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VOL. II.?NO. 35. BEAUFORT, S. C., JULY 19, 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
Forgotten.
Onco, 1 ijkiug throjgh a little sheaf
Of papera store 1 Iro n.clul llio id's yeara,
I eh mood upon a fad.d loaf,
An 1 read, half e ratling, half in tears,
This legend on the wrapping Bet
Indelicate girl wri'iug tmtll:
" Never this day, this leaf forget;"
And, lo ! I had forgot it all.
Nor tionld t think with all my care
What it did over mean, and bo
I slowly let the summer air
Waft it away, and watched it go
With dreaming gazo. And is it tkue,
a. I mu-ed, w,th thiH world's joy and grief ?
' Nover forget," it seems to us,
k Ab I wrote on my little eheaf ;
When, lo ! without our kuowledge, cuiled
Our scroll of earth ; its Btory small
Comes uot into that higher world ;
Besides?we have forgot it all!
? Comtance Fenimorc Woolaon.
" CHISPA."
In 1865 I was working on the south
fork of tUu Yuba, at a point two or three
miles below Sierra Uity. I was at work
alono in a ravine mukiug down the
liver. Half a dozen other miuers had
cabins not far from mine, and were .at
work in gulches or on bars in the river.
All of our eabius were on the south side
of the river, and mine was at least half a
mile further south than any of the
others, which carried it well up toward
the main ridge or raugo of hills walling
in the stream.
Ouo day at noon I went homo to get
my dinuer, aud on opening the door of
my cabin saw in the middle of the floor
a small scrap of white paper folded in
the form of a note. I thought this not
a little curious, as my door was secured
with a padlock of peculiar construction,
and no man could hafe entered except
through the " cat hole " at tae bottom
of the door.
As I took up the uote I saw that there
were two or three drops of lilcod on it.
The note alone was sufficient to startlo
mo, but when I saw the blood a chill ran
fl... ?-i? ? T ?:j . <.rr ?
uiuugu rnjr YOlun IW l BI11U ; " UtTO 13
8 )Oie villainy afoot! Somebody ban
been murdered, perhaps!" My next
thought was that some of the boys
might bo placing a trick on mo. Instead
of at once opening the note to read
it I began lookiug into all corners of the
room, even stooped and peeped under
my bed.
No ouo was to be seen. My cat, old
"Cbispa," was he only living thing in
the place. Ho c me purring about my
legs, as was his habit when I came homo;
though often he wasoutouhisown hook,
hunting and prospecting about, for he
was not one of your home-staying, lazy
kind of cats.
After speaking a kind word or two to
old "Chispa" I opened the note, and
a 41 read began to open my eyes. The
little note?merely the folded leaf of an
ordinary memorandum book?read as
follows :
" June 9, 1805?This is to inform the
person into whose hands it may come
that I am in the old Maldanado shaft.
By the breaking of a ladder 1 fell to tho
bottom of tho shaft about three days
ago. I am almost starved. For God's
sake, come to my assistance at once.
" Jacob Puitchard."
When I had read the note?scrawled
with a very dull lead pencil?I hardly
know what to thiuk. My braiu was in a
whirl, and I made no headway in trying
to think. As I turned the paper in my
flnufer.3 I observed that Hie lilnrwl nom<.
off from it aud stained my band; I saw,
in fact, that it was quite fresh.
This astonished me not a little, "for,"
thought I, " if ho felliuto the shaft three
days ago and hurt himsolf, how does it
happen that the blood on this note is
stiil fresh aud almost warm ?"
My next thought was this: "If he is
in the bottom of the Maldanado shaft?
more than one hundred foot below the
surface, as he says, how could he leave
mo this note ?" Certainly the thing was
improbable, and I could make neither
head nor tail of the business. Who
Jacob Pr it chard was T did'not know. I
did not remember having over heard his
name,
I sat down op a stool and tried to
think. " Hero," thought I, "is a man
in tho bottom of a shatt, whpre he has
been for three days, and where he is
now supposed to be starving, who
leaves a note on my cabin lloor asking
me to come and get him out. There is
blood?fresh blood?on this note, which
makes things still worse 1"
1 sat and thought and thought till
things got so mixed up iu my head that
I wivs 110 more capable of forming an
opinion in regard to the business than u
born idiot.
