The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, January 02, 1873, Image 1

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a kl ' VOL. XXXII. CAMDEN, S. O., THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1873. NO. 18 r Til CAUIEll JDBM1L AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLISHED BY JOHN KERSHAW. nnnnnnTTvuTAXT T> A mro aUDOtftllMlU.X AAino On# year, in advance $2 50 Six months 1 50 Throe months 75 0g^ Transient Advertisements must be paid or is advance. . Sheriff's Sale. John Kershaw, as Roceiver of the' assetts of the fist ate of W m. Kirkland, dee'd. Plaintiff. Against Foreclosure. J. J. Richardson, as Trustee, C. J. McDowall and D. L. DeSaupsure, I Defendants. . J BY virtue of a decretal order made in the above entitled cause, by the Hon. S. W. MeltonJudge of the Fifth Circuit, at April Term, 1872 of the Court of Common Pleas for Kershaw county, I will proceed to sell before the Court House door in Camden, on the FIRST MONDAY, being the Sixth (6) day of January next, the following described real estate, to-wit: Tracts Nos. four, (4) seven (7) and eleven, (lit of the land belong lag to the aefendant, J. J. Richardson, as Trustee, sold at the risk of the former purchasers. Terms of the Sale?One-third ($) cash, and the balance in one year. Parehasers to pay for stamps and papesa. SAMUEL PLACE, declS-tds. 8. K. C. Sheriff's Sale. South-Caroliia?Kershaw County. IN THE COMMON PLEAS. James Chesnut, pro ml l vs. J Matthews & Team, j TIT virtue of sundry i. fa's, to me directed, I D will proceed to Mil before the court bouse door im amden, on the first Monday in Janus, ry next, being the 6th day of ssid month, du. nag the legal hoars of sale, the following valuable Seal Estate, to-wit: All those throe (81 tracts of Land, situate on Pine Tree Creek and Wateros River, near the town of amden, county of Kershaw, and designated in a general plat mads by 8. M. Bey kin, D. 3., of date April 1, 1869, as lots numbers nine, (9) fourteen, (141 and fifteen (15.) Lot number nine (9) containing four hundred and eighty-three (488) acres, and -bounded north, and north-west by Big Pinetree Creek, eestjby lots numbers seven (7) and eight, (8) south and eouth-west by the Biack River Road, sad west by the South Carolina nut noau. a.vi? Uumben fourteen (14) end fifteen (15) conteining in be aggregate three hundred ana ninety-seven (897) acres, bounded north and north-west by lands of H. DeSaussure and Pine Tree ereek. east by the Charleston Road, and south by the WetereeRiTer end Pine Tree cre>k, si described in said plat. Levied upon and to be sold as the property of John E. Matthews and Adam Team, at the suit of James Chesnut for others, and to be sold as one tract. also Those two lots of Land, with the improvements thereon, situate in the town of Camden, and known in the plln of said town as Nos. 1086 aoR 1065. Levied on as the property of C. Staekley, at the suit of Sparburg & Co,, Case, Chapman & Dockwood, Henry C. Folger, S. Levy & Go. Tltxs?Cash. Purchasers to pay for papers SAMUEL PLACE. S. D. C. ? v- - - ii ' 4 December 12. ? FOR SALE. ' Valuable Real Estate, In Kershaw and Lancaster Counties. Ill pursuance of authority vested in us by deed of conveyance of Charles L. Dye, of date. February 16, 1871, and by virtue of arrangements made with creditors of said Charles L. Dye, we will offer for sale at public outcry before the Court Honse in Camden, on Monday, January 0, 1878, being the first Monday in said month during the legal hours of sale, the following described tracts of land: 1. All that tTact of land in Lancaster county, on waters of Lynche's creek, known as the "Johnson Place," oontainlning six hundred acres, more or less, bounded north by lands of Mrs. Hammond, east by lands of James Wearner, south by lands of T. J. Cauthen, and west by lands of John Robinson. 2. All that tract of laifd in Kershaw eounty, on waters of Beaver ereek, known as "Russell Piece," containing three hundred acres, more . V J.J v_ l._J_ T IMS, oouuuru uj i???? vi *> >. mt and couth by land* of L. J. Patterson, and went by lends late of William Duncan. I. All that other tract of land in Kershaw county on waters of Bearer creek, known as "Perry Place," containing two hundred acres, ore or lees, bounded north by lands of S. H. ?rewer, east by MoKee tract of said Charles L. ye, south and west by lands of L. J. Patterson. 