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Utrea i. S i - Jif"fn" ; LONDON, March 20.-Sii.Travera Twiss ha* resigned his office as toaeao's Advo? cate-General. " ' V^ 'V A meeling waa held in Lindon, yester? day, io take preliminaryJ^tep? for or? ganizing a; copyright asiooiation? with , tba object i o? proteo ti DJ^> an thora and publishers. I: j? fr? Sir' ' Charle* W.. Dilkes* resolntion to investigate tho expenses of the Crown created Intense oxoitement in the House. Anbrea Herbert, who seconded the mo? tion, declared that he preferred a re? public to a monarchy. Tb? Tote wa? ayes two, nays 274. American Intelligence. JAOSSOR, MISSISSIPPI, Marah 20.-The Supreme Gtfart decided that payments by railroads to the State, daring the war, in Confederate money, were illegal, and I the indebtedness must be paid in green? backs. The roads owe large snms. and this decision will relieve the State finan? cially. The court also decided that citi? zens are not responsible for cotton de? stroyed by order of the Confederate i military authorities. !? KEW YOBK, Maroh 20.-The Brooklyn I house painters have atrnok. The police I are protecting the non-strikers. BALTTHQBE, Maroh 20.-Wm. Sehley, a lawyer, died at the Marine Hospital of email-pox; aged seventy-two years. WASHINGTON, Maroh 20.-The Senate is discussing Ohio bridges, and the House the China mail Bubsldy. No? thing is going on among the Louisiana factions gathered here, beyond smoking and drinking. A Pennsylvania engineer named Wil? der, baa recently hit upon an idea which, if carried ont, as it deserves to be, will do much toward increasing the efficiency and enhancing the economy bf railroads. It provides for the laying of two narrow gauge tracks, side by side, with a space between the inner rails eqaal to the pre? sent ordinary gauge of four feet eight inches. Thus three possible gauges will be furnished on the same line, all of which it is proposed to use. For freight the narrow gauge will be used at a safe rate of speed, while for passenger travel, and a high rate of speed, the broad gauge will be used, the cars being mounted on four Unes of wheels. This, be contends, will prevent oscillation, thereby increasing safety. He calculates that by this system, and tho increased weight of engines, it will permit of a rate of speed being attained as high as 100 miles an honr. WASHINGTON, March 20-Evening. The argument in the Ea Klux case was oontinued, to-day, in the Supreme Conrt. The preliminary argument was dosed. Thecoart will decide to-mor? row upon the dismissal of the care upon technical grounds. Should the Govern? ment be defeated upon the plea for dis? missal, the case will be argued upon its merits to-morrow. In the Senate, the Chicago relief bill was discussed all day. Several amend? ments were offered and rejected, when the bill passed, as originally reported. In the House, a resolution inquiring the names and the amount paid newspa? pers for publishing the laws passed. The bill bridging the Ohio passed. It re? quires all bridges above the mouth of the Big Sandy to have one span not less than ninety feet iu height above low water, and forty feet abovo the highest water; all below that point to have one span not less than 100 foot high above low water, and forty above the highest water; and all below the Covington and Cincinnati suspension bridgo to have, in addition to snob high span, a pivot draw, giving two clear openings of 160 feet each. The post office appropriation bill passed. An amendment increasing the. subsidy to the -San Franoisco and China mail line failed. A vote npon tho question making the mail semi-monthly, and increasing the subsidy to $1,000,000, failed, by 87 to 02. Probabilities-The barometer will continue rising very generally on Thurs? day East of the Mississippi, with Wes? terly to Northerly winds, and continued olear and oold weather. It will fall over the North-west, with winds backing to Southerly, and gradually extend to the Ohio Valley and over the upper lakes. Thc brisk and high North-wes? terly winds over the New England and Middle States will probably dimi? nish in force on Thursday. Dangerons winds are not anticipated for the Gulf and Atlantic ooaats, excepting the brisk and high North-westerly from Capo Hatteras North-eastward. PBOVTDENOB, R. I., March 20.