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' $ .. . * * . " ? . r * ' . ' '"i V ' * - * - . " ffc..- ,, .. .. .. ; ~r r ^ ^ ^ ^ . - - . - .. - * > fey?^??m-il - ' -^?? " T-" ' - Vi I n ' -1. .^iife^iai g VOLXJME XXX. CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, XSTl. NOMfiEB 3te$t -v i ? ' ' - - : M TERMS. ^FIRftE DOLLARS, payable in advance. ..^Advertisements insorted at one dollar per ftqh&re for the first insertion and seventy-five 6ents for each subsequent insertion. Liberal discounts made to half-yearly and yearly advertisers. Transient advertisements to be paid for in advance. The space occupied by ten lines or less, of this site type constitutes a square. True History of Robinson Crusoe. BY THE "FAT CONTRIBUTOR." . Robinson Crusoe was born with an ardent longing for the sea. Some might call it a iiotion of his, but it was an ocean he was a long time in getting over, if he ever got bver entirely. This longing lor tne sea manifested itself at a very tender age, though it is hard to think of Robinson as tender at any age, his career was so very tough. "When they tried to teach his infant lips to pronounce the letters of the alphabet they never got beyond the C. A and B went well enough, but when he got on the C there he stuck, a strangely prophetic indication of what his future life was to be. When he cried it was on C sharp, and when got old his bark was on the C. As he grew older ho yearned constantly to be on the water, to the great disgust of his father, who was on the whisky. He used to sit for hours on a canal bridge near his father's door, and as the boats passed under Imagine he was plowing the mighty deep. It was so mueh easier than plowing out corn. He hadn't any mast to climb, but iu the absence of a mast he would "climb" his younger brother, or any other neighbor's boy who wasn't quite his size. But he sighed for other climbs.. He was irresistibly inclined to ramble, so muclr that he rambled in his talk, his ideas being ailabroad. When at last he announced his determination to go for a sailor his father endeavored to dissuade fiim from it. '^Why," said the old man, with tears in his eyes and a choking voice, "why go for a sailor when there are mnntr rtAnnla to o'O for wllO haYC muTC IUOn ~*"'V o ey ?" Then he pointed out the disadvantages of a life upon the ocean?how he couldn't be in early nights, or take loug walks over the hills before breakfast, or go buggy riding with the girls (unless he ccuhl borrow the captain's gig) or go to the beer gardens Sundiy nights, or come in when it rained, or go squirrel hunting, or attend ward meetings, or vote, unless lie iiappcned to be at one or the other of the "I'oics," or receive aline from any of his friends, with the ecli. tary exception of the Equinoctial Line. lie.tried to show how much better off he would be to pursue some steady employment on land, if it wasn't anything more than steadying himself by a lamp past. lie pointed out the perils of the sea?told of the "old salts" that had been drowned in it, producing its salty flavor, und of the difficulty a green hand eucounters in wading ashore when a stonn arises., lie cited as a warning the case of another one, who, against bis father's warnings and expostulations, ran away and enlisted as a soldier in the Mexican War, where he was killed by falling from the mast head while charging a battery. Young Crusoe was so deeply affected by his father's words that he made up a little bundle that very night and rau away to sea ?how it was himself. He was met with numerous adventures and disasters before he succeeded iu getting himself shipwrecked fufficiently to make out a narrative for general circulation. The first vessel he embarked on was wrecked in Yarmouth Roads, it being so "dark and stormy they could not tell one road from another. After that the vessel was captured by pirates, and all hauds sold into slavery to the Moors, the Moors being ignorant of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, and j ** ?4 ???an/lmanfo oq r<nn. I reiU^HIq IA) UUUUpb IUU>C ilUICUUUlbUw Uu WM stitutional, and scorning any "new departure," Crusoe took his departure iu the old manner?he ran away. We next find him ou board a vessel sailing for.Guinea. They have, a miscellaneous <eafgo of trinkets, toys nud trifles, which they propose to exchange with the inhabit^ unts of Guinea for gold