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THE TRIBUNE.
VOL. I.--NO. 29. BEAUFORT, S. C., JUNE 9, 1875. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
Beautiful May.
Wiutor'H departing, angry and sullen ;
After his footsteps comes a bright baud :
Flowerets in numbers start from their slumbers?
May is awaking all over the land.
Deep in the hollows snow drifts are lying,
Like early sorrow, melting away ;
Warm rain is falling wild birds are calling?
Boaut.ful spring-time, beautiful May !
Oh, could I Bee her come o'er the mountain,
Under her eyelids bringing tho day !
Birds would Hing sweeter only to greet her.
Girl of my heart's love, my beautiful May!
?Miss Mulock.
JUDY.
At dawn on a February morning, fifty
years since, the lookout on board the
sloop-of-war Rosebud, engaged in repressing
tho alave traffic on the African
coast, reported a suspicious sail about
eight miles to leeward. Ohase being
made, tho vessel was quickly identified
by tlio delighted pursuers as tlie Arrow,
n noted slaver, whose capture had hitherto
proved impossible ; her captaiu and
mate, both English, being men distinguished
alike for skill aud hardihood,
and possessing a far more accurate
knowledge of the coAst than was furnished
M those newly-arrived by the imperfect
charts of that time.
The chase lind commenced about seven
o'clock in the morning, and by three
land was reported, something less than
twenty miles distant; chase five miles
still to leeward, and apparently running
straight for the nearest headland.
As they approached, the land rose
high, aud, shelving towards the shore,
displayed small blumps, marking itself
as that kind of coast which generally
terminates in rocks.
The sloojt-of-war worked towards the
shore as far as it was safe. The captain
of tho Arrow evidently knew the coast,
aud kuew the little laud-locked course
for which he was now making.
The crew wero all on deck. Tho first
lino of breakers was passed, and their
courage rose as they witnessed the ,cool
luiari'nn /if *!??? 1- 1
/VHUtu^ v/i UUU WU^bUlih Uiliy lit?
betrayed emotiou, turning deadly pale,
but without changing a muscle. It was
when the sea caught the Arrow on her
starboard quarter, and Bhe threatened to
broach-to before the helmsman could
stop her. But JondrHas a good hand.
He checked her at the critical moment,
and kept her head right vfall in the centrr,
It wuvi when Una saa, >wbioh lifted
the vessel and surged along with lior,
subsided, that the vessel, as she fell into
tlio hollow, just touched the ground. It
was but for a moment. The next sea
lifted them cleau off the passage, the
helm was clapped hard a-starboard, the
point was rounded, and the anchor let
go iu what was, comparatively, a inillpoml.
Sails were furled. She was safo
us in Dover harbor.
44 What about the 'obony?'" asked
Hawloy of his chief. "The sloop must
see our mast above tho rocks, and may
try tho passage. In that caso we're
trapped."
44 She'll bo lost to-night," replied tho
other, coolly. 4 4 Sho could never claw
off in this sea, and is too close in to escapo.
If sho drifts to leeward only a
mile nu hour, she'll he hard and fast and
battered to chips by midnight. Send a
hand aloft, and lot mo know what the
fellow's doing."
Ileport was presontly made that the
sloop was off the point, some seven or
eight miles, carrying a press of Bail, yet
apparently dropping shoreward.
44 Hah 1" said the captain, rubbing his
hands. 44 She's not to have the picking
oi me uttie Arrow tins trip, anyhow !
Well, what ubout these niggers. In
these climates the wiud chops round in
a second, and thou we should have her
boats in tlio cove before we could land
our ebony ! They will always keep the
passage open?for, if it blows, 'tis thenonly
chance."
" Well, sir, they'll have'more luck than
often falls to such sharks, if they get in
hero !" said tho mate.
"Well, land the beggars, and away
with them to the rear of the hillock,
where the old hut stands. Shackle them
weii, and land half the hands to watch
them. Look after the crew yourself."
"Shall I land them all i" asked
Itawley.
"No, not all. Leave Judy to me," replied
the other, glancing towards a
corner of the deck where, throughout
tho recent perilous maneuver, something
like a human figure had lain crouched
under a tarpaulin.
Tho unfortunate slaves?a hundred
and seventeen in number?were quickly
landed, and goaded along to their dostiued
hiding place.
