Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Sirplosulwcftprioos, p* r snnum.? 2 00 Five hubumptious at 76 8 75 IVu eut»sciiptti>m at tl 6o 15 00 Twenty subscript torts at gl 515 25 00 Fifty sbbscriptioti'- at 81. . 50 00 The WkrsLT Nkws will be sent to yeurly eiih-t* t ii> is to the Dally R iivion of The Ness uiel Uouiier foi §1. The Wkmlt Nkw-« will be sent for one yeui t»» uix luoDthu* subscribers to the LtuhV E lltl >u of The News tiud Courier foVtl 50. The Wateki.Y Naws will be sent to yearly siiCWcribers to the Til Weekly E liiion of The News and Courier for 81 50. No reductions will be made In the price to subscribers of The News and Courier except as above. Remember! The WrrKLY Nrws con tains the Latest News, selected from The News and Courier, besides these specialties which do not appear iu the Daily at nil: A Prlie Story! A Chess Column ! An AgtlcuLufal Department! And a complete Weekly Record of Deaths and Marriages in this btate. Any one of these epadittiesalone ie worth the price of suosctlptlon, and the subscriber really gets a first-class weekly paper bewiues for not Msg. RIORDAN * DAWSON, Charleetbn, 8. 0. The proprietors of The News and Courier offer 8100, In gold, for the best Serial Btory> wiitten by a resident of South Carolina, illustrative of South ern life, before, during or since the war. The conditions are as follows : 1. The story to consist of not le«si than twenty chapters; the chapters averaging ten pages of foolscap or the equivalent. 2. The manuscript to be sent to the proprietors o? The News and Courier uot later than April 1 next. A Each manuscript to bit acopmpa- »i«d bV a nsaled enwelopa containing the real natbe and the address of the author, and bearing on the outside a motto, which shall likewise be placed upon the manuscript ; the scaled en velope to be opened only when the award has been made. 4. The etorisa to be rand by a com mittee of three resident* of charles ton, selected by the proprietors of The News ana Courier, who will make their decision on or before April l#lh\ 5. The story which shall be declared to be the best to be the absolute pro perty of the proprietors of The News and CduGer, and published as a aerial in The Weekly News. Rejected manu scripts to be returned forthwith to the authorv , *, m tn mddng this propaefclotr'Ike ob- Ject is tb eiicotiragw, as far as pRsctlca- ble, the development of literature In South Carolina, and to ftlre-th* read ing public, through The WiwklyNews, tales of Southern life whleK'shsIl pre serve the recollection of traits of char acter and social peculiarities and hab its fast p«9||af away,and the rising generation struggle Wofh glnNMb i the Revelation and of saflerinks great er than those which «N*f borne by ths men of Seventy-six. Shoflfd ths tk- “ COME UN* 0 ME. A sweeter song than ti’er was sung by poet, priest or sages I A song which thro’ all Hs'van has rung And down thro* all thaftgea, A precious strain of sweet accord, A note of cheer from i ’hrlst our Lord ; List I as it vibrates full and free. Oh! grieving heart “Come unto me." Oh! wise provision, sweet command, - Vouchsafed ths weak aad the weary; A Mead to Had oa either hand, A light for prospect dreary. A friend who knows our bitter need. Of each enueavor taking he -d; Who calls to every soul opprest, “ Come unto Me, I’ll give you rest.” “Come unto Me.” The w*y’s not long, His hands are stretched to meet thee. Now still thy s >bblng, list the song Which everywhere shall greet thee. Here at his feet your burden lay. Why ’neath It bend another day Since one so loving calls to thee. “ Ob! h< avv laden, come to Me?” A sweeter song than e'er was sung By pi»et, priest, or sages; A song which thro’s 1 l^eaven has rung And down thro’ *11 the ages. How can we turn fro<>. such s strain, Or longerwrsit to e^se our paiuV Oh! draw us closer, Lord, that we May And our sw-etest rest la Thee. —T^i. " -"?Jg . J'J.