4. AD that other tract of three hundred acres, ore or leas, in Kershaw county, on the waters of Beater creek, wherein the said Charles L. a# now resides, known as "McKee Plaoe," inded north by lands of 8. H. Brewer, east by lands of the same, south by lands of J. W. Ford, and west by lands of Charles L. Dye, formerly Daniel D. Perry's. 6. Also all that other tract in Kershaw ceunty, en waters of Beater creek, containing three hundred acrsi, known as "Robinson Place," bnnnded nanh hv lands of feetate of McClure, east by lands or Jno, Stover, south by lands of - --a a v_ i.-j?m a a amnion, ana wen ot l*uur? Ui a. u. | 6. A 1m all that otner tract in Kershaw county, on watlN of Bm?r crook, containing two hundred acres, moro or loaa, known aa "Dotla' Place," bounded north by lands of Charles L. Pye, oast by lands of 8. H. Brewer, south by the same, and west by lands of Win. Johnaon. TERMS?One-lifth each. Balance on a credit of one, two and throe years, in equal annual instalments, with interest from <Uy of sale, payable annually, te he secured by bond, with personal surety and snortgafe of the premises. Purobasers paying for papers and recording. J, B. KSR8UAW, W. M. SHANNON, Deo*12-4t, Trustees. CAMDEN BOOK-STORE. rxOHOOL ROOK of all ki nds. Nereis and ^ Miscellaneous Books. Photographic Albums. Family and Pocket Bibles, Hymn Books and Testaments, Prayer Books and Hymnals, Diaries, Pens, Ink, Slates, J'enciU, Paper nnd Envelopes. Tin Cash-Boxes and Writing Desks. All new hooks can be obtained in a short time, at Publisher's Prices. Not. 7.?3m. J. A. YOUNG. Watches, Jewelry, &c. SOLD and Silver Watches. Chains, Rings, Pins and Barringa, Studs, cutf Buttons, ves. Raxors Scissors, Steel Spectacles, Tooth, Hair, Nail aid clothes Brushes, Willow Baskets, china and Granite Ware, cups and Saucers, Plates, Stcake Dishes. Bowls, Pitchers, Ac.? German and French Toys. Violins and .Strings. Guns, Pistols, eaps, Wads and cartridges. Nov. 7.?3m. /. 4. \'U [\\ilApple*. Oranges, Bananas, Cranberries, Lemons, Ac. For sale by P. C. KIR&L?Y, Ageut. SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. Appointments fbr CHARLESTON DISTRICT. W P Mouzon, P E Trinity and Cumberland. 3 H Wells. Bethel. J T Whitman. Spring Street^ R D Smart. Berkeley Circuit. A G Gantt. I St. Paul's Mission. To be supplied by J C Brandon. Cypress Circuit. W Carson. Lower St. George's ircuit. A R Panr.cr. Bam bere| ircnit. P E Kistler. St. George's Circuit. W A Clarke Walterboro' Circuit. B G Jones. TI B Greeni Colleton Circuit. Thomas llaysor. Allendale Circuit. T E Wannamaker. Yemassee Circuit. G H Pooser. , Black Swamp Circuit. M L Banks. Hardeville Mission. J R Coburn. ORANOKBDRQ DISTRICT. H A C Walker, P E Orangeburg Staifon. F Auld. " ^ rrr:i eastern urange uircuii. v n muu. Providence Circuit. J H Zimmerman. St. Mathew's Circuit. T J Clyde. Branch villa Circuit. D J Simmona. Edisto Circuit. J L Sifley, R B Tarrant, supernumerary. Graham's Circuit. ^ ?J W McRoy. Williston Circuit. * J B Mass*beau. Aiken Mission. G J Griffiths. Graniteville Mission. L C Loyal. Upper Orange Circuit. J S Beaaley. Upper St Mathew's Circuit. J J Workman. COLUMBIA DISTRICT. Wo. Martin, P E Washington Street 0 A Darby. Marion Street. W D Kirkland. City Mission. To he supplied. Colombia Circuit. S P H Ewell. Richland Fork Circuit. J K McKain. Winnsboro' Circuit. J S Connor, super- j numerary. . Fairfield Circuit.. J T Kilgo, J A Clifton. | East Chester Circuit. J M Boyd. Chester Circuit. J W Humbert. Rock Hill Circuit. JE Wrtaon. Yorkrille Station. A W Walker. York Circuit. L A Johnson, supernumerary. Lexington Circuit and Mission. J C Miller. Leesville Circuit and Mission. 