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XIV-NO.22. LEGAL ADVERTISING?are compelled to require cash payments for advert Ising ordered by Executors, Administrators and other fiduciaries, and herewith append the rates for the ordinary notices, which will only be Inserted whoo the money comes with the order: Citations, two insertions, - S3.0? Estate Notices, three insertions, - - 2.11 Final Settlement*, fire Insertions - - 3.00 TO CORRESPONDENTS.?In order to receive attention, communications must be accompanied by the true name and address of the writer. Re? jected manuscripts will not be returned, unless the necessary stamps arc furnished to repay the postage thereon. *B- We arc not responsible for the views and opinions of our correspondents. All communications should be addressed to"Ed It 6 Intelligencer." and all cheeks, drafts, money orders, Ac., should be made pavable to the order of E. b. MURRAY A CO.. LAWLESSNESS IX KENTUCKY. A Continuous IUot for a Week in Vrcutli ctt County?Many Killed and Wounded. Lexington, Ky., Nov. 30. A series of riots occurred at Jackson, Breathett County, Ky., 90 miles from Mount Sterling, this week, which result? ed in the fatal shooting of County Judge John W. Burnett, Thomas Little and Wm. Freeman, a negro. Danl. Free? man, a brother of William, was also dan? gerously wounded. These were friends of a prisoner whom the sheriff's posse was conducting to jail and endeavored to rescue him. Fighting has been going on since last Monday, and the Governor has been called on to quell the disturb? ance. A special to the Lexington Press, dated Mount Sterling to day, says: "Jackson is still in possession of the mob, but the sheriff's party aie in possession . of the court hou3e and jail. Picket firing is kept np and many persons have been killed and wounded. No action has yet been taken by the Governor." A" letter written from Jackson on Wednesday says: The town is under control of a mob. Good citizens are fleeing for their lives. Women and children are seeking shelter from any who will protect them. The officers of the law are defied, and havoc and desolation prevail. Men, drunk and wild with frenzy, armed to the teeth with pistols and guns, are walking the streets, veiling at the top of their voices, pro? claiming who they intend to kill. In fact it is as much as your life is worth to appear upon the streets, for you are lia? ble to be attacked by either or both par? ties at any moment. This is the third day of this terrible condition of affairs. This people have been sorely afflicted in the past, but the outrages and lawless? ness then are not to be compared with the terrible crimes of this week. battle of the clans. Judge William Randall convened the Breathett Circuit Court on Monday morning, instructed the grand jury, and adjourned till afternoon. During the afternoon John Aikman, leading about a dozen men, dashed into town on horse? back, armed with pistols and guns, dis? mounted and furiously attacked Capt. Bill Strong's clan, who were standing on the street in front of Breeding's store. Thirty or forty shots were discharged, two taking effect on William and Daniel Freeman, the former shot through the body, the latter through the head. They . wero removed late m the evening to their homes several miles up the river, and it is reported to-day that Daniel Freeman is recovering but William is dead. fighting in the street3. Strong and his followers received no injuries, but barricaded themselves in a little log cabin about one hundred yards from the court house, where they had previously stacked their arms. Aikman and his party sought shelter in the court house, and a regular interchange of shots was kept up during the afternoon. One of the Freemaus, who fell in the middle of the street when shot, was forced to lie there for two hours, his friends fearing to attempt his removal during this strife. Hideous yells and shouts of'defiance could be Heard from both parties. dp.ead of the citizens. The court was puzzled, the officers of the law dumbfounded. The citizens watched from a distance, and not a single effort was made to quell the bloody riot. At last with light came hope, and all was 3uiet save the bedlam hoop of the runken rabble. There was no sleep or rest, everybody living in dread expectan? cy of the morrow, and slowly next morn? ing (Tuesday) as light was thrown upon the scene it was discovered that Aikman aud party had withdrawn from the court house and quartered themselves near the river bank, while Strong and his clan held their fort still. One by one the citizens made their appearance in the street, congratulating themselves that the war was over. About 10 o'clock Strong retired, and soon thereafter straggling drunken men, well armed, began to pa? rade the streets in defiance of all law and order. It was whispered that the guard which had been sent to Lexington under charge of the sheriff to bring back Jason Little would soon return, and an effort would be made to release the prisoner. Deputy Little and guard had returned, and to the credit, however, of John Aik mau, be it said, he refused to participate in this crime, and leit for home. the murderer in jail. A willing leader was found in a justice of the peace numed J. C B. Allen, sup? ported by the Littles, Crawford* and others, numbering about forty, who loit? ered abont the streets impatiently wait? ing for the guard to appear. Judge Ran? dall, to defeat the aim of the mob, bad the deputy sheriff and county judge to detail an extra guard of fifteen men, who went under the leadership of the county judge, John W. Burnett, to the assistance of the sheriff. About 3 o'clock p. in. they returned with the prisoner, and safely confined him in jail, the guard numbering about twenty-five well armed men. No effort at release was made; but immediately after the guard returned from the jail to the street and began to disperse, thinking the danger was over, Crawford and Little began an attack on Judge Burnett, threatening to take his life. judge burnett killed. Excitement ran high immediately, shouts and yells rent the air, and sud? denly the deadly revolvers were brought into play, and a volley was poured in upon the guard, who, taken by surprise, sought shelter wherever they could find it. When the smoke cleared off it was seen that Judge Burnett was down. He was dead, with a bullet through his heart. The firing was maintained in a desultory way the whole evening, the mob yelling like very devila sit every indication oi" u slight advantage over the faction that for the present were champions of the law. Allen and his men, being in the court house yard, sought shelter behind the clerk's office and in the court room, while the guard retreated up the street to the point where Strong and his clan were barricaded. The forces now numbered some thirty or forty on each side. The men were al! well armed with the latest improved Colt's navy repeaters, Spencer and Rallard