I talked to the cat?to old Cbispa?
about it. and the old fellow sr emeil ? i'
ling to asni-it rae, aud he got upon my
kuoo and snuffed at the note as though
ho knew that the cause of my trouble lay
in that. He then jumped down and
ruuning to the corner of tho room
brought me the remaina of a little crippled
squirrel which he had lately caught,
as I cou'd see, just as if ho thought 1
might be in trouble ou the grub question,
aud as much as to pay : " Here,
old pard, eat and bo merry I"
The more I pondered on tho matter
tho more it puzzled mo. At one time I
thought that a man might havo been
murdered uud thrown into tho shaft, and
that his murderers might theu havo left
the uoto at my cabin. This would not
f do, however, as, if tho murderers
wished the body of their viotim to be
found, there was no noed of throwing it |
into tho shaft alive, and not wishing him t
to perish they might have left tho note }
for me to find. There appeared to be t
some little sense iu this, yet I had no
desire to go to the shaft alone ; it might t
bo a trick to g< t me out to murder or t
maltreat me. Again there was no roa- ,
son for trying to entice me to any par- ,
ticnlar spot, as I was living quite alone
at my cabin and might easily be caught (
there or at my claim at any time. I
Being unable to arrive at any satisfac- ]
tory conclusion in regard to the myste- f
rions affair, I made up my mind to see
some of tho "boys" on the river and f
lay the matter before them. j
Having got four or live of my neigh f
bors together, I produced tho note, told (
them where I found it, and asked them ]
what they thought of the "business."
After much talk we all concluded that ,
there was iu it a trick of poino kind ; ]
however, wo would see it out. I
Wo determined to visit the shaft ,
named, the whereabouts of which wiis
well known to us all, wo having seen it ,
scores )f times. It was decided that j
each man should be armed with a sis- ,
shooter and that wo should take with us j
two or threo candles and a loug rope; also
a canteen of water and some brandy. f
Happen what would might, we thorough- (
ly examine the shaft. ,
About three o'clock in the afternoon
all was iu readiness, and we set out?set j
out on what seemed one of the wildest ,
of wild-goose chases.
The Maldanado shaft is situated on (
tho sharp ridge of a high and steep hill, (
nearly a mile south of the north fork of
the Yuba ; also it was about half a mile ,
above where my own cabin stood. Tho (
suaii was huuk r>y ttaoriei luaiuanauo, a ,
mau well known to all the early miners
of tUo Comstoek lode, but now some '
years dead. The shaft was suuk on a
rich veiu of gold boariug quartz. The
ore extracted was taken down to tho (
river on the backs of pack mules over a 5
long zigzag trail, and was thero worked {
in arastras. Tho shaft at the '
mine was suuk after tho old Mexican
fashion. It was about eight feet by
fourteen in size, and its ladders of
notched poles wore used instead of rope J
and windlass or hoisting apparatus, the
miners walking up and down the poles j
and carrying the oro poised on their '
heads in rawhide sacks. The poles *
were placed in tho shaft in such a '
position that they formed a zigzag line,
like a worm fence, from top to bottom, '
there being little platforms on which
rested the foot of one ladder and the
top of the next below. Thus, in desoend- 1
ing the shaft, one passed from platform
to platform, and side to side of the opening,
until the bottom was reached. When
the news of the discovery of silver in
Washoe reached Maldauado ho abandoned
this mine?which was hardly
paying expenses at tho time?and crof-s
ing the Sierra Nevada mountains came
to the Com.'-tock lode.
