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LAWLESSNESS IN KENTUCKY.
A Contlnuoua Itiot for a Week lu Ilreutli
ett County- Mn ny Killed ami Wounded.
LEXINGTON, KY., NOV. 80.
A series nf riots occurred nt Jackson,
Breathe? County, Ky., i'U 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. Dani. 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, ami the Governor
bas been called on to quell the disturb
ance. A special to the Lexington Press,
dated Mount. .Sterling today, says:
"Jackson is still in possession of the mob,
but the sherill 's party aie in possession
of thc court house and jail. Picket
firing is kept up and many persons have
been killed and wounded. No action
bas 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
ollicers of the law arc defied, and havoc
and desolation prevail. Men, drunk and
wild w iib frenzy, armed to the teeth with
pistols and guns, are walking the streets,
yelling at the top of their voices, pro
claiming who they intend to kill. In
fact it is as much as your life is worth lo
appear upon the streets, for you arc lia
ble lo bc 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 ntilictcd in
thc past, but thc outrages ami lawless
ness then are not to be compared willi
the terrible crimes of this week.
BATTLE OF THE CLANS.
Judge William Randall convened the
Brenlhett 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 und gum, d?t
mounted and furiously attacked Capt.
Hill Strong's clan, who were standing tm
the street in front of Breeding's store.
Thirty or forty shots were discharged,
two taking effect oil William and Daniel
Freeman, the former shot through thc
budy, the latter through the head. They
were removed late in the evening to
their homes several miles up the river,
and if is reported ?o-dny that Daniel
Freeman is recovering but William is
tlead.
FIGHTING IN THE STREETS.
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 parly Bought shelter in the court
house, and a regular interchange of shots
was kept up during the afternoon. One
of the Freemans, who fell in the middle
nf 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 bc beard from both parties.
DREAD 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
(jtiiet save the bedlam hoop of the
drunken rabble. There was no sleep or
rest, everybody living in dread expectan
cy cf thc morrow, ami slowly next morn
ing (Tuesday) as light was thrown upon
the scene it wa., discovered that Aikman
mid party had withdrawn from the court
house and quartered themselves near the
river bank, while Strong and bis clan
held their fort still. One by one the
citizens made their.appearance in the
btreet, congratulating themselves that thc
war was over. About 10 o'clock Strong
retired, and soon thereafter straggling
drunken men, tvell armed, began lo pa
rade the streets in defiance of all law and
order, lt was whispered that the guard
which had been sent to Lexington '.Hider
charge of the shcrilTto bring back Jason
Lillie would soon return, und an effort
would be made to release the prisoner.
M?puly Linie and guard had returned,
.mi to the credit, however, of John Aik
man, bc ii >aid, he refused tn participate
ia tliis crime, and leit for home.
TUE MURDERER IN JAIL.
A willing leader was found in a justice
of the peace mimed J. C. B. Allen, sup
ported by the Link , Crawfords and
others, numbering about forty, who loit
ered about the streets impatiently wait
ing f- r the guard to appear. Judge Ran
da!!, io defeat the aim of the mob, had
ti deputy sheriff and county judge to
detail an extra guard ol'fifteen men, who
went under the leadership of the county
judge, John W. Burnett, to the assistance
ol' the. sheriff. About 3 o'clock p. m.
they returned with the prisoner, and
si lely confined bim in jail, the guard
'lumbering about twenty-five well armed
men. No effort, nt release was made;
bat immediately after the guard returned
bom the jail to the street and began to
disperse, thinking the danger was over,
Crawford and Little l>Bgan au attack on
.I nilge Burnett, threatening to take his
life.
JUDGE BURNETT KILLED.
Excitement ran high immediately,
shouts anti veils rent thc air, and sud
denly thc deadly revolvers were brought
into play, and* a volley was potiretl in
?|""i the ginini, who, taken by surprise,
sought shelter wherever they "could find
it. When the smoke cleared off it was
seen that Judge Burnett was down. Ile
was dead, with a bullet through his heart.
'?ii tiring was maintained in ?. iesultory
way the whole evening, the nr.o yelling
like very devils at every indication of a
slight advantage over tlic faction that for
the present were champions of the law.
Allen ami his men, being in the court
ht use yard, sought shelter behind tho
clerk's office and in the court room, while
'lie guard retreated up the street to thc
point where Strong and his clan were
barricaded. The forces now numbered
some thirty or forty on each side. Thc
min were all well armed with the latest
improved Colt's navy repeaters, Spencer
?nd Italian! rifles, and being good shots
'"iild kill their man from two hundred
Io three hundred yards whenever he
might appear.
A ITEM PT TO BREAK THF. JAIE.
Buring the picket shooting a posse of
Allen's clan, with axes, attempted to
I'hrst open the jail door and rescuo the
Prisoner, His brother, Toni Little, of
Compton^ appeared itt thin moment and
begged the rioters to desist. A shot
through the body stretched him lifeless
.?pori the ground. This caused ?he jail j
freakers to retire, which they did, breath- I
{.jj vengeance for the death of Tom Lit- j
Thc Allen party deserted the court j
'"'Use I. Ht night mid the sheriff ?nd posse ?
.W? possession, thus commanding the j
poor to the jail. Or course no court lias
been held, nnd the Circuit Court Judge j
Jiindcnly disappeared this morning be- |
lore 7 o'clock, leaving no orders as to thc
opposition of the prisoner Little. hf- |
forte are being inaile, however vainly, to
secure the services of some magistrate
who will assume tbe 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 matty persons in
destitute ci reit instances.
