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WILMINGTON, N. 0., August 1.-The
election. was one of the most quiet that
has been held in this city for years.
? large vote was polled, and the ntmoBt
exertions were made by both Hides. The
city returns are not yet in. ?bbottsbnrg
township, in Cluden County, was the
first.returned. The record gives Merri
mon a majori ty and a gain of about forty
votes' over the vote of 1870, wben the
Conservatives carried the State by nearly
6,000 majority. The vote for Attorney
General in 1870 will be adopted as the
basis of comparing gains and losses in
the present election.
In Weldon, Halifax County, Morrimon
gains 100 on the vote of 1870. This is
considered a very favorable indication
for the Conservatives in the North-west.
A township in Brunswick County gives
Morrimon a gain of 84 votes on the vote
of 1870. The Conservatives in this oity
aro offering bets to any amount on Mer
rimon's election, with no takers. The
second ward of this city gives Merrimon
296; Caldwell, 227; Conoervotive gain,
154. Warsaw, in Duplin County, gives
Merrimon 184; Caldwell, 143; small
Conservative gain. Merrimon gains 200
in Haleigh.
RALEIGH, August 1.-Tho voting is
progressing quietly. The Democratic
vote will be increased. No disturbance.
The returns, from eleven towns and
precincts give tho Conservatives a gain
of about 950 over the Shipp vote of
1870. Haleigh township gives a Con?
servative gain of 218; Wake Forest j
100. Nothing' aa yet decisive, though
tho chances aro iu favor of the election
of Merrimon, the'Conservative.
Foreign Affaira.
LONDON, August 1.-The Prince.and
Princess of Wales visited the American
fleet, yesterday, . It was a grand affair.
Lieutenant Fred. Grant was invited to
participate, bot was absent. General
Sherman inspected the fleet.
BEI'.LIN, August 1.-Three cases of
Asiatic cholera have, appeared in this
city. .
LONDON, August 1.-This afternoon,
while Mr. Gladstone aud Bight Hon.
Actor Ay or ter. Chief Commissioner of
Works and Buildings, were witnessing
some experiments with gun-cotton, in
the gardens attaohed to tho treasury
buildings, a quantity of that material
prematurely exploded with tremendous
report. At first, grave fears were enter?
tained that those gentlemen were injured,
but the contrary proved the case; and
with the exception of breaking about
100 windows; in tho treasury buildings,
no damage.was sustained.
MADRID, August 1.-When the Cortes
re-assembles in September, the Govern?
ment will submit ? project for a loan of
$60,000,000, to bc devoted to the im?
provement of the finances of Cuba. The
bonds to be offered nuder this project
will carry interest; also, representing a
sinking fand- for cancellation of the
bonds, at the rate of eight per cent, per
annum. This interest and sinking fund
it proposes to draw from the Cuban war
subsidy and from surplus Cuban reve?
nues.
American matter?.
CHARLESTON? , August 1.-Arrived
steamship Manhattan, New York.
ROCHESTER,. N. Y., August 1.-A man,
recently divorced, fiuding his wife with
a paramour, shot the paramour and then
himself; bath dead.
DUBUQUE, August 1.-Eight persons
have died from the steamboat explosion
near McGregor. The coroner's jury find
a defective flue, and censure the Govern?
ment inspector.
BALTIMORE, August 1.-Drost, Jordan
& Go., on Baltimore street, were burned
ont last night; loss heavy.
NEW YORK, August 1. -A Herald de?
spatch from Boston Euys Baaks, in an?
swering a Republican committee's invi?
tation to address them, deolared that he
had concluded to support Greeley.
BOSTON, August 1.-The Dean Aoa
demy in Franklin, Mass., was totally
destroyed by fire last night. A small
portion of tho furniture was saved. The
loss will probably amount to $120,000;
insurance $80,000.
WASHINGTON, August 1-Eveuing.
Three per cent, certificates to the amount
ol $1,300,000 have been oalled in.
Debt Statement-Decrease for tho
month, $3,500,000; ooin in the Treasury,
$69.333,000; currency, $16,000,000.
Gen. Banks' declaration for Greeley
has been formally published over his sig?
nature.