- .S^ ■■ ■■ - 8BJLiECT STORY. TAKING A MEAN ADVANTAGE. [concluded ] The llgbt of ©uily morning Is re puted to b** most trying 4o beauties whose faces begin to show the rava ges of time, and surely never does the face of earth look so sad, so worn, so pathetically faded as in the twilight of dawn. As one by one its familiar fea tures emerge from darkness, how com mon place, bow flat, how bom’ ly they appear. It Is as if the imagination, piqued by the veil of darkness, had over night invested the earth with a beauty not Its own. Even so a doting fancy sometimes touches the faces of ab»( nt friends with an Weal grace not truly theirs. How sharp the sudden disappointment at meeting, and how poor the heart, if the eyes do not well over with a self-reproachful impulse of more utter tenderness for the very disappointment's sake. But, sooth to say, the young people with irhoso doings we are now con cerned took a less centime ital view of the matter. Tb' lr criticisms upon the appearance of Mother Earth as she emerged from the bed-clothes were rather sharp than sympathising. Oue of the young m-n, commenting on her seedy appearance, said she looked as if she had been on an all night spree, anvi another off red to bet something that oh® bad a bad headache. •What a contrast there is between the two twilights of evening and dawn!’ said Bade lien, to whom I will take the liberty of replying, since no ooeebe else did, that Is just like the difference between the warm dimness of remln isoeoce and the fearsome obscurity of anticipation, that is iu the minds of those who are old, like ike earth. ‘How terribly close men do siick to ths earth to be sure,’ said one. * L 'ok at that ant going o*t to his field 1 It makes one feel dreadfully unsympa thising and Inhuman to be up^so high. Men do seem so absurdly small.’ • Wby you are only a thousand feet up,’ rejoined another. It’s lucky the people In Heaven don't get high-toned at that rate.' Will and Violet had wandered away from this group of jesters and philos ophers, and were standing on the ex treme northern edge of the mountain- top, where the cliff descends almost plumb to the meadows eight hundred feet below. ‘What alls you, Violet? Whdt makes you so sad this morning ?' he asked. ‘ Don’t you know ?’ she replied, with out taking her eyes from the land scape, whose drearines* was reflected la her youpg face at that, moment. Tha tasRcs of bacgaiMrs, eachaeek Ing to make the Other commit him self to the first definite proposition, are not mere curloue than those of friends who have a grievance between them, each trying to make the otber be the first to define it * I suppose yog are fretting over the gossip about mv drinking,’ be said finally. She made no reply beyond a slight pressure of bis atm. at once ascentlng to hfs statement and tenderly remind ing him that he must not th nk it was himself, but his fault that she was at odds with. What a subtle alchemy Is that of love, that ca® always separate In its wondrous cnicihle the oflhoee from the offender, although they seem O' Vef so closely identified. Perchanoe never yet was a soul so evfl and be sotted but that to some eye, blinded, nr shall wo say supernsttirally en- bw love, ^44 deprfttiry seemed inc1<WtHVunesfc«b**tl aui his real self lovable. 1‘ * 1 don*! Irnow what tb® atoriee abotft (zzi ajr , jr:u but ^ • I kiov? you regard these things differently from what I do,’ continued Will, feeling that be was having un usually uphill work making a smooth plea, ‘but I can't profess a very deep sense of guilt merely because I’ve taken something with a friend now and then.’ To this she made no reply at All. He confessed himself nonplussed. She bad always before been eager to dis cuss the subject of his hablta with him and to ply blm with arguments, and that she was not angry the way she leaned on bis arm told him. Had she intended to excite his conscience she could have chosen no better tactics, but in truth tactics of any sort were far enough from her mind. Her list lessness was simply the result of des pondency and discouragement as to any prospect of his reform, which had come over her since his recent per formances. She loved him as much as ever. Nothing was likely to make any difference with that, but her love was pitched in the lower octave of sorrow. They Joined the rest of the party and Violet being claimed, by Mary, who wanted her to aseist In botanizing a little, Will wandered off and getting under the lee of a big rock puzzled compunctlously over Violet’s queer reslgn'-duess of manner. He did not generally relish overmuch having her preach teetotallsm to him, but he would