rifles, and being good shots could kill their man from two hundred to three hundred yards whenever lie might appear. a item it to break the jail. During the picket shooting a posse of Allen's clan, with axes, attempted to hurst open the jail door and rescue the prisoner. His brother, Tom Little, of C'ompton, appeared at this moment and begged the rioters to desist. A shot through the body stretched him lifeless upon the ground. This caused the jail breakers to retire, which they did, breath? ing vengeance for the death of* Torn Lit? tle! The Allen parly deserted the court house last night and the sheriff und posse took possession, thus commanding the door to the jail. Of course no court has been held, and the Circuit Court Judge suddenly disappeared this morning be ft 'e 7 o'clock, leaving no orders its to the disposition of the prisoner Little. Kf forts are being made, however vainly, to secure the services of some magistrate who will assume the responsibility of or? dering Little to be returned to Lexington or some other jail for safekeeping. The court has left without making any pro? vision for the keeping of county paupers or idiots, which leaves many persons in destitute circumstances. attempt to bury judge burnett. A guard was detailed to dig the grave of Judge Burnett, the spot selected being by the side of his sweetheart, who died oue year ago. Ladies and citizens who came to town to-day to attend the funeral have beaten a hasty retreat. Lawless? ness and disorder are so rife that the re? mains of the late county judge will have no followers save an armed guard who will avenge his death. Everybody is leaving the town and there is a cessation of all business, as it is as much as people can do to protect their lives from the wanton cruelty of the rabble. THE INAUGURATION CEREMONIES. Second Inauguration of Governor Hamil? ton and Lieutenant Governor Simpson. In accordance with an indication from Governor Hampton that he was prepared to be inaugurated as Governor of South Carolina under the late election, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the clerks of the two houses and the committees appointed to visit Governor Hampton repaired to his residence on yesterday, at 2 o'clock p. m., in compauy with the Chief Justice, Lieutenant Governor Simpson and Col. Wade H. Manning, the Governor's private secretary, for the purpose of witnessing the inauguration which had been authorized by the con? current resolution of the two houses of the Legislature. The party left the State House in car? riages, and after a short drive were soon at the Governor's residence where they were met and invited in by Col. Wade Hampton, Jr. The Governor^vas lying in bed with w^a^twia^Ql 7^IT*rrftl*T* his countenauce, but otherwise appear? ing to be getting on well?indeed his friends were agreeably disappointed, for he appeared stronger and much more cheerful than they expected to find bio*. As the members of the party went lo his bedside he shook hands with them aud had some pleasant remark for each. The object of the visit being made known, Chief Justice Willard, sitting by his bed? side, held a small Bible upon which the Governor held his hand while the oath was being read. At the conclusiou of which, taking the book into his own hand, he raised it to his lips and then signed the oath in a steady and legible hand, although lying upon his back. Lieutenant-Governor Simpson then took and subscribed the oath otLoffice as Lieu tenant-Governor. After which Govcrncr Hainpton expressed to the Legislature, through the committees, his appreciation of the sympathy intended him by that body, and said that the greatest regret he feels in consequence of his painful acci? dent is that he is deprived of the privilege of conferring with and consulting the General Assembly about the matters of importance to the people of South Caro? lina which they are considering. The committees feeling that it would be a tax upon the Governor's strength for them to remain longer, wished him a speedy restoration to health and retired, not having remained in the room for more than fifteen minutes, and reached the cap itol in less than one hour from the time they left it. Members of the committee say that Governor never appeared nobler than during the inauguration ceremony. Throughout the entire visit he was calm, resolute and self-possessed, showing a cheerfulness which is believed to be the indication of rapid improvement.?Co? lumbia Register. Criminal Statistics.?P. R. San born has been collecting facts regarding crime and criminals in the United States. The number of convicts is now twice as great as in 1871, the relative figures being 31,000 and 16,000. The greatest increase is in Georgia, Tennessee, and several Western States. The number of per? sons in prison as convicts, or waiting trial, is 60,000, of whom less than one sixth are women. About 10,000 of the whole number are in New York and 4,200 in Massachusetts, where the pro? portion of prisoners to population is greater than in any other part of the country. In the South the higher pris? ons are generally made self-supporting by the labor of the convicts, who are leased to contractors, who may employ them anywhere in the State In Arkan? sas the contractor pays nothing, but meets all expenses. In Tennessee, Geor? gia and Mississippi stated sums in money, besides expenses, are paid by the contrac? tors. Mr. Sanbnrn figures as lollows: The general result of the labor of con? victs in the State prisons of thirty-seven States (for Delaware has no central prison) falls $1,520,000 short of the earnings re? quisite to support the 20.000 convicts in those prisons last year. The sum divided among an average of 29,000 State pris? oners, gives an average cost of something more than $44 a year for each convict. If we add the sum paid for the support of short-sentenced prisoners in jails, the total cost of the 60,000 persons in prison throughout the year 1877 would probably exceed ?5,000,000, or something more than $80 a year for each prisoner.?Au? gusta Evening Sentinel. Who are Rich.?The man with good firm health is rich. So is the man with a good clear con? science. So is the parent of vigorous, happy children. So is the clergyman whose coat the lit? tle children of bis parish pluck, as he passes them in their play. S? is that wife who ban tbo whole heart of a good husband. So is the maiden whose horizon is not bounded by the "coming man," but who has a purpose in life whether she ever I met him or not. So is the young man who, laying his hand on his heart, can say, "I have treated every woman I ever saw as I should wish my sister treated by other men." So is the little child who goes to sleep with a kiss on its lips, and for whose wakicg a blessing waits. Threatening Political Situation. We take pleasure in placing before our readers the following important letter. While having no direct political bearing, it has a real significance, showing, as it