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St i r ' VOL. IV. NO. 4i * _ _________ The Philosophy of It, Why do I love you i 1 don't fcnow 1 They say love never gives a reason; But that he has one I don't doubt, Do you? You do! That's downright treason. Not always, let me telfeou, sir, Love practiced suoh excess of prudence; 'Twas once his custom to explain The why and wherefore to his students. And how to solve each puzzling oa^e He taught by rule and illustrations; But skeptics, such as you, have made Love shy of giving demonstrations. ' Why foolish mortals love a* all, .. v * Why we two bold each other dearest; ... , . How long 'twill last, aod where'twill end. . ' v You'd like to know, you precious querist ? ' You never will! I'lll tell yon that, Yet still maintain my first assertion; Love understands what he's about, And blinds you, first, for his diversion. Ah, why I love you! If I kn6w, I won d not te?l you?no, no, never! K . . \" For souis like yoois were made to seek, And m n9 to hide, yon see, fortver. There's little, sir, yon uon't fiud out, But since that little makes life pleasant, I think I'll keep it secret still, And so keep you, too, for the present. * Trara nrwRiws Txmir : UVU.il VVillUVl IV ilU U1XI *' ' * ; r" v" * ' ' v- ? , * In the year 1849, John Goiirov, who - had been admitted to the bar in the State of Massachusetts, finding that his native town was pretty well stocked with lawyers, made up his mind that he would leave his home and seek his fortune in the South. He was a young . man of good talents and great industry, x but, being poor, had not the means to sustain himself until he could acquire a reputation in the profession th-.t would yield him a requisite income. He therefore gathered his little store of money, aud'set out one cold winter day to seek some place, to locate on the Mississippi t. river. At least, such was his intention. The most trifling circumstances, he remarked, frequently turn one's destiny ^ for gopd or evil. I had spent some little : * time in most of the towns along the Mississippi, and finding nothing that seemed to justify a youDg lawyer of * Northern birth in liviug there, I Anally : arrived at Columbus, Tennessee, just eight months after I had left my home. 'Twas here I met a gentleman who gave me a letter of introduction to a lawyer residing in Hickman, Kentucky, who he thought could assist me in my efforts to become established. It was a bright moaning that I mount ed my horse, aiid with my letter safely * stowed away in my saddle bags, set out on my journey. 1 had ridden until late - in the afternoon, and was somewhat weary when the rc ofs of a small village, situated about a mile in advance ofkne, came invitingly before my vision. M) tked horse must have discovered them about the same moment as his master, for he pricked up Lis ears and commenced to accelerate his pace. Turning - ' from the highway and following a lane bordered w.th green sward, I made a short cut to the village street. But jii6t before I reached the houses I met a short, puffy person on horseback who was coming down the road. ? " Good day, sir," he said,reining up his steed, which, at a glance, I saw was thoroughbred. "Good day, sir. Are you going to halt here, or do you go anywhere in the neighborhood of the Kentucky State line ?" Not bemg acquainted with the topo graphy of the country I could not answer his question directly, but told him that I was going to Hickman. "Ah," he rejoined, "that is all right. You'll have to pass my place, and perhaps put up there tor a night. Now, sir, 1 would be obliged to you if you would do me a small favor. My name is Northup, E1 listen Northup, and I live only some fifteen miles from Hickman. " I shall be happy to oblige you, it in my power," I replied; " but permit me to ask you if you are in any way related to Lawyer Northup of Hickman ?" "Yes, sir," he replied, "he is my brother." . , '* I am very happy to meet you, sir," I continued, " for I bear a letter of introduction from Major Saunders, of Columbus, to your brother." And I immediately opened my saddle bags and got out my letter, which I handed ray new made acquaintance to read. "Old Saunders," he said, with a smile, as he finished reading it, and handed it back to mo. " He is a good fellow. Is his nose as red as ever ? I haven't seen him for a couple of years." "I must confess," I replied, with a laugh, "that the major's nose is pretty fiery." "He is an awful drinker," said Mr. Northup. "Few men can hold the night with him, I assure yon." " You astonish me," I replied. I was at the hotel a week with him, and I n^ver once remember having seen him at the bar." " No, no," exclaimed Mr. Northup, " Saunders don't drink at a bar. He's a very peculiar man, very methodical all his drinking is done at the club. There's where you'll see him lay nif oompanions out liko ninepins. Bui really I'm detaining yon. My objeel was to ask you to inform my daughter whom you will find at home, that Jak< has run away from me again, and I sup pose has taken to the woods. Tell her if you please, to inform Thompson, th< overseer. No doubt he'll be sneaking around before I return." "Bun away ?" I ventured to observe "Yes," replied Mr. Northup. was taking him up to Larkiu's plants tion to sell him, for he's no manue.r o use to me. So he managed to slip awa; soon after I arrived at the village yee fcerday." Promising to attend to Mr. Northup' request, we bid each other good by and separated. After a good night' rest, I set out the following morning o: my journey. It wa almost dusk when I rode up t Mr. Northup's mansion. A dozen o more hounds seem-d determined t--> di? pui^ my p^sa&e nj> the lane, a:. : i barking had the effect to bring hlit Northup to the front porch, where sh iNDA W >. welcomed me and received the message her father sent me. " Jake is a bad fellow," she replied. "Papa has borne with his bad conduct for a long time, and, strange to say, he never had him punished until last week. The wretch cut out the toDgue of one of our favorite hounds, and papa then ordered Thompson to whip him? and as Mr. Larkin was willing to buy him i o work in his lumber mill, papa determined to sell him." " Ho must be a bad fellow," I replied. "Indeed, you are quite correct," she answered ; " but I knew he had escaped before you arrived, fqr he visited the quarters about daylight. Thompson only neard of it at noon, and started away with some neighbors in pursuit of him, and he has not yet returned. It's a wooder papa had not turned back, but now that I recollect, he had some business at Cranoh's creek. Did he say when he would return ?" " J. think not," I replied. During the evening we had a pleasant conversation, and I took occasion to inform Miss Northup of the object of my visit to Hickman. " I dare say, uncle will be glad to eee yon, for he is really wer-worked with business. He took a young gentleman in his office a short time ago, but they oouldn't get along at all; so they separated. Uncle is very forgetful and nervous, scarcely any one can manage to endure him, but he is a kind man at heart and very generous. Papa and be are so very different in temperament, you wouldn't suppose they were brothers." It was ten o'clock when I started to go 1 to bed, and Miss Northup came up the stairs behind me, accompanied by her maid, who carried a couple of candles. On the upper landiDg I met an enormous black cat with green eyes, who crouched as if she intended to spring upon me. I always had an aversion to cats. I am not superstitious nor inclined on the side of the metaphysical doctrines of those who support them, but a strange and unaccountable feeling irept over me its I stood in front of the animal with its glaring orbs and raised back. At a word from the girl, however, the cat glided down the stairs and was lost to sight. When I reached my chamber Miss Northup remarked: '' Your door has a bolt on it, and I believe it is the only room in the house that is secured." " Don't you lock your lower doors ?" I asked. on,1 ?or>li'od " Wn TlAVPr U11U cuiiiou ctu'.t A V |/tivu ?? W | thick it necessary." Musing on the strange custom which, by-the-bye, I did not consider very safe, I went to bed and tried to sleep, but found it unable to do so. Strange vis- . ions floated across jny brain, and I lay twisting and turning in the bed, vainly desiring 6lumber. I heard the dock down in the hall strike two, and then some chanticleer, as sleepless as myself perhaps, gave a prolonged crow. As the voioe of the rooster died away, there came a noise as of a person jumping from the window sill to tho floor, and then followed the light and almost noiseless step of one ascending the stairway. Miss Northnp'a room was in front and adjoining mine, and I listened wrh a quick beating heart to the creak upou the stairs. I got up quietly, and slipping on some of my clothes, seized one of my pistols. Step by step the creak came toward my door. I put my ear to the keyhole, and could hear the breathing of the villain. I stood motionless, the pistol grasped firmly in my hand. Not a muscle moved nor a nerve was slackened, for I felt that Heaven bad selected me as the instrument to effect its purpose. Tho step passed on and reached Mias Noithup's door. I heard it open eoftly, and I also opened mine; the moon was shining almost as bright as day. Stepping softly along the entry I slightly opened Miss Northup's door. No object was visible, save the bed within, upon whose snow white sheets lay the intended victim of the assassin. I opened the door still wider, and saw Hannah, the maid, in a sound sleep on the floor, while in the further corner of the chamber stood a tall man, armed with a knife. Ho saw me, and was evidently in tho act of making a spring upon me. My heart swelled into my throat almost to suffocation, and I made a bound into the room, and Miss Northnp startnn with a scream, the villain made a spring for mo and I fired, taking deliberate aim. The blood spouted from his mouth, and Jake fell his full length upon the floor, shot directly through the brain. For an instant Miss Northup did not comprehend the situation, and implored me not to murder her. But the noise of the pistol aroused all the household, and the truth w>:s soon understood. ? Lawyer Northup and myself agreed 1 very well indeed, and the reader will net be