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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.