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-ftcteta&soenoes of a Remarkable it
Man. I
The New York Express says: n
Joseph Dixrto* who died in Jersey e
City on Moodily, aged 71, was a li
inos1 remarkable, m>t to say extra- li
ordinary, man. lFo made a ma- t<
chino to cut files before he attain r
cd his majority, loarncd the print- \
er's trade, attewards tlmt of wood 8
engraving, then lithography, and tl
afterwards studied medicine, and tl
in that connection became interest- s
cd iii chemistry, becoming finally a
one of the moat accomplished and g
comprehensive chemist* it) the
cmntry. He was a tliorougli op- e
'rtcian, and Iiad no equal in his S
knowledge of photography. He h
took the experiments of Da- h
guerre in 1830, and was probably v
the first person to take a j?ortrait n
by the camera. lie showed Pr?f. p
Morse bow to take portraits by f<
'means of a reflector, so that the n
subjects fhoukl not appear reversed, w
Morse tried to get the plan pat- v
cnted in Europe. -Mr.Dixon bu It tl
the first locomotive, with wrK>de:i a
wheels, but wifh the same'double o
crank now used; it eaused a sneer t<
at the time, bat when it became ii
demonstrated thai a steam 'engine d
could run on wheels and perform f<
the services dt beasts of burden, a
his double crank was adopted. He s<
originated the process of transfer-' >
ring on stone, now used the world
oyer by lithographers, lie origi- t(
natcd the process of photolithogra- v
phy, and published it years before h
it was believed to bo useful. By p
lire process of transferring, the old t<
bank notes woro easily <?owiterfeit- a
?d, and it was to guard against the h
abuso of bis own process that he fi
brought otottbeaVsVem of printing e
In color? ow tlfo bills, and bad tlie m
method patented, but never re- tl
ceived any benefit from tl>o patent, y
fill the banks having used it without
pay. Many of our read rs n
will remember the original red v
dog1' money aYid the present pro- v
cess used by the Government, l(?r c
printing in colors, tor which a k
large amount* is |>ntd to patentees, t
is the old prwese of. Mr. Dixoh, li
lor which his patent had expired h
lofcg before, and the present patents
are, therefore, untenable. He t
perfected the aystem of making t
collodion for the photographers, i
and assisted Mr. Harrison in get- v
ling a true system for grinding the c
lenses for eamera tubes Heorig- 6
inated the anti-friction metal* that, t
has been for a great many years Y
known as " Babbit metal," and he t
is the father of the steel melting
business In this country. He orig- t
Inated a vast number of machines 1
and processes that do not occur to c
us at this moment, but he is most t
widely. known among manuhiclur- t
ers as the originator of the plum- f
bag?> crucible as now made?* He s
started the business in 1827, in Sa- 8
lem, Mass., and bronght it to Jer- t
icy City in 1847. Ills namo ltad
become known in all civilized
countries as a crucible umker, and <
hie establishment in Jersey City is t
the largest ol the kind in the world. <
|le was singularly self-reliant, nev- I
cr tailed in bis mechanical under- {
takings, even in the last, that of i
(be great orchestrion, that occupied <
his time for hearly eleven years, 1
but which stood l>cfbre him per- i
feet at last, and etill stands^a 1
monuqucnt of his groat skill, pa- I
tieuce and perseverance. lie wus
soli educated, * M
X?tTTT.B Jimmy is not so well post
ed in spiritual matters as he might
be. The other day, during a dis- (
mission as to wlial constituted a
Christian, Jimmy was a very earnest
listener, and at last the remark
was made that his father was a '
Christian. It came to him like a .
Severe charge against his paternal;
M?d, assuming.a grave air, he paid : '
MNo. my papa Isn't a Christian ; '1
he's * member of the Methodist i
Obarch .m
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Fery Sad?Story of a Governess in
England.