surprised to learn that I ultimately married his niece, whose life I certainly saved. I have now lived many i years in Kentucky, but I invariably ke*?p up the old Northern custom of i looking up my house when I go to bed. s ) The English Schools, [ The subinspector of English factories [, gives many striking particulars of the hostility on the part of the wording \ classes to the educational provisions now _ made for their children. " Is this your skuleboard ?" asked a woman ; " I wish j my maister had dropped down dead be _ fore he'd gone to vote for it." "May 5 my arms drop off," said a man, "Ifi ever vote at any kind of an election i again." Another remarked: "Talk about England being a free country, f when a man can't do as he's a mind wi* his own children!" "in a parisn 01 j. 50,000," asserts the government inspec tor, " if the question of schoolboard or no school board could again be put, there 8 would not be 300 votes in favor of a e board." s u Faithless. ? The Indiana supreme court has just made a decision of no lito tie importance to faithless swains and ir forsaken maidens. In the case of Paris 1 vs. strong it is held that if a promise of ir j in trri.i^e is by it j terms not 4o be peris I formed within a year, it is void unless ,e j in writing and signed by the parties. POR' RD A BEAUFORT, S. Keep On Churninr. After the battle of Long Island, which was fonght Ajig. 27, one hundred years ago, and after the capture of New York city by the British, Gen. Howe made his headquarters in New York, leaving Staten Island in command of Col. Dalryinple. The wounded from the bloody Brooklyn field were taken to the island and billeted upon the farmhouses. It was Howe's custom to visit the temporary hospitals regularly, in order to satisfy himself that his men were receiving proper care. On one occasion, during a heavy storm, he and his staff took shelter under a farmhouse shed. Farmer Cole, seeing the party outside, approached them with a hearty invitation to enter the house and rest till the storm should subside. Mrs. Cole was churning in the kitchen, and the guests occupied the sitting-room. "We are very hungry," said a member of the staff; "can you give us something to eat ?" "I can't leave my churn/' said the practical housewife. " I'll churn for you," said a splendidly uniformed officer. Forthwith he was set to work, Mrs. Cole having taught him how to use the dasher. As she proceeded with the culinary work, ever and anon she glanced at the toiling officer. " Well, "said she to his brother officers, "if he can't use the sword better than the churn dasher, he must be a mighty poor soldier." This sally raised a hearty laugh, in which the volunteer churner joined heartily. He kept on gallantly, the perspiration streaming from every pore. It was the hardest work he had ever doDe in his life. " That's right," said Mrs. Cole, encouragingly; "keep on long enough and you'll fetch butter." When the storm had ceased the military gentlemen took their leave, first offering to pay for their entertainment. "We don't keep tavern," said Mrs. Cole, with the short and decisive snap of the independent farmer's wife; and the officers rode away. "Keep on long enough and you'll fetch butter," became a household expression in the British army, and was taken to the other side of the water, where it was uttered many a time to encourage those who were striving to accemplish.results under difficulties. A shcrt time after the occurrence at the farmhouse, Mrs. Cole received a parcel from New York. It contained a splendid black silk dress and a letter of thanks and compliments from Gen. Sir William Howe. It was he who had done the churning. The dress is an heirloom in the Cole family, and the letter is preserved as one of the few pleasant reminiscences of a war in which the weaker party carried out to a successful issue the suggestion made by the farmer's wife: " Keep on long enough and you'll fetch butter."?Sun. The Hollering Woman. There is, says tho Burlington Hawkcuo mio Ulinllorincf wnrnftn " in i.yv, ~ ? ~ J street. A woman who never goes after anybody, but always calls across the street; who never looks for her children, but rushes to the front gate and shrieks for them, uatil, in tho pauses of her shouting, she hears them answering from the room she has just left. Every street has one " hollering woman." No street has more, for as soon as two "holleriDg women " are thrown by pitiless fate upon one street, the neighbors vacate and immigrate until rents come town, or, as it often happens, one of the " hollering women " pulls up stakes and goes elsewhere, for they cannot brook opposition. The "hollering woman " generally manages to keep her street in a lively state of elocutionary excitement, and if yon happen to live within understanding distance your diurnal serenade is somethiug like this: " Tommy 1 Tom-mee! Tom-my! Oh, Tom ! You Tom I Come right along here and break up some of this dry wood, or I'll break your back I Mary ! You Mar-ree I You get right down off that tree box this minit, you great tomboy, Oi I'll skin you within an inch of your life 1 Ma-ree? Oh, Miss Pink? hard ? Miss Pinkhard ! Oh-h-h ! Miss Pinkhard I