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Mj lllogleal Mind. I confess, with a feeling skin to regret, That, as there are spots on the son, So the best of ns all are with failings beset, And that I am afflicted with one. I presume 1 possess it, although I can swear, 'i hat its presence I never oonld find, But the frii-nds who pretend that they know me declare That I have an illogical mind. In short, when I won’t let an arguing friend Persuade me that yellow is grey, Or when I decline my adhesion to lend To all that the loud talkers say. They turn on my poor little self with a frown, And my death warrant's instantly signed : i fellow." they cry with contempt, “ is a clown, od he has an illogical mind." %tkm s onrnftl VOL,. III. NO. 153. 01.0 NKKIKN. VOl.. Vll. NO. 355. AIKEN, S. €., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1877. $2.00 per Annum, in Advance. The Silver Lining. >r a day so sunny cloud appears : - a life so happy 'ts time of tears ; shines out the brighter e stormy tempest clears. ■re’s ne er a garden growing | r ith roses in every plot; e’s never a heart so hardened ‘ it has one tender spot; uave only to prune the border ^To find the for-get-me-not. ere’s never a cnp so pleasant iut has bitter with the sweet: lore’s never a path so rugged That bears not the print of feet; And we have » helper promised .For the trials we may meet. «ver a sun that rises Jut ..e ’twill set at night; )e tints that gleam in the morning [ \t evening are just as bright; r-J the hour that is the sweetest Is between the dark and light. acre's never a dream that's happy But the waking makes ns sad ; There’s never a dream of sorrow But the waking makes us glad ; sbs" ''■•"U -ome dav with wonder •roubles we have had. .re’s never a day so sunny Jut a little cloud appears ; ere s never a life so happy But has had its time of tears ; i iTet the sun shines out the brighter When the stormy tempest clears. laves IN THE SEA. j same day the steamers Souora and Cortes of the rival line sailed for the same destination. It was understood that there was to be racing between hem, and there had been a great deal of betting on the time of the trip. As soon as they got outside the Heads the Yankee Blade raised her flag in challenge to the Sonora and steamed away. She was compelled to lay to for several hours during the night on account of the fog. At seven o’clock in the morning, the fog continuing, it was noticed that the ap pearance of the water indicated land. A line was thrown to take soundings, and a moment afterwards the vessel j struck heavily. She had grounded ou ! Point Arguilla, fifteen miles above Point ! Conception. In a moment all was terror J and confusion. The officers of the boat ' lost all self-possession and control of the , vessel. The boats were lowered, and j landed their loads in safety with the ex- i eeption of that commanded by the first j officer, which, owing to hurried and un- j skillful handling capsized, and thirty of its occupants, most of them ladies, were drowned. In the confusion during the absence of the captain and first officer, a gang of ruffians took boat, and having maddened themselves with its liquor, pillaged and outraged the peaceful pas sengers. One man who resisted was shot, and several were knocked down and beaten. The scene was one of un- about a huadred responded. A few were roaming about the mountains and some were away in the boats. The sur vivors gathered up the corpses strewed along the beach and buried them there. They then set out on their way over mountain and rock, and through jungle, thorns and cacti, fur Manzanillo. After a long and most wearisome march with- A BRAVE WARDEN. STANLEY’S KREAT MARCH. ConvIrtH In ihr Nrvndn I’mlcrntlnry Pro- Inrldentn of Ills Journey Across Africa— claim “ l.iberly or I»rolli” -The lies. Ao KUhteen Hundred JHIe Trlpln the Face of a Thousand lies. Perils and Difllcul- perate Jlen Foiled and the Klnslender , Killed. A recent number of the Carson (Nev.) j ^ ,,, . , , VT , . , . , , i „ i Henry M. Stanley has sent the New •Ippcuf says: Abreak occurred yesterday Y , .. . . . J . ... / * , , • . 0 , , , l ork Herald a long account of his re- attliostntepnson iit3o clock P.M., which, CPn ,. ^ rea , jo , ltnov a „ OBS A , tica nlong but (or the bravery ami the cooloeto „t the lbe Coogoot Lufl.ba River. He ,,ene- trated regions never before seen by a white man. The following extracts from his letter are fulj of interest : The • journey over the hitherto un known half of Africa now being finished, the difficulties and terrors, wars after out food or water they reached a point warden, Ins deputy and the officers of the where the boats from the Manzanillo prison,wbuM have been a very qeriousaf custom house met them and took them fair. Shortly after three o’clock the prison off. Among those' saved was a babe but buggy drove furiously into town with a lew months old, which was washed the intent of .procuring medical assist- ashore alone and alive. Another but a niioe. The reporter of the Appeal took few weeks old was safely brought ashore j the return carriage, and ascertained the on the back of a strong swimmer who ’ of the ense. At about the hour undertook the rescue at the solicitation above mentioned, Gapt. Matthewson, the wars, troubles after troubles, toil upon of tlie child s mother. Among the pas- deputy warden, went to the second I toil, the dismay and despair being ended, sengers _ was (icorge A. McMullen, a i story, of the shoe-shop to give or- ! it cannot be wondered that we breathe a well-known mercliant of this cjjy,\yhq was ders, when he was seized by more i little freer and feel more relief now than going to Ids old home in the East with his than half a .dozen convicts, who rushed ' wheu we were about to begin the jour- upon him and bore him’ to the* ground, j ney. Our experiences have been sad and shouting, “Liberty or death ; *you shall die, blit we will be free,” Capt. Matthewson, before hearing this war- cry, had rushed in, supposihg there was ,s<«me trouble among the prisoners. ! able to comprehend why any one should take the trouble to pay for it when it is so plentiful in each village. The entire plain is also distinguished for its groves of the oil palm. In Uknsu j there are huge forests of this tree, j Almost everything that Africa produces i is to be obtained in the Congo Basin— j cotton, india-rubber, groundnuts, sesa- mum, copal (red and white), palm j kernels and palm oil, ivory, etc. By ; means of the Congo a journey to the | gold and copper district of Katanga is i rendered, moreover, very easy. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. A Rabbit Hunt in Nevada. The Ward (Nevada) Reflex reports a rabbit hunt iu Steptoe Valley as follows: lu accordance with the programme the ! Winter fare of Fowls. Give a plentiful supply of nourishing, stimulating food. If artificial heat is not attainable, have sash fitted in the poultry-house, or so the sun may be utilized. It will pay. Fowls require heat ; if you can give it externally you can save in feed. If artificial heat possible take care that you do not giv too much, else your birds may think it is summer aud throw off their winter clothes. A gentleman we knew of five or six years ago, built a natty little j converted into oil, would poultry-house with all the most approved $14,000,000. The total alwayl Honey w? six dollars is (N, Y.) man for last'yJ “Say, pa," asked a youngster, inqt One day, “ tell me, what is a ring ?" A ring,” said the parent, admiring, “ Let's see—well—it's not a square thing." A definition is given of politeness in which it is likened to an air ^engbion— j may be nothing solid in it, bum the jolts of the world wonderfully A father of three sons and five daugh ters was asked what family he had. The answer was: “I have three sons, and have each five sisters.” “Mercy!” re plied the interrogater, “ such a family J” A traveler stepped off a train and asked a boy : “ Sonny, what is the quick est way to get to the central dopot ?” “ Run !” he answered, and set the ex ample by getting out of the way pretty fast. wife and their two infant children. Air. 1 McMullen reached the shore alive, but never saw aught again of his wife and | babes. Many of the lost were, .well- known, citizens of California. The news ! of this disaster created the most- .painful, j excitement. Flags were displayed at among the soon ns he ascertniued the actual took possession of the half-mast on the pnbHc places bt the j cqntlitfon bf 'affairs, he endeavored to ' 1 :l i<le<l the bar aud ; city, aud there was mourning in every i disfluaiio the prisoners from their project. i: i i• i < i • * > - * ___ _ contest between the two teams named came off on Saturday last. A pleasant day greeted the Nimrods, and Sam Mosier had everything in prime order for the boys. A splendid supper was spread for the gamesters, and after a fine j rest an early start for the field was ef fected. Such banging aud banging never was heard iu Steptoe Valley be fore, and it was evident that a good record was to be made. The slaughter Acapulco senders. [From the San Francisco Chronicle.] ost at sea ! How many a tale of dis aster r.":l death and sorrow and suffer ing has been chronicled in these sylla bles since first man began to go down to the sea iu ships ! The Chronicle has a list of shipwrecks that have occurred on this coast of our continent since its set tlements by the present ruling race. Some of these disasters have been at tended with such appalling circumstan ces, and have left the mark of bereave ment on the hearts of so many still liv ing among us, as to be worthy of more than passing mention. Fire and col lision have boon the cause of the greatest marine disasters which have occurred ou our coast. Yet the hidden rock and treacherous reef alone have several times wrought instant destruction to some of our finest ocean steamers and death to their crews and passengers. First in the melancholy list in chrono- .\jgical order as well as in the appalling loss of life comes the destruction of the Independence. The crazy old craft , one of those picked up somewhere uy Vanderbilt in the hurry of establish : nc his independent line to secure the im mense travel between the Atlantic States and the newly-discovered gold regions of the west. She was known to be un seaworthy, but in the exigency of the period anything that would float was ac- s'f'ptal. reoplo ir. ♦ W-ir baste to reach the gold region thought less of danger than delay. On the 10th of February, 1853, the Independence sailed from for this city, having 453 pas- As week after week passed and no tidings of tlie Independence were received, the most gloomy apprehensions of her fate were entertained by Hie many who expected friends on the steamer. It was not until late in March that a Pacific Mail steamer arrived with tidings which ended the painful sus pense by the realization of the worst fears. On the night of February 15th the Independence was sailing nlong the const of Afargufir/fs off the const lower California. At dawn it was overed that she was dangerously near shore, and from the statements of o of the passengers the captain seems *-e held < ; X his course, or nearly so, ~*uo. At any rate, a short fcerwmds the vessel grounded, 4 ft hig liole in her bottom. The s being reversed the vessel im- backed off into deep water. It found that she was filling fast, uaces were crammed with dry and a’ 1 steam was put on, the de- j -o b) skirt the island in search of aieut spot to beach the vessel. • UK iq the rough coast presented by * rugged isle live or six miles were run i ore such a spot could be found. The hscI was finally gently grounded on a i ndy