Judy, who remained on board the
slaver, was now at the perfection of
negress womanhood?sixteen. She was
cheerful and intelligent; so quick, iudeed,
of apprehension, that in mtho short
time Bhe had been a captive, but distinguished
by the captain s favor from
l,n. - i - l-5?
?? louunn in luiaiurtuuo, hiiu uitu learned
much English, and begun to read.
Meanwhile, on board the Rosobnd
things looked less and loss satisfactory.
Despite all efforts, she had neared tho
land considerably. * The wind rather increased
than diminished, and Captain
Henderson, thongh externally calm and
confident as ever, began to feel serious
alarm.
Again and again had he striven to
make out tho narrow entranoe, and been
compelled to claw off from tho porilous
spot. It was in one of these anxious
Hoarchings that ho discovered tho Arrow's
masthead?motionless, and evidently in
, security. Suddenly, there was elevated
on a small hillock an English union-jack.
Was this a tender of assistance? Was it
intended to direct them to the difficult
entrance ? An anxious consultation followed.
At length tlio mainsail split and went
to ribbons, and thero being no alternative
but to anchor, tlio necessary order
was given. . i
On sounding, they found but eighteen
fathoms of water?nmddy bottom? :
showing how much they had drifted in
shore, but also affording some hope, as
the anchors might now hold, thanks to
the mud mingled with the sand.
Allowing her to drift into twelve
fathoms, the ltosebud's captain let go
both bower anchors?one backed by tlio i
stream, the other by the kedgo?at the
same moment, and veered away a whole
cable, upon that, so that now he had fivo
anchors down, each bearing a proper
strain.
"Does sho drift?" asked Henderson
every moment, in his accustomed steady
voice, though an affirmative would have
been his ship's death-warrant.
" Not an inch, sir," was the invariable
reply.
Thus affairs remained for more than
an liom:.
On shore, the captain and mate of the
slaver had been carefully watching their
imperiled pursuer.
The suspicion started on board the
latter had been correct. The flag had
been so placed that, had the sloop used
it as a guide, sho must inevitably have
been dashed upon the outer ledge of
rocks.
As the day shut in, the two worthies
resolved to improvo the snare. They
obtained a couple of lanterns from the
brig, and hoisted them on tho false bluff.
This done, tlicy returned on board, where
the mate made a kind of official report
relative to the slaves.
Day dawned. Tho gale had moderated.
The Rosebud was safe. She had i
held on well, and though she had dragged
a little, had still ten fathoms of water, i
About noon, a Blight flaw of wind coming
off the land, she instantly weighed,
and got under canvas.
Tho Blaver's people eyed this operation
with intense delight, and the captain
and mate had a little carouse of con- :
gratulation. At last it occurred to the ;
wary skipper to see what the sloop was
doing, and a hand was sont aloft.
The report was startling.
" Hove to, sir. Boats just entering
the cove.
Rawley looked at his chief.
" Condemned, sir. Judy "?was all ho
said.
" No time to land her ?"
" Impossible."
Tho captain's tanned visngo flushed,
and then grew sheet white.
The ivtnfco lunufnil nimiiflranflv in fl>e
direction of the coming bouts.
"Here, Rawley," said tlie other, putting
his hand on his shoulder, and whispering
iu his ear. "Be quick. You understand.
Down, every man of you, i
fore and aft," ho continued, " and scrub
out the hold as quickly as possible."
The hnud3 disappeared, and the mate,
who had jumped below also, returned,
leading Judy.
" Bear a hand, my lad, or we're done ]
for I"
Those below heard ono loud shriek,
sounding above all tho noise they made, i
and stopped appalled. But tho mate's i
voice was heard, talking cheerfully:
" I'll give them work enough ! They
shan't get the Arrow out without a job !
They shall weigh every anchor themselves.
And here goes auother !"
Tho ax was heard to fall on tho stopper,
and tho larboard anchor dropped
from the bows.
At this moment tho Rosebud's boats
rounded the point, and dashed alongside.
Mr. Hall had come in person. Too
shrewd of observation to be easily gulled,
he had observed, on entering, that had
they steered for the signal they must
have been lost. This confirmed him iu
his opinion of the character of the vessel
pursued, even had she not already been
pretty well identified as the victorious
Arrow.