ATTKMUT TO BU It Y JUDGE BURNETT.
A guard was detailed to dig the grave I
of Judge Burnett, the spot selected being
by the side of his sweetheart, who died
one year ago. Ladies and Citizens who
came to town to-day to attend the funeral
have beaten ; hasty retreat. Lawless
ness and disorder are so rife that the re
mains of thc 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 ns much as people
can do to protect their lives from the
wanton cruelty of the rabble.
THE INAUGURATION CEREMONIES.
Second Inauguration ?if Governor Hamp
ton und Lieutenant Governor Klui]iftOU.
In accordance with an indication from
Governor Hampton that he was prepared
to be inaugurated aa Governor of Smith j
Carolina under the late election, thc
President of the Sonate, the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, the clerks
of the two houses and the committees
appointed to visit Governor Hampton
repaired to bis residence on yesterday, at
2 o'clock p. m., in Company with the
Chief Justice, Lieutenant Governor
Simpson and Col. Wade H. Manning,
thc Governor's private secretary, for the
purpose of witnessing the inauguration
which had been authorized by the con
current resolution ol' 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. Thc Governor v.. u lying
?it bed ?it!: :'.u expression of pain upon
Ills countenance, but otherwise appear
ing to be getting on well -indeed his
friends were agreeably disappointed, for
be appeared stronger and much morn
cheerful than they expected to lind him.
As the members of the party went to
his bedside he shook bands with them
and had some pleasant remark for each.
Thc object of the visit being made known,
Chief Justice Willard, sitting by his bed
side, held a small Bible upon which the
Governor bold his hand wiiiie thc oath
was being read. At the conclusion of
which, taking the book into his own
hand, he raised it to his lips and then
signed the oath in a steady and legiblo
hand, although lying upon his back.
Licutenant-Governor Simpson then took
and subscribed the oath of.ollicc as Lieu
tcnant-Governor. After which Governor
Hampton 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 bis painful acci
dent is that he is deprived of the privilege
of conferring with anil consulting the
General Assembly about the matters of
importance to the people of South Caro
lina which they are considering.
The committees ferling thut 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 thc cap
itol in less than one hour from the time
they left it. Members of the committee
say that Governor never appeared nobler
th in 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 Itcr/ufcr.
CRIMINAL STATISTICS.-F. R. San
born has been collecting facts regarding
crime and criminals in the United Slates.
The number of convicts is now twice as
great aa in 187!, thc relative figures being
31,000 and 1(1,000. The greatest increase
is in Georgia, Tennessee, and several
Western States. Tho number of per
sons in prison as convicts, or waiting
trial, is 60,000, of whom less than one
sixth arc women. About 10,000 of the
whole number are in New York and
4,200 in Massachusetts, where thc pro
portion ot prisoners to population is
greater than in any other part of the
country. In tho 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. Sanborn figures as billows:
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 ehort of the earnings re
quisite to support the 20.000 convicts in
those [irisons lest 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 00,000 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 AUK RICH.-The man with good
firm health is rich.
So is thc man with a good clear con
science.
So is tho parent of vigorous, "lappy
children.
So is the clergyman whose coat the lit
tlo children of his parish pluck, as he
passes them in their play.
So is that wife who has the whole
heart of a good husband.
So is the maiden whose horizon is not
hounded by the "coming man," but who
has a purpose in lifo whether she ever
met him or not.
So is tlie 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 littlo child who goes to sleep
'willi a kiss on its lips, and for whose
waking 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 basa real significance, showing, as it
does, that whatever the people of these
States, may think concerning thc politi
cal situation, they aro far from brand
ing Dr. P 'ree's Family Remedies as
frauds. _ w ^'
GALVESTON,TEXAS, Juno ?, is<8.
DR. PIERCE-Ikar Sir.: Your Gulden
Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets
have cured rnv daughter of Scrofulous
Swellings and Open Sores about ihe
Neck ; nm! vour favorite Prescription has
Hccomplinhcd wonder? in restoring to
health'mv wife who br ! been bed-last
for eight months, from Female Weak
ness. I am With grateful feelings, yours
t.-uly, T. H. Long.
Thoughts for tho Mouth.
This number reminds us that wo have
readied the end of nnothcr year. Its
advent forces two t h'm pa upon tho con
sideration of tho prudent, thoughtful
farmer: the balancing of accounts, and
the bearing of the lessons learned, upon
future operations.
A BUSINESS VIEW OF MATTERS.
How do expenditures ?nd receipts
compare? We fear comparatively few
of our readers cnn answer that question.
If every one could, how quickly would
reform begin. Farmers frequently say
"they ure making no money," hut in
their secret councils they think otherwise
-not knowing exactly the state of the
case, they hope they are making a little. !
No man in his senses is willing to work j
bard a whole year for nothing-be must ?
hope cither for present or prospective j
gain. True, very few in any of the avo- j
cations of life are making much just now, ?
and thc larmer may comfort himself with i
thc reflection that he bas a plenty of
company. But such uncertain, doubtful
conclusions ought not to satisfy n sensi
ble man-be should know with absolute
certainty whether the policy bc is pursu
ing is a wise or a paying one-and we
take this titting occasion to urge ?gain
i?pon our readers the very grent impor
tance of keeping books, willi as much
care ns tho merchant 01 the II anufacturcr
does. A fanner should keep an account
with every one of his crops, and with
every one of bis fields. In no other way
can bc learn whether Ibis or that crop
pays, or this or that field warranta the
expense of cultivation. Wc are thor
oughly satisfied that on a very great
many farms, thc cultivation of some poor
fields absorbs all the profits f'roin the
richer and better portions.
