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A. REFLEX OF ?>0^^ ' ^ ^ _ | JOHN C. BAILEY, PRO'R. GREENVJI.I.R. SOUTH CAROlll^JTio^lStriiP^Sett^' VOL. j?VI.~NO. 34. w - ? ?"" -*~ ^*" "" Q. F. TOWNES. EDITOR. 3f. fl. IAILITi 1 Editor!. O. X. ELTOXP, J wn' SonscmirTioK Two Dollar! per annum. AnvnaTisaMairrs inserted at tha rates of dollar par square of twelve Minion lines {this sited type) or less for tha first insertioh, Bfty oents each for tha second and third Insertions, and twenty-lire cents for subsequent Insertions. Yearly contracts will be mnde. ? All advertisements must hare the number nf insertions marked on them, or they will be inserted till ordered out, and charged for. Unless ordered otherWlte*. Advertisements fclll invariably be " displayed. Obituary notices, and all matters inuring to to the benefit of any one, ate hsganiod as Advertisements. roa THE SOUTHSBN KXTKBrSlSB. What came of a Noonday Siesta. Messrs. Editors?As some uerbodb consider all dreams as foolish per se, and as others consider some dreams foolish according to their siibject-matter, I prefer, in what I am ab^ut to say, to use the expression I dreamed, instead of I imagined, so that whatever of foolish ncss may appear, may bo laid to the former. As I was indulging in my usual noonday siesta, for tue better accomplishment of which I had been reading the different newspapois ?as well as amusing myself with looking over the advertisements? I will suppose uiv mind to have continued its worlc after the body liad been overcome with sleep, and that the impressions made upon it during waking moments, had worked themselves up into the following picture: There appeared, to my mind's eye, an immense card?or picture ?much larger than any I had seen in the advertising columns of the papers I had been reading; indeed, it was apparently as extensive as the area of our whole Southern country?a great panoramic view that was thus spread out before my mind's eye. Upon this huge card "were great cities, teeming with life and activity; long livers, covered with numberless vessels of all descriptions, going to aud coining from the mighty ocean, of which there was but an indistinct view. All along the banks of these rivers. and far over the inland of mountain and dale, were seen the bus tling towns and cheerful villages, surrounded on every side by cleared snots, where human beings were busily at work, whilst the smoke, thin and white, rose from thousands of farm houses hid away among the trees. Running through this picture, and iu all directions, were long lines of network, over which tho iron horse rushed with rapid strides, bearing after him long trainsot material and human freight; and over a similar met-work of lines, pedestrians, horsemen, slow-moving wagons with their snow white covers, and vehicles of every description were passing here and there. The whole view was one that filled the mind with the sublime idea of vast and variegated extent, and the picture would have been complete, had it not been that an indescrible feeling was produced by the dazzling light, the parched and dried appierance that vegetation seemed to wear, and a closeness and feeling of suffocation, such as one might imagine would be the effect, were the heavens above us to be turned into brass. A giddy sickness caused the tnind to leavo off the contemplation of the picture, and instinctively it turned to tho huge monster that held the immense card or picture in his outstrotched hands, just as the waking mind had seen iu the adveriising eolumns of the nowspaper, though on a much larger scale, and more wonderful in appearance. Tho mind recoiled at the -eiffht of this monster. aa with anr -clonic grin, be seemed to bold the ^picture out to view; yet, by a strange sort of fascination, beholding once, the mind looked again and again, until accnstomed to the eight, it began the study of the huge monster. From above the immense card, appeared a face, hnge in its dimensions, and terrible in its contortions, with sunken cheeks, over which the muscles and skin were so tightly drawn, as to give the face the appearance of pinching want and starvation. Devouring, pearcing eyes?such as belong to starvation alone?glanced like living coals, from uuder their huge shaggy eyebrows, that had long since ceased to draw aay nourishment from the parchment skin into which they were rooted. Long, shaggy, dry hair and beard, from which all vitality had long since disappeared, seemed to make the distorted features of this huge monster more terribly painful to the beholder. The hands that tightly grasped the card or p cture, were nothing more than huge skeletons covered with tendons and