dost, elephants' teeth, Guinea pigs, &c., also any able-bodied Africans who in their eagerness for the bal| lot are ready to leave home and work for a I few generations for nothing. J They voyaged prosperously for many days hat at iengrtnr^rreat storm arose. If I reI collect right it caught them when they were r in the seventh degree of Masonry, twentyh two minutes and fourteen seconds to a prize L _ hght, P-. Mv, North lattitude, with the wind I blowing NortU-Kast by East by South-Sou" West by Noi th-Nor-West by East by E-cast W?.w?5t hv?bv iimminv. this is too ~ ---? -J -J J | much sailor Hugo for me. f It was too much for Crusoe as well. The tornado increased in violence, and the waves arose higher than he had ever known them to be, even when gold Was 250. The vessel ^ was wrecked on an island, every soul lost h except our hero, who in his bewildered state [ thought it was rongh to save Robinson and \ lose the rest of. the Crusoe. He was washed ashore aftor being pretty thoroughly .washed on the sea, and as ^ soon as the waves subsided he brought away from the wreck a few such necessaries \ as a keg of beer, a hoop skirt, a billiard table, a box of paper collars, a deck of cards, a pair of corsets, a compass, a case of Walton's Bitters, a bottle of hair dye, an umbrella, a volumo of the Congressional Globes 1a boot-jack, a piano stool, a cigar-holder and a bottle of Dr. Kerr's Renovator. With these articles ho hoped to got along very comfortably. I am very particular to mention this because he didn't act as many do?go and sue the insurance companies'before trying to save anything. / ? The island proved to be Juan Fernandez. It is a lonely, uninhabited island in the South Pacific, off the usual track of ships, or of any railroad track. It might be Juan Fernandez, but it wouldn't be any Juan for me. But Cruaoo, solitary and aloue, managed to get along very well there for several years. He had no neighbors to quarrel with, didn't have a gas bill coming -m-every two^montbs, wasn't threatened with having the ' tvater stopped, hadn't any one to Ecold him wi?en he came in late, wasn't kept wake by the firing on Fourth of July nights, nor harassed by life insurance agents.' lie tamed a number of wild animals And taught them various trieks, sometimes giving entertainments at various points on the island for the amusement of animals that were not yet tamed. But this is not peculiar to Crusoo. All menageries do that right along, only they make the wild animals pay as they go in. onmo nf his , >v c art; uuaumu w (ja?uv> ? ~ ?. habits from the familiar poem which he left behind him for school declamation: 'I am monarch of all I survey." (He knew something of surveying, evidently, and amused himself by laying out lots?all his own.) "My right there is none to dispute.'" (He was pugilistic skillful with his right, and there was none to dispute it.) "From the centre all round to the sea." (Fenian, of course, and Head-Centre all round to the sea.) "I am lord of the fowl and the brute." Mind on the ring yet?"won't allow any fowl, and can handle the brute." Crusoe was greatly alarmed one day by seeing the print of a human foot in the sand. It measured something over fourteen inches to the foot. No savage, he thought, short of Long John Wentworth, of Chicane nntlld er>/\rt. simll a flint! but he imtUCdi &V, w?.~ J ately reflected that he was not yet on earth, so it couldn't be he. He hid himself, and quickly saw a boat load of savages land with a prisoner in their midst, a gentleman by the name of Friday, whom they prepared to roast for dinner. Crusoe being conscientiously opposed to eating men on 1* riday, interfered and rescued him from the cannibals. So from.that day he became Robin-son Crusoe's man Friday, doing his chores, blacking his boots, running of errands, and voting at every election as Crusoe directed. After years spent on this lonely island, a ship touched there for water, there being nothing else to touch for, and took Crusoe to Eugland Robinson, from his boyhood up, had a habit of crowing when surprised or delighted. Years after his delivery, wheu speaking of the first glimpse he caught of that ship, he used to say neve was there a p.