The Kershaw gazette. (Camden, Kershaw Co., S.C.) 1873-1887, September 04, 1879, Image 1
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1879.
NO. 49.
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KENNEDY & NELSON,
ATTORNEY? AT LAW,
Camden, l.?.
Ofilco formerly occupied by G?o. J. B.
Kowtow.
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LANCASTER C. H., 8. C.
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H**U# 9?nUm4 Ik* Hotel formerly owpl
Imn Orookttt, ?tfe?U4
StiW fmUM Hwilti tfauUnt Mi ywMUH' '?
^oo? MMpao4ftHoB? it nmouU
' 4 ??*?. . BU)>1?# Mi I6t? fm to dromfc
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Bo*M> ?a,oo HI DAY.)
W; :'-v
roonnMtM with ih? teniae la * flrat-eUaa B?r.
I#h U lowtad ??p*rAUly from tha U<ntM, Hi
I. i. tAWAil4^f6pH*??r. &
sMaHHfeE
own
li m*<1e to Mlt tbi
ytll mt* ?*m
mm
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Hiding from Papa.
Papa's k?t hi* baby 1
'SmtoImi MfrywhflWi
Under ohatrs and tables, ??
With the great ?at oare!
Pulls aeide the curtain,
' behind the door!
Nitm NW t ho little heap
Oarled up on the floor; l
Never hears the whisper,
'Mamma, don't you tell!'
Nor the little laoghter,
Matted like a boll.
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Off he soampere wildly,
Hon ting hero and there,
Overturning everything,
With the greatest eare.
Canary has a via it,
Bitting on his perob,
Mamma'* apron pocket
8 offers by the eearoh.
'Now I am eo tired?
Elephant at play
That I mnst take a reel
A minu t o by the way.
Ill lay my weary head
On this little nig,'
Voder mamma's towel
Lay her darling, snug!
Then the merry scrambling
Papa laughed to see!
'And you didn't flnk, now,
That it ooold be meP
A Summer Kornlng's Bong,
Up, deeper! dreemor, apt for now
There's gold upon the mountain's bcOW{
There'* light onforeete, lakes, and moadows,
Tit* dew-drops shine on flowYet belle i
The TiUege clook of morning tells.
. Up, men 1 out cattle! for the dells
And ding lea teem with shadows.
The Tory beeet that crops the flower
Hath weloofae for the dawning hoar.
Aurora smlloa? he r beok on In gs elaim the*.
LUton? look ronnd! The chirp, the bom,
! Bong, low, and bleat there's nothing dombi
All love, ail life! Come, ?iumberere, oome !
The meanest thing w11*" ?***?* thee.
THE PEACH PARTY'.
gravo-eyed womaD, tempered but not
s^S^SdOAsssa&
U,bufc cere* sharp pr qulok in apeeoh
" M? ^pronely ipdiffer
toall the luxuries shft baa learned to
she has them
ana ml
ffiosrrs^'iS^^d
i <mpa o! coffee ana piles ol
and a jest and a nmile fox
Tho rustle of freshly-star obod
lie waving. of ribbons and feathc
mbblo or voloes, varied by fuio
oar from an Aggrieved baby,
jonfnsing; and I am glad when
is given for theJMrious business of the
lay to oommwte, and the oomnan
move off in the direotion of the orahard.
'Now, Mr, Campion, I expeot yon to
look after my baby for me/ said little
Mrs. Aubrey, fastening on my arm. with
% merry smile In her dark eyes whiolfno
poverty his been able to quench. Who,
to look at her, slim, graoeml, beooming
ly dressed, would guess at the drudgery
of her daily lite, or the shifts she "
reoonrse totp find bread and bat'
the six little ones at home ? B?
MaHandaine linoWs the'seo'ret^of *that
household, as of many others, and her
eyes notice how thin the little woman
has become, and how the lines are deep*
eniU? round eve and mouth.
?I've got ? snag oornor for baby on
he ?of?,' she savs. taking the little bun
lie into her kind arms. *Hngh shell
?iok for you to-day, while yon oomeand
iaye a quiet ehafc with m,e in the oool
WNf
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ow
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jelly the makes eo well' "Jaek, run end
help Mis* Crawley with the* heavy tab.
end mind, yea And her the fittest
peeehes; theft e good boy I'
M611* end t pees through thegete
with Mm. Attbrey's greet basket swing
ing between us, end look round for e
whose spreading branches ere weighted
with AoWnyfrtftj *but while you begin
I must go round end see if every one is
" I begin as ordered, but soon leave off
to look down on the seene.
At J** Molly fills bftok to **????