does, that whatever the people of these Stales, may think concerning the politi? cal situation, they are far from brand? ing Dr. Pierce'* Family Remedies as frauds. Gai.ve.ston, Texas, June 8, 1878. j Dr. PlERCE?Dear Sir : Your Golden I Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets \ have cured my (laughter of Scrofulous : Swellings and Open Sores about the t Neck; ar|d your favorite Prescription has I accomplished wonders in restoring to I health my wife who had been bed-last I fur eight months, from Female Weak I ness. I am with grateful feelings, vours I truly, T. H. Long. Thonglits for the Month. This number reminds us that we have reached the end of another year. Its advent forces two things upon the con? sideration of the prudent, thoughtful farmer: the balancing of accounts, and the bearing of the lessons learned, upon future operations. a BUSINESS view OF MATTERS, j How do expenditures nnd receipts I compare? We fear comparatively few '? of our readers can answer that question. I If every one could, how quickly would j reform begin. Farmers frequently say I "they are making no money," but in ! their secret councils they think otherwise j ?not knowing exactly the state of the case, they hope they are making a little. No man in his senses is willing to work hard a whole year for nothing?he must hope either for present or prospective gain. True, very few in any of the avo? cations of life are making much just now, and the farmer may comfort himself with the reflection that he has a plenty of company. But such uncertain, doubtful conclusions ought not to satisfy a sensi? ble man?he should know with absolute certainty whether the policy he is pursu? ing is a wise or a paying one?and we take this fitting occasion to urge again upon our readers the very great impor? tance of keeping books, with as much care as the merchant or the manufacturer does. A farmer should keep an account with every one of his crops, and with every one of his fields. In no other way can he learn whether this or that crop pays, or this or that field warrants the expense of cultivation. We are thor? oughly satisfied that on a very great many farms, the cultivation of some poor fields absorbs all the profits from the richer and better portions. At the beginning of the year settle as near as can be, the cost per day of each hand on the place, of a mule and plough, wagon and team, and each night enter in a book (blank ones made especially for this can be had), the cost of labor, &c, .Spent on each field. In like manner, etlrffSiiui^the cost of labor spent on corn crop, cottoTnTrfcc. Keep also an ac? count of general expenses, such as fenc? ing, and at the end of the year divide this out among the different crops in proportion to the expenditures on each. Do the same with the interest on capital invested in farm, and laxes on the whole, the uncultivated and unused portions of the farm as well as that planted, also with the wear and tear of stock, wagons, implements, &c. The farmer's personal supervision and care, ought certainly to ?be worth as much as house rent, firewood and the usual perquisites of a farm?an overseer could not be hired for these alone, he would demand them and a salary additional. We simplify the ac? count then by letting thesjMl?Hgs offset each q?itr^_^^\'^*?krl^such a record at "rireThd of the year, a farmer could tell pretty well what he was' doing?whether making money or not?what crops and what fields paid and what did not?what kind of fertilizing and cultivating gave best returns. What a flood of light would be thrown upon all the operations of the farm by a half hour's work each night, that time being ample to make all the necessary records. Would not the valuable knowledge gained be worth that little trouble? Don't say I am not a book-keeper and cannot do it?any one without training or experience in the matter, can do what we have suggested ; it is perfectly simple and perfectly easy. One of your boys or girls, or even the good wife, would make the records if you were tired. Try it next year and learn for yourselves how easy it 's. LESSONS OF 1878. Have you learned anything additional about your business from the experiments and experience of the year just closing, or have you moved along in the same old grooves and ruts? Have you ob? served and marked points all along its course which you could improve upon during the coming year? Have you studied out a better rotation of crops? one that will preserve and enrich your land, and at the same tin." give remune? rating crops ? Have you closely studied the defects in your ploughs nnd manner of ploughing, so that next year you will be able to do more and better work, with a less number of furrows? Have you made any progress in finding out what fertilizers, whether commercial or com? posts, or combinations of these, pay best on your lands and crops? Have you noted any difference in results, of deep or shallow culture, on different soils and crops, and at different stages of their growth? These arc a few only of the questions which might be asked, and to which the observing, reflecting fanner ought to be able to give more or less defi? nite answers. At present the margin of profits is very small, and it is only by close calculation and the nicest manage? ment that money can be made. The North is agitated about making 8 hours a laboring day. At the South Sambo practically settled that question long ago, and the two great problems in Southern farming now are, how to supplement labor by improved implements, machines and methods, and how to enrich the soil so as to produce maximum crops with the minimum labor which Sambo gives. Those are the leading problems. The next is how to decrease the money crops. We sell almost everything we make, and buy almost everything we need?whereas we ought to make almost everything we need, and buy almost nothing. The present system of cultivating money crops almost exclusively, places us at the mercy of speculators and middlemen ; cutting down the money crops to small? est dimensions would restore us again to the old time independence. What is to prevent a farmer from raising ail the horses and mules he needs?all the pork, beef, mutton, poultry, butter and eggs all the wheat, corn, "potatoes, syrup, tea, fruits and vegetables he needs? What necessity for him to buy axe helves and hoe helves, and cradles and plough stocks and handles. A little work on rainy days, and a little sound economy about little matters, would help us amazingly. We arc poor folks?made poor in the first instance, not by laziness, but by the noble impulses of patriotic self-sacrifice, and we need not be ashamed, but rather proud, of it; let us therefore conic down to it, and act accordingly. "A man is a man for all that." The wearer of home? spun, out of debt, has nothing to envy him who, clothed in purple and tine linen and faring sumptuously every day, has mortgages and liens upon his property and is subject to the bidding of a mer? chant or money lender.?Southern Culti? vator, for December, The TRUTHFUL Test.?It requires no learned experts to establish the fact that Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder is the purest and the strongest. If it will make sweeter, lighter, and more digesti? ble bread, biscuits, cakes, etc., than can bo made with other kinds, it is an incon testible proof of its purity aud greatei excellence. ? The indefinable joy which fills a young man's bosom when he carves hi? first fowl, is more than counterbalanced by the niortificatio i which ensues when he involuntarily nulls it over into hu lap. A GOOD WORK. South Carolina'! Institution for the Kduca tl?n of the Heal', Dumb mid Blind. 