A correspondent ??f the London
telegraph vouches for the follow*
ng aa a ttuia story; . . ^
"A few days nop I stood by the
iide of a dying girl, her age war
e'ventefen, and this is her history!
>he was the youngest child in a
arjgo family. Her mother war
he widow "of a Clerk in a city
>auk, who died suddenly, leaving
lis wife and children destitute.-*^
ler sisters went out fta governess
6; she remained at homo Until
nCreasing want rendered it nodesdry
for her, too, to make her own
ivfjng. She fob i d employment as
, daily governess. She walked
nch day fonr miles to and from
er work, npd received a few shil
ings a week. All day long she
oiled, getting no food tstttsl 6he
cached home in tho evening.?
Vho dt?es not rcnienilier the not
utnmer of last year? Throngh
lie glare of that cloudless season,
liis poor child starved on. The
un withered np flower and 6hrnb,
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isu wmieruu me ornin 01 itie daily
;o vertices.
44 Day by day her strength moltd
away; at last she broke down.
>ho could go no more the daily
Bsson ; it was tod late now to give
er food, kindly Smiles, or tnorc
rages. Iler cry from morn to
iglit, as she rocked to and flu,
ressing her hands on her burning
>rehead, Mas, 4Mother, mother,
ty brain is gone.' One day she
ras found with one hand copying
erses from the Bible, and with
lie other had gashed herself with
knife. It was then I first heard
f the case. I advised her mother
> send her to an hospital for the
isane. My advice was taken. I
fien went to inquire attcr her. I
nfnd the place full of governesses,
nd aH that kindness could do,
ectned To be done for them. She
lx>n became a raving lunatic.
14 One day 1 took two of her sisbis
to sec her. ft was their fiist
isir. to the hospital, and they
irought some flowers to give the
atient. They were just in time
a see her die. In her Cell, with
n angel smile oil her young face,
\y tlio littlo governess, tshe had
night the fkjit of life to its hitter
no, and all was over now ; and
nth a look as though fehe blessed
lie world which killed hor. her j
oung spirit passed away to God.
44 There was a post iri&rtcm ex
Vnination. Congestion ot the brain
rtls the cause of her death?hard
rork, they feaid^tlie cause of the
ongestion. A little food, a little
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.mi* m*?wgoi iiuiie^M VU (lie pare CI
hoec Who employed Iter, might
ihvo save I Iter I fc and the broken
itmrt nf hct1 widowed mother.
"The birds were singing goylv,
he sun whs shining brightly, as
hev laid Iter by her father's side
ti a quiet country grave. Thele
vera tew mounters, but 8<?tnt> noor
hildren and an old cripple, whom
he taught and to whotn ehc read
he Bible on Sundays?her only
ioli?uiyt??come some milea to see
le last of the little teacher.
"Sir, in telling this story, I do
lot cast blame on any one, bnt I
tope those who read it, if they
?mploy governesses, will remember
lidl human creatures are not mere
r.acldnes; and it they see them
hgged and wbrnj will think of the
lory af' this jioor child, whose
onl now rests in a kindlier woil I
ban this."
Sarcastic but SuooKanvR.?A
Quaker gentleman, riding in a carnage
w?th a fashionable lady deckJ
?M. A?'-- -? ?
;u wmi u promsion or lewciry,
ieard her complain of tno cold.
Shivering in her 'lace bonnet and
ibawl ae light as a cobweb, she ex
dAtmod: What s'wll I do to get
varm ? UI really don't know,"
*epli$d the Quaker, solemnly, ,vnness
thee should put ou another
treuatjnn /"
Saiakt Two*.? A Yankee lawyer,
who was pleading the cause
>f a little boy, the other day, in
Boston, took hint up in life arms,
snd held hitn up to the jury, suffused
in tears. This hna a great
effect until the opposite lawyer
Mked the boy, a What makes yon
sry 1" " He's pinching me," said
tlia boy.
No Infringement of a divine rule
is harmless; every such infringe
ment is full clntrgod with guilt and
misery and eternal rain.