?Hugh I only three peaches ( Whalfcftti
Asivmiun
whet a duel
from this
f now you are here to wake mi
the sudden flush whloh tinge* eren hei
white throat at his name. Mere
looks out of spirits end oare worn,
faney; he peuses eft the gtte to take 1
rolo?g?id survey, hesitates, and has al
tost made up his mind to go over took
ties Crawley, H
ad shouts- out? ? ?
leredyth aft lssft I Mollys
Bo Molly is obliged to look up sad U
Crawley, when; Jack spies him,
EM". vSr*M
Molly is obliged to look up end U
greet the Fete oomer. Ah. If she woul<
only look eft me JHth that shy gladne*
Ift her eyes, end that little qniver of th?
lip whiwTtells so much t \ look <tow>
from my per oh among /thflfM&ee an<
reoognisfw onoe morCJliOw Molly ha
????. J"**"* Mmjtthth.jMl
now. Mid yet now she has spoken to him
and gWen him one of hdar wistful looks,
he stands looking down into Ler eyes,
and talking in that low melancholy roioe
of his, se if he wanted to absorb her
whole attention.
By- end-by they stroll off to another
tree with one of Mrs. Aubrey's uuflllod
baskets, and I feol as if the bounty of
the day had suddenly olouded over, and
the pretty idyll io bocuo beneath me had
turned into veriest prose. Grumbling
and oas tie- building by turns, I All the
baaket to the brim, and then betake my*
self to a lustlo seat oloee by to have a
smoke. To enjoy my well-earned pipe
more thoroughly, I lie down lull length,
the overhanging boughs of afuchBia
hide me from the public eye, and I drop
off presently into a consolatory nap,?
When I wake again, ell the gay oom
pany seem to have melted away; only
Jaok and little Daisy Harper are tag
ging at a kit whioh they have overfilled,
and whioh will not go through the gate.
m i ? ? *" ?? - -
would understand if J toM^ousome
thing?something whioh is a eruel
weight on me day and night, and yet 1
long; md yet iVwj.
lM*n6 img'
"'Olearly he waaon'the point of pro
posing,' I say, orosalv, to myself, as I
yawn and wretch my arms, 'and I'm
very thankful Jaok interrupted, for I've
no wish to hear him gothrough his
declaration. Bather an odd way of be
ginning, though/ I deoide, and then I
lamp the fence, and by a short out
through the shrubbery arrive at the
veranda five minutes before they appear
in sight, . 'w.
Where to Molly t' soreams BibyL
who to the first tooatoh sight of me as I
mingle with the erowd of 'pickers*
grouped round thoveraa^and the op?&
arainng-roomwindows ,
?There she to.' I answer, oitohing the
wave of her white gown against the vivid
'Ah, yes, here she. ?? '
mmmrnrn
? The exolamai
- ? - . e;buta?ewpaoes
behind Meredyth to a woman whomnohe
of as have observed before. Her ap
her evident ooneentration of interest and
intentioa on the pair before he* to so
sttange as to aooount for Mm. Aubrsy'a
exclamation of extreme surprise.
She to s tall, powerful woman, of per
heps five and forty, stout and broad
shouldered; her faos to ooarsely hand,
some} bllck eyes; strongly markW eye
brows; a quantity of blade hair untidilj
massed beneath her smart bonnet: hei
white, is now high oolored and ooarse,
Her walk to slightly unsteady, but sh<
to sober enough to have a purpose ano
to stiok to it; and that purpose evidently
to to follow Meredyth, on whom hw
eyes are fixed with an*- expression of ma
lupous hatred, Little Mrs. Aubrevlooki
and then flashes a glanoe of intelligent
at toe. ' ? ,
?Some drunken tramp,' she said, oare
lessly, 'who lias strayed off the road,?
She must not be allowed to startle Molly.
Hugh, yon and I will go utd tnra her
out quietly*'
Mm, Aubrey deposits the baby on the
veranda as she speaks, but wo mo tod
late, for as we step on to the gravel of
~ e drive, Molly, by some evil ohauoe,
r her head, stops, end then Mere
tnrns his too, withe half uttered
foMon hie lips, end with e smile whloh
is meant for Molly; but it doesnotreeoh
heir; it freoses into a ghastly look of hor
ror as ho sees the woman behind him*
'My Ood I have pity,' he mutters in
e curious, half ?ohoked voloe, ee he re*
treats * few steps, hie feoe growing gray
to the very Hps,
?What is it t* ? icks Molly, looking, be
wildered, from one to the other.