Won't you tell your milk man when he comes to stop at my gate ? Mine come this morning before we was up E-ras-mus! E ras-musI E-e-rasmus ! E-e-ras-mus ! Come right home and take this pail of molasses right back to the grocery and tell him if he can't send what I ordered I don't want any ! Erasmus, I say ! Oh, Miss Haralson ! How's the baby's measles ? Did you try that tea I sent over last night! Who cut your new polonaise ? Ma-ree! Mary! Where's Emeline gone to, I'd like to know ? Didn't I tell you not to let her go out of your sight a minute ? XTrtwr taii hrmk h#vr nn ami hrinc her j v"-? ~ ?r o right home. Good-morning, Mrs. Barnaby I Did you know they was burglars ever to Troopses last night ? Got in at the kitchen winder and took a pair of Mr. Throop's pants with a dollar and a half in 'em, and Miss Throop's big jet breastpin! Where are yon going ? Tommy ! Tommee! Oh, Tom! Mary, I say! Eras-mns ! Oh, Miss Pinkhard !" The serenade continues at random all day long, and is familiar to every one who has lived within a gunshot of the "hollering woman." Banks in the United States. There are to-day in the United States 907 chartered State banks, 2,118 national j banks, 666 savings banks, and 2,375 private banks?6,066 in all. The pioneer was the Bank of North America, established in Philadelphia by the Continental Congress in 1782, with a capital of 8400,000. It issued notes redeemable in Spanish dollars, and aided Robert Morris in carrying the colonies throngh the closing years of the war. Two years later the Bank of New York was opened in Walton House with Alexander Hamilton on the board of directors. In 1799 the Bank of the Manhattan Company was organized with Aaron Burr as one of the managers. When the second w.u with Great Britain broke out eighty-nine banks had b?en organized under State charters, with a capital of over $40,000,0~0. The State banks at the presenl !ime have n capital of $164,366,669, while the national banks nave attracted ove: $500,000,000 to their support, T R,0 lND < C., THUKSDAY, 0( The Poetry of the Throttle Yalre. Not long ago an engineer brought his train to a stand at a little Massachusetts villago where the passengers have five minutes for lunch. A lady came along the platform and said: "The conductor tells me the train at the junction in P. leaves fifteen minutes before our arrival. It is Saturday night; that is the last train. I have a very sick child in the car, and no money for a hotel, and none for a private conveyance a long, long way into tho country. What shall I do ?" " Well," said the engineer, " I wish I could tell you." " Would it be possible for you to hurry a little ?" said the anxious, tearful mother. " No, madam, I have the timetable, and the rules say I must run by it." She turned sorrowfully away, leaving the bronzed face of the engineer wet with tears. Presently she returned and said: " Are you a Christian ?" " I trust I am," was the reply. "Will you pray with me that the Lord may in some way delay the train at the junction ?" " Why, yes, I will pray with you, but. I have not much faith." " Just then the conductor oried: " All aboard." The poor woman hurried back to the deformed and sick child, and away went the train climbing the grade. " Somehow," sail the engineer, " everything worked like a charm. As I prayed, I couldn't help letting my engine out just a little. We hardly stopped at the first station, people got on and off with wonderful alacrity, the conductor's lantern was in the air in a half minute, and then away again. Once over the summit it was dreadful easy to give her a little more, and then a little more, as I prayed, till she seemed to shoot through the air like an arrow. Somehow I couldn't hold her, knowing I had the road, and so we dashed up to tho station six minutes ahead of time." There stood the other train, and the conductor witn tne lantern on ni? arm. " Well," said he, "will you tell me what I am waiting for ? Somehow I felt I must await your coming to-night, but I don't know why." " I guess," said the brother conductor, " it is for this poor woman, with her sick and deformed child, dreadful anxious to get home this Saturday night." But the man on the engino and the grateful mother think they can tell why the train waited. blood Living and Dyspepsia. Good living is said to cause dyspepsia; but the most healthy people we have ever known have been among those who lived well? who ate freely several times a day of the most nutritious food. By some it is said that tobacco, enuflf, tea, coffee, butter, and even bread cause this complaint; but whoever will make inquiries on this subject throughout the community will find that this is seldom true. In fact dyspepsia prevails, according to my experience, altogether the most among the temperate and careful? among those who are careful as regards what they eat and drink, and the labor they put upon the stomach, but exceedingly careless how much labor they put upon that most delicate organ, the brain. i Such people often eat nothing but by the advice of the doctor, or some treatise on dyspepsia, or by weight; nor drink anything that is not certainly harmless; they chew every monthfnl until