beach at the mouth of a ravine, i ere under ordinary circumstances the seugers could have been landed iu fety. But iu the exertions to make steam to huiTY tlie vessel’s progress, a rent heat vns created in the furnaces, rising of water in the hold of the . stopped the flues and obstructed draft. The tlnmes thus spent up, irst open the doors of the furnaces and ••eat flame shot out, driving all out • engine room, sweeping along the -e-room and igniting the wood- All efforts to control the fire were and in a few moments the vessel apped iu flames and th,* people id given over to panic and destruc- fn the effort to get ashore with a the boats, which put off not a quar ter-full, were swamped, and thus the last hope of escape was destroyed, as those who had reached shore were power less to assist those on board. The flames compelled those on board to leap over- boar.l and many of them sunk beneath 1 the billows before reaching the shore, ! 300 yards distant. A strong ebb dortow which prevailed, drn another poor victim back house. The total number of lives lost ou this melancholy occasion was 198. The steamer Brother ..TonatMiUgate• to navigation a new rock. To the sea she gave a noble tribute of kumau.lives. bridled passion and violence. The I The Brother Jonathan was oner of the ruffians took possession of the life pre- most familiar boats here,*hating been servers, and when the vessel was threat- engaged in tlie coast passenger frade for ened to go down at any moment extorted large sums of money from the terrified passengers. Iu this it was charged that they were aided by some of the subordi nate officers of the boat. At any rate they were not prevented from the most outrageous proceedings. The steamer held together during the night, and the several years. On July 28, 1805, ’ she left this port for Portland and Victoria. Her passengers numbered 109, her crew and officers fifty-four. At lialf-paSt one o’clock on the afternoon of July 30, while running at full speed she struck a sunken rock off St. George’s f Qiut.eigld or ten miles npjth'west of Crescent City. W LA V* IDIA mi . /{'ll e ofiiy 'f'xce^t’iftliB were! smbarkc^ Jq^tpaf 4 WifK ‘tit? next morning those who had passed a i A great • hole was made in her 'libltOm-, night of terror and suspense on board and in three-quarters of. *m. hour,.fvftej; were rescued by the steamer Golinh. i striking she w6fit down with nearly all The latter had run into the dangerous on board, waters during the night, and narrowly ^ those who embarke escaped shipwreck. She was just back- j third officer. 'ThooKj,, nuihlieriug tpn of ing out when, the fog lifting for a , the crew, three ladies and two childre«,, moment, the Yankee Blade was discov- 1 reached the shore iif safety-‘Why tlvi*boat" ered. Soon after the rescue the stranded ^ put off with so few'in it, wheu *so many were perishing, was . nove£ explained. back steamers Goliah steamer went down. The passengers j were perishing, was . novej explainei acre brought back to this city by the j Efforts were made to kuuich £omc,boat$. and Brother Jonathan, but they swamped in tlie high sea. Aud Many of them who, after years of har(l- ■ before all had been lowered the vessel ship in the mines, had started for home 1 went down, carrying with ‘her hll * oh with a competency, returned penniless, board, nearly 150 people. Somq of tliese being compelled to leave their posses- 1 were men of note, and there was mourn- sions on the stranded steamer. It is es- j ing all over tho-country for them.* Mysterious and awful was the fate of the little steamer George S. Wriglif. She sailefffrim Portland for Sitka Jauu,- ary 2, .1873, reached ’her destination iii due time and started to return, having on board’about twenty passengers. Dur ing the voyage she disappeared and left no survivor to‘ tell the .planner of.Jier end. From glimpses caught of her while passing certain points on the coast it is pretty certain-that she took her final plunge in the waves'ou the stormy-night' of January 27th off the wild’and rugged coast about forty miles northeast of Van j couver Island, but the cause of her des- timated that their losses in this way ng- g 'iited half a million of dollars. The .' 1 y- ’dp ■■■:• »ny refused to make any provision f >r M . i r relief, and but for the help anorak ’ Lv private ckarity they would have suffered greatly. The disas ter created much excitement, and brought down upon the head of Captain Randall and his company a great deal of deserved censure. The Golden Gate, ou e of the fines ocean steamers running ou this coast, sailed from this city for Panama on Monday morning, July 21, 1862, under •ommand of Captain Hudson. She took dreadful, and wo have paid dearly for the temerity and the obstinacy with which we hold on. You might cu 1 ! all the •terrible experiences that African travelers relate in their books, aud united they would scarcely present such a list of difficulties ns we could riiow. Our losses, nevertheless, have not been so of rabbits was fearful, and it required They replied:.“ VJe will t:lkb 3011 out- great comparatively. Our journey’s four wagons to follow the two teams in side to protect us.” “ Yon had better length, from Nyaugwo is nearly one . ^ ie held to keep the game. According be* quiet,” sard Matthewsou: “you will | thousand eight hundred miles; our losses ag r °ement the teams were to meet at be shot.Despite his advice they car- in men are one European and thirty-four Mosier s for lunch at ten o clock,, which ried him out, pushing- him in front of Wanguana. Captain Tnckey lost eigh- them. • The men who had him in charge ! teen Europeans and eleven colored men were Mathena and Ixdleyj sentenced for - |*in about three months. Mungo Park lifjj; Crawford,' for seven years; Ole lost his'own life and the lives of all his Jphnson, for twelve years; Etftrander, I pepple, arid out t>f Peddie’s Niger expe dition the commander and all the prin cipal officers lost their lives aud the expedition was broken up. Much earnest effort was necessary to break through, aud there is no doubt that if we had' not made it some explorer with a little more determination and loss non- for six breakers for twenty-five, and Allen ■ years. The object of the was to reach the south doorof the prison garden under cover of the official, and •then run for life.. In the meantime, .the captain of the guard, Gonnard, kail been* seized in another pOrtirtrr of -the shoe- by Bodarro, se'nt^fioeif frti' lite; * souse in him .would have done it, aud his ■ Bek'b6r, ■twvauty-orie years, arid liurtori*,* -tWables would have been much the for three years. 