As the armed boats dashed up, tho
captain and mate were seen quietly
smoking on deck, much at their ease.
"What vessel is this?" demanded
Hall, as he jumped on deck. i
" The Arrow, of Liverpool." i
I " Where from last ?"
" Sierra Leone."
"Your cargo?"
" Emptiness," was tho saucy reply.
" Jump down there, men," said Hall, :
disdaining furthor colloquy, " and examine
the vessel thoroughly."
Half a dozen men obeyed.
" How many men have you on
board?" asked Hall, now addressing tho
mate.
" Six."
" What are you doing hero ?"
"Getting out of tho way of tho wind."
" Then whither bound when wo first
sighted you ?"
" To Loango."
"Working ' Tom Cox's travorse,' eh ?"
said tho other, 1 ironically. " You were
standing to W. N. W. with a fair wind.
Is that tho course for Loango?"
" I was working my own reckoning,"
put in tho captain, " and perhaps I
should havo found mv uort iust as well
without your assistance."
" Show mo your papers." <
"Hero." ]
There wan nothing in the papers in- i
consistent with what had been stated.
Tho vessel was bound, apparently, for 1
gold-dust; and, as far as observation t
went, there was nothing to justify her i
detention The midshipmen reported, i
indeed, that tho vosael, though empty, i
was not guiltless of that peculiar aroma '
tliat, to tho noso of exjv rlence, denotes I
tho recent presence of 1 -grows. And a
shackle or two had been found; but, be- i
Jond this, there was nothing oil board I
> bear put the suspicion that this i
notorious craft was still in tie. t
inhuman traffic who had hitherto pursued. 1
"Stay. How came you to stick up
that flag yesterday in the wrong place?" (
resumed Mr. Hall, sternly. i
"There, Mr. ltawley," ejaculated the 1
slaver's captain, addressing his mate,
with a sanctified look. "See what men
get for doing a good turn. There were 1
we, up half the night, Btrainiug our i
blessed eyes out, with ropes and every- '
thiug ready, to render these people assistance,
and this is the reward?to be ]
treated as slaves and pirates 1" j
" That doesn't answer my question,
sir," said the officer. " Come, you must
Bee the captain; and, as we can t port
company with such kind and well-intentioned
folks, just weigh at once, and
out with you, alongside the sloop."
"Weigh for yourself," was tlio sullen
reply, " I shan't go out of this till better
weather. If you start my anchors, I
hold you responsible for anything that
may happen to the vessel. Mind now,
sir. I tell you, before you begin, not a
man of mine shall render you the least
assistance. The instant yon touch my
aucliors I give up charge of the vessel,
aud hold you responsible to its owners.
Note that down in the loc. Mr. Itawlev.
Mark the exact time. And now, sir "
(addressing Mr. Hall), "begin as soon as
yon please."
The officer hesitated?ho knew the
danger of tlie'pussago. The wind was
very light, the sea still running heavily
on shore, and it was far from certain he ;
could tako tho brig out in safety. In
this dilemma, ho dispatched one of his
boats to the Rosebud, giving an account
of what he had seen, and requesting
further orders. In the meantime he got ,
into the other boat, and examined the '
soundings of the cove.
On the return of the boat sent to the ,
sloop, tho midshipman handed a card to i
Mr. Hall, who at once pulled back to the i
slaver.
"You will get under weigh, sir, and i
go out to the sloop. There aro your
orders. About it, with no more palaver." i
" I shall do nothing of the kind," was
the answer. "I am in a safe harbor,
and here I stay till my sails are repaired ;
and my rigging set up. If you choose
to take charge of her, do so, but you get
no help from me."
" Very well. Then I relievo you
from all responsibility. Board her,
men. Some of you get that topsail 1
aloft, just as it is. The rest weigh
anchors. Smartly now. Wind's dropping."
The mate here interfered.
u WllV fnvfi v/Mircnlf nn?l 11a mnvn
trouble than is necessary ? You know
very well we shall be back hero in a
couple of hours."
"Will you?" said Mr. Hall, doubtfully.
"At all events, we'll tako the chance.
So why not slip the cables and buoy the
ends ? There's nobody here to stea the
wood." 1
"All right. I've no objections to
that. Go slip and buoy, my lads."