6W Gatlin. Upper Edisto Mission. To ^ supplied. President Columbia Female College. S B Jones. Agent Columbia Female College. S II Browne. SUMTER DI8TRICT. W II Fleming, P E Si^mter Station. J M Carlisle. Sumter Circuit. J A Porter. One to be supplied. Bishopville Circuit. S J Hill. Camden Station. R L Harper. Santee Circuit. Thomas Mitchell. Fulton Mission. To be supplied by W Felder. Manning Circuit. J B Piatt. Lynchburg Circuit. L M Little and W A ) Rogers. Timmonsville Circuit. L Wood. Darlington Circuit. J B Campbell and M Y Wood. Cheraw Station. A Coko Smith Westfield Creek Mission. Simpson Jones. Chesterfield Circuit. A Ervin Zoar Circuit and'Lynches Creek Mission, ?-J 1? n 1 TJI..1 ouppueu DJ V A xijrict. Hanging Rock Circuit. T W Muanerlyn. ' Lancaster Station. J. R. Little. Belle Air Circuit. J F England. MARION DISTRICT. J W Kelly, P E Marion Station. W C Power. Marion Circuit. W L Peguea. Buck Swamp Circuit. W W Jones and D Tiller. Little Reck Circuit. J C Stull. Bennettarille Circuit. J A Mood and L M Hamer. North Marlboro' Circuit. E T Hodgee. R R Peguea, supernumerary. Kings tree Circuit. A Nettles. JohnsooTille Circuit. Liberty Chanel circuit. A J Stafford. Lynche's Creek circuit. D W Scale. Darlington station. A M Chrietcberg. Georgetown station. A J Stokea. Bucks villa and Conwayboro'. C C Fishburn. Convayboro circuit and mission. R L Duf-' fie and A C Man. | Waecamaw circuit and mission. W H. Kirten. ! 8PARTANAVRO DISTRICT. T G Herbert, P E Spartanburg station. C n Pritchard. Spartanburg curcuit and mission. J C TVisp. Cherokee circuit. To be supplied. Rich Hill circuit. To be supplied by J F Smith. Paoolet circuit. J Lee Dixon. Fair Forest circuit. J B Wilson. Unionrillo station. S A Weber. Goshen Hill circuit. N K Melton. Belmont circuit. M A McKibbcn. Clinton circuit. R N Wells. Cane Creek circuit. T W Smith. Laurens circuit. J B Traywiek. President Woflbrd College. A M Shipp. Professors Wofford College. W Smith, A II Lester. Editor Southern Christian Advocate. F M Kennedy. Superintendent Carolina Orphan Jlotnc. Ji C Oliver. Agent C.A O Home. J II 0 McKinney. COKKSULRY DISTRICT. II M Mood, P. E. Cokesbury station. \V W Mood. Cokesbury. J W Murray, II W Whittaker. Abbeville. 11 K Dagnall. Lnwndesvillc station. A .1 Cauthcn, C V Barnes, Supernumerary. Tumbling Shoals. John Finger. Greenwood. William Hutto, W II Lawton, superncmerary. Sonth Abbeville. G M Ilnyd. Newberry station. Manning Brown. Newberry. J L Sbuford, 1) ]> Dantxicr. Liitle Saluda. J \V M Creighton. Kdgeficld. William Thomas. Coke&lury School. H llouud. ORERNYILLE DISTRICT. R P Franks, P. E. Greenville Station. E J Meynardie. Greenville. John Attaway. - . Buena Vista. A B Stephens, supernumerary. Reidville. W Bowman. b Walhalla. J W Dickson, F M Morgan, supernumerary. Pickcnsville. U L IJurant. Willianiston. It W Barber. Seneca circuit and mission. To be supplied , by H Tyler. Bushy Cr$ck. To be supplied by J Q Stockman. Andepon station, G T Harmon. Anderson circuit and mission. T) P Byars. W A Hodges, supernumerary. Pendleton. D J McMillen. Cheohee circuit and mission. J C Pavis. President Willianiston Female College- S. Lander. Transferred to Baltimore Conference. T A Griffiths. 8UPKRANNUATXD P&KAOHBRS. N. Talley, J Townsend, W C Patterson, D Perick, E J Ponnington. L Scarborough, John Watts, A McCorquodale. The next session of the Conference will be held at Sumter. "Tw "D T T TV. WAV? Tbo I 1/ftAiB ur iVftV. U. iiAA A/lAVil." AUV painful intelligence reaohed thin city, yesterday, of the death of this clergyman, which ooctmred at his temporary residence at Pacolet station, Union county, on the 20th. Mr. Dixon bad resided in Columbia for a number of years, where be bad many friends. The disease was bilious fever, but his death was doubtless hastened by congestive chill. He wis bora in Lancaster, and waa just about entering his forty-fifth year. 