'They told .him if he same.**" - ' - wotftflVb'qujQtly-, they wouftf’riot iufttt' But T have paid ifor my triumph .with . . ,. .. , ,, .. . . hapi.of ^s'he^d^ expostulated* # ne of my Iwind whose loss almost causes' 111 any field ’ an<1 tlie l )artl0B comprising telling kis captors ^mt ^ it wtW"r , ^rt*iin ' me to regret that. I also dfet riot •permit •death to proceed. The*breate^ we'fe ifll ^ myself -to be dissuaded from entering from the sboeshop, ambwerg aiqqed with the unknown' regions. * Though ‘bom in the* knives *usefl i® that department, , an humble sphere of life Francis PoCock Up°H the captain of 'the gkitrd exposku-j was an extraordinary man ; a man to hiking, -he was cut severely in the groin j make himself respected and beloved ; a by’one of the 'brea&erg.,' ]Je. was iiqt , mkn of many fine qualities, of cool, (•ertain who inflicted the wound. - .When | qtejulfnsi' courage, that knew no quail- .thqy were atl'onlsidc, Captain Matthew- , ing : cf great manliness, a cheerful, they did, and the count of game com menced. To the utter surprise of every body, the score of each team was 609. Who ever saw such a pile of rabbits ? By actual measurement there was a cord of dead rabbits. The teams had mis taken the ..port of the day and had not sufficient ammunition to continue the slaughter of the forenoon, and agreed to j 1 “<it, unu uuij ah in.'i • • 1 ■ i.i 1 dozen hens and two cock quit. All hands joined in the agree ment, aud cheer after cheer went up from botk titles as the announcement was made that it was a draw. We were in the field and have seen some* good shootingJoefore, but take it altogether, we havri never seen better shooting done he two teams deserve a great deal of credit for their perseverance and the honorable manner iu which they con ducted the match. .■son,.although,in a most 'daigbnms posi- I amiable compauioji; a gentle, pious fki wring, iuiCtanfe of his courage is worth ro- v — —j The natives of Ibaka prepared neaAiu^the gftte, which-, { to attack us ajscUadvaiiced' on ns Mr. that iciency ot those iil fttte’rifl- purpose. I - stood up ir » ilvanv/LA, AJILLJ U* I . , 242 passengers, and her officers and crew trnctl ou is unknown. ‘ It is su'rmiSed numbered ninety-six men—a total of 338 1 ^earner either struck on a persons. She also had on board specie ! BUU . ken rock . or, her machinery becom-. of the value of 81,400,000. On the afternoon of their first Sunday out (July 27th), about a quarter of five o’clock, the ship took fire in the cook’s galley! The passengers were immediatelyordered forward, but so rapid was the progress of tlie flames that only about 100 suc ceeded in getting forward. The fire bursting out amidships cut off all com- mmiicafioR between the fore and aft parts of tlie ship. Til? vessel was im mediately headed for the shore, which was three or four miles distant, and as much steam as could be raised was crowded on. A westerly breeso which prevailed drove the flames aft among the poor wretches huddled there. An at tempt to get out the boats was made. Of | the ten on board only five could be got, ! and one of these was swamped in lower- ■ ing. Ot the life preservers the greater j number were out of reach. The fire soon drove the engineers from their ■ station and some of them, including Waddell, the chief engineer, narrowly escaped being burned there. Suddenly the poor wretches huddled fore and aft , on Hie boat, watching the too-slowly approaching shore, had the agony of ; seeing the vessel sheer off. It was only for a moment. The man at the wheel, a heroic sailor, named William Hood finding the heat absolutely unendurable! forsook Ids post, but it was only in search of a rope, with which he dashed back through the flames and tied fast i wheel, being dragged away in afaint- i ing condition by some of his comrades who threw him a rope. By this time tlu flames had become absolutely unen durable, and the passengers were driven to jump into tlie sea, with almost a eer- helpless againpt which engulfed ing deranged, wiv* left the prevailing storm her. . . A few fragments of the wreck have been recovered aud two bodies, supposed to belong to her passengers*—one, that of a man believed to bo Major Walker, i United States paymaster, the other that of a boy—were picked up. An Indian was recently arrested on the northern coast who claims to have been on board the ! missing steamer. He states that .the ! boiler exploded at night, and. the vessel. 1 went down so suddenly that only one | boat could be launched. This boat, con taining the captain, four United States army officers aud the Indian, escaped to an island, where they made a bargain ; with some Indians to take them to the mainland for $500. The sight of the money inflamed the cupidity oi the bar- ■ barons wretches,and on the night before i 1 hey wore to set out, while th§ white men were asleep, ^hey murdered them 1 all, sparing the Iml j an with strict in i' junctions never to disclose the truth on | pain of being killed. Tlie incidents of the latest grpat ocean i disaster on our coast—that in which the 1 ill-fated Pacific went -down early iu.No- 1 vember, 1875, with all on bganl (some ' 200 Souls), save two—are well remem- j bored. The dark )[ight, thy suddep ap parition of a vessel under full* sail,’the crash of the sudden collision, the sud den rush of water, the shrieks of the awakened passengers,, the moment of confusion and the engulfing of the 1 steamer are incidents vividly reinemW- ed from the thrilling narratives of the' •vived. Th.. uhi.. tion, ordered-the gunrtls £0 fife.' T1 e' -smil; amf a stanch. friend in trouble, order' given three times b'efdre the command was obeyed.