Instances of Success in New York.
A New Y?>rk letter writer gives
pcqr clerks and others In like circumstances
the following encouragement
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It was said of Lord Nelson that
lie eventually became captain of
the enhie ship in which be first ohterfed
as midshipman. The event
is so rare that it was tn ?de a matter
of Spebia) note. We are reminded
of this by the elect ion of
Thomas 1 tick son to the Presidency
of the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company Thifc is on\e of the
largest c??al corpora'fob's !h Ihe
union, wielding a capita! of $30,000,f>00,
and owning inore than
two hundred tniles ot canal and
railway, besides thousands of acres
of coal land. More than forty
years ago a poor Scotch machinist
sought work in the company's
shop in Cai hondale. lie was an
excellent mechanic, and remained
in this service until his death. His
sons found employment with the
company* and one of them has
gradually risen in a remarkable
manner.' He was made coal agent,
and then elected Vice President,
and last week assumed the Presidency
ot that great corporation
where his father served with file
nnd cold chisel. Mr. Dickson is
about 46; his salary will bo abofit
$8,000.
We have sotne other instances
of a similar kind which, though ot
lesser importance, carry a lesson
of the value of patient application.
Here is Oscar Dike, a man of very
plain and unattractive appearance,
avIio ehtbred Kicoil's ten warehouse
as clerk twenty years a$?, and is
now the chief tnun t the firm ot
Townsend, Church & Dike, who
succeeded Nicoll, and who are
now doing an immense business.
Going a little farther up street we
reach Exchange Place whero we
note the tall and commanding forui
| of Sol. Humphreys. Twenty years
ago, when tiolun Humphreys was
a stripling from Hartford, he entered
the service of E. D. Morgan
& Co. Our next Tax Commissioner,
George II. Andrews, affords
I another illustration. When first
wo knew him ho was a slender
youth who earned a small weekly
stipend in the office of the Courier
and Enquirer llo eventually became
the controlling mind of that
journal, ana naa ne Deen i s 'entire
owner it Would have had u differ
ent destiny.
There, too, is Jeremiah Quinlan,
whom once we knew as a ragged
Irish boy, employed by Andrew
Rta-s, the glassware inah, to open
boxes. Jerry," as be was called,
became the chfcf man in the con
cern, aivd has taken the business,
widen be carries on in a large
warehouse. The late Bernard Graham
also affords a striking example.
lie was a poor Irish laborer,
and as such obtained a porter's
situation in the great shipping
house of Petel* Hurinony at Co.
From this humble beginning he
rose to the supremacy ol the firm,
which at the time was the largest
importing house in this city. William
11. Swan, Who Commenced
with Grinnell, MinMtrn & Co , in
1849. is now the leader of that
concern. These examples show
that persevernnce and ability may
hritig the humblest beginner to
eminence, ami they serve to cheer
the poor clerk in his hours of despondency.
Our poor clerks, in
deed, need some comforting
thoughts, and if they were not thus
afforded many of them would sink
in despair.
luRNira job Pigs.?A corrcs
pendent of the Country Gentleman,
planted a few. acres of tor
mj>? which were large enough tc
begin to feed the first week in Jn
ly, When the> were ted to pigs mid
no other teed given until the last
week in Septetnb r. iCo lot ol
pigs eon Id have d<>no better grow
ing and keeping in good condition
all the v? hile. He does not advocate
cooking white turnips for pigr
unoer any circumstances. Hiey
are only fit for them raw i warm
weather. Steamed Sweden art
gi?od mixed with plenty of rneal,
ut potatoes are so much bettei
that half the tneal mixed with them
would feed as tost.
GnKKRFCLN'Kas.?I^othimg sr
adorns the face as cheerfulness
When the heart is in flower, iti
blootn and bounty pass to tbu feu
tares.
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Death of a Miser?How Ho Accumulated
Wealth?His Collection of
Treasures.