-The Democratic Convention nominated Olney Arnold for Governor. After some de? bate upon the propriety of Bending a delegation to the National Convention, not yet called, delegates were chosen to the Democratic N.u nal Convention, if one is held. No resolutions wero adopt? ed. The State Central Committee was appointed, when the convention ad? journed. AnrooNA, PA., Maroh 20.-The Logan \ House was partially burned to-day. Loss ' 860,000. ALBANY, March 20.-The Governor signed the bill repealing tho Erie classi? fication. NEW YORK, Maroh 20- Evening.-The ! emigrant swindler Edwards was sen fenced to five years' imprisonment. Another Staten Island ferry boat has been seized to satisfy the suits growing ont of the Westfield horror. It is believed the recent orders for Erie stocks came from England, and that bnt one-eighth of tho stock is now held in this country. Tbo Tribune 8 Washington correspond? ent says Judgo Davis' letter of accept? ance of the working-men's nomination is a forgery, concocted by newspaper cor? respondents. At a meeting of the directors of tho Erio Hoad, yesterday, tho report of Su? perintendent Booker made the showing of the condition of the road good. Tho loan of 81,000,000 from Bischoffilioim accepted. ?CrfjmtffeOQ > Ht MON TO OMBRX, March obn SJ. Btapton^ai btbt/gbt euiv in, W HPP States Distict Court, pt thja State, aKainat Robert Tyler, W. W. Crewe and M. M.' Cooke, editors, and W. W. Crews and M; -Ti wniiaroB, publiBhera and pro? prietors of tba Montgomery Daily Ad? vertiser and Mail, lot the Bum of 8100, 000, for libel. The summons ia made returnable on the fourth "Monday in M?y, at Montgomery. The defamatory mat? ter is alleged to oon?fit .in the charge that Stanton attempted to rob and de? fame the State and people of Alabama, and obtain money and other personal property ouJtalse pretense*. Financial ?ad Commercial LONDON, March 20-Noon.-Consols 192%. Bonds 92%. PARIS. Marok 20.-Bourse heavy rentes 55f. 77o. LIVERPOOL, March 20-8 P. M.-Cotton steady-uplands U%i Orleane UH? \ sales 10,000 balas; sp?culation and : export 8,000. LIVERPOOL, Maroh 20-Evening. Cotton closed dull-uplands ll@ll.hi Orleans 11,??@11>?. NEW YORK. March 20-Noon.-Stoeka steady and slightly better since the open? ing. Gold heavy, at 9%@9%. Go? vernments dull but steady. Money firm, at 7. Exchange-long 9%; short 10)?. Flour rather more steady. Wheat held a little higher and very quiet. Corn a shade firmer. Pork firm-new moss 18.0U@13.25. . Lard steady-steam 9@ 9>?. Cotton easier; sales 2,116 bales uplands 22^; Orleans 22%. Freights stead v. 7 P. M.-Cotton quiet; sales 2,722 bales-uplauds22>?; Orleans22%. Flour quiet and unchanged. Whiskey inac? tive, at 86>?@87. Wheat a shade firmer, bot very quiet-winter red Western 1.65 @1.169. Corn active and lo. higher. Bice firm, at 8;?@9>?. Pork lower, at 12.90@13.00. Lard dull. FreightB doll aud unchanged., Sales of futures 7,500 bales, as follows: Marou 22 1 16, 21%; April 22 1-16, 22^; May 22 11-16. 22%; Juno 23>f,, 23 1-16. Money closed I easier, at 0<3>7. Sterling 9%@9^?. Gold |9%@9%. - Governments }?c. off. Suites generally quiet but Steady. CINCINNATI, March 20.-General mar? kets dull and unchanged. Whiskey lower, at 85. Louis VILLI:, March 20.-Provisions firmer, but not qnotably higher. BALTIMORE, Maroh 20.-Cotton steady -middling 2'2'.<; reoaipts 435 bales; Bales 181; stock 11,330. WILMINGTON, Maroh 20.-Cotton quiet aud steady-middling 21%; receipts 101 bales. GALVESTON, Maroh 20.-Cotton quiet -good ordinary 20; receipts 254 bales; saleB 300; stock 36,635. SAVANNAH, March 20.-Cotton quiet and firm-middling 21%@21%; receipts ? 