1 Tliis noble institulion is situated in Spartanburg County, four miles from the ! county site, and one mile west of the i Spartanburg and Union Railroad, on the j beautiful and historic grounds of Cedar 'Spring. As is indicated in the heading i of this article, the establishment cm j brace- two entirely distinct departments, ! the one being devoted exclusively to the i instruction of the deaf and dumb, the j other to that of the blind. The former ; department is by several years the older, having been founded by the Rev. New? ton P. Walker, a native of Spartanburg County, about 1850. It was at first a private but purely philanthropic enter? prise, and was therefore quite limited in its operations until its noble and ener? getic founder succeeded in securing as? sistance from the State. It was while laboring to effect this end that he met the Hon. Bias Henderson, of Laurens County, who cordially seconded Mr. W.'s plans, Advocating, at the same time, the establishment of, in connection with the school, a department for the blind. It is needless to say that the gentlemen then composing the Legislature of South Car? olina warmly approved their measures, and by suitable appropriations, soon placed the noble enterprise on the high? way to grand success, and in a few years the department for the deaf and dumb, under the personal management of Mr. Walker, and that of the blind under the instruction of Mr. James S. Henderson, who was himself blind, each attained to the highest rank among the institutions of its kind. Just here, we would notice briefly the objects contemplated by the worthy au? thor and the supporters of this benevo? lent scheme. In the case of the deaf and dumb, as well as tint of the blind, there were two branches, the intellectual and the industrial ; the former needs no com? ment, furl her than what is implied in the term we have used ; the latter we will notice more specifically. The industrial branch of deaf-mute education at Cedar Spring consists of carpentering, shoe and harness making and the arts of agricul? ture ; the blind were taught to make brooms and mats and to cane chairs. The industrial part of female education seemed to have been overlooked. The prosperity of this noble institu tion was checked in .lie yenri??i oy me outbreaking of the late war; in 1862 it was deprived of its distinguished founder bv his untimely death. At the opening -<?..;>? 7 vamaa of 18C2 -. ix&iz* ?? manifest, from a marked decrease in the number of attendants, and a partial suspension of the industrial ?JiKttvehe-r, which continueaLimtH'the^pring of 1865, when the doors were closed. In the fall of I860 an attempt was made to revive this languishing enterprise, but with small success*, the exercises being again indefinitely discontinued at the expira? tion of a short session. In 1869 it be? gan a new but uncertain lease of life, which was interrupted in 1873 by the imbecile ex-Governor Moses, influenced by the corrupt and designing Neagle. In 1876 ex-Governor Chamberlain deemed it necessary, by way of concili? ating the now aroused and resolute Dem? ocracy, to perform one palpable duty. Accordingly, this noble but apparent? ly ill-fated institution was permitted to resume its uncertain career, with a re? striction to twenty pupils. Under Dem? ocratic rule, the attendance on the suc? ceeding term, which closed in June, 1878, was increased to forty-five, of which thirty-five were deaf and dumb and ten blind. At present, Professor N. F. Walker, son of the founder of the in? stitution, is its superintendent. The teachers in the deaf and dumb depart? mental Professor John M. Hughsfon, a deaf mute, and the first graduate of the school, a gentleman of fine scholarly as well as business attainments, and Miss Ida Walker, a sister of the superinten? dent. Mr. Ii. P. Rogers, also a mute, is master of the shoe shop. In the department for the blind, Mrs, L. C. Ilendetson, another sister of the superintendent, has charge of the liter? ary branches, and Professor W. B. North, who is blind, and a graduate of the institu? tion, is the professor of music. Since the war, the meagrenesfl of the appro? priations has been such as to prevent the reopening of the shops for the industri? al training of I lie blind. Mrs. Walker, the mother of this remarkable family of teachers, presides as matron of the es? tablishment, and we take pleasure in stating that despite hard limes and short appropriations, she never fails to have the table furnished with an ample sup? ply of savory a id wholesome viands. It is evident :'rom the above that these officers arc peculiarly fitted for the im? portant positions which they fill, and it is due to them to state that though they have been greatly restricted in their operations for want of the necessary funds, yet the most gratifying success has crowned all their efforts, and the standard of scholarship among their graduates is second to that of no similar institution in the land. In regard to the wants of this institu? tion, we will begin by stating that the building itself is greatly out of repair ; "the roof lcN in the rain" but not "the sunshine;" the plastering is frequently dropping, thus endangering the lives of tlic inmates ; the grounds and enclosure are likewise in bad condition. The li? brary for the blind contains little variety, the few volumes of which it is composed presenting a uniformly dilapidated as? pect. With the exception of a few text books purchased from time to time since the war, the collection has not been re? plenished during the last fifteen or twenty years. The musical instruments, with scarcely an exception, need replace? ment by new ones. Thus it appears that the only estab? lishment in South Carolina designed for the mental and physical training of tbU unfortunate class of our population i. fast drifting into an untenable condition for want of a respectable support from the Legislature. Certainly such i course on the part of the State has neith? er the commendable duality of economy nor philanthropy. II tins cltaniy is 10 be su-tained at all, lot it be done in a manner which will ensure the fulfillment of its objects. The blind of South Car? olina do not ask an asylum, but the op? portunities of