-riod in his life when Robinson Crusoe. When Robin on died he imagined he was JaJ ktt nnftmmo frtf Viitt WfirHs OUliUUdUUU kJJ V/UVUI1VO) ?U4 **?w awM? .. were, "Dc Foe ! De Foe ! " Suicide of a Cantatrice?Somewhat of a Mystery, The New Orleans Picyune of the 15th reports tho suicide of Amelia Garcia, a young, lovely and accomplished cantatrice a favorite among theatre-goers in that city: It says; "It will be remembered that about two years since she quit the stage and retired to private life. She had become passionately enamored of a gentleman in this city, and for his sake abandoned whatever of fame and prospect of advancement she had in her profession. She occasionally appeared on the street, always radiant, always beautiful, and whenever she came into the theatre or public places of amusement she was the cynosure of all eyes. She enjoyed tho special manifestation of admiration and sustained it regally. Had she never been a fa inous singer, Garcia woul i still have Deen admired for her splendid beauty. But it began to be whispered about that her life was not happy. Society had its observances that could not be neglected, and the poor singer, with all her beauty, could not retain an allegiance which society demanded to be broken. The conviction came upon her slowly, but it came at lost. To one of her passionate nature there was nothing left but for her to die. It would be wr -ng, if it were possible, to lift the veil from those lasthours of hor life. Convicted that the happiness she had bartered so much to secure was slipping from her grasp, and the cheerless future spreading dark before her, she resorted to the Lethean cup, the poison of the suicide, in which to drown the senses of her misery, and the joyless life of a deserted and abandoned woman. "It s said that the morning (some two weeks since) the final separation took place ?when her fric id said good-bye for the last time?Garcia ordered her servant to go to the drug stor? and fetch -her some laudanum. The servant, suspecting her design, ??? j i?j 7:11 let used logo, me couimuuu repuuicu own more imperatively was disregarded, and the j servant with tears and entreaties besought I her to refrain lrom her wicked intentions. It had no effect, however, and she went herself for the poison. On what pretext she obtained ii is not known, but she did get it, and having taken it died from its effects. The residents in the neighborhood say that about the time the poison must have commenced its fatal work sho went and seated herself at the piano, and for more than an hour played and sang. Her rich, thrilling voice rising to its full compass, reveled in sweetest musk they had ever heard. Strains of passionate sorrow mingled with the cadence of a funeral dirge, as the dying cantatf ice sung her life away. Amelia Garcia was about twenty-thre years of age, and a native of the West Indies. Her father was a Spanish Creole, and her mother a Jewess, a native of Germany. Her parents came to New York when she was quite young, and she commenced her professional career in that city. She sang one season at the Academy of Music in this city, and one or two engagements in other theatres. She left the stage, however, in 1869. and has not since appeared professionally in pnblic," Correspondence in Land and Wate). fr Experiences of a Diver. I have lately had the pleasure of an interveiw with Mr. J. Wood, of Heme Bay, %ho has followed the business of a diver for upwards of twenty-two years, and who has bow retired after a long and active service. ^ Mr. Wood made his first start in life: by an extraordinary, and as it turned out a very lucky piece of diving. If the reader will look at the map of Ireland, he will see that outside of Belfast Lough, and a little to the southwest opposite Douaghadee, are situated the Copeland Islands. It so happened that a Whitsable man was a coastguard in tins district. He heard a legend that a ship laden with a heavjr cargo of silver had. bpf*- wreckecfoiFthe Copeland Islands some BSP' century ago. He therefore communicated with some of his friends at Whitstable who were divers. Accordingly Mr. Wood and four others put their diving-dresses on board a vessel, and sailed from Whitstable to Donaghance. The story they heard when they got there was that the wrecked vessel was in the slave trade, and that she had on board when she struck on the rocks a large number of slaves, and a considerable sum of money in the form of silver dollars. Nothing would have been known of the wreck-having taken place had not somebody discovered humai^ legs projecting above the surface of the water. It appears that the people on board the ship had tried to escape; they had filled their shirt-sleeves with dollars, but in getting up the rocks many of them had fallen back and met with an untimely end, as the weight of the dollars had kept their heads under water. No one had ever disturbed the wreck since it happened, so Mr. Wood < and his friends set to work to find out where it was. They put on their diving-dresses, and for two or three days walked about to and fro at the bottom of the 6ea, in about forty feet ofwater, searchingfor the treasure. This they did by clearing away the weeds and turning over the stones with crowbars,' and feeling for the dollars with th^ir hands; as the water was too thick to see. The wreck itself had entirely perishedthrough the lapse of time. After a long and careful search at I?a .1 A. lUSb MlCy UcUiie upuu LUC uvituio. blicjr noid spread abont among the stones, bat many had slipped down among a heap of iron ore which had formed the ballast of the ship. Many of the dollars were worn away thin by t ie action of the waves. Some were lying separate, others in great lumps like rocks soldered together by iron, certainly in some cases the handcuffs used for the slaves. Some days the divers got two hundred dollars, aometirr.es three hundred, sometimes athojjftand; the best day they got five thousand. In all, the number of dollars they got up from the wreck was about twenty-five thousand, a considerable sum of money when reduced to English pounds. Mr. Wood showed me one of the dollars, which he always carries abont with him. The following is the inscription: On one side, "Carolus iiij. Dei Gratia. 1797. Hispan et Ind Rex M. S. R. FM." The coin is about the size of an old five-shilling piece. The "Divers' Arm," near the clock tower at Hcrno Bay,of which Mr. Wood is proprietor, owes its existence to the discovery of these dollars. Mr. Wood had on the occasion a curious under-watcr adventure. One of the dive;s complained that he was annoyed Viw n lnV>atr.r nud oniildn't work. Mr. Wood learned the whereabouts of the lobster, and went down after him. He soon discovered Mrv Lobster sitting under a rock, looking as savage as a lobster can look. His feelersi were pointed well forward, and he held out his two great claws wide open, threatening attitude. Wood, knowing the habits of lobsters, gave this fellow his crowbar, which . he iimncdiatelyed nipped with his claws. Then, watching his opportunity, ho passed his signal line over the lobster's tail, made it fust, and signalled to the men above to haul up. This they did, and instantly away went Mr. Lobster ilying up through the waSer into the air above, with his claws still expanded, and as Beared as a lobster could be. A great conger eel also paid the divers a visit. He was an immense fellow, and kept swimming around Wood, but would not come near him. Wood was afraid of his hand being bitten * as a conger's bite is very bad. Ho once knew a diver whose finger was seized by a conger. The brute took all the flesh clean off the man's finger. A conger is a very dangerous animal in the water. However, this conger kept swimming round iiVwinfc Wnnd mi took his elasn-knife out and tried to stab him, but the conger would not come near enough to be knifed. It was a long while before the conger would go away; and even after he had gone away Wood could not go on working, because he was not sure that he was really gone for good, and it might have como out of some corner at any minute and nipped his fingers. Mr. Wo'od has had other adventures with fish when working under, water. He was once employed in fixing somo heavy stones in the harbor at Dover. While waiting for the stones to come down from the ship above, he sat down on arock,and, being very quiet, a shoal of whiting pout came up to examine the strange visitor _ to their sub-aqueous residence. They played all about him, and kept on biting at the thick gloss which formed the eyes of his diving helmet. So next time Wood went down he took with him a fish-hook fastened into the end of a short stick?a gaff, in fact. The pouts came around him as usual, and ho gaffed them one after another with his hoot. Hethenstrung them on a string, and came up afterhis day's work was over with a goodly fry of whiting pouts for his supper. On another occasion Wood was employed to bring up some pigs of lead from the hold of a vessel, When he was walking about on the top of the lead he felt something alive under his feet. It kicked tremendously, but he knelt down upon it to keep it steady He soon ascertained that it was an enormous skate that he was standing on, so he served him as he did the lobster. He watched his oppartunity, and slipped the noose of his line L arotmd tbe skate's tail; foe then signalled to "haul," and up went Master Skate, flapping his great wings like a wounded, eagle, and mightily astonished were the people in "the boat when they found a monster;skate on the end of the line, and not a pig of lead. Wood once nearly lost his life when at the bottom of the sea. A Prussian vessel bad gone down off the Mouse Buoy in the Thames estuary. The captain was drowned in his cabin, and Wood had undertaken to get him out if he possibly could. Arriving at., the bottom of the sea, Wood found the vessel lying over on her side; and that she had gone down with all her sails set. He tried to get into the cabin, but found the mainsail all over the cabin door. He was just about return, whenlefdnhd lis air-pipe aha signal lind had suddenly got jammed. Fully aware of his yery dangerous position, and without losing his presence of mind, he sat quietly on the cdeo of the vessel and considered. 0 _ The men above, he could find, were signalling to him violently tp come up, but he coufcl not answer, as the line was jammed. He took out his pocket knife and thought two, three timesof cutting himself adrift. As a lost chance he determined to adopt another course, so he climbed up the rigging, among the great wet Bails aud loose ropes, as well; as he could, and fortunately found the place where his air-pipe was hitched. He carefully loosened it, gave .the signal, and was hauled up immediately. If I understand right the lino was dear enough when ho went down, but while he at work on the sunken ship the tide' changed, and earring his pipe and line opposite directions to that in which it/ had been originally conducted, it became jammed. He did not^et to the surface one instant too soon, for the boat was just drifting, as her anchors would not hold. . A Remarkable Story. Teople kill themselves everp day wiih quack medicines, but rarely after the fashion described by the New York World, in. the following remarkable narrative: A Hungarian named Endre Tagete, of Fremont, Iowa, lately closed his variegated career by taking at one dose three bottles of Perry Davis's pain-killer, in a most remarkable way. He left a manuscript account of his life, from which it appears that he was of noble birth and well educated. He was engaged in tho revolution of 1848, was taken prisoner by the Austrians, and sentenced to be shot; but he escaped and went to Italy, and afterwards to Algeria, where ho lost his money by gambling^ entered the French sendee and fought the Cabyls for two years, at the end of which be was captured and reduced to slavery, from which ho was redeemed by a female servant of tho daughter of of the chief, who married and converted him to the Mahometan faith. Soon sho died and he returned to Europe, wandering first through the desert, stejilinga camel on which to ride, and at last reached the borders of the Mediterranean, where he took passage on an American ship to Messina. He joined the army at Naples, and for insubordination was condemned to serve four ;n tVio rrnllova Soon heescancd and fell ;ca'0 *u j? # x into the hands of brigands, but as he had no money he was permitted to depart in peaceThen he went-to Genoa, where a Neapolitan officer recognized him and placed him in irons preparatory to sending him back to the galleys. The captain of the vessel which was conveying our'hero pitied him, struck off his irons, and /allowed him to jump overboard and escapej but no sooner had ho landed than a French patrol clapped him into prison, and he was reclaimed by the government at Naples. However, he pretended to be a French deserter, was not g ven up, and in six monihs was fighting at the Crimea. He served also into the ffancc Italian war, and four years afterwards was fighting in this country jn the Federal army. When the war was end-jd he settled down on the banks of the Wapsipinicon, where he fell in love with a farmer's daughter living at Fremont; but, although at first she seemed to return his passion, she soon grew cold, and drove the poor devil to frenzy. So he bought three - - ' ? " ' ? ?j bottles of the painkiller, loaaeu a gun, unu and went to the house of his beloved while hor parents were at church, poured the contents of the three bottles into the muzzle of his gun, asked the girl if she would marry him, and when she refused to do so put the muzzle of the gun into His mouth and fired, killing himself instantly. ' r Sunday Marriages.?In New Tort the question of the legality of Sunday marriages is exciting considerable attention in lega as well as clerical minds. There seems to be an equal division of both parties in this important matter. It is held that as marriage is a legal civil contract, and that legal oivil contracts are illegal, if made on Sunday?it is void if performed on this day. An interesting test case is now pending in Rochester, New York. A milliona'Tc died there recently, and willed all his property to the children of his second wife, dis* Inheriting two of his own children. The marriage was performed on Sunday. It is not clear how this will invalidate the will should the decision be against Siinday mar^ ^?i. riagcs, but some lawyers Dcucve wat m nuui a case tho will coul 1 and would be broken. If tho covlrt decides that marriage's are invalid if performed on that day, no doubt many more interesting and pointed cases will arise-. Ono evening John Smith had been dipping rather too freely in the convivial bowl with a friOnd, arid on omerging into the open air, his intellect become confused, and not being able to distinguish objects with any degree of certainty, he thoiight himself in a far way of losing tho road he espied some ono coming toward him, whom he stopped with this qdery: "l)'ye know where Johri Smith liVes?" "What's the use of asking that question ?" said the man: "yoar0 John Smith himself." "I know that," abswercd John, "but it's not himself that's wanted?it's his house." Attempted Robbery and Murder?The Murderer feiiot. On Saturday night about 11 o'elook a deliberate attempt at highway robbery and nrurdtt^ was made in this city. It appears that earlier hi the evening a party, including Mr. Daniel H. Rpssell, a carpenter of this city, and a colored man who gives his name as Chas. Wassent, met in a store at th'0 corner of 3rd and Orange streets, whore a conversation of some length was indulged in, after which Mfi Russell arose and took, his leave, saying that he was going home.. He was followed by Chas. Wassent, who joined him on the street, au<Tthe two walked down in the direction of the market house. As they were passing a bar-room near the corner of Front and Marfeet streets Mr. Rumell informed his dusky companion that be was going to get a drink, and asked Wassent io join him. He acceded to the proposition, and the two went in. Mr. Russell takinefout r ~ '? ?* . # ? o a roll of bills and displaying them unsuspectingly to his companion when he went to pa? for the drinks. Leaving the "bar-room, Mr. Russell was still followed by Wasseht, who stated that he was a seafaring man, and that belonged on board'of a vessel lying at the wharf' of Messrs. Blossom & Evans. Pro- 1 ceeding on their way rb the direction of the railroad, they came to Red Cross street, when Wnssent asked Mr. Russell the nearest way to his vessel. Ho received the requisite information, and decided to accompany .Mr. R., who lives just beyond the railroad, on 3rd street. Arrived at the crossing, and as Mr. Russell was ascending j the Slight acclivity caused by the railroad, his companion suddenly dropped behintThim and drew from its concealment abont his person a, rope about or ten feet in length, with a running noose at one end. and attempted to throw it over Btr. R.'s head, intending td get the noose over his head and then draw it tight around his neo^4 Fortunately for Mr. Russell, however, the noosO caught on his hat, which fell to the ^nound, and the robber was thus foiled in his inten ftnna VnVfc hpfnrA Afr T?1IB?a11 AfflllH mnlfa any attempt at resistance Wassent had closed in upon him, and seized him by the throat. He halloed "murder" as load as he could, but the grip of the robber on bis throat prevented him from making much noise. The parties struggled for some time, rolling ott the ground, and anod rising to their fedt, the victim writhing and struggling: cally to release himself from the