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t>???r?pnic?ForolRn Atralr?.
London, August 26 ? Germany noti
' fies the great powers that she will not
ioterfere with the internal affairs of
Spain.
The latest estimates in regard to tho
extent and effeota of the Indian
famine, show that 8,000,000 natives are
still dependant on oharitable relief.
Farther distress is threatened in Fir
boat, where the weather has been ex?
cessively dry; unless rain falls soon,
the harvest will prove a failure.
Havana, August 26.?Advices from
Porto Rico, to-day, report a terrific
earthquake on that island, this even?
ing. Houses rocked frightfully to and
fro for two minntes, and the inhabi?
tants ruBhed from them in the wildest
alarm.
Teiepravohlc?American Blatter*.
Louisville, August 25.?Gen. Eli
Murray, United States Marshal, left
this oity yesterday afternoon, for
Frankfort, where he will toke com?
mand of the Federal troops stationed
there, and march to the aid of the
Walker Russell party. There is some
fear of a collision botwsen State and
Federal 'troops.
New Yoee, August 25.?Ool. Trum?
pler, from Arkansas, did not appear at
the Oourt of Special Sessions to-day;
consequently Clark, whom be charged
with making an attempt upon bis life,
was disobarged.
la December last, the Bank of
Kalm, in Western Prussia, was robbed
of $180,000 in bonds and money by its
cashier, who fled, it was supposed, to
this country. Last night, a man giv?
ing bis name as Gustave Meyer was
arrested as tho fugitive and recognized
as the missing cashier by one of bis
countrymen. The Prussian Consul
was notified, but knew nothing oon
cerciug the case. He has telegraphed
to Prussia for information. Meyer
. was taken to the police headquarters
this morning, and this afternoon be?
fore the United States Commissioner.
Judge Blatohford, to-day, deoided
that although not so stated in express
terms in the amended bankrupt law,
answers in involuntary bankruptcy
oases must be sworn to.
Josiah Shove, confidential clerk of
Oorlies, Maoy & Co., stationers, of
Nassau Btreet, N. Y., was arrested to
day, charged by the firm with haviug
embezzled funds to the amount of
$35 000, committed to him for making
purchases, &a. The defalcation was
discovered, by an examination of the
books during Shove's summer vaca?
tion.
The thirteenth annual convention
of thu Fenian Brotberhood, which baa
been in session here two days, conti?
nues its deliberations in secret.
A man, named James Cramsey,
jumped from K*al Rook, aa elevation
of over eighty feet, into tho Hudson,
on the 24tb, and was drowned.
Boston, August 25.?A railroad con?
vention was held in this city to-day, ut
whioh the following lines were repre?
sented: Virginia and Tennessee; Air
Line, via Norfolk; Great Southern
Freight Line, via Savannah; Atlantic
Coast Dine, via Portsmouth and Wil?
mington; Direot Steam Line; Pied?
mont Air Liue, ota Richmond; and the
Great Southern Dispatch Lino, via
Norfolk. A general red notion of freight
from Boston and New York to different
points in the South, to take effect Au?
gust 29th, was agreed to.
Springfield. III., August 25 ?The
Straight Democratic Couvontiou or?
ganized temporarily by the election of
General S. W. Singleton, temporary
President, and R. O. Keets, Secre?
tary.
Buffalo, Auguet 25.?Reed's ele?
vator, fronting on Water streut, was
destroyed by fire to-day. Loss, $150,
000; insurauoe, $15,000.
New Orleans, August 25.?D. J.
Richards, wbo fought the duel with
Dr. Gray, in St. Joseph Parish, ou the
18th instant, and whu was reported as
having died iu just two minutes after
being wounded, still lives, with a pro?
bability of recovery.
Baton Rouge, August 26 ?Hou. J.