'No need to trouble you, my pretty
young lady.' says the stranger, in a
high-pitohed, unrefined voloe; 'my busi
ness is with thegentteeoett, audi needn't
keep him five minutes ? not five min
utes/ "h? repeats, shifting her hard
blaokeyee from one feoe to another of
ifiTJubMy links her arm in Molly's
end tries to draw her toward the house.
'Ootiie, darling,' she seys brightly, *w#
will leave Mr. Mexody th to see what
this person wants, while we go aild
settle about the riding perty for nexl
week.'
But Molly hee caught a vague slam
from Meredyth'e set faoeu end dose noi
listen. '"What does this women wantt
she says, going close to hln side am
looking wistfully up In his feoe. *8eui
her away, Geoffrey; shoeen have nothinc
to do with torn.'
The words Mach the ear they
not intended for, Mid the woman burst*
into ft ooarse laugh. Nothing to do ftt
all with him, my dear. Nothing at nil,
?xoept that I am hi* wife-that's all.'
Somehow, when the words are spoken.
X seem to hate known thia for ages, and
the sentence seems to repeat itself again
and again in the deed alienee whieh fol
lows. 'His wife? that's all t his wife I'
Molly starts and nttera ft little n*
if some one hftd suddenly strw
Meredjrth turns away his head and ?ay?
not a word. Borne of the people stroll*
ing about the garden are eomln*<|bw/ird
its, attraoted By the sense that some
thing nU?Xpeoted i? happening. 4Who
is that woman V they are asking one an
iSP^-^W^nm
and M
instead
are Mfe Aubrey
ftbont on the lawn,
help mother with
his arm (o rouse hiaattenton, 'do yot
hear What this miserable ereatnrn is najr
her, and
Holly, I oouia bear no ? D
iflton to tout clctvr tonoa. pmoIdr
i cruel sentenoe on your youth; I le
ho dark Avenue, and went out along tb
jreek until you oallod me baek, end I
Found Mereayth gone. Molly looked in
oogr fnoe with a poor attempt at a smile,
tvhioh made my heart aoho, as she took
my arm and we turned toward home.
'It was God's mercy that made mo
think of the Gum-tree Walk,' she said,
softly; "for? think of it, Hugh? he was
going to kill himself when we met him.
Now ho haa promised, and I know he
Will keep his word.'
I did not ask her what he bed prom
ised} the whole thing seemed to me too
miserable to bo talked about; I could
only listen with fresh pain to Molly's
quivering voioe.
?Ho is going to" Obrlatohuroh to night,
and then on to Melbourne? he will Write
to father fully from ^ there. Ho doesn't
know yet where he will go then) but I
have asked him onoe a year? on New
Year's Eve? to write to me always to
say where he is, whether he is welL and
? and ? oon tent. It was a good thing I
oame to theGum-tree Walk. Hugh.'
?What are we to do now r I ask, pres
ently. as we emerge on the lawn.
.. must try and get through tho
evening as if nothing had happened,'
answers Molly, wearily; 'it will be beat
to make no difference, for evesgr one's
1 have been looking ont for you, dear
Molly,' cries little Mrs. Aubrey, oom
husband got out our buggy,
whether she liked It or no, we I
her in, and he hse driven her to
ton's station. Benton's wife will
her there for a day or two. and then
was to ask her to send. Jbe
to Port Lyttleton. /.I thoufl
the beet thing to do
everybody's ohatt
gave quite a freeh turn to thoir thoui
We ean slip up MArn to you* r
Molly, unseen, and you end I WM*<
down together, ana no more i
said.' .
- jroor. prew
?he had *U 1!
the tolling <
the oteor moonlight, and the ma
goodnight to me. X otoghl a
of ft broken heart M the leanec
nhonldor for ? moment, end wh
IU..I. I t *JL? V U-i
evening
Now Boutftl
isNri* m
A California Experience.
An Eastern man who moved to South
" California for bis health, gives a
hable sooount of his experience in
sonny land, from whioh we take the
ow ing extract relative to his trials
"? a specimen of the so-called 'cen
r plant,' whioh is popularly suppoeed
lossom onoo in a hundred years:?
five years' time our ranch (everything
ma oemetery lot to a thousand sores
Fgoes by that name here) bloomed and
blossomed like the rose. The mock or
[auge olambered over the very shakes
what kept onr cottage water -tight in the
' iry season. The birds hopped among
ts branohes snd made onr tins and pots
kttle like osstanete; only those ohronio
rnioa, the owls, hooted at everything,
ut onr 'century plant 1* How can I
tvey to your minds an ides of its
>wth? Wo had, as I said, planted it,
thing of six years' growth, a foot in
-?igtMf and two in "
|reo0y o
. di.
te onr front door, and had
? oh^T Til?1 0UJ?