* JJythh> time they were through .the efficiency'of those iiT attend- purpose. I ■ stood up in the boat to ance was promptly closed. While com- , spqfik to ' them, and while engaged in ing down the stairs, Captaid Matthewson conversation with one of tlie chiefs a Iriclceda window tuid shouted, thus noti- canoe crept up near Frank’s aud Fratik tying Pino, of the guards, that some- ( was made^aware that he .was a target for tiling was .wrgng. He immediately ud- two dr three guns, and lifted his gun 'to fire # or to threaten them. Seeing this, | that it would precipitate us into another | fight, before exhausting all endeavors | f< >r peace, I cried out to Frank to drop | his gun.. He instantly obeyed, and per mitted them to approach’within thirty yards of him without making the least motion,* though every’ one was exceed ingly anxious. Finding that his eyes were fastened on them two of the savages that were aiming at Frank suddenly changed their minds, aud gave my boat’s crew the benefit of their attentions, firing among us, wounding four of my best nu'ii, though fortunately not fatally, and the third emptied his gun among Frank’s people, wounding one. He then received permission to avenge him self, which he did in an effective man ner. titled General Batterman, who:promptly appeared upon the scene. The firing had'already commenced. Mitchell, who was statibued ou tlie parapet, fired his shotgun, completely riddling Johnson, with slugs and shot, and such truck as is ordinarily loaded iu a shotgun. Captain Matthewson', who was holding a prison er, was shot throqgh the right arm, tlie th4 ball .passing from thence into the shoulder of Matbeuy, a young man seu- •tejiced for life, and passing out througu the upper portion of his arm. Matheny •arid Johnson fell. The officers remained firm and the ex citement by this time became intense. The prisoners, seeing they were utterly and completely foiled in their attempt, now began to. weaken. Belcher, one of the men in charge op the captain of the guard, was the .first to propose giving up. He said to the captain, “ If you will keep the guards from shooting, we ( ot - Uloclij bllt x canU)it rt , frain fr<)1 w! go >ac -quiet 3. rhe captain j U g this young African, «- agreed to the proposition and then re turned to .th'e shoe-shop. No escapes was effected, aud tlie officers pf the prifcon' are to bo congratulated on their efficiency and promptness in the dis charge of their duties. Doctors Fox, Srtiart, White and Luce were immediate ly called, the former attending to the case of Johnson and the latter to Ma- tlietiy, all of them giving their attention to Captious Matthewson and Gonard. The-wound* of thelattef are very slight. ' Matheny'hits, a flesh wound in fche shoulder,’from which he will soon re cover. The woilnds of Johnson arc’very serious. We counted twenty-seven per forations in his khonlder arid back. About five J\* M. JciMusou died of his- wounds. He was sentenced for murder, in the secoud degree, for twenty-five years, and liaifservdd* tWo'yeaYs of -this time. He was,, the .ringleader of the movement* and met with.its just departs.' Withont Note or Comment. Two stories of suicide are in all minds to-day—one of them a story of life in a palace, the other a story of life in a tenement house. The actors in the two terrible dramas were socially as far re moved from each other as the poles. The one was rich, the other poor ; the one refined, the other without culture. The one lived in luxury, with friends in abundance, with wealth and with all the comforts that wealth can provide ; the other lived in narrow quarters, upon scanty food and with little or nothing of ! hands may be hept smooth and white by modern conveniences, including a base burning coal-stove. “All went merry as a marriage-bell.” Eggs were laid, were hatched as nicely, with the thermometer below zero, as in the pleasant May days, until just before a certain show, when the birds began to shed their feathers, and show time found them as ragged as robbins. A council of j experts was called, but wheu in the i course of their deliberations upon the I best hen, the question arose whether she ( was of the dark or light Brahma per suasion, there not being feathers enough I to decide, and the owner having no private mark, a discussion arose so per sonal that two of the parties are enemies o this day.—Fancier’* Journal. On the same subject the Rural World says: If the poultry roosts in the trees it should be caught and shut up in the poultry-house for two or three days to wont them to their new quarters. It is idle to expect hens to lay in winter, if left to roost on fences, trees, etc., ex posed to the freezing weather and piti less storms. The poultry should now be weeded out, and only a couple ol’ ks left for the j next season. Save the early pullets, and I they will give you bushels of eggs, Kill off all the old hens, if you want to | get plenty of egg^, and bear in mind not ! to keep too many hens. A few hens wel ! kept will produce more eggs than a gooi | many hens poorly kept. Fowls must not be crowded. They want plenty to eat. They should have some animal food. The scraps about the house should be saved for them, instead of being fed to.worthless curs. It i a great help to the table to have fresh , ggs in winter, and it requires some attention and care to get them. Warm quarters, early pullets, plenty of food and plenty of room, are the necessary conditions to have them. lledlcnl HIiiin. To Remove Blackueams fkom the Skin.