skin, from which the fingers and tiails terminated into foul claws.? Below, were the attenuated limbs of a giant, as it wore huge bones, with the same covering of tendons and skin, and terminating in enormous skeleton feet. Such was the immense size of this monster, that thousands of human beings and animals were crushed under his enormous feet, whilst thousands more, having escaped this fate, wore clambering np their sides, or moving about upon their upper surface. The mind gazed horri fied, and tried to conjecture what this monster could bo?what meant the picture held in his outstretched hands, and what meant those human beings (that resembled the monster himself,save in size) crushed under his enormous feet, and what meant the escape of those other beings, who had not wholly taken to themselves the likeness of the monster. W hilst the ever active mind is revolving an explanation of that great panoramic view, and a name for that huge monster, two words from those shrilly sounding lips: Retrench! Economize!! btrike the car, and tho explanation is complete. That picture is our own country scour ed by drouth, and that , monster is " Hard Times." Tho waking question is: Will these woi ds ot warning bo heeded, and will we preserve strength to keep from under the feet of old " Hard Times I" ItEVEUR. The Synod of South Carolina. C .,,1 o >U r\ li? jliiv u v mm vi DUU1U v>uruillia stand adjourned to meet in tbo Presbyterian Church of this Town, on the 20th of October. So that, before our present issue will have reached our readers, this venerable body will have begun its sessions. The Synod consists of 80 Ministers, and 144 Churches. The boundaries of the Synod is co extensive with the State, and includes four Presbyteries. The Synod is connected with the General Assembly (O S.) of the Presbyterian Church,South, which extends over the Territory recently acknowledged as the Southern Confederacy, besides the State of Kentucky, and a hopeful expectation of being reinforced by the State of Missouri. The formation of the Southern Presbyterian Church was caused by the Political schisms among the Presbyterian Church at the North, from which they separated in Dec'r, 1861. The Southern Church claims that she is the true jronservator of the Westminster Confession of Faith, and is in opposition to the sad defection which has occurred in the Northern Church, and henco waited in vain for returning reason to re assert her supremacy, in repealing all it's unconstitutional delinquencies, which pcradventure, might have paved the way for a restoration of the severed ties which bound the Northern and Southorn branches of tho Churches together. The realization of this hope, however, is indefinitely postponod by the prospective union between the Old and New School Presbyterian Churches, which movement will be consummated during the month of November, at Pittsburg, Pa. The Government of the Presbyterian Chnroh \a pure Republicanism?in the high and proper senso of the word?i. c.?the government of tho Church by parliamentary assemblies, coninoaed of two classos of Elders, and of Elders only, and so arranged as to realize the visible unity of the whole Church?that is, Presbyteriauism. It contains officers, Presbyters? ruling and teaching. It contains Courts, Presbyteries?rising in gradation until you reach the General Assembly, the representative parliament of the whole Oharcb. It differs from Congregationtsm, by having representative assemblies ; and from Prelacy and Pop ery, not only by the assemblies, but by the officers of whom thev are composed. There is (1.) the Church Session, which is composed of the officers of a particular Church? (2.) the Presbytery, -which covers a greater or less area, and is com posed oi representatives from the Churches within that given territory?(8.) next the Synod, which embraces three or more Presbyteries, and is composed of the officers of the Churches of this still larger territory, and next (4.) is the General Assembly, which may embrace the broad Continent, and which is composed of representatives chosen by the Presbyteries. This is the last and highest Oonrt. Statistical Table An part) lor year ending April 1,T889: Synods in Gen. Assembly, 11 Presbyteries, 64 Ministers, j _* 867 Licentiate*), 49 Candidates, 124 Churches, 1460 Total Communicants, 79,961 Children in Sabbath Schools, &c., 42,2S4 Amount contributed towards' benevolent purposes, $774,400 The Presbyterian Church has always been preeminently di6tin guished as a Church devoted to principle. In this particular it is unrivalled. It has furnished the noblest defenders for the truth, and some of the most splendid suirits alike for