There died id Baxter street yesday
morning an old man, ?8 years
'd age, who, although he breathed
hie last breath ort a heap of dirty
rags and surrounded by misery And
squalor, anfch As one cannot find
outside of tMf abdVb dirty thoroughfarejwas
worth a hatiddotau fortune.
Persons who have been accustomed >
to perambulate the streets on tits
East aide of the city during the
nasi few years are, no doubt, familiar
With the sight of this old man,
and hure, no doubt, often stopped
And watched his movements with I
l>ttvlhg interest.
'lliis odd character was a rag
picker, and almost any morning
during the past ton years, could
bo seen busily engaged in overhauling
the garbage boxes f.nd gutters
along the Bowerj and adjacent
streets. Dirty and dilapidated,
his clothes patched and pieced
in most grotesque style one would
suppo.-o, upon meeting him. that
he was ii man nguinai whom Dame
fortune had an eter lal spite, and
who w e percecnting hini unrelentingly.
Yet this old mart Was
worth a fortune. 'Twas Curious
how he lord the foundation lor hib
wealth. While raking among the
filth of a gutter in Prince 6treet
one morning about ten years ago,
lie found in the mud a valuable
diamond, which he sold to a pawnbroker
for several hundred dol
lars. This brilliant solitprie was
the nucleus around Which many 1
subsequently clustered. Rumor
had it that the old man was not
honest, that tnuCli of the wealth
which he had secured had been
obtained by pilferitVg. tint this
was only a rumor, and although it
wa9 known that he possessed a valuable
collection of miscellaneous
jcW^lry and other * uluablcs* still
ih? theft was ever traced to him,
and lib was allowed to retain undisputed
possess ion of his wealth.
Once the police senichcd his old
hovel for a stolen ring, and during
the hunt they Yhufid under the
floor, buried in the ground, an old
co' ee-pot, containing jewelry and
gold of great value, but the missing
ring was not in the collection. The
old man howled like a rtlahinb
when his troasine* were unearth
ed, and the story is that upon the
departure of the officers he dis)?ot?
cd of liis jewels to a Chathamstreet
pawnbroker, securing for
them a handsome sum which he
invested in real estate.
The only relative oV the old man
now jiving is a little girl?his
grandaughtpr?an inmate of &n orphan
a*ylulh who will inherit tlie
entire fortune left by the old miser.
Ntw York /Sun, SUfA ult.
IIow to Rf.tiyk Drowned Per,
sons.?As tlie bathing season has
now begun, and accidents by
drbwhing are likely to sometimes
happen-, we reprint from a high
scientific authority the following
directions, for the resuscitation ot
persons, rescued From drowning
before life is wholly extinct. They
may possibly prove useful in sav.
ing valuable lives, and should be
preserved or reinouilxred:
, 1. Lay the drowned man at once
flat on liis stomach, with his face
to the ground, and a folded coat
or bundle under his chest.
2. Place your hands flat between
his shoulder blades and make a
firm pressure, so as to squeeze the
air out of his chest} then torn the
body slowly on to one side and a
little beyond, lie pi ac'e him quickly
cm his fate. Count four* to ins?k
tour seconds of time, and then re,
peat the process, commencing by
squeezing tbe air out of tire chest
| again.
3. Wet clothes should be reI'
moved and dry ones Snlistituted,
each bystander contributing The
i body to be rubbed dry briskly,
and the face kept from contact
> with the ground, by an assistant.
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y. xru n'H mnitrw r?? mr tnit Ul
i the |**t tent's chest if he is breath
i ing; bnt wait and watch, merely
, drying the body and changing the
' clothing.
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8osre folks are prodigiously penitent
ofcr other people's sins, and
> seem to ttiink they have a special
. call to confess thorn before the
r whole world. They will gouge |
their brother's eyes out rather than
leavo a single mote in them.
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Kerosene Accident.