590 bales; sales 600; stook 51,335. CHARLESTON, March 20.-Cotton quiet-middling 22; receipts 397 bales; sales 100; stock 27,429. MEMPHIS, March 20.-Cotton quiet and weak-middliug 22(3)22)5; receipts ?934 bales. AUGUSTA, Maroh 20.-Cotton dull middling 21; receipts 250 bales; sales ? 325. j PHILADELPHIA, March 20.-Cotton I quiet-middling 22%. NORFOLK, March 2U.-Cotton steady- I low middling 21; receipts377 balee; sales 100; stook 4,048. Msw ORLEANS, March 20.-Cotton quiet and weak-middling 22 J.< ; receipt? 1 1,992 bales; sales 1,900; stock 178,360. BOSTON, March 20.-Cotton quiet middling 22%; receipts 243 bales; sales 300; stook 8,000. MODILE, Maroh 20.-Cotton dull and easier-middling 21% ; receipts 232 bales; I sales 600; stock 42,013. Rev. Dr. Bethune once went on board a crowded ferry-boat, and was looking for a seat, when a man unknown to him started up and aaid: "Doctor, take my seat; it is an honor to give such a man a ! soat. Ever since I heard of that big ! church in New York trying to get yon away by giving a call fer $5,000. and you said you'd see 'em d-d first, I have I had great reB^eot for you, and I think it | an honor to give you a seat." An unfortunate wight was fined five dollars, the other day, by some Dog? berry in Washington, for damning the President. If every man who "damns the President" hos to pay five dollars, Mr. Boutwell can pay off the pnblio debt before March with the revenue thus j raised. It is a luxury cf which it may bo Baid "Everybody takeB it, the chil? dren cry after itl" A Now Yorker wrote to Gen. Spinnei, asking for his autograph and a "senti? ment;" whereupon tho veteran Treasur? er wrote in reply: "You oak for my autograph, with a sentiment. My sen? timent is this: When a geutlemai writes anothor on his own business, he | should ouolose a postage stamp." A WeBtern mau was presented by yoong lady with a fine plaited-bosom shirt, mado with an open back. He wore it hiudside before for a year before ho found out how it worked. On being told of his mistake, he remarked that he thought it strange the young woman should put so muoh work on the back. A Maryland widow, living on the Eastern Shore, so workod upon the feel? ings of a youog mau-threatening to marry him-that ho turned over all his property to her and enlisted in the navy as a oommon sailor, whore ho thought he'd be safe. Mrs. Burbago, of St. Paul, plucod a frozen mince pio on tho stove to thaw tho other day, when the rascally thing exploded, souldiug her little boy mon? strously. Everythiug now-a-duys Booms to explode, except the reports of Badicul corruption. Northern mnn-"How does the Re? publican party tuko iu the South?" Southerner-"Liko it does everywhere everything it can get its hands on." .5?? Possianariss o? 1880.-Scene iVaJhoad bffloft 3n.Philadelphia. The spectator ia to remember that the s?beme of the postal telegraph has been obn summated, and that ?li telegraph wires and railroad lines ye in the uanda of the Government.. Elegant clerk! read? ing newspaper. Enters, r. e., a portly man, panting, panting-has evidently been running. Flings down a despatch. ! GlerV (rends): "Aunt Maria dying hum-mum; come right away-hum." [Having availed himself of the informa? tion it contains.] "Aunt Maria dying, eh?" "That's too bad. Bat this can't go through. " Portly man: "Why not?" Clerk (loftily): "The wires will be oc? cupied for six boors yet with Senator Brabantio'? great speech last night at the Continental Hotel in defence of the Administration. It is sent by Govern? ment order to all the newspapers in the ooantry." Portly maa: "Suppose the newspapers don't want it?" {Qlork ahrngB his shoulders and whis? tles a bar of Tann hauser. J Portly man: "Well, I must go down there myself, then. Give me a tioket to Cloverdale." Clerk: "Cau'i do it. The road ii filled with trains bringing delegate? to the convention to-morrow. They're running on both trucks." Portly mao: "Oh, the Presidential