O. Monoare was nominated for Trea?
surer by acclamation. The convention
adjourned smid the wildest enthusi?
asm, 'lhe platform was adopted ana
nimoiiBiy. It commences: "We, the
white people." It declares that the
dominant factions of the Radical party
in this State bus, by false and fraudu?
lent representations, inflamed the pas?
sions aud prejudices of tho negroes as
a race against the whites; disclaims
earnestly any intention of carrying or
attempting to carry the approaching
election by violence. "We deny thut
Congress can constitutionally enaot
laws to force the two races into social
union or equality ; that tho white peo?
ple of Louisiana have no desire to
deprive the colored people of any
rights to whioh they are entitled. We
announce distinct ly thut it is the deter?
mination of tho people to have a fair
election, and to son that the result is
not changed by fraud or violence.
Irrevocably opposed to tho recognition
of dishonest aud fraudulent obliga?
tions issued in thu uutne of the State,
We pledge ourselves, on the restoratiou
of the Government to houest hands, to
provide for the paymont of tho honest
indebtedness of tho State."
Nashville, August 26.?A numbor
of negroes at Piokettsville, Gibson
County, six miles from Humboldt,
threatened u not, last Saturday and
Sunday, on ucconut of some supposed
wrong doue thorn, and manifested a
strong desire to kill two or three oiti
zens and fire and suck the town. Yes?
terday, sixteen of the ring-leaders were
arrested, taken to Trenton and plaoed
in jail for safe-keeping. About 1
o'clock, this morning, between Sevou
ty-five aud 100 masked mou entered
the town, and, riding up to tho jail,
demanded and compelled the Sheriff
to deliver up the keys thereof. They
then took the sixtoen negroes from the
prison, and, after killing four aud
mortally woanding two on tlie,jnoa
flnei oi the towo, rode off with th,e re?
maining ton, and aro soppneejl $o have
killed them. - Nothing baa been heard
of the party since they left.. Consi?
derable ezoitoment exists among the
s4grde#V and the whites are. taking
steps to defend themselves in ease-of
an outbreak.
Long: Branch, August 26 ?In the
first raoe, to-day, for all ages, three
quarters of a mile, eleven horses start?
ed; War minster won?time 1.17^. A
bet of $10,000 to $8,000 has been
made on the raoe for to-morrow, that
Felloworaft will beat the field. Tho
second raoe wa<*) for steward's cap,
three year olds, mile heats, won by Ida
Wells?time 1.47J?. The third was a
hurdle raoe, milo heats, over four hur?
dles, won by Bullet?time 1.54)?.
The new steamship City of Peking
is on on excursion, with President
Grant and a number of other distin?
guished individuals. The weather is
fine.
Washington, August 26 ?Robert
M. Kendall, of Mississippi, has beeu
appointed Consul at Canton,
Despatches have been received here
giving an account of a fight between
four companies of the Tenth United
States Cavalry, under Colonel David?
son, and the Indians, the Oconese,
Kiowas and Comanches, at Wichita
Agoncy. The Ooonese were off the
reservation without a permit, and,
after a talk with Colonel Davidson,
promised to return; but, instead of
doing so, made an attack on the sol?
diers, iu which the other tribes joined.
Mauy Indians were killed and several
soldiers badly wouuded. Four citi?
zens killed.
The following telegram was received
this ufteruoon ut the signul office in
this city: Ad earthquake occurred this
morning, at Porto Rico. The vibra?
tions lasted two minr/tes; houses
rocked, producing nausea. No cala?
mities yet reported. .
Probabilities?During Tnursday,
over the South Atlantic States, higher
barometer, slight changes in tempera?
ture, North-east to South-east winds
aud dear weather will prevail Iu
the Gulf States, slight ohunges in ba?
rometer, stationary or rising tempera?
ture, South east to- South-west winds
and generally clear weather. Over
Tennessee aud tho Ohio valley, lower
barometer, slightly higher tempera?
ture, East to South winds, partly
cloudy weather und occasional rains.