The Wilmington (Del ) ComioQrcial
records the following distressing
accident, Which occurred in
that city 0:1 Wednesday night: '
A young lady named Laura
Cars well, a teacher in one of ottr
publio. schools, was retiring at
about half pa-t ten o'clock, and
was all ready to get Into bed, when
she turned to a coal oil lamp, it is
supposed, and attempted to extinguish
the light by .mowing down
the'chiutncjr The flatties Were thus
blown dowh into the oil and the
lamp exploded, thtofring the blaz
ing oil all over Miss CaravrCll's ,
night-dress and the "clothing she
had just takon off lying near. En- ,
veloped in flames, she ran stream- |
ing into the entry communicating i
with her room, where her father i
immediately afterwards touttd her.. ;
lie made every effort to extin- (
gtiieh the flames, and a brother of (
the young ludy tore up a piece of
stop carpet and threw it over her
l ead. Thjs saved her head from
LnrntnW Kisf !*??? W ??
g) um IICI n 11UIU |teiBOn,
from her neck down, was horribly
burned before the flames could be
extinguished. By this tiine Mies
Carswell's room was da fire, andit
required the efforts of thb family
to Btt* e the house front destruction.
Mr. Carfiuell in his attempt
to sftVc hifi daughter, had
liis hands bitdlv burned, all .the 'j
finger nnild being burned off one
hand, fttid thc'ot.ior being fco much
injured that it will be a long tijne j
before ho again uses it, if indeed he ,
ever can. Medical aid was im
mediately suinmotied to dres9 the (
w.ounds and alleviate the'suflferings j
of the poor girl, but the physicians
pronounced her Case a hopeless
one from the first. She lingered
until about 3 next morning, when
death put an end to her sufferings.
Iler body and hands wtere most
severely burned, and her person,
except her head and feet, was one
mass ot scorched flesh. She was a
young lady but eighteen or nineteen
years ot age, in the full bloom
of womanhood, attractive in personal
appearance as well as character,
Tllid leaves a large circle of ,
friends to tnoUrn her sad and sudden
death. i
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v An Honest Lawyer.
The Rochester Chronicle has
been told a new story about General
Butler. The directors ot a
Bostort bank, having their suspicions
tVroVised, notified their casliier
thut an examination of the books
and cash in his possession must be
had. The cashier went to Butler
and stated his case. He had misappropriated
funds of the bank to
the amount of $50,000. lie asked
whether he had not better own up,
restore what he could, and let his
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uuiiubujuu iiiuku up uie aencu.
Butler, after sumo consideration,
directed him to attend the meeting
of the directors, deny there was
anything wrong, and, if they desired,
to surrender the keys and
go home, leaving them in poesessession.
lie did as directed?gave
up the keys, and the directors, upon
examining the books ana cash in
the vaults, found a deficit, n3 they
anticipated, of $50,000. They notified
the cashier and his bonusmen,
who, in due time* appeared,
accompanied by Butler, who, ac
ting as spokesman, enquired what
the matter was. The directors informed
liim of the facta, ami offer
ed to comprotn so the matter by
the return of the missing funds.
General Butler coolly replied that
his client had surrendered the
keys to tiicm, and that the deficit,
if any, occurred after the directors
were in possession. The directors
now began to see the dilemma in
which they were placed and sent
for a lawyer, only to find that they
hud made a false Step; that they
had no proper evidence of the
amount of oash in the bank when
surrendered by the cashier, and
timt in taking possession they bad
loet their only remedy. As it
*onkl not do to let the stockhohl
era ktmw how thej had been orerreached,
the directors bod to &o to
work and make up the loss out of
their own pockets. T or gave their
defaulting cashier the certificate
of character Which he demanded,
and he went to work in auother
bank in the same city a few weeks
nftcrwa d.
A maw's wifo is his best lawyer,
hi* be&t counsel, his l?e8t judge,
his host adviser, and also the cheap
eet and most reasonable.