Convcntioal They're going to renomi? nate the present incombent, General Bonm, I suppube?" Clerk: "Whom else, sir, could they5 His learning, his profound statesman? ship, his unimpeachable integrity-dr. not these all-" Portly mun: "O, stuff!? Clerk (tightening his eye-glne*) : "Op? posed to tho Administration?" Portly mun: "Tbo Administration bc hanged 1" Clerk: "Excuso me one moment, sir.' [Opoos a ledger.] "Friendly-No tbat's not it." [Taking up another/ "Opposed-ab, hero it isl What ii your name, sir?" Portly man (with n dangerons bulging of tho eyes): "Thut's my business." Clerk (quietly taking up despatch) "Ahl yes. John W. Plunkitt Parke: Peabody Pickney-here it goes. ADI residence, John-a-a that ia, Mr Plunkitt? No? Well, call it Philadcl pbia." I Writes. Then approvingly nm contemplatively reads.] "John W Plunkitt, of Philadelphia; opposed ti Administration; said 'etufT when Gen eral Bourn's name was mcntioued; ex pressed a dunira that the Administratioi might suffer death from asphyxia; dis posed to brow-beat officers of tho Go vernmeut; mast be charged full prie for telegrams and fares. Note to bag gage and chook master: A! way H weigi buggage, and check only fifty pounde Mern.-To ascertain what relations h has, if any." "You see, Johu, a-a-Mr. Plnnkitt we're accustomed to allow the friends c the Administration to ride and telegrap for half prioe; but it is impossible i your case." [Takes up blotting paper "Very painful dnty, sir; but we're a lowed no discretion. And then it's yoi own doing." [Leaning elbow on desk "You're so unreasonable, you knov Now. General Bourn-" Mr. Plnnkitt: "Yon're impertinen sirl I'll report youl" Clark, (languidly:) "Justus you lik Bot my member doesn't go out uni '82." Exit Mr. Plnnkitt. Clerk resum newspaper. Cnrtain falls. CHUNKS OF WISDOM.-Prudes are c quets gone tew seed. "Revenge sometimes sleeps, but rani always keeps one I open. It iz just as natral tow be born poor tew be born naked, and it iz no mo disgrace. The only human thing on the faco i this earth that I really envy iz a laffii Christian. A man whom yu kan hire to work oe farm for nothing and board himself w just about earn biz wages. There iz two kinds ov men that i doi kare tew meet when i am in a hurry men that i owe, aud men that want ti owe me. 1 allu8 did admiro the malice of a mu If a freak of fortune bad made mo as ti fortunate az the mule iz amoog ai milds, i would begin to drive a mile a a half off. To make a goose good eating-bri her up tenderly.-Josh Billings' Atman* A curious record of Gen. Washingt has just boon discovered. It ia in tl great man's baud-writing, and couta: his acoount kept with the Governun while commander-in-chief, exhibiting acouraoy and economy as wonderful it was patriotic. We recommend ita i mediato transmission to General Gra inscribed with the old sohool-boy mot "Follow your loader." It is said that " a corset is on exhi tion at Dubuquo which has equeo; th roo females to death." And now, that remorseless cornet wonld atone its past orimes and win the eternal gr? tilde of mankind, let it take a good hoalthy squot zo at,Woodhull, Claflinr oompauy. A short timo bofore tho Chicago a paper was started there called Phoenix, and a great many pooplo v paid for it in advance are clamoring its re-appearance, but tho pub:! lier sures them that they aro mistaken supposing that his is tho Pheonix wh risos from its ashes. Why don't the husbands of tho woe who aro shrieking for femalo snflr around the capitol at Washington, t tlmii- wives home and smother tht Why, hang it, Othello smothered wife, and ho never suspected her of offence moro disgusting than that which those women are couslautly gui It seems as though England was rh iug for a great political change wi j must come sooner or later. .HB:!.!1!!).",,?'!' ? ??? ? J^'.'.t'l-p-. iml.'-1- 1 1 ' iij .L.