they are confident, on mature reflection, that it cannot hurt the stomach. Why, then, are they dyspeptics? Because, with all their carefulness, they pay no attention to tho excitement ot tbe brain. They continue to write two or three sermons or essays every week, besides reading a volume or two, with magazines, reviews, newspapers, etc., and attending to much other business calculated to excite the mind. It is not strange that such persons have nervous and stomachic affections. The constant excitement of the brain sends an excess of blood to the head, and therefore other organs are weakened, and morbid sensibility is produced, which renders the stomach liable to derangement from very slight causes. Why he Did It. The Cincinnati Enquirer tells, in illustration of Mr. Kerr's simplicity, a delicious story. It is to the effect that when the Pacifio Mail subsidy was on its final passage the lobby that had been sorely troubled by the a'tacks of Mr. Kerr inquired eagerly for their enemy. "Gentlemen," responded Sam Ward? more generally known as Uncle Samuel, king of the lobby?"Mr. Kerr is sick, and I am his nurse." Kerr was already too ill to be out of his bed, and some time after, at a little dinner party where the eminent Congressman was, the name of Ward was mentioned. " That is a singular man," said Kerr; "I have known him for some time as one of those lobbyists, aud had treated him rather roucrh on two occasions. Do you know last summer when I was so very ill he not only sent me beautiful flowers and costly wines, but came and nursed me as if I had been his child or brother." " He is as kind hearted an old fellow as the Lord permits to live," responded one, conversant with the facts; " but his solicitude exhibited in your behalf, Kerr, did not come altogether of a kind heart," and he then proceeded, amid roars of laughter, to toll why Sam Ward nursed M. 0. Kerr. After Twenty-Three Years. A few days ago some workmen in Allegheny, Pa., while excavating for a cellar, came upon the bones of the leg and the arm of a man. It was immedii ately recalled by the neighbors that about seven years ago the skull and a portion of the spinal column of a skelei ton were found in the same place. Rumor has it that the remains are those of John Busch, who disappeared sud> denly on the night of Christmas, 1853, r having gone out to purchase some toys > for his son. He fell in with a conn try man, one Ernest Rinehart, and the i two spent part of the evening in John ; Harris' saloon. From that place th?< two departed. Buscli was list seen at t or near the house of one TTart. At the ) lime Hart was suspected of the murder r and arrested for it, but the evidence did 1 not warrant a commitment. "S7.AJL. 0OM1V ^TORER 12. 1876. THE YASKEE BRIG, A Story of Two Quaker Brother, and their Shlpiiliiff Experience. 1 heerd tell of a skipper once, says an old sailor, who is telling the story, as got charge of a big jackass brig as belonged to a old Quaker firm of two brothers, as kep' a place down to Qainchis slip, the name bein' Frost, the brig bein' called the Harpe; which this skipper's name were Brown, of Kennebunkport, she bein' one of these vessels etarnally nnlncky, stickin' on the ways in launchin', and never doin' nothin' ar-" terward; they havin' tried many captains, in hopes of a betterin' things, were delighted for to fall in with this Brown, who had jaw enough for two sets of teeth, and wonderful salt in his talk; so much so that he were able to eat the freshest meat without season in'; a makin' 'em b'leeve that he took this jackass brig jist to accommodate 'em, bnt that a big three masted ship were his just desarts if he got 'em; and two or three other Darties down to Maiden laue a bitin' their very finger nails off with jealousy, 'cause they hadn't secured this gem from Kennebunkpert; wages bein' no object, but had taken a likin' for the brig, which I'll say for her were as handsome as she were unlucky. These two honest Quakers considered themselves very fortunate to get him; she bein' loaded with flour and Yankee notions bonnd to St. Thomas, with orders to oruise among the islands, if so be as how freights sarved good; this hero Kennebnnkport chap bein' giv' full charge to do all her business arter she left New York, and was even giv' a power of tarnv for to sell, if so bo as he got a offer consistent. Well, sir, with five men afore the mast, two mates and a cook and steward, besides the chap from Kennebnnkport as skipper, off she goes to sea. Nowadays they wouldn't have giv' her more thau three afore the mast, and no second mate, but they manned vessels better then, which were forty years ago if a day; I bein' but a young chap which shipped aboard of her to larn my first splicin', and much of what I didn't see on the v'yage I were told afterward by a chap as were in the office in Qninchis slip, which made a blackguard of himself, and took to the sea afterward, him and me bein' shipmates in the little Sutton Charleston packet, full rigged, and carrying three r'yate, and sne only 280 tons. Of course, them times there weren't no telegraphs, neither no steamers, and the little Quakers had to wait a while afore they got