Richmond, Va., August 26.?Ex
Gov. G. C. Walker was to-day nomi?
nated by the Conservative Convention
to represent Riobmond District iu
Congress.
Pittsburg, Aaga-t 26 ?The Demo?
cratic State Convention assembled in
Library Hall, this morning, aud was
called to order by Dr. Nebiugor, Chair
man of the State Committee, who eaid
it devolved upon the delegates to put
before the people u platform of princi?
ples of the Democratic faith, and it
remained with the convention to de?
cide whether the old Key-stone State
would be wheeled iuto the Democratic
line or remain with the Republican
party.
Glue Sc Co.'s steam mills were
burned Sunday, ut Mu:-kigon, Michi?
gan. Loss $40,000; insured for $22,
000. The steamer City of Toledo,
lyiug at Ministee, was damaged by the
fire to thu amount of $25,000, on Sun?
day.
Charleston. August 26 ?Arrived?
Steamship > Equator, Philadelphia;
schooners David Bubcook, J. L. Clark '
aud Stephen Bennett.
Bowley und Jones, thu Radical ne?
groes, whose rivalry caused the riot at
Georgetown, have signed an agreement
declaring that no impediment to their
eonlml friendship remains, and thut
they will refrain from everything tend?
ing to public disordur.
Muuroo Jackson, a noted nogro
thief und murderer, who shot and
killed u man, named Wilbern, at Clay?
ton, Alabama, about six mouths ugo,
uud also killed another man, named
Allen, near Columbus, Ga., three
mouths afterwards, bus been arrested.
Telegraphic?Commercial (Reports.
New York, August 20?Noon.?
Cotton steady; sales 745?-uplands
16%; Orleans 17. Futures opened
steady: September 15 9-16, 16%; Octo?
ber 15 5-16. 15%; November 15 3 16,
l?#. Pork heavy?23.00. Lard
hoavy?steam 14 V?. Money 2. Gold
9%. Exchange?long 4\S7^; short
4 90H
7 P. M.?Cotton steady; sales 1,085,
at 1?%@17>^. Southern Hour heavy
aud declining?common to fair extra
5 20@6.00; good to ohoioe 6.05@9.00.
Wheat lo. better and more doing?1.13
(rt>1.20. Corn less uotive and prices
without decided ohauge. Coffee quiet
?16>4'@19)a Rio. Sugar steady and
iu fair demand, at 8@8)jj fair to good
refining; 8% prime. Molnsseu dull
and nominal?-11'.,(?MH Muscovudo;
46(o)65 Porto Rico; 80(?)85 Now Or
leaus. Rico dull?6,'-?(a)6|..' Rangoon;
Carolina. Pork lower?22 75
new muss. Beef quiet?12.50(u)13.50
mess. Lard firm?14)?. Whiskey
quiet?1.03. Freights to Liverpool
steady?cotton, steam 5-16. Cottou
net receipts 1; gross 116. Futures
closed firm; sales 16,000: August
15 15-16; September 15 27-32, 15,V,
October 15 17 32, 15 9 16; November
15 7-16, 15 3-32; December 15 15 32*
January 15 17 32, 15 9-16; February
15 25-32; March 15 31-32, 16. Money
easy, ut 2(j4'2}X. Exchange dull und
heavy?4 8714." Oold 9*g($<J?.?. Go?
vernments dull but steudy. States
quiet aud nominal.
BMbmfuis, August 26 ?Cotton quiet
?low middling 15>;j($1524; receipts
57; stock 6,369.
Augusta, August 26.?Cotton offer?
ings light?middling I?J4; net receipts
36; sales 36.
Charleston, Angust 26?Cotton
quiet?middiiug 15>s; uot receipts 46;
sales 25; stock 3,750. i
Bat/tihobe. August 26.?Cotton
doll and easier?middling 16%; gross
reoeipta 9; exports coaatwis? 47; wtlW
375; spinners 150; stock 2,928. Floor
dall,fand wmniaal??high ?radps !}???:
decUS?? *M$J Wgea? ?f?k. Cora
ateotly?wMfc '78@94. Bulk meats?