—Blackheads may be got rid of and prevented from returning, by wash ing in tepid water, by proper friction with a towel, and by applying a little cold cream. Taking Care ok the Hands.—The turn. line, ; taiuty “of death there, lowered themselves over vessel by means of ropes, to which they ' Some of them the sides of tho fol- iu the water, until others . T . . ^ . ... . - in such numbers that the poor , Ne t T n ‘ V 1 wkms, and. was on hey waj to let go ‘ t0 Victoria un.%-,oo£j- by those above. Tin yged held on lowed men at the bottom were forced passengers held to* these life lines by scores until the fire i burned them off, and tlie struggling j despairing wretches sank in -a mass among the raging waters. I n about half an hour after the fire was discovered the or un- | vessel was beached three hundred yards from 1 two who survived. Tlie ship. Orpheus went aground on. the night of the collis ion and was abandoned. Her fate had l little or no connection with the collision, she escaped without #enous in jury. The Pacific belonged to Gpojall, maud of er-in-la The Two Turkeys. As*, regards CentiTs*-of' population' ; •.Turkey in. Europe* as a VGiolc, hak far 1 more*.inhabitant*, to Jtjie Hijuarp", iriila.j than. Turkey in •••Asia.;, there! *ure -three.or four’Eurvtpffltn provinces where I the-pnjAulatioii is 111'dVf'Meiis’e than else-' 'vhekeo-via< Rnlgarin, which is','n6w‘ f Captain D.,I{owell,.a broth- j t,H? -Adriiiuople and •'Kosso ; i w of J/jffqrsim Davis. , ’ *vit ( *whi*ffi'are-Immediately .adjacent.,to — ' ’ ’ f tlie tkxifc of war ' aVifi ffanfiffl;- Whhdr <lies ; c<mfparntii&'cly, distant, ‘" Tlitffe' &Vc', how hver; (moor two province# iq Awa, [(Sir This is scarcely the place to say much >m giv ing this young African, who was the coxswain of the Lady Alice (the canoe ip which Pecock lost Iris life when it was swamped iu a whirpool), a meed of praise here. Uledi is. a young fellow twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, i lithe and active as a leopard and brave as a lion. He is one of a hundred thou sand. I doubt whether there is another in the island of Zanzibar equal to him. , There are few in this expedition who are not indebted to him for life or timely 1 rescue or brave service. He was the first in war aud the most modest iu 1 I peace. He was the best soldier, the j best swimmer, the best carrier, the best sailrir, the best workman in wood or j iriur, and the most faithful of the black : ' faithfuls. He was certainly the last i man iu the world who should have been I dared into doing a desperate act, such , as shooting a cataract. But Frank was j too Brave also, and had a strange oon- | tempt for .tlie terrors of the river, liav- | ing been a.Medway waterman from bis boyhood. It is first to sheer rashness, and secoud to his accidentally striking his liead against the canoe as he en deavored to rise to the surfree, that I attributed the loss of such an expert ^ swimmer as Frank Pocock. Her Dark l/aysV ' • Among the eflepts 0/ Mrs. jStaart/the* Once above the lower cataracts wo have the half of Africa • before us with no fiiterruptioris, and not, like the Low er Nile regions, drwyts of sand, but bhe vast, populous plain, so populous, in comfort. One thing only they had in common, aud that was intolerable wretchedness, and the wretchedness was wrought iu both cases by alcohol. In one case it was a poor workingman, who gave way to despair aud killed his children and himself because his wife was drunken. In the other a refined, cultured, sensitive woman, a young wife who had all that wealth and social con nections could procure, who was ac counted particularly fortunate aud hap py,- voluntarily went to her death to escape the intolerable torture of life with a husband who was a victim of strong drink. With these tragical stories for text it would be easy to write a sermon ; but the lessons that the stories suggest are trite and worn with much reiteration. 1 The stories themselves carry their moral with them, as similar stories told every day iu the newspapers do, and they who heed them not would not heed even | though one should rise from the dead.— i Xcw York Fecitin<j Fort. Bleeding to Death for Thirty Hours. At St. Louis about midnight on a re- | cent Monday a man was discovered in ; the vicinity of the third district police station, staggering along the street and acting in a disorderly and boisterous manner. He was taken into the station ! on a charge of disorderly conduct, and placed in a cell, where he remained until the following morning, and was released. | The man, whose name could not then be ascertained, went to the house of a friend named Quigly, on Seventh street, and told (fiiigly he was very ill with a pain iu the breast. Mr. Quigly took him to the city dispensary, where an exami nation was had and the discovery made that the man had been stabbed iu or through the breast bone. Though the wound was considered slight, he con tinued to grow weaker and more stupid, and this morning he died. A post mor tem examination was held by the coroner, and it was found that the dead man had | been stabbed with a long-bladed jack- ! knife, not only going through the out- i ward wall of the body, but through the 1 pericardium of the heart, and slightly j penetrating that organ, death being pro- . ilueed by hemorrhage of the heart, though the bleeding was so slow ami i the victim was such a strong man that i it took thirty hours for him to bleed to death. the free use of glycerine after washing, and by frequently rubbing them dry in bran or meal. Apply glycerine before retiring, aud sleep in warm gloves or woolen mittens. To Remove a Wart.