Probabilities-The low barometer in
the lower lakes will move Eastward, with
threatening weather and rain areas over
the Middle States North of Virginia,
and over New England, by Friday, with
fresh Southerly and Easterly winds.
Clearing weather in the Golf and South
Atlantio States to-night, with Southerly
and Westerly winds. Continned North?
erly and Easterly winds, veering on Fri?
day to Northerly and North-easterly, on
the upper lakes and in the North-west,
and thenoe Southward through the Up?
per Mississippi and Lower Ohio Valleys,
with olear weather and moderate tempe?
ratures. Clearing and cooler weather on
the lower lakes on Friday morning, ra?
pidly extending South-eastward.
RICHMOND, VA., August 1.-Tho]
Southern Dental Association, which has
been in session here for three days, ad?
journed to meet next July, in Baltimore.
NEW YORK, August 1-Evening.
Shipments of speoie to day $500,000,
gold coin. There is great aotivity at the
Custom House, owing to the new tariff.
Thousands of cases of goods were with?
drawn from the warehouse.
The strike of the Long Shoremen is
practically over.
The Cantral, Erie and Pennsylvania
Railroads, to-day, reduced freight rates
to the West from 45 to 38 per cent. It
is reported to be a ohange for one month
only, in order to break down, old con?
tracts, whioh are detrimental to the roads.
Financial ?oiximrrclnl.
LIVERPOOL, August 1-3 P. M.-Cot?
ton opened doll and is now heavy-up?
lands 9%; Orleans 9%; salea 8,000bales;
sp?culation and export 1,500.
LONDON, August 1-^-Noon.-Consols
92%. Bonds 91>?.
LIVERPOOL, August 1-Evening.-Cot?
ton closed unchanged.
LONDON, Augnst 1-Evening.-Bul?
lion decreased ?310,000.
PARIS, August 1.-Rentes 55f. 92c.
NEW YORK, August 1-Noon.-Stocks
dull. Gold strong, at 15,%. Money
easy, at 3. Exchange-long 9,,.?; short
IOJJJ. Governments strong but dull.
State bonds dull but steady. Cotton
steady-uplands 21>?; Orleans 2l>?;
sales 963 biles. Flour a shade firmer,
Wheat dull and nominally unchanged:
Corn very firm. Pork quiet, at 13 50@
13.60. Lard very quiet-steam 8@8J^.
Freights steady.
7 P. M.-Cotton steady; sales 1,656
bales-uplands 21%; Orleaua 21)?.
Flour firmer and in lair demand. Whis?
key a trifle lower, at 93X@94. Wheat
a shade tinner-wiuter red Western
1.60(5)1.69. Com native and firmer.
Rioe steady, at 8??@9J?. Pork steady.
Freights heavy and lower. Mouey 4@5.
Sterling 9J?@9#. Gold l?}?@l&??.
Governments strong. States quiet.
Sales of futures to-duy 13,600 bales, as
follows: August 20 3 16@20>?; Septem?
ber 19 15-16(a)20.%; Ootober.19 1-16?
19??; November 18 9-16@19 11-16; De?
cember 18??@18)?.
LOUISVILLE, August 1.-Tobacco very
firm; sale? 60 bogahoadB. Flour firm
extra family 6.25. Com lower-shelled,
sacked, 60. Provisions quiet but firm.
Pork 13.25?13 50. Bacon-shoulders
6%; sides 8??@9>?. Packed lard 9(aj
1?>?; order lots )?o. higher. Wh?key
firm, at 90.
CINCINNATI, August 1.-Flour iu fair
demand aud firm-old 8.00@8 25; now
7.50(2)7.75. Oom steady, at 47. Pork
doll and nominal-city 13.50(5)14 00; re?
gular 13.00(2)14.00. Lard dull and no?
minal-steam 8%; kettle 8@8%. Bacon
in good dernaud-shoulders ?ljj; clear
rib sides 8)?; clear sides 9, but held
higher, to come out of smoke next week.
Whiskey in good demand, at 90.
ST. LOUIS, August 1.-Flour quiet and
unchanged. Corn dull and drooping
No. 2 mixed 39. Whiskey quiet and
Bteady, at 91, wood-bound. Pork nomi?
nally lower-offered at 13.25, without
buyers. Bacon in good demand-shoul?
ders 6%; clear rib sides 8Js(a)9; cleur
sides 9}|.