the State and for the field. It has always been the patron of Education, and its clergy have everywhere been a c k n o w 1 edged among the first for learning, &c. Statistics show that the Presbyterian Church is the largest body of Evangelical Presbyterians in the world. It may not be overlooked, that the celebrated " Mecklenburg Declaration" of North Carolina, and the " immortal Declaration" of Thomas Jefferson, have their originals in the " solemn League and Covenant" of the " Scotch Presbyterians." To the Presbyterian Church therefore the United States is no little indebted lor its principles, &c., government, ?fcc., which alas, however, like the unfortunate traveller who went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, has fallen into " bad hands," &c., (or thieves and plun nereis, dec.) This section of tlio State has al? ways been remarkable for its noble Scotch-Irish Presbyterian population, &c., and our only regret is, that the whole race of man did not belong to the same stock. At least we can hope they will multiply a thousand fold. [Cheeter Reporter. An Ingenious Piece ok Knaveky?The Buffalo Courier exposes a very ingenious trick by which a gang of swindlers are making money by mutilating national bank notes of the denomination of five dollars. The dodge consists of making ten bills out of nine, and is so managed that there is but one pasting to each of the manufactured notes. The nine whole bills are taken, and from the right of the first one-tenth is sliced off; from the right of the second, two-tenths; from the right of the third, threetenths ; ana so on to number nine, from which nine-tenths are taken from the right, or, what amounts to the same thing, one-tenth from the left. Number one is passed as it is, with a tenth gone from the a ? a a-i t nguvj mo uue-iuiuu ihkoii iruiu number one is pasted to tbo residue of number two, from whioh two-tenths have been taken ; these two-tenths are maae to answer the plaoeoi the three-tenths taken from number three, and so on through. Thus nine five dollar notes are completed, leaving the original number nine, with a tenth gone from the left as a tenth note. It will be seen that but a tenth is gone trom each bill, and a little ingenious pasting makes the loss imperceptible to ordinary observers. It is asserted that largo num bora of these mutilated bills have been circulated in Buffalo. The rogues who have carried out the fraud were cunning in selecting the denomination they did. Larger bills are scrutinized, and smaller ones would not have been so remunerative. The Department will not redeem a bill which bears evidence on its face that it has been tampered with, and we advise our friends to scrutinize their fivo dollar notes closely. Henry W*rd Beecher.-wii u Mark Twain's istimat* or ap p*i? VATH HAtmi J. LC Mark Twain has been Writing 'JJ up the private habits of Rev. Hen- " r^ Ward Beecher for the Buffalo ^ Express, and from his article* we ^ select these paragraphs: Mr. Beecher never swears. In- 1 all his life a profane expression has [j never passed his lipe. -Bat if he ^ were to take it into his head to ^ try it once, he would make even cj that disgusting habit seem beauti* ^ ful?he wonla handle it as it was' ^ never handled before, and if there ^ was a wholesome moral lesson hid- Qj den away in it anywhere,he would u ferrit it out and use it wifh^trev, j mendous effect. ^Panoplied witj| I his grand endowments?his judginent, his discriminating taste, his ^ felicity of expression?bis graceful fancy?-if Mr. Beecher had a mind tt> swear, he would throw in- J to it &o:ara6unt of poetry and pathos. and SDlebdid imaffer^. and P. moving earnestness, and resistless n energy, topped off and. climaxed with a gorgeous pyrotoenio conflagration of filagree and fancy swearing, that would astonish and de- T light the hearer and forever after quivei^~tbr<5tfglf,'li i s "bewildered t memory an exqvisite cohfusion of if rainbows and mtisic, and thunder it and lightning. A man of a high 0 order (rfintellect and appreciation c could sit and listen to BuLr. Beecher swv ar for a week without getting s< tired. C2 ^ \ v ~ a Mr. Beecher does not go around and get advertisements tor the t u Plymouth Pulpit." If he does fj it, it if-^ithout his knowledge or 8 consent. If such a report has been l started, it is an absolute (fifty to refute it in this article. However, t no such report has yet been heard c of, and therefore It is not nccessary to do more than refute it in a c purely general way at this tune, c lie lias to preach, and he has to t make the dedication speeches for all sorts of things, and he is oblig- t > ed to make a few remarks on near- i ly all