'shoulders 9)?; dear rib sides 18. , Ba
joon?sboolders 10^; clear rib sides
18%; sugar-oored hams 16>?@17>?.
Lard 14%@15. Whiskey tlrta and
scarce?l.OOj^. Sugar firm and un?
changed .
Norfolk, August26.?Cotton dull?
low middling 15; net receipts 253; ex?
ports coastwise 226; saleB 30; stock 495.
Savannah. August 26.?Cotton dull
?middling 15%; net receipts 115; sales '
08;stook 458.
Galyeston, August 26.?Cottou !
quiet, at a decline of %?good ordina?
ry 14; middling 16; net receipts 264;
sales 5; stook 3,813.
Philadelphia, August 26.?Cotton
doll?middling 16%; low middling 16;
net receipts 45; gross 593.
Cincinnati, August 26.?Flour dull
and drooping. Corn firm and scarce?
68(3171%. Pork quiet but firm?23 00
?23.50. Lard easier?.summer 13%
14. Baoon firm?shoulders 9% ;
olear rib 13^?; olear 13%. Whiskey
quiet, weak and lo. higher?97.
Louisville, August 26.?Floor un
obanged. Corn dull and droop*ng?
74@78. Pork unchanged and quiet?
23 50. Baoon in fair demand and
higher?shoulders 10; clear rib 13%;
clear 14. Lard 16>?@16%. Whiskey
96.
Wilmington, August 26.?Cotton
Cotton unobanged?middling 15 V,; net
receipts 5; saleii uone; stock 180.
St. Louis, August 26.?Flour quiet
and closing weak?3.00@3 75. Uoru
;firm, at 69 for No. 2 mixed on track.
Whiskey firm, at 98. Pork dull?
24.00. Bacou firm; buyers demand a
reduction?small lots sold at 9J^@10
for shoulders; 13%@18% clear rib;
14>^ clear. Lard uteady?13@13%.
New Orleans, Angu.t 26.?Cottou
quiet?middling 10%; low middling
16; good ordinary \\%\ ordinary 11%;
net reoeipts 2,041; grosB 256; sales
150?last eveuing 200; stook 10,930.
^ MoniLB, August 26.?Cotton quiet
and unchanged?middling 16; net re?
oeipts 1; exports coastwise 108; sales
50; stock 3,930.
Boston, August 26 ?Cotton quiet
and unobanged?middling 17,'u'; uo
reoeipts; sales 150; stook 800.
London, August 26.?Amount of
bullion gone into the Bank of England
ou balauco to-day, ?82.000; Consols
92% for money und account. Erits,
preferred, 46.
Frankfort, August 26.-62* 98%
Paris, August 26 ?Rentes 031. 7Uc.
Liverpool, August 26?3 P. M.?
Cotton dull aud unobanged; sales
12,000, including 2,000 speculation
aud export; sules of uplands, nothing
below good ordinary, deliverable Au?
gust, September, October or Novem?
ber, 8, 8 116; nothing below low mid?
dling, deliverable August, September
or October, 8 1-16; sules of shipments
new crop, ou basis of middling up?
lands, nothing below good ordinary, 8.
G P. M.?bales of uplands, nothing
below low middling, deliverable Au?
gust, 8 1-16; Bales of shipments new
crop, ou basis of middliug uplands,
uothiug below good ordinary, 7 15 16;
sales of Orleans, nothing below good
ordinary, deliverable August, S;? ; of
sales to-day, 7,200 uro American.
.&\ tA.Ot3.Q3Q. 1?*?*.JL<1>*.?.
Executor's Sale of Personal Property.
By JACOB LEVIN, Auctioneer.
BY permission of Hon. S.D. Swygert.
Probate Jodete for ltiohland Couotv, I
will sell, on MONDAY, Ultit instant, at the
store of tho late Wm.MuOniuuis, doueased,
the ontiro STOCK OF MERCHANDISE on
hand, comprising a
Variety of Dry Goods aud Clothing.
A general STOCK OF OKOCEBIEd, con?
sisting of barrels of Sugar, Coffee in bags,
Molasses, Dacon Sides, Lard in tierces,
Soap, Candles, Btarcb, Candies, Spice'
Teas, Wrapping Paper, Whiskey, Brandy,
Gin, Tobacco, Crockery aud Glassware,
Scales, Ao.
ALSO,
31 bales good Cotton,
Lbs. Solo Leather,
Sacks Corn, lbs. Castings, o.
ano
?a MONDAY, Soptember v, in trout of my
office,
2 fine croaru-colored Horses, ono line
Bnggy, a new Carriage, three Hue Cows and
sundry Certificates of Stock.
Terms of salo cash. _ Auk 1(3 mlh
To Rent,
THE NEW STOKE, recently finished,
witb (our rooms in second storv. op?
posite Hope ,t Gyles. Apply to M. COMEK
FOUD. on the promises. Auu 27
Notice.
STRAYED or stolon on tho night
snb ef tbo l'Jth, from tho subt.Tiber, a
? ? ~rf xMioii Mare MULE, of a dark brown
color, with one white spot on oaah shoulder.
A liberal reward will be paid for her return
or for a knowledge of her whoreabnnis.
BOBEtU n. WELCH.
IhsnorriLLE, S. O., August 21,1871.
Aug 20_3?
Steelyards and Scale Beams.
ACOMPLETE assortment of PATENT
SCALE BEAMS and STEELYARDS
just rocoivod and for sale atreducod prices,
by_ JO H N AO N1 '.W ft SO N._
Kerosene at 25 c.
BESTqualityKEKOSENE.llO lire test,
at retail, at 25o. per gallon, aud whole?
sale at 20o. purgation, at tho cash sto:t> of
Ang 10 JOHN AGNEW A SON.
Floor! Flour! J Flour J! V
1 AA BAKKELS FANCY FAMILY
Aviv/ FLOUlt, ground from soleoted
new Wheat, just rsooivad and for sale at
reducod prices by JOHN AGNEW A HON.
Koro so no Oil.
BEST quality?25 cents per gallon. For
_saluby_GEOKOE HYMMKRr.
Smoked
HAMS, TONGUES, BEEF and BACON
HTM PS. For sale by
Aug 25 GEORGE SYMMEUS.
Wines and Liquors
IN full supply, from common to finest
brand* known. Puro WHITE BRAN?
DY, lor preserving, at low figures. Fresh
supplies daily. GEORGE ?YMMK11H.
. Faxmexs' Girls.
Up.in the early morning,
?' Just at the peep of day,
Straining the milk in tho dairy',
j rr; Turning the oows away-*- S
'Sweeping the floors in the kitchen,
Making the beds up stairs,
Washing the breakfast dishes,
Dusting tho parlor chairs.
Brushing crumbs from the pantry,
Hunting for eggs in tho barn,
Roasting tho meat for dinner,
Spinning tho stocking yarn,
Spreading the snow white linen
Down on the bushes below,
Ransacking every meadow,
Where the red strawberries grow.
I
Starching the cotton for Sunday,
Churning the snowy cream,
Ringing the pales and strainer,
Down in the running stream,
Feeding the geese and poultry,
.Making the puddings and pics,
"Jogging the little one's cradle,
Driving away the flics.
Grace in every motion,
Music in every tone,
Beauty of form and feature,
Thousands might covet to own ?
Checks that rival tin roses,
Teeth tho whitest of pearls,
One of the country maidens is worth
A score of your giddy girls.
Musical Ohit-Ohat.-No. 5.
Church Music, as a Three-fold System.
bt walter steele.
Mr. Editor: I trust that your nu?
merous readers will peruse this num?
ber carefully, as it treats of ancient
customs, and will try to bring it down
to the present age.
In reviewing the history of Church
music, we find that during the various
ages of the Church three distinct styles
of music have been developed: that
peculiar to the clergy ; that peculiar
to the choir ; and that peculiar to the
people.
Music by the people : This is the
oldest style of music in the Christian
Church. For the first three hundred
years after Christ there was no other
than this; the singing of the primitive
Christians was congregational, all ta?
king part in it. About the year 350,
the first change occurred?that of re?
sponsive singing. The people, how?
ever, still bore a part in this music,
which thus maintained its congrega?
tional character.
Music of the choir: Choir music
was fu st introduced into tho Church in
the fourth century. At this period a
distinct class of persons was first ap?
pointed to take charge of this part of
public service. Through the choir,
however, and through an instrumental
style of performance afterward intro?
duced, a great musical abuse scorns to
have crept into the Church, and finally
the music of the theatre was bodily
transferred to the Church, which ac?
cordingly became the scene of great
theatrical pomp and display. To such
an extent was this the case, that it
brought down the severe censure of
Jerome and the Abbot l'amho of
Egypt.
Music of the clergy: Last in the
chain of changes, the music of the
clergy was introduced into the Church.
Unfortunately, however, this new fea?
ture involved a violent wresting of all
music from the people.
The entire monopoly by the clergy
of Church music continued until the
era of the reformation ; when Luther
restored, ns the cup to the mouth, so
congregational music to the lips of the
pceple.
In our modern Church, the choir
has most all the say?music is made
by it, and Cod worshipped by it.
The office of the choir has 3-et to be
definitely determined and understood.
While wc do not object to a few mem?
bers of a church forming themselves
together as a band of singers, filling
the position of leading or pitching the
key-note that all might follow, yet we
object to a choir to undertake to wor?
ship Cod for us?no soul, surely, can
worship for another soul. No set
apart body of persons can do the wor?
ship for the rest of a church assembly.
In worship, each individual soul must
appear before its Maker, and itself
perform its own act of homage. An
entirely unmeaning thing is worship
by proxy.
The simplest feasible arrangements
for a church I hold to be, a pastor and
a pulpit, an organ and an organist (or
a melodvon.) With this arrangement,
all joining in the singing, and thereby
praise Cud, but do not let us hinder
und thwart devotion by making it the
responsibility of a few whose only
realize^ responsibility is the music.
Ten Thousand Human Bki.nos 101:
ax Old Bucket.?About seven hun?
dred years ago there was a country in
Europe called Modeua, and another
country lying beside it called Bologna.
Some soldiers belonging to the State
of Modena took a hucket from a well
in the State of Bologna and carried it
away. The old bucket was of no
value and might have been replaced
by a few cents; and il is said the sol?
diers carried it away ill more fun and
frolic. But the people of Bologna
took it as a great insult. They de?
clared war against Modena, and bud a
long and bloody conflict about it.
More than ten thousand human beings
were butchered because of the old
bucket.?Angel of Peace,
Eternal Desolation,.. ..
milk after mile of silence and death.
a land ACCUK3ED.
In the north-west corner of San Ber?
linde, countj, lying partly also in Inyo
county, and, by the newly surveyed
line, partly also in the State of Nevada,
is a region paralleled by few other
spots on the face of the earth. We
say the world is instinct with life.
Here, if tho phraseology may be par?
doned, is a place inBtinct with death.
