The people. (Barnwell C.H., S.C.) 1877-1884, July 19, 1883, Image 1
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DR. 1. H. 1. MILHOUS,
DENTAL SURGEON,
BLACKVILLE, 8. C.
Office near hia residence on R.R. Avenue.
. _
PatienU will find u wore eom'oitab'e to
have their work (tone at the office, as baa
arood Dental Chair, good iieht and 0»e
nrest Unproved applisncet. He should be
informed several days previous to theireom-
imr to prevent ,ny dUappointmeut-thon?h
vi 11 generallv be found at his office on 8tt<
urdsys. •
! ,e ^ , ’ l 1 »‘ i|1 wntinue to attend calls
throughout Barnwell and adjoining cono-
_ ^ [auglS ly
DR. B. J. QUATTLIIMM,
eURCEON DENTIST,
WILLISFON, 8. C.
Cffice over (l»pt. W. H. Kennedy's store
Call* attended throughout BsrnweU
and adjacent tountiee.e PatfvtotB will
find it to tneir, advantage to have work
done at h'B nffc\ set, 1 ■'
dkT'jTryerson SMiia,
Operatiu aid Mfrhanifal Dpntiyt.
WILl IS’ON, $. c.
Will st'end on is through out Ibis an,-’ ai
jacent «*')nut*r^.
Opt rat iriLk cr n he more * at's’atlorily f#r“
formed ;U his I’arlnrF, which are supplied
witli all the laie.t approved appliances, than
j*t the residences of patienta.
a. .Jio pewevrt"11!.<■ aji|• h;ii'lhinTi's*' T atienta in■
mndinE to v sit him at Williston are n
■queated to correspond hy mail betwrv leas,
ing home. . r M p, lf
~sixr.
Orntract advertising Is payable 90
days after first iniertion, ualass other
wise stipulated, j, -
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unleee accompanied by the name and ad*
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iiblication, but as a guaranty of good
YOL. YI. NO 46.
BARNWELL, C, H„ S. 0, THURSDAY. JULY 19. IShii.
$2 a Year.
public
faith.
Add
TaE PEOPLE.
Barnwell O. H.. 8 O.
a—a
; W/yD AND DAFFODtt.
A wtfcd vatf.o tap one summer day—
r k south wind, swift and bold,
Fair with a hint of sapphire skies
And jasmine's starry gold—
And lay at the feet of 4 daffodil Vhith,
And Ailed her With bliss ubtolA
"Oh, daffodil splB me yotar fragrant breath "
And she gam it, in sigh on sigh;
"Ob, stoop from your stately purity,
And kiss me where I lie!’’ •
But, “Nay, dear Wind! I'm * nun! ” shr said;
"That wish 1 must deny."
‘Then you love me not,’'cried the eager wind;
She trembled where ahe stood;
“I know a clime where the crimson rote
Will meet me in warmer mood,’*
"Then go, then go P said the daffodO,
And tightened her snow-white snood.
At eve the sweet south wind had fled,
And the daffodil stood alone;
He lay at the heart of a musk-rose red,
' Whence the west wind scarce had flown,
And the one pure tear the daffodil shed
To the moonlight only was known,
—Boetow Transcript.
THE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WHAT WK FIND IN THEM TO H9UI-B
: OVER THIS WEEK.
A TUB COWAN fhtCX
A •
Not ev*»n the RhalUa lilfr Is .altogether j
a htt\ipy one. A short time ago that
monarch sent some music-bo JOS and
mirrors to the Khan of Bokhara. The
Khan iu return sent'the Shalt half ft
dozen particularly pretty girls, hot one
of whom was morn than sixteen years
| old. On the way they were captured by
1 8<>mo Turcomans, The Shah first tried
to recapture them, and then ofibred an a
r-HAPr wwrrkv-, c o rausom for them a number Of dhcora-
CHARLESTON^. 0. tiona, including the great Sun and Lion .
a t Jov,Ver?in7v1ry TheSe th<> T,ircoman8 scorned,
Ale*, Wines, Liquor*, Serai*, &c.[mar301y I Ibey preferred odalisques to jewels
mmmi
-R8 Hiof* Street,
OpjjORlte Acutlemy of Muftie,
feet out in the ai<do ia the nicklo-plated
cuspidore, and the car waa colder than a
refrigerator while he had only a single
blanket no thicket tliftn A k^cbto!l p.lj)cr.
lie ‘'t tVnh stiff all over, and Igoi
np and staggered to the end of the car,
and what do you.think I found?