distinguished occasions, because very often Mr. Greeley is | busy aud cannot come. And be- < sides, be has to carry on his farm. Mr. Beectior's farm consists of f thirty-six acres and is carried on 1 on strict scientific principles. lie never puts in any part of a crop j without onnanltinor hia hnnW- 11? - ploughs and reaps and digs, and sows according to tbo best author- j itios and the authorities cost more | than the other farming implements | do. As soon as the library is com- 1 plete, the farm will bSgin tp be a < profitable investment. His special, weakness is bogs, however. He i considers hog the best game a farm ] produces, lie buys the original pig for a dollar and a half, and ] feeds him forty dollars' worth of I corn and then sells him for abont ] $9. This is the only crop he ever < makes any money on. He loses < on the corn, but ho makes $7 50 I on the hog. tie does not mind this, because he never expects to i make anything on corn> any way. j And any way it turns out, ho has the excitement of raising the hog i any how, whether he gets the worth oi him or not. His strawberries would be a comfortable i success if the robins would oat turnips?but they will not, hence tbo difficulty. Sometimes a portion of his crop goes into the ground the most promising sweet potatoes, and oomes up the mternaleet carrots? though I never heard hiin express it just in that way. Whou he bought Lis farm, be found one egg in every hen^B nest on the plaoe. He said that hero was just the reas. ou why so many farmers failed? they goattered their forces too much?concentration was the idea. Ho he gathered those eggs together and pot them ali under one experienced old hen. That hen ro ?t- < ed over that contract night and day for eleven weeks, under the i anxious supervision of Mr. Beeoh* er, himself bat she could not < iyphase" those oggs. Why? Be- < cause they were those infamous 1 porcelain things which are used by ingenious and fraudulent farmers | as " nest eggs." But perhaps Mr. | Beecher's most disastrous experi- < ence was the time he tried to raise j an immense crop of driod apples. < He planted fifteen hundred dollars | worth, but never a one of them i sprouted. He dm never been ablel | to understand, to this day, what i was the matter with those apples. Mr. Beecher's farm is not a tri- c mpb. It would be tablet for him he worked it on phases with sqtne i)e; Jbut |o can tot p*d *aiJ*bldy ho is willing to stand half the cxense, atid not many that are able. ^Beball dOt say anything about tr. P.cecheir'a tfennonaT T h o y reatbe the truest and purest spirof religion ; they are models of ulpit orktbry, and they are proofs tat the subject which Is the nearktto thflfin^es! ^f mankind can a pttt to nobler usee than the ilorolorming o f congregations. Ir. Beecher has done more thkn ly other man, perhaps, to inspire iligion with the progressive spirit F the nineteenth centnry, nnd take it keep step with the march f intellectual achievement and the enerous growth of men's charities ,> .1 i:l?~i i 1? " - ' uu nuviui I III J?ll IbCS. JUL18 aCCUS ill honor his memory. He has it his mark nVxrti his efx>ch, and ears hence, when the people turn Ver the bales and bundles of this cneration's ideas, they will nud H. W. B.M stenciled on a good iany of them. - The Josh Billings Papers. UE RACCOON AND THE PETTIFOGGER, The raccoon is a resident ov the Jnited States of America; he cm' grated tew this country soon after :a discovery by Columbus, withut a cent, and nothing but big laws tew get a living with. lie iz one ov them kind ov per ons whoso hido iz worth inoro than 11 the rest ov him. lie resides among tin. hoav) imber, and cultivates the corn ie'.ds and nabring garden sass foi ustenauce, and nudorstandg hi; tizness. llis family Consists ov-4 wife anc lireo children, who livo with bin n'the inside ov a tree. 1ft can nlwu# be found at hom< luring the day, reddy to recoivn :alls, but bis nights arc devotet ew looking after bis own atfaire He dresses in soft fur, and hi ail, {tvbiqiir ias roupd, has rings 01 t. These rings are ov the same mo erial that the tail iz, and arc won >n all occasions. During the winter ho tics him mlf* 11 n in Q nni n .v*? .i[y 1U ft* ft J ft* ft v* fti v/W tlllU I O UU W J ay liia fireside. When spring opens lie opens md goes out to see Low the chid ins Lav wintered. His life iz as free from labor a i new penny, and if it wasn't fo the dogs and the rest ov mankind the raccoon would find what every body else Las lost?Leaven o iarth. .SiiilTOVf V,r A-X Hut the clogs tree Lira and th men skin bim, and what thare i left ov him, ain't worth a cuss. Ho iz not a nntrul vngabont like the hedgehog and the