Giving this direction, while walking
forward, Mr. Hall remarked that the
larboard auehor, which lay in only three
fathoms' water, was upside down. lie
therefore ordered his people to slip the
starboard cable; and, as ho came aft
again, observed to the captain :
'' As you've so little cable out on the
larboard anchor, we'll weigh that."
"Why so?" asked the other, uneasily.
" Because, if the wind fails us, as
seems likely, we may have to anchor
outside. Now, bear a hand aloft there."
Meanwhile the mate had run forward,
and was seen assisting busily to unsplice
the lower cable.
"Belay that," cried Hall. "Unsplice
tile other, the starboard cable,
men !"
The mate made an attempt to complete
the work, however, by attempting
to slip the end through the hawse-hole.
Tint lift W11S nrmill frllufrnfn/1 onmo
of the Rosebud's men had stiffened the
cable before all, and brought-to the
messenger.
By this time the sails were loosed,
and the men, assembled at the capstan,
began to heave around.
The result must, 1 think, liavo been
anticipated. Very few who have acquainted
themselves with the but too
authentic narratives of the barbarities
practiced by slave captains at this
period, will doubt tlio truth of this.
They need not; for the circumstances,
names excepted, are perfectly accurate.
When the anchor reached the bows it
brought up with it, lashed to the shank,
and gagged to stifle her cries, tho corpse
of poor Judy I
This condemned the Arrow as a prize.
Such, howover, was tho indiguntion of
tho Rosebud's men that it roquired tho
energetic interference of Mr. Hall to
protect the captain from summary
vengeance. Unhappily for Rawley, the
active instrument in the murder, that
miscreant, hoping to escape altogether,
leaped into the sloop's boat which lay
alongside, with only the boat-keeper remaining
in it. Striking tho latter on
the head with some lieavv instrument.
and sending him into tho water, tlio 1
mato jumped overboard and made for 1
tho shore. '
" Come back, you murdering sconn- '
drol," shouted Hall, whoso quick eyo 1
liad caught tho whole proceeding, rapid 1
is it was. " Back, or we fire !"
Ho had scarcely uttered tho last word, *
when a shot from tho bows, fired by a '
rnilor who had mistaken tho menace for 1
in order, stopped tho fugitivo. Turn- '
ing round ho r<?so, as by some eonvulsivo '
movement, half abovo tho surface, then, '
with a wild toss of tho arms, wont to tho (
liottom. '
Tho stunuod seaman having been <
ipiickly picked up and passed on board,
tho boat proceeded in search of tho
mate's body, which, owing to a strong ]
jddy, had been carried some little (lis- <
tanco from the spot at which ho sank.
It was at length descried through flic
-lour water, and, by means of the boat's
anchor, with little ceremony hauled on
boird, of course lifeless.
The brig was condemned, and the
value of the prize was much augmented
by the circumstance of her crew betraying
the hiding-place of the slave cargo.
Those wore speedily resliipped in the
very vessel in which they had beeu so
roughly stowed, and in duo course regained
their home.
A Temperance Lecture,
Judge Westbrook, in sentencing Batting,
at Kingston, New York, to Sing
Sing prison for life, for the murder of
a man while intoxicated, embraced the
occasion to deliver a very forcible lecture
upon temperance. Judge Westbrook
said :
We know that you were not in a physical
or mental state to comprehend the
crime. You were fired by that which
has fired many a man before; your
brain was crazed by that which has
crazed many a brain before; but can
courts, in the prevention of crime, listen
to an argument and a plea like that i If
they did or could, whose life would be
sain or wnoso property secure ( We
kuow the safety of human society and
human life requires that you should bo
punished, because you voluntarily put
yourself in that condition. You became
voluntarily drunk, and must take
the consequences of the act which you
did while in such a state.
You are guilty of an awful crime, and
you are to-day receiving the judgment
of this earthly tribunal; but remember
you must answer to another which will
judge with entire knowledge and in the
sentence of which there can be no possible
mistake. You have time and space
for repentance and to make your peace
and obtain forgiveness before you staud
in the presence of the august .Judge who
shall there preside. Perhaps in saying
what we have, our wholo duty is done,
yet it seems to us it is a proper time
aud proper occasion to utter one word
more.