education, and this no one will deny should be granted them, even in preference to the more fortunate classes; for with this they become Useful and independent citizens?without it they must remain life long objects of pity. We arc forced here to record the sad fact that two-thirds of the deaf and dumb, as well as of the blind, children of this State arc growing up in total ignorance, and would insist that steps be taken by the ensuing Legislature to extend to this afflicted chis? those advantages which ' are enjoyed by other children, and which the constitution pledges alike to all. Every true heart, pulsating with gen? erosity and humanity, must feel a warm interest in the success of ihis noble cause, j mi l we doubt not ihatlho press of the I State will lend its tordial support ami I advocacy to its claims.? Georgetown MRS. TOOGOOD'S CHRISTIANITY. I It is Sunday morning, and Mrs. Too good lias washed?or rather scrubbed? ' and dressed the six youngest of her fami? ly of eight; the two eldest arc girls, and ? no longer need their mother's helping j hand in the way of "fixin'." They are going to church, and have on their best clothes, their "Sunday-go-to-ineetin's." Little Beulah Vashti has on the now pink percale that she tried to wear on Friday to school, because the other chil? dren were to be dressed up at the "read? ing match," hut was denied by her moth ', er, who didn't believe in indulging chil ; drcn in any such foolishness and vanity. Alabama Washington, the oldest daugh? ter?named in honor of her mother's birth-place, and of the Father of our ; Country?has her front-locks in curl ! papers, which she has kept carefully ; concealed from her mother's notice by a J dust-cap, until the last moment for get I ling ready for church Mrs. Toogood spies them. "Do you think, Alabama Washington, that I intend to let you go with your hair rigged out in that fashion? Do you sup? pose J'd let a daughter of mine sit in church under the eyes of the preacher, showing sucli signs of vanity! Now, miss, you just brush 'em right out!" So poor Alabama, who is nearly grown, and naturally desires to look pretty, takes the offending papers out, and slowly brushes the otherwise straight locks, but a few little ringlets are loft?Alabama didn't brush very hard?which she slyly pushes under the edges of her hair, and duly pulls down, as she walks to church be? hind her mother. Little Jim Tom, the youngest, wants to know if he can't ride his stick-home to church. "To church!" screamed Mrs. Toogood. "No, indeed ! and if I catch you on it, or you get a speck of dirt on your good clothes, I'll give you such a warming when I get home that you'll not forget it soon I" At last the eight are ready. The little ones' eyes are red?for the tears would come despite their mother's "if you cry I'll make you stay at home!" a threat she had no idea of carrying out?they only hoped she would?with having tangled hair combed and jerked, being scolded for not "holding the sleeve," and other shortcomings; it's no wonder they bore traces of having gone through an VlUCiU. "Ahtb.ima Washington," (Mrs. Ton good calls all her children by their full names,) "haft you seen anything of my hymn book? 1 laid it right on this shelf last Sunday evening. Saw Henry Clay ? V ? ... L''Vr- '".ii, the Lord kn< jf&VWhat will the world come to? Pdfc" Sera in a hymn book! I just fee! like shakin' the life out of her. Come here to me, Henry Clay, what have you been doing with my hymn book ?" 'Nothing," meekly answers Henry Clay, a girl of twelve years. "I just took it to sing out of?just to learn 'Come Thou Fount of Every BlessinV I haint pressed no flowers in it." "Well, I'll 'bless' you if I ever catch you with it again." Notwithstanding Henry Clay's denial, the stain of a green leaf and the purple from a morning glory were visible on a page, but not on the one of 'Come Thou Fount;' that didn't seem to have been touched with cither flowers or finger prints. "Alabama Washington, i want to tell you now that I don't want you to look at them Spriggs boys like you did last Sun? day, else I'll call your pa's attention to it; the preacher's the proper one to look at." Mrs. Toogood was always going to "tell your pa," but this was a threat the children didn't mind, as they stood in no awe of that easy-going, patient man. "What's that you've got, William Henry Harrison, under your vest?" "Got noth? ing!" sullenly answers William Henry. "Yes he has, mother!" eagerly cries Maria Ellen, his twin ; "he's got a bean shooter; I saw him put it there." Mrs. Toogood runs her band up William Hen ??. -? ??.1 ?A?,OJ tl.n h?-m.<li<MiVr TV S ? CM, UIJU UUb bUIWLU HUV .w. ?a strip of leather fastened to a two pronged stick. Pour "William Henry is rapped over the head with his plaything, while his affectionate twin giggles and cries, "Goody, goody !" Mr. Toogood, who has been patiently standing on the front porch, calls to his wife that "the last bell is ringing and she's been a mighty lime a fixin'," while Mrs. Toogood, with flushed face, answers if she had no more to do than he she'd have been ready long ago. "I wish, j Jasper," she cries in exasperated tone, "you had the work I have to do with these brats, you wouldn't then have time to find so much fault; but the unreason ablest thing on the face of the earth ?s a man, and 1 don't want to hear another word from you, for I'm just worried to death anyhow. I wish you could see the sacrimcnt bread thai Colic Ann has baked (Celie Ann is the hired girl). All the members know it's my week for bak? ing the bread, and I'll be mortified to death when it's passed 'round. It will do Mrs. Blowgo so much good to talk about it in the next six months and old Mrs. Wilkina will be tickled to death. I do wish I had baked it myself, but I was so busy trimming my bonnet, that I made up the dough and give il to Oelie * ? ? ?_.i. ..i . Anil 10 Dane, Him a jircuy Mliino mica made, with two blisters on it as big as my finger nail. I just wish she had ten times as many on her tongue; perhaps she couldn't have so numb gab, und it's likely why the cake was blistered she was Icauin1 out the window gabbing to Sister Pott's girl, instead o' watching it. I give her head a good cracking tho' with the soup dipper. 