olligt tor, but luvs to be civilized an live among folks, but he liaz on rice that the smartest missionnr 3n earth kan't redeem, and that i the art ov steeling. Ho iz second only tew the croi in petite larceny?will steal whs he leant eat nor Lido. Ho will turn over a barrel o apple, safea jfsk for the fua ov tnbu ing the sass with his Foot, and wi pull out tho ping out ov the mola bis, not be k '-uso he luvs sugar ei ny beltor than he duz yung duel but j^at tow if tho -molasst has got A good daub tew it. 1 hav studdiod animal deviltr for 18 years; be kauso tho nio? doviltry in an animal the mor human he iz. I can't find, by sarchlng the pa sengor li?ttf th^tjNofdi find a coo ob board, bnti am wfllirtgHfr bet 10 pound ove mutton sassan that mister coon and bte wife con muted by stealing a ride. I never knu a rackcoon tej want -ennytbing long that oonl Seat quToK. ^ * Enuyboddy who baa ever lool yd a coon right square in the fac will bet yu a dollar that be h dead beat, or under five hujjdre dollar bonds not tew go into tb bijaipess t'er tfca wt ninety dey< I Lav had tame coona b tO*;<fc?ar**to ?ro a*nr taine as a child if yu take thei I'onne enufl, but 1 kant advise ei nyboady to oultivate coons; the urant as mutch looking after ax t>lind rould on a tow-path, nn there a^nt 'etWytbhneprofit in tliec iban thai* iz in a stock dividend o the Erie Railroad, ?tt I never was out ov a pet anion lincte I kanromomW till now, Ihl I hav cone oq$ ov the trifle forever; lately I diskovered that it was a good deal like making a whi8sel out of a cat'8 tail, ruining a comfortable tale, and. reaping a .kursid mean whiseel. Rackcoons live tew be aikty.five years old if they miss the goc ety ov men and dogs cnuff; but there aint but few ov them die oV old age. The Northwestern Fur Company are the grate undertakers of the coon family. I feel sorry for coons, for with a trifle more brains tkoy wouldnaake respectable pettifoggers befire a jnstis ov the pcaco; bat even this would not 6avo them from final perdishtin. Nafu-e doVt make enny mistakes after all; she bits the bull right in the eye every time. When she wants a rackcoon with rings on his tail sho makes him, and V,r)|A \Vfl IIfa a nnH!fni??n? el.? nnoii "?? knows how tow make him without spileing a g0**1 uovnPettifoggers, no doubt, have a ! destiny toiV fill, and they may en able a justiss ov the peace, in a cloudy day, tew know a good deal less ov the law than he otherwise s would; still for all this, if I was . oMiged tew prav for one or the . other, I think now I should say, . give us a little more coon and a t good deal less pettifogger. If the rackcoon would only give his whole attenshun to politics thai* i ain't but few can beat him. lie is at home on the stump ; and menrl ny on us old coons kan rekolcckt . how, in 184:0, with nothing but a . hard ceder diet, he &went the 5 country from north to south pole like a cargo ov epsom salts. 1 * , "The Harp of a Thousand Strings." The "Editors Drawer,n of the J August Harper, republishes the 6 famous old sermon?" Ho played I on a harp of a thousand strings?" i. which is certainly good enough to b he reprinted at least once overt i five or ten years, and so we iun, tate the example of Harper : H SliKMOX. ii *5a\y O T m I may say to you, my brother ing, that I urn not an educated l* man, an' I ain not one o' them that II blccves education is necessary for I a Gospel minister, fur I bleeve the '? Lord edccatos his preac' era just as lie wants 'em to he educated; an' although I say it, that I oughtn't z to say it, yet in the State of Ind'i ' artnv, whar 1 live, thar's no man ' as gits a bigger congregation nor what I gits. II Thar may be some here to-day, my brethering, as don't know what 9 persuasion I am uv. Well, I may * say to you my brethering, that I am a Hard shell Haptist. Thar's > some tolks as don't like Hard shell Haptist; but I'd rather have a hard shell as no shell at all. You A - ~ see mo bore to day my bretkering, v drest up in fine close; you mout z think 1 was proud, but I am not proud, bl ethering ; an* although I x nave been a proacl.er uv tho goapel for twenty years, an' although I'm.oapting uv a flat boat that lies *> at your landing, I'ift not proud, ,j my bretU^ing. Tin pot gwine to tell yon edooaot^ hj tvlmr my tex may be found ; j1" suftico it ter say it's in the leds of the Bible,-an* you'll find it 601110whar 'tween the fust chapter of tho book of Generations an' the last y chapter of the Revolutions ; an' it "e you 11 go an' sarch the Scriptures o you'll not only find my tex thar, lint a groat raenny other texc$ as s- will do you good to read ; an' my 0 tex whon you skill find it, you w skill find it to read thus: ;? 