The nearer our little party came to
the shaft the more certain wo all felt
that we were on a fool's errand ; for
how was a man in tho bottom of that
shaft to send a note stating tho fact to
a place full half a mile away' It was
nonsense to think of such a thing ; yet
there we were toiling up the steep face
of the mountain for tho purpose of find-,
ing tho man?the man calling himself
Jacob Pritcliard. Several times we
halted and laughed at the ridiculousness
of our mission.
Arrived at the top of the hill and at
the month of the shaft, one of the men J
said: "Well, here wo are! Now to *
make known our presouce to the mau in u
the shaft?to Jacob Pritchard !"
"Well, call down to liitn," said an- c
other, laughing ; for, now that we stood r
at the mouth of the shaft, we felt quite 1
silly, and half expected to see some one f
peep out from behind a tree or rock aud ^
" raise the laugh " on us. r
The man who had first spoken stooped c
over the shaft and shouted: "Jacob,
are you down there?" i
Almost instantly there came up from s
tho shaft a faint cjy that was half moan, \
half shout. Wo all heard it, and were 1
thrilled aud startled.
Most of tho faces about tho shaft and- I
deulv grew pale. We all stood sil^t t
for seconds, wheu some one said : "Sure t
as fate there is a man down there 1" 1
" Who are you ? Who is down there?" a
agaiu called out our spoke.sman, stoop- t
iug closo down to the dark mouth of v
the shaft. I
"Jacob Pritchard 1" was the answer
that came up the shaft. Tho name was f
so distinctly uttered that all heard it, f
and hearing it, turned a shade paler F
than before. I
" It beats all," said one of the men, C
breaking a s mewhat protracted silence, b
" That was tho name signed on tho note, g
and there is the fellow still in the shaft." n
"Ask him about the note," said ouo a
nf rmr imrf.c **
r ? v
" Did you?write a note?and send it e
out?askiug for help ?" cried our
spokesman. t
" i did," was tlio prompt response I
from the bottom of the shaft, and t<
again wo all gazed at one another iu ti
amazement. b
4 How?could you?send out?a let- s
ter ?" asked Bill. *
" Geit me out. I can't tell now !" v
came from the dark, in a vexed and e
gasping voice. li
" He is right," said Bill; " we onght v
to bo ashamed to stand hero questioning b
the poor fellow when there are enough si
of us to eat him up without either salt g
or pepper 1 Light a oonplo of candles b
n"d get the rope ready. Two of ns will
go down and see how he can bo got out. b
iSome of the bottom ladders must be c
bvokeD, or he could come out himself? tl
that is, if his legs are both sound, tl
Mike Murphy, you are stout and active, si
come with me and we'll go and see that e
fellow." tl
41 B?but h?how oould he bring up d
ho letter ?" stammered Mike, shaking
lis head and looking anything but ready
o descend the shaft.
" Blow the letter f" said Bill; " ho'll
ell us all about that wheu we get him
>ut. Aro we to keep him there all day
vhilo wo stand here parleying like a pack
>f cowards ?"
" I?I'm not afraid to go down there,
if course," said Mike, " but wo all
enow that this here is a queer kind of
usiness, from first to last?that is, as
ar as we've got in it."
" Well, then, Mike, you and I go,"
raw i5? 11. oust urop tne cua ot ttie
ope iuto the shaft and we'll work it
ilong to the bottom as wo coon it
lowu the ladders. Tako your candle,
Mike."
Miko took tlio candle into a rather
mstoady hand, and then waiting until
Bill was down a few feet, got noon the
op of the notched pole and began descending
backward, as a crawfish travels.
Slowly and steadily the two men descended
the shaft, slipping from notch
,o notch in the long slender poles. As
ve stood at the edge of tho wide openug
and eagerly gazed down into it, we
;ould distinctly seo our two companions
ind mark their slow descent by the flick>rii
g light of their candles. Now they
vero passing over the west side of tho
ihaft ; soon they turned and were seen
;oming back to the east eido, on which
vo stood; anon they took nuothcr ladler,
and again moved to the west. Each
ime wlu-n they thus crossed the shaft
hey came to a little platform on which
rested the foot o: one ladder and from
ivliioh started the top of tho next below;
?nd so they toilsomely zigzagged their
tvay down, the light of their candles
growing smaller and smaller till all we
saw resembled two little stars.