"Why, I found the porter rolled up
on the back scat, in six blankets, fast
asleep, the fire gone out, and both doors
open, and he was snoring for all that
was out, while the car was going at forty
miles an hour across the pfairio. Well,
I waa mad. t took all the blftnkcts
away from him; and covered tfae coon
with apiece of oil cloth off the floor, and
took a flftv pound piece of ice out of th t
rank and laid it on his cliest and
wrapped his arms around it, and shut
I he doors and went to l>ed. Pretty soon
1 hoard the colored man begin to talk in
Ids sleep. Ho said, 'gWfty futh dor wid
dem Cold fleet. I dun tole yon never put
dem frigerator cars of yours no where
near me. Take dem right away or derc’s
gdin’ to be a uivoroe, on de ground of
cruelty to animals.’ Then the Coon Woke
Up anil said if ho had ft ‘raazet’ he
would knlffe thte man that put tliftt itte on
him, and pretty floOn t herd'd him build
ing ft feto. hiow, what I claim is that
George/ Pullman should have made a
thermometer in every ear, and men
t yo\ig)i to keep Uie—tMnperatttrc about
right, find not Use a colored man for a
thertnotaeter. ”—lYrfc'n iSnn.
THE LAST KISS.
HOW A FRE
NL’IIMAN , NQtTANDKKrt A
FORTUNE.
Tired of I.ils lie rdnrts (■ ( nnmlt Halrldr
and UrIii* n Wile Inxlrnd.
A CitV* Clerks.
A Party et
Young Mm that
Ioa After.
Need Leek-
CHARLES C. LESLIE
Wholesale nod Rrtad dealer in
Fish, (i;iiw*. Lolisttr., Tuytlfs, Tfrraiiins,
Etc*. Etc.
i*. 1S »nd 20 Fit-h Maiket
4 ) V J
8tA!l^. N
CHARLESTON, S. (’.
AH orders prompt'y attended to.
Term-* Cash or City Acceptance.
srjj.TQI y ]
d. A. PATTERSON,
Snrgeon Dentist.
the BarnwiJl Codft House,
Office
Patients waited on at residence if He- I
eired. Will attend calls In uny portion I
<d Rsrnwel: an l_dlampton counties.
Sitia'sctinn puarantced. Terms cash ‘
ROBT. D. WHITE
M A. K B D E
— AND—
GRANITE WORKS
• MEETINO BTREE V,
(Cprner Horlbeck’s Alley,)
tIH ARLKS i ON, : ; STTr
iumOly]
OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS,
— WHOt.r.PAlK-
Grocers and Proiision Dealers
102 and 104 East B»y Street,
» u g3Hy CHARLESTON, 8. C.
Devereux & Co.,
DKLLKRRIN
Limp, Oment, Laths Platspr, Hair,
Klatas and Marbla ianth.
Depot of Raildin^ Mt'erials No. IK) Eart Bsy
Sash, Blinds, Duobs, Glass, Etc.
"ei^lyl ^CHARLESTON, 8. C.
TH0S. McG. CARR,
F'A.S'HION’A.'BL.K
Shaving and Hair Drpsninjr Salonn,
114 Market Street,*
(Oae Djo. Eist of Kiog Street)'
matSOly] CHARLESTON, g- 0.
»^TRY'«a
TdE GREAT REMEDY FOR
• V
PULMONARY DISEASE'S,
COUGHS, COLDS,
BRONCHITIS, Ac.,
vIND GENERAL DEBILITY.
BURE cure for . •
alaria and Dyspepsia
IN ALL ITS STAGES.
.For Sale by
druggists.
all GROCERS and
H.
BI8CHOFF * CO.,
Charleston, ,8. C.
Pole MadufscOirern and Por r ’ etf)r *
flflm
every time. ^Finally the Shah offered
4,000 francs apiece for the girts, which
the Turcomans accepted Hut after the
money waa paid and the edajisques
bn sight to the palace the Persian mon
arch fairly howled with fury at discover
ing that the perfidious rohls'iw had kept
the " sweet sixteens’’ Slid sent him in
their stood some of the veterans of tbeii
harems who were more remarkable for
age than beauty,
CLAIMKD AN OFFSET.