At the beginning of the year settle ns
near us can bc, the cost per day of each
band 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 lind), the cost of labor, Ac,
spent on each field. In like manner,
enfer daily the cost of labor spent on
corn crop, cotton, Ac. Keep also an ac
count of general expenses, such as fenc
ing, and at the end of the year divide
this out among thc different crops in
Croportion to tlie expenditures on each.
)o the same with the interest on capital
invested in farm, and taxes on thc whole,
the uncultivated and unused portions of
the farm as well ns that {limited, also
with the wear and tear ol'stock, w agons,
implement*, Ac. The farmer's personal
supervision and care, ought certainly to
be worth aa much as house rent, firewood
and the usual perquisites of a farm-nn
overseer could not bc hired for these
alone, bc would demand them and a
salary additional. We simplify tb" ac
count then by letting these things offset
each othert .Now with such a record at
thc end 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 Hood of light
would bc 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 thc
valuable knowledge gained be worth that
little trouble? Don't say I am not a
book-keeper and cannot do it-any ono
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 thc
good wife, would make the records if you
were tired. Try it next year mid learn
for yourselves bow easy it is.
LESSONS OK 1878.
Have you learned anything additional
about your business from the experiments
aud experience of the year just closing,
or have you moved along in thc same
old grooves nnd ruts? Have you ob
served an ' marked points all along its
course which you could improve upon
during the coming year? Have you
studied out a bette.- rotation of crops
one that will preserve and enrich your
land, and at the same time give remune
rating crops? Have you closely studied
the defects in your ploughs and 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 roils 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 farmer
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 lal~ing day. At the South Sambo
pract. ally settled that question long ago,
and the two great problems in Southern
farming now arc, how to supplement
labor bv improved implements, machines
nnd methods, and how to enrich the soil
so as to produce maxirnun crops with
the minimum labor which Srimbo gives.
Those are the leading problems. The
next ia bow to decrense tue money crops.
We sell almost everything we make, and
buy almost everything we need-whereas
wc ought to make almost everything we
need, and buy almost nothing. The
present system of cultivating money
..!<.[.< almost exclusively, places us nt thc
mercy ol' speculators and middlemen ;
cutting down tho money crops to small
est dimensions would restore ns again to
the old time independence. What is to
prevent ft furnier from raising all tho
horses and mules be needs-all the pork,
beef, mutton, poultry, butter and eggs
all tho wheat, corn, potatoes, syrup, ten,
fruits and vegetables bc 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.
Wc arc poor folks-mad poor in the
first instance, not by laziness, hut by thc
noble imp..'.es of patriotic self-sacrifice,
and we ?. be ashamed, but rattier
proud, of i., it us therefore come down
to it, and net 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 fine linen
and faring sumptuously every day, has
mortgages and liens upon his property
ami ia subject to thc bidding of a mer
chant or money lender.-Southern Culti
vator, for December.
Tun TnUTIIFTJI. TEST.-H requires no
learned experts to estnblish thc fact that
Dr. Price's Cream Raking Powder is the
parent nnd the strongest. If it will
make sweeter, lighter, and more digesti
ble broad, biscuits. cake*, ?tc, ihr.:; car.
be made with other kinds, it is nn incon
testible proof of its purity and greater
excellence.
- Thc indefinable joy which fills a
young man's bosom when he carves his
first fowl, is more than counterbalanced
by thc mortification which COMICS when
lie involuntarily pulls it orer into bin
lap.
A (.001) WORK.
Pout h Carolina** Institution forth?1 I "il nco
lion of thc Deaf, Dumb anil Ullin!. |
This noble institution is hi tua ted in
SpattauburgCounty, four miles from the \
county site, ami one mile wes! of the
Spurtunbuig ami Union Railroad, on the
beautiful ami historic grounds of Cedar
Spring. As is indicated in I lie heading
of this article, the establishment em
braces two entirely distinct departments,
the one being devoted exclusively i the
instruction of the deaf and dumb, the
other to that of the blind. The former
department is by several years the older, .
having been founded by the Rev. New
ton 1*. 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 ns
???stance from the State. It was while
laboring to effect this end that he met '
the Hon. Bias Henderson, of Laurens j
County, who cordially seconded Mr. W.'s
plans, advocating, at the same time, the '
establishment of, in connection with the
school, a department for thc blind. It is
needless to say that the gentlemen then ;
composing the Legislature of South Car- |
ol ina w ai inly approv ed their measures, !
and by suitable appropriations, soon
placed thc noble enterprise on the high
way to grand success, and in a few years
the department for the deaf and dumb,
under the pcisonal management of Mr.
Walker, and that of thc blind under tho
instruction of Mr. Janies S. Henderson,
who was himself blind, each attained to
thc 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, ns well as that of the blind, there
were two branches, the intellectual and
the industrial ; thc former needs no com
ment, further than what is implied in the
terni wc have used ; the latter we will
notice more specifically. The industrial ]
branch of deaf-mute education ut Cedar |
Sp!lng consists of carpentering, shoe and
harness making and the arts of agriciil- I
ture ; thc blind were taught to make
brooms and mats and lo cane chairs.
Thc industrial part of female education
seemed io have been overlooked.