BALTIMORE, August 1.-Flour firmer
and in good demand for good grades.
Wheat firmer and higo er-amber 1.65(2)
1.70; good to primo red 1.55(2)1.63;
eommou to fair red 1.4.0(a) 1 50. Corn
quiet-white Southern 70(5)72; yellow
Southern G0@G4. Oats firm-Southern
new 40(2)41; mixed 45; white 57. Rye
quiet. Provisions quiet and weak; con?
cessions would have to be made to Bell;
nominally unchanged. Lard dull, at
8??@9. Western butter in good do
maud, and prices unchanged. Whiskey
quiet, at 94>?. Cotton dull-middling
21,l-.< ; receipts 151 bales; stook 1,146.
NEW {ORLEANS, August 1.-Cotton
nominal-low middling 19)^(5)19^4; re"
ceipts 2 bales; Bales 66; stock 8,558.
CHARLESTON, August 1.-Cotton steady
-middling nominally 181X ; receipts 4
bales; sales 250; stock 4,987.
NORFOLK, August 1.-Cotton dull-low
middling 20;,reoeipts 12 bales; stock 421.
AUGUSTA, August 1.-Cotton nominal
-middling 19)<i; receipts 17 bales; sales
437.
SAVANNAH, August 1.-Cotton quiet
middling 20; receipts 21 bales; stock
1,467.
WILMINGTON. August 1.-Colton quiet
-middling 20?.i; stock 380.
PHILADELPHIA, August 1.-Cotton
quiet-middling 21J?@21>?.
BOSTON, August 1.-Cotton dull-mid?
dling 21%; receipts 234 bales; sales 100;
stock 9.OU0.
HORACE GREELEY IN CONGRESS.-It is
possible, ns some of our friends insist,
that Mr. Greeley will make but a poor
President. But it is unwise in them to
insist that be was a failure asa Congress?
man. On the question of opinion, they
may be right; on the question of fact,
we kuow them to bo wrong. Mr. Gree?
ley's whole term of service in the House
barely covered a period of three monthr.
Yet in this quarter of a year ho sot on
foot three great reforms of which the
country is now reaping the benefit. It
was Congressman Greeley who brought
in the first homestead bill, who struck
the first; blow at the mileage abuse, and
who first assailed the English doctrine,
"Once a subject, always a subject," by
laying down in a resolution the Ameri?
can doctrine that "every man has a right
to migrate from his native land to an?
other, and, in becoming a citizen of the
latter, to renouuoe all allegiance to tho
former." Not a very bad record for
three monthsl-Springfield Republican.
THINGS A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER
SHOULD KNOW.-If brooms aro wet in
boiling suds once a week, they will be?
come very tough, will not out tho carpet,
last muon longer, and always sweep like
a now broom. A very dusty carpet may
be cleaned by setting a pail of cold water
out by the door, wet the broom in it,
knock it to got out all the drops, sweep a
yard or so, then wash the broom, and
not sweep far at a time. The water may
need to be obanged once or twice, if the
oarpet is very dasty. Snow sprinkled
over a carpet and swept before it has
time to melt or dissolve, is also good for
renovating a soiled carpet. Moistened
Indian meal is used with good effect by
some house-keoporB.
The Buffalo Presbytery yesterday, do
posed Rov. M. L. P. Thompson, who is
charged with adultery at Jamestown,
from the ministry, and indefinitely sus?
pended some years ago for a similar of?
fence in Cincinnati, undoo recommenda?
tion of tho Buffalo brethren that he had
heartily repentod of his sin was ro in?
stated.
.BOTST BJ?H^T?BY A BOT.-Talk about I
the women and ..the darkies, and the
the-all the1 rest of 'ern; none of 'em all
are half so badly used as boys are. Ask
au y boy. X know a lot, and I can-give
you all their names. Ask 'em all. They'll
tell you, to be a boy-is to be somebody
Without a right in the world. You are |
to take all the sass that's given to you
and give none,back, 'cause you're a boy.