Fiually the two twinkling stars went
jver to the west sido of tho shaft and
itoppod side by sido. A murmuring, as
jf the voices of persons in conversation,
then came up the shaft.
" Pnv mil, nifim runn !" nhnnlp/l Tilll
The rope was slowly ran out.
" All light! That's enough !" cried
Bill.
Again a hum of voices was heard, then
same the order from Bill: " Haul up;
raul slowly and carefully! Slowlj-?
ilowly?9lowly ! Holu ! Hold on now;
ihat will do 1"
There was more buzzing of voices,
then Bill cried out: " Hello, up there I"
" Hello !'* cried we.
' I am going to?bring him up?
tlio ladders," said Billj sending his mcs*age
up in sections, so that it would not
become tangled on the way. "I shall
leave?the ropa around him. Keep the
-lack hauled up?but don't pull hard.
Do you understand ?"
" All right!" cried I. " We know how
,t is."
Then tliey started up the ladders,
Tliey halted to r^pt at each platform.
\s they crossed the shaft in their slow
iscent wo could see, after a time, that
Bill was ahead, keeping the rope propory
taut; that Mike was " boosting " in
ihe rear, while a dark lump was moving
lpward between the two. Gradually
hey worked their way up, resting and
slimbing.
Finally, as they approached tho top,
ve were able to catch occasional
jlimpses (over Bill's shoulders) of a pale
ace and a black, bushy beard. Then,
rhen they reached the last ladder, slopng
up toward us, there was added to
he picture a pair of black and eager
coking eyes?hungry looking is probddy
the better expression.
Wo at tho top became so much exsited
that we came near " yunking" the
nan up to the top of the shaft nt a single
laul?would have done so, perhaps, but
or the warning cries of Bill, whom we
rere in danger of dislodging from the
lotched j?ole ouwhich he had a precarims
footing.
"All this time my candle was stuck
uto a bit of clay at the bottom of tho
haft. It was fast being consumed,
vhicli I could not afford, therefore 1
dew it out and sat down in tho dark,
ilv feelings may, perhaps, be imagined,
>ut 1 cannot describe them. 1 wanted
o thii/k?to do some good strong
hiuking?but my thoughts and my
>rain seemed to spin around in a circle,
nd all I did was to repeat over and over
bo one word: 'Lost! lost! lost!' Lost
ms all I could say all I could get ray
>rain to comprehend.
" I lay down und rocked myself to and
ro on tho ground, not remaining still
or a moment, save when I occasionally
mused to gaze up at tho little square of
ight that marked tho top of tho shaft.
)oco in thus tossing about I struck my
lead against the wall of tho shaft This
;ave me an idea that I stopped for a
uomcnt to consider; it was that I might
t last dash out my brains against tho
ock when there seemed to bo nothing
ISO to do.
This did mejsomo good, and I begun
o think again. It appeared to me that
had seen something floating in the waer
in the other part of the shaft during
he time my candle was burning. I tried
o remember what it was. There were
everal objocts. T'hoy were not bits of
rood or bark, but something olse?just
rhat I could not recollect. This bothred
me so much that I determined to
ght my caudle and see what was in the
rater. I found two dead rabbits - all
loated and green?three or four small
tripod nquirrols, one tolerably large
ray squirrel of a burrowing kind, and
alf a dozen mice.
" All these were more or leas decayed,
ut I considered that it might yet beonie
necessary for me to eat them;
herefore I fished them out and placed
hem in a corner of the dry part of the
haft, where I could find them if my
andlo was all gone when the time came
hat I must eat them. This done I blew
ut my candle and again laid down to
roll and tos9, to gaze at tlio speck of day
far above me, and groan.