'The remains were brought to this city yesterday, and will be interred to-day. He leaves a wife and five children. Columbia Phaair., 23d nit. An Interesting Decision.?A law case arising from the burning of n building in Massachusetts has just been decided by the Supreme Court. The case is this: The building of a company was on fire, and the AMwmAO.fflAVfl nnXn it luiifinrr flinil1 cugiiica ntic ujmii ? hose stretched across a railway track, which a freight train passing, run over and cut in part, and the burning building and contents were consumed. The owners sued the railroad company to rccovcr.for the lo?s. The questions involved in the ease were, whether tne hose was rightfully put across the track, and whether the loss by the firo was not so remotely connected with the negligent act of the company as to preclude a recovery. The Supreme Court decided that the firemen had a right to lay their hose across the track, and the negligent act of the railroad company was a direct and efficient cause of the loss. Si.eep the Bf.st Stimulant.?The pulpit, the bench, the bar, the forum have contributed their legions of victims to drunken hnbits. The beautiful woman, the sweet singer, the conversationalist, the periodical writer, have filled, but too often, the drunkard's grave. Now that the press has become such a great power in the land, when the magazine must come out on a certain day, and the daily newspapers at u fixed hour, Aita awnrrtKinrr mnot rvtvA tvnir /% IIUIII111^ ttuho^ viwi jiuiu^ uiuqv ^itv n **j %v thcinexorable call for copy, and, sick or well, disposed or indisposed, asleep or awake, the copy must come. The writor must compose his article, whether he feds like it or not, and if he is not in the vein of writing, he must whip himself up to it by the stimulus of drink. Some of the greatest writers of the country have confessed to the practice, on urgent occasions, of taking a sip of brandy at the end of every page, or even oftener. It may have escaped the general reader's notice that more men dio young who have been connected with the New York press, within ten years, and that, too from' intemperance, than in all the other educational callings put together?young men whose talents nave been of the first order, and gave promise of a life of usefulness, honor and eminence. The best possible thing for a man to do, when he feels too tired to per form a task or too weak to carry it through, is to go to bed and sleep a week, if he can. This the . only true recuperation of brain Smer, the only actual renewal of brain force, ccause, during sleep the brain ia in a sense of rest, in a condition to receive and appropriate particles of nutriment from the j blood, which take the place of those which ! have been consumed in previous labor, since ! the very act of thinking consumes, burns up solid part icles, as every turn of the wheel or screw of the splendid steamer is the result of the consumption by fire of the fael in the furnace. That supply of consumed brain substanca can only be had from the njifrimpnt nnrtiele.s in the blood which were obtained from the food eaten previously, and the brain in so constituted that it can best receive and appropriate to itself those nutriment particles during the state of rest, of rjuict and of stillness in sleep. Merc stimulants supply nothing themselves?they only goad the brain, force it to a greater consumption of its substance until that substance has been so fully exhausted that there is not power enough left to rcccwe a supply, just as men are so near death, by thirst <>r starvation, that there is not power enough to swallow anything, and all is over. Tho incapacity of the brain fur receiving recuperative particles sometimes comes on with the ra pidity of a stroke of lightning, and the man becomes mad in an instant, loses sense, and is an idiot. It was under circumstances of this Very sort, in the middle of a sentence of great oratorical power, one of the most eminent minds " 1 ? 1 * -M 1 tl- 1 1 . ul lite ape losinis tucns, presseti ins iianu mi forehead, and after a moment's silence said : "God, as with n sponpe, has blotted ont mv mind." Be assured, readers, "(hero is rest for the weary" onlv in early and nbundnut sleep, and wise and happy arc they who have firuiucss ermuph to resolve that " by Hod's help I will seek it iu no other way." UulFt Jhuvnul Health. An Essay on Doctors. Quick, go for the doQjcr ! All right, I'm going for him. I've been aching to go for the doctor a long time; so here goes. There are a great many kinds of doctors ?big doctors and small doctors, old school doot0n$?