The Poughkeepsie Eagle says a "hired
man” who has lieen employed on a farm
in that county for several mouths en
tered suit against his employer the other
day for the balance of w ages amounting,
as he claimed, to thirty-two dollars.
The suit came to trial, and it looked at
first as if the plaintiff had a clear case.
He gave dates and figures in a straight
forward way, and seemed a very honest
man. When the fanner took the stand
he said:
"I chum an offset for that thirty-two
dollars. No man heed sue me for what
1 honestly owe.”
"What is your offset ?” asked the law-
Y er - v ;
"He is an unbeliever.”
"In what ?”
"Why, in the Bible.” V
“What has that to do with your owing
him thirty-two dollars ?”
"It has a heap to do with it. I had
six hands in my employ, and we were
rushing things when I hired this man.
He hadn't been with us two J.ivs when
they stopped the reftpor in the middle of
the forenoon to dispute about Daniel in
the lion’s den, and h^lhree days we had
a regular knock-down over the .whale
.swallowing Jonah. The man who ran
the mower got arguing nl>out Samson,
and drove over a slump and damaged
the machine to the tune of eighteen dol
lars, and the very next day my boy broke
his leg while climbing a fence to hear
and see the row which was started over
the children of Israel going through the
Red Sea. It wasn’t a week liefore my
w ife said she didn’t Ix-lieve Elijah was
fed by ravens, and hang me if I didn't
find myself growing weak on Noah and
his flood. That’s my offset, sir; and if
he was worth anything, I’d sue him fora
thousand dollars beside.”
The oonrt reserved decision.
- CONTEMPT TO KILL.
Old Uncle Isaac, the well known col-
ored ragpicker, has just made bis appear
aUce after having been confined to hit
house for several days.
"Where have you been?” asked tha
Critic this morning. " I haven’t seen
you for a long time.”
" Oh, I’se jess been scuperation after
dat argyment I bad wid the Washington
boys.” -
“ What argument?”
" Why, dat ’ligious argument we had
las’ week, when de biggest Washington
boy called me a liar, and sed dat I was
ole and ignorant Den I jess gub him
one, and dat sneakin’ Jim Washington
hit me ’cross de back wid--•-- fence
raUin’.”
" And you’ve been to bed ?”
"Tea, sur; jess got out dig mornin’,
and de 'facts ob dat argymint haint worn
off yet But I’ae goin’ now to -Jedge
Snell fer to git a warrant for all ob dem
boys.”
" W$»t will you charge, them with—,
getting the beet of an argument ?”
" No, sah, dat I shan’t; I shall charge
dem wid insult; with contempt ter kill *
— Wn*hington Critic.
IN A SLEETTNO CAB.
A traveler relating his experience in a
- leeping ear says he awcAq.to find hia
' bald head uainaitbe window, and his
Speaking of the Cottpdll Jobbery in
New York City, a prominent city official
said to a Herald reporter, that his only
surprise was that the Finance Depart
ment did not " take a tumble ” to the
defaulting clerk, aft the saying is; long
before his tleftth.
The reporter asked if the city official
knew of his own knowledge that Carroll
addicted to gambling and f«*t com
ine Mimmer vacation.
was
pany, and lie replied!—" Nrt, I only knew
him in a Cyfijftl way, but I knew that he
could not have lived a* he did on $1,100
a year, and that if the way he lived is
explained by the fact that his father
supplied him with money the old man
must have had to pay a mighty big sum
yearly. But to my mind there is more
ample fiel.l for investigation than can he
found in the books of the dead clerk and
that is in the various departments of the
city government. I’ll guarantee that
there is not one clerk in one hundred in
the departments who has received his
appointment exclusively because of his
peculiar fitness for his duties. Political
backing is the force which flingH him
Emile Peckerel was born at Saint
Michel near Moutherz. His parents sent
him to Paris to study law, but before he
had passed his last examination he lost
suddenly both father and mother. Wliou
ft yottng tnftn thus Comes into possession
t)f $100,000 lio does not see the necessity
of living at St. Michel. On the other
hand he imagines that his |100,000 will
last forever, and pitches the law books
into the fire.