-' L?t ?nd Hl| Wife-A Ne IT Torsion A correspondent of Llpoincott'a Maga? zine, iq Virginia, sends tho following: As I approached a pond a few days ago, where some negroes were catting some iee, I chanced to hear the conclu? sion of a conversation between two of the hands on the subject of religion. "What yon know'bout'ligion? You don't know no'thiu' 'tall 'boat 'li gio a. " "I know heap 'boat 'ligion; ain't I bin dona read de Bible?" "What yon read in de Bible? I lay you oarn't tell me nnthin' what you read in de Bible." "But I kin, dough (though). I read 'bout 'Morro." "What sort o' "Morrow-to-morow?" "No, Go-Morrow." "Well, whar he go, and what he go for?" "Shoo, man] he didn' go no whar, 'coz he was a town." "Dar! didn' I tell you didn' know nnthin* 'boot nnthin'? Yon read the Bible! Hocoam (how come) de town name 'Morro, and how de town gwine go any whar? Town ain't got no legs." "Men, ypn's a born fool. sho'. De town named Go-Morrow, but dey call it 'Morro ooz dey dido' have no time to stay der talkin' long talk." "Debbil dey didn'! Ef dey stay dar to-day, why can't they stay dar to mor? row? 'tfplain me dat." '?Bat dey all gone, sad de town, too. AU doaebu'u up." "Ef dere ain't no pepul, and dere ain't no town, how de towu name 'Mor? row? G'loug, nigger! Didn't I know you didn't know nuthiu' 'tull 'bout 'ligion? Bot (sarcastically) tole me some mo' wbutyuu read in de Bible." "Well, 'Morrow was a big town-'bout mighty nigh's big us Washington City-r? and de pepul wat live dar WOB do meanes' pepul iu de whole world. Dey wu? dut meau dut de Lord he couldn't ubeur 'em, and he make up his min' dut he gwine bu'u de town clean up. But dar was ono good mau dar-member uv do church, a p'eidiu eider-name Lot." "Yans, I kuow'd him." "Whar you know'd him?" "Ou de cannoll (canal). He owned a batto, ond dror' it hisBe'f." "Heist, mun! I talk i u' sense, now. Den de Lord he came to Lot, and he Bay, 'Lot, I gwiue bu'u dis town. You and you wife git up and getiier you little all, and put out fu' du crack o' day, coz I oert'n'y gwine bu'u dis town and de pepul, to-morrow." Den Lot he and his wife riz, and snatched up their little alls and traveled soon io the mornin'. Aud tho Lord ho tuk two light'ud (lightwood) knots and some shavin's, and he set Gre to dat ar town uv 'Morrow, and he bu'u it apaug up. clear down to de groun'." "What 'cornu o' Lot?" "He and ho wife, dey went, nud dey went, and dey went, toll pres'n'ly he wife say, 'Lori ef I aiu't gone and lof do meal-sifter and de rollin' pin, I wisht I may diel' and shu turu rona' to go fetch em, and she turn rouu', and-and-she dar nowl" "What she doin' dar?" "Nuthin*." "Must be mons'uH lazy 'coman." "No, Bhe ain't. Do Lord ho tu'n her to pillow uv salt, 'coz shu too 'quisitivo." "Dari ev'rybody know 'bout saok o' salt; who ever hear 'bout pillow o' salt? But whut 'corni! o' Lot?" "Lot, he weren't kecrin' 'tall 'boot no rollin'-pin and no meal-sifter, so he kep' straight 'long, 'thout turning uv he bead neither to the right, neithor to the lei'." "And lei do ole' 'oomau dar?" "Yeas." "In the middle of de road?" "YaaB." "Must kecr'd mighty little fur hor want to git married to Beck'n wife, I spec'. But de fus' mau como 'long and want to git some salt to bake ashcakc, he gwine boat a piece oat'n Lot's wife, aud 'stroy her; and what you think o' dat? Call dat 'ligion? And de olo muu lei' her? and you read dat-" Here a peremptory order from tho foreman to "go to work" broke short the conversation. MILK WHITE DEER.-A gentleman hunting on Cooper Uiver, a few days ago, came across a milk white buck, and brought him down. The head, not very uulike a sheep's, was nt an office in Broad street yesterday, attracting the attention of tho curious. It is very raro in these parts, and but few of them have ever been killed in this section. The heud is to be mounted by Prof. Holmes, and may be seen ut Huppoldt'u, Meeting street.