*nd doetcrs or the new school, and doctors without any schooling whatever. There are-doctors of lews, and doctors of sons-in-laws; car doctors, and doctors difficult to get tHe ear of; tooth doctors, nail doctors, and doctors who go at you with tooth and nail; eye doctors, and I. 0. U. doctors; electic doctor*, electric doctors, and doctors not of the elect, who go it mostly on tick. Thus we have cold-water doctors, and doctors who "straw" it good deal; root-doctors, and doctors wtlhse motto is "Root hog; or die r Spiritual doctors, and doctors very much out of spirits; magnetic doctors, and doctors who haven't any magnetism in theui?or much else, on .lay-on of hands doctors, and doctors'irho will take anything they can lay their hands on, except, perhaps their own pbysie. Sweat doctors are numerous. If they dou't sweat their patients, their patientsometimes make them sweat. And there are few doctors who are not compelled to sweat arooad a good deal to get their pay. Among Indian doctors arc the full-bred, half-bred, corn-bred, and doctors never bred at all?at least not bred to medicine?the latter class being far the most numerous. As a general thing, Indian doctors, as tbey call themselves, knew nothing whatever about Indians; manayof thorn never saw one. But that is nothing strauge in medicine. Men i have practiced medicine all their lives with- i out enjoying the slightest acquaintance with it. Herb doctors are popularly supposed to j spend a large portion of their time in mean- j dering through the fields culling herbs, j Nothing of the sort. Lflts of theui wouldn't i know catnip from "penny-rile" if they saw i them growing. They cull their herbs at the i druggist's. < There are lung doctors with very little < lungs, although tolerable livcis. Doctors ] are good livers as a general thing. ' | The throat dootor appears in a variety of i | forms not strictly recognized in medicine. | j The hangman is the most thorough throat jj doctor we have, llis remedy?a stricture ] of hemp?rarely fails to euro the most obsti- < nnte throat difiicu.ty. Few persons have ever been heard to complain of their throat < after the first applicatiun. ; Bur-keepers arc another variety of these ( doctors, whose mixtures, also, arc too familiar ( to many people, fold water is the safest j thin- for The throat as an in .vnnJ application.-.. i -r* 1 _ . .1 ? i repper aociors wore quite popular sumo years ago. They don't pepper so much as they did,, though many doctors arc peppery enough. Mustard doctors are in the army for the most part, unless they are mustered out. Cancer doctors arc almost as numerous as cancers themselves. Every cancer doctor exhibits so many cancers lie has taken out that T have sometimes wondered if they didn't take it out in cancers. I was once shown a tumor so large I asked the doctor if space was valuable, why he didn't stick his patient away in a glass jar, and let the tumor walk around. n? -i. -i ?i?i.i i i .. _i i.?.i vuni uuutuia biiuuki uut ut* u>ciiuuncu. ] Some of them are very skillful in taking off 11 a corn. A corn doctor took off a corn for j ( me once, and he took it off so far, it was nearly a week before it got back again. No man who hasn't horse sense has any j i business trying to be a horse doctor, altho' i he may get a diploma to doctor men. Even , j the constitution of a horse may he broken ; i down by unskilful treatment, yet in selecting 11 a physician for ourselves, we occasionally forget that. The horse doctor sometimes j; gets more kicks than coppers, though he is ,, one of the few privileged persons who is ex-,, cused for looking a gift horse in the mouth, i The healthiest town I ever knew was out in Illinois, oue summer, when the doctors went east to attend a medical convention, neglecting to return for several months. The i doctors found, when they did get back, that j their patients had all recovered, the drug ! stores had busted, nurses had opened dan- ; cing schools, the cemetery was cut up into building lots, the undertaker had gone to making fiddles, and the village hearse had l. " j:i_ 1 1.1' e. oven gmiuuy paimtm aim ihhu i?r m uuuua wagon. Although 1 have metaphorically gone for the doctoei, let nothing I've said bo construed as reflecting upon llicni as :i class ? They are good humored, and can, thcrofore,: take a joke, and for the most part, aro eharitablo and humane. 