—A wart can be removed by applying a small quantity of nitric acid to the surface. Do not cut or open the wart iu any way, but simply touch it with the cork. Should it burn when first applied, dip it iu cold water, aud it will be immediately re lieved. Do not let the acid touch any other portion of the skin except the wart. To CrBE Chills and Fever.—One quart boiling water; one drachm quinine; put into a tumbler of the water, stir and it will look like milk; add fifteen or twenty drops sulphuric acid; pour this into a quart bottle; two ounces of Epsom salts mixed with some of the boiling water to be added to the Lrst, and two ounces essence peppermint; dose, two tablespoonfuls three times a day, before eating. Canary and other Ventures. “ Burleigh,” who has been taking a trip to Panama, writes to the Boston Journal from ou board the steamer to Texas made this year 700,000 bales of cotton, from which will be obtained 840,000,000 pounds of seed. This seed, bring over exports of cotton from the port of Galveston during, the season just closed were 495,814 bales, of which 256,928 went to foreign and 238,886 to domestic ports. A Boston s\\ iudler has made thousands of dollars in New England by staying at hotels over night iu the guise of a travel ing salesman, receiving by previous rangement with a confederate letters containing worthless checks and pre tended directions from an employer, and inducing the landlords to cash the checks. His ea’sy, business-like manner, and the simplicity of the fraud, enabled him to succeed in nearly instance. The New York Sun says New York contains to-day hard on 1,300,000 inhabi tants. Brooklyn alone contains at this writing a population of 550,000 ; this, added to 1,300,000, would give New York City 1,850,000. If, however, we taka in Jersey City and Staten Island, which clearly belong to this agglomera tion of population, New York, viewed as a metropolis, is the second largest city of the civilized world, containing over 2,000,000 inhabitants. Thus • Lon don, 3,489,428; New York over 2,000,000, aud then Paris with 1,851,792. In the town of Wells, Maine, live two remarkable brothers, one of whom is seventy-seven years old and the other seventy-two years. Their total weight together is five hundred pounds, and their combined height is twelve feet, five inches. They were born in the same house in which they now live, and never have been out of their native town. Both are married and have families. They have kept their property in com mon, have never kept any accounts, and never quarrelled or had the least disa greement. Their farm consists of five hundred acres, aud upon it are hundreds of trees one hundred feet high, four and five feet iu diameter at the butt, and worth from $50 to $100 apiece. say that “among things on board is They are 2,000 in care of three men. the most curious a cargo of canaries, number, under the whose time is all taken up with washing, feeding aud mix ing the food. These birds have crossed the ocean to New York aud are to find a market in San Francisco. Frail as the stock is, and liable to disease and death, the venture is said to have money iu it. The owner is a Frenchman.” lie also says that “ among our passengers are several salesmen loaded with samples on a tramp to introduce American goods in all parts of the world. One man is a genuine specimen of a cute tradesman. He is engaged for a three years’ cruise. He has a camel’s load of wares. He has a salary of $25,000 a year and $20 a day expenses. He represents twelve large New England factories, and knows the name and occupation of every man on board the steamer.” An Election Rooster. Scranton (Penn.) Republican many from shore, but by that time only the as he was miinim/ .. f l f ° • h JUst 1 ,0() passengers who had reached the fore hausted condition on shoviT' ^ f/’T . ,,0at r< ' n ; ain ' > ‘ l on sin- Those aft had been forced overboard, , , iHlantl and at least three-fourths of them sunk cared for aud whence thev came to Tlris J Whin f\ K,loro - ThoSe remnini »f? city. Tlie number rt„ pcrS"n h' ■ CTt T”"'. , "‘' 1 disaster was 197. iroken timbers, with which they jumped overboard as soon as the vessel beached. on shore. The vivors made their way across the to a whaling station I citv. . « . , . - .. r ., — deed, thuti excepting •Ugogo, I know no young wife .who committed suipide Ju. ^nlnrly Syrian ;Riid>.»’rel»ij 5 oBtl r ,an4 .tliqt .part of Africa so thickly inhabited. The New York on account of her husband's j l’a 1 '^'^U Asiu Minor near to Constnii.ti- usual term villagg is'a fnisnouier I infenfperate-habits, was found a small ! ^vhvre the population equals in office calender, and on this was iudi- I dbfifcity that of the more populous Euro- eated, after a fashion, the dopth of her P ontI provinces of Turkey. As regards the war in Europe, therefore, where the Main struggle lies, it is a contest by Ifussift"primarily against a populatioil of about four or five nrillons living in the A Trader’s Trick. The ' says: The members of the Twelfth ward | election board relate a remarkable inci dent which occurred ou election day at 1 the house where the voting was going j on. At precisely twelve o’clock, as they were actively engaged in their duties, a ^ The first to end her career was the Yankee Blade, the finest and fastest of the ocean steamers then running on this roast. On Beptember 30, 1854, the steamer wriled from this port for u Panama, with 800 passengers and $153,- j vessel disappeared COO in specie. On the evening of the roll was called on Many a one was torn from his frail raft by the heavy breakers. The last two to leave tho vessel were Captains Hudson n»d H. H. Pearson, tho latter a passen ger. Iu a few minutes afterwards the trouble. Over tho month of October js written, “ My Dark Days.” Every day during the month is darkened by peueil marks, some more ami some less. In some of the squares there is on!