ten times rather listen to the most violent diatribe on that subject than have her assume this new style with him. A half hour dragged along and the East was already streaked and dap pled with reds and yellows, when he was startled to bis feet by a shrill scream, sounding thereon the moun tain top us If It came from the air atontid. A doz-n steps brought him to the sp.'t where he had last seen the pirls, rest lug amid a bivouac of shawls. As he rushed in from one direction Mary and Violet had ap peared from another. It was Mary who had screamed. Violet followed her more slowly, apparently excited but very pale. • flhe was reaching into a crevice for some nioes and a rattlesnake stung her,’gasped Maty, and Instantly her horror-strlck'-n expression was reflect ed iu four blanched faces. There was a pause in which nobody said any- rierwfii b field And efi! _ Weekly News the ttowt brlfiisnl wri- tt»* hi the whole Booth iope to extend tbs literary snlht m eontfibutors to The general principles that they nre twice as bad as the facts.’ * fery likely,’ answered Violet list- leealy. thi g. Then Bade Allen exclaimed: ‘ We must take her home Instantly and get a doctor.’ ' The wagon won’t be at the foot of the path for an hour and a half yet,’ add one of tbo young men in a low voice. Will looked so completely dazed and stunned that you would almost have thought he was the one least con cerned. Violet as she sat on a couch of shawls was the calmest of the par ty. Resignation to death depends on the nervous tone and hers was just now, oWiog to the discouragement about Will, reduced almost to the point of indifferenoe to anything. Af ter the first shock it began almost Im mediately to seem all right and fitting that she should die here on this moun tain top, this great hill-alter, with her lover by her side. God had shown her this w*y out of her sore perplexity. ‘Ah, see the sun,’she said, as the first beam of the rising orb fell full upon her forehead. 1 Set me around with my back to It. I can yet over take tbs nigh; In the valleys.’ She was a little flighty from the men tal strain. ‘ Has anybody got any whiskey ?’ said Fred Harris, the young man who bad spoken before. No attention was paid to the ques- t'on so apparently Irrelevant if not worse, till Bade Allen exclaimed ea gerly, ' Ob yes. Don’t yon remember that story we were reading ? Whiskey’ll cure rattlesnake poison. Ob, If we only had seme!' Will was kneeling beside Violet, sup porting ber and talking In wild broken words. Frsd took him by the shoul der to arouse him, and said, ‘ If you’ve got your whiskey flask we can save her.’ Will looked up vaoaotly a moment, and then as the light of comprehension flashed Into bis eyes be whipped s flask out of his pocket, and unscrew ing it in frenzied haste, thrust ths mouth to Violet’s llpe, crying, ‘Quick! Drink! It #Ul save you. Don’t you remember that story we read ?’ fleeing what It was, she averted her head with a gesture of loathing. • Hold on, Ronald’s,’ said Fred. • She can’t drink the raw liquor. Let ms have ft/ Taking the flask and getting the wa ter Jug from the Inneh basket he mix ed some rthlekejf abd *ater in a tin cup, saying as he did so, ‘ Now, Miss Hazen, you must drink this stuff till yon are overcome by It, and then the poisoa will bs neutral- bM/ Violet had ifatcheci his preparations with more agitation than she had be fore shown. ’ You menu I must get drunk like the girl In that story ?’ she said. ‘That’s what it amounts to,’ replied Fred. • , The tone in which she had spoken was so peculiar that Mary added quickly, ‘We girls will take oars of you t darling, and send the men away. It’s Just like taking medicine, you know, mofpljloe for Instance.* Will took the cup and held It to ber Ups, saying, ‘ Quick 1 Drink it all at once, and never mind the taste.” She looked earnestly In his eyes as he bent toward her, and replied in a low resolute voice. ‘I will not touch It.’ A thunderbolt dropping In their midst from the near clouds would not have stuoned the group around her more than these five words, uttered so low that only the nearest were sure that they had beard aright. By turns and alitogstber they coaxed, begged and commanded, crowding about her with their panic-stricken faces, and jotllng one another in thelf eagerness to try to influence her agaMst so suici dal a resolution. Both tbffether girls were the signers of as many total ab stinence pledges as was Violet, but neither would have thought H any sacrifice of their principles to use the liquor in such an emergency. The difference was that Volet’s feelings on the nubjeot bad been wrought up to a pitch of morbid Intensity, by her long anxiety and present despair over Will’s intemperate habits, while the same cause had for soma time mads life Itself seem dreary to her. After a few moments she said to those around her, ‘ Won’t you please go away or else be quiet.’ Then she whispered to Mary, and at a suggestion from her all except Will retired a little distance. ‘ Don’t think hard of me, darling,’ she said to him, with a smile at once tender and solicitous. \ But he only answered with a look of dumb desperktioo. ‘D iu’t think I don’t love you be cause I am so obstinate,’ she said gently. 'It is because I love you that I will not live by what is killing yoti. Surely you understand that.’ ‘Do you think it kind to make me feel that I have killed you ?’ he cried ‘Ob it i'jo’t you, dear. You musn’t think that,’ she paid anxiously, ca ressing his cheek with her hood. ‘It is because I choose, Just because I am a little notional on the subject of tem perance. Only, dear, I can’t help thinking that perhaps my dying so may do more to make you a good buy in that way than I could do If I were alive. Y’ou see I was getting rather discouraged about that,’ and she smiled sadly. •If you’ll only taks this I’ll never drink again in my life,’ be said in pit eous entreaty. * Oh, Will,’ she exclaimed, a sudden change coming over her face and into her tones, ‘po you really mean it?’ ‘ Mean It ?’ he cried, his voios rising with indignant amazement, and seizing as he spoke the cup of wblaksy‘*aod pressing It to her lips. ‘Qilck! Drink! of course I mean It Gan it be that was what you were waiting for.’ •I wasn’t waiting for that because you have said so often that you never would promise,’ sbe answering, hold ing away the cup with her hand, ‘ that I supposed you never would. No, Will don’t bo in such a hnrry,’ for hs, out of his Bences with ber deliberation when every second was critics], was trying to make bar drink. ‘Won’t you say I took a mean ad vantage of you in making you promise, tor j’m afraid it is a llttls mean, only I didn’t plan It you know/ ‘ Violet, for God’s sake drink. You make ms wild,’ he cried. Sbe took the cup in her hand. ‘And won’t you ever be sorry for this promise, and wish you hadn’t made it?’ ‘No! No I Only drink!’ And at last sbe did drink, all in one swallow, gasping out with an expres sion of extreme disgust as she gate back the empty cap to him. ‘Oh Will, how could you ever drink such stuff? As he poured out another draught, the rest of tbe party, who had seen the pantomime without hearing tbe voices, came running up fall of congratulation that she yielded, quite unable to conjecture the cause of so sudden a change. Sbe drank again and again. * If there Is Only enough lu the flask,’ muttered Will anxiously. There was not 0v« half a Jill left whan to his intense relief ber eyes be- gan to Khatilats and her Cheeks to flush. Sbe Began to talk with vlvad ty, And a radiant smile Illumined ber face. ‘ What a beautiful Bacchante she would make,’ said Fred Harris, who with the others had oat of delicacy re tired a little, leaving Will and Mary alone with the fair patient. After another draught Violet's lus trous brown eyes grew glassy, her voioe thick, and her words overleaped one another. It seemed to Will that he was assisting at the tali of an an- , /.Will, I think you had better go away now,’ said Mary, ‘ It would have been her wish.’ •Ob no don’ g’way Will,’buttered Violet, with a smile that was seraphic. • Wha’f I ehd die so?* But Mary motioned to him and he went, and almost Immediately after Violet dropped off to sleep In Mary’s arms. It was perhaps two hours later when Mary called out that sbe was awake, and when Will came to her she was sitting up and looking about as If somewhat dazed. She saw him, vivid blushes overepead her faoe and she looked down. 'Are you all right?’ he asked anxiously. •Yes,’ Itafc replied so low that he barely heard It, her face becoming crimson as she spoke; ‘Do leave her alone/ said Mary sharply. Tbe other members of th£ party coming up and making similar in quiries were snubbed by her in a yet more summary manner. During ths drive home she also saw to lr that nobody bothered Violet with questions, nor would tbe shame-faced girl alio w Will even once to catch her eye and whenever he looked that way her cheeks were dyed with such deep blush es, that at length out of mere oommls eration bt kept his eyee Mrafght aTfead. He managed, however, eorreptlously beneath the carriage blanket, to cap ture her band, and a certain tremulous little pressure which responded to a certain big squeeze put him in the highest spirit? for the rest of tbe drive. HIJ.NCJARY’M FATE. ftlwe Tbonsawd Fowr Haw- deed Hswmm ^Destroyed — *lx Thsaomad Pereaas Believed te have brea Drowsed. ” [By Cable to The New* •nd Courier.] London, March 16.—Tbe Times’ cor respondent at Pestb, writing on tbe 14tb, says: “Since last night (Thurs day) the waters have considerably fal len. Tbe Utile island formed by the dry part of flzegedtn Is growing larger and lafger. Although higher up tbe river a heavy gale blew. In tbe town and surrounding precincts it was calm, though frosty, the cold adding to the sufferings of tbs thousands who were camped in and about tbe town with no shelter. Tbs work of clear ing the houses of thetr Inmates Is now carried on systematically. All houses constructed of sun-dried bricks, and therefore most in danger of failing, are now empty. Stone and brick houses are n^xt dealt with. Tempor ary emigration on a larger scale is going on. The whole country between bzegedin and Temlsvaf 14 strewn with caravans of people. AU the villages and boroughs have hospitably opened thetr houses and stores to the refugees, some of them sheltering almost as many strangers as regular tenants. A number of railway trains yesterday took to Temisvar about 6,000 fugi tives, and 500 went by steamer to Szentes. Engineers and soldiers are busy with their relief pontoons and boats, there being still great need of them. Tbe Emperer has contributed a further sum of 10.000 florins.” A dispatch from Pestb on Saturday evening says: “ Szentes Is now the only plaoe In danger. Tbe Emperor will go to Bzegedln on Sunday. An of ficial statement shows that of the 9,- 700 houses in bzegedln, all except 261 have been destroyed. Most of the hab itations destroyed were occupied by the poorer classes of tbe population,” The Loodou Observer’s special from Vienna says that it Is thought that 6,000 persons have been drowned. Bzigkdin, March 16.—The lowest es timate how eurrent fixes the number of drowned At 2.000. Many persons believe that 4,000 perished, as the gale prevented a majority of the inhabi tants from bearing the first alarm. Some of the largest bouses fell on Sat urday. One is said to have over whelmed eighty (probably eight) fami lies, and another fifty-six persons. To night many pedple are still on the roofs of tbe houses and in trees. Diphtheria has broken out among tbe fugitives in flzeoged. Sixteen thou sand horses shd cattle and ninety thousand sheep have been lost. The water falls very Alowly, only re ceding three inches on Saturday night The frost la causing great suffering- Fearful tales are told of individual distress. Women on board rescuing steachers refuse to part with tbe corpse of their children. The refugees on the embankmtats afe eating seed core. Accoacbments occur on boirtfi sad on railway truck®. XJ r f Thera never was but one shirt-mak er lb this country who undeffitood bow a button-bole should be placed tn a collar, and be died before he could teach any one of the others. TBAITtt OF CHlHACTKIt OF COlI “BOH” ACftTO.W. A Feellasr Tribute by m Frlewd ■ad Ceosrade. [Henry W Omd; la the AtlanU C'mWiluHon ] It is my,opinion that In the death of “ Bob ” Alston the Slate of Georgia lost one of her moat useful son®. He was Just emerging from his boyhood when te dtad. Re had hardly entered upon bis real and'«arnest life. He carried the freshness and the Impul ses of his teens Into bis forty years. He wa« just (browing these oft And those splendid energies—that marvel lous Information—that active brain— that buoyant force—what could they not have tccomplfabed when ballasted with the wisdom and experience of fifty years? In the Legislature ho had already gone to the front rank and as fast as the vein of earnestness and sagacity was discovered beneath the apparent lightness his leadership was being confirmed. He would have gone out of tbe present House very nearly Us foremost man If he had lived. His real career was just opening, and the man in him was just asserting itself over those charming and boyish trails which, winsome as they were, could not enforce a genuine leadership. Just recovered from hie financial troubles, he would have been more than Inde pendent In a few months. It is hard that, just as bis hand was outstretched to pluck tbe tedious fiullage of a life time, it should be palsied with death. Truly, God's.ways are Inscrutable! Alston was the most generous man that I ever knew. I have eeeo him literally give away his last dollar. Never in my life did I see him refuse help to any applicant, If he had aught to give. He gave lavishly, heartily, and without i question. He has spent several snug fortunes since 1872. At one stroke he made 89.800 ; at anoth er, 811,000, and at another 815,000. He spent wonderfully little money on him self. He denled*hlmself even the com forts of Ilfs that he might gf4e to oth ers. I shall nersr forget how my eyes filled with tears and laughter at tbe same time, when I saw him at tbe Governor's inaugural ball frith trous ers that bad great boles in them, and remembered that two days before he had given to a noble purpose teb times the amount needed for a new pair. I have seen him spend the day without a mouthful of dinner, and the next day make 860 and give $40 of It away. Of ths 816,000 that hs rsselvad a short time ago, I am sure he gsvs away nearly 86,000, and In two weeks he had not a cent left. Hs showed me a list of his expenditures,And there he had glveo to u friend and enemy alike, to all who had asked, as long as be had a dollar. Tbeie.was no ostentation about all this. He rather kept it hid den that he might escape tbs scold ings of bis more wordly-wlse friends. He was true to his friends to the last degree. He never failed to help them when chance offered, and never deserted Ihem when they wets In trouble. Lovable, sympathetic and 'rank, he was wonderfully magnetic. Every man who worked en tbe old Herald with him loved him. On yes terday dispatches were received from them all over the State, and to-day a half a hundred of them will be In De catur to see him buried. Moore comes from Augusts, Winter from Macon, Burney Irom Albany, and two-ecore from Atlanta. Those men who knew blm best Iqved Mm most. His love for bte wife was marveiious in Its fresh oesfl and strength, it wAs the passion of his life. To the very last he was her lover. Tbe last letter he ever wrote was addressed to her os if be was suing for her hand tn mar riage, and he says : " I shall be In At lanta on Saturday for my answer.” Tbe morning that be left her he kissed her at tbe door, ttbe (dliowed him to the stepe and there stopped. “ What! no further than tbe steps with me ?” be said. And, laughingly, she went with blm to the gate. Ah i the poor woman spoke the secret of her heart and tbe glory of her life when she rubbed his chilled hands and said: “ bh I my poor lover; my precious lover. Speak to me—look at met” She was all to him—end nobly did she fill bis life with her sweet and loyal love I May God in his infinite gentie- ness bathe ber iieart with mferb} I Alston was chlld-llke in his faith. He had absolute trust In prayer, doubt df he ever closed bis eyee at ulght without going ori bis knees. He prayed all the time and In oil places. I have seen him go down on his knees in our old editorial room and pray aloud for help and guidance. And the fltsi impulse that followed this grayer hs would follow blindly nnd to ths end. At heart he woa profoundly re- Hgloa*. and bte beHefs were Old-fash ioned on nil religion® subjects. He used to upbraid the for working on Sunday In the severest terms. That bsao(betimes sinned himself was doe to the peculiar Impulsiveness of his nature. His life the ugh was singular iy free from viess. I know of low men w-o were eBAnar In thetr habits. Hie \itt> was a struggle, In vnlcb s gresf religious heart tried to