'Spect she'll leave. I don't care it'she docs, the trifling thing." In this exasperated state of mind Mrs. Toogood, with her husband and the eight Toogoods, starts to church. They go slowly down the aisle and take a bench nenr tho pulpit, Jt is a warm Sunday, and Brother Doleman preaches a long, dry sermon. The four younger Toogoods get so tired, "Will he never gel through," they think. Linie Jim yawns and nods, and un? easily moves about, while his mother gives his legs a pinch under the fold of her dress, and whispers, "If you don't kpon still I'll rrive von a irood one when J gel von home;" hut ]>oor Jim is soon past nil threats; the tired eyes that he has tried so bravely to keep open close at last, and his little curly head tails against his sister Alabama's shoulder?he was afraid to rest it against his mother's? and he sleeps, while Brother Dolcman casts reproving glances toward the Tuo goods. Little John Wesley, two years older than Jim, thinks he'd like to sec the folks behind him ; he is tired looking at the backs of those in front, hut a warn? ing look from his mother as he turns his head around makes him change his po? sition, and again bis tired eyes are fas? tened on old Sister Piper's little twist of gray hair, and then on Brother Piper's soiled coat-collar in front of him. Di? rectly he ventures to move again, his legs arc so tired, his feet, that doesn't touch the floor, ache. '"Oh, if I was , only at home, or anywhere out of here !" : he sighed to himself. His mother sees him move, and smiling sweetly whisper-, i "If you don't si t up and behave yourself yon shall never come again. 1 wish ' your pa would notice you." Rut pa was listening to the sermon tritlrclosed eyes. I Hoar earnestly John Wesley wished his mother would keep that threat?not to bring him any more?but he knew she ' didn't mean it, else he would have moved several times more. All this time Sister Toogood sits lis? tening to the preacher, save when ad? monishing her children; her face is clothed in pious primness. She is an exemplary member, never misses a Sun? day, or allows her children to do so. She gives to the pastor, and has him to dinner and to supper with her, and tries to bring up her children in the way they should go and in the Tear of the Lord. The fear of the Lord ! that is what Uro. Doleman preaches about, and of that everlasting lake of fire, where all who arc not good, and not church members? not members of his church Bro. Doleman means?will go to and burn forever and forever! Not cf the great mercy, the tender-love, and infinite goodness of our Saviour did little Jim and John Wesley hear, but of his awful wrath ; not of the sweet promises to the good, but of the terrible punishment to the wicked. The beautiful story of Jesus, that children love to hear, wasn't told by Brother Doleman ; the happy home in heaven, its eternal joys and beauty, were left out of his sermons, but he told of the horrors of the bad place and its everlasting pun? ishment. How many Brother Dolemans we have, how many such mothers as Mrs. Toogood, and how many little children arc taught to (ear God rather than to love Him. Little innocent hearts afraid in the darkness, having no faith, no trust in the love and protection of a dear Father above. Afraid to get sick, afraid to die ; hearing not, knowing not that Delias said; "Softer little children to come unto me, and forbid them nor, for of such is the kingdom of heaven."?An sib English Anderson, in Louisville Courier-Journal. Genius and Strong Drink Di? vorced.?The remark is frequently heard that it is the most gifted, the "generous," fellows who are most apt to fall into intemperance. The saying is neither true nor useful. However it may have been formerly, it has come to pass now that, as Prof. Swing suggest-, the temperance reform has reached first the minds that arc more gifted. "Many years ago," he says, "it was my good fortune to rervc my country by being Secretary of a temperance society, and In that official dignity I addressed letters of inquiry to Presidents of colleges and Pro? fessors, to ask what was the quality of the young men who, in those days, marred their college course by the use of ardent drinks. Long letters came from President Woolsey, of Yale, and from Horace Mann, then of Boston, and from Prof. Moll'att, of Princeton, and they all bore testimony that genius in their col? leges and schools drank less than stupidi? ty; that whiskey was passing away from the higher order of mind, and was to be found only in possession of the more sensual and less bright.''?Chicago Ad? vance. Own'.?The good people of a certain country village in Indiana hungered and thirsted for an organ to assist in the church services; but as they could not afford to hire an organist, they bought a self-operating instrument warranted to grind out forty tunes of a religious cast. The musical instrument was placed in position for the next Sunday. The sex? ton was instructed how to set it going and how to stop it, but unfortunately forgot the latter part of his business ; and after singing the first four rentes of a hymn before the sermon, the organ could not be stopped, but continued playing two vcr>es more; then just as the clergyman completed the words, "Let us pray," the organ clicked and started another tune. The sexton and others continued their exertions lo find the spring, but no one could put a stop to it; so they got four of the stoutest men in the church to shoulder the per? verse instrument, and they carried it down the aisle into the church-yard, where it continued clicking and playing until the whole forty tunes were finished. Compression ok the Feet.?A prac? tice so common that it may be safely said that there is scarcely a normal-shaped foot to be found among civilized beings. Although this compression is not in Europe and America carried to the ex lent of stopping all growth of the feet at a very tender age, as among some classes oi* the Chinese, yet the natural growth is so much impeded by the idiot? ic, fancy of most parents to encase their children's feet in snug boots, that gener? ally before a child is six years old the toes arc more or less deformed. Usu? ally the growth of the little toes is en? tirely suspended as early a* twelve or tniriecn years ui uge, nunc un ,uc cd together nnd overlapped, and the great toe, instead of continuing on a line with the side of the foot, turns to the center at an angle of from thirty to thirty-five degrees. To whatever extent the com? pression is carried, just to that degree is the circulation interfered with, causing the blood to (low less and less freely, and in decreasing quantity, causing not only discomfort from cold feet, but a strong tendency to consumption is induced. The inlerfe-cncc with the capillary cir? culation of the feet is also one of the most common causes of catarrh?a fact not generally known. A CotTXTttY WllEAE Lahor is Free. ?At Indianapolis there is a newspaper whose mission is the emancipation of labor. If labor is so much enslaved in this country, it is a little singular that so many poor men became rich here. There is nothing that will emancipate labor so soon as good morals and the habit of saving. The mechanic who has learned his trade well; who has no pet vice to feed, and who marries at 20 or 30 a young woman >:o skilled in nousc-iioiu economy that she can make every cent of his wages bring to him its full value, is very I certain of becoming a well to do if not a rich man. No young man can accumu? late property honestly without great self dcninl in the beginning. He needs more discipline than a soldier, for he has u j bigger light to make. One of the first I things he has to