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BT CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C> WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1896._ VOLUME XXX.?NO 3g. | YES, WE'VE just received a new line of Colored Shirts, A big lot of 'em. Got prices right, too. 15 dozen Colored Shirts, good value, at only 25c. 15 dozen nice Laundered Colored Shirts, with Collar and Cuffs attached, at only 50c 15 dozen elegant Laundered Colored Shirts, with two Collars and Cuffs at tached, at 75c We have others on up to $2.00. Come in and gaze. ft 0. EVANS k P.S.?Hr. A. Or. MEANS, Jr., Anderson's popular Clothier, is now with us. He would be pleased to see you. B. 0. E. & CO. FRESH AND PURE GARDEN SEED ! OUR New Stock of Seed have arrived, and we are selling them at ex tremely low prices. "White Onion Setts... 15c quart?2 for 25c Yellow or Red Onion Setts.... 10c quart?3 for 25c. ?.11 Paper Seed. 3 for 5c The largest papers?twice as many Seed as you buy for that money any where in the State. WATERMELON. PEAS, BEANS, &c, At correspondingly low prices. Our Seed are grown by The Cleveland Seed Co., of New York, and we have been selling them for ten years with perfect satisfaction to ourselves and customers. When ready to' plant your garden come and see us and we will save you money. ORR & SLOAN, " ?MS" THE C. A. REED MUSIC HOUSE HB?? Has a Fall Stock of PIANOS, ORGANS and Small Musical Merchandise), At LOWEST PRICES foi quality of Goods. ALSO, a large line of? Buggies, Carriages and Harness, AI<D THE CELEBRATED New Home Sewing Machine, THE BEST IN THE WORLD ! I ?&- Col! and Eee us. or write us your wanta if not convenient to come Respectfully, O. A.. REED, Agent. GREAT REDUCTION IN JEANS AND OTHER WINTER GOODS ! Heavy Shoes at prices that sell them. TT'TXTT? TTT /^TTT?-BalIard'8 ' Obelisk, "Favorite," "Blue Bird" and Jj XJ3I Hi JD Xj\J U jl%> ' Waterloo " These brands are known to every housekeeper, and we guarantee PRICE, QUALITY and WEIGHT. If not found m represented your money will be cheerfully refunded. 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ONE CENT TO $100.00. ^?"No charge far Engraving. . ?*The Prettiest Good' in the Town, and it'll a pleasure to show them. P. S.?If you have Accents with J. M. HUBBARD <fe BRO. make settlement with me at above place. JOHN HUSB?KE*. SARGE PLUNKETT. The Part That General Sherman Played In the Civil War, Atlanta Constitution. The Cubans are to be protected as belligerents, the Armenian outrages invite a return of the Crusades, the newspapers are filled with war talk and war pictures, all of which operates to make my old friend Brown a very gloomy man and a most unpleasant companicn. We look upon the pictures giving the conditions in Cuba and our hearts go out to the sufferers. Especially have the pictures of the fleeing refu gees touched a tender chord with Brown and myself. We know what it means to refugee before an invading army, what suffering it brings upon women and children and '"hat desola tion it spreads over a land. There are yet in Georgia many reminders of Sherman's great march to the sea, and all old people can well remember how cruel it was, but the author of those cruelties has passed away and will go down in history as the hero of a great cause?even Southern youths will have this rung in their ears till they will accept it, giving only a passing thought to the poor sufferers that scampered away on his approach. In this connection I would pause a moment and digress a little to unload myself of some "facts" in connection with General Sherman that have never been dwelled upon by any of the writers or historians. General Sher man was not only the hero of the march through Georgia, but the honors of the fall of Richmond and the cap ture of Lee should be put to his credit as well. For four long years the best gener als of the North had been hammering at the gates of Richmond. From every direction the yarakee army, of Virginia, had tried to approach the Confederate capital till tit last General Grant himself undertook the matter in person. Starting at the Wilderness, he had spent months tugging at Lee to accomplish his end, to settle .down at last upon the James, where he could have gone from the first without the loss of a man or the firing of a gun. General Grant wasted months of pre cious time and sacrificed thousands of men to arrive at last upon the very' ground and take up the very tactics that McClellan had advocated three years before, and it is not out of place to remark here that if Lee had had snoh an army to confront Grant with as he had to confront McClellan there would have been nothing left of Mr. Grant. But I have no desire to disparage General Grant further than is neces sary to bring out the facti) in the case. The fact is that General Sherman cap tured Lee from this way, cr he was the prime cause of Lee's surrender at the time he did. While Grant lay for months around Richmond using his greatest endeavor to oust Lee, Sher man marched through several States and in ten days more would have been in the rear of. the army that all the yankee generals, including Grant him self, had made so much effort to over come. Scott, at Manassa3, McClellan, Meade, Burnsides, Hooker, and ?t last Grant in person had failed to cause the rout of Lee, and but for the ; approach of Sherman from clear across the Confederacy, there would not have been a surrender at Appomattox at the time there was. This brings me to remark npon what was whispered at that time and what was justified from an estimate of what was then considered the cruel nature of General Sherman. The situation made it certain that in a very few days more General Sherman would capture Lee from the ..rear. This would have made Sherman the hero of Appomattoz and would have taken from General Grant the laurels that carried him to the white house and make him the foremost hero of all the war. That General Lee weighed these matters and that General Grant ap preciated the motives in his favor is not a bit of doubt in my mind. That General Grant was a more humane man than Sherman none will coubt, and in this lies the wisdom of Lee in allowing the inevitable capitulation to redound to his honor. With Lincoln dead and Grant overshadowed the cruelties of the Spaniards, in Cuba, would be small to what would have been in the South with Shermin in the place of Grant. And yet I Bay, and Brown says, and thousands that we know believe that Sherman was the greatest general?the military genius of all the war. War is a bad thing, and whosoever engageth therein may expect to endure hardships that they never dreamed of and to suffer cruel ties as painful as can be devised by advanced methods or the abandoned heartles8ness of military genius in every age and every country. I have just read Brown the above for his sanction and as I mentioned "genius" I saw the first smile flit over his face that haB been there since our ?resent war talk began. It tickles irown to think how much "genius" it took to keep out of the "late un pleasantness," and it gives a boost to his conceit when he considers that he was equal to the emergency and thinks he will be again if the circumutances call for it. He has just remarked that it took a genius to keep out of the war, one of whom he was, and this set him to telling of some of his trials and tribulations of those days. The conscript officer was the bane of Brown's life in those times. He soon saw that there was no escaping from old age. Higher and higher they went until they took them up to seventy, and Brown was certain that they would go higher still, so his "genius" suggested that he was entirely too healthy for the times. Suddenly hin back got in such a condition that he could hardly inch a chair from one side of the fireplace to the other, and ho got his folkB and friends to narrate it everywhere that "Brown was a plum invalid," and some said it was spinal affection and others that it was lifting too much when he was young?some said one thing and some another, but me and my folks and all of his folks knew that there was not a thing the matter except his desire to outgeneral the conscript officers, a very hard thing to do at that time. Those times were very trying, and it was very far from being a matter to laugh at then, but we laugh now?I do, when I think of incidents connected with them days. Brown had played his weakly back an well as it could have been played, and it actually got so that the whole set dement was pitying him. During day light he never got careless; it was, "Oh, my back, my poor, poor, back," from daylight till dark every day, but as night threw its shadow about the Brown residence, the old man gradu ally subsided in his groans and in dark and lonely places he would cut the pigeon wing and take other exercises that hie habits of the day time made so pleasant. One of these night-time esoapadea brought great trouble upon him at last and accounts for his notorious dislike of all doctors and his contempt for hospitals?even the Grady hospital. One dark night he was taking a little more than his usual share of ezeroises and was never more confident that he was entirely secret. As he returned to his house through a newground he saw a big hickory log that struck him as being the very thing that h? wanted for a fire the next day. Up he picked the log and started for the house with it on his shoulder, when, lo! just as he turned around the corner of his corncrib a voice right at him said: "Good evening, Mr. Brown." You ought to have seen that log drop as Brown slapped both hands to hi? sides and moaned: " Oh, my back, my poor, poor back!" " I am an officer, Mr. Brown, and I will take you along," said the fel low. Nothing that my old friend could say had any effect on the cruel con script officer. Brown was marched away and a board of doctors' prescribed the most severe treatment that ever a poor fellow was subjected to, but Brown stood it. His back was "cup ped" and blistered and scarified till he could hardly stand or lay, but he grin ned and' moaned, "My poor, poor back!" To make the story short, the doctors tried so severely to run Brown to the front by cruel treatment that his fortitude in the matter gained their respect and he became a pet hospital nurse, but to this day the old man hates doctors and hospitals and lives in eternal dread of another war. To return to the subject of refugee ing, I have the story of a little girl in my mind that should be kept and handed down to coming generations as a sample of heroic acts of the South ern females. This little girl belonged to a family of refugees that had moved on and on from place to place to keep out of the way of the invaders, of Virginia, till the mother found herself settled down in a lonely old house among the wil derness of pines that lay around Chan oellorsville. Her means were exhaust ed, she could move no more, and so she had moved in this deserted old house as the best that she could do and had great hope that the seclusion of the place would shield her from contact with the invaders. How mis taken she was we only have to con sider what took place in this lonely region at the battle of Chancellors ville, under Hooker, and the Wilder ness, under Grant. It is from the battle of Chancellors ville that my story dates. The mother left her little boy baby and the house in charge of this noble little girl, as she (the mother) went up the river to a mill that she had heard of to procure some brcid. After the mother had ! prone Hooker crossed over the river and the battle of Chancellorsville had begun. The mother was cut off from her children, and her agony is easier to imagine than describe. Our little girl hugged her baby brother in her arms and lay flat upon the floor of the old house as the balls shattered and the shells shrieked through the pine tops. The house was between the battle lines and there was no thought of the soldiers that it was occupied. It waB hard enough that our little girl should have to stand the fire of both armies, but a worse thing was to come. Above the din of battle there came a roar of terror greater than the shriek ing of shells or the sizziog of balls. The woods were on fire. The flames came lioking the tree tops. Our little girl knew that her house was doomed fid that it was death to remain. The two armies were making the most des perate effort to hold the field that they might save their wounded. The wounded of both sides appealed to their comrades and the Most terrible struggle of the war waB then being enacted. Gathering her baby brother in her slender arms, our little girl broke out the door between the two armies and was wildly fleeing to escape the fire. Bombn broke the limbs and tore the ground and the small balls hailed, but the little girl held tight to the babe and ran with a wildness. Here came a great shell and then threw dirt a.U- over our little heroine; her foot tripped and the baby went flying in front, while she fell prostrate in the midst of confusion. Quick, quick, in less than it takes to tell it, Bhe had regained her feet, again had the baby in her arms and was again fleeing. The battle lines of both armies had seen her. Both armies ceased firing and all raised their caps as the little lady passed over the hill and out of danger. I do not know if that little girl is yet living, but I hope she is, and I hope that she will raise up a family as true to the old flag as she was to her baby brother. S?rge Plunkett. Twelve Conundrums. 1. What is that which increases the more you take from it ? A hole. 2. Why are coals in London like towns given up to plunder ? Because they are sacked and burned. 3. Why is a gate post like a potato? Because they are both put into the ground to propagate. 4. What word may be pronounced quicker by adding a sylliable to it ? Quick. 5. What is that we often see made, but never see after it is made ? A noise. 6. What is that which Adam never saw, never possessed and yet gave two to each of his children ? Parents. 7. Why is chicken pie like a gun smith's shop? Because it contains fowl-in-piece8. 8. What is the difference between a sailor and a beer drinker ? One puts his sail up and the other puts his ale down. 10 What is that which is above all human imperfections, and yet shelters and protects the weakest and wicked est as well as the wisest and best of mankind ? A hat. 11. What is that which is often brnught to the table, always cut and never eaten ? A pack of cards. 12. What are the most unsociable things in the world ? Milestones, for you never see two of them together.? Philadelphia Record. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn thai there is at least one dreaded disease that sci ence has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi tive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a co-mtltutional disease requires a constitutional treatment Hall's Cataph Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tho system, thereby de stroying the foundntion of the dl ease, and giving ihc pa tient strength by building up the constitu tion and assisting nature in doing its work The proprietors have o much f ith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred t ollars for any case that it fails to crre. Send for list of tes timonials. Address. F. J. CHENEY 4 CO.,Toledo, O. cWft by Drwpglste, T?. CALHOUN AND JACKSON. Ignoranoe of a Washington Post writer Exposed. To the Editor of The New? and Courier: I have just read in your paper the racy sketoh of Andrew Jack son, drawn by a recent writer in Washington Post. The graphic pic ture of Old Hickory which he h given us, if highly colored, is never theless life-like and true in its man features. But the incidental picture of John C. Calhoun, which his narra tive contains, ia entirely fictitious and untrue in every particular. It contradicted by the records of the Senate, by the history of the timei and by the facto of the case. This the statement to which we seriou object : "When John C. Calhoun found could not be President he resolved be a traitor. He invented nullifica tion. His invention would have had a great run, too, were it not for Jack son. He resolved to hang Calhoun following the first overt act, and lay in wait for him like a cat. "Jackson arranged to put 100,00C armed soldiers into South Caroli within sixty days. He worked wi the accuracy of a machine and the energy of a storm. Calhoun was sim ply frozen with fear when he finally realized the tremendous blow the re eistless, enveterate Jackson stood ready to deal. He awoke one morn ing to find his State surrounded an the hangman's grip all but on his per sonal arm. " 'With nullification,' said Jackson 'the Union is like a bag of meal open at both ends. Pick it up in any fash ion and it all runs out. I will tie the bag and save the country.' "Calhoun discovered that one detail of this bag tying was to hang him, and the color left his faoe. Calhoun travelled night and day to get back South Carolina and still the storm h had conjured so long to raise. He was hurrying to save his own neck from the halter, and it may be added that he succeeded by the breadth of hair " There are Bix erroneous statemen in this brief extract. Mr. Calhoun always maintained that he did not invent nullification, hut deduced the right logically from th Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 and 1799, written by Jefferso and Madison, though he unquestioo ably carried it to a length which th authors did not contemplate. He did not quail with terror then, nor at any other time in his