A storm occurring in Long Island Sound, the deck horses washed overboard and supposed to have been .lost. The old Vermonter, however, reached laud in the darkness of a stormy night, and finally was found standing at the barn-door of his old home. The horse had never been far from the town till sold, therefore could not have been familiar with the way. Carrier-pigeons perform feats as swift mes? sengers through the air because they are in a hurry to reach home. However far they may be carried confined in baskets, they invariably speed their way. without ever resting on the voyage, till they reach the place dear to their affections. In 1819, with a view to ascertain their speed, a pigeon was carried from Antwerp to London and there liberated. The bird was at its cote, having flown one hundred and eighty miles in a straight line, in just six hours. Horses, mules, dogs, cats, and all the migra? ting birds, find their way as unerringly as the carrier-pigeon does; but how they do it is be? yond our ken. Some imagine birds see teles copically one or two hundred miles when high in the air, and over the tops of mountains. But the theory throws no light upon the movements of a mule that found his home in Brazil, hun? dreds of miles over a region where a man could hardly move, having neither a path to follow nor a companion to lead the way. Science, therefore, lias something more to do to clear up the mystery. The Blue Ridge Railroad a Bankrupt. ?Some time in January of the present year a petition was filed in the United States District Court in session in this city, by James P. Low, praying that the Blue Ridge Railroad Compa? ny in this State be declared bankrupt. The petition, which was published at the time, states that the petitioner is a creditor of the Blue Ridge Railroad in South Carolina; that he believes that the said corporation owes debts to the petitioner in the sum of $1,125, which were never paid. It also alleges that the said company has committed an act of bankruptcy in suspending, and not resumed payment of its j commercial paper, and in neglecting to pay | the amount due upon its coupons due upon $231,000 of it<i bonds. And as a further act of j bankruptcy it states that the company suffered its property to be taken in legal process in favor of J. W. Green, of New York, upon a j judgment of the Supreme Court of the State I of New York for the sum of $205,11S.30, which judgment was entered by default. The petition concludes with a prayer that the company be adjudged bankrupt, and that a warrant may be issued to take possession of its property. Upon the filing of this petition, an order was issued by the court citing tho company to appear in court on the 18th day of February, 1873, and show cause why it should not be adjudged a 1 bankrupt. The time came on, and the compa? ny failed to make a proper showing, and on Tuesday last a decree was issued declaring the road bankrupt. An assignee has not yet been appointed, but it is supposed that, the court will designate Mr. Low, the petitioning cred? itor, to act in the premises.?Charleston Xt'jrs. The Story of Two Lovers. Twenty-six years ago, James Sanderson, a respectable person, residing in the Scottish He? brides, then verging on 40 years, made court to a girl some 16 years of age, and was accepted; but a rival much younger interfered, and bore off the prize. This made Sanderson feel re? vengeful ; and the girl's new lover having been engaged in smuggling, Sanderson informed upon him, and he had to leave the islands, to which he never came back. The people were so violent against Sanderson that he, too, was forced to leave, but had married before doing so, his wife being taken to spite his old mis? tress, who had not got married. Arriving on the American Pacific coast in safety, he bought a large tract of land a few miles north of Fort Lnngley, and devoted him? self to its agricultural development with so much energy and skill that a few years made him comparatively wealthy. Better than this, however, the new life brought with it such en? dearment of the woman whom he had wedded without other love than he had been able to stimulate for her deception, that the increase of their children was his conversion into the fondest of husbands; and when, in 1861, he became a widower, he remained so ten years, when he sent home to a sister in the Hebrides to engage a wife for him. His old fame was selected, and she said she was willing to go with him whom she had jilted twenty-five years before. From the time of her second lover's hasty flight under the denunciation of his enemy, the smuggler's sweetheart had never heard of that individual again, and the lapse of time and the increasing burdens of her lowly estate made her much less imperious at 40 than she was at 16. The wealthy farmer of British Columbia sent her ample means for her outfit and long voyage, and the long voyage was accomplished without incident as far as San Francisco. From the latter city she was to proceed np the coast to her destination on a steamer in which a passage was specially secured for her, and while awaiting this vessel she was seen and recognized at a hotel by the accepted lover of her youth, who had been in California ever since his untimely departure from Hebrides. There was a dramatic meeting, a long story on either side, and?alas, for the waiting wide ver -r-a full revival of the old love. Both lovers, however, were sobered by the discipline of maturer years; and the lady hav? ing explained: by whose wish and means she was in America, declared that she must go on? ward as she bad promised, and fulfill her en? gagement if it was still exacted. She would faithfully tell all to him who awaited her at the end of her journey, confess that she could never