learn is the importance I of keeping out of the society of fools and I spendthrifts. His most dangerous ene? mies are his companions.?Louisville Courier-Journal. Give Them a Kaie Trial.?Give : Dr. Trice's Special Flavoring Extracts a j fair trial, and if they please you, rccom i mend them. We have no fears of \o:ir , not being satisfied, provided you get Dr. Price's, as their popularity and esten ! sivc sale is from their perfect purity and \ excellent quality. ! ? "(let right out of this," shouted an I irritated merchant to a mendacious clerk, j "this is the third lie I have caught you . in since 1<> o'clock this morning.'' "Oh, j well," said the new man, don't be loo I hard on me. (Jive a fellow time to learn I the rules id' tho house." PICTURES OF A BOY. CHAPTER I?"IT'S A BOY." Hi? ailvcnt is heralded in the brief but strong sentence just quoted. No matter what hopes have been indulged concern? ing girl babies, there is something in the pithy announcement. "It's a boy," which dispels all fanciful dreams and sets every? body squarely on a prose basis. His very voice, as it utters a defiant war-whoop to . the grand army of humanity, tells the story to experienced years. The visions of a dainty girl darling very soon vanish ' before this positive piece of prase, who kicks his sturdy heels through the deli | catc pink socks intended for his sister, ? and who grows as red as a turkey cock's i head at Thanksgiving times when he is i expected to show oil" to a good advantage j before callers. He persists in an abnor i mal development of nose and a puffiness about the eyes, along with several other little tricks known only to interested parties. Parents and nurses become re? conciled and accept him on trust, seeing no other alternative. He emerges from his puflv and rosy obstinacy to a roly poly, wide-awake thing of beauty, which IS a joy fully one-half of the time. There is a process from infancy to little boyhood, a sweet time, when the man-child is half baby, half angel. In the clear depths of his innocent eyes is a world of trust and hope and love. His white brow is fair as a freshly-opened lily, and his lips as sweet as hermosa roses. He is most witching at this stage, for the peculiarities which mark the enfant terrible arc yet undevel? oped. He is an armful of love and beauty and promise and dread and hope. Love him while yet there is no guile on the tender lips, no sin in the unwritten soul, no touch of the world's breath upon God's finished work. . minn ti-??<.r"P t-1? At fl IIf>1>?l-V I" I "Mercy, what a noise! Look at that chair, with a string tier! on the arms and made fa*t to the writing desk and flower stand, all to be driven tandem by that young imp in kilt skirt and fancy hat and shoes! Who upset that work-basket? and, good gracious, what work has been made with my wool and thread ! There's the last Graphic torn to scraps and stuffed in the cuspidore with my screw-driver that I lost a week ago. What is he doing with the cat? and, dear me, if he hasn't thrown grandma's spectacles into the grate!" "Where's Harry? Run to the kitchen and see. All the eggs arc broken in the basket of folded clothes, and the milk for pudding has been fed to the cat and dog." Bridget Lannigan is in a towering rage, and says, 'That's the u>c of shlavin' to kape clane wid such a young divil forninst ye?" Miss Frigidity Fusbunch calls, and is horrified by being requested to "be a horse and let Harry ride to Bos? ton." She is questioned also on many delicate points. He gets very close to her and asks what that white stufTon her face is, and what makes her wear such a funny little hat. A few years of this juvenile terror and then appears another stage of the boy. He gets a fever only appeased by marbles. It is useless to head off this phase ; if it is shut off in one direction it breaks out more violently in some other. It goes through a period of six or seven years and costs much in anxiety, broken win? dow-panes and mortified pride. He is afflicted with rats, pigeons and other boy? ish complaints, which are harmless, but annoying. He brings in six dirty steel traps to amuse his sick sister, who grows worse under it, and in his solicitude he straps his legs fast to six feet of stilts and stoics to enter the door of her room, to the horror and dismay of his mother. He brings little notes home from school, which he tries to explain in a favorable light, but fails to convince his parents that it was "only because Bill Wilson dropped his slate on Abe Hennegan's toes and made me laugh." He carves his awkward initials on old Mrs. Wil? liams'cellar door and she threatens his arrest. He goes to see "Humpty Dutnp ty" and comes home and throws real brickbats at his aunt, and Bridget is met with a battering blow from his head when she is bringing in the coal. He makes life a burden and home a snare and a delusion. He tears the comforts in more ways than one, and slits the piilow-eascs to match them. Gradually he leaves off his hurly-burly life and im? perceptibly glides into CHAPTER III?"WHERE'S MY BLUE TIE?" "Where is the blacking brush? I am going to a little surprise, and won't be home till eleven. Is my percale shirt done up nice? I wish you'd make my collars Stifter. I don't thank some one for throwing my coat down and golting :? 1.1?,i .,11 i<n J-Tmvdo vnn litre thin bat? Think it looks better than my soft one?" You will find the {ligcon boxes all deserted about this period ; not a rat trap cumbers the back yard. The wood? shed theatricals are all ended ; the stilts are put away ; kites forgotten and win? dow-glass in perfect safety. The dust has tilled up the rude initials in Mrs. Williams' cellar-door, and there is an uninvited quiet all around the house. Chairs stay in their places and panta? loons will no longer bear cutting over for the boy. He gets them now out of new stuir, and mother's "cut" will not satisfy him. He is not in the way now, and there is a heavy pain in mother's heart as she thinks that he will never need her much any more. The innocent eyes have a deeper meaning in them now. They have taken into their depths the reflec? tion of a face younger than mother's, and life begins to look real to them. The world is full of homes where these pictures will be recognized and hung up as family portraits?homes where there are no sounds of young voices now.? They grow away Into the great world so soon, and put away the nameless feeling of desolation as we do the corft-off toys of their childhood ; and when the evening of life approaches the heart goes back along the track of time and is once more with the children in the dear old long ago.? Cincinnati Saturday Niyht. Delightful Perfumes.?Dr. Price has prepared a rich variety of perfumes, from which the most fastidious can se? lect an odor with agreeable satisfaction. Dr. Price's Pet Pose, Alista Bouquet, and other perfumes, arc great favorites, as their sweetness an i freshness arc so de cidcd. ? There ought to be