1 have a good many friends among the doctors, yet they arc the very last men I want to call on. " Fat Confsihutor." A young parson of the 1'iii vera list faith, j many years since, when the Simon pure I *nivcrsalism was preached, started westward to attend a convention of his brethren in the faith. He took the precaution to carry a phial of Cayenne in his pocket, to sprinkle liis food with as a preventive of fever and i ague. The convention met. and at dinner a ! tall Hoosicr observed t he parson as lie season i I /./I liL nifvit f.nd idiln <srd liimflms: ''Stranger, I'll thank you for a little of that ere red salt, for I'm kiiulof eurioits to try it." "Certainly," returneil the parson. "lost you'll find it very powerful; he careful how you use it." The Iloosior took the proffered phial and feeling himself proof against any <|uant.ity of raw whisky, thought that he could stand the "red salt" with impunity, and accordingly sprinkled a junk of beef rather bountifully with if, and forthwith introduced it into his ennaeious mouth. It Boon began to writ lie denoting very inharmonious condition physically. Filially he could stand it no longer. He opened his month and screamed "five." "Taken drink of cold \**ntcr from the jug." said the parson." ' Will that put it out asked the martyr. suiting the action to the word. In a short time the unfortunate uian bc? gan to recover, and turning to the parson, his eyes yet swimming in vater,a "Varselist, I believe?" "I am," mildly answered the parson. "Wail, T want to know if you think it consistent with your belief to go about with hell-fire in your breeches pockota." FRENZIED FANCIES. THE TERRIBLE TAIL OP'A MID-NIGHT SCREAMER. [From the Titusvillc Press.} A gentleman engaged in the fur trade of this city informs us that there soems to be some kind of an epidemic raging among the cats in town, and it is his opinion that unless strict sanitary precautions are taken at once, we are liable to lose every feline pet in the city. With the ide% of ascertaining the truth of this statement, we visited several localities last evening, and obtained the following information regarding the "catalepsyhippic THE FIEST SYMPTOMS. Mr. Spelter, who keeps a boarding house and out feed mill upon a back alley, informed us that he had first noticed something wrong with the cats a week ago. He had twenty of these household pets about his establishment, which he keeps for the comfort of his single male lodgers, who, upon oold nights, takes a cat to bed with them to keep their feet warm. No additional charge* is made for this luxury by Mr. Spelter. About a week since a change in the demeanor of these animals was observable. A young gentleman boarder was about to retire for the night, as has been his custom since cold weather set in, called upon the landlord to furnish him with a cat and a candle. The proprietor^rocured a candle, bat upon reaching under the stove for a cat, found none there. He began to search for these living irarming-pans iu the pantry, the wood-box, tho bag of dried peaches, the oven ; but the 3nly sign he conld djscovcr was a circular cavity or depression in a pan of bread that had been set to risejby the stove. The result of the search was in vain, and the inmates of the house went catless to bed that night.? Spelter says the next day all his pets re-appeared, and acted as if nothing had happeped, but about sundown a change seemed to come over thcui. THEIR EYES TURNED GREEN, md sounds began to cuiauate from the older inimals, similar to the more delicious strains rf Italian operas. The younger animals also caught the operatic infection, and the entire feline tribe began to walk slowly around the room in couples, maintaining very orderly behavior, but seemingly suffering extreme mental angnish, which occasioned the cries they tried to repress. A1 at once, said Mr. Spelter, without a word of warning, a large srray and white cat. of the Thomas variety, elevated the ccntral'vertebrae of his spine, his tail expanded like a hot air balloon, and with an exclamation that sounded for all the nrcrld like, "come, boys, come h-e-a-h !" with the last