to hear any tidiu's of the brig. When they did hear they got a letter sixteen pages long from the skipper, givin' 'em a full description of the v'yage out and how splendidly the jackass brig had behaved. It were a reg'lar yarn and fit for to be printed into the newspapers. How she had been hove to in a gale of wind off Hatteras, and only but for her bein' the finest bit of wood as ever floated, and only for the great skill of the chap that commanded her? he didn't say this right out, but it stuck out in fifteen and a half of the sixteen Daces of the letter? he'd a been a goner sure. He gave a conple of lines oat of the sixteen pages to the fact that he'd had to throw over some cargo to ease her. There were talk too of a hurricane which he'd had down amongst the islands, ord barely weatherin' a pint, her keel having touched a bit, he said, as she went by. ' Well, soon arter this come the skipper's wife with a order for a good bit of money, which light glad was these here honest Qaakere for to see that their captain were sich a good provider for his family, and paid at once. Arter that some time went on, and they heard nothin' of him or the jackass brig. Then come a letter tollin' of a splendid freight he'd got for the vessel to another island, and more than ever delighted was they to find him doin' so well. Arter that there was some news of his sailin', with a sight draft onto 'em for a small sum, as he'd found hisself short ju in settlin' up, and then they found on gittin' the accounts that what with payin' for the cargo he'd hove overboard, and what with expense of takin' the jackass brig out of water to repair her shoe, which had been knocked off when she jist touched in weatherin' the island as he'd writ about, and what with expense of loadin' and unloadin', all the outward freight were nsed ud. and he'd found hisself a trifle short, for which he'd draw'd onto them. vVell, they comforted themselves that things was no wcrse, and hoped with the splendid freight he'd writ about that at the next port when things was settled up the balanco would be on the right side, and they'd git a remittance instead of a draft. By-and-bye came more letters, and everything were lovely. Nothin' could be better than the performance of the jackass brig; she'd made a lovely passage, and though there was some hints of port charges highei than had been expected, they waited in hope, and was still inclined to think that they'd got a treasure in the chap from K( nneb mkport. The captain's wife agin put in an appearance, with rather a big order, which they paid, admirin' the provident care of the man as would giv' all of his money to his family, keepin' nothin' for his own soendin'. At last come the accounts and they seed that one side pretty nigh balanced the other. The port charges was high; "rascally," the captain said in his letter, and the small balance left in. favor of the jackass brig, he thonght, he'd better keep for exigencies at the next port, for it was really too small to draw agin. He congratulated 'em on his havin' had sich a tirst chop freight, else thero would have been a big deficit for which he would have had to draw, and he gladdened their hearts by tellin' of 'em what a splendid rate he'd got for the next port., and they looked as pleasant as they could under the circumstances, and hoped for better tidin's. They didn't come. The next they heerd were that misfortin had overtook that jackass brig, she being struck by a white f quail and knocked down onto her beam ends, and to right her the skipper had had to out away her topmasts. Under these circumRtences it didn't surprise 'pm much when news of the i:oxt settlin' come, to git along with the acf bottomry h-oid for quite 9 big j amount, and then tney concluded that I they'd order the brig home* 1ERCI $2.00 per A There weren't much of a freight home, and the trip to New York didn't pay expenses, and come to settle all up, they found that what with sums advanced to his wife and what he'd spent on the v'yage, this here Kenncbunkport J skipper had overdrawd about $1,000. ft won't surprise you if 1 tell you tnat tbey begin for to think about this time that it were best to try some one else in the jackass brig, and atwixt the two old Quakers they argued it some considerably. One on 'em were for doin' it anyhow, but the other said: *' Thee knows, Gideon," which weie his name, " that he had a power of 'turny to sell, and he didn't do it; now, if we turn him oat and put another skipper in, he may go and sell and put the money in bis pocket, and so we'd lose not only the arnin's, but the jackass brig likewise. Besides, he owes us money, and if we don't keep him to work that out, that will be a dead loss." " There's truth in what thee says, Reuben," says the other Quaker, and so they tried the Kennebunkport chap for another v'yage, and he went off and sold the vessel and topped his boom and sailed large, and tbey never seen him nor the jackass brig no more.? World. Mining in Germany. . The German Mining Annals states that the proprietors of most of the mines in the districts of Dortmund, Bonn, and Halle have been at considerable ex pense in providing (or the use