The prosperity of this noble institu
tion was checked it; the year 1SG1 by the
outbreaking of the late war; iu 1802 it
war deprived of ?tsdistinguished founder
liv his untimely death. At the opening
"?" J** session of 18CC - -'-r:-'.: ' r*-?"- :
was manifest, from a marked decrease in
the number of attendants, and a partial
suspension of the industrial branches,
which continued until the spring of 18(15,
when the doors were closed. In the fall
of lSfill an attempt was made to revive
this languishing enterprise, hut with
small success*, the exercises being again
indefinitely discontinued at the expira
tion of a short session. In 18U9 it be
gan a new but uncertain lease of life,
which was interrupted in 1S73 by the
imbecile ex-Governor Moses, influenced
by the corrupt and designing Neagle.
In 1S7G 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 ita uncertain career, with a re
striction to twenty pupils. Under Dem
ocratic rule, the attendance on the suc
ceeding terni, which closed injune, 1878,
was increased to forty-five, of which
thirty-five were deaf and dumb
and ten blind. At prrsent, Professor N.
P. Walker, son of the founder of the in
stitution, is its superintendent. The
teachers in the deaf and dumb depart
ment arc Professor John M. Hughsfnn, 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. R. P. Rogers, also a mute, is
mas'or of the shoe shop.
In the department for the blind, Mrs.
L. C. Henderson, ?notlier sister of the
superintendent, has charge of tho liter
ary branches, and Professor W. R. Norlh,
who is bli nd, and a graduate of the institu
tion, is the professor of music. Since
the war, the meagreness of the appro
priation* has been such as to prevent the
reopening of the shops for the industri
al training ol the blind. Mrs. Walker,
the mother of this remarkable family of
teachers, presides ns matron of the es
tablishment, and we take pleasure in
stating that despite hard times and short
appropriations, she never fails to have
the t:? .le furnished with an ample sup
ply of savory and wholesome viands.
It is evident from the above that these
officers ?re peculiarly fitted for the im
portant positions -.vii?eli they fill, and it
is due to them to slate that though they
have been greatly restricted in their
operations for wai.t of tho necessary
funds, yet the most gratifying success
has crowned all their effort-., 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 staling that the
building itself is greatly out of repair ;
"ihe roof lets in the rain" but not "the
sunshine;" the plastering is frequently
dropping, thus endangering the lives of
the inmates ; the grounds and enclosure
are likewise in bat. 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
thc war, the collection has not been re
plenished during tho last fifteen or
twenty ycus. The musical instruments,
with pcarccly 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 this
unfortunate class of our population is
fast drifting into au untenable condition
for want of a respectable support from
tho Legislature. Certainly such a
course on the part of tho Slate has neith
er the commendable quality of economy
nor philanthropy. If this charity is le
be sustained at all, let it be done in a
manner which will ensure the fulfillment
of its objects. Tiie blind of South Car
olina do not ask an asylum, but thc op
portunities of education, and this no ont
will deny should be granted them, even
in preference to ihe moro fortunate
classes ; for with this they become usefu
and independent citizens-without ii
they must remain life long objects nf pity
We nre forced herc lo iceortl the sat! fae
that two-thirds of thc deaf and dumb, a:
well ns of the blind, children of th il
State are grow ing up in total ignorance
and would insist that slcps bo taken I?
ibo ensuing Legislature to extend ti
this allictcd class those advantages whicl
arc enjoy eil by other children, and whicl
the constitution pledges alike to all.
Every true heart, pulsating with gen
ero-ity and humanity, must feel a warn
interest in the. success of this noble cause
nn 1 we d?tibt not that tl c press of th
State w ill lend its cordial support nm
advocacy to its claims.-GcorgetOto
Tim't.
M IIS. TOOtiOOD'S ( IIUISTIAMTY.
It is Sunday morning, and Mrs. Too
good lias washed-or rather scrubbed -
and dressed thc fix youngest of lier fmni- 1
ly of eight; tho two oldest ure girls, and
no longer need their mother's helping
hand in thc way of "lixin'." They aro
going to church, and have on their best
clothes, their "Sunday-go-lo-ineotiii's."
Little Beulah Vushti has on Hie new
oink percale that she tried to w ear on
Friday lo school, because thc other chil
dren were t<- be dressed up at the "ri nd
ing match," but was denied by her moth
er, who didn't believe in indulging chil
dren in any sueii foolishness and vanity.
Alabama Washington, tho 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- I
papers, which she has kept carefully ?
concealed from her mother's no.iee by a .
dust-cap, until tho last moment for get
ling ready for church Mrs. Toogood spies
thom.
"Do you think, Alabama Washington,
thal 1 intend lo let you go with your hair
rigged out in that fashion? Do yon sup
pose I'd let a duughu r of mine sil in
church under the eyes of the preacher,
showing sticli signs of vanity ! Now, ?
miss, you just brush *cni right out!" fin ,
poor Alabama, who is nearly grown, and j (
naturally desires tu look pretty, takes thc ? ?
olU tiding papers out, and slowly brushes j i
the otherwise ?Imight locks, but a few -
little ringlets ara left-Alabama didn't t
brush very bard-which she slyly pushes |
under thc edges of ber bair, and duly ?
mils down, as ?hu walks to church be- ?
lind lier mother.
Little Jim Toni, the youngest, wants lo ,
know if ho can't ride bis slick-horse 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 gooil clothes, I'll giv?* you such a
warnung when 1 get home that you'll nut
forget it soon !"
At last thc eight arc ready. The little
ones' eyes nre red-for thc tears would
conic 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-willi having
tangled hair combed ami jerked, being
scolded for not "holding the sleeve," ami
other shortcomings ; it's no wonder they
bore traces of having gone through un
ordea!.