" Some one might pass that way and
hear me. The moment this thonght
came into my head I arose, and leaning
against the wall und lookiug upward, I
began shouting. Hour after honr I did
nothing but shout. I shouted till I could
hardly stand. Finally, completely exhausted,
I fell asleep.
" When I awoke it was all dark above,
aud I said it was now dark?no nso of
shouting. When daylight came again I
resumed my shouting, and kepi, it up
until I became very hoarse and weak,
when I gave it up as worse than useless.
" I studied all uiauner of combinations
to bo made with my two pieces of
ladder, and two or three times lighted
my caudle to look at them, but soon
blow it out again, as I saw that they
could not bo mado any longer than they
actually wero. Tho bit of daylight above
did not reach me, and did mo no good j
except to let mo know when it was day
and when night.
" It is useless to prolong this part of
my story. 1 soon suffered tho pangs of
hunger und thirst. It was not hard to
bring mjself to crawl to the water and
drink of it, foul as it was, but it was
hard to undertake to eat of the dead animals.
Several times I attempted it, but
guve it up. feeling that the time had not
yet arrived.
" I found myself taking naps at all
times of the day and night. On awakening
from ono of these short naps I
thought I heard something on the bottom
of the shaft?there was a light rattliug
of tho little quartz pebbles of broken
fragments of rock. I listened for
some time and finally became satisfied
that there was somothing moving about
in the shaft. I 6truck a match and lighted
my candle, when I saw near me a
striped squirrel. I was delighted to
find that I had somo live thing in tho
sljpft with me. I advanced and picked
up tho little animal, which hardly mado
an attempt to escape. As I held it in
mv lionda f nnnlrl ifq hoafiim i
so rapidly that tbo pulsations could not
be counted. 'Here,' thought I, 'are a
few mouthfuls of food that may be eaten
without loathing.' As I held the
squirrel in my hand, thinking whether
to kill and eat it then, or to await a still
more diro extremity, I happened to cast
my oyes upward to the ladders, when,
4 now,' thought I, 4if this were a carrier
pigeon, a sparrow, or a bird of any kind,
it might be the means of saving me.'
Then it occurred to me that I might
make a better uso of the squirrel than
to eat it.
44 Taking out my memorandum book
I wrote the noto you found on your cabin
floor, and wrapped it about the body
of the squirrel, tying it there with a bit
of thread drawn from my handkerchief
and wound many times round the little
animal. I then tossed it up to the platform
which I longed so much to r?.ach.
I saw it land ou the platform, and then
saw it make its way of up the first ladder
above, after which I saw nothing
more of it. I prayed most earnestly
that something might come of this silly
looking experiment, then fell asleep,
and nwoke and prayed again.
44 All seemed of no use, however, and
I was on the point of trying once more
to eat one of the disgusting dead squirrels
in the shaft, when a voice?itseemed
from heaven?said : 4 Jacob, are you
there?" and you came and found me."
44 All is now clear as day," said I.
44 The squirrel with your note tied upon
hi^body wandered down the side of the
mountain, was seen by my old eat
4 Chispa '?the greatest hunter in the
State?who pounced upon him and
brought him home to show him to me ;
fooled with him about the cabin and
filblllv Irillrwl liim ntt<l lwnrnit /.otiurr li im
J ...f, ,
when tho note was dislodged and fell j
upon tho floor, where it was found by |
me. Yes, and old 4 Cbispa' even had i
the sense to bring mo the remains of the
squirrel when ho found me wondering
about the note?as much as to say : 41 !
found it stuck upon this fellow.' "
4i Why, that's tho simplest thing in ;
the world, after all," said Jacob ]
Pritchard, and all bauds said : 41 It is no j
mystery, after all."
A Cod's Stomach.