'Is there not a most eloquent appeal
from that bleediug body of your unhappy
victim, aud in his gaping wounds,
in your unfortunate condition, and the
condition of your family, against that
trallic which has brought you to this
bar, separated you from your wife and
family, and sent Tompkins into the
presence of his God ? I trust that this
sin and this lesson will be remembered
andj never forgotten. If any other jrrgument
is needed against the use of
intoxicating drink and the trafiic therein,
you on this occasion furuisli that armillipni
rm?l if. i? wriffnn ftwlair oa if
bus oftimos beou before, iu tears, and
in blood.
An Incident of the War.
Gen. Sherman, in bis personal narrative,
refers to the fact that immediately
after the tirst battle of Bull Run insubordination
crept out among the
troops of bis command to sucli an extent
that be ordered Ayer's battery to
imliiuber, ready for action against them.
During this "insubordination," an
imusing incident occurred. The troops
specially referred to were Col. McQuade's
14th New York infantry. Impressed
with the idea that their term
>f service was out, they expressed a dotermination
to go home. Fearful of
difficulty, Sherman ordered a section
>f Ayer's battery to tako position at the
right of Fort Corcoran, 011 an elevated
spot, the 14th being encamped 011 a
miall plain below. The guns of the
battery bore directly upon the camp, and
1 few shells exploded in the Fourteenth
would have blown the regiment hi pieces.
The boys of the 14th took the matter
iu good humor, and seeing the smokestack
of a mill torn down near at hand,
tliey mounted it on a pair of wagon
wheels and organized a battery of their
awn.
Running tlio improvised gun to the
very limit of the camp ground to which
the men were confined, they would halt,
?o through the manual of loading by
detail, and, at the command "fire,"
avery man in the regiment would give
pent to a prolonged " b-o-o-m."
This maneuver was kept up, n new
ijuu squad relieving an old 'one when
tired, until the thing became such a
Farco that Sliorman, very much annoyed,
ordered the lieutenant and his section
back to park.
The lieutenant in eliorpe of tho gnus,
ifterwards a distinguished general, was
io annoyed by tho 14tli boys that it
was with difficulty he could control his
temper. Somo olliaer suggested that he
tire a blank cartridge over tho corps.
"No," ho thundered, "if I open lire
Ml tho fellows it will be with shell, and
I'll fire low, too." There was no occasion
for firing, as tho insubordination
was soon settled.
Half a Crop of Wheat.
Tho Philadelphia Prcns contains a
page specially devoted to tho condition
mil prospect of tho wheat crop of Pennlylvauia,
containg upward of two lmnIred
dispatches covering tho entire
iliufvilt r.f *lw? Tl... /i:?
patches report the condition of tho crop
May first in each county, and estimate
the probable yield that will bo harvested.
Owing to tho severe frost of a late spring
much of the expected crop has been
killed and tho season delayed eight or
ton weeks. A careful survey of the field
leads to tho Imlief that not over half a
jrop will l)o gathered, and even this
imount depends upon tho continuance
>f dry weather.
Half of tho shadows found in our
>aths of life are made by standing in
>nr own light. .
X.
ALCOHOL'S REGAL RIVAL.
Hntnn'w Srronil Cholrr for the Ktlllnn of
iHitiikliul? Nome Smrtlin? Facts.
Another suicide ! In this case, as in
many of which no account is taken by
tlio daily newspapers, says the New York
Hun, tlio poison employed was morphine
or laudanum. " Died after an overdose
of laudanum" is tlio verdict. That
overdose, however, was only the culmination
of a long indulgence, extending
probably over years. The usual quantity
failing to produce the desired effect, it
was largely increased, and the end was
death. Properly speaking, this was not
a case of suicide; it was the result of indulgence
in a life destroying vice that
was certain to terminate in death.
Hardly a week passes in which a case of
opium poison is not treated in some one
of our hospitals. A cure is occasionally
effected, but it is ouly temporary, and
the wretched victim almost invariably
falls back into the old ways, and the end
is at last reached by either suicide or a
total prostration of mind and body.
" I am a strong man," said a physiciau,
"and have repeated opportunities
to test my resolution under tho most trying
circumstances, yet so insidious and
treacherous is this vice, once contracted,
so demoralizing is its influence on the
power of the will, that I would not dare
to trust myself to a continued use of the
drug even for a limited time. The
nrnviiifr if. prpnt/ifl (lironflv nffpnfa fho
mental organization, and eventually
destroys all power of resistance. I have
known ladies who in their advanced age
hud contracted the habit, and who carried
the poison about their persons in
the form of salts of opium, using it almost
hourly. Indeed, the vice is more
prevalent among women than among
men."