graft jbarf!; i his' burly antagonist, and the latteffeVl *&? time tightening his grip upnn hvfythroaty t when Mr. Russell finally succeede<jk.in -tear-;' ing open his vest and drawing his piircol, ' with which he commedced firing uyon his assailant. The latter, however, still kept his hold upon the thorax of the victim until the fifth shot, when he released his grasp, made an exclamation as if in pain, and fell back upon the ground as if dead.. Mr. Russell, believing this to be the case, started for home, which waaabout one hnndred yards off; but on his way he met Policeman Go >. W. Davis, who had been attracted to the ' spot by the firing and to whom he stated the facts of the case. On returning to the spot where the struggle took place, however, Wassent had disappeared ; but the rope, Mr. Russell's hat and the hat of Wassent were found on the ground. .. - M ? 1 It was not until ounaay morning mat Wassent was discovered. It seems that he became impressed with the belief that he was going to die, and sent to the authorities to take him to the City Hospital. He was found in a small house on the corner of Front street and what is known as Hagar Nutt's alley, between Hanover and Bladen streets. He was apparently suffering intensely. Dr. J. F. King wasealled in, who, upon examination, stated that two of the balls had penetrated the left lung and one the spleen, the three wounds in close proximity to each other and in a line with the heart. He pronounced the man in a critical condition. He was thereupon Vemoved to the City Hospital. In the meantime Mr. Russell had delivered himself up to the authorities, by whom he was released yesterday on his own recognizance. Wassent is a man of powerful frame. He tells a great many contradictory stories about the affair, and also as to where ho belonged. He informed us that he formerly lived at Camp Holmes, near Raleigh, while ho has told others that he came from South Carolina. At last accounts it was thought he may possibly recover.? Wilmington (A" C.) Star. Who Can Drink Moderately. A moderate drinker always tells me: "I can give it up when I please." So you can. But when you say so, you don't "please." It depends more on the temperament than strength of mind whether, if a man drinks, he becomes a drunkard. You tako a cold, phlegmatic man, and he is not likely to become a drunkard. He may be a good man, a good father, a good husband, a good Christain, for aught I know, but he is not warm-hearted, impulsive, quick and generous. Ffis hand falls On yours cold and clammy. Give him drink, and ho feels "very eomfurrurable." Give him a little more, and he feels "very comfur-rurable." Give him another, and he will go to bed "'very comfurrurable and he will get up next morning "very uncomfur-rur-able." You can't get him beyond the point of feeling "very comfurrur-rur able." It may affect his vital organs in the end, but there is no evidence of his intemperance. ^Takc the other extreme, for cases. Take a young man, nervous, full of " ?* 11 i.?. ??,i ft,!! ?avniinf lire, XUII 01 poetry, auu -J 0 man who can sing a soug or tell a story, noble-hearted, and always ripe for some mischief. Give that man a drink, and what is its effect ? tie feels it in every fibre of his System. It weakens the power of his tvilf^-sligbtl^. It wraps his judgment ?slightly. It stimulates his mental powers to undue activity?slightly. That man is a changed mah?slightly. As he keeps on drinking, and mingles in outer circles of the t world, every circle becomes narrower, narrow er, narrower; He says I will give it ftp when it is injuring me. It is false! false 1 When yon find that it is injuring you, then jfc the time you cannot give it up; you are like the soldier who called out to nia comrade! within theraicipartBf,4 I've got# prisoner." 'Bring ? him in," said they.' ' He won't come,'' said Be., "Then oome in without him," said they. f'He won't let me," said he. You 'think* you know and can guard against th? danger. ll Yon are like the pilot who sakiheknewovery, % rock in the channel. He steered clear of them for a while, but finally the ship struck; "That's one of 'em, captain," sod he ?John Gough. MiajL. SGBTS." 1 The army ana boll worms are devastating the crop? out West: The Radicals haven't beard from the Koptucky election.' * V The World Says: "The Venus 6f Mild has been restored to her Louvre. ' . ; A Georgia negro wfco paU&t ? rrrtde i?' said to have "died with alacrity." , <. .