14 And he played on a harp nv a thousand strings?spirits Of jnst men mado perfect." LV My tex, my brothcflng, leads me to speak of spent?. Now tliar's a great many kinds of spirits in C? tho world. Tn the fnflt vilnrn tlmr'a e tlio spirits as some folks calls n ghosts; theu thar's the speritg uv d turpingtime; and thar's the sperits e as some folks c dit lienor, and I'vo I got as good a artikel uv theui kind y ?v ^^Atas evcr jf was fetched aowii tbo Mississippi n riverj bnfr thar'a a great mgny 1. other kinds uv spirits, lor'the text y 6aysj * lie played on a harp n? a a tA<?M*f.and strings?sperits nv d just men made perfeck." n But HI tell you nv the kind uv n sperits as is mcnt In the tex?it's Jire. That is the kind uv sperits d as U ment in the tex, my brotherif J ing. Wow, thar's a great many - ??u ' kinds of fire in. the first place, tbar's the common sort uV fire you light a pipe of cigar whh; an' then tliar's Camfire; fire before you're ready to fall back; an' metiey. other kinds of fire; for the tex any* ? "He played on a harp nv a #/<os?-8ond strings?e per its nv just then made perfeck." . . But I'll tell you the kind of fird as It meant in the tex, my brethering?it's hell fire ! an' that's the kind of fire at many of you'll come to ef yon dort't dd better ho whit you've bin doin'?for " He played on a harp n v a thou sand storings ?sperits of just meh madb per* Now the different sorts nv fire in the world may be likened unto (he different persuasions in the woild. In the fust place we hare the " Piscopalians," an' they're li high-sailin' an' a high-falntin' set, and thev may bo likened unto a turkey buzzard that flies up intd the air, and lie goes up and tip till he looks no bigger than yottr fincrcr-nail, an' the fust thing you know ho cum down an' down, an' is a fillin' himself on the karkiss - J J1 * ? *!! J - 1 uv a ueau noss op me 8iae nv me road and " He played on a harp, uv a thou sand strings?sperits of just men made perfect.' And then tliar's the Methodic, an' they may be likened nnto to a squirrel runnin' up a tree; for the Methodis believes in gwine on from ono degree uv grace to anutlier, an' finally on to perfeckshun; an' tho squirrel goes up an' up, an' he jumps from lim' to lim', an' branch to branch, an' tho fust iking you know he falls, an' down lie comes, jic-rflummex ; an' that's like the Methodis for they is allers' fallin' from grace?ah 1 Aud " Ho played on a harp of a thou-sand strings?sperits of unjust men made perfeck." And then, my brethring, thar's the Baptist?ah !?and they have bin likened unto a possum on a sinnnon-trce ; an' the thunders may roll, an' the airth may quake, but that possum cling thar still?ah ! An' you may shake one foot loose, but tother's thar\ an' you may 6hake all his feet loose, buthe laps his tail around the lim', and' ho clings forever : for u He played oil a harp uv a Mow 6and strings? sperits of just men made perfeck." ?-?i tm'* ? KoOPMANSCIIAr's Pro Ta il3 ? This individual proposes to furnish the West with swarms of pig tails on the following scale > "This total cost of importation of Chinese to New Orleans from Dllina in nmlrt f\int-rn/?la fn bo made tor five years. Wages, eight dollars in gold or ten in currency, tor good field hands; fifteen dollars in gold for railroad hands; advances made to thern iif China, to be deducted in monthly installments, two suits of clothing per year. Each laborer's contia?.ts arc to be made for not Ipss than five years. laborers to work twenty-si* da}*s per month; also' to have one or two' holidays during the commencement of their now year in March. English biblioal critics are debating whether the glass referred to by St. Paul, through which his, hearers saw darkly, was 41 it Sort of semi-translucent slag; or one of our artificial crystals," or a mirror i whether it was a glass to be Ibokcd through or only into. Tho , latter view is favored by Archbishop Trench. A gentlkman returning home ri few evening since, was asked what was the news from town. O, nothing much, only 44 theMetbodistd in Massachusetts had licensed a lady to preach." tJpon which the lady replied that 41 the Confederates had killed out the men closer than 1 thought* A tRAVKi.Ktt stopped at An Inn In a neighboring village, and fiuding the landlord and landlady fighting cried out: "Hallo who kecna this house ?" The wife replica j "That's just what wo ato trying to decide." >" Pa, what is the use of giving onr pigs s o much milk I" " t>o that they may mnko hogfi oftbcnt' selves, darling,11 Wha* are too wtitlhtf snch a big hand for, rat!" " Why you see my grandmother is dafo, and t am writing a kwd letter to her."