Mr. Frank Buckland publishes in
Land and Water an account of a
mass taken from a ood's stomach
consisting of horsehair and string,
the tibers of which aro matted
and intertwined well together by means
of no less than ten fish hooks. All are
small hooks except two; these are much
larger. It is a remarkable thing that !
the points of all these hooks are turned j
upward. He cannot quito account for
the presence of so many hooks in the
stomach of this cod, except that tho cod
who owned the stomach had somehow ;
or another managed to get hold of haddocks
or whiting caught on hooks, and
in whoso bodies tho hooks still remained.
Tho flesh of tho whitings or haddocks
had been entirely digested by the
juices of tho cod's stomach; tho horsehair
ami metal of the hooks, however,
resisted its action. That whiting and
haddock have frequently hooks left in
them is well known to all those who
have the care of seals. Sea fishhooks
are very cheap; and the fishermen,
rather than take tlio trouble to extract
tho hook from the fish's mouth, very
frequently cut oil the " snood " or line
to which the fish is attached, and let the
hook remain in sutu. The seal swallows
the fish, hook and all, tho hook gots entangled
in the poor seal's intestines, and
of e ntree proves fatal.
The cod is what is generally called a !
voracious fish. I have now in my museum,
says Mr. Backland, a poition of a
tallow caudle, about seven Inches long,
also a pair of sailor's mits, both taken
from a coil's stomach.
. 4
The Origin of the Names of States.
Maine takes its name from the pro- l
viuco of Main, in Franoe, and was so' 1
eallod in compliment to the qneen of Jj
Charles I., Henrietta, its owner.
Now ifnmpshire?first called Laoonia
?from Hampshire, England.
Vermont from the Cireen mountains j
(Frnuch, vrrd mont). ]
Massachusetts, from the Indian language,
signifying the country about the
great hills.
Rhode Island gets its name from the
fancied resemblance of the island to that
of Rhodes in the ancient Levant.
Connecticut was Mohegan, spelled ]
originally Quon-eh-ta-cut, signifying "a
long river." j
Now York was so named as a compliment
to the Duko of York, whose .
brother, Charles II., granted him that i
territory.
New Jersev was named bv one of its
original proprietors, Sir George Carter, 1
after the island of Jersey in the British 1
channel, of which he was governor.
Pennsylvania, as is generally known, 1
takes its name from William Penu, and 1
the word "silvauia," meaning woods.
Delaware derives its namo from j
Thomas West, Lord de la Ware, gov- j
ernor of Virginia.
Maryland receives its name from the ,
que.en of Charles I., Henrietta Maria.
Virginia got its name from Qneeu
Elizabeth, uumarried, or virgin queen.
The Carolines were named in honor of
Charles I., and Georgia iu honor of '
George II.
Florida gets its name from Kasquas de 1
Flores, or M Feast of the Flowers."
Alabama comes from a Greek word, i
signifying "the land of rest." I
Louisiana was so named in honor of <
Louis XIV.
Mississippi derived its name from (
that of the great river, which is, in ]
the Natchez tongue, " Tho Father of ]
Waters." t
Arkansas is derived from the word
Kansas, "smoky waters," with tho j
French prefix of "ark "?a bow.
Tennessee is an Indian name, meaning
" The river with a big bend."
Kentucky also is an Indian name?
" Kain-tnk-ae," signifying "at the head
of the river."
Ohio is the Shawnee name for " The f
beautiful river."
Michigan's name was derived from 8
the lake, the Indian name for fish weir 8
or trap, which the shape of the lake 8
suggested. *
Indiana's name came from that of the 1
Indians. c
Illinois' name is derived from the In- 8
dian word " Ulini " (men) and the
French affix " ois," making "Tribe of i
men." I
Wisconsin's name is said to be the In- f
dian name for a wild, rushing channel, f
Missouri is also an Indian name for t
muddy, having reference to the mddiness .<
of the Missouri river. i
Kansas is an Indian word for smoky t
water. c
Iowa signifies in the Indian language ?
" The drowsy ones," and Minnesota "a i
cloudy water." t
The Votes for United States Presidents.