of workmen coming from a distance sleeping houses And canteens. Nearly all these buildings have been erected upon the model of similar establishments belong ing to the State at Saarbruck and elsewhere. The workmen are lodged in them and are provided with food from Saturday till Monday, and many of the unmarried men take up their residence in them altogether. These establishments have accommodation for from fifty to three hundred persons each ; and, as a general rule, the proprietors let them at a trifling rental to a contractor, who is bound to lodge the unmarried men for a moderate sum, and to afford them facilities for cooking their meals in the houSe. The price of lodging and food varies from 5d. to Is. 3d. a day, but is rather more iu Westphalia, where tko workmen get coffee twice a day aud meat once. Lights ?nd firing are iu nearly every case supplied gratis by the proprietors of the mine, though there are a few places where the workman pays 3s. a month for bed, lights and firing. The dormitories have from six to ten beds, and the workmen are provided with bedding and linen. A.* the end of last year the district of Dortmund alone possessed twenty-eight large und seven small sleeping houses, with canteens attached, capable of receiving 4,800 lodgers. Several of these houses contain reading-rooms, libraries, lecture halls' etc., and in a few of them are to lie found baths, to which the occupants have free access. One of the best is at Silberau, near Ems, standing npc-n 2,500 square feet of ground, and large enongh to lodge 200 workmen in dormitories, with from three to seven beds in each. The refreshment-room on the ground floor is constructed to hold 300 people, and all the rooms are heated in winter by hot water stoves. The building cost ?4,500, or at the rate of ?22 10s. for each lodger. Flogging a Garroter in England, A prisoner named William Leonard, who was convicted of a highway robbery with violence from a young lady, received recently in Newgate the first installment of the forty lashes awarded him. The prisoner had been previously flogged in 1870 for a similar offense, and the present is said to be almost the only instance in which the punishment of the cat has not proved effectual in preventing the offender from repeating acts of violence; and Mr. Commissioner Kerr, having regard to this fact and to the prisoner's previous bad character, sentenced him to undergo two separate floggings of twenty lashes each at an interval of one month, and then to be kept in penal servitude for seven years. The prisoner, it is stated, greatly dreaded the punishment, and frequently appealed to the governor to relieve him from it, representing that he was ill and unable to bear the flogging. Dr. Gibson, the medical officer of the prison, was consulted, but he could find no reason in the condition of the prisoner to justify any remission of the punishment. The moment he was brought into the room where the punishment was to be inflicted, the reporter says, he began howling and appealing to Mr. Smith and Dr. Gibson to have mercy upon him, and it was with some difficulty that he was fixed to the whipping block. At the first stroke he shrieked for mercy, *Vio reorripn who was admin ttliu UIgCU iuu .T isterirg the punishment not to give it to him too hard. He continued shrieking and crying all the time the punishment was being inflicted, and when it was completed he pretended to faint, and he was taken back to his cell. Simple Remedy for Scarlet Fever. Take an onion and cut it in halves, cut out a portion of the center, and into the cavity put a spoonful of saffron; put the pieces together, then wrap in cloth and bake it in an oven until the onion is cooked so that the juice will run freely, then squeeze out all the juice and give the patient a teaspoonful, at the same time rubbing the chest and throat with goose grease or rancid bacou, if there is any cough or soreness in the throat. In a short time the fever will break out in an eruption all over the body. All that is then necessary is to keep the patient warm and protected from draught, and recovery is certain. Half Hanged.?About half a century ago au old man was haDged in Sootland for complicity in murder. The rope bioko and he fell violently to the ground. His first words, when he re covered his breath, were : " Ah I sheriff, sheriff, gie us fair hangin'." His sons leaped forward to claim their father's life on the ground hat the law had no i right to exact a second hanging. But the old man cried out: " Na, bovs, I'll ; uo gang barae to hae people pointin' me ; ojt, and saying : " There's John 0., the half hangit man.'" i | 9 Ah. t 4 * ide Single Copy 5 Cents. ? Unsatisfied. ",Oaiv a housemaid!" 8hp looked from the kitchenNeat was the kitchen and tidy was she ; There at her window a aempe trees iiat etitcLi ing; It Were I a sempstress, how happy 1 a db ; 44 Only a qneen!" She looked orer the waters? Fair was her kingdom and mighty was she ; There sat an empress, with qaeerj for her daaghtera; 44 Were I an empress, how happy I'd be!" Still the old frailty they all of them trip in! Eye in her daughters is ever the e une; Give her all Eden, she sighs for a pippin ; Give her an empire, she pines for a name! Items of Interest. 