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The Cow Pea ae a Fertiliser for
Wheat
We have lon? been satisfied,
frdth Actual experiment, that Clio
common fe'dw pea of the Southern
States, when properljr Managed,
affords the best, and, at the sumo
timh, the cheapest mediiiih for ths
restoration of our exhausted cotton
fields. Its effects have been
as lasting and as marked upon the
fertility of our soils as that of clover
upon the worn stud exhausted
lands of Virginia and AfarylaVld;
The main reason why the cow
pea has not been heretofore extensively
used as a fertilizer, was
owing to the fact that previous td
emancipation oar. planters would
not give up a sufficient pdrtlon of
rhcir lands to await the rather
slow effects of this most Valuable
fcVtilteerC Ifow, however, wheA
every planter has a large proportion
at his pool-lands lying idle, there
is Ao excuse why the pea should
not be set in every field not absolutely
necessary tor corn or cotton.
HmV lb the best time td
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piuub luu ami we desire to
give bur agricultural frietids the
rcdftilt of a Careful experiment made
by a planter in Gwinnett county^
to encourage them to make similar
efforts.
Our, Gwinnett planter had a
piece of old exhausted land, tweiity .
ficrea of which had been Iving iii
broom sage for a number ot years:
l'his lie broke deep with a tttrxi
plow in the Sii'itt infer, and in the
succeeding Fall put down in wlifeat.
The crop, carefully measured, was
a little less than four bushels to
the.i&ro.
As soon as tlie wheat was cut,
lie sowed peas at the rate of two
bushels to the acre. Early in October
the peas were turned under
with A deep furrow, and a tew
weeks later wheat was sown and
carelully harrowed in npon the
pen sod. '1 lie yield from the crop
was nine bushels to the acre, a little
more than double the first year's
crop.
lhe field was again sown iri {jeai
as soon as the wheat was. harvested,
and turned under as oefore irt.
the Fall, and wheat sown upon the
soil. The yield this year was seventeen
and a oiibheU.
The fourth year, with the same
treatment, lie made twenty seven
bVisliefd, and tills {the fifth year)
the crop bids fair to niako fortybushels.
Nothing has been applied
to the land as a fertilizer except
the cow pea &lone% the production
has been increased tert1old-.
This actual experiment
speaks more tor the pea than any
argument which we could make:
We trust some of our planting
friends will be induced to try the
itpa ll>o nflvt *p/>n ? 11 ^* ? *' ^
f-?' v? V..V mvaw VI up V* miCftl^ auu
let us know the result of their experiment?
Chronicle & Sentinel:
' From acthal experiment we are
satisfied that the Cdw pfea is ihe
best iertilifccr, dm a green brop
turned under, (not even excepting
red clover.) to be found in this of
any other bountry.? Watchman.
A TtrKATtlEK8F:Rr.D ptipcr sayd
there are more deacons In that
town than in any place ia Cotinect
cut. The other any a well-known
deacon went to the steamboat wharf
to see a friend off, and as the boat
(Started the friend said, " Good-bye,
deacon," whereupon twelve menj
who stood upon the wharf, immediately
tipped their hats &nd re*
spoiided,41 Good-bye, jit."
An Omaha paper haa established
a department of betrothals.?The
only remaining item of intelligence
of tfiis character to be
seized upon and published in the
papers is 44 flirtations," .the pnbliOitlirin
nf lifta liiiliarti-v Ko/.w
monopolized bv sewing societies
and quilting ptwticS.
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Ait Indiana tnaideh of foity <Vn6
year* is, only twenty four inches
high* ftixf weirflitf oATy thirty-three
pounds. She looks older than she
is, but in manners and education,appears
like a girl ot ten years.
Yovna ladies, otrr fashion gossip
Says, are i? Wear " square
bodies." Wifl they prevent the
beaux from coming round ?
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A jcax who gives his children1
habits ot industry, provides tor
them better than by giving them
a fbrtnne.
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