- Charleston Courier. A laudlord iu Cincinnati, a few days ugo, having failed to get rid of an ob? noxious teuuut by the ordinary methods of procedure, finally sot fire to a quan? tity of brimstoue in the basement, and filled the building with tho fumes. The tenant, who was a woman, held out for some time, but finally hud to succumb to tho fumigation and look up new quar? ters. "HE WAS A DRUNK AUD."-Tho last sentence of u brief telegram from St. Louis, which tolls of the fatal shooting of a wife by her husband, who then shot himself, contains a significant moral. It says: "Ho waa a drunkard." How much is oxpressod in that short sentence! It tolls tbo story of a blight? ed home, of blasted hopes, und of a miserable death. Ob, Mr. Policeman, como right up to our house, mum called dad u liar, mid dud knocked her down, aud Jim hu kicked dud, sud Saruh she hollered mur? der, and mam bounced dad with a chair, mid dad bounced Suruh with thc tea? kettle, and it is the uwf'lltst timo up there yon ever sawd. Mr. John A. Dickson, a prominent young citizan of Abbeville, died lust week. Ho waa formorly a member of Orr's lvtilu Regiment, and nerved during tbo war. When a boy has tho fever and ague in Danbury, Conn., they muko him useful by setting bim to Bbnkiug carpets. LOBT WOMEN.-Has it ever occurred to jon ?hat a commentary upon oar civilization are these lost women, and the attitade of socio ty towards them? A little child strays from the home enclo? sure, and tba whole community is on the alert to find the wanderer and restore it to ita mother's arms. What rejoicing when it is found, what tearful sympathy, what heartiness of congratulation I There aro no harsh comments opon the. poor tired feet, be they ever so miry, lib repri? mand for the soiled aod torn garments, no laok of kisses for the tear-stained faoe. Bat let the child be grown to womanhood, let her be led from it by the sooarge of want-what happens then? Do Christian men and women go in quest of ber? Do they provide all possible help for her return, or if she re? turn of her own motion, do they receive her with such kindness and delicacy as to secure her against wandering away again? Far from it. At the first step, she is denounced as lost-lost, echo friends and relatives-we disown you; don't ever come to ns to disgrace usl Lost! says society, indifferently. Huw bad these girls arel And lost!-irre? trievably lost I-is the prompt verdict of conventional morality, while one and all unite in bolting every door between ber and respectability. Ahl will not these lost ones be required at our hands here? after?-Mr?. Burleigh. AN Ono TIME Eonoor.-Seventy two years huve passed since, on the floor of Congress, John Marshall announced the death of Washington. His words, dictated by the deopest reverence and affection, are ns follows: "Lot us pay the last tribute of respeot to oar de? parted frieud. Let the graad council of the nation display the sentiments the nation feels. However public con? fidence may change, and publio affec? tion fluctuate as to others, with respeot to him, in war and in peace, in public und private life, they have been as Bteady ns his own firm mind and cou stunt as his own exalted virtues." At St. John's, (New Foundland,) t lover recently married a girl whom ki supposed was as poor as a church mouse, aud, not being a Creams himself, love ir a cottage was his only expectation After tbe kuot was duly tied, however, the girl informed him that she possoafoc JJ 1,000,OOO sterling in her own right aud oue of the handsomest residences ir Canada is to be the future domicile o the happy pair. A btory comes from Crochet, Toxae that in a thunder .storm at that place, ai torolite fell concurrently with the light mug H flash. lt was a large fused mas of molten matter, with a hole through i -perhaps one of Jove's string of beads It may be that a streak of lightuiu) kuocked a joint out of a comet's tail, o ran afoul of a crazy little meteor. A curious literary treasure was recen tl, announced for sale in Paris. It was copy of the Constitution of the Frene' Republia of 17'J i, bound in human skit: Tho volume is