Peckerel began to load a gfty life.
Such a life could not last long. M.
Peckerel soon found himself at ulo end
of Tiis resources. He was courageous
enough to try and reduce his exjienses.
He sold his phroton; he sold his horses,
and at last sold his furniture and went
into loilgingB,
There one fine evening he began to
think;
“ IE is a pity,” ha-refieeted, " that na
ture has been decidedly unkind in not
giving me either uncle or aunt from
whom I might entertain expectations.
Where cftli onto, get money ? I cannot
gain, ftuy myself. I might, perhaps, vwm
$10 a week as an attorney’s clerk. What
is the Use of that ? 1 have known the
pleasures of this world. I had better go
and see if there are any pleasures on the
other side of Jordan. Poison gives one
a pain in the stomach, the pistol spoils
one’s looks. I hftve One resource left. I
have never learned to swim, and there is
the riv* r. ’’
Peckerel smiled like an author who
lias discovered a new incident.
" Now, then,” he added, " I must
make my preparations. A good Chris
tian takes the last sacrament—a goo.!
Parisian must take his last kiss.”.
But he was somehow or other suddeijly
; fastidious. He went on the bridge 8t.
i Peres and waited till there should Come
: the nymph he had pictured in his miml
should lie the recipient of his last kiss.
She was to l>e somel>ody he did hot
know. She must lie young, pretty and oi
a style that pleased. A score of girls had
pjissed him. Some had brown hair,
snmb dark chestnut, some light chestnut.
None of these would suit, for he had eel
his heart on a blonde.
Suddenly he started^ there came the
angel of his dreams. His death knell
had struck.
At ,No. 110 Rue du Bac was a pretty
littlejp>tel, in which lived a ritfC Ameri-
can. He had come to Paris- with his
only . daughter, Helen. A little garden
with great trees, a lawn on v^hich the
"1 haf tny own ohinlon on dot vnoa
line poorness got, fet,” says the harbor.
,."I dink it peen bretty irnidl h"tpb»M-ks
apowd nceting a vacation from vork.
York torn! kill a man half so qwick as
doing noding too much. Yot der pig-
gest hart of us v&nt is a leedle vacation
from our bleasutes ftnd habits, alretty.
l)t'r man tich dinks he cand lif if ho tond
got a trink of visky effory hafo hour ho
pedder shvear himscllnf oft. Obust dcr
same der coin pier; pedder he dock a va
cation avay -from his bards. Der pest
road for der averitch glerchyman Votlkl
[>een to sdop making long faces uf him
self und looking around choost as if der
vorlt vos all a pig funeral, yet. Der vel-
lers vich amuse, domsollufs mit such
leedle flyers py Vail sdreet rot dem cand
sleeb dree nights a veek, und der cuell-
dlemen vich dink only afpreaking vim-
men’s hearts und pillard blayifig und on
horse races podding -if dem should
dako dwo reeks’ vacation from all dem
dings, dot vould peen der pesd dings
id.”
"Are you going to go into the country
this summer?” the reporter asked the
monkey barlier.
"Yell,he replied, "If der posfl'vill
vent avey a gupple days, a reek in cjlt
Muniner, yet, tind gff dor shop a resd mit
his CliaW, dot's vacation enough for me
and der gusdimefs. Der resd uf my boh
idays 1’fe got to put in mit a Mummer
up down. I’m shbnrking a blummer for
all ho is vorth, so I can marry hisdaugh-
derttud retire. I 1’fe gntshod del girl so
■she Bents me sick boodry owid from a
den cent Alpum Wrider's Friend. Hho
has efen vent so far as to make me sldili-
bers four sir.es doo shrnull. Now, I’fo
got to get some fine vork into der olt
man.”—iVctc York Sun.
It PuMlert Them.
A ItliSSIAN NIHILIST.
MADE fcEVKNGKFtfb lit TUB BHUTAN
- 1YY OF TUB POLICE.