You are to pay full fare in the oars and
oumibusea. 'cause you're a boy, and not
a cbUd and not a man. Fat lady gets in
after it's all full, and looks abont her;1
everybody looks at you. Old gentleman
says, "My son," reprovingly. Conduc?
tor says, "Come, now, you boy." You've)
paid your sixpence. No matter-that is
nothing. You've been on your legs,
with bundles, all day. Who cares?- |
you're a boy. Now, a horse has snob a
load given him as he can carry, and a
man won't take any more than he can
walk under. Ask boys what grown folks
think they can carry. There's no limit
to it. Who doesn't know a boy who
does a man's work, and does it well, for
a tenth of what a mau would get for it? 1
Who hasn't read an advertisement for a j
boy who writes a good baud, uuder-|
stands accounts, is willing to make him?
self useful, boards with his parents, is1
trustworthy, no objection to sitting up 1
all night, not anxious for meals ut regu?
lar hours, no impudence about him; the
best recommendation required, and two
dollars a week wages? You look back
and wonder if you ever were that protty
little fellow in petticoats that everybody '
stuffed with candy; and you wonder if1
you'll ever be a man, and be liked by
the girls, and treated politely by the
other fellows, aud paid for your work,
und allowed to do as you choose.
The journal which specially represents
President Grunt in this city coupled u
certain circular to the loyal Governors,
signed by Horuoe Greeley in 18G4, with
the Jacob Thompson letter about rebel
efforts to burn New York, as proofs of
the same plot in whiah both were en?
gaged. We thereupon invited the only
journal in thia city sustaining President
Grunt, whose intellectual ability entitles
it to any consideration, to give the pub?
lic its opinion of thut circular. Pro?
found silence has been tho significant
answer Whence this sudden and un?
wonted bashfulness? We renew the call,
aud invite the press of the country to
observe the response, or failure to re?
spond. Weean promise them that it i
will be worth their while. Gentlemen
of the Evening Post/ your ully decluios
that circular infamous, and insinuates1
thut it was treasonable. What do you
say about it?-New York Tribune.
TUE LOTTERY QUESTION.-The injunc?
tion grunted the Charleston Joint ?Stock
Company, on Tuesday lust, restraining
Trial Justice A. M. Mackey, und ull
others, from urresting any of the officers
or agents of the said corporation, or
otherwise Interfering with their business,
was dissolved yesterday, on hearing the
return to the order of the court, made by
tho Trial Justice aid Attorney C. W.
Buttz. Wo understand that it is the
purpose of the parties who have been
making these arrests to resume them
now that the injunction is resumed, and
to continue them from day to day, re?
quiring bonds in eaoh arrest.
[Charleston Courier.
The New York Herald says: "Admiral
Sern mea now offers to, j the Government
all the documents in lils possession re
garding the Alabama and other cruisers.
It is s?id by those who have examined
them, that they do not compromise the
British Government in the slightest par?
ticular. Louis Napoleoa, it appears, in
correspondence with Sildell, not only in
vited the Confederacy to build war ves
sels ia Frunce, but offered Sildell numer?
ous fucilities for arming nnd equipping
tho rebel cruisers ia Preach ports."
DEATH OF ST. JOHN B. L. SKINNER.
Wo regret very much to heur of tho re
ceat death of this emiucot citizen, gul
lunt soldier, aud genial, kind-hearted
gentleman. He died in tho seventy-fifth
year of bia ago, in tho city of Washing?
ton, where he has resided for many
yeurs, and where hu has held the honor?
able position of First Assistant Postulas
ter-General, through several successive
administrations. - Greenville Mountaineer.
The convicts in the Miohigaa Stute
Prison are to bo subjected to a course of
lectures, unless some competent tribunal
shall protect them by deciding the pro
posed scheme to bo a "cruel and uu
I usual pu nish meat."
I The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) folks com?
plain that there is no sidewalk leading
to the cemetery, and their editor out
there consolingly assures them that, if
they will only' have patience, they can
all ride some day.
A man at sleep caught a mouse in his
month, at Lawrence, Kansas, tho other
night. The mouse was killed, und the
man woke up in a terrible fright. The
monee was caught nipping, while the
man was caught napping.
M'lle Christine Nilsson was married nt
Westminster Abbey on Saturduy, to M
Rouzonud, of Paris. The nuptiuls were
witnessed by an immense- assemblage of
people, including many of the aristocra?
cy and well-known artists.