corral a my riad of impulses It is not lor me to judge blm. I know fionfc of the se en ts of the future, but|I do know that If there Dimercy in God He will no^ tun away from this silent heart, that in all its sorrows and triumphs went up to Him in au impulse of praise or supplication. If evsr a man Walked reverently In tbe Shadow of Hla fotf- stool my poor friend did. I might wrltej forever about him. About his home-life, so soft and lov ing and (gentle—about tbe kindliness with which he placed his arm about me when I came to this ciiy, a frieud- less^youDgster—about tbe chafmiog surprises that his life developed day after day—about the half-sad,jjbalf- tender talks we used to hare abcut his life and] the hopae and loves be had centered on hi® children—about his wonderful adventures and exploits, bo full of that bright audacity that sat blm so well 1 But the public ha® nothing to do with this.' To-day we bury him—to morrow we sbrine^hte memory in onr hearts and turn our face® to the fu ture. Tears are Idle, .and bo cry can bring back that bright presence and that winsome face. Nothing can light those darkened eyes—nothing thrill that coffined heart—nothing quicken that tired brain—nothing nerve that listless hand 1 God’s will be done, and God rest thee In (peace, thou honest friend—thou golden-hearted gentle man I GS-TfeBAE what A “Soap-tail candidate” is they .call bolter® in MisciscppL In Texas there are only four inhabi tants to every 640 acre® of territory. The irony of the law is fchowb wheti blacksmith Is sentenced for forgery. One of the brightest thing® we have noticed going round lately is a highly polished circular saw. Tbe Virginia Legislature [followed tbe bud .example Set by Congress and held a session on Sunday. - Noah was tbe first man who strict]* observed Ltnt.*.i&® Hired, ok water forty day® and forty nights. When a man doei ns ® kindness We csll him a brick, and when he does us an unklndness we want to hit him with one. Mrs. M. 0. William® has succeeded her late husband as president of the State National Bank of Raleigh, North Carolina. Andrew Johnson, Jr., son of the late ex-Preoident Andrew Johnson, died Thursday last at his home near Union Depot, East Tennessee. Suppose that baby carta do Injure the baby’s health. Doesn’t the baby have his revenge when nigbt^ccmes, and the paregoric is down stairs. A sertons drouth exist® In ibfe Bfifi Antonio section of Texas. Wells have dried up, and some faimera hath to drive their stock five miles to water* “Jane,” he said, “I think if you lifted your feet away from the fire we might have some heat M ths room.” And they hadn’t bees married two year® either. Oen. Sherman and Jefferson Davis left Yickkburg oh the same train tbs other day, and tbs isttsr remarked that be supposed there was room enough for both. Queen Victoria, It 1® rumored, has expressed a strong wish to visit Cana da, abd the Prince of Wales is esfcour- aging her to visit both that country and the United States. Tha Teobeesee Supreme Court de cided yesterday that sleeping care running through that Stole are tax able. An appeal will be taken to tbi Supreme Court of the United Pivrr. “ i he Republican party baa gone te hell,” ejaculated cl&Unant Corbin the otber day. He need not mourn, however, as one wholly without hope. If he keeps on beli join It In the hot bye-afid-bye. " Ah, yen,” said Mrs Partington some year® ago on thefcld of February, a® she Watched tha military pass by. “ Ah, yes, Washington is dead, and tha worst of It 1® that his mmntlepibee don’t ®eem to have fallen oh any mhn now living.” r .4 S When a ftueumber Is taken from the vine let It be cut with a knife, leaving about the eighth of an loch of the cucumber on the atom; then slit the stem with a knife from tile end to the vine] leaving a portion ot the cucumber on etch division, end on each separate Blip there will bo a new cueamber as large a* tha lint Dr. Garnett, of Washington, who b attending Congressman Adtfca, is the sort of phyeldon to bate. Homebody asked him the other if it was true hb patient won dying, ejaculated the doctor i * do jou think Fd let a vote die when we hgve only one msjority.acd no time for ® special riectloa to fill the Tsaapqgf Erebus no 1 I’d taka hie medietas lor Mb aad die myself Inir