love him now as she had lately thought possible, and abide by his own decision. If he yet claimed her he must be obeyed. As the story ends with her re-appearance in the Cali? fornia city a few years ago, and quiet marriage there to the former smuggler, it may be infer? red that the Columbian widower was at once sensible and magnanimous under his last dis? appointment, and finally proved himself the friend of the woman with whom fate had twice denied him a nearer, dearer relationship. The Bore.?It is a mistaken idea that edi tors are the only victims of that society pest, commonly denominated a "bore." No man, whatever his calling or profession, is exempt from the great moral affliction. Some men are happily constituted, however, and pay no more attention to the bore than they would to the buzzing of a mosquito; others are able by a look or peculiar tone of voice to squelch the pest, nip him in the bud as it were, and make him feel so uneasy that the door leading to the street will soon be placed between him and his would-be victim. All men are not equal to the emergency though, and suffer with the patience and fortitude of martyrs. Sometimes they fly from the bore as they would from a pestilence ?'tis not often, however, that this can be done, for it requires infinite tact and finesse, the bore sticketh closer than a brother, his tale is inter? minable, seems to have no end, and he con? tinues to gabble and to stick, even to taking hold of the button of a coat to prevent the es? cape of his victim, and all the while laying the sweet unction to his soul that he is decidedly entertaining. Reader, are you guilty of this ugliness in any of its multitudinous forms? If so, repent immediately. We saw a poor friend the other day, fleeing as it were from the wrath to come, and no man pursuing, for he had left the bore snug in his room. We felt for him, having been all over the same rough road many times ourselves. How long he remained out, to the neglect of business, and a prey to the most miserable feel? ings, we know not. Every day this happens? so common is the bore. The minister trying to get to his fifthly and lastly, the lawyer en? deavoring to make up a good brief, the printer poring over a bad piece of manuscript, the merchant adding up a column of figures, the editor cogitating for an idea, the busy house? wife, whose every moment of time is needed for some important duty, arid many others, all, all are thus at times, alas, often times, made the victims of a miserable fellow, whose only recommendation is that he is full of gas and can stick. Bah!?Newberry Herald. An Extraordinary Murder Trial.? A remarkable murder trial has recently taken Slace in the county of Tyrone, Ireland. In une, 1871, Mr. Glass, the Cashier of the North? ern Bank at Newtownstewart, was found mur? dered in the bank, and it was subsequently as? certained that a robbery had been committed, nearly ?2,000 having been abstracted. A sub inspector of police named Montgomery, who had been on terms of intimacy with the cash? ier, was arrested and brought to trial on the charge of being the murderer. An officer of the Royal Irish Constabulary occupies the same social position in Ireland that a commissioned officer in the military service occupies in Eng? land, and the proceedings in the case of Mont? gomery excited intense interest among all Classes in the community where they took place. The first trial occurred last year, and the feeling against the prisoner was so strong in his own district that all jurymen living with ingfive miles of Newtownstewart were excluded from the jury-box. The result of the trial was a disagreement of the jury. The second trial took place about a fortnight ago, and occupied j more than ten days. Eighty-three witnesses were examined, and the counsel for the defense made a speech ten hours in length. The jury deliberated for twelve hours without being able to agree upon a verdict, when they were dis? charged, aud the case was assigned for a third trial. This has been the most protracted case ever on trial in Ireland, and it promises to fur? nish occupation for courts and lawyers for a long time to come. ? A Detroit man bought a horse the other day, and not finding him all that the jockey's fancy painted him, applied a dye to the ani? mal that made him a lovely black, and resold him to the dealer. In about two weeks the animal w.as resold to the first purchaser, his appearance having undergone another change, and now Detroit is interested to know which of the men ought to sue the other. All Sorts of Paragraphs* ? Never borrow trouble. Your frieads will give you all you want. ? Experience, like the stern lights of a ship, illumines only the path we have traveled. ? A Detroit furniture man hung out a card inscribed: "Buggy I For Sale I" and placed it upon a se :ond hand bedstead. ? You often hear of a man "being in ad? vance of his age," but you never hear of a woman being in the same predicament. ? A Vermont woman lost her voice four months ago, and now, just as her husband was settling down for a good time, she has recovered it, and it is stronger than ever. ? It is a boast among fashionable women Severally that they "never read a newspaper." >ut tbey make much more bustle about their ignorance than is at all necessary. ? "Murder is a very serious thing, sir," said an Arkansas judge to a convicted prisoner; "it is next to stealing a horse or a mule, sir, and I send you to the State orison for six years, sir." ? For neuralgia, take the bark of the peach tree, pound it up and steep it in hot water. Hold the face over it so as to thoroughly bathe it in-the rising steam. It is said this will give Eermanent. relief in (he worst cases within an onr. ? Strangers visiting Augusta, Me., while the snow is in the streets, are particularly cautioned not to kick any old bats they may notice in their path, as several citizens have had their heads seriously bruised in this way before they were dug out. ? When a woman goes to purchase a bonnet, she will not take the one she does not like. Yet in the far more important matter of a hus? band she frequently takes one she cares nothing about, for whom she has neither respect, love, nor admiration. ? Sleeping rooms should always be so ar? ranged, if possible, as to allow the head of the sleeper to be toward the north. Frequently, in cases of sickness, a person will find it im? possible to obtain rest if his head is in any other direction, and often a care is retarded for a long time. ? The only sure foundation of good morals in a community is industry. Mental and phys? ical health requires industrious habits; and the aim of our efforts should be to produce a "sound mind in a healthy body," without which the happiness of life must ever be on an inse? cure basis. ? Profanity never did any man the least good. No man is the richer, or happier, or wiser for it. It commends no one to any so? ciety. It is disgusting to the refined; abomi? nable to the good; insulting to those with whom we associate; degrading to the.mind; unprofitable and injurious to society. ? Ob, the snore, the beautiful snore, filling her chamber from ceiling to floor! Over the coverlet, under the sheet, from her dimpled chin to her pretty feet 1 Now rising aloft like a bee in June; now sunk to the wail of a cracked bassoon I Now, flute-like, subsiding, then rising again, is the beautiful snore of Elizabeth Jane. ? A ecientiift cook has invented a means of peeling onions without shedding tears over the operation. It is simply to nearly fill a deep pan with water, and to peel the onions beneath its surface. It is a small discovery, but it will save oceans of tears. Simple enough, you see; and yet the world has been wasting precious tears since the invention of onions. ? It has been determined to throw the whole country of Japan open to foreigners (excepting lightning-rod men and corn doctors,) provided all who travel in the interior submit to be con? trolled by the laws of Japan. The government is endeavoring to perfect a code of laws, based on the European models, suitable to the coun? try. ? A Bapti? minister in California, writing to the Standard, says: "I came here with the old opinion that plenty of wine would promote the temperance cause. When I see whole families, father and mother, girls and boys, made drunkards by the produce of their own vineyards, I am convinced that wine making is a curse. California is becoming a State of drunkards." ? A number of wealthy New York ladies of the highest social distinction have recently come to the conclusion that the present style of feminine dress is far too elaborate and ex? pensive. Consequently they have resolved to make an effort to introduce greater simplicity and less variety into the mode of feminine adornment, and urgently request the co-opera? tion of all sensible members of their sex. ? The old gentleman who thinks only of comfort in dress and cares nothing for looks, and can't see why his daughters will trouble themselves about mere appearance, has got bis quietus. The girls took two of his old hats last week, and neatly attached a white hat brim to a black crown, and now they insist upon his wearing it to church, since he thinks nothing of appearances, and cares only for comfort ? What a wonderful thing love is to a woman I How it helps her to know that dome one is always fond of her, aud rejoices when she rejoice?, and sorrows when she grieves; to be sure that her faults are loved, aud that h<r face is fairer to one, at least, than faces that are more beautiful?that one great heart holds her sacred to its innermost recesses above all other women I She can do anything, suffer anything, thus upheld. She grows prettier under the sweet influences, brighter, kinder, stronger, and life seems but a foretaste of heaven, and all her dreams arc golden. ? "The horse that frets is the one that sweats" is an old saying of horsemen. It is just as true of men as of horses. The man that allows himself to get irritated at very little things that go amiss in the business or in the ordinary affairs of life is a man that, as a rule, will accomplish little and wear out ear? ly. He is a man for whom bite and dyspepsia have a peculiar fondues.- and for whom chil? dren have a peculiar aversion. He is a man with a perpetual thoru in*his flesh, which pricks and wounds at the slightest movement; a man for whom life has little pleasure and the future small hope. A New Plan to Avoid Bad Debts.?A Georgia contemporary is out in favor of the repeal of all laws for the collection of debts. This, it contends, would place all upon a per? fect equality, and there would be no debts save debts of honor. There would be no credit save such as was obtained by means of a char? acter for honesty and integrity. A man's fair name would be worth something to him, and he would feel a pride in knowing that he could go to any merchant where he was known and obtain credit and give no lien save a lien upon hia honesty, no security save his fair name. Men who now actually take advantage of the law for the purpose of evading the payment of just and honest debts would be taught the ignominy of even questioning the propriety of payiug to the very utmost farthing. The tone and character of the people would be elevated, and he who would not pay for what he obtained would be looked upon with scorn and contempt. Many loafers who live by their wits, aud pay for nothing, would be compelled to go to work and earn their living iu some honest aud useful calling.