Rome way to put up good advice in tin cans to be kept until used. A groat deal of it is thrown about loose and wasted. ? A Watorbury woman who weighed something over three hundred pounds got some anti-fat and took double doses of it, until the first thing she knew her skin was so loose that her nose hung off the end of her chin, and her eyes were at each corner of her month. ? A story is going the rounds that Miss Mollic Fanchcr, of Brooklyn, has lived fourteen years without food, and doctors certify to the story. That wo? man should marry a country editor. What this country needs is to have a race of people raised up that can live fourteen years without food, and Mollie and an editor is the best cros< wc can rhinfc of GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY. ? T'i bonded debt of Memphis is $2,6S$.i-*0. ? The Arkansas Legislature meets January IS. ? Virginia spends $12,000,000 annu? ally for liquor. ? An Iowa farmer has a barn one eighth of a mile long. ? The mercantile marine of the entire wot id consists of 57,000 vessels. ? A Springfield, Mass., doctor trained two horses to chew tobacco. ? The South has a colored voting population of over a million. ? Galveston, Texas, is fast becoming the most important city on the Gulf. ? Mrs. Haskell, State Librarian of Tennessee, is a candidate for re-election. ? A Memphian undertook to whip his wife, and had to be hauled to the hos? pital. ? Holders of Tennessee bonds offer to compromise on two-thirds of the face value. ? The most eminent physicians in New York make from $40,000 to $70,000 a year. ? Mr. Makepeace, of North Carolina, raised 604 bushels of Irish potatoes to the acre. ? Bob Ingersoll and hell arc being discussed in the same connection all over Kentucky. ? The Dallas Commercial claims that Texas exports this vcar will bring back $50,000,000. ? Savannah and Charleston are now in speaking distance by means of the telephone. ? The City Bank of Atlanta, which never had much bottom, has suspended and closed doors. ? A Virginia girl with the whooping cojgh drew a bean into her windpipe and died in a few moments. ? Dr. Blodgett, a missionary in China, estimates the number of deaths by fam? ine in North China at 10,000,000. ? About one hundred and fifty of the present members of the House of Repre? sentatives have been re-elected. ? The bar-keepers of Atlanta protest against the passage of the MofTet bell punch law by the Georgia Legislature. ? The decomposed bodies of cats, dogs and birds are found in cellars and houses of Memphis that were closed during the epidemic. ? The quicksilver yield of California for the current year is estimated at 8,000 flasks, probably of the aggregate value of $2,500,000. ? One hundred and seventy-one boxes of unstamped tobacco were found in an old barn in Grauville county, N. C, by a revenue officer. ? The stables of a horse Railroad Company of Peoria, III., was burnt on the night of the 21st ult. Thirty horses were roasted alive. ? The number of students in the law department of the University of Virginia is greater this session than it has been for a number of years. ? A colored woman who sat down on a bee-hive to watch the progress of a fire in Russellville, left her seat before the close of the entertainment. ? Meetings are being held and the tobacco-producing counties of Virginia demanding, not only a reduction, but the abolition of tax on tobacco. ? The Alabama Legislature has passed a law allowing its members mileage of 10 cents each way from their respective court houses, and* $4 per diem. ? Boyd, aged twenty-eight, is the youngest member of the Georgia Legis? lature, and Holcnme, aged sixty-one and weighing 284, is the oldest and* heaviest. ? The Tennessee Historical Society claims to have Daniel Boone's musket? the veritable "Old Betsy"?and the port? folio owned and used by Henry Clay in the Senate. ? The Columbus Enquirer fools up thirty cotton-gin houses destroyed in Georgia this season. The greater por? tion ate thought to have been caused by incendiaries. ? In the forty-second Congress there were nine negroes; in the forty-third, seven; in the forty-fourth, four; in the forty-fifth, three; in the forty-sixth there will be one, Bruce, of Mississippi. ? A terrible explosion occurred at Sullivan Coal Mine, (Ind.,) recently, re? sulting from the ignition of gas by the flame of a lamp. Thirteen men were killed outright, and eight or ten woun? ded. ? The Legislature of Georgia elected as Superior Judges Claibome Snead, John L. Harris, A. M. Speer, Herschel V. Johnson, Thos. G. Lawson, J. W. H. Underwood, A. H. Uansill, Arthur Hood and A. S. Erwin. ? The Secretary of the Treasury has written a letter stating that there is on hand, for resumption purposes, the sum of 5?134,231,SG5.06 in coin, and that at least that amount will be available to resume specie payments January 1, 1870. ? In a vote on the question of re? moving the State capital from New Or? leans to Baton Rouge, 40,000 Louisian ians failed to vote?18,000 of the failures being in the former city. New Orleans will remain the capital by a majority of 1.G4S. ? Hon George S. Houston was elected U. S. Senator from Alabama on the last day of his Gubernatorial term. He was elected to the same position in I860, but not allowed to take his seat. Few men in the Senate have seen so much of pub? lic life. ? The General Assembly of Alabama has adopted a memorial to the Congress of the United States asking for the pass age of a national quarantine law, which will give the Federal Government full control over quarantines in all portions of the Union. ? The statistics of travel show that about 30,000 Americans go to Europe annually. Our Consul at Wurtemberg, who has investigated this subject, places the average stay in Europe at two years, and the annual expenditure at over $100,000,000. ? Some time ago there died at Fort Lincoln, Dakota, a Mrs. Noonan, laun drpss, who turned out to be a man, and the death was duly reported. On Satur? day Corporal Noonan, husband of the deceased man-woman, shot and killed himself at Fort Lincoln. ? The report of the Assessors upon the educational advantages of the inhabi? tants of forty-three of the fifty-eight parises in Louisiana shows that there are S9.000 voters in all, of whom 53,000 know nothing of reading and writing. Of these unexueatcd ones 10,000 are whites and 37,000 colored. ? A Raleigh dispatch states that the grand jury of Wake County, N. C, have indicted George W. Swcpson and Milton S. Littlcfield for "cheating by false pre? tenses," in obtaining from the State of North Carolina S4,000,000 in bonds by means of a false certificate in regard to work done on the Western North Caro? lina Railroad. PersoxaTj.?Should this meet the eye of the individual who created a disturb? ance in church last Sunday by his con? tinued coughing, he will confer a favor on the congregation by procuring a bot? tle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, which will cure him.