Thi
f.
ry at tera HaaSallteh,
apetr* by the Asfherlclrs.
a Ml M«f
Vera Sassulitch, who is otlfte more re>
[Kirted ns having been captured by the
Russian authorities, has been as exten
sively and inconsistently "biographed"
her frenCh sister, Louise Michel.
as
into a oosition, as it were, and there he
*—* 1 ' 7 *’ i i v
stays so long as his political backing is rspairrows hopped about, a conservatory
good and on the right side of the fence. I that was a little winter garden. Such
What is the consequence of this kind of; was the home of the fair Helen,
appointment to office ? Why, that the ! Miss Helen, aged sweet 18, accompa
city government business is being run ! nied by her governess, Miss lYaUxly,
owic
Aa
A DESPERATE EXPLOIT.
Allrmst •• ffpths tha CaaMarata
aa lalaMl Na. DO.
by a set of men who were never asked
for recommendations from their previous
employers and who, in hardly one case
out of five, would have lieen able to
obtain such recommendations if they
wanted them. The city officials don’t Like Wllig.
was ont for a walk this fine day. Miss
Peabody had allowed herself to be born
in Salem without a murmur. By her
side walked Miss Helen, with her pretty
little nose in the air, like a lark going to
act like business men ^hen they want
clerks in their own offices. When a
clerk on $1,000 a year salary is known to
own a fast horse and to dross like a
nabob and live in the best of stylo in one
of the swell sections of the city his em
ployer naturally says to himself, ‘ Hello,
somebody must be paying for this,’ and
he not only watches that young man’s
books, bat finds out the kind of com
pany he keeps, and in a short time he
finds it profitable to discharge that young
man. The city officials do not act in
this way. „
"A large proportion of the clerks and
employees in the city departments in
places of more or less trust, are fre
quenters of gambling-saloons and other
places of ill-repute, and they are to be
found everywhere where ‘sports’ congre
gate, and the fast and loose methods are
considered the proper thing.”
The reporter here suggested that this
was a sweeping general charge.
"It seem so to you,” said the official,
"but you can get the facts for yourself.
Go any night you please to the fast re
sorts inN. Y. city, make around of them,
and if you don’t find city employees
‘putting up the wine’ and having a good
time generally in most of these places,
I am much mistaken. Go to Saratoga
in the summer time and Long Branch,
and’ ^ha are the men yon trip up on every
onee in a while in the club-houses and
on the road ? Why, eity officials and
city employees on a vacation. It’s all
very well for the young men to tell you
that the ‘old man’ is putting up the
money for him, when you find him open
ing wine at Moon’s every night, and
making a big swing for two or three
weeks at a time in the Grand or United
■ States”Hotels, or at the West End. The
fathers of our eity employees are not
rich men as a rule, and the thing don’t
wash. I don’t mean to say, mind yon,
that these rn’en live on money taken dis
honestly from the city, for that, perhaps,
could not be proved; but I do mean that
their salaries are not b’g enough to pay
for the way they live, and that the fact
that they frequent gambling-saloons, are
to t>e seen at the roulette table fre
quently, and wherever the ‘game of
chance’ holds out a tempting hand, is a
significant one.
You may knock down a man with a
draw if on* end of th« straw is in a brandy
Peckerel felt all the blood rush to his
lie;irt, and his temples beat furiously.
Mias Helen came aluwly on in maiden
meditation, fancy free. Peckerel walked
straight up to her, seized her in his arms
and pressed his lips to hers. Then,
with a spring over the ^parapet, he
plunged into the stream.
Helen gone a cry of terror; Miss Pea
body fell hack against a lamp-post; the
crowd rushed up. "Save him I save
him I” was the cry.
A boat shot out from the quay.
"There he is 1” "He is dead !” " No,
he has fainted I” "I tell you he is
dead 1” Such were the confused cries
that were heard by Helen as Miss Pea-
body led her away homeward.
When she got home, she fell into a
fever. Her father was informed of tlM
occurrence and was blue with wrath.
Miss Helen asked if the rnffian was
alive or dead. The father said he
was alive.
"Then, papa,” said she, "I want te
kill him or marry him."
"My own dear child,” murmured the
stern papa.
He at once set out to fine Peckerel.
"What do you mean, sir,” he began,
"by insulting my daughter ?”
"I wanted to die.” _____
The Yankee produced a Bible, “Un
cle Tom’s Cabin” and “ Innocents
Abroad.” He made Peckerel swear on
the Bible that he woold be faithful to
his wife. He swore on ‘‘Uncle Tom’s
Cabin” never to neglect his home for his
club. He swore on Mark Twain to
avoid all the pomps and vanities of the
world.
Peckerel swore freely. i*H« -immedi
ately married the fair Helen.
So says Aurelin Scholl.—Freund'$
Daily. ,
Lucy Hooper, writing to the Phila
delphia lUlegrnph about Booth’s visit
Germany, says;
"Some comical incidents arose during
liis tour out of the presence of his
daughter’s colored maid Betty, whux-
black skin filled the average German
mind with wonder and amazement.
Sometimes they sot her down as a Zulu,
und were surprised to learn that she w as
n harmless American. Mr. Booth’s cour
ier was several times asked, on arriving
at a new hotel, as to what the strange
creature was to be fed upon. One day
when she was out walking with Miss
Ihxith, a kindly-looking German, who
had lieen staring at the pair for some
lime, evidently came to the conclusion
that Betty was some kind of a large,
tame monkey, fpr ho darted into a fruit
erer’s shop and came out with a qtnffr
♦ity of fine plums, which he pressed ink
-her hands. On another occasion TkiMy
was going through the corridor of A ho
tel, when she met an elderly gentleman,
who stopjied her with an authoritative
gesture. He then carefully applied the
tip of one finger to her check and gave
the skin a vigorous rub, afterward hxik-
Tug at his fingers and shaking his hea<
i» bewilderment on finding that the
color did not come off. ”
She Was Inifn in lAV, According to the
(apparently) most trustworthy authori
ties, and in 1807 waa shut up in a Lithu
anian prison tot (he offenae of being a
schoolmate «( the sister of Jfetchnleff,
the political conspirator. Her imprison
ment lasted two years, and she had
scarcely V*ecn lilierated when she was re-
arrested on an administrative order oi
exile And hurried away from her mother's
house *sd fflpidly that she would have
perished of cold but fot the compassion
of a gendarme, who covered her tHth his
cloak. For some years she was passed
on from town to town' aa a "snspeot,”
until, having spent the best years of her
life in prison, and a victim to the in
solence and brutality of the police, she
had learned to pity th*wn who were
similarly afflicted and to desire to avenge
them. In 1878 she learned of the brutal
iU-trentmrht of » prisoner, Bogolnlioff,
by General Trepoff, "Prefect of the
Town, 1 ’ st St. Petersburg.
The General had entered the fortrees
and was exasperated on liehoMtng Bogo-
lulxiff and a companion walking together
and Conversing, as, not being convicts,
but merely accused men "detained on
suspicion, they bad a right to do. To a
harsh question aa to why this was allowed
one of the two volunteered an explana
tion. "I do not address you—to your
dungeons !” shouted the General, furl
otisly. The two prisoners walked on
quietly, when Trepoff, crying, ‘ ‘Hats
off!” aimed a blow at Bogolnlioff The
prisoner’s hat fell off, but Bogolnboff
picked it Up and put it on, whereon the
General ordered him to be flogged. A
romantic version mode it seem that Vera
Sassulitch had l>6en acquainted with
Bogolttboff—had even lieen his mistress
but there was no trnth in the story.
She read with indignation of the outrage
and waited some time to see if the Gov
ernment would jiay any attention tq it.
Whcq no action was taken she resolved
to do vengeance herself, and on the 5th
of February, 1878, wont to the General’s
reception-room with a petition, and when
he stretched out his hand to receive it
shot him through the tiody. She made
effort to escape and said that she
An Old Gun.
The SL James's Gazette says :—A dis
covery which has just been made at
Aleppo is likely to cause considerable
aurprise in military circles, for, accord
ing to the Turkish official gazette of that
place, a party of engineers, while making
excavations beneath the citadel of the
town, have come upon a large wrought
iron breech-loading cannon which
must have been buried for at least 250
years. That the weapon should be a
breech-loatler is iu itself sufficiently
astonishing; but the most extraordinary
part of the affair is that the breech
mechanism is almost exactly similar to
that which has for so many years been
fitted by Kmpp and Essen to the artil
lery of the German army. The gun
bears the name of its maker, Halebli
Mustapha Osia, and is in fairly good
preservation.
How to Make White Bread.
Texas Cattle.—Since the largo capi
talists came into the business of cattle
raising in Texas, groat bodies of lam
have lieen bought up for range*, and
soon desirable free pastures will be a
thing of the past Having the money to
fence as well as buy the land; 1 most of
the large ranges are lieing enclosed with
wiie. More than $100,000,000 would be
required to purchase the cattle now
r(naming over the State. Half of this
value, according to the beat testimony,
Is tbs innrosss oi cattle within two
’f
For the sponge take a pan of butter
milk or sour milk which has just turned
thick. Put it on the stove and scald.
When the curd is well separated from
the whey strain or skim it out. Let the
whey cool until it-will not scald, then
stir in the flour, lieating thoroughly. It
should be about as thick as batter tot
griddle cakes. Sweet milk, or even
water, may be used as wetting for the
sponge, if good sour milk or buttermilk
cannot be had. But fresh buttermilk is,
perhaps, the best of all. When the
sponge is about milkwarm, beat in a tea-
capful of yeast One teacupful of the
yeast is enough for three ordinary white
loaves, one loaf of brown bread and a tin
of rolls. The sponge should be made at
night Let it stand until morning. Un
less the weather is very oold, it is not
necessary to put it near the fire. In the
morning, when the sponge is light, take 1
out enough for your loaf of brown bread.
Mix the remainder with flour, faking
core not to put in too much, as that will
make the bread,dry mid hard. Knsad
half an hour. The whiteness and deli
cacy of the bread willbe math increased
by thorough kneading. Pat the dough
away to rise again. When it is light, if
you wish to make rolls, save enough of
the dough for that purpose. Make the
remainder into loaves. Bet them away
tori** When light, bak*.
no
had fired upon the General premed-
itatedly, without caring Whether she
killed him or merely wounded him,
pince in the latter ease her end would lie
obtained in calling attention to his bru
tality. She was brought to trial in
April, 1878, and defended by M. Alexan
droff. Tho-jnry selected was composed
of six members of the civil service, twe
merchants and a nobleman, a sehool-in-
, specter, a student and an artist, and it
acquitted her promptly amid the ap
plause of the audience, despite the evi-
deuce, her avowal and the speeches of
lllfi judge and the prosecutor. The ac
quittal provoked a general outburst of
applause from the press throughout Rus
sia.
On the 3d of July, 1878, Vera Sassu
litch appeared at Geneva, where she
was received in triumph by Rockfcrt
and his friends. She gave out that ahe
had been rearrested but permitted to
escape. It was reported for some time
that the Vera of Geneva was an impos
tor, and that the Russian Charlotte
Corday was really in Sitieria, but finally
all doubts as to her identity ceased,
In Decemlier, 1879, she published a
statement to the effect that her attempt
on the General’s life had been made in
pursuance of orders from the Revolu
tionary Committee and that she had
been designated by lot as the avenger.
In February, 1880, her arrest was said
to have beefi effected at St. Petersburg,
but the report proved false, and she was
repeatedly heard of thereafter at Geneva
ami Paris pushing on the Nihilist prop
aganda and active as one of the editors
of the Naradnala Volia, a wflll-known
Nihilist review.
One night about the first of April,
aays M. yuad. in his War Sketch**, a
tiand of fifty Federals left the fieri wi
der cover of darkness, bent upon snob •
desperate undertaking as is seldom
planned outside the realms of fiction.
Every gun upon Island Na 10, which
Commodore Foote could disable before
his fleet was called upon to push down,
increased his chances of success, snp
this Httle band of men started out with
the intention of landing on the island
and spiking as many guns as possible
before being discovered.
The Confederates had a picket boat
ont to discover and check any such at
tempt, but on this night the darkness
was intense, the rain was falling steadily,
and when the lightning came it was so
vivid that men were blinded for the mo
ment, Tbs Federal launches from the
fleet passed wtihin 100 feet of the picket-
boat withoutdiaeovery, and madeasoe-
cossful landing upon the island. The
first guns were planted about 860 feet
from the head of the island, and the
ground between was covered with «wsll
bufthes* nmkgysw «fid weeds, and. am*
siderably broken. Between the landing
spot and the guns were two or three low
spot* full of^ water, and an attaek from
this direction did not seem probable.