- block dot. One day was left white. The record was kept up during tho month until death. There was one white day during November also, but (he others were all very dark. , The nerves pull the trigger, but the In the morning the gun powder which (hey unite is stored in the bench, and only j the muscles. provinces of • the Danube, Adrianonle iind Kossova, aud secondarily .-.gainst a remaining population ot shout four millions in Europe aud sixteen in Asia. The bulk of the Asictic popu lation is, however, in Asm Minor and Syria, and many parts are accessible by sea, from Constantinople^ and, practical-’ ly, as near the scene of hostilities as the outlying parts of European Turkey. illagg is'a fnisnomCr for most of the collections of dwellings ; they are towns iu some places two miles long, with one or more broad streets be tween the rows of neat,well-built houses. The houses are superior to anything in East Central • Africa. The natives are different also. Every thought seems When-the Communists of Paris mob-j young rooster flew through the window “Oh Jim.’’ A writer in the Sonora (Cal.) Demo crat, speaking of the queer customs of the miners iu the early days of the gold discovery, says : Another common expression iu the early days was “ Oh Jim.” In the north ern mines, when the miners came forth from their claims at dinner time or iu tho evening after their day’s work was done, each one of them as ho stretched out his arms like a faithful Mohammedan greet ing the rising sun, would exclaim : Oh-h-h Joe,” prolonging the first word to an inordinate length aud cutting the last as short as possible. In the southern mines it was “ Oh-h-h Jim,” delivered in the same manner. The origin of this expression lay iu the necessity of throw ing the voice as far as possible when wishing to communicate with a friend in a neighboring claim. A woman in these days was a rarity aud something of a curiosity, aud whenever one “ hove in sight ” of a camp of miners, the first who saw her was sure to announce his liscovery to his friends in the adjoining claims, refixing the exclamation “Oh” long drawn out, with the name of the adjacent miners, supplementing with there’s a woman cornin’.” Finally the announcement of a woman in sight set tled into “ Oh-h-h Jim,” and the cry was passed from claim to claim as she went by. Previous to ’56, from Chinese and Montezuma,from Jamestown and Sonora, up Wood’s creek and above Columbia was densely populated. Every inch of ground was occupied and thousands of picks were swinging from morning (• night, consequently the progress of a woman over the road through this portion of the mines was greeted every step with a jovial welcoming of : “Oh-h-h Jim !” along the creek ; “ Oh-h-h Jim !” rang out clear and strong from the slopes of Table mountain, and “ Oh-h-h Jim!” floated from the distal.t plains of Raw- hide. A deep l)a« u “ent tbe cry fre,n tho gulches toward Tuttletown, and it was caught ou the wing by a shrill treble far up the creek, each man stopping work to cry “Oh-h-h Jim,” to gaze earnestly after the woman, or, perhaps, to swing Iris old, greasy slouch hat in token of the joy he felt at seeing so great a curiosity as a woman in the “diggings.” Then he would return to his labor with thoughts of the “girl ho left behind him,” thinking, with tour-dimmed eyes, perhaps, of the aged mother or blooming sister who patiently waited Iris return from the far shores of the glittering Pacific. Many a mother has passed away while waiting the return of tlie son who never came, thousands of sisters are still waiting, and will continue to wait until “ time shall cense to be, aud the heavens are rolled up as a scroll.” engrossed with trade, aud fairs and markets are established everywhere. There has been a suspicion generally entertained that ivory must soon become ; but I car. vouch that at least it wil^^fc>c s° for^n^ or four genera tions. TI pies,” or idc monesfc utens made of ivory• bed the residence of Thiers, they enrri ed awiiy Iris bronzes and curiosities, which were sold to dealers. The police subsequently seized, wherever they found them, articles bearing the private mark of Thiers, which he caused to be engraved or stamped upon his articles of vertu. To his surprise, he found many ornaments brought to him bear ing his mark, which he had never own ed. The dealers had counterfeited the mark, and preferred to be robbed rather than confess the trick. >f the room, carrying sash and glass, and startling tho occupants. He perched himself squarely upon the ballot-box aud crowed triumphantly several times. As soon as tho officers had recovered from their surprise, the bold intruder had made Iris way out, after scattering the papers and other articles upon the table in a lively fashion. Tlie officers are at a loss to account for this strange gallinaceous feat. As tho incident was rs he has been so often at his boardii) it ttie mockil related to our reporter, au old man with a gray beard and wearing spectacles, in- gas flows out over the jged in convulsive laughter, as he il- j door, and runs like a A Fatal Gas. In volcanic regions springs and wells of carbonic acid gas are not unfrequeut, forming part of tlie geological forma tion, like the springs and wells of petro leum in certain districts or this country. The Dogs’ Grotto, near Naples, enjoys a world-wide reputation for evil. Redis plays tlie fact that carbonic acid, so much heavier than air thatHj tho ground like a pool of wat threshq brook Red how, at the same time, a largo njulficJii^aLIfi^aud remained ger had path leading up to the grotto. In weather a lighted candle plunged into the stream near its point of exit is im mediately extinguished. THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM