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run P. BXAED, prfbtor. A FAMILY | ~7 'APER. J ?2.00 A YEAR, IS ADVANCE VOLUME IT. \yhTA^' /^SaMDEN, KERSHAW { LNUARY 31, 1877. NUMBER 16. Vkt gfttkaw CkuetU. PUBLISHED MTMMT WXDJTMBDAY AT CAMDEN, KERSHAW C&, $. C., FRANK P. BEARD. Tenu of Anbaorlptlon t . . umiuatr m l> ? ?tmb? of Hrmtj-flv*, ? 1.00 IUt?? or Adv Om www or teM, fl.ao f. itMNK ided tboM ?M grjhiWL Ms or inlTtMttl.' . r HT* All MUa mo 4m M ujr "*** after flr?? ?p nimii of ? imifcwK ?km uUiwihi q?iil JOB FBINTINGk Tk? Oum oiw ti bhiMi 9t >iwHlr m< ?u <* ;?t> nwiii ?>tt? k*T? PNmm au<l MtMdl f0r wy^S^SL1?hle*Bey "By the 8U11 Water* " Don t youhearthe hickory crackling ? - like, and mA Md low; Bottqdi just like an imjr tramping, Only ifa * aign of ?now. ?? c. Here'a a cinder emoLdering, burning, Droppin' nhw, powdered fine ; Don't UMfhteoed, UUleminbi, } It's ? oofflo, but it'a mine. Let me see the balm o' Qileftd, WftTtn' by the oftbin do', I won't beer ito leaves ft ruatlin' In the apriug, mr chiJti, no mo'; Maybe I won't beer do bluebird Bingin' in de apple treea ; Bat m bear the angela aingiu' , ? ?, Doy'U hare sweeter aongs than theae. Hark ! la dat de thunder rolling? Be* de forked lightning's gleam ; Many ft time I've aoothed ray baby When de storm, disturbed her dreabi. Mow de drum?I near it beetin' '^00CS& solenm-h^c, for me ; Maybe it'a do wave* a breakln' On de shores of OellAf> , ? IVon't be dark, dc a tar* Way above do atorm and ran^^^^ Derw'll be long protracted jnoetin's Cftmpln' on de hoaveuly plain. Dero won't be no waiUn', wecpln' ? Dere won't be no day to part; Christ will hear mo when 1 knock dere. He will bind de lirokcrt heart. Croas oold Jordan's troubled water*, Into Canaan's laud I fly ; T>cre de troe of life is hloomln'. All de boats am passin' by. Hsiao me up, 1 hear de ruatliu'. Angola at do cabin do'; l>on"t yotl weep for poor ole mammy, She won't never grieve no mo'. DON QUIXOTE; Or, Adventures of the Mad Knight of La Mancha. . BY OKHVANTK8. Ill a certain villas hi Lh Mauolia there lived a lean, thin facet], old faah ?"iflfloa gentleman named Alonzo Quixana. He hod a great library of book* ou knight errantry, which he pored over night and day, till at last lie htumbled on the crazy fancy of turning knight himself and setting forth upon lii? steed, armed. eap-a-piv, in quest of ndven l' ture*. Bo he aooured up a suit of runty old armor, dubbed his bony nag Boziuante, recliristencd himself Don Quixote de la Maacha, and pitched upon a ?0o<l look ing country girl named Aldonsa Loren so to be the lady of his devotion, rauun her Dnlcinea del Toboeo. ou morning,in the greatest heat of July. MOh, happy age!" he cried, "de creed to uRher into the world my famous achievements. 'Oh, Princeas Dnlcinea, lady of thia captive heart ! remember your alave, who for your love submits to so many miseries!" Full* of suoli soliloquies, he rode on till toward evening, when, being almost famished, he reached an inn, which he fapoiod to bo a castle with towers and pinnacles, moot and drawbridge. The fat innkeeper hospitably receivod him, and, a pig driver happening to sound his whistle several times, Don Quixote grew the more positive that ho wns in a famous castle and entertained with' musio at Bupper. Thou he gra^ly de posited his arms in the horse trough and fell to watching them, preparatory to re ceiving the honor of kniglitlio<xl, which the innkeeper, l>eooming aware of his delusion, readily agreed to oonfer. But, before the oeromony, two innocent car riers, who removed the arms to water their mid oh, were so valorously battered I by our hero's lanoe that their comrades returned the attack with a volley of stones. The host, disrelishing these mad tricks, quieted the carriers and has toned to slop Don Qnixote on the I nick withliis sword, which was then buckled on by ft cobbler's daughter, and the new made knight started for home to get Home money and clean shirt*. On the way he rescmnl a lad whose master was at rapping him soundly for carelcsHHeHB. But no sooner was Don Quixote out of sight than the man gave the lad a seven-fold drubbing t Highly pleased with ljimsclf lia a re dresser of grievances, t.ho valiant knight next essayed to mak^t a train of Toledo merchants confess the' peerlessncss of his Duloinen. But IU>/-inante stumbled and rolled him on the ground and a muleteer broke hi* lance and belabored hin^ with the piece* In this plight he was found by an hon est husbandman, who helped him home, where he informed hie niece, in presence of Dr. Peres, the Curate, that he wm bruised by a dresdfnil fall from his horse while fighting ten outrageous giants. " Ho, ho I" cried the curate, " then we wi)l have them all horned by to-mor row ntehtr Tills threat h? executed by mm mak ing through tho knight'* library while he nlept, Mid ranking A bonfire of the miaohievoofl romancce that had bewilder ed hi" mind. ^ * After some days' reet Don Qnixote mlliml forth aectetly again, accompanied by Sen oho Pram, e nil ly fellow whom he had seen red ae hie squire by promising to meke him governor of aome it)end or other which they were likely to oonqner. The first enemies they met tMfe thirty os forty windmills, whioh Don Quixote valiantly defied ss gisnte, without giving eti to Baneho, who seen red him they were windmills end no giants I " Stand, oowardn I" eried the hero, " and fly noi basely from s single knight r Then, devoutly recommending himself to his Dulofaea, he couched his lanee, * rnshed with ftoirfnante'a ntmoet npced upon the flrat windaflL. and ran hia l*nr* into the whirling asil, which shiv ered his wefpon end hurled both knight s&d horse npon the ground. Hanchoran up ss fast M his ass Dapple oould go, sad svlMfMdi i* ?/ . "Mitel WU lluf w?rs wi?4* mills, and that nobody wise unless he had also bead?" ?4 Peace, friend 8<mch&w a^Wk^pn Quixote ; " I am peqstfJKt that coned j earned away my books I baa transforms^ -Ikeae giants into wind* mills to deprivejtffc^ie honor of vio-1 In his nest eneron ^^cut to flight two monks, who hnnidfl|H^jpAting i more signs of the cross wCTj^Bfast bad 1 been after them. ?- Jgm Stopping at anotherinn, which he also j took CvAOastle, our hero loftily refused to pay, and, brandishing his lauoe, made off without opposition. But Saneho was seised by some stout fellows, who tossed him in a blanket like a puppy. Nor was he much oonaoled by his master's sage conclusion : _ " Honest Sanoho, that cast]# is en- , chanted, for they who so cruelly sported with thee, what oonld they be but ' Tbm squflH^lMjtetftion was soon di verted, however, by two clouds of dust, which the elated knight informed him oonoealed two prodigious armies about to engage in mortal oombat "Heatosttliou not the trumpets and drama f" cried Don Quixote. "I hear nothing," answered Banclio, I " but the bleating of sheep And lambH." * Nevertheless, Don Quixote ruslied courageously on the enemy, and did pot. rest until he had slain seven sheep, And ? l>een knocked off his horse by the shep- j ! herds, who left him for dead on the ground. Bancho, who had been teuring his beard at a safe distance, now camo to his aid, and the two resumed their jour ney, hungry and forlorn. That night Don Quixote routed a doz eu white robed eoole.sia?ties, who thought him satau broke loose to seize the tsorpse they were oonveying in a "litter. When he discovered who they were, he hand somely l>egged pardon?Sanclio having meantime prndeutly ransacked a mule which these pious men had with them, well loaded with eatables. Next night a dreadful din of irons and rattling ohaius and heavy strokes hold them in suspense, and stm'ted many alarming surmises, till morning showed ? that a harmless fulling mill had caused their uneasiness. , j The knight's next exploit was the dis ? e< miHting of a barber, whose basin 1* seised upon as a golden helmet. Pres ently the adventurers encountered a doaCu galley slaves, strung like beads by ' the necks in a great iron chain. Oc*? Dou Quixote their deliverer and making off with San cho's cloak and ass. The doleful squire was soon consoled for his misadventures, i however, by finding a portmanteau oon ' taining fine linen and a hundred gold crowns, which his master l>ade him keep. The Knight of the Sorrowful Figure, i as Sanclio had aptly styled him, now re I solved to enact the raving and furious , lover, in imitation of Amadis.de Gaul, ; and having chosen a lonely spot, ho bade h?4 squire convoy n letter to his "sov ereign Lady Duleines, otherwise Aldonzu ' Lorenzo." "I knew her," quoth Banclio; | " Htraight and vigorous, aiul what a voice ! and not at nil ooy, bnt hold ns u court lady ! Bir Knight, you may justly , run mad for her and hong yourself I" While Don Quixote wan performing | strange antics and graving plaintive | verses on the trees, Bnncho ; irneyed j homeword. Meeting the barber and , euratc, he described his master's con- , dition, and they thereupon disguised the barbei^tos a distressed damsel ond set Cut to entice Don Quixote home. On . the way they fell in with Oanlenio, h , lover in despair at the faithlessness of \ his beloved Lueinda, and also with j I) >rothes, a beautiful bride, diseo;iso- . late over her husband's desertion. How- | ever, she joined their plot against Don | Quixote, representing herself as the I'rinoess MieomiogiiH, and obtained his promise to undertake no more ndven- | tures till he had slain the giant Pauda fllsndo, the usurper of her kingdom. Hanclio, with-Ml *ye to bin own prefer ment, exhorted bin master to marry the prinoeas straightway, but Don Quixote would hear uo sueh treason against his Dulcinea. Betting ont all together, they stepped nt nn inn, where the knight in hie sleepi luwAnltod Aome winr akin* tlmt stood in his room no deeperntoly tlmt he set tho wliole eliAmher afloat with good wine, j iinegining All the time tlmt he waa vah quishing the giAnt PnudsAlAndo. In the meAnwhiie Dorothea's hnn>mn<l Arrived At the inn, by oliAnee, with the Mine LncindA whom Ordenio lnul thought fAitldoAM. This suspicion waa now proved f aIao, And Luci&dA's abdno tor waa pernnAded to restore her to 0** lenio, And receive AgAin hi* deeerted < Dorothea. All were delighted At thin, i nAve HaooIio, 'wIioaa hopee of prefer- , ment were auddenly extinguinhed. Don Quixote waa not eaeily nndeceived, and j it waa Anally resolved to make a large OAge on pole* and convey him in it on An ox cart. Having Ixwti persuaded tlmt thiA waa enchantment, he submitted very oontentadly, and they got him safe home. ! Here he tarried for About a month, and then m4 forth again with Haneho to at tend a aolemn tournament at ftaragoaAa. On the way they stopped neer Toboeo, and Don Quixote sentbia aqnire to bring him aewa of his Dnleinsa. Being unable to find her, Sancho re" turned and cunningly told hia master that three oountry girla. eomintr that way on mm, win the Ltdj Dntoino* and two oi hwr damaela, riding in atata to gra?t h?r troa knight Haatoning to j aatat* h?r, Don Qnixota wu ahookad to j And that wicked enchantment had ohutgnd hie paerleaa Dnlcinea into a rode and ugly jmmg woman, who only |kl aatarad into a wfOt a rttanga knight, wka ?m ? aurtout besprinkled with little moons of polished glass. This Knight of the Mirrors, who championed the bssqtifui Gssildes de Vandalia, wss quickly un horsed, and prored to be one of Don Quixote's friends, named Samson Car raseo. This Carrasoo had conspired witl^the curate and the l^arber to cure the X>on's Xrensy by vanquishing him and then requiring him to return home ; but the knight's unexpected prowess de feated this scheme and broke some of Osrrssoo's ribs withaL r 4fiaoh elated, Don Quixote soon after overtook a wagon containing two fierce lions. "Honest fellow," he cdbd to their keeper, " let them out; I will make the creaturaa^know who Don Quixote de la is!" Bancho on US MS and the wagoner with his mules hurried off at fnll speed, but when the door was opened the wild beasta refused to ootne out, and our hero, elated at this, dubbed himself Kuight of the Lions. His next knightly exploit camo to pass at an inn where he routed and destroyed a whole company of puppets, for which, j however, he paid very honestly. A few days later ho fell in with a veri- j table duchess. She and the duke, having heard of Don Quixote and his ! squire, and being minded to have some sport, inviUnl them to the castle, where they were treated with amazing conde scension. As the knight was much dis turbed by the enchantment of his Dul cinea, the duke's steward contrived a frightful procession of devils aud necro mancers, one of whom declared that to restore "Tobaiio'tt pride, the ixyrleAH Dulcinea, 'Tin fnto'd decree that Bancho giro hiuiaelf Throe thousand la?hoM and eke three hun dred more.'' " XVkat I" quoth Sancho, " three thousand lashes ! I will not give myself t three!" " Hold now, rascal !" cried DonQuix I ote; " I will tie yon to n tree and give you six thousand !" " Hold !"' cried the magician, "the ! stripes must be voluntary, and only j laid on when he thinks convenient." The afflicted Sancho was at last per j suaded to midertake this penance, wliore : upon his master gave him a thousand , kisses. The Kiuue cunning steward alao oon trivtxl an embassy of ?J uennas to Don Quixote, soliciting him to undertake a prodigious journey on a miraculous wooden horse, and do battle with a gi gautio and villainous enchanter named full of exploisWsa, which soon blew up and tlurew the ridofo on the ground. But they were ingeniously convinced that tho projected adventure had l>ecn accom plished oniy by attempting it, nml the dn^frhailed Don Quixote as "the bruv eat of knights." Bancho had n I way a believed his mas ter's promise to make him governor of an island, mul to humor this belief the duke's steward contrived to install him as ruler of a small town, which he was gravely assured was the island of Bara taria. Bancho administered his office with unexpected acuteness and much honesty, but his physician kept him on such short allowanoe that he was nonrly starved, and was soon glad to relinquish bin governorship and rejoin his master again. At ?fast the two bade farewell to the duke and duchess, and started iu quest of fresh adventures, Bancho bc-iug won drously cheerful over a gift from the steward of two hundred crowns. Betting up as cliampioii of a troop of shepherd esses, Don Quixote deflates herd of wild bulls, who made no ado about running over both him and his squire, and trampling them soundly. But this mis adventure was nothing to his fate at the hands of .the Knight of the White Moon, who vanquished him off hand, and required him, as a captive, to return quietly home and remain there a year. The victorious knight was Hnmson Car rasco, who had thus carried out the plan in which he was at first foiled. Hancho had been very remiss about giving himself tho lashes which were to disencliaut Dulcinea, but after their re turn home, his disconsolate master hav ing promised him three pence each, ho | set to work in a convenient woody place, i the Don standing near to oonnt the i stroked. Finding they did not agree well with his back, Bancho slyly laid his rope's end on the trees insteUd, and thus disposed of aliont two thousand of the lashes l>efore he stopped. But the fob was never finished, for, while Don Quix ote was planning to spend his year of enforced rest as a shepherd errant, he was suddenly seized with a fever which car ried him off in a few days, though not till he had so cleared his intelleet thn? he realised all his follies and rtisde his will t>equeathing his estate to his neico Antonia, with an express provision-that it should l>e diverted to pious uses if she msrried a man who had eter read a sin gle l>ook of knight errantry. Kim.kd bt a Dhttwkbn Driver.?H. B. llernArd, of Albion, N. Y., wrk found deed hi Die Know four mile* nouth of jAiueetown, N. Y. Hia teem wn? run into by a drunken m?n with a aled,wuid it in mippoeed he wee fatally injured. The man drove off without stopping to Anoint him. Mr. IlarnArd wax a peAaen gpron the lent train tliAt paAAed over the Anhtabnla bridge before the aocidrnt, and intended returning on the fated train, bnt mimed it. He wae named among the killed three daya. An engine on a railroad, after traveling along ?t th? rate of Ave milee an hour, stopped *t a station and one of the pae seiigors. ft oountryman; went forward and asked tn? engineer what that thing was in front of the locomotive. "That is a oowoateher," said the engineer. "Well/' ?ai?l the maff, ?? jon had better lake II off and tie ft o* fee MM ear to that the MWi (Ml ma etet fW The Boy Tb? Marquis de Gustine, who ] ten an interesting and instructive 1 of his travel* through Russia a I ago, gives an aooount of one of the 1 coachmen, and of a little inoid?<I neoted with him. " In Russia," says 1 marquis, "the desire of traveling ? beoomes a passion, and this serves as a pretext for every i inhumanity. My courier has coted it to me, and I often render i without at the time perceiving it, aft, oomplioe in his acta of injuatioa. exceedingly angry whenever the man leaves his seat to readjust tion of the harness, or when he the road on any pretext. " At the oonunaaeement of*i child who drove us had been times threatened with blow* by 1 jager for a fault of this kix^d, participated in the wrath and ii of the man. Suddenly a foal, not; days old, and well known to the escaped from an inclosure bordering < the road, and oarne neighing and loping after my carriage, for he took 1 of the horses that drew us for mother. The young, coachman, guilty of delay, would again stop i to the aid of the colt, whioh he every moment in dauger of crushed tinder the wheels of the < ?? my courier angrily forbade him V. I leave his Kcat; the child obeyed i good Russfan, anvf continued to dri I-at a gallop, without offering . Thus the poor colt and the unl i child wero loft to mourn in earn net i one by ncigliing all his might, i by crying . silently. It was 1 martyrdom, for the stage wda si* I ! in length. The t?oy, obliged" to i the animals he 'wished to sav*-,' *' i with a resignstioj^?-#hat would touched me hod not my heartr I already hardened by a residence country. Every time that a peaSK^1 l>earod on tiie road the hope of n liis beloved fool again revivetf bosom of the child. He made signs from afar off) 1 shouted when a hundred paces from the foot passen^r; but not. t to slacken the vauuercifnl gallop *1 horses, he never sucoeedod in liimaelf understood in time. Ifrj| peasiuit, more quick sighted others, endeavored of himeeL1 to_ tlie foal, the speed of tho ooncerted him, and the y jMisscd on doee to the i horses. At length the young coachman I "yw? v*>-u? to our driver, naa wx? I and muscle necessary to perform ! leagues at a gallop." N^l Making I .ami. Y To ft tliiokly populated country Holland the acquisition of land not I* rortdy occupied by man must be ? < o ject calculated to oomfort tho or gam of respiration. A new schema in on foo in that country for reclaiming 478,000 a res of the Zuyder Zee, for which the Dt til Parliament litis voted ?16,000,100' sterling. This class of work?ls no i em enterprise. Between the years 1828 wid 1 h in nn urea of 11,820 acres, at the SSpid Plus, near Rotterdam, which was oovt red with from fourteen to sixteen feel of water, was pumped dry by wind oill | power, at an excuse of ?22 per aire, j and sold at that iigure. The drainag? of I tho so-called Scud of Harlem?on ox ent j <?f 45,230 acres, lying under an et nal 1 depth of water?was effected, betipqp ! 1840 and 1852, at the oheaper rate of {?19 ? per acre by means of steam power, ' in this instanoe the reclaimed area ; nlso sold at cost price. That this been a profitable investment Rp | from the fact that land in both these tricte is now worth from ?70 to i an acre. The estimate for the cos] the Zuyder Zee wofk is at>out ?18'per , acre, and the government expects Msell j the land for ?85 per acre. The Oynter'i Enemy. The drill HhIi in a wicked little felow ahont Hie t?izo of a nnail, nml renem >le? j somewhat n periwinkle in appenr?i ice. I He Iiah nn inntrnment like a but or J nword near tho point of the none. He | 1>ore? n hole the Rize of ft pin hole; and j when he get* through tfitli An oj*ter I hold tho shell up to tho light And itiwill ; look like a nieve. Tho drill flslt in alsin- , gnlar AbIi, aihI is not ver, nooiahle. He prefers to trAvel alone, and in fonr 1 in { Hint Point bay and other places. 'Itierc ' are now innny more tlinn there ufwj to { he, And the oy?ter planters Are ge ting ! nhirmed ftl>out them. The drill flal Ap- j pears to perpetrato hid otitrAgoe thMngh ( sheer malice, he lias never been ki own to cAt An oyster. When he lias finiihed , boring a hole through the shell the oya- , ter dies. The drill fish works it the , mimnier and liee dormant dnring whter. { He g<?es principally for the spAwns Imt tackles with readimra those that have t attained a good old age. Th< Famine In India. A weekly Hi', nmary will l>e henceforth , Kent by telegraph from India Riving the niftin facta in regard to the famine. Lord Carnarvon, numming np the information he liaa kitlierto received, oonaider* it' alarming that 840,000 peraona are al ready employed on the relief \ryrka in Madraa and 260,000 in Bombay. The government eetimatea aliow that the famine in Bombay will gradually in crease, reaching tffn maximum in April, when a million peraona will require re lief, after which it will gradually tie- j creaae. In Madraa the proapect la pro portionately worae. The diatricta i ffect e<l in Madraa oover 80,000 aqnare alien, and contain a population of 18,001 >,000. In Bombay (he famine etricken tat -itory cover* 54,000 aqnare milea, and liae a population of 1,000,000, 0,000,( )0 of whleh m la dfatartota mora tmmrt lately ** U the powers, privi dutiw of the United StaU>? in regard to tlie electoral rote ia throw all the light it tu the subject It has held numerous igs. and'many grave and -weighty armaments hare been Made on one aide and other. As a -pari of the gossip of tlflS" hour, {here is a well authenticated story in .reference to this committee, Tto toUl as follows : Professor Seel, few days ago, waa making a very argument upon that pact of the whiohaays that " the preai of the Senate shall, in the preseooe Senate and ?pnee of Represent* open all the nisUftimi* and Jkhe then be counted.** Mr. fpflH | who is a Republican, waa of oonrae maE?. ! taiuing that Mr. Ferry, the' president ot the Senate, had the dear and indisputa ble right, not only to open the vntea, hut to do th&Aounting. At a particularly rifQroun nnd eloquent point fa his argu ment, Mr. rructor Knott, the chairman *A the committee (so the story goes), re marked >- * ?? "Professor, I do not wish to i^crrupt >t?u in yonf'eloquent constitutional argu ment, but I want you to explain to me fljn invitation I have just reoeived to din SBilke interpretation of .which perplexes a good deal. It is as follows: 'The pleasure of your ctnnpany is re> >1 nested, at dinner co-morrow evening, at Weloker's, to meet Professor Seelye and other distinguished gentlemen. The ?lish*a ^01 be uncovered by the steward lisaciaoly at seyen o'clock, and the dinner I will then .be eaA.' "Now, what I want you to interpret for me, Ptofeasor," said Mr. Knott, "is who fa to^at the dinner ?the steward, or y<^-and'I and the rest of the gueste ?" * Am Important Industry. Says fee Boston Journal: Fifteen iden or * porgy " oil was in the market. Hinoe manufacture has steadily important ?' the ooaat of in Maine, thia oQ in capital of 88,000,000, giving employment ki the season to nearly four thousand men, two hundred and fifty ?ailing vessels and thirty t^eamer*. The product for 1870 is estimated nt three million gallons of oil and forty thousand tons of guano. As to the period during which the menhaden will oontinue as abundant as at present, experienced ob servers assert that these ftsh will l>e caught long after petroleum ceases to oome from the earth. 1+ 8. L. Goodale, of Saoo, Maine, long the able secretary of the Maine board of agriculture, has long experimented with a view to render tlie bony flesh of the fish, after the oil is taken out, useful for food. As the result of his experiments he lias obtained an article which he calls the extract of fish, similar to Liebig's extract of beef. The extract mado from menhaden contains no flavor of flsli, aud broths made from it cannot bo distin guished from those made from meat ex tract*. How Do You Keep Your Hooks. We believe that there is a considerable proportion of meu engaged in huHiuem? men who know how to buy goods, and can make a good Hale of the bo me?who do not understand the detail* of keeping accounts. These men go on year after year, without this knowledge, content if they And enough money in their drawer or at their hauk to meet their bill*. But, when you talk to them about a bal ance sheet, they immediately show a lamentable ignorance of the rules by which it should l?e made. Such igno rance may be very well when trade is flush and the skies are bright; but, when | the screw of hard times, is applied, they j are like the captain of a rudderless ship, | who does not know when or how the rtld- | der was lost. Partners go on drawing ' ot}t money for personal expenses exceed- j ing in amount the profit* of the business, ; but they fail to see that this diminishes | the capital of the concern. A and H form a partnership, and put in 815,000 each, j If eech draws out $2,500 for living ex- I penscs during the year, there must l?e a profit of $5,000 made by the business in order to keep the capital at its original figures. If the profit* fall l?elow the amonnta drawn out, the capital is dimin ished by whatever that difference may be. This is simplicity itself, and it re quires no special education to understand , it. Therefore, if a business man under- ' stands how such a sheet shoidd be made, lie has no excuse for not knowing jnnt how he stands. After Twenty Yearn. ? The Indianupoli* ? Journal n*yn : A few day* tiefore hie > iv-*tion of the ex ?utive ohair of State, Got. Heudriok* J )mrdoned Ijeander I). McKinney, the once noted deaporndo who wan aent to the State prieon-twenty year* affo for the heinone crime of wholeaale murder. For yearn " Bnok" haa been a privileged [ eharaoter about the prieon, and during the greater part of that time haa been a " trusty "?that ia a jteraon who haa the freedom of the prison preminea inaide and ontn'de the wall*. He ie altont fifty yearn ol-'. , The municipal funded debt of the Uni ted tttatea ia eatimated at ?800.000.000, and ?omewhat mora than one-fourth of thUamount baloaga to th? Suta ol Hrw ^ THE ELECTORAL TRIBUNAL. ^ fe* *jS3Kjt< ' . \ 1 ? % ' ' '? i Tfe* Fmll vm ?r Ik* Bill K?HTM4 by tbm * MM OWWfclWrfC HWHI The following ia the eomplete text qf the bill agreed upon by the joint com-1 mittee on oootrtisg -the deotoril votfe oI the United Stales; A bill to protfde for end regulate the eoonting of votes for Vxmfant and Vice-President, end the decision of qiwBoM arising thereon, for the term commending March 4, A. D. 187?: ? Be it enacted, ei\>., That the flcitt and House of Bepi ijiilativrg shall meet in the ludl tiW^Bouae- of Repreeeiv Utivea, at the hoar Of one o'clock p. u., on the first Thuisday in February, A. D. 1877^ud the president of the Seuste presiding offloer. Two s I shall be previously appointed*on part of the Senate and two on the t aI the House of Beuresentatiyee, to ?whan shall be haifcMpVMNP'are open ed by the president ef the Senate, all ^ ?III.HI OUU IMUeii J be cortj&Sates of. electoral certiftoates and papor* ?hall \ | piMMMMit'litea upon in the alpha betioalTrdTrSkK&i, beginning era having e ivn<l the :?* with,the letter A, and wvid tellers having then read the same in the presence ana hearing of the two houses, shall make a list of the rote* as they shall appear from the said certificates, and, the votes haying been ascertained and oounted as in this act prodded, the result of the same shall be delivered to the president of the Senate, who shall thereupon an nounce the state of the vote and the names of the persons, if aur, which announcement snail be r sufficient declaration of the elected President and Vioe-President of the United States, and together with a list of the votes shall be entered on^tfce journals of the two- houses. Upon such reading of any certificate or paper, when there ? shall be only one. return from Ike State, tin president of the Senate shall call for ob jections, if any. Every abjection sludl bo made in writing, and alflu stake clear ly and concisely and without argument the ground thereof, and shaH be signed by at least one senator and flte member of the House, of Representatives before the same shall l>e received. When all objections so made to any vote jpr paper from a State Bhall hava.been received and read, the Senate ahull thcreupou with draw, and suob objections shall be sub mitted to the Senate for its deeisiou, and the Speaker of the Hpuae of Bepr%|enta * " ' "" president of the Senate, purporting tp_ be the certificates of electoral votargiv'on 4U * m, wro ma* preceding election for Presi dent and Vioe-President in snob State, unless they shall be duplicates of tbe same return, all such returns and papers shall be opened bj him, in the presence of the two houses, which mot as afore said, and read by the tellers, and all Buob returns and papers Bhall thereupon be submitted to the judgment and deci sions as to which is the true and lawful eloctoral vote of such State, o^U commis sion constituted as follows', namely: i During the session of each House on tne i Tuesday next proco<hng the first Thurs- | day in February, 1877, each House shall I by viva voce, vote appoint 11 vo of its members, who, with the five associate j justices of tho supreme court of the Uni- j ted Statesr^"*^) ascertained as herein- j after provided, imall constitute a com- ; mission for the decision of all questions 1 uj>on or in respect of Buch double ro- j turns named in this section. On the i | Tuesday next preceding tho first Thurs- j I day of Februftty, A. D. 1877, or ?is soon I i thereafter as may be, the associate jna- i tices of tho supremo court of the United l States now assigned to the first, third, ! eighth and ninth circuits shall select, iu > such manner as a majority of them shall j deem fit, another of the associate jus- : tices of said court, which five persons ! shall lie members of the said commis- j sion, and the person longest in commis- ; sion of said five justices shall be tho ] president of said commission. Members of stud commission shall respectively j take itnd subscribe the following oath : j "I, , do solemnly swear (or i affirm, as the case may be) that I will ' impartially examine and consider all 1 questions submitted to the commission , of which I am a member, and a true i judgment give thereon, agreeably to the | Constitution and laws, so help me God." Which oath shall be llled with the score- i tary of the Senate. When tho commission shall have been ! thus organized it shall not be in the j power of either House to dissolve tho snmo or to withdraw any of its mem bers ; but if any snob senator or mom- j ber shall die or become physically nil- ; able to perform the duties required by this act, the fact of such death or physi cal inability shall be by said commission, before it shall proceed further, communi- I oft tod to tho Senate or House of ltopre smtativep, as the case may be, which j body shall immediately and without de bate proceed by viva vov.p vote to fill the plaoc so vacated, and the person ap- i pointed shall take and subscribe tlie oath hereinbefore proscribed, and Imv oome a member of said commission. And, in lake manner, if any of said jus- } tices of tho supreme court shall die or become physically incapable of perform- | ing the duties required by tho aAt, the ( other of said justices, members of the said commission, shall immediately ap |K?int another justice of said court a ( member of said commission, and in such appointment* regard shall M had to the i impartiality and freedom from bias sought by the original appointments to ? said commission, who snail thereupon immediately take and subscribe to the oath hereinbefore prescribed, and be come a member of said commission to fill the vacancy so occasioned. All the certificates and papers purport ing to l>e certificates of the electoral I votes of each Btate shall be opened in ! the alphabetical order of the States, as provided in section one of this act, and when there shall be more than one such certificate or paper as the certificates or l>apors from snob State shall l?e opened (excepting duplicate* of the same return), they shall be read by the tellers, and ( thereuinm the president of the Senate shall call for objections, if any. Every objection shall be made in writing, and | shall state dearly and concisely, and without argument, the ground thereof, and Shall be signed by at leaet one sen* iter and dm ??bw W the Imn rt BweeenUtiree before the same shall be teemed. When ell each objections ee made to eny certificate, vote or paper I from a State shall have been reoeived and reed, Ml such oextiAeatea, votes and papers so objected to, and all papen ac companying the same, together with such objections, shall be forthwith submitted to said commission, which shall proceed to oooeider the seme, with the same powers, if any, now poesessed for that purpose by the two bounce ^acting separ ately or togethefaend by a majority of ?Otoe decide whether any and what rotes from snob State ere the votes _ for by. the Constitution of the States, and how towy and wh*41 were duly appointed elector* in such State; ana may' theeeta take into view such petitions, depositions, and other papers. If any, as shall by the Constitu tion and now existing law be competent ; and pertinent to suoh consideration, which decision shall be made iu writing, stating briefly the ground thereof, end be signed by Ad members of said oommiwion ngteeing^ therein, hereupon the two of each houMk. <tetaft4L.c?unUijj; of tM votes shall pfJgXfrfcrafty tfwtV? with, unless apaa^bJ^Uuu made thereto in writing by at least five senators and tiro members of the House of' Represen tatives, the two houses shall'separately ooncurin ordering otherwise; iu which ease snoli cononrrent order shnll govern. No votes or papers from anv other 8tate shall be acted upon until the objections previously made to the votes o* iwqjers from any Btute shnll lmve been flunlly disposedof. Seo. 8. That while the two hoflttes shall be in meeting ns provided in this act no debate shall be allowed ami no ?Mstion shall be put by the presiding Officer, exoept to either House on a mo lion to withdraw; anil he shall lmve 'power to preserve order. " Sao. ?L That when the two houses ^ separate to decide upon nn objection that may liavebeen made to the counting of any electoral vote or votes from any State, or upon objection to n report of said oom nussioa or other question Arising under , this act*?each senator and representative may speak to such objection or question I for ten minutes and not oftener than ; once, but after such debate shall have . lasted two hours it shall be the duty of each house to put the main question , without further debate. S*o. 5. That at such joint meeting of | the two honses seats shall be provided as follows : For the president of the | Senate, the speaker's chair; for the { sneaker, immediately upon his left; for , the souators, in the body of the hall, { upon the right of the presiding officer : the representatives, iu the body of j " for ihe senators ; | , secretary of the Senate MS8k ?? th?r 1W, clwrwi; nnd no w*k less n question shall have arisen in re gard to the counting of any suoh votes or otherwise under this act, in whioh ease it shall be competent for either house, Acting separately in the manner herein before provided, to direet a recess of such house, not beyoml the next day (Sunday excepted), at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoou. And while any question is being considered by said com mission either house may pr<x:eed with its legislative or other business. 8rc. 0. That nothing in this act shall be held to impair or nftVct any right now existing under the Constitution and laws to question by proceeding in the judicial courts of the United States the right or title of the person who shall be declared elected or who shall claim to be Presi dent or Vice-President of the United .States, if anv such right exists. Sue. 7. '.that said commission shall make its own rules, koep a record of it? proceedings, and shall have power to em ploy such persons as may be necessary for tho transaction of its business and the execution of its powers. Effect* of l'uln on the Heart. In ii paper sent in by I)r. F. Franck to tlio Academy of Sciences, of Paris, tlio effects of painful excitement on the J heart were diacusqpd, on the strength of I experiment* executed during the month* of February to Auguut. The shirting I point of these experiments lies in the fact, accidentally noticed, of a prolonged interruption of the boating of the heart | and respiratory motions of a rabbit, under the nostrils of which a sponge, impregnated with chloroform, was placed. This phenomenon, already dis cussed in vnrionsiways by different physiologists, is rndof>?iidcnt of chloro form, since any acrid and volatile sub stance, such ns ammonia or acetic acid, will produce the same effect, and is only a particular case of a general law thus enunciated by Dr. CI. Bernard : "The stopping of the ?heart, or syncope, limy follow any violent or sudden disturbing action of any nature whatever." In man, a great many intermittencies of the heart, syncopes, and some sudden deaths, have no other cause but a violent , painful impression, cither cerebral or peripheric, suoh as, for instance, epigas tric contusions. But those reflex actions, produced on the region of the heart, must bo distinguished from the mere mechanical disturbances, provoked by great emissions of blood caused by the extirpation of tumors, etc. There are many contradictory opinions on this mat ter, but our author affirms, from his ex periments, that the immediate effect of a painful impression is a stoppage or slockcning of the throbbing of the ^loort. If the principal sensi tive nerves bo excited by vari ous irritant*, the following general re sults will be observed: "Exciting the nostrils with ammonia, acetic acid or chloroform is socially, but not exclu sively, transmitted to the spinal "bulb by tho trigimina; the heart receives the im pression through the medium of the pneumo-gastric nerves, and the effect on the heart is proportional to the intensity of the excitement. All experiment* com, enr in confirming the fact that the union l>etween the trigimiui and the pneumo-gastric nerves in real. When pain is snppreeaed, chloral, chloroform, ether, morphine, produce by themselves ho aotion on the heart; but thi? is owing to Uu paralyda of the pn?utao<g?etri? ?mm4 bjf Mmm I| Mta. . Damage* by War. Ill the United States Senate Mr. Mitchell, from the committee, on claims, haa given notice that he will at an early , day call up lift bill for the relief of Dr. j J. Milton Best, of Kentucky. This is i\ ; bill of some notoriety, ^ving already passed Congress and been ,-yatoed by the President. It J^rolves the question of i ul lowing rierwi tflass of claims grow . iug out of tlM war, and proposes to pay ; the olaimant<425,000 for the destruction | ?f his dwelling house and ita oqptonts by order of the United States military au | thorities at Pti^lcali, Ky., on the twenty sixth of March, 1864, for the reaann thut it was in the way of ^he effective use of the guns of Fort Anderson and constituent a shelter for Qie enemy. The loyalty of. the claimant has been' established be youd question, th* report of. th? iM*n mittee stating he \va? enthusiasts ?,>!!? i?7^-r*i- ' ?* vuo ^uvuniuieni OI tlie > The bill lias been l?c sinco 1870, and passed in the President veoted it, Rtat iug in the veto that " it is a claim for compensation on account of the ruva^oH of the war. ^ It cannot be denied that ? the payment of this claim would invito i the presentation of demands for very large sums of money, and sueli is the supposed magnitude of the claims that may be made against the government for ; necessary and unavoidable destruction of property by tlio army, that I deem ? it proper to return this bill for recon sideration." Ho also says: "If it be deemed proper to maku compensation for such lossoR, I suggest, for the con sideration of Oongress, whether it wotiKl ; not be better, by general .legislation, tu 'provide som$: OMUU for the ascertain | ment of the lUiaEutge in nil similar ouhoh, and thiis nave t? the claimants ttio ex pense, ineonvouieuoo- and delay of at tendance upon Congress, and at the same , time save the government from the danger of liaviug imposed upon it fic titious or exaggerated claims supported - wholly by ex-}>artr proflf." Tlio com mittee on claims subsequently recom tnendeil that the bill be passed, not withstanding the objections of the Presi dent, and in tho report cited a> number of precedents for the passage of the bill; Heveral times it lias been brought up in the Senate, but always caused a protract diflomaion. ; , lea are out of foal ion. Htrect Biiit-M cling more closely than over. Far lined cloaks are worn only in car riages. Blondes continue to frizz their light tresses. Amber i^ the. favorite material for fan sticks. There is only a limited demand lor baby jewelry. No hurtles ure worn in the street at the moment. I l'Y? noli heels are not worn iti the street this winter. Turquoise jewelry still continues t?? lu; 1 much in demiuid. Brunettes Wear their hair plain or in ' large smooth waves. i Tlie most fashionable evening toilets are worn without bustles. Focetod gold jewelry is brilliant, ne.it and very fashionable. Fnr trimmings are very fashionable for the midwinter months. Montague ourls on the forehead is the : style of the passing moment. Crape is the fashionable transparent , stulT for hall drestjos in I'm is. j Hillv mothers and insane fathers tor* I turn tiieir babies with earrings. Bronze green is the fashionable dark ' color for street suits in Paris. Nariow gold bracelets are more in favor than the heavy broad one*. ? 'lhe novelty in fan.' is amber sticks, mounted with white ostrich tips. Extravagance. When u iimn in Ni'W Yor k liaaonct tak*n u tine house lie doesn't like to leave if, even if liiR income linftina to fail, ft nmkoH poople talk, ami hia posi tion may 1m* affected. Tliere died not long n?<? A gentleman, win*, up to hia death, had hcen paying 910,(MM) a year f??r hia liouae, and rould leave nothing for Ira family. ife -took it when timea were flimh and didn't give it up. In London, where rcnta are higher tlian anywhere except New York, 110 one linn paid auch a rent as thin ai.ive fnrd I'alineraton, when prime minister, paid the same hiiiii for Cambridge lloure in l,;oevtliIly. He waa chiidletw, eighty, had an iucomo of ?20,(MM) a year jn rial 0 itate and aalnry, and hia wife hnd np Vard of ?20,(MM) a ;\ear tn? r.\ London men with ?1(M),0(M) a year in the moat mo) id seenriticH are content with hounea rented at CI,(MX) u year. The London rent of the two rieheat men in England did not amount to ?7,0()(). Their property wtia worth ik8(>,000,0<M>. The 41 Kducn'vil Klen '* Unburns. Tho American Xnfio'a'f"/ mr Janu ary contain** mi intcruMtiug article < n "Educated Fl -hf*." Tim <m!ii 'nlion <>i the?o litMe animiiln, it appears, iw a m? ?n nham and a pratcn w ? all tin clfirU br ing produced by a Hkillfnl gui<lan<?e of their Btiuggloa. The mont wonderful thing about exhibition* of thi* nature in the proof they afford of the utrength ei - tircly out of pro)K>rtion to the weight and Hizeof the animal. The weight of a flea in about flve-hnmlredtlin of a groin, or, if well fed, abort one-tenth of a grain, yet the mode] of a street ear, drawn by one of them, weigh* about one hundred find twenty grain*, o* about 1,0^0 time* the weight of tho flat thftt Iflfl it,