word drawn out like linked sweetness or sausage, PLUNGED THROUGH THE WINDOW, and was immediately followed by the other nineteen in rapid succession, so that it seems ad to a boarder, who happened to be standing outside, as if one variegated cat about thirty feet long, and with twenty tails located at regular intervals along its spine, had jumped through the window. Mr. Spelter made every effort to discover the cause of this unusual* behavior, but could not do so; tne cats haye now for several nights indulged in these eccentricities, and it is the belief of their owner that they are affected in some manner by the atmospherical causes that have produced the horse disease, though Professor Bologna, the celebrated naturalist and eat expert, thinks it is simply the pleasant evenings and love of excitement that calls them out. OTHER FELINES AFFECTED. A visit to other parts of the city developed the fact that some peculiar complaint is certainly raging among the cat tribe, or else they are enjoying unusual good health or an exuberance of animal spirits just now.? House keepers tell us that cats who have long since arrived at the age of discretion, and have been exceedingly domestic in their habits heretofore, now prowl arouna the house after dark, and utter cries that would - ? -1-wAAn on<] causo a sewing uiacuiuc agent ...... .skirmishing is continually going on upon the house-tops, and other available spots, whereon these animals love to indulge in teeth, and toe-nail contests. The prevailing sentiment among'the cats seems to be desire to RATHER FIGHT THAN EAT. And as a consequence, the rats have become so bold in some localities as to have things their own way. One gentleman whose mendacity is unquestionable, assures U3 that he saw a scries of cat fights in his back yard the other night, where, upon oyster cans, bricks and other elevations, sat great numbers of j spectators in the shape of rats, who held pasteboard tickets of admission in their paws that had evidently been prepared by. the cats themselves, lint whether it is owing to any atmospheric changes or not. one thing is certain, there never was as much cat warfare going on as now. The night is made Iii'l uis, :iinl sleep impossible to nervous humanity. More than :i thousand boot-jacks have been sarrilieed to <|iioll these noc turnal I disturbances, hut without effect. Urcy cats patrol the house-tops, while black cats howl laud pull l'ur on the ground below. Yellow 1 cats* sit on the fene'e posts and warble serenades t > spotted tabbies who roam among the weeds in the garden below. The bcla! ted traveller on any of our streets sees ghost like forms flit across liis pathway, while from I .-hadowy lurking places comes a wail that is | cheese curdling in its effects. Is there no relief from these woes? I? there nothing in the shape of a nitro-glyocrin; boot-jack by which even an unskilful thrower can annihilate every living thing within ten rods of him ? ADVERTISING RATES. I ill Space: 1 M. 2M. 8 M. | tf M. 1 Y. ; i 1 square 3 00 6 00 8 00 12 00 16 00 2 squares 6 00 0 00 12 00 18 00 26 00 3 squares 9 00 13 OOj 1? 00 24 00 36 00 4 squares 12 00 16 OOj 20 00 30 00 43 0? { column 15 00 19 00, 24 00 34 00 50 qo A column 20 00 30 00 40 00 56 00 80ioo 1 column SO 00 50 00| 00 00 00 00 150 All Transient Advertisements will be ehargC One Dollar per Square for the first andSivi^d ty-five Cents per Square for each subsequent insertion. Single insertion, $1 50 per square. OUR CHIP-BASKET. A time to run?Wherf you are in a hurry. Persons given to abstraction?Pick-pockets. Mean time?The time when one's note falls due. When is a young lady very like a whale? When she's pouting. Whiskey is said to be a horn of plenty, bccaus^it will corn you copiously. Thackeray's daughter is the queen of the literary circle of London. * Anger your friend, nnd you will be surprised to find what a villain you are, even in j his estimation. J If this is a borrowed paper /ou are reading, " drop it." Your neighbor don't pay his money to lend to you. Why is the bridegroom worth more than the bride? Because she is given away and he is sold. , The most popular visitor to the printing office just now