With regard to the superinducing
causes of the evil a distinguished physician
say3: They may be divided into
two chesses, the physical and the moral.
Under the tirst head should be placed all
persons suffering from neuralgia, rheumatism,
dysiuteric affections, tic-doloureaux,
consumption, hysteria, uterine
affections, etc. In such cases opium in
somo form is usually first prescribed by
physicians, and continued by the patient
after the habit has been acquired. The
moral causes are often pecuniary embarrassments,
disagreements, jealousies,
sensualism, etc. In these case? the drug
is resorted to to drown thought or promote
excitement.
There is no doubt that oninm is too
miscellaneously prescribed, perhaps to
the extent that if it did not exist the
liuniau race would be better off. It is a
most useful therapeutic agent, but of all
tho articles of the materia median it requires
the most intelligence and eare in
its use. Patients suffering with delirium
tremens have been killed by it, and yet
in tho same disease, with proper caution,
it is a most beneficial remedial agent.
In gunshot wounds, in railroad accidents,
and in excessive hemorrhages,
opium, if properly administered, is a
boon to mankind; but if thrown into the
system inj udiciously it is most disastrous
to human lifo.
Then the physical prostration produced
by the use of opium renders its victims
liable to contagion, unless they are continually
under the influence of the drug.
The sudden discontinuance of the use
of the drug has a somewhat similar effect
to that produced by a discontinuance of
the excessive use of alcoholic stimulants
in the case of confirmed drunkards. It
is followed by a sort of mental collapse
or groat prostration of the mental energies.
Opium gives and takes away. It
defeats the steady habit of exertion, and
creates spasms of irregular exertion. It
ruins the natural power of life; it develops
preternatural paroxysms of intermitting
power; it brings 011 hypertrophy
or enlargement of tho liver, habitual
constipation, bronzed complexion, rigiditv
of skill, vacanev of exnressinn. iwm.
oral hyperesthesia, ami insomnia, or
sleeplessness; a morbid condition of the
stomach, rejecting many kinds of food
that are regarded by medical men as simple
and easy of digestion; acute, shooting
pains that are confined to no one
part of the body; and unnatural sensitiveness
to cold, frequent perspirations
in parts of the body, and a chronic tendency
to impatience and irritability of
temper, with paroxysms of excitement
wholly foreign to the natural disposition.
In the long run it saps the vitality. It
engenders sterility. The offspring, if
there be any, is generally marked by organic
cerebral defects?impaired intellect
and unconstitutional cachexia, or deteriorated
vitality.
The amount of opium imported into
tho United States in 1874 was about two
hundred tons, and it is estimated that
twenty-one hundredths of the opium sold
by retailors would cover all tho prescriptions
of physicians proper, and live per
cent, excepted from the entire as an extra
allowance for the vltrious nostrums afloat
would be liberal and abundant. This is
from a comparison of opiuions enter
tained by many apothecaries of New
v?_i. _:i.. i i-. ii il.~
I III IV I'lty, HUM \AJ HH'fHJ imifUUIIM O tuu
experienced Dr. Carnochan adds the
?}>iuiou that while the therapeutic value
of opium has suffered no abatement in
the estimation of the profession, the
total of prescriptions is proportionately
less than it was twenty years ago,
A disease, resembling the murrain
spoken of in tlio Bible, is causing great
havoc among the flocks and herds of
Turkey. On the plains of Troy the
skeletons of thousands and thousands
of sheep cover the ground. Shepherds,
stripped of their outiro herds in many
eases, have gone insane over the calamity.
In the country about Adrianople
fully thirty per cent, of the horned
cattle and horses have already died of
disease i
Items of Interest.
The Kansas grasshoppers speak very
highly of this spring's early cabbages.
A cross-eyed girl advertises for a husband
affected in the same way. What a
cross-eyedear I
Dr. Lviingstone found that the ostrich
could run at the astonishing speed of
twenty-six miles an hour.
" Gently the dues are o'er me stealing,"
as the man said when he had
thirteen bills presented to him in one
day.
The San Francisco directory just issued
estimates the population at 230,000.
The Bulletin is willing to believe it 30,
000 less.