A huge basin, whose rim is the ancient
hills, stricken with the barennoss of
eternal desolation, whose bosom, the
blasted waste of the desert?treeless,
shrublcss and waterless, save a few
bitter pools liko the lye of potash
water, surrounded by mountains that
tower thousands of feet above the sea
level, itself lying 300 feet below the
sea. It is a very " Gehcuua "?a place
of death and bones. Birds do not fly
over it; animals do not enter it; veg?
etation cannot exist in it. The broad
sands absorb the heat, the bare moun?
tains reflect it, the unclouded sun daily
adds to it. Ninety degrees in the
shade (artificial shade, there is ne
other,) means winter. One hundred
and thirty and one hundred and forty
degrees, that is summer.
The hot air grows hotter, wavers,
trembles with heat, until nature, goad?
ed to madness, can endure no more ;
and then the burning blast rouses
itself?rouses in its might; rouses as
an angry beast, with a hoarse, omin?
ous roar; sweeps mile after mile, on,
ever on, over the broad reach of the
desert, bearing in its black, whirling
bosom?black as the midnight?dust,
saml, alkali and death. Sometimes a
murky cloud gathers upon the moun?
tains above; then thcro is a rush?a
warning sigh on the winds?a low
rumbling in the air; the hills quiver,
the earth trembles, and a torrent, half
water, half mud, bounds from the hills,
leaps into the desert, ploughing chasms
like river beds in the loose sand. The
clouds scatter, the sun comes again,
the eternal thirst of the desert is not
quenched. The raging river was only
a dream.
In the year 1849, a party of emi?
grants entered the basin. Day after
day they toiled on, thirsting, dying.
The pitiless mountains walled them in;
no escape. One by one they dropped
and died. A few abandoned every?
thing, scaled the mountains and es?
caped. The others lie as they fell,
J dried to mummies?no birds even to
devour their flesh ; no beasts to prey
upon them. Wagon tires unrustcd ;
gun-barrels bright, untarnished. Such
is the place. Mile after mile silence
reigns; silence?and death.
u Walled by the mountains, domed
with brazen sk}*,
hcaguu after league the never-ending
sand
Spreads like the ocean, to the lifting
! eye,
An aged, weary, long-Iorgotten land;
As cursed in wrath, and smit with
Cod's fierce hand,
No cooling mist quenches the endless
thirst
That rules supremo the boundless
stretches grand ;
Over its broad expanse no storm
clouds burst
With hurrying fect. It is a land ac?
cursed."
[J. r. Widneiji in Overland Monthly.
The Fisiiinu Frog.?Writers on
natural history describe a hideous rep?
tile known as the fishing frog, which
angles for its game as expertly and
with as great success as tho most
adroit fly-fisher. He is a clumsy,
awkward swimmer, but nature has
compensated him for his unwieldiness
by furnishing biin with an equivalent
for a rod and line, and bait already for
use. Two elongated tentacles spring
from his nose, which taper away like
. actual fishing rods. To tho end of
them is attached by a slender filament,
which serves the purpose of a line, a
bait in the form of a shiny bit of mcm
I hranc. The hooks are set in the mouth
of the lishcrmaii down below, and in
j order to induce the fish to venture
j within reach of them, the angler stirs
up the mud at the bottom with his tail.
(This attracts the fish, and conceals
I him from observation. He then plies
his rod; the glittering bait glows in
i the water like a living insect. The
dazed llsli are taken in great numbers,
: perfectly circumvented by the trick of
j the crafty angler.? The Galaxy.
A fosto 1.1 ca i. S ucc ess i on. ? A fe w
years ago, several young clergymen
were dining at the house of u gentle?
man who attended both the services of
the Established Church and the Wes?
ley an Chapel. After dinner there was
a lively discussion on apostolical suc?
cession, but turning chiefly in favor of
! it as asserted by zealous curates fresh
from Oxford and Cambridge. The
'eldest son of the host, who had been a
I silent listener, was at length appealed
t.i for his opinion on the subject, when
he replied, M Had the apostles foreseen
what sort of characters would have
claimed to be their successors, they?
would have token care to have cut oil
the entail."
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