AiiivE.-It is known in Havana of?
ficially, thut Gen. Julia Peralta, whose
corpse wuB officiully reported to have
been identified, hus reached Cuban
headquarters safe aud souud.
A lady oo bciug asked what ehe
thought was tho meauiog of the words
'the pestilence that wuiketh in dark?
ness," answered that, in her opinion, it
was bed-bugs.
There are fourteen Republican papers
in this State which advocate tho electioa
of Greeley aud Browa, aud ouo Demo
* oratio paper which has gone over to
[Grout.-Nno York World.
Many people have made offers of ar?
chives to the Government since Pickett
sold his lot.
A MONEY MATCH-DEATH.-A reoent
letter from Bostou telle thia end story:
"A funeral procession punned by yes?
terday. A young mau told me a story
that I think had a peculiar sadness about
it. At Saratoga, last season, at one of
the largest ball?, was a young lady with
the most charming aud insinuating mau
ners^nd graces. Her toilet was equally
as pleasing. Her attendant during the
evening was ?young man dressed almost
gaudily, and bearing himself with all the
distasteful self-conceit of a brainless mil?
lionaire. He wa? the son of a Boston
leather dealer. He met the lady for the
?rst timo at Saratoga lost season, and
ste, by direction of her parents, who
were also wealthy, and who insisted upon
tho arrangement, beoame his affianced.
Previous to this she had met a gentle?
man, also of Bostou, of the utmost re?
spectability, of thorough houor and in?
tegrity, but without fortun?. To him
Bue had been something moro than a
friend-in fact, almost a betrothed. He
was yoong, had risen by his own stern
efforts, aud was, it is said, possessed of
sterling nod promising abilities, which
in time -must have won bim wealth, and,
perhaps, distinction. Ou tho return of
the lady fr^m Saratoga last season, her
eugngeuie^ prevented her from further
intercourse with her first suitor, and he
was dismissed. His grief was pitiful.
He strove not to reverse it by word or
action; but the very efforts he so labori?
ously made exposed the poignancy of
his wounds. Thu lady lived with her
husband iu the suburbs of the city, at a
largo uud costly residence for one month
after their marriage. By this time the
abuse of thu husbaud compelled an im?
mediate separation. He was inconti?
nently shipped to Europe, where he still
remains, und the young wife was left
gradually to decline iu health and death
ensued; but not before she bad re?
proached ber parents for driving her to
the alliance which wrought such early
ruin and blasted hopes and expectations.
As the funeral procession passed up n
public street, the first lover, while
watching with blanched cheeks aud moist
eyes the sad cortege, fell to the ground
while suffering au attack of hemorrhage
of the luugs. He was carried into v.
physician's office near, whero he dieu
before the body of one he BO tenderly
und truly loved wus laid in ils last rest
lug place."
A WONDERFUL INVENTION.-The Lou
isvillu Courier-Journal, of the 25th ult.
says:
Oue of the most wonderful pieces o
mechanism ever seen in this city will b<
on exhibition ut the Grand Industria
Exposition iu this city. It is callee
Bergmaun's Automatic Wonder, or tin
German's Dreum. Tho structure, whicl
stands nearly uiue feet high and weigh
over TUG pounds, is u mass of untomati
machinery, representing a beautiful villi
on the hill-side, surrounded by four dif
feront kinds of mills, with an elevato
and blacksmith shop attached. Th
villa represents all tho common indue
tries of rural life, and contains forty au
tomutic figures doing work about th
mills und various other places as naturi
us life. Mon are seen busily engaged i
tho mills, performing tho various dutit
of tho respective, establishments; farmer
traversing the roads, some going to mil
aud others upou their wagons, on thei
way to market. A woman carrying
pitcher iu hand goes to the spring fe
water; u ferryman is engaged in rowiu
passengers across tho stream in a boa
men at work iu the blacksmith sho{
aud, in fact, everything to make up
life-like villa scene. The surrouudiu
scenery is made picturesque by u pla;
ing fouutaiu, u running stream, a li vin
spring, and a miniature luke, with boo
passing und repassing, und many otb?
features too numerous to mention. Tl
invention is tho result of seventeen year
hard labor aud trudy hy Joseph Bar|
manu, cf Troy, New York, and will I
on exhibition free of charge at thc El
position.
A CURE FOI? WHISKEY-DRINKERS.
correspondent of nu exchange, wi
sigus himself "One Who has lietormed
scuds the following: Capt. Hall, w
the commander of the Great Eastei
steamship. He had f?llen into sui
habits of drunkenness that his mc
earnest efforts to reolaim himself prov
unavailing. At length he sought the u
vice of au eminent physician, who ga
him a prescription which he follow
faithfully for seven months. At the et
of that time hu had lost all desiro f
liquor, although he hud many times b..
led captive by a most debasing appeti
The prescription, which he afterwar
published, aud by which so many ott
drunkards have been assisted to refor
is as follows: Sulphate of iron, fi
grains; muguesia, ten grain*; pepp
mint water, eleven drachms; spirits
nutmeg, one drachm; twice a day.
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THE MANUFACTURE OV STOVES -1
manufacture of stoves is almost exe
sively au American industry. But lit
is done in loreign countries, those u:
abroad being for thu most part imporl
from the United States. The sh
manufacturers held their annual couv
tiou recently at Cincinnati, and from
port made there, it was shown thut
capital invested in the manufacture
this article reached the sum of $30,01
OOO, requiring the employment of IC
OOO men, uud giving direct support
500,00.) people. It was estimated thu
least 2,500,000 stoves would be munni
tured in this country this year. 1
modern stove represents tho result
many experiments and tnuoh Fcieut
investigation.
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Dobson says his friends seem de
mined to give him tho title of Dr.
butcher, baker and ull tho rest, do
but they put tho Dr. after his uamo
stead of before it.
An old sailor, who had a great a'
sion to life ou land, said ho was lill
lobster, ns he never came ashore willi
tho risk of getting iu hot water.
Di?. DIO LEWIS SAYS BOMB STARTLING
TRINOS.-"What a painful spectacle this
isl 1,000,000 Yankee girl? wasting and
dying in crowded shops, occupied with
sewing and kindred tasks, and 1,000,000
bornes dyspeptic and unhappy for want
of the help of those girls! The homes
?re waiting and longing for the girls, the
girls are dying for tho homes. The
homes offer comfort, health and inde?
pendence to the girls, the girls are wast?
ing in brainless, mechanical routine the
bright faculties whioh would change the
homes from discomfort to comfort and
health. And, strange to say, these two,
whioh are perishing for want of eaoh
other, do not live on separate continents,
but in the same street, and often under
the same roof."
What a mistaken pride it is which
keeps girls in poverty or plunges them
into vice when they might be comfortably
earning their living and fitting them?
selves to become good wives of good
men. The miserable tenement home,
the confined work-room, the eating
house, are preferred, it seems, to sweet,
wholesome bornes in respectable fami?
lies, where the "help" aro recognized as
more than mere machines to make money
for their employers. Tbe Doctor's
strictures on the abominable contrivance
to make deformed women, the fashion?
able corset, are well deserved.
"Do you see that slight, pale lady
with the little girl? She is the wife of
Mr. H., our wealthy broker. She is in
wretched health. Look at her waist 1
What do you think of the chances of
tho vermicular motion of her stomach?
It wouldn't take very long hands to
olasp round that waist. And within that
space, not only must the stomach work,
bat the liver, spleen, pancras, transverse
colon, several feet of the email intes?
tines, and many large arteries; veins and
other organs must all fiodroom to work. "
So much for a "delicate" lady. Now
let us learn what the doctor thinks of a
woman who is not so "delicate:"
"That lady weighs over 200 pounds,
while her waist is smaller than her bus
band's, and he weighs not more than 150
pounds. Her stomach after dinner is, or
shoald be, pretty large; her liver is an
immense organ; then all the other
organs which I have mentioned must
find a place in there somewhere. And
now, how do you suppose they manage
it? Well, they got doubled np and
twisted about in a very remarkable way,
aud a very large part of the mass is
jammed down into the lower parts of the
iibdomen. When she rises, if you will
look at her person, you will obc-e.-ve that
the lower part of tho abdomen is im?
mensely protuberant. Half of all which
belongs in that part of the upper abdo?
men, where the corset has compelled
that deep, ncoop-shovel hollow, has
been pressed down into the lower abdo?
men."
FEMININE AMENITIES.-If women, per?
haps better than men, know how to do
thiugs insolent to each other, so do they
know how to resent impertinences. An
American lady traveling in Switzerland
tells this dinner-table story:
I had 6een enough of traveling Eng?
lish, of whom the party at the table was
principally composed, to know how to
treat them; sn I entirely ignored their
presence, placidly gazing ont of the win
low in the interval of the course, on
long, straggling St. Goarhausen oppo?
site. This had its effect in the increased
respect of all glances, except those from
i pair of bold, black oyes opposite me,
whoso owner ooserved to her husband in
i loud tone: "One of the people of the
jountry, I suppose." "My dear," mur?
mured the gentleman, "take care; the
ady may understand English." "Not
ikulyl" in a tone of infinite disdain.
"Oh! nh! one can never be too careful.
So many of our people go to Paris, don't
?rou know, that the French must pick up
i little of our lingo." "I don't think
uer French," remarked the lady, her
gaze still broadly fixed on me. She pro?
ceeded with some very free and imperti?
nent remarks. At the conclusion of the
meal I wanted some confitures that stood
near this lady, aud the waiters had all
eft tho room. I looked directly at her,
ind said in my best English: "Madame,
may I trouble you to hand me those bon?
bons?" If you could have seen the
woman's face! It turned white, her jaw
Iropped, and she stared blankly, utterly
unable to comply with my request. Her
liusbond snatched up the plute and
tmnded it to me with a bow, and I ate
my confectionery with an innocent air,
In tho midst of a dead silence.
A WINDFALL.-A few years ago, and
since the close of the war, a family by
the name of Sybil, consisting of two bro?
thers and a sister, a Mr. Seaton, re?
moved from Florida to Maryland. Mrs.
Seaton, wife of Mr. George W. Seaton,
bought a farm and settled in the lower
part of this County. The two brothers
located in Dorchester. Mr. Seaton,
when too late, found that the land he
bud purchased was covered np with mort?
gages, and it was sold from him. He
was left in destitute circumstances, and
reduced so low that it was with difficulty
he could prooure the commonoBt neces?
saries of lifo. Tho brothers residing in
Dorchester shared a similar fate. But
two weeks ago, one of them applied to a
?olorcd fumily for a few potatoes, saying*
be "would endeavor to make out with
them uutil he could do better." Their
condition became known to their neigh?
bors, who kindly contributed of their
means to relieve their wunts. But how
greut tho change! It is now reported,
upon seemingly good authority, that tho
Groverumeut ut Washington has recent?
ly paid to tho two brothers and Mrs.
Seaton, ns the logal heirs o? their ances?
tors', tho sum of ?120.00Q, derived from
the Government of Spain ns indemnity
[or spoliations duriug the war of 1812,
iud that the entire claim amounts to
ibont $1,000,000. How strange are the
freaks of fortuneI-American Union.
Flory McFlimsey's new trunk is called
thu "cottage." It is larger than the
well known "Saratoga."
ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF A LONG
LIFE.-Tbe death of an old man at
Wappin ger's Falls, Duchess County, N.
Y., a few days ago, ended a novel bar*
i gain, in which mere was paid than was
intended to be paid. About twenty-five
years ago, when the old man waa about
eighty years old, he was a partner in a
manufacturing establishment, which he
started and built up, afterward taking in
two other partners. These, after they
had learned the business, wanted to
shove the old man out, but didn't suc?
ceed until they promised to pay him
Si,OOO a year until he died. So the old
man retired, but lived on. In courue of
time, the younger partners died. Their
sons succeeded them, and they, too,
died before the old man, bat be conti?
nued in the enjoyment of his $1,000 in?
come for years after they were buried,
aud at last died, at the age, it is said, of
10i years.-Rondout Freeman.
A preparation so widely and favorably
known as Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair
Renewer needs few words of praise from
ns. This compound has won ita way to
the highest favor in the public mind;
and multitudes, who have vainly used
other remedies for the restoration of
their hair, have, on trying the Sicilian
Renewer, been made glad by the speedy
restoration of their gray hair to its natu?
ral color, and the thia' looks thickened
I np, as in the days of early youth. It
I also prevents the hair falling out, makes
it soft and glossy, and is altogether the
j best preparation for its intended par
poses before the public . ' ;,
[ Pittsburg. Chronicle.