"Al?banla Washington," (Mrs. Too
good calls ell her children by their lull
names,) "him von seen anything of my
hymn book? ? laid it right on this shelf
last Sunday evening. Saw Henry Clay
"in j; '.' "? - '".ii, . the Lord
kui ^j dO?-What will the world conic to?
Pre. Vers in a hymn book! 1 just
feel like sbakin' the lite, out of lier.
Conic here to mo, 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 Blossin'.' I habit
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 thc purple
from a morning glory were visible on a
page, but not on thc one of 'Come Thou
Fount ;' that didn't seem to have been
touched with either Howers or finger
prints.
"Alabama Washington, i want to toll
you now that I don't want you lo look at
them Spriggs boys like you tl id bust Sun
day, else I'll call your pa's attention to
it; the preacher's the. proper one to look
at." Mrs. Toogood wus always going to
"tell your pa," but this was a threat the
children didn't mind, ns they stood in no
awe of that easy-going, patient man.
"What's that you've got, William Henry
Harrison, under your vost?" "Cot noth
ing 1" sullenly answers William Henry.
"Yes be bas, mother 1" eagerly eries
Maria Ellen, his twin; "he's got a bean
shooter; I saw ?lim put it there." Mrs.
Toogood runs her band up William Hen
ry's vest, and out conies the bean-shooter
-a strip ot' leather fastened to a two
pronged stick. Poor William Henry is
rapped over the head with bis plaything,
while his affectionate twin giggles and
cries, "Goody, goody !"
Mr. Toogood, who has been patiently
standing on tlie front porch, calls to his
wife that "tho last bell is ringing and she's
been a mighty time a lixin'," while Mrs.
Toogood, with flushed face, answers if
she had no more to do than be she'd
have been ready long ago. "I wish,
Jasper," she cries in exasperated tone,
"you had thc work I have to do with
these brats, you wouldn't then have time ,
to find so much fault; but tho unreason
ablest thing on tho face of thc carib >s a '
man, and I don't want to bear another ,
word from you, for I'm just worried to
death anyhow. 1 wish you could seo iiie
Bacriutcnt broad that Colic Ann has
bilked (Celie Ann is the hired girl). All
the members know it'; my week for bak- ,
ing tho bread, and I'll bc 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. Wilkins will be tickled to deat'i. I \
do wish I had baked it myself, but i was ,
so busy trimming my bonnet, that I
made up the dough and give it to Celie ,
Ann to bake, and a pretty muss she's
made, with two blisters on it as big as
my linger nail. I just wish she bad ten
times as many on her tongue; perhaps i
.she couldn't have so much gab, ?nd it'.;
likely why the cake was blistered she
was Icanin' out the window gabbing to
Sister Pott's girl, instead o' watching it.
1 give lier bead a good cracking tho' with
thc soup dipper. 'Spect she'll leave. I
don't caro if she docs, the trifling thing."
In this exasperated state of mind Mrs.
Toogood, w ith ber husband and thc eight
Toogood*, starts to church. They go
slowly down thc aisle and take a bench
near the pulpit. It is a warm Sunday,
and Brother Dolcman preaches a b>ng,
dry sermon. The four younger Toogood*
get to tired. u\\ ill he never get
through," they think.
Little Jim yawns and nods, and un
easily moves about, while bis mother
gives his legs a pinch under the fold of
her dress, and whispers, "If you don't
keep still I'll give you a good one when
I get you homebut poor Jim is soon
past all threats ; thc tired eyes that he
has tried so bravely to keep open close at
last, and bis little curly head falls against
his sister Alabama's shoulder-be was
afraid to rest it against his mother's
and he sleeps, while Brother Dole m an
casts reproving glances toward tho Too
goods.
Little John Wesley, two years older
than Jim, thinks he'll like to sec thc
folks behind him ; he is tired looking at j
tho backs of those in front, but a warn
ing look from his mother us bo turns bis
head around makes him change his po
sition, and again !:i:i 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 bim. Di
rectly bc ventures to move again, bis
legs nre so tired, hts feet, that doesn't
touch thc floor, ache. "Ob, if I was
only at home, or anywhere out of here !"
he sighed to himself. His mother sees
him move, and smiling sweetly whispers,
"If you don't iel up and bebavo yourself
you shall never come again. I w ish I
your pa wonjil notice you." But nu was
listening lo thc Kennon witlrclosed eyes.
How ea rn est Iv John Wesley wished Iiis
mother would keep that threat-not to
1 ?ri ti jr him any more-hut ho knew she
didn't mean it, else ho 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 ia
clothed in pious primness. She is an
exemplary member, never nibses 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 fear of the Loni.
The fear of the Lord ! that is what Uro.
Doleinnn preaches about, ami of that
everlasting lake of fire, where all who
are not good, and not church members
lint members ol his church Uro. Dolcman
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 ,I im 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. Tho
beautiful story of Jesus, that children
love to hear, wasn't tobi by Brother
Dolcman; tho happy home in heaven,
its eternal joys mid beauty, were left out
nf his sermons, but he told of the horrors
nf the bad place and its everlasting pun
ishment. How many Brother Dolemnns
ive have, how many snell mothers ns Mrs.
Toogood, and how ninny little children
ire taught to fear God rather than to
love Him. Little innocent hearts afraid
in thc darkness, having no faith, no trust
in the love and protection nf a dear
Father above. Afraid to get sick, afra iii
[odie; hearing not, knowing not that
Helias said; "Sutler little children to
Mime tinto me, and forbid them not, for
t)f such is the kingdom of heaven."-AN
NIE BNHLISII ANDERSON, in Louisville
( burier-Journal.