The Confederate sentinels were strung
along the ditch in front of the better /,
cowering in the storm and hearing noth
ing but the war of the element*. Had -
the party of Federals halted «d sent
three or four men forward, th* smaller
number could have passed the sentinels
and perhaps had plenty of time to spike
every gun. But the bolder plan of
marching the whole command straight
up to the ditch and into it WW adopted,
and a flash of lightning bskayed them
to a sentinel. His musket had scarcely
sounded the alarm lief ore it was taken up
all around the liattery. Then in the
midst of a furious storm, the thunder
making the island tremble and tbe light
ning striking trees along the river al-
moet every moment, the Federals dashed
into the battery itsslf. Muskets were
cracking and men shouting, and it was a
situation to try the nerve of the bravest
man living.
Every fifth in the command was
provided with a supply of rat-tail files,
to lie driven into the vent* of the gnns
and broken off. The Federal* had come
for a certain purpose—the Confederate*
could not determine at once what that
purpose was, and were naturally sur
prised snd confused by the sudden
attack. One- writer says that seven
puns were spiked; another says five ) a
third says that only one large pivot gnu
was disabled. Confederates on duty in
the battery at the time agree that four
guns were so thoroughly spiked that they
were rendered useless for three or four
days, or until the broken files could be
drilled out. . ——^ ~
After the first moment of surprise th*
Confederates raUied and began an attack
which forced the Httl* band out of the
battery, leaving three or four dead and
os many prisoners. Three or four others
were wounded in making their way to
the boats, and two who beoonie separated
from the command and did not reach the
lioats were made prisoners next day. It
was an exploit fnll of nerve and daring,
but the result* were without real value
to Foote. •- ~
A Telegraph Joke.
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Tramps Taking the Road.
Reports from New England States
say that tranqis from New York and
Boston are swarming the country towns,
and a numlier of outrages have been re
ported. Three children who were alone
in the house of their father, Leopold
Wolf, of Morestown. Conn., on Sunday
evening gave food to two beggars. The
rqcn demanded money, and ransacked
the house. The eldest child, a boy 16
years old, got a pistol and drove tbe
rohliers out of doors. An hour later the
house was on fire, and was burned to
the ground. Before the fire broke out
young George, who had driven tbe
tramps from the house, had pat the
other children to bed. They wore res
cued, and George saved $700 in money
that his father had laid by in the house.
A numlier of men are on the track of the
tramps, and exect to capture them.
These and other transgreaskma of the
l*w, flagrant and open, fires rise to
many complaints, but political influence
serves to spare the offenders. This in
fluence is so great that a fanner who re
cently murdered a slave and burned Us
body to escape detection, walks the
•treota-a free man te-dav, though at
times very grans threats are
igainst him.
A well-to-do young man recently mar*
ried and started West on his bridal tour.
The happy young couple were break
fasting at a station eating-house. Dur
ing the repast two smart Aleck t cam*
into the dining-room and seated them
selves opposite the contracting parties.
They were telegraph operators. By
delicate poising of their knife and fork
they were able to make sounds in close
imitation of telegraphy. In the mystic
language of the key one said unto the
other: *
"Ain’t she a daisy, though?"
The party thus addressed replied by
chcking off:
“Wouldn’t I like to hug and kiss her*
the little fat angel ?”
“Wonder who that old Mori is that
she has married ?”
“Some gorgeous grange, I reckon 1”
replied the other..
The groom stood it until forbaanaee
ceased to be a virtue, when he also
balanced his knife, and click, eliek, it
went, in rapid succession. It was intelli
gible to the cute twain that had recently
made fun of its author. When inter
preted it read:
“Dkax Bibs: lam superintendent cl
the telegraph line upon which you work.
You wiff please send your time to head
quarters and resign your respective posi
tions at once. Yours, Superintendent of
Telegraph. ”—Lowell Courier.
^| . *
It would be difficult to eomprap more
of the technical language of tbe diamond
into the same space than ooeurs in to*
following, from the telegraphic report
of the Boaton-Clevelaad game on Tues
day: “In the second Sutton got hia
liase on balls, want
cock’s fuml
third on Y;
fly to