life. He was as brave as Jackson, though not as reck less, and the story of his running away from Washington is absurdly fake. He left South Carolina after the Act of Nullification had been passed, and travelled day and night to Washington (not from it) to tak his seat in the Senate to defend hi native State against any and every foe, nor did he leave his place until the end of the session. It was my good fortune to hear th most important debates of that stormy session, including Mr. Webster' grand oration on the national powers of the Government, and Mr. Calhoun' masterly defence of the reserved rights of the States as guaranteed by the Constitution. No man who list ened to his burning words, or wh could appreciate the keen power of his logical mind, and the evident hon esty of purpose by which he was guided could fail to admire his daunt less spirit. The sole champion of hia native State, with not one Senator except his colleague, in full sympathy with him?with all the power of the most potent Administration which our country had ever seen arrayed against him?with the public opinion of the nation, outside of two or three South ern States, strongly opposed to him? be stood on the floor of the Senate like a lion at bay, calm, courageous and confident. He never yielded an inch to the overwhelming pressure of numbers, but maintained his bold front until the end. It was the highest exhibition of moral courage which I have ever seen. I thought so then, and I think so still after the lapse of sixty years. I have witnessed during and since the civil war some exaltered manifestations of heroic courage. I have seen Gen. Lee in his defeat, the same calm, self controlled, courteous gentleman that he was in ante-bellum days, hiding a broken heart under an unruffled visage, and looked with admiration upon the noble, long-suffering man. But many others were bearing the same burden of defeat, with blasted hopes and broken fortunes and homeless families. There was community of sorrow, and poverty and humiliation, for all stood on the the same sad plane. But Mr. Calhoun in the Senate stood alone. He had encountered the strongest man in the nation, and still held his ground, his eagle eye undim med, his brow bold and defiant. It is a long time since, but that heroic ex ample of moral courage is still fresh in my memory. And this man is accused of "freez ing with terror" under Jackson's threatB, and "running away to South Carolina." ThatI contradict emphati cally upon my own knowledge. I was then a student at the Theological Seminary of Virginia, on the Potomac opposite Washington. Rumors that Gen. Jackson had ordered the arrest of Mr. Calhoun and the Repr?sent?es from South Caro lina were rife in the Capital and the vicinity. Having a relative in Con gress, the Hon. Robert W. Barnwell, I went up to Washington to ascertain the truth of the reports. Mr. Barnwell contradicted the cur rent rumors, although he thought the President rash enough to make the attempt should Mr. Calhoun give him the opportunity. But he regarded the situation as very grave. "We must have war, sir," he repeated with emphasis. "The State cannot and will not recede from her position. Nobody imagines that Jackson will abandon the ground taken in his pro clamation. There must be collision between the States and Federal au thorities?a bloody collision, resulting in actual war." Mr. Calhoun, he said, "was hopeful, as usual," but he could see no alternative but an appeal to force I went on to Mr. Calhoun'a lodgings, and found him alone. He met me as cheerfully as was his wont in his mountain home in South Caro lina. I expressed my gratification in finding him in his own rooms instead of in the more confined quarters to which rumor had assigned him and that as yet there was no rope around his neck. He seemed highly amused at the rumors that had reached the other side of the river. However lawless Gen. Jackson might be "he had too much sense" to attempt such an outrage. "I have as much au thority to arrest him as he has to arrest a Senator of a aovereing State." I repeated Mr. Barnwell's view of the matter, that war was inevitable without concession on one side. "Mr. Barnwell," he said, "is a brave man, a nobler fellow, but he is too despondent ; that is difficulty as a poli tician. He looks at the dark side always. Nullification is a peaceful remedy, I have always maintained it and the result will prove it." He in formed me that Mr. Clay had a pro position to submit, which he under stood would be acceptable to the South, that he (Mr. Clay) was to speak that day and that I had better go to the Senate and hear him. I acted on his advice and heard Henry Clay at his very best, in the role of peace maker. It was a noble speech, full of his broadest and loftiest patriotism. With all his winning eloquence he proposed his famous compromise, based upon a gradual reduction of the tariff, and when Mr. Calhoun rose and accepted the terms in the name of hin State there was an outburst of joy and gratulation which moved the audience to ringing cheers and made many a hoary Senator wipe his eyes. This is the man who is represented by the writer of the Jackson sketch as "flying on this very day to hide himself in South Carolina"?the man who stood in the front of battle, who held his scales of war and peace in his hands, who bearded the lion in his den and quailed not before an inimical President, an hostile Senate and an opposing people. If any other Amer ican since Washington, except Old Hickory himself, has ever shown more truly the courage of his convic tions -let him speak, or forever hold his peace. There is one other erroneous state ment in this sketch. The writer says that Jackson had "surrounded South Carolina with 100, 'Omen." This is entirely at varian ; with the facts. There was not one regiment, nor one company, nor one man on the borders of South Carolina, in hostile array. There was one naval vessel sent to the harbor, to aid the Cu.stom House au thorities in collecting the revenue. That was the sole display of force upon which the Amdinistration ven tured. Mr. Poinsett informed me, several years later, that in a confer ence with the President Gen. Jackson said to him.: "You. are arming and drilling men in Charleston, I learn. The State cannot put more than 30,000 men in the field under any circum stances. Your military strengh is utterly inadequate. Here," he said, opening a drawer, "are letters offering me volunteers to the number of 70,000 men, if I call for them, to enforce the tariff laws." Mr. Clay's compromise stilled the storm. But the writer says that Jackson "had surrounded the State with armed men." Where he got his authority for this statement I cannot imagine. That army, "which froze Mr. Calhoun's soul," never got beyond the President's tabYe drawer. If the sprightly writer who called Mr. Cal houn "traitor," will read his speech es, especially his last speech in the Senate, he will feel convinced that he has greatly wronged that lofty and patrotic man. No iitronger plea for Union has ever been heard on the floor of the Senate ; and no voice has ever pleaded more earnestly for its perpetuity than that of the dying statesman, whose prophetic vision ex tended far into the future. I call two witnesses from the dead to verify my assertion of Mr. Calhoun V indomitable spirit, and of his lofty patriotism. The chaplain of the Senate, (a Northern man,) in his fun eral address admirably characterized the dead Senator as "Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye," and Daniel Webster, his great on only worthy antagonist in the Senatorial arena, said on the same occasion : "He had the basis of all high character, nnspot ted integrity. If he had aspirating, they were high and noble. There *?af nothing grovelling, low or selfish, that came near the head or the heart of Mr. Calhoun." C. C. PlNCKNET. Confedesate Museum. The stately and beautiful mansion occupied by the Hon. Jefferson Davis, while President of the Confederates States, the "White House" of the Confederacy, is now owned by the Confederate Memorial Literary Society of Richmond, Va., and has by it been renovated, made fire proof and is now a Confederate museum. It stands at the corner of Clay and Twelfth streets, facing Clay street with spacious grounds around it, extending from Twelfth street West to Thirteenth street East. If desired, a building 150 feet long by 50 feet wide could be placed beside the mansion, and there would still be space for grass plots and walks around both buildings. The museum and grounds now repre sent in money value over $60,000 worth of property owned by the Con federate Memorial Literary Society, which society is chartered and con sists of active and life members. Tbe mansion is held in sacred trust by the society, having been given to it by the city, and could not be bought for any sum, being itself the greatest of relics, a pearl above price. A room has been given to every one of the former Confederate States, in cluding Maryland and Kentucky. A regent has been appointed from each State, while a vice regent, a resident of Richmond, has also been chosen to carry out the instruction of the regent and take charge of the room for her. The regent for South Carolina is Miss May Singleton Hampton, Gen. Wade Hampton's daughter. The large Southwest room on the second story is the South Carolina room, one of the most desirable of the fifteen handsome rooms in the museum. The object of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society is the pres ervation of relics and records of the Confederacy, that future generations may gather a true history of the war between the States. Original documents, or any relics of that war-time, either loaned or donat ed to the museum, will be carefully guarded. Futher information can be had from the vice-regent for South Carolina, Mrs. W. P. DeSaussure, 316 E. Main street, Richmond, Va. ? The little daughter of Mr. Fred Webber, Holland, Mass., has a very bad cold and cough which he had not been able to cure with any thing. I gave him a 25 cent bottle of Chamber lain's Cough Remedy, says W. P. Holden, merchant and postmaster at West Brimfield. and the next time I saw him he said it worked like a charm. This remedy is intended especially for acute throat and lung diseases such as colds, croup and whooping cough, and it is famous for its cures. Tbere is no danger in giving it to children for it contains nothing injurious. For sale by Hill Bros.; A TRAP FOR TAPE WORMS. One of the Many Queer Thinge Sent .1 the Patent Office. Philadelphia Record. As one glances over the record of i.he patent office and notes the vast amount of inventions registered there for patent it is not surprising that a greatnumber of "freak" things should lind their way to the patent office. These at first flush excite ridicule, but the patentee can get consolation out of the fact that the most useful inven tions in usa to-day were heartily laughed at when the idea was first given to the public. A member of the medical profession in responsible for a very unique devioe for entrapping the unwary t nia niediocanellata, better known as tape worm. This, as described by the inventor, consista of a trap somewhat resemb ling a quinine capsule, and which is baited, attached to a string and swal lowed by the patient after a fast of suitable duration to make the worm h angry and ready to snap at the bait. The patient retains the string in his h i.nd and when he feels a nibble at the trap he g?ves a quick jerk and siiely lands Mr. Taenia Medicoanellata. The trap is then again baited and swallowed and the operation repeated. A VERT PECULIAR OVEN. A patent wati recently issued on an electrical oven composed of a metallic j box-like structure wound about with I wires; asbestos being interposed be tween the oven and the first layer of wires and between each succeisive layer of wires. The whole was sur rounded by a protecting casing?a suitable opening being left for the in troduction of articles of food into the interior metal box. The inventor cl lira3 that if a turkey, or any other article of food, were placed in the oven ard the electric current turned into the wires the turkey would cook from the centre outward. In other words, the cooking would commence within the body of the turkey and proceed gradually ouliward until the skin would brown. If the turkey were to be removed from the oven before the cooking was completed it would be found, upon cutting it, that it was thoroughly cooked internally, while it yet remained raw externally or near the surface. The only explanation given is that the oven is so wound with the elecrtic ooils that the lines of the different magnetic fieldn all con verge or meet at the centre, thereby so disturbing the normal conditions as to generate heat at thii point. The heat is also generated by the usual resistance of the wire to the passage of the electric current. This oven, if it accomplishes what is claimed for it, would certainly be of great assistance to the housekeeper. No more sticking of straws into cakes and the like to ascertain if they are cooked internally. A COMBINED PLOUGH AND CANNON. The inventor says : " This plough is constructed in the usual manner with the exception that the beam, which is of metal., is bored aid formed ini;o a cannon. As a piece of light ordnance its capacity may vary from a profectile of one to three pounds in weight. Its utility of the two-fold capacity described is unquestionable, especially when used in border local ities. As a means of defence in re pelling surprises and skirmishing at tacks on those engaged in peaceful avocations, it is unrivalled, and can be immediately brought into action by di; engaging the team, and m times of danger may be used in the field, ready charged with its deadly missiles of ball or grape." A further use the inventor seems to have overlooked might be here re marked, viz: that the invention could be aptly employed for the encourage ment of contrary minded mules hatch ed to the plough, by loading with a light charge of buck-shot and red pe pper. !Cf this inventor was wide awake no n he would take advantage of the present unsettled condition of the country to introduce his invention to the attention of the farmers and resi dents along the seaboard and frontier. A DOG BICYCLE. In construction the bicycle is slight ly larger than is usual and the rider's seat is placed over the rear wheel. The front wheel is constructed of suf ficient size to accommodate two good size dogs therein, and is built on the order of a treadmill, and very much res?mbles the wheel of a squirrel's cage. The dogs are chained within thi s wheel, and in their endeavoru to run forward turn the wheel, at least so the inventor explains. It is thought, though, that there would be some difficulty in starting and iitopping the dogs, but no doubt the inventor con templates opening a canine training school with the special dogs tobeu3ed with this wonderful invention where they could be purchased by the dozen, ready to be slipped into the wheel, and started and stopped by the signal of the rider. A LUMINOUS CAT. Those who now tolerate mice or rate in or about the house certainly must be blind to the factt that \ luminous cat, which costs very little to secure, and nothing to keep, has been invent ed, and can be placed in any dark cor ner or nook and effectually .scares away all mch pests. Thin cat is struck or stamped from sheet metal, or other like material, so a?. to represent in ap pearance the exact counterpart of its animated feline sinter. It is painted over with phosphorous no that it shines in the dark like a cat of flame. After being used for about a week the plaise is forever free of either mice or rats. AN AERIAL RAILWAY. This invention consists of a cable anchored at each end and extending from one point to another, say, from Philadelphia to New York. A bal loon, fully charged with gas, is pro vided with a roller or grooved wheel pendant therefrom by suitable ropes or rods. This roller or wheel is adapt ed to fit upon and roll along the under side of the cable as the balloon passes forward by the action of the wind or propelling devices. As the balloon passes forward the cable is lifted, at the point of engage ment with the wheel, to some distance above the ground. A. car for carrying pasnengers, parcels, baggage or the like is suspended from the said wheel, and is, of course, always kept free of the ground by the balloon and carried forward by the wheel pendant there fron. A MUSICAL CHAIR. We can expect, in the future, upon entering a friend's parlor and taking a seal, to he greeted with the strains of some popular opera. At least, this is mac.e possible by a repently patented invention for a musical chair. The chair has the appearance of being an ordinary one, and to all intents and purposes is, with the exception that under the leat is concealed a music box. This seat proper is flexible, so that, when sat upon, it will be slightly depressed. This depression of the seat operates a catch and releases the drum of the music box. Different chairs or articles of furniture may be loaded with different operas. At re ceptions the hostess will, of coure, take great oare that her guests are seated in the chair containing their favorite opera. A STEAM MAN. This is an intricate piece of ma chinery. His legs are operated by suitable levers, cranks and steam cyl inders, so that when hitched to a car riage ne has every appearance of an ordinary mai drawing a ooach behind him. He is supported in an upright position by the shafts of a coach. A pipe protrudes from his mouth, and the smoke and steam are discharged through the same, thus making it ap pear that he is enjoying a quiet smoke while dragging his heavy burden along the street. The levers, cranks and other parts are, of course, hidden by suitable clothing or livery. TOT COW THAT CAN BE MILKED. The body of this animal is formed of either wood or metal, and is an exact representation of an ordinary Jersey cow as she stands while being milked. A suitable tank is arranged within the body of the cow and can be filled with real milk from the outside. This tank is provided with suitable nipples. These nipples are operated in exactly the same manner as in milk ing the real every day article. This movement of milking the Jersey also transmits motion to her pivoted jaws, and it thus appears that she is quietly chewing her cud while being milked. A HOTCH-POT OF PATENTED INVENTIONS A cannon motor, to the mind of one of our inventors, is the ideal method of generating power. This motor con sists of an endless ohain carrying teeth or projections ; said chain being supported on suitable wheels for trans mitting the power imparted to it. This power is derived from two can nons arranged on opposite sides of the machine and firing alternately against devices that eiagage the projections on the chain?onu eannon being reloaded while the other is being discharged. An automatic gallows is the subject of a recent patent. With this device no special person can be pointed ont as the man who sprung the trap, send ing the unfortunate oonvict to his death. The device is set and the trap sprung by a time catch. Boiler explosions and consequential injury to life and property in the future will be accountable for only by those who wilfully ignore the great invention of one of our citizens. This comprises one boiler surrounded by another. Whenthe inner boiler bursts the outer one catche3 the flying iron, water and steam 'and any injury is thus averted, at least so the aforesaid citizen is opinioned. The Unhappy Marriages. When two people have entered into the relation of marriage, calling G-od and man to witness, they have per formed an act as sacred as sacrament ?one held in some forms of religious belief to be indeed a sacrament. It seems strange that into the awfulneas I of anything approaching a sacrament, ! a relation reaching back' among the mysteries of creation in its potent re sults, people should allow small and 1 trivial concerna to make dissidence. I But in too many marriages this is what happens. A thoughtless wife maddens a worried husband ; an ex I acting husband wearies and wears out a high-spirited wife. Sometimes they flight it out in the union ; and though harm is done, it is much less harm : than comes in the more public way. Sometimes the wronged party has re gard to the speech of people, thinks of others, of acquaintances, friends, parents' children, and hears the bur den as best it may be borne ; some times thinks of duty, and calls on Heaven for help; sometimes, when love and happiness are gone, finds comfort in the love of Heaven. Some times forgetfulness is nearly attained in some one of the thousand pursuits of science, art, charity or business. One thing is equally certain, that i; is the duty of both parties to find it. Because a wife loses her first bloom, because her husband outgrows her intellectually, beoauscs another has come to seem lovelier in his eyes, a husband is afforded thereby no excuse whatever for absolving himself from bis marriage vows. Because a hus band is selfish, because he is parsim onions mean, because he is tyrannical, because he objects to her friends, a wife has no more excuse. Life may be come all but unbearable with him or with her ; but if there are chrildren with a future to be considered, it is to be borne, and duty and decency must enforce a behavior before the children that shall hinder their injury from wrong influences so far as possible. It may be hard to bear ; it may be al most impossible ; but self-contlol is an invaluable ally. The utmost friv olity, the utmost indifference to his wishes, does not justify a husband in pulling the cloth from the table and all the china with it ; his pulling her self under the illegal protection of another man. We do not say, indeed, that if a husband persist againats his wife's wish in introducing, into the family an element or a person th*< the wife knows to be poisonous to hevself or to her chrildren, or that if the husband's wish in any corresponding course, that either party may not be justified in the determination to live apart from the other. ^ But there is, at any rate, a dignity in a seperation that is entirely wanting in a divorce. And surley there is still a great deal I < of happiness possible in a dignified 11 and virtuous reparation, if it is only the happiness of acquired peace and freedom.?Harpers Bazar. ? A new social game has been in troduced in the West. One of the girls in the room takes a bite of onion and a young man must discover the fair biter by kissing all the young ladies present. The young man enjoys it immensely until he strikes the girl who bit the onion, and then he looks around for his hat and says he promised to be at home at half-past 9 o'clock. Threw Away His Canes. Mr. D. Wiley, ex-postmaster, Black Creek, N. Y., was so badly afflicted with rheumatism that he was only able to hobble around with canes, and even then it caused him great pain. After using Chamberlain's Pain Balm he was so much improved that he threw away his canes. He says this liniment did him more good than all other med icines and treatment put together. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by Bill Prtrs. AL. Sorte of Paragraphs. ? The raan is very poor who can. put all his riches in an iron safe. ? Systematic daily study will soou' turn an ignorant man into a scholar. ? The height of wisdom is to live each day as if it might be the last day. ? In eue aping from a'fire, oreep or crawl along the room vrith your race close to the floor. ? In Russia you must marry before 80 or not aii all, and you may marry only five times. ? A laoe dress belonging to .Mrs. "William Actor oost $2!>,000 in Paris some yean ago. ? A tree recently felled in Oregon was 120 feet leng while the but meas ured only one foot through. ? There are nearly 16,000,000 children in schools in the United States, nearly 14,000,000. in public schools, and nearly 400,000 teachers. ? An ice marriage took place re cently in Holland. The couple wore married on the frozen Zuyder Zee, the ceremony being followed by a danoe on skates. ? "Doeu your papa get much prac tice?" asked the visitorof the doctor's seven-year-old . son. "Oh, he don't have to practice any more. He knows how, now." ? The best men are not bo good as they ought to be, and the worst men are a great deal more degraded and sinful than they themselves or any one eis? supposes. ? The best evidenticTthat we pain give that we are pious Christians, and heirs of eternal life, is the earnest de sire of our hearts and labors of our lives for the salvation of sinners. ? Her conclusion : "Mamma.1 ' said Edith, in a whisper, as the bala-heacl ed man with the full beard entered the room, "there's a man whose hair is all growe'd down through his face." ? The governors of only three States of the Union receive salaries of 110,00 each ; namely, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The least is $1,000 paiid by the State of Rhode Island. ? An uncomfortably tight shoe may se made perfectly easy by laying sloth wet in hot water across where t pinches, changing several times. Fhe leather will shape itself to the foot. ? Banana juice is said to make a irst-olass inedible ink. A spot on a white shirt firom a dead-ripe banana is narked forever, and the juice from bananas thoroughly decayed is a bright, clear carmine. ? A lady of charitable disposition isked a pooi' man if she could not aelp him by mending his clothes. 'Yes, madam," he replied. "I have i button, and you would oblige me rreatly by seiring a coat to it. %?Leap year: "Laura," said the fond mother, "what are tike intentions if that young man you are permitting to call on you. sq often ?' "Never mind that, mother," answered the maiden. "I know what my intentions ire." ? It is hardly fair to expect a horse Dr cow to possess sound judgment, a college education, and the knack of mind-reading: yet some men treat mimais as if they were to blame for not knowing more than their owner loes. ? "See here, Mr. Grocer," said a Hartford housewife, "If you'r going to bring me any more goods. I want them to be the very best. "We keep none but the best." "I presume so: you must sell the worst in or' to keep the best." ? "What do you think of thii lessert ?" "What do you call it ?" "Charlotte russe." "Well, Charlotj knew her business when she named it. In all my experience I never encom ered a flimsier rose for making a ma believe he was having somethingjt eat." ? 1 'There !" s aid the energetic lady. "It takes a woman to save money. I went and gave that plumber such a . talking that he reduced his bill |5." "I know you did," sighed the husband. "He sent a bill of $12 to the office to-day for the time you took up in arguing with him." ? "It was very pluoky of you, ma'am to have set upon the burglar md so ably captured Mm," said the police inspector : "but need you have injured him so Dadly ?" "How did?I know it was a burglar ?" asked the woman. "I'd been up three hours waiting for my husband. I thought it was-him." ? Smith?I've taken some of Dr. Quack's medicine; thought I'd try a aew doctor. Do yoc. know much ibouthim? Jones?Yes, a little. A friend of mine took some of his m?di- ^ sine once. Did, eh ? Was it quickV?|| to act ? O yes there was crape on the loor next morning. ? Two farmers of Beech Springs, Va., went to law a week or so since >ver a calf , valued at :|2, which one iccused the other of stealing. The litigation cost the farmers about fifty lollars each and the suit was dismiss ed. The next day the oalf was found lead in a cave on property that, did jot belong to either of the litigants. ? Among the botanical curiosities which have been found in the Isth mus of Tehauntepec, lately much ex plored by naturalists, is a botanical " ' slock. In the morning it is white at ;j; ?oon it is red and at night blue, and ;he alterations of color are so regular ;hat the time of day can be told from ;he tint of the flower. . ? Our people are growing more and , more in the habit of looking to Hill Bros, for fhe latest and best of every thing in the drug line. They sell Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, famous"^^ for its cures of bad colds, croup and whooping cough. When in need of roch a medicine give this remedy a .. trial and you will be more than pleased with the resait. ? There is no root that is better for milch cows than the parsnip. It p| s largely grown in the island of Jer jey, and feeding with it for successive generations has probably had much to lo with developing the butter making jualities of the Jersey breed of cows. The parsnip is less difficult to keep slear of weeds than the carot, f.od is fully as good, if not a better, cropper )n deep rich soil. ? A lawyer of Biddeford, Me., is || ifflicted with a peculiar mania for col ecting lamps of all sorts. His house g is filled with every kind of lantern he 3 las been able to buy, including a full~^j| line of bicycle lamp.3. He visits Bos- .M ;on frequently and always brings back J| pith him a new lot of lamps. His 8| sraze costs him a good deal of money, iud he declares that he is aware of the folly of it, but is enterely unable to resist it.