GENIUS AND STIIONU 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 Prut. Swing suggests, the
temperance reform has reached first ihe
minds that arc more gifted. "Many
years ?go," lie suys, ;ii was my good
fortune to serve my country liv being
Secretary of a temperance society, and in
that official dignity 1 addressed letters of
inquiry to : residents of colleges and Pro
fessors, to ask what was the quality of
thc 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 ot Boston, and from
Prof. Moffatt, of Princeton, and they ali
bore testimony that genius in their col
leges and schools drank less than stupidi
ty ; that whiskey was passing away from
tin- higher ord? ; ol mind, and was to be
found only in psrscssion of the more
seti&unl and less bright."-Chicago Ad
vance.
AN ORGAN WITH A WILL OF rrri
OWN.-The good people of a certain
country village in Indiana hungered
and thirsted fur an organ to assist in the
church services ; but as they could not
afford t<> hire at: 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 lo set it going
and how to stop it, but unfortunately
forgot the latter part of Iiis business;
and after singing the first four verses of
a hymn before tho sermon, thc organ
could not bo stopped, but continued
playing two venes more; then just ns
the clergyman completed the words,
"Let us pray," the organ clicked and
started another tune. The sexton and
others continuel] their exertions to find
tho spring, but no one could put a stop
to it ; so they got four of the stoutest
men in tho church lo shoulder the per
verse instrument, and they carried it
down tlie aisle into the church-yard,
where it continued clicking and playing
until thc whole forty tunes were finished.
COMPRESSION OP 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 thia compression is not in
Ku rope and America carried to thc ex
tent of stopping all growth of tho feet
nt a very lender age, as among some
classes of tho (21line.se, yet tho natural
growth issn much impeded hy the idiot
ic fancy of most parents to encase their
children's feel in snug boots, that gener
nlly before a child is six years old thc
toes are more or less deformed. Usu
ally the growth of the little toes is en
tirely suspended as early as twelve or
thirteen years of age, while all are press
ed together and overlapped, and tho great
toe, instead of continuing on a linc with
the side of the foot, 'urns lo thc center
at an angle of from thirty to thirty-five
tlegrces. To whatever extent tho com
pression is carried, just to that degree is
I he circulation interfered with, causing
the blood to flow less and less freely, and
in decreasing quantity, causing no! only
discomfort from cold feet, but a strong
tendency to consumption is induced.
The interference with tho capillary cir
culation of the feet is also one of the
most common causes of catarrh-a fact
not generally known.
A COUNTRY WHERE LAHOR re FREE.
- At Indianapolis there is ti newspaper
whose mission is the emancipi .ion 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 mor?is and ibo. habit of
saving. Thc mechanic who lias learned
his trade well ; who has no pet vice to
feed, and w ho marries at 25 or 80 a young
woman so skilled in house hold economy
that she can make every cent of his
wages bring to him its full value, is very
certain of becoming a well to ?lo if not a
rich man. No young man can accumu
late property honestly without great self
denial in the beginning. Ho needs more
discipline than ii soldier, for he has a
bigger fight to make. Ono of the first
things he has to learn is the importance
of keeping out of thc society of fools and
spendthrifts. His most dangerous cue
illies are his companions.-Louisville
(burier-Journal.
GIVE THEM A FAIR TRIAL.-Give
Dr. Price's Special Flavoring Lxtracts a
?airtrial, and if they please you, recom
mend them. Wo have no fears of your
not being satisfied, provided you get Dr.
Price's, as their popularity and exten
sive sale is from their perfect purity and
excellent quality.
- "Get right out of this," shouted an
irritated merchant to a mendacious clerk,
"this is the third lie I have caught you
in sinco 10 o'clock this morning. "Oh.
well," said the new man, don't bo too
hard on me. Give a fellow time to learn
thc rules of ibo house."
PICTURES OP A BOY.
CHAPTER I-"IT'S A nOY."
His advent is heralded in tho brief but
strong sentence just quoted. No matter
what nones have been indulged concern
ing girl babies, there is something in thc
pithy announcement, "It's a boy/' which
dispels all fanciful dreams and sets every
body squarely on a prose basis. His very
voice, as i. utters a defiant war-whoop to
the grand anny of humanity, tells thc
story to experienced years. The visions
of a dainty girl darling very soon vanish
before this positive piece of prose, who
kicks bis sturdy heels through the deli
cate pink socks intended for Iiis sister,
and who grows as red as a turkey cock's
head at Thanksgiving times when bo is
expected to show oil'to a good advantage
before railers. He persists in an abnor
mal development of nose and a puffiness
about the eyes, along with several othor
little tricks known only to interested
parties. Parents and nurses become re
conciled and accept him on trunt, seeing
no other alternative. He emerges from
bis puffy and rosy obstinacy to a roly
poly, wide-awake thing of beauty, which
is a joy fully one-half of the time. There
isa process from infancy to little boyhood,
a sweet time, when the man-child is half
baby, half angel. In tho clear depths of
his innocent eyes is a world of trust and
hope and love. His white brow is fair us
a freshly-opcncd lily, and bis lips nssweet
us hermosa roses. Ho is most witching
at this stage, for thc peculiarities which
mark thc enfant terrible uro yet undevel
oped. Hois nu armful ol love and beauty
and promise und dread and hope. Love
him while yet there is no guile on the
lender lips, "no sin in the unwritten soul,
no touch of the world's breath upon
(bid's finished work.
CM1PTE11 II- "GET UP OLD.: HORSEY !"
"Morey, what a Noise! Look at that
chair, with a string tied on tho arms nnd
made fa-t to the writing desk and flower
stand, all to bc driven tandem by that
young imp in kilt skirt and fancy hat
and shoos ! Who upset that work basket?
and, good gracious, what work bas been
made with my wool und tbreud I There's
tho last Graphic torn to scraps and stuffed
in the. cuspidoro with my screw-driver
that I lost ?i week ago. What is bc doing
with the cat? and, dear mo, if bc hasn't
thrown grandma's spectacles into tho
grate I"
"Where's Harry? Run to the kitchen
and soe. All tho eggs arc broken in tho
basket of folded clothes, und the milk
for pudding has been fed to thc cut and
dog." Bridget Lannigan is in a towering
rage, and says, "Phut s the u-eof shlavin'
to kape elane wtd such a young div?
for ni nst ye?" Miss Frigidity Fusbunch
calls, and is horrified by being requested
to "bo a horse and let Harry ride to Bos
ton." She is questioned also on many
delicate points. Ho gets very close to
her and asks what that while stuff on iier
face is, and what makes ber wear such a
funny little hat.
A few years of this juvenile terror and
then appears another stage of tho boy.
lie gets a fever on.y 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 aro harmless, but
annoying. Ho brings in six dirty stcel
trnps to amuse his sick sister, who grows
worse under it, and in Iiis solicitude he
straps bis legs fast to six feet of stilts and
stoics to enter thc door of ber room, to
thc horror and dismay of bis mother.
He brings little notes home from school,
which be tries to explain in a favorable
light, but fails to convince his parents
that it was "only because Bill Wilson
dropped bis slate on Abo Hennegan's
toes and. niadc me laugh." He carves
Ilia awkward initials on old Mrs. Wil
liams' collar door and she threatens his
arrest. He goos to KCG "Humpty Dump- | i
ty" and comes homo and throws rca.
brickbat^ al bis aunt, and Bridget is met
with a battering blow from Iiis heud
when she ia bringing in the coal, ile
makes life a burden nnd home a snare
and a delusion. He tears thc comforts
in more ways than one, and slits the
pillow-cases to match them. Gradually
lie leaves off bia hurly-burly life and im
perceptibly glides into
CHAPTER 111-"WHERE'S MY BLUE TIE?"
"Where ia the blacking brush? lam
going to ii little surprise, and won't be
nome till cloven. Is my percale shirt
done up nice? I wish you'd mako my
collars stifler. I don't thank some one
for throwing my coat dow n and getting
it wrinkled all up. How do you like this
hat? Think it looks better than my soft
one?" You will find tho pigeon boxes
all deserted about thia period ; not a rat
trap cumbers the back yard. Thc wood
shed theatricals are alf ended; the stilts
ure put away ; kites forgotten and win
dow-glass in perfect safety. The dust
bas filled up tho 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 ho longer bear cutting over for
the boy. He gets them now out of new
stuff, and mother's "cut" will not satisfy
him. He is not in thc way now, and
there ia a heavy pain in mother's heart
as she thinks that lie will never need her
much any more. The innocent eyes havo
deeper meaning in them now. They
have taken into their depths the reflec
tion of a face younger than mother's, and
lifo begins to look real to them.
Thc world is full of homes where these
pictures will bc recognized and hung up
as family portraits-homes where there
aro no sounds of young voices now.
They T;row away into tho great world so
soon, and put away the nameless feeling
of desolation sui we do the cast-off toys of
their childhood ; und v en tho evening
of life approaches the heart goes back
along thc track of time niwj h? once more
with the children in thc dear old long
ago.- Cincinnati Saturday Niyht.
DELIGHTFUL PERFUMES.-Dr. Price
bas prepared a rich variety of perfumes
from which the most fastidious can se
lect an odor with agreeable satisfaction.
Dr. Price's Pct Roso, Alista Bouquet, and
other perfumes, are? great favorites, as
their sweetness and freshness aro so de
cided.
- There ought to bo some way to put
up good advice in tin cana to bc kept
until used. A [jfeat deal of it is thrown
ubout loose and wasted.
- A Waterbury woman who weir hod
something over three hundred pounds
got some anti-fat and took double doses
of it, until thc first thing she knew her
skin was so looso that her nose hung off
tho end of her chin, and her eye* were
at each corner of her mouth.
w"~ 'wM.?.ry .Is K?in8 tho rounds that
Miss Mollie Fancher, of BrooKlyn, has
lived fourteen years without food, and
doctors certify to the storv. That wo
man should marry a country editor.
What this country needs is to have a
nice of people raised up that can live
fourteen years without food, and Mollio
and an editor ia thc best ero?? wc can
?hink of.
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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
- Tho bonded debt of Memphis is
52,688.140.
- The Arkansas Legislature meeta
Juniinry 18.
- Virginia spends $12,000,000 annu
ally for lirtnor.
- An Iowa farmer has a barn one
Sighth of a milo long.
- Thc mercantile marine of thc entire
?vorld consists of 57,000 vessels.
- A Springfield, Mass., doctor trained
two horses to chew tobacco.
- Tlie South lias a colored voting
copulation of over a million.
- Galveston, Texas, is fart becoming
he most important city on thc Gulf.
- Mrs. Haskell, State Librarian of
rennessce, is a candidate for re-election.
- A Memphinn undertook to whip his
vi fe, and had to be hauled to the hos
lital.
- Holders of Tennessee bonds offer to
:ompromiue on two-thirds of tho face
ralue.
- The most eminent physicians in
STew York make from *10,00r> to $70.000
i yenr.
- Mr. Makepeace, of North Carolina,
aised 604 bushels of Irish potatoes to
ho acre.
-- Rob Ingersoll and hell arc being
liscussed in the same connection all over
kentucky.
- Tho* Dallas Commercial claims that
Texas exports this year will bring back
$0,000,000.
- Savannah and Charleston are now
n speaking distance by means of the
elephone.
- The City Bank of Atlanta, which
lever had much bottom, has suspended
ind closed doors.
- A Virginia girl with the whooping
wugh drew a hean into ber windpipe and
lied in a few moment'?.
- Dr. Blodgctt, a missionary in China,
?stimates the number of deaths by fam
no in North China at 10,000,000.
- About one hundred and fifty of the
ireaent members of the House of Reprc
iontatives have been re-elected.
- The bar-keepers of Atlanta protest
igainst the passage of tho MofTet bell
it: nch law by the Georgia Legislature.
- The decomposed bodies of catt?, dogs
ind birds are found in cellars and houses
if Memphis that were closed during tho
?nhl?? nile.
" - The quicksilver yield of California
'or tlie current year ?B estimated at 8,000 .
lasWs, probably of tho aggregate valuo
>f $2.500,000.
- One hundred and seventy-one boxes
>f unstamped tobacco were found in an
lld barn in ^irauvtiie county, N. C., by
i revenue officer.
- The stables of a horse Railroad
Company of Peoria, III., was burnt ou
he night of tho 21st ult. Thirty horses
vere roasted alive.
- Thc number of students in the law
lepartmentof tho University of Virginia
a greater this session than it has been for
i number of years.
- A colored woman who sat down on
i bee-hive to watch thc progress of a Pre
n Russellville, left her teat before tho
dose of the entertainment.
- Meetings aro being held and the
?.obacco-producing counties of Virginia
demanding, not only a reduction, but thc
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, anu $4 per diem.
- Boyd, aged twenty-eight, is tho
youngest member of tho Georgia Legis
lature, and Holcome, aged sixtv-oiie and
weighing 284, is the oldest and heaviest.
- The Tennessee Historical Society
claims to have Daniel Boone's musket
the veritable "Old Bptsy"-and the port
folio owned and used by Henry Clay in
.he Senate.
- The Columbus Enquirer foots up
hirty cotton-gin houses destroyed in
"?eorgia this season. The greater nor
don nie thought to have been caused by
ncondiaries.
- In thc forty-second Congress there
vero nine negroes ; in the forty-third,
even; in the forty-fourth, four; in the
orty-fifth, three ; in thc forty-sixth there
viii be one, Bruce, of Mississippi.
- A terrible explosion occurred at
Sullivan Coal Mine, (Ind.,) recently, re
sulting from the ignition of gas by tho
lame of a lamp. Thirteen men were
tilled outright, and eight or ten woun
led.
- The Legislature of Georgia elected
is Superior Judges Claiborne Snead,
fohn L. Harris, A. M. Speer, Herschel
7. Johnson, Thus. G. Lawson, J. W. H.
Jnderwood, A. IL Uansill, Arthur
food and A. S. Erwin.
- The Secretary of the Treasury has
?.ritten a letter stating that there, is on
land, for resumption purposes, the sum
if $134,231,865.06 in coin, and that at
east that amount will bo available to
canine specie payments January 1,1871).
- In a vote on tho question of re
noving thc State capital from New Or
eaus to Baton Itouge, 40,000 Louisian
ans failed to vote-18,000 of the failures
jeing in the former city. New Orleans
viii remain the capital by a majority of
1,648.
- Hon Gcorgo S. Houston was elected
J. S. Senator from Alabama on the last
lay of his Gubernatorial term. He was
dected to the samo position in 1S65, but
lot allowed to t-tko his scat. Few men
n the Senate have seen so much of pub
ic life.
- Tho General Assembly of Alabama
ins adopted a memorial to the Congress
?f the United States asking for the pass
ive of a national quarantine law, which
viii give the Federal Government full
:ontrol over quarautines in all portions
if the Union.
- The Rtatistics of travel show that
ibout 30,000 Americans go to Europo
innually. Our Consul at Wurtemberg,
.ho has investigated this subject, places
ho average stay in Europe at two years,
ind the annual expenditure at over
?10O,000,000.
- Some time ago there died at Fort
Lincoln. Dakota, a Mrs. Noonan, laun
lress, who turned out to bo a man, and
the death was duly reported. On Satur
day Corporal Noonan, husband of tho
deceased man-woman, shot and killed
himself at Fort Lincoln.
- The report of tho Assessors upon tho
?ducational advantages of tho inhabi
tants of i:?rty-thrco of tho fifty-eight
arises in Louisiana shows that there are
9,000 voters in all, of whom 53,000 know
nothing of reading and writing. Of
these uneducated ones 16,000 aro whites
and 37,000 colored.
- A Raleigh dispatch states that tho
anuid jury of Wako County, N. C., have
Indicted George W. Swcpson and Milton
3. Littlcfield tor "cheating by false pre
tenses," in obtaining from tho State of
North Carolina $4,000,000 in bonds by
means of a false certificate in regard to
work done on tho Western North Caro
lina Railroad.
PER80KAU-Should thia meet tho eyo
>f the individual who created a disturb
mice in church last Sunday bv his con
tinued cough.ag, he will conter a favor
on tho congregation by procuring a bot
tle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, which
will cure him.