Artificial batter making lias never
proved a success. The difficulty lies iu
putting in the hairs bo they look
natural.
Comforting isn't it, to be told now,
that if there had only been telegraphic
communication with the mainland, all
on board the Bcliiller might have been
saved ?
The Milwaukee Sentinel says it is all
right for Lotta to give a fountain to San
Francisco, but it would be more satisfactory
to the world if she gave her agent
a clean shirt.
"Why do you use point!" asked a
violinist of his daughter. " For the
same reason that you use rosin, papa."
"How is that?" "Why, to help mo
draw my beau."
"Every tree is subject to a disease,"
said a speaker in a fruit-growers' convention.
"What ailment can you find on
an oak ?" asked the chairman. "A-com,"
was the triumphant reply.
It has been discovered that the New
England lady who spelled six hundred
and fifty words out of the word " oongregationalist,"
has never learned to
make a loaf of bread out of flour, yeast,
and water.
A gun factory in Upper Austria is
making 250,000 rifles for Germany. It
has delivered 180,000, and has received a
further order for 75,000. A Vienna firm
is reported to be executing a German order
for 30,000,000 cartridges.
One of the crew Schiller was arrested in
Hoboken for being drunk a few days before
the vessel sailed. Recorder Bohnstodt
sent him to jail for five days His
time expired the day after the Schiller
sailed and he escaped the fate of his companions.
_
Talk of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica,"
or Appleton'sl An Imperial Chinese
EncylopaBdia is now, and has been for a
century, passing through the press, of
which nearly 100,000 volumes have already
appeared, and 60,000 volumes are
yet to come to complete the undertaking.
It is said that during the thirteen years
that Oliver Charlick was president of the
Long Island railroad he never drew any
part of his salary, although it had been
fixed by the board of directors at $10,000
a year. This makes $130,000 which his
estate will, of course, call upon the company
to pay up.
The recent fire in Oshkoeh, Wis.,
burned four hundred houses, seventy
stores, fifty manufacturing establishments
four hotels, four churohes.
About 3,000 people we.e burned out of
house and liome, and three hunted
families aro destitute. Over 2,000 are
out of employment.
Inspector (who notices a backwardneas
in history)?Who signed Magna
Charta? (No answer.) Inspector (mcro
urgently)?Who signed Magna Charta?
(No answer.) Inspector (angrily)?Who
signed Magna Charta? Scrapcgrace
(thinking matters ore beginning to look
serious)?Please, sir, it was not me, sir!
Two friends meeting after an absence
of some years, during whieh time the
one had increased considerable in bulk,
and the other still resembled only the
" effigy of a man," said the stout gentleman:
" Why, Dick, you look as if you
yon had not had a dinner since I saw you
last." "And you," replied the other,
".look as if you had been at dinner ever
since."
A stern father got wind of an intended
elopement of his daughter on a certain
night, and when that sweet thing was on
the point of stealing dowu stairs, she
beheld a ferocious looking bulldog
standing at the bottom; so she concluded
to go back to her room and postpone
her elopement. Her father never told
her it was a stuffed dog, which he had
borrowed from the man living next
dt>or. '
All Want Medicine.
The Griffin (Ga.) News says: The colored
people liave some strange ways, and
one of these is a disposition to giant or
have ailments. Tins weakness is more
plainly shown whenever there fil a remo/lxr
fthnnf. nanAniollxr if fitaf "rnmn/ltr "
is anything on the line of medicine. Wo
overheard a gentlemen discussing this
matter the other day, and he remMked
that he could not keep a bottle of rndflfe
cine on his premises and let itbe known.
It made no differenoe what kind it was, *
if they thought it would do them good.
Ho wiia "sorter ailing" and being in
town, hod a bottle of bicters fixed up by
his physician. Returning home he took
two doses, and found it so rough that he
was going to throw it away, but, thinking
for a moment, he stepped to the
door, and said in the hearipg of some o?
his negroos that ho had some splendid
medicine. Next morning one OMM
grunting around, saying: " Boss^I'se
mighty ailing dis morning; ain't you got
something for me ? I'se got a pain in
my misery." Ho was properly "dosed,"
and went on his way rejoicing, lees ,
than twenty-four hours six of. them had
" destroyed " the entire bottle, and ?oh
of thorn ud a difierent somplaint.