JVpu lar Electoral
Year. Candidate). Vote. Vote.
1789? George Washington Unanimous.
1790?John Adams 71 8
Thomas Jefferson 69 c
1800?Thomas Jefferson 78 r
Aaron Burr 73
John Adams 65 f
1804?Thomas Jefferson 148 1
C. C. Pinckuoy 28 (
1808?James Madison 122 t
C. C. Pinckney 47 v
1812?Jamos Madison 128
Hewitt Clinton 89 {
1816?James Monroe 183 h
Itnfcs K-ug 34 I
1820?James Monrce Only one eleeto- o
ral vote 4in _
opposition. .
1S24-John Q. Adams 105,821 84 1
Andrew Jackson 106,872 99 6
W. H Crawford 44,282 41 B
Ifeury Clay 46,587 37 t
1828 Andrew Jackson 647.231 178 l,
John Q. Adams 509,097 83
i832?Andre ? Jackson 687,602 219 9
iloury Clay 530,189 49 il
John Floyd 11 o
William Wirt 7 i,
1836?Martin Van Buren 761,549 170
Wm. II. Harrison 730,656 121 a
1810?Wm. H. Harrison 1,275,011 234 8
Martin Van Buren 1,135,701 60 it
1844-James K. Poik. 1,337,243 170 o
Henrv Clav 1,361,362 105 ?
1918-Zioharv Taylor 1.360,099 163 "
Lewis Cass 1,220,544 127 n
Martin Van Buren... ... 291,263 ? ?
1852?Franklin Pierce 1.601,474 254 it
W infield Scott 1,542,403 42 t!
1856?James Buchanan 1 838,169 174 n
John C. Fremont 2,215.798 122
186)? Abraham Linooln 1,866 352 180 ?l
J. C. Breckeniidgo 2,810,501 123 CI
1864?-AbrahamLinooln 2,216,067 213 rt
George D McC.'ellan.... 1,308,725 21 8]
1863 - Ulysses S. Grant 3,016.071 214 ,
Horatio Heymour 2,709,613 80
1872?Ulysses S Grant 3,597,070 300 ?
Horace Greeley 2,834,079 66 W
Tbo above table should bo kept for
reference. 11
Washington's Temper. ri
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tUIOO tFUMU UiUUll, 111 ?J(// M//ir / 1UI UUiJ)
tells the following story of her father, M
the celebrated painter, and General tc
Washington : When talking one day to
General Henry live, my father happened
to remark that Washington had a tremendous
temper, but held it under wonderful
control. General Lee breakfast- h
ed with tho President and Mrs. Wash- E
ington a few days afterward. w
"I saw your portrait the other day?a w
capital likeness," said the general, "but st
Stuart says you hnvo a tremendous tem- e?
per." it
"Upon my word," said Mrs. Wash- tl
ington, coloring, "Mr. Stuart takes a h
great doul upon himself to make such a ti
remark." w
"Hut stay, my dear lady," said Gen- g
eral Lee, "lie added, that the President h
had it under wonderful coDtrol." e<
With something like a smile General b
Washington remarked: "He is right," "
My True Lot*.
kly tme love bath my heart, and I have life.
By ju#t exchange ooe to the other waa given ;
[ hold his dear, and mine be canoot mica,
rhere never waa a better bargain driven ;
My tine love hath my heart, and I have hie
lis heart in me keeps him and me in one,
klv heart in him hia thoughts and senses guide;
He lovee my heart, for once it was his own,
[ cherish his beoause in me it bides ;
My true lovo hath my heart, and I have his.
Centennial Motes.
Of all the buildings the Main is best
patronised.
There is no probability of the opening
of the Exhibition on Sunday.
In the Egyptian exhibit is a statue of
Rameses the Second, dated 1850 years
B. C.
Russia, though she was late, will
xiako a better display than others who
svere oarly.
A great attraction at Horticultural
ball is the organ. Large crowds are always
in attendance to bear it.
Italy makes a beautiful display of
jewelry. Tho ladies go in raptures over
the exquisite mosaics exhibited.
The Wisconsin eagle in Agricultural
iiall holds levees continually. A great
many foreigners mistake him for a parrot.
Tho Japanese have learned to say
" Dis fan, five dollar; datb fan, ten dol
ar, etc. JL'recocious people, the Japanese
!
The antomn will be the best time during
whieh to visit the Exposition, and
the leading hotels have large numbers
it engagements for that time.
The guards are much more civil than
;hey were at the beginning of the Exhibition.
It is currently reported in
Philadelphia that several have been
ihrashed.
The collective display of machine
;ools by the manufacturers of New Engand
cannot be surpassed in value and
excellence by any other class of exhibits
n the machinery department.
Ohina and Japan are the mostwonderul
workshops of the world in their line
>f wares and merchandise. They know
low to exoel when they do work. There
ire tables in ebony and china, gold, moaio,
exquisite ohess tables of pearl and
(bony, and yet more vases, desks and
ables in mosaics, and a large case of
reavily embroidered crapes, shawls in
ill colors, which used to be so fashionable
some years ago.
In the Exhibition you will find alnost
all the appliances used for the
rropagation of fish. The pans, the
rails, the spawning vats, the fish nurteries?in
fact, all the numerous inveniions
of distinguished American fish
mlturalists. Just such apparatus as vou
nay see here was used to transport live
isli from the Atlontio to the Pacifio
mast, which, whon perfected; may entble
ns to introduoo our own fish alive
nto European waters, and in retain to
ake the best of their fish.
A New Enemy.
Down at Eacnmmao, which is on the
tontheast side of the Mirimiohi, there is
in oyster bed known only to one Harington,
locally known as Stormy, on
locomit of dirty weather invariably folowing
his visits, with oysters to sell, to
Chatham. He had gained a great repuation
on aooonnt of the superiority of
lis oysters, bnt during the past two
'ears those he lias brought to market
iave not been quite up to the mark,
jast season, however, he $ave his theory
>f the cause of the deterioration. He
ays that not far from tho oyster bed
here is a gravel knoll formed by an
ddy on the edge of the channel of the
ilinmichi. Happening to scan the botom
of this knoli with his water glass,
ie observed several largo lobsters. Two
f them were just leaving it, eaoh havDg
in one claw a pebble about the size
>f a small hen egg. He directed the
id who was with him to scull the boot
long in tho direction taken by the lobter,
and one he was particularly watchug
crawled directly to and upon the
ystcr bed. It appoached a large oyster,
rhich, on feeling the water stirred, im-lediately
closed its shell. The lobster
ly, however, with the pebble poised in
is claw, and within half an inoh of the
iiin end of the oyster shell, and in two
r three minutes the latter began to open
gain. As soon as it had opened suffi
iently, the lobster, with a quick movelcut,
darted the pebble into the open
bell, rendering the oyster powerless-to
lose it. The animal's feelers were then
sed to extract the contents of the shell,
hich it ate quite deliberately, and then
iy on the spot as if digesting the sweet
lorsel and contemplating a similar
peration on the next oyster. Mr. Harngton
says that nearly all the largest
peters are destroyed in this way, but
le smaller ones cannot open far enongh
) permit the pebble to be inserted.
An Ohio Snake Story.
Horace Shipley, of Berlin township,
ad an exoiting enoonnter with a sniVe.
[e saw tho snake in the field where ne
as at work, and attempted to kill it
^tvi a fence at air a A a ko MIOivl
ako the (make darted at him. and oodl1
itself aronnd his legs. He reeohed
i his pooket for his knife; it was not
lere, and no stick or stone was within
is reach, while the snake was coiled so
ghtly aronnd his legs that he oonld not
nlk. He threw himself upon the
round and rolled over and over until
e reached some stones, when he smaah1
its head with one blow. It was a
1 acksnake, and measured six feet eight
lohea in length.