44 Does oar constant chatter disturb Jrou?" asked one of three talkative adios of a sober looking fellow passenger. 44 No, ma'am; I've been married nigh on to thirty years," was the reply. Some thieves who had oonoeded them selves in the Daomo, at Milan, carried off a part of the jewels with whioh the statne of the Virgin is ornamented. But the robbers were sold, as the stones are false. A boy of twelve, dining at his uncle's, made such a good dinner that his aunt observed : 44 Johnny, yon appear to eat well." 44 Yes, aunty, replied the urchin; 44 I've been practicing eating all my life." ' The ranks of the best paid branch of the British army, the royal artillery, are so uninviting to skilled mechanics that this body was 1,300 below its complement on January I, and on July 1 there was a deficiency of 1,600 men. An enterprising St. Louis piper gives a fnll and narfcicular description of the various valuable diamonds owned in that city. The labor of gathering facto for the article was not, however, exhausting. The precious stones were all in the pawn shops. 44 Are you there, my love?" he whispered through a hole in the fence of his beloved'8 bock yard. "Yes, darling," was the reply. "Jump right over." He did so, and alighted in the presence of her mother, a broomstick and a policeman. ' A mother, trying to get her little daughter of three years to sleep one night, said : 44 Anno, why don't you try to go to sleep ?" 44 I'm tryingshe replied. 44 But you haven't shut your eyes." 44 Well, I can't help it; urns comes unbuttoned." Two circuses pitched tent* at Marysville, Ohio, on the sAme day, and the rivalry was exciting. Prices of admission were reduced to five and ten cento, and, in the street parades, a man stood on the top of each animal cago, shouting the merits of the show to whioh he was attached. A Troy widower, we are told, sleeps every night on his wife's grave in St Mary cemetery. Such lodgings are comfortable enough in warm weather, but the chances are that after the first snow he will be found sitting in some neighbor's parlor until midnight alongside of a hot stove and an interesting girl. Something decidedly original Is the advertisement of a restaurant; keeper in Baltimore : 44 Should you sour on the > homeopathic steak of your boarding house, or its stereotyped mackerel, or its herculean butter, or the Spartanie simplicity of its puddings, then sweeten your temper with a business dinner," etc. A young man who was engaged to be married recently committed suicide in Cincinnati, and the mother of the damsel whom he was to wed brought in a bill against his estate of $128 for board, and $50 for wedding expenses incurred by the prospective bride. The court allowed $100 of the account, and the matter was finally settled by the payment of $85. "i n 1-?- oimn.mc (innri The norm omuuuu ouj/uuv decides, in State vs. JohDsen, that 44 a son is allowed to light only in the necessary defense of his father, and to excuse himself he must plead and show that his father would have been beaten had he (the son) not interfered. If a father and his adversary are engaged in a fight on equal tenns, the son's interference is not justifiable." A newspaper man has been visiting the Centennial Exhibition, and daring his sojourn at that place he dined at one of the French restaurants. When the bill for the meal was presented to him he meekly intimated that his boiled egg contained a chicken. The polite waiter said that he would have the bill corrected, and soon returned with a new bill, upon which the charge of thirty cents for 4 4 eggs " had given place to au item of sixty oents for chicken. At the recent execution of two prisoners within Kirkdale prison, Liverpool, England, a very long drop was used, which had the advantage of breaking the men's necks with the faJL The coroner, however, ordered the sheriff to direct the attention of the government to the fact that this method did not comply with the letter of the law, which contemplates hanging by the neck till the culprit dies through strangulation, a verv heavy fall causes death through dislocation of the vertebrae. Printing Office Secrets. A properly conducted printing office is as much a secret society as is a masonic lodge. The printers axe not under an oath of secrecy, but always feel themselves as truly in honor bound to keep secrets as though they had been put through triple oaths. An employee in a printing office who willingly disregards this rule in regard to printing office secrets would not only be scorned by his brethren of the craft, but would lose his position in the office at once. We make this statement because it sometimes happens that a communication appears in a newspaper under an assumed signature which excites comment, and various parties try to find out who is the author. Let all be saved the trouble of questioning the employees or attacbees of the printing office. Th^y are 41 know nothings" on such poii.te as these. On such ? matters they 44 have eyes and ears, but no mouth," an^ ;f they fail to obstrve this rule, let tin m be put down as dishonored members, ?Ezch ange.