butcher-birds impaling horned
entail oenti pedes and
upon its bayonet-like
Ivateool
b the sci
But'lhis
proved transi
and spread till
front path to the
had to plose fee front door and look it,
lest we, too, shonld beoome unwilling
victims to its museum of natural ourlosf
tioB. At last, j oat as we were preparing
to move the house on to the next lot, it
oeased spreading and began to shoot up
ward, and it Shot six laohea a day : it
even looked like a prise asparagus. Ex
celsior oould njt hold acandlfto it; in
the words of our Pike friend, 'it did
mow terrible.' When it got up forty
feet it Mated, and broke out in big
| pimples all over from the exertion. It
was the beginning of the end. What
bliss was ours I We oarried our msgs
out doors so as to misa nothing: my wDe
fttrent round with tipped-baok head and
*rolled-up eyes, ana reminded me of 8t,
Agnes in the royal oolleotion, only she
was not so Dutch. By and by the phn
* out branches, and the branohes
" >w-greeniflh flowers of the
a blacky
HHBtornod
limp on the sand
leaves below,
r ? I dead, and fell
and our 'oentuty
Mjup ou wjb. sano: ana our.-oenuny
plant' had bloomed, and looked more
a , very tall raok Of very dirty, in
. baarth-brnshos than anything
eko in life. The whole tiling from the
ssed had taken just twelve years. I
*i?pw Galiforntans are said to live fast,
?at they must go it terribly to boil
own a oentury into that spaoe of timo.
ISkC- ?' r ?? ?
fU White fed impure 1
?that
exists
wan V ol
liyi
as a prinoiple that ''whltenees al
ways results frpm the intimate and ir
regular mixture of air -with a transpa
rent solid.' and illustrates it bj referring
to ground glass, table salt and other
srttoles, whioh become white ? the
mssses of glass in the one inBtarfoo, and
of salt in the other, are severed and air
admitted. Of course the salt is just as
free from impurities in the opaque form
of flue white powder as
rent form of saltpeter,
oeased to be trans;
the operation of the
light that clear, limj
white ice. The ool
pending on the
from the water d
follows : First,
intensely cold and
vorable to abnndan
the ico formed on
streams^ eoftf
age amount or
a opaque
in tno tranepa
It has simply
it, and it is by
e natural law of
Id water often makes
of ioe thus de
ulsion of the air
g crystallisation, it
nhen the weather is
,e atmosphere fa
nooturnal radiation,
water or sluggish
more than the aver
age amount of aii( is apt to be whiter !
than usual ; and scoond , that the ioe thus
formed is not the less pure because it is
white, as it* oolor is due to the presenoe
of atmoepherio air, whioh was not ex
Elled in the aot of freesing. This air is
e same that We breathe and that all
pure water Is koown to oontain. White
ness in ice being thus rather an index
of purity than otherwise, the only re
main leg question is whether white ice is
as valuable as the transparent product
in an eoottomloal point of view ? And on
this point edentlsts are very emphatic
in saying that it is preferable, at least
for some purposes. IVndall tells usthit
he found among the glaciers of the Alpa
ridges of this white loe,aad that they
, invariably stood three or four feet above
Lthe general level of the blue ioe. . The
dlfforenoo in their height, as compared
with the latter, he ascribed to their
greater powet of xtodstanoe to the sun'fl
rays, whioh are the only melting lnflu
enoe to whioh they axe suMsetln those
regions at eternal met. In this infer
enoeheis supported by many pfaotioal
experiments not oonfltv?d to scientists,
and showing that White ioe exposed to
the <mi*,s rays will last longer than
it, bulk for bulk and weight
Thus ft appears that iU
rathei
ooloi does not detraot from, but
adds to its oommerel*! value.
krrlval of tile Largest Bea-Cow that
, ? Ceaght. ? :;;;.^v ? v>
The lergeet Mexioan manatee ever ex
libit*! in this oonntty, end one of tb<
ar#eet over seen by those familiar will)
;be habit* of this giganiio oetaoeen, ar
riverfront Florida, where he wm oap
hired in the 8*. tmoie river some foui
month* ago. From the kip of hi* now
to the end of hie tail, which is simile
axternally to the teii of a ash, the ani
mal raeturarefl twelve feet, being Ave fee
longer then the averege of the metnr
manatee in lie native water*. The weigh
of thie hngo *oe monster is ebont ft, 00
ponudn, and hi* breadth aereee th
nhoTtld?rii fiilthree feel./" A male, em
the lergeet one eve* oeptared, the Styj
men brothers? who ere the happy j>?
prietors of the find~~hSd no SMy
before thorn to bring their eaptivo hom
after they had seotired him. The
it upon the expedient of bind
ing Elm aeontaly between two heat
oaken planks, in whieh situation the
t htm from npnettin
was afterward traneferre
, The manatee is so rai
tOivthcH
theboai
to a larg??
as to be all I
wsU? versed in
eaefewoompal
bly, who oanf, , ? I,
ntr not ni#>$l*t*rn ally a ?otaeeen* it
internally allied to the roden^and h
but
Making Beasts of Themselres.
Thai Cincinnati contains other mem
bertfof the porcine family than those
ahe converts into pork ami lard, ia ovi
denoed by tbe report of one of he*
newspaper men, who bas been investi
gating toe drinking capacities of a num
ber of her oitis6n?, and aeoortained that
a man named Farbangh had repeatedly
performed the foat of drinking twelve
8 lasses of beer of the ordinary aute while
tia fire-bell was striking twelve. Find
ing that oonsiderablo time was loet in
conveying the glasses to and from his
lips, Farbangh on one oooa&ion poured
seventeen glasses of beer into a large
bowl, and, plaoing it to his lips, began
to drink when the first stroke wss made
on the bell, and at the twelfth stroke
had swallowed the last drop. The beer
glasses in ooramou use hold one- tenth of
a gallon each. Seventeen glasses would,
therefore, make a full gallon and a half
of beer, after making due allowanoe for
foam. The time required to strike the
noon hour on the fire bells does not ex
oeed half a mifcute. It does not make
him drunk, and he claims to feel no bad
effects after thus gorging himself.
Jaoob Klein, a man sixty-five years of
age, onoe drank, on a wager of $5, a full
keg of beer in two hours. The feat was
performed in the presenoe of a room
mil of spectators. After finishing his
task within the allotted time, Klein drank
two schooners in addition for luck. He
was not intoxicated, and olaimed to have
suffered no inoonvenienoe. This feat
was performed about a year and a half
?go.
A man named Hoekenleiter sat down
to a keg from which but eight glasses
had boon drawn, in the oellar of an old
brewery on Spring Grove-avenud| and
in two hours and thirty minutes had it
entirely dry.
At the same brewery there is an em
ployee named Helmliok, who drinks reg
ularly every day fifty-two glasses of
beer. He has been doing this for eigh
teen years. One of the owners of the
brewery one day figured the matter up,
and found that had they oharged Helm
liok at the rate of five cents a glass for
his beer, instead of letting him have it
for nothing, he would have been in
their debt to the astonishing amount of
?25,000.
Dr. Noefller onoe, at the residence of
J. G. Sohn, the brewer, drank a keg of
beer in tw<> hours. A keg holds eight
gallons. l>r. Not filer is quite obese,
but no more so than before he became
a great beer drinker. The only visible
effect whioh his enormous consumption
of beer has had upon him has been to
seriously reduce him financially.
A Race for Lire.
Ijaat week Mr. and Mrs. Robert Uff
aerand daughter drove from Frackville
to Bhenatidoab, Pa,, and met with a terri
ble adventure. They had driven along for
?ome distanoe when they discovered
that the woods were on fire on both
?idea of the road. After driving through
the fire several hundred-yards the smoke
Ttt
down on the wagonn6l**4lB^irt^wV*Wfibg
smothered. The horses were urged for
ward and the raoe oontinued over the
rough mountain road for a considerable
dlstanoe with the flames roaring on both
sides, and .myriads of sparks falling in
and about the wagon. Mrs. Uffner'e
dress caught on fire, and her husband
dropped the reins to assist her in extin
guishing it, when sho fainted in hii
arms. While he was endeavoring tc
bring his wife baok to eonBoiousness thi
horses were tearing along at a break
nook speed, and the wagon swerved,
jolted and swung around in anything but
a oomfor table manner. Mrs. Uffner be
oame oonsoious in a few seoonds, how
ever, and jast then her husband saw i
oloud of dense blaok smoke enveloping
the road, and knew that thoy hat
reaohed the outskirts of the fire an<
were safe. The travelers were al
slightly bjrned, but fortunately es
oaped without reoeiring any' serious in
Juries. The heat was so great that th
paint on the wagon waa entirely burne<
off, and the horses badly burned.
Wheat Culture In the South.
The Maoon Telegraph announocs that
lor the first timo in the history of
Georgia the local mills find wheat in
sufficient abund anoe to ran them without
drawing supplies of wheat from the
North. There are undoubtedly parts
of Oentral Georgia where wheat oAti be
grown to perfection. for there the soil is
a stiff olay-loam and is rioh in the ele-.
ments that wheat requires. But even
upon tho sandy soils of that State it ap
pears that good wheat orops oan be
raised by the application of fertilizers,
and if oare be taken in the tillage. It
seems to be a remarkable thing that in
suoh soils wheat ehouia be grown, as
the Teftgraph states, as far south in
Georgia as the Florida line. This suo
oess has been achieved by the use of the
drill. Nor is it only in Georgia that the
cultivation of Wheat is extending. In
Northwestern South Carolina the Ger
mans have demonstrated that excellent
drops of both wheat and rye oan be
raised by deep drilling and manuring
with the wast* of the barnyard oom
ppsted With muck and pino shatters.
The seed is drilled in bnnohes, the
drills being sufficiently wide apart to
admit of running a narrow cultivator be
tween. After a white the wheat tillers
and covers the wfcolc ground. Three
crops of rye for forage are out there by
the Germans in one season.
A Bankrupt Town In Main*.
The town of Wlsoasset, in Maine, with
An assessed valuation of *004.562, ha* a
debt 6f 4261,641, *11 but *2, 000 or #9.000
of it bearing interest at the rate or six
per eent. In 1867 the town debt, mostly
inourred for war purposea, was abont
140,000. That seemed a heavy burden,
and in the hope of giving a freeh im
pulse to the prosperity of the town,
they subscribed $15,000 to the atook of
the Knox end Lincoln railroad, and la
med bonds, whioh were lent to the rail
toad oompany, to the amount of #85,000
note. . In 1870 and 1871 further loan* of
credit, to the amount of #81,800 and
#4fl,600, respectively, were made to the
same railroad, whose prospects were so
dnbletui that It wa* thought beat to
throw In a little more in the forlorn hope
of saving the first investment. Liter on
the town borrowed money to pay lte in
terest, and now the debt haa risen to the
ram above mentioned. The tax rate
laat year waa #47 on #1,000. This year,
by omitting any provision for interest,
the rate la reduced to #40 on #1,000, or
four per eent. of the total valuation of
the town. ^
A Superstition Solved.
A fitraugo btorj oomes from St. Fran
Ola county, Arkansas, In the St. Fran
ois river twttoms there 1 It on a man named
George H. Toban. With Em live a wife
and a thirteen year old son. The family
has resided in a quiet way, so far as any
one knows, until reoently. One morn
ing, just after the yellow fever excite
ment began to spread over the country,
Mr. Toban, upon opening the door, found
a oard lying on the doorstep. On the
card was written the words, yellow fe
ver.' Very little attention was paid to
the matter, but when again and again,
similar cards were found, Mr. Toban be
came oonoerned, and not being as clear
of superstition as might be, regarded the
cards as ominous, ana as a warning of
an approaoh of the terrible disease. Ev -
ery night he would' read gloomy reports i
from Memphis, andeverv morning found
tho oard, 'yellow fever/ Finally, he de
termined to watch and satisfy himself,
and on the doorstep remained all night.
No one appeared, but when tho dark
ness was dispelled by the streaks of day
light, he saw a oard lying on the step
beside him. Oatohing it up and exam
ining it, he saw the words 'yellow fever'
written in exactly the same hand that
had mferked the oards before. Then
there was indeed anxiety in the family.
The fever reports grew gloomier, and
the family settled into the belief that
Providence, by a handwriting on oards
had advised flight. The husband did
not know what to do, the wife was fright
ened into a terror that trembled at every
sound as though yellow fever walked
with noisy footsteps, and the son was al
most dumb and sometimes deaf with
fright. It was at last deoided that vaca
tion of the piaoe would be neoessary.
But a change eaxj|e, and the mystery,
like mist, cleared up. On the night bo
fore the proposed departure, the hus
band, unable to sleep, sat on tho bed
side, almost terriflea and weak with
dread. Suddenly the door of the room
opened, and his son, in 'night attire,'
stood in the room. The father, in
fluenced by*a sudden feeling, did not
speak. The boy advanced to the man
tel -pieoe, took down a penoil, went to
'the little table,' took out a oard, leaned
over, wrote something on it, and then
advanoing to the door, slipped it under.
The father watohed breathlessly, and
when the boy started to leave the room
the man oaught him. The boy strug
gle^, gasped, and awoke. He did not
know, nor oould he understand, why ho
stood there grasped by his father. The
wife sprang out of bed. A few words
expUined all, and when the door was
opened, there was the oard bearing
the words 'yellow fever.' The young
man in his early youth had exhibited
signs of somnambulism, and reading
everyday the yellow fever report* to
the family no doubt influenced' his ao
tlon.
. Showing Him How.
It was on the lower deok of one of the
1 arbor steamers: ?There. Bit there/ said
jhe father, plaolng his little boy on
yon^some water.' No sltoncr had ho
kurnod than down went the little brie to
the deek. Pioking him nt>: 'Seems to
mo ypu might sit there without falling
off. There, now; just keep qniet ana
you'll be all right.' He turns, and drop
number two takes place. Getting a
little impatient: 'Well, you're olumsy
onongh, I must say I Why. I oould sit
there all day and not fall oil. Bee, just
sit this way.' And then he picked him
self up and began brushing his olothes,
while something strangely like a senile
took the place of the whimper that hod
darkened the little fellow's faoe. Then
ponnolng on his boy's hand, the fond
parent rushed up into the oabin in
double-quiok time, but not quick
enongh, probably, .to entirely escape
the laughter whioh on the wind oame
roaring after. _____
How the Japanese Do It.
Tbe Japanese method of keeping meat
fresh in hot weather is jnst now attract
ing a good deal of attention in European
riroles. Itoonsistnin plaoing the raw
flesh in porcelain vessels and pouring
on it boiling water, whereby the albu
men of the eurfaoe la quickly coagulated
and forms a protection against the fur
ther notion of the water. Oil is then
poured on the surface of the water so as
to prevent the access of air and conse
quent pntrefaotion of the meat. The
system of protecting animal substances
by scouring ooagulation of the albumen
and the exclusion of air is no novelty;
and it can hardly be anpposed that we
are indebted to the Japanese for its
original adoption. Bat undoubtedly
their method of applying it Is far pref
erable to that practioed Dy ourselves in
the process of preserving tinned moat*,
whiolf appears to consist in boiling them
for suoh a length of time that almost all
their flavor is destroyed, and the ulti
mate result is a mass of tasteless shreds
of muscular fiber. v
Prejudice CHting Way.
The university of Vienna is a strong
Roman Oath olio institution, though less
^tramontane then it was before 1878.?
Professor BrnoXe, a Protestant, ban jnst
been chosen reotor? a thing without
preoedent in the history of the univer
sity: now nearly six hundred yoars old.
A. Hebrew, Professor Grunhnt, has also
been elected dean of the jurist faonlty.
The latter faot is still more remarkable
than the former, sinoe the obtaining of
a doctor's degree was all but impossible
for a Jew till the time of Joseph II.?1
When (the emperor smoothed the way
for the admission of Jews to aoademlo
Slaoes the university expressly resisted
le taktog of any honorary position by
a Jew? a thing which has never hap
Sened till now. Grnnhnt, moreover, is
ic first Hebrew that has been a pro
fessor in the faenlty of jurisprudence.
Both elections are popular in the olrolo
of the students attending the univer
sity, and afford a foroible fllustratiey&l
the growing oathoJieity of the pge?^?
The Pall* of Wafaras^^^fi
The amount of water partfflniW
Niagara Fall* ha* bean estimated it
100.000,000 ton* per hour, and its per
pondloitlM desoent may be taken at 150
feet, without considering the rft?lrl?,
which represent a farther fall of 160
feet. The force represented by the prin
eipal fall alone amount* to 10,800 horse
powor, an amount which if it had to be
I produced by steam, would neoeasltate
an etpenditure of not less than 266,000
000 tons of coal per annum, taking the
consumption of coal at four pounds pet
hor?e-powe* per hour, , Jtn other words,
all ooal raised throughout the world
would basely snfllce K> produce the
amount of power that annually vans to
waste in this wondetful fall.
Alfred Tenntson." the poet! has insl
ITEMS OF GENERAL
Mississippi Is without a national 1
J Ames river is lower than it ha
n forty yean. - .
The poppy is credited with monopo
i*ing 1,000,000 acres of the moet fertile
end in India.
A ootton faotory is soon to he built in *
Summit, Mississippi. It will be the
enth in the State. >
A law has been passed in Sweden giv
ng to married women undivided control
>f their property and earnings.
The expense of President Gambetta's
eoent fete in Paris is put at $32,000,
vbich was defrayed by two patriotic
ady admirers.
The debt of California In four years
:<4S been reduoed $806,214, and is now
ess than $3,500,000, while there is $1,
198,450 in the treasury.
The International and Great NoVthern
ailroad of Texas was sold for $1,000,000 ,
[t was bid in by Qeorge Sealey, of Gal -
reston, representing Kennedy and Sloan,
he New York trustees for the bond
loldere. - V ^
Theo. B. Davis, the artfat, is deeigu
?g a handsome dinner sot for the White
louse. The etchings -arC sent to a fa
nous china-making firm of France to bo
mrned in the dishes. They will repre
lent exclusively American scenes.
The treasury department has reoeived
tdvioes that the Japanese government
xas removed the export duties from
nany articles, inoluding silk and ootton
jooaa. This is considered as of oonsid- \ "
srablo importance, in view of tho present tfH
lemand in this country for Japanese
nanufaotures.
Lieutenant Gorringe, of the' navy, has
>?en granted leave of absence, at the
-eqnest of the state department, for the w
mrposeof supervising and perfooting V
he rfeoessary arrangements for bringing W/
?o this oountry the obelisk so goner- ;
>ualy presentod to New York city by $
he khedive of Egypt.
Captain Sampson, of the schooner^
[iouisa Montgomery, at Piotou, Nova
Jootia, reports that about ten miles
eastward of Piotou island he saw an
mormons sea serpent whioh appeared '
o be about one hundred feet long and
tbout the sise of a barrel. It was going
itraight along at the rate of seven snots i
in hour. >
The health commissioner In oliarge of
he St. Louis quarantine tried to fright*
m off a grand jury, which hod oomo in
\ boat to inteengate the place, by tell
ng them that he had five oases, of yel
ow fever in the hospital. They persist^'
>d in landing, and not only found that
here was no fever there, but that the
nismanagement justified nu indictment
>f the oemmissioner.
Mrs. John Howe, the wife of a pros
lent business man of Cincinnati, a~ '
lervant fell through the floor of a ?
it their summer residence in Oovi
md before they could be rescue
sere suffocated. Mr. He
Ajfccfil?
at Grafton, N. Y. M ?
was mowing in a meadow
disturbed a neat of horneto, l?* M
to run from their attack hi? foot wan
caught in the gross and he fell across
.thtSS? V&
he bled to death before meotcti ssalst
anoe could be summoned. Hcleaves a
wife aiul two children.
The Virginia supreme court of appoalu
has deoideid that a bachelor cannot olaim , '
exemption from the lien of a judgment
under the homestead law, the court -
unanimously holding that in the phrasu
'householder or heed of a family,' as
used in our constitution, the alternative
branohes of the phrase are meant to be
equivalents of eaoh other, and 'house
holder' to be taken in the sentfe of 'one
who htyi a household," and not in ti e
other sense of 'one who holds a house.' .
While William Caghey, an irod worker "*
at Lawrenodvillo, Pa., was Jyinjj
a mi soldo v on s boy put a live toad in his
mouth. The reptile slipped down hi*
throat, and Caghey awoke suddenly and
ran into the mill like a wild wan, eauu
ing intense excitement. All cffothi to
remove the reptile were in vain, and tho
poor man suffered intenno agony of
mind. At last acoounts he said the toad
ens still alive, and the idea the* the rep- <
tile would grow to a large niise tvofl a
horrible one.
The lMt notablo application of papier
itAh*v??<n fli? niftTiufaotnre of * ro
natters. *nd outWv ? ? _ .
tin ftflnifltftnoo of Wy apparatus. The
oet
{ion r light framing ol Wood, and ;
ally Ml hard and rigid# The doma
an internal diameter of twenty-nine
I, >nd, if o
a, if oonstru?ted tftjfoo
lanner, would hare weighed flvo or ?lx
1 required powetful machinery
ons, and required
0 move li
Two of the ore w of the sohoottot Bc.i
Ie W. SomeS, of Olouoooter,
rere recently attacked on the banKn,
fhile out in a dory attending trawl*. ??y
in immense fish, whloh grasped the how
>f their boat with it* teeth, several of ,
which were left imbedded in the wood
when ite hold wan detached. The il?h
pursued them, biting several phic; ? iu '
the bottom of the dory. The teeth are
About an inoh to an inch and ft lialf long, ->
odged with saw-like Ifcolirione. And do '
not resemble the teeth of any fish Willi
whloh the fishermen are noquftfotcd. eM
The Canadian poatoffloo sayings bank
nyntem has aohived a rery decided HurtM
oess. The book* show that there are no
lees than 27,445 accounts how opont, .
amounting iu the aggregate to nearly
three millions of dollar*, and on this
?the total cost, including intercut, main
tenance and management, ia only four
end one-half net cent.' The aroi
iount of each sooonnt U only
"" this, taken iu oonnoctlo
large number of
'?--V *wv
ports
to the
HOW iarge ft ttfiuber of ?
flted by the operations of
The Fernandina (F
that the mi
. that plaoe by
the preparation of j
working satisfactorily,
periment is an SI ?
stalks ef the scrub
It is said that the fl
useful for oordage,
flour barrels, boats,
no end to the other ..
nse. A portion of the
paper mills is intended