supposed to have bee iseued from the Mond?n tannery, when it is asserted, tb is kind of leather wa manufactured during the Beige c Terror. The hones in Arizona subsist on dr pea vines that would make a horse sic to look at in a civilizad oonntry; but tb Indians outdo them. They eat tunas < the cactus, and pepper them with tl allkaii of the plains to assist the intern machinery in cutting off the rough edgt The "Boston" is so popular in Waal iugton that it is said several ooupl were caught by the sexton dancing tb mazy measure in tho vestibule of a fas ionable church in that oity, to the tm "Come, ye disconsolate," which w. being snug at the time by the choir. The Italian publio has just discover, that, stored in the vast garrets of tl Palazzo Voochio at Florence, is a ct lection of 0,000 pictures, which ha been imprisoned there for more th three centuries. Many of them de from the time of the Medicis. A young lady in Mississippi, who li ju?t graduated, came home and hire? few colored people, aud undertook t experiment of farming. The results tho cud of the year were: Eight ban o' potatoes, GU0 1) UH h ol s of core, n $%D iu cash from the sale of co tu after all expenses were paid. A young female vaccinator of Best hus taken away much of the custom tho male medicals. Tho bloods of 13 con street submit their Pilgrim fattie arms with extreme unction to the ma publiions of the charming small-pox p ventor. Au old farmer living near St. Jose] Mo., visited that city a few days a became intoxicated, was thrown ii thu lock-up, Vida dead und the bc partially destroyed by rats in fi hours' time. Tho life-long, but, for Frunce ot ardent Republican, Blanqtii, wbun asl at his receut trial whero his usual r douce was, replied, "My usual reBiden 1 um usually ia prison. "I am afraid," said a lady to 1 huabuud, "that I am going to li av Btin" neck." "Not at all improba! my dear," replied hor spouso, "I u seen strong symptoms of il ever ei wo wore married." A Nevada paper calls Senator N of that State, a "blatant loyalist \ wuB bunting for money aud polit profermunt in the ?agu brush, w Schurz was in the field." A Weatoru girl, who hus beon < brought up, knocks down every i that kisses her, nud shu is so pretty 1 half tin; married and all tim single i iu town have blnck eyes. A Des Morues damsel having o flo n a young man at a leap ye ur bull lim atoned to send his big steter to maud an upology. A Kinsas bee-tree yielded 300 poi of honey. Kansas is evidently a I "flowing with milk nud honey." There ia something touching in the ingenuity displayed in donning their delinquent debtors which. tradesmen grown desperate sometimes display. Thus a hardtrare merchant in Knoxville, Tenn., declares in an advertisement thai "a hardware business oan no more be carried on everlastingly without money, than a dog oan wag his tail when he has none." "My oustomers," adds the suf? ferer, "are all good, bot what good does a man's goodness do when be don't do any good?" A question which numbers of people m y well ponder seriously* The Knoxville dealer's patience has given out at last, and he talks ferociously of writs and constables. There is a man traveling about Penn? sylvania who has solved the problem of oheup and easy living. He says 'he is forty-one years of age. and has never done a day s work of any kind. He has traveled over the greater pa.*t of Europa and America, begging hiB way, and boasts of a more varied knowledge of station-houses, jails ond other inexpen i sive lodging*, than any other man alive* Gilmore, of t ;ld-deafening B'diapa sonio" memory, hos had this precious boon conferred npon him by the Ger? mans : 4'Frieden?estmusikspektackelma cher." He is taking it apart BB fast as be can and shipping it to this country by detachments. Experts will accompany the last importation for the purpose of putting the fragments together again. Stephen Low rey and Andrew Strong wero at Moss Neck yesterday as the train oo the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruth? erford Railroad passed that point. Nei? ther Tom Lawrey or Henderson, the Herald correspondent, were there, nor could anything be learned of their move? ments.-? Wilmington Journal, 20th. SODDKN DEATH.-We regret to learn of the sudden death of Mr. B. C. Nap? per, of the lower section of our District, on Monday last. Ho had been on a viait to the village, and died on his way home at the store near Mr. Clatwortby'e. We have not heard tho, particulars of this sodden death.-Abbeville Press. Two gentlemen, ono of whom was a perfect nuisance on account of his bad breath, were ascending a flight of stairs, "Oish !" said this unpleasant companion, "I am narc I am ont of breadth." "If that's true," said hiB neighbor, "let me congratulate you." Charles Kingsley sajs he considera history "largely a lie." Well, Sir Ro? bert Walpole said, with still more em? phasis, 100 yeard ago: "All history is a lie." Napoleon, more philosophically? termed it: "But a fable agreed upon.*' [Huston Globe. A hotel keeper at Millerton, Dutchess County, N. Y., WSR going to a masque? rade ball, aud made an unannounced call on his aged mother to see if his disguise wm a good one. It was. She gave one scream, broke a blood vessel, and died iu five minut?e. A little boy was lisping his prayers with his twin brother, at his mother's knee. When he came to "give ns this day our daily bread," he was astonished ; to hoar a fraternal whisper, "Ask for cake, Johnny, ask for cake." A Philadelphia woman who had broken her leg, was so modest that she wonld not permit the surgeon to set it, and, there being no female doctor aronnd, mortification ensued, which resulted in death. There have been three froatfi in Florida during tbfe last 100 years, whioh have done damage to the orange trees. In y 1835. the trees were all killed. In 1868 and 1870, the tender shoots and fruit were killed. A Wisconsin woman has done all the family sewing for twenty years with a paper of needles whioh was presented to her on her wedding day. Though her family is large, the needles are not all used up yet. Two hunchbacks celebrated their nup? tials in Paris the other day, iu the pre? sence of thirty invited guests, also hunch? backs. At the wedding ball all the musicians were hunchbacks-as waa every dancer. A dagger, with jeweled handle, worn in tho belt, is now considered by some Indies to bo quite indispensable with a full toilette. An orange grove at Palatka, Fla., con? sista of over 500 trees, whioh last season yielded over 400,000 oranges, with a profit of $2,000. Ono of the largest Mississippi steam? boats ia commanded by a woman named Sarah Pinckney. There wero 25 deaths in Charleston for tho week ending the 16th instant whites 10; oolored 15. A tombstone dated 1540, with a Latin inscription, has boen found in Ten nensee. Wanted. BY a Rraduate of tire Benth Carolina Col lego, a si tuat ion as TU TO It in a private family, or aa Teacher of a Behool in the coun? try. Address A. it , Columbia Post Office. Marek 21_2i Hay at $1.70. -| (\(\ BALES selected meadow HAY, jnet JLv/V./ in, and to bo closed out at fl.70 per lui) pounds. This is a strictly prime article, and those in need will do well tu lay in their supplies from tliis lot. March 21 1 D. 0. PEJXOTTO ft BON. _ House-Keepers' Favorite. rilli F, heut lUtOOM made in this country. JL Manufactured in Columbia, B. C. Price $ l 50 per riozuu. First olas? Northern brooms, at $3 per dozen. For sale by I). C. PEIXOTi'O & BON, Auction and Commission Merchants. March 21_ 15 At Private Sale. ' WE will soil, on good terms, THIRTY ACHES LAND, most beautifully situ? ated, tu or around Columbia, 'lilia plat of I.md is situated in the South-eastern eeeiion ol the city, and hus a beautiful ltendencc, niuo rooms, with all modern conveniences aud improvements A well selected Oichard of joung trous, various Kinds ot fruit. Applv lo SBIBELH A EZELL, Mardi 21 2 Heal Eutut.- Brukira.