is the man who shuts the door. A Connecticut boy received a dollar for learning 800 Bible verses, and has bought with it a handsome deck of linen-back cards. What did that young leady mean when jibe said to her lover: "You may be too late for the cars," but you can take a buss." A watering place correspondent writes that "very few bathers bathe at the West End," whereupon Mrs. Partington savs she "hod an idea they bathed all over." An indiscreet youth in Cairo has been fined for violently kissing the school ma'am. . She was so homely that the judge said there was absolutely no excuse for him. "Home is the place for boys," said Spinks to his eldest pride and joy. "Yes," said the youngster, dutifully; "I like to stay at home all the time, but ma sends me to school." There have bee'n many definitions ofagentleman, but the prettiest and most pathetic is that given by a young lady. "A gentleman," says she, "is a human being combining a woman's tonderness with a man's courage." "Friend, will you loan me your umbrella?" "No, I cannot." "Why ?" "Well, you see if it rains I'll need it myself; if it dou't you will not need it." A pupil in one of the public schools recently revised an ola saying found in his prammur, ae follows: "It is hatter to give than to receive?a good licking." Why was Noah a bad mouser ? Give it up. Because it' as forty days aud forty nights before he found ary rat (Ararat.) "Who was the meekest man, my]son?" said tho superintendent of a boys' Bible class "Moses, sir." "Very well, my boy; and who was the meekest woman ?" "Please, sir, there never was the meekest woman." A bad marriage is like an electric ma 1 I i ?i 1 4 clune, it makes you uancc, uui you can i iod goSavannah has a colored dramatic troupe billed to play '-Noble Thieves," for the benefit of the Second African Baptist church of that city. A Wisconsin uewspaper man has determined to call a convention of his delinquent subscribers to take action upon his bankrupt condition. A faithful brother in a Fairfield, Connecticut church recently prayed for the absent (i trim tweva nrnatrnfnrl nn Karla of IJICUJUCIB n uv nviv |/*VM v. sickness and chairs of wellness." Titusville girls, with an ey& to matrimonial matters, stain their fingers with shoe bronze, and, when their gentlemen acquaintances aak the cause of the same, softly whisper, I have beet) helping mother to put up canned fruit." An Irish lass wrote to her lover, begging him to send her some money. (>I ant so ashamed of the request I havo made in this letter, that I sent after the postman to get it back, but the servaut could not overtake him." An Irishman, referring to the sudden death of a relative, was asked if he lived high. " Well I can't say he did," said Terrenes, " but he died high." Liko the banks In /lavu tw WHS .SU3T>eilded. ..l J~, A Dutchman getting excited over an account of an elopement of a married woman, gave hi* opinion thus''If my vile runs avay mit auoder man's vile, I shake him out his prccchcs, if she pe mine fadder, mine (.Jot!" A swearer has no more right to stick his blasphemy*in the ears of other people than lie has to stick his nasty tongue in another person's glass of water, and if he is a gentleman. he will not do the one sooner than he will the other. The following conversation, it is said, oci currcd at the State House a day or^wo ago: "(jood morning, Darker, said Tim Hurley, addressing the State Treasurer; how are you this morning? I am poorly, thnnk Hod, said Parker, but 1 haven't got the epizootic yet. No, replied Tim, 1 haven't heard of it attacking any jackass up to this time." A Novel Ti?f.a.?All anomalous genius is responsible for the unique idea that the seats of our churches be arranged on pivots, so that the devotional portion of the congregation, who enter the church at a reasonable hour, may more conveniently turn around to examine the elaborate toiletts and decorations of the late members whose entry fifteen or twenty minutes after service has ........nnpnd Is nnnareutlv designed td be fl!||UUv.?iv^v? ? -| | ? .spectacular ami to attract the notice and aduiiration of the audience in utter disregard of the annoyance it occasions the ininistor.