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THE JOUENAL.! G. G ALEXASHRII, Proprieior. CAMDEN, : SOUTH CAROLINA. I 4 " tli.> Tmlimi limit* I ANO I Hl.lv vv ;i_\ invnm iuv , luii i-m? have all the white folks killed oil'. Tin: winter garden which the King of the Itolsrinuv has had constructed in the park of Laeken is the largest structure of the kind in "Europe. The immense cupola of iron and glass is 200 feet in diameter and 100 feet in height in the center. It is supported by .SO columns of white stone, each overt hive feet in diam-} cter. Pr is said that an investigation of the New York elevated railroads revealed that the stock lias been '"watered" to the extent of six or seven million dollars. During the investigation some interesting' statistics were given. The fifteen miles of track now in operation cyst twelve millions of dollars, and when the construction is thoroughly completed it is thought that the expense will he fully a " 1 rn/?!- ' ^ million (louars u> eucu umt- uj m?v&. car rusts $3,400; an engine over $">,000. M. Bkaxqvi asserts that Jerome Napoleon is more to be feared as a pretender than his late cousin. '"This," says London Truth, "tallies with the language of one of the principal Bonapartist Generals to a friend of mine. 'The Prince Imperial,' he said,' was an untried youth, and the supposed Ultralnontanism of his mother alienated the masses from him. Jerome is a shrewd, able man, whose ideas are more in unison with those of the majority of Frenchmen. He will play a waiting game, and if the republic makes mistakes he will know how to profit by them." Artesian wellsare lieeomingnumerous throughout California, fresh ones being dug daily, as well for irrigating purposes in the farming lands, asforgeneral water purposes in San Francisco and other cities. They cost $2o0 upward, and some furnish - * * - .1 - ?1_. 250,000 gallons of tlie purest-water uany. In the Sstn Joaquin valley they are very numerous, eleven being in full flow within a tract of three miles by a mile and a half in extent, and yet their proximity to each other and the digging of new wells does not diminish their flow at all, a thing that is not the ease everywhere. The novel experiment has been tried of forming an artificial lake with this water and breeding fish in it, and it has been found that the lish thrive as well in water drawn from the subteranean sources as in any other., How a New Hampshire boy became Russian admiral makes an interesting romance. The son of the Rev. Simon Fin ley Williams, a celebrated Massachusetts clergyman, called to Meredith in 1790ran away from a Laconia employer be cause the latter whipped him for spend ing liis evenings with tne gins, lie iook also$300 belonging to the chastiser, who pursued him to Portland, reaching there two days after tho youngster had shipped on a Russian bark. The vessel was atattacked by pirates, but the boy of 17, with the assistance of two sailors, ni^unt. an old swivel, loaded it with old iron ; scraps and sank two boat loads of the buccaneers, thus saving his ship. For this , the Czar .trained young Williams up in the royal navv, of which he became,, the head, his title being Count Zinehorsehoff He subsequently returned to this country and paid'the Laconia man his $300 and interest, all in gold, saying he should return to Russia an honest man. There is a cotton mill at Westminster. South Carolina, which takes the. cotton from the seed, on the plantation where it is grown, and converts it by a simple and inexpensive process, into yarn. Af ter this transformation the cotton is in creased in value from three cents a pound i to from sixteen to seventeen cents per pound. But this is not the only advan- ! tage gained. The seed cotton, were it i not made into yarn, must pay a tax for ginning, compreessing, bagging, tying, weighing, storage, wharfage, etc., and other preparations incident to shipping, i Accordingly it is thought that just such mills as this one, scattered through the cotton plantations, will d?> a great deal to advance the interest of the cotton : growers, increase the work ;uul earnings of laborers, and prepare the way for the establishment of the larger manufactories, which are now talked of as possible competitors with those of the great corporations of New England. Alaska explorers report one of the largest rivers in the world, the Yukon, its navigable for steamers, and at 500 miles from its mouth it receives a very large navigable tributary. The basin formed by the confluence is twenty-four miles wide. The Yukon is nearly as large as our Mississippi. Indians are everywhere and war between tribes is a fixed institution. There is snow for six months, i . i. J. . .1..1 ?...1 .. J una witnout roaas aog smuge* nuu gooa traveling. Game abounds, and Indiana have an easy life. From seven to nine dogs make a team, the odd one being the leader. The driver has to watch this dog. If it gets on the scent of game-it is off and the whole team is demoralized. Off inBraMnnBi they seam|ier. tlii'diiL'li tbe woods and i thickets. xi|?s?