-? i . --
"Henrietta," said a landlady to her
new giri, "when theie's bad hews, par?
ticularly private afflictions, always let
the boarders know it before dinner.. It
may seem strange to you, Henrietta, but
such things make a great deal of dif?
ference in the eating in the coarse of a
year."
"Humph!" said an Englishman to a
Scotohman, as they were walking o vet
the fields, "oats are very well in their
way, but in England we feed them to oui
horses, while here they aro food foi
men." "And just Bee what fine horsec
there are in England, and what fine mee
we have in Scotland."
The editor of the Chattanooga Herald,
who was pronounced a liar by a cotem
porary, thus responds: ' "A newspapei
man once called us a liar, but we hadn't
sufficient confidence in his word to be
lievehim, or enough respect for him t<
knock him down." Philosophical, very
A man named Wells having steppet
upon a quicksand in the 'rivet nea
Brownsville, Texas, he instantly san)
out.Of sight, whereupon One of .his com
panions remarked, "That's a new way o
sinking wells."
"I must get married," said a baohelo
to a married friend, "for I never can fin
a button on a clean shirt." "Take care,
said the Benedict, with a sigh, "or yo
may chance upon a wife who will nc
find you a olean shirt to button."
A San Francisco girl who is given t
playing bluff has made the cool sum <
$500,000 from the'game. Her acquain
ance with the "tiger" extends over se vi
ral years.
The New York Mail thinks the mea:
eat man yet discovered is the one at Go
mantown, who oats off oows' tails in f
time to pay off grudges against the
owners.
An Hlinois man lately started a etea
chicken manufactory with several tho
sand eggs. The forcing process was ca
ried Od so vigorously that-only four we
batched, tho others being roasted.
An epicurean resident of Wheelin
W. Ya., comoaitted suicide last week b
cause his dinner was delayed beyond t
usual hour. He hung rather than he
ger.
flgPopo Pius IX sleeps, thirteen hoc
daily, and eats four hearty meals.
Notice.
WE hereby give notice to all whom It nc
concern, that we have resignad <
connection with the Universal Life Insurai
Company, of New York. The office and bt
ness IB turned over to Mr. J. W. 8hackIefo
Southern manager fur said Company.
M. W. GARY,
Aug 2_RI. O. B?TLEF
Palmetto Lodge, No. 6,1. 0,0. F.
??imi^t^1
>,^*??aS^S^*i^'bo hold in Mane
Hall, T?Ie?, (friday) EVENING, at 8 o'clc
By order of the N. G.
I. 8?LZBAOHER,
Aug 2 1_? Secretar
j Office Auditor Riehland County
TB IS Office will continue open for
TURNS OF PROPERTY until the 20tl
August; after that date, SO per cent, pon
will attach for non-compliance with this
tioe. M. J. CALNAN,
Aug 1_Auditor Richland Count
Wanted to Borrow?'
FOR one year or longer, at a fain ate o
ter cat, about $2,5U0, for which good
ourity will be given. Address X, at T'HC
0 Alee._Joly
Notice.
THE co-partnership of EDWIN J. SCC
SON A CO. having expired this daj
di!) tn dun by and to them will be Bottle
the new firm of Kt) WIN J. 800TT A SON
EDWIN J. SCOTT
HENRY E. 8COTT
G. H. BALDWIN,
J. P. SOUTHERN,
B. O. 801TER.
Co LCM ii iv, August 1,1872.
. ??-.'. ! .
undersigned bavo entered into
. partnership, under the firm nam
EDWIN J. SCOTT & SON.'for the traosa*
1 of a General Banking.-Brokerage and Ct
tiou business, and solicit the continued
cxtonded patronage of their friends, eua
ors and the public.
v EDWIN J. 8COTT
HENRY E. SCOT:
--? -?? ? ?
IN retiring faora tho late firm of EDW
30OTT, SON A CO., the undersigned
groat pleasure in recommending the nev
to the oonfldonco of their former patron
the publie generally as gentlemen in <
way qualified for the business, and wei
serving the confidence of the com mani tl
J. P. SOUTHE!
C H. BA [?DWI
August 2 12 B. 0. SHIVER