* A Florida mule hap been struck .by light*' ning throe time*}, and is a good kihker yet. JLi gets the Jbest of a certaipt cW<^p?^paper bores by. offering to publish originalj^oetry at $8 a line. Cheap: ' A. farmer^, in Laconia cburrty, ' N. H.y speaking of the thinness of the hay crop'/ "* said : "The grasshoppers have all got lame' ^ trying to jump from one of. blade of graft? to the other?' . >; It is said that the Syracuse sporting men" attending' the' Buffalo ra w are waiting id hear irom their friends before returning home. They selected the wrorig horse. A Michigan man dislocated his arm the other day in putting oh a clean shirt. Hd haa no? tried it for so long a time that he* . had entirely lost the " knack" of the thing. When a man puts up at a Chicago hotel he sees in the papers next morning that hd :' has "reined in his foaming valiso at the Tremont." The editor; of an Indiana paper recently enjoyed the'ldxury of a bath, and the leading article in the last issue of his paper describes, vividly his strange sensations while the operation was in progresd. The wife of D. A. Dadd, of Humbolt, Iowa, has presented her lord with' hihetecd children in fourteen years,andthey are well, and live at home with their Dadd. A victim of Horace. (Ireeley's band-wri ting flays, "If Horace bad written that inscription on the wall at Baby lb a, BeLshauar would have been a good deal more scared fciian be wsbb/" Christianburg, Va., baa a venerable tur-' key gobbler who has bnilt himself a nest and is now gravely setting upon four apples,It is presumed that this action is intended as a grave satire upon the ftoma&'s rights business. A*Scott county man bad s terrific fight with an Indian in Madison, Ina., the other day. The red man got several severe blows in the face and a fractured arm'. The S'cott county man was a little tipsy and the Indian was a wooden one in front of a cigar store; >A man, stopping his paper, wrote to<_ thd editor: " I think fokes ottent to upend ther munny for payper, mi dedda dident, and avry body sed he was the intelligent man in the country and had the smartest family of bois that ever dogged taterfl." Fitz Hugh Ludlow, in his narrative of travel in "The Heart of the Continent," tells of an eccentric genius wbo improved on the old yarn to the effect that "the weather would have been colder if the' thermometer had been longer," by saying he had been where "it was so cold that the thermometer got down off the nail.'' In Marine City, Midi., the other day, d young man was walking with some young ladies, when he found a small frog, aud holding it in the palm of his hand brought it near his mouth which he opeoed wide. The i juvenile croaker seeing what appeared to be a place of refuge gave a jump into the cave. > The young man looked very red in the face, and the ladies looked down in the mouth, but the frog has never been seen from that day to this. "Wife," said a victim of a jealous rib, one day, "I intend to go to rtiamp meeting on Tuesday evening, to sec the camp break up." I think you won't," replied she'. "I'll go if I see fit." "You'll see fits if you do go." He did not go?-probably on afctfount of the rain. A Mysterious Friend.?A respectable TPntlftnian inanv vears ago had an ambition I* If- ^ ? ^ ^ to represent his section in the State Legislature. Though a man of good character, and every way able enough for the office he sought, he happened, as Aunt Peggy used to say, to have "a great many winning ways to mako people hate him," and was, in fact the most unpopular man in Town. Going to Squire X , an influential man who happoned to be friendly with hiui, he laid his case before him, and asked his Kflvino- that lie did not expect help JUUUVUW, "~0 # 4 without paying for it, and that if he could get X 's influence he would be sure to bo elected. The Squire put in his best "jumps" for his man, but when the ballotbox was turned another man was declared elected. The disappointed candidate called out to know how ths votes stood, and learned that he had got just three votes. "But I don't understand it." said he, turning to the Squiro, with a chopfallen countenance. "Nor I either," sdid the Squire. "I -g, put in my vote, you put in another, but who the d 1 put in the third is more than . I can imnc?t1o!" V * . * * r *' ,r