-tliuir til*' load, smashing the : sled. tearing tli*1 Iiiiiiiess, :in?! irivinjr the i 1?(iss * lavs of Ii u ti t i i iir l<* riMuro the status it no. Si vast a country, traversed by navigable waters, will soon teiupt restless ' ami s|K'Culative adventurers to explore it. i MHTllEKN NEWS ITEMS. McContb City, Miss., is to have a mi-; ' ton factory. Druiiiinorq :tre relieved of taxation in i Montgomery, Ala. i Last week the tobacco manufacturers 1 of Durliain, N. bought internal revenue 1 stamps to tlic amount of $17,419 (X). One hundred and fifty tons of railroad , iron for the Florida Central railroad arrived in Jacksonville Saturday, on the schooner Andrew Xewhingcr, front Philadelphia. The net earnings of the Houston and , Texas Central Kail road Company for Sep- ' temher were rglL',s~.S 7>, an increase of about eight par cent, over the same month la?-t 1 year. < Tito hale of cotton donated for he benefit of the orphans of General Hoc as ' sold and resold seven times at Houston, ' realizing $1,000. Then it was shipped to I Waco. Memphis Ledger: The Legislature of ( Mississippi, Arkansas and Kentucky should at Olice 1)C calico l<> mrti III -v.. ..... . enact laws whcreHv Holly Springs, Forrest ( C'ity,iropefiel(l and Hickman maybe sewered * before next summer. i Augusta Chronicle: We arc pleased < to know,that our honored ami distinguished i Representative, Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, is j in lair health, He is now enjoying the qniet j and rest'of Liberty Hall, lie has travel veil i extensively North and West since the adjournment of congress. ] San Antonio Herald: It is said thcG. L. and S. A. Railway Company will appoint 1 an agent to proceed to Germany to induce > emigration to the lands of the company along ( the railway, and that the position will he i ottered to Judge A. Picnic ring, of the Frcic j TYesse. Hickory (N. C.) Press: The Catawlm : Manufacturing Company, near Catawba Sta- ' tion, is now putting up fifty-eight; new looms ' in the factory. Tnese, in addition to the ?' other machinery, will make a tine display, i This company is now making sorae very fine ( plaid goods. ^ Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: The planters of our stateniv pursuing a very wise course since the dark days which followed 1 the close of the war. A large number of I them are buying good blooded cattle, and ( will be present 011 the 10th of next month at j the State fair with the money in hand ready ( to make further purchases ot thus Kinu. Little Rock Gazette : Day Ix'fore yes- s terday, a mad dot; bit seven persons on the i Perkins place, about fifteen miles from this city. The following named persons were * bitten, and came into town yesterday ami ' applied to Dr. Wiggs' drug store for treatment: Mr. Reynolds, trading-boat merchant, a little girl, Sandy Wallers, Siin Serdis and ( his wife and a colored man and woman, [ names unknown. i Jackson (Tenn.) Tribune-Sun: Mr. I Robert Reaves shot and killed on yesterday, i nearMcClanahan'slevee, a veritable "stormy . patrel," that had evidently beeu wafted on ( the wings of some storm current from the . ocean to these inhospitable shores. It measured four feet from tij> to tip, its wings being J exceedingly long ant; beautiful. Its color { was bright "gray, and the down on its neck i and breast as soft as a swan's. Monroe (Tenn.) Democrat: Large ( quantities 01 soap-stone, brought here by wagon from Murphy, X. <is being shipped 1 to Cincinnati. Two ear-loads have been J shipped in the last two weeks. This stone is i found in great abundance in the mountains, i six miles above Murplrr. It is worth about c $40 a ton, delivered on the car at this place, y and it costs about $30 to put it in the ciir. j The stone is said to be of extra quality. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: The pop- A ulation of Chattanooga has increased in two ) years from 11,<88 to 12,87'*, a gain of 1,391. ' Considering all the drawbacks, this is doing f well. It would double us in ten years. The increase of whites lias been 310, of blacks ,, 1;073. The preponderance of increase of the latter is of itself an industrial straw of value. * For, while we have added all these strong hands to the workers, we have less Filers t than ever before. > \ ' '' t Fort Smith (Ark.) Elevator: The poo- c pie of Little Rock contributed 200 or 300 t pounds of hams and $160 or $200 cash, and q sent a train to within a mile of Forrest City, j and made a deposit of the hams and the j money, and also a lantern on top of it. The . train moved back slowly, and as it went some *7 one came up to the hams and waved the V lantern as a signal of thanks, and the conductor returned it in the same manner, and (] continued his journey to Little l!oek. ^ Montgomery Advertiser: The ruins i *1 i we nave n:m receuiM an- iiii|inviui-umi ... .. ilio history of Alabama. tseptcmher rains and warm weather we have ncarlv oven* J year, but t<> luirt* July weather on tlic 20tn * of October, accompanied by April showers, h is something so unusnal that philosophers li are at a loss to account for it. The damage a done to the crops by this strange and un- j natural weather is enormous. In many tields r the ground is white with cotton, beaten from the stalks,while corn-fields are sadly wrecked 11 in many instances. The injury to the cotton >' fields will curtail the crop considerably in this section, and we very much fear that our v receipts will not show up as we had hoped j and expected they would. (| Columbia(S. C.) Register: A prncti- ( ral test was made yesterday of the utility of J the Georgia brown coal by Dr. Jaekson. lie took three or four <>f the lumps which Prof. * Bibikov had sent him, broke them up and t made a lire out of them in his stove. They r were easily kindled with a little wood, when j] first ignited burned with a llanie, but after* *] ward settled down to a nice bed of coals. The ashes produced was white. The stove was one made for the purpose of burning !l n??l.?noUo aauI Tlir? hijrninrr nroflnnpd S something of a smell, but this could no doubt he remedied by having stoves properly constructed, with a view to prevent the gas coming into the room. The quantity of brown coal used was just enough to fill the fire basket of the stove, and this quantity continued to burn from 8 o'clock a. ui. till after 12 m. New Orleans Democrat: Some years ago the export of cedar from Louisiana was a large and popular trade. The war and its consequences diverted the attention of the people from that branch of industry, and our cedar trees were left to grow in all their natural luxuriance. We arc glad to note t that the old trade in that article is about to be reopened. The United States Consul at Hamburg, in his dispatch to the Department of State, dated September 24. 1 *71', reports the arrival of a vessel laden with cedar wood, shipped from New Orleans, ami cut on the banks of the Mississippi. Tin's is believed to be the first venture of the kind. The Consul sees no reason wliv the cedar of America j may not he in {Treat demand in Kuropo, like the mahogany of Hrnzil. ' Louisville Medical News: There is 4 only one place where the colored man and ^ the brother has his particular medical school, I and that happens where of all places it was t most likely to happen, at Nashville, home of t the Meuicnl University, birthplace of journals j thereto. The school is intended for the ^ education of colored physicians: anil if there is any faith to he-put in circulars, -it is intended for their verj good education. iTUe' c standard named is qnde opto tlxsl of wo<f of 1 % Iho colleges in tin- country. Three years' <tiidy i> required, and tiic course is graded, licit itiniis .mil nuinfltly written e.vatniisalion-. 101111 jiioiniiiciit features. Kxuiniiiution lor tiie degree is also conducted in writing. ('?>lut.tints (Ala.) Times: California mil other I'acitic States have so lout; kept ;j the eve:; of tin- gold-Minting world in that ilireetion, that the rich veins of the precious metal, which run in hrond and inexhaustible lines through Alabama, hare almost beet lost si'.'lu of We have often been told by old 1 t'alil'orniaiis that, with the same maehinery mil etfort, more gold could be taken froiii mine dI tlu? Tallapoosa mines than taken From many of the most popular ou the Pacific eons :, fn* former years we knew something r>f the gold veins of old Tallapoosa, especially of those about the ouce famous Log Pit mine, and can say that they, tinskillfully worked, yielded many thousand dollars' worth of gold. J . Helena (Ark.) World: Trains are running now upon three railroads out of Helena, the Arkansas Midland, Mobile tntl Northwestern, and the Iron Mountain and Helena, which place us, in point of railroad enterprise, in advance >f every place in the State but Little [lock, and wc should be on a par with the State capital if these roads had outride connection1 which wc trust is not in the distant future. A Baltimore company lias found a jopjKT lmnanza in the mines at Ore Knob, Ashe county, North Carolina, where 700 men arc employed, and about 3)300,000 are annually disbursed to the inhabitants for fuel, etc. A correspon lent of the Baltimore American says <ix additional furnaiVs are to he erected, md a railroad l>cing built to connect the mines with Greenslwro. The monthly product of pure copjier is ]."?(),000 pounds. Helena (Ark.) World: As the channcl of the Mississippi runs very near the :and-bar immediately in front of tHe ity, and as it is becoming more apparent daily that our cotton shipping facilities from below are getting worse ind worse on account of the rapid diange in the river there, it is proposed py those of pur shipping people who have i great amount of cotton to haul to build i tramway across the bar to the water's idge. and have the steamers receive from .here. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: The cotion compress has donea big business since :hc opening of the cotton scysori. 1'p to late it has compressed 10,000 hc.lcs,which s more than it did throughout the whole )f last season. It is still running con- [ itantly, and is paving the owners hand- ' ioinely. When the cotton is compressed ifty-fivc bales can he put into a car, igninst twenty-five, the limit when the i >ales have not been compressed. i Richmond (Vn.) Dispatch .Man- ' hcstcr news: Saturday morning a ]>artv ' >f fox-hunters from Richmond, includ- . ng several young ladies, passed through : this city to Chesterfield, where they ntend to have a grand fox hunt. They ittractcd much attention, and were ' degantlv attired for the sport which :hev had in view. It is a novel thing /) see ladies indulging in this sport in 1 Chesterfield, but in the upper counties 1 t is a frequent occurrence. } Augusta(Ga.) Chronicle: The ntimer- . )iis friends and admirers of Dr. Deems J vill lie glad to learn that he is soon to , njoy the pleasure of an extensive tour n Europe and the east. After his long . iiid arduous labors, both as minister aid 1 rditoi*, this men^nMfstmnd refreshment ? vill no doubt be peculiarly grateful to lim. He is at present in this city on a ' "isit to his daughter, Mrs. Vordery, j vhere he will remain for a few days boore returning to New York to prepare or his journey. fcfan Antonio Herald: A farmer named ( Phoinas, who came into Terrel yesterday , o see the Great London show paid rather j [car for his sight-seeing. He brought in , wo bales of cotton, and bitching his j earn, started for the show, perfectly . arricd away with the appearance of j lungs and in he went. While he was ^ njoving the sights a reckless sort of an t (dividual took charge of his cotton, [rove down on the square and sold it for >15, which he pocketed and skipped out rith it. ' Dallas (Tex.) Herald: The Indians * leprcdating upon aiid threatening ov r } rexas frontier are all residents of Mexico, i -";'l "?< ? T.iviw from that eountrv. II.I ...IV. ...vv, ~v ---- ? J ?his being so, is not tne Mexican Govern- , nent responsible to this Government ( herefor? But daos this Government , told the Mexican Government responsi- j ile for anything it might do or eounten- j nee against Texas? Supjtose a 1i;uk1 cf , ndians under the jurisdiction of our ' rovemmentwasto invatleCanada, would ] tot the British Government hold us esjronsible and make us make amends? Memphis Avalanche: Gov. Marks rill probably call an extra session of the r legislature when the oitizensof Memphis \ leeidc precisely the legislation that is rcTf it i.s :i one nor. cent, or a our cent, tax, let that be settled. Or, if he Legislature is to be asked to donate he state taxes levied in Memphis for the / text five years for the sanitary improve- 1 nent of the city, the citizens can so say. The plan once agreed upon, the Gover- ' tor can not refuse so r Asonahlc a request " ?s to assemble the Legislature for the t alvation of t^ic chief city of the state. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: During hist ? reck, at the First Baptist colored eiiureh, ' in institute was held for the training of v olored inisisters. QThey were Ikmng in- 1 tructcd hv Rev. Dr. S. W. Marston, the igcnt of the American Baptist Home J Mission Siciety (North), and by Rev. ")r. \V. JL Robert, formerly a resident j if this city, now under cominision of the Southern Baptists to aid Dr. Marston in f his work of holding intitutes. It is an c tuspiciotis omen to see these two minis- ? ers working harmoniously together, ' rom ditlcrent sections Jf the land. 1 11 The Elbcrton (Ga.) GSzettetells "how 11 u double the price of our cotton crops" I is follows; Supposing oar crops to reach 1 ' bales, at ten cents, it would bring I noiir county $320,000. If this crop was |J im'(1 up by factories in the county it would I . iring, instead of $320,000,a return of neary$7U0,000.This being tlie can- it In hooves ! r Very fanner in the county to use his i xertions for the establishment of cotton ; actories right here at home. With their 1 rops yielding such handsome amounts, c hose who are behind-hand?slaves to s heir factors?would soon be able to throw iff the sbacklies of debt and serfdom. 1 New Orleans Ooruocrat: The owners ( if real estate in New Orleans, who have i or many years been compelled to bear ] i r :i heavy burden of taxation on as-c><-1 meats base 1 on ideas of valuation I which obtained durinjr prosperous years, will no doubt be pleased to observe that the present Hoard of Assessors have reduced the city valuation on property to sfl ,000,000. or about ^O,000,000, below the previous assessment. Tliis, it will be ?reneraliy eonee<led, is a very fair valuation when the extremely depressed condition of all hinds of business for the iniM fimsirWntinll. (HUM, IV.. Columbia (S. C.) Register: The business of milking baskets from osier willow twigs is one which seems to be specially adapted t?. the south, and we understand that it i< now being carried on in this state on a small scale. We have also heard of a movement looking to the extension of this industry. At present the twigs or rods used for basket making here are brought from abroad, some of them from Europe, but the willow tree grows, here very readily, some varieties growing wild without any cultivation. If the matter were properly taken hold of a large and paying industry might lie built up in (basket making from native twigs. Galveston News: The increase in custom receipts at the port of Galveston, front July 1 to Octoner 1, 1879, compared with the same period of time in 1878, is something remarkable. For the fiscal quarter ending Septcmltcr 30,1878, the duties on imported merthandice collected at this port were only ?">.078,97. For the quarter commencing July 1 and ending September 00. 1879, the duties collected on imports at Galveston amount to ?42.228?an increase of $37,000 or 1879. ft is pleasant to "learn,also, that costl v and varied cargoes arc now in transit to Galveston from foreign lands, on which duties amounting to $?0,000 will be collectable. St. Paul Pioneer Press: Mr. E. A. Fulton, of Minneapolis is the representative of the colony of colored people which has been organized in that county, who are seeking aid in the North to enable them to remove to Southern Nebraska. Mr. Fulton is a colored man, though there is but a faint trace of African lineage in his complexion or features. "While a boy he fled from Kentucky to Chicago where he lived for eleven years, being em ployed in the office of the Democratic Press. Deacon Bross' paper. After the . <-< .1 1 ...1..] !.. T? ... war nc went ooutn an? seuieu in ivien county, Arkansas. He is now United Suites Deputy Marshal of the Southern District of Arkansas. Mr. Fendel Horn writes to Dr. Merger, of New | Orleans, who introduced the seed of Egytian cotton: '"I have l)een handed a sample of the Egyptian cotton raised on the plantation of Col. Dluiborne?Dunbarton plantation?near Natchez, Miss. Ho ana Gen. Stephen D. Loo, another experienced planter livingnear Columbus, Miss., planted the iriginal seed last year, and both rej>ort :ho plant grow very tall, rank and with nit few holla. This year they have danted about one aero each with seed aken from the last year's plant and both cpor' that it has improved very much. Hie plant is not so large, fruits well, ind tliov say from the one acre one-half if cotton and a much lx'ttor quality is ibtained." .Sherman ( Texas ) Courier; A voritadeeloud of negroes, all sizes, shapes and iliades of color, passed through Dcnison Friday, enronto for Kansas, where the -wuvnln livn in nilirl limmps aild live 1)11 trasshopper soup. Thcv came from Trimes county, in this state, and were illed with exultation over the glittering .'utuve spread out before them. They ;ot as far as the Nation, but the weather vsisn't " propitious" enough. There was :oo much frost in the air. Visions of eebcrgs, snow three feet deep and no vood in the house began to loom up heore them, and they switched off', turned trcund and sailed back. They went brough on their.homeward journey yescrday morning, and propose to stay in ;he sunny south as long as they have a rrip on life. Charlotte ( N. C. ) Observer: Capt. fas. O. Moore, chief engineer of the Winton and Salem and Mooresville railroad, ivent up the Richmond and Danville ailroad yesterday morning to meet Mr. jarrett of the Baltimore and Ohio rail oad company, and receiver Barbour, of lie Virginia Midland, for the purpose of onferring with them with a view to in lacing them to utilize the road bed of lis road, as much thereof as is completed, n their proposed extension of the Virginia ilidland from Danville through tarts of this state. About twenty-two niles of the Winston and Salem and tfooresville railroad are already graded, md Capt. Moore reports having unhand aid attainable a sufficient amount to jrado the road to a point between Mooresilleand Winston?fifty-five miles in all. miscellaneous. Ashland farm, Henry Clay's old home, s to rent. We shall soon begin sending wine to 'innce. The wine product of California lone this season is estimated at 10,000,000 ;ullnns. France should put that fact in her ;hiss and drink it.] In the two years preceding the panic >f l.ST't the price of middling upland cotton ii Liverpool ranged between 0<1 anil lid, nth a million bales more cotton in sight than here are at present. The entrails of sheep'are now used in California for machine belting, in place of lemp, which is said to be much less durable. \ three-fnurth-inch rope made from it will ?ear a strain of seven tons. Goldsmith Maid was on the go, in the ars, for thirteen years, from one end of the ountry to the other, traveling over one IninIreil thousand miles,always taking her regular est on the ears as if in her box stall. She letted to her owner <>\er$75,000, after paying ill her expenses and giving ISudd'Doblc onemlf. Of the total of S.-J.'5I sets of woolen naehinery in the I'niteil States, 1 ,-lIs are in dassarimsetts: 331 in Maine. So. in New lainpshire, 175 in Vermont, 4?i'.k in Rhode i ? - -1 -?.?n !_ 11 .. .* Slant!, ami nri:> ill * iMiiieriniii? > u>i.u he New hhightnd slates of more than -t.'t per ent. of the woolen machinery in the. entire 'ountry. Olio gas company .-.applies all Paris at i rate of about SI.(52 per 1,000 feet. Tlic astyearly dividend was equal to 31J per :entum on the original price of the hares. Dr. R. V. Pierce went to Buffalo in 18(56 penniless. In 1S72 he sjx-nt S150,HK) in advertising, and now he is worth l million and is a? member of Congress, iforal. ' . A little girl who was sent out to look for eggs eainc hack unsuccessful, and coin plained that "there were lots of hens standing around doing nothing. Daily bulletins of current events, with lists of hooks pertinent to the subjects, are hung up in the Hartford public lit.rorv This is done to encourage the muling of instructive matter. Mr. D. P. Morgan, the hanker, has sold to Mr. D. (). Mills, the California millionaire, his mansion on Fifth avenue, opposite the "athedral, Xew York, fully furnished, for$375,000. Last year there were 17,000 cases of yellow fever and o, 100 deaths in Memphis. This year the numlier of eases was 1,00:1 ami there were 408 deaths. The official notice of the end of the yellow 1 fever epidemic in Memphis comes four days earlier than the similar one of October 20, 1878. Locomotives are used on canal towpaths of France. They arc of light build, not weighingover four or five tons, and are easily managed by one man. Barges are thus drawn at a speed of two miles an hour, about twice the mean rate ~r - A nv nrnnfu <11 a IIUIJMJ VII MIC WH-IMI"' ^\uti vessel is drawn six miles an hour, but a greater sjjeed would damage the banks of the canal. A father never thinks his ten-year-old son is stronger than a horse until he employs him to turn the grindstone to sharpen an old axe that is about .as sharp at one end as the other. The old man bears on until the lad's eyes hang out and his trowsers' buckle flies off, and just before he bursts a blood vessel his father encourages him with the remark, "Does ?it?turn?hard?" Thousands of boys have run away from home and become pirates and greenbaekers in order to escape a second siege at the grindstone.? [Norristown Herald. The Pronunciation of " U." [WMhington BUr.] As the schools have just opened and as everybody reads your paper, if you will allow me the space, I wish to call the attention of the teachers and pupils to a fault in English pronunciation exceeding AAmmAri in flan A7nr fla rornlxr Vino rH in the South or in England, tut which seems to be spreading here. (We have faults enough in the South without crafting some Northern ones upon them.) I refer to the vulgarism?it I may so | term it?of giving the long "u," which , is in so many of our common words, the sound of " oo." ] For instance, ninty-five out of every hundred Northerners will say institoot, instead of institute, dooty instead of , duty?a perfect rhyme to the word beauty. They will call new and news noo and noos?a perfect rhyme to pew and pews?and so on through the dozens 1 and hundreds of the similar words. Not 1 a dictionary in the English language authorizes this. In student and stupid 1 the "u" has the same sound as in cupid. and they should not be pronounced stoodent and stoopid, as so many teachers I are in the habit of sounding them. If it is a vulgarism to call a door a ' doah?as we all admit?isn't it as much 1 oi a vulgarism to call a newspaper a ] noospaper? One is Northern and the other Southern?that's the only difference. When the London Pmich wishes i to burlesque the pronunciation of ser- ] vants it makes them call the duke the ] dook, the tutor the tooter and a tube a toob. You never find the best Northern j speakers, such as Wendell Phillips, , Charles Sumner, George William Curtis, . Emerson, Holmes and men of that class ' saying noo for new or Toosday for Tues- i day, avenoo for avenue or calling a dupe a doop% It is a faultthat a Southerner ( also never falls into. He has slips enough of another kind, but he doesn't slip on ( the long "u." As many of our teachers , have never had their attention called to this, I hope they will excuse this notice. ' A Chance for Work. Burdetle, writing from Canada to the Burlington Eawteye, says: One morning I walked out by myself. All along the marsh road the farmers were busy in the meadows moving and turning their hay. A couple of regularlyordained tramps, idle and aimless as' myself, and much better acquainted with the road, passed me, and I tagged a long in their lounging wake. Presently the voice of a farmer came over the sweet-scented meadow: ; Hallo"' The rr.imns halted. " llallo Yourself!" shouted one of them. ' Do you want to hire?" yelled the farmer. Judge of my astonishment when both ; tramps chorused back: "Yes!" Well, I thought, they aren't American tramps, any how, or they wouldn't disgrace the profession in this way. But I stood still to listen and watch, for it was an unusual sight?two tramps going to work. "Then come over here!" yelled the farmer; and the two fellows sprang over the fence and trudged across the meadow with the brisk air of men who really wanted work and meant business. The farmer stood still, leaning on his pitchfork, gazing intently at my motionless , Cgure. Presently his voice broke the ilence once more: . ' Don't that other fellow want to hire, j *>?" he yelled. The two tramps turned and glanced at at me for my reply. I shook my head ' sadly but firmly, and moved on, without J waiting to hear the farmer's muttered comments on my laziness. An American may die, but he never works. State of Society in Illinois. A woman with the unheroic name of Nancy Jane Pratt, in Iroquois county, Illinois, ordered a hunter on her farm on Wednesday, and received the saucy reply: "Oh. you ain't in any danger; I ain't huntin' old maids." Sheabruptly turned, went into the house, came out with a gun,- opened fire on the hunter and killed his dog. lhe fool threw up his hands and yelled: " I)o you mean to murder me?' The farmer's wife answered, as she replaced the cartridge in the breech-loader: "Oh, you aiu t in any danger; I ain't huntin' for fools," ; and she brought the gun again to her shoulder, while the fool yelled louder than before. The firing attracted her husband who came aud kicked the < puppy off of the grounds, and smashed nis gun. ' ' ' 114 i BETTER OR WORSE. * Is n man a bit the oetter For bis board of golden gains, For his acres and ha palace, II bis heart be cold and callous? Is a man a bit the better ? Is s man a bit the worse For a brow with marks of care, Though he claims no lordly rental, If bis heart be kind and gentle? mm a uiau a uil iuc WOrM ( WAIFS AJD WHEttS. Eggs come in layers. A pair off- an eloping couple. It is spring that bring9 re-leaf to the tree. Which is the most ancient of treeaf' The elder. The Board of Education?a schoolmaster's shingle. The flower of the family is generally found in a sacquc. The man with no teeth i3 alwaytlooking for a soft thing. The new broom sweeps cle%n when it is properly handled. The trapeze performer is sometimes heels over head in business. A Columbus (Ohio) young lady want*to kiss Joe Jefferson. Let her, Rip. An undertaker at a wedding is the rite man in the wrong place. Why is a ship the politest thing i& the world? Because she always advance* with a bow. The time is coming when a buffalo robe will cover two hearts that beat aa one. Nero, Pompey and Caesar are common names for dogs, but wouldn't Agripp* be more appropriate. There are a great many people whowill never go to heaven unless they cango at excursion rates. A man's faith is often shown by tho length of time for which he subscriber for his paper and pays for it in advance. Falling down stairs gives a fellow wonderful insight into the starry kingdom. A wicked Fhiladelphian wants to know if there are any fire-escapes in th? next world. "You don't seem to like me when I mould," the ink replied to the angry scribe. Love may be blind before marriage,, but?ah, yes, we forgot?there is no loveafter marriage. ? "A fraud in silks," is the startling- ' headline in an exchange. Ah! Went back on you, did she? A young man is apt to think thetjnes are hard when he cannot get a soft, place. Since the decline in cotton one meetsa great many well-developed girls on thestreet. t "What's more sacred than matri- 1 mony?" asks an exchange. Divorces.Ask us one with a Gordian knot. , " The Whitehall Times has learned whvj^y Samson was so strong. He never tool^H the trouble to bathe in the Jordan. A Bridgeport grave-yard is used fo^^H the pasturing of goats. Goats are ver^^H Sartial to man's resting place.?DanbujWUk Jeirs. Geneeal Schenck can brag of hif^H skill at poker, but wo know a man who^H bus never been beaten a game. He nev.e^Hfl A Book entitled "Letters from a CatSfl [s announced. It will probably give the other side of the boot-jack and back- ^ yard question. "V j It is stated that Robert Bonner is the happy possessor of over eighty horses, all 1 of whicn have records. Who can boast Df as many fast friends? The Hackensack Republican speaks of' "a smile as long as a summer day.'* That's a very delicate way to refer to a , cask of Jersey lightning. Mxy wants but little here below. True, and saleratus in the breakfast biscuit is no exception to the general '<?? > rule. A wag who had lent a minister a horse that had run away and thrown the clergyman, claimed credit for spreading the gospel. The supreme moment of a loafer's life is when a candidate asks for the use ' oi ins miiuence wiui uie wunkiuguieu ui his ward. A Wisconsin city, in order to avoid scandals in the girls' schools has decided that the leading teachers shall be women. They want principals, not men. "Can there be happiness where there is no love?" solemnly queries an author in a hook on marriage. Not much happiness, perhaps, but if the girl is awfully rich, there can be lots of fun. The Buffalo Exprm is doing its best to organize an expedition to go in search of Mr. Dana. The editor of the lirprm appears to be a man who doesn't know a good thing when he sees it. Why can't he let weil enough alone.?Atlanta Conr ititution. Nowadays a man strolls down to the corner grocery in the evening, geta trusted for an yeast cake and samples every basket of peaches or pe%rs in the store. Value of the yeast cake two cents; samples, fifteen cents. And yet grocers accumulate fortunes " Will you ever be mine?" he asked bcr rapturously; and when she answered, "Thctc is one above knows all," he thought camp-meeting had struck in and clinched; but she only referred to the aid man, who was slumbering in the " front room-second." When a man beg;ns to turn yaller and fade like a gum tree in the early fall, he is about the most convenient thing that a family of girls and boys with a likely mother can have about the house. It's " papa do this, and papa do that, or 0 won't you put the children to bed. or wash their little footsy-tootsies, or tell 'em some stories and bring a bucket of fresh water, or bring something or other," all the livelong day and good part of the night. IT la etiquette that makes a woman say, when at an evening review her pet corn is crushed by a young I/Othario, and deadly pangs gallop all through her, "Oh, there's no harm done I assure you; I shouldn't have noticed it but for your apology." But frankness generally yeta the better of etiquette when she reaches the sacred precincts of home and her busbund joggles the